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HALLOWEEN
Hiven to October 31, the eve
ALLOWEEN is the name (ARE you having a party on Tuesday night? If so, you
of All Saints' or Hallowmas. It must remember that was generally believed that i was the time when supernatural Influences prevailed, indeed this
This is the night of Hallowe'en, When all the toltches may be seen, day is still called the "Vigil of so make it as mysterious as you Saman" (Saman being the lord | can and you will be sure of its of death), in some parts of Irc. success. land.
some-
Nuts and apples should be In Scotland and England, Hal-well to the fore, as in the olden lowe'en was long observed by fire days it was the custom to start side revelries which were chiefly concerned with divinations of the storing these for the winter on future. One of the most common Hallowe'en-which was customs is that of diving for apples, or catching at them with the mouth only, the hands being tied behind, and the upples suspended on one end of a long beam, with a lighted candle on the other end.
Curious Customs
The ancient custom of providing children with a large apple on All- hallowes Eve is still observed to a great extent at St. Ives, and in Lan- cashire it was formerly believed that witches assembled on this night' to do their "derds without a name," at their general rendezvous in the forest ruined and desolate of Pendic, a farmhouse, denominated the "Minikin Tower" from the awful purposes to This super- which was devoted. stition led to a ceremony called "lating," or perhaps "leeting the witches." It was believed that, if a lighted candle were carried about the fells or hills from cleven till twelve at night and burned all that tme
steadily, it hnd no fur triumphed over the evil power of the witchts, who, as they passed to the Malkin Tower, would employ their utmost efforts to extinguish the light, and the person whom it represented might alely defy their malice dur- ing the sson; but if by accident the light went out it was omen of evil to the luckless wight for whom the experiment was marle.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939.
MEN
OF
THE
SWEEPERS
THE Great War brought a new Keeping The Seas found many years afterwards which
Captain Toprell Dorling, who wrote their history in Swept Channels," has said:"Ask any man who served at sea between 1914-1910 which was the most perilous, monotonous and bitterly uncomfortable work of the war aflent-that which demanded the greatest courage, hardihood, indivi- dual resource, and unfailing good sea- manship. The reply, nine times out of ten, and justly, I think will be 'The work of the minesweepers.""
Clear Of Mines
menace to the oceans-that of mines, The work of keeping the *eas clear for the Royal Navy and the Mercanille Marine is of vital The men who carried Importance. A steady hand is useful for theated. For this "Artists" provides out this duty from 1914 to 1018 were Apple Peeling game. Each player great fun."
heroes of the finest type. has to peel an apple and then throw
service the mine-sweepers rendered alone, Supply each guest with a sheet of the peel over his left shoulder; this should fall in the shape of a letter.puper and a pencil. Within a given The players then think of an animal space of time-ve or ten minutes beginning with their own letter and everyone must draw a portrait of someone tells a story about the Zoo, the hostess. In all probability she and as each animal is mentioned, will not be able to recognise herself the player whe has cheren it stands up
In any of the attempts; but the laughter this game will cause makes its Inclusion at your party invalun- beble, Judgment of these artistic efforts should be by means of vates. Small prizes for, the winners of the garnes to be presented at either the end of each game or at the, close of the party, add to the enjoyment. And for these, small boxes of choco- late, packets of elgarettes, tiny pop- per and salt pots, or any other little gift will prove suitable.
and turns round.
An amusing half-hour CAN spent telling ghostly tale, which must bring in all the magle things you have hung on the wall. Each person has one character and has to introduce it into the story, which is times called Snapapple or Nut-started by someone who stops at an
Interesting part, leaving the player to carry on. cracker Night.
Then there is another game, called
which "Musical Merry Widow,
cause much merci- guaranteed to ment
vange
room
Το give your
ghostly atmosphere, it would be fun to ar-
Witches' Comer, where for tunes could be told. If you can't of the engage the services of one witches wandering abroad, wear E shawl over your head, think of some exciting fortunes, and you will be a perfect fortune-teller. An old blick cool scuttle pinced on some twigs would make a fine witch's enuidron, wall plug on and if you have a electric bulb, painted red and put on the "re" would give a very realistic effect.
From the picture rail and hanging from the pictures have black cats, witches on broomsticks, bats, owls, wizards-in fact, anything to do with mogle. These things can be made
easily by cutting them out of black or coloured paper. If you give cach of your guests a witch's hai or a weird mask to wear they will enter into the spirit of magic right away.
