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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-7-16, Page 3Soldiers. ,'bat tate snap of me and of one's own being beide many a battlefield 1s a -feet long rocognlea by those who look deeper than the surface, phonom- ens of human exis.tenoe. 'Lona after the militarism that me- blllzes armies has sounded tape above its lest alarm:lie and incursions there will be continuing warfare in the se- cret places of the soul! There will be Victories and them will be surrenders 1n tbe realm of morel struggle. Again and again the decision must be made: whether a man In his own spiritual des u erne shall flx a etandard and tight beside it or lu a craven spirit quit and eitn away. Some of the bravest soldiers never elhouldered a gun and hardly knew the smell of powder, Perhaps life kept them shut in a room mucic of the time, where they were left with their own thouflhte for company. Perhaps duty seemed to confine them to a narrow round of service to home and Mins• folk, They did not know that they were more magnifioeut than if they - wore a uniform and marched to the tune of a brass band, For them there was ne parade or fanfare: No general at a dress parade bestowed ou them a decoration. ,Only they heard occasion- ally a soft, low whisper far within of an approving voice. They beheld a light and by the fitting gleam they went on hopefully. Of course, it has taken courage to go "over the top" into the. battles of men-atarms, where the sky named and missiles shrieked and hurtled in a diabolic flight and gases poisoned the atmosphere, None will ever deprecate that heroism of the than who conquer- ed his own will 1n the face of the greatest stress that armies could en- counter. ncounter, But was will end when human strength is universally conserved for these other necessary sLrugeles that demand the whole attention of man- kind, In groups or as individuals. Sueeesaful living, not less 'than heroic dying, calls for all the fibre and mettle of a true soldier. The "happy warrior" such as the poet commemor- .ated is he who in the plain round of duty fights a good fight day after day, and,_it may he inthe long night watches, too. Verily, the, heart ltnoweth its own bitterness. We look about us on the crowd, variously preoccupied 'and in haste upon its errands, and often we Lhinit how fortunate the others, how plagued we• are, by the cruelty of fate's Invidious distinction, It is only be- cause we are ignorant of other lives that we imagine a unversal happiness round about our idivhlual distress. It is better for ourselves, as for the rest, to find some altruism that shall prove us "soldiers of the common good" and servants of the race, , Schools Link Teaching of History and Music.' Only half a dozen of the eighty-six public, schools in Toronto are now without a phonograph. Some of them have three or, four, purchased by the children themselves. These instruments enable the teach- er to do quick au(_ amazingly eftective work in getting the childhen to grasp the idea of the difference ' between music of real beauty and distinction and common -place popular tunes, Placing a record on the machine the teacher shows bow quickly the child- ren sense the recurring tune and un- derstand the progress of the musical narrative being played. Young children sense with amazing celerity the idea of musical fancies. They take to program music with de- light There is practically no school in Toronto without at least one teacher well qualified to, Leach music along progressive lines through the use of the phonograph. And teachers are also assisted in teaching history or ether subjects. .Suppose Shakespeare Is being studied in some certain period. A. list of Shakesperean songs is immediately available to brighten e the work, give it charaoter and stamp It in the memory, .And there are Jaco- bite songs to study in the sturdy Jaco- bite days. And flavor of every period of history is poked to give life and color to facts and figures. National folk songs enhance the study of na- tional history. ' Music is thus linked up closely with the regular studies In- etead of being introduced as an incl - ten Lel "frill." Reformed. I flung a atone at a bird to -day; Now a guilty conscience follows me, For I seemed to hear the Innocent say As, frightened terchod on a near- by tree: "Pray, sir, why hurl a cruel stone, For surely I would do no harm; Only loolting for worms I thought my own; So, kindly stay your wicked arni. "I meant to teed my young brood here With worms that in your garden lie; My little ones arevery dear— What Cate were theirs if, I should