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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-7-1, Page 2rhe Autonobi 1 ,A.LJTOIST FINDS HAPPY Due to the improved dietrihutien methods of automobile manufacturers which is an outstanding development in the automotive field in recent years, the problem of motor vehicle accessor- ieshas been largely solved for the owner and prospective purchaser. The producers of these vehicles have gone to great lengths to provide an equipment which meets to a large ex-. tent. the requirements of the average individual. There are, however; a few matters which should be given atten- tion when it comes to stocking up a newly purchased automobile. Of course, the fastidious individual often g+oelo to extremes to satisfy the unique desire. His automobile will be found equipped with arm rests, scuff plates, eleiitrio cigarette lighters, flower hold- ers, clocks, vanity cases, aah trays and various other contrivances which are 'beyond the interest of the normal -motorist. What not individuals desire, which may be classified as practical necessi- ties, at least very desirable oonven- ieneee, are now provided as standard ecedpment on most of the better equip- ped cars. Whether or not all these tures are included as standard equipment the motorist will doubtless w1a i to have most of them, even if he b,a9 to pay a little extra to have it included along with the automobile de- vieea, Of course, it is taken for grant- ed titan an adequate set of general tootle will be provided as a part of the equipment of every car. ADDITIONAL NEEDS LISTED. In addition, there are a few items not generally included as standard equipment, which the automobile own- er is apt to need. Among these re- quirements might be included a. tire gauge, so that the driver can keep a fairly active checkup on the inflation of his tires, and a set of tire chains, for use especially in the winter and to help him avoid dangerous accidents` which often occur from skidding. With the more general use of semi -balloon and balloon tires the necessity for using chains in the summer, during wet weather, has been considerably re- duced. For those who expect to do considerable touring a luggage carrier for transporting baggage on the out- t M FDIUNC IN ACCESSORIES, side of the Gar is a read convenience, , Seat pads and back cushions some - tiring; add to the comfort of certain people in driving a car. An extra sparkplugor two, carried in the carr, is lfabbe to come in handy on occasion. A hydrometer for testing the batter%ea is another conveniences whichcan be kept to advantage in the. garage. For washing the ear it is well to have sponges and rhamois skins available. The increasing popularity of closed cars has created a demand for a type of side curtains for open cars ;which tend to give a similar protection against weather conditions as the closed oar. For those owning open cars it is possible to secure a ;winter top arrangement which provides some- thing of a substitute for a real closed car. They cannot, however, be con- sidered as satisfactory as a closed model. GET A ROPE. There is one item which can be re- commended to every motorist as an 'accessory worth putting into a cam. This is a strong piece of rope, one-half inch thick and about fifty feet in •length. Such an article may come in handy for several uses. If an auto- mobile get stuck and needs to be haul- ed out of some difficult place, or has to be towed -from one place to another, this rope doubled makes a very satis- factory tow -line. Wound around the tires, it can be used in place of, ore m_ a supplement to chains, as occasion may require. It is likely also to come in handy in strapping on various pieces of baggage, especially when on tour, In connection with touring there are various kinds of equipment which a motorist may wish to consideresuch as a camp -stove, folding table, folding chairs, folding cots, mattress, eating utensils, ice box, food containers' and tents. Some motorists have a tendency to have an excess of accessories loading down their machines with things that are hardly ever used. Others, on the contrary, fail to provide for emergen- cies which are quite apt to occur. There is a happy medium in this mat- ter of securing such items as will make an automobile well equipped to meet he general needs of the owner. Rain. When the rain Sprinkles silver spangles down On the plain; Then the desert sheds her frown And laughs again, Smoothes her hair And puts a golden bandeau