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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-3-4, Page 31 ,+lmsbra. TRAIL BLAZING ROMANCES IN CANADA Trait btnzIng, as 11 was wout to be 'teasel; iu the eariy days of this -MOt IL try, Ilea gintost pnseed into hletery, but it hi milt interostiug to hoar of tie Millet:8ties net and overcome, the Privations sometimes endured, and the eXpel'ioucoe, 60111ol1mee fraught with groat (taupe, of the explorer and sur- veyor lu the work of pushing book tbe Canadian frontier. Mr, Fled V, Seibert, of Cho Natural. Bosources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Interior, in a recent addrees before the Oity Club of CAU" ono, "Trail Blazing Romances," gave some intimate sidelights on the week of opening np Canada, After many. years spent in the field, travoreing the virgin oouutry. from Lake Superior to the Arctic, Mr, Seibert was 'able to carry his audience with him over what 15 now the 'great wheat fields of the prairie provinces, through liourishing clues that have grownup le 'a genera- tion, past the great coal fields of Al- berta to We outlet of the Mackenzie river, - To those who only think of a ro- mance as a love story, the experiences of a surveyor are far from being ro- mantic. Far removed from anything that savors of romance in the general- ly accepted, meaning of the word, ho is by against the realities of life to' a degree which le seldom ap(iroelated and which few people ever know of.' Sitting at our cozy fireside in the dead of winter, with the thermometer at zero or even lower, one would con - eider the matter very seriously before undertaking a trip of a hundred miles or more with nothing but a pair of snowshoes, .a gun, an axe and a very limited amount of food, Yet such trips are but incidents ,in the survey- or's everyday life, On trips of this nature he must sleep on a brush bed, in many cases without covering, keep- ing himself warm by the heat of a campfire fed at intervals by dry weed obtained in the vicinity. Such a fire takes a lot of wood to keep going all night. When there are two or more in the party it Is called "the little game of freeze out." They all lie around the fire as best they can and as the fire burns low the one who gets cold first must replenish it. Looking at it from this distance a warm eiderdown in a now bank might bo considered a hardship, but for all wisp have had the good fortune terlive for a time at least under natural con- ditione it is a real luxury. Summer or winter, spring or fall, a cold is almost unknown In a survey camp two weeks after all contact with civilization is broken. The surveyor who roams the track- less wilderness sees little of romance in his everyday life. He usually takes it as a matter of course. Climbing mountain peaks which were formerly considered inaccessible, traversing roaring streams which even the In- dian seldom follows, and a hundred and one difficult tasks are his daily troufne. He may grumble at the files or even swear a little when the smoke from the camp fire bldws in his eves. He usually kicks: at the grub, although he may eat twice what he is accustom- ed to eat when in civi zatio . He may n even swear by all that is holy that tuts is his last trip, but the following sea- son finds him eager and ready for his next. job. One such individual, a French Canadian, speaking of the chief of the party, eats, upon Ills re- turn from his first survey trip, "You Link the Gouvernillont she be glad when she know 'what he do, dat sun of a gun, tak a poor man seven hun- dred miles on de wilderness and stuff hint wed prune." Itis, however, long after one has re- turned, when, : in a reminiscent frame of mind he turns over, the pages of his survey album, that the real romance of what he formerly conaideretl a mis- spent life strikes hits. Aside from the unique life a survey- or leads when on his work, he has the good fortune to be, in most cases, a pioneer in the districts which he tra- verses. Development, sometimes slow, sometimes rapid, follows In his steps. -Cities spring up over night from his camp grounds. Steamloats carry the commerce of tete country on. the rivers and lakes which he tea - verses. Railways follow his trails.. The fernier makes a home on tlle'land he has Ivied out and surveyed, and, finally, whore none but the red moa and explorer knew the, way, a new civilization has sprung into being.,lin. Justly and commerce replace the more primitive occupations of the former scattered inhabitants. This to the sur- veyor Is the greatest romance of all. