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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-8-19, Page 3FIGHTING CYCLONE CLOTHES FOR THE 8,000 FEET IT IN AIR SCHOOL BOY EXPERIENCES DURING A BIG THUNDERSTORM Navigator in Plane Describes Thrilling Descent to Cahn and Sunshine. An observer in an airplane describ- ing lin (+l.pei•ien eo in a ;;toren thous - nude of feel above the earth writes: -The tky was strewn with the rcln- nant5 of 11 lftorntlIg cirrus, as the (111(01) hoax made carefully but swiftly on the wings ct a wenn wind.. Eight flume - and feet Were retched with tete Illerest effort. The salient features of the ('L•untey+.dc could be picked out, with- out iii : cs. Tho air had a lenity t:i.ge but it was such as the eye could 'eec tl tin .ugh, and it gave ne immes- sine of the moisture with which it must 1tilre been heavy. It 1+eemecl w, m tied brilliant and es the into cit th full♦, thiel the d1011. sly away wid the Is; s, hrlu1"! A till((? Sign That the Blood l9I A murmur of rynlpatbcltic applause WW'atery and lmpt?rte. . greeted stool the wish. i 1n whit le" confesr e 1 the traveller, P001110 WIt11 titin bloo•l are mush' "1 1.11 an unholy desire to join, Some - 010110 anbject t0 11nad,tchns thIu full- � tii.i..01 1 du get Bred of scheduled„ irleolotl P0"4'°'.4 end Ilin (0110 of anaemia that afflicts groping (11(10 is 011nost always ltr'1'nmeanied 11 • head• ethl4, to(((ner with elctul•b.ace of the ligeetive °reams et/believer you have rn ir.tant of re. curring he ,rise hes and pallor of the Rice, they show that the blood le titin :(u 1 your e forge rho 1Li b:, ciirectee t.n- vaed bnilrhl g up your blood. A fair treatment wilii Dr. \ illitlm:i' Pink Ile elle sit Pills will tie this slut holy, unit tete Aust hb .Ucit rich red Mewl made by these, 1:1115 will Ailti ..ay: r, remove the heed r11e More dletu_h ._n; to the health aro Co Wong c111(0(11 by their bleed then most pewee \4 ith you! have : ide.1 of. 11 ne:1 your blood hly job's done! le trope:: elimi, tit, nervee stiffer from leek (1' neuriehlne0t, and gnu Random r tom Remv^.'x'i15o. . may be troubled with inOellnitit, need- To is a 4 heietla:1 iii no musee 1=amn tis, neuralgl:l or sciatica. '1l cl s 11(0. T.I. P. L. 1heppard. ( 3" 5 net from may' �` subjr..et to strain are t 1 ternan13:11ed :Meet of us are Inial;ug. , anis Sett easy Have a l raise rh oma• t c,l n oilier.^„ bat from lack of n: C5.£i 926e teem fir lumbago. If your bond 1:1 o''o11trter. lir. A. (:1. llardil:er. chine throbbed its way flu' u+,^,l1 it two thin and yea begin to .11ow symptosis 1� mina will tell his wile everything wenn stip II111 fl 1 mill' Ito neat the duties of b'ys to their j jj i 1, VV + t Ili J: Jt mothers," cried the old woman wrath - Door -Steps. A doer -1.1(T Ithc,ul 1 he ntmule Tu face the \Vont 190 the t When le men is lhreuelt tee sus go down streams !levo+^d back 1)001' 0533—Bay's Stolt (en:.kerLar•i.oe of any of 11e,e disorders, try building in tie world except 1(0w meth raaney e Wit.cl : c reen, trmiaersj. Price. c5 cents. in sizes, ftp the blued with Dr. \1 Sllinms' Pink he h1 getting. —Indy Astor, M.P. "Sulue time must have el(110011 be- 6 to 14 years. ,size R rermires '2' Pills, and Its the blood 1s restored to • People are nut saving half as much fore the pilot, In twisting the craft yds. 311 !ns, wide, or 1se ,;ds 5i ins. Its normal condition every symptom as they should, (.Everyone should save, new direet!ou, caught a wide; t lr' [ ct' Ms.of the trouble will disappear. There from, the Wilco -boy to the millionaire. s are here people who owe their pre- _..Sir Robert Kindersley. hnnlg far coat. :.1 30.. „1 g1ii11pFE o a r p 1 )'telt of hvlde; waastb and and inside pocket, to 3 1 t..,nd to a f livid ur )Ic•^ray 1 PI* r, :r.s, h ole. clouds which had crept up from the 0202 Boys Suit (kniekerbockel' sent state of good health to Dr. Wil- 1 have no patience with model smith. It had nom quite un110ra tried trousers). Price, 25 cents. Ins sizes, name, Pink Pills titan to any ether young men. Model young men delight l v tltun,ler, but although the sight Wast; to 1-i years. Size s'requires 23 yds. medicine, and most of them do not their mothers'hearts and ruin their not attractive there seemed ((,11her 3t; ins, wide, or lee yds. `'.i ins. wide; hesitate to say so, wives' tempers.