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ELMER Di.BELL, B.A.
Successor to John Bt. Beat
Sarrlster, Solicitor, Notary Publie
Seaforth - Ont'aa4o
13-33
McCONNELL & HAYS
Barristers, Solicitors, Ete.
p$r1ek D. McConnell - H. (Venn Hays
SEAPORTS, ONT.
Telephone 174
3693 -
VETERINARY
A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S.,
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col-
lege, University of Toronto. All dis-
eases of domestic animals treated by
the mos't modern principles. Charges
reasonable. Day or night calls
promptly attended to. Office on Main
Street! Hensail, opposite Town Hall,
Pihone ; i6. Breeder of Scottish Ter -
glens, Inverness Kennels, Hensall-
12--37
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. MCMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University of Toronto
J. D. COLQUHOUN, M.D., C.M.
Graduate ,of Dalhousie University,
Halifax.
The Clinic is fully, equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
sap -to -date diagnostic and thereuptic
, equipment.
Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D.,
IL.A-B.P., Specialist. to diseases in in-
fants and children, will be at the
Clinic last Thursday in every month
from 3 to 6 p.m.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5
gam.
FreeWell-Baby Clinic will be held
en the second and last Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
'3687. -
JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR- H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phone 5-3 Seaforth
W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 90. Office John SL, Seaforth.
12-38
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office; Main Street, over Dominion
Bank Bldg. Hours: 2 to 5 p.m. and
7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment.
Residence, Goderich Street, two doors
west of the United Church. • Phone
46.
12-38
DR. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physician's and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal Optbabnle Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office—Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
12-88
nt.A�n,� ttf s s
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
•
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
met and Aural Institute, Moorefleld's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, SEAPORTS, THIRD WED-
NESDAY in each Month, from 1.30
p.m. to 4.30 p.m. 63 Waterloo Street
South, Stratford.
12-87•
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD DALE
Licensed ,Auctioneer
Specialist In farm and household
sales. Prices reasonable. For dates
and Information, write or phone Har-
old Dale. Phone 199, Seaforth, or
apply at The Expositor Office.
12-17
Afre
SIXTH INSTALMENT
SYNOPSIS
When the wealthy foster par-
ents of Marjorie Wetherill both
did tithe finds a letter telling that
she has a twin slater, that she
was adopted when her pwn par-
ents couldn't afford to support
both of them and that her real
name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in
the world, but with a fortune of
her own, she considers looking up
her own family whom she has nev-
er seen. A neighbor, Evan Bow-
er, tries to argue her out of it and
tells her he loves her and asks
her to marry him. She promises
to think it over but decides first
to see her family. She goes to
their address, fends that they are
destitute, have sold all of their
furniture, +have no coal, her
mother is sick and her father has
no job. Her sister treats her like
an enemy and resents her offer
of help, but finally, after many
explanations, agrees to take mon-
ey
oney to buy coal and food, in ander
to save her mother's Iife. Her
father comes in sick and hungry
,but hurries to the cellar to build
a fire and get the house warm.
Her brother Ted cones in, is re-
sentful of her ,being there at first,
'but when she finds all that she
has done both he and Betty de-
cide they like their new sister.
• Meanwhile, Egan Brower finds
she has' disappeared and frantic-
ally tries to locate her.
"I'11 carry you," she said brightly,
struggling with the frantic child.
"-There! There, you're cold. See, I'll
tuck you inside this nice kitty -coat!!"
Sshe unbuttoned ,her coat and put
him within its folds.
It wasn't an easy trip, that, but
Marjorie was very determined when
she started a thing, and at last, breath-
less and aching in every muscleasthe
arrived at the house, a little behind
Ted and. his burden.
By the time Ted arrived with the
hand cart the sisters had Bonnie es-
tablished on a hard little bed on the
floor in the kitchen_
"What has Ted been after, any-
way?" Betty suddenly asked.
