The Huron Expositor, 1930-11-14, Page 6F
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ural New Treatment
';4 ,,!ter taking five bottles of Sax-
and
ar-
aild two Lo�;les of the Soft Vass
s l,: matt to say Abet in all my 70
Y m pa rope never seen anything to
equal this remarkable treatment," re-
icentlY . said Jacob 'Crherman, Pres. of
the Western Hardware Co., Ltd., Win-
nipeg, Canada, who moved to VV1nni-
? peg from Roumania 30 years ago and
wise has, acquired extensive real es-
tate holdings in that city.
"In .fact, Sargon has been of such
great help to sue that. I am sending a
full treatment to two friend's of mine
back in my old home country. I
wrote them what a wonderful medi-
cine it is and how it restored my
health after all other medicines and
treatments failed.
"I suffered torture with indigestion
after meals and only those who have
had this terrible affliction know what
a blessed relief it means to get rid of
it. I also suffered from chronic con-
stipation almost as far back as I can
remember.
"After the first few doses of Sar-
gon my stolnach seemed to right it-
self, my nerves, grew stronger and I
began to sleep well and now I am in
better health generally than I've been
in 35 years.
"I used to take a physic almost ev-
ery day of my life, but since taking
Sargon Pills my bowels are as regu-
lar as clockwork. Their easy nature
action makes them especially suited
to elderly people like myself. I only
hope my statement will help other
sufferers."
This is only one of the thousands
Of cases where grateful men and wo-
men have received such wonderful
benefits from Sargon that they have
sent, it to their relatives and friends
in distance lands.
Sargon may be obtained in Seaforth
from Charles Aberhart.
though
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of the royal Ontario
Axeheeelogy,
Weekly Cop Report
+Generally speaking the weekly
crop report of the a:,rioultural re-
presentatives would indicate that
cattle are not iu as good condition
as they were a month ago, due to
pastures drying up. The milk sup-
ply is also falling off, many cheese
factories only receiving milk every
other day, In the western portion of
the province fall wheat has suffered
due to lack of rain and considerable
acreage will go into winter with a
light top. Heavy snows reeently in
Bruce County have melted and soft-
ened the ground to such an extent
that plowing is now facilitated. Not
in years has the weather been so
good for the beet harvest in Essex
as this season, and a good revenue
is expected from this crop. Ab.rut ten
pee cent. is the outside estimate, of
the •plowing done in Glengarry, the
cause being attributed to the drouth.
Potato digging is being rushed in
Middlesex with the yield generally
disappointing. Four carloads of west-
ern cattle have arrived in Perth and
herds in that district will be increas-
ed.
PIED PIPER BADLY NEEDED 1N
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
When Prince Edward Island was
Isle St .Jean and Charlottetown was
Fort la Joie, when the first little set-
tlement was only two years old—that
was a few years ago—the good farm-
ers would have given their eye-teeth
to the renowned Pied Piper of Hame-
lin„ had he come strolling their way.
After the manner of pioneers, the set-
tlers had toiled from dawn to dusk,
day in and day out, carving a way for
themselves in the new world, and with
thankfulness in their hearts they
were facing a 'bountiful harvest, such
as a fruitful country can yield to
hard workers.
One Sunday morning in late sum-
mer, the people went into their little
chapel to attend mass, with 'gratitude
in their hearts, Out of the forest
swarmed a multitude of mice. For
two winters, the heavy snows had
protected them from their natural en-
emies and they thrived and grew into
fantastically exaggerated families.
When they got the good people into
church, they went on the rampage.
Over the fields they swarmed into
the grain, into the gardens they
swarmed, eating, eating, eating, and
swarming on, still eating, down to
the sea. In vain the settlers cried
for the Pied Piper to come and de-
liver them. They were eaten almost
out of house and home.
This is no legend. It is part of
the wealth of Canadian history into
which Merrill Denison, the playwright,
has delved to get material for the
series of Canadian radio plays which
will be broadcast by the Canadian Na-
tional Railways' transcontinental
chain this winter. The story of the
plague of mice will be one episode
and the others will touch on all as-
pects of the colorful story of the
Dominion.
News and Informatioli,'. For
the Busy Farmer.
