HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-12-24, Page 6MICROSCOPE MARVELS
The detective in fiction does eeme.
amazing thingo with a nllcroacepe,. as ;
also does the • scientist 111 real life,
Only the. other 'day, for inetanco, a
report was published et New York'
bandits being traeked and convicted
be the aid of one Lot .these wonderfuli
instruments, whioil revealed to the
e0arehme the baodlts' occupations,
and enabled them to My 112221110 oa the
wanted men,
Few persons realize that It Is
through tbe medium of the micro-
Scope that they are enabled to ride
In a railway train in safety or even
to use blotting paper that will blot
satisfactorily.
In the past we have experienced .
terrible accidents due to brolten rail.:
way lines, which puzzled the mann•
faeturere greatly until themicroscope
revealed why the little molecules of
Which the steel rail is composed fail•
ed to hod together under the strain
of service. It has performed similar
service in the ease of other metals.
There is nothing which so delights
a man as the clean feeling after a'
Perfect shave. Probably he connate
meetshimself upon the edgeonhis
razor being "straight as a die,".
1't he only know it, however, he
shaves with a saw, Under the micro-
scope we see that the edge of a razor
has very fine teeth, and the manu-
facturer ueee the microscope to M-
aitre that these teeth are regular, thus
giving a good shaving edge.
Farming has also benefited by the
Clever use of this instrument. It has
disclosed many pests and blights
which attack garden vegetables, aa
well es trees and grains, and the re-
sults thus obtained have caused a
great revolution in farming methods.
Together, the chemist, the naturalist
and the microscopist, have combined
to fight these blights, and have there -
•
11y saved millions etdollars of the
Country's money Oa011 Year.
In certain rare inst18ue1 t•, the macre
scope will magnify an object as much
Ms three thousand dines, and in the
,study of bacteria, lenne6 that magnify
1000 to 2000 times are commonly weal.
Perhaps it will serve to emphaetze
what tete means when it 1s nleatio11ee
that the naked eye of the average
Doreen can distinguish separate ob-
jects or lines totaling about 160 to
the inch. Timr3, it will be seen how
far beyond our sigbt are the red cor-
puscles ot the blood, for, placed x1210
by side, it would: take some three
thonsand of thein to cover an inch.
And they re quite large, compared
with many objects w111811 can be aeon
under the microscope,
For the examination of a large num-
ber of objects, however, lenses that
magnify free ten to fifty tinted; are
quite sufficient. As a matter of fact,'
the microscope makes a very interest- I
ing hobby, for even the most contemn-,
place things take en a new aspect)
when seen 'through the lens,
Ordinary blue blotting paper is a,
beautiful sight seen through a micro-!
scope. The fibres are transparent
and airy, of a wonderful blue, and in-
terlace One another in fantastic.
curves. With this instrument's aid,"
yell will learn that a fly does not gnaw
at a lump of sugar—It bas no biting
apparatus --but emits a drop of liquid
from its proboscis, and then sucks it
up again when it has absorbed 6014e:
of the sweetness.
But don't expect to see too much
The advanced scientist with his won•
derail magnifier, will tell you that he
can take a thimbleful of water from;
a water -butt and discover in it many
more living creatures than there are,
people on this earth, But moat.
people are willing to take his word ,
for that, and, ie any case, it would be'
a long job counting them.
THE LEGEND OF THE
ASH TREE
By Isabelle Sandy
Tranelated by
William L. 8icPherson
--AND Tx4
ST IS YET TO COM
HI11tIlIllll10UID!I!V i -1t
and tied it to one of the ash tree's
strongest branches.
"You are going at last to be of some
use, he murmured.. 1 nm tae 0111 to
uproot you, but you are strong 0110Ugh
to support nee, I knew people who,
after baying seen what they shall see
this horning, will cut you down, be -
"I'm going to cut down that m16- I
arable tree!"
