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Wheoo acid You
Get phot Hat?
If the hi.etol'y of • the Hat be
nothing like as long as the his-
tory of Man, be sure, however,
that the Hat is of immeasurable
antiquity. and its wearing among
the earlie4i of Man's social insti-
tutions. -
Yet. arelbaelog cal discovery
reveals nothing like a basic
hat," am neere than scientific
philology reveals the patterns of
a 'basic Specht."
And so we can say of the hats
of ancient Soni.. -r, exactly what
we may say of the speech. of an-
cient Sumer, that- "behind these
forms lies a long history of de-
vely neat."
A few boors rs before 1 began
this book, I stow a youth in the
Strand wearing .what is adver-
tLs:.1 ill I Sirimii sheep as "the
new Robin II.od" - a conical
crowned hat with the brim turn-
ed up at tr,Qh:i,-k and side.,. to
press tiehtly ageinst the crown:
the thont of the brim being pull-
ed dawn co term a s=ort of tore -
peak or vieer•.
We kno+e what inspired the
designer to introduce this type
of headgear for our less conserv-
ative youth; and we know, too,
what impelled him to call it "the
Robin Hood." It is obvious that
the designer found his inspira-
tion in a. recent television serial.
But, in fact. the history of this
particular hat -shape goes a long
way back beyond the Late Mid-
dle Ages. at which date the ro-
mancers like to set that dedivini-
fied minor deity, "Rabin Flood."
The "Robin Hood" is, in truth,
a hat -forint commonly encounter-
ed in Greek vase -paintings, es-
pecially of the 6th century B.C.
In that archaic period of Hel-
lenic art, the Hero Perseus is
often shown as wearing a "Robin
Hood," and it is only much later
that we encounter him wearing
what we had better call his
"more classical" type of head-
gear: the steel helmet of the pat-
tern issued to British troops
during the two World Wars -
winged for Perseus, , . ,
Man long ago devised a meth-
od of taking needed shade with
him - and invented the hat,
and we may assume that the
first hats ever devised by Man
consisted either in animal -skin
or the leaf a tree.
With regard to the latter, the
hat made of leaf or stalk or pith
is still with us; so much so that
two trees, Thynax argentea and
Copernicia cerifera both bear the
name, "hat -palm" or "chip hat -
palm," as their leaves are used
in hat -making.
There is also an East Indian
p 1 a n t, Aeschynomene aspera,
whose very tough pitch is made
into hats. It is commonly known
as the "hat -plant." -From "The
History of the Hat," by Michael
Harrison.
Q. How can I clean a greasy
concrete floor?
A. Scatter some trisodium
phosphate thickly on the spots,
and then sprinkle on just
enough water to dissolve the
chemical. Wait an hour or more,
then scrub the floor with water.
If one application fails to re-
move all the stains, keep repeat-
ing until success is yours.
"Speak ]Duda". Mrs. McGee. I
can't hear a word you're
LOTS 0' LEARNIN' - George Baker shows surprise as he
gazes at the stack of books which he will be getting ac-
quainted with in future. He is a first grader,
This Automation
it's Wonderf(ugh)I
The trouble with automation is
that our scientists have not yet
learned to make machines that
sometimes sit back and reflect.
There was that automated
power station near Bristol that
talked to the automated tele-
phone exchange for 48 hours, one
saying off the tape, "Emergency;
there is a fault in the switch-
gear; there is a fault in the
switchgear," and the other reply-
ing, of fits tape, "The Code num-
ber has been changed, please
dial 100." It nigh have gone on
for 48 days only the dark made
someone suspicious.
We also had our code number
altered the other day. When I
started dialing for Esher a voice
interrupted be and said, "The
code number has been changed,
please consult your new code
sheet." Without thinking, I said
"What new code sheet?" and the
reply came remorselessly back,
"The code number has been
changed, please consult your new
code sheet" This could have gone
on for 48 days too. But I consult-
ed my wife instead. She had not
seen a new code sheet either, We
hadn't got one. Some machine
had forgotten to send it to us.
A considerable correspondence
on a similar subject was started
in the London Daily Telegraph
the other day by A. E. Chester-
ton of Pinner. His wife ordered
some coke from the North
Thames Gas Board. The board is
represented in the order office by
a machine called Renown 3388. A
few days later Mr, Chesterton re-
ceived a post card from the Coke
Department, Imperial House,
Fulham, querying the type of
coke that had been ordered. It
was, of course, unsigned.
