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The one Tea that never disappoints the
most critical tastes.
• Ihiping Daughter Dress-.Correetly.
I hen a new dress is to bp made
for daughter it is so much easier to
go ahead and buy the eloth and
select the pattern one's self than to
co-operate daughter regarding it,
that -more often than not the dress
is made regardless of the -wearer's
wishes in the matter. Many farm
girls become so used to -we what-
ever mother mikes or buys, relyine
so absolutely on inother'e taste to b'e
correct, that when they leave home
and are thrown on their own res-
ponsibility, they find that they know
nothing about cost of materials,
suitability of colors or correctness of
lToo many times they spend
their money on cheap, gaudy things,
teaching your daughter all you know
and can learn about the, why and
wherefore of the clothes she wears.
When she grows up and finds work -
away from home, yon will forget the'
dust that shoWed on your Chairs, the
. • , 135711stove that needed blacking, and the
on a Sealed Packet is Your Safeguard. many other duties neglected, to seek
hes' opinion and work with her on her
----c---__em clothe, in the satisfaction yon have
The Gunner's Mate- ly, becomingly, yet economically
of seeing her en her borne -visite wiie-
dressed.
Refrigerators Preserve Food..
Spins a Yarn
The principle of scientifie food pre -
By N. W. JENKINS. servation involved in a modern house-
stye.hold refrigerator is not always under -
"You see," said the Gunner's Mate the middle of an old field, with a cold
to me, "all these stunts soldiers and full moon lookin' down on it from,the
sailors mine off in time of war, and. sky. No other house of no kind -was
gets crosses and medals for, don't n sight. Not a glim was showin'—
amount to a row of beans. It's just , Unless you counted the lights in the
a part of their regular job. A soldier navy yard, and they were three miles
ain't afraid of getting shot. It's allaway,
in the day's work, and he's some sur -I "Ibrought along a club, two lengths,
prised every time it don't happen to: of rope, and a blanket. The blanket;
aboutthe nat-for the watchman,; But I didn't haveI
him. No sailor man cares shucks! was for Daisy, and the ropes and club
gettin' drowned. It's
uralist way to die, for a sea sucker to club the old guy, as it turned out:
like him. Them Germans who thought! --he hein' asleep. I tied him up goad,I
they could scare the British Navy: and it didn't take me long to locate,
with their little old U-boats had an-1Daisy, who was sobbin' softly to her -1
other think comin'.self in her cot. Her hand was like ee
"But every man is afraid of some-.1ittle live coal for fever, I said to;
thing, away down in his heart. When' her quick, before she could be scared;
he goes out and faces the thing. cool of me: 1
and quiet, I calls that brave. I did; 'It's me, Daisy, come to take youl
a reiddlin' brave act myself one time.' away. It's your Jachie—your own!
'Mate, there's one thing I'm afraid boy.'
of—sieleness. Death I can put up , "Maybe she didn't know I was her
with, but sickness—the very theaght own before that, but she knew it then.
of it gives me jimjams. I was always What small show of fight the night
that -a -way. And of all sorts of sick- nurse put up didn't count. I wrapped
neas the one that always scared me my girl up in the blanket I had
the worst was the smallpox. The brought, and carried her off like a
name of it seemed kind of awful te. hawk carries a ehieken,
erns, long as I can recollect. 1 "When I had tucked her up in the
"Some six months ago I was docked nice bed I had already for her, I gave
dein to a Jamaica port, my ship be- her a steamin' cup of tea. Maybe she
In' up for repairs. As I hadn't hail was goin' to die anyhow, but she had
a day off for a long time, there was a a chance now to die like a lady, and
nice little furlough comin' tis rne. And," not like a rat in a trap.
havie' no way to spend money where; "I hadn't forgot to buy a doctor's
I'd been, I had a pretty good roll book, and when my darlin' fell asleep
;need up. So far I was in aiek. ; I studied that good and hard where
"Me and my friends used to go a it told what' was good for smallpox.
whole lot round the clothing factory! "Every day my bunkie came to an
at the yard, tryin' to mako up to the: old blazed tree, and I stood off and
good-lookin' Janes that worked there.; slsoutedt h.os how h' were
And from such foolin' 1 got Tinned what I wanted him to bring from
gdod and hard. Fell for the prettiesttown for me. Next day he would
nkest. smartest kid I ever see. Name; bring It.
of Daisy. Blue eyes. Light hair thati
Once in a while I took the patient's
curled without bein' jakeJ
P onternprychoor. Don't know what geed
marlinspikes. Neat, trim figger. I it done, but the book said to do it I
"She looked at me kind of special, kept a rubber hot-water bag to her
and I just hauled down my colors II feet when they was cold, and I gave
did. you know. I told her to 0011 me.
