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The Exeter Times, 1923-8-9, Page 2rU c c ant ag anc LED p ActteT EVERY LEAF P ra ut 'the WHEN THE CFIILDREN HELP. A list of things which ought to go „_I never did sea into such a closet includes two good 77 ' chit- s such helpful Cora brooms,one of themm covered with •r •� one s l r a b e en as 'Mrs. e s, ed I31 k o , acquaintance to another. "I chanced' in t? eye this marsiing;'ancl 1 wish you might have seen ayhat they were each' doing to help with the work. Mrs, Blake says she never could get along if they did not allhelp her, and she• told me of astonishing things they, do„ I "I expect that is why they do so: much," smiled the other. "How do you mean?" "Why, they do things because their mother allows them to do them and' expresses her appreciation. I think - nearly all little children like to help -until they are discouraged by their alders, "I remember calling an Mrs. Blake when Laura was a tiny child. Laura had •spent a strenuous hour or more in an attempt at making her mother's, bed. 'Come and see how nicely Laura has made my bed,' her mother in- vited. And the <child's little face radiated joy and satisfaction. I've al- waysremembered it, because it so forcibly reminded me of a time when T boli puffed and reached and labored to surprise my mother by making her Lied. 'Yes, dear, that's very nice,' she said. Thexi, to my tragic amazement, she pulled' the bed to pieces and pro- ceeded to make it according to her own notions. I was deeply hurt, for I had given my best. "After her notable maiden effort Laura often stood at one side of the bed to help mother with the leaking. And by the time she could properly reach she could make a bed correctly and neatly. "It's really amusing the stunts those children spring on their mother, and the perfectly garne way in which she accepts them. She cheerfully Iooked through streaked windows for. a week after George surprised her by i washing them one busy morning; and now she's reaping her reward, for George is proud to do there perfectly: She never murmured when Don lap- ped his sowing of nasturtiums ' over her sweet peas. "That's the reason her children are helpful, if you ask me." --G. L. S. A BROOM CLOSET. Brooms get tired and soon sag if allowed to stand on their : straws. Height enough to allow them to hang from a holder or from nails is the first requirement for a cleaning closet. This closet is meant to do for house- hold cleaning utensils what a kitchen cabinet does for kitchen tools, to gather them conveniently together in one place. Take ithome io the kids Have a packet in your pocket for an ever -ready treat. A delicious conies• tion and an aid to the -teeth, appetite, digestion. Sealed in its Purity Package etter ® .' w int 1S$U No. -i1, '23,, a cotton -flannel bag for dusting walls,. mouldings or floors. Also are includ- ed a dry mop for hardwood floors, and another mop and scrub bucket for floors that need mopping. A mop wringer is 'a recommended attachment for the bucket. Shelves in the closet allow conven- ient storage space for bottles of such cleaning solutions as ammonia, and for soap solutions. A drawer or two comes in handy for cloths and dusters. If the house isequipped with a vacuum cleaner, make room for that in the closet. In any event, make room for the carpet sweeper. If there areradiators, a narrow "radiator brush" is well worth having. If the house has an indoor toilet, bathroom tougs or a long -handled brush are re- commended. Generally, a closet the sire of an ordinary door and about two feet deep will hold all this equipment, and not a few farmwives have found such closets of great value. They save time in looking for things, and they avoid having cleaning equipment, not al- ways sightly, sitting around in odd corners all over the house. A NEW APRON. 4022. The • shaped bib and pockets are novel and unique. This style is nice for all apron materials. It may be finished without the tie ends. Figured percale is - used in this in- stance, with a trimming of rick rack braid, The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large. A Medium size', requires 2% yards of 40 -inch material, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver or stamps, by the Wilson. Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide street, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. MAKE SALMON PATTIES FOR SUPPER. My family is very 'fond. of 'salmon patties, and this is how I make them. Flake one can of salmon with a fork and add two eggs beaten light, two tablespoonfuls flour; two tablespoon- fuls of sweet cream (milk and a Little butter inay be used), two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, salt and pepper to taste. Mix all together and drop in spoonfuls on buttered frying pan; brown and turn. One can use the cheaper grades of salmon very well when it is served in this way, -Mrs. L M. B. Na le s Preserved Es —BY RICHARD CONNEiT,,,. PART 11. It was not borne in upon the young- est of the house of Fish that he was different from other children until his first day in school. "I want'eaeh little boy and girl to stand up and say his or her whole name in a loud, clear voice," said Miss Pingree, the teacher of Grade 1-A, They did so. "Helen Daisy Yocum," "Ralph Smith." "Warren J. Onthank, junior."'' "Hattie Eeaeer." "Stanley Eisner." It was young Fish's turn. He stood up and enunciated in a treble squeal., "'Preserved Fish."' "What did you say?" demanded Miss Pingree, r "Preserved Fish," he repeated a little louder. The children began to titter. "It can't bei" exclaimed Miss Pin-' gree, "Are you sure that's your. name, little boy?" "Yes, ma'am," said Preserved Fish, very scared nOv,: I "Please, Teacher, he's Galahad Fish's kid brother," volunteered Stan- ley Eisner. "Oh, I see," said. Miss. Pingree. She turned her back to her class, and they saw her shoulders: quiver.; when she faced about again, she was very red. The news spread, and the next day, during recess, older boys, some from the dizzy heights of Miss Krieger's room, the seventh grade, surrounded young Fish. "What is your name?" they chor- used. "Preserved Fish." They hooted. They screamed with laughter. They rolled on the ground and pummeled each other with joy. "Pickled Eel1" shouted one. "Finnan I -addle!" yelled another. "Soused , Mackerel!"• whooped a third humorist. Young Fish grew alarmed and, be- gan to weep loudly, although at the time he did not understand what it was all about. Had he but known that this was only the beginning, and that his life was to be full of vari- ants of the "Pickled Eel" jest, he would have wept more loudly still, and with reason. to Pres Fish grew up into a Pg, gawky boy, mostly elbows and' adenoids; his mouth was permanently ajar; his eyes were large, prominent,' mild, blue, and piscatorial. He had n�o • marked faults and no marked virtues.' He did his sums indifferently well, and+ knew that Columbus sailed'the ocean 4' blue in 1492: that the Minute Men,• led by Paul Revere and Washington, fought the British in 1776; that Lin -1 coin split rails, and that you should spell "separate" with an "a" till your ,hair turns gray—in short, he possess-, ed the usual store of knowledge stored into the brains : of the average boy by the public schools. "IIe was not," his father sometimes thanked God, "a genius. He was just an average American." Miss. Krieger, of the seventh grade, said, privately, that he was one of the most average boys she had ever taught. Upon his graduation from gram- mar school, Preserved Fish was chosen to read an essay in which he proved, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Washington Irving was a greater'. man than -Daniel Webster. i3ut when the principal, in a voice with a flour- ish, announced his name, the audience broke into such a sniggering and gig- gling that poor Preserved could not finish his carefully prepared speecli He went home in tears, and de- clared that unless his parents changed his name tc Montgomery on the spot he would run away to sea. '• It was then that his mother told him of Uncle P. Robinson's enormous walrus; bag and its fascinating con- tents. "It ha:, heaps an'" heaps an" heaps of money -•-yellow backs," she, told him. "A And it's yours because you're his namesake." Uncle P. Robinson some years be- fore this had removed himself and his walrus bay' to an old sailors' home" up in Massachusetts somewhere, because, he said, he wanted to be with sea- faring men. Before he went he drew up a will. "Everything goes to mynamesake so long as he is my namesake," he de- clared and Mr. Walter Fish, ' who signed the will as