HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-7-8, Page 2A teaspoonffui of
Gille€t'e Lye sprinkled
in the Garbage. Can
prevents flies biding
Use Giidett's Lys for alt'
awning cant D oinfeeting
Bucket of Water Helped to
Produce Lifeboat.
Ji woman carrying a bucket of water
s=topped to talk to a man. Quite ab-
Sent-inindedly the poked at a piece of
a wooden dish that floated in the pail,
and ea discovered that it was self-
righting. Nothing would make the -
dish remain upside down.
Later, a little group of men sitting
in their club -house, which faced: the
sea, saw a ship wrecked and the whole
ships company perish—because those:
on land had no suitable boat to Iaunoh,
in the raging sea.
Horrified at the disaster, these "Gen
tiemen of Lowe House,' as they were
called, inserted an advertisement in a
Newcastle paper offering two guineas
reward for a model ofa boat that could
keep afloat in stormy weather. -
The man who had touched the wood-
en dish in the pail of water submttted
a model—and won. the prize.
From his design the first "ofHoial
lifeboat was made. It cost £76 8s. 9d.,
and did service for forty years, saving
hundreds of lives.
It is just over a century ago that the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
was formed by a little group of citizens
who met in a London taxers. It is
"voluntary to the last yard -arm In its
boats," and it has never been known
to flinch from duty.
A Whitby lifeboat crew was once
oaIled out seven times in a single day.
On the last journey it capsized—and
only one man reached the shore. Yet
when an hour later another S.O.S. coal
came from a ship hi peril, a volunteer
est— crew came forward, launched an. old
- boat, and brought they wrecked crew
to safety.
Lifeboat men have battled with the
raging sea for thirty hours without
cessation, and women have striven
with the men, waist deep in icy water,
to launch a lifeboat ie. the teeth of a
winters gale.
M!nard's Liniment for Sore Feet.
Where Puss is Tailless.
As everyone knows, Manx cats are
tailless. They have just a tuft of fur,
without any bone.
Why some cats should be tai•1•lees has.
never been satisfactorily explained.
The species; quite common in the East,
is said by some to hate been evolved
by the priests of one of the oldtime
pagan religions, who regarded the cat
as a sacred animal; and: who, by de-
priving all kittens�'otf .their tails, at
;asst succeeded in getting a tailless
species. ` The idea was to prevent a.
sacred animal getting eontaminated by
its tail picking up impurities,.
Manycats ca s m net have come to the is-
land from the east and they have re-
mained tailless because their island
home prevents cross -breeding with the
ordinary tailed cat.
Why a eat is said to have "nine
lives" is really nothing but a tribute
to its body. Its spine ire very tough;
its paws are thickly padded, and its
body is extraordinarily flexible.
An ostrich yields about 8 lbs. of
feathers yearly.
After Every Meal
It doesn't take much
to keep you in trim.
Nature only asks a
little help.
Wrigley's, after . every
meal, benefits teeth,
breath, appetite and
digestion..
A Flavor tor Every Taste .
F
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THE STOLEN BABY
ewfullrinte," she said. "I
ought to have got there.' at eight
o'cloele: Only I was prevented. I must
get the baby. You see, my sister's so
ill.»
"But what does she want the baby
for?" I asked, puzzled.
"She's in hospital. She's going to.
be operated on to -morrow, and so she
wants the baby out of the way. She
didn't know she was going to have an
operation. But someone's gotto take
the baby while she's in hospital. Don't
you see?"
IL
The taxi had by this time reached
Viotoria and turned southeast into a
network of litt=le black streets. It strop-
ped suddenly at a corner, and Rhoda
leaped out, telling me to wait a mo-
ment. I craned out of the window to
Ree where she went. She almost dis-
appeared into .the darkness, but I had
an impression that as she stopped at
a doorway she met another person. But
my strained'eyes at once lost sight of
that other shape. I felt that I must
have made a mistake, for, by that time,
Rhoda had disappeared, either into
-the darkness of a porch, or down some
stepa into a basement. I was list ens
sally enjoying my situation; though I
sat in a taxi, I was in the middle of
some particularly unpleasant slums.
No doubt thegirl thought that, by
stopping the cab some distance from.
her destination, I should fail to trace
her upon her strange mission. But she
could not realize my profound knowl-
edge of London; I was in Gue:f Street,
in a reputedly criminal part of Pim-
lico. It was quite possible for a gang
of roughs to hold up the cab. But if
this was a trap, I should have been
asked into the house; besides, adven-
It , was : two:, minutes past twelve.
