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Zurich Herald, 1928-03-01, Page 6ISH K ON SAINT" PATRI'CK'S DAY Fun for All floe F°ljrnly. BY MIGNON FLEMING. This party leas been planned to pro- vide the greatest possible amount of fun with the least possible amount of work and expense. It will appeal to 'old and young alike for it is based on the world -old principle of competition which is the life of recreation as! it is of trade. The matter of invitations comae first. Cut brown paper into the irregular shape of an Irish potato, making the eyes of the potato with a black pencil. The following note is printed in ir- regular letters on the back: "I hope my Eyes may see you at (give address) (state time). Mrs. is going to give a St. Patrick's Party and she wishes all us green vegetakies to be there "Yours truly, "A SPUD." Decorations will not make much im- pression upon a crowd of people who are having a bushel of fun and excite - merit but for the sake of having something distinctive, feature green, the good Irish color, in crepe -paper fe •toon,s, green lights, green sham- rocks. Potatoes strung on heavy cord may be festooned here and there. Bare boughs of trees, covered with tiny bits of green tissue paper, will sug- gest the coming of spring. They might be stuck up in corners. The entertainment, consisting as it will of contests, necessitates judges and a score -keeper and some person to announce what the contests are. IRISH FAMILIES. i wall ahead of them. They pin their shamrock leaf to the sheet and run back to tag the next player. This tagging releases the next player who runs forward with his shamrock and tries to pin it so that it will begin to !make the entire shamrock. Ile, in !turn, tags the next player who comes up with the third shamrock and pins it on. The last when tagged, .runs forward and attaches the stem. The side getting the most perfect sham rock in the shortest time, wins ten ipoints. Bubble Race: Choose two players from each group. Four clay pipes are i distributed, together with a cup of green soapsuds. Each one of the two players is given one minute to blow soap bubbles. For every one thrown on the floor, five points is scored. As the four groups are competing all at once, much care ,moist be observed in Watching the bubbles. The soap bub- bles will be made much tougher by , putting glycerine in the water. " Dinner Pail Race: Take a ten - 1 pound lard pail and fasten it securely to a heavy board so it will not tip over. This may be done by nailing the bottom of the pail to the board. Choose three players from each group. Arm them with four small 'potatoes each. Each player is given one chance to try to get all four in the pail. For every potato thrown in the pail, five points are scored. In this game the players in each group must follow one another. Irish Race: Pin a large sheet of tar paper to the wall. A blackboard is better. Choose seven players from each group. Line them up one behind the other, in four groups. Arm the leader with a piece of chalk. At a given signal, each player in turn is to run forward and write one of the seven words, "There's nothing too good for the Irish." When the first player has written "there's," he runs As guests arrive they are presented with some distinctive badge of green and told they belong to one of several families. This immediately divides the guests up into groups. There are the Gilhooleys, Murphies, O'Briens, Flanagans. (Avoid having more than four groups.) Each .family has its own insignia: The Gilhooleys wear green bande of green crepe paper about their heads; the Murphies wear large green ruffs around theitr necks; the O'Briens have tall green hats; the Flanagans wear green bows under their chins. Each member of the family has a name such as Grandpa, Grandma, Pa, Ma, Baby, Pat, Mike,. Nora. Care should be observed in see- ing that each group has a grandpa, baby, pe, ma. The moment a guest is presented with a headband, hat, ruff or bow and told he is Grandpa Gilhooley or Baby Flanagan, he sets off to find the rest of his family. Thus the very moment the party begins, there ,ie an ate* fun and excitement .that does '•away with all stiffness. As soon as the families all are grouped together (and it would be wise to give each fancily a room or a certain corner in a room), tell them that the entire evening is to be given. up to contests to see which is the smartest family. The first stunt announced is that Baby Gilhooley (usually the biggest man in the party) and all the other "babies" in each group, will introduce everybody in the family to one an- other. The family finishing first wins five points. This will result in much laughter and fun. Next comes ten points for the hand- somest group. They are each given one minute to arrange themselves in a family group like a photograph. Best Irish song by entire group, ten points. Each family may retire to another room so they may practice in private. They are allowed three nninn- ubes to practice. Sing only one verse and chorus. Thus far, only group stunts have been given for the reason that it takes a certain amount of time to work up enthusiasm and give courage; to different individuals to go into stunts by themselves. Four people are now chosen from 1 each group. Each