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Port Perry Star, 9 Oct 1930, p. 2

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SURE Sh SBF Saf Se 3 , ers, . quantities of arsenic without any ap- low ss one part in a million or more of be extremely usefui, Jugoslivs Emigrate to Far-Off Lands, ; Lure of Home Calls Many Back. Split, Jugeslavia® -- More than a twelfth part of all the Jugoslavs live outside of their fatherland and are found in almost every country In the world. In ther United States .there are more than 0 500,000, in South America 100,000, in Australia and New Zealand several thousand, 5,000 iw Egypt, 20,000 in France, many in Canada, and a number even in Siberia, There is hardly an ocgapation in which they are not engaged. In America they are farmers, fruit rais- miners and factory workers. They are sailors on all the seas, work- ing under many flags. They make straw hats in Central America and send them to the United States. They catch crabs in ths Gulf of Mexico and fish in the Pacific Ocean along the . shore of southern California, They ship. vegetables from Mexico, sell milk in Chicago and keep little restaurants fn most of the larger citles in all par's of the world. They have gone . abroad to seek! their fortunes because parts of their own country have been under the op- pression of foreign rulers for ages and in their barren mountain: and dry hills it has been difficult to find bread for all.' Strange to say, the stony, unpro- ductive valleys and cliffs and peaks amid which these people are reared, exercise a charm over them which neither time nor distance can break and which brings scores of thousands of them home to visit or live. So many of them have returned from the United States to Dalmatia, Croatia and Bosnia tiat.one is scarcely able to enter a hotel, restaurant, store, automobile or hoat wihout being serv- ed by one of these returned emi- grants. In many a Jugoslav village the lar- gest house belongs to an "American" and most of the chauffeurs who drive automoblles over the dizzy roads of Montenegro will tell you of the years the spent in the United States.--From The Christian Science Monitor, Eve Acquires New | Long-Lost Dignity When both mother and - daughter wore frocks wi barely covered their knees it w often hard to tell one from the --at a distance, at other least, But now dresses are being worn long once again, wand many women who have said good-bye to their first youth ' are bewailing the fact that the extra three or four inches which have been | added to the bottom of their skirts al- 80 add a few years to their age! Dame Fashion has decreed that Dig- nity shall be the vogue. Youthful | gkittishness is out-of date, Deportment a.grace which was so important in the days of our grand- | parents has been sadly neglected dur- ing recent years... Women have grown | careless as to how they carry them- selves and a slouching walk is very common, Courting Disaster. Will the longer frocks bring back a 4 ul carriage? 1ity is certainly returning to the ball.-room. The present fashion does not lend ftself to the Charleston the Black Bottom and other negro dances, To attempt to ( leston in-a frock which swept the ground would be to court disaster. Such dresses are bet- ter suited to the waltz and the tango. Perhaps we may vet sed the minuet come into favour or even the stately quadrille! But of one thing we may be certain, and that is that the prevailing fashion will have little effect on women's sports clothes. The modern girl is too enthius over her prowess at o allow her movements to be impeded by garments which would reach even half-way down her legs. So, while in the ball-room she may discreetly hide her ankles fromr view, on the tennis court or golf course she cheerfully shows her knees: Unlike her grandmother, Miss 1930 has two personalities which she as- sumes at will. In the afternoon ghe 1s | the nimble sports girl. But in the eT ning the sports girl vanishes, and ; in her place is a graceful damsel whose "leet beneath her petticoat like little mice peep in and out." Governor Sauce nd slice one peck green to- le over them one coffee cup of salt. Let stand all night. Drain next morning 2 hours. Firss, eight large onions cut into kettle, three sticks celery; cut up in order as written; one heaping cup horseradish, two full pounds of chopped apples; four cucumbers, cut in dice; eight green peppers, cut up. One scant tea- spoon each of the followiag: Allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and curry powder, with one ounce whele spice in a muslin or thin cotton hag. One ani a half pounds brown sugar after the vinezar is added. Barely cover, heat through slowly. Cook gently. If not sweet enough add a little sugar. mm fae China to Open Leper Colony Amoy, China.