Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba M 12 contributions and saturday August 24, 1929 comment electoral Reform Ini Britain of tills parliament is Oliou sly i British liberals rejoice at the carious and unless the conference pageants of history g. H. Melrose t he fearful business of imbibing Canadian history from Dull and dry textbooks was such a painful and unprofitable experience of the youth of the past generation is not to be the Fate happily of the oncoming generation of students. Dust now gathers on those terrible tomes while Young Folk journey to the Frontier Day pageants and get their history with a real kick in it for historical reproductions Are becom ing a regular feature of the sum Mer in the West. A visitor to the pageant which marked the recent opening of the Hoose jaw wild animal Park could not but be struck with the thought that Here was genuine Progress a the presentation of ideas. For every one of the. Half hearted Stu dents of say 1904, who droned Over tiresome dates and place names Here was an Alert deeply interested boy or girl whose eyes free ride in the sky. To the pageant s oldest Redskin a com petition that was keen and close. The ancient Brave upon whom the Honor finally fell solemnly Shook hands and bade Farewell to All his friends Ere is mounted to the Region of the great Manitou. When he came Down to Earth again he was a surprised injun and a Shade of disappointment appeared to Cross his lined face. To Fly to the Happy Hunting grounds would have been both unique and painless. Now he seemed to be saying he must wait devouring by order gods i that beats any trick in my repertory Slang s in exactitude by m. Of. Quimry l if has its Little trials and troubles and none of us a proof against them. As a Ujj i stuck out in excitement at newcomer i have Nad an additional Litera seeing the historical coming of the great Indian chief sitting Bull enacted with Fidelity by the warriors of some of whom by the Way Are 100 years old and at the Climax which featured a Fine Sioux Cree Sham Battle. 9 centring the plateau of the Park stood the log Cabin which was old Man Legare s trading Post and on the River Bank had sprung up mushroom like about a dozen Tepee. At the far end fluttered the stars and stripes indicating the Border line while Over a Bell tent in the foreground waved the Union Jack speaking eloquently of the presence of the mounted police. The spectators lining the Cliff Edge saw first an old French Voyageur rolling across the Plain in a red River of cart. They saw the Heads kilns at the trading Post Spring into Alert watchfulness then the braves go Forward to meet the Lone White adventurer. Suddenly from Over the horizon in a Cloud of dust dashed sitting Bull and his. Warriors glistening with paint and emitting War whoops of a blood curdling intensity. Hypothetically the scene was South of the site of what is now Moose jaw City not far from the town of Willow Bunch. Here it was that Jean Louis Legare dwelt White settler in All the vast Solitude of what in 1905, became the province of Saskatchewan. Sit Ting Bull s cohorts had come from the world s most historical Indian Battle the ouster massacre Anc they Ware seeking the Protection of the great White Queen. The remarkable moral Power deserted by the mounted even then was exemplified in a scene depict ing a band of redskins rustling cattle from peaceful White settlers. The rustlers the Sioux were seen driving the stolen animals before them away from the Homestead. The police notified appear in the person of major Walsh who unattended rides into the Camp of the enemy and talks Turkey to the marauders. Fearlessly he com mands them to return the cattle and the astounded redskins submissively obey him. The pageant ended on a High note. The old Days of warfare be tween the crees and the Dakota Sioux were repeated with a vivid Sham Battle which lacked nothing of dramatic Quality. The indians a ambush a the thickets on the River Bank suddenly burst on to the plateau with shrieks and a wild Salvo of musketry. The crees await them stolidly then All is a Medley of sound enveloped in a Cloud of dust with warriors circling about its fringes and bodies falling every where and the smoke of Battle rising High. At the Crescendo Point from Over the dunes is seen approaching a detachment of the red Coats and very soon the Battle is broken up. A peaceful scene of fraternization follows. The airmen sad arranged to give one tacked on to me. It might be termed the vagaries of i was discussing the health of a newly made Friend with another equally newly made Ana in doing so remarked in All innocence what a pity mrs. So and so is so there was no reply but i could see from my Friend s face that j had put my foot in. As it were and so continued to explain "1 think a Little rest will do her Good for she has certainly been run Down of the Stern face relaxed somewhat and i remembered i i believe you regard being queer As being sick Don t my Friend s look turned though to one of amusement As i continued does being queer pity the poor