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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-11-12, Page 7lVENTING "CATCI G" DISEASES This la the seabed of the yea wired q°bool children are most 1141)10 to ewn- niunfcalae or "catching" aleelrees, In Ootoher the china/au cold le pleat emu - neon, In NovembOr the sore throat Vete lo the hleheet. The'great 1nfluen. ze wave of 1918 swept over the counr try in °Weber. I)iphthorlu is apt to lee et lie worst In September, within throe, woehs after the begiuutuif of s0hocl, It is reasousbly certain to reach ito peak during one of the months between Labor Day and New Year', DAY. The Portals of Dieoase. Measles; Whooping cough, scarlet fever, and peeumanle. started mouut- ing a month ago, but they will not roach their pealts until later in the winter or early spring, AU of these diseases anter the body through the mouth and nose. Probably 00 many of the cases get their infections through the mouth as through the other parts, Dtgeasos are often spread by mew* of objects which children habitually put in their mouths. Among the ar- ticles are toys, pencils, penholders, spoous, forks, cups, the mouth parts of playground, street and achoolfoun- tains, whistles, the mouthpleoes of band ia.3trumonts, tooth brushes and ifugora. Hands, A child will not infrequently drew ti pencil that Is etIll mef,t from the mouth of another child. Bends are Worao otf,saders than any other Objects Mei/Ili/Red beeau'o they have 90 many opportunities for tnfection and they travel ao lrenuently to the mouth, For- tnnato1y, the Custom le for 0, person to put hie awed to hie Meal/ Duly, There is uo telling what would happen if somebody made it fashionable to put 0113'0 angers in anther man's :neat, A Feasible Weeder, I One observer studied the pobelirillty of the troth'brush alt a spreader of diphtheria in a boarding school, The boys kept their toatiibrushes on a' rack. They had a eommon bowl of car - boll° tooth powder, luta whtoh they all dipped. it Woe asmunied that the can ' bone in the powder made it sate to use it in common. The study ,showed that the disease could be spread by tooth- brushes, Furthermore, It was found that It is not easy to sterilize a tooth- brush with chemicals ono° it has be, come infected. The only sate plan , seems to be to train children to keep such objects as penholders and pen- cils nut of their mouths, The mouth secretion of 'a child who seems to be in good health may cause infection. The Walla may be about to be sick or he may be a carrier. The safe rale is to put nothing In the mouth except clown eating utensils, clean food and Wean drink. ti A USE FOR KEEPSAKES Tho problem of the appropriate gift on swat occasions. 00 commencoment days, anniversaries, weddings and birthdays is not so simple as it used to be. It is often hard to judge what a bride and groom who are to begin life in a distant city will need or what will best suit a young man who is leaving the university for his profession. Gifts of money, of course, are sure to be use- ful; but it is bard to give the desirable Much of sentiment to cold cash.. Still the money gift solves the problem of transportation when the new home is far away and the problem of selection when there is no clue to what Is want- ed. it risks no awkwardness of dupli- cate sugar spoons, it saves hours of eoarch for just the right thing, and it permits •the recipient the plelasere of leisurely choice. Therefore there are times when money is the best gift to make. A title keepsake of 120 value, trea- sured for associations, if sent with the moneyf4 gift, lends a touch of originality and interest, especially if a note of ex- planittion or a jingle goes with it. One mother, who wished to give her son's fiancee a cheek to cover the oost of a journey across the continent to visit the now family -in-law, enclosed the cheque in a tiny shoe that had been her son's first bootee, kept among her valuables all the intervening years. With it oho sent a rime telling about the shoe and the purpose of the gift, endfeg with these lines: "We want you here to visit us, And so this little shoe. Goss trotting over 11111 and dale' To take my gilt to Yee." Another mother gave her daughter a cheque with which to buy her table linen and silver and dinner sot, and on the envelope she tied with silver ribbon a eouvenfr that she had kept ter thirty years—the wishbone of the, first chicken she baked in her own oven la her newly -married days, The wishbone, she assured her daughter in a little note,.would bring leer good luck every time she used the linen and the