HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1932-07-29, Page 3V.`•
7'
w..
YI J
77.1
1 1 I
414
A
ti
;AV
171X 29, 1932.
it l
rt,
j!I
Seen in the
County' Papers
Fractured
Fractured Skull. •
!Galen, aged 9, only eon of . Mr. aid
fiv1rs- Archie Robinson, of Londozr,
'suffered a fractured. skull and other
'Injuries in an accident while visit-
ing with his parents, with Mr, and
-Mrs. Alvin Eery, of Centralia.
'ellen with ether children, had ,gone
to the barn to ,play early in the af-
ternoon and had 'climbed to the tap
(of the hay mow and were playing
with a trip rope. He. stepped into a
May shoot, and fell to the cement
-floor of the stable, a distance of
about 35 feet, landing on his si•le. He
'struck a couple of objects which' broke
thefat] or death would have been in-
stantaneous. The lad was brought to
the entice of Lr. :Fletcher • ane was ti
later removed to Victoria Hospital 'n
London. Latest reports state that
he will recover if no further compli-
cations set in.—Exeter Times -Advo-
.
aate.
limesAdvo-
s:ate.
Lavatory Bowl is. Stolen From Park.
When Agricultural Park gratul-
•htand was opened for the season
shortly before July let, it was dis-
covered that an unknown thief had,
at a time not yet determined, stolen
-i lavatory bow, from a toile; under
'the grandstand. Before the water
could be turned on it was necessary
that something be done about it; so
new bowl was purchased and in -
;stalled at a cost of $20 without the
forrnality of calling an emergency
ei,eeting of the town courted.--Gode'
rich Star.
Former Brussels Girl Dies.
A former Brussels girl in the per-
son of Mrs...Dr. Marr, of. Lethbridge,
Alta., better known to Brusselites as
'Miss Minnie Shaw, daughter of the
late John •and Mrs. Shaw, passed
:away recently. Mrs. 'Marr will be re-
membered by many who sympathize
-with the bereaved ones. — Brussels
Rost.
Laying of Concrete Commenced
Tuesday.
° The laying of concrete on Havelock
'Street comlrnenced on Tuesday 'morn-
, sng about 10 a.m., fair progress tieing
made that day, and if the output of
-the% crusher ih the pit can provide
.worn 200 yards of gravel e'er day to
-the big mixer, the, work should be.
eom•pleted by the end of the week.
Lucknow Sentinel. ,
Diver Goes Down to Wreck.
On Sunday last on Lake Huron
Capt. Earl McQueen, owner of the
tug !Max L., of Amherstburg• donned
a diver's suit and succeeded in. -lo-
cating the wreck of the ill-fated gov-
ernment dredge, which sunk on the
previous Thursday, a few miles south
+of !Bayfield in 78 feet of water. His
feat of going 'below ' to this great
depth ' wee highly commended . by,
Capt. Reid, of the•.. Reid Wrecking Co.
and by inspector ,McLuckie, of the
Department of Public Works. A
buoy was anchored at the scene of
the wreck, as it is located in the navi-
gation .lane.—Zurich Herald.
Death .of Major McTaggart
It was with sincere regret' that the
••citizens of Clinton and vicinity re-
ceived the news'of the death of Maj-
or Malcolm D. McTaggart on Thurs-
• day last. Major •McTaggart's death
resulted from .a malignant affection
• of the throat, frolet which he had suf-
fered for some months and which
'baffled the skill of the most expert
,specialists. Major ;McTaggart, a
member of on of 'Clinton's best
Jdnown' families and a man who had
spent practicably all his life here,
(was known to every man, woman and
.-child in town and community and his
passing leaves a vacancy inthe busi-
• mess and social life of the town. He
was a son of the late Malcolm Mc-
Taggart and his wife, Margaret Hart,
pioneer residents of Huron County,
'eane was born at Kippen, January 30,
1873. Later the family came to Clin-
ton and for year Mr. McTaggart the
elder carried on s manufacturing
business here. The' funeral was held
an Saturday afternoon to Clinton
cemetery, with full military honors.
A service was held in the Presbyter -
'Ian Church, conducted by the Rev. C.
E. Dugan, and attended by a large
gathering of friends, including many
of those prominent in the district's
military circles. -•-Clinton News -•Re-
cord. -
•
Bob Didn't Qualify.
Bob Stoddart was ,unable to reach
the required height for 'the pole vault
in the trials at Hamilton on.. Satur-
day, and failed to qualify for mem-
bership in the !Canadian Olympic
-team. Out of the eight men from
'various parts of the Dominion who
-participated in the trials at Hamil-
•iton, the Goderich boy was considered
-the one likely to represent Canada
: at Los Angeles this falle, None of
the eight were able to qualify, how -
,ever, and consequently, Canada will
t not have a pole vaulter on its team.
- +Goderich Signal.
• Chautauqua Has Deficit of $1500.
'This is !Ch tauqua week in Gode-
• wish. The programs so far have been
.excellent, but the financial depression
as havingl its effect, and the guaran-
tors Will have a deficit of about $500
to (meet. A call is being made on each
of the forty-two guarantors for a
contribution of $12.--Goderich Sig -
Ten Years in Penitentiary.
