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Zurich Herald, 1927-05-26, Page 7• • THE. PRIZE WINNING- ESSAY Yy� ti • 44 r• .�,�•y•.`.,r�;� R. •,:+ : ^� ..4�o +.F:. •r. rox�•Z•t. ./ Ky .';�H• d ,. tat; ....' n. The Winner and Dear Sir:— I did not dream when I sent in my effort for the` Canada :Essay Contest ' that 1 would' be lucky -enough to win a prize, such a splendid oue at that, and 1 can hardly realize my good fortune even yet, but I have the evidence of my own eyes and must believe it. This is the first. time I have tried in an Es -say oompetition, though the sec- ' and public prize I have won, for' last year I secured third prize in the Home Garden Competition in connection with the Public Schools of the County. ' I. on Oct. 14th, 1913, was born on my father's farm in. Burford Township, and attended Public School at Fair- field Plains School, Section No. 15, Burford, and passed into High School in Burford village last September. There, although perhaps not my best subjects, composition and English literature are easily my favorites and the more I study them the better I Dike them. In the last Easter examin- ations my average was 82 and I rank- ed ank ed fifth out of thirty-five students in my form. I Like sports and games and Her sisters rise to higher xOS tiQals. The religious life is wet etteuided to by men, many of whole ere leaders in their reepee- Live hr nd a .of ;thought and all we ask of You 1n i'+eture is •chart you help to !make •oar ,great company a power to be reckoned with, not only com. mer•cially, but in the finer things of life as well•, -• • WHAT TO WRITE FOR TI -IE BOYS? TABLELINEN { but Italian 'linen means Italian hand=. f work and perhaps Italian weaving. The Spaniel' linen may be woven in S PORT SMANStM Spain and certainly will be eraleroide L. s, AlrtcH . r Bright]' colored table linens are ered in that country, Both Spain and rive box rabbit tripe and a` two.1 just the thixig now'. Good taste, Italy are.noted for their fine hand- ey Your briar patch played .a eeesj which formerly dictated only white work and their reputation ,does not important part in the lives. of iwwn table -coverings and napkins, hessuffer from these recent importatienesmall !bays of my aequaitntanee. They changed, Now we can use color not of lovely embroidered linens•, lived in the country on a small farirt+ only in dowers and; favors, but in the' small ANA si'ANI$}i LINEtdS. all of which was under cultivation table linen as won. The linen depart -,In :tile Italian linens we find the except the pasture field at the back men.ts in aux big stores are no danger square and straight-1i'ne designs with of the place. In this pasture was a wonderful briar patch, a stone pile and some !groundi-hog bolas. Border- ing this was a piece of woodland and an uncultivated swamp. The briar patch, had long been the home and refuge of all the Peter Rabbits and Molly Cottontails of the surrounding country. The pasture was the playground of the two :snian boys. For hours they and their dog romped unmolested, waded in the brook, built dams at the spring, climbed trees, threw stones and occa- sionally joined the deg in a chase for an unwary rabbit. This field belong- ed to them—with all its delightful -nooks and crannies, all its birds, all its rabbits—it all belonged to them; The old rabbit with a knowing wink would sometimes jump out ahead of the dog, circle the field and come back. to disappear in a ground -hog hole. Small wonder the boys loved this place and claimed every rabbit in it. There ds one month in the year: • when men are allowed to gun- for the; rabbit, which is considered a real delicacy in this section, and boys mrayi set traps. Each of these small boye had one box trap which he carefully baited and hid in the briar patch and one which he placed just beyond the fence in the swamp. A neighbor's that the entire pattern is complete in boy a playmate and chum brought the two or three -yard ingth. Sets o1' three traps and set them in the be- st or a dozen napkins come in the loved briar patch, and each morning same design and are sold with the for six successive days .caught one of cloth. In the good qualities these sets Peter's family while the other ,two are high in price, but thy outwear the boys got none. Hot resentment filled newer varieties of linens. Cotton is thein breasts. Friendship was for - being made into a fabric which close- gotten. "It is our briar patch," they ly resembles linen damask but does said. "They are our -rabbits. Red has no right to put his traps in our field." Myy sympathy was with the two small boys, but no matter how we "lean" the principles of good sports- manship remain the same. The father of these two embryonic citizens used this incident for a les- son. If they felt free to set a trap on the other side of their fence in the swamp, then, by the same oode, Red had a right to put his traps in the briar patch. He showed them that staid and dignefied. The shelves Fund' the fine Italian heneetitching. Many juvenile readers have grown up in tables are overflowing with bright ,clever neediewomen are making these the reading, sense, and