newcomer imagine my horror to be told being loopy or a hit off the whatever is was the astonished reply and we both laughed heartily As i explained that those were rather vulgar terms expressing a state of mental weak nothing would please me better than for a visitor to remark that my House was homely. To. Me that Means Home like and that is my desire. Yet i was Frozen by the looks of the first person to whom i ventured the remark on visiting her House. Poor me i have since been and have to substitute Chic As an and that i had a Bug on the Back of my neck. How i squirmed. Psi it turned out to be a wee spider on another occasion i was Toli that a certain person was out for a drive in his Bug. How absurd i thought this before i discovered that almost anything from a Flea to an automobile can be Clesi de a at the word. Via Jante word Detour had until More trouble resignedly we. Pro i i _ i i ii. I i j i _ lately a strange and indefinable Charm for us in Barefoot childish Days it had signified the. Long Way round to school and. Home again through pleasant Fields and in later Days Detour lad symbolized pleasant jaunts in wonderful detours from the beaten path of travel and brought to us nothing but undiluted pleasure. So when a Saskatchewan found a red barricade stretched across the Highway with a huge Whitis Finger pointing South and 12 Inch letters spelling out. The magic need to unlock the spare it has Dis appeared bumped off somewhere in the ruts of the Prairie behind us. Of very Well. On to Wolseley or it was in the Vicinity of Estevan that the red barricade grinned a us and the sinister malevolent Siga pointed its derisive this time. North we went and mindful of our previous experience a passed the first turning to the West and took the. Second. This led us quite seductively to a farm House with nothing but Prairie beyond. We Delight we said to the Farmer puffing his Post supper pipe by the Wayside but appointment of lord Ull Swater As chairman the electoral Reform conference but Are urging that the conference a and put to work at the earliest possible moment. Delays to them Are dangerous. Says the Lon Don nation Are confident that the Case for electoral Reform is overwhelmingly Strong and they will Welcome the fullest and Frank est discussion. But they Are deter mined that there shall be no deliberate procrastination with the object of shelving the question. The life word we gaily swung the we Are taking the car. In the direction indicated. Southward we sped Over grass grown Prairie a bad be an intersection which Road to take straight on or turn to the right and westwards in the inevitable absence of direction posts or other sources of. Information we decide for the latter. We plow through Miry Long last we get bogged and Are stuck fast we Hail a Farmer with Hia team re from ton. Yective visit. Describing any Homes i Are canadians so sure about things when they do so much and How was i. To know that a or bits was a Humble Twenty five Ceat piece i Rio longer1 shiver a. Guy in my old Home was always something to Reserve for burning on the famous fifth of november. I am afraid if All the Guys i meet in this town alone were Burnt the local fire brigade would have to a called out i doubt then the firemen could Cope with the. Blaze. However i am living and learn out and imparts the cheer ing news we ought to. Have continued South to the next correction line. We thank him and dutifully turn Bacic. For another half hour we jog along without mishap then we plump into huge pot holes and Are pretty nearly bumped through the roof of the Sedan. As dusk is fall ing we strike a piece of Road that looks bad to us. We get out to investigate. It is bad for fifty Yards it is quite impassable for a car. We reconnoitre the Prairie on both sides and decide to taks a Chance on a ing. I feel i am really making Progress when. I can reply to any Ordinary re Mark ill say it. i to what a Shock i. Would get to hear once More a stentorian cock Ney not or an Oxford drawl j Little Detour of our own. Deftly we pull Down the quit barbed wire Fence and churn our soggy Way through tall Prairie grass and pools of standing water with wide open throttle and roaring engine we glue ourselves once More astride the Highway. Another league or so and that is a Back tire gone by Hamilton m. Laing golfer s wait payer stances Mong the. Score of different species of waders comprising thousands of individuals that enliven our Prairie Ponds and sloughs and the shallows of the lakes one of the most interesting is the Little Northern phalarope. His strange and sprightly afloat and on the Wing that distinguish him sharply from the other Birds of the shallows and his Beauty and Grace make Strong Appeal when we come to get then too he is a bit has a secret have two phalarope upon our Prairies the Wilson a a Bird that does not extend his summer Range northward much beyond the Plains Holiday efficiency Gary i said to thoroughly enjoy a vacation one should Call in the ser vices of an efficiency George looked quizzically at me and then surveyed the