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4 EE 2 SOR UGE ATS od Alea apy rt . Reid VEY 3 wh A BALES EE After all is said and done, how does it taste in the cup? That is what counts! "SALADA TEA BAGS i yield the pe A rfect flavour. . [ANNE HI RST Your. Family HRST | "Dear Anne Hirst: My main gouble is that I can't talk 'with ny mother about this. I'm 16, in" vigh school--and 1 am in love! The boy is nearly 20. . | "My mother doesn't kriow the the way we feel so I can't just come right out and tell her that I we want to mar- . ry mn two years. She wants to send me to an- ON other school wext fall and to college aiterwards, 'or four whole years! "What's the sense in sponding that money--when I want to get married? The boy leaves this fall for two years in college. "He and I are both satisfied with one another, and 'we do not think there will ever be anyone 4984 sizes 1-70 I So smart! So simple! This new shirtwaister has an upstanding little Chinese collar, outstanding pockets, winged cuffs. You need an import- ant fashion like this--for important events. Sew it now! Pattern 4984 sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4 Vyds. 35-in. This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25¢) -in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 1-123 "Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. else.--But something could happen. - Will you please help mie decide? PUZZLED" NOT FOR CHILDREN * Marriage is not for children, * It is a job which many mature * persons find exceedingly difficult. - * The way for a girl to prepare * herself for this great adventure * is to develop her mind and body * and spirit by every means she * cai, so she becomes a well- * balanced individual competent to * meet the multitudinous problems * which attack cvery marriage. * If you do not go to+college, * how will you spend the next two * years? Yearning for your stveet- * heart? Floundering from one in- * consequential interest to another * in your effort to kill time? Stimu- * lating those emotions so recently * aroused? _ * The boy you love is finishing * his education, to fit him for the * career that will provide jor a wife. *-and family. It is likely he cannot * marry anybody for two years * after he graduates, until he has * launched himself properly in his * life work. * Can you do less? * Your years in college will not * only help you accumulate knowl- * edge, they will teach you disci- _* pline, and. .train._your--mind.- ¢ Daily association with the stu- * dent body and teachers will help * you learn to get along with diff- * erent temperaments. Your taste * will be educated. Your will learn * the value of loyalty and good * sportsmanship, and other spirit- * ual traits. which you will need to * be a good wife and mother. * When you graduate, you will be * able to meet your swectheart on * his own ground, and {cel your- * self a' real partner in this most * demanding of all partnerships. * And how proud he will be of * youl! *- You seem to be a smart girl * for your age. Now prove it. * Tell your mother how you feel * about each other, You will find * her more understanding than * you think. Assure her you know * you are too young to feel entirely * certain of cach other, and you * have no idea of allowing your *® emotions to override your com- * mon_sense. a Er Si Wee: * Tell Tier you will go on with * your education as she plans, and * give these -years all your 'best * energies and application. * And don't be formally engaged * until you are of age, at least. By * that time you will khow whether * you two ate really "meant for ..* each other." As you say, many * things can happen between now ¢ and then. * * * Confide your secrets to your mother, She was once in love, too, and she hasn't forgotten it. Anne Hirst understands, and will help you find the courage. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. - ; "If your wife described you as a man of rare gifts, just' what would she mean? --" 8. Vivaclous 28. Deterlorating : . 9. Flood 23. Cushions W OR 10. Owned 24. Famous 3 CROS S D 11. Before 36. Made to go 14. Terrible 38. Spoken PUZZLE b 18. Be carried 40. Lines 20. Toward the 41. Bpeed contests mouth 46. Final ACROSS 2. Russ 31. Thinks 46. Pigpen 1. Scotcheap. ° 3 Order (archaie) 41. American - Lisard "4. Footless © 33. Orchid mea) author 9. The girl "animal 24. Worshi _ 48. Wateh from 12, Northwestern ore 15. Btorme cover State (sb.) b.Fastdance gq pacingup- 49. And not 13. Heathén 6. Epoch atreamona' 50, Greek letter 14. Equality "Z-Mother + --glacler 63. Land measure 16. 