ay , out, and Goodness, was she going to have a © way. Night Trip 1 RUTH K. KENT Manrma tried to: rest her head " against the stiff plush setbaek. My ¢land, how did a bedy get any sleep on these trains. Mamma glanced at the girl sharing her seat. She. was stylish looking. Papa had found this seat when he put mamma on the train. "She's young. She'll take care of you, he'd whispered. Mamma necded someone to look after hér . .. this was her first train trip in years,- and she wouldn't be going wow if Hank hadn't wired that Irene had to go to the hospital. And who would take care of her grandchildren ... ? * * * She waited for the girl to turn her Maybe she was bashful. She hadn't said a' word and they'd been riding an hour. Mamma leaned back with a sigh. She was tuckered her throat felt funny. fainting spell? A drink of water , . . where was it? She caught the girl's eye. "Do you know where the drinking water is?" mamma asked. "At the end of the car. Bring me one, too, will you?" £0 Mamma pulled the gold watch from her belt. Eight o'clock. The time when she and papa always had a snack. Mamma brushed at her eyes. Silly to miss the old coot so. gi ¥ "LT Mamma took the shoe box from her knitting bag. She could feel the girl watching. "Want a sand- wich?" mamma smiled, "these are chicken and these home-made liver sausage." The girl reached for the chicken sandwiches, both of them. - Mamma was tired. She twisted sideways and tried the back of the seat again. She tried putting up her arm_and leaning her head on it, but the arthritis in her fingers start- ed aching. The girl looked so com- fortable and mamma sat. back and watched her. Pretty little thing. * * * Mamma remembered when Hank - was a baby. Big oversized young- _ --ster, never would let her cuddle him. She'd always longed for a girl. But the sceond baby, the one that didn't live was a boy too. And so were the grandchildren. -- te People were milling about the ; car and every. time the door opened a draft swept over mamma. She looked longingly at the girl, nestled in comfort. As if feeling mamma's eyes on her, the girl turned and stretched. } "Comfortable?" mamma asked. The girl yawned. "No, it's too hard." Mamma looked longingly at the window sill. "You have to share. Now if we could sort of rest on each other..." The sullen mouth curved into a smile. "All right," the girl said. She hunched up her knees and rest- ed her head against mamma; "My lands/" mamma gasped. But the girl was breathing steadily al- ready. Mamma looked down at her. She She looked like a: girl to take care of Mamma. Papa thought. never saw a girl with hair so yellow and eyes so dark, The lines around the red mouth were soft now, the lips full. Mamma looked about cautiously, and then slipped-a timid arm aro(nd the girl. She felt cud= dly as a baby. 'wakened at daylight. "Oh my goodness, I'm almost there" She patted her hair and smiled at the girl. Mamma Ld * * ¢ . Hank scooped mamma from the train. "Gee, ma..." he kissed her, ° "the baby's here and Irene's okay." ; Mamma's 'eyes were Watching,. They hustled mathma into the car, "Was it a rotten trip, ma?" Mamma nodded. "The train was erowded and cold, But I sat with the nicest girl, If it wasn't for her I couldn't of stood the trip. She. did . .. so much for me. She squeezed Hank's arm and it was hard and strong. "Another bay, I suppose," she sighed. Hank shook his head. "Girl this' dime." And mamma remembered golden hair, a soft cuddly body . . . [TEST YOUR 1. Q. Music Quiz ra2_0} wey wouj ARYMAuy migration. D.P.'s FIND PEACE, REFUGE IN CANADA "Over 50,000 DP's have found a new lease on life in Canada, which has admitted more dis- placed persons than all other non-European nations put to- gether. Many thousands more near DP's" -- persons from war-weary localities -- have swelled Canada's postwar im- At left is Herman Boersma, Dutch farmer now in Ontario, getting his Tirst experi- ence with harvesting corn. At right is Jerry Wladyslow Meier, a Polish-trained -metallurgist, now working in Canada's, Bur- eau of Mines. Below, left, a Norwegian girl learns English --the blackboard has writing in German, Slavic, Polish, Dutch and . Estonian. are three Netherlands' rants, Arnoldus, Henricua and ilhelmus van Moorsel, on an Ottawa farm to stay. ~ Below, right, immi- now There are many songs which ask a question, then answer it as well. Below are some such question--you ~ fry to supply the answers. To start -you off right, the answer to No. 1 is "No, It's Love in Bloom." - Go on from there. Then check with the correct answers printed . upside-down, to prevent peeking, ~ elsewhere on this page. Questions 1. Can it be the breeze that fills the trees with rare and magic perfume? 