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This is something for the book!
Instead of criticism -- which is
by no means uncommon — we
have nothing but praise for one
Of our governmental depart-
ments — the Provincial Depart-
ment of Highways, For two years
erosion damage has been done
to one corner of our farm —
through flood waters in spring
washing away soil from the
iteld and leaving the fence -posts
PTactically on top of the ground.
artner wrote to the Depart-
ment, explained the situation,
and asked that something be
done this fall to the culvert
crossing the highway in order
to stop further damage. We got
a reply within one week; an in-
spector was out within two
weeks, and repair work was in
progress within four weeks. And
they did a real job, too. Deep-
ened the ditch and built up a
stone wall along the bank of
the creek, and right across the
corner into a neighbour's field—
so
eld—
so he, too, is reaping some bene-
fit.
This prompt action leaves us
with a feeling that if one has a
justifiable complaint it does re-
ceive attention. Or it could
mean that this particular section
of the highways is under the di-
rection of an unusually alert
and efficient supervisor.
However, in other ways the
department still has us guess-
ing. We still don't know wheth-
er the proposed new highway
And the
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Economical 48 -Tablet Bottle 75c
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ISSUE 43 — 1952
from Windsor to Montreal will
come through our farm. Last
week there were surveyor's
stakes in our front field for a
few hours one morning, followed
by what appeared to be an aerial
survey. At least, an aeroplane
was flying back and forth, back
and forth, changing its course
a little each time. So what?
We would like to know.
One way and. another we have
just concluded a busy week.
Sixteen loads of gravel were
spread on the lane and in the
yard — which did not leave us
much change out of a hundred
dollars: Then we heard the
latest cattle market prices and
Wondered whether we should
have spent the money. Not hav-
ing any crop, we also had straw
to buy last week -- and a man
here two days drawing in straw
bales for us. While this was go-
ing on another fellow came al-
ong with his chain saw to cut
up oak logs that were waiting
for him up in the bush. In the
middle of all this activity one
of the cows decided it was a
good time to add to the barn-
yard population. Which she did
—but quickly.
We also had• an addition to the
family at the house — in the
form of a little white kitten —
the cutest little thing. Incident-
ally, if life at any time appears
uninteresting I can recommend
a lively kitten to bring you out
of the doldrums. With a kitten
chasing a paper ball from one
room to ` another, running like
mad, or jumping high into the
air, gloom is dispersed like
smoke in fresh air. Especially
if, as we do, you have to keep
the peace between the kitten,
two dogs and a fully grown cat.
During its first two days here
the kitten used terrible language
—and its claws—whenever the
dogs or Black Joe came any-
where near it. But now it goes
on playing without deigning to
notice them at all. It is also
house-broken so now all I have
to do is teach it not to be a
thief. And that is not always
easy. Well-fed cats are not sup-
posed to feel any temptation to
steal, but yet, if that is their
nature, neither good food nor
punishment will stop them if
the hunting instinct is too strong
to be surpressed by domesticity.
However, our new kitten, Mit-
chie White, shows promise!
"Mitchie White" is so named be-
cause we had a previous Mitchie
for thirteen years — which read-
ers of this column may remem-
ber. That one was "Mitchie
Gray."
Daughter and son-in-law were
here on Sunday and they
brought me boxes and boxes of
odd lengths of drapery material
—beautiful patterns. The pieces
can be put to all kinds of uses
—quilts, spreads, bags and rugs.
I can hardly bear to leave the
stuff alone—it will be such fun
trying to figure out what I can
do with it. But, alas, twenty
yards of pyjama cloth are wait-
ing to be made up. I must needs
curb my enthusiasm and do that
which is urgent.. I wonder why
pyjamas always fall to pieces
just as chilly weather approach-
es! Every other type of gar-
ment can be mended but when
pyjamas fall apart there seems
nothing left good Pnough to
patch.
