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Durham Review (1897), 21 Mar 1935, p. 6

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¢{ J which Qu Althoug tourists ) tions spin SPINNING WwHEEL "The old spinning wheel in the parlor" may be the occasion â€" for sentimental songs, but in the Prov. ince of Quebec the old _ spinning wheel is coming back to its original purpose of spinning the material for the homeâ€"craft proJluctions for‘ MILLIONS FoR DEFENCE At Washington a $40,000,000 _ na. tional defence program has been reâ€" vealed, the money to be largely spert in strengthening the U. S, navy strongholds in â€" the Pacific. With Japan also busy in like regard it seems possible that one of these days that ocean will not be able to justify its name.+Brantford Ex positor. uPP o ty L UEC Flood their descendants might reaâ€" sonably equal the present populat on of the world. If man oxistg untold thousands â€" of years before that, where are the great host of descenâ€" dants? Science, says Sir Ambrose, shifts perpetually. Faith is a rock.‘ â€"â€"From the London Express. cesto" as the present apes mental or m We cannot c previous exis starting poir first body ? renowned sci answers of ; the Creation. people mated DARWIN DENIED Where, when, how do things be. gin? If we came from the same anâ€" cesto" as the apes why is it trat the present apes have no discernible mental or moral attributes of men ? We cannot create life apart from previous existence. Yet life had a starting point. Who inspired _ that first body? Sir Ambrose Fleming, renowned scientist, inquires these answers of those who "rationa‘lize" the Creation. He shows that if two people mated at the time of the Jw Se us s & ‘ A musician says it takes a lot of patience to learn to play the violin. Yes, but it isn‘t the player who nseds it most.â€"Chatham News. ut mmen Wemsmi dehinamds 5 duced by Sir Joseph Swan, who was born at Sundertand, England, â€" in 1828. He was a chemical engineer who first achieved snecess in imâ€" provements in photography. He made a carbon filament lamp _ as early as 1862, and in 1880 exhibited the first filament vacuum lamp. â€"-‘ From the St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. FIRST ELECTRIC LiGHT ‘ The remark by a Toronto professâ€" or that Edison was not the inventor of electric light may surprise a number of people, but that is quita, true. The first electric lamp was proâ€" CLCOING DOWN The government aquariam curator in Hamilton. Bermuda, elaims that women ~take to amateur deep _ sea diving _ more quiekly â€" than â€" men. That‘s probably due to the fact that men have been struggling to keep their heads above water during tht‘ last few years.â€"Border Cities Stav. B o8 se i e e oi it might be of interest for them â€" to learn that the Canadian canning inâ€" dustry entered 1935 with a "carry â€" over" cf 28,800,000 cans of tinncd tomatoes. OBviously, the thing to do is to sell these tomatoes. It is caiâ€" eulated that if every family in the country ccnsumed half a case more a yearâ€"which is under an extra can of tomatoes each menthâ€"the whole| carryâ€"over problem would be solved. As it is, the prospects are that the canning industry will have to slow up in fear of an increased carryover next year, and a Sowing up means more jobs vacant and stll more tomatoes unboughtâ€"Ottawa Citizen. To those '“,.!;- tical about being an REQUIIES PATIENCE CANADA THE EMPIRE many \ oc P' Cl / f (* s [Be B l‘ka\"‘\’f‘ '! C y SA 2 //-‘L- x L X i@““" / § &%”A;‘! [ " ROKME { \ -@/ p "‘?E;!i( | g ( » 7 ‘4,(‘(".";.‘(:?;’! ‘ NA 'tt/',’ (\ \ 5;%. f â€"A‘,ns & _/ . “‘ n ‘\.U(_ ' .,Ija t.L‘ n â€" the Pacific. With usy in like regard it e that one of these an will not be able to name.+Brantford â€" Ex. whe ts he h0 recuints a pipuctd &-*No::hbb:mnndhiqusfim "Sir Crichton Davey has been kiled, sir." Beneath Smith‘s heavy tan his face had blanched, and Hs eyes were set in a stare of horror. TOMATO SURPLEs FU MANCHU .'-*vh-- ---w;ku-v'. CANADA an nclque â€" lovi o their colle from . Quebe hg an age of plenty, interest for them to Camdian canning inâ€" are still a !