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Whether directing his missionary school at Hay River, Great Slave Lake, or out on ‘the trail, sleeping under the brilliance of an arctic winâ€" ter night, in a temperature sixty beâ€" low zero; whether driving 250 miles to celebrate communion among a group of half breeds; or performing Equally eager to adopt the latest frills of fashion are the Indians, and their woman folk. Especially the latâ€" ter. Thus comely Minnehahas on the roof of the world, clad formerly in caribou skin, are acquiring knee length silk skirts and rayon lingerie, when they can get it, and are rouging their cheeks with toilet conâ€" fections obtained from the nearest trading post. Long Devotion to an Ideal Twenty years is a large slice of any man‘s life to be devoted solely to the furtherance of an ideal. Twenâ€" ty prime years of vigorous, enthusiâ€" astic manhood is.the Canon‘s contriâ€" bution to the improvement of exisâ€" tence within the five hundred mile radius of his parish about the Great Slave country. Fascinating are the experiences he now describes, lookâ€" ing back on two generations of adâ€" venture in ministering to this area of one hundred million acres. Queer have been the customs in past years of the natives of the north, and marvellous the moderniâ€" zation of their ways. Not only have their barbarous â€" practices . beén largely abandoned, but to an almost undesirable extreme has the penduâ€" lum of progress in some directions swung. ® His main avocation for the past twenty years has been that of Angâ€" lican missionary and ambassador of Christianity to the Eskimos and Indians scattered through Canada‘s far northwestern . wastes. But the circumstances of his career have compelled him to combine such other miscellaneous pursuits as those of school teacher, physician, postman, agriculturist, and dog breeder. He is one of that handful rare men who have been unostentatiously laâ€" boring to lead Canada‘s arctic peoâ€" ples from savagery to civilization. Many. and â€" remarkable are the changes in the life of those peoples as described by him, upon emergence from two decades" of selfâ€"imposed banishment in the Great Slave Lake country: changes which have proâ€" ceeded unobserved on the Dominâ€" fon‘s snow clad polar doorstep, yet which mark an almost unparalieled epic of evolution. ty years ago. Mr. Vale then lived with his mother, brother and sister at Allen and Herbert Streets. A fow years ago Mr. Hilliard had the pleasure of hearing Canon Vale‘s name mentioned over the radio broadcasted from Edmonton station CJC.A., whereupon he wrote him and his reply was mailed on Sepâ€" tember 30th and was received Decâ€" ember 6th, from which you may gaâ€" ther the distance Canon Vale‘s misâ€" sion at Hay River, N.W.T., which was located in the far north of Caâ€" nada‘s hinterland. . It was in Vancouver recently that Canon Alfred J. Vale rather relucâ€" tantly permitted himself to be interâ€" viewed. , (nee Mary Etta Nash) both residents of the town of Waterlo® about thirâ€" readers. It depicts the life of the porthern wilds as endured by Canon A smart collection for Misses and Women. For Smart and Stylish â€" © * Ladies Ready â€"to â€"Wear or Millinery See .__ The latest creations in smart Coats or Dresses are being featured here. Values that will delight every woman who seeks the best for the least. * ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD MILLINERY Ladies Readyâ€"to Wear and Millinery & 26 King St. E., Kitchener Misses‘ and Women‘s Coats of Broadcloth, Tricotine and Tweeds, fur trim med, self trimmed, Tailored Moâ€" dels, Sport Styles, or dressy garments, ~feaâ€" tured with high drawnâ€" in waistlines or Capes, uneven hemlines. The UNITED 26 Ié;:tg St. Coats ! Pri $ and up. UNITE D l The comforts of home were conâ€" epicuously lacking when the Canon alighted â€" in the «wiMlerness those twentyâ€"two years ago. In the matter of food, it was soon found, one must live largely off the land. That is, ‘there was fish and fresh which the natives brought in, supplemented by such vegetables as could be grown in the garden of the mission school unâ€" der a northern sky whose early frosts precluded many accustomed delicacies. Fish and potatoes were the staple diet. The: menu in fact for many years read mainly as follows: For breakfast, potatoes or fish; for dinner, fish of potatoes; â€"for supper, both fish and potatoes. * a «00 ID TCPaT: AaTINCNES WQS & NCCES: da.;‘ll::;‘: d‘::l}y :l:?inut:‘{l‘:l“;e :33’3.,131 sity. If his own wife were physically and since the light of midnight proâ€" unifiltl t(t) a::]co}r:lpany him, the h"s)l:?nd motes vegetable growth even as day. MifN 240 NC ts Kon B any my. light, potatoes reach full bloom in M2!"A&G is not markéd by any forâ€" 29 days from date of planting, and mal ceremony, though it is surroundâ€" e Yas ed ‘by well defined tabus. A marriage an abundant crop may be harvested a in record time. During the summer is sometimes‘djesolved after a year the thermometer reaches 93 degrees or