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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-04-30, Page 3orae (Li tly MAW AIM HEST "My business is not to remake my- self, but to make the absolute best of what God made,"—Browning, A ` Unique Summers House r � e The summer house need not be of elaborate design or of_great expenee. Indeed the simpler the building the cooler and more enjoyable it wilt be. A boy at home could easily snake the kind described,' Secure posts by thinning out the Ws of willow trees, Then trim and gut to proper length, and set in eight holds, three feet apart, . forming an octagonal shaped upright foundation on which a pyramid top can be built. To the top and . upper parts of the sides shortstrips should be nailed to form : simple designs finishing oif at the top with some decoration. -. Within the summer house, at suit- able height, a seat should be built con- histing of short strips of branches alved. Quite often the willow posts will Send out shoots which extend from the top In' all directions. They continue to grow and by interlacing form -a na- tural and attractive roof for the sum- mer house. • Twilight Hour. Story—About Chicks and Other Little Friends. Chapter 9 It was getting pretty cold outside now, In fact it was ;Nit about time for Thanksgiving Day. That is a nice time in the year, isn't it? Do you re- member 'last Thanksgiving, when the big juicy grapes were ripe and -Elie apples all rosy and sweet? In fact it is the time when everybody gets ready fol` winter, isn't it? All the good things to eat which - took all sum- mer long to grow are ripe then, and are brought inside the house or the barn or the cellar, somewhere so Jack Frost can't get a hold of them. Then all winter long everybody and you and 1 and little Jacic Horner' and Dolly Dimples will have all we want to eat Oven though there is ice and snow Out- Aide utAide and everything ,frozen up hard. 4S'hen enough is put away for the ani - s too. That is for the animals who lye with us. Let me see what ani - 'heals do live with us. "Well, on the farms what kinds are out in the big warm barns? Of course' the barns are not as warm as our houses be- ause, you must remember,' animals ave fur or feathers, so they don't Want it so warm. Well, in, those barns, ft you look all over you'll see great piles and piles of hay, and it is lots pt fun to play in it too, isn't it? Then there are great big boxes of oats and wheat and everything that animals like and the animals are the horses Arid cows and pigs and chickens. Oh, 4 single house full of chickens grow big and fat and lay lots of eggs for Mamma Lady and Daddy aid Billy. Of course, the little boys and girls yrho live in the city or town haven't got a barn, very likely, so they just have a kitty or a dog who like to snooze in front of the warm fireplace, But. In our story it is nearly Thanks- iving Day, and Thanksgiving Day Somes because we have so much to be thankful for, don't you think? Inn sure matter can think of many other things too, whichyouwill want to be thankfulfor besides all these good things to eat, won't she? We only seed tothink a little and fled that the world is just full of wonderful things. Do you remember what yon had for Thanksgiving dinner? It's just awful- ly good when we -have roast chicken or turkey, isn't it? 'I guess most peo dle have roast chicken on that day, on'ttltey? It must take a great many thickens to feed everybody. And do you know, little girlsand boys, the Chickens don't mind after they. grow p 11 they are used for chicken roast. No, they don't. In fact, that is why It lot of them were horn, So they just Have a good time while they are here, nd they can have such a good time f we take good care of them, feed- •n themkeeping �h .and stet: he and g watering {heir little houses clean and giving them a nice bed white they are here. Then they give us' their good bodies, • .1 fatand` sleek, and —puff—just as easy as that, they are gone, leaving be- hind them good thicken roasts, and then another little chick mimes to take its piece. Well, thie Thattitsgiving Day Billy went to his auutie's in the city for a while. lie had a good time there too, I eau tell you. She took him f0 come line picture stows and showed him the store windows all lit up so brilliantly and full of such beautiful things. You see, Billy's 'home was in the country sad this was all new to him. So he enjoyed it immensely. But alter a while he began to think about Rover and Luffy, and -he wondered how Jim- mie Chick and three little chicks that looked so muck alike were getting along and oh, he was getting home- sick to see his Mamma and Daddy, so when the two weeks were over they all got in Uncle Will's car and off they started to bring Billy home, So next you'll hear about whathappened when Billy got home again, Sweets Induce Early Rising Saratoga. Springs.