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The Seaforth News, 1926-03-11, Page 6For the e:. Boys and thrls THE BLUE MITTENS BY A. E. C. MASKELL. It was a cold day in midwinter that be, for in one of them is a costly ring, a little child,'poorly clad, was waking along a country road, crying bitterly with the cold. Icer hands were red and swollen, and there was no chance • to warm them, since she wore no coat, and was carrying a ,bundle that re- quired the strength of both little arms, As she reached a great wood, and the wind whistled and 'shuddered through every shred of her faded plaid dress, her quick ear caught the sound of sleigh -bells, and the next moment a pair of mink -white ponies came prancing along, with the con- ningest little sleigh, in which sat two or three handsomely -clad ladies, not much larger than,Beesie herself. The horses were going so fast that they hardly seemed to touch the ground. Bessie only had time to catch a glimpse of a little lady, robed in costly fur, raise her handkerchief to her face, and the sleigh, ladies and all, had disappeared, but lying right there at Bessie's feet was a pair of brand- new blue mittens. which your ladyship must have .lost. from your own finger." "Better and better. Little girl, hon- esty is one of the•rarest'of the virtues. You, must be rewarded. Here, take the mittens, and I, will keep the ring. But mind, if you find any mere rings you are not to return thein to me, but do just what you please with them:" "Yes, ma'am," answered the little girt;• gaily, taking the whole as a good joke: "and, thank you, ma'am, .for hands have been so cold, and,I never dreamed of possessing such a beauti- ful pair of Mittens as these," and she began drawing them over ,her little purple hands, when again she felt something hard, and something slip- ped on her finger, The quick blood rushed clear to her forehead, and quickly snatching off the mitten shegazed upon her finger with astonishment, then timidly she held up her hand before the little lady. "It is yours," laughed the little sprite. "Herr Dorman, here, knows The child caught them up ea rl the value of it, and he will give you and turned them over and over in ly, money for it, if you would rather; but cold, blue hands.hei whatever you do never part with the i mittens. I am the queen of fairies, Never hace she seen such mittens be- and live hundreds of miles from here. fore -soft as down, and as exquisite in There is a charm about the mittens workmanship as the richest lace. Bes- that rewards the owner with a beau- cia could only wonder, as she hugged tiful gift for every good deed she does, WORLD'S EIGHTH RICHEST MAN thein tightly to her bosom, and es you are such a good little girl,1 "They- are mine -all mini TheyIMaharajah of Banda, who celebrated last week the golden jubilee of his y perceive you will keep the mittens will just fit me, I know," she said, pretty busy" and patting the little . r'eign' The ceremonies are said to have been marked by great splendor, softly, to herself, and was about to girl on both red cheeks, she tripped' with rich and poor taking part. The maharajah,well known in England, is a draw them on, when the thought oe- out of tho store, followed by all of her very modern potentate. curred to her that they were not hers, after all, but belonged to the little woman in the sleigh. Then came tears of bitter cheap- Nothing remained to convince the pointment, and many words from the little girl that it was not all a beauti-I threw the nuttens on tt attendants, and soon the tinkling sound of sleigh -bells died away in the hornet, a toad, and a dreadful hideous - distance. looking worm soon followed. Gretchen was livid with rage. She A .Poem Worth Knowing. "Loved, and Born Again? . Hero is a poem so simple that a child can read it and understand it in a tempter, suggesting that the little ful dream except the blue mittens and stamped them until her whole room childish fashion, yet .o profound that lady would never know where she had a little heap of gold the jeweler had seemed aliveThen lost them, and that it was very foolish given her for the wonderful ring. with hideous things. Hongg the wisest •ca.nnot fathom its,. depths. to be so prudish about such little Wasn't Bessie a happy child as she she picked u the mittens and thin It Was written fifty years ago by Wil• them far out of the window, where a linin Blight Rands. things. But