witness, verified this by squinting at it, as he ,signed,. at great risk of becoming permanently cross-eyed. • The news of Inc impending legacy comforted Preserved. Fish somewhat. He consented not to run away to sea, but to go to high school instead. A SIMPLE PATCH BAG, ITem a large square of denim, cre-„ tonne, or other strong mate lal and, attach to each of the four dq hero a metal or ivory ring. These rings can be bought far a few cents; at notion counters of dry -goods etores.' Slip all the rings o'n a handy hook or 'hail in the sowing room or wherever the fam- ily mending is to be done. It iswell tp fasten a big safety pin on the out- side of the bag and slip , into it a sample of all kinds of Materials which the bag contains. By laying the bag out fiat it is easy to find the exact bundle of patches wanted, Mlnard'ta�ie�Rmtan4 fair °Duehe 44 Oolde But he left school in the middle of his second year, after stubbing his brain against' Caesar's adventures, in Gaul. Ile was not sorry to leave. Every time he was called on to recite in any class a battery of cachinnations greet- ed him. Even the girls 'got to enllin him "Kippered Herring." He he heard this gibe in some form or other every day of his life since his "initial appearance in Grade 1-A, but `he never grew accustomed or callous to it. And he, was never sufficiently en - dewed pugilistically to resent it with silencing fists. Each time he was called `Can of Shrimps, or some other flight of fancy, a fresh wound was made on is sensitive spirit. He got a job•in Kepler's Drug Store as dispenser of sodas and frappes, which in Clintonia is pronounced to rhyme with "lap." The work was he ur- suitable to his intellect, and c, pur- sued it with average dilligence and co in nspicuous success. He sprouted from gawky boyhood to gangly youth added two inches to his stature and an Adam's apple to his collection of undistinguishable features, and learn- ed to make a passably fair snilk shake. His personality was as colorless as a pint of distilled spring water in one of the bottles of his father's own blowing, His conversation was not sparkling. "Didja say `strawb'ry' or `razz b'ry'?" "V'nilla?" "Wanta straw?" "Aw, the two cents 's for war tax." His repartee never soared above, "You tell em, - or "Oh, is that so?" And yet, Preserved . Fish was the best-known person in town. Old•man, Kepler realized this. "He ain't much on looks, and he's only fair to middlin' as, a soda-jerker,"' remarked the proprietor of the drug store, "but he draws trade' into the store. They come in to kid him about his name. Why, a fella come all the way from Alb'ny once, just to look at hike. I charge his salary up to ad- vertising." The Clintonia "Star" echoed the town's pride in such a phenomenon. His smallest action was chronicled in its column "Newsy Notes of Folks You Know.,, "Preserved Fish Sundayed at Up- ton Lake:" "Preserved Fish has invented a new nut frappe." "Preserved Fish is taking zither lessons from Professor Busby.". "Preserved Fish had a slight cold Tuesday, but is better now." "The guests at the Young •People's Society at the Baptist Church includ- ed Preserved Fish," His fame overflowed the narrow boundaries of Clintonia: A columnist on a big New', York newspaper dis- covered him, and kept half a million New Yorkers in touch with the life and activities of Preserr edsFish. An illustrated paper sent a representa- tive all the way to Clintonia to photo- graph him, and Preserved Fish's pic- ture, looking sheepish about the mouth and owlish about the eyes, appeared in the paper to the vast, delight of everybody in Clintonia but the sub- ject. With all the ardor of which his pale blue soul was capable, Preserved Fish hated this publicity. By_ nature he was retiring; but there was no place he could retire to. He had as little chance of escaping the curious stares of the public as if he had been the Siamese twins. He could never walk down the street without being gaped at, he could never enter a gathering of people without an ,accompaniment of winks, rib -digs, and grins. And an introduction was to him the source of acute torture; the process never varied. ,,- "Miss Burke," the introducer would say, leering unctuously, "I want you to shake hands with my fren', 'Mr. Preserved Fish." "Pleasetameetcha," young Fish would