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r> .1 , ^J \ Heated Corn Crib Keeps Seed Well Used Daring Caring Season, A KincfviDe Fanner Thinks the System WUI Pay for Itself To protect his seed-corn from frost damage during the period It la being cored. Howard R. Sellers. KlngsvIIle. Ont., district farmer, has developed a new type corn crib which quickens the curing by ap- plied beat The crib, of large and unique •tructare, la equipped with air-con- ditioning through two coal furnaces and electrically-fanned air. The atnicture was planned by Mr. Sel- lers with the help of W. W. Lennox, head of the department of agricul- ture seed branch at Toronto. Protects Against Frost BoUt last year, the crib warrant- ed its ezpwiae of 1700 for building in the first season by producing the seed com that tested 99 per cent. germinatlmi. Using the crib for the second time, this fall, Mr. Sellers belieres that it will pay for Itself within ten years. t What Science IsD oing SEEDLESS MELON A seedless watermelon has been developed by a 27-year-old Chin- ese graduate student at Michigan State College. This young scientist explained elimination of the seeds was accomplished by the use of growth-promotins hormones in dilute acids. SEEING IN THE DARK A new use has been found for cod liver oil â€" drink it and you can see at night lilce a cat. At least that is the result of ex- periments of Dr. Margaret Cam- male Smith, nutrition chemist of the University of Arizona, in at- tempting to cure "night blind- ness," a peculiar condition that develops in the eye from a lack of regeneration of "pigment purple" a vitamin A substance. The blindness can be corrected in children by use of cod liver oil. Dr. Smith says. CARBON, FUEL FOR SUN Discovery that carbon, the stuff that makes coal, is the source of the heat of the sun was announc- ed at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., last week. On earth man burns only the outside of the carbon atom. In the sun this atom's nucleus "burns". The nucleus gives many million times more heat than the "outside". How the sun can give so much heat without burning up has been one of the great puzzles of science. Scientists find that its size and heat are not even diminishing over minions of years. Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE 1. On what sized bill, when ilin- Ing, is one supposed to apply the "ten per cent." rule? 2. Should a man always rise for sn introduction? 3. Whose name comes first whe^n a man and his wife sipn their names to Christma« cards? â- Â». Is it rude for a person to be- â- H flu putting on his wraps before The last curtain falls at the theatre? 5. When a bride has no parens Rr near relatives, who shonld be tsked to "give her away"? C. What should one say when one wishes to be excused fi-om the table Befor*; the others li.ive finished eat- Si.e? ANSWERS 1. When the bill amounts to S'.*.50 ^r more. When the amount is less than this, the tip may Be 10c, 15c, 10c, or 25c, Just as one wishes. 2. Yes. regardless of whether he Is being Introduced to a woman or ^a man. and regardless of agf. 3. Whenever the titles Mr. and Mis. are used together as a name the Mr. comes first. 4. Yes, it is rude and inconsider- ate. If it is absolutely necessary to leave before the fiual curtain, pro- bably to catch a certain train, one Should leave as quickly and quietly as possible, and then put on the wraps at the back of the theatre. 5. .\n old friend of he family, per- kaps a close friend of her father. 6. "Will you e.xcuse me, plea-^e?" Clean metal c.indlesticks per- saacently by painting them with a eolorlesa lacquer after thoroughly cleaning them. Or, if you like, rub a little ollTe oil over them after cleansing â€" this will keep them bright for some time. Treat metal ashtrays in the same wa.v. First of its kind in Ireland, a coffee van will provide non-al- cholie drinks at country fairs as part of the temperance movement. Checking Your Light System Faulty Wiring is At All Times Dangerous Careful check should be made of the light and power equipment in a new home or in modernizing an existing house. In the case of old dwellings, such a check is doubly recommended. The origin- al installations may have become worn or damaged. T he services of a competent electrician should be employed to avoid mistakes which might prove costly and hazardous. A wiring system, if permitted to remain neglected, may provj to be a dangerous fire hazard. Eskimo Igloos Non-Elxistent "Life On Mars" Saj'^s Scientist H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Bur- roughs, and other v.riters of fan- tastic