--Amoy is to have a leper hospital accommodating indoors about 500 persons, on a small island a mile off the city waterfront. | He's A Sport Some people seem to think a sport Is found upon the course, With blg cigar, and cap of check, And all complete with horse; A man who studies form with zest And talks of "odds' with ease; And yet, it's sure you'll never make A sport with only these, Some people seem to think a sport Goes walking with a gun, To bag a grouse or bigger game; And never misses one. Although a fellow may do this And be a splendid shot, It doesn't follow he's a sport, For sometimes he is not. Some people seem to think a sport Is one who kicks a ball; Or chases one o'er tennis net; Or swipes one white and small; Or stops one with a cricket bat-- He may be one, I'm sure. | And yet this isn't quite enough; There must be something more. A sport is one who plays the game, That vaster game of Life, And never falters in his stride, Nor bows his head to strife; Who plays for neither praise nor prize, But does his best in spite , Of 'win or lose, come good or {ll-- Yes, that's a sport, all right! --Peter Cavan. EARL North American Datum In the highly technical rok the geodetic measurement of the North Americah continent it is obvious that one basis or system should be used in order to obtain the highest results in economy and efficiency. The three countries involved, namely, Canada, the United States, and Mexico, con- forming to the calculations of Clarke, the English mathematician, as to size and shape of the earth, regard Meade's Ranch, in Kansas, as the initial point most fully approaching geodetic con- ditions. Measurements are made in the Dominion by the Geodetic Survey. of Canada, Department of the Interior, linking up with those emanating from that point, and the term North Ameri- can Datum is used to designate this ! condition of harmony in the scheme of triangulation by which the continent is measured. PERSO It Seemed™An Age He entered a restaurant and ordered lunch. \ The time seemed to slip by, but still there was no sign of the meal, and in the end he quite forgot what he had ordered. Some time later, the waiter appear- ed again. "I say," said the customer, calling the man to his table, "when I gave you my order for lunch, did I give you a tip for to-morrow's big race?" "Yes, sir," returned the waiter, "and ! thank you very much!" ' "Good," shot back the customer; "and did the horse win?" seems. y Willie~"Did Mr. Edison make the first talking machine, pa?" Pa--"No, my son. God made the first talking machine, but Edison made the first one that could be shut off." -- Bell Telephone News. Plant Poisons Discovered To Be Deadly Insecticides \ - London.--The ancient art of mal- ing fish poisons from certain plants has been put to a new use in killing insect pests that destroy crops, F. N. Howes, British botanist, writes in a recent, bulletin of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Heretofore one of the main poisons for insects has been arsenic, which is administered in the form of spray solution. Many pests, however, have developed an immunity and are able to swallow considerable 'preciable harm, according to this authority. 1: . Investigators found that fish pois- Pns made from plants were a highly efficient substitute. Dilutions of as have been found to be fatal to insects on contact. Derris, an Indian group of plants, har been found to The bulletin proposes to spray plants with arsenic poison for a few seasons, and then to substitute the plant poison in order to offset the immune strains that may evolve and kill them. Most of the fish poisons that have been found are of tropical origin, and one of the most promising is the South American cube, These, with derris, belong to the gume family, relatives of clover. These plants can be grown as fertil- izer crops in rubber groves, thus taining two paying crops from same land and enriching the soil at the same time, Another ancient plant used as & fish poisin 'is mullein, which America as well as Europe. fi i When His Worship Mayor R. Salter of Boston, Lifes, accompanied by his councillors, arrived at Quebec on board the Cunard liner "Ascania", they were greeted by a delegation from Boston, Mass., composed of Col. A. P. Guthrie and L. F. Green. Redding from left to right the party are as follows: --Col. Guthrie, representative of the Mayor of Boston; L..F. Green of Boston representing the Labourers Party of Boston; Capt. W. A. Hawkes, R.D., R.N.R, commander of the "Ascania"; His Worship Mayor R. Salter; Mrs. E. A. Bailey, Deputy Mayoress; Mr. E. A. Bailey, Deputy Mayor; J. Tait, ex-Mayof; J. H. Mountain, councillor and Mr. Geo. Robinson, Managing H. Hountaln, councillor and Mr. Geo. Robinson, Managing Director and Editor of the Lincolnshire "Standard." "Lost" Energy Used Up In Expanding Universe 'Washington.