From the corner of his eye he
watched the mother, who accepted in!
silence this last aggravation of her;
' suffering. After her other torments,)
what was this one? Had she not
heard from tbe neighbors that heal
e . sen, sick since the war, was hardlyf
able to support his family and that!
After chasing away his son, who his wife was wearing herself out'
not even a pretty one, the old farmer father's little fortune seemed to be
vindictively pursued the boy's memory,, Increasing more every year.
trying to eradicate 1t from his mother's The man took his axe. Made a littlei
heart, remorseful by the mother's calm, be t
Following long silences full of pent- struck a blew et the ash's trunk, The!
np wrath, he was accustomed to tree hardly suffered. The blow was
grumble while she humbly served him feeble. The old man stopped, al -I
his smoking soup: 'ready exhausted -
"The scoundrel! He will never gets 'Wait till next ta111," the mother]
a penny from me!" suggested.
Or:
She knew well that her acquiescence
If that woman comes prowling'
around here, I-1 break her back!" would disarm the angry husband, as i
One day when she had been to her ones would have made him more,
mar-
ket Catuli found on returning that aggressive- Winter brought its freshet
the son's bed had disappeared. To nes) to the wounded tree, Spring re-!
her look, charged with fear and sui• clothed it with tear
e. Probably it did
Tering, old Deijean responded: not shad a tear from the notch
Indifferent to the love or hate of men,
had married a poor servant girl, and trying to fill his place' Yet then
"What good would it have been here, infinitely wiser than the
since that sroundret will never set accomplished its destiny, which is to
foot in this house? Pierrou's dough- lift toward the light the soul of the
ter, who is going to be married, fecund earth, and, perhaps, to en -
was very glad to buy a fine bed at chant humans with its aerial grace.
a bargain. Neighbors must do one , But in the minds of this wrath -
norther a good turn." fel father and this grieving mother,
One evening when he had beenthe ash had only one reason for ex -
drinking and the sky was black he latence— to recall memories. It had
bumped into au ash tree in the corner the name and almost the face of a
iii the farmyard. steady and tender youth, who suffered
Sobered at once, his nose swollen afar in poverty while his parents Lived
and his bands bleeding, he swore that In abundance.
the offending tree should be cut downs When the next autumn came rhea-
tbe next day.
"Wait until fall; you will have more; madam crippled the old man. He had
time then," said the mother, to go to a neighbor.
ch was , "Take that ash tree out of my
For she loved this true, whi
thirty-two years old, as moth as the
and you will do me a favor,"
father now began to hate it—less be- ' "I will gladly do so, but you must'
cause of his wound then because of , give the tree for my trouble.'
the memories attaohed to its bark, "Youa are joking, A trunk like that
is worth forty Trance,"
to each of its branches, to the most :
fragile of 13s buds, to its tiniest root But you don't like this tree. You
burled alive in the ancerstral soil• caneplant another."
There was not a leaf unfolded In' "That might suit you, but it doesn't
April, not a leaf bronzed by the slim. ;suit me," the old man grumbled.
max and torn away by the autumn, He suffered—less in his petrified
which did not write on the sky—
heart than in his aching limbs. He
impassive witness of human variations .envied Ilia wife her serene and un
--the name of their son, ' spoken grief. IIe insulted her with -
For the boy and the ash tree had: out reason, merely in order not to
seen tbe light the same year, tbe tat perish of silence. Then he envisaged
ter because of the former, since the:
another escape than wrath, It was
tree's growth was to mark the growthas if a wan door opened in his night.'
of the child. Was it not natural: that He fined it with his glance, which
the rancorous old lean wished to tear, had always carried command and su-
It out of the ground? He wished tot thority.
tear the love of her sou from 11.1 And he understood that death would,
mother's beart. obey him,
In the autumn when the farm workSo one morning, before the Taint
was over, he declared, as he sharp -1
dawn had awakened his wife, he took
ene•i his ax: Ia rope, trade a running 110080 In it
21 18001. 4,2.2 , o
the Meister clay fur trading pact
•[ ;,12, r, ,i.auur, 10 Is
L Moose Factory in reality.
horror, And I shall wafter no longer.
