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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
6
A guide explains why some resist colds while others do not, emphasizing a strong stance built by proper infection focus, diet, and rest. It presents an adequate diet with calories, building materials, minerals, vitamins, and optional cod liver oil, plus a one day menu including orange juice, wheat flakes, bacon, tomato omelet, and Swedish meatballs with sides and a dessert.
Mr. Timson returns home to a wife upset by his forgetting her birthday. He wittily responds that nothing reminds him she is a day older, while quips about Neptune and memory highlight the lighthearted domestic moment.
A reflective column notes that true appreciation comes only after loss and hardship. It contrasts wartime basics with a new generation’s ignorance, recalls radio outages and a boxing match, and lists weekly joys and sorrows from cold weather to a sick horse and a daughter's Toronto trip, ending with a thaw on the way.
A review column surveys Canadian book selections and notes from the Association of Canadian Bookmen, praising The Dark Weaver and The Rains Came while urging support for Reading Circles, book drives for drought areas, and a 1937 Canadian fiction wave led by Mrs. Salverson's The Dark Weaver.
A fragmented column features calendar snippets with moral readings for January and February days, verse lines from Proverbs, and a nurse Eliram note describing February birthdays as clever but bashful. It includes home hints on cooking carrots and turnips, washing with salt, and olive oil in hard water.
A New York Times praised collection features Villa Alta tales with Misa Bridge’s portrayals of Italian life and a Southern Harvest volume showcasing twentytwo stories by Southern writers. The former blends elegance with hard realism, the latter offers breadth, noting quality and variety across authors.
In the early 1600s Parta streets remained unlit. After mid century the King ordered glass protected candles hung on first floor fronts at street ends and mid block. The system was poor yet luxurious beside London where torches were carried by a porter named Inkboya who cried Gentlemen a Night and charged passers by for torch-lit crossing over rough pavings.
A French learner recalls discovering English word play. He notes that quick equals fast when fasted or spent freely, and that not eating means fast as well. He confesses discouragement until encountering the odd sentence The first one woo Ock-Gollar prim and deciding to give up.
Ventilation noted in new Venus shoes with perforations and mesh, draped sandals tied at ankles, open toes. Color dominates collection with blues copper tones, pleated leather, softie sole types, wedge novelty heels, and asymmetric lines used in dress and boudoir styles.
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