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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1954-09-03, Page 201w !L:Adliwt, ;I4u;ll 9i THE TIMOR EXPOSITOR ti EXPOSITOR Vistasheti 1860 :Ul li abe4 at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- Thursday afternoon by 1VIclean S. A. Y. McLean, Editor . Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in puce; foreign $3.50 a year. Single CRpies, 5 cents each. Member of Canadian eekly Newspapers Association. Advertising rates on application. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail: Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, September 3 SEAFORTH LIONS SPONSOR SAFE DRIVING ROADEO As a further indication of the way in which it adds to the welfare of the community which it has served• during the nearly thirty years it has been in existence in Seaforth, the Seaforth Lions Club has announced plans for the holding of a safe driv- ing roadeo at the Lions Park next - +Uednesday evening. The purpose of the event, which is similar to others which have been held in a number of • Ontario centres, is to evaluate the driving skills of district motorists in the expectation that the interest which is aroused will have the effect of making drivers more careful and thereby reduce accidents. Needless to say, district police ;favor the proposal and are assisting in carrying out arrangements. Re- •gardless of what some motorists may think, they would much rather be in- volved in assisting to carry out a pro- gram which may result in fewer cas- ualties than have to investigate even one accident. In entering the com- petition there is, of course, no obli- gation on the part of a motorist. He may or may not win, but the results will have no effect on his driving lic- ense. If, however, a competitor is found to have acquired bad driving habits, it is the hope of the Lions Club that the contest will lead to. the correction of them. This newspaper from time "to time has drawn attention to the hazard that exists on the highways today because of careless and selfish driv- ing. Believing that the Lions Club can accomplish valuable results in .educating motorists in correct driv- ing procedures, and in a desire to further the work.' which the Club is undertaking, the publishers are donating a trophy to the Lions Club, to be competed for each year by motorist's entered in the Lions Safe Driving Roadeo. It will be won by the competitor who is•adjudged to be the most capable driver. It is to be hoped there will be a ;broad participation in the event on the part of district motorists, and that the lessons learned at the Safe Driving Roadeo will be reflected in a lessened highway accident toll in the area. ADS CAN BE NEWS We were reminded of the practises of early. Seaforth merchants as evi- denced in files of The Expositor, of seventy and eighty years ago, when we read in the Wingham Advance - Times recently that , modern adver- tisers forget that advertisements are news. `tn the old_ days,' the Advance- -Times pointed out, "when a merchant received a new stock of goods, the first thing he did was to place an ad in the local, paper informing his cus- tomers of the fact. It was a matter of common courtesy to. the custom- ers, and otherwise, he reasoned, how would they know that he had the goods for sale? Customers, con- versely; watched the ads carefully to see what was new in their local - stores. Most merchants in those days ran ,a weekly ad just to keep their customers informed, and those who did not were regarded, and quite rightly, as poor merchandisers, who were not very likely to succeed." It goes on to say that although *bus ,have changed, it's still a good Idea to keep the news angle in mind When writing an ad. If you have olnething new' or novel, or of par cu1arly good Wale it's news that custorers wills want . to hear. And the Advance -Times concludes by indicating that it is news "that you can convey easily, quickly and cheap- ly through the medium of your local newspaper." We concur. SCHOOLS ARE OPEN— SLOW DOWN In only a few days now the doors of district schools will have opened and hundreds upon hundreds of boys and girls will commence anoth- er year of learning. And in order to get to the schools and back home again, the children will travel along our streets and from time to time cross your high- ways. And here is where the trou- ble starts. Last year, for instance, in Ontario, 184 children in the grade school age group (5-14 