He mounted a little' ladder, put the
noose around his neck and jumped.
Because of the dog, who scented
death and howled, .the old man was
saved. But he had used up in this
supreme resolution all that reanhined
of his wrathful will.
Sick and impotent, he confld021 the
farm work to others and scarcely ever'
quitted the room. At certain hours the
ash's shadow came and danced over.
the rough floor. But the old man no
longer resented anything. One day he
said to Catali:
"I feel that I am going soon."
She answered simply:
•'Wben God wills.
But she craftily studied out of the
corner of her eye the progress of the
decline shown on his distented, weak-
ened face,
One morning the old peasant heard
a joyoue chatter in the aslt. He sat
up and saw on the branches two little
boys, very like his son. At a stroke a
quarter of a century effaced itself for
him, He recalled his past, which was
that of an upright man, rich in a son
and a good wife.
He grasped his stick, tapped on the
floor and waited for his wife. She
hurried in, with no aign of fear, her
face all aglow, With a gesture he for-
bade her to speak. Was he not the
master and free to choose the link
which would reunite the family chain?
"Bring me the children!" he com-
manded, pointing to the tree from
Which the chatter came.
For his wounded pride and his ram
cor in the past counseled him to turn
his .thoughts to the future of bis race.
The sons of his son climbed dawn'
from the branches of the ash tree, like
fruit for which some unknown woman
was stretching out her hands,
He Forgot His Own Wedding. ;
The wedding, says a contributor to
the Youth's Companion, was to be at
a farmhouse, the home of the bride's
parents. The ceremony was to take
place at six o'clock in the evening,
and an old-fashioned wedding feast
was to follow 1t,
Six o'clock came; the guests had as-
sembled, and the super was ready to
be served, but the bridegroom was not
present. The bride could hot hide her
dismay and chagrin. No one seemed
to be able to account for the young
man's absence. Halt past six came
.but no bridegroom. Speculation and.
conjecture ran the rounds among the
guests. The bride was almost beside
herself with grief and mortification,
The hands of the clock pointed to
half past seven when down the lane
leading to the home came three horse•
men riding at breakneck speed, They
were the tardy bridegroom and two of
his companions.. Tbe bride, whose
eyes were red with weeping, was un
certain how to receive tbe young man,
but friends gathered • round, and ex-
planations were made.
The two companions had arrived
early at the farm. where 1110 young
mein was keeping house alone . dud,
h ving time on -their hands, began en.
jnying themeelvea s young 21101 often.
't••. The wedding vas quite forgotten
,1:1ti1 one of the young men said to the
lost. "1 thought Inn were 1n tie mar -
slat' ci Six' n'eloait. it's That time
news'
:1 bath, a shave, the wedding suit to
be tionned and adjusted and then a
ride .of two.miles before the ceremony
could be performed! Fortunately the
three had fast bones, hut, alas,' 111e
young man never 111 2121 the ('nil of
hie Pagel ling lila own w00211131
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On a1 average each pere0n'in lari-
Belgium, -ium Holland, and Switzer.
fain e
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r
laud uses
fourteen matches a da..
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A Thrush at Dawn.
In the dawn's dewy hush
1: woke to hear
A solitary thrush
Invoking clear;
Lifting its liquid voice
Against the day;
"Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!"
It seemed to say.
No cloud. The blue dome aeop,
Aye, infinite;
A gold and azure sweep, •
From height to height! '
Then . was i seized with shame
To think, dull thrall,
How I praised not His name
Who wrought it all.
—Clinton Scollard.
The World's Beasts of
Burden.
A well-bred Shetland• pony is no
more than_fortyinches in height, yet
is capable of carrying on its back a
full-grown man. Which is a proof that
ft is net only size which counts in the
matter of strength.
