The Exeter Times, 1922-8-24, Page 23Y KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD
Copyright by Rod der and Stoughton
S o psis, 4f Pa.eceding Chapters. house, crops' f wheat, barley and rye
n l
Donald and been, sown. An Orchard climbed
re Mary Cameron are carve
wilds.the lope on' the left, Behind the old
ing rz:izozne out°of the Australian barn fend the stables were a row of
his nether:
David was four uroliths old hayst:asks. `F!he cowsheds and milking
his nether set off to Port Southern for n a•wa.
fresh supplies. On the fourth day yards ti�aic..�. little: furthei y,
pt raggedone of Round the haystacks and abeht the
two gaunt andentered
men, barn a score of the buff and butter
thorn tiraunded entered the hut, key milk -colored progeny of Mother
offered them unstinted hospital y
and heard the story of their esca.p e launch, a Ie."- $9eckled' chickens, black
th , and white pullets, and mis;c•ellaneous
11\1'1-1tie Islami prison ands ised breeds of red -feathered, and long -
treachery of etre Iib who had pion le legged yellow fowls, scratched and
to befriend them --at aprice. Clothed 6 a
and provided with food, they departed, pecked industriously.
the tell one hoping to repaythe debt! Donald Csineroxi farmed his land in
1 n P €;
Mary refused to aid her husband in the -careful fashion of the Lowland
putting the police on their trick. Scots. There was perhaps here and
there a croaked line in his fields and
a rick awry ' behind the barns. , But
CHAPTER VII: all was neatness and order, from the
In ten years, Cameron's `had become bee -hives which stood with their point
the biggest clearing in the hills; as it ed straw 'bonnets beneath the apple
was the oldest. Many ethers had been trees, to the ,000 vnheds, where newly -
made and were scattered throughout cut bracken was laid every day or
the lower ranges overlooking the Wir- two for the sews to stand in when they
ree plains, `though at great distances were milked: There was no filthor
apart;. ten, twelve and sometimes.• squelching morass in his cow-yaadr.
twenty miles lying ,bets{peen neighbor- The pigs wandered over the hills root-
ing homesteads. ing under the tender •grass, Scarcely
TheDonaldadstraybetween
hG hut:. that had -Been • n a s'travv was allowed to b t v
Mary Canireoar's first home had been, the back of the house and barna. In
broadened by the addition of several , the feed -room, the harness -room, in
extra norms. ' Floors had been put' every shed aiii yard, the meticulous
down and a wide verandah spread out ' precision and passion for order which
from then. Every room had a win- I characterized. all that Donald` Cameron
dow with four small glass panes. The' did, was maintained.
window -sills, verandah posts and" There were changes indoors as well
doors had been painted green, and the llas out. A long straight kitchen, with
whole of the house whitewashed. Its a 'bricked floor and small wilid'ow look -
bark roof had • given place to a cover- ing out en to the yard, had been added
ing of plum -colored slates; there was to the original home. On the east
even a coin er two of grey and golden side, two roams had been built, and a
lichen on them, and the autumn and' small limewashed shed behind the kit
spring rains deunimed merrily on the' then' -served for a dairy. In it, on
iron roof of the verandah, Creepers . broad low shelves against the wall,
climbed around the stone chimney and the rows of milk pans, with milk set -
the verandah; clematis showered ting in them, were ranged; a small
starry white blossom over the roof window in the ;back wall framed a
square of blue sky. When Mrs. Gam -
A little garden, marked -off from eron was making butter, the sound of
the long green fields of spring wheat the mirk in the churn, the rumble and
by a fence ofsharp-toothed palings,; splash of the carded cream, could be
was filled with bright flowers—Eng- Beard in the yard. The sweet smell
lish marigolds, scarlet geraniums,' of the new butter and buttermilk
pink, yellow and blue larkspurs --and hung about the kitchen door.
all manner of sweet-smelling . herbs -1 Ten years of indefatigable -energy,
sage, mint, marjoram and lemon' of clearing land, breaking soil, rais-
thyme. The narrow, beaten paths that ; ing crops and rearing cattle, doing
ran feein- the verandah to the gate ; battle with the wilderness, overcoxn-
and round. thehouse were bordered' ing all the hardships and odds that a
with rosemary. And in the summer . pioneer has to struggle against, had
a long Iine of hollyhocks, pink, white' left their nark' on Donald. Cameron.
and red, and red and white, waved, tall ! Every line in his face was plewed
and straight, at one side of the house. deep.