on; Drops her care And dons a multicolord gown Of blossoms rare. When rain drips Qau the wooded mountain heights, here sprawls and slips sl n ar 4• troop of e: d ,silver sprites, With laughing lips. Running deet In myriad little turns and twists, With voices sweet, And dainty, jeweled, slendgr wrists, And fwinlding feet. When raindrops dart Against my pane in sudden fling, '',hen raptures start: It ie as though an. angel wing Had brusher. my heart. —Grace Nixon Stecher. Response. Like a splash of palest purple Ona palette smeared with green Is the blossomed Russian lilao In the garden. I have seen life blue -jay in the dogwood, Op the rose, the speckled thrush, Watched the oriole's bright orange plaah through the laurel bush; I have questioned the existence Of mors perfect sights than these. I had not seen yellow Butterflies On full-blown lilac trees. ---Josiah Titze-r1. Strong as a Horse. On the average a man has only from one-fifth to one-sixth the strength of a horse. Anx o ha zsl a �o ut;� • ' t o thin ds and a mule half the strength of the horse. Romans Adventurous in Architecture. The Parthenon was built after the Land's End, England, where the greate`s\ of Atlantic cables has just been landed, floated .by barrels on. ac- count of its great sesaaagta, 20 tons to the mile. ' It was hauled ashore by horses into the trench prepared for- it. It to 4,000 miles long, reaching New York via Newfoundland. It will send 500words a minute or 2,600 letters. Westminster Abbey CUED hoe Records defeat of the Persians, and typifies ! Hardly arrived home with niy preci-; live—the.a-Gahm::tic record of 200 per - Greek civilization at its apex. There ; obs burden, I' went straight tansy • featly trained voices singingthe finest is about this building an ordered gramophone and put on the first cf the music in -the precincts of Westminster beauty, springing from perfect balance; three new records made in Westmin- !Abbey. give to the world riches which can be quarried in pertectton nowhere else. -- C. C., in Christian Science Monitor. Maple Tree Songs. I was disconsolate to -day, And human love was far away; between its parts, which shows that a' sber Abbey. As soon as the needleOne other word, by way of comment. So I sought but ray maple tree— new sense of proportion had come into was started, I left the room allowing ]England owes this great tiring to It often seems to follow ate, the world; mere size and bulk were no the door to remain open, and•'stood America Mate in the United States longer relied upon. Greek architeotsoutside, listening; for it is never fair that the research work has been done With whispering, when I'm alone,-• were not so adventurous .as the Ro- to the newer types of gramophones by which the recer'ding of music • Like some rare voice of Iovely tone, mans were later, and we do not Imo;y and records to Judge tlae•m from close. through a microphone has become Ifs' trembling leaves sing a caress, very much about their domestic work; at hand.practicable. It may s•eetii a simple ; And all its swaying—tenderness. The beyond the greater part of their skill and en- experience e result was thrilling beyond any thing to the layman that sounds should I thusiasm was centered on perfecting : experience of my perhaps jaded enter a microp,hane and - be conveyed I took my grief a.ncl tears to it the e form o a vof their onderfuTe l epic and this they urestphone ate palate—thrilling the, rllong miles of. wire to a distant record qn� sat asclose as oue its olcey, sit; Y• , pleasuregive. • g where they are transferred P to me Greek architecture was allied to a. 'First came the magnificent "Gloria in fo the ;wax and pernian•entIy enshrined,, So wistfully, so- beautifully— literature, which expressed new and3+7scelsis" of Thomas Weelkes ' (fi.' but the new records made by this invigorating thought, with a freedom : 1600). (The rise and fall of the 200 electrical process during the last few ; Ah, not in accent—not in words+-- whieh would have been impossible to voice's of men and boys singing unae- months have varied so touch in quality ; In songs as gay as Agril birds the Assyrian, companied in that sacred spot were•that even the layman -has begun to re- i I quite forgot my futile woes This was the heritage of Rome, and inexpressibly moving, and as the cognize the delicacy of the problemIn tune with joys the maple knows!when-the Romans came to Britain we sounds died away the echo of them in involved. America did the research ! —George were brought more closely into touch /the dim arches of the Abbey filled the • work. I ---„,a_____ with the ancient civilizations of the heart with something which no canned ! America sent to England the famous1 Near East than ever before, or since. music has ever hitherto .produced. I1 record of the 4860 voices of its As - If we go to Silchester to -day, it is in- ! That the actual performance, under! sociated Glee Clubs, the "Dance teresting to thing that the lesson of the baton of Sydney N. Nicholson, the , Macabre" of Saint-Saene, the Percy how to build its walls, and fortify them organist and master of the choristers,1 was learned perhaps from Assyria.