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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1923-09-06, Page 4—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME BY H. LOUIS RAYBOLD sus- But in going down He if Tell the Public. and the and not things, out in was a care,” declared the girl he to marry shortly. “If you’d at this house., you’d be as it is just by hand, the other As long as the driver has his wheel so that the same amount of i i’i • f . j j_ _' 2 4-„ ‘_ ____2 ~ 4-^ th o 4- ’ttrn .-x/x I BRAKES BRING SERIOUS WOES IF NEGLECTED. It is difficult to picture a situation brakes far enough so that with greater possibilities of disaster possible to turn one wheel in it than an automobile out of con- Then adjust the brakes on trol. x__ __o _ __ _ ! car in hand he is not apt to get into ’ energy is required to turn that wheel, serious difficulty. i by hand. Among the most important factors. A lot of brake trouble will be avoid-, governing the control of a motor car, ed by using this important part of the are the brakes. For want of proper. car properly. WThen coming to a stop brakes on a car many folks have been — - -*■—■ killed or crippled or have come to some ' sort of grief. Even if it were pos-i sible to avoid accidents with ineffec tive brakes, it is not possible to enjoy motoring. No driver of a car is justi-' on a straightaway, shut off the throt tle and leave the clutch engaged until just before you come to a stop. Do not shut off the ignition until after you have stopped. __ v In going down an ordinary hill tied in taking his car out on the road leave the clutch engaged and close without first being sure that the brakes on his vehicles are in good working order. To those automobilists who would give the walking public a fair chance down the throttle. a steep hill or a moderate hill with a heavy load, put the gear in inter-! mediate or low speed at the top of the _____r____ _______ _ hill and leave the clutch engaged, to live out their lives in a useful fash- Shut off the throttle, and if desirable Ion, a few simple rules for safety first to still further reduce the speed turn In driving a car, especially in relation ” to the brakes, will eliminate most of the danger elements. CARE URGED FOR BRAKE8. In the first place, test the brakes when taking out the car by throwing out the clutch and applying the brakes. If they do not appear to be working effectively, fix them or get them fixed before proceeding on your “J.™6 a“e “p^perfy Tared'for? Intended trip. Pedestrians are not the only individuals injured in auto accidents. Motorists themselves are also found in the casualty lists. Then, i too, one’s car is worth something, and i the small trouble or expense of re- ■ pairing one’s brakes will be less than a broken fender on the car or smashed parts of some one else’s car that one may crash into because the brakes will not hold. j See to it that there is a good type of brake lining, and be sure that it is properly installed. Some linings are too soft or too thick. They easily be come matted and need constant adjust-' ment. ”” with plenty of asbestos, and some have copper wires woven in. It takes a good auto mechanic to Install brake linings. These linings should be properly stretched to avoid wrinkling and the rivets should be properly sunk. Otherwise, the metal, of the rivets will score the brake drum, and the brakes may not hold properly.1 Once a month, if a car is used much, | it is in line with safety, comfort and, satisfaction to remove the rear wheels and wash the brake linings with kero-1 sene. This will remove the oil and grease which handicap the proper ac tion of the brakes. The brake lining should not be oiled. A squeaking brake is a nuisance that can be avoided by proper adjust ment. This annoyance can often be stopped by removing the wheels and roughening the brake lining with a file I The brake mechanism should be wiped off and oiled about once a month or off the ignition switch. In ordinary driving, use the brakes as little as possible. When an emer gency stop i8 necessary leave the clutch engaged, apply the foot brake and pull the hand brake. But do not lock the wheels. Keep the wheels rolling to avoid skidding. A large part of the enjoyment in driving a car is guaranteed when the • It criminal for any automobile owner to do less than give thoughtful considera- > tion to this vital factor in motoring. --------4,-------- A Folding Boat. English Vacationists this year have been buying a novelty in the form of a folding boat that fits into a suitcase and may be carried by one person. It is the outcome of the folding canvas canoe first made some years ago. Now Capt. Charles^ G. Perceval, A.E.F., has just brought from Germany a light weight collapsible boat capable of car rying two persons