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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-5-7, Page 7$f With The muTs 5co t'Tostamo ntP Published, , The 13oy Scouts Association ie glee to be able to announce the publication of a Boy Scout Testament bearing the insignia of the Assocltitiou and a spe- clal preface containieg the Scout Pro. mise and Law end a list of New Tes- tament Scripture reading on the Scout .Law, • When takiug his inve6titure each Boy' Scout promises on his donor to 40 his best to do lila dutY'to God. In making this the deet item of the Boy Scout Prot d6o, the Boy Scouts As- eooiatiou declares its conviction that no boy car, become the best kind of CannaIan citizen without recognizing his obligation to God. It is the belief of leaders of Scouting that the Scout programme, properly carried out, of, fern one of the most natural and effec- tive means for developing a boy spirit ually,. Next to the Scoutmaster's ex - .ample and the troop meeting and camp atmosphere, one ofthe defluitely ef- fective opportunities for touching the boy's religious side occurs atthe camp fll e, partlonlarly the Sunday Scouts' Own. This is the ideal oacasion .for the reading or telling of stories from the Bible calculated to inspire the high thinking' and Christian living which is the underlying thought of the Scout Promiee and Law. How to Become a Scout. Any boy 12 years or over desiring to become a Boy Scout may apply for membership at the Headquarters of the nearest troop, on its regular meeting night. In cage there is no troop in his neigh borhood or town, the best course, in company with the other boys interest- ed, Is to call upon the Sunday -school or day school teacher, clergyman, or other prespeetive leader eelected, and request him to organize a Scout Troop. On application to Provincial Boy Scout Headquarters, 233 13ioor Street East, Toronto, all necessary information will be gladly furnished. Boys between 8 and 12 years of age may in a similar way be organized as a Wolf Cub Pack. Boys over 16 may organize them- selves as a Rover Patrol or Troop, and will be furnished the instruction neces- sary on application as above. Bands and Busted Troops. Wo quote the following from a oun- temporary whose experience with troop bands must have been similar to our own: "Music bath charms to soothe the savage beast. Moreover, it seems that when music is organized in the form of a Scout baud its soporific influence is effective enough to hill into e. dream- less sleep Interest in the basic pro- gramme of Scouting en the part of the Scouts Involved. "Teo difficulty is that few boys have enough spare time to take care of two such activities as practicing for a band and making progress in Scout- ing. Consequently, if you are think- ing hinking of starting a band, DON'T." The Pencil Thinker. "Look at that boy." "What isthe boy doing?" "Ho is trying to think." "How do Sou knew he is trying to think?" "I know be la trying to think be- cause he Ls sucking his pencil." "Does he think he can get ideas out � of W in that way." "No, He probably doesn't think about it at all. It is just a nasty and dangerous habit." • "Why is it a dangerous habit?" "Because somebody with a disease may also have been trying to suck ideas out of the same pencil." "I never thought of that." "Yes. Iia not thinking which causes many accidents, much suffering and many deaths, Whenever yousee a pencil with tooth -marks on the end you will know that it has been used by somebody who doesn't think:"—The Nation's Health. SPRING Ti 18 TONIC TIME T1De System Needs "Spring Cleaning," Just As The Horne Does, TA1s,LAC Has Been Called The World's Greatest, Tonic By Over 100,000 Persons, Who Have .Testified That Tanlac Has Helped Them Regain Their Strength and Health, DON'T GAMBLE WITH - YOUR HEALTH, DEMAND THE BEST Tanlac Has Benefited Thous- ands o£ Persons Suffering From Stoinach Trouble, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Nervousness and Kindred Ailments — Tanlac Is For Sale By All Good Druggists —Accept No Substitute— Over 40 Million Bottles Sold. THE ROMANCE OF HYMN -WRITING 3 if The need his Sunday school scolars had of a suitable hymn to sing at. their annual Whitsuntide procession led the late Rev. S. Baring -Gould to write his "Onward, Christian Sol- diers"; and his "Now the day is over" was inspired by the sight, of a won- derful sunset over Brixham 'Harbor, the first draft being written on an old envelope hastily pulled from his pock- et at the time. These two hymns are by no means alone in having an interesting, not to say romantic, origin. "Oft in danger, oft in woe," is an- other which bas romance connected with its writing. It was found after Henry Kirke White's death, written on the back of ono of his mathemat- ical papers. It was incomplete, and ns usually sung was completed by Frances Fuller Maitland. inspiration of a Moment. The words of "Our Blest Redeemer, ere He Breathed" came to Harriet Auher as she lay, an invalid, on a couch beneath the 'window of her room. Having no writing material at hand, and being fearful lest she should forget them, she scratched the verses of her well known hymn on a pane of the window, using her dia- mond ring for the purpose. Newman has told us that he com- posed "Lead Kindly Light" whilst the orange boat which was bringing him on his way from Italy to England at the time lay becalmed in the Medi- terranean. Reginald Heber wrote "From Greenland's Icy' Mountains" in res.