— was superb, , r Grainger records of fantastic) "B min -1 p goes without saying, I or Sonata," and the fantastic intima- } Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell, in whether in the Woe•Ilees or in Sir Hu - :1 cies of Jack Smith and the Revellers, ! "Everyday Life in Roman Britain." +bent Parry's five-part motet,"Never, i America is at least six months. ahead I i weather-beaten sail," or iu Pearsall's of England in the improvement of arrangement of 'tin. Dtilci Jubilo,"or r _, methods of recording and of reprodue- ! � . i = _ 'lin •the "We Bow Our Heads," from ti ,4 , - • Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion (from But this is a debt that England can o,o J f 7:7,. i which we are promised many further ,t0�3 v,i repay and le spaying with interest. • records- in the near future), with the Aiwa""- s, Records aro being made iu EngIaud' yes �r accompaniment of the Abbey organ. to -day which are more than a fair re IN I' But how many people have ever , Wen for the benefits received. In the ' `Tieard it, or oan ever hear it, in the i Albert Hall, in the Queen's Hall, in Abbey itself? How many people all Iiingsway Hall and in the studios, or - over the world will hear it in. these! chestrial and choral records are pro- three records the noble music which; awed by the electrical process which has been the privilege of the very few I astonish the producers.. in the past? !1 The organ is at last recorded in in Vegetable Land. Miss String Bean --"Everyone says. I'm beautiful." Carrot ---"They're just stringing you, my dear." 1 c•onfe that --er•-- The' Reason For ss at p -a t' itudes fill myl its truo setting. No doubt opera ;1•i1l , Wise Tommy. Patient -"Why do you doctors write thought when I thirst: of this; but the' follow. and the imagination boggles at "Now," said the c such illegible prescriptions?" i pass. in on of good crews is an exciting the visions which the new process in- I • I teacher, impressive- rise sive t Doctor—"Well. you see, if the rro- duty, and People everywhere will be duces i y, �r tY should we endeavor to rise by c I " our o n w eff oft : t anlcf tl f s L Or the tidings. eof an �� h'1 . ' • • getnew iiition enforcement officers after.and 13ut i " " a I. i- t IA tinter 1 b such p Y un. i Y *unique "Because," t• , lovely thing which they may enjoy in 1 sallied Tammy, "there's in as for writing too many booze pre glories as those three records made in : no knowing when the alarm clock will scriptions they can't -prove it on us."solitude or in company as long as they 'Westminster Abbey that England can I• go wrong." Higher Education in Agri-' culture. As a. molt of conferences which have, takes} place. during the last weeks as between the Ontario cultural College and the •Universit Toronto, there has been added to curricula' -of these institutions, graduate courses in scientific rese as applied to agriculture. The se of the university has authorized establishment of a new degree, known as blaster of• the. Science Agriculture to cover the work . scribed. The oanifidates will be looted from, graduates" holding the S.A. degree of the Qatari° Agrieul al College or others having equiva quaff tiicatiops, The time required complete the, prescribed work, wh will include original scientific search, will be one year as a minim or more according: 'to. requires otherwise. The moat outstanding tare of the plan will be the joint s ervisieri of the student's ,.work by scientific depp'a��rtmen'ts of the Co" and of the University, and the ; itself' may•be carried' on either Guelph. or Toronto; This will.o . come, to ..a large extent at least, difficulty.whieh has previously exist'° as regards co-operation between To ronto and Guelph, on account of distance apart of the two institution and which has militated .against• proper co-ordination of the high educational facilities