The edge of the forest had been dis-1 His expression, gloomy and taciturn
tented so far on every side of the . as of old, masked an internal concen-
clearing, except one, that the trunks: tration, the bending of all faculties' to
of iihe trees showed in dim outlines the one end that occupied him. Al -
against it, the misty, drifting leafage ,the
a man of few words, as the farm
swaying ever and across them. Only grew and its operations increased, he
on the side on which the track climbed ,became more and more silent, talking
uphill from the road, the trees still:only, when it wasnecessary and sal. -
pressed against the paddock railings. l n•om for the sake of companionship
A long white gate in the fence where:or or mere social intercourse. Hismind
the read stopped bore the name Don -'was always busy'' with the movements
a1d Cameron had given his place-- of cattle, branding, "mustering, breed-
"Ayrmnir." It was the name of the ing, buying and. selling prices, possi-
estate he hail worked on in Scotland bilities of the market. He worked
when he was a lad. It gave him no , insatiably.
end of satisfaction; to realize that he He was remanded of the flight of
was the master of "Ay-rmuir," and:' time only by the growth of his son—
that his acres were broader than those a gawky, long -limbed boy.
of the "Ayrmuir" in the old country; I As soon as he could walk Davey
not only broader, .but his to do what had taken his share in the work of
he liked with—,his property, unencum the homestead, rounding up cows in
bered, by mortgage or entail. !the early. morning, feeding 'fowls',
On the cleared hillsides about the hunting for eggs in the ripening
and about the verandah posts.
-crepe, scaring. °birds frim the ploweil
land 'when arced wee in, and cutting
fc us forfee the 'cm -sashed& rind stables,
His, father wee little more tha'u a doer
taskmaster' tar the knot' Davey had no
n exua v of be tring ~ing the gait -
eiing sang of the Clan of Donald the
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leis mother had taught 'flim to read
and count as she sat with!her spinning
wheal in the little garden in front of
the house; or etitching.by the Kee in -
Let e Smes Rays Do Your C
The time may yet arreve when on
clear days, even in winter, the house-
wife will fersake her range anal, step-
ping out into an attached "sunshine
kitchen," raafed with glass, do her
cooking- by th.e heat of the sun. It is
no mere dream. Indeed, the idea pro-
mises literal fulfillment in. the near
future, a number of inventiou,s, having
already gone far toward proving it
Cooking by sun's rays has, several
obvious advantages. It means no dirt,
aseres, and na cost for fuel. Thus
in Egypt and the African Karroo solar
cookers of a simple pattern are even
3:10W in coraon us,e, the device enaploy-
edi for the purpoee being an insnlated
box of teakwood blackened inside and
lilted with a glass top. It makes a
highly efficient oven for baking, and
may be utilized in the preparation of
Gaups and stews, the temperature in -
ski -e tbe box running up ta 275 degrees
Fahrenheit in the middle of the day.
