HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-12-9, Page 31i
441300 Id
1
11
Longer Life From Tires,
Tires which are nluecd on poorly
aligned wheels will be rapidly worn
out by the skidding action of the
wobbly wheels. in motion, although
the irregularity is so slight that the
eye can hardly detect it. Tho wise
thing to do is to test your wheels
oeoasionally to be sure that they are
running true. If they are not, have
thein aligned Properly.
Sand blisters and mud boils should
bo cleaned out and the tiro repaired
at once. If this is neglected, the
best of tires will be ruined in a short
time.
If chains are used, see that they
are put on properly. An ill-fitting
chain will soon eat a large hole in
the pocketbook.
Clincher rims frequently become
rusty, but this can be prevented by
the use of iron paint, which saves
both the casting and the inner tube.
za
l'eactical Paragraphs
Cleautiness Ieircl.,---Part of the
value oi' a motor truck lies in its
ad vine tee eassibilit.ies,. Not only
(lees it tell the world that its owner
is a pl ;gr,,ssive business man, but it
genev adiy carries an intimation of
financial stability. A clean truck
1 performs this part of its task cum-
pletcly, while a dirty one only does
E0 in a measure and usu'aldy a small
measure, One of the best invest-
ments it truck owner can make is a
wash rack, and after it is in place he
should hoe that his drivers use it.
Vie should give them a reasonable
mount of trine, in which to clean the
' vehicle and not ask them to take it
out of their own time.
j Ratios and Trailers,—When t;he
truck operator purposes using trailer
equipment he will find that the motor
truck manufacturer generally oi'fers
an option in gear ratios. In this case
it is advisable to select the lower
ratio for use with the trailers. A
greater weight can be handled with
the lender ratio. This of comae ap-
plies when total tonnage rather than
speed in delivery is the prineipal con-
sideration.
Sul ids vs, Pneumatics: Almost
every day -tine hears of truck users
who have made the change from. solid
tines to pneumatics or pneumatics to
solids ani are dissatisfied with the
results, The fact is that each type
of tire has a distinct field. No change
of this kind should be trade without
careful study and consultation with
the service station of the tires used.
Obscure Missing.—In some cars the
two longest high tension cables run-
ning to the spark plugs sometimes
hang close to or even touch the hot
metal of the cylinders. After a time
the insulation becomes inefficient
and when a jar comes to bring the
cable. into a certain position there will
be a short' circuit and no spark. As
this occurs only when the car is in
mot`,on the cause of missing is, diffi-
cult to locate, The remedy for the
trouble consists in suspending the
cables to the radiator rod so that
they will not get close to the cylin-
ders.
If spare tubes and tires are car-
ried, roll the tubes up properly and
put them ina bag where they will
not be exposed to the weather and
rough treatment. Extra tires aro
best kept in a easing that will keep
them dry.
Keep tires properly inflated at all
times. When underinflated they have
not sufficient resistance to stand
hard service.
Do not overload tires, because that
is destructive to the fibre and will
cause rine cuts on the inside.
Never neglect a tread cut, It may
cost many tire rules. It does not take
long for a small cut to cause a big
blowout. The same is true of a fabric
break which is caused by underinila-
ti0n, and also by driving recklessly
aver ruts, or by backing too fast on
to a curb. Avoid sudden stops, skid-
ding, quick starts, and keep out of
car -tracks.
Do not hesitate to have tires re-
treaded. A good way to keep tread
tires on hand is to equip the car with
a full set. When the rear ones have
lost most of their tread, change the
front ones to the rear, and put the
worn rear ones on the front wheels.
Angels of This World.
It is not necessary to go from this
world to that which is "a wonder
still" in order to meet with angels.
You and I have met men and wo-
men who lived so near to the "light
which ligh•teth every man that cometh
into the world" that it has been hard
for us to imagine any better, nobler
beings beyond the veil.
How many of us have said, "My
mother was the best woman I ever
knew/" or "I never met a man ao
wise and just and kind as my father
was."
He has indeed been unfortunate
who could not say such things as these
of those who gave him his start in
life. We bake the direction and the
complexion of our lives from those
who surround our infancy. If we are
abandoned at the beginning to those
whose thoughts are impure, whose
aims are low, whose interests are
selfish., we can hardly survive and
rise above such an initiation into life.
'4 In the old story -books the fairies
surrounded the cradle of a good child
and conferred all manner of bless-
ings. The bad old witch—malevolent,
maleficent—must at all coats be kept
away. Nowadays the parents who
ere thoughtful and devout are anx-
ious that their children shall from
the very first be molded by right in-
fluences. For it is the earliest, the
impressionable years that matter
most.