easily, and one that . - seems an advance over the singleThe best linings ^are woven sea(er ,Q.f the English suitcase variety. Capt. Perceval’s boat, with paddles and case for transportation on the run ning board of an automobile, weighs ' only thirty pounds. It can be as-1 sembled in five minutes and its sim plicity is such that it has only twenty component parts. Packed it makes a bundle six inches in diameter and forty-eight inches long. Expanded for service it becomes a two seated boat fifteen feet, long and has waterproof spray shields at each end. The high gunwales, or combings, make the col lapsible boat fairly safe, even in chop py lakes, and it promises to add much to the pleasure of automobile fishing trips. As showing its seaworthiness’ Capt. Perceval says it was a boat similar to his that was’ used by Sir Roger Case ment when he landed on the coast of Ireland from a German submarine and attempted to start the Irish revolution in 1917.off and oiled about once a month once every 500 miles of driving. More accidents are probably due faulty adjustment or application brakes than from any other thing, should be a fixed habit in the life every car owner to make a systematic! brake inspection regularly. For in stance, the loss of a cotter pin might' lead to a serious accident. When al lock washer is used, it is best to use! a new one instead of putting the old one back. AVOID DRAGGING. Brakes should not drag, for drag-, ging heats them up and wears them out unnecessarily. Nor should brakes be too loose, for they will not act quickly enough to avoid danger. On the propeller shaft brake there is a nut on the brake band which can be adjusted to make the brake neither too tight nor too loose. The rod through which the brake is connected to the pedal can be turned either to right or to the left to make it the proper length for efficient use of the brake. On the axle or wheel drub brakb where an equalizer is used, apply the brake when the car is standing. Ad-i just the equalizer until it is parallel! with the axle. On the external type1 of wheel drum brake tighten or loosen i the adjusting nut on the brake band and equalize the length of the brake rods. On the internal type it is nec essary to remove the rear wheels, ad-! just the cam plates and adjusting nuts and equalize the length of the brake rods. When in doubt about your brakes jack up the rear wheels and apply the who “But, Henry, it’s the dearest place —roses over the front door and a little porch, and a bed of pansies in front!” Ellen Mary’s voice held just the picion of a sob. “I know, dear,” returned Henry, his inflection was troubled, “but place this man knows about has three acres of land and a tight barn and an „ open-front poultry-house, all of which are more important than roes or pan sies!” “I don’t was going only look crazy about it as I am!” “Well, I can’t,” said Henry flatly, “because I’ve got to tell the fellow in the morning w'hat we’ve decided. I’m not the only one after it. It was just a stroke of luck my overhearing him say he had a place for rent out in ! Brayton. He says it is the only decent one there is in town.” “Well, he’s wrong about that. 1I knowr of one!” Ellen Mary was tri-! umphant, while on Henry’s face I dawned an expression of dismay. Was this small person whom he was going to take so soon under his protecting masculine wing and who had thitherto always been so docile, developing a strong will of her own? For several months Henry and Ellen Mary had been house-hunting, discov- ■ ering in the process that houses for ' rent w’ene as scarce as proverbial hens' ’ teeth. To be satisfactory, the place must be sufficiently far out in the country to afford room for consider able gardening, a flock of Leghorns, j and a Jersey cow, and yet within rea- Reuter’s also announced the relief sonable distance of Henry’s office in of Mafeking two days before the War, th® Office received “official intimation.” Getting the “Stitch.” Sometimes, after taking more violent exercise than usual, such a£ running, you may feel a pain in the side, near the lower ribs. It makes you want to halt. You stop for a while, and it geis after a mall steamer which had Just sailed, and threw on board a tin canis ter containing a report. i important issue but being a symbol ! of what might be expected in the fu ture. Dwelling inwardly upon this aspect of the case, Henry I'ose stiffly. “I’m sorry,” he said, “but w'hen it is as plain as possible that J have found just what we want, it is not quite fair | for you to insist on having your own Natural Reso^r: Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel ligence Service of the Depart ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: The products of Canada’s forests are so numerous and varied that it is difficult to se lect an