canada passing pioneer age in art cultural progress viewed b- national council bacon and ham in the united kingdom unsung but in hcr lifetime she toronto the era of pioneer work has practically passed for canada said the report of i elizabeth s nutt halifax conveni i er of the arts and letters committee to the national council of women recently canada is also so far ad vanced in her industrial and manu factoring life experience that the first friend hear about the cultural ere has naturally risen veil scotchman who went insane j above the horizon second friend no what was tbe the first art exhibit by w- a wilson imports of bacon into toe izited ningdom from tie principal sources o supply for the three years 1932 1933 and 1934 were considering how many opportunit ies we have or making mistakes even the worst of us do fairly well matter first friend he bought a score card at the ball game and netlier side scored when we get wisdom teeth it does not mtan we are wholly wise but just learning a little more teeth about short engagements are better the bride iiasnt time to wear out her fin ery showing it to ber friends kclley and cohen were having din ner together cohen helped himself to the larger fish and kclley said kelloy fine manners ye have co hen if i had readied out first id iave taken the smaller fish cohen veil youve got it havent you one of the most senseless things imaginable is criticism when all facts and factors arc unknown angry wife now that i have an electric refrigerator see what you can do about getting a mechanical stenographer passenger to captain of sinking ship captain as there are no more lifeboats and all the boats are full will you teach me to swim pretty girl my how very bashful you are young man yes i take after my father in that rospect i guess pretty girl was your father bash ful young man- was he mother says if father hadnt been so darn bashful id be four years older smile and the sun will pierce the shadows trust and the mists will roll away give and the heavens will shine with glory love and your life will be one glad day one little boy was asking what headstrong meant thats when ma makes up her mind to have a new hat he replied naively man ive just been reading some statistics here every time i breath a man dies friend gosh man why dont you use some of thee highly adver tised mouth antiseptics marriage hasnt failed it isnt the schools fault if a lot of pupils ex pect to pass without working at it itagson tatters whats the news windy windy wolf im not reading the news im looking for a job itagson it appears to me that are reading the female help wanted column windy well aint my wife a fc male the man who always says what ho thinks says it down town at lionie hes careful to think what he say junior whats a debtor daddy father a man who owes money junior and what is a creditor father the man who thinks he is going to get it in british north america was held more than 100 years ago in halifax art ex hibits are now plentiful throughout canada the report said his ex cellency the governorgeneral in founding the dfama festival has given fresh impetus to the drama music also had found a secure place among canadians and a dis tinctive national note is now found in both the prose and verse of can adian writers growth in every department and an increasing interest in fine arts and letters is the chief god which has come out of the depression said the report of the vancouver convener for manitoba reports show the development of practical trends sixteen nationalities arc represented at the winnipeg handi craft guild the largest musical festival in the empire was held in april with 1350 entries an arts and crafts exhibition and handicrafts hobby show were new wcstminsterrs features of the year moose jaw held an exhibition of indian art saskatoon local coun cil are to be congratulated on their activity in cultural lines valuable indian research has been continued home grown flax is being woven in to home made linens interest is increasing in the treas ures of the ontario museum miss nutts report said toronto was particularly active in art literature drama and music kingston reports an ever increasing art conscious ness the maritime provinces have formed an association for educating the public by regular exhibitions and lectures a summer school in paint ing is an extension of the ns col lege of art west algoma council reports the little theatre movement has been most active need of a dignified and colorful ceremony each year for the young men and women coming of age to make them realize their duty and responibility to their community and country was recommended in a re port on citizenship by mrs a j holman convener niagara falls from all parts of canada mrs hol man reported came word of activity in civic and educational life edmonton with a woman elected to the school board had a working committee of seven keeping in touch with chic affairs twelve members form the citizenship com mittee in moose jaw and a study group was formed women are on the school board and city council in new westminster an unemploy ment office oganized by the citizen- ehip committee found positions for 170 persons women have been elected to a number of civic bodies in regina while in saskatoon plans arc being made for a committee to arrange public ceremonies for reception of naturalization papers in victoria and vancouver the latter with a study group forming women are serving on municipal bodies niagara falls and hamilton re ported increasing number of women in civic positions while for the first time a woman was elected to the ottawa collegiate board at the halifax meetings discussion was heard on a proposed civic ceremony for those reaching their majority in yarmouth ns the committee looked after lighting of parks and attention was drawn by this body to untidy premises in truro ns where an adult study class was formed an annual honor prize was established for the county academy girl student who gave