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Road «conk:tesy cops" in the isle
Of l?.l;y have thought up a new
way to want motorists that 'they
41re t!acc:eecl.iu), the speed limit. Pass-
ing tine vehicle: which has been
going too fast, the police pull Clown
a blind at the back of their own
Gar. It reads, "Yon have been
exceeding the speed limit. Please
follow me and check your speed-
oitteter with aline. 1 ant travelling
at thirty mile', an hour."
Benefit of the Doubt
In this way they al;e givini the
driver the benefit of the doubt,.
the police view being that many'
motorists i,ossess faulty speedo-
meter's artd have no real wislt to
break the lass.
The police often .shuw a. help-
'fulness wits.ch is not necessarily
a part of their duty. Recently
travelling by night through a rain-
storm, I wars nearly blinded by the
lights of oncoming traffic, my wind-
shield wiper having failed. 1 ap-
proached a. police car to ask the
way to the nearest garage. But no
garage' was • needed. Theoffices-
took. pity on a female with an un -
mechanical mind -and mended the
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Wiper' tul.c
i€ a prize for courtesy were
given, however, surely it should
be awarded • to Mr. W. R. M.
Haxwortit, head of the Singapore
traffic police.. Shortly after 'initiat-
ing a. courtesy campaign on the
roads, he was seen in an unusual
role, While 'the driver of a stalled
car sat happily at his wheel, Dir,
Irlaxwot.•th pushed' the car through
the. traffic!
Police Station Joke
Courteous cops can be found
other than on the road. After a
couple of police officers in Con-
necticut, U.S.A., had arrested a
farther for theft, they returned to
his fa.rm to milk his cows Inc hits.
Even when the police have a
perfect right to be irritated, they
are more likely to show a sense
1VleineRuenr Scene, Mexico -Mexico City took on the aspects of Venice recently when torrential rains
turned the streets into rivers, But traffic wasn't stopped, as picture shows.
of humour than loss of temper.
My bicycle, unpadlocked, was'
stolen and recovered for me. A
couple of days later 1 left it
outside a shop and forgot all about
it until 1 wanted to go hotne for
lunch. When 1 went Inc it, it had
disappeared again.
Feeling a complete fool, 1 went
to the police station to confess
that 1 had allowed the machine
to be stolen for the second time
in one week. The sergeant at
the desk took a lengthy statement
front ale as 1 because more and
more confused. At last, he grinned,
gave a mighty heave and pro-
duced my bicycle front behind the
counter.
"We've had it all the time, miss,"
he explained with a chuckle. "A
constable saw it on the curb,
recognized it as yours --- and
thought he'd teach you a lesson!"
The 13 ea sville Express, pub-
lished right in the heart ,of the
Niagara fruit belt, doesn't ]since
matters in a recent report on fruit
inspection. The Express says:
4 * '5
The Fruit and Vegetable Inspec-
tion Branch of the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture is cracking
down on farmers who pick and at-
tempt to ship to markets produce
that is below standard.
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"Some farmers start screaming,
said. an official at the inspection
branch, "but they asked for it.•' At
the convention of the Niagara Pen-
insula Fruit Sa Vegetable Growers
Association last fall a motion was
unanimously passed called for str:et
government inspection of all fruit
and. vegetables harvested. A similar
Motion was passed by the Hord -
Latham! council in Ottawa.
* *
The main idea behind the motion
was to rase the standard of On'
tat'io fruit sold to the consumer.
Poor fruit of the pint .few years had
under -quality, green, sub -standard
produce undermined the confidence
of the consumer in Ontario produce.
with the result that the shopper
was more likely to buy imported
fruit, either from United States or
British Columbia farina. The con-
sumer, it.wwas stated at the conven-
tion, would rather pay a few cents
more for his produce and he assured
of No.' 1 quality.
Chcrr'ct that were seized this
week h,y t inspect'nil branch,
mat ked a,; No. 1 quality, would
have made the most tolerant shop-
per hopping mad, and certainly
would have made him or her think
twice before buying Ontario pro-
duce,. stamped No. 1.
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One basket seized. when sorted
out, contained 18% No. 1 cherries,
The remainder were immature,
small, dried-up, rotten and away
below 'No. 1 standard. "A shopper
buying that basket w'oulcl have
blown his top," said the official at
the inspection branch, "and would
sooner have thrown his money away
at a rare track than toss it down
the brain on trash like" that."
