HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-11-13, Page 2Boys as Chauffeurs.
Because boys are boys it is neve,-
say to use die,eretion about 1t:,.
them drive ears, A bri.t.tt.:ente tligen(
boy ust ally makes a i:•,. .1 .• tr ett!ote
and very qu:el.ly caunea , ,u thin ,
but, unless the boy is stung for his
acre, and not inclined to ill-+1e•allyl, do
not shift the driving too much to his
shoulders. if the car is ! ,• he utlt
do more halrtn to its wot n t p ,
attus than can et first 1e, imeeent,
bei'auso of his inability to hitt i
gears smoothly, deet on the !melees
properly, and to steer cot eetly. The
pedals are too many eine .< Cut of rea.lt
of the boy',. feet on these is no way
to carreet this unless it world be to
have extensions roads for the pedal.(
end a cusaion for hie hark smelt as are,
• recommended for woolen drivers.
Even if the hey tem man.:^e the
ear it is not. Wise to let him duiee tee
much, became of the effect it may
likely have on him,, phyeicallee A grve -
ing boy r:Io,ilci not strait himself, nor
be suhjc•etel to stoop-ahna'.ders. His
nerves si:oi,ld not be eemitsd ton mole
It very often (all;: f,,r all the even
temper older folks can einnifeet to
manage a car properly, Ivo low. 0
boy, rata thele will he ti' When .n
- ,i
driving •.it wilt call for the eery best
judgment. Same countries have hien
that do not p.rrelt boys sneer a ee.'-
tain age to drive cars. This may lie
partly for the Fate of safety to the
public, ael:! Tartly an incentive to be
careful with the growing boy and not
overtax hie. strength and nerve:, which
driving come ears weeld do.
You often hear the remark that 1
such and euch a youn•n'ter ulcer ••
cute" at the wheel. Under this state
meat hide te multitude of sins, m.0
te,Kee, :nd leases, (imply bet:masa tine
fether or tee guardian alloys the boy
to de as he plca.e,s wirh the eer, end
takes the young fellow's wrri for c
everyything. Don't try to swelher the a
bon's ambition, but at the same time
don't allow it, t-. run away with him. 1
I have in mind several boys who are
acting as chauii'eurs for their fathers s
or the ho Beholds and who are giving s
real satisfaction. They are usually
accompanied by older members of the f
home, and to this fact is probably due'
their records of sensible driving. The
cars and the boys, while they are using
the cars, are always under close watch. t
These boys enjoy driving far the real b
pleasure they get from it and the op-!
portunity to serve. They learn some -1 c
thing of what the car is made for„ d
what it can do and haw to take tare' 1
of it. i
On the other hand, I know a number r
of boys whose parents allow them to
drive the family oar and do just ao a
they please with it, These boys grow u
bold and stop at nothing that ;+Tomo d
ises more and more excitement. They(!
accumulate repair ills, and overload f
the car with tact many other boys. ; t
These boys have been in more ac ;"1
cidents with the cars than the ether I'
boys mentioned before. They have h
w�.
nsired for thetneehves 0 lead mem,
tem.and it :0041 , neon e eh:n aatli
be at 1 t ' andinemepe10
te, ,r oe .1 car. 'the,, a dally- d
e.1 upon teller's to 1.c•p the tort
r;r. 'i'lte 01 r 01: Li'^ keens the
ad ui,1 lenle to them a r.'ekle
view .,f iifc
Proper rc"'rninc i'rot:t the phren
e 4 d(•nh;l •.s create a dilrere
.... i. (fel•:. Mary of til:,. bn
x1 1.,,t �. -rl:,ale., '!'hay tree a'ru
,rl.ac e,'�:a -hey film it at hon+.
11 see '0m',v u' `n': tned-ods, thou;
r , dont c rn. ' a kn 0 -,1Ce 't.
