HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-05-16, Page 2Hospitable Friendly Havens
T Canadians
Ready for New
In the Past Year -;Over 36,000
Women. a1=d Children from
Imrnigr`aiiships Were
Wescott=ed and Assisted
M Red Cross Sea-
port Nurseries
By ANNE ANDERSON PERRY
the figure of that indefatigable young
nurse that It did not matter, These
seaport nurseries are a blessing to the
immigrant mother and her children,
as Well atl a great boon to the Cana
than immigration authorities in their
work." '
This account .gives the reader some
idea of the •Red Cross Nursery at its
busiest. But .it by no means exhausts
In a few weeks immigration tides its activities. In all cases where the
into Canada will be again at the frilL routine examination of immigration by
Already thousands of new Cauadians port doctors has disclosed the need
are pouring through Atlantic seaports of medical care for small ailments,
and with the reopening of navigation wounds or difficulties, these are sup -
on the St. Lawrence, the stream will plied by the nurses; cards—follow-up
take on the proportions ot an advane- —are given specific cases or to the
ing army. The immigration depart- parents to the health authorities, pub-
ment and newspapers, through Pre- h•c health nurses, or hospitals in the
quent bulletins, record, with gratiflea- districts where they are going and
tion, the increasing number of British mothers are carefully advised regard-
families coining out under the various ing how to maintain the health of
new colonization schemes and readers themselves and families.
rub their hands at. the thought of the Many mothers avail themselves of
vast wealth which these newcomers the "homey" services offered by the
wil produce in time, on our frontiers, modern laundries in the nurseries to
The wilds of New Ontario will yield to accomplish a general cleaning up
the harrow and the plough; the vast
Peace River country will become
settled; pioneers will harvest still
more golden grain In the Prairie Prov -
after the long sea voyage; food is sup-
plied and packed for the train journey
if it is found that the migrants have
come ill -supplied with food or cash;
inces, and more and more fruitlands and in many instances warm clothing
will yield their luscious returns, is given entire families if they have
But how often do we stop to con- come ill -clad to our cold Canadian
sider what the migration of families springs.
from one part of the world to the
other means in terms of human toll,
endurance, courage and actual suffer-
ing? These people, from Europe,
come from all that they have known
straight into the unknown. If you
picture what it would mean for your-
self some realization may come as to
what such an uprooting must mean
to the migrant and to his wife and
family.
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her of forward speeds thaa i the
conventional practice to -clay.
Then he turned to lieadlighting, Qt
this even the engineer hoe had much
to say and this motorist b not alone
when he looks into the future and
there sees snore satisfactory illutnluat•
lag equipment, Headlamps, he de•
glared, could well be made movabe so
as to direct their .rays where most
' needed in varying circumstances. He
would further have the headlights con- most salads; and thie. course now Ma
nested with the steering gear so that sidered essential at all times, this
common vegetable receives more pro,
Minence. In the old days, a .short row
at one side of the garden was put in
early in the spring,and, when that
was gone, or turned bitter, there was,
nothing more. In the modern garden
there is little excuse, for running out
of this store of vitainines. The ear-
liest lettuce is 'the leaf type. Grand
Rapids is the popular variety matur-
ing quickly, attaining large size, and
being crisp and tender. Next will-
come the first crop of head lettuce,
grown from plants that have been
Started indoors and later transferred
outside. When transplanting these,
many commercial gardeners have
found that growth is hastened and the
shock of moving lessened by putting
in a pinch of nitrate of soda with each
plant. Two of the best of the head
type are the Big Boston and Iceberg.
Two or three crops of head lettuce
can be taken off, if plantings are
spread Over several. weeks in the
spring, and the crop is thinned well
and hastened along withnitrate. BY
the lst of July, when the weather us-
ually turns warm, the first of the let-
tuce crops will begin to turn bitter or
go to seed. This is where the Cos or
Celery lettuce comes in. Cos is a dif-
ferent type from the head and leaf
sorts, producing long, rather narrow,
erect leaves that tend to fold over
each other and enclose and branch the
heart. This tendency is readily in-
creased by loosely tying up the heads
with raffia or string. Many epicures
believe the Cos lettu5s to be the
finest flavored and highest quality of
all the types. They stand heat bet-
ter than other lettuces and are always
crisp and delicate when freshly gath-
ered. The inner leaves bleach white
and the• outer leaves are a light green
and are tender and not strong as the
outer leaves of some head lettuces are.
Give the Cos lettuce a rich soil and
plenty of moisture Ti it happens to be
a dry season and it will make its long
slender heads with great regularity.
Care of the Lawn.