murmur; he was morbidly bashful. • ' "Beg Pardon? I didn't catch' the name.,, "Preserved Fish," the introducer would repeat more loudly, although very often by this time his hilarity - had got the better of his articulation, "Aw, you gwan," Miss Burke would say archly. "Tryin' to kid somebody?" Or, if she were a wit, "Say, ain't any relation of Canned Salmon, are you?" Then everybody would laugh-- everybody augh—everybody except Preserved Fiah. (To be continued.) In extent of territory Mexico ranks fifth on the western hemisphere. Minard's Linlroent t'or, Corns and V4►ari7 COMMRRCIAL Ft Yll�i4, Europe is making great strides in commercial. aviation- Thirty thousand passengers and nearly a thousand tons of merchandise were carried on. tate eoinaiercial routes shown in this map during the last year. �. There's time in the package Time to do the 'Many things ordinarily Rinso does not put off ora wash -da For ass o Y keep you 'Standing over, the wash -tub, rubbing until your backaches and your hands are red and sore. Rinso, an entire]/ different kind of soap, soaks clothes clean.Rubbing and boiling are unnecessary.bigsoapy The Rinso suds gently loosen the most ground -in l ..:.dirt without weakening a singe thread. n• `5uy a package today. On sale at all good grocers and department ' stores. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED TORONTO R306 :'r'as : era iia ? s 43 t n:+;i'Kt;;•• • s.r. naapca,: i1S� Wrong guess. Jack and Fred must be playing off their game to -day; they've. sliced into the rough after each hole. DoingDublin. It was the 7Jnglishnuan's, first visit to Dublin, aihd he was driving round on a jaunting car seeing the sights. When they got near the river, as an Irishman tells the story, he was struck with the unpleasant smell, and asked the jarvey: "What isdthis horrible. smell?" The jarvey replied, proudly: "Shure, an' don't you know that the smell of the Liffey is ons of the sights of Dub- lin." At one of the largest, watch factor- ies in the world fifty loaves of new bread are used every day for cleaning the delicate parts of watches. Song. My heart is a thorny bush - In an old garden close; IViy song peeps over tbe'wall And nods, like -a, single rose. My heart is a smothered fire, Sick of a blunted Dile; My song is a.'leap to the light, My song is a tip of flame. My heart is a bitter sea, ` A. tossing, a restless. grave; Mysong lathe sunny foam That flies from the crested wave. The rose and the thane andthe foam Shine for the world to see; The urge and the smoke and the thorn Nobody kudws but mei =Karie Wilson Baker. . No evening's pleasure is worth a morning's headache. Remember to ask for Eddft when you order matches ON SALE. E'ERXwrma.0 111 CANADA 1 !Don't refuse the mustard whenlit ,o Ia sed to you. Cultivate the habit passed fat taking it. with meat" especially It stimulates the digestion and aids m I assimilating .your food; ._ r PP • A Few s aa keeps the Mascots Away The Sapho Bulb Sprayer $1.0O (For Use With $apho Powder) Wreak torribie dor,truotlon on Mies and all !menta that worry cattle and swarm id clan and barn. Iflll lice and mites on poultry too. A' tett buffo brings comfort and ,save® mow*. fduarnntesd hairnloss to humnns, animals and birds. Money book It not rat-Wi . SAPHO PO YDPR IN TINS, Us, Goo, $1.23, SAPHO PUF'ERS, 16o. 1/ ,your dgathr doesn't Stook ,Sapho Bulb Ski-'try- dre, order from us, son cliery his name, KENNERY iviANUFACTURINc CO. Sad Henri Julien Ave., Montreal Write' for circular to Ontario Agents Continental Sake Co., 24 Adelaide St, E., Toronto Canadian +aacdor's .Re workable Discovery Ever since medical recorads• began 1 be kept, there have been written terminable. histories of one disease in ` pw,rtleular, affecting mraOt frequently the flower of the race, tike'sreatment of Which has baffled successive genera - Ilona' of medical mien. Pathetic and hopeless iii, the extreme were those cases, of young people, mostly -between twenty and thirty years of • age, who found thiekzrselves losing weight, becoming weaker day by day, their elt,in'hecoming' harsh aaj,d dry, their tongues either black or raw and ,'thein• ` 14y earbilngiazedcles or Cropsbodes of bolls,tormentedthe& mouths parched with "unquenchable '•thirsrt. Eary death was their inevit- able doom. Sucli wae for centuries the cauiee of