Walls of the. Clubroom. What do you the lament by h. S. Swallow gone Are the Days of the logging gone is the old time dance. No More will you find the son arrayed la his father s half worn pants. Gone Are the Days of the Patch work quilt and the mattress filled with Straw. Gone Are the Days when to get a girl you had to first ask Paw. Gone Are the Days when had to milk the cows at Dawn. Gone Are the Days of the shearing Bee when the bleating sheep were s Horn. Gone Are the Days of the old Grey Mare and gone is the buggy too. No More do the neighbors Call you in j for dandelion brew. Gone Are the Days of the sickle and Scytha and the old time picnic too. Tet still the world Rolls on the same i that during my week s vacation that there was actually one Day in which i did George looked at me with mild Surprise. But in t that the Pur pose of a he ventured it May be the purpose of a vacation but it is not done at a Tage by the Lake therefore i again state that an efficiency expert should be w George pressed me to go further and i went on. First Day this Holiday is devoted to packing. I May As Well add that the entire vacation is conducted in co opera Tion with a and under the supervision. Of my wife. I consider the first Day one of the most strenuous of the entire vacation. There Are a thousand and one incidentals to think my wife usually thinks of them and has me assemble them. Last year i almost forgot the the yes Iny wife has me Cut the have fish for breakfast not we have sardines. I Start out. In the. Canoe at four o clock the next morning and. Fish until Sis. If i catch anything we if i do after breakfast i mis paints., and spend the rest of the Day in painting the cottage. My wife changes Tia color every year. It really looks very the next morning is usually spent in cutting the grass and making repairs to the cottage. In the afternoon i Row my wife nine Miles across the Lake to visit some friends. We have supper with and return very late. Now. I come to the surprising part of this year s vacation. The third Day was exceptional. We did not follow the usual routine. I have never known it to. Happen before in All the vacations i have spent at the Lake. My wife had. Me run her to town in the car when we arrived she informed me that Sho was staying for the Day and told me i could amuse myself As i and the Northern a Bird of passage Only in Spring and fall summering in the Arctic or near Arctic regions and no one knows where. Both in Spring of Rich Brown and Reddish tints above spotless underparts giving them a brightness surpassing their neighbors and in both cases it is the larger female hat wears the splendid feathers and he male is the More soberly . There is a in. The actions of this Little Bird to proclaim his identity at a glance. In the first place lie is a. Swimmer not by Acci Dent or necessity As most waders Are but by Choice his feet Are built for swimming they somewhat after the design of a Coots with fringes to the toes to serve As paddles. Yet at the same time his feet Are not. Large and he is As nimble As a Sandpiper at running in shallow water or mud. As he takes most of his. Food in the shallows he. Is usually found on the outer fringe of the wader congregations the depth of tie commoner species though of course a big Willet or Marble godwit walks where a tiny phalarope. Must swim perforce for the latter Bird is one of the smallest of those we meet rent they whirl about and Dart and Dodge this Way and. That with magic ease and sureness. But there is need for them to. Be. Masters of j the air when their Only safety lies in their wings. It should be though the action of this Bird is his guar Antee of identity he can also be told by his note. The voices of the sandpipers Are a even the experts but any ear May learn the note and know it Ever after As they Rise on. The Wing or swing by we hear a Sharp or that in a Large flock amounts to considerable heard from none of the other waders. A As this species with us is hut transient we must rely on others More fortunate for the Story of the Bird s activity in the Breeding hell no Yuli he gibe Yuh should have taken the first glory we bantered How do we get turned around on this private Highway of yours drive into the the Good Man invited us. Ever courteous in our tribulations is thanked him and As we turned the Corner of the barn As ill Luck would have it a litter of piglets ran squealing under the wheels and from Tho resulting fracas two of them were placed hours de combat we were properly sympathetic and the master of the Swine unduly indignant but Thiee dollars in Good Canadian currency assuaged some what his natural grief Over this porcine tragedy. Refreshed with a Glass of milk we excused ourselves from an invitation to roast sucking pig am with the Farmer s Best wishes of our eternal salvation we hit the Back Trail stepping peevish by on the Gas. Our cup humiliation was yet to be drained to the Dregs. As we approached a Slough that adjoined the Trail a. Mother Mallard happened to be conducting her Brood from her nesting place on the Prairie to the safety of the Reed grown Waters with her family around her she waddled quite in concern edly Down the Middle of the Road effectually barring our right of Way. We sounded the Siren As a warn ing and bore Down on her like a charging Behemoth. Mother Mal lard was quite undaunted collected calmly she shooed and shoved her ducklings into Thoj water and with Bill agape Anc Faribault s 11311 Minnesota episcopal school for girls Beautiful new fireproof build los and gymnasium. Excellent College preparatory and general courses Junior College. Advantages in music Ana Art. Large Campus for outdoor sports. Miss Norah e. Matheson. Principal. Fall term opens september 12th. Writs for View Book and catalogue. 