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Durham Review (1897), 13 Jun 1935, p. 2

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us HOW TIMES HavEe CHANGED The ‘report that a large truck is to transport pigs, cows and chickens to various New York playgrounds, so that thousands of children will be able to see them for the first time in their lives, provokes the thought what today "the shoo is on the other Soot," as it were;, There is nothing which fruit grower more in t Peninsula than fake news ; written by space c mmdenls in the _ w early spring season. â€"St. standard . _A temâ€"year.old note in a Hamilton paper says: "Niagara fruit crops were badly damaged when the tem. rature slipped 66 degrees to 28 deâ€" ::m above zero over night." Mar. wellous to relate there was a pretty Lr crop in that year. One of the handicaps of late ot the growers of reat peaches is that ::. housew‘le is scared early in the m. Her reason is: "Well, I see by the papers there will be no peachâ€" e8, so I will certain‘y do down now what 1 can get." It is a sad commentary on modern conditions when people have to "nail down" their property in this way in order to prevent theft. Yeot Jucre MeKinley‘s advice 4s good. A universal ‘ocking of parked €ars would probably prevent 75 per cent. of the auto thefts or "bortow. dngs." Of cour:e, smart thieves can even get away with a locked car, but the chances of their doing so @re small, because they are so much more likely | to detecuon.â€"â€"Bordor‘ Cities Star. I LOCK Yyour car Judge McKinley, chairman of the Ontario Parole Board, urges . upon motor.sts the necessity of locking their parked cars. Many youngsters, bhe says, find the temptation of an unlocked car irresistible and decide to "borrow" it. To counteract this the judge csuggests that Insurance compan:es place a clause in thetr Rgontracts to pay only 25 per cent,. orl élaims when a car is left unprotectâ€" éd by lock. Here is a poser. It a party withâ€" @ut women is a cstag party, would the world without women be stagna. tion*â€"Guelph Mercury . THE INSECT war There are some 600,000 different kinds of insects in the world whose ways have been studied. In all the rest of the animal kingdomâ€"birds, beasts, reptile and fishesâ€"there are said to be not more than 36,500 speâ€" cles. And the insects are the most direct and relentless competitors of iman for a place in the sun. Hence we are at perpetual war with the gusect world.â€"Winnipeg Tribune. Some of the new and better motion piciures are proving more valuable as box office attractions than their sexy predecessors ever thought of being. It has taken a long time . t» make producers realize that the pub. li¢ is even more willing to patroniz> clean films than it is to patronize duâ€" bious ones.â€"Brockville Recorder. THE HARDY PpEacH crRoP Fig® Snd ditreces Athccos : Th s ts ic t i hours across the body of a student skier whose leg was broken. â€" The man‘s life was thus saved. Betty‘s feet were frozen but happily, she survived _ after treatment . â€"â€"Border Fusss : ae. Cities Star STEEL FRoOM THE soo By equipping the Sault steel plant in the last few weeks to manufacture large structural steel shapes, up to 15â€"inch beams and channels, and to manufacture steel <heet piling _ for dock and canal walls, neither of which producs was previously made in Canada, the Algoma Steel Corporâ€" ation has put itself in a position to take advantage of the revival in the construction industry which many be-‘ Htove it Itk is _nifine __Sunle ~ o_ Marie Star CANADA ‘wuelt ns l atg in +R :: Sn n m Ne rPuutk WELL, RATHER ___:/\ gnC \owct e BETTER movies ore in the â€"Ni fake newspaper CANADA industry which many be. the â€" offing.â€"Sault Ste. dog which «hurt , the dog lay for 18 ‘h «hurt; the the ~Niagara *sSPaber _ re. commanding winter â€" and . Catharines smokes at tha Frederick Abbott of Norton, Mal. ton, corn dealer, who died on Decemâ€" ber 18, aged 85, left estate of the gross value of £.4,275, with net per. sonalty £16,971. Among his beâ€" quests were: A grass field at Hut. tons Ambo to his wife for life with remainder to the local authority of Norton for a pleasure ground for the inhabitanis of Norton forever ; .