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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-09-25, Page 8• Stations m Far North .. Aid Forecast$,Si4s Cd. Foci&. As Weather of the Nein!. American Continent ;is Made in , Arctic ' Regions, -:-Radio Proves ,Invaluable liio>ttreal,-•Enthusiastic about the taervices rendered by the•Cahadian government's radio stations on the prairies and is the, Northwest terri- tortes, Colonel F,., Forde, D.S 0., assist- , ssist, sant director of signals, has ieturned to Ottawa after• a 9;0.00 -mile inspeetion 'trip, in the course ot which he4visited 'proposed ".district headquarters `.and• Ogee! units in 'military districts Nos 10, 1412 and ,13, and a number of Pro: jetted %air snail, stations. ' ° •. ' Colonel Forde's farthest north visits' were at Aklavid •alit, * erschel Island, at .whicai are situated the most north-' • •er y IA all *the -government 'radio sta- tiotis. , These stations, in the -far Northwest,, heexplained,,, are invalu= • able in: providing Weather reports, I'.n this aria the weather for. thegreater part of North America is , made, and reports. from the district enable the• meteorological•stations to make accur- n•'• ate forecasts. • • Development of civil aviation in the district has given the stations an addi tions value .in supplying 'reports' to pilots, as dfscovery.of minerals on .:the.• shores of the Great Bear lake bee led to a; large increase in the number of planes operating , in the district. • To Fomplete the : chain of stations which stretches uorblt along the water - watt' system of Lake Athabasca. Great' Slate Lake and the •Mackenzie, River, Colonel Forge thinks anew, station -at Post Mclliurray is ;teetled.,, rt is a, nal, aural jtiniping-off •place for. air 'traffic, end to get •Weather reports from„ tie 'north. at. present. it is, necessary' to coitmun'icate With Edmonton by wire: Besides, the northern stations which were, erect ed . primarlly for meteoree logical and 'Commercial •,purposes, :Colonel Forge visited the many` ata tions in the .northern ,sections of Sas katchewan: and Manitoba:. which bane been erected inrecent years to serve. the growing air traffic in those areas. ,Girl Guide News The Marguerite •• .The Marguerite grows in, the gelds and flowers chiefly tn• .the, late Stu mer, It has an irregular shaped leaf, and a -long graceful flower -stalk, at the end of which the flower bud opens Into' a large; "flat head. - We .,cannot call it a Sower, "as . it realla consists of a flat •head.• oftittle yellow flowers, .•surrounded by a ring of long white florets, each of which is also a true . flower, although they look like petals The are very hardy flowers and live a long time in water. I once read in a book, that the Mar- guerite is the wisest of all. flowers. ,pang -'has .sen:[ us t'l"ie Following s aiht of the Marguerite. ' Rudyerd-Heipman. Legend of the Marguerite Once upon a tinie'there was an East ern princess who had always seen_ onty the dark-haired. brown -faced babies •ot' 'ter own ;country, ' One day Mifteni; her wisest councillor. , • came to her with the'storg of a marvellous 'vision he had had, in which he had seen a. little girl -child quite digerent • from any•children he•had eater seen before. She ;had ,short, . curly: golden hair, and her tace was the color of the most des Beate rose. She wore• a mostexquisite gown of silver, andherbeauty far -ex- celled that of the Princess.herselfArhe Princes, although kind an'd,good; Was a little annoyed because the wise man had announced the -child as being, more ' beautiful than she, whowas named by all "Marquita;'•' ' which means "The most. beautiful of. Lotus buds." Never could she imagine a baby with fair hair, or, with a ro§e-pink complexion Three years later Miftani.came ' once again• t9 the Princess to tell her of a vision. This time. he bad seen a teen Witt Iady. Weeping, for the child •had died. ' Now Mantilla, like .all - the peo- ple of her land, -believed that . when a mortal . died he lett his soul' in