years) were killed in traffic accidents; 4,487 Ontario chil- dren were injured in accidents on streets and highways. Coupled as it is with the Labor Day weekend, school opening is a particularly dangerous period, and is one which requires even more than average caution on the part of motorists. Our schools, for the most part, are doing an excellent job of training school children to observe proper precautions in traffic. Many cities in Ontario have school children or- ganized in safety patrols, which op- erate under police supervision, and give the youngsters a.certain amount of supervised responsibility for their own safety in traffic. However, in the last analysis;' it is always up to the motorist to exer- cise the utmost precaution when travelling through an area where there are children playing. Here are rules for parents and motorists, recommended by the On- tario Safety League: Parents Should: 1: Set children a good example by crossing streets only at intersections, waiting for the signal, looking both ways and for turning traffic before crossing. 2. Find out what traffic education your children are receiving at school and co-ordinate your own instruction with it. . 3. Impre s upon children the dan- ger of pla-ing in the street or near moving traffic. See that they play only in approved play areas. 4. See that children are skilled in using outdoor toys such as roller skates, bicycles, scooters, tricycles and wagons, and that the youngsters practise .safety rules when using the toys. Motorists Should: 1. Keep a constant lookout for children. Even when children are clearly in view, their actions some- times are unpredictable. 2. Near school areas be constantly alert for signs, traffic police, signals, school patrols and for children them- selves. 3. Decrease speed and, increase vigilance when driving near play- grounds and residential areasand other places where children are like- ly to be found. 4. Don't compete with bike riders. Be ready always to give them the right-of-way. 5. Exercise special care when backing in an area where children are likely to be playing. , It is good practice to get out of your car and make spare there are no children near, immediately before starting to back up. What Other Papers Say: Cracker -Barrel Court (Peterborough Examiner) Magistrate Gee, of Victoria Coun- ty, has retired. He presided over the Lindsay court for 20 years, and of- ten in those years held court in Peterborough. If a magistrate can be said to be popular in his practice, Mr. Gee was. Cracker-barrel quips and an old- fashioned informality would give his court an unusual affability. It has. not been unknown for a man to re- ceive from Mr. Gee a three-month sentence with a smile on his lips. The rule of Iaw was, by his experienced hand, established as often as not 'by rule of thumb as by a finger on a Revd Statute. SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Has 92nd Birthday Hearty birthday congratulations are in order this week for Mr. R. C. McGowan, of East Wawanosh Township, who observes his 92nd birthday on Tuesday, August 31.— Blyth Standard. On Extended Trip Mrs. Ted Steinbach and son, Ed- gar, and daughter, Miss Norma Steinbach, and Miss Carol 'dlhiel motored to Belleville last Thurs- day, where the Misses Norma Steinbach and Carol Thiel joined Mr. and Mrs. James Hackett on a two weeks' motor trip to Montreal, Quebec and Cape Breton. We wish them an enjoyable trip and safe re- turn home.—Zurich Herald. Wins Scholarship Miss $etty Bowra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bowra, has received a scholarship for $100 from the Ahmeek Chapter of the LO.D.R for the purpose of fur- thering her education at Teachers' College. This scholarship is award- ed each year to the student with the highest standing who is enter- ing Teachers' College. Betty plans to attend Stratford Teachers' Col- lege this September. — Goderich Signal -Star.' Skunk Inspects Apartment Hall A skunk left its trail through the hallway of a second -storey Main Street apartment building which it inspected Wednesday night. The striped animal plodded its way up the stairs from the Main Street entrance, waddled down the hall- way past three apartment doors while the occupants held their breath in horror, then slunk down the back steps to the ground and disappeared. The smell drove the dwellers out of their rooms for several hours.