Mink sold well at the Dominion Auction sale. Winnipeg. Wild mini: .3. mostly between ear. and stem; pgnch mink also sold well. Better males brought $18. to $19.50, ordin- gry tie. to 011. while females ran mm suso to close and so. to oil. respectively. Most of the Silver- blus changed hands. The better males at $18. to 821.; ordinary goods at $16. to Old. and females |ll.50 to $13 and tie. to 811-60. A small collection of rats sold well to hen] acturers. Best lots brought $1.08 to $2.05. At Seattle. Washington, 8.000 ranch mink were sold at no change. from the last sale. Fine ranch skins were from 516. to $2.. ordinlfy 313- 30 Olfi you enough mutations were offer- ed to provide price competition.

Francis Beck. President of Mon- treal Fur Bales (Canada) Ltd., an- nounces that a special fox sale will be held on the company's pro- mlses on Friday. A-prll iith. I-le states that he has a very attractive collection of approximately 1.000 silver and mutation foxes, the bulk of which consists of fresh skins of the present season never oifercd before.

The New York Auction Company reports that their offering of 20.- 000 mink skins was 67 per cent sold last week. Prices were fully maln- tsined at price levels. The goods were mostly from the Great Lakes Ilink Association but the quality was not «as good as formerly. Males were selllngmostly for from 815 to $17. and till. with some higher and others bringing less than old. Pe- lusles appeared to be selling most- hv at $10 and 812.

Otto Cross. owner of Nut“ wood mr Farm. ’Cary, Illinois, claims that he _has received a hundred letters and telepho calls from all over the United Btatee asking about his Blue Mist Pox and he plans to have souls pelts from them shown at the Northwood second annual consumer fur show on .July 30th. He says there are no white or black hairs on this blue fur-and that the hairs are thick and short.

They Are wearing rox scar-is — is the big heading in Women's Wear Daily 01 April 7th.. and it continues .2’ All reports of spring fashions they are wearing this

Wool Prices At llecord levels

The recent issue of Wool News reports that producers of wool en- ter the rose season with prices at record levels in all high producing eountries and on world markets. lien of experience in would econ- omy are pointing out that wool sl- weys is closely linked with the gen- eral economy. The ferencs is that unless the ~world’s economy shows a substantial recession the Prospects are that wool prices cannot fail to continue on favor-

able levels.

it must be noted of the high prices that have prevailed, stocks of wool in Great Britain and other major manufacturing countries are low and that these countries, as a re- sult, will be in the position of hav- ing to make heavy purchases in order to keep their textile mills running.

“In spite of this hopeful outlook friends of those who produce wool are wary of making forecasts. Bear- ing in mind the uncertainties that surround world affairs and the possibilities and probabilities sug- gested in regard to synthetics and

must! I mos mos ‘ courcrrs mm

Silver Fox and - Mink Farming

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week shows a smart sponsorship of for some in New Yo k. Women's Wear Daily reporters ecked fash- ions at its strategic spots up town The count for the light toned fur scarf was significant. The majority were platinum fox but there was also a significant number of sil- verblu fox.

On pate l of Women's Wcor Dsily April 7th. is the cabled re- port from Paris and the heading is -— Parisisnnes pick suits. for scarfs for Easter. Describing the suits worn it goes on to say . .. other suits are softer, often with s slight back blouse. These are r;om under short fur swaggers or with long fox scar-is. particularly the mutation light varieties called Platinum here . . . . our comment on the above is that fox from what, we can learn both in Europe and America is showing definite signs of a comeback and Platipums are not going to be by any means out of fashion. No doubt the wearing of Platinum by Princess Elisabeth has had a tremendous effect in making this particular type of fox fur popular.

We are indebted to Don Stew- art. chairman of the Fur Farming Advertising Committee for the fol- lowing . . . ,

An interestingshipment of furs and fur garments was shipped from Summerside March 26th air cargo to the Canadian exhibit at the International Trade Fair, Milan, Italy. The shipment consisted of 33 FIW 10)! belts of different types and grades. a bundle of 20 top- grade dressed Western Canadian standard mink skins, a bundle of m dressed Eastern Canadian mink skins, and is dressed mutation mink skins consisting of pastels, pastel breath of spring. whites, silver- bius. and ellverblus breath oi spring.

