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EVENTENG THE LAG PERIOD
OF THE DAY
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Fiends! Talking to Miss
and carried lunches for her family.
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NUTRI.THRIFT LUNCHES
Balance these lunches with break -
lee Ransom of the Department of fasts consisting of stewed fruit, cold
.,nAlOtes and National Health, we 'baked fruit or fruit juices, 'whole cer-
eal with milk, dry toast with butter
ari7l. lam, and, a cup 'of hot beverage
—occasionally sausages, cod fish balls,
2.0d how nutrition is being applied
nadustry,, Her encouraging reply
AA 'that. "Management and labour
100.. keeping up and increasing vital
"ikeer production due to a newer know-
•, -;;,:kedge of nutrition." The increasing
:Var tempo makes demands on all—
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'necessitatiiag better health care.
Miss Ransom is one of the Govern-
' 7".Inent nutritionists who bave been
• visiting.war plants and collecting data
about the food of workers. As a re-
sult, 'they know what „Workers eat
and from questionnaires as well, they
have found the reason for the lag
'periods between the hours of 10 and
12 in the morning and 3 to 5 in the
afternoon. It's lack Of proper nutri-
tion!
If 50,000 'Canadian workers were,
not, producing at their best for even
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on day, it would mean a loss in Pro-
duction equiValent to -two bombing
planes. Think ofiit!' Inquiries made
of thinking men iia many of these or-
' ganization,s showed that the remedy
was an official •short rest period, at
which time those who eat inadequate
breakfasts—and they are many—may
be helped .by enjoying a sandwich,
come fruit, or a bottle or milk.
With these facts in mind, we sug-
gest that the busy homemaker pre-
vent ,her lag period by a short rest
add a glass of milk. Secondly, that
she be mare than ever onher toes
to provide adequate daily table meals
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Tomato Juice
Scrambled Egg and Onion • Sandwich
Gingerbread Custard
Graham Wafers
Cocoa in Thermos
Raw Cranberry Sandwich
Boiled Tongue Sandwich
Turnip Sticks
Canned Pears
Scones
Minced Weiner Sandwich
Coleslaw Sandwich
Devilled Egg • . Cherry Tart
• Hot Coffee Substitute
Tomato Spaghetti Mold
Tea Biscuits
Cheese Wedge and, Celery Sticks .
- Bologna Sandwich
Pumpkin Custard Hot Chocolate
Vegetable Soup in Thermos
Meat Loaf Sandwich
Cauliflower Flowerets
Apple Sauce Milk 13ran • Mufens
Fish' Salad Sandwich
Potato and Celery, Salad
Fruit 'Cup
Hot Tomato Juice. in' Thermos
Cream Pea Soup
Carrot Sticks Crackers
- Chopped Liver Sandwich
Trifle Milk Apple
Cream Celery Salip
. Brown Bread and Butter
Sardine Sandwich- • Potato Chips
Barley Raisin Pudding
Fruit Juice
dinners ceneietin$ 'et uleg,t.
OT cheese; , petletOeS. . another vege-
table and a Milk dessert if the vege-'
tebles are not creamed.
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. A. C. ask: "Row to. prepare
sweetbreads for frying."
Answer: Sweetbreads should be
plunged into cold water as soon tM
they are received, soaked for one
hour, then simmered on element for
20 minutes -in salted -water to which
-vinegar is added (1 teaspoon salt, 1'
tablespoon vinegar to 1 quart water).
Drain and plunge into cold water
again to make firm. Remove strings
and membranes (easily removed at
this time). Heat by frying an.d sea-
son with salt, pepper and vinegar.
Mee. C. D. says: "No need to stew
prunes. Place a cupful in a jar, fill
up with boiling water, cover and let
stand for a day at least. Serve with-
out sugar."
Miss M. M. says: "Dry pumpkin
seeds, clip one side, remove meat and
serve on top of chocolate blatIc
mange, soups,- etc.
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Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your question's on homemaking
problems and watch this column ler
replies.
Make Use Of
Old Nails
If consutners when purchasing nails
would turn in an equal poundage of
scrap metal, as must bef done now
with collapsible metal tubes, it would
make a hundred, thousand tons of
metal available for war production,
according to a statement from Na-
tional Salvage Headquarters at Ot-
tawa.
The increase in the annual' Con-
sumption of nails from the" peacetime
level Of one and a half million kegs
to nearly two million kegs, results
from the packing of war supplies in
wooden cases, /building of, wartime
houkes, and erection of temporary
storage for the greatest graincrop
the country's history. The Steel Con-
troller suggests the use of old nails
where possible 'in order to reduce the
amount of steel needed to make new
nails.