€601‘ for distribution among the @oldiers and sailors of Norton who were disâ€" charged from His Majesty‘s forces as wounded or ‘ invalided during the Great War; £20 for division among the postmen for Norton and Malton ; £20 for division among the cabmen and taxicab drivers in Norton and Malton; £20 for division among the Boy Scouts ot Norton and Malton; £20 to his trustees for the deserving poor of Norton, Benjamin Batchelor of Broughty Ferry, farmer, who died on February 9, aged 57, left personal estate in Great Britain valued at £$81,951. He left £100 to the 326th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, the yearly 1 income to be used in â€" providing . mweeat lc ckcas 1 HIGHâ€"SPEED RESEARCH ’ Nine hundred and seventyâ€"five feet a secondâ€"665 miles an hour â€" is the speed attained by the airflow in the new high speed tunnel which has just been completed at the National Physical Laboratory and is now be. ing used for the investigation . of aerodynamical phenomena that occur at speeds in the neighborhnod of the velocity of sound . â€"British Alr-‘ craft Society. NEW ‘PLANE FOR THE PRINCE. Uimer â€" agencies throughout the country are co.operaling closely and efectively in this general â€" national travel promotion campaign, among these the great railway systems.â€" Malifax Herald. A particularly striking _ piece â€" of Canadian Travel Burean publicity apâ€" pears as a rotogravure insert in Out. door Life of New York â€"and is deâ€" scribed by a prominent American publicity exnert as "one of the best pieces of advertising literature that has ever appeared in any national mazazine ," ‘ THE TRAVEL CAMPAIGN These Canadian Travel Bureau campaigns already have produced reâ€" markable results, far beyond the ex. pectations of those responsible for the direction ot the new national tourist organization. Herald \ CROPS IN ALBERTA While seeding is quite backward this spring, prospects for a crop in Alberta are better this time of the year than they have been for several years past. Fairly generous rains have restored subsoil moisture _ in Southern Alberta to a conciderable extent while in the central and norâ€" thern areas the rainfall has been co. plous. On the whole prospects for :1 good crop are excel!ent.â€"«(,‘ulgary‘ In the old days the city youngstâ€" ers referred to the farm lads as "hicks." Now it is the boy in the metropolitan area who has much to learn. Many a rural youth can come into a great city and pass by unnoâ€" ticed in the crowd, because he knows how to adapt himself to surroundings . How different it is with countles; big city boys when they visit the farm .. Some of them still wonder how _ a cow can chew gum! l THE EMPIRE TWO WILLs A grass field at Hut. ) his wife for life with the local authority of pleasure ground for the ( Norton forever:; £60 annual dinner of the e THE WORLD AT LARGE & a pri |a + #. oo e Pemte tion takes place in October. the new method feeding starts the first of January, thus : over four months of _ ad growth. hy Magog, Que.â€"Experiments condâ€" ucted at the Dominion government fish hatchery here have increased by 25 times the growth of fish from the time they hatch to the fingerling stage . Speckled Trout Thrive in It Experiments at Hatchery A simple desert of fresh fru always good, with a vegetable di when the proper balance has maintained throughout the meal Here are contrast of color, texture and flavor. Hollandaise sauce is pass. ed in a separate sauce boat for the sprouts. ; _\ _ 200@ A0MaL0E8 or peppers stuf. ’fed wit? a combination of rice and peanuts are particularly good for a summer dinner. Peanuts are cheap, very rich in protein and combine well with nearly all vegetables . ANOTHER COMBINATION ; Here‘s another vegetable plate: New peas, diced carrots, brussels sprouts, small white onions and in the centre scrambled eggs and stewâ€" ed tomatoes. the means of taking care of the‘ tein calories it the stffing is ch with care. Tomatoes or peppers ho s nonans , the Eggs poached, scrambled or hard cooked, combine with any good and all vegetables. Stuffed vegetables such as tomaâ€" toes, peppers and potatoes may be NeAE ELA 6 dntatinlbinene Cheese may be used with some vegâ€" etables, if added to the white sauce served