"I told him to bring that first and
then go get a truck and tering all the
'rest of the thi•ngs."
"Oh!" said Betty breathless with
relief. "Oh! Won't that be wonderful!
But—what a lot we'll owe you."
Then they heard the_ front door open
and heavy footsteps tramping in and
the girls flew to caution Ted, and set
Bud to watch the door.
"I found Bill hanging round with
nothing to do, so we brought every-
thing," explained Ted in a low mum-
ble to Marjcirie.
It ,proved a bit hard to subdue Bill's
voice and step, but Betty was vigi-
lant, and Bud was delighted with his
office of doorkeeper, and it didn't take
long after all to marsball in the poor
bits of household comfort .that had
gone out one by one to supply neces-
sities. When the door shut at last on
Bill, and they heard his truck drive
away, the brothers and sisters looked
at one another in the garish light of
a single ^stark electric bulb swinging
from a long wire in the parlor ceil-
•ing and drew breaths of relief. Sud-
denly Betty drropped down in a big
shabby faded chair, buried her face in
her hands, her weary slender young
shoulders shaking with, the sobs she
would not allow to' become audible.
Marjorie was by her side instantly,
her arras' about her. •
"There, dear! Don't cry. Poor dear!
You're so tired, aren't you? But lis-
ten! We're going to have a nice sup-
per dew and a good time • getting
things to rights. Come, cheer up!"
Betty raised. tearstained eyes and
began to laugh softly, hysterically.
"I'm—on.ly crying because it's so
wonderful—to see our old things back
again,!" s'he gurgled,
Marjorie smilred-
•"Well, it does seem more homelike,
doesn't it? My! That couch looks
.up tonight at alk"
He glanced down at Marjorie.
"You're the sitter, aren't you? You
two are very much alike. Well, I think
you can be easy in your mind. Any-
how I'll be back in the morning."
"But we have another patient in
here," said Marjorie. "I think you'd
better look at her before you go. I've
done all I know how to do but her
temperature seems to be going up in
s'pite,,of It."
She led' the way to the couch,.
"I don't anticipate anything ser-
ioue," said the doctor with a smile to-
ward Betty, and another at Marjorie.
lt's her stomach, of course. Children
will eat all sorts of things, you know.
It looks! like a light case of ptomaine,
but I think Obeli come out all right -1
Don't you worry," he added comfort-
ingly, "everybody's going to be all
right. They'll all be , decidedly better
in .the morning, I'm sure."
Betty looked up and met this eyes
wistful'l'y, and Marjorie watching saw
the glance, and thought what nice eyes
the doctor had. Nice brown eyes. ,.
Dinner was ready in a surprisingly
short •time, and the starved young
appetites were ready too. '
Marjorie want out to the kitchen
to get Bud 'his glass of milk, while
Ted attacked the big beefsteak, with
the carving knife which had just been
recovered from the pawn shop.
"It's almost too pretty to cut, isn't
it?" he said. And then he heard a
step behind him. They alit turned and
.there stood' their father staring at
them all in wonder, and sniffing the
air.
"I smelled sometihing so heavenly,"
he said., and he smiled a tired Little.
smile that made hirer look like Bud.
"Where did you get the meat, Ted?"
he asked, his eyes resting on the lad-
en table. "It appears you are having
a feast."
."Sit down, Dad," said Ted! laying
down the knife and springing to dtnaw
up a chair for his father, "You aren't
fit to stand up." -
"Oh, I'm all right,"- he said, pass -1
ing a hand over his forehead. I'
thought I'd go out and, see if I could
get an evening's work. Lt might bring
in a few cents and help to buy another
bag of coal."
"My eye, you will!" said Ted. "You
sit down and eat your dinner,' that i•s,
if you feel able to sit up."
The father sank back in the chair
under Ted's powerful young handling,
and looked about dazed.
"But you haven't told me yet where
you got all this dinner?"