Two animals that are much strong-
er than is usually supposed are the
pig and the sheep. Boars have often
been broken to harness, and have been
used for ploughing, and on a certain
Bedfordshire estate a large dog has
been trained as a saddle animal. At
the same pace sheep have been used
for riding, and were found quite equal
to bearing the weight of a fuld-grown
man.
It is not many years since oxen were
used for ploughing in England. Again,
the little Indian ox, the zebu, Is a capi-
tal draught animal and can trot at a
merry pace.
Horses are plentiful on the eastern
plains of South America, but do not
do well in the Andes, where their Place
as beasts of burden is taken 117 mules
and by the llama, a large Sheep•like
creature with a very long coat,
Llames will carry sixty to eigbty
pounds apiece over the most appalling
mountain passes on very little food.
There is, however, one point to be
:remembered about them. They are
dreadfully nervous creatures, and they
, will not stand being beaten ' or
treated. In the Andes they will work'
`for their owners and for nobody else.
t The Lapps still use the reindeer es
i a draught animal, and a good reindeer
1 will pull a sleigh fifty miles a cloy, Tbe
: elk has been similarly used, and was '
found abs. to do a journey of eighty,
1 miles in one day. This, compares well
1 with the horse, for which the one -day
1 record is., a little over a hundred miles,
Fifteen Little' Sparks front). the
Anvil of Progress.
An 01110110y01' advertleed for tt Welk,
;a121 Applicants were interviewed. Two
'liked, "'Melt are the littera?" 'Iwo
21seed, "Mat 111u1e of typQwriter old
YOU use?" One ies101, "claw long a
beliaeyde I get?" and the otftar Went -
ed j0h. Sha got it.
Teta setae:Arel nein lengthens his
stride wben be discovery Chet the
signpost has deeeived hitt; the falluro
Molts ler a place to alt 29wn,
To yield ie easy, to resist is bard.
Grapple the first difficulty that cisme&
np,
Wrestle till you dawn it, -1f it
takes till break of day.
Concentrate all your thoughte upon
the work in hand. Tho sun's rays do
not burn until brought to a foaus.
Tile Sonnde2t, aalea1110n matte tate.
least sound.
Pool' work will make you poor.
If you feel yourself the victim of
hard luck there is a cure for you. Try
hard work.
Some men move through life as a
band of music moves dowel the ther-
oughfare, flinging out melody and her-'
luony'thr ugh the air to everyone far
and uearho Batons.
Many a man jigs made a needless
failure because for aurposee 01 im-
mediate .gain he has let"'himsotf lose
the reputation of dealing fairly and
generously watts others.
Beware of the man who is always
confessing his faults but never trying
to correct them.
; Don't get so interested in what you're
going to de to -morrow that you don't
do anything to -day.
Do you love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff lite
Is made of.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
skill is knowing how to do it, and
virtue is doing it.
Men are neither born nor borne to
success.. Bachmust earn it.
Give a promise with caution and
keep it with care,
Would You Have Passed?
Tbe other day a spectacled man.
with a cont leg, and wearing a felt
hat, got into a bus.
Could you—this was a test of "gen-
eral knowledge" in a recent examina-
tion paper—say who invented' spec-
tacles, cork legs., felt, and buses?
The inventor of spectacles was an
Italian, Salvino degli Armati, who
lived in the thirteenth century. In a
street in Florence there is a house
with an inscription to his memory,
placed there by the Guild of Artisans.
And "cork legs?" Alas, artificial
legs are not made of cork. Dr. Cork
invented them, and his mine, some-
what misleadingly, was applied to his
inventton in a material sense!
The 'bus? A Frenoh invention, this,
due to the philosopher. Pascal. In
166? he obtained a "privilege" to run
omnibuses in certain streets in Paris.
But, though "omnibus" means "for
everybody," only the elite were per-
mitted to ride in Pascal's omnibuses;
soldiers% lackeys, and other humble
folk being bailed.
Felt? This was a Tartar invention,
and goes back thousands of years. In
North Asia, clothes, houses, beds, and
much else, are all of felt,
Study of; Medicine in the
University of Toronto.
