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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-4-16, Page 3M��titnn i Alts A person who is :too thin is field to There Are No ExceptIm s in Health, he mulzxourieiled gild the condition le In matters of health, as iii so many called "Ineinutritfou:" ether ietereste, we judge lwrgeie by Mae:atttition ie not confined to clelld- appearance, soul let impressing,, and, seu. Tho underweight adult Shares opinions se the beige -Of our deeisione. the troubles of trio malnourished child • There is feeling that the pel'sou )vbn but too treatment of tttaloutritidn in dose foolish things after all has the Mahe its au etfeetive as It la in child- advantage and le eared far by a sec• ren. oral Providence. We seldom anaiyze The essentials feta' Health are meals A situation sufficiently to eon that, the same es for children, namely: while these persons do what weal to Tp remove physical, mental and Ile very unwise aets, they 4o not go social causes of !11 health. far enough to upset their fieelth, We TO take proper food et regular 'in- do not wait for the effect "in the long terl'els, rain, but, like children, expect then To prevent over.fatigue, the offender will''b0 struck down et To secure frese, air he day and by once, Been in eases oited as examples' night. 01 .iInOluOtty 11010 sem? striking Maul - To establish suifioient Control to in. genre or (Heels/anon, our jnterest le i . sure good food and health'ltabits, centred upon thus particular act, and Physical Defects, we ignore the healthy activity,'butdoor Defects of the nose mud throat may life or other condition width acts as lead to a host of other troubles such coWpensation, as branehitie, neuralgia, rheumatism when we analyze, the programme of and ]tears disease. Neglected tenth a on tee we find that it ie made may do, the sante thing and 10 addition up, on the whole, of good habits, prevent thorough chewing of food which is necessary to good digestion. Flat feet may have a far-reaching effect. They cause pain is the lege,. knees and joints; aluo backbone. The victims become unabl'e to stand on their fest for ane' length of time, and aro obliged to give up exercise and many activities essential to good health, I11 health and weaknese lead to the fatigue pasture which gives the appearance of old age, This leads to the sinking down and despiacement of internal organs—and the ills which accompany it, Eye strain causes improper posture, and is the cause of many wearing head - echos. Pallor—loss of color—is one of the signs• of i11 health. elleauty and illness seldom go together, and the MONS` of health is rightly accounted nue of the most significant signs of "good looks." Good Habits, The work of our bodies is affected by our health habits, Our activities and our relationship to others are con- trolled by the habits we have formed, Even a watch does better when it is regularly wound.Our lives are much more satisfactory to ourselves and to others when our fundamental habits have been formed against a back. ground of a wholesome, sane, well-con- trolled home life. Bad food habits wreck many lives. Children who are indulged and catered to at home find hardships• awaiting them when they grow up and are ob- liged to deal with the impersonal man- agement of hotels, boarding-houses, restaurants and lunch counters. As a part of our lives that takes attention at least three times a day, and that can reduce our efficiency almost to nothing, food habits deserve more than the casual consideration we now give them. Fast eating is not confined to child- hood. Many adults need to have some- one take them in hand and help them conquer the habit of rushing -through a meal, washing down with liquids the food that does not adopt a breakneck pace. Health Habits. It is the same way with the health habits. People become "indoor mind- ed," end shut themselves away from refreshing atr. Oven1teeted houses and offices bring the mto the state of mind that shuts down the windows and places rugs under doors for fear that a little "air mSY be felt." Exercise becomes Ine-onvient, and with this loss go the delights of the bath and rub- bing down after active exertion. When baths aro taken merely for the. Pur- pose of keeping' olean, one liar• out itimself off from the best forms of one of tho pleasures of life. There ie a gradual surrender to habits of ease And indulgence, until it et believed that middlea lite is a series of pitfalls, from whlelt health can be Tweeted only by the aid of drugs and doctors, It Is easy to degenerate into a sedentary life and gradually make surrender to old ego before its time. The woman of sixty who can