‘ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS_'AND MATSQUI NEWS”

WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

The Duke of Gloucester, the King’s
third son, has been made a full major
in the 10th Royal Hussars.

Before sailing for home the Cana-
dian Bisley team enjoyed a round of
hospitaliy at Glasgow, Scotland.

The British House of Commons ad-
journed Aug, 2, to re-assemble Oct.
28, it was announced by the govern-
ment, indicating no plans for a gen-
eral election before next spring.

The electric chair installed in Sing
Sing Prison 44 years ago has taken

the lives of 375 persons, only four of}. . .

whom were women, it was revealed
by prison authorities.

Eventual combination of all British
territories from the Cape to East
Africa in a “United States of Africa”
is suggested by G. M. Huggins,
prime minister of Southern Rhodesia.

Many stores and factories, which| -

have been closed since the recent
fatal riots in Belfast which resulted
In the death of many Catholics and
= have been reopened. -

Harold Sutherland, 17, of West-
ville, N.S., first piper to play for
television, was an honored guest at a
service club luncheon in Charlotte-
town. Three years ago Sutherland
was Canada’s champion boy piper.

Improvement in barley crops and
marketing were discussed when a
field day was held at the University
of Manitoba farm near Winnipeg un-
der auspices of the National Barley
Committee.

Double details of military police
paced outside the United States
army reservation while officers, amid
utmost secrecy, studied a new “mys-
tery ray” said to be capable of de-
tecting the presence of a ship at sea
through fog and darkness.

Record Of Publisher

Lord Atholstan Has Served Montreal
Star For 66 Years

Lord Atholstan, publisher of the
Montreal Star, the Montreal Stan-
dard, and influential in other Mont-
real publications, has attained to the
venerable age of eighty-seven years,
and is still in active service, giving
all his thought to the welfare of his
country, his city and his daily service
as a commentator on public affairs.
Seldom does he miss a day at his
office, and never the day but his
direction of his newspapers is quite
apparent.

Of his eighty-seven years some
sixty-six have been given to the
Montreal Star, and that is a record
which has never yet been attained
by any other editor or publisher in
Canada—sixty-six years of continu-
ous service and of rulership of the
leading and most influential paper in
Quebec, possibly in all Canada, for
the Weekly Star is a wonder in its
way, going each week to a quarter
million subscribers.

Lord Atholstan was born as Hugh
Graham, in the little village of Athol-
stan, Huntingdon County, on July 5,
1848, but journeyed to Montreal, as
did many other ambitious lads from
the peninsula of Quebec Province.
He started the Star whilst the other
papers in the metropolis were in
either a somnolent or a poor stage——
Sherbrooke Record.

Need Lots Of Sympathy

Editors Of Newspapers Do Not Have
Easy Job

Governor Eugene Talmadge, him-
self an editor in Atlanta, Georgia,
shed a tear for newspaper workers.

“Newspaper work is all work and
no play, and very little pay,” com-
mented the governor. “I used to
think anybody in newspaper work
had a nice, interesting job.

“When you keep a@ paper going,
and try to keep your news columns
interesting, let me tell you, brother,
you've got a job on your hands. I’m
keeping my paper out of debt, but
it’s hard work.

The governor is associate editor of
The Statesman, a weekly political
paper.

Auctioneer’s Voice Stored

A record of the auctioneer’s yoice
was made during the sale of the
‘Mauretania’s furnishings, and will
be stored away for the benefit of pos-
terity in the Gallery of Famous
Voices and Famous Occasions in
Broadcasting House in London. The
auctioneer’s voice will keep company
with those of Britain's greatest men
and women, from the King and
Queen down. s.

Doctor—"But, my dear man, 1
can’t prescribe whiskey for you un-
Jess I am sure you need it. What are
your symptoms?”

Patient—"What symptoms should
I have, doctor?”

The ites Of Motoring

Toronto Man Had Plenty Of Grief
For One Day

Even Chief Draper never had any
more trouble with parking and park-
ers than a well known man had the
other day. . . . He spotted a space
between a small sedan and a large
coal truck, but despite clever manip-
ulating, the space was a bit too
small.

