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Most 1r op:e in c'e'ntral On'tar'io
will have beard, or read, of the
"twister" that struck the Hornby
district last week. Hornby is about
10 minutes drive from here, yet
our first news", of the terrible dam-
age was by radio. We bad no ink-
ling of it because even though the
wind and rain were pretty bad
right here there was no real dam-
age -except for the rain beating
eight acre, of newly -cut hay into
the ground -and that may be dam-
age enough.
Thursday afternoon we went
over to Hornby. The havoc was
almost unhelievable, Thousands of
dollars damage to three farms, and
the house and barn on one small-
holding. Yet no one was killed or
seriously injured. It was a miracle.
Details have been given in all the
papers but a few oddities have es-
caped notice. For instance, on the
Marchment farm -better known in
the district as "the old McCurdy
farm" -there was a great number
of fine old trees. Many were torn
up by the roots; others remained
standing and in these trees you
could look up and see huge strips
of steel roofing lodged in the forks
of the trees or wrapped around the
branches.
The massive bank barn set back
quite a piece from the house, yet
huge timbers, torn from time barn,
were sent hurtling over the house-
top and dropped in the field be-
yond. Beams that would take sev-
eral strong men to lift.
The C.B.L. Transnritti°rg Sta-
tion is right next to the March-
ment farm, but as far as we could
seg, not a wire was touched. CBC
programmes were not even inter-
rupted. Naturally the CBL pro-
perty has a good, strong wire fence
around, yet the next morning a
calf was found on CBL property.
It certainly couldn't have jumped
the fence so one can only suppose
it was carried there by the wind.
Equally miraculous was the escape
of Hornby United Church, within
a stone's throw of the path of. the
storm.
The poor little birds were most
unhappy -a tremendous lost of
chattering and chirping was going
on among them.. One tree, ripped
in half, had exposed a flicker's nest
and two little fledgelings were
yipping away like a couple of lost
chickens.
On the Russel King farm, perch-
ed on one of the barn stringers
from which the roof had been lift-
ed, there was one lonely pigeon
and a little bantam hen, sitting.
disconsolately side by side. Other
hens and chickens appeared quite
happy, picking their way among the
debris, more than likely delighted at
being allowed so much liberty.
When the storm struck the pullets
had not yet gone to roost, so the
casualty list on that farm was not
more than 15.
Across the road Harry Newton
was not so lucky. There was noth-
ing left of the pen that had housed
his 400 capons -and very few of
the chickens.
So far as we know none of the
farmers carriedw ind insurance -
too bad wind insurance is so often
regarded as an unnecessary ex-
pense. It seems to be just one of
those brings . . . one may pay
premiums for years and never snake
a claim, But if the necessity 'does
arise then the compensation is
worth all the premiums that were
ever paid.
After we got home that day,
Partner made a few observations
that had not occurred to rue. He
was comparing the effects now to
what it was 20 years ago. "At that
time," said Partner, "a farmer was
practically dependent on his barn.
He couldn't carry on without it.
But now, with his buildings gone,
a farmer's field work need not
stop. He can bale his hay and stack
the bales. He can combine his
crops, sell the grain and bale the
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t% EDNA MOILSS
C f labela as '.scatter--hv'ained" and "inefficient" have
been tagged on women for generations. Honiertves
forget their appointments, lose their bills, foul u '"' xeir
hank accounts. 'W'omen, charge their husbands, ;,*'<uply
have no mind for business.
A more accurate conclusion would be: women have no place for
business. The average horns is simply not set up for i1ngertip-.organ-
ization, The ]milk bill gets thrust in the kitchen door; the gas bill
arrives in the mail, but the baby grabs it for play; receipts and im-
portant papers get stuck: in with recipes or lingerie because there's
just no other place for them.
Most women have neither the space nor the time for an elaborate
filing system, but here's an idea for a simple -to -make, easy-to-use
Me that may be hung on the back of the kitchen door for easy avail-
ability.
This file, which is planned as a calendar system, is divided into 35
l-idividual pockets --one for each day of the month plus 'four 'extra
divisions for miscellaneous use.
