HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-6-9, Page 7Little Faults That Shorten Life
It is soli that there is u right and
wrong way of. doing Overythieg.
Yet how many at us realize that
there is a right and a wrong way of
tatting lows, elinlbitlg stales, And 8Q
au?
The operation of blowing the nose
la performed daily by everyone, het
how many peoplo de it the right tvay?
Thoughit may seem very shocking,
the- right way to blow the Mese Is the
way the tramp blows kis.
Sir St, Olair. Thomson, the noted
Lrngllah duvet and lung speoialiat,
tells an amusing (story of how ho had
to demonstrate this method to .Ring
Edward.
Sitting dawn .op .a chair amine a0
easy that it is lntpgseibio to do it the
wrong way, but a epecaliist, lecturing
recently, pointed out that the habit
many people have of sitting on the
edge of a doily la very injurfeue,
cerain nerve le sat upon, and the re-
sult is sciatica; caused through the
nerve beteg itdnred,
Walking neletaire is another thing
that nine out: of every ten'peepio do
the wrong way. The usual niethed, ie
to place the ball of the foot ou the
stairs and then take the whole weight
of the body on that part of the foot,
the heel never being placed on the
ground until the top is reached. The
right way, however, is to place the
whole of the foot ou each stair. It
thus is done, there will not be so much.
fatigue when the top ,l2 reached,
The habit of bolting eggs and bac-
on, coffee, and otherthings, and then
running ter a train or bus., le fatal to
the dlgeaitivo system: The food 1s• not
properly innstleated, end the whole
body is dtsorganieed by the wlId rush
for the trait,
How many people drink a gnllen of
water a day? Tills la the amount (hot
should be talon tt.one wishes to retain
goad lteleth.
Many people go: Writ r, In tee ding
their teeth. The habit of mately ' ash.
lug the outside at the. Math le wronn.
Tile back lend the top ot the teeth aced'
lust as much attention, Decay sees
in as easily at the bank and on the top
of the teeth an anywhere else. ate -
Member also !bat tho top of the teeth
le the part that codecs in actual con-
tact with the food,
Standing does, appear to be a
particularly diflinult operation, but
notice people standing In a railway
etatlon, . Notice the men, with their
hands turfed in their pockets, backs
bent and heade dropping forward; and
the women with their feet et extraor-
dinary angles and so on.
The body, whim " one be standing,
should be balanced equally op the .two
feet, which ahould be turned out
eiiglitly, The whole body shoild he
held upright, including die head.
Talking to doctor, the writer asked
Min what effect doing such things in
the wrong way would have on the life
of an ordinary healthy . person. He
replied that It was dlfilcutt-to general-
ize, but that doing aontetliing in the
wrong way daily might lessen life by
fifteen years or more.
Looking Backward.
I might have been rich if I'd wanted
the gold instead of the friend.
ships I've made,
I might have lead tame if I'd wanted
renown instead of the hours I've
played.
I'm standing ta.day on the far edge of
life, and I'm just looking back
ward to see
What 1've done with the years and
the Jaye that were mine, and
all that has happened to me.
- I haven't built much of a fortune td
leave to those who shall carry
my mune.
And nothing Eve done stair entitle'.
me here to a place on the tab-
lets of fame,
But I've Loved the great sky and its
spaces of blue; I've lived with
the birds and the trees;
I've turned from the splendor of silver
and gold to share in such plea-
sures ae these.
I've lived with my friends and I've
shared in their Joys, known nor'
row with all of ite tears;
't. r I have harvested much from my acres
of rite, though some say I've
squandered my years,
For touch that is line has been mine
to enjoy, and I think 1 have
lived to my best,
•o no regret, as I'm nearingho
I have t
t`,•g t,
end, for the gold that I might
have possessed.
No -Night in Old London.
Towards the end of. May the season
of No -Night begins Jn London, and
lasts for two months, .says an English
newspaper.
It le only when the sun has sunk 18
dei:tecs below the north horizon at
midnight that twilight ends and real
night sets In.
