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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-05-05, Page 7, E? ER. D. BELT,„ . . ' Suceetscor to�•Jotaai' H. Bele, Siteristter, loIICItor, hely Public $eafcrtlh Oatterlo 11-311 a McCONNELL &BAYS Via, $ollelt ele, ]@Ito, Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hayti SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 3693 - VETERINARY A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Col- lege, Umivereety of Toronto. All dis- eases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges rea unable. Day or night calls prelnptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensel, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Ter- riers, lnvernese Kernels. Hassall. 12-,f7 MEDICAL SEAFORTI'I 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 Untie is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other ,tp-to-date diagnostic and thereuptic equipment. Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D., L.A.B.P., Specilithet in diseases in in- fants and children, wfll be at the /;brie last Thursday in every month from 3 to 6 pea. 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 pan. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held on 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-J Seaforth W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. Physician and Surgeon Phone • 90. Office John SL, Seaforth. 1&-311 DR F. J. BURROWS OMBee, Main Street, over Dominion Sank 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 12-88 DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty" of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass ' graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Ophhaimie 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--38 • DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Inotitute, Moorefield's Eye and .Golder:• Square Throat Hos- pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m 53 'Waterloo Street South, Stratford. 12--37 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licenses Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household sales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write or phone Har- old Dale. Phone 149, Seaforth, or apply at The Expositor Office. tt-17 Some years ago Mr. Winston Churchill was travelling on the Tra- lee-Listowel-Baliybimion R'a.ilway. For no good reason, apparently, the train etoopped in a station for half an hour. Mr, Churchill, being in a hurry to reach Ms deebivatiion to dine with Lord Leitrim, who was the Chairman of the railway conupanty, informed the porter of itis identity and also of his date that evening, presuming that this might have some effect. But not abit ofit! "Your Honore' said the porter, "if ye were the On of the stationmaster h imse+lf, it Weald not make any dif- tere ce " z People who write an illegible hand must stametim+es suffer themselves' to t►e mieurederstood, not infrequently with amusing results. Such on ex- perience once came to Dr. J. M. Buck- ley, the eminent clergyman., when to the press he sent a. notice of the sub- teen of his Sabbath discourse, "Oats and Wild Oats." Tire editor of one of the religious weeklies really did himself proud in deciphering the good minister's+ hand- writing. Imagine Dr. Buekl,ers eedlon- lsbment and amusement to learn from iabis paper that on Sunday* he wa,u to »reelt an' "f`re'ts and Wildcats." • h A raitrUft t„t'•ir,?ttiesite EIGHTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS When the wealtthys foster Par- ents iarents of Marjorie Wetherill both die she finds a letter telling that tf1i bras 'a twin sister, that she was adopted 'when her own 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 fortu1 a of her own, ehe 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 she loves her and asks her to marry him. She promises to think it aver but decides first to see her family. She goes to their address, finds that they are destitute and gradually persuades them to accept things they need. When the doctor calls• to see her mother she notices that he seems particularly interested in, her s+is- ter. On Sunday Marjorie gees to church with cher brother, Ted, be- teg unable to persuade her sister to, go. She meets the minister whom her brother raves about and Whose church is located near Brentwood, the old) estate in which her family lived before they lost their money. !Meantime back in Aster Street Bet- ty was having a time of her own. A united howl arose. Betty came flying down stairs, her eyes flashing fire! She beheld' a dripping crowd of children. "Budidie Gay! What are you doing? You naughty, naughty boy!" Betty seized Bud's arm and jerked him back from the sink, but some •subconscious reaction compelled him to keep itis hold oh the dishpan which he had been trying to right, and when Betty removed him from the .sink the dishpan with its remaining dirty water