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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-09-14, Page 7THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN F 1 1 1 1 I Duplicate Monthly Statements We can Nave you money. on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgere, white or colors, It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post S3iuders and Index. The Seaforth News Phone 84 t {}II��1I II�IIN��gi1�11a�U���n�atl�p y�ptl,�.,p t.�p Q D. H. McInnes chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office — Commercial- •Hotel Hours—Mon. and :Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by -manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 227. Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of Reviews This weekly magazine offers a re- markable selection of articles and car - Alt -loons gathered from the latest issues t -?f the leading .British and American journals and reviews. 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"Almost every article is worth fil- ing or sharing with a friend," Every one of the "pages of World Wide is 1'00% interesting to Canadians Issued Weekly 15 cts copy; $3.50 yearly On Trial to NEW subscribers 8 weeks only 35 cts net One Year " $2.00 ' ('On trial in Montreal and stfburbs, also in 'U.S. add 1'c for every week of service. For other foreign countries add 2 cis,) NOT MUCH CHANGE The discussion as to what consti- tutes propriety in clothing lends piqu Nancy to the following- extract- from Champliain's journal of his .expedition to the lHuron country in the summer of 11,6)115, - says the Orillia 'Packet and ADVICE Francis 'F, iBierne, in the Baltimore Sun, offers some advice to bride- grooms. Vitst it is pertinent to enquire as to why Hien marry, The. answer is very simple. It is •because they betaine en- gaged; and, once a man becomes en- gaged, he cannot easily escape mar- riage without causing complications. Most Hien hate complications, so much so, ui fact, that to avoid imme- diate complications they will fiee to complications they know not of. Marriage is so regulated by con-' vection and so'muth a ,matter of emo- tion that little useful advice can be adtanced,with regard to the selection of a wife. (However, it seems fair to assume that a wife should be deliver- ed in reasonably sound condition, . If her tonsils, appendix and wisdom teeth have not been removed, a pros- pective husband should feel no hesi- tancy in asking her family ear at least a three-year guarantee. If the bride is "willing to slip away quietly and have the lenot tied by a justice of the peace, she is either a widow ora woman of doubtful age— or she likes to be different. And if she likes to be different about her wed- ding she wile probably continue to like to be different and cause ,all sorts f complications later on. Therefore, if for no other reason, the church wedding, unpleasant as it may be for the bridegroom, is insur- ance against abnormality, Further, the big wedding has the advantage of being followed by a big reception, and, it is a generally accepted rule than slyone who attends a wedding recep- tion must come through with a fine 1 present. - A few days before the wedding, the iaridegroom will be conducted by the bride to a room. in her father's house where the presents have been laid out. skin.ane, tries,- s n_ : a._:it::ter To an unaesthetic groom this is about feet'. That' ga ea tae belt , as exciting as wandering about in a and are in :na 2 ares= woes department store, but he is expected are of deer. bear and beaver -skins. of to display great enthusiasm. He must which they use a gaud number. Be- count -on being embarrassed over the smallness and insignificance of the presents of his friends and family as compared with those of the bride's friends and family, as the average man is notoriously weak in building up a wedding present clientele. Theoretically the bridegroom sel- ,ides, they have a robe of the same fur in the form of a cloak, which they wear in the Irish or Gypsy style; and they have sleeves which are attached with a string in . the back. That is how they are dressed in winter. When they go abroadthey gird their robe about their body; butects the ushers from his intimate in the vintage they leave off their friends, but practically he can work sleeves and do not gird themselves at all. Instead of lace front Milan for the< adornment of their garments, they use the odds and ends of these skins, of which they make bands of different styles, according to taste. In some places they put stripes of red - in only a few of them, for 'he must el- iminate all that are too fat or too bald or too short and he must include .the bride's brothers or -favorite cousins. The bridegroom has no further res- ponsibility until he is -summoned to dish brown paint among the bands of the church, save that when he con - fur trimming, which always look fronts the