Hence it is that we invoke the aid
of the angelic of this world. Often
the desirable sweet influence is that
of a maiden aunt. Her praises have
been said and sung with eloquence --
but usually when she has passed
away. We know and we admit too
late how good and gentle and gener-
ous she was. We are sorry now that
we rebelled against her mild sway
and gave her pain. For she did not
seek anything for herself. It was her
mission to bring aid; if anywhere she
heard a cry she was prompt to fly to,
the relief.
y
Others tried to shield her from!
wearing herself out by her altruism,
•
but she would not rest. You read in
her face her self -forgetful nature, and
et was a matter for indignation that
some miserable Sinner now and then
imposed on that ready fount of con-
passion. But site did not let the fact
that she was now and then deceived
destroy her faith in human nature.
She continued to do all the good that
she could, knowing that the need of
it was boundless.
When the angels on high give wel-
come to such as she was, they receive
her as one who has but little to learn
from them. She had lived elose to
them always. They immediately knew
that she was of their number. She
required no introduction, and as she
left on earth a host of those who
called her blessed, so she came into
a company of those who loved her
and who made her welcome where
they are.
•
Could Do the Rest Herself.
Wrote Mamie's mother to the
teacher:
I don't want that Mamie should
ingage in grammar, as I prefer her
ingage in yuceful studies, and can
learn her how to speak and write
proper myself, I have went through
two good grammars, and I can't say
as they done me no good. I prefer her
ingago in French and hand painting
and vocal music on the plane.'
The Whole Case for the
• .Birds.
I saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops
For the people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.
I saw In vision
The worm in the wheat,
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.
ac'�'strtcL� ,.,;r^''t ..........� .� .....,...• e:.x...o.
PRINCE ARTHUR AND FAMILY LEAVE FOR CAPETOWN.
Photo shows Governor-General of South Africa, the Princess and Earl
of MacDuff, their son; Just before sailing from Southampton.
The Confidence of Two
Robins.
An example of the confidence th
birds sometimes have in men is
lustrated by the story in the Bir
Lore of a pair of robins that but
their nest on the under side of an o
tank car. The mother bird laid si
egge before the ear was filled with o
and ready to start out on the road.
The foreman, not without some mis-
givings, removed the nest while the
switch engine took away the car and
shunted another tank car as near as
possible to the same place. He care-
fully set the nest back in the same
relative position on the new car, and
the birds returned at once. That car,
too, left the yards, and a third car, to
which the men had transferred the
nest, was also billed to go. The fore-
man was puzzled, for the nest now
had four half-grown birds. •
A happy thought came to him: he
built an open box and nailed it to tine
of the posts of the platform that the
men used in filling the car. He put
nest and young Into the box. Isere
the robins finished housekeeping.
Among the rattling oars with the
switch engine going and coming, the
old birds kept at work ; if a railwa
yard was as quiet and safe as a force
glade. All the men in the yard wer
keenly interested In the birds' nest
and had anyoue injured it there woul
have been trouble.
Arctic Sealing Off Temperate
Shores.
at Off the coast of the state of Wash-
ington is the only place in the world
d_ where fur seals are hunted in the
it summertime, and permission for seal_
tl tag is restricted to the Quilbayute,
e Ozette and Makah tribes of Indians,
11 whose rights are guaranteed by a
treaty signed 10 years ago between
the United States, England, Russia •
and Japan.
This sealing, although conducted in
a temperate clime, is beset with many
hazards. Motorboats, and any wea-
pons other than the Indian spear, are I
prohibited, so the sealers venture out
upon the open ocean in their frail,
hewn log canoes and with only primi-
tive hand weapons.
The sealing "grounds" Ile 30 miles, rim
or snore, out on the Pacific, along the
route of the migratory passage of the
fur seal from the Arctic to its breed-
ing grounds in the Tropics. The great
seal herds, in their several -thousand -
/1111e journey, pause for rest, and the
Indian hunters steal up on the sleep-
ing mammals before sunrise in the
morning.
