HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-11-11, Page 6Be Sympathetic Toward Your Car. ( produced by jamming on the brakes
Do you have sympathy for your every tinge one desires to stop. This
Oar? Does the knock, or jar, or rat-. hi particularly noticeable hi city trate
ttla give you a pain and make you! de, where stops are frequent, some -
want to relieve the suffering which times sudden. The t, carless of
you feel the ear must endure? Or is consequences, runs a.t:,td at too logit
speed, then when he finds it necessary
to stop has to jam on the emergency!
brake and bring the ear to a stop I
'within half the distance that'
should be allowed. Haven't you heard
the car; ehriek an agonizing protest?
Ilave a heart!
Other Things to Observe,
There are many other things, how-
ever; which do not appeal to the
it just a bit of steel and braes and
wood, a thing without feeling, its pro -
:tests producing no other feeling within
you than annoyance?
The man who once drove a horse ---
who really eared for a horse --will un-
derstand what the bond of sympathy
is, that bond which made him notice
every Limp or misstep, every sign of
chafing or anything else which indi-
cated an irritation." He knew that as senses, which axe just as important
long as it existed the horse would not and ahauld have just as much symtpa-
give good service. Bente will 'under- thetic attention from the driver as the
stand the love of. a locomotive engin-
eer for his engine in the old days when
each engineer had his own engine. Thirty native po;ttnen were killed thea least -frequented crags. Usually
They wild remember how he used to which means new bearings, rebored and eaten by tigers and other wild the men are able to beat off their
work over it and fuss around it, and cylinders, with new pistons and rings feathered assailants, but not always.
almost caress ,it, called it "her" and on the engine, new gears in the trans- beasts In one year in India, according In. July, one a postman who
spoke of it as if it had human attri- mission, new universals, or other parts to the latest figures, and no fewer carried the llyear,ou foot between tho
p where undue wear canes from lack of
than 126 met their deaths through the carr! es of mails to and Puget n the
Then -
things enumerated. There is lubrica-
tion, for instance. A little neglect
here and the car suffers in a way
fi
THE STRIKE THAT OUGHT TO TAKE PLACE
A Postman's Perils
flutes. He got good performance out
of it, too, and that is just what will proper lubnication. If the oil level is bites of poisonous anakea. But then,
happen if the auto driver will cultivate not high enough the oil becomes too India is a large country, and the or -
this sympathetic relation, this intim- thin and there is trouble. dinary rural carrier will not take pre-
ecy, even, with his car. The man who has sympathy for his cautions.
There is aeat deal of diilerenee car understands the needs and really He insists on going barefooted and
in men in �`,.._ ti_._. automobiles.feels bad if he discovers anything barelegged in regions known to be in-
fested with venomous reptiles, and he
will calmly lie down for a nap in a
tiger -haunted jungle. Nor can lie be
induced to arm himself properly. All
hie forefathers carried, when on
similar errande, was a small spiked
stick—and that is all the true native
postman will consent to carry to this
day.
There are several postoflices 1n
Switzerland at a height of 7,000 or
more feet and a letterbox on the very
summit of the Languu.rd, from which
four collections are made daily, is
nearly 10,000 feat above the sea level.
Near here, some years ago, three
letter -carriers were crushed to death
by an avalanche. In an adjacent can-
ton, in the summer of 1863, a postman
fell into a crevasse while crossing a
glacier, his two full bags on his back.
All efforts to recover either the body
0i the mails were fruitless. But thir-
ty-four years afterward, in 1897, the
glacier oast forth its pray many miles
lower down the valley,
and the long-
lost
-
lost letters were delivered to as many
of the addresses as could be traced.
Not infrequently, too, these Alpine
postmen are attacked by the huge,
fleece eagles that soar sungarily above
One man will have this feeling of
syinpathy—almost reverence --while
the other will.not. Now an automobile
is a highly sensitized, reflned piece of
znochmiter tl. It must have considera-
tion if it is to do its best. The employ-
er of men understands just inial this that things are ship-shape with the old
means. If he treats his men like oat. ma-
te -hinds, they are, as a rule; but if he b- Now I have no use for the man who
treats them as human beings they be- looks upon a car with awe, or so great
come ma= -hies, plus, and the plus is a reverence that he is afraid to touch
what makes him successful or Mbar -
anything for fear it will get out of
wise' - order, talking about the wonderful
To the driver who• does not think, piece of machinery, or standing off in
O. mi 'ng engine is merely au annoy- a sort of ecstasy. But the man does
- ante and a delay. It never occurs to need a reverence which is akin to love
lint' that the ear is suffering more —synnpathy which makes him notice
than he is, particularly when there is every little thing and hasten to cor-
a jolt every time the cylinder dors
fire, which r , , every part n` the
car, and ec•e'l pruduc.'.s'extre wear 00
the tures.
