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rag 1 It was; Sunday afternoon and I! ; : was very busy. First of all I wash- ed the sitting-room floor and then ¥ washed a dress, "My goodness-- whatever next--vashing floors and doing laundry on a Squday I can Just hear you saying lit--but then, you see, you don't naw the whole story. RE ' I didn't start out with the idea of doing such jobs>ythat is hardly my idéa of a pleasant way to spend Sunday afternoon. No; my original: plan was to write letters. e caught the handle of the jch was "sticking out from of those desk-set affairs--a tid inkbottlé add 'pen -- and away went the whole contrap- | "tion," The ink , spilt all over the front of my dress before it hit the: floor where it spread itself out | dato a nice little pool: Bo' Lasksyou, what else could I do but spend the sest of the afternoon cleaning up the mess? A good way to start the mew year, wasn't. it? 'Believe 'me, ' the ink was no blacker than my thoughts for the space of half an hour or so, Fortunately, the floor bad a linoleum covering and the : only itrace left. of the disaster is a "slight stain, The dress isunone the worse either, but to get the ink out: 1 had to run it through at least ten or twelve waters. » * * fa .e wp 'with disaster--agaip, but of a daylight when Partner called me + to the window. "Now if that isn't as pretty a picture as 'you would | want to. seg," he exclaimed. "Come and look 'at it." / I came, and there, just as busy and contented as you please, was: the biggest skunk I ever saw.' And believe me, it did look pretty, It was very busy nibbling. away at something or other on the ground. 1 remembered afterwards it. was a relic Tippy had left behind, "What do you think I had bet- 3 - 7 fer do?" asked Partner, "do you § think. I. should: shoot it?" - SUI TENE - For one thing Partner :was+ ¢ pyjamas, and another thi N pretty little animal had ot' yet announced its presence sa it was quite possible [that if -we- deft it - one jit might amble off]. without leaving. a og card. [However ° there yas always a chancé it might come back when there were chick- ens around so| Partner got 'the gun. * Very softly, and I have no doubt, in fear and trembling, Partner step- iped: outside.- ut by this-time Mr, Skunk had a big tree I. FS n the front lawn. So edly Area hast on A404 'couldn't tell in which direction it went, But I {was watching from the! « window 'and{whether'it heard Part- . 'mer or whether it just: sensed that} someone was-around I don't know,[ ~ "but that skunk éure moved faster than any animal of ifs species-tha 1 eyer saw before. In no time i | away over 'the 'field but" with- Pyjamas 'and bedroom ilippatd. pot being the ideal attire for hunt- g in winter, Partner returned 10] i the:house. And I believe 'we were' Yoth glad 'the incident 'turned out the 'way |it did "because ~the little freature Was "really :doing no harm £5 md it did seem a shame to: shoot ° And that's where I met my Wa- loo. I was reaching for another t of paper from my desk, my * The. next morning we almost met ° different nature. It was: not quite .' Ri | i was reatly quite a--probtem:--| re oved and was behind J wa au icsvig any trail at-all behind * kd | } down in cold 'blood. lit $I 3 EA ba » 4 i} "pl ae ¥ At {4 Xe t- Pha Tf Lt 5 5 Ae ARENT AT LA Your Pass Eye -- e _-- CHRONICLES OF ( OF GINGER FARM a Ea By Gwendoline P. Clarke Ee Strangely enough, a few days be- fore this happened Partner and 1 had been to a shpw-~"The Courage of Lassie" and if you have seen it, you will remember: that in one of those beautiful nature shots, the little lost puppy meets up with a skunk, In due time the skunk goes his way, ambling off at a 'great rate, 1: sqid 0 Faien at} the time "You can hardly call that' true to life, I am sure 1 never: saw a skunk that big: nor. oue that.moved so fast" But now 1 tgke iit all back. Qur little pet the other morn- ing wis just Y big, and moved just ag swiftly, bas the one in the show. |. = _ ihr} ] SE WEY ni - Jl next -eveitement was ng day when the 'we shipped + There Was \ pont called in to give a little as- siftapee, ' So you "see, 'you never kno what's ahead of you. You\ and add truck. loading x to your oth- During aj recent visit to Germany I 'was |struck by 'the simplt, ve efficient device which makes nigh cycling | much .safer than here : ys The London Times. Th+ a fixed reflector on "the mudguary, small-'rea' reflectors. are fixed to| the back of each pedal. - Persistengly in'-motion; except for free whetling, there moving glow- lights are Yar more eye-catching for motorists \and far safer for cycl- ists. : : \ A | Pension Stopped The Gover ment, Seri op- position cries of "paltry meanness," ; Ay decided Dec.