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THE GUARDIAN

NOVEMBER 20, 1950

Straiige But True

or F. H. Macauthur

A 3004 pair of shoes should CBPPX you 2.000.000 steps before wearing .out. It takes 2 square feet of hide to make the uppers of our shoes . . . John Cabot received exactly ten pounds for finding Canada: tenth province. New. foundland has some strange name places. Take. for instance. Horse Chops..Empty Basket. Heart's De- SW2. Oil Gut . . . Mark Twain was the first author to submit a type- written manuscript to a publisher . . . Was there ever such a bird as a dodo? Yes. it was a large bird having short legs. hooked bill and wings too small for flight. The last of these curious creatures was seen in the islands of Mauri- tius ovcr 300 years ago. hence the expression "as dead as a Dodo."

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2.000.000 visitors from every part of the globe sce Canada's famous Niagara Falls each year . . . Over in British Columbia they have I machine that can dress. salt and flll 240 tins of salmon every min- u'.e . . . Napoleon lII had his own private table made of aluminum. ln those days aluminum was more costly than gold . . . What was known as the "Nuremberg Egg?" it was the first watch ever made and it ueiglicd several pounds. . . The cannonvball tree of the West Indies gets its name from cannon ball fruit which grows at its base... Harvard Computing Laboratory has a mechanical brain called' me Math III. which can multiply fig- ures of sixteen digits each in one lsth of a second. It wades through complicated calculations that would make the average bank clerk dizzy.

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Dr. Vanncuar Bush. President of the Carnegie Institute and author of Modern Aims and Free Men. says the atomic bomb is potent enough to make all other weapons of warfare obsolete. Think of it!... To get rid of the dangerous fumes from processing grain with sili- phuric acid, the Corn Products Re- fining Co., has built'a new plant with 21 buildings. almost all of which have no walls. What next? . . . The first rubber ever seen by I white man was when Columbus saw a couple of lndians playing with a rubber ball. The fact that the ball bounced aroused the dis- coverer's curiosity so he took some ruibber back to show Queen Isabella . . . Using a modern com- bine one person. in one day. can harvest enough wheat to make 55.000 loaves of bread . . . Among the cutest animals is Australia's Koala bears. The Koala baby sel- dom leaves its mothers back . . . The ancient priests of lndia, made it a daily ritual to clean their teeth with frayed ends of twigs. The toothbrush tree of Arabia serves the same purpose today . . - Insects and some animals give us a lesson in thrift. Bees for in- stance. store away honey; they work hard. then look to the future: they prepare for lean days. Dogs bury bones. squirrels lay aside nuts, and bears shore fat in their bodies to last them all winter . . . Primitive man measured time by watching the shadow of I stick move across the ground. They never reckoned seconds and min- tea as we do.

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: Gravity

"What comesm faster than

"Stone."

"Faster than none?"

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"Faster than iron'!"' l "stocks."

The Affnlrl

A certain magistrate was once discussing beverages with I follow rlub member.

"Have you ever tried sin Ind ginger beer?" asked the young fel-

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OYNQ." replied the magistrate. "but I've tried I lot of folks who have."

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MENT BY NEW GEBM-KILLING DRUG

when I youngster begins to cough and cases of whooping cough are in the neighborhood. anxious parents listen carefully for the first whoop because. while the percentage who die from whoop- ing cough is not large. there are complications which sometimes occur which may affect the future health and happiness of the child. While the breathing in of medi- cated vapors helps to ease the cough and permits slecp for pat- ient and parents, it is gratifying to learn that one of the new drugs (antibiotics) that kill harmful or- ganisms is now helping physicians to relieve symptoms and shorten the length of the attack of whoop- ing cough. This drug is uui'eomy- cin, so helpful in the treatment of nose. throat and chest ailnerits. particularly tuberculosis: Aureonii'- cin is in a class with the sulfa drugs and pencillin in k.lllng the oiganixns of various diseases. in The Journal of Pediatrics (children! dlscascsl. St. l.ou.. Drs, S. M. Chang. E. B. Webs. E. ii. Place and M. Finland report their treatment of 22 children in hospital who llild wlioopiiig cough. with aureomycin. The first ten children were given 100 mg. of the crystalline hyiirocliloride per kilo- gram (sboiit two ptilllldsl of body weigh per day. and niiothcr l2 pat- ients were given no mg. per kilo- gram per day. Trcatmciii iiith au- reomycln was continued for five days in the first 10 pallet:-ts; the second group was treated for lo days. Later groups were all t.reat- ed for 10 days with 60 mg. per kilogram. the smtillcr close. Observation of the patients symptoms and general condition and of the number of 0l'giIllll4.'llS present were conpared with those of I similar l7ll(llbCl' of patients in the same general condition. treat- ed in the same way but given no aureomycln. The number. severity and length of the coughing spoils (paroxysmst were greatly reduced in the patients treated with aureo- mycin IIS compared with those not so treated. Improvement hecun within the first three days of treat- ment. and continued steadily in 17 of the 22 patients. Cultures taken from nose and throat showed the whoopiiio.cotitzh orzaiiisms killed soon after aureomycin treatment was started. Fortunately the side effects of Iureomycin in these patients were not severe; just mild vomiting and slight diarrhoea in six patients. but this did not make it necessary to stop the treatment with aureo- mycin.

