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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1941-12-25, Page 7HLP FOR RUSSIA Valentine tanks built at the route to the Russian battlefield. Canadian Pacific Angus Shops en HOW CAN 1? - BY ANNE ASHLEY What is a good fertilizer for a tern? .0.. Try using a solution of eight parts of radium chloride, four parte potassium nitrate, and two parts magnesium. Mix thoroughly and put into bottle. Dissolve one teaspoonful of this solution in a Quart o+f water and water the fern about once a week. Q. How can I prevent squeaking ®asters in my furniture? A. Before inserting the casters, d* the shanks into vaseline and then slip them into place, This sot only prevents squeaks, but also greatly facilitates the rolling of Vie furniture. Q. How can I prevent syrup from darning back into sugar? A. The turning back to sugar cau tit avoided when making syrup, if, when it is coming to a bail, one- third teaspoon cream of tartar is added to every two cups of sugar used. Q. How can I clean corduroy? A&. Use pure white soap and warm soapy water when washing corduroy. Plunge the goods 'ep and down; rinse several times in clear water. Do not wring; hang up Inside out, (kipping wet, to dry. Do not iron, but use a brush widen dry (only one way of the cloth) to smooth the nap. Q. What is a good home remedy Sor relieving a cough? A. A mixture of honey and lemon Juice will often prove effective. Butter in hot milk, taken before re- tiring, will eaae the throat and in- duce a pleasantly drowsy feeling. MODERN ETIQUETTE BY ROBERTA LEE 1. What is the proper way to speak into a telephone? k. Should salads always be cut and eaten with the fork? Y. What kind of place -cards should be used at the bridal table to indicate where the guests are to sit? 4. What are some of the expre- salons salespeople in stores should avoid using? 5. Is it ever permissible for the hostess to sit at the aide of the dinner table? 6. What is the correct pronun- ciation of "decollete" and what doea it mean? ANSWERS 1. Talk directly into the nlouth- Ipfece with your lips not more than half an inch away. Each ince that you add between your lips and the mouthpiece is equal to adding 120 wire miles to the distance your voice must travel. Use a full, natural tone, and take care to pronounce each word clearly and distinctly. Don't talk too loudly, se this may cause the words to blur in transmission, 2. All salads are eaten with the fork. If hard hearts of lettuce are served and they cannot be managed with a fork, it Ls permissible to cut them with the knife. 8. Pain white cards, embossed with the bride's initials. 4. Such phrases as "Look here," or "Say now!" to attract one's at- tention. And slang phrases such. as "0. K., "Sure," and "All righty." 6. No; she abeuld always sit at th. foot of the table. 8. pronounce da-kol.-ta, both a's as in day, o as Su of, accent last syllable. It is a French word that means "leav- ing the neck and shoulders luicor*- ereel." Clean Sweep Revenue war mounting nicely at the benefit turkey shoot when t1 armed man strolled up aiid Waited to ;Hord what sant oil« three e explained that a osacs .x pl D tivarkeys Anda cos. �trere being 1ven away, All you had to de cries suit the birds' heads bobbing a box 90 yards away—at dime a shot. The uniformed Men r+ad he would try fifty cents worth. St fired four times, picked up three turkeys and the goose and went home without asking for hie dime isbange. The sponsors also -went laonie. Have You Heard ? Having extended her visit long- er than she meant to, the old lady was going home after dark—and it was dark.. Presently in spite of all her care, she bumped into a dimly -seen inan and they both crashed on the pave- ment. At once" the man was all apologies. "So sorry," he murmured. "Gare - less of me. Let me help you up. So sorry," "Never mind all that," returned the old lady, eurtly, "Will you please tell me which way I was facing before I was knocked down." —v— Some gulls were following, a ferry boat. An Irishman said. "Nice flock of pigeons." A tourist Insisted: "Those are gulls." "Well," said the Irishman, "gulls or boys, they're s fine flock of pigeons." —v— A new system of memory train- ing was being taught in a village school and the teacher was be- coming enthusiastic. "For instance," he said, "suppos- ing you want