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service, a branch of the Canadian De- partment of the Interior, has assisted and still centimes to assist in the re. markable development of this dlstyict by furnishing, free of charge, authen- do information on (ho natural re- sources of Canada to all wbo are In- terested in them and in the problems associated -taint theft' development. This information is extremely varied and ranges from stu(1108 of industrial problems affecting natural resources development to tourist maps and other lnfornmton for .autombbilists, canoe- ists and holiday seekers generally, The far north, however, is not with- out special' interest, particularly to the holiday.seekor. The old Neat of a country of lee end snow has long slice exploded, " Cereals' have Been grows almost up. to the Arctic Circle and potatooa and otter garden vege- tables have been grown in tete delta of the Mackenzie almost oi) the s11or08 of the Arctle and Well within the Are. tic Circle, .. rivors, 1110 salt sprlugs, tbe bltum(n. sus laude, the muellox„and the 111(1 110128 01 carlient ere all features of spoelal attraction, icor those who Reek it, this region etill offers plenty of oxolto(ttent and novelty 4''nd adrete tare, In raw pisses of the world can 1greeter ecop0 bo Solute for nu011 In- 8tiuote ihan In this region with Its groat tracts of unexplored territory. no methods of to -day May be differ- ent, but they call for the same quali- ties of reectn'00 and endurance a8 those ,which distinguiebed our fore• fathoms Mercy. "Wilmer restores a young bird to the 111111) Or gladdens the lives of dumb area - tures In Heed,. Is one or Christ's 1lclpere,” whatever his creed, Clasps; hands with 'tile angel that comforted Iltm' But whos'ol• finds pleasure in adding One hurt, To an innocent life, be it insect or dove, Is somehow iu league with those who found sport In nailing the hands of the World's Greatest Love.- Oh, hots dare we ask a just Plodto bestow The mercy we grant not to creatures below!" If all men should bring their mis- fortunes together in one palace, most would be glad to take bis home again, rather than to take a portion out of the cominon stock.—Solon. 17 Queen Mary is seen outside the west door of Norwich Cathedral with the Bishop and Dean of Norwich, after having attended the dedication of the- • restored stone of the bishop's throne. SomeExtraordinary ,. Feats eats- of Memor Y A good memory is one of the foun memory. Soon after his coronation as dation stones of greatness; but It must emperor, he was at Erfurt receiving be combined with acute observation, the homage of kings and princes who reflection and other qualities to be ef- had come to do him honor, At one fective. The minds eE some 111011 are of his receptions, during conversation, like pools which have no outlet—con- ,the date of an ancient pontifical bull stant ingress thereto, but no egress. was called in question. An Austrian Consequently they grow stagnant, and prelate stated a period which Napoleon are of no use to others and but little declared to be wrong. comfort to themselves. It is no para- "I am better informed than your ma= dox to say that they remember every- Jesty on such subjects," said the pra- thing, but forget to tell - anything. late, "and I think I am certain of what Young people acquiring an education I state.' should avoid "cramming," and remonl-. "And for my part," replied the em- ber that true education consists in ac- peror, "1 do not say I believe—I say curate knowledge so systematically I ant certain you are deceived. Be - arranged as to be ready for use at sides, the truth may be easily ascer- any moment. To this end a good mined" memory Is indispensable. He then ordered a certain work to However, desirable it is to have a be brought, saying that, if wrong, he Would willingly acknowledge it. When the book was brought it was found that Napoleon was right. retentive memory, it is -not ..an un- mixed good, as the testimony of many eminent persons ,will show. Bayard Taylor, who read' nearly everything All present were amazed at this ex - he 'came across, and consequently hibitfon of th tenacity of the em- much that was worthless, often re- gretted that his memory had such a peror's memory, especially as the sub - strong hold, inasmuch. as the contents jest was one of which they fancied he had little knowledge. of a trashy book wouldoften haunt 111111 fol' weeks. The real fault, however, lay in Tay- lor himself for not exercising' more discrimination in his reading. ,Judlcious Selection.. "When I was lieutenant," said Na- poleon—and it is stated that these sialwords pe wrought a strange effecb on the representatives of the old monarchies present, who exchanged smiles—"when I had the honor to be a Sir Walter Scott, whose memory lieutenant of •artiiiery;" continued Ne - was marvelous, ,eomplaiued that his Deleon, raising his voice, "I remained mind was burdened by much that was two years in garrison in a city of Dau- worthless to him and of little value to phine, which. had but a single