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legends of the theatre% Ile had a dv"
ed' as an American stage comedian.
His arrival as an original American
humorist was slightly liferent. Ile
had been in demand as an after-
dinner
fterdinner speaker at theatrical celebra-
tions and was lmown to be able to
keep bis sophisticated listeners keen-
ly amused and interested. At one of
these dinners one night Louis Waley
of the New York Times was a guest.
He, like the others, was delighted
with Will's speech. But when he
looked in the Times next day all he
saw about it was that "another
speaker was Will Rogers, the humor-
ist."
He protested at the office. Then it
was explained to him that while Will
was very good as an after-dinner
speaker, what he said lost all its
savor if committed to print. Wiley
did not believe it, and he made ar-
rangements for Rogers to write a
weekly article for the Times dealing
with events of the day. This became
a successful syndicated feature, and
it is now estimated that there are
40,000,000 who follow Will's droll
comments in 350 daily and 200 Sun-
day papers throughout the United
States and Canada. Money has come
TO to him in fabulous amounts, and al-
though as an actor he grades very
HIM SLOWLY low, he is one of the wealthiest of
screen performers. His great income
"King Babbitt's Court Jester" is comes from his broadcasts, his writ -
the rather fancy title bestowed upon ings and the movie plays in which
he appears. Unlike many humorists
he does not try to be funny all the
time, and the shrewdness Hess of
telling his is his re-
marks is often as as wit.
As a rule his is the conservative,
'popular point of view. He rarely
offends anybody, and on this account
seems destined for a long reign as
jester to the Babbitts of the United
States.
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t Relief Here's
That Never Falls
mo, mistake—there isone
and
Bu-
y -good remedy for ailing joints
,and the name of that wonder
......JOINT -EASE.
4 ,iGr; aver the world people use it for the'
1W of Rheumatism; Neuritis and
t tica-wand find it good.
Just rub it in --and rub it in good—
s a, splendid penetrating emollient is
omnt-Ease and when you rub it in—
away it goes—right to the seat of pain
And agony—Then blessed relief comes
aPeoUsetl t freely for joints that are stiff,
inflamed—swollen or creaky --use it to
put youthful suppleness into pinta that
Aregrowing old.
Use it for swollen knuckles—for stiff
neck—lameness—lumbago and lame,
aching back—it will never disappoint
you.
Joint -Ease is made in Canada and sold
wherever good medicines are maid -10
cents a generous tube.
WILL ROGERS' FAME CAME
Will Rogers by Henry F. Pringle in
The Outlook. He is more frequently
called the e cowbo comedian,
although
h
it is many yearshe
any-
thing
professional to do 'with lzad cows.
We do not quarrel with the assertion
that he is a comedian and court jes-
ter. It may be interesting to many
to learn that Rogers traces to one of
the oldest of American families, name-
ly, the Cherokees, on both sides of
the house. His father was a man of
substance and was one of those who TAKING NO CHANCES
helped draft the constitution of Ok-
lahoma., Will himself wasborn on
the family ranch and was a genuine
cowboy. The family's circumstances
would have permitted him to receive
a good education but, fortunately per-
haps for the world, his tastes did not
lie in this direction, and after a few
years at school left home to see the
world. His destination was the Ar-
gentine, but he went by way of Eng-
land and there tarried for some time.
The South African war was raging
at the time and Rogers got a job
taking live stock to Cape Town. He
also worked as a horse breaker for the
English army, but for some time his
living in Johannesburg was .precari-
ous, to say the least. Then came a
chance to do a roping act in a Wild
Wiest circus started by a man named
Texas Zack. The performance pleas-
ed mildly and continued for 14 months.
At the end of that time he went to
Australia and continued to perform
in a circus owned by the Wirth Bros.
Thence he travelled back to the Unit-
ed States, and drifted from San
Francisco to St. Louis, *here a
world's fair was raging at the time. not have curative powers but because
He usually 'worked in a circus or side the cure might be more dangerous
Shaw and it seemed that the sum than the disease. Our own opinion
total of his gifts was wrapped up in is that a genuine cancer cure would
make itself as suddenly and widely
known as insulin for instance, and
that on the face of it nothing is more
unlikely that one doctor or one clinic
should have found a cure and the pro-
fession generally remain in ignor-
ance of it. It is a dreadful thing to
tell a sufferer from cancer that there
is no hope for him except through the
use of the old and tested instruments
like the X-ray, the knife and radium.
