HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-02-06, Page 6From Sea to Sea
Impressions of My Canadian
Tour as Told in
England
BY Sir Betsy ,Tackseit
.kfter a few days of the dreary
waste of waters which Is the Atlantic
Ocean, the Canada boiled traveller
meets, more often than not, a curtain
of mist or fog. Detested by the sail.
or, this etirtaie is, to the expectant
visitor, what the curtain i21 the
theatre le to the expeetant audience.
At hat wonders aro to be unfolded?
'Whet hes herond? What kind of
conetre? What kind of people? W111
romautic dreams of boyhood be real.
Isola Cowboya. Redskins- Prairies?.
Mountains? Surely liOnle df these
must s1111 exist; and if ITellywood lute
marked the cowboys and redskins
for ita own, new luterests will most
Probably have taken their place.
'rho ship cautiously takea its way
through the fog, and gradually out of
the west rises tho land. A barrou
coastline, so fiat that It etiggests the
pressure, 0.1109 ago, of a gigantic
steam -roller moving slowly back-
wards and forwards, flateang out
all but the hardest rock, mid throw-
ing up hero and there great Mounds
of the earth it has ground down.
The coast is treeless and bare,
with some isolated villages of „white
houses. An opening In this bleak fuel
inhospitable shore leads to another
Sea—or what seems a sea—the Gulf
of the St. Lawrence, the mouth of the
mighty St. Lawrence River, which,
0211its lakes, rapids and faniotta
Niagara Valls, counected by ingeni•
tiee artificial waterweys, offers a
route for shipping right to the very
heart of 1110 Contiaent.
For two daps mid nights the ship
passes between the narrowing shores
of tho river, whoee banks bonene
more and more thickly strewn with
villages, Ilton has a chervil with
high slender steeple; and there are
vast marshes alive Nrifli duck, and is-
lands with Queer little haystacks
These ate forests too, now that we
aro atvay from the seaboard. In the
evening of the second day a fountain
or lights announces Quebec—an 410
pin' stone city more self-contained,
move rleh in memories and steeped in
tradition Watt any other 00 the
North American Continent
After Quebec, another day of the
river, svith the landscape more merle
oily fiat: to the north Iles a chain cd
high ground, and elsewhere two, or
perhapa three, 11110 rising from the
plains, aresting• and conspicuous in
their loneliness. Beneath oue of the
stande Montreal, a cit: as lingo
and populous 00 Dirmiughain.
Montreal has some of the autiellifY
of Quebec; combieed with the mo-
dernity of Toronto. 1( 11110 the sedate
stability of the one, tho youthful
vigor mid enterprise of the other. It
has thrown rico rattneuric 111.1(190S
over 1110 St. LairreliCe, and Is proud
also la the possession of two tower-liko e
skYseraPPers, ono of them possi
sessing within its wall every amenity, I
even to a perfectly eguiped hospital, '
that is desirable In it small English
envie ,
Prom ?ilsetreal tho two great rail-
way organizations stretch out their
main linedue west to the Pacific,
sending our short branehet to north
and south, at either side, on their
way For the Canada of towns and
citiee—the Canada of life and 'labile-
tion—is a comparatively navrow strip
sandwiched in, no it were, between
1110 9r1in and largely undeveloped
northwest, and tha United States 13,
ing parallel ') the 000911. The people
supposed to be phlegmatic; perhaps ,
ale phlegmatic, as we in Euglaud are 't
1( 11 the coldness of the climate, Any,T'
tt
fi
ia mostly a single track three Owns-
aud miles in length. I say the first
stage became) the Dominion of Care
ada vi21eo itself luta thro markedly
differeat :mellows—from the Atlantic.
to Winnipeg, trent Winnipeg to the
Itllcidea, from the Rockies to the Pa -
cilia. On this first stage there are
forests of conifers—not mighty giants
hitt timber venally about twenty foot
high. There is grey reek and innum-
erable twisting lakes. One has no
sense of high or low level, but there
le always the feeling of being on the
edge of some lofty mountain: nn il-
lusion due to the extraordinery clear -
neat 01 tho atmotphere and the en-
Parently near horizon. The traveller
game through the whitlow tho who1e
day long, but the Itindscape that
meeta lile 0,0 11111s is
Menthol with that whit% he sew at
dawit—forest, grey reek, water.
