The Clinton News Record, 1939-03-02, Page 3THURS.. MARCH 2. 1939
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
')o You Remember What Happened During
Decade Of The Old Century?
THE CLINTON `' NEWS -RECORD,
MARCH 9, 1899
The Brucefielil Checker Champions
journeyed to Clinton on Thursday
evening last and were defeated by 14
games. The players from the south
did not show up, to their usual form,
owing no doubt to lack of practice.
After the game was over the visitors
were invited to Witts' restaurant,,
where oysters were served. Players
were Hoover, Bruce, Jinuny Cook,
Johnston, Agnew, Brumfield: Snid-
er, Grant, McDougall, McDiarmid,
Delgatty.
Tindall Bros. have disposed of their
milk business, one route to Mr. Adam
Weir and the other to Mr. John Ire-
land, who will take possession next
Monday.
The W. D. Fair Co., and Mr. J. W.
Irwin will light their stares with
acetylene and will use the Ashley
generator of twenty light capacity.
Mr. Ashley, who expects to make
other contracts, is now getting the
machines ready for Messrs. Fair and
Irwin.
Mrs. Jefferson, ',who has carried on
a millinery business here for about
one year, has returned to Goderich
to assist in her sister's establishment
there.
Wood is a scarce article these days.
Dry sells for from $2.25 to $2.50 and
green for $1.75 to $1.86.
Miss A. Hartt, who has been for
many years a resident of Clinton,
died on Friday last. She was a native
of the city of Frederickton, : N. B.,
her parents moving to Clinton in
1869 wheal she was two years of
age. Mr. Hartt was an attorney and
practised his profession in this town
until his death a few years ago.
Mr. A. H. Plummer, principal of
the Blyth Public School was in town
on Saturday. Ile was accompanied
by Mab. Plummer. Mr. Plum caner has
been in the teaching profession for
the pest fifteen years, all that time
in Huron, and for seven years has
continued to give excellent satisfac-
tion. While here Saturday he made
preliminary arrangements for the
Teacher's Association meeting to be
held here May llth and 12th.
Mr. S. G. Plummer left Monday
for Hibbing, Minn., to engage in the
grocery business as stated by us a
week or so ago.
Mr. John Duncan, formerly of
Stanley township but more recently
forcing near Thorndaa, has rented
his property and will move to Lon. -
don. He is visiting his brother, Mr.
William Duncan this week,
The Last
and will get possession 'shortly.
On Thursday evening last the
members of . the Clinton Club and
some of their friends had the pleas-
ure af
leasure,of listening to an address on the
subject of . National Defence delivered
by Mr. John Cooper of Toronto, who
by the way is a brother of Citizen
A. T. Cooper and a native of Clinton.
On Friday morning last at his:
home in Westmount, Montreal, Major
I. R. Read of the .Duke of York
Hussars, passed suddenly. He was a
native of Clinton, being a son. of Mr.
and Mrs. Russel Read. He studied
drugs in the store conducted by the
late J, IL Combe, father of Major
Combe, which stood upon the present
site of the Marson Bank. Sixteen
years ago Mr. Read who was fairer-
iarly known as "Ike" went to Mont-
real and travelled for a drug house
for a number of years, later being
head of a manufacturing concern.
Mr. Robert Walker, who had his
right foot severely injured while en-
gaged iteeliush work ten weeks ago,
is still confined to the house and
while he is making steady progress
the plowing season will be here be-
fore he is hinsself again.
Miss Mya:tie Tiplady, Who hes
been attending the millinery open-
ings in Toronto, has taken a position
with Miss Mirlock of Exeter for the
coming season.
When The Present Century
Was Young
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD,
MARCH5, 1914
Mrs. Luke Peewee, a long time
resident of Clinton, having come out
to -this country with her mother and
other members of her family when
quite a young girl and having lived
here ever since, is one of those who
will benefit from the Fenian Veteran
Fund if the latter is made to include
widows of veterans, her husband hav-
ing been one of the volunteers who
went to the front.
Chief Wheatley has been off duty
since Friday last suffering from. a
very heavy cold. In the meantime
Sergeant Welsh the "Old Reliable" is
on deck keeping the peace of the
town.
SUMMERLESS YEAR, 1816,
RECALLED IN MEMOIRS
MILTON - The early .settlers of
Upper Canada really earned the title
"hardy pioneers," it is indicated in
the memoirs of Bendamin D. Wald -
brook, who came to Trafalgar Town-
ship early in the last century.