"Father, I'd better tell you right off
quick. It's all in the family. You
don't need to be troubled. My twin
sister bas come and gibe got all these
things!" c,
'Phe father looked up with great
startley eyes, and turned perfect-
ly white. ;
"Your sister has come? What do
you mean, Elizabeth? ,Do you mean
the little sister who was adopted? Do
you mean that she has come and gone
and your mother and I did net see
ter?"
"No. Oth, no, Father," said Betty,
half frightened at what her revela-
tion had done to her father. "Slee
'hasn't gone. She's Nat here in the
house. Here she comes now ! "
Marjorie stood theresmiling with
a plate of bread in one hand and the
KIass of ,milks in the other, looking
so at home, and so sweet and domes,
Seated that be had to look twice, to
be sure she wasn't Betty. And Mar-
jorie met her own father's eyee for
the first time in her young life, and
los ed him at once.
Suddenly she put down on the cor-
ner of the table the things she was
carrying and went to meet the father
who diadrisen' to this feet and was
staring at her, went sweetly across
across the year into his arms and
laid her golden head on -his shoulder
looking up into this face.
"Father, I've came home! Do you
mind?" she eaid slyly.
Hungrily his arms went round cher,
and this face came down softly and
touched berg.
"Do 1 mind?" he said wonderingly,
"Do I mind? Oh, my little girl, whom
"It's all right, Dad, but you won't
bore long if you . don'., sit down and eat
some of this, beefsteak ,pretty quick,
and I mean ite'
"But, my son, I cannot. eat until 1
understand-"
"Alt right, tell him, Betts!" said
the boy.
"Why, Father, it's just that we have
a fairy sister with pockets full of
money, and she insisted `en paying for
everything," said Petty.
"Do you mean," asked the father,
laying his fork down beside his plate
with a look of finality, "that we are
feasting on Mrs. Wetherill's money?
I could not possibly do that, may dear."
There was such pain and pride in
this voice that Marjory'e' heart was
thrown into a panic. Was pride after
all to put an end to her new, hopes,
and plane?
"Father—" she said earnestly, and
did not realize how naturally she had
called him .that, "it isn't her money
at all. It is my money. I didn't knew
whether you wanted me or not, or
whether anybody wee alive or not, but
I had to come and tree. I had to find
out if there waa anybody who really
loved me a little bit"
There was the catch of a sob in her
voice as she finisted, and a mist in
her eyes. Even young Bud paused in
his chewing for ape instant and look-
ed at her 'sympathetically, •
Then the father came out of his
sorrowful daze.
"Want you?" .said he tenderly,
"How we thave wanted you! flow we
have longed for you, -and talked about
you, and tried not to blame one an-
other, your mother and I, for shaving
let you go!"
"Oh, dear Father!" said Marjorie
deeply stirred, and patting out a shy
hand to lay upon his. "I'm so glad it
is not too late for me to try to make
up just a' little for your suffering!"
He gathered her hind into his thin
nervous one and clasped it close.
"Does your mother know?" he ask-
ed of Batty.
"Not yet, 1 thought she ought to
get a good sleep first before we ex-
cited her. Besides there was so much
to do to get things going right a-
gain," explained Betty.
"Well, this will be meat and drink
to your mother," said the father, gaz-
ing intently at the new unknown
daughter.
When Betty came down to break-
fast Marjorie was setting the table.
She had cut the' bread and laid out
the eggs and bacon.
"You'd better make the coffee,"
She said to her sister. "I don't know
how without a percolator, 1'en afraid
I would spoil it."
"We used to 'have a percolator
when we were at Brent ood, but it
got broken in. the rimy ng," sighed
Betty.
"Brent wood? What's Brentwood ?
Was that where you lived before
you came here?"
"Yes," said Betty sadly. "It a as
swell! It was an old farm house that
Chad got caught on the edge of a .new
suburb, when the city grew out there.
and it had been fixed up with a great
big porch across the front. There
was a view out across a valley, look-
ing away from the city, and a little
brook in a meadow next to our place.