Kamos
One of the most exciting and funniest
for a Hallowe'en' party is "Dooking for Aipples." A is illed with bowl large tub ur water, and as many apples as there
The into it. ore players are put
the larger the apples the funnier
hands held Kame, for with their behind them the players kneel down and try to pick out an apple with their teeth. The first one to get hold of an apple and place it on the floor is given and deserves!-a prize.
It is great fun, too, for each per- son to place a nut on the grute and wish, Watch the silently make nut very carefully, for if it crackles and bobs about your wish will not burns nut come true, but it the steadily it will be granted. Should the nut bounce right off the grate you have to say your wish aloud and hope that somebody come true.
will make it
next
When all your guests have arrived seat them in iwo rows facing cach other with sufficient space between the rows to run down. Have gone outdoor clothes handy--a pair of gloves, a bat, a scarf, and, if you wish, an umbrelin, This, for the sake of safely, should be "chubby" type.
of the
Now the player at the far end of cach row must, when the music be- gins, dress himself or herself up bi thrae clothes as quickly as possible
and run round the row back to his
or her chair, take off the clothes, and
give them to the next person in the row, who must repent the perform ance. The first row to finish wins.
plano is not available a gramo phone record can be used to start off Even stt The players.
whistle will serve!
Amateur Artista After this strenuous game a quiet sitting down game will be appreci-
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Having now regained their breath, your guests will be ready to enjoy
"Balloon Wafting" race. For tils it may be necessary to have some heots, the winners of each of them competing together in a final heat, Each guest must be provided with fan, and
a balloon. newspaper The balloons should be placed on the Bour in a row, then each person must, from behind, waft his or her balloon across the flour of the room of the newspaper fan. by moans The first person to persuade his bal loon to cross the floor to the other side of the
Lie room is declared winner.
"Parcel Poser" Another amusing game, which enn be enjoyed while sitting down, in called "Parcel Poser." But if you intend to Introduce this game be sure your guests are the type who can enjoy and see the funny side by some peopic of a joke which might be taken as personal and not at all funny,
The Idea is to have a large parcel ready beforehand addressed to one of the guests a well-known person is perhaps the best to begin with.
on
Present the parcel with notice- able ceremony, Say. "Why here is Whatever a parcel for So-and-so. can it contain?" As the parcel is
looks being opened everyone with great expectation. It is found to contain another parcel, but this time the parcel is addressed to the "Terson with the largest feet in the room." Much laughter is enjoyed the largest feet before the owner can at last be found. He then opens the parcel, only to find another now addressed to the "Person with the longest' nose."
the
Again much laughter, chatter, and searching goes on until the rightful owner is found, And so it goes on voice. the alimunest --the loudest
hands, whitest
the ankles, brightest hair, the gayest laugh, and so on. Each one opening the parcel: in turn ands the other inside until eventually the final wrapping, dressed to the person with the greatest amount of patience, must contain a shall amusing object for the opener,
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last
If you have home-made cakes cut these into crescent, horse-shoe, or star shapes, and have nut-and-upple allings for your sandwiches. The table would look pretty strewn with all kinds of nuts, and block ents stuck on a corner of the serviettes would give them a festive air.
If your guests enjoy themselves and they are sure to don't forget to tell them to leave a crumb on the doormat for the wandering witches, so that they, too mny enjoy your Hallowe'en party!
Boy Of 13 In U-Boat Attack
New York.
SURVIVORS of the U-boat
attack on the 5,055-tons British freighter Winkleigh, who arrived in New York harbour in the Dutch rescue liner Staten- dam, told how their ship had been given, after one warning | shot had been given.
the The Winkleigh, owned by Tatem Steam Navigation Co., of London, was carrying wheat and timber for England from British Columbia when she was hit.
Among the survivors was a Cana- dlon bay of 13, Philip Lewis, who was working his way to Liverpool on board the Winkleigh,
He said: "It was exciting all right, but I wouldn't want to be in it again."
7 HOURS IN BOATS Captain Thomas Georgeson said: "I first saw the submarine five miles off early in the morning of Septem- ber 3. I ordered engines, to be speeded up, but our top speed is only nine knols and the U-boat Over- hauled us.
"Then they fired one shot aver- head. We knew what that meant, and quickly took to the boats, which were stocked with plenty of food and water,
The submarine came alongside the lifeboots, and the commander took our ship's papers, asked me if we had enough provisions to reach land, and gave me four loaves.
"One torpedo was fred. Within a few minutes my ship disappeared, and the U-boat submerged, and we were left to ourselves.
