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TII.E S Eel. FO RTH NEWS
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WALTON
The Women's Guild anti W.A. of
St. George's ahureh Met at the Dome
of the president„ Mrs. Writ, Huls
phries on Thursday,. March 25th,
There was a good attendance of
members. The meeting opened with
the hymn "Sweet the Moments Rich
in Blessing,,' Mrs. M. F. Oldham read
the Scripture Lesson, Romans 13,
and prayer was given by the rector,
Rev. M. F. Oldham, Mrs. Win, Hum-
phries presided over the business
session 01 the meeting. Donations of
articles for the Deanery bale will be
made at the Spring Deanery meeting.
The hostess served a tasty lunch,
Mrs. M. F. Oldham invited the mem-
bers to the Rectory in Brussels on
Wednesday, April 21st
Service In St. George's Church on
Sunday, April 4tlt at 4 p.m. (Holy
Communion), Sunday School at 8,30
p,m. Also service and S.S, at same
hours on April 11.
Mr. Robert Shortreed has left on a
trip to Calgary,
Mrs. Wnt. Walsh of Seaforth at the
home of her mother, Mrs, Shannon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Speiran, who
were recently married, left on Satur-
day for their home at Plenty, Sask.
Mrs. David Watson is visiting her
sons John and Earl Watson in Me-
Killop and Hullett.
Mrs. Peter McTaggart has returned
to her home in Walton after spend-
ing the winter in McKillop.
Miss Dolly Steiss from near Wel-
land, has been spending a few days
around Walton.
S/Sgt. W. C. Bennett of Toronto
spent the week end at his home.
WINTHROP
The Red Cross unit are holding a
euchre and dance Wednesday, April
7th, in Winthrop hall. This is the
euchre you have been asking for, so
come along.
Mr. George Kinney of London
spent Tuesday with his brothers,
Messrs, William and Joseph Kinney.
Art McClure of Petawawa Camp
spent a few days leave with Mr. and
Mrs. John McClure and other friends,
William Little of London Camp,
spent the week end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Little.
Mrs. John Gillies spent the week
end in Toronto with Mr. Gillies, who
expects to sail soon.
Mr, and Mrs. Peter McCowan and.
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs, George Eaton.
Our first heavy thunderstorm pass-
ed over the village Tuesday morning.
Also a very heavy rain.
A circle quilting and tea was held
at the home of Mrs. Lou Bolton last
week. 2 quilts were quilted. One was
donated by Mrs. Lou Bolton and one
top donated by the W.M.S.
A Red Cross quilting and tea was
held recently at the home of Mrs.
Frank Johnston. Mrs. Russell Bolton
donated the top for the quilt at the
quilting. We wish to thank all those
who have donated tops and quilts.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pappie and Mar-
jorie, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bolger and
Shirley spent Sunday with Mr, and
Mrs. Thomas Pryce.
KIPPEN
Mrs. Norman Long passed away in
Ole hospital in London on Wednes-
day afternoon. She is survived by her
husband and two daughters and one
son.
Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Dayman and
Howard, Mrs. Thomas Harris, of
Chiselhurst, Mrs. John Oke of Exe-
ter, visited their father, Mr. Henry
Squire, in Exeter on. Sunday, who
will be celebrating his ninety-fourth
birthday very soon, and also visited
their brother George of Woodham
and called on their uncle at Granton,
Mr. George Squire, who is very low
at present.
Visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Archie
Parsons on Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs, Joseph Linden and Verna, of
Denfle]d, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Carter
and family of Clandeboye, and Mr.
and Mrs. Robt. Parsons of Hensall.
Mr, and Mrs. Arnold Gackstetter of
Guelph spent the week end with Mr,
and Mrs. Wm. Homey,
Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Jones at-
tended the funeral of the late Mr.
Han•y Johns at Elimville on Wednes-
day of last week,
Master Gerald Parsons returned
home on Sunday atter visiting for a
week with his grandparents, Mr, and
Mrs. Joseph Linden of Denfield.
Mr. and Mrs. 'Enos Rudman of
Elimville called on Mr. and Mrs. Wm,
Homey on Saturday.
