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rw \ \ Victory For a Moment M. J. COLLINS The old ground hog was uneasy. Rvery few sec she w ould stand upright, her bright eyes searching eontinually for the ever expected danger from some quarter. - Each Hime the close scrutiny satisfied her and she would drop down and re- sume greedily eating the tender leaves of the young red clover. She was thin and shaggy. The three young ground-- hogs, eating the clover 'even more greedily than she, were the reason. This was the first time she had brought them up from the soft nest deep in the earth. The young ones sevelled in the, warm sunshine and the strange taste of what they 'were eating. They ranged farther away from their mother and the safety of the burrow unaware that danger lurked nearby. A couple of noisy crows winged their way overhead but the * old groundhog didn't pay them the slight- est attention. She knew they weren't hawks who would bring death wing: Ing swiftly out of the sky for her young. She was getting full, yet she ate on, her stomach starting to swell. A familiar sound jerked her upright and little quivers of deathly fear lanced through her small brain. The dog, her implacable enemy, was bounding down the field. He saw the red-chested groundhog and raced to ward her with a shrill whistle she s---- scurried towards her burrow, her brood close at her rump. As her young muzzled, the shrill yapping of the dog penetrated clearly to her. } "Listen to that fool pup yappin' his head off down by" the creck. Hasn't got a brain in his head. Never be as good as-his mother." The slatternly-looking woman lcaned fn the cabin door, ready to find fault with anything. "yeah --her--husband--answered-- slowly, "She was all right, too bad she had to get killed on the railroad. Mavhe 1 should get the .22-and go down and see what she's up to. If there's any groundhogs down there they'll be eatin' the heart out of the young clover." . "I'll go down, Dad," their young son cried. He grabbed 'a stick. "Bet _ he's got a big one corncred down there." Young Tad ran along by the stump fence until he reached the clover field. Climbing up on a stump he could see the pup down at the other end near the creek jumping around a small stonepile and barking furiously. : "Bet he has one," he said aloud and started to run. "What you got, Tippy?" Dropping cn his stomach, he "could see a groundhog crouched in between the safety of two large stones. Tad poked his sticklin as far as he could but the groundhog only retreated further. "Sic him! Get him out, Tip," he urged the excited pup. J. "Guess we'll have to move some - of these "stories for you. Watch out Comley School, Barton Township, now, or you'll get hurt." Tad began throwing stones aside, "Watch him, Tip." The pup saw the young groundhog and pounced on it savage- ly. For a few scconds he had a loose grip on it but the groundhog snapped "back wickedly and with a irprised yipe the pup jumpiu The groundhog ra qe fact "ort legs would go 0 .u_ afety of its burrow. "Get it! Get it!" Tad screamed hoarsely with excitement. "Get him, boy!" The pup was after it like a flash, his courage renewed. The escape of the groundhog was cut off only a few yards from safety. Urged on by Tad, the pup worried it but circled far enough out to be safe from those snapping teeth. Suddenly the pup darted in and grabbed the groundhog by the back of the neck and shook him vigorous: ly. The young groundhog gave a frightened little whistle, Then something all snapping teeth, large and frightening, came tearing at "the pup out of nowhere. Long sharp fangs: sank cruelly into his rump. With a terrified velp he dropped his victim and hightailed it for the house. ne 8 Sie te i rd Dt i burrow with a mocking, triumphant Whistle. Beaver-Tail Soup: M-m-m-m, It's Good Around the northern Manitoba mining town of the Pas and among .the Indian camps in .the region, that's what they say about beaver- tail soup. It's a delicacy that is to: be introduced to Manitoba .govern- ment officials attending the north? ¢-n Manitoba trappers festival this month, The beaver tails are to. be pro- vided by Richard Fourre, a '"trou- ble shooter" for the Game and Fisheries Department. Fourre is an expert on beavers since one of his jobs is to match wits against the animals in the spring and sum- mer when they seek to carry out "operations" that would be a nui sance where the Hudson Bay Rail- way is concerned. For anyone who might happen to have beaver-tails, here's the re- cipe as supplied by Fourre: } Wash three beaver. tails, remove the skins and chop tails into two? inch _squares. Cover with water, adding half a cup of vinegar, and soak overnight. Drain in morning and put to simmer for three hours in one gallon of water, adding two teaspoons of salt and one tea- spoon of pepper. Add two finely-chopped onions and one cup of rice and cook for 20 minutes. Just before serving, add two tins of tomato soup, onc teaspoon of