to remember the name of a poet Bobby Burns. Fix in your mind's eye a picture of a policeman in flames, See Bobby Burns ?" "Yes, I sees," said a bright. pupil. "But how 1s. one to know it does not represent Robert Browning?" An optimist and a pessimist were defined by a speaker at a meeting in Falkirk the .other day as follows; "An opianist Is a man who sees a tight that isn't there, and a pessimist Is the fool who tries to blow It out." —v— Hitler was interviewing his troops and stopped to talk to .one private. "11. ,r are things with yen?" he asked. "Oh, I can't complain, sir," an- swered the .soldier. "1'11 say you can't," agreed the Fuehrer. Wife: "You "You kissed the staid, you kissed the maid, you kiss- ed the maid." Hubby: "You don't have to repeat it so many times." Wife: "You didn't have to repeat it so many times eith- er." The man, hearing of a position open In another city, wired the following message, direct and col- lect; "Am on way to accept the posi- tion stop deduct cost of this tele- gram from my fust week's salary." He got the job, --v— Teacher: "Name the five zones," Pupil: "Temperate, Intemp- erate, war, postal and ed" IGV:hat Science Is Doirg WHAT SCIENCE IS pOINVG7 SNEEZES Professor M, W, Jennison of the Massachusetts lestltute of Tedi- nology has been investigating the "velocity of sneezes," reports •Tile Halifax Herald, The professor used a camera in Ms research work, and his findings, just published, are worthy oi' note. In a "good, 1'.ull-bodied sneeze" thousands of particles, he assures us, leave the mouth in much the same Manner as pellets leave tee • muzzle of a shotgun, with a vel- ocity of 150 feet a second, `Tile moisture of them quickly evapor- ates, and the germ -laden particles are left wandering, about • in the air looking for somebody to infect:. —v— SOY-BEAN HELMETS • The Soybean Products Labor- atory of the Department of Agri- culture and the cotton .`specialists of the Southern Regional tteseart;li Laboratory have jointly developeU' a plastic helmet out .of heavj''.. cotton cloth and soybeans, Object;'.; To protect the heads of :nine:* and workers on construction j(i .ix' from falling material. The new: helmets are lighter, than the e ' metal kind hitherto used. Ile they are strong enough to pet Wows up to forty pounds, ' Is about all that the human ud � can stand. —v— SELF-HEATING Popular Science tells of cans tb.at heat themselves. The cans are double, with a chemical be- tween the walls that heats on con tact with air. Turn a can over, punch four holes, and let stand about fifteen minutes. The result will be piping hot, ready -to -serve spaghetti, beans, or coffee. Nearly 2,500.000 tons; of rice wa5 shipped from Burma' "in eight. months. Speaks For British Dina. Ye Hear The Highlanders? Scottish Battalions, Bagpipes and All, Take Part In Libya Fight While regimental anollyaiity is still observed with regard to the Battle of Libya, it is learned in- directly that thele are Highland- ers in the fray. As a matter of fact the's'e have been Scottish battal- ion§ in all the North Africa cam- paigns dowu as far as Ethiopia. It is in this great struggle in Libya, however, that the presence of the Scots has become known through incidental reference to the bag- pipes. - A.despatch fom Cairo in the mid- dle 'of last week stated that be- tween lulls in the gunfire, the sound of the bagpipes could be heard putting fresh heart into their ,comrades. A lately despatch told of the joy with which a Highland regiment heard the skirl of the pipes coming from up in front. d'b.at was a pre -arranged signal that a ' eertain point had been cap- tured. Colors In Action In olden days bands used to play the regiments into action. The ,- eolor1 of the regliuent were carried iii file fight too, and the music and 'the colors were. great sources of Inspiration. When these customs were abolished, the bandsmen eith- er went into action, too, or acted as stretcher-bearers. It seems, however, that the 8cots' pipers go into action 'still, to inspire and encourage thein com- rades. Scots are stirred by the story of the capture of the heights el 14argai • during the Chitra cans paign in northwest India in 1897, the hero of which Pipes. James Findlater of the Gordon Highland- ers; ighland-ers; is still living, and visited rela- tives in Canada a fear years ago. Twice, English regiments