I1S 1VIA71(11CNG DATE AS GUIDE
TT'S suggested that homemakers file their bills tinder the dates they
should be mailed, Since most firms now use staggered bookkeep-
ing systems, homemakers receive bills all month long. Sometimes,
because there's no concrete reminder, the writing of checks in pay-
ment gets shoved aside. By slipping your bill into the due -date
pocket, however, you will find it easy to remember to deal with it
promptly,
Such a file is also an aid in keeping up with social appointments.
Memos jotted down just after you've received a verbal or a telephone
invitation may be placed in the proper slot. By checking papers
tucked into the current day's file each morning, you will have a
permanent. memory -jolter.
If your husband is handy with tools, it will be an easy job for him
to construct a calendar file for you, The materials he'll need are:
. a 42 -by -252,4. -inch piece of pressed wood; 17 inches of wood parting
strip, one-half inch by three-quarters of an inch, to be "ripped for With the eiale.>tadar 191x1 *broil Here, the busy homemaker can k
eight vertical and six horizontal dividers; •half-inch brads, numerals, •trek• of • her bi?]!,-]payiaig so well ns of appointment*, nt*, rtiwi and
priming paint and enamel, screws and curved washers for mounting, ether alates.
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straw. It isn't even necessary to put
up another high bank barn, as,
with the use of modern machinery,
hay and grain crops require less
room than they did 20 years ago.
A big barn nowadays has too much
air space ---and that in itself is a
wind hazard."
Sunday we went back to Hornby
again and saw a striking example
of what can be accomplished with
the cooperation of good neighbours.
Much of the•debris had been clear-
ed away, men had been busy with
axes and cross -cut saws. A house
and a poultry barn had been re -
roofed. We saw a young housewife
hurrying over with home -baking
to those who had lost the comforts
of home. We heard of an old gentle-
man, over 80, who had been • busy
all day Saturday fixing things here
and there on one farm, and then,
after supper, when everyone
thought he had gone home,• he was
discovered on top of a garage, help-
ing to re -shingle a new roof that
the wind had lifted.
No matter where you live, neigh-
bours are wonderful people,
AN;:J€ I4IPST
*wt. Faortzty Cou4s.segot
"I'm not an
old fuddy-
duddy, Anne
Hirst," protests
a young woman
-"indeed, I'm
considered quite
modern. But 1
am troubled be-
cause 'our men
today seem to
be attracted only by the cheap sort
of girl.
"Why docs she make such an
impression? With her raucous
laughter, her vulgar actions, her
filthy stories -why do the men
cluster about her? The intelligent,
refined and cultured girl who would
never make such a display is left
out, even though she may be lovely
to look at and interesting to be
with.
"Has the quality of our men sunk
so low? Or is it the girls who have
brought this about?
"WHY MARRY THEM?"
"I am at a loss to understand.
What would a man have after
marrying such a girl?
"How horrible to live with an
empty little mind! There arc so
many wonderful things to see and
do, good books to read, fine music
to enjoy! It certainly doesn't take
any intelligence to make a cheap
exhibition of oneself.
"\'Vho has brought this about?"
"A. M. C."
Many a nice (and lonely) girl
* has racked her brain over this
* question.
Brought up in a cultured fam-
* fly, she sees men of equal birth
* and breeding make fools of them-
` selves over a flashy, Penman who
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embodies all the vulgarity of
modern times. A few, bedazzled
by the girl's very difference, make
the mistake of marrying -and
find themselves tied to a coarse
and gaudy creature who within
a few months become's disgus-
tedly repugnant.
It is not, howe e trrtlmon
as this writer seems to .think.
It is particularly the young
lad, inexperienced and curious,
who is lured by the show of sheer
animal spirits and misled by the
unrestrained emotional exhibi-
tion. "My," he exclaims to him-
self, "this girl is more fun!" And
he proceeds to sow his first wild
oats in ignorance, if not defiance,
to prove he is at last a man.
