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. 2 - vu ff a a \ \ « 2 = 4 A SE . . Pp . . No ~ -= ¥ ' + . ' ir £ . ~~ LJ / Sale 4 - ' . 5 i ' N ' - \ © last" we say, , ture began to "slide--that "night we had our first late frost. It --them--among the chickéns (6 kee "the farm. They broke away, «31 Regrets CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM "So this is June! Cold, wet over- head, and even wetter under foob: © Story windows still on and the only confortable room in the house the kitchen--that is unless the fur-- mace is alight, as it often is when I get tired of beirlg cold.and can sum- mon up enough energy to . gather wood anid chips for quick heating without wasting good fuel. Partner says he is looking forward to win- ter so he can be warm in the house without feeling it an extravagance to burn good fuel. Of gourse there have been 'days when a few bright rays of sunshine have penetrated the leaden skies and -we have been foolish enough to get optimistic--"Ah, it has come at . "that bright, warm weather we have been waiting for!" And we feel still more cheerful when we listen tothe probs, as told by Ananias, the weatherman,. We hear him say--""Tomorrow, clear and warm." And "tomorrow" we wake up. and find clear, warm weather more of a dream than any we had in our sleep, ERIE EH On fine days we work like fury to get a few jobs done outside. Last Wednesday we moved the 'chickens 'from the small brooder house where we start them to a larger pen where they have more room but no heat, On - this cxercise extraordinary 1 did the catching and Partner = the carrying. And believe. me, that was, on¢ time 'I wasn't complaining of being cold. It avas a"fairly warm day anyway but about an hour after the chickens" were moved the tempera- was the was also the first of two nights that I carried liot water bottles to the chickens. What do you think of that? My hot water bottles were quart sealers wrapped around with heavy stocking legs, and 1, placed" them from crowding and smother- ing each other, Even with that ex- tra precaution | went out next morn- _ing 'prepared to pick up 'the dead. hit there' were none However, the next two nights 1 did lose five but as they were evidently members of a nudist 'colony they certainly were "not much ofa loss. x * * p ~The foregoing was writlen----last-- night. By the time I had got thus far with my speel the furneee had borat itself out so I went to hed. The rest of the family were already under the covers. We slept--in blissful ignorance of wind and weather. But this morning ... onc look outside was cnough. Rain pouring down from grey un- brokerr skies; apparently it had been raining all night. The creek had - flooded its banks and part wi the pasture ficlds were awash. The cows were the far side of the creek! Nor- mally the cows walk through the usually shallow' creek because that keeps the back. lane from ~heing churned up all the time. This morn- ing--because of _the.swollen waters, Bab tried to drive the cows-ta the gate at the hack of the field and on down the lane. Do you think they would 'go? No sir . .. cows can be the stupidest," stuhbornest things on came running, back to the creck and plunggd into the swirling water. 1 was wafching from the buck of 'the house, The "first cow completely dis- aopeared for a minute 1 thought sic was drowned---then | saw the water churhing 4nd the cow scram- bled" to her fect on this side of the creck, Fhe rest of. the cows came after" her and swam 'the creck. All that ic, cicept one. Eva will never By Gwendoline P. Clarke * stars! as much as put her foot in a puddle _ of water if she can help it. That cow has personality. She 'allowed Bob to drive her down the lane to the bridge, But here was more trou- ble, Brush and debris swept down by the fast flowing creek had dam- med the bridge. The water, as wa- ter will, had diverted its course, and | flowed on across the lane below the bridge. PIE Yael Pa Incidentally, before any milking was done this morning, the men pad- .dled around at the bridge and re- moved all the planks so they wouldn't get a chance to float away. Now it is ten o'clock, still raining and the water still rising. A ditch at the back 'of the house has risen higher than the outlet pipe from the cellar so water is backing up into the cellar, Things are beginning to look mighty serious. But, like the man without any shoes who pitied himself until he met a man without any feet, so we in this district have much to be thankful for. At least a tornado hasn't come our way, wreck- ed our homes or killed helpless vic- tims, Thoughts turned inward and confined to the boundaries of our: farm and family are bound to be selfish and despondent. But if. we look outward and onward it is more than likely our own troubles will grow less as we conie to a better understanding of, and have a keener. ~ sympathy for, those 'other folk ® whose ills are so often much greater than our Ah Ci Bri rani Crochet an" heirloom piece of You'll memorize the square m ao time. What fun to ium them out in Tdisure dime. A beginner will. be an accom- plished crocheter with this medal- lion. Pattern 850 has directions. Laura Wheeler's atew, improved pattern makes needlework so simple with its charts, photos, con- cise directions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to the Needlecraft Dept, Room 421, 73 Adclaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, ! < | . Anawer (a 'revioun Posale Former Official ERIE ce | dere AVE PACER ; NIALL (3° HORIZONTAL VERTICAL C ONT 3 . 