touch her toes; and still leas the measure- ments of eighteen, end the man who has not varied n pound in weight since he began to train in college over thirty years ago seem unnatural exceptions rather than the ordinary course of lite. Over-FatIgue. Over -fatigue as a habit is very conn mon. Many people never know what It is to be free from it, Arany persons seem to take a fool- ish' pride In keeping "key ed•up" as long ae possible. Women will boast that they never tuko time to Ile down during the day. Scientific -management le showing tete increased produetlou-possible 1111 London Busses Crowded Both Night and Day. Many who learn that London's popu lation is about 8,000,000 are not antdzote because all of ahem seem to bo,.trying to•get•on the same bus that you tried to get on. Nowhere has the ordinary competition between human beings just to get somewhere develop- ed self-rellen-0e .in women 'More re- I° markabT than S y in London. The woolen.. run otter movingomnibuses and leap aboard them with arms full of pack- ages. And conductors never have to warn them net to hop off backward, says Raymond Tompkins in a London letter to '•'The Baltimore Sun." Every night it looks as though all 8,000,000 are trying to get to the theatre at once. It Is a mighty poor playhouse that hasn't its queue one block long at the box office- window two hours - before the curtain rises, and stwo or three blocks long an hour and a half later. ' The. London idea of an adequate tea establishment is three floors,'*' each floor as big ae a convention hall, with an orchestra in each one and crowds at the doors waiting for employ tables. People rather than things °throng one's memories of London, for even het' architecture, with all its medieval pomp, , her museums with their un- counted treasures, her acres of chim- ney -pots, likethe bad dreain of a -keep- er of asparagus beds, are articulate with the tongues of every age. A Man No One Could Lift. A new trick 'recently caused con- siderable excitement in,,Par1s. Johnny Coulon, an American and former ban- tam -weight champion boxer challenged the strongest mean of France to lift him. His nue condition, according to newspaper dispatches, was that his op- ponent should face him and grasp him at his, sides between hisribs and his hips. Before the word was given Cou- lon would rub the neck of his opponent slightly just below the point of the left jaw and, letting one or two fingers rest there, would lightly place two fin.. gets of his' left hand on the other's right wrist. And his opponent could not lift hint! At first people were amazed, es,,, peelally when it was said that a'eagle current, generated by the position of Couloree hands, held - the little man fixed to the ground. But after a while the trick wee shown to be very simple indeed. It was the position that the big man, was obliged to take that made it Im- possible for him to lift 'the bantam welgits. By placing bis fingers under his opponent's jaw, Coulon kept hint at such a distanoe that he could not get sufficient purchase to lift even a muck lighter weight, 1g for when Ile e be. gen to lift, the oentre of gravity was. in front of his toes, and he overleal. anted, Like the mean in the familiar old trick who, bending over a chair with his heedagainst the wall, tries, to lift the chair and in the, saute move- ment to stand erect, the big Frenclt- man•was'handicapped; he was on the short end of the lever. Improving the Machinery. There had been soma crltioisnl late- ly about the running of a costate mile road whose trains. were deplorably slow and unoertatn. The other day a. traveler arriving at a wayside station remarked to the agent: "I notice dist your service has im- proved lately." "Can't see !t," gafd 'the agent nes. picloasle. ". • "Oh, I can," said the traveler; "for Instance, year engines aro able to whistle without sstollping, now." der conditous of alternating activity' • No Excitement, and rest. We are apt to try to erowd "Whet's' all tele noise about, ' you young reseals" "Well, Melly said if I kept alt erying oegreatbig Mouse with big'greem ayes tee-WO:come a aud nit on too enol of my bets, aud eve kept on, but it hasn't 001130 y,cti" • too much tate a particular period. lire:te ase is melted, and often too Henn!. The forenoon is a time of crowded annuity with out, relief. We conte to the neon ureal tinder strain, and either eat more than we can pos- sibly digest, or take tot) little, because the feel Saint and tired. The of ter noon is another breathless Taco, re- liteed by spells of heaviness' whish we resent, and so suffer the more. Dinner' Is apneas sure to be time of overeat- Jug, end- the evening luxe its owns