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Ingrid Says "Cut" — Ingrid Bergman and Italian Director
Roberto Rossellini drink a toast after completing movie, "Strom-
boli," at Farfa, Italy. The Swedish -born actress, who is expected
to wed Rossellini after divorcing her husband, said the movie
would be her last.
H ICLES
1NGERFARM
eve d.oLirti.e P. Cte,,rke
Have you been enjoying the
' cooler days? I think the weather
has been just about perfect the last
few days. A little chilly night and
morning perhaps, but doesn't that
give one a grand opportunity to
burn up rubbish in the cookstove,
creating a little warmth in the house
which is by no means unwelcome.
Rubbish . . . but what is rub-
bish? This last little while I have
been driven to think that question
out quite seriously. You see, Daugh-
ter has been on the rampage around
.the house since she came home.
"Mother," she says, "whatever do
you keep all this junk around for?
. Mother, do you want this? ...
How about throwing this thing
out?" And that's the way it goes.
Unfortunately, some of the things
Daughter regards as "junk" I would
not part with for anything. Scraps
of paper, some of thein of no value
to anyone but myself. . Looking
through some of• this so-called rub-
bish yesterday I came across a page
torn from a school scribbler filled
both sides with verses written on it.
"What's that?" asked Daughter
curiously, as she noticed I was ready
very intently, and I wouldn't won-
der, with a smile on my face.
"Just some verses I wrote about
you and your very first Christmas,"
I answered. And it was. I had for-
gotten I ever wrote them, yet I
remember every detail that, was
mentioned.
Rubbish? . . perhaps so — and
of no literary value whatsoever —
but I'm glad that sheet of paper
wasn't destroyed with some of the
other "junk" that we threw away
that day. It brought back so many
memories — some happy, some sad,
but all of them belonging to our life
on the prairie.
Rubbish . . .' another kind . of
rubbish . . . odds and ends of
print and silk, And yet what beauti-
ful -pieced quilts- have been made
from just such little bits of ma-
terial that might otherwise have
been thpown out. Take the Dresden
plate, for instance — such wee
scraps of gaily coloured print make
up the pattern—and how lovely
when it is finished, And other
things made from scraps . . . in
our house we have two lovely warm
and practical knitted wool blankets
made entirely from old wool. That
is, wool from old socks and sweaters,
unravelled and knitted into squares.
In some cases I have used three
strands of wool because it was so
thin and worn.
Rubbish . . . apples lying on the
ground to rot because we can't use
them up fast enough or find enough
people who would like then. Daugh-
ter has been taking apples to her
friends in the city every few day
and they have been glad enough to
get them. And of course I have
been giving them away by the
basketful. Too bad such good food
should spoil until it is no more ,than
rubbish.
Well, we have one little creature
around here who doesn't intend to
let anything to to waste if she can
help it—although she isn't too
keen on apples. And that is our
Honey. When she is hungry she
does her best to prove it. The two
dogs have their supper served up
to then outside the back door in
separate dishes. Tippy's—a brown
earthenware bowl; Honey's—a deep
narrow oblong tin. The reason for
this odd -shaped dish is to help
Hohey to keep her ears out of her
supper! Recently she showed signs
of picking up her dish and carrying
it around. So we kept her at it and
now she will pick it up with her
teeth, carry it through the woodshed
and into the kitchen. But she never
touches it until she knows it is just
about supper time. But tonight she
must have forgotten to look at the
clock or something. Anyway, Honey
followed ale out when I went to
pick corn for supper. At least that
was my intention — but it wasn't
Honey's. Oh no, Honey went
straight to her dish, picked it up
and walked into the house with it.
Even though it wasn't supper time
I had to reward her with a little
milk. She looks so funny because
she will often grip the dish by the
lower end so that the rest of the
tin covers her nose and eyes. She
can't possibly see where she is
going, yet she navigates the steps
and gets into the house and hardly
ever bangs into anything at all.
I have been hoping that some day
I would turn around and see her
stepping in with nay glasses in just
that same way. But so far no luck.
Now I have given up hope of find-
ing them and plan to 'visit the city
tomorrow for a new pair of glasses.
I'm tired of having a headache all
day and every day.
s
-- By Harold Arnott
PLACING A BUTTON IN THE
BOWL. OF A PIPE WILL AID
GREATLY IN YOUR SMOKING
ENJOYMENT. THIS WILL
PREVENT SMALL PARTICLES
OF TOBACCO FROM ENTER-
ING THE PIPE STEM, THUS
KEEPING 'THE TOBACCO PRY
ANP MELLOW. THE BUTTON
15 HELD ABOVE THE BOTTOM
OF THE BOWL, WHICH 1S OFTEN
DAMP WHEN WE PIPE I5 IN USE.
