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THE GUARDIAN,

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By Roberta Lee Clad-fling Pewter

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Pewter may be cleaned by rubbing in a circular motion with a cloth dipped first in powdered rotten- stone, then in n mixture of equul parts turpentine and linseed oil. Follow with a regular soap and water cleansing.

Silver

like: have s way of darkening sil- gver, and these stains may be rc- moved by rubbing with moist salt. Finish by washing in ammonia water. i

Ink on Wood

Black ink may be removed tom wood by washing with sosrp and water, using salt, vinegar, or lemon, and rinsing thoroughly.

Better English

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1. What ls wrong with this sen- tence? "she was bred Ind bom m old Kentucky."

. What is the correct pronunc- iation of “inflammable”!

3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Graphical, greatful, gregarious, grandiloquent.

4. What does the word “discurs- ive" mean?

5. What ls n word beginning ‘with rep that. means "s. place whet-g things are stored“?

ANSWERS

1. Bay, “She was born and (then) bred in old Kentucky." 2. Pronounce first a as in am, not as in flame. 3. Grateful. 4. Passing from one thing to another. “I have been doing nothing for so long, except idle thing: and discursive things." - H. G. Wells. 5. Repository.

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A Country Gordon

By Mrs. Gordon Macmillan

Now is the time when gardeners begin to delve and dyke. toll and sweat, turn the earth upside down and seek the deepness). Now they begin to know their plants, not as summer acquaintances, but as friends. For the root is the plant. Into it is gathered the whole per- sonality of the creature that slips up into the illuminated air every spring, and withdraws at the fall of the leaf, folding her beauty once more into that humble shel- ter where she subtly contriveo her own creation. There lie. in tiniest miniature, in vaguest embryo, in secret recesses of nerve and fibre, the brittle or sappy stalks; the eager tendrils; the leaves of vel- vet or silk, like fane of swords, hearted. pennoned, tented; petals ethereal or empurpled; nectar! and filament and anther; golden bees meat; mysterious ripening calyx and painted fruit.

-—MARY WEBB. U I O The root is the plant and the good earth nourishes the root: everything in this world depends on the few inches of top soil and the fertility of it.

In gardening these days we are conscious of this ss we trans- plant and renew the soil, work- ing with small seedling peren- nials and divisions of older plants and shrubs.

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New Phlox in beautiful colors have been planted and old plants divided and replanted, s so pennies have been moved because they have grown so large as to obstruct the path leading to the rose garden.

Pennies that are doing well need not. be moved for many years if humus is added each year in the form of well rotted manure, but if moving is necessary it should be done in the fall as they are early blooming plants. a very good rule is, plant early blooming plants in the fall and summer

‘blooming plants in the sprln-g.

Russel lupines have also been placed in their permanent flower borders. There are large plants from May sowing. They have bloomed in lovely shades of cream and buff as well as the more familiar blues and white, and they now come in mapy lovely bicolors. They are a bitmfi-iore difficult to transplant than some perennials because of s long tap root when they grow older, but with care in digging a large hole and tamplng in, they will grow and make large clumps of foliage with many flow- ers in June. I O I

More Iceland Poppies from my own seed gathering are being transplanted in a corner of the rock garden, these bloom very early and continue for weeks giv- ing much needed color and beauty after the late tulips have gone. Fragrant Wallflower ls planted as a companion to t.hem.. My best Michaelmas Daisy has been divid- ed into many planu and replant- ed in the borders to make n good display next autumn. Thme plants multiply very fast and need to be divided every year for a good showing. It has bloom- ed all of September and October when the garden needs such large plants, they come in rose, while, blue. and purple and pink shades. Then there are the dwarf varieties growing from six to twelve inches. They are valuable for edging the perennial borders and are charm- ing in rock gardens. The wisteria vino has been n-snsplanted to a more suitable sunny spot in the rose garden and I am hoping it will hang out its lavender clusters of fragrant flow- ers next summer. Dahllas have been lifted the last few days and it is a task! l try to do it the easy way. So u round pointed shovel to dig the bulb and also cut off the stalk. then into the small red wheelbarrow and puffing and panting we heave them into bas- ket: Ind down into the house cel- lar in large boxeo. Some deep, some shallow, marked as tn variety and next spring they lre still plump and ready to grow.