came along, and deluged Betty, who haft just ()hanged her kit- chen dress for the pretty little house dress Marjorie' had given her that morning, She had been upstairs get- ting into array to meet the doctor when she heard the tumult down- stairs. Betty looked down at herself in hgrror and gasped, the more so as th'e nature of the element that was doused over her was gradually reveal- ed by the dregs of dirt in the dish- pan. Then suddenly Betty Looked up and saw the dottor standing in the door- way with the most comical look of amusement and pity on his face that a man could! wear, and all at once Betty knew that she too was crying! The utmost •humiliation that life could bring had descended upon her. The ,handsome young doctor had seen her like this, wet and dirty and angry! And all limp and dirty as she was she sank down into a kitchen chair and burst into real weeping. If she could have seen the doc- tor's face at that moment sthe would have been surprised. The comical look of amusement vanished utterly and a look of utter tenderness and sympathy came into his eyes. In one motion he set down his medicine case on a chair in the hall behind shim and strode over to Betty. "Poor child!" he said. "You've been working too hard. We'll ,have you down inbed the next thing if you don't look out. Here!" he said seizing upon a towel that bung on the rack above the sink. . The doctor wet the end of the towel and came over to Betty, lifting her face very gently and wiping off the tears with the wet towel. "There!" he said .cheerfully. "You will feel better now. Nothing like cool water to brace one up." Suddenly Betty looked up and laughed. Laughed with the tears streaming down her cheeks. The doctor came over to her again, taking a clean handkerchief out of his pocket, ands lifting her chin; with one hand gently wiped the tears away. Thd doctor smiled indulgently as he hurried upstairs. Betty smiled to herself and wondered; if all doctors him wistfully as he went out to bis Gar and drove away, and thew stile hurried upstairs to take off the pretty dress. _Marjorie sitting in the pretty little old stone chut•elk of a hundred years ago, and listening to the young preacher making salvation plainer than the hadever heard it before was (happier than she had ever been in church before. It was sip if a strong sea breeze were blowing through the little audience room, waking up and re freshing every mind to keener intelli- gence. As if a holy kind of glory per- vaded the place. She heard one wo- man explaining to another: "Why! The Holy.Spi•rit is here!" Then, too, the singing here seem- ed to have a different sound from that in ordinary c',hurches. The peo- ple sang the word as if they meant thews, and, the music rose like incense from an altar and seemed to mingle with the heavenly choirs above. But now suddenly it seemed that the Bible was the guide book for the Christian's way, the indispensable source of all knowledge, the deep hid- den treasury of a Christian's wealth. Sri •she sat and listened wide-eyed to the eager young preacher with the wonderful holy eyes who seemed as its talked to be looking into another world. When the sermon was over she felt breathless• as if she had been privil- eged rivileged a glimpse into (leaven itself, as if God had been there speaking to her. soul .through) the Iips of this young man. She was filled with awe, Her heart throbbed a response as though she wanted to answer a high sweet call she had heard for the first time, "You .have shown me somany things," she said to him afterward as they stood together at the door a moment, waiting for Ted to gather up the hymn books and straighten the ex- tra chairs for the night service. "'Things I never knew could be! I never knew the Bible was a book like that!" He' gave her a startled look. "Oh, 'didn't you? I'm glad I help- ed," he smiled. "I hope you'll come again." "Oh, I will!" site said fervently, "What you have said seems to be something I've been searching for a long time." His face Lit up witb a kind of glory light. • "Oh, I ,am glad!" he said quietly. Then came Ted with his slsy smile of adoration. "I wish I could run yrou home in my car, Ted," said the young preach- er wistfully, "but I have a funeral in half an hour, and just barely time to get to it. Sorry, I'd enjoy taking you." He included Marjorie in his smile. "Oh, east's all :right, Mr. Reaver," said Ted shiningly. "I'm going to take my sister over to see our old place. She's never seen it, you know" And then as the minister looked at ,her inquiringly, Ted explained: "You know she's been away a long time. She's neer seen it." "Oh," said the minister looking at Marjorie quickly again, "then you're not the sister I saw before? I thought there was something different about you. You're not twins, are you?" "Yes," smiled Marjorie, "and I guess we're quite alike in looks at least." "Well, isn't that interesting. I'll have to take time