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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-2-18, Page 2F1ANNINS TZE HOME GROUNDS By E. Genevieve Gillette DAC bin loot cow milked, and Moth- A geed way to determine tlttaie to er withthe supper dishes done, lull stand in one atter another of the ins trio lancinating seed catalogued frau portant windows. Is the vlow ob: underneath the library table eud be• strutted by treesor bushoa in the gin the evening's fun. What plans Iawn? Or 40 the trees .and bushes they make! Never did tomatoes grow help to put the distant v:ew into a eo red andjuicy or string beans so frame of greenery on a summer's day? Icing and tender, Never wore eucum- bers better for pickled or potatoea freer from bagel The garden seed list is a long one; the mice got into that pop -corn and ate nearly every bit that ttad saved Or next Spring's planting. So down the het it nee until Dad tillovas back his chair and takes off his spectacles. Then Mother turns over to the, last page in the catalogue—the one with the picture of the Crimean Rambler And begins to remember how nicely one of those roses ,would look' grow. ing over,, the niilkhouso door. Some. how it is very atrango• bow a garden list can grow so long. For that very reason, 1f for no other, it may not come amiss, at this time, to jot down a few practical augges• tions concerning the ordering and planting of nursery stock about the farm home. Almost everyone ,even in these busy and strenuous times, man. ages to plant something about the dooryard of his home. If his work is to toilet for anything --in other words if his home Is thus to be made more attractive—he meat .have some de- finite ideas about where this stock is to be planted. Ordering stock and trusting to luck to find a place where you can put it is never conducive to making your home and its grounds more pleasing, The writer would say, after some fifteen years in the country and some months at Extension work, that the main trouble with most farmyards lies not so much in a lack of plant ma- terials as in the arrangement of those at hand. How common is it to find a yard arranged in meseum style - a bridal wreath or a snowball on either sine of the front door and a few mis- cellaneous perenials and shrubs scat- tered here and there about the lawn.' Almost never does one find a farm- house with anything planted about its base so as to clothe its bare•cold wall. Yet these very foundation plantings (as we call them) do more to harmon- ize the house with its surroundings than any other thing one can do. Of- ten one finds in the dooryard enough plants to give the desired effect pro- vided they were rightly placed. Are the things you already have set where they can give the best they have to- 1 warde the beautifying of your home?. Trees eiod shrubbery s)toule all het to frame the pictures from your win down just as inuah as they ahouid frame for the picture that your neigh bor sues when be comes up the road Therefore everything is pieced In re latian le these views and in such manner that the views are "framed' rather tban broken into. Now the meleeutn style (tar I feel justified in calling it a style) results from a lack of understanding, and of- ten bten times from indifferonee. Suppose instead of making a list of •nursery shrubs to add to that garden seed list you take your•pennil.and paper and make a plan of your dwn dooryard. Draw it big enough on a sheet of brown wrapping paper—say an eighth or a quarter of an inch equalling a fent, Put in the arrows where the best views are and then begin to put in the trees always far enough away from the arrows to allow plenty of room when they spread, After that draw some shrubbery masses around the house and on the boundaries but be sure you leave enough for open lawn space. Nothing is more disasterous to a country house than a cramped and broken lawn. Leave it big. After you have your drawing made, decide upon one kind of shrub to or- der this spring. You can get them in "ten lots" cheaper than in twelfths of a dozen and you will be better satis- fied that way. Instead of planting an- nuals so as to have flowers through the season, plant perennials that come year after year, They are great time- savers and are just about twice as hardy and effective. If you must have annuals put them in the garden where they are cultivated with the cultivator and do not need so much hoeing. Af- ter a little we will get all these things down to an efficiency system just as we do with other things. We will find nut how to do, but we must remember that everything planted out before- hand is just so much at least half done. How better to spend a long evening