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| - i J 3 1 x ETA ro CAML TS So dehy STE ASN ------ RRS . -! iu Te CY ai er bi VEEP Erie et Ld HRONICLES GINGER FARM ? Gwendoline P. Clarke Well, it looks as if the ground- Bog knew what he was doing last month when he crawled back into his hole--there is a. cold, biting wind this morning and quite a flurry of snow. Like it or not we have to take what comes, 10 we may as well make the best of it. Now it has turned cold again I am glad I did what I did last week. Oh no, it wasn't a big job of house- eleaning or anything like that. It was nothing more or less than a vound of gadding! In fact I believe I was out somewhere every day last week--and sometimes twice, all ex- eept Saturday. And that is some- thing unuswal for 'me. And while mdding doesn't help the work along at the time, I believe it doés help one to shake off a sort of lethargy that comes with staying at hone too much. Anyway, here I am again, all set for a good week's work, so 1 haven't quite reached the stage complained of by a friend of ours who said--"Seems to me 1 ean't work and run around as well, #0 I guess I'll have to-quit work." One thing F like about gadding is the contacts one makes. I did go enjoy meeting a lady the other day, who, for. ten years, has been work- Ing on an historical research pro- .Ject. To my way of thinking history Ja about the most absorbing and fascinating study there is. I love to dig up facts concerning the early pioneer days in Canada, and 80, with very little encouragement I was soon off on -that track again. The trouble is it takes up so much time. Hunting through some old press clippings afterwards I made a discovery about our own farm which I had previously overlooked. It appears that in May, 1822, the early settlers in this district--all of' them Scotsmen--arranged to meet en the trail by Lot 2, Concession 3--which is this farm, but before it was a farm. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the advisa- ¢ bility of starting some kind of school for the. children in the dis- trict. From that meeting plans were - made from which emerged the first _ "log school house in this section where between 60 and' 70 pupils" were enrolled the first year. Many of them had quite a distance to walk through bush country as there were no busses to pick them yp: along the road in those days! 'Another interesting evening 1 had was when" I was invited as guest to a Book-of-the-Month tudy group. I got quite a kick out ef that--just sitting back woridering what "the reaction of the group would be "towards the book under review which | had read years ago but which was unfamiliar to all but iwo of the group. The book was "Tom Jones"--if you have read it you will know why 1 was amused rm Answer to Crossword Puzzle LIASEEATSACICIAW LENT (7 |SIRLI7IVIE Blo|o]|R AR NEW sivjal7 [CBT I|EINISIE[SIT Plolclo|nv[ofs ; PEC AIR if RIEIR|EIADIRR|T|P|E[R]S KARAT IRS [AIC BW E Ss |E |R|EINIE|R L|O|T|S DIEM IT [Claire 7 7[ClE} VIER AMEN TIER] NIEIS|T at possible reactions. If you haven't read it--well, never mind. Then there was the Canadian Club. which featured lantern slides of Quebec. It was splendid. For anything of that sort I much prefer lantern slides to moving pictures. With the latter-beautiful scenery is flashed on the screen and gone again before one can take in all the details. Scenic loveliness is not something fo hurry over but to linger with so that one can enjoy and appreciate the wonderful color-- ing and variations in light and shade. Lantern slides are a grand way of acquainting us with parts of Canada which we may never even have a chance to visit. To finish out the week Partner and I went to see "Hills of Home" ~--more beautiful scenery, this time of bonnie Scotland. And of course, there was Lassie! Saturday night Partner and I stayed home and listened to the hockey broadcast. 'And what of the farm? Well, an- other calf arrived so that means another cow to milk. The hens are still laying and our cats and dogs confinue to provide us with interest and entertainment. But we are minus one animal that we parted with without regrets. It 'was a skunk that had already killed three of our Sussex hens. So Bob set four trap units runway and. in half-an-hour the skunk was caught. It was well it didn't take any longer because I was having a great time keeping the dogs and Joseph-Mark from doing a little investigating on their own. So far I haven't done "any gadding this week but we have already received or entertained three neighbours, two insurance agents, one gentleman of the Jewish faith and five small boys lookin for pigeons. : Easy-To-Make Two Purpose Bag eAsy-to-make bag which may serve two purposes. It can be a clothes- pin