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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1940-06-14, Page 6••toN Ext***. • loin ' .t a few applicatt'Ic>le 'itif g'ootl cbenit 1 fertUfscr, ,eapecialiq finy newly wet Out plants, •applied close to i bat not actually touching the plants or its routs, JUST LICE Summer Caro By this time the well started, care- fully mplanned" garden will require lit_ tie care and should be returning hun- dred per cent. dividends in pleasure, beauty and really fresh vegetables. Aside from gathering flowers and sal- ad materials right at the door, `there is Tittle to do. Grass 'should rat he cut more often than is necessary to keep it in rof fact it Asamatte grows check. very slowly in hot weather and un like the young lad's hair, it should• be allowed to grow a little long in summer to protect its roots from the - s $un, 13001t13001fl�ow�ers�� vegetables ege4able will benefit from a little cultivation once a week during July at least, if there are any insects or disease present there should be some spray- ing. If flowers are picked regularly the plants will keep on blooming. Weed, .Killers To prevent grass or weeds grow- ing in: driveways, gardeners are ad- vised to spray with some of the commercial weed killers now avail- able. If not handy, gasoline will do the trick. Care -must be exercised to 'keep these killersaway from wanted grass, flowers or shrubbery. Another suitable material for weeds or grass in driveways is common salt, the cheaper • and coarser the better. Not only will a liberal application of this about one or two handfuls to the square foot destroy grass, weeds, poison ivy, etc„ but it will also bind gravel and soil together into an even surface, keep down: dust and repel frost. Support Dahlias, tomataea, large •cosm,os or nicotine, young shade trees, new climbers, all.. benefit from same arti- ficial support while they are getting •sta d. r,te For •tall individual flowers or tom- atoes, six-foot stakes of wood or steel are advisable and the plant is tied totilese looselywith soft twine or rafia. Stouter and perhaiis longer stakes will be used with shade trees and correspondingly shorter ones for the smaller flowers. ` For the tat- ter a cut and straightened wire coat hanger with hook left on makes an ileal 'support. With vines getting ready to cling to fence or wall, string is used or penhaps adhesive tape or. staples whereit is impossible to tie. With' sweet peas and ordinary gar- den peas, one may use chicken wire, from three feet to six feet .high de- pending bow tall the peas grqw in the reader's particular part of Can- ada. Old gardeners, however, state that brush or strings are preferable for the peas as the wire may burn the tender foliage. With tomatoes, dahlias, etc., usual - lay side .shoats are nipped off and the main stem only allowed to grow. Still Time To Plant In most parts of Canada it is still quite possible to have a good. vege- table garden even from seeds. It is not al.bit too late for melons, cucum- bers, squash and medium and late corn, potatoes, beans,darrots and beets with well=started''Rhusky plants, purchased , from the nearest seed store or 'greenhouse,. one can set out a whole garden with tomatoes, pep- pers, cabbage and celery. To catch up with this late' gardening it is ad- visable to cultivate frequently, water during dry weather, . and to hurry a They Take The., Long Way Home (By Frank F. Taylor in Reader's Digest) • "Drive-aways," in the -vernacular of the automobile industry, are custom- ers who take delivery of new cars at the factory. Once considered nuis- ances, they are now courted at the motor meccas, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac and South Bend, Personable young men escort these factory -delivery customers along the assembly lines, They are given lunch in• the factory cafeterias as guests of the manage- ment, and finally sped on their way with 10 gallons of free gas. Last Year more than 100,000 Americans made a holiday, of driving their new cars home from the factory. The bulk of these drive-aways come from the Pacific coast, because the freight saving' .on a medium-priced car is around $170. Dealers in the far West urge: "Fly to Detroit; drive home. A fine trip, and a. new car, all for the price,of a car delivered, here." (Orders must be given: -through your• dealer, who gets a commission.) The key to the warm welcome giv- en 'drive-aways is not merely that they_ spend $50,000,000 a year for cars but that they wear