Only a very little after midnight. But,
all the stone, mystery and adventure
began to settle upon the city. Already
the streets looked deserted, apart from
a few :couples too absorbed in them-
sei'res to matter more than sidewalks
and damp poets.; .'Lt had been very hot
all day, sohot: that I had gone out
seeking coolness•: rather than adven-
ture. But the night was nearly as hot
ae the day, and I had spent the Past
two hours in a state of semi -collapse
in the Paddington Recreation. Ground.
I had sought for a taxi in vain, and
now, feeling exhausted, I was waiting
for en omnibus; Thus my thoughts
Weise directed, upon mysel rather than
upon my surroundings; the foreground
of 'my mind was occupied by the sod-
den state of my collar, by a violent
aspiration to :.the cold bath I would.
find at home; No doubt, for that rea-
sor nI failed at first to observe that
my *angio was shared by a young girl..
And "when X did observe her, I regis-
tered casuaj8y: that elle was dark and
pretty. She did not interest me. It
was so hot that She might fall down
in a ,fit if she liked; I wouldn't have
the energy. to 'help her up.
However, after a moment, my ad-
venturous habit of mind was animated
by the discovery that she was walking
up and down very fast. That any-
body, fora obvious reason, should
walk up and down in this torrid air
suggested .lunacy or crime. My inter -
eat developed as the girl passed me,
wheeled viciously upon her heels,
tramped by again. She was paying
no attention to me. Her pretty little
nose was held high in the air; her
small, ba;'re"hands were clenched on the
handle of a parasol, with which occa-
sionally she gave the pavement a jab.
Now women are always interesting,
but they are at their best in two con-
ditions; tears and temper. When in
tears, they want to tell everything;
when in a `temper, they can't help it.
So I kept my eyes fixed upon her while
still she went up and down; she did
not respond. Then, after a while, I
came to the gloomy realization, that
the young lady was angry because the
omnibus did not come. What. a come
down So much distorted passion, just
for a missing omnibus. Reason enough,
perhaps, if a missed omnibus means a
six -mile walk in a temperature'recall-
ing that of the Gulf of Mexico .. .
but how dull! It was at that moment
that a kindly policeman, as he saun-
tered past, remarked to me: "No good
waiting, sir. The Iast.went at ten to
twelve."
"What?" shouted the girl, furiously.
"Where are you going to?" I asked.
"Pimlico."
"It's a long way," I said, the heat
having evidently made me idiotic.
She surveyed me with infinite con-
tempt, reflecting, no doubt, that Pwas
just like a man, as is the habit of
women when 'things do not happen
exactly, as they like. At that moment
there appeared at the top of the street
coming toward us, a. taxi that peace-
fully crawled'along. Excited by this
heavenly vision, I resolved to leap into
it and go home, but the sight of the
little drawn face moved me,. So I
said: "Can't I give you a lift?"
She tools one step back, glaring -at
nie, evidently suspicious: "Where do
you live?" she asked.
:' "Near Victoria Station," I' lied.
"I expect you're telling me the tahi,"
she remarked in a matter of feet tone.
"Still,. I've got to fetch niy sister's
baby to -night." I held the door open.
"Wait a bit," she said. "You get in
first. I teed the cabby where to go. I,
and not you."
"All right," I said, getting in,
slightly stimulated by the idea that
she wanted to conceal her destination.
Indeed, I did not clearly hear what
she said to the cabman.' `She jumped
up by my side, and the cab drove of.
For a moment we did not speak.
She was sitting upright in her corner,
her hands folded before her, evidently
stiffening herself e.gainat approach.
She was perfectly charming, with
dark eyes, long flashes, and a petulant
little red mouth. But what intereated
me most washer strained attitude. I
could guess what she was thinking.of.
So I said: "Tf you think I'm going to
kiss you, don't worry. She flushed
so dark that I could perceive it as we
passed a street lamp. I realized that
perhaps • this was rather . rude, and
added: "It isn't that I don't want to,
Far from it! But I don't want to pre-
tend to do you a good turn, to inveigle
you into this cab, and turn misbehave.
So set your mind at rest, and toll me
the story of your life."
At this she consideredme with more
attention: "Yofi're a 'cure," she re-
marked at last. "Still, handsome is as
handsome does. I've got nothing
against you, and, by the way, thank
you very much. I don't know what I
should have done if you hadn't come
along. You see, I've got to fetch my
sister's baby, and I've just got enough
Money to pay the woman, and to pay
ter a taxi back here."
"I see," I replied. "But it's very
late to fetch a baby'.»
"Ail right," I said, getting in.
turesses do not look for their prey in
the neighborhood of the Chippenham,
the poorer part of Kilburn. So I
watched, and after a gdarter of an
hour, from the doorway came Rhoda,
slightly staggering under a white
burden. She was breathing hard as
she arrived, and feverishly jumped
into the taxi.