bag, to hang on thé line or from a belt at the waist when clothes are ~ hung or removed from the line. It may be hung from the blanket rope in the automobile. Magazines, writ- ing equipment, make-up kit, gloves, or anything that needs to be easily accessible may be stored.in it. ; To make the bag, a wire clothes hanger and a piece of strong cloth such as cretonne or awning cloth are the materials needed. Cut the material an inch wider than the straight bar of the hanger and double the depth you wish the bag to be when finished. Three quarters of a yard doubled is quite satisfactory. oy . Make a narrow hem on both long edges. Turn an inch-wide hem in one end of the cloth, fold the ma- terial crosswise, letting the hemmed end come to an inch and one-half below the unhemmed edge. Sew the sides of the bag together. Now, hem the raw edge over the bar of the hanger. i ' APT DESCRIPTION In Union City, N. J, a young wantin whom Walter Blazeck had picked up robbed him of $150 and his car. When police asked him to describe her, he offered: "Over- pttractive." - 8 ailways has now placed in serv New Travelling Clinic.----In keep g preventive medicine to its emp ice a new all-steel medical car. ing with its policy of bring- oyees the Canadian National This modern clinic is equipped with the latest instruments for first aid, physical examinations and vision testing. The new car will make a continent-wide tour of the system and for the riext two years will he office and home for a railway medical officer, Shown inspectin the car; left to right, are: Dr. K. E. Rowd, chief medical officer C.N.R., Nurse B. Boudreau and I. Hattley, chief of motive power and car equipment Here is _an idea for -a_ useful, ' Where Do Shooting Stars Come From? When they streak suddenly across the night skies they are known as shooting stars or meteors. When these not completely burned up by air friction make a landing on a farm and embed themselves in the soil, they are known as meteorites, Wiere they come from has long been a mystery. At Chicago evi- . dence was offered that all meteor- ites are fragments of a shattered planet that once traveled a serene irse around the sun. The theory itself is quite obvious and quite ancient. _Astonomers have long been aware of an empty space in the planetary system be- tween Mars and Jupiter. But the idea of a shattered planet fell into disrepute in recent years when the ages of meteorites were calculated by the same methods employed in dating earthly rock formations--by their radioactivity and their helium content, These indicated that be- sides" being of different content-- some are stone, others nickel and iron--the meteorites have varying ages. . * . Dr. Carl A. E.uer, a Harvard astronomer, answered that one. Some meteorites, he pointed out, could have been prematurely aged by the atom-smashing impact of cosmic rays while flying around in space. Bauer built up a picture of an ancient planet that was broken up several hundred million years ago. It was smaller than the Earth but similar in construction, with a nickel-iron core and a stony shell. The nickel-iron meteotites would have come from the planet's insides, while the stony ones represent "a thin outer mantle that is similar to rocks observed near the surface of the earth." . Sa Strong support for this idea came from Dr. Harrison Brown of the bomb (he was assistant director of University of Chicago. After com- pleting his war work on the atom the Oak Ridge chemistry division) Brown made a study of 107 meteor- ites that have fallen on the Earth within the last century. He applied delicate chemical techniques de- veloped during the Manhattan pro- ject and concluded that "all the fragments came from an exploding planet which had a molten "core of nickel-iron at about 3,00 degrees centigrade." - * » The new methods of analysis used by Brown are so accurate that they are expected to help work out the (--wheole-history 6f the solar system, including the formation of the sun and the earth, and the question whether other planets can or could support life. The A.A.A.S. awarded its' annual $1,000 prise to the 30- year-old scientist for this eontribu- tion. Finger Painting Fun. For Little Folks Finger painting is something dif- ferent for you to do. You can make many pictures with the starch "paint" that can't be made with water colors and crayons. * You or your mother can make the starch paint by using' % cup of laundry starch. Mix the starch with enough cold water to make a smooth paste. Add 114 cups of boiling water and cook the paste until it's glossy and thick. Then let it cool. You can do your painting on wrapping paper, but white paper will give you the best results because the coloring will show up more bril- liantly. You will find 8-inch by 12- inch sheets to be best. One precaution before you start: Cover the table you use with old newspapers. Put about 4 cup of starch paste on a piece of paper.' Drop some coloring onto the starch mixture. You can use water colors or washable inks. Vegetable color- ing that mother uses in her cooking also works: as tint for the starch paste. 