The annual meeting of the Eastern
Ontario Poultry Association will be
Meld in the Coliseum, Ottawa, on De-
cember 3rd.
Attendance at the Ontario Veterin-
ary College this year is higher than
usual, with a total of 95 students on
the roll. Of these, 36 are in the fresh-
man year. The students are from
every part of Canada and the United
States.
The latest combine harvester -
threshers, it is claimed, can harvest
an acre in the average tim•a of 45
minutes. This is a reduction of aver
96 per cent. from the time required
in harvesting and threshing an acre
a century ago. It is a striking in-
stance of how machinery has facili-
tated work on the farm.
Superintendent at Hearst.
L. H. Hanlon, of Kapus'kasing, has
been eeeoirted superir_tery int of
the de•ntonstration farm at Hearst,
sesording to an announcement of
Ron. T. L. Kennedy, Minister of Ag-
riculture. Mr. Hanlan graduated from
the Ontario Agricultural ColTege in
1922, later taking post -graduate work
at McGill University, where he se-
cured the degree of M.S.A. in agron-
omy in 1924. He was superintendent
of the Kapu.skasing experimental sta-
tion. "Mr. Hanlon has had very val-
uable experience and is particularly
well -fitted for the work at Hearst,'
said Col. Kennedy, announcing the
appointment.
PROTECTION FOR
MOVII AND THROAT
Exposure to damp weather, eive
use of voice, or smoking are frequently
the Source of irritated, sore. throats.
Unless promptly cared for serious
complications often follow.
A gargle of one part Absorbine, jr.,
to nine paths water will bring quick
relief to the inflamed tissues ... And
if there is congestion with the infection,
as usually happens, break it up at once
by rubbing the outside of the throat
with a few drops of full-tttreugti
Absorbine, Jr.
To sweeten the breath and keep tha
mouth in a dean, wholesome condition
at alt times, the daily use of Absorb'
Jr„ diluted as a mouth -wash, is ideil
. just a few drops in a little water
mornnig and night. Get a bottle at
your d> uggist's-61.25. sal
with different days of the week.
Thus, Morayshire fishermen believe
that changes of weather and sudden
thunderstorms are always tp be ex-
pected on a Friday.
Sunday's thunder is supposed to
mean the death of learned men; Tues-
day's a 'bountiful harvest; Wednes-
day's, the death of women; Thursday's
prosperity for sheep; Friday's a mur-
der, and Saturday's, plague and pest-
ilence.
One popular idea about thunder
science proves to be true—that it
"clears the air."
This is because ozone, an intensi-
fied form of the gas oxygen, is pro-
duced by thunderstorms and possess-
es a wonderful power of correcting
unwholesome gases.
When ozone is present even to a
small extent in the air, it gives to the
air what is called an "oxydizing"
freshness. It is ozone which makes
seaside and mountain -top air so
healthful, though it may be present
to the extent of no more than one
part in seven hundred thousand—one
seven -thousandth per cent.
Ottawa Winter Fair.
The 28th annual Ottawa Winter
Fair and Horse Show will be held
from December 1st to 5th. In making
this announcement, Prof. W. J. Bell
principal of the Kemptville Agricul-
tural School, and president of the
Fair, points out that $25,000 in prizes
is being offered—all for the purpose
of improving cattle breeds, horses
poultry, pet stock, seeds and genera
farming conditions. Because of ex-
cellent crop conditions and splendid
pasturage throughout the season in
the Ottawa Valley, all live stock is
in exceptionally fine form and a well
finished display is anticipated. Al
entries close November 22nd, with
the secretary, John W. Grant. 06
Queen Street, Ottawa. As encourage-
ment for junior farmers, there are
many important trophies and cash
prizes for inter -county live stock
judging, junior showmanship. seed
judging, school fair seed and other
classes. where there are various coun-
ty competitions for agricultural re-
presentatives.
Raising Prolific Sows.
