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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-4-8, Page 6A Rainy Day Riddle ,Every day for a week it had rained hard at recess, :andt'he school children were, in despair, There were so many things for them to do outdoors, and nothing at all to do, they thought, in the little country school -house. They did not want to be read to, and they were tired of indoor games. The girls watched the rain, and the' boys gathered in little groups and thought of planss for teasing the girls. They were a dismal lot. Presently Walter Meade reached over and pulled a long braid that was dangling near. Jemima Gray, the owl ar of the braid, scolded lint sound- ly, ly, and then Bertha Morrow laughed, at theme both. Then another little` girl cried because no ane woald help! her with a hard example. Everyone' seemed trying tornake the worst of things. If the sun had come out just at that time he would surely have ducked bae:k behind the nearest .loud. At length Letty More gave a long, loud sigh. "I wish I mawsoniething interesting in this room!" she said, Six other children sighed in chorus. Miss Lovett, the teacher, looked up from her crochet work, "If you did but know it," she said, "there's a good deal that's interesting in this raoin." "Tell us what it is!" the ehil.iren cried. Miss Lovett stopped crocheting and looked thoughtfully from one to the other, "Well," she said. "there's a grin ess in here." "A princess!" the boys and girls ieoi.ed provoked; they had not thought Miss Lovett would tease them. "A princess," the teacher answered.' -And a powerful warrior"—she kept on looking round the room in a queer way.—"and a green bough and two flower.." The bays and girls looked at her with puzzled faces. What did she mean? -It's the truth," :Hiss Lovett went on. "More than that there's a girl in here who's bright and shining, and standing near her a boy that's a helper of men." At that eaeh little girl stared at every other little girl and all the boys looked hard at one another. Peter Dale had driven the horses to pasture for his father that morning. He thought Miss Lovett must mean him. Little blue-eyed Stella Holt, who al- ways knew her lessons wondered if she was the very bright girl that :Miss Lovett was talking about. "What else do you see?" the pupils clamored. "I see a rich g,ft," Miss Lovett an- swered, "and a stone, and—let me think—a star and a pearl." A rich gift, a stone, a star and a pearly The children began to east curious glances into the corners of the room and under the benches. It sounded like nonsense, but they knew Miss Lovett always meant what she said unless her eyes were twinkling, and they were not twinkling now. "What can she be talking about?" Sara Lee whispered to Edith Greene. All the other children were asking the same question; but just then Miss Lovett rang the bell, which meant that recess was over, and so they were obliged to let the subject drop fora while. Lov- ett school they begged Miss to explain, but she only smiled and shook her head. id, "See if you can't find out,�} said. a On their way home from school the boys and girls decided that the next at. S,would all go in a body to M. Toby and see if he could explain the mystery. Mr. Toby was a jolly old gentleman who worked in e. little office at the end of the town. The children stood out in the yard and called him to the window. "We want you to tell us something!" they cried. Then they repeated what Miss Lovett had said. Mr. Toby leaned on the sill and thought. "Aha!" he said. after a while. "She saw allthese thingsin th schoolroom?" "dies: lies:" cried the children. "Now, Mr. Toby, how could she?" ,.Easily" said Mr. Toby. "I see them all myself, this minute.,' When Mr. Toby said a things he meant it, and so the children looked at each other again in wonder. -More than that," Mr. Toby went an, "I see a dove and a bee." The :children stood quite still. Gould it be possible that 1,oih their good friends were making fun of them? "Oh,y es" Mr. Toby dueled, "and a. little lamb:" At that, Agnes Drew, the smallest of all the children, lifted up her voice. "I don't see any rich gift or any princess," she said, "or any bee or any dove o•• any lamb!" Mr. Toby walked out over the win- dow sill. "Here," he said, "I won't tease you any longer. 'Stand in line the lot of you'. When the line was formed, Mr. Toby began at the beginning. "It's your names,' he said. "Didn't you know that every first name has a meaning':' Alex Ross, your Christian name means helper of men; Sara Lee, yours means a princess; yours, Walter Meade, means powerful warrior; Letty More should never be blue, for her name means gladness --•a lovely name." So he went all down the line, while the children listened eagerly to every word, They found out that Margaret Todd was the pearl, Jemima Gray the dove, Peter Dale the stone, and Edith Greene the rich gift. Bertha Morrow was the bright one and Stella Holt the star, Melissa Wells the bee, and Agnes herself the Iittle lamb. 