the keeping of a flower, and she at once commanded her slaves to seek for the Sower in which was the' sent" of the beautiful little girl: Attain, three pears passedby and, lauftani had a third vision. This time he saw an island in a blue; blue sea; • a beautiful island; nemed England. In its grassy .fields fairhaired• children played .among the flowers,' but Miftani noticed'[ D y one blossom,in which he knew must be. the soul of the little, girl, for its centre was the same color "as the curly hair, and the:silver petals reminded him'of the wondrous crown. As soon `as she was told, Marquita and all her attendantscame•to the island. As she was walking slowly through a nteatlow: tee, Princess heard a tiny whisper which hioui deg, very 'meal like her owe name. Bending down, she found the flower She sought at ' heir feet. 'D=d you call me, little Golden Be9d." she asked gently. "No. no," answered the dream -child. •41' whispered .my own name (which' is ; Marguerite.' . , ; • - • "if,e ave let a et intend d select his 'own - ' way to die most of them would .rliooee to die of old ,age, Letrie E. Lawes. • . man -only becomes educated. when be knows why things happened Economy Corner Ham Baked in Milk Slice of him 1 inch .thick, 1 table- spoon Hoer, 1. teaspoon blown .sugar, 1.cup milk, % cup water. Bake in an oven' until' ham. its tender. " Hot Vinegar _.. _. . • Will quickly • reduce the pain or swelling caused by a sprain 'or bump: '" Cold in Chest A flannel:dipped in'bailing 'water and, sprinkled with turpentine laid on the •cb;est as quickly as possible .w.ill ' re- lieve the most severe cold or hoarse-. ness. . Oatmeal Water Put 1 cupof oatnieaI in a stone; jar; rindefitheinonsecuelthaii.'-Goeerevitle 2 :quarfs boiling, waterend let' stand until sugar is dissolved and the water is cold;": Strain and alis!. . Good Cure For; Colds . An excellent cure for cold is t0 cut up, a Spanish onion in thin slices and' between each layer piece brown 'sugar., The .syrupresulting from -this Is of great ,value to heavy colds. - A mixture of turpentine and vaseline. It is invaluable to rub' on the chest in treatment of colds..' • Choppietg Walnuts ' When .using walnuts' putthemon a piece of wax paper and roll them .with roliiiig pin instead of 'cutting them.ult. It is much easier' and the 'Wax paper saves the:oiI in the nuts. r. Crows Reverse. 'Migratiotn. Under Stimulus of Light Washington, -Why birds fly- north inspring andsouth in autumn May be ans>ered as a result of tricking crows into.a reversemigration. Dr. William Rowan, of the Univer sity of Alberta, in reporting, to the Na- tional Academy of Sciences his expert meats with crow's, says the 'supposed- ly invariable midgrgtory instinct ap=, pears due to some lioraione: This is_, au extremely important chemical, sub- stance released is the blood streamby; one of the glands of internal secretion which is believed activated by the length of days , ' " ' ' Through use of artificial lights hey changed the "seasons" for a group of crows so far as day and night Were concerned. Released from their spew dally 'equipped aviary, the birds, for the •most part, took an opposite route from thatfollowed by another group df' crows held captive under natural conditions and set free ,a few hours earlier,' • , s White Signal New Curb . 'On , Ir ightning Damage Schenectady, N.11 The 'latest man- made•curb for lighthiug'desiruction is a small white signal. It jumps into .view on itigj tension line totters whenever lightniing strikes or when for other t=iiasons the electri- cal power get out of hand and .flashes r`1 outside insulators. • • ' , The. white target is a signal, for a s linteman to climb the to•iver 'and look for liabtning. damage: Itis' operated lay instruments capable' of measuring in split Millionths of a second the ex- tra surge of power that crones over when they did."---Arehbishop,of pork- alone when lightning strikes... P. Ie King. in `.. otlnad teIM ,era\.•a\��..