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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-12-23, Page 6A tiEW YEAR'S PARTY BY JANE HE MMINGWAY• For invitations make a .pattern of, march around., each guest fitting- her an, hourglass five and :a half .inches' own feet onto the paper ones before long and threeand a half inches wide.1 she can move on. Transfer this to correspondence cards) Once Upon a Time is a paper -and - and cut out carefully around'the glass, pencil game. Pass slips of paper, Speck the bottom pat of the glass with each containing a noun. Everyone' peneil dots to simulate the sand and takes one, and in a given time must write "Happy. New Year, 1927" on write a fairy story of ten words, be - the top half. On the'baek write the following verses, 'one on each half Old Father Time will tip his glees To run another year, Next Friday night at midnight, And we'd like to have you here. Come early on that evening, We promise time will fly, With "timely" games and jolly stunts Till the old year says good bye. If you prefer you may simply draw a sketch of the hourglass in the upper loft corner of the card and write the verses beneath, it. . Games and stunts should be ar- ranged for the evening, so it wall not drag before midnight arrives, Measuring Time would be great fun. Pass ballots to all your guests and have someone play a very short piece on the piano or phonograph. Then let every one guess how Inany minutes it took. The hostess must time it carefully of course. Footprints on the Sands of Time is a follow -the -leader stunt. Cut foot- prints from brown paper and pin them in pairs to the rugs all through the house, placing then at sorts off angles. Form the crowd in line ginning "Once upon a time." These can be read aloud later and voted upon to choose the winner. Pass "timely" refreahmets on page - board plates, each one marked like the dial of a cock with the figures drawn in .around the edge with black ink.. Serve hourglass ice cream, calendar cakes and staffed dates. The calendar eakes are little oblong sugar cookies or squares of sponge cake iced in white and mariced.off in squares with the days of the month written on thein, This can be done very easily by dipping a fine paintbrush in smelted chocolate and drawing the lines after the white icing has become hard. Very attractive hourglass ice cream can be served on the plate by using two ice• cream cones, - - Break the end from one of them and stand it on the prate, the big end down: Stick a second cone, which should be filled with the ice cream, into this, Serve your refreshments around half past eleven so you will be finished when the new year arrives. It would be very nice, especially if the party is given for a crowd of c'.ub girls, for. everyone to stand as the clock strikes midnight, then to make a resolution and at a given signal they must in the presence of the other girls.' DROWNED WHEN DRIVING OVER OTTAWA Parents and Child Go Through Hole in Thin ice During CANADIAN PEONIES TO HONOR HER JUBILEE 100,000 Blooms Will be Sent to England Next July. Blizzard. Montreal, Dec. 19. -One hundred Pembroke, Ont., Dec. 19: Driving thousand peony blooms, the production in a blizzard which swept over tate of W. Ormiston Roy of Montreal, will upper Ottawa River Friday afte'rnoon,l be sent to England next July in honor pp r ! of Canada's Diamond Jubilee. The Mr. and Mrs. h Jahn were drowne ed ed their I Dominion Government has resented Six-year-old child were drowned in the � p Ottawa River when the cutter im these to the British people as Canada's Jubilee gift. Every passenger that o Moll they were , whileviwent wre re_ lgh' sails from a Britsh port during July a hole in the ice, they were. re- turning from Christmas shopping at . win carry on board a bouquet of Pembroke. The McGuire family lived at De- mers Centre, Atlumete Is'.�and. An in- quest is to be conducted by Coroner C. E. Josephs. Acoording to information received i citizens. at, Pembroke when the fate of the trio ead ng ' became known they were driving over Their Majesties and members of the what is known Royal family will be asked to accept known as the "':'ower trail" gifts cf peOnY 'blooms, low Pembroke, wh•enu the horse, cutter R 1. .