—Alr. Edgar Status. c. 0 0 for sheet( u0r need for a prem(-; lining for coat, 1 1 yds. 36 ins, wide; You can get Dr. Williams Pink Pills 1)itileulttee exist only to be over- ture descent. Even the growling : lining for trousers, ?* yd. 00 ins. wide• through any dealer in medicine or by come; anything that presents 111111 ul- ranlble of blunder at a greet dietauce, I These patterns may be obtained (11011 at 50 cents a box or six boxes ties is generally worth the effort Epent welch came at last, failed to d itwit- 4 from your Local McCall dealer, or from for 32.50 from the Dr. Willinlue Medi- in their solution. --I11. Hon. A. J. Bal - tea, and the airplane soared on with , the McCall ('n.; 7(' )✓end street, T0- cine Co., BrodtVille, Ont, rento, Dept. \l• . bracing Wires singing and the engind in deep, fullthroaterf roar, Storm Burst CL'ddeniy. "Then, without further warning, the storm 11ro10e in full fury. A n(1311ty (11(111' of thunder, which seemed to deafen 00(1 deaden and elme51 shake the machine out of the shies, W110 he- of meteorites. companied by a wild burst oe hail and These bodies whirl about in the • Old Ocean's Bed. Irish Punctuality. To an enormous extent the bed of The following story is the expert. the ocean is covered with lava and encu of a woman who travelled a good Pumice stone. Still inure remarkable deal 111 Ireland before the World war: is it to find the floor of the ocean, Although she was naturally pnnc- coeei'ed in many parts With the dust tual, she had grown a trifle careless through familiarity with the easy-go- ing =liner in which time tables seem- ed to be treated. One day site arrived at a small country station just too late, but she was so nearly on time that she could net at first believe her misfor- tune. Site dashed frantically down the platform, waving her bag and um- brella; bet the train glided away just ahead et her, gathering a speed that left her at last hopeless, breathless, and a good deal abashed as she real- ized the spectacular quality of her vain sprint. She turned, panting, to en- counter the station master, who was holding out a magazine that she had dropped. "Sure, titin," he told her sympatheti- cally, "'tis no wonder ye hurried, ma'am—and a grand race ye made of it—with yerself near enough at the first of it to set yer little rut on the step, savin' only the width of a pig's ear. They'd not be having the hearts of men in thirst not to stop for yo. But that's how It is, ma'am, once folks do get bewitched with the word 'punctual: Punctuality he hanged, says I, whin it interferes with politeness and the res- pact due a lady! Meself -would have held the train for ye a mhntt, and no- body the worse, the days whin I ('an me iugine; but these new lads, they stick to the time -table, worse luck, and a fine nuisance they make of thim- selves, And thin well knowing there's not another train to Bantry the day! I'd not blame ye, ma'am, if ye writ a complaint to the management. 'Tis scandalous I" Although the traveller did not com- plain, she admits that she found his, point of view consoling. Much to her amusement, it was her ((Mane short- ly afterwards to hear it emphatically echoed by an old Irishwoman who, loaded with bundles and baskets and carrying a live cluck, missed a train much as site had done, except that the old wonlaul's run was a waddle, and what a bystander picked up for iter was not a magazine but a squawking and flapping duck. The old woman turned upon those who had gathered about her an eye of incredulous indig- nation. "And the ley that drives the 10(1410 mo 00011 sons" site