�•e \e wo} ,of the Nor e Poles ttract theExplorer Pole `of Cold May Be in .Siberian--Wtle Greenland May. Prove to Be.Centre.of Winds ' • • A Canadian flying •expedition has ].test succeeded in charting• .with aerial cameras h Pole area, eras the Mirth .. Ma n t c g, e i . which, wits discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in 1831 and relo- eated. by; -Captain-Itoald Amundsen, w o made •extensive observations from 1 03tope1905, just before finding the. r o was ' Passe tit t e. g There are .fiv'e' Poles in' the .Arctic regions to . sti:mulate, ,the imagination of explorers. One is the, North. Pole; :visited by: Peary, by Byrd and by the Amundsen - Ellsworth Nobile expedt tion, ,Another is the 1lfagnetic Pole, The, 'third . is, the Me Pole. knewn'�fts the Pete of 'Ineeces'sibility until, Amundsen,' Ellewo •th' end Nobile hew, over it .in ;the dirigible -Nolte + in • 132_6,, There are also a'Wind .Pole, and. the Pole of told. . •• The Wand. Pole may possibly:. be in Greenland, where British and Gerniag. expeditious are now condeefing, Meteorological observations, The Pole o! Cold is still to be, located dehnitety., Some of these poles .are shifting ib cha>i'acter, though . they can be placed fairly Welt 'upon.wipe. Of this type ere the North. Pole and the Magnetic North Pole. The former, at the tip of the axis on which our earth rotates, .moves about in a cieFcle with a radius tit .'thirty'to forty fe t. • s The Magnetic Pole -T-heeMagnetic' Nor-`tk Pole; which' at tracts the needle of the Compass; be, Cause it is afthe' axis of the great elec- tric dynamo constituting th3 earth, °'moves over "a considerable area, slow - 1 ly but .measurably. over . a period of years. The position generally given is near Lai. 70 degrees.', Long. 9? degrees W.. en :they Canadian Mainland at: a place called ,Boothia Felix or Boothia .Peninsula. let Summer this is ire e^n irdWr assw ct'""Iluti 1lr \ fit terat..is..no®,iranger eraen hue line tae • appearance of a cold prairie. Many ships' have visited the region.,. some comfits, to •grief on jagged rocks just 1 • b'elow. tlae earfece, , of •the•'+Gu1t .'ofj After holidaying at Cowes,, the Ring and ,Queen made their, first visit ,to Scotland. in two years. Above—The Ring 'steps to chat with Major RD., le: Hunter, commander of guard' of honor," at Ballater station: He made his little world a place, Where mignonette iu safety grew. Ile edged the harrow yard with grace, Built shelters for a bird' or two: ./ti's neighbors knew hint as a friend. The children thought him "lot,. of fun.' Neat more than this at life's long end Do tie repeat of anyone? - The needs of life he understood. :He faced,. the world with 'smiling eyes: Must ono'be brilliant to be^gdod? ?bust melte famous to be wise?' Perhaps man's greatest praise can be, Vhen all the toilof life is done. He lot e 'alt • things d tit n sof land and sea And children thought him "lots of fun:' --['Edgar A. Guest. IT' IS Allehe . Peach is one of the . most popular colors in home furnishings, and it som- bines beautifulle with orchid, reseda green or yellow., and peach and blue is regarded as especially smart: , •Percale is fast becoming a favorite fabric for summer draperies and ie shown ie both large and small designs.. Brass •article and faucets will look like new if rubbed With vaseline and polished •with a soft cloth. Vitamin; B Found Short • • In Fruits and. Vegetables -Berkeley, _Calif,, ' Changing food hebits of American fairil'cs cause tite lack of Vitamin B • which stunts chil- dren's growth, beiieres'Dr. Agnes Fay 1 organ, of tite.I7nivctehy of Califon- nae. Dr. Morgan pa`.ed a year itt 'study .0f. diet o: uadernotteee.vd chit, dren•between the ngcs of .ciea.en and thirteet_ years., "This change in fad habits," Dr. eforgaa seek "of the •American peopie has ie. genteel been looked''• on as physiologically not injurious,. because the: supposed increase in the :Use of milk, fruits and yegetables was thought' to overbalance any nutritive loss involeed in the •substitution , of eager for cereals and p partici 1. uer y for wheat