one writer, reds, pretty blues and other colors. I at home. The round -thread linen, 40 whose evidently unfortunate business is to write for boys, invokes the spir- its of Henty and Ballantyne and Man- ville Fenn of the past to find oat what he eha11 do for the boy of to -day. The writer remains anonymous, as he well might, since he 'describes his audience as remade up of such categories as these—"the van -boy type, the juvenile monster who devours `thick-earstuff, flushings are neutral in toile. '•boa I on the pure white linen will alawys and the egotistical monstrosity whose much color will tire us, and we want be standard and conservative. Any brain is big enough to get' him a our homes to be restful. •- I bride-to-be or a well-established housekeeper will welcome the gift of a box of Madeira napkins. Six or a dozen come in a box. quandary, which appears in the, Lon- don Daily Express, is probably of tion of limens woven of coarser jn caller uice more attractive ed to hwhene eaccompanied wider application, at least amonglinen thread's in interesting patterns. The d flat bY a Englisinenea out boys. His appeal thread,s with eTurkey of cream aredc stripes es to or six who gatretty hernfo of committees er is to the "giant" writers of the past mark of squares and to make the for a sociable time appreciate the whose path was encumbered' with r border. Dark blue is combined with simple refreshments served in the none of the distractions from bookish the cream background too and some- living -room. Tiny napkins are appira- pursuits that prevail to -day: times more delicate colors such as pxiate to use at such times. "Giants that you are, I am craving i lavender light blue or Double damask linen is so fine that your pity. You lived in an age, anal !used g yellow, are the pattern is the same on both sides. 1 Linen mads of strong, smooth, round threads is found in solid colors and also in the oreanm colored cloths Our love of color must not lead es, inches wide, oar be bought in stores astray. If we use painted furniture ^ and the Italian hemstitching is not in the dining xoom ,and eat thel difficult to do, Cream and oyster with decorated china, beware of col - 'table white aro the usual colors chosen. The ored table linens.. Cream colored line Spanish linens are distinguished from ens harmonize with any colored fwr- i the others by their scallops and their nishings. The colored glassware designs in scrolls. which has become so popular can be Madeira embroidery still pleases. used. with gay linens if the other fur- The Little eyelets and dainty scallops motor -cycle driving license as won es A EU1 OPEAN STYLE. his parents buy it for him." Thus Europe is sending us cream colored the writer reveals hinvsellf as Eng., linen trimmed in color. Czecho. Slo- lish, but his further account of his valla h s b •1'fi•it wrote for a generation, with few dis-When enough threads are crowded into one square inch, it is almost Im- possible to tell right side from wrong. Pattern cloths have been woven so tractions. .• You had to face none of the comptition of cinema and motor bicycle—ephemeralities in an ephem- eral ` with borders of colored stripes. An age, Thus were you allowed to grow. to your, present •stature and unusual combination which is very y the tablecloth f 1' d 1 especially gymnastics but I am flat to -day we envy you the opportunities new Is a o solid color strong enough yet to esceli in . any you had. with white kern Napkins are made great degt ee• • � to match. This color combination is r "The boy reader of to -day has seen attend regularly the local]. United 'the dreams of Jules Verne come true.' also reversed, with the centre left Church for service and Sunday School He has lrved through the worst blood i white' or cream colored and the hem and I find my 1• S10ns .in 'Englds1" I and -thunder do history—the Great a solid color. These sets may be dar- lirterature are a great help to me in • War; and a printed blood -and -thunder ing, but they are attractive. The col - is tame stuff by comparison, ors can be chosen with reference to "He is hard to please. ' His -mag- the color plan for the dining -room or illation is bunted by reality and is the china, difficult to ehock. A printed thrill is ATTRACTIVE DECORATION. understanding what I hear there. I have a strong desire to become a Public Sciibel teacher though I have my doubts sometimes as to whether I am clever enough but I am doing my nothing compared with a motor-cycl- When meals .are served on the ver- best, ting thrill. You can not convince him andah or on the lawn, a cloth made I am sorry I have no photograph of that the future holds any adventure of Japanese toweling is suitable. myself alone and only the enclosed of which he does not know. Modern Small napkins to match save the bet- ! snapshot taken with my two sisters education has made him the, .spoiled - ter ones of linen. Japanese toweling last summer. I am standing on the child of Progress, which—as Disraeli is made of cotton, therefore is inex- loft, my elder sister in the middle and said --is not so much progress as 'the pensive—a table -cloth can be puichas- the younger on the right. 