china. A daughter, living far from home, wanted to give her mother a silver teapot that she knew she had been wishing for. So, on the mother's sil- ver wadding day, there arrived from the daughter a carefully -peeked wood- en box, Inside the box, safely wrap- ped In folds of tbssee paper and ex- °sisior, was the tiny doll's teapot that the mother ;had given her little girl Many year ago. And inside the spout of the teapot was a draft for enough money for the silver tea things that the mother had wanted oolong. Sometimes a keepsake without any romantics associations la amusing. Ouse upon a time a little girl heard of the old-time custom of saving the first curls of a little boy and giving them years later to his wife. The little girl Was thrilled at the idea, for she adored her littler brother; but he had straight hair. Stili, she resolved that she would find something belonging to him that she could keep for hes future bride. Everything belonging to her brother appeared to be in use, except one tiny pats at outgrown knicker- bockers that her mother had made for him of soft blue French serge. They were far smaller than any pair ever found in any store. She took them and rid them in her treasure box, safe from moths. Twenty-five years went by, and the brotber became engaged to her own best friend. Perfeetly de- lighted, the older sister rushed to the attic, found the little knickerbockers, pressed them neatly, put some tive- dollar-gold-pieces into the tiny pocket and wrote a jingle to her friend, the future bride. The jingle -contained too many lines to be quoted in 'full, but these are the concluding stanzas: "And iso these little pantaloons I stole that very day, And with his future bride in mind. .. I hid them safe away. • "The Ilttle pocket then contained Some pennies bright and clean. you'll find them in the very place Where they so long have been, "I -took them out and shined then up, And now perhaps they'll do To buy some things that you may need When Geoffrey marries you." For -a gift to be deposited' in a new , baby's bank book one proud grand- father sent a cheque that stuck out Of the chimney of the little red toy bank into which his son, the baby's father, had dropped the first penny that he ever earned.- Anda young college senior at Com- mencement time found In her post- o=gee box a package from her grand- mother, containing a quaint daguerreo= type of the grandmother at the age of twenty-two, in hoop skirts and Pais- ley shawl --and folded inside the frame a loving letter .enclosing twenty- two dollars "from the girl in the pic- ture. Gifts ot that kind are such fun to show to your friends! Tho little keep- sake that, came, with the money makes a perfect transformation, "See what my aunt sent me for my sixteenth birthday—o: cheque pinned like a sail to the mast of the little toy boat my father whittled for her when she was sixteen and he was ten!" Or, "Just see this, clever wedding present: the. bride's first toy piano, With a note Prom her fatlter telling her to ex- change it for a larger one enure she gets to her new hone)." Gifts of mgnep presented In that way never 0eenh sordid or impersonal. The recipient can convert them in imagination late just what be wants.' No two tamllfes keep the same sort of souvenirs•, but nearly every house contains some long -treasured toy or trinket that would add to the value of a gift' of money, Some little thing can always be found to glorify a gold piece or a 'greehbarlt--and the giver need never worry lest his gift be a "white elephant" to the recipient, 1s1. Dos )lailiets, i 811 -known Gana• filen sporting figure, has beau appoint ed Winter /ports dlreoter at the Clha- ttau .Froetenao, Quebec. He haat bad Wide experlo0oe ill this connection lu' 7/ltsellaltA� Stage Coach to Revive London -to -Brighton Trip Old coacbiug days will be brought back again--althcugh with a diifor- etme---whin a atage coach for paean - gem will run between .;London and Brighton, a distance ot 'fifty miles each way, on alternate days. It is reckoned that, leaving London at 10 am., the coach should arrive at Brighton by 5 pen., so 'that it can hardly be eon - adored a rival of the railroad or the charabau0, since the train now dose the trip in an hour and the caraband In just over two hours•. Thera aro to be even teams of coach horses for the journey, and eihangos. aro to be made at the same places en route as used to bemade ib tlte'days of old. One Jim Selby covered lhhu-. salt With glory, and inoldOntally Won a wager, in the Buie of the early Ceorgeo, by driving this °ascii frarn L ihtdon to Brighton