A month before the summer solstice
(Juno 21st) the .sun bogies to dip less
the 18 degrees below e north liori'
zon et midnight and continues to do
so for a month after the solstice, so
that in the interval there Is twilight
all "night"
As we go farther north the twilight
is more pronounced, baconso the sun
descends less and less below 'the
northern sky -line until a point is
reached wlten It does not set at all at
ntidniglat.
When the No -Night season has got
fairly started it is interesting to trace
the progress of the sunken sun around
the horizon from its setting in the nor' -
west to its rising in the nor' -oast, It
will he vory easy to do this as the
longest days (there aro two this year„
June elst and 22nd) draw near.
The week in which these longest
days occur will have its midnight twi-
light made more brilliant by tho pres-
ence nt a full moon.
There are 180re than fifty news•
parpers in New York City, printed in
fourteen languages.
ar
Dien like Phillips Brooks,
Thoreau; Emerson, Beech-
er, Agassiz, Ruskin, were
rich without money. They
saw the splendor in the
flower, the glory in the
grass, They sucked in
power and wealth at first
hand from the fields, the
birds, the brooks, the moun-
tains, and the forest, as the
bee ;sucks honey from the
flowers. Every natural ob-
ject seemed to bring them
a special message from the
great Author of the beauti-
ful. To these rare., souls
every natural object was
touched with power and
beauty; and their thirsty
souls drank it in as a tra-
veller on a desert drinks in
the God -sent water of the
oasis.
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A Dentist Test.
To illustrate Oriental habits of
thought, a distinguished Briton tells
this i story of Ismail Pasha,d
khedive of
Egypt 11 mice happened that Ismail
was suffering from toothache, He
scut for a European dentist, who told
him that he ought to have the tooth
aut. Ismail said that he was atraid It
would be very nature!. He was in-
formed in reply that it if he would al-
low the dentist to administer laugh -
Ing -gas to him he would feel nothing.
He still doubted, but told the dentist
to bring his Apparatus to the palace
and he would then discuss the situa-
tion.
The dentist complied and explained
the prgcess to the khedive, and Ismail
then summoned an attendant, who
was dnstrueted to tell the pantry at the
door to come up.
When the man arrived the khedive
ordered him to sit down in the chair
end requested the dentist to tape out
a tootle on either aide of bee jaw, Is
mall then asked the man whether be
had telt anything, and the man said
that he had not. But Ismail was not
yet satisfied, Ile said that the sentry
was a young, strong man and that he
would like to see the experiment, tried
on some one of weaker physique.
Accordingly, he summoned a slave
girl from the harem and had the den-
tist extract two of her teeth. Finding
that she did not show evidence of ex-
treme suffering, leo thhen consented to
have his own'tooth out. It Is related,
although possibly that part of the
story is apocryphal, that the dentist
then received an order on the Egyp-
tian treasury for $5,000
Genada has 100 miles of canals in
ten systems, costing about a million a
mile.
Galileo taught -how to rnensure the
height of the moon's mouatains by
their meadows.
THE GLOOMY MERCHANT
The urau who's selling bacon, or sugar, shoos or alerts, should
not look God-toraaltan, for deaf appearance bburte, •You talk about
your Josses, sad mourn, while 'leering hair, the many grievous
crosses you aro tinged to bear; and 10, the weary buyer will
thirds you are a bore, and h0' will lake a flyer to t'other Iallow'a
stere: Ile cheerful, gay and sunny, if you have .things to sell,
a;;d you will .cep the mcney, in Easy Street you'll dwell. Igo
to buy some collars where Johnsen Plays Jtls gain, for I spend
many debars In dolling-np lay frame. Andlobnsen is a dealer
u"!to sella Me mets *and pumps, for lee's is gladsome spieler who
never ime the cremes. I -go eo buy a collar, a necktie and a ouft,
but wbcn I've heard him •holler I buy a ton of stuff., I buy me
milk suspenders, and 'blow all kinds of kale, lured onward be the
splendors of his eplltting ` tale, But now and then I sally to
Jirepson'e necktie eth o, which k across. the alley from John-
son's oheereul door, And Jimpeon's so depressing I hasten from
his hall, arid leave him sadly guessing why I went there at all;
I buy no, collar button, I buy no spangled beam ter 1 ant not a
glutton for other,people's woes, The: man who's sailing 001100e
or squashes by the peek, must curb his wildemotions and not
weep on ray reek.. -
Man to Man.
