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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1924-09-11, Page 6Tbureda3i, Sept. 1111G1111 lier 11, 1924. h II, game. et WinvharP ntrtri avery Theredin •Mornmi A., G. SMITE, gaiter 'tine Prole:aerie I -la D. Elliott, Aesociele Sebscription, rates. eme yea,: 42.05: rex Tete:leen, el..06 in wive -ace, advertisiug rates en aPplicetion. Advertisements witheut specifie dl- vectione will De lneetted 'until. forbid tied charged ateardingly, elaanges for contract advertise - meets be in the office by n, r ore Ia. ' • NESS CARDS Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance CO. Illetabliehed 1840 Head Office, Guelph RI lie taken on all claseee et insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER, COSteNS, Altera, Winglaedat • J. W. DODD Of5ce in Chisholm leloce FIRE, ,LIFE, ACCIDENT • AND 1-47.^.L71-1 INSURANCE AND REAL EST - TE :P.O. Box 265' • Phone 198 WINGHAM - ONTARIO "DUI)LEY IBsLMES BARRISTER, .SOLICITOR. ETC. Vietory ,Tincl Other Sonde Botteht aisle Sold. Office—mayor stock. WIngham R. VANSTONE BARRISTER" AND SOLICiTOR Money to Loan at Lowest Ratee. WINGHAM • J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, Etc. Wingleani •- Ctaro DR. G. H. ROSS Grit'deate Roya' College ot Dental aurae. case , Crecluate University of Tore:into Faculty of Dentistry OFFICE OVER H. E. 8RD'S STORE , . R. ilAMBLY E.Sc., 'Special attention .p. -to diseases a Weraen and. Children, having taken pcitgraduate work in Surgery, Date teleology and Scientific 'Medicine., Office In the Kerr Residence, between the Queen's Hotel end the Baptist • Church. 4U1businesi given eareful attention. Phone 54. • P.O. Box 113 Dr, Robt. •C. R ond ell,R.C.S. (Eng). L.R.C.P. (Lcind). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEOre (Dr. Chisholm's old stand) RR, Re 1,,:STEWART Graduate ea Univertaty et ,Terento. Faculty ef Medicine; Licentiate' o" the Ontario College of Physician! and Surgeons. Office Entrance: OFFICE IN CHISHOLM BLOCK goeSPHINE sTaeaT, PHONE= Dr .Margaret C.Calder - General Practitioner • Graduate University' of Toronto. Faculty of • Medicine. Office—dosephine St., two doors south cif Brunswick :Hotel, Telephor.es—Office 281. Residencelal Osteophatic Physician DR. F. A. P KER • OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN All Diseases Treated. • Office 'adJoining reildence next Anglican Church on Centre Street, Open every day seccept Monday and Wednesday afternoons. „ Osteopathy •Electricity' • - Phone 272 DRUGLESS PHYSICIANS CHIROPRACTIC ALV IN FOX Fvlfy QUalitied Graduate. • regIeSe Practice being in absolute accord with the Laws of Nature gives the, very best results that May be ob- tabled In any ease. Hours -10 -11 a.M., 2 - 5 and 7 - 8 p.m.1 'Phone 191. • DR D 1-1 MeINNPS • CI-1111OPRACTOP. • 9ualifted,Gracluete 'Adjustimente given, for diseases of . an kinds, speelalize in dealing with ehdldreo., Lady attendant, Night cal1.3 reSpOnded to. Office on .seott St., 1,11ingha1n, Ont. (n, belled of the late Jae Walker). t'hone 150. epee, Office: 105. Itesideteri 24. • A. J. 'WALKER, IINITURE EEALE11 and ,F NEPAL DIItECTOtt, Moan, Equipinent WINOIIAM ONTARIO VnlOEtJ ANU P ays and Pageants Sonietin it seems to me that Sat4:11).1: impulse to play acting. like sun 7M: - ship or devil daneing or singing, is deeply seated among the primitive in- atincts. C'ertaialy you will find the desire to paint up arid perform in some manner before a wondering public among an races and in every remotest nook an1 corner of the world. .A.moug our own people the inienlise appears to be stronger in the villiegell and. aloug any healthy countryside than in the cities. Perhaps this is be - cease the coenLry ch.ildren are thrown more tully on their own resourees for amusement. The city dweller, I am sure, weakens in the faculty of honest self-expreision as commercialized di- versions multiply around him, • A.ncl then, of course, he seldom can know the joy e of doing fairy plays in a big old barn, The villages I have knolen----and, West and East, they are many—have always simply erimted amateur plays. I can't recall a little farming centre a a thousand or so population that hadn't eome sort athall over the gen- eral store or the emprium with some •sort a stage at one end of it need us- ually some sore of footlights, scenery arid other