It is dreadful also to arouse his hope
that some new serum or nostrum
will relieve his sufferings when it
may shorten his life.
A sudden business trip: Bill was
hurriedly packing up. He wondered
if Tom would be home when he
passed through his town. Better not
take a chance, thought Bill, so he
telephoned him. Tom was there and
looking forward to seeing him. What
a convenience Long Distance isi
A
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Stith Rad," Beat
ONTARIO LADY SPEARS EN-
THUSIASTICALLY ABOUT
DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS.
Mrs. N. Couneaye Used Them for
Kidney Trouble and Sore Back.
Tweed, Ont., ,Apr. 19.--•1('Special)—
"1 used your Dodd's Kidney Pills when
my last baby was born," writes Mrs.
Nelson Couneaye, a resident of this
place. "I had a bad Kidney trouble
and sore back. I could hardly turn
in my bed 'without help, I took six
boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and they
put me on my feet again. My daugh-
ter has also taken them for Kidney
trouble and they have •been a great
help to her."
Dodd's Kidney Pills purify the blood
and pure ]flood carried to all parts of
the body means new health and in-
creased energy all over The body.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are an excellent
tonic, and now is the opportune time
to take them. During the long, weary
winter months the system becomes
weakened and gets in a run-down con-
dition. Dodds Kidney Pills work
with Nature by encouraging and as-
sisting the kidneys—to cast out ev-
erything impure or diseased.
•
PATENTED CANCER CURE
DENOUNCED AS FAILURE
Just before the Legislature closed
there was a little flare-up between
members concerning the treatment of
cancer. Hon. Dr. Godfrey seemed to
suggest that in Detroit there was
some serum treatment which had giv-
en good results; and Hon. Dr. Robb
remarked that an examination of the
treatment had convinced him that it
was not a cancer cure. Another mem-
ber showed heat when Dr. Godfrey
expressed doubt that radium was a
suitable agent to be intros' end into
the human body, not because 't might
a lariat. The idea that he hay any-
thing vise or witty to say did not
occur to anybody, including himself.
He was improving his act and was
engaged as a minor attraction in sev-
eral New York theatres in the early
years of the century. •
One night the manager of the
Union Square Theatre told him that
his act was no doubt good, but that
the customers were not versed in its
niceties and it might be well to ex-
plain it to them. Will was ordered
to introduce his performance with a
few suitable remarks. He was reluct-
ant to open his mouth, but he was
still more reluctant to lose his job, A case in point is that of the
so before he began to twirl his rope Coffey -Humber treatment in San
that evening he tried to explain in a Francisco. These two medical men
rather halting and uncouth manner, compounded something which ethey
which later was to become famous, have said at one time was a cure for
what he was about to do. The audi- cancer and at another have said that
once received the explanation with it is not a cure. In any event hun-
roars of laughter. It did not think dreds of patients, some of them from
Will was funny. It thought he was far distances, have flocked to their
ridiculous. He was greatly mortified clinic, and the doctors have been
by the experience, and insisted that able to induce t;ie United States Gov -
he would not do it again. But the ernment to give them a patent for
management insisted and gradually their drug. As a rule the medical
the idea went across the footlights profession looks askance at the mem-
that here was not only an extremely ber who takes out a patent. The dis-
expert rope tosser but a quaint char- ccveries of a doctor are supposed to
atter with a humorous outlook and belong to medical science, not to an
rather a pungent way of expressing individual. But it occasionally hap-
himselg. This brought him to the pens that a doctor or a medical school
attention of Florenz Ziegfeld, who at takes out a patent in order that a
that time did not need rope tossers valuable discovery may not be com-
so much as he needed artists who mercially exploited and fall into the
could walk on the stage and hold ' hands of people whose only idea is
the attention of the crowds while his I to make money out of it. Therefore,
show girls were changing their acts. lit would be rash to condemn Drs.