tales about adventures among the Martians, have been vindicated by Dr. Knut Lundmark, director of the Lund Observatory in Sweden. There is life on Mars, declares Dr. Lundmark â€" and not only on Mars, but on some of the other planets. "If matter is uniformly distributed," he says in "Sky", "and other worlds are built in the same way as ours, then, phil- osophically speaking, it is incon- ceivable that ours should be the only one on which there is life." Glacier Priest Declares Also the Most Natives Avoid Holly- wood System of Wife-Swap- ping Exploding "misrepresentations of Eskimo life." Bernard Hubbard, the "glacier priest," said the only Igloo In Alaska was a Hollywood impor- tation, and quoted the Eskimo film actor, Mala, as saying ''there is more wife trading in Hollywood than there is among the Eskimos." "I have travelled from the Cana- dian border to the polar regions," said the internationally â-  known Je- suit explorer, "and the only igloo I found was one erected by HoUj-- wood for a movie. "There are igloos In Labrador, but Alaskan Eskimos have to read about them in American geogra- phies." Films and books depicting the Eskimo as a "wife-trader," he said, were ''unfair" to the Eskimo, since the ''wife-trader is the exception and not the rule." The Jesuit who described civili- zation as '"chisellzation," said ho would be glad to get back to the territory of the King Islanders on the Bering Sea, "where for 50 years there never has been a murder, and never a suicide, and where gossip Is unknown, even among the wo- men." Mosquito Weight Champions Stage Elxhibition Bout Two of Ottawa s joungest and gamest pugilist", Leona d Mo 1.^. LEFT, and Paul Lapointe, RIGHT, staged an impromptu three rounds bout for the benefit of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., screen star, during his first visit to the Canadian capital, where he was the guest of Lord Tweedsmuir. Both bo.xers are just six yeai-s old and if they take a great; big breath are just able to tip the beam at 40 pounds. Hitler Guards His Eyesight Now Use Glassec, Cut Does Not Wear Them in Public Kews pictures recently have ac- quainted the German public with the fact that Reichsfuehrer Hit- ler, who was almost blinded during the World War, now wears glasses on occasion. His eyes are an ..-.â- :portain; asset to Hitler and recently he has tak- en measures to protect them. Be- ginning with the pictures of the signing of the .Munich accord of September 29th he has been shown wearing glassi?.'?. Gassed In War But the fuehrer scill goes with- out gla.'jses in publi.-. His follow- ers say that much of his influence is based on the almost hypnotic effect of his glance. Hitler almost lost his vision dur- ing the World War, when he was gassed. The room in a hospital at Pa.sewaik, Ponimern (Ponier- ania). where his sight gradually returned has become a national shrine visited by many ardent Nazi.s. HAVE ^heARD 1 There was a young man of Mauri- tius Who used to get frightfully vitius Whenever liis spouse Walked out of the house And left him to wash up the ditius. A lawyer was asked by a wo- man friend what was the dif- ference between a solicitor and a barrister. "Precisely the same." he re- plied, "as between a crocodile and an alligator." Deer Had Silver Filling In Teeth Dri.UTH, Minn.â€" This story is Lloyd C. Dathe's of the Bar- nuni, Minn., Herald, and he says he's going to stick to it: Les- ter Munter, a hunter, shot a four-yoar-old doc. It had, he told Dathc, silver fillings in its teeth. .\ dentist and a veter- inarian said so, too. Probably, Dathe theorized, the doe bit in- lO some feed containing silver, and filled its cavities as it ate. No one has advanced an alter- native possibility. The vacuum cleaner man, having finished his demonstration, turned with a beaming smile and showed the housewife the amount of debris which had been extracted. ''Oh, my goodness^, isn't that aw- ful!" said the woman, '-ril have to get rid of that carpet and put down linoleum." A Hollywood screen actress announces the loss of her ame- thyst, beryl and chrysolite neck-lace. One theory Is that In the interests of publicity she is running through her jewellery In alphabetical order. "How is your brother getting along, Pete. You know, the one who became a doctor?" ''Oh, fine, thanks. Why, he Is so prosperous now that he can even afford to tell some of his patients that there is nothing wrong with them." "What exactly happens when the human body Is immersed in warm water?" asks a doctor. The 'phone bell rings. Deer Has Horn Like a Unicorn The heraldic unicorn exists, or did. .V'orth Sydney (N.S.) residents were treated to a spr tacle when they saw the body of a ons-horned beast lashed to Captain Chesley .Anderson's car. By all the laws of nature it shouldn't even have bad one horn. The doe, for such it was, had a small horn growing from the side of its forehead as if it had started to grow a s^t of antlers and then gave up the idea. The branch was only half grown and the points, little more than knobs, were covered with the moss usually found on a deer's antlers early in the year. Thirty Years Ago Can You Realise That in the "Good OU Days" Nobody Wore a Wrist Watch? Eskimos Using Airmail Widely They're Sending Letters to Each Other in the Elastern Arctic â€" Use Phonetic Characters Canada's Eskimo population is making increasing use of the mails, according to officials of the EastCi'^n Arctic Patrol. Letters and messages between widWy separated Eskimo families now form a considerable part of the mail carried by the R. M. S. Nascopie on the asnual cruise to posts along Hudson Strait and Bay and on the islands of the Arctic .\rchipelago. In the Islands of Arctic Most of the correspondence be- tween the Eskimos is carried on In the syllabarium which makes use of some si.\ty phonetic characters. and is more adaptable to the forma- tion of Eskimo words than the English alphabet whicli often makes their words long and cum- bersome. The natives of the East- ern Arctic are proud of their abil- ity to read and write the syllabar- ium, and delisht in making use of the postal facilities to communicate with their relatives and friends. Monocles Aren't English Custom Although the "Iraditiona. Eng- lishman" is always portrayed abroad as wearing a monocle and many Englishmen do, in fact, fav- our a single eyeglass, th5 custom is a Continental one rather than English. Contrary to genera' be- lief, most monocles are not worn merely as ornaments (except by dandies), but arc actually single eyeglasses. It was once supposed that a glass for one eye would also redu.-e the strain on the oth- er eye. Of 258.000.000 coins issued by the British .Mint last year 109,- 000,000 were pennies. ITCH . . . STOmD IN A MINUTC . . . Am yo« tcnncnifd with the itchlnt toctunt ol «(â- Â«â€¢, ruhrs. aihl«« t loot. eniptioB*, or Mbtr •kla amictionj? Fot quick and Utppj mUH, %M cooiini, antlteptic. liquid D. D. D. PV«wriptl«n. In icnili rilt toothc the Irri- laUS tklix. Clear, (rawelcM uk) «alirie»â€" dria tâ€"L. Slop* U» BOM laiean kaklac bJMaUv. A 35c «H«I bottJe, at Srag imtt, I Itâ€" «{ uoDcr tack. SS Issue No. 1â€" *39 The Kitchener Record has a long list of things that happened or did not happen thirty years ago and most of the Items certainly can be Interpreted In terms of progress for the present day. Here are the thought provokers: Nobody wore white shoes. Most young men had "livery bills." Farmers came to town for their mall. The heavens were not full of man-birds. Nor the seas alive with under- water boats. The hired girl drew one-fifty a week and was happy. The butcher "threw in" a chunk of liver. The merchant "threw in" a pair of suspenders with every suit. Nobody "listened in" on the tele- phone. Straw stacks were burned in- stead of baled. Publishing a country newspaper was not a business: it was a duel- ing game. The safe-ty razor had not intro- duced the clean-shaven face. The radio did not give people the jitters by broadcasting an invasion by the Martians. Static was unknown. And the picture could ba drawn with more elaboration and fidelity to conditions. What about the five cent shave, the cast iron standards for hitchin; the horses aud dust and mud on he streets, the wooden sidewalks, the backyard wells and the nearby outhouses, the horse pump and trmigh in the towns? Husbands Hate Foolish Habits Survey of a Large Number of Men Shows It's the Little Things That Are Most Irri- tating A suivty was recently made among a large number of American husbands, says Julia Martin in "Successful Living". The questions asked were about the habits or traits that irritated and just what each one would like to have chang- ed in bis partner. One of the questions asked was this: "Has your wife any habits to which you object?" Forty-five men said '"No" or ''Nothing serious," while the rest of them made more than a hundred complaints on the subject of various habits. Those Mannerisms Eighteen of the men objected to some physical habit or mannerism, or something connected with dress- ing, washing, and so forth. So many of these traits are laughably trivial, but somehow their constant repe- tition at close range gets under the skin. Snoring for example, that's one of the