Early spring is the best time to at-
tend to the weeding of the lawn when
dandelions and plantains, the worst
pests, first get their start, and the
ground is soft, If they are removed
at this time, much trouble will be
saved later on when weeding is a hot-
ter and harder task. Weeding devices
are now sold which yank up taprooted
plants very handily and readily with-
out digging the lawn up sufficiently to
disfigure It. A few minutes each day
getting 'rid of troublesome weeds will
go a long way towards getting the
lawn into shape. Grass will run out a
great many of the weeds but plantain
and dandelion patches hold their own
against the best of sod. After weed-
ing, go over it with Brags geed ai
sprinkle it liberally where the weed
colonies have been dug out, rolling
the patches ;smooth or tramping them
down firmly, if no roller is available,
The new grass will soon fill up the
spaces, While the ground Is still soft
in the spring, the lawn should get a
thorough rolling, which will ensure a
get- velvety, level surface later on. At
this time too, the grass needs a stimu-
li,— lent, and an application of nitrate of
Soda, which is one of the most quick-
ly available fertilizers, will start
me those plants which have been injured
Ys? by the recent cold weather along the
it? highroad to health, Clippings of grass
you shoud be allowed to stay on the lawn,
and these provide a mulch, and will
not prove a disfigurement if the lawn
to is cut every four or Rve clays, as it
should be.
Such are the Seaport Nurseries,
which so efficiently function under the
expert management of Miss V. Tre-
maine, M.V.O., the chief of staff who
recently received from an English-
woman who landed in Canada last year
a grateful note, saying, "A year ago to
day we landed in Canada, to come to
this far West, and I wonder how many
times a day I think of your busy, com-
forting corner, and your kindness to
This is what the Canadian Red 1me and my two boys. Such good work
Cross did when it had the happy, hu- it is, for all of the strangers who come
manitarian thought of instituting its to this country."
Seaport Nurseries in Quebec, Saint Nor are the Government officials
John and Halifax over seven years less appreciative, for the Supervisor
ago. It planned these havens specially of the . Women's Division of the Ian-
for the reception, care and assistance
of mothers with children, but also with
an eye to the men, who on arrival on
our shores, could leave their loved
ones In the nurseries in absolute se 'grate if were not the encourage-
ingwhile they go about the press -matt f thered helpw not them at the
ing business of collecting luggage, and pentrts by the Red givenCross exfl a Nurseries."
attending to all the tasks of prepartion
for the long train travel to the West.
The nurseries are right at the docks
Garden Service
Every Cardener is Now Eisy
as a Nesting Robin—More
Hints on Timely Sub.
jects
Growing Lettuce:
With lettuce forming the base of
they would follow the front wheels
without having the whole car turn in
the direction the light Is needed most,
Streamlined
The color scheme he was willing to
leave to personal taste. He did, how-
ever, have something to says about
lines. His conception was that they
should be definitely streamlined so as
to offer as little ,wind resistance as
possible.
And at this point the comments of
Mororist No. 1 Iead right into those of
the second motorist consulted:
His ideal embodied `a sharp depar-
ture from accepted practice, although
in the light of a trend that already is
setting in it cannot be characterized
as being wholly bizarre. Let us zee
what its specifications comprise.
It would be, he said, a car having
two wheels in front and one in the
rear. This, of course, tallies with the
design of the cycle car built'abroad.
Next, 'it would utilize .:its power as a
front -wheel drive automobile. Here he
is merely in the forefront of the auto
motive procession as it now appears
to be moving along.
Then his comment became more
speculative. Brakes, he said, would
be mechanical and operating on the
fty wheel of the motor so as to insure
stopping , without wheel skids. The
specifications for this ideal car call
for no staiiting motor, no gears and no
clutch. Speed. would be determined
solely by the throttle setting. Light-
ing' consists of only a single lamp
mounted above the driver's bead and
throwing its beam at an angle to the
roadway. This motorist admitted that
his car would be a peculiar looking
vehicle, but his assertion was that it
would be easy to handle, economical
and efficient.
And Economy
Calling upon a third motorist chosen
at random from motordom's ranks, the
ideal car was summed up as one that
would be pre-eminently practical, Its
three principal characteristics were
advanced as beauty, performance and
economy: `-..
This motorist would preclude con-
stant change of contohr, so as to
achieve a stabilized beauty.
The third Ideal car would be a
closed model of the four -door sedan_
type and it would be colored. Since
there is a variety of color schemes
available to suit a varying iudivid ual
taste, . this motorist would have his
car dressed in different hues. His par-
ticular choice was a rich tone of dark
green, blue or sand. He viewed" a rear
trunk as a necessity.