1 wish it tendency of things.' ed for $1, or less. Its blue designs were better but this is the best I can do and I hope this willprove satisfac- tory. I have no brothers. Again thanking you for -considering my Essay worthy of your splendid prize. I am, Yours faithfully, Margaret. Hobson. "THE JOHN. CANUCK DEPARTMENTAL STORE" - desire. A train journey across .our possessions from the Atlantic to the Pacific with its generous conditions as to "stop over" privileges at places of interest, will give you a general bird's eye view of what we have to offer. If you wish a closer inspection an auto trip, over our network of good roads, with well equipped rest camps in which you will have your comfort so weld looked after, that you are free to enjoy all the beauties of the road, .is an experience you will always look back on with plea -sure. The tdiversity of headquarters, you have;to choose from is only equalled by their differ- ence in type of interest. Tho Niagara Peninsula when the fruit trees are in bloom you wall consider a close ap h to fairyland while you must no Hollywood when they gave you Margaret Hobson, of Burford, in Original and Delightful Style, Tells of Our Coun- try. Years ago in Old London it was the custom of apprentices, among their other duties, to stand outside their master's place of business and cry his wares to the pasisera by. They usually began by crying "What d'yer lack?" "What d'yer lack?" I appear before you to -day in much the same capacity but the firm I re- pi,+esent is, I will not say the richest, but I believe in the extent of its re- sources, the largest in the world, I speak of our newly organized Depart- mental Store of Canada. In our early days we started as a small outpost o4 the B•ritis�h Empire Ltd. Sixty years ago we became one of the chain and recently, we have developed into a fully established store under our own management entirely, but still and worth wints. For the RC tees are t e woi y win an p g , always Affiliated to our great Central : the Rocky Mountains with their sub- the' brave .and true. We offer the ser-rn their feeling, although some are Cotswold breeds, who made applies- • always 1lime views and British Columba offers tal rights of the honest old story, more vivid. tion for it.The grading was done Now what does our stbre contain? • scenes entirely different front the rest. with tho eternal moral discreetly] 'rhe colored embroidery used on by Mr, A. E. MacLaurin under the I honestly believe everything that is I d lucky t Commis - handkerchiefs efs is now shown on table direction of the Live Stock Cammis- "As for the sort of reverent rom- are not likely to fade if washed care - choose a soil that does not pack or a rabbit was a small thing in the in your days, he sees it trampled on ` Handsome table -damask of fine bake in order that. the young runner- world of men; that such trifles. by his grown-up sister, and:he has i quality, having a beautiful satin plants get rooted as early as possible, as rabbits, line fences just such learned to regard the Vlictorian age' gloss, is made by using fine colored- To avoid damage from white grubs, ing clans could make bitter enemies; ,• as a freak.• I linen threads in the pastel shades land that has been in sod for some that they needed to get the right per-; "And he goes to the pictures. He combined with fine white linen years should not be used for straw- spective of their relationship to life's feeds an the living image of 'he-man' threads. The effect is charming, and stars who, to him, are real. He has' the damask is rich -looking. lost patience with the boy hero of I PALE GREENS AND YELLOW. fourteen years who quells -revolutions What could be so' cool -looking on a in a South American republic, or hat summer day for a company lun- beats Napoleon at his own game.:He. cheon as a cloth of pale green da - can no longer endure the boy hero mask? Plain white dishes, faintly Who, sub rosa, was really the fellow tinted green glassware and brightly who won the Duke of Wellington his polished silver complete the illusion renown-._ "' not launder so well. STRAWBERRIES! A New Bulletin Available. Strawberries can be sucoessfully grown on many kinds of soils from a very light sand to a heavy clay, but it flourishes best on a moderately light friable sail. It is important to "He is past such nonsense, and he of coolsbreezes. knows it—and-he is such an initoler- A spring luncheon would an pretty ant little monster that the only way with yellow damask cloth and nar- k' S f thesedamask t berries until a few hoed crops have events. been .grown upon it. Land infested This was training in fair play and with couch grass or other persistent good citizenship. The lesson was not Weed's should ^also be avoided. They taught nor learned in a single day, may be planted either in spring or but, before the month was up the boys fall, but it is recommended that could hail their comrade with a cheer - spring planting should be adopted. ful •grin and, "What luck this morn - The planting should be done as early.. ing, Red? Gee, he's a big one!" as possible in order to get the benefit