The Lucknow Sentinel, 1931-12-17, Page 7mti
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I,eltclture'1
iKnowles • A. Ryerson, as, told' to. !Obed''
• Otearins, in "Country' Home," .Wept, '31.
Men,. always have wanted.- more,':
plants ' than nth y r,already . had, and
t ey"noveri hav,>t,
9-.1fe ,43;iti,stied tel`,
raise only athose.' plants which they.
• found growing in their par1ticu1S4' 'pat -
rhos of soil. Thus'.,they. have tiPiclted
up. seeds or lifted up plants by the
roots,whevei they ' haval;' ,found theta
. in' their wanderings; ani- tried. •grow
ing them whaver they' settled down.
Consider, what would! be the,.etate
• of •agriculture in ",:America,-"t'oday; -it"
men had, been content to grow only
atiye plants. The. only major crops
,yould..,,be corn, tobacco ;and xposiiib-
, . ly :cotton in' the -41741y of• vegetables,
nothing execiptl sweet corn;.equashee;
• and .beaver Some inferior:. oar etiese
of rye, and trice, °a ,tow berries, seine
nature grapes, crab • apples, native:
k,` eplums. pecans woulil•be rattleda Little
. elee • NO wheat that was brought In
from -'•the•, .Old, World,• , 1`in `• pdtatoes'
those- came from South America by
way of Europe..
EilthouSh . t -�' • +'' _,' , ';A :"I='
Culture had no .'explorers of it own
untll',1898, -American in"forsign land
whether oitats'lor tirivate citizens,.
had•. their' eyes Open foe...possible plant,
' introductions long•: b'ef'ore that tia;ne. In'
1870, for instance, an American into
sionary ia 'Brasil wrote to .the depart-'
•went ea olling ;the; deli'ci'ous 'oranges
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being grown'.,,in.`that country. • A• .first
•shipment of. trees,:was made, .but they
"ail died because of improper 'packing.
They tried. again, and, at last .got 12;
•trees In ..good' condition,' replanted
them -and 'thereb'y :started the Wash-
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ington naval orange industry: The ay..,errago-annual-value=of-th-is--crop--no--
le $35,000,00
`In -order to understand -what -is now
• a regular system of, exploration, let us'
euRpos0 that,. looked; out' in year
back -yard and_ saw a stranger, in
queer foreign garb, down on his
baunches; studying, with apparently
fascinated interest, your radish plants.
Jest so strange' an. c ,
Service `Must Not Suffer
r!;.• mss.
•: .b , .: _ _ ne`,toni: ht!i Lineman TaY•lor
• � • h gale. There will�be troubie�n the hn �"
V�1.. efi w . PV at a ga e ,
here was • trouble and ,plenty . of it, . especially up
of the -Bell T.elep'hone'staff was right -7 -..there e , t down dross the Ottawa'•
around Pembroke when the icy blast from the Laurentians Swept
Vallley giving warning to all that King Winter was again .holding court.,
All through the night and during the . next. day the' forces, of the Bell Telephone Coln`
and, Snapped telephone poles
parry battled the storm which had•covered'. the wires_ w%th. ice PP.... _-_ _.
likepipei.stems. ` True, by the following' night many. of the poles• were still down but the' ;
Pp,
service continued practically without interruption' by means of emergency .cable "and the
tan led wires and broken' poles were rapidly being'' restored to their usual trim, service-
able appearance: - p Thousands. Of dollars worth of expensive equipments and scores of
Po
skilled workmen 'must be kept constantly available for.just such emergencies 'in 'order
that the universal .service • of the' Bell Telephone Company they be' available to. all at all
• ~.Turning next to peaches, Meyer,here � Egypt. are now grown .to . the extent-
encountered his flr`st real trouble, his of about 750,000 acres in regions where
first •duel, of wits with the Chinese':'Up I rainfall ,is, low;; • from 'Russian Comes
in the little village:of Fel, in'. Shan- 'the Swedish. Select' and Sixty -Day Qats
3.tent_of
- -r-own-to-=tlie a ,--
- e:-ndw�bein g
- ^ex em g
tun revives' -the - rew`an tr
g -p Y g.