However. with Bob away
there is less patching to do. And
is he having a good time!
Taking in the scenery before
starting work again . . . Banff,
Lake Louise, Jasper Park. One
place he saw black bears on the
prowl — until they touched an
electric fence. And then. wrote
Bob, "you should have seen
those bears run!" He was 5000
feet up a mountain _. he didn't
say which one •= only that the
scenery was beyond description.
Isn't it strange, with so many
places to go, many people live
out their lives in colourless, un-
interesting surroundings?
Confronted with the task of
paraphrasing the sentence, "He
was cldd in a suit of mail," a
small boy wrote: "He wore a
postman's uniform,"
Ring up another
for MAGIC ! G NGERBREA
DESSERT RING
nthwwres
&;; 1.
Mix and sift 3 times, 114 c. once -sifted
pastry flour (or 131; c. once -sifted hard -
wheat flour), 2 tsps. Magic Baking Pow-
der, 3 tsp. baking soda, % tsp. salt,
tsp. ground cinnamon, % is . ground
ginger, 341 tsp. grated. nutmeg. Cream 3.6 c.
butter or margarine and blend in ) c.
lightly -packed brown sugar; gradually
beat in 1 well -beaten egg and % c. molas-
ses. Combine ?g c. buttermilk and % tsp.
vanilla. Add dry ingredients to creamed
:mixture alternately with liquids and
spread batter in greased 8" angel cake
pan. Bake in rather slow oven, 32iae,
abo•it 50 mins. Serve withhard sauce
which has been flavored with grated
orange rind. Yield: 6 servings.
They .Pipe Rain in California—Sunny Santa Barbara, Cal., gets
rare rain the hard way by piping it to town through a six -mile -
long tunnel under the Santa Ynez Mountains. Backbone of the
Tecolote Tunnel is this bulging steel skeleton seen above. It will
prop up the mountains and reinforce the tunnel's concrete lining.
Most of the rain to wet the California city will run through the
Tecolote Tunnel.
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Hark tb the complaint of a
disgruntled young bridegroom
whose dreams of married life
have taken a jet -action dive.
Married, four
months, he
comes home
daily to a dis-
ordered, dust -
covered apart -
meat and to
dinners that
give him night-
mares. Ike i s
in the mood to
start his first ulcer.
"I was so in love I guess I
.just expected my fiancee to
know everything," he admits.
"What she knows about "food
and cooking you could put in a
thimble — not that she'd know
how to use one. I haven't had
a decent cup of coffee •since I
married. She can't fry an egg
without burning it. The toast
is cold and brittle, and, the bacon
underdone. As for dinners, ours
come out of cans. Frozen foods?
She hasn't heard of them.
"NEAT AND TIDY"
"I never knew that a woman
left beds unmade till night, and
didn't air and dust the rooms
every day . . . My wife can't
remember to leave my suits at
the tailor's, and her own clothes
are all over the place. Espe-
cially since my stretch in the
Navy, I like things neat and tidy.
If she were sick, or if she work-
ed, I'd pitch in and help. If I
say anything, she smiles and
apologizes, and I just weaken.
But some time I'm going to ask
her what she does all day.
"Her people gave me the
works. Her father investigated
my two sources of income (I
have bonds) and my prospects,
and. made sure of my reputation
and character. Her mother look-
ed up my family, and was satis-
fied they were decent. Maybe I
should have done a tittle re-
search myself. But I was too
much in love, and still am. I'm
wondering • how many other fel-
lows go through this? Of course
I've never asked any."
I think this young man's ex-
perience Is extreme. Most girls
know that a pretty face and en-
gaging ways don't feed or re-
lax a man. Being in love, they
equip themselves with at least
some knowledge of homemaking.
As time passes, by some God-
given sense of responsibility,
they usually achieve a satisfac-
tory goal..
