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The Signal, 1921-10-13, Page 9• As Your youngsters want some tool See them dance with delight tonight when you bring some borne. There is benefit and Pleasure for them in Wrigley's Nips. Also The Flavour Lasts TSB =NW"' LETTER FROM CHINA muddy and aliP Than the One Mr CORN GROWING NOT 1111ACTICALf had gm: dassn (h. mount:us • ' realiy enjoyed the 'IA. I had a raita hat \ye were soon 8. Vet as could be , I•idetnt Department of Agrieultnie t'ails Far l'o-operation III which kept my head dry and an old brown Rains Ruining Rice Crop M Sze sun which 1 frisk last year tor just ( Ins:in—Miss Wilson Writes From such tramps. W t Chrn. ). 1 d .. Th Devll's the Mountains. Staircase" and wet" home before o'clock. After a hot beth and dry clot et I was ready fur a big siasser and soon for bed. bliss Elizabeth W.Ison. of Chengtu. W'e had tea at the \,W. girls* home on West China, sister of Mrs. i Rev.; j. F. Tuesday, and 1 took my knitting and knit while I told ilie story 'of the w eck Reycralt, 010.111summer.ng in them run- "by request." It was a vety long time. tains, writes her sister here: , since 1 had talked about it, but it was surprising how vividly A came back to 1 t • Both Lu Din. Sze . ' .1fa y 17. 1021. Inc in all its detail!, Ousting l'est. 4,164 grain ers %%tally. 10- isitis1tes1 hi On. siuteseilit boolu..1 by Click wn, liejnirtutent Agriculture to 4 III' ellect 111114 toll,.14181441y eXter111- 11411 to 1111/14.111111% 11 re tilkt•ti by all fa titters in co-opt•rtit I..ii It II the t• • 4 rut :14,11 l'ros lociet1 1:overtittiotto. gi o i 1 1 corn will 1111 . 14/11$11`Y fl /111111 .i' 111111 flee areas Litts•ts•ti by tate poll bort.r., 'no. bort'''. +Qty. lit. otateitivot, is at wort. roves gissit n aessa 111 the Intl ( initariii l48(t 111 1111:11111.11t. sia111.1, or New' ''.irk, 401u11.ylv*lIhl 8,1141 tIlltip a. to nuake ..rulimilittit At it tsonfereite.. i.f t'iiltt'd Stales anti ('11 11.11411111 eittlituoli•chnl •ktierts, I4.'1.1 recently lit 11s• - t11111 1111111,stirs.1( wen. es 41111111111.11111•11 1111 e/(111.11V1`. 4 /118' tise 6,4 ,}el.'. anneal et wtis -the complete cleaning aa ..ori or .48,4 by 1'14411111g 14) live- stock and by It8lrnii4; 1111 witslag... l'ract ieal elo1111•"1 measures 1141.1111- 111e11111.11 111 isrevo•ist the (tsitinitell ,•Pr.'tot Ito• pe.) itwitoloti col Piny: ssiely 111144 eliese, tIl tlw K141111iii early fall pinwing. 011141111m the entire crop where possible. It was f that early 4s11411le41 eons was more easily afro:etad by the pest 11114i that tie- laye.1 plaintitty; wits Itss4 stabjt.col to in- jury. $o fur as 'file 1484411111 inisi this nuniestiete lucidity is jsrii,itisially free from tile' inst as yet. alt I j{11 008 113' fu rmsers lia ve rejsurtell the. pres- mwe of a pest which 114 first was tlittitglit to b6 1114' 11411'11 180rel, 41111 later 14. roport•si to be 111.. "lir corn worm. This pest is very destettilive tso. 16111 in tail innrly 1.1/ tlangerotts tlw .'Orn barer and tte rnvaeee twrt Dear Family.—The ram is raining all On Wednesday f‘ene-e invited to Miss ,round—at least as for as BO Lu Din is Page's for tea, as a faritwell to Miss Dale, co •cerned. I hope it isrist raining on the who was espected to go to Chengtu on Thursday.laut dHidernoslx itwetetakryhtililldaFryis- plain Mow. The rice crop is a'ready _ ....,_ purify ruined and the mice of rice has day ".."