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The Brussels Post, 1924-2-27, Page 3The Mystery >of the Beehive. Nature hoe natty marvellaue see• rets which"mankind Ilea not yet SW' peeded in solving, and perhaps that Meet fascinating is that eonaerting the Matter lu which bees etteceed in blinding their houeyoombe with aloe remarkable geometrical accuracy as to rival even the greatest et human en -j rineere, Tile bees' cells are hexagonal in tome, A. Great naturalist loaned Ream mur, noticing this, Pelted an equally famous m'athematcian to oalaulbte the angles, and ace on, which would give the meet epace with the greatest econ- omy of material in the construction' of a oil similar to that of the boa. The mathematician gave the figures, wbfah Reaamur then compared with those or the bee -Della and found that the letter were exact. The Queen'e Circular Cell, In other words, if man :endeavored to .construct a cell such as the bees build, and wished to use the smallest minuet of material and secure the greatest amount of apace possible, he oouid not do better than the bee. How have bees succeeded in solving, with such marvellous accuracy, this geometrical problem? Many cxplena• tions have been put forward; but if we are to believe the latest theories of various neturalists, the beendoes not dds.ervo so emelt Credit as she .is given. The fact is that the bee alms to make her celle circular in form, but by the laws of Nature tee cells! be- come hexagonal. The been take the little .pieces ot ! wax they have manufactured in their bodies and pack them into circles with Utile more method than a child exer- cises when making mud pies, in the course of this work the bee keeps go- ing into the cylinder to press the sides not, 11 there were only olio cell, the publting"out of the sides' would make eyJlndel'; but there are other bees close to titin making othor`cells, and it is this )ressure ou all sides,' with not the slightest intent or stilt on the boon' part, which makes the hexagon. That bees do not make their cella hexagonal is evident groin .e glance at the queen bee's roll. Thisle built alone and is always circular, Thought seienee'has thus shoWn that the bee is not so clever es' we inzag• fined, she 18 yet Very ingenious, parte. cuter)), in the making or wax. To make the wax, a few bees Werth to the top ot tee hive and there being motion- lees. Others fellow, clinging to the first arrivals, till there is a great tes- toon of, bees hanging from the ceiling. They remain thus eor.from ten to twenty hours. In that . time the beat of their bodieshas set to work, and front theeight segments ot the abdo- men exutlee a whitish substance, whloh.fornms le scales. This substance is the result of honey and a little pol- len being digested in the stomach un- der the inilueiice of beat. When the exudation has reached its limit one of the bees will detach her•-. self from the mass and climb to a spot high en the roof. Suspended by two legs, she uses the otherstoaollect the scales from one segment and convey, them to her mouth. There alae chews and mixes the wax -till it is of the pro - par consistency, atter which she press- es the tiny bit of wax, so email as to be almost invisible, to the root, fiat- tena it out, and moulds it firmly into place, Each of the other seven segments of her abdomen are thus cleared and she goes back to resume the business of wax -making with the hundreds of her sisters. A Fifty -Pounder. What angler for salmon but has dreamed' of a fifty -pounder? Even In the famed waters of Norway few fiah- ermen have hada go with such d mon- ster. Maj. Harding Cox in A Sports- man at Large describes an encounter in Norwegian waters that gave him all the thrills both of ramose and of fail- ure. Aft'er breakfast, he writes, Tom and I entered the scow with Tolle to have anotber dart, though the conditions were anything but favorable. As us- ual we started off with the 'fly, but neither of us met with a rise. Then we tried a prawn with no better re- sult After that just tor a lark I af- fixed a weird mother-of-pearl spinner other occupants of the car are less to my line, Tolle's steady blue eyes Liable to succumb, he points to the opened wider than I had ever saes driver's 'intense mental Concentra- + them before; I think he thought the tion, fixation of the eyes on the road continual run of bad• Iuck had affected ahead, and gentle monotonous stimu- steel register, Tom suggested that I cram a large stone down the throat of the fish, .but 1 did not think that Was altogether "cricket" When SIeep is a Peril. Most motrolsts are aware that the seat at the steering -wheel often be- comes, atter an hour's driving, one of the drowsiest corners in the world. This fact is often responsible for a dangerous state of affairs, and there have been