equipment for theatricals, For play acting is tun, and of ,8 very • busy aeailthy sort. • You can't east and rehearSe a play, advertise it and preseat it in business- like fashion for a night or two, with- out drawing heavily oa whatever in- telligence arid imagination may be evi- dent or latent in the' combaunity. There must be organization and co- operation and a kind of daring. No village undertaking that I keiove of So sharply lifts people out of routine late a degree of excitement, and none is so sure a solvent of cliques. Capable Leadership. I can hardly imagine a'village from which a few young' men and women haven't gote up to a university only th diecover that playwrighting, stage decoration and acting are now objects of sober study and -practice. t Many of these scatter homeward every year, •fired with a new enthusiasm. The home magazines have recog- nized• the movement by publishing., many new plays with instructions for inexpensive staging. There -is hardly a normal school or high ichool to -day in which you will not find :some bright young teacher who has. clesigned a stage setting or two or picaed up same knowledge of •sketching costumes and of the effec- tive use. of colors. The agricultural colleges are at it. • With thiswidespread movement has come a knowledge that formal scenere Is no longer necessary. It is hard to think of a play that can't be presented better in simple draperies than in crudely painted .old- fashioned sets.' Lighting. is no longer a serious prob- lem; any bright boy with -a hunch at wiring a motor or setting up a radio outfit oan quickly grasp •the simpler essentials, Interestieg Plays ean be presented with dignity and charni on a platform in a schoolroom. Of one truth I am cOnvinced: There Is considerable talent 1 In any small community, particularly among the young people. •There is plenty of it on farms- 'anywhere. ' Hunt out that talent, develop it, let native enthusiasm find a healthy out- let, and younwill soon be in the way of building an organization of which your cornmunity will have reason to be el Merwin. fan, Dutch or German immigrants •would be suggested 1»' wagons loaded teeth household goods and the building of a log cabin. Dances in native costume would fol - lona and tolk eongs, accopepenlecl in the old-fashioned way With a fiddle or an accordion; and an early wedding eud• Merrymaking, perhepe interrupt- ed by a call to ards at the ,beginning of the war of 1812. A Pageant, whether there are to be spoken words pr not, must be fully plenned and weitten, But youdon't need literary folk for that. Every vil- lage houses certain thoughtful persons, youeg or old, who love tb.e place and its history. There is -usually a teach- er or a librarian somewhere near who can help. The planning is vastly more important than the writing, and that 15 wholly a matter of study, thought and sense. . Yes, by all means create your own pageant, Stick to your own history, your own ideas, your own faith. Make It a local effort, draft ha everybody to hell), and you will find your neighbor- hood floWering en your hands. • In selecting the ground for the pag- eant keep in mind two important re- quirements—a fairly 'wide place for the action, preterably beside a river or pondaas you may wish to show the Indians in their canoes, aud somewhat masked by trees; and room for the audience to sit. , If you can find a natural stage area beneath a sloping hilledde you are for- tunate, for then your audience will be able to look on in comfort from the in- • cline. • .__ Building a large enough stand for an audience is expensive business and is seldom n.ecessalig. Outdoor Plays. Outdoor plays have in summer and early fall a .0.1:arm alr their own. • They are simpler • than pageants, Ailing for e, smaller stage and much lesa in the way of organization. Often there are pleasant old private grounds In a village that will gladly be loaned for the purpose. If not,. there is al- rnost always a grove or a field within reach. It is well in selecting outdoor bills to avoid realis•tic modern plays dalling Ifor indoor scenery and furniture. If you need to suggest a rear wall simply • run a cord -or wire between two trees , and hang cambric or Canton- flannel with openings for doors and windows. , Composition board, roughly painted, may be used to suggest a house, I• Costumes