John Jardine was sentenced! to ten
years' imprisonment in Portsmouth
• /Penitentiary by 'Magistrate 'Reid an
"Thui+sday for an attempt to commit
eerious offence against his' Baugh-
. ter, Mrs. William Berry, of Amberly.
. Jardine pleaded guilty to the charge.
Godexich Sinnal.
Last Rites Said For Rev. Father
Young.
Rev. John J. Young, parish priest,
sof S trathroy, died ' at 11.26 Friday
morning last'in St. Joseph's Hospital,
London. He had been in failing
health for over a year. A member of
.t .. arla ..,I r:F lA., sELt •,4 ,utl::
a well -!known lOollborne township fam-
ily, tion of the lateIMr. aetd 'Mrs, 'Wm.
F. Young, of the 8th coneession; h
epent his early years in this coni-
niunity, and the news of his death
was receimed with sorrow fore his pass-
ing at a cdmlparatively early age and
with sympathy for his brothers and
sister in their great loss. Father
Young was forty-five years of age.—
Goderich 'Signal.
Collision At Holmesville.
:Harry Grace, !bf Stratford, was ine
jured. when two trucks collided at
Holmesville on Saturday. A bone in
his hand was fractured, and he suf-
fered bruises and other -injuries. The
Ontario Bakeries' truck which he was
driving was badly smashed. The
driver of the other truck. belonging
to the Goderich Manufacturing Com-
pany, was Allan Miller, of Goderich.
The accident occurred as Miller was
making -a left turn off the highway.
The bread truck struck the rear right
fender of the heavier truck, careened.
off, uprooted a -highway traffic sign,
smashed a telephone pole and finally
turned over in the...diteh some dist-
ance from the point of impacts Eye-
witnesses said !Grace was fof Lunate•
in escaping as lightly as ' he did.
"Traffic Officer H. J. Foxton investi-
gated the accident, with the result
that charges were laid against both
drivers — Goderich Signal.
Back in the Old Stand.
IllIu. J. W. Trussler, who has been
spending •some time in Goderich—the
last few weeks, has decided to remain
here: and has purchased from Mr. J.
T. Fell the photography business,
which he formerly conducted and
which he sold to Mr. Fell away back
in 1916. Mr. Trussler has spent the
interval in Detroit, where he was
engaged in photography work, and
so has his "hand in. tGodericii Sig-
nal. ..
Tells Inside Story •
• Of Asquith's Downfall
Among the :services to mankind
which will constitute the final
score of Lord Beaverbrook, perhaps,
none will be refire important than
his revelations concerning the down-
fall of the Asquith Government, the
rise of Lloyd George and/ the subse-
quent conduct of the war. Since
Lord Beaverbrook played a hand in
the game that euchred Asquith and
since he is a man by nature" given
to frank utterance, he is in an ad-
mirable position to relate exactly
what"' happened, and incidentally re-
move some popular mythi. In his
book, Politicians . and the War,
Beaverbrook"devotes severer chapters
to the incidents whose consequences
are visible to this day. Asquith was
•undoubtedly. not. tee roan to lead a
nation in 'a great war. He "had riot
the temperament. Says ' Beaver-
broo'k: "!kis complete detachment
from the spirit of the struggle; his
instability of purpose; his refusal to
make up his mind on grave and ur-
gent issues of policy;, his balancing
of one adviser against another until
the net result was nil; his funda-
mental desire to have a peaceful
tenure of office in the midst of war
could in the long Brun have but one
result. The men who were in tune
with the atmosphere of the war—
the bold, the eager, the decisive
spirits --first fell away from him arid
then combined against him."
Lloyd George was restive. He want-
ed wider powers', the authority to
make jnstant decisions of the firs;,
importance. He and others" of As -
'smith's colleagues feared that their
chief might consent .to a peace by
negotiation, and their alarm was
heightened by the famous Lanedolwne
memorandum. Pressure was brought
to bear an Asquith and he admitted
that a war oabinet, an inner circle,
was necessary. He proposed_ that it
should consist of himself, Lloyd
George and Bonne Law. But Cues
zon objected to Bonar Law,: whose
place as Conservative leader he hop •
ed to win, and then Asquith suggest-
ed Balfour. With a curious absence
of mind he mentioned Curzon's objec-
tion to Lloyd George in the House
forgetting that Bonar Law sitting
beside him could hear every word.
Law naturally was angry with Cur-
zon for his objections with Asquith
for attaching weight to them and
with Lloyd George for apparently
acquiescing, 5
At this time 'Beaverbrook, who was
a great admirer and strong personal
friend of Law's, had come to the con -
elusion that the supreme council
should include Lloyd George, Bonar
w and Carson. Carson was willing.