`""`' gone up to stich.an extent that thele has are over, and her return will make it Chengtu and relief has been organized. possible fur Miss McNaughton to leave, been some raiding of ' Me idshops rin 1 hop', row 1 hope we are not to have 41.41 hitherto Greathotogmoroiresco. me to us about the unheard of 'thing. a famine in Szechwan. floods on the Chengtu plain. The people So with the Chinese we pray that the wh ) were left on the campas have not rain may cease. heen able to walk frsrn one house to an - There has been • oroe fine weather this i other. so Co-npletely have they been sur - week and on Tuesday msrsing we ceuld rounded by water. When Mrs. Crancher see part of the far Thibetan range. "Three . wrote they were bailing out the Canadian talent pinnacles of aged snow" towering so school basement. So, you see, we art high above the rest that they seemed half much better off on the mountain, where unreal. Between us and them were peaks the air is clear instead of *muggy" and of many a range someest azure and some catching the sunlight where the water drains away. shadowed to dark- . so that on peaks and sides we could see tints of brightestgreen. Far below the PROSPEROUS, FARMER'S river winds its way to the gap through which we came and the many folded foot- WIFE NEARLY STARVED hills have a beauty oi their own. On ' Tuesday morning we could see the hills beyond the Cheng'u painand alt between • was silvery in the sunlight, as if hoar . Declaring she was actually starving to keen frost lay on the ground. We went from - from suffering axial misery. Mrs. wwindow cf the bungalow find- • Amy Peterson. wtie of a prosperous farm - window to er of Lakeville, Mass., gave out a remark- ing everywhere new wonders displayed. able statement recently, in 'connection Yesterday seven iir eight of us—all un with her relief through the use of Tanlac. married girls but Airs. Lilzistrand went : -sometimes I wander how 1 lived down a steel% slippery path for a walk., through St all," she said -I would have It was really very pleasant. half in sun- attacks of acute indigestion nearly every shine. half in shadow, and our view of : time I ate anything. Those terrible the deep lying valley and distant moun- i ctamping pains and one distress from gas tam peaks mule tt a walk worth while. : and bloating were ahuost unbearable and We were about two hourson our way and I f just thought there was no hope for me. came at last to .a lovely green grove in But now 1 am eating anything. and I front'of a temple. The ground'was• rather 1:feel as strong and well as 1 ever felt in danap, but we spread down oil sheets. my life. I've gained hack all the weight and there ate our lunch. We were just . 1 lost and six pounds besides, and I firushed when it began to rain. and we.: know from my experience what Tanlac had to seek refuge in the temple. A tall well do. It's the best medi.ine in the man. who may have been a robber. since , world." - - he carried a gun and. cartridge belt. but Tanlac is sold by leading druggist he did us no harm though he showed everywhere. great interest in the kodaks which were in the party. We explored toe temple, ' Since March lo the cost of teas have that there seemed to be no priests about. t shown a greater advance than has ever 1 ! which we found about as usual. except of Chinese boys playing Chinese chess oninn; a like period in the I was quite interested in 'seeing a couple been registered d i average tea now the porch of the temple. They had a !past forty years. titxxl "chess board" roughly scratched in the costs fifteen cents r.r sixteen cents a pound more at the garden- than it did six months cement floor and their "men" were broken ago. There is n i doubt that increased bit. of incense sticks, with a stone or two consumption in many countries, and the We started home when the ram ceasedfact that Russia is tiuw taking a large but soon disc vered that it was only a quantity of tea, h..; had something to do momentary lull. Fortunately we had • with this atmo t unprecedented rise In .1 chosen to come home by a road less i costs. Canadian Nisei& "Vancouver Espreiss" Winnipeg -Calgary -Vancouver Passengers for Western Canada will find the -Vancouver Express," leaving Toronto 10 p. m. daily, a most convenient train, stopping at and connecting for all principal points. Equipment consists of first-class coaches, up to:date Standard and Tourist Sleepers, Compartment Observaticn, dining and colonist cars. 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