HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-9-9, Page 6Keep Car Clean for Best Restate'. Mg with dirt all around the outside
Dirt is undesirable no Matter where is bad, -because tiles tilt goes right in
it is, but the average automobile with the oil, Thea you bear
Owner has Yet to learn that dirt on reeve and wonder how it happened so
the running gear does more . than suddenly.
Merely cover up somepainted or un- Universal points It best are herd to
painted metalseem
. Joante ingly as
tight as a mechanic can gee them
allow dirt topass through. The rea-
lubricate and even if covered with a
leather boot are not proof against the
ravages of dirt and med. The mere
son for the dirt being so undesirable dirt that you allow to accumulate
near working parts of the chassis is around these perts the more dirt will
not so much because it doesn't look get to the working surfaces.
well but because it eventually gcta to It pays to have the car washed
a moving surface and starts rapid underneath, but it also pays to wipe
Wear. If you own a watch With a the surfaceafter splaying on water.
screw baelt on it and you keep that Tho wiping is necessary because some
watch in one of your pockets where of the dirt sticks fast, Look over tlie
odd things are put occasionally, just smaller parts of your car, the parts
remove that screw back and notice the that are hard to see and get at, also
dirt that has worked its way in, 1• examine parts that don't give yon any
mention this merely to show that dirt' trouble. You don't have to do any
gets into very small crevices quite More than to clean them and lubricate
to make them run for a longer period,
Abuse of Brakes a Costly Habit.
easily.
Around the engine and other parts
ef the car there are supposedly tight
joints in addition to actual openings. Aimee of the brakes on an automo-
Take the front and cover, commonly bile is the most careless habit of many
called the tinting gear case cover. motorists.
Vibration may loosen a few of the So many fail to realize that descend -
holding nuts, allowing the cover to ing, long, steep hills on the brakes
move away from the crankcases n alone tends to burn them out and will
small fraction of an inch. With an at least decrease their braking power.
accumulation of dirt over the cover, Our suggestion is that the automobil-
some of the dirt is bound to get to ist learn to use his engine as a brake,
the gear teeth. Dirt and lack of lubri- On ordinary grades this can be done
cation of front end gears are res- by pushing the throttle to full closed
ponsible for rapid wear and noisy position, leaving the clutch engaged
operation, so that the car will drive the engine.
Every owner ought to keep the en- On exceptionally steep hills closing
gine clean by an occasional kerosene the throttle, shifting into second or
bath. Spray kerosene all over the first speeds and having the car drive
engine and wipe off every bit of dirt the engine will usually prove effective
you can. This goes for the crankcase in reducing the speed. Should the car
as well as the parts that you ran continue to descend too rapidly use
see when you lift the hood. Dirty oil, the brakes. Cutting off all ignition
oil with sediment, old oil not changed will also aid in stopping the car in
for some time, are all causes of rapid such circumstances and will have the
engine wear. added advantage of helping cool the
How many owners ever sae to it engine,
that the combination breather and oil
filler is clean on the inside. In some
designs there is every chance for a
quantity of dirt to settle on the ineide
and this is washed down into the
crankcase when the next oil filling is
made.
A dirty engine means a loss in
efficiency and a premature trip to the
repair shop, where the cost of parts
replacements will be higher than ex-
pected. Take the average Ford, and
many of the larger cars, and examine
even the outside of the ignition unit. turbance of this balance produces dis-
The Ford timers are usually covered ease. To establish this balance the
with mud and dirt and this gets lacking color must be administered,
side, cuts the segments, interferes or the increased ones reducer'. Thus
with proper ignition aril brings about a person suffering from malaria takes
the need for a new -timer in a few quinine,anti the blue wave of which
months. Look inside of a timer that the quinine Is composed drives the
is generally dirty on the outside and lever
one will find dirt elso, fleneratc.,rs and emotions end mental conditions are
starting metore on the average car, :deo represented by calms. Some of
do not get very much attention of these are—orarigo, denoting jealousy;
any kind by the owner, but they de-
serve a good cleaning. Some starting
motors are not fully enclosed while
ethers even, when covered, seem to
accumulate dirt.
