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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-04-25, Page 2LIMERICK CORNER The Contest Is Closed For the time being, the contest is closed, X+ a"Mowing is a very interesting letter from Miss Mettle Rabb of Palmerston, Ontario, offering some suggestions for a ;Future contest: -- Palmerston, April 9th, 1929. Gentlemen :—Accept hearty thanks for the Dollar I received yesterday, April 8th, being prize in "Limerick Contest". I see by last week's 'Palmerston Spectator" that the Contest is .closed,. Y think it was a splendid feature and would liked to have seen it continued for awhile longer. A real good contest is a Picture Title Contest, prizes to be given for the most clever or original title. You could give, say, several prizes each week ranging from 65 to $1 or whatever amount you saw fit to give. lst, 2nd and 3rd prizes, and then say five of one dollar each. Allow each con- iestant to submit three titles each week if they wish. Nothing to be ;written on the post card but the titles and name and address, have no strings or restrictions attached, simply that each person drying the contest must write their titles on a post card and send in up to a certain date each week, this is really an excellent con- test, lots of fun and interest is aroused in it, or another good nne is to have the four lines of a limerick printed on a certain article and the contestant is to supply the last (fifth) line, and prizes to be given for the best last lines. Another good contest is to have some certain line of goods in an advertisement and a certain phrase in double quotation marks will be in these ads and the contestant is to pick out the phrase in the ads and then make up rhymes. or jingles on the product or firm represented and for the best jingles or rhymes prizes to be given each week. Any of these contest are good. I would very much like to see spme one of therm continued for a time. If there are any instructions or more Information I could give you in regards these contests I would be pleased to do so. I remain yours Respectfully, (Miss) Mattie, Rabb, Box 113, Palmerston, Ont.. We will be glad to hear from those. who have taken part in the contest just closed or have enjoyed reading Limerick Corner. Let us know what you think of Miss Rabb's suggestions or send along some of your own. Editor, Limerick Corner, Associated Publishers, 73 Adelaide Bt. West, Rooms 421-5, Toronto 2, Ont. Following are a few more prize winning libericks:— Wrigley's Gum There was a sweet maiden of Ket- ter, Whose nerves were to her as a fet- ter, But after each meal A. few minutes she'd steal, To chew Wrigley's, which made her feel better. T. T. Ferguson, Bancroft, Ont. Big Ben Tobacco Big Ben is tobacco supernal, Perfection unto the last kernel, Its flavour's assured For it's perfectly cured, As you learn from the ad, in this journal. D. A. Macintosh, Dornoch. Ont. The She She And For Christie's Biscuits wisest of brides is my Daisy. cares not if folks say she's lazy, serves Christie's Biscuit says she will risk it housekeeping now is made "aisy." Mrs. A. D. O'Malley, R.R. No. 1, Wallacetown, Ont. Swift's Breakfast Bacon Said she, "When a boarder 1 take on, I want food I cau make no mistake on." So each morning at eight, Never one minute late, She serves slices of Swift's Break- fast Bacon. Mrs. L. E. Clement, R.R. No. 2, Maple, Ont. Ogilvie's Flour There was a trim dame of Glo- bower, Whose friends said, "Wherein lies your power To make such good buns From the crust to the crumbs?" She replied, "I use 3g`•lvie's Flour." Miss Jessie L. Pomainbille, Box 168, Buckingham, Que. Minard's Liniment An old man with pains in his kneeses, Said "Maw can do just as she pleases, But Per me I'm content With `Minard's Liniment,' To cure all my aches and diseases. Mrs.. Jerry Connor, 224 Arthur St., Oshawa, Ont. Sun ,Life insurance Quoth Susan, "Pray list to niy ditty, Should you miss the good news 'twere a pity. If your life you'd insure, Then the 'Sun Life' procure Whether 1iv'ng in c untry or city." Mrs. Lida E. Robb, Palmerston, Ont. Palmolive Soap If you're pining /or someone's af- .ection, Want beauty in all its perfection, Want beauty in all its perfection. Use Palmovile Soap And then you may hope To keep that sweet schoolgirl com- plexion. Mrs. Miln, Beamsville, Ont. Bon Ami There was an old woman cable 1 Maisie, Who cleaned till she drove her man. crazy. She said, "Bon Ami' is a good friend th me, It makes