many serious mishaps from "falling asleep at the wheel." A medical correspohdent has sent some interesting suggestions on the causes of this phenomenon to "Truth." Oommenting on the fact that the my brain. Suddenly a great body surged ,up from the depths and snapped my des- pised spinner hard and good, In do- ing so the fish came halt out of the water. • Tom nearly fell backwards into the bow of the boat. "Good gracious, Cockle, what a. flehi" he yelled.., "It lation of the senses" -the very condi tions which are frequently created artificially to produce hypnosis and na- tural sleep. Even in well-designed cars which do nothinder natural respiration, "the shallow breathing which accompanies voluntary mental concentration might conduce to the effect in an inexperi- man't be a salmon; I believe you're encad driver." foul of a porpoise or a shark!? To this'a writer in "Truth" adds the Whatever It was that had ,taken a following remarks: fancy to my decorative lure, 11 went It is astonishing in what unlikely down deep—and then it rani Oh, my situation to human beings will manage aunt! I had no chance to cto hock It un- to go sleep. Most men with any CI my whole line and ,halt its tracking, experience of trench warfare can con was ripped off and my finger was cut firm this. I have knawn'es of men halfwny,to the bone. At last the fish reaching the nodding stage even on a turnoff and came tower s us. Shout.- motor bicycle, Which le not, on the Z face of it, a particularly soporific ye - Ing to Tolls to row for his 111e, suatebed in the slack hand over hand Wale, but where there are only two until I had a direst ,feel of the fish, wheels, the loss of balance which /M - film creature went deep again, sod•. lops immediately the brain ceases to denly stopped and then began 'Jigger- I function generally brings the hider to lug." I gave half a dozen short, sharp his senses with a sharp swerve. jerks; the fish suddenly stopped his I Not always; however, for a friend bulldog -like worryinga and made an- of mine achieved, in' the days of leis other !terrine run. But I'wes able to youth, the astonishing feat of going to sleep on one of the old high bicycles tura trim ere he had traversed fifty. yards, .And so the battle waged; first the fish and then the angler got the bet- ter o fit. After about forty minutes I ordered Tolle to pull gently to the strand, •Where it was • our custom to land in' order to' fight out the final stages of our struggles with the vari oue fish we had on hand.. This one was now swimming deep but steadily about ten yards off and parallel with ns. As Poon ns our scow landed Tom and I jumped out, and I had another ten minutes' fight with the fish. At last when I bad manoeuvred it into a favorable position, Tolle waded in with the gaff. But no sooner did the great aim -- s on f or salmon indeed it was! --catch sight of Tolle's sub- merged legs than it was off again with a terentendous rush! All I could do th was to scramble back into e boat Toremained on shore, but Dors, who dbeeu watching the performance with wide-eyed astonishment, teak hie place, and we shoved of just ill time t0 avert a Catastrophe. The flab Was going so fast that again the whole of my line and most of the backing was out; the two boatmon lord to row for all they were worth. (lever. did the salmon stop in the estuary, but went oareering:serae hun- dred yards out into the fiord itself and tlsen went fathoms sleep! Well, at last 1 managed to raise the lneat flab to the melee, where it be - en rolling about like a porpoise, en- taagliug itself in the east. It was ex- haested, but the question then arose, how, when gaffed, could 1t bo lifted Oath .the avow? Thank goodness, Tolle and Lars botwean them luau - aged to hoist it over the gunwale, though wo eeriest swautped in the net, Forty-nine pounds, ufne ounces! Not one jot or little maim waned the Be woke up in the ditch. Forward Child! o Brown and Grey are both fathers, "Flow's your baby getting on?" ask ed Brown. "Can he talk yet?" "No, he's duly just beginning to," re - piled Gray. "He's a bit awkward, surely?" said Brown, "He's older than out's, and ours can talk splendidly." "Veld, ours can walk serosa the room without being held," countered the other. "My dear chap, ours toddles down the garden -path to meet me every evening, How about your baby's teeth?" "Well, he's got a few." "Ours has t them all bot e and he's—" Here he was interrupted by the ex. operated Grey. "I sly,' he exelaimes, e'does yours. nae a safety razor or an ordinary one?" Armor. In days nt,old when knights were bold Aind armor wait the style, When wifle got to throwing things You merely pulled a smile. 