circu- any one. Hence the necessity of ieting library. I read three times jutlicious selection in wheat wo. read. Ii the whole collection and not a word Centuries ago a kin of Thebes de- eliciting what I read at a - g that period ever es- clared that the invention of writing caped me. The title of the book which was a fortune to the human race, as it has just been brought figured on the would dissipate the memory and list. I read 1t with the rest, and, as eventually prove the art of forgetting. you have seen, I have not forgotten its That there Is much truth is this as- eoutents." sertion we must admit when we 1)011- Freaks of the Ancients. aider the remarkable memories of the To go back to earlier times, Cyrus ancients. It is well known that the could call every man of his immense Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were not army by name. Seneca was able to re - reduced to writing for hundreds of years after their composition, but were retained in the minds of the GW'eeks and handed -down from genera- tion tri generation until collected and written byr' order of Plsistratus. It is 'said to have been no uncommon thing for an Athenian to be able to recite the whole of both the Iliad and Odys- sey, which are composed of thousands of lines each, The note -books of the poet Sauthey were very numerous, He took notes and made extracts from, all the books he read, but afterward condemned the 512101100 of much note -taking, saying In order to test .his memory a friend that it destroyed his memory. Y Macaulay, the historian, had a very loaned him a long manuscript which remarkable memory. He seldom for. ho was soon to publish, and not long got anything. When a boy he accom- panied after it had been returned called on his father one afternoon to the' 111111, pretending that he lead lost it house of a' friend, While -there ho and wished lam to svelte off as much found on the table a copy of Scott's or it as he remembered. 'Lay of t to Last Minstrel,:' which he 1. ,Greatly to his astonishment, Bethi-. had never before seen. While his sat down and wrote out tho entire father and the other guests were en- article, word for word, as i11 the maim - gaged in conversation he read the script. - volume, and on Itis return house re- William Cullen Bryant possesseda peatel several coitus of it to his moth. weliaratned retentive memory, `leo er, without a break, and doubtless selectedlasreading with the greatest would have recited the whole poem care. On sea voyages 110 was usually had he been given time. too sici' to read much, and at sthch On another occasion, when but Chir tiitles would amus0 himself by quoting toot years of ago, Macaulay was oh• front the English poets. liged to wait in a Cambridge coffee. So fatnllier was he with their pro- beeso for a post•ehaise, and while tluc11on8 that he could repeat page af- there. chanced to pick tip n country• ter pogo of standard p001115. N0,nial- ue'fs'spapor OOntahIhtg two pieces in ter how long the voyage might be, the verse, ono entitled "ltefleetlons of an resources of Ills Memory were never ' Exile," and the puler "A Parody on a exhausted, lie said, tate 1n life,- If al - Welsh Ballad,' He read them through lowed a little utile ha could recall oitee, and was able forty. years after, every lisle or p0elry ho had ever WTI 1 - although ito had not thought of diem ten, during that time, to repeat both with- Strengthened by Training. out hesitation, or, to hls knowledge, A pool' memory ODA be streugtbened 0(1a11giug a 5111510 word, . by rigid training, as illustrated in the Napoleon Waft 'Right. ` ' ' ease of Tlturlow Weed, 1n early life' The woad but'(ablt, the nndorgrouncl Napoleon possosood (t wonderful Weed was troubled by it very ireaellor- cite two thousand verses at once in their order, clot would then repeat them backward without missing a word. Mlthridates governed twenty- three nations, each speaking a differ - cut tongue, and coultt converse in any one of then. to the native language. An Italian named Maglia Bethi, who had read all the books published dur- ing his lifetime, and many published before, could quote from memory the chapter, section and page of any book he had read and give the exact words of the author on any particular sub- ous memory, and he determined, If possible, to improve it, -Confiding the fact to his wife, she told him he must train his memory. So when be came home each night he spent fifteen minutes in trying to remember what had occurred. during the day, At first he could remember little, not even what Ile had for break- fast; but after a while he found that his memory was improving. He could recall, with greater ease, what had taken place during the day, and with more accuracy. After he had followed this system a few weeks his wife asked 11in1 why he did