the house fresh as a daisy." Mrs: Miln, Beamsville, Ont. The Director of Colonization. With a view to promote immigra- tion, Is offering men From mountain and glen. Now farmers, please make appli- cation. Miss Effie McCormick, Parkhill, Ont. rt Glastonbury's Ancient Past Excavations at the Abbey Ruins in Somerset Are Ex- pected to 'Tell More of the Churches of Saxon Times in *England By. CL AIR PRICE In .New York Times Magazine Work on the excavations at Glas- tonbury Abbey, which produced such interesting results last year, is to be, resumed as soon as the weather per- mits. There is probably no monastic Bite in Britain which offers the arch- aeologist a more promising field than thla birthplace of British Christianity, 'Through history and legend it traces back to the Romans, and for nearly. 1,900 years Christianity has been preached there. , No spot in England is more reverenced. Joseph. of Arimathea, according to the ancient legend, founded there the. first church in Britain and with his own hand buried the Holy Grail in the near -by Cliallice Hill. On Weary- All earyAll Hill ho planted his pilgrim'as'staff and It took root and grew into. the Holy Thorn which blossomed miracu- lously every Christmas eve until it was cut down by one of the Puritans. its original site is now marked by a 'cracked gray slab deep In the grass of the hill. The inscription on It, A." (presumably Joseph of Arima- thee) r'AI1n, t Xi:XXI," Is still legible, aft 'dthe garden of the Glastonbury Of t e*tisty lute filled With the descend. o. earn Canadian Farming AN admiral'e son and one of the "Young Ambassadors of the Empire", the latter having visited Canada last year with the British "Young Ambassadors" Party were amongst recent arrivals, at Hali- fax, of juvenile Britons coming to Canada for farm work. The admiral's son 'wee Edward G. B. Kiddle (right),. son of Ad- miral Sir Charles' Kiddle, R.N., and the "Young Ambassador" was Frederick T. Mace. .(left), who 1 completed a correspondence course in Canadian farming and who has proceeded to Winnipeg for place- ment. The boys were among a party of 125 arriving on the Cunarder "Ascania" and who travelled west- ward over the lines or the Canadian National Railways. Their place- ments were handled under the auspices of the 'British Immigra- tion and Colonization Association. At, invasion In the eighth century King Ina built the first great church on the spot, but it was spoiled' during the Danish invasion. St. Dunstan revived it about 946, but it burned soon after his completion of it. Henry II then began the great minster whose ruins still exist. It was one of the largest Benedictine houses in Britain when Henry VIII and the Reformation over; took it. The monks were then dispos- sessed, their abbot was hanged and their deserted buildings were left to become a stone quarry for the dis- trict. To -day, when you pay your six- pence at the gate, you pass into a still and bautiful area of lawns and orchards whose weathered ruins are all that is left of the cradle of British Christianity. The excavations which are now in progress are being carried out at the west end of the ruined nave. Their object has been to reveal the Saxon churches, which are known to Ile at -some depth below the present grass level, and it is now hoped that the coming season's work will succeed in uncovering the cloister which St. Dun- stan added to King Ina's eighth cen- secured on the top of it. was dis- tury church. This, if it is found, covered. will be of great archaeological *pro- When the slabs had been removed, ance as the earliest monastic clolster it 'was found to be completely filled with the bones of about seventeen per.' sons, carefully arranged and tightly packed, the large hones sloping from the ends toward the middle and the middle space filled with the entailer bones. Eight skulls were found in the west end of the coffin and It is be- lieved that originally there may have been more. The bones were so clean and in such excellent condition that it is thought they could never have been buried in earth but were probably the bones of the early Saxon abbots who were buried In Ina's church and were moved out of the way, perhaps to a place of honor before the altar, when Dunstan erected his additions. In several places, at a level a little higher in the earth than the Saxon floors, were found the remains of a stone floor which showed signs of burning and which had molten lead in the joints of its -stonework. These 'floors