Jack, for I was ashamed to let her I her all it said she ought to have. I
I talked to her like a Dutch uncle, and
know the dirt my folks done by' she done everything I tell her like
callin' me Elijah. Didn't name marry -1 she was my baby, which she was."
In• in Ao many words, but you may,
I "Did she get well?" I asked.
bet your boots she knew how the, ,
I 'Sure she got well! Ansi I never
land lay.
e
"She was an unperfected ornhan. I; took thsmallpox."
liked that, for I never cared nimbi
ahout in-law, and I was competent "Some luck!"
"Greenhorn's luck. I never was no'
for the pertectin' myself. So Idoctor before or since. That one time
.
counted up rny roll, got my furlough, Iwas a twelI doctor. The day she
and calculated to spend both,
on as all afe, according to the book,
D ' mde nsy bunkie put some clean
"Next day. when I dropped into, deems for me under the blazed tree.
the factory, I seen another girl at I Put 'ern on after I'd gone swimmin'
my girl's machine. A wall -eyed fe_ and cut my hair. Then I went to town
male. painful to look nt. and bought riggin' for Daisy. I knew
" 'How's this?' says 1. where's! how to pick out some nice shoes and
Daisy?' silk stockin's, and I got a blue flannel
"
'You Daisy's beau?" she asks. sailor's sweetheart, also a big black
" 'That's as it may be,' says I, non-' sailor's wseetheart, also a big black
corninittal. tie. I told the young lady I bought
" 'I knew it,' says the female. 'Oh, I them from:
port poor, poor young man!' 1 "You put in the right kind of
" 'Explain yourself—do!' says T. underpinning to go with these ac-
" 'You'll never see Daisy no inore,', cordin' to specifications.'
says she hysterical. 'Daisy is teokl "And she understood and put in
,
'Took where? To jail?' everything needful. So I got a lot
" 'Worse—whole lot worse! Took for Daisy, and I went to the shack
to the pesthouse. She's got the small- and put on a b'iler of water, and
pox, arid they took her this morning. Made myself scarce till she bathed
She'll die—nobody ever come out of and dressed; and, gee, didn't she look
that pesthouse any way but feet fare- sweet!
most' I "Then I set fire t� the old shack,
"Out of that place I flashed like' and we watched it burn down. After -
a treak of lightning. Knew I had to wards I hunted up the owner and lied
art, and act quick. 1 had heard things an said I had set fire to it by accident
about that pesthouse. Maybe they while I was huntin', and offered to
-wasn't all true. Half of 'em was pay the price. He said I was too
enough, -with Daisy there, and scared holiest for those parts, and wouldn't
to death, as I knew she must be. take no money.
"I found ray bunkie, a smart lad "The very day furlough was up, I
named Harrison. We trailed out and went to the chapPin.
epotted that place where my girl, " 'Reverend,' says I, 'you got to
was. Then we nosed around the splice us, I couldn't trust it done out
country thereabouts till we found a of the service—a lifetime job like
little cabin on the edge of a lonesome teas!,
wood. We could tell no one had lived "So he spliced us,"
in it for an age, by the way the: "And you think you were pretty
vines was tied and knotted together brave, eh?"
across the door. I took possession of "Nary yellow .steeak in me that
that shack in the name of the British time."