'youd'd qutekly clamp your Visor shut And simply sit and grin; Tho while the china pattered down Upon your roof of tin. ' And when you went to sleep o' nights, Wlte dldn't have a chance, Beoanee you'd have locks .put upon The pockets of your pants: ---Edgar Denial IS:ranter. Brake power Strong, Buffalos are not the only boarders which receive free meals and lodging . front the .government at Wain- wright Park, Albert. Same of the members of the elk family also live at the same address. They have become so tame that they don't resent advances from total strangers Digging. The history of industry is filled with true tales ot men who struggled .for a tong time before they succeeded. There is more inspiration In reading about those who made stepping -stones of their failures than there is in the stories of people who got what they wanted every time they tried for it. We like to hear of prospectors who were not easily daunted; who kept on digging till they found the gold. We take heart, of grace again when we come upon inembers of our race who 'persisted 1n any quest till they come to the haven where they would be. It is ' easy to "give up, easy to let ga. When we are hard beset, it nerves us to look to the example of those who held on and did not quit. Success comes by persistent dig- ging, not In the mining industry alone. Any builder knows that the super- structure will come toppling, unless it has a sound foundation; and to lay that foundation he must dig deep, per- haps through treacherous soil, per- haps through obstinate flint. In thirsty lands there were fainthearted pioneers who found no water and who went their way, Others of stouter fibre remained and "carried on," sink- ing their wells to lower levels tiff they came upon water. Thus they made the wilderness blossom as the rose, and reaped a fortune from the arable land that was nothing but a desert to those who did not stay there and dig deep. The scholar who has Set himself to "track shy truth" has spent laborious days and nights in research, sublime- ly oblivious ot the dollar. 'rhe bust- uess man who has developed a new and prbfltable field took off his coat and hustled; he did not haze out of a window at his horizon, but he marched toward it. Homage goes to self; denial and bard toil. it is not bestowed on those who took the easy path. of dal- liance, the line of least resistance. Youth has its right to happy confi- dence, but youth must learn of "toil and the end of toll." It must not sup- pose that 'the rewarded ones it sees came wally and swiftly by their places and their possessions, The successful were the survivors from a host that. quit too anon. The Irish of It. An old Irishwoman sent a parcel to her son; in which she enclosed the fol- lowing note: "Pat,—I am sending your waistcoat; to save weight I have cut all the but- tons offer.—Your loving mother," "P,S.—You will find them in the top pocket." Mum's the Word. "Well, what's the good word from the White House to -day?" "Mum's the ,idord," The Sea Wolf. The Fishermen say, when your catch is done And you're sculling in with the tide, You must take great care that the Sea Wolf's ahare I* tossed to him overside, They say that the Sea' Wolf rides, by day, Unseen ou the crested waves, And the sea mists rise from his cold green eyes When he comes from his salt sea caves. The fishermen say, when: it storms at night And the great seas bellow and roar, That the Sea. Wolf rides on the plung- ing tides, And you hear his howl at the door. And you must throw open your door at once, And fling your catchto the waves, Till he drags his share to his cold sea lair, Straight down to his salt sea caves. Then the storm will pass, and the still stars shine, In peace—so the fishermen say— But the Sea Wolf waits by the cold Sea Gates For the dawn of another day. —Violet McDougal. Bad Luck or inexperience? What is termed "bad luck" in mo- toring is more often inexperience and poor judgment. Music, I take it, is one of life's great primaries. We can hardly imagine a people without a love for it. For how- ever rudimentary it may be it is 10 be found in every clime and nation; and though we know so little of its origin there's hardly tribe or people, Primi- tive or advanced, who do not own a national music. I think it was Carlyle who said that music was the speech of angels, and that all nations have prized song and music as vehicles for worship and prophecy, and whatsoever was in them was divine. Very wonderful is music, far more se than speech, for to the heart it speaks direct; it soothes us, stirs us to tears or exalts' us with joy; and in so marvellous a manner as nothing else can. Charles Ittngsley once said: "Music has been called the speech of angels. I will go further and call it the speech of God himself." Gradgrinds often say: "What ie the use of music?'' We might reply, "What is the use of emotion?" What would life be without it? Does it not make more