May and June are the "'flush"
mouths for this sealing, and although
tthe Indian hunter may spend the other
10 months of the year in recreation
e
Emigration of Jews to Pales-
tine Increases.
ldminratiun of ,Jews to l'trl^.a'aa is
II P,, i,,i11r, rapidly ht (T rsi and
111,1r:re Enrolee and the new Pale, tine
lln-1'1ge i/len legnittll'ne R 11 l ;alma
of 0 curlruihd inrinigratl_n o± 'tont
7433:113:31.317,0007433:113:31.3 of the piunee 13838
during Ili coining year, seed S. Land-
maim,,secretary of the Zionist. °reafl-
teatime in au interview,
Mr, Lraudnann, who 1s now In Vi-
enna on a special mission in centime -
Lion with Jewish emigreutr to Pates. :said aid rite st•leetisu of the emi-
grants Is being made by the 'agile.
wide* has 0 0l,liisted
Palestine offices In the important
Jewish centres', Preference is given
to young people, strong in body and
determined in spirit, who Haim had ac-
tual experience in agriculture or
othermanual work and who know
Hebrew.
Several thousands of such pioneers
known by the Hebrew name of Chal-
itzim--bave already Jeft and others
are waiting In the large centres until
proper arrangements for their trans-
port can be made and until new opeu-
ings for employment in Palestine are
reported.
One of the features of the pioneer
movement le that it includes a fair
proportion 0f girls of well to do fam-
ilies, who have decided to devote their'
lives to the new Palestine. They act
as land -girls and take care of the do-
mestic arrangements in the Jewish
colonies,
Restore Manuscripts of Middle
Ages.
In the middle ages, when parchment
cost even more than paper costs now -
a -days, it was the custom to serape
old documents in order to use the
parchment again for writing. Thus.
manuscripts of inestimable value were
lost to the world. Students and arch-
aeologists have devoted much time
and labor trying to decipher these
palimpsests, es they are called, and
the work has usually been done by re-
moving the later writing with some
chemical and then trying to decipher
the half -erased script underneath.Professor Giuseppe Perugi, of Vi-
terbo, distinguished by his studies in
paleography, has announced the d
ovis-
cery of a photographic treatment
whereby the original script returns to
view entirely distinct from what has
been written above it.
One of Professor Perugi's latest
achievements has been to reproduce
from under an uninteresting religious
composition of the 15th century, the
entire 6th Canto of Dante's Paradise.
The erasure of the poem took place
about the middle of the 16th century,
ittle more than 100 years after the
death of the great poet, and the manu-
script will he of value for students
to ascertain whether any alterations
have crept into the text since that
e. There is no saying what treas-
ures may not eventually be discovered
by this means.
It Is believed that the system will
also be used for the scientific Investi-
gations of the police or In order to
detect forgeries and alterations in
business documents or paper money,
his earnings for these two months ag-
gregate $2,000 to $3,000 every year.
Electrically Dried Fish Keeps
Fresh for Years.
Electrical dehydrating plants for
err are promised as a result of recent
xperiments in England, which demon-
strate that it is poseibie, with the aid
of heated air, to accomplish in a brief
time results that now require many
days of air curing. Deprived of every
trace of moisture, the fishmeat may
be Isept for years, and their restored
to its original freshness by soaping
for three days in water. The dried
Saab else may be ground into a fine
flour of high food value, The process
has been patented in all countries.
Wireless Waves Bent by Coast Line.
It has been suspected for some time
that electric waves etre refracted by
the shore lines of large bodies of
water. Recent observations bear out
the theory, and seem to prove that
the amount of refractions varies with
Ithe length of the wave and the angle
at which it crosees the shore.
IA Rebuff fo•
r the Queen.
In his entertaining
book, eDa e
Before Yesterday;' Lord
y
Frederic
Hamilton tells how his father once
lent his Scotch house to Queen Vic-
toria and the Prince Consort for ten
days.
The children vacated their nurser-
ies in fever of the Royal children, and
went to a farm, where they had very
cramped quarters. The change was
deeply resented by the author's sec-
ond brother, who refused to be
placated.
So annoyed was he that when he
and his sisters and brother, all dress-
ed In kilts, were presented to her
Majesty, his conduct was alarming,
" 'And this, your Majesty, is my
second boy. Make your beet bow, my
dear,' said my mother; but my broth-
er, his heart still hot within him at
being expelled from his nursery, In-
stead of bowing stood on his head in
his kilt, and remained like that, an
accomplishment of which he was very
proud." The Qtreen was very angry,
but when the boy war brought back
the next day to make his apologies, ho
stood on his head again.
Knew the Animal.
A teacher was instructing a class in
English and called on a small boy
named Jimmy Brown,
"James," she said, "writs on the
board, 'Richard can ride the mule if
he wants to.' "
"Now," continued the teacher wnen
Jimmy had finished writing, "can you
flail a better form for ,that sentence?"
"Yes, ma'am. I think I can," was
the prompt answer. " 'Richard can
ride the mule if the mule wants him
to.