cen.. f Icting talose a. Whan'the is reached one does not feel sleepy, and the drop light is s0 handy. that it prtsehts Ott invitation to folrn. the perttielons.ltavit of "reed. leg hlmsatll be sleep," The night is u treelike' time, anti elle hest day opens with still este liatattce on the health, strength and atultu1nee aecoupt. --: ND, THE • WQRST iS",YET-TO COME A lj i �oPillljllllou, o Nt e�ItA_g47, •_ A Picturesgsie Herding. Many curious old-world customs are associated with the Mennonites in North America. One of the most pic- turesque, which Mists Victoria Hay- ward describesin<the Canadian Maga- zine, is the way the people -of Oster wick, in Manitoba, herd their cattle. The cows, says Miss Hayward, are eseembled each morning at six' o'clock by the blowing of a horn. The herded starts at one end of the village, aud, blowing his horn, goes down the whole length . of the street. Then he turns round; and just as fast as the rats fol- lowed the Piper of Ramekin the cows come out of the various gates one af- ter another. Of course before they come out milkmaids have been hard at work. Few cows are ever permitted to be late. The herdsman is obliged to report'to the head overseer o f ;ail the herd, a man who is elected for one year. He knows just how many cows each vil- lage has and pays the herdsman with grain and with part of the money that each owner pays a for pasturage. At dusk the cows come home; there are two hundred and twenty-two of them to the village. • Bach Mennonite gate has its family group standing in- side or sitting on the fence to watch the home -coming. It is never monoton- ous, for every night the question arises, Flow will the cows carry .their tails? On that circumstance depends the weather for the next twenty-four hours, If the cows come with their tails etradght out behind then, It will rain, If they come with their tails down, it will be fair. The manner of their going in the horning apparently doesn't matter, Doors of Daring. The mountains that inclose the val"e With wallsof granite, steep aud high, Invite the feaeless foot toreed° Their stairway toward the site. The restless, deep, dividing sea That flows and foaues from shore to shore, Calle to its sunburned chivalry, " s•h out,.sat sail, explore!" • The bars of life at which we fret, That seem to prison, and oontrol, Are but the doors. of daring set Ajar before the soul. Say not, "Too poor," but freely, give; Sigh not "Tao weak,' but boldly feel Tot( never can begin to live. ' Until you dare to die, Henry Van Dyke. One Apple. In an orchard from which twelve thousand barrels of apples are shipped every year one individual apple does not seem worth thinking about. Yet in just such an orchard' not long ago the foreman of the packing force made a determined search fon• one apple, "We've got to find iii" he declared "Come on now." The men soon learned that the ap- ple was 1n one of two barrels that had just been headed 'up. Into the first went a packer; he took out the first layer and the second and third and so on down through half the barrel be- fore tate desired apple appeared, "See!" creed the foreman, turning the fruit bottom up, "Note that speck of rot? That's. why I was so insistent." One of the pickers had found the apple on the groued. It was a singu- larly Marge and well -shaped winesap, and it weighed half an ounce mare than the biggest apple ever found in that orchard, but it was a windfall and NM bruised, "These barrels go into cold storage," explained .the foreman, "They are for late welter and early spring trade and will bring high prices. That speck of rot would have 'spread on that apple and then would have infected others near by. The whole barrel of apples might have been ruined berme the re- tailer could dispose of them." So should we cope with bad habits. Run down that evil trait; its infection Will spread. Summary treatment is the eure, That is the teaching not only of religion but of psychology. Go to the bottom of the barrel if neces- sary. Not Entirely In His Hands. "Well, I suppose your happiness lies entirely in Bob's hands?" "Not entirely—there's arms attach- ed te his hands." Aviation for Stockholm. A new flying station is to be estab- lished at Stockholm. The founders of the project are specially interested in getting Stookholm incorporated • es soon as possible in the European air traffic system. Size of Sun Shown. The sten is larger then ail the Plan. eta put together. lake ressioi r' 1'tn 11EvER aaQ$t4A SPEAIc . 'TC. "(CNA Mott -lett AGAtrl— WtkEt'l twuz tIAVtN A rlalT Witt' Dr -A440, .GQt.i)i I StI `1•- Sitsi PE0 IT AN VIOULtitst ONCY k 10411- N effete% tel ``11nWINNIM Hard Lines. 