Law was reluctant. He distrusted
Lloyd George and refused to be
drawn into anything like an intrigue
ac;aznst Asquith. •But eventually he
was won over and agreed that Lloyd
George was the man best fitted to
presiee over this inner council. He
desired, nevertheless, to give As-
quith final authority. Asquith re-
jected the plan both on account of
Lloyd George and of Carson. Then
Bonar Law took the proposal to the
!Conservative members f the Cabinet,
who came forward with the extra-
ordinary 'alternative suggestion that.
there ehould be two councils, one to
run the war and the other to con-
duct the other affairs of the nation.
His activity in the matter had cast
Law sclmie of the adherence of his
.own party. His position was almost
as difficult as that of Lloyd ,!George
and their joint isolation drove them
together,
!On a critical day in the course of
these negotiations a newspaper an-
nounced that Lloyd George would re-
sign if his demands were ,not
granted. This enraged the Conserva-
tive cabinet ministers and they in-
struetednar Law to wait on As-
quith and demand his resignation.
Their real hope was that if the
premier resigned Lloyd George would
be crowded out of. any cabinet re-
organization. Asquith parleyed, and
'that, night sent fox Lloyd George
afterward making the announcement
that they had reached conuplerte
agreement on the nature of' the war
council though thea* had net agreed
ite personnel« ' When • •the IA,
nal memfbers read in the.neet dae'a
newspapers time there was tl,► be a:
cal¢inet xeoreeniee4404, • thefe -was
pa2iic e,Ln, thhe* rante& t fey helnied
to Downing- !Stieet anti urged As-
quith to resign. If the did, •they
would walk lona with him. Curzon
lChaanberlain and Cecil saw here an
oipportunity to rkl theneelves !both
of LleydeGeon'ge and Bonar Law. They
too premised to stand .by him. So
Asquith decided to fight. He de-
clared for' resignation and the "deft -
trite proof that he was the only pose
slbble Premier:" In other words, he
doulbted if any other ,premier could
command a 'majority in the House.
'He dodged interviews with both
Lloyd George and. Bonar Law, and
actually it was George who resigned
first, sending Asquith a frigid letter
in which he' asked that the corrre •
spondence be published. When 'As-
quith refused he protested that he
was placed in an unfair position. As-
quith then said that he had himself
resigned. The King sent for Bonar
Law as head of the Conservative
party. Law consulted Asquith who
refused to serve, under him. Ho also
refused to serve with Lloyd' George
under Balfour. There followed a
conference with the king which was
attended by all the party leaders.
Once more Asquith - refused to take -
any subordinate position: Then Bonar
Law advised the Kung to summon
Lloyd George. On hearing this news
George imanedirately sent Law to see
Balfour, then ill in bed. "Well,"
said Balfour, "you hold a pistol to
Im'y head, I must accept." Thus was
made possible by the loyalty of Bal-
four and Bonar Law the government
that led the nation through the rest
of the war to the final victory.
Secretary of State a
Picturesque Figure
One way or another, England's sec-
retary of state for the dominions
•proposes to make Irishmen. pay for
the acres acquired under the bitterly
contested land annuities program. e,
F. Tholmas has just made this plain
by putting through a bill to impose
a tariff up to 100 per cent: on Irish
goods; this to even up for Eamonn
de Valera's refusal to pay the semi-
atueual instalment.
Secretary Thomas has always been
forthright in matters of money.
When the national union of railway
men refused him a $2,500 office'r's
pension for his family he got right
up in meeting and told his fellow'
members what he thought of them.
Perhaps money means much to him
because he was born poor. An er=
rand boy and car wiper, he rose to
the secretaryship of his union and
finally to the rank of a cabinet n m-
istcr of his government, but no big
salary went a1on • with either • job.,
1 -Ie is fifty-seven years old, and stocky
v: it a heavy moustache that must at
times get into his tea. He is the
father of three 'sons and two daugh-
ters. Though a member of a Labor
government, he is no radical and
when occasion requires does not hesi-
tate to warn Russia to mind its P's
and Q's.
Tested and Approved
Recipes
"OIs, raspberries! Thd't Means de-
licious jam, and I just love" raspberry
jam," said one of the best cooks in
Canad)ti.
Raspberries bring such a fresh
tang in the ripe fruit that it is poor
management to destroy it in making
a jam that must. cook for 45 minutes
and in that long cooking period lose
both flavor, color, and boil juice
away so that a smaller quantity of
jam results.
!By following this recipe carefully,.
a tender, succulent jam, in. the rosy
red shade of raspberries, fully ripe
and fresh, will result.
Raspberry Jam.
4 cups (2 lbs.) prepared fruit.
6%• cups (21 lbs.) sugar
1e bottle liquid pectin.
Crush or grind about 2 quarts (2
lbs.) fully ripe raspberries. Measure
sugar and fruit into large kettle, mix
well, and bring to a full rolling' boil
over the hottest fire. Stir constantly
before and while boiling. Boil hard
1 minute. Remove froim fire and stir
in pectin. Then stir and skim my
turns for just five minutes to cool
slightly and prevent floating fruit.
Pourquickly. Seal hot jam at once
with paraffin wax. This recipe makes
about 1f eight -ounce jars.
;Blackberries, the brunette sister of
the delicious raspberry, makes a
splendid jam and the above recipe is
used instead of the amount for rasp-
berry jam.