The Palace of Nations.
The League of Nation's will
have a modest housing, compar-
ed to the ii , Carnegie Palace
of Peace at The Hague, The
National Hotel in Geneva has
been bought for the sum Of
$560,000 and 1 now being retie -
Voted for the use, of the various
sections of the League, The
building stands on a low terrace
that overlooks Lesko Geneva and
commands, besides the beautiful
water prospect, a fine view of
Mont Blanc, It will henceforth
be known as the Palace of Na-
tions.
They Were a Good One,
Too.
A number of English officers,
mays a 1,"renelt journal, were site
lin.; in a German restaurant in
Cologne, having a very good
/into for people who were away
from home, They were struck
by is rather lively conversation
between the leader of the orch-
catra and several of Jts mem-
bers. Suddenly the orchestra
began to play Die ",Vaeht am
lutein.
Everyone rose to his feet,
while the officers, fnc"luding the
Is'nglieli, stood at attention, hu',:;
Lhe last tante had been played.
The leader was so eaterised that
he Baine down to the English
oftleers end began the following
conversation:
"Gentlemen, may 1 ask you a
question?"
"Go ahead;"
"Did you recognize the piece
we just played?"
"Sure."
"Do
"Do you know that that was
Die Wacht am Rhein?"
"Why, certainly," said one of
the Euglithreen, raising his
voice so as 00 Bc sward all over
the hall; "that's all right; Die
Wacht am Rhein—that's us!"
Lace Malting to be Revived in
France.
Although the Germans did their ut-
most to ruin the lace industry of the
north of I-`rrnce, steps are being taken
to insure thut the industry be prompt-
ly restored. The lace workers of
France before the war were ventre].
in the Valenciennes and flaiilenl areas,
both of which remained under almost
constant shell ire during the entire
war. First the German shells wreck-
ed the humble cottages and elaborate
mills, and the work of destruction wits
completed when the Allied cannon
harassed Slie retreating Germany
troops,
The population is gradually return-
ing, but where tens of thousands of
yards of filmy creations were produc-
ed in 1913 only a few hundred are now
being woven, and only a very small
proportion of the trained personnel
of the weaving colonies has returned
to the slowly rebuilding areas.
Thanks to the energy of Mme, Emile
Lyon, wife of the rector of the Ac-
ademy of Lille, who has enlisted the
sympathy and financial support of
generous Americans, a school of Iace
making is being opened in Ballleul.
Thirty young women, all anxious to
see the preservation of an industry
which has always been considered
essentially French, have already been
enrolled and are meeting three even-
ings a wek In a deserted army hut.
Next month a new course will be open-
ed in tine Communal School of Bailleu),
and children will ',e given their first
instruction in the weaving of the
intricate designs which cannot be ac-
curately duplicated by even the most
modern machinery.
Natural Colored Silk.
Experiments made in France have,
it is reported, shown that the yellow
and green colors possessed by the silk
sputa by certain caterpillars are due to
coloring matter derived from the food,
and pawed through the blood of the
spinners- By impregnating leaves with
artificial colors the experimenters
caused some species of caterplilars to
produce silk of bright orange -yellow
and fine rose hues.
By the aid of the spectroscope the
presence and nature of colored pig-
ments in the blood of the little crea-
tines was established,
Pro Rate.
A Birmingham negro took out a life
Insurance policy a short while back,
and recently his wife came into the
local office of the company and ex-
plained that she'd like to "collee some
o' dat 'nsurance."
"Collect some of it? That wouldn't
be possible. If the insured is dead we t
Will pay it all," the manager respond-
ed.
"Yo' low to pay tae a thousand dol-
lars of malt oto man is killed, don'
yo'?" the woman asked,
"Yes, certainly. Has he been killed?"
"Not perrtactly," she responded, "no,
sale But he done fell often de roof
an' half killed his sel, an Ah's in half
mo'nin', an Ah lowed yo'all would may.
be pay me half dat money."
The World Aloft.
The flight of the Britaelt dlrigi'bl�
rt -ad from England to Long IeJsun l
and back in a weak'a travelling time
and the German passenger service by
dirigible between cities in Gev'many
have demonstrated the possibilities
of the lighter than aur maohdne in
trans-Atiantic and other long routes,
Commander Sir Trevor Dawson, 11.N.,
managing director of Vickers, Ltd.,
(stated in an address made before the
recent air conference held at the
!Guildhall, in London:
The airship, Sir Trevor said. would
be retest useful between Europe and
America, South Africa, India, Aus-
tralia and the East, long traps being
the specialty of the airship and
shorter, faster trips being more in
the sphere of the airplane, He point-
ed out that the Bodensee airship
was operated between Berlin and
Friedriohsliafen at less than half the
cost of airplane service of the same
carrying capacity.