31rd-"Of all Iiia luck. I've swept off •their sidewalk en; speculatluu and. flit they've gong, south for the win tor." cid-rise leeeestele Getting a New Food' Supply at Great RI* Taking . the Swordfish Requires the Best Skill' of the Cana - diet* Fisherman. The rink atteehed to the overcanling 00 something .different is very often the incentive to providing a food sup" Ply 001 of the ordinary. One of these ,S the swordfish -- a fish welch, el- though es yet still very uncommon, is rapidly flnding au Inereasing mar1101. Until comparatively recent years, says the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the In- terior, the swordfish was looked upon as a species that it was .geed policy to. keep away from. Safety first was the fisheries -We first thought, as far as the swordfish was concerned; and it wan allowed the free run of the sea. Attaining a length of frown twelve to fifteen feet, and several hundred pougds in weight, the swordfish is ex ceedingly powerful and savage, It preys upon other large fish, such as the cod and tunny, which it pierces with its sword, 1t is also in the habit of at- tacking whales, as also boats and even larger vessels, Though the sword can be driven through the wooden bull it cannot easily Ms -withdrawn, with 111e result that it is often broken off in the struggles. of the fish to free itself. -Through the efforts of the Biological Board of Canada to popularize addi- tional species of the many fish found in Canadian waters,.. there, Is au active demand for the swordfish and fisher- men have become much more aggress sive in their efforts to supply the mar- ket. There was a total of 1,367,300 pounds taken last year, according to a bulletin of the Department of Marine and Fisheries; and the value was 986,- 671; while 1n 1922 the Amount taken was 1,116,400 pounds, valued at 981,- 110. These were all token by Novo Scotia fisberneen- Taking the swordfish requires con- siderable skill and good seamanship. The craft need mostly are the smaller Glass of schooner, fr0ut 20 to 30 tons with auxiliary motor power. On the bowsPrlt is eonstreeted A stand, on tvhla11 the Striker, or the.barp0celet, stands, while en tale fore topmast a platform eceommodatee tlia9ooltout. As the flee. swim on or very erose :to the Sedate tiley are not hard to locate, end, on sighting a fish the lookout quickly advises the course for the schooner to take. Quids action and superior judgment must be used by the ett-liter, with the harpoon. The. latter is atteelled try a long line to a buoy, end when the dart Or weapon is embed. died in the body of the fish the line is allowed to run out and the ,buoy thrown overboard. From three hun- dred to a theatsand feet of line are used, to give the fish plenty of run to tire itself out, A dory is then lowered, a fisherman picks up the buoy, and`the exhausted fish is hauled in. A Stout strap is passed around the body of the fish,, and it is lifted aboard. As a pre- cautionary measure Ole sword is at once broken off. Forty varieties of fist from the At- lantic and Pacific fisheries' are roper 4te1y listed by the Department of Fish. eries. The greater portion of these arae in almost unlimited supply- The fisheries are but one of the natural re- sources which are annually returning. to Canada a very large revenue, the sea fisheries alone last year, valued as they were caught, produei g 921,831,- 022. Large numbers are employed in the preparation of the fish for the mar- ket, thus greatly increasing the selling value of the fish, Efforts are being made to increase the consumption of fish in Canada and this can be done to a very large extent without endanger- ing the sources of supply either from the sea or from inland waters. A Poem You Ought to Know. "The Ancient Mariner." Only an extract from Coleridge's masterpiece can be given, as It runs to some 300 lines. This description of a ship and crew becalmed in the tropics, written by a man who had never ex- perienaed any of the sensations he des- cribes, is a triumph of constructive lmaginatlon. Down dnopt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twos sad as sad could be; And we did speak Only to break The silence of the sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath ear motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink. About, about, in reel and rout The death -fires danced at night; The water, like e. witch's olls, Burnt green and blue and while, And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than If We had been -choked with soot. Property finds out friends, The population of the world is in- creasing about twenty million a year. When Nightingales Sing. Last year an American ornithologist went