Sterility in pigs is difficult to cure
but most farms of it can .be prevent-
ed by proper management. Fertility
is 'heritable, therefore always select
breeding stock from large litters.
must have more o -
$reeding sows (pro-
tein and calcium than fattening
stock in order to build up flesh and
bone in their young. The important
sources of supply of these are meat
and protein meal, milk and legumin-
ous pastures. Exercise is essential
TOT regular production. Show condi-
tion sometimes causes sterility, but
this is when the pigs are over -fat
and lack ,exercise. Exposure in win-
ter will delay breeding. Contagious
abortion is spread through afterbirth,
dead piplings and discharge
contam-
inating the food, Water and beddings.
Egyptian Barley for O.A.C.
The Ontario Agricultural College
Snakes it a point to keep abreast of
the times in all matters pertaining
to agriculture, but it also gives its
students instruction in the history of
ibia Most ancient and honorable art.
,this connection an interesting
eithibrt liarust been placed in its
museum hi the form of a sample of
bailey, taken, during the past sum-
xli?e'r' troth, grain .pits of the time of
outot (tenth centum 11.C.) at Tell -
t. The grain is s'orne-
irlgeltened by age, but has
r.eSI retained its natural font
u`f5�rs
clip pow eyed sssgar
1 cup olio] , ed• almonds or walnuts
1 tealeptere vanilla
3 egg wbi s
6 tableepe ne granulated sugar.
Fleet the milk arced butter in the
double boiler until the butter is melt-
ed. Add the corn starch mixed with
a little cold milk and cook about 15
minutes, stirring until smooth and
slightly thickened. Then stir in egg
yolks 'beaten with the powdered sugar
and cools, stirring for 2 or 3 minutes.
The mixture should be a thick cream.
Add the nuts and vanilla and pour
into a rich baked crust. Cover with
a meringue made of beaten egg whites
and granulated sugar and brown
slowly in a moderate oven (300 de-
grees F.).
NUT BREAD
2 cups flour
3'a cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking .powder
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons lard
1 egg and the yolk of an egg
1 cup milk
3s cup crushed walnuts
Salt.
Sift the flour with the baking pow-
der and salt, Add sugar. Work in the
butter and lard with the tips of the
fingers, then the well beaten yolks
and one white. Mix in the milk and
lastly the nuts. Set aside for half
an hour. Bake im a moderate oven
for about 40 minutes.
A WEEKLY PRACTICE
Sending the children away to
school kept Mrs. Dean too busy to
worry much about Missing ahem.
But after they were gone—how
empty the house seemed! So she
took to telephoning them every
week, and how they all look for-
ward, to these happy voice visits!
Everyone has so much news to tell!
THE FEAR OF THUNDERSTORMS
GOES BACK INTO ANTIQUITY
When terrible storms happen in
Indira, the natives blow conchshells to
appease the serpent goddess, Bashu-
ki, who is believed to uphold the uni-
verse. Storms and earthquakes are
caused whenever she moves. On July
3rd, last, when an earthquake hap-
pened, conch -shells were being blown
throughout the Indian quarters of
Calcutta.
Are not many of us equally foolish
when a thunderstorm happens? Our
ancestors were at least. They have be-
queathed us many superstitions about
thunder and lightning, for we have
still in our churches old bells which
have been rung with the idea of dis-
persing thunder.
To this day the Breton peasant,
finding what he calls a "thunder-
stone"—probably some relic of the
Stone Age, an axe -head or the like—
builds it into his chimney to ward off
lightning.
Our country people like to grow
leeks on their house -roofs as a charm
against thunderstorms. In Kent and
Herefordshire, an old notion still lin-
gers that to put an iron bar upon beer
barrels or milk cans will safeguard
their contents from being soured by
thunder.
There is, by the way, a perfectly ef-
fective and simple lethod of prevent-
ing milk going sour in thundery wea-
ther. You simply add a quarter of a
teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to
each pint of milk. Being an alkali,
the soda counteracts the acidity caus-
ed by the heat, which turns the milk
sour.
Many country people believe that
particular happenings are connected
Full of long
lasting delicious flavor and
made of pure chicle and other
ingredients of the highest quality
comes to you in perfect condition.
'All of its goodness is sealed tight
in the clean wax wrapped packages.
The days work goes much easier
with WRIGLEY'S to sustain and
refresh.
3 HANDY for
PACKS 5?