With the help of a mirror it earl be
raised much higher than that,
We all know what a glass oover will
do to held the sun's heat—as illus-
trated by so familiar a thing as the
"cold frames" wed for raising early
vegetables. The solar rays pass
through the glass, contributing te the
air beneath a warmth which does not
'Barely eecape even in the winter time,
Upon this principle most of the "sun
ovens" are based. One of them IFS, the
invention, of a Chicago Ebenezer
Sperry, and in,ay be described as a
Carge box covered with; glaze lend
limed with metal painted black to ab-
sorb lieat. When. It is exposed to the
sun enough heat ie generated to boil
water and make steam, the latter peas -
tag into a cooking chamber above,
' apparatus of thie kind Le a real
fireless co,oker, requiring no fuel to
furnish teat te start with. You. can
make one for youreelf, of more simple
pattern, very weedily. Take a wooden
box, paint it black Inside, and cover It
with two sheets, of glees' eeparated by
an inch ot air space. The inch of
the box in the sen and soon the tem-
perature fg lf;r3 ailtaeor will Ilse above
king
doors on winter evenings, Davey Tied
to sit near: her and spell out the words
slowly from the Bible or the onlay
other book she had, a, ehabhy 1'ittle
red'histary. Sometimes when he was
tired of'readiug, orthe click and purr
of her wheel set her mind wandering,,
she told him stories of the co'un'try
over the sea where she was horn,
Davey knew that the song she sang
sometimes When she was spiauiag was
a song a fairy had bareelit a Welsh-
woman long ago so that •her sinning
would go well:and quickly,.She told
him stories of the •tylwyth teg—the
little leresvuWelsh fairies. , There was
one he was never tired Of hearing.
"Tell me about the farxner's boy
wh'o married the fairy, mother," he
would:say eagerly.
And she would tell him the story she
had; heard 'when she was a child.
"Once upon, a time," she would say,
"ever so long ago, there was a farm-
er's boy who Inhaled his father's sheep
on a wild, lonely mountain; side, Not
a mountain sidle' like any we see in
this country, Davey dear, but bare and
dark, with great rocks on it. And one
day, when he was :all alone up there,
he saw a girl looking at him from
round a rock. Her hair was eo dark
that it seemed part of the rock, and
her face was like one of the little.
flowers that grow on the- recuntain
side. But he knew that it was not a
flower's face, because there were eyes
in it, 'bright, darkeyes-and a mouth
on it . a little, red' mouth, with
tiny, white teeth behind it. They
played on the mountain together for
a long time and sometimes she helped.
him to drive his sheep. After a while
they got so fond of each other that the
bay asked her to go hone with shim
to his father's house, and he told his
father that he wanted to marry her.
"That night a lot of little men,
riding on grey horses, came down
from the mountain on a path of moon-
light and clattered into the farmyard
.of the farmer of Ystrad. The smallest
and fattest of the men, in a red coat
. they all wore red coats,, and
rode grey horses. Did I say that they
all rode grey horses, Davey?'l
"Yes, mother," Davey 'breathed.
She had this irritating little way
of going back a -word or two on her
story if a thread caught on her wheel.
"Well " she began again, and,
as likely as not, her mind taken` up
with the tangled thread, would add:
"Where was I, Davey ?"
And Da-vey, alI impatience for her
to go on with the story, r though he
•could have almost told it himself,
would say: "And the smallest and fat-
test of the men, in a red coat-"
"Oh, yes!" Mary started again:
"Strode into the kitchen and pinched
the farmer's ear, and said .that he was.
Penelop's father . . . the girl's name
was. Penelop . and that he would
let hex marry the farmer's son, and
give her a dowry of health, , wealth
and happiness, on condition that no-
body ever touched her with a piece of
iron. If anybody put a piece of iron
on her, Penelop'se father said, she
would fly back to the mountain and
her own people, and never more sit
by her husband's :hearth and churn ox
spin for him. So the far-mer,'s boy
married' Penelop and very happily they
dived together. Everything on . the
farm prospered because . of the fairy
wife, though she ware a red petticoat
and was like any other, womanto look
at, only more beautiful, and always
busy and merry. She made fine soup
and cheese, and her spinning was al-
ways good, and everybody was very.
fond of her, Then one day when her
husband wanted to go to -a fair, she
ran into the fields to lrelp him to catch
his pony. And while he was throwing
the:, bridle, the iron struck her arm.—
and that' minute she vanished into the
air before his eyes."