The above information will be welcomed by physicians and par- ents, "

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g;Houseliold Scrapbook? E By Roberta Loo 3

.i Wall Paper

To remove old wall paper from the walls. use one heaping table- spoonful of saltpeter to a gallon of hot water. and apply freclylto the pgper with 3, brush. A whitewash brush is preferable. as it covers a broader surface. The water should be kept hot. and after a few ap- plications the paper can easily be pulled from the wall

Fur

If I fur coat or scarf is rain- Ioaked hang it in I cool. well-ven- tllabed place to dry. never near heat. Shake gently or brush after it is dry. Heat will cause the skin to crack.

Fsucets

A very good polisher for the faucets is half of I lemon after the juice has been squeezed out. After scouring. wash it, and polish

with 5 dry cloth.

Square Doily Makes Useful Place Mat

boeuuu they're so say to launder guuaqu. Tbs one , d 050" ll blah room foroglau ova crochet it In conventional wbllo

flue: nuts on becoming more and non popular In Canadian lionm. Probably

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Pictured above are some of the children of Prince Street School receiving liheir free chest X-rays recently. This survey of the city schools is -part of the T.B. pre.

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Better English E E.

By I. O. Wlllllml

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1. What is wrong with this sen-" fence? "The boy almost fell out the window.”

2. What is the correct pronunc- intioii of "cliassis'”.'

3. which one of these words is niisspelled? Aicliitcrture. aristoc- racy. arbitrater. arrogant.

-i. What does the worci "indis- pensable" mean?

5. What is R word beginning with po lliat means "severely pain- ful or disti'essing'."'

ANSWERS 1. Say, "The boy nearly fell out of the window." 2. Pronounce

shas-l. a as in at. i as in it. accent first syllable. 3. Arbitrator. 4. Es- sential. ”Sunlight is indispensable to human life." 5. Poignant.

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PAPRIKA CHICKEN

3 cups coarsely flaked. cooked chicken, 2 tablespoons butter. 1 tablespoon minced parsley, l.-2 cup minced celery, 2 hard-cooked eggs. chopped. paprika.

Remove the skin from the chicken. Flake the meat coarsely. Melt the butter. Add the celery. Simmer five minutes: stir in the parsley; add the chicken. Heat gciilly: add the eggs and serve sprinkled with paprika.

BANANA PIE

5 good-sized bananas. '5 cup sugar, Juice 1 lemon. 4 tablespoons sugar, '-.- tablespoon lemon juice (additlonali. 1'; pint heavy cream. baked pie shell.

Just before serving. half nil the die shell with three of the bananas. sliced and mixed with the half cup of sugiir and the juice of ii lemon. Put the remaining bananas through the potato ricer: add the remaining sugar and lemon )lllDCZ and cmnbine with the cream. whipped stiff. spread on top of the pie; and serve.

0 DIAPER DIPPING

For snowy.-vvblce, holplnl-dean diapers, simply let Jove: 1045 out Ill dirty Itninl Ind odors. Use II for Ill other white linens Ind cocoons. Full directions on lsbel. I

Wax DOIS SO

MANY JOIS

CANADA u 308' I85 IIIACIIINC. INC Ali WAIKIKI IIUID

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venlativc measures the P.E.l. Tuberculosis League in

organized by

co-operation with cipals.' The mobile unit pictured here is completing its survey of the Province for this year. Of the

school prin-

Music in Plants ls Modern Touch For Pottery Hub

The writer of the following was 0"? 0f 3 Party of Canadian news- paper ivonien who toured British industrial areas as guests of an.

laws 00118-1' exports boards and Canada s dollar-sterling trade board. -

BY KAY REX

Canadian Press Staff Writer

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, Nov. 18 - (GP) - Most of the children who were yelling ma penny for Guy Fawkes" here got a Shilling. How practical can you be in a town where history stalks the cobblestoned streets?