with them. Caulifiower, pota. toes and tomatoes are delicious with cheese sauce. Summer squash and eggplant are good with melted cheese. Toasted cheoe sandwiches may be served with any combination of vegâ€" etables . AUGMENTRD. Remember, that while all vegetab. les contain at least a trace of proâ€" tein there isn‘t enough of it. Be. sides vegetable protein is of poorer quality than that found _ in other sources. Consequently nuts, egBS, cheese and milk must be introduced into vegetable plate; to maintain the proper balance. abe sauce, string bea'nl arru;sed arâ€" ound a mound of flufly boiled rice, Is that plate stupid anda dul!* To her a vegetable meal is dull and uninteresting. To us it brings visions of infinite wellâ€"cooked colorful and flavorsome combination, Think of tender young buttered beets, caliâ€" flower topped wis1 golden Holland. Well, and why? Because the housekeeper is in a deep vegotable rut, A woman said the other day: "Veg. etables are stupidâ€"buttered carrots one day, spinach the next and beets the day after. My family hates vegâ€" etables!" Cooking Rut Usually At Root Of Family Dislike Of Vegetables Twelve Jewish athletes from Ps@ostine arrived in Alaun‘a to begin a 16,000 mile motor cycle tour of C Hollywood and back to New York. Water Boon to Fish d carrots, brussels white onions and in nbied eggs and stewâ€" October. Under of fresh fruit is vegetable dinner _fish from the the fingerling stffing is chosen ts around allowing additional been proâ€" "Gaelic possesses a rich and varied literature in poetry .and: prose, and that, despite Dr. Samuel Johnson‘s assertion that ‘there was not in the world an Erse manuscript 100 years old‘", Mr. Sinclair declared in an address here, The tall, youthful, minister.educaâ€" tionist in his little church at Valleyâ€" field, P.E.I., conducts a service once a month in the Highland tongue. And fortnightly he perpetuates the lang. uage by gatherings called "Ceilidh" when villagers meet to sing and read and exchange ne.ss in Gaelic. be i itcA w idainintse l t 2 uage should be preserved for its culâ€" tural valueâ€"it is a priceless heritage embodying the true spirit _ of the Gael!," declared Rev. D. M. Sinclair, one of the keenest students of the language in Canada. P.E.1. Minister in Favor of Reâ€" tention for Value to Culture The Free State is among the counâ€" tries of the world possessing the larâ€" gest peat resources and these are practically undeveloped. An effort is now being made to popularize â€" turf (dried peat) instead of coal, Free State deposits of which are practiâ€" cally useless. Dublinâ€"â€"The government has deâ€" cided to send a commission to Rus. sia and Germany to study utilization of peat resources in those countries following a lecture in Dublin by Alâ€" lan Monkhouse, former chief engineer of Vickers Limited in the Soviet Union. _ Mr. Monkhouse, welcomed to Dubâ€" lin by the ministers of financs and industry and commerce, described the Soviets‘ methods of using peat as a fuel for generating stations. At pres. ent, the Free State is obliged to imâ€" port coal to run the generators which supplement the Shannon hydroâ€"elec. trification scheme. Charlottetown Irish Will Send Group .__Processes in Soviet 2222 ° ©°7C0. Aney tried it repeatedly, One crow hesitated. The ribbing from the rest of the flock was alâ€" most human. Eventually he was goaded into trying, made an ungainly jump, but toppled head fAirst and went under the water. Its annoyance was registered in a harsh cry as it came to the surface and made a straight line for the gull it held to blame torl the ducking. Swimming lesâ€"ons followed. ‘The gulls would spring from the log into the water and back on to the log. After a raucous conversation the crows tried it. They managed to sail on the water for a time, but with very little grace. They tried it repeatedlv The procedure was not a huge suc cess, however. The crafty crows soon discovered better results were obtain. ed by waiting on the rocks below while the gulls flew in the air to drop the clams. Praises Gaelic On Pacific Coastâ€"Black Attempt to Swim in Ocean Gulls Teach T To Study Peat Palestine‘s â€""The Gaelic langâ€" Crows Quroup To Watch Soviet Union arrived in