SOME CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION LEADERS
Fully cognizant of the part they must play to maintain the record of pro-
gress of the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, August 23rd to September •
7th, the gentlemen pictured herewith have gone into their various tasks with
characteristic enthusiasm. Agriculture and its allied industries will be
strongly emphasised, as usual, and "Empire `ear" unquestionably will sur -
migration Department recently stated pass all its predecessors. The two weeks' program, quite aside from its
that she "did not know how the wo- agricultural phases, will be one of deep and diversified interest.
men and children would be able to
withstand some of the hardships they
have to go through when they emi-
How to Know Your Car
and near the railway terminals. They You'll find that the engine is Winder
are in charge of trained nurses, but the hood,
also command the services of many And there it is properly ,fixed; ;
volunteer women of the port cities The water and oil, it is well under -
who gladly assist in this interesting stood,
work of, welcome for our new Cana- Should not be allowed. to get mixed.
dians. The tires should always have plenty
The welcome is not official at the of air,
Seaport Nursery. It concerns not As any beginner can see;
masses but individuals. It is the open, And while you're about it put some in
friendly door, the hearty greeting the the spare,
breaking of bread, the offering of help It's all you will get that is free.
and the interested speeding on the
way of one woman by another. It is The work to be done when you drive
the proof that "'somebody cares." Last a machine
year from 466 immigrant ships there Depends on your feet very much;
were received in the Nurseries nearly You step on the brake—if you know
37,000 women and children, and since
they came into operation some 163,431
people have passed happily within
their wide open, hospitable and home-
like doors, where every kind of neigh-
borly help is given the guests.
For the Nurseries are equipped
with all kinds of appliances and con-
veniences to carry on their work.
Feeding bottles, bathtubs, baby cots,.
lounges, lavatories, laundries chairs,
tables, clothing supplies, and the
steaming tea urn all contribute to
their general usefulness.
"I saw a big sign, 'Red Cross
Nurseries,'" says C. B. Robertson in
describing scenes witnessed last sum-
mer at Quebec after the • docking of a
big liner, "and I wandered in. Two
nurses were there in a big, sunny
room with many brilliantly colored
Mother Goose pictures on the walls.
There were some couches on which
tired mothers were resting their
weary bones and a score of white
enamelled cots with immaculate sheets
and blankets for the babies. Little
pioneering Canadians, dozed or cooed
in the cots. Older children sat at
kindergarten tables and mangled buns
and solemnly drank milk, Mothers.
sat .in comfortable chairs and sipped
tea or coffee' from the big steaming
urns while the nurses, who "seemed
to have a score of hands apiece, min-
istered to the whole crowd and chatted
In foreign tongues at will.
"'How many languages do you
speak"?' I asked a young nurse. 'Only
French German and Yiddish;' she re -
Motorists' Vision
the "Ideal" Car!
Random But Typical Are
Comments and Hopes
From Drivers
BORN OF EXPERIENCE
Build in Fancy , Aut9mobile
• Which Owners Would
Drive Some Day
What about the ideal car?
Is there any motorist wha has not.
visioned himself at the wheel of the
automobile of the future?
What would it look like, if the aver -
age motorist, so-called, were to wiit? specification advanced is that the ideal
the The e ng neer an e car should be a nmiticylinder one. It
engineer and the designer, have is not surprising, because the engineer
already has visioned the automobile of
the future as one having eight. twelve
or even sixteen cylinders. This first
motorist 1N anted power and flexibility
even beyond. the consummate degree
to which these characteristics have
been developed. He asked for speed
so that his ideal car would be capable
of making 70 or 80 miles an hour with-
out difficulty.
The Speed Limits
A trusting soul? Perhaps, but with
express highways and double-checked
streets in the ailing, who would say
that he is hoping to exceed speed
limits when in, all probability speed
limits away be removed under proper
conditions some years hence?
His next stipulation was a trans-
mission equipped with a greater num-
The motorist's opinions, ,gathered at
random, however, go beyond mere re-
finement ot the car of to -day. One
finds him going into the field of in-
vention and unusual design for his
ideas and evolving in some instances
a somewhat novel vebicle. And yet, it
is not so very novel, if one has kept
abreast of the trend toward intro-
ducing the bullet -type, emphatically
streamlined car that is to -day bidding
for popular favor.
Speculations
There it interest to the speculations
of the average motorist, without any
attempt to endow him with the pre-
cision and attention to practicabilitY
Let us then summon a few typical
thinking motorists and put the ques-
tion to them. -
It is not surprising that the first
what I mean, given the motoring public their an -
And do the same thing to the swers to the question insofar as the
clutch. present is concerned, and the result is
You step on the starter to get it to, the Rue, sturdy automobile of to -day.
go, There is no doubt that they too are
Then step an the gas for the speed; looking fax into the future, but they
A,feilow can drive with one hand, as necessarily must proceed with can-
yon know, tion before giving voice to their
But feet are a primary need. . thoughts..