2 Spread the starch over the page with your-fingers. When the color- ing is well mixed into the starch and covers the entire page; begin mak- ing designs. For various effects use your fingers, forearm, palm, thumbs, closed fist, heel of your hand, finger tips and fingernails. i What should you paint? How about drawing something you have seen? You might paint a bird or an animal. If you don't like the first picture you paint, erase the work with one sweep of your hand and begin again, Maybe the next time you can make repeated flower de- . signs. y HOLLYWOOD A writer in London says a report has reached those parts to the effect that Hollywood brides riow keep the bouquets and throw away the bridegrooms. I wonder if he's heard about the starlet named Mary, who had a little wolf, and fleeced him white as snow? PILES When you remove the Internal eause of "you Roriewhils resulis thai g 's the simple Hhsen or |. hol great su .. matter what you, have done for this torture. ! or how rede 3 {and Sibiu | your ease, modern scipnce has ° Answer hy PYLTONE'S PILE REMEDY | (a Mauid ta! ). Your frst bottle proves ed at once. at's o TONE'S qnality, drineeists, by mon is or the RL Miracle Of Grogan's Mill--14 year 'old "Bubba" for a "bushel of letters" on a big radio program. » NC \Wose l.ong, whole life has been spent suffering from rheumatic fever, asked He got an estimated 100,000 pieces of mail, many of them enclosing money ---almost $20,000. Bubba's father works at Grogan's Mill and people are calling the event "The Miracle of Grogan's Mill." \g/ iN "we all One of the greatest of all food eontroversies is in regard to fried ehicken--southern style. There are almost as many theories regarding the proper method of preparing this succulent dish as there are about the best way to mix a mint julep, So today I thought perhaps you'd Hke to have a recipe guaranteed to be authentically "southern"--and it has nothing to do with fried ehicken, Maryland, as that entails batter and deep fat. So here we go for: N FRIED CHICKEN, SOUTHERN STYLE Select chickens of from two to two and a half pounds weight; and # you have the butcher disjoint them for you, ask him to use a knife rather than the cleaver, as the lat- ter splinters the bones, leaving them uneven and unsightly. Some Southern cooke '«se two frying pans, one for "e white meat, the other fog "ee dark. Thus the pieces that require about the same length of cooking are grouped to- gether--the white-meated portions are done more quickly than the dark, of course, Season the chicken, including the giblets, with salt and pepper; dredge with flour. (Either roll in flour or shake in flour in a paper bag.) Melt chicken fat in two frying pans so "that it's about a half-inch deep. When hot arrange the white-meated pieces in one, the dark in the other. If only one pan is used, put the dark in first, as they take longer to cook. Turn often, being careful not to pierce the flesh so the juice will escape. Cook from 30 to 40 minutes * (depending on age and tenderness of the birds) or till ten- der and a deep brown in color. The gravy is almost as impor- tant as the chicken, and here again there are different schools of thought. In Tennessee they favor a brown gravy, niade with water; in Alabama; a cream grdvy, done with milk. But be sure and make plenty, which ever style you choose, CHICKEN GRAVY For each tup of gravy desired leave two tablespoons of fat in the pan together with any brown crusty portions of chicken that have dropped off. Pour off all the fat in excess of desired amount, Blend in flour, allowing two tablespoons for the same amount of fat, Cook, stirring till flour is brown, Slowly add' water. or milk, one cup for each two tablespoons of fat and flour, Cook, stirring. till thickened. Boil one minute. Season to taste. To go with 'ther chicken and gravy, nothing could be more ap- ropriate than hot buttermilk bis enits, And people down Sotith de- clare that we nottherners make our biscuits. too. thick: and, too big are not much bigger than a half TABLE TALKS dane Andrews around. They favor biscuits that dollar--thin and erispy, brown on top and a glossy white inside. OLD SOUTH BUTTERMILK BISCUITS 2 sups sifted enriched flour 1 teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon double action or 134 teaspoons of tartrate or phosphate baking powder 4 tablespoons shortening $4 eup or slightly more of buttermilk Method save your oven very hot. (300 degrees 5 is about right). Sift to- ther ghe dry ingredients twice. hop In the shortening with a pastry blender or two knives tll the mixture resembles coarse corn meal. Add enough buttermilk to give a soft dough. Stir till the mixture forms a ball. Now turn out on a lightly floured board and knead for about thirty seconds. Roll to a quarter-inch In thickness and cut with a small blscuit cutter. Put on a greased baking sheet. 