them out faster than other customers: it is nothing for Mr. and Mrs. Drive -away to make side trips which put thousands of ex- tra miles -on their car before they get home. Penhaps the most important factor is that -everywhere they go they talk about the good time they had at It'h,e factory and how well their"• car is built,. Drive-aways are super_salesmen. Success In Farming • There is a wide variation in the typeof 'farm business which is associated with • financialsuccess in farming. A comparison- between ..the 25 most successful and the 25 least successful farms in an economic. stu- dy made in• the Counties of Bent; Lambton and Essex, Ontario, in 1939, 0 Can Uottoommo Iisper Your essage YOU can get your •message across by word of mouth, but that is not the modern, efficient way. Printing:...Good Printing.... to' tell of your business service isthe success- ful method. We can assist you - in- all your planning for printing We have Special Art and Layout suggestions, all supplied at no extra cost. Phone 41. HE MON EXPOSITOR Established 1860. iLean Brbs., Publishers . - - Seaforth by the Eeenomics Division, Dominion Department. of Ag'r'iculture, brings out the point mentioned. This area of Ontario i3 particular- ly well adapted to the production; of, cash crops: However, only 14 of the 25 most successful farms secured the major portion of their income from the sale of crops. Five of the farm- ers were depending mainly on beef cattle and hogs for their principal re- venue. Three were specialized dairy farms. The remaining three farms` practised more diversified farming with receipts from fi 1d crops, live stock and live stock products. Two of these three farmers 'had substan- tial poultry enterpr•izes. These dif- ferences in organization on success- ful farms demonstrate the fact that no one type of farming can be held up as a nrod.el for any area, but ra- ther that a variety of types of organ- ization, if •accompahied by good man- agement and good farm practices, can result in success, In the case of the 25 least success- ful farms, 17 of these flalers were dependent largely on crop sales for their income. Three had receipts largely from cattle and hogs, four had a more general distribption of. income -and one was specializing 'in dairy .cattle. Here 'again it appears• that it was not necessarily the type of farm organization which led to the unsatisfactory results on these farms but rather less skilful `operation and management of the individual farms. The successful farm operators- were growing larger• acreages of such high income Crops as sugar beets, beans, tobacco and tomatoes. They were generally securing higher yields per acre and in the case of live stock Obtained larger returns per unit of live stock maintained on the farm. From Great Minds Chante „ To a sensible roan, there is no such thing as chance, * * Others Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to him- self. -Montaigne. * * * Rivalry A Vacation Days You need a vacation. Not, next month or next summer, but now - What' more, you don't need a va- catfon that the boss gives.' you Once a year !but one that you take your- selfevery 'day... Most of us, living almost automati- cally in the grip of a weekly sche- dule, look 'forward to some future letup. We •ferget that with planning we can pack into slhort daily inter- vals ell the essentials of a protract- ed .holidays -change of scene, change of pace, Change of people, and -most important -change of habit. ' The daily vacation must be more than mere ces's'ation of work. It must be not only a definite break with the routine of external compulsion but to positive rendezvous with pleasure. Don't say you haven't the time. If a President •of the United States for n minutes t to t a could ae aside day self -freedom in the form of reading poetry, es Theodore Roosevelt did, surely you aren't too busy to find a daily interval yot} can call your own. The busier you are the more you need tthe daily vacation. There is always the lunch hour. To many workers lunch is just another of the day'•s routine habits. They re- turn to the office more schedule - haunted than before, merely because they have spent their time in the same place with the same people. But one businessman I know lunohes lightly at the nearest drug store and spends the rest of his time going hunting with his camera. Every day he, adds to his collection-sthots of women bargain hunters, panhandlers, street urchins, taxi drivers, traffic cops in action. He is recording