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rrellous Weaving
The basic principle of weaving is
the same everywhere. There must
ale a warp "and woof or weft, which
is woven through the warp to form
a, textile. Also there must inevitably
be a frame or loom upon which to
'pt3'ing the warp and to hold the
threads in place while the weft is
woven through it .. .
To the customary warp and woof
he Indian weavers added a distine-
tive technique, which was rarely
:!f ever elsewhere to be observed,.
They employed a variety of bast
fibers (various vegetable fibers) plus
(lairs of certain animals, skins and
furs of animals and plumage of
These were added to the
more conventional foundation
threads for woven material of linen,
wool and cotton. From all these
added materials unusually lovely
:fabrics were evolved.
Some of the oldest known ex-
amples of American Indian weav-
ing are reputed to be finer than
those found in any other place in
the world. They even surpassed the
textiles woven by the highly skilled
Coptic weavers of ancient Egypt,
whose work has long been celebrat-
ed for its marvellous technique.
We do not generally realize that
these tribes of American Indians
were as widely different in ideas
and customs of living as were the
nations of Europe. In terms of
:handicraft there were weaving tribes
and non -weaving tribes. As a rule
those Indians who shaped the skins
of animals for their coverings did
scot do weaving. Some of them were
almost exclusively devoted to such
occupations as hunting and fishing,
while others spent their time at
farming. The Navajo people of our
southwest have won chief fame
among all the North American
iribes as weavers.
The first Navajo blankets were
made to wear over the shoulders.
They were woven in simple dark
and light stripes of natural -collared
wool. A hundred years ago the
simple stripes were broken by zig-
slag lines making a design known as
the "terrace pattern." In the main,
the technique of weaving Navajo
• patterns was to work directly on
the warp as the actual weft, by
using the darning type of stitch.
Some twenty years later the In-
dians tired ofthese patterns and
introduced diamond designs,
The Indians were particularly at-
tracted to bright red, and, when the
Spaniards carne, traded anything
they had for a bit of red baize.
This fabric was like billiard table
cloth and is thought to have been
part of the Spanish uniform. The
Indians patiently unraveled this
bias and then wove it into their
-textiles. The dye must have been
excellent since these early "bay -
eta" (red) blankets have never Lost
their rich color, and collectors prize
them highly. Later the Navajos
found out how to make other colors
from native roots and barks, and
were given indigo with which to
produce blue.
Just as the Navajo "rugs" were
Featly blankets, so, too, up to about
1800 people both Indian and non -
Indian who spoke of rugs oddly
enough did not refer to floor cov-
erings. When the early records men-
tioned rugs, they were referring to
any coarse heavy wool fabrics, such
as bed covers, chimney cloths, win-
dow -sill covers or more likely table
covers. Only if called a floor rug,
air clearly described as for a bed-
side or floor, can one be sure that
the rug in the inventory has our
modern connotation. — From "Am-
itrican Rugs," by Estelle H. Ries.
For thirty years a parrot in Maid-
etone, England, named Harry had
been a prime favorite at the Bull
fon. But, then, to the customers'
astonishment, Harry laid an egg.
The Puffer Of Rain On A Plastic Roof—A pneumatic rain b f that protects the wearer and at the
same time leaves the hands free for carrying packages is the ingenious invention of a manufac-
turer. The hat, which is made of lightweight, flexible plastic, is carried in a small case that. fits
the purse. it is quickly and easily inflated,left, to the size of an umbrella and ties on with attach-
ed ribbons, as seen at right. The invention prom ises to .eliminate the "umbrella -rib -in -the -eye"
hazard of crowded city streets duriryg a rain.
Old time followers of the Tor-
onto Maple Leaf baseball team
took more than ordinary interest
in the recent announcement that
Charley Gehringer h a d taken
charge of the front office of the
Detroit Tigers.'•For Gehringer, be-
fore moving up to the Big Time,
used to do his stuff in a Maple
Leaf uniform and, in our worthless
opinion at least, was the greatest
player that ever wore one.
* * :k
We would even be prepared to
argue— in fact HAVE argued—
that Charley was, in many ways,
the best second sacker of all time.
If he wasn't, you could count on
the toes of Long John Silver's
timber peg the number who top-
ped him, The trouble was that
Gehringer was too good for his
own or his team's financial wel-
fare, doing seemingly impossible
things so smoothly and with so
little fuss that nine fans out of
ten hardly noticed that he was
doing them.
:x * *
Making the hard ones look easy
—a thing which Gehringer excel-
led — may be all very welt from
an artistic standpoint, but it does-
n't get you much top billing or
many headlines. In this connection
we always think of another Tor-
onto player of long ago—an out-
fielder bearing the striking name
of Yencer Weidensaul.