..,1 e,<n is a toy lirii tn;t a ear is }:illi:
11 ,til t1(:3 or it may b
t,. ,inn degree the oppcJ!to. It a
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BRiTIISH ADVA"d :: A END
OF y iiE O`!i � C;A�' At ,
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ay.:.':ei Of i :'tiFeery
iu
m t.)ei'eenseliW ea! Eiie ly
ss re _ to ,:,1'e•r ie. 11r1'l, le e date i.•bt li
sung c w; wall never pees without a
to thrill of ro a die: tion, writes a former
rat larytS:ai ruldier. Just for it, moment,'
1 s may be, we shall 1 a back -gate on the •
ze f'hdnl cf i;ti t.on, bete -eon Mount Bolt. ;
e, riam and the sea, :to hone before dawn,
h For two wee+ry `hese w,. lied Lldic•'t in
1t the o•anao owh+:els ,�nlct,t t, nt tiie
live grun't's of T,t, la. 1ty day tee
duty tracks „ii ch ti,f i'el the !'lain
it were almost them tel. and ;t wee only
;:tt night (lot eon; er11:Iuns of `north-'
Meter 1r •) Tipe:. !
Rona 11 ,::t. a,e--.T!Ie!road our°aces.
a': ,tile, - - have a til at deal to do With
the efflc_eney of motor truth trariesi
r010' Lion. Read resistance 1 ore et' the!
et : c , , to 1 , -si,icred in a -ti -e
metir., t1 crerating :f', ane • of tho!
J
n. sur \et:;::c. DMit otr ,.v (onside
to 1 e,mee, 1'::e I is War=e, Fund
.11 worse. ,.end 'meets � revel is worst
f all. T. rt - iv e b
-etl (. oyer must;
ink( t' _ aro eensilerntion in esti.:
en ti0 eoste and in laying
at + 1 1:i'..e.
t o .'.xle Leaks—Track drivers
aeon repent the nil is leaking into'
the teaks bath:. 0, condition rauserd
e nioly by an czee :ive amount of oil
le the differential inrlaing. The mesa'
-11 '; for:c 1 ,hromeh the axle tubes
dna c ntuatl•. gets to the brake
Sero trntckelee have a maid
(rein fitted ;:oar the outer end of the
c. w in o. hat's the interiors of
the eh hear me; are fitted with
seems . h .h rtaeh the oil before it
-t tothe i.,rat:ee• In mos e:'ent
ueeing tee oil 'eyes hi the housing
.tinned 0t11i ,)re';en�. most of the leak
ge,
Solid Tires and Se:iogs.—In trucks
tartly Fetid tire equipment, great
care should be beetowed upon the
pringing y etcm. Especially is this
o when the tires begin to wear down
0vhon the spring len'es should have
re:lucnt and copious lubrication-
Cleaniincss.—When any part of the
nechani_ent of the meter truck is ve-
mnved, the greatest care should be
,ken to see that it is absolutely clean
efore it is returned to its place. Even
uch a part as a valve plug should be
leaned thoroughly. A small piece of
in on the plug gasket may cause a
eak. It is not this small leak in
tself which is harmful, but the total
esult of all leaks. Clean every metal
t5•sket before it is replaced. Paper,
sl'estos and other flexible gaskets
smelly need replacement after being
isturbcd.
Chains on Hills --It is a noticeable
act that many truck drivers think
hat tire chadns are a help on bills.
Nis is not true unless the road is wet.
'or a dry surface there is nothing
olds better than rubber. '
Concerlrii sg Lord Haig.
l! ield-Marshal Earl Haig is not to he
drawn into the -.coterie of those who .1
have consented to write their auto- a
biographies, although he has received w
some Very tempting nfrers. One etr- 1!
terpr,ising llrm of publishers, it is
said, offered the famous soldier what S
amounted, practically, to a bl<nit g
cheque, for even the shortest book on t1
the war.
But to all these blandishments the n
Field -Marshal has turned a deaf ear, 6
and, this despite the fact net he pos. ar
ewes considerable literary ability. If
His "Cavalry Studies" priblished , a)
about twelve years ago is stili it Maud- i w
and worst. Ile is also one of the few 0'
living soldiers to have studied at Ox-
ford, where he quickly became an
authority on military history.
Eiggest Man oro Earth.
Compared with Petrlcic O'Connor,
!bort Brough, who died a short time
go, and who, owing to his 7 ft. 7 in.,
as reported to be the tallest man In
1e world, was a midget.