= ponse to. a request from his father-in- law, Dr. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph and Vicar of: Wrexham, that he would write something for them to sing at the missionary s s y e rv' Ise in churchon the following morning. The first three verses were penned in a few minutesand on seeing them the Dean said: "That will do." "No, no," was the reply, "the sense is net complete," and, sitting down again, the future Bishop. of Calcutta added the fourth verse: "Waft, waft ye winds His story." • Written in Record Time. But "0 Love that will not let me go" is probably the most quickly written of all deservedly popular hymns. Inspired by a secret Sorrow, the writer, the Rev. George Matheson, took only five minutes over the work, after which he never either retouched or corrected it. "Abide with me" and "Crossing the Bar," which finds a place in some hymn books, were in the nature of their authors' swan eongs; the, forul.o. Or being written two months before the Ito. If, S. Lyto tiled, and the lilt.' ter in Tennyson's eighty-first year. 1 Interest is added also to "God moves in a mysterious way" wheneit is known that this last, and probably greatest, piece of work on the part of William Cowper was composed dur- ing u Welk just as he felt that his brain'vt' w waso way. r g Y g .I Many Miles from Anywhere, Wlielr town of tlio world 1s the moat lsol ated The answer Is Manaus, on the Rio, Negro, not far free/ that mighty tri- butary's junction with the Amazon, It is the only town of Amazonia, and le eltuated a 'thousand miles from any -other civilization. Yet with all its isolation It has many up•to-flute features—a harbour, Qin- trio lifts, a fine tramway system, an eleettie power station whiell lights the town and cooks Rs foods and cools its rooms, a pure water Supply, several newspapers, a flue theatre, a museum of coins --but no railway sta- tion, From any part of the town the jungle can be reached in a twenty minutes' walk, Alligators alio the sole inhabit- ants of tbe opposite bank of the river, and jaguars have attacked pedestrians within rifle shot of the tram -lines! The view from Zlte cathedral tower is of unbroken forest, yet the town contains a hospitable English colony uuu "u .Juba u u, u,. The river is called "Negro", because its waters are black, and where it joins the Amazona steamer can have its bows in inky water and its stern in the brownish waters of the greatest river in the world. PAINFUL SCIATICA - AND NEURALGIA • Caused by Starved Nerves 1)ue to Weak, Watery Blood. People think of neuralgia as a pain iu the heed or face, but neuralgia may affect any nerve of the body. Differ- ent names are given to it when it af- fects certain nerves. Thus neuralgia of the sciatica nerve is called sciatica, but the character of the pain and the nature of the disease is the same, and the remedy to be effective, . must be the same, The pain, whether it takes the form of sciatica or whether it af- fects the face and head, is caused by starved nerves. The blood, which normally carries nourishment' to the nerves, for some reason no longer does so and the excruciating pain you feel is the cry of the starved nerves for food. The reason why the blood fails to properly nourish the nerves is us- ually because the blood itself is 'weak and thin. When you buildup the impoverished bled with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, you are pttacking sciatica, neuralgia and kindred diseases at the root. As proof of the value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in cases of this kind we give the state- ment or. Mrs. Marion Bell, Port Elgin, Ont., who says:—"Some years `ago I was attacked with sclatica in my leg and. hip. The pain was excruciating and finally I was forced to go to bed. Apparently all the doctor could do was to 'give me drugs to dull tho pain, as otherwise 1 found no relief. I had been in bed with the trouble for eight weeks when a lady who came to see me said that she had had a simIlat at- tack, and had only fouhd relief through the useof Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I decided at once ithis medicine to try and before I had taken more than three boxes I found relief. I continued the use of the pills and under the treat- ment the pain left me. I was able to Hulk again, and have not since had the least returnet the trouble. I feel that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have