to England especially to hear the nightingale sing at noon. This was the third visit for the purpose and un- like the other two was successful. The Idea was so well advertised in tate newspapers that the song of the night - legate was no great rarity according to the letters which Dr. Wood received. The whole thing seems to be a matter of luck and those who are looking for this ornithological treat can find no better hunting ground than Surrey,— Scientific American. Reason In All Things. Selenny — "Mamma, do they sell babies by the pound?" Mother"Yes, precious." Johnny—"I suppose that is why peo- ple buy 'em when they're little." Where She Wore It, "It was the queerest thing! When the doctor examined me for life !riser - (moo, he had trouble in locating my heart„" "He should have looked on your sleeve." Cutting Scotland m Two! The Panama Canal has been an al- most m t priceless asset to America—for it constitutes a short out for ships go- ing from the Caribbean to the 'Pacific, which has resulted in the saving of millions of dollars worth of fuel. Simi- laxly, the canal which it is proposed to eat across Scotland will be an in. calculable boon to the whole of the United Kingdom, 'Pith proposal for the construction of the canal was first advanced many years ago, but something has always prevented the Reel plans being put in- to execution. However, the tact that an enormous volume of trade is being lost to tele country, owing to the ale servo of the mai, fs growing more and more apparent, and the Mid -Scot. land Ship Canal National Association ore doing their utmost for the success of the project, Saving Six Hundred Miles. Haw does the position stand at the present dein? The fact isethat i3rilttin blocks the 'traffic routes between n number of largo Continental ports and America, Just es vessels which now go through the Panama Canal pre. viously had to snake a detor round, Cape Horn, 00 have trade vessels on their way from the old world to the new, or the new world to the old, to go by either the English Chaffee! or the Nerds of Scotland, By cutting Scotland in two --that is, by eohstructing a canal trout tee Firth of Clyde to 'tile 1iibrth of, Forth, -3t d1S- Metro of only twenty-nine miles Ices .01 time and fuel would be saved. A ship going from New'York to Hamburg, for testnnee, would save three buttered Willes, lint it would not be it boon only to fetelgu trade, Ver' eels going from Glasgow to Hell would SONO over six hundred miles•, and the length of most vltyaises from the east to the west roust, and Vivo verset, would be emelt halved, The alternative to a twenty-nine miles' voyage from the Clyde to the Forth Is a three days' steam round. the North of Scotland or through eau h the Eng- lish nglash Channel. There is already a Forth and Clyde canal, but it is fitted only for barges, and not ocean-going traffic, and is of comparatively little use. Thee° are many arguments for and against such a canal. In the first Piece, while it would involve the ex- penditure of many millions of dollars• this would, at the same time, help to relieve unemployment, as hundreds of thousands of men would be needed for the work. Again, ft is repeated by mining sails. melte* that en the proposed cans; route between Maryhill and Kilsyth lies an undeveloped coal-fletd of 9,000 acres, whieit might yield 100,000,000 tons of coke and edal. In developing. this fertile area still snare 'unemployed could could be absorbed, Through Loch Lomond. Malrketin,g Canada's Wool Recent years leave Wreug1(1 a virtnal revolution in the wool industry of Oanaile, Whereas but a awe while ago the wool -produced. 1n Canada was offered for sale in ouch ens unsatisfac- tory state plat the Canadian mauufac' tw•er look«1 with •iudifferenoe upon the dolneeele .product, to.duy he real- izes that Canadian wool compares fav- orably with that of any other country, Thera is an appreciation of the high quality of the Canadian product not only In the local sphere, but in the United States and overseas markets it is now generally recognized that Cana- dean sheepmen are producing wool the equal of similes' olasses and grades grown elsewhere In 113e world, The elevation of the status of the wool industry in Canada by selection and grading has been brought about through the combined cffrots of the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, an organization of siteepmen, end the Livestock Branch of the Dominion 1)e - Pertinent of Agriculture. To counter- act the indifferent manner in which fleeces were treated and marketed, ex- pert wool graders were engaged by the Government tar the purpose of grads Mg the wool et certain grading centres throughout the