* *
Yencer had the faculty of mis-
judging a fly ball by a far wider
margin than any outfielder we
have ever seen. But he was spry
on his feet, and was everlastingly
covering acres of ground, leaping
high into the air or diving into
the turf, and pulling off miracu-
lous catches. The late Charley
Good, writing in the long defunct
• Honor For Designer—During the Canadian international Stamp
September 21 to 29 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
Exhibition, being held in the Automotive Building, Toronto, from
Government -issued postage stamps in Canada, a plaque will be
erected to the memory of Sir,isandford Fleming, the man who
designed Canada's first stamp. Erected by the Canadian Phil-
atelic Society on the exact site where the first stamp was designed
in 1851. The plaque will be unveiled by Sir John Wilson, Bart.,
C,V.0., Keeper of His Majesty King George VI's Philatelic Collec-
tions, Pictured here with the plaque is V. G. Greene, president of
t'ie Stamp Exhibition, and Sheila Watson, well known Ontario
model.
TORONTO NEWS, used to jok-
ingly dub him "Wonderful Weidy."
Readers took it seriously. The
name stuck; and most of the„ fans
who can remember • far back' prob-
ably think of him as a ball .hawk
of unsurpassed calibre, and prob-
ably wonder why he never caused
any sensation in the Big Leagues.
* * *
Charley Gehringer was the exact
opposite, He went about his' busi-
ness with a minimum of fuss,
bother and noise. One player who
was his teammate for many. Sears
said that Charley would' say ow
are you" when he reported for
the season, "So long" when he
was packing his grips at the end
of it, and' that those five words
constituted the sum total of his
conversation for the baseball year.
* • * 5
That, undoubtedly, was an. ex-
aggeration—brit not such a great
one at that. Doc Cramer came
close -to summing Charley up
when he cracked, "All you need
to do is wind him up on opening
day and he runs on and on, doing
everything right without a mis-
take." * 'r 5.
Ty Cobb was manager of the
Tigers when young Gehringer
broke in at Detroit, and one of
baseball's most widely circulated
stories is that Tyrus Raymond
pegged Charley as "good field, no
hit" and predicted that his stay.
in the majors would be a short
one,
* * *
The trouble is that the tale, like
so many sports stories, has no
truth in it. Cobb spent many a
long hour that first year working
on Gehringer in the batter's box.
He was instrumental in getting
Gehringer to change his style and
finally adopt the batting stance
which made hint a .321 lifetime
hitter in the American League—
and as that `lifetime" covered a
period of Seventeen years, the
coaching must have been worth
while.
*
Anyway, Gehringer is back
with the Tigers once more, and
will be the man chiefly respons-
ible for trying to get the Tigers
out of the pit into which they
have been tumbled, Everyone who
admires a fine workman and a
grand sportsman will wish him
well, including the many admirers
he made during his labors on
Ontario soil, Whether or not
Charley Gehringer ' will be suc-
cessful in his hard task, only time
can tell, to coin a phrase. But we
ease, dear, get. on it! It'll be
our, big. secret!'!
don't mind predicting that whe-
ther he makes it or whether he '
flops, he'll do so with the very
minimum of either squawking or
boasting. That is, unless the pas-
sage of the years has changed
him a whole lot more than we
imagine it has.
eally "Ate
His Words"
Joseph Delunty of New York has
just eaten his own words. He
wrote a book . on American foot-
ball tactics, and made a bet that if
a local team did not win after stu-
dying his treatise he would eat it
page by page.
The team lost, so Joseph solemn-
ly tore up a copy of his book, boil-.
ed the pieces in a pan, added salt,
.pepper and sauce to taste, and ate
the lot.
He must 'have heard about the
famomus French cookery expert,
Grimod de la Reyniere, who de-
clared that one could eat anything
provided it was cooked properly.
To prove his point he prepared
a meal consisting of a ponderous
tome he had written, entitled "Man-
ual of Gastronomy," mixed up with
vegetables and sauces. Then, he
sat down and had a good tuck in.
In the Soup
Theadore Reinking, a' philoso-
pher who lived in. the lith cen-
tury, also ate his own words—but
not very willingly. A book he had
written had offended King Chris-
tian IV of Denmark, so he was or-
dered to retract his remarks by
eating the book.
He tore it up in small pieces and
stewed then in soup. He managed
to eat the concoction, and by do-
ing so escaped with his life, for
King Christian had threatened him
W;th execution if a single word of
the book remained.
Not long ago a case was reported
in the "British Medical Journal"
concerning a child who would eat
nothing but paper. And in the
olden days a sovereign remedy for
rheumatics and asthma was a whole
page of the family l3ible eaten and
washed down with water.
DEFINITION
"Father, what is diplomacy?"
c'Dipiomacy, my boy," answered
Father, "can be defined as lying
in state."
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