and back in aoveh hours and fifty minutes AND THl WORST IS YET T OMB • 5,_r.. o v u I' t v'IiH niiliIIII111111Il1IIIf1l.,,,,t 1111 Ow' err 1E! 1d FllhIMlilili lililll w The Age of Fourscore. in a letter which The Star has re- ceived from a reader who Is in his eightieth year, there occurs this In- teresting passage: I "What puzzles me is where have gone ' the eighty years! They have slipped away almost unnoticed, and I suddenly awaken to a realization of the fact that I have long since passed the allotted span of We, and even with this knowledge I do not feel like an old man who should lay aside interest In contemporaneous events. It really Is wiser to load an active, industrious life. It ensures against melancholy and idle repining, mental conditions There ie surely much wi°dam in this opinion based on the experience and obr;,ervatlon of a long and ueefal 'lite. But evenmore lnerea ing than the ex- pressed opinion is the' wonder as . to "where have gone thee eighty years." The years of a man's, life slip by al- most unnoted; they steal by him so soft-footedly that his attention is Jtot attracted, Others may see changes in him of which he is unaware. His hair may whiten, but so gently does. Time use the brush, hat one does not feel it, and so imperceptible le the change that One'B own eyes can scarcely de- teot it. And a man feels that he is him- atelt; he feels se he expects to feel. If he does no run to catch a street car or a train, 1t is because he does not want to run, It is a matter of inclina- tion. The question of his ability to run does not arise at all. He is wiser than he was and is in time for his train: He is more of a philosopher than he was, and knows that if one street car leaves without hlm, another will follow almost at once. It 1a not that he is old, but that experience to him has been instructive. He orders his comings and goings with a just and sensible precision which it would be well It others need, contemporaneous events, — Toronto Star, Warning? We wish to draw attention to the matter of unpacking the piano during the menthe between November and April, when the temperature is liable to be below the freezing point, as, it certain precautions are not observed sertoue damage will follow. The governing principle is that the instrument must be warmed gradual- ly before being taken from the case and exposed to the warm interior air; or if this is impossible, then the tbree impervious wrappings must be left on and not removed for an instant until the instrument has been taken into a temperate room 'and left covered for at least 24 hours. The physical prin. cipleinvolved le that warm air carriee. a larger peroeutage of moisture than h cold, whicis being brought. In 0011- ' tact with very cold surfaces immed1- 1,aely gives up itsmoisture by conden- sation in the form of a thin flim of water which covers. everything, pre- cisely as happens to one's spectacles wheng a coming into the house out of a zero temperature. This surface mofs- ture leaves a coat ofrust over all metal parts with disastrous effect; but still more fatal to the highly polished surface of the hard varnish at this time undergoing a severe process of oon- tractton and subsequent expansion. If this mater is carefully watched no trouble will result from shipping In cold weather, and the instrument will open up in as good shape es when It was packed. Observe principally that; the more gradual and thorough the change from cold to warm before un- covering, the better, - So Wall Trained. The school teacher was very proud of the results of her labors during the past few weeks. Day after day she Advice. had trained her pupils in the dntrtca-1 "Hey, Jo61 gopAtd od last I've figured out cies of fire -drill, and at last they seem-; a sure way to beat the races." od Nowt "Gael Howzatt?" "Now,"," she maid one day, "what .,Don't beth" would you do it I told you that the building was on fire?" Like one voice came the answer of the Hundred or more children assemb led. A few days later a lecturer.visited the school, Said teacher, with a beam- ing smile on her face; "Now, children, what would you do if I were to tell you that Dr. Wisebead was going to lecture here to -day?" Everyone knew. "We would rise promptly, put away -our boo a, then quietly and wi tout disorder file into the streete' they re- plied " In chorus. An English physician has been mak- ing quite a stir by teaching that peen do -not become stooped because they are old, but become old because they scop. It is so. A generation or two ago In Ontario, in villages and on the farm,' men became old at