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PAGE-TWO THE-OSHAWA 'DAILY REFORMER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ak ¢ € 1926 : 'The shat Baily Reformer (Established in 1871) An Independent newspaper pub- Vished every day except Sundays and legal holidays at Oshawa, Canada, by Mundy Printing Company, Limj- ted, Chas. M, Mundy, President; R. Alloway, Secretary. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Deliverdy by Carrier in Oshawa or . ail anywhere in Canada, $5.00 . ' - r. United States subscription, $1.50 extra to cover postage. Single copies 3e. (Member Audit Bureau of Circula- tions) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 The Use of English In Ontario there are some witty newspapers, such as the Border Cities Star, the Milverton Sun, and others whose bright sayings are quoted far and wide, but sometimes a cub reporter or a typesetter can _muke a real joke where one is least For instance, the Toronto from intended. Star published a despatch Prince Albert in which this striking sentence occurs. 'Much incense has been aroused in this city by reports alleged to have appeared in certain papers in Montreal and Toronto des- ¢ribing this constituency as being in the polar regions." No typgset- ter compositor can be blamed for that. Can you beat it? Incense (a moun accented on the first syl- lable), is defined as 'the odour of apices burned in religious rites; a pleasing Is that what the , reporter meant? The obviously had. in mind is incense (a vorh accented on the second syl- Jable) which means "to ifflame with There is no corresponding or perfume." word he anger." noun, put, if the reporter were right, and a pleasing perfume has been "aroused" in Prince Albert by the present election and election yarns, then all we can say is that it must he most unusual election paign that is going on out there in a cam- Faskatchewan, Slapping One's Wife Something seems to tell us that should not begin this note; that subject is obviously one on which not to write an editorial; that, if a certain woman of our inti- mate acquaintance should hap- pen to drop in, we may not be able to finish what we have commenced. However, we have not heretofore shirked our duty by failing to com- nent editorially on the topics oft the day and we must co tinue to ¢xhibit our virile A and unprejudiced disinterestedness. Magistrate Arnold, in the County Police Court at Chatham, has ruled that a husband is legally entitled to slap his wife if, in his opinion she needs to be restrained. Magistrate Arnold is a brave man. Not counting the cost, he rushes headlong into the fray. Is he a married man? We do not know' but probably will soon hear. we the our Police There is a man in Oshawa (there may possibly be more than one) who ruefully admits that, in his do- mestic menage, he occupies the same relative position as the notor- jous and long-suffering Jiggs. To him we went for his opinion on this new legal ruling. With a stony stare he replied that it did not in- terest him in the slightest degree. A magistrate's ruling on the obverse, reverse, or inverse situation, he av- erred, would interest him more. And we left him cogitating as to whether he could find some excuse for moving to Chatham. The Magistrates in Toronto do not seem to agree with Magistrate Arnold. One of them, Dr. Margaret Patterson, maintains that any slap is am assault. Whether it be 2a gentle one or a "seud in the eye," as one fractious husband described his method of taming his obstreper- ous spouse, a slap is likely to be considered ultra vires of a mere man in most courts outside of Chat- ham. > In a country where the demo- cratic enunciated as "equal rights for all; special privil- holds sway, this mag- -principle eges to none" jsterial ruling is fraught with ex- treme danger. We have troubles enough. Magistrates must be care- ful. How long is it since you have read Shakespeare's "Paming of the Shrew"? Read it again and forget this startling decision. On advice of counsel we have expressed no opinion on it, one way or the other. WHAT OTHERS SAY "THE NEXT WAR" (Victoria Times) Premier Baldwin says tliat one more war in the west and the civil- ization of 'ages will fall with as great a shock as that of Rome. The British prime minister is right. The oftener he utters that warning the sooner it will penetrate the heads of