objections; and It can get on a person's nerves with con- stant repetition as well as being ignored by the use of a little will power, or, better still, corrected by a slight operation. Several men said the only habit they objected to was the habit of biting tiie flnger-nails when tense or nervous. Others said their wives kept pat- ting their hair to see that It was in order, or kept running their hands through it. Expect Invasion Of Grasshoppers Another Plague is Forecast for Siukatchewan for 1939 A wider and more severe grass- hopper plague in Saskatchewan in 1939 is forecast by entomologists. K. M. King. A P. Arnason and Lome Paul, entomologists in charge of the Dominion En- tomology Laboratory at Saskat- chewan Univer.s.ity, said at a uni- versity meeting an increase in infestation was probable. An increase was reported pos- sible in the area likely to be af- fected by pale western cutworm and wheat stem .sawfly, with pos- sible minor invasions of Say'.s grain bug nn i the billbug in local- ized areas. Mr." Paul, discussing the grass- hopper situation, said practically the entire a;rrieultural area of Saskatchewan was now infested with grasshoppers. In only two areas, south of Maple Creek and in the extreme northeast part of the province, was there little or no infestation. Varsity Men Found Taller Than Freshmen in Eleven Am- erican Universities â€" U. of T. Has the Highest Average in History University of Toronto freshmen stand first in height as compared with those of eleven .American uni- versities, according to the annual report of Dr. George D. Porter, di- rector of university health services for men. told the Globe and Mail. "They stand second in weight," he adds. "The general upward trend in height and weight is very noticeable over the past sixteen yoars." Average Height, 5' 9^^" The average height of the first- year students was 5 feet 9^4 inches, and the average weight H-4'ii pounds â€" tlie highest average in the history of the university. "Thep hysical condition of a largo majority of students is excel- lent, only nineteen being unfit for physical training. This is the best record we have ever had." How Can !? BY ANNE ASHLEY Q. How can 1 soften putty 1- a window frame? A. By stirring together two lbs. of sal-soda, one-half pound lime, in one gallon of hot water. Apply while stiil warm to both sides of tho glass and let it remain for 12 hours. The glass can then be remov- ed without cutting. The amount of solution given is sufficieut for a number of windows. Q. How can I keep brass articles from tarnishing? A. A bed or other articles of brass will not tarnish, and frequent pol- ishing will be avoided, if the brass is lacquered with gum shellac dis- solved In alcohol. -Apply with a small brush. Q. How can 1 have smoother cheese when grating it tor sauces? A. Chese used for sauce or mac- aroni will be smoother if It Is run through the food chopper instead of grating it, using a medium knlf 3 in the chopper. Q. How can I avoid wringing out cloths used for hot applications? A. When hot cloths are needed for application to relieve pain, put them in the upper part of a seamer wih the water boiling underneath. This method will eliminate wring- ing out the cloths. Q. How can 1 economize in the use of eggs when making custard? A. When the custard recipe calls for several eggs, one or more eggs may be left out if one-half table- spoon of cornstarch is added for each egg omitted. Students Mock Italian Claims A group of British students last week staged a burlesque of Italian demands for French territory by marching through Gordon Squ.ire in Bloomsbury, Lonion, England, behind a big banner proclaiming "We want .America!" A large crowd was attracted by til" students who chanted their slogan in unison and rang cow bells to attract attention. PAINFUL TO BLND JOINT Hospital Case of Rheumatism T!ie value of perseverance with Kruschen, in the treatment of some cases of rheumatism, is prov- ed by this man's experience. He says: â€" "1 was abroad for over seven years. When I returned I began to suffer from rheumatic pains â€" particularly in tho feet and arms, and I was eventually taken into hospital, unable to move without groaning with pain. When 1 left the hospital after two months, I was somewhat bettor. I was re.om- niended to lake Kruschen Salts, havo taken them continuously, and until now I am entirely free from pains. I would not be without my Kn'schen Salts for anvthinsj." â€" Two of the saits in Kruschen are effectual solvents of urio acid the excess of which is decidedly injurious. 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