Supervising Inspector L. C.
Sturdy seized 20 similar baskets at
the CFR freight station at Wes-
tern Hill. "Whether they realize it
or not.," said i\ir. Sturdy, "farmers
like that are only cutting their
own throats by allowing fru't like
that to leave their farms." He said
that there have been quite a few
similar instances this year when
below par produce has been sent
back to the farmer. "They asked
for it, and when we putt the screws
on, they scream." said Mr. Sturdy.
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1 ie said that there are many
farmers who are co-operating to
the fullest in seeing that only top
duality produce is shipped. "They
realize that by doing it that way,
the fruit industry in Ontario has
a much greater chance of prosper-
ing."
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ing.,.
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414
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PEACH COMiPOTE
6 fresh peaches
2/3 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons lime or lemon
juice
3 tablespoons orange juice
teaspoon powdered ginger
Sprigs fresh mint
Peel peaches. Cut in half and re-
move stones. Add sugar to water
and stir until all the sugar is dis-
solved. Place over high heat and
bring to a full boil; lower heat and
cook gently 5 minutes, Add peach
halves, about three al a time, to
syrup. Cook gently for 2 minutes,
basting peaches with syrup. Re-
move to dish.
Add fruit juices and ginger to
syrup. Pour over peaches. Chill.
Just before serving garnish with
fresh mint. Serves 6,
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PEACH CUSTARD
MERINGUE
2 eggs
2/3 cup quick cooking dee
3 cups milk
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3 fresh peaches
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons sugar
2/4 teaspoon almond extract
/ cup blanched silvered almonds
Start over at 350° F. or moder-
ate. Separate eggs. Add milk to
rice, mixing just enough to moisten
rice particles. Bring to boil, un-
covered, fluffing rice several tines
with a fork. Do not stir. Remove
from heat. Beat egg yolks until
bubbly. 1\fix sugar, salt, nutmeg
together and gradually add to
yolk, beating constantly. Slowly
stir Milk -rice mixture into beaten
yolks, mixing well. Pour into a 2
quart baking dish. Place in pan of
hot water and bake for 35 minutes.
Stir often during first 20 minutes
of baking. Meanwhile, beat egg
whites until foamy. Add sugar,
tablespoon at a time. continuing to
beat until stiff. Gently mix in al-
mond extract. Peel peaches. Cut
in half; stone. Remove custard
from oven and arrange peach 'halves
over top. Spread mcri1i lte over
peaches and sprinkle tan with sliv-
ered almonds. Return custard to
oven and hake 15 to 30 titillates
until browned, Serves it,
according to law, must he table
graded. Farmers who mark their
produce No. 1, and put in below
par fruit, are liable for prosecution.
The cherries in quc.tin were
given a sugar test. aud a large
percentage conta'ned only about
10^1) sugar content, well below the
regr'ircd 15% to 20"r. Mr. Sturdy's
department is looking forward to
even busier clays when the peach
season comes in. "\\'e will be mak-
ing our rounds even more so," said
Mr Sturdy, as he warned that strict
its>nt'ctinn w'onld he stale.
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The officials at the inspection de
parttlleltt were at a loss hi under
stand why farmers would allow
low grade fruit to leave their farms.
"'.!'here appears to be no incentive,
no competitive spirit." Some farm
ers appear to have gotten into a
lethargical, apathetic mnod, and do
not desire to give their names a
high reputation in the fruit market."
RIPE, GOLDEN PEACHES
3 large peaches
2 cups crushed macaroon
crumbs
/ cup sugar
'/ teaspoon allspice
2 tblsp. butter or margarine
/ cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup water
. Start oven at 350° 1. or moder-
ate. Peel peaches and slice. Roll
macaroons into fine crumbs; mix
with sugar, allspice.
Plac 'half the sliced peaches in
greased quart casserole. Cover
with 1/2 the crumb mixture. Dot
with butter, Add remaining peach-
es, crumbs and butter, Mix milk,
water together; pour over peach-
crumb layers. Fake 40 minutes;
serves 4.
4 4. 14
. PEACH CRISP
5 peaches
1 tblsp. lemon juke
/ cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
/ cup rgllgd oats
%4 teaspoon salt
I/ teaspoon cinnamon
/ teaspoon cloves
Start oven at 375° F. or moder-
ate.
