HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-6-17, Page 3STOPJES OF WELL, , I
KNOWN PEOPLE
Baldwin as Hobo, Rave $1000 to Poor,
Mew Prime Meister Baldwin pre-
tended to be as ianonynleus tramp in
order to give $1900 to an institution for
indigent, feeble-minded girls is re-
canted. by Ii, WIclthaw Steed in e
eharacteristia anecdote of the Censer'
virttve leader's modesty,
Air. Baldwin ewes came upon an asy-
lum ixiafitatned by two impoverished
women and on learning it was in gnaw.
dal straits, welted to the next town
and procured 200 of the dirtiest pound
notes obtainable.
Then he eourposed an illiterate let-
ter, purporting Mr have been written; by
'a paaajng vagabond whose heart bad
been touched'by eselug the institution
and bythe realization that he him»eif
might end bis days In a samiuer place,
Ile wrapped the money in a nswbpaper
and got a.villager to bribe a boy to ate -
liver it alt tete asylum.
Mr. Steed also recalls the prime min-
ister's anonymous gift of a fifth• of
his fortune' to the Treasuty"darling the
war, which he lnads•knawn -easy by a
letter to tete nurse aigned with false
Millais, in the hope that; his example
would bo followed by others.
He purchased $600,000 worth gf
bonds and sent there to the Treasury
- for bancpllation, + In: all, only tour
times that amount was sent for can:
cehation during the entire war:
Huxley's Polite. Fly.
Mr. Juliana -Melee, the biologist, who
recently visited Canada, hes been talk-
ing about the thinking powers of 'in-
sects, and he gave a very curious in-
stance to show that flies seem to un-
"derstaed politeneeta . .
a 11 fly In a box was observed to seize
and devour an insect which came with -
1n reach of It, but when a female &Gita
own species joined it in the box the
male fly immediately offered her the
next insect be caught, carefully„ wrap-
ping the morsel up in silk, and placing
it in front of herfor her to eat.
Even when the female had gone the
male fly still remembered its manners,
for, catching"another insect, it again
packed the victim up in eilk and left 1t
, for her.
•
A Bit of a Salute.
,the- writer is reminded, by `the ap-
pointment of General Sir William Bird-
wood to be Commander -lin -Chief of the
Army In India, of anrincident when
"Birdie,", as he is familiarly known,
was in command of the Anzacs.
One day, he canie.across a hefty Aus-
tralienavhe was lolling, pipe in mouth,
near where the General had -expected
to find a sentry. •.
"What aro you?" he,, asked the pri-
vate. -
"A bit of a sdhtry," came the reply.
"What aro you?" "A bit of a general."
"Then," -said the sentry, "wait a min-
ute and 1'11 get myerifie and give' you
a bit of a salute " as•
During the war Sir William was
known as the 'Soul of Anzac," On the
occasion of, his appointment to India,
he bas been raised to the rank of Field:
Marshals!
On Saving 4s: 6d. •
No one, according to the popular.
opinion, knOwe more about saying than
Sir Harry Lauder. Ile gave his views
on the subject • to a gathering pf Scots-
men in Hong -Kong r bendy, when he
told of his first big engagement,
"I pawned niy watch to pay my train
tar," he said, ''and then looked' out
for cheap 'edgings. I went to the
theatre, took off my tie and Dollar, -took
out a muffler• 'from my bag, and then
went round back streets looking like
'a working man. So I got a room for
7e. 6d. it week. It the landlady; had
known that I was from the theatre,
she would have charged mo 120•., so I
was 4s. 62, to the good on the first
weak.:' •
Telling of his fleet visit to London
and his first suocese, Sir Harry said:-•
"I wrote my wife and told her that
London wee on, fire again, and that I
could see her driving through, Hyde
Park In a carriage and pair, And the
day hawse when she did, too."
Perhaps This is Why You
• Don't Slee Well.
7n the course of an article on sleep`
and its disturbances in the famous
medical journal, the Lancet, Sir Fred -1
sleek Mott lies these few remarks to
make. They must be df consulning in-
tdt¢at to everyone who ever had to
think about tiie matins of wooing a re -
Natant slumber,
"Seeing that every eensatlon and
every mental image or engram leads
to a reflex activation, which may be
apparefit or not according to the in-
fluaice of positive or negative inhibi-
tion, to everysensation aisle image or
perception, there must, In oonsequenco
of dila reflex motor notion, resultta cor-
respending kinesthetic or postoral ex.
citation of afferent stimuli flowing
along proprioceptive neuronic systems,
rem muscle spindles, tendons, bones
nd joints, which combined with as-
sociated labyrinthine sensatfoiis Corm
a sensory continuum, which is Snti-
reately integrated with the exterodept.
or sensory continuum on the one hand
and the motor continuum on the
other."