of the cool weather and the moisture. Before planting, the land should be thoroughly plowed, disked and har- and a clearer sense of justice when rowed, and it should be rolled in order it comes to dealing with the larger, to foist your giantly books upon him ins. one o eras sets are to facilitate planting. problems that confront them, for, is to give them as schoolprizes or expensive. The napkins ss are in the 24- A new bulletin of the Dominion "Men are but children of a larger Christaspresents. inch size. Since all good damask is Experimental Farms, on the Straw-growth.". high-priced, it is a question if one "So I should like you to tell us should buy it colored. The same am- berry and Its Cultivation in Canada, - ii what we can do with him as we sit mint of money invested in plain white Is available on application to theGEAR �I°°�'®li� d k be b tte I' bl" t'ons Branch Dept. of Agri- 11 �� j� • If children can be taught to get the right slant on cbildish difficultiies then men will have a broader outlook down to write his stories to-d'ay. I wager it will be a problem beyond your power to solve, for nowadays even a Shakespeare could be boosted into the background by an• American filum Icing from Hollywood. You had damask willti better investment u culture, Ottawa, and covers every for the average housewife. phase- of strawberry groi�ving, VARIETY OF CHOICE. Printed linens have appeared re- cently. We see thein with a riot of PUREBRED RAMS prose colors spread over the entire table- CLASSIFIED. laurel crowns Monopolies and cloth in interesting designs, or we see not miss visiting the Falls, especially your a damn centres and the man colored The grading of purebred rams was 1f they are flhiminated, You will not monopolists may be useful in trade— p' many -colored forget the sdght. A voyage but they are bad for the art of the border. These table -covers are best commenced in the Province of On - through the Tli;onsand Islands, a visit boys story suited to meals served on the ver- .tario last autumn, when it was con - to Q•uebetc with its historical interests "We describe the knight who takes 'andah. Because they are new, the fined to the eastern counties. The and "Evangelises land" would be well; his sword to conquer in a world where Prices are high for the printed lin-classification was limited• to breeders of Shropshire, Oxford, Leicester and • h th• d the s oils oto ens. The designs are often Persian rope ire, or , eice r necessary to man, wean or child. For Mr. Farmer there is s -once of the f �t land that lies out of doors and For you, Madam Fashion, we have the incl ce � t of furs and the nes 'an ideal site for a chicken farm to a y jewellery, the latter from our own knight, but we have to live and so p y finest of he can find anything he requires from Dices glossed -an we are t o getit mi n n 1 we sin away the linen. Threads are pulled out and sioner of the Dept. of Agriculture, Ot- chacapted, provided y colored threads run in to replace the tawa, in co-operation with the Ontario cheap book rights as well. Our none- j p tar reward is an insult to our errant pulled ones. Flowers of French knots, Dept. of Agriculture, through the and nett baskets, are used for de- Agricultural Representatives in the mines and both .manufactured in our thousand acre ranch, We grow the we must sell." car atiorvs. Much of this work is done different counties. In all some twenty alsogrow the finest own store. We r of wool for y rapidly buidcling up a reputation fo t made upby the most talented of choicest bacon and butter ww-hlle our overpaid money by mistake." Judge—i half the cost of the m3eady made ones; suitable for use on either purebred fruit and especially apples would be i dressmakers. I x e1. Our British Columbia "Ha't'e you a glass case or a museum or she may, for the same price, make or grade flocks. For the better class Mrs: Housewife, you are -indeed fort- hard to e c to put him in?" a set for herself and one set to use of rains, good • enough to head average peculiar position apple is good, and. I have heard it as a gift. finest wheat in the world and are he in P•aria Rio work ca our garments which are o, One who enjoys doing. flocks were gone over, in which about 13arristcr—"He is a -flan who has hand n duplicate these sets for 2'00 rams for sale were graded as purebred flocks, the grade of XXX The Spanish and Italian embroider- was given, and for sheep of slightly p unite for awing to the sated that it was pmobaby its bright of our establishment you have a urger Ile of good cheer about death, and ducts probably than any r that tempted the mother of know 'this of a truth, that no evil can ed linens are pleasing. The fax for lower grade but still of good quality range of pro p est colo country in the world. Open to the world, but I believe that it took happen to a good man; either in life those linens may be •grown in Ireland and fit to head grade flocks was given other choice, time not only fruits and the flaart and bring b the e io Your ' +..• grown article to bring about the down- or after 'oath.