off some day and come and call and, get acquainted with you both, But you know, I really thought you were differen't— •somehow when I didn't know you weren't!" They all laughed and then the minister looked. at his watch' and said: "Well, I'14 have to be off. Hope you come again, Miss Gay." "Oh, I will!" said Marjorie a bit breathless from hearing herself called a new• name. Then the brother and sister walked on in silence. Finally as they turned lJhe corner and the minister went driv- ing by in his car, bowing to them and smiling as he passed, Marjorie fol- lowed him with her eyes until he turned another corner andi. was out of sight and then she said slowly, grave - "I really thought yo u were different—" were so cheerful and comforting. It was probably just because the was a doctor that he had been ao nice to her. But it thrilled her to think of his wiping her tears, of the touch of his smooth flingers lifting her chin so - gently. It was that sense of being cared for that touched her, brought the tears to her eyes. ' "Fool!" she told herself bitterly. "It didn't mean a thing! Be was just kindly and impersonal! Ile's probate. ly in love with some charming nurse, or maybe.. marrieds to an theit'ess. Any good man might have done just what be did and think nothing of it. He was just being kind' and helping me out of a mesa's." She etatcted. after -ly: "He's rather wonderful, isn't he?" "You're telling me?" said Ted in a reverential tone. The Brentwood' house made a great impression on Marjorie. As they ap- proactbed it Te • watched her with jealous eyes. S'be had, liked his min- ister, now world' she like the house he loved? These were the two tests the had set for this new sister, al- though perhaps be did not realize that he was testing her at all. "Why', isn't it occupied?" she ask- ed as they came in sight of the "For' Sate" sign.. "No,", said Ted with a heavy sigh. "I've been "expecting every time I come this way to find that sign ge ttr, but O .stays." "It's lovely!" said Marjorie., taking in the, tall elm trees, that were plac- ed just right to make 'a picture of the house. The long slope of snowy ltrees heavy hhheir the e and hemlock with of snow making a delightful screen from the street, all added to the picture. Ted led her around to the back and !opened a loose shutter to let her look into the long low living room with its great .fireplace, flanked on either side by bookcases reaching to the veiling, and her enthusiasm for the house mounted till it equalled the boy's own.' As they turned away from the gate at last Marjorie took note of the sign board and made a mental memorane duet of the name of the real estate agent. Could she possibly make sonne ar- rangemeat with the people who had taken it over whereby they would transfer it 'back to ter father's, name, clear, so that she could hand him the deed of it without any obligations for him to pay whatever? How she would love to give it to him for •Christmast Could a thing like that be done so quickly? There was still almost a week to Christmas! So she carried on, an undercurrent of thought •while Ted rambled on, giving now and then a bit of infor- mation about the house that fitted right in with her thoughts. "Suppose, Ted,'- she said finally, "that tomorrow morning some . great man should send for you and tell you Ghat he had been, watching you and he liked the Way you were do- ing, and he had a fine position ready for you at, say, ten thousand or so a year, and he would give you some of it in advance' if you wanted it. Would you think you were great if you de- cided to use the money for your home and parents instead of buying yourself a Rolls-Royce?" Ted grinned. "Fat chance!" he said. "01 course," smiled Marjorie, "hut if you had it I think I know you well enough already to know that you would just delight to turn in every penny you could to the family treasury and make them all comfort- able before you thought a thing about any luxuries for yourself." "Sure thing!" said Ted with shin- ing eyes. "And if some unheard -6f relative off in Europe or somewhere should die and leave you a 'million. dollars, I wonder what is the first thing you would buy? I wish you would tell ireds," that,. Ted. I'd like .to know what ft Ted looked up and without hesita- tion replied: "i'd buy the house beak , and give it to Dad!" "Thanks!" said Marjorie with star- ry eyes. "That's the way I feel. Now, brother, do I belong to the family or no"Yot?" u belong!" said Ted solemnly, "All right!" said Marjorie. "I ap- preciate that. And now, suppose we keep this to ourselves for awhile, shall we?" "Okay!" said the boy solemnly, as they went up the steps of the home, and only a quick smile passed between them to ratify the contract, but both knew that something fine and sweet had happened. "I've got to go into the city and do a little shopping," said Marjorie the next morning. Marjorie went first to the real estate firm