}it skepâ€" in m editors Fretty nearly unanim they said the best r that of the Dionne I shows _ you, thinks Journal (which stil applauds their choice of likeable Ruman s1 ’ wHY THE BEST storRy? Telegraph editors like to make beâ€" lieve they are a terribly hardâ€"boiled lot, but really, so our friend â€" The Ottawa Journal teils us, they are "Jjust bundles of sentiment at heart." The Ottawa Journal reaches _ this conclusion because of the choice of the telegraph editors of Canada Off "the beut ‘newe ) sExnw n «6. . sAds y are _ There is nothing sacrosanct in old public documents and if the proâ€" vincial government finds its â€" space cluttered up with an accumulation it should get rid of all those which nave no special historie intercst. Some of them in fact never had any sound cause for existence. They would make a fine bonfire as a featuore ) of this . sinsetet Mess ic auas .. oo ps have possibly committed it. Inciâ€" dentally there would be precious few criminals conviected if cireumâ€" stantial evidence . were excluded â€"â€" Saint John Telegraphâ€"Journal. eature of the next Maryv""_24 ration.â€"â€"Victoria Times. On the other hand, to convince a jJury by a chain of cireumstantial evidence it must be very complete, linking the accused person with the crime and excluding â€" any â€" reasonâ€" able presumption that another could actinite corre expre ‘ney ful or cence t v neins CHAIN OF EVIDENCE As for the weight of cireumstantial evidence, no hard and fast general rule can possibly be laid down. There is some cireums‘antial evidence that leaves so many loopholes that it certainly shou!d not be held sulâ€" ficient to ecnviet. There is other cireumst=ntinl aut )' UNTIL IT HURTS A British menmber of Parliament has had his license suspended â€" for two years for reckless driving. â€" In this country, a magistrate appears to hestitate as to whether a fifteenâ€" day withdrawal is too uvere.-â€"Cal-i gary Herald. Quebec has always been famous for its homespuns, all of which are handâ€"loomed. A ready market for these home products has been created by visiting tourists, and the tourists, who a few years _ ago threatened the very existence of the spinning wheel with their demands for antiques, have in reality conâ€" tributed in some measure to the reâ€" vival of the oldtime domestic arts in the Province of Quebec. â€" Canaida Week by Week. Mivs Bl'R:\' THE OLD PAPERS the supply is far from being â€" exâ€" }hausted. as there are still some 80,500 in the province. The oidâ€" time custom of home spinning â€" and looming has experienced a great revival. _ Under the guidance of the Department of Agriculture, â€" wnich has been encouraging domestic arts, thrifty housewives are spinning their own yarn and weaving â€" their own cloth. Statistics reveal that there are 52,200 looms in the prov-‘ ince. matter about the tel They are like each r biased and so fail to testify ctly; they may find difficulty in »ssing the exact thought in their ; but a plain statement of diâ€" evidence always sounds very t news story of 1934." early unanimously, it seems, d the best news story was the Dionne babies. It just you, thinks The Ottawa ‘re is other «rcumstantial eviâ€" thet is actually for more conâ€" ‘# iifun direct evidence. Witâ€" i may so easily mistake what see. hear. taste, smell or feel; may be uncbservant, forgetâ€" vetween you and THE WORLD AT LARGE celeâ€" WV ridlcs fig sns 0 Wns o+. South Africa into war against the will of her people. It is for them _ to decide their line of action if a crisis should arise. This is the principle which Great Britain has always acâ€" cepted. She did not call upon Canada and Australia to aid her in 1899 or 1914, but left it to the free choice of their citizens. ‘ PONE EoVTE A2RTR PATUE Mr. Pirow, the Minister of Deâ€" fence in the Union of South Africa, has made a very frank and oulâ€" spoken declaration as to that Domâ€" inion‘s attitude to Imperial â€" defence. The Union, he said, is unwiliing to participate in any general â€" scheme worked out by Great Britain. Mr. Pi. row laid some stress on the risk of internal trouble or even civil conflict which might arise if the Union