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POINTEBB 0N POITBY

In commenc this note it must ve observed tha the word "point- lr" is the American equivalent of what the British call s "tipﬂ I useful hint or dodge; "pointe

this sense. hss no lace in the lish dictionary. ether this sote can b, considered useful de-

luve heard limericks ever since

can remember; it is said that

ere were limericks in Rance in i7l6l And their five-line form hll never varied. Bud ard Kipling st s later date, is ss d to have per- petrated this one:-

"There was a young man o! ebec

Qu . Who fell in the snow to his neck When asked. “Are ou friz. ’ He said, “Yes. I 1 But we don't call this cold in Quebec!“

Most lilncricks. however, an not so innocent: lo use sn uncom- mon hut expressive word. they are too often rhyparogruphicl

Not s0 well known is the "Cleri- lieu”. which takes its name frtll onc E. Clerihow Bentley. This "pocm-fcmi" must have four lines of varying length. and must be satirical 01- nt least nonsensical- Bmiilcv is supposed to be respon- sible for this».

“Sir Christopher Wren

Said. “I'm going w dins with some men.

If any one calls.

Bay I'm designing St. Paul's."

The clerihew never euJoyed the pularity of the limerick, per- aps because of the uneven lines. Macaronic verse ls more dif- ficult since it is a burlesque poem of words from more than one lan- Eusge, or of modern words with atin endings:-

‘Trumpeter uuus erat Qui coatum scarlet hsbebst."

Icanonl i-ecalloneinstenoeof ihh kind o verse: it was inscribed in s book belonging to s medical student and ran:-

"Bl lﬂllisquid furetur this little elluln

Per Jove per Phoebem, !'l.l kill

him, I i011

h vents-ls illius I'll stick my seal-

D “m. And mach him to steal my little libellurni"

ted out that the L-atinity d effort was not bs 0nd re- m! but hs seemed q te satis-

th it. .

‘Ihen them is the Baturhian verse which is really m old Ro- man metre applied to English poetry. It may be used on any subject but must always scan or jingle like "Th, queen was in the

arlour eatin bread and honey; he king was his counting-house counting out his money."

us leave the oddities oi verse and notice the differences of rhyme. One-syllable rhymes, like "moon" and "spoon" are said to be male. or masculine rhymes. Double, female, or feminine rhymes have two rhyming syllables, as "wicket" and "cricket." Finally there are treble or triple rhymes like "national" and "rational". I cannot recall any quadruple “$155.... th subjeo

ea e t. I rs- eount the words of an old country philosopher who told me that two classes of people wrote poetry, - poets and potes: and the latter were the more numerous. Which accounts ior the abundance of limericks and such.

AN lNﬁLlsHwfWS TRAVELS

‘We left the party about to enter sn the third stretch oi the Daw- son Road. "one hundred and ten miles of low-lying. level land, from the N.W. angle of the Lake of the Woods, to Fort Garry." 'I‘he first eighty miles ran through wooded country and then came the prairie ‘extending West. to the Rocky Mountains." our Englishman says nothing about the wooded country but reports arriving at Oak Poln . the first post on the prairies, at two o’clock in the morning.

"Wet to the skin, maddensd by ‘slack flies, overpowered by fatigue

KQAQQIIIIZ

Favourite En trance

Grade A

The Registered Clydesdale Stal- lion Favourite Entrance will malls the season of 1944 commencing May 10th to May 15th, he will be nt Kcnslnlzton at George McNeil: then the following week May 10th will leave Charlottetown, Grafton Street Stables via South Shore sumo route as last. vear. Other llsies he will be at owners stables where any arrangements can be mule io meet mares from a distance this route will be continued fortnightly ~or the season,

CECIL J. STEWART, Hampshire.

AYRSHIRE PURCHASE ASSISTANCE POLICY A

To encourage the establishment

lowing amounts will

Calves llrlfler six months. 110.00; ‘ ‘ months. SW00. eighteen weIlty-four months, 835.00.