AT GOE
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ME!
• Watch in your own home how The Huron Expositor—or any
other good newspaper—is read. Possibly the weather for the day
or the morrow is a first matter of interest; and perhaps the main
headlines on the front page are scanned; but it is a pretty safe
thing to say that women readers will turi'. very early to the ad-
vertisements of local firms which advertise fashion items, food
items, and other offerings related intimately to current needs
• and desires.
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• Every Woman knows what she wants—not perhaps in the,
precise form of color, or variety- or Manner, but certainly in the
main Matters of her desire or need. This applies to clothes, hat,
shoes, food items, beauty preparations and Many items pertain-
ing to. home furnishing. And so women are eternally on the
watch for information—and for temptation! They are swiftly
peiCeptive of the advertisements which present and propose the
things of their desire or /well And obviously it is those retailers
who advertise to them who stand the best chance of their custom. .
It is the same in the case of men. Few men buy impulsively.
%en they leave home each day for their place of employment,
• • ' it is not just to get rid of their money. What they buy is mainly
something whose purchase has been planned—clothes or other
folins of apparel, hardware items, motoring sundries, shaving
and other bathroom needs, plants, books, and so on. Men, like
women, have been reading advertisements in line with their
ripening desires and intentions, and of course they go in largest
numbers, -to those retailers who have been informing them and
soliciting their custom. °
1111 All of u, instintively, go where the. light i, not where the
darkness is. Advertisements are light, ind so -they. attract the
buyers to those stores which they illumine.
• The way to get business is to ask for it. Can the truth, of
this statement be successfully disputed? And here is another
equally true statement: The public buys from those who invite
its custom.
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Arms And The
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them and °grey on the attack. The
pro,spe.ct of an offensive against an
enemy warned and 'prepared hy five
cleys•of 'battle, was far 'from inviting.
"It's like to' :be another Passchen-
daele," declared `Dad' Ware. "I don't
like it a bit!" was the general com-
ment as we waited on that hillside,
our ears tense for the shrieks and
'bursts,
Presently the officers returned and
directed us into •the' gun position, on
a hillside a hundred yards to the
north of the Arras-Cambrai road in
the neighbornood' of Hancourt. The
gunners placed' the guns and the ,staff
set up the battery phone in a shell -
hole while great flexes rose on the
other side of the hill, •surprisingly
close. The drivers and horses went
to the rear along the main road. When
preliminary duties were finished, we
Of the staff went to a shallow trench
in a hollow to the left of the battery,
spread out our blankets and lay down.
All at once a shriek and a crash pierc-
ed ,our ears while the odor of explo-
'sive filled the air. We sprang up in
haste and ran up the hill out of the
line orfire. Half a dozen, whizz -bangs
followed about that trench and prov-
ed that it was n0 healthy place. We
rescued our blankets and laid them
down close to the guns for a little
more sleep. At four a.m. more shells
burst about the area. We awoke, but
did not stir, as we were out of the line
of fire, and lay in a tension until sil-
ence permitted us a little more„sleep.
hat was not a good night; we had no•
elter whatVer, wene Close to the
front line, and could expect no com-
fort..
In the morning, August 31st, we
arose, little refreshed, and took stock
of the situation: Our guns were near
the crest of the hill, as was inevit-
able for 18 -pounders and behind us
lay a valley and another hill topped,
by the relics of a grove of trees. The
Arras-Cambrail- road lay conspicuous-
ly to our riht, and Fritz was straf-
ing it regularly sted distributing shells
over a wide area! We did what we
could, and dug funk -holes for • our-
selves in the side of the hill. At fre-
quent intervals Fritz dropped 5.8's
about, sometimes on the 'hill abcrOe us,
sometimes in the valley beneath, more
often about the road; and the prox-
imity Of danger and the lack of shel-
ter kept us on edge. But fortune was
with us and wesuffered no loss....
At night the drivers came up with
areimunition for the impending battle.