Mrs, Jessie A. McGregor and Mrs.
Grace Ross visited during the week
with Mrs. Wm. Ross of Stanley,
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McGregor and
family were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Lennis . Seaman and tartly of
Kitchener on Sunday.
Mr. Norman Long visited with rel-
atives in London on Monday.
Mr, Jonah Green returned home
from 'Medford where he spent the
winter With relatives,
Mrs, D, Taylor and children re•
turned to their home after spending
the winter with their relatives in
Grand Bend.
LONDESBORt
Miss Rhoda Govier, London, with
her parents,
Miss Fern Youngblutt Mrs. Will-
lants and little Carol with Mr, and
Mrs. E. Youngbiutt,
Mrs. Chapman of Toronto and Mr.
and Mrs, D. Roberton of 'Ola:keen
with their mother, Mrs. M. Rose,
Miss Dorothy Little, Toronto, with
her mother, Mrs, R. Townsend:
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Awde and Irina
of Woodstock with Mr, and Mrs. J.
McCool,
Mr, and Mrs. Breen, London, with
Mr. and Mrs, Griffith.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Nott in Seaforth.
Mr. FredPrest Is home after spend
ing the winter in Brantford.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Griffith have re-
turned home from Brampton where
they spent the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Gtifillan are mov-
ing to Cromarty.
The local Red Cross have reported
raising over $500 of their $600 object-
ive. All donations have not yet been
received,
Sunday, April 11, will be com.
minion and beginning then the ser-
vices will start at 10 o'clock instead
of the usual time of 10.30.
HULLETT
On Tuesday afternoon, thirteen
ladies on the 8th and 9th of Hullett
met at the home of Mrs, George
Carter and quilted three quilts for
the Red Cross. A potluck supper was
afterwards enjoyed,
On Thursday afternoon the same
group met at the home of Mrs. Oliver
Anderson and quilted three quilts for
the Red Cross. All enjoyed the deli-
cious lunch served by the Constance
members,
Mrs. D. R. McKenzie of Lucknow
spent several days with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Carter. On Sunday
Mrs, Carter accompanied Mr, and
Mrs. McKenzie to their home.
On Thursday Mr. Hugh Campbell of
Walton visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Carter,
Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Hugill and son
Donald of Clinton are visiting at the
home of Mrs. Selena Riley.
ST. COLUMBAN
Miss Mary Downey, R.N., has re-
turned to Toronto after spending a
few weeks at the home of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Downey.
Miss Catharine Williams, Toronto,
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat-
rick Williams.
Dir. and Mrs. Louis Coyne, Hamil-
ton, with relatives,
Misses Loretta and Gloria Hol-
land, Waterloo, with Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Holland.
Frank Doyle, Hamilton, with his
'mother, Mrs. James Doyle.
Pte. Jack Walsh, Camp Borden,
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Walsh.
John Flannery, Preston, with Mr.
and Mrs. William Maloney.
Thomas Ryan, Windsor, with rela-
tives.
Miss Margaret O'Reilly, Toronto,
with 14Ir. and Mrs. J. J. O'Reilly.
Miss Helen Flanagan, Toronto, at
the home of Mrs, Lucy O'Reilly.
Misses Bernadette Flanagan and
Catharine Ducharme, Stratford, at
their homes.
A group of ladies met at the home
of Mrs. Jack McIver on Thursday
and completed a quilt for the Red
Cross.
CONSTANCE
Mrs. Oliver Anderson entertained
the ladies on the North line to a Red
Cross quilting on Thursday of last
week.
Miss Ethel Dexter and Misses
Helen and Vera Byte of Kitchener
spent the week end at the former's
home, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Dexter.
DUBLIN
An accident occurred on Sunday
afternoon on No. 8 highway, half a
mile west of Dublin, when Miss Jean
Sutherland, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Sutherland, was struck from
behind by a car driving west on the
highway. She sustained a fractured
collarbone, fractured leg and slight
concussion, With a companion she
was roller skating on the highway at
the time of the accident. Dr. M. W,
Stapleton was immediately called
and she. was rushed to Scott Memor-
ial hospital, Seaforth, for treatment.