—Exeter Times -Advo tate, Four Injured in Collision Three Exeter teen-agers and a Zurich district man are in South Huron Hospital with minor injur- ies received on Tuesday in a car collision a mile west of 'Dashwood. The three girls, Marilyn Skinner, Patricia Tuckey and Trudy Pick- ard, were on their Way to Grand Bend for a swim when their car, driven by Miss Tuckey, collided with one driven by Mr. August Masse, R.R. 3, Zurich. Miss Tuck- ey who was thrown from the car, was cut and bruised as were the other glee- when thrown against the windshield. M. 'Masse cut his head and received other injuries. All are in good condition, hospital reports. --?Zurich Herald. Reach 8,000 Mark The total of visitor to the Hur- on County Pioneer Museum in Goderiche continues to mount. Wednesday the museum welcomed its 8,000th visitor, seven-year-old. Margaret Boone, of R.R. 2, Scar- boro. Curator J. H. Neill hopes to see the attendance figure go above the 9„000 mark this year and at the rate visitors have been touring the museum in recent weeks, he should realize his goal soon. Mr. Neill, by the way, had an inter- esting exhibit at the Goderich Trade Fair last week showing the various method's of sawing wood and one method of grinding grain. Another part of the exhibit, a d'o11 rocking a model of an -early type of cradle, helped the Kinette Club considerably in the sale of tickets on a draw for a doll. The Klnette booth was directly beside the mus- eum booth. When people came to watch the cradle rocking display, many of them stopped at the doll draw booth to buy a ticket.—Gode- rich Signal -Star, CROSSROADS (By James Scott) TERRIBLE CHILDREN! The other day I heard one of the Ladies of the town say with consid- erable bitterness, "Well, I for one will certainly be glad when school starts again! The children in this neighborhood are getting just like wild Indians. It'll be a good thing to give them something to do and keep them from getting into mis- chief. I don't know what's got in- to children nowadays!" Of course you can hear words like that any time at all. You can hear fond mammas sigh with re- lief that the young ones will be back in the confines of the class- room, and you can see wise olyl heads all over -shakg dolefully and wondering with the . lady 1 overheard, "I don't know what's got into children nowadays!" Well, I think I know the answer to that. Nothing has got into to- day's children that hasn't been put" there by their parents. And what has got into them is just about the same salting of the Old Nick which their parents' parents put into their children. After 1 heard that lady talking I began casting my mind back to my own schooldays. I liked going back like that, and I remembered a lot of things which had passed into the limbo of my mind and which I hadn't thought about for years. I remembered the classics mas- ter we once had who 'hid behind the classroom door waiting for a student who had arritated him by insisting that he had to leave the room on a very important errand at fifteen -minute intervals. When the scholar came back on his last trip, the irate teacher swung at him from behind the door and gave him a 'black eye! I wonder what got into teachers and pupils when I was a boy? Then I recalled a time when . an English teacher of ours, who had very substantial equipment for sit- ting down, bent over a desk to correct some mistakes she had spotted in a student's exercises in grammar. The do diligent schol- ars who sat on either side of the aisle, just behind this tempting target, looked at each other. (I won't tell you who they, were; they are now highly respectable fathers with children of their own in this community). Anyway, they looked at the pro- tuberance; they looked at each other and a wicked gleam came in- to their eyes. One was timid and the other was a man of action. He was also a couple of years older and considerably larger. He picked' up his ruler; he contemplated it fondly; he caressed its sharp edge and then! Wham! Quick as a flash, even before the outraged pedagogue could utter her howl of anguish and indignity, this bold student - passed the ruler across the aisle to his timid friend' who sat there, holding it stupidly as if he didn't quite know how it got there, when the teacher turn- ed, saw him and . . . Well, you can guess the rest. Oh, those were terrible times all right! Just think of the trickery, the violence, the treachery, the lack of morality and respect for order and authority you can find in just those two episodes I remem- bered. 