Tbe'Viceroy of India, Lord Reading,
fulfilling the intention he announced
when he left England, has ,net Gandhi,
the Indian non -co-operator, and held
o lengthy conference with him, Sim-
ultaneously, Eamon de Valera has de-
clined to meek Lloyd George in a
semiiar parley on the Irish problem;
but perhaps he will reconsider when
he realizes how useful suck a contact
might be in abating the present intol-
erable condition of bitterness and
belligerency.
If two men will only meet and me -
burden themselves to each other, it Is
hard to find any inveterate misunder-
etanding that will not ultimately be
cleared away. The trouble between
nations and between men too often is
a long-range bombardment of charges
and recriminations that piles up a
voluminous correspondence and drags
on in a wearying and seemingly in-
terminable quarrel. As -with the feuds.
of mountaineers, those who fall heir
to the dispute have often forgotten
what the original quarrel was about;
they only know that an old there was
handed down to them to settle, and
they spring to arms ere wise, cool
words of counsel can prevail.
It is a pity that the horror of re-
cent warfare has not sufficiently im-
pressed some of us with what it
means when men lie in wait for other
men with murder in their hearts. We
know our soldiers went to war right-
eously, to defend the cause of civiliza-
tios, but there are always on earth
politicians who would send rnen into
the fiery furnace for their own selfish
nt. I disputes aggrandizome f spa can be
settled over the council table instead
of on the battlefield, is it not better
to go to the table, even though the
talk may last for years?
It is a mistake to refuse an invita-
tion to a oonference that points to-
vtard peace. The world, seek of fight-
ing, will not cast .its majority vote in
favor of those who want more war.
For Company's Sake.
Smith had been offered a really
good job in Australia. So he threw
up his clerkship in London and made
arrangements to leave for the land of
kangaroos.
While passing through Liverpool on
,his way to the docks, he was suddenly
and quite unexpectedly hailed by a
friend from Manchester, who inquired:
"Hallett! old man. Where are you
off to?
"Australia," was Smith's blunt re-
ply -
"Right -oh!" said his friend, "I'll
walk part of the way with you!"
Worked for. Love.
Mr. Headley rubbed his hands glee-
fully,
"Mr. Heapel" he called,
lair. Menge, his assistant, came in
from the next room,
" kleape," dried old Headley, "that
fool of an office -boy of ours has fallen
in love with my pretty secretary,"
"I'm eorty, sir; what shall I dol
Sack the boy?"
"Sack the boy!" yelled Headley,
"Never! I hope he Tamales true to
her. For the first time since he's been
here lie's always ltalydy whenwe want
item."
Days and Days.
Dark days, and drear days, to every
lite they come,
The days when hands are listless and
lips are strangely dumb,
The days when mirage snooks us.
with heights we may not reach
And covetous' we cavil at all the
sages teach.
We want a palece:stately with pic-
tures omits walls,
For famed and costly "Masters" a
voice within us calla,
For rest from little troubles, the
small !attestant needs
The fetters of the home -lite, the faI-
lacy of creeds.
Long days, and lone days, to every lot
they fall,
The days when feet are weary and
ghostly voices call;
The days when hot within us, the
soul springs up to say,
Why fetter rhe In prison of rude un-
lovely clay?
Grow old and gray and wrinkled, such
is the common fate,
Grow soured to human kindness and
swayed by petty hate;
Dim eyed you dig a tunnel, a worm
among the clods,
And lose the bit of essence, that
once you knew was God's.
Sad days, and stern days, but oh, they
pass away,
And give the blessed new dreams that
turn the gold to gray,
The days of high endeavor, of build-
ing bricks from straw,
The days of loving bondage and due
respect for Iaw;
The days that touch win beauty auy th
t o
empty human heart
And garland every vista with more
than works of art.
The glad days, the blest days, the
' days with pleasure rife,
The good days, the blest days, that
form the most of life.