while the snow piles around the yard? To -night within all is cozy and warm. Plan now for the beauty which may be yours when on a bot evening next summer after a hard day's work you settle on the veranda n an easy chair to watch the twilight grow deeper. a . a, Old Story -Tellers. People of all lands and all times have listened with pleasure to those who told wonderful or beautiful stories; and now a knowledge of the laves of those famous men, and the customs of the people among whom they lived, is far more interesting than the stories themselves. A long time ago ---more than live hundred years—the English listened to the tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; tales in poetry of the green woods and the singing of birds; of brave knights and gentle ladies—romances of the day. He wee a man who had read and traveled much. He had spent his life among the nobles and at the courts of kings ---in France and In Italy as well 1 as bis own England. This was, you . know, so long ago that kings and princes lived only in rude splendor. The castle -homes, with their strong, thick walls of stone, their moats and drawbridges and nar- row, tower windows, seemed more Hite fortressess than pleasant dwell- ing places. The men were brave fighters, and the lovely, bright-eyed ladies—many of whom, with all their courtesy, could neither read nor write --spent their time in embroidering the tapestry hangings of the great halls, or in lis- tening to the songs and stories of ro- mance and love. Latin was the language in which most of the books were written, for as yet few knew how to print; but in the monasteries were men called monks, who devoted themselves to religion and study. There were beautiful Bibles and great volumes of legend and history, copied out with greatest care and decorated with ornamental letters, scrolls and flowering vines in gold and brilliant colors. According to the best accounts, it was in the great house or a prince of Edward III, that young Geoffrey Chau- cer grew up. There he was the ladies' page, and there he learned all the arts of a gentleman of his day—to love God and the ladies, and to serve his king, When he was a boy of seventeen, Edward claimed the throne of France, and, with a great force, invaded that Country. With theroyalarmy he went to France where he was taken prison- er in the war, but was afterward ran- somed. In after years he visited both France and Italy, on missions from his government. It was not until he was a man of Middle age that he wrote the stories which have made frim so famous. The plans sad ittcidents of many of them tirere taken from books he had read or romances he had heard abroad; but he told themin so pleasant a way that he made them quite as good as new. 1 He loved tete green grass and the einem sunshine, the singing of the lark and the dew of spring mornings 'when the flowers aro opening. His works are many, but the beat is a collection of eforles called the !'Canterbury Tales," supposed to have been told to eagb other by a company • of pilgrims going to the shrine of Thomas a' Becketrat Canterbury, The English language was not then what It is now, and la reading any book of that time you find many' strange words, and what seems some times very queer spelling—for our! English, In many respects the best language in the world, has been made up from many tongues, and changed by use and years. 1 NotWithout DotibC ' She — "Men are deceitful, without doubt," Hs—"You're not fair. Men aril sel- dom deceitful without doubt" A Peculiar Sentence, A peculiar court scene was enacted is Paris before a venerable and bene. volent-looking Judge. Before passing a sentence, he consulted the two assocl- t ate judges, "What ought we to give s this rascal?" he asked, leaning n ng over to the Judge on his right. "1 should say• three years," was the reply. "What is your opinion, brother?" t0 the other on the left. "Four years." The judge then said, beamingly, "Prisoner, not desiring to give a long and severe term of imprisonment, as I ebould have done if lett to myself, I have con- sulted my learned brothers and shall x" A take their advice. One says three years, the other says four; my own • .