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. i ‘the department of agriculture, and — auspices of the Halton departments of the O.A.C. Guelph, for the purpose of explain-|la and ng the Tile Drainage act. W. P, akaray, district super- visor of drainage, was in charge of the meeting, and first exhibited sev- eral reels of motion pictures, the first dealing with methods of laying tile for drainage purposes, and the sec- ond on the subject of Soil Physics. Vollowite the pictures, he gave a rt address on the method of fin-| sais tile drainage under the Tile Drainage act. He stated that the act was passed about 25 years ago and had been amended since that time. It was for the purpose of allowing farmers to borrow money from the provincial government through the township councils for draining purposes, and allowing them from 10 to 20 years for repayment. The sum set aside by the govern- ment-was $2,000,000; £200,000 was the limit for each township and each farmer was allotted $2,000 per hund- red acres. The rate of interest was 6 per cent. A by-law must be pas- sed by the township council to estab- lish the credit with the government. He said that 14 townships had pas- sed this by-law last year and approxi- mately $260,000 had been ‘oaned under the scheme. Most of the town- ships in Western Ontario had pas- sed the bylaw, and the meeting last night was for the purpose of see- ing if the farmers of Nelson town- ship were interested in the idea, He stated that the department assisted the farmer to lay his drain, through a systems of surveys and that they also checked up on the fore the tiles were covered. A short discussion took place following the address. -|WHAT SOME PARENTS fachieved the same end. work be-|, a -EXPECT OF TEACHERS Scheel room Sh Should Not Bear Full Responsibility =f ‘Children's Moral T The fealing ‘pabl ‘public has bee Provide Space for Your Flowers haficwnl gee olyngel~ Alannah cess of Fi While the garden is still-in process served with a great many interesting pdt formation is the time to gies facts about the various education lately. Not only has Re prominent British authority on edu- cation, Mckee of Atholl, stimu-| eno ted interest in this subject during her viait i m Canada, but the recent annual meeting of the Ontario Edu- cational Association in Toronto, has One of these facts is- particularly | worthy of the careful consideration of mothers. At a joint gathering of the Home and School sections of the 0.E.A. the consensus of opinion following the presentation of reports from: councils and individual clubs was that it was the home and not the school that was failing to meet the needs of the hour. The Home and School clubs have done much in bringing the mothers into closer touch with the teachers and inspir- ing them with the spirit of cv-oper- ation towards the educators of their children, but it appears that there are ways in which mothers, fathers, too, are still falling short of their duty in this respect, One might even go further. In one ci her speeches the Duchess of Atholl said: “However splendid the buildings the educational authorities may erect, however up-to-date their equipment, you can't get away from the fact that the man or woman who sits at the desk is the key to the whole-situation. The teacher is the biggest factor in education.” There are some parents, who in deed if not in word, go-the Duchess one better. They say that the teacher is the only factor—for good—in education. This is apparently true of other places besides Ontario. When the hio educational director exclaimed: “Because of the incompetency of thousands of teachers in Ohio our educational ‘system is becoming No matter if skirts are short,| they shouldn't be abandoned. | WE SELL STEAMSHIP TICKETS on the following lines Canadian Pacific Allan Lines Donaldson Lines Cunard Lines Anchor Lines and RAILWAY TICKETS 3 ON CANADIAN PACIFIC Alilaformation and Time Tables Free PO Byers Drug Co. % OAKVILLE PHONE 47 | i The place where most people deal alarming,” an American writer with- eringly retorts: “Tam not a teacher, but I know scores of them, and can’t resist making this wise-crack paraphrase of the estimable director. “Because of the incompetency of parents the nation over, our educa- tional system is becoming alarm- ing.” - The average parent lets its child drink, pet, wear little or no cloth- ing, dress oma small income like a banker's daughter, be out night after night of the-week, demand and get its high standard of living—then sends it off to school for the teacher to make over into all that a child should be. “A teacher cannot teach any more,” a teacher once said, ‘we must be probation officers, eti- quette authorities, moral advisers, and a vaudeville entertainer a'l the time,” And doesn't everyone know of parents who do relegate theze du- ties of theirs to the teachers—and then complain of the deficient edu- cational system? Protection for igi Box To protect the battery container peor deteriorating, coat the wooden | sides with paint, shellac, melted par-|. affin, or even graphite grease. GivingUp Business Having decided to give up business May Ist, it is necessary to reduce our BAR portunity of oe the people ot Oakville genuine ONLY A PARTIAL LIST QUOTED BELOW —. stock, so we take this op- CHILDREN’S MIDDIES . Removable Collar and Cuffs CHILDREN'S SOCKS Regular 50¢ pr. for 50c CHILDREN'S BLOOMERS Regular up to $1.00, 2 49c and ; re ” CHILDREN’S COTTON AND FLANNELETTE GOWNS Regular $1.25 for 89c LADIES’ SILK HOSE Regular up to $2.75 59c to $1.79 LADIES’ COTTON GOWNS Regular up to $2.50 79c to $1.85 LADIES' HOUSE’ DRESSES 98c up. LADIES’ OVER-BLOUSES $2.69 up. HIGH SCHOOL MIDDIES Regular $2.98 for i $2.19 Underskirts, Also Silk Glov Tein ieres, Slips, BI es, Brassieres, Slips, paces esas “seconds” will _ find it will pay you to invest ! oe: MI LADY’S SHOPPE — COLBORNE STREET aroun itself, And make the space large onWhy. bother? asks one of those in- tensely practical men, Well, why bother about anything? Because we feel like it, because it pleases us to point frequently overlooked by in- tensely practical men. Upon what better can we spend our fleeting amount of time? In providing for the flowers, do not overlook the annuals ,beds, ders, and groups of them. ven in the perenial border there is 2. place for annuals until perennials fill out the vacant spaces, and even the best perennial border is likely to 7 hee intervals of time without bloom it is not reinforced with Senos Digging the Soi Our forefathers seemed to have the fixed idea that the harder work they could make of a task the better it was done. Gardening formerly was made as hard as possible. Ol English gardeners from whom we dé- rive our chief garden traditions al- ways advise pesca the the soil. They still advise it in English periodicals on gardening. This consists of dig- ging ditches.two spade lengths deep, putting the top soil back“into the bottom of the pit with fertilizer and the bottom soil on top. One spade or plow depth i+ really quite enough, provided the earth is well turned and broken up. Cultivation and good- fertility are the essentials, Ifthe land is not in “‘good heart” manure or artificial fertilizer may be added and well worked in. With most commercial fertilizers it is poor policy to turn under, as they leach beyond the plant's reach. Sprinkled on the surface and lightly raked in, they are carried far enough down by the rains, Planting Gladioli Bulblets One of the easiest methods to in- crease the stock of gladioli bulbs is to plant bulblets, which will produce full size bulbs in the first season. No particular preparation is neces- sary. They can be planted in a little trench two or three inches deep in much the same as garden peas would be planted, but they can be planted much more thickly, so that the bulblets are almost touching} each other in the trench. If the soil is hard and heavy, two irfcnes is deep enough; if sandy, three inches is not too eid but do not plant, deeper than t Soaking a *bulblets for iwenty- four or ever forty-eight hours will help them toward germination. If soaked for the shorter period, use lukewarm water, but do not keep them too Ibng in luke warm water or they will begin to deteriorate. Another idea is to mix the bulblets | with damp sand a few weeks before planting,.about an equal quantity of bulblets and sand. This has _ the fame effect, although more thorough than soaking as above, but if the bulblets are sanded too early, some} varieties are inclined to make long| sprouts in the sand. | 7 ‘|THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME “HYACINTHS" Having no horseshoes to pitch, the Greek youth hurled the discus. One of the first Olympic champions was Apollo, the god of manly youth and beauty, who was very partial to the discus. Discus-hurling is a danger- ous sport, at least for the spectators, and, so goes the myth, Apollo killed his best friend by an unlucky throw of the discus. He was grief-stricken, “Where the blood of this youth poured out upon the ground, Apollo, -being the god of vegetation, caused to spring up a bed of new fiowers., Ovid, the great Roman poet, tells what followed thus: “Thou dieth,” spoke Apollo, “robbed of thy youth by me. Would that I could die for*thee! But since that cannot be, my lyre shall cele- brate thee, my song shal! tell thy fate, and thou shalt become a flower inscribed with my regret." Apollo then with his finger mark- ed the petals with his sorrow, in- scribing “Ai! Ai!""—the Greek word of exclamation signifying woe and grief. And marks like those are on the petals of that flower today. The name of the youth was Hya- einthus, and to the Greeks he stood for the flower*of youth, which is scorched, withers and dies in the summer's sun of life. And, ad Ap- ollo planned it, every spring among the first_flowers that bloom are the hyacinths, an ever-living reminder of the youth and his sad fate. Warning Motor Cop (after hard chase)— Why didn’t you stop when I shouted back there Deiver4 ak only five bucks but presence of mind)—I snOvent you said, “Good morning, Senato Cop—Well, you see, Senator, I wanted to warn you about driving fast through the néxt township. Another good way to avoid high i pressure is to swat the first ¥. |WAYS AND MEANS OF HOUSE-CLEANING | Some “Tips” on the, Different Phases — of the Spring Clean-up -for the Housewife In the spring a young. man’s fancy may lightly turr to thoughts of love, but a housewife’s fancy turns—and sometimes rather heavily — to thoughts of housecleaning. Happy is the one who knows exactly how to gp about it, has at her finger- tips the knowledge of all the dif- ferent ways and means to shoo the dirt from all the different articles uP her household furniture. Read these “tips” and see if there are any you would like to add to your store of knowledge on the art of spring housecleaning: To clean the picture glass wash with a soft cloth squeezed out of soap suds, Rinse