Govâ€" ernment should "attempt rashly _ to commit the country to participation in a future oversea war." The policy which he outlined is in general acâ€" cord with British expectations. _ No one in this country wishes to drag U coul + 6 ie s Â¥l THE DOMINIONS AND DEFENCE THE PEPPER GoT Too HOT Markets were rudely shaken reâ€" cently by one of the recurring disâ€" turbances which come as a reminder of the dangerous elements that lie beneath the surface of trade and finance. The history of business life affords many examples of "booms" and "slumps" on the Stock Exchange which have had farâ€"reaching â€"conâ€" sequences. It is doubtful, however, whether such an innocuous, if useâ€" ful, household commodity as pepper has ever before held the City stage. â€"Glasgow Herald. ' They know â€" the story of _ the Dionne babies was the best _ story by a sort of instinet, immeasurably beyond anmd superior to all judgâ€" ment, which relates them â€" to the fellow creatures whose doings _ are the raw material of their trade. Let us have no further mention â€" of "bundies of sent‘ment" here. What else is that curious creature, "down to (ichenna or up to the Throne." whichâ€"*‘ecause even the telegraph editors haven‘t been able to find _ a better name for himâ€"we call man? â€"Vancouver Province only in the matter of their all being telegraph editors. They are as diâ€" verse otherwise as all other human creatures are. They happen to be likeable softies because it happens to take a good deal of human kindâ€" ness to sit, as they do in the way of earning their living at a daily inquest into the incomprehensib{y mingled magnanimities and _ meanâ€" nesses, the splendors and miseries of this cur human life. They â€" knew the" story of tha THE EMPIRE ine gentienmian behina the oush s not a I off. He is none other than Jack Oakie, screen ing to Joe Sefton at the Santa Anila, Cal., trac ing cameraman. the" story of the was the best story instinet, immqgsurably "If every age has its own characâ€" teristic doctrine, there are a thousâ€" and signs which point to Fasc‘sm as the characeristic doctrine of our time."â€"Benito Mussolli. "The boom of 1929 was chiefly due to too much credit money and the depression to too little credit."â€" Irving Fisher. THEYRE TELLING US in the number of light cars licensed. In the Saorstat there were over 1, 700 motor cycles in 1926; by 1932 this total had fallen by over 2,000 Evidently the small car threatens the popularity of the motorcycle. Within the past year there has been a decline of over 14,000 in the number of motor bicycles in use in Great Britain. This fall has been acâ€" companied by a rise of almost 50,000 and any measure which is calculated to diminish the peril is worthy _ ef support. SMALL CAR OR MOTOR CYCLE rair in vast urban areas, where for mile after mile the country presents an endless expanse of roofs to the flyer overhead, while here and there his trained eye can pick out especialâ€" ly vulnerable points like railway staâ€" tions, factories, and public buildings. Some thickly populated areas in Eurâ€" ope, such as Southâ€"Eastern Britain, Northâ€"Eastern France, Belgium and the Rhine area, present the easiest of targets for attacks of this nature, 0t a mountaineer witi a uay creéen comedian, caught talkâ€" , track by disguise penetratâ€" TORONTO ‘‘:|Ray Device Deals Painless Death _ Tells Sex of Unhatched Chicks Chance Encounter By Eleanor Alletta Chaffe in the Lyric (Roanoke, Virginia), "I am a transient . .. " Within his eyes Strange tides were shadowed on a stranger shore: I heard the seagolls and their secret cries, ‘ So astounding are claims made for the machine that the Air Ministry sought a demonstration, â€" Chadfield said, but he refused on the grounds that he does not want it "to become Leicester, Ing. â€" A new and powerful ray machine which is reâ€" ported to kill "painlessly" at a disâ€" tance of a few hundred yards has been built by R. C. Chadfield, inâ€" ventor and lecturer at the Art and Technical College here. Eventually the machine may also be used for the determination of the sex of an unâ€" born child. J \ Perhaps an authority on acoustics has just innocently furnished â€" the explanation in his very definition of the word. He defines noise as "any undesired sound." This immediately suggests the questionâ€"Undesired by whom?