promise of the best future life of citizenship country 1932 1934 vhenee consigned cwts cwts total 11390s39 7599311 irish free slate 260095 367s03 canada 1s15s0 s94613 denmark 7070549 4267s30 netherlands 975573 60772s 113539 4u33k7 lithuania 512007 251572 423670 29gc41 btonia 82032 50675 3s203 24138 1s795 43111 soviet union 42543 4s724 germany 15ss 31317 norway 203 24991 22310 21063 jugoslavia 16244 austria 12299 i toy mania 19892 united states j3s07 39759 argentina ay044 siva brazil 2s01 15072 the quality and uniformity of can adian bacon in 1934 compared with that of the previous year were im proved tae neatness of the trim was better and some headway was made in standardizing the grades and the general types of wiltshire side un der all headings however there is still room for raising the standards the volume of imports from canada is only exceeded by that from den mark and the need for acceptable uniform quality in order to serve the demand is becoming increasingly and relatively more important the restrictions imposed by the british government on the imports of foreign bacon have automatically been followed by a policy on tho part of tho management of bacon factories to select with extreme care any wilt- shires intended for export the res pective governments are exercising in some form or other closer super vision than usual over the shipments the result is better and more uniform products among tiie 25 different countries exportin g bacon into great britain the polish product is invar iably cited as the one which has shown the most improvement espec ially in its uniformly neat appearance the market position of canadian bacon as compared with foreign is different in that the imports of the latter are subject to official regula tions over siort periods before the policy of restriction became operat ive ery little of the canadian pro duct was offering but the supply from northern continental countries had been coming regularly for some years and had gradually been secur ing a fixed outlet with british buyers who with reasonable confidence bas ed on experience of its quality bought their weekly supplies regu larly knowing that each week te bacon would be available as the curtailment of foreign importations progressed placing the quota quan tities was relatively much easier than to find a satisfactory outlet for the increasing imports from canada bri tish habits change slowly and buy ers generally were disposed to lake first those brands of bacon they had been getting regularly in the past and to complete their requirements elsewhere as best they could it has not been an eacy task to develop the demand to keep pace with the rapid increase in the exports and pressing sales to clear the bacon while fresh seldom creates a healthy price condition when the canadian bacon are balanced like those from other sources selling conditions- that are comparable will rule empire bacon english cured is now a competing product on the bri tish market it is made from im ported frozen pork side of suitable wiltshire type from australia and new zealand reports on its suitabil ity are favorable import of hams into tho united kingdom from the principal supply ing countries for the three years 1932 1933 and 1934 were as fiercely desired and as passion ately loved as mary fytton another mary usually dogs my path as i wander to and fro over the face of britain also fiercely loved and in hcr latter life most unhappy i came upon mary queen of scots first in derbyshire as i was walking over the hills near crich i came to a tiny hamlet with a large and ancient oak outside a medieval church and in the inn 1 was told how the boy anthony babington cf dcthick having once gazed on the face of the hapless queen as she was brought to riber manor on hcr way to wingfield thought of nothing else than ways and means to rescue her and ac tually started to dig a tunnel from dethick to the manor in which she was imprisoned he was caught and hanged and mary once more moved on this time to her final prison at fother- ingay it was through hiking that i came by accident on the birthplace of the fair rosamond mistress of henry ii a remote twelfthcentury manor house in the tiny village of framy tononsevern country whence consigned cwts cwts cwts total 801349 868814 727792 canada 142s67 179052 1s0210 irish fiee s 14742 20208 13085 u s a 4g5s67 564225 477677 argentina 49601 29957 20s2s brazil 1411 2150 canadian hams have been popular for many years and this reputation was maintained during the past year farm flashes sound malting barley as speci fied by the canada grain act means barley free from frosted sprouted heated musty or artifically dried grain and practically free from broken skinned or otherwise dam aged grain the total wheat area for harvest in 1935 in the 26 principal wheat growing countries of the world is esti mated at about 190954000 acres compared with 185276000 acres in 1934 and with 191132000 acres in 1933 canada has been great britains- chief source of supply for honey since 1931 provided only the best qualities of white clover are ship ped to the united kingdom says the canadian trade commissioner in great britain there is no reason why canada should not continue to hold this premier position your town if you want to live in the kind of town thats the kind of a town you like you need not pack your clothes in a grip and go on a long long hike youll find elsewhere what you left behind for theres really nothing thats new a knock at your town is a knock at yourself it isnt your town its you real towns are not made by men afraid lest somebody else gets ahead where everybody works and nobody shirks you can raise a town from the dead lancashire is an ideal land for the hiker in quest of the mysterious i came upon the place where the lancashire witches used to perform their unhallowed rites and where they are ultimately burnt at the stake for their sorceries i also saw bashall eaves where king arthur fought a battle and the fairies