Navy, and then I hiked- back to town' "Deserve a medal or a erase eh?"
and bought me a lot of stuff—a came "No—I can't say that"
vas cot, and pillory and blankets and; "Why not?"
comfortables and sheets, an ax, al "Cause 1' done better ---1 got a
broom, a kettle, a pot, a water bucket, Daisy.
matches, tea, sugar, crackers, canned
milk and soup, and a lot of eggs,1 U. S. Owes Great Britain.
which fell by the wayside and got, England's bill for transporting a
smashed. But the rest of the dun- million American soldiers across the
nage my bunkie and I managed to Atlantic amounts approximately to
smuggle out of town and into the
deeerted ehack,a82 000, •
000 or at the rate of $82 per
'It was just like settin' up house- soldier, which, .in the opinion of the-
keepin' or goin' out West in the old De S. Dieeetor of Transportation, is
days, only it wasn't no fun—thinks less than it would have cost to trans
leeked too darn serious. Harrison,' port them In American ships. A
who was awful handy with himqelf,I
opened up the house, swept and aired! Friend (teasingly)—"Wlem
at elees
it, made up the bed, and cut a stack, that new baby at your house ery
of firewood and brush. When he wad
ao
gona back to the yard, he not bein' much, Tommy?"Tommy (indignant -
ZS furlough, I set with my head in ly).-"It doesn't try -so very memb;
my 'hands by the bio' fire he left for and, anyway, if all your teeth were
me, and my thoughts was terrible.; out and your hair off, and your legs
Ile shook hands with me when he' so weak you couldn't even stand on
Went, and I think he figgered on them, I fancy yoil'd feel like crying
,comin' back to get the remains.
'I get there that night till it seem- "arself'"
ed likely the majority of honest folks There are three good methods of
Seas in bed and asleep. Then I built communicating news and goasip.
pp the fire roarin', and I lit out Or
thepesthouse. . • Telephone, telegraph, and tell a eve-
'
"It was the lones-omest sight I ever man,
see—that big, ugly frame house a- ,40,44.41411
settin' up by itself on lone lees in Zen Tamara,, x.enimeet ia as
stood by housewives. All that is
or else wear dowdy, unbecoming necessary to prederve food is to keep
clothes. it at a dry temperature low enough
Part of every girl's training should to protect it from micro-organisms or
consist in learning the lesson of bacteria, which want to consume it
clothes and the first steps along that as food just as we do, but which if
line should be taken as soon in the allowed to work quickly render it un-
fit for human consumption.
These bacteria lie dormant when
the air is kept cold and dry, but they
grow rapidly in water, hence it is
necessary to keep the air in a refrig-
erator from becoming moist. The
drier the air the better the food
keeps. Circulation of the air is
therefore an important feature, and
the walls of the ice -box are insulated
so that the cold air will be kept in.
It is necessary for the ice to melt
in order to chill the air properly. As
the melting goes on the refrigerator
is chilled and the food absprbs the
cold. Thus while wrapping ice in a
newspaper or flannel will undoubted-
ly keep it from melting, it defeats
the purpose of the refrigerator, and
withholds the cold from the food. A
steady melting must go on, and the
modern refrigerator is built to keep
the melting to a necessary minimum,
although precautions should be taken
to see that the ice -box does not stand
where the sun's rays strike it. Nor
should it stand near the fire.
Cold air falls and warm air rises,
and the coldest place is below the ice
instead of above. Milk, butter and
foodstuffs which really absorb mois-
ture should therefore be placed so
that the cold air reaches them direct
from the ice, passing from them to
those footle like melons and onions
which give off odors.
little girl's life as •she can under-
stand the most simple of instructions.
If you are making school dresses,
get samples of different materials
and ask daughter to choose that which
she would like. Doubtless she will
make a wrong choice, selecting the
most unsuitable. But don't laugh at
her; don't make her ashamed. En-
deavor to show her her error in a
way she can understand. Get her to
tell you what qualities, in her opinion,
a school dress should have. Of course,
You know it should wear well, wash
1 well and not show soil too easily, and
not be readily torn; but she may
never have thought of those things.
I Let each sample, then, be analyzed to
meet those requirements.
1 When the suitable material has
been selected, attention should be
turned to the cloth's spitability to the
child in question. The color must be
one in which she looks well and the
pattern appropriate for her age. By
suggestion, display and study famil-
iarize her with these requirements,
and you will develop in her a taste
for simple, well made clothes she
would be far less apt to have were
she continually wearing dresses with
no thought as to why they were of
such a color or material or cut in
such a way.
