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: .The following •e another of Gavin
!Green's characteristic descriptive let-
,ters of ell• days,wlatch. will he found of
'interest:
li went to wheal In those hood old
,; dark when A., B., 0. was plain A., 13..
C., and when f -a -t -h -e -r spelled father
not tether, when girls and Wye went
barefooted to school, 'when girls dressed
t m wineey and print In summer and
homespun dresses. ornamented with a
IOW rows of cloth braid in winter. Boys
wore duck trouser and cotton -shirts in
atunmer and a, suit of homespun full ,
Cloth In winter, shoes. ;with copper toes -
or long boots with ted tops; "bread and in that9e days besides the. blue beech
treacle;our dhutter were mos y gad, we must have got them in our tette
l pies,a,les,' a ,, special xuyy A bey and drinks, as nature provided them in
s apples,' were a luxury. �+ the wild state, for I know we ate, • lots
! Sofl lane apple could. Le a orinw trade at of raw _ Sete such as turnips, green . an.
so much a the if pe fele so er lyd. es, wild' black cherries, choke c'herr`ies,
to hogged the apple he generally gave all kinds of wild berries, winter green
the Coro to his chum. for c ars and berries, underground nuts, leaks, beech
Boy$ stroked 3p rootig leaves, sour grass, Sorrell,, slippery elfin
• eda boy who clean sport. n.cles pipe .amok- bark; chewed .kte n oek gaud cedar gum;
days Mullen leaves. In 'these Hood .old drank ,buttertntlk, skim milk when we
ia chewedfr the other fellow's gum., could get it; drank W&ter out of creeks.
Thin was nefore them, microbes
I kneweaved ditches, ponds, swale holes • or• wherever
on the .bene: All the itt a es I knew We saw water whet 1xY. Whether there
our nr
Ile fe
t eats
here eo days were the 11 In these
int were vitamins or ditamltisF_
a finers (*tubed, co out r oho heads with and drirtka I know 'snot, but we flourish-
a fine went to comb every. SeMorningd.td. ofre ed like a green •bay tree Over six feet
�ut+e to school. .Those she did not WI.get were like Marys little Iamb= and Yee, those the olid days of
went with us to school .although it. was b1 h 'beech were and goodhs rawhide of
against the rule. I have been told that.
these little fellows were ot, Scotch de-
scent, but I know in'•these days I. have
seen them .play tag on the Beads of the
Engltrfit and Irish boys.as well as the
Scotch,
Well it there were other microbes that
tried to live inside of us those days they
had a hard row to : hoe with . doctoring
with sulphur and black •strap molasses
that we nag eo take. Every springtime
our mothers started to dope us as, soon
as the buds came on the trees and stay-
ed on the lob until the blossoms tell off
the trees. The dose 'was q• .tablespoon-,
ful every morning with a tea cup, of
salts as a chaser .and a cup of senna tea
before: going to be& We survived but
• the poor microbe must have returned to
• the earth for. I never heard of him or
saw him in my boyhood days, • .
And then they folk about. your vita-
. mins A., 13. and O,' today, when the
school children have to be babied up
with Pasteurized n'tlk in school hours
to keep hietheir vitamins A.,•>3• • and C.
In my scliool days we were babied with
a blue beech gad to keep our vitamins
A , B. and 0 in school .tours. And `2
slot my share of the blue beech vitamin
in .my robed days as 2 went to seven
• different . schools and fourteen different
teachers. If there were other vitamins
DEPRESSIONS
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TORONTO
- -Kara 101 HOLD.
It W*a Love at
it Fitt Sight
sr T* i*ONt
�ot New York's
rerttntbiaue. you ever tort jungle h
stinway? tunnels are stele* at dark -
nom. Their green stud red light* are
where sua*hlisint ne never*,penetratein the $, IAnd
enews magA ine coYere aeradit with relr *1 Wild -
colored k -
tient and alluring as 1! they were
beckoning Ottawas of poisonous or-
*hide. _ Alt the clty is like that: Minn
klettpn le a aerie; of inyateriou* thick'
eta and through thele thickets. Crud ne,
elated or despairing. each metrop
Ban explorer who hopes to wend Ms
way to a precarious tzafety nefore itis
hearth; or to a great love; or to
pR atany hopes and ambitions that
beset mankind,
Geoffrey Knorr meditated atter tide
fashion as he walted,for a downtown
local In the Columbus Circle .subwaY
elation; en evening paper beld Close
to eyes that strayed. eyes before
which the printed puge was a mean-
ingless blur.
