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Salada Tea Bags are handy for afternoon ted =" Soe CHRONICLES. "Gino Far ne P Clarke Early in Sen vear 1 had reason to feel I was like the old Quaker == --yott "reniember--the one who said=to his wife--"Everyvone is out of step except me and thee--and thee is out of step most of "the time." Why did 1 feel that way? Just because the radio, and every paper and magazine | picked up "spoke of 1930 as the. beginning of the second half-century, whereas I 'had said "in my column two I" weeks ago that" 1950 i is not only .the beginning of a new _vear, it is also 2 Iie "the closing year" of a half cen- : tury, And you know 1 gave that little matter quite a lot of thought before 1 wrote it. | also sought ad- vice from my meniolk and we were all agreed that the second half of the 20th century does not begin until Januaiy Ist, 1951. Then came the papers and | thought to my- self --""Well, either they -are all all this second half century talk in crazy, or | am". Even- Ma¢Lean's Magazine Jumped the gun in one of its editorials, at which very surprised "because: L. thought almost infallible, However, in a few days, J. V. McAree, in his col- umn, backed "tne up--not that. he md A it, 'of coursc--Ilater a letter . in the Globe and Mail, and another in 'the Family Herald, 'out the error of calling 1949 the end of the first half century. So now I feel very miich better, de- ! 'spite the fact that 'Don - Fairburn said that while those who think as I do may be technic: ly correct yet the popular opinion is that Father Time has closeil his books on the first half of the 20th century. Oh well, everyone has a right- to his own opinion--but on one point I > = am. sure we all agree--that 1950 is bound. to bean eventful yegr. When [I started writing this we 7 were having a little bit of sub-zero it will be like sprifig again before this gets into print. Personally, would rather have it a little on the cold side--except that we are grate- ful for what the rain_---does tothe ve Te Se on Hn AR i } i ! a NET => So AS RTE es < 1 ORE RE > ES 8 wy wi Se, . ONE yard of 35-inch for the small sizel Little more for the: tg pockets It: whi ; Pattern 471 sizes ; all (14,16) and medium (18,20). Pra Sait size one yard 35-inch, Zenit This pattern, easy to use, sim- so _ _pla to sew, is tested for fit. Has Fo. gomplete illustrated instructions. $end TWENTY-FIVE CENTS comes in ' aocepted) for this pattern. Print pani 1 NauE, ADDRESS, LYLE order to Box 1, 123 Right. y 7 senth St, New Toronto, Ont, I8MUE 4 -- 1050 PR #7 9 I was' ~MacLean's prided itseli on 'being all pointed . weather, but by the look of things 1 . ARE larger. As shown in diagram this apron is ONE piece plug ties and - up very quickly! -} Lene, --- (88) in colas (stamps cannot be wells: --"It ain't like it used to be". one of American anthracite, "than they should. And, oh 'dear, the dust in the house is worse than I ever knew it. I wonder if other housewives find it that way, Daughter was almost in _ when she was home. Had she been here very much longer the vacuum cleaner would "have got worn out. The poet was right-who said "Dust will keep but violets won't". Dust reason that you can't get rid of it. But I imagine Daughter won't be worrying much about our. dust from néw "on--she will have enough of her own to look after. he has al- roomers are young couples with small children, so Daughter has probably been the means of solv- ing one of their major problems-- for which I am very thankful. Mar- ried couples' with small children - must often be just about desperate. The sun is shining. and icicles are "dripping from our windows right now, but the other day when it was cold the windows without: storm-sash were frosted over. Just to look at-:them made me think of the west--especially have read several letters in 'the ness. of women on thre prairie. Reading them I phpuint of our remembered that the only thing that really got.me down was some- times living for weeks at" a time without being able to see through the windows at all. We had no storm windows and there was_ frost on the outside and frost on the in- side. Sometimes---I-would clean off - a small patch with salt but it would soon freeze over again. We lit- erally saw nothing beyond the four' walls -of our own home during stormy' weather--except, of course, for the times when we had to go out. Partner had a few chores at the barn, and water to. draw from the well. And he generally went to town with team and sleigh once a week for mail and supplies, no matter how bad thé -weather. | remember one time he could not see to drive. through the blinding blizzard so he fastened the lines to the sleigh and left the horses to find their way home -by instinct-- and that is more than anyone could do with a carl Our faithful team came "home all right and I heard wlien I looked out I found 'Partner huddled on the-floor of "the sleigh," his back to the storm, and in >a semi-conscious . condition. It-- was well he had no further to go. But