clergyman he should have already handed over' the Inc 'to . the whitish, not losing their shape, no ' matter how dirty they may be. There best man. The sum, of course, varies, are some among these tribes who are but generally speaking twice as much much more +skilful than others in as the bridegroom . feels he can • afford dressing the skins and more ingenious is about what the clergyman, will ex- in'invetting designs to put on their pect. The peeling of notes ;from a roll clothes. A'bote all others our 1'Iontog - of money, f3 not consistent with the nified nils and Algonquindi atmosphere of a church and take the most g p pains about it: They put'' On their the money should be enclosed in an robes bands of porcupine .quills, which envelope to avoid vulgar display. Any they dye a very beautiful scarlet col method of bestowal will do, so long our.' They think a great deal of these as the clergyman gill get it without bands among, themselves and detach the bridegroom seeming to give it or then} to make them serve for other the clergyman seeming to receive it. robes when .they wish 'to change. Be In the actual ceremony; the bride- sides they, use them to adorn their groom plays a relatively unimportant faces and to appear more comely, role. His responsesare given him by .When they wish to appear in fine ar- the clergyman in small doses so that ray they paint their faces black and he is not called upon to exert undue, red, w'h•ioh colours have been mixed mental effort Inthe recessional he 'is with oil made from the seed of the expected to give the applause to the sunflower, or with grease of the bear bride by looking at her out of the'cor- or other animals. They also dye their tier of his eye and registering pride. hair, which some wear long, others He should smile without ' showMg his short, and still others on one side only, .teeth' .There lremains now the ordeal As for the women and girls; they of the reception, The groom's smile always wear itway.They in the`isame here shoulddisplay the teethand he are dressedlikethe men, except that must do his best not to look spent, their robes ahvays are girt around But it has been a long and hard dry them. They come down to the knee, for everybody, - are not at all.ashamed. to ex- Plans for a honeymoon are guided They pose the Body; that is, from the waist not so much by what you actually up: and ,tram the middle of the thigh waist to do as by what will sound well down.. The rest is always covered, to your'�friends -acid acquaintances.. It 'they wear a great deal of wampum, 1s customary to observe strict secrecy- both as necklaces and chains; which as to destination, except that member they nut on their robes, or 'hanging of the two families and a half-dozen from their belts, or a, pennants from isttimate friends of the bride are ad - their ears. They have their hair well mitted into the confidence , of the combed, coloured and greased. Thus couple. "This provides publicity equiv- . arrayed, they'' go to dances with their dent to a full-page advertisement in hair in a bunch behind, 'bound with a newspaper, eel -delis; prepare which they and use Granted that your funds are limited as a cord. Sometimes they attach to two kinds of honeymoon are possible. this plates a foot square covered with You may dispense your cash in the wan 911111, which hangs down behind, prospect of a quick turnover or dis- and, so, decked in this .way and tribute it thinly over a long period,, sprucely dressed, they show them- The quick turnover ,honeymoon is otte selves gladly at dances, whither their spent at any resort of national dis- tinction commonly ,patronized by mil - fathers -and mothers take thein,: spar- ing nothing to beautify and adorn lionaires. In any event, a week is the, theli1. I can assure you that -I have shortest time possible for a honey- moon. At the end of that period :you may -let it 'be 'kno'wn that .you have been summoned hontte on urgent busi- ness. That not only.relieves your fiin- aticial problem brit also suggests that you are a' man of quite considerable importance. The 'long-term h'oneymo.oti admits of muth greater freedom, of action. 'Here the destination must' be vaguely expressed but iu a manner that win suggest something quite as luxurious as the name of the .resort that caters to millionaires. "An extended motor trip in the 'South" can be -made in a second-hand car, via tourists' camps. ld seen' at- dances many a girl who had Times, frofn- which it won appear en dres's<is more than twelve pounds of 'wampum thatpin some respects made on her, not. to +meetioi the ether trin- ef thxe days: to that of the Indians kets With which they are loaded and of those daysr attired, lAs to their clothes, they are trade I Some of the young, ladies of today differ - id various ways and styles, of are not much more backward`in die - those tShIt o,laying tiieir bodies than were the ent skins of wild airtimats; Cfio'ae