not tell his business to her. It would interest her, she said, and the practice would be beneficial to his memory. He adopted her suggestion, and every night thereafter, for nearly fifty years, he told her everything that he did, or that happened to him or sound him during the day. His memory became wonderfully tenacious. It re- tained faces names, dates, facts and llgures--in short, everything. To remember well one should pay strict attention to what one sees, hears br reads. Some penione strive to all their memories by systems in- volving an association of ideas, but generally to little purpose. A humorous' story, however• is told of an old farmer who had a practicali system of this kind which worked very well. He had just bought some sweet oil at a city drug store, and, being! asked if there was anything else Im i wanted, he laid his numerous pack- ages on the counter and, holding up a hand with several strings on the fin- -gem .saki: "Let's see! That red string is for the bar of soap: that blue one is for a broom; that lvhite cord is for al calico dress; that braid means four pounds of sugar, and this other string is for sweet oil. No, nothing more." • The population of London and its suburbs is almost equal to that 01 the whole of Canada. "The Advantages of Music in the l"lQme,"Filrst Prize Es- say, "A" Class, in the Canadian Bureau far the Ad- vancelment of Music's Essay Competition—By G. An- tonic) Beaudoin, College de Sainte Anne de la I ocae tiere, Kamouraska, Que, "Music cannot fail to . strike' fire the years. Favorable conditions slake from the spirit of man."—Beethoven, the purchase of one ea8y, It is, tilere- Mustc'ts a universal language. A fora, a wise economy to welt after' multitude of the most dissimilar poo• music as a diversion. The elnem5 is represented at the end pf the year by plewill thrill in unison, listening to a considerable suns expended; with the national hymns, to harmonize happy or least amount of profit, The memory sad. Music speaks to the heart of .of Iuoviug pictures fades very quickly, each ono of us, We know the legend Music promotes bappinese in the of Orpheus, who charmed even wild borne. Other diversions often cause boasts with his melodious sounds, trouble in the home, bring about dia- Everyone knows. that in India snake mutes, disturb the family peace. Mastro ebatmore are numerous, brings together the members of a Since music. Is ee muclt 0111070d, it family, ensures harmony, •produces. must become better known, and have peace. Music entertains, white it In- a preponderant place in the home, structs, associates the family in the Music should be queen of the hearth. same thought, the same joy and the To those who are looking for some same task. Nude begets good humor, drives, away tiresome people, and makes families happy, Happy families make prosperous communities, Music soltena the man - 01 inexhaustible pleasure, nets, elevates the tastes, and refines Good, wholesome music, produced the intelligence of a pebple, Cana - by singing or musical instrument, will diens are recognized as possessing a be far superior to any other diversion very pronounced musical tempera - that can be introduced into the home. went. By a more earnest fostering of Anything else is, in 'fact, ephemeral, costly, tiresome, Is quickly exhausted, loses its novelty and its beauty, is valued only by the few initiated ones, and is soon forgotten. Music, because of its divine quality, diversion to break the monotony of their evenings, to make them forget the cares ok the day, music, with all its beauties, offers itself as a source music In our homes, our country will produce famous artists through whom Canada will win wider appreciation. Let us -cultivate music. It is a har- monfous langiiago, a fugitive art, that charms the ear, and stirs the mind to has none` of these drawbacks. Ad- interest, "a science with its numbers vantages of all kinds are associated and its formulas," the superiority of with singing and instrumental music. Those who study singing become ac- customed to breathing regularly, and healthy activity of their lungs ie as- sured. Singing is like sunshine in our lives. Songs tell our joys and soothe our griefs. A musical instrument has the quail which over all other species of diver- sion is indisputable. He who loves music finds in it the source of the highest and -purest delights. He does not merit Shakespeare's perhaps ex- aggerated reproach, "The man that hathnomusic In him - ties of permanence and stability. The Nor is not moved with concord of very sight of one has always some sweet sounds, quality of newness, and its beauty and Is lit for treasons, stratagems, and richness of tone often increase with spoils." Written in Prison. In prison . Boethius composed his work "De Consolations Philosophiae," while