The crowds liked Will, but what' Coffey and Humber on this score.
really made him a success of the first I Nevertheless their way of getti
order was the legend which spread a patent was rather suspicious to
to the effect that he never made the , say the least. When they first ap-
same jokes twice, that each perform-' plied for a patent, it was rejected on
ed vlt '4fiew of roving Norsemen.
SW14111 a !buoy was the trimout-
llm of .,Ttillakers monoplane. Paint -
a' p� on a side was the inscription,
."Flugfelag, iShoda"--Iceland's ea'1
cooly, Number D468 was ready
for action and I climbed into its snug
cabin.
The pilot toold his place at the con-
trolsand we started taxing down the
fjord and out between the opening
in the mole. The Junkers swung in-
to the wind and picked up momentum.
With scarcely the sensation of a jump
we were in the air. The Icelandic
Air Mail was off on a record trip a-
long the 4,000 miles of coastline on
this little known sub -Arctic route. All
of the letters aboard night easily
have been carried in one of the pock-
ets o my coat with quite a bit of
space remaining.
I saw that our equipment included
a compact but effective -looking radio
set. Occasional flashes were received
on the apparatus, and from time to
time one of my companions answered
the caltae
As we circled low over Reykjaness
—the Burning Cape—we could easily
discern the burning volcanic area that
affects the surrounding waters and
causes the water spouts so hazardous
to the fishing vessels. We came down
into the inlet near Stadur to take
photographs .of a few ill-fated trawl-
ers that had been cast ashore. Then
we were in the air again on the way
to the Westman Islands where our
first mail bag was dropped.
'Maw does it pay to carry such a
small quantity of mail and still op-
erate the plane?" I asked.
"It is not the mail that pays," was
sweis the fishing."
the an r. "It
The 'fies was not particularly
in-
telligible to me at the time except
that perhaps I had outlandish ideas
of trawling from the cabin. But I
was soon to understand the real im-
port of this response.
We were moving up the coast from
Vik, the southernmost point in Iceland
when we sighted a breaking of white
water off the coast. Immediately the
Junkers veered from its course and
circled out to sea. With every mom-
ent we were corning nearer and near-
er to this strange sight; then sudden-
ly the water lost its movement. I
thought to myself, "Whatever it was,
it has gotten away from us."
As though to interrupt me, the
radio started to crackle. A message
was (being sent to Westman and to
Hornafjordur. My gaze was riveted
on a black shadow that was moving
off to the eastward, and I misinter-
preted this shape as the reflection of
the plane on the water. But my com-
panion soon enlightened me with the
words, "Torsk, Fisk."
The "eye" of the fishing fleet had
'located a large school of cod fish and
was tracking the bank until such time
as the trawlers would arrive. We
kept circling, and finally after some
little time, I discovered a tracery of
smoke on the horizon to the eastward
and another to the westward.
"Can't we go on now?" I asked.
"The trawlers are in sight."
"The trawlers may be in sight,"
was the reply, "but they will not be
able to find those fish unless they
come nearer to the surface. They are
down quite a way, and the chances
are that the trawlers would sail right
over them without knowing it."
At any rate we put that school
of cod on ice where it would do some
healthful good, and then we signaled
with the radio, dipped a bit so that
we could almost see the grim smiles
on the faces of the two rugged trawl-
er captains as they lowered and cast
off their boats and went out after
the catch. What a difference from
the chagrin of a futile run for noth-
ing which, four times out of five, was
the experience of the fishermen be-
fore the clays of flying.
The plane gained altitude and start-
ed northward along the east coast
of Iceland, making its scheduled stops
without incident. But we had hardly
cleared the point of Skagafjordur
when a second shadow appeared on
the water and the wireless began to
'crackle again. I could almost visual-
ize the reaction back in Siglufjordur
—largest herring port in the world,
in spite of its location on the desolate
north coast. Merry men rushing up
and down the decks, furious activity
in the stoke -hole, steam bursting
from the whistle and the smiling fac-
es of the "women folk" as they wav-
ed to the men.
I kept an intent watch to catch the
first glimpse of the trawler when it
came in sight. There was a mutter-
ed grunt from one of my companions.
The pilot turned his head for an in-
stant and then the word came, "Tren."
I knew that "tren" was the equiva-
Ilent of train -oil and that it was ob-
i tained from the sharks that were
found upon the north coast of Ireland.