are thought to have belonged to the church begun by the second of the Norman abbots, which burned down in 1184, probably taking with it what remained of the Saxon buildings. Several discoveries of minor interests were made last year, among them some carved stones dating from the eighth and tenth centuries and some ants of the original thorn which still blossom at Christmas time. The most famous of these descendants is now the very old, decrepit and propped -up tree whichstands just inside the en- trance to the abbey ruins. Fragmentary though its present re- mains are, "holy Glastonbury" is the richest' store of mediaeval legend to England. Knights in search of the Holy Grail have reined in their chargers there. Queen Guinivere walked among the bluebells. King Arthur died there and many of the old kings were buried there. The holiest spot of all its sacred ground is the area enclosed by the remains of St. Joseph's Chapel, for this was built "over and around" Joseph's original church of mud and wattles "which is truly to be reckoned," as Henry II declared in a charter of 1184, "the source and origin of all religion in England." To this day the place ap- pears to retain some of its properties of mystery, for In 1908 and again in 1919 the points at which some'of;its excavators began digging were indi- cated to them, with apparent accuracy, through the medium of atttonia,tic writing. A For twenty yeare the site has be-' longed to the Church of England. In the heart of Somerset, about 120 miles west of London, It Is administered by thtdiocese of Wells. The ruins above ground go back only to the twelfth century, by which time the legends of the place had merged into history,'-- possibilities. The modern immigrant it typified In the seven girls photo. Joseph's original mission was Main- tamed atter lits death by a little bawl p ° gra iced above tivin were recent arrivals on the Canadian Pacific Duchess' of Richmond, Their future as dotnesties in the city of Toronto was assiired of anchorites who worked urttll the e comfortable uarters they occupied fifth century when a certain St, Pat• before they lett their hoines, and the q . .. on the regal Atlantic vessel was a long cry from the accommodation they rick retired from hts work to litritd g a monasterj'' there, Aftelr the Saxon must have endtli•ed had they been but ono generation earlier, still greater parts of this must have church. The eastern church, it is believed, been standing when Malmesbury wrote, but he makes no mention of them and no date of the completion of this building has ever been found. It .is known, however,' that both the new church and the ancient wooden church burned down in 1184 and the present ruins owe their origin to the rebuilding which followed that disaster. Last year's excavations, carried down to a depth of about five feet below the present grass level, re- vealed the eastern parts of King Ina's church with additions which are thought to have been those made by Dunstan. A considerable area of the red plaster floor of Ina's church was uncovered and the remains of Dun- stan's buildings were found to enclose crypt or burial chamber which ap- peared to have been of an earlier date thr t Dunstan and to have been filled in when his additions were made. Where there had once been steps lead- ing down into the crypt, a stone coffin, lying east and west, with stone _slabs which has been revealed anywhere in Britain. Glastoonbury is fortunate .in pos- sessing in William of Malmesbury's history an eyewitness's account of its early buildings as they stood before they were destroyed by the ruthless abbots of the Norman period. This is a distinction which it shares only with St. Augustine's iu Canterbury. and the result of it is that excavators at Glastonbury have more evidence on which to direct their work than ex- cavators at any other monastery in the country. William of Malmesbury lived as a monk at Glastonbury and from 1125 to 1130 devoted himself to a study of the ahhey's records and traditions. In his time the ancient wooden church which is believed to have dated from the sixth century was still standing and King Ina's stone church almost joined it on the east. Malmesbury says that St. Dustan lengthened Ina's church considerably and added a tower arid aisles. The first. of the Norman abbots began builtl'iug a new and greater church, but he made so little progress that at his death in 1101 his successor destroyed what he had built and began another and a fragments of painted Plaster, cue niece lelevada. Cave being also modelled in relief, All tri these came from a position beneath the floor of the Norman Church, Inde, eating that In all probability they be- longed either to King Ilia's or Dun stairs Saxon buildings, Tlie plan of Dunstan's buildings has Research by the University of California Dating Back 17 Years Discloses What Is Believed to Be Habitat of People Known as "Tule Eaters" San Francisco, Calif.