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Fo i A i ap a Partner and I cleaned the flues and the kitchen stovepipes this morning and, Gentlemen take note --(printer--capital ' "G" please.)-- Partner was just as good tempered when we finished as he was when we started. Maybe you can hardly believe that, but it's true; so now here we are with clean chimney pipes, a stove that doesn't smoke and yet we are still on speaking terms with one another. I ask you --what more could anyone want as the basis for contented family life? Of course cleaning stovepipes is a dirty, dusty business at the best of times but practice makes perfect and I really think we accomplish the task now with the minimum of fuss and confusion. At one time 1 always used to sweep the floor and wipe off the stove after the job was done. Now I don't use a broom at all. Instead, as the work progresses I mop up the soot and dust with a wet cloth, It keeps the dust from scattering and afterwards one can easily finish the job with a soap and water wash -or of course, with one's favourite radio-advertised cleanser, * CI While we were busy with the pipes I thought to myself--""There now, if we were living in a nice, comfdrtable city apartment we wouldn't have this work to do. We wouldn't even have a furnace to attend to--that would be the jani- tor's job." From there my thoughts drifted back to what Daughter had been telling us. over the week-end. To make it clear I'should 'tell you that Second Neice left here last Thursday and visited Daughter: be- fore continuing~fer journey to Ot- tawa. It was raining when we took her to the station--but not really hard--just a: drizzlé--so I think the twd of them got' around all right Thursday night. But Friday morn- Ing--that was the day: we: had the real rain--remember?--the first enuine rain we had had this fall. ow if Second Neice had still been with us--or First and Third Neice for that matter--what would have happened? Any one of them would - have looked out, sald what a wet day it was, and 'that would have been that. They would have got out of their comfortable beds when they felt like it, come downstairs to a nice warm. kitchen, got their own breakfast including the hot coffee waiting for them on the stove. They would have sat around as long as they felt like it and eventually busied themselves doing whatever they could to help me. » FO But when Second Neice stayed with: Daughter what happened? Daughter, because she had to be at the office by 8.30 left her cousin to dress at her leisure. Poor Babs! It was raining when she got up; pouring when she was dressed, and she had no raincoat, no umbrella and I don't believe she had any rubbers. And no breakfast! ~The nearest place to get a bite was about five minutes walk. So Second Neice had the choice of being dry and hungry or wet and well-filled. Thinking the rain would surely let up after awhile she waited--until nearly two o'clock! Oh--oh--the joys of the city! What's the good of a restaurant' if you can't be where it is? I'll bet anything Babs had longing but empty thoughts of \he old farm kitchen where Aunt Gwen was clearing breakfast dishes from a table where she might just as well have been sitting had she stayed a day or two longer, in which case the rain would have -made no difference to her at all. J » LJ] 'Well, IT think our summer run of visitors is just about over. All our neices have had their turn and my sister was here for Thanksgiv- ing. Of course when I say "our run of visitors" I don't include Daugh- ter who pops in any old time at all. \ Yesterday, for instance, Partner and I were alone, Bob was away some place and the house was un- naturally quiet when a car came up the lane and Daughter and friend Bert stepped out. Then Bob came in--and there we were again. ® . . However we are getting a few jobs done inbetweentimes, And _ thelr number is legion. I wonder | what it would be like to have spare time and not know what to do with it? But I don't believe--and I sin- cerely hope--that I shall never have that experience. Partner feels that way too. He always does too much, But then it is hard to take it easy when mental energy persists In , keeping one step ahead of physical + fitness. I think that is something to re- + member if we have old people living with us, To keep happy they must have something to do because the measure of their contentment is thelr usefulness in a busy world. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams ~7/ YOU COULD THROW A MATTRESS DOWN "THAT ONE GUY'S NECK, BUT NO--IT"S A POOR GOOF WHOSE COLLAR WOULD HARDLY LET A CRACKER CRUMB INL WHO GETS TH' HOT GHP DOWN HIS BACK! oe N WHAT KIND OF A WORLD DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN? WE ALWAYS EXPECTED GRANDPAW'S BEARD TO KETCH FIRE SOME DAY, BUT HOW FAST HE COULD RUN AT 83% WAS TH BIG KICK: 14 RANT a THE UNEXPECTED 1S BEST Wg 2) ox o THE STRANGEST THING r-- a rt BT a % | LESS RABBIT = A SAN FRANCISCO RESID- ¢ Lops RAISING RABBITS DURING THE rr MEAT SHORTAGE. OUT OF ALITTER OF £16HT ONE AS BORN WITHOUT EARS. iY Fr se rege SLOTH Astonished farm dogs chase and bark at remote-controlled plow as it rips a straight furrow. Visualize fields being plowed while farmers loll at casst beneath shady trees, jugs of cider beside them, pipes or cigarettes in one hand, seen in recent English experiments wi cultivating machinery at .the press of a button. robot anti-aircraft target planes, has been adapted to the tractor. operate sensitive electrical relays in the receiver, installed on compressed air servomotors, the tractor can be m ade to run in a Plow can be aised when tractor turns at end of a furrow. experiments at Barnet, in Hertfordshire. Photos and electric push-buttons in the other. th radio-controlled farm tractors that pull plows and other Radio-controled apparatus, used in wartime for Radio signals from transmitter tractor, so that by straight line or turn right and left. here were taken during recent That's the promise | means of Radio transmitter, on ground, sends impulses: to receiver, on tractor. of tractor through push-button he holds. Man, right, controls movement Schools On Wheels By James Montagnes (In The Christian Science Monitor) 4 Seven railway passenger cars fitted as school classrooms on wheels travel throughout Ontario to bring learning to the