those who are forever talking about "the next war" as if it were something in the cessity. One of the best arguments in in- sisting that all the war debts shall be paid is that it will help to teach Pople the futility of human con- ct. NO JOB FOR ANY BIRD (Toronto Star) Some say the crow should be en- couraged as an enemy of the corn- borer, while others regard the crow as destructive of other birds more useful than itself in fighting the cornborer, Is it not a fact, however, that if man depends on birds to combat the cornborer the war is lost and corn doomed? Man is the only living thing that has the interest and the sense--if he has the industry--to wipe out the cornborer, It is man alone that wants the cornborer exterminated. If birds eat them, they probably rejoice in their existence and hope to see them multiply in. every cornfield. They do not destroy the species they con- sume, but only specimens-- the fittest corn-borer, the one hardest for a bird to find, survives and leaves descendants behind cuter each successive generation, No doubt the birds grow euter too, in hunting them as inherited in- stinct sharpens. But the cornborer is a sort of livestock that the bird relishes and eradication of which it would regret. Wiping out the cornborer com- pletely is a man's job, and by him only will it be done. A LITTLE NONSENSE Men were digging a ditch in a wet, sticky soil that was in danger of flooding. "All out!' the young shouted one morning, The men were out like a flash, "All in!" the foreman shouted, and the men tumbled back into The ditch, thinking that the call had heen a false alarm. After half-a-dozen repetitions of this business the men became angry and asked the Yoreman what he meant by it. | "What's the foreman 9 game?" one demand- ed. '""There's no water coming." The foreman smiled. "I know there isn't,"" he said, "but I find that you fellows take out more dirt on your boots than you do with your shovels." "Sedentary work," said the lcge lecturer, "tends to lessen endurance." "In other words," butted in the smart 'student, *'the more one sits, the less one can stand." "Exactly," retorted the lecturer: "and if one lies a great deal, one's standing is lost completely." col- the " "How do you account for the fact that there was a piece of rubber tire in the sausage I bought here vesterday?" "Ah, my dear madam," respond- ed the butcher, rising to the occa- sion, "that just serves as an illus- tration of how the motor car is re- placing the horse everywhére now- a-days." A BIT O' VERSE THE OLD- FASHIONED WOMAN Oh, well I remember the home of my childhood, The hill that [I climbed in the sunlight and dew: The rabbits that hid at its base in the wildwood, The hunters that trouble them too, But better tham these grown dwelling, Oh, why did I ever away from it roam? Where lived the dear woman whose | story I'm telling, That 'old-fashioned woman who made it a home. That. love-fashioned woman, That sweet-fashioned woman, That old-fashioned woman who liv- ed in that home. often would was the ivy- Oh, where has she gone with her aprons and knitting, Her calico gown and her sunbon- net dear? She never was one that was given to flitting, [Her home was her temple, empire, her sphere; She eared not for riches, nor travel nor pleasure, The wealth that she craved was beneath her own dome, husband, her children, friends were her treasure, That old-fashioned woman lived in the home, That dear-fashioned woman, That soul-fashioned woman, That old-fashioned woman lived in the home. her Her her that The ivy-grown walls of that home are falling, The brambles' have choked the blossoms, the weeds Grow wild and unsightly, the night- hawks are calling, When day into darkhess silence recedes; Oh, never again shall I haste there to gather The flowers that grew sweet-scented loam, When my heart and my steps were as- light as a feather, To greet that loved woman who made it a home. . That old-fashioned Woman, That home-fashioned woman, That God-fashioned woman that lived in the home. ~--M. L. RAYNE, out and in the, aa nature of a ne- 'newledge the «a fum----p---- Ch SR ur SOCIAL and PERSONAL Im-- The Reformer invites the co-operation of its readers in contributing items to this column. Send us a post: card or phone 35. E. A, Reid, of Winnipeg, Miss A. M. Keith, 150 ~--Mrs. is visiting Simcoe street