it was not always .stormy weather." One remembers things like driving night, with the Northern Lights hanging a fringe of coloured strea- mers across a cloudless sky. At such times one hardly dared to a winter fairyland. i Loneioine on_the prairie? May- e. From parish magazitie: You ace helping to- improve our churchyard, Will you add to this help by bring- ing your own clippers and cutting the grass round your own grave? "The coal bins have also ben- -efitted by the mild weather, which ie just as well because the coal nowadays is like the old grey mare We have one bin of Alberta coal and and * both kinds burn away far quicker despair will keep all,right--fdr the simple - --ready rented all tie rooms jn her nine-room house--aiid two of "the 'since I papers recetitly- about. the - 'loneli- own' life in Saskatchewan and I - home from a party on a still, frosty breathe, it was so beautifull PUZZLE ACROSS 1, Little masses , Kind ed Sigsedeh Indian bor y Minute orifies rieved ' fratnia willow batted " + but it had its compensations, | = ciples CROSSWORD i By The Rev. R. Barclay Warren * Unto All Men 1 Acts 10:17-20; 24, 34-43. Golden. Text:- Go y¥~ therefore, and-teach all nations, baptizing them "in the name of the Father, and of the Son," and of the Holy Ghost: * Téaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I'am with you dlways, even | . 'unto the end of the world. --Matt. 28;19.20, - ° God chose, Abrafam to be the father' of the special nation througle whom Hé¢ would send the Messiali, - To this people the commandments - of God were given. It is true that individuals 'and nations outside the pale of Israel, received special blessings from God. Elijah came to the help of the widow of Zarephatlr, Naaman, the Syrian, was healed; Jona was. sent to Nineveh of the «Assyrians. 'But it was 'esus, a Jew, who broke down the middle wall of partition between the chosen race and-other nations. He was the Sav- jour of the world, born of Mary, conceived of the Holy Ghost. "All things were made by Him." His works were for all men. He healed the son.of the Roman centurion and® the daughter of the Syrophenician woman, His commission to his dis. said, *"TFeach- all nations." Christianity: is evangelistic. Its fol- 16\vers are working among Moham- medans, . Buddists,- Confucionists, Parsees; indeed, all fion-Christians. The Christian does not believe that SIE CEU ASH y > ' "Her Night Out--Charles Kane, of Windsor, Ontario, anxiously clutches his daughter, Noreeri, 7, after the missing child was found following an all-night police search, Noreen had spent. the night with a girl friend, without telling her parents. ane spotted his daughter in the street, as she strolled with friends. "any "religion will 'do as long-as you | Tt teaclies that are sinners in it "There is none Ahk name under heaven given: among men, whereby we must be saved.". Peter. goon acquired the world: + wide . vision of his ascended' Lord. When he did, he preached the good * news to Cornelius and his house- hold. Even as he.spoke, to these devout Romans thé Holy Ghost was ~ giver and- they were purified in' heart as had been the one hundred and twenty Jews onthe day of + Pentecost. Peter was convinced that "~Go6d wus no respector--of- persons; -- Jesus Christ tested death for every man. The whole' world must bear the g'ad message. --them --sgop at the--back--door.--But--}---- WO, three little doilies! Ia ONE wonderful patternl These dainties are so useful, fit in so nicely with other things! 'Easy, crochet! Crochet you love to do, for doi- liee you're proud to use! Pattern 684; crochet directions for three. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Righteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUM. BER, your NAME and ADDRESS." ANNE ADAMS ~ a | Relating uw age . 84. Make corroeetions + Of the mooa . Persian rule , Not exciting . Horsebaok e H SER ares , Subtle Ld x. un ate "Carding Againe Animal Infection "Many - of the * support. (This: . Increased "vigilance has been fe-< cessary during recent years 'to pre- veit the introduction into Canada of livestock . diseases = from abroad. European countries have been experiencing serious out- breaks and while owing to the pre- valence of- these: dangerous diseases in. Europe livéstock years, there is always a possibility of-- infection being~ through normal trade channels, . To guard against this risk; Teg. ulations under the Health of An-~ imals Division, Dominion Depart- ment' of Agriculture apply "to the importation of hides, skins, glue stock, horns,- hoofs, bones, wool, game; fertilizers, bone- meal 'and foodstlffs containing an- imal mmatter; straw, hay and. simi- lar forage for feeding livestock, cer- "eals; grain and other animal feed; and also products of the 30il such as hay si straw used for packing. t ~ importations have _not_beén- permitted for many |. introduced "hair, Dristles, micat, meat products, | __ feathered He Builds Planes He Never Sees Ninety-mile-an-hour. model planes perfect to the thousandth of am