oouetry, After follow- ing this .Dailey for some years it was found advisiable to have the grading done underone roof and a warehouse was erected at Weston, Ontarlo, for this purpose. Reputation Built Up. Gradually, but surely, a reputation has been eu1lt up for Canadian fleece. wools on -the domestic and foreign markets, and Canadian grades are now established standard in every particu- lar, and have proved•satisfaotoiy in every way. Through the efforts of the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, which hes its headquarters at Toronto, and branches at Weston, Ontario; Len- noxville, Quebec, and Regina, Sas- katchewan, all Canadian mills are now fully aware of the fact that the sheep owners of Canada can produce wool the equal of any other, grade for grade, whilst the United States 'mar- ket has likewise been fairly well es- tablished for graded Canadian fleece wools, a number of the largest and best mills in the Republic being quite extensive users of Canadian grades. Some difficulty has been experienced in interesting English mills in Cana- dian wool, but extendedand persistent effort has resulted in a certain mea- sure of success in this direction. Stnoe the middle of Ootober up to the end of the year 1923, the Canadian Co,. operative Wool Growers placed ap- proximately 700,000 pounds of wool with London and Bradford firma, one order alone being for half a million pounds. This order was shipped in. November, and immediately upon its arrival and examination in Bradford, the purchasers cabled for a further quantity of similar grade and quality. Growth of the Industry. The manner In which Canadian weal exporte have grown since the co-opera- tive organization, with their system' ized methods, carte into existence, is very remarkable. The total Canadian wool exports in the year 1907 amount- ed to 1,229,390 pounds; In 1911, the volume of export was 1,196,924 pounds, and in 1914, 2,841,184 pounds, This re- present* an increase of approximately 130 per cent. for the seven years. By 1919 the volume of export bad. in- creased to 4,881,839 pounds; of which 277,100 pounds went to the United Kingdon end 4,676,364 to the United States. In the year 1923 'shipments totalled 8,667,400 ponnde, 32,74e pounds going to the United Kingdom and 8,614,609 to the United States, The themes, for the tree five-year period was thus over one huudred per cent., and for the nine-earperiodover two dy hundred and twenty per cent. The Canadian wool situation is, at the present time, in a better condition than it has ever been, with a standard of product end a wide appreciation e•f the high quality of this standard. With three good outlets thoroughly estab- lished, there is no cause for worry on the part of the grower of wool in Can - oda as to where he is going to find a market for his prodeet. He is now definitely assured of reeeiving full value in competition in the world mar- kets with similar qualities from An- tralia, 0 ew 7,ealuttd, Unite,i States; Sonlh Atrica an:l tr:.uth America, Just as Good Barber "Score tcule en serer sir:'• 13018 (far'tlm1sl, , i': °, a Nitta 10430 "lt1 ltI•; w1. je-tt r:1 I110las rt shut 1.808 het.' i; 84110(1111180 jllat •e good Irr'pared b?' tee ro,.te ern, .18187. Two alternative routes ere anggest- ed for the now caul, one being by way of Loch Lomond, end if the latter were. agreed upon the canal would become en attraction for tourists. Authorities declare tent in 00ulpart• eon with the Panama Canal the eau - enaction of this new Scoitleh water. 11 way would be more child's play, and 11 there Is a precedent in the Manchester Sitio Canal, which carries rwupal'tive. a ly Leery traffic and has rezelted in t turning Into a port 111e inland city rat Col t tempolis: I Col fldent thu4 such 0 waterway 1 wottld bring a• ways of prosperity to the country, elle Ship Oen 81 A.51101:10 - dial hove asked t11 Government to tip. point engineers to examine the. three• route, which extends from Yoker I,, I Grangemouth, end the Prime Ministm• 4a 1^ is being urged to have apo1.1 lairds am 1110 a4vettages el suet a ennui and els ei'st, How to Get Down. "It yon were rt tUr, tr.p f 11.0 rhurcit spire on tho 1)5018 8 f a 1;0,.49, 8•, otv wenle yen get 11;8'.'• .,s'u:1 !r. (Igen c f his wife, Mrs. Roger; 1110114111 t, , tab: tee. ud thea said she 1,41,!111.1t t );1 e ti the iightning nut. "No toed to leo fhb 1t togerc, ' 1! roe R -,.n18 I ;r•.t he beat way fteeet be t.! he goose." Beets' Y,cld of Sugar. When Angst. I4;•;t 11.48" nut.d.- ft•o^t 'rets i1 loin, 0 1,,,,14 a 1 ' 187.4 t.3 :n 1110dntet 0110 tun t1 t14.1 ur•,1' ;{ g1111'ea but eta tune'. 11to change beidg' duo In 41•ientlllr iuvdurl4"I( ,•f the bee13,