Raspberry jelly used to be the mast
critical to make and even yet very
few cooks attempt it by the old long
!boil method of jelly making since
those recipes demand fruit underripe
and !very freshly picked before the•
sugar and pectin will concentrate in
a jelly.
A tender, sparkling, raspberry jelly
can be made by the most inexperi-
enced cook by fallowing the reeipe
given h . carefully. Besides the
ease and. --Speed of making raspberry
jelly in this modern way, there is
the factor of low cost and a perfect
product to be considered. There is no
danger of failing to get perfect rasp-
berry jelly in (fifteen • minutes if this
recipe is followed.
,Raspberry Jelly.
4 cup (2 tbs.) fruit juice
7% cups (31/4 lbs.) eugaii
1 bottle liquid pectin.
!Crush thoroughly or grind about
3 quarts (3 lbs.) fully ripe berries.
Place in jelly cloth or bag and
squeeze out juice. Measure sugar
and juice into large saucepan and
mix. Bruce to a boil over hottest
fire and at once add liquid pectin,
stirring constantly. Then bring to a
full rolling boil and boil hard 1e min-
ute. Remove from fire, skim, pour
quickly.. Seal hot jelly at once with
paraffin wax. Makes about 11 eight -
ounce jars.
Either blackberries or loganberries
can he made into a fine jelly by fol-
lowing the above recipe, and there is
no !danger of having to reboil or
a'le's a fo?r=' liy made ° y'followleg*
these repipell
eierefully. EPA offe
hoe b n• w> e# out to give the din-
est 3 .'ly elelleil}jl • in the shortest tjeee.
anti at 7, .
• l''ruit deai#Jt's: expect a 4141404
4
raspberry '0ea0n. 'because of the free
growing 'nether, with • a .good bal-
ance of ra n r 'and sun ijr Weather.
The best berries are, ftrl'1, red aed
juicy a:nd a much better produe t ' re -
stilts if fresh, ripe berries are used,
instead of buying email, underripe
berries such as were formerly used
when the fruit was 'boiled for a long
time. •
When the fleet is at the height c•f
the season, it is still cheaper to buy
it, and make egnserves fent recipes
that give .a good number of jars to
each quart of fruie, used. The above
recipes give approximately five eight -
ounce jars to'" each quart of fruit.
The 'Sugar costs about two cents a
jar and the pectin for the jam is 11
cents per jar; for the jelly, three
cents. To get the cast of jam or
jelly per jar from these recipes, di-
vide the numlber of jars into the Cost
of the fruit, and add 3% cents far
the jam, and five for the jelly.
The Ex -King Michael
Now Has An Aeroplane
The 11 -year-old Crown Prince
Michael of Roumania, who tried to
climb a tree a year ago with an
automobile, now has an aeroplane.
He has been teasing King Carol for
one since he was 9, and the gift may
indicate his father's, gratification in a
son possessing a mind tenacious en-
ough to eling to ever idea that long.
On the other hand, inaslmtuch as the
boy's instructor ?will be the pilot who
flew'Ejng Carol back from Paris for
the coup Which- regained' him his
throne, the affair may be just a piece
of forehandedness.
,Lack 'of confidence will not bar
young (Michael teen turning himself
into a good flier. A fattish little tike
who looks as though he had had a
lot more candy than baby doctors
say is good for the young, he sports
that air of cocky assurance which
marks his royal pa. He also has his
daddy's small, petulant mouth and
virtually total absence of chin. He
doesn't like royal pomp, and he was
glad when his father's return took
the crown off his shock head. Polish
monaiichists talk of giving him a
coronation party in their capital, but
he much prefers playing with motors
and planes. IHe is smart. He scored
98.7 inan examination, and the pres-
ence
reyence of his father at the tests didn't
faze him a bit.
It has been announced that his ed-
ucation is under' the personal direc-
tion of King 'Carol. In view of 'Car-
ol's awn education, this probably
makes the youngiter's mother, exiled
in 'Italy, following her refusal to be
a good wife, a bit apprehensive.
Car Engineers Fight
Squeaks and Noises
One of the chief annoyances of the
average rrrtotorist—body and motor
squeaks and 'noises, is receiving con-
siderable attention by auto engineers.
Leaders of the industry predict that
within a few -years many of the
present sources of irritation of that
kind will be eliminated.
Recently the engineers of one large
automobile' company discovered a
way to minimize greatly the roar of
Pie engine tan. Irregular spacing
of the blades did the trick.
They found that an automobile en-
gine makes a humming noise for the
carne. reason, as the electric fan of
the home and ofirca—vibration of air
caused by the rush of fan blades.
The crowded condition in which
fans operate between the engine and
the radiator set up an area of high
pressure and made the 'problem of
eliminatinf the noises without de-
creaaing the cooling efficiency more
difficult.
Fan blades could have been iiat-
tened or the fan speed reduced they
pointed out, but that would have
sacrificed efficiency. Finally ;t was
found that by spacin;; the fuu:•
blades at irreg•rlar distances heft re-
sults could be obtained.