Then the mean Dad workedfor died,
and the firm closed up, and here we
are!"
Betty's tone was almost hopeless
as she finished. Then after a minute
She went on again.
"Can you blame Mother for getting
sick and going all to pieces?"
Then the father's voice was heard
calling: '
"Betty!" .
Bettl turned and flew up 'the
stairs. In a moment elle was down
again, her eyes, fuleof excitement.
"Father's told Mother, and she
wants you to come right up!"
Marjorie turned on her eager sis-
ter and kissed her.
"Don't worry," she saki softly,
'pit's alt going to come night."
Then she hurried off upstairs.
Afterward Marjorie couldn't quite
remember everything that happened',
or what they all said. It was. just
a memory of being folded in tender
frail arms, gentle hands upon her
head, the softest lips in all the world
upon her own, kisses on her lips
and forethead and eyes. A voice say-
ing softly;
"My little, little baby. My lost
darling ! "
When see came downstairs at
feet she had a look upon her as if
see had been crowned.
The girls sat down in ,the kitchen
for a minute.
"You'll want to fix Mother's
room before the deter comes, that
is, if see wakes up in time. If she
doesn't, we'll just have to let it go
as it is. Doctors always under-
stand."
(Continued Next Week)
good to me. I'm going to try it alter 1 I have never seen before! Maaper
ter
a while, but now I'm going to take' little Betty. Do I minds?"
Pat, in his eager endeavor to learn
how to swim, wee nearly drowned -
"Faith," he exclaimed, "Pll never
teach water again until I know bow
de swim!" •
"What makes you think it is easier
for a rich man to iamd in es elety than
It ie for an immigrant to enter this
count -re?"
"In the former , case the literacy
test isn't required,"
•
Secretary: "Mr. Terry said to tell
you the is too busy to talk to you to-
day."
insurance Agent: "Tela him he
Wonit have to say a word."
•
Hueband : "You'll never get that
new dog of youre to minds .you."
Wife: "Oh yes, I will. You were
Just as Unmanageable yourself et
first."
•
Custoiner: '"What color• are your
window blinds?"
Salesman: "Window bliindls are al
Shades, mada m."
"Would you be happy If you had all
the money you Wanted?"
"It Should be happy if I hied all the
the money mil ol+edtoro wanted."
"How we have wanted you," he said.
•
Bonnie's temperature again and see
whether we need the doctor."
But while she was taking the tem-,
perature, the doctor arrived!
"I've lied a call out into the corm -
try," he explained as Betty opened
the door for him, "and I might have
to •be gone all night. I thought I'd
better just step in and see how the
patients are before I leave. I want to
make sure your mot'her's lungs are
not involved before I go so far away!"
Betty went with shim upstairs.
"All going well above steirs," the
announced eheer1ully whin he came
down. "Mother's breaking into a nice
perspiration, ands her Tanga are clear
so far. I dant expect her fever to go
Spring Clean YoUr Car
If 'the roads in your locality lane
been treated with salt or other them-
foals during the winter as part of the
ice -removing campaign, tit willpay
you to .!have the chaselia of your ear
thoroughly cleaned, preferably with
steam; before you do any extensive
spring {hiving.
Salt, calcium chloride, and otther
chemicals commonly used to hasten
the melting of ice and snow are not
good for automobiles. The effect of
.the chemicals especially on sheet met-
al, is 'to set up corrosion ethic'', ev-
entually eats• through unless checked:
The best precaution is to have the car
thoroughly cleaned early in the
spring, and to instruct :the service
man. to touch up any spots where the
enamel is worn through. Even in
localities where chemicals have not
been used, it is a good idea to have
the chassis cleaned far spring and
summer motoring.