O'Conor, who is at present in
(nth Africa, i3 stated to be the big -
est man on earth. Certainly, he is
to tallest British subject,
ver'tabl^. modern Flcrcalcs, O'Con-
er i, almnet. 1 ft. high, and a person
it. 6 in. high ran walls beneath Itis
ms when outstretched horizontally,
e Ines a chest measurement of 55 in,
vl weighs 3157 111., while the ring
Mich 010104 the index linger of tate
ant': richt hand is so large that a
florin tau pass easily through it,
When hens get lazy (and all the
heavy breeds and some of the lighter
ones sometime; get a trifle dull from
overeating) try the meperimont of ty-!
ing' strings around ears of corn mull
suspending the eors fronr wire, a.
from the 1111110 of the trees whirl!
be est. as i01 esel around every,
poultry yard. Then %notch the activitt:
and preinlrt, too, for Soule good
WNY• 1neertee
MfY1• t se (g,
Jl1C1<ISA
ilitk Cea`{
'iIIE Cq0 Leer
Scot .0.
LNING
Honey As Substitute Por Sugar.
(.'tikes made with honey keep soft
for months, 113 does honey icing.
Ilonoy is slightly acid, 0101 better re -
suits are obtained by using baking
fug troops, guns to nes, lander)
lines of slow, it i t oancas gave eve
donee of the gvei azmy which Gene,:ot
.diene' urs secretly lnr•rying yarn
000t to west.
There is a mint. thogling chill in the
air, amu the bey hilI:; are white web
moon:li ,ht. :\1l the night we have lain
and watched the Moon attrel through
the sky. _111:1 row it is hoar 1, clear-
cut and ehintn^, on tine 0(1;0 of 1110
sandhlils which lie i'ot:vnul ins aoOl iflr,
sea; already darltnees is creeping
swiftly up the shallow Uwaslie, Then
the moue s1i0r.: ,uri,'tl: 10110(1 it:e
hills, and the :;fiver liars due fs :<ud-
deiily blotted ant,
\Ce gat up add 110•;:c sll :1tly tllringll
the gaps in our wire+ to oar allotted
pl.tcec on the tape which the eeple^re
laid in No elau's Lund the night he -
ices. f11 front the eurtciu of dark n-1 :s
is gcca:dem/11y 11:•rte1 b 0000 swift up-
ward flight of a ''erey light. All
through that long ni01 t 0 ei1`g1e Turk-
ish gttn had been nein:; at regular in-
tervals; every twclny minutes a ::Ingle
deer. had screamed its -enty over our
I:eucls. It sounded like the rainnte g11')
of a ship in (Petre.ee, Lind contrasted
with the deep :Aimee :..000011, there
!!had seemed eonnotti?ng impressive nod
sinister in the sound,
A Thrilling Moment,
So Sve lie in No Man's Land, watch-
ing the Verey lights and the luminous
dials of our watches, listening to the
rustling of the dry grass in the breeze
which comes from the sea just before
the dawn, and waiting. That is per-
haps the moment which in after years
we shall most vividly recall—the si-
tenet) of the night, the gathering lines
of men, east and west, on a twenty -
mite (rant, and 500 yards away the
Turks, happily unconscious of what
the Gown would bring.
At 3,21 the long lines suddenly rose
and went forward, groping their way
through the darkness across the little
flit: scour IForutus WITH SIGNS
OF Me E NEN YS (1PPROPtc ti
valley between tate two front iltoos.
We were (dose to err( Turkish trench-
es wines the iterrage b-.., n. 'there
wt;e Peon .Ilei•; from a machine-gun,
ae distinct as the blows of a hammer,
boating merc.ite .1) on the silence. A
fraction of it 00,1)1 later eves;: glut
from tho Mediterranean to Mount
iifphriarn broke into a (mighty chorus.
When we reached the 'Turkish
tren(lms a few dazed and demoralized
melt ran forward to surre,etleie in rho
tumult of sound their votoes came to
US Mildly and like the, wail ng of
children. \Ve swept on over the -front
line and the support trenehee, East-
ward on Mount Element' :t faint atelier
light told of the coming of tray. Al-
ready wo could set the great clouds
of emelt, and deet which swirled
round 1(1121 in front of us: la the lulls
when our guns were Iifting from
treiin11 to trench we nuulll hear the
roar of distant barrages, and knew
that for the whole 16110th of that long
line others were doing what we were
duing.