1 wonder what the world is com- ing to? Well, that was a longer time ago than I like to admit. Quite a lot has been happening in the world since those days. Some of it has been very bad and quite a lot of it has been full of generos- ity and goodwill and kindliness and honesty. And you know something? I will stake my life on this: when these. terrible youngsters of today grow up they will commit just about the same amount of good and evil as all the generations which have gone •before. They aren't any worse now and `they won't be when they ow up. Farm News of Huron nt rmittent rains again delayed bar est operations particularly in the north end of the county, Fail wheat land is being prepared; in- dications are for a reduced acre- age of this crop. Cash crops are making good growth; 'however, there is some rusting of the white bean crop. Some early turnips have been ship- ped with the growers receiving ,up to $1.00 per bushel. CanacliansEat More Eggs Egg sales in the domestic mar- ket arket in Canada in the first six months of 1954 exceeded those of the corresponding period in 1953 by 178,000 cases. This .increase is greater than the combined increas- ed sales in the export market, and the increased storage holding ov- er those of a year ago, states the Poultry Products Market Report, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Exports and storage stocks were 134,000 cases more in the first six months of this year than last, whereas, the sale for immediate consumption were 178,000 eases more. Principal markets available' to producers for market eggs are: the export market, the frozen egg market, storage, and outlets for immediate consumption. In, the first six months of this year there were S5 per cent more shell eggs sold in the export market than for the same .period a year ago. Froz- en egg production for the two per- iods remained about the same -10,- 000 cases. Storage stocks of shell eggs reached a high of 249,000 cas- es this year, about eight per cent more than the peak storage hold- ings last year. However, the com- bined total of eggs sold to these three outlets represents only about three weeks' egg marketing's. Ex- ports, up to 85 per cent over a year ago and starage holdings up eight per cent, represent only slightly more than average ma.r- ketings for a'week. t . Winter Wheat. Yield Said Second Highest In History Field Crops Branch oi; the On- tario Department ofculture reports that Ontario farmers have just harvested' a 23,000,000 bushel wheat crop with an estimated yield of 32.3 bushels per acre. In spite of unfavorable weather conditions,, the 1954 Ontario Win- ter wheat crop has proven to be the second highest In yield ever harvested in Ontario. It is exceed- ed only by 1953 yields, Average, yields for the last 10 - year period have exceeded the previous 10+year ;periods by four bushels per acre and the 10 years previous to the First Great Wear by eight bushels Der acre. (Continued on Page 6) Years Agone Interesting items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- tyilvs and Fifty Years .Ago From The Huron Expositor September 6, 1929 Master John Farquhar, Hetisaii, who has been spending his sum- mer holidays at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J• Cochrane, Hilisgreen, has returned to his home again. Rev. and Mrs. White and chil- dren, Elimville, left on Saturday to visit for a few days with rela- tives in Windsor and Chatham. Mrs. Seth Brown had the misfor- tune to get her leg broken last Thursday. She drove in from a milp east of Staffa with a horse and buggy and tied it in the Unit- ed Church shed. When she came to go home the lines became en- tangled somehow, cramping the buggy short and threw her to the cement floor. Messrs, George .Kerslake and Sam Webb, Staffa, spent Sunday and Monday at Hamilton and oth- er points. Mrs. Kerslake came home with them after spending a few days there. Mr. John Murray is busy with men and teams grading the boun- dary north of Manley, leading to the C.P.R. station, which is a coun- ty road, leading from Goderich to Toronto, and will make 'a short cut for motorists to Guelph and Toronto. Early Saturday morning the house and nearly all the contents on the farm of Mr. Leon Jeffrey, Jr., at Blake, were destroyed by fire, which started from a defec- tive coal oil stove. Mr. Jeffrey had lit the stove when he got up, and went out to the barn to do the chores. Mrs. Jeffrey smelled smoke and on investigating found' the back kitchen ablaze. Some dif- ficulty was experienced in