Make Your Lights Right
All' headlamps on cars are carefully
instpected1 and properly aimed and ad-
justed, before they leave the factory,
but unfortunately they seem to be al-
most. universally neglected after the
car is put ,Into use. Headlamps, like
all other autosnobitle parts, need at-
tention from time to time if they are
going to give really efficient service.
Defective headlamps on a car driv-
en at night are dangerous to driver
and public alike. Modern cars have
different light beams for different
needs- Parking lights ere not suit-
able for use when driving. Lang,
country beanie are not suitable for
'city driving. The shorter beam too, is
not suitable for use in the country
where higher speeds prevail. All three
types are on all ,modern cars. Use
the right one for the right purpose.
He ,touched her forhead with
his lips, alaiiost as if 'he felt she was
not real, and then he looked up again
while all the other ohi•ldren sat and
looked on in wonder. A sadness had
come over that sudden radiance of hie
face.
"Bat what a home you have come
to, my child! What a home! All the
comforts gone!" Then suddenly he
looked around and saw the familiar
sideboard and chairs and table, and
bewilderment came into his' eyee.
'"Alm I dreaming, Ted? Or is all
this real?" He turned troubled eyes
an, his boy. '
Ted gave him a sharp look.
THE POPULAR COMIC STRIP
Police Radio Cars
Since the Toronto police force
adopted' an up-to-date radio system for
its patrol cars about four years ago,
papers issued for !school use, some
in the field of natural science, some
teaching kindness to animals, good
sportareanshlp, etc. If all the other
qualities of a good comic strip are
there, obtildren go after the strippthat
contain good teaching, with the same
avidity they show for pourer strips,
she ,has found.
Teachers were therefore urged to
throw, their, influence on the side of
every good comic strip and to study
the nature of this and other printed
material in its appeal to the child,
Former Reading Tastes
Methods of teaching that melee lit-
tle use of magazines and newspapers
are not facing modern conditions, it
was said. Pupils Should be helped to
form ,habits of ourrent material and
of discriminating between good and
poor, fact and propaganda, and ehould
begin. in the early grades, was the
general opinion expresee L Papers
and magazines especially for school
use were considered bee until the
child grew old enough to be guided
gradually into making the transition
to some use pf adult periodicals; but
all along the line teachers should be
bringing outside current material in-
to the classroom and helping bhe chil-
dren to seek it outside as well, it was
co n t ended.
"Tee wide awake teacher makes
use of ail modern modes of oomaiuni-
cation in home, school and comtmun-
ity, such es the radio, the motion
picture, the library, the newspaper,
and the drama," according to ,Mist
Dorothy Cadwallader, of the public
sellouts of Trenton,, N. J., leader of
the combined study groups taking up
etch of these fields." But because
these things have swept into our lives
so swiftly, teachers need help in mak-
ing adequate use of them. •It is to
pool experiences that we get toge-
ther," she explained.
Are there any good conic strips?
If so, what makes them good'? The
wholesome and earnlfull aspect of this
type of humor was one of the ques-
tions that is concerning delegates of
the convention of the Association for
Childhood Education in s'e3slion at
Atlanta.
"Every good comic strip should
have plot, action, suspense, surprise,
and humor," said Mise. Eleanor John
soon of the American Education Press•
Columbus, Ohio, leader of the group
studying nrewepapers and magazines
"And we would add good English and
go even further and urge that it teach
the child something, Current funnies
that are outstandingly bad are for the
most part too emotional' or feature
bads ethics such as warlike character
!sties, resentment, reprisal, or taking
unfair advantage," she added.
Mies Johnson has experimented
wldeiy in developing comic Weeps in
'vaxialfe Tn7thtcipsa'iit s :it
have f011Owed e1pIt '4;1104 c,.elusttitideei
in cities and to'wns' wherer the 4f1 '
liar beer, adopted, .Or"e agreed 41bat• t
use of• radio to highly .effective ,its. 'Cut-
ting down Crime, and in speeding up
arrests.