--The old question of what becomes of the energy that is radiated into space by the sun and stars in the form of heat, light and ultraviolet rays is answered by We. deSitter, the famous astronomer of Leiden. In a report to the National Academy of Sciences he says it is "more than used up in the work of expanding the universe." Sick-Room™Rules A sick-room should be airy and well ventilated. It should be as large and lofty as possible and the windows should open at the top. No article of unnecessary furniture should be per- mitted to remain in the room, and all that is in it should be of a kind that can be easily washed with soap and water, Medicine glasses should be washed in soapy water and thoroughly rinsed after each dose is administered. Many medicines alter their properties, and DeSitter means that the portion of space which contains particles of mat- ter is limited, and that the section con- taining the matter. is constantly ex- panding in all directions, This is the portion of space that contains what men call solid substance. | meen Mother Sea Cow Teaches ! Baby Discipline Lesson Miami, Flo.--This *'no, baby mustn't touch" stuff goes in sea cow families, too. p "Maggie Murphy" and her 150- pound son, who is just past three months old, have been having a merry battle to see whether or not sonny eats eel grass, plentiful in their quar- ters in the Miami aquarium. | Every time sonny makes a grab for grass, mamma slaps him down, and his diet is still milk. | The infant manatee is the first sea cow ever born in caotivity. It weigh- ed sixty-three"pounds at birth, Beacon Seen 150 Miles Aids Flyers Bound for Vancouver | Seattle.--Visible from here on clear! nights a distance of 150 miles, the largest beacon in the British Empire, 21,000,000 candlepower in its inten- sity, guides aviators to Vancouver, B. C. The sixty-foot tower, erected on the roof of the Hudsons Bay Company store, displays the first of five similar lights planned for western Canada. They will materially assist the opera- tion of the Alaska air mail soon to be established. x White Taxi Driver Elected Chief by Yaqui Indian Tribe Mexico City.--The Yaqui Indians of | Yucatan, State of Sonora, have elected | a white chief, or "cobanahui," for the first time in history. Jose Limon, a former taxi driver, has been chosen by the tribe to guide their destinies. Limon has lived with the Yaquis for| a long time and knows their languages and their customs. The Indians be- lieve he will be an ideal mediator be- tween them and the whites. 4 mroer------ Rises and falls, travels about, wears out boots and ne¥er has Boots to wear? A football, RE ---- Blind people in Great Britain have been presented with 6,400 wireless this alteration having been undergone by the small portion which is always left in the glass/may change the effi- cacy of the dosd from the corked bot- tle and may even make it poisonous. -- - Keeping Salt Dry In damp weather many housewives find difficulty in preventing salt from becoming damp and lumpy. As soon as salt is received it should be removed from its packst, then spread out thinly on a warm surface and allowed to remain there until per- fectly dry. Pour into glass containers --glass jam jars suit the purpose ad- mirably--and cover securely. A metal container should never be used for storing salt. Only a small quantity should he kept in the salt cellar, especially if it is open. Salt quickly absorbs any moisture that may be in the atmos- phere. A few grains of rice in the cellar will help to prevent the salt} from becoming lumpy. re less Menace in Gas Fumes Carbon Monoxide Danger: Every motorist should take the utmost pre- caution against this most insidious gas, especially at. this season of the year, Cars should not be repaired in closed garages while the motor is run- ning, and at no time should a person remain in a closed building while the engine of a car is turning. The gas is odorless and cannot be seen. It first overcomes its victims and then kills them. No chances should be taken with this, the worst enemy of the motorist. --Isued by the Legal Dept. of the Royal Automobile Club of Can- ada. ---- C. B.S. as Critic A gushing hostess at an evening party rushed up to George Bernard Shaw and asked him what he thought of a new violinist she had discovered and who had played that evening. "He reminds me of Paderewski," commented G. B. S. "But Paderewski is not a violinist." "Just so, just 0," came Shaw's re- ply.