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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-01-09, Page 6ingharn Advance -Times. Published a WTIuI�`i TAIVf - ONTARIO Every Thursday hit rning W, laogan Graig, Publisher Subscription rates --- One year $zoo. 'Six, months. $a:oo, in advance. To U. S. A. $s,3o per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance eurals Co.6w Head Office, Guelph,Ont. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- nce as at reasonable, rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND •-.° HEALTH INSURANCE --- AND REAL ESTATE xe', O. Bax 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO 1 W. BUSIIFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. oney to Loan Office -Meyer .Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANS TONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. 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CHIROPRACTIC: AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191. i - I J. D. McEWEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple- ments, Real Estate, etc., conducted with satisfaction and at , moderate charges. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER `"'s,RAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Static Phone 231, Winghamkc'ICHARD 1 i C o t to Y 0 a B. JACKSOig NAUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R 1, Gorric, Sales conducted any- where' and satisfaction gaarantced. George Walker, Gort•ie, cars arrange dates. DRS. A. J. & A, W. IRWIN DENTISTS MacDonaldOffiMacDonald block, W.ingliam A. 1 WALKER RN/Tt1RE AND FUNERAL SERVICE b aE t t t tl A. J. Walker Lie need Funeral Director and Embalmer, , Office Phone 105. I'ees. one 224. i'Latest Limousine Pu Coach, WUE o syna4 .0 comm. ll udatians of Mads of Tiny Iced Insects. Shellac is a product of animal life, the eacudatione of myriads of tiny red, iarseets which swarm on tree brandies, feed, ;propagate awl die, end not the sap of the lac tree'as oommonly 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 adeath. Thousands. of rnilliontx a late bugs, no larger than an apple ;seed, Swarm upon a single tree, &titeh in- serts a stinger -like proboscis through the bark and begins its; feasts, Mean- while fertilization takes place, each ;Female bug in its 11fetyme producing about 1,000 eggs, The bug eats continuously from the sap of the tree, which, whoa exuded from its body, forma a hard shell-like covering, As the crust grows, it meets the covering of the adjoining lac bug until a solid sheet of incrustation. 14 fored which acts as a tomb for the ,paronts,m At the same time it is an incubator for the young, Six.or seven months pass befpre the next generation of Iac 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 la 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 ;�ranchea..: In the latter case cross -breeding venire, Not. more than one crop a year is taken from a single tree. This, too, insures steady breeding. The harvest occurs soon after the 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. MAYORAL ECONOMY. Tokio Assembly Handed Rude Jolt to Preacher of: Thrift. Zenjiro Horikiri, 45, second young- est man ever to hold the position of Mayor of Tokio, Japan, believes is 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 cut down 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 by this body and he is sup- posed to show his appreciation. Not only must he call, but he must give a series of elaborate dinners to repay the city fathers for their thoughtful Hess 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. Be thanked the assembly, but said they would see that he was sincere by his future actions, and not by his ability to preside at the festive board. 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- Iument from $12,600, which his pre-, deeessor received, to $10,0.00. NATIVES AND THE AUTOMOBILES.. 1H9 j1 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. Lbok how many I predicted terrible disasters, whilst others ofirstffered only ridicule, I heal the train appeared.'. The I airplane met with .a storm of pessimism, and the first motor -ear shared- much tlaq same fate. To the natives the motor - ear Brought not only dislike, but intense hatred and fear, for they: were sure that only au instrument from the devil could produce such weird noises and results as the motor -cart Indeed, it 1905, when first the natives of Fiji Islands saw a oar, the devil doctors formed a committee amongst them- selves to decide what could be done with the monster! Now there are over. one thousand cars in the Fiji Islands,' which is proof in itself of the change that has come over the natives in their attitude towards the mechanical nventions o3 modern days. *loads Destroy Oysters: Estimates of hood losses in Ala - area last spring have had to take nto account the virtual destruction o the public oyster reefs in ,Mobile Bay; where 10,000 barrels of seed oysters and 30,000 barrels of shells are now- being platted to repair the damage done by the volume, of fresh water that came down the rivers. The Commissioner of Game and Fisheries stiauates that 50,000 barrels of live ysters would be required to bring ti Oyster industry of the bay back normal in the minimum of titne. t Is believed that 98 per cent, of the ysters there were killed. Marslrels