The City of Hamilton, which recent-
ly replaced a number of Obsolete pa
lice care with new ears, has lefilt up
one of the most efficient pollee radie
systems on the continent in " the past
few years. Nbw the two largest cit-
ies in Ontario are able, to co-operate
even more fully than in the past in.
law enforcement.
Chemists Cut Costs -
To chemists in their laboratories
goes much of the credit. for the great
•reduction that retail' car prices have
,scent in the lifetime of most of us.
Between 1925 end 1937 the retails
price of automobiles has, dropped
about $300 per velhiele, while at the
same time bigger and better cars
shave been put at the disposal of the
motoring public.
Good rubber tires; btigh grade alloy
steels, and practically every other ele-
ment that goes into the making of an
automobile are either chemical or
metallurgical products, or they have
chemistry involved in their manufac-
ture. Gasoline, oIL, and, in some cas-
es, even the water 'in the radiator, is
treated ehemicatly to make it more
efficient as a servant of the' car driv-
er.
HOUSE CLFANING TIPS
When washing windows on the in-
side, put a newspaper under the lower
edge of the windrow sash- It will fall
over and protect the wall paper from
being spotted ltnderneath. One can
work faster and do a neater job as
well when the paper is there. When
the window is washed and polished.
it takes only a second to take the
paper out from under the sash.
Freshening Dark Woodwork
Dark woodwork often takes on a
dull or spotted appearance when it is
washeddwith soap and water or varn-
ished. Chemists explain that the
soap and water is inclined to destroy
the. finish- The spots become sealed.
in by the varntise,.
To avoid this, go over the dark
woodwork with a mixture of equal
parts of turpentine and ,linseed oiti the kind painters use. Stir or shake
the mixture and apply with either a
cloth or a brush. This will both' clean
a:nd dress the dark surface.
Paint the Radiators
A rusty, dingy looking radiator
gi v es a touch of unnecessary slhab-
tiness to a room or a hallway. 1t
encsn't take long or cost much to
gets enough radiator paint, bronze, or
srit r to ooat the surface freshly and
to give this, heating unit an entirely
different and improved appearance.
When hanging pictures after house
cleaning, the task is quickly and •sat-
is:factorily done if a measuring rule
is used to get the exact spot where
the holding hook should be placed.
Teaching Children Drama
Miss Dorothy McFadden, of Junior
Programs, inc., and leader of the stu-
dy group on dramatic arts far chil-
dren, sees an important contribution
to education in the growth of ohil-
dren's theaters with professional ac-
tors, along lines, developed in Copen-
hagen, Glasgow, and London, but with
the special aim of mooring it possible
for underprivileged, cbi-Idren as well
as those able to pay the small admit-
tance fee, 10 see good plays.
"Children need drama, both as arida
enoe and participants," Miss McFad-
rrcn said. As participants she feels
they are only beginning to be given
(bra Mat ic work really suited to them.
for teachers in the past +have not bad
bite erteeded training to do this.
"On the one ,hand," she went on,
"teachers and parents (have forced
chiidrenn into types of plays for which
they are not ready, turning them into
little mimics rather than belying
them grow through dramatic experi-
ence- On ,the other hand,"parents and
teachers often underestimate what
children can really do if the material
is a genuine part of their experience."
In most cases little children should
make up their own plays, slhe said,
Met told of a teacher who has been
using Shakespeare's "Tempeet" with
children in the lowest grades. Clus-
tered into a little group, they have
been- hearing the story, bitt by bit,
and talking it over, with much of
Shakespeare's language used in the
telling.
They have been "playing" it, too,
adding more es they make it their
own, capturing much of the Language
because they love the wording and
rhythm and executing their own stage
effects, as needed.
"The South in Song and Story"
was the theme of the dinner meeting.
Willis A. Sutton, Superintendent of
Schoole, Atlanta, long a beloved figure
in the edecra•t.ional world and. one-
time President of the National Educa-
tion Association, injected a hilarious
note of rella.xation into the eonven-
tion with Il uisttra.tions of plantation
humor Remi his ,boy !rood ,Asea.