Forward Over the Plain'
For some time after the coning of
day we could see nothing of the coun-
try round. We walked on the edge of
a great bank of dist Lammed up by
our shells, which moved slowly north-
ward. Then the guns llohind us stop-
ped, and wo knew that we were be-
3'onil the range at which they could
protect us. The clouds began to thin
and part and at last wo could see in
front of us the new country which we
had set out to win. There was a long,
rolling plain, di.ttcd here and thorn
with white and brown villages, shin-
ing in the morning sun: there were
little hills and cactus gardens and
clumps of trees where a Jewish farm
stood: there was the yellow ribbon of
rued which marked the right of the
broad gap through whiei- the cavalry
were to pass, and far to the north we
"Lebanon's ejarS Ira
The cedars of Lebanon have almost toric when the mettles of Sennacherib
disappeared from their native home in laid then( waste in 608 B,C,, as record -
the picturesque mountains of Pales -
fullyin the Bible, and which are beano -
fully mentioned in the Psalms of
tine and yet one !tears no great pro- Daviel, have now been ravaged as a
test. Trees, 2,000 years old, that war neoessity by the Turks to feed
Passed through their infancy a hum- their locomotives which drew trains
clrod years before the opening of the between the military station at Beirut
Christian era, were cut to suply fuel and tho ancient capital 0f Damascus.
for military locomotives during the This dostnietion was nude inoperative
tsar• by the severance of all outside sup-
! The wholesale destruction of won- plies of coal. The conquerors of the
derflu works of art during tho war Turks continued the practice. It be -
brought forth groans that were heard came a common sight to see long lines
around the world, but tho wood -chop- of automobile trucks of the invaders
per, without a murmur being heard in make their way to the "goodly moun-
the world outside, has destroyed this talus" for a load of the wood.
living thing that for centuries has been The Canadian purchaser of a roomy
used as a symbol of physical strength cedar chest at the present almost pro-.
by nations forgotten except in the hibitl;e price may sorrowfully picture'
pages of history. in mind this sight. The cedars of
These beautiful giants thrived best Lebanon have the reputation of helot
h G" ,spa'? `.
"Machines thstt supplant !mieto," is
the term that lute been 1:01111 l 10 the
)rant travelltug cranes of fie 1110, .en
factory. Cremes ere the great tla,,•
alert's of all methods of Int -:r f.:e•i ,ry
emit nntnice tion. So therou.:h1 y 'i
the 0r1111e ettU'ted into the enu,otr o -
lion work of Various classes of Indus-
try that
ndustry'that the labor of ten thaueend 0100
is often contingent upon the dosterity
of a few score crane operations, turd
a strike among the crane men (1111.
prralyze the metivitles nC n manufac-
tory Mare quickly titan any other
0.0(10:0. It took 100,000 men thirty
years to build 'the greatest of the
nc'ei1t pyreinlde of Gizeh. Engineer -
in, opoation• are conducted on 0 11tf-
f00out time bests noeadays.
An engineer has il:;•u•ed that it teens
eight melt four lemre (at a nest of
al00 2 $101 to lift off the drives, with
jacltsrrciro., a ton wheel locomotive
weighing 132,000 pounds. Pour men
Senders
; Vit'le no odd :110(1109 i(! 01.0 The Meet
1 ihme :t Or 11O 1 ":+velllut t'ra1Hl 10 1100
rolling maih 11.11 pick a 01111e Ili,:.
' inte,t from the ftn•udee with pretenhn
Nedra ht its letietenteee, are rdl'loted
in (ten e 11001 1,10.4 101145153 by a0-1
� ct'•c lrti ncct0.0 1 eu dlr.( tutus nlat.:r1a1,
of co so uerwieldly to hooch(!, curt be
stacked in col,lpurt piles by toe crane
operator with ea o ,ani (001:flInt y,
For the different c l:rc,ies of creme)
vurions solirceS of 1•uwrr are adnpee11.
!FO1'111Crly r team power and the lumen
bleeps only were availuhlo, but, 1110'
eleetriclty- and colnpre: ed air have
nearly, 12 not quite. driven the steam
engine from Ode held, and in marry iu-
stu;t es tea email electr10 nr eo)10-
' pressed air hoist has proved gnlelt."t'
and cheaper for handling light leads
than tho hand operated holet. Tile
e1iminat10 of overhead belting,
• brought about by the adoption of the
direct co li cte1 electric motor as a
means of driving all kinds of Ina- 1
whit pneumatic lacks eau do tate jab
in one hone, An electric travelling
crane requires only ten minutes to per-:
f01•00 the task.