inch, are being built by a 46-year- of Brighton. This is how he does it. His wife 'and son spread the plans of a plane on the table and put pins in the outlines. Then Mr. Jones's wondec- eration. By: letting his fingers go round the pins, he gets "the feel" busy. : = Tm Deftly he builds the planes, using ordinary _materials, 'including fine- gauge wire. When they are fin- ished' his son flies them. Recently his son entered one of | the 'models in a controlled flight | competition. It did 81.6 'miles an hour and young Mr. Jones féit sure he had won a cup. But he hadn't. The trophy went to a friend who woil, at 90 miles an hour, with sa- other aircraft which had been: bullt from Mr. Robert Jones's plans, ; old blind man, Mr. Robert Jones, : of the model- to-be. : Then he gets 1 ful sense _of touch _cothes -into_op---| 'Katharine Cornell Got The Part: . I think it was the advent of Maude Adam's Peter Pan in my-fas | ther's theater that firet me know that 1 wantéd to devote my ;lifesto the stage, I had looked for- 'ward 'to Maude Adams with such 'eagerness that, 'when the time came . +k-hid my face inthe curtains of the box' because 1 couldn't bear to "look. Then, afterward, utter en- chantment; particularly the flying part, ~ "a « "After that the thedtic--~everything 'about it: backstage; iront of the house; performance ti: ne--that mar- velous hush just before the curtain - goes 'up; the cluticr and clatter of rehearsals; the: glamour of "the theatre's - great stars--Bernhardy, Sothern and ' Marlowe, Tree, Sit Henry Irving; Mrs. Fiske® became . an intimate and realistic part of my life. Naturally I saw more plays than the average child would see. Jessie - Bonstelle, who even then. 'came to Buffalo for a season of stock each year, was always lovely . to-me,- She would let me sit all-day," day in and day out, and watch. her rehearse her plays. I never got tired of it. "Hurry and grow up and play Jo for me," she said oné day, I was thrilled, of course--but dreamed jt would-come true . ih Miss Bonstelle played leads, of course, and did her own direeting. She had that rare gift of getting a smooth production together . in a week--week in and: week out. She was/not a great actress but an ex- traordinarily good: one for that par- ticular job, She could manage any: -- kind of stage. . .. ----In-September-=that- was. the Fall of '19-- Miss Bonstelle had decided to do Little Women in London with an English cast, Marian de Forest wrote the play (in 1912, you re- "member), and after fifteen managers: turned it- down, Brady bought it- " 'for his daughter, Alice, who played Meg--beautifully, they say. I never saw her performance. "Who for Joe?" asked Miss de Forest. "Kath- - arine Cornell!" answered Bonstelle. ~ --From "I wanted to Be an Aot- ress," by Katherine Cornell. . Poor r Prophet" Back in the hills, just out of sight of° Manhattan's night-glow, an elderly character with a prophetic beard is sulking in'a little house in a valley. Beside the house, handy Ha snow-bound householder, is a large pile of fireplace wood, rieatly stacked: The House itself is stoutly | banked witli last fall's leaves. In the larder is a store of canned food and cured meat. But all last week the elderly character himself sat on hisPfront stoop in his shirtsleeves and glared at the sky. Last fall, he forecast a heavy | winter, an old- fashioned winter full of 7 A MEDDLING MOTHER-IN-LAW _ 'A mother-in-law who tries to separate lier son and his wife must be stopped in her efforts. But how? * : She - cannot be disciplined like ['} .child, though "AN NE HIRST Your Family Gounselot * impersonal. If the older womaa ~*~offends again, the wife will rise to. * from her chair and refuse * listen. : «x # A HOME OF HER OWN "Dear Anne Hirst: I've been marc= rled almost a year. 1 want a _liome * she deserves to be. She cannot be shut out coms- tite she family though not welcome. Yet something must be done to complishing her vicious purpose, One plagued wife relates her ex- perience: Her mother-in-law tells actual lies about her son, She informs" her "pletely from: the . prevent her ac-- daughter-in-law_that he is being un. - true to her, which the. wife, thank goodness, know. is not so, She exaggerates his faults,-even advises the girl to.leaveé him! Of course she is jealous, eager to have her son to herself, Added to the faults she interferes with their children's training, to the point where theyactually fear her. of THIS MUST STOP * Of course this wife sees through * these machinations. But it is hard * not to become upset and nervous * under their influence, * Sle should talk the matter over wih her husband, and enlist his ; ifc does not men- * tlon what his attitude is.) He * must stand behind. her, give her * his entire loyalty. \ : * For the wife will tell her. * other-in-law, 'calmly but firmly, . * that from now on 'she will not * listen to attacks upon her. hus- "band. It is not'loyal, and she has "* too much respect for him to sit * quietly by, without protest. Even * if they were true, it would not be * proper.