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G.a., head matter land ladies College residential school for Sills. Courses Mcclude University matriculation and Orado Xii. Special attention to music modern languages and physical train ing. For terms apply to Barsar. Gladys of Laird principal i michaelmas term sept. Loti. I 1 68 Yale Avenue reopens september 9th, 1929. Wings extended turned belligerently and faced us. The Surprise and terror of such a feathered menace exploded oui habitual Calm and with a screech ing of brakes we brought the car to a standstill a few Yards from the defiant Duck. Viciously she smacked her Bill glared at us and then considering us beneath her notice rejoined her expectant Brood. A derisive and exultant quacking mocked us As we got under Way again. Have lost our youth Ful illusions. Hope and buoyancy Are dead within us. We confess to a sinking feeling in Stomachin when across our visual 139 Roslyn Road Cor. Of Osborne St autumn Terni begins tuesday september 10th. Kindergarten and grades 1 los inclusive. Mrs. M. A. Johnson. Telephone 4i ail of dry Anc coun Tav Sci tool Toronto. Spacious or ounce. Opelc Nold s. Physical education. Etc. Public school to Honor matriculation music science Public ski Ealing. Com Mercial school in open september Lola calender on request Rev. C. R. Carscallen. . . Principal and the skies Are just As Blue Ned goods grass around the cottage George looked at .the.ceiling, and called the waiter. After assembling these articles they must be loaded on the car. The drive is quite a relaxation. Usually arrive at dusk. It is then necessary to unload in the dark and find the lanterns they Are usually in the Bottom of the car. I always carry six Large boxes of matches with me however and by this Means eventually find quits said George. After putting up the Beds and looking after several other things we usually get to bed about twelve o clock. Before i fall asleep my wife reminds me of the necessities we forgot to we arise about seven the next morning and spend until noon unloading the car and putting the cottage in order. Then we have an Impromptu dinner of Tea and sandwiches Marie the Day Previ Ous. The Tea is really what do you do in the i drive to town for supplies. On my return i take old Canoe and mend the leaks in the Bot Tom. This occupies me until sup per. The supper consists of tin season northward. In our limits they Are late Spring migrants passing through May and they re turn Early in August. Others Haive described the. Strange nesting habits where things in general Are re versed the Gaudy females wooing the shy Little fight ing doggedly hours at a time to Best a strange mating antics the male taking Over the duties and so on. But one tha strangest things about this Bird is the secret of Bis wintering ground. The whereabouts of the old world Northern phalarope is know but where the Birds fre quenting the Western hemisphere Winter has not yet been revealed though supposedly it is somewhere southward out on the open Ocean. Fancy this Little mite spending the Winter months Bobbing on Tho Billows far at rocking on the deep serenely through Winter s wild est storms regions horizon flaunts i and that word of sad wished after doing several Little jobs for her. Thuse. Were very trivial such As preparing several boxes for the truck going across the Lake to the friends mentioned before and obtaining several articles which my wife had loaned them and preparing Iny meals. Of course i had to run Back in the evening for my you must have thoroughly enjoyed said. George. I did. As soon As i h finished work. Straight to bed and had a delightful Nap of several hour duration. It was one of the most pleasing incidents of the vacation. But Here is my Point. If we had called in an efficiency expert this Day would not. Have been you have the wrong said George you should have a Vaca Tion like do i Send my wife Down East to her relatives. After she has gone i go to Camp with my unit for two weeks. It is a delightful George is in the militia. Don t they make you work Down of a Little. Last., year we matched ten Miles one Day. But it is really nothing to what you have done. I should. Add that i Tell my wife that i have to go and she says but. The thing that gives clue to phalarope. Action is not the act. Of swimming so much As that of spin Ning. They seem