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Dorothy Ilx
I Strange But True
51 I. ll. MacArthur
ancient tradition rega rdiug
no taeitioa at womanhood among the Brahman: or India is that they regard their husbands as their earth god. To the anh- man girl wife her husband comes before everything else in life! This the
inc 0!. lot can were arrested while still on their knees by a policeman who eat behind them. This is the story of the crew- less blimp. a story that came out of World War II. Date August 3. 1942. The blimp took off from.
II C! I h I - :?:;on. c:,n:;3e&::1u.I',.1:..i W3: "'15 INHGIUDI '0 MN WIT: eanitity of wedlock leads to a lot Treasure Island, California. in the ma chm. rm um H." .,m, pm, mans attitude towards diuue of evil. the Chief evil being that morning. I'M! IN!!! GGPGHGH1 011 PYOVIUIDC girl-wives become girl-slaves to At approximately 1.30 a. in.
once and understanding. you'll
overcome the initial error. I" C"""'
beliefs. For instance.
Dean MISS DIX: For the 1115!” W30" '4 8”” e
years ol pour marriage my hus- band's people have been quite a problem. This was a second mar- for us both. Most of our of his
evil spirit causing the disease.
troubld begins with one three daughters. Although married, she comes to our homeitheir patients. eeveral
The custom
in the house-then borrowing of the gulf in pioneer days.
money from her dad. I'm so fed
I am 64 rem old. Iwarcl Island. heard a
ANSWER: Breaking up some at your age would be. in my D inion. a foolish move. Your home ii e may not be perfect-few homes are-but the certainly lonliness isn't very attractive eithehiu if mmemmg Md gone wrong
to investigate. Near the that spanned Forks Hollow,
T” m be 5 b" more ””em"; The coaches were lighted and the
that might remove many of the difficulties. Since your husband and you get along very well. ex- cept for this one problem, you'd. ee better off to learn to endure ” it. rather than risking your mar- ried happiness because of one and the chimes performed on me- I100D9Y- Lchanically marked periods instead -r-7-r -- An---A--u of shadow-recorded time. Continued from page I2 I ' ' e
bell was ringing.
the train and the people vanished.
TTTT-T'”'"L VT; The clock for centuries was one
A Ctllllltry Garden oi the cherished luxuries. The sun- dial was long the mainstay method 3'''”I"9 ""d ””I”bIC I?””””W ”".of recording time throughout the near. Beautiful Blue his and scar-iwmld when Mme mattered up an I" P9pp”5 Y”h T”bem”5 B';5””TiDiallng became one of the arts. :51 RLIEHYM-I55;:l';1 IgI'Rl1?;'Ik:s”9':1'ilt was known as gnomonics and
- 3” V W was a neccssar art of a gentle- Icarlet bloom in a sunny shelter men-3 eduggtignpthroughout the
N1 Com" "1"! t bnkllmund 0! civilized world. Until as late as
Africa even in this year of less a sound
thrashing. Why? To drive out the
and it was not such a long time ago in Europe when disease was believed to be due to overheated she's blood. To remedy this. doctors bled of times a week, telling us bleeding patients for various dis- what to do. criticising everything eases was practiced in the garden
Many years ago a group of resi- np I'm ready to leave him, though dam; or WQl1ingQ0n' p,-inc, M. phantom - M11 3v',train psasing through their district.
I Perry Martel! claimed he heard -V0I”ithe whistle of a train and went bridge he distinctly saw the train and a num- ber of persons standing around itscotla has a mystery jar. Found in at a place called Bloody Creek, this ancient
Upon nearer approach. however,
I their lord and masters-their hus-
rnade law." this mothers is one of them.
Not many of our rheumatic peo- ple would care to try the
pepper into the nails of their fing- ers and toes, The inhabitants of New Hebrides
into the sea. lest they fall into the hands of disease makers who might turn them into germs.