She paused for Davey's exclamation
of wonderment and then continued:.
"Though he wandered all over the
mountain calling her, Penelop never
came back to her husband or the two
little -children she had left with him.,
But one very cold night in the winter,
he wakened out of his sleep to hear
her saying outside in the wind and
boiling. You can cook eggs or meat
in it If you will make the box double
_putting one box, that is to say, in-
side of a box sligh.tly larger—and fill
the space between vrith sawdust. or
other insulating material, youocan get
tremendaus heat.
How, it may be asked, shall you
place in you,r sun oven the thinge you
want. to cook? That can be managed
in various ways; but a very practical
suggestion on this' point is offered by
another inventor, who proposes to rest
the box on one of its edges—the upper
two of its four sides covered with
double glass:, and the lower two sides
lined with black felt for insulation.
Shelves: inside are arranged so as al-
ways to adjust thenaselves horizontal-
ly, no matter bow ;the box is tilted, to
receive the solar rays, and upon them
pans of bread or other food recep-
tacles are put.
A British army officer in; India some
years ago devised erhat he caned a
ef wood lined with mirror glass, coni-
cal in shape and eigh,t-sided. At the
bottom was. a email copper boner, with
a cover of plain glass to retain the
heat concentrated by the mirrors upon
the boiler. By thia means steam was
gen,ertated when, the box was exposed
to the sun. If the steam was retained
the result seas a stew o,r boil; if al-
lowed to es•cape, tlee food placed in the
ue of this- kiad rations for seven men,
including meats, were preparea in two
ing the diameter of the box •the heat
reale be augmented indeflinitely.
in Egypt, the Sudan and Algeria,
where water ft -t, for dr1n.king is apt to,
be scarce, there le to -day coanmon
tree a portable solar distilling outfit
which le the invention of a Frenchman
maned Mouchon, ' It is a simple ar-
rangement of holler and concave inha
ror, the latter serving to focus the
elan's• mere upon the farmer, while a
soil of tubing in a water -jacket does
duty aa coricleaser. The machine
which a elan care carry ori his back,
will ball a quart of water and keep it
boiling, the Ordinary oetput being two
gallons of pure defile per day.
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Keeping the Weeds Down.
Molly was fifteen. Up to this sum-
mae,-elte had::never wanted' to go any-
where or do ttnything without mother.
Now, eliehad fled to her roone-- after
a cold,- perfunetchar kiss in place of
the hug that was her usual good night,
—fled in angsrsaaears, because her
mothex had refused to allow her to
spend the night with her chum.
The naother, alone do-wnstairs, was
most unhappy. She realized that her
child must have girl friends, but
Molly's choice. of a particular friend
distressed her. She knew little of the
girl, Or Of her relatives, but from her
free -and -easy deportment, her use of
slang and her general conversation
the mother argued that the intimacy
could not be beneficial.
So, long into the night, she sat
downstairs, alone, thinking, hoping,
The next day was Saturday. Molly
belonged to a tennis elub that met
every Saturday afternoon.
"Bring the girls home to tea, dear,"
suggested -the mother, as -Molly, very
fresh and: pretty in white duck skirt
and middy brouse, tennis racket and
shoes slung over her shouleer, was
about to start. ,
"Tlia:nk yeu, mother," said Molly,
rathee coldly. She was still on 'her
!dignity. -Other gerlaslerpt about vari-
ously with their friends. Why couldn't
she?
However, the tempta.tion to extend
hoapitality -was not 'to be resisted.
Therefore, the mother, watching the
garden gate late that afternoon, saw
with pleaeure a group of girls, very
pretty in their gay -colored sweaters,
preceding her daughter along the
garden path. -
Molly, on her part, was frankly de-
lighted and proud when she saw her
mother prettily and effectively dress-
ed, and the drawing -room at its best,
gay with flowers, shining with care.