To save time Mr. Chesterton
telephoned the local gas board
office, where there is no machine.
He was told the type of coke he
had ordered did not exist. That
was why the machine had quer-
ied it, But Mr, Chesterton knew
it did exist. So he telephoned Im-
perial House and demanded to
speak to the Coke Department,
He was referred to this machine,
Renown 3388. He explained that
he wished to reply to a post card
Imperial House insisted the reply
must be given to the machine,
which, as we know, did not be-
lieve him. When Mr. Chesterton
had tried again and again with-
out success he once more tele-
phoned the machine. He canceled
his order.
Some readers nevertheless lik-
ed the machine. But Robert
Ehrer,stein wrote to confirm that
whenever he too tried to speak to
a gas board official, who might
ry
THE MAESTRO COUNSELS - Between scenes of "The Con-
demned of Altana," two-time Academy Award winning dirag.-
tor, Vittorio De Sica, discusses the interpretation of her royal
with Oscar winner, Sophia Loren. They ora on location In Plias,
Italy.
BUSINESS PROPERTIES pill. SALE
t11ND'ILI L tic t:uu utt anti ate t e In,
Highway Oslo s n tot Thomas and Pert
Stanley. Full equipment 010.M. land,
bulttlttg and equipment. Possession,
Terris. Keith & Hearts. ilrehr‘rs, 300
Talbot St., St Thomas. Out, `tF Irase
14010,
BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE
t BUSINESS FOR SALE
I.ENERAL Store, Restaurant and 8 bed-
room apt. 52,000 down, tape over 92,500.
1st mortgage, stock approx $6,000. Goad
lease $80. monthly. Na triflers
Agents. welcome.
Write Mr. G. A, Peattie
R.R. 4 Kincardine, Ont, or phone
BERVIE 2425
CAMP SITE PROPERTIES FOR SALE
PARRY SOUND HUNT CAMP SITES
300 acres, an .goad road, houseand
barn, full price $6,000.
275 acres, lteavity treed, with small lake
on property, good duck and deer heat-
ing, full price $4,500,
156 acres, old farm, no buildings ex-
cellent hunting area; full price $2,200.
525 acres, large hunting -and fishing es.
tate, good buildings, on Georgian Bay.
Exclusive set -tip; priced at $16,900.
WE have others. •please inquire.
C. W. FLETCHER, REALTOR
P.O, BOX 298, PARRY SOUND, ONT.
answer a question, he was put on
to the machine, which never will.
And then Alasdair Alpin Mac-
Gregor carried it further with a
terrible story about a rain of
garden seats, writes John Allan
May in the Christion Science
Monitor,
A friend of his ordered from a
London store a garden seat, for
which he (the friend) paid. The
seat was duly delivered. Four
days later, while the friend and
his (the friend's) wife were away
from home, a second garden seat
was delivered to them, The
household help in all innocence,
thinking the couple particularly
liked garden seats, took delivery
of it for them. So Alpin MacGre-
gor's friend telephoned to ask the
firm to remove the second seat.
In 10 days 'time the firm did so,
but in 12 days it sent hint a bill
for it.
The friend ignored the bill.
This, in the modern world, is
rarely wise. The firm immediate-
ely delivered a third seat. Later
of course it sent a third bill, Mr.
MacGregor'a friend - an inno-
cent - also ignored that. So it
willnot surprise the reader that
the friend very soon received a
fourth seat.
This time the friend was at
home. He fought a successful bat-
tle to get the men who brought
the fourth seat to take it away
again. They did not want to.
Their order was to deliver it, But
not being machines they found
themselves able to agree to re-
move it in the end. (The automa-
tic process of course sent a fourth
bill all the sante.)
"A weak later" Mr. MacGregor
reports "there arrived by post a
sheet of acracadabra so finely
contrived by an autocratic ma-
chine that my friend could not
decipher it, So he wrote to the
manager to inquire of him
whether he regarded all this as a
commendable example of modern
business methods and if so, how
he thought we were likely to fare
in the Common Market,"
I should say he was very lucky
not to get another seat. That
Common Market one is getting to
be a dangerous crack. In this
case, however, the manager took
it with a smile (which, I may say,
infuriated Mr. MacGregor's
friend) and explained that the
rain of seats was caused simply
by "an excess of zeal" on the part
of his staff. So that presumably
it would augur well rather than
ill for British participation in the
Common Market,
And this may indeed be so. It
is clear that in the above case
"the staff" was a machine. And
several Common Market count-
ries are quite as advanced in au-
tomation as is Britain. They are
all equally capable of the same
zeal, The trade figures therefore
may be very greatly expanded.