Peel peaches and slice into shallow
baking,. dish.' Sprinkle with lemon
juice. Mix flour and sugur together
Cut in butter or margarine. Mix in
rolled oats, salt and spices. Sprinkle
over peaches. Bake for 30 minutes.
Serves 6.
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Strange Things Slee -Walkers Do
When The Devil Caine A -Visiting
It has been estimated in Great
Britain alone there are something
like half a million pepple who walk
in their sleep. -tn addition, these
somnambulists, as they are called,
read books, write; letters, engage in
workaday activities, catch trains
and buses or even drive cars.
They have also robbed houses,
committed murder and occasionally
have lost their own lives while
sleepwalking.
Recent cases in medical journals
describe that of the 16 -year-old
schoolboy who used to get but of
bed, pick his way through a dark-
ened room, carefully avoiding all
obstacles, then travel miles by foot
and bus while still asleep.
Next morning he would be back
in his roots, unable to remember
anything about it,
Psychiatrists discovered that six
months previously he had olun-
teered to be hypnotised on tate
stage. The hypnotist had told skirls
that he would remain under hyp-
notic influence for six months,
after which time he must return
to the theatre and see the hypnot-
ist again.
The boy's sleepwalking was an
attempt to do this,
Another case was that of tate
taxi-driver who would go to sled,
after a hard day's work, dress v:hi:e
still asleep and do another five 3r
six hours' stint, at the wheel.
"Used to Wonder"
PEACH CAKE
2 eggs
1 2/3 cup flour
3/ .teaspoon soda
V teaspoon salt
cup butter or margarine
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup sour milk
4 peaches
x/ cup brown sugar
Start avert"at 350° F. or ntoder-
ate. Grease and wax paper line an
S" square calve pan. Separate eggs.
Beat yolks, until light. Sift flour;
measure. Sift again with soda and
salt. Creast butter until light. Grad-
ually add sugar, continuing to
creast until fluffy. Add yolks to
creamed mixture. Add drys in
gredients alternately with sour milk
to mixture. beating well after each
addition. Pour into prepared pan
anti hake Inc 30 minutes. Cool.
Peel peaches; cut into slices,
Beat res.; whites until stiff. Gradu-
ally add ?-.i cup brown sugar, con-
tinuing to beat until stiff. Arrange
peach slices on top of cake. Drop
flier -names on by tablespoons. Place
under broiler. 3" from heat; brown,
Watch carefully f o r 11u•rinsot e
brown. smelly. Serves 6.
PEACH COBBLER
6 Peaches
3, cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons quick cooking ta-
p'oca
juice of % lemon
Grated rind of I/ lemon
2 tablespoons butter or mar-
garine
?%t teaspoon cinnamon
1 14 cups sifted flour
2T-4 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
Pi tablespoons sugar
1 egg yolk
14 cup. milk milk
3 tablespoons shortening
l4 cup choppe nuts
Start oven at 400 degrees F. or
Ile used to wonder where the
money in his pockets came from in
the morning.
It transpired that for twenty
years the taxi-driver had worked
only at nights, but considered that
since he was -getting older lie would
switch to daytime driving.
The old habits were so strong
that itis unconscious mind took
hint back to work at nights while
he was still asleep.
Tried Marbles
In some cases of sleepwalking the
victim's subconscious mind seems
to attempt to remind him that he
can have no real rest until a cer-
tain worrying task is finished.
lie is driven out of his comfort-
able bed into the open to mend a
broken drain, or into the garage
to trace an electrical fault in the
engine of his car.
Otte sleepwalker tiers a length e
string to his hand and to the bed -
pest. In the night, as he was about
to wauder again, the pull of the
Acing wakened hits, and after that
he was cured.
But when this remedy has been
tried on other sleepwalkers it hasn't
always worked. They either broke
Ilse string or untied it. When it
Cordes 10 nntynll4 knots in their
sleep most sleepwalkers are as good
as lloudini used to be. ' '
One wife of a sleepwalker spread
marbles on the floor at the side of
her husband's beef with the idea
that tate pain of stepping on thele
in itis bare feet would waken luta.
The trick worked the first night,
but on the second her sleepwalking
spouse merely removed the eider-
down from the bed, f:ung it across
tate marbles and went on his way.