'1'o do the work quickly and cheaply
there aro many kinds of cranes and ,'
auxiliary hoist; equipped with special;
prehensile fittings to adept them to
all classes of work, Prom the travel- i
ling cranes which will carry 400,000
pounds tate thou::.aud foot length of an
ceeclmg shop Blown to the small
travelling hoist f er uanzporting 11e1I-
cite patterns from pattern storage to
foundry there are crones for handling
,
and conveying all classes of material.
Small cranes, having a carrying ca.
pacity of three to twenty tons, are
particularly useful in leindling ma- !
toilets and parts in the small machine
shops and foundries. Special buekat
and boosts are made far nickine un i
clattery, liar inensse l the ueefulitees 1
of the overhead matte by giving free!
headroom for the transfer of nta-
terluis.
Electric travelling cranes form a
class by tha,naelvus in ir:ut portati) l
equipment >;ui' the factory. Ib,ists and
trolley trucks, operated either by cont.!
pressed air or electricity, are subsi-
diary and serve to facilitate tho opera -1 of the prime equipment With'
cranes for large capacit!c:1, it Smaller
hoes. for handling light 'nieces fo•,na
a prat of the main equipment. The
small hoist fs also used to steady a
heavy balanced load that luny be cer-
rIed by the male heist; its effective-
ness is often demonstrated by the dex-
tonins operator who, by clever tna-
nipulatiot of both hoists, can iterform
nanny feats in handling material quiet-
ly and osaetly.
could just see the faint purple outline
of the greet buttress of Carmol,
stretching from the sea to the hills
of Central Palestine. In the distance
there wore a few scattered parties of
Turps, carts, limbers, stray horses
fleeing to the north.
We had another three miles to go
before we should reach the village
which was our final objective and
make good the right gate of the gap.
So we went on, and the tapping. of
machine guns and the swish of bullets
overhead showed us that the Turks
were beginning to recover from, their
first surprise. 01 such a lune as ours
gaps were bound to open, and in those
gaps little detachments of Turks and
Germans hung on to do what damage
they could while they could. Onee,
too, a squadron of Turkish cavalry
rode up on our loft flank, but withdrew
when we turned our Lewis guns on
thein.
By 11 o'clock we had reached our
village. The forwards had done their
work; 1t was for the three-quarters
now to dash through and score the
winning try. Before midday their
rusts had begun. Armored ears stream-
ed up the road, cavalry trotted brisk-
ly across the open country and air-
planes circled overhead watching the
tido as it swept northward,
There was an extraordinary finality
about it all. It was not only that for
us it was tho end of the war. As the
battle passed to the north a great
peace fell upon the land, Lind in the
afternoon the people of the village
calve down to the well to draw their
water. An empire had passed away,
a chapter in history had been closest
and the old routine was beginning
again. With our eyes we had seen
the comping of peace.
The wettest town in the world is
in India. This town, where there ,is
an ulntc•st constant rainfall, is called
Cherepunji. Ste average rainfall is
600 inches, or 50 feet a year, or nearly
a foot a week.
Marriage Superstitions.
It is an old bolief that marriage Whole villages have dish pe':tr^.d,
GERMAN RISl-I1T, S
r
CLEAR UP r3111E1fi
FORCED TO HELP ':!. :, . .
LAND OF RU'USF...
US3....
Belgian Children Play its the
''iota'( Wrecks rT T. -'•iI's
on Oki Battlefields.
111111! (•red over the low-lying ('0010try
bet .,0'011 Ypres mlel I1(xnbudn, svelte of
many a battle, aro thon:etads of Ger-
man pridon`rw tinder guard of 13riti.th
and Belgian void 1000 as well ars civil.
bins who have boon Calle, into the gt
gentle, 01 k or clearing up the Witte.
fields edit o4100 more nmtcie01 them t1t
for habitation. They ace ;tacking
shells, recovering braes (axes ural
burying the dead, 'There le a military
eftieleuc•y about their work enol the
pret;reus they oto nnok'o'g Is nnrrt
gratil^htg for all the governments
cnncorned.
Sine may still see the -ruing of molly
British mil Belgian tunev, otooeht 1'I
the German shell fire, now 1 4111410100,1
broken wrecks. Now thee lie rusted
((1011 lief looted, mere shells of the, once
powerful machines 41'111011 0•011 itt•,
action. some of then( are elan., t
buried its Oa mud, othe,'s Imeg pre-
c,trlously on the edge of dllspblated
trenches, while still ether' ^tend high
in the beide where they were elmndnn-
ed by such of their crews itg 1311rViTrt
lhuoy of them are torn 1011 riddled as
though •their heavily u*uu,red sides
were little more than pei:cr.
