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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT„ THURSDAY, DEC 13, 1928 English Woman's Odd Picture of Prairie Life [(Marjorie Harrison hi London Daily Express.; Thejre are two great openings for women in the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The first is domestic work and the eecond marriage--which is also domestic work but less well paid! I was told, and I believe it is perfectly true, that five thousand British anted ada. Ther ho- 5 of 1 mtabl obs u-le i al-|, the, jbern into, where they will have ten I chances lor every one in England. It is certainly the land of happy •homes. There is a simple piety, too, that perhaps accounts tor it. It is j many a long day since I have heard' grace said, before a meal, but in each | of the prairie homes I visited the head I of the house bowed his bead and asked for a blessing. A farmer's wife said to me: "Wej have been here twent--five years; i:i that time we have been blown out, hailed out, snowed out, and burnt out. That was in the days when the prairie fires were uncontrollable. We lost 14,000 bushels of grain the day after it had been threshed. Yet never failed to provide vith a In ing." nd that Li noi-dinary inhibition about shav-r that possesses so many of the five >usand eligible young men. "If they mid grow good honest beards and I be lei would you go back to Eng-5 the emphatic reply hope but though romance may be born Sunday, so delicate a thing; coul, ever survive Wednesday's stub lie. To o ol ten t,he British settler be- hi"1' Lrs* tranrdinarily careless about! mal appearauce and lacks j his home. Probably the rea-! at at first he is so occupied! for hind 6 and*so trenfetidouslv hard ing that he simply has not the t A farmer said to me: "Wei hine an ight-hour day all right, only | three days in each twenty- • four hou s! During the hectice seed- 1 harvest everyone works j from mo ning to night. I have seen o tired that he has fallen p ov er his dinner--if he cannot find to cat it, it is no wonder that | he g •udg es the time to shave. It imazing how many of the praii ie houses are unpainted. Their eurrc und ngs are'untidy, machinery is le ft lj ing about, and often little] atk- ipt i i made to cultivate a garden. 1 In n any prairie homes tinned vege-1 table 5 ar« used. Yet provided a hedge j i is p ante d to act as a wind-screen, 1 good gar lens can be made. Th e lo ve of flowers dies hare' in Briti sh hearts, and in the f armhr e! t livir, r-roo m there are usually a nv n-H ber c f pi ants. They £re put :n j: l 1 jars. salt tins, treacle tins, anythi-i,'| I to live there. I love Canada and the life." And that is what they nearly all say^,. It's the freedom, the kindliness and the appeal to the eternal pioneer, when every man counts as a builder and mil come, are worth more than the cultivated lands In the name vicinity." Many specific cases could be Riven to Kubstantiate this Btetement. While tfce animals are farmed primarily for their pelts, there is the advantage over most fur-farming projects that they are used for food in various parts of the country. They kno^ Krso rabbits i decei , Rold undei but : i It December 16. Lesson XI--Pit His Friends--Philemon 8-21. den Text--A friend 'oveth n by most buyers that "mai rabbits" and muskratH are the sai A single animal ready for marl weighs about one and a half pouu There are certain favorable poll about the animal as a food; they t free from disease and their diet ible. Th I fruit, of aqu ely, although I noving fish as < Each < es a definite part miunity, and in : total population f Greater London ea ts. And therein is t essential is ths ye tentment--at least, ien arc concerned. the Swampy Lands Can Profitably Raise Muskrats; Waste in U.S. and Canada1 Made to Yield Profit as i New Industry-Develops Cost of Operation Small l Some Parts of Country ion (2) Onesimus (3) Paul Philemon belonged the the lossae, and had been wot by the efforts of Paul li ; his Ephesian mission. I ■ are told that Philemon o il to Paul. He was apna.