The hakes aro gradually left behind,
and then the rocky ground, only the
forest atilt goes on, and that has
eleariege Obviously the work of ntan.
These clearings grow larger and
larger; the forted is now mere strips
of woodland which soon disappear
completely; 11 is the edge of the
prairte—the great wheat bell. Itt a
short time we are in Wienipeg
The capital of the prattle has no
trace of old tradition. . It hoe build -
Inge which would grace any great
eity, hut here things aro in the mak-
ing. 'Melte) aro no cowboys, but thoro
is a suggestion that they »debt pot -
:111)1y appear at any moment.. Ad
the Red Indian in modern dress pass-
es ole acognized. Tho pit (literally a
la•rge room on the seventh floor) is a
Isleture of frenzied commeretaliSm
where grain is bought and 50111, It is
a little re) initeent of the most heeds
corner or )lpsOin Downs on a bygoue
Derby eity. The network of overhead
wires and reeling telegraPil Pests
which are such eyesores in every
Canacliait city seem to he in greater
profusion than eltewhere. The
streets aro a babel of every European
language, met shops appear to sell
everything, and nothing in pesticides.
the smaller prairie cities, and there
ties: Calgery, Regina, Edrnenton, Set-
ae many, have the same chariteterls•
itatoon. illdmoliton is seventy -flee
seats 01(1, Saskatoon tweetY-five,
Both have universities, trams, largo
stores, hotels, and so forth. In sev-
etal of them a elver willi-hatilte sixty
or stevetity le t bite- oeers a more
raided landectipe. The fork or bend
01 a rived determined the site of a )
city in the dominion as elsewhere. .A
strut teatime of limed prairie towns
is the ve'y marked and ribrept fas•
Illoti in which city and satire meet..
It is scarcely air eXaggerarion to say
that it is possible to etep from front
door to prairie.
Mlle epon 111110 the wheat stretelles.
Crain elevators 1019er ep, More-
housee of the harvest, by vcayaide
stations, Such trees its exist are
small and stunted; the winter is too
hard and hitter and lone for Been to
theorist), There 19 no haze on the di'
ant landscape; the 01y itt esystel
tear. If the -forett, lake Mel rock
comers' seemed monotonous, the
trairie 119011 front the train is or un-
itterable, deadly samenest, How -
ver, the tarelert say that to-rnor•
'ow tee sliall see the Rockies. And
mleed their first appearance is start•
ling, The prairie begins to take on a
new cheracter—that of undulating
downa, uncultivated but with some
solitary fir trees. The train follows
a river bed, and the lino, hitherto so
straight across the prairie, begins
to 'sieve, till suddenly In the west,
through the moving miat RS thoegit
floating fu air, towers peak after
peak, a mighty wal which stretches
north and south as far as the eyo can
see. Into the heart of Ellie wall, fol -
ming the water, the train strikes,
nth the vast ridges of the opine of
le continent rear up on either side.
lio rock forms are fantastic, and the
re which grow in the valley climb
p until there 19 no earth left. At 111-
109902) the stream broadens out into
little lake% so still that they mina'
the peace as clearly 11.11 any glass.
The valley narrows, and a halt marks
the Great 131vld, The water now
falls west to the Pacific, and there is
a sharp drop by means of petrol tun-
nels. Front now onwards the train
10110198 iltst one Valley and then rue
other. '11113 carVe8 0r0 HO eiolent and
make such hairpin besets that the
engine driver and 0111191 could 111111001
shales hands as the lug, train turns
atilt loops about Itself,
The line climbs again orer the Sel-
kirk Range, and 11 111 with regret that
1110 traveller finds himself debarred
'how, the departure of tho trans -con-
tinental train evokes no thrli, no ex•
eitement or general 1 tevest.