Private Louis Looby of the Ord-
nance Corps, Simcoe, with his moth
er, Mrs. A, M. Looby.
Miss Helen Flanagan, Toronto,.
with het cousin, Miss Mary Staple-
ton.
Mrs, Leo Holland and little dau-
ghter, Stephanie, Windsor, with tela-
tines,
Miss Angela Donnelly, Stratford,
with her parents, Mr, and Mrs.
Frank Donnelly.
Mr. and 14Irs, Tom Feeney and
daughter, Betty, of London, with
Mr. and Mis. Pat Feeney,
Miss Agnes McGrath, ICitehener,
with her mother, Mrs, Mary Mc-
Grath,
Mr. and Mrs, Janes Hanley and
son, Jimmie, Toronto, with the for-
iner's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wil)iani
Hanley.
Ryan Jordan, ,Stratford, with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Jordan,
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hartman and
son of Zurich' spent Sunday at the
home of Jack and Anne Ryan.
We are pleased to see Friel Gor-
mley around again after having two',
small bones broken in his leg in a
car accident.
Mrs, Pat Jordan returned from
London hospital on Thursday and we
are pleased to hear she is mach im-
proved in health,
Mrs. Tames Shea left on Monday
for Chicago to visit friends there,
Miss Anne Ryan spent the week
end in Toronto at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Frank Hutchings,
We are pleased to see Mr, Pat
Maloney around again after his late
serious illness,
Miss Dorothy Riley of London
spent Sunday at the home of her
parents here.
Mexican Jumping
Beans Are Novelty
A tropical Mexican sun shone down
on Alamos Sonora, city of dreams
where silver once built a conuhunity
and a culture that has refused to give
up through the vicissitudes of bad
times, revolutions and advancing civ-
ilisation,
ivilisation,
Suddenly I heard rain falling. I
was sure I did. This couldn't be. The
sky was as cloudless as a perfect tur-
quoise. Then I saw the little sign over
a doorway "Compra Brincadores,"
and the rain began to Rake sense.
That sign meant I was in front of the
establishment of Joaquin, Hernandez
who buys jumping beaus and the
"rain" was simply his jittery merch-
andise,
Inside I found Joaquin answering
his nail, It was in several languages
but not nearly so many as before the
war. "In the good old days" when he
had the whole world for a market,
Joaquiu's mail was certainly an inter-
national affair. I asked him how he
ever got it all answered when it came
from so many countries. He explained
that Alamos had always been more
or less of a cosmopolitan community
and very few languages ever turned
up in his correspondence that couldn't
be understood by one or another' of
his neighbors.
He told me also of the way the
jumping beaus are harvested, picked
up one at a time. mostly by children.
The tree on which the bean grows is
called Sebastiana Prhtglii and the
moth which produces the jumping
larvae inside the bean was named Car-
pecanso Saltitans. I thought I knew
all about jumping beans when I left
his office and I certainly did know a
lot more than one fellows who once
confided to me that it was static elec-
tricity that made them jump.
It remained however for a later ex-
perience to show me how little I really
knew about these interesting novel-
ties. I was on a reptile collecting trip
for the American Museum, so, charm-
ing as Alamos was, I had to go out
into the country where I could get to,
work.
McCarty's Ranch at Guirocoba,
about 28 miles out of town, proved an
ideal spot for my headquarters and I
discovered that I was located in the
very heart of the jumliing beau pro-
ducing territory. Every morning I
could see the children starting out on
their hunt, with sacks or baskets and
a bundle of cold tortillas for their
lunch. Every evening I watched them
come into Clay Montgomery's little
store and stand breathless as he mea-
sured up 'each liter and patd off in
cash.
Jumping beans don't jump when
they are disturbed so I wondered how
my friend Clay could tell whether he
was buying good ones or not,
"Oh that's easy," said Clay, "the
dead ones have a black spot over that
little heart -shaped light patch."
This still didn't answer my question.
After ail there must be thousands of
seeds on the jumping bean tree and
from the small lots brought in, I
judged that there couldn't be too
many jumpers to a tree.