E "I say," I remarked, "where do you
, want to go to?"
i "Back;" she' said, with a gasp.
1 Back! Quick! Back!"
i "You mean to the Chippenham?"
"Yes. No, no, not that. Tell him
lI to go to . I'll tell him. Here, hold
it.:.."
j Stupefied, I held the baby, which
seemed to be asleep, while she told the
cabman something hurried and then
rejoined me.
' ' As soon as the door closed she
snatched the baby back from rue; turn-
ing her shoulder away, she held the
bundle against her, making little
soothing noises that were quite un-
necessary since the child was asleep.
I tried to talk to her, but for some
unknown reason she hardly answered
nee. She -was in a state of febrile ex-
citement. At Iast, when I asked her
what was 'the matter, why she was
in such a state, she muttered some-
thing about the woman having been
so rude and trying to overcharge her.
I was rather annoyed:' The adven-
ture was absurd. To spend over an
hour, on such a night, carrying a girl
and a baby to and fro in London was
most unsatisfactory. So I sulked. In
complete silence we arrived at a point
in Elgin, Avenue where the -cab' Stop-
ped, "This is where I get off," said
Rhoda. She was pulling hserself to-
gether a little now. "Thank you very
much. A. hot little hand grasped Mine
for a moment. Carefully she got `cut.
I did not follow her, for I was par-
alyzed with amazement: on a corner.
of the baby's coat I had seen an elab-
NURSES
The Toros', Horpltal for Inourahtes, In
nintiation.•with (8ollavue' and Allied Noeoltals,
New York' City, offals a throe Years, Course
'of Training' tad young 'woman, having thir
required sdueet aVI, and detiroue of Metaled
flume Thir Norpital hoe adopted the eight.
hour ageism, The pupils rowdy* uniforms of
flier Sat 00i• a nhonthfy anowanoa and traveling
Exvrnaos to and from New York, Icor further
inform:tion wrap. the 8uperintondont
oritettift worked eat of stens lentf One
erten
It must h a(v leen the befit, t r X
delay .a nroinent in fallowing Tier.
Then the set netale tailed me back Flu's
tfeiouaJy, since ' had not paid hirci,
There war one confusion, for the
mart was .Tide. When at last I fellows
ed her, I had lost a minute. I rigs
down a little street bordered with
front gardens. It was very dark, howe
ever, so I stopped wildlyin the middle,
of the roadway ..
(To be continued.)
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Preventive Measures.
She—"Why. do men always try to
hold girls.' hands?"
He (a trifle cynical)—"Probably to
keep the girls fronrputting their hands
in our pockets."
The Haymarket London.
The name suggests the fragrance of
country scents aria rural scenes, and
it was as late as the beginning of the
eighteenth century x great market for
the hay and straw which the wagbns
of the farmers in the Home Counties
conveyed to London. Aggas' map of
London shows it girt • by hedgerows
with a cluster of .houses, and where
the Carlton Hotel and His Majesty's
Theatre now stand, in all the glory of
modern architecture, visit °•by the
elite, washerwomen are ani wi}' Wash -
ins their clothes.,The w,a. loaded.
with sweet-emeilltng hay b i - , to roll
in in the time of Queen Elibatehesnd
not until Witham XV., the ail ealled
"Patriot King," 'resigned, diti ; they
change theta course' to STY ,7aia>e?'se
Market, whin: Was held on thea g ,xnct•
where Waterloo Place now rte
self, and to Cumberland Marketer,
gent's Park: --P. H, i)Itehfleld, in "Lon-
don's West End."
MInard's Liniment. for Rheumatlsnu
EEN
It in 137 far the moot sielticlosiiis. Ash for it.
AUSTRALIA'S STONE -ACL PEOPLE
Where Civilization Has Stood Still for Thousands of Years.
The Australian aborigines are
axnengst the nuost baokwavd people
ou earth, And the tribes of the Cape
York Peninsulta--the unknown finger
of Australia pointing to the north,—
are
orthare the least civilized of Australian
aborigines..
They are the People Who Stood
Still, The oldest living race of hu-
mans
umans in the world, 'they are 10,000
years. behind the times.
They are reputed to be hostile and
treacherous, but Mr. J. McLaren, who
lived' amongst them for eight years,
found them quite easy to got on with.
Mr. MeLaren's business was; to
plant coconut ,patme, and his adven-
tures during •raveeight yearstheee
trees take to come to maturity are told
in "My Crowded Solitude."