A LOT FOR
A NICKEL
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WARMING OVER THE COLD
ROAST
DANGER FROM COLDS
Every woman beyond middle age
should realize that a majority of the
troubles she has to fear have their
origin in what are known as common
colds. Each attack lowers her vitality
and reduces resistance to disease. At
this season of the year every wo-
man should see that her blood is
toned up to meet the rigors of the
climate and especially that strength
should be restored after any, cold.
however slight. For this Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Piles are a reliable tonic.
These Pills are not a mere stimu-
lant giving temporary relief. They
build up the body by creating that
rich red blood which imparts the
glow of health; steadies the nerves,
improves the appetite and digestion
and make the users capable of with-
standing the rigors of our Fall and
Winter months. They are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 50
cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
A small roast seldom gives as satis-
factory results as a larger one, and
yet some families hesitate to pur-
chase a piece of meat which may pre-
sent problems in its disposition.
From the chef of a large hotel, the
following idea was learned and found
to be very satisfactory, and so is
well worth passing on. It is simply
this:
When you have a roast which you
know will not be completely consum-
ed at the first meal at which it is
served, roast is Sufficiently that
enough slices may be taken from the
two ends to serve all amply who will
be seated at the table.
Allow the roast to cool and when
ready to serve it again, wrap in a
number of layers of paraffin• paper.
Fasten the paper in place with either
toothpicks, small skewers or a stout
string. Before wrapping the meat
up, sprinkle well with hot vyater. Al-
low it to remain in a moderately brisk
oven about fifteen minutes to the
pound. That is, if there are four
pounds of the roast left, keeo in the
oven one hour. Probably half of
this time will be required to heat the
meat through to the centre, and the
remainder of the time will be neces-
sary to give it the additional cooking
required.
This method will be found much
superior to steaming, which is apt
to injure the flavor, and decidedly
an improvement on putting the meat
into the oven uncovered, as in that
case it will dry and the outside will
be inclined to be chippy and over-
done, while the inside is still rare.
By using the paraffin paper plan,
the meat is cooked enough and
still the juices are retained, and the
deliciousness of the meat and it takes
almost an expert to know that it is
not just freshly prepared.
This is a plan used by some first-
class hotels, where it is impossible
to dispose of meat by way of made
dishes, and the meat must be such
as to give complete satisfaction.
A POPULAR PRODUCT
Government graded beef is growing
rapidly in popular favor with consum-
ers all over Canada, despite the fact
that many unscrupulous dealers are
trying to pass off pure quality cow
beef under the styles of "choice" and
"Pm a different woman"
"Two years ago I began to get
depressed, and everything was too
much trouble for me. I was a misery
to myself and everyone around me.
I was advised to take Glauber Salts
by my friends who said it was the
same as Kruschen but it did me no
good, so at last my husband got me
a bottle of Kruschen and no one would
realise the different woman I am. I
have been taking ICruschen now
constantly for two years. My daughter
also would not be without it. I have
got my neighbour to take Kruschen
as well and she has found its worth
as she feels a different woman."
—(Mrs. G. A. K.)
The commonest cause of depression
is partial constipation—an insidious
complaint because the sufferer is
seldom aware of it. It means the
gradual accumulation of body poisons
which dull the mind, damp the spirits,
sap the nervous strength and lower
the whole vitality.
Kruschen Salts make constipation
impossible. Therefore, if you keep to
Kruschen you need never know the
meaning of melancholy ; never feel
" nervy" or depressed.
the fauna o. toe. ielfeld I?t gT'lifetIng
lnilxrlbeee. ,On June 22nd ail;],P 4ir the
arrvvled a male English sparreW, gv'fa;q;
looked the •situation, over, cooked his.
eye, and flew away 'at 10.46 Eastern;'
Daylight 'Saving Time. OA, July' 7th
at 12 noon there came a m,edi'um-sized•
dragon, fly or what we used to calf
darning needle. This visi'.ter .stayed
for oile half minute; long enough to
do • a little darning. On July '12thr at
dusk•,, there caste with a flutter of
wings a Roselle parakeet. Upon a-
lighting he preened his feathers, walk-
ed sidewise along the iron fence, and
then •raised• his crest and spoke in a
metallic voice: "Hello baby, Poo poo
a doo, poo poo a deo," Then he de-
parted. Under the bushes, grass sown
from hearten is beginning to grow;
and yesterday a fuzzy caterpillar
crawled rapidly up the side of one of
the tubs, on his way home.