How can you stay clear of sentiment when the bricks kilns of some loo potteries are silhouetted Ilka giant champagne bottles against an evening sky?

Stoke is I city of some 270,000 "imposed of six small towns. in and about. are massive slag piles heaped with the refuse of more than two centuries of pottery. making. '

The soot. from the kilns has left its mark on the slate grey div '- ling of the workers. But cri p white ciirtains flutter at the win- GDWS and they any the smoke nuis- niice has been cut considerably in the last few years.

UD-to date equipment has been

Working conditions generally pre. vail. There are many women em. nloyees dolnz skilled jobs as paint- in: the designs on plates. At Wedgewood they prepare the rais- ed ornamentation fer the china-A craft introduced by Wedgewood in the 18th century.

in some cases the women work against a background of music, A feature common to many British factories. Manufacturers feel music keeps their employees happy tr. their work and also speed. up productions.

l-landwork remains all-important in china manufacture.

A cup-whether semi-procelsl-.i or bone china-must have its handle put on individually. its de- sign either painted or stamped by hand.

"Every piece goes through 30 hands before you get lt." said Bill Home of Johnson Brothers. "so you see it's difficult to turn them out like IIuIageI."-

Then there are the "firings"- trlps into the fumacen-which may total as many as five before the color is fixed.

In addition skilled labor is hurt! to come by. There aren't many women who can graft I handle on I cup Is swiftly as Mrs. 0. smith -who has been doing the same job in one of the plants for the last 12 years.

some of the firms have import- ed skilled help. In one of the John- son plan! Italian girls are work- ing. There also in I lone Canadian. Adam Russell of Hamilton, ont.. who "polishes." one of the ftmil processes through which the dishes must go.

AFFECT! ITOMACH

Mental worries may actually cause some Itomsch troubles.

FIG HT! FOLIO

An tron lung depot in Oslo will serve all polio-stricken districts in Norway.

ecelvo chest X-nay

installed in the plants, and good i

approximale cost of 31.50 in X-rav each child in this picture the fed- eral llrant meets roughly 70 cents. The balance is financed through "19 Leallies Christmas Seal cam- paigns.

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For Tomorrow

THEE augurles are for a difficult and devastating state of affairs. which might best be handled by I period of "hands off" policy. in order to let things incubate. There are angles. blocks, and unusual factors which the usual mental processes seem unable to grasp. It might be less complicated thus to arrive at proper decisions. which might be clarified by time for I more normal development.

For the Birthday

Those whose birthday it is. are advised to postpone important decisions until 3 more auspicious time. With unusual or disinte- grating factors. of radical signifi- cance. as well as a stubborn situ- ation difficult to manipulate or regulate. I policy of postpone- ment. for serious study and insight as to long-range prospects. may be the wise course to pursue. Time may clear away obstacles and give better perspective.

A child born on this day would profit by a careful analysis of its rather complicated nature. with its static as well as adventurous states of mind and emotions.

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'&&&K'? Nzoooox aw E? Modern Etiquette g By Robert): Lee Wnawkwhxs.

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Q. when a grl has been intro- duced to a young man. and is leav- ing him. should she say' that she is glad to have met him?

A. No. It is the man's place to say this, to which she may reply. "Thank you." If he makes no such statement. then I smile and I "good-by" is all that is necessary.

Q. when drinking any kind of refreshment. should I little be left in the glass?

A. one may drink all of it. But he should avoid throwing back the head. or iuming the glass upside down in drain it.

Q. when writing to an ac- quaintance who calls you "Mrs. Bridges.” how should you sign the letter?

A. As "Mary Bridges."

g How Can I ! ! ! 9 By Anna Ashley I

Q. How can I remove indelible ink stains from I garment?

A. Equal parts of turpentine Ind Immonia will remove these stains, saturate the cloth thor- oughly in this solution. allow to soak for I few minutes. and than rinse well in warm water.

