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The Brussels Post, 1924-1-2, Page 2e f1 ► R ► M M ► r t1.,. TO /MOW .ADTO ADDS TO JOYS � QF MOTORING. At the present stage of automobile Iatetory the motor oar has become a- staple article. It is commonly, found art a necessary adjunct to a faniily,1 like a piano or toothbrush. The young person growing up is exposed to the automobile as to other household essentials. Consequently he takes theautomobile for granted. Ten or fifteen yeare ago the auto- ! mobile was a novelty and had not reached its high state of'efficiency. in those days automobile schoole were; frounded, 1'or the plrpose of teaching' the various intricacies of the machine and how to drive. it, Then it was nee essary for a person who was going to', take a job as chauffeur to either serve a long term in a factory or repair shop or take the shorter method, of learning how to take care of the car, through a course in a school, as many roadside repairs were necessary, Although to -day automobiles have reached a superior state of perfection and service stations or repair shops are everywhere in evidence, it is still desirable that the operator of a ear knows the principles of the workings of the different parts, in order that the machine may not be abused in handling it and may be given the care necessary to insure a reasonable length of life, In spite of the dependability of a ear, occasionally something does go wrong on the road that may easily be fixed if the driver is able to ioeete the cause of the trouble, In learning to drive it le much hotter to get this initial experience in a car .equipped. for teaching driving than to risk lam ages to a new machine, The automo- bile school hoe ears equipped with duplicate control pedals, so that the instructor may let the driver use hie own head to the point where an acct, dent i$ inevitable and may then take full control of the car. This makes it possible to learn the in- juryart of the{ student 'withDart damage to the car or other people, or their property. At the same time the student makes more rapid progress, because it is not necessary that he be prompted in ad- vance as to every move he should make, WHEN DRIVING, ALWAYS REMEMBER -- That you would not willingly injure a child for all the world. That you have resolved to drive reasonably at all times. That you are at times a pedestrian yourself. That courtesy has a place ou the roadway. That brakes must be kept in per- feet erfeet condition.. Fant Not for Fear, The New Year is here; May it bring us good cheer, And blessings our way to attend; The Father above Sendeth all things In love, 1s grace will be ours to the end: If dark he the day, Or if weary the way, What matters with Min by our `side? His presence will bless, And His love will caress, If good or if ill doth betide. Then faint not nor fear, For His presence Is near; Have faith In His unchanging love; The needs of each day Of our pilgrimage way, His wonderful favor will prove. —Fred Scott Shepard. e Christmas at Midsummer. If you ask a schoolboy which is the shortest day in the year he will ans- wer "December 21st," This indeed, is the getteral idea, yet not a correct one. A year is not an exact number of days, but actually consists of 366 days 6 hours and 49.7 seeonda. In order to correct this error we add an eztra day in leap year. Even this does not straighten matters, for it takes the year back forty-eight min- uter too mnch- For tide reason the shortest day is. sometimes December 21st and sometimes December 22nd. In 1923 the honor belonged not to the 21st, but to the 22nd, it was on Saturday, December 22nd, that the sun reached its extremeposition south of the Equator, and that winter actual- ly began. Occasionally the shortest day may came as late as the 23rd. In order to make up for the forty- eight minutes' errors leapyear is omitted in every full century year not divisible by 400. But ven this. corms - tion does not put our reckoning quite right. The mistake amounts to about one-tenth of a day In each 400 years. If this error la not corrected, Christ. Inas will gradually come later and later, until In 709,103 we shall be keep-, ing the midwinter festival at midsum- mer. A Wes he would take, He found it regrettable, The miss made h1m, quake Ina way unforgetable. . She turned him down hard With a strong arm athletic, As she caught him ofe guard, And results were pathetic, The Secret of the Machines. "Oh, one miss won't count, uncle; ane little sin won't hurt," said Dolly. "My dear-" began Uncle Ned, But Dolly lifted her lovely face and sullied. "Oh, eyerybody does a little wrong once in a while, now don't they? They wouldn't be human if they didn't step, now would they,{' "Dolly, you love big machines, don't you" said Uncle Ned. "They do such wonderful things at the single touch of a button or the swing of a little lever. They reveal to us the