I would suggest to the owner that
When he has a few hours to spare dur-
ing any one month, he give the engine
a thorough cleaning, removing dirt
from all joints, from nil holes, etc.
The underneath parts of the car
are admittedly heed to get at, but that
should not be an excuse for total
neglect. Underneath the car there
may be many places that require oil
through small cups, oil holes, etc.
While some manufacturers are so far
behind as to continue to use oil holes
in exceed places, the owner of a car
using them should not let them 1,s -
come filled with dirt. If I owned a car
With exposed oil holes on cross shafts street car. There entered an old,
white-haired fellow, who looked as
and other parts I would have a me -
though his thoughts dwelled perpetual-
chanie install automatic feed oil cups.
ly in the skies. When he paid his fare
Sometimes brakes are hard to op-
erate after a trip over muddy roads.
It is because mud gets into the joints
at the brake hands and other places in
the braking system. These parte can-
t be roperlcleaned merely b
earth, slipped the newspaper into his
nopy ely
pocket, and began reading Ids trams -
wiping, One 1111.101 dismantle them to, s
get a clean working-eurface that will'
Canada's 1920 Crop will equal in
value the Domielon's total war debt.
A husband in love is always blind
operhtion. until he finds it necessary to sew on
In filling; the transnti:siett and rear his own buttons,
axle with oil or other lehrleant be sure Success never coulee by requeet, but
that the filling hoie or opening is bY conquest. Determination will
clean. Pouring oil into 11 mall open- sweep the biggest obstacle aside.
Feeling "Blue"?
A certain doctor in the United States
is responsible for the statement that
our bodies are a compound of colors,
and that disease is an unbalanced con-
dition of color. When a person is ill
medicines are used to restore them to
normal health. These medicines or
drugs disengage some hues from
others, and thus effect a cure.
In heelth the bodily conditions are
proportionately balanced, whereas dis-
magenta, love; blue, intuition; and
red, anger. The last probably accounts
for the expression "seelpg red," a
term used so frequent.y 111 describing
the feelings of an angry person.
Absent -Minded.
The famous inveutor, Edison, is so
absent-minded that once. when he
went to the Commiseioners to pay his
taxes, he became absorbed in other
matters and forgot his own name!
While he was puzzling to find out what
they called him, a friend entered and
exclaimed:
"Hallo, Edison, how are you?"
"Ah, Edison!" replied the inventor.
"That's It, of course:"
A. curious instance or absent-minded-
ness was noted the other day on a
and took his transfer, he sat for a few
minutes without moving, holding in
his hands the transfer and his after -
fume paper, At last lie came clown to
operate freely when lubricated. Clean-
ing of Gila sort prevents rusting and
certainly goes a lon7, tray toward
making for better handling and car
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I The Days Gone By.
oh, the dew; gone by! Oh, the days
gone by!
Tho apples in the orchard, and the
Pathway through the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the
whistle of the quail,
As he pipel across the meadows
sweet 08 11117 uighingale;
When the bloom was on the clover,
and the blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over in
the days gone by.
Oh, the days gone by! 011, the -days
gone by!
The mute of the laughing lip, the
lustre of the eye;
The childish faith 111 airies, and Alad-
din's magic ring—
The simple soul reposing, glad belie
in eveuthing—
When life was like a story, holding
neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden, olden glory of the days
gone by!
Camera Detects Traps in
Flooded Mines.
At the start of the reconstruction
work in the devastated coal region
about Lens, France, the French were ;
taught by several disasters that the
retreating Germans, before flooding
the mines, had concealed along the
walls unnumbered "booby traps," ac-
cording to a story appearing with a
111 11.510110 cut in tee September Popu-
lar eleehanies Mega:tine. Consequent-
ly, 111 order that the clivere, charged
with proleninary inspections, may
"look before they leep," the govern
-
meat recently purchaend from Eng-
land an interesting apparatus for sub-
merine photography. Lowered down
the flooded shaft, this apparatus il-
luminates a le -ft. zone; then, as
switches are pressed at the mouth of
the shaft, it photographs stmultancouo-
ly each of the four walls.