__ and its occupants plunged into the icy waters of the Ottawa Ricer. Barrie residents of Pembroke claim to have seen the vehicle end its occu- pants disappear through the hole in the ice. The bodies have been recov- ered. peonies, grown in Canada, donated by the Canadian Government. Peonies WA be placed in the Government. Peonies will be placed in the Govern. meg Buildings in London, in the newspaper offices and the homes of Turkey Famine Reported Where Turkeys Abound + Sarnia, Dec. 19. -Residents of Lambton County, which produces more turkeys than most counties in this province, may have to be content with the homely goose or a brace of ducks for Christmas dinner if the inroads of American buyers along the back con- cessione of this territory continue. The lust big pre -Christmas market Satur- day was almost shorn of the popular Christmas bird, mud what few were available were bringing the high price of 55 cents a pound. Trucks by the score from Detroit have thoroughly combed the rural districts in the last few weeks, taking all the live birds that could be bought. Former Canadian Editor Passes Away in London Winnipeg, Man., . Dec. 19.—News has been received here of the death in London, England, of Peter Meckiss- ock, architect, contractor and liter- ateur. As "Sergt Rafferty," Mr. Mac- kissock was well known to the Can- adian reading public, es he contribut- ed many artiolee to current periodi- cals, both before and during the Great War. He was for a time night city editor of the Manitoba .Free Press,' After the war he returned to England to engage in neswpaper work. ith ti'soganac `x ee .a„a imd All Wrong. "I understand you're not on epeak- ing terms with yomr wife." "Nonsense! Why, every morning we're quarreling over Christmas ex- penses." indefinitely Postponed. How come iha:t you mina fight me As you did in days gone hast? S•h-'h-ht Ohe-isitmae time is tannin', AmsI it's tomtit' mi'gh'ty Eget. So Pim an my good beiravier, And to roe that means a lot, 'Cause when of Kris Kingas gens here, He'll Heave me all' bee gat That's night! How many days are left 'Bent nine ta• tear isr '•lerven? Well whatcha say to have elute flglut; In .nineteen twenty-seven. Forestry in Scotland. Viscount Cowdeay has given e5,000 eo endow a chair of foreett'y in Aber- deen University. The earth's rainfall amounts to about 16,000,000 tons a second. The Children's Friend LOW WATER CAUSES CLOS'IN'G OF PLANTS Industries in St. Catharines District Forced to Shut Down Temporarily. St. Catharines, Ont., Dec, 17. --Un- usual weather condltlons forced a shut down of several large industries in - this district onFriday, including' the Ontario Paper Co., I.encol'n and Interlake Tissue Mills. Low water in the summit level of the Weelarcnd Canal caused largely by the gale in Lake •Erie, caused a water shortage in the paper industry, The feed pipes .were .also choked with ice, aggravating the shortage. The town of Thorold had to will on Merritton to secure a supply of water for muni- cipal needs. Near Lock 1 of the Welland Canal, where the Maple Leaf Rubber Com- pany was shut down, divers went be- low •and repaired the valves of the locks. This was necessary to permit the 'last two boats_of the season, after a two-day battle with the elements to reach Lake Ontario. The steamers Taylor and Donovan got out at en early hour Friday morning after a two-day trip through the canal. Wishes. I will that all the font 1 know Would net annoy and vex nes so, lit right?" . "How re youa g By saying, a From easily morn till late at night. I wish that .pecphe would not tell are obvious things I knew quite well, As that the weather's wet or tate, Or thet a stitch in time saves nine! Carlyle A. King Nineteen—year—old westerner, who le studying for his masters degree at the University of Toronto on a research fellows:hip, has been awarded the Sae- katebewan I,O,D.E, overseas scholar- ship for $1,4e0. Ate. Kin,, whose home is fn Tngas'ke, Sask., graduated from the University of Saskatchewan; this spring and