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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1930-01-07, Page 611'ingham Adv eCe-Times. Published at WtNlrNt�1 ONTARIO Every Thursday IVIoreiing W. Logan +Craig, Publisher Subscription rates — One year Seeeo. Six months $z.00, in advance, To U. S. A. $k,5o per year. Advertising rates on application; Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head, Office, Guelph, Ont. Established 1840 Risks taken an all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER' COSENS, Agent, W inghatn J. W,' DODD. Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE,, ACCIDENT AND - HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money toe—Loan at Lowest Rates ...Windham - Ontario r.; �'---•-, ter_ J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor: to Dr. W. R. Hambly. Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 s4X'EEENCE SUET + AC COVES. ehtudations of Myr a415 of Tiny leRed llxise ts. Shellac is a pr • • uct of animal. life,' the exudations of myriads of tiny red insects which swarm on Cres, branches, feed, propagate and die, and not the eap of the lee tree as. commonly supposed, according to a writer in the New York Times, In the valleys of India and Siam are groves of trees whose sap pro vides to these insects the feast of death, Thousands of millions of las bugs, no larger than an apple seed, swarm upon a single tree. ]path in- serts a stinger -like proboscis through the bark and begins its feasts: Mean- while fertilization takes peace, each female bug in its lifel,,rrme producing about 1,000 eggs. The bug eats continuously from the sap of the tree, which, when exuded. from its body, forms a hard shell-like covering. As the crust grows, it meets the covering of the adjoining lac bug until a solid sheet of incrustationis formed which acts as a tomb for the parents. At the same time it is an incubator for the young. Six or seven months pass before the next generationof lac bugs break through the crust and swarm' to the new feeding grounds of a neighboring tree for the sap under the bark. The natives take care that the pro- pagation of the lac bug continues. Regularly they cut branches from. healthy trees about a fortnight before the young are due to energy. These branches they hang in bam- boo baskets or other crude native re- ceptacles on new trees—either those untouched by the little red insects, or trees where swarms of lac bugs already cover the branches. In the latter case cross -breeding °csurs. Not more than one crop a year is taken from a single tree. This, too, insures steady breeding. The harvest occurs soon after tae young bugs have emerged. 'One meth- od is to sever the branches from the trees and take them to native factor- ies where the incrustations are re- moved. The other way is to remove the incrustations at the forest. DR. G. 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JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxcter, or address R. 1, Corrie. Sales conducted any - re and ny-re`and satisfaction guaranteed, rge Walker, Gorrie, can arrange MAYORAL ECONOMY. Tokio Assembly Handed Rude dolt to Preacher of Thrift. 1 & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Donald Block, '' Vinghan 1. WALKER TORE AND FUNERAL SERVICE Walker rneral Director grid itibalmer, 06. 1.et Perone 224. irat Funeral Coach. WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR I There were a dozen other parts played with intent to kill in the good Toni Bilbeck is the narrator. He is a fat newspaper writer who drives a tumble-down car he calls ,Grand- mother • Page. Ile is in love with, 'Vlaly • ella, his rival being Jim Coop- er. The three are members of an am- ateur dramatic group. Plans for a play at the Old Soldiers' Hone are under way. Grandmother Page has engine trouble while Maryella is out driving with Bilbeck, and. Cooper, passing in a big roadster, taunts hien. After Maryella has left Bilbeck is able to start his `car again. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II Rehearsal Our version of "Pygmalion and Galatea" would doubtless surprise you if you are at all familiar with i 1 P l 's the' original, to w rte i " ygmion 1a the artistand carves the lady in the sketch out of a block of marble. We started out to rehearse it that way, but ran • into difficulties when the matter of costumes came up for discussion, It seemed advisable that the statue should wear. white tights and white grease -paint on the face in order to carry out the illusion. All the ladies of the club were quite can- tent that it should be so, but when it came to assigning :the parts each and every one refused to be Galatea. For a time it looked as if we would have to fall back on some little sketch of Shakespeare's until Maryella made the practical suggestion that we change the story. Her idea was to snake Galatea a sculptorine who ham- mers a hunk of stone into a beauti- ful male statue by the name of Pyg- malion. Can you imagine an anti-reminist thinking up a thought like that? Maryella's suggestion carried. As the literary man of the organization, I was appointed to doctor up the manuscript to fit the change of char- acters. Later, much to my surprise and. in spite of my protests, the stellar role of Pygmalion was forced upon me. To -night was to be dress rehears- al and on the following evening we were scheduled to give a trial per- formance in the barn at the Old Sol- diers' Horne. The trial performance was for the double purpose of getting easy in our parts and of making the oldsoldiers realize that war is not so terrible after all. When I returned to my bachelor on a white wig which was provided rooms in town I had only time to for me. I slipped on my over coat to some dryclothin • and hur- over the costume to step up ou the change g ry over the rehearsal without getting, anything to eat. Food did not appeal to me anyway, Neither did anything else, least of all rehearsing a lot of fool love -talk. My own romance had suffered such a disheartening set -back that I was in no snood to enact the role of a hand-hainmered Romeo of. mythology. But 1 went just the same. You know how hard it is to step out of the routine business of your life just because some disaster has befallen you. Your perceptions become numb- ed and you wonder vaguely why the sun is shining, but you go on doing the things that are expected of you just as you have always done. "Business as usual" is not the mot- to of an exceptional nation. It is the underlying principle, of the human race. The Sheridan Dramatic Club had borrowed for rehearsals the stage of the local opera -house, which was va- cant that week. .l't was here that I wended my disconsolate way. 1 was late, but it didn't make much difference, as all during the first act the statue of Pygmalion was a papier- maele figure. Between the acts' I was supposed to take the place of the statue in the same pose so that a lit- tle later I could come to life in res- ponse to Galatea's wish. When I citrase in they were rehears-, ing *ith the dummy. Everything ap- peared to be going very well. Mary- ella looked ravishing in the Greek drapery, and Jim Cooper was doing the best he could to impersonate a skinny Greek warrior, Re was thinner that I had 'suspect- ed. As a Highlander he would never be a conspicottus success. Any one could tell that at a glance. The part of a youth; sculptor's tip- prentice was taken by Mrs. Ideni- mingway, a dazzling blonde who was worth going miles to behold in a short Greek tonic and sandals, She wouldn't have fooled any one but e blind man into thinking she was a Zenjiro Horikiri, 45, second young- est man ever to hold the position of Mayor of Tokio, Japan, believes in the motto "Charity Begins at Home" when it comes to the matter of muni- cipal reform. With his election a few. months ago he announced that he would start an active campaign of re- form. Principal among his many projects was to cutdown all unneces- sary expenses. It has always been the custom for a new mayor to call on each of the 88 members of the city assembly shortly after his election. The mayor is elected bythis body and he is sup- posed to show his appreciation. Not only must lee call, but he must give $ series of elaborae iilnriers to repay+ the city fathers tor their thoughtful- ness in making him chief executive. Mayor Horikiri had been in office only a few days when he announced that he would dispense with the calls and dinners. He thanked the assembly, but said they would see that he was sincere' by his future actions, and not by lib ability to preside at the festive bbard. A few days later the assemblymen met to fix the mayor' salary, another of their duties, and it did not take them long to °decide to cut his emo- lument from $12,500, which his pre- decessor received, re-decessorreceived, to $10,000. NATIVES AND THE AUTOMOBILE. Fiji Islanders Soon Got Used to This "Monster." It is extraordinary how soon peo- ple become used to things—even when at first they regard them with fear' and suspicion. Look how many people predicted terrible disasters, whilst others offered only "ridicule, when the first train appeared. The fire airplane met with a storm of pessimism, and the first motor -car shared much the same fate. To the natives the motor - ,,ar brought not only dislike, but intense hatred and fear, for they were . sure that only an instrument from the devil could produce such weird noises and results as the motor -car! Indeed, in 1905, when first the natives of Fiji Islands saw a car, . the devil doctors formed a committee amongst them- eelves, to decide what could be done with the monster! Now there are over one thousand cars in the Fiji Islands, of thechange telcc which. i • proof in itself g b that has come over the natives in their attitude towards the meehanidai inventions of modern days. old amateur way. I discovered form- er male friends hidden behind bushy beards that dropped off occasionally at a critical moment, leaving the ac- tor bald-faced and speechless; and ladies I used` to know disguised as Hellenic maidens by :doing their hair into a Physce knot and trimming their best nighties with a Greek key design and. an occasional swastika. Off stage, doing a piece of em- broidery while she waited for her cue, was Mrs. George P Lillielove, the wife of the most popular undertaker in town. In Greek robes Mrs. Lillie- love looked almost exactly like a hay- stack with a tarpaulin over it, I slipped into my dressing -room Unobserved, My costume was there. I had not seen it before, so I was a trifle surprised at the bulk of it. The whole thing could have been put in the pocket of a dress waistcoat with- Floods Destroy Oysters. Estimates of flood losses in Ala- bama last spring have had to take into account the virtual destruction of the public oyster reefs in Mobile Bay, where 10,000 barrels of seed oysters and 30,000 barrels of shells' arenow being planted' to repair the damage done by the volume of fresh water that came down the rivers.; The Commissioner of Game and Fisheries estimates that 50,000 barrels of live oyeters would be required to bring tate oyster Industry el the bay back to normal in the minimum of time. It is believed that 08 per cent. of the oysters there were killed. Marshals of lerance, It has been decided that no further promotions shall be made to the rank of letexeital of France. This confirms a previous decision of the Govern- ment to allow the title to disapfrear by extinction. It is felt that hi view of the honor attaching to the rank in its associa- tion with the great soldiers of the we,r, its eon1ernieut in time of peace *Mild be derogatory to the high die- tinetton it carrier{. There are no'r living only four of the seven marshals of the Great War.. 'elle Oonusaonest Tree. The fir is the commonest tre Lire world, in me. "I didn't know there was anything criminal in being slightly curved. It really comes from strength. Lot of leen are." "l3ut no one ever saw a bow-legged statue before" she argued petulantly. "I don't care personally, I suppose that lots of really estimable men have personal pecularities; but -can you im- agine a sculptor creating a statue in- tentionally bow-legged? Why didn't you tell me?" she wailed. "Why did- n't you tell me?" "Well," I temporized, "I didn't think I knew you well enoughfor that." "The playi S ruined," she declared. "Not at alI," I .said with as much injured dignity as I could command in white tights. "You can easily get some one else to play this part. If you, look around the club you can doubtless find someone with legs like bean -poles." once, looking p. •j�ntedly at Mrs. Hem- rninway's shape y ^substructure. "No, I don't wear them Myself," she assured there in response to the unspoken question, "but I've heard that there are such things." "All right," Said the coach, "Go on with the dialogue." The balance'of the act was plowed through somehow. I had to play sev- eral' love -scenes with Maryella, but I Was so acutely conscious of her criti- cism that I did them very badly. The only scene that I played with any enthusiasm was one in which I was supposed to wrestle with Jim Cooper in the role of the Greek war- rior. Even that turned out ill ,for rase because it made his head ache where I bumped it on the stage, and Mary- ella hovered over him like a hen with chickens all during the