They arrived about 10 p.m., discharg-
ed their burden of shells into holes
dose to the guns, and lined uP to re-
turn to the rear. Suddenly great
crashes resounded from the hollow
behind us, six in all, and a departing
drone informed, us of the mischief -
maker, a 'Heinle plane. No damage
was dune, not so .eauch as a scratch
-on a mule. We wondered how the
German had noticed us, and remem-
bereo that some fool had lit a cigar:,
ette, which had given us away. Re-
lieved at mg immunity, however, the
driverebastened off along the road to
the wagon line. •
When they rid retired some dis-
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DECEMBER 4, 1942
gunners took their Pert in the her-
rale;.e. from 5. a.m. for rather__ less than,
an hour. uring the • firing some
whizz -bangs fell on the crest ahead
of us, a hundred yards away, but
otherwise Heinle left us ,in peace, giv-
ing his attention to our infantry.
Whene we had finished our schedule
of firrng, the drivers and horses ap-
peared for our advance, and the ma-
jor, Lieutenant .Scatclierd and two
Signallers dep,arted on • foot for .the
front. At 7 a.m. the battery limbered
up and proeeeded over the hill, Lieu-
tenant McGibbon in charge. Having
reached the top, we passed a grove
of trees around a shattered farm
house, St. Servin's farm, swung back
to the- main road and trotted toward.
the feont. Before us was. a hill, cut
through by the road, and in the dis-
tance a plain .enveloped in rolling
clouds of smoke, while .beleind uP",,
thundered the berrage, We thought
of one thing principally, whether we
should -reach our position unscathed
by shells, and meanwhile we clung to
our seats and looked anxiously about.
We were now at the cut, in which lay
a German truck wrecked by our fire,
and oneach sidd of the cut were
black spouts of earth from enemy
e•hizz-bangs. We must run the haz-
ard; We set our teeth and dashed for
the opening, Three or four low growls
and bursts. a scattering of earth over
the wagons., and we were through in
safety,•thanking our luck and breath-
.ing easily. Once below the cut and
out of the shelled area, we observed
a, village half a' mile to our left front
Ma a crest, the house little spoiled
and a windmill conspicous, 'on the
right, the hamlet Dury. Toward this
village we turned along a trail over
the plain. Beside the tracks lay two
bodies of our infantrymen, one a
charred mass Still smoking from a
phosphorous bomb, the other with en-
tails exposed by the burst of a hand
grenade. Others lay ahead, at inter-
vals,. but not many, at which we felt
relieved.
Here 'Lieutenant Statcherd met .us
and informed Lieutenant " McGibbon
that we could not go to' the position
assigned to us, which was under
heavy machine-gun fire. According,
We turned toward a crossroad from
the main Cambial road, to Dury, and
in the anglea'of these roads we set
down our guns The drivers retired
a short distance with horses and
agons, and Lieutenant Scatcherd
started off to find the major again;
taking two signallers with him. ,The
sun was now shining; a -mist of pow-
der and smoke hung over the hollows
and in the air -was theencrid smell of
cordite and TNT. In &it of the
crossroad I counted five motionless
tanks on a front of three „hundred
yards, insidewhich wauld be mangled
corpses—proof of the uselessness of
tanks in dayliht—and we wondered
that our authorities should not know
this. fe •
Suddenly lefties squeals and pit -pats
fell around our feet, the spray of
German machine-guns from the direc-
tion of Dury. Theenemy was close,
and Nixon and I got out the Lewis
guns and took them to the left flank,
nearest to the village. Frond the slope
and the village came n succession of
rattles and explosions; by the read
behind usand 10 the- cut spouts of
earth arose elsewhere also sporadc-
tance from the guns and were begin- ally. But our immediate area was u
fling -o broathe more easily, a vicious disturbed, and we felt relieved. Pres-
cresh made itself felt beside them. All ently instructions arrived from our
major in front, who had caught -sight
of a German battery retiring, and
soon one of our guns, under Serge -
spot with all possible speed. But oneantJohn Macdonald, was in action to
wagon remained behind—its centre iembarrass it: The range was close
team having jumped over the traces and bullets still feel around us, but
enquired whether anyone were hurt,
and as' the .answer was 'no," they
galloped. away 'froii that dangerous
in. fright. The 'drivrs and a bombar-
dier worked tensely,in a sweat for
fear of a second shell. -But .Heinie
;was considerate that night or had an
unreliable gun, and our drivers -sue-
ceeded in -putting the tea -m right, and
deoarted at .a gallop 'till they were
out of harm's way. They •socel met
their 'corporal, returning to See 'what
had happened, • and .the bombardier
engaged in a lively altercation with