—l+lvidenees of a pre -historic tribe of Indians, dating back almost 3000 years, has been die- ccvered in a cavern in Nevada, accord. Jag to announcement by anthrc: pubo gists of the University < of California. Tho cave and its contents, teemed cn the slopes of Humboldt MotuttaIns Britain May Have in the semi -desert stretches of west - central Nevada have been the subjects . inflater of pOir since 1912, It was revealed. 'Me pee - of an investigation by the university ple who inhabited the cave were known as "tub eaters," according to the university's announcement. Many possessions of the ancient people were found in the cave, pre• served by the dry Nevada climate in a state comparable with that of nia. aerial found in Egypt and Peru. Shows Indians Art 3,000 Years Old still to be revealed, and this is the task which the excavators have set themselves for the corning season's work. They believe he added a clois- ter to Ina's church and this, If it can be traced this year, will be regarded by archaeologists as the crowning achievement of the Glastonbury exca- vations. A joint committee of the Society of Antiques and the Somerset Archaeological Society is carrying on the excavations, with C. R. Peers, chief inspector of ancient monuments, in command at the site. "Play Up and Play the Game" Assumes Importance in British Eyes The latest suggestion is that there should be a Minister for Sport. There is no doubt that sport has grown to such an extent that it is a main part I The age of the oldest deposits has of life's week -end. There are many' been worked out by M. R. Harrington ministers in sport, writer Dixie Dean I of the Museum rf the American ln- in the London, Eng., Chronicle. [(Han on the basis oft the workmanship 1 met one famine man of the, shown in the hasketware and. other "coat" down in Wales, a real fighting artifacts, which is comparable with parson if you like, and I always ad- the earlier ages of the web -known tribes of the southwest. In some places deposits in the cave measured 14 feet deep. Commenting upon the discoveries of the university at the Lovelock cave Prof. A. L. Kroeber eaid: "The preservation conditions in Lovelock cave are unusually favor- able, recalling those of Egypt and Peru and being equalled at only a very few sites discovered in North America. Tho material was wholly pre -Caucasian. It was obvious on casual inspection that the ancient cut• ture represeated had strong relations with the native culture of Calitortria in histoirc times. "The material secured was there tore of morethan local interest. it. gave a picture more or less coeval and cognate– with that of the shell - mound -dwellers and other ancient peo- ple in California, but far fuller and more vivid because of richness in whole series of objects such as bas- kets and wooden implements of which only tl, i barest traces, if any, remain in most archaeological sites. • '.'Further, there were evident deli nite similarities with ancient material from Southwest sandals, woven bags, spear -throwers, and the like." mired him for his vicarage ways. He was a thoroughly interesting man. But we are not talking so much of ministers of religion as the minister associated with government. No one can deny that footb: has come through its royal road through its magnificent management, and that if a Minister Is necessary he must of necessity have a big holding in foot- ball affairs. for, talk as you like about golf, cricket` and what -not, football is the greatest of all games, commands the greatest crowds, is incessant in its whirl of appeal; has no superior even i nthe racing game with its Derby and Grand National—and still it grows. Game Still Growing It is true that there has been talk of an or'' club here and there giving up through lack of support, but where one drops out four others will rise and aek for the ple-sure 1." being Inthis chase for points and rounds. No, football is growing every` year all over the globe. Tours In foreign lands have helped to spread the gos- pel of football, and