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PAGE FOUR The ©shawa Baily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER except ana legal Canada, Oy Mundy rriauing Company, Chas. M. Mundy, President; A. R. Alloway, Secre tary. . The Ushawa Dally limes 1s a member of the Cana dian Press, the Canadian Dally Newspapers' As sociation, fhe Untario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier: iUc a week. Hy mall: in the Counties of Untario, Durham and Northumberiand, $3.00 a year; elsewhere in Canada, $4.00 a year; United States, $5.00 a year. TORONTO OFFICE; * 407 Bond Building, 66 l'emperance Street, Telephone + Adelaide 0107. H. D. Tresidder, representative, REPRESENTATIVES IN US. Powers aud Stome, Inc, New York and Chicago. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928 - GONE Scanning the columns of real estate ad- vertising, a home-seeker found houses with * "dance rooms," with "lounges" and "li- braries," and some advertising "kitchens" and "dining rooms," but nowhere in his long search could he find a house advertising a "drawing room" or a "parlor" as a part of its facilities, Are parlors and drawing rooms included in the list of lost things that never will be missed? Their passing out of the home has ' been rapid yet so surreptitiously as to be unnoticed, For the benefit of those moderns who can- " not remember when parlors and drawing rooms were as essential to the home as bed- rooms, it must be explained that the old- fashioned parlor was a large front room on the first floor to which the family was never , admitted except when company came and then was cautioned against marring the best furniture and stirring up the dust, The drawing room was the rich man's parlor, The world is too informal these days for pretentious drawing rooms and the stiff par- lor atmosphere, The family of today re- ceives its guests in a "living room" that lives up to its name, On the generally practiced theory that what isn't good enough for company isn't good enough for the family, the living room of today is more livable and more luxuri- ously furnished than the guest parlor of yesterday. YOUNGER WOMEN An authority on hygiene and physical de- velopment is author of the statement that women are younger today at forty than ever and, -at all ages, are healthier than the women of preceding generations, A generation ago the average woman of forty was an old lady who wore a shawl across her shoulders while she sat by the fire and crocheted. She was well past the prime of life and "all tired out," Today the woman of forty looks thirty, plays golf and tennis and drives an automo- bile during the day and dances or plays cards far into the night, and then is down first to breakfast in the morning fresh and ready for another day which would have been a killing pace in grandmother's day, One of the causes of this extraordinary healthfulness of the modern woman is the development of her clothing, She no longer wraps herself up like an Egyptian mummy or loads herself down with pounds of heavy and superfluous raiment. But hasn't woman's attitude towards her- self contributed much to her transforma- tion? Though a mother of seven she can + mow dance, swim, go in for the sports and driving, and dress youthfully without fear " of social ostracism. No longer is the "res- pectable" woman's condition in life just two - degrees removed from the absolute im- prisonment of the harem. CORN Things so common, yet so momentous, as * our daily bread and the fire by which it is cooked are taken for granted by society, and yet what modern invention is a greater boon to humankind than the adaption of fire to human needs or the discovery of the uses of grain? Dr. Sylbanus C. Morley, of the Carnegie Institute, has dignified the lowly grain of corn by devoting years of research in its . origin and history, and while his discovery that the first corn crop was harvested eight thousand years ago does lend this grain dig- nity it adds nothing to the savor of the de- Jectable corn muffin or the appetizing corn pone. Particularly interesting is the scientist's theory that corn developed in the highlands of Central Mexico through the chance cross- " ing of the heavy-seeded grass called teoson- ite with some other wild species resembling THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928 sorghum, No doubt the process of hybridi- zation continued through generations, The world will never know how long a time elapsed between the time of nature's perfec- tion of the grain and its discovery, or the circumstances under which it was first used for food by man, One wonders how long it took man, after discovering the nutritious and tasty kernel, to learn to