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The Seaforth News, 1931-06-04, Page 7TH'URS'DAY, JUNE 4, 1931. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN THE GARDEN, Napoleon said, "that without flow- ers men 'cannot live.' The, eefanin'g in fluence of living plants, is needed, and fel'L by all classes. of humanity. Nowa- days, iesteed •of prison -like tows of bare factory windows, the staff ,win-. ddws, St least in many cases, have d'itulow ibexes, filled with lhap'py emit` ing flower )faces and hanging creepers that relieve trereendlottsly the scold, sordid appearance of the 'buildings, .What of .public 'buildings ? They too could be more attractive to the eye, if a little more initecest were 'ta- ken in window sills. IA tertian well known' woman judge in 'Reginakeeps her office windows filled with Molotn- ing'Ql:ants .the year sound,: which after ;rove a point of contact !with some , 'elioquent juvenile . who , comes up before 'her for sentence. Banks are going in large.Lynow ?for window 'boxes, the •nean'agees realizing the uplifting influence oa,the tran- sients, as well as residents', these gay, li'ghtsome :mess.an'gers of hope and love bring in the busy life Of com- merce. • Canadians. have not one in for house window 'boxes to the same ex- tent as their cousins cacross the line :have. •In.INew England the large colonial homes have Iwindow boxes on each flat. At 'first it strikes .one as `being a: bit odd to see geraniums peening •out over the edge of a win- dowbox, three stories high, as though anxious to see what was going on down below. Then the eye 'becomes accustomed ,to the idea, and when re - tering we miss the new, yet old, meth- od of window .treatment. If you .are handy iwith tools you can ,easily fashion 'the boxes, at very little expense. 'l Use one -inch dressed lum- ber, the length to fit the ''window sill, Although it is not advisable to have the boxes over four feet in length. otherwise they are too difficult to handle. The depth of the box should average seven to eight inches. The width at the top of box nine to ten inches, with the bottom one inch smaller, which give the front -face a slant of one inch. Nail four :cleats of wood, equally distanced on the bottom of the box, so that it will not be absolutely flat on the stone sill. IAmpie drainage is necessary, too,' Make a goodly num- ber of round, half-inch perforations in the bottom about six inches apart. The box when plated' in position. should .extend over the edge of the sill. Therefore, by keeping the drain- age perforations, near the front, it lessens the danger of water running down discoloring the brick or stone. The box may be held secere'by strong wires 'that extend from the front cor- asers, to meet those from the rear corners to a given point about one foot higher than the 'back, which will then be screwed into the frame work' of the window. 'Paint the box a dull green, and it then is ready for the ;oil and plants, One very artistic home -trade win- dow box has been converted into a rustic .one, by nailing on the outside virgin' cork bark, which can be pur- chased at the seed stores, Or a box could be covered with bark of native trees, and to create a more rustic ap- pearance, fungus growths could be added, Pdor soil in a window box: IS no ,,use. Put in a layer one inch deep of. well -rotted manure in the bottom of each box,'to help sustain the plants late in the season. Pulverized sheep manure, or dry cow manure from the pasturefield may also be used. Later in the season liquidfertilizers may be applied. Fill the boxes at the .end of May or ,early in June. If convenient fill them after they have 'been placed an posi= tion, otherwise you'll have a :pretty heavy load to deal with, Place the taller plants, nearest the glass, the ;trailing plants at the outside edge, lilting in the space with plants of meditun heights, Then the colons must be balancecl, the sane rules holding good in window boxes as the perennial boder. - Dwarf Cannes, 'Cpleas,• 'Salvia, Ire - sine, 'Geranium, Dranenas, Puschias, Cyperus, 'Begonias, Aspidistras, Aur-, acari'as are all good for the back - ,ground and height, Peri,wirdele, Nasturtiu?lis, 'Petronas, Verbenas, 'Tradescantia and Cobra ;Scandens are. excellent creepers, and hang well over the sides giving a lacey fairy-like touch. Keep plants in w'in'dow boxes well watered during the hot dry season. Later on, before the frosts set in, many of the plants such as the Ger- goituns, Auracatucais i(iNorway 'Pion), Tradescantia ,(Wandering Jew), Ficus ,elastica QRteleber ' Plant) • and Ora - colas, can be repotted and used for :house plants. 