diabetes. Undaunted by Difficulties. Inspired by a deternvination to make an end of this apparently unlimited succession of humani misery, a young Toronto physician, Dr. Banting, got to work on a fault clue tothe cure "ot tbdis devastatingisease, He made h d te,. Physiological Laboratory 'of the UI.d- versity of Toronto, with its wealth of scientkfic equipment, his headquarters, following up the clue w.ith that youth- ful' zeal which, " tempered with scien- tificcaution, • abooin.ptishes ' `great things,.: But there were formidable technical difflcuibies'to be overcomer It had long boen known that. the cans,e of the excess of sugar in the blood (the es- sential feature of diabetes) ivas failure on the pant of the paadrees, a large ab- dominal gland, to produce a sugar -stor- ing juice, which prevents the blood from being flooded with °sugar. : This failure was caused by "destruction of the pancreatic cells which should pro- duce this juice. The obvious thing to do then was to obtain the pancreatic juice of, say a sheep end use that as a substitute. TheToronto o scientist attempted 'too prepare extracts of sugar -storing juice from the sweetbreads of sheep and other animals. These extracts 'bad to • be made from ctrtain 1•itile' gl'oups of cella, known as "islands," in the sweet- breads. But unfortunateily these ex- tracts weer always "destroyed by the digestive juices produced by other por- tions of the sweetbread. Nothing daunted, our debernni•ned dts•ooverer found t'tat the active ex- tract- of which he was "inquest could be obtained from thesweetbreads of very young 'animals,, before th,e dells - had started producing the Juices which had always' arlways' previously destroyed it. Vanished Terrors. With 'this extract•th;e doctor treated one patient after -another, and was at last able to demoirsticte that,; giveti_n,• 1z, by injection after every meal contain- ing sugar or ;starch, the sugar in the blood 'was re,daoetd almost to normal, the other symptoms abated, and : covery was speeded up., He ,had rob- bed a dread- disease of, all its terrors! Thetechnical difficulties of manufac• taring this almost magical resnedy on a large scale .have now been overcome, and the product of entirely 13nitish maaufaoture •iso to -day available for dis- tribution, and can be easily obtained by medical mien.. Since, however, the ',remedy de a very potent one, and can be admdnitistered only by subcutaneous injection, con. siderable caution in its use is nieces. nary, and control blood -sugar tests aro desirable during the treatment. •How the Rainbow Comes. Do you know how the rainbow gets in the sky? The beautiful phenomenon was des- cribed recently by,1VIr. Charles R. Dar- ling. He said that dight was due to a special •sort of wave caused by very tiny things called electrons, wditoh flew about in ail directions at a tremendous, - speed. They made no waves until they .came up against whist scientists call 'ether, The waves produced by the contact of the electrons' with ether were of different colours. Long waves with a big distance between•' the tops gave red light; with lens distance, bIuo. All light -was really a mixture of colours, which could be sarparated. The rainbow was, caused by drops of water sifting the sunlight into its riff. ferent colours. These coiou,ra, formed the spectrum,, which was first ddscov ered by Sir Isaac Newton. The spectrum could be produced'artl- ficiaily by passing light through a mir- ror ruled, with limns of fourteen thou- sand to the inch, :Things in•the world hacl different .colours because they pos. ees'sed the power of absorbing certain ooio rs, while 'sending others back to the eye. When substances were burnt in a Ilaine, and the light sent through a prism, the spectrum showed dark tines. Every substance bead different lines. It was by this means that tlue composi- tion of the curt and stars was deter- mined. No "Common" Boyo. One of Theodore Roosevelt's sons, when steak, was playing in the Wash- ington streets when a woman recog- alzed shim and said ,' mile didn't think his father would like his playing with so many "coamnlon boys." "My father says there ole nocom- mon boys," replied the young Roose- velt, He says there acro only tall boys and .short boys, and good boys, and bad boys, and that's p,11 tho" Binds of boys •there are."