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January 24, 1929 ithin the Arctic Circle southern end of South . winter. The span-m birds and many of the nt the winter from the ) the Gulf of Mexico. the migratory birds go my of our birds that .his winter turn from for food. Ln isn't so different n of yesterday when a. :5 in prospectâ€"Detroit term in to my ml rs of 11 kinds for ppean Markets for [will pu the Highâ€" et Price. {IDES SEHIDES EEPSKINS HORSEHAIR and FEATHERS mr buying ied in your .- \rite or phone i1 £31: {01' them. the British .derson’s akerY Wholesome some as a jolly smile. )0. IlfllflflOV 'onh McLaughlin's Lve migrations. Some with N Furs anled [(1 it's tOOth- 0. F 0 1‘ it's ith care and .431 FORTIFY IO urha m Durham I. THE (OLD! §§§zzst§. I would be greatly pleased to have lea, you continue the review of books , to throughout the year. I have procm-‘ed' the a number of those mentioned on the his At, Home” page and hope to get more ' and of them. 11 all the readers. The past year has been a very happy one for me and I hope this new year I thank you for your good wishes andwilldomybesttogiveyouan I hope. too, that some of the readers ofthiscornerwinbekindenoughto send in an account of some of the good books they have read. There is is impossible for one person to touch only a few of the many. This time I will give a synopsis of a. very interesting and instructive story of life in the northern part of our “Hunters of the Great North” by Vilhjalmur Stefansson The last two years Stefansson was in Harvard University he used all his spare time reading books about Africa and expected to become a field inves- tigator of anthropology in tropical Africa One day at the dining table the dis- cussion was on the accounts then in the press about a new polar expedition being organized by an American. Lef- fingwell and 3 Dane, Mikkelsen. Be- cause Stefansson had written and pub- lished the year before an essay on how N orsernen discovered Greenland about 900 years before, and how they were the first Europeans who ever saw Eskimos. they thought he would be interested but he said he had nof keen personal interest. A day or two later he received a telegram from Lef- fingwell asking him to come to Chicago at his expense to have a talk about his polar expedition to study the Eskimos in Victoria Island, who had never seen a white man. Excitement ran high. He talked with Lefi'ingwell. he agreed to join his expedition, not at Victoria. B. C. where the ship was being outfitted and where all the restl of the staff were to gather, but at the mouth of the MacKenzie river. Thel expedition was to sail north up the‘ Pacific. through the Behring straits and then to follow the north coast of Alaska eastward to the whaling sta- tion at Herschel Island. In April, 1906 he started on his journey acros the Canada and down the MacKenzie river. Prom Winnipeg he was under the care of the Hudson‘s Bay Company arriving at Herschel Island in August. The expedition did not arrive that winter. only getting as far as Flaxman Island on account of ice. Stefansson spent the winter living as an Eskimo among the Eskimos. His varied ex- periences make a most pleasant story. and his many descriptions of the way Come in 8: Chat Awhile â€"Rnth Raehurn. sprung a was am: mm w W aw...â€" doned. Thus the expedition was over f or At Home the Eskimos. live is in- for PRUDENCE mmlm. Whentwoyearsbt The stories he has told of learning to live on a diet of fish without salt, learning to dress to suit the climate, learning how to build a snowhouse and to be comfortable in one, only gives the reader the desire to read more of his books. “My Life with the Eskimos” and “The Friendly Arctic"., If a group of people wish to read and study a book together, I feel sm'e they would find any of Vilhjalmur Stefans- son’s works of absorbing interest. And now, Prudence, aeoept my good wishes for another nappy year. We will both look forward to hearing from some of the readers giving us a glimpse of what they like to read. WHY CLOTHES mm. IN THE TUB Clothes sent to the laundry are often lost to the sender even though the article may not have literally gone astray. Experiments show that it is not always her fault or the fault of the laundry. The cause sometimes lies with defective materials which should have been tested before made into the various garments and household items. Recently a test of 336 articles of clothing which were spoiled in the wash was made, and it was found that fast. Another large percentage of the failures was due to improper weighting and an over-stretching of the fibre on sufficient to make the garments un- wearable after their first experience at the laundry. Of these unsatisfactory garments, the ninety-two remaining cases were due to poor laundry methods. One or the causes of failure in this case was the insufiicient use of soapsuds, re- sulting in black flecks on 8 per cent of the clothing washed. Incorrect use of the hot iron or the sun caused scorching and fading. Other bad results were due to the felting or matting of woollen fabrics caused by rubbing, twisting or the excessive heat of either the water or the flat iron.