great powers that are round us, and that are at the service of men who will vase them wisely, You ]:now the little Poem, the Secret of the Machines Man says that he wants big things done, bigger than have everbefore been attempted, and various maehiree make answer, Hear them hum and Mug: "It is easy! Give us dynamite and 1 drills! Watch the iron -shouldered rocks Ile down and quake As the thirsty desert -level floods and fills And the valley we have dammed be- comes a lake! But remember. please, the law by which we. live; We are not built to comprehend a lie; We can neither love nor pity nor for - I give•, If you make a slip in handling us, you die! • FOOD KITOHENS FOR DISASTER VICTIMS Jae on a Partificial Pada Floods In Italy, z•tsulting'fxom the bursting e m at Glenco, :eaused the deaths of over five hundred people, Of one village of 400 inhabitants,only seventeen escaped death. The picture sbowe soldiers preparing food in open-air kitchens for the homeless. "Yon know how terribly tree that Is, Dolly; for jm1t a few weeks ago one of the finest men you ever saw; an ex- pert men in his business, made the first mistake and paid:'f0r it with his life. And just the other day there was that terrible explosion at the gas factory. A workman had neglected to turn the little safety valve." Dolly was not smiling now. "The moral forces at our disposal," continued her uncle, 'are tar greater than all the physical forces of the uni- verse, but the law is just the same. There is something terrible in the way judgment follows a wrong turn, an evil act; 'one little sin,' as you call IL Life, love, beauty, hope, trust, purity, sweetness•, -•all blown to pieces just because a willful little person turned and said, 'I'll put this over just once,' Be careful to remember the secret of the machines. One alip may end you and bring untold misery to others besides." The Great Secret. "It took me quite a long time to find out how to make a speech at a ban- quet," eanfessed T. Fuller Gloom; "but" -finally I discovered that when called on to utter a few well-chosen words, as it were, 1 could register a hit with almost any audience by rising, aeking to be excused and then sitting down." What the Sea Bottom is Like. When the ordinary person thinks of the bottom of the sea, said Dr. C. H. i Townsend, director of the New York Aquarium, to a writer in the Ameri- can Magazine, he imagines it covered. with the wonderful plant life he bas seen, either in reality or in pictures,' covering the bed of the ocean near Jamaica 'or Bermuda or the southern California coast, But such wonderful l sea flora is to be found only where the water is relatively shallow: It cannot exist without light, More than half of the hundred and forty million square miles of water on the globe is more than two thousand fathoms deep, or rather more than two miles, ,4.t that depth there is utter darkness4 the visible rays of the sun do not penetrate deeper than a few hundred fathoms at the mast. Conse- quently the greatest part of the bed of the ocean does not have any plant life whatever except microscopic dia- toms. But even at the greatest depths there Is animal life, and in same places it Is abundant. The abundance of life at the bottom of the sea is of- ten ' do t tee abundant of ten n proper n o b e life at the surface, In those parts of the ocean where there la almost no life in the upper waters there is little or none at the bottom, On the other hand, we once drew up sponges, which are a form of animal life, from a depth of 4,173 fathoms, or some four and three-quarters miles. That haul_ was made near the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific, where surface life was fairly abundant. The explanation is that deep-sea creatures depend on the creatures at the surface for food. It is true that some deep-sea animals prey on others. But the others in turn must be fed. Virtually everything goes to the bottom; there is a constant 'fain" of dead organisms from the up - Per strata of the sea to its bed, Those organisms farm the primary food sup- ply for the animal life below. What ie a fl91e7 Tlwugh the l0sklme tangling', is polycyathetio and eggluttnativo, it has a key --something you would hardly expect of a language that 1$ desorlbed by two such awc.iaspiring words. Tho key !s "Kanole atingai," which rneane „What is its nacre?" With it you sen learn the Eskimo names for all ma- terial objects, hut, if you Ase it to. In. quire about a nonmaterial thine like a ates. There are diatom ooze, pteropad ooze, globtgorine- ooze and soon. Other immense areas of the ocean, have beds of red .clay, , There is no 'ooze covering it, because in those parts there is virtually, no life at the surface. The red -clay arm are far from any shorn and so receive none of the sediment washed from the land. They might well be called the desorta of the sea, for they have no plant Life and almost