Knorr was an odd egg; at least,
a the, few who called him friend.
,.eh
idealist. ea
1st
nsreed.. A lit of a
n d
Exactly that!' And tor a year or IWO
s been (Mated,
or three .idealism Ila,
quite a way .below. par.
Drinking and. petting parties: to
the blue g which he was Invited frequently, bored
h
big whip; The hel;ef was scriptural, Geoffrey Kliarr W tears. Be would..
that if you spared the rod you *moiled rather stay In : his hotel ' room and
the child. If You were late for 5015001 read Maupassant, Conrad;' Merrick,
you got a whipping. If you didn't.know and many other authors with whom
QUIVERIN
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HOUt AY '!*AT*$
Toronto, June 10;=Cantuh' s principal
aunuuer holiday, 'noptinlon DAY. July
1st, Calle on 8stureiay this year and. for
the convenience Of those Csuadianswho
wish to visit friends and reiativea or to
enjoy their outing at points away from
their hot*teg, the . Canadian. railways
have arranged low fares providing for
either the one -day or longer holiday
t„ips, Announcement. to this effect• was
made by C. P. Riddell, Chairman of the
Canadian passenger Association. Re-
turn tickets will ise sold, good between
stations in Canada at one and one-
quarter tithes the regular Ane -way titre,
good going tram noen on PridnY, .June
04th, to noon on Punchy, Juke sad, and
his,epllitnaI commuaion was keen and
appreciative, .:
But Geoff was humane just • the
same, At thirty he bad saved enough
to start a home on, Geoff. was a re-
write than and had worked : on the
best papers in the Country,and was
now. on a big New York daily. Be'
should have. been utterly hard-holled
and taken his fun where he `foursd. it,
ea many hard-boiled newspaper men
do—but Geoff could not do that. Be
wanted it. woman he. Could love in his
own ••ways -some' one .who would un,
•derstand his,. queer sensitive nature.;
and some one who would try to let -
biro Understand her..
go he came t4 New York, the melt -
Ink pot, where all sorts of women and
Your lesson ;You got another. Whatever
school rale you broke you Bot a whip-
ping and ,generally you got another
when you got home, • In thole days we
took .our whippings as a matter of
.course, but, take it allin all, I think. I
would sooner take the whippings we got
in those 'good old days than do the
home work of the boys and girls of these
enlightened days. We had no. home
work to do. Our school paraphernalia
copslsted of reader, copy book, bottle of
'ink, slate and pencil. They always re-
mained in the school no books to carry
home. This left us free and easy it we
wished to scrap on ourway 'home:
As I could live my school days over
again (oh how I •wish 'I could) 2 may
some day ln'l'u future if I am still' on
topof the ground, tell you something'. of
the different seboois and teachers and i all sorts of men abide. New York—
soholara of the sixties and the seventies, the Jungle!. Where many millions pall
when sweet innocence of youth reigned their soft -footed course . in and • out
on our minds, ' among the thickets of streets on the
line that destiny has penciled out for 1
them.
This 'night Geoffrey turned from
his paper,. still waiting for a train,
and tossed his eyes, a little bitterly;
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STAY AT
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Naha St; e. u4 George St., • Toronto
Items wit, lath I pen as 11.50 got Jay.
.gesss witkiailr'2 t4a' $2.00 re, by..
INSURANCE
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ESTABLISHED 1869 . .
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.*venal arms*, Live stock and
G ottseseld selenee ,lodging edoaapetltto"a
will be 'hell, in Clinton on Friday. June
u3rd, under the r,upervislon of the Buren
County Ifraneh of the Ontario Depart*
anent of Agriculture. The cotupetitiozl
b open to boys and girls got Huron
County who are 34 years of age and un-
der.
The giris will be rctulred to judge
Classes in Nutrition and Clothing and
contestants must register in the Vire.
man's Hall, show the Bank et Mon-
treal, by 5.45 rani. The entry fee fer
each girl is 25e.