He explained then that when the
Yerba De Flecha, as it is called by the
natives, starts to drop its seed, the
normal seeds are thrown from their
pods like tiny arrows with a sharp ex
plosion. Only the jumping beans re-
main in the odd triangular shape of.
the original pod section. The reason
this pod doesn't blow up with its fel-
lows and send the worm on a merry+
ride through the air, is soon seen on
opening a jumping bean.
The worm after eating its way
through the first two sections of the
three -sectioned pod, finally hollows
the last third out and lines the walls
with tough thin silk to keep it from
exploding. Thus all the uiiexploded
seetions that fall to the ground 0011
tain
bwworeoams and are marketable juiiup•
]ng unless rain or something
has spoiled them and this is easily
told by the black spot on the shell.
The trees aye small, not'many over
twenty feet high. They are scattered
through the dense tropical growth and
can be located by sound easier than
sight. Their mottled spidery branches
and long lance -shaped waxy leaves
would begrtstanding in most gardens
but here they are lost amongst all the
other waxy greens that appear as if
by magic after the first rains.
When I made the remark that the
Sebastiana Pringlii can be located
during the ripening season by sound
easier than by sight, I was not mak-
lug a fanciful statement, The noise
made every few seconds by the ex-
plosion of one or several of the pods
sounds like snapping a rubber band
againet a paper bag and can be heard:
for quite,a, distance even in woods full
of noisy parrots and buzzing; cicadas.
A second sound, softer and resembling
rain on dry leaves, tells that there are
jumping beans to be found,
From the steady noise of these
"Jitterbugs" kicking about in the
leaves, I expected to be able to gather
up quite a number in a few minutes
but they stop jumping when they hear
a strange noise and are hard to loc-
ate under the dead leaves as they are
the very same color, It takes patience
and no little skill to salvage as many.
as a handful fro ma large tree.
Scraping about I unearthed some
that had quit jumping. They had lodg-
ed themselves under a protecting
rock. I laid them in the open sun and
in a few minutes they started jumping
again, It seems that they jump until
concealed. The jumping really isn't a
sign of nervousness but one of nat-
ure's
ature's miraculous protective instincts.
If they were to lay out in the open
they would be picked up by birds or
rotted by the heavy rains.
I was eager to find out more. For
instance I wondered how they could
move the container in which they
were imprisoned. I took some home
and started taking them to pieces.
The worm inside was nothing in
particular to look at. It had 16 short
legs and a soft yellowish -white body.
The four hind legs were equipped with
a gripping mechaulsm sud the dark
THURSDAY, APRIL, 1, 1043
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head was armed with cutting jaws
very similar to most common grubs.
I noticed however that as soon as
I cut a side off a bean the worm set
about to weave silk over the opening.
In a little while he had completed the
job and started jumping again. One
that happened to fall, sealed itself to
a piece of paper and then made a con-
siderable noise trying to jump.
Still I didn't know how they did it,
but the one stuck to the paper gave
nie an idea I substituted a sheet of
cellophane and tried out a couple of
freshly opened jumping beans. The
next morning I trimmed the cello.
plume from the edges and found that
I had jumping beans with transparent
windows. At last I could see what was
going on inside. -
What really happens is simple. The
worm grips the side of the shell with
his four hind feet and raises about
two millimeters with the balance of
Ills body, then with a sudden slapping
motion, he brings down his whole
weight against the side and the shell
moves. What, isn't so simple (and I
don't expect to solve without the aid
of a good biochemist) is how this tiny
worm, without furthe food, can keep
on jumping this way every few„ sec-
onds for months at a time.
For shipping they are packed in
perforated tins of varying sizes. Given
air and a reasonably temperate stor-
age space the beans would continue
to jump for six months or more.
Joaquim explained that in an aver-
age good year he had shipped around
ten million jumping beans, This year
he sent out a little over half that
number to less than a quarter of the
countries. He explains that, by the
sudden popularity of jumping beans
as a gambling game.
They are being purchased by more
adults than ever before. He thinks
they would make good entertainment
for wounded soldiers recuperating in
hospitals and in need of something to
hold their attention.
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