no animal life. The. red' clay is perhape the oldest deposit at the bottom of the ocean. It must have formed very slowly and partly from volcanic matter such as pumice and volcanic glass; the frag- ments were slowly worn to pieces, and the various substances finally decent- ! posed and formed clay. The red color is owing to oxides of iron and of man- ganese 1n the volcanic rocks. Immense areas of the bed of the ocean are covered with deposits form- ), orm- ed by the remains of organisms from the surface. Such deposits are called oozes and are classified according to the kind of organisms that predomin- EW Ake HONORS ACHIEVED BY CANADA WIDELY' SEPARATED $EC- 05tFDOMINION. hole, you may -••-l0 we eau judge from premie . ;Prizes 117 tax t ui imperial Fruit Show 1. 4,1 r England, Manchester , Cnglan, Canada cautions to maletain her reputation for striving after and se; To Be a Balkan Queen The pretty youngest daughter of the Xing and Queen of. Roumania, Princess Ileana, who is to marry Xing Boris of Bulgaria. She Is only sixteen years of age and is a stater of the new- ly -exiled Queen of Greece. HELPING_ OUT I take an egg to Gager Gray, whose hen's no longer laying; "You've saved my Iife this blessed day," I hear the old man eay, ing, "for I've rheumatics in my legs, and cannot earn my living, and I was suffering for eggs, which heafruit you erre giving." I hope he'll soon be rid of pain, and go my way, remarking, "I sure- ly have not lived in vain, relieving pain that's corking. To make a heartsick fellow smile, to put food in his manger—that gratt is surely worth the while of any pilgrim stranger." I'm often bored by life's routine, and all my chores cause friction; I'm tired of burning gasoline and reading kickiess fiction; I'm tired at statesmen and their spiels, of vital theme and question; I'm tired of sitting up to meals, I'm tired of indigestion, "A11 earth- ly things have lost their lure," I say to my Aunt Patty; "we only gutter and endure as we grow old and batty." And then I hear of some poor guy whom fate has sorely smitten; I carry him a custard pie, and eagerly it's bitten. "The gods reward you," mutters he, "you've brought a glimpse of heaven; accept my blessing No. 3, of Series esleVIt," And so I say to people bored by stagnant griefs and others, "Go forth and blow your ample board, and help your ailing brothers," en experience that Mr, Donald B, Mac. Milian relatee in the World's Work-- find orkfind yourself in didlcult!ee. I discoverers one night, says the arc- tic explorer, that the rifting heat from our o11 stove had melted a hole through the roof of our snow house. curing the best and highest that is at- Pointing to the hole, I inquired, "lea- tamable' in agricultural production: nolo atinga?" Awards fox`s remarlcahlo diversity of One of the girls promptly replied, agrlcultural products 0oma to her by "Qop-sha-sui•nee•eye." reason of the exeollency of her craps• f jotted it down immediately in nay and livestock, and the Dominion 16 notebook, spelling itphonetieally, and constantiy•on the; alert for the possi• wrote after it the word "hole," courin fresh lands, I'ollo w - A few days later I. happened to tear j batty lof sosely upon distinction attained in the knee of my bear skin pants on the du:easing and livestock,' Canada hag corner of an iron -strapped biscuit box. made good the reputation she has Embodying my newly learned word IA slowly built up as an apple grower by the sentence, I; requested Too -cum -eh, carrying away many of the premier one of the girls, to get her needle and boners at the imperial 'Fruit' Show at. sew up the hole In my pants. 8110 Manchester,; Bngleed' burst out laughing, and so did the, In• this exhibitions in which Cana - other girl. ' esea apples came intb competition Finally after I had repeate$1y 4n• with the produet'01 every abet section quired the cause of their merriment of the British Empire, they continued one ventured to reply:. "You asked me the triumphal pprogre0 commenced: to take my needle and thread and se't last year in London, an4 Widely separ- up the snow hole in the roof of your ated sections 0f the Dominion shared pantst" to t110 honors achieved by the Cana - What do you call such a bole?" dian Trait. In the overseas section, "Keedda " "What is a hole in the ground? "Poo -too," !. "What is a hole in ice?" "Th"What is a hole In iron?" Canada's Ma; gF itan. ti's buaylittl dward lent/ Sntreended b scally every of St. Lawronc , 01 a total I Previneo of square mllee,,'And a heal becae mese, it boasts tht works pr r of people pea s care area oVprovince in Canada, 40.51 Pop impaelson, Ontario, the motet tai us province, with. a land arca 5,$$0 aquare miles and a popula on of 2,$33,d02, has but 8.04 to the square mile: Biro less tban 85 per cent. of the peppulatron is engaged in Agri, ulture; the, average tithe of the 13,701 ems is 88(2 acres, and in 1921 there .e only 277 tenant farmers on th as Lid. With the, srttall area in the+ fa e farm it 'e essential that tl we be Siltensive�y cultivated. T four first prize. were awarded to Bob- tish Columbia growers and two: to Nova Scotia growers, whilst one$rst prize went to Quebec. Canadian grow at is another word." era likewise secured many leaser but What Is a hole in ivory?" 