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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-2-17, Page 6Leeds Fragrart to the simplest meal The Voice. in The Nigh. PART I, The little flames danced and iliek- e7ts Dred naughtily above the ripe coals in the grate, and the young man leaned forward, his elhowe on has knees and stared' into the fire and quoted'bitter- ly: "Into this Universe, the Why not knowing Nor wflohwening; ce, like Water, wills -nilly And ou.t c it, as Wind along the Waste, Iknow not Whither, willy.nilly blow- ing" The old doctor puffed at his singing brier, and smiled gently at the bowed young head. " 'The Rubaiyat' is strong wine," he murmured, fragrantg the young man returned Is pure, wholesome and delicious. ictal us a post card foe a free sample, stating, the price you now pay and it you use Black, Green. or Mixed Tea. Address Salada, Toronto. To Prevent a Fire. Don't put in the ash barrel such erticies as greasy paper, oily rag' or waste which lies been used to wipe machinery. Such articles may cause fires.. Burn these things immediately after use. Don't neglect to have the chimney flue cleaned once a year. Doa't leave holes in the flooring, walls, or ceiling. These enable fires to travel threeghout the building when owe started. Don't use celluloid er similar sub sten _es near any flame, gaslight or match. They are dangerously in- flammable and likely to cause fatal fire.. D:;n't pear gasoline or naptha down the drain. Pcur it on the ground if you met get rad of it. One pint of gaeorne, eaphtha or benzine makes teed heedred rapt of explosive vapor. One rarlcn of gasoline has substan- tially the Ferrer equal to $3 lbs. of dynamite. Pena a 1 iter:en or heating stoves claw to tie, 0 iwc r 1. Put a metal shield behind the stove. Leave a little air spare lehhnd the shield. Bright tin is the list protector if not place]' n''ht upa inat the woodwork. 4, K's. Dont use small gas stoves on wocden tables. Place metal protector under them, Be careful in using gas stovee ee e^tally in h.ghtin the oven, and, if the meat or grease take fire, shut off the gas and throw salt, not water. an the flames. Don't look for a gas leak with a lighted match or candle. You might suddenly find it—to your sorrow. Don't leave dears cf heaters or kit- chen stoves open unless you provide a wire arreen or net to retch live_eoais which may drop out. Don't tamper with or extend elec- tric tic rrs; employ an electrician. Don't keep gaoline other than in airtight metal eons painted red. Don't fail to warn children of the d i geecus bonfire. 1 Home -Made Cooker, If you can't get what you want make the moat of what you have. Every Ray we run acres proof that '-u' essfui p,ireen is the one who dere this. Mr,. Wil:ian' Grant wanted a fire- less reeler. That is, ;he wanted one SI she was sure they would do every- thing the demonstrator ,claimed for then, but she thought it would be a good thing to try it out before she gout march money into one. The &le- monsteatoe had said they could be easily made at home, so she looked about to see what she could find around the Louse to convert into a fireless cooker. An old metal trank, somewhat rus- ty, a few circles of zinc which had erre formed the smokestack on a house, sone barley straw and one or two reeking utensils with tight -fitting covers looked promising. She peeked the trunk with the bar- ley straw, cut circles to make the nests for the alsihes from the zinc, end filled a cushion with asbestos to lay on top. The only money spent on the cooker was fifty cents far asbestus for insulation. This cooker helped Mrs. Grant throwgh the haying season, conking her meals while ache worked in the held. She and her husband are so pleased with it, that they are :going to awake an extra good one this winter. voice after the first greeting, the chid "Stran wane, but clear --and very may be required to repeat it, anti the guesser has had three trials. Should he fail on the third trial, he turns around to see who the player was, and ehanges places with him. If the right track—working and study - he names the right player, the guesser ing and giving ourselves, and plugging retains his position until after he fails along hike truck horses, thirty, forty to guess the votee of the one greet- and fifty years?" ing him, one player after another be - slender young man was straight and ing required to strand and give the slender and strong; and he rose limn "Good Morning!" lea chair before the fire and paced greeting, across the room and back again. He When pupils have become somewhat turned and paused before