'Bob Finds a Way Bob was the only sort, and his de- parture for the city was hard on his. parents, They didn't say much, but Bob knew they were lonely. "Per- haps there's something in this tele- phone visiting," 'reflected :Bob, "It's worth trying." He soon found it was. worth continuing. Long Distance evade. a big, difference to then :all, THE GOLDEN TREASURY ?June 7. I will hedge up thy way with thorns, anis make a wall that she shall not find her paths; and she shall follow after her lovers, but shall not overtake them; and she shall seek then, and not find them, then shall she say, d will go and return unto my inert husband, for then was it better with me than now. Hosea ii, 6, 7. As it is only with thee, 0 my 'Say - elixir, that I can be happy, 'I would never leave thee anymore; sooner than that I should depart from thee, under whatever plausible pretences, let my way be hedged up, and' let thorns, grow all around rite. Let the quickly discover and cruoi•fy every thing which would intercept the maxi fesltations of thy love, or dim'ini'sh ovine. Never would I take one step out of the way which thou frequent - est; lett I bring on myself guilt and trouble. As for the cross which thou imposes?, I will cheerfully bear it, and even 'bless thee for"the burden. ?Glory be to thee, that thou hast not given the up yet, and suffered me to run into destruction in nay own ways. Be 'pleased to restrain me still; and, whenever I am in danger of 'wandering into the broad way, let One find no rest till I ani brought back, thpu.gh it be through the briers of af; fliction, I heno,w thy. judgments, Lord, are right, 'Plough they may seem severe; The sharpest sufferings I endure, Flow from thy Faithful care. Before .I knew thy chas'fning mod, My feet • were apt to stray; But now I learn to ,keep thy word, 'Nor wander from thy way. On the Psalms. Psalm I. 4. "The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff, which the wind driveth away, In the foregoing description of the righteous, all appeared verdant and fruitful, lovely and enduring; but here, by way of contrast, we are pre- sented with nothing but whet is wi- thered and worthless, without form or stability, blown about by every wind, and at length finally dispersed from the face of the earth, by the breath of !God's displeasure, and dri- ven into the fire prepared for it. Such is the state, such is the lot of the un- godly: and so justly are they com- pared to "chaff." 5. "Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sin- ners its the congregation of the right- eous." ight-eous" A day is coming, when the divine ;H'usbaedman shall appear with us his "fan in his hand," and shall thor- oughfy purge his floor." The wheat which shall stand the winnowing of that day, will be gathered into the celestial granary; while the. chaff, for ever separated from it, shall be hur- ried out of the floor, and carried by a mighty whirlwind, to its awn place. Then shall there be a congregation of the righteous," in which "sinners shall not stand" At present wheat and chaff lie in one floor; wheat and tares grow in one field; good and bad fishes .are contained in one net; good and' baitmen are contained'its the Vis - ib I e isible church, Let us wait with pat- ience God's time of separtition. 6, "For the Lord knoweth the tc-ay of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly sisall perish." In the present scene of confusion, we may be, and often are, deceived in the judgment we form of men. But it 'cannot be so with the Omniscient.— "The, foundation of God etandeth sure, having this seal, The. Lard knoweth them -that are iris," -2 Tim. ii. 19. Their good deeds are not un- observed, nor will they be forgotten by hies. His eye seeth thein its se- cret, and his hand will reward 'them openly, in the day of final retribution; when crowns of glory shall sparkle oit the heads of the righteous, but shame and torment, shall be the 'por- tion of the wicked; "the way of the ungodly shall perish." An author states that he always does his hardest wort: before break- fast. Getting up, for instance. The best way to telt whether a chicken is tender or not is by the teeth -if you have any, "When a woman is determined to get anything she generally cries for it," states,a writer. Where there's a will there's a avail, Is Parliament declining ? asks a morning paper, To reduce the in- come tax, yet, Visitor, "I suppose everyone in the hotel dresses for dinner ? Chambeemaid: `'Oik, yes, madam: meals itr bed are charged extra." Tailor—"Euripedes? Customer—"Yat, 'Eumenides." Canada's Recreational Resources As a Commercial Asset (By Hon. Themes G. Murphy, Minister