will spend is year at Oriel College, Oxford. I wish 1t might be reckoned. sin To say: "The days are drawing in," And teat It night be coaunted Pies To say: "It's dreadfnulehow time flies!" I with that, should I catch a cold, I might not fifty tunes b'e told: "You've got it, sir! Got what! THE FLU! Lt's very deadly this year, too!" I wish that ueveriu0ro I might Hear the responses "Not" and "Quite!" Or meet the men who says, "Too. true!" "You know!" "I see!" on "Entre nous," I wish, in short, that people would Nip such expn'essione in tato bud, Or, if they must say things so trite, They'd whisper thein at dead of night! Cooper. Peggy Pours. When Peggy helps to pass the tea, It's very ,cute -+she's only three. She drops a cup. •Why slionl:d site not? To tender little hordes tea's riot. I lusow, She s.p!1t it on my knee. She's just as helpful as can he, Scar0eiy a gown or sunt is free From atecidiental stein or spot, r. When Peggy 1r..11 s. That tray she's passing ROW Lo me Is listing like a slap et sea Ail( cookies to the. floor- have shot Except the one thet Peggy got, But 'that's ,her right, es, all agree, . When, Peggy helps. —Polrfax Downey. Just a Snack. Silas' usual breakfaet was 12 pan- cakes. But, then., he gennera.ily bad a good hand morning before, him 111 the asps One morning a heavy rale trade hie ohomes, impossible, so as b:0 passed the kitchen he calked, to the. Sarmen•'e wine: "I shan't ,need much. breakfost thin' morning. El'even'th be enough. But. snake ',em a little larger." The Duck's "01I -Can." Ducks early oil to a 1lttle pocket. near the tail:. With this they oily their outer feathers and eo make. them waterproof. WHEN . FATHER TIME ENTERTAINS When year guests first durrive they people this will be greed fun. Other- may feel a bit stiff or shy. .If you can wise it night hurt some of the older make them all forget themselves in fork's feelings, though almost anyone the excitement of some unusual game is fond of a' joke. In an old sack tied or unique stunt they will soon be up in many papers put enough articles "quite M ease." Here aresome sus:- for everyone present. Then _ give. gestions, • everyone a chance to find out what People never tire of having their .Father Time has in stole for them. fortunes told, and if it is a clear Huge spectacles, small • battles of rhieu- starry night Father Time can take matism'liniment, red night caps, foot them out and pretend to read the warmers, suggest themselves. A'lit- stars, Before hand' he will have i -sad tie bag full of pennieswould dlenote up en the subject: of astrology. There wealth, a wreath made of shiny are little books giving the character I leaves and lebel'led "Fame" could be, isties of people born in the different mixed in with the funny articles, a months. These are usually on sale bobble of hair restorer, a wig, a piney at newsstands, cat, signifying single blessedness, and Father Time's Fortunes. Askhigl several weights from a scale would, of course mean added weight for the un - the date of the birthday, P other Time luckydrawer. will consult the boob for that month with frequent glances at the stars Pencil games are always popular' will give thein interesting facts about for 0 large pasty, especia'S1y when their virtues and shortcomings, their there is a surprise to work for. lucky days and si5ecia1 talents. If you I 1. What Is Father -Dime's favorite are not to procure the little books I pudding? (Hasty pudding.) he can draw upon. his own imaging- 2. What is Father Time's favorite tion and the following suggestions: MARCH 21st -APRIL 19th:—Aries. Mental energy, often Headstrong and impulsive, ambitious, independent, persistent, quick • tempered, elevatiiug ideality, pioneers and leaders, good executives, would do well as 'archi- tects and designers—pen sketchers, writers, lecturers, milliners, auction- eers, reformers, promoters, ' electri- cians, APRIL 20th -MAY 20th -Taurus. Self-retlant, persistent, firm, ease- ful, abhor pain, patience, secretive or reserved, practical, faibhful friends, „Forty .to bed and oral, to rise, sincere, make excellent public ser- Makes va man healthy, wealthy, and