intermission while they. were setting the ,stage for the third act. I got tired listening to her sym- pathizing with' him and went' out in the auditorium by myself. I did not. care to talk to any one. Tocriticize my acting was one thing, but to make personal remarks about the shape of my legs; was going too far. I made up my mind to withdraw from the Sheridan Dramatic Club as soon as the performance of•"Pygina- lion and Galatea" was over. I would not leave thein in the lurch now, as I might do and wreck the entire per- formance; but as soon as it would not be conspicuous I would assert my dig- nity and resign on the ground that it took too much of my time. I ad- mired Maryella, but she could hardly expect rase' to stand for being made. fun of before Jim Cooper. "I think it is an awfully funny play; dcee't you?" inquired a voice behind one woman try to heal the hurts in- flicted by another,. I was a bear not to accept her tribute in the spirit in wliielt it was offered, "Thanks ever so much," I assured her, and reaching over carelessly I patted her hand, which lay idly ,on . her knee, rt Continued Next Week) The Statue With Bow Legs!° of it any. It She knew whom I meant: without out spoiling the shapeY was silk and white,' but ittseemed aw- my explaining more particularly. fully thin, T playedby safe wearing "Come,' people," interrupted the my underwear beneath it. coach pleasantly. "We mustn't waste There -was no .full-lengh mirror in time. Remember there is a lot to do my room, so I could: not get the en- before we leave here this evening." tire effect, but it looked all right as "Don't be silly," she replied. "No far as I could see. It was easy to one else could learn the part in time:',' make up niy face all white and putWhy not try standing sideways to the audience all the time," suggested JimCooper, who with his nose -glass- es ou and a cigarette in his mouth was the beau ideal of a Greek warrior. "I know what to do." Mrs. Henuningway came to the res- cue with a practical suggestion. " You can buy a pair of those things that chorus girls wear some- times—Syrmetricals, 1 think they are called.". "Ohl" said several of the ladies at stage. The curtain was down between the acts. I took my place on the pedes- tal, slightly nervous but determined to get through somehow of the seams of the tights did their part. The stage was dimly illumined, with blue moon- light. Just before the curtain rose r dropped the overcoat behind me, T. stood motionless during the in- troductory music; There was a flut- ter of surprise among the members of the club who were not on the stage at that moment and had stepped. out into the auditorium to steal a look from the other side of the foot -lights. It _must' have been beautiful. I know I was conscious of looking well in that pose and Iighting. I flexed my muscles to make there stand out bet-, ter. Galatea entered. She was dressed in a gold -trimmed robe. On her neck beautiful was a single strand of pearls, I recognized them as Mrs, Hemming - way's. Maryella had borrowed them because their owner couldn't wear them for the performance, as she was playing ?he part of a boy, • Galatea's eyes were on the floor, pensive. She carne slowly to the ped- estal on which I stood. She knelt. She looked trp. She held her pose for a long time without saying a word—without ex- pressing even a whispered wish that I would. Corne to life. 'Maryella was wordless.'' "What's the trouble?" iiicittir•cd the coach, who stood, book in hand, just :over the foot -lights. "Miss Waite, your line is, 'My clearest wish—' '' "No," she stopped him impatiently. "I know trey lines. It's the statue." Her tone was fall of vexation, "]What's the matter?" I inquired, without abandoning my attitude. 'This is the same pose I've taken every night at rehearsal, ever sinee we began." It isn't that You'ar'e bow-legged." Site spoke accusingly, as if t had made a blunder ofkome sort on put - boy,;; b1)1 nobody minded that. She pose. .l had talents enough to get into a Zieg- r'O 1'r fold chortle any -day, ! That ' was a sensitive subject whit _su � UMMEIMININEE me. I looked around. In the aisle stood Mrs, Hemmingway, a plumpsylph in the half-light of the auditorium. She. apparently wanted to sit down, so I made room for her beside me, "You think it is quite funny?" I repeated interrogatively. "Yes. I didn't realize it so much until I. saw the costumes. 