There has just been sent out to all
graduates of the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Toronto, a letter from
the Dean giving a report of the active
Ifees of the year, In this report Dean
Primrose stresses the fact that tine
Song That Won a Wife.
Quite trivial things. have inspired
musicians. Chopin caught the idea of
a waltz from welching a puppy that
was trying to catch its own tail. One
of Bach's cantatas was written solely
as an argument. His wife thought
that he Drank too much coffee, so the
composer wrote trio cootata in praise
of bis favorite drink.
Rossini was so fond of eating and so
reluctant to work that an impresario,
wbo had commissioned an opera from
him, had to lock him in his room and
matte him write so many pages of
music fee each course of dinner served
to him.
Romance is often the keynote of
musical masterpieces. Schubert was
in love with a beautiful girl, but was
too shy to make any advances. He
translated his; feelings Intomusic and
wrote hie famous song, "Blossom
Time." . 1
• Too shy to sing it to the maiden 111m-
sell,
11m sell, he got a friend to sing it for him.
1 Instead of.furthering Schubert's inter -
este, however, the singer himself won
the girl's lova and married her. The
! composer had unconsciously helped
leis own rival.
((
"Draughts are not the actual cause
of colds," says a well-known physician.
elf a 'person is not perspiring, a
draught will cause 110 harm what -
'ever "
memory object of the curriculum is to .
provide the most efficient training pos•
sable for the general practitioner, the
Country doctor. He calls attention all
so to the gruduute 180Th and the spe-
cial conrsea which are offered to 010'
able doctors to keep abreast of thee
latest :Recoveries in Medicine. During
the year 139 palro-2s and demonstra-
tions were provided in the Province
of Ontario, outside of Toronto, for
858101113 medical societies. T110 amount
of n1e:lical i(I108'ledge bas ,so greatly
inereesel during the !root decant or
two that a slx-years' seethe is 11(318
necessary in order fully to (leap a due.
for Tor Iris life's work, The new
ilebo111 of Hygiene nulla possible by
the gift of the ltoc11ef01101' Foundation
is sh:illy to be l'0nrnencel and will,
House ,the Deportment of Hygiene teal
Preventive elc,Ilrine, the Department
of Public, Health Nursing, 1ud the
Connaught ht La1aratorl s. 'The regis-
tration
is•
tration
1n tiro Fac311ty of Medicine for
this session le 796.
•Ila incible Armada.
In 11088 Spain was, the leading Mithi l
of Bute/e, and when the king set
about,a1ruptliing 17ng1a112 With e great
21ava1 `211.12telt, it 100k0d very nluoh as
it he would eceomielle0l 1111« il1011880,
Tbe great Moet wee eoinpos021 0f 120
Large va 8018, carrybng 10,296 eoldiera,
8,400 012111rs and 2,000 8112800 aE r0'w-
ors,' It was one of the, moat farmid
able, !bete of the time,
A storm in Spanieh water% destroy-
ed several of. the vessels of the "In-
eineible 'Armada;' end the Teat put
into lout for repah'n When every.
thing 212121 111 roedlness again the fleet
starte1 and entered the English Oban -
1101, sailing along in the form ofiet 1101
'noon, u.early 088011 miles broad, Tbey
were met by the llugBshttmet, eo1s18t-
ing et thirty ships) which had been in-
oreased by the additioa of ulerohant.
'Mee andprivateers to about one h1111•
droll and 018110 vessels, under Lord
ldowerd, of Idfliugllam, Dralte and
others,
They fought, and it Sean appeared
that the g;'eat, Armada was anything
but "invincible;' for Drake sent eight
blazing eireships into the infest of the
Spanish fleet. in terrible consterna-
tion, the Spaniards tried. to get out to
sea, and so became. dispersed. The
English pursued, a storm came on and
drove the Spanish vessels. amoeg the
rocks and shoals, Tho "invincible"
fleet, with a less of thirty great ships,.
and ten thousand men, defeated and
disgraced, sailed tome again.