Pigs Squealfor Squalls,
Animals will often tell us all we
want to know about the weather free
of charge.
Watch your dog. If he refuses food
In the morning, and is found subset-
quently chewing grass on the lawn, a
downpour may be anticipated. Sheep
will scatter far and wide over a hill-
side during fair and settled weather,
but prefer to lo Ile together under
shelter when 0 storm approaches.
Some people say that the higher the
sheep cal the hillside, the finer the
weather.
If cattle go reluctantly to pasture in
the morniag, or lie down early in the
cloy, bad weather is imminent, as it es
when the morning's milk supply is
scanty, or the beasts themselves low
and look at the sky.
Pigs, of comae, are infallible baro-
meters; they squeal and punt incess-
antly when storms approach,
A Letter From London
In the centre of Queen Mary'e te say Her Majesty'e 11000 attendant
diadem at the recent Court shone the will hare nothing, to do with any of
celebrated Kolmi-noor diamond, which the -sleeping apartments at Bucking.
according to tradition, "rimy be worn chant Palace.
by no =11 W11.11011t miefortune, but At one 111110, ',MUM and Women of
which bring's no harm to a Woman."' the Bedeberelier were present at the
Its history ie known for some 15110, toilet or the Que00, but teelay they
yeam, and it le believed by the supess ! are merely 10dle3-in-waiiing, and
stitieue to hove brought death or tis should really be so deeme bed, The
aster to many an Eestern monareh are inettriebly peereeees, thel
till it came by conquest into the "Women" are usually the daughters:
po,scs:i.ion of Queen Victorja. It has of earls, end one or other atteeds thel
now been worn by three Qacens of Queen not only at Comet ceremonies;
England, and has sparkled with kindly but when she visits any public place.
beneficence on each. • *
* * Wearers of the Victoria Cross, who
The Dukedom of York has been in- were Ring George's guests the other,
since the days of V.C.'s had Que.en Victoria'a personal
variably conferred on the secend son week, would not have been known 08
of the Sovereign1
Edward IV. The last holder of the view prevailed, for while agreeing,
title was the present Ring, 11.110 eat that those to whom the emblem of;
for the first time in the House of valor was twarded should "bear soma
Lords as Duke of York in 1092, Ito distinctive mark after their name,"'
was introduced by his father, the she urged to Lord 'immure that V.C.
Prince of Wale. afterwards Ring Ed- would not do.
ward VII„ and hs uncle, the Duke of "E.G, menne 0 Knight of the Ger-
Connaught. ter, 111.P, a member of Parliament,
Twenty-eight years later it falle to M.D, a Doctor of Medicine," shel
the Duke of Connaught nein to intro- wrote, "in all cases designating a per -1
duce a Duke of York, and his expert- son, but no one could lie called a
mice in this respect is unique.. If tho Victoria C0053." D.V.C. (decorated
Prince of Wales had been in this coun- with the V.C.) or B.V.C. (bearer al
try he would almost certainly have the V.C.) were her suggestions, but'
been the senior sponsor for his young- happily she yielded to persuasion and;
er brother, consented to the plain V.C.
* * *
Mr, Lloyd George's career resembles One of the surgical miracles of the
in some respects that of Lord Beacons- Nvar was -the grafting of new nerves,
field. Both were self-made Men, both into the shattered systems of men who I
were trained in solicitors' offices, and had been wounded. The old nerves
wills which were witnessed by the were rejoined by means of lengths of
an articled clerk, or made by him - How this was done was told by SIT
present Prime Minister when he wee, nerves taken front 111(11111115.
when he had an office of his own, must Charles Ballance in p, recent lecturo!
still be coming into effect. With the to the Incorporated Society of Train-!
possible exception of Mr. Asquith, Mr, ed Masseuses, at the Royal Society of;
Lloyd George and the great Tory chief Arts, "You get an animal," he said,!
are the only -two self-made men who "whose nerve is the same size es the
have ever occupied No.. 10 Downing one you 'want to heal, An officer was!
Street.
