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~~ scribing MN] Mra? | . \ LE, ; f 5 AOR Ro stoi wr NE ts a EL arity HAGE po gin 1 \ . '. * ARH AT Circus Freaks Of Other Days "oo "TFify years ago, complete without its sideshows. The great Barnum had "spotters" throughout the world looking for novelties in human or four-legged form. He exploited the blue-skinned man, the elastic-skinned lion-faced boy, 4 sword-swallower no circus: was who put lighted: electric lamps ih. liis interior, a man who could shift hig heart a couple of inches, and the U gliest Woman on E arth, The Last- named was not really ugly, but she was sufficiently ditfer- ent acially" rom the average 'indi- vidual to create a sensation in. the United States." Incidentally, from carning a paltry living in Deptiord as a casual help she became com- paratively wealthy from a handsome salary and a percentage ture postcard sales. of her pic- Annie Jones, the Barnum bearded lady, was rich when she She was very musical and the greater part of ler hours. in art galleries in parts of 'the world spent leisure various Two notable survivors of the freak era are the tlea-circus and the midgets, Last year at Olympia a troupe of midgets appeared and the flea-circus, conducted by a wake "Ugliest Woman" -- FBI agents said Mrs. Lucy Con- lisk, a former school teacher, admitted driving the - get- away car in a $5253 bank rob- bery at Antioch, ~fll;,; last March. Mrs. Conlisk made even bigger headlines by. de- herself as ugliest world's woman." had been an aerial- did big business. who artist, woman trapese "They were the {ore attractions" ~fn-thefun-fair. -- Time. was when -- every freak of nature was on show. Giants became the chief among them. It was claimed for Song Shu-teh,- at Luna Park, Shanghai, that he was nine feet five inches and that at one sitting. he could eat four large rice puddings, a chicken and twenty-four cgus. Giants on show in years have seldom been taller than cight feet. Some, with the aid of the showman's vocabulary, have been described as being eight feet five inches, when actually they were not more than -seven-feet six inches. But Dinny Duffy, attached to Wirth's Circus, in' Australia, was seven feet four inches at the age of thirteen. At nineteen years of age he was nearly nine feet tall There is a legend in. Scotland that, once upon a time, there ex- isted a giant named Funnan, who measured eleven feet in height; but there is no actual proof. The probability is that he was confused with the Irish giants of fairy lore, one of whom, Coul, is said to have walked across the Giant's Causeway from Ireland to Scotland. Two much-boosted Irish giants, Charles O'Brian and Patrick Cottar were no more than seven feet nine and three-quarter inches and cight feet two inches respectively. Among the 'humorous' oddities, there was 'Tomasso, described by Barnum as the Hunian Pincushion, who claimed that he could control the circulation of his blood. People - wen invited to stick pins, needles, and even hatpins through. his ears, arms and lips, and he wouldn't bleed. Another queer exhibit with Bar- num was the Human Ostrich, a West Indian who seemed to thrive on a diet of grass, nails, ticks and other dainties. There have been many armless men and women who could 'write a copperplate "hand" with their feet, One of them, Unthan, who appeared at the London Hippo- drome, 'sed a typewriter. Tire-caters have gone out of fashion, too. A woman named Stromboli had a gas-bracket fixed to her mouth, and she lit the jet "with a taper; When gas mantles™ came into vogue she fixed one in _ lier mouth, turned on the gas and stood 'before the audience in full incandesce nce, 2 . On show at one time was Ahir Destur "Arian, a native of India, 'who had a moustache sixty-eight aches long "from tip to tip. man, "the - retired, | . "the the last few. | Fin Mac- * %GingEr FARM Y Gender ine p Clo.rke "One mat's meat js anotlier man's poison!" How 'true--and how fort- "unate. Ii we all liked -the same - kind of meat and it was equally good for everyone there 'would never be envugh of it to go around. And by "meat" I am not thinking of 'what we eat but of. work, plea- sure, governments, climate--in fact anything and everything that con- cerns our way of living. Sometimes, in that connection, vou 'wonder at a person's choice of work as his or her way of making a living. Yor instance, if you have no liking for the type of work they do, you might wonder why anyone would want to be a doctor, a nurse, a telephone operator org dentist, Yet all such work must appeal to a great many men and women or they wouldn't be doing it. And isn't that fortunate for us? However, there is one other thing to remember--so often choice of a vocation is as much a matter of fashion as diomond socks and short- ic coats. Young folk, in their for- mative years, get a notion for doing just what the other fellow is doing --which often leads to round pegs in square holes. Reinember the period "when 'most young leaving school wanted to be bank clerks, and most of the girls either . a school teacher or a nurse. Later there was quite a run on insurance agents and travelling salesmen, while every other girl thought a stenographer's desk was the place for her. Now there is a great increase in the variety of jobs available--now some girls think longingly of a job as stewardess on an airline and boys of being. operators or transport dri- vers. Just a few of them--both . boys and girls--think farming MIGHT be all right. ' The same thing applies to plea- sure. No two people have exactly the same idea as to what really con- stitutes pleasure. A quict evening at home -or among friends can be more satisfying to some folk than all the highlights of the city and vice. versa. As for government politics . .