2. Shall we gather at the river? 3. Ding dong bell, pussy's in the . well; who put her in? 4. Who's that kngching at my door? 5. A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket . .. Was it red? 6. What, never? 7. What are the bugles blowing for? said Files-on-Parade. 8. Oh where, and oh where, is my highland laddie gone? 9. Where do-we go from here, boys? - 10. T joined the Navy to see the world, and what did I see? 11, Mother, may I go out to swim? 12, Tell me, ®pretty maiden, - are there any more at home ike you? ' 13. Who stole my heart away? 14. How is dear Ireland, and how does she stand? 15. Do I worry? 16. Am I blue? 17. What is that that the breeze, it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? ,, 18. Did 'you ever ™ hear Pete go tweet-tweet on his piccolo? 19. Who is Sylvia? What is she? 20. Who's that walking. down the street? 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BEEN HIGH- VALUE OF AN -- (8 GOOD H Lau, AC CONTAINERS Yor HEATING A PIECE OF THIN SPRING STEEL, SHAPED a JN, MAKES A LE TO LIFT TIN CANS Animal Stuff When a Bucklin, Kan., farmer, ° investigated 'a decline in his cow's milk production, he discovered that "a pig had been beating him to the draw, * * LL * In New Zealand, working cats which keep commercial warehouses - free of rats and mice get ration tle- kets for six-penny worth of meat a week at the butcher's. * * * A Harvard survey finds ¢hat mar- ried men have more muscles than bachelors. Probably because bach- elors are seldom called upon to un- screw canning nr tops and beat rugs. * . ' Hach year a keeper at the Whip- "snade. Zoo 'in' England clips the wings of the pelican in order to keep it grotinded, But last hie he was late. - Just as he appicathied with his shears, the pelican took o and at last report, has not returned. * . * Riled by the presence of too many pigeons, some Bostonlans recently fad the birds whisky-soaked grala. That's one way to destroy the hom- ing fnstinet. ow One ei predicts the avential disappearance the ha- man leg. And with k, Mollyw may ten have to els on acting 5 » ps * * One man claims he prediots stosk ket trends by the movement of moor That's more than fitting, tices these days are astron- Myway. ' LJ sonal knowledge. Careful Mark Twain, in his reporting days, was instructed by an editor never to state anything as a fact that he" could not verify from-per- Sent out to cov- er an important social event soon afterward, he turned in the follow- ing story: "A woman giving the name of Mrs. James Jones, who is reported to be one of the society leaders, of the city, is said to have given what purported to be a party' yesterday to a number of alleged ladies. The hostess claims to be the wife of a reputed attorney." Poor Memory ---- A much-married Hollywood actor was confronted by a gay damsel. "Dont you remember me?" she greeted him. "Ten years ago ydu asked me to marry youl" "Really?" yawned the actor, "And dd you?" NEW and USEFUL TOO -- - BLOUSE "ANCHOR." This simple device keeps blouse in place and skirt seams straight. By fast- ening side of blouse and side seams of skirt directly inline it prevents slide or twist of skirt and keeps . blouse tucked snug. Elastic wedged-shaped keep tapes metal blouse fastened to clip absor strain to from tearing. SIMPLIFIED WASHING MA- CHINE. For homes, apartments, self-service laundries, etc: This is a. rectangular ,top-opening, 16-gal. portable unit which automatically washes, rinses and damp dries up to 8 pounds (dry) clothes, then cleans itself and shuts offt Activat- ing washing action cleans clothes by soaking, flexing and "rubbing," dri to ironing stages by spinning 1140 revolutions a minute. Water connection by rubber hose. TRUCK SIGNAL. Five hundred foot visibility, day or night, in nor- mal weather is claimed for vacuum- operated truck "and trailer signal with automatically illuminated plas- tic arm, The arm consist of two tapered panels of transparent amber, - set into either side of a swordlike scction of opaque. white. Panels light up along their whole length, or arm positions and are controlled from steering column. Pilot light on fingertip control indi- cates to driver when arm is in sig- nalling position, reminding him to turn it to neutral. GLASS MAILBOX. This glans mailbox is hung on a hinge, with spring tension which holds maga- zines and papers against the wall. NO:TWIST HACKSAW. To beat the old problem of twist when you tighten a hacksaw blade, this one-piece steel tube which fits into a precision-machine handle has been developed. Tube is_held in handle by a set-screw arrangement. By shifting position of tube and