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SALAM TEA CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke Htrc is a little bit of iiifor- Btation that may interest farincri who arc wondering where help is coining from to take off this year's crop. An employee of a city plant told us that men and boy.t who previously owned or lived on farms •re now being laid off right and left, and of course selective .lervice Is lending them back to the farms. Some of them are glad enough of an opportunity to get back to the tend â€" others are not so happy. It remains to be seen how many will really settle down again. * * * How often that age-old problem presents itself â€" how to keep the joung folk on the farm . . . how to â- lake farm life sufficiently attract- ive £0 thfv ^ wilLw ant laitay. Pcr- •onaU/^-Tdon't think the answer ift^ so much in the farm as in the jnonng people themselves. Some of them want to farm â€" others do not. Proof of that can be found in mny average farm family. Naturally home conditions are tbi. same for Bill as for John, yet Johi. develcps •n unrest which only a job away from home seems to satisfy, while Bill is quite content to till the land. He takes an interest in Dad's pure bred cattle: he asks nothing better than to be given the responsibility or'driving and caring for the trac* lor; and as he ploughs up and down the field his thoughts leap ahead to the time when he will be farming on his own. Conditions on the farm may not be quite as he would like them at present, but he has vision and he looks forward and figures oir. ways and means of â- taking improvements â€" shorter hours, more conveniences. John, oil the other hand, gets a job that pays big money. But it isn't long before he finds that the money isn't so big as he thought it was. There arc so many deduc- tions from his pay ... it costs an awful lot of board . . . and when a fellow eats out even an odd snack eofts a ijuarter . . not like at home where the cookie jar was alwaye kind of handy. And of course a fellow has to have some fun. He kids himself along by thinking what a dull time Bill is having â€" the dope â€" and how little he gets for all his hard work. And then one week-end al home there was Bill telling him about the Victory Bonds he has put away. "You've got \'ictory Bonds, Bill?" "Sure â€" come in mighty handy after the war. lUit you have some too, John . . . ] remember you say- inc so." 'Yes," said John slowly, "1 did have but 1 cashed them in ... had to . . that smash with my car . . bad to have a new engine. It cost me plenty." • • ♦ Poor John . . he had to learn the hard way. It may be that after he ha.s savoured city life for a few more years h â- , too, may realise Ihat there is more than hard work to be found on a farm. There is a freedom that is found nowhere GOOD APPETITE.. GOOD DIGESTION HEARTWARMING . . . that (leHc rill C8 Maxwell IIoiiHC Coffee. It's a mipcrb blend of choice Latin* American coffeesâ€" each gelecled for its own par* ticular quality of fine ilavor, fragrance or body. ISSUE ISâ€" 1841 else on earth. And it provides greater opportunity for initiative than many a city job. On the other hand, although the going may be tough, John may eventually find his niche iij the business or pro- fessional world â€" he may never re- turn to the farm for more than a visit. But that will not be the fault of the farm or farming conditions â€" it will just be the natural order of things. Fanning is Bill's way of making a living â€" John's choice is something entirely different. What road every Bill and John will follow can only be <leterinincd by giving each one a c'lance to shift for liimselfi .And -itt sb'''doiiig we need have no fear for the JSfiire of agriculture. Love of the land is too deep- rooted in the soul of man or it ever to die oui to any great ex- tent. As long a.s the humriU race survives there will be farmers â€" successful farmers, who till the land from choice â€" not by com- pulsion. I have no figures to prove my theory but it is my opinion that among the unsuccessful farmers of ^.J^iiaTfViaelei 'I'Uis is the square you'll be mak- ing by dozens and scores â€" for pillow lops, doilies; and to join together for spreads, cloths scarfs. It's the easy-to-do pineapple de- sign; a square IV/2 inches in fine cotton, larger in string. Pattern 687 has crochet Mircctions; stitches. Send twenty cents in coins fstainps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dcpt., Room «1, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly iiat- fern number, your natnc and address. this, or my c.v.intry, we shall find men, who in lh!>ir youth were vic- tims of • overbiaring |i.ucntial anthnrily and tmale to stay 011 the hirin against their will, ploughing I lie land while they were eating their heart out to be a mechanic .. coiling hay while longing to join the navy . . milking cows and wish- ing for wings to fly. * * * Youth is a time of unrest . . . and after a war, when men have seen «o much that they wish to forget, is also a time of unrest. That i.s something we should all do well to remember. Kchabilitation is some- thing in which we all can help â€" by buying Victory Bonds and by a sympathetic understanding of all returned men. Modern Etiquette iiy Hoberta Lee 1. When a bride is writing notes of thanks for gifts to friends who do not know her husband, should the notes be signed with both names? 2. In what way should a woman present a letter of introduction? ."}. Should a girl precede or fol- low her escort into a restaurant? 4. When a girl is" standing talk- ing with a man, and drops some ar- ticle she is holding, shouldn't she make an attempt to pick it up? .">. When i)laying guli and there is a foursome just ahead o! you, how long should you wait before . driving? 6. Is it prti;cr to serve cream with demi-tasse? ANSWERS 1. The signature may be her name only, but the note should tay, "Howard and I deeply appre- ciate, etc," 2. She should always mail a letter of introduction, whe- ther it is addressed to a man or to a woman. 3. The girl should go first. 4. Nn; she should wait for the man to pick it up. 5. Wait un- til all four of the players ahead of you are too far away for 'your drive to interfere. 6, No. IT SHOULD KNOCK People often fail to recognize opportunity because it looks so much like hard work. â€" Peterborough Examiner. Soapless Soap A "soap" which is no soap at all will be used in kitchens and bath- rooms after the war. Technically it is a detergent or wetting agent. It looks like soap and cleanses like soap, but it ha?i new merits. It works as well in hard or salt wat- er as in soft, and no ilii^ is left around the bathtub because the salts found in hard water, gener- ally lime, do not react with the "soap" to form an insoluble curd. A molecule is built up of an oily part (coconut oil) which will dis- solve grease and a salty part that dissolves in water. The oily end of these detergent molecules does not react with the salts found in hard water to make a curd. -^ •* * â-  9 4 i * « â- r 4 « 4. \ f \/ ^' ^,.ll \l :>N> A IVPE ^ apple, ^ :l iN y. ^ '/i va^ .w** 4 ,h the P0'^^°'^ ,, 3 packages Ik A U' } U' ,v 'f/^i ^ 'Xk^ >r y ^^ .T«"? 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