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ist. "Maybe It's Birds You Need : Editor's Note-- Because this article has local im- 'portance, and because it is written by that master of good writing, Gregory Clark, we reprint it herewith from The Toronto Star Weekly. We are sorry that we cannot reproduce the beautiful colored illustration' of the mat. = Mr. Clifford Mark i is a former Honeydale boy, and a brother of Mrs. R. D. Woon, When Mrs. Clifford G. Mark of Stop 18, Kingston Road, a few miles East of Toronto, picked up the Star Weekly, a bright colored page of birds sprung out at her and she said: "That would make a beautiful rug." It was a page we ran a year ago entitled "Maybe It's Birds You Need," and the decoration was a display of meadowlark, robin, bluebird and red- wing, in bright color. When The Star Weekly prepares an article, illustrated in full color, it can have no idea to what far ends its work will go and serve. Most of it is pro- bably brief and humdrum. Some of it is heart moving, like the Weeklies that journey from hand to hand of missionaries" in China, travelling by porter over thousands of miles of foreign and war-riven country until the papers are just rags, barely legible, but very beloved of black clad exiles from Canada. But it is forgot- ten by the workaday men and women, _ the editors, writers, artists, engravers and printers who make the paper that they are dealing in beauty, and that into all manner of places from here to the ends of the carth that beauty speaks in terms both practical and aesthetic, Mrs. Mark was one--oul of per- haps hundreds of women who thought of making something out of our bird illustrations who actually s sel to work on the task, The. xug-she made, is a good big 'one. It was for the floor-of her chil dren's room, but it turned out so "beautiful 'and striking, it will hang on a_ wall instead, likely for many a year. It is about 7 x 4 feet. 'Previous to making this bird rug, Mrs. Mark had attempted only two small hooked rugs, of the conventional bedside. size, with the basket of flow- ers design. --On-vacation trips in Que- bec with her husband, a Toronto real estate man, Mrs. Mark had bought, as everybody does," the handicraft rugs "displayed along-the fences and on the porches of the little Habitant villages. And in the big department stores, she had watched the demonstrators at work with the simple awl-like needle that is used in making hooked rugs. It was not even a hobby with Mrs. Mark. She had made two. Then she saw the page of birds in The Star £¥. Weekly, and saw. also_in_her mind's eye a very beautiful rug. Using a big suilt frame to hold her "canvas, Mrs, Mark sketched in chalk the rough design of The Star Week- ly illustration. To get the size and _ 'proportion right was quite a task, and . would be even for a professional art- In the original picture were two "other birds, which Mrs. Mark elimin- ated from her pattern because it filled "the frame too full. Finally the chalk sketch appeared good, and Mrs. Mark set to work. It took in all about fourteen weeks of fairly steady day to day work to complete the rug. But it was in two spells. The first was four weeks last spring and early summer. Then she "laid it away until autumn and in ten weeks of regular afternoon and some evening periods, finished it. "With the exception of the red in the robin's and the blue bird's breasts every rag in the rug is the original color of the rag. To find -the shade for the peculiar ruddy brown of these bird's breasts, Mrs. Mark tried several combinations of dye. = For- several days, she hunted for a robin to get a good close look at the actual color, but though the Marks live- well out in the suburbs not a robin could she find ex- cept ones tree-top singing. In bird books she could get no more actual impression of the true color than from The Star Weekly print, which though realistic, is not a color to match with a dye. Finally, a robin consented and stood on a fence while Mrs, Mark . . made 'her vivid mental impressions, and rushed a blend of peach and light brown, until the rags came the right living color. A whole table cloth was among the rhgs that made the robin's and, the ~ Dbluebirg's breasts, Other white raga of ever} description went into torn strips and into the carefully caleu- lated dye pot until that one section of her rug picture was fled. The sky, in Mrs. Mark's rug, is one of the most artistic features, because