the old doe - proficient in the guesser's place, the tor, and looked down at his friend, his others should be required to change eyes keen with doubt and sorrow. their seats after the guesser has blind- "How do we know there is any Being ed his eyes, so that he will not be —any ThMg— igher than we, hidden assisted by the direction from which somewhere, who approves or disap- the voice, comes, in his judgment, prpoctor Price was a round, ruddy lit - which is very easily the ease, where tie nian His hair was silver white, the other players are in their accus- and it was abundant like snow on the tented seats. roof after a heavy+ storm. The old Of course, the greeting will be var-physician had weathered many storms, and fierce ones; but save for the snowy whiteness of his hair, they bad left no mark upon him. His eyes lurked beneath great, bristling brows and twinkled steadily in the face of swiftly and whirled to face his com- panion, "I tell you, Doctor Price, the utter futility of the whole thing makes me sick. How do we know we're on ied according to the time of day, be- ing "good afternoon,". or "good even- ing," as may be appropriate. Ocea- r' nails, in a school game a pupil from another room may be called in., peril and' travail and grief. His lips Should a strange voice be heard in this were gentle, yet firm; and brie voice -way, the little guesser is considered! was steady and kind. correct if he answers, "good morning, "If one does not know, it is a little stranger:' hard at times;' he said quietly. The young than threw out his hands with an appealing gesture. "I don't Waterproof Shoes. „ rP m donot o h(rex exclaimed. I want cls United States Bureau of Chem-, nes, The L ed S a uC care whether people applaud. me o>i fairy has worked out a method by 1 condemn me. But, Doctor Price—I've A Game For the Children. "Good Morning" requires ten to si e- ty or more players, and Can be played Yn schoolroom er peeler. This is a very pretty sense -training ,game, as it cultivates discrimination ' through the sense of hearing. Little , children are very fond of it, and it is Most interesting and surprising to note the development of perceptive .Ower through the playing «f the rue, One player blinds his eyes. He may ado this 'by godn(i tg a corner of the Vicom and fain g the wall, with hila Isaaxi over his eyes; or a very pretty .method is to have htim go to the (leacher or leader, with his fate hidden in her lap, amid her hands on either nide of his head, like the blhnkers et a horse. T -1e tea e.her silently Tecate, then, to some other player drs the eiass, who rises at once and says, "Good morn - 'log, David," (or whatever the ohfld's name may be). The little guesser, Of he has recognised the voice, responds with "flood morning, Arthur," (or other remele If he rimes not guese the which anybody can make his shoes waterproof unless they have holes in tbem. The chief reason why shoes ordinari- ly are not waterproof Is that the seams got to know, in my own heart that I tint right or life isn't worth the fight." He dropped in his chair again and stared at the dancing little flames. The doctor turned and studied the admit moisture. Thus the feet get rood damp and the wearer is liable to catch young profile, fora moment, lovingly. cold.An occasional use of castor oil on "'Did you ever have what men call a narrow escape? he asked, after a shoe uppers will help to make them moment. waterproof, but too much should not The young man looked up with be used lest it interfere with the quick surprise. "A narrow escape?" "sbine." Much better, especially for he repeated. "Why—I don't know. use in winter, is a mixture of twelve Probably not. I've not Jed an adven- annces of tallow and four ounces of cod til, Melted together by moderate heat, the stuff should be applied warm and thoroughly to the edge of the sole ate a physician now, son. You know and the welt, where footgear is most how little it takes to snuff the candle. liable to leak. Is it not a little wonderful, when men The sole can be best waterproofed turoue life, you know." "All lives are adventurous," said the physiolan gently. "Each minute of continued life its an adventure. You die so easily, that so many of us live?,, The young man's fine brow clouded thoughtfully. "Perhaps," he rehea- ted, "What of that?" "I have sometimes fancied," ex- plained the old doctor, "that the very feet that a nein ora woman ie per- mitted to grow to maturity, threading a precarious way through the infinite and deadly perils that beset the path, is fairproof that that man er that woman is being preservedand guided to