beautiful the grandest thought? Have not multitudes listen- ed enraptured to the glorious music of the "Messiah," ar the almost equal "Elijah"? Beautiful are those lines in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream": "X know a beak whereon th fid thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet. grow; Quite over -canopied with lush wood- bine, With sweet musk -noses, and with eg- lantine." The Netioz ality of the Mahler! Women. A curious an r.Can^ sell anism in the C n, edlan laws governing .the n:ztional.t el 'married women was recently di cussed at a convention of the Soci Service Connell of Canada, Accor ing to the present system a Canadian woman who marries an alien horse becomes an Mien and remains on even after ber husband's death, young woman mny be an active In ber of the League of Wotnon Voter a 'United Farm Women's organic tion, a Local Council of Women, a the Imperial Order of the Daughter of the Empire, may devote a larg proportion of her time to the study o Canadian nubile affairs, may coati' bate to the solution of national prob lems in a number of ways, may us the franchise with intelligence an discretion, and may be conscious of deep attachment for Canadian tradi tions, Canadian customs and Canadia environment; But if slte should marr a man who is an American citizen a French citizen, or a Norwegian' Ott zen, she is forthwith deprived of he British nationality, Moreover it i Impossible (for her to resume Britisli nationality during the lifetime of h. husband except In the extreme eas of the outbreak of war between Hi Majesty and the State of which he husband is a subject. In such eVent i is provided that if the wife declare her desire to resume British. national ity she may be granted a certificat of naturalization provided the Secre tary of State of Canada approves But ordinarily it is impossible for he Y e- el lY� Off/0430Y 00 •World.Femoua Author. • Jt has been sale that one of the *Ilya. of Wiles of businose' is: "What becomes can ' of onto -boys?" Mr. Frank Seamier - s, tion, one or aur best novelists, answers eet the question for himself at hast, tor • at fourteen be had to go into tate World to help keep Weenie. Fleet be o was an office -boy in Fleet Street with journalistic aspirations, but hie supine - a! or wanted a hundred -guinea premium -'to teach him journalism, and Swinner' e ton had. no money. Ile became an ot, d lice -boy in the publishing house of 3. el. Dont, and wrote novels in h- , ADAM ABOUT WELL- NQWN PEOPLE ! time, ni • Mrs. Asquith's Bed Quilts, y ' Mrs, Asquith, whose son, Master An- thony ,Asquith, came of age this month, - entertains every week end at The r, Wharf, Sutton Courtney, her oouutry s home, which her butler once informed bar in confidence looked litre an matt. er lotion, re Mrs. Asquith, always original, has a,disoovered an artistic way of covering ✓ the beds in her home. Richly em t.broidered Spanish shawls, with long s fringes, are used instead of bed quilts. _i A smaller house in the grounds o called' The Mill is reserved for the children who come to atay, and it is , ' here that Mr. Anthony Asquith studies ✓ music, to regain lacer British nationality dur- ing her husband's lifetime, no matter how earnestly she may desire it. Th unsatisfactory character of this law is all the more apparent when the fatally continues to reside in Canada the husband refusing to become na turalized, and the wife prevented b, an outdated law from exercising the rights of citizenship which were formerly hers. The present law is patently unjust. As international communication grows easier and as travel increases there will naturally occur an increasing number of international marriages. It is therefore important that the mat- ter of revising the law touching na- tionality of married women be given careful attention in Canada in the very near future. Marriage with an alien is not an offence against the state and should not continue to be penalized as at present. To deprive a woman of her British nationality under these circumstances is to class her deliberately with "infants, idiots and imbeciles," to whom are applied the same disabilities. It has been argued that it would be absurd to allow a husband and wife to retain distinct nationality—that! the difficulties arising from .such an anomalous condition would be so great. that it would be impossible to adopt any other policy than the ono which is now in vogue. But it must be realized that British women have not always been deprived of their citizenship wen marriage with an alien. Until the year 1870 a British national remained, a British national unless he or she voluntarily abandoned that national- ity, The system had prevailed for enturies in Great Britain, and pre - Famous Wit Plays for Funerals and Weddings. e Probably