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THE SEAFORTH NEWS
GERMAN' PRISONERS CAPTURED IN MEDITERRANEAN AREA
Picture shows; A line of German prisoners captured when U.S„ French
and British forces attacked in the Mediterranean area,. These men have since
been joined by many thousands of their fellows who were captured or sur-
rendered during the liquidation of the Axis armies.
Shortly before he landed with the Canadian assault troops on the
beaches of Sicily, CBQ wa r correspondent Peter Stursbe'g interviewed a
famous Canadian ace in Britain. It was a Vancouver reunion. Squadron Lead-
er Edward Francis John (Jack) Charles, D.F.C. (left) is the son of Mrs. Anne
Charles, of Vancouver. Charles, it will be remembered, split a three hundred
pound purse with a Fighting French pilot for hte thousandth plane brought
down by their respective squadrons; Charles bagged eleven of the enemy's
planes in his squadron's. tally.
About Siik Stockings
By Cecile Levigne in "Britain."
About stockings all women think
as one. Generally our thoughts are
nnprintable,
Outwardly trivial, stockings have
the deepest psychological significance
for us, I can explain this by a clown -
to -earth comparison. Strip most that
life holds dear from a serving man,
give him heck, and he wil I never
kick. But take his cigarettes away
and you aro asking for mutiny,
Reading stockings for cigarettes,
that is 'roughly what has happened
to women.
We have had to learn to do with-
out many of our trappings, and gra-
dually they have ceased to be im-
portant. We can go without.
But stockings, now, that is a dif-
ferent matter. Stockings bring out
the deep, deep feminine in us all.
Why, the very act of putting on a
pair of gauzy sheers is a beautiful
ritual in itself, bestowing immediate-
ly. the consciousness of frailty and
dependence in a world of strong,
protective males. And if your strong,
protective male happens to be away
in the desert, and you yourself are
just about to go out and drive a
lorry, or battle solo with housework
and shopping, the fundamental idea
stays the same.
Well, we knew we bad to say
adieu to silk, and there was no use
moaning. Most women, rubbing
along on a few pairs of thick, bagg-
ing rayons, will wish no bodily harm
to the others who laid in stocks of
silk and flaunt them before us today.
We can only hope that their paths
will be beset by splintery chairlegs.
Looking back a little wistfully, we
recall all .the stocking crises. There
was the passing of real silk—ah, mei
is it possible that those cobwebby
flatterers were kindred, beyond sim-
ilarity in outliner to what we know
as stockings today?
The search for crepe rayons next
took urgent shape. To sheer -stock-
ing addicts they were, of course,
thickish, but they had elasticity and
were not given to the all -of -a -sudden
blitzes which afflicted ordinary ray-
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ons,
The passing of crepe rayons was
contemporary with a very slight lin.
provemeirt in ordinary rayons and a
wary, hostile look in the eyes of as'
sistants at stocking counters,
The coming of coupons had us all
ruefully working out that we could
budget for six pairs of stockings a
year if stockings would only play
fair, Stockings, however, continued
to be their blithe, unpredictable
selves,
There followed the passing of
fully fashioned rayons ,(.now very
rare though officially obtainable spe-
cimens). When women began to say
to each other, with a sort of mock
animation, "M.y dear, I've found
some heavenly, fully fashioned
lisle," we knew we were assisting at
the debut of utility unfashioned
rayons,
We are up to the neck- in this
phase now and, judging from the
ones I took off last night, with great
creases at the ankle, deep drapes at
the toes, large hags at the knees, it
won't be long before I'm up to my
neck in stockings,
Like a discordant obbligato to this
unhappy song, we have heard the
loud voices of those whose Sriends in
America generously sent over fine
silks and nylons until America itself
began to feel the pinch, It is to my
everlasting credit that I refrained
from stabbing sharpling in the back
a friends who complacently told me
of the arrival that day of two pairs
of nylons which she was sure would
see her through the war.