been of such great benefit to tee that I strongly urge similar sufferers to give them -.a fair trial." You can get these pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 'cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont._ ALTII" EDUCATION BY DE, 'J, J. MIDDLETON peeeleelal Board of Hesits, Ontsrlo iddieton WM he Bled to answer questions ea kubiic health mete Ors through this column. Addrose bila at E MMMMA house, $Pa4loa agement, Toronto. Dye fatigue ie an important subjects fur discussion. A large percentage of the people of this province are tin- ware of the deems to their eyesight that -result' from fatigue. We have orilyone pair of eyes—that .1s, those 'of us who aro blessed with normal vision, and the eyes wa have aro the only ones we ever will have. It is most important therefore that wo try to preserve our sight as much es possible and not subject it to any unnecessary strain. For a long time it was thought that strain on the eyes only applied to students. Scarcely anybody suffered from eye headaches except the book- worms. Now we find that many other classes of people are affected with eye strain. Take the farmer plowing his furrow, who looks steadily at the ground hour after hour trying to keep in a straight line and trying not to "bite off" too much or too little earth at each roll of the sod. To do this he keeps his eye muscles in the same state of contraction all day long. When evening conies he often has some little bit of ground to finish and keeps on in the fading light, thereby increasing the strain to which he has been sub- jected all day. His muscles get tired, his nerves get tired, Ms brain gets tired and then when he goes home he often subjects his eyes to further strain by doing chores about the house or barn or reading the ppper in im- perfect light. There is nothing that sooner reflects on the general health of the individual than eye strain, for it has a very strong influence on the general nerv- ous mechanism of , the, body and con- tinuous eye strain may lead in time to general nervous breakdown. The eye is a most intricate piece of What innites one admire a mother's love and marvel at it is a'photogrnph bf ourselves taken at the age of ten or twelve.. Ask for Mtnard'a and take no other. Probably e'rlght. She—"What makes these inriglltfil': wars?" Ile -"Probably fright" A RecoII. A woman had Invited a few frlende to play bridge. "'2 wish they were not coming," she said to her plaid; "but when people ask you out, you must have them back." "Of Course. ma'am," eahie the•reply, "One must retaliate!" To clean ivory or celluloid, knife handles, rub with a slice of lemon dip- ped in salt. This will whiten them and they can then be washed and dried in the usual manner. He is free fraud danger who, even When he ie safe, Is on guard. a'erglow rou dksipfaresto a 'forma -Arizona o 0NcwMeiico andy• atiOsaiPa4SS Ask for descriptive folders s', T. 710ndi'3', Don, Arent., Nanta re 11y. 404 Pre@ Preps fait„ Detroit, :titch, kli5ae; Alen) 0347 in its apparatus and very delicate construction, No machine made by man is 00 perfect in construction or so elaborate on design. To serve the eye, no lase than twelve muscles are pro- vided. Of the twelve important nerves that come off directly from the brain, one-third, or four, are for the service of the eye. Shortly after the start of life we are endowed with good eyes and if care is taken we preserve them. But there are many pitfalls by the way, and from one .cause or another the eyesight becomes not so good es it should be. There is the question: of strabismus or squint to be thought of. This often develops in early life due to weakness of certain of the eye muscles which from one rause or an- other fail to develop as they should and thus the more powerful and inor'e developed muscles rotate the eye out of its proper place and the condition commonly known as squint results, There is a remarkable lack of knowl- edge about the seriousness of squint. Many people have the opinion that squint in children will right itself if left alone. There are thousands of one -eyed people in this province to- day just because their parents thought they would allow the squint to right itself, Intelligent and proper medical treatment of the -eyes in squint is the only way by which one . can hope for good results, Never leave a case of squint to right itself. Go to an oculist at once, and especially in the case of young children this condition of squint should be rectified if possible before the child is five years old. If allowed to go longer, the sight of the "turned" eye will most likely, be damaged for life. An ounce of prevention in this ease is worth a pound of cure. Birds of a Feather. Blackjack Bili—"They sure is raisin' time in that Teapot Dome job, ain't they, Jake?" Stick-up Jake—"Yeahl It jos seems like they won't let us fellas alone." How the English Make Toffee. Mix tour cups of brown sugar and half a cup of corn syrup with half a cup of water, and put on the fire, stir- ring carefully until all the sugar is dissolved. Let this come to a boil and then take off the fire and add four tablespoons of butter. Put the mix- ture back on the stove once more and bail until the butter has ,penetrated throughout the candy. Pour onto a greased enameled ware tray of any kind and, asthecandy cools, mark it into squares. When it has hardened break these apart and wrap each piece separately in wax paper. Incidentally,' you will find that the labor of "clean- ing un" is a great deal less if you have used an enameled ware saucepan for the cooking, since even the stickiest mixtures do not adhere long to its por- clain-like surface. 