Covering . a period of more than
eighty years, Mr. Waldbrook's recol-
lections of pioneer life in Halton con-
tain stories of hardship and suffering
whichmake the recent "depression"
seem like a period of unbounded
prosperity. Froni the writer's des-
cription, the Western farmer who
struggled for a meagre existence
during the years of drought and
plague, is the only modern Canadian
who can really understand the word
"hardship."
One of the first and worst exper-
iences of the early pioneers in Halton
was the "suntmerless" year of 1816,
he remembers. The spring of that
year was promising, but what follow-
ed, Mr. Waldbrook says, was never
forgotten by the settlers throughout
their lives.
"Snow commenced falling in the
middle of June. By the .middle of
August it was a foot in depth and
from the first fall in June until the
following spring the earth remained
under the covering of a winter blank-
et. Absolutely nothing in the way
of harvest was garnered, with all
crops rotting in th ground underthe
snow. What did the people live on?
Meat and fish. There were no veg-
etables and flour was, an, undreamt -of
luxury. It was venison and fish all
through the year and they were not
easy to get.
"All' the cattle were slaughtered
for food' as there had been no feed
for them anyway. Hay was shipped.
from Ireland for the starving cattle
about Quebec, and it sold there for
$45 per ton. Even next spring, flour
was selling for $17 per barrel at
Quebec and potatoes were a• penny
per pound.,
Unheard of before or since pioneer
days,. and much like the plagues sent
to scourge the Egyptians in the days
of Moses, was a visitation of frogs,
which Mr. Waldbrook recalls, in the
early '300s.
"The frogs came down with ,show-
ers falling from a clear sky," he re-
members. "They descended in thous-
ands; and I remember how, as a boy,
But that wasnot
The all. c
jumpedy upon me.
The continued
rains, together with the blazing sun
and the decaying frogs, gave us a
West India climate' in this province.
The air was poisonous with decaying
matter and pestilence stalked thrbugh
the land. Almost every home was
visited 'by cholera and the victims
were, numbered by hundreds."
Somewhat resembling the modern
grasshopper plague. an .the Canadian
West, was a plague of army worms
which swept through Upper Canada
in 1883, Mr. Waldbrook says in his
memoirs. During the plague, pests
appeared "by the million" end cover-
er roads and fences. Swarming over
trees, the pests laid them bare in
mid -''slimmer "as thoy ordinarly are
in midwinter.". . The, growing grain
almost completely disappeared and
what remained was "barely fit for
hog feed."
Mayor F. Jackson Councillor Ford,
chairman of the street committee,
and Mr. John Ransford, president . of
the Board of Trade, are in London
today attending the big Hydro -Radial
Convention asdelegates from the
town council and the Board of Trade.
At the meeting of the Stanley
Township Council the time allowed
for the completion of the big Stanley
Ditch' was extended to the first of
June. The work began some months
ago and ys continued all winter up
to the late cold spell. The drain is
about seven miles long and with . two
taps will cost some $7500, It hasn't
been all easy digging, the contractor
having to use dynamite on tough clay
"reins.
Word was received here on Thurs-
day last of the death of Dr. John
S. Cook of Goshen, Ind. Less than
six months ago Dr. Cook was .i n
town, having been sent for on the
death of his mother, the late Mrs.
Guest; Deceased was the eldest .son
of the late Peter Cook and was a
native of Goderich township. On ob-
taining his degree he started prac-
tice in Garhen, Ind„ where he has
beers located for ,several years.
Mr. Ralph Tiplady who hes been
occupying Mr. J. B. Little's house,
better known as the Plummer resi-
dence, on Queen street, has purchas-
ed Mrs. Boles' house on Ontario et.
Secretary for Dominions?
Rt. Hon. R. B. BENNETT
is reported planning to contest a
seat in the British House of Com-
mons in an early by-election. Rumor
also has it that he will be given
a' eabinet post as head of a new dom-
inions office.
YOUTH IN LEADERSHIP
One essential quality of leadership
is that it be youthful in its spirit
and its enthusiasms. But youthful-
ness is not something to be measured
in years.
Most of us think of the Fathers
of Confederation as greybeards. Time
has .surrounded them with an aura
of venerable tradition, of hoary orth-
odoxy. Yet there could have been
no Confederation had these leaders
been "old."