--"The Real Shaw," by M. Col- bourne. a ree -- HARDLY OUR SORT a The face of the first Englishman, according to one expert, was animal Economy Corner Canned Salmon Chowder Peel and slice 1 large potato and a small onion, cook in small quantity of salted water until done. Do not drain, but add 2% tall can of red salmon. Heat to boiling point (but do not boil) 1 quart of milk. Just before ready to serve add a big tablespoon of butter and season with salt and pepper, Turn into the hot salmon and serve with or without crackers as preferred. The other half can of salmon is nice creamed on toast. Chess Pie Four eggs, 2 scant cups sugar, small lump butter, 1 cup rich milk, 2 large tablespoons flour, nutmeg. Mix dry ingredients well; melt butter and add to yolks well beaten. Mix all together and cook in double boiler. Pour into | baked shell. Spread jelly on top of filling and cover with beaten whites. Potsfield Pickles y Three pounds red tomatoes, 3 | pounds green tomatoes, 1 small cab- | bage, 2 bunches celery, 1 quart onions, | %& cup salt, 3 pints vinegar, 2 pounds | sugar, 2 tablespoons mixed spices, % . cup mustard seed, 2 red peppers. Chop tomatoes and grind the rest of the in- gredients. Let stand over night, then | drain; add 3 pints vinegar, 2 pounds sugar, 2 tablespoons mixed spices, tied in bag, 4 cup mustard seed. Cook { two hours, then jar. Graham Gems One cup graham flour, 1 cup flour, | % teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons baking ' powder, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, 2 table- | spoons sugar or molasses, 2 table- ! spoons melted shortening. Mix dry ingredients, add milk, beat- , én egg and melted shortening. Bake i in hot oven about 25 minutes. Red Tomato Catsup Wash ripe tomatoes and-cut into pieces without peeling. Cook about half an hour, using very little water ! to keep from burning at first. Drain | through a fine sieve, washing through as much pup as possible. To 4 quarts of juice add 1 pint of vinegar, 2 tablespoons salt, 8 table- spoons sugar, ¥ cup whole: pickle spice (put spice into cheese cloth bag) and boil down %. Bottle and seal This is a very old recipe and has al- ways come out fine, Tomato Salad Dip tomatoes in boiling water and remove skins. If small ones are used, leave whole; if large ones are used, slice them on lettuce leaves. Top them with French dressing, with or without cucumbers, green peppers, pineapple or asparagus. "So you want a divorce, Rastus?"' said the judge. "Yes," said Rastus. "I want a divorce 'count ob ma wife makin' an ironical remark" "An ironical remark?" "Yes. She says, sets, but 18,000 more sets are still re- 10 type, with a broad flat nose, a mas- 'It you don't go to work I'll hit you quired. sive jaw, little chin, and shaggy hair. in the face wid dis flat iron!" _ . Football Goes "Mechanical" [| reir seh A don he Ml -- EE Coach Eskle Clark and: #rank Kales, showing Football Manager Dillon at Harvard and Jimmy Knox, coach, | which causes the dummy to run end dodge. x hdw the new football robot, or tacklipg dummy, works. It is. a complicated system of springs and counterchecks | developed into miniature 'wars," show Football As It Was Vegetable Kingdom Played 400 Yrs. Ago Out-Lives Animals Italy Puts in a Claim to Have Invented Winter Game-- Which Florence Played 400 Years Ago The recent highly spectacular foot- ball matches in South America, which of Life Dwarfs Elephant's Meagre 200 Years © An old German maxim says: "A wren lives three years, a dog three times the age of the wren, a horse three times the age of the dog, a man three times the age of the horse--or once again that Soccer is the whole eighty-one years. The donkey lives word's game, and not just Britain's.) ip ee times the age of man, the white claim that the city of Florence gave us key, the crow three times the age of the game originally, for they gay that ing prant, the deer three times the age football was a favorite pastihe there of tne crow, the oak-tree three times four centuries ago. Théy called the yy, age of the deer"'--according to game "Giuoco del Calcla," and state which calculation the deer would live that it was handed down to them from ' 4 )¢ more than six thousand years old the Romans ,and was thus introduced ,.q the oak about twenty thousand. Mighty Oak With 1000 Y=ars And now along comes Italy with the rum three times the age of the dome ° J 4f5ualy played in the main city square .