94{11 111511 awards. That is another Word:" The prizes won by the Associated "That !s another word,'' Growers of British.Cplumble were:— First in Wealthy and McIntosh; first "Now, listen," 1 said, "1 do not in the group composed of Jonathan, want any of these words; I want to: cox Orange, Spitzbergen, Newton, Wagner Xing, Bp# and Greening; al She was thoughtful for a moment go first in the group' "any other aerie - know the simple word for hole.'{ Wand then replied; There isn't any time such' thing. If It is a bole, it is a hole Special Prizes Won, in something, or it wouldn'tbe a hotel" The 'United Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia took first prize in Blen- helm and Stark varieties and second Free Air: is "any other varieties:' The familiar garage sign, Free Air, Morley coney, 00 Abbotsford, Que- gives one a sugg is ion In regard to the bac, took first for Snows. The second importance of air on health. The fact Prize for McIntosh was. taken by Mae - that fresh air is free for the taking may have something to do with the tact that it Is not so highly sought of ter as it :alight be. Humanity is as- sailed by the evils of excessive alco- holic drinking, excessive smoking and the excessive ir„or habit, and o1 the three it is apparent that the last named is the worst the It is largely, d onald Collage, St, Anne's, Quebec, . In the British Empire section, the flint piaee for "any dessert variety went to the Associated Growers of Bri• tlsh Columbia, and the third place to Macdonald College, In the same see- tion, for any coolting varieties, the fourth position went: to the Associated GrTaree speers of cial prizesritish lunzer a. responsible for the reduction of vi- wore Won by tality, the Aweniated Growers of British The business man who yawns and Columbia and two by the United Fruit stretches at his desk in the afternoon Companies of hoes Scotia. The Drat would: save time if be went for a short named won the Overseas Daily Mail walk until the effect of the fresh air gold cup for the best exhibit in the revived him, We may be very well in• overseas section] the Goodwin Ltd. formed In regard to mechanics and are sliver cup for the nest entry by any able to inform our friend that his re- Brttisll Columbia cooperative orgaai- fraetory gasoline engine. is not getting zatloni and, the Poupart Ltd, prize for sufficient air, but' if this knowledge the beat British Columbia exhibit in were turned in our own direction and the overseas section. The Dalted our own air requlremeuta were given Fruit companies secured the Goodwih a little more attention, the .ravages of Ltd. silver cup for the best entry by the great white plague would be ma `any NnVa Scala co-operative organa - terially reduced. zatton and the Poupart Ltd, prize for It is nathe4bc to repeatedly read l the best Nave Scotia exhibit in the "Housewives" as heading the list of overseas section. 'tie Thompson, 0E tuberculosis patients in the sanitarium Ottawa, seamed second place fol reports. Would it not be bettor for. twelve apples (dual purpose) In the abase same housewives to drop some, small exhibit$ectiohi wisest the Cold - order their house asks, even it occasional- straam Rauch of Vernon, B.C., scoured ly the did go a little untidy In Ore third plane In the DLit of late order that they could get et leaet the benefit of one hour per day in the pure outside air. 9 Old Times. Do you remember the good old times when you could get a square meal for a quatter and could stop at a hotel good enough for anybody far, a dollar a day? Or if youdidn't want to squan- der money in that reckless manner you could get for a nickel enough crackers and cheese, nixed, to stay your stummick for quite' a spell. I0 you wanted to dine a little more elate. orately you could buy for fifteen cents. a fair -size can of cove oyesters and get the crackers thrown in, and go in- to the back room of the store to oat 'em, Aw, I tell you, everybody wasn't looking for a chance to skin you alive then. Folks wets willing to live and let live. But, as the feller says, them days is gone forever, The highest hotel. in Europe is how being built near the summit of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of 11,800 feet, culinary variety. The "Pink" Materials. When washing pink cotton goods the color may be made fast by using "red" instead of bluing, This can bo made by bolting a piece of Turkey: rod material In water, bottling, and using like ordinary bluing, being careful to, test for shade. Tobacco Stains. Stains may be removed from copper or brass ash trays by applying a little denatured alcohol with a brush, h Yui tltural interests of the Ulan aV co xeesgrnthe this fact with the lan alp prove rowel 1.ig'h Up'to-Date. "Why the idea of having a live cat- erpillar aterpillar mentor' your neck?" "Goodness, you're behind lite times, These fur neck pieces arethe latest itylel' i'L Mt)SY t5e. WONDERFUL , MRS DUMBUNNY ,Tb EiE MARRIE..D To A5CAPTAINI STRONG RABBIT,— NDU5RY I •r OUR. liUSEANP MUoT BF. A GFo.gA•Y INSPIRPT!ON To -eau Hull!'' IN RABB1'rEORO 1 £U'WPOSF. NI. CONFIDES ALL 1115 5U5111ESS CARES To You? E5 — suRe HE. DOE.5- -- EVER`! 