"Take up
Arkansas had to do recently when
he entered hospital for treatment. Travis is 8 feet. 6 inches tall
and his special bed. a tenfooteri Our sister province of Nova
-Icentral. Nova Scotia.
relic stands over a foot high. is of gray color. with a neck opening of three inches. An aura of mystery land romance surrounds this ob- Iject. Date of find: I855.
25.000 persons in Holland are directly employed in bulb-growing. More than 100 countries buy most of their bulbs from Holland. Bulbs net the little country close to I39,- I000.000 each year.
The motiths of some fish are so small they are unable to swallow anything larger than a few thous- andths of an inch across.
some folk don't want to be re- minded of their birthdays. be- cause it makes them just a little bit older.
mlmce II” Jam' Cm: 3 "ape I'””I 1800. it was taught in the English 0 0 -
gm; IeI:19u?3”W M A” Vme and "If" . universities and the continent and o g.
33'?" I5 fa":'0”5 1" ”4pBut sun time and clock time are b"”m”I glee; Md II09dI3"dc I”,not the same. Clock time is known ::;I;I3Ty Rggggg M"1I(?Ikra:I;('jChIIR :99: as mean time; that marked by the
R - sundial is apparent time.
pI'”am'.w3lk ”p"Ia”5 m ”ml The difference between them is Wmng Wm” ”5 p”m”'5e5 Ami p'”'lthe equation of time. Four times
wlnkle which was brought fromil year. howeven clock ume End
the old land. Very beautiful TCI'l'l5lsun Mme agree Apr” 15' June 15'
are banked around the iron seat! em p-n which is nm a human: svrms iifilillbii i..'Z"i..?tii.y Zifflr .32 mime M ”"""3 (""5 have b'e”Ipicture even in these modern times transplanted in shady corners near hm... Dew.” the phenomeml meg the dwelling stones have beenICmmAm of the modem clock and ""I"”d "id Wed '0 ma" mcyfinely jewelled watch, our official 3”d”1 9353' I0 93” I” 5m” ”'T'observ:-itorv time still comes from duals and roses against the walls;O,d Man '30L
of various sites. I ' A sundial mottoes and other inter- Pstln; descriptions of the sundlal in your garden.
The sundi.-ti is not familiar to many Island gardeners and I shall quote from the introduction to "The Sundial in our Garden" by Trcvillion. . . . .
Let us who love gardens consider the aundial. What a forgotten and obsolete thing it has become. When we put one up at the corner of nur garden a few years ago there were many who had never seen one
run Your
1 its mastery marked one as cultured.
Next week we shall write about
in CITY, COUNTRY or at the BEACH
How often we hear someone say they would give almost anything they possessed to go back to their Itecnage. Personally I do not feel ,that way about birthdays, for as I 'grow older I enjoy the treasures of the past. The years have brought me greater happiness than I had expected they would. Writing a daily column calls for much re- search nnd long hours of labor. but I find a joy in such pains. and what more can any mere mortal hope for?
Don't drag the family skeleton from the closet. Why? Because there is sure to be a tale attached to it.
A couple of pickpockets at prayer In a Montreal church robbed a fel- low-kneeier of his wallet contain-
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-they knew not how it measured timee-children 5TlII gather about- it. and marvel. It is a source of unending attraction.
Up until Pope S)Ixe&iPr II in 996 AD. invented the first clock the simple sundial sltoiildered the laborious daily task of keeping the
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egain the shadow of the dcgreef which is gone down in t.he sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. the sun returned ien degrees by which degrees it was gone down" A similar reference to the -sundia! is found in II Kings. chapter 20. verse II. This is the greatest mir- Icle of Isaiah and it happened some 700 BC. Chaldean astrono- mers used the hemisphere dial
The Greeks had it. and Rome was using it by 290 BC. The sundial still kept tab on the hours for England. however. long after Wil- liam the Conqueror came and pass- ed to his reward. It was as late as 1288 when Westminster put up ITA first clock and tricd out the new project for tabbing time Four years later Cant:-rburv Cathedral
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bands. If ever there was "a man- cnmpuleion of young girls to become wives and
old Spanish cure of rubbing spanlsh
throw the scraps from their tables
was what Jim Travis. of 'nir-ret.