Bible Still a Best Seller
The_Bible is still a best-seller, but
it is not read in this tabloid age be-
cause people don't know how to read
it and are frightened away by seem-
ing contradictions in it, declares Dr.
Charles E. Jefferson, urtil rrcr'tly
pastor of the famous "Sky,craner
Church° in New York. F plaining
Dr. Jefferson's striking idef- of the
Bible in the modern world, Rw.<?os.
Fort Newton quotes him in McCalls:
1"The Bible;" says Dr. Jefferson,
"still holds first place among the
best-sellers; but when one reads of
the number if 'Bibles sold, one can-
not help wondering where they go.
It is easy to be misled by figures.
Because so many Bibles are sold does
not mean that they are read. A
Bible which is not read is rro Bible
at all, and the plain fact is that the
Bible is little read to -day, even :by
church folk. The 'Bible' is a classic—
that is to say, it is praised by people
who do not read it. There is a deal
of shamming in our use of the Bible.
Even Christian people who would be
ashamed to admit that they dad not
have a ''Bi'ble in the • house, do not
open it once a year.
"Why is ,the greatest of all books
left in neglect? Lack of time, for
one thing; there are so many thrill-
ing things to read. But a deeper
reason is that the Bible, as a whole,
is not easily understood. Stirred by
a glowing serfmlon, a man stars to
read the Bible from cover to' cover,
but he gets stuck in the middle of
Leviticus. He tries the New Testa-
ment, and goes on the 'rocks in the
Epistle to the " Romans. Nothing
could induce him to try it again. lie
cannot make out what it is all about,
except a few great passages. :.The
Bible is not a book, but a library of
sixty-six books running in thirteen
!hundred closely printed pages; and
we live in a tabloid age. Everything
must be brief, bright, breezy.' A
huge book like the Bible frightens
folk • away: The old' view of the
anwwu.ez',wwsxx An:a a.
AtA
isible "Indy" Rubber
EVERY STAMP BEAD A7' A GLA11fCZ
Price List' "
Sales tax and delivery charges included. For borders add two
extra lines. Curved lines count as 2 lines.
Ask for quotations on special ruled stamps, signature stamps,
dating stamps, etc. -
•
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
McLean Bros., Publishers
Established in 1860 Seaforth, Ontario.
Bible made every part of it of equal
authority and value, the Book of
Numbers and the Gospel of St. John;
and that puzzles people. They are
worlds apart, and one contradicts
the other. By putting them together
in places or time or value, we obscure
both.
"How to get the Bible, more widely
read and intelligently understood is
a vital issue before the 'Church, if
religion as we know it is to live. It
is'. a mistake to suppose that the
average man or woman will know
how to start in the study of the
Bible. They must not simply be told;
they must be shown how to read it-.
"The Bible must be broken up into
pieces, and its books mastered one
by one. Like the plays of Shake-
speare, the books of the Bible belong
to one family,but each is different.
Each must be studied in its own set-
ting and situation, if we are to know
why it was Written, to whom it is
addressed, and what it means. This
takes time and work` If one masters
one book in the Old Testament and
one in the . New, each year, he is
doing well. It is worth all the work;
and when one has mastered ten
books, nothing but death will prevent
him from mastering them all. No
man has the right to hold any
opinion whatever about the Bible
until he has read it, honestly seargh-
ing for the depth of its meaning.
The Bible is a world power, and we
release the p,o.av er only as we read
and ponder arid -incarnate the great
truths which are set forth in its
pages."
Few Car Gadgets
Ewer See Market
The inventor of the average auto-
mobile safety device has two strikes
on him before he gets to bat.
H. 0. Rounds, of Detroit, who has
been looking at new gadgets for 17
years as director of the safety coun-
cil of the °Automobile Club of Michi-
gan, has seen a lot of them come
and go—mostly go: Out of a couple
of hundred ideas a year on how driv-
ing could (be made safer, few survive
to a very lii'nited market.
'And the worst of it is that most
of the stuff I've seen does have some
applications," he says. "It accom-
plishes what they claim. it wilI."
"People and manufacturers just
aren't safeyt-conscious. A manu-
facturer is interested in shaving a
cent off the 'building of an autamo •
bile, not adding ones You can't
blame him 11. that, either, since•
safety devices mean little to the
majority of buyers. To pry $2.50'
away from the car owner for a
safety accessory is a tough job.
"Just the other day, for instance,
a fellow was in here was a scheme
to fire -proof the interior of^an auto-
mobile. It worked too.. But the best
offer he could get ,from an automo-
i'ile plant was $1,000. He laughed
at that, and I don't blame him.
"There was another one, some
time ago. He came from Los An-
geles and had patented a novel
ievice with the principles of the
camera shutter for signalling a
right' or left turn. I liked it, so
did a big manufacturer to the ex-
t:efrt of $5,000. Why, if that wasn't
worth $100,000, I don't know any-
thing about them.