Montreal aboard the Cunard White tour of Canada and United States. from N was not a huge sucâ€" e crafty crows soon results were obtain. n the rocks below study utilization i those countries in Dublin by Alâ€" Cycling Athletes â€"Black _ Birds One woman delegate explained the lack of her sex‘s interest in dentist. ry as being mainly because of the great amount of mechanical work in. volved, Women, she caid, don‘t make good mechanics, "It‘s a long and difficult courseâ€" long hours and lots of studying, and it‘s not a career upon which to o’m-] bark if one‘s ambition is to marry and have a home." srid anatha. a TORONTO,â€"Ontario has about 15 women dentists and even amoug the 15 the opinion is general that the profession is for men. A halfâ€"dozen women attended the Ontario Dental Association convention here recentâ€" ly, Dentistry Not A Good Career For Womgn To Adopt Among the artists whose selfâ€"stndâ€" ies are exhibited are: George Felâ€" lows, Childe Hassan, Rockwell Kent, Robert S. Austin, Foujita, Eric Gill, Augustus John, Marie Laurenein, Anâ€" dre Zorn and Diego Rivera . i EsE PATe CUl lection of selfâ€"portraits of 60 prominâ€" ent American artists is on exhibition at Saint John vocational school. The property of Elmer Adler, priv. ate New York art collector, the group includes etchings, lithographs, woodâ€" cuts, water color and oil sketches, and was obtained by the Saint John school through the College Art Asâ€" sociation . The trek of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police to Alberta, in 1874, recalled reports which described "the rolling plains everywhere trenched and rutted by the buffalo." There was plenty of buffalo meat for the men, but the horses faced starvaâ€" tion. Saskatoon.â€"Large areas of â€" land across the three Prairie Provinces are reported lost to productivity and the finger of suspicion points to the buffalo . Overâ€"pasturing â€" and trampâ€" ling by the monarch of the plains have been the primary â€" cause of "‘burnâ€"outs" common over a large area in «outhern Saskatchewan, Dr. J. Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan soils department, suggests . The immediate cause was not fire, he believes, but wind, which carried away the friable, easily â€" pulverized surface soil down to the tough, comâ€" pact subsoil which is quite infertile, The sod was destroyed and the soil began to blow. The trek of the Royal Northwest Saint John, N.B Oid Tramging Thought to Have Distributed Rich Topsoil Fellowships are for the purpose of enabling students to continue research work at univer.ities in Great Britain, the United States and Europe, Hamilton.â€"Fellowships were awâ€" arded recently by the Royal Society of Canada when the annual meeting opened at McMaster University. The following were honored: F. J. Sichel, graduate of McGill University; R. D. MacDonald, of Queen‘s and McGill, chemistry; John H. Creighton, Uniâ€" versity of Toronto, English literatâ€" ure; John K. Thomas, Trinity Colâ€" lege, Toronto, philosophy; James A. Gibson, University of British Columâ€" bia, history; Andrew McKellar, Uni. ver:ity of British Columbia, physics; Miss May Annets, University of To. ronto, physics; Reginald Sait, Uniâ€". versity of Aliberta, zoology; Dr. v.! J. Okulitch and George Langlois, de-I mography. | Royal Sociegfv of Canada Anâ€" nounces Names at Hamilton ard the Cunard White Star Liner nited States, from Montreal to TORONTO Blame Buffalo Selfâ€"Studies home," said ;m)'t'hor. Fellowships aP% difficult courseâ€" of studying, and on which to émâ€" ion is to marry â€"A valuable col. Royal Northwest e SA oR mo nâ€"| _ Observes the St. Thomas Timesâ€" Journal: There are many Camerons in this district, and they may have been stirred by the famous song "The Camerons of old Scotland were hardy and they were doughty fighters as all the clansmen were. Here is an inâ€" teresting story about Sir Ewen Camâ€" t eron, one of the greatest chieftains, who lived in the 17th century, which we cull from **Scotland‘s Road of 5 Romance," by Augustus Muir; & "One night he was stormbound °} among the hills, and he ordered */ "his followers to lie down beside 1 him and sleep in the snow. As he l "| _ was wrapping ~himself in his ' plaid, he saw that one of his ‘| young relatives had rolled a ‘| snowâ€"ball to rest his head on, ‘| ~Leaping to his feet, Sir Ewen | kicked ~the â€" snowâ€"ball aside, | . *‘What‘! he cried, roused to fury at â€" such degrading effeminacy. | *Can‘t a Cameron sleep without a pillow ?