twoâ€"if no children have been born. in the shade, dropping by midâ€"winter it :n rg“d:-(’f th:a:imboe:s-rt hel E;klll';l(). to 65 degrees below zero. e sbmelimes claiimnad.feels (nal Ne U is merely doing, openly and inforâ€" Going 1,800 Miles to School maily, what many white men do coâ€" Twenty varieties of vegetables ‘vertly or with much grinding of comâ€" ultimately experienced with, and plicated legal machinery. In general with the aid of dogs to pull the it is true that among Eskimos, as plough and turn the furrow, were among the Marquesans of the South grown under Canon Vale‘s superviâ€" Seas, chastity does not appeal as exâ€" sion at the school, so that the diet cessively important. Nor, did the ultimately included plenty of vitaâ€"+example of white men, living among Coming back over the same trail two years ago, the Canon left Hay River Saturday evening and arrived in Edmonton the following Friday in time for tea. ‘Thus what was forâ€" merly a seventy day journey had been reduced to six. But even that now seems slow, for toâ€"day flying men are piloting their planes from Edmonton to Great Slave Lake in five hours. . of ease or advancement. Seventy days, the journey took, from Edmonâ€" ton. Travelling northern routes then was in itself an experience. By stage the first two days «journey from Edmonton to Athabaska Landâ€" ing was easy enough. After that flatâ€" bottomed scows floated down the ri ver and rapids to what is now Fort Fitzgerald, whéere ensued sixteen miles of portage across impossible trails, with the wagon wheel sinking axleâ€"deep, and the hub buried in quagmire. Thence, at last, a small steamer completed the journey down Slave river to Great Slave Lake and westward along the south shore to ‘he tiny outpost at the mouth of the Hay River. __It is two years since Canon came out of the north. Poubtiess he would have been there still, as principal of the St. Peter‘s Anglican Indian resi dential school at Hay, River, fad it not been that his wife‘s health sutâ€" fered from the long years of partnerâ€" ship in service and hardship, and it was imperative for him to resign his post and bring her back to Ontario, where he was presently prevailed upon to accept the principalship of a similar and larger Anglican residenâ€" tial at Chapleau, which position he still holds. \ Twentyâ€"two years ago, on Septemâ€" ber 8th, 1907, Canon Vale, then a young man, arrived at Hay River settlement on the southâ€"west shore of Great Slave Lake, all his worldly possessions in hand, having irrevocâ€" ably turned his back on the thought lightened modern modes. A wide â€" Pure _ Silk Si}*k Prints, and Georgett scription. twoâ€"piece colors, yo and no t T n. _ There _ ce styles, bri youthful moc two alike. range of Cantons, Chiffons Straws, Bakus, Panamaâ€" Brims or Snug Fitting interminable winter nights were used to the tune of 30 cents a pound. ‘The hospital is a vitaily important part of the equipment of these misâ€" sion schools, for in 1907 when the Canon first went north the nearest doctor was 900 miles away, and the Canon had to act as the medical exâ€" pert for his community, most ably asslsted by his wife, a trained nurse, nee Mary Etta Nash,‘ of Aurora, Ontario. ‘This courageous lady followed the Canon to Hay Riâ€" ver in 1909, coming up to share his life and labors and being married to jhim by Bishop Lucas who accompaâ€" uied her on her adventurous journey. In giving ber all to her husband‘s cause, she sacrificed among other important things, her health, though not till she had wonderfully filled the role of ange!l of mercy to that forsaken land for eighteen long years, an example of devotion matched by few among Canada‘s misâ€" sionary heroines. > Great Work Among The Eskimos Nothing obviously very advanced in the form of scholarship can be imâ€" parted at these mission schools. Speaking, reading and writing of English, a littlé arithmetic, the mere rudiments of religious doctrine, but at the same time a great deal of pracâ€" tical Christlanity as applied to orâ€" dinary social life, are what the stuâ€" dent requires. The school day is diâ€" vided into two, and one half spent in the class room, while the other half Occasional polygamy and the exâ€" changing of wives were among the most disasteful conditions to‘ which the church addressed itself. The exâ€" planation of these practices was, originally, simple and natural. If a ‘hunter: were going on a long journey the presence of a woman to cook, and to repair garments was a necesâ€" sity. If his own wife were physically unfit to accompany him, the husband might trade her for another. Eskimo marriage is not markéd by any forâ€" mal ceremony, though it is surroundâ€" ed ‘by well defined tabus. A marriage is sometimes‘djesolved after a year or twoâ€"if no children have been born. ’ Indoors and out the Eskimo is a tenacious worker. He is mentally slow, but amazingly eager to learn, and to pase his scholarship on to ‘othars of his tribe. Each boy orâ€" girl at the mission school returns home at the end of his period of