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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-08-16, Page 7'THURSDAY, AUIIGUST 16, 1934 9119 `.. THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN. 1 1 1 1 1 • Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. The Seaforth News Phone 84 eeit.---Ni ---isu sa—eesne s seAa-e•-eYN•—•seOtleee.emtl ooesie A DOLLAR'S WORTH TA. clip this coupon and mail it with Sl for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 4. fa 10 o "N/ •i — Published by Tag OBarsTIAN S0000cs Pv0Ltstcrne. 60009x0 noston, M500010 lasett9, II. 8. A. it 700 0111 and the dally good news of the world from its 900 apeolal writers, as well 55 departments devoted to wamell,a and children's interests, sports, music, Immo, a licattan, radio, etc You w111 be glad to welcome into your home so fearless an advocate of peace and prohibition. 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Whines Chiropractor Electra Therapist —Massage Office — Commercial (Hotel Hours—Mon. and 'Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION ae manipulation--Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. tan .GOLD Dees it seem possible' 'that the a (d in a (five dollar gold piece can Ibe 3atnotercd out so thin ,that 11 'vvi0.'1 ea.eke a sheet 5000 square inches in --^o; -ore that an ounce of gold ,can be :neaten into ;116,000 leaves icovering a eer°ace 105 square feet; or that 367, - leaves have .been placed one on called a shroder. *rd of the other to' make a pile an The leaves of the shroder, instead inch high ? of 'being made of ,paper, are of a very The process orf gold (beating is a thin toansparent skin. These slcin- e-err ancient one and is drone gy sheets, called a goldibeatef"s 'skin, are mated today much in the sante 'way made by a London. 'company. It is a :that it was dote in the dray's of Kinglse'cret process and has been handed :essiouton. Recently the 'writer visited, down from generation to generation. gald'bea:ting :factory land 'found it a The shedder is now wrapped up in most i00teersting extperience. •parchment,and she goid'beater is off When we entered- the factory a ,agaict on iris hammering process, great din greeted our ears. Some twisting and turning his shrocler just o,se'ity-five mien were aril -beating as he did the ku'tch, fsets of beatings," The Whole process rom the time the ibea'ter receives his strips' until he returns his mold with the finished gold leaf takes a period of about 25 'hours. The factory ,was on the ground floor. The tables at which the men hammered were made of wooden trays, set on stone pillars, which in turn rested on wooden bases which went through the floor some two and a half feet into the ground. 'The foun- dations must be very solid to with- stand the constant blows of the big ,hanimers. We were told that sone 27 girls are employed who do their part of the work at home. They carry home the mold's, each tilled with sheets of .fin- ished gold leaf, and transfer them with wooden tweezers into attractive little boolis ready for market, It takes theta about four years to :become ex- pert at this work and the men about the same time, about five inches long and one incl; wide. These are melted down in a crucible and treated to a process by soohich the gold is purified. 3t is then poured into molds and the resulting bricks rolled ou't by machinery into strips as thin as can be handled. lfsch brick makes a strip about twenty-five yards long and one inch wide, These strips are thea given to the goldbeater, and from this point on he carrie$ the rgall through the entire process himself. 'First, he measures the long, thin Strip into inch squaree, which he then cuts etT with long scissors. Next, .he places the square, ul a 'ltutclt." The "ketch" consists of a pack of spe- cially prepared papers between which the squares arc placed exactly in the center, .-1 'kutch contains 200 gold squares. :Strips of parchment are then wrap- ped around it both ways to form a box and the gold -beater is ready to begin his first hammering process. He never strikes two blows in the same place but twists and turns and overturns his kutch with its valuable contents over and over again with one hand while he wields his big hammer with the other in rhythmical stroke. in town today can recall it. 'Phis ho - When he has beaten his kutch until tel was destroyed by fire over see- the gold squares have become four enty years ago, with a loss of two times their original size, he sits down human beings, one of whom wag a at his table and, carefully lifting Spanish doctor and the other a ne- each sheet of gold onto a leather gro servant. Thirty years sago the late cushion in front of him, 'he cuts it Jahn Corbett, who was then living bods ways, making four new squares there, remodelled .the house which had about an inch in size. His cutter is been erected some time after that lire. made of malacca cane and is called a In excavating for an enlarged base- 'Ming -wagon." 