{ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920 __THE DAILY BRITISH \ \ TETRIS TS ETBUET FOR EVERY GOOD LITTLE GIRL AND BOX CHRISTMAS CHEER Good will and friendliness are expressed in a gift of - THE FAMOUS - CANDIES Known throughout the world for their wonder- ful goodness and old-time flavor. The gift that is sure to please Place your orders now for special assortments in regular boxes, one, two, three, four and five pound sizes. -All sixty cents the pound. Tawra second Canopy SHors ' BoNANANANANENANENANENONEA 138 Princess Street See Us When In Need Of Lamps We are distributors for vw EDISON MAZDA LAMPS HALLIDAY ELECTRIC CO. PHONE 94. CORNER KING AND PRINCESS STS. TY vy CHRISTMAS PLANTS Cholce selection to pick from--Azalea, Oyclamen, Cherry Trew and Ferns of all kinds. All seasonable Cut Flowers, Holly T-teaths, Mistletoe, Holly by the bunch, Wedding Bouquets and designing. Kingston's Leading Florist Corner of Brock and Wellington Streets Pelephome 770. H. STONE, Manager. ' Kingston Music Studios Plano and Theory Mr. H. Packer, A.T.0.M. Violin, Junior and Kindergarten Plano .. Miss D. Johnson, A.T.C.M. Voice and Sight Singing Mr. H. Hill Modern methods. Special free advantages to pupils. "Pupils prepared for examination. Rates on application. ~ FURS We are offering fur garments in smart styles and good quality at moderate prices. There is no Christmas gift more appropriate than something in. Furs. i MRS. SKELTON'S BOOK, "THE BACKWOODSMAN" ro With the exception of the North American Indians, every soul on the continent of North America is either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. The process of immi- gration, extending from the date of, departure from the ancestral home to the date (perhaps a few months, perhaps many years later) when the immigrant really begins to feel at home in his - new surroundings, to take root as the saying goes, is a process involving at all times a good deal of mental and physical hard- ship. To-day the hardship is so miti- gated, especially to those whose new home is not remote from the rail-| way and the town, that it is almost negligible. Fifty years ago it was a very serious matter; and if we go a little further back than that, the common sufferings of the journe and of the pioneering stage of spt- tlement were such that it is astomn-| ishing that any but the most hard- ened or the most despairing ever taced them. But the ancestors of the best in our present population did face them, and were greatly strengthened in character and re- sourcefulness as a result, and we owe to that time of testing and en- durance many of the best elements in the typical Canadian character. It is therefore important that the nature and circumstances of that great adventure, the "move to Cen- ada" in the first half of the mine- teenth century or even further back, ghould be kept before the eyes of the prsent-day Canadian reader, who will not.find much about it in the history-books. For even those whose ancestors came out when {mmigra- tion was really an adventure are rapidly losing the tradition of 'the exploits of their forbears; and those whose family was transplanted more recently have, with few exceptions, known little or nothing of the old- time struggle save by hearsay. Canadian literature, one is glad to note, is beginning to attend to the matter. Several novels depicting the Canadianization of various im- migrant stocks are now on the mar- ket, and there is evidently a keen demand for contemporary records written by the immigrants them- selves, such as the Strickland sis- ters and Dr. Dunlop, for reprints of their writings are now frequent, But a general sketch of the whole sub- ject, which will probably be ade- quate for the purposes of most read- ers while it will stimulate the more curious to further research, is now available in the volume entitled "The Backwoodsman" by Isabel Skelton, just published by the Ryer- son Press, Toronto, with several illu- strations by the best possible artist, Mr, C. W. Jefferys ($2.50). Mrs. Skelton, as her title indicates, has elected to deal with those aspects of the immigrant life which are con- cerned mainly with the women and the home of the immigrant, but it is precisely those aspects which have been most neglected by history; the adult male immigrant was chiefly occupied with economic and political problems which have engaged the attention of historians for, over a generation. Moreover we now realize that immigration is and always was vastly less of an undertaking for the adult male than for the wite and the mother of a family, and that it wag the women who kept burning the light of culture and humanity and delicate family relationships (and often also of patriotism) while