built a stone bridge in a single night to help an aged wood cutter to escape from the broom stickriding witches only by walking through lanca shire do you realize how little it has changed through the centuries in spite of the great industrial de velopment and upheaval de hoghtons still live at hogh- ton towers and townleys still hold sway in the brough of rowland one of the finest mountain pass walks in england just as they did in the days of the wars of the roses the passing of bonnie prince charlie seems only yesterday to rural lancashire in the house where i spent the night on my way through wigan i was shown a claymore bearing ferraras own in scription that had been dug up in the garden a relic of the jacobite advance or retreat during my walks i am always coming across traces of this romantic prince guid economy large plug t jl thrifty men will tell you that dixie cuts expense tho plug that lasts much longer and costs but twenty cents plug smoking tobacco co lection of tessellated pavement she ran to the great flammarion and pottery coins carved altars tools asked for a job in his observatorv daggers and bones i know three i he made her his secretary and she summer style parade on street and shore we shall see loose taffeta coats over twotone printed frocks tailor ed suits instead of mattresses in blue and white coutil colorful glazed chintzes with bold floral pat terns arc news for summer dresses whether for ballroom country wear or beach this year bathing wraps arc made of this material for smartnecs lined towelling for com fort gauging and smacking brings skirt and bodice fullness right to the front of our frocks tiesilk for practical tailored blouse smartness rustic sailors worn straight on the head some with a new crown deep and square in front and- slop- lng gradually into the brim behind i hatpins short and decorative are back for our small hats a spray or arum lilies in pique the latest note for the necklines of black frock prize contests for artists and authors authoritative coun sel on winning prize contests is the title of an article by one who is a consistent winner canada the united states and france are the only countries allow ed to ship flour into belgium the flour from france is employed sole ly in making certain kinds of bis cuits for reexport and the canadian and u s flour must be used only for making biscottes a variety of toasted bread or for resale to ships stores and if while you make your per sonal stake your neighbor can make one too your town will be what you want to see it isnt your town its you hiking trips into historic places honey produced in canada in 1931 amounted to 24209760 pounds valu ed at 2244814 as compared with 22015794 pounds at 2009969 in 1933 this reyesents an increase in production of 1353966 pounds or 59 per cent over 1933 and an in crease in value of 234845 or 117 per cent this article and monthly listings of prize contests syndicate markets and mar kets for illustrations for de signs greeting card de signs and verses stories and poems supplied for a yearly subscription of 200 giff baker 39 lee avenue toronto there arc several species of the caragana plant handy in western canada but the one most commonly found and used very widely is the variety introduced from siberia the caragana is so hardy and vigorous and adapts itself to such varied con ditions of soil that it must be con sidered a most valuable plant for field or garden shelter purposes worry even tho layman knows that worry has an evil effect on his entire ner vous system issuing often in disease the speed habit the tendency is to do everything at top clip in an un resting haste for whilh there is often no reason whatever and which ends in doing less in the long run than a more quiet method is one of the causes the perpetual disposi tion to exceed the speed which their j chassis will permit without rattling to pieces being in a hurry for heaven knows what halifax chronic magazine digest almost the only way to come into contact with things past is to wall back into them for instance i should never have met the dark lady of the sonnets you remember queen elizabeths proud but dis solute maid of honor shakespeares unfaithful mary the wanton mary fytton had i not been hiking through cheshire in a lovely village called gaws- worth i came across a medieval rec tory the great hall of which is open to the public at a charge of a shill ing the rectors daughter showed me over the house and paused before a carved oak mantlepiece containing the mottor of tho fytton family fitonus eve the same replied the girl she was born here shut up in this house for kicking over the traces went to court and she shrugged her shoulders mary fytton is not an easy wo man to visualize and yet of all women this dark cold beauty who tore shakespeares heart in two is surely one of the most interesting but i should never have associated hcr with a remote almost unknown village in cheshire i am just home from a fascinat ing excursion into the unknown i went out with the idea of wander ing along that piece of the fosse way southwest of cirencester that is just a wide green track heading straight for bath i passed at pinkney a glorious gabled manor house that i was told was haunted in the seventeen hundreds two disinterested brothers came knock ing at the great door and when their heiress sister opened to them they stabbed her forthwith but she see ing their intentions made one last wild grab at the door to get back to safety too late her fingerprints covered with blood made so deep an impression that in spite of wash ing and repainting they still ap pear after two hundred years i entered the tall iron gates that led into cirencester park for the first three miles i had the forest smiling old lady curtsied past me and i came to two temples then to a clearing with a monument to queen anne and on the right a stone summer house with the words popes seat inscribed on it and a castellated house covered with ivy pope