'I didn't know you were going to be a clown." She pointed to my white face. I suppose she would have laughed Herself' sick at the Venus •de Milo. Mrs. Heminingway is .a movie fan, and her sense of humor, must have been curdled ' by this comic -fall stuff. Here I had gotten up to represent a beautiful work of the sculptor's art, and she had missed the idea entirely and thought I was meant to be fun- ny! "The best scene," she went .on, in- nocently endeavoring to flatter me, "is where you tell Maryella you love her there in the garden. It was better than Charlie Chaplin." And that scene'was"pure poetry! I wrote it myself, so I ain sure of, it. "Thank you very ' much for your appreciation," I said, wishing that she were a man so that I coltld say what I really thought. "You've no idea how your praise makes me feel." "I'm glad. I thought you were sort of blue over here all by yourself, so I decided to cheer you up." Then she added hastily for fear she had ruined the effect of her praise! "I really meant what I said though. about your being funny," The dear little featherhead was try- ing to melee me feel good! She w^s prompted by the instinct which makes Here and There 447 .. Born. on Canadian Pacific Rail- way flyer "The Dominion," near Kanaka, British Columbia, recent- ly, a child has been christened Christina Patricia Rosalind, the names being arranged to make the initials "C.P.R.," in honor of her birth on the railway. Little Miss C.P.R. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Peterson, of North Vancou- ver, B.C. "The biggest and most brilliant. season of winter sports in the his- tory of Quebec City," Is the de- scription of the forthcoming fes- tivities at the Ancient Capital' re- ceived at general tourist ' head- quarters of the Canadian Pacific recently. ' The season which is now open will include four high lights: the Fete de Nuit, January 20; the Ice Pageant, February ' 12-13; the International Dog . Sled Derby of 120 miles, February 20-22; and the, Masquerade. Ball at the Chateau .. Frontenac, February 21. E. W. Beatty, chairman and pre- sident of the Canadian- Pacific Railway, recently presented the Dominion, Open Revolver Cham- pionship trophy and medals to C.P. R. police team No. 1 of Ontario, ..' which defeated the Lethbridge team of the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police in the finals' with a score of 1412 out of a possible 1500. si'Ambers of the winning team are Constables Prendergast, Gyves. Tingman and MacDonald and In- vestigator O'Brien. Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan, largest .and finest ship on the Pacific coast, was launched from the yards at Glasgow Decem- ber 17 and will be in '.service from Vancouver early in the Ne -w Year. Well on the way to launching is. the 40,000 -ton giant, the Empress; of Britain, destined to revolution- ize Atlantic travel to and from Can- ada to Europe with a scheduled time of five days from continent to continent.. Ski-ing over two hundred miles of snow -blanketed wilds and seal- ing five passes of which three havean altitude of over 8,000 feet, six, intrepid skiers of the : Jasper Park Ski Club, will in January make the trip from Jasper Park to Banff to attend the annual winter sports carnival that opens in Feb- ruary. New Brunswick'sfield crops for 1929 have an estimated value of $25,722.000 as compared with $18,- 275,000 for 1928 and $18,413,500 for. 1927, according to reports from the' Dominion Bureau of Statistics just issued. Over $1,500,090 was mailed re- cently as final payments to mem- bers of the coarse grain pools, of Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the 1928 crops of oats, barley, flax and rye. This brings_totai payments to provincial pools by the Central• Selling Agency to 61%c per bush- el on oats; -69%c per bushel on barley; $2.203/4 per bushel on flax; and 98%c per bushel on rye. Manitoba's success at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, recently, is describ" 1 by Premier Bracken as "tbo most remarkable everachiev- ed by tbo province." Both- in num be" and variety of championships or. -1 other winnings the records of ast years have been far eclipsed. PLEASE G PRL\T1NG For Discriminating Customers o• Our equipment is • complete for the satisfactory production of printing of every description—froth a small card to a booklet. With this equipment, suitable stock, goes competent workman- ship. We will be pleased to consult you in regard to anything you may need. e'Advance=Tinies WINGHAM, ONTARIO