To "D1SAPPOINTED": Tell
* your wife, as gently as you
* can, how dissatisfied you are. ,
* To give her a practical start,
* investigate courses offered by
* your local Young Women's
" Christian Association, In most
* of their larger branches, they
* offer homemaking course s,
* (some for wives) and if they
* don't include cooking, they
* might be encouraged to add
* such a course. Your gas and
* electric company may provide
* free cooking classes too. Other
* groups have similar projects.
* Let your wife choose the one
* she prefers, and promise her
* that as she progressess, you'll
* help her experiment at home.
* Be patient, and praise her of-
* ten,
* Whv not take a few Satur-
* days ofl', and clean the place
* together? It could be fun and
* you could make a game of it.
* I believe she will learn more
* quickly and willingly this
* way, than with her mother, or
* yours.
* It is really outrageous that
* a girl is allowed to marry
* without knowing how to keep
* a husband not only contented,
* but proud of her homemaking
* talents. If she were properly
* trained at home in her early
* teen years, it couldn't happen.
* Watch this column, I'll have
"' a piece on that subject soon.
* * *
What have YOU to offer the
pian you'll marry? ft isn't too
early to question — and act.
Anne Hirst has ideas that have
proved useful. Write her at Box
1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor-
onto, Out.
METEORITES
The regional director of the
American Meteor Society, at
Geneva, N. Y., recently an-
nounced that the organization
will pay a dollar a pound for
meteorites brought to it. And,
in addition, there will be a five -
dollar bonus for those found
in New York State soil. So far,
only seven meteorites have been
turned in. Altogether, the so-
ciety says there are probably
thousands of them lying about,
either on the ground or right
under it.
Era s—Skin Troubles
Give your skin a real chance to get well. Go
to any good drug store and get an original bottle
of MOONE'S EMERALD OIL—it lasts many
days because it is highly concentrated.
The itching of Eczema—Salt Rheum—Rashes
—cracked toes and feet and many other skin
troubles — is quickly stopped. Pimples — skin
eruptions dry up and scale off in a very few days.
Moone's Emerald Oil is a clean, powerful
penetrating Antiseptic Oil that dries right in—
stainless. You must be satisfied or money back.
Swam 240 Miles
The Channel has been con-
quered so many times that those
who swim it are no longer re-
garded with awe.
But for those who must swim
long distances, there are still
stretches that are difficult to
negotiate. Recently James May,
aged forty-two, became. the first
man to swim the double length
of Lake Windermere, a distance
of twenty-one miles, in 18 hours
10 minutes,
For those of tougher fibre
there are other swims. In 1950
the world's long distance record
was claimed by Ernest Strobel.
a thirty -two-year-old German
refugee from East Prussia, who
swam from Wiesbaden to Bonn,
a distance of ninety miles in 28
hours. He beat the eighty-seven
:mile record by a Russian in the
Danube before the war
Strobel's swim is not however.
the longest on record, which goes
to Pedroa Candiotti. On March
18th, 1930, he emerged from the
river at Santa Fe, in the Argen-
tine, having started .from Goya
—240 miles away. He was in the
water 65 hours and 54 minutes!
There is a great difference be-
tween swimming downstream in
a river and battling against tides
and wind in the sea. The cross-
ing of the Kattegat is still con-
sidered a magnificent feat. Yet,
in 1938, Jenny Kammersgaard. a
nineteen -year-old Danish girl,
covered the twenty-five miles in
forty hours.
Another of her great swims
was from Bniben, Zeeland. to
Grenaa, in Jutland, fifty-five
miles away. She completed it in
thirty hours.
For those who spurn distance,
there are plain endurance re-
cords. In 1933, Ruth Litzig swam
for 78 hours 46 minutes in Beide-
nay Lake, near Essen, She had
to be taken from the water to
hospital, but never recovered
consciousness, and died next day..
London's Scotland Yard had
their emergency telephone num-
ber changed from 999 to 222, so
so the public could save time in
dialing
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