The tea table, set nearthe open win-
dow by the verandah, Was a picture.
It held not merely delicate' sand-
wiches and tempting coekies, iced tea
and lemonade but the vexy best china
and the enabraidered tablecloth—
everything that was,u,sed for the most
important compel -1,y' Arid a friend o
her mother's, also ai-essed far an
.important occasion, was peuring tea.
pressing them into place. Threee
fourths of a pound, or three-fourths of
a quart of most :berries measured ae
purcha.sede will pack into one No. 2
can or pint jar. Fill can with hot
medium syrup, 'seal and pracess in
steam cooker. No. 2 cans or pint jars,
ten to fifteen minutes; No. 3 cans es.
quart jars, fifteen to twenty minutes.
Remove cans, cool quickly in cold
water, wipe, dry, label and store avray.
Glass jars are removed and sealed at
If, in making the syrup for berries,
the berry juice is used. instead of
water, the resulting product will be
mach better, both in color and, in
flavor.
Salad Dressing.
Any mayonnaise dressing is as good
a$ you buy in bottles, if it is made
with the beet of materials, pure olive
oil, a good grade vinegar, and fresh
eggs. Here is 'a recipe for mayonnaise.
Two egg yolks, ono teaspoon salt,
one-fOUTth teaepoon cayenne, one
teaspoon mustard', one tablespoon
vinegar, one tablespoon lemon juice,
one cup olive oil, one-fourth teaspoon
paprika.
Mix dry ingredients and add egg
yolks. The dry ing•reclients are mixed
best and most quickly by using a sieve.
Then beat until the egg yolks thicken
slightly. Add olive oil drop by drop
and beat until thick."When four table-
spoons of oli-ve oil have been added,
it may be added faster. When the
mixture gets- too thick thin with the
lemon juice and vinegar. .
To make Thousand Island' dressing,
add one cup of chili sauce to half the
quantity of dressing you have made.
Boiled Salad Dressing.—One table-
sepoon sugar, one teaspoon each of
salt, mustard and flour, one egg, one-
hela cup milk, one-fourth cup vinegar,
tablespoon butter. Thoroughly mix
dry ingredients, beat in the egg, add
milk, stir well, and put in double boil-
er. ,-Add the vinegar slowly- as the
Mixture cooks,' stirring constantly.
When thickened, remove from fire and
add butter. A second egg.yolk may
be substitatecl Eqor, the flour.' The recipe
may be doubled 'be trebled.'
Making Fudge.
Fudge es really nothing 'euleflavored
ga
melted by addmg liquid and heating „w
bere haat tan been?" she asked
It as Not Easy, But it
aye --
To aclareAvledge it when yon
aro wrong..
To admit that you have made
a mistake,
'lo take your medicine; to
stead up 'under =rebuffs,, or un-
just criticism This is the' kind
ot. ,tuft etliat bedele Izig men, big
evorliee.
To keep' your temper when
otters alt about you lose theirs
and go to pieces.:
To lsetl your poise, year men-
tal,
tat' balance under trying condi
tions. Others will, respect you
more; you will. respect yourself
more, and you will have infinite-
ly more iulluence. Nothing else
quite takes, the place of a superb
poise in all situations .in life. --
Success.
LANGUAGE OF 'ME
HANDSHAKE
eel
and the mixture will be gritty. If you
use too little,. the fudge will set to' a'
dry hard mass in the pan before you
can scoop it out. Most fudge makers
put in too much liquid at the start
and have to boil it out—and' unscien-
tific procedure that wastes time. It is
possible to, measure'' .the ingredients
so exactly that the fudge is ready to
cool and stir by the time they have
been melted by _heat: and before they
have• been boiled• at all.
When that is clone there are usually
a few, crystals left undissolved'. They
will not seriously 'affect the:fudge,
bat it is better to acid at the start
about ;half an ounce more of liquid
than the' exact amount required, and
to boil that off in about thirty seconds.