A Queue for Buttons!
The muddle in Hestia exasperates
even the marvellously patient people
who have been accustomed for cen-
turies to the most exaggerated forms
of officialism, Captain McCullagh
writes in "A. Prisoner of the Reds."
"One man told me that it he lost a
button off his trousers he would have
Ilrat at all to get a permit from the
'House Committee:
"Then he would have to bring that
permit to a Commissar. Then he
would have to go to a Government de-
partment, which would give him an
order ou a Government store. Tben
he would wait all day in a queue out
side that Government stere, only to
find, when his turn came, that it bad
given out all its buttons., and that he
would have to go to a similar stare at
the other end of the town and wait
all day in a queue there.
"A button in the offertory ds conse-
quently a source of unmitigated Joy
to the impecunious Russian and Pol-
ish priests, for a whole 'teethe of the
paper money and postage stamps
which are given liberally by the faith-
ful would not buy as much as a packet
of cigarettes."
He often told- ' the Bolshevists that
if a Government like that were es-
tablished in Britain the workers them-
selves• or their wives would sweep it
away in twenty-four hours,
Cho si g the Right Vocable!' in life Stroke Oar.
Some of,the saddest tragedies in
huiusn life hale beou enacted by Mee
on of purertt9 compelling.; their child-
ren to 50 °alarm' to Nature's bili•
ding. a
A ir, ge.portionor the buman race
is wrecked by infant .-occupations.
Dither because thole parents forced
them 'Iota the wrong ;:ailing, or be-
came they themeelvee made a wrong
choice, mil/lens of teen sill women
are wasting their !Ives and their
talents in trying to do thugs for
which Nature never intended them,`
A well-known character -analyst says
that three out of every four men over
thirty-five years of age have chosen
the wrong vocation,
When out or place, no ;natter how
hard we tall, we rover gain .the mar
menthol et joy in our work which
comes front effort along the line of our ,
talent. We :miss the full benefit of
our work wlteu our energy Is forced in -1
to a_ channel against wiltolt something
within as rebels.
If we found our right Places oarlyin
life, instead oe half the world teeing'
failures wo should all be successes.
Jairs, poorhouses, and ayylume
would soon he empty, Everyouu would
be normal, contented, and happy, be•
cause all would be exercising the taoul•
dee which' would give them greatest
satisfaction; they would be working
In harmony with the Creator's
It you have been (creed into some
work for which you have no liking or
aptitude, or 1f you have made a mite
take in your choice, don't ,lose heart
and think there le no chance of re-
trieving your mistake. Whether you
are young or middle-aged, do not jump
to the conclusion that because you do
not like the thing you are doing, and
have not been succeseeul is it, that
you will be a failure In everything.
if you are normal there is Home
kiwi of work whboll you will like and
be .enthuslgttic In, and, if you will,
you can flied it, Only a short dine
ago (writes 0. O. Mardon in the t'New
Success"), l heard of a mon Witte lied
been a m+lsdt, a fish opt at water, un-
til he was close to fitly years of age,
ile had been, disebarged as an inef-
ficient bookkeeper; ble, had felled afe
a lawyer; be could not conduct a busi-
neee office, but be nitimetely found
his niche and made a big sueoess as a
travelling ,salesman,
Pereonaliy 1 have known many
young men who, atter floundering
about for years in a dozen different
occupations without succeeding in any
of them, suddenly, sometimes by VA,
Mout, found their place in some par,
timber line in which they became not-
able successes,
They developed• marvellous power
when they got into the place where
they meld express themiselvesaccord-
ing to their nature, and developed an
enthusiasm is their work width as-
tonished even those who knew 'theta
best,
I onee asked a young man how he
know he wait doing the thing he was
made to do, "Because," he said,
"whenever Vltava tried to do anything
else --and I have tried many things -
1 have ulwaye come beak to it,"
It is the thing we always come back
to, pr always long to come back to,
that de our real calling in life.
If your heart 1s not 1n your work;
if 'you do not take pride and pleasure
1n it; if you do not come to 1t with
joy and leave it with regret, if every
nerve and fibre In you does not say
"Amen" to your calling, you are a mis-
fit. You must and your place or you
can never do the big things that are
possible for you.