a time of life when we would now call them middle- aged. No sooner was a man a grand- father than he retired to an arm -chair beside the fireplace, •end spent the neat of his days talking of lite rheumatism, his other ailments and the not always' interesting recollections of his youth, 5lfs day's work was done, his evening had come, he resigned himself to ft,' and rested and rusted away. It Is not so now—it.is certainlynot so in tbe great induarial, financial and businosst couree of Ontario, where men in their . seventies and eighties,1 and even in their nineties, ate still ac-, live, influ=ential and, as our corres- pendent gees, keenly interested In Zooligical Gardens an Anticosti island WIt11 She obj'eet oe transforming M- GM by little Anticosti Island, ble de" main, In the St. Lawrep0e, into huge zoological gardens, Senator Mettler, Wm/elate king, has lasuod instruc- tions to hds representatives -t0 take mean of bringing two new specimens Of animals to the famous island. Acoerding to iustruotiaus 110 has transmitted, a.Parte of men Will leave early next spring for the -northern lands to get some nlua a oxen, a variety of the buffalo, which is on the eve of being destroyed do the Arctic regions, duo to the constant campaign conducte ed against them by the Esltimos. Geed for Food, Plans are being made to bring fifty representatives of that dying race- to the island, where they will be assured all the facilities of growing without any interference and under ideal con- ditiona, according to experts, who claim that Antocosti is wonderfully lo- cated for such experiments, There is much similarity between the musk oxen and the buffalo and in both eases their destinies having been subject to the constant attack of the huntere, who had as an exeus•e that they were generally ,the only means they had of food. This Is what Is stated by the Eskimos, who ane said to be slaughter- ing the animals because they are in Deed of lead t 1 oertAin .periods of the year, Whale tire species wfli oertainlY prove inter'eeting It the experiment ie suceoeeeful, senator Metier bas ,also decided to try and save at}Rt'her Yeeloty by Peralrastag some ''pontes, entice! are now liviple under unfavor- able gonditions OA lige aux Sables, the lest island' in the Atlantic ocean, are for ponies. Those ponies have an interesting history wbloh brings baolt 0ouvenir'0 of over three hundred Yeats ago. At that time an attempt was made by Monsieur De Monts to eoinnize Canada with some prisoners, who came from some French. Jell. Bis attempt wag, fortunately, not suceessfui, and the mfteerlty Of the would-be settlers starved to death. Bowever, horses which had been taken across by the expedition were able to look after themselves, but lost their original character until finally to -day they are o2 the size of ponies. To try and improve that dying race Senator' Menler is to make also an ef- fort to get some of those ponies trans- ferred to the island and to meet that end has entered ineo pourparlers with the proper parties. As a result wad spring a number of the ponies will be transferred to`tne large island. Edibles from tbe Ocean. Along the Great Barrier reef of Aus- tralia is found that curious sea beast, the dugong, and those who have tasted its flesh declare there la' nothing else to compare with it for delicacy. Du- gong flesh is, now being cured like pork and exported to this country. As population increases man turns more and more to the almost untapped resources of the sea for food. The amount of fieb taken to -day is three times greater than it was fifty years ago. The war taught us that the flesh of whales is good food. The tongue and the tail of the dnner-whale are as good as beef.' The octopus, formerly •used only for bait, is, when properly cooked, a real delicacy. In. Italy It la a favorite dish. Many seaweeds can be used either for salad or jelly -making, or can be cooked as vegetables. That called laver is popular lo South Wales, and you may see it In the markets in Bath and Briatol. Beohe-de-mer is DOW being imported from the trepang or sea cucumber, of fro mthe trepang or sea cucumber, of which there are no fewer than thirty- six different' varieties. Trepans is dried for export, and. must be soaked before cooking. It la boiled for eight hours in salted Water and then allowed to cool, after which it can be eaten either with meat gravy or made into soup. Men are after) visionaries. Women are always practical --Air, Winston Religion a Higher Form of Gesell). The mere existence of newspapers is a proof of the religious instinct. among men, that possionate interest in one another which implies that we are all gossips together. Gossips are people who have only one relative in common, but that relative the highest possible; namely, God.