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Cenk SAL A EINE SATRARI RA SE RL WRN Sia Time was when the Women's Institute was thought te be an organization intended mainly for the benefit of rural women who were anxious to get to- gether, primarily for the pur- pose of exchanging . recipes, plant slips, knitting patterns, quilt- blocks and for organizing quilting bees. That may be true -- and still is, for that matter -- but to all such domestic pro- grammes there is now a mighty big "plus"! Yes, country women still exchange recipes and many of them love a quilting party but they are also interested in social studies, literature, inter- national affairs, = history and art, in all of which they are participating more and more. No one can doubt it after the excellent exhibit of original paintings that were on display following a competition that was sponsored by the Salada Tea Company and for which prizes were offered on a pro- vincial ~ level. Entries reached the provincial competition by a process of elimination. The best pictures were chosen, first' from the branch,- then from the Dis- trict, and finally from the. Con- vention Area, each painting fea- ~ turing a Canadian landscape. The competition may not have brought to light any outstand- ing genius but at least it will have done much to satisfy and encourage the -artistic and crea- tive urge in._many . women talent that may have been dor- Mother! Look! "WARDROBE for 'Brother and - Sister! Overalls, playsuit, blazer, blouse and shirt are for both, ister has a little jumper too. ister Elephant is a packet they love! Pattern 4601 in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, for boys or girls: Size 6 blouse 1% yards 35-inch; over- $s 21% "yards 35-inch nap; lazer 1% yards; jumper 1% yards: Instruction for elephant pocket too. © This pattern easy to use,-sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has eomplete illustrated instructions. . Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (86¢) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainiy SIZE; NAME, AD-* RESS,' STYLE. NUMBER. "Send order to Box 1, 123 jghteenth + St.,, New Toronto, - gone by -a few of them _it sounds so 'is a beautiful nt. Mm U0 IN A MESS--Mike Dougherty, 2, is all tangled up with his-goals, en route to the Fair at Pomona. Mike hopes to straighten out the mixed up four-week-olds in time to win a couple of the blue ribbons and some of the $61,000 prize money. mant for years. How many wo- men, when looking at a beau- tiful sunset, or a particularly attractive garden, have said with a longing sigh -- "Oh, if only I could paint, what a pic- ture that would make." In years ever made the attempt. But of re- cent years night schools in many country districts included classes in art, The result was amazing. Women who apparent- ly had been interested only in culinary arts came out of the kitchen and went to work with paint and palette. At one night school where classes had been held for three years two en- tire classrooms were given. over to paintings -~ one for elemen- tary students and the other for second-year advanced classes. And most of the sudents were from rutal areas. One time there was. a young Jad who was asked if he could . play the violin. He replied -- "I don't know yet --- I haven't tried!" The same answer would be equally commendable com- ing from a person if she were asked if she could paint a pic- ture. Naturally, only a person with outstanding talent and abi- lity can play or paint some form of training, but there are hundreds of persons, who, with a little encouragement and rudimentary training are amazed to find within themselves 'latent -talent that was never even sus-_ pected. So the. Salada Tea Com- pany is definitely cultural life of rural Ontario by sponsoring such a worthwhile project. ~The judges were two - well- known artists ---- Palmer - and ' Casson. I was interested in one criticism they made -- that the artists showed a tendency to copy a scene exactly ag they saw it. "Sometimes," said Mr. Palmer, "there is more in know- ing what to leave out of a pic- ture than what to 'put in it.". That takes a little digesting but if you mull it over long enough reasonable, all a painting is not a photo- graph -= although, come to think" of it many photographs would also be improved if a few of the details-were left out! But a painting . . . take a shapely elm for instance, its lovely sym- metrical branches sheltering laz- ing cows beside a stream. It tree but it has quite a number of dead, disfig- uring branches. A camera would photograph those branches but an artist would never dream of letting thém appear on his can- vas. Isn't that typical of what the critics. meant? By the. way, 1 Casson had a He suggested that ment of Education set. up a truck with an instructor to go out to amateur art groups Mr. idea. the Depart- thought wonderful Site into'a bowl, 1 c. plus 2 tbs. once-sifted cake flour, 115 tsps. Magic Baking Powder, 34 tap. salt, 14 c. fine granulated sugar; mix in 14 c. desiccated coconut. Make a well in dry ingredients and 'add in order given (do not stir mixture), 1{ c. corn (salad) oil,2 unbeaten egg yolks, 1{ c. plus 2 tbs, water, 1 tsp. vanilla, 214 ozs. unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled; Stir liquids a bit, then stir in dry ingredients; . beat until batter is smooth. Measure into a large bowl }¢ c. * ' egg whites (at room temperature) and sprinkle with 1{ tsp. 