whose name had been on the signboard yesterday at Brent- wood. • "I've come to ask about a house you have for •sale in Brentwood," she said, and the man looked her over keenly, noted her handsome attire, and said "Yes?" in an eager tone. He gave her a good sales talk. "That's al, bargain," he said, 'it's just been thoroughly done over and modernized, and because the owner was caught in the depression we can sell it for a mere trifle." Marjorie let !him talk for a few minutes and then she said: "Could I see the house?" (Continued Next Week) Million Discarded Casings Form One Mammoth Pile �In the list of odd • businesses, per- haps the name of Irwin M. Deeser would naxnk !high. He's the used -tire king. With almost 1,000,Otlit of the worn pneumatics stacked i.n. his front yard, there is little dispute to MS interesting title, although. Desser, who looks a little Like the early day Gant John J. Pemshinsg with bia neat mustache and firm chin, is quick to make his position clear. "We're probably the largest ac- cumulators of used tires on the American, Oontibnent," stays the head Of the rubber company at Humting- ton Park, Cal., a suburb of Los Angeles. No Time Lost "That means we have the merchan- dise in our yard ready lbw sthipment to any part of the globe. When we get an order for a trainload of rub- ber, we d'onit go out and start buying it up. We Start loading the minute •the ousto'mer is ready." With that the veteran businessman makes an airy gesture toward the etack of 1,000,000 tires. Giant cranes are usect to ]aft the tires to the top 'of the huge pile which is several hun- dred feet hdgth. A conveyor is also used to lift the tires the first 100 feet up the pile. Workers wear thick rubber gloves to .Protect their hands witch w&uld be cut to ribbons!. in abort order with rapid sbandslinng of tine treads. The casings are baled like bay in a Friday, April 26 •Today 'the Minister of. National slee fence, on the introduction, of hie eats mates, took advantage of the wee. tiity Of making a ler +y and elab- orate etatlement rege dim 1 the Defenee Department, ite plans, its, aceoituglittle meats; and set down in black 'wad white just what haa been done. There has been much lopose talk regarding this depaitnient. Statements have been made that the Depart Tient has, nothing to dhow for its expenditure. After today's speech which lasted some 234 hours, anytme interested can ascertain, exactly what has been; done, and 'what is going to be done. Inst year Mr. Bennett, 'Mr. Meighen 'and some of the newspapers got them- selves all worked up over the ques- tion of training in Canada of pilots for the royal air ,force. That is all peaoefully and agreeably settled now. Thee -pilots will receive training at Trenton aindr Camp Bordere 'lh'e sat- J isfacto+ry, settlement of this problem is another indlioatton of the wisdom jai let those who are irwawthority deal with these problems, for "after all they are the ones that know just what the pl diblem really ,. in. The evening session wets taken up in discussing the Small Loan Bili in- troduced by the Minister of National Revenue, This matter has been under foe for over two ytears and it has been dealt with by the Banking Com- mittee and after alt these delibera- tions a bill was formulated on the findings of the oomtmitttee. It is a vexed question.. The companies have been charging 21 per cent. per month including all services, such as draw- ing the ohattel w,ortgage, collection charges and many other things, phis bill reduces all charges to a maximum of 2 per cent. per month', and changes are being made in the Criminal Code to put these loan Sharks out of business. I.t is hoped that this bill will accomplish this. Saturday, April 27 The foreign situation really lies in the background of anything that might happen in Parliament in the course of the next few weeks, Any plans or prospects or hopes .are all susceptible to immediate change in the light of grave uncertainties. Thera; is, much talk now of the ses- sion closing in time for the Kimg to prorogue Parliament. Some think that this is passible, but it depends on the attitude taken by membere to the Legislation yet to be discussed, and then, too, it depends on the for- eign situation! If a serious' situation arose which prevented Their Majes- ties from coning to Canada, Parlia- ment's duty would be to remain in session.' Herr Hitler speaks tomorrow and much depends on his words and indicated action. In the House today many changes were made in the Criminal Code with the intention of strengthening the De- partment of Justice. Legislation pass- ed now will deaf fittingly with loan sharks, many of whom have 'been ex- ploiting the people for many a year. Mr. Lapointe was Iria ting this mea- sure through the Hoe: • and he usual- ly makes good progress. In the evening session the Youth Training Scheme was under consider- ation. Paul Martin made an excellent speech and indicated in no uncertain terms that in his opinion Mr. Massey and Mr. Douglas from Weyburn were more concerned about playing politics than solving the youth problem. There are some 100 unemployed ,transients in the city, and why many of these cnaaps should come from Vancouver and the Province of British Columbia, where it is known that `hundred's are ur.