The min who loves his car under
stains, of 00008e. thin loss or power pated all there things, and tells in the
and wear, but more than that le feels
bock about every part of
the car, how
ek sensation ef pain and is 1111 antis- to take care of ,it and what to. to to
fled until he has stopped, fund out insure good service. A good rule for
what the trouble ,is and rectified it. Of the ear owner would be not to take
wrong in this line, It is the satme
with the cooling system; if it .is part-
ly clogged. if the fan belt is loose
or the fan blades- hit something, he is
not content until he has remedied the
difficulty. It takes but a moment, and
he has the satisfaction of knowing
rest troubles.
Right here it ought to be said that
the beet guide in all these matters is
the book of instructions furnished by
the car manufacturer. FIe has antiei-
co tr e, his seneiateeess saved him
miry dollars, but if it w,'ra net so he
menial not be satisfied rt+ long ail he
tlt'.0^:lit the ear wee 6uflet•ing.
Evils That Folios Negiset.
It is hardly necessary to explain all
tl.e evils which coin" from the pound
or ~:ration of n nursing cylinder or
item one of the kno:•ks which •some
enieie ra produce. One who les ridden
in en 01:to antler there conditions
kr," * rust what it will do in the way
en vtbraiion and jerking, but not all
wei..rseand the damage which is done.
The feet is that it puts a severe strain
ewe almost every part of the car,
reeking 111e frame, smashing the gear
teeth together, straining the clutch,
the universals and almost every other
working part. The jerking motion
hes its effect on the time as well.
- There are other things which pro -
du c the•ssme result. If the driver is
not careful with the clutch or if the
eleteli does not work smoothly a great
deal of damage may be done. Where
the clutch'ls harsh or where the driver
d nl
tin - • in suddenly
is m the habit of letting it Y
the ear gives u. jump, perhaps slides
the tires en the pavement a fear inch-
es, and it shakes up the entire car.
The same sensation and same evil
effect may be produced if the acceler-
ator is used carelessly. Seine people
are so eager :for a quick getaway they
slr;m' tl sir foot down on the =elm, -
atm. 'pedal and the car fairly springs
forward ---and then after awhile she
idaesn't spring. The fact is that the
,entire •transmission system becomes
ee worn and has so much play because
,of these sudden strains and smashing
Ibbows which are delivered that they
;rotor out speedily, even though they
*-not break. One engine manufactur-
er thinks so much of his motor that
Am: has a carburetor device which
')na?ees it,irnposstble to throw his heavy
load upon the engine. It is a high
,grade car, too.
A good deal of the same effect is
any advice contraaey to that given in
the instruction book. The manufac-
turer has studied the matter and will
hack up any advice given in the in-
struction book. It should be followed.
Even high class automobile journals
occaaionaliy contain erroneous advice.
Raises Big Constitutional Question
Viscountess Rhondda, famous busi-
ness woman, who asks that elm be al-
lowed to take her seat in the House
of Lords as "a peeress of the realm,"
Floral Bird.
Hungary grows a wild flower which
is the exact fibra! image of a hum-
ming bird. The breast la green, the
throat yellow, the head and beak al-
most black
In Japan books are bound with the
edges in; the readers begin at the back
and go forward, and they read verti-
cally instead ef horizontally.
iers was fatally mauled by three such
birds. Of two men who attempted to
avenge the death, ono was Billed out-
right and another injured so severely
that his life was for a long time in
danger.
The camel postman of the Sahara
hinterland is another letter -carrier
who has heed of plenty of pluck. The
wild tribesmen of the desert look upon
him as their natural prey; so that he
never knows, when he sets out in the
morning, whether he will reach his
destination at night. But he trots his
eighty miles a day and regards,a stray
shot from a lurking sniper or an am-
bush of spearman as part of the ordin-
ary routine incidental to his business.
In Japan the rural post -runner still
swings his baakets across his should-
ers precisely as his ancestors did cen-
turies ago. In Formosa, also, the mails
are carried to this day by a man on
foot, who jogs along with a paper lan-
ternand an umbrella.
The postman of the Landes, in south
western France, stride across the
waste on gigantic stilts, their feet a
fathom or more above the ground.
In the interior of. China, except in a
few districts, there is no regular let-
terno post-
men.
oli a and B
ter r1 v
rye
men. But many of the officials main-
tain semi-public services of their own
and keep their runners up to the mark
by simple expedients known best to
the Chinese.