There are often consolations to
all these things, In my last flat it
seemed that in some mysterious
way I manufactured electricity in
a tiny hall cupboard, I was al-
ways getting rebates instead of
bili,. sometimes even quite sub-
stantial ones. The board would
never take the money hack. You
can't argue with a machine:
And that's the trouble. in most
other cases. You ought to be able
to argue with a machine. I wish
these inventors would get down
to it. Who wants to be there
when it starts raining coke!'
FISHY PROBLEM
Humans may have their psy-
chological problems, but, accord-
ing to Ontario Lands and Forests
Minister J. W. Spooner, so do
fish. Writing in a booklet on fish
the minister warns against indis-
criminate clearing of weed beds.
Fish, he says, need somewhere to
hide and to fatten. If plants, lilies
and weeds are torn out, fish
could develop a psychosis, start
worrying, and lose weight. So
better weeds could mean better
fishing.
DOMESTIC HELP WANTED
YOUNG reliable woman for light house-
keeping duties and to help look 'after
children. 1n modern hone, all modern
conveniences. Own room. Liberal time
o£f. Will discuss salary after reply, Ap-
ply Box 264, 123 -18th Street, New Tor-
onto, Ont.
DAIRY EQUIPMENT
FARMS FOR SALE
22 acres farm, cleared, gaud 7.r0unt
house and barn, hydroa, drilled well,
school bus $7,000 cash. Eugene St ('sire
phone 630 5020, Norwood, Ont.
1404iere farm, 80 ores ficleared, good
2•storey brick shoos nished house.
24'x20' full basement, 3-nieee bath.
Hydro, garage 24'x36'. Barn 40'x70' 1
Mle from Ilwy, 65. 32 nidus front rO'w
Llakeurd. School bus route to dour
Write Mountain Chutes Camp, 11.
Verne, 1011. 2, Eenabeek, Ont.
DAIRY FARM
Must be sold to settle estate. 230 aures.
185 plowable, two traelors and lrut'k,
All power ntuchinely. Modern home
and barn. Two silos. forte minting
eon's, twelve yearlings, three calves,
has nine can contract, tide can easily
northtof Corn4wn l and Is
miles soy uth
interest.
of
Otaw. 110,000 clown, the Inhume at
Contact Mrs. Anna Van Egmont,
RR No, 2, Moose Creek, 009.,
phone 20R-6.
sass
HELP WANTED
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Required by 50 Bed General Hospital.
Attractive
policies. Reply conditions
qualifica-
tions, salary expected and date avail-
able to: Administrator,
Sensenbrenner Hospital
Kapuskasing, Ontario. - -
HEARING AIDS
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"CANHEAR" Reg.
21 CAN woods bulk milk cooler, Hen- - -e 24 Catherine St.
man vammm pump and pipeline, all in • SMITHS FALLS, Ont.
near new condition, All Modals at Wholesale - Written
Russell Markham,
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Markham, Ont, Business Guide,
What's The Proper
Way To Say it?
Which is the proper pronuncia-
tion -Arkansas or Arkansaw?
As Wichitans know, this is not
an idle question. The wrong
pronounciation can get you os-
tracized, or shot at, either here
or in the Ozarks. But despite
the venerable age of the dis-
agreement, no one has ever set-
tled the matter.
There are many such strange
pronunciations in the United
States, a mark of our hetero-
geneous heritage, Cairo, I11., is
pronounced Kay -re; El Dorado,
Kan., is pronounced with a long
a in defiance of its ancestry;
Pierre, S.D., is pronounced peer,
a living rebuke to the French
fur trader it is named after: the
local pronounciation of Montevi-
deo, Minn., would never be re-
cognized by a Uruguayan.
Most of these are acceptable,
and present no problem. After
all, how many Egyptians visit
Illinois, and how many 'Latin
Americans get as far north as
Minnesota?