Adversity can prove a wonderful
tonic.
A- fruitelrower in Quebec has an
apple treo which produces' apples
without see.\x and without cores,
order from your grocer his best tea and
• . ° Nell usually send , "Red Rose."
1s.g.00d tea'
.
The same good • tea for 30 years. Try t!
-Surnames and Their Origin
W E SC9T7"
Variation-Westcott. •
Rectal Or1gl n -Angle -$axon,
Spurge -A locality.
The latter d( these\ two surname
forms is'iuore indicative of their origin
than the former.
I Just asthere has bcen Ft curtain;
growth in the meaning of place names
ending In 'ham," In England, the end-
ing "cote" or "cot," has come to 'have
a much more Inclusive meaning than
it had originally...
Mite ending "ham," which we have
to -day preserved in its more developed
meaning in the word "hamlet;" even
theixgjr this is a diminutive ,,,by virtue
of the "let,' was originally the same
as the word "home."
]h very modern tlmesrw,e.have :come
to regard a "cottage" as a sort of sum-
mer home of the wealthy, but only a
short time ago it had the meaning of
a humble little ]tome. And back in the
Anglo-Saxon days; before' the English
felt the necessity for, or thought of the ,
possibility- of family names, time "cote"
was -pretty -much the same •as the
"ham;"! or homestead, except tiiZtt' 1t
ryas' a more bumble dwelling. 'But in
the courseioftime as the,"ham" came
tg Include, when part eau, place nam,e;'I
ail' the buildings which ultimately
grouped around the original homstead)
in the growth of a community, Nit the:
" cote" .:ending came to designate All
the buildings and -additional .cottages -
which werea•bullt around that one I
which was responsible for thei"piece
name.
As a family name Wescott; or-West-
cott, was originally significant merely
of the fatty that the bearer came from
the locality.. Cor community of that
name,
CALDWELL.
Varlatlons-Calwell, Caldwell,
Racial Origin --English.•
Source -A locality.
One theory as to the origin of this.
family name ascribes it to the Com-
bination of the word» '$coli," meaning
the hazel, and ,'.'word" or wood, mak-
ing the meaning of the fancily name
"Hazelwood." Itis an explanation by
no means anreasonable,aand in some
instances.it may very well account for
the existence of the name.
Probability; hos ver, points in an-
other direction for the majority of 1 O'
]lie who bear this name. And this
time, 1t is theobvious one, a combina-
tion of the two words "cold and
''well," This is supported by the fact
that in some of the Fold records the
original form of the surname is found
'with the "dela" ("of the") prefixed, At
the period when these words were pre -
vexed,. the name must have been indica-
tive ofthe'limaJity in Rhioe the person
`lived, and "cold -well would not have
been confused with""hazel.-wood.."
The form of .Caldwell is of course,
but a mQie mogenn variation inspell-
ing, dgyel'bped at a period when spell-
ing wee' not so standardized as to -day,
but after the period wben sues family
names 'continued to have a descriptive
meaning: -
Sometimes, Caldwell is a- variation
developed by the elimination of the
"a" 'But there 1s a village in Wales
called Caldwell, and this form of the
name has done from that sources'','
How."Alice" Was lllustrated.
sane .recent death of Hare Purities
ea `Punch has recalled tonifnd the
amusing; account that lie once gave of
his experience%;With Lewis -Carroll -oi
Alice in Wonderland fame, one of
whose later stories, Sylvie and Bruno,
he had undertaken to Illustrate, He
hall been asked to do so only after Sir
Jelin Tenniel, also of Punch's staff, the
pictorial creator of the Imvtortal Alice
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"-- Established for over thirty yearn.
herself, had refused .In disgustesto at-
tempt the task, saying that he abso-
lutely could hot stand "that conceited
old don" any longer,
Whether or not conceited was the
proper adjective to apply, .it is quite
certain that the Rev. C. L. Dadgson in
fact was as difficult to get along with
as Lewis Carroll . in fiction was de-
lightful. He had no understanding, of
art; in criticizing it the man of fancy
vanished and the mathematician came
to the fore in a mannel•.as exasperat-
ing to en artist ae it wan absurd.
"He subjected every iilu§,tratiop
when lb:fished to a minute examination
under a magnifying glass," said Mr.
Furniss. "He would take a square
Inch of the drawing, count the lines I
had made in that .space and compare
their number with those made on a
square inch of illustration for Alice by
Tenniel. In due course I would re-
ceive a' long essay on the subject from
Dotigson, 2154 mathematician."
