HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-10-02, Page 7-4 Bush Mailman Has Do You Yahie
A Lonely Round' Your Health?
Only Three Houses Sighted in Week's
Trip of 240 Miles. i If your health is 'poor; if you are
In the Australian outback, where pale, nervous and easily tired; if you
homesteads may be 50 miles apart, i suffer from headaches and backaches;
and' 200 miles or so from the railway, I if your digestion is bad you may de -
the lot of the postman,, or "mailnnan," pend upon it that.these symptoms
as he is called, is not an easy one, come from an impoverished State of
the blood. That unless this condition
writes a contributor to the -Sheffield is remedied a complete breakdown
Telegraph. may follow. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
He •collects his mails at the nearest
township, and then seta out on a long, are ;a perfect medicine for any one
lonely round, which may last any time in this condition. They enrich and
from a week to a month, purify the blood and thus :.promote
lth d t t
it the nature of the country permits hes an s rens h.
he will use a light motor lorry, but Mrs. G.M. Andrevrs, Halifax, N.S.,
just as frequently some form of horse writes.—"I always keep Dr. Williams'
coach or buggy is necessary. In the Pink Pills in the house. When I wits
lar North, during "the wet," pack a young, anaemic girl, they completely
horses are necessary to swim the restored by health. After marriage
horseslessrivers. my health `broke down and once more
bridgeWhere horses are used, it may take these pills brought me back to health.
My friends
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all tell me grow }veok'll I e
and for this Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
deserve all credit."
You can get these pills at all medi-
a week to deliver letters at five or six
homesteads,` so great are the dis-
tances between thein. The writer,
• who has frequently accompanied out -
eine dealers or by mail at 50 •cents a
back mailmen on their rounds, on one box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
occasion sighted only three houses on Co. Brockville, Ont.
a week's journey 'of 240 miles. Two
or threeother homesteads lay some
miles off' the track, but were not visit .j�®1�.. ����
ed. The only sign of their existence a� co
was their letter boxes, which consisted jR,,A
of a deal box nailed to a tree. One S
homestead was no less than 28 miles
from its own letter box.
3f the mailman's arrival at a home-
stead coincides with nightfall, the
family puts him up for the night. into neglect. A regrettable thing, for
Otherwise he sleeps under the stars. if these fall into neglect the hair falls
It is customary, and not in the nature into neglect, too, and is swift to show
of charity, to give the bush postman signs of it, just aa it is swift to re -
whatever food he may need to help spend to care and attention.
him on part of his journey. Long hair always seems 'to receive
Turned Loose more brushing than short hair, but
cot Need Brushing?
It may be imagination, but with the
coming and staying of short hair, the
brush and comb seem to have fallen
A mail team will range from four to
seven horses, and frequent changes
are necessary. A team is often left un-
attended by some isolated water bole,,
where the mailman will find them
again on his return journey. The
animals are not likely to stray far in
a country where water is scarce. •
The mailman works under contract
with the Government. He may add to
his income by carrying passengers, al-
though in one lonely district the writer
was the only passenger in a year. lie
can also act as carrier. And one bush
postman at least, after delivering
mails, proceeds to sell sweets.
Many an ,Englishman does not even
know what'his postman looks like, but
not so the bu>h dweller. When the
mailman stays the night, he is usually
treated as an old and welcome friend.
Seated with the family at the evening
meal, he will retail the gossip of the
track, and enter fully into the family's
life. The writer once witnessed a
very creditable conjuring and ventrilo-
quial entertainment given by a versa-
tile mailman to celebrate a twenty-
flrst birthday in a homestead 87 miles
from anywhere.
Long journeys; dry and featureless
country; scorching sums. It sounds a
tedious and trying life. But there is
usually something of interest lurking
round the corner, and the Interest is
sometimes tragic. The mailman just
mentioned once found a dead man on
the track, and had to dig a grave and
bury him on the spot. (A. mailman is
often made a justice of the Peace to
authorize him to Ileal with such a
situation).
Swollen rivers without bridges have
claimed their postal victims. And there
is no outback postman who has not
had his breakdown, One crashed his
lorry into a boulder the rains had
washed down on the track. The
injured man dragged himself twenty
miles on foot to the nearest habitation,
where he collapsed. The writer was
involved in a smash in which two
horses of the team were killed.