are very effective oat - decree and can be made most simply out of cheap materials. The coloring is much more important than the ma- terials or the cut. --le-- ' ea proud. , I know of no more stimulating com- munity activity. It is a clean, busy, stirring sort of recreation, and there Is almost a cornplete education. in it, Before going into the many interest- ing problems that arise in preserting plays indoors ---problems • of selection of the play, •casting, relmansing, pre- paring the stage, and so on --it will perhaps be timely to touch on outdoor ' plays and pageants. I A pageant, as the term is now un- derstood, is a series of historical or sYmbolical episodes designed to recall the growth. of a coMmunity, or of an art ot industry, or of an idea. They -usually are enacted in panto - intim, without spoken words, though. there !a music and, there may be danc- ing and singing. • But to rue the Meet interesting are these that are prepared wholly within a village or a neighborhood to cele- brate same important local anniver- sary or event. I saw a few years ago such a home - Made pageant in a small village that depicted In fascinating episodes and touches of allegory the history of the quaint old settlement from earliest times, when the primeval_ forest knew only the hunts and dances of the threugh the landing of the -white dieccvereris • from England, original treaty for te land, the life and •dan- gers of those first Settlers, the /Julian wars, and en clown to to -day. It was a pretehtious undertaking that callea en the eereiced of beindretle 0; persons within a ealitte of rnanY xn do.i. • I can imagine a delightful pageant dcieling with the early days of some* town io Ontarie. Every Region Has Ite Color The obcriginal Indians would figure of mime., Them we would See the rdy French missionaries or fur tratleee. Incidents in the lives Of the White setters Would he ellowet. We Would gee th e reiderlifried • hitppy-go- luchy Itnithcieten In their camps, The Ince/11111g of •Swedish, Norwog, Bison McKay, Canadian cyclist ehampien in, the enarier and half mile distances, taking a sprint around the Scarboro Beach bowl with Eatty McRae, one of the dominion's most promising lady riders. The Forest Ranger. should Yeir meet a man with a face . . Making Love -Letters Private. • There have always been parents and of tan •guardians to hinder and thwart the With a stetson that's sunburned andhapless lover, .and many girls have. worn; • been obliged to resort to inetn.ode of On a jet black mare with her head in deception. • the air, •The simplest means ever employed And a gun on the seddle horn. wae to write the love messages with • fresh milk instead ci ink. On the re - A man with a quirt and a buckskin ceit of a blank'sheet of paper, all the • shire •recipient needed to do was to sprinkle Whose breeches are tidy and trim, it with soot or charcoal. The grit A man beguiled by the lure of the will, stuck to the lines traced by the pen. And the sight .of the world from, the When the trick was ot no avail, • rim, • chemists would perform the task of writing With acetic acid. Another With a look in his eye sort of never- chemis applied sulphuretted hydrogen say -die • • gas to the letter and the secret was un - And, a peise that is bred of the ear; tolded. • With a back just as straight as a five Another "sympathetic" ink is that barred gate •peddliced from cobalt, the writing of And • shoulders both thickset arid which disappears in the cold., but ap- •square; •; pears again .as often as one chooses ' after being exposed to a moderate de - His deep furrowed brow bearing wit- gree of heat. tees to how • I Characters written in diluted sill- . He's fought against storm and the phuric acid 'and lemon -juice become cold,- •black or brown; those, written insolu- And his manner is naild—'tis the spell tions of nitrate and chloride of cobalt • of the wild and ef chloricle of copper are rendered, On the student who dwells in its fold. green, the color disappearing when the paper fe allowed to cool in a moist place. Should you meet on,the trail he will give you a bail, Ana ask in a casual way, • The questions, official—your name and initial, • Objective, duration and stay. And then if it's noon the tea's brew- ing soon, The invite is warni and sincere, ' And he thaws in a flash with the bacon and mash, He's