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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-04-06, Page 18• a Thursday, A1> 0, 1907 unusual Advice • Sex Education Sex education may be riga. on. An 1854 speller carried a title tiveiy new in Canadian schools on its cover that ran. to 105. but back, , in the 19th ,century, words. _ pQy-ncteets-girl Rroblems weren'tStrong themes ;of morality 'and religion were laced: through al- ' entirely ignored by teachers. most all of the book, , no matter, For instance, a text book pub- .W what .the specific.Subl twas sup. lashed .in 1853 and used in On. posed to ;be, They � e�particu*,,. taacio schools told all about Happy axy Homes And How To Make Them. strongllfor the yourser chil- How g How does, a man find a reli• dren. able wife? A poster used for classroom • "Mind where you pick her reading instruction was done in upl" admonishes the book, stere - the Dick -and -Jane style: "May ly • condemning " the idea of a Bob goon it? Yes. Go on, Bob.- woman ever consenting' to be a It ' is my nag, My nag can run. • wife and yet being aware that Go on, nag. 0, go on she, is entirely incompetent, as At the bottom .of the poster, - so many are, to cook a potato in 'slightly smaller type, was the or make a shirt." message. "If we are bad, God So what about the girl looking will not love us and we �can-not for a husband?` Rule No. 1: "Know go -the Him when we die. something about him!" The evils of strong drink were The book, is- one of 4,500 col- covered in a. course of their own r lected by the Ontario Teachers for public school pupils, using • Federation as its Centennial pro. a 120 -page text called Public pita:School Temperance, brought out The OTF - 'C entennial Library in 16 7, `') probably will open for business But Physiology, Hygiene Notes in mid-April in Toronto. Teach- of 1897 took a crack at it, too, ers and history students are describing the various forms of expected to make considerable alcohol, how they affected the Use of it. •• body and brain and- noting that It's a mine of information about the record of alcohol "since the the character building of the days of Noah is one of disgrace people who grew up with Upper and ruin. Canada and went on to develop Some passages in that book a nation. might well have been written in Mrs. Skye Donnell, a high- 1967, like this one on tobacco: school librarian who works part "The snioker's mouthbecomes time cataloguing the collection parched, his lungs irritated, his at Federation House says her heart becomes weak ,and irrtgu- work wbt go muchm` 'ore6-Mk-'1 y li his:' memory-impair.:edandtts....-•va .` if she could_ just stop reading will so weakened that he finds the books that catch her eye. : himself unable to quit the habit • This question-and•answer ex- although he knows it is doing him change in an'1864 science book great injury." '' stepped her for quite awhile. Sir John A. Macdonald might --4.--!-'-Why are the ill -fed in- - ' �~'w`ell - have been driven to drink stinctively dirty?" by a problem he --ran into while A. "Cleanliness stimulates the attending the District Grammar • appetites which they cannot sat.. S.chool • at Kingston in' the late icy.„ 1820's. •• of A? Sort 1840, was called A Manual of Phonography or • Writing By Sound. Young 1aiies who couldn't find"' anything to write with could fall", back on The Young Woman's .Cop paiion or Female Instructor of • the early 1800's which, among hundreds iof other useful, things, explained in -great detail how to make a gyi11 pen. Pen in hand, she, could then turn to Beeton'.s Complete " Letter, Writer For 'Ladies And Gentle. men, Containing Love Letters, Complimentary, Dotes Invit- ations, Business Letters, Des- criptive Letters, Applications, -With Domestic, Fashionable Friendly And Formal Correspon- dence. Today's readers of that 18'70 Given Then book would Have to compose their own love letters, however., Some body's grandmother tore out that whole section Tong ago.. • It might 'have been fascinating reading, judging by the titles still intact in the list of contents: " OW to answer a gentleijn my almost a stranger, who has pro- posed," or" "Front a Maid:ser- vant answering a cool letter from her lover in Town," or, "Remind- ing a lady of a former Intimacy • and inviting her to pay a visit." Soine teachers in pioneer days found books' hard to come ., by. , An 1865 book in the OTF Cert. tennial Library is a well -bound scribbler converted into a hand- made arithmetic text by a teacher named William Hawkins. The Centennial project got 41. started when Hugh Dpuglasy a Guelph, voi school art leacher about to move to the U.S.,'offer ed the OTF a collection of old xt books he had been gather. in or 30 years. The Douglas •C'ollect'ion naw forms- the bulkof the library's, stock. The .search continues for more, old books once used in our. schools; particularly geography texts before 1900 andf natural;- e► science books for elementary schools of the 19th 'century,.