(hounds, incidentally, is a strong
booster for safety •appliance. His
own car is decked with gadgets,
headlamp improvements, electric
signals, an abundance of• rear-view
mirrors. One he strongly indorses
is a cigar lighter which makes it
unnecessary for the driver to take
his eyes from the road. Another is
a pair of night driving glasses which
the operator peers through by mere-
ly lowering his head.
Laugs on the Doctors
,And the Lawyers
Even doctors will laugh at all or
most of the stories told against them
and their profession in the volume en-
titled, "Humor Among the Doctors."
to which Ian Hay contributes a pre-
face in which he wittily describes
anecdotes as "the small change of
history" and warns us not to despise'
them on that account. Here is a
good one from the chapter entitled,
"When the Doctor Trips":
"Are you sure I shall recover?"
once asked a very anxious patient of
his doctor. "I have heard that doc-
tors'sometinies give wrong diagnoses
and ha,A•e treated a ,patient for pneu-
monia who afterwards died of typhoid
fever." "Let me tell you sir,"• said
the medico, indignantly, "that you
have been woefuily misinformed. It
very rarely happens that.a diagnosis
is wrong; and as far myself, if I
treat a man for pneumonia, he dieg
of pneulrnonia."
Another story of the difficulties of
diagnosis concerns a doctor who "was
out of joint with all the world":
"What an earth is the matter?"
said his friend. "You look awfully
mad." "I should think so, too,' was
the angry reply. "Here have I been
treating a patient for three years for
yellow jaundice and I've only just
found out that he's a Chinaman."
Here, too, is a'story of that fam-
ous wit and divine Sydney Smith—
a story which is also told of Charles
Lamb and is therefore probably un-
true of either of them; but, still, it•
is a good story:
Sydney'Smith was given some med-
icine by a physician whom be had
called in, and instructed to take it
on an empty stomach. "Whose stom-
ach?" asked the celebrated wit.
* * *
Quite as dry-flavored—and quite as
fatmaliar, though it, too, will bear re-
peating—is the story of the profes-
sor ,who was lecturing to a class of
medical students anxious to get a-
way to a football eupi final:
At last the clock pointed to the
hour at' which the class was usually
dismissed, and there was at once a
general rising from seats and a cal-
lecting of books. "One minute,
please, gentlemen," expostulated the
lecturer—"one minute, please. Keep
your seats. I have still one more
pearl to cast."
Even doctors have been known to
be 'wearied by their patients' com-
plaints, as we learn from these two
stories, bothof which are too good to
he new, hut are no worse for being
old:
"1 understand," said a friend once
to a doctor, "that Brown is a martyr
to dyspepsia." "Yes," replied the
-doctor, he is dyspeptic all right, but
ur,. v:J1„rd.tt
it is his wife who is the martyr.” '
"You can '• never talk to .Miss Smith,
complained another person to a doe- •
tor, "but what she gives you 'a full
catalogue of her aiirrienta:" . "Yes," .
was the reply, "you might almost
call it an organ recital."
'And, of course, there • simply had
to be the famous story of Whistler;
Whistler once called in .Sir Morel!
Mackenzie, the great throat specialist
of the Victoria era; and when ]Mac- .
kenzie arrived at the painter'shouse
he found that he was expeeted to
treat a sick French•poodle. Natural-
ly he was none too •pleased, but he
saw to the dog, took his fee, and"
went away. A little while later Mac-
kenzie sent for Whistler urgently,
and when the latter arrived greeted
him with, "Oh, I'm glad you've come;.
I just wanted to ask you about hay-
ing tiny front door painted."
A good story, though one wonders
whether Whistler, whose twit wast
etched in acid as sharply as anything
he ever put on paper, had not an eq-
ually crushing reply.
* * *
7n his preface to "Humour Among
the Lawyers," Mr. J. A. R. Carins,
the famous London magistrate, points
out that though his collection of
stories deals only with 'the lighter
side of the courts, it will fulfill one
purpose—"the reader.. will discover
that criminals haav a queer resembl-
ance to him and me --and the bishop."
Iiiere is a story about Lork Birk-
enhead in his early days at the•bar
when he was• representing a railway
company, one of whose vehicles had
run down a boy. The boy's ease was
that his arm was so 'badly injured
that he could no longer lift it above
his head. "F. E.'s" cross-examina-
tion of the boy was carried out very,
very quietly—and very, very effec-
tively:
"Now, my boy," he said. "Your
arm was hurt- in the accident?"
"Yes, sir," said the boy. "And you
cannot lift your arm high now?"
"No, sir." "Would you mind," said
F. E. very gently, "just showing the
jury once more how high you can
raise your arm since the accident?"
The boy lifted it with an apparent
eifort just to'the shoulder level. "And
how high could you lift it 'Before
the accident?"' asked F. E., in the
most innocent manner, and rsp went
the arm straight over the boy's head.
This was almost as devastating
its effects as the famous retort of
Sir Edward Carson (now Lard Car-
son):
"Do you drink?" he once said to a
man whose maiiter was• trucul'ent, and
whose nose suggested an obvious an-
,swer. "That's my business," snapped
the witness. "Any other?" asked Sir
Edward, quietly'.