sputh, --Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Stainton, of Toronto, were recent visitors with Mrs. W, Michael, Harmony. -Mrs. W. Michael, of Harmony, today receiving congratulations from a host of friends on the occas fon of her birthday, --Mr. and Mrs, and family left early on Tuesday morning of this week, for Los An- geles, Calif, where they intend mak- ing their home. They will be great- ly missed by a large number of friends in Oshawa, who all join in wishing them every success in their new home, is Herbert Glover FROZEN TO DEATH When the police this morning broke into the home of Mrs, Eliza- beth Foxton, at Brockville, aged about seventy and = employed as charwoman, they found her sitting in a chair where she loved alone, dead and her body frozen stiff, EDUCATING CHILDREN Speaking at the Women's Canad- ian Club, of Belleville, Canon Sea- ger, provost of Trinity College, said: "Why we do not impress our child- ren by educating them to the story of our own country is difficult to understand. We have succumbed to the habit of leaving all to the school, whereas we should take a personal interest in unfolding to them the history of our Dominion," The speaker dwelt on the vast advan- tuge Toronto school children enjoy in the fact that they are, every faturday, told the history of the country by competent instructors. Lives of the leaders in the Domin- tages, {in the dust; Emell0cE | N PATTERN 318 Touches of embroidery begin brighten the season's simple frocks. This slender model in black kasha is made very smart by a full length border of red and white in long and short stitch and opens to give a glimpse of red crepe down the en- tire front. The pattern simple and easi for this mogel is y followed. It comes in_sizes 16 years and 36-44 bust measure. It will be semi to you upon receipt, of twenty cents in cur- rency. Refer Lucille 318. Address Special Fashion to pattern Lorraine, ion are thus made familiar to the children, Oshawa Ont: Designer, Daily Reformer, | Oshawa, ' Starved Hearts By Mildred Barbeur CONCERNING THE ACTION THE CHARACTERS STEPHEN LANE, wealthy, middle-aged, despotic, rules with a tyrant hand his young wife BARBARA, who sold herself in- to a loveless marriage, and MADELON, his beautiful orph- aned niece, whose father's mar- riage he had opposed some twen- ty years before and whose guardianship now devolves upon him. He has already broken up her boy and girl affair with DUANE FARLEY, and turned him for sympathy to Barbara, who, unknown to Farley, fell in. . love with him, and sent abroad, with business ruinsas the only alternative, Madelon's real love JULIAN BARTON, whose suit is | sponsored by ANN ORDWAY, lifelong family friend, who loved Lane deeply despite his faults but whose lack of beauty kpt her unnoticed by him. Lane sends Barbara and Madelon to California where the | latter meets HOWARD CHANDLER, fascin- ating drifter, and marries him to escape Lane's tyranny. She is promptly disinherited and cut off from the family, and her suspicion that Chandler's impet- uous wooing was impelled by a vision of the Lane (fortune, turns to a certainty when she finds out that he is an adven- turer. NO, 36. "HOME" The morning the ship docked at Honolulu, Madelon was up and on deck early. She had been unable to sleep-- indeed, she had searcely slept at all since the night when Chandler had been releaved to her in his true col- ors. She had seen little of him since. He had made no mention of that one revealing episode, and e believed that he did not even rember it. Leaning on the pail, slim, and al- | most childish in her white frock, with a veil fluttering from her hat brim, she watched the blue waves changing to that exquisite opaque green which distinguishes the har- bor at Honolulu from all other wat- | ers in the world. Diamond Head loomed dark and inscrutable against a sky that became pure sapphire as the early mist rolled landward. Whatever disappointment Chand- ler was causing her. the promise of Hawaii was being faithfully upheld. Just before the pilot came aboard, Chandler joined her om the deck. "There were several men with him, lean, hard-faced, with flabby bodies, rather too carefully dressed. He presented them. She ack- introductions with a grave nod of her lovely head, and turned her eyes back to. the Ha- waiian shore, which was gradually Ss | AND il 4 | So these were his