had at- tempted -to storm the heights, but were, driven back by a withering fire. :Then Colonel Mathias rode up to his men and said: "The gen- eral says that hill Must be taken. The Gordons will take it." Twice Piper Find]ater was shot going up the isill, bait rrrofrping blarsself against a. boulder he played "The Cock o'.the North," and thus inspir- ed, the Gordons took the hill. Find - later was awarded the Victoria Cross. • Pipes Give Warning - Probably Scottish men est mar men have a sharp ear for the sound of the pipes. When the Brit- ish garrison of 30, together with a few civilians, were besieged in Lueknow for Pour months, they had ' almost given up hope and were.re- signe JO massacre; when the wife. of one of the `'Scottish ao1deere - suddenly leaped to her feet and cried: "Dinna ye hear them; donor:ls ye hear them? The Highlands are oomin'." Nobody seise did but in a few minutes • the pipes were plainly heard and a column of Highland- ers soon.arrived causing the Sepoys to flee.. Perhaps' there is no sound the Italians ,and Germans more dread. to hear on the field than the bag- pipes. It • warns them that not .only the Campbells are corrin' but all ,the. rest of the Scotties, Submarine Officers Under Great Strain Submarine officers often have ridges across their finger nails, each ridge being caused by a sep- arate period of mental strain, ac- cording to Charles Graves, in a book entitled "Life Line," just published' in London. White hair and baldness are also found among captains of subma- rines. Baldness cannot be caused by nervousnetee but white hair can, he says. It is not unusual for a submariner's hair to go from Set black to gray in twelve Mantua, These and other strange facts jja� his account of the navy's de- fense of Britain were obtained **ugh special facilities aeeox ie the Admiralty. l[day o'l 'loam m >lflu®tsal al irxiiu. .xeliieevde sne Clcsx* inose. Jar* 1itabes, 80c. MENTHOL. ATI! M Artillery shells .'enemy posi- tions as British forces fight ori in -new Libyan offensive; Christmas Boxes - For War Prisoners As early as August, 72,000 Christmas boxes began,their trek from the Red Cross packing cen- tre in London to Britain's 70,000 men in the prison camps of Ger- ninny, British Industries Bulletin relates. The extra 2,000 parcels are an insurance that everybody gets one. The first lap was to Lisbon; the next to Marseilles; then on to Geneva, and so to Germany. In each box was a Christmas pudding, a double ration of choco- late, chocolate biscuits, rye cis- • cults, jam, margarine, roast pork and stuffing, a tin of steak and tomato, condensed milk, four ounces of sugar, two ounces4if tea and a Christmas cake.' iWJja. 7,200,000 eigarets went off at the same time in separate packages of 100—a double ration for each man. The value of this Christ-- mas gift is 36,000. Nor has the Red Cross forgot- ten the little band of eleven Brit Joh children in German intern- ment camps. Each of thein has been sent a special parcel of bar- ley sugar, boiled sweets and to on, And to one hospital in Bel- gium where there are soldiers who have been lying on their bake since Dunkirk, has gone a con- aignment of jig -saw puzzles, Relieves MONTHLY FEMALE PAIN Women who suitor pain of irregular periods with cranky nervousness— dile snes dus to monthly functional disturb- ances -811°111d find Lydia E. iin bums Vegetable CompoundTablets (+pth added iron) oetveto relieve suchdistress.Plf(hmarab Tab- lets made especially for Help build up resistance against suoh sdnoying ymptons.ro]1oW label directions. Made in Canada. One -wheelers The!`C. 0. of a regiment in the Middle East was puzzled when he received notification to make ar- rangements for the arrival of: "Carriers, general utility, one - wheeled, sixty." He thought it must be a new type- of shall whippet tank and made .the necessary parking ar- rangements. Eventually he received sixty wheelbarrows. Soviet artillerymen examining • German Howitzers captured its recent fighting. Except for missing parts of the breech block, the nearer gun appears to be in good condition. Hitler Treats Friend And Enemy Alike i1t is not only in the invaded and occupied countries that the Nazis are hated. For some time now the Italians have been be- coming increasingly restive since they are finding by bitter experi- ence that as Hitler's jackal they get