one is to tell a part of, an Irish anecdote, not an original one. This story is to last not more than one minute. Best story wins ten points.The entire group• may retire to prepare for this stunt but the floor manager selects the ones who are to tell the story. Thus Mike, Grandma, Nora, Lizzie, from each group must clo it. By thus designat- ing the players, everybody gets a chance to perform before the evening is over. They tell the story thus: Mike saya, "The other day Pat was walking down the street . . Grandma immediately continues, "He l saw a man carrying a hod of mortar.'' It is taken thus from one to the other :till the entire^story is told. Best Irish jig, ten points. One per, - son from each group. SUITABLE RACES. A 'Potato Race: Choose •a mats. and a woman from each group. Give each Pair a- potato and a paring knife, The man takes the knife and the woman, the potato, Eaeh puts the left hand` behind the backso it can not be used. At a giveiieeigna1 all four couples be- gin to pare the potato, the woman 'turning it about while the man peels it, The couple getting the entire po- tato peeled first wins ten points. Shamrock Race: Choose four people from each group and,have them line ' up, facing the goal, one behind the other. This makes four lines of four players eathw Each of the first three eeexsons is given a leaf of a ahaniroek. tied a phi; the fourth player gets the steam of a .s amrook. At a given signal the leaders of the four linos run' forward to a sheet pf's e 4 eve the back and gives his chalk to the next player who runs forward .and writes "nothing" and so on till the last word is written. The group getting the entire sentence written first wins fif- teen points. The concluding stunt is ten points offered for the best Irish yell' given by the entire group. They may re- tire into an adjacent room to prac- tice for two minutes. Now comes the final announcement' of the score (it should be announced right along during the contests to The Useful Snow Man, Clumsy; man Made Of snow, What are you good for We'd lie to know. What are you good for? Tall us that, Man of sow With an old straw hat. It had taken Jean and Mary quite a tune to make the snow m,an, for they had made up their minds when they began that this should .be no ordinary snow pian, but a good big one, When they made his legs, they rolled them back and forth in the snow until they were very large, strong legs. Then they stood his legs side by side, and they rolled a snow- ball till -it was as large as they could lift, and when they had put two :snow arms on that large snowball and lift- ed it up onto the snow legs, the snow man was already taller than John or Mary though he had no head. When they had rolledanother snowball to snake a head for the :snow man, it was quite a question how they. ware going to put the head on him. And the only way they could put his head on him was to get the step lad- der from the barn. When he was finished he was a fine snow roan. He was 'almost twice as tall as Mary or John, Our snow -m'an's eyes Are black as coal. For lumps of coal Are they. He has a snowball For a nose Until it melts Away. He wears a hat That used to be Our father's Summer hat. . But what's he good for Now he's made? How can you Answer that? "That's a great snow man all right," said John. "But I wish we eould make him do something." "I've got an idea," said Mary. "Do you suppose he could hold a basket?" "If it wasn't very heavy," said John. "But what would a snow man be holding a basket for?" "There's an old basket in the barn that might be just the thing," said Mary. "We can hang it on his arm, and put bread crumbs in it, and then he'll stand here all day feeding the bird." "I see what you mean," said John. "You go get the basket, and I'll go ask cook for a lot of bread crumbs." So Mary got the basket, and John got the crumbs. It was a flat sort of keep up excitement) and the presen- I basket, and they scattered the crumbs tation of the prize. The prize may bei all over the bottom, and hung the a handsome potato tied with a ribbon! basket en the snow man's arm. or it may be a toy pig which is hol- 1 "He looks as if he were going to low inside such as may be obtained in; market," said. John. "Do you suleease a tens -cent store. This pig is filled i the birds will find hint?" with' small candies. "We'll have to wait and see," said Refreshments are now served to the; Mary, "but I guess they will" And half an hour later When they looked out of the window the snow man was feeding quite a flock of , birds. different "family groups" -who will enjoy talking over the contests as they eat. By the time such an even- ing of activity is over, the guests will be good and hungry. If the hostess is capable of snaking a delicious Irish stew, nothing is better, providing it is served piping hot and in a paper cup or a timbale shell so it will not look mussy. A stuffed Irish potato or scalloped potatoes, sprinkled with parsley, would be delicious served with this. Hot rolls made into the three leaves of a shamrock with a stem of green geranium and sprinkled with green sugar would be a fitting complement to the stew and potatoes. The green color scheme is carried out wtih pickles and green tea. If the evening is warm and the