cclery salt, and one teaspoon of dried parsley. The concoction--gourmets in the north - swear it has a fascinating taste like a mixture of oyster stew, clam . chowder and mushroom soup-- should be served with croutons, LIFE"S LIKE THAT - By Fred Neher LJ News Fosters) v T'm mad at my husband . , , What can I throw away his Eng money on?!" ) Herding the groggy, -- frightened _young--one_ahcad_of her, the old g ' groundhog disappeared down the Seats arc set in cur shine into pupils' eyes. SUS nr A ved-rows so light fromwindows--witl-not-------------- White "blackboards" and dark blue chalk. The Importance of Proper Lighting ~ In School Class Rooms Do you know that after seven years of research, it has been found that "not only defective eyesight but also malnutrition and some chronic in- fections have been caused by im- proper lighting in school class rooms? F. W. Warren, a Hamilton architect who specializes in the building of schools, claims that eye strain. is often caused by working in improp- erly lighted rooms, and the food of which the child partakes, instead of serving its proper function in Quild- ing the body, is used to combat eye "strain, and consequently the child suffers from malnutrition. Class Rooms "Floodlighted" The Comley School in Barton Township, close to Hamilton, was de- signed by Mr. Warren, and in this school the class rooms are "flood- {ighted" to eliminate 'shadows, for a strong contrast between - the light coming through a window and the shadow caused by the wall between the windows, will cause as much eye strain as Insufficient light. In this school the windows have clear glass in the lower section, but in the upper section the windows are constructed with directional glass blocks, which have lens on the inside. These lens direct the light to the ceiling where it is reflected to the opposite side of the The. result is, that instead class room. of getting 5 foot candles of light on the deska farthest from the windows, the desks in this school receive 25 foot candles of Mlght. In most "schools, blinds are used to cut off the sunlight/frém shining onto the desks, 'and these keep out the daylight which 1s so much required In the class rooms. 'This problem Is overcome in boards are used an the Comley School for the sunlight is diffused when shining through the glass blocks and no blinds are re- quired. Cream Colored '"Blackboards" Instead of using blackboards; which absorb a great deal of light, cream colored armoured glash chalk rds the writing is done with dark blue chalk. These chalkboards are set with a slight slope so any reflection from the board is deflected over the pupils' heads. Instead of using 3000 watts 'of in- direct incandescent lighting as recom- mended by the Hydro, and getting 10 foot candles of light on the desks, 1200 watts of fluorescent light in fix- tures designed by the architect, give 50 foot candles of light on 'the desks. Desks in Curved Rows In the Comley School, -the desks are not set in straight rows, but are set in curved rows, with each desk set at an angle of 50 degrees from the front corner of the class room window, so light from the windows will not shine in the pupils' eyes. A very cheerful effect.has been created in the class rooms by painting the walls and woodwork with a light canary yellow color, with robinegg blue trim. In a school with proper lighting, there should be a reduction in. eye defects, malnutrition and chronic in- fections, and the éducational growth of the pupils should be 50 per cent faster. : The cost of the. Comley School * which was $16,000 per class room, contrasts very favourably with many 'new schools' which have cost $20,000 and more per class room. Instead of using expensive acoustic tile for sound absorption, correct acoustics are obtained in the class rooms by using concrete. blocks made with cinders, which have been painted to give light reflection. To keep the operating costs. to a minimum, all windows are double glazed with pull sash and the roof is well insulated. This school has attracted many visitors - interested in progressive school architecture.' i hear Hamilton, where the class rooms are "floodlighted", the rows of desks are curved and the "blackboards" are white. Something New About Gulf Stream Science seems to spend most of its time these days proving that things are not what they are sup- posed to be. Even such a respect-" able and long-established institu- tion as the Gulf Stream has now been to some- extent debunked. A recent oceanographic expedition has discovered that the stream, which was always believed to be about 100 miles, wide, is actually only 15 miles across. Its course is also more tortuous than had been hith- erto supposed. Great Natural Force Even thus shrunken, however, the Gulf Stream is still one of the most important natural forces in the world; it has probably done more to make possible the civiliza- tion in which we live than any other one thing. Essentially it is an