‘ * + ‘ We are somewhat afraid the 1985 , â€" race of Camerons would want not . | only pillows.but downy beds, 1. lost without it,» Plans to open up The Camerons Miner Pilots Self in to Goldfields With Equipment Out of the 60 names, 17 were of women novelists. Right were Ameriâ€" cans â€" Pearl Buck, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, Elien Glasgow, Kathieen Norris, Anne â€" Parrish, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Edith Wharton. Nine were English women â€" Clem. ence Dane, Storm Jameson, Sheila Kayeâ€"Smith, Rose MacCaulay, Edna Phillpotts, Dorothy Richardson, E:h'el‘ Sedgewick, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf." 4 "Best" novels however, is a miâ€"â€" ,lendlng discription. It seems to me tiat what have been chosen are to | be regarded as "important" novels, | in the sense of establishing fashions "lnd expreâ€"sing the moods of a ‘ period. Certainly, only on this asâ€" | sumption can cne explain â€" the [choice of "Mr. Britiing Sees It | Through" instead of "Tonoâ€"Bungay" | or "The New Machiavelli"; tae in. clusion of Floyd Deil‘s **Moon Calt" and the naming of "Manhattan Trans. fer" rather than "©1919" _ But I was ghiefly interested to notice how many women _ writers were found in the two lists, tions except that "one regrets" to see the omission of this book or the inclucion of that other one. But 1 cannot find any real or revelant fault with the choice that the N.Y.U. stu. dents have made. Both lists seem well balanced and representative., } John O‘Ren in the Baltimore Sun writes: "Students of New York Uniâ€" ver:ity have made a list of the "sixty best" novels published in the United States and England in the last 35 years. There is not much that one can say about such selecâ€" C:tawa.â€"Because he likes "the winter here best," Hon. George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby, fourâ€" yearâ€"old son of the Governorâ€"General and Lady Bessborough, does not want to leave his native Canada. His mother, who related the story at the Joan of Arc Institute, rocently,l had to‘d him they were leaving the Dominion . ’ Nickel in mat!o' or speiss was ex'.'i‘:ll:n nv; ©HVCEY @RSRE ADCIO LNC WoOrk ported as follbws: United Kingdom, A p $736,540; United States, m:,szu;] And it is a part of one‘s character Netherlands, $161,316; Norway, $116,. &rowth to bear these timely or un. 132; fiine nickel, United States, 8981,-;‘""911 interruptions without any 152; Netherlands, $272,505; United break in good temper or courtesy, Kingdom, $154,778; Japan, $47,095;| A young student who was priviles Norway, $29,302; France, $21521;)ed to call upon Phillips Brooks in nickel oxide, United Kingdom, $5,596; | his study, told the writer that he United States, $3,674. could never have learned from the wetienireenteniairermimmins Bishop‘s manner of words that the bigâ€"hearted, busy man was ever too YOoUNG MONTREAL.BORN busy to receive him. To bear inâ€" BESSBOROUGH WANTS terruptions thus serenely is an opâ€" TO STAY iN CANADA portunity for selfâ€"control not to be o P overlooked by any one who wants Ci:tawa.â€"Because he likes "the| to do God‘s work in the right spirit Own Airplane Ottawa.â€"A _ cubstantial increase was shown in the value of nickel exported in April when it amounted to $2,724(04) egainst $2,446(v0 a year ago, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported recently. ‘ VALUE OF NICKEL List Of Best Books to rest his head on, > his feet, Sir Ewen he _ snowâ€"bail aside, : _cried, roused to fury degrading effeminacy. ~‘, ana they may have y the famous song "The old Scotland were hardy re doughty fighters as ‘urned, an independent ‘tor. His Plang carried e modern miner need s, condensed milk, "I‘d be d1 a» a P i were. Here is an inâ€" about Sir Ewen Camâ€" e greatest chieftains, e 17th century, which A be said ag his claims EXPORTS ARE HIGHER he laid "Hannah," shouted the _ pestered 'mn. casting his paper from him, "P‘u 3 keep that dadâ€"gummed grave of yours . green if bhave to paint it .""