die?" Thank.goodnes's that nay aim went wrong Nor harmed my little feathered friends 1'11 harken to its chiding song, Ana to unkindness put as end, Patrick Byrnes, R ounic was t give his first birth- day party, and he 'sat down to write the program, After hal>' an hour's pondering he had 1nbten ut one linop item 1. Tntorvai fpr refreshments" is good te and extra good is the T ORANGE PEKOE QUALITY I1 EALT i EDUCATION BY DR. J. J. MIDDLETON Provincial Board of Health. Ontario ie. Middleton will bo glad to answer questions on Public Health rob, toes through this column. Adige' him at Spading. hoose, SIM ON' Crescent, Toronto, A thirteen -year-old girl has just won a twenty-five dollar prize for writing an • essay on the subject "Honor thy father and thy mother." She finds no difficulty in obeying this Biblical injunceiori, but states em- phatically that good parents are a necessity if the child is to grow up into ,t' good citizen. Iler line of reas- oning is very clear. She says: "Par. ents have had the experience whieh we must get, and owing to this, they can make wise decisions when we most need them, and by which we may benefit as long as we live. Make life easier for them and make them as happy as they make us; the true friends, whose love is life-enduring— mother and father." It is surprising what clearness of intellect some children show. In this essay, contest just referred to, another of the prize -winners, also a thirteen- year-old school. girl, evidently had made some investigations before pre- paring her composition, for, she writes, "In investigating the prisons and looking over the records of the prisoners, it is found that most of the prisoners of to -clay were unfortunate in having lost their parents or in hav- ing been allowed to treat them disre- spectfully." The - compositions were read at a Parents' Day Celebration in Central Park, New York City, arrang- ed rranged by "Uncle Robert" Spero, a well- known philanthropist who devotes much .of his time to work among un- fortunate' children and' to inculcating among all children, a sense of filial obligation. The occasion, the first of its kind, was noticed in all the metro- politan newspapers and supported and eacouraged by the public school auth- orities. Just before the meeting a radio message was broadcasted, in which these suggestions were offered to parents: (1) Set proper standards for your children to follow. (2) Be friends with your children, walk and play with them occasionally. We must not live above our children but with them. (8) Do not scold too much. Encourage them to do their best. Let us remember what Phillips Brooks said: "Children, are white, spotted black, not black, spotted white," (4) See that they select proper friends and associates. (5) Make home as comfortable and happy as your meane permit. (6) Give your ehildren at least a high-school educati n. -(7) Train them in the habit of regular attendance at church and Sunday - school. (8) Seo that they avoid all games of chance. A gambler never can be a success in life. (9) See that your children take plenty of physical training in the open air. It is better exercise to walk than to ride in a limousine. (10) Let your children fell that any honor which they win in school, or any act of courage or un- selfishness they may perform will bring great happiness to father anal mother and put the family name, on, a higher plane of honor. Do not forget that the future of this country depends upon how your' boys and girls are trained to -day, not on how you Were trained when you were children. TEETHING TROUBLES Baby's teething time is a time of worry and anxiety to most mothers: The little ones become cross; peevish; their little stomach becomes deranged and constipation and colic sets in. To make the teething period easy on baby the stomach and bowels nsust be kept sweet and°regular. This can be done by the use of Baby's Own Tablets—the ideal laxative for little ones. The Tab- lets are a sure relief for all the minor ailments of childhood such as consti- pation, colic, indigestion, colds and dimple fevers. They always do good —never harm. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 gents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Go., Brockville, Ont. The Needles.. Beneath the swiftly flying clouds The needles of the rain Are busy in the garden beds And woods and fields again. Their countless Slender silver pointe So bright in and thin sud clean, Go flashing in and out among The leaves and grasses green. They make the dahlia's big rosettes, And deftly stitch away Upon the morning-glory's pink And azure bonnets gay. And on the goldenrod they tuck The yellow plumes in place, And sew the little amber beads On ferns of emerald lace. —Minna Irving, Too Firmly Held For That. tWilie-"Ha, hal They say Sam Peters got in a scrap with his wife and bit'her thumb:" A Thunderstorm. A eugset sky .ef yellow inure, Seuthwardit dull Wile -green, With rolling cloud-beltke grey and white, Tho lightning, vivid, keen, The rumble of the coming storm Nearer and louder grows, The thunders- rattling o nnonade, Loud crashing comes and goes. A hurrying wind sweeps darkly by, The storneclouds swiftly lower— The landeeape thickly veiled in grey— The fast approaching shower— Then sudden, sharp, the that great drops Ge. Strike on the roof and pane; ' And a1'1 along the hillsides sweep The squadrons of the rain, The tempest blots the landscape out, The crashing conies again, While all the clouds let loos their floods, In dashing, pouring rain- -May Howe Dalin. GREEN TEA IMPORTS LARGER. Statistics from Ottawa show that in 1923-558,977 pounds more Green Tea were brought'into Canada than in 1921, and 900,728 pounds more then in 1922. The reason given is that the Inc quality Green Teas of India and Ceylon have displaced the inferior Japan and China Greens which, due to their low price, were imported heavily some yeah, ago, Salado, Tea Company Is the largest importer of India and Ceylon Green Teas,' Romance of Great Woman. Now that the centenary of the birth of Lord. Kelvin, the scientist and in- ventor, ie about to be celebrated, it is interesting to recall that Mrs. Ramsay MacDonald, the late wife of the Prime Minister, was a relative of the great man. She was, as a matter of fact, Lord KelvIn's niece. This is one of the facts mentioned in "Mrs. Ramsay MacDonald," by Lucy Herbert. Margaret Ethel Gladstone, which was Mrs, MacDonald's maiden name, wash= in London .n 1870. Her fore - beaks were, like those of her husband, of very humble origin, and of the same nationality—Scottish. They were da- mask weavers and lived in Keiso,.and by dint of study and perseverance they raised themselves. From very early years Mrs. Mac- Donald was interested in scientific questions, which she seethed able to master with lisle effort. It was in June, 1395, that Mrs. Mac- Donald first met her future husband. Their views on life were similar—they were both striving after the better- ment of their fellow men and women. Within a few months they were en- gaged, and they were married in No- vember in the following year. "The bride did not want to be 'dressed up,' " the authoress says. "She wore a soft grey dress and changed into an old frock to go away in. It was not unlike her." Onoe, while staying with Lord Kel- vin, the future Mrs. MacDonald wrote: "It glues one rather a common- sense or scientific way of looking at . things to stay with Uncle William. Hubby—"Nothing to it — he didn't you begin to feel that everything has bite her thumb." a reason and that that reason may be Wifle—"But they say he did." found out; and that things should not Hubby—"No, he'd never get from be slurred over or left to chance when under it enough for that." you caa direct them by taking a little • Summer Time. When you are twenty years, they say, You must learu'to be wise; But how can you remember this When there are macherel skies? How can you think of allthey say, Of duty being good, When there are humming -birds and sun And orchids in the wood? ' -Weir Vernon,! Business despatched is business well done, but business hurried is•business; ill done. more trouble and using a little thought." lilrs. MacDonald never learned of the high position w•leich her husband achieved, for she died in 1911. Army blankets, surgical bandages, and even carpets are sometimes trade, to a certain extent, of peat fibre. The same substance is also used for filling mattresses in public institutions. Some men neyer find the key to success, because they don't look in the right place—inside their own minds. Minard's Liniment for Rheumatism. Touring Canadians Royally Entertained Canadian Weekly Newspaper Editors with their families a When she pulled from her wharf at Montreal, June 110, with neatly six hundred passengers aboard, two hun- dred of whole were Canadian weekly newspaper editors and their wives hound for Europe, the Canadian Pa. elle S.S. Melita looked all et the proud vessel she is, Under the direction of. E. 'Roy Sayles, Manager and Secretary, awl W. R. Davies. of the Renfrew Mercury, .these members of the Canadian Week- lY Newepalier, Aseoelation are now en- joying a two hnoethstrip and follow - in: a most comprehensive itinerary. Arriving at Brussels, the partY were given an official welcome by the Bel- gian Government, end, after they had visited the battlefields and other lire Portant sites, they were redeived by I(tng Albert, 'Paris entertained the editors, and after some days in France they proceeded to England. 