no living musician has the retrospect that is possessed by Sir Frederick Bridge, who says that he , began his public career tolling the bell - at Rochester Cathedral at the mem- orial services of the Duke of Welling- ton in 1852. Since that time Sir Frederick at Westminster Abbey has played the funeral dirge for ainmst every great man who has died in England during the last fifty years. In addition he has played the music for the gayest wed- dings. Playing for funerals cf the il- lustrious did little to make the genial English musician sober, since he has the reputation of being the most fa- mous wit et the profession, cheers or solaces them more in •camp, mobile. Without wishing to decry its c nothing that more vividly expresses great usefulness, and source of re- o glory and the rapture of sacrifice, and venue, 11 is a most expensive adjunct{ in expressing it, enkindles it," And to our everyday life, while its upkeep so it does, And so in our dally fight for bread a real vital Influence for spiritual Strength is music; it should be in every home, that place where we gain refreshment and strength for that war day after day, a war in which there is no release, Believe me when I say that the greatest and most beneficent investment, next perhaps to making provision for our loved ones, is the in- vestment in some musical instrument, for it is a''tle that binds." Outside the home circle, at this period more than at any other time, "all is rush and hurry." We rush to buslueas,'we rush home, we rush to is a serious drain on one's resources. I am an old-fashioned fellow, so it has "little charm for me." While there is nothing more enjoy- able than home music, there is no bet- wailed also for many years in some f the British colonies, as well as in the United States. What was possible fore 1870 do this regard is possible now also, Canada made an attempt in 1919 to emedy the situation, but failed to thieve success. In that year a bill as passed which, among other things, rovided that ordinarily upon mar - age with an alien a woman was to some his nationality, but that she vas not to be bound inevitably to re- in it. She was to be permitted to take out naturalization papers on her own account as if she were unmarried. his Act was later repealed because conflicted with the Imperial Act, The British Parliament bas recent - been considering a revision of its w in this regard, however, and the time is now apparently ripe for con- ned action on the part of Great ritain and the overseas Dominions. A suggestion has been made that 1 is question be placed upon the gelds of the next Imperial Confer- ee. It is a matter' upon which the artous parts of the Empire .should b k e action simultaneously, and this d an be done if there is sufficient ex- t ession of public opinion in Canada d other Dominions to warrant the oration of the present nt inadequaie a ter way afforded for getting a mutual e muatcai acquaintance than by the aid P of the piano. It is so friendly, , so handy, always open and ready to re- ` spoud to the touch of those who love to it, and by its ofd sight reading and technique are benefitted, the apprecia- tion of each other's attainments is re- T cognized by those who practice, and le persist in its study and use. Of all the many mnsicaifnstruments ly (many very beautiful) none seem so la our friends, to our amusements. We fitted in every way for the home rhes Mush through our. meals, through the as the piano, for it is so thoroughly in ce countryside, never heeding the beau- harmony with every kind ot music, it B ties that surround us. Everything Is ! so beautifully aceompafIee a eong, and sacrificed to rush, and one of its great- ! is such e, mas've11c est, most potent incentives is the auto- + composer's genius. a en 0 th Every Human Being Radiates reless. Human andWiother living beings, down to the very smallest insects, send forth invisible waves, according to George Lakhovsky, wireless expert, who has been studying these myster- les of radiation. lee says we are oa' the eve of a sensational discovery, "I believe all individuals possess their respective waves," said Lakeov% sky, "and I hope soon to identify and classify them. Experiments have shown me that animals' sense of di- rection must be explained by an emanation of a special, very short wave, which they can also receive, "Thus alone can the assurance of the migrating birds he explained, fty- Ing day and night across the seas to- ward a goal they cannot see in search of Insects which they no longer can find in our climes when winter ap- proaches. All night -flying birds, such as owls and bats, also are irresistibly attracted by waves emanating from their prey. "But I am also certain of the exist- ence of human waves, which Prof. Biondot called 'N -Rays.' His theories were