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Craftltmaunit:n, stays the lustortau,
fa, the fruit •.1f traditional skills.
F)c Cciihuri,^.s. Britain has beim a
sanctuary foe the oppressed people!)
of Europe, Religious and racial per.
seeutione
er-
seeutions incl economic duireHH
have "driven thousands of skiiled
eraftsnieti to these islands -earlier•
weavers, potters, glass - blowers,
wood-di-61*ei:s ;:tock -makers, jewel-
lers, tailors, silk -weavers, gold-
smiths and sifter smiths, bakers,
caodfestickniatcers , and their
know-how, their manipulative dex-
terity and aesthetic sensibility has
become pact' Of our own tradition:
But what is this craftsmanship?
Is it the thumb -marks on a throwrj
'rase, the dents of the hammer
beaten silverware, the marks of the
chisel on wood, the file on steel,
the paintbrush on china? Catt it be
that the Timid, as a tool or as a
chuck to Bold a tool, has some
mysterious advantage o"•er the
inedible? Is there a harmony be.
tween the material and the form
and the purpose of an article trade
by hand that is beyond the power
of the machine to imitate?.
I was horn within a china stones
throw of the site of the Church.
yin! works where V1%edgewood be-
gan his career; I grew up among
the marlbauks and shraff-tips of
the Potteries; I lectured for some
years at the Wedgewood, Institute
end • ,studied- ' !ai: eelie Wedgwood
Museun; and like, =all 'potters' I
became intensely proud of the pot-
tery industry and its greatest figure.
Yet if I !.tad to assess Wedgwood's
.genius solely on the strength of
his ornawetlt:ai wares I should not
put it very ruuch higher than that
of Bernard Palissy or Bernard
Moore.
For me, ie edgwood's true great-
ness rests with his so-called 'Useful
Wares,' the table services in 'Cream
Colour' or. `Queen's Ware,' These
wares, many of then designed and
tnodelfed by the master !himself,
exhibited. all the true properties of
clay: they were the works of an
triginai. craftsman in complete con-
trol of: his material, an artist con-
tent to allow beauty to grow from
I1W .BONA IVULIES
()NE of the best buys a housewife can get for her money
"�l these days is the low -count, coarse -weave linen dish
towel. The reasons for this are many but one of the foremost
is the greater absorbency of the linen towel, It thus takes
fewer towels to stock a linen cabinet.
Absorbency is, of course, a Primary factor in any towel.
But there are other sound reasons for investing a portion of
your household money in linen. Linen was widely used for
bandages before the advent of sterilization because it is a
poor breeding ground for germs. This is highly essential in
hygenic dish -drying.
It's easy to launder, because it requires no bleach and be-
comes softer and whiter with age. And linen towels give a
high polish to glassware because,. they are nearly free from
lint of any kind. The trick getting a high gleam in glass -
,ware is to polish each piece with a dry towel after it has been
thoroughly dried.
Other linen products, such as place plats and napkins,
shown in picture at left, launder and iron easily. They are
durable and colorful, appearing in decorator colors of green,
chartreuse, coral, brown, turquoise, cloud pink, sky blue
and maize for mixing or matching. These perfect back-
grounds for your china and silver are finished with hem-
stitching and a fringe.
While the linen product costs slightly more than other
types, it's an economical, .loitg-range purchase because of its
' great durability..
the perfect solution to a practical
problem and his own unconscious
aesthetic sensibility. They were
`extremely simple, neat, convenient
and durable and they became the
prototypes of the finest practical
wares made by potters throughout
the world.
Many of Josiah's shapes and pat-
terns are still in production at
Barlaston; and they are still best
sellers. Under, the direction of
Josiah's great -great -great grand-
son (another Josiah Wedgwood)
the great tradition has been
strengthened and enriched. The new
shapes and patterns emerging from
the Barlaston studios match the
'Useful Wares' for workmanship,
usefulness and felicitous line dnd
pattern. There can be no higher
praise. - Front "The Craftsmen."
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Toda.y's cecipes offer fait fruit)
lrb tempting desserts.
GLAZED APPLE RING CAKE
2 cups sugar
'y„ cup water
S apples, pared and cored.
£ cup puree of cooked dried .
apricots (two .. cans bahgr
apricots will do)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 nine- or ten -inch angel cake
Almonds, optional
1 cup apple sauce, chilled
I cup whipped cream or chilled
vanilla pudding
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon.
(1) Boit • one cup sugar and
water in a frying pan about two
minutes, stirring till sugar is dis-
solved, •
(2). Cu.t apples in half crosswise.