Transferring my attention to the wa-
ter directly below, I saw fins break-
ing about the black shadow that was
flecked with silver—the herring bank.
• The radio renewed its activity and
the advice of Examiner Hopkins who
issued a detailed report in which he
refuted or challenged practically ev-
eryclaim made for the invention, or
pointed out that ,nothing new or pat-
entable had been offered. In brief,
the examiner said that the
Coffey -
Humber extract did not cure cancer.
Neither did it check cancer. Unde-
terred by this rebuff, the dottors re-
newed their application reinforcing
it with a letter from Secretary of
, the Interior Wilbur who explained
that he was greatly interested in the
matter because of the Indians and
'Eskimos for whose health he was of-
' ficially responsible. He urged that
'the patent be issued at the earliest
possible moment. The Commissioner
of Patents, obeying this hint, turned
the application over to another ex-
aminer who in 24 hours reported fav-
orably upon it, and the patent was
granted. The interference of Dr. Wil-
bur in the matter is the subject of
!an extremely critical article by 'Maur-
itz A. Hallgren, in the current issue
"of '117 Nation.
Dr. Wilbur's action does not con -
'cern us here. We are interested
rather in the opinion of recognized
experts upon the extract. Here we
find that all but one of the medical
associations which have expressed
themselves have questioned the value
of the Coffey -Humber treatment. The
only indorsement comes from the
California Medical Association and
this is qualified. The Journal of the
American Medical Association says
that the treatment is not ,a cure, and
is doubtful if it has any value. It
declares that the mortality among
patients receiving this treatment is
about the same as the mortality of
other cancer sufferers, which is
something less than 14 per cent. in
a six months period. The American
Journal of Cancer is "unalterably
opposed to experimentation on hu-
man beings as planned by Drs. Cof-
fey and Humber." Dr. Coffey himself
is quoted to the effect that what he
has helped devise is not a cure but
a treatment. But the application for
the patent explicitly stated that the
preparation controlled or destroyed
cancerous growths.
A resolution adopted by the New
York Academy of Medicine says:
• "Many hopelessly sick persons spent
much or ' all of their money to get
to the clinic of Drs. Coffey and Hum-
, ber, and yet were not much benefitted
by the treatment. In fact, many died
in a short time. In addition, people
abandoned treatment& which are
known to be beneficial, such as X-ray,
radium or surgery, which they were
taking under the care of their own
phycic'.ans. This is in accordance
with the well-known fact that a can-
cer patient will grasp at any straw
•' will often go to any expense or
ti ouule in order to obtain some hoped
for relief." The real danger of a so-
called cure which remains to be prov-
ed iq not that it may impoverish those
taking it, but that they will abandon
methods which have been known to
he successful. In cancer treatment,
roe element of time is often vital. The
t'i'e used in testing some dubious
reredv may be the very time which
v: euld make impossible a successful
tr^'tment by the recognized and es-
tablished remedial agents.
ICELAND'S FLYING FISHERMEN
I stepped off the dock at Reykjavik,
Iceland, into a speedboat headed for
the fjord where mere than a thousand
years ago a little 30 -foot boat arriv-
FEALIN Q iCK STTii E NQ!Mll� ,
"Xw400sonNiformo4ths othe Baric
e plea fieil,d tid cal• T en 'Sootlu-sa_ira'
healed them la few " Jules shi*r4,
"PoelbseSaloa" heats coxes, butes, boils,
rash, oazema #chlika magic. Ali druggists.
aeem not mai'e� exciting than an ac,-,
count of the Twelfth of July parade
in farillia., .read the .account of
it in 51QiayhanR &" and ydu will prob-
ably- conclude, ,that you have read
nothing'` mere' envying. Nobody else
whose work We kn<rwr could have writ-
ten it but. Arnold; Bennett. In this
story, too, Uwe ia: a picture of a .girl
doing a clog'"dance that will not fade
from the Memory, and we might re-
call half a dozen other passages in
this magnificent, book which stamped
the author ae a mien of genius.