• Though the desirability of simple
mit be hnpressed upon her, do not
confound simpleness with plainness.
A simply cut dress finished at neck
and sleeves- with a bit of lace, or
brightened by contrasting material
in banding or piping, is attractive,
but a plain dress, absolutely devoid
of all "finishing touches" is actually
homely, and in all but the poorest of
families, -wholly unnecessary. Teach
the value of these simple means of
finishing a dress. Contrast the sev-
erely plain dress with the slightly
trimmed one. Also, when opportun-
ity presents itself, point out the mis-
Do Not Permit Faultfinding at the
Table.
To have a comment made on dishes
at the table, as too much, or too little
seasoning, etc., is a habit into which
many families unconsciously fall. It
is very trying to the housewife, and
besides has a tendency to make the
food appear less inviting, and gives
a depressing effect, as all fault-find-
ing does.
One mother noticed that this habit
tak of overtrimming. A dresa half was growing on her children, and de -
covered with lace and ribbons and termined that some way must be
found to stop it, She called a family
meeting and told them that she did
her best to have the food and table
just as nice as she could, and that
they should do their part and be kind
and polite, keep still about any dish
they did not especially like. She
emphasized the fact that criticism at
the table was not good manners.
She told them that if they had
anything special to criticize they
could come to her alone after the
meal and she would be glad -to listen
to the complaint. But strange to say,
beini forbidden to criticize at the
table, the children made very few
private:comments.
From that time on the mother' was
ornamental buttons is not only in bad
taste, but is generally mere cheap
display.
If daughter lends a hand at the
washing and ironing she will learn
even more about the materials her
dresses are made of, and will quickly
see why the dainty little party dress
would never do for school wear, and
why, also, mother desires her to
wear soft crepe underwear in sum-
mer in preference to that which re-
quires starching and ironing.
It takes time, of course, to teach
these things, and there are but few
farm mothers whose time is not lim-
ited; yet other things can better be
slighted than the opportunity of
1.
British, Well Dom! Givilig Due Re-
(oguition To Others Who Helped.
WELL DONE, LISI
IT IS HEREBY agreed that no one
nation would have beaten Prussia,
,Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Aus-
tria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.
IT IS FURTHER agreed that it was
the gallant resistance of Belgton, the
magnificent fighting qualities of the
French; the de-votion of the Russians,
the valor of the Serbians, the resource-
fulness and whole -hearted co-opera-
tion of the Americans, and the superb
Struggles of the Roumanians which
enabled us to secure a victory over the
enemy.
HAVING SAID THIS
The British have done it. The navy
choked Fritz by the throat, and the
array walloped the life out of him.
We haVe fought the devil all over•the
world, we have, beaten his legions hi
every latitude; we have financed the
war,and fought the war. We have car-
ried the foodstuffs, the raw material
and: the soldiers, both our own and
our allies, to and from the ends of the
earth. We have fought a naval action
which lasted for twenty-one months
against a fleet of U-boats numbering
over 800 from first to lest, and we have
destroyed two-thirds of that fleet. We
met the full stroke of his offensive in
March and April and smashed it. We
carried the impregnable Hindenburg
line. We invented and brought to per
fection the arm which produced the
decision of the war—the tank. We
swept his aerial navies from the skies
and blinded him. We have, single-
handed, crushed the Turk and secured
a complete military decision. We have
fought four African wars and have
been victorious, We have raised,
equipped And maintained an army of
7,000,000, and have equipped a Rus-
sian army of 2,000,000. We have
fought the Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon,
Austrian, Turk, Bulgarian, Askari,
Togoman and Bolsheviki. We have
established the Arab in Arabia and
the Jew in Palestine.
BUT
IT IS HEREBY agreed that no one
nation would have beaten Prussia.,
Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Aus-
tria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey,
IT IS FURTHEIR agreed that it was
the gallant resistance of Belgium, the
magnificent fighing qualities of the
Fiench, the devotion of the Russians,
the valor of the perbians, the re-
sourcefulness and 'whole -hearted co-
operation of the Americans, and the
superb struggles at the Romanians
Which enabled us to secure a victory
over the enemy,—From Town Topics,
London, England. .
careful not -to criticize any dish her-
self, and did not allow it done by the
others. She was watchful, however,
that every thing was well cooked, and
the habit of fault -Reding at the table
in that family has entirely ceased.