vents, executive workers, banitegs; wise." can sacceed as doctors, nurses, far - ers, gardeners, financial agents, sing - "Lives of great men all remind us era, '' actors, taxidermists. MAY 21st -JUNE 20th -Gemini. Sympathetic, kiudherirted, affection- ate, sensitive, individual, idea:istie, studious, nervous, excellent reasoners, changeable, impulsive, like change; country folk to city folk? (Because make good ea bookkeepers, demon- city folk are always punching the by the light of his Old lantern and FATHER TIME'S QUESTIONS. How Many Days? How many days are there in your year? This is a good question to ask your self at the beginning of . a new year. Because, 'although each of us has the sane number of days according to the calendar, in practice the number var- ies considerably. What I mean is this: One man may get so much done each day that his year contains the full number of days. Whereas another man may waste so much time that in effect his year is eut down by 'about half. And six months wasted out of twelve isn't good enough if you've the slightest wish to get on. It is amaz- ing how quickly time slips by -so quickly that we cannot "afford to waste Quiet, reserved, sensitive, :versatile, wheels, works, figures, springs, 'bel'ts, any of it. dramatic obi ty, industrious prudent, minutes, seconds, hours, etc.) Sometimes we are tempted to slow frugal, retentive memory, fear ridi- S. Why is a road going over a hila down unnecessarily, because there are mule, conventional; : make good LIS like a clomp? (Because it winds up so many days ahead upon which we actors, .nurses, confectioners, cooks, and run's down.) can do the little job we want to put dressmakers, hotel keepers, managers. 9. Whir is time like a bird? (Na - flower? (Four o'clock or century plant.) 3: What is his favorit-e furniture? -(Time tables.) 4. What , is his favorite' )iiia? (Rooster.) 5. Give a timely verse. • (A few are suggested 'here, though many will occur to you.): For instance: ' "Turn backward, turn backward, oh, time, in thy flight, Make me a child again just for to- night " We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time." 6. Why does Father Time prefer strators, commercial travelers, writ- ers, newspaper men, solicitors. JUNE 21st -JULY 22nd—Cancer, clock.) '7. Name everything you could find in a clock. (Face, hands, glass, On the other hand, the busy man's day is the longest day, judged by re- sults. And there are few things more satisfying than ,the knowledge that y h d d day's worlt or JULY 235c1 -AUGUST 22nd—Leo, aurally because it flies.) Good entered, generous, natural 10. Put dcwn ai',•ttic times you can leaders, determined, persistent, hon -think of. (The list will vary but est, conscientious, impulsive, intuitive,; might contain all of these: Good time, ardent end sincere. Make . good es, bad time, right time, wrong time, stan- dard time, daylight-saving time, sum- mer time, whiter time, day time, night time, ship's time, lost tine, some time, high time, betimes, any time, and no time.) For the best answers. Father Time maga- practical, careful, keen, inte'<lectual, could ,award a subscription to a g end successful as anthers, draftsmen, zine, so they could keep up with the s ers the whoanw ' es. To theperson hero, time's. SEPTdecor. 23 -OCT.2 nd-Lib least number of questions Father SEPT. 23rd -OCT. 22nd—Libra. Time could give a time table to some Courteous, pleasant, agreeable, even funny place - tempered, affectionate, sensitive, If you wish your guests to come in peacemakers, modest; are fitted for costume, ask them on the invitations influential posts, lecturers, librarians, to tomo dressed in timely garb. This writers, doctors, lawyers, actors, `will give n wide choice as they have housekeepers, secretaries, carpenters• the seasons, months, holidays, and OCT. 23rd-NOV. 21st -Scorpio. !various 'historical periods to choose Strong characters, shrewd, mentally' from. suspicious, reserved, tenacious, secre-! The costumes for, winter, summer, Live, fond of luxuries, but economical, : ,piing, anvi .autumn are not difficult quick, restless, energetie, stake