industry in which some class of wood product is not an essential factor. A report re cently issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics gives the value of the output of the Can adian sash, door and planing mill industry for 1920 as $53,- 365,656, of which dressed lum ber and interior woodvzork formed the greater proportion, although boxes and packing cases, butter and cheese boxes, handles, etc., occupy a promin ent place in the output. On tario has the largest number of plants, 342, of the 810 in Can ada, the investment of the prov ince in this industry being $22,- 646,512. Ontario employs 5,515 of the total of 11,312 engaged, and of the total value of the Canadian output, $58,365,656, Ontario produced $29,874,994. The 5,515 employees in this secondary industry, together with their dependents and others, will thus have a very material interest in protecting the forest from fire. | Ellen Mary had risen also, and al- ■ though she was nervously twisting the end of her blue sash, she managed to be quite as dignified as Henry, if we are ■ not going to agree about it is as well that we found it time! ” Their.first quarrel! There moment’s silence during which the misery on both faces would have melt ed a stone. Then: “I’ll tell Peters in the morning that we—I—am no longer ftiterested in houses. Good night.” moved slowly toward the door. Then he felt a touch on his arm turned to catch on the girl’s face the look of apologetic contrition he ex pected, but one of startled surprise. “Who did you say?” she asked. “Peters,” said Henry shortly. “His wife owns it.’ “Oh,” said Ellen Mary softly. “Oh!” Dimily she was recalling the rose pansy cottage as set in a large tract of land with barns or chicken houses or something out in the back, and that the real estate agent who was showing it to her had said something about asking a Mrs. Peters if screen doors went with the place. "Henry,” said Ellen Mary, "on sec ond thoughts, I feel that it is my duty to give in. Tell this Mr. Peters we will take the place, and let’s you and it.” Tales of Reuter i Reuter’s the world-famous news agency, are moving from their pre- ■ mises in Old Jewry to the building on the Thames Embankment recently va cated by the Port of London Authority, says an English writer. In 1849 Julius Reuter established a pigeon post between Aix-la-Chapelle and Brussels. But, being an ambitious man, he transferred his business and opened an office in the Royal Ex change Building, London, where his better, staff consisted of one office-boy, F. J. j Griffiths, who later became secretary j j to the company. ; At first the company confined Itself : yOU are overtaxing your breathing ap- X-Al U..X paratUS>. The act of running uses up the oxy gen in our blood very quickly, plenish it, we must breathe more rapidly and deeply than accustomed to doing. Our main breathing muscle diaphragm, which, though strong and beauties i„ -— — where it is attached to the six lower ! seem to have melted even after the j wearers really went into the water. Now from Germany, home of “ersatz,’ or substitutes, comes the news that coffins are being made of paper and heavy cardboard. In line with the governmental policy of cheapening the cost of everything, use of the paper coffin has been legal ized and the old regulation forbidding anything but metal or wooden coffins will go into the discard, forts to further cheapen the cost of dying and burial the Berlin City Coun cil plans to tax costly funerals and all mortuary trappings heavily. Not only that, but it will demand that, graves be made shallower and the mounds over them lower—to save the cost^of gravedigging. It is even proposed to have mass transportation of the dead to the municipal cemetery in order to lessen the costs still mere. It will be required, however, that where paper coffins are used that the body be first encased in an airtight, waterproof wrapping, something like the wrap pings that swathe Egyptian mummies’. I ” . So far, their search had yielded no results. But tonight Henry had arrived full ' I go right out this evening to look at of enthusiasm over a description of ! apparently precisely what they were held out his arms which closed on his looking for, only to be met by Ellen docile little wife-to-be. “You’e one Mary bubbling over with a similar ex- j girl in a thousand!” uberanoe over her own discovery. The “Oh, no, dear!” said Ellen Mary question was,- which would give in?