Bessie was true to her ran every step of the way home to her i y, p ; p grandma,glittering gold white dove found them and carried t incl les, sink after the voice of theand laid the ttterin them to a tree right under Bessie's tempter was stilled, she resolutely tore in her lap? ft The Ind and lase were forced to part, a piece of paper from around her "It is all yours, granny, every cent," window, and,in low, soft, cooingThey ltiseed and went along; bundle,and was carefully wrapping she cried, excitedly, "and the cunning i doveoveds the child thought she heard the Tho sight went into rho poet's heart, Y g say: And It came out a song, them up, when she felt something hard blue mittens are mine'! Just eve how !`Good deeds aro rewarded with in one of the mittens, and thrusting they fit mo! And, oh, there is another The sun,'down-sloping In rte lyes!, in her forefinger and thumb she drew ring! I must have been a good girl good; evil with evil. The girl. next i g out a ring,set with brilliants, that again. 1 wonder, granny, what I did door does nothing but evil and can Made old the evening air; ,expect nothing else in return. Take The sight went tato the partner's sparkled and quivered in the rays of to deserts +pother ring7' tt maid and may breast, And grew to a picture fait. Iight like a thing of life. Bessie caught her breath in aston- ielunent and admiration, and then she mu rimmed: "I am in luck to -day, for this is a diamond ring, and it will buy poor, then went out and purchased such sick grandma heaps and heaps of coin- things as her grandma wished. forts;" and placing the ring back in There were no more cold rooms, the mitten, site wrapped all up in the stale meals, nor scarcity of clothing. deposited them in Everything bit of paper, and depos d seen began to wear a loop the bosom of her dress for safe -keep -,of thrift and comfort. ing, after which she began to run with It was not long before the neighbors eager haste. heard all about the good .fortune fall - Her bundle was soon disposed of at ing to Bessie and her grandma. the next town, and now she had room Many rejoiced, but as there are nl- to clutch her rich treasure tightly in ways some who aro envious, the near - her hands. est neighbor gave Bess!tr and her The poor child had suffered from grandmother much trouble -at first, poverty so long, and now there were I by hitter sarcastic words, which Bes- such visiens of warm shoes and stock- ale forgave again and again by mak- ings, pretty dresses and daintily- ing prtesents of pretty ribbons and cooked food, to say nothing of a warns laces, fro and medicines for her grand- One little girl, some two years older mother, that Bessie found it much more difficult to resist the voice ' of than Bessie, was more troublesome the tempter the second time than the than any of the others, as she con - first. ceived� the wicked design of stealing But a glimpse of the pretty sleigh, the mittens. drawn up before a large jewelry ostabOne morning, when Bessie went to lishment, decided the little girl at get lir niittefts to put them on, they once. were gone, and she could not account With a blush of shame on her cheeks for their loss. that she had hesitated once in the path Her grandma chided her for her of duty, she entered the stop, and go- carelessness, and she shed bitter tears ing up to ono of the pretty* ladies she as she searched high and low. touched her rich ermine cloak, and Whi:e elm and her grandma slept said: the previous night, Gretchen Gaseombc the sea. Amidst scenes of great pomp Plea'.e ma'am, hero are a pair of ;tact slipped in and stolen the wonder- the doge. of Venice would throw a wed. mittens you dropped from your fel miitens for herself. ding ring into the waters to eIgnify the sleigh," Ant;, ;:ray, why did you not keep, I1.1 a frenzy of delight skis hastened marriage. them?" asked the little lady, with ono to her hone, locked herself up in her of the most silvery laughs in the own room, and eagerly drew on the: Current Joke. "Do you charge batteries here?" "Sure thing." "Then put a new one in my car ttntl "How do you know but I dropped charge It to flail:" them out of my sleigh on pin se for pretty arnt. yon?" She flung the reptile from her with The earliest mi:itery book!