Norms -

I son's Bly ll see, and et

a2‘; ‘ﬁst? ﬂu”... entered an r - _ "Peggy" ,‘,’,2f"°..‘.‘,‘“i...“‘a"". 13%.. gill sll gonl-‘ts o tinnss. and 011m -

l; m; up a rlcketty ladder in ti"

, thr ourselves down 3Com ‘riggi- msmslsvt Mlvily Vi" side s crowd of hamsters whom n0 amount of shskinl Ind ,, such had been on h to swske. i were the amen ties of travel l Osnsda seventy short yBI-Yl 53°- The unknovtvnualﬁhgomwt“... ‘fﬂoﬁf €{’?y'"i$"¢§sm oi one and s hsli storeys, set in s wild t

m; botanist of thl "4";

our traveller —- W" u." w’ next lllifllil-II‘ "34 l‘°"'°i,i,mm°n_i by cl‘unl ths_ hed found" Try, two new 69w“! 51"‘ , an prairie roused their enthusissmm d boundless sea of green. WP"! ¢ “m; will“, yellow, lilac. and relli. extended all around. In all: M“; lows the If"! W" ‘mm u M four feet high; on the levelnprair from six inches to l. foot. This rqmised aboundin fertility. y“ El, greed of man as already 1'9‘ duced mush of this vddsnt PIP lures to the status oi In I114

desert.

"The orders (of D1811") be)?‘

represented in the flora were i t Leguminosae (the loco weeds). campanulacese (Blue-bells)“ Kristi; eese, and (lornﬁositse. t = h“ especially. whic il CWT?" g: the chlrsotsristio u American fiors- Asters and Go - dsgos (our allow-weeds) of all kinds were n mete-st proﬁle“?- Tall bright-yellow French mat-IL; golds in frequent clum over v”; expanse gave s bri isnt golden m, m me scene; and wild roses oi all colors. bludsells and hare- bgllg, Ind other plants then un- known to us, thickly bedded Imp m, green grass, made up the mos bright and bseéutlful carpet our 9Y0! had ever re d upon!’ tion of lh-cnoh Mariwids is FY05‘ ably an error: these plants grbow in Mexico and B. America. r s Bum. he moans the Sunﬂowers. annual and perennial, which are perririlcious weeds oi the western ra es. PA drive of thirt miles brolllht ti” y to the River, s bros , deep. muddy-colored stream. winding sluggishly through e land flat and level ss Holland, till it empties itself iniD the great Lake Winnipe to the north.” They closed file river on a scow, and drove through the village oi Win- nipeg to their destination. W"! Garr

i’. THE CANADA THISTLE

Why "Canada." thistle?

lant (which Sir Joseph

ooker, Director of the Ro Gardens, Kew. n monest pest o! Bﬂimmule ). found in Europe, N. snd W. Asil. Indie. and N. Africa. It was in- troduced irlto N. America. (USA) and thence spread into Canada. Many of our weeds have travel- led that circuitous routs, and it seems unfair to Canada to be made sponsor for them-

In our Island the plant does not seem to ripen its seeds well for some reason or other; or it would be a greater pest than it actually is. It is sub-dioecloils, with the male and female plants in separ- ate pstches. ‘Ihls. too, will have ts] tendency to limit seed-produc-

n. But when s thistle does xger- minate, it sends its rootstock ght down to the "hard pan”, where it branches and creeps in every direction. livery branch bears several buds which throw up stalks to the surface, so that in the course of a single season a goodly patch of thistles is produced. Now it is the green part of the plant, aboveground, that manu- factures the food and throws it down to the root, whereby it gets strength to “carry on." If the green part is persistently cut off, the root throws up other stalks, made out of its own substance, to reach the light. If the cut-Aug process is kept up. the root ultimately be- comes exhausted of its reserve strength. All methods of eradica- tion have this object in view. ' I am troubled every spring by an incursion of this weed into the vegetable garden: I believe it sur- vives over the winter in s. grassy border. It never comes up among the grass. but sfireads rapidly in the cultivated pot. When I see the green leaves come to the sur- lface, I pry u the stalk with s orig narrow c -gouge. A cou- pie of "treatments" ilk, this are usually enough for the summer. l-Ioeing is not nearly as effective. For a patdl of thistle in s field. I have heard the old folk say that it should be mowed when in full