resetting screw you tighten tension on the blade without twisting it or warping the franie. Boy, was that train slow! A couple of newlyweds got on the . train in New York and, when they got to Niagara, their son oarried Bab Hope. "their bags. * hour for a 44 THE FARM FRONT The popular ditty with the refrain which started off "How're You Gonna Keep. Them Down on the Farm" used to be sung, back in the faraway days of World War One, more or less as a joke. But that very same query today isn't by anv means funny, as many of my read- ers could no doubt testify. . * * For right now, as a contempor- ary has it, there are countless boys who are not staying on the farm-- where, theoretically, they are sup- posed to belong. What's more they have no intention of ever going back, if they can help doing so. In- stead, they are probably carrying union cards in our workshops or factorics, or engaging themselves in some other well-paying form of city or town employment. . + . This is a condition which regular- ly brings forth gloom and lamenta- tions from editorial writers in some of our more ponderous newspapers, "Why don't they stay where they'd be so much. healthier, happier and more sccure?" they say. (A lot of those same. writers probably think that, to quote another oldie--"any- body who gets up before 10 a.m. is a night watchman"--and = would drop dead at the mere idea of erawl- ing out of the quilts before dawn in sub-zero weather to go out and feed a lot of hungry stock. ' . . * Every Canadian: suiely has the right to seek properly paid employ- ment wherever it may be found; and a lot of thos¢ young folks are going to think twice, or maybe three times, beforé giving up jobs which bring them a dollar or more an hour week to the farm where the "seven hour day" means seven before dinner and sev- en after. } + . il" * (Naturally, I am not referring to those who are what is known as "born farmers" and who could not be happy anywhere but "on tlhe land". Nor to the fortunate few who own farms that are well situatéd, well watered, well stocked, thor- oughly machmed--and have . no mortgage hanging over them). : * * * Perhaps some of those newspap- er pundits who paint. such rosy pictures of the rural life, and who shake - their editorial pows so gravely over the trend cityward, have never studied the real neaning of a statement like this--one made by a man wlio is not a dairyman and who does not produce milk for sale. *- * * He said, "The average milk driv- er, who delivers milk from door to door, gets more money for his ser- vices than a farmer can get for the milk of eight average Ontario cows ohn Russell ER A delivered at a processing plant for the sanre day." * Ll . I'm not saying that driving a milk wagon or truck is' in any way to be described as a "soft touch" or any- thing of the sort. But there does seem to be something slightly screwey about such an economical setup--something that should be studied closely before even hinting that there is anything resembling "profiteering" in connection with the production of milk." * . * The need for reasoned thinking, as The St. Catharines Standard puts it, was never greater, than today, es- 'pecially with regard to the produc- tion and distribution of the neces- sities of life, Mllk is one such necessity, and its production should be encouraged than than repressed. The liquidation of dairy herds here in Ontario has already caused seri- ous declines in the quantity of milk produced. * * * «As an example of this decline, commercial sales of fluid milk and cream were nearly ONE MILLION QUARTS less for September 1948 than for the corresponding month in 1947. Production of cheese for the same month of September was THREE "MILLION POUNDS less--while * butter dropped than HALF A MILLION pounds . * * weather "and pasture conditions may have had something to do with such declines--but by no means everything. lf--as one writer points out--profits are the production of milk as sdte people like to allege, why the pres- "ent downward trend? Well, try. and "figure it out for yourself; it's too tough 'for me. * + * Or course Which should be about encugh regarding milk for one session. Now for two or-threc items culled from here and there. [ere are some re- garding the shipping of live stock during cold weather. Large numbers of «commercial live stock of all kinds go to market during the first four months of the year--and un- less proper: cold weather shipping precautions are taken, great dam- age can result. * * . Coming out of comfortable barns small livestock is usually hesitant about walking up icy chutes into trucks Yor sleighs. 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