Lieutenant Coady reported that he saw an oil allck on the water be- low the blimp. not far from Cali- fomla's famous golden gate bridge.
Hie presence of oil on the water could mean that an enemy sub might be near the scene. Watchers in fishing boats expected to see the blimp drop a depth charge. but instead it nosed skyward and varflshed in a cloud bank.
some two hours later a couple of men near a Coast Artillery patrol saw the blimp nose-diving towards earth. When she hit the
thy bed and walk." ground the two watchers rushed to
the scene of the accident. Imagine their surprise to find the gondola door open and not a living crea- ture inside. The ahock of the fell caused one of the depth charges to drop lose. and thus lightened. "19 bllmll Tose from the ground and disappeared into the sky for the second time.
Thirty minutes later the blimp fell to earth, this time landing in a street in Daily City, just on the outskirts of San Francisco. The blimp was empty.
What becameriof Lieutenant Cody
adopted the same. modem method-
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the we question which nosutv scientists. aara Welter Doyle a my when 5'.
could answer. me only but of Iliad olothlu a quilt anlwuedwaviee .3 'W'
outrun or obtain Mme send to TORONTO (CP) - Mrs. Mary MI Wilson. who celebrated her,100th A media: by we I-rl Moore. birthday Dominion Day. received "My Friend Belly." was enjoyed. birthday greetings from the Queen Mrs. D. J. MecArthur invited the and the prime minister. Mrs. Wil-
missing equipment was a couple of life jackets. Evidently the two were wearing these when they vanished into the unknown. But why did they not use parachutes it they
Mu. Wlllh
Prayer d the mun tion closet? the meeting .ra.T."'.:,':';;','
lunch. '
and committee gm
left the blimp in mid-air? And why did they leave the blimp acy- waye She had at no time been in danger as weather conditions were ideal for tlylni. and inspec- tion of the blimp showed every- thing about her in order.
If Cody and Adams! had eccl- dently fallen out. why hadn't they been seen by the fishermen and the men watching near the patrol?
: . born 13 years before Con- ederatlon. has lived here for the last 15 years.
pom! roumi IN nrrcn IROQUOIS FALLS. Ont. (CF)- Welter Banek of Anaonville. Ont, was found dead in a roadside ditch in Mt-Cart township Thurs- day. Pollce said he died instantly from a bullet wound in the left
Medlral e re dtht Tllb .Th I th
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C-used their battered and broken m--m--- 11 A.M.: Opening Session.
bodies to sink at once-yet strange CORNWALL W. M. S. 2 p M - Bush-E” session
toaynot trsoefth -' -
mrged up. a o em ever The June mew" of the WMA 3.00 P. M.. Field trip to Experimental Farm,
was held at the home or Mr; Leon- 8:00 P. M.: Evening Session Open to the Public.
What is the explanation of the orewless blimp? And what is the explanation of the week long dark. ness in Constantinople. then the Byzantine capital. in August. 7'15 A.D.? What is the explanation of the dark day..May 19, 1730. which extended all over New England and part of the maritime provinces? People were forced to light can- dies at mid-dayl
A 801" 8CIIDse must be ruled out. There was none at the time.
What of the curious flying saucers and little men which have
ard Willis. New Haven on June 14. T
Mrs. Reginald Maclliwen led the ' devotional part of the meeting.
Mrs. Stanley Murchison repre- senting India. and Mrs. Rita Mac- Phail. Japan, also Mrs. Gordon Maclrwen and Mrs. L. H. Drake took part in a dialogue about the 9 Wlliingen Conference and " Unity 3. of the Churches."
The roll call was answered by 8 no gnembers. One visitor was pre sen .
A card of thanks was read from
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Mrs. Duncan MacPhail for a quilt which was recently donated to
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