Add one layer of apple rings at a
time to syrup, lower 'heat and sim-
mer till just tender, turning often,
Remove and. set aside.
(3):- Cook together apricot puree,
remaining cup sugar and lemon
juice, stirring- often, till mi'tuce
is thick, • Cool.
Place applerings on top of cake.
Spread apples and cake generously
with apricot puree. Garnish with
almonds.
(5) A.t: serving time fill center
cavity with apple cream made by
mixing apple sauce, cream or pud-
ding and cinnamon. Serve with
cemaining•apple cream and, if de-
sired, garnish plate with additional
apple rings. Yield: twelve serv-
ings, Note: For a small purchas-
ed angel cake use half the recipe.
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OLD-FASHIONED
GRAPE PIE
2 pounds concord grapes (four
cups`
2/3 to three-fourths cup sugar
1/4 cup flour or one tablespoon
quick -cooking tapioca
Yst teaspoon salt
Rind and juice of one-half
lemon
Pastry for a • nine -inch two -
crust pie.'
(1) Slip pulp out of grape skins,
Reserve' skins. Cook pulp till seeds
loosen and press through a collan-
der or food mill.
(2) Mix sugar, flour or tap-
ioca, salt, lemon rind and juice.
Add grape juice and skins, If tap-
ioca has been used. let mixture
stand fifteen minutes.
(3) Turn into a pastry -lined
nine -inch pan and cover with
pastry,. Bake on the lower rack
of a very hot oven (450 degrees F.)
Lower heat to moderate (350 de-
grees F.) and bake about twenty
minutes longer. Yield: eight serv-
ings,
FRUIT BETTY
2 cups coarse breac crumbs
cup melte& butter
2/3 cup brown or white sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Dash salt
4 cups sliced plums, peaches,
apples or pears
1/3 cup water
(1 Toss crumbs up in melted
butter.
(2) Mix suba.r cinnamon and
salt.
(3) Arrange in alternate layers
bread crumbs, fruit and sugar mix-
ture, having top layer crumbs.
Add water.
(4) Bake, covered, in a moder-
ate oven (350 degrees F.) thirty
minutes. Uncover and bake till top
has browned and fruit is tender,
c.ossw' of l
PUZZLE
ACnoSsDOWN
1. Aspired
G. Rtarket
0. Watering place
48. tnseet:
93. Across
i14, Tilt
1016, Ate (Cone
Corns)
36. 1lallow
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21. Crony
22. Chaff
15. Military
student
26. Solidify
Oft. fncilne
•,00, nc(irud
81. Ohl soldier
(codon.)
,82. Medical dutch
03. legal acttott
04. Our mutual
Uncle
85, Apple juice
09. 'Patten unlaw-
fully
38. 'Ring Arthur's
4ance
38. Varnish in-
gredient
40. Desire
44. ;hinderer!
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weed
2. Arrow Poison
3. (traria refuse
4. Sant down
4. Pattern
6. State Host •
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7. Scarlet
8. Pertaining to
a. clan
9. h"rightened
suddenly
10. Deep hole
11. Munkey
17. is able
19. (alma tub
22. Wager
23. Ireland
24. Raise
25. W'heeled
Vehicles
26. l.ncourt go
27. Uninhabited
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31. Safe
35. Study
37. Boy
38. French
sculptor
40. tight curt
gauze
41. Press
42. Part of a
church
43. Merriment
44. Pull atter
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about thirty minute', Serve with
cream, hard sauce er ice ,,ream.
Yield: five servings.
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PLUM KUCHEN
i package not roll mix
1 quart halved plums
TA cup or more sugar
1 teaspoon cine itnon
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup cream
(1) Prepare dough from hot roll
mix as directed on package and let
rise till double in bulk,
(2) Roll to fit a greased deep
7 x 12 -inch pan. Place 'in pan,
grease surface and let rise till
almost double in thickness.
(3) Arrange plums . itt parallel
rows on dough. Mix sugar and.
cinnamon and sprinkle over dough.
(4) Mix egg yolks with cream
and drip over plums.
(5) Bake in a hot overt (400
degrees F.) about twenty minutes.
Yield. eight servings.
Apple or Peach Michele:
Substitute apples or peaches for
plums in the above recipe.
The "Royai'9 Game
Chess is an exceedingly old game,
Nb one knows how old, but it ape
pears, to have been played in Hilt-
dustan in remote times; and was
probably talcen from there to Per-
sia where the Arabs acquired a
knowledge of it. The Arabs then
introduced the game into Spain in
the eighth century. Thence it
spread into all Europe.