•emtiloy-ed, is hard to understand. They have an organization, and their leader is a Toronto man and a Uni- versity graduate. About 100 mrn have been placed in positions on farms, and in Petawawa Camp where there is about a months work cleaning up. In wato'hing a parade of these young c haps,,. one could not helpbe- ing invpressed with their &De physical apperarance. Nearly all looked hale and hearty. it 16 of course a real pnoblem to know what to do with them. battery of presses, some of which are powered with electricity and others with gait engines. Each spool of tires .weighs about 500 pounds. "A great deal of our buainess comes from the Orient," says Desser. "Many tires are used for footwear in the Far Fast after a little trimming. 'Phterre's nothing that can beat a modern bal- loon tire for a really serviceable san- dal . Other uses employed with the tires "as is" include -blowout boots, patch- es, door mats. Tires are bought for from $3 to $50 a ton and sold for f rom $ 6 to $ 90 a ton. Innes' tubes are the most valuable aceumuslabion because they have high rubber con- tent. What's in a Tire? Tires, for instance, contain cotton for the fabric skeleton, wire in the bead, lamp black tor durability against roads, weather and improper i ntflatiomt. Tubes, as well ars various bits • and stringy of scrap, are pressed into 500 - pound bales. These bales then are shipped to rectcimers who mould the extracted rubber into large chunks. These ,chunks then are con- verted into . trot water bottles, poker chips, gaskets, weather stripping, cushions and spomtin+g goods like golf' bails and bathing caps, In all, some 35,000 articles are made from reclaim- ed rubber. Approximately 2,500 tarns! of need rubber are exported every month and Desser gets a good share of the Wei - 'nese. Nearly 100• workers are on his payroll. A used tire weighs about seventeen pounds. That makes 120 tires to the ton. There are about 34,000 tons on the Huntington Park lot. aA `fit Id bol! Wel le + tho +figr. e ioukifAt.. fir, Two .fl sway you loaig .fit fit, Malk'f whin," Avis Perderseer I etlea1t?l=t Troxell p1 Tflindtty Ck gerVita ti ect�•�! cut, trct an Wick in thea, Sleiegtaft' Monthly; The psa+or, ram,,,. expeait greologiEt, talks theme animals of n4l'lione of years ago with the .easy familiarity With which nsost folks,•taik strut their +relatives or the neagdnbers. He ex- plains that Dear the end roe the .C,> feat Coal Age, ,perhaps.. about 240,004006 yetaar& ago, there were no birdsss—but (tthere were eggs. Point one for the prof essbr. But these weren't bind eggs. They were .reptile eggs, laid by the fiat, lspraw1y, exeaattai,res who were titre king -pins of 'society win, those ba'Ihny day'. f These scaly soreatures lived' is forests and swamups, reveled in daily sn baaVks and even let the sun. de the work of 'beteiring their eggs-- ,abut which the. rcptilee apparently eared far less tap the.professor, Sprawly Jittle_,reptilja$i, babies, any. just fke Papa and. • Mama. Reptile, y be a tittle bit daffearentt, batched out of the "sun -kissed" eggs and started a life of their own. Cabebth g and .eating ip ec ts, fish and other rep - Wee to keep alive, they, 'too, basked in the sun and left more eggs to be hatched by its warmth. Everything might have gone on like this forever—with plenty of ems but no birde--fif the Weather Man had not takep. a hand. ele changed the climate. The forests died out. The swamps dried up to be replaced by arid deserts. The ',ice balmy days took on an almost Arctic frigidity. Needless to say the nights were no betters In short, it no longer was a world where a, cold-blooded,, sawn-worsthipplhe reptile could lead a Life of ease and comfort. 'Many of these creatures dried. A few get a•wiggte on titem- ,selves, managing to keep alive be- cause they learned to run instead of crawl. This speeded -up movement warmed them up and kept theme from freeni;ng to death. The surviving crea.tusres continued to lay eggs. But still these were not bird eggs. The eggs hatched into more reptiles but each generation a little bit differ - 'eat from its parents; a little more hardy and able to stand She cold. Finally, one day, not even Profes- sor Troxell knows just when, a real bird hatched out of an egg laid by oiie of these lizatrd-like creatures of long ago. it wasn't a full-fledged robin, blue - jay or sparrow that hopped out of that ancient egg. Nor did it lack like the once -famous `bird on Neliie's 'hat -2 Professor Troxell admits that the on- ly thing that made this reptilian off: spring a bird instead of just another ancient lizard wras the fact that its seal'es began to be frayed at the ed- ges and to turn into feathers. Other- wise it probably looked so much like its parents that only a scientist 'mould see the difference. Now, everyone knows that a full- grown snake, or a Lizard or any other kind of scaly, esrawiing creature, can't change his scales into feathers during his lifetime any more than a leopard I can change !his spots or a man can "by ' taking thought add a cubit to his sta- ture." Neither could a new-born baby rep- tile do anything to change his make- up. There is just one place where this sleight-of-hand trick of Nature could 'happen, according to Professor Trox- A Q•UIEur, GOkvE Na EN T, Roofs' o'loinl. 