of Prance, It has been decided that no further preniotions shall be made to the rank 1 Marshal of 1i ranee, This eonfrna previous decision' of the Goveriu- msnt to allow .the title to disappeary extinetiot; It tis felt that in; view of the honor. stacking to the rank in its associa- ion with the great soldiers of the war, its conferment in tihie of peace wiould be derogatory to the high dis- netion it carries, Thera are now living only four of ire seven marehele of the Great War, The Comzeonest Tree). The fir" is the cotxasiionelst tree in p world.. WINORAM ADVANCR-'rZMES Thursday, January 9th, 1930 WHAT HAPPENED $O FAIL Tom Bilbeck is the narrator. He is a fat newspaper writer who drives a: tumble-down car he calls Grand- mother Page. Re is in love with Maryella, his rival beixag Jim, Coop- er. The three are members of an am- ateur dramatic group. Plans for a play at the Old Soldiers' Home are under way. Grandmother Rage has engine trouble while Maryella is out driving with Bilbeck, and Cooper, passing in a big roadster, taunts him. After Maryella has Ieft 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 youif you are at all familiar with the original, in which Pygialion is the artist and 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 cameup 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 carne 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 make Galateaa sculptorine who ham- mers a hunk of stone into a beauti- ful male statue by the naive. 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 niy 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 old soldiers realize' that war is not so terrible after all. When I returned to my bachelor' rooms in town I had only time to change to some dry clothing and hur- 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 was its no mood to enact the role of a hand -hammered Romeo of mythology. But I . 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 thingsthatare 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. It was here that I wended my disconsolate :way.. I was late, but it didn't ;make much difference, as all during•+the first act the statue of Pygmalion was a papier- mache 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 1 came in they were rehears- ing with 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 cotilcl to ;impersonate a kinny Greek warrior. He was thinner that I had .suspect - d, As a Ilighlander bo wottld never be a conspicotttis success. Any one ould ten that at a glance, i'he part •of a young sculptor's ap- rcntice was taken by Mrs. Bern- nirtgway,. Ka dazzling blonde who was voral going miles to behold in a bort Greek tunic and sandals, She wouldn't have fooled any one but a line man into thinking she was a oy, but nobody minded that. She ad talents eriollgh to get into a Zieg- elti chorus any day, s e c i s b b h f There were a dozers other parts !played with intent to kill in thegood 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 lrnot 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. Liliielove, 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 - me. "I didn't know there was anything criminal in being slightly curved. It reallycomes from strength. Lot of men are." "Bart no one ever saw a bow-legged statue before/' she argued petulantly. "I don't care personally. I suppose that lots of really estimable ,wren 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, "1 didn't think 1 knew you well enough for that." "The play is ruined," she declared. "Not at all," 1 said with as much injured dignity as l cour'd command its 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.,, The Statue out spoiling the shape of it any. It was silk and white, but it seemed aw- fully thin, I played safe by wearing my underwear beneath it. There was no full-lengh mirror in my room, so I could.not get the en- tire effect, but it looked all right as far as I could see. It was easy to make up my face all white and put on a white wig which was provided for ine. I slipped op my over coat over the costume to step up • on the 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: noon- light, Just before the curtain rose I dropped the overcoat behind nae. 1 stood motionlessduring 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 lighting, I flexed my muscles to make them stand out bet- ter. Galatea entered. She was dressed in a gold trimmed robe. On her neck was a single strand of beautiful pearls, I recognized thein as Mrs. Heniniing- way's, Maryella had borrowed them because their owner couldn't wear them for the performance, as she was playing the part of a boy. Galatea's eyes were ''on the floor, pensive. She carie slowly to the ped- estal on which' 1 stood. She knelt. She looked up. She held her pose for a longtime without saying a word—without ex- pressing even .a whispered wish that I would come to life. Maryella was wordless.; `I toN "What's the trouble?" inquired the coach, who stood, book in hand, just. ,over the foot -lights. "Miss' ?Waite, your line is, 'My dearest wish—' " "No," she siopPed hint impatiently, "1 know my lines. It's the statue." l:T.er torte was full of vexation,. "What's the matter?" 