Though uninjured, the mailman and
his passenger were stranded miles
from anywhere. Accidents of this
kind are not infrequent.
But the mailman takes the rough
with the smooth with characteristic
British calm. And though he may not
realize it, no branch of H.NI.'s ser-
vice does more credit to the service
than the postman of the Never -Never.
short hair has the advantage that it
is easier to brtish it upwards as well
as downwards. It very good for the
hair to brush it from the nape of the
neck upwards—the wrong way of the
hair, as It were.
The stiff bristled brush is always
best for the hair unless the hair is ex-
ceptionally fine and comes out a good
deal. Hair is apt to come out in the
spring and autumn when new hair is
growing and the dead hair automati-
cally gives placeto it, hut this is noth-
ing to worry about. When hair comes
out habitually it is wise to abandon
anything in the way of vigorous brush-
ing for the time being; it is also wise
to try to find some remedy, of course.
Brushes should be washed as often
as the hair is washed, or, more often
if the hair is not washed every fort-
night or so. Clean brushes help to
keep the hair clean. Always rinse the
brushes in cold water, standing the
bristles downward in the water. This
helps to keep the bristles stiff. When
silver, brushes are being washed care
should be taken to keep their frames
out of the water.
Best Out of Sight
Combs must be cleaned even more
frequently, for with short hair they
seem to be in almost perpetual use,
and once they got clogged with dust
you can never be quite sure that the
dust does not go back into the hair
again. Keep a special comb for your
handbag, and a bigger and more im-
portant one to keep your brush com-
pany. Never on any account leave
hair combings in your comb. It is
an unhealthy, dust -collecting habit,
besides being en extraordinarily un-
sightly one. Keep 'a hair tidy of some
description handy or, 1f you use a
waste paper -basket in your bedroom,
deposit your hair combings there.
Last but not least, have a brush and
CODDLING THE COW
It happened in a small grocery store,
where they .kept anything from a two -
foot rule' to a pearl necklace. Court
plaster and sausages were also sold,
if necessary, you could get a hair -cut
is a horse shod in the backyard.
A'farmer stopped there to get some
liniment to rub the rheumatism out
of a cow, and two or three days later
he returned with a grievance.
"Look 'ere,' he said. "I wish ye
would be little more careful how Ye
throw yourself about behind that
counter. The other day ye gave me
some eau -de -Cologne instead of lini-
ment, and hangme if I didn't put it
on the cow :afore I found out what it
was."
"It hasn't hurt her, has it?" broke
in the grow.
"Can't say it has," answered the.
farmer; "but ever since I pat that
sweet-smelling: stuff on 'er she's done
nothing but look at her reflection in
the duck pond and sigh."
Pat was applying for a job at the
blacksmith's. The smith agreed totrj
him. "Listen," the blacksmith said.
"I"I'mg6iug to bring this horseshoe
from the fire and lay it on the anvil
when I nod my head, hit it hard with
this hammer." Pat obeyed his instrue-'
• tions to the letter; the blacksmith
never nodded his head again.
Louisiana Honors Evangeline
Kistler' and Normandy caps, the traditional dress of the Evangeline per od,
were the official costume of this group of pretty girls, who formed an im-
portant and attractive section of Louisiana's` delegation of Acadians to Grand
Pre, N.S., on August 20, for the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the
Atlantic
i tla
iof th
Dominion au ees e
1 oder the sR
1n u
1 the ACad a s held exnuls on of ,
Railway. The group posed for the camera beside the memorial church in
Grand Pre Park, centre of the festivities, which were attended by Acadians
from all parts of the United States•and Canada. Official Dominion and pro-
vincial, French and American representatives were in attendance.
comb bag. A square of checked ging-
ham left over from one of your summer
frocks will make an admirable one if
you have not one already. Keep your
brush and comb In this, and so keep
them free from dust. The habit of
leaving a brush and comb out on the
dressing; table or chest of drawers is
another unhealthy and dust -gathering
one. Brushes and combs, like most
other toilet accessories, are best kept
out of sight, and safe from harm's way
in your dressing table drawer.