'Now he taken the stent Mr. Corbett came across quart, resultant 'S00 squares and places them Cities of burned timber and ashes, and bebween the •leaves of another pack, numerous pieces of money, among thein haing a number of old Spanish and Mexican coin's, A few of the lat- ter coins are neve in the possession. of .Mrs. William 'Bennett and they are prized very highly. The late Thomas McLaren, senior, father of Mr, Robt. 1f.c'Laren, South Ward, Mitchell, used to often talk of this hostelry and was present at the fire on the night it was destroyed. It was a terrible affair, and as there was Igo waterwanks sys- tem 'here in those days, nothing could be done to same the 'building or rescue the doctor or this valet. PASSING OF OLD MITCHELL LANDMARKS (Mitchell Advocate) An old landmark, probably the very oldest in Mitchell, was razed last week. It was a small building, about 16 by '20 feet, used at one time as a residence, but by whom it was erected and the first occupants are unknown, nor will they ever be known at this late date. It is known, however, that this house, for such it was, had stood there more than eighty years, and un- til wrecked a few days ago, occupied a corner of the property of the late MISS Annie Stuart, on. George street...,.,, Another old land -stark is located on the same street, a sew paces south of the once old .house, but an the op- posite side of the street. We refer to the old red brick building need by the A. Burritt Co. as a store house for old stearal sittings, etc. This building same seventy-five years ago was the palatial "Live and Let Live Hotel," operated by a gentleman by the name of Rutley. Rutley's ,hostelry la those days, from what we can learn, staged many a lively party. The beat of liqu- or was sold at twenty -live cents per gallon and one could obtain the finest brand of "fire water" for MO cents a ala, ... But about land -mark: again, there s another old -tine hotel building now used as a residence and it was known as the `Railway Hotel, This was some- where ,around sixty-five years ago. The building today is in a fair state of repair and was the honkie of the late i[ary- I5era m up to the binge of her passing away some time ago. The ho- tel was situated directly across tile road from the stack yards of the old Grand Trunk Railway (now the C. X. 'R.1 and w•as conducted by the •late D. Stewart. A "roaring" business was done there in those days. Our town at that time was a shipping center of importance, a vast amount of lumber. grain and wood being shipped from here daily, \\'e have heard it said by old residents here that in those days it was a conininn sight to see from 1i5.0 to 200 wagons four or five times a week lined up waiting to be un- loaded at the old elevators and lum- ber yards. The Watt hostelry, another haven for travellers and others, stood on the corner of St. Davin and Main streets, just opposite the horee of 3[r. A. D. Cameron southerly. This was conducted by the late James Watt and passed out of existence about forty-five years ,ago. :Perhaps, however, the least re-- mem'bered and almost forgotten hotel was one which stand on the spot where Mr..Andrew 'Urctuhart now re- sides on 1St. George street. We doubt as to whether more than one or two ADOBE -MAKING There are still regions of the world in which sun-dried bricks are used fur .buleding material, as they were an- ciently in Egypt and in Babylon. Stich bricks are called adobes—prob- ably a 'Malayan ;word brought into (Spain by the Arabs and by Spanish settlers introduced to the New World. They are suited only to a dry clim- ate, and are made only where fuel for burning is not easily obtained. The manufacture of them is described by Mr. R. A. '•Selmour in Iris "Pioneer- ing in the Pampas an English set- tler in Argentina nearly fifty years a>>, A well is first dug, and the grass cleared off a large space of ground not far away, from which the earth is to be taken. Close to the %vel1 is made the pisadera, so called froth pi-af•,--to tread,—in which the mud is to be trodden bymares, driven. round and round by a man on ohrse- hack. The pisadera is a round enclos- ure of from six to ten yards in dia- meter, varying of course in size ac- cording to the number of wet -lemon employed, as the mud hardens rapid- ly, and must be used while still moist, The pisadera is enclosed by posts with retie tied round so as to keep the horses inside. It is first of all filled with earth to about two feet in 0101)1 ). the earth being taken from the space already cleared. The soil is mixed with red sand, which is of course quite useless in