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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1937-08-27, Page 6ei K • iris tlu. artielr -tee -WOOS .who- r,:iRlleb uzuouee, 'but love the sun. b 4Oean, and Lean ipanii. iib the ";t„ It is about the 'Virgin is - Ada and how to live cheaply in a eifte '9±l'ay,'. Five days put "got eNew ' York (Fur- s West India lime, roumtdtrip mine $125) .lies the deep bleeomed t"trbioi''of St. Thioma, . Above it the Wile, of the town.' Red -roofed rhouses, tier on thief. Oactua flowering like -pillars (of goad, - Flamboyant -trees splashing guinea g'rasu with crimson end bougainvillaea, flinging eo&riet s prays. Lit ami Maine anal color. There is a tremendous midday light Tiee little town, In a bravery of color, shimmers against its high bright chills —red and white on emerald gneen. And the sea is the blazing blue of cornflowers, fantas'Ei.caily s1,adiiig cff to purple, lilac and jade in the, shal- lows. In the tropics Nature is extravagant and prodigal with beauty. Sunsets are more gorgeous, and cloud colons love - Mer; stare burn brighter and come closer to earth. And the moon is very large and may go to your head. Columbus discovered thes'e islands and named .them, for the martyred - horde of St. Ursula, a; lady who set out from Britain 1600 years ago with 11,000 virgins to visit the Holy Land. On the way an army of Buns attack- ed the girls, And—defending their virtue—the virgins died. Columbus's 'piety led his mathematics astray, for there are only about a hundred is lands, counting rocks. Half the is- lands belong to us, the rest to Eng- land. And only about six of them are inhabited. There is everything you oould want on St. Thomas, from electric refrig- eration to tennis, golf and the latest movies. And there is almost every- -thing on St. Croix. But on St. Jahn there is nothing art all but beauty., There are about 20,000 colored peo- ple in tee islands, and. 2,000 whites, among them a colony of fisherfole called Cha-chas, descended Exam REPO DIRECT10NS CAREfDLLY,.AND En LOW: THE• M ='`a�r EXACTLY Each pad will kill files all day and every day for three weeks. 3 pads in each packet. 10 CENTS PER PACKET. at Druggists, Grocers, General Stores. WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD •C,O., Hamilton, Oat. ''Fieeth who -were' bh 'V eked -on St. ' helms long ago. The Cha-chas' have nothing to de with either blacks or other whites. Their women are, pale w'it'h Sat breasts; wed thin Bair Ira flax en, -braids. 'Meta and women wear. queer, identical boats. And none of them laugh, wthloh is strange in, a iandewhere everybody le happy. One of the plieasautest things about St. Thomas is that you -can see so much in a short time. West Indians say that the ideal island should be small enough to go around -in a dray, big enough to live on, little enough to love. The Virgins, fill all specifica- tiana-and more. There is, for instance, Bluebeerd's Castle Hotel, new and smart, where every room has veranda and bath. The story is that there were two Pir- ates on St. Thomas, Biackbeard and Bluebeard—whose beard was blacker than black. They built themselves towerlike fortresses and Bluebeard, unholy rascal, kept 13 women in his, and made Love to them all. Biuebeard's Castle Hotel, built a- bout the old fortress, is managed by a Russian prince, Dmitri Starrosel- sky, who was once a major in the � Czar's army. Bluebeard's is like.saome- thing out, of Sommens'et Maugham. For about $5 a day you can live in a room precious as a calla lily, and sheep in a pale green bed with an innerspring' mattress. There are also several mod- est hotels with correspondingly cheap- er . rates. If you have a family, you probably will take a house. Rentals begin at about $25 and' run to $60 a month, and the houses have baths and, electric- ity. You could have Blackbeard's place, I think, for sixty. But maybe you prefer something primitive — a shack, perhaps, on a heart -shaped beach. For '$10 a month you can have the shack with bougainvillaea, and a beach fringed wit silver sand and 0000anut palms and the purple sea, For $12 a month you can hire a wo- man .to cook and myarket and keep your 'house clean. On $50 a month it is possible to live 'rather well. L''r fe on St. Croix and St. John is cheaper than on St. Thorne's. But there is nothing much to do on St. Croix and tothing at all on, St John, except, of course, the swimming ` which is gor- geous on all tee islands. Temperature ranges in winter from 70 to 80; in summer it jumps about five degrees. The islands ate swept by the cooling trade winds' which blow constantly -and every bed at Bine- beard's has a woollen blhnket! Hardly anybody is sick ire St• Thomas- Nobody Iles colds or pneu- monia; tropical diseases are. almost unknown, The .only malady contract- ed by visitors• is indolence, and the sooner you get it the 'happier you will be, for it's lovely being lazy in the Virgins. Dumb: "Are you reviling?" Dora: "No, I'm giving a silent In- dian war whoop." WHAT A WRECK CONSTIPATION MAKES • Gonstipatton can dull your whole -lige. Headaches, poor complexions tired, lifeless daysare often the results- Also, many serious diseases. Get rid of common constipation now with a ready -to -eat cereal— Kellogg's .ALL -BRAN. ALL-BItele brings you the two things your system needs to act naturally: "bulk" and vitamin B to help tone the intestines. Within the body, ALL -BRAN ab- sorbs more than twice its weight in water--forns a loft mass, and gently clears the intestines of wastes. It acts naturally. Pillsand drugs seldom cure con- stipation. You just keep on in- creasing the dose and switching from one laxative to another. Just eat two tablespoonfuls of Kellogg's