'On Dominion Day the party were re- ceived by their Majesties the Icing and Queen aL Buckingham Palace, told a tea was arranged for then, at the House of Commons. They will, ot course, visit the British Ifinpire Ex - board the S.S. Morita. hibiLiou; and their. British itinerary will include important cities in Eng- land, and the 'Trossachs, . Loeb. Lo- mond, Loch Katrine, the country ot Scott, and the laud of Burns as Well as Edinburgh anti Glasgow in Scotland. At Belfast the visiting Canadians will be entertained by Sir Robert Baird of the "Belfast Telegraph," It ie understood that most. members of tbe party will write np their ex- periences felly, and the trip will do much toward strongthouing rite bonds of the Empire. - July, You walk in loveliness, .July, Wafting the scent of thyme and 11a7, Too swift your hours or beauty ey, You set the sweet blue suceory In dusty banks to tamer the wa'y., You walls 1n loveliness, July, The harebells ring as you pass by; Rest -burrow vainly bids you stay. Too swift your hours of beauty fly.' The limos aro stirred with melody Wsere wild bees flit from spray to Way, You walk 1n loveliness, July, With slender spears the coin- grows high. And languid heads of poppies sway. Too swift your, hours of beauty fly, Your state are nightliiowere in the sky; Your bot sun gilds the grain by day. You walk 1n loveliness, July-- Tee uly—Tee swift your hours of beauty fly, —sr, se, July, A white deed -sail In it sea of blue the splendors of the day, A meadow drenched_with the diamond dew And the air, with new -mown bay; A lazy brook through a green vale Slowing And never a breeze astir, A sun -kiss flower by the wayside blow ing, A swallow's wing awhlr,— This is July of the bountiful heat, Mouth of wild roses, and berries and wheat. —Albert Durrant Watson.. NERVOUS DEPRESSION Why People Are Low Spirited and Depressed. Nearly all women and most men ant- for at times from fits of depression and low spirits. Everything seems a bur- den; then come periods of nervous ir- ritability, headaches and weariness. People who suffer this way lack vital- ity because their blood is poor and nerves are starved in consequence. The only way the nerves can be reached is through the blood. By en- riching the blood with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the starved nerves are sup- plied with just the elements they need. This is prayed by the experience of Mrs, J. E. Dadson, 12th Ave. East, Vancouver, B,C., who says:—"About three years ago I became very weak and nervous. I had pains in my side and back, and also suffered from fre- queat paius in the back of my head and neck. I was hardly able to do anything about the house. I would wake with a start in the night and my heart would nutter so that it al- most choked me. I. tried mach doc- tor's medicine but it did me no per- manent good. One day I read about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and decided to give them a trial. These pills pro- duced,such a beneficial change in a short time that I kept taking them un- til I had used a dozen boxes. By this time there was such an improvement in my condition that friends would ash me what 1 was taking, and of course I was only too pleased to tell them it was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I am. now feeling like a new person and am doing my own housework. We would not now be without Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in the house." You can get these pills from your druggist, or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Da Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Something to Love. When yer as lonesome as lonesome kin be, `Git something t' love. If only tit' hard things of life you kin see, Git something t' love. If all things around yau seem empty and cold, You feel pessimistic and wrinkled an' old, Don't worry an' grumble an' cuss 'round an' scold, Git something t' love. Whether it's children or chickens or trees, 011 something 1' love. Or horses or women or yellow -back bees, Git something t' lave. Don't close your heart up to Nature and things, The world sometimes grumbles, but mostly it singq, Jus' take y tip, men, an' sen what it brings;m Git something t' lope, —John 11...Hazzard, Founded by Saxon King, A memorial to Walter 1 -lines Page, a distinguished American ambar„actor, was recently unveiled at Pickering, England. Pickering