Heirloom•glass is not treated more
tenderly than 'our stockings. We
wash them out after each wearing,
then put away for twenty-four
hours. We dry away from forced
heat. We sometimes reinforce the
suspender tops to avoid focused tug.
Yet the situation continues to be
tense.
The Board of Trade has every
right to remind me that unfashioned
rayons have to be because they min-
imize labor, and that it is the Boards
intent that we go bare -legged in
summer, and wear lisle, wool, any-
thing we can get, in winter. To this
sort of talk, of course, I have no re-
partee.
And now, as I am in urgent need
of feeling feminine, frail and depen-
dent, I am going to rout out a couple
of fine, pure silk stockings. Why
should I fuss because one is blonde,
the other near brunette?
How to Keep Ant
Out of the Home
Ants frequently enter dwellings in
search of food. They feed on many
kinds of foodstouffs but are particu-
larly fond of sweet or fatty sub-
stances. Ants may be discouraged
from entering houses by keeping
shelves, tables and floors in kitchens
and pantries as free as possible from
crumbs and other food fragments
and by storing foodstuffs in ant -
proof containers. In addition, open-
ings in floors and walls should be
carefully plugged.
The most satisfactory material so
far discovered for destroying ants is
sodium fluoride, sold by druggists in
the form of a white powder. The
powder should be spread or dusted
lightly in places frequented by the
ants and left undisturbed until the
ants have disappeared. ,As sodium
fluoride is somewhat poisonous, care
should be taken to prevent children,
or animal pets from gaining access
to it.
As an alternative, baits play be
used. They may consist either of
meat bones or spores dipped in
sweetened water. When large, num-
bers of ants have collected on the
baits they may be destroyed by ilii-
mersion in very hot water, A bait
trap which has been used with suc-
cess inay be made by taking a small
tin with a tight lid, punching sever
al holes in the sides and top, and
placing a small piece of sponge inside
moistened with a syrup prepared by
mixing 10 grains of sodium arsenate,
6 ounces of sugar, and one pint of
hot water. In using this bait, great
care must be taken because of the
poisonous nature of sodium arsenate,
Bacon -Bred Hogs
For Wiltshires
Of late years, the breeds of swine
in general favour in Canada have
been narrowed down to three, name-
ly, Yorkshire, Tamworth, and Cana-
dian -type Berkshire. These breeds
all produce pigs of correctbacon
type, although the Yorkshire is by
far the most popular. This breed or-
iginated in Yorkshire, England, and
surrounding counties. In colour, a
clear white is desirable, but dark or
bluish spots on the skin, while ob-
jectionable, do not disqualify,pro-
vided the hair is all white. Black
hairs or black patches of hair are a
disqualification.
The value of pure white breeding
stock in reducing losses from seedy
bellies and in improving the whole
general appearance of the Wiltshire
side is becoming more add more ap-
preciated, the reprinted bulletin No.
686 on "Swine Production" points
out. The seedy belly cannot be de-
tected until the meat reaches the re-
tailer in Britain when he starts to
cut the Wiltshire side for his trade.
The damage then is done so far as
Canada's reputation for bacon is
concerned. The Yorkshire Wing a
white breed entirely free from this
objection, and in the light of this
fact, says the bulletin, it would seem
that the Yorkshire breed will need
to be used extensively if not exclus-
ively in holding the British bacon
trade.
Timely Reminders
To Potato Growers
Because of the considerable late
blight and other storage rots that
were present in potatoes in 1942, it
is almost certain that many rot -pro-
ducing organisms are still present in
potato storage houses, including far-
mers' cellars.
The Daminion Department of Ag-
riculture suggests that storage
houses and cellars should now be
thoroughly cleaned, aired, and then
sprayed. The recommended spray is
a solution of one pound of bluestone
in ten gallons of water. The solution
should be applied to floors, walls and
ceilings, and to machinery and grad-
ers.
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