1.6 Pictured 1 Sleeveless Ra former U. S. garment 2 i T Secretary of 2 South Dakota Try Commerce (ab.) 3; in THEODORE 10 Greek letter , 3 Be seated 2 11 Plunge 4 Level ho ; 12 Consume 5 Demigod 13 Us" 6 Gibe with heat - .. thunder 15 Mischievous - 7 Boat paddle 23 Search - 40 Ruse eaild 8 New Testa- . through '41 Morindin dye -17 More concise -- ment (ab. ) 25 Lax "42 Thoroughfare ~ 5 Ofler 9 Sways, 26 Rent 3 Ado 20) Heroic 10 Bearing 31 Staggered 16 Hog 22 Black (Fr.) 14 Rim 32 Constellation 47 Standing 23 Circle 16 Tubular part 34 Error room only 24 Asiatic - 18 Yes (Sp.) 35 Intense dislike (ab.) kingdom 19 Feathered . \ ' 36 Naughty 50 Either 26 Great vertebrate child 52 Symbol for 27 Nevada city 21 Glowing 38 God of tin 28 Extremities 29 Accomplish : '30 For instance 2 elt { wiss 'canton 37 Brilliance 39 Ronan er "40 Battles 14 Friends (Scot.) 45 Winglike part - , 16 Flvers -- £ Bihan ymbol for tellurium 50 Grease B1 Ventilates 53 bol for, ; bium Mu Mournful 45 Spoke : 2 monotonously « de a "in "and day out; = cloud Children of the North-- This picture wid be titled "What the Younger Indian Will Wear in the Canadian Northland." In her new store dress of summer print with puffed sléeves, this child at Fort Good Hope, has her straight. hair wound in a single metal curler, ideas from * Indians have lands and better symptomatic of the growing invasion of up south." Representatives of Canada's Six Nations asked Ottawa for more modernization of their opportanities for progress. . 5 _TEEN- TOWN TOPICS GUEST AA BY SUSIE Well, Barry finally ieft for a week's holiday up north, and what His needed a time we had getting him off. motlier is having a much rest and I am looking forward fo a week of peace and quiet-- instead of | bomb shattering. days. Tt was quite a struggle to get the privilege of writing his column. Four nights and days I worked on him and only during a weak moment on the last day did he consent. Tt was too late then--for he had pro- mised and T had accepted. Barry likes the names of the kids around the-province and the different things they are doing in his column, and the thought occurred to me that Barry is doing things different, day co why not his readers what he is like. x * On thing in your columnist's life, is the fact that-he can get in some of the finest messes without even trying. He was helping his mom _paint 'the ceiling of the living-room a few days ago. He turned round to ask her something, knocking over the paint can. Lovely white paint "pourcd down his trouser leg onto the hardwood floor. Aftér- the excite- ment had. died down and Barry had 'stopped admiring his white flannels, he sauntered over to our house to sec what was cooking (taken liter- ally). On the way over he decided the car needed fixing, as It wasn't picking up speed properly; and we were going to a dance that night (Saturday Nite). _ Well, whatever happened, 1 don't know, but about fifteen minutes later 1 looked out to 'sec what he was doing and the largest black of - smoke was pouring out fm the back end of the car. To make matters worse, he jumped /in and roared up the street, gunning her as hard as he-could. When he came back everything was normal and the usual load of kids was piled in the back and hanging over the sides--just like any other day. x = : One Sunday last summer the gang decided to go up to Lake Simcoe for a, picnic. Barry said he knew a short cut. After wastmg hours going up and down sideroads and farmers' lanes we arrived on the scene in time for supper. Then everyone de- cided 'to hire somé canoes and go cruising up and down the lake before it got too dark. the best canoe of the bunch--giving me a line about the dif{crent kinds of wood, the best built boat. While I was standing there listening to this, the other kids were way out on the lake, - ; * * - i Finally we got going and I settled myself comfortably, handing him both paddles in case any question came" up as to who" was to do the work. Things went fine for about five minutes until Barry saw some kids he knew in a sailboat. Nothing . * would do but that we tie the canoe to the sailboat and have a free ride. We were really clipping around the lake--me hanging onto both