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. Po " " - ) Tow: x CANE FAA rr A TL TAY we PEN SEE Tf a EA RE EY a i Le ALT a > HAR Bh Ra HLT 44 AVN SPAT Tr LEE CE dy es 3A EEE URE SN A SL TL of a 20 : SS ALIA lla Fd i ' 8 . Bn 50. CLR, pits i RONICLES 2GiNGERFARM Gwendoline P. Clarke We sold sone hens last Monday. 'When the buyer came in and offered us a price, we accepted, providing he. took them all--either . that or none at all. He agreed. There were . about forty. Then he started catch: ing them. Presently he threw one down--""That's a cull," he explain- ""ed. "Just a minute," said Partner; "you said you would take them all" at the price we agreed on." The man started to hedge but Partner stood his ground. That kind of hing has happened before. A buy- er comes in, takes his: pick of the flock, and then tries to leave wus with the poorer birds. This time it didn't work. Partner did not try to force a sale, in fact he repeatedly told the man to put back what he had caught and we would sell to someone else. But no, he wouldn't do that. Finally he took them all --and after that he got away in a hurry. I'm telling you Partner was veally mad! And yet all the birds weren't sold after all. One got away and we haven't been able to eatch her since! Now our Light Sussex pullets are in the hen-house. 1t is going to be interesting to see which pullets put on the best show ...in another pen we have hybrids --a cross between Barred Rocks and White Leghorns. Both breeds are ~----mew-to- us. A ' Friday just about everything hap- pened--and it was Partner's birth- day. He didn't remember it; and Bob and 1 did not remind him until we had been down town and got some birthday pipes and cigars. Then I also produced a card from daughter which had 'arrived in the' mail that morning. When Partner efme in from the barn I was sing- ing--"Happy Birthday to . Youl" And what answer do you suppose I - Surprise: surprise! -- \\ hen Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Weit- sel, newlyweds, return from their honeymoon they're apt to get a shock when they see the stork friends erected on top of ° their new home. got? Just the "Call the 'Vet' will you--Queen is sick!" Oh... oh! However, it wasn't as _bad as it might have been The, "Vet", fortun- ately, was at home and after he had given the mare a hypo she was soon all right again. After supper came another. shock «v.+.a telephone call... "Fort Wil- , liam calling Mr. Clarke." My heart' just about skipped a beat. You know how you can imagine all kinds of things in the space of a few minutes. But the call wasn't about Daughter -- it was FROM her--just a eall © wish her Dad | many happy returns of the day. That was her birthday present-- and she couldn't have hit on a bet- ter one. It was just wonderful to hear her voice, and from her happy laughter we knew she was all right. Daughter could have sent a wire, and it would have brought her mes- .sage, but there was a lot more satis- faction in hearing her voice. It was also doubly welcome since there is no possible chance of her being home for Christmas. Well, after Partner's telephone call he went down to the barn again, just ta make sure everything was all right. He always does that some time during the evening anyway as he says if there is anything wrong "with the animals that it is the most likely time for it to show. He -thinks to leave then from one chore time to chore time next morning without looking at them at all is too long altogether. Coming back he sang out as he opened the kitchen door--'"What's the use of a birth- day if you can't have things go right?" Here's what happened. He took a warmish drink of water to Queen--and she wouldn't touch it. He gave the bull a pail of water in his manger--and he promptly up- set it. He thought one cow was looking as if she wanted a drink so he put a pail of water in her manger. She snuffled around it with her 'nose until it, too, was upset. It all. had to he cleaned up. Then Partner took a look at the heifers he has runiiing loose in the barnyard--and they weren't there! Somehow or door of the barnyard and were run-" ning around in the, muddiest part of the ouside yard| And it was muddy after the heavy rain we had had. So Partner was .quite ready to say with Gracie Fields-- "What's the use of a Birthday?" Speaking of Christmas . . . we havn't any plans at all--although fit is open house here for any of our friends. who care to come. But I am_ thinking I had better start spring housecleaning : in the middle of winter] Partner's sister