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paper in the hands.
Now and then Mr. Sinton conies up-
on .brilliant successes by accident. A
noise like the Chicago Fire was urg-
ently sought by one of the big hours.
He had taken a dress shirt from its
sheath of heavy oiled paper one eve-
ning, crumpled' the paper up, and was
about to throw it aside, when his ever
alert ears pricked up. He crumpled
the paper again. "Eurekat!" he ex-
claimed. "The Chicago Fire!" A log
flee is made with isinglass.
The noisemaker scrapes a tooth-
pick on a nail file to get the creak of
a hammock swinging, twists one
glass tumbler inside another for the
screech of automobile brakes, cranks
a coffee -grinder to` achieve the noise
of a big factory at work, and twangs
an elastic to get the sound of William
Tell's bow. Mr. Sinton has to make
the sound of the arrow in flight with
his mouth. It took a lot of rehears-
al to get it exactly right. The sounds
of oarlocks and sleigh bells are the
only ones that have defied Mr. Sin -
ton's ingenuity. Ole has to use the
real articles for these. He does it in
a far corner of the room where ex-
plosions are also made—Mr. Sinton
smacks a bass drum with with the
flat of his hand for these. Mr. Sinton
has invented a machine that will
make 33 noises. It looks like a vie-
troda but is bigger. It has sheet iron
for thunder, dried peas on a drum-
head for rain, all kinds of whistles,
bells and sirens, and a resined string
which Mr. Sinton pulls to get barks,
cackles, crowings and roars. The
harder he pulls the string, the bigger
the animal that answers him.
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A few days ago one of the newer
millionaires returned from Asia Min-
or with a rug of enormous size of the
silkiest texture, of the finest weave
—its design an exact copy, of course
much enlarged, of an American dollar
bill. It was an idea that had come
to him just like that, he had gone ov-
er to Bokara to see the rug made,
and he was now personally bringing
it home with him. He thought it
would look well in the Jacobean din-
ing room.
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Getting diligently to the bottom of
this miniature golf course business,
we find that it was all started in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a Mr.
Garnet Carter, who owns a -hotel near
there. The Tom Thumb idea came to
him about three years ago. He had a
regular golf course in connection with
his hotel and also a clock golf ar-
rangement for practising putting. One
day it struck him that it would be
more fun if the clock course were
spread around more; with trick haz-
ards. He tried it, and there you are.
The idea of using cottonseed hulls
for grass he got from an American
named Fairbairn. When Fairbairn
went down to his cotton plantation
in Mexico he was lost without his
golf, until he noticed the fawnlike
texture taken on by a layer of cot-
tonseed hulls trodden under his peon's
feet on the loading platforms. Carter
applied the idea to his miniature
course. His, too, was the happy
thought of dyeing the cottonseed
green.
Carter is still amazed at the suc-
cess of his casual invention. He hard-
ly ever plays golf himself and has
been heard to call those who do "slang
fools." He has sold his interests in
the patent rights for a couple of hun-
dred thousand dollars, the patentable
part of the idea being the use of the
dyed cottonseed and certain of the
hazards. The course at his hotel, how-
ever, is now one of the most elabor-
ate in the country. It cost $40,010 and
is called Fairyland.
The people who made Tom Thumb
what it is to -day, in the North at
least, are the Townsend Brothers of
the National Pipe Products Corpora-
tion. William Townsend was visiting
his friend Bobbie Jones in Atlanta
and they paused to watch the players
at a miniature course. Townsend at
once saw the commercial possibilities,
That was last October, and look
where things are now: 6000 courses
in the entire country, operating under
the Tom Thumb patents, and nobody
knows how many operating outside
the patents. The most profitable and
colorful are the two behind the Roxy
Theater owned by William Fox,
where Brbadway cavorts after the
theater. These bring in about a thou-
sand dollars a day provided the wea-
ther is good. The Tom Thumb courses
are being installed at a rate of 80 a
day, so fast that the company en-
gineers who install them are trans-
ported from town to town by air-
plane.