-. well, we had betier skip that one. ~ But wouldn't it provide a good illugtration of one man's poison? Pos . . oh my; yes! Take climate .. "8why is it that people cheose to Livy in any partic- ular, country or district? ~Why choose an isolatéd area when you might live in a wel-populated com- munity? Or why 'choose -quarters as_cramped as. the proverbial sar- dine-can when you could, if you so "desired, live out in the country? Or again, why live in the Northern Ontario backwoods when you might get a job-in the city and live where there is plenty of 'life and 'enough noise to deafen you? Well, T guess you see what I am and party dhe Aolcws-- 4 Little more for other YARD 35in. for small sizel sizes! An apron that "fits nicely, is for gifts or hostessing at parties. Scallops 'and heart pockets are so gay! Pattern 4725; small. (14, 16), medium (18, 20), large (40, 42). 'Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for | this. pattern. Print plainly SIZE," NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to Box 1, 123 Eight- centh St, New Toronto, Ont, Send Twenty-five cents in coins for our Anne Adams Pattern Book! - See the -smart accessory dresses, separates and classics, the special casy-sew styles for all ages, the gift pages. Printed in Book is a free Pattern for making child's dress from from man's shirt, fellows: My Son; My Son--After a 42-year separation, 83-year-old Isaac Neubart was reunited with his only surviving son, Leon, who arrived with his wife and child aboard the Gen. Blatchford. Leon was located -in Germany by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid. Society. and the only He was six months old when last seen by his father member of the German clan to survive World War II. - such a systein, could work out a list of penalties for various offenses for which motorists are noted. policemen whose @parking) lot has not been a happy onc might begin enjoying themselves. pretty ble for harnessing 'a- natural urge in behalf of law enforcement. As Sir Walter Scott put it, lives there a man who never to himself hath said, "I wonder what the driver of that car would say if he came out and found all four. tires flat!"? driving at. What actually started this train of thought was a letter we got from Bob. Bob, apparently, is in his glory--living and working . among all kinds of heavy con- struction machinery. Noise all day and all night, Trucks with tires so big it takes five strong men even to tip them up on end. And the price of them around $1200 a piece! Buckets on the power-shovel big enough for a man to crawl around inside them. And the weather--so cold the men are work- ing in zero temperatuie a good deal of the time. And Bob has been-on "the graveyard shift" which wouldn't make it any warmer The plant shut down for | Christmas and then all the trucks had to be towed before they would start again; the shovels also refused to operate. . . At Christmas Bob went to visit his uncle at La Cave. Drove there and had three flats on the way, caused by the extreme cold. At 2 a.m. he was changing a tire at 25 below zero! And yet he is happy the life he likes. what he calls ..that'is" Oil and gasoline seem as necessary to him as fresh air to a farmer. © Why anyone should prefer that kind of life to farming is hard to fathom, But so it is. The more T-think of it the better 1 understand the feelings of the mother hen who hatched out a duckling. Partner has never want- ed to do anything other than farm so Bob can hardly be called "a chip' off the old block". "Unless one might say there is a similarity even though circumstances are differ- ent. You see, Partner was the only once in his. family who wanted to go farming--and his family could never understand why. Nor could ~ my _family understand why 1: was willing to be a farmer's wife. But there you are--farming was our "meat"--and could we go back 30 years we would probably make the same decission again. True, it has sometimes been pretty "tough meat" but it has never been "poison". Illegal Parkers Read and Shudder Maybe the city council of 'Spal- ding, England, has hit upon the perfect device, for making motorists behave. If Spalding motorists don't pay their 35-cent municipal parking lot charges, a. policeman will de- flate their tires, The Spalding city fathers have a sense of proportion worthy of the great Mikado who, in G aud 'S's of the same name, proposed to make the punishment fit the crinie: And make_each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent' A source of innocent merri- ment! Of innocent merriment! The Mikados of Spalding, under And The Spalding experiment is hota- When the United Nations finds so apt a penalty for aggressors, and so delightful for law enforcement agents to apply, motorists with an fiipal parking lot charge soon. will re. Tlie Christian * Science Monitor TESIINDAY SCHOOL JS LESSON By Rev. R. BARCLAY WARREN B.A... B.D. : TI GREAT TEACHER Mark iv:1-20; 26-34 Memory Selection: Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, lit shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.