t"s mir-cle, to 'y mind, is the fact that .the game has not gone out of bounds, like some of our .mighty golf drives which have length and no special direction, • The Arsenal wound up our season when I had the pleasure of getting three goals and making a record for the English League oZ 60 goals. Times have changed, you will .al-. mit; I will join yon in the admittance! Now the Arsenal seem to have fought like real giants against the famous Aston club. Time was pressing. There were three minutes to go and there had been two "netting" cases, neither being allowed. One can imagine the joy and the sorrow chas- ing each other in successive seconds when the referee said "No," The handshakes had been hearty and the eyes gleamed with delight. Then a 'finger pointed even more em- phatically than a point duty P.C. And it did not point to the centre; it point- ed to a free kick for a case of off -side. These are moments when a. foot- baller has feelings of fear, fretfulness, joy all running into each other peli- nvell. Immigrants The word immigrant has loota great deal of its old significance In this country. Once it described one who was escaping from a life of suffering and hardship to an unknown land of freedom but of uncertain opportunities Strong Measures Quebec Soleil (Lib.) : That the powerful and peace -loving Uncle Sam should have fired seventy shells at a schooner which he merely believed to he carrying .;ontraband is a bit thick. One man died, failing under the bom- bat'dfnent, but all of them might have been blit by the shells. Are the Uni- ted States going to renew the exploits of the German submarines and cruisers to se.. that no illicit rtade goes on with their people? The high action of the Dexter has more than a touch of cowardice about it; it Is a fine , piece of work to open up with your guns on an -unarmed schooner which cannot put up any defense, and whose only apparent crime is refus- ing to surrender on demand. GROWING ' CUCU MBERS. The old method of growing cumuli- hers ucumhers in hills is not necessarily the best way of raising this crop. At the Brandon, Manitoba, Experhnental Farm, cucumbers were grown both in rows and in hills. The result showed. the row method' to be much superior. According to the Report of the Super, intendent for 1028, published by the Dept.` of Agriculture' at Ottawa, when the hill pito was followed the hills weremade six feet apart each way. When the row system was introduced the rows were put four -feet apart and the plants thinned to a reasonable dis- tance. The crops from an area of two hundred square feet amounted to 153 fruits from the rows and 52 from the hills. These results were obtained with the variety called Davis Perfect. The contrast was about equally great with the variety Long Green from which 168. -fruits were obtained from the tows and only pit from -the hills. On of the advantages of the row system appears to be that the tows suffer less in the spring from the winds than those in the hills. Sandpipers 0 little pipers of the sandy shore, Why do you love tlie waves that cease- less beat? It is, perchance, a seined the waters make; A lullaby crooned to you o'er and o'er! You trail your little caravan befere The stormy tides whose spear -points shake In rushing wrath! You go your way; you take Your quiet course although the surges rotir! You know a sunny cove where bluets are And sedges blowing in the winds of May; A haven where you hear the breakers beat! And there :'ou brood beneath the oe"dan-star; You hide unmindful of thee mournful way Tho tides are calling for your truant feat! Leslie Clare Manchester. Canadians in the U.S. La Presse and.): (The new Ameri can immigration law will compel a great number of Canadians to return to Canada.) Our old ,Province of Quebec is prosperous enough to -day to keep our children at home and to welcome back those who regret that they have left it. To those who do not find in agricultural work the ideal existence which they desire, Indus- trial life offers enticing prospects, good wages and permanent employ meat. It is noteworthy to -day that working conditions in the Province of Quebec are better than in the matte - featuring centres of New England. Repatriation agents are well 'aware of this and will not lose this opportunity of bringing this vital point to the notice' of those interested. TOO CLOSE TO THE GATTeWst "I was , shoeked by tonne things ltt. lower New xorlc," "You. 'Mast have ;often to close O. the Bat' ere,"