In 187(1 a man accused of murder
tried to prove he was a somnambu-
list and had fired the fatal shot in
his sloe:1.
The judge re:used to allow such
testimony, but a court of appeal re-
versers the guilty verdict and the
defendant was eventually freed:
Certain phases of sleepwalking
still baffle the experts. (:)nly one
fact is certain -- that the sleep-
waiker's body is controlled by Itis
subronscious 02011.
This deep reservoir of his hopes,
fears, problems and frustrations
takes direct control not only of the
sleepwalker's limbs and muscles
but burrows some of the facilities
of the conscious mind as well. It
uses thein in the physical cxpres--
siou of actual desires. f
Baffled Experts
In the Corse (.011110011 forms of
sleepwalking, soninambulisni- usual-
ly occurs about two hours after re-
tiring - when sleep reaches its
greatest depth.
How long the state lasts depends
on the individual and his personal-
ity. It may last a few minutes, a
few 'hours, or several months. The
somnambulist may journey to a
distant town, get a job, buy a house,
and even marry
This is the reason why some emi-
nent authorities believe that most of
the disappearance and loss -of -
memory cases we constantly dear
'about may actually involve som-
nambulism.
hot. Peel peaches and slice. Place
in baking dish. Add sugar, tapioca,
lepton juice, rind and cinnamon to
peaches; stir in gently. Drop but-
ter in small pieces over peaches.
Sift flour, measure. Sift again with
baking powder, salt and sugar.
Beat yolk until bubbly and add to
milk. Cut shortening into dry in-
gredients until mixture is consis-
tency of coarse cornmeal, Add
nuts; stir in egg -milk mixture, mix-
ing just enough to moisten all dry
ingredients. Turn out onto floured
board and roll out to fit top of
baking dish. Prick with fork and
tit dough over peaches. Bake 15
mitoses. Reduce heat to 350 degrees
F. and continue to hake 25 min-
utes longe!'. Serve warot with
creast to r;.
NDAY SC
LASS
By Rev, R. BARC'LAY WARREN
B.A., B.D.
David Becomes King
1 Sam. 18: 1-5, 14-16; 22: 1-2:
2 Sam. 5: 1-5.
Memory Selection=Man looketh
on the outward appearance, but the
Lord looketh on the heart. 1 Sam•
Del 16:7.
This is the first of four lessons
directly on David. We have more
information about his extremely
important career than we has c'
about any other Old Testament
character. It is a thrilling story.
He was the youngest of eight
brothers and was brought in front
following the sheep to be anointed
king of Israel. When Saul desired a
musician. one of itis servants sug-
gested David, describing hint as
one "that is cunning in playing
and a mighty valiant ratan and a
roan of war, and prudent ui mat-
ters, and a comely person, and the
Lord is with hint."
History records no such remark-
able friendship between two men
as that between David and lot.a-
than, King Saul's son. Under the
circumstances one might bare ex-
pected enmity and jealousy. But,
instead, the soul of Jonathan was
knit with the soul of David. On
Jonathan's death David lamented,
"1 am distressed for thee ne y
brother Jonathan: very pleasant
hast thou been unto me: thy lots
to hie was wonderful, passing the
love of women."
Forced to take refuge in the cave
of Adullam, David was joined by
400 Ines of broken fortunes, rest-
less spirits, who were so up against
it they knew not what to do with
themselves. - They were men with
no reputation to Maintain, for
whom vengeance was natural. Yet
with David as their captain they
offered no offence to the offensive
Saul nor gave any disturbance to
the peace of the kingdom. Their
wild natures were subdued and di-
rected.
Thank God, Jesus, tit.; Son of
David. is also ready to receive dis-
tressed even and women who will
choose him as their captain, and be
commanded by hint. They will ftncl
a nese- leader, a new service, and
a new life --new things far more
%v. -such -Hui than those that attrac-
ted the four hundred to David of
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SAFETZ' FIRST
The railway porter looked search-
ingly at the three girls waiting an
the platform, "Aren't you the
crooning trio who sang on the
radio tonight?"
"'!'hat's right," one of therm told
hint. "\\'e were making our debut
on the air."
"And where are you bound for
now!'"
"We're just •.o(7 to Northern On-
tario."
Thr pttrtcr saint ' ' 11'121,•• he
remarked. "` see-, ' .' - as good
a place to hide as any!"
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