The average age of the men who
gave birth to this dominion was 61
years. There were a dozen men in
the forties. The youngest of the
"Fathers" was 38. All of them were
young in spirit, in courage and in
vision,
Almost all the concentrated 'apple
juice employed by British eider man-
ufacturers 15 of Canadian origin.
The average age of the present
dominion cabinet at Ottawa is 57.
Three are in' their forties. Seven are
in their fifties. Five in thir sixties,
The leader of the Senate is 77.
Though the hourglass of the pres-
ent administration will shortly run
out ,there is still time in which to
demonstrate that today's "Fathers of
Reconfederation" are es young in
their spirit, their courage and en-
tlu sliasm as the "youngsters" who
started this country on it way in
1867.
"DEMOCRACY"
(Simeoe Reformer)
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YOUR WORLD hNu MINE
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by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
HYDRO DISCRIMINATION,
(Goderich Signal -Star)
At the ]cunt meeting of the Public
:; Utilities Commission a statement o2
1, the charges for flat -rate electric
r
f
water healers ie ut ters atvarious points on
the Stratford-Goderich li
ne was sub
pitted.' The
• • ", rr-r�...: +•.•rtiti•:.. charges on the basis of .'■'■•■`.,■'Y■'L'■'r"i ■Y"•r"■'■'r'�•i■"r�'rti . r"r :: ■: r"■. r g
Flom a letter received by me at ity whether hamlet or city, should 100 watts per month are as follows:
ra-�or.— ,r ten s.
Christmastime I take the following: )rave a public garden. A mere park St t- 3' t
"The wife and self are keeping well, is not enough. There 'should be al Mitchell -42 cents.
thank goodness. We have a lot 'to flower` and shrub garden, made and Seaforth-42 cents.
be thankful for I am sorry her sight kept .as beautiful as possible, Many Clinton -44 cents.
does not get any better, and am af- .towns and cities are proud of their Goderich-52 cents.
raid it is unlikely to. I still feel as war memorial—a structure of stone We have been told tine and time
proud as ever of my garden. I con- 'or cement. But if one had a choice again that two factors enter into the
sider it looks as nice as any just between a building and a garden as variation' in prices of power as be -
round here. I wish you could` see it." a civic attraction or embellishment, tween different points; (1) Distance
The writer of this letter and my- it seems to me that the garden would of at•ansmigsion; (2) quantity of pow-
self have been interchanging letters be the better choice. er consumed. ,
ever since I left England some years I am thinking of the centuries --old - Goderich uses mode power than
ago. I met my friend first in 1920. gardens of Hampton Court, on the any other point on the line west of
He g Thames in England, about a Stratford. Yet the variation in priee
the regular aro armyn. a .
. Wa sn heO1w s dozen ,miles out of London. These between Stratford and Clinton — a
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distinguished for his courtesy . and famous gardens are said to be with- distance of 'about thirty-seven miles
gentle kindness and sincerity. We out an equal' in Europe. I lived near —is six cents, while between Clinton
had close association foe quite 10 `them far many years, and have vis- and Goderich a distance of only
years. Then he was pensioned, and iced them hundreds of times. None twelve miles—it is eight cents.
went to live in an Essex 'village. For ever grows tired of them. Each week This is only one more realm* why
a• time he acted as bookkeeper in a there is some change in their count- Goderich should without any further
kinsman's store. But for the past mance. One sees in them the perfee- delay take action to secure .an alter
few years he has been jobless,apart tion of bloom, . Every week of the native system of power ,supply. So
from his wageless job of, attending year even in m'id-winter; one wail long as the present contract holds the
to his garden. Perhaps I ought not see some plant in bloom, in the open Town is hamstrung.
to use the word "wageless", for his air.
garden and his gardening do pay him These gardens are landscaped. NO 'ADVERTISING—NO PAPER
a wage—but net in silver. The wage sward. Yew trees set in orderly rows The Erin Advocate was not pub-
is an intangible one, in part; and abound. There aro sunken gardens, lisped last week. Advertising was at
tangible in the form of fruits, flow- Giant elms adorn the area of green a minimum and . the office had job
ers and vegetables. It is the wage and formal gardens, and many flow work which meant revenue and rev-
paid to his spirit which is the better er beds. In summer the wealth of, enue is necessary to buypaper, and
one.