My cellar is dry and I never have any trouble with rotting. One Innll window faces louth Ind in front of this I pllco my fuachia plan-ts. They are large like shrubs and very lovely until heavy frost Large geranium: and other tender plants are brought from outdoors. The hydrangea and fra- grant oleunder. Somo of their leaves may drop during the win- ter but with just u little water added to keep them from drying out they winder hero very well. In March Ind April I bring them umlo the light and warmth.

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Some tuberous bogoniu luvo finished blooming after five or lix monthl and they no loft in their polo or dumped into lhollow boxel ltolho and all. No water is given and in I dry cellar they Ire lufo until March when they lro again potted up in riii leafy humus Ind loom and brought to the lun- light. Many of the begoniu are still covered with bright bloom in lovely colors and two glnxinir, one in purple with white mhrpingo and the other in wine color ore

very fine. This is tho first your I have had than do so well and mony of my visitors loom to be crucially successful in flair cul-

Thai- Body Of Yours;

By Junior W. Barton, MD. §

ANNUAL EXAMINATION OI‘ FEET OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

hiring a visit to the outdoor clinic at Massachusetts General I-Ios- pital. Boston, I spent several days in the orthopedic department, 1 was surprised at the large number of cases with foot ailments. s lhrge percentage of which were fallen arches. In cases “there exercises and strapping with adhesive was not sufficient, a plaster cast of the feet was made the parietal was fitted with arch, supports.

As stated before the feet are im- porta to the genezai health and happiness of all of us.

As one lnvestiip-itov stated. gem-r- ally speaking, we JYLIKQ as much money with ou: feet as with our hands. A commercial traveler with sore feet often has to knock of! work 1n the middle of the after- noon because he has no pep left with which to try to sell his prc- duct.

So important are healthy feet to

children that many state govern- ments have the children's feet ex- amined at the beginnirtg and also 8nd of the school year. “The Billie- tin of the National Float llraltlt Council” states that Massachusetts was the first state to adopt legisla- lon requiring the annual examin- atlon of children's feet. This legis- lation was sponsored by Dr. Joseph Lalyveld. Chairman of the National Foot Council. lf the program pro- sented for Child Foot Hcnllli Month were observed by schools. podiatrlsts. ohiropodists, orthoped- ifiifi. and pediarticlans fmt defects would be recognized at an early age, thereby improving the physic- a1 fitness of future gcyirrations. Twenty-three other states are con- sidering legislation making the ex- amination of children's feet com- pulsory at least once a year. As September is the opening month cf the school year, the Nat- ional Foot Council is urging all cr- ganizaticns interested in thc health of children to obsrrve Child Fcs Health Month. The Foot l-lfalth Counzil is providing posters for class rooms and health centers. foot health exhibits for schools and lib- raries. and leaflets for children :0 take home. A special bulletin is being prepared for shoe retailets urging their cooperation. The bulle- tin outlines seven essential points in fitting children's shoes. and ten basic rules for foot care.

Points to be observed in fitting infants and children's shoes: If one foot is slightly larger than thc other, fit the larger foot. The shc: should be of flexible leather and from ‘.1 to i inch longer than the big toe when the child is standing. There should be plenty of room for the toes and for fullness of child's instep; the heel should fit snugly.

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By fiencvlovo Kemhla

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For Vvedncsdry, November 8

nrstrrrn obstacles. stiAboi-n im- pediments. delays, opposition, some very definite progress could be made by resort to clever strategies. by a suave or gracious yielding a point in a. wrangle. and. thus to break up opposittion and conflict. A shrewd move, subtlety. placsting, might prove to be the "soft answer to tum away wrath."

I! It II Your Illflldly

Those whose birthday it is, may find that a judicious application 0i compromise. tact, even intrigue or subtlety. might turn away stubborn obstacles or prove balm for wound- ed feelings. personal hurts even jeal- ousy or enmity. Resort to stratetzom could yield rich’ returns in blasting a difllcult impasse. Perhaps a “int of palavcr" could work a similar miracle.

A child born on’ this day. while stubborn, easily hurt. disposed to jealousy and resent-ments, also has an undertone of tact, flhcsse and diplomacy at its disposal in a crisis.

an elderly person who is boarding in town in the western part of the Island Ind, has lovely memories of her father's garden has sent me a poem she has written. I shall quote the last verse of "Rosemary. that’: for rerun!- bnnce." (Shakespeare)

f'It was home. and it was child- hood

And l wish I could once more Walk within that old time gardzn And it's loveliness explore

But the fragrance of Rosemary, Holds remembrance evermore."