—That" there is as niuoh truth as poetry in the expres- sion "sweet sleep" is shown, we are told in a bulletin issued by the Col- gate University Press Bureau, by the record of an inter -collegiate slumber contest recently conducted between men students at that University and girl students at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. • The contest, conducted on a scien- tific basis jointly by Dr. Donald A. Laird, 'director of Colgate's depart- ment of psychology, and Dr, Linos W. Kline; Skidmore psychologist ended in a walkaway for the girls, and indi- cated ndi- cated that the most restful and re- freshing sleep was the reward o1.thoee who went'in for diets rich in sweets and other carbohydrates. We read: Furthermore, the sweet -eating, girle were said to be . much sweeter and prompter about rising in the morning than the Colgate men and their sister students who went in for more ascetic eating. Most of the young men at Col- gate had to be called at least twice before they could be aroused from their slumbers. The Skidmore girls bounded out of their beds at tate first note of the alarm clock. Each of the 196 Skidmore students and 140 Colgate students who partici- pated in the experiment reported daily over a period of two weeks on 226 items of data which had to do with their mode of living, their emotional states, and their reactions to physical exertion, A classificatiou of this data showed that the two contestants having per- fect sleep scores were girls who con- sumed the largest quantities of sweets. It also showed that the girl studeute in general slept about 15 per cent. bet- ter titan men studeute. Mrs. B.—"Are you sure Harold is engaged to Miss DeCash?" Mrs. C.—"Well, I hear his tailor has let him have another suit of cloth's," Twelve Casnadiaaa Oaks There are twelye species of oak in Canada according to the ForestSer- vice, Department of the. Interior; one (the Garry oak) is found in British Columbia, the'relnainder in the East. Sunday School Lesson 'Way '5.. Lesson V. -Jesus in The Horne of Zacchaeus-Luke 19: 1.10. Golden Text—The Son of man is come tai seek and to save that which was 'lost—Luke 19: 10, ANALYSIS. I, JESUS IN THE Horan oe zecoUAEU5, 19: 1-7. II, ZAOOHAEUS unties AND REFORMS, 19; 8=10. I, JESUS IN THE HOME of ZACCiiAEUS, 19; 1-7. Jericho was a very rich and very famous city. It had many times been destroyed :and had as often arisen from the dust. The site of the city in the time of Christ seams to have been some six miles west of the Jordan Rive. and six miles north of the Dead Sea. It was a rich city for two'rea- sons, first because there are but two laces where the Jordan can be crossed, one here, one further northby the plain of Esdraelon. A. very large amount of merchandise, therefore, passed inevitably through Jericho. In the second place, the, city was situated in a veritable little ; aradise. It was c lled the city of palms. Here, too, were famous rose gardens and frag- rant balsam_plantations, Jericho was therefore known as "the sweet smelt- ing." It follows that the chief tax- getherer of such a place, or, as we might say, the head of the customs and taxes". department, was a man of great importance, -aman, too, who, if he were not honest, would have unrival- led opportunities for "feathering his own neat." Zacehmus' -Hebrew name would be -chariah. He was a man of small stature. We' are not told why he wanted so much to see Jesus, It may have been idle curiosity to see the trait whose name was on every one's lips and who had quarrelled so .pub- licly with the Pharisees. Or Zac- chteus may have been moved by a more religious' motive, having heard that this new teacher in Israel did not despise nor refusetoconsort with melt of his class. ` Or rumors may have gone round that Jesus was planning or expecting some great "sign" at the coming' Feast. Or, again, Zacchous may have been interested in Jesus only as a miracle worker. At any rate, the effect of Jesus' visit on -Zee