‘ All of these errors in laundering should be avoided for the best results in the soiled woollen garment. Wool is also inclined to stretch especially when w 'ashing, and two of the articles tested 'were so badly stretched that they were [in no condition to be worn. ' The lesson to the housewife is ob- lvious. Before you buy material for ia washable item. test a sample to gmake sure it is satisfactory In buying iready -to-wear clothing, of course, your lproblem is more difiicult. 1 You have only the word of the re- {tailer as to the washability of your Eclothing. but if you buy from reliable ’idealers there is no reason why you :cannot get the genuine product or iyour money ‘5 worth at least. 3. There is a possibi1ity that your own !:methods of laundering need to be .f improved. So many ways of washing iare approved ways that every woman must work out her own problem ac- cording to her equipment, her circum- evefi if you hven't the advantage in its original manufacture It is recorded than an hour before the Thames flood in London, recently, miceweretobeseenrunningupa curtain on the ground floor of a house in Westminster. Some have attempted There are other cases of premoni- tion, as it is called, on the part of animals, which cannot be explained away, but must be credited to these creatures as a strange and a singular ginstinct. One day in August, 1922, an army of squirrels, numbering several hundreds, was seen travelling through the trees in the Fox Hins near Alder- shot. They crossed a road and took up their quarters in a wood half a mile beyond. Two days later a fire broke out a mile away from the wood which road which the squirrels so short a' time previously had crossed. In November, 1922, an appalling earth quake shook Chile. At Copiapo half the town was totally destroyed. Hundreds were killed, and 35, 000 people left homeless. Eighteen hours before this disaster cats at Copiapo became strangely uneasy. They wandered about, mewing pitifully, many of them ran out of their homes while some were seen to go up the the squirrels had vacated and reach- ing that wood it burned it out com- pletely, but stopped on_ reaching the hill above the town. Undoubtedly they had some instinctive warning of what was going to happen. There are sounds that are so faint that no human ear can detect them, but which run into the waters of an aquarium, will stun and kill small fish. An earth-worm can hear well below the soil the tread of a thrush above, and so keep out of harm’s way. of cold water. Swallows have an- other peculiar quality, for it has often been noticed that they will abandon any place where plague has broken out and will not nst there. Not a swallow will be seen until the epidemic Caitle that graze on the moors 31-! ways go up hill before rain, and fish! (trout. especially) will cease feeding !| some hours before the rain comes on.i But the strangest of living weatheri prophets are certain small yellow ants, common in Florida, which build their nests in the sandy soil. Twenty-four hours. at least, before a rain. these creatures become busy, carrying their grubs up from their underground tun- nels into the upper stories of their mounds. How these eyeless insects! are aware of the coming change is} beyond man’s understanding, but! their instinct is certain, and it is an? instinct that never fails them. i There is many a quiver in the air jthat means nothing to human beings, but has a message for the insth or the bird. Since the beginning of 1time electrons have rushed through ithe ether at the speed of 186,000 miles 1a second, but we never knew of itheir existence until a few years ago, when “wireless” revealed it. What re- 1 imains in a world unknown to human {senses may readily respond to the Eacute sense of animal instinct. STRANGE ANIMAL “AN ADVERTISEMENT IS AN INVITATION ” Every member 9f every family .in this community is interested in the news of the day. And no items are read with keener relish than an- nouncements of new things to eat, to wear or to enjoy in the home. You have the goods and the desire to sell them. The readers of "The Chronicle" have the money and the desire tohuy. The connecting link is ADVERTISING- Give the people. the good news of new things at advantageous, prices. They look to you for this “store news and WIN respond to your messages. Let us show you that E: i1hgil" ...:.‘33£'?i . PAGE 8.