of the Interior), A few years ago a widely -known Canadian • trade the remark "It is in tnany ways an exhilarating experience that of living in a new country and in a time of rapid de'velopnsent." ,Nearly everyone will agree that tine .citizens of Canada have enjoyed that exper- ience to a degree not equalled by the people of many other countries: We have elle good fortune to live in a land where we have been accustomed to see national progress going forward by leaps and bounds -so much so, indeed, that any interruption in that advance is an occurrence which we arevery much inclined .to look upon with impa'tien'ce. That is a . natueal result of the fact that the whole his- tory ,of Canada, during the lifetime of most of us. has been one continu- ous'series of what we may ,call great waves of development, rolling for- ward one after another in quick sue - cession. "We have only to cast our minds back over.' the years of the present century to realize how one tide of development had scarcely reached its crest before another made its ap-. pearan'ce. First, we had the swift spreading out of ,settlement over the unoccupied.prairies of the West. Hardly had that huge settlement movement passed its zenith when we saw it followed by late phenomenal rise of the pulp and paper industry in the forests of Eastern Canada. And close upon the heels of the era of rapid expansion in the pulp and paper industry caste a period of spectacular progress in the opening up of the 'Dominion's natural ,mineral resources, Coupled with these devel- opments there 'have been. .equally striking advances in other directions,. notably in the harnessing of water power and in the many different fields of manufacturing. . And still more re- cently ecently we have witnessed the rise of one of the Quest amazing develop- ments of all—the growth of tourist trade to the paint where it has become almost universally recognized as one of the ,Dominion's foremost business interests. Value of Canada's Tourist Trade, "The increase in tourist travel, and the volume of business that such tra- vel creates, is 'literally one of the mar- vels of our generation. The magni- tude of modern tourist business not only in Canada but in the United States and in European countries, is almost incredible. 11 anyone had stood up, say twenty years ago,. and told a Canadian audience that we, in this country, would some day reckon the value of our tourist trade from abroad in sterns of hundreds of mil- lions of dollars he would probably. have been laughed at—yet that d'ay has arrived, "Taking, the 'latest official figures. those for, the ,year 1930, we find that tourists froin other countries are es timated to have spent in this Domin- ion approxitnatety $280,000,000. That is an enormous sum of money to be spent in that -manner in one year. It amounts to an average of nearly a million dollars a day for every busi- ness clay throughout the twelve months. It means that the tourist trade in one year poured into the channels of Canadian business an ex- penditure which almost equals the contained capital and reserve funds of all the Canadian banks, It is tto wonder that . the tourist industry or trade has recently engaged the close attention of the leading figures in the public and the business 'life of Cana- da not only by reason of its present insportance but also because of the great .possibilities for expansion .which can undoubtedly be realized if, es a people, we take fell advantage of our opportunities, Public Support to Tourist Trade INocw, under modern conditions as they exist today, it is more or less taken Inc granted that governments should give whatever assistance lies- in their power to extend the develop- ment of <t country's resources and to promote also: the ,general building up of its business •interests, That applies to virtually every. progressive coun- try. Here in 'Can'ada we have in the national government a department of Agriculture devoted to the strengthening of our agricultural in- dustry and commerce. The federal Departments of ;Mires, and of Fish- eries are similarly' engaged in 'their respective:.fields. . Theadvances of water .power and fores't•ry develop- ments have for years' received the aid of specialized services in the .Depart= ?stent of the Interior. The tourist in- clestry or trade, or w'ha'tever it may best be called, tow ranks with agri- culture, mitring, forest and fisheries development as one of our major bus- iness interests,' andI want to say something about wlh'at has been done, and is being clone, to give it a reason- able degree of federal support and 'encottrageineut• A brief reference to what