The main piece of the gauze is
the king. The Arabs, taking the
name of this piece front the Per-
sians, called it shall, and when the
king had been maneuvered by an
opposing player into a position
from which it could not be extri-
cated, thus ending the game, they
said. "Shaw mat (The king is
dead)." In Old Spanish this be-
came xaque elate: in Old French
eschec mat, and this in turn pro-
duced the Middle English chez
• mate, coating down to us as check-
mate. And when a player notified
his opponent that his king was ex-
posed, the Arabian shaw. through
the sante process, became the Eng-
lish check. (Ail other uses of our
word check, and of the British
cheque have been extensions of this
original sense.)
When the game had reached
France it became known by the
Old French name. inches. a plural
of eschec. And when this term
reached England the first syllable
was dropped, like many other simi-
lar words of French origin. Thus
was produced the name by which
we know the game, chess. So. if
we go back to •original -sources,
"chess" is another word for
"king's,"
The game of checkers (British
chequers) was originally a modifi-
cation of chess, and its name carne
from the sante source. (In Eng-
land, the game is preferably known
as "draughts.") And the Court of
Ex -chequer, an English department
of government connected with the
public revenue, is believed to have
taken its name in the tweifth cen-
tury from the square table which
was laid out into square spaces,
like that of a chessboard, for con-
venience in making calculations in
the system of eccountaltcy then in
use. -From "Thereby Hangs A
Tale," by Charles Earle Funk.
JITTER
UNIM SCIIOOJI
LESSON
By
REV. R, BARCLAY WARREhl,
B.A., B.D.
SOLOMON BEGINS HIS
REIGN
1 Kings 1:38-40; 3:5-9; 8:27-30
Memory Verse: Trust in the
Lord with all thine heart; and lean
not unto thine own understanding,
In all thy ways acknowledge him,
and he shall direct thy paths. -
Proverbs 3:5-6.
Sol'oniou was the first king's son
to ascend the throne of Israel. Ab-
salom and Adonijah, +other sons of
David had sought to secure the
throne but were foiled in their at -
temps. Solomon was, Bathsheba's
son. His humble request for under-
standing to serve the better was
abundantly answered, None to this
day, save our Lord jesus Christy
has equalled hint in this quality.
The people saw "that the wisdom
of God was in him, to do judg-
..'rilent."
''The ;%building of the temple was
Solomon's most important achieve-
ment. It took seven years. He made
a treaty with Hiram, king of Tyre,
supplying him with food in return
for skilled workmen and titrxher
from Lebanon. The timber was
taken to the sea and floated down
in rafts. Stones, which were made
ready at the quarry, and some of
which were very large, were so
exactly measured and cut for their
places in the structure that no
hammer nor axe was needed or
used when they were assembled.
The dedication of the temple was
held in connection with the feast
of Tabernacles after the ark of
the covenant had been brought
into the most holy place. Solomon
•knelt before the great altar of
burnt offering and spread forth his
hands to heaven and, in the pres-
ence of a vast throng, offered a
lengthy prayer of dedication which
was well worthy of tate occasion.
Then, rising from his knees he
stood and blessed all the assembly
of Israel with a loud voice. The
service was concluded with the
offering of a vast number of sacri-
fices. This event inaugurated a new
era in the history of the Jewish
church •'and state.
The memory section contains a
great promise. At every age we
tremblingly approach great deci-
sions. Here we are assured of
Divine direction if we acknowledge
the T.ord in all ottr ways.
CONFIDENCE
The crusty president ot a comma
bank suddenly decided to be candid
on his eightieth birthday when
somebody asked him, "flow did
you get started in the banking
business anyway?"
"Wasn't nothing to it," confessed
the old moneybags. "I jist httn.g
out a sign sayin' 'Bank. Fust thing
you know, a feller comes along and
deposits $100. A little later, an-
other comes along and deposits
$200. By that time I was so con-
fident I put in ten dollars of nt,,
Own money."
JITTEle SNEAKED
014 BOARD AGAIN-
NE'LLMAKa A FUSS
IF WF PUT HIM
ASHORS".
JITT .R..CATCH HOLD"1
OF THAT MOORING BUOY lJ
WHEN L GOME BV...
AWFUL THOUGHT
Two elderly ladies checked irtbe
a sporty new hotel in Miami Beach.
The first thing they noticed was a
furtive little man circulating front
guest to guest in the lobby, whis-
pering, and collecting money. They
were told The was a bookie -a mart
who took bets on the horses.