proclaimed, "Black shame on mint for desarthl' and aban- donin' his mother, and ]the 1nowin' well the thrnin I was to take and the state of the ro'd and the lameness of calci Ma,;it's forefut! • Nivel* wud I have believed that my b'y Thaddy could play his mother such a 111(10lcl" "Whist, woman, he couldn't help himself!" some one suggested, "He had to run her on schedule." "And if schedules are to be allowed rain which hashed the machine Il' '('01- lesely and mule it toss from one :true to the ether like a cork o11 the surface of the sea, 1n a steaming cloak of rain and mist it was impossible for the eye to see the ground. . "Peal after peal of thunder follow- ed in swift succession between vivid flashes of furious summer lightning. The heavens had opened to pour forth the accumulated passion of centuries. At nearly 7,000 feet up' it would be euloidal to descend into thee' unknown and unseen. Which was safer --ah• or Iand? To the pilot, anxious almost be- yond endurance, came the thought, common to every flying man, of fire in the air; and as if to confirm this hor- ror a flash in a moment illuminated the whole machine as though it were caught in the probing beam of a searchlight at night, The sky was rent from vault to horizon by a vivid Weak of electric fire. The indicating fingers on the navigation instruments oscillated Wildly. Quivers Like a Wounded. Bird. It seemed the hist moment; but it for fifteen minutes or more. passed, and still the machine was air- At first the streamer is a vivid green worthy. The hail still tore fiercely at or scarlet streak. Presently it as - the fabric of the planes; the machine mines a enaky form, becoming more wins becoming more and more un- serpentine and irregular until it stable; but it still slummed on.,DoWn below a cloaca of vapor made it impost Bible to -see the earth or to eight a atretch of ground whereon to laird. The thunder broke with unabated fury at regular intervals, and at each on- slaught the machine quivered like a wounded bird. "If the pilot continued to fly on It phorescent. Air currents blow the could only be a matter of moments tube about, producing the snaky ef- before all control of the craft would feat. be wrenched from his hands. It was Ovservetions made simultaneously equally hazardous to plunge down ill- from stations far apart have proved to the sea of mist in total ignorance of that the average meteor when first the lin ot the land beneath. But to the seen is about eighty miles above the latter "arse only could a shred of r surface of the earth, end disappears hope cling. The engine therefore was from view' at thirty miles. In other suddenly shut off and the nose of the Words, it travels fifty miles before the atulospheric friction burns it up. This friction, it is reckoned, raises it to a temperature of something like 3,000,- 000 degrees, so that, vilest of large (leavens like miniature comets. and are for the most part broken into in- numerable fragments. We aro all familiar with these hea- venly vieltants as shooting stars; but it has been only lately discovered that this cosmic dust forms layers at the bottom of the deepest seas. Between Honolulu and Tahiti, at a depth of 2,350 fatboms—over two miles and a half—a vast layer of this material exists. Falling upon land this impalpable dust is indistinguishable, but, accumu- lating for centuries in the sea depths, it forms a wondrous story of the con- tinuous bombardment of this planet by cemetery bodies. Ask for Minard's and take no ether. Meteor's Trains. when a "shooting etas••' passes athwart the sky it leaves behind it a shining streamer. We do not notice the fact, but astronomers say that the streamer sometimes remains visible. v itnishes. Belief is entertained that the meteor leaves behind it a tube -shaped layer of highly heated ale, which expands and Is finally dissipated. The atmosphere along its track is electrified by the transit of the celestial projectile, and is