that they catch, but those that Indian ,maidens of three hundred they get in exchange for their Indian soars ago: ftttt while there are uzi- corn, meal wampum and fishing -nets doubted attractions'in the smooth and other the AIgonului are Ni',enters s, si slender female form, the porky young hther tribes, who are and cubs who display their fat hips and have 'no,fixed abodes. They dress and {fairy: cihests on the streets offend fief }the skids todenably wets, making both against the aesthetic and against their breeches of a rather large dee r -[decency. yet it conjures up a picture of an eight -cylinder car, sports model, speeding from Hot Springs to 'Pine burst and to l,P.aim Beach, 'Anothet. lovely expression suggestive of refine- ment, intellectuality and an apprecia- tion of the beauties of nature is "Ma - toeing in the 'Brerkshires_" If you have an "estate" placed at your disposal, so much the better. Any old farmhouse will do. :Moun- tains are preferable to seaside resorts as a rule, as they are less thickly:pop- ulated and the illusion must be main- tained that the newly-weds are an- xious to be left completely alone. The journey by boat cannot be recom- mended generally. unless it is strictly confir(ed to -canals, bays, rivers and other inland waterways. There is only one thing mare tragic than a bride" who is a victim of .seasickness and that is a - bridegroom similarly affected. iIt is a sufficiently difficult task for .a newly married couple to keep their equilibrium on dry land }without having added to it the com- plexities of a rocking vessel. ,The honeymoon, in any event, con- stitutes a sort of chrysalis stage into which the -`carefree _young man enters to efiterge, after a suitable interval; a husband, POPULAR DANCES A history of fifty years of ball- room dancing, compiled by Oscar Duryea in connection with the golden jubilee convention of the Dancing Masters of America, Inc., recently in session, depicts the evolution of dances from the so-called elegant eighties to the present day. In '18$3, Mr. Duryea recalls the Vir- ginia reel, or Sir Roger de Coverly,'as a finishing- dance, still was lingering in the 'ballrooms. The following year marked the 'beginning of round dances when published instructions- set forth that it is not necessary for one part- ner to actually support or control the Other," and that "it is a sad mistake for -a man to hold his . partner too closely,,, The next year the barn dance, im- ported from America, was popular in England, and three years later society lrere was dancing -a mixture of: steps; the schottische, waltz, galop, 'lancers, quadrilles. Virginia reel and, as a fin- ishing dance, the Highland schot- tische, From +1593 through i11598, Mr. -Dur- yea shows, the cotillion was popular. This was the stately dance of New York's "400" with young. society . dan- dies acting as leaders. The Savors for the cotillions were often costly, the richer the hostess, the costlier the fa- vors, which frequently were of gold. At this time the heel -and -toe polka WAS a great favorite. The two-step, and waltz, the New York, ,Caledonian and Saratoga lanc- ers as- well as the Yorke and gavotte, all had their share of popularity in WHY GANDHI FASTED Mr, Gandhi, writing in the organ of the Untouchables, in. India, tells of What he conceive -s as the effective method of exorcising a long contin- ued curse. The first question that has puzzled many is about' the voice of God. \\`hat was it? \Vhat did I hear? Was there any person I saw?.If not, how was the voice conveyed to, me? These are pertinent questions. - ,For me the voice of God, of con- science, of truth, the. inner voice or "the still small voice" mean one and the seine n thing. I eaw no form. I have never tried, for I hare always believed Gad to be without form. But what- I did hear was like a voice from afar and yet quite near. It was as unmist- akable as some human voice definitely speaking to me, 'and .irresistible. S was trot dreaming at the time I heard the voice. The hearing of the voice was preceded by a terrific struggle within me. Suddenly the voice carie upon me. I listened, made certain it was the voice, and the struggle ceased. I was calm. The . determination - was made accordingly, the date and the hour of the fast was, fixed. Joy came over me. This was between 1'1 and 112 midnight. Z felt refreshed and began to write the note about it 'which the reader must' have seen. Could 'I give any further evidence that it was truly the voice that I heard and that it was not an echo o: my posit heated imagination? I have no further evidence to convince the sceptic. He is free to say that it was all self-delusion or 'hallucination. It may well have been so.'I can offer no proof 'to the contrary, But I can say this -that not the unanimous verdict of the whole world against °me could shake me from the belief that what I heard was the true voice of God. But