'cream of tartar; beat until whites are very stiff - much stiffer than for meringues, etc. Add flour mixture, about 'a quarter at a time, and fold after each addition until batter and egg whites are well combined. Turn batter into an ungreased 8' angel cake pan; bake in rather slow oven, 325° about 1 hour, Immediately oake comes from oven, invert pan and suspend cake until cold. Hi Always Depe i li Lr JY A 4 ndable ) a without _ helping the After "throughout the Provinces and show them how to buy and handle material, Now there's a constructive suggestion = if. ever 'there was one. Which reminds me, I have a reprint of a beautiful picture by A. J. Casgon, P.R.CA. It is call- ed "Canadian. Spring" and fea- tures white trilliums. Early last January - when old calendars were being discarded I saw this picture hanging-in a feed store. I asked the manager what he was going to do with it. "Noth- ing -- take it if you want it." 1 often look at that picture-and think what a treasure I rescued from the trash can. ] Well, T seem to have let pic- tures and painting run away with my space. But we're still here on the. good old farm. Partner. has been getting a- pen . ready for our pullets, then he dug my flower: bed. ready for 'geraniums next spring. The 50-. odd cuttings I set out in -the garden appear to be quite healthy -- and 1 keep adding to their numbers. When it comes time to pot them ready for win- ter storage it could be that my enthusiasm may suffer a slight set-back. FOOLISH IDEA Betty's mother tried: the fam- iliar, method: of reproach. "You know, Betty," she explained, "when 1 was a little girl I had to do what my mother told me, and when grandmother was a little girl she had to do. what her 'mother told her." "H"m," said Betty. "lI wonder who started that silly game!" J-1-F-F-Y! Frosting of Mowers is delicious touch on this jiffy-wrap halter that tops shorts, slacks, skirls! Easy to sew -- easier to em- broider. Little yardage, use remnants, Patiern 658 comes in sizes: Small (10, 12); Medium (14, 16); - Large (18, 20). 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But one of the oddest cases in my records con- cerns the just punishment of a to be acquitted. ; Catherine Wilson stood in the dock, charged with administer- ing one ounce of sulphuric acid to Sarah Carnell with intent to urder her. ip Catherine Wilson , was a bustling nurse, of hardly attrac- tive appearance. Her chin re- ceded so sharply that her face appeared to end with her lower lip. She was attending Mrs. Car- nell in her professional capa- city. The doctor had prescribed a soothing draught for the pa- tient . who « suffered from gout, and Nurse Wilson voluntered to fetch the medicine, She was back in twenty: minutes and held a glass of liquid in her hand. "Drink it" down, it will warm you, love," she said. Mrs. Carnell took and felt it grow Warm in her hands. She took one sip, but it burnt her lips so badly that she spat it. out on to the bed- clothes and called her husband. "The doctor's sent the wrong mediciné!" she exclaimed. Mr. Carnell glanced down at the bedclothes. Where ° the liquid _had fallen, holes had been burnt in the sheet! Nurse Wilson was' charged with attempted murder. She was defended--by one of the ablest counsel of his day, Mr. Montagu Williams, who called . witnesses te prove that the doc- tor had' been out when the 'medicine. was collected, and his assistant, a lad of fifteen, had given the wrong bottle. This theory was easily re- butted by "the prosecution who 'clearly to the jury. While they were absent, a man" tapped Mr: Williams on the shoulder: "A very clever . defence, sir," he whispered, "but if it' succeeds you'll do her a very bad turn." Mr. Williams asked for an explanation. "If there is a con- viction," "the man said, Ywe shan't take any further action. If . she is acquitted -- well, you'll see." £7 Nearly two hours later the jury returned. The verdict was Not Guilty. With an exclama- "tion of delight Catherine Wil- son stepped down from the dock. No sooner had her foot touched the. floor of the court than the man who had whis- pered to her counsel approach- ed her. "I am a police officer from Lincoln," he said. "I 'ar- of . =." The second part of the story opened at Lincoln Assizes in September of 1862. Catherine Wilson was charged ~With the --murder of Maria Soames _ in 1856. : ~~ Miss Soames had . suffered from gout and it transpired. in evidence that Nurse Wilson spe- or was it?