| oughly enjoyable necessity. to this country. i Other people though, think that foot- ball was introduced into Italy by Eng- lish trained bands fighting in Europe. Nevertheless, the city of Florence played football 400 years ago, under the patronage ef the Medici, rulers of Florence, and of three Popes who were themselves good players in their Youth. A football match was always a most important part of any public festivity on great occasions. Much pomp and ceremonial attended the games. These special state occasion matches were ith all the nobles and townsfolk pre- sent in gala attire. Even the players donned festive garments, silk and | satin doublets and hose, and a close skull cap--the forerunner of our crash J helmet. - b The square pitch was divided into two equal parts, with goalposts at each end. The ball was a round leather one like ours to-day. Though the game was a species of Soccer, goals were scored by kicking the ball over the crossbar, as in Rugger, and not be- tween the posts beneath, They went in for mass games, too, for the teams numbered twenty-seven a side--fifteen forwards, nine half: backs, two full-backs, aiid a goalkeep- er, After each goal scored the teams changed sides, but they did it with' more spectacle and ceremony than we do. In these games the leading side changed over with flags flying, and the | losers with flags lowered. Another rule which has a modern ring about it was that two penalties counted as a goal. Still more amusing is the descrip- tion of the game by a writer of that day, who called it "noble and courtly, and not fit for the populace!" . Football figures in Italian history in the famous match during the siege of Florence, 400 years ago, when the young men of the city played a public game as a gesture of courage and de- fiance to the enemy. How the Alphabet Was Made "Influenc@ of mouth gesture on the development of the Alphabet" was the subject of an address by Sir Richard Paget before the Anthropology Sec- tion, reports the Daily Telegraph. "It was pointed out by Sir Richard that, just as speech appeared to have developed from pantomimic gesture, owing to an unconscious sympathy between the movement of the human hands and body onkue, of the hu- man mouth and tongue, so the de- velopments of alphabets appeared to have been influenced by a corres- ponding sympathy of movement be- tween the human mouth and tongue and the human hand. "If the alphabets of different na- tlons were examined it was found that in the letters standing for the sounds of P, B, M, and W, and also those for the vowel sound U--in all of which sounds the two lips are more or less protruded and brought to- gether--the symbols are commonly suggestive, either of a closed mouth, or of two lips closed or projected, or on the point of opening. Examples given from our own alphabet by Sir Richard were:-- "A, which was orginally written lylng on its side, suggests an open mouth facing right. "B is the profile of two lips, point- ing towards the right. ; "E represents a mouth pointing to the right, with fhe tongue at mid- height, as in pronouncing the sound of e in men. 3 "I is an elevated tongue, as in the sound of ea in eat. . "L is another vertical tongue sign. "M represents two lips in profile, pointing upwards. "0 is a front view of a rounded | mouth. \ "T is a vertical tongue, touching the horizontal palate. "U and V are both pairs of protrud- ed lips. » "W is a pair of lips, like M, but pointing down instead of up. "Every letter of our alphabet, ex- cept H and Q," sald Sir Richard, "was closely related to the shape of mouth! which produces it."