getting the children out, who were still sleeping. The loss to Mr. Jeffrey is severe, although it is partly covered by insurance. Dr. I. Neal, of Peterboro, return- edto his' home Saturday after spending a week with his mother, Mrs. William Neal, Walton. Mrs. Bateman and little grand- daughter, Iris Bateman, of Hamil- ton, and Mrs. Isabel Bateman, of Toronto, spent the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hoy, Wal- ton, Mr. and' Mrs William S. Gouin- lock. sdn and daughter; Mrs. M. M. Smallwood, three sons and daughter and Mr, J. Simpson, of Botania, N.Y., were weekend guests at the 'Commercial Hotel. Mr. Gouinlock and Mrs. Smallwood are the son and daughter of the late Dr. Gouinlock, one of the most prominent of the early residents in Seaforth. Mrs. Lyle Hill and family have returned to their home in Moose Jaw after spending a few weeks at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. Skelton. • From The Huron Expositor September 2, 1904 The farm of Mr. Robert Mason, on the Base Line, Hullett, and which has this year been worked by his son, has been rented to Mr. .Jess Fisher, of Colborne, who gets possession this fall. He takes it for a term of -five years. We are pleased. to learn Mrs. Will R. Cluff, Toronto, who has been spending the summer with her husband at the home of Mr. Cluff's parents in Tuekersmith, is sufficiently recovered from her re- cent illness to be able to be up again. The friends of Miss Annie Glass, more especially those who were her schoolmates in S.S. No. 9, Mc- Killop, will be sorry to hear that she has had lo undergo a serious operation and is in a critical con- dition. Miss Glass was married in Manitoba some time ago and is there at the present. Her mother is also out there waiting on her. Mr. George Thornton is perhaps the oldest man in the Leadbury section of McKillop, being over ,90 years of age, yet he can read witk- out glasses, and did some harvest work this year. He is a native of Yorkshire, England. Little Angela Crotty, violinist, has returned to her home in Both- well, after a few weeks' visit with her uncle, Father McKeon, and her aunt, Miss Crotty, St. 'Colu.mban. Last May a young man from Ash- field boarded a Lake Huron steam- er at Goderich and set out for Port Arthur. Nothing has been heard of him since June 15, and now his grandmother is very much worried because she thinks some of the Japanese shells have hit him. "Oh! Worra! Worra!" Rev. and Mrs. McLennan, who have been spending the summer months in Bayfield, have returned home to Kippen. They like Bay- field, but report the summer too cool for real enjoyment at the Iake. However, they are looking much better for their outing. Much sympathy is felt in Kippen for Mr. John 'McGregor, who met with a severe accident last .Satur- day, and which resulted in one of his legs having to be amputated. He is still at the residence of Mr. Simon McKenzie, in Tuckersm4th,. where the accident occurred, and where he will receive every atten- tion that can possibly be given him and his many friends will be great- ly rejoihed to hear of his recov- ery. Mr, W. T. Box, Seaforth, has pur- chased the cottage ° of Mr. John Downey on Jarvis St., nearly op- posite the Presbyterian Church. Mr. James Scott, who has been living in Texas for 80 years, visited, his sister, Mrs. Robt. Maxwell, of the Bluevale Road. Hostess: "It looks like a storm. You had better stay for dinner. Caller: Oh! thanks, but I don't think it's bad enough !or that." SEPTEMBER 3, 1954 "Keeper of the Trees." (By MR5. M. C. 0010) (Continued from last week) Perhaps it was the thought of the slowly melting ice cream that made him do the mile back to the gravel pit in record, time. The Big One was waiting on top of the hank. The tobacco?" he said. "You didn't forget it?" "Gosh, yes!" said Nels. "I did!" The look on the Big One's face caused Nels to ',hastily reverse his idea of humor. - "1 was only kidding. Here it is." "Kid!" said the Big One, solemn- ly, as lie rolled one, "if you had'da, your name woulda been Mud." III The last dinner was a gala affair. They put the ice cream in the iron pot and set it in the spring, from whence it emerged almost as hard as when the ,woman had lifted it from the freezing unit. The Small One went hunting for leeks and came back, not only with Leeks, but with water cress. There was plenty for everybody. Even Nels had all - the ice cream he could eat. A wave of polar air was coming. down from Northern Canada, but in the