1 inquired,' without abandoning nay attitude, .Y, This is the same pose I've taken every night at rehearsal ever since we " 1tbeganisn`t,that: You are " o ar bow-legged.. She spoke accusingly, as if I had merle a bleeder of some sort on pea. - With Bow Legal She knew whom I meant without my explaining more 'particularly. "Colne, people," interrupted the coach pleasantly. "We mustn't waste. time.; Remember there is a lot to do before we leave here this evening.". "Don't be silly," she replied. • "No one else could learn the part in time." "Why not try standing sideways to the audience all the time," suggested Jim Cooper, who with his nose -glass- es on and a cigarette in his inouth was the beau ideal of a Greek ,warrior. "I know what to do." Mrs. Heninningway came to the res- cue with a practical suggestion. You can buy a pair of those things that chorus girls wear some- times—Symmetricals, I think they are called." "Oh!" said several of the ladies at post. "Ohl" That was a sensitive stibjeet with • once, looking pointedly at Mrs, Hem minway's shapely substructure, "No, I don't wear themmyself," she assured them in response to the unspoken question, "but I've lxeerd 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 riti- cisco that I did thein very badly, , The only scene that 1 played with any enthttsiasin was one in which I was supposed to wrestle with Jit i Cooper in the role of the Greek war- rior. Even that turned out ill for me because it made his head .ache where I bumped it on thestage, 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 het- sym- pathizing'with him and went out in the auditorium by myself. ° I did not care to talk to any one. To criticize my acting was one thing, but to make personal remarks about the ; shape of my legs was going too. far. I made up any mind to withdraw from the Sheridan Dramatic Club as soon as the performance of "Pygma- lion and Galatea" was over. I would not leave thein in the lurch now, as I Haight do and wreck the entire per- formance; but as soon as it would not be conspicuous I would assert my .dig- nity andresign on the ground that it took too much of my time. I ad- mired Maryella, but she could hardly expect tmeto stand for being made fon of before. Jim Cooper. "I think it is an awfully funny play; don't you? inquired a voice behind I looked around. In the aisle stood Mrs. Hernmingway, a plump sylph 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 white face. I suppose she 'would have laughed herself sick at the Venus: de Milo. Mrs. Hemmingway is a movie fan, and her sense of 'humor must have been curdled by this comic -fall stuff. Here I hadgotten up to represent a beautiful work of the sculptor's art, and she had missed the idea entirely and thought I was ineant 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 rnyself, so I' am sure of it. "Thank you very much for your appreciation," I' said, wishing that she were a man so that I could say what I • really thought. • "You've no . idea how your praise makes me feel." "I'm glad. I: thought you were sort of bhie 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 'make .me feel good! She was prompted by the instinct which makes one woman try to heal the hurts in-' flicted by another. 1 was a bear not to accept .her tribute iu the spirit in which it was offered, "Thanks ever so much," 1 assurer$ her, and reaching over carelessly I patted her hand, which lay idly or her knee. ..(Continued ,Next. Week) • ere and There!, . 447 Born on Canadian ,Pacific' Rail- way flyer "TheDominion," near Kanaka, British Columbia, recent- ly, a child has been christened Christina Patricia Rosalind, the names being arranged to snake the initials "C.P.R.," in honor of her birthon 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 atgeneral tourist head- quarters of the Canadian Pacific recently. The season which is now open will include four high lights: the Fete de Nutt, 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. Menabers of the winning team are Constables Prendergast, Gyves, Tingman and MacDo Laid 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 New 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 settl- ing fivepasses of which three have an altitude of over .8,000feet. 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. :0 New Brunswick's field crops for 1929 have an estimated value of $25;722.000 as ' compared with $18,- 275,000 18,-275,000 for. 1928 and $18,413,500 for 1927, according to reports from the Dominion Bureau. of Statistics just issued. Over $1,500,010 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, bariey, flax and rye. This brings total payments to provincial pools by the Central Selling Agency to 611sc per bush- el on oats;' 69%e per bushel on barley; $2.20-/h 'Per bushel on flax; and 98', c per bushel :on rye. Manitoba's success at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, recently, is describ'q by Premier Bracken as "the mast remarkable ever ,achiev- ed by iii" province." Both in num- ber and variety of championships' ar,7 other winnings the records of -,ass years have been far eclipsed. PLEASING P INTIIVG .. For .. Discriminating Customers Our equipment is complete for the satisfactory production of printing of every description—from a small. card to a booklet. With this equipment, suitable stock, goes competent workman- ship. We will be pleased p to consult you in regard to anything you may ,need. The Advance=Titnes.' .H.ONTARKI.