-'3 to discontinue |a. F. £8,000 G00) annual pension set up 140 years ago for the-descend- ants of Lord Ibn -- Britain's ' greatest 'naval heko. . The Chancels © lor of the' Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, said Eord Nelson i Jif » will asked) _only to; 'have Lady "Alelr child 2 -- the skunk a; din this way Partner, EE Wearing . a Namnty Uirduttimmeds iat, Duchess of Kent snips a tape, B . -symbolically .aper Anew maters nity section of St. George's hospital in London. : 1 %, | U. S. Naval Air Unit |" HORIZONTAL planesare 1 Depicted is courageaus y insigne 'of omen a Sad "VERTICAL i Squadron 1i5, 1'Mother : U.S; naval 3 pnenived aviation + rou ve 13 Was indebted 3 Ransom - ~+ 17 Theatrical a REA Xn RSOHD 7A 136/ Mariner "14 Nevada city . 4 Perfections ssign (ab) ° 878eem = blow 5 Symbol for 19 Male 39 Pantry : 16Ndtivesof ~*~ erbium 21-Ask (vhr) 40Reach t Media . 18 Provided 'with 22 Species of | destination 18 Delirium 1 PS ood - 'pepper tremens (ab.) 7 Interest (ab) 24 Prince ' 42 Ever (contr.) j 43 Driving ! _19:Shipspars' §Proceed ' *25Mineral- command _ 20 Darlings . "9 Drinksto :' 26 Limb M4 Cosmic order } 22 Foundation (110 Be persistent 2 Anger -46 Has slain - 23 Abscondings 11 Seines Abstract being47 Snake _ [26 Points a -12 Grains (ab.) Ee Witticism 149 Essence. (ab) "weapon +28 Eject " 29 Plant part - | "32 Railroad (ab.) 33 Cerealigrain i 34 Negative : 35 Plateau : 38 Pertaining to anera' : 39 Endure 4 41 Mimic © © 43 Fish wil '44 Mature . = WF g5 Makes J ©. mistakes ol 470me, who ails i ¥ 80 ! % 51 Nights béfore vevetits $2 Ward-off #9 The ---- of its, tart out as 4 farmer's wife | EN a AUSTRALIAN ADMIRES ONTARIO HORSES Se priae 's Citele- M Sent at Kleinb: g. He enjoyed a ch took the Canadi ham and asserted Rhat no horses ship at BOE The pumpk 'becoming 'a pic, a exciting cup al season's at its height. and trom many a warm kilchen | is wafting an aromatic aroma of spicy pumpkin 'that's' on\its way to | pudding, or--and here's gonietiing new--a eb delicia sy ther best. 4 cup short '1 cup sugar 2 eggs .. "% cup milk "1 cup cooked pumpkin ¥4 cup all bran | [4 two-thirds full. Sakes, (2% inch diameter). 'Homey Meri EZ cup honey until' 'thick € to sind }6 teaspoo Treat your family to this new find, either _ as a lunchbox surprise. They're so good, they'll be' welcome' any tijel Frost them with your favorite icing, or ng, V Or top them with, sugar-free Honey SAY Eh Spicy Pumpkin Cakes | ; '134 cups sifted flour bons baking pow ul "4 teasp( 1. teaspoon 1 teaspoon 134 teaspoon "34 - teaspoon Beat shortening until creamy, add sugar gradually and blend Vell Add eggs and beat' thoroughly. Combine 'milk, pumpkin afd bran. [Sti into first mixture alternately withisifted dry- ingredients, beating each addition. Spoon batter into greased: cip cake pans filling "about: . Bake in modetate ven (350 deg. F.)"abont 25 minutes.' |, Cool -and -spread tops- with Hone Meringue T oppi Topping | salt IS hichever way you like Meringue! T sa dinner dessert} or salt cinnamon nutmeg cloves - *. ™) ; {ter ing. Yield: 20° fing 1 egg white, bes en Heat honey over hot water. Polr over gE white; add salt. cat i Chinese Cooli Rebuild. Roalond | i 'By 'Hand Power During the war a coolies, including their womenfolk, car-. 'ried put some -prodigious jabs of , road 'building, . bungdreds © of - thou- sands doing everything by hand, { and it is <not surprising: to learn that up to :50,000 mens have just Jott a great task of rehabilitat- ng the railroad between | 'Ganton "miles, "in six months, over: some of the most mountainous territory in the world, relates the St. Thomas . Times- Journal, PE "The. Chinese destroyed . large stretches of the track in order to' prevent the . Japanese using = the the natives that the Japs were only able to use short sections of it. " They- blew up scores of tunnels, and they built sidings' up to the stock down 'into gullies. The s, tem was a thorough imess 'when they were through with it. i * i An Sianiale 'of the ingenuity of the Chinese 'was the erection of 'a bridge from & river bed. witnessed by a 'correspondent. The bridge weighed 238 tons, and the only "machinery" the Chinese had were four jacks, 'The crews Jacked the 1 spans up on ever-rising stacks of railroad