hollow of the gravel pit they knew nothing of it. Out of the wind, the sun's rays were hot, and the noonday siesta had to be taken in the shade of the over- hanging bank. •Colin and Nels were to leave at four o'clock, and a ride was cer- tain the Small One assured them, if they were at the roadside stand any time between four -thirty and five -thirty. The cars of •travelling salesmen, heading for their head- quarters in nearby towns and cit- ies, would be thick upon the road; gas trucks, Cocoa: Cola trucks, beer trucks, getting a ride would be a pushover. He almost wished he and the Big One were going with them, but their , destiny lay in points east, or they thought it did. And anyway, four people hitch- hiking together was two too many, A gasoline truck dropped Colin and Nels at the MacKenzie farm gate at exactly five -forty-five, and' they knew instantly that the days of easy living were over. They were met at the door by a re- proachfuI Janet and an envious Karen. "I don't know what we are go- ing to do with you, Dad," declar- ed Janet, as they came into the kitchen where the table was spread for supper. "I -really don't, Of all the wild goose'chases that I ever heard of, this beats them all. You tell me right this minute where you've been and what you've been doing." Colin lowered himself into his old Morris chair—one of the things Marion had -tried to take away from him, but had been forced to compromise by having it reuphol- stered. Colin admitted to himself that it really was a good deal more comfortable - than Mrs. Allen's maple blocks, or the stones in the gravel pit. "My dear Janet," he said, "you may find it hard to believe, but you are looking at two human be- ings who have achieved their heart's desire. 'And who among us has his heart's desire; and hav- ing it, "is satisfied?' We have not only achieved it, but we are satis- fied. Look well, my dear; you may not gaze upon our ltke again." • Janet began to wonder if her father was going to be such a good influence on Nels after all. When it came to being queer, it looked as though, it were six of one and half a dozen of the. -other, She .gave the Pilgrims a search- ing look. You look well, at all events. In fact, I never saw either one of you look better." Nels grinned at her, a free and open grin. He had. changed, and she had to admit that it was for the better. That stiff, defensive air had left him and had been replac- ed by an almost antic quality. Antic! Nels! "Sit into this table and eat, and tell me what you've been doing and where you've been. Heart's desire, indeed!" It was Colin who did the talk- ing. Nels' time and attention, as usual, being entirely taken up with eating. He did not tell everything; just gave Janet and Karen the highlights. He omitted entirely the fact that they had spent the previous night sleeping in the open with a couple of tramps. He touch- ed upon the Armstrongs lightly, Mrs. Allen lightly, but he recount- ed their adventures at the Harpers with gusto. Karen had been growing more and more envious as the tale pro- ceeded.• "You're nothing but a pair of meanies!" she declared. "Grand- dad, I'm your, granddaughter just as much as Nels is your grandson, and you have to take me along next time. I':m just as hardy as Nels, and,,, just as goad a sport, too." The same thought struck Nels and Colin at the same moment. They saw with memory's' eye the Big One and the Small One stand- ing naked in the gravel pit, while the fire cast fantastic shadows of their bodies on the gravelly banks. Quite a sight for a sixteen -year-old maiden. . Nels took a swallow of water, while Colin took a gulp of tea. "We'll see, Karen," said Colin, gravely. "It would be an experi- ence for you all right." "I'll say!" muttered Nels into his water glass. • Part Five THE STORE . . . AND YOUNG LOVE I The same spring that Nets was earning the right way to plant trees, snare suckers, end make a proper bonfire, Karen . was not standing atilt by any means. Karen discovered Literature with a capital L, and .particularly Poetry with a capital P, and it was in a fair way to ruin her as a grocery clerk. She had alwaYet been a reader; that is, an ordinary child reader: but reading as a Passion—that was different. Whereas Janet had been reared on Little Women, The Old Helmet, and the Wide, Wide World, Karen - read The Ranch Girds in the Rock- ies, The Ranch Girls on the Plaine, The Ranch Girls in the Woods, and. half a score or more of the 'seame. She had never taken a book or poetry from the library shelves of her own free will in her life. And one sleepy Monday after- noon, early in May, on the second' floor of the Tanner high school, Wordsworth walked out of the pag- es of a book and became her friend. 