—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME The Ancient Things. , In several parts of the world men are delving sad bringing to light tri burled remains of anterior civilization When 1 Am Old. When I am old and you are young e I Who died so long ago, 1'li say, "A fool I was to mourn - But haw was I to know? f I at "A fool I' was to mourn, my dear, The fortune that you had; r Nov here I am grown gray, while you Will always be a lad." f When I am old the things I say' m Perhaps will then be true, ,!Since fire and faith of me to -day ( .Lie young and last with you. s —Marjorie Meeker. ' They "dig and discover the place o kings," and they reveal to us.th what people used to be is singularly like what people are to -day. Thee passions and their pastimes, their ad venturing and their romance, their aG^�. counting systems and their modes o worship, their speeches in a' fora or their bargains on an auction block their laws and their philosophies have their survivals now, and across the centuries men clasp hands on aspire-! tion and belief that have no age be.t cause they are perennially true, for ever vital and forever young. There is a passion for collecting what Ls old, and one is inclined to wonder sometimes that it spends- it- self more on things that one touches with the hand than on things that one reaches with the mind. A few days ago millions of people had a lesson they will not forget in the solemn majesty of something they beheld and could not handle something they could approach only by an upsoaring of the pilgrim spirit through the space that is between the stars. Then one wet forcefully reminded that the grubbing after dollars on the ground Is the -least of businesses. How much is all the power of finance ac_ cumulated In the world to a power that puts a crown of pearl and gold about the sum? For one minute in a lifetime, if no more, one stood mute and awed in the presence of the In- finite and the eternal. And the do- minion of things shrank in the refin- ing fires, millions of miles away, to lit- tle consequence. "Love that moves the sun and the other stars," wrote Dante. That is more than, all the furniture upon this small sublunary planet. It is more than houses made with hands, or cities laid out in rows, or bridges over rivers, or smoke -plumed chimneys of the factories, or the deep ehatts of mines, or the whole accumulation of 1 business and commerce in our marts I andry• havens. Generous emotion prom'ptiog to service and to sacrifice 1 s greater far than the things we gather into dumb and cold museums. n these few years we bave we must decide what we want most of all; and when we have choeen food and clothes nd creature comfort instead 01 the in angible solace of the spirit, it is a orrowful decision that will leave us poor indeed. -I Changing a City's Name. After having borne the name of Christiania for three hundred years, the capital of Norway has recently been changed to Oslo. This 1s the name by which it was known before 1624, when it was under the rule of a half -German king, Christian III„ who reigned when Norway was united to , Denmark—a union which extended' over a period of several centuries. The union had also included Swed an, which, bowever, broke away and was frequently at war with Norway i and Denmark. More than once dur- ing those wars the town of Oslo was laid in ruins, and at last Christian 'or ' dered the complete rebuilding of the city, which he decreed should be named Christiana, after himself, • Oslo, the history of which dates back to heathen times, was the first city of the mediaeval world to be de- clared a capital next to London and Paris. It has a population of 300,000, and its trade is based mainly on the export of lumber. The patriotic agitation to resume the old name had been going on for nearly seventy years. Now it is an accomplished fact by law, Strength. "Every moment brings the power to live it; Every duty brings the power to, do it; Every ideal brings the power to mani- fest it," • —Book of items, • Right Design and Color in Rooms Vitally Important. The first sensation which a guest has upon entering a room site has never visited before is one of color. How important then becomes the ques- tion of selecting just the right design ,t and coloring that will not clash with the other articles in the room, n Britain Still Sett,ling War Cta'ms, Nothwithstuu*erg the lapse of fire'. Years from the cesr ation of itolitillties,' 67,261 fresh clatms in respect of death' or disablement in consequence of ilio Great War were disposed-, of 10 Nag-. ' #and during the year ended Mara 31, 11984. The numbor or claim admitted" !dwell; the year efts 13,113, of which 16635 were in respect of death. This .total included 11,738 first awards of pension, a decline of 7,088 from the 'preceding year and of 28,149 from the , Year ended March 31, 1922, when, how- ever, the, number of claims falling to i be dealt with was much greater, There'• 1148 been a prokre*sive decline in I fresh appllcetlons slate the year ond,.1 ed March 31, 1920, when there were 680,920 fresh admissions to pension, but it is commented on as a remark• 1 This is Bari Spencer, who sold, to able fact