--Mark iv.:24. ERE Jesus Christ was the | Greatest Teacher of all time. He spoke as never man spoke. In today's lesson Tic teaches concerning His kingdom by means of parables. A parable has Deen defined as an "earthly story with 'a heavenly meaning." Put we must not think of the earthly as. the source of the heaven-. ly. Rather, "The Lord is king, uot lorrowing this title from the kings of the carth, but having lent his own title to them; and the 'king- dom of God' is; in fact, a most literal, expression; itis rather the carthly kingdoms that are figures and shadows. of the truth." The parables are simple so that cven a child may understand, When we succeed in employing enough of | simplicity #o engage the mind of a child, our sermons will reach a level that strikes the heart of the adult; |" "for the children'g heads are just about -level with the hearts of adults." The kingdom of God "becomes very great from: what seems to man | as a very insignificant beginning. Certainly when Jesus was crucified there scemed little likelihood that His followers would rise to spread His truth around the world. But that is the case." The Christian faith is the most powerful force in the world today. Evil §till ex- ists, but in its midst God, as Lowell has said, keeps His own. "Careless seems the Great Avenger, History's pages but record * One death-grapple through ages, . "Twixt old systems and the Word. Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above His own." 'Some day trath will be on the throne. the Curious Grounds For Divorce The case "with hich divorce can be obtained in the United States is resulting in an "increasing num- bey of applications based on more and more curious claims, One of the. latest is the applica "tion of a Detroit parson on the dust his Bible. A. Michigan man has sued his wife for,=divorce on the grounds that when he proposed. his normal spectacles were broken and he was voearing a pai which were out' of focus. Strange? 0 course it is, but not more so than the reason for which a Los Angeles woman actually did Cget a divorce--her husband called "ler a fool when she trumped his ace in a card game. Nor is it more absurd than the reason for which a man from Yar- mouth, in Maine, was gianted.- a divorce--his wife gave him too much pea soup. One can sympathise with some applicants, however. There was the man who found out after he had married that his wife had twenty- scven pet cats. And there was the woman in Chi- cago who had little difficulty in get- ting a divorce on the grounds that her husband's pet dog and pet monkey made life unbearable be- cause of the latter's habit of throw- ing stones at her. and when. they tried to come near to her she threw small pebbles at them. For a wliile this kept them at a distance until the monkey learned the habit of throwing them back. One of the latest divorce appli-- cations is from a girl in Tennessee young when she married to know 'what she was doing. She has been married two. years and her age. at the moment is 13. "Perhaps the answer -is given in the bylaws of Nevada, where a residence of six weeks ig neces- sary before qualifying for a divorce, but six months residence is essen- issued. Coun Whdln Pleasure to sce, fun to do! 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Bake in 24-234" cup cake pans in moderate oven (350°) for 80 minutes, Then blend one 3-07. package of cream checse with enough milk to make of sauce consistoncy. Top gaolt . serving with a spoonful. 2 ground' that lis "wife refused to, It seemed she was afraid of them, -- on the grounds that she was too - tial before a fishing licence can be "Dear Anne Hirst: band who does not trust me. I am so fed up I don't know which way - to turn! . "Before I" mar- ried, IT was--off "on the wrong track. My. hus- band knew about it -- and has never let me for- get it, Since meeting him, I have never cheated. He : does not believe 'it. While he was abroad and in service he had several affairs, and he accuses me of" the same sins at that time. "Day after day, I hear the sane thing. He doesn't even trust me to go shopping by 'myself! "He is a wonderful provider. He without anything we nced. He does- n't drink and he just likes to spend his time.at*liome with the television, He lcads a hermit' life, and feels I should too. L. I have no girl friends. The only place I visit is my mother's or his, and then I have to take the children, 1 like visiting, for I am home all week with the children. "1 should be thankful to have a husband who takes care of us. But I am so miserable I sometimes feel like walking out! I still love him, but not like I used to. I know if he keeps up these accusations I'll be a ner- vous wreck in a few years. : "I'll do whatever you say. DISGUSTED" TAKE A STAND ' . Unless you want to keep on living this sort of life, you will have to take a firm stand. You will have to tell your hus- band you cannot bear it any longer. Having to defend yourself con- stantly against his insulting accusa- tions "is warping your- nature 8o "that your health is being endan- gered. You cannot be a good mo- ther, nor a normal wife, when you are under continual suspicidn. For the children's sake, as well as for your own, you must cffect some change in your way of living, and "quickly. alone. You will make new friends, and invite them to your home; if he is sullen and inhospitable, let him be. You will take the children parties, so they will have a more normal life with their friends. provide for his family's material I have a hus- never, lets our children or me do - If he will not go out with you, _ you will take the children and go - to movies, too, and give them little Jt=is- not enough for a man to. being married to him, and making a home life for them all that is right and rich and full. --Or would your husband rather have an invalid wife on his hands? * Kk : A man who, does not enter into * 'the social life of his family and - 4 who deprives his wife of human rights, is cheating them all of their due . . . Anne Hirst will help you in your problems, Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth' St, New Toron- to, Ontario. 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