is ono of the old- est towns in Yorkshire, its foundation, 270 years before the Christian era, be- ing ascribed to the British king Perie- lnrns, According to a local tradition its Name Is derived from the finding in the body of a pike a ring which the king had dropped into the River Cos- ta. The Castle of Pickering was the prison of Richard Ili., after' Ills deposi- Lien, and Elizabeth during the reign of her sister, Queen Mary, It is srivays safe to send Dominion Express Money Orders. A life without a friend is like a life without n sun. RHEUMATISM CONE, SAY MONTREAL HOTEL MAN P. A. Mongeau Tells How He Recovered Strength After Eight Years of Rheumatism, F, A, Mongeau, popular night clerk at the Pr'inee of Wales hotel, 17 and 19 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, Canada, lends his name to further the cause of Tanlao, the treatment that has liroved of such great benefit to him, "After all Tanlao bas done for me,” said Mr, Mongeau, "I just feel like praising it to everybody, Eight years of muscular rheumatism had dust .about made a cripple et me, I got to where I simply had to limp around on a cane, My nerves became affected, my sleep unsound and I telt' complete- ly knocked out, "Six bottles of Taniac, taken eight months ago, madea new man of me' and I have had no further trouble with rheumatism, or my health, since. My nerves are steady as a die, I sleep flue and feel the sane way. Anyone want- ing to know of me what Tanlao will do, just phone me here at the hotel." 'matte is for sale by all good drug- gists, Accept no substitute. Over 40 million bottles sold. 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The block of wood should be about the size of the ring,` so that the two can be lifted together without awk- wardness. When the ring rests on the paper, the fact that it is pre- pared cannot be seen—except by careful inspection of the ring, be- cause the paper matches perfectly. The secret being known, the opera- tion of the trick will be easily un- derstood. (Olip t' •1 out anti poste it. with other of •°• arrir•. sn " o"rapbook,i • Minard's Liniment Relieves Pain. Buffalo Milk Rich. 1llilit of the Indian Buffalo is said to be richer than that of the European COW. Merit begets confidence. Confidence begets enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can conquer the world. Among the scientific exhibits at Wembley is a microphone which en- ables you to hear a fly walking. TO EXPECTANT MOTHERS A Letter from Mrs. Smith Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Trenton, Ont,— 'I am writing to yon in regard to Lydia E. Pinkham s Vege- table Compound.I would not be with- out it. I have taken it before each of my children was horn and afterwards and find it a great help. Before my first baby was born I had short- ness of breath and ringing in my ears. I felt as if 1 would never pull through, One day a friend of myhusband told h m what the Vegeta- b e Compound had done for his wife and advised him to take a bottle home for one. After the fourth bottle 1 was a different woman. I have four children now, and I always find the Vegetable Compound a great help as it seems to make confinement easier. I recommend it to my friends,"—Mrs. i'iiuo 11. SMITH, John SL, Trenton, Ont. Lydia L. Pinkhaut's Vegetable Cont. pound 1e an excellent medicine for ex- pectant mothers, and should be taken during the entire period. It has a gen- eral effect to strengthen and tone up the entire eystom, so that it may work in every respeet eiiectuaily as nature in tended. Thousands of women testify to tats tact 0 Many -Eyed Insects. Some insects are liberally provided with eyes. In general, they have two kinds—simple and compound, Simple eyes are like our own, though less' ef- ficient, while compound eyes are com- posed of numerous facets or lenses. Most people know how difficult it is to catch the common house -Ry. This is not surprising when one realizes that a fly's eye possesses 4,000 facets. Consequently there ie not much that Is out of its line of vision. The dragon fly's eye has 12,000 facets, and the Mordella beetle's eye is made up of no fewer than 25,000. While the compound eyes never ex- ceed two, the single eyes vary in num- ber from one to eighteen or twenty. They are situated in groups on each side of the head. -Spiders and scorpions have both single and compound eyes, though they appear to derive little benefit from them. In the trans-Atlantic service, first- class passengers pay the cost of the trip; the profits are made by carrying large numbers of third-class passen- gers. 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