chnus was very different from any- thing he had anticipated. It seems that this incident of the meeting with Zacchaeus took place as Jesus was on his way up to Jerusalem for the Feast, where he made his last, great appeal to the nation, and where he met his doom. If' Jesus had any hope that he would prevail in his great challenge to the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jerusalem, it must have seemed important that he should draw all possible popular support to his side, and that he should not unneces- sarily alienate •any who :night sym- pathize with him. We cannot but wonder, therefore, at the courage which led hini, at this critical moment, to go out of his way to favor with his presence the man who was probably the mosthated peeson in Jericho, the loan who stood for compromise with, the Romnanpower and epitomized all that most most obnoxious'to the fan - :.tical nat:onalism of the ,day. II..ZACGHAEUS REPENTS AND REFORMS, 19: 8-10. When Zacchaeus says in v. 8, "the half of my goods I live to the poor," he is making a declaration of his pur- pose,.not stating his habit in the past. In Exodus 22; 1 the man who has stolen one sheep is required to restore four, and fourfold restitution is known to Roman law in the case of a man caught in the act of robbery. It is not plain whether Zacchteus' ie- pentance and solemn reparation are due to something (unreported) that Jesus had said to him,, or simply to the fact•that Jesus came to his house. any event, we should compare and contrast the impression made upon notorious rogues by Jesus and by Christiana. Christians have •always denounced robbery, Capacity' and swindling. They have not infrequent- ly last their tempers with the wrong- doot:'and have done their best to get him punished by any means in their power. No doubt, they have often ex- pressed a concern for the wrong- doer's soul, but they have generally, felt that punishment must tome first. Here, however, we have no reason to think that Jeses denounced 'UN chaeus, It would seem that already "in his heart of hearts" Zacchaus had often denounced himself, and his ex- cuses were for the public eye only. Jesus showed no inclination to "set Zacchteus punished," for he was only concerned to get Zaechtus changed. Jesus never for a moment condones sin, or spggested that it did not- mai tel. Indeed, in nig p's;0ence, men realized their sinfulaess'in a way that no scorching denunciations'would ever have effected. But Jesus made it plain that, in spite of'sin, he loved the sinner and believed in, hum We may assuine that in some dim way Zac- chteus realized the nature and char- acter of Jesus. This made Zaechatus realize, as never before, his own wretched sinfulness. But, in addition, he realized that this spotless person, who knew him through and through, yet really liked him, believed in him, called him to be his real self. Then something broke in Zacchaus and ,ie was a converted man. There can be no real repentance that does not, carry with it inevitably the attempt•, so far as possible, to nut right the evil we have done, no natter how much of publicity and scandal this may 'involve: Verse 10, is the unique gospel of Christianity. Lazy England! An Irish Colonial 1'n Truth (London) —(Andre Siegfried, writing in the London Times, has accused the Eng- lishmau of being lazy, and refusing to -learn foreign languages.) It is high time,,that the relative baeelessness of these charges was given etre of the publicity to which the charges them- selves have beeu exposed. Speaking as an Irish . Colonial who has lived a little in four continents,:I can say with absolutely no "desire to work off a paradox or score by cheaply pre- tending black to be white, that the English are the finest linguists among the big nations of the world:.. John Bull has more faults than he can af- ford in this world; but do let us re. member Itis job of moving from his nineteenth-ceutm'y pre-eminence to a new stability' is more awkward than that of any other struggling nation. .When •he was making war, America, North and South, was making eco- nomic whoopee. When, afterwards, he was paying his debts, France was mak- ing economic whoopee. Poor old J.B.I The strain upon him has beeu ter- rific,' and the only reason that he hasn't crocked is because be is the sturdiest and most resourceful fellow in the world. Canada's Future Sir Henry Thornton in the English. Review (London); There