of the province The new, arrangement is in line wit develbpments elsewhere. It has bee found that.scientific research as ap Ilied to agriculture is of .txemendou mportance to increased productivity better standardization and improve sent of export trade.. Most farrnin problems which do not yield to ordi nary methods and experience ar problems in which there is a combination of various unknown fac tors of a rather basic sort. These fac tors are only determined by patient and prolonged investigation, carried out by seientifieally'trained men in well-equipped laboratories: In the case of Toronto and Guelph each in- stitution has certain facilities Packing in the other. -Thus Guelph has direct contact with the farming community and its problems, and more especially the expert staff and information neces- sary to estimate the most promising lines of agricultural development. There is also the important feature of land and buildings suitable for.. agri- cultural experimentation which, in an urban centre like Toronto, are impos- sible. The university, on the other hand, has important facilities in it advanced scientific laboratories., high- ly trained specialists in pore science and in its Iibraries. The ccimbination of these elements ought to be of great advantage to fostering research in agriculture, more especially under the present circumstances when there i ppeering in Canada a fairly lar nd ever-increasing number of yours o''•lege men anxious to go forward ong lines of economic research of gnfficance to the country. In view of the fundamental import- ce of agriculture in Canada it is im- rtant that all elements of the com- nity, not simply those directly con - erne d should appreciate retia p to the extent P to ieh the prosperity of our country 11 in the future depend upon co - ration and upon the general senti- ent of solidarity." It is perhaps na- al, but nevertheless unfortunate, at there contee to e:;iet in course of e a difference of interest between an and rural crent�llinities, • The our'agement of the spirit of mutual cadence is. essentialto the sweetie our people. From this pain't of view° ,easily be foreseen that the ab - tion and'inilitration into the corn sty of young men trained both in practical problems of agriculture In the general educational ideals the univer i will Natuli'iel Resources Bulletin, Devito tho wonderful advances. in 'structural engineerng ecistloo, the tremendous possibilities of steel on few concrete, and the practical utility of Agri- brick and artificial stone, nothing' has y of yet been .developed. to replace the. the magnificent dignity and impressive- new nese of .quarried stone. The world's most beautiful buildings are still being built 'of stone anal' Canada is indeed fortunate in:possessing vast deposits of granite, limestone, sandstone marble suited for a wide • variety constructive purposes, wejl. distributed from the Atlantic; to' the Pacific ocean and, possessing, artistic merit of high and varied character. In 1925, despite the quietness in the building trade, over 1-3 millions of tons, valued ,at nearly six million dol- lars were quarried, of which over half was in Ontario land over one-third in Quebec; British Columbia, Nova Sco- tia, Manitoba, Alberta and New Brun ewick, also contributed in the order named. The modern quarry is a highly organized, businesslike property,, equipped' with expensive machinery and employing skilled and welds -paid artisans, d : The initial prods of getting out the - stone once the surface earth is remov- ed is by means of a machine which s, chisels dirt the reek in great oblong. a sections somewhere about eight feet er by three by the depth of the layer, . whatever it is. I4 would not do to cut it in much larger pieces because, after alif, stone is heavy. Tyndall: stone, the beautiful: limestone of Manitoba fore example, weighs about 157 pounds to the. cubic foot, so that a piece 8 feet bjr 3 by 2 feet weighs in the neighbor- hood of some four tons. After the stone is hauled up to the surface, it is either shipped for finish- ing inish ing or treated on the spot, for the building for which it is intended` 'Every stone is cut to fractions of an inch to fit.the exact spot in the build- ing where it is to rest. Each stone is numbered accordang to a blue print of - the building, and it l that has to be done when it gets to the job is to drop it into place. Most of the molding and cutting is done by saws, diamond tooth saws, with dozens of little diamonds in the