* * *
The appointment of Lady Elizebeth-
Dawson to succeed Lady Isobel Ga-
thorne-Hardy as one of Queen Mary's
Women of the Bedchamber is an illus-
tration of the tenacity with .v;hiele old
titles—especially in the Royal House-
hold—cling to new duties. Needless
wounded in the arm, and two inches
of his ulnar nerve was blown away.
I went to my butcher and told him.
I wanted two inches of a sheep's sci-
atic nerve. Ile killed a sheep, and
while the nerve 10110 still alive I cut
it out and grafted it in immediately.
That officer made a complete re-
covery," BIG BEN.
What seems to ho lack of courage
to do a thing may really be courage
not to do it.
tinting Lk
cr in illaa's Jiiiigic
What lion hunting is to the African But this probably proves to be his last 1 its eyes are closed tight from the glue
explorer or native, so is tiger hunting meal, for the hunters etationtel on the rubbed off on them, while some of the
bamboo platform raise their guns and leaves stick so tight that the tiger be-
te the people of Asia, though betweca
each aims for the head. Sometimes gins to roll over and over on the
the two tigers are more ferocious, the tiger lo only wounded and begins ground in its efforts to get free. After
While 11 01 no unusual occurrence for to spring against the platform. But it has howled and struggled to the
a young tiger to start out as a man- even with his sharp claws lie cannot point of exhaustion it is easy for the
eater, the lion very seldom bothers a climb the smooth, hard face of the natives to creep up on and despatch
human being until it gets old and can- tuipboo poles. It may be a Bource of it with their spears, as the blinded
not capture the swift -running, antelope wonder as to why the tiger is not shot beast has no way of defending itself.
or other animals on which it feeds. just as soon as it gets drowsy, but it Before grata were in such general
0,5 a result tiger limiting 1 by far the almost always happens that Ile goes use in the native districts a form of
more exciting sport, as the Asiatic to sleep in a thicket where he cannot bow -and -arrow trap gun was often
people Join heartily 111 any hunt for be Seen. 'very eaS11Y, while he always used in hunting tho tiger, and in this
the ferocious beast that doesn't heel- eats out la some open place. If shot method none of the hunters was cons -
tate to take away one of their number while in the thicket there would be pelled to expose himself. The bow
for a meal, great clanger of only woundlug him, was set by fastening it between two
India probably has suffered more as well as a poor shot spoiling the posts placed in the path, the string
from the savage man-eater than any skin. drawn to its limit and 0, stick inserted
other section of Asia, and it is here Melting Use of Sockets, between the bow and the string, this
that most (11' the tiger hunting takes keeping the weapon bent. A. long
The tiger can be caught 111 nets, but
place. From the fact that the tiger wedge is placed between the stick and
this is not possible unless a kind of
can hide itself in the jungle so Dune rcthe bow and the trigger cord tied to
oket is employed to scare it ,so badly
011551117 that it is very difficut to (115 -its projecting end, after which the that it bounds into the nets before
ar-
cover, bunting of this beast is exceed- row is put into place. As soon as the
realizing Just where it is going, These
tiger preeees the cord this crude look-
ing weapon acts so quickly that the
beast is usually hit near the shoulder
by the poisoned arrow.
ingly dangerous, and especially if the
rockets are made something like the
hunters go out on toot. Because of fireworks whiieh We call "chimers,"
its size the elephant is usually used only they are much larger, and it one
for tiger hunting, but even this big,
of them is thrown into the beast's
and brave beast is hard to train for
place of concealment such a com-
the purpose. Only one or two out of motIon is caused that the tiger is not
a hundred elephants v:11 1 stand up and long in making a clash for other cover,
face the tiger, while even some of
When it does the powerful eels get
them that have been in several huntstangled in its claws and the more It
will suddenly boll 011,1 run just es fita struggles the mote securely does the
as their legs will carry them if the tiger wind itself into the folds of the
tiger makes a stand or begins to net, After It Mei exhausted itecif
charge, from struggling one of the bravest
The Favorite Method. huntere ventures near and puts the
A favorite native method of hunting bea:t out of its meiery, Another
the tiger is to follow it after the bettit method on mime:hat the 1.1.1110 order
has carried 611 ono of their cattle, 53 is employed by taking large leaves lima
it is well known that the tiger be- coating them with a very sticky sub.