A National Tom Thumb tournament
is, of course, the latest development.
It is to be held in October at Mr.
Carter's Fairyland course. First prize
$5,000.
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An outlay of 60 cents for a few
dusty green privet bushes—which we
planted in butter subs oh ourent-
house roof garden—thus repaid us
many fold. Eleven ,stories above the
street, our small forest has attracted
A young couple, entertaining a prim
and slightly absentminded aunt from
Nebraska, were astonished and aghast
the other night when, someone men-
tioning speakeasies, the dear old lady
brightened apd was suddenly all in-
terest. "Oh! Speakeasies„ yes. I've
always wanted to see one. Do you
suppose we could go to one while I'm
on here? I understand," she con-
tinued, and allowed her hearers to
relax, "they're so much better than
the old silent movies."
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The legend that almost any strange
person or sight will draw an immedi-
ate crowd in New York was blasted
the other day about sunset at the Pub-
lic Library. A turbaned Oriental came
down from upstairs, walked to one
end of the lobby, spread out his pray-
er rug and started his evening prayer
in the •Moslem fashion, salaaming. A
dozen or more people passed by him
as they went in and out. None star-
ed, none stopped, and about half took
off their hats as they passed' the
praying man.
"good."
In the city of Ottawa a recent check
up by the supervisor of the Federal
Beef Grading Service shows that
there were only six butchers handling
government graded beef in the city
last spring. Thirty-five out of fifty-
five meat stores in the city now han-
dle the red and blue branded beef.
One of the devices very cernmonly
used by dealers to work off poor beef
in place of the government 'uranded
product, the Staff Supervisors report,
is the use of the terms "choice" and
"good." These terms are essentially
relative and, applied within the class
of comparatively poor cow beef which
the unscrupulous dealer seeks to pass
off on a gullible public, are reason-
ably correct. They are, however, far
short of what the use of these terms
in connection with the government
graded product ensures.
There are two grades of beef brand-
ed under federal inspection and they
represent the two top grades of the
finest beef cattle only. The very best
of beef is known by the grade "choice"
and is always branded in "red." The
grade "good," a beef of more than
ordinary eating quality and in great-
est demand by the public, is always
branded in "blue."
The only beef which can be sold to
the public as really "choice" and
"good" is the beef which bears the
brand mark prescribed by the Beef
Grading Service of the Federal De-
partment of Agriculture.
The brand mark appears on every
important cut and is placed there for
the protection and convenience of the
consumer in buying beef.
RECIPE FOR SALTED NUTS
Almonds, pecans and peanuts may
be salted and browned with butter or
oil in the oven or by deep fat frying.
Nuts with thick skins should be
blanched first in boiling water, skin-
ned and then dried. To brown the
nuts in the oven spread them out in
a flat pan with 2 teaspoons oil to
each cup of nut meats and roast in
a hot oven. If roased peanuts are
used, keep them in the oven 5 min-
utes, while if raw nits are used roast
them for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring
frequently to keep color uniform.
Drain off any excess of fat on absorb-
ent paper, then lay nuts on waxed
paper and sprinkle them with salt in
proportion of about 1 teaspoon salt
to one cup of nuts.
To brown nuts in deep fat, put one
cup of oil i na small saucepan. When
the fat is hot, submerge a few nuts
at a time in a small strainer, brown
evenly, drain and salt as above. Raw
nuts require three to six minutes to
brown. Roasted peanuts require 3
minutes or less.
Main dishes may contain nuts—pea-
nut butter and tomato soup, chestnut
soup. Nut stuffing and chestnut stuff-
ing are time .honored dishes for tur-
key. Pecan stuffing for goose and
turkey. Desserts and candies also
need nuts."
NUT CREAM PIE
1 cup ricti milk
2 tablespoonsbutter
1 teaspoon Corn starch or
2 teaspoons flour
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Mr. Al Sinton, a serious, slightly
built man, makes the noises for the
Columbia Broadcasting System, and
the other day he showed us how it's
done. First he grasped two cheap
dessert spoons and clicked the han-
dles together: swards clashing in a
duel. If you actually clicked fencing
foils together before a microphone it
would sound like auto fenders collid-
ing. He picked up a berry basket and
twisted its frail wood in his hands.