is no rea- son for alarm concerning Canada. It has not been necessary to disrupt or- ganizations in this country because of the slump, 'and when the recovery, which is certain to come, does get under way, Canada will be in a posi- tion to make the best of Iter oppor- tunities, Her people have been for- tunate in or-tunatein that they have suffered prob- ably less than those of any other coun- try during the recent depression; her resources are still awaiting develop- ment to a very large extent, and her sources of wealth are unimpaired. When the demand conies with re- covery of the --countries -to which Can- ada looks an-adalooks for her markets that demand is likely to be on a larger scale, even,' than that to which we have been am customed, Canadian Bird Sanctuaries The total seabird population of the ten sanctuaries along the north shore of the gulf of St. Lawrence in 1950, according to the National Parks of. Canada, Department of the Interior, not including young birds, hatched in thatirear, was 100,835. The birds were of sixteen different species, mostly seabirds, Altogether Canada has now more than forty bird sanctuaries spe- cielly reserved for bird protection pur- poses. A small and pugnacious than was arguing with a parson about certain incldents its the Bible. "Take the story of Daniel in the lions' den." he said. "I can explain that for you. It , wasn't a miracle. What happened was ,that when Daniel's friends heard he was to br, oast into the lions' den they had the lions gorged with food! so that they had no appetite when I Daniel was put beside them," "Thet's' interesting." said the parson; "and now tell me this. Would you go hila a den of lions even 11 you knew they had dined- well?" "Well , , . ern , yes, I would," said -the man, a little unmfortably. "Ami if you. did," said.: the parson, measuring the tittle man, "I feel sure the liens would leave «Nobody 'can .ever ser anything one' look at you and say to each other, right if everybody is equally wrong." Boysco, we've forgotten the savoury.'" —G. N. 'Chesterton. • What New York Is Wearing B"Y AN1 ABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dresstncsking Lesson Fur ntis8'd With Evert/ Pattern Here's slinuhing lines for the we - man of ,heavier figure. And a smart dress that will answer many needs for the lovely spring days that are not so far away. The bodice has- a deep cross-over vest, one of the best means to conceal breadth. The softly falling jabots lend a pretty effect and contribute much toward its. slenderness. The yoke of the slcirt is cut to the smartest depth to narrow the hipline. The seaming, tapering as. it doesto a deep point, is decidedly length giving. Printed crepe silk in midnight blue combines .with plain matching blue crepe, with white embroidered mous- seline in this lovely model. Style No. 3098 is designed for sizes 86, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust. Size 36 requires 33t yards' 39 -inch, with Si yard 39 -inch contrasting and fi yard 89 -inch all-over lace. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or cont (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. "To a sen me. a brlck by parcel ' post, but I got even with him," "Wit at did you do'." "Passed the word along to num- ber of agents that he was figuring Canning Industry ' Future Weather Shows Increase Linked . With Ocean's t According to a repent report the sIeatt pack of vegetables in Canada'. showed an increase of over 60 per cent, in 1930, while there was a decline of about 11 per pent. in the pack of fruit-..,,0Theee comparisons are based upon officially issued figures, which relate to quantities not to values. Other figures for an earlier year show that the Canadian industry supplied over 80 pet' cent. of the home market for these products. This comparison, whioh is for the year 1928, is for val. ues, which provide the only common. denominator between production and extended trade. The outstanding feature of the re port on the pack of `fruits and vege-I tables in Canada is the large increase' shown in the production of tomatoes,! peas and corn. The pack of tomatoes increased over 1929 by nearly 104 per cent., peas by almost 165 ' per cent. and corn by 19.5 per cent. • The iu- crease-in the total pack of canned• vegetables was 3,646,382' cases, or G4.8 per cent. The total pack of canned vegetables, explusive of canned soups. amounted to 9,272,480 cases, the