It One pound of sugar, three fluid
ounces of milk, three ounces of fine -
grated cooking chocolate and one
ounce of Ibutter are the tight propor-
tions for;a standard fudge mixture.;
A few grains of 'salt . with improve the
flavor. When you have cooked the"
mixture add a teaspoonful of vanilla
extract.
Do not pour the fudge; out without
first stirring it, ands do not stir it so
long that it sets solid in the: saucepan.
Place the saucepan in cool water and
stir the mixture. At the first sign of
stiffening, scoop it quickly into a but-
tered tin.
When a sample of the fudge drop-
ped into °old.water is just too soft to
be rolled between the fingers to a soft
ball the fudge is cooked long enough.
It should not taste :gritty; if, it does,
add an ounce of water and boil the
mass until it'is of the night consist-
ency. If it is too hard, but is smooth
and free from grit, add one table-
spoonful of water and stir and test
the mass again, but do not cook it
again.
It saves time to Measure the milk
in a: glass graduated marked' in ounces,
and to measure the'sugar in the same
cup every time.
Few of the substances used to •flavor
fudge will affect seriously the. crystal-
lization,'and if either is added in suf-
ficient quantity it will form the whole
mass .into a caramel mixture.
For a fair substitute for maple
sugar omit the chocolate and the but-
ter in the recipe given above, flavor
the mass with 'half a teaspoonful of
maple extract and a teaspoonful .of_
vanilla and add' a pinch of salt. The
recipe is economical, and it ie ea"sy to
• double the quantities if you wish.
The Young Christ.
By Nicaderaus'' side in days• of oel,
1 'Mid a strange :company there sat a
A robe of light enveloped Him; He
And &a.ry, pausing on the low taresh-•
I Of that straege, r00111,
The littIe festival was a great see_ it—that crystallizes when it becomes
ac t
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cess. " cold. For good fudge the crystallize..." In
truth she could not see whet -had
Molly will have tea every a ine tron should take place rapid'ly, so that •
the 'crystals will be very 'small. If
day," announced Molly's -mother, as - Thie lad of .sca.rce twelve summers.
the guests (Lep': arted. "We shall al- it eaters slowly the crystals have time •
beguiled
rain: •: ways be glad to see you." to groev large, a.nd that makes the
"Lest my son should find it cold, .When they were alone, Molly rushed fudge gritty. In making pure fondant Hers not the understanding' when He
from unflavored sagar—such as is
Place on him his father's coat. ' to her mother and hugaed her to the
Lest the fair one find it cold, detriment of her gown, I used for filling 'Chocolate crearns—no '
then He told.
Place on her my petticoat."
Mary sang. the words to a quaint
little els-1 of her own making, while
Davey listened, big -eyed and awe-
stricken.
"When the children grew up they
had dark hair and bright, sparklirig
eyes like their mother," she would' con-
clude, smiling at him. And when they
-had childeen they were like them,
too, so. that people who came from
the valley where the farme:r's boy had
married. the fairy were alsvays known
by their looks, and they were called
Pellings, or the 'children of Penelep,
because it was said they had fairy
tions to ask. He liked to broad ever
the van -ye -but he learnt more than
fairy tales from his mother's memor-
ies of the old land. Her mind, was be -
blood in their veins." -
Davey had always a thousand,ques-
ginning to be occupied with thoughts
of his future. She and her husband
barely react and write, and vehat little'
already passed on to DaVey. She
knew what Don.ald Canleron's ambi-
tions were, and after ten yeare of life'
with him had little doubt as to their;
would put Dayay in had begun to he
(To be continued.)
Hard times are good tirries to 'work
hard.