â€"and that is just where the trouble starts. Nobody dislikes the noise he is himself responsible for. Automobile hornâ€"blowing is your way (From the New York Times) New York has lived through an number of sn.iâ€"noise campaigns an« yet to tie ordinary ear it sounds as noisy as ever, Nobody publicly de fends nolse, and science we are told. has pronounced against it. We learn that medical study has shown that noise impairs digestion by affecting the flow of saliva and gastric juice, that a typist under noisy conditions uses 19 per cent. more energy and loses 42 per cent. in speed. Why, then, do the antiâ€"noise campaigns make, so to speak, so little noise in the world? Leicester, Eng NOISE A NUISANCE WHEN IT‘s MADE BY THE OTHER FELLOW Now let us carry onâ€"suppose you have been given an assignment to create a series of advertisements in one of our national magazines. There are some 20 or 30 pages of advertizâ€" ing in each issue. You, as an advertâ€" ising designer have planned a beauâ€" tiful artistic layout, It is truly a work Study these lessons carefully and execute the problems in your best possible manuer, It difficulties arise reread the lessons and study the ilâ€" lustrations thoroughly, Try always to look Issneath all the variety of apâ€" pearances for the underlying prinâ€" ciple. one colour are harmoniously related to each other. where different colours or tones of A further beautifu of Rhythm is that of Cihitl dorhs s t cssb h t Clip pictures from magazines. Trace with red ink the action of flowing lines of rhythra and you will be surprised what an amusing and instructive pastime this will prove to be for you, if you are open minded and your mind in a recentiva mand LESSON 46 Flowing Rhythm in Natural Leaf Forms Fig. 162 is a splendid natural exâ€" ample in the rhythmical flow of the lines in leaf forms, You will also find this principle in natural landscape, and in landscaps paintings, 2 CSC, and sclence we are told, onounced against it. We learn nedical study has shown that impairs digestion by affecting Ne J¢.Snlt ysY New York Times) as lived through any iâ€"noise campaigns and nary ear it sounds as Nobody publicly deâ€" 4 Sketch Club @ d in a receptive mood. beautiful manifestation tone or colour, 1 heard the closing c door, And down the slope â€" ¢ distant hill I was the haunted with He has been experimenting â€" with its use in determining the sex of chickens. The tests so far show that an indicator goes to the left for males and to the right for females when an °&g is tested, he said. Chadfield is now trying to. adapt the ray to the discovery of‘ the sex of unborn children. The inventor believes best use of the ray w the extermination _ of pests and to aid in animals. ' lead: was the quarry, pantin still, My life untangling in thread . , an engine of war." The antiâ€"noise campaign will beâ€" gin to make real headway as soon as we can all agree upon just what noise is. was playing a symphony. A puzzled friend later asked him the reason. Were there sour notes? No. Was the whole thing in the wrong key* No. Was â€" anything wrong _ with the tempo? No. What then? "The truth is," confessed the violinist, "I just don‘t like music." The dilemma is summed up in the story of the violinist who kept makâ€" ing wry faces while his orchestra All rights reserved. of geiting me to step _ lively. My radio enterlainment is your intolerâ€" able nuisance. Your little evening‘s celebration is my irability toâ€" get some sleop. Riveting is my _ useful work and your verge of insanity, Singing, â€" whistling, violinâ€"playing and loud talking in the audience are your forms of selfâ€"expression lnd‘ my temptations to murder. Questions will be answered in this department, Anyone wishing to reâ€" ceive a personal reply may have the same if a 3¢ stamped envelope is tnâ€" closed with the request. The Art Diâ€" rector, Our Sketch Club, Room 425, 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, | your