res c=
000 acres,pe
ly large and. luscious , peach, 'often .000;000 and 'S,OpO,,
weighing, as much ', as • a, pound, But tively, Acala cotton, "found in Mexico,
din omprehensible .Fei *as 'the, only place where.,:these ha;sbeen developed into, a varietY
aches . re a d the inhabitanits, which is the foundation of the cotton
;�.�ee�•ihe:Y.plaiatwexplorer :Often-sl�em�tO..I►e_ _...:....,.:gam. 1°t,� �.,��w.,.�,-....,..-.w.- ,,�--..�,.„a, t�.�, °0ht"h'w'est;•:.,1;t$:a°nnuai-
the 'people In whose `hack yards he thgrefore had a very' comfortable and .industry if , e 13
~const seek out new plants, for You • to profitable monopoly in the , Shantung production reaches a value of $50,000, -
grow, For frequently he' is likelq to market. •So ' they • didn't take. at all 000. , '
bring back a plant that is as common ,kindly. to Meyer's ,attempts: to buy a f 1 is whlcii reach this
to those . who ,• are -growing-4t as thn few -trees, -to -takeaway' with- himr-----
radish' is to you. ' ' He argued and. pleaded., Finally a
For example, in what remote wilder• native grower'offered to sell him his
mess do you think the late Frank' N. 'orchard. 'There seemed no other way
Meyer discovered the ,wild •Chi " • o -get -trees But"when-they�i'eac e
peach tree? He pundit in the garden this country, and were'• replanted' and
et.the 'German legation in Pekinel It developed. It' was founts that' they were.
wall so' commonplace that 'nobo'dy had
ever thought 'of it before , .as being,
worth .a second: glance.
. Meyer was perhaps the most .color-
' ' fel and certainly.. one of, the most•use-
fat explorers who ever served 'the
United States.government. The• greet-
er• part of ,his , adult • •life was spent
prowling around in the far, wild cor-
ners :of the earth, • seeking rare and
strange plants. '
His firstwork of importance .was
the introduction of Chinese persim-
mons
ersimmons' in 1905. Studying them, he ea-
plored-.the....aproYinces of ' 'Shantung,
Shensi, Bonen ' and Chekiang, finally
• succeeding in importing „live scions
from the Ming Tombs ,'region north-
' . west of Peking. .If yea are : one of
those persons who turn up their noses
at• Fersimmene, you should try a Tam -
span persimmon with a• little cream
• for breakfast someL day... •.This is the
variety that Meyer..broought th.
Come!
Claim it* ese
books ...
They're dedicated to you
They ala yours Foi theeaking...
Simply All outthe coupon below.
Here are maps that intrigue you,
pictures dist entrance you; descrlp-
tlon that "lifts you into that warm,
sunny region of California and '•
Southern Arizona. . • •
not ,the, true Fei,• peaches after. all!,
The natives won that skirmish, but is well' rewarded, for he receives the
'the government is still ..after Fei' Frank N..•Meyer Medal, which is,
peaches -and will get. them in the given .for distinguished foreign -plant
end, ' d inti`'oduction works, , One side •of the
Such a casual. discovery, for instance medal is a reproduction of the white -
as a type of disease -resistant spinach; barked Chinese pine and the jujube,
alio seed of which Meyer picked up two'.of Meyer's many; fntroductiees:'
in Liaoyang, has repaid America many On the ',other side is a reproduction',
times ,over for sending • him' on his 'of the bas-relief which Queen Hat -
various. expeditions. This spinach was shepset carved on the. Temple, of
creased -with another variety and.the Luxoi�l'-' Whoever receives that medal
resulting type saved the . disease= has, like Queen Hatshepset, given his,
threatened' spinach industry of Vir- country • something More precious
O all.the p an entitled to 'the •unexcelled service for '
�onn£rreern�aratiyely few prove. good' • .... . this- iospitaiam W„u;
Hospital for? dick Children
87 COLLEGE ST., ''yoIe NTo E ,
• (MothercratV Centr '; , Toronto) '
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Decenaber.;1931.
Dear M. Ecutor: .
test' . year'' the "hospital for Sick.