Later, of course, his innate re-
finement opens his eyes, and he
sees the girl for what she is. Re-
volted and ashamed. he gives her
the quick brush-off.
It is no wonder that nice girls
like this one who wrote me are
discouraged and alarmed. Neg-
lected by the nice men they
meet, they exaggerate the situ-
ation and come to believe that it
is more common than it actually
is.
Uncouth manners and lewd
minds have existed in every
population, but they are by no
means in the majority. The re-
laxed barriers of modern social
life have made this type seem
ubiquitous. Girls who rightly re-
sent their apparent hold on de-
cent men can always cultivate
people like themselves, who ad-
* here to high standards and con-
* fine their social activities within
* proper bounds,
To "A. M. C,": There are lots
* of nice men left, You . haven't
* met .enough of them. You will,
* if you seek out girls who 'think
* as you do, and who know only
a men that appreciate integrity and
* good taste in women.
* Don't be discouraged. Begin
* now to build a different circle
* of friends. Through them you
* will meet men of taste and char-
* actor -and you will wonder why
s` you ever thought they were
" scarce.
A girl cannot be too careful in
her choice of friends. Cultivate
those you can be proud of, and so
protect yourself from the wrong
kind. , . Telt your troubles to
Anne Hirst, addressing her at.
Box 1, 123, 18th St., New Toronto,
Ontatio.
ONE TOO MANY
Young Alec was watching - a
house painter at work, Presently he
asked:
"How mann coats of paint do you
give a door?"
"Two, my boy," was the reply.
"Then if you give it three coat "
said the fad brightly, "it would be
en overcoat?"
"No, try lad," retorted the painter
ryritnly, "it would he a waste coat."
LAURA WHEELER
Simply lovely the way this fern
crochet blends wit1a the embroider-
ed cosmos. Simple to do, too, start
your new linens today.
Pattern C815 has transfer; six
motifs 6x6 to 6x13aa inches; crochet
directions.
Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
in coins (stamps cannot be accept-
ed( for this pattern to Box 1, 123
Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont.
Print plainly PATTERN NUM-
BER, your NAME and ADDRESS.
Send Twenty-five Cents more
(in coins) for our Laura Wheeler
Needlecraft Book, Illustrations of
patterns for crochet, embroidery,
knitting, household accesories,
dolls, toys many hobby and
gift ideas. A free pattern is printed
in the book.
"Letting The Cat
Out Of The )Bag"
Are you bad at keeping secrets?
Do you frequently let the cat out
of the bag?
Shrewd country folk going to
market used to try to palm off a
cat in a bag as a succulent little pig.
As long as the gullible were content
to buy a "pig in a poke," that is,
make a blind bargain, all went well
for the seller, and the trick was suc-
cessful.
However, if the buyer investi-
gated, then the cat was wwcll and
truly out of the bag.
"Poke" is an old word for hag,
and pocket is a diminutive form
of it.
BETTER FLAVOR
A choice secret in preserving is
combination of flavors. The boiling
together of two or more fruits re-
sults in a superior product of inde-
scribable flavor. The fruits that
blend best in my experience for pre-
serves and marmalades are the fol-
lowing:
• Apples and grapes
Apples and black currants
Apples and quinces
Rhubarb and currants
Green -gages and lemons
Grapefruit and oranges
Tangerines and o anges or grape-
fruit
Oranges and rhubarb (with or
without strawberry juice)
Raspberries and red currants
leIep)Ct'ries and -cherries
1111 ,1, end t1144Cor5.
Exactly How Long
Is One Yard?
You have no idea, maybe, of the
trouble they have been having with
the yard.
Not the back yard, or Scotland
Yard, but the yard long. Most of us
are content to dismiss it as just 36
inches and go gaily on our way
regardless. Regardless of the fact
that recently when they cornered it
one yard was not 36 inches at all.
It was exactly 35,998669 inches.
And that, my friends, was just
0.000008 inches longer than it had
been 10 years previously, writes
John Allan May in The Christian
Science Monitor.
"They" are the folk who keep the
yard tidy, the metrologists of the
National Physical Laboratory here
at Teddington. They have no sine-
cure.
