HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-9-23, Page 7STORIES, OF WELL,
KNOWN. PEOPLE
J
sir Thomas Llpton's "Bieck Wives:''
1 have heard Sir Thomas Lipton tell
mein, a gage store, but elie hollowing;
wlU h he reliuted recently, will take a
lot of b'ea'ting,
The s•ervau.ts in, his yacht are.- Cinga-
lee•e; cid wear long hair said short kilts',,
their oaths dress. One day he w'as
lauding with three of them ata French
port:When lie was hbrrifi•ed_to_hear e.
stranger remark; "That.'•. Slr Thome,.
Tipton with his three blank wives:' He,
tells me he has 'made his se'r'6'ants all
Weer beards now.
The First Wireless Valve.
IT
c i orator a c�oi•iuer•o�f a s cent so laboratory
b y
112 London stands an instrument which
wireless enelatieiests ought to seizeand'
erect in. some pof at which they eotld
congregate mutually for oelebrations..
It. is ,the first wir4teseeeelve, and it
was invented thirty-two years ago by
Profiigsor J. A, Fleming, who has just
retired from his post at the University
of London, It was his invention that
; really invade broadeastia(r;- possible. He
perfected, too, electric lighting in,
ships.
A Slip of the Tongue.
The post of ttoastmaster et official
receptions is a severe respiynsibility,
Mr. Knightsmith, who officiates et
mogt'of the big London banquets, made
a slip at the. Australia Reese reception
in boner ' of the Duke of York. ' He
called: out the name of beady Cook, wife
of Australia's High Commissioner, as
"Mrs. Joseph Cook." '„ The only other
mistake be has made .was to try to
hustle out of the room semen .'vi o he
thought was trying. to ..interrupt Gen-
eral Bothe while peaking a speech..
General Botha always spoke in. Dutch,
and the man was his interpreter.
•
A Zangwlil Anecdote.
Maiiy good stol'ies, are told of -Mr.
Israel Zangwi1l, the famous novelist
and playwright, who died recently.
Zangwill- knew what it was to be
poor—lee vas born in the East End of
London, and was familiar with poverty
from his earliest, days, notonly in his
own home, but in its surrolen,dings.
This gives point to •one f)f the many
anecdotes .told of him in the. days af-
ter he won. suooess. A lady was talk -
Ing to him about his latest book.
"It is .wonderful!' she eeelaimed. "I
have read it through three times."
"Madam," was the reply, "I would
have• preferredyou to. buy three
copies. '
Sugar in the Diet,
J During the Boer War at the endof
the last century it was observed that
the saleiers who ate freelly of choco-
, late and other sweets bore up against
the fatigue of long ngmarches be t
tee
thantheir fellows~ It was' that which
prompted Queen Victoria once to send.
each soldier in South.. Africa a small
box of chocolate. Not enough eholo-
late fell . to the lot of each soldier to
sustain his •eii'engies for a very long
• period, bide the Queen's gift was a good
hygen•le gesture:
ShoriJiy -before the Great War ex-
periments conducted in the German
army,, :C nfermed the ,experience of, the
previous war. They showed that a
certain increase of sugar in the ration
was useful in enabling the troops to
make forded• marches without great
fatigue. Even -mom conclusive was
the remelt of an examination of the
blood of Mitrntlion contestants, show-
ing that in the exhausted 'runners- at
the end of therace it contained a~low-
ctain
er percentage of sugar than normal.
The following year the men were sup-
plied with slugar to consmne during
the raee, with .the result that they
elnish.ed in far better oandifdon- than;
formerly. •
.. Physiologists tell us that ase rule
work is not done atthe expense of
muscular substance, but through the
energy liberated by the fats and car.'
bolepdrates in .the body. Hence la-
borers and' others engaged in. bard
pbysioai work need more .carbohy-
dmates-in .their food (breadstuffs and
starchy foods are, of eours% .the
equivalent of sugar) than, & do those
whose daily occupation, or non-,oeo e
canon, oriels for a .smaller expenditure
,of energy. An. interesting example of
the gnidanee of instinct in matters
of health is the great' intrease 1n the
consumption of =Idly ` auud of sweet
drinks in this country, sines prohibi-
tion hes made the production of beer,
which chntains a. great deal of car-
bohydrate, illegal. Deprived of this
source Of eaxboliydeate, beer -drinkers
have tinned to sugar to take its place.
