Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-29
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
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Most of the ex-soldiers who take ad- vantage of the various schemes for securing small holding will have a certain amount of gardening experience to guide them. for many acres in trenchland were cultivated by troops during their periods of rest, and excel- lent results were obtained. .c
 At Benson's Barn, in the Salient, vegetables of all descriptions were grown, while the extensive allotments near Reninghelst were the pride of the Canadians. Soldier gardeners were en-
 thusiastic, but they had a grievance. Owing to the continual moving of di- visions from sector to sector the plant CTS rarely reaped the benefits of their labours, which, however, were thoroughly enjoyed by the battalions
 coming into the vacated acreas. The
 cultivators of a magnificent bed of asparagus discovered. gathered, and
 consumed near Baiseux last summer
 deserve special thanks.
 "ProbabIy the only passive resister
 to Summer time,'' says a writer in
 contemporary, will be the sundial: it
 will lag an hour behind" That would
 only be the case if the sundial showed
 Greenwich time. As a matter of fact. it only does that on four days in the year and only then if it's position is exactly on the Greenwich meridian. Greenwich time is based on an i'm
 aginary sun, which IS supposed to move quite uniformly, a thing, the real sun, on which the sundial depends,
 never does. Even on the Greenwich
 meridian Greenwich time and sundial time can be more than quarter of an hour at variance, the dial being at times that amount fast and at others ! as much slow.
 Few creatures that go to make up our urban fauna. will more readily re- pay attention for the amusement it affords than the jazzer. It is a crea- | ture of the twilight and late evening. when it fiocks in great numbers to halls and large rons for the purpose 1 of executing it's fantastic dance, | whense it's strange name.
 l The female jazzer derives a height ] ened colour from her may motions, and is, as a rule. the more graceful in l her evolutions. Observed away from
 his dancing haunte the male jazzer
 may readily be distinguished by his
 habit of shoe carrying. either partially
 wrapped in paper or protruding from | the pockets of his great coat. The | super jaZzer, or GaZZler. loves to deck itself in weird and fantastic costume, and large hall filled with these varie- 1 l ing spectacle.
 ! How comicaIy crude, as we'll as
 cruel, is the communism of the ignor-
 ant Russian Bolshevik of the peasant 1 class is shown by an incident vouclled i for by MT. I. Y. Shlllovsl1y (''Dioneo) i a Russian Journalist, who has suffered 1 in the past for his revolutionary zeal In some eases. he says, peasants
 took pianos from the etates and sawed i them to pieces, so as to be able to divide them according to the number ! of peasant household! More grim is l his story of how a piano caught cold 1 through being left oug in the rain. The andowner, from whom it had been filched. was thereupon killed, because he had "bewitched the machine.''
 When Sir George Perley took over the duties of High Commissioner for Canada in June 1914. he intended tc fill the post for two months only, unti the Canadian Government appointed .