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It is sur- light, ' Can thesc insects walk on water, and how do we explain the. beauti- ful little shadows and their attend- ant haloes? : layer of every. liquid behaves as if it were a very thin stretched elas- tic skin--that- is, an elastic skin under tension. : Surface Skin This is the key to the power which certain insects possess of walking on water, A very thin stretched horizontal sheet, of rubber can show the be- havior of the "surface skin" of any liquid. Imagine a mouse to be walking on it. The rubber will sag under the feet of the mouse. In a similar way the "surface skin" of water sags under the feet of a "pond-skater." In fact a tiny hollow or dimple is made in the surface under each foot, and this insect to be supported. No Wet Feet they are not "wetted" by water. If they were the water would spread over them. The feet would go through the surface layer and walking on it would be impossible. "Wetting" of water can be ex- plained when a duck dives. Beads or globules of water can be scen "cause the nature of the feathers prevents them being "wetted," On the other hand a blackbird with its feathers soaked. The sagging of the "surface skin" under an insect's foot also accounts for the haloes of light on the bot- tom of the pond. I'he sag _causes-a_tiny---curve--in the surface skin round the feet and on_ the bottom of the pond in circles. The dark portion in the mid- dle of the circle is the shadow of the foot. 'Make visitors welcome and the: apple design edges linens embroi- dered with favorite flowers. Simple émbroidery, crochet. Pat- tern. 665; transfer 6 motifs 4 x 1034 inches; edgiflg directions. Laura Wheeler's improved pat: tern makes crochet and knitting. so simple with its charts, photos and concise directions. : 'Send TWENTY FIVE CENTS in 'coins (stamps' cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, --123- Eighteenth --St., New. Joronto, Ont. = Print * plainly TTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. WHALING UP-TO-DATE A helicopter made by a Somer- set, firm will be used shortly to "spot" whales in_the Arctje. : It has been sent to Portugal fol- lowing a decision by the Portu- guese Government to modernize its' whale-hunting expeditions. So soon the silence of the Arctic wastes-- breeding ground of the valuable oil-bearing whale--may be broken by the roar of the helicopter's en- gines as the whalers get busy. Whale oil, which has countless commercial uses; is in great de- mand. Restrictions on hunting time whaling expeditions, but now Por- . tuguese whalers hope to make up for this lost time by using the heli- copter and ¢o increase their har- vest. "ls - rounded by a narrow bright halo of - Science tells us that the surface: sagging enables the weight of the. The insect's fcet are such that - running off its back and head, be- dipped in water would come out "this curve acts like a lens, gather-- - ing the light and concentrating it> family happy with fine linens! Pine- - have been a great handicap to-- his instructions. Teaching The Young Idea How To--Swim--At Thunder Bay, on the sandy shores of Lake Erie, a Red Cross swimming instructor is shown with his youthful class intently listening to Fa re Photo by George 5. Hutt. YGiNGERFARM by Gwendoline P Clarke Between 'painting and cotertain- ing; canning and writing, I have done a little reading--that is over and above the papers and maga- zines that come to the house--and overflow onto tables, chairs and chesterfield. 1 never can keep our reading material in order. 1 have . 