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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1927-06-17, Page 3ih Established 1871 A GREAT PUZZLE TO 'CAREFUL PARENTS One of 'the greategt pazzles to tha careful parent is to know just what .•medicine to give the little ones. When the child falls ill with griping .pains; is seized with cold or fever, refuses food or vomits what he has taken, when he cries a great deal and cannot get the sleep so neces- sary to the growing child, the parent is in a quandry. What is to be done -on such occasions? As often as not there is not a suitable medicine in the house. The puzzle is what to _give him • to set him right quickly. It is to meet such emergencies that Baby's Own Tablets were de- -signed. These pleasant little Tablets :quickly reduce fever, break up colds, relieve constipation and indigestion ..,and allay teething pains. They quiet the nerves and promote restful -health-restoring sleep. They a r e :guaranteed absolutely harmless and safe for even the youngest and most 'delicate baby. Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 -cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.- -VINEGAR nt: ''VINEGAR FOR BEAUTY AS WELL • AS COOKING Vinegar is a valuable addition to -the toilet table as well as the work table. For an oily skin, one ,part of -vinegar to nine parts of water makes -.a splendid wash. Cleanse the skin First by a thorough washing and then wasli in the vinegar Writer and allow it to dry on. Used full strength, vine- gar is splendid for whitening and /reeling the hands when stained and roughened by work. Vinegar and salt awakes a good polish for copper, brass or zinc. Glue, dissolved in hot vine- gar will keep soft if the bottle is -tightly corked, except during the very coldest weather, and even then dis- solves as soon as warmed. A spoonful of vinegar added to each .can of strawberries when cooking Helps to keep their color. A little vinegar in the stove blackening gives it a lustre and prevents dust from -flying while polishing, One part 'vinegar to two parts linseed oil (or sweet oil) makes a good furniture - solish. Vinegar added to water in which ash is cooked, makes the meat tender. PLAYING CARDS IN A NEW STYLE What . is said to be the greatest -change made in ,the style of playing wards in centuries is described in the :Foston Transcript. The new cards :a►re called index cards, and they are -issued to lessen the chances of mak- ing mistake's, and to permit the hold- "aiir of a,..hand to know its contents at as glance. The :first difference that nsettchea•.1the eye' isthat they igures on the card are much reduced, leaving a correspondingly wider margin. Thus even when the cards are spread -Out in -the for* of a fan, in the hand only -the indices are seen; and three viand . is Tad at a glance. In addition to`•this the indices are not all placed in the extreme corner, as is the' ease,;111th:, ordinary cards. The-- spade and heart indices remain where they were, but the club and diamond indices are set somewhat roarer down. On spade and heart cards the sigh of the suit IS placed above the numeral, and On dirt- -mond and club cards It is placed -lie.,_ glow it. All these devices aid tlig eye in reading the cards and even with- out sorting them into separate suites gid dam: will tell a player what he 'lh ieli is hand, enable him to play Xnore readily, more:, easily follow card .and -genera ease the strain mpori llie eye• in tlte coarse of a long genre if not the strain , on his Brian- SEAFORTH BRANCH R. M. Jones - Manager ces, We doubt if conservatism has per- sisted in any of our social observ- ances tothe same -extent that it has in playing cards. The cards we use now are the cards of Tudor days, and while there have been hundreds of innovations they have lasted only a short time. One exception is to be noted. It is only in the past fifty years -or so that the indices have appeared on English and American playing cards, the American cards leading the way and the English following suit in ten years. When these cards were produced there were two American factories making them, one under the name of "Squeezers" and the other under the name of "Triplicate." The firms made an agreement as to territory and respected each other's sphere of influence. The agreement is com- memorated on the backs of cards which some of us have seen in the form of a picture showing two bull- dogs leashed in front of their re- spective houses, one labelled "Trip" and the other "Squeezer." It is supposed that it was in the early fifteenth century at the time when English soldiers were con- stantly coming and going to and from Normandy and Touraine that French playing cards were intro- duced into England. These cards served as the models for English designers, and in 1463 we find that the importation of Frenchcards was forbidden, on the petition of the English artificers, though paper was not made in England until the end of the century. Twenty years later playing cards had come to play an important part in Christmas festivi- ties, especially among the upper classes, and in 1497 Henry VVI is- sued an edict forbidding servants and apprentices to play them except in the Christmas holidays. The costumes represented- on the most modern of playing cards are those in vogue in the reign of Henry VII. The queens have the queer lappets over theirears that were fashion- able at his court, but their habit of wearing their crowns on the very back of the head did not come into vogue until the time of Elizabeth. It is related ,that Henry himself was sofnewhat Of a card addict, and among his private expenses are found various sums set down ti testify to his ill -luck. His daughter inherited his passion, for it is re- corded of King James and his bride that "The Kynge came prively to the said casteli and entered within the chammer with a small company, where he found the Queene playing at Cardes." It was not until 1628 that the card makers of London formed themselves into "The Ce - pany of Makers. of Playing Cards" find received a roYal • charter. While the cards were pretty well standard- ized then, the makers had their in- dividdal taste and there were many private marks which they desired to protect. Among them it is interest- ing to note that there were the boar and the rose, identical with the marks registered two hundred years earlier upon the forming of a guild of card makers at Tournai. In 1706 there was entered the mark of King Henry VIII. and in 1'741 the Great Mogul .and the Valiant ,Highlander, whieh'survive&•for more than a hun- dred and fifty years. The first "Gamester" was publish- ed in London in 1674, and edition follows • -edition for more than one hundred .years. Sometimes the title is the "Court Gamester-," sometimes the "Compleat Gamester" and sortie - times the "Polite Gamester,* blit al- ways it is concerned with minute descriptions and, ralesfor the games in popular favor. Though the title page in many an early edition pro claims that the boot is written,:for the "yot£ng princesses" and that it contains "full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue after the best method, as they are played at court and at the assem- blies," it shows also "wherein the frauds in Ajay are detected, whether they be by piping or by slicking of the honorsvery smooth, and the laws of each game are clearlyser; forth to prevent disputes." The first edition of Royle appears in 1741, with instructions fbr many games. As you view shelf after, shelf of these quaint little remibdors of those ay and bygone days tf London and oh, you feel that .nerbaps Mr. Richard Seymour was right when he wrote in his preface to one of the nifty' Gamesters, "Gaming is be- e Me so much the fashion among e. Wean Ntonde, that he who rpatiy should appear ignorant of i3. vogue.. Would be reckoYi- 'ietl and hardly fit for nation."' 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