"Cops smashing a door with axes,"
he said. Remember when you hear
the doors beaten down in a police
raid that it's Mr. Sinton solemnly
mangling a berry •basket. He thumb-
ed some cornstarch in a bowl, that
was men crunching snow underfoot;
he twisted a rickety kitchen chair --
wind in the rigging of a ship; he
squeezed a leather billfold—a door
creaking on its hinges. The effect of
a waterfall is got by rustling tissue
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practically .their only way of meeting
their responsibilities. For there io
nothing but the two blood streams
and even these do not actually meet,
as they are carried along in ,systems
of tubes.
The mother's _job +begins and. ends
with safeguarding her own and the
child's nutrition. And yet credulenee
in so-called "miaternal impressions"
is so much a part •of follebelief that
it is hard to cast it entirely aside.
A graduate student in a great uni-
versity reported that she had known
a case in which a mother, frightened
by a circus elephant, gave birth short-
ly after to a child with a long trunk -
like nose; and another, in which a lit-
tle girl was •barn with her right hand
gone at the wrist five months after
her mother's brother had lost his
right hand at that point.
These are typical of the sort of
"true stories" we still hear. But sci-
ence proves such things cannot be
done. Peculiarities of structure occur
so early in pre -natal life that the
mother could not influence them, for
she doesn't know anything about what
is happening. And, since there ie. no
nervous connection there is no con-
ceivable way for such impressions to
reach the child anyway. The greatest
specialists of to -day agree with the
observation made more than a half
century ago by Darwin's father, who
was an exceptionally observant and
shrewd physician. He was in tho hab-
it of asking the women in his hos-
pital to record before the baby's birth
any experience of their own which
might influence the child. As a result
of hundreds of these records be re-
ported, "Absolutely not one ease (of
maternal impressions) came right."
"But," someone says, "how explain
the case of the mother who studied
counterpoint while her baby was on
the way and whose son grew up to
be a .talented musician; or of the
mother who took up Italian and whose
child early developed an astonishing
skill at languages?"
Science would explain these and
similar cases not by mysterious
"psychic" maternal impressions, but
by two very well known influences—
heredity and environment. The son
of a woman who studied the technique
of music not only received an hered-
itary musical endowment from the
same ancestral source from which his
mother received hers,but grew up in
an atmosphere of musical culture, his
every aptitude encouraged and train-
ed. And so with the linguistic prod -
CAN ONE INFLUENCE AN
UNBORN CHILD?
"Flesh of my flesh and blood of
my blood" men and women have said
of their children since time began.
And yet it is a fundamentally mistak-
en idea.
Every human being has within him
two essential materials; first, the
kind of life -stuff called "body cells?'
which go to make up the various
members and organs of the human
body; and second, the kind of life -
stuff called the "germ cells" which
have nothing to dg with making the
body and whose sole function is to
pass on the family and racial life
stream from one generation to the
next. Thus not even out of his par-
ents' flesh and blood, but out of their
hereditary germ cells the baby comes.
Every father ought to understand
this fact, because it will increase his
realization of his importance to his
children. No mother can any longer
think of herself as overyghelmed by
the task of "making" her child; she
is the trustee of something far finer
than she could possibly make single-
handed. This means that while the
mother can no longer hope to produce
a preacher by reading sermons, she
need no longer fear that if frightened.
by a mouse or what not she will de-
posit a "birthmark" in the shape of
a mouse upon the child.
'By the time the baby sees the light
of day he has already been inbuenc-
,ed by three different pre -natal cur-
rents. He has received from the fam-
ily germ cell his racial characteristics,
such as the general body type, the
form of face and head and capacities
or aptitudes for certain mental and
temperamental developments. He has
in the moons' place, been affected by
the physical characteristics transmit-
ted by both his parents to these germ
cells to which his parents' bodies are
hosts. The germ cells are not easily
affected by any of the ordinary ups
and downs of the parents' well-being.