The Fairest Thing.
The fairest thing God ever made
For human eye to view
be God's dear sky by oloudlete stray-
ed—
White Mies and eta of blue!
Forever move without a sound
Those floating hills of snow;
But whence they come or whither
bound
Only the wind can know,
The fancies of a myriad men
Have mused upon the eight!
And wondered as they gazed again
And felt their hearts grow light.
Something mutinied that pureness
vast
Doth filter through the soul
To strengthen and to guide at last
The spirit to he goal.
Thank God for what no man can know,
What utters no replies,
By meeting mystery eve grow
To be more truly wise.
Not darkness only bars our ways
And 'wilder most our thought;
The truth may come in such a blaze
It dazzles, Ss not caught.
So daily, hourly, let me learn
The worthiest lore to win,
The line where knowledge back must
turn
And faith her path begin;
Let me peruse the book of peace
Where time's a thing of naught,
Tho fair blue sky that veils the face
By whom all things were wrought,
Eve and the Apple.
Eve didn't want the apple, but she
wetted to have her way.
It is just the same in our gardens of
young adventure to -day.
Eve was a girl whose grinning, white
teeth were a dream to see,
And she didn't care for the apple, but
she wanted to climb the tree.
Eden has never vanished, and Adam
and Eve are there,
Mischievous still as children, never
learning to care.
There are lots of things not apples
that we grasp and taste to know
The tang of the unforbidden; to wait
is so terribly slow.
"You'll pay the price," they whisper,
Oh, yea—and we think we can.
But it flattens us out in the struggle,
this having the way of Man!
Religion, as a rule, flourishes 'bet-
ter ear connection with adversity than
with prospoMty.
Spring Carries On.
Surely never was such a spring!
Primroses under a min of June.
Swallows flash by an a gleaming wing
And lite is a song to a lifting tune.
Surely never before to -day
Has nature given a world so gay,
Men may labor or men may seethe;
The cost of living may rim or fall:
But to old Dame Nature 'tis ale alike,
And bluebells blossom and cuckoos
call,
And down by the brook the kingcups
glow
As bravely bright as a month ago
The orchid gay with his spotted lent
In sovereign purple holds the stage.
There's spurge to add to the gleaner's
sheaf
And golden -yellow of saxifrage,
Buttercups, milkmaids, atitchwort's
etar—
AII of the sweet spring flowers there
are.
By meadow and copse is peace and
joy,
Rest for the weary and yet, most
strange,
Nature working at full employ
And ber wondrous Pageant et care-
less change,
Sad to return to that other land
Of the angry heart and the idle band!
—Touchstone, in London Daily Mali.
Universities.
Did it ever occur to you that the
most endening institutions man has
founded are his universities? Did it
ever *tour to you that the universities
of the Middle Ages lived through all
the changes that have taken place
since then? Did it ever occur to you
that the University of Paris has seen
(Al the upheavals that have taken
place in France and that have usually
taken place within the sound of the
Sorbonne, and has survived them all?
DM it ever occur to you that Oxford
and Cambridge have lived through
the Wars of the Roses and through
the various upheavals in Britain and
have continued to be just as vital and!
just as strong as they ever were be-
fore? Did it ever occur to you that;
the University of Toronto, the Proven r
coal University of Ontario, is one of
the greatest assets of the Province?
Why is that? It is because the uni-
versity really cont. -thetas to the high-
est in civilization something that is
eternal.
England+s stature as a nation will
be affected by the toes of so macre)'
oft her been men an the Great Wax.
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Nine men sit in an eight- y, -ed ebelt
and row a rare. light of tete then are
oarsmen. The ninth is the eexawnln
who sits with a megapiirnte
to Iola head and tells them When to
hit up the pace. The stroke oar, fatty
ihig item, responds and Pets tihe puce
for the other noon in the iaoatt and,
the race is WW1 ar 18et 5' what he
does and by what they do who aro
behind him.