090rf1 Tales
WHEN USING A SAFETY
RAZOR BLADE FOR STROPPIN(r, •"'
oR FOR CUTTING PAPER, YOU r,
CAN HOLD IT CONVENIENTLY ty
BY OPENING ONE BLADE O1- A
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THE BLADE.
Gave Special Show. For
Man About To Be Hanged
Sarah Bernhardt, the world's
most exotic actress, lived as many
lives as a cat -or the puma or 1iot1
cub she kept among her many other
strange pets.
When she took her company to
the U.S.A. a slick showman pestered
her to go to see a captured whale
on view in Boston harbour. "It is
still alive, but you must be quick,"
he said. "I have brought it to Bos-
ton especially for you. It has cost
me a small fortune."
She arrived at the frozen harbour
to find a step -ladder in place so that
she could mount the ninety -foot
whale's back and "publicize" the
spectacle before a big crowd. The
back was so icy that at the first .
step she slipped. •
Adrift On Ice -Floe
White with fury at being ex-
ploited in this way, she leapt on
to an ice -floe, and from that to
others, intending to make for the
quayside. But her floe broke away
in the treacherous current and began
floating towards the open sea, with
the crowd shouting frantically. Not
until a bait put out and rescued her
did she realize that she was in ser-
ious danger. The floe hit the boat so
heavily that its gunwale cracked as
Sarah was hoisted safely aboard.
Later, when she went on Chi-
cago, the showman was there ready
to cash -in again with a huge cloth
stretched over the station exit:
"Come "and see Sarah Bernhardt's
whale. The celebrated actress wears
stays made from the• monster's
hones."
Never having worn stays , in her
life, she refused to leave the train
until the notice was removed.
En route to Columbus her train
was held up because the Ohio was
in flood and an arch of the Galli -
polis bridge had been strained by
the pressure of the stream. The en-
gine -driver offered to race the train
across the tottering strulcture if
Sarah would sign a paper compen-
sating his widow in case of accident.
She accordingly guaranteed 2,500
dollars on a document deposited
with the stage manager, who was to
remain behind.
The train, gathering speed, rush-
ed the bridge over the swirling tor-
rent in rain and mist. There was a
ruinbling, swiftly followed by a jai
which shook the train, tilted Sarah's
carriage, and made it shudder like
a racehorse. When it slowed down,
panting, there was a noise like
thunder, a great reshing of water.
Behind the last wagon the arch had
collasped and fallen into the river.
His face streaming with rain, sweat,
coal -dust, the driver ran back,
laughing. Sarah shook his hand
through the window and made him
a present of the 2,500 dollars.
In Chicago she was so mobbed
by a huge crowd that she became
separated from the rest and all but
suffocated. Suddenly, she found her-
self hoisted on the shoulder of a
giant of a man with one eye, who
bore her through the crush to her
carriage. "Come with me, please,
monsieur," she begged, still lerri-
fled.
Thought He Was Mad
During the .drive to her apart-
ment he cowered back into a cor-
ner, pulled his greasy cap down
over his forehead, his one eye look-
ing nervously to right and left.
"He's crazy," she thought.
Immediately they reached her
suite he dashed to the window, then
fell on his knees as If to hide his
presence from the outside. "The
man is mad," she thought again. "I
must call the chambermaid." The
next minute he was saying: "I won't
do you any harm, madame. Only
they are already there."
"Who?" she asked.
"The police, the detectives," he
saki. "They are going to recapture
me... . I have escaped from the
Joliet prison. Ten years ago I com-
mitted a crime—for a woman; I was
mad with jealousy; I was sent to
prison. Once my crime was purged
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Asa married me, then she began to
• be unfaithful to me again. My bus-
iness failed, she tormented me and
left me. This time it was not the
man I killed, but her....
"go I was condemned to death.
I escaped, but I was recognized
among the crowd," he went on.
"Oh, I have no regrets, madame; I
am a doomed man. I do not regret
what I did this morning; itwillbe
a rnemory- to me . , . until the day
when I shall be hurtled into an-
other world."
Haunted Her Dreams
She gave hien food. His one eye,
his enormous .hands, terrified her.
Finally, she thanked him for his
kindness; he went to the door, two
waiting detectives swooped on him,
and she fainted.'
A few days: later she was invited
to entertain the convicts in Joliet.
"Do you remember the one -eyed
man? asked the governor. "He is
going to be hanged and has asked
me, as a last favour, to ask you to
come and play • for us." She gave
the performance, and % there , were
eight curtain calls. "And now, ma-
dame," said the governor, "Number
729 will read you the usual address
of thanks._ We are hanging hint the
.day after to -morrow and this is his
last favour."
. The one -eyed giant cane for-
ward and read a speech in a halting
voice. Sarah thanked him, shook his
hand. On the day of his execution
she was so prostrate that her im-
presario Suggested cancelling the
evening's performance. For many
nights his face haunted her dreams.