But long continued abuse of the hu-
man body may injure them. The germ
cell's may be poisoned by alcohol. phos-
phorus, lead and certain chemicals, or
by the toxims of certain diseases—
most serious of all by syphilis. The
influence of nutrition upon the germ
cells is probably greater than has
been realized until very lately. It is
thus essential that every man, as well
as every woman, who hopes to see
his family line continue strong and
healthy, should do his part to pre-
serve his racial inheritance conveyed
by the germ cells.
In both these types of influence the
parents have an equal share because
they act upon the single germ cell
itself and not upon the child who has
already begun a new life out of the
union of two cells, one of which comes
from each parent. From that point
on whatever good comes to the child
is its mother's gift, for at the mom-
ent of conception the influences that
can touch the cells while independ-
ent have completed their work and all
other gates of gifts, save the mother's
are closed.
And yet there is no other phase
of human life in relation to which so
many fallacies have existed and still
persist. It is true that the mother can
influence the well-being of her unborn
child, but it has taken humanity mult-
itudes of generations to find out how
and why.
There is just one channel through
which the mother can reach the child
and that is through her blood. Sci-
ence has never discovered any nerv-
ous connection, for nature has sur-
rounded' the child with a protective
mechanism which is as perfect and
complete as anything in life. The
mother's whole task is one of nurture.
and nutrition. Hier duty is to supply
the child with food and to carry off
waste products. Both of these come
and go through the blood. Through
this channel, too, in spite of its pro-
tective mechanism, the unhorn child
may actually be poisoned by certain
chemicals, including alcohol, lead and
others, and by the tonins of certain
diseases.
But the cases in which such poison-
ing occurs are proportionately ex-
ceedingly few; the greet source of
maternal influence is through nutri-
tion. Most mothers have ''teen told by
physician's that they mutat eat plenty
of vegetables and milk, and that they
must guard their diet, But not all of
then know that, since there is' ne
nervous connection whatever, it is
But though the mother has no more
chance of telepathy with her child
than have "his uncles and his cousins
and his aunts," it is not true to say
that her emotions cannot affect her
child in any way. Any grief or worry
or fright sufficient to affect her own
health will react on her child, just as
any other detrimental influence will
react upon it, through her blood.
To sum up' then: In the 'nother's
care lies the preservation of some-
thing greater than herself. Hers is
the last and greatest of the three
sources of the gifts of life—f'om the
racial inheritance, from the influence
of both parents upon the germ cells,
and 'finally from the mother's care,
which should be as sane, and thought-
ful, and happy before the child is
born as after.
Wonder how long Robin Hood would
last in our underworld before our go-
getter gangsters would take him for
a ride.—Buffalo Courier -Express.
All men admire a brilliant and wit-
ty woman but they take out to dinner
those who will laugh at their feeble
jokes.—Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph.
The American woman's beauty bill
is $750,000,000 a year, and it is evi-
dent that some of them are not get-
ting their money's worth.—Chicago
Evening Post.
In what sense is this civilization
Christian --this civilization that has
achieved the impossible of serving God
and Mammon. --,The Rev. J. Morgan
Jones.
"It is not on economic grounds that
nations choose their policy; it is on
national grounds that they choose
their economics."—Salvador de Ma-
dariaga.
First thing you know, the efficiency
experts will be after street -cleaners
for making waste motions.—Guelph
Mercury.
Any crack about the weather from
now on must come from the heading
of dry humor. — Quebec Chronicle -
Telegraph.
Young Airman
In Grave Difficulty
1
Little Ted isgeing to be an alrmap
some day. He haft a picture boost
full of airplane pictures, end also an
airplane which he wistfully tells you
le down in the basement, broken.
Although he is only seven, he seems
to know already that there in a'bit
difference between him and othpt'
boys he hears shouting and pea 1ne
out on the lawn. And, indeed theere
plane, difference!
heree isso damage to the littlte
body that Will take lot to mend.
The patient nurses and th kindly
doctors at the Queen Mary Hospital
are doing thea best, and hope to' re-
store the wasted lunge to health and
vigor. Children are very susceptible
to consumption but nine cat of ten
can be saved if r taken In time. This
work requires tho co-operation ot
Many, many 'friends if it is to aro*
In usefulless.r
Your assistance Se greatly needed,
Will
address sit todMr.sAA. sHa Amite*
225 aot)ege street, Toronto. 1I
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