The first night Is a trying
once to tl.e novice. The siren of the
monster locomotive has beau likened
to the roar of an angry bull, whilst
there le also a bell that jangles with
regular and tiresome rhythm Oue
purpose of the bell is to 'Warn motor-
ists with suicidal tendencies of level
croseitigs, but jmiging from the num'
bet of fataltiliet it would appear to
be wasted effort. A glaring s001011 -
light illumines the path allessf, Every-
thhig betokens a relentless insist -
mace on the part of the pioneers 10
challenge the mightinest of Nature
with the power of human skill; hiss-
ing., groanieg, protesting almost, the
engine draws its load throughout the
night along the first stage of what by nightfall from oujoying 00010 of
An Interesting Landmark of Canada's Early Days
OLDEST NORTH AMERICAN CHURCH AT TADOUSSAC
Small church at levemssee, Quebec, Mee to 1.24e at Junction of St, Lawrence and Sagnenay Rivera, said to
be oldest hi North Anierlo,
the most magnificent mountain scen-
ery in the world, Net morning we
are !wattle the Frazer River, forcing
its woy by narrow germ to the Pte
011ie, The vaneess lia between 1110101'
taint whose slopes have much Helms
vegetation than that which clothes
the slopes of the Rockies. and now
for the first time, the trees attain con.
siderable size and are teeth more
varied, The air is Sorter, The grass
is green (the last green peas we saw
was two thousand miles awaY on
Sonic golf links) and OesIde a wooden
farmhouse is a hevd of Alderney
CoWri, The river wident and flews
more sluggishly: It Is streem with
the myriad logs which member
every Canadian waterway. Tice val-
ley broadens, too, mei 111 ne hoar or
so the litis, after passing along the
shove of what appears to he a Swiss
10110, runs between the ramshackle
ltolol(r(Iot9( which betray the vicinity
of a elty. We are in Vancouver.
Above tlio platform tower the mash
of great ships bound for the islaude
ot the Pacific—for China and Japan
as for Australlits-aud above 111001
again tower the cIeedy maintain tops
of British Columbia'.
There it a magnificently situated
university, a remarltably equipPed
technical school, which during 109
visit was busy Prelmshig in its °WU
charming theatre a peefotmance ot
Shakespeare's 'Homy V.', the ces1o01-
a12, palatial hotels and vast stores
and faelories. It has a Park situated
oil ft pvemontory, the road around it
is nine miles long, Wime centre is
to all intente and parPoses vivgin 109 -
est with a few ialulo 150 to 200
foot 111911. At its uttermoat point,
where the reek rises from the sea, it
is Possible to look down on tho docks
of passing eldps almost as from the
air, while Otero are sandy bask where
the happy eitizena can enjoy sea and
sue to their hearts' desire.
Women's Wiles
Ily o Hairdresser
Slaty do women 120 to their hair.
thesteraa 1 have had a hairdressing'
for six years, anti during
that time 1 have bobbed, shingled,
91a10(1, dyer!, bleached, singed and
shampooed the hair of thousands or
girls and women, and of this number
quite ono qicirier haVO tried deliber-
ately to th,ceivo 100.
ale 1 ) •t r.
01 111(11 Lib 30( •
able lie 18 tolt1 hy women 90011 past,
middle -age, who pathetically lettere
inis that hefore they had a "sellout
littlest" they leul 1n1(1380.5 or mariniri,
emit hale
Many girls with 100(1 (1 Inilr 101110
to Pave it dyed. This it rather
Rt0111190, for the number of blondes is
1101 in comparison with that of the
brunettee,
Nol hair tail; lake (lye ProPerlY,
Sometimes the aside becomes 10-
(11(000(1; sometinica the dye only
tithes hese ;0111 there on the scalp,
Therefore, to find if the dye will
taco, I dab a test portion- on the skin,
behind the ear, or on nem or legs
Next day the girl comes to see inc, 1
00(1 I eimmine the place where 1129
fest has been made, It the skin to
inflamed at all or allows certain symre
toms, it it a sure sign that the dye
will not take,
Taking the Risk
The other day a girl with lovely
red.gold hair (eines to me to have it
dyed, I 101(1 her what a. pity it would
be, for her hair IVas really a beatiti-
el color, but she Insisted, 5 made 3
the usna1 test on her arm, and asked
her to call ogale 01 1110 same hour (ho
next (lay, whoa I weld(' be able to I
tell Lor 11 1101' hair could be dyed. I
Next day she 41111110 In with her arm
in a Sling and her 'wrist in splints.