him over the corporal's duty to teams
in distress. A good verbal set-to Te-
-lieved strained nerves, however, and
soon the stray wagon rejoined the
o t b.e rs. At this moment an ominous
drone Was beard overhead and a
burst of light appeared, the work of
a flare dropped from, a plane; The
lieutenant ordered 'a halt, and all'
stood still. From second to second
they waited for heavy crashes beside
them, flying fragmens, the screaming
of horses, wounds and dath, but the
flare burnt itself out and danger van-
ished. Probably the German had
seen no Moving shadows and saved
his bombs for use elsewhere. ,The
drivers' reached the wagon lines un-
harmed from their perilous journey,
attended to their horses and threw
themselves down. to. sleep. (James
Mc -Donald's version).. • -
In the tnoring of September lst, as
We at the guns were stirring in our
funkleoles, we heard a great growl
low over .11e and a heavy crash not
fifty yards behind. • Another 5.9 eame
and pother while eve lay tense in our
holes., The fourth Shriek was well
over our ,heade end indicated that
Fritz was seeking 'other targets. We
crawled out to lime what had happen-
ed, and found that the first shelt had
fallen within terentyfeet onhe cook's
place of business in the valley. This;
had the serious consequence of delay-
ing breakfast fore half an hour, but
did not ruin it. All day the shells
eontinued to tall in our area and kept
us on ,edge. In the afternoon some
Royal Field Artillery drivers came up
the road with their' teams past our
battery, and we dureed them heartily
for making such a fehoW of themselves
in euch 'a spot. Incidentally we ob-
Served their' ,second 'lieutenants,
youths of 18 or 19, :an .wondered that
such boys should 'hold pohltions of re-
sponsibility, No consbquence ac-
crued from the visitof these R.F.A..
men, fortunately, and help was ar-
riving for ,us, Eigliteeinpatinders of
our own brigade appeared on the
treat behind us, and in rear of them,
long double rells told: Of sixty-pound-
Ors.e °nee More; Canada's hatterien•
rre litasaing for batte, • •
nit* that day orders arrived for
,the attack on -the ,motor, September
/id. tye Could eXpt: ii Stirprise Of
pee enemy Mid no •eagy thne, fOr 611r -
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no one was hurt and'all seemedwe4.
Now a section of the 10th Battery,
arrived on our right, and suddenly
Nixon and I at the flank felt swift
deadly rushes through • the air and
saw the clouds of earth -and smoke•
about our guns. Two inn had fallen
wounded, and their' comrades remov-
ed them to a nearby trench.. Our gun-
ners took refuge in shell holes, ex -
dept those of the tight section, who
had been Bring and who remained at.
their nosts to do tAir duty to the
infantry at all costs. Now tlae shells'
burst in fqury on the guns of the 10th
Battery, three or four at a time. and
horses, drivers and gunners fll. an
officer being killed . as he rode his
horse. All about Us were • those dead-
ly swift rushes, explosions and slag
ening fumes. while we crouched in
our holes. The time seemed hours,
but was really only ea few minutes. A
lull came; I got up from my hole to
go to • the guns and a mantarose on
the other side of the trail, twenty
feet away. I felt a Crash between
us; he crumpled like a "leaf and fell
-dead:while I was unharmed. I plung-
ed back into the hole. Three or four
more shells alighted; then silence.
We attended to our casualties.
Three- had been killed; Lieutenant El -
lender, a batman, a gunner, and four
or five -wounded, to whom we gave
what attention was in our power.
Sorne German officer on the high-
gground beyond the Scarpe 6n our
left had seen the 1010 Battery guns
an,d made them his target; while we
of the llth received his "minus"
shells, those which fell a little short.
The drivernow carne up and limber-
ed up one 'gun at -a time, for fear of
reneeved shelling. Presently we were
in a new position two hundred yards
to the rear, well out of thef area of
death. Even here a, stray 'shell struck -
John MacDonald's gun and wrecked
it, compellingus to send' to ordnance
for a new one, but otherwise we
were not diturbed. It was a diffi;
cult matter to man eur guns that af-,
ern fle,
Alleday our Fourth Division Infan-
try, lair -on the slope beyond Dury,
swept by machine-gun fire and unable
to advance. They reported that
among the "put -puts" at their feet
were small explosions which made lit-
tle holes in the earth, explosiee bul-
lets it seemed. The stretcher bear-
ers and doctors were not Able to at-
tend proberly te the wounded, and
men died in nmxibere for lack Of at
tentiOn; • at leaet this le what they
said.
The afternoon passed, We did no
more firing, and toVeard (Wetting Wie
dreve our guns hack to an old garden
at the foot of the hill, Still ParrtlY
i•etoi inth tOrn, e4irUbt4 and entrant
settled for the night, after the wort
day of 918or—thelltk Battery. ...