Perhaps the most Inlpro:xi' e feature
of this dead and blaekened 1:1111 01119
a1•1' the trees. Gaunt and stook, strip.
pelt of every limb and beanoh, they
stand out egaln,t the reel1 ,e so tele fly
lifulcs. stick's,
Tank Supporta Clothes Line,
sheltie! trete place when the moon is ground by the Uig (ons int, r.1.1 and
waxing and not waning, if it is to bs a (lust, w11 nn t ono "!!!I" !"1 r'sn; icing
lucky match, and in many north. c•oun• to mark their 1e;e ttcon. '110:: 1.t t eI+' of
try districts a strict inquiry is made
as to tate state of the moon before the
wedding day is fixed, according to a
writer in London Answers. In the
north, too, no ;rise bride will ash an
odd number of guests to her wedding
feast, for an oid superstition has it
that if this be done one of the guests
will die before the year is out.
In tate Highlands it is tauten a a
terribly unlf dky sign if a dog should
run between the bridal pair on their
wedding day; while in Derbyshire
prospective brides still tell the bees
of their wedding and decorate the
!lives for the occasion. In parts of
England and Scotland there exists an
ancient custom for which reason is
hard to find, by which part of the wed-
ding cake is broken over the head of
the bride and the guests scramble for
pieces,
None of these marriage manners,
however, compare with the Chinese
custom which causes bacon and sugar
to be hung on the sedan chair of a
Chinese bride, in order to peep the
demons from molesting her on Iyer
wedding journey. The Chinese bride-
to-be, too, has to stand in a round,
shallow basket while she dresses for
the wedding, in orair to matte her of
a good temper and amiable disposition,
For rats to sharpen their teeth on:
It is not enough to put a cement floor
in the poultry house for the purpose
of keeping rats out. If laid even with
the lower side of the sill the pests can
and will gnaw through. If, however,
the cement is laid onsthe inside of the
house, up even with the top of the
sill, the rats will get discouraged and
quit when they conte to the stone,
Their teeth are not long enough to dig
through the cement.
In their native home in the mountains I partheularly fragrant. In ancient
of Lebanon, in Palestine, just south of , banes the oil of thls tree was•thought ,H, ea tg;i tt+� lttvn ?
Beirut, Their wood is so durable that to have curative properties and as
Pliny the
Roman historian, Sad it : such was applied to the body by those
was everlasting. For this reason the j suffering from leprosy, The Remelts
ancients made of it their gods. The; used the oil for the preservation of
Arabs regarded the trees as endowed' their manuscripts.
with the principle of c..onitunal exist- I The great Mize of individual trees
ecce, and when the great age of memo produced a profound impression upon
lntlivideat npec1u11'om is ennsiclerecl rho beholder, The trunk often reach-
sccia rather tubi n ba1(ng PI)Wi0r in re- they had very good reason for holding cd the girth of forty-two foot, which
Which emrtain it. ft may be sttb- this belief, They ale() credited the ! to 110i hcggarly even when compared
stente,l for evgar in any fevorite re- trees with reisenu111 pr,w.,rA. ! with the gia.tots of our British (10081.cie e, reit ,io rn . nr cup. ,,. 0 cup Tirnlmrs unearthed by r 1Cavatorh in bio forests. A height of 1_ninety ^ fo
or b:1,1.7 rr.ta ), . ; 1 the et
e°riuiva- they t•iliul: of the anc;eat .i :yrl'ttI pities was common and t. tth thle is to Uo
r:tt, of a e lu "1' u, ,n •fuu„eft cul .(.re found to crfre,t!: ono
MID P 1 Chang -,1 , eoleidcicrl the lava that tho sprea11 of
r r 0 cites, 1t 010 t. ,me :0 Toy's liqu.d c°ter passing though 2,+!1 t „ eea•e of the teee's bran(4m-ta exoeeded
this
then is ca (or 1a the us gill....1 rr, arinu..n.-.-s;ludas.
Sour' City
lofcl might ' 0 covered by
laughs. 1 tl ee � The cedar fan Ito, whicle were hie. tete vitiate specimen.