X -Rays and the Teeth
No dentists office nowadays is con-
sidered well equipped without an X-
ray machine.
The X-ray, as everybody knows, is
of enormous usefulness for many pur-
poses that have to do with medicine
and particularly surgery, But beyond
a doubt its value in connection with
surgery of the mouth is moat impor-
tant -of all,
Many dentists, before beginning to
operate on a new patient,'make an ex-
amination of the jaws by the X-ray.
Only in this way is it possible to know
with certainty the exact conditions de-
manding treatment.
Above all, it is necessary to know
whether or not any abscesses lie con-
cealed in the gums.- For these, as
science has only of late discovered,
are a fruitful source of many miseries.
There is an old saying to theeffect
that "what one does not know will not
hurt him." But this idea certainly
does not apply to abscesses at the
roots of the teeth, which may long
exist unsuspected.
Abscesses rarely form at the roots
of live teeth; but often it happens that
a tooth dies, and no notice is given of
the funeral. Or, perhaps, the nerve
has been intentionally killed. In
either ease it is a dead one, and an
abscess is quite likely, sooner or later,
to form at its root.
' The X-ray shows up such an abs -
case clearly, It appears on the "shad-
owgraph" film as a dark spot. Then
the tooth should be pulled without de-
lay.
Livery such abscess is a germ fac-
tory. It produces a continuous crop
of pus -forming bacteria, which, being
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Three Unusual Nature Stories,
ON Thrilling, the Others Odd
In japan there are ostebllsl.zed firms
of fleetly detiere, each employing sixty
or 5eventy catchers, and ,exporting
their catch chiefly to the large cittea,
l where fireflies are adjuncts to all
gradee of social festivity, from the
private garden parties cd nobles to tut
evening et a cheap tea garden. Some-
times they are kept caged, sometime
released in swarms in the preeence of
the guests.
The firefly platter starts forth at
sunset with a long bamboo pole and
a bag of mosquito netting, 011 remota-
tug a suitable growth of willows near
water he mattes reedy his net and
stakes the branches; twinkling with
the insects, with his pole.
This jars them to the ground where
they are easily gathered up. But it
must be done very rapidly, before they,
.recorer themselves enough to fly, So
tho skilled catcher, sparing nd time to
put them at once into the bag, uses
boot hands to pick them up and tosses
swallowed, find their way through the
stomach into the blood.
These germs ars liable to lodge in
the joints, where they proceed to
breed, feeding on the tissues and
thereby engendering inflammations.
As a result, there is rheumatism, with
attendant pains, and perhaps even-
tual deformation of the bones, if the
trouble is prolonged and severe.
Until within the last few years den-
tists made no inquiry in regard to
abscesses in the gums, save in cases
where they caused so muck local dis-
comfort as to render the pulling of a
tooth necessary. It was certainly not
suspected that they had anything to
do with causing rheumatism or other
ailments of the body. But to -day when
any mysterious malady turns up the
up-to-date e ph sieian sends the patient
nt
to the dentist . to have his jaws X.
rayed.
Abscesses in the gums aro of rather
frequent occurrence, and, as a rule,
their presence does not excite the at-
tention of the sufferer. A person may
have half a dozen or more of them
without suspecting it. They are al-
most certain to occur in neglected
mouths, but nobody is safo.
Sometimes they cause inflammation
of the eyes; occasionally they impair
the bearing. There is no end to the
mischiefs they engender. One easily
understands why, in former days,
when there were no dentists and
people's teeth received no proper at-
tentiou, rheumatism was an affliction
en much more prevalent thau nowa-
days. The "aches and pains o.f old
age;' so bitterly complained of by our
forebears, wore attributable to abs-
cesses iu their gums.
REGLAR
Jailanese poet wrote:
"Do 1 see only !iraillee drifting with
the current, or is the night itself drift-
ing, with all its swarming, stars?"
As a rule urungoutangs, the fiercest
of the apes, are caught young and
tamed before they are shipped to
Europe and America, One of time
animals that arrived In London came
with the best of characters, He was
considered a very tame, steady going
creature, and an expert wail engaged
In photograph him,
The man entered the 000ilg'e cage
as ho had entered 1118111' 0111e08. Ile
had not exposed many plates before
he saw that the aminal was latent on
mischief, He was a very powerful
beast, and the pian would have stood
no chance at alt if the orang had at-
tacked him.