The yard was made legal back
in 1878 by act of Parliament. It is
the distance between two lines on
a metal bar, deposited in London
with the Board of Trade, when the
temperature of the bar, and pre-
sumably of the board, is 62 degrees
Fahrenheit.
An international prototype ureter
is kept at Sevres, near Paris, which
seems fair.
"Ultimately every milestone and
kilometric sign derives its meaning
from one or the other'," the NPL
declares, "I£ they arc lost, we should
live in eternal uncertainty about the
last millionth, at least, of an inch
or a centimeter were it not for a
development to be described later."
This fate may not seem all that
appalling to those who don't even
notice what the last milestone said,
hut we have to think of others.
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"Parliamentary copies of the im-
perial standard yard are kept at the
Royal Mint, the Royal Society, the
Royal Observatory, and the Board
of Trade," NPL reports. "One copy
is immured near the staircase lead-
ing to the committee rooms of the
House of Commons," perhaps for
the benefit of members who if given
an inch are wont to take a mile.
1' very If► years the N1'L cont, -
pares these copies aucl the,originai,
"It wili•.surprise the layman," they
say, "to learn that two niernbcrs of
the staff worked the equivalent of
six months dur ia.g 1922 to complete
the task," and they are right. It does
surprise the layman,
In 1922 the NPL also "took the
opportunity" to compare the yard
and the meter. They found the act-
ual ratio did not agree with the legal
ratio. It was way out, by 0.000034`
inches. They've scarcely dared look
since.
Further complications culminated
he 1947 in `strong evidence that the
imperial standard yard and its orig.
inal copies had gradually shortened
during the past 52 years by nearly
two parts in a million." Ouch!
Metal, of course, does all sorts of
queer things. It even "creeps." But
a new high in eccentricity has been
reached by an NPL standard bar
that has been found to measure
differently in France than in Eng-
land. "No satisfactory explanation
was found," they say. It doesn't sur-
prise me,
Then in 1948 along cavae the
.American National Bureau of
Standards with the •gift to NFL of
a lamp of mercury transmuted out
of gold in an atomic pile. its waves
prove to be "the ideal measure of
length." That's talking!
If today metrologists still can,
legally measure only the same im-
perial, or jumping, standard, . 1
gather they now at least can mea-
sure its eccentricities more accur-
ately: "One day we will have a law
passed making this atomic light
wave our standard measure. The
yard will then be stable. That wilt
be in 100 years, 1 irnagii5e."
I was mighty relieved to hear it.
Really Big "Pile"
By agreement with Canada and
the United States. Britain's Min-
istry of .Supply discloses hon' a
nuclear reactor of the latest type is
constructed. The heart of a big
"pile" or reactor is a huge block of
graphite into which spears of ura-
nium are inserted and which is en-
closed in a jacket of steel and re-
inforced concrete. Among the bun••
dreds of different materials that ge
into the reactor are 5,000 tons of
graphite, 3,000 tons of concrete, 600
tons of steel and forty tons of ura-
nium, More than 1,800 channels are
bored into the huge graphite cube.
Half of these carry rods of ura-
nium. Boron rods are inserted into
the remaining channels to control
or neutralize the atomic reaction.
The surrounding graphite reflects
neutrons that would otherwise
escape from the central core. Ra-
diation inside the pile is blocked
by the outer casing, a shell made
of reinforced concrete lined with,
cast-iron plates six inches thick.
The keeper of the elephants at ra
circus at Bielefeld, Germany, slept
in their enclosure one night. When
he awoke he found that his charges
had eaten his hat, coat, wallet and
had started on his trousers.
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Famous Paining At Toronto Art Gallery -The world famous paint.
ing "The Artist in his Studio," painted by the great !butch artist,
Jan Vermeer, about three centuries ago, is included 111 the
80 -million dollar exhibition of Art Treasures from the Vienna
Collection in the Art Gallery of Toronto, August 5 to September
16. This is the only Canadian showing of this fabulous collection
of rare paintings . and other cart treasures.
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