"Before we left the ship I had sent an SOS, but we were huddled in the boals for seven hours before the Statendam rescued us.”
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Of all the new arms of the fight- ing Services called into the war by the diversion to the cause of destruc tion of modern developments In science and engineering, more worthy of admiration than the minesweeping force. Theirs was no offensive role. The sole object of their labours was safety for others, and those inbours brought destructiori to none but themselves. They were never sustained by the hot bloud of combat, for they rarely even saw on eneiny, and had little power of fight- ing him when they did. Yet none were, more steadfast in the face of unseen danger, cheerfully faced in nll weathers in conditions of appalling discomfort.
Sturdy Ships
to
The Admirally recently determined the minesweeping strengthen forces. It purchased, by agreement with the owners, 86 of Britain's best modern sen trawlers-54 from Hut! and 32 from Grimsby. They are from 100 to 180 feet in length and represent about a third of the deep water fleet and 50 per cent. of the larger trawlers of the lumber ports. The change did not represent total loss of employment among the fisher- men, as the iden is to train many of them for minesweeping purposes.
During the Great War the Royal Navy had a huge Trawler Division, which did numerous other jobs be- sides mine-sweeping. The Trawler Division of the Royal Navy Reserve was started in 1910, but three years carlier trials had been made in the Channel Fleet, when the late Lord Beresford was in command, with the sweeping up of mines by ordinary fishing trawlers.
When war broke out the Navy had only a dozen trawlers of 5667 tons. At the Armistice the number had In creased to 1520 trawlers of 350,000 The Navy itself built 282, of tons.
little tons. These sturdy 151,422 ships worked in all oceans and in all the great campulgns. The courage and heroism of their crews have been deservedly commended by all the admirals under whom they served.
When the Great War broke out in 1914 the Navy's mine-sweeping force พกร a negligible quantity. Experi- ence soon proved that the laying of mires was an all-important part of Gerthen naval strategy (40,000 were lald in all, mainly off the coast of the British Islands), and so the mine- sweeping force was rapidly increased. Mines Laid By U-Boats
At the time of the Armistice the force tolalled 726 vessels, stalloned at 26 ports at home and 35 poris abroad, and consisted of 100 regular naval vessels, mostly built during the war; 52 hired paddle-boats, the pleasure steamers at peace time: 413 Ashing trawlers: 142 drifters; and ten shal- the low-draft mine-sweepers. On average, one mine-sweeper a week was lost throughout the war.
Looking at a chart, the observer cannot tail to be struck by the num- ber of wreck symbols in the 50-mile stretch of const between Hartlepool and Flamborough Head. Nearly 100 can be counted within ten miles of all of them the shore, practically casualties through mines laid by enemy submarines.
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danger remained, and mines were
had been floating about. For tho task of clearing the seas # special minesweeping force had to be en- By CAPTAIN R. N. HOWARD rolled, consleting of 000 officers and 15,000 men, and these were called Some faint lica of the magnificent upon to clear 23,000 Allied mines A splendid piece of work was done. can be obtained from the following facts. During the war a channel for exactly a year to the day-after along the coast of Britain from May this force got to work the sens around Island. In the Firth of Forth, to Port-Britain, her colonies, and in the land, in the English Channel, a dis-Mediterranean, were reported clear. heavily The Germans cleared the tance of about 550 miles, not to men- tion many other dangerously mined mined areas in the Hellgoland Bight, and also in the Baltic; but this work areas and the approaches to many ports, were swept dally by trawlers of clearance was not completed until and other mall craft, manned prin- 1923. Other nations cleared their cipally by fishermen enrolled in the own consts. Royal Naval Reserve.
Losses were heavy, and extremely Singly Or In Groups
work, of the so at the beginning
the minc- enabled Experience averaging one a day. In fact, for the
War, first two months of the
for sweepers to bring their method of every two mines.swept up one traw-clearance to a high pitch of effelency, Jer was lost. Improved methods although
apparatus required by skilled handling. The general prins wire is sunk to a cer- 1918 the average was one loss for Pciple is that greatly reduced this toll, until every 80 mines.
tain depth beneath the surface by means of a towed klie. Sweepers sometimes work singly, at other times in pairs, or in any number up Yet even when the casualties were to half-a-dozen in line abreast, de the heaviest, the men of the sweepers pending upon the width and nature faltered. They called their of the channel which has to be clear- work "dull" when they were not find-ed of mines. The speed sicomed is man generally eleven knots, which gives a ng mines; and nearly
mine sweeping speed of eight. whose ship was lost by
for further There was for long a fear that the promptly volunteered
Towards the end sweeping service.