We motirned'the loss of our com-
rades an& the heavy blber we had
suffered; and we knew that the ut-
most ort of our divisiou had gain-
ed no more thbee • e village of' Dury,
a mile or more fr�
the take -oft. We
felt tired and depressed •that night as
*elk
we had mat felt since PaRechendaele.
The clouds came over .the sky and
blotted out the sun for a gloomy ev-
ening, which was quite,ii. accord with
our state of mind. When we thought.
things over la,ter, hoWever, we rev's
-
ed our judgment .somewhat. The Ger-
mans had not troubled els seriously
as we were coming oyer the 'hill,
when, they might have wined us out,
and they had made a mess of the
10th Battery sectio, mostly missing
us. Our case might have been much
worse. But there was not much con -
'solation in our minds that night, as
we arranged ourselves in bunks and
a few 5.9s dropped over by the Ar-
ras-Cambrai road..
At dawn I arose to get the Lewis
guns ready for a possible counter-at-
tack. The sun' came out bright and
warm, lighting the windmill, the
groves and red brick' of Dury, the
main road between lines of broken
trees, the brownish dusty ffelde with
corpses here and there, the trail
to Dury, the garden, the slope and•
the hill over which we had Come
twenty-four hpurs before. I looked
for shells, but an hour Passed'and all
was quiet. A second hour passed,
'while gunners and staff emerged from
the dugout and took breekfast. Later
they gathered about the fiodies•of two
or three infantryinen who had 'fallen
in the garden the day before and
searched their haversacks. All was
still quiet, and, at last at ten o'clock
Game a roar, whoop and a puff in the
plain, the .work -of Fritzie's long-range
six-inch gua. • This confirmed a
thought already hazarded, that the
enemy had- retired during .the night.
SoOt•wortl, to this. effect arrived from
brigade headquarters and we learned
that the Germans, had withdrawn, all
the Way to the Canal du Nord. 'We
discovered later that the First Divi-
sion had been our good angel. They
had • broken the Drocourt-Queant
•switch against . machine-guns massed
one to ten yards and against acres of
barbed wire, a feat., due to the high-
est, skill and initiatve of all ranks.
The .victory of the First had obliged
the enemy to retire all along the line
and had overnight produced a result
of which the -Fourth had not dreamed
that evening of September 2nd.
• The scouts spent the morning find-
ing the enemy's line on- the canal, and
about noon our • battery moved for-
ward again. We marched aiong . the
Arras-Cambraid road with the odor of
battle still in the air. By the side of
the road lay one, of our armored cars,
upset and wrecked by a shell that had
landed in front of it. 'In the distance
lay tanks, probably receptacleof
corpses, and at intervals appeared
dead bodies of Canadians anl Ger-
mans, singly or in groups, yet not so
Many as one expected from the fierce•
nese of the struggle.' The fields were
green and brown, marked with cross -
trails but not much disfigured .with
Shell -holes; the" trees, Were e-ect, ex-
cept in rare places,. and even the
houses of Villers-les-CagincoUrt, scene
of desperate fighting the day before,
were largelY intact. We had arrived
in rear of Fritz's fortified line which
Was to the good, but we 'had paid too
high -a 'price to feel the exhilaration'
of Amiens.
Having passed a ruined factory and
the village, we turned to the north on
a trail for balf a mile or efo. until we
reached a rather prominent hill. We
set the guns behind this hill and the
drivers retired with their horses to
the area• .of VilIers-les-Cagnicourt.
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There was no shelter at the gullet
except a trench running straight up
the hill, a recent work by our friend
Heinle. Soon aeroplanes appeared in,
forreatoe, identified as 'mane Prong
their iron crosses, and on them Nixon
and I. turned the machine-guns,
out visible result. Presently whines
overhead followed by crashes at vire'
ious parts of the plain warned ue that
Fritz's heavies were again on -the job..
All at once a loud shriek broke into
a. sickening crash only fifty yards
away from us. We ducked into the
trench and waited for more. In a
mieutc came the distant whine grow.,
uig lurier the shriek of a demoa and
a growling crash close to the guns.
The dying noise was pierced by cribs
from someone hit. We rushed out of
the trench, the major .first, and car-
ried the wounded gunner into the
trench- to bind his wounds. Now came
the third 5.9, but this time fifty yard%
aw-ay from the guns, which was a
cause for relief. Fritz had not "spot-
ted" us, but was merely shelling at
random over the plain, and his next
shells were at a safe distance. We
relished attending to our comraeleN
wounds and carried him to a dressIngf
station.