Insect Perils.
Tho famous scientist, Proteasor A,
R, Wallace, was once asked what was
the most dangerous beast he haat en-
countered in the course 'of his tropical
trave's. Though he. had roamed
thaough the haunts of the jaguar, the
peccary, and the giant anaconda, he
declared that he was most afraid of
the wild bee, Hipiing has a story
about the terror of the wild bee, when
it is numbered by countless millions,
which gives a graphic picture of what
that danger can mean.
There are certain species of ants,
both In Africa and South America, be -
Lore the march of which nothing can
ave. The fiercest and strongeet and
most agile beasts ntust give way to
them,
Though many thousand's of deaths
are attributed to snake bites In India
every year, this mortality is slight
compared with the toll taken of human
life by malarial mosquitoes in various
parte of tbe world. Had the neighbor-
hoodof the ,Panama Canal been in -
tested with lions or tigers, the work
would have gone on rurally, but the
awful mortality caused by these tiny
insects defeated its , first builders.
South Africa has suffered from locusts
a thousand times more than it ever
suffered' by reason of all the wild
beasts within ijs borders,
Mirror Magic.
The primitive man looking at his
own reflection in a still pool beheld a
phenomenon he could not explain. He
saw something which was not himself,
but which must be so closely related
to himself that there was no joke in
it.
What is known as sympathetic
magic always regarded a close connec-
tion as existing between a person and
his "oounterfelt . presentment." We
know better now, but who 18 there
who can see a looking glass accidental-
ly broken without experiencing a me
ret feeling of uneasiness?
The smashing of the mirror destroys
the reflected image ---his counterfeit
self or a surface which has. borne it,
as it 'leas also borne the images of
other members of his family, There.
fore he himself, or some member of
his family, whispers the lingering,
voice of despised,'• forgotten, but In-
herited belief in sympathetic . magic,
is in danger. All of which accounts
for the superstition that if you break
a looking -glass there will be a death
in tbe family within the year.
The Nobel Millions.
The reservation of this year's Nobel
Prizes for Chemistry and Phystcs will
still further swell the big capital sum
availabe for the five awards,
Dr. Nobel bequeathed the sum of
$8,700,000 for the purpose, the annual
interest of wbioll was to be divided
equally . between those who received
the live Nobel Prizes—Peace, Late
tare, Chemistry, Physics, and Medi -
eine.
Some $10,000,000 accumulated to t110
fund during the first five .,0012 atter
Nobel's death in 1890, as 1110 first I
awards were not Inade until 1001, and
es niece then twelve prizes have not
been awarded the Prize Fund. now ex-
ceeds $10,000,000, i
BOW MELODY W4
MADE
To every student et the piano, vie
lin 01' 01101'. =Meal inatl'nment, the
history of 1110 art of muei21 should
be iateneels, interesting'. It le to be
Coaxed, however, that nubieots ouch
as "How Music first conte into being,,'
and "How the art gradually evolved
from a primitive state to its modern
stage of development" are foretge. to
a geed Many. With this 1n view,
therefore, the tollawlng piper deal-
ing with the: making of melody and
origin of 111138X, written by Urquhart
Cawley, the well known writer, io here
Presented. Mr. Cawley says:
Although 1nu210 in its 6010101110.,,
sense is the youngest of the arts, yet
in Its origin ' it is almost, if not quite,
as old as man. When 'the first cave.
man made, a noise to express leis
feelinge, MOS 18 was born, and the howl
of a savage, the roar of an angry mob,
and the cries of 01111(180u at play, show
us the primitive material out of welch
the art was evolved,
"In the veryearly days, when no
two savages aged exactly the same
howl, and even the saute savage could
not be sure of getting the same howl
twice running, 110 111,11810 1V118 possible.
For music le not merely sound, but
organized sound. And the noise which
expresses your feelings must express
them not only to yourself, but to your
hearers. The first atop, therefore, was
to invent conventional howls, each
expressing some emdtiori which the
)hearers would recognize; lust as
doubtless - the alphabet was derived
from conventional pictures.