products. "Brit the protein content of the aver, age s'uccnient vegetables' and fruits is • practically negligible as compared with that of cereals; and our work has shown. tjtat vitamin B. of wheat pro-' dacts;cant.ot be replaced -by the'ntinute� amount tit vitamin Bin .vegetables and'fruits." - Mistaken Friends Rote many 'good but mistaken friends love to tell' ns what martyrs they are! They are the cause, not the effect, of martyrdom. English "Bobbies" at Play pices Ia. ' ilia Himalaya Mountain* ' might he' the coldest ail=yeaiteropld; .spots •' They ate Jar from the waren ocean and high above it, though not 1 lite so very far from the Equator, l ere I are • sunt' piaces anywhere: near the Aye -tithe altitude on which the the sun never strikes, they are likely. to de; ntaud strong consideration as the Pole •.. of Cdid and 'testy have a better claim' than either of,, the Pole's lying at ,sea level in Arctic,';, .F'. • Or.perbaps the Pole of Cold is in Greenland. t+hiclathay be every bit as cold in •Winter, as .Verkhovansk,, ' Poi' We greatest ['!'inter cold is ,produced by, three• conditions working toge[tiee —distanceC' om the Equator,•distanceI, , from the ocean; and:alti.tud.e. The pia- teat) sif,Ctinnt-aat Greenland ansiters alt, of.these condtionk whereas the North ' • Pole and the 'Ice Pole meet daily theta . • first—+distance from the Equator. Per= , + , 4 :baps the German and British meteoro-'•, 1ogists now:in Greenland may be able . to learn definitely whether . that•ice• boned island contains both'the Pole of Cold, and .the soiuewhat.leeudary Pole of uds, ,TR'ete British espedition;is engaged la • surveying the 'ice cat) ot, Greenland. with a seen- to determining whether' it would be possible to +use the island as a way station for airships usedon the ]trope ederoute 7between Britain and ' Canada,'and tlie.German-expedition is. also acquiring meteorological..data re,. lative to ,flying. as well as to storm can ditions in the transatlantic.ship lanes: By Pole of Winds :is meant that centre—. jt there is only one—where.. •the the11 .Winds of the Northern Betels- . Jl' shere originate Scieutista refuse to credit the polar regions with as ming • i icybigsts as the poets etiggest. There is in Greenland.' however, n peculiar lea—tit =iia Lith sth nt;1=• •ibt scientists, to Rt: cuss whether 'There ; e—reh5ther ttstdtethe-rirerer heeisisand is c6l l_ partit ularly id the interior, and has'a.laump on its•back near hie ;re., The. air undoubtedly beroines very cold and titin: onie experts 537. • lt'weuld; therefore. -.hare a teathency to settle down inion the tome orinterior • Greenland and few downhill. in every direction, as, water does when poured elan inaea-ted tk>,ar1, The result might ile that ,t tele would irsnaltr be ,little wind' near thecentk:,reenland's dome . and •frequent .winds blowing from the. interior to. the ' casts. Stich *hide. of course, • would contribute to ' the interacting • system • at:. grinds throughout• the Xorthera.'Heanisphare met'he,nce could be lettere iaieport-iut , to meteorology,• Electrittal Change Felt Instantly Around' World Washington. -A. recently observed electrical phenonienotl that :weeps the ' entire world at the'satee instant be - w t n G and 8 pent:, Washingten time is described to tho.Annerican Geophysi- . cat ' I.inion• by Dr. 0, 11. Gish,. of the ' Carnegie•Institution. • . • • It is a chimps. connected with 'the earth's' electrical charge. This.eharee; :ys, Dr •Gish, telids to acquire a high' value during the actors earnest., The cause is .not •defyiitely known, but is ascribed . to some 'still. "elusivej known" factor that maintains' the. earth charge.. - Existetce of .his charge is shown oy study' of atmospheric. electricity. The • same studies • show that the chem.] fluctuates and hare given slaw indica- tion. of the unit`' rssl time rt-' ettule • 1st these sl ai i es. , Boothia. The Ice Poles,. so 'named by a•miiud- sen because the term °•Pole. of Iuac: cessibility" no longer appli d When he'erossed it by