the-men were clearing the land and establishing the essentials of gov- ernment. History has been less unjust to the women of the French Regime than to those of the English settle- ments, for the glamor of romance has shone upon them very steadily. For one thing, they belonged to that period of the history of the contin- ent when the Indian was still toma- hawking on his own account; after the Conquest he seldom allowed himself that luxury except when ald- ing ome section of hie European fel- jowmen against another section, and after 1814 his ferocity becomes little more than a tradition, Hence the first three chapters of Mrs. Skelton's volume, on three of the great Maries" of French Canada, do not perbaps add very greatly to the knowledge obtainable from the his- tory books. But with chapters four and five she turns to the two great movements of English-speaking fam- {les into 'the Canadas" (the Mari time Provinces are not included in the scope of the volume), the Loyal- {st trek to Upper Canada, and the transatlantic migration of 1814 to 1850. These two chapters describ- ing the actual process of tranerat. | gration are the longest, and in some THE WHIGS ZOO ways the most interesting and even horrifying, in the book In both the picture is enriched with much en-| livening detail from contemporary sources. The great quarteriies which were at the zenith of their power in Great Britain in the 'twemnties fre- quently published letters or articles descriptive of the conditions prevail- ing on emigrant ships, which were already known to be scandalous; and these Mrs, Skelton has evidently hunted down with scrupulous care. Experienced travellers advised their friends to carry brandy to be used in bribing the cook, not might allow the briber a reasonable access to the stove. Many lived for the entire voyage on pre-cooked tood, usually oatmeal cakes. The water was abominable; the Rev. William Bell in 1824 observes that wine would not have afforded him {half the pleasure that he obtained from the first drink of fresh water brought out to his ship by the pilot in the St. Lawrence. The Strick- lands are ndt an adequate authority on this subject, tor they belonged to the class which travelled cabin, whereas the vast majority of the parents whose children and grand- children are living in the lap of luxury in Canada to-day came out either steerage or in lumber ships which carried passengers as return cargo, and which were worse than the steerage parts of the liners. The remaining chapters depict the various stages in the establishment of the new Canadian home. Wheat is an admirable foodstuff, but it re- quires milling; so bad was the transportation and so great the dis- tance to the mill that many a family ate its grain whole in the form of mush. Dandelion roots provided a coffee much better than could usual- ly be obtained at the stores. The worst aspects of. the life of the wo- men were undoubtedly due to the preposterous restrictions imposed on them by public opinion--restrictions which had their origin in social an economic conditions utterly différ- ent from those of the frontier. us until after 1850 it was not ppoper in Canada for a girl to skate-or to swim nor to hunt; and women were of course completely debarred from the chief centre of social intercourse, the tavern. The majority of them doubtless were sufficiently occupied by their household and fanidly cares to feel little dissatisfaction under these taboos, but the life must have been terrible for any woman with non-domestic inclinations. Mrs. Skelton seems to have been scrup- ulously fair in drawing her picture, and makes large allowance for' the happy side of the immigrant's lot. But the one really mitigating cir- cumstance was probably the fact that those who lived this life were lees sensitive than the men and wo- men of to-day. Probably few of the women of whom she writes were as much disturbed as our author at the idea of "the cruel flogging of the children at school," and one is not sure that "a tavefn on every corner" caused more drunkenness than one- tenth the number of taverns, each with ten times the capacity, the con- dition which existed just prior to the enactment of Prohibition. Drunkenness among the men, we mean, naturally, for we are talking about the hardships of the women. An excellent bibliography shows that Mrs. Skelton Intends the book to be taken, as indeed it should be, as a serious contribution to historl- cal knowledge. BAD BLOOD IS THE CAUSE OF PIMPLES AND BOILS What you need wheh the blood gets out of order is a good tonic to tone and build up the system and put the blood into proper shape. nt For this purpose there fs nothing to equal BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS Mr. L. A, Delbert, Allan, Sask. writes: --"For several years I was troubled with boils and pimples. 