fig- ures" being based- on 24 No. .2:cans to a case, In 1929 the pack on the same basis was 5,626,098 cases. Tomatoes with 4,025,283 eases comprised. the bulk of the 1930 pack. Peas were next in order with 2,553,983 cases, followed by baked beaus with 1,096,042 cases and cora with 1,066,830 cases. While vegetable canning showed great expansion in Canada Mat yerie, the pack of canned fruits in 1930 fell considerably below that of 1929, drop- ping from 1,101,138 cases that year to 978,570 cases in 1930, or slightly more than 11 per eget. This is accounted for by the large decrease in the apple pack, which fell from 331,691 cases in 1929 to 20,957 cases last year. Sub- stantial increases, however, were noted in the pack of pears, peaches and cherries, pears being up by 101,722 cases to a total of 339, 106 cases, peaches an increase of 64,973 to 155,- 728 55,728 cases and cherries up by 51,131 cases to 146,286 cases canned last year. In 1928, when Canadian canners supplied 84 per cent. of the home market, the total pack of canned fruits and vegetables was valued at 514,823,- 295. 14,823,295. The imports were $4,463,097 and the exports 51,687,258. In 1930 the imports of canned vegetables into Can- ada were valued at $1,461,185 and the imports of canned fruits at 52,954,415. Exports of canned vegetables in 1930 were valued at 5631,015 and of canned fruits at 5250,271. Sk yscra Pers Philadelphia Ledger: The first skyscrapers were novelties. They were limited because they offered an opportunity to make small plots of ground pay large dividends la congested areas. But times are changing.. ' Now the . tendency in municipal planning — and in the larger architecture of designing cities for health, light and convenience— is away from the spire 'of offices grouped on top of each other around an elevator shaft. And despite the fact that the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and similar Inhabited obelisks continue • to rear their young heads high above Ameri- ca's merica's streets, the time is coming.when American architectural echlerement will be devoted less to height and more to mass, line and` stability. Proof Against Bullets Glass used for the "hull panes"—not portholes now• -of a uew liner is of a spacial kind that has withstood a pees- StIre of twenty tons. In one test of this glass, a piece of it weighing fifty-six pounds was' drop- ped eighteen feet 'auto a steel plate. It came through this ordeal without showing even a. crack. But glass nowadays can be wonder- fully lessietant. in certain tests of a bullet-proof glass'recently -a ,303 bul- let was fired at it at a range of five on taking out more life iusurtnce;' ittde. asr p a e un er es was �-- about an much and a half thick and Fiction by ens' other name wouldwas made up of three layers. The bun be a falsehood just the sante, let :tarred the first layer, but made no ittlpreesion on the second—Aits- The biggestrtttiug oil earth 'isa tiny cinder when It's in yon• eye. - MUTT AND JEFF— —.By BUD FISHER. A Giraffe Would Have Wonb,„ k. t ..1' n: 530 _ illi, ' -.h �I£i,11, \ MUT1', V4I'OE LAST none IAUGl4INfi r „ ( 160. �-_ „ m , e` ..- RRIAING FRANKFURTER: WHAT'S „m ;, v DoT tie DoING? , I JV:,, • mull ea) " • HG'S AT THE POST. tit's LE,d,NING oi4 IT - tie's OFF, y DopeT MEAIt3 -rue tioSS— S MEAN , THc JOCKEY. He's ON WS `BACK gGA1N_ Sv DQ s'T. MEAN 'r4E JOckIV — s p iwCAN THEn0�3. -CUR SoelcEY. M115T” BG GRoSS-EYEa'--' He'S WHIPPING 'rete WRoMG' NAG— �, - \ 1111,111-11,...._:1,4'' rV, .,'•+tea'' !s:'i � . J ia•.. .,,, ® � '�.. '.LAUGNgoG F'l2/►N (I'URTEI@ lS TRE BRAVEST. • PONY It1i Ttie' WORLD-' HC's, CHASING, ALL The oTHcR MOSSES AROV ND Tti E TiZAck 1 '.. efl gp.`..L1p — raJ. I. ®. } /' '; .. •4,�i ✓ ® _ KID, WE LOSTB'(A NOSE. . = IF I HAD $EEW f21bING _ THAT NOSS –WE WOULD I A wall U •. ' 1r .n. 1. ��• +te lime. r• �` 1�. - n(,`!' ta :ill, . ` t>3' �u +�' WON: .. ' Ilill 11116 r _< Fl 1 111 _ 1� �. a! ••••I � i/ w 'Mute N,h ' �. . ��� Ir•I +'° i � �<y , -,' - 1 4 11. Q Pa t ORtt l . , PIO% �l r B/® " sI qr� `wWli.l ht+y. 4;,, ...:. �:. � ..