Later we were Sitting me the hill-
side watching the 9th Batter coming
toward the -hill in eolumn of route.
All at once we heard again the om.-
inous.whine. over our heads, the &own
rush, the deadly burst, an there was
the explosion Tight beside one set of'
teams, The smoke cleared away, re-
vealing elaughter—aix horses and
three drivers. That was a sickening
sight, only less depressing,than our
t,-
wn loss of the day het e,
Toward evening the e emy divert-
ed his a,ttention to the Arras-Catbrat
road in our rear, while We prepared
places in the trench and lay down to!
sleep. Twice explosions not fifty
yards away awakened us, Ileinie'a
whizz -bangs, but did no harm. We
snatched a partial rest and felt a lit-
tle better in the morning, though .still
troubled by ourlosses, the strain 0 -
the battle, the shortage of eleep for
almost a 'Week.From our hillside we
looked across a valley to artother.h411
northwest of Us, with a road on it
side. , We took only casual interest
in it Until about ten olock we per-
ceived black figures M. twos and
threes making theirway t� the rear.
We suddenly realized that they were
civilians, men, women and children;
• rescued at last after four years be -
Lind the Gerrean lines. We had ac -
:Wally reached the inhabited zone, end
during most of that day we wach•d.
group after group of these figieree,
toiling along -the road undisturbed_
, by the sporadic shelling. As we soon)
learned, they bad come from 'the lelf-•
lages of Saudemont and. Rumaucourt
to the north of our hill. An infantry
linenean told me that he had been lay -
leg a wire ahead of his comrades and
bad approadhed-- at hill: Ott it he Ob-
served seven or eight Getnians, and
SS soon as he, came UP they departed
in haste. Then three Frenchmen ran
up and embraced him, crying for joy.
He seon reported' the news to his of -
Boers and presently he and his cont
rares entered the two villages; to the
great delight ofthe population.
For several days since Auguet 25th„
the people had listened •to the bom-
bardments 'coining closer until the
great roar of September 2nd. came'
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eSNAPSHOT
PICTURING PETS
Fo, better animal 'pi*ures,peholetvoegi.raph your pets at their own
_ey
pIC.TURING pets is something mals Viewed from Above, even from
that 1 think every photographer
enjoys. Try it, and I know you'll
find fun and interest in shooting
them—with a camera, of course.
IferOsi what I suggest. First],
work alone with the anitnale or, if
not alone, with just one assistant
at the most. When you atterept
picture malting with. too many
people around it may grove 'die-
tractingto your sUbject.
you'll soon learn that it
will make things easier for you if
You place the animal in such a posi-
tion that he otti't move ttbent too
hnch. ror instance, ifIrap5lee and
Idtterie are placed on top of a box or
stool Which is high enough S�they'
are reluctant to jtiinp
And it's 'not so hard to cat& them
•'th a Cute or interesting poSei,
Ilolo., our ails, pange was0te , rain ttireeo the.teChficitte Of
,
bothered it* WAS' tat' Welt; thissiug litteds, a Eiht distsuse, S0,40f060 Wta itiltrat PhOWarit yiis t,0i1i Witt
1to 1ia1fbry.,41*/,,10t11,,13is *hizi4Ang,e the '''Obehlt *re ttitillet A 4ne 00.11 htibi
vf, Wd Otilijdtit'itf690.
Aia oe ado:4.mi ititiftt; -40itlant Att-A*MooaUS
urtatL
e' ''d± up thqoe dsuto and our tuedate most of tiS %e
our orat eyeelevel, do not often
make pleasing pictures. Usually
they appear too foreshortened. They
normally look tnuch more natural„
when photographed from a low
p6int view.•
Fourth, keep your baCkgrounds
simple. Our illustration probably
Would have been improved Mine-
lirkitt if the area behind the subject
wasn't cluttered up with, branche..
Outsloots there's no better backdrop
than the sky. 'Use it oten.
Pinally, I'd suggest that you use
a fairly high shutter speed -1/100
second or higher is advisable— to
stop Any unexpected movement on
the „part of yoUr subject.' If yetir.
'Camera han'tthat fast a shutte,
kou'll still be able to make first
rate animal pictures if you do
lemir inittpshooting awing stout pet%
40100, tuoluouts., Why not get out
Inntit Camera anet' totio,y2 „
tOOr�igvan outider