- --. six other - gout patients had died while in her care. ; ; - The dector in attendance on Miss Soames had not been' sat- isfied with the cause of death and had had a post-mortem examination carried. out, His evidence now was that Miss Soames had shown symptoms of having died from an overdose of vegetable irritant ' poison, probably colchium. It was not difficult to estab- .son had so ingratiated herself with her patient that she stood to' benefit considerably by her death. eld ' Since the defence 'was that the presence 6f vegetable poison could not be detected in the body a short time after death, the bodies of six_ other patients were exhumed. -Colchium was discovered in all' of them, and - in every case it was found by reference' to their wills that _Nurse" Wilsory had. benefited. The defence was disposed of by a brilliant exposition of (for- - engi¢ medicine from Dr.. A. S. Taylor, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Guy's who es- tablished for all time that vege- table . poisons. of 'this nature would certainly be discovered 'after - death. ty and sentenced to death for the murder of Maria Soames. It was not necessary to proceed with the six remaining charges. * Yet, had it not been for the 'against the weight of evidence, __ Nurse Catherine Wilson would . have served a prison sentence for attempted. murder, and then been released 'to continue her dreadful work. . ISSUE 39 ~ 1054 When Luck Helped It was in the year 1861 'that rest you for the wilful murders cialized-in such cases. Oddly. --- Nurse Wilson was found guil-. dglrahge' decisions "of a 'jury/ murderess who had the "luck" . the glass ; showed that the acid had been diluted. : JOR "The judge put" this- point N lish a motive, for Nurse Wil. - Junior - Be warned! Lest Junior return to school this fall with the notion that "mechanical brains" have made the "three R's" a dead language, let him be warned: "quite a while yet: Why dre we so sure?' Well, Junior, we got it right from the thinking machine's - mouth -- or at any rate its mouthpiece, an "expert in one of the companies that makes those ponderosities. This expert says his company is" constantly sending its oftice personnel back to school to learn - reading and writing, particular- ly of figures, because (how do you like that?) the basic food of the complicated calculators is hand-gathered, hand-copied re- chine. , Yes, Junior,. its disappoining, It's confusing and disillusioning, too. It is like learning that your "favorite supergadget, rocket - propelled, remote - con- trolled space-ship of the outer ether has to be kept in a box stall and fed oats in a nose bag just like old: Dobbin. . Of course, you won't learn that--but you'd better learn your hand-writin', -- From The Christian Science Monitor. Hitler Apologized Twice -- Too Late! " unlamented Adolf Hitler that he apologized to only two men in his life -- Field-Marshal von stressed the importance of rocket research, and Major- soldier-scientist in charke 'of soldier - scientist -- in charge of who did more than any. other man to develop the V2: Why did the mighty Fuhrer so humble himself? Because he had never had faith in rockets 'as a war weapon; and:when in 1948 he had a dream they would never be operational against England he refused any prior- My. Too late -- he realized his blunder. Hence the apologies. Between September 8th, 1944, with deadly effeot. Nearly 3,000 people were killed and over At least two of them will just keep on -r-r-rolling along : for cords which are fed to the ma- It was the boast of the late. Brauchitsch, who had constantly General Walter Dornberger, the . and March 27th, 1945, 1,100' V2's were 'launched against London, . 1942. 9 such 'a barrage of V- - weapons have altered the course "of 50, hower's war history "Crusade : he we von i 6,000 seriously injured. But in his book "V2" a fascinating ac- count of German rocket devel- opment from its early begin- 'nings in 1930 -- Walter Dorn- berger reveals that but for Hitler's blindness it might have ~ beén possible to have launched that number every month from 'FULL STRENGTH ll the war? The author believes and quotes President Eisen- ~ pa " "If the Germans had .s in Europe," in which he fn perfecting these new weap- ons six months earlier and put- . . them into action as opportunty -arose, it is probable that our in- vasion of Europe would have come 'up against tremendous, ditticylties might have be- come impossible. pe | "I am' certain that 'after six months of such action, 'Opera tion Overlord' -- the ' attack: 3 _ Europe from England -- would SA 'have had to be written off." EAC mes Hay TTT . They "pan out" perfectly with new Active DRY ® No more yeast worrids| No more yeast that stales and weakens! New Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast keeps' you use it -- FAST ACTING when you use it! 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