thereby rendered brightly phos - machine (11000ed. "I3y the altimeter, watched fever- is1110', the crescent of a few thousand feet seemed to take many minutes. In tete thiole of a swirling mist a 'sudden size, it has no chance to reach our and violent contact with the earth was elementarily expected. But down— dawn; until at what seemed the criti- cal seeen1 there came a sudden in- rush of steady grateful air from a re - glen of smiling content and peaceful- ness, with the earth a thousand feet below, There was no sunshine, but there was also no storm. It had been a cyclone of the tipper regions only." What Size Do You Take? Few people understand the mean- ings of the numbers and sizes on. ar- ticles of clothing. In hate and caps the size Is one -halt the sum total of the long and short diameters ot the head. In other words, if your head measures 13ytht., your size in hats Is 6%, The size in gloves indicates the num- ber of incises round the knuckles when the hand 1s closed, TIte length in !aches of your foot is the'"number" you take in sociis. In women's hose 'the length of the leg 10 usually three times the length of the foot. If a woman's foot measures 310., her Mee In shoes is 2. Every quarter orf an inch above 8% increases the size by one, A man with a footellin. long should wear size 7 boots, The size 1110reasee be ono in Query %in. In teen's foe(- War, Paderewski could play the piano when three years old. planet. Her Soldier. Dear and young, here's the prayer I pray for yeti Heaven be full of new life and play for your Swift its an arrow, light as a swallow! So 11117 We find you, boy, when we fol. low. 'Jlill!IIII,I!IIklCilll l!!!1111111!!IUIIIIIIIIIIIillllllli!rlll5l!IIGIIIL'!III!Illlpllil;,Iil'Jl:, ill'iho;h:.!n1 4ilb!i l „nil11l11.1l!r„Iu•ull(11iI111111i1ill!liliil!! .151cull!!IIIIII311111111111llllllllu((111i11Iu11151Iiu111Ilan!Iliellile11Illlillllur1111111e1111ullllll'IIIIII51111111IIIIIl(II511111!111111e1111lii@11111111111IIIIIIIIIIIuuI!IIiI1511!IIIIIII!III! Cut Down the Stwar by eating a cereal that contains its own sugar self -developed from grain in making— As a breakfast or luncheon cereal with cream or milk; or sprinkled over fresh fruit or berries, Grape -Nuts adds to the meal's please e -"-acid is economical, Buy from your grocer,. four. No one will ever persuade me that a girl who cannot do housework and conk well is anything but a fool, and Net a dev11'o trap for men folk,—Rev. Walter Mitchell. SUMMER, COMPLAINTS !(ILL LIME VIES At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours 11e may be beyond aid. Those Tab- lets will prevent summer complaints if given occasionally to the well child and will promptly relieve these troubles if they come on suddenly. Baby's Own Tablets should always be Rept in every home where there are young children. There is no other medicine as good and the mother has the guarantee of a government analyst that they aro absolutely safe. The Tablets are sold 13 medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a bot from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. SUMMER A$TH A— MY. F1VEi —sleepless ilil;l!ts, constant Sneezing, streaming eyes, wheezy :-- HAZ-MA brings relief. Put. up in cap - sales, enoily f. aliuwcd. Sold by, rellsl'1(1 drug, rats for a dollar. Ask our agents or sand card for free sample to Templeton s, 142; King St. W., Toronto. • Plant Pick -Me -Ups. A Limn and garden machine of great ingenuity 13 (lots being tested in the .