it is shaded and glowing with many tones of pale sky blue from a lake Es blue to an almost white., From the window of her home where she work- ed at the frame, Mrs. Mark can see Lake Ontario, and throughout the many afternoons' job of making the sky part of her pattern, she worked directly to the color and tone of the lake before her eyes. Fits and Starts Working on a hooked rug is a matter of fits and starts because half the art is finding the right rags and the right colors. Mrs. Mark had looked -at the lake for weeks, and taken up and thrown away a dozen different blues when one morning she beheld it right in her own bedroom. It was an old quilt, the back of which was light blud and usually was laid on the bed blue side under.- But.all things eome to hooked rug makers if they wait. And the blue quilt was precisely what Mrs. Mark had been waiting for. It so matched the blue of the lake that it filled her with a glee: that carried her enthusiastically back to her chore at the -quilting frame. It is that glee which it part of the fun of rug making. ) "Ilooked rugs", Mr. Mark says, "is right. Once anybody starts making a rug, let her family and friends beware. A rug maker will hook anything."- He was referring to the fact that two complete suits of his--coat, vest and two pairs of pants, went into the rug, and a suit belonging to a nephew. A blue serge suit was practically the shade 'Mrs. 'Mark- wanted for the blue of the redwing blackbird. And a brown suit, tweed, was so perfectly suited to the back of the meadowlark | that an artist with paints could not have achieved a better mottled feath- ery effect than that tweed suit did when ripped into strips. "But the suits were done anyway", said Mr. Mark. Silk stockings galore went 'into the branches and leaves of trees in the picture, Silk stockings are of the various shades required to portray wood, and Mrs. Mark watched keenly for runs in the hose of her family and friends. On visits to her mother, she had to be followed about very craftily or there was no telling what bits of fabrics might vanish with a flick of the hand. As the rug dntered its second phase, the ten-week spell, finding materials became a game and an 'obsession of the most exciting and amusing sort. The minute one section of color was finished, a scouting expedition had to be organized and new friends and new members of the family had to be visit- ed, and closets and attics and those chintz covered boxes that stand at the end of most beds in all but sissy homes, were explored. Sometimes in one foray, Mrs. Mark would discover the material for three or four dif- ferent sections of varied colors. "There is no new cloth in the whole rug", she told us. "And hardly any of it has had to be torn out, once it was hooked in, though you are tempt-|. tion with no limits to the beauty of your creation. Rug making has artistic thrill of painting plus the excitement of hunt- ing. -It is as though an artist painted a picture 'only as he could find, by laborious search, colors 'one by one; instead! of having a whole palette in hand. Mrs. Mark, who has two small children and little time really on her We -are very sorry to report the death of Mrs, Walter Mark, Sym- pathy is extended to the bereaved family. : MANCHESTER The Manchester Branch of the Red Cross Society held a very 'successful tea in the Township Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday, May 220d, Recently made Red Cross articles were on dis- hands, recommends the art and the fun of rug making to all who would banish care. And as an escape from now, and an escape even from such escapes as sock-knitting or any other war work, making rugs has this merit; that the men who have gone to war will some day be back home. And for their feet beside their bed, must be rugs to step out on, anything that would fill a woman's hands with more kindly forgetfulness of now than making a rug for her man's feet to step out on. Making stitch, the lonely footsteps of a man may be counted. But tired feet, please God, come home, And The Star Weekly feels some- how happy, its editors, its writers, artists, color engravers, pritners and all, that from the pictures we make and send all over the wide country, to cities and towns and farms, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, On- tario, the West, the North, the imagi- native minds of women can ig En things for the walls and the [floors of homes <> SEAGRAVE