In vacation abandon, they deci-
ded impulsively to risk two dollars
themselves. They lost. That night
one of the ladies tossed around in
her bed and sighed so lugubroiusly
that the other counseled her,
"Becky, you shouldn't cry so over
spilled milk. Stop worrying be-
cause you lost. It was only two
dollars." "It ain't losing I'm wor-
rying about," Becky answered.
"I was worrying about if we had
won. What would we have done
wwith the horse?"
About Saluting
After the defeat of the Soanis[h
Armada in 15135 a naval tournament
was arranged for the victorious
British seamen. At the request of
Sir Francis Drake, Queen Eliza-
beth the First consented to corse
down from London and award the
prizes.
This caused some embarrassment
among her counsellors, as it would
meati bringing ordinary seamen
face to face with Her Ma,esty-
an awkward precedent.
The officer in charge of the ar-
rangements proved himself equat
to the occasion" He issued orders
that "on account of the dazzling
loveliness ot Her Majesty, all sea-
men, upon receiving their prize,
should shield their eyes with their
right hand."
Only for Slaves
Titus was born the modern forts
;if military and naval salute. To
this day the naval salute is unique
in that the hand is held horizon-
tally over the eye instead of the
vertical position used by the other
Services.
A form of salute with an even
older history is the "roman sal-
ute" of the outstretched arm, which
was adopted by the German and
Italian services during the last war.
This was used at the suggestion
7f the Italian poet, D Annunzio„
who discovered the salute on some
statue of ancient Rome.
It seems that he did not realize
the significance of the gesture, be-
i7ause in Rome citizens greeted
each other by shaking hands -only
slaves used the sign adopted by the
two dictators.
DIS OBEDIENT
An athletic drunk appeared at a
ticket window in Louisville with a
companion slung over his shoulder
out cold. "One seat to Cincinnati,
said, "How about that big lug
he demanded. The ticket seller
you're carrying?" "Him," depre-
cated tate drunk. "Thass jus' my
tittle six-year-old boy Abner."
"Six years old, eh?" said the ticket
seller. "Why, he's fully six ffeet
tall. weighs about 185, and has a
drunk dumped his companion on
beard three inches long." The
the platform and grumbled, "Dam -
mit, Abner! I told you to shaver
Ontario hog marketing agency
is about ready to function, W.G.
Johnson, secretary of Ontario hog
producers association, told mem-
bers in a recent report.
* * 1.
Mr. Johnson said, "representa-
tives attending the hog producers
meeting last March passed :t. mo-
tion instructing Ontario hog pro-
ducers marketing board to set up
'a centra 1 marketing agency'
whereby bogs produced in Ontario
and covered by the scheme would
be marketed."
* * 1:
"Vour executive and boar3 has,
since that time, continually en-
deavored to implement and con-
struct basis for such art agency.
This involved considerable detail
work such as the securing of suita-
ble personnel capable of handling
such a large enterprise, after which
agreements acceptable to both par-
tici had to he outlined.
*
"We are in a position to advise
producers that the commission
firms (who have been operating
on the Ontario stockyards) have
formed a company to be known
as the United Livestock Sales Lim-
ited for the purpose of market-
ing hogs under the appointment of
the Ontario hog producer,' market-
ing hoard.
* *
An agreement has been cea4'ird
with this company whereby they
will act as the central marketing
agency.
* * 1'
This agreement will be signed
by the principals concerned as
soon as some return from ltotidat s.
"Clauses contained in the agree-
ment are:
1: * *
1. All hogs to be sold for the
hest possible price the law of sup-
p'y and demand will allow,
2. The producer to receive full
"statement of settlement" iuclud-
"IIII10,
ing all deduction, and price re-
ceived.
3. Direction of clogs to processor,
4. Policy to be formulated by a
co-ordinating board (three repre-
sentatives from the producers and
three representatives from the
company-.)
* * 1:
"The commissions charged by
the said company will be slightly
lower than that reported at coun-
ty meetings last Fall.
• * *
A further saving to the producer
is being anticipated relative to
'exchange' charged by the hanks
on cheques. It may be necessary
to charge a small fee on all hogs
marketed to cover 'stockyard
charges' as 'price' will be deter-
mined and established for all hogs,
* x: *
"We are extremely anxious to
have the central marketing agency
in operation as soon as possible„
Our information regarding the
central marketing agency its the
Maritimes is to the effect that satne
has netted the producer the full
26c 'floor price.'
* * *
This means considerable to the
producers and we will be pleased
to have our Ontario producers re-
ceive the same benefit.
Upsidedown to Prevent -Peeking
By Arthur Pointer
9
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