remarkably few -=tit-bits. A most interesting article recently appeared in an English newspaper by an Englishman who has lived in Italy for many years and who was very recently a prisoner in Tuscany. The writer says that Italy is subjected by the Nazis to almost as much indignity as a conquered country. There is Ger- man control on all railway sta- tions, German supervision in sev- eral centres, and the Italian sec- ret police takes second place to the Gestapo. Food is exceedingly scarce; the Italians have had no butter since they entered the war, and they have meat only once a week. The plain reason for this is that the Germans have annexed most of their products such as oil, fat, oranges and lemons. Hit- ler adopts his "bleeding white" policy towards his friends as well as towards his enemies. 1941 Farm Income Higher Than 1940 Increase of 461/Million and Trend is Greater to Mixed Production The prairie trend to mixed farm- -leg was ekem/Hal * stri-figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics r,& free that farm income for the first nine anonths of 1941 was sub- stantially higher than for the same period in 1940. Live Stock Increases The increase in value of live- stock and livestock products sur- passed that of field crops, al- though increased returns from both categories were reported. Cash income from prairie farm products•saies was placed at $255,- 359,000 for the nine months this year compared with $208,588,000 in the same period in 1940 The value of field crops advanc- ed to $141,056,000 from $122,942,- 000 in 1940, while the value in livestock and livestock products rose to $114,303,00, from S85,646; 000. Wheat production in 1941 was reduced sharply compared with 1940, but during the present year large quantities of the 1940 crop were marketed. The bureau said that higher re- ceipts in 1941 were recorded for all individual items contributing to the total of farm income. Saga of the Sea The perils of the sea are not reserved to the menaces of tore pedoes and mines says the Eitch, ener Record. The old sea with its hurricanes, its pounding wave and its typhoons is still the same; elemental • terror that challenged mariners since Viking days, Of recent date is the story o: a Canadian three -master schorrnee from Lunenberg caught in two hurricanes and breached. Her niert were reduced to starvation wheir a small freighter hove in sight and took on the despairing crew. Salt water permeated the ves- sel and spoiled the food. The men caught water in reservoirs de- signed to hold the rain. This a•a,' all they had to drink. The skip, per had a new dress shirt and he converted the pins in it to fislt hooks and the men caught small fish over the rail of the stae.;gere ing ship. This is just another saga of the sea that has no U-boat oa lurking mine in the backgr'nind. It is the peril mariners have brava ed through the ages, and it is the: sort of thing that has made meal of mariners who now keep opera the life lanes of the Empire, opa erating the merchant marine in spite of the hazard of stoern ors war. British Ships Carry New S.0.5. Signal$ A column of reddish-orapg' smoke rose over the ocean, nearly 30 miles away. A British pilot; an patrol over the Atlantic spots ted it, and realized immediately. what it was— an 5 0 S. The smoke came from a bole about two feet square --and everst new ocean-going British sliir twill carry several of them, This is the life-saving apparatus secretly tested by the Ministry of Shipping, and when that British pilot sighted the column of smoke from the air the .vperiments were ended. Shipwrecked Hien carrying one of these boxes need only to pull, a trigger to release a cloud of smoke which will rise for an hour, becoming thicker every minute. The box floats, and if water gets into the chemical inside the smoke becomes still thicker. Raw fur production :n Canada in the twelve months ended June, 30, 1940, am7unted to $16,665,3.5, an increase of 177 per cent over the preceding season. ...CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.. BABY CHICKS MAKE FULL USE OF YOUR PUL L - try equipment, fill your houses ';`with birds bred for steady and full production. You can't afford to do anything else 1f you want to meet egg demands at hone and abroad. Wait for the Bray price list, out shortly. 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