i A hi - tnoe, the r. n. l. Ayrshire Club with Artiﬁcial m re hm“ h‘ m“ w" clal Department of agriculture, has in

flower, and then gown with salt. The idea was that the ﬂowering stems are hollow, and the salt ets into them and kills the root. as any reader tried this? Oi course one could not try this in a vege- table garden. tever means may be use

one must b4, more Eersevering than ghbﬂ! thistle, and t at’: no o

T00 MANY CROWS

"I see you don't approve of the crows being interfered with." saidl a friend the other day. "You've- got it all wrong,” 1 replied, "Pml glad something is being done to thin them out, if only for the sake‘ of savin the small birds —the farmers‘ riends. Years a o I used to stand on the Hi1 borough Bridge, sometimes, as the went down, comin

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assistance from the Provin- ' itiaied s policy whereby the in].

paid to purchasers of registered Ayrshire females:

slx to twelve months. 815.00: twelve] to twenty-four months, “$.00; "or

Before purchase each animal must pass inspection by the Club sg].

niilon Committee.

This assistance ls open to any island farmer who si time of purchase

The funds available io cover this policy are limited.

i us less than four registered Ayrshire females over two years old. I

Appliraiions will be considered in the order received, Tiu- (‘lull has n number n! nlllmlls listed for sale.

For fur-filer particulars, apply to,

If. W. CLAY. Secretary. P. E. I. Ayrshire flail.

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Filiiii NRC

small es

LARGEST

==--- ~_~ ~ 1. iT‘*“i -:~- In those days we, on the North; Shore. could look out oi the wili-. dow and see a dozen robins scol-cli- . lng the grass-land for worms and‘ insects: now we are lucky ir uc Ti 59¢ l Dﬂif- This has come . the crows and,

robbing the robins’

n . In that part oi England where I used to live, there was .'\ kind of crow culled a rook and when the young moks wera learn- ilng to fly, and consequently xverc eesy marks." the young follows

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shooting to kcep the down. their "bag" home to be made a rook-pie, which they as- me tasted as good as pigeon- pie. I too should be said that the rock is a

numbers

command. with glowing hearts 5

crowmnnd does not cnrc for mir-

My °id “wkbmk fiv“ tw° O Canada! Glorious snd ireel

recipes for rook pie. so conjec- ture that rook shooting was gen- eral in England.

Irl southwestern Ontario. war has been declared on the starling, which has multiplied thorn lillio Canada] there are thousands of them. and maple, they are still increasing. ‘ are most destructive to the fruit crops for which that district famous.

We stand on guard, guard for thee.

Where l‘iVl.‘l‘5

11F FOR SUMMER A zood relieving trealulent for o Canada’ etc‘

sunburn, osql iio bit . iso ivy is u. ti‘... a‘ tepid Eli-harm ‘tits? ° EQQfm" 3mm

lists a b ' l ﬁolvel; Rgldlgk, een sprinkled and May Blalwal-l, so“ to Iearve a thin starch.

t water dry on skin

mm of maidens rise

years

NEED coon nliaivaos Rssphm-lrrlnro rolvilive m poor-l o’ Cnnn,|n_ cm

1y drained rri

PRODUCERS

w. €. r rural-lean UNION NDTES

O CANADA

50"“ “r the“ Eimri-‘mm True patriot love in all they sons half of the liquor seller.