some think that God himself is a creation of our own imagination. I1 that view holds good. then nothing is real, everything is of our own imagin- ation. Even so, whilst my imaginatioe dominates me, I can only act under its spell. Realist things are only rel- atively so. For me the voice was more real than my. own existence. It has never failed ane, nor, for that matter: anyone else, And everyone who wills can hear the voice.. It is within everyone. Rut like everything else, it requires 'pre- cious _aid definite preparation. The second question that has puz- zled many is whether a fast in which en army of doctors watch and guide the fasting person, as they undoubt- edly and with extraordinary care and attention watched and guided me, when he is coddled in various other ways as I was, could be described as a fast in answer to the call of -the in- ner voice. Put thus, the objection seems valid. It would undoubtedly] have been more in keeping with the is purely religious in the highest high claim made for the fast, if it had 'sense of the term, to be handled in a been unattended with all the extraor-jreligious spirit by workers of charac- `.ere and There Taken as a whole the 13rltish West Indies as a market for Can- adian products ranked tenth last July with $550,000, with New- foundland coming next. Increasing prosperity in'Can- ada and the United States is seen in the early arrival in the Do-- minion of Unfted'States Christmas tree buyers. They are particularly busy in the Maritimes where the demand is especially heavy. Edward C. Carter, of New York, traveller and publicist, has been chosen to fill the newly -created post ofsecretary-general 01 the Institute of Pacific Relations which has just completed its fifth biennial conference at the Banff Spriugs Hotel, Eleven happy boys took the eleventh annual "0n to Alaskan' tour thisyearunder the leader- ship of George E. Buchanan, of Detroit. Their trip included a stop at the 13anff Springs. Hotel where the boys stayed until.tltey entrained for Lake Louise, Traffic earnings of the Can- adian railways for July show an aggregate gain of nearly a million dollars as compared with July, 1932, the best showing in many. months on similar comparisons: Gross earnings "of the Canadian Pacific account for $473,000 of this gain during the month. "He got you that time," said Mrs. Montagu Norman to the gov- ernor of the Bank of Englnad, when they landed recently at Que- bec front Canadian Pacific liner, Duchess of Atholl,- on their way to Bar Harbor, Ilaine. The pur- pose of the visit is a mystery, not even a holiday being admitted by the distinguished visitor. - John Nelson, president of Ro- tary international, sailed recently by Empress of Britain on his way to Lausanne where the second European res onal -conference. of the world-wide organization was held this month. He stated that Rotary had 150,000 members in 300 clubs. "If from the conferences, speeches and exhibitions ar the World's Grain Exbihitlan at Re. Bina we can derive even one sug- gestion of importance to agricul- turists, the show w'1li' be voted a success," said E. S. 1&•R".1.;een- ager, United Grain Drovers office In Calgary, in a recent address at the Palliser Hotel in that etiy. are come under 111y n3lice g0 to show' that it has led to greater purifi- cation among the workers. The fast was meant not for the purification of known, workers only Who had been found wanting, but for all the workers known and unknown, in the Harijan cause. Probably nothing. could have brought home to the workers so well as this fast the fact that the movement • + h e 1 ion an t Cn dinary external aids .that it was my ter above reproach, the days of the cotillion, d then, 1900, ragtime z; ,music. sic. The cake- good fortune or misfortune to receive] The work of removal of untouchab- walkbecame the rage in exhibition dancing, and intruded into -the almost. sacred provinces of the cotillion, In 1943 the cotillion was going out of fashion. The schottische, two-step end lancers were dropping ?Mt, too, .\ nein barn dance was introduced, and then came the first ;publication of "The Merry'\\'•idow" waltz in a New York 'Sunday. newspaper; and this music was picked up and largely used far waltzing. It was in 14111, according to Mr. Dudyea's compilation; that the first turkey trot music was heard in the. Fast, although the step may have :.cep danced in the dance halls of 'San Francisco where it originated several years before. :When the (World .War broke out in 1914 the New York dancing public vas induiging in all sorts o: turkey .rots; the rag }two-step, one tep, hesi- :ation and the tango. A year after- ward carte the influence of Mr. anti Sirs: 'Vernon Castle on ballroom (lances. with the lame duck innova- tion tango, centre waltz, walk trot and maxixe. The fox. trot came into the dancing scene about this time, with the turkey not, bunny 'rag and grizzly bear still