a host that is full of good cheer. Then you sit round the fire and you • never will tire To listen with silence and awe, To tales that are strange of forest and range Of annals wild and their lore; To talk neat is quiet of havoc an.d riot, By forest fir; landslip, and eerie, Of strong silent meti who left human • ken, •* With the call of the wild in their blood; • „ • 'With a parting grip and a friendly He— n doctoweelyised me to take Ile swings to his waiting mount, •I o And eanters away, foe. his •work -won't I She --"Dad's no doctor, but.he told , stay, I me to give you the air, too. • The days of a ranger must couut; A Poen" You Ought to Know. A Song of Sunrise. • lexiciDal;ly the most magnificent des- cription of the coining of day is the prelogue to Robert Browning's "Pippa Passes." Browning is often accused of obscurity, but here is directness anti force, aud the splendor of the language matches the splendor of the dawn. Day! • • Faster ancl more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, .pure gold, o'er the cloud -cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay, Wor not a' froth -flake touched the Tipl Of yonder gap in the solid grey Olf the eastern cloud, an hciur away; But forth one Wairelet, then another, • curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be sup prest, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Fliekered in bounds, grew gold, then overflewed the world. An Improved Telescope. A telescope bas been invented which, although only five inches • ling, will Magnify our -and -a -halt times, Such large magnification, combined with a short focal lerigth, has beep achieved by imptoved lens grinding and perfect m punting. The 'herder of prismatic color fu limit expensive field glaases has been aVoided by 0 new coMbination of glass- es aad the arrangement of apertures. The glaSs contains a. concave-conveI flint objective leas ivIth a double con- -Vex crown and a double concave flint eye -Piece- • An •Apple a bay. When the doctor arreirea he foumiti the patient fit tears. "Cheer up, my good Man," lie Said, "you'll pun through all right" ".'tisn't that, Doc," groaned the pa- • florin. "bee just think of the TAMMY I've spent baying ap,ples to keep you away." • Tee trail calls you on so you journey , • along, s ! Throligh a country to which you're a s tranger, With a hope in your breast "that,some- where in the West , Yeeell meet once again with the • Ranger. • --.Pranic Mien, Nordegg, Alta. Animals Killed Wholesale. During the recent hoof -and -mouth plague in a:anaemia the number of ani- mals slaughtered in zones places was so great that nataral canyoes and abandoned railway cuts were used. as burial places for the mass of carcases, the earth sides being Dlowa in with `dynamite. Britain's War :Claws have been de: creased by 90(000 Who have married again. Faithful Mother Seal. A sea -captain not eting ago captured a young ,seal, hoping to lame and rear it on board ship. He placed it in a sack to secure it, but wide as the ocean was, and swiftly as the ship sled on, the mother was as swift, and followed in search of her young, When 11 wae.first caught, the mother howled piteously, and, the "baby" carcked back its. grief, but the •man was re- lentless, and °cony watched the agon- ized mother follow •him till the ship reached the wharf at Santa, Barbara. ' alere he thought his prize was safe, for surely no seal would Venture there, and the ship was docned nuddenl the mother gave •a 'cry close to the Ship, and the little one, as if obeying instructions, struggled, still in the sack, to the edge of the cleckyand roll- ed itself overboard.. The meteor was seen to seize the sack, rip it open with her sharp teeth, and joyfully claim he baby. She had swum after it for eighty miles. re Tian? Majesty. I love the ,senSe of pewter that a horse Bred to rude service---sOme great Nor- mandy • Or Percheron teeming •with strength and force— . Gives to me as he .pulls so easily His mighty load along the city street. His bashing eyes, wide neatens, toss - 105 mane, The shaggy tellgeks dangling round his feet, • I-Iis su jreatiyn et moveln.ent, show. his And 'mettle, as unflinchingly each day He serves mankiud; and when I thus behold This aoble Titan marching on his way With such true majed sty, my hea hhold. - Higher a bit, step livelier through -the crowa . And with new sense pf power am en - (levied. 