a given destiny -saved for the per- formance of a given task;' "It is mere chane nothing. more," the young man insisted. Ile quoted wan: "Tho Eternal Saki from the Bawl has poured Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour," "If the bubble happens not to burst —that proves nothing," he added. "But, suppose," the old doctor sug- gested, "suppose that we imagine that each of us is under the protection of a sort of private secret service—just as the King is guarded wherever he goes. Does that not testify that we are guarded and guided toward a par- ticular task—as he is?" The young man laughed shortly. "It mlight—if it were true," he said. Doctor Price smoked in silence fon a little space; and he smiled tho'wght- fully at the glowing coals, as though at some pleasant memory. By and by 'he shifted a little in this chair ant turned to the young man. "I visited the State prison ten days ego," he re- marked. "I remember," the young fellow nodded, his interest showing in his eyes. "What about it?" In the prison," said the old physi- cian, "I heard the end of a story that Began many years ago- 'and it has given me, somehow, a curious little certainty that none of us are acci- dents. Also, my sans it made me very humbly proud that such a manifest and certain proof should cosne to me that—secret-service operatives have guarded my steps,. The young man frownedper- plexity. with plexity. "I don't understand—" he be - ban. "I do not understand, myself," said the old doctor. "But—I will tell you, if you like." The young man nodded swiftly. "Please," he said; and the physician knocked the dottel from 'his pipe into the grate, filled and lighted the pipe, and smoked thoughtfully for a time, as though marshaling his recollec- tions. At length he began: It was a good: many years ago, said the old doctor, that I had' among my patients an elderly woman of some wealth, who lived on a lonely road, perhaps half a "vile from any other house, and five or six miles from 'here. She was, as I have said, wealthy. Her -husband had been dead for some years, and she lived alone with an oecaaional visit from her nephew, a son of her husband's brother, whose parents were dead. This woman—it is not necessary that I reveal her ntttne— ligtrueted. the' young matt, effete. rightfully, and as rho rcw okiei' nt w,cttp decided that herl on Bina int action to bequeath her pro - petty to him nuatalto. Ile wad dieeelute, she 'believed; wind the west a doveut woman, and was not willing that she should furnish him the means of his own ruin, About five years before her death, she made a will leaving the young man only a few dollars, The remitin- der of her considerable estate was' to go to a certain worthy oltarity. The will was drawn by her attorney, in my presence, and I wile one of the two wdtneases. The other witness, an old woman who had been housekeeper far my patient for many years, died a year after the will was drawn. The attorney, who drew the document, was killed in an aociden't two years later. At the time of which I speak, theire- fere, I wa,s thr, only other persons be- sides herself, who knew of the was - tense of the. will. Sho kept it at her home, and by her request the attorney had retained no copy of the doeument. This explanation may be tedious; but it is a necessary Igxaundwork fax what followed. One might, in March; I was sum- moned by telephone to come to the woman's home. It wise as bitter, rainy night, and -the long drive did not at- tract me; furthermore, I knew the wo- man was not at the time seriously ill. Nevertheless, the summons was in- sistent, and I obeyed it. In those days automobiles had not come to help us on such occasions; but nay horse was a stout animal, and I fastened the cur- tains about my buggy and drew the waterproof robe up to my chin and set out. (Continued in next dame.) Which? Suppose upon thy right hand stretched a 'road, Sbaded by trees and very fair to see, Bordered with flowers and ever ver- dant sod, And one should say, "I give the choice to thee Between this road, which thou must tread alone, And this, which Beth here upon thy left, Narrow and cheerless, - rough with many a stone, Arid and waste, of trees and flowers bereft— Yet, listenl If the latter choice be thine, Love's self shall walk beside thee. all the way—" ul st thou accept that fellowship Wo d P ws p divine, Or choose the easier path? Beloved, sayl Who Was Responsible? "Daddy," piped the little darling, "Is the sea a mile deep?" Daddy, who was also an editor, glanced up irrit- ably from a huge pile of manuscript. "I don't know," he snapped. The lit- tle