"len sorry," she mild, "but I have ,
broken a bone in tny wrist, nna there- 8
fore you won't he'ahlo to examete my '
arm But you Call earry on with the
dyeieg, all tho same."
I realized that the..girl had gone to
a hairdresser before nte, who had
told her, after making 'the teat, that'
he could not dye her hair. So she
decided to hoodwink me, and to have
her halv dyed at 511 costs. Of course,
I simply emitted the test behind her
oat, and asked her to come again the
next day. Sho did not appear.
A Sure Test
The most iliftifficult hair to dea1.
with i8 hair that has been bleached.
The bleaching agent elestroya the tex-
ture of the hair, so" that it snaps it
tho slightest strain It put on it. I
have often great trouble with girls
whose hair is bleached, and who
want it permanently waved.
A. girl, whose hats had the unpleas-
dead yellow appearance that;
comes front bleachleg, came to me
recently to have it permanently
raved. I suspected that it was
(leached, Ito I tested rt moral portion
of ft without lier lcuowledge while
he sat in Ito chafe and found I was
'Ight. But when I asked her She
tented she had had it bleached. 3,
'Well, madam, I hope you are tell.
lug the truth," I said. 'Becauto 21
your hair hoo been bleached you will
be completely 11014 whee I have fin -
She kat 119 straight when she heard
that, awl thought awhile. Finally, she
admitted the trues
For Their Own Good
Occasionelly winter] have been
most unpleasant When I have refused
to permanently way() bleached hair,
and have anal that they would not
move 1111 I had carried out their or -
dere When this hal/Pelle 1 make
them sign a term saying that` they
aceept responSibIlity, 111111 that
their hair has not been treated with
anything at all.
have, never Itnotvit a woman go,
through with the busieese after sign-
ing this form. 1 make them an an-
pointment for the next day --00 that
they ean save their face—and they
say they wilt come. But they don't.
There • re I , girls Wito use
shampoos :.,. buy front the chemist
that contain bleaching 1190018, Eio a
girl who hat been bleaching her hair
unknowingly often replies that she
has not.
Use Old Method
To Heat Cathedral
System Used in Roinan Baths
Duplicated in Great Liver-
pool Edifice
A system of heating -similar to that
mod by the I/0102099 in their simple
-
001 bath houses has been adopted for
Ise 111 Liverpool Cathedral, 10121011
viten completed will lie one of the
argest and most magnifica in the
vorld, remnrIta Mr. Barry IValson,
1,A., Sc., 111.0., MR, writing on
'Heating the House," in the latest Is
tie of Cantullan Illonies and Gardens.
j "Ono 01 1110 earliest means used fin
the distrlhationsof heat to Points re.
mote from its source was that in.
•
1ented by110101100 the ancient nant for
1,
natty of their bath houses," Ile says.
"This was the distribution of hot
gases from the fire through under-
Mel110019' uete in the building, and it is
) stgnflimit fact that this same eys•
cm has Just been installed its Liver,
Pool Cathedral- with the difference
that clean alr heated by steam cone,
instead of smoke mei hoegases from
the fire, passes beneath the stone
fleeting, la such a system the air of
the building is Ilea 101.1 by contact
with the warm flooring, and upon ex.
Pending', dee to heat 11 1)00011100 11911.
ter than the cooler air above and,
therefore, floats gently toward the
top or the building, 9911110 tbe heavier
cool air falls to Die floor, to bo heat-
ed in its turn." •
"Why do you "Wear iltat costume? t
It looks like halt mourning."