The courthouse is the hotheuse of
.the withering retort, as we learn from.
this story of the. famous Lord Ellen-
borough and a well known counsel
who was arguing a long and dreary
case of real property in the drearie t
of dreary manners:
Having not yet completed his eaa&
at the end of the day, . the barrister
applied to knot-* when it would b;,iz
their lordships' pleasure to hear thC''
remainder of his argument. "Mr.
said Lord Ellenborough in reply, "we',;.
are bound to hear you out, anal• r he'c
eve :slharll 'do so on Friday, but alas'
pl'easure 'has been Iong butt of
question.
•.::,+is 4• , i,'h..a.n. ,.I l. <.,.fYh.. x . ,w u,' ... (i. . +td ,.,ku: !di 1,:u. i''8'.
i1
s4
`rt
Heighth
of Letters
Length
2u 1
3" 1 4,, 1 Sir
6•,
1 Line
Additional
%4'
Inches
40
20
!
;,
45
25
50
30
55
35
60
40
1 Line
Additional
3/8
Inches
50
25 l'
„
60
30
' 75
35
85
40
95
45
1 Line
Additional
-%
Inches
00
30
I
80
35 1
t 90
40
t 1.00
45
1:10
50
1 Line
Additione01
3/
Inches'
80
35
95
45
• 1.10
. 55
1.25
65
1.40
t 75
Sales tax and delivery charges included. For borders add two
extra lines. Curved lines count as 2 lines.
Ask for quotations on special ruled stamps, signature stamps,
dating stamps, etc. -
•
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
McLean Bros., Publishers
Established in 1860 Seaforth, Ontario.
Bible made every part of it of equal
authority and value, the Book of
Numbers and the Gospel of St. John;
and that puzzles people. They are
worlds apart, and one contradicts
the other. By putting them together
in places or time or value, we obscure
both.
"How to get the Bible, more widely
read and intelligently understood is
a vital issue before the 'Church, if
religion as we know it is to live. It
is'. a mistake to suppose that the
average man or woman will know
how to start in the study of the
Bible. They must not simply be told;
they must be shown how to read it-.
"The Bible must be broken up into
pieces, and its books mastered one
by one. Like the plays of Shake-
speare, the books of the Bible belong
to one family,but each is different.
Each must be studied in its own set-
ting and situation, if we are to know
why it was Written, to whom it is
addressed, and what it means. This
takes time and work` If one masters
one book in the Old Testament and
one in the . New, each year, he is
doing well. It is worth all the work;
and when one has mastered ten
books, nothing but death will prevent
him from mastering them all. No
man has the right to hold any
opinion whatever about the Bible
until he has read it, honestly seargh-
ing for the depth of its meaning.
The Bible is a world power, and we
release the p,o.av er only as we read
and ponder arid -incarnate the great
truths which are set forth in its
pages."
Few Car Gadgets
Ewer See Market
The inventor of the average auto-
mobile safety device has two strikes
on him before he gets to bat.
H. 0. Rounds, of Detroit, who has
been looking at new gadgets for 17
years as director of the safety coun-
cil of the °Automobile Club of Michi-
gan, has seen a lot of them come
and go—mostly go: Out of a couple
of hundred ideas a year on how driv-
ing could (be made safer, few survive
to a very lii'nited market.
'And the worst of it is that most
of the stuff I've seen does have some
applications," he says. "It accom-
plishes what they claim. it wilI."
"People and manufacturers just
aren't safeyt-conscious. A manu-
facturer is interested in shaving a
cent off the 'building of an autamo •
bile, not adding ones You can't
blame him 11. that, either, since•
safety devices mean little to the
majority of buyers. To pry $2.50'
away from the car owner for a
safety accessory is a tough job.
"Just the other day, for instance,
a fellow was in here was a scheme
to fire -proof the interior of^an auto-
mobile. It worked too.. But the best
offer he could get ,from an automo-
i'ile plant was $1,000. He laughed
at that, and I don't blame him.
"There was another one, some
time ago. He came from Los An-
geles and had patented a novel
ievice with the principles of the
camera shutter for signalling a
right' or left turn. I liked it, so
did a big manufacturer to the ex-
t:efrt of $5,000. Why, if that wasn't
worth $100,000, I don't know any-
thing about them.
(hounds, incidentally, is a strong
booster for safety •appliance. His
own car is decked with gadgets,
headlamp improvements, electric
signals, an abundance of• rear-view
mirrors. One he strongly indorses
is a cigar lighter which makes it
unnecessary for the driver to take
his eyes from the road. Another is
a pair of night driving glasses which
the operator peers through by mere-
ly lowering his head.
Laugs on the Doctors
,And the Lawyers
Even doctors will laugh at all or
most of the stories told against them
and their profession in the volume en-
titled, "Humor Among the Doctors."
to which Ian Hay contributes a pre-
face in which he wittily describes
anecdotes as "the small change of
history" and warns us not to despise'
them on that account. Here is a
good one from the chapter entitled,
"When the Doctor Trips":
"Are you sure I shall recover?"
once asked a very anxious patient of
his doctor. "I have heard that doc-
tors'sometinies give wrong diagnoses
and ha,A•e treated a ,patient for pneu-
monia who afterwards died of typhoid
fever." "Let me tell you sir,"• said
the medico, indignantly, "that you
have been woefuily misinformed. It
very rarely happens that.a diagnosis
is wrong; and as far myself, if I
treat a man for pneumonia, he dieg
of pneulrnonia."