.E, k ‘he,’ “mm m" ii- 1i ,Til(‘ True North, strong and free:

Prom East to Western se Thou land of hope for all who toill and funds when necessary. ery Wvrk be accomplished; Mid that Thou True North strong and free. o" nrcrent was urged to ray. Four women were appo nted to fort upon any renewal etltlon to be Pmg- traffic. We will o the can to alleviate the woes of drunk- meetillla was appointed era's families. and to rescue from and gentle for i0 o'clock ondsy morning, drunkenness those who are pill"

Foothills r» km. thee steadfast through the hand st the appointed time. arm From East to Western Sea.

Our own beloved native land, Oui- 'l"rul- North strong and free. tinued in

FORD PRODUCTS are doing a job over there. The Ford car carries army staffs to vital parts of a fast changing front, and stands up under the punishment of war-torn roads. Rugged Ford trucks lug ammunition up to the guns; hurry food and supplies to forward positions; bring fuel from the beach-head to our ﬂying ﬁelds.

Ford products arc doing a job on the home front, too. Ford cars carry war workers to and from vital jobs. Ford trucks transport raw materials and war equipment ouickly and dcpendabiy.

IIMPANY

FOIRD V-B sno mrncuay calls FORD TRUCKS, FARM _ rascvoas. BUSES

MILITARY_____VEHICI.ES

The power plant behind this vast transpor- tation task at home and overseas is the Ford V-8 engine. Week after week, under the toughest conditions war-has to offer, it carries on smoothly, silently, economically and asks for little pampering.

The Ford V-8 engine is the power plant in more than 500,000 vehicles that have already gone out to the war zones in various parts of the world. It's the dependable kind of engine you'll want in your post-war car.

M iAllAlliLilMllE-

IN _THE BRITISH EMPIRE

' 11070. Ohio, but it was in Fkedonia, ‘ Union was

Dr. Dio Lewis‘ ‘ the idea of associating the Chrls- zens. Itisn women oi the Village of

Clai-ksville in an effort to abate wersonnl appeal and prayer in bc- “m1 "P"! Under

we see these ed curse of liquor selling.

his mother's idea that he made it Dlmn a part of his liie’s mission to tell Where

other Christian women about it we stand on temperance meetin

ly a thousand ent, but there was no ex ectst 0- of any unusual pines and lesults- ut the

wa, will

draw up the thy shining ented to tho lquor dealers town. A

and 300 men and women were on sins its ways This socie_ prayer and song the women with- drew to arsnge the their march and rayer.

the men con-

men pledge

$1.000 to sustain the Tcmpcrmlce meetings - ranged for every Sunday night and

Th; beginning of the great Wo- prayer meetings every night ill . mans Crusade of i876 was in Hills- the work should be accomplished.

, D Lil t t til iimd "° 5M3 u" m’ "- m" ‘Mk’ O Calladal Our home and nativelihc liquor traffic among them by Hmggnihf edcsteerlgimgd ma“, went’ ltltiltelfwgyghglevaincﬂﬂced at ‘he i I i . .

and (Judge) Bsarlrrll-iireﬁliigfaltlggorbiie gift?- Riegéigigil. "fetid?" “in M51535 ‘“ ha. lendemmp m“ m,‘ m a; _ prietor oi the object oi their visit °° y 01‘ 0 er en per- .. for many years vme'°no.ii" tile 5220a? gulsntioe tohremnﬁrlzgitigiév lilo miggejcliﬂ’ fnﬁnfwfxﬂligu°*'exg"rf IY- i" l "m" P“”°"g"' N“ Her son, Dr. Dio Lewis, will so 311m. and the Ropes! they ha:

And stand on guard. O Canada, deeply impressed by the success of

rawn lip WilS rend. more judicious feeder than our we “and on guard ionythet

the week every place cohol is a major factor in destroy- invited in quor was 501d w“ vmh lng safeguards oi’ maidenhood. In do ou sup use?" _ ed in turn. while prayer meeting-s ‘fiwa Ti‘; m“ He addressed a Sunday evening were held every night. The follow- "g Wunﬂwr‘ "P1" i° hi"! ii‘ will"?! mﬁmbﬂr- buil hi‘ m Ch g lrmdonlﬂ ,ing Monday afternoon the women q“ '5' l a” o Canada, we stand on guard for 0n December 13m, 1m. with near- met and perfected their orcaniza- “ m’ "id ‘he Ii" ‘"1

thee. tion. with the following pledge: We, the undersigned women of gwl-y 0g llls Fi-edonin, feeling that God has laid row. mother's success ln her own village upon us a work to do for temper- "I! "W! 0f our ulrls. Tm!’ Great prairies spread and lordly years before so stirred his audl- lmcc, do hereby pledge ourselves 01011!‘ young women of fine ideals is flow. once that they were willing to go to united and continue a How dear to us thy bmad domain, and do likewise. Th; men promis- suppress the traffic in intoxicating llnpopu lrity. and being left out of ai ea the women their rnorul su port liquors in our villsllc until this the social life If

also do what we

shall be known as ole the Womans christian Temper- details of ance Union of Fredonia. Two hundred and eight mem- Twenty-three bers liver.- enrolled. sixty-four oi‘ to pay their share of whom were young women.

movement. were ar-

ried couples find an outlet their desire to serve by "will ———- patrons at happy house vﬂlliu

The above is the title of a very th church or in the llomﬁ? saddening article in the United éhristian Temperance Wm

MAIDEN SACRIFICE T0 KING ALCOHOL

, About half-past twelve. 100 wo- church Observer. by Miss G- D. Read the whl rtlcl ill The ' lNew York State, that the first men went forth. and the proces- Alkenhesd, Superintendent of Vic- server. 0e u in

some ‘hirtnned. b! 1M3 sion qllliictly walked across the my l; y years eore , park to line composed of the ll l; ls l g dl d, mother conceived wives oi the most respected citi- stiller?! 151i leaheirmcfsrfgemsetilsrfllgijli ggevilgullslsltlrlriiilliﬂtlfengglllt we find

R (WEI

She says "To pray over it. and act elicit ‘ti; 5i rn

You can tli ome, ‘Iuronto.

Taylor giirr-ﬁtiilegmlieilavtgﬂi: (i)!!! ‘liilialgglggfﬂegf. way? J. Dolisull- WHY DO THEY |)O i1‘?

A soldier on a train said. If",

bal god their most

ing shocks mo more than i0 "i _ Out of many years' experience man or a woman ill n home sc- in social work I ‘allege that al- liquor to soldiers whom they i"

_ uwhy do they d0 not even

cases the intoxicant is beer. is solder was

Because the bo can drive that liquor has no p m‘ from the ilan hospitality of ti" i‘ beverai; room without reeling they type-—N. Messenger think ey are all right, ____._____— Alcohol in another way crosses‘ T9 WORK 1N Elmo" LONDON —(CP)-— A T-s

Too many l d Wan! ill k in t-he i-eliabiiiil! n ards have to face o‘ ﬁg” VQTNIRR

effort to Mid hi h s _. , .A. has c; tn s g d lnk, fol- voluntcers from the. W A frequent questign ‘ili-ire; can services "to help in the imlflg,‘

- . i .' stand ready for united of We have dates and still maintain gnﬂpmzggvizgg‘: ngmgniemviy“ J

oul-Dprinciples about drinking?"

among - leased for this work "until

front needs are met."

suns rolt ADHESIVE M"; ._ rcPl

sooisl and pleasant places where youn pea. could nieet- She poin out hart girls awlsy fgoln ho usu y“ ave no p ace ut their d-sit- i" m Md B“ ,1‘

g room n enterts I N, soy friend." Might not some of titue will ielifﬂelli- “ “- Christian women or young msr- a1 savln oftlieallllesivswv‘

- has m Somme!

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