contradicted by many colleagues, but since then we have progressed, and stand on the threshold of proof of t the existence of these human rays and their utilization. "This will mean much to medical' science, The time wit come when the doctor will be able by diagnosis of the radiations from patients to recognize the waves produced by certain mice robes and locate their presence. By means of eounterraya it will, perhaps, be possible to nullify their effects." M. Lakhovsky predicts still more wonderful things. He thinks that some day it will be possible to cone, municate at a distance between'be. nes, and perhaps even talk with ani mals or understand them. His waves would take one straight to a person ought, and criminals no longer would e able to hide when their rays were *cleated under a sort of Bertiilon sya em. Advertising, "Walter"growled customer, e a CUa in r, "I hould like to know the meaning of hist Yesterday I was served with a ortion of pudding twice the size of his." "Indeed, Birt" replied the Walter. 'Where dad you sit?" "By the window," answered the ones timer. It, that explains tat" said the waiter. '"We always give the people at the window* a large hsiping. It's good advertisement" RippIi RhL O ✓ '�' 1 ! ail Mason v tat c pr an alt e iu, t L41it ..._., R _,..� ��iit laws. s The words themselves are gens, but -when Woticieci to harmony they are lifted out of blank verse and become a never failing delight tent snakes the heart throb and brings "a mist before the eyrie," X know! I firmly believe that in no time In our history have the olaims of musk been more insistent or more recog- nized than at the present moment. I feel sure that there le scarcely a great- er influence an earth batter ratted to help us In tlee went and tear of lite as this Wonderfully benetleient thing, It Is as effective in the battle of life' as it was to our soldiers in the Greet 'War not so Many years ago. 1 remember reading o passage In ace paper, the utterance of Captain Hughes of the 11.9, Infantry: "There nothing that helps the troops across to hallos Hire music, netlttng that The force that met bo applied to it tlhe brakes to stop at ear in a Minute is equals dve horsepower. tl HURRYING ALONG The days of my years do not linger, the gait of old Time . can't be elowedl ire leads mo along by the finger so fast that I burn up the rand. I cry in the dawn, "It is morning," I turn, and behold it is noon; I sigh, and the shadows give warning that evening is coming oftsoon. I cry In the snow, "It Is winter," I thaw, and ods bones, it is spring; this season departs like a sprinter, and summer is having its ding; Ansi still I find time as I hurry to help out a neighbor or four, encouraging pilgrims who worry, and cheering up hearts that are sore, "I'm never so busy," I mutter, "'.can't do a kindness ar three"; 1 carry the ,ick man settle butter, the widow a.Brkin of tea. "Each minute Is price- less," I':chetter, "but still I,sltall parse for a spell, and visit that suffering !tatter who fell fifty yai'fla down a well." If a pian ivmilci be counted a winner he'll look at his watch as Ile'junips1 end still .l shall coutfort the firmer who's down with the heaves and the mumps. Life ends, with Its plans and its worry, the treasures of earth aro laid down; and' what. shall avail alt my hurry, if there. are no. stars in my crown? Hearing the Brain Work. i A new envention which will enable vessels at sea to pick up the sounds of leg -horns and other warnings beyond; the leach et the human ear has just t been perfected. It Is art electric "ultra-sudibJtr rate- rophone," and itis said to do for the human ear what the microecopo does a for, the eye. It will be dnvaluable in studying the finer sound vibrations of the organs of the body, such as the heart and the brain. The average telephone can trans- mit and receive sounds vibrating not over 5,010 per second, but it is claimed that the new device will register sounds ot an lutinitb number of vi- brattons from 20,000 up, and will en- able ane to record and reproduce, It not actually to hear, ail sounds of the earth externally and internally of, which hitherto we have been ignorant, Vocal sounds made by certain 1n. sect° In communicating with each other' have berm rendered audible by tale device, A Lightning Freak, Ona of the strangest pranks record- ed of lightning was furnished by a case where a woman who had raised her arm to close a window was struck I just tuts she did so. She was unite jured, but her gold bracelet absolutely disappearod—ithacl bean melted array, Gender. 5 A teacher was trying to patil a little grammar into her class of defective children, Selsetng au unusually dull child, she said; "Mary, you rimy tell me the names of the genders." "They're museuler and feline," wee ?.iaree startling reply,