the Department of the Interior is idoing will, I hope, suffice to make it clear that the Dominion Govern merit is fully alive to its responsill'ila Ities, as well as to the country's op- portunities, in the field of tourist de- velopment , The National Park Systerg As everyone knees, '` particularly those who have travelled in Western Canada, th'e ,Do'mimion Goveratmen•t hos been `active for many years in set- ting aside and improving an extensive chain of stational parks. This park. system had its origin many years ago ,khen the West Was first being opened tip and it became apparetlt that there were in the Canadian Rockies region's of such striking scenic attraction as are to be found in- few parts of the world. The policy, was then, ad•o'pted, of setting aside the. most suitable of, these regions, to' be kept permanently asareas of unspoiled natural beauty and to be preserved for ail time as, holiday grounds for the people of Can'ad'a. These Canadian parks are of such outstanding scenic magnificence that their fahste has literally gone around the world and, while they are maintained andadministered primar- ily for the emjoymeut of our own cii- izens, they 'have become, in addition, a magnet which each year attracts. thousands of ,'•raveliers from other countries.' Last year nearly hale a million persons visited the na't'ional parks; and it serves to illustrate how far the renown' of the can'adian re- creational, grounds has -reac'he'd when I mention to you that this army of holiday -seekers included visitors front more than twenty countries. The Dominion parks are steadily being extended so asto become more and more, in fact as well as in name, a national, system.. Formerly, they were confined to the mountainous re- gions of Alberta and British Colum- bia, but in more recent years steady progress has been made in adding to the system selected areas of exception' al beauty in other provinces. Happily, there is no province, front biota Sco- tia to ,British Columbia that does not possess regions which, in seen a and Other , attractions, form ideal areas for purposes of public recreation, Three years ago Prince Albert National Park was opened in Saskatchewan,' and during the present year Riding Mountain: Park in 'M'anitoba- will be thrown open to the public. In "East- ern Canada there are also the Point Pelee Park in southern Ontario, the island reservation's set aside among the Thousand Islands of the St. Law- rence, Fort Beausejour Park in south- eastern New .Brunswick, and the Fort Anne . Historic Park at iArtnapolis Royal in Nova Scotia, and within the past year the Dominion Government has acquired for similar purposes a group of islands in the beautiful •Georgian Bay region, Preservation of Historic Sites. The Department golf the Interior, theaugh the National Parks Branch, ha''s been active in the work of acquir- ing,, preserving, and suitably narking historic sites of national importance throughout the Dominion. In con- nection with this work it acts on re- commendations of the Historic ,Sites mid:Monuments Board of Canada, an advisory body composed of eminent authorities on Canadian history, Can- ada is rich in sites of historic interest and already over 220 such sites have been selected as being worthy of na- tional commemoration. The control of over 150 of these has been acquired by the National Parks, and some 130 memorials have been erected. Need- less to say, the progress of this work of historical preservation means a. real enrichment of Canada's appeal to the traveller from other countries, adding to the scenic beauty of the Dominion the element of interest which surrotinds the notable figures and steles that have formed the peg cant of our national career from the earliest years of North American ex- ploration down to the present clay. The maintenance of the National Perles, and the allied activities to which I have just referred, involve a substantial outlay of federal funds, They forma cornerstone for the Do- minion Government's contribution to the attraction of profitable tourist trade from other countries, though it should' never be lost sight of that the National Parks are maintained prim- arily for t'he benefit of our own citi- ztts. There are other phases of the Department of the Interior's work which relate more exclusively to the attraction .of the non -'Canadian tourist, and it is in these phases of activity that we, so to speak, have to enter the ring of international competition, Tourist Business Is Competitive at is perhaps not very generally re- aliieil that the tourist business. has in recent years become one of the really big prizes of