Softball In a return ball game the Finger- board pupils visited the Seagrave pupils on Wednesday, May 22nd. The players on the visiting team were: Ross Nottingham, _ Lloyd Hopkins, Ferguson, Lloyd MacKinnon, Ruby Clark, Betty Mason, Margaret Gilson. The players of eSagrave team were: Lloyd "Short, Dorothea Wooldridge, Racbourn Theabault, John Tristram, Beverley Scott, Earl Sornberger, Ken- neth Short, George Harding, Eileen Sornberger. The Seagrave team won by a score of 57-16. Weiner Roast ~The C.G.LT. and Trail Rangers of Seagrave enjoyed a very pleasant evening on Wednesday, May 22nd, when they journeyed to Mr .and Mrs, Wannamaker's home. The evening was spent in playing, games after which a very chsealie lunch was served to all. A vote 'of thanks was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker for the entertainment given in their home for the C.G.LT. and Trail Rangers. Junior Red Cross Notes The May meeting of the Bluebird Junior Red Cross was held on the 23rd. The meeting opened with the| motto "We Serve" followed by the Red Cross song. The minutes were read and the treasurer's report given. and the Humane report followed by a Humane poem given by Earl Sorn- berger. The service report was then given, - The buying of a baseball bat was discussed, Dorothea Wooldridge, Marjorie McCoy, Lloyd Short and Geo. Harding were-named a commit- tee to .arrange for a picnic. It was decided to donate $2.00 to the Senior Red Cross to help clothe refugee children. The program opened with God Save the King, followed by a reci- tation'by Mildred Stone' 'The Flag". A play rendered by the senior ed sometimes to substitute a newly discovered bit of color for something already done. "Expert rug makers say it is best to! use only one type of material in a rug, that is, stick to wool, or silk, or cot- ton. I used all three materials, color: being the only necessity. Red flan- nel blazers and a pair of bright red silk stockings went into the red of the blackbird's shouldefs. The blue of the bluebird is made from one silk scarf; but it was a scarf of stripes in three different shades of blue, and with the one article, I was able to work out the three shades of blue in picture." The work is hard on the eyes, and using the old-fashioned plain hook, as Mrs. Mark did throughout the job, is wearying when you get caught in the enthusiasm of a Tiewly discovered set of rags. Making a hooked rug, as every woman knows, is like creating a masterpiece of painting. You work with long or short strips of cloth as the design demands; you. have the color, perspective and design firmly fixed in your mind before you make your mind' before you make your first "hook", you work on rough burlap and, for removed from the geometric design and precision and counting of stitches that you have in crocheting or knitting,"you work from imagina- | o; pupils--Canada's Past, Present, and Fob was given, Rev. Mr. Tristram ! gave a talk on "Our Empire", {telling us what our Empire really different peoples of the Canada" was sung a ev. Mr, Tris- tram closed with the Benediction. Seagrave Personals We are very happy to know that Mr. Moase is able to be out around again, Misses Helen Short, Thelma Hard- ing and Betty Wilkins, visited their parents over the week end. - And it is hard to imagine' E is br york; f ith - each; socks is brave work; for with -e ul Manchester, to do work, This work play, including seven quilts, thirty. (six pairs of socks, nine pairs of py- jamas, five sweaters, one scarf, two pairs of knee caps, ten pairs wristlets. These articles have been shipped to Red Cross headquarters. After a dainty lunch, an interesting program was enjoyed. Proceeds amounted to over ten dollars, The Manchester Red Crosss ac- knowledge with thanks the donation of ten dollars from Manchester Com-/ munity Club, The ladies will meet Thursday afternoon in the Township Hall, tis urgent. All ladies interested are asked to come and help, et OP ------ MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWN- « SHIP OF SCUGOG By-Law, No. 1057 A By-law to establish and make clear the conditions under which the 'Lownship Wire Fence Bonus 'will be paid to persons in future erecting wire fences along the limits of roads in the "Township of Scugog. The Municipal Council of the Town- ship -of Scugog herein enacts as follows: Whereas the original intention to bonus only those fences which would assist in keeping the roads free from drifting snew