001002 quite sleepy when a big meal stance. Thum 10111.111 aro placed along
is finished. During this drowsy spell the path which tigers are 10 the habit
the natives build a bamboe platform 01' using, and when one of them sticks
about twenty feet high and then wait on ite feet (ho tiger first shakes, much
for the tiger to finish the met or his as a cat does with paper boots, but
meal. After a short time they aro re- finding this unsuccessful rubs it
warded by seeing lilni arise, give a against Its face. By this time It has
few yawns and begin to eat onee more, walked on some other leave and'eoon
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Snaring the Tiger.
Many methods are used for snaring
the tiger, and though these properly
come under the title of trapping
rather than hunting, somo ot them aro
very interesting. Quite a few of these
are constructed on the well known
principle of the common mouse trap,
being built of very strong timbers and
baited with a young goat. 01 course,
this is a cruel method, as the poor
little goat is tied ineide and its cries
attract the tiger to the trap. Another
more humane way of using the goat is
by placing it in the middle o1 a large
pit, and when the tiger 14 attracted by
its waillngs the hunters take careful
aim and sheet before it can spring on
its intended prey, The tiger hunter
is always welcome In a district where
those tigere called man-eaters are
known to exist.
Nurnberh-ag Things.
The idea of numbering things for the
purpose of identifying them is incon-
ceivably old. Men who have learned
to count have always noted the pas-
sage of time by numbering the hours,
the days and the years. Whenever a
new invention appeared that made it
convenient to iontify the units, those
units were numbered. In the early
days of railroading the engines bore
names, but in a few years the names
so multiplied that the engine.; had to
be designated by numbers, and the
time -tables indicated the several trains
ire the same way. Cities number their
police officers and the houses in their
streets; the street railway companies
number their conductors and motor-
men. Every telephone station haa its
number. The motor car and the motor
boat must be registered and bear a
distinctive number.
It is an age of numbers.
The improvement of long-distance
roads for automobile traffic is likely to
lead Soon to an interesting extension
of a practice that Is already in gen-
eral use in France and that is about
to be adopted 021 a largo scale in Eng-
land, All the great highways are to
bear each its distinctive number. To
show how it eveuld work here, sup-
pose that there were three great trunk
routes from Montreal to Ottawa, num-
bered 3, 6 and 8, At every crossroad
on each of them there would be a sign-
board that would show the number
conspicuously. No one could stray
from a road so marked.
The signboards would also indicate
distances and destinations. Thus, at
the crossing of two great highways
the signboards et right angles—the
terminals of the two roads being, let
us say, Avon and Hampton on the
one and Frankville and Weston on thei
other—would read something like:
this:
14 To Avon 67 miles,
To Hampton 183 miles
9 To Frankville 120 miles.
To Weston 11, niiles,
Such a ,system would be much more;
helpful in the increasing complexity
of shorter state roads than for long-,
distance motoring. No better scheme'
has yet been devised for guiding the
traveler and preventing even blunder-
ers from straying.
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Concerning Thunder and
Lightning.
Wet clothing is safest during a
thunderstorm.
There are (10 "thunderbolts." They
are Inetply giobular lightning.
Sheet lightning is the roiltintion 111
1115 clotnis of a distant and uuseeu
111(011,
thunder and Ilghtelng the
middle of 010(1(11 Is the 511111111 1,1000 In.
doore.
Death frem lightning -1 In 3,000;
1(00 yearly -Js 0011803 1)7 Lle.3l111C1 IOU
of the nerviee
pureed lightnieg le cemeed by an or-
dinarr flesh being divided by hig11 ob-
structions on the earth.
The safeet piece ()admire In 0 Vann.
derstorm is to 1113 net on tee ground
ton rude from a tall tree.
Thunder 12 0(1(200,1 117 the coneuselon
of the parted nil' 115 it eh:SOS after ea0.
ing been divided by lightning.
Fulgerites, often inlet:l:en for 11 un-
derbolts, are Need hollow 011,00, pro-
duced 111 pandy soils by Paii:ning.