"Well, every evening when you
come home from the office you emu- 11
plain of being half dead." 1
Puede for prohibition enforcement a
are the intake for the upkeep of the 1
downput of the output,
S'MATTER POP— A Little Letter Makes a Big Difference.
1,\fiEstAr 1+3 t Vsie)els
'1AI(31J(,VIste-0 Ci-PEeEs
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The graduate thought ho would de-
vote himself to literature. "Yoe
know," he said, 'I am convinced that
I have a literary bent," %cep at it,"
said his prosaic; Dad, "and yott'll he
literally broke."
Hope of China
Is "Strong Man,"
Says Ex -Ruler
Former Emperor Believes New
Leader Will Arise to
Put an End to Strife
Tientsin., 01111ta—PrOnt out of the
chaos of the present turbulent China
will emerge a "ttrong man" who will
lead the nation into "ldle of 10105-
110)129' fool memo," In the opinion of
Italian Tang, dethroned emperor.
This ()pluton was expressed in an
interview granted the Associated
Press, in which Mean Tung, now call.
ed ;limply Hellas' let YI, told of hie
Intimate hopes and fears for the
China lie believes will shake off its
meant lethargy.
Slinking through an interpreter, al-
though ho 0-1,1109 and wake Englialt
theettly, he ;melte of Um- prolonged
strife 111 China anti the miseries of the
people, Ile reforrodShltterly to rho
telfisliness that has aCtitated ao mauy
of the leeriest. Ho said:
"9 ho people ot China want peace
above fin things to•day, They yearn
for relief from the intolerable Ink,
erles inflicted iipou than 1/3' Prolong-
ed idyll wars; the profound Water.,
Lances; tho throat of thels ancient
bellefa and practicea; the raids and
atrocities of bandits)
"Of course," lie went on, "there
Mast bo changes. The world about
un has changed, and the people nnist •
change, too, We cannot go back.
We must inereli on, But Ilio 011111
lion seems to bo growing worse in,
goad of better. The PeoPle's hap'
pine88 it gone."
Expects Strong Leader Wilt -Arise
The exiled Emperor was asked
whether he was optimistic or pessl-
mistia with regard to 1110 outeotne
of the chaos and civil war. Ho pans,
ed a moment. Then, after steadily
gaglug at 611 autographed portrait of
;Mussolini, his hero, he turned and
said:
''t a01 convinced that a stymie 111011 •
will emerge who will give the poops:
peace, restore order and begin the
mighty task of rebuilding shattered
China, In the past it always has
been so; it must be 80 again, I eaut
1101, predict when or how- much long-
er the present struggle will continue,
but a• great loiter assuredly 99111
arise."
Hauan Tung, w1e»1019 lives a Iife
of linestentation at the .theatiese con-
cession, Ims had vivid drama crowded
into his tweety-four years. He is the
last of the (ince powerful house of the
Manchu dynasty, He became rulor
on the death of the reformer Em-
peror Kwang Hsu, his uncle, who
died without issue,
Ito came to. the throne atter two
royal deaths within twenty-four hours
of each other and when the Manchu
dynasty' was desperately trying' to
save Itself by turning to the reform,
ere A few yeast later (1912), vlion
still a boy, he 1080 (101,111'011C(1 and
the meeltlie proclaimed.
"A girl 00111 1(100110 make a sugar
daddy on sight, but she makes him,
buy and buy,"
A GREAT GIFT
Blessed aro they who have the glft,
of 100211119 friends, for It is one of
God's best gifts. It Involves many
things, but above all, the Powor et,
going out of one's sole and appdeeetts
ing whatever is noble and loving In
auother.--Thomaa I-Tughoo,
eos
Tho less you can enjoy, the pourers
Ilio mintier yourself; the MOTO yeti)
can enjoy, the richer, the more vigor.:
000.—Lavatere
By C. M. PAYNE