'Children; Toronto, through. the gener-
ostty� of trteacitt-..-1ta_ every.;$1.tte et -
}iubllcity, ' was ' enabled to impress
upon the parents of • Ontario. that any
' orippled or ailing; •chiid Was equally
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!Owl nes:...
Daddy ''Y.oung lady"' do you mean
"to • tell me you've been carrying that
money•arolind iniyour stocking?" •
Daughter -"why, , 'daddy, you told
me to put.,it wee It would draw in-
terist "' M•
Wife' -"How • do you like" me in My,
new.: gown' 1 got' it for a ridiculous
price."
Hubby "You•mean you got it for an
absurd figure." -I
n't science vnnonderful? One mann _
faeturer,asserts'that his cigarette is TANDIIVG ROCK' ELIC TIARBKB
thebeet because it's toasted and "heat hardwood lumber and; slab wot.d.
purifies,." . Another manufacturer who I white ash. and Walnut. Box 713, Toronto,
makes a cigar claims it :Ie 'the• bests or;t: ,
because it, has been. given '•a "cold HIP US, YOI7R. Po -roti r -ND
S eggs. Abs$oku.$1y, • highest market
treatment" There you have it, and. prlc8s paid.__ Cheifues remitted tmmedi-
the public may take its• choice and stets.• Crates loaned': "Write for quota=
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blow smoke either hot or cold. POULTRY,AND EGG COMB.4NY LIM-
ITED,, MONTREAL. •. - -
New Lodger -"Can I have a private •
bathe,• :Rangooi's New Airport . "
Landlady -"Yea, sir. . We have only The new Mingaladon airport in the
one bath. tub in•' the house, but every- suburbs of Rangoon is nearly'cont.,'
one here takes his bath'privately." pleted :It has'been::designed ;a cus-
. - -4 • . toms airport' and is • intended -as • a.
Willie - "1'op, do "angels have,- station on the 'Imperial .Airways. line
pockets in their 'wings?" • •between London .and' Australia A°
Pop -"No; ' certainly they do not." brick -and -steel hangar .measuring 130 -
Willie -'"'Thein where will• I' put my, feet in length, 100 akin width and
hanky?" ..... x __ _-__ �..24._feet ,iiilieight. is In .course of erec=,
ion. A' second airport, at Bassein,'
' HO "What,are all these men doing.• will have”' a hangar. Landing fields ,
in•a circle with their heads together? 'are to ,be made available at Tavoy,'
Is it a football' tearer Mergui ..and Victorie,'Point.•'' A' field
, -- a -bunch. of.A.' an. - bas.m lbeen-
'---rine--:"Norm ••-dela*,---just at� Ak ab is avail$ble a d
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Scotchmen lighting. a' cigarette:' used' by' Australian -bound' biers, the,
Department of . Commerce reports. . •
Old 'Stuff ;'
amove.'
BroWnWhi. do iyou keep going. to
:hae,dthe doctor?. He ward it was no longer
necessary." Jessup="I'm reading a continued
_in-on-erof his waiting room maga-
zines."enough,afterthoroughPosts; ,togo,Wasalsomentioned tnati >zto' the trade. And the' stories of the ..pick Kd& - the Inetrtutloexplor.'ers whit found themsomewhere affectionately . called -were • to ok
Acr-oastheglobe are�inail prollabiltty,rat►orgownasters. !t.would
Iost • more. money. for .their maintenance.,
But .the. explorer who achieves honor •What ,happened to 1931 was thet
in the . eyes, of. his ,fellow ,plantltmen : more _children came to 'the Hospital,
v. but lino < about .810,000 less money t0 ••
maintain them. ' 1 spare you the
. statistics; but I cannot :alter the fact
that, if the Hospital for Sick Children
were_ not a provincial' charity.. 119
debts- wout 1 not be as burdensome
as .those under ,whish it__seema fated,
• to enter.1932.
:The .. Hospital's immediate neighbor-
. hood (Toronto, and York County) hes
kept up close to its average eubscrip-'
tion' per patient. Butoutside that
area there has been a ' !ad- drop.
What should be done?