—Socrates. , and woven in Scotland or $elgiuin, the grade of XX. Of the former 130 t climate but Ei'om the fall of Alain. If so, if he could speak, ,- -- - even for Paradise. A great and ex - vegetables equal to the best g the temperate ' he would •probably say it compensated NiagaraPeninsula and British Colum associated with the Trop1el zone. pan ng Mr. Business man, you are not for- grows,, lies at our doors, while his in- - gotten for what ever your business, terests are looked after by n paternal it it requires power, we can supply government, with agricultural colleges you chearply and plentifully from our and experimental stations at different comparatively amused waterpower points, while your raw material if not grown, To sum up, good people, it doss not as It likely is inside our limits, can be matter who you are or what degree cheaply brought to you over our great you 000upy in the world, whether you inland waterways. Then your pleas-' are a .young person with nothing but tires are ahlo well attended to, for if your hands to help you, or of mature yOni aro a smoker you will find we grow age with wealtbhto investeyott oannot t+he flueet of tobaaoo while for your ado better then come; to this young faun s of relaxation in our vast un- growing store. We can give a weir. aplored open spaces you wild find a come to you all. To the children, a Veritable sportman'e paradise` For good education, the only qualification 1vd-ere eiee in the world Can you a m- for which is brains and "grit" for, un - bine big tazme hunting and fishing of .like most of the older countries it call iiih quality?he truly said of our store that every Ifou are undecided where to go "toddler" just starting echool carries and Mrs. .. Tourist, just . tools over our stare, for whether you 'desire to travel by train, boat, auto"Shanks ponies" or a combination of all four, -..-a eau pee/Tide you with anything your the Premiers position in his book sratcheti. The man with ideas is al- ways welcome and hero he •svil'l have a chance to exploit them, while the pro- fessional man hae every opportunity to Honor graduates raduia.tes fraru neon's. esubstrute for Kingston. ftoyal Military , College. '1' :�. ""p erfcet" caniets of the Military Cadet school, Tokio,. at the 1 ativ o eros graciuMian ceremonies,ceremonies,wee* Pres@mite' with prize watches by the em p of Japan. rams were classified and of the latter '70. At the conclusion of grading, lists _showing the owners, the breed they keep, the identity, grading and price of each animal, were distributed to those interested in the purchase or distribution• of purebread rains. The work was highly appreciated by the producers of market lambs as well as by the broaden. of purebred sheep, who, through this service, found a ready market for the stock they had to sell. Smoke Bares Leaks. New Invention Does Away With Grind and Wear of Clashing Gears. At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, in London, Mr. Geo. Constantinesco delivered, by invita- tion of the Society, a lecture describ- ing recent developments of his re- markable device called the "torque converter," replacing the usual gear- shift systems of automobiles and sim ilar machines. Says Dr. E. E. Free, in his Week's Science (New York) : This device is described by some engineers as being the most remark-. able innovation in the science of me- chanics since the invention of the steam engine. One of the problems encountered in many applications of power is the problem of varying the speed of a moving machine without changing the speed of the engine which drives it, In gasoline automo- biles . for example, it is necessary to provide some gear -shift arrangement, by which the driver can operate his car rapidly or slowly, the speed of the engine changing much leas than does the speed of the rear wheels, The Conatantinesoo device does away with this necessity. Small automobiles equipped with it are now being built in England and have no gears at all.' The driver need's to pay no attention only to the throttle and to the steer-, ing-wheel. The principle of the device is one essentially new in mechanics, Mr. Contantinesco declares that he worked it out mathematically and philosophically before any model of it was built. The trick is in the use. of an oscillating weight, which vi- brates back and forth like the pendee lune of a clock. The mechanical prin., ciples involved' aro far more compli- cated, however, than are those of e simple pendulum. The teacher was testing her schol- ars' knowledge of the Ten Command- ments. Coning to the last one, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife," the teacher •eskedt "Can anyone tell me why Mases wrote down `house' before :''wife'?" harderre�y"Be- ' cause a house is to { t � i meed a small bov. One of the most perplexing noises in an automobile is the escape of gas under presure, either thr•ougli a leak- ing gasket or a small hole in the ex- haust pipe system, Because the gases ' are Massing at such terrific pressure, the smaller the leak the sharper the 1 noise end the more serious the sound appears. Exhaust end gasket Teske usually can be discovered by blowing tobacco smoke around the part sus p eeted.