plant and cultivate it instead of depending upon nature's haphazard production. To that forgotten aborigine who, thous- of years ago, first happened upon the rust- ling stalk whence sprung all the corn cakes and johnnycakes with which mankind has beeh doubly blessed throughout the ages humanity owes more than to the inventor of modern machinery for harvesting it, or to the railroads and steamships which trans- port it from the corn belt to the dinner table. RHYME BUT NO REASON The girl who today treads the aisle to the tune of the wedding march observed certain marriage rites so old that the original rea- sons for their existence are forgotten, Her wedding veil, for instance, is a relic of the canopy that was formerly held over the bride to seclude her from profane gaze, The ancient Romans attached great import- ance to the custom of veiling the bride, the principal object being to protect her from the evil eye, a superstition current among many tribes and races, Among other early peoples the glance of a bride spelled misfor- tune for the one meeting it, unless it hap- pened to be the bridegroom, so the bridal veil was required, The custom of wearing a previously worn bridal veil is believed to have originated with Roman brides who supposed good luck to at- tend those wed in a veil previously worn to the altar, ; That the wedding ring was originally a mark of ownership, evidence that the wearer was the property of her husband, is a fact well known in this day of equal suffrage and the new freedom for women, Today the ring is but a symbol of marriage. One might enumerate ad infinitum the in- stances where once significant customs sur- vive today as meaningless ceremonies or are observed for reasons having no close relation to the cause of their origin in antiquity, EDITORIAL NOTES It may not be too soon to begin assigning "weeks" of various kinds for 1929, The person who slangily says "I'll tell the world" is usually doing his level hest to accomplish the act, In the bright lexicon of the sport expert there is no such word as "ticket," the near- est equivalent being 'coveted pastehoard," A late model pest is the youth who sits out in the coupe and pages his Sheba with one of these new horns that sounds like Holsteins, The solar spectrum is said to contain 1,000 hues, all of which, it seems, have been used by the cosmetics manufacturers, Bit of Verse A BELATED WISH FOR NEW YEAR The days of nineteen twenty-seven Have from the roll of Time been riven; And closed for aye its open gate, To admit young nineteen twenty-eight; Thus we are ushered through a door To scenes not witnessed heretofore, Be yours a large expanding joy, Retained in full without alloy, May friendship's bonds grow stronger still, And every good the memory fill, Prosperity in richest sense, (Achievement's worthy recompense) Love's banner floating all the way To make each day a happy day, And health and strength with you remain Till the New Year shall come again. --William Munro, Silverwater, Manitoulin Island, SPRYNGE SONGE Sprynge is coming on apayce; I greete it with a smiling fayce, And in all ye human rayce There is none so gaye as Iye. The weather it is growinge hotte And snowe hath left the earthe, I wotte, And the lowly peasant in his cotte Riseth with a sighe. While morn is yette in duskeye murke For now he must gette to worke And while the luckeye city turke i Yet in his bedde doth lie. --College Life. What Others Say (Chicago Evening News) Boss (over the phome)--"How are you feeling?" Steno (om sick list)--"No bet- ter." Boss--""Well take it easy. I've hired a substitute and she's doing excellent work." Steno--"Is that so? I'll be down in the moraing!™ BRIDES WITH NEW IDEAS ("Rambler," London Daily Mirror) Yesterday's bride, Miss Ruby Hardinge, signalized the eve of the wedding by giving what she called "a hag party." This is in contra- diction to a stag party, the guests consisting of her girl friends only. New ideas in this line are develop- ing fast, for I hear now of a young woman about to be married who is giving a farewell dinner to all her men friends, the bridegroom ex- cepted, The brave man is enter- taining his girl friends, and the two parties will meet late in the evening at the Cafe de Paris. This bride, by the way, is dispensing with bridesmaids, and will have men attendants, PRESS PUBLICITY DECREASES CRIME (The Los Angeles Examiner) There was an interesting dis- cussion before the Los Angeles Bar Assoclation of the subject of crime and crime news. Judge Yankwich of the Superior Court made the important point that newspapers are now printing less erime news than they did fifty years ago. From 'that fact it might be de- duced that crime, relatively, is on the decrease. That is true, as the judge showed in a number of re- ports quoted. Several newspaper men spoke, and one of them cited Los Angeles police department's figutes to show that major felonies have not kept pace with popula- tion growth in this eity. Another contended that, If it were not for newspaper publicity on the ways of criminals and ma- chinery of crime, there would he a shell game going on every down- town corner in the city, a point that appeared to be very heartily indorsed hy the lawyers, One of the editors, emphasizing the place that crime news occupies in the history of the world, cited the great dramas of Shakespeare as crime stories told in poetry and most of the grand operas as crime stories set to music, The general tenor of their state- ments was that the relentlegs puh- - THE PATHS OF PEACE-- Length of days is in wisdom's right hand; and in her letf hand riches and honour, Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace,--Prov, 8 : 16, 17, PRAYER--Pour out, O God, Thy spirit upon us and make known to lication of the facts about crime and criminals in the most effective means of teaching the lessom that crime does mot pay. So long as a newspaper does not glorify crim- inals or make crime seem attrac- tive it is doing a public service by printing crime news, for there is nothing that calls for more thouzht and discussion than this samp sub- ject. To attempt to conceal, gloss over or ignore the facts would only make the matter worse. The white light of publicity is the best antidote for crime. SUCH 1S FAME There wer many amusing incl- dents while the American Legion was across the water. One legion- naire struck up an acquaintance with a man at a dinner party at Geneva. When he parted from his Jeqvalntance, a friend remarked to im: "What sort of a fellow was that celebrity?" "What do you mean?" was the answer. "Don't you know with whom you were talking?" "Haven't any idea." "It was Senor Vicente Blasca Ibanez." "Good Lord," said the American. "That's what he meant. We drank three cocktails, and then he said. "Now let's drink to the Fourth Horseman, and 1 didn't know what he was talking about," BLAMING THE PRESS (From the Hamilton Spectator) Reformers are getting into the ha- bit of blaming the conditions which they deplore upon the press, general- izing over the matter to such an ex- tent that a very grave injustice is being done to a profession which, as a whole, takes a very honorable standing in society. A preacher in Toronto referred to "companionate marriages," which he indignantly repudiated as a return to savagry, fastening the responsibility on the newspapers to a great extent. Now, it would be difficult for the rev- erend gentleman to convict the press of the charge he brings against it, before any impartial tribunal It is very rare indeed to read any- thing but condemnation of this so- called "marriage" system, mixed with deserved contempt and ridicule. To pretend that the ncwspapers have had anything to do with encouraging the movement is ridiculon The in- fluence of the press has een in the other direction entirely THE PEASANTS' PARADE (From the New York Evening World) The mediaeval character of Rou- mania appears time and again in the struggles of the peasants with the exploiters under Bratiano, How like other days the spectacle in Bucharest the other day then 60,000 peasants, who have left their fields to demand their political rights, gathered to de- mand the resignation' of Bratiano and the accession of their leader Ju- liu Maniu. Through the streets of the little Paris of the Balkans these crude men marched, and the Govern- ment was evidently afraid to force a crisis. Less than 60.000 people did weird things in the Paris 1s 1790, The Bratiano who had genius in politics and statesmanship, is gone, laid away with pomp among his ancestors, and the brother who has inherited the Premiership--by divine us Thy words, right--is evidently a poor reed to upon. out-talked him a be along. And so the 60,000 peasants march on Bucharest. It way mean revolu- tion and a regency of amother sort, or it may mean Carol back again. That it must mean a change in the is | governmental affairs of Rowmania is evident unless the Bratianos are pre- pared to put the peasants down in a bloody struggle. In that event the interesting Balkan state must linger a while longer in the shadows of me- diaevalism; but when 60,000 peasants march upon a capital it is time to cal- culate on effects. a ------------ TWENTY RED CASKS OF GOLD (From the New York Telegram) When is $5,201,000 in gold neither gold nor money, but mere- ly "material" which costs $700 a day to keep? 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