fas- cinating dramas of street, life. He could spend. his time complaining to companions at lunch that he never has a chance to use his camera, In- stead he comes back to his office re- freshed end diverted.. Lunch itself can• be made into a vacation experience. In every city there are foreign quarters. New, flav- ors,. new ' dishes, new language can i fraternizing with the help white he transport. you momentarily -' into cooks spaghetti. Charles Frohman, strange lands. Or you Might choose the producer, would sit at his desk, studying timetables which carried hien mentally, to delectable resorts, while 'desperate stage People besieg- ed his outer offices. When be felt sufficiently I-createl, he would ment- ally take a train back and begin his round "op work. Nota few people go off on long vacations to meet new people yet miss the newness in those-ea/round them. 'Why not make your daily Va- cation a mleans• of Sounding out some of the people you usually pass by. with a... mere n'od? A Ian -minute aqn-' ve•rsation •matey refresh you with new points of view. The 'important element always is change. One intelligent housewife tells me: "I 'discovered during the first year of housekeeping that I had to run my work or it would run me. Whenever the deadly grind begins to get me I plunk myself down and read a while. Then I jump t}p and wade into housework like two women, and a bofse." Another saves to buy re- corded symphonies and once a morn- ing stretches out oh the couch to lis- ten, Telephones may ring' and door- bells buzz.' She does not bear them. ;he is centuries 'away. -- • Much of the tension of today -is created by the „unceasing' regularity of all spur doings. The daily vacation breaks•the tyranny of fixed'sehedule and habit. In: it we find ourselves. We take command again of our time and 'check the tendency of routine :duties to deaden our personalities: very confign,dFronk Th+ xotat an' I. ;Read '� nl st) ttierio -where college stridents settle the world's problems can take you out of yourself asul give you some- thing new to think about. Day after day we strangle...oar Per-, eonalities in tae viae of our habits, frittering away our leisure moments, Yet all the while there are things we ehorild really*like to do -things that, 1g°.'done, would renew us. I know a few thoughtful people who take ten minutes mow and then to write .letters -not :the letters :they need to write but those they don't. Sometimes they write to an 'author. about Ms book, a remembered childhood friend, a public official who' good work. In another' instance, a young person hasacquired a deli h tfu1 re- pertoire of piano music and a• fair technique because he seizes a few daily minutes to play -while break- fast IS on the way, just bofore din- ner ,and just after. To him the crea- tion of new and ,pleasurable skills is a relief from chore and tedium. Simi- larly, another man I know keeps woodcarving• equipment in an unused part of his office. When office pres- sure gets too great, he goes at wood- carving for a few life.giving minutes and comes back with a, new .grip on himself. Any activity tbat summons the real you from the dim recesses of your clock_rul:ed hours gives you the vaca- tion you'need. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, used to spend ten-minute In- tervals with the dictionary, smoking out words and phrases that he liked. He believed that no one could give him a phrase which he could not match with a better single word. He had a detective's'inOerest in words - their sound, their acquired meanings, their origins. WS a, game that, if you've a mind, can be played with a zest that is sure to absorb and re_ lease you. Mayor LaGuardia of New York takes short-order vacations by don- •ning a chef's apron, invading the kit- chen of a restaurant or home and a restaurant frequented by people you don't associate with every day. The "diner" where truck drivers ex- change 'earthly comment or a cafe - on fire pose. • with .thought, * * * love and pur- Courtesy There is ,a courtesy of the heart: it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. * * *" A Book The best service a book can render you is, not , to impart truth, but to Nothing is ever done beautifully make you 'think it :out for yourself: which' is done in rivalry, .nor nobly" -Elbert Hubbard.. whicht,•is done in .pride. -Ruskin, * * * * * * Knowledge Goodness The learning and knowledge that The nearer one:, gets to God, tube we have is at the most but little comr- more god& one can