�._.... i ' � ... � New York—For many centuries tltp tn•ediction of weather for any length of time in the future has been a ques- tion which leas interested some of the best minds of these ages, The thick- ness of Brother Chipmunk's fur coat and the amount of food: stored by squirrels and other animals have all had 'their day, together with thecola- Mon patent medicine almanac, The, old adage, "Perhaps rain, perhaps no;" has in the main been the ordinary result. Recent tests have included the de. terntittatioe of the frequency of suit spots and the variation of solar radia- tion, and now comes a further scien OAc conclusion based on the stpdy of a large amount of data collected over a period of years. The revelations ! center in the announcement by D.r. George F. McEwen and Dt'. A. F, aro- ton, at the 'University of California, I that it is now possible to predict with. 1 a Sale degree of accuracy just what atmosphetie temperatures will be, in a given vicinity, for three months in advance. For more than twelve. years the efforts of these men have been oven Pied chiefly in investigating phonon]: ena upon which could be based sea- sonal predictions for rainfall and precipitation, particularly during the winter months, over California and the Western states: They have been singularly success- fol in their predictions, and in con- nectiou with this problem they found that the phenomena upon which they based these conclusions affected areas far greater than the West alone, and the question of world-wide seasonal forecasts was presented. So pretentious a program could not be undertaken until further investiga- tion of new effects was given addi- tional attention. In the course of these latter considerations it was dis-. covered that there was a startling re- lation between the surface water temperature off La Jolla, Calif„ and the atmospheric temperatures is Southern California. Through a thorough knowledge 01. the surface temperature of ocean water during the summer months, the mean, or average, temperature over Southern California during the com- ing winter could be, forecast,' Glue Mixture Proves Effective In Checking Red Spiders Red spider Is one of the most trou- blesome pests that the gardener or. florist has to combat, especially, dur- ing the hot summer months, safis the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Gar- den; (St. Louts). Forcible spraying is one of the best means of control, using a special hose nozzle which directs the spray upward and cleans the under sides of the leaves. The writer goes on: , This method is effective when the plauts are grown in open benches, be- cause then all sides of the plants are accessible for spraying, but when this is not the case dusting statue and similar insecticides must be relied up- on. - A very cheap and successful control has been used in the greenhouses at the garden this last summer—one pound of powdered glue in four or five gallon of water. Sufficient' water is added to the glue to cause disin- tegration by heating, atter wliich it is poured into cold water and agitated until thoroughly mixed. It is then; ready for use in the sprayiug ma- Skyscrapers a- \"ith Perfect ,'overage, tests have shown that after two or three days the film of glue will naturally dry and roil off from the leaf, bringing with it both the agglutinated adult spiders and eggs. or. if the plant is .sprayed with water, the glue will'he-washed off without injury to the leaf. The citrus house was used for the conclusive tests. The upper surfaces of the leaves 'vera well coated with an oily soot deposit of several winters, and tate under sides were infested with red spiders. Alt the plains were well sprayed with the glue mixt nye, and two days later were sprayed again to insure a. perfectt coverage of the leaves. After six days the gine was observed peel- ing off in sheets.. A film from one of the 'leaves was carefully removed and photographed with the aid of a microscope. The photograph showed spid.r.' and eggs aad soot deposit securely fastened is the film of glue. The plants could slot have presented a cleaner appearance had they'been cleaned by hand. This spray may be, used upon evergreens, especially spruce and hemlocks, or any plants which possess shiny" leaves, but will 1101 be successful upon plant with "hairy" leaves. Capital Investment in Water Power The capital invested iu water power, development in Canada was estimated by' the Dominion Water Power and Hydrometric Bureau, Department of the Interior, to amount to over 1,39e mrllion dollars on January 1, 1931. The last year for which official figures are ' complete fon all industries is 1928 and thesecapital 1 show that:the amount of C invested in Water power n'as excoeded' only by that iu agriculture and itt sterile railways.