Arkansas is a different matter,
especially since so many now
travel frequently between this
area and the state of Arkansas.
Clearly, neither side will aban-
don its cherished tradition, Only
one other solution is possible,
Arkansas obviously is not pro-
nounced Arkansaw by a n y
twist of the language. The Ark-
ansas legislature, therefore, must
legally change the spelling of
that state's name to Arkansaw,
and establish hes}vy fines and
penalties against those who re-
fuse to conform.
Without such a remedy, inter-
state war is only .a matter of
time. - Wichita (Kan.) Morning
Eagle
It's much safer to drive if both
the weather and the driver are
dry.
HUNTING ACCOMMODATION
DEER HUNTERS
reasonableo board,
guides and dogs for one
r
George Osborne's Camp
Golden Valley, Ont,
LOG BUILDINGS
PAN -ABODE
Vacation homes and ski cabins, etc. Ob.
talo now, to enjoy hunting, skiing, or
Christmas
of western red the•
cozy
logs. For brochure Phone 2773630,
or write
Pan -Abode (Ontario Sales)) Limited,
2225 Dundee Hwy. East, CoolcsvilIe, Ont.
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
FOR sale 0 ice
varying in weight hofrom 4700ford to 8501eers lbs.
Included
Apply0Wi11ard Calhoun Ranch.
Dobbinton, Ont.
Phone 335W3 ChesleY
MEDICAL
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT
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the story of her Christian faith, in MY
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PONY AND HORSE SALE
SHETLAND ponies 4 this year, horse
colts, 4 mare colts, dappled chestnut
with white mane and tall. Also 2 Young
mares (bred). Priced to sell.
A, C. Anderson, Strethroy,.Ont,
PONY
SADDLE
And
SALE
DON'T forget McLetland's pony and
saddle horse consignment sale et Berrie
-., near Kincardine on
Saturday, Oct, 13 at 72 o'clock. Elton
McLelland, Route 4, Kincardine, Ont
STAMPS
u.s, Used.
FAMOUS Americans ut $2,80.
ARMY and Navy at 30.
WASHINGTON Bicentennial at .44.
R. Shorter, R,D,No.4, Middletown, N.Y.
ROY S. WILSON
78 Richmond Street West rurunto
NEW ISSUES
CANADA B.C. & FOREIGN
RAI'EIN GIUBONS SCOTT
MINIMS HMS[N TOCKGROSSMAN
ALBUCOLLECTIONS ALSO PURCHASED,
TOURIST CAMP FOR SALE
Tourist Camp,
8 cabins, fully equipped for househeep.
ing, hydro /rigs, rangettes, inside fedi:
Mies, diner, boats, motors, etc, Interest•
ed parties write
Mountain Chutes Camp, Kenabeek„ Onh.
Reason for selling (Mess).
VACATION RESORTS
PLAN next year's vacation nowt Finns
ous Beethoven Guest Ranch Vacatl'on,
Club(
Freeo
foBrochure. Box 814, Pas
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TRACTOR TIRES P000 SALE
Cash & Carry BARGAIN'S
New FIRESTONE
Tractor TiRES
Two 9-24 All
Traction Champ. ........... # 79,00 pair
Two 10.24 Champion
Ground Grip 94:00 polo'
Two 12.4 24 All
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Two 12.24 Champ.
Ground GrIp 119.00 pair
Two 10.28 Champion
Ground Grip '9900 pair
Two 12,4.20 Champion
Ground Grip 119.00 Pott'
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Two 12.4.38 Champ 149.00 pmt'
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truck tires, new 350.00 tet'
650x20 tubes -new 1.50 each,
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I REALLY DON'T MIND GETTING ONE, Mayor Don Russell of New Toronto says, .e -
spite the frown as he gets his parking violation ticket from pretty Sue Ballantyne, 19.
At council Monday, the mayor suggested police use pretty girls instead of "big husky
men" to write outoarking tickets, "I wouldn't mind getting one then," he said, We took him
up on it and got Hiss Ballantyne to give the mayor a ticket when we spotted his car on
Lake Shore Blvd. West. The mayor told council cities like Ottawa had put the sytlem into
use, using girls on motor skooters to tag errant motorists, He said tagrinn dutios incur
a lack of respect for the police. Sue was Miss Christie's Credit Union of 1961. (From the
New Toronto Advertiser)