own mind, go back and look ’over these pages then you‘ll see why you remembered them, It was their fitness to purpose, their DOMINâ€" ANCE OF DISPLAY AND INDIVID UALITY. Get this feature intb your work and you will be kept busy, EX. No. 49 for this problem let us see jJust what you can do in adapting suggestions for designs from natural sources such as leaf forms, suitable for drapes, of art, You insert it in the magazine and you are not at all satisfied with the results, You may say that you used the wrong medium, whereas you might have been using one of the best, Why didn‘t you get results? Probably because you were considerâ€" ing yourself and your product rather than the people you were appealing to and you failed to make your adâ€" vertisement competitively strong in its bid for attention, For example, thumb through a copy of the magaâ€" zine. Look over the advertisements, | Then lay t/ke magazine down. What‘ pages do you remember you saw ? . After you have identified these in‘ quarry, panting, hurt and ination _ of _ agricultural to aid _ in slaughtering the rayâ€" would be f;; the right for egg is tested, he now trying to the discovery of of a distant of some far a heart of a crimson that â€" the _i am wondering if human kindâ€" ness is top expensive to include in the program of our professional charâ€" ities."â€"Harold Bell Wright. It is the almost old upon the lampâ€" lit stair Who still contrive to camouflage the coming gloom. It is the growing old who are so much aware * ~ Of Life that they must keep bright flowers within the room. â€"Virginia Spiker, in "The Lvric" tne very old have peace and dreams and quiet breath, Eyes filled with lilac dusk, hair blown with winter snow. In small white rooms they wait for velvetâ€"footed death, With folded hands they wait and have no fear to go. The It‘s something like been trying to say 1 EmE ARTE TUVR HRC OHC of the pictures in the books whici tailorâ€"shop men keep, and wers he able to s:ay in that class with no effort on his part, then would he become a victim of that school of thought which is prone to give utâ€" terances to the belief that the world owes a man a living. We read some place that a giant was never cradled in a bed of roses. It‘s something like that wo have hake 3t yt ® rron and furniture piled his trousors. Were he possessed of a pair which would make him 1c Life is not an easy battle. Let the man in the situation unafraid ; more surround himself determination to "~7NHenci@s which attack his trousâ€" ers; he has been able to keep from resisting temptation â€" which would make him trave] under the disguisâ€" es of the slovingly genius, We write thus because we do not desire to see a good _ man become soft; we do not wish th> plint of battle to go from his eye nor firm WhatkGccs ctatous In such methods there comes reâ€" 'wnrd not only in the crcases but alâ€" so in that sense of accomplishment of having done a worithy thing. It makes a man strong morally and mentally, It gives him reason to know he is still master of the situâ€" ation; he has beon able to sweep back the stoveâ€"pipe _ or grainâ€"bag tendencies which attack | hic «... ing the furnture will cause him to romp down to the breakfast table and partake of his victuals with that zest which is the forerunner of a good day‘s work. We hbave a sort of halfâ€"baked notion that eternal vigilance i; the price of a whole heap of things, inâ€" cluded in which is pressed trousers. Did The Journal man never in his younger days try sleeping with his trousers carefully spread out beâ€" tween the mattress and the spring of the bed? It produces a good crease, but it takes quite a lot of poking about before retiring. _ That we admit. Or he might get a board; place the board on the trousers, and on the board put a trunk and a dresser over night. In the morning he will find a goodly crease in his trousers, and the exercise of throwâ€" have trousers hacked out and made at once. He would willingly le down on the office floor and let the tailor draw a picture of his topographical requirements for a pair of trousers, We fear the Ottawa man has been gripped