Q. How can I protect I rose bed during the winter?

A. Place I frame of bosrds around it and fill in the spaces be- tween the bushes with leaves. The leaves will not blow away if I few small tree branches are placed on

them. can I mIkI I good hair

one ounce of the but castor oil. two ounces of French brandy. Ind two ounces of My rum.

Harilwoods predomlnata in the 1i.o00.0o0 acres of forest in-New South Wales, AuIt.rIllI.

The taste's the test for tea! Canadians buy more Sal than any other brand.

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By An lIlInd FIriner'I wug

”Now compose yourself. Ellen!" James advised as he helped us in. to the machine It I neighbours, where we had been visiting -this evening. .. A chore of fcrrying grain to the mill had been attend- ed to in' the interval. and as in- dicsted by the parcels we found minutes ago on the kitchen table. there also was it tirlp to I corner- atore, before James appeared in thst strange doorway to escort us home. And tucked among the pur- chasing: of tea and sugar and butter and spices we found candy bars. much appreciated because of the thought which brings them to

us. children still in some ways that we are. "Yes. Ellen. relax!" James said slipping nimbly be-

hind the wheel in spite of the la- bour of the bush-cutting which had occupied his time during much of the day ("I believe” he laughed at granddaughters words of praise on an outing the two enjoyed by truck along the fields the other day "there's no other old grandfather on The Island can drive I car as good as youl") O O 0

How dark it. was! The night-sky provided an inky canopy that rest- ed on the surrounding hills. But the yards were already frosted in white by the first snow-fall. it had begun while we chatted ln- doors and was continuing to drift down lightly, clinging to roof and tree and wherever our lights rest- ed. "It's likely that the road will be just. I little slippery, Ellen" James announced letting ou the clutch gently. The car moved off down the lane and then in a sweep that was sudden and rather unsettling, entered the roadway, liomiiig. James is not one to lend

He will go over it. step by step picking out. the probable hazards. "It's not one bit slippery yet!" we breathed in relief settling back in the seat. and regarding the rib- bon. which light and dark un- folded before us. "No" he agreed shifting now into high "but I'm thinking that out along there by the woods. it may lie. And it's just I. chance if we'll be able to get up our lane. This time of year. El- len. it doesn't take too many min- utes of rain or snow before that gets sticky! However" he added "if we get that far. shueks, we can leave her there and walk the rest. of the way. You lingered too long at your Good-byes. Ellen. Five minutes on a night like thy; makes all the difference in the ivoirld!" O C C

We sat intensely now. on the way edge of the seat and kept a hand on the handle of the door - and watched closely while the lights 1 ate up the mile-length of road. And as James would have us. shrove ourself for having loitered those precious minutes away! But in spite of our fears. smoothly the little truck, which so recently had been along the same route and had plied by day several times be- tween ours and the other fanri in the interest of our purrcd along the whitening path. following at length the windings of the mill-stream to enter the lane-way. As of one mind. both leaned ahead, but merrily and without this assistance she breast- ed the rlse and soon came to a halt in the yard. . . home again. Back

from an evening spent pleasantly at another farm-house "in" the road, which houses ll pair and

their family of three. There as at Alderlen. the work is being put in good order for the winter season by day, and cozy are the nights which gathers them to the light and warmth within.

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Mrl. Kly Marston. Ibove. editor- publisher of the Elora Express. has just been awarded the Canadian Weekly Newspaper AsociItion'a cup for the best editoriIl page. This II the fourth time Mrs. Mur- aton hn won the iiwaivl since she. I fIrmer'I widow with four child- dren to nine. bought the lion.

else would pass over without I thought.

young hu regret their murrlalel Md

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BUTTER-NUTBREAD

t DOROTHY DIX lsivs- i That First Year

Post-Honeymoon Let-Down Usual Thing In Marriage

DEAR MISS DIX: I have been married fl 3'01"”. Sonictimeil think I love him. Other times I regret that I married him and wisii that l was single again. He has I queer disposition, becomes moody iind pessimistic when things don't 30 EXIICNY to Suit him. ii is ril- niost unbelievable how upset: he 8913 0V" 8 1"-"9 ""3ld9"l' "ml 3113'"!!! Somehow I can't make lily. his moods and try to make lllfll sn-up He is very intelligent. and tizis a pos- ition with a promising future. I work in an of- fice. We have I nicely furnished apartnir-iii. 3-it more seems to be something lacking, coniplitihilay