• in the "Oh, no, ma'am! that never could co many naughty, wicked words that a British War Office is dead 1573, "It was very kind of my little girl Your le ens, pretty y to give all her money to her grand- they lirtethe ss o ass" thou M future its they mother. I think the fairies would 1 P consider that a very good deed." - Bessie fairly danced with delight, i IIo-"The. Charleston must be good for the joints." "She -"Yes, all of them ars making money out of it, I'understand." Marriage of Venice. Up to a very recent period the peo- ple of Venice followed a peculiar ens - tom which origlnat'd previous to 300 B.C. Then the Adriatic wee known as the Ging of Venice and. Venice claained. exclusive jurisdiction over it. On As- cension day it was the custom for thousands of years to marry Venice to world, "Because it would not. have 'been right." iuittens, expecting a diamond ring; I,ut what was her horror and disgust when a slimy snake dropped tlront the mitten and coiled itself around lite REG'LAR FELLERS --By Gene Bryne3. ylf oW V33ULDJ\ (LAKE TO BE ®A DOMBELL +\ E 181(3 ONE IN + 'Vas • v 94��15ii''o?e f tl )t Y ■ • • b ZKaiOw gi&&BR DUMBBELL THAN THAT GEO G E WT k CK lay OUR CLASS IS -1-HE 13bediEG' DUMBBELL Y'EVER SAW 1N YOUR WHOt.S LIFE The mother murmured to her chile;, And hushed it yet again; The sound, as the musician smiled, Grew music in his brain. The damsel turned, Iter hair to bind, Aflowerw was 'zone' R There grew from out the sculptor's iniud, A damsel carved its stone. The song was said, the tone 11115 played, The girl in marble stood, The sunset in the picture keyed, And all was sweet and good. And God, who made these things to be, The damsel and the sun, Calor and sound, and you and sue, Was pleased to see it clone, And all the angels would be glad If, in the world He built, Although there must be some things sad, No drop of Joy were spilt. But all the beauty in the earth, And skies, and hearts of men, - Were gently gathered at its birth, And loved., and born again, A Cloud. when I went out to call the cows, I crossed a field ]calf plowed', And suddenly I found that I Had walked' into a cloud Like through a prayer I heard cow bells•, A white dream covered me; 1. laughed remembering how men Print clouds in poetry! Charles A. Wagner, in "Poems of the Poll and Sen." asyLessoris'i a. iUTI1 IDGE New Series by WYNNE FE,RGUSON author of 6rergus'on on c-4ztction Bridge" Copyright 1025 by Hoyle,. Jr. ARTICLE, No. 22 One of the amusing things, about lost and very often you will be unable bridge is the fact that poor players will to do so. often lose tricks in the most ingenious Speaking of bad players, here's an manner. The writer was recently watch- amusing little verse by, olse of them: ing a game in which two spades was the A bridge playing lady, a joking, final declaration. The declarer should Annovulaedvnthasmizle most pro. have easily.made four odd, game end volving, rubber, but by some uncanny play "At bidding I'm bad, failed to make his bid by one trick. And my plays make yon 1nad, After the hand was over, his partner BnE-Ireallyamgrealatrevokitzgg." said; "Weil, partner,: if you could only The first taro of the problem hands use the 'same .skill in winning tricks' in this article are of such a character that you do in losing them, you would that an analysis of the points involved be the best player in the world." Some can be better understood with the cards time when this result happens to you, of all four players exposed. try to figure ,out how the tricks were Hand No. l Hearts -1, 7, 4 _. Clubs -7K, 6, 5 Diamonds - K, J, 9, 7, 5 Spades -8, 7 ' Hearts - 9, 8, 3 ' Hearts - A, 11, Q, 10, 5, 2 Clubs - J, 9, 7, 4, 2 s Y Clubs.- 8, 3 Diamonds -3 • • 1 A B : Diamonds --A, 8, 4 Spades --J, 9, 3, 2 • r , Z i Spades-- Q, 6 Hearts -6 ara Clubs -A, Q 10 Diamonds -p, 110 0, 6, 2 2 ' Spades A, ,. Score: YZ 10, AB nothing, rubber game. lead of the hearts by B, YZ cannot Z dealt and bid one spade. A and Y make three spades, If, however, A opens passed and 13 bid three hearts. Z and his singleton, the trey of diamonds, YZ A passcd Y bid three spades and all will easily make three odd. The point passed. it/hat should A open? A has of the hand is: With trump strength, four trumps and should open his part- open your long suit. A singleton open per's suit. With three of the suit, he irT is advisable at times but don't make shouldopen the top,, in 'this case the it if you have any other better opening. nine. With this opening and a return Hand No. 2 Hearts --Q, J, 10 Clubs - A, Q, J, 9,'4 Diamonds - 6, 2 Spades -8, 7, 3 