.The Hospital for Sick Children
not. a local concern. Its aim le that
gime and Maryland. .• than gold and ebony: the - .lasting,
introductions. the. Chinese p ,
One could go' 'on fro ing-"1GIeye 's Wealddiving plants. •
istachilo
Which now grows. luxuriantly In Cali=
fornia; the Rosa xanthiea, that hardy
yellow bush rose which. keeps many a
New England garden 'gay, when all
else fails; the jujube, which gives' far-
mers inthe dry -:sections of the. South-
west ' a fruit crop; and, the Chinese
chestnut, which is blight -resistant and
gives promise of saving our chestnut
industry from extinction. -
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Three times Meyer went out intote
and kissed you,
Orient. Twice he returned. On his And when you dwere'gone` I was fran-
tic: trip he had a nervous prostra- . tic: ..
Oh; Lad, if you knew how I .missed
•you' .
A Mender
You came to me . world -worn' and
weary, .. ' '
Rumpled, and` tattered of feather,
Whimpering and broken • of spirit, ' •
Crying to be put together.
I:mended' the place that was broken,
I smoothed you, and soothed you,
tion: Although after .a time he, was
able to go on with the search -the
,only thing in life that mattered-
health had definitely gone out of
him: Soon it would:be'.time to, go back
to civilization, and the' Chances of 'his
over being able to return to his work
were practically nil. ' He never came
back. On the night ,of June 23 1918,
he disappeared. from a little, steamer
on the Yangtze River.
Others carried on. Durum wheat
ranks high' in their list of introduc-
tions: several million..acres are plant-
ed annually in different varieties;
barleys from Asiatic Turkey and from
Here are chapters on California -
eeoshore, desert and mountains=
on Death Valley -op • Southem
Arizona and Dude Ranches --on'
prehistoric clif'f.cities-on ancient
Indian pueblos --Lon Indian core-
rnonials--=6ri .Grand,. Canyon. •
AU yours For't'e asking.
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r Glasse nag 'olden checked atowt e
10 California. Pietuie88ok t] DeuhVallay
O cited'Cangoe Dated • 0 prizose Winter
O-Allatirsue Tours. 0 The lndiari.detears �.
Califnmi&.Arizene, Hotel Rates
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It seems •I'm a fixer, a mender, '
- And'when niy. poor patients are dote
They :'flutter their wings at my:
do_w '_ 1
And I give" them back to the sun.
--P. S. 'McDonald, in the Chicago
.Tribune' • •
Photographs ' were • recently • taken
at a depth of 900 feet- below sea
level by a research expedition work-
ing -near Genoa. .
Montreal-7mias Florence .Macey, Itev. Edward Han o* and 'M
°x,Hancox, three , n-issionaries from•. the--- Union-' 0? Ito-gular . Baptirt
Churches - of ' Ontairto and Quebeo, who lofted on "Ascents.":'rete
1y'tQ>�$�! • '
no Ontario youngster shall go .hands-
capped tough life .either because of
deformity or disease. That cannot be
accomplished with a cash -box full of
overdrafts.. Yet that is, the• position
to -day and' .it :is not one which can.
everlastingly. continue... So, Mr. Edi-
tor, will you riot invoke your readers
to ien'd us a helping hand? Not one
of', chem, 1 venture, could care le tee
• the "Sick Kids" with a mortgage, • over
their heads, ,
Faithfully yours,
• IRVING E. ROBERTSON.
' Chairman of the Board of Trustees •
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Threescore Years and Ten
Once there was a group of girls and.
the teacher told them ti draw what
•they were going to be.. One was go-
ing to, be a Milliner so she drew some,
hats; .another was goingto lie a;dress,
maker "so she drew some dresses, and'
the other 'did no'' draw anything . The
teacher asked her Why • she did not ..
dra-w anything, towhich she replied:
gciiig to get married andI don't'
know how to draw that."
Quick, ,Sir, help me up -and 'bring
my cane!
'Tis cold. topight.,; but'. then I like
it so.