3 -- Courtship by Cards. The visiting card is of Chinese orig- in. The Chinese have always observed the strictest ceremonywith regard to the paying of visits. It Is reported that more than a thousand years ago the visiting .card was used in China. Nowadays the cards used are very large,. and usually of a bright red color. The Chinese employ visiting cards to assist their courtship. When a man is ready to marry, his parents inform a professional "matchmaker," • who loops through a list of her clieuts and, after due conslderation, selects the ono shit' considers would slake a suit, able bride. She takes his card, upon wbich are inscribed his ancestral name and the date of his birth, and calls upon the girl. If the latter is willing to listen to his suit, she sends her own card in re- turn. After that the oracles are con- sulted, and should they prophesy good concerning the marriage, the details of the engagement are written on two large cards, which are then tied to- gether with ted' cord. No Ambition. Theelection just fought has been prolific In good stories. One told by Mr. Walter Runoiman is particularly neat, A certain candidate was trying his level best to min the hearts of his audience. "I am English born and bred," he announced, "My father and grand- father were English, nay wife is Eng- lisp, my work aro in England, and my workpeople are all English." At that point a pitying voice came from the back of the Ball: "Oh, teen," it said, "has y0 i1110 ane.. beotten?' Keep Minard's Liniment to the' house SAVED' DABV'S LIFE Surnames and Their Orrin HAYWARD Variations Heyward, H,award, How- ard.• Racial Qrleln—Englleh.'° Source -An' office or title. It le a surprising thing how 01011 family names et to -day have come down to ue from words denoting once - potion or titles of OM ' whlolr long since havebee me obsolete. Few people In this country bearing the name would have any idea of what a "hayward" or a "heyward" w.ae in England of the :twelfth, thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, nor of the nature of his duties. Lven the explanation that the meds• vat word "hay" meant "hedge," slid le not our modern word "hay," would hardly serve to give you the right clue: The "hedge warden" WAS not the keeper of hedges in the sense that he was a gardener. His duties consisted in .service toward the villagers, the farriers of the day, Fences andwails were little used in those ,days to mark the divisions of land.. For this purpose bodges, either the real thing or mere indications of � them, were used. Naturally, cattle had a tendency to stray from one man's land to another. It was the "hayward's" duty' to prevent this. Or- iginally his aiginaliy'his duties were limited to this. He, was a servitor of tbe entire coin meeity rather than the employee of .a single person. But in, the course of time his authority and his duties were extended until he became a sort of general trespass officer, and an official Mrs. Alfred Tranchemontagne, St. Michel des Saints, Que., writes:— "Baby's Own Tablets are an excellent medicine. They saved my baby's life and I can highly recommend them to all mothers." Mrs. Tranchemontagne's experience is that of thousands of other mothers who have tested the worth of Baby's. Own Tablets. The, Tablets are a sure and safe medicine for little ones and never fail to -regu late the bowels and stomach, thus re- lieving all the minor ills froin which children suffer. They are sold by medicine dealers or by ;mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. The Lilac. There is a dryad in the lilac tree, A bright and lovely thing of joy and grace, Beckoning ever with arch coquetry, Lot I have seen her face, No woodland sprite is she, brown limbed and shy (Pan's light o' love), but gay and sweet and quaint - Like some fair lady of a clay gone by, Half siren and half saint. Of rich brocaded.lilac silk her gown, Emeralds and amethysts adorn her throat, Diamonds add pearls of rain her beauty crown Perfumes around her float, Green are her petticoats and lavender, The plumes that all about her nod and sway, Milton and Shakespeare loved to sing' of her— And Herrick—she is May. —Minna Irving. Send a Dominion Express Money Or- der.. They are payable everywhere. Not