George Buchanan, contemporary of John Knox' and a famous Scots scholar composed his Paraphrase of the Psalms of David in the dungeon of a monastery in Portugal "Don Quixote" was written by Cer- vantes during that great • Spanish Writer's captivity In Barbary, and even Royalty finds a place in this category, for Charles I., during his confinement at-Holmsby, wrote the Eikon Basilike, "The Royal Image," addressed to his SOD, Queen Elizabeth while confined by her sister Mary-, composed several poems, and tradition says that Mary Queen of Scots, during her long im- prisonment by Elizabeth, produced manypieasing.poetfc effusions. Sir Walter ter Raleigh wrote his fa-, mous "History ; H of the 'o Y World" during; twelve and - half years of imprisonment in the Tower of London. During hie last term or imprisonment in Bedford Jail, John Bunyan composed four of his famous lrorlts and hls "Pilgrim's Progress" wasinspired 1 and invented during this confinement. In 1704 there • emanated from 'New- gate Prison the first number"of a "Re- view" written by Daniel Defoe, then a prisoner there, and the plan of the! 'Hein -lade" was sketched, and the het- I ter part composed, by Voltaire during his confinement in the Bastille. Most folks are friendly --even in large cities. Though city life tends to; 'form a sort of veneer of coldness, it' takes but a scratch to penetrate the; 'veneer. 'Underneath one finds pleas-' 'ant friendliness to a surprising degree. • • —AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME `JNPANE5k Cxolp FISH Fog 5A1 -E, 025b6 EACH. 1' • Hudson Bay Company's Claim Adjusted The tkmlcable settlement of the Hud- son's Bay Company's claim to certain lands in Western Canada was an nouneed recently by Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior. This contentious matter, Which dates back to the year 1869, involved nearly a million acres of land, and its adjust- ment is naturally gratifying to both the officials of the Departmeut of the Interior and of the Company. Under the deed by which 1t surren- dered its ownership to Rupert's Land, comprising what la now known as the Prairie Provincea, the Company claim- ed it was entitled to nearly 7,100,000 acres of land. After negotiations with the officials of the Department of the Interior, the Company agreed to ac- cept nearl • ha P 3 lEamillion a tell c els in settlement t of its claim. For nearly two centuries, by virtue of the grant made it by Icing Charles of England, the Hudson's Bay Com- pany controlled the country west of the Great Lakes, In 1869 the Company agreed to surrender this vast territory to the Dominiou Government in return, for a sem of money and one -twentieth of the land in the "fertile belt set out for settlement." This "fertile belt" I was defined by the deed of surrender as consisting roughly of the territorr- between the Canadian Rockies and; the lake of the Woods south of the] Saskatchewan river. What constituted land "set out forj settlement" proved to be the bone of contention iu implementing the terms of the deed of surrender, especially in regard to Indian and forest reserves.; The Company contended that tllese'- lands came under the terms of the deed, while the Government held that these lands were not "set out for set- tlement." ettlement.' Not only was the dispute one of long standing but the matters involved' were of a complicated nature. At one time it was thought that settlement c(111 be reached only through a court tuition, a measure which would have entailed further delay and consider -I ablecost, c t . t. 1�'ith praiseworthy fore- sight, the representatives of both sides took emetic' together and after a period of negetfatton, succeeded in urriving at a satisfactory solution of, the problem. Little Great Mo. (190)5108 Was stnlnpy, oleo; St- Peu1 and Alexander the Great, great 0111Y, as A warrior. In stature both 1,0 and his far more lntellectnal father, I'lltljp 0f ;Macedon, s0aree readied middle 1)oight. In thle regard we may rank them with Clio fatuous Spartan general, Ageellaus; with Attila, the "ac0urge et Gad"-- - broadsbouidered, thick -set, sinewy, spurt; with Theodore ll., Icing of 111 Goths, of whoa. Coaslodorue writes: "He lo rather short titan tall, Home• what stout, with shapely 1(11tbs and strong," Active, too, e,utnlander-(rl-:•hist of ilio Roman troops and ]trop (lf 111e tot- tering Roman Empire in the days of Valent(nian, was a Mian of loy st'trtur'e, therein resemblleg.Tintour the Tartar, self -described as a "puny, lame, de - crepe, little wigltt, though lord of sista and terror of the world"; also the groat Conde and hie pygmy contempo- rary, Marshal Luxembourg, nlcltnatned "The Little" by those wire admired hiule for making Louis XIV. Louis the Great, who, by the by, lens his high - heeled shoes and towering wig, dwind- les