• (And if that • .young lady° is stilllooking for a husband, tell her to try someone "respect. able, careful, provident and moral." And tell that young gent. leman to "select the daughter of a good Mother.") New Oat Varieties Introduced The ' Can• ar Canada Department of- Agriculture f Agriculture announced today the licensing of the new oat variet- ies Sioux and Kelsey. They are the lates t in a -long serie's of crop varieties devel- oped by CDA scientists for the venefit of Canadian agriculture. The new oats have considerable resistance to disease., and are 4higher yielding than standard raetiesr,t Sioux`.edeveloped at the CDA Re. search, Station in Winnipeg, is a ' cross between Garry and Rex varieties. It is adapted to- the drier areas of Alberta and west. ern Saskatchewan where it has outyielded Harmon, Garry, and Rodney.- • ' • Siouic odney.- Siouk is equal to Garry in resistance to smut'and•stem rust, but like all commercial varlet. ies it is susceptible to race 6 AF of oat stem rust. Kelsey was developed- jointly by ,scientists at' the federal Ex. perimental Farm at Indian Head, Sask., • and at the Winnipeg Re. search Station. It has outyielded Harmon, Garry,. and .Rodney in • Q. 'Why are .the illclothed An arithmetic text then'in use instinctively dirty?"• ke pupils to'resolve this brain A. "Dirt] gives warmth as pigs ,,A -pipe of canary wine sprung • who like warmth are dirty. So - a leak and a pail and' a tub the ill -clothed remain dirty to under it,the former, remain Warm," caught 5 gals. and'the latter 37; If you can't spell it' must be- . your Own fault because .spelling problems were all resolved back in, 1862 in the Classical English Spelling • Book "In Which •The _ . Hitherto bifficult Art Of Ortho. praphy Is' Rendered Easy And pleasant:" • • Book titles run on and on and the rest running over, only about 14 pints could be saved. I de. sire to know what teas lost, and how much was saved." - (If it's any,help, Webster's Dic. 'tionary says a 1pe is a large cask of varying'capacity, some. times two hogsheads. A hogs- head? Well, a hogshead is alarge cask, especially one containing from 463 to 140 gallons, also especially one containing 63 U.S. gallons, Give up?) Goderich 4th ,Scout group will bo canvassing all day Saturday, April 8th to' pick up all your old rags. Please have them ready when the Scouts call. Your support drive is respectfully solicited. vs, Manitoba and eastern Saskatche. wan and ,it has shown some promise in limited tests in On- tario. Kelsey is more tolerant than other oat varieties to crown rust and is resi'sfant to race.7A of stem rust Like Sioux, however, it is susceptible to race 6AF. Kelsey produces kernels that are relatively small in• size but which ,Y,hga i herenerent for livestock feed than, o� the oat varieties now being 'grown. Seed of the Sioux variety will be made available in 1967 to, selected seed growers inAlberta arid western Saskatchewan, while seed of Kelsey will be distribut. ed next year among selected growers in -eastern Saskatche. wan, Manitoba and Ontario. Grow- ers will be :,selected by, the prow Young Women, about 1,500 set= ected f6r 'beauty, brains and charm, will act as hostesses in the pavilions of the 70 partici. pating nations in Expo 67, at Mon- treal • April 28 to October 27. WELCOME PARK HOUSE "Ans. 350 pints saved, 658 • 1 • pints lost." Shorthand is new in name only. Isaac Pitman invented his -version in 1837 but his instruction book, • in use for several decades after For ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 1( VIMY MEMORIAL BANQUET • Cornmem(dU-atin The 50th 0_. of The Battle of Vimy Ridge,. 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