brickmaking. The water is drawn up in a large canvas 'bucket and poured into the pisadera until the earth scents to be sufficiently moistened, The horses are then turned into ;ut I driven a ,und and round, until the brick -cutter says that it has reached the proper consist- ency for being formed into bricks. \Vhile tib; is going on, chopped grass, or tsraw if it can be obtained. is scattered over the composition in or- der to stake the mud hold together the better. Meanwhile a small space of ground close to the pisadera having been pre- pared for molding the }rides, the mud when ready is w•hcele,1 out in harrows and upset on a hide laid 00 the ground. The cutter has his wooden noa;d, which stakes two bricke at a time, laid on the ground before hint. and he raises up the stud on Ids arms, having clasped his hands to- gether, and drops it into the mold. 316 then dips his hand into •t bucket of water close by old smooths over the surfaee, removing at the same time the superfluous clay, which he puts down near by, ready for nee 11 making tete next pale of bricks. The mold is then raised by two handles en the outeide, and wiped over with a wet rag before being Neill again, su a: to prevent the noel sticking to it. The inner then pti11: the hide after hint as he ooi o 'eo' along, placing, the trick; int rowe of from twenty t thirty pairs in length on the fiat ,pace prepared ,or t'.leu1. One or two days, if the sun le at all hot, are quite enough to dry the hricks eWTiciently for setting up edge so that the other Aide may he. '3ricd. .\s they are turned, all the edges are scraped sn.,otlt with a knife and the under side is pares fiat. They are left another lay until dry en ugh to stack, Bricks dried in the sun like these are much used for building. but n e, of se they are mit nearly :o hard or good as baked Bricks. For a large house one would never think of using adobes. but far any building of one ,tory they ;1nsw•er very welt. • :t ;good brick -cutter will often stake over two thousand }ricks in a day; some will slake over three thn.osand, but this is unusual. It is very hard work and very tiring to the back, as one must stoop quite down to the ground to life teh stud, and the weight of earth thue raced is from thirty to forty pounds each time. ewes. gas hard as they could, each at Otice more these :squares are 'barn- elis own 'table, using 'hamuners that noted out to four times their original .clashed betweml sixteen and twenty size and then cut into inch squares perosths. 'It looked' like a very hard and placed in a new pact: of leaves Oh' but ene .of Sore !Owners, 'who.kindly,called a "mold.' The gold squares fsOweif urs the process step by step, efrom every ,shroder are enough to ,fill• :said that it wasfa't, as hard as it three molds. When elle mold is pre looked beoause the big hammers pared just lilce,the ketch and shroder, itemenced op of bhentiselves without up jumps the 'rammer and away goes weigh effort ion hell lb'elater,spart. the beating again. The last !beating P,a't to ,Start at itlhe tbeginteinig of the 'takes .four hours. ':tory. l Fiirtst ,of aOl gee gold arrives at It 'wi'Ui ibe seen from the 'above t°iat }lite ,faotbiry'in !the form of flat bricks there are three distinct processes or Dust Causes Asthma. Even a little speck too small. to see will lead to a- gonies which no words can describe. The walls of the breathing tubes ton- tract and it seems as if the very life must pass. From this condition Dr, T. D. Kellogg's Asthma Reined), brings the user to perfect rest. It relieves the ,passages and normal breathing is firmly established again Hundreds of testimonials received'an- nually prove its effectiveness, and in prodding 15 open 'I was apt to split it suddenly apart and send it scattering .across the floor. This would not have mattered if iI had :been alone; but 'throughout the meal the girl would be kneeling opposite me, re- filling from time to time my little rice bowl from an enormous wooden can- ister by her side, To begin with, I found this rather embarrassing, but after a time I came to enjoy this pe- culiar tete-a-tete, and, incidentally, I absorbed through it a working knoll ledge of 'the language, lIt was roman- tic too; 'because the Japanese girl to such a delicious little creature, with her high coiled hair, her wide colored sash, her long flowered gown which, clinging tightly about her and taper- ing to the ankles, gives to her figure a kind of bird -like slenderness, an im- pression which is enhanced by the sweeping sleeves which fall to either side like folded wings. Your feeling is that she is a pretty ornament, In fact, you feel you would like to buy a few to send home to your friends.. And 1 mush try and explain just what it is thst makes the Japanese inn so distinctive. It is not merely thait