'been trying to read Louis Brom. field's" books--"Pleusant Valley" and "Malabar Farm." And when I say "trying" that is no reflection on the author--quite the opposite, ostensibly to read it myself. But w hen d had read about ten pages Partner 'got hold of it. When he 'was_ through it was time for tlic book to go back. Because it was new I could not get it renewed. So I brought back "Pleasant Vall- ey" instead and am halfwiy through kurry over. Read carefully a lot can be learnt from Louis Brom- field's writting, both as regards farming and -lifc in general. His philosophy is pretty good. --- f-- Mr. Bromfield's pet subject is soil conservation. He thinks that soil conservation--or the lack of it--has a much greater effect upon farming, and the welfare of a people, than is generally realised. Lack of soil conservation is already threat- ing the world's food supply. Mr. Bromfield claims their never has been a world surplus of food but always--a scarcify--uneven distri- bution is the only factor making surpluses in some countries. Scar- city is likely to Increase unless still more is done to prevent further soil erosion, which, L. B. contends, is mainly the result of poor farming --that is, farmers taking all they can out of the soil atid putting noth- ing back. This™practise. dates back to_the early settlement days in the United States:when the fertile land was cleared _indiscriminately--and-- cropped so intensely that in two or three generations the top soil 'was worn out. Then farmers moved further west, took up more virgin land and continued the process of soil erosion. He likens these carly immigrants to "a plague of locusts moving across the continent"--the main exceptions being the Pennsyl- vania Dutch who settled on the land and enriched it by their good farming. Eventually agriculturists reali- sed that something was happening "to what had been their good -carth, No longer was it producing the hountiful crops to which they prev- iously had been accustomed. An in- tensive reseach: programme - was carried out and as a result, twenty-- five years ago, a movement was started to systemize farming, recla: iam the impoverished land and stop further soil erosion. But what has been done is apparcatly still not enough and Mr. Bromfield contends that unless wasteful farming meth- ods are changed there will event- ually be a shortage of food in the U. S. A. He admits that such a con- dition sounds fantastic but he also reminds his readers that a few generations ago such a theory was 'also fantastic to the people of India and China. Yet now, half the people in those countries live their lives out without ever having had enough to cat. Soil erosion not 'only means poor financial returns for the farmer but the loss of minerals in the soil also affects the health of a nation, 'since it is impossible for any man' |..1o be better than the food. he eats. - Incidentally Tonis Bromfield's the- ory for world distribution of food is much the same as that of *Cana- - - da's H. H. Hannam. "Pleasant Valley" has one chap- ter devoted entitely to the building of "The Big House" and was quite amusing, Every member of the fam- ily was given the privilége of decor- ating his_or her own rooth. Tastes were vastly different pi result was unusual, 'to say- the least. In one respect all rooms were alike-- windows so low that anyone could sit in a chair or lie in bed and still look out the window. That would SESE ------ = "ISSUE 32 -- 1950 It was this way. I brought home | 4--"Malabar-Farm™ fromthe tibrary-- it. Both books are too meaty to suit-me. Our windows are high set and I always wish I could low- er them about a foot. * But back to soil erosion. In his books Louis Bromfield is referring maiply to the United States, but much of what" he -avs is equally true of Canada. From our own ex- perience on the prairic we know on- ly too well the effect of soil erosion. Much of the prairie land should never have been farmed at all: We also have a sample right near here, Two years ago the Department oi Highways made a new piece of road past our place. They got "fill" from a-nearby hill. Steam shovels scooped up the good earth, trucks carried it away until the "hill" was lower than the road. Now that iece of land ig like a desert---the Pivot is gone, in places there is nothing growing, not even i weed. Yet that piece of land is government --property--and--no-doubt--there--are- other such patclies. The government spends thousands of dollars in con- servation propaganda--wouldn't it be more to the point to give a pric- tical demonstration on restoring fertilty to soil on waste land so that trees at least could be planted and encouraged to grow? Farmers arc not the only sinners. Clover -- And Bees Roadsides are sweet now with honeysuckle and clover, the warm, sweet fragrance of summer at its peak. Honeysuckle begins to pass its prime, though there will be blossom. and lesser sweetness till the asters bloom. But clover blooms all summer long, a delight to bees, a friend of the soil and a pleasure