Among the garments shipped was s. mink cape manufactured from 50 top grade Western mink. a cape stole manufactured from Eastern Canadian mink, a cape oi Eastern Canadian mink, together with a four skin mink stole manufactur- ed of Canadian starlight mink. The for garments consisted oi a plat- inum fox cape jacket, a pearl platr inum fox-“coat; a platinum rirwo-I skin stole, a white-marked two- skin stole, an arctic blue two-skin stole and an arctic blue fox cape. Practicauy all of these garments were of recent design and were purchased by the Canadian Farm Fur Advertising committee for ex- hibition at the Milan International Trade Fair. and they will then be available for different style shows in Canada.

The day prior to shipment, a number of these ‘ garments, were exhibited at a style show held at the R.C.A.1|'. navigation school at Summerside and created tremend- ous interest. The garments were all manufactured from superb skins selected from the best of the Can- adian crop and -were of modern de-

m . .

The funds required for the pur- chase and manufacture of these garments are supplied by Canad- lan ranchers by means oi a vol- untary levy of 1 per cent which the rancher instructs his selling agency to deduct from the selling price of his skins and the lame is then held for the account of the Canadian Parm Fur Advertising Committee.

An eidribit such as this cannot help but stimulate consumer in- tuest. Three fur garments, in ad- dition to those sent to Milan, will be exhibited at the style show be- ing held by Canadian For Review

llsrino Fanning lay Aid Problem or World’: Food

. April — Iteuters —-Denmark is worried about her rights over the continental shelf which she shares with Brit- ain, Belgium, France. Holland and the altic countries. shell. on which the contin- ent of Europe and Britain stand. stretches far out under the sea from all the coasts oi Europe. When it ends. the sea bed dives sharply

to depths of several thousand fee similar shelves surround all the world's land masses,

have known of the existence of these submarine pla- teaux for years but recent invefl- gstions have shown that they offer enormous possibilities

Borings into, the Bay of Mexico for cxa.mp‘e, produced oil. Re- ports from various parts of the world spoke of the possibility oi some sort oi marine agriculture which could ‘help to swell the world's supplies.

The question of national rights over parts of the continental shelves was at once raised. Chile started what might become a new "gold rush," with a claim to the ownershipof the sea bottom for.. 200 miles out from the Chilean coasts. .

International attempts to settle claims to the sea bed have been temporarily abandoned; but Dr. G. Cohn, head of a Danish Gov- ernment commission set up to in- vestigate Denmark's position, com- mented: .

“These claims are of the utmost importance, for not only the sea bed but also the air above the sea is involved.

Difficult Question

“For Denmark, it is a diificu't question. Denmark is on the same

ntinental shelf as England, Bel- gium, France, Holland. and the Baltic countries

From a continental shelf point of view, does Denmark belong to Britain and the other countries or do these countries belong to us-- or what? It is vital to reach agree- ment with one's neighbors on this

point if no international solution can be found." Command of the continental

shelf could also vitally affect the fishing nations of the world. Dr. E. Poulcen of the Danish Biological Instiialte said: ._.

"Big nations which have not pre- viously done much fishing might claim areas far out into the sea and drive off "foreign fishermen. This might -have serious conse- quences to Denmark, in for example. the Barents Sea."

After expressing a belief that cultivation oi the. sea bed might in the future play a great part in feeding the world, Dr. Poulson out- lined one oi the difficulties in sharing out the bed between the nations.

" a iookinscotlsnd. for exam- ple, nitrate and phosphates were poured into the salt water. The fish grew faster and bigger, because the fertilisers improved the growth of sea weed. The tiny shell-fish and such, living off the weed. grew iss- ter d quicker and the fish who live on the shell fish in turn fared better.

"But, without international con- trol, it will not be possible to do this everywhere Fertiliser dumped into the sea above the Danish bed. for example might well drift into the waters above a neighbor's bed and thus benefit the fishing catch- es of a foreign nation." -

Host for the Room

- NEWSY

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D003 NOTES ON IAUIII-TIDI

These notes are, in the main con- cerned with the curious customs and happeninfl of Easiartide. in raorthumberla of a bygone day.