0. Poole. GE OF THE WORLD The world to -day awaitS a benefac- tor sucli ae it bas never before known; one who will deliver 11 fi'np tiie 81eaitti- est scoui'ge 01: all tirne--cruiccn' 1 .t by faroer most terrible and dreaded disease--7coMpared with it, consump- tion is infinitely less devilY—and so fast is it spreading that its victims number millions. •.4n this country alone, 0,009,000 of the present PoPula- tion. are doomed to die a lingering "a tlle all these yit. Fesufferers science 000 do little or nethinb. The disease is the despair of all the grent medical minds, a,nd both cause aria cure are absolutely unknown. "It le doubtful," Sir eserbutlinot Lane, the consulting surgeon to Cruy's Hospital, London, re- marks, in an introduction to "Cancer," by Mr, J. Ealislaarlter, "whether a cure for cancer will- ever be found." A.Disease of Civilizatiori., have come to the conclusiou, Mr. Barker 'writes, • "that cancer is pre- visntalele and anoidable in the great majority of cases, that it is a disease of civilization, aud that it May, • be made to decline gradually and to dis- appear altogether as , that fearful scourge, leprosy, which devastated the world in olden tunes In the Maldl Ages there were 19,000 leper houses in ,Europe. Now leprosy has become O rarity. Caiicer is the*:leprasy of modern civilizatien. • It may never be curable, but it is avoidable." In the author's opinion, cancer is caused by chemical poisoning; tar workers are poisoned by thepoisonin the tar; it is the`sarne with oil work- ers, aniline workers, etc. We are poisoned with fUrues from tar and petrol -smelling roads -for petrol eleo may be a contributory factor in can- cer --abut the most powerful source of poisoning is the preservatives in food. Also we do not eat sufficient coarse footle. "The cancer death -rate in Eiegland and in ether advanced couatries,",,IVIr. Barker writes, "is likely to 'rise very —71 erseeat'eloYnivitliizi utteikr° peaxs a Ilifreo7 o111)11t: ed. if no ApproprW,e ston, run taken for preventing cancer, the cancer • death -rate in England may rise so greatly 0411 of the people now living ne't 5,000,000, but 6,000,000, 7,000,000, 8,000,000, may die in torraents of that ghastly disease." • Caaudcis%ra, shee parclatle,dvia,snaeleictuosigte7beelice: ive- ly uso • it takes •so Many years for the poison • to easert itse)f; also, instead or a blow often j,eing marctihta IcnaeurseelYcli'ice:eilleee't likely r:teld18 disease which would have made itself manifest in any case. Soule doctors are almost distracted by tee haunting fear of •capcer. A good many niedical men have committd suicide when ca- ll tpaacrlteendt; ybyeneciae•nacet4r oshudlivSeesin eltraevlye ow- ing to the unfounded fear of having the diseas e. • • One •of the* most extraorclinarY fea- tures ,of cancer Is teat it etribes down rather the strong end tee wallto-clo than the weak' arid the poor, who are more likely to contract' consumption. It is not infectious, nor is it heredi- tary. A shortage of vitamines in the body effords another opening for cancer, and the •only way to Overcome this is by consuming leas sugar ad eating, more wboleineal breed, green vege- tables,' and frese'fruits. Sugar ie a thoroughly dangerous food. Therefore; to escape, cancer we shoUld carefully avoid eeronic poison. ing and vital:nine starvatron. To avoid poisoning we should avoid thatstate to remediewhich so many people em- ploy strong .purgatives. To avoid vita. mine starvation we should aVefil ab substitut.es for whedesome natural food, however tempting they may looli and however strongly they may be re, m commended to us. Patent foods and •- patent medicines are eqUally,danger- ous, • Mr. Ellis Barker's boolr is a Yalu - able and timely:contribution to.medi: cal science. • Snapshots of Sounds. A new invention of PrOfeseor Four- nier d'Albe has' made it possible to Photograph sounds. Professor d'Albe -is' the inventor of the apparatus bye winch a blind man can read -a book, the printed letters reflecting Tight on to. a eelenium .cell, which prod -aces sounds by electrieity; so that the person really read e by sound. • The new inetrurnent is called a tono- scope. • It consists •of a trumpet of which, the end -is horizental; over the ene is stretched a sheeieof thee rub- ber, on which is a drop