to about five feet six inches. • But even thus pared down to the inches nature gave him, be was a giant compared with Sit' Fra11c1s Drake and with Admiral Repeal- - "Little Koppel," as every sailor in the fteet fondly termed hint front pure love and admiration. When Koppel, a colutnodare at twenty-four, was Gent to demand an apology' from the Dey of Algiers for an 1081111 to the British sag,' he took so high a tone that the Dey exclaimed against the insolence of the British king for charging a "beardlose boy" with such a message to him. Replied the heartless boy: "Were my muster wont to take length of beard for a test of wisdom :he'd have sent your Deyshlp a he -goat." Oliver Cromwell, Clayeritouse and Mehemet Ali must be content to take it out in brains, for they all lacked inches. Two of these great naives na- turally suggest that of another famous soldier, Napoleon Bonaparte. `7,e Petit Caporal,' as his men lovingly called him, stood live feet one three- quarters hreequarters inches In his stockings. • In stature tho Iron Duke beat him about six inches, while the five feet four inches of Nelson places him mid- way or thereabout between the victor and the victim of Waterloo. Little Houses. The four walls of a Little house 1)511 bold a great deal of happiness If love and the disposition to build a home abide therein, A young married woman with a baby .that took much of her time and care said she was discouraged when sht thought how little her lifework mat tered compared with her husbandh business In a factory, where he was t marshal of men. "He talks of large affairs," site said, "and things I don't know anything about. And every day at luncheon or at other times he seems t1) meet 1- ( P 15,^. le with wham he can have men's talk said discuss a 11 sorts ofthings. tl fin s, "I meet other r w om ett sometimes, at tench or at card parties, and all they alk about is the inside of the house— their trouble with servants and how t hey try to bring up their children and how they are having their clut(ies made. "My husband's work seems so largo nd mine so little." But the woman who felt that her ifo was caged and circumscribed was ping the creative and constructive wont of building a home In a little horse; and she did not realize that in o doing she fulfilled the maw of her sing and nobly served the race. It Is not just the house made with ands that constitutes the home. It s the environment created t(tereln, vhtph furniture and insensate things annot supply. Four walls may build prison or they may mean a temple nd a shrine. Our cities are full of little It0uses where pure content abides. The n-sery that films the divorce courts and ets Into the headlines is so excep- onam as to be "news." Most families re bound by ties of tender devotion, hiclr the occasional friction or tea - ion of dwelling in close proximity anuot destroy. Most husbands au:i eIves are faithful and loving and in- lsens p able to each other. Hooks and lays that 11ise01or the 11111101=e whit rnsational misrepresentation, with ntl•t1e readings of life, cannot by heir lying version efface the feetthat lost. et the people most of the time - living fu families,, loyal friends, gond eigllbors, honest eitzens---are trying do right and in the low, nsrt'ty 00nls of 1111 le houses are find pace for dreams as lofty as the stars. --------• ---- -- 11 it People Who Never Laugh. n r In Ceylon live file 1-eddas, who are i the nearest oppl'oarlh to primitive r (351(31 known. They have nevem beenir known to laugh. Scieutluts have , fielded their feet to such a degree that au 0(1ivai•y Mian would leave been In 1 i misery. Put not the 1"eddns. i The Tessa.' have n0 marriage este tin i ntcuy. A plan taken a wife without any form, but he remains loyal to her r through thick and thin, li I No .\'ossa has ever been known to i to !tell a lie, or even to elongate the size, 11 of a fish tett; 118411on of an incl.. Ia !In pt 11 Of E 1i 111 10 n We Know, Yet Bug "Gee. the enl(inst. morning of the winter and the furnace out," Origin of Hobson's Choice. "Hobson:. choke" is heard on ('very de, told :some of our 1'eatlere may It., ti-re.stcl to know its origin. Ituring Shakespeare's and 13iiinn's me it. was 111e custom for gentlemeit ride Lome from the theatre tot orseback, taring the horse as ww ,in cab tri a atana. Naturally, ea"h nal' i(rhed to have the best horse, nal uclr confusion ensued, while r,nuut )or animals were never taken. A 111ve1'sity carrier and the 111',) keeper a hacitney stable al ('suibrirle.e, ngland, maned Themes. or Tellies,. 0bs0n (1544.16311, cona'eivcd 111(1 an .of pl11ei11g his horses in line' and ming 1118 customers to Nike the ono eares1 the door of the theatre. Sr: 511 beeame 110longer a matter or. pe590rlal aele0ltnn, tout of "Hobson'a, chstee".. that Is, "this or eon•."