The only white men amongst these
primitive savages, he was, in the be-
ginning, more thana little nervous:'
Re used to lie awake with rifle and re-
volver beside him listening to the wail.
ing of curlews along the beach, the.
guttural barking of Crocodiles in an
adjacent creek, the 'howling o$ distant
wild dogs, and the imagined voices. of
'stealthily approaching natives..
Nothing serious happened, however,
and by degrees he grew accustomed to
his environment.
A native woman, old and incredibly
ugly, installed herself as his house-
keeper, without so much as saying "by
your leave" He taught her to 000k
"white man way," and she made a
fairly apt pupil.
But it wee as a nurse that she ex-
celled, tending him , through 'severe
bents of fever-, and applying native'
remedies that proved wonderfully ef-
fective.
The men, too, took pity on his "ig-
norance," as they deemed it, and in-
structed him in the lore of the jungle.
There were some things; however,
on whirls, they would not enlighten
him, amongst .these b e Ing- their smoke -
signalling system, by means of whin i
they oovered dlatanoe.
Over and over again news was oan-
veyed to Mr. 'Mo1,aren be this manner
of occurrences that bad taken place
hundreds of miles distant ealy a few
hours prevlously.
On one 000s,sion the news was of a
momentous kind. The man who in-
terpreted this ,partiouJiar signal had
picked up from McLaren some scrape
of P ieglisb, and his version of the news
conveyed to hMm by the distant rod of
smoke was as follows:
"Plenty fellers fight. Them people
who make the smoke' been hear the
news from one 'nether people what
been hear it from the men belong one
cutter what been anchor at their camp..
Plenty fellers fight, and plenty come.
dead. And ell them fellers, they white
fellers. Yes—white fellers.. And they
too Much plent)", my word!"
That pidgin -English interpretation of
a message in smoke was the author's
first intimation of the Great War!
On one occasion the Government
Resident on Thursday Island sent Mr.
McLaren a great bale of bienkete for
the natives.
The author distributed these .among
them, telling them at the same time•
how grateful they ought to be to the
Government for the gift.
The tribe, however, were Impressed
neither by the gift nor by 'the author's
remarks. They took the blankets
without com°inent, and that night slept
in. them.
Next day they complained that the
things irritated, and after that they
slept inthem no more. They used
them instead of bark for roofing their
huts. -
She
The Island.
walks amongst the loveliness she
made,
Between the apple -blossom and the
water. merely a plan who did notee:peak the
She walks amongst the patterned Language of the Greeks. Barbarians
bright brocade, were no more regarded as inferior be-
Each flower her son, and every tree .ings than anyone else. The same is
her daughter. true of Savages, a word which has.
This is an island all with flowers in- been used originally to dietin•guish
- laid, those who did not accept • the Chris -
A square of grassy pavement tea- tian religion, whereas to -day a savage
seated.: Is a cruel sort of beast.
"Faint heart never won fair lady."
"Wel, what about it? Ours isn't fair.
She's a brunette."
Original Barbarian.
In modern times, the word Barbarian
moans something not all nice but it
originally meant; in its home, Greece,
Flowers in their order blowing as she
bade.
The waving grajses freckle sun with
shade,
The wind-blown wavelets round the
kingeups ripple,
Color on color chequered and arrayed,
Shadow on light in variable stipple.
Her regiments at her command parade,
Foot -soldier primrose in his rank"
comes trooping, .
Then windfiowers in a scarlet loose
brigade,
Fritillary with dusky orebis group-
ing;
They are the Cossacks dim in ambus=
carte;
Scarfed in their purple like a for-
eign stranger,
Piratical, and apt for stealthy raid
Wherever's mystery or doubtful dan-
ger.
Iris salutes her with his bioad green
blade,
And marches by with proud and pur-
ple pennant,
And tulips in a flying cavalcade
Follow valerain for their lieutenant.
Tile lords and ladies dressed for mas-
• querade .
In, green silk domino discreetly
headed;
Hurry towards the "rut -tree's colon-
nade,
Philandering where privacy's well
wooded;
They're the civiliars of .this bold
crusade,
The courtiers of this camp by blos-
som. tented;
With woodbine clambering the baius
trade;
- And all by briar roses battlement-
• ed.
There, in the eunlit grassier bright as
jade,,
She walks; she sees her squadrons
at attention,
And laughing at hev flowery escapade,
Stretches her hands out to her sweet
invention.
—V. Sackville -West, in the Nation and
the Athenaeum.
The Reason Why.
A Stanley school teacher asked a pupil
why Ananias was so. severely emulate
ed.