Am -BRAN every day, three times daily if needed. Serve as a cereal with milk .or cream, or ase in recipes. Sold' be all grocers —made and guaranteed b -y Kellogg in London. g ecies A milk truck collided with a car, and many bottles of milk were brok- en. A crowd gathered. "Poor fellow," said a benevolent - looking ma_n to the driver. "You'll have to pay for this accident,- won't you.?" "Yes, sir," said the driver. "That's too bad. Here's two dol- lars towards it, and I'll pass the hat for you." After the crowd bad contributed and dispersed, the driver said to a by- stander. "Pretty smart guy, ain't he? He's the boss." Housewives To Be Advised of Package Change No telling these days just what new fashions are likely to appear—with everything from silk stockings to automobiles coming out with new yearly models, such changes cease to 'be news. But 'when an old familiar product like Challenge Corn Starch announnes a package change—that's n'ew's to every housewife in the dis- trict. In discussing the change, a Canada Starch Company representative stat- ed that the new per'kege on one side .would contain many of the old char- acteristics of the familiar Challenge package inchsding the Rooster trade mark—and the new -name of the pro- duct—Canada Corn Starch which it is planned to call the product by in fu- ture. In other words Challenge and Can- ada Corn Starches are new combined in this new. package. Previously they were sold .separately. This simplifies the marketing and distribution and materially assists the grocers as they low merely stock the new package. There •,being positively no change whatevef in the quality. of the product it is believed "milady" will be satis- fied, and soon call for it by the one name, "Canada Corn Starch." Becanee of the uncanny manlno'r•17r witch •tile prophecies oe Mother Sltip- `ton; leave - been eontin'g--te- para derirkg' recent years, contddierable attention has been, attracted to this strange creature of four centuries ago. Even those Tito have in the past scoffed at the weird predictions ,of this ancient "witch`' are now stirred by curiosity to wonder what will next occur in title. direction•. Mother Shipton, we ere told, was born in Yoreshire, England, in July, 1488, and died about 1559. In books of information she is described as a half mythical English.propheteas, bap- tized, Ursula Southiel,who later mar- ried Tony Sthipton, a builder, Ac - Cording to tradition, she was the child of Agatha S'bipton and the Devil. The following extracts frees her amazing prophecies were, taken from a scrap book made more than forty years ago and owned by a Rochester woman, saes the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: A House of glass shall come to pass In merry England, but, alas! War will follow with the work In the land of the bloody Turk, And State and State in fierce strife, Shall struggle for each other's life, Carriages, without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe.. In London, Primrose Hill shall be, ' And the center of a bishop's sea. Around) the world thought _s.hall fly' -.•. In the twinkle of an eye. Through the hills men shall ride And neither horse nor ass bestride; Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall also talk. Iran in the water shall float As easily as a wooden boat. Gold shall be founds and shown In a land that's now unknown. Fire and water shall wonders do And England shall admit a. Jew. Three times three shall lovely, France Be led to dance •a bloody dance • Before her people shall be free; Three tyrant rulers shall she see Each springing from. a different dynasty And when the last great fight is won England and France shall be as one., And now a word in uncouth rhyme ' Of what shall be in latter' time. In those wonderful far-off days Women shall get a strange new craze To dress like men and, breeches wear And cut off their beautiful locks of hair, ' And ride astride with brazen brow is witches do on broomsticks now. Then love shall die and marriage cease Aad babes and• sucklings, so decrease, That wives shall fondle cats and dogs 'And men live much the same as hogs. In eighteen, hundred and ninety-six Build 'yetis -houses of rotten sticks For then shall might wars be planned end fire and sword sweep over til land. And those who live the century through In fear and trembling this will do. Fly to the 'hounntains and to the glens, To bogs and forests and wild dens, For tempests will rage and oceans will • roar, And Gabriel stand on sea and shore; And as he toots his wondrous born old` wands. sba,ll die and n,ew be bgrn , Iu die fir urea nihi1 be seen, Iu white, in Mach and aleoo gTeea, Now strange, but • yet they . eltali b true, Thp_world-upside draws shall be glad gold 0001 be ker n l at 't*se `roots et a tree; Inst actpreg jertelseete With twee- ments 'free, When ships like fishes swim belew the sea, When men outsrtr-ippleg birds can scour the sky, Then half the world deep drenched- in blood shall dile. At the time the prophecy was utter- ed, Primrose Hill was two miles tram London; now it is nearly in; the heart of the city, but a short distance from Regents Square.., On December • 11, 1917, the British army entered Jerusalem and captur- ed it. FARM NOTES. Plowing 'Match The 1937 annual four-day Interna- tional plowing match and demonstra- tion of farm maceinery, under` the auspices of the Ontario Plough's Association, will be held at Fergus, Ont., on October 12, 13, 14 and 15. Located as it is 14 miles north of Guelph, Fergus is an deal rendezvous for. the famous Meeting, and it is ex- pected by the Manager of the Associa- tion, J. A. Carroll, East Black, Perna - went Buildings, Toronto, that the wide -spread interest evinced