It was too inuoh! Mr. Funks stood
it for a while and then declared that
if it were to continue he must throw
up the job. Mr. Dodgaon was shocked
and surprised; he wrote that it Was it
cruel disappointment to him to receive
such a aecleratiou "on account of a
single square inch of n picture as to
which we disagree"; and he suggested
-=of all things! -that they should set-
tle their differences in print.
"You shall have your say first, and
my paper will come out as an answer
to yours,"; he offered, evidently intend-
ing to be scrupulously fair; and he
added: -"I am sure you will not object.
to my giving a few mathematical sta-
tistics, ;which my readers can easily
verify, and pointing out that by actual
measurement -1 have just done it caxe-
fully ,the height of Sylvie, with the
dead hare, Is lust limier six diameters
af. her own head."
Mr. Furniss did not accept the idea
Of settlement by public dispute; neith-
er did he`try to correct Mr. Dodgson's
estimate of how many times, allowing
for proper perspective and `foresbort-
ening, a little girl's helete eh sold eon.' , Jester V✓bv Was TOO
tails the dipmeter of her heats, fie i
merely reiterated that be would not. Funny.
be turthex' iitterteriid xi'14. Iso ,flnteb
ed the ilustrations' of Irexvis Carroii's letu eph Sadler was one of the mast
last story; lied there been yet itnether velati eeeque rogues of the sevoilteetlth
ane the Rev' Mr' Det gson w°1141 i;ave the ro a it time Wheal). Item, Utle0 in
lied to secure another Illustrator. tete rogue business was ixeen. He -i vas
neither 4auriigeous nor dialing,- far
ClpYeir.' from it. in fact,- and yet there i+^as a
style about Mini that made hint an 111 -
Little mestere, hat in hand, dividual. For .example, he once stole
Let me In yopr presence stand,
the heaver hat of a gentleman who
Tjti your stlende solve for me was praying In the' Temple Chlifelr and
This your threefold mystery: in extenuation pleaded that we are em
jained "to watch as well as pray'
Telt me -for 1 long to know-- Sadler's crowning acnieveme•nt, says
Hotpritx darkness there below,- a writer 2n Discovery, was his theft of
Was^your fairy fabric 'spun, the Burse and mace of the Lord High
Spread and fashioned, three in one. Chancellor of Pngland. liow he ells -
covered in what strong room they were
Did your gossips..,,,, gold and blue secured is net known, but he not only
Sky and,sunshine,'cboose for you, took the baubles from their lurking
Fire your triple forma were seen, plaeelbut marches], -with them publicly
Suited liveries of ,green? • displayed tbroegll Lincol is Inn Melds.
A confederate bore the purse before
Can ye --1f ye dwelt indeed him, anotheS the mace, and Sadler
Captives of a.,psl4on seed-. brought' tilt the rear, hat'oockedand
Like the Genie, 0000 again arms akimbo, with as insolent and
Get ,you back into the grain? strutting grandeur.,
The little daughter of Sad�ier's"land.
Little masters, may I stand, lord discovered the theft, While she
In your presence, hat in hand, was playing in his apartment during
Waiting till you solve for me the great housebreaker's absencepshe
This your' three -told mystery? land a pearl and a piece of tinsel up•
-Folin B. Tabb; on the carpet. Anxious to know whetb-
------ a er there were more of tate pretty play-
THE
lay
THE ONE SURE WAY
things eoncealad about Lb; room, she
j]i� iljj�! rd A succeeded in opening the oupboa�'d
TOGOOD • HEALTH doo'Mr:other! another! Conte up here!"
+ vs cried the child excitedly. `"rbc gentle-
man has iiis Majesty's crown!"
TS. Beeping the Blood Pure by What she beheld in. point of fact,
was tete coronet, of the mace detached
R Using Dr. Williams' from its stook: The landlady warned
the watch, ani an ambush was lasts.
Pink Pills. Loud was 'lite laughter when the
facts become known and. Sgdier con-
fessed tq liavilfps figured as the Lord �M
High Commissfoner'•in that extraordin-losoramascsa
aryharlequinad'e in .Lincoln's Inn
rmpure,'weak blood is the cause of
most of the troubles that afflict peo-
ple. This is the cause of the wretched
feeling of lango{ir and faintness, pains
in the back and cede, hibadaehes and
breathlessness, that afflict weren't and
make her daily life a torture. To got
new health and strength the blood
must be enriched. What Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills do in cases of this kind is
told by Mrs. Augusta Emery, (Wood-
ford Station, Alta., wilt,- says: -"Liv-
ing on the prairie, and knowing that
there are thousands of women like
myself miles away from a doctor, I
want to tell them what D1. Williams'
Pink Pills have done for me. After
my first baby was born I seemed to
have little energy. I felt weary and
run-down and unable to do even the
ordinary household duties,I felt I
needed a tonic and as I had -long seen
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills advertised I
decided to try them. I got a supply
and carefully followed the directions
and. before very long the result was
wonderful. Day by tlhy I regained
my fainter strength; and energy. The
pills seemed to" give me a keen appe-
tite and I gained -in weight and soon
was able° not only to do my 'work
about the house but to help with many
chorea on the farm. For this reason
d would advise women, particularly
those on the prairie or the farm, -to
keep --a 'supply of these pills always
on hand. One trial will convince you
of their worth. I have recommended
them to many of my friends and never
have they failed to produce good re-
sults."