sides and Barry waving at the gang as we flew by. It seemed as though we flew part of the way and bounced the ret. After hous or maybe fif- teen minutes of this torture, Barry == . By BARRY MURKAR tell | Barry picked out | asked if we could ride in the sail- boat." I had had enough of boats to do me for months. and politely refused the invitation ----- meanwhile glaring at Barry and thinking to myself, wait until [ get on land will 1 tell him off? Feeling much better when they let me off, I sat on' the beach and waited for the sailor. They seemed to be taking the cor- ners much too fast for my liking, and I was glad to be on dry land. They nearly tipped about five times, but what' was worrying me more than the boat tipping was the girl with the honey, coloured hair and the trim bathing suit. Barry's quite dependable, but forgets himself -sometimes--especially when there is something extra nice around, He was sitting beside her. When they landed he helped her out and stood there laughing quite excitedly. Well, I just tripped over and put a stop to any ideas that migh crop up, and things resumed their usual fashion. « = = . We were just sitting down to sup- per tonight, when- Mrs. M. phoned to say that Barry was back on the scene again. This time by telephone, asking for twenty dollars. She is sending six." He. had trouble with the car and took it into a garage to have it fixed. The man at the gar- age had two bear® cubs, and Barry bought one and was shipping it home, : So friends you now have an idea of what your columnist is like and the life he leads; also the disturb- ance he causes wherever he goes. I can just sce him and that ber cub sauntering over here atter supper every night. Well, I can tell you now, 1 won't play second fiddle to any grizzly. : - KIDNEY ACIDS 'Rob yourRest.. Many 2A Notes seen) to get a good \ night's rest. They turn and toss--blame it on 'nerves' --when it may be their kidneys, Siaslity A s filter poisons and excess GLE ities stay in the sy vest often | If rv don't rest well and use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's the kidneys so that you can rest etter--and feel beter, 146 "minutes. - cept 3 with tips Si in conire; TABLE TALKS ... "Can All You Can" Canning methods, like everything else, have changed greatly during the past decade or so, They are no "longer haphazard, When each step is followed with care there should be no worry about the keeping quality "of the canned product, success is assured. "For up-to-the-minite. can- ning information, the home econom- ists of the Consumer Section, Do- minion Department of Agriculture recoraménd their new, revised bulle- tin "Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables." In this booklet. you will find the essential 'steps of canning outlined in a.clear, concise and easy:to-fol- low manner, It gives detailed infor- mation on such topics as the equip- ment used in canning, the prepara- tion of containers, the selection and preparation of the preduct to be canned, . packing the product, along with the processing, cooling and stor- ing of the canned product. It also contains a Question and Answer. section, where thé reason for many failures may be found. You may obtain your copy by writing to the Dominton Department of Agriculture, - Ottawa. STRAWBERRY JAM 4 quart boxes strawberries OR 8 cups crushed strawberries 6 cups sugar . - Wash, hull} crush and measure strawberries, Bring to boiling point and precook uncovered, for 15 mins, Add sugar, bring to boil and boil, uncovered, until jam stage is reach- ed--about 12-15 minutes, Yield: 614 cups. \ TO CAN ASPARAGUS Wash, break off tough ends of stalks. hii scales if necessary, Cut in lengths to fit containers. Tie in uniform bundles and stand upright in 2 inches of boiling water, Cover, bring to boil and "boil 3 Add 1 teaspoon salt per quart. Cover with boiling water, leaving headspace, Time to allow if pro- cessed in: - Boiling 'Water Bath--Pints and 20 oz. cans -- 2 hours Quarts and 28 oz. cang -- 2 hours ' Pressure Cooker (10 1bs.) Pints . and 20 oz. cans -- 80 minutes Quarts and 28 oz. cans -- 85 minutes, : RHUBARB CHUTNEY 2 lbs, rhubarb (7 cups) 1 large onion few grains cayenne pepper ¥4 teaspoon salt . 1 teaspoon 1 teaspoon 14 teaspoon % teaspoon 1 teaspoon whole pickling spices (tied in cheesecloth bag) . 1 cup vinegar 1%4 cups sugar ground gingér cinnamon cloves allspice Wash and cut rhubarb into 14" pieces... Peelp slice and cook the onion in a.small quantity of water for 20 mins, in a covefed pan, rhubarb, seasoning and »4 the vine- gar. . Cook until rhubarb is tender, = Add sugar and 'remaining vinegar. Continue 'boiling over low heat, un- covered, unt the chutney is of. the consistency of jam--about 45 nrin- ues. Yield: 2 pints, NY TO BE POPULAR insist serving Maxwell House coffee. 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