â€"London ‘ Advertiser, # CCATRER 41 sensitiveâ€"because 1 have so temperament , Darling, are you tive you‘ll keep my grave greon "Hubâ€"hbuh . ""Well, that‘s a great consi tion. Only, 1‘q like for you to it with more feeling, Precious, you> absolutely certain you‘ll ; "Huh?" he grunted, absentmindedâ€" 1y, without looking up, "I say, I don‘t want to be forgot. ten, I couldn‘t bear the thought of that. I suppose it‘s becansa I‘m «a I "Honey," said the loving wife, "it I die before you do will be promise to keep my grave green*?" "Don‘t be so morbid," answered her husband; "what‘s the use of talking about anybody‘s dying? You look pretty husky to me." He buried his nose again in his paper. He was reading something very interesting and didn‘t want to be disturbed. "Yes, I know, dear," she interrup» ted him again after a minute or two, taking up the thread of the conver. sation where it had been br0ken off, "but I want to be sure my last restâ€" Ing place will not be neglected. You might get married again or some. thing, and forget me." Just Like A But their best effort of all was a letter to the proprietor of an hotel enclosing a room key which had been carried away by mistake. After exâ€" plaining painfully, but more Or les intelligibly, what had happened, they ended their note with a final and triumphant "Je m‘en fiche" If that hotel keeper has any sense of humor he will have framed that jetter. Our two young friends arrived in France under the impression that "Je m‘en fiche" was the politest of all forms for expressing regret, a kind of genial way of saying "I am sorry," and had used it freely on all possible occaw:ion, rather pleased, in fact, with their fluent idiom. The result, as you can well imagine, has been fundy in the extreme, and the amusement with which the expression was met al} along the line finally made them suspect that something was wrong. I must explain that "Je m‘en fiche" is not at all polite French and means more or less, "I don‘t care a ....." _ â€"Phyllis Jenkins, in the Glasgow Herald tells this amusing story: Two young Scots friends of ours have just ended up in Paris after a motoring trip through Normandy and Brittany. They have bhad a wonderful time on an old car, very little money and a very limited vocabulary. But one thing had puzzled them on the jourâ€" ney. What, they asked me, was the meaning of "Je m‘en fiche?" Maybe you know and maybe you don‘t, but for the sake of the story and those whose French das not gone ro far, A Little Knowledgs Is Always Dangerous joys are: Yet never through the ages, com monâ€"place. Oh, I have found such joy! 1 wish I might Toll every woman who goes seekin« far For some elusive, feverish delight, That very close to home the great A table cleared, a lamp beside me there. A growing plant upon a window sill, A rose, freshâ€"cut and placed within till § My quiet days; a curtain‘s blowing I have found such joy in things that floor Where yollow sunlight glimmers thru a door. I have found such joy in simple things; A plain, clean room, a nutâ€"brown loaf of bread; A cup of milk, a kettle a= it sings, The shelter of a roof above my head ; And in a leafâ€"facedâ€"square upon the in its progress. The minister at work on his sermon, the merchant at his desk, the woman in her house. hold duticsâ€"all must expect these calls to turn aside from the work in hand. Joy In Simple Things â€"Grace Noll Crowell : nave so much DE, are you postâ€" grave greon?" because I‘m so consideraâ€" to do 1 w1 hs ga by Â¥ 4t ©1 W Tha in nud nu ing wro to nud« have just yu Ing on the they x exhibit low ps re ©r evel turr inde it nast nast paint know, them i clean ; to the life 1 ma Vike it‘ Yyiel Te Th struct &n BAi Canadia» dirty mi dis.ingui don‘t m« Mitier, landscap )CR "It may san an unknow? example for U mass â€" fingerâ€"pri tion of lawâ€"abid ewn protection. . officers, delegat mual convention State Federatior passed in an e Tha tive p« T} past fingerp in m hotel b end of the « tered. ©0ou Mustn‘t P;: In G ere Even "Q Be 1d Ar He Married AGi&NS We al ¢ A Rountd Bruce Hut P} ther Their it pi d icto 14 he

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