Unusual things were always hap-
pening to her. On the rough Atlan-
tic crossing a huge wave • threw her
and another woman passenger to
the deck, and the other slid feet
foremost towards the companion-
way. Realizing that she might crack
her head at the foot of the iron =
steps, Sarah flung herself at the
elderly woman, grasping an arm
with one hand, the handrail with
the other. It was a miracle that they
were not both scuppered.
"Madame," she told Sarah, "I
have to thank you for saving my
life," and asked her rescuer's name.
"I, madame," she added, "ata Abra-
ham Lincoln's widow."
Lashed Rival With Whip
Back in France, she was shocked
by a book written about her by
Marie Colombier, a jealous, spiteful
actress who divulged all the secrets
and confidences of a once -intimate
friend. Sarah went straight to her
home with a dramatist friend, Jean
Richspin, lashed her with a riding -
whip, smashed the china, pictures,
everything, while Ricl}epin demol-
ished the chair and table legs me-
thodically, one by one.
She travelled with a silver wash -
hand basin, among other domestic
gear, This, at night, she would
perch on a chair placed on a trunk
set on end against the door of her
room. "If anyone touches my door,"
;he explained, `the basin falls down
and acts as an alarm." Hearing a
din early one morning, her grand-
daughter rushed in. The basin had
fallen. Sarah was sitting up in bed
pointing a service revolver at the
door.
It is the granddaughter Lysiane
Betrnhardt, who now tells these and
countless other astonishing atories
hi "Sarah Bernhardt: My Grand-
mother," translated by Vyvyan Hol-
land.
UNDAY SCIIOOL
LESSON
By Rev, R. Barclay Warren
PSALMS FOR DAILY LIVING
Psalms 15; .24:1-6; 143:8-10
Golden Text: Cause me to know
the way viwherein I should walk;
for I lift up my soul unto Thee.
Psalm 143:8.
The way we should live is clearly
set forth in the Psalms. It will' be
revealed to us as to the Psalmist If
we earnestly pray as he did in our
Golden Text. The righteous one
does not backbite, nor do evil to his
neighbor nor take up a reproach
against him. If all professed Chris-
tians would live up to that stand-
ard, there would be much less
slander and evil speaking. "If any
plan offend not in word, the same
is a perfect man." James 3:2. More-
over, the righteous man speaks the
truth in his heart. Being honest
with himself, he is honest with the
world. The man that shall dwell in
God's, holy hill is "he that sweareth
to his own hurt and changeth not."
If he makes a promise,"'he will keep
it, even though it prove to be to
his disadvantage. This is a search-
ing test. Alas, the old saying, "His
word is as good as his bond," is
true of too few.
The,,uprigiit man does not charge
excessive interest, nor accept bribes. .
The standard of righteousness is
summed up in the words, "He that
hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
who hath not 'lifted up his soul onto
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully."
key to righteous living is a p ire
heart. Jesus said, "Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they shall see
.God." He shall stand in God's holy
. place.
The New Testament is the latest
in Divine revelation. Truth has
been set forth more clearly by Jesus
Ohrist. But in studying today's
lesson, we see that the great funda-
mentals of righteousness are in the
Psalms. We need the grace of our
Lord that we may practise aim.
After speaking to workers in a fac-
tory canteen, the preacher invited
questions. A man stood and said,
bluntly: "We don't need religion.
'We have everything we want. We
have plenty of money, The firm pro-
vides recreation. Food is put before
us, and we don't even have to clear
away or wash up the crockery.
What need have we of religion?"
The preacher found his reply in the
poster prominently displayed in the
canteen: "Twelve hundred knives
and forks have been stolen from
this canteen during the past month.
In the future, those using the can-
teen must bring their own cutlery."
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Short on Cost— made with Magic
Mix and sift into bowl, 2 c. onoe-aifted pastry flour
(or 1X c. once -sifted hard -wheat flour), 4 tsp. Magic
Baking Powder, js tap. salt. Out In finely 4 tbs.
rtening. Make a well in oontre, pour in ;f c. milk; min
htly with a fork. Roll dough out to }S u thiakneae; cut
to 10 shortcakes. Bake on greased pan in hot oxen, 496'.
-16 min. Split and butter bisoults. Fill and top each
with spoonfuls of:
HAM -CREME MIXTURE: Melt 9 the. butter; blend
in 2 tbs. Sour, M tsp. salt, } tap. pepper, Gt sup. dry
mustard, few grains cayenne. Gradually stir ha 1 e. milks
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shredded cheese, 1 tap. Woroeeterdnirs seams;stir until
cheese is melted. Add 1 a. diced cooked haus, }{ e. socked
green peas, is c. kernel;corn; heat thoroughly.
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has the wholesome goodness of TWO golden
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