Mother love is eery strongly
ellnarces Lailment for Dandruff.
ey th e h undissolved crystals should he left in
cried. Giving my feiends the best the ot an , or ere were any
of everythingl" they would' start a growth of coarse
crystals -w-hile the .maes was cooling,
So their ways •'‘vere one again. The
Stirring the fondant vigorously when
danger was over; for the "chum" did
cool forms the crystals all at onee
not come baclaan any eubsequent it is
in the deeireddegree of fineness 'but'
Saturday. The: elight effort required
to keep her own language and deport- if is possible to make delicious fudge
the standard of, MollY's without being so careful aboet the un -
—Elizabeth Scollard.
home was a little too much. 1 dissolved crystals, basanse if you im-
mediately cool and stirathe mixture in
Thus Melly's friendships Were form-
ed, little as she knew it, ey the paha: a Panful of water the crestals will , A shark can keep up a speed of
ciple of the survival of the fittest. She not,have time to form. from seventeen to twenty miles an
found those girls most congenial -who. Have the proportions of liquid and hour.
merit up to
"My Fatfer's voice hes called; His
To -day the werld, cee burdened with
Has overleoked the lesson Christ stip-
plied
. And taught mankind, in simple
words: and true—
"Be thou about thy Father's -busi-
A doctor has advnaced'th,e rather
alariuieg theory that many disease
gerg3,,s are transmitted by' handshak-
ing. however this: may ,be,
seems no doubt that physician's can +
often diagnose illness by a' handebake.
In support of this en experience of
my 'own, says a writer in the London
Evening News, may be cited, I repent
ly consulted a Barley Street doctor,
echo /related out that the moment he ,
took any hand lie. knew that I was, run
down and In need. of a rest. Cortafip
poisonous conditions Of the blood, he
affirmed, readily load themselves to
diagnosis' in title way.
Psychologically as well as physio- .•
logically; handshaking has a greater
significance than most of us realize.
It is possible to• judge a man's char-
acter by hie •ean;dshake Dickens knew
this when ho described Uriah hoop's
handsllake--a limp, clammy taking' of
the lana, indicative of the calculating
suavity of that detestable young man.
A world of clifferenee between his
handshake and the respectfully hearty
grip of Peggotty, the Yarmouth fisher.
man!
Ilow do the celebrates of our clay
shake hands—King George,' for` ex-
ample,
x
ample,. and the Prince of Wales, who
has shaken, more hands than any other
inan oaf his': generation, and other fa-
mous folk?
The Icing just grips your hand firm-
ly, giving it no shako whatever, while
the' Prince's hand is shot forward
jerkily, pressing yours downward' 'at
the moment of gi•ipping it.
Mr. bloyd George's" hand -clasp is
vigorous and hearty. HHe has a gift
for making you feel that he has been
waiting years to give you that band -
shake. Mr. Churchill's is a. more for-
mal grip and less eloquent of his per-
sonality. Earl l3eatty's disappoints
yod,or perhaps it were butte_• said that
he lets you off more lightly than moat
sailors, for; he grasps your hand gently
but finely and lets it go instantly. The
heartiest of , hearty sailor handshakes
was that of the late Sir Ernest .Shack-
leton.
Earl Haig shakes. Bands with cour-
teous firmness. He grips` your hand in
real soldierly fashion, with his thumb
lacked over your fingers. Anoth�re fa-
mous soldier, Sir William Robertson,
is. content with squeezing your fingers,.
though none too gently:
$5,000,000 ,Per Ounce.-
/
Just fancy having to pay live mil-
lion drillers an ounce for anything! If
one wanted an ounce of rasiiuni this
is the price you li ve:to pay.
There is a market fon• radium, al=
-though, it is very limited. The den}and
comes chiefly from doctors, *tern
physicists for research work, and from
certain, industries where knowledge
and experience are' slowly marking out
spheres of usefulness for radio -active
substances.'