and will do . for pared with that of which we are ig- his • fellow -Wren. -Barbour, * * * nerantr=Plato. * * e. Life. Acts Life is self -devotion; 'and I expect No act falls fruitless; none can tell. you to do better every year. -Ben --, how vast its power may 'be; nor jamin Jowett, • * * * - Hobbies Aman draws in vitality from his hobby. If ,he hos none his part in' life will soon be played, -Greeley. * * * • The Greatest He is greatest whose strength can - ries up the most hearts by the at- traction of .his -coven. a * •* * Our Wants If you do not get everything you want, think of the things you do not get that you do not want. * * * A Good Heart If .a good' face is a letter of recom- mendation a good heart is a letter of credit.-Bulwer- - * * * Contentment Contentment as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and liittle trouble.-Epictetus, • * * * Workers . Tire blessed work of helping the world forward, happily', does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot.' * * * Others Love for one's fellows and a brave heart are the most useful things to go through life with. -Burke. * * * Life life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing „animosity or regis- tering petty ..wrongs. Failure Tho's'e who fail in life are very apt to assume that everyone exceptthem- selves has had a baud in their mis- fortunes. * * 1* Anger Whenever you are angry, be as- sured that it is not only a present evil, but that you 'have increased a habit.-Epictetps. (* * Motives Go through life without eves as- cribing to your opponents mo vas meaner than your own. -J. 1Vf. e. * * * Troubles I pack any troubles in as little cora- pass as I can ltor myself, and never let there annoy others. -Southey, * * Aetton Mark this well, ye proud men of action! Ye arex•after all, nothing but uneoiis�cious Instruments of the men 8f thought, * *• * * A Good Name • A good name is a jewel which noth- ing ¢an rep ice; • it is ten thousand times more valuable than one' die f- onds, * *• * • Interest No man is really interesting except the man w:hlo le alive, whose :eoilI is ir1 What results, enfolded, dwell within it Wen'• * * * In Our Hearts Whatever you hold in your heart, whatever Vision you cherish in your mind, is the measure they will give yori as a man. * * * Our Lot Of nothing can we be more sure than ,this: that, if we cannot sancti- fy our present lot, we could sanctify no other, -Martineau. * * * Today , 'Cur todays ,make,our tomrows, and our present liveordetermine 'the grade on which we must enter any .next life. -Minot J. Savage. * * *. Benevolence Beneficence is a.duty, He who fre- quently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he 'has+ done good. -Kane. * * * Ambition •• The ambitious deceive themselves wrhen they propose an end to •their ambition; for that end, when attain- ed, becomes a means. Rochefoucauld *- * * Meditation Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. -Dr. 1, Wattst, The, World • • The world is a school, and the bus- iness of its occupation,• the pursuit of anducation fitting, them n toy gradi e ate into the invisible university of God. -W. R. Alger. * * * • A Great Soul What man is there whom contact •pith a great soul will not exalt? A deop of water upon the petal of a Lotus glistens with the splendors of the pearl -Hinder. * * * Duties Where much is giveri, muck shall he required. ' There-_a'tre never pri- vilegea to enjoy without. correspond- ing duties to fulfil in return, -=Phil- lips Brooke. * * * Uncommon Sense Nothing great was ever achieved merely by common sense; this has al- ways required a ,sense which ' is somewhat uncomnyon.--George • Seav- er. * ** Bravery I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers tits enemies; for the hardest' victory is the victory over self.-Arl;;tetle. Weakmreso is the only` fault that • is incorrigible.-Rocivello icauld, Children have more need of models than of Critics. ---Joubert. .d 1 keep young by using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food Boys and Girls Be Courteous The Fifth Scout Law= -A Scout is courteous► -is one that might with ad- vantage be used by every boy and girl. Somcetiniles boys -and girls are very thoughtless, and forget about the rights of other's; Young people should consider those who, live, around them. be courteous to their elders and re- spect them. Running -• over . 