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•L"i'ia1fl•G UP k”AT »m_'.Ie
Broken hearts are being Mended in
Russia now—not the hearts shattered
by unfortunate r'omauces, but the val-
vular organs pierced by knives. Time
monde the first ]chid and the skillod
surgeon Zoldcr can be depended on to
operate successfully on the knife -torn
heart,
•37r. Zeller has a little hospital at
Obuchow. Thirty-one persons brought
to the hospital with hearts pierced
atti:'slashed by knife wounds have suc-
cosefuily bad their organs repaired
and have recadbred entirely, to alt ap-
pearances, from their remarkable ex-
pericncoa. One patient has lived coven
years and shows no signs of having
been affected by the heart wound and
subsecinent sewing np.
The patient( wore all put under the
influence of ether very soon after thio
injury, part of tho chest wall was re-
moved, the heart lifted from its beer
and stitches quickly introduced be-
tween pulsations. The bony chest
wall over the heart was not put hack
into place, tll1t organ being left pt e-
teoted only by eltin and muscle, '1'l1a
tens 11010 to dive the boail moan to
expand and to prevent adhosious from
enibarritasing the heart's action.
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siCFIIPS LEFT_
F'u01rul:p,lle, t;hnsa fora:^t ' ;i;•i.t tl.n
would taut hese beta suspected had not
a £070(08 major volun1 eeretl the in-
. formation that here itis battalion had
once hele i1:; mei street for three
days.
Many live shells still retrain in the
1e1ds and recently us it party wee
passing within a few miles of Dix -
nude they were s:tarile' by the ex-
plosion of one of these "duds."
Reconstruction is going forward.
Near tho shack reared by 0114) thrifty
Belgian, who has returned to the site
of his former home, is a disabled tank,
a shell having ripped through its side
' and exploded in the interior. From
one side of the tank to that humble
shack stretches a clothes line, and on
given days the family washing is hurg
out to dry, t
Children of that fancily play in the
broken tntk, enacting, as they have
often heard related, the grim story of
the battle. That lo, they play when
they are not at work, for Belgians is
using even its children to rebuild its
homes,
"Cures" For Rheumatism.
Rheumatism is perhaps a disease
which affects more people on this
earth than any other eomplafnt, and
the writer agrees that a sample is
ample! But the number of recom-
mended "cures" embracing the com-
mon Cilanbee's salts and the costliest
drug, still Sent to leave some suffer-
ers to the annoying acute.
Of the "cures for rheumatics" there
are some vet! curious once on record:
The "boa ,sting mire" was once a com-
mon treatment„ in the Isle oe Malta.
It originated More when it was dis-
covered that people, having b0011 stung
accidentally, wore rendered immune
from rheumatism which had previous-
ly troubled then(, 7'lto "boo•siiug
euro," it is said, was also practised
among some Indian tribe,, who ad-
mitted that it was a painful process.
Then another quaint cure for "ma-
tics" has bison In own ander the name
of the "whale curd which is said to
have boon tried in Australia. With
what sums it ]las not been ascertain-
ed; but at a certain 430,01(10 resort
out thore, a hotel once a':cauumedated
patients, who would wait till a whale
was caught, Then the "care" bogtut.
The whale was landed, Moles dug in
its body largo enough to "admit" the
patients, and into these tin "rlleursy"
sines 'would get,
According to the severity of iho
com,d.int, so they would urn: hat
this"treatment" should at least make
ono forget the nceu atitee
No limg„to Spare,
Aar old sea captain, 1 tied to a coun-
try eottago, 101,0 very plo:ld of Ole
teach, whteh for nerdy thirty years
luel never 01100 gone wrong.
Early One Morning he roused a visi-
tor v'ho was stoyinn with him and to-
gether tltuy sot nut to son the .sou 01,1.
file host Rapt coneulting 1116 wetdl,
and then a calender 'lurch gave the
trines of the oun'e Tishri, and setting.
There was a long wait fat the Palo,
vague dawn, Presently, tapping his
watch with his forefinger, tlto mari).-
er said:
"If the sun ain't over thaw hill in a
minute and half, lte'.11 bo lett)."
Whether the day's 51-00101 'eeigha uc
to the earth with wearinees 00 lifts us
to the heights with the joy of acs
cotnlrlisimnent, dependn on whether wo
labor to live or live to labor, ---,Seam
Blowett,