teeth: They whirl around at 1,000 re- volutions a minute and cut through the stone, not like so much butter rer- haps, but still at a fairly perceptible rate ;the larger saws eat through about 10 feet a minute. Electric cranes move the stone from one machine to another as the needs of the work on arch nate the to be of pre- se- B. re-se- tur- lent to ieh re - um, ents. fea- up- the Coll wank at ver= the s r0 s each particular piece require, and it is only the finishing work that has to be done by hand. ap a CO al si Horne to Oxford. "Going up" to Oxford! The very •lands•cape through the a- gs train window seemed to be going up - e hill. The elms' were growing tar, isr, g the ,cottages were''growing el so ,o the earth,lovelier, their eaves to ch- i Rag on their garden. fiowers. As if the winds were great in this place. The winds that sweep around the earth. A place where the Middle Ages . I still breathe, a university one had caught glimpses of in dreams! Every•now and then a river clashed and showed itself, b brighter rr h g ter at every bend. It was leading the way. Soma - hew it all seemed like going. home. Mom's to- those instants that. had burned theins�elves into the brain on 1 the farther teed golden.side of..,,1�, �v-- - I`flood. Somet]Iisag lost to be fcic,1era. Why, Ulla countryside unrolling before me 1h ' always ways known, the bosh!: trees with ,rooks blown about their Mope,. the .,hayst'aeks. that looked like buns, .the cottages that wore golden crusts of thatch. The churches kept well eiiown.in the midst of their' little houses•; but I ki?ew, them every stone. The harmers• with straps under tbeir knees, I could tell how their eyes twinkled alt the oorners and how their a1ieeks ;were veined with the rose, though their backs: were towards me. The sot little bands of olouds that were lying all over the green carpets of this England did not deceive me; I knew they were sheep. Going hoimo. Oxford Suddenly the river got to be very wonderful indeed', wide vistas of pekoe, swabs. Silver showers were trailing the land with long veils. '.°e sunlight. was like a title between. lue ailstbegan to stand against •i nst a sky. f ,S. up g Y Forests like squares cf Patchwork ushod into view; chocolate cakes of an po mu ce ;vi ope m tur tis urb enc dep of it can sore ir-un the and c t s•ty tend to bring a out a desin*ble integration of na- tional'interests 'that might otherwise be opposed. It Pays to Paint "Furniture. The purpose of painting furniture for your own home lo threefold,: to '.ring' .the brightness of .color in place of dazil;� commonplace finishes; to re-,Iaim at small money cost furniture hat is unrelat`ecl in form but useful in I haracter by the unifying appeal of an! tr t active color 'scheme, and to achieve 1 divifuali'ty by self-expression, using 1 -our personal resources for work and r try. MUTT ANI) /SPiv15, kmjc-2e ARe MUTT AKA) AIN'T 5eeN rt-tEm. ht5 W c -etc JEFF—By Bud F if her . Soy, come TO tifitfvtc of tT THc-Y`Rrr IN FLoteil)N tut (Go. GeaveMz'M GLAD 'Nu MC- NT COMET) TFte42 NAVA • 5: IT le-MlNDC-la Cvie nF SoMe-TIAING: The GASi i,iING",G-FC- DID BaFot2C Ili! LeF c wAs to SLIP Me A.OVcic •WITH vat -Itch I0 SEND RIM A wttZe: Skv IT • $'Y wiRC (iCF F, OYR VISIT FLoRIDp -i9, A Lotti, ufE'Fse NOT ONLY Qv 1111 l , � I ide .r To. NOT S6 FAST 1;ij WAN't You t .cAD THI5 rELGGlcAM'. WILL You ACGGPT:1eIp00,0oo. Fo(Z You(2 FIFTH AVG. to(2otc-(rrY? MORGAN. J" a; 4 . 4/re ttGRA 444.04 WHAT DOGS T1itS MEfi i? aaaas `a• araaseasa 4,444 y s.a alayaaa 73i,1'YaH•...�'.laaa,'I il.lK'ni R t'st.i fan• I o'QE roNTlhlJG1) 1 furrowed fields. A town of gray %tone 1 sprang up, reflected in the water. A 1 crowned with an ancient diadem of trees, But my eyes were mostly ahead where aomethfng I was Searching for was to happen. Where the two long lines, of blue hills came clown to meat, a Waist, .perhaps. . . . There it was,, a row of white flowers, a co np:lily of crystals, a band of towers rand spires. Oxford! home! Then they flashed -out, and the ,rann. rushed into gas tanks, terraces • 0•f' brick; smoke, •shadows of gaunt war4i• • houses, •platforms. But as we drew up and' stopped.I could hear abot thidg the strand of the. swinging even of treat doors. Robert P. Trfatra r Cofii•n, in "Book of Crowns. and Cot- tages." Alf Faults Pointed Out. "Here, sir, is a boolc on etjquet I'd like to •sel'l you." "No need; I'm married." Shopping. "I haven't seen your husband late - "No, le's trying to find a fishing rod," great hill sweet with ploughland and