?or the growing •child protein is.
necessery'to build up the tissues, and
candy in quantity is harnittel since it
tends to reduce the appetite for strong- ,
• er f.,00d; but, for the adult starchy I
• foods and Alen, a modehrate amount of
che.00late or other candy may well
take the placb of meat, at one or two
mealsat least,
YOU AFRAID
OF YOUR 'WEALS?
Paroof. That .the Stomach is Weak
and .Needs Totting -Op.
Are you one of the malty sufferers
Wlho (read, meal tI1no? Iitmgry, and
yet afraid ee eat, becapse'of the, pales
and discomforts 'that follow, : }Wien.
the stomach is out of order the whole
system settlers), :and as the blood be
oonhes thin and water It becomes In-
creasingly difficult 'to eerregt the dt-
gestive disorder. 'There Is no tonic
for the etom.a'c1i that is not attonio for
the whole, body; thus a blood -building
tonic snail as Dr. •Wiliiams' Pink Pills,
not only relieves indigestion, but adds
to the 'genera/ strength. Mr. D,. J,
Shaw Selkirk Road,.E.I.has
proved the value of Dr, Williams'WiPink
Pill's in a severe case 6f indigestion
and relates his experience ' for the
benefitofother sufferers. He says:--
"I
ays:—"I suffered from indigestion for a num-
ber of years. My case was so bad that
words' 'fail to . de's• erib;e It. My appe-
tite was gone, consttpatlon' was',.p're-
Stent, and my nerves .were all on edge.
I could not sleep well at ntglit, and the
world was a•dark spot •eor me, 1.tried,
a number of:remedies, but without any
benefit, Then: Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
were•'reoommended, but without much
faith, after so many failures, I •deeided
to try them. ,'After taking three boxes
I noticed a change for the'. better.
Then. I gpt ,three more boxes and
found I, had a genuine remedy: I con-
tinued the• treatment, took moderate
exercise, could take plain food with
out suffering as formerly, and prayed
that these pills make good blood, and
that this good blood wile restore the
stomach and nerves.. Anyone suffer-
ing'
uffer-ing`. front'stoil'lach or nerve troubles
-will hake no mistake in giving Dr.
Williams'` Peak Pills? fair trial."
Dr.Williams' Pink Pills, are sold
by ell ineddciue deciders or wi11 be sent
by mail at 50 tents a box by The 'Dr:
Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville,
Ont. Write to -clay for a copy of the
free booklet "What to Eat and How
to Eat."
The Four Friends.
Ernestwas an .eleph'ant, a great big.
fellow,
Leonard was a lion with a six-foot
tail,
George was a goat, and his beard was
yellow;
.And James was a very small snail.
Leonard had a stall, and a great big
' strong one,
Ernest had a manger, and its walls
were thiole,
George found a pen, but I think it was
the wrong one,
And James sat. down on a brick.
Ernest starrum trumpeting, "and
.cracked *his' manger,
Leonard started roaring, and shiv-
ered his stall,
James gave, the hugle of •,a snail in
• danger,:
And nobody heard his at -all.
Mirst Press *Agent Won Success.
ThA first theatrical press agent stunt
• tock place it century ago when an att-
er drove a tub drawn by a 'Stock of
geese for three tulles a�lang the banks
Of the, Thanhes, The act WW1 success
iPul in filling the
theatre for the eubse-
aaaidnt performance.
c put out o1^ doors
If babies _oU1d be
Irl the air, cads Weald rola ocour:---X�r,
, Walla'1',
Ernest started trumpeting and raised
such a'rump'us, .• '.
Leonard s'tarted roaring and trying
to kick,
James went a' journey with the goat's
new oompass.
And `he'reached the enol of hes brick.
Ernest was an elephant and very well-
intentfoned, •
Loonard was a lion with, a brave
tail, -
• new '
George was a•'goat, as I. think I have
mentioned,
But James' was only a snail,
Very
From "When iWe Were Ve y'
Young," by A. A. Milne.
Not Static nary.,
"Let's see; haven't I seen you some-
where,else ;?"
;'Possibly. ' I've been other places."
Rnbindratiatn Tagore •
Surnames and .: Mei ' Origin
• DRAKE.
13aeiai Qrigin---Arfflo-Norman.
Sauroe-r-wA given name.
Drake'is osis of tho:'se fancily names
whleh soune!is as though there were
no doubt about it's b•eihig of Anglo-
Saxon origin:
While the Aliglo-,Saxon origin is sot
tunldkely, ticw'ever,, the cava remains
.ghat the records lioiut to a Norman-
1Prenlcdi origin 111 leers eases, than to
the foettlet,
'Phe family name in Ito older form
was "Fitz Draco" and sometimes "Fitz
Drog'o.