Earthquakes

By F. H. MscAi-thur

“Bollevo it or not." but 1,518,000 hnimon lives have been snuffed out. by major earthquakes between the years 5'1’! and i923. Heading the list of geological convulsions is the Emit Japanese earthquake of Sept- ember l, 1928, in which about 300,000 lives were lost.

In an 1883 earthquake at Krakatua (Straits of Sunda) 36.000 persons went to their doom. Another 10.000 perished at Constantinople in the your 5'17; 15,000 died M. the Catania quake in 1187; Syria lost 20,000 of its inhabitants in 1167; Cillcea, 60.010 in 1168; Naples, 40000 in 1466; Lisbon. 30,000 in _1fi3-1. The upheaval of Vesuvius claimed 18.000 in 1630; Calabrin, another 10.000 ln 1&6; while the quake at Schamaki in 1667 cost the country 80,000 lives.

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00min: down to the year icon, on chalk 11D 100.000 deaths in the dil- aster which overtook Sicily. Yoddo lost 190,000 souls in 1703; Algiers, 18.000111 1716; Pckln. 96,000 ln 1731; Lima and Calico. 13.000 in 1746; and Cairo. Egypt. 40,000 in 1754.

A second disastrous earthquake occurred at Lisbon in the year 1755, l when 50,000 persons perished. Syflfl. l too, had its second quake. The date, t 1759: 20,000 lives were bic-ttcd 0111.1 Central America had n bad shock} _____________

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Wins Scholarship

Miss Katherine E. Livingstone (above) of Charlottetown has been awarded the Prince of Wales Col- lege Entrance Scholarship to Acadia University. The Scholar- ship is valued at $300.01). Miss Livingstone is the daughter of Mrs. Livingstone and the late Mr. Spur- genn Livingstone, Clyde River. Katherine entered P.\V.C. in 1046 with a Provincial Scholarship and enrolled in the special Matricula- tion Class.

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DEAR MISS DIX: I am very m YOllflg Kiri re-cstnblish herself. She

wish to adopt this child. ‘They co ._ name and every adv

is right to shut the face’!

ANSWER: most mothers would.

than anything money could IJU)\

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stigma of its birth. The child that

people who huve gone through this they cannot overcome. But. if a ch

and the social position of its foster- knuw or forget its birth,

upon themselves the burden and child.

where she can enjoy her child in

some one to love me, but when I 19. What would you advise? ANSWER: both ends. your life pleasant and interesting a to support yourself in comfort and And then if you did marry you the way they should go. liberty than the married woman,

have drawn the biggest prize there mony worth taking a chance on.

DEAR MISS DIX:

He even mukes_me give him spend

If your husband should tire of

who means fairly by his wife does away from her.

perfectly beautiful little 2-year-old boy. to her. and I do not know how she will manage to support him. splendid man and his wife. highly intelligent, with plenty of money.

lulely refuses to give up the child.

_ r» child it isn't a question of ethics with thcm.

primitive instinct and they think only of themselves, not of the child. How anything in life is going to turn out wc cannot toll beforehand, and perhaps the poor mother, who refuses to give up her child to n womarv who could offer it greater advantages than slie can, gives it something in love nnd tenderness and understanding that. is better

she doesn't marry and of the money she can make I hesitate.

ANSWER: Certainly npf. If you pay half of the living it is all and more than he should expect of you. the balance of your money to do with as you. please,

would have all the money and leave you destitute.

- Moihellove

Jnwed Gir|_Denies Advantage Of Adoption To Her Child

uch interested in trying to help o

is an unmarried mother with a The child is a great handicap A

uld Kive him a highly respected zintage but the girl moihcr abso- Do you think shc door of opportunity in the child's

MRS. G.

I think she is a mother and acting as

When it comes to giving up n It is

STIG MA

The reason for giving up the child that has been born out of wedlock to be adopted 1S that it tukcfawny to a large extent the

lives with its unmarried mother

has its unfortunate status continually thrust on its notice, and it is tormented by the other children with it.