The tank is a box like a flattened out
cube,
The gas you put in it is wet;
Don't think that because every shoe
has a tube
It must be a radio set.
Of course, there are many more things
to be learned,. • .,,
But these fundamentals, as suck,
Are very important and not to be
spurned;
Some drivers don't know half as
much.
George S. Osborne,
Learning to Earn
"No boy should pass his sixteenth
birthday without a definite decision as
to his vocation in lite", said J. J. Kelso
in an interview recently. In every
community there are strong, sturdy
boys who do not take kindly to the
usual school curriculum. They want
greater activity and exercise for their
muscles, instead of their brains, -fin-
less this Is provided they will drift
,away and simply work at odd jobs
without any definite knowledge of a
i " 'buttrade. Such boys 'would be liappy
plied rather shamefacedly, I am
studying Russian too: Here she and satisfied if they were assisted in
dashed across the room to give a small fitting themselves for employment in
boy a colorful scrapbook and to place some well-established industry. Our
in the eager arms of a tiny girl, a experience is that neglect to train
dell, then back again to the coffee these boys for • industry leads to many
urn ``- fine lads drifting into the criminal
"'Where do these'things ,come class.
from?' asked I, indicating the gifts,
Driver Learns Much
The man who drives an automobile,
on the other hand, has learned mtieb
from his motoring experiences. Given
a free hand, what would he say if the
Alladin lamp were placed in his
hands?
'His comment, naturally, would be
predicted on a comparison with the
automobile as he knows it and with
conditions which he senses. will exist
some years hence.
•
"Did the bootlegger succeed in
ting a cellar to work it?"
"He was only partly successf
he got a cell to work in,"
Neighbor: Say, will you lend
your clarinet for a couple of da
Neighbor: Yes, can you play
Neighbor: No and neither can
while I've got it.—Life.
The woman who drives a man
drink has no need of a whip.
'The Junior Red 'Cross youngsters and South Africa's Swelled Head
their mothers supply most of them,' London Truth: The recent policy of
she replied, 'and the I,O,D.E. help a Great Britain towards the Dominions.
lot. They are not all. new, but. they has been taken in South Africa.' as a
mean mueh to the mothers end the confession of weakness. That conn-
blessed kids.' try was' no financial loser' by the
"Isere she hurried to the door, took: Great War, thanks mainly to its post•
a baby from the arms of a tired -look -tion as the largest gout -producing
ing mother hushing its cries, eased country in the world, and since the
the parent, a hefty -looking lady, into Armistice, it ]yes profited consider -
the biggest chair, gave her a cup et ably by the large influx of +,� ell-to•cla:
tea, and for a moment stood, her face l3ritisb settlers, who have in many
beaming with goodwill and the baby cases bought etul improved land which
Still in her awns, beneath the banner was' previously itnclevsi pm,, ♦ „ The
stretched across the •room: 'The result Is that the country, as rs'prs•
Canadian Red Cross Welcomes You, septet"( by its present leaders, is suf-
rlia nI those folks couldn't all read Tering from swollen head .arid Its;
Pe p
the words on the bunting, but the politicians are behaving .like spoilt
lain. in hillren
`spirit of that message was ser p. a n c i t re .
Who Wouldn't Love to Have
One of These
e
THIS BRIGHT, LITTLE FAMILY OF' PUPPIES 15 WO RTH A Lo -r OF MONEY
Frisky family of Great Dane poppies basking in the waren rays of spring sun. 't'hey are thoroughbreds
champion stock and are aniong the most valuable assets of ,Mrs. ltauke'S kennels at South Nuffield,
Annual. Larkspurs
The Annual Larkspur, now very
much improved, will provide a wealth
of cutting material and is valuable in
the regular Rower beds as well. These
plants are not particular as to soil,
and thrive in poor quarters and even
in the shade, but at their best in full
sun and rich loom. It is necessary to
give this flower an application of limo
once in a while during idle growing
season. Give annual larkspurs at
least Six .itches each way in the bed,
If you cut the terminal spike as soon
as expanded, and d slot allow seed to
form, the blooming season will be
greatly lengthened. It should be sown
where it is to bloom as it does not
take readily to transplanting. -
WITH INTENT TO KILL
Judge; 'Officer, what is the charge
against this lady; Mrs. Newlywed? ,
Officer: 'Assault with intent to kill, ),
your honor.
Judge; What constituted the RS.;.
saint? - ?'
Officer She threw the Rrst cake
she baked at her husband because
be wouldn't eat it, your honor.
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