Climbing out, he*stepped back to
the sedan, only to find it locked, and
unbudgeable . . . then he approach-
ed the truck, hoisted himself up to
the driver's seat, released what he
thought was the emergency brake
. and dumped five tons of coal
on Yonge street.

Of course, you think the tale ends
here . . . but our man has had more
bad luck, and this, cross our heart,
is a true story. He casually tossed
a cigarette out the car window and
some time afterwards smelled smoke
. Looking about, he

“Italy is rewriting an heroic page of her history,”—Mussolini.
—Thomas in the Detroit News.

Meet All Demands

"Planes Have Been Built Novice Can
Handle Safely
Eugene Vidal, federal director of
air commerce arrived at Detroit from
Washington and reviewed the pro-
gress made to date in the nine most
promising projects concerned with
the development of a light and in-
P airplane ly safe
for any automobile driver to fly.
Despite the apparent inability of
the aircraft industry to believe in
the possibility of turning out a $700
airplane as indicated by the machines
on exhibit at this 1935 all-American
aircraft show, Vidal asserted there
is every hope that such a machine
will be on the market within a short
time. He said several builders whose

Recipes For This Week

(By Betty Barclay)

that the lighted cigarette had gone
into the back seat instead of on the
road, and that said back seat was
now on fire. . . . Keeping his pres-
ence of mind, he stopped the car,
lifted the entire back seat out, and
threw it over the fence into the
fields . . . And while he was con-
gratulating himself on getting out of
that nasty situation nicely, he heard
shouts . . and turned around to
find that he had set fire to a hay
field, which, before the volunteers
had it quelled had burned two acres
of hay.—Toronto Telegram.

The Rubber etaetey

Production Has Shown Astonishing
Growth In Present Century

Rubber as an industry has had a
most phenomenal growth and is one
of the highlights of twentieth cen-
tury civilization. At the beginning
of the present century, production
amounted to four tons a year; in
1934 it had reached approximately
1,000,000 tons. One of the chief rub-
ber producing centres {is British
Malaya which produced 465,765 tons
of rubber last year, or about half
the total world’s supply, according
to the Industrial Department of the
Canadian National’ Railways. The
improvement which has taken place
in world trade is reflected in the
value of the rubber exports from
British Malaya for the first ten
months of 1934, which increased to
$229,640,000 from $122,500,000 for
the same period the year previous, or
87.4 per cent. At the beginning of
last year, British Malaya had 3,135,-
000 acres of land under rubber. A
great deal of tin also comes from
British Malaya. Imports into British
Malaya from Canada show an in-
crease of 30 per cent. 1934 over 1933,
principally in motor cars, dried fish,
canned milk, canned vegetables,
wheat flour, timber.

Dalai Lama Chosen

Search Lasted Eighteen Months Be-
fore Right Baby Found

It has taken eighteen months for
the Grand Lamas to find the right
successor to the late Dalai Lama, in
whose office the Snowy Kingdom
combines that of Emperor and Pope.
The chosen successor must be a
Tibetan baby, born at the same
moment that the Dalai Lama died,
and into whose body the august
Tuler’s soul has passed. A commis-

sion of seven priests searches for] ~

this baby, and on this occasion found
twenty, from whom six were chosen
by the Grand Lamas for final selec-
tion before the praying-wheel and
image of Buddha in the Lhassa pal-
ace. After being anointed with
sacred butter, and bathed in water
from the Ganges, the new infant
Dalai Lama, guarded by soldiers, is
parted from his mother forever. He
is educated for his high station, but
she is recompensed with material
wealth. She is taken before her de-
parture to the palace treasure cham-
ber, and may carry away as much
gold and gems as she can gather in
both arms. Tibet is a plateau, three
times as big as France, almost as
cold as Siberia, and most of it higher
than Mont Blanc.
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Known the world over as merely
Queen Mary her Britannic Majesty's
full array of names runs off like
this: Victoria, Mary Augusta, Louise
Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Wind-
sor.

Travelling more than 3,000 feet
each second, bullets from powerful
rifles are the fastest things on earth
next to light and electricity, experi-
ments at Montreal show.

Woman learning to drive: “But I
don’t know what to do!”

Her husband: “Just imagine that
I'm driving.” 2110

EMERGENCY SPECIAL

1% Ibs. round steak
% cup fine dry bread crumbs
1 egg well beaten
1 teaspoon onion juice
%4 teaspoon salt
Pepper
Milk to moisten

Put round steak or some other cut
of beef through the meat chopper
four or five times. Add other in-
gredients and mix very thoroughly.
Add milk to make the right consis-
tency to mold into small cakes about
% inch thick. Fry in hot fat until
well browned. (Bacon or ham gives
®@ good flavor.) Remove the meat
cakes and make a gravy by adding
flour to the fat remaining in the pan
and stir until the flour is well brown-
ed. Use enough flour to make a
cream sauce of medium consistency
(1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons flour).
Add milk until desired consistency.
Return browned meat cakes to cream
sauce and finish cooking cakes over
a low fire. This serves about eight
persons.

DRIED APRICOT AND PINE-
APPLE JAM

4 cups (2 Ibs.) prepared fruit

7 cups (3 Ibs.) sugar

1 bottle fruit pectin

To prepare fruit, add 2 cups water
to % pound apricots. Cover and let
stand 4 hours, or overnight. Drain
fruit, grind or chop fine, and mix
with juice. Crush well or grind 1
medium, fully ripe pineapple or use
1 No. 2 can crushed pineapple. Meas-

Ends Long Canoe Voyage

Montreal Girl Makes Trip To New
York Alone

“Fed up” with humanity, Ida Ly-
man, 22-year-old Montreal social
worker, recently completed a 550-
mile water trip from Montreal to
New York in a 15-foot Eskimo
kayak.

“This trip has been a good rest
for me,” she said, after she finished
telling of the rigors of the voyage.
Storms and rapids beset the route—
via Lake Champlain—which was that
taken by the pioneers of 200 years
ago.

She is the first person to make the
trip single-handed, said Capt. Bill
Byrne, president of the George
Washington Boating Association,
New York, at whose float she tied
up. 7

Miss Lyman, a native of Denmark
and a naturalized Canadian, said the
first leg of the trip was the hardest.
“There's a lot of white water in the
Richeliu River between Montreal and
Lake Champlain, and several days I
had to buck storms,” she said. Her
cockleshell craft she built herself two
years ago.

Miss Lyman returned to Montreal
—by airplane.

Knew Famous Nurse

Ontario Minister Was Once Engaged
To Florence Nightingale

Among the interesting books and
papers which have been presented to
the University of Western Ontario,
London, by Thomas Connor of God-
erich is a collection dealing with
Rey. John Smithurst, who died at
Elora, Ontario, in 1867, and who in
his youth was engaged to Florence

ure sugar and fruit into
large kettle, filling up the last cup
with water if necessary. Mix well
and bring to a full rolling boil over
hottest fire. Stir constantly before
and while boiling. Boil hard 1 min-
ute. Then remove kettle from fire
and stir in bottled fruit pectin. Skim;
pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at
once. Makes about 11 glasses (6
fluid ounces each).

Fortune Plays Strange Tricks

Fortune has played queer tricks
on some of the prize winners in the
Jubilee “dip” of Calcutta, India. A
completely bald business man has
drawn a ticket entitling him to a
free permanent wave, and a poverty-
stricken coolie has won a cocktail
shaker. An Indian cook's prize was
a permit to dine with a friend, free
of charge, at one of Calcutta’s most
palatial hotels.

Ni , the famous nurse. Rey.
John Smithurst was born in Derby-
shire, England, and was a cousin of
Florence Nightingale. In his youth
they were engaged to be “married,
but as he was an older man the fam-
ilies objected and the

was broken, Mr. Smithurst came to
Canada as a missionary and his fian-
cee went on to reach great heights
of fame as a nurse.

No Doubt About It

“Tho’ up your hands, big boy—
and tho’ ’em up fast!” ordered the
gentleman with the gun.

“Ah cain't,” replied the victim.
“Ah got rheumatics.””

“Yes, you kin,” said the footpad.
“Ah gots automatics.”

“You win, Mistah, you win!” said
the victim, as his hands went sky
ward. “It done looks lak you’ ’atics

is de stronges’,’

“Twinkle, twinkle little stars,” and they're really not so very far, for
this is the kind even you can capture and anchor securely to.earth by means
of a beautiful patchwork quilt. The “Brunswick Star” with its eight clearly
defined points, bordered by eight contrasting diamond «patches, has all the
delicacy of a snow crystal, yet is surprisingly easy to piece, and make a

decorative repeat on an all-over quilt.

Only four materials are needed for

it and, to simplify matters, there are only three pattern pieces. This quilt

is an old colonial favorite.

In pattern 5249 you will find the Block Chart, an illustration for cut-
ting, sewing and finishing, together with yardage chart, diagram of quilt to
help arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and a diagram of
block which serves as a guide for placing the patches and suggests con-

trasting materials.

To obtain this pattern send 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred)
to Household Arts Dept., Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave.

E., Winnipeg.

designs were ordered
built by the bureau have turned out
machines which seemingly meet all
these demands,

“At least three of our projects are
very promising indeed,” ‘he said. “The
ships can be flown absolutely safely
by novice pilots. They do not spin.
They land themselves handsoff or
with the stick, all the way back from
200 feet. They are what we think
are safe airplanes. They can be
flown with only a couple of hours
instructions almost by anyone at
all.”

Town Crier Not Needed

Newspaper And Radio Have Killed
Profession In England

The job of town crier of Cromer,
England, does not pay and R. H.
Laurence has resigned the post. The
crier’s average earnings during the
summer season were only $3 a week.
In the winter he earned

Little Journeys In Science.

ALKALIS
(By Gordon H. Guest, M.A.)
The term alkali is of Arabic

origin, and is used to designate cer-
tain substances like lye, washing
soda, and ammonia solution which
fre capable of neutralizing acids.
Alkaline substances possess proper-
ties in many ways just the opposite
of those of acids. A carefully bal-
anced mixture of an alkali with an
acid is generally neutral, being
neither acid nor alkaline. A person
who has swallowed an acid poison
is given a dose of an alkaline sub-
stance such as washing soda, which
in known in science as sodium car~
bonate, or even plaster scraped from ¥
a wall. -

Alkalis when dissolved in water
have the property of turning red
litmus, a dye extracted from certain
lichens, blue. A substance which
changes its color upon the addition
of an acid or alkali, is known by
scientists as an indicator.
The most common alkalis are
sodium hydroxide or caustic soda,
potassium hydroxide of caustic
potash, calcium hydroxide or slaked
lime, and ammonium hydroxide or
ammonia water. In science the
tern base is also used to designate
an alkali. ;
Sodium hycrcxide is a white solid —

cou-pound, which may be prepared in
the form of icng sticks. It is very
soluble in water and the solution is
vtually called lye. This solution has -
a@ caustic taste and a slippery feel-
ing. Sodium hydroxide is used ona =
large scale in the manufacture of a
hard soap. This is done by heating
certain fats or oils, such as palm-oil
and cocoanut-oil, with the alkali. A
solution of this base is also used to
remove skins from fruits, such as
the peach, which is done by dipping Ree
the fruit into a boiling solution for
a short time. When a piece of pure
woolen cloth is boiled in a 10 per
cent. solution of lye, the material
Cotton, how-

nothing at all.

Hence the office of town crier has
become vacant and the gorgeous
uniform has been folded away among
the mothballs. The 200-year-old bell
is silenced.

In the summer there were enter-
tainments and theatrical perform-
ances to advertise in the ancient
manner of “crying” in the streets.
Oo a visitor ip) the
crier to announce the loss of some
article. For a modest fee Laurence
donned his uniform, packed his bell
under his arm and worked his way
right through the town, stopping at
every important corner to cry his
news.

Town crying as a profession in
England is falling away. Newspap-
ers and the radio have crimped their
style.

A Homemade Waterfall

Man In Saxony Had Bright Idea For
Making Money

There is always another way to
make a living.

Herr Franz Donath of Lichtenhain,
Saxony, has a small house a short
Wistance from the main road, where
@ well-watered creek flows over a
15-foot bank and plunges down with
splashing noise upon rocks below.
Since the waterfall is on his prop-
erty, he conceived the idea of dam-
ming the creek just above the bank,
thus accumulating in short time a
large amount of reserve water. He
hung out a sign that for 10 pfennigs
visitors can witness a roaring water-
fall. He collects the money and
pulls a sluice, releasing the rushing
torrent.

In less than a minute the pent-up
waters are gone and the show is
over. Enough viistors daily pay the
fee to bring him a comfortable liy-
ing.

Praise For The Press

Real Guide In Municipal Affairs
States Finance Expert

“IT know of no single agency which
can do more toward remedying exist-
ing defects in municipal administra-
tion and guiding councils and officials
along sound economic lines than you
—the members of the press,” Thomas
Bradshaw, municipal finance expert,
told the closing session of the Cana-
dian Weekly Newspapers’ Associa-
tion convention in Toronto. Charles
A. Barber, of the Chilliwack, B.C.,
Progress, was chosen president of the
association.

One Paper Mill In Egypt
Paper was made tn Egypt cen-
turies ago but to-day there is only
one paper mill, located at Alexan-
dria, and it produces cardboard for
making cigarette boxes for which
there is a great demand. Waste paper
and rags obtained locally are used
in the manufacture of this card-
board.

It was the custom of Romans to
shave off the beard at the age of 21,
and present it as an offering to
household gods. A beard was grown
after that age only as a sign of

There {s no Alice Brooks pattern book published

ly.
ever, is insoluble and hence sodium
hydroxide is used in testing goods
for cotton or other vegetable fibres.
Potassium hydroxide, known com~
mercially as caustic potash, is, very
similar to sodium hydroxide, but is
more expensive.
Calcium hydroxide or slaked lime
is used on a large scalé in mortar.
It is also used for whitewash and in
preparing lime-water. In the labor~
atory lime-water is used to test for
carbon dioxide gas. When carbon
dioxide comes in contact with cal-
cium hydroxide, a chemical reaction
takes place producing a white in-
soluble substance known as calcium —
carbonate, which changes the clear
lime-water solution to a milky color.
The breath contains carbon dioxide
and hence if a person blows through
a straw into a solution of lime-water, _
the lime-water turns milky. This is
a simple experiment to show the
presence of carbon dioxide in the
breath. A lime-sulphur orchard
spray is prepared by adding sulphur
to calcium hydroxide.
Magnesium hydroxide is similar to
calcium hydroxide, but is less soluble
in water. Milk of magnesia is a
very weak solution of magnesium
hydroxide in which magnesia, or
i oxide, is acids.
Ammonium hydroxide is formed by
dissolving ammonia gas in water. A
solution of this base is used on @
large scale as a cleansing agent and ‘3
for neutralizing acids.

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Blind Are Good Swimmers

Show Amazing Coolness When Div-
ing From Springboard

Blind girls use their toes instead
of their eyes, as was demonstrated
to Viscountess Hampdon at the open-
ing of the new swimming pool at
Chorleywood college, Hertford, Eng., bz
where blind girls are being educated. i
The pool has a raised pavement
round the edge and the springboard —
is fitted wtih a doubled thickness of
matting at its end. Using their toes
as guides instead of their eyes, the _
girls plunge in with easy grace.
An official of the National Insti-
tute of the Blind says: “Swimming
is one of the exercises that the blind
enjoy with the confidence of sighted
people and the coolness with which
some of the blind girls at Chorley-
wood leap off a six-foot diving board
is amazing.”
The college is for those who are
totally blind or whose sight is so poor
that they dare not read more than —
one or two books in a year. E

China Lends Treasures
Chinese art treasures worth mil-
lions of dollars rest under heavy
armed police guard in the basement —
of Burlington House, headquarters —
of the Royal Academy, London, after |
being landed from the cruiser Suf-
folk. The treasures will remain un-
der guard until the Fall, when they
are to appear in a special expositio!
They were loaned by the Chinese
Government,

Famous Horse Put To Death
Prince, the imposing cream-colored _
drum-horse of the Royal Artillery —
mounted band, is dead. He was taken —
{ll while rehearsing for the Jubilee 3
Review and when an examination ;
the Aldershot veterinary hospital — es
his he
was put to death.

Prince was 18 —
years old, and was well known to

mourning.

the King and Queen. \