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The Seaforth News, 1947-08-28, Page 71' 1.0 A Fondl Farewell To The Small Boy Every eo often we heave a long sigh.. for the passing of sorne in- stitution or individual fondly iden- tified with "the good, old days." We 'mourn the vanished quilting beet and the Little Red School- house, the noble hbrseard the old- time vaudeville. It is about time, . then, that some one paid tribute to that little-eoted but indispensable farm institution of horse and bug- gy days, the small boy, comments the Daily Times, Watertown, Time was *hen the small boy's service-, on the farm were eniver- sal, if sometimes unpredictable. There were stock and hens to feed, corn to hill, potato bugs to pick, gardens to weed, and wood to split and cord up, 13ut mechanization and scientific methods ,have dis- placed these young apprentices, much to their joy in most install - Feeding is no longer a random chore but an exact procedure for the modern farmer. Wood has in many cases been replaced by coal or oil fuel. And weeding and spray ing are today done on a wholesale basis. Chemicals such es 2-4-D, DDT, sulphuric acid, salt brine and petroleum products can kill more weeds and bugs iu a few hours than legions of small boys could handle in days. * * Perhaps this means that today's farmers will thrn from those fam- ilies of five or ten children that once were indispensable. They may substitute the cold but efficient laboratory for the nursery. This poses a question fraught with sig- nificance for the American Way: 1Vhence will come those farm boys, those great scientists, states- . sten, industrialists, whose careers owed so much to their youthful environment? But another view will be taken by those of us who have labored long hours in corn or potato fields under a blazing sun, with the dust seeping into cur eyes and up our pant legs. Science did not come soon enough, We were born 30 years or more too early, Skirt Length Takes Drop of Five Inches Hiding the feminine knee -cap this fall is one fashion "must" on which all designers are agreed. Skirt length takes a sudden plunge of five or more inches. -Less unanimous is the aim of stylists to pull stuffing out of shoul- ders. Those who don't yank out all cushioning modify the size of shoulder pads. Coats almost more than any day - tithe fashions seen in early pre- views reflect a prodigal use of yard- age. They will envelope the little woman like a tent. Or will float fullness behind her like a bridal veil. Coats swing from yokes or wrap around with lavish It:movers. Miley wrap -mounds stay mit with the help of a hand. Many new suits owe their sauve look to breadeloth. With softer shoulders, longer jackets, plunging hemlines and bandings of fur, such suits strike a new note of elegance. Metallic or broeade blouses add to this effect. • You just must have pot -lifters, so why not the prettiest ones possible? Here they are—a pansy, a rose. Jiffy crochet, and very gay. Inexpensive to make, practical flower pothoklers of rug cotton, Pat- tern 643 has directions for both, Send TWENTY-EIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot bc accepted) for this pattern to the Needlecraft Dept., room 421 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Screen Actor , . 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LAD - c b7.10F4 =TAMP agIUMAIMIM IMM1101101:EMNRILMIs MOO IZIMM6 28 Musical note 48 Membranous 29 Feline pouch 30 Article 49 Honey 32 Before Producer 33 Distress signal 50 Beveraw 37 Western 51 Et cetera . sports tab ) competitions 52 Landing Shi .39 Erbium Tanks (ab (symbol`, 23 Standard of value 40 Any 41 Brueez , 56 Half -em 57 Symbol , for calcium 44 Eye 46 Tiny I 3 4 5 gr Jaci 0- .1f. z4i 16 it Mill W: 18 , ,I4 WI 1 jtiP42-3 14 2.5 ' Aab . 23 ri0 ail 30 zzi,:;,, R 31 32 :2E34 34 40 41 7 II Pi ..,:i• SOW5 A 49 ill W 3311 52 .!to 53 . n'55 111 56 57 9'52 59 ZI Lib TEEN -TOWN. TOPICS By BARRY MURKAR As we loOk in on the scene to -day, we find Milker reclining in an easy chair with his typewriter perched up in front of the chair. Be- side the type- writer is a half bottle of coke and a cookie. Two feet away the radio is go- ing full blast and a man is telling about the Teen -Town to b' at the "Ex." this year. There will be a spelling -bee, public speaking contests and lots of stuff and things—so we'll pass that much along now. Tlless me, now Harry James is giving out with that old goodie, "Two O'Clock Jump", I'll have to stop a minute. Oh brother, they sure give out on that one. "How It Happened" Two weeks ago, you picked up this column and' probably fell flat. On recovering you no doubt groan- ed, "so that's what that jerk looks like". Well me friendlies. we have been kidded a lot about that picture and here is how it happened. The editor gets the idea that my pieture in the column will dress it up. Ain't that a laugh ? And 1 can ac- count for those dark circles