'Oil Lamps.
Our house is lighted by oil lamps
and the work I hate most is cleaning
the lamps. I, have made it as easy as
possible in the following way:
Turn the Wick low before blowing
out the light so it won't smoke so
much.
Trim wicks and wipe burners every
day, so they won't smoke and black
the burners.
Set all the lamps in a row, open,
before beginning to fill. Use a light
can with a well-placed spout to pour
oil from.
Wipe lamps with paper.
Wet a sheet of newspaper and rap-
idly wash all the chimneys, setting
them on the stove. Take off before
too hot and wipe with newspaper.
Everything can be done rapidly in
this way and lamps and chimneys
will shine.
THAT WICKED PRINTER.
Some of the Ludicrous blunders Na
Has Made the World Laugh At.
Printers often pervert the power of
the pen and turn tears into smiles by
the change of a letter.
."Drunkenness is jolly," said a dean
In a temperance sermoff duly reported
in the local paper. What the dear man
meant was that drunkenness was folly.
But the printer was in playful mood,
for lower down in the dean's discourse'
he omitted a comma, and the eminent
divine stood again a self-confessed
drunkard.
"Only last Sunday," he said, "a
young man died suddenly, while I was
endeavoring to preach the Word In a
state of beastly intoxication."
Here is another "clerical error,"
culled from a parish magazine:
"There will be a collection in aid of
the Arch Fiend."
The fiend of a printer should have
put Arch Fund. Doubtless he prevent-
ed many old ladies of limited intel-
igence from putting their hands in
their' pockets.
The "war -scared" veteranwas the
printer's improvement on the "war -
scarred" variety which the writer had
in mind. The young man who wrote.,
that love -letters were a never -fading
ink was really informing his finances
that such epistles would form a never -
fading link between them throughout
their lives.
Imagine the dismay of the school-
master whose prospectus read thus:
"The distinctive feature of the school
is the roughness—" He was only
referring to the thoroughness of his
methods.
"Our impending fate, eclipse of em-
pire, is bound up with the League of
Nations," said a politician in a local
paper recently.
Yet he was an ardent advocate of
the League of Nations, and what he
really said was that our impending
fate, eclipse or empire, was bound up
with it, In this mistake the printer
was, not to blame, but the reporter.
who lost his job through the. politi-
cian's fury, The latter's own poor
elocution was probably to blame.
Punctuation, or the want of it, Is
prolific in humorous howlers. Here
is one from an agricultural journal:
"Wanted, a woman to feed pigs with
washing -board lodging over stables."
At first reading one is apt to wonder
whether the pigs lilted their washing -
board, and whether they ware all
lodging over the stables together.
Incredibly large openings for our
Dominion farm products are avail-
able in Great Britain, according to
the Canadian Trade Commission.
Ask for MtnartVe and take no other.
All grades. Write for prices,
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HOW ANIMALS CHANGE WITH
How to Dispose of Bores.
A municipal governinent official who
had an easy-going doorkeeper was for
a long time pestered by a bore. Final-
ly he hit upon a plan to get rid of
him for good.
"Dick, do you know why Collins con-
tinues to come here so regularly?" he
asked.
"No, sir."
"Well, Dick, I don't mind telling
you in confidence, hp's after your job,"
• From that day on the official was
never troubled by the bore.
The ability to sing a simple pas-
sage of music at sight without any
accompaniment is something that
every choir member should strive to
acqpire.
QUEEN'S
1, UNIVERSITY
ZINGSTON,
Onvutto
ARTS
Part of the Arts course inny be covered by
correspondence.
MEDICINE EDUCATION
APPLIED SCIENCE
Mining, Chemical, Civil,
Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering
SUMMER SCHOOL NAVIGATION SCHOOL
July and August. December to April
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THEIR MODE OF LIFE.
Hoofed Beasts, Such as Sheep and
Pigs, Have Lost Power of Tree
Climbing Through Disuse.
Every one of the higher animals Is
in some way mechanically adapted to
its Mode of life and surromulings,
horse or an antelope being froal on'p.