thoroughly with a cloth squeezed quite dry out of clean Our duty is to see that-there is available in every home in ie] pure, rich milk and cream. Your duty to yourself and family to see that you get the gest milk 3 and cream possible, and plenty of it. MILK HAS NO EQUAL AS A FOOD! nore is scientifically handled . throu Ou doceey wilt ts pontoon oe one We will do our best to merit your patronage. GILBREA DAIRY A. G. FARROW - - PHONE 51 warm water to which a few drops of ammonia have been added and po- lish with a dry cloth. The frames may also be washed if necessary. If they are grooved dip a small soft brush in the suds. Shake well and rub quickly but vigorously over the frame. With a soft cloth Squeezed out of the clear water im- mediately remove all traces of soap, Dry thoroughly, Vases, lamps, desk equipment, toilet articles and all such accessor- jes, whether of glass, china or me- tal, may be given a soap bath,| washing and brushing, rinsing and drying exactly as for the pictures. Window shades, the ordinary hol- | land variety, as well as the recently | featured linen and cretonne kind, may be washed with great satisfac- tion, Spread the shade over a flat) surface, rub it briskly with a sponge | dipped frequently in suds. Run off | the suds with a soft cloth, rinse with} clear water and dry thoroughly. Do} first one side, then the other. If they are very dirty, waxed floors, may be washed quickly with a light lukewarm suds. After a thorough rinsing and drying with a soft eloth, fresh wax should be rub-| bed thoroughly into the surface. |! Beds should be given special at- tention. For brass beds, salad oil, | not soda and water, is the thing.! It should bé applied with a rag and} then polished off with a sthamois| leather. If.you have an oak bed- stead use linseed oil, which will feed | and cleanse the wood. Apply it} with an old soft rag or flannel, fol- | lowing the/grain of the wood. A| chamois ther for the polishing off will be needed. Or a pad covered with. velvet will do. Mahogany re- quires a different treatment. It can be kept in good condition if occa- sionally it is rubbed over with a cloth ng out of cold water. The bed- ! Fstead should be cleaned in sections | with the cloth, each portion being| dried immediately with clean cloths| and made to shine by steady polish- | ing. White enamel bedsteads should be | treated as soon as any soi] appears. | i= } } | In hot water wring out a white cloth thoroughly and pour o7 to it; a few drops of paraffin. Work this | well into the cloth and apply firmly to the bedstead. This done, wash with curd soap and warm water, care | being taken that the bedstead is not | made too wet. Rinse with tepid wa-| ter and rub dry. This method of cleaning may also be used on white | enamelled beds upon which decora- | tions are painted. The rusty parts of a spring mat-| tress should be rubbed with emery | aper to remove the rust, the whole} afterwards being cleaned with yaraf- fin, especially the wooden parts. Finally, the mattress should be rub- 3 bed with sweet oil and put out of : doors to air. $10,000.00 InScholarships and Cash Awards will be given away by BAUER & BLACK during 1926.to Boys and Girls Boys and Girls: This week we are going co hold a Special First Aid Bauer & Black's Junior First Aid Legion Every boy or girl who did not avail ehemsetves of the Opportunicy to enroll last year may do so this week at our store The membership fee is the same as last year—r2¢, Each member will receive a handsome First Aid Kit, a membership button and a complete First Aid Boo! And to top it all off—Bauer & Black will distribute $10,000.00 in scholarships and cash awards at the close of the year to those Boys and girls who merit them. Drop in and see us right away. BYER’S DRUG CO. “” aca tarda vinnie aha WH nKa inseam LNid@un Ramiele W. S. DAVIS REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Money to Loan at Current Rates on First Mortgages Davis Building, OAKVILLE Telephone 41 ee ee ee ee et — Stains of all kinds upon these mat- tresses may be removed with a paste made from fuller's earth and eau de Cologne, cream of tartar or salt and the juice of a lemon. Apply any of these mixtures to the stain and brush it off, giving, if neces- sary,.a second application. While this little suggestion about mending lace curtains may not strictly. come under the heading of Spring House-Cleaning, it will be well-worth knowing when one comes to the spring renovating process: When lace curtains are old and not worth careful mending, you can make a neat job for the time being with a similar patterned old curtain. Cut out a piece from the oldest cur- tain, as near to the pattern as pos- sible, paint over the cdges of the hole and press down with a hot iron. If done carefully the patch will scarcely show. Kissing is dangerous. It is likely to make a girl's nose shiny. “Until death us do part” Yes sir, and even after passing beyond, it will be a credit to your memory to have provided for wife and children. Face this question squarely. Then if a sudden summons comes, you will answer it with aclearer conscience if wife and little ones are properly provided for. Get an Imperial Home Protection Policy health. It’s now—while you are in very easy to do it. Our booklet, “The Creation of an Estate’’ tells you how. Write for a copy THE IMPERIAL LIFE _ Assurance Company of Canada HEAD OFFICE .- TORONTO E. A. MAIRS. eek for you. We are going to accept enrollments for A Pot fd eT