companions, { cronies? InVoluntarily ® a | escaped her. 5. | "Cold?" _ he | solicitude. asked witht sudden | trouble," she said coldly. "I am quite comfortable." | She felt, rather than saw, the other men exchange glances, and one of them chuckled coarsely. He pok- ed a facetious finger at Chandler's | ribs if to say: "So you're in| wrong with your wife, eh!" | A' flush mounted to her cheeks | and she moved away from their dis- | tasteful proximity. As she went she heard one of them remark in an undertone: "Frapped reception. I'll say! But wait till she sees your clean-up, Hal, old boy!" Chandler laughed. "SheTl get over it all right. All| vou need to do with women is leave them alone for awhile, and they come out of it...., What drink, boys, before we dock at the home of the free and the land of the | dry?" They turned and went below to Madelon's relief. But the exquisite morning suddenly had lost its beau- ty for her. She felt actually sick with disgust. On the dock at Honolulu she met them again, but only a farewell nod, was required: of her. She knew that Chandler made an appointment to meet them somewhere later; but she didn't care. for once again the beauty of Hawaii had captivated her. She climbed into a motor that waited for them and sat there feast- ing her eyes on the panorama of sea and sky that spread before her, while Chandler superintended the stowing away of their luggage. Then he sprang in beside her and the car moved off up a broad street toward a mountain that tow- ered behind the city. He gave a sigh. "It's great to be back! No mat- ter to what part of the globe my roving foot carries me. I never fail to get a thrill when I get it once more on Hawaiian soil." His tone was reminiscent of the days, only a pitifully short time be- fore, when he had wooed her with the magic of that voice and fascin- ated her with the word pictures he painted. She turned to look at him, half hoping that the events of the voy- age had been only a dream. But her eyes were quickly averted. His face was still unhealthily flushed; his eyes were bloodshot and he was carelessly attired. In half an hour they reached their destination. They had passed through the broad, palm-lined streets of Homo- lulu, past charming bungalows set well within hedges of poinsettia and | "Please don't as becoming distinguishable in the clearing mists, d hibiscus, where brilliantly colored about a] to | his | shudder 'Can I get you a wrap. ! lor have you packed up everything?" ' flowers rioted in well-tended gar- ens; past quaint little bamboo cot- like swinging birdcages, where Japanese babies in tucked-up kiminos and. brown bare feet rolled past the saki mills on the edge of thé town where a faint veast-like scent of the brew still lingered. Then steadily the machine began to climb, It shot up a mountain- side that towered into the vault of sapphire sky. "The Chandler, On either side flowers cascaded down cliffs. The fragrance of almost overpowering. ped a ridge, and, below, Madelon Punchbowl," vouchsafed d of the roadway, from the them was The car top- hundreds of feet saw the rice pad- n a dies, sharp from them, the and the flutter of a flag at Schofield Barracks, her and sheer h coral reefs far out beyond Waikiky formed fo her with the old, ating smile, (Copyright 1923 Metropolitan News- more canned goods this winter than Sleeth, that the doubled the record of any previous month, these dor. age consumed is about fifteen tons. This accovding to Sleeth lis greatly in excess of any winter since he has been in charge, dark squares of water with bamboo poles stigking up Farther on, she caught blue of Pearl Harbor rippling FOR REDU( TION RATES is likely that menibéers of the Kingston Public Utilities Comnriu- sion will go to Toronto next week, to interview the Hydro-Electric Commission regarding a reduction in the rates for electricity in Kingston. In view of the anticipated surplus in this department, the members feel that the rates should be drop- ped and that the consumers should be given the benefit of the' surplus- At touch she turned the opposite direction a little gasp at its the breakers on Chandler's head in saw, with beauty, It The car turned in hetween gates by tal 1 hibiscus hedges 1d rolled up a winding drive. "Home!" said Chandler turning familiar, fascin- i e------rh rr -- . 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