it is completely free of that air of forbidding, almost deliberate, cheer- lessness, which pervades our western hotels. It is something more positive than that, From the moment of en- tering you are made to feel that you are being singled olit for particular care, I think the secret is that a spe- cial girl is detailed to attend to you or at least that is how it appears — and she stakes it her business always to bre on hand to anticipate your least waist. She respects your retirement. of course; but once you step outside your apartment she materializes from sonoewhere and follows you wish a clattering shuffle, ready to do you eorale service, if only to turn your slippers toes outward when you kick them off behind you as you re-enter your roam. She seems to know, too, just when to bring you a pot of tea, or a plate of fruit; and if you feel in- clined for a'strnil she guesses that al- so, and is waiting for you at the -ves- tibule with your boots ready cleaned. And she is still waiting for you when you return, bowing and - smiling, in welcome, and with tea set ready-. And all this, as you can imagine, gives a touch of homeliness and intimacy which ie perfectly delightful I must tell you, too, of the evening, bath, for that was never lacking. It was a woo:derfnl institution 0 fare, it was called, 'Honorable bah,' and I was ushered to it as though to ;t feast. Sometimes I enjoyed it in soli- tary ol:tary state, scimetinlus it was a social. relaxation. But a preliminary word is necessaryif volt wish to avoid of. fence. The golden rule is that the water must be left as clean as you fond it, for others are to follow. That is; you must do your washing before caterhtg the bath itself. There is plenty of roaon for this, and you may splash as much as you like. You are given a little four -inch -high stool to sit on and a little wooden howl and dipper. You fill these from the bath and you %stinging. hot water ever head and body; or possibly the bath attendant does this for you, scrubbing your back and ma- aging your limbs. And. in renictt'er places the custom stili lingers of the girl herself per- forming this office. 13 you come upon this you must not be embarrassed. Then, when cleaned and scrupulously riosed, yen may enter the bath. But first you must pour plenty of water over your head, because you will be up to your neck in water $o loot that it requires a distinct determination to force yourself in—so hot, indeed, that the Japanese use their towels to wash with, fanning themselves dry, or more simply drying in their own steam. But once in, it is heaven; especially after a day's hard tramp over rough hill track beneath a blazing sun. I have left myself little time to telt you of the country. But hills you can picture for yourselves, and wide boul- der -strewn rivers running in deep ra- wincs. set about with bamboo • groves, and with every fifty yards a pool for bathing, and tall erect cryptc)neria pines swarming up.precipitous gorges, and little 'mountain lakes, and sweep- ing valleys between the hills terraced into rice -paddies. Every 'yard of it en- chanting. `For a month I poet no white faces. I heard no word of English. I never felt indisposed, I never went hungry. I ,experienced innumerable kindnesses, companionships, hospital- ities. People would tramp a couple of wiles with me to set inc safely on my way, would serve me with tea, would draw wafter forme to wash my feet. And travelling in' this way, among the wood -cutters on the hills and the 'far- mer folly in the valleys, I saw, not Ja- pan of .the tourists, not even Japan of the shrine and temples, but some- thing more intimate, more fundamen- ta•1=Japan of the Japanese. IN NEW ZEALAND FORESTS Creepers. cover matted thickets, veiling their flanks and netting them into rnas!ses upon which a man may it, and a boy he irresistibly tempted to walk. Aloft one tree tray grow .upon another, and itself bear the }Arden of a third. Parasites twine round paraeitee, dangle in purposeless rope,. or forth loops and -swing, in mid-air. Some are hare, little and. emeoth-steminetle others trail curtains of leave :u l pale floe eree Trees of a dezee species thrust their branches into each ether,- till it is a puzzle to tel which foliage belongs to this ;boon, which t, that; and flax -like ar- b•,real celoni•te ii11 tip feel:, and dress bole and '.imbe fantastically, Advent- urou, Ville; ramble through the inter - ;paces, linking trunk t, trunk and complicating the fine confusion. The dim entanglement ie a quiet w or:d, shoot within itself and full of shadow., Yet, in bright weather, rays of shine shoot hoot here and there against brawn and gray bark, and clots if olden light, drip ung through the liage, daece. on avid 0101se.e ani toe ri'it-enlacemeet :f the earth, • IN THE EAST Meal time