I heard , a sudden tapping on the
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Grey Winter's here again, and so
I go
To meet - him by sothe gaunt and
leafless tree )
' Where we can whisper-uniierneath - '
• our biath,
And once more jest at that pale
Enemy
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We' always 'class the salesman who;
tries;to sell stack that will make yon.
rich, along With the bald headed drug-
gist who sells hair, tonic. We ,can't
makeourseites happy by making•
others unhappy. ' Some mencan't be
kept down in the business' world and -
some are like the flapper's stacking -74 don't get•. very high. Courteous
people usually are treated courteously.
It's easy - tot make a husband -good-
tempered, rinpilselifsbi, and polite. You
do it by spanking him regularly, be-
ginning at the age of three. Thrift is
like spinach, good for you, but 'you
must cultivate a taste for. it. ,
Stranger - "W'li3' . aren't' you in
school, my little man?"
Child-"Jlell, lady, I'm only four."..
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alcohol out of my cblier will keep same NEUDIT�S NAs l0N�,i
:and. return ,grandm'a's • aneendig, no 0
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Whom . you -may know .by sight-
I slieak of death.
k•
Tonight the jaded ' year grows' old
'kith --me"; •
- I hear the fierce Hounds of, the
' Wind give tongue-
Not as in Spring when Zephyr's
•melody '
' Recalls those far-off days when .I
was young=
But loud and wrathful, tarlfl'hgers of
snout,
And though 'tis cold tonight-"
like It so. "being at best but shallow, is apt to to set the matter. right... Because
Dallas Bache Pratt "°
leave" consequences far worse ;than . Rruschen contains just what Nature, -(From Horae Scholasticae, St, honest and Simple ' common-sense needs to persuade your internal organs .
Paul's' School) • would have brought, . Be the causes back a healthy, normal con dation.
Common -Sense' and
and left arm, due to 'exposure in bad'
Cl
everness. •i .weather,' *rites the' Rev. H. E. T.
C. E. Lawrence in the Quarterly "It was impossible to lift the arm to
Review (London) • - The inordinate dress `or to use 'it'in'any way; and, of
confusion • of affairs 'everywhere now course, the pain was dreadful: AII
manifest over the wide earth is the external applications were useless. I
got it Completely normal again bylteep-
result of• civilized mans passion . for ing the+parts affected warm and taking v
Improving and arrangIitna'n'd,'W his ,daily, early in the ,morning, Ifrusdhen
"iinfiniti capacity --for mismanagement,•' -Salts inie,atembler of hot water. It '
helped by the narrow rules, conven- took nearly a month, but every vestige
tions, and fashions by which he lives, of neuritis has gone."
i Neuritis is typical of •a dozen other.
and his illimitable vanities, greeds, •complaints -senile minor, some very
suspicions, frequent unscrupulousness
serious- whichall result from
and unspeakably silly ambitions. The impurities iii• the blood. And •it
Mere cleverness, which, after mater- impure blood, circulating all over the
hal success, is the foremost sidoi wor- • system and setting up inflammation
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ip ed ..,1p1;' ou 'temples ,of progress in the tissues, that causes those
P excruciating pains. e
proves often a n:iere stupidity, and, • Krusehen Salts. can be safely trusted •
Banished by . Krusuhen
" I had acute neuritila in the+shoulder
=-- what they niay for the havoc of ,blun-
A 'Whistle to Call the Child dere in which civilization at present
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is lost, the world is in a mess so in,
A' mother who had difficulty 1n volved and sad that atatesaaiell'and so
making her lithe ;non hear her :when ,called practical men, men of the world,
she'calied' him, *lisle he' *as' playing!are 'looking with strained attention
_out of doors, now uses' a whistle fret i and aiix'ious eyes to a ,very doubtful
the .purpose. , She finds that it 1s' horizon, For tomorrow there may be
much easier to use the whistle than
CO shout at the top. of her voiile to re make itself on stmpier nobler
sown.also that It is far sown.lines.
_ 1r T'he sound carries further and the
ra. little chap enjoys beingapalled in
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that novel way, itpd it Is lee per -
solani.
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"I'M m afraid there . are ' fiery' days
ahead; but no peopt'e ever wort its
freedom with in _ t - ,'
ISSUE NO. A07,, . 1 Mahatma Gand3
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