The word "democracy" may be one
of the most overworked words in the
English language today, but prob-
ably few people could give an ade-
quate definition of it or explain what
it means, Dr. Harry E. Fosdick, em-
inent New York divine, is authority
for the following description of "de-
mocracy.":
"Primarily, democracy is the con. -
Action that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary people, and
that if we throw wide the doors of
opprtunity so that all boys and girls
can bring out the best that is in
them, we will get amazing results
from unlikely sources. Shakespeare
was the son of a bankrupt butcher
and a woman) who could not Write
her name. Beethoven was the son
of a consmnptive mother, herself the
daughter of a cook, end a drunken
father. Faraday, one of the greatest
scientific experimenters of all time,
was born over a stable, his father an
invalid blacksmith and his mother a
common drudge. Such facts as these
underlie democracy, .. That is why,
with all its discouraging blunder, we
must everlastingly believe in it."
bloom makes the beholder ink,ecstatic, and pay wages.—Exchange.,
Why should there not be such al
garden, • smaller of course, in every
Everywhere one goes in England, city and town and village in Canada?
one sees men at work in their gard- My native town is Brampton, call -
ens. Sunday is a favoured day for ed "The Flower Town", because of
this sort of work. I hope that never the immensity of its flower product -
will Englishmen lose their love of ion - flowers grown under glass. But
gardening. Gardening regarded as there is no public flower garden in
a vocation and as an avocation is Brampton. '
ideal employment far better than If it be objected that municipalit-
golf, or motoring, or hiking, or paint- ies have no money far the establish-'
ing. It permits one to become re- ment and maintenance of public gar-,
tlective, even as does farming. It is dens, then the answer is: when the
healthful work. It is work which public wants anything very, very
gives back immediately and later much, it finds the money needed to
visible material rewards. It is whole- satisfy its desires.
some work, beneficial to one's char -
Your Help Wanted
,In order to operate a newspaper
successfully we must have news—all
the news. Not colorful highly -polish-
ed news, but community news. News
thatwill interest you, or your neigh-
bor, or your friend down the street.
News of visitors, of social events and
meetings; newsy little items which
you and yoair friends like to read
about. News that you might already
know all about, but that your neigh-
bor on
eigh-boron the next concession has never+
heard mentioned..
You will all agree that it is quite
impossible for the editor or any
member of the staff to call each
week at all the homes served by this
atter. It is work which makes things
grow. It is work with Nature as
one's partner. Indeed, it would be
hard to find any other kind of work
more satisfying to one's nature.
Yet, despite this eulogy of garden- •
ing, it is a form of occupation which
has never been taken'up by me with
any eagerness. It is too slow, for
one thing. I want a quicker result.
Then ,too, it is physical work, and I THOMAS THE CAT HAS
have never liked doing physical work,1 RARE BIRTHDAY PARTY;
I like, for myself, working on minds
Canned fruit and vegetables Pre-
parations. industry in Canada in-
cludes over 350 establishments en-
gaged in canning, evaporating, and
preserving fruits and vegetables,
and in the manufacture of vinegar,
cider, pickles, catsup, sauces ,and
other condiments. The most import-
ant branch of this industry is the
canning of fruits and vegetables
which is carried on most extensively
in Ontario, British Columbia,, and
Quebec where the climatic condition's
for the growing of fruits and veg-
etables are favourable.
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ing better than spading and raking' Not many pussy cats in this
and pruning. 1 strange old world can look forward
When I was a lad I had to do work to a real birthday party with juicy
in the family garden—raking leaves, raw liver and a concert to boot. That
raking vegetable beds, doing weed- is — except Thomas the Cat, who
ing and watering, hoeingpotatoes, travels aboard Captain Better's fair
hoeing tomato plants; watering the ship during the mythical excursions
lawn and garden with a watering can along the QBC airwaves, )crown as
in the days before we had hose, pick- "The Magical Voyage"
ing bugs and grubs; and, as I AC- Last week Patsy and Peter and the
quired .stature, digging the garden. jovial skipper staged a special party
These boyhood experiences of gard- in honour of Thomas the Cat, on his
ening rather killed in me a love of "three and one halfth" birthday.
gardening. Yet this personal disin- According to. John Macdonell, pro -I
clination to be 'a gardener has not
duces of the programme,, there was ���
prevented me from perceiving its a moment of tragedy in CBC's Tor.I
joys and its appeals to others. I am onto studios when the delicious slice YOUR CAMERA LENS
able tq laud gardening'—to recon-' of liver suddenly disappeared. How- YOUR
mend it to others. I think that I ever, after everyone had applauded aa, eaaa
am poorer in many ways because Ia,2.,...t. b....«.0 .,� ..,..
the programme given by the Doctor,)
lack the desire to make 'a garden— s I
who played the saxophone, and the'•
to make thing's grow. dance by Rachel the Rat, the parcel
I wonder iL there is any better or of liver slipped' out of the saxophone
more contenting old -age occupation and the party immediately became a
than gardening. Old age needs oc- "howling" success.
cupation. Just to read is not enough.