So Near the Heart. A young mother, catching her hue. - band in mute contemplation before the cradle of her -first-born, was thinking what a beautiful sight it when he suddenly turned round and exclaimed In a gruff voice: "My dear, the more I look at 1t the more I am at a loss to understand how the furniture dealer could have the impudence to charge you twenty-five dollars for this horrible cradle!" EASY TRICKS With Three Dice Many of the best tricks are per- formed by utilizing facts about which few people are informed. An. effective little trick with dice owes its mystery to the fact that very few persons, even those who are familiar with dice, really know how the spots are arranged. Ask a person to throw three dice while you stand with your back to the table. Ask him to add the number of spots thrown—the total of the spots on the upper faces of the three dice: Then ask him to turn each die upside down and add 4' to the total of the spots on the top of the dice, the total of the spots which are underneath. Ask him to concentrate on the number. After an appearance of coucentration yourself, tell him that the total is 21. You will be right. (Olip this out and paste it, toith other of the series, in_a scrapbooks.) SPLRI Say "Bayer .Aspirin" INSIST i Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by phy- sicians for 24 years. Accept only a SCLIC-'" Bayerpack e g which contains proven directions Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 anti 100—Druggists Aspirin (5 the trade marir (registered ,n Canada) of rarer Maastacturo of Mon- ;} sccticee)dester 01 Sellcyneecid BACKACHE! Lift Off , - N o Pain! M tnard's cases the stiffness, re - Howes the pain, Keep a bottle handy, Dpesn't hurt one bill' Drop a little "Freezone' on an aching corn, he utantly that core stops hurtieg, then shortly you lift It right off with fingers. Your druggist stile a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, suificient to remove every 'herd corn, soft cern. or corn between the toes, and the toot calluses, without soreness or irritation. t of eousidereblo imi?ortenee in each v11- , lege or community. ' "Ixayward" le not the regular eouro9' 01 the faintly name of Hlowerd, though sometimes the latter is simply a ccre rented spelling of the fernier, DANIELS. Variations—Daniei, r Pana Tancock, Racial Orip in -Anglo-Saxon. Source.A Biblical elven name. Deniele is another of these runny' names whiolt comes down to us tronr the days of the old Anglo-Saxons, though., line other family limes, it did not become such until a period after the Anglo-Saxons autt Norman-French had become fused into the English race of medieval and modern tituee, The final s on Daniels Indicates that it has been shortened from Danielson, The variation Taucocit 1s the result of a uilsspelling that crept into the naive at some period, either before or after it became a family name, and the habit o the Anglo-Saxons of short- , ening names to one syllable and then adding a diminutive ending. One of theea endings was "cook" or "coolie' meaning "little." 'Peacock, then, trans- lated literally into modern speech, means "little Dan," or, if we should use the modern diminutive, "Danny." It is impossible to state at just what period "Daniel's son" ceased to be merely descriptive of an individual and was adopted through several gen- erations, tleus becoming a family name, A general development of custom took plaoe along this line throughout north- ern Europe from the twelfth to the fourteenth eenturles, The frequency with which Daniel appears as a given name in the old days indicates many unrelated families adopted it simul- taneously, The best throw of the dice 18 to throw them away. He receives more favors who knows how to return them. Civilizfttion is the result of taking pains.. individual advancement de•. pends upon the same fact. Classified Advertisement D URE, BIOAUTIFULLY FLUFFY, r carded wool; sample, enough. light comforter; one dollar. Woollen Mills, Georgetown, Ont. 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Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound, I am stronger and feel Atm Biome then and am able to do my ionsawork. I am willing for "yea to Ise these facts es a testimonial,' —Mrs. 3. C. Giia,tvas, Port Mann, R. 0, Nervous People That haggard, care -worn, depressed loop will disappear and nervous, thin people will gain in weight and strength when Bitro.Phnsphate is taken tor a short time, Prlee $1 per pitge et your druggist, Arrow Chemical Peels New Life and Strength Keeno,N. H.—",I woos weak and rtut- down and had backache and all sorts of troubles which women have. 7 found grant relief whentaking Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and. I also used 'Lydia P Pinl,ham's Sanative Wash. I ani able to de inywork end feat now life and strongtl; from the Vegeta - hie Compottnd. I am doin.I ail'I can to advertise it. 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