geed; to contrive, nor are costumes for the as detectives, doctors, surgeons, mhem-! various months. For the holidays, eta druggists, lawyers, dentists, but., there would of course be old St. Nick, On 'ave one a g00 , Oxeelltirea, writers, goldsmiths, loctui- le good year's work, as the case may ere, policemen, army mechanics. be Don't let the calendar mislead you AUGUST 23rd -SEPT. 22nd—Virgo.Modest, contemplative, industrious, with the number of days it scene to have in store, it won't have nearly contented, wealth, active, not ear» enough for you if you waste_ some of ily tented, blends the ideal with the then. The ideal Hobby. Gardening le regarded as an ideal lcobby for most people because it takes them late the open air, exercises the muscles of the .body, soothes the nerves, 'and causes mental activity, Hubby—"I can't know how I'm go- ing to gat through the holidays, - I'm up .to me neck" - Wifey---"And just think! Only a year ago you were up to your necking." Rafael Sabatini Who hes been sold to write the beet screen stones, stuallee. email • ship ' models of 17th and lath cannery oraft for the details, he needs'. Ho is shown. at hie desk in London, where he wrote - Oaptale Blood, See I3awlt, etc. Plowing in fall and early winter exposes the soil to alternate freezing and thawing, thus improving the physical condition of the soil. The plowed ground will absorb a larger amount of moisture than the unplow- ed. The insect pests wintering in the soil are exposed to the weather and soon perish. If the ground is plowed in fall or winter, the first favorable weather conditions for the spring seeding can be taken advantage of. Occasionally heavier soils are better off if .not plowed before winter sets in, because there is some danger of this type of soil running together in case there is very much moisture dur- ing the winter and early spring. This applies may to the heaviest types of Purification. I have set away, in my heart One holy: day, apart. Olesa' of a meadow, edeas of a hill, I shall be wanting out mobil • 3 envier a. door and, deep in the woo I shall find_ a white •Greek], nuclei hood,: —Eleanor. C. Kee d,, a Keen ehers, mechanics, soldiers, hotel - keepers. NO V. 22nd -DEC. 21sT --Sagittarius, a. clown to represent April Fool's ley, Jack Canuck for the First of July, a Witch for Hallowe'en, and vs man in Jovial, hopeful, generous, self -re- overfills for Labor Day.. Rant, ogee -prising, honest, good fore-` Guessing the days, months, or per - sight, direct, great economist of time lode the various guests stand for will and energy, rarely fail, aggressive, be mighty amusing, and where it is aspiring, reserve power; make good as hard to do Father Time wail ask them musicians, artists, writers, printers,' to either recite a versa giving a clue, cashiers, teachers, inventors, aatron-,to their costume or give a short pan- omers, horsemen, advance' agents. ' tomime to•enlighten the company. DEC.. 22nd -JAN. 19th—Caprloorim. -' '-dee - Quiet, thoughtful, good reasoners, _ Magic. Colors. ')lire part played by ooloe in our daily ' levee Is only just beginning to be en- deustood l yeciencei. Hitherto we have always taken eaters fou grant d. Recently Lord ' Ohudleigli clalmieid that in the mange of the spectrum lay the secret of happiness—a sbmewhat staa•tll'ng assertion, but -one which le pupporbed be many scientists. So it seems quite passible that the physician of the future w311, instead of writing out a prescription for•oo'me oonnbination of drugs, give us a color pies teel:ion to eure our iter. Some colors, say these dlseoverers, act as iruita•nts, others es sedatives. For instance, repeated experiments have proved thevt yellow is soothing to tortueed nerves. Violet light causes bone to develop; blue is deemed to stimulate the growth of muscle tissue; green adds to our store of energy. Already these facts are being enl!et- ea in the task of curing the sta. There ..