going strong. In 1919 the shunniic :as introduced in a Ziegfeld mid- night frolic: The Fall of 492.4 saw the beginning of the Charleston, which developed in- to a craze that swept 'America and Europe. Then it dropped out of sight as suddenly as it had 'begun, "Black °ottonn"'then enjoyed a stage popu- larity, but never had any- considerable place 15 ballroomdancing. an the summer of 11930, JZr• Duryea points out, America su•d,denly became conscious of the ?Lbtin4American mu- sic as a Source 'o!f'dance numbers. "No matter what name we apply to it, the Cuban rhythm has,apparently come to stay, " Mr. Duryea declares. "This rhythm seems to beethe real contribution to ballroom dancing 'ot the decade." Worms feed upon; the vitality of children and endanger their lives. A siin'ple and effective remedy is Moth- er Graves' Worm -Exterminator, Wantand For Sale Ads, 3 times 50c. Put I do not repent of haring grate -i ility is not merely a social or econont- fully accepted the generous help thallic reform whose extent can be mess - kind friends extended' to me. I w•asi ured by the number of social asneni- battling against death. I accepted a'.; ties or the amount of economic relief the help that came to me as God -sent Provided in a given time Its ,oat is when it did not in any way affect my,to touch the hearts of the millions of vow, Hindus who honestly be, ieve in the 1As -I think over the past. I am not Present-day untouchability as a- God - sorry for hating taken the fast] made institution, as old ae the human Though I suffered bodily pain ani. race itself. This, it w-itt be admitted. is discomfort, there was indescribable peace within. I have enjoyed peace during all my fasts, but never so much as in this. Perhaps the. reason was that there was nothing to look a task :ntinitelt higher team mere so- cial and ecanoln.c reform. Its accom- plishment unck'pbtedly incliules all these and much more. For it means nothingoothing short of a complete revolu- forward to. In the previous taste there tion in Hindi thought and the disap- wan some tangible expectation. In this pearanee of the horrible and terrible there was nothing tangible to expect, doctrine of inborn inequality and There was undoubtedly faith that it must lead to purification of self and others and that workers would know that true Harijan service was impos- sible without inward purity, Thia however, is a result that amid not be measured in a tangible manner. S hall, therefore, withdrawn within myself, The fast was an uninterrupted 01 - days' prayer whose effect 1 can ieel event now, 1 know now more fully than ever that there is no prayer - without fasting, be the latter ever so little. And this fasting relates not merely to the palate, but to all the senses and organs. Complete absorp- tion. in prayer must mean complete exclusion of physical activities till prayer possesses the whole of our being and we rise superior to, and are completely detached from, all physical functions; that state - can only be reached after continual and voluntary crucifixion of the flesh. Thus alt fast- ing,' if it is a spiritual act, .is an intense prayer ar a preparation for it. It is a yearning of the soul to merge inti the divine essence. My last fast was in- tended to be such a preparation, How far `I have succeeded, bow far I -am in tune -with the Infinite, I .do not know. iBut I do know that the fast hap made the passion for such a state inten'ser than ever. - ILooking back upon the fast, I feel it to have ibsen as necessary as. I felt it was when I ,entered upon it, It has restilted in some revelation of impuri- ties among workers of which I had no knowledge whatever, and but for the 'fast I would never have gainer' that knowledge. All the letters' that high -arid -lowness which 'las poisoned Hineui nt and is .lowly undermining its very eaistei.ce. Such a change can only be brought about by an appeal to the highest in man. And I am -more- than ever convinced that that appeal can be made effective only by self - purification, i.e,, by fasting .conceived. as the deepest prayer coming from a lacerate.i heart. A .Clyde engineer who was out of a job tried his Hick in the far north. St last -he came to a sn}fd:dy, "Ant work?" he shouted to the Slacke n ith, • "Whit can ye dae? asked the 5111115. "I'm good for anything. I'm a Clyde engineers" came the reply. "Whit kind o' engineer—a turner or •a- fitter?" "A fitter;" "Can ye fit a shoe on a horse?" "Certainly "'Feel, shoe this ane while S gang tae the village." - • i\Vhen the smith return he found the engineer -breathless, his dungarees badly tors, and generally distressed, "Whit's up," he, asked. "Cud ye no shoe the horse?" "Oh yes," returned the Clyde en- gineer, 'but S had some trouble get- ting its hoof in the vice." - Douglas' Egyptian ,Liniment reliev- es toothache and neuralgia. 'Invalu- able in cases of croup, sore throat and quinsy. Keep -a bottle handy..