guests thirsty, a St. Patrick's Punch eould be served, consisting of lemony grape fruit ,and pineapple. Just before departing, it would be a most delicate attention if the Gil- hooleys would give a parting cheer for the Murphys, the Murphys for the Gilhooleys and the other groups, the same. This St. Patrick's party could eas- ily be •adapted to a community, the only difference being that the groups competing would be larger. Grit from the First. After five or six years of experi- encs I have found the following a great success ' in starting young thickens: I leave them on the nest until they are from thirty-six to I forty-eight hours old. The first two or three days I feed one pint finely ground ` corn meal, one-half pint I second-grade flour, one-half pint good !white sand—the sort used in glass factories—all nixed with sweet milk. I I have also tried the -brown sand 'used for making'concrete, but this 'is not as good.—I. S. B. Many farm boys are efficient.. A calf had"broken one of its hind legs. A couple of boys on the farm put some splints on that calf's leg, bound it up and when it got well the calf had quite a leg. Our hats are off to boys like that. Mangels for Feed. The Experimental Union results for 1926 show that mangel types dif- fer but little in productive capacity.' The eight year average yield as rep-_ resented by an outstanding variety of, each type gave the following: Sut- ton's Mammoth Long Red 20.7 tone per acre, Yellow Leviathan (O.A.C. No. 2) 29 tons per acre, Keith's Prize Taker 28.2 tons. These varieties rep- resent very fairly a different type of mangel, first the long, second the in- termediate and third the globe. A co-operative experimentwas con- ducted this year for the first time in thinning; inaegels at different dis- tances apart in the rows. The yields from the different thinnings follow: Mangels thinned 8 inches apart, 17.5 tons per acre; me ngels thinned inches apart, 17.4 tons, tnangols thin- ned 12 inolies apart, 16.8 tons. Sugar Man.gels: This class of roots; which is also known as stock feeding sugar beets is intermediate between the inaagel and true sugar beet. It has been grown considerably of recent years as a feed for farm stock, cspo- eially dairy cattle. In the average of 12 years' results in which there were 62 good reporte were received, -the variety Rennie's 'Tankard Cream gave an average yield of 25.2 tons per sere, and Bruce's G.ient White Feeding an average of 25,8 tons per acre, HE CANADIAN HOMEMAKER . oy *B8 ,r woekg arlf U eriny; 1 SIM ANNINa o BUILO1 NQ FI NANoINc DECQRATINC rURNI511NQ gAFiOENINq Copyr•i n"E 'ryscs. • yal 4,0v,Orie 1 A YEAR ROUND HOUSE G.H.MACDOMALD de 1111,inarioori AxcHrfacp By G. H. MacDonald & 11. G. Magoon, Architects. Here is an exempla of the type of house which with the snow of winter or the foliage of summer for its set- ting, looks equally attractive and com- fortable. It is a sensible little house, the exterior charm of which depends on simplicity and good proportions, aided by proper planting and a, small area of good turf, The plan is commendable, for its compact arrangement to include three closets, two bedrooms, kitchen 'and bathroom, together with practically all the articles which tend to make house work easy, and recreation enjoyable, upon one floor size 22 feet by 25 feet. Being almost a perfect square it would be an easy home to keep warns and cosy during the severest weather. The rear bedroom, linen closet, and bathroom open from an inner hall which is entered. through the living room, while the front bedroom may be reached directly from the living room or through the adjoining bedroom. The kitchen is replete with those devices ,erhi•cli make eooking a plea- sure of not too long duration, and con- tains a range with hot water boiler, table, refrigerator, sink and cupboard. The rear entrance is combined with stairs to basement, snaking access to laundry either from tlrying yard er kitchen equally convenient. 1sno�rinnT PtAf >e � Electricity Eases Plowing. By putting in the plowshare a charge of negative electricity experi- menters at the Rothamsted Station, England, have found that the plow runs through the` soil much easier. The share draws to itself a film of water from the soil even under the ground. Thus constantly lubricated, its resistance is decreased. The cur- rent for charging the plowshare may be derived from a dynamo driven by the tractor that pulls the plow.— Andrew H. Bending, England. I have a large maple tree on my lawn with holes in it where limbs have been cut off. These holes were full of brown -tailed caterpillars and eggs. The woodpecker got to work and cleaned them out as clean as a new board. --F. W. MECCA FOtl CHAMPIONS Tho above photograph was taken at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, and shows, at the right, Leila Brooks of Toronto, holder of practically all Canadian women's speed records, anti many world's records. At the left is J s 1 Isabel McCullough, another prominent Toronto speed skater. Between these Leto young ladies is another champion, a e'hanlpion of the, northern trails and none other than Mountie, the lead clog of the Chateau T'rontenac dog team. Mountiehes a long record of Goi'v1ee with the Royal Ctatellan Mounted Pollee hi the north and always wins: the hearts of the gveotsat the Chateau Frontenac. A R It will be noted that the living room, in 'common with every other room in the house, has windows on two sides and is thus assured of goad lighting and •cross ventilation. 