that at the alone of the year buyers in New York, six of the mos under review claim� wore .still re. famous paautings of Old" masters calved at the rate of 1,200 a woett, 1 Oaioshorougb, Reynolds a)tl others from 1914 to March 31, 1924, was eliorie The approximate tote! expenditure Part of his famous collection at Al Northampton, England, MODERN SURVEYING Camera and Radio Make Work Mora .Accurate and Reduce Cost. 1 The radio, the camera and the aoi•d. t plane have revolutionized surveying in Canada, according to Fred. Y. Seibert,' of the Natural Resources Intelligence Service, of the Department of the In - tartar, before the Camera Club of Cisioago' meetly, p'ar a number of years the camera has boon used ex. tonaively On 'Dpminion Land fbn'vet•s lo mapping out the rugged Tend In some eases inaccessible portions., of the stocky Mountains, enuring ii mass Of detail correct ie every reepeet that eoal(1 be securedin na other way. Since the war the ar•)plane has been inetremental in extending the Dani. t era's use for mapping purposes Hite , the unexplolred regions of the north, , Within the last two yeat;s many lakes • upon whose shores the foot of white 1 men has never trod have been occur• Iatoly, mapped from tete air with the aid of the camera.. Themile is being used extensively at. the outposts of civilization and In • the unexplored regions:ae far north as s the Arctic in seluring time signals for the purpose of determining longitude, e Longitude determinations under the - old system were very rlIfilclllt and - lacking in accuracy in roglous not - served by the wire telegraph, system, They are now a simple operation, duo entirely to the developmeut of the radio. The Dominion Land Surveyor has been a pioneer in putting the radio to practical use. Years ego, before the city resident was receiving his even. ing concerts acid, stock reports from the air, surveyors were receiving time signals on the shores of the MacKen- zie river and the •ctic coast from high powered stations to the south. Occasionally he took time to dieiph- er the news dispatches, getting news of the last prize light, ball games or what someone had to say about the league of nations, before the roan on the street In civilization even read it in the newspaper. or saw it on the bulletin boards, Last summer Mr, Blanchet, D.L.O., of the Canadian ,Topographical Sur- veys, when working on Great Slave Lake and finding it impossible to land, erected an aerial between two paddles Aid up at the ends of his sixteen foot canoe. From this he received the midday time signal Pram' Annapolis, Maryland, and so checked the error of his Chronometer, Although the time of transmission of electric- signals in telegraph lines ' is of the order of 10,000 miles per second,. the speed of wireless,, signals is very materially greator,'so that for . ordinary distances the time is a'neg- ligible quantity, 186,000 miles per sec- ond. Station`s from which signals have been received on exploratory surveys In the north are Annapolis, Balboa (Panama), San, Diego, San Francisco, Honolulu, Covite (Philippine Islands), while the.head office at Ottawa re- corded dally Bordeaux (France), An- napoifs, San Diego and San. Francisco, By intercomparison of the same sig- nals In the north and at Ottawa, with their respective, clock corrections, the longitude of the different points in the north are obtained, which, It may be stats, are materially different from those shown on the maps before the observation, es 3332,230,000. The expenditures of Die year amounted to £72,230,000. This was about 4.18,500,000 below the expenditures for the previous year and Music these days is casting its 1te £34,415,000 below those for the maxi- nign influence over rural districts a mum year, 1920.21. Included in this well as larger cities, Thorp was' a time amount for expe192llees is the sutra of'£3,, In- when outlying people did net have the eluding for expenses of administration, aol ion" same opportunitles of hearing and ren dental xfoes a pof members and lnarei- i daring good music as their elty eons dental expenses e . mher* of war ins, but fortunately, through the pensions Committees, The report of pro the. Minister of Pensions states that i pagation of iuusic in the ecltools, 9,255 artificial legs were supplied dur- player pianos, phonographs, ate., that ing the year and 1201 artificial arms, difference has largely been eliminated. The greater proportion of these artifl- To -day in many Canadian rural -dis- elaL limbs was in the form of renewang ls iritis music 1s 1)eing "put over" in an of previous Issues, molal limbs beiambitious way. More pupils are etude, - to replace wooden ones. Artifl- cial eyes