—Christopher Morley in :Religio Journalis.tici." Plenty to Choose From. Mrs. Gabb (reading) -"Do you know, my dear, that there are approximately 700,000 words in the English lang- uage?" Mr. Gabb- "Only 700,0001 Why, i thought' 700 used a greet deal more Churchill. than that every dayl" This mall lake was ranted by the energetic work of a colony of heavers, a particularly 11110 bit of ongieter- The Housekeeper. The frugal snail, with'forecash of re- pose, Carries hie house with him, where'er he goes, Peeps out, and 1f there comes a slower of rain, Retreats to his small domicile again. Touch but a tip of him, a born—'his well— He curls up in his sanctuary shell, He's hie own landlord, his own tenant stay, Long as he will; he dreads no quarter day. Himaelt he boards and lodges; both invites= And feasts himself; sleeps with him- self o' nights; He &pares the upholsterer trouble to ifrocure Chattels; himself Is his own furniture, And hie sole riches, wheresoe'er he roam— I{nock when you will, hem entre to be at home. --Charles Lamb. — —+5 The Left Hand in Piano- . Playing. Are you a one -handed pianist A famous teacher of the piano baa re- cently said that there are very few two-handed pianists .today, although most, people.uee,both hands in playing the piano. The reason for this is that very Yew people 'Can make mus=e with I each hand alone and separately, but must have both hands workingin the same way, There is music written for the left -hand alone, and if people would praottce this more than they do, if they would learn to play tunes with their left hands in such a way as to be pleasant to Baton to, they would be better players altogether. People who have studied the subject will give twenty reasons why left - band music is useful, but the principal one is that only by using it Can we get both hands to work equally well, And only by getting both hands to work equally well can we get both sides of the brain to work equally' well, for each hand is worked by a di0ereat side of the brain, the right by the left and the left by the right. - "Mae Men. The recent obitervanoe in France of the centenary of Henri Fabre, the great entomologist, means the fast that to the villagers et Serignan, where he spent twenty -live years of life life, he wee known as "le fou" (the madman), A very similar doubt of the mental powers of other great men has been expressed by these about them who observed without under- standing their habits of meditation, Darwin's gardener, when asked about the naturalist's health, replied, "Oh, my poor master has been very sadly,. 730 moons about in the garden and I have -seen -him stand doing nothing before a flower .for ten minutes at a time. If only he had something to do L really believe he wouid, be better," An old laborer of the Dales, who used to encounter Wordsworth wandering along the roads "booing his pottery," believed helm "quite daft" but subject to lucid intervals 'when he Was sane enough to say "Good morning, John," just jiite other people, a Dean of Chester Tells Story in Fewest Words. Many people, probably, are familiar with the story, et the genlelfrioti0n- writer wto, being asked by his editor to conclude a certain Story in the tow. est possible wordA owing to exigen- cies of space, weeto as Pollerwat The born thereupon tools his hat, itis revolver, his departure, and, finally, his lite, Thit flute This s Dry tees beet' capped by the 11 CONCERNING TIMES Onr Arlt QOnselgna ,net when we Wake Ill the morning IP 1181141sT glance at the .olook On the ebifttonter, When we dress we reapa wietelt into our pocket ar attach one to our wrist, and its, little "tick, tick" orders our day. If we could not aoouratety mete sure time we would not have to hurry go to keep an eight o'clock appoint., Mont. Perhaps business would,sulfer In that ease, but still we eniei.tt be bet- ter elf, Before cloaks and watches were per- fectee the sun -dial was In use, It marked only the hours, and that only en sunshiny (Jays, The 'curious thing about the sun -dial was that It mea* cured the varyleg length et each day, while our time takes the average day, There are only tour days in the yeawhen the sun -dial agrees with one watch—the 15th of June, the lst e September, the 24th at December and the 15th of April, In November there is a difference of 15 minutes, The clepsydra, or Water -clock, watt more satisfactory thea the sett -dial, It could tell the