"In order that the howl simnil be
recognizable, a more or less definite
sound was fixed ou as the beginning
of it. This" was that we should call
a tonic or starting point, on 2111iah
the rest of the how depended. In
course of time, other notes in the
howl became sinliliarly fixed sounds,
until a regular series of such sounds
was invented, having a more or less
regular relation to each other, and
the result was the scale. Not that
these earl?scales were much like trio
ones to which we are accustomed.
The latter are comparatively modern,
and serve rather a different purpose.
The old :males were thought of es
moving downwards instead of upwards
and as being merely trio means for ex-
pressing sounds by a single voice,
whereas our modern settles are
thought of chiefly as the basis of cor•
Min harmonic relationships.
"At this stage another complies.
Lion arose --that of rhythm. If melody
can be defined as the expression of
feeling by means of sound, rhythm
is that expression by menus of bodily
movement; hence the invention of
dancing. Now, among primitive
peoples these two modes of expression
are quite distinct, and until a tribe
bas advanced fax enough to hare regu-
lar dances with music, melady remains
quite formless, and therefore imam,
As soon, however, as a1 stage is reach -
0d when it is realized that tunes must
have certain rhythm, and that the
sounds must hear some relation to
each other as regards length as well
as pitch, we have all the ingrelllents
for proper melody. And It must be
remembered that all music ultimately
depends on melody. Ilewever great
the skill with which a 01111p02.er 0m'
belliabes or develops his tune, ee m1181
have the tuns to start with; and gen-
erally :peaking, the better the tune,
the better the piece of music.
"Only one stop was now naf.essery
to make melody complete, an feelings
or emotions became more 0003111ex, the
expression of them had to become more
complex likew''se; and mem lesrat
gradually how to vary, by Meana of
differences of pitch, the anisette. of
emotion in each part of the melely.
'DIle finest melodies as a r'u'le are
fork -songs, a: these were always in.
tended to be sung una0Compantell. and
consequently the tune had to stand ort
its awn merits, and not, as so many
modern melodies, owe muck of its ap-
peal to the way in which it w88 har-
monized. Tunes like the 'London-
derry mp, are am011g
the finestAtr; spforOCimenexas 0Tlepure'mclody
ever written."
Ante -Natal Control of Sex
Predicted,
Determination in advance of the sex
of 01111dren will become art aecomplisly
ed fact within the next fifty years, ea -
cording to. Julian Iluxley, well known
scientist, says a London despatch.
Theoretically, he deciare.1, In n lecture
at Brighton, ante -natal detormluatiou
of sex le possible now,
"It is it very mlerosco1(11 and dale
mit thing to do," he warned, "but it
seems to res that it is etsier dears
mine sex then to do the things that
have been done in the way of 50n31r28
Lion on air planes and plaanograph,r,"
The Deepest. Sea.
The discovery of a spot in the Pa-
cific' Ocean, south-west oP Jaime, 32,-
080 feet deep, will ot greatly astonish
oceanogralrlicrs, for the Pacific has
long been known as tate deepest of all
the great seas of the globs,
l Nowhere eleo leas any depth been
reached as great 2248 30,000 feet, belt
hi the Ptrellto as many as ten 001121rl.
Inge have been made excoedleg that
figure. In the Atlantic only two
pI21008 2380 Itna'1wn wiitt irtepthe. greater
n
1• iC• nlouuudn; r that dot the pre- ,, 1„1 r .. kis cu of s of 111 wood t t o
t , sr,rt d
pulp 4 1
p 1 i than 24,000
feet, the
deepest
beteg a
1 rs'which win tome betransformed 11 pyramid �oT to sofa daytr lsftrmed 1111,0
vines. This hued oi, , spot north of tit Wont Indies, whore
paper, wee photographed at Bathurst in that province, 1 the load found bottom at 27,072 toot.