BRAMBLE JELLY
Gather rather under -ripe fruit and
wash if necessary. Put into a presery
ing pan with enough cold water t0
half cover it. Cook berries slowly
for an hour or ranger, bruising them
down with a wooded spoon to extras
all juice." Strain through a jelly cloth
and leave to drip all night. Measure
the juice next morning, return it to a
clean preserving pan and let it boil
for fifteen minutes. Add three-quar-
ters of a pound of sugar' (warmed in
the oven) to each pint of liquid. Stir
until dissolved, then boil all together
until jelly will set.
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"Your wife must be awfully in love
With you. She has written to you
every day since she has been away."
"These are only little notes to tell
me to send her something she forgot
to put in her trunks."
h
Lawyer: "Have you ever been in
jail?" Witness: "Yes, sir, once."
"AhI For how long?" "Long enough
to whitewash a cell which was to be
occupied by a lawyer who bad robbed
dozens of his clients."
John—"May I have the last dance
with you?" Jean—"You've just had
it."
Minard's Liniment'a household friend.
4.0. MAO/ytes,
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For Troubieto
due tee Acid
0401GESTION
ACID STOMACH
, HEARTBURN
'it HgADACJ'tE
GASES -NAUSEA
Many people, two hems after eating,
suffer indigestion as they call it. It Is
usually excess acid. Correct it with
an alkali. The best way, the quick,
harmless and eflfcient way, is Phillips'
Milk of Magnesia. It has remained
for 50 years. the standard with physi-
cians. One spoonful in water neutral-
izes many times its volume in stomach
acids, and at once. The symptoms dis-
appear in five minutes.
ryiresee
You will never use crude methods
when you know this better method.
And you will never suffer from excess
acid when you prove out this easy re-
lief. Please do that—for your own
sake—now.
Be sure to get the genuine Phillips'
Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physi-
clans for 50 years in correcting excess
acids. Each bottle contains full direc-
tions—any drugstore.
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High School .Boards and Boards of Education
Are authorized by law to establish
INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL AND
ART SCHOOLS
With the approval of tine Minister of Education
DAY AND EVENING CLASSES
may be conducted in accordance with the regulations Issued by
the Department of Education.
THEORETICAL AND 'PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION
Is given, In various trades. The schools and classes are under the
direction of AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Application for attendance should be made to the Principal
of the school.
COMMERCIAL SUBJEC¢Ta, MANUAL TRAINING, HOUSEHOLD
SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE are provided
for In the Courses of Study In Public, Separate, Continuation and High
Schools, Collegiate InetitUtes,' Vocational Schools and Departments.
Copies of the Regulations hauled by the Minister of Education may be
obtained from the Deputy Minister, Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
Give Confidence
Th Young Mothers
A simple and safe'remedy for the
common ills .of babyhood and child-
hood should be kept in every home
where there is either .a baby or a
young child. Often it is necessary to
give the little ones something to
break up a cold, allay fever, correct
sour stomach, and banish the irrita-
bility that accompanies the cutting of
teeth.
Experienced mothers always keep
Baby's Own Tablets in the home as a
safeguard against the troubles that
seize their little ones so suddenly and
the young mother Man feel reasonably
safe .with a box of these Tablets at
hand and ready for emergencies.
Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but
thorough laxative that act without
gripping and they, are absolutely guar-
anteed free from opiates or other
harmful drugs. They are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr, Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Owl Laffs
Farming is man's most delightful
occupation—If he can sit in the shade
and get somebody else to do 1t.
Carl—"May.1 hold your hand?"
Helen—"Are you frightened?"
.A. lot of week -end wrecks are cauoed
by week -end drivers.
Vitamines and Calories
Methuselah ate what he found on his
plate,
And never, as people do now,
Did he note the amount of the calorie
count,
He de it because it was chow.
He wasn't disturbed, as at dinner he
sat,
Destroying a roast or a pie,
To thi.,lt it was lacking in granular
fat
Or a couple of vitamines shy.
He cheerfully chewed every species of
food,
Untroubled by worries or fears,
Lest hie health might be hurt by some
fancy dessert,
And he lived over nine hundred
years.
The folks who find fault with the
modern dances are either old or fat,
or both. Yeah, you bet.
"Darling," he cried, falling on bis
knees and covering her little white
hands with kisses, "can't you see that
I ove you?"