Arnold Bennett was one of the
five 'Grand. Moguls of contemporary
English literature,the others beinig
Shaw, Wells, .Qhesterton. and Gals -
worthy. Though of very unequal
talent and distinguishing themselves
in widely different fields, they Were
regarded as about the finest flower
of twentieth .century letters. There
is not one, -,of them who. has not held
his position for a generation or more.
There' is not one of thein who de-
pends, for his inntmortaliity ippon one
work, or even 'one series of works.
One gathers that'the warmest friend-
ship and admiration has existed
among • them, though Shaw and
Wells fell out 'because Wells lam-
pooned some of Shaws friends in a
novel. Wells and Bennett were great
friends. One thing they shared in
common was enthusiasms. Another
thing was generosity to younger
writers coming to the front. They
have all lavished encouragement on
lesser men, though we have heard
the disturbing rumor that this praise
and the praise which screen cele-
brities lavish en various advertised
products have a common origin.
Wells and Arnold .Bens
ett between
them. made the n
reputation of Frank
k
Swinnerton, just as Shaw made the
posthumous reputation of ISamruel
Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
The august critics whom we timid-
ly salute on every opportunity have
agreed that "The Old Wives' Tale"
is Arnold Bennett's greatest work
Our own preference is for "Clay -
hanger" perhaps because we like the
Clayhanger family better than the
Baines family. We have a suspicion
that Mr. Bennett might have agreed
with us. At any rate he did not
write a sequel to "The Old Wives''
Tale" and he did continue the Clay -
hanger saga in much' the same man-
ner as Galsworthy did the story of
the Forsytes, and perhaps for the
same reason, namely that he could
not bear to say good bye. Another
hook of Bennett's which we have
rarely heard mentioned is, to our
mind in the same key of high comedy
as "Conrad in Quest of His Youth."
This is "A Great Man." One general -
lc smiles when reading a story by
Bennett. But no smiles do justice
to the robust humor of this or "The
Card" or "Mr. Proh-ack." In one of
them a young lady is making pur-
chases which her frugal companion
thinks excessive, and when the shop-
keeper having taken the order asks,
"What name, please?" the outraged
made interrupts with "Rothschild!"
and disappears.
Just as Hardy was the interpreter
of Wessex and Mary Webb the inter-
- preter of Shropshire, so Arnold Ben-
- nett was the interpreter of the Mad-
- lands, and not the midlands" of the
crack foxhounds, but the midlands
I rightly deduced that an extra boat
was beling sent for. It seemed as
though several might be necessary.
The sharks had completely surrounded
the herrings and I rather imagined
that they might drive off the whole
school. I had no notion of what
should be done to avert the loss. Sud-
denly I felt a slight bumping which
brought the realization that we were
down upon the surface of th. water.
The breaking water from the fins had
vanished, and we took to the air a-
gain with a defiant beating of the
engine. From the higher level I saw
the.ehark school about a quarter of a
mile farther west. The herring-nk
was moving northward toward th
T.
sea and was likely to escape.er-
haps our efforts would be in vain.
Fortunately, at that moment the
trawler steamed in view, and in re-
sponse to the radioed information,
started to cut off the herrings' run.
We followed the school of sharks
which seemed to have cut off one of
the kindergarten classes of the herr-
ing school and was devouring a fair-
ly inn'pressive meal. The shark boat
arrived a short time later, and we
left them the task.Judging from
subsequent reports, the portion of
the revenue thehe
airplane
companyan
Y
de-
rived from the haul was by no means
negligible.
Swinging to the southward again,
the pilot digressed from his course a
bit, and climbed high into the clouds.
The entire country lay below like a
giant map, and in its center the dread-
ful Odad Hraun, or Death Valley. On
its edge was Askja, with a' crater
large enough to contain the city of
New York. There have been times
when this volcano has burst forth in
an eruption which continued for sev-
eral weeks before anyone knew of it,
and then, as in 1875, the deadly lava
streams, flowing down every valley
in the island, have come upon the vil-
lagers unaware and swept them to
their deaths. The last eruption de-
pleted the population by a third. But
now Askja, Hekla, Krafla and the
others of Iceland's volcanoes are un-
der the eye of the pilots of the Ice-
land Air Mail, and they cannot hide
their caprices for more than two days
at the most.
Back at eykjavik and reflecting' I
had an opportunity to realize just how
important the airplane has come to
be in Iceland. •It is perhaps the only
thing which can practicably open up
the country.