Tho torreutial rain that .fellows
lightning is bee:Uwe the tir luta been
changed 0.11(1 001111111 h111 ite neeeturo.
Zlz-zeg Belittling ie yawed by a
atrata of heavy air resisting the
which then zeg-zaa to flud 011 easier
Im1,51g
I1litiving strips barks 100.10 trees,
and elothes from people, beamee each
ressiete the passage of the electric cur.
re 'zirte emit; of etrong wind that 1011ow
lightning are due to the air ruehlug to
till the vacuum created by each flash.
The Nelms of (0011(1 117 lightning is
nut because of its, sortnces, but be-
cause it is too small to give a full path
to the cement.
Lightning is most frequent in the
esiueLnelitgilcli
mreit,ritl„bi,;ause heat producc,3 great
evaporation, which in turn develops
would he invisible were
the air a conductor. As it is a non-
conductor it cannot coavey the eleet-
ric fluid invlsiblr.
Lightning cendectors ere of copper
becimee it "conducts" better than any
other metal, will not fuse no ensile,
and is lees liable to corroelott.
Lightning, apart from its "striklng"
clangor, is extremely heelthful. It pro-
duces nitric acid, and 0le1(n3 the 1011010
atmosphere of uoxlines exhalatiens.
Freedom of Kiel Canal.
It WAS little more than twenty-five
years ago, notes tile Gazette Franeo-
Americaine, that the Kaieer inaugu-
rated the canal which bears his name
and which unites the harbor of Kiel
with the mouth of the Elbe across
Sloss-lg. In his address on the 0000,,
sion of the inauguration the Emperor
said that "the canal, despite Ito
strategical importance, must sit peace-
ful relations 1111(1 increase the pros-
perity of peoples." The opera:. lezei of
construction had boeu begun eighteen
years before by Keiser Williave
The length of the canal is 00 kilo-
meters aud the initial coot of the en-
terprise was 156,000,000 marke. When
the extremely deep delft warship.% of
the dreadnought type were introduced
it became necessary to enlarge ond
deepen the canal to render it access-
ible to the new battleships, and it 00118
only a few days before the World War
that these improvements were com-
pleted.
By Peragraphe 380 and 384 of the
Treaty of Versailles the riglits of the
Germans 111 the canal have been re,
striated, and this navigable way is in
future to be free toall ships of come
tries at peace with -Germany, and no
special tolls may be calm:led beyond
those already provided for. This limi-
tation inspired Vice-Adtatral K, Roll-
weg to utter these melancholy words:
"In what concerns tho Kiel 'retinal
we are as 1011011 bound as ou our great
rivers. We are no longer mestere in
000 01011 house,"
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Told by the King.
Stories about the Ring are legion.
but stories about the Ring, told by the
King, arenot so common. Here 10 0118
the writer has come acmes, 10111011 lile
Majesty - told to Blajor-tiencrel Sir
David 'Watson duting a Royal Nitta to
the bat
"I was making a romel of the froat,"
said King George, '"when •I paesed 11
group of American soldiers. One ob.
served me clozely, 'and called to u
es invade:
" 'Hey, Bill, there's the Magi'
"ills pal shouted back, 'What d'ye
moan, tho Ring?' Tho other said,
'Right there, bonehead'. That chap
" 'Get out!' was the indignaLt reply.
'Who are ye gettin' at? lie ni.et no
king! Wherees his crown?' "
- A Royal Treat.
A cyuic once said, of princes, "It's
only before they grow up mid know
what they are that they can be na-
tural," Ile that as it may, the Prince
of Wales's early dap wore natural
enough And he had the valuable snail-
ty of always saying exactly what he
meant and of asking for ceactiy what
lieorlentiitiy
od.hc wcnt out
to tea, and Ills
hostess asked him whether there WHO
any special delicacy he weld
"Yes, there is," he said promptly.
"I'd like some soup,"
"Soup for teal" exclaimed the leap
in astonishment. The. Prince tiedtleil.
t
' 441 17" h er 001(1)"becauso, yen 300,
We never have it for tea at home,"
Astrology is a .perilous profession
in Chinn, When a so-oalled prophet
predicts rat event which does not oft.
cur ho often loses -his head.
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