has in practice been been abandoned, and! Whereas it has become the estab- lished custom to pay the bonus on any ire fence wherever located along the "his principle will be still observed, in fairness to those few who have not Jor Riailed themselves of the bonus, The Bonus will only be paid in re- spect to those fences which are de- finitely shown to be on their correct line -so - that, providing the fence gn the opposite side-of the road is also correctly placed, the road allowance shall be fully sixty-six feet wide in conformity with the original survey. The Council. shall decide in each case whether or not good and suf- ficient evidence as to the correct lo- cation of any fance has been given in support of any claim for bonus. The Bonus to be paid' shall be]: twenty-five cents per rod of fence erected as formerly, the measure- ment to be vouched for by one or more members of the Council The bonus shall not be paid for any new fence on the same site where a wire fence has at ahy previous time been erected. This By-law shall supercede and re- place any or all previous By-laws covering this matter. . Dated and passed this 26th day of May, 1940. John L. Sweetman,, - Frank Gerrow, Clerk. ; Reeve. Goplvediy and Dedicated to Mr. and About this time, a year ago, A dear old couple came, From our Motherland across the ses, To visit our fair domain. Many a friend they saw and made, As they visited this loyal land, And we hope they will remember us, As one large friendly band. They stayed with us for about a year, And then they sailed for home; But our thoughts travelled with them, As they braved the seething foam. They were so loyal to the Motherland, That they even dared the waves In this time'of terrible war Which, in our Motherland raves. For this brave deed and many others We learned to love them dearly; We wish them and our Motherland + success And this we wish sincerely. ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pogue, of Epsom, wish to announce the engage- ment of théir second eldest daughteir, Marjorie May, to Ross Wilmer Mar- quis, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Marquis, Victoria Corners. Marriage to take place middle of June. the bird as shown in the original] 88-40-8imeoe St. N "ow VISIT THE Cooking Demonstration on Coleman Instant Gas Stoves on 'Monday, June 10,. 1940, - AT -- Fog DON CHRISTIAN ELECTRIC OSHAWA Phones 64 and 744 by Mr, Geo.-Morrish. t | Greenwell, a blacksmith. Found near | year 1840; brought to'Canada 1854. Real, about 1868, [or 80 years ago. J High School Open Night Continued from front page Flail--About 140 year old. * Shingle Mallet--Used to strike the frow to split the timber. ~~ Dibble--Used for making holes in the ground for planting small plants. Made by J. Swan, blacksmith. Pistol (1850)--Made in England and used by the London Police. .22 Calibre Rifle--Made in Belgium, Imported about 1845 and purchased SHINGLE Phone: 240 w. Nail--Made by a blacksmith about 1860. ' Bullet Mould--Used to mould lead bullets for muzzle-loading guns, Powder Flask -- Used for carrying gun powder for muzzle-loading guns. Shot Pouch--A partner of the pow- der horn, Ox Shoe--It was used on the oxen by pioneers in the Raglan district. Thistle Spud (1870)--Made by Mr, HAROLD W. Phone a1 1 Shirley School. Blue Willow Plate--About 79 Scales (1800)--Set of English scales gig SeAboyt 10 youn brought to Canada by a settler. For. Quilt -- Made in Ireland aker 14 many years they were-the only set of ' yop1g ago, and brought to Canada in scales in the neighborhood. the 19th centu Th ints - used Thisle Spud--Made in Port Perry am French in Spm se by negro named Brown about 1850 | Shawl -- V, s worn with a white who had a shop on the east side of | satin bonnet tHm med with mauve, and the United Church. a black silk dress in Dublin, Ireland, Frow -- Used for splitting timber pofore 1815. out of which shingles were made by Brass Candlesticks-- Brought from hand. Ireland in 1840 by Jas. Saunders. Apple Paring Machine--Used, about * Hair Wreath -- Made entirely of 1895 hy Mrs. W. Samells. + y human hair by Mrs. Naomi Coburn in Cooper's Adze--Used in the manu: 186g when she was a girl of 16. facture of barrels. * Sword--Made in 1657." Book, Ends--Brought from England about 80 or 90 years ago. Candle Snuffers+--1850--Brought to Canada from England. Bell, Teapot and Cream Pitcher-- Given to Mrs. D. Deacon by James Brewin: Made of wedgewood. Indian Stone Hatchet -- Found in Port Perry. Candle Holder -- Used by a Mrs. 