dirigible. lies between the North Pole and the Alaskan•shore, forming ' a lough triattgie.' with that pole. and the Magnetic Pole. It le at the centre„ of the great field of 'float- iitg ice, covering 1,000,900 square tulles, oil *lake the NorthPote Pies. • Location of Ice Pole Because the warmthof the , GulfStream clears the ocean of ice to with- in 600 or 700 miles of the North Pole on the Norwegian• side, the oetitre of the ice mass—ala hence the location of the Ice Pole. pis 400 miles -away from the North Pole on the Alaskan side. • ti hen Amundsen passed: over the ice Pete -he saw nothing below him but 'solid ice. so thickly, packed • that not erea-a rift of water appeared. do luau has ever set foot at the Ice t . C Pole.c .� The ••hard_atpa of reaching et by og sledge hare been considered too great, and the Annindsen party ,re- ported that thecolidition of .ih;e ice was such as to prevent a landing by either.' dirigible or planes. Tet,'cold as this territory mutt be in the dead. of Winter, eeplerers• do not beliote that the. temperaturethere, or• et the North Pole, itself, ever falls to the level of 'ea degrees below zero. once reached • a the 'vtitie ey of Glad - stones near Barre. Moat; l'o land the pole of cold; therefore, scientists prat' Icok elsewhere. In 'foci. they must have to look for two or more i lid a Wes. instead of one. 1 One pole of roll --that harint the. ' .lowest, Wheel* temperature of which !here is record, has linen' fixed :cuts - lively, ea the ntiniaud of Asia., near :the Siberian village of Cerkho;•aa.-k, . soree ..I. ,alids from the Nettle !'ole. l' The coldest Winter tenil'cr.tere ;hat I can ever oc'-ur therals. Ise:noel:le tee 1 tweet: 00 and 93 hegaess beyow zero. ile the t.'olde-t passible at either' ilia. Orth' Pale 'or the ice Pete it hello—el:.;' to be about 3'l degr'ees warn r. . High•ar,dLow Temperatures • ' But in Summer the t"nip: to lee e ;i ; t erkhovansk som-_: ia.,'s rises to ;e 00x, once rearitang 'In ritlt Then:l. '.I' IIhumidity. -and earems e.. ri a r 'reel • re€etables ran be C::lei .test :n the e+- I. genie So if the tees. s. o; rr+l•! :i r. le •sidered as that place t,:,;,,. •4;.. .•.r, et •cnntnier tenipr•-at;:re or ;1.e ' a see 4 1:.:, l a:• essay :r'flee horse, .a average temp+ re: •ire, 17 Lea.. : • a- . ,4 : r b W. T'lun "'" where else ta;l•lu time Map. 'sTem: lea " • , In 'this reette ee it a - ,les: : ,tate[ certain, rier•eeserefe ' -, mass it email , Largest Radio Show in Canada Will Be - Held September 22 atnntrcal,---Tlte.largest 1radio showvinoes; In view of this several inane - In ••C'anada, the seventh ani noel radio' fac`tarers have arranged 'to held con • ex:In;lsitiolt, will be held here frons Sep o:ventiens d • aring the exhibition, and ne run. ha,,ana urn ed iii. -deet-i' temiter hee • 2 r, aeeording• to a recent ; ens wilt aio*d the conference thele ' announc•tmint •mado be E. M,. Wilcox, I. are rlannine. ' , manager. • •' M1 the new nnoriels of set., with the Three large halts in 'the Windsor' improvement- i+Ptected during the last, 1otel Will he used to display the latent year. will be ons ,view, and thus the •afodels of sets, and it is anticipated' public' Wiil he brought tap -to -date o'n'e 'that, following the experienee' of pre --i he dr;.veletini ants` in, the radio bust - atolls years, many thoiisands of pantie nen. now rata of tui++ lfirgeest on the' • trent Montreal end eastern Canada 1. -wan stoat, gine r ih' last radio eitltile-,.... wit( visit the exhibition. • '.° I a ion: ..• ° A5 this Merks the opening: ,of the[ Ar',in t.then't n:na.(',heen' made for • r'ariSe'season in Canada tiie.re Will, he a : sr, •:nl -') l'i4,1 t•s;a'.it''t.. b4 tine' [nein- • tars, .attend'anceof dealers* trent tett•• . • er e lu. t +•«d iii at irreriileasting of Polleeuien, ve ;n 1-n5• ".,14„-u'": t.'° ill tarle Quebec and'the 'Maritime Pee, tee se .ifn'u,at•-tri11:he-,,a daily* feature,• titres'of ee'ceni inennle,l 'Pelted •' ,fete:;:' • II 4- 4 a M . 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