in England -says she hopes to visit us this sum-_ mer--and there is just a chance two coiisins may also be coming. ~ Secret of Health Grandpa Cartmell was celebrating his 100th birthday and everybody complimented him on how athletic and well presérved he appeared. "I will tell 'you the secret 'of my suc- : cess,' he cackled.. "My wife and I were married 75 years ago. On our wedding night we made a solemn 'pledge that whenever we had 'a fight, the one who was "proved wrong would go .out and take a walk. Gentlemen, .I have been in the open air practically continuously for 75 vears." } A POUCH OR POCKET SLUNG FROM THE apie AND REAR EDGE OF A BABY. CARRIAGE CAN BE A IG HELP 70 MOTHER WHEN SHE GOES $HOP- "PING. IT IS MADE OF CANVAS. SEWED OVER LENGTHS OF HEAVY WIRE, THE ENDS OF WHICH ARE BENT TO FORM HOOKS, . IN MAKING THE POUCH CUT THE SIDES TO A RADIUS' LARGE ENOUGH 70 GIVE IT CONSIDERABLE DEPTH, IT 18 A 600D IDEA, T00, TO SLIP RUB- BER TUBING OVER THE HOOK ENDS TO PREVENT MARRING THE FINISH C7 ONTHE CARRIAGE: : = AND ARRANGED T0 FORM THE DESIRED |. ROMAN NUMERALS. 3 pre oe p a' 1204p DEVICE THAT MAY BE STANDARD CHANGEABLE STAMP IS , IT CONSISTS SIMPLY OF FLAT & ED AROUND A WOOD BLOCK © other they had nosed open the backy, - Puzzle--Find the Car--Beauty in whqlesale lots descended on an automdbile exhibition in Yiris, France, as a contest for the title of "Miss Automobile™ gets under way. In case anvhody Z TT we cares, the car is a Simca OCV. When the King Heard and Acted Are kings worth what they cost? Pastry-cook Alfred Bell, 48, thinks 90. Recently Alfred stook looking through the grubby window of an empty little shop in the main road of Bedhampton, a Hampshire vil- lage. He smiled broadly as he pic- tured the cookies and cakes and pies he would bake to fill it. "It's all "the King's doing", he cried. "God bless the King!" After the First World War, in which he served as an RAF observ- er, Alfred had opened up his. own pastry shop in .London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined the RAF again. His house at Croydon was bombed one night while Alfred was at home on leave. Alfred, his wife and their six children survived, although Alfred was left with & erippled leg, his wife with a weak heart. After the war the Ministry of Labour rated Alfred as "unem- ployable." Four fimes he had ap- plied for a permit to open a pastry shop 'in Bedhampton, to which he had moved. Four timgs he had been. refused. . : Last April, Alired sat down in his red-curtained sitting room and wrote a letter to the King at Buck: ingham Palace, telling His Majesty the whole story. A few days Jater, King George VI was sitting at his Georgian wal- nut desk in the lofty blue and white study of the palace, reading the' morning's mail. - Among the iet- ters with _embossed headings -he saw Alfred's: cheap writing paper and careful penmanship. He reach: ed for it, read it twice, then handed It to his secretary with instructions. --It-took--four-months--of -bureau---1{- cratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. "Last week, an official buff-coloured en- velope flopped on_to Alfred's door- mat. Insidé was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . .. was re ferred by the King to the Minister - of "Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful con- sideration and. has decided that . ... an exception to the general rule . .. may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears." >1 The Bookshelf ... Corporation Finance By C. A. Ashley The Professor of Commerce at ~.the University of Toronto has-writ- 'ten a book which, while it may not- have any great appeal to the gen- ; eral. reading public, will undqubtedly "become a "must" for all forward- * Jooking business executives. It will be all the more welcome because there is very little Canadian mrater- ial of recent date casily available on the subject. . In this book Professor Ashley deals with the forms of business organization, the formation and control: of companies; the capital market and the stock market; shares, bonds, borrowing, financial 'structure, combination 'and mon. opoly and a host of other matters and all in a manner both clear. and concise. He is a recognized authorl | ity on such subjects and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chart- ered Accountants in 19047. ; Corporation Finance . . By C. A. Ashley . . The Macmillan Co. of . Canada . . Price {2.50. -- -- Same As At Home An English guide was showing Kenilworth Castle to some soldiers from Ontario, "For hundreds