residence (which may. last anywhere from one to ten years), and endeavors to teach, his parents, brothers or sisâ€" ters the rudiments of reading and writing. Missionaries‘ Very Difficult Task To. change the Eskimo‘s actual mode of living and bring it more in line with Christian standards has been a tremendously difficult task with which nevertheless some subâ€" stantial progress has been made. ‘night sun, but so far the mooseberry, is hybrid cranberry, and the wild is devoted to manual wotk in field and garden. * bread and butter were also scarce. ‘Tinned butter came in, but as it cost from $1.50 to $2.00 per pound it was doled out twice a week, and spread very thinly at that. Flour cost $15.00 per 98 pound bag, and even the canâ€" dles which lighted the gloom of the Te o n t o stand the severity~ of the frost. At Chatham Lincoln ‘County farmers are two weeks behind in their spring work, and the blizzard, with heavy snowâ€" fall, Tuesday. will prove a further hinâ€" drance, according to W. H. Bunting, fruit grower. The fields all over the district are so wet that farmers have been unable to got on "the land., The fruit growers have been held back in their spraying. Aching Muscles _ While there were six men for that the every girl, the sharing of wives needâ€" ly by w ad no explanation. Food, weapons,‘their res ‘mplements, everything, belonged to}; ‘The ay the tribe and were for common use; women t naturally therefore to the Eskimo, political « before his contact with Christianity, and platf women aiso. Not that it uaoeomâ€"puo ever mon for a woman to belong sevâ€"ithose op eral men at the same time. She was, consider recoguized as one man‘s wife ;ndi Mre. T »roperty. But if she happened to £0, work of iway for a time another might e6â€")Liberal w t*ablish temporary possession. Or if and at el she became unruly he might give ber woman u: away; if growing old she might sell Canadian her, cheap, to some poor hunter who themselve was spousless and needed her. Or extent as is a epecial privilege and mark Of distances ‘riendship bestowed on some friend, tion of th or visitorâ€"possibly a white m.nâ€"â€"~|gtwn as he might occasionally loan her. ence. Mr [ DCVE NOCE INO!M 1IM®! TPPAIN, AMU Liberalism could hold its own then taken a mile from camp and left against Conservatism any . time. in the snow for wild animals to Although this fact was apparent to feast on. tan good Liberals, Mre. Tweed urged While there were six men for that the party could be aided greatâ€" every girl, the sharing of wives needâ€" ly by women members shouldering ed no explanation. Food, weapouns.‘their responsibilities. more unproductive being to feed, and for a years or two at least, an added burden for the mother to bear ou the trail. Girls though sometimes culty. Naturally there is a close reâ€" lationship between the two. « To such an extent was it the cus tom to kill female babies at birth that thirty years ago in the castern arctic there were six adult Eskimo whaling, were genorally less efficient at a dinner meeting held than boys. So most of the girl babies C A. recentiy when in an were strangled with umbelical cord that Body Mrs. Tweed rei as they drew their first breath, and Liberalism could hold FARMERS BEHIND IN WORK Experience quick relief when rubbed with Minard‘s. Use also for stiff joints or strained ligaâ€" ‘ments. existence of a higher code. â€"~ Reinhardt Furniture Co. 2â€"inch Round Posts with heavy fillers, Guaranteed spring. All felt mattress, in all sizes. No matter what your taste may be, you will surely find just the bedroom suite you want in this allâ€" inclusive group. All the new woods and dustâ€"proof features are to be found here. 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Tweed felt it should be the ; work of the women to have all the {Liberal women listed on voters‘ lists and at election time to see that each woman used her franchise. Thus far Canadian women had not interested themselves in politics to the same extent as British women. The great distances and the scattered populaâ€" tion of the Dominion was sometimes given as the reason for this indifferâ€" ence. Mrs. Tweed pointed out thTt: the provincial governments handle‘ questions bearing directly on the! everyday lives of women ‘but al though provincial distances are not great there is probably less interest : shown by women in provincial afâ€" | fairs than in the affairs of the Doâ€" minion. 1 â€" women should study opposition Igm papers and get the viewpoint of opâ€" posing parties on political questions; | théy should learn to dissassociate}disapprovingly to the bill providing personalitles from opinions eo that arâ€"| that candidates for provincial honors gument could be carried on graceâ€"\make a deposit of &00 upon acceptâ€" fully without rancor on either side|ing nomination. A man‘s ability as a and they should learn not to make legislator should not ‘be judged by positive statements unless sure of!his financial standing, she thought, facts. 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