Success dopsnds on the stroke ear,
If his heart or"physique, if his stem-
itva or mom*, should ba unequal to
the ordeal, he involves the boat d iii
hie failure. f e cannot see the men
who are behind hive. Re meet trust
them to follow his load, to do se he
does, in perfect synohreshy, They are
not rowing for hien. They are not roseP,
ing to oblige him, They aro not coni
forting a personal favor. They mq
rowing for the sake of victory ---end
the 'victory is to the honor of their
club, their rowing association, or their
school or univereity,
Rowing in a et'ew 1s a poor lob for
the self-centred egoist, It demands
the iron band of discipline beginning
with the discipline of self. 'You are no
good if you row at your own gait, Yogi
are like a soldier in the marching
ranks. You must lieep in time with
the ranks; and if you are insubordin-
ate, you are worse than useless, for
you aremerely in 11 a way. You retard
and clog the unit.
In society at large it is that way.
There are leaders who determine for
the sake of the crowd the speed and
trend of the procession. When those
leaders control the multitude for the
Paha of their own enrichment and
their own power, they deserve to be
sot down went their authority.
Tho stroke oar is not "paddling hie
own canoe," He is giving the urge
and the drive to the whole of the
boat. He is the prime mover in send-
ing it forward. So it is with the
leader cf the multitude, He is not in
his place because the folk who put
him there have put their trust in frim.
Political reachim.tion often defeats the
people's choice; but the people aro
learning to distinguish between the
false friends and true. They wild. not
always let themselves be led by those
who lead them selfishly, They are
learning to choose pace -makers who
are true to their trust and three to
them.
Grasshopper Campaign,
'Alberta.
Fillowing the cc operative action ot
the Prairie provinces and the Domini-
on in the work of the Weed Spealal
Train in the early part of the winter,
the Department of .kgriculture far Al-
berta is preparing to actively combat
the grasshopper !fest this year.
The organization represented In the
Provincial Agricultural Scheele is
proving highly useful for different
kinds of extension anti emergency
work. The teaching term closes at
tate end of March, which gives them
the whole crop season for other lands
of work such as Yalta, home gardens,
and the various agricultural prohlems
which confront the farmer from time
to time. The acquaintance of the
staff with a :large constituency
through the school fairs, makes it
easy for them to do such work as
comes to the district representative.
This year the "hopper" trouble will
be taken care of almost entirely by
men from the Schools of Agriculture.
The Game Guardian's Branch is pro-
curing the supplies et poison, and will
look after its wholesale distribution.
Poison will be held in quantities at
Edmonton, Calgary and Lsthbrdge
and also at the schools. Application
for assistance from individuals, farm-
ers' associations or municipalites wit'
be sent to the schools. Poison will be
furnished at cost for cash Lob. point
of shipment.
In the areas where mueicipalitios
aro established, the municipalities will
look after the actual work required.
to combat the pest, but will operate
with the assistance and direction of
the experts from the schools. In the
unorganized districts tbo work will be
handled through the echoo:a, but it is
expected that the local organization
for giving affect to the work will be in
moat cases the United Farmers' as-
sociations, The areas in which this
work is at present contemplated are
the districts tributary to the six
schools, namely, Raymond, Clares-
holm, °Islohsu, Youngstown, Oltls and
Vermilion,
The Dominion Department of Agri•
culture wiii co-operate with the pro-
vinolal officiate. air, fitickland, of the
Lethbridge 'experimental harm, will
visit the schools and will attend such
meetings as are called when difncui-
ties arise In different areas. There
are twenty-five men now ready for
the work and more will be put on if
necessary.
What Civics is,
Mrs. Profiteer was very proud ax
the stents they were doing at the
smart private school to which she had
sant her daughter,
"My deur," she said to her friend,
"she's learnlig Myles, it you please."
"What's civics?" asked tho rrland.
"Civics'/ Aly dear, don't you itumvt
Why, it's tbo aciouoo of interfering In
public Meah'8,"
-'f - -
When a man isn't wilting to prat.,
tree what he preaches it's about time
for hdrn to give op preaching.
Salt your food with humor, pepper.
it with wit, and s}primklo over it the,
charm of good failowship. 1`Y0v01
poison it with the eaves cI 11£e,