'Three girls named Phyllis, Susan and Rhoda were the green bough and the flowers, lily and rose. When he cane to the end of the line little MandyGarnett looked at him with a solemn fare; site did not like her name. "Mandy," said Mr. Toby, "your name, Amanda, means worthy to be loved. Now, who has a lovelier name than that?" Monday morning the Children ran pell-mell to meet Miss Lovett. "We know now, we know, we know!" they cried. "And I know a new game," Miss Lovett said, laughing. "The next day it rains at recess, let's see how many of you can be your names." After that the children watched the sky carefully and wished it would rain again. HOW THE SERBIAN PEASANT FARMS A'VF tAGE SIZED FARM IS SIX ACRES. Betore the War Serbia Was the Largest Cattle -Exporter in Europe. The Serbian farmer always takes his animals and poultry : to market alive. "Then if they are not sold, T save them until next market day," he says. Every day is marketday in Belgrade, the capital. but in the small- er towns there is only one market day a week. Early in the morning the farmers and their wives begin to arrive in the nearest towns. Clutching pigs or geese in their arms, long lines of them trudge along beside the ox- carts, which are loaded with more pigs and geese. as well as sheep and calves.' The dress of these Serbian farmers : is distinctive; one doesn't need the accompanying fowls and live stock to recognize them as farriers. The men always wear a hoineapun suit with i'. 'vivid red woollen stockings, leather i" sandals and a woolly sheepskin: tux. ie. ban. The wife ties on her prettiest apron made of some black, brow* or ' red material, beautifully embroidered. Her head-drees is as elaborate as her ?husband. Is .well-to-do. She, too, wears `bright hied stockings. Compared with Canadian standards 1 the Serbians farm on a small scale. The average sized farm is six acres. and only 2 per cent. of ,the total farm- ing land le divided into forty -acre farms. Serbia is about half the size of Prince Edward Island, with a popu- lation of 5,000,000. Ninety per cent. of that population are farmers. From fifty to sixty per cent. of the entire country is composed of farms. Like, the families in Biblical times, the Serbs choose soine meriiber of the family—the father or a brother—as the `official head of the family." Every family owns its own home and farm, but instead of building that home on the farm, they live in vil- lages and go cut to the neighboring farms for the day's work. • Serbia, as every one knows, felt the grimy, ruthless hand of the War God more than apy other country engaged in the conflict. The Bulgarians and the Austrians laid Waste her fertile fields and orchards, burned her homes, and starved and tortured her people. The invaders did everything but break the Serbian spirit; that couldn't be done. The Serbian Spirit. One of the first of the American Red Cross workers to arrive in the brave but stricken little country wrote: "We found in the ruins of a small town, which bud been burned by the Bul- garians, sixty or seventy people clothed only in burlap or filthy sags to hide the bare flesh. The: Red Cross furnished them with clothing and medical attention: "On a farm hi Nor.tbern Serbia, a rich farmer and his family made cloth- ing out of, bed clothes, and were liv- ing in. a chicken cools, the only build- ing left standing." Every piece of machinery, 411 the plows, hoes, rakes and other agricul- tural implements, most of the cattle, horses and sheep ware either des- troyed or carried off by the enemy. In these things alone Serbia suffered`a loss of $224,000,000. The 'fled Cross Agricultural Weston, which arrived there in April, 1918, took ,villi' them tbousaods of dollars' worth of -farm- ing implements and nutchiuery to help the people begtu again. The Serbians use a yoke of oxen for plowing and Hauling. Their plow can be used to better advantage on their tiny farms than the Amerir'an steel plow. "It was an interesting de- monstration of Western xaethods to sea our steel plow cut an eight -inch Alma': the best the Serbian iilow can do is a three or foui'4ueh furrow," said Capt. William 13. Buck, a mem- ber of the Red (rose, Agricultural Mis-. sign. Serbia breeds a, large number of cat- tle, and before the war was the larg- est cattle exporting country in Eur- ope. Serbia supplied Germany and Austria with beef and muttou. Land in the valleys and on the mountain sides is used for grazing purposes as well as for cultivation, In. the rich soil of the .river bottom the farmers concentrate their energies on fruit growing. with the result that prunes are Serbia's biggest agricul- tural export. A great litany sugar beets are grown as well; previous to the war Serbia boasted three large. sugar plants. Something of the magnitude of Ser- bia's losses fu agriculture may be as- certained. from the situation in the district of Genvgeli. Before the first shot was fired in 1914,, there were 3,449 head of cattle; after the war, 630 head. Before the war there were 335,531 goats and 24,350 sheep; these were reduced to 2.397 goats and 2,131 sheep. In the village of Kavanska eleven goats, fifty-four horses and 305 mules were all that remained of 7,000 goats, 620 horses and 2,545 mules. Vegetables, a small amount of wheat, corn, etc., are grown by the farmer for his own needs. The Serbs are a bread-and•aeat people. Captain Buck says: `'1 could al. ways tell by the color of the bread