too. You see, my pop took that picture. Well, pop gets under that black sheet and says watch the There is a blinding flash, a big plat of smoke and pop lands six feethack of the camera. The clerk circles are really touches of the smoke that shot out through the whosits when the thingamabob won blungledili. Jottings Have you heard. Frank Pes (the Bumble -Boogie Man) and his new orchestra yet? . still welcome letters from readers, young • or old, so send them 'along to Pickering . Frank Sinatra is re- placing 13111 Stern on Fridays at 0.:10 over NBC and doing a good job, too . . . Dick Haymes is ap- pearing with Martha Tilton on "Your Hit Pantile", Saturdays at 9 over NBC while Andy Russell is fishing or something , . Cab Cello - way's current recording, "Jungle King" is good and the other side is just, as good . . Perry Come. who everyone thought was 00 a vacation for the summer, has been a regular feature of the Paramount theatre in New York ever since he left the airwaves in June. Poor Perry and the money tic is forced to make. Movies of the Month .. Welcome Stranger — Here is a picture you will like. Starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, its patterned after their former story, "Going My Way". Dear Ruth— A gay domestic comedy, sparked by a bobby-soxer with juvenile notions about politics. Very funny and will prove to be real family entertainment, Starred by Edward Arnold, Mona Freeman, Joan Caulfield and Billy DeWolfe. Boomerang — A real picture if you care for the drama -suspense type with news -drama style and reeking with realism. Dana And- rews, Lee Cobb and Jane Wyatt have the top roles. Carnegie Hall — A repeat on this one. Glorious tribute to America's shrine of music. The cast is dom- inated by a host of famous musi- cians:, Homestretch— Another of those horse -racing and romance angles that never cease to please the pub- lic. Done in technicolor. it features Maureen O'Hara, Cornet Wilde and James Gleason. Last Minute Stuff John Mowatt of our town is typical of the teen-agers who aspire to be something. He came in to- day with a magazine cover he had painted as an assignment for his art school. John works in the day- time and studies art at night. Hundreds of young people are in much the same position and we would be pleased to hear about them. John sells some of his oils in a Ionl store as does another artist, Norm Cafik. ,11 you know of a young person who is Striving to gut ahead by hard work or study, let us have something on it. Atl- dress your items cr letters to leen- Town epics at Pickering. Well, that doe s it for th's wed:, but we'll be tack. ustr alia's Token Of Ernpire Loyalty Australia has had to dive deep into its citizenspockets to find the X20,000,000 that the Common- . wealth has prtsented as a free gift to Britain. Australia has a small- er population than London, and 3320,000.000 means ,e3 from each Australian man, woman and child, But there is far more than money in this magnificent geslstre, it speaks for the love and trust that bind the tuitions of the Empire together, and the determination of the British peoples to stand to- gether in peace as they hate stood' in war. Some croakers abroad have been saying that the Empire is ,. falling apart. What do they say to this? CHNONIC5.,ES OF GINGER FARM By twendoline P. Clarke Last \VednesdaY Bob put the car in the eliazie of a tree and said lie o.as going to change the oil, Half alt hour later 1 yyent out to ask bin something but all 1 could see of Hob at first wile two feet aild a pair of legs sticking out from under the front of the ear; and from thoee legs there wasnt -o much as a movement, "Mercy", 1 thought, "it must be that the car slipped off the jack anfl , crushed him." \e'ith My heart in my moutli 1 went ' n carer. A nd then 1 found the rest of head, shoulders 1111z1 body, on his back, in the ditch, well under the car—and fast asleep! He looked perfectly comfortable so 1 left hint to it. But it was not for long. A truck rams rattling tzp the lane and the noise of it resulted in a rude awakening for the sleeper. But let me hasten to add my son is not in ,the habit of sleeping 011 the job. You see'there was a reason for it this time. lie had just return- ed front that long trip to the nor- thern wilds that I was telling you about last week and he had been either driving or riding since eight o'clock the previous night to seven o'clock that morning—and in a truck at that. Why wouldn't he fall asleep? Incidentally that must havez.been quite h trip, Bob and his compan- ions were right into the bush coun- try, along with the mosquitoes and black flies, staying at an isolated farm house just about miles from everywhere, and where sheep had to be shut up every night to protect them from the bears and wolves. t Naturally living conditions were 1 more or less primitive in such a dis- trict, not through ignorance but necessity, but the people, so Bob said were