-e 11. Paul referre evidently gathc.t Paul, and l Is called a "fellfll r have had of the ki on the ja to disgui: BO that th But the labels are rs and no effort is I i tins by a coat of r. hole effect is on 3-daj ■I ha l Northwest, is a I it i Three-piece black ?ss and cuffs, white i pri aint I pouch, but ! of j Places It ai gypsy-like sordidncss and untidiness. | greatest :n< In many parts of the prairie, espe-|fur coat8 a daily Saskatchewan, wire fences in- fore- The 1 close each square mile. A man often I ,n«s has m; starts with a quarter section of land jless esseuti ■--1G0 acres and a two-roomed wooden; necessary a shack. When a bumper crop is reap-! wa3 a mxu: ed the profit per acre convinces him j a necessity that he must have more land on the: This "ew demand, coming ! beyond the stage of i fill our daily tobacco urnover in fur trading the fifteen or twenty ies in the land. More >rn now than ever bo-r heating of our build-icavy clothing indoors nd a warmer wrap is outside. That which few years ago is now der. of 110,000 acres of tra The muskrat is native l Canada to the Mexicai ""'^V^th^ by. ____harvest. The, irit has caught him, andjlnf th time he becomes what is jtrvatic land poor." He is the \ comm d very littlle evider It is partly th: accounts for the of living that is lanv prairie farm? success of Canadi ._st tor land!aone-n-eless stand- animals be found on \ make p At least halfanlmals de-jthe rac necessitates fur-bearing animals under The fox farms that are i throughout the country of what has already b riie individual pelts of til are sufficiently valuable ch farming profitable, farmed in this way ine oon, mink, beaver and Iy vegetabh wife is his^ Muskrat Future Source lowadays most of* our fu; no from these expensive animals. The lowly mut jspised, is destined to si ire furs. While plenty of | from large animals were avaiTabl j trapper had no time to give t. ' small muskrat skins, which he i sell for perhaps 15 or 20 cents. T field of endeavor waa left for I fter school hours, yt i pockets with candy his sales to the to But as the price neighborhood The ease with which muskrats can be farmed is appealing both to the ~ : professional trapper, who can settle ' j down and trap from his own lands, j and to the amateur as well. The only > I problem is to keep enemies out, for 1 the farmed muskrat lives under natur- ~<»-.-- 11 'j which grows in the marshes, am/'so ^ | has no tendency to escape. Oi/ce a | good wire -fence buried a foot or so i below the ground and a few feet high ■ | is provided all expense ends other ' j than that of actually catching the !' I animals and preparing the furs. In y farmers with swamp lands ou their farms find a profitable patlon for the winter months. Make Own Winter Home ueh danger < Christ: See the reference to him in Coh.-ssians 4:17. From this it is clear that Philemon was a man of high standing, a man of means, a leader in the church, and a f»reat personal I friend of the apostle. 2. Onesimus was one of Philemon's slaves, and probably of a low and mean type. "A Phrygian slave was one of the lowest type to be found in the Reman world." The slave had stolen some money from his master (v. 18), and had escaped to the city of Rome, which was the refuge of criminals. In the narrow streets and dark cellars of that great caoital it was not difficult tor one of this class to escape detection. However, the eyes of God were upon him, and by some unknown means this poor mail was brought into contact with Paul, .vhere he learned to love Christ. The racle of c acted. This nerge in search of , and if this fails they use liouse itself, most of which E grasses, on which they feed. If in farming muskrats liter proves exceptionally long • natural food Supplies run low t of feeding is insignificant, as icl of turnips, carrots, etc., 3d a muskrat for about three. Hist indeed, and upon her falls est shock of the transplant- i not " icw country. While her man: Dear-doors and has a certain am-jonce hange and variety, her day j our j inside, struggling with has i.ever seen before, w lard coal that she must not wood fuel that produces a ke heat or none at all. faced with the lost arts of | ft____ id the making of lard, butter j might ill , as well as the bottling of j Saturday or the thrifty mercham knowledge of n»«.p.hini» n use of the "Marsh Rabbits" I tion as th< it industry," says a bald nation is ;d ' States Depart- thinking