1 tried many treatments, but could get no results. I them took Burdock Blood Bitters and became free of my trouble. It is the only medicine I ever took that did me any good." 3 B.B.B. has been on the market for the past 46 ¥ears; put up only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Soufhi and Centrdl America found. that he- might do any cooking, but that he J. C. Mitchell, of Dahinda, Sask. declared world's champion wheat .grower for the third consecutive time at the recent Chicago live-stoek show, who is now on his way to the Old Country on a demonstration tour. Interviewed at the Canadian Pacific head offices en-route, he said that prize wheat is growing bigger and better each year. Exhibits which rank 15th and 20th now would have won first prize twelve years ago. The secret of bigger grain, he said, is in selection of seed. Only by picking out the biggest and best is the grower able to produce some- thing better than other growers. This selection takes time but is emin- ently worth while, The selected wheat is not to be put through a machine, Mr. Mitchell sald, but Is flailed by hand or tramped out by horses. Although champion wheat grower, Mr. Mitchell is an advocate of mized farming. WHY THE WEATHER ? DR. CHARLES F, BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Soclety, Tells How. Rain or Snow Curtains. When a shower is passing at a distance, festoons of rain may some- times be seen falling from the cloud and trailing out behind. Sometimes these rainstreaks fail to reach the ground; if the air is too dry all the drops may evaporate during their slow fall to earth, In the case of a shower moving towards the observ- er, then, the extent of the rain streaks gives some idea of the chances of rain. Occasionally when a thick fairly high cloud is overhead, an hour or two's warning of the arrival of snow or. rain from melted flakes may be obtained by watching the appear- ance of the sky. When the snow be- gins its downward journey from the cloud, the details of the cloud base soon become blurred and confused, the outlines are no longer clearly visible, there is merely a dark inde- terminate mass. If rain begins to fall from the ¢loud, the warning may be given only 10 or 20 minutes in advance, The indication is longer in advance for enow than for rain be- cause snow falls more slowly, and a rain curtain has to be thicker to blot out the details of the cloud. Teath Anniversary Of the Great War ' Dec. 18th, 1014. The British deliver blow to Ger- man forces and make an advance of practically two miles, The Duke of Connaught inspect- od the Kingston troops for overseas service, on the cricket field. HR.H. was pleased with the showing of the soldlers. The long service me- dal was presented to-Major D. H. Maclean, of the Foot Guards, Ot- tawa. The duke leaves Kingston tonight for Toronto. The third contingent will likely mobilize in Kingston, but for the time being, it will Itkely gather by companies at a number of divisional points. An extremely severs battle fis in progress near Warsaw. Each side heavily reinforced is fighting hand to hand along the Lowics. The French advance near Ver- melles. Successful artillery firing in Alnse and Champaigne district and Argonne, It is now admitted officially that the German raid on England coast towns caused one hundred deaths. At Buenos Ayres it is reported that the German cruiser Dresden has been sunk by H.M.8. Bristol. British admiralty reports that the light cruiser and destroyer that attacked the German raiders sus tained five killed and fifteen injured. ------------------------ = 1 We care for any plant till Christ- and deliver. 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MM 16.--Mrs. G. Olm- stead and 'son, George, spemt the past week at her uncle's, A. Caseell's, Rokeby. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ged- des and daughter, Alice, visited with friends in Kingston last week. School is closed for the holidays. D. Mec- Dougall has purchased William Mil- fer's farm, Elphin, and intends mov- ing over this wesk. 'Boyd Fournier, Watson's Corners, spent Sunday at iis home here. W. O. Geddes at- tended councll st Snow Road om Monday of this week. J. Bt. Plerre, Clarendon, spent Sunday st William Kirkham's. decorated for Christmas snd are preparing for a busy time. Tne at the Hille ed from Spriagield to Washington in 1861, could not a loaded freight train of to-day. It is easy to find a lover and fo retain a friend; what is difficult is to find the friend and retain the any ease gas on the stomach in T minutes; Brings cut matter never thought was In your system. Sargent.