Ilicldentatly, It Las notbing. to' do
with ducks: The given name et "Dna
oQ" and its other forms, "Drogo,'
"Drava,"' "Drag," "Threg," "Draeger„
and "Draelfe,"; heed a meaning et
",strength' or "force," The forms -end-
ing°in "o" were those used by the Nor-
mane. "Dra.ea" eves the Anglo-Saxon
form, as also `Drag" and "Thrag," end, i
Sir Rabindranath' Tagore, noted In-
dian' poet and phillosopherx-, ae he. ap-
pears M. his latest and'most striking
photograph,
The ` Morning of
'I' "Jay.
Morning Glories`.
Well-informed people call them
ipomea; others call them convolvulus;
but,the old' country name of "morning
glories" beat expresses .the daily' de-
light they bring.
The potentialities of happiness in a
penny .packet of seeds are •always
great; bort' the morning glories seem
a'little to surpass all others, edpecial-.
1y for those' to caredlhave but few
flowers! to cultivate, whose- activities
mese be ;confined to the pots or boxes
on a rooiater^race or wlndaw' sill.
M'orning glories are ready to grow.
anywhere and'• for anyone; just as in
the country they=will fling themselves
over- a fence, a porch or: a..chicken
house, so will they veil 'with beaaty a
window frame, a chimney or an ugly
bit of .city wall. And they:are.,delight-
ful' in all their doings from first to
last, behaving with a companionable
Precisionwhich enables.. one to count
upon their .charming activities and
movements' almost from day to day.
The slender' stalks race upward at
amazing' speed; thickening and inter-
twining .until they form veritable • rose,
azure blue, : and white, , and all'richly,
clothed in leaves. Soon the buds, be-
gin to' appear, those slender fluted,
pointed buds which open; out morning
by morning cute perfect chalice -shaped
blooms, violet and ; rose, azure blue,
and white, and a11 -the delicately Buse -
ed, and tinted sbades between.
Each evening one may see just how
malty, among the innumerable buds at
different, • stages, • are' 'ready ' for to-
morrow's blooming: each morning if
one rise early enough, they will be
found still° closely folded, 'but, with
the
SUIT; they open e before one. vel
un,s s
p "3'
eyes into perfect flowers; exquisite :in
form, and color, anl,growth upon the
parent vine.• For a few hours' the
beauty lasts; then, withept' any sign
' of disorder -•or decay, the morning's
flowers droop and drop, :leaving, the
vine•ord�erly and' •prepared for the next
' day's display.
And all this &slight may be' enjoyed,
not only-by:,the.fortunate who spend,
their summers in the country, but by
those in town offices' and narrow
•rooms, who through • many months
each day may partake of the flowers'
offering of Loveliness.
Miittaree„ tr to
y.S a gy:
Uncle William stood watching his
nephew and some other boys playing
at soldiers attacking a fort, After a
moment or two had passed he called
his nephew. to him and said:
"Look here, Fred." If you' side can
take the fort _within half an hour I'll
givehaT �1
you f a dol ah.
Fred accepted the offer and hastened
to'hie friends with the news.. •
About two minutes later he return-
ed to bisteme'1•e and, said: - '
"Uncle, can I have th•e• half a dollar?
We've taken- the foiteall right."
"That was .pretty, Smart," remarked
Uncle; William, as he handed over the
coin. "May I inquire as to libel you
outgenerailed the •enemy?" ^
"Oh," replied nephew Fred, "that
was quite easy. I just offered the
other side a quarter to give in."
The Purpose of Laws.
For all lawes (sale they) be made
and pubiysbed onely.to 'the intente
that by thein every ihaii should..he•
put` in remembrance of hie dewtee.—
More, In "Utopia." •
In''Jasirer .Nrhtional Park, Alberta,
there are abodt 64'0 Tiellee. of standard
trails by ;which tourists -may visit the
outlying scenic nttr•actions.
_"''"'re
High School 'Boards' and Boards. of Education
Are authorized by law to establish
INDUSTRIAL,- TECHNICAL AND .
` ART SCHOOLS
With the approval of the Minister of Education,
DAY AND EVENING CLASSES
may be coeducted, in accordance with the regulations Issued by
the Department of Education -
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL iNSTRUOTION
is given In various trades. • he.sehools and classes are underthe
direction of AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE. •
Application for attetldance should be ;