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Then there will _be no u'neon top
shifting about of the picture. „
hook' can be put' over the aril
'where itbelongs--if tlhere ien, Mo l'1 :
'Ing. If ;the picture bangtema will!]]
are out .01 sight behinJde the pieta
are used, exact' .measurement is 'ice
portant so that wall surfaces win not
be punctured' unneCeseandly-
Brushing and Airing Curtains
If curtains or drape3ries are to btu_
re -hung at the windows without laun-
dering or sending to the cleaner, it
is a good plan to hang the washable
draperies in the air and to brushy •
therm. Before they are put up, 'they,
will the improved' to be pressed and
!the original creases put into theins,.
The heavy draperies may be
brushed and reconditioned as seems
best. '!`hose over -drapes which will;
stand pressing, should be pressed.
This little extra effort will freshen
tthe hangings. and well repay the ex-
tra trouble.
Patching Net or Lace Curtains
A break in a net or lace curtain,
may be invisibly mended by applying
a patch of the necesrsary size of the
same or similar material- Dip the
patch in the same starch with which , '
the net has been stiffened Ironn the
patch into place and it will stay un-
til the curtain is .laundered ,again. At.
that time, the break may be repaired
in the same way by just basting the
patch on where it ,belongs. When
the curtain is ironed or stretched,
the patch will • adhere. Later all that
will be necessary is to iron, it down
and that will take •only a rnimutt .
Sometimes very good -!looking and
satisfactory rugs may be made out
of the best part of lengths of carpet.
Cut the rugs the desired Length and
bind the ends with carpet binding
tape which can be procured tin differ-
ent colors—black, red, green.
An elderly native entered a••Govern-
ment"offiee in Southern Rhodesia, pro-
duced a South African half -mown and,
asked for a bicycle Itemise.
The official at the eoun'ter pointed
out that the coin was not legal ten-
der in Rhodesia. To explain the posi-
tion, the official produced a Southern
Rrhodesian half-crown, and compared
the reverse side with' the South Afri-
can. The old native looked at the two
carefully and then tunned them bath
over.
"But it is the same King," re de-
clared.
The official was so struck with this
logic that he accepted the coin.
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SUNSHINE INDOORS
Appealing "indoor sunlight" pictures can be made •with the simplest
cameras. Photo lights may be used to brighten shadows.
"Indoor sunlight" snapshots are
easy with box cameras and high
speed film. SS, subjects; WW,
sunny windows; C, camera; PP,
photo lights In reflectors to
brighten shadows.
MOST sunshine pictures are made
outdoors. But charming sun-
shiny pictures 'can be made just as
easily indoors, wherever the rays of
the sun stream through a window.
l uch indoor pictures are espe-
cially attractive when the sunlight
is used as "backlighting" The pic-
ture above is "backlighted" — the
sun comes from a window behind
and slightly to one side of the sub-
jects. Therefore, the subjects are
surrounded by a bright edge light-
ing, and interesting shadows are
thrown toward the camera.
When you make these backlighted
pictures, it is wise to use photo
lights to brighten the shadows (see
diagram). This not only produces a
better picture effect, but shortens the
exposure. With photo lights ar-
ranged as shown, a snapshot can be
taken with a box camera loaded with
high speed film. Other cameras, 1/25
second at f.11.
Interesting silhouette pictures
can be made, too, when the subject
is placed in front of a sunny win-
dow. If a silhouette is desired, do not
use the photo lights or a reflector of
any kind to illuminate the shadow
side of the subject. With subject
against a sunlighted windo•nir make
a snapshot with the second stop
opehing on a box camera. -
Try a roll of "indoor - sunlight"
pictures. Many charming effects can
be obtained, and snapshots of this
type have a cheery, homelike touch
that makes them treasured posses
sione.
2211 John vale Guilder.