Another story of the difficulties of
diagnosis concerns a doctor who "was
out of joint with all the world":
"What an earth is the matter?"
said his friend. "You look awfully
mad." "I should think so, too,' was
the angry reply. "Here have I been
treating a patient for three years for
yellow jaundice and I've only just
found out that he's a Chinaman."
Here, too, is a'story of that fam-
ous wit and divine Sydney Smith—
a story which is also told of Charles
Lamb and is therefore probably un-
true of either of them; but, still, it•
is a good story:
Sydney'Smith was given some med-
icine by a physician whom be had
called in, and instructed to take it
on an empty stomach. "Whose stom-
ach?" asked the celebrated wit.
* * *
Quite as dry-flavored—and quite as
fatmaliar, though it, too, will bear re-
peating—is the story of the profes-
sor ,who was lecturing to a class of
medical students anxious to get a-
way to a football eupi final:
At last the clock pointed to the
hour at' which the class was usually
dismissed, and there was at once a
general rising from seats and a cal-
lecting of books. "One minute,
please, gentlemen," expostulated the
lecturer—"one minute, please. Keep
your seats. I have still one more
pearl to cast."
Even doctors have been known to
be 'wearied by their patients' com-
plaints, as we learn from these two
stories, bothof which are too good to
he new, hut are no worse for being
old:
"1 understand," said a friend once
to a doctor, "that Brown is a martyr
to dyspepsia." "Yes," replied the
-doctor, he is dyspeptic all right, but
ur,. v:J1„rd.tt
it is his wife who is the martyr.” '
"You can '• never talk to .Miss Smith,
complained another person to a doe- •
tor, "but what she gives you 'a full
catalogue of her aiirrienta:" . "Yes," .
was the reply, "you might almost
call it an organ recital."
'And, of course, there • simply had
to be the famous story of Whistler;
Whistler once called in .Sir Morel!
Mackenzie, the great throat specialist
of the Victoria era; and when ]Mac- .
kenzie arrived at the painter'shouse
he found that he was expeeted to
treat a sick French•poodle. Natural-
ly he was none too •pleased, but he
saw to the dog, took his fee, and"
went away. A little while later Mac-
kenzie sent for Whistler urgently,
and when the latter arrived greeted
him with, "Oh, I'm glad you've come;.
I just wanted to ask you about hay-
ing tiny front door painted."
A good story, though one wonders
whether Whistler, whose twit wast
etched in acid as sharply as anything
he ever put on paper, had not an eq-
ually crushing reply.
* * *
7n his preface to "Humour Among
the Lawyers," Mr. J. A. R. Carins,
the famous London magistrate, points
out that though his collection of
stories deals only with 'the lighter
side of the courts, it will fulfill one
purpose—"the reader.. will discover
that criminals haav a queer resembl-
ance to him and me --and the bishop."
Iiiere is a story about Lork Birk-
enhead in his early days at the•bar
when he was• representing a railway
company, one of whose vehicles had
run down a boy. The boy's ease was
that his arm was so 'badly injured
that he could no longer lift it above
his head. "F. E.'s" cross-examina-
tion of the boy was carried out very,
very quietly—and very, very effec-
tively:
"Now, my boy," he said. "Your
arm was hurt- in the accident?"
"Yes, sir," said the boy. "And you
cannot lift your arm high now?"
"No, sir." "Would you mind," said
F. E. very gently, "just showing the
jury once more how high you can
raise your arm since the accident?"
The boy lifted it with an apparent
eifort just to'the shoulder level. "And
how high could you lift it 'Before
the accident?"' asked F. E., in the
most innocent manner, and rsp went
the arm straight over the boy's head.
This was almost as devastating
its effects as the famous retort of
Sir Edward Carson (now Lard Car-
son):
"Do you drink?" he once said to a
man whose maiiter was• trucul'ent, and
whose nose suggested an obvious an-
,swer. "That's my business," snapped
the witness. "Any other?" asked Sir
Edward, quietly'.
The courthouse is the hotheuse of
.the withering retort, as we learn from.
this story of the. famous Lord Ellen-
borough and a well known counsel
who was arguing a long and dreary
case of real property in the drearie t
of dreary manners:
Having not yet completed his eaa&
at the end of the day, . the barrister
applied to knot-* when it would b;,iz
their lordships' pleasure to hear thC''
remainder of his argument. "Mr.
said Lord Ellenborough in reply, "we',;.
are bound to hear you out, anal• r he'c
eve :slharll 'do so on Friday, but alas'
pl'easure 'has been Iong butt of
question.
•.::,+is 4• , i,'h..a.n. ,.I l. <.,.fYh.. x . ,w u,' ... (i. . +td ,.,ku: !di 1,:u. i''8'.
i1
s4
`rt