1. cheery sight indeed, would meet the homecomer a.s he entered from the vestibule and was greeted by the fireplace blazing out 'warmth and cheer; and meals, too, would be taken in its flickering light. "Well lighted and roomy, the base- ment extends under the whole house, and is divided into a laundry which is equipped with tubs, •coal bin, and a large space far heating and general storage purposes. The basement wane are concrete below the grade and stucco above, while from the grouud floor up the walls are stucco on frame. An alternative which would give a de- lightful 'effect would be to use shingles above the whitlow heads. Care has been taken to have the fire- place, range, and furnace flues run up together and so form a substantial looking 'chimney, an arrangement hav- ing the additional advantage of a sav- ing in cost. The cost of this home inay be ex- peeted to approximate $4,000, Readers desiring further information regarding the plans and ,specifications of this house should comimniicate with the architects direct. Address Messrs. G. H. MacDonald & H. A. Magoon, Teg- ler Building, Edmonton, Alberta. Surnames and 'heir Origin WOLF Variations—Wolff, Guelph, Wolfington. Racial Origin—Teutonic. Source—A clan name. There are so many diiilerent chan- nels through which the family names In the Waif group may have Dome down to us that It is impossible to list the racial origin as anything more definite than Teutonic, or the source as anything' more definite than a elan name. Of ,coarse it all traces, back ultimately to the name of the animal. 'The ane cieut Germans and Anglo-Saxons, how-' ever, had given names based upon this animal name. They also had semthlan or tribal names, based either upon the name of the animal or upon the given name of some chieftain who was named after the animal. These ancient Teutonic tribal names, comparatively few of which have oome down to us• as fancily names, generally bore the termination "Ing" as signify- ing clan, hence we got the form Wolf- ingtou at the ancient fortress of the "Wettings" in England. The -double "f" in Wolff indicates a German origin of the name, whereas the single "f" might bo either of pure English extracted or an Anglicized version of the German name, The form Guelph is of continental Teutonic development, showing the influence of the same linguistic tendency which made the word "guerre" out of the same, root from which the English language has developed "war," for the French word is of Teutonic origin. , ASPLIN. Variation—Asptand. Racial Origin—English. Source—A given name. You might guess interminably at the, origin of this family name without ever hitting it, if you confined yourself to mere guessing, 'even though you had a Pall knowledge of the linguistic ten- dencies of speech through the ages. You might even guess unsu-ceess fully after you had been assured that the family name is the development of a given name. It is only by tracing the name back through the records of different cen- turies and .through the•changes of spell- ing pelling through which it has gone during those centuries" that you get back to the original. Asplin fe simply "Absalom." Transposition of letters is met with frequently in the development of the English language; as witness the change of "thorpe" into "throe," "hros" into "horse," etc. Thus the Bible name of 'Absalom, popular, like most Bible names, in the Middle Ages, became "Apsolon" on the tongues of the medieval English, and then variously "Aspelon," "Apspe- loud," "Aspelond," "Aspelan" and fin ally Asplin and Asplancl, Willows for Ditches. Did you over try planting willows along sono of those ditches that .take so much of your field? This other- wise worthless ground may be used to grew part of your supplyof wood, In the .:spring-s6metime in. April is all right—take your ax and cut some willow poles or sticks. Cut them three or four feet long and an inch or two in diameter. Take these to the ditch and wherever you think a tree is needed drive •oris of these wil- lows down into the ground, 'leaving about a foot above the ground. Slant the top upstream so that running water will tend to straighten it, It is a good plan to place a row of these, across the ditch at different palaces. Alinost all of these will grow and in a few years you will have a row of trees, The •roots will prevent • the ditch from wizening any deeper, while the trunk and top will help to catch the trash and to fill up the ditch. They cannot be used in a pasture where cattle can destroy them. --G. G. L. Overdone, A sad -looking woman of mature years appeared to the streets pushing a baby- carriage in which a fin',' healtliy-looking infant was howling, lustily.. A friend approached. "'Why, Mrs. I,rafi;ius," she eja.mi-.- lated•, "what a darling baby. But you: havoc no children. Whose Is it?" "'You",re wrong, my clear," replied the sad,faaoed one. "Thi• is no. ;husband;, he want too far with eke gland cure," It is said that the poi eupine is the slowest and most Avid animal in the woods.