Hearts -7, 6, 2 Clubs -l0, 3 2 Diamonds -k, J, 8, 4 Spades -9, 6,4 :A B Hearts - A, K, 9, 8,, 8 Clubs -8, 5 Diamonds; -10, 9, 7, $ Z • Spades -A,5' Hearts -5, 4 Clubs -K, 7, 6 Diamonds -A, Q, 3 Spades- Q, J1 10, 2 s No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid one spade, A and Y passed and 13 bid two hearts. Z bid two spades and all passed. A opened' the seven of hearts and B won the trick with the king, 2 playing the four. B now led the are of hearts and Z played the five. What should A play and why? A should play the six of hearts. With three of your partner's suit and the lead, play the top and then the middle card, not the bottom. If A should play the deuce on the second round of hearts, B ,would think A had no more and would lead • the third round of hearts. Z would trump and so be able to get the trumps out before he lost his ace of diamonds. IE A makes the proper play, however, of the six of hearts, 13 must figure that he probably also has the deuce as Z hasn't played it. B's proper play, t here - fore is the five of diamonds. This play prevents Z from going game, for on the first lead of trumps B is again in the lead and must make at least one dia- mond trick, Note this play very care- fully for it will enable you and your partner to save many games not other- wise possible. • Hand No. 3 Hearts - 7 Clubs-A,.J, 7, 6, 5 Diamonds -A, K, 8, 2 Spades - A, 4, 2 Y :A B: Z No score, rubber game. Zdealt, bid one heart and A bid one no-trump. What should Y bid? This hand is really a puzzler but the writer considers a doub- le of the no-trump bid as the proper thing to do. There should be a, penalty of several hundred points. On the other hand, Y has no certainty that he can go game with any bid that ire might make. . The wayto win at auction is to play for certainties whenever possible. In this hand the double of one trump is a certainty and a bid doubtful, so the writer Inas preferred the double., INDIANS REAP ' DIS P T IN 1925 CROP OVER THE MILLION BUSHEL MARK. Advancement and Growing Prosperity Evidence; of Efforts Put Forth by government. The Indians of the Prairie Provinces in 1925 reaped over a million, bushels' of grain -roughly 850 carloads -and had on their farms fifty'tbousa d head of live stock. Canada, baking from bhe beginning the stand that the Indiana were the wards et the nation, has done for them probably more than any other country, ,colonized in modern timely has .done for its aboriglnds. The effort of the Govemnineilit has always been: not to pauiterize the Indians' but to lead therm to a porsitiou of a'e1Psupport under the new conditions. The De- - partment o1:_Indian Affairs, in this has had on uphill task, and until twenty- five years ago the Indians tot the plains . slid not seem to be taking s,erious'ly do farming and stock raising, but within that time, and particularly within the . last Pew years, the effect oaths teach- ing and effort of the past forty years 1105 made itself apparent.. Interesting Details. Some of the details are interesting and informative.. There are a000rding to the last census 30,934 Indians in the Prairie Prdvineee, divided ns follows: Manitoba, 11,673; Saskatchewan, 10,- 271; Alberta, 8,990. The reserves in which these Indians live contain some of the. afloat land in Western Canada, particularly those situated In Sae- lratehewan and Alberta The Indiana of Manitoba own some splendid land but roost of them live `in the =thorn part of the province where little farm- ing can be done and where they cern a liveliltood by hunting and fishing. In , Alberta, Indian • reserves' cover 1,307,- 343 ,807;348 scree; in Sasiretebewan, 1,195,074 acres and in Manitoba, 410,477 acres. Farming and stook raising arc and will bethe main occupation -of the Iii- dians of the Prairie Provinces and in these lines they have been very suo- oessful. In 1924 the number of Indian farmers was 1,718, 'and they grew 898,- 464 bushels of all grains.. In 1925 the. crop harvested from Indian farms roaohed 1,142,833 bushels made up of 552,586 bushels of wheat; 496,779 bushels of oats; 94,153 bushels of bar. ley; anti 515 bushels of other grains, Tho average yleltl of wheat is esti- . mated at about 17.6 buehols per acre. In retook raising the Indians have been equally successful, Their herds have greatly lucreseslt (luring the past ten years and they now own 22,463 head of horses, 23,457 heard of cattle, and .a considerable nu