'Miss Fenton—English and Home- Economics—had been having a par- ticularly trying time with the Eng- lish literature class. They had• plodded through 'The Cloud' with somewhat foggy results, and 'To a Skylark' had been even worse if" that were possible. The way some of those boys—the ones who could' make themselves heard from home plate to the farthest corner of the ball field—muttered, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!" would have made Shelly rise from the bed of the. blue Mediterranean, sea weed, clam shells, and all. Miss Fenton gazed distractedly' across the roomful of heads, brown, black and flaxen, and fixed upon one around which gleaming golden• braids, smooth as silk, .were wound. A ray of hope appeared on the bleak horizon. There were days when Karen Nelson grasped with uncanny perspicacity a writer'e. meaning, and read her assignment with a depth of feeling that mader her phlematic schoolmates stars and mutter "Gosh!" This might'. be one of the days. "Karen," Miss Fenton was al- most pleading. "Will you please read for Oliver the first verse of page 63. And Oliver, do listen." Karen had an attractive voice; low but musical, and when any- thing moved her, there came into it a deeper note, clear and resort,. ant. She began: "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'Tis her privilege, through all the years of this our•.life, To lead from joy to joy; For she can so inform the mind, that is within us, So impress with quietness and beauty, And so freed with lofty thoughts, That neither evil tongues, rash'' judgments, nor the sneers' Of selfish men, nor greetings where • no kindness is, Nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or' disturb our cheerful thought Faith. that all which we behold fps full of blessings." Half way through it Karen's voice took on its deeper tone. ands by the time she reached the last line, 'And all which we behold is foil of bltessings', the whole class was sitting erect, looking startled. "Gee, Miss Fenton!" exclaimed) Karen, "that's swell. Why, that's —that's beautiful! That's my young n?brothel•, Nels—I mean—well: --may. 1 read it again, Miss Fen- " Miss Fenton consented. It might' be unconventional, but at any rate Oliver was sitting up and taking notice; something he hadn't done all afternoon. "But don't say 'swell', Karen, and don't begin every sentence with 'Gee'." Karen nodded abstractedly, and read the verse through a second time, this time really getting dowm to it. At the end of the second read- ing, Karen's bright blue eyes turn- ed to the window that looked out on the soul -stirring spectacle of a. Canadian spring day. "Gee, Miss Fenton," she said, wonderingly. "I've been looking out of windows all my life and L never really saw anything until to- day" Miss Fenton could not make up. ,her mind• which pupil was the hard- est to do with --the one who didn't respond to anything, or the one who went all out. Karen took her new-found vision, home to her mother, and Janet lis- tened smiling, as the .'verse was, read for the third time. "Wouldn't you think that Words- worth knew Nels, Mother? And lie died in 1850. I looked; it up. 1• know you and Dad think Nels is dumb because he gets zero in math, and spelling sometimes, but in lots of ways Nels is as smart as cam be. Nels's mind is full of nice thoughts, Mother. I know it is." "For she can so inform the mind that is within us, So impress with quietness and: beauty, And so feed with lifty thoughts, That neither evil Longues-" Have you ever noticed, 'Mother, that Nels never hears anything mean about anyone? He doesn't really. It just rolls off him like water off a duck." "Aren't you forgetting about. Dave Menzies?" Janet inquired with a little smile. "Oh, Gee!" ,said Karen. "Yes, 1' am. Oh, well—" The year -Karen discovered Lit- erature was an eventful one for her, because that same year she also discovered Love. The dscov- Ary of Love was a more soul -shale ing experience than the discovery of Literature. (Continued Next Week) "Mr. Smith," said the lady at the' church festival, "won't you buy a. bouquet to present to the lady you Iove?" "That wouldn't be right, I'm a married man." 4 A d 4 • • • • A i 4 4 .] r 4. • • a • f 4 • r 7 t • e a ,, ,