wrote most of his poems in the houses or parks of rich friends and he always seemed to make his friends build quite retreats for him in the loveliest places cirencester was of importance long before the romans turned it into one of their great strategic cen tres it was known to the britons as the town at the head of the waters and if you dont feel like following any of the great roman roads out of it the fosse way or ermine strcst try the much less wellknown track as the white way which leads to the grand roman villa at chedworth it was in 1804 while a rabbiting party was digging for a lost ferret in the woods on the banks of the colne that this villa was acciden tally discovered it dates back to the second century ad and you can now sec in addition to the baths kitchens and other rooms n fine of these roman villas wh and have discovered each of them by hiking i once took a walk over the smooth chalk down to dorset past that queer stone known as cross inhand on batcombe down where alec durberville made tess of the durbervilles place her hand and swear never to tempt him to dor chester where there is a vast roman amphitheatre known as maumbury rings where the roman gladiators held their games and it was while i was doing this walk that i dis covered the enormous earthworks known as maiden castle where there are ditches and ramparts 60 feet high and the outside tripl line of defences is nearly two miles round in places there are five or six of these ramparts overlapping and covering each other it is the most stupendous british earthwork in existence and covers 115 acres how it ever came to be built by men of the stone age is beyond our power of conjecture but it must have given even the romans pause to see how gifted in the art of defence were these barbaric is landers it is not necessary to hike far to get back thousands of years into our island history but it is neces sary to hike maiden castles contours are best seen from the air but maiden castles spirit can only be shared by those who have stormed her ram parts in person and on foot learned so rapidly he soon came to depend on her in his calculations in mathematics and other phases of astronomy when he became a widower in 1919 she married him although he was old enough to be her grand- father mme flammarion aside from her work on mars edits the flammarion annual and heir publish the month ly astronomical society bulletin uncle sam old metal tested and paid for according to purity astronomical work being completed by mme flammarion paris the monumental work of mapping the ruddy canalstreaked planet of mars started more than half a century ago by the late camille flammarion poet of the skies is being completed by his second wife mme gabrielle flammarion fore most woman astronomer of europe is working 15 hours a day on this gigantic task in accordance with the last wishes of her husband his body lies buried in the garden beneath the observatory beside that of his first wife in the village of neston in the same country i came across the birthplace of another famous eng lishmans famous mistress the lovely redhaired daughter of a blacksmith who was known first as emy lyon later as emma hart who then married a hamilton was loved and painted by romncy and livd with lord nelson emma hamilton like shake speares mary died unhonored and hot cool off with bubbling refreshing andrew mill tlnssoltjatln 80c eidrt urjo bttdi 7jo kcwemtloapoatyc ecj dittribultdii megulltraybnu umltoj toronto u hsue no 27 35 u nightly conditions permitting mine flammarion mounts to her powerful telescope overlooking the two graves and focusses it on the red planet that is mars studying and photographing the planet- that her husband loved more than any other heavenly body in rainy weather she charts and computes her vital findings filling in the hitherto unknown spaces of mars for science she knows the canals better than she knows thej streets of juvisy the paris suburb in which she lives and works j in an interview mme flammarion i said she took up astronomy because j as a girl she had a passion for stars i and admired n bearded astronomer j who lived next to her school he was camille flammarion t left an orphan while still in her teens she went to live with rela tives a wealthy young man pro- posed marriage and they advised her to accept she wept and said she had rather be an astronomer the next morning according to this talc of romance and science the us government pays 35 an ounce for gold under the gold re serve act of jan 20 1934 but the gold must be of the 24carat kind a piece of jewelry made of 14carat gold is valued at only 1424 of 35 or 2041 it is not exactly easy o sell old gold to the government you go to an assay office and find yourself in front of a locked gate a guard opens it lets you in and locks the gate after you behind a window is a man to whom you offer your geld show me your affidavit is shot at you you must have one which declares that you acquired and transported the goid legally melting and weighing the affidavit proving to be in or der the work of appraisal begins any article that contains less than 200 parts of gold is 1000 is re jected at once then come tests with the file and with acid if there are satisfactory the heap is weighed a receipt is handed out your lot of gold is melted down separately just as if the assay of fice had nothing else to do but at tend to you and poured into an in got half an inch thick three inches wide and six inches long the weights before and after meting must agree two samples are snipped from the cold ingot each about the slre of a 45calibrc bullet three assay- era test them for their gold after they have made their report you receive a letter telling you to call for your check you look at the check too little you think then you learn that a deduction is made for the work the government has done classified advertising bonds and cuebencies wanljsd imleuiai russian 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