just how far we were from transpor- tation. If we were far away from the railroads tbe bread was very black; otherwise it was the color of Amteri- can rye bread, although 1t is made of wheat. This is the standard Serbian bread." Frugal and Industrious. Until the arany is demobilized al- most the Whole burden of ramming will continue to fall on the shoulders of the women and children, although the Serbian women have always work- ed in the field. The pity of it is that there are too few men left to change the uniform for the homespun garb of the farmer. Not only did the war de- pete Serbia's man -power, but disease and famine have made fearful inroads on the entire nation. Serbia is a nation of peasants from the highest government officials to the humblest farmer. Even His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, is of peasant descent. It Is a coun- try of hard workers, and perhaps that accounts partlyfor the fact that Ser- bia. heretofore has had no beggars. Not until her wanton devastation has Serbia needed charity. In a sur- vey of seventy-five towns made by war workers the number of depen- dents upon eharity was fora.. •' to be 63,000 and the number of orphtans .eeti dependent children was 9,735. This condition is merely temporary, for these settled, industrious people will soon be back an their farms— their five or six -acre farme -each family with a team of oxen and a •cer- Iain number of live stock, which the law says no one can take away frem them for debt or any other reason. Getting Her Way. To make a hit Her pian is clear. She weeps a bit, A profit tear. Eighty-five per cent. of the lame people are affected on the left side. Study of Motion Speeds Up Work. The man who proposed to grow strawberries upon raised beds so that be could pick thein without atooping was apparently before his time, AS this course will certainly be advocated when the lastest industrial science known as "motion study" is applied to fruit growing. One might suppose that tete "art" of bricklaying, having been practised for thousands of years, would now have become so perfect that it would be itis• possible to teach the modern brick- layer how to do lois work more quick- ly; tet the originator of "motion study." Gilbreth, has been able to do this, and' with such effect as to treble the number of bricks laid by the most skilful workman without increasing „tis bodily efforts. It sounds incredible that the simple operation of bricklaying, spreading the mortar, placing the bricks in posi- tion and cutting off the waste mortar should be capable of any substantial reduction, but the quicker way of do- ing it seems simple enough, now that it has been invented. The main thing is to place the brieks and mortar in such positions that the bricklayer can reach theta without stoopiug or mak- ing a step in either direction. Then the bricks mast be piled ready in a certain way so that the workman can take then- up itt one hand and place each in position without altering his hold. At the sante time as he reaches for a brick the bricklayer picks up mortar on his trowel with the other hand, and if the spreading is- skill- fully dome the brick goes straight into position without a pause while the trowel is elating off the, waste mon tar. It must be remembered that this re; markable speeding up of the work has been obtained with men who are ac- eustomed to working "by the piece," and who would, therefore, have al- ready done their best to economize in labor and time so as to increase their wages. This would appear. to indi- vete that the workmen themselves are not capable of scientific "motion study." a fact which has been abund- antly proved by the originator of this science. •3 Balsam As Pulpwood. Tbere is a considerable prejudice against the use of balsam in the manutac4ture of newsprint, caused largely by insufficient knowledge of the species. Some companies claim that balsam cannot be driven for any great distance- because of the lass front sinking when the logs are in the water for any length of time, while other companies are actually driving balsam for quite' a considerable dis- tance. There are companies which have been allowing only ten per cent. balsam in the annual cut of logs, re- gardless of the fact that the species forms upwards of fifty per cent of their total stand. The greatest trouble in the use of balsam seems to be the presence of pitch pockets eaused by the efforts cf the tree to heal wounds while growing. When the wood is reduced to pulp. the pitch gets into the pulp and may cause trouble on the screens and paper machine. In spite of this, however, balsam can be used, Mother Had Forgotten. "Mother, was'n't that a funny dream I had last eight?" said a little boy who was busily engaged with his break- fast cereal. "Why, I'm sure T don't know!" re- plied his mother. "I haven't the slightest idea what your dream was about" " Wily. mother, of course you know!" said the boy reproachfully, "You were in it." NEW USE FOR GERMAN STEEL HELMETS stake At Croyde' , 1 i 1'i .lid where Much war material has been stored, it' has been found. that Geranan.,bel x els make, excellent' road material arid the photo shows. 