Reading may be pleasurable, yet it "The Magical Voyage", presented
is selfish occupation, even when one daily except Saturday and Sunday
reads worthwhile book's. Reading may from 5.30 to 5.45 p.m. EST, over the
be a permissible and satisfying wint- mideast and central networks of CBC
er occupation. In my opinion it is is a serial written especially for Can-
to
anto be preferred to listening to the adian children by Paul Wing. It tells
radio programmes which have be- of the make-believe journey of Patsy
come the enjoyment of millions of and Peter to the Dominion of Candy.
old persons. But when spring comes,'
Ithe open air calls, and so too does
the song of birds; so too does the ORSON W'LLES PLANS
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(soil. SERIES ,OF MONTHLY
I believe that I am right when i
say that our children in Canada and 'BEST BOOK' DRAMAS
in the United States are not taught
gardening; that there is done hardly On she first Friday of each month,
anything by parents or schools to cul-
beginning March 3, 9.00 to 10.00 p.m.
tivate in children a love of garden- EST, Orson Welles will inaugurate
ing. Children may be taught botany, a .aeries of monthly "best book" rad-
io dramas over .CBC's. nationwide
different things. I would not know commercial network. A camera with an anastigmat lens, f.6.3 or faster, is a great help in obtain -
Ing clear, sharpindoor pictures such as this.
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The MacDonald Brier Competition
brings championship' teams from
every' Canadian province, and the
winning group is looked upon as the',,
champion team of Canada. The broad
cast on Monday, March 6, will be
an actuality clesoript••on of the play,.
and on Wednesday, March 8, the
broadcast will include interviews
with some of they leading curlers.
OLD REGIMENT BAND OF
HAMILTON' IN CBC CONCERT
By kind permission of Lt. -Col, IL
Gordan Wright, officer commanding,
the 'Band of the Royal Hamilton
Light infantry will be heard in a
concert to be broadcast over the.
coast-to-coast network of CBC Wed-
nesday, March 8, 8.30 to 9.00 p.m..
EST, from ,Hamilton, Ontario;
The programme to be conducted by
Capt. William F. Robinson, director-
of
irectorof music, will open with the Over-
ture to "Sancho Panza", arranged by
Lieut. Williams, formerly director, of
music for H. M. Canadian Grenadier'
Guards Band, Montreal. "Mountain
Rose", regimental march past of the
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Wentworth Regiment, will conclude:
the programme:
Overture, "Sancho Panza", Lieut.
Williams; Fantasie, "Home, Sweet
Home", Traditional; Toreador Song
from "Carmen", Bizet; The Oldi
Thirteenth, March, Sloan; The Moun-
tain Roue, Regimental March; Na--
tional Anthem, Stanford.
This band has played on various.
historical occasions in Canada end.
the United States in the past 60+
years. Among its early engagements.
were appearances in connection with
the opening of the Wellington, Grey
and Bruce Division of the Grand
Trunk Railway, in 1870; the New.
Suspension Bridge opening ceremon-
ies at Niagara Falls, in. 1897, and the.
visit of King George V and Queen
Mary, as Duke and Dnckess of York,.
in 1901,
SIEVEKING OF BBC WILL
PRODUCE OWN PLAY
"The Wings of the Morning", a.
play by -Lance Sieveking, will be pro-
duced by the author, from the 'studios
of C B C in Toronto Wednesday,.
'March 8, 10.00 to 11.00 p.m. EST_
Mr. Sieveking, senior producer of the
BBC, at present on loan to the Can-
' adian Bnoadcsting Corporation his
directed a number of dramatic pro-
ductions from western CBC studios.
This will be lits first play for nation-
al network audiences from Toronto.
"The Wings of the Morning"
should not be confused with the
motion picture of the, same name
- which was trade same years after
- Mr. Sieveldeg's radio drama had its
premiere from. BBC's London studios
0 in 1934. The play narks a milestone
in experimental radio drama. The
method of effecting transition from
one time to another is unusual.
I The story deals with a strange
t obsession -that of a young museum
curator wile feels impelled to gain
. possession of a rare Aztec relic by
- fair means or foul.