'lawns and dower beds' is one of the most annoying things that young people are doing. Letters and complaints' tell of their want of thought for others. - Every street should have an open space for children to play on, or a playground for several, streets, but until this is accomplished those win; like to beautify the front of their Hames should be allowed to de SO without their work being spoiled. Perhaps the principals and the teachers in lour schools 'will think. this • an opportune time . to tell the acsholars of the necessity for gourt- esy and respect in dealing with other people. .One notices courtesyand good manners in young people more than anything else, and. these two qualities are the very ones that em- ployers look for in choosing young folk for protmmotion. - THREE GENTLEMEN A German officer, talking .to a sen- ior member of the British FJmbassy in Berlin in 1933, made the odd re- ntark• that the British are' gentlemen, but the French are not. Asked what he meant, the explained: "One day in 1920, some of the Military Control Commission, under a French and a British officer, iam'e to the barracks of 'Which I had charge.' They said they .had reason to believe that I ,had a store of rides concealed behind a brick wall, contrary to the terms of the Peace Tinreatyt I denied ,thus, give you my 'word of Minor as a Ger mail officer, ,I said, .that I have nd' rules concealed -in the barracks.' "Well, your British officer was a gentleman: he accepted niy word of honor and went a away. But the lilrench officer was not a gentleman. He would not accept my word of hens. or. He pulled ,down the brick,..wall. And lie took away my rifles."--Qttot- ed by W. A. Sinclair in 'Dhe Listener. Goderich Smile or Two An incorrigible offender requested the magistrateto postpone his case as the lawyer due to defend, him had been taken suddenly i11. "But," the magistrate objected, "what difference can make. You were actually caught 111 the act. What on earth can your lawyer say in your defence?" "Beats me, sir," accused replied_ "That's just what I'm so interested to know!" A man noticed a woman whom he disliked coming up his front steps. Taking refuge in his study, he left ,his wife to entertain the •caller. Half an hour later the emerged from his retreat, listened carefully on the land- ing, and hearing nothing below, call- . ed down to his wife. ' "Hae,that hor- rible old bore gone?" The objectionable woman was still in the drawing room, but his wife was equal to the occasion. "Yes, dear," sibs called back, "she went long ago. Mrs. Parker is 'here now." Mistress: "Bridget, I saw a police -- man in the park to -day kiss a baby. - I hope you will remember my objec- tion to such things." Bridget: "Sure, ma'am, no police- man would iver think iv kissin' yes baby whin I'm around!" A quartette of .longshoremen were singing on the., waterfront- when the tenor fell off tthe dock into the we- m ter. The incident passed unnoticed ' by the leader, but he realized that' siomething was wrong with the har • ninny. • "What's the matter with , yoim chaps?" he asked. "One of you don't sound right" - "It's Bill," rumbled the bass, sal- emniy. "He's off quay." . Stranger:. "Which is the quickest way to the 'hospital?" Lounger: "Poke me in . the hack with that umbrella again and yowl/ find yourself there in no time.' ..---- Mrs: Daddies: "Yer dont seem ter understand that women often suffer in: Silence." Mr. Daddies: "Oh, yislI but I dam, lass. Anybody knows just 'ow pain- ful it is fer a woman ter be silent." Mother' was. 'telling stories et the time she was a little girl. Little Hat- old listened thoughtfully as she told of riding a pony, sliding down the haytstack and wading in the brook ow the farm, , Finally be said with a sigh: "1 wish I had met you earlier, mother? LONDON and WINGHAM NORTH >rNeter 10.24 Hensall 10.46 Kippen. 10.52 Bruee+field ' 11,00 Clinton 11.47 Londestboro 12.05 Blyth 12.16 Belgrave 12.27 Wingham .. 12.45 SOUTH 1 • P.M. Wimgham.,, 1:50 Belgrave 2.06 Blyth ..21.7 Londesboro 2.25 Clinton 8Ag Brucefield 3,28 Kippen ' 3,36 Hensall 3.45 Exeter 3.53 C.N.R.' TIME TABLE Goderiob EAST ' A.M. P.M - 6.16 2:30 Holmesvilie 6.31 2.46 Clinton 6.43 3.00 Seaforth - :..., -6.59 3.16 St. Columban 7.05 3.23 Dublin ... , 7.12 3.29 Mitchell 7.24 3.41 WEST Mitchell 11.06 9.28 Dublin 11.14 9.36 Seaforth 1L30 9.47 Clinton 11.45 14.64 Godeitch 12.05 10.25 C.P.R. TIME TABLE, EAST P.M. GGoderioli 4.20 Memset 424 McGaw . 4.32 Auburn 442 Blyth 4.52 Viralttoh 5.05 McNaught 5.15 Toronto . 0.00 WEST MIL Toronto • 8.30 MPNaughrt 12.03 Walton 12.13 Myth 12.23 Auburn • • 12:32 Mel'tow 412.40 M'en'oot 12,42 12.65