was always iultterestiilg.. The girl—toe san, one called her. or 'elder sister'—would bring in and place on the floor before me a little tray set daintily with odds and ends of soups, 'bean -curd, egg, fish, little boilings anti fryings of unnameable as'sortm'ents, most of them delicious, but conitaining among them as though in deliberate ambush some innocent - seeming delicacy—some seaweed or paste or pickle --which would flood my mouth with a sudden atrocious savor impossibie to eradicate. How- ever, after experience, I learned to avoid these snares; and, indeed, after a very 'little while, I'became so fond of fapanese .cooking thait 'I often find myself hankering for one or other of those delicate tasty dishes. Naturally, I was obliged to use chopsticks. As a matter 'of fact I found 'then extraor- dinarily easy to manage except that one or two dishes presented difficul- ties. ,Vermicelli for instance, had to be whipped around them and sucked into the mouth in a continuous stream. But then, in Japan one is un- der no necessity to conceal 'th'e sound of such suction. River bream, too, served whole, complete with head and tail. always made me nervous. For the. slant was hard, and the inside tender, Persian Balm i; rtllurm*dy fragrant, Adds a charming refinement to flit nr,s' nu,dferl appearance. Create: and preserves ceenplexi'ns of surpa,s,ag LnchncSS and texture. 4,ftens ani whitens the locos. Cant., and dispel all irritation caused by weather con- ditinu SwiftI3, ah nree 1 'ay the is- sues leaving never a vestige •,1 eticele nc.s, •h. peerle toilet requisite. In- valuable to all a ,when who care : ,r elegance and distincti gin. 'rlie aceoniplice i a. ',al as tile A s;lper-]nau is +eve who hasn't ye* been ;rested with tae job. Keep Douglas' Egyptian Liniment always in the stable, ready for imme- diate use. Removes proud flesh and inflammation, 'Thrush or Hoof Rot painful and •irr.itating. Remove theta quickly and surely with Douglas' Egyptian Liniment. Want and For Sale Ads, 1 time, 25c Here and There Princess Junho, sister of the Emperor of Manchukuo, with her husband T. K. Cheng, were passengers aboard the Duchess of Richmond recently. They tra- velled across 'Canada via Cana- dian Pacific Railway and sailed from Vancouver to the Orient on the liner Empress of Canada. Heaviest Easter traffic in years with main line trains running in extra sections and with added coaches and parlor cars on branch line trains, Canadian Pacific Rail- way, was reported over the recent holiday, right across the Domi- nion. Special low fares. attract- ed many passengers. In the annual statement of the C. P. R. for last year, published recently, it was brought out that as a result of decreased earnings • the great majority of railway em- ployees have taken a cut of fif- teen per cent. in wages; higher officers have been reduced 20% and the Company's directors have had a 25% cut in their fees, while E. W. Beatty, Chairman and President, has at his own request taken a reduction of forty per cent. Eight days only after they had witnessed the Grand National classic at Aintree, near Liver- pool, a number of Torontonians reached their homes in time for the Easter celebrations. The achievement was made possible by a fast voyage of the Duchess of Richmond under her new com- mander, Captain Arthur Roth- well. Announcement is made by the Canadian Pacific Railway that it will now accept shipments of freight via Port McNicoll and its lake and rail route subject to delay at Port McNicoil, pending the first sailing. Three Cana- dian Pacific steamers will be in service on the Great Lakes dur- ing the coming season. "Bride ship of the Atlantic," as she was called by reason of the large number of prospective bri- des she carried from Great Brit- ain and the continent to Canada, the Metagama of the Canadian Pacific Steamships is to be sold for scrap, her owners announced recently. Fifty years of railroad service, 35 of them with the Canadian Pacific Railway, were honored, recently at the Royal York Rotel by a banquet and presentation to Robert E. ',armour, retired gen- eral freight agent at Toronto. E. W. Beatty, K.C., LL.D., chairman and president of the company; Grant Ball, vice-president; and George Stephen, traffic vice- president, were among those who attended. L. G. Prevost, IL.C., assistant solicitor, Canadian Pacific Rail- way, has been promoted to the post of solicitor of the company, for the province of Quebec, suc- ceeding the late Rodolphe Para- dis, 7.C., the appointment being effective as from April 1. Captain David Sinclair Mc. Queen, commander of the Cana- dian Pacific liner Duchess of Athoil, will retire on May 1, after 44 years spent on sea service, most of which was in the employ, of the old Allan Line and Cana- dian Pacific Steamships, -..