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Fighting Rural Fires.
For several years a determined
fight against rural fires has been
carried on by the Ontario fire mar
shal, E. P. Heaton, and his assist
ants. The barn losses in late sum
mer and fall he blames largely on
spontaneous combustion, the result
of storing green and damp: hay in
the mows. For general protection
the fire marshal recommends more
care in the handling and storing of
gasoline. This, he would place at a
safe distance from inflammable ma-
terial and would store in red tins,
so it could not be mistaken for any-
thing else. Many rural fires he
blames on poorly constructed chim-
neys. These should be built right
to the ground floor, for the masonry
is liable to crack and allow explos-
ive gases to leak out. Long pipe's
leading to the chimney are condemn-
ed, and also the careless leading of
these pipes through partition's. He
would ;enlace properly insulated
sleeves in the partitions. He urges
adoption of community fire fighting
apparatus or arrangements with the
nearest town or village so that the
apparatus would be at the call of
farmers. For this work he recom-
mends a light truck, equipped with
chemical apparatus and several
small extinguishers. Several organi-
zations have already been formed
where a score or more farmers have
joined in purchasing fire -fighting
equipment and transportation. The
truck is stored at a strategic place
and is summoned by telep'hone.
•
INSPIRED CHRONICLER OF THE
FIVE TOWNS
Henry Ford, on the witness stand
in the libel suit he had brought a-
gainst the Chicago Tribune was ask-
ed who Benedict Arnold was. Ile re-
plied that he was an English writer.
So the fame of Arnold Bennett had
obliquely penetrated the conscious-
ness of the great manufacturer, and
we suppose if Ford had heard of him
everybody else who spoke the lan-
guage knew there was such a man.
Now he is no more — dying in his
prime of a disease of which a dis-
tinguished English physician said
more than, a generation ago that for
every fatal case -of typhoid somebody
should be hanged. It is a tremen-
dous loss to English letters for al-
though Bennett . had been writing
books and plays for some thirty years
past he had by no means exhausted
himself. One of his most recent
hooks, "Riceyman Steps," was one of
his best, Bennett had that kind of
inquiring mind which would catch
fire as long as he lived. We can im-
agine (him very ,old indeed; we cannot
imagine him senile. He loved the
world about him too much and was
tremendously interested hi too many
things. It was this quality which
made him the incomparable cflron-
icler of the commonplace.
He had the genius which made it
thrilling. Among novelists he was
the greatest reporter of his genera-
tion. He had in addition the eye of
the poet, and thus his realism is
streets ahead of the younger Ameri-
can writers who have -been hailed by
the younger American critics as .mas-
ters of this hind of writing. One
would think that nothing could be
much' less interesting than an ale -
count of n proce'ssi'on to celebrate
the genii -Centennial of English Sun-
day schools. The subject itself would
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ALL -ARAN
of the potteries, the small merchants,
the rollicking blades, the professional
football players, the ancient families
rooted in the soil for generations He
lived -among the Five Ttowns of his
chronicles and was perhaps the first
to see the underlying tragedy and ro-
mance in that uncouth and desolate
region. Unlike Wells he was never
the school teacher. One does not go
through his novels as through a
C'ook's tour under the firm guidance
of the author. One travels rather with
a companion who never obtrudes, nev-
er compels you to stop and gape at
the wonders on the way, but is con-
tent to share your quiet pleasure on
a footing of equality. It seems to us
that it would do no great harm to
sacred traditions if Westminster Ab-
bey received the bones of Arnold Ben-
nett, and if the Five Towns reared
a shaft to their most illustrious son.
Scene : A small race meeting. Two •
racegoers were on the steps of the
stand when one suddenly clapped the
glasses to his eyes and said, "They're
off."
"Don't be an ass," said the other;
"the last race is already over." ,
"I know," replied the first; "I'na
speaking of the bookies."
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Early Work.
Usually the beginner is inclined to
be too eager and get some things
planted long before the right time.