• are niow Several nursing homes which ep-eciaiize in distinctive colorings for the bedrooms of various typq'3, of suf- ilerers. The jadei will be stimulated by skybine, the ,excited quieted by yel- low, and SO on. Tho ninth ts, that most people, al- though they may be unaware of it, are influenced aivd affected by colons. Take, fcr example, the impression a room makes upon you when you enter 11. What causes that impmeesion? Set- ting aside the taste of tire -furnishings, , there is but tine thing: color. In cretfee, where there is none too much sunlight, .the object should ho-to ln' m sunlight ef- fect .the maximum of s f- ung boot. This• is now gem:erally a ecognized, Hence the growing popularity of golden tints lis mural decoration, They induce a feeling of freshness and hair- Please al;pin'sss Just 05 browns and violet crim- sons deprese and 'd'istnese the sonsi- ttive. Santa Claus Letter' practical, religious, prudent, faithful, economy, thrift, may rise in ife through own efforts; make good -as Reaches the Address 1st mss, Itnnrse Sable Ste. Mattie, Ont.—A remark- builders, envark- rrs designers able' i'nci'dent is reported—the ease of tees, tees, miners, aviators, grocers, hugr htct at IIonston, Texas, who ad - undertakings, dressed a letter to Santa Claus to JAN. 20th -FEB, lath—Aquarius. Northland, Carr•ada, and the epistle Determined, quiet, patient, faithful, through the efficiency of the Amer- 1ecbu opdcical, refined, cautions, in pec- lean and 'Canadian postal employs, le discriminative, sympathetic, ast ,the reached Northland eo the A. CAI , 24 - generous, often radion), easily infln- mess north of the Soo. encore but can't be driven, artistic, make good as authors, lawyers, teach- ers, musicians, explorers, reformers,: engineers, electricians. FEI3. 19th-MARCI-Y 20th --Pisces. Loving, kind, indu tioUs, etethodi eel, logical, 'scientific, trustful, honest, amiable, idealistic, capable, orderly, precise, prudent, often modest end timid; make -.good as actors, teacher's, language instructors, artists, mil}irt• ers, tailors, nurses, sea captains, ac- countants, advance agents, CLOCK GAME. Form a large circle with one per- son called the Striker in the centre. Give each person an hour and if there, are more thantwelve use half hours. When the Striker touches a person he or ,she must 'immediately strike the: hour and give a small pantomime of what it stands for. For instance, if he is twelve noon, he could pretend to eat, if twelve night, Ire ,could snore. And all this must be done before the striker counts fifteen. Continue ;until each person has had sever'ri turns. IATHIEER TIME'S 011013 DAG. If the party is made up of young (1/11 DO YOUR XMAS ` 5 EA3it-YG The Delayer, The lazy men is toed each day How time, so swiftly flies; That Ohristinas is one week aw'ay— "As• much as that!" he mice. No Smart Man- -aver lets himself blank that creek edueise pays le the' long run. • —loved' tarter his criticism or )tis flattery at its face value. --Ever worries over 'ear anany'1n0lle 1 letter, —Ever .impeoee upon tt friend he Wanes eo keep. —Ever tries to melte a sale by im peessing the customer with his mete ll"rtJsti. __.Ev teubton, em makes a deselliay r f hr�' r mart•. J 1 i mese without losing some of his mee- t I t 1 st —Ever linol,inke,id the Aeolgitte even' ellen lie fools hi.maad, "Yost gat a ne,ree to ask me what I want to Ohnlatanae•-jest cause you'ate shelter's beenl'd have you unrlex- st.'und• I got mer own gemtleanon friend." ,r. —__-- Speak .to the Janitor. "My ap r•rbum at• is just foal at curios id ei tieuesi." "That s too bad, Can't, you do tuay. tiring to get-rld of teeui?" ' Revenge. Theyhoe been marries) just love enomgh foe rim to realize that lice oeekin,g aid not.,, equal his mother's.. One morning he happen -c1 too ineetio5r" thin, But his Suite w^.us a medeen'womae, and, instead of wee p5ng she made a fresh cake alleged to be equal to any- thing he'd 'en',or batt before. "Angell" ee cried npue tasting it, "tile lie sreperb juro'r )flee nnattn:ec's! What a lnoky man I�,rum to Have mar- ried a ch a wanileu`I•tri girl! Teel nue how you happewed to let 011 ere recite„ "lee no greet eecrete ateevered lhts angel wide, a glitter In hereyes. "1 used margarine i eteled of butter, watered the , ni1llt, and ' dropped a. chunk ed adur.I it the flour!"