'workmen -pia ing;tthe helmets, after which a roller puts then in position.' Wonderful Ja pause Paper Much of what we eitvy in the arti,tic life of the Japanese etuiuot be attaiu- ed by as because it is the fruit of a naticnal education of severalhundred centuries. We muet also, in the do- main, of pure technics, give up trying to equal the Japanese where the per- fection attained by them depends on natural products of the country that our own does not possess. Just as the production of the beautiful Janan- ese lacquers is directly dependent on the raw material furnished them by their, own Sora, so also the prepara- tion of their paper depends on the in- comparable quality of the material Round in the bark of plants and mul- berry trees that grow in their soil. The Japanese plants are distinguish - 'ed not alone by the advantages ofier- ed by the raw material. We must also take into account the mode of prepara- tion, which in the course. et the trans- formatleu of the flexible but strong tissue does not cut up the cells but softens them and separates their fibres' by beating and stamping, as formerly, before, the introduction of maeltinrry, ave treated flax. The kodzu is one of the six most ittt- portaat plants whose bark is used for paper. The shoots of the first year are barked, and after the leaves have been removed furnish strips of several yards in length, which are cut into lengths of about a yard and tied into bundles. The bark is softened in run- ing water and then gently boiled in water containing wood ashes. It is then treated with channeled mallets on thiel( wooden planks, The product is twisted and, turned frequently me der watet until It becomes- a pulpy mass. This pulp finally reaches the arti'an, who transforms it into paper by the method wbicli we have, so to speak, abandoued in our manufacture. The fibres are fastened together, not with animal glue, but with a cement made of the roots of certain plants. With the aid of a rectangular sieve of very fine bamboo fibres, the neces- sary guautity':of pulp is removed, and after all the water has filtered through the sieve the leaf is partly dried, after which it is rubbed with a soft instru, went on ti plank and exposed to the sun until completely dried, when it is easily- detached from the plank. Japanese, paper has many uses for wliich our paper is pot fitted. It re- places in•a surprising manner our win- dow glass, the utanufacture of which. has only recently been introduced into Japan. Domestic eeonoany and costume snake innumerable uses of paper. Ex- tended in the form of cord it has as- tonishing strength. Gilt and cut into harrow strips it is used as =braid.. ery. To it the Japanese braids owe their gentle brilliancy: and that deli- cacy imparted to mediaeval silks by their filaments cf Cypress gold. Its incomparable constitution Is closely connected with the Japanese arts of writing and painting; both of Which ties the soft brush where we employ the pen or the ,pencil; The paper, rapidly absorbing India ink, enables the writer to use Itis brush tuore free- ly and lightly an its surface than we can use our implements. It has been estimated that the po- Proper spraying will greatly reduce tato crop of the country is reduced this amount. each year many thousands of bushels Some people grumble because they as a result of insects and disease, can find nothing to grumble at. I.Z,T' TEAT COITGB coNTdNIIEi Soho9s Disleohn's Distemper Compound will hunch it in very short ttnte. At tate first sign of a cough or cold in your horse, cite a few doses of "Sk't?II\'$:" IC will act on the glands. eliminate* the dis- ease germ and prevent further destruction of hod: bx dis- ease "Spall V'S' has been the standard remedy for U1"'r i•.1t• - Pl.IZ. INF1.i. ENZA, P1 F BYII. CATARRHAL 1"IS 'EIt, t'(it-GIIS and COLAS for a quarter of a century. At all, drug stores. 81'OBzr MEDICAL. cOMP:e.NY, Gositen, zad., V.S,A- Successful Sine 1856 It is easy tornake claims for seeds—it is another thing to be able to subataniate therm. We are emphatically ably to nulevOui clatins,good be- cause our rttekrf f*r "ieedis that gross" htts goneutbrolkatifO 84years. Fortseeda,bu1ba, :+ plants of all 1 n4i3, ;trust Simmers' goods. t. HirY G,1tOWI,, Write for our kr-rz toasa new 19,0 Gitta1oicta WAY, ,•ate CHEAP CATTLE FODDER FROST CANNOT DESTROY We have -a quantity of dried carrots available for cattle feed. All that is required is to soak in water to bring the dried article back to nice, fresh sliced carrots. Ie"roet cannot hurt them, and there is no waste oi` dirt. 200 lbs; of these goods equals a ton. of the. raw article, We are offering them at 71,E c. per ib. while they` last, which is equal to $15 per ton. for the fresh carrots. Try a sazpple bag and you will find thein vouch ahead• of any kind of roots in their fresh state. GRAN A; 795 LJ : 1TED BELLEVILLR, ONT. Cord or Fabm ne. A Wel/ shod horse travels iarest and fir these' IE scar +equipped with Part- ridge Tires Fins almost free ,Y; from the delays a;id ., inconven-. 'leaees caused by tire troubles: Partridge~ A irea, ave, so ungues- ': tionably' proved their depend- ;;,ability aiid'e,ecoaortay .that they ar .to -day redo"grir- eci as' ,.the most' service for"yodr xraoney'.• tires. iD ''i---'', .•1 c ., 11.513 ' .ar...z.