ties until they had them in place eighteen meters above ground evel. The job took them six .months, and they. were fighting flood water 'a good, part of the time, At the 'peak there: were six there and 'they' used 60,000 ties for the raising 'process. "there were 'nearly 600 fatal 'acci- { derits Tamang the -coolies. jand Hankow, a Jenigth of ©,1,085 © railway, and so 'destructive were tracks and then rolled the aollg or 'seven 'hundred 'men working It is' not susprising 'to' learn that : +The Chinese blew up 102 of "the "R lines main * 119 'bridges, includingg, . the concrete 'foundations. "British market: "The. use of = Prajuing' lks In Harn | - Xoo) ok e il : domesticated elks \as 'a substitute 'for harses. is' bei Wy seriously consi the result SS experimenys "in hatnessing t carried out by make Tables} an achievem traders are rained to ta RAJ. Dinniny; large packing who 'had previously contrived t idered in Moscow hese powerful beasty, - a Russian scienti breed in taptivity-- t from which fur- already 'benefiting. | About 20 elks at an experimental © \station . near ' oscaw have "been ithe bit. One of rove ny als they! make ex- trl " Up Calgary, head of a firm, says, "Canada is definitely losing her -hold.on the British bacon market." knows whereof producers" still Mr. Dinning he speaks. Canadian 'have a 'big opper- tunity, but they will miss it if 'they fail ,to turn out. the 'product the which jt is wi demands and for ling to pay.--Brant- s ford Expositor. settle down fellows, Eve is over. Ah me, what a night! I never realized Perry Como could sing so well 'until Susie (that's my best girl) looked me in the eye e and said, he sounds just like you. Well, you know how it is on New Year's Eve. Aftér the hop at the local club, we piled into pop's blitz bug- gy and went down to the Corner everyone started to make New Year's tesolutions, Most of them were broken before we. got home, _This is the only night in the year' that pop . doesn't t -put.on a curfew, 2 N * . . Last week at 'this time, we. were playin Santa Claus to the family, as yoy . probably were. I like Christr s--aljvays have. It's the only day in tt year 1 can pass out popis smokes like 'a big guy anil not get 'a dirty look. Things . went a little differently at our house this \ year. Right after the "Big Din per" we all made a wish. Pop wish. off; mom wished we would be more quiet and I wished for snow--to try out my 'new hickories. While niece was running around pulling her new toy "carpet sedges with my gold chain wrapped, neatly garound the roller. I imnicdiately changed my wish = but after all Christnias belongs to the children doesn't it? |» * (first "his, "We lare finding that this column is a toughie to write. - is the 'second attempt. The one was thrown in the stove | papers. | The editor asked tha write like I talk, then changed hi -mind and said, write it so that teen- agers can understand it. I'm obeying orders and if anyone can't savvy myl slanguage -- well take it up with somebody, I dofi't care who. Yours truly "will be in this corner every week with a column of newsy chatter (we hope) and from time Yo time will pass 'along the latestson what's worth reading (records - and radio) and what's worth seeing | (movies). umn and invite you to pass along --any suggestions, criticisms or com- pliments. like that compliment stuff. We -intend, too, to have a spotlight, when ve will publicize any teen-ager who is making a name - for himself\ or herself in © sports, music, art any "other field." If you have Sob such per- son' in your neighboughood, send their chosen vocation, * hobbies, . 'school record, likes and dislikes. Send all communications for this tario, "Shut off the sky juice and send "down some snow", is the cry of young 'people |\across the province, who anxiously | await their first ski. This is a wonderful sport for two reasons. If you 'can stay away from trees, it's good for the health and if you can't, it helps pay the doctor's rent. If you haven't been 'on the hickories before, we suggest you stick to! the small slopes until | you get your: ski fegs, or. 'Jackson, t you have a date: with Dr.! Kildare. We pass this advice-;along to the © novice ski 'enthusiasts: To avoid - cpracticd and prectivgy ] have finished this well practice 'some more. The government is jrst' ith | sone other old papers, I\meanjold appearing like a: dd pn the slope, . and when you ' We want you fo feel that this is your col- us the details, mentioning of coyrse .column to Box B, Riskeriig, On- | . Casbah (local hangout to you) and "ed that the indigestion would. hold | « all this' was going on, my little . (books), what's. worth_listenlng---to.