to be swung on a Pivot and spin right and left and around making Quick dabs with their Sharp Little Bills apparently picking up tiny insect prey where human Eye sees no sign of anything but Muddy water. This pivoting is said to be no Mere erratic action but a calculated attempt to stir up the Bottom of the Pond bringing to Light such Small game As May be hidden there. In other words the Bird has to spin around to find what he stir red up by. The last strokes of his nimble feet How much truth there is cannot be stated but at any rate it is by this action that the Bird is recognized even when he is far Oft As when sometimes he is seen Bobbing and turning on the Ripples far from Shore. The coat of this Bird shows even greater contrast Between Spring and than do those of most of the when they return n fall waders. . August and september All , of the Bright Ruddy neck and Back markings Are gone and Rey tints. The autumn migrant is a Grey and Silver. At no time however is the Northern female As handsome As the. Larger Wilson a which a Spring dress is d truly Beautiful creature m any sort of Bird i company. In flight the northerns Are a Good said. Ill you we Shook hands though not so., closely bunched As some of the Small Sand pipers no. Apparent know her. She a a Pancake Turner College Toronto Etta Yuthud Oner strip Achurch residential and Day school for cows kindergarten to Junior and senior household science Art music physical with indoor and outdoor sports. Prindell Walsh. , Dublin teacher s Curti flow de so Gload. No More oratory from tha new York evening. Post with the deaths of lords Curzon and Rosebery observes the London Mercury the grand manner of speaking has almost. it is unsafe it remarks to quote even a hackneyed line of Virgil in the House of commons. Fancy a congressman quoting As a cause for the decline of political oratory the Mercury suggests that the controversies of the Day Are mostly of such a character that they do not lend themselves either to the sonorous speeches of one school of. Oratory or to the passionate outbursts of our. Controversies it argues Are not matters which produce pro Tould moral cleavages or blow one s spirit to a fierce flame. They concern such questions As How cheap houses can a erected most Filc gently whether or not certain duties have stimulated certain in Lustres Liow the Universal desire or disarmament can be mobilized with practical results and what is he Best system of administering Coal mines. There is Little opening in. Such questions thinks our London con temporary for the Mournful or inspiring tones of an. Orator when Gladstone began a peroration with some such words As Ireland is on Jer Knees before you great passions had been aroused and Reat moral issues were Felt the at stake. But we cannot Magine lord Birkenhead rising in he House of lords and passionately exclaiming the Southern railway is on her Knees before you tonight " Well no. But would lord Birken head have been oratorical even on the eternal tragedy of ireland9 and would not Gladstone on the other hand have found inspiration in one of those very topics which the Mercury lists As. Top prosaic to kindle the oratorical flame namely the. Universal desire for disarmament oratory is not altogether thing of circumstance. At least a of it. Is in the individual. A born orator will find material worthy o his Powers. Even the greater issues cannot give others a Powe they do not possess although momentous questions May. Stir men t unwonted Depths of feeling and t unaccustomed loftiness of Espres Sion. Oratory does not die any mor than poetry Dies. Orators and poet pass and leave a vacancy. Literary fashions change. But the. Art the. Orator and that of the Poe Spring up again in an endless Lin of successors. For apply to rho bursar now pupils enter sept 13, boarders return sept 14. School reopens sept 16. Apes denial and Day . Pass and Honor matriculation French Roum. Art music dome Solo spacious playgrounds primary school Lor Day pupils Large modern rooms gymnasium and swimming addition containing common room will be completed for fall lean. Autumn term Besles busied Cut pupils sept. 11 Day up plot sept. 12. 1929. For prospectus apply to the principal miss Befth m. Read. The Margaret Eaton school Toronto Normal course in. Phye icat education Mary g. Hamilton director. Autumn term begins sept. 4th at Camp Tajia Rikoon Quin Park. Formal school opening oct. 3rd. Residents for students. For Calendar and further information address the Secretary 415 Yong a Street. Upper Canada College Toronto flooded it29 main school for Boya from 14 to 18 preparatory school for. Boys from 9 to 14 both resident and non resident boys admitted. Boys prepared for tie Jnive Tsiames the Royal off Italy College and business. Fifteen Entrance scholarships have teen founded in memory of tie old boys who fell in the great War and Are open for in april of each year. Centenary celebrations september 11th, 14tb Otid. We. Classes reopen on wednesday september 18th, at w. L. 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