8l! WRITE FAS! Ftp;LI TAKE A'SDE'tUX,E . FROM DEPOT OR, WIlARi 3r •ell. . That is ja the egg. Soma alert,,, ghesligieat crr Kttheleetste, the reptile egg civan !ed wlyt . Weed ,to he a sesfi re e '' y different ore vette-erre fir*, j This' new creature probably 0o111411., fiy; Lt didn't know" anything ng -about' • building nests in, trees, but u+t the possessor of one of the 'great et innrenitionsco ita age; the .heeinfn6pg • on the iruuchl .needed warm, feathery coat. Just another •uovertior mother- ed by neceedity. Because of ils ability to 'keep a lit- tle little warmer than its neighbor's the new bird,oreature wasiet so much troubled by the, climate. Other blade ihtatdhed'—this time out of .bird; eggs. They gradually developed more lux.' --. ardent feathers, !teemed to add to the adean4aee of a warm coat by getlti'ng off the cold ground and hiving. in trees. Eventually they learned to But there is no doubt that when 'Ghat first queer looking bird raid its eag it started what was to beconate a bird of an argument among mem—the< whole bird -egg controversy, Professor Troxell went back a long way in bird history to see where it all started. He offers to go back still farther if necessary. The next question is "Which came first; the reotlile or the egg?" The answer is that a strange creature, called' an amphibian because of the double life it leads, part time on land and part-time in the water, one day hatched out a queer child wthieh was the first reptile. Ages before that tome -'fish's hopes, 41 it had any, were blasted when its eggs turned into tadpole -like ampthi- bian babies instead of honest to good- ' mess. fish. Mothers, of ancient days must have led harried lives, never knowing what their offfspning would turn out tobe until the eggs were hatched. They might have found a deeper meaning in the warning "Don't count your chickens until hhey',re hatched." Even the very first life, as it ex- isted in the see, mliuht be considered egg -like, says Professor Troxell. But it 'head no worries as to what it would become because it never hatched" It was just a blob of protoplasaxm --a tiny one -celled ana'mal. +it Lady of the House: "Can you re- commend your friend, Bridget, as a'.. /housemaid?" Cook: "That I can, Madam, Sure and she gets up and makes all the beds before anybody else in the house hz up!„ 0 Said a village lad to his sweeiPubearrt: "We've been courting in this meadow for three years now, Mary, but we won't be doing so next year." "Oh, Tom," replied Mary, coyly, "do you really mean that?" "Yes, they're going to build on' it!" CheSNAPS-JOT CU 11 "STOPPING" ACTION Speeding train, taken at box -camera shutter speed. Not blurred, because moving almost directly toward camera. THE best way to get clear, sharp action pictures is to use a camera with fast shutter action --and, of course, a correspondingly fast lens. However, many of us don't have fast cameras. So, to take pictures of real action, showing fast-moving ob- jects without blur, we must utilize several simple tricks. The first trick is—shoot moving objects when they are coming al- most straight toward or straight away from you. An object appears to move much slower when receding or approaching and, in a picture, is less likely to blur. A second 'trick—move the camera so that the speeding object is kept centered in the view finder as you shoot. This trick is especially good with boats, motorcycles, and racing 'automobiles. The background is a4,,.r,i»uk blurred—but the moving object will be sharp. Of course, the camera must be moved smoothly and stead- ily, and a little practice is necessary. You will find that with a little prac- tice, pictures taken in this manner are very effective. A third trick—snap action during momentary pauses, `hese occur in most sports. A player is moving rap- idly—he halts for just a fraction of a second, to turn or change direction —and in that split-second you get your picture. You must keep alert to catch these pauses—but they're worth it. Take a couple of rolls of film and try a few action shots, using the tricks I'Ve described. You'll be sur- prised at the things you can do with. your simple box camera or inekpeii- sive folding model! 232 John van Gulider Sit f1!