True, there are a few vegetables, and
one or two flowers which can hardly
be planted too early, but these are
easily remembered. In the vegetable
line, we have leaf lettuce, onions (in-
cluding onion sets), spinach, radish,
cress and similar things. These can
go in just as soon as the ground is
ready, and will weather any amount
'of cold and wet. Peas are another
crop it is well to get in first thing in
the spring. Once upon a time these
were listed with tender crops like
beans and were not planted until af-
ter danger from frost had passed.
Whoever was responsible for th:s pro-
cedure was neither a green pea en-
thusiast nor an agricultural expert.
It has been established over and aver
again that the first sown peas are the
heaviest croppers. You can get proof
from either the experienced farmer
who knows snow and cold weather
following planting is a distinct ad-
vantage and that there is practically
no danger of either the seed rotting
or the plants freezing; or you can
get facts and figures from the nearest
Government Experimental Station
where you will discover that almost
invariably the earlier you sow peas
the larger the crop. If the ground is
fit to plant you can put half your
peas, radish, cress, spinch and some
of your lettuce in quite safely, and
if the weather continues favorable
make a second sowing in about ten
days to two weeks. With peas, rad-
ish, and spinach, early sowing is im-
perative, and successional sowing,
that is planting four or five times at
ten day intervals, is not recommend-
ed. These eregetables must get their
growth early, while soil is wet and
cool, and before the weather tufn
warm. In order to make` the crop
Last as long as possible instead of suc-
cessional sowing rely on varieties, that
is, get early, medium and late sorts
and make two plantings. In this way
you will have a long season, In the
flower line, one can safely sow those
things that ordinarily seed themselves,
just as soon as one can walk over
the ground. These include corm ios,
calliopsis, poppies, ealendulas, and a
few other extra hardy flowers. They
grow rapidlyin the cool, wet weather
of eearly, Sprang. But for other vege-
tables and flowers, one should not be
in a hurry. Zinnias, asters, mari-
golds, stocks and other beautiful
bloomers, as well as such delicious
vegetables as rbeans, beets, corn, tom-
atoes, cabbage and new potatoes, will
nrake decidedly more satisfactory
growth if sown or set out when wea-
ther and soil really warm up, rather
than if rushed in too soon.
Watch the Soil.
Too much stress cannot be laid on
the condition of the soil. Gardening,
like fishing, golf and other hobbies,
develops, apparently, a bit of fever,
and under its influence one is inclin-
ed to rush in much too soon. The soil
should not be worked unless it crum-
bles when squeezed in the hand. If
it compacts into a ball or muddies
the boots, it is"too wet and- should be
left alone. If worked then, it will
bake later on, become lumpy and the
plants will not germinate and grow
evenly. If you must dig at this time,
take it out in post -holes.
Sweet Peas.
In recent years, some of us have
found difficulty in growing sweet peas
but if we follow a few simple direc-
tions, we should not have any trouble
in producing this, one of the most
beautiful flowers for bouquets. Like
the ordinary garden pea, we must
plant early. Indeed, in the case of
the sweet pea there is absolutely no
danger of sowing too soon, and the
best time is during the first few warm
days. In warmer sections of Canada,
it is possible to sow in the fall. On
account M the necessity of earliness,
it is well to select the earliest soil in
the garden. Often you can dig one
spot while the rest of the place is un-
der snow or water. Put your sweet
peas here no matter where it is. As
a matter of fact, .sweet peas are a
flower for cutting, and we do not
mind if they are grown among the
vegetables. They may even do better
here, receiving the regular vegetable
garden cultivation. Plenty of humus,
well -rotted vegetable material, is im-
portant for this plant, so that roots
can develop freely and in the cool,
lower soil. Dig a trench about a foot
deep, put in a six-inch layer of rotted
leaves or old manure and tramp down
well. Add two inches of good gar-
den soil, and you are ready to sow.
Space seed 'about four inches apart.
As the planta grow, gradually fill in
the rest of the trench. This will en-
courage maximum root growth in cool
soil. Support must be furnished in
the way of strings—'an old tennis net
answers fairly well --brush, or wire.
In Eastern Canada, sweet peas will
climb three or four feet, but much
more than this in Alberta and Brit-
ish Columbia. A little quickly avail,
able fertilizer . applied twice during
the growing season, worked into the
soil without •actually touching the
plants, and heavy watering during
dry weather late necessary to keep
the flowers (blooming continuously,
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