•cath of England, Its thus I n ie t l beetew a pick-lus- up of 11 r c,.1,1'pe''t ted meet stimula- ting ewe, to every .,'-eel plat into the greeted. As 11 di W1( ar e, :t punctures a little hole,drops la a siege seed from one cyllieter, and simultaneously a pirel1 of 81 steal 11 1)ure from an. oilier. The hole is immediately filled in, and from • a third cylinder falls a pinch of pow(erel lisle, which en- courages the benellcient bacteria that assist growth. If elopes aro justified, the machine would save a fourth of the usual amount of seed and an immense. deal of artificial manure, A Small Price. At last little Freddy was allowed.to visit grandpa all alone. They were great friends, and had long waited for the great day. Freddy had the time of his life. Grandpa Saw that he wanted for noth- ing. The small boy ate more cream buns in those three days than he would otherwise have done in three years, While his pockets bulged all the time with sweets. But there 0011105 an end to every- thing, and Freddy went home again, pale yellow of complexioul and lau- guid and feverish. Mother promptly sent for the doctor, who ordered him to bed, and sent hint some very un- pleasant, but doubtless healing, medi- cine, Grandpa Canto next day and was per- mitted to creep upstairs to see flow the suieerer was faring. He found the small boy lying wan and pale on his pillow, bat eaccived a watery smile as 1t welcome, "Oh, grandpa," said the weak little voice, "I've been awfully bad—but it Was worth it!" MONEY ORDERS. Remit by Dominion Express Money Order. If lost or stolen you got your money back. Montreal, May 29th, '09. leinard's Linimept Co., Limited. Yarmouth, N.S. Gentlemen,—I bog to let you know that I have used MINARD'S LINI- MENT for some time, ar$1 I find it the best I have ever used for the joints and muscles. Yours very truly, THOMAS J. HOGAN. The Champion Clog and Pedestal Dancer of Canada. What Kiss Microbes Do. "You claim there are microbes to kisses?" she asked the young doctor. "There are," 11e said. "What disease do they bring?" she (15(1. "10Palpitation of the heart." Minaret's Liniment for sale everywhere Careful Hubby. They hadn't been married very long and, strange to relate, both their birth- days fell on the same elate, Da al- ready he had learnt a thing or two about the shopping propensities of the fair sex. So he tackled the subject al presents manfully. "Darling," 110 said lovingly, "we mustn't have any secrets from each other, now, must we?" "No, sweetheart!" she cooed gladly. "well, ducktest," he went on "if you will tell mo exactly how touch you in- tend to spend on a present for me, I shag. bo able to worst out how much I shall have left to buy ono for you." Father (endeavoring to blend in- struction and ,amusement): "Yes, cilia - then, Mr. Lloyd George saved hie country, just as Joan of Afro saved France." Bright ^Child: "And when are they going 10 burn Mr. Lloyd George, daddy?" If you want to make life a harmony, hit the note "Do!" In some districts in Siam a girl who reaches a certain age without finding a husband .is required to wear a label, and thenceforth is a more er less privi- leged person, under the special care of the king, who is bonnet by ancient custom to find a 'husband for her. The royal matrimonial bureau has less dif- ficulty in arranging matches than might be expected, for it works on a very simple system. A prisoner .in any jail in the kingdom may gain freedom and pardon by marrying one of the king's charges, and as many eagerly take advantage of the right as there are available freedom -bringing maids. Whether or not the man is already married is of no consequence, as one wife is not the legal limit. A. good life is nothing more than a lot of days. lived well, ISSUE No. 33--'20, "DANDERINE" FOR FALLING HAIR For a few cents you can save your hair and double its beauty BriFo atom loft&YEr'i1"ttaa e Tho Irish of It. Mary . "Sure, Mike, yell) a bey af- ter nee own heart." 1tlllce-"11ar1111Li" Me y -"But ycz Won't get it." How He Felt. "h1d illy husiwr•d appear to miss Inn (luring the meeth I was &Ivey, Mala':" Relied a matron. "Well, ma'unl, et f1'st he was in very high epirits, but al:out a week ago he became Icee cheerful, and yesterday, ma'ein, hon 00110 jest miserable." Poor Cow, Tho eevcnteenyecr0111 daughter of a city linin was vleitieg 1, fame for the first time. She immediately became interested in the prize cattle, and asked many questions, Ono evening, just at duslt, as the girl was standing at the open door of the farmllc;lse 10Ik111g to the manager, there came the low, mournful note of a cow. "Just listen to that poor cow," said the girl, "mowing for her colt" Lift off Corns! Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezone costs only a few cents. Doesu t hurt a let! Drop a litho "Freezone" on an aching corn, instant- ly that corn stops hurting, then short. le 70u lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the cal- luses, without soreness or irritation. Amorloe'a donees Dog IIemedieo hook on DOG DISEASES wad H&t.'- to rood Mailed Fran to, arty Ad- dress by the Author. IL Ding C016061.. 06., itt. 118 West 81st ('street New Tor$, , Classified Advertisements. x one ai>!t el BII VI,It 13I,AC.K iiRKFIDIN(i lJ Voiced. Rood Bros., Bothwell, out, M 111001, sl10)il 0 woltTF1 '11WOt .L7 doBnrd, et sixty -Ave cents. ;ler. lass nor t. Kitchener. u11 HAI,1.._-leo XIfo1N1) Pitpq,i g Hann:rel wlnidli3 to Rat d0mothlnf' gnad, wrlle lv, 7. 1 4 (ytl, I1ewlnanvill1 Int. Three persona out of every four in, New York City were ern under slim flags. Loan oft 1"see hr,th itself and friend, MOWER! ""California Syrup of Bibs" - Child's' Best Laxative • Accept "California" Syrup of irlge only—Iook for the name California on the package, then you are surd your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stom- ach, liver end bowels. Children love Its fruity taste. Full directions 011 each bottle. You must say "Cali - forties." ELEA IM IASFI CJTCURA HEALS Very Itchy` and Burned. Troubled Six Weeks. "Our daughter's face came out In a rash that we were told was eczema. - Her decoke got sore and she rubbed caus- ing loss of sleep. The breakingout was very itchy and burned so thatI had totiegloves on her bands to keep her from scratching. "This trouble lasted about six weeks before fused Cuticura. I used one largo box of Cuticura Ointment with two cakes of Cuticura Soap when shelvas healed-" (Signed)Mrs. 11, Stares, Blenheim Rd., Galt, Ont. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal- cum are ideal for daily toilet uses. 3oep 25c, Ointment 25 and Sec sold throughouttheDominion. Caaadlan'DPPot: Le��ns, Limited, St. Poul St., Montreal. d,+).•t.: Cutkura Soap Acmes with ,talee. ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not `Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross"! ED AYE To stop falling hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a small bottle of delightful "Dan- derine" at ally drug or toilet counter for a few cents, pour a little in your hand and rub it into the scalp, After several applications the hair usually stops cooling out and you can't find any dandruff. Ilelp your hair grow strong, thick and long and becomes soft, glossy and twice as beautiful and abundant. L1 For Colds; Pain, Rhenlnatism, Aoh- pa lege c-taich contains complete M- ing Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neu- realties. Then you are getting real rltis, and for headache. Neuralgia, Aspirin --the ,genuine Aspirin pre - Toothache, Earache, take Aspirin scrib it by phveleit0'-3 for mover nnle- arked. 'with' in the Mae "leaver or item years. Avow made in Canada. you are not taking Aspirin at' all. I Handy tin hates eontaming 1:.' tab- Accept only ',Bayer 'Tablets of( lets cost but a few cents, 1]rn(1(11 a Aspirin in an unbroken "Bayer'' also sell larger "Batter" racleiges. There is only ono d1spieln—"Bayer"-•-'Sots must say "Boger" .Aeplrtn to.the trade mark (rcgistcrod la Canada) of lla^rr 1tanu"acttlrc of S otto- a.o•ticacidester of ball1Ylicacid. Wile it fa well known that Aeririn mount Mira, manufacture, to roseit the public arulurt Sr itntl ns, nu, r t •s 111' .30;.r C1,npany will bo stamped with their general l,a10 .:lark, t , ''011,,., Erol.,." ,- Pkzfr .;r 2 The BEST Chewing Tobacco test selected leaf -- Skillfully manufactured—Delicious flavor - Ever fresh and lasting ANCHOR PLUG