of mercury. The light from ,airi -electric lamp is reflected from the mercury,. ,or. to a photograpiaic plate, and any sound . ' spoken or sung into the trumpet.makes the mercury vibrate, a, pattern of the brokenreflections being -Produeee �ii the plate. The Murder Car. -Alone, save f dot Of white The wide read lay in the morning light— A low, -soft. purring on the air, A' long, ?lack -monster now gliding there Along the react, turns from its way, Springs for the dot as „a cat' for its Prey, . • - And Mary's pet Leghorn will ne'er move' again "What does it matter? It's, only a hen." Motionlesa, without hint of coming * disaster, Hector watches the road for his mas- • eer. Now of relatives and friends bereft The collie dog is all lee has left, A sudden roar, a pitiful moan, And peer old Hector lay •dying, alone. With savage joy runs the wild road These patterns are guite distinetive. •hog. , The note Pi fiat gives a different. pat- "what 'does it Matter? Ina .'only a tern from the note P; in fact, the drop of mercury follewe every variation of music sung or played -into. the.trumpeta Iso that a. movineband of phetographie I film wpuld record' voice or 'music as a laeries'of Aifferent:patterns. IWe flans' have a new instrument,for the study'-git Speech.and sound, which .may pave the waw to, fresh knowledge a nd perhaps find many good uses, deg." _mem. To Observe Sun Spots. Will R:alse Price. A very small telescope or even an ordinary field glass .or opera glass, will afford the reader kview of sun spots'at a time of .solar ,activity. The safese way to observe them is to point the instrument at the sun and focus the eyepiece until a sharp Image of it disk, several inches -in diameter ,is projected on a surface,of smooth white cardboara held at:a distance of from two to tour feet, • The spots .can eaeily be distinguibed from seeks on the eyepiece by noticing that they move with the suns image. At present we are, just emerging from a ,period of eolar calm during which no spots have been seen for weeks at a time. But a new eycle of activity lias already be- gun, and a: few .spete are begiening to ,appear. The reeder hardly needs to be warned that if he wishes to look directly with 1115 teleseope, field •glans or opera glass. he inust protect hie! eyes with.the blackest of snicked glassl as the •intensely bright image would otherwise' seriously injure, -them, the i11 of Rani ten ie le ettenreting 18 resue'Goi•doii, -1 0 Siitlan. *1:at6 eaginrier bt')trparfa','' ltieinb1ethtlhIflei tonveytbpplies to 1m18,bridge ever the Afbara; ritei .ie 'close it;,thecproadiitdiettirbanee in Mother—"Silence is golden. Wil- lie, not silver as you say "- Willie—"I'm glad to hear that--sie- ter has never given me morein a guar - ter, you know." - Speckled Trout In Maritime Provinces. The fleh cultural operations carried on by the Department of Marine and Fisheries )ave been almcst entirely in the interests ef the most valitable com- mercial food fishee. • The demand:for speckled trout has, however, increased in reoent yearsin the Maritime Pro- vinces, and with a view to meeting this demand, 700,000 speckled trout "egge were obtained early in the year from the state of Now Ilampshire,ancl 1,200,000 have been secure3 from com- mercial fish farms in the TJuited States. TheSe eggs have 'teen.• distributed amongst the varioua hatcheries in the Ilaritimo Provinces. • An Objett ness.on. A certain sea captain and lila chief engineer, ,tired of endlessly debating which tho ship eould. mole easily dis- pense witb, decided to •swap places for •a day. Thc chief ascendet to tits bridge and the skipper diyed inio the ongine-rcom. After a couple of hours, the , captain suddenly •etweared on deck e-c-verecl with oil and SOOt, Mid generfilly 1111 worse for wear. • "Chtef!" he called, wildly beekontrig with a monkey wrench. "You'll have to come dmen her at onee, ca'n't seem to Melte her go." "Of course, you can't," said the • chief, calmly reinoeing bbs piee from , his mouth. "She's ashore." ,...,----r-hes------ Mechenical Bank Clerks. laracaleee which itert raoney into the vie -Iota denominations, and count It, are likely to revolutionize betaking methods. • „The kooteimye, tritish 'Coiumbia, Ore the pialielpal source eine 1 Cara ' o-4!,, workable. d.cosits.ak 'Netre Done dee' 'AngeS; end in tho : Gape peeinstila, queboo,