one looked disappointed. A little later she inquired: "Is the moon really made of cheese, daddy?" Again came the response: "I don't know." An- other look of disappointment, another silence, and another question: "Do cannibals use postage stamps?" No less savage than the cannibals them- selves was the distracted manuscript reader as he roared fox the third time; "I don't know." "Well, I say, daddy," exclaimed the youthful inquirer, very seriously, "who made you an editor?" by letting the shoo stand for fifteen minutes in a shallow pan containing \FORESTS OF CANADA enough of the grease to cover the sole. Thus protected, one need not wear overshoes, which, while they keep water out, also keep perspiration in, Moreover, they are cold in winter and hot In summer. Improved Pocketknife Has Novel Features. A new knife is made in various types, from the long, heavy hunting knife to the tiny watch -chain knife. It. may be best described as a device wherein the blade, when in use, Is held rigidly in position, and when not in use, is completely concealed. 1Vhen closed, the knife is dustproof, and can be made waterproof if desired. An important improvement, from the angles of utility and manufacture, is the elimination • of tho steel back - spring, which constitutes a large part of the cost of the ordinary pocket. knife. Also, blades are Interchange- able. By the simple method of un- screwing the pin holding the blade, an- other blade can be quickly substituted. Thus a hunter can, lit a moment, sub- stitute a skinning blade for the ordin- ary blade in his knife. Women! Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye Old Shirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Each package of "Diamond Dyear' contains easy directions for dyeing any article of wool, Bilk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades, and ruins ma- terial by giving it a "dyed -look" Buy "Diamond Dyes." only. Druggist has Color Card. An Ingenious Invention. With an ingenious tuning device ar- ranged in the form of a small book, and using a walking stink as a mast for the antenna wire, a British ofilcer has contrived a radio -receiving set of extreme simplicity and portability. By opening the pocket-size book to greater or less degree, and varying the antenna length, reception is ad- justed to wave lengths between 800 and 2,600 metres. With this equip- ment, using a regular head telephone, messages have been received from sta- tions more than 600 miles distant. Mtna•d's L!u'mcnt for Mires, ere, ARE SOURCE OF RICH REVENUE Canada's 226 million acres of mer- chantable timber le the second largest asset of her natural resources wealth. The bulk of this timber is within easy reach of the tidewater. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia can almost dump their logs In the oceans, while Quebec and Ontario have the St. Lawrence River for a path to the sea, In .JOS the greater part of Canadian lumber exports went out In the raw state, only a little over one-third was manufactured in Canada, The nest ten years saw a strong and continued increase In Industrial development and by 1017 the tables had quite turn- ed. In that year mote than 70% of Canada's lumber exports were manu- factitred and less Own ere third left the ecllntryin -a reef" st.: te. Ever increasing demand for pulp- wood and paper is responsible in large measure for this rapid development. American imports of Canadian pulp- wood pui -wood (all ]rinds) for four months, end- ing- July Slat, 1020, amounted to $20,- 819,881, According to latest statistics Canada's available supply of pulpwood Is 901,000,000 cords and covers 860,000 squaro miles. Over a third of this spruce and balsam stands in the east- ern provinces, convenient to the east- ern states with their many ngws- papers and publishing houses. It is. estimated that, at the present rate of cutting, this supply will hold out for 92 years. Strict mattes regulations, wise conservation and reforestation plans are ionise] to to prevent the res. "alit, held" r e t ittor11311 fort ,•r rad' !urn- t+.,rduet r cs. OLD OARPE of all .kinds made Into NEW BUGS Rag Rugs' Woven, geepete Cleaned Send card far catalogue. SANITARY CARPET CLEANING CO4 • 03 Ryerson Ave, Toronto INDUSTRIES FMR f IS GROWING BIG INCREASE IN BRITISH EXHIBITS. J'leld This Year in Three Dif- ;ferent Sections, at London,. Birmingham and Glasgow. Indicr-tiona are that the British In- dustries ndustries Fair le to be decidedly larger and more ` comprehensive this year than ever before, says a London des- patch, It will be held in three sec- tidns, at London and Birmingham