--Public Opinion. Cohasset Auto Has Become Necessity, One would not call the automobile a luxury, but a common-sense, thor- Withont Says Dr. Robert Gruenwald, writing in the Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig): Although these statements have but a limited foundation, still, on the other hand, it will hardly be necessary te - look very far to establish the fact that animal 'life does not compare im length with vegetable life. Organisms more than four thousand years old, such as the baobabs, or of only one thousand years, as some oaks and ced ars, hardly find a counterpart in ani mal life. As a general rule, the active animals have shorter lives than the lazy ones that lead a life of ease. And all ani mals whose vitality is spent in a con- stant struggle against the inclemency . of the weather, against an infinite number of -enemies--those which ia constant fear and misery lead a fugl tive's life filled with privations, cam not, much as they may have become hardened in this struggle, attain the - old age that falls to the lot of animal sluggards, in their almost emotionless and effortless existence. Of mammals, only a few exceed am age of more than thirty years, we learn. Further: Only the elephants with more than two hundred years and the whales, perhaps also the hippopotamus and the rhinoceros, live longer than man, The camel, too, hat a rather long life, whereas deer and horses grow to _be almost forty years old, the bovine ani mals about thirty years, and the { medium-sized mammals a little over ten. The lion hardly lives to be over thirty-five, the sheep fifteen, the fox fourteen, the hare ten, the squirrel and mouse only six years. Among the birds, eagles and parrots | may grow to be one hundred years olds In 1772, at the Cape of Good Hope, a falcon was caught with a band around its neck bearing the inscription "Jacob 1610." A white-headed vulture of the Schoenbrunn Menageria remained one hundred and eighteen years in cap- tivity. The Indians said of Humboldt's well-known parrot of Atures (Venezue- la) that it could not be understood be- cause it spoke the language of the ex- tinct tribe of that name. Canaries and other singing birds grow about eigh- teen years, chickens twelve, pigeons only ten. A cuckoo, known by its de- fective call, was heard for thirty-two consecutive years in the same woods. The reptiles may grow exceptionally old. The barachia, too, have a long life, whenever they do not fall a prey to wading birds, reptiles, and fishes. Cases of old age are also well known among the lowest vertebrates, the fishes. It has been reported that at Kaiserlautern, in the year 1497, a pike was caught which, according to the statement of an inscription upon a ring attacned to one of the flaps, was placed iu the pond in the year 1230. In contrast to this possible longevity in the vertebrates, the life term of the invertebrates is much briefer. It is true that some shell-fishes reach the age of about twenty years, and that parasites may live several years. While the drones live at most four to five months, the age of the queen-bees may reach five years. Still with the majority of insects life comes very rapidly to an end, although in the case af none as quickly as that of the day- fly and some butterflies. It is obvious that with such dissimi- larity in length of life the beginning of; old age also comes at different times, we are reminded. Hence: There appear in animals symptoms of old age, but not always 4 completa change of life, as with our domestie animals. Many animals become mor- ose and unsociable, withdraw sullenly from their own kind and lead the cheerless life of a hermit. In old birds one may notice a change to somber coloring in the plumage. In reptiles, which are known to change their garb quite frequently during the year, this change grows more difficult with ine creasing age. ------ "Will you take gas?" "Will it hurt - it I don't?" asked the husky patient. "I'm afraid it will." "Then for your sake I think I ought to.' - Urchin: "Mr. Brown, your wife's calling for you," Grocer: "Well, I'm usy now. Tell her I'll come in tem minutes. . Where is she? In the gar den?" Urchin: "No--in the canalt® i The new proprietor of the village it the modern family would be far less Store was Isaac Isaac. Business was happy. It does inestimable pood in DO 800d, and Isaac stood at the door earner from the confines of four walls,' Put empty street. A little girl whe by taking them away 2 the mono. had just turned the corner paused ume | tonous run of everyday living and by Jel one. Mu subi i al helping to keep the family united. | ee Mn: rainy day and then get discouraged You a pound?" "She does," sald Isase. because it doesn't rain. b ve'easing the family and the wage O0e morning gazing gloomiy at the all Lots of men lay up something for a the little girl, "does my mamma ows "And--and whose little girl are yout® &

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