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~ | PAGE SIX THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932 QUAINT VESSELS |POLICE PLANES EXHIBITED AT MEDICAL MEETING Mothers of Centuries Ago Faced Castor Oil Problem Older than the British Empire, older than Christianity, older than the manger in Bethlehem, a tiny pottery feeding cup which a baby used in 400 B.C., held a place of honor among exhibits of the Canadian Medical Associa- tion convention at the Royal York Hotel this week. Scarcely two inches in diamet- er, the small pioneer in artificial feeding of babies is a thing of beauty as well as utility. It is not unlike a modern invalid's cup, with the edge of the bowl turned in to prevent contents from easi- ly spilling, and a slender spout emerging from one side, A dain- ty Graeco-Phoenician design out- lines the edge Of Ancient Greece Cups of this design, it was learned. were introduced in Great Britain during the Roman occupation and formed the pat- tern for all babies' feeding bot- tles until the end of the 19th century. It is the oldest specimen in the collection of antique in- fant feeding apparatus being shown by Dr. T. G. H. Drake, al- most as ol is'a child's drinking bowl of Greek pottery. a tiny miniature of the two-handled feasting cups of the age. Unusually beautiful. in thelr designs are Staffordshire feeding bottles used in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are flat, boat- _ shaped. tapering at one end to a fine point through which the baby sucked the food placed into the bottle through a small opening on the surface. A rag was wrapped around the opening through which the baby sucked food, in lieu of the rubber nipples of to- DOG SHUGGLERS ONEAST COAST Rum-Runners and Bootleg- gers Worried as Fliers Check Positions Halifax. -- The first time his- tory of "prohibition" and '"'gov- ernment control' rum runners are ocxperiencing difficulty in landing liquor cargoes on the shores of the Maritime Provinces. "Bays and inlets that once were wide open and unguarded now are watched from the air and a coast that is clear ome minute may have the shadow of a sea- plane on it the next, Royal Canadian Mounted Police have taken to the air to combat the smugglers. Six planes have been in opera- tion during the last month, pa- trolling the coastal waters of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Two are stationed at Halifax, two at Shediac 'and two at Gaspe. It is said the rum-runners are | worried, And so are the booi- leggers. because soon they may have to huy all their supplies from the government stores axa sell at a much lewer profit than the contrabrand yielded. The flying policemen check the positions and movements of ves- sels off shore and co-operate with the police boats blocking o!- tempts at landing. In other vears despite the efforts of an efficient force of Preventive Ser- vice sieuths, the runners had !it- tle trouble in dodging the speed boats and cutters, Usually they knew where the hoats were to he found and went ashore elsewhere after dark. Now the plane pilots tell the boatmen where the smug- glers are likely to be found, aul | the traffic heween S. Pierre aud day. : ; | the provinces seems to he fallin: When "Pap" Was Diet off dish of r design with | two spouts to feed ba- | bies pap, a mixture of bread, su- gar and water. The mother ap- | Garden Notes parently blew nto the bowl! through one spout forcing the Shey food through the other down the THE WILT DISEASE OF baby's throat Considered very | CHINA ASTER rare is a 'pap warmer," a dou- | ble-boiler of Wedgwood and a The China Aster is one oi the holder in which it rested upon a | choicest al flowers ot the lat spirit lamp. ummer : carly autumn secason.| How mothers induced babies to | Much of 1 pularity with garden-| take castor oil a couple of cen- | ers, he ver, hag been lost owingd turies ago is illustrated by castor | to tl perienced in suc- oil spoons shown in the collee- | cessiully i [his difficulty tion of pewter baby feeding arti- | is largely 1c to a disease known cles shown by Dr. Pearl Summer- | 4s aster wilt which is caused by al feldt of the Hospital for Sick | soil fungus attacking the plants Children The castor oil spoon | through the root system and event has a compartment in the centre ally causing them to wilt and die in which the oil was placed and In closed in with a lid A short thick spout allowed the mother to blow the oil down the child's "throat through a long slender spout Croup kettles, in which herbs were burned to form fumes, are also shown by Dr. Summerfeldt. Included in her collection, too, is a pewter syringe, which appear pite of this disease asters may be grown satisfactorily' when pro- per attention is paid to seed, .soil and rotatio fhe fungus may be 1 on the seed and therciore | only seed from healthy = plants should be used or else seed disinfec- practised by soaking in mer- I chloride 1:1000 strength for one-halt 'hour. The soil where the to he nothing less than a tiny | 2SiSfs are to be grown is most im. squirt gun. Pewter hotties with a | Portant. Unce soil where the ast- fine perforation at the end of the | €7S which developed wilt it becomes spout appear to be far from sani- contaminated and the disease germ tary, but nevertheless were very | PEIsists in that soil for a long time. popular a couple of hundred Such soil is spoken of as being years ago. "aster-sick" and should be avoided Sanaa for the culture of asters. In cages Canada has the larzest and | of beds of limited size aster-sick best producing nickel and ashes- | Soil might be treated with formalin fos mines in the world. 1:50 strength and losses to the Raa plants reduced. This treatment re- Canada has the larzest inland | quires spading of the soil to a depth seaport (Montreal). of ten inches and through wetting with the solution. It should then be covered with sacks which have been spaked in the formalin solu- on, and left for a day. After treat- iment the soil must be spaded over In the Summer three or four times and not planted i bi for a week. Whenever possible, Growing Children practise a long rotation and avoid using the same soil year after year Get Strength from NATIT | (or asters . ; Certain of the asters are resistant y : | to wilt disease and the sced of such Co S mu [11 ! plants alsn possesses this quality. By selecting seed of such plants EASY TO TAKE : showing this resistance and by de- veloping new varieties from such | selections considerable - satisfaction in the culture of asters may be ob- tained. Finally, ii the disease appears, soil contamination and further spread may be reduced by prompt attention to sanitary measures, i.e, the pull- img and burning of diseased plants as they appear. i The above information relative to [4] aster wilt disease is a result of in- vestigations carried on by the Ex- verimental Farms Branch at the Dominion = Laboratory of. Plant Pathology, St. Catharines, Ontario i SELL CANADIAN T Permanent | scsi rosacco ; r | interest in the | iollowing item which appears in the a . . . : « , : . 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