'Hogarth over 100 years ago. Cindle Holder--No known Vie Indian Arrow and Spear Head. Compass--About 56 years old. Plate, Cup and Saucer -- Wedding China of Mrs. Hiscox. Butter Dish -- Used a great many years. Match Holder--Over 60 years old. Came from England. Scrap Book--Made from clippings 'of paper called "Sunday at Home in 1868. : Walking Cane -- Used in the as century. Wooden Braces -- Made in a furni- ture shop in "England about 1840, and # brought to Canada by W. H. Nichols' in 18564. } Ink Bottle--Made of earthenware.' & Warming Plate -- Brought from England in 1853. Re Flint Arrow Head --Indian relic. Coverlet -- Hand woven and home- dyed in 1845 by Mrs. Powson. There were four wedding dreses on ~ display dating 1878, 1895 and 1900. - In a lifetime, Cold? LUMBER--LUMBER Com plete Stock British Columbia FIR and CEDAR also SPRUCE and PINE. 3X and 8X, All B. O. Stock. on Barns,' Houses and Cottages. Lake Scugog Lumber & Coal Co. After Hours 20} PROTECT RET with Reliable Fire Insurance Place Your Insurance with ; Quotations given - LIMITED =x EMMERSON Port Perry NOTCE TO CREDTORS In the Estate of the late Arthur . Percival Ingram All persons. having "claims against late of the village of Port Perry, County of Ontario, Hardware Sales- man, deceased, who died on or about the 12th day of April last (1940) are hereby notified to send particulars of same to the undersigned before the 21st day of June next (1940) after which date the Estate will be dis- Aributed. : Dated at Port Perry, Ontario, this 25th day of May, 1940. JOSEPH DENNY, Prince Albert, Ont., Solicitor for the Administratrix re = Be See abe Su I BUILD A HOME FIRST herein. Juneld YOUR FAMILY. BAKER Am relieve you from baking -worries, and provide the best i in Bread and Pastry.- JEMISON'S BAKERY THE HOME OF GOOD BREAD -AND PASTRY Phone 93, Port Perry. a person pays for THREE hemes, go why not OWN one. If you already own your home, are you enjoying all the modern comforts? Is it insulated against summer Heat and winter Warmwall siding does TWO things. It gives you that Irisulation and improves "Carpet Stretchier--Made~ about the Seed Hopper--Used about 76 years # ago when sowing seed by hand. : Brass Kettle--Used for preserving 8 fruits and boiling sap. Hood~--Made by Mrs. Richard Wid- den, Scugog; about 1888. A plstol--Used by a Scugog settler about 1853. TT Egg Cups and Salt Cups -- Used about sixty years ago. = Candle Snuffer--Brought from Eng- |, around 1854. Key Winding Watch--Made in Eng- about 1840. Brought to Canada 1854. Barley Fork--Made of wood and in used some hundred years ago. Yarn Winder--Used by the Deacon family in Cartwright about 1830. Baby Shawl--Hand made sixty or seventy years ago. Grain Cradle--Used -before 1900. Reel for winding Yarn --Belonged to Mrs. Géo. Wallace, St. English Riding Saddle--Used about 1821 in Devonshire, England, on a Phone 78 w DURA- GLIT POLISH farm called Widecomb. About 150 year old. ; Try This On- Books--Dated 1849, 1850 and 1812. Melted Glass--Picked up after the fire of 1884 when Mr, Parrish's store was burned. | Foot Stool--It is believed that the stool was brought from England by a Mr. McKay over 100 years ago. Leather Leggings--Used by Rev. J. Harris about 1860, when he was a cir- cuit rider. Spinning Wheel--Used from 1820 to 1850 by the Caesar family. : N Leather Hat Box--Used by Rev. JK Harris about 70 years ago. ; Quilt--Made about 1860 by Mrs. J Smith, Greenbank. . Colns--Dating from 1862 to 1857. Work Basket--Used by Mrs, Geo. 200 sheets for 10c. Spinning Jenny-- Brought to Can-|§ : ada from Ireland about 1810, i a Cradle--Used in Port Hope 1862... 5 Beaded Bracket--In use about 75/8 'New-="Snow White Key Wind Wateh--C1o0 "the appearance of your home. We sell Warmwall Siding, alse Lumber, Lime Tile, Cement and Roofing of all kinds. EON F. E. REESOR MORRISON'S SEASONABLE PRODUCTS ANT-TRAPS--Xills entire ant colony. VELVETTA CLEANSING TISSUES Lastest Popular Sheet Music Received Each Week, Nyal Service Store. PORT PERRY DRUG STORE A Successor to Liquid Polish for all Metals, FREE Premium with each 26¢ tin. Your Silver. Safe, sure, simple. 0c, per box 500 sheets for 26¢. (= Phone 16 -- Tiresh Baking Daily -- Picnics, Parties, Weddings or Every Day "Occasions, Serve Our Delicious Bread 'and Cakes, 'BATURDAY SPECIAL Sugar Doughnuts®' JR RRR Gerrow Bres, Port Perry the Estate of Arthur Percival Ingram - 4