The man's only chance was to use
the camera as a weapon. Making a
sign to .the keeper to keep anent, the
them lightly into his mouth! There photographer pointed his hand camera
ho holds them unharmed until he can at the orang and with slow and steady
hold no more and only thea transfers step approached hint. The keeper was
outside the door ready to often it; but
neither of them uttered a sound. The
photographer was relieved to see the
orang gradually retreat and at the
same time to be able to rise from the
crouched and menacing position he
had taken. Once the creature was on
the move, the man knew he. had a
chance. He subceeded lu working the
orang around to the corner furthest
from the door, which the keeper had
silently and a'lowly opened. Still
pointing his camera at the beast the
man very slowly backed out of the
cage, the door was slammed to and he
was safe,
theist to the bag.
He works time until about 2 o'clock
in the morning, when the insects leave
the trees for the dewy soil.. He then
changes his method. He brushes the
surface of the ground with a light
broom to startle the insects into light;
then be gathers them es before- An
expert has been known to gather 3,000
In a night.
Besides being a business, firefly
catching is a sport. Little girls pur-
sue it with their fans, boys' with wands
to which a wisp of yam is fastened.
Nor do the elders disdain. to join the
sport. They also organize festival
parties, to visit certain spots, long
known and famous, to witness the
beautiful spectacle of the fireflies
swarming. Special trains, carrying
thousands of visitors, are run during
the season to UP, the most renowned,
to behold the Hotara-ICassen, or Fire.
fly Battle.
Myriads of fireflies hovering over a
gentle river so swarm and cling to-
gether that they appear at one time
like a luminous cloud, again like a
great ball of sparks- Cloud or ball,
the wonder soon breaks and thous-
ands of the fallen insects 'drift with
the stream while new swarms form,
reform and sparkle continuously above
the water.
So marvellous is the sight that a
The mistral is a famous wind which
blows cold and strong in Southeastern
France, In the districts whore it pre-
vails the trees all lean toward the
southeast, and the gardens must be
protected on the northeast side, from
which the wind conies, by lofty walls.
One winter in Marseilles a carriage
in which a woman was driving was
blown bodily into a canal by the mis-
tral and both the lady and the horde
were drowned. In consequence of thie
accident and of ether manifestations
of the power at this destructive wind
orders- were issued that no vehicles
should be allowed to drh'e alongside
the canals or the waterfront of the
harbor while a mistral was blowing,
Wants Child Welfare Legislation
At the Dominion Conference on
Ciltla Welfare held at Ottawa, Mrs, A.
Rogers, of 'Winnipeg, advocated uni-
versal legislation for the redaction of
infantile mortality, She also urged
the registration of all nursing homes
and midwives.
Constancy.
I will be true, LIght barques may be
belated,
Or turned aside by every breeze at
play,
While sturdy ships, well -manned and
richly freighted,
With fair sails flying, anchor safe
in bay.
The Awakening.
"Wily, Clara, dear, what has 'hap-
pened? It Is not a month since your
marriage, and I find you in tears al-
ready!"
"Ah, Hilda, darling! George is run-
ning for office, you know, and I've only In Savin
Just learned from the opposition g money the real secret is
papers what a really dreadful man i not to lose it through the hole at the
have married!" top of your pocket.
When Stormy Winds Do
Flow.
Autumn winds and Winter gales
will soon be on us. What do you know
about the wind?
Wind is but air In motion. But do
you know what sets air in motion and
produces the gentle zephyr, the mod-
erate wind, and the violent gale? The
principal cause is the variation in
heat and cold. If the air could be kept
at one temperature there would be no
wind,
Again, do you know *hat heats the
air? You might hazard that the sun
does, but you would be wrong. It is
the earth, and the things on it.
Heated air —this you know --expands
and dace. Into the vacuum thus
created cold air rushes. And there's
the wind I
Cold•eondenses the air and squeezes
it. It descends, and into the huge up-
per vacuum thus made other air rush-
ee. And here's a gale! These ale
movements, it must be rentembelerl,
are on a vast and widespread scale,
although it needs but a small first
movement of air 10, as 11 were, set
the ball rolling. Violent winds may
blow for days
C09flat(pn--not
until, in popular phraseology, "they
have blown themselves out," but until
a more stable temperature has been
produced,
Cloritributory causes of wind -produc-
tion are oceans, mountains, clouds, the
rotation of the earth, et.c. All theso
affect the temperature of the air, and
produce wind.
Finally, draughts are not, a0 •is gen-
orally supposed, wind` -finding an in -
geese and willy-nilly entering it,
Draughts only exist where there is
Warm air which -has rarefied and as-
cended. Into the vacuum comes the
draught.
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BRITISH REVEAL
MARVELS OF THE AIR
LEADING ALL OTHER NA-
"PIONS IN THIS FIELD.