action of the minesweeper would be of the Great War the success in de- rendered negative by some innova- feating the submarine menace also to tion of the enemy, but fortunately some extent reduced that of the mine, this never materialised; and so the for the Germans relied to a great splendid work of the minesweepers extent on the submarines for laying in their endeavours to avert starva- their mines.
tion and surrender by keeping open Even
the the sea channels proved successful,
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The "Mystery" of Frog Showers
WHERE do frog showers
come mer on land til hibernation begins from? Often at Home there may in the autumn. be seen hundreds of small frogs where apparently there were none just be
fure,
The question has agitated the minds of many thousands of people in every generation: "How do they come, and whence?" Many think they come as the result of a bursting cloud, whirlwind.
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It is an old saying that the frog that hasn't seen the sea thinks a pond a One big stretch of water. Goethe said: "There are not frogs wherever there is water, but wherever there are frogs water will be found." 01 course, for on land, while feeding mainly on insects, frogs seek wet or low lying, damp places. When at this time of year the weather is very It is about this time that these dry and warm, and land becomes their somewhat parched, they are in great hordes of tiny frogs make
danger of being dried up. to a skele- appearance, and it is interesting to know why they appear and how. ton by the sun's heat. So they in- stinctively retreat to the dampest They come like this:-
Frogs lay their eggs in holes and places they can find-under stones, other secluded places in which they clods of moist carth, or similar hid spend the winter. The parent frog Ing-places where, on account of their mostly then troubles no mare about her off-amallness and colour, they spring, but migrates to stagnant ponds escape notice.
But one day there comes a heavy or slow-moving streams. In about a
wriggles Itself shower of rain, or perhaps a deluge, fortnight the larva
eur- and, gladdened by the prospect, out out of its Jelly envelope into rounding moisture water It there be come the myriads of tiny frogs from
their hiding-places. We then any. Fishlike, linbless, but with ex- ternal gills and a swimming tail. them hopping about everywhere, and At first inactive, the tadpole for at once connect their appearance
and is--soon that is what
begins to with the shower of rain, swim, feeding on vegetable foods or erroneously jump to the conclusion
of refuse. It then that the little frogs fell from various kinda changes external for internal gills. clouds. But they didn't. Next hind legs appear, and quickly grow bigger. Then forelegs appear, tnil diminishes, and finally, the tetamorphosis completed, it hops ashore, a tiny frog, to spend the sum-
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Someone has sald, "Of all the funny things that live in woodland, marah, or bog, that creep the ground, or y the air, the funniest thing's a frog."
David W. Townsend
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How Much?
A man paid $2.00 for 2 bushels geography mixed with English in of apples. He sold them for $1.00 a "Lighter Vein" form:
bushel. How much did he gain?
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A Pyramid Definitions are given below for swords to be filled in reading across, In each case, the succeeding word may be formed by adding one more letter to the word above, transposing where needed:
1, An Article. 2, A parent. 3, To mimic. 4, Entreaty. 5, To braid. 6, Chlef commodity. 7, Book of Psalms. B, Splash.
Leiter Changing
Following the usual rules, try changing TURF to BOWL in 8 moves.
Planned Wedding As Ship Sank
THE Courageous had sunk. Lieut. Lamb, of the Fleet Air Arm, was swimming about waiting to be rescued.
A head bobbed, up at his side "Charles, this may be your oppor-
tunity to get married," said a voler.
Fun With Synonyms More words and their to be paired off:
dinimas
21 eminent
comten
Jenak
TRIGLE
durable
перейти
dagastia
3 doodle
droll
lasting
Ag
drepetent
ALUTROS
work
ZAMRZLA
thrifty
synonyms
(Answers Appear on Page 3)
Permanent Waves
It was the chaplain, Captain the Rev. We use the finest Cluster Curl oil
B. C. Beale. "I hope I shall be ablont Lavender, non-ammonia solution
to perform the ceremony," he offer
cd.
Later, Lieut, Lamb, wearing a borrowed uniform, married Miss Josephine Elgar a member of the Women's Auxillary Air Force, nt Charlton All Saints, near Sallebury, She had agreed for the ceremony to be put forward from September 30.
Perfect ending would have been Captain Beale performing the cere mony. He, too, was saved, but was
unable to be present.
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