Seventy or eighty years ago the rustlcs kept tab of the Lenten season by the rhyme:

“Tid. Mid, Mlseray, .

Carling, Palm, and Paste-egg Day.‘ in explanation of the first line

it must be recalled that the Angli-

gj can Church prefixed a. Lotus

phrase to each of the Psalms of David in its Book of Common Prayer. For Lent, special Psalms of a penitential character were to be recited on each Sunday. “Tld, Mid, Miscray" were supposed to be con- tractions of the Latin words appro- priated to the first three Sundays

Carling Sunday, the fourtly in succession. took its name from a local occurrence. In "old times" there was a famine in Northumbria and the people of Newcastle wen- in danger of perishlng. Providenti- ally, on this Sunday, a ship with a cargo of carling (gray peas) cast anchor at the Quay. The carlings were intended for some other coun- try. but the mayor confiscated them and the people were saved. In grateful memory of this, the An- niversary was known as Carling Sunday, and the store-keepers al- ways stocked up with carlings for the occasion.

It was still the custom when I was a boy, to eat the "carlins". They were boiled first, then fried in butter and sugar, and served with rum saucei -The innkeepors provided them free to their cus- tomers on Carlin’ Sunday night. but I und ‘ ‘ this custom did not survive the first world war. Ths highly ‘ digestible dish -was in ., 1 demand in Northumberiand and Durham. but Cumberland shuunned it.

On Palm Sunday the children gathered "pussy-willows" to take the place of palms. These were sometimes placed on the altar in the parish drurch, but more ire- quentiy taken home as a bouquet. And again there might be no "palms" if llhstar was early that

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Paste-egg Day was Easter Sun- day, when the dams of the house distributed hard-boiled eggs to the children of her neighbors. In cum- berland Paste-eggs were more cor- rectly known as Pasche-eggs. be- cause they were a paschal gift! These eggs were understood to be a symbol oi the Resurrection. and much ingenuity was shown in de- corating them. They ‘were cleverly dyed with whln blossoms, logwood chips, or onion skins, or the eggs mght be wrapped before boiling, in colored cloth, wcols. or wall- paper! When the women’s Insti- tutes were formed. they promoted paste-egg competitions for ‘the best designs. ~

The old people were thrifty: they had to be. for money was scarce. Still they all continued to wear som new however tri- vial, on lies er Sunday, and to send the children to church in new clothes.

There were a few special week (says, too. Pancake Tuesday was properly Shrove Tuesday. Ash Wed- nesday. the following day, was the first of Lent. Pancakes were a dish at every meal on the Tuesday, and in Durham Cathedral, and at Morpeth, Northumberland, the "pancake-bell" was rung. It was a common custom in many io- lalitics, to play football on Pan»

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cake Tuesday, in kg frolic. The player: dlgnftl $33 about soalposts: all they desired 3" ‘° “V0 their opponents to the “Vin limits. tnmvsh mud-holes. dvulets, and so on. A gpectgmr escribed one such game: "For 8|'°'-esqueness and whimslcality for diversion and devilment for fragrant odors and filthy defile. MGM. football at Worklllgton on Pmcflko Tuesday Just licks all creation." When things are ,3 their worst, they begin to mend‘ commonsense played its part and our local football at Chester-le Street neicred out about 1937. “H0n Good Flday,’ all classes ate °‘ 5'0“ Bun-S . round spiced. cakes marked with a cross. In the towns the baker's boys went meg,- "'~““m‘15- milling: "Hot-cross b ns, one a penny, two a penny, hog. cross buns!" The cheaper-_bum hgd the cross scored on them with a knife before baking; the deg 5,- buns had the cross inlaid with generous slices of candied “lemon- Deel." There is little doubt that this

custom came down from pagan

times. Gustave Flaubert was a zealous antiquary long before he was a successful novelist, and in his famous romance, "Salammbo." he tells of the little cakes, scored in a peculiar manner and eaten in honor of the goddess, Ceres. Easter Monday was the chil- dren's day. This was the day when they rolled their paste-eggs, and each locality had its favorite roil- ing nlacc. The kiddies gathered in CTNIDS End “bool'd, (bowled) the 19885 on the grassy surface, break- ing the shells into small pieces so that the eggs stripped freely. Then the contents were eaten and the incautious or greedy child might be very ill. hfterwards As an a‘- ternative. the eggs might be "Jasp- ed," (which I take to be "chapped"),

an old Scottish word. One child 5’

held his egg and another struck it with his egg. There was some soxt of wager in the case. of course, Easter Tuesday was a school half- holiday, to taper off with,

HAWK OB OWL?