very nice. * Partner says if he were a younger man that is the kind of life he would like, now that he has some eic- perience behind him. Well, I don't know—in my younger days I might have liked it too—but not now. The wild bush country of the north and the wide open spaces of the west, have somehow lost their ap- peal. Strange, when one thinks of it, how many types of farmieg, and how many ways of living there are in this Canada of ours. You couldn't introduce a stranger to Ontario and say—"This is typically Canadian" Neither is the west or the north typically Canadian. But each is part of the whole—east, west, north, New Bulletin On Canning at Home Free on Request With the canning and preserving season in fnll swing, a timely publi- cation is now available front the Do- mnion Department of Agriculture. It is entitled "Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables" and was prepared by the Consumer Service of the Department. 15 answers most of the questions likely to arise when can- ning fruits or segetables, or making jams and jelles, pickles and relishes. Requirements and Recipes The section on canning indicates the equipment required, and ex- plains every step to talce until the fruit or vegetable is processed, sealed in the containers and neatly to be stored for future use. The chance of error is reduced to a minimum by the inclusion of a processing time table giv- ing full instructions for the prepare - t105 of each kind of fruit and vege- table and the time required for pro- . CeSslug. The sections dealing with the pre- paration or jams and conserves, jel- lies, pickles and relishes are dealt with in similar way, 'A lid the reader can tell at a glizece how to go :Mout preparing and processing the product required. Recipes, which have been carefully tested, are also given for a lumber of jams and jellies made from a combination of different fruits, such as cantaloupe and each jain, grape and pear jam, choke cherry and apple jelly, and several recipes appear for pickles and re- lishes. A copy of the Bulletin may he ob- tained free 011 request to the Do- ininion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ask for Pnblication 7889. and t he border . districts—all are Ca»ada.. but yet represent many ries s, creeds, politics and industries. And many kinds of climate. Sometimes wile)] z;tru Morking around the kitchen 1 wonder how many eomen 'still use a C0014$101'0 1' there arc still quite a lot. And why ? For goodness sake don't tell 111 .11's hecatise you like ,t! 11 you haven't got hydro there is t•zurely no reason against an oil -stove. Expensive, did you h say? •rar, one for the marines. An oil stove is jest a' neccsary to a farmer's mile as a tlew tire for the family ear. Your husband has never suggested buying one for you? Why should by if you appear to he satisfied? Or hale you tried him out and found him one of those stubborn males who are bard to convince. 3laybe you haven't tried the right tztetics. How about giving him a good roasting Make a point of having the kitchen really hot m a scorching day and then apologise for the discomfort but VII: that it wotildn't be that way if Only 7011 had an oilstovel It might be that a few days of heat treatment would result in a stove being brought home on the next trip to town. Sometimes a practical demonstration will help more than hours of arguing. Unless you hap- pen to be the type who prefers the role of martyr. They are the wo- men 1A*110 shut the door to the main part of the house, keeping it nice and cool, while they swelter over a cookstove in the back kitchen. The men come in from the field; eat their nteal where it is cool, and wonder why Mother looks so hot and flusteted. They say it isn't really so hot today—in fact there is quite a nice breeze blowing! I was going to say—,'Oh, these men!" but Wouldn't it be more to the point if I said—"011, these tvo- 71101 Polar Style Dr. Paul. Siple, who has been doing polar exploring and research since he accompanied the Byrd Ant- arctic expedition of 1928-30 as a Boy Scout, chose the hottest part of the summer to tel the world how to keep warm when the teM- perature is far below zero.. 'file snuggest costume, he said last week, consists of a close -fitting inner layer of rubber, a layer of insulation, and a rubber outer gar- ment. It was successfully tested in the Byrd ekpeclition to the Ant- arctic last wintee,". -Newsweek. 1ZES 0. O. And 15 other orizes of 85. .FLOIERS.E CONTEST #8 -- Which 8.0(1,0.correet? WILSON'S FLY PADS HAS KILLED MORE WILSON'S FLY PADS HAVE KILLED FLIES, The first 18 correct answers drawn will winl Contest #5 closes August 87, 1947. Winners names will be published In September, Send your answer along With the top flats, lebol terge.I horn any et the Wilson Products below or reasonable facsimile tor CONTEST #2 — WILSON FLY PAD Co., DEPT, 0 HAMILTON, ONT. 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