She drew herself up to her full
height. "Wel," she said, "I should
hate to think this was just your way
of behaving in compane."
We can hardly claim to be civilized
until we abolish the • present day
funerki expenses.
THRIFT WITH COLD VEGETABLES
Too many vegetables are sometimes
cooked in the best regulated houses.
Par too often, also, these are thrown
away as uneatable when, with a very
little trouble, they could be made very
Palatable.•
Cold greens, for instance, should be
placed in a saucepan of boilins water
and covered for two minutes. The
water should then be strained from
them, and when the vegetables are
served they will be found to be as
good as when first cooked.
It is quite useful to keep carrots.
ready dressed for use in an emergency.
They should be cut in round pieces
about an inch thick, and warmed in
butter sauce or thick gravy. Cold car-
rots may also be cut into any shape to
serve with ragouts or hashes, or they
may be ant into narrow strips and
used in soups. To give parsnips a
second life they should be mashed
with butter, milk, and salt, and heated
in the oven in a small buttered basin,
Onions, of course, do ,tot look we11
when they are re -warmed, as they are
likely to turn black. They will do
nicely for flavoring soups or curry;
however, provided that they are placed
in when the soup or curry is boiling.
Potatoes can be served for a second
Urns in a variety of ways. Mashed
and mixed with a little milk and water
they can be formed into buttered
shapes, floured and browned iu the
oven, or b. fore the fire. When they
are whole they can also be dipped in
bacon fat or dripping, sprinkled with
salt and floured, and baked in the oven
way a tin. Another w y t o deal with
potatoes when cold is to fry them in
batter. To do this they should be cut
Into rather thick slices and dipped in-
to a mixture made by beating an egg
with a tablespoonful of flour and a
tablespoonful of cold water, and then
fried in plenty of fat.
PLAYING WITH TOTO
The old lady we- sitting on a bench
near the eighth green of the golf 1
course.
Presently an unseen golfer hit i'
ball onto the green, and Toto, the old
lady's clog, ran out and promptly
seized it.
The next moment the golfer came
over the crest of a hill and began
waving his arms- and shouting indig-
nantly,
"Put the ball down, Toto," cried the
old lady. "Here comes the kind gen-
tleman to knock it for you again."
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Practice Needed
Wilson was suffering badly at the
hangs of the barber. After the third
cut he decided to malre a protest.
"I say, my man," he said, "I notice
you have a sign outside your shop,
'We Aim to Please'."
"That's right," returned the barber
merrily, "that's our motto."
"Thou don't you think you'd better
take a day or two, off for target prac-
tice?' tame the customer's retort.
"If the workers put as much inter-
est into their politics as they do into
their football matches we could alter I
the face of England in the text 10
years."—Ellen Wilkinson, M.P.
Minard's Liniment aids tired feet. '
The Seven 'Mistakes
There are seven mistakes of life
that many of us make, said a famous
writer, nd then he gave the following
list:
1. Tho delusion that individual ad-
vancement is made by crushing others
down.
2. The tendency to worry about
things that cannot be changed or cor-
ratted.
3. Insisting that a thing is impos-
sible because we ourselves cannot ac-
complish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial pre-
ferences ,in order that important
things may be aceompliahed.
5. Neglecting development and re-
finement of the mind and not acquir-
ing the habit of reading and study.
6. Attempting to compel other per-
sons to believe and live as re do.
7. The failure to establish the habit
of saving mono;-.
An ice cream vendor's pushcart in
Richmond, Ind., bears this sign: Give
Your Tongue a Sleigh ride. Ice Cream
Cones, 5 Cents.
The modern girl never worried
about her complexion going flat. She
always carries a spare.
. A woman says It Is impossible to go
DO YOU
SUFFER FROM
CONSTIPATION?
Countless remedies are advertised
for constipation. ltlany relieve for
the moment but they are habit form-
ing and, must be continued. Others
contain calomel and dangerous min-
eral drugs, which remain in the sys-
tem, settle in the joints and cause
aches and pains. Some are harsh
purgatives which cramp and gripe
and leave a depressed after effect.