1f a glazed surface fs wanted, brush the tops with sweet milk. Bake at 500 degrees . F. for about 12 minutes, or until brown. Yield; about two dozen biscuits of an inch and a half in diamter. And if, after eating this combina tion I've described today, .you should find yourself breaking out into "You-all's" and "Honey chile's" don't blame me. It will be that Southern influence. been announced. Jesus Among People Of Other Races Mark 7:24-37 Golden Text:- God is no re- spector of persons: but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. Acts 10:34-35, Ir the first year of His ministry Jesus laboured mainly in Jerusalem and surrounding territory. Here was the magnificent temple, the center of Jewish worship. The next year he devoted particularly to Galilee, but the third year he went beyond the borders of his own race. When approached for help-by a Greek woman from Syrophenicia he re- plied in the mood of the day, "Let the children first be_filled: for it is not. meet to take: the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." But she was not deterred by the reference to the Gentile dog. She must have deliverance for her demon-possessed daughter. Her in- sistent faith was rewarded. Jesus east out the devil. But though Jesus tested this woman's faith by speaking as his countrymen, his statement also served to bring into bolder relief his own attitude to people of other races. To this woman, to the deaf and dumb man of Decapolis and to many others he accorded the same: mercy and love that he did to the children of Abraham. His ministry was to all. It was written into the American Constitution that "all men are born free and equal" But four decades passed and much blood was shed before the Emancipation was pro- Shakespeare Festival The Festival of plays at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, since it was first held in 1864, has progressively developed into an international event in the theatrical world, be- loved of devotees of the theatre everywhere, " The 1949 Festival plans have just The Festival will run from Saturday, the 16th of April, to Friday, the 15th of July, and, under the direction of Anthony Quayle, and with such famous pro- ducers as John Gielgud and God- frey Tearle, will attempt to better the outstanding successes of last year, Diana Wynyard, returning as the leading actress, 'will play Lady MacBeth in the opening production,® and then in various plays" through- out the season. Godfrey I'earle will be scen as MacBeth, one of the few great Shakespearean roles he has yet to play; he is also cast as Cardinal Wolsey in "Henry VIII" and will appear again as Othello-- these in addition to his work as producer, . These preliminary ad- vices of the proposed progranime give promise that this season will again be in the brilliant tradtion of Stratford. Many Canadians will again make their way there for the Festival, and might be well advised to make advance hotel reservations as soon as possible. Shakespeare claimed whereby the black slaves were freed. But' those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, We have our racial prejudices-in Can- . ada, too. We shouldn't allow immi- grants to enter our country if we are not.prepared to equally share the benefits and privileges with them, We should remember that we, too, are really foreigners here, for this land originally was inhabited by Indians. Let us bear in 'mind that God "hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. Acts 18:26. This cou- sideration should eliminate facial prejudice and help us to love and help men of all nations as Jesus did. CUTS, BURNS and BRUISES fat ER for over 50 years, Rupp uma' a J Wa A . 4 NU: 1] of DOES ~~ - INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE BELT? Help Your For, "28" For The Kind Relief That Helps Make Yeu Rarin' To & M th. 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Good for young and old because Post's Grape-Nuts Flakes pro- vide nourishgent . . , useful quantities of carbo. hydrates, proteins, minerals and other food essentials. Served Jn » Jiffy = eaten on right. Ask CF 139 OM THE COL WATER AND LEAVE { HIM NOTHING But ; rr v---- By Arthur Pointer ale : vol - - ~ BE -r INA RES i Ed y Coe ¥ > Se aa" A pert