CURLING COMPETITIONS
TO BE BROADCAST
Curling enthusiasts in mCi parts of
Canada will be able to hear Goma
thing about the progress of the Me
Donald Brier Curling competition on
Monday, March 6, from 8.00 to 8.3
pan. EST, land Wednesday, March
8, from 7.00 to 7.15 pan. EST by
tuning in to the CBC national net-
work.
CBC's Special Events Depar•tmen
will arrange broadcasts from the
Granite Club Toronto, at these times
The commentator will be Dick Mair
how to set about the business of Publishers have already submitted
teaching gardening to children. In scores of biographies, autobiograph-
cities garden space is small—garden ies and novels. A jury presided over
space in relation to individual homes, by Mr. Welles is now engaged in
and what space there is is usually the difficult task of selecting the best'
glass, w ', it may book of March, to be dramatized on'
be a flowerith bedhere, andand with a' border Friday, March 3. It is also contem-
of grassleas ground where bushes, plated to have the author of the suc-
shrubs and flowering plantsare cessful book introduced to radio aud-
crowded together. fences, in an interview with Welles.
One enemy of gardens is the motor Friday is a busy day for the youth -
car. . Motor car's are forever inviting ful actor and producer. Early Fri -
dwellers in homes to go away from dayy morning, conferring with script
home. Families find gratification ort writers and production men, Welles
the desire to be in motion. The motor gives the radio drama its final text -
car does not take its passengers to nal form. Rehearsals begin at one
newspaper to gather news. And that better places than one's home, and o'clock, and continue until seven.
is why we are enlisting your co-op- it does not tend to make those in Then comes the "dress" show. Dinner
oration., If you have ,visitors, or if the car better -natured. It is just a is served in the studio. Welles gives
you can record some interesting event means by which present-day restless- the production its last polish and
ness can be soothed—soothed by mo- actors and. engineers take a breath
-
ton. Being old-fashioned, I regard ing spell. The programme over, Wel-
both time motor car and the radio as Itis janss on his hat and dashe8 , far
being destructive of many fine qua)- a train to join his stage troupe for
ities and practices. • 1 'the Saturday matinee and another
, week an the road across several
Undoubtedly every urban commute stateer r ,
which might interest some other
reader of the paper, won't you please
let us in on it. You don't have to
be a columnist or a reporter to do
this—all you have to do is give us
a -call and let us know the facts.
We'll do the rest.,
erAIKING first-rate snapshots re-
quires good eyes.' One is your
"eye for pictures," your ability to rec-
ognize a picture when you see if. The
other is your• camera's "eye"—its
lens.
You can train your "eye for pic-
tures." Themore snapshots you talcs,
the better you learn to see a picture
chance when it confronts you. But,
once you have chosen a subject, it is
up to your camera's "eye" to record
it clearly and sharply.
Lenses on most box type or axed -
focus cameras are remarkably good,
at the price. But the finest camera
lenses are known es ''anastigmats."
They are fast—let in a greater
amount of 'light than the ordinary
lens—enabling you to take pictures
under adverse conditions, on dull
days and at night. And they produce
negatives with needle-sharp detail
over the entire picture area. Nega-
tives made with anastigmat lenses
yield splendid enlargements.
The word "anastigmat" is usually'
stamped on the mounting of these
lenses. It is something like the "Ster-
ling" mark on silver;, Actually it
means "free from astigmatism" The
speed of the lens is also indicated, in
the form of an "f-number," such as
1;6.3, 1.4.5 or f.2.
This speed is important. An f.6.3,
anastigmat lens is four or five times'
as fast as the average box -camera•.
lens. This extra speed makes snap-•
shots possible iu dull weather, and
with shall photo bulbs at might..
Again, an 1.4.6 anastigmat .lens in:
twice as \fast es the 1.6.3. And on the -
better -grade miniature cameras, one.
finds fast lenses rated at 1.3.5 or 1.2—
so fast that they take snapshots at.
night by ordinary room light, when.
the camera is loaded with high speed
film.
The smaller the "f-number," the
faster the lens. Always remember'
this, when you examine a camera.
And when you get a finer camera,
with fast lens, treat the lens as care-
fully as you would a jewel. Don't.,
smear it with fingerprints; clean it
occasionally with a soft Hiltless cloth-.
If you treat your camera's lens well;;
it will repay you with many better',
pictures.
222 John van Guilder•