Pilotless Plane Controlled by
Wireless is One of Many
New Developments.
The progress seen in the scienee of
aviation since the days of the first
eneceae of the Wright brothers.iooks
like only a warming up process in vievw
of the alr navigation possibilities of
the future, as revealed in connection
with the' Guildhall Air Confereuce,
which Winston S. Churchill, Secretary
of State for War and Air, called the
Air Parliament, says a London dee,
patch-
H.ero aro a few of the aerial develop.
meats under experiment or in pros.
pect: Airplanes with central engine
rooms in which pilots would signal
orders as aboard ships, steam tun
bines for airplanes, automatic control,
engines• or propellers in wings, all
metal airplanes,. airplanes equipped
to land on small space, enabling the
tactical movement of troops in war
time; a mooring airplane masthead,
which has already been proved setae
factory, ono now being built in the
Flowden plant; the mechanical Elle-
posal of fog, thus clearing.the way for
flying, and, finally, a pilotless airplane
controlled by wireless,
Revelations Are Amazing.
Air Vice -Marshal E. I,, Ellington, di-
rector general of supply and research
of the Air Ministry, drew aside the
veil hiding British Government efforts
to air navigation. His recital which
followed amazed even the most optt-
mistle students of aviation poss'ih11t-
ties. He told of ah'planet1 wbteh were
being deeignod with two engines in
the fuselage, driviug two propellers in
the wings, with control of the engine
in the hands of an engtueman who re-
ceives hie signals from a pilot.
Also he told of a flying machine
now under construction with wings so
designed that they would contain en-
gines within them. It was even hint-
ed- that Diesel engines would be used
in this connection for economy in fuel.
Ground indicators are being devel-
oped to enable landing in fog or in
darkness of night, cue of these Ina
caters consisting of an arm under the
fuselage which toilcboa thn ground
and which moves the controls, tau01
n
u
the flying machine to Ilattcu out. .11 -
ready a dumber of successful landing
have been made by this means.
Two of the most important develop-
ments for increasing the safety of pas-
sengers and pilots are for the preven-
tion of tiros and in. the provision of
parachutes. It is intended to equip
the Royal Air Flying Corps airplanes
with parachutes.
To Direct by Wireless.
It was revealed that the secret ex-
perineents made during the war hi con-
nection with a manless airplane were
still being carried on, and that tests
were being made with the idea that
airplanes might be corntructed to car-
ry torpedoes that might be released
against battle ships, and also used to
ram other airplanes in flight.
A thousand little points were re-
vealed, slowing that the activity of
the British 10 connection with the de-
velopment of aerial science was far
ahead of that of any other country.
Old and New Uses for Mica.
The stuff we call mica has been _
used since very ancient times in Iadle
for many odd purposes. Washermen
employed it to !yeasp
arkel C
cloth
It is the material out of watch "un-
breakable" lamp chimneys are manu-
factured, and is need for windows .of
Pottery furnaces. Also it serves no a
glazing material for pottery, and for
the beedts of mirrors. Artists in India
utilize it largely for paintings.
Mien, ground to a fine powder, has
a lt(gir reputation le India as a medi-
cine.' It: is prescribed as a tonic. Na-.
Live physicians are said to have a
secret process for dissolving mica—
which, supposing it to exist, would be
at enormously valuable discovery, in-
asmuch as it would mean that mica
Could be used for malting unbreakable
tumblers, deoantere and•other dishes.
By far the most impatient deposits
of plica in the world occur in a belt
which dies in the northern part of the
Hazaribagli district of India. Tbere
it is commonly found in plates large
enough to have marketable value.
It does not oecur in thick emote,
like coal, but in small deposits, or
"books," and a mita mine or quarry
areaente the appearance of a huge rab-
bit warren, the workers borrowing.
from book, to book by passages that
are sometimes just large enough to
'admit a small bay. The lower levele
of the mina are reached by bamboo
ladders, the. exce;vated mate'rint bo-
Mg passed but hand to hand front one
coolie to another. .
In fotneer clays four -friths of the
mica taken out of tine mines woe
waste, because, the pieces wore too
small to have commercial value, and
the refuse dum-ps, glittering m the
sun, wore a cellspiouous feature of the
erases unit fr,gtlories whore the split-
ting was 'done, - 11'ot- loiig .+ ^ +n pi'o-
Cetq was itivented for cementing smart'
1sieees together and molding thein in-
to alle; oadledm "itt." ,.
- The etsmost tmportamtcattti'demeanrl for
mica' 10 modern industry the worlat
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ooginaerlitg,' Mies 10 cue of the best
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