The boys will be required to judgo
two .*lasses each of hone., ,beef tattle,
dairy cattle, sheep and awkne, and oral
reasons are to be given on five classes,
The entry fee for each boy is 25c and
entry must be made at the axgrdcultural
Mike by 0.46 e.,M.
Suitable ' ellver troph,ee and cash
Prizes Win be awarded the high eoutes-
ta'nts in both competition*, and any
boys or girls in. the County who aro in+
terested should write to the Ontitrio 1)e-
partment of Agriculture, Clinton, for a
complete prize list. All boys and girls
are cordially invited to take part ,n this
for return good on trains leaving: not annual competition-
later than midnight, standard time, on
July 3rd. In addition there will be spe-
cial one -day fares, the return tickets
being Sold at regular one-way first class
fares. These tickets will be good going
onYnn .1r'atn after 1 a.m. standard time,
on July1Y 1st, , with!,
the
return
Por
tion
good on any train rieaehing the originate
starting pointup to midnight of the
same day The special holiday ticket
will be good between any points which
can be visited within the period limit of
the respective tickets;
W. G. Thonipson.
CAKES AND COOKIES
'By Betty lay
How -about a cake or a batch of cook -
les that are "different?" The unusual toward the steal -plated brightness of
always, appeals and here ar t recipes f the subway stairs; worn by tnany
that are, unusually apnea gemillions of tragic, hopeful .feet. Gnet+
lira Molostses. Cookte4 frey still dared to hope' that ode day.
2 Cupri prunes some day, he would find a face. Not
1 cup shortening necessarily' .the face that launched a
•1 cup brown sugar ` thousand ships. Just a face that he
1 cup white' sugar . could come home to. and wake love
3 eggs.: • to; And cherish and keep from harm.
ee cup molasses Geoffrey wanted to Chop his own way
% cup zrd1k • to a shack 'and a watering tllace in
51 *ups all-iiurpose our . this formidable jungle of New York.
8 teaspoons baking powder Like some mammoth python his
80 train hissed its way Into the:station
• to to salt and commenced disgorging its passen-
1 teaspoon ginger gers from a brightly lighted interior.,
1 teapPo ped nut it was the evening brightly
hour. There
�,r ,cup chopped . kernel.: ` a1 brutal' scramble and
was the usu
Boll prunes ..in small
aces. remove lam, Courtesy, is not a synonym for
pita, and cut .in small pieces. Cream the rush hour anbway,
shortening with sugars, add well beaten In the disgorgement process, which
eggs, molasses, milk, and mix thorough-
ly. Combine With flour sifted 'with. bak- Geoffrey watched from his close-
ing powder, soda, salt and spices. Beat crammed waiting place, there sudden -
well, •add prunes, nutmeats and blend ly shot forth a slim girlth great,
together, !Drop by spoonfuls onto Brea- .wide, lovely eyes, who gas not the
sed pan, and bake about 12 minutes in ted sbuggestion
and forthsp,[ betas ween as shha ,
Ea hot oven (400 degree >!•)• dere of two burly men.
Soiled Orange Her eyes and Geoffrey's eyes met.
as ordered by fate, in the melee
Geoffrey; despite his dreaming. Ideal-
istic bent, was a man of notion
These were the first eyes that had
looked Into fits with the golden tails -
Icing
(Sufficient' for 1 cake)
1 cup sugar
1-3 cup' Water
2 egg yolk&
1 tablespoon orange juice
Household Drudgery
The Bane of V110 na n's Life
Nature intended women to be-strong..and healthy
instead of week and eibkly, but how' can a Woman
have good health when, &tin and day out, she has to
go through the household drudgery without any
laxation. Is it any wonder she' becomes nervous
and irritable, has hot flushes, faint *Ad dissy spells,
shortness of breath, sinking and smothering sensations,
and can't sleep at night.
Women who are weak and run down will find in
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Fills a remedy to strengthen
the system and bring back the much detired health.
Save the Surface
It is False Economy not to paint. We
carry a full line of
Scarfe's Ready -Mixed Paint
its coverage and wearing quality are unsurpassed.
For your House Furniture arnd
Veranda Chairs*
Use WCARP1S VARN.O,L.AC
it has no egad and there are many colors to
choose from.
We also carry White Ladd, Baden Oil
and Turpentine.