4
* Y
There is great need at present for
an "air taxi," a hg'ht, economical air-
plane with a low powered motor,
which could be used to carry two pas-
sengers at moderate rates, in the
opinion of Capt. De Haviland, rho
London Times states, The engineer
is greatly interested in monoplane
passenger machines.
"A new type of passenger mono-
plane on which we are working, de-
signed to meet the requirements of
1 Continental traffic next spring, carr.:es
la pilot and six passengers," he says.
i "We expect to be able to fly this ma -
1 chine, which will be very low in its
first cost, at a cruising speed of 100
miles an hour with motor developing
240 horse -power. At present motors
I of this power are used between Lon -
1 don and the Continent. to fly machines
which carry only two passengers in
'addition to the pilo',"
k a 4 • s
All Europe is working secret/;: to
develop planes which will give them
domination in the air, according to
C. L, Egtvedt, chief engineer for the
Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle,
Wash„ who recently returned from
a tour of inspection in Great Britain,
France and Germany. He said that
$1.000,000 worth of freight had %seen
transported out of the United Rieg-
dem by ale this year and $'2.Ouo Opo
worth imported in the same it.,}. In
a single year 1,120 planes riael e
England from the Continent Bed
, 1,45a departed.
The Vi kers company in collal: •e.
Con with the British Admiralty has
worked out a type of mooring tower
to which the largest airships may Le
moored and left securely in all we.ith-
ers for weeks at a t :ne. The n,r:. is
planned are tobe hollow, so that crew
rn:l cargo may he heisted in then; to
the ship.
Within the next five*y:_arsfii,_':t
across the Pacific will be eonrm. t --
place, according to Sir Arthur Bros n,
comrade of Sir John Alcock in the
flight across the Atlantic. The trans -
Pacific flights, unlike the Ali:pile
crossings, will be by dirigibles, lie Le.;
heves.
Accidents.
In the literal sense an accident is
something that befalls anyone, and it
may be an event of good forin:.c or
of bad. We often speak of a "limey
acwident" But unless the adieltive
lucky is applied, the word accident
is accepted as denoting misfortune.
A large part of human life and
thought and energy is devoted to
guarding against accidents and to re-
ducing the possibility of their oc::ar-
ience. The people who are negligent
in taking precautions are most ie:u-
nsonly the victims of serious aceiclen_s.
Yet accidents, if they are not e; i-
ous or costly, are often good t1.inee
for people, It is the minor aciedents,
the totally unexpected and unwelemee
oceuit'enees, that strengthen chat::', -
ter and that enable these who ,' -.
counter diem to meet other end teem
evere emergencies with fm'titzele
and resourcefulness. And filth:natio
hey tai e inconvenient enough tit 100
tinge, they usually afford material 2..r
interesting or amusing remimse4 .;e,
and they occasionally reveal sore -
pathetic aspects of human mime.. To
the automobilist, for example, a tire
puncture is a minor accident of the
vexatious sort; amid the gronia of in-
terested spectators that gathers on
the eaty ,:idewelic to obicrve his ef-
forts to cope with the situation there
is always some one who is helpful
if he needs help. As the miner acci-
dent in which ,you require help is
likely to increase—temporarily at
least ----your confidence In human na-
tare, so does the minor accident in
which you have to manage without
help often result in an berr'ense eon -
Menet) in yourself.
The person who hats oeme tc look
upon minor accidents philosephi •.xliy
and to accept them serenely and with-
out grumbling bare not 'only learned a
good deal of wisdom but ie a com-
fortable sort of person to live with.
Life.
Then life is to wake, not sloop,
Rise, not rest, but prase
From earth's low level, where bliadly
creep
Things per'feoted more or less,
To the h eaven'w perfect height, far
and steep, --Browning.
8
Of the men in the 'Grenadier and
Qoldatream Guards 08 per cent: are
Zngltish,
LOC t,tN'
AT You C'
afa Menke S
r YOUt..P1
WAS -TIN' '' Oahe- `Q
a -rTe . ao AN 4t
PLW WITH 'NV .
CHILDREN
WANNA
vaNT'LL You
.fir UP! A
FELLe.R. JUTS'
PatialTe S "CHAT
t 0•NCN 1=IVT.
MIGJu-reS t'iao
r
6'54.1444