-- TEEN-TOWN TOPICS Wash off the pucker. paint and. New' Year's | ) . crowded. planning to erect ski lodges across the province, so that the average salaried person can enjoy the facili ties/ and, still not buen the pocket book on both sides, All this. means to yowand me (how far could we go on a dollar a week?) is that the close-torhome slopes won't -be so In that way we'll bene- fit. i: RIT Ho) 1 JERR N ¥ "Last week the Junior Wolf of the family went to a jam session at a . nearby "teen club with some of his , gang and reported a real good \time. This idea of memners of one 'tlub being the guests cof another in alright. Yes, my friendlies, it's : okay: It keeps the locals wnd the © guests on the beam with one try- ing \ to outdo the- other in social etiquette, Supervised 'teen-clubs® are becoming popular all over the. - country. We can still have a good time with an older person giving us the eye so get in there and keep the works wound up. Well, gang, we have to 'close shop for this week. I have a date "with Susie in half an hour for a bottle of fizz. Before closing may we ask, dear reader, if you have. any week, I've! tried and tried and al-- ways end up in the red. Oh, well, maybe you have the sanie trouble, So-long for \now. 'German Ships Will Sail Again Germany's erent navy, a fleet of 500 vessels ite entirely by-- German crews, \will be on the seas again in a matter of .a few weeks. This fleet will be flying"a new Wisi The flag hag not yet been .seen, but it will bear the interna- nels flag-code letter C, with "V cut out. The ships will sail be- tween Baltic, West, European and British ports, carrying vital food- stuffs to the Reich in exchange for as much: timber and minerals as the battered German industries in the British and American zon@s can deliver. . . German, skippers, engineers and will lead fairly normal lives. way of budgeting a dollar a Use of Insulin "Adds Years of Life The occasion of the twenty-fi:th anniversary! of the discovery of in- sulin, by the. late Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best, of Toronto, has been marked by a review of the benefits the drug has brought to diabetics, comments the _ Stratford Beacon-Herald, Statisticians of the Metropolitan -- Life report that studies at a Boston clinic show that the death rate among diabetic patients treated has dropped ninety-five per cent. at ages under forty. Among the mid- dle-aged, the reduction has been two-thirds, and among older pa- - tients dic death rate has been cut in half. 4 In the past twenty-five years . methods of diagnosis have improv: ed, with the result that the number of diabetics has shown ammppparent increase. - Control of the stake has im- it A proved greatly, and further ad- FAS vances are anticipated. Untold ahd 'thousands, ~ who before' insulin bP A, would have been condemned to Cis . . } suffering and death from 'diabetes, 'Settlement % wees y About. 3,000,000 acres of land i have been «mitted by the states A) for soldier settlement in Australia, he Ni Of this amount, about 80 percent \ YO 2 has b en approved by the Govern- Nid Aha ment, RR Ln \ \ J . 15 RCH MACHINERY : BE NEW AND USED : RY Of Eyery Description * Phone EL, 1271 H. 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There is the -ghes-. tion of how\German captains and crews will 'be treated - when they arrive: as a former enemy or -at neutral ports, » | + A Sheep A Second At Ross, Tasmania, Atlen Hayes broke his own Tasmanian record last weeks. when he sheared 318 sheep in a day of eight hours, sheep were well-grown Corridales. This record. is within three sheep - of the Australian record, made by Jack Howe at Alice. Spring, Queens-' land, in' 1892. Hayes' - previous Tasmanian record of 311 was made four years ago. He averaged a sheep every 100 seconds in _ his Tatest feat. : The: Ere sah SE ef "Tel. nt a. 115 nNOOMS Ee fn TIL LLY "tt ENN 1-51.50 up HOTEL METROPOLE EE NIAG AM ss AN. ARS Ore. SE ATION It your nose ever fills up with stuffy tran- sient ian gt next time put a little AL bo Va-tro-nol in each Ws SA nostril, Quickly con- Fd gestion is relieved, breathing is easier. | + Va-tro-nol works "right where trouble - is to relieve distress of head colds. Try | itl: Works fine! You'll: like it! 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