Or Shelf Ara Ilewvy ilarawar'e, FlIMbinttr Iiest1ag (Stem*, Hot
Water lira ITe4 Mr), Ttnsitiitblaig and FEavetionsltai" .gtre we sa tall, Alt
wtttlt ptsspt&! atte led w And fatly gassissktio,,°
Anthracite, rodahontadr°;Cornl and Cello always in stack
Jahones'tore ' CHAS• V IZE14"aref.atjHrlra mo Xx2 a rritheHrbor
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000 of understanding. ••eo Geoffrey..
never losing sight of that brae helmet
•and slim athletic figure. wrenched •
himself free of the mob—end followed
close ,in the trail of romance. As the
girl hrlskly dodged traffic and started
uptown from the subway exit that
splits ,Broadway at the. upper swing
of the Circle. , • .
•
At the corner, *s the girl turned
left on Sixtieth street, Oeolfrey quick-
ened his pace .and gently touched here
elbow m.
"A glance ladled bet • sen us --you
and me --:down there In the ubway. It
warmed my heart because very
lonely here In this jungle of ew
York, I then ht perhaps you'd j
telt me why :yulooked at me In that
friendly, under tending wayr.
She seemed a little startled at his
touch and his words. Then she faced
about, her square, slim little shoulders
set firmly, and looked right luta his
tyes.
"Because I saw In your eyes an ex-
preasion • that the way they man-
handled me at the Subway . door—
well, It hurt you mere than it did we.
That's unusual, You're unusual. I'm
glad you've spoken to me. I'd like to
know you!"
Love et first sight---nfieratand1
In the year 1931.!
German Raijr.ad Stwtistlee
The governmeq't-owned railways of
Germany covered a running distance
during 1929 of 4200,0 miles, ac-
cording to oAi 'deflates recently
published. Th is an increase of
about 23,000,400 fntltrt over 1028. Some
2,054..000,000 passenger* were carried,
an tnere'se tor 2,000.000 over the pram
Protect the Child from the gavages of
Worms by using Mother Graves" Worm
Exterminator. It Is a standard remetiyr,
and yaws of 'Wile '!have enhanced its re.
potation.
Help ter Asthma.. Neglect gives asth
ma a great advantage. The trouble,
puce It has secured .a foothold, fastens
its grip on the bronchial passages tena-
ma
ciously, Dr. J. D. Heuo gg lath
's
Remeey is dally benefiting cases of Asth-
ma, of long atanding. Years of suffer-
ing, however, might have been prevent-
ed had the remedybeen used when the.
trouble was in its .nest stages, Do not.
neglect asthma, but usa this preparation
at anile.°
NORTH ST. W. M. S.
Tho W, M. s. of North street United
shureh held ata• "'egular monthly meet-
ing la tate leatttre room on ht nday af-
terneen, June 50. the president, Mrs.
t. lietlierington, in the chair, and Miss
Rue Andrew at the piano. After devo-
tional exercises the reports of the secre-
tary and tl)e treasurer were read and
approved, The supply secretary,. Mrs.
T. Johnston, asked that members• con-
tribute t eeond-hand eiotbing tor a bale
to he packed during the summer, and
it was decided to put a ,request for suit
donations 115 the Church calendar.
panted en the piano by Mr. Clayton
Watts. Current events of interest were
react by Mrs. S. Wilcock, ,apd an Meet -
lent report et the recent branch meet-
ing was given by Mrs; W, J. Andrew.
The chapter of the study book dealing
with early missions was reviewed. by
Miss. Id, 0. Robert+ on, and an interest-
ing letter front Miss Maude Howell was
read by Mrs, M. W. 110We11. 'T'he meet-
ing closed with the -benediction.
. o
.Douglas' Egyptian Liniment 1s without
a rival. Stops bleeding Instantly. Cau-
terlxes wounds and prevents blood poi-
sontng•
Mrs, O. T. Watts took the -Garlic for
program. eduestionak rogrt m. Atter the
reading of the scripture, part of the
13th chapter of Matthew, several mem-
hers 1e4 In brief prayers. The devotion-
a1 leaflet, "The Society Wonsan—Lot's
Wife,” was read by Mrs. Frank Bishop,
A pleasing solo, "Thanks Be to Clod,".'
was sung by Miss Elia Watts, accom-
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