were fitted to 3,370 pension- ers. One hundred and seventy„ four hand propelled tricycles and 127 in- valid chairs were issued to "grievously disabled' pensioners. Since the es- tablishment of the Ministry 4,334 hand propelled tricycles and invalid chairs Possibilities of Village Choral Work. ing music. There le concrete evl- dence showing a desire on the part of the musical organizations to get together and put on miscellaneous concerts, choral evenings, orchestral performances, and other musical at- tractions to create popular interest. The idea of school music, too, is grow - have been issued, including 113 spinal ing, and so on. carriages and 43 chairs or machines In this particular article, however, of special type, It is estimated that, , it is the writer's intention of pointing at the time the report was issued, out some of the possibilities of village 2,656 pensioners were using band pro- choral work which may have been pelted tricycles supplied by. the Minis- overlooked In some sections, Prob. try, 140 being officers: ably the best way to do this is to re - It is one of the duties of the War far to a parallel case in England as Pensions Minister to make provision told by the Choirmaster of a rural for the care of children of men whoparish church. He says: "As a rule have died as a result of their service, 'the village church choir is so weakly In cases where children are found to constituted that it is impossible to be suffering from neglect or want of aspire to anything out of the ordinary, proper care. The number of children but where there exists other places under care at the end of the year was of worship, in addition to the parish 3,181. As far as possible. these child- church, much could be done if the ren are Placed with private families. members,of the various eboirs would In addition to the'"children directly un_ der the care of the Pension Ministry, there were 18,157 motherless children under general supervision at the end unite in one body to sing. "Such a thing is done, and most sue - easefully done in one village.I know, the parish of Cheddar In Somerset. of the year. The majority of those Here, each choir, Church of England, were in the care of relatives, Wesleyan, and Baptist, unite every, The total number of pensions to winter and learn a really good work, widows from the time of the institu- rendering it at the end of March, or' tion of the Ministry in 1914 amounted early April In each place of worship, to 224,654; of these 4,441 were grant- before assured large congregations, ed in the year under review. The num- By this means, not only la harmony in ber of pensions to children from the music acquired, but also harmony in beginning of the war. to March 31, the social side of village Ole. I 1924, totalled 409,867. Practices are arranged once a week, and care is taken. that the usual choir work of the various churches is not interfered with, and the only ! unhappy time is after the final ren- t dering of the work, when they know ii that they have finished until the next 1 Autumn," e`- There must be rural places in Cam, da like Cheddar, self contained, equal- ly capable, and able to find their own1 soloists an st ants B pi t and con-, ductor for suchean enterprise, which undoubtedly furthers the cause of music generally, Evading the lesue. He --"Il' you were to live your life over again would you marry me?"- She—"Why-er-er I might not meet you ever:' god Apollo was playing •a game of quoits with a young mortal, Hyacintli- us, of whom he eves very foil, when A Poem You Ought to Know. zephy,•u* the god of the westwine, The Little People, passed' by. Zephyrus. was• jealous of John Greenleaf Whittier is called Apollo and blew' the latter's quoit he Quaker -poet, and is one of the aside, and canted it to strike T•lyacin-' oble band,which includes Longfellow thus and inflict a mortal wound; In his ad Harriet Beecher Stowe, who memory Apollo caused three ,beauti- strongly advocated the abolition of ful and fragrant eldsteeed blossdms negro slavery in the United States. to spring' from the fallen drops of the Though his early education was very youth's blood<• . defective, be stands as one of the The hyacl.ntli was brought: to west chief literary ornaments of the New ern Europe .in the Sixteenth eeatury, World. and extensively cultivated by Dutcli .w The Legend of the Hyacinth. The wild hyacinth was originally found In Greece and Asia Minor. The ancient Greeks had a story about Its origin to' the effect that: one day the T idea was five years, so I sentence you ' to twelve years penal servitude," Ariel Mythical Character. Ariel was a spirit of the air In Shakespeare's "Tempest" He was " `srsv§k