overflow of warm water from the seas around the equator, which first piles up in the Gulf of Mexico, - and is then pushed northwards by the prevailing winds and the ro- tation of the globe. It follows the coast of the United States from Florida to Maine and then swings Birds That Fly Under the Water We are all familiar with birds that fly in the air, and most of us have read or heard of certain birds, such as the kiwi and the os trich, which cannot fly at all There is still another kind of fly- ing which a few species of birds have mastered," and that 'is under: water flight, writes W. P, Keas bey, in the Christian Science Mon- itor. Take, for instance, the dipper or water ouzels--birds of the cold, clear mountain streams of horeal and arctic-alpine zones. They are slightly smaller than the Ameri: can robin, with plump bodies, stout legs, and short, rounded, very concave wings. | After carefully preening its feathers with "waterproofing" from" its large oil gland, the dipper runs . along the stream bottom in search of insect larvae, small 'molluscs and crustacea, staying under water solely by the movements of its wings. An interesting experiment by Sir John Davy 'showed that the specific gravity of -the dipper is only 0.724 or about three-fourths that of water. It is commonly said to fly through the water and the naturalist Coues has stated that its "flight below the surface requires as continuous effort to keep down ..as ordinary aerial flight demands in order that a bird may stay up in the air." i F * * * Among the other birds which use their wings to "fly" under was ter may be mentioned the auklets,-- murres, cormorants and penguins, One penguin stunt is to make a dash bencath the water, then break up suddenly through the surface and leap into the air, body arched, and progress with a series of splashing leaps in perfect mi- micry of the dolphin or porpoise. But though the penguin can fly so swiftly under water as, to be difficult to follow with the eye, its featherless wings are useless for aerial flight. . ¥ Scotia. It crosses the Atlantic-and fans ott along the coast of Europe; from Northern Spain to Norway; "indeed its influence is felt as far - as Spitzbergen. "And whenever it --cames close to land -it determines the climate along thé neighboring. coasts and far inland as well. Influence. on Europe It is in part due to theGulf Stream that the eastern coast of the United States possesses the mild climate and ample rainfall which made possible its spectacular develop- ment over the last 300 years. its influence on Europe has been far more striking. The richest and most populous countries . of that continent lie in surprisingly high latitudes. - Without the warm- ing influence of the Gulf Stream, conditions in these téuntPics would be very much the same as in the corresponding sections of North America. The climate of France would resemble that of Newfound- land; that of the British Isles would correspond to Labrador's; while Norway and Sweden, which are in the same latitudes as Baffin | . Land, would have equally: Arctic conditions. In the inland countries of Northern and Central Europe, conditions might be even worse, as they are in the interior of Un- gava. Numerous Achievements Under such: circumstances fo culture much higher than that of the Eskimos could have developed in Northern Europe. That Western European type of civilization, which' dominates most. of the world to- - day, could never have arisen. In- "deed, as far as the west is con- cerned, civilization would 'still be | confined pretty much to the warm Mediterranean lands where it be- gan. Altogether the achievements of the Gulf Stream are rather consid- erable--cven if it is only 15 miles wide. + H Fowl Employment' Charles had just returned from a visit to the country, where he had assisted in the -performance of the farm chores. One responsibility - of: the youngster was to gather the eggs ~ and mark each with the date it had i! 53 father inquired,» _ been laid, "Well, Charles," "how did you like the farm?" "Very well, fathér," the boy re- plied, "except I didn't care very about being secretary to a bunch of old hens" : much But $¥1 nis eftective spectal pene- a No Faith The old negro parson had called his flock together during a drought period to pray fcr rain, Entering the pulpit, he gazed sadly upon his bare-headcd congregation. "De faith of some of you nig: gahs ig' 'ley 'orable," , he began. "Here we are gathered together to 'ask de good Lord to send us rain, and not one of you has brought an umbrella." ¥* SLEEP ..... Bn, Stimulates ne | chest and backsur- Shin hearth | SHE: medicingl vapors, poultice, trating-stimulating action works for hours during the "night to relieve distress of colds while your little one sleeps. Results are so good often by morning most misery of the cold is foered, Toy ISK, THANK YOU FOR SITTING WITH THE 1) (/ ERO 4 4 RN COPS N ROBS -- AND NOW HES IN JAIL {- . OH WE WERE ly _ By Margarita