- meekly, “I’m quite sure the other nine “Ellen Mary — you darling!” Henry This pain is generally known And the point was a nice one, involv- ' hundred and ninety-nine would do ex- lame of “stitch.” It is really ing not only the present more or les® actly the same!”by the name of “stitch.1 ------- nothing to worry seriously over, ex cept that it is1 Nature’s warning that Untouched. to market quotations, but eventually' Reuter formed the agency into a con-, corn to deal in news. Their first work was to lay a cable across the North Sea, from Lowestoft, at the first sec-; tion of a telegraph route to India. Before the Great Fire; Old Jewry contained a palace belonging to Henry VI., on the site of which, swept clean by the fire of 1666, was erected a building which is now the very heart rjbs on each side of the body. I of Reuter's. I To this dingy old building, with its the ribs, too, move more rapidly, this thick walls, low ceilings, and steep 1 movement sometimes straining the staircases, comes all day long, all the i year round, the news of the world ! gathered by an excient and widely- spread organization. Reuter was j created a baron by the Duke of Saxe- ! Coburg-Gotha in 1871, and his title was i recognized by Lord Salisbury in 1891, I In the days before the cable, the j agency had the news of the murder of j Abraham Lincoln a week before any- I one else in Europe. Its New York correspondent set out in a fast tug I “Tell the public!” That is what Dr. Mustard, health officer of Preston County, West Virginia, wants to do. | Recently the Preston County depart ment of health announced that the children of the county were short on six-year molars; and the editor of the Preston County Journal dropped j around to the health officer’s to find out what a six-year molar was. This is how he tells the story: When we asked the doctor about molars he plunged into a corner and emerged with a diagram of the teeth of a six-year-old child. “The six-year molars,” he-said, “are . the first permanent teeth a child gets. ! You, like most parents and some den- i tists, probably think that ‘first’ ap- j plies only to the first milk teeth. This ' is incorrect. “Look at this diagram. Start at the space and count backward. The ! first five teeth are temporary; the i sixth is the first of the permanent teeth; it is called the sixth-year molar because it comes at about six years of age. Note that there are four of these, one on either side of the lower jaw and two just above them in the upper jaw. “Didn’t know that tooth was perm anent, did you? Lots of people don’t. Persons who don’t know, think it is a temporary tooth and let it decay. But it isn’t temporary! It doesn’t take the place of any temporary tooth, nor does any other tooth ever take its place. When it goes it goes forever.” “Well,” we asked, “won’t it be stronger than the temporary teeth and last longer?” “It may or it may not,” answered the doctor. “It’s a large tooth, but its upper surface has a lot of pockets which invite decay unless the tooth is kept clean and unless the child is prop erly fed.” “Properly fed?” we asked. “Exactly,” replied the doctor. Chil dren can’t grow as they should unless they are properly fed. Their bones, including their teeth, will be chalky; and chalky teeth decay quickly. More over, six-year molars come just wh^n the temporary teeth are decaying. Rot in teeth spreads like rot in a barrel of apples; and the molars, particularly if they are chalky, stand no more chance in a mouth full of rotting teeth than a snowball iq July. “Some of them are allowed to decay along with the terpporary teeth and others are pulled by parents or by officious neighbors because ‘they are only milk teeth.’ ” Dr. Mustard was waxing indignant. We were indignant too! “How can we help?” we asked. “The public ought to know about this; and we want to do our share.” “Use your paper,” cried the doctor, enthusiastically. “Tell ’em once, tell ’em twice, tell ’em over and over again. Tell each mother to examine her child’s mouth and count back to the sixth tooth. Tell ’em if it’- de cayed to hurry that child to the den tist. Tell ’em that once gone a six- year molar is gone forever; and that these molars are all as important to the mouth as a key stone is to an arch. i Tell ’em not to allow six-year molars to be pulled even if they are decayed, unless the dentitst insists- and to ba mighty sure that he is a real dentist.!’* So we’re tollin’ th°m- that is. YOU. Substitute Material. Substitutes of all sorts for all kinds I never pluck the rose; the violet’s of things came into common use dur- ; head ing the world war, and paper was the Hath shaken with my breath upon Its substitute material used most fre-! bank, quently. In Germany suits of clothe®, ' And not reproached me; the e ver oven, were made of paper, and only I sacred cup the ! recently some California bathing Of the pure lily hath between my 1-----go popular on the screen hands To re- , much I are •we Is broad in itself ends in small fibres ' wore paper bathing suits that did not Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lest one grain . . . .. • _ 1____'_____ 1___ ___nftav fha of