to anyone who pauses to look. One thing about clover: it takes the soil as it finds it, sends down eager roots, spends the whole sea- son at a complex chemical job and gives a new supply of fresh nitrates to the soil it occupies. Clover re- builds the soil, and is constantly reaching out for new soil to reclaim. Give it half a chance and it will take over a gravelly roadside or a worn-out field where few other plants will grow, and in a few sea- sons the clover has given it new Tife. And all the while the -elover will cloak that soil in coal green, "Mighty Midgets of Insect | 10P TCH Bites-- | Heat Rash brighten the landscape with its miniature sweet pea blossoms, and feed every bee within range. The one thing clover nceds to thrive is cooperation of the bees. Take away the bees and the clover won't outlast the season, as Aus- tralia learned long ago. For the bees fertilize the clover blooms and thus enable it to reseed itself. On the other hand, take away the clover and the bees would be hard put to fill their hives. Clover honey outweighs all other varieties, year after year. ) : It would be a dull and less fra- grant summer, witheut the coopera- tion of bees and clover. Together they help keep the planet green and sweet, with no thanks asked: ' Mystery Of The One of the northland's most -fas- cinating puzzles is the mystery of the "Lattle Men" --the dwarfs who are said to haunt the barren stretch beyond the Asctic Circle where be- cause of the winds and sudden storms, no other human could sur- vive, Rk ~ "From generation io generation Eskimos have handed down the story to their children, as parents in other lands relate the adventures of "Alice in" Wonderland" or "Jack and the Beanstalk." } Legend says that these dwarfs are mighty men. Even though they are short they are supposed to be able to "carry the 'largest caribou (deer) on their backs. It is only the huge caribou they hunt--not the timid scal which is highly valued by almost all other Eskimos. For inany years white men dis- counted such stories as a fanciful bit of folk lore. Then Dr. D. Jenness, a Canadian explorer, made several quick reconnaissances into the uninhabitable land and found Quick! Stop itching of Insect bites, heat rash, eczema, hives, pimples, scales, scabies, athlete s foot and other externally caused skin troubles. . Greaseless, stainless. Itch Use quick-acting, soothing, anti D.D. | _-- RIPTIO; x ng; antiseptic D. D. D.. " evidence that the "little men" may exist, : : Do They Exist?" *: He reported finding dwellingp only eight feet long by four feet wide and from twelve to eighteen inches high, made of dolomite; a 'kind of white marble, Points from small hunting arrows were also found, though no one had hunted there within the memory of the Eskimos. ry Civilization's gradual, but irre- sistible advance into the northland race in thosé Snowbound: diminu- wastes may soon give us the answer. RELIEF is LASTING Nobody knows the cause of rheuma- tism but we do know there's one thing to case the pain . . . it's INSTANTINE, And when you take INSTANTINE "the reliel is prolonged because INSTANTINE contains not one, bat three proven medical ingredients. TheseThree ingredients work together to bring you not only fast relief but more prolonged relief. Take INSTANTINE for fast headache relief too . . . or for the pains of neuritis or neuralgia and the aches and pains that often accompany a cold. Gel Instantine today and always - keep It handy fasta fine .12:Tablet Tin 25¢ Economical 48-Tablet Botle 69¢ re Upside down to prevent peeking. AL 4 4 3 stops or ( gist stocks D. B.D. PRESCRIPTION." I/VIo% ~~ CA 34 Cup Shortening 1 Cup Sifted All-purpose Flour 34 Cup Canada Corn Starch 1} Cups Sugar ' . Cream shortening in mixing bowl until light and fluffy.' 8ift dry ingtedients over creamed shortening. Add milk and vanilla. 8tir until all flour is dampened, then beat ANADA CORN STARCH LN otto) DEVI L's : PE" FOOD CAKE (EE fn [] "ey ret 34 Cup Cocon 1 Teaspoon Soda ¥ Teaspoon Cream of Tartar 3 % Teaspoon Salt LAL LL TRE 14 Teaspoons Vanilla 2 Kage, Unbeaten 200 strokes (about 114 minutes). Scrape bowl and spoon often throughout entire mixing. Add unbeaten eggs and beat 25 strokes. Bake in two 9-inch greased layer cake pans in moderate oven (350° F.) 30 to 40 minutes. Frost with your favourite boiled frosting. : FREE: 5. 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