B, "has reached its j breadth i jvelopment on the-: changes Maryland. The ex-; store for t : Dorchester Coun- j time and means of his salvation knew ro hounds. He became very useful to Paul, who would have liked to keep him with him. But evidently conscience had been at work in this runaway slave, and after doubtless many conversations, thev both decided that some attempt at reparation, or restitution, must be made. 3. Paul--The lett >r throws much litfht upon* the love, justice and t act- of Paul. He wished to rei ith 'it' " services of Onesimus, for it wao very ___ convenient for him to-have one who demands the would willingly run his errands, and do bis bidding;. But. Paul's sense of. justice urees him to acknowledge the c'aim of ownershin and, accordingly, !"~ has been reached to re-n to Colossae. However, a letter to go with One-that the ! like Oeolog; imagination, and in propor exercise of historic imagi rigorously performed in :>f the past, will be the turn!this f our conception of the p.n,'f Y.-r;, vhich s, as well as the length magnitude of effort their porfe Morley. pelt in 1919-'20, later to become ners kill their' stabilized at about $2, these pelt: shops are not worth while. The furriers found 5 villages. In j more desirable than they ha' isiness to pre- posed, as they were easily dye nd when it is made to imitate very closely th. it is simply; expensive furs. Such furs ar. l kitchen and ; unde •ay, too, bread ; end!: Tn summer, ] Bu il is killed the I able mediately and! he how is plank ar. isolated district: has as much neei as ever of the ster-1 ling qt alities of pluck and endurance that a limated th c pioneering women..: The and th old glamo rous days are over,; the Ta ne West. The open rangeland and th s great ca Ing wa v to small nixed farms' Never-1 theU-'- the pione ering day-: are notj ih n adv^jtur •us souls. 1 shoot' I dew, ai de.-tina Ford c ' eff: reat variety of trade nu th "seal" or "mink." i at $2 a-pelt, it is not pre lise and feed muskrats 'he solution of the probh Is not difficult. 1 aquatic anin»al, ibltat is the was i;h are totally Ittual purpose. By a great small quantity of - might be raised on such mt it is coarse and of little nsequently coming muskrat farms, an ie muskrat thrives in sue waste places, and he is nr disease, muskrat fur is di apply this country with it s. There IS also the fac lojiagatlon in favor of lb i! female producing fror to fifty young in a slngl nada Leases Land a, realizing the possibilities, fa rming, the government [ ! to lease out farming prlv aste land. The tracts ar ed 640 acres ordinarily an first three years and $1 an .ereafter. Hundreds of appli-i Manitoba, Saskatchewan and are awaiting the distribution One farm in British this modern age, speed is of [ the speed record between V paramount importance, whether it bo and the Orient, over land, on the sea, or in the air. Busy executives and perishable modifies must arrive at their destinations iu as short a time as possible, and all modern science and human ingenuity have been devoted to this In this connection it is interest- „» consists of more than 8,000 |lns t0 'earn that,^e Canad an Pacific :! acres. The government of Manitoba liner Empress °5 \nne°' ,the fai<tfst, is sowing rice by airplane in ,u Passenger vessel in regular service fro ' Mfhern areas to increase the natural bet™eD Canada and Europe, has been er- npply of muskrats. i transferred to the Pacific, where she be m the United States there are ltr«« wW1 vie wlth the Whlte Em»resses for.' * During the World War the"Empress of France" was chosen because of her be flagship of the 10th Auxiliary Cruiser Squadron of the British Navy. Under the command of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair she intercepted nearly 10,000 vessels ; between Canada and Europe an vented tons of contraband mal 'ailing into the hands o Early thin year the made a cruirc from New lonely isle of T ugj fleet, the "Duchi _____f this t , _ , in the lives ( ,n da Cnnha the Vme c_ »r vessel of her to aU thnl it w f Atholl." of 20,- a aociai Worrj . will make this "cruise eiy was a sin :n 1929. The "Empress therhood. f 1MG0 gross registered -- twice chosen by the R^wllnga: South America and Africa, t(