from February 2 to March 4, and at Glasgow from February 28 to Match 11, Last year the London section of the fair was hold in the Crystal Palace, but ,because of the increase in the number of exhibits it will be held in the White City this year. The idea of having the Glasgow section open a week later is to give buyers and visi- tors an opportunity to visit all three sections of the fair without being rushed. As in the past only British manufac- turers will be allowed to exhibit, and only their own wares. No duplica- WHEN►..W REEDY GOVERNED FASHION GARB QF MAN WAS WS INSIGNIA OF OFFICE. Ancient Fashion Books Wer o Handed Down Through Suc- ceeding Generations.. In ancient days fashion bad a grave eignifieanee, and the fashion books of the tailors and dressmakers of the very early ported were ea sacred and dignified ad the laws of the Modes and Peraians, The garb of man was hie iesignia of, office. Through a recently discovered manuscript of the history of costumes of China, the "made-to-order" raiment of Oriental antiquity has come to light. The costume of the dragon was a court costume worn only by the Sons of Heaven of the Celestial Ens- Dire. mDire. M1 around the border of the flowing robes of these ancient emper- ore the mighty beast cavorted, while his flaming eyes gazed toward green mountain slopes resplendently cover- - ed .with yellow flowers and meals., torte beasts, This was worn when votive offerings were made to the honorable ancestors. . The princes employed the mountain motif with its guardian dragons, while the stars, sun and moon in plenipoten- tiary raiment signified high rank' and great dignity. Theee occupying a lower' rung on the court ladder satis- fied themselves with embroidered flowers and lesser beasts. titins will be permitted. Attendance Man ato-day, signlflea hie dignified will be by invitation' only, which in atation in life by a glacial manner and New York may be careened from the Judicial bearing, but it is difficult, so British Consul -General, 44 Whitehall Street. Exhibits Have Wide Range. The lines to be exhibited in London are books; cutlery, silver, jewollry, watches, clocks, baberdasbery, glass- ware, china, earthenware, stoneware, paper, stationery, stationers' sun- dries, printing, medical and Burglca! instruments, leather for the fancy goods, bookbinding and upholstery trades, brushes, brooms, toys, sporting scientific and optical instru goods, D nients, photographic supplies; drugs, musical instruments, furniture and baaketware. At Birmingham lighting fixtures, cook stoves and utensils, general hard- ware, tools of all descriptions, metal furniture, saddlery and harness, fire- arms, fishing rods and tackle, ma- chinery beltings, India rubber goods, weighing and measuring appliances, paints, architectural metal works, steel and hemp rope, cordage and string. At Glasgow textiles of all descrip- tions, ready made clothing, including hosiery, hats, caps, Joote, shoes and gloves; carpet and npbolstery ma- terials, foodstuffs, prepared and pre- served; beverages, chemicals and dyes. You Will Live to'Laugh. I remember that whe rwhat seemed a terrible catastrophe betell me, when the future looked very black, indeed, and it seemed as if there was no chance for me to get an my feet again, a friend said: "You won't believe it, but the time will come when you will laugh at Ude calamity, think of It as being a good tiring for you." I have lived to prove the truth of this man's prophecy; I have lived to think that all the misfortunes that have mace happened to me have, in a way, helped me. Each unfortunate experience Itis made hue wiser, more careful, more determined to compen- sate 'ter the mistakes and blunders and failures, and I can't help feeling that my life is richer for these trials, as painful and humiliating as they have been, apparently, irremediable, All things work together or those who try to do their best, who are honest and earnest. Through mis- taices we arrive at the goal of compara- tive perfection. If we are in earnest and Intelligent, and do our level best to win out, we shall do.so in spite of the multitude of mistakes and blund- ers, the mortifying errors we make, I once heard an editor of a great magazine say that hie publdeation had risen out of its mistakes; that 1t had won out over a multitude of schemes and experiments, very few of which had ever proved succeesful in them- selves. But the perpetual effort to better the publication, the perpetual effort to get ahead, bed resulted in a real success. British Columbia's woods are at- tracting much foreign capital. Ameri- can money Is