THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.
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BRANCH STORE 125 Central Avenue Strong Place of William The Because insects such as the com Conqueror 900 Years Ago And mon house fly, mosquito, roach The Favourite Home of Queen clothes moth, represent a constant Victoria menace to public health and cause property damage amounting to mil(Concluded from last issue)
lions every year, an intensive warfare has been declared against them This heritage fell to the mercies by publie health, manufacturing and of his brother William IV, and suballied interests. During this week anquently to those of his niece, Queen intensive campaign is being conduct Victoria; and Windsor was subjected ed throughout the United States the unfortunate influence of the against all household insect Victorian era. Exquisite pieces of life through public education. The can French, Flemish and Stuart periods paign is conducted under the title of were pushed out of the way in cel.
National Insect Killing Week and is lars and dark rooms to make space fostered by leading entomologists for the ever increasing expressions and insecticide authorities in thel of nineteenth century taste in subcountry, stantial mahogany and walnut. And The seriousness of the menace to in the midst of this lamentable uphealth of disease carrying flie, beaval the Prince Consort died, leavmosquitoes, roaches, bed bugs, and in the castle wholly under the conother insects has never been appre trol of the Queen.
ciated by the general public, accord The death of the Prince was a ing to public health and medical au disaster for Windsor no less than for thorities. Insects have been look the Queen. The history of what fl.
upon and treated more. harmles lowed is incredible but true. Her disturbers of peace and quiet rather Majesty decreed that nothing should than as potential disease carriers, be altered. Every object in its place but, according to Colonel was consecrated by the memory of Reasoner of the United States Army Albert. To have changed anything Medical Corps, they are in reality that he had known and look upon responsible for more deaths, direct would have been not less than an ly and indirectly, than all the wars Putrage to his memory. Curtains, earof history added together.
pets, hangings were renewed, but During this week in every stałe never changed in colour, pattern or in the Union, a concerted effort is. exture. Nothing was permitted to being made to bring about in the look different, and the hand of the mind of the public, a consciousness «yer was only too often exercised against insects. Everywhere, warto reproduce the colour of a curtain will be declared against these pestsanded by the sun for so it had lookand a human army will do every. ed Albert time.
thing in its power to exterminate Novelty in any shape or form bel them by the millions, according to came an athema to the Queen. She the committee of manufacturers who resisted the intrusion of the bath.
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KILLINK WEEK.
How the Cockroach Destroys Food As the wily cockroach passes over foodstuffs and other materials, it leaves a vile odor that quickly contaminates anything with which it comes into contact. Food that Mr.
Roach has touched should never be eaten.
This insect undoubtedly accounts for the loss of thousands of dollars worth of food each year, in addition to the embarrassment and annoyance of having them in the home. They can be eliminated by the use of a good insecticide, so that their continued presence is unnecessary, It Not the Rat It the Flex When the dread Bubonio Plano breaks out, a rat killing campaign so immediately starts, which is entirely proper, but the fact is many times overlooked that it is not the rat, but the flea, that spreads this disease. The fles use the rat as its hoort.
The rat is a reservoir for the germs of this awful disease and the fles acts as a carrier from the rat to man, thus spreading the disease.
The fles is a blood sucker and, therefore, both takes its disease germs directly from the blood stream and deposits them in the blood stream of previously healthy people. It is, therefore, just as important to kill the flea as the rat.
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People always had used them. They bad been used in Albert time. Consequently, every morning with endless labour the men servants in the castle carried to the guests these unwieldly receptacles filled with water. There were, have been told, two swimming pools in the castle, one for the gentlemen of the household and one for the men servant but for the women there was no chance of an unseemly immersion.
Many odd and piquant pages might be written about the domestic history of Windsor, the whims and extravagances of its many royal tenants, but none think could exceed in interest those devoted to the reign of Queen Victoria. Formalty vas never relaxed within those feu.
da! walls whether she lived in state or seelusion, for the Queen had eur lain fixed, irrevocable notions on the place and manner she felt inseparable from royal birth. No one ever sat in her presence, except at able. After dinner her ladies and get glemen were kept standing whether the Queen withdrew from them her presence in an hour or in five hours however old and decrepit might be many members of her retinue.
Lord Ribblesdale in his brief, delightful reminiscences, and Lady Augusta Stanley in her letters give a vivid picture of the endless meals and rigid etiquette of Windsor Castle during the reign of the Queen.
There was neither haste nor change nor informality. All things seemed as fixed and as massively enduring as the stone turrets and battlements of the castle. Her Majesty domination was complete and autocratic and no one less than royalty walked on the green beyond the terraces where now the servants of the castle play Golf!
The Interior Unlike the exterior of the castle which keeps unchanged its magni icent feudal look, the interior has suffered many vicissitudes from the varying tastes of different monarchs.
Change at last came again to Windsor with the death of the Queen and the advent of King Edward. The order of things was reverently but ruthlessly changed that order which pardonably enough people had begun to regard as eternal.
There was first the invasion of the bathroom. Not one but many. King Edward was as insistent on this innovation as his mother had been firm in resisting it. Nor were these bathrooms fitted with independent hot water that enigma to the American visiting England. They were both numerous and modern at a time when the hand bath was by no means a museum pice even in America, Drawing rooms and corridors assumed an altered appearance. Cellars and dark rooms gave up their treasures; in one notable case the fine marquetry of a French artist was brought to light again by the careful removal of chemical stains from a forgotten table used to assist in the development of photographs. Victorian atrocities were hastened from sight, and with a nice attention to style and perior, the fine pieces of earlier periods were arranged in more congenial assembly: Sheraton was put with Skeraton and Chippendale with Chippendale; Louis XVI was removed from the Flemish styles brought wer with William and Mary. Where it was not possible to effect harmony between magnificence and Victorianism, one or the other was sacrificed.
King Edward began at Windsor the task of bringing order out of chaos, light into darkness. Colours appeared, different curtains, hangings, upholstery: the windows were thrown open and the hallowed stutfiness disturbed. Stiffness was relaxed while formality was not abandoned altogether for King Edward, in spite of his gayety, insisted on form and ceremony. different for (Continued on page 6)
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fred Rhodes, probably still the greatest all rounder of the day will be coming here next year with the team, says the Jamaica Gleaner.
The information is given in the Yorkshire Evening Post, which says: In his many tours, Wilfred Rhodes has not included a visit to the West Indiess. He will probably take part in the coming tour. Terms have been proposed, and he has signified his willingness to accept them. The visit will be a fitting conclusion to a record of overseas erleket tours which few players have equalled.
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