international trade and, iti keeping .with that fact, it has ntetur- ally become a highly competitive type of business. Every wideawal:e coun- try to -day- is fully conscious : of the value of the tourist'dollar, and the business of attracting the stream of prdfltable tourist travel is a matter of lceett comped iota between differete countries,•jus as' in the case ofsellia wheat or wool or coppet or sugar o any of the other staple' conimoditie of international commerce. It woul be very difficult to make even an ap proximate estimate of the value of th international tourist trade of 'th World, but. fairly reliable estimate have been made for individual court tries. The UIS, Department of Cont coerce, for: example, places the expen diture of Atmeri.can tourists in for- eign countries et over $800,'000,000 a year; and itwould certainly be wel within the mark to, say that the total international trade of this type runs ino considerably more than 'a billion dollars a year -probably nearer two billion dollars a year. The competi- tion for this - business is becoming keener every year. Canada's positipn is one of alinost• unique advantage in that we have a vast country with endless variety of outdoor attractions, and in that we are situated right next door to the United States which is by all odds the largest end 'richest tour- ist market in the, • world. Nbtwi•th- standing those advantages, wehave to bestir ourselves if we wish to make the most of our opportunities not only u relation to our neighbors but also 'n relation. to the volume of travel from the British'- Isles, Continental Europe, and elsewhere. - What we have to do, particularly— and what we are doing on a consider- able scale through `the National Dev- elopment Bureau of the Department of the Interior—is to make Canada's attractions to the "tourist known abroad as widely and as vividly as is possible. The details of how the work is carried on probably would not interest you as much as the ob- 'ective—arid the objective is to make sure that desirable tourists from oth- er countries are informed, in an effec- tive way, as to what Canada has to offer them in the form of recreation —what attraction the Dominion holds out for the man who wants to make a pleasant motor trip for a week end; a week or a month; for the man who wants to go hunting or fishing or canoeing or skiing; for the man who wantsa restful vacation at a summer or winter resort; for the man who wants to travel by rail or by steam- ship; and the woman who wants to do any or Al of these things. The Department of the Interior, in short, maintains a national tourist development and information bureau, Our working policy is summed up, pretty well by the one word co-oper- ation. Pt is no part of the Depart- ment's policy to attempt to over - centralize Canadian tourist develop- ment effort. The nature of this field of work is such that a heavy share of the most useful public aid to the ex- pansion of this business comes, and always must conte, from the initiative of provincial and civic organizations. From day to day the Department of the Interior is co-operating with prac- tically every live 'organization of those types in the Den -Anion, as well as nth literally hundreds of travel and tourist bureaux in the United States or elsewhere abroad. Our fundamen- tal concern is simply this fact—that Whet we call n our "recreational re- sources" have in recent years estab- lished beyond ail .question their stand- ing as one of Canada's chief commer- cial assdts, and that their development calls for a fair measure of federal sup- port in such forms as wilt not dupli- cate or encroach upon the fields of municipal or provincial activity, 'Finally there is this to he said — that the satisfactory and permanent building up of Canada's tourist indus- try, as of virtually every other busi- ness, depends more in the last analy- sis upon' private enterprise than upon all .other factors combined. There are two ehoughts I ant anxious to impress—Every citizen of Canada when he conies in contact With the tourist from abroad can contribute a real service toward building up of Canadian business by doing whatever lies in his power to see that , the tourist is advised and assisted to see as match as possible dr our country and our develepntetit while he is within our borders; to see that Can- ada's attractions are properly placed before him, so that he will, if possible, extend his visit and thus obtain ad- ditional knowledge of opportuttities for Canadian development. ' "Every Canadian citizen ought also to see that the tourist tnee'ts with courtesy, hospitality and fair deal;ng. A nia'tional