of vears," he proclaimed, "not a single thing repaired." "Say," observed one of the soldiers, "we must have the «ame landlords" K*-- Facts, Not Alibis, "Wanted on Hydro The present power breakdown is the greatest industrial calamity that has ever hit Ontario. Over wide areas of the most high- ly developed part of Canada, factor- ies are shut down for hours daily, business is disrupted, workers' in- come is cut, housewives are seri- ously inconvenienced and property is endangered. Production is being lost and employment is being sac- rificed. And as yet there has been no adequate or convincing explanation of this colossal failure from the authorities who have been respone- - ible, says The Financial Post. Now this issue has been pitched into party politics which will furth- er confuse the issue, and further , postpone its correction. " CCF'ers are making the Hydro affair 2 major weapon in their fight against George Drew. This is a precarious limb for them to go out on. - © It was under public ownership, which means political direction of Hydro, that Ontarlo was dragged into its present mess; and one that ® threatens to he with us for years. Aftermath of the Pennsylvania "Smog" Disaster--Patsy Iresa says goodbye to his daughter, Carol Lee, in Donora, Pa; be- fore leaving --with 40 .other "smog Pvictims to recuperate at" Wrightsville Beach. » Das newspapers are c which means, inevitably and irre- "inevitably get into trouble because ~ demonstration of what thé Socialists _- Much Work, Small Pay "rendering letter of resignation pen- wants more public ownership; more political interference with produc- Ve Processes. - So, in effect the CCE is saying: We'll give you more. of 'the same thing that has ended in the present Hydro schemozzle. The CCF, furthermore, 1s the, party which so vociferonsly predict-- ed that depression would set in right after the war. On that reasoning, the CCF would have had Hydro in A worse mess. } Right now, there is a great scurry- Mg around to find a scapegoat. Municipal, provincial and _ federal politicians are leaping into the mael- strom, each blaming somebody else. thundering 2t each other, each from its own portisan perch. All this js significant proof that Hydro is up to its neck in politics. ' a And that's the real cause of to- day's trouble. No 'further hunt for alibis and scapegoats need be made. The culprit is public ownership, vocably, political control oi Hydro. In the private or stockholder bus- iness the management has the auth- ority and the responsibility of doing all that is necessary to assure the present and future welfare of the enterprise. Ii it mismanages of miscalculates its reserves, it collaps- es or goes broke: The same happens when it fails to give its customers the service they want. But enterprises run by politicians the interests and problems of the politicians "are different to those of the businessman. In the Hydro mess, Canada has a offer on a "scale multiplied many times." -- From the archives of the Director of Education in Manila (quite some time ago, we assiire you) someone has abstracted, or copied, this heart- ned by a harassed native feacher:- "Dear Sir, I have the honour to resignate as my works are many and my salary are few. Besides which my supervifing teacher makes niany loving to me to which I only reply, 'Oh, not, Oh, not!" _- "Very respectfully "JOSEFINA." The art of giving ceramic tile a A i lustre finish was a jealously guarded secret in ancient Mesopotamia. 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Pour into refrigerator tray and freeze until firm. Remove to bowl and beat with rotary beater until free fram lumps but still a hard mush. Return to refrigerator tray and finish freezing. Fill gra- ham-cracker crust with ice cream and sprinkle "top with graham- cracker crumbs. ] . . I'here's one thing I had better warn you about regarding this It doesn't last long. (I' don't mean "keep" but "last"). second and third helpings are the order of the day. Banana Cake t2 Cup Shortening, 1 Cup Sugar ' 1 Fug 14 Cups (Approximately ¥) Mashed Bananas 4 Cup Sifted Cake Flour 2 Ieaspoons Baking Powder v4 Teaspoon Salt ) 2 1 1 1! Tablespoons Milk a Teaspoon Vanilla Cream shortening and sugar to- gether until light and fluffy. Add egg and mix well: Stir in bananas. Sift together the dry ingredients and add with milk and vanilla. Blend thoroughly. - Pour into two greased 8-inch layer (ins and bake in a dane Andrews moderate oven (800 degrees F.) # minutes. 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