Here is a pleasant, chatty letter from Clyde River: — "Dee; Ag;-1.

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or light digging between plants may be done..

In the rose flrden some of the outer covering on the bushes should be moved as soon as the weather gets warm, and the re- mainder of the mulch at intervals oiis.fewdays.Iti5amistaketo imcovcr the bushes too early ss the stems may be injured by drying winds before the roots become act- ive. Pruning the bushes can be delayed until the leaf buds show signs of growth. All damagedwodd should be cut out and stems prun-

consuincrs League Reviews 50 Years 0f ‘Work Reforms

NEW YORK. April In - WP) —'rhe National Consumer. League founded by women 50 years ago to awaken shoppers to their power for reform, is looking forward to another half century of accom- plishment.

The United States organization has achieved much in its battle for higher wages, shorter working hours, sanitary working conditions and the banishment of child labor Early results were won largely by influencing the consumer not to buy goods produced under sweat- shop conditions. .

"There is still a big job to be done," said Elizabeth Magee, gen- eral secretary of the league. which makes its headquarters in Cleve- land. ‘Twenty-two states have no minimum wage law, and 86 have no legislation giving women equal pay for equal work. Many states still do not prohibit night work for boys and girls of 16 and 1'1."

In its second half-century the league plans to continue the fight for minimum wages, maximum working hours and equal pay for women. First it will seek to widen the coverage of federal social laws. such as those on social security, to benefit people now left out. se- cond it will try to close gaps in state legislation whch permit some local businesses to pay low wages.

It also will seek better pay. housing and working conditions for migrant workers.

Miss Magee noted that the joint Congressional committee on the economic report. recently received a report that 10.000900 American families and 0.000.000 indlvlduslsn s total of 38,000,030 people-- have an annual income of less than

.000.

"The public has a great stake in these people." she said. "Poorly paid workers are not a good mar- ket. But with better pay they con- stitute a great expansible market for industry."

' Bad use: conditions

Indignation over sweatshop labor spurred women to found the league. More than 50 years ago “ ‘ of men and women worked long hours in dirty, ill- lighted factories, often for starva- tion wages. Department store clerks toiled so long and hard in the Christmas rush that some fell ill and died Tubercular sufferers and syphilitics worked for manu- facturers of clothes and candy. Underied children pulled bastings all day.

Florence Kelley. chief factory inspector of Illinois and I-lull House worker, and other women be- come convinced such conditions would exist as long as the consum- er bought their products. so the

ed to a good strong bud.

tracts from

next fall.

Robert J. Shaw, Bloomfield Clarence F. Ilaslam, Emerald J. J. Stewart, Montague Elmer Waugh, Wllmot Valley Winston W. Currie, Albcrton E. D. Johnston, llmsdale

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Many people are so well

Ms-s. Arthur J. Eamon, New Annnn

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Charles S. Macliny. Konslngfbn

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influence working conditions throush the way he dollar.

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Four stats leagues were founded in New York, Pennsylvania, Massa- chusetts and Illinois and in I 169! they formed the National Con- sumers‘ League,

Florence Kelley served as gen-

spent his oral secretary and prime mover for

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in the Mount Royal Hotel, Mont-

in manufacturing processes there real, April lftb next.

still is wisdom in an urge not to abandon sensible " and to maintain a reasonable conserva- ~ tism in regard to flock extension.

"Regardless of what may develop in the countries of heavy wool pro- duction. however, there still is little danger of an over-supply to the point that will make sheep ilnlloiitsble in Canada as com- es 1 il'.‘."' if.'§é""“a°“ °$i' mud

° 5 In 011 WWI tices indicate it will have a great- basis of investment-and costs for - - mmm h“ “M man?‘ I er success than