cold As> we breathe quickly and deeply, diaphragm is at- that we feel the ! fibres to which the tache-d. Then it is j “stitch.” When we get this ! halt I again, ------ ■ quietly when Sve make a fresh start. You will odly get “stitch” when you are out of condition, for with practice you learn to distribute the strain amongst the various muscles, so that no particular one is affected unduly. pain, we have to until the muscle feels rested That J teaches us to go more I | In its ef- of gold. -—Landor. vote agin him.” to think- over the back till COMMENDATION Prospects -“Why Bright Friend—“Why have you meh a happy frame of mind D i vo r c- e Law yer—‘ ‘Haven’t — ■ --- —- The Winning Way. An Irish political candidate felt sure a certain elector was against him was surprised to have that dividual call and announce that would support him to the limit. “Whin the other day ye called my place and stood by the pigsty and talked for half an hour, I didn’t budge an inch,” said the visitor. “But after ye’d gone, I got in’ how ye reached ye.r hand rail and scratched the pig’s, he lay down wid the pleasure of it. “I made up my mind that whin a man was so amicable as that wid a poor fellow-crathure I wasn’t the bhoy to ------------------------ With Reverse English. “Well,” remarked the husband, after a long and heated argument on the question of man’s superiority over wo- ■ men, “at least there is one good, swreet1 and perfect thing which a man can i have and a woman can not.” “Never!” cried his wife, passionate ly. “Never! I deny it! What do ycu mean ?” “A wife,” replied hubby. ------------------------ Came Natural. The small girl had been beaten in the school swrimming carnival, her rival winning by about a yard. The' girl, to her family’s surprise, took the beating nonchalantly. j “You see,” she explained, “Eugenia Gropher should swim better than any body else. shop.” i I I say to my aunt when I’ve eaten the grub she has deftly 'prepared, “Your cookery cannot be beaten, and much like a king I have fared. The onions were fried as I wish them, the turnips were cooked nobly well, the prunes'—oh, no other could dish them so tempting tio palate and smell! The soup was a seven-time winner, the pie was a sight to be seen; at cooking a soul-stirring dinner you’re surely a peach and a queen.” The praise that I lavishly sprinkle convinces my aunt she has class; it’s not like the cymbals that tinkle, it’s not like the sounding of brass. For praise is a blessing forever, and always it’s bound to prevail, in spiring to higher endeavor, and strengthening hands that might fail. The voice of my aunt is ascending in song as she chases around; the words I have spoken are lending a happiness truly profound. No doubt she is thinking, “By thunder, to-morrow I’ll give him a treat; I’ll dish up a meal that’s a wonder, a meal that a seraph might eat.” To all who are working around me I hand out the language of praise, and mutinies never confound me, and calm and serene are my days. Her Blessing. When Mrs. Farley learned that her old friend, Mrs. Tarler, had become “stone deaf,” she went, with a long face, to see her. “It must be an awful cross, Harriet,” she wrote on the slate which Mrs. Tarler presented to her as soon as she was seated. “ ‘Tain’t, either!” snapped the af flicted lady, who, though deaf, was by no means dumb. “Folks that have got anything to say can write it on that slate. And Caleb Walter, that’s had to put a curb on his tongue for upward of thirty years on account of the high temper he took from his mother’s folks', is' now able to say anything he likes to me and no feeling's hurt. I count my deafness a real blessing. How’s your rheumati&m ?” Her father keeps a fish “Do you think my bathing suit is in good form?” He—“I’d say it was vice versa.” Milk will scorch less easily and the pan is more quickly cleaned afterward ! if it is rinsed with cold water before the milk is heated. Any fruit stain on linen that can not be removed by hot water will disappear like magic by simply satur ating the stain with glycerine. Let stand an hour or so, rub between the hands and wash in the usual way. been in lately?” you seen the extraordinary list of June brides?” IN RABBI'I'BORO r J Natives of the Fiji Islands build substantial buildings and decorate them artistically. The mother of John Ruskin, the English writer, never allowed him to row or ride for fear of accidents. Saskatchewan now requires 32,000,- 000 bushels of grain each year to sow an average cropped area of approxi mately 21,000,000 acres, according to M. P. Tullis, field crops commissioner. Two-thirds of the seed needed, or 20,000,000 bushels, is wheat, while the balance is largely oats, amounting to 10,000,000 bushels. Rye comes third, with about 1,000,000 bushels; barley, j 700,000; and flax. 300,000,