children of rallway section hands, fur trap- pers, prospectors, hunters, and farmers living far from towns or villages in the north Canada bush, Covering roughly the area from Noth Bay to the Ontaio-Manitoba boundary, each of the school cars on wheels stops for a week at a time at a definite spot once a month, and here the children of every European nationality as well as Canadians and native Indians get their schooling from Grade 1 to Grade 10. ° » * The travelling schoolrooms have been in operation for a number of years. The innovation was started to fill a need for bringing educa- tion to the children who lived too far from settlements to obtain regu- lar schooling. From one grade school on wheels the system grew till now the Ontario Department of Education has seven, operated for it by the two Canadian rail- ways and paid for by the Ontario government. The school cars are regular coaches. Half the interior is fitted with desks, wall maps, blackboard, and the other require- ments of a schoolroom. Fourteen pupils can be accommodated at a time, but there few stops where this number come for the week's teaching, so sparsely populated is the country in which the school cars travel. The other half of the car 1s fitted with living accommo- dations for the teacher and his family, with bunks for beds, mod- ern kitchen, and an extra stove in addition to the regular heating equipment of the railway car. Triple glass windows are installed in winter for the comfort of young- sters who tramp through even 40 degrees below zero weather to go to school. Frequently older boys will build a shelter near the school car to stay there through the week rather than make the long trip back and forth daily through the bush. . * * Like in the country school, the school car teacher has all grades at one time in his class, The regu- lar school term is maintained, and for the three weeks that the school car Is not at the spot the children are assigned work to do every day, This, the Ontario educators have found, teaches self-reliance. The youngsters do extremely well, fre- quently completing the year's work in advance of town school children and being promoted a grade during the year. The teachers arrange their sched- ule with the railways, letting them know when to move the cars. Spe- cial spur lines have been built for the school cars, and when the local freight or fast express picks up a school car to spot it in another loca- tion, the switches are locked so no other train can come on the spur, Each teacher has a special cir- cuit to make. The shortest is 88 miles long; the longest 221 iailes, Most of the teachers are married and have their families traveling with them in the school car. The teachers like the railway school cars and don't want to change to a stationary schoolhouse. 'Though the climate is a drawback and the work is harder, they like to bring knowledge to the backwoods child- ren and see them graduate to go to high school in city or town. » * * The traveling teachers earn up to $2,000 a ycar. Their homes are provided without charge, also coal, water, light, and furnishings. The teachers are kept in touch with the outside world by railway telegraph and mail car, receiving their daily newspapers regularly. They live in the woods the year round. Their pupils nearly all being expert woodshoys and girls, often show their mentors the best fishing spots in virgin fishing country. The pupils know all the habits of the wild life in the bush. Truancy is. unknown to the teachers on the school cars. Only a few hundred children in all come to the seven cars in a year, but they want to come. Some will tramp 40 miles from their father's trapper cabin to the spur line where the car is' stationed, and sleep in the bush or some nearby railway section worker's cabin for the week. They'll ski to the school car in winter, paddle by canoe in spring and fall, or snowshoe If necessary in winter; but they come to: the school car. And their parents come, too, in the evenings. Illiterater im- migrants have learned to read!and write, to find out facts about! the country they live in, to learn how other people in railway centers, towns, and cities live and what they do. The railway school cars not only teach the youngsters, but teach Canadianism to the parents as well, *(James Montagnes is a leading Canadian free lance writer). 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Here is another instance of a hobby assuming proportions un- dreamed of at the outset. Mrs. Eustis early in life acquired a deep interest in scientific matters of various kinds. When but a child she conducted scientific farming ex- periments in dog breeding on her estate in Switzerland, paying especial attention to mental and working capacities. She observed that the German shepherd was losing its native intelligence by breeding for show purposes. With the assistance of Elliott S. Hum- phrey, a geneticist, she began to retrieve the German shepherd by training it for police work, to pa- trol Swiss borders and to trail and find missing persons. In the middle 1920s her interest broadened out to include the work done in Europe in training dogs as guides for the blind, and she wrote an article about it for the Saturday Evening Post. As the result of this article a young American who was blind went to her Swiss estate to be trained in the use of a guide dog. The success of this experiment led to establishment of The Secing Eye. Here dogs are trained, first alone and then with the master. Only a part of the cost is paid by those who obtain the dogs, the rest by charity. Matrimonial Knot The expression tying the knot, in reference to a wedding I is derived from the fact that priests used to tic the ends of their stoles around the joined hands of bride and groom. Fashion Decrees Skirts To Be Longer About the time everyone becomes used to seeing women's legs--or at least that part of them below the knee--fashion decrees skirts shall go down. And down they go event ually, for what woman resists fashion? asks The Edmonton Journal. Just the other day we were told by the manager of a women's dress department that the new skirts are two inches longer. He added, sur- prisingly, that most of the ladies didn't like them that way and were having them shortened. 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