nber of other domestics stook. Tim careful aclection of sires by the Department has given'. the Iudlan some bf thebest C range cattle 3n the Prairiea•ov u P ices, as-- shown, s-'shown, among 00 51' waya by the num- ber. of prizest won by them in the tact few yours at the feeder and stocker shows at Winnil$leg :.ltd Chicago. Constant lrnprovement, Raw Material. Fashion through the ages has ran. sacked "frozen and torrid chute" alike, smoke. If currnl modes In footwear to supply the fabric of vesAaneut or sball tench ups not to dismiss as a mere footgear for civilized mankind. No pest the teeming life of swamps and sort of wild creature has been tate • water -courses where It is not pleasant against hunter or trapper, unless the nor safe for ratan to abide, we shall law forbade the de . struction and ap• profit by an object lesson which ap- pointed a closed season with heavy lilies in various fields of industry. and neglected product. A notable in- stance is gasoline; and we are barely beginning to save the fuel -waste 1n penalties for violation of the ruling. But a carious feature of the spring fashions of 1926 is that they utilize the skirts of creatures Ghat have generally been regarded as pests, of which the world would be well rid were they ex- terminated. It scents a literal fulfill- ment of the prophecy of Clenesis, that the heel of nmankiud shall be set upon the serpent., when one finds the boas and py,tlioiis of Amazonia made into shoes. ,111 sorts of water snakes and desert lizards that bred terror or re- pulsion ,seem to have commercial value. after all. The Gila monster- and the rattlesnake may 00015 diary be farmed de we now rear the silver fox. At present, only tho 111.er or the shark has a market value, in a limited area, but possibly in days to come we shall lttr Each year a greater amount cf Im- provement work is being done on (11. Man farms and the, cultivation of the land is being tarried on with incroas• ing care. The cultivated area was iu- creasecl11,239 acres during 1925, firing ing the total up to 104,495 'acres, and of this 66,420 acres 'were eown to grain. Summer -fallowing was done on 28,244 acres, and 9,822, acres of, uew land were broken. The cointiuued advancement and growing prosperity of the Indians in the Prairie Provinces confirm the be- lief long held by officers of the Do - pertinent of Indian -affairs drat given an opportunity the Indians would in time 'become self-supporting and rode- pendent.. Progress was slow et flret but in recent years results are in. creaei'bgly apparent and the indica- Gone (ore that in the future they will advance at an accelerated rate., Remember Canada. No longer Is' It thought nece61(0(7 .end 11110 should ho abroad L: complete s o' ltlri n ea 5(17 as inert Missed American Statesmen. his lnnsic tl orlucaliluu 111 h t:epee/I give cha,c L s g • 1 cn1 .n'va.lrolu s. Canadian schoc,ls ill ;lave 1lursuuii ;C e +shale. 5 1.ticgeiles +rix lucking for.an 1'00151 int s e. the r!uw among fl.e lilies! and nun,"• hest equipped in the r.ri'rl nn'd have "Yt•s 1 understand he drill va le cry; ' •lsr e epi olutetl. \'tie are 11. a g ease time ookiug larountl washing;on." tit ric•lov1 ig.nation; ,:u,d it is 11 51(1111 - P"' to kind a ritlld who;s 11:11 r,`udy ng meek; le one form or 51 0(1'er "9lusle appreciation 10 our scheo s Is mor h 10 develop elop clove f 1t 1 tf 1 t -1.•s • J l./ttf'tkyNINEW, \1 Z'l�l dLP") :I t7Olv1' VNGva Pdl'(ApG1't4 lPP L[KE T pd tT e vl4AT tS 1T 1H6 CAI?[TOl.. OF ` / 151e history 01 commerce offers nem 1301'1ss examples of the discovery of values 111 what was once a despised HES GO DIMpeE KE -THINKS 1G TOE OF FI61s+tl'lye o It May Be the Capital of Fishdom. -1Cnpvrlcht, 1925, by The Berl Syndicale,. Tae 1 and fillet ate0ic among 111; ch1)dren. (anacl,3n ccmploas are tenons; the hest and travellersecun- 1ttlet 0rts often surpri e1 aink lain! eel to her (an !than mush. and songs and. clot sisal c otn7 c all 15 ho cafes, theatres. Rad me sic halls of France, 19usaena 11.tnd Holy. Not duly have we 111511y mtwlc al .1gi1nlrt "fns. utcltding school crchcstrits, 11111 Cana- da da t a a Ise Ivy adaoad :0uta of the world's greatest artiste. • Promise. ;Under the nnotvdrifls bosoms are - sleeping, Dreaming their dreams 111 sunshine said Jul) 0, 1.)oRn int the hush of their quiet they're` keening Trills troth the t:ltrostlios ;vi1'd st?ni1n'et tine tulle, 1farriet hrs1'tott ,Spoffotvl.,'`"