Point of view a living galloping er
trotting; machine. Putting such ex-
amplea aside, there aro nurnanoria
cases of mere peculiar adaptations to.
whiCh attention may be confined.
For example, the climbing creatures.
It nattY be noted that a number of
spediele 511011 as Old World monkeys
and ;Squirrels, preseat special modifl,
catkins for a life in the trees, the es-
sential being that they should have
the newer M rotating the forearm en
the upper portion of the umband
that their toes should be mobile and
furnished with claws or nails.
There is one group of African ro-
dents, designated scaly tailed squir-
rels, the members of which seen/ to,
have felt the necessity of additional
aid for the purpose of tree climbing.
They have accordingly developed on
the under surface of the tail certain.
structures which may be 'compared to.
the climbing irons used by workmen.
These take the form of a few trans-
verse rows of large, triangular, horny
scales, with their points directed back-
ward. These scales, when pressed
against the bark of a tree, must aEord
material aid in climbing.
The Anteaters, ClinibIng Scales.
Another group of animals in which
"climbing irons" have been developed
is that of the scaly anteaters or pan-
golins, of India and Asia—creatures
which look more like living lir cones.
than mammals, The scales—nauch
larger than those or the scaly tailed
squirrels—cover both surfaces of the -
body, as well as the head and limbs,
so that it can scarcely be supposed
they have been developed for climb-
ing. Indeed, only a few species climb;
but these have found the assistance*
afforded by the. -scales on the under.
side of value in an ascent, and habit -
'tinily make use of them as climbing
ic°41usite a different type of climbing,.
or rather bunging, apparatus, has been
developed in the sloths of tropical
America, which spend their time in
the treetops, where they remain sus-
pended back downward by their hook
like claws, These clews, which may
be three or two, have been modified
from ordinary claws and tiffinid ,
striking instance of adaptation to an
abnormal mode of life. The thumb of
bats Is likewise modified into a hook-
like claw—also used for suspending
purposes when the creatures hang
head upward. -Generally, however, bats
suspend themselves head downward
by the hind claws, grasping power be-
ing retained by the toes, so that the
modification has not been carried to
the same extent as in sloths, in which
the claws set in a mechanical manlier.
Suction Plates on Bats,
Certain bats appear to have found
their hook like thumbs and hind feet
Meniflicient for suspension and have
made use of the suction principle for
this purpose. This mode of suspen.
Mon has been developed independent-
ly in two distinct bats, ono a native of
Brazil :and the other of Madagascar.
In the Brazilian species the suckers
take the form of stalked discs attach-
ed to the palms of the thumbs and the
soles or the feet. The suckers of the
Malagasy species are horseshoe like.
By means of the suckers these bats
are able to ascend vertical surfaces.
Very curious it is to note the similari-
ty between the suckers of these bats
and those ou the arms or the cuttle-
fisTilt geckos which run up the walls
and over the ceilings of houses in
warm Countries acord another in-
stance of the sucker principle. Bats
are not the only mammalsewhich have
availed themselves of the sucker. In
the Malay Islands and the Philippines
dwell large eyed and slender limbed
little leraur-like creatures known as
tareiers, whose habits are nocturnal.
In these weird little animals the tips
of the toes are expanded into cushion -
like discs, capable of acting as suck-
ers, .by means of which they ascend
such smooth surfaces as the stems of
hemlines.
Hoofed or ungulate animals, such
as shoo, pigs, 'cainels and elephants,
have given up using their fore limbs
in a hanane manner, and employ
them solely for progression. Conse-
quently tree climbing is out oftheir
line. In Africa and Syria occur, how-
ever, certain representatives of the
order known as rock rabbits, er hyrax,
the Syrian species being the one 1;3 -
Volved to inAhe Bible as the coney
(the old name of the rena).. Certain
African hyraxes have, however, taken
to tree climbing, and the way they
manage it is this; In each foot the
sole is somewhat cup shapece. and by
the aid of muscular action the centre
can be more elevated, so that when
the edges are applied to the befit the
foot acts like a sucker.
Summer -1919.
After months of aching pain—
Spring again!
Flowering fields and birds a-wMg;
Badding trees and summer rain,
And my heart that sings and sings—
Lad is home againi
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