r p imprisoned for twelve years in the rift'' of a cloven pine tree by the Witch • Sycorax for falling to perform some q i x f T impossible taste. On the death of i Sycorax he became the slave of the monster Celibate, by whom he was cruelly treated, Being liberated from : es,r., ', An the pine treo by Prospero, the grate- ful Ariel served him faithfully for six- teen years, at the end of which time: he regained his freedom, Ariel was, able to assume any shake. and even to make himself invisible. A Valuable Clock, Jones had been presented with a' clock. One day he met the donor, Wbo asked him how the clock was going. • "Splendidly," said Jones. "It's per•; feet. When the hands point to a guar -1, for to nee and it strikes three, we know it's Tuesday lu Italy and Priddy over here!" Broadening the Sco?e of Pub- lic Libraries to Include Music. Canadian cities and towns boasting of public libraries can well afford to take a.leat from the diary of Norwich, England—at least, in so far as music in libraries is concerned. A news despatch from Norwich re- cently states that the local Public Libraries Committee• Is augmenting the music sections of its libraries, end a, special catalogue of the music and Musical )lttatore. is in the press. "With the view of encouraging fur- ther , the appreciation of music," the despatch goes on to say, "the Com- mittee has arranged r am ed a course e of tree public lectures on music, with phone - graph illustrations, to b, given 'on,al- ternate Wednesdays in the afternoon and repeated in the. evening: The series Of lectures was. inaugurated by a lecture on "Folk Musfe," by Arthur Batchelor, M.A., who has made a spe- cial study of the subject, particularis n Norfolk, Mr, Geo. A. Stephen, the City Librarian, who presided at the opening lectures, said that the Cone mittee was in sympathy with the.view expressed in the recent. report on Bri• tish Melo by the Adult Education Committee "For the place of innate in the life of the community we claim that no art has a More universal ap- peal, and for that reason, if for no other, no art can have a greater or more enttobliug influence cu the lite and destinies of a nation," The course includes English Eliza. bethan Composers, Purcell, Mandel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, The Orchestra, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, 011optu, Wagner, Modern Brit'slt Com- osers, and Russian Music." horticulturists, The original blue and dreary place this world would be purple blossoms -Were varied to num- Were there no little people In it; erous shades of pink, rose, yellow, 1 f lit uldl its mirth scarlet and pure whit he song a 6WO ase mr e. Were there` no children to begin it. No little forms, like buds, to grow Eliot's Rules. And make the admiring heart sur- The health rules of ler. Charles W. render; Eliot, 90, prestdept . emeritus of Her- o little hands on breast and brow yard College, are thus given In the .In - To keep the thrilling -leve-eborde ternational: tender. Eat moderately. Sleep at least 80ven hours at night he sterner souls would grow more with windows open. stern, Take regular exercise, in the often 'Unfeeling natures more inhuman, air every day, d man to stole eoldneee turn, Ilse no stimulants. And woman would he less than wo- Enjoy all the natural d'alights whit-. roan, - out excess in any. Life's song, indeed, would lose its charm Were there no babies to begin 11; A doleful place this world would be Were there no little people in it. Work. "If the mariner's wise 1)e looks 'in the r sklea The lig it cru'..-er "Emden," German's lirsi battleship sicca the and of To see what he is about; And he hover expects any shipsto the war, as specified in the Treaty of 'Versailles, .was launched a tow days.l ' 1 Coma in ago at Wilhelmshaven. l If he hasn't sent any ships out." • Keep under all circumstances as p serene it spirit as nature permits, Noah's Advice Needed. A mule -skinner in ''rano was try- ing to drive a )pule with a wagon load through a hospital gate. The mule would do anything but pass. through , the gate, • I t "Want any help, :chum?" shouted 0 one of the hospital orderlies. I tl "No," replied the driver, "but I'd t lute to know how Noah got two of 8' these blighters into tho Arkt" a . A Record Snapshot. A enapsliot taken 'from the h1gheet altitude at which any such photograph has even been made is now on ex hibition at the War Departnent in Washington, The picture is et Day - on, Ohlo, and it was taken from 82,- 00 feet abovo son level which is a lit- e more than six miles, The tempera. are was 02.6 degrees below zero ahr,1 and special electrfe warming devices had to be titled for the camera, • lk 1 t