reputation for giving a 'square deal' in commercial trans- actions will do far more than any °tater single factor toward .ensuring for Canada the business benefits of a great, permanent and steadily- grow- ing volume of tourist traffic.. And the building up of such a national reputation is a matter which, I ani sure, can safely be left in the hand's of the citizens of the Dominion, A RECIPE. g It is the ambition of every house- r wife to cook the older fowl its such a s way that it is tender and tasty and d here is a recipe that comes from a- - broad,' 'Take a 5 or 6 pound hen, e 1 bunch of parsley, sal;, pepper, flour, e and fat from the chicken. Cut up the s chicken into small pieces, roll in flour - seasoned with salt and pepper. Have chicken fat tried out in a deep pan, put in • fowl : and took to a golden brown. .Add parsley chopped, wilting it in the hat fat. Pour in enough hot water to cover fowl, cover closely and simmer gently for several :hours, add more water as needed usually boiling water. 'When the fowl: is soft remove to warftt' platter, or if you have one, a casserole and thicken' gravy slightly. Pour over chicken and serve gernis'hed with toast and a little green, pepper. • This serves eight and cost about $1.99 and stakes a lovely company dish. Coaxing the various members of the family to eat vegetables is often a difficult task, ?Although one minute young Johnny .hears his another say, "Eat your carrots, dear"—the next next minute he sees his 'father sur- reptitousiy push his share of the vege- 'able aside. at is then a question, with young son, "to eat vegetables or not to eat them" and usually his de- cision is in the negative. 2f the same two vegetable abstainers mentioned in the above paragraph were given a stew with onions, 'car- ots and potatoes in its savory juices' hey probably would eat it; or a phaghetti combination, rich with omato sauce; or a meat pie with plenty- of vegetables hidden under its rusty cover. Itisoften through these combine - ions that people learn to eat certain oods which they think they dislike. We are giving 'here several recipes for muggling vegetables into the diet. Quick action saves trouble: worry. Keep IDouglas' Egyptian Liniment always handy. Stops bleeding in- stantly. Cauterizes wounds. Quick- ly relieves barber's itch and ring- worm, Chop Suey 2 tablespoons fat 2 onions (sliced) Ya pound pork (cut in small: strips) 1 green pepper (shredded) ae cup mushrooms (sliced) a cup celery (shredded) 9 cup rice 1 teaspoon salt 3 cups stock Brown onions slightly in fat, add pork and cook until meat is seared. Add pepper, mushrooms and celery. Put in rice,' salt and stock. •Cook slowly until vegetables and meat are tender. ,Serve with Rice 1Krispies, pouring the chop suey over them. Yield: 6 servings. POIN'T'ERS ON THE CENSUS If a person dies between June 1 and the time the census -taker arrives, he will be counted as being still alive in the 1931 census, 'Children born after June 4 will not be counted, in the census, although they -may be two or three weeks old by the time the census -taker arrives at their home. All persons w^111 be enumerated as being residents of whatever place is their "usual place of abode" on 'June 1, regardless of where they may be when the census -taker arrives. Transient boarders or lodgers who have no permanent hone will be-en- unterated •wherever they happen to be staying when the census is taken. This applies to persons who have no usual place of abode. 'Students in colleges and universities who have no homes elsewhere will be enumerated in the .district in which the school is located. Teachers will be enumerated at the place where they are teaching ,vbaen the census is taken, even though they may spend the summer vacation at their parents' home or elsewhere, "When S was twenty I •tr'a'de up ey mind to get rich," "But you never became rich." "No, 'I decided it was a lot easier to change trey- mind." A correspondent its a wontatt's paper declares that her baby wriggles out of everything. A successful ca- reer as a politician seems to be indi- cated. The Humorist. A popular novelist 'says than while lying awake at night, he has several times hit upon an idea that ha; result- ed in a full-length novel. 'Insomnia can be,a'terrible thing. The 'Humorist Persian Balm—the unrivalled toilet requisite, Essential to every dainty nonan, Itupattf .rare charm and beauty to the complexion. Softens and beautifies tite slain. Makes 'hands flawlessly •ivlsite. Cools and re- freshes. Relieve roughness. Ideal for true feminine distinction. Delicately fragrant. 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