The cotton industry shows uses for
radium, and possibly agriculture, too,
may in time find a use for radio -activ-
ity. "Although at the present it sseems;
geemed to et jet her lame -ye rs' sugar just right. If you use too much
• . eel. liquid the eryStals will form sloWly Mincrd's; Ltrilmemf for Burr '
Canning Huckleberries. Tropica Valley m the Noith
For canning hucklehereies Practical-
ly the same methacia of canning may
Glass jars er enameleined 'earls are
needed. The endition of the fruit
will have much to de with the quality
of the producta Berries should be
and not in deep 'vessels which allow
them to be breised or cruShect, They
should be eniforinly ripe and enna,
and as large as Possible. Clean the
berries carefully,, removing eterns and
loaves. Place: a ehellow layer of ber-
ries in a large colander or -strainer
and, wash carefully by pouring water
over them. Pack in cans aS closely
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Diseavery of an alniost tropical val-
ley with rivers of boiling water, many
mineral springs, abnormal plant
growth' and aliottnaing With game ih
fae northern Clalumbia„ is re -
1 ported by Frank Perey, m.ining
eer, of Vancouver, back after eeven-
valley close to, the Yukon border.
For mineral reasons,' Mr. Perry, at
the pres,ent, time, is not clivitl'ging the
exact location ot the "hot watere val-
ley, wbieh he came upon in the depth
of winter. The unusual sight Of a
heavy tog iti a winter attracted him to
I ,valley, cl la ter exploration show -
'may be done Ey putting a few berries ed :to be", aPP10- Ana. Y 5,
of hot water ran throagh 'it fed by ,latin-
,dreds of, hot springs, which bubbled
oet of the ground sin all directions.
Mr. Parry reported he saw enany
wild 'menials,. These congregated due
to the luxuriant vegetation made pos-
sible by the heat g,enereted by tho
e•priags, and in, ,the valley 'were hun-
caribou and mooee, also watt-the:las and
ether fur -bearing animals., iThe moose,
almost square from fat, were so tasne
thet he has been able to walk amengst
The Indians, although knoeting the vel -
ley to be a huater's paeadi•se, never
visit it through the seperetition that
long and Alain 40 miles wide. Rivers evict.
prernature,to be able to place a da
finite use for radium in agriculture,.
recent investigations have lendedste
prove that plant life is affected
brought inte contact with the raYa
given off by raaiurne In years to come
this fact may be useful for producing
a hot -house forcing effect
leadium is Very rare at present, and
an exceedingly tedious,. la,borious, and
costly process must be employed to
extreet it from Its natural s:ourcest
Uranium was the first, radio -active
metal discovered; this ie obtained
from a enteral substanee called pitch-
blende, a rnixed ore containing -over
fifty pdr cent. of uranium, together
with a proportion of the metal called
there:me-which iS so much used in the
manufacture of incandescent mantles.
'In pre-war days the world's chief
supply of radium came" from Austria.
From aoa.chimsthal, now in the new
territory of Czecho-Sloyakia, where
pitch-blende is -most aaentiful, the
main supplies were sent to tlse labora-
tories. This was the richest ore for
tbe production ef radium, and yet the
metal was fauna: only in 'the propor-
tion of ene to a millien. To -day most
of the ra,aium tound in North
America.
Cork is Cooked!
Cork is the bark of an evergreen
tree which'grosvs in Southern Europe.
The bark ie of great thickness and gets
thicker every year, one layer forming
over the other. ,
After about ten years the bark falls
poses the outefia,yers are stripped be-
fore this and are etripped again every
eight or ten years.
:The bark removea by Making a
deep cut in the tree, and thmi
off slabs with a eireed two -handled
knife. These -pieces are bailed ar
steamed for ,n 'OM, in order to get:
eat. certain substences in the bark, d
:also to clocreas,e it in size. The piecee
axe then scraped and finally pres,sed
:flat by machinery. The cork is then
The corks thaVare useel in bottles
are made by me,chinery, and the wastes
helps to make floorcloth.-
Quite True.'
Little Boy --"Mother, are there any
men easels in heaven?'
Mather--"Neby, certainly; dear."
"But, mothee, I never -saw: any pla
time of angels with whiskers."
"No; dear. aloe ,leit to With
Mese Shave."