Avoid lubricating oils which only
grease the intestines and encourage
nature's machinery to become lazy.,
A purely vegetable laxative such
Liver Pills gently
as Carter's Little
Lv
,g Y
touches the liver, bile starts to flow,
the bowels move gently the intestines
are thoroughly cleanses{ and constipa-
tion poisons pass away. The stomach,
liver and bowels are now active and
the system enjoys a real tonic effect.
All druggists 25c and 75c red pkgs.
UZI
ESS
Caused by Blood pressure
Doctor ordered Kruschen
"Five years ago this month I had
a serious attack of blood pressure, and
my medical man ordered me to take
Kruschen Salts daily. Evidently I
ani a stubborn subject, because I use
every morning a small teaspoonful
and a half in a glass of trot water, and
this acts splendidly and keeps my
head right. If I don't have the action
mentioned, I feel cold, stupid and
liable to fall from dizziness. There- I
fore I can't do without my Kruschen
on any account, Some time ago I I
tried some other salts which were
cheaper, but they pained me so much
that I bars to stop them. There is
no prtii, with Iirnsehen. I have told 1
hundreds of my little wonder-working
bottle."—(E. C. Fergusson.) •
Dizziness is a symptom of a deeper -
seated disorder. It is one of Nature's
danger ignals--her urgent warning of
an impure blood -stream which, if not
attended to in tine, may wreck the
entire health withsome dangerous,
indeed lifelong, disease. The six salts
in Kruschen keep the blood -stream
pm end vigorous by ensuring the
complete elimination of poisonous
waste matter"from the system every
day. '
ISSUE No. 38—'30
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through life without telling a fib. She
says she just has to say something
nice about her husband once in a
while.
Aunt Martha (shopping for a par-
rot)—"Now can you assure me it isn't
given to the use of shocking language?
Where did you get it?
Proprietor—"prom a sailor, ma'am.
But—" •
Aunt Martha—"Oh that's al, right.
Just so you didn't get it from one of
those flappers."
Analogy
Louise is beautiful, but too slow;
She shakes her head when I entreat;
She's like a Florida bungalow—
Modern, but no heat.
Credit Customer—"I'm not the worst
liar in town."
Mercant—"On the contrary, you are
the best"
An ounce of silence it worth a ton
of explanations.
He who laughs last sometimes gets
the horse laugh for being so climb he
couldn't see the joke at first.
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Hay Fever
and catarrh are offensive ail-
ments. Heat and inhale Minards's
a few times daily, as for colds.
It stimulates and relieves the
membrane.
Restless
CE -101,
CHILDREN will fret, often for no
apparent reason. But there's al-
ways Gastorial Harmless as' the recipe
on the wrapper; mild and bland as it
tastes. But its gentle action soothes
a youngster more surely than a more
powerful medicine.
That's the beauty of this special
children's remedy! It may be given
the tiniest infant—as often es there
is need. In cases of colic, diarrhea or
similar disturbance, it is invaluable.
A coated tongue calls for just a few
drops to ward off constipation; so
does any suggestion of bad breath.
Whenever children don't eat well,
don't rest well, or have any little
upset—this pure vegetable prepara-
tion is usually all that's needed.
"In May and June 4. was
badly rundown and had fain*
spells until it was a drag to d -
, my work. In July and August .
didn't seem to pick up so I de• •
cided to try Lydia dia E. Pink -
Y
ham's Vegetable Compounc
because I saw it advertised. 1
took two botdes and now I ar
the picture of health. I fe-:I
fine, do all my work and mil:,
two cows. If any woman
writes, I will certainly 005500r
her letter."—Mrs. Georg R.
Gillespie, Punnichy, Sttsk rchc••'
aurin.
APPLICATIONS
Are Filled Aa Far
As Possible in the
Order In Which
They Are
Received.
ONTARIO
DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Help Suppled
APPLICATIONS
Offering Annual
Work Are
invariably
Given the
Preference.
The Colonization and Immigration Branch of the
Department of Agriculture for Ontario will have available a
number of Experienced Married Men With Their Wives
and Famllles-Married Couples Without Children—,
\ Also Single Men.
File Veer
Application
.et Once
Farmers requiring. help .willbe well
advised to make earls, application to
Geo. A. Elliott
Director 01 Colonization
Parliament Bld
.rs ,
Toronto. Ont
All Man
Placed Subject
q to Trial Period
HON. JOHN S. MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture