ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

New Ceramic Process

WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Ono Of The Few Advances Made In
This Art In 8,000 Years
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A new type of porcelain, its sur-
face done by “nut frost,” one of the
few advances in 3,000 years of the
ceramics art, was announced at the}
color conference at Massachusetts)
Institute of Technology.

The “nut frost” is real. It is
metallic, formed when metals freeze
at temperatures around 2,000 de-
grees Fahrenheit. The metallic frost
has all the patterns of frost on the
window pane, and can have all the
colors of the rainbow.

the conference of

A delegate to
the Royal Institute of British archi-

tects prophesied that one day 15
liners the size of the Queen Mary
might be in dock at Southampton.

* T. H. Cunliffe, 65, assistant finan-
cial editor of the Montreal Gazette
since 1919 and advertising manager
for 21 years prior to the Great War,
died in Montreal recently.

A confectionery firm in Sheffield,
England, was fined $8 for working) ‘The metallic frost 1s lustrous, its
an 18-year-old girl 711 hours a week surface smooth. Unlike the frost on
for a wage of $3. She was not al-| winter windows, the metallic kind
lowed proper intervals for meals. | can grow crystals of any size. It re-

Fred R. Goodwin, who had only sembles pictures of flowers painted
five hours’ “solo” experience when he! jn metal.
started, arrived at Croydon, England, | ‘The new ceramic was’ developed at
after flying to India and back. His) the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
wife accompanied him. |nology, in the laboratory of Pro-

Three women magistrates were on| fessor F. H. Norton, who described
the bench at n {it to the It grew out of

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For some months, unknown to the thousands passing along the
Thames Embankment, workmen have been busy behind a wooden screen
under the Water Gate Arch, erecting a memorial to the late King George

and heard a number of pO ptr | new methods of controlling p
cases before they were joined by a’ one of the four standard processes of
male colleague. making ceramic colors.

A 7,000-mile three-minute tele-| This old process produces color by
phone call—between South Africa | formation of crystals just under-
and Sweden—was made recently. It/meath the surface glaze. The sub-
was believed the first commercial] 8tances which make the crystals,
‘phone conversation between the two| Professor Norton explained, may not
countries. in themselves possess any color. The

Drouth has taken heavy toll of shape of the crystals and the ma-
wild life in Alberta, says J. Selby | terials forming them, combine to ab-
Walker, founder of Calgary’s bird S°'D part of the light, leaving the
sanctuary. Thousands of youn, irest to the rays to be reflected as
ducks have died as small lakes and) Plliant color,

sloughs dried up, he said. a ae ene
South Africa Takes Census

Jack pine growing over thousands

of acres of Manitoba forest lands is)

threatened with destruction by an| Used Old Method Of Cutting Notches
On Sticks

The old untutored method of tally-
ing by means of cutting notches on
sticks was one of the unusual fea-
tures In the general census of South
Africa, held recently.

Heads of families in Zululand
were instructed to congregate at the
| nearest dipping tank (these tanks
are used for the eradication of ticks
in cattle) for the purpose of count-
ing all those related on them.

They brought to the enumerators
sticks, on one side of which were
carved notches corresponding to the
Maharajah Of Mysore Making Un-! number of males and on the other

official Trip To London to the number of females in the

The Maharajah of Mysore, whose, family.
fortune is estimated at £80,000,000| This method of counting has been
($400,000,000) and who neither in use for years with raw natives
smokes, drinks nor eats meat, is who desire to keep a check on the
visiting London. | number of days they work for a

A room in the Indian prince’s white employer.
hotel was prepared as a temple for) More than 8,000 enumerators were
the worship of the Maharajah’s god-| engaged for the census, which is
dess, Chamundeswari. A small golden’ the first taken for 10 years, and al-
figure of the goddess had been placed though the motor car was largely
in the room, and priests accompany-| Used for transport in the outlying
ing the Maharajah will perform daily, districts, the horse, donkey and even
rites. | the old Cape cart were found 25

This is the Maharajah’s first visit sary in some parts where roads do/

invasion of spruce bud worms which
are stripping the trees of foliage,
Col. H. I. Stevenson, forestry branch
diréctor, stated.

The largest private nursing home
in the world is to be built in Johan-
nesburg, South Africa. It will cover
about one-quarter of an acre and
accommodate 250 patients, 30 more
than the next biggest home, in New
York.

First Visit To Britain

Vv. The desi, by Sir Edwin Cooper, was commissioned by
the Port of London Authority. It is to commemorate the name “King's
Reach" which was given to the stretch of the Thames between London and
Westminster Bridges, on the occasion of King George's Silver Jubilee. Lady
Ritchie unveiled the memorial, and we see her above with Lord Ritchie
standing on the deck of a launch after the unveiling ceremony.

Perpetually Honea

Saskatchewan Lakes May Carry
Names Of Victoria Cross Winners

Four Saskatchewan men, winners
of the Victoria Cross during the
world war, are going to be honored

Soviet Pilots Cover 5,858 Miles
Without A Stop
A long Arctic flight by Soviet
pilots was hailed in the official press
as an accomplishment which “will
confuse our enemies.” perpetually by having names of as
Moscow newspapers described the} many northern lakes named after
plane trip of Pilots Chekaloff and| them, according to Hon. W. F. Kerr,
Baidukoff as one of the most difficult; minister of natural resources.
ever made. A Mr. Kerr has made recommenda-
(The flyers, accompanied by Navi-| tion to the geographic board of Can-
gator Beliakoff, spent 56 hours and|ada that the following lakes be
20 minutes in the air and landed| named:
near Nicolaievsk, Siberia, after coy-| 102—Zengle Lake— After R. L.
ering 5,858 miles without & stop. Zengle who won the Victoria Cross
(Their plane, it was disclosed by, While serving with the 5th Battalion
the commissariat for heavy fnaay| —a Saskatchewan unit.
try, which sponsored the trial, was) 108—Cairns Laké—After the late
only brought to earth when they, Hugh Cairns, formerly of Saskatoon,
were threatened by head winds and| Who won the Victoria Cross while
a gasoline shortage.) serving with the 46th Battalion.
On recommendation of high Soviet) 109—Mullins Lake—After Henry

Being Foolishly Kind
Motorists Who Pick Up Hitch Hikers
Invite Trouble

Two parties of motor tourists)
from the United States have been)
robbed in Quebec by a pair of hitch-| °

who threatened with a gun |

towards the border.
The danger of stopping for such)

impressed upon motorists many
times. To stop at the arrogant ges-
ture of the pointed thumb is to in-|
vite trouble. In the great majority)
of cases, of course, the wayfarer is
an inoffensive person who docs not
Propose to let his lack of means in-
teifere with bis ambition to see the
world. But many instances have

&s welt in this army that moves on
other people's wheels, and drivers of
reasonable caution do not take
chances,

The driver asked to pick up a
strange man should stop to consider
whether he would invite that in-
dividual to spend the night at his
home in complete ignorance of the
itinerant’s habits, background, his-
tory.—Ottawa Journal.

Test Flights Delayed

air route between Great Britain,
Newfoundland and Canada probably
will not be made this year, it was
learned at Ottawa. Rearmament was
said to be one factor causing delay.

A sub-imperial conference at Ot-
tawa last December decided trial
flights should be flown in April on a
route between Canada and England.
A large airport and seaplane harbor
already had been constructed at Syd-
ney, N.S., in anticipation of a trans-
Atlantic service and work was start-
ed this year on another at Gander
Lake, Newfoundland.

Imperial Airways ordered a num-
ber of “composite’ flying boats,
giant, four-engined machines carry-
ing smaller and faster seaplanes de-
signed to be launched in the air with
heavy loads of mail.

One of these machines has been
test-flown. It is reputed to have a
cruising speed of about 200 miles an
hour,

Self-Sufficiency Program

Russia Now Intends To Buy Less
And Sell More

Russia henceforth is going to buy

less and borrow less, sell more and

Save more—towards the goal of self-

officials, the three men participating , Mullins of ewan,
in the flight are to be awarded the; Who won the Victoria Cross while
title of “hero.” serving with the Princess Pats. -

In recognition of their accomplish-| _114—Combe Lake—After the late
ment the flyers also will receive cash, R- G. Combe, formerly of Melville,
grants from the gov k , Who won the Victoria
Cross while serving with the 27th
Battalion.

Glider Touring Japan

Furthermore, Foreign Trade Com-
missar Archibad Rozentg!otz told the
conference for foreign trade that it
won't be necessary to send so many
Soviet salesmen abroad—the buyers
are flocking to Moscow.

The reason for the self-sufficiency
he asserted, is clear: “In

Back From Nature

Members Of French Nudist Colony
Now Wearing Clothes
"Nudists at the French “Natural-

To Arouse Interest In That Type
Of Aviation

To arouse interest in glider avia-
tion, a German glider, manned by a
well-known Osaka pilot, 1s touring
Japan. It is being towed by an air-|{st’ colony on Heliopolis Island, in
plane and is covering 2,500 miles {n} the Seine, about 25 miles from Paris,
its flight, which touches all large} have returned to clothes. Only babies
and many small cities. The glider is| under three are to be allowed to go

to Great Britain, and, indeed, his not exist. |
| |

ly identical with the one) entirely unclad. On the island are

first departure from his own king-| |
dom since his accession at the age Had Narrow Escape
of 11 in 1895. | —
His visit is unofficial, but he al- Aviator Struck High Tension Wires
most certainly will be received by Carrying 70,000 Volts
the King who visited him in 1922 as Lost in the clouds of a violent
Prince of Wales. At that time the storm a British amateur pilot, Mr.
Maharajah beat the Prince at Phil Avery, when taking an aero-
squash. | plane for delivery at Basle, Switzer-
The Maharajah was greeted at land, struck and severed the high-
the station by representatives of the tension wires over Belfort Fortress,
government and of the India office.’ on the French frontier. The wires
He was accompanied by a retinue of were carrying 70,000 volts. Mr.
80. After a short trip to the conti-' Avery miraculously escaped unin-
nent the party will return to India jured and safely landed the crippled
in September. aeroplane.

Should Hold Seed Wheat One Talay Caching:
| Not for the first time the English-
Alberta Farmers Warned Against Man was belittling Scotland and
Excess Marketing Across The everything to do with it. As he
Border drained his second glass of whiskey

Alberta farmers were warned by, he turned to his companion.
Hon. W. N. Chant, minister of agri-| “Why,” he said, “your country has
culture, against the excess market-| never produced a really great man.
ing of seed wheat across the inter-| You say Walter Scott? Pouff! If
national border despite the lure of I had a mind to do {t, I could write|
premium prices there as good stuff as ever Scot did.” |
|

He also advised farmers in sec-| “Ay, ye're right there,” replied the
tions of the province where there! patient Scot, “All that ye want 1s|
might be a feed shortage to the mind.”
serve their supplies as much as pos-| =
gible. | Old Sheet Copper Found

“It has come to the notice of this! A small cylinder of sheet copper
department that wheat is benig| believed to have been left by Cap-
marketed by truck across the border| taln James Strange when he took
where the premium has reached a} possession of the Queen Charlotte
substantial amount,” said Mr. Chant.| islands for Great Britain 150 years

“It would be wise for farmers in| ago, has been uncovered on one of
the dry area to retain sufficient grain| the islands. W. M. Halliday, author-
for seed as the policy for the com-| ity on the north midcoast region of
ing season will not permit the dis-| the Queen Charlottes, and B. A. Mc-
tribution of relief seed grain in cases| Kelvie, Victoria newspaper editor,|

con-

where farmers have threshed grain| reported the find on their return to|
that is suitable for seed,” he added.

Victoria with the cylinder. 2162!

used by Wolf Hirth, the German mas-) hundreds of tiny tents and small
ter pilot who coached Japanese! asbestos cabins, which were erected
glider men last year. It is the best| by the “back-to-nature” colony. The
machine of the kind in the country| nudists now wear more than is
except that owned by army air! usually seen on bathers at fashion-
forces. | able seaside resorts,

Kittens at Play in Dainty Crochet

z Household

the present period of increasing
military dangers, the necessity to
prepare for defence and the signific- |
ance of increasing gold reserves is
apparent.

“Reduction of imports will be con-
tinued and intensified’ during the
third and current five-year plan by
which Soviet Russia maps its future,
Rozentglotz said. He added, “We
hope to get along almost without im-
ports.”

High Salaries

Many Big Industrialists In United,
States Receive Huge Pay

The Toronto Star cites five big in-|
dustrial men in the United States}
with salaries of $200,000 per year|
and over, and nineteen others with!
salaries of over $100,000 per year. In
all cases, the high pay is the reward
for assembling thousands and hun-|
dreds of men into an organization of|
production, competitive with the|
world, and it is a highly debatable!
point whether the salaries of such)
size are justified when compared}
with standard wages in industries!

|

Unusual Things Found By

hikers, a young man and woman) ¢ration
those| Where, even now, if you are lucky,

who picked them up as they tramped) ¥'
| house bar counter.

shown that there ai ly customers) P
® tataken shen tafe Devonshire squab pie, in which ap-

ples, mutton, onions and pastry are
the ingredients,

in the
everywhere, but in Wales and Ire-
land they eat seaweed and sea-slug

is an American
made a fortune for its sponsor.

Some Strange Foods

Those

Who Search For Them
Snails are not exclusively a French
dish. They have been eaten for gen-
in Swindon, Wiltshire,

‘ou may find a dish on the public-

Stranger menus can be found by

{tinerants of the highways has been| those who search for them between
“ Lands End and John o' Groats.

In Radnorshire they eat rabbits

and fishes’ eyes, while epicures who
can afford trouts’
takes fifty fish to fill a small saucer
| with this delicacy,

cheeks find it

Brown Geordy, a North of Eng-

| land sweetmeat, is made from bran,
| while Cornish pasties and
ie

pilchard
ing

pete with the

Candied rose leaves, nettles in

salad and rowan tree berries, which
look so poisonous but make wonder-
ful jelly, and cockles and cream vie
with thunder and lightning for first
place of favor in many homes.
latter
Devonshire cream.

The
is made from treacle and
Jellied eels, spotted dog, and toad
hole are everyday dishes

Trips Over North Atlantic Route soup.
Not Likely This Year The names “Singin Hinney" and
Test filghts on the North Atlantic! «pat Rascal” are just allases for

thick griddle cakes.

Ice-cream dipped in hot chocolate
invention which

Sturgeon, the royal fish which is so

rare, is imitated in many places. Just
boned turkey broiled in wine, vine-

gar and coarse salt.

In remote parts of Scotland and
Ireland they eat sea-gulls and get
rid of the fishy taste by leaving them
overnight stuffed with onions. When
the onions are removed the fishy
flavor has gone.

Despite all these strange dishes,
we still have a long way to go to
compete with lion chops, as once
eaten by the King and the Duke of
Gloucester on safari.

And one big game gourmet once
sat down to a banquet of antelope
cutlets, bear steaks, ostrich egg
omelet, curried locusts and parrot
pie.

Odd Uses For Electricity

One Of Strangest Is Lighting Of
Duck Farms

The farmer and the electrician
have found many uses for electricity
in lightening labors. Current is now
used to heat, cool, furnish light and
power, destroy insects, cut grain and
even to keep vegetable crops from
freezing. One of the strangest uses
is the illumination of duck farms.
These birds, it seems, are afraid of
the dark and sometimes stampede at
night. Under the bright lights they
lose their timidity and remain con-
tent. The Ohio Agricultural Experi-
ment Station found that cooked soy-

| beans were an extra good supple-

mental food for hogs. To cook these
over an open fire was a chore. Labor
costs were high. Electricity cooks
them at 10 cents per hundredweight
in an electric cooker.

A southern farmer found that
water in a creek passing through his
property came from a hot spring.
He installed an electric pump and
irrigated his vegetables from the
warm creek. This prevented his pro-
duce from freezing and he received
an excellent price for his late vege-
tables.

In egg storage, temperature is im-
portant. If temperatures are above
55 degrees or below 30, the whites
of eggs become weak and watery
and the yolks are visible in candling.
With electric coolers controlled by
thermostats, an ideal temperature of
50 degrees can be maintained,

Underground ’Phone Cable

Elimination Of Wires Foreseen By
Research Expert

Dainty
Colors

which provide them, Comparatively | The birds that roost on telephone
movie and baseball stars are paid| Wires will have to find somewhere
more and contribute no effort for| else to sit in the near future. Science,
the empoyment of large numbers of | #¢cording to Dr, Oliver E. Buckley
other people with dependent families. 0 New York, director of research
The system of high reward for crea-| f0F the Bell Telephone laboratories,
tive effort and exceptional skill may] !8 about to eliminate the wires.

be all wrong, but where is the better| In their place, he told telephone
system to replace it?—St. Cathar-| Company employees in Denver, Col.,
ines Standard. | recently, will be underground pipes,
awe Jeach capable of transmitting hun-
Australian Aborigines dreds of messages simultaneously.

Aborigines are becoming as scarce, ‘The newest development in tele-

PATTERN 5672
When you take Baby for his airings, bundle him in with this adorable| sus returns completed at Canberra. |

carriage set—pillow and cover!

You'll find it easiest of the easy to do, in| These show that there still remain

just plain crochet, and most appealing in white with blue or pink, or in two

shades of one color.

it’s both lightweight and warm.

structions and charts for making the set shown; an illustration of it and ing in supervised camps.

It's glorious fun to watch those playful kittens appear
one by one, as the simple stitches mount up. Use Germantown wool, for the country, of whom 24,000 were
In pattern 5672 you will find complete in-| either in employment or were liv-

of the stitches needed; material requirements.
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.

There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published

in Australia as Indians in the United| Phone research Is called the coaxlal
States, according to the latest cen-| cable, Dr. Buckley sald.

“I wonder what causes the flight
of time?”

“It is probably urged on by the
spur of the moment.”

only 60,000 full-blooded aborigines in

The re- <>
| maining 36,000 are nomadic. | A Swiss expert announces that
| sos | there are more than 35 kinds of

More than 7,000,000 members are} poisonous gases ready for use In the
enrolled in athletic clubs in Gasliexe war,