---And.- she will have no * more. of it. * __ She will also', rémind . Her ¥ mother-in-law that she and her * husband 'agree completely on the * way they "are 'bringing up their * children. *.and they cannot brook interfer- * ence from anybody, ; * 'When this mother-in-law comes They; and they alone, - * are responsible for the training, * to see them (as she does regular. * ly) the wife will maka a strong * effort to keep thelr sanvacmton [ of my own, "We've been living with my hus- band's parents, and we have a big and noisy dog: My*"lusband makes the 'dog an' excuse for not moving. _ "Of course mobody wants to rent us an apartment -with- this dog, but - «my husband's parents are willing to keep the dog for us until we can get a house. (I would be-willing to move into one room!) Yet my -hus- "band refuses to.imove! "Is a man's dog supposed to can more to him than his wife? "lI do love him, but I've even thought of leaving him because of this. WONDERING" * Of coutse you will not leave * your husband for such a reason. * That would be childish, | * It is hard to believe that your * husband refuses to move on ac- * count of the dog. It is more likely - * that he feels comfqrtable where * he" is. He has less responsibility * in his mother's home than even © * a-gmall apartment would entail. * I suspect this is the real reason x for-his wanting to stay. * Few men have any idea of what * a home of her own means: to a * wife. In it, she reigns -supreme, * She manages it alone, -and "if be- #* comes the foundation of her fam- * ily lifes No matter how kind and * thoughtful her in-laws are, . she "A cannot relax, completely in an- 0 other w n's house. * © Husbands who lack imagination *:do not realize this, Yet if a man. *'loves his wife as I expect yout * husband loves you, hs will provide * her with a place of her own, Un. * til he moves in there with you, he * will-not understand what joy he, * too, will feel living there alone * with you, --%_I-hope* your husband will find * a good place for you soon. Every * wife deserves it. 1] * * * When older people offend, call on your patience and your tact. It takes a great deal of bot' but if you do not 'loss your composure, you can . win, Arne ' Hirst will. h if you L write her at Box 1, 128 teenth St, New Toronte, Ont. "lilac |--looked, a few days ago, -asthough-- moment. ---color- snow and bone-chilling..cold. The week befere Christmas he said the turn. was at. hand. On Christmas Day, he said the new year would 'come in with a howling wind and" 'two feet of snow. It is obvious what happened. The bushes in his - front yard they might burst into leaf at any There wasn't enough ice on, the near-by 'pond to cool one Jong drink. The elderly prophet hadn't beén able, try as' he might, to bum one. full cord. of wood; in house were wide open to the balmy breeze. And he knew that if he went poking through the woods, he might find hepatica in bud. Maybe even shadbush on, Winter isn't aver yet, hy any means, But it is-- January, and Groundhog Day is going to be here before you kiiow it. Then February will fray* away into March. And the January that should have started off snowbound started off with a burst of 60-degree weather. Those who Know character. best say about to lock up the elderly now that he is is house and take a-trip. He wants to get away from - this awful winter, they say.- He talks of going to Northern Canada. : --N: -Y. Times, Jan 8. Chairman at church "We welcome tonight the Rev. Mr. Jones." This is the first chance he has had to speak since he married." _ never ice and --fact,-as----he-sat-there-andglowered | the other day, the doors of his = the verge of X gathering: rhs dhe "Hed Sausage Years ars Ago T Sausages have va beeh . "popular since the fifth century, B.C." Greeks had a word for them! The Romans, too, are known to have indulged in fried sausages. made from fresh pork; chopped pine nats, cumin seed, baysleaves and. - black pepper, "They are also 'thought to avd introduced the 'haggis to England, "where it was very popular at the 'time of -the Commonivealth. Since, then, the delicacy seems "to have retreated over the border: into Scotland, and many 'of us would not retognize . a hagels. if we saw one, Sh No ' doubt -many of us have chuckled over the. "story of the housewife who, regeiving one as a . gift from her husbind in. Scotland, planted if in her roc and proud- ly displayed its flourisi{ing condition on his return, : In the Middle Ages,"the "Saust age-Makers' Guild" produced: a pop- ular delicacy consisting of ground pork flavored with eggs, powdered pepper, ,and spice, encased in the neck of a capon. When sausage are cooking, there is often shrinkage due to loss of fat and water; this may be reduced "by dipping 'in boiling water before frying. . Fine Idea Gerry:- "Don't you think good. idea to rate all cars actording to. their horsepower?" 'Bill: "Not as good as rating drivers astoeding to their horee sense." 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