'T•IME. I WAN'j A LITTLE MONY, To GO 5HOPPPNG '7 that the field craps return a lie per acre, The province hag gely Into the production en especially of ct seedy osp y otatoaa p n Hon.W Waller M . TRrA r fernier gong hi nor of ,i�grieulture, "Our /Voter are to make the meet of the To quo4a of country we have, to Commis' tensively, and to grow these 011 cialize in, such as seed' probl'e little farm 14 things grt}Ins will re Much Iota During th ly l rge dem land deed p t te/ apl'oduced co of to Aatierican ,b prlee.r A. recent bushels left Summe and other eastern Sta the West ladies are en secure their pare seed sup the island province. A survey of the agricultur sources of the province was reee conducted by the provincial gover ment, nn'd showed'the following values 1 for 1923: field crops, $19,250,000; live stock, $8,150,000; dairy products and eggs, $1,753,000; fisheries, $1,600,000; foxes, $1,000,000. Theraising of foxes has become an important mous- try ig,the province, there being 484 fox farms registered in 1922, with, 13,- 470 animals valued at $2,882,016, and a property value in lands, buildings, etc., of $763,235. Fish abound in the Waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, especially about the shores of the island. The market value' of the catch was $1,612,509 in 1922. During the fishing season of. 1922, Prince Edward Island produced 8,758,800 pounds of lobsters, having a nded value of 9651,449. This was nn increase of more than two million pounds over the production of 1921. The Island was formerly a -large oys- ter producer, bit over -fishing resulted in the depletion of the beds. It is authoritatively stated, however, that the oyster beds in Riehinond. Bay are giving promise of a return to their old fertility. One of the chief attractions of Prince Edward" Island, says the Na-' tural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Interior, is the hospitality of the people. The visi- tor is made to feel at home, and, while all islanders are proud of their little province, each' does not constitute him- self a real estate agent. Itr the sev- eral towns and cities pieturesgnespots abound, and a drive along the excel- lent highways in the spring presents a picture not seen elsewhere. The soil of Prince Edward Leland possesses a distinct reddish shade. On this the bright green lines d early vegetation and the glistening shells upon the endue due to the vee of the oyster - bed mud as fertilizer, produce a pic- ture not easily forgotten. The tourist traffic to Prince Ed- ward Island is rapidly expanding, and the many beauties of the island form. an attraction hard to resist. With a varying width of from two,to thirty mike, any portion of the island is within a short distance of the sea, it has a climate `;which deed not include extremes of heat and cold, and, with the best of ferry connections, the pro- greeelve, while at the same time con- tented people of Prince Edward Island have a portion of Canada of which they may be justly proud: fsP a d seen' ir.' past season an unusual nd' developed for the Is - s Double the emen- d have been dispose4 yors and at a good ip nent of 65,000 e for Virginia s as well as eavoring to lies from c„ 1 re- tly Moscow's Big Store, The biggest store in the world under One roof la in Moscow. It is a g!gantie - department store, or bazaar, under's thousand •dif4ereat heads, selling all kinds of goods and carrying on every ]trod of buelnllss.` A Triumph in Dye. Thanks to the vegetable and ch0m1. cal chromatics created In American and European {))laboratories, it 18 31010 possible to re?rroduce the Ass -ideal! blues and red, in. Persian ruin, that have beets puzaling the world's int a Mae for centuries. • Welcome to Them. The United States' now owns about one.quarter of all the volcanoes it the. world. • Ther sore elsout 417 active volcanoes, -an the Milted States pts<. settees 105, b (sides hundreds of mak, ing peaks, In planning, theIta�rnlcr should ale ways hstve is mold t1Yit high yizldr make low costs per bushe%. 4 4: Ono of the most stt.rtling ights, in the way of a plant, is the "fi tree" of Atietralia, that land 01 wail rfai trees. When in full bloom, this tree is A thriSi • of flared -colored flowers, an at a distance looks just like a tree an fire.