‘I-have mnny lcllcrs from nnd they invariably tell me 411st

it has embittered them and given them an inferiority complex that

ild is adopted, it lakes the name parents and people either do not

Nor does the child miss anything of mother love in this arraugc- ment, because only people who have a drop love of children will tnkc the expense of rearing an adopted

But it is too late to take the child away from the mother of whom you write, and you should not urge her further. occupation somewhere away from home. where she is not known and

Better try to get, her

peace.

DEAR MISS DIX: I don't know whether I should continue my education and prepare mysalf- lo teach, or marry nnd settle down. I am not engaged nor inlove. but I mean if I should happen to find the right man soon. Sometimes I believe I would enjoy a home and

think of how free n woman is if I am

M. X.

If I were you I would go on with my education and prepare myself to teach, That's a good bet played from the middle lo For, you see, if Mr. Right shouldn't happen to arrive on the scene, you would have all the resources of n trained mind to make

"d MPPY. and you would be nblo lo be independent. _ would be all me better equipped

for if, for every wife and mother needs to know all she possibly can in order to manage her home properly and to bring up her children in

Undoubtedly, the woman who stays single has much more personal but she has also n lonelier life and a narrower one. But if you dohappcn to get a good husband, you

is, and that's what makes matri-

I nm a young married woman. a stenographer. My husband is n salesman in a real estate office. pay all of our living expenses, while hc puts all he earns In the bunk.

He requires mo to

Int! 11101191’. although he has more

than I have. Do you think this is fair?

WTYRRIED WIFE expenses, and you should have

you and decide to leave you, he A zood husband not try to take all of her money

DOROTHY DB cannot reply perlonnlly m tendon, but will gm. war problems of general Interest through her column.

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ELLEIPS DIARY

By An Island Farmer's Wile Q The period devoted to the in-

Alderlea-and at Rob's is now only a memory. But a pleasant one. of beautiful ‘Autumn day's that smiled themselves away swiftly, one quietly succeeding an- other, while we busy with the many duties that came to us in the season were almost unaware f their passing. We remember no v that the dawns broke in autumnal stillness and splendor above the dark woodlands down the river. while we were about our choring. and a number of sunsets, found us with the others of the "family down to granddaughter in the field at the picking. at times cast- ing quick glances along the rows to be satisfied that the end of the gathering was drawing stroll! nearer. Then it was wefiomellmes heard James‘ encouraging ‘You- all know what you have done; now see what you can do"! which left no potato on the ground, when twilight closed our day.

We follow an old but well proven method at the digging. Leaving little to chance. but. adding to- gether the prevailing signs to find .1 balance in favor of continued fair weather. a number of rows are turned out in the wake nf the digger and loft to an interval of drying. Rob attends to the digging. with one or another of the teams, though there are oc- casions when James takes his place to how that "if you space it just a shade deeper, thercll be fewer potatoes bruised or cut" 1n the operation. or perhaps only in assure himself that his old- time skill at the work is still there. Presently, while the digging may continue, horses are hitched to the farm-carts, and with thcsc and in a common interest, though we sometimes suspect with widely divergent thoughts. the feminine clement come to the picking. At once we commence the gathering a line of us and it is now if ever that we appreciate and enjoy the chivalry of our. men, who take care to empty every last basket- ful of ours to the cart. Children are given the same respect natural- ly, and of this Jamie a helper at times, chuckled "it's not much good filling a basket-they only come and lake it away and leave an empty one in its place!"

As we had anticipated, the picking brought us creaking joints and aching muscles at first, though the initial discomfort wore away as the work continued, and we spoke often of the good for- tune which had matched our cn- deavour with‘ such perfect days. So lovely they were, sunlit. and warm that the children were able to be about the field. enjoying what we felt might be last days in the open, before Fall's chill would confine them to yards and houses. They played together. though not always amicably. Odd times as the workers moved steadily along at the picking. disputes reached our ears. "It's mine!" Gage, brother to Jamie would laugh seizing a basket or other prize of the mo- ment. "Yours!" granddaughter would reply. astounded at this turn of events. "it's just us much mine as it is yours, and" spring- ing into action "I'm havin-g itl“ But not without o scuffle, and sometimes tea-rs, though soon dif- ferences were forgotten in n new interest-building castles in the warm clay, or by turns catching ridges with Jock on the loads that went to the house-cellars for storage.