in form- er meetings, particularly at Cornwall in 1936, will be eclipsed by the en- thusiasm already shown. In this year's meet. Over 400 entries are anticipat- ed and several internationally fam- ous ploughmen have intimated their intention to compete. There will be a different programtne every day. Not- withstanding that )Slowing affords the chief interest, an important' part of the sheeting is the demonstration of .the latest types of farm equipment. Care of Poultry Commercial poultrymen have known, for a long time that the months of August and. September are the two, neast profitable months in the year if egg production can be maintained at this time. The normal trend of egg prices is up and at fairly rapid rate, because the bulkof the flocks of old birds in the country are falling off in production and most of the new pul- lets ehave, not yet started to lay. Ev- ery effort, therefore, that can be made to maintain production at friss time, should result in added profits. This means that it is moat desir- able to watch the condition of the birds, and should, there be any indi- -ation of their falling off in weight, increase hibe amount of grain fed slightly in order to hold up this body veight as long as possible and there- by' ward off a molt. It le extremely important that clean, fresh drinking water be available at all times, for water is an, essential for gond egg production. It may be necessary to change the -water two or titres times If If every human life in a village of 800 people in the Province of Ontario were snuffed out in one day, news- papers throughout the entire world would carry the story of the ghastly tragedy. If one of your loved ones—or even a friend—were a victim, it would become quite a grievous, horrible, personal loss ! That is precisely what is going on in Ontario this year. Nearly 800 people will be killed on our highways. Nearly 14,000 will be injured — many of them crippled; many of them suffering almost unbearable pain. Death and 7G untold suffering stalk our highways and this must stop RECKLESS DRIVERS BEWARE Motorists have been requested to be courteous on the road but the death toll mounts at an appalling rate. This Depart- ment, with the aid of our internationally famous police force and public-spirited citizens, intends to put reckless drivers off the road ! You must stop cutting in,. passing on hills and curves, crowding,` racing, taking chances. Unless you have regard for the safety and convenience of other users of our highways you will soon find yourself in serious trouble. MOTORISIS : WE, ASK YOUR HELP When you see a motorist driving in a manner dangerous to the public, take his number, make a careful note of the actual time and place, and when you reach your destination write to the Motor ' Vehicles Eranch, D'epar'tment of Highways, Toronto, giving frill details. We do not invite reports of minor infringements of the traffic laws; you are re- quested to use sound judgment We will deal adequately with offenders! ONTARIO ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Motor Vehicles Branch 0 li t �4t�tY�p�'�.'7! dS N V.. ..1 t .l✓I.v4'Viil ffff a ,j•,J{i o;1 at Of PACKAGE For years you have bought and used Chal- lenge Corn Starch because you could always rely on it to give you perfect results. Now your grocer has this Corn Starch iin-its new attractive package, with the familiar trade mark of the `Rooster', but under a changed name—"CANADA CORN STARCH". The product is the same and you have the same guarantee of the same manufacturer. Get the habit ---call �t sit product of The CANADA STARCH COMPANY Limier a day dating -Blot days in order to en- courage ,the, birds to drink more. If the burls are fanning outside in the yard!- and the natural supply of green food has been eaten up, it will pay the ' flock owner to cut greens Pram anther field and throw them into the yard for these old layers. It will pay to cater to their tastes riglit now in order to get every egg. pos- sible. Poison Control of Potato Beetle The best and cheapest poison to :use in the control of the potato beetle in Eastern Canada is .,caIchum arsen- ate, at the rate of lee pounds to 40 eallons of Bordeaux mixture, the Bora Beaux itself being composed of 6 lbs. copper sulphate, 4 lbs, lime, and. 40 gallons of water. If the 'calcium arses- ate is used alone in water instead of Bordeaux, two to three pounds of hy- drated lime should be added to each 40 gallons. Should arsenate of lead or Paris green be preferred to the calcium arsenate as the poison to be used, two to three pounds of the ar- senate of lead, or one-half to ' one pound of Paris green may be su'bst'i- tuted in each 40 gallon barrel of spray. Same growers prefer to apply the poison in powder form, using a durst oomposed of one part of arsenate of lead to six .parts of hydrated lime. Best results in dusting are secured when the application is made in the early morning oil late evening w1hen the vines are wet with dew and, the air calm. ea spraying potatoes, the poison idrduld be mixed with Bordeaux as the latter material •is not only a, vale able fungicide but repels the attack of such destructive insects as Oen beetles and leafhoppers. Two or three applications do a season should give, sufficient protection from all insects. Potato beetles are usually found aa• the field before the new crop of pota- toes is even up and they' lay theles eggs on the undersides. of. the leaves. When the yellow masses of eggs are hatched is the time to snake the first application of the poison: in spray- ing, both :the upper and lower sur- faces of the leaves eixouid be cover- ed with an abundance 'e • the mater- ial. 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