time on cloudy days; as well as olear, it worked day or night, indoors or out, on land or sea, It wa* a vessel with a small hole out of which water flowed drop by drop. One usual- ly held water enough for a whole day. The slepsydra was successful as long as it did not freeze, but wee nevavery common—few towns could boast of more than one. Various Ways of Telling Time. The hourglass filled with sand wee similar to the clepsydra and is still sometimes seen. Other mean of deter- mining the time were worked out by different peoples down through the ages. The Chinese burned ropes which were knotted at frequent Inter - vale. Alfred the Great used the candle Week. He had candles made such a size that six would burn twenty-four hours, thus he measured his eight hours for religious work, eight hours for public affairs and eight for rest and recreation. The Babylonian priests gave us our method of dividing time into months and days. These priests worshiping the sun, moon and stars from the housetops observed the length of time required for the sun to prove north and return again to the point of their first observation. Thus was the Iength of the year ascertained. They devised the Zodiac and saw that the moon went through its changes in 80 days, thus making twelve .changes in . the time the sun had made its annual pass- age, Thus they had twelve months of 30 days each, making 369 days to the year. As far back es this the month e was divided into o we ks e and the weeks into days named for the sun, moon and stars. The days were found to have 24 houns and the hours were divided into 60 minutes. It is said this numa. ber was used because it could be divided by so many email numbers, Qeorgian calendar. Soon it was found that 360 dap • was not enough to come out even with the sun, so they added an extra month to every sixth year. Julius Caesar changed this, adding five days each year. Then 11 was discovered that a quarter of a day was still needed. So the firstthird, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh months were given 31 days. All the rest had thirty except the second, which got its Pull amount every fourt=h year only, Later Augus- tus wanted his month, August, to have as many days as July, which was named for Julius Caesar. So he tookone day away from February and gave it to August. He also took a day each from September and November and gave them to October and December. This is called the Georgian Calendar and strange M say its principles, had been worked out in Egypt, Greece, iii, China and it le thought by the an,, dent Aztecs of Mexico. Tiede means Nastier' more to us to- day than it did to the ancient). But, in the midst of our hurry and bustle, it would be refreshing to pause now and then and mediate an the reel and Meting thing=s of life. { Fish That Go A. -Fishing. If you are a fisherman, you will know how carefully you have to ap- proach the bank so as not to alarm the fish, how causfouely you must cast your bait or fly,in order to attract your finny prey. But, clever 04 7011 think yourself, Sou aro no motetMr the angler fish. This is a sort et finned nightmare with a small body, huge head and glgantie mouth. On tap of its head is along, movable spine tipped with a lump ot fleshy membrane resembling raw meat. Bidden in the mud and weeds at the bottom, the "angler" lies motionless, dangling its bait and so attraotiri$ foolish little fish, One makes a dart, the cavernous mouth opens to receive its prey, then the bait dangles as be- fore. The butterfly hunter uses a net. So does the "peripatus," a creature that looks like a large caterpillar. It has the power ot flinging gilt from its head a little gauze -like net in the meshesof which it catches lite Maeda on which It feeds Dean of Chester ,with an anecdote, .BOfoee the Russian revolption there which illustrates strikingly the ad.! were 15 nobles to every 1,000 popular. vantages of ootnpross)on in speech, 1.100. A Ilttle friend of his had been asked I ilio de Janeiro has a floating dog to tell the story of Easel% and her roe which sari bold a warehlp corupletel ply was: "Bligha lied a boar and the' out of evater, thus permitting ilea children mocked lane one ho a:tid; "If , tion sad roppaird under the water )'0l1 mock me I Willoset my bear on' It has the Ovantago ver the ordln you, aand ft will cat you up.' And they' dry dock In that wen ti hred, the r is he baud r - h „ Tho o .coin in tees t da t ska cl el a l and Alberta, 1' g between b l t r v n ileo and construction. p in its lova3 f i t to Iso skht d d nd had and i d. he tdvl*oa tog, M1 d, t chi dock Dan n