I The Little one thought a minute,
Hien answered:
"Please,` teacher, they weren't so
iised to lying in those days:" '
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What is it that makes. a Ane holiday,
however brief it be, so joyous? Surels'°
that it opens the doors, of our artifolgj
exis'tenoe, fres* us from the clamping
envireainlent of four walls.
Doora! They are eynowymous with
confinement, They shut out the"great
wide, beautiful, wonderful world," and
shut in that workaday world whish
Its best, sometimes grows weauridai
and oppressive and burdensome..
Poore! They' •close en the child iet
Ins eo400l-work; they slow .0n tube
mother at her lhome duties; they Wore
on the, father, the brother, the Relater,
In mill and warehouse and oftloe. Then
the long -looked -for holiday •oomes
round. Those tight -closed doors all lig
open at onoe and -+presto I—you and it
big and Male, old and young, rich stud
poor, are drinking big_dnaughti elf
fresh air; We are out o' dooral
Noone standing on a breezy hilt,
top, walking on the sea *lifts, basking
on the shining sands, diving into the
sea, sitting in the shade of trees, mak-
ing a beeline across • heath or dour
land, can remain long in doubt about
man's. natural •environment. No won-
der the sacred wrltera pat our trot
parents in -a garden.
"God made the country; maan made
the town," sings the .poet, and he singe
true. The town, with its myriad doors,
le closed, fended, double -barred doors;
the country, with its open spaces its'.
"wind on, the heath," its, rain -weaned'
air, its dew -drenched grass, its shine
and its shade, its forest doors flecked
with dancing sun-spray—the country,
with its freedom, its quiet, its regio.
fulness.
Our boasted civilization becomes.
more and more a matter of doors
Which open and shut with ninetieth;
regularity. An endeavor of the last
fifty years has, been to open them Es...
little oftener, a little longer, a little
wider. -
We do well to tall these occasions
"holidays" --or "holy days," even
though we may fail to remember their
holy significance: Would it not seem
that in theee city -dwelling, industrial,
machine -made days of ours the sense
of heart -expansion, of soul -uplifting,
must of necessity be keener than ever
ill could be whenn, everybody lived
close to nature all the year round?
That
Sense sublime
Of something far more deeply"inter-
fused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting
suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of
.man:.
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all
thought,
And' rolls through all things.
It comes• to this --that if your ho
day does not move your heart ea
as expand your lungs, it has not 'do e
you the good it is capable of doing.
There are still "books In the running
brooks," but—thank Heaven ! —they
ate not ledgers.
ti
Fish Cultpre Service Develops
New Carrier.
The fish of Canada are so highly re-
garded that efforts are frequently
made to establish them in foreign
countries, and, to assist in such en-
deavors, limited numbers of eggs of
several species have recently been
riled by the Fish Cultural Braneh cif
the Department of Marine and Fisher-
ies for experimental and observational
purposes: in Europe and Japan.
In 1924, salmon Irma eggs .from
C ergian bay, lake Huron, and cut-
throat trout eggs from Banff, Alberta,
were supplied to the Kiilyw•hae Fisher -
lei near Dumfries, Scotland. Since the
beginning of the present year speckled
trout eggs have been shipped from
i Vancouver to the, Tokyo Angling and
Country Club, Tokyo, Japan, and
sabago, or landlocked salmon eggs,
have been shipped from St. John, New
Brunswick, to Dublin, Ireland. Ar-
rangements have also been made to
ship cutthroat, rainbow, and Kam-
loops trout eggs from British Columbia
to Japan during the coining spring.
Sbipmente for any great distanoe of
such a fragile and perishable nature
as fieh egss were at one time aped
panted by attendants but with the.
tens' of packing and insulation .no in
vogue they are forwarded by express
without 'misgiving as', regards their
safe delivery, provided no accident oo-
curs. The safe delivery at their des-
tination of the salmon eggs shipped to
Scotland in 1924. which reached Liver-
pool, during a Bookers' strike and were
oon.sequently delayed at that port for
'eeveraa, days, is strong testimony to
the efat:Jolley of .the protection and in-
sulation provided by the new shipping
cases developed by the Department of
Marine anti !Fisheries.
Sentence Sermons.
Jt pays to Study------Yt?ur eompotit-
or's• slices ---you may find where you
are failing. .
---Your own mistakes•—it will ,.vve
You from repeating them,- 'sena,
---Your ezcusee--you are apt to dis-i
cover have faollsh they are,
--Your home town—there are online
heroes living, in it.
---Your weals poke". ---you are not so
liable to be a,nlbushcd•.
—Your job• ---you may be Bible to pre-
pare for a bigger otie.
--Any successful puma - - he mica a
secret you ought tr known
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