going into new pulpand paper trills an the Pacific Coast. Ap- proximately, 85%c of all capital invest- ed in the paper pulp industry In Cana- da is American, An English syndi- cate Is building a $260,000 furniture factory In British Columbia, Box fac- tories flourish all over the province, The small fruits, vegetable, honey and poultry ranchea of the southern part of the province need countless crates and boxes for getting their produce to market. British Columbia's strategic situation for shipping to Pacific Coast Opts and the Orient, lis numerous good barbora and the tact that the cll. mate permits all the year round lum- beiinl hue e. n*ht been en averlc*sl i1 toy 1 (t.paal.SC, .lag 11s;rsiinert. . Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc. During one period of seven years, over 8,000 earthquake shocks were re- corded in Japan, Queeneton, on the Niagara River, was named after Queen Charlotte, wife of King George the First. Fun Exchange Go, oi:atororolto,PatllMao. Cotumblee Ave., yin buy 10lros, old, now, Trash or stale, on any toulo. Must bs loos ,than 60 -word stories. day. Llberalnratebtlone to - COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulls Cadets: TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CLIF' - TORONTO the French say, to tell a Canadian gentleman in evening dress from a. waiter in a restaurant, as he does not wear the modern European stamp of hirsute adornment. From Generation to Generation. The ancient fashion books were not monthly and weekly publications, gotten .out 'to-day•and forgotten to- morrew by a•flekle public, but were handed down from generation to gene- ration.. On the hand -painted pages of these little folders are the costumes. as worn by 'courtiers, with directions for the making of each robe. If a prince of the blood found his reception robe a bit 'frayed around the edges he prepared a stately document for the court tailor, whose business it was. to search through the fashion areblvea. for the design, cut and color of the potentate's station and rank. Even in the time of the Emperor Ming, in the epoch of Yung -King, ?6.6& B,C., that obedient servant Of his an- cestors ordered the savants of the kingdom to search through ancient costumes, paintings and manuscripts for the laws governing the costuming of a proper court and commanded his imperial designers to hold strictly to the designs of these books. Silk In those ancient days was a fabric far the court alone; the people were pro- hibited by "Sumptuary laws" to In- dulge in the honorable contact with its soft folds. There Is, hardly a wo- man to -day in the civilized world who. does not wear silk to some form or other. There is hardly a design of ancient courts, whether of mighty Prince or lowly servitor, which has not served the demands of modern fas- hion. Silk and fashion are closely linked throughout the centuries. ;;bodes changed to conform to the new fabric as it was brought into earls country. There were the ladies of Greece who first discovered that the heavy Orien- tal fabrics could be unravelled ami rewoven, liko their linen garments, in- to filmy, translucent materials of wan- drous beauty. Ornamental silks were not intro- duced into Europe until 500 A.D., and with them came the influence of Ily- zantium on the atylea of the day. It was through the wars waged by the fanatical crusaders that sills weavers aero brought into Maly, and the fame of Venetian and Florentine fashions spread abroad. When silk reached the counts of France, it lent Itself to the caprices 01 the favorites of the Louis, and changed its folds from clinging grace- fulness to the bouffant taffetas of the later period. For the sake of fashion, Improvements were made in looms and mechanical details, as the modern manufacturer of the twentieth cen- tury:has invented a printing machine which will run Off sixty yards of silk a minute in as many as eight different colors. In a Crass by Himself. An Irish drill sergeant was instruct- , ing some recruits in the mysteries of marching Inevements, and found great difficulty in getting a countryman of his to halt when the coumimand.was given. After explaining and illustrating several times, he approached the re- cruit, sized him ftp silently for a tow minutes and then demanded his name. "Casey, sir;" was the reply. "Well, Casey, did ye fret drive a mule?"' "las, sor." "Whet did ye say when you wanted hini to stop?" "Whoa," The sergeant turned away and lin. mediately put his squad in motion, After they had ,adv7•ntxd 9 dozen yards or so he bawled out et the top of his lungs: "Settadl Mtbtt Whoe. Casey!" v s 1