with the desire of the age for easy living, for securing desired results with a modicum of effort. He would be, as he says, the slovâ€" enly genius rather than maintain the battle for the dressed dandy with the creased trousers. Lavender and Flame So it is The Journal man yelps for details about this new cloth shown in Britain. He wants samples of it; he yearns to get a bolt of it and have trousers hacked out and made the sermon was good enough to merit the taking of a few notes, but by noon on Monday his trouser knees looked like those of Charlie Chaplain when Chaplain was in the movies, Having stated h‘s promise, The Journal man lays bare to the paze of the community the struggles of other days to keep his t ous ‘rs pressed. Ho has tried hard cith and soft cloth, and tweed and twill and homespun and what not, but success has not come. On a Sunday morning he would be off to church with a crease on which he could sharpen his pencil when he decided , Stratford Beacon Herald a! The Ottawa Journal mar read ; something in the paper about the ; Duke of York being at the British ; Industries Fair and buying a suit of t clothes of material which will not bag at the knees. | _ But that is all the nows there was _ about it, and The Journal shows vexation because it was not told where to go and secure this mater. ial, nor was there a word about the man who invented it The Ottawa paper believes that cables from "Empe for the day should have been stripped of stories about war talk and peace pacts, and the full wordage should have been plased at the disposal of the man who could or would write informinzly about the pants which would not ba» at the knees. Ts. . Were he to become of. a . pair of trousers ild make him look like one ‘tures in the books which men keep, and wers he ay in that class with no to ooze from the chin. an easy thing; it is a : man in Ot‘awa faco nafraid; let h‘m once himself with the Alat iture piled deep upon By Baggy Trousers The Lyric." no he ees C PERCCCUB O HWLIUT i Some of the conclus \ have mlready emerged * Wey are curious: The postâ€"war decline ara hilll has released large arcas ®Feletively poor land, whic c present eonditions, could be : M “hbly utilized for afforestation %‘- ‘.‘l‘t fl'Om Ob\'l'ctu-:_\' poot $ & H»:G'llnge from arable to pastur« & has been greatest in the ca= ®f heavy soils, which, while capabl yielding good crops, are exper _to cultivate. the direction of couniry diâ€" Of education, more thar ®chool children have taken in the collection have taken jn the collection of informa: amnd the preliminary coloring of maps to show the uses to Jland is put. _ After five years of ar # survey of England, S« ..h is mbout to be ma by the London School of As described by The M. It would be a veritable Book, except for the ia. does not record the reco: ®f big landed estates. N. St is expected to contai» tion of the utmost value : Sstry of Agriculture, the Commissioners and town wional planning authorii to him Bhadrachâ€"What Mesbachâ€" We 1, Fellow who will ra ment ring when | "The man w doesn‘t do much made a . wonder! whould be put a} Columbus. Bossâ€"Th secretary . make me Bossâ€"My «1 you out to « ing. The man hotel for sc ms I like t} clerk, "I bit." . The *"Have you Are old m their experic #o be able to mer account. S; on to his wile, ing she pave h the banker. T letter, read it, handed it to S sheet of paper, ten in large let A certain for his wife embarrassme; A few woeks opened the t« form her tha Boss Two c: when one Doctor all run d golf for a at the of%, Be kind, d« and Go i wonderâ€"W; when fait} ories spea ©O, little bunci prayer for y While crooning with sove s Keep love and THE sc When baby me, blu mer sky I wonderâ€"\ world +1 lie? As clinging mine, a; hideâ€"and s husbhand "Who wa wiser than Lancelot, m 1a 9 The old saying a; ways having the |a: so much boloney. Ey word when Adam py on her. vnat was a tipâ€"top what that means, Colored _ Waiter ene that you top « at any rate uoh fill eah Satisfied Survey Of Britain â€"AVs trik wante W Wi wh UC HeAR TD Cw auest y o U () dor Int W

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