You can get these pills from your
druggist, or by mail at 50 cents a box
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
Great Hike.
"Well,- did you girls enjoy ,..your
hike?
'"it was simply great!. We were
pickets up by just the finest car before
wehad walked two miles."
A telling moment is when two we -
men meet.
Keep Minartl's Liniment In the House.
.25e
PER
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The Tobacco orQuality
Fie ids Loud was the laughter, but
poor Sadler was condemned to depth
in sober earnest. It Is' hard for a jester
to be taken quite so seriously.
NY SIX LITTLE ONES USED
BAY'S OWN TABLETS
Mrs. John A. Patterson, Scotch Vil-
lage, N.S., says: -"There are six child-
ren in our home, and the only medi-
cine they get is Baby's Own Tablets,
and I have not known the Tablets to
fall when a medicine was needed. No
mother -should be without the Tablets
1n the house." Like Mrs.- Patterson
thousands of other mothers are stdcic
to praise Baby's Own Tablets for
bringing -health and comfort to their
little ones. The Tablets are a mild
but thorough laxative which regulate'
the stomach and bowels, tats banish-
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and simple fevers, and making teeth-
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tain no opiates and are perfectly safe
for the youngest child. They are sold
byemedicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
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Teasing Mother.
I4jrs. Clemens was always a faithful
critic of .her distinguished husband's
writing, and Mark Twain in his auto-
biography and elsewhere gives grate-
ful testimony to the value of her sug-
gestions. in improving his literary
taste. But he could not blip having
a -little fun with her.
The children, he stays, always helped
their mother to edit my books in manu-
script. She would sit on the porch at
the farm and read aloud, with her pen-
cil in her hand, and the children would
keep an alert and suspicious eye upon,
her right along, for the belief was well
grounded, in them that -whenever she
came across a particularly satisfactory
pasage site would ,strike it out. Their ;
suspicions were well founded. The i
passages that were so satisfactory to!
them ahvays had an element of
strength in them, which sorely needed
modification or expurgation and Ras'
always sure to get it at their mother's
hand.
For my own entertainment and to
enjoy the protests of the. children I)
often abused'my editor's innocent con- I
fl•dence. I often interlarded remarks
of a studied and felicitously atrocious
character purposely to achieve the.
children's delight and see the pencil
de Its fatal work. I often joined my
supplications to the children's for
mercy and strung the advertent out,
i Pure Milk—No Sick Babies.
New that the hot days of summer
are with us, mothers' should give
stleeial attention to procuring. pure
milk for their Children and the house-
hold. Milk is one of our most nour-
ishing and cheapest fids; but unfor-
tunately it may also be a very danger-
ous food because of cefta in bacteria e
careless t
that get in from s handling, te
Its Drawback.
Housewife---"We'•re going to get as
electric washer, and so we won't need
you any more.
Laundress -"All right, lady, but an
electric washer don't give out no gos-
sip."
In order to perform an operation
on en Italian princess, a famous Am-
man surgeon recently travelled ape-
ially from New York to Rome, a dis-
ance of 4,500 miles.
These germs cause typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis o
and summer complaint of infancy.
Germs are like plants, they grow
best in a warm, moist place, and will
not thrive in the mills to any extent
if the milk is kept cold -as cold as
deep well water. It should be chilled
immediately after milking, and should
only be delivered to you in bottles that
have been thoroughly washed and
sterilized. When it reaches you, do
not let it stand in a warm place, but
keep it chilled. Some people used to
say that thunder would emir the milk.
Don't blame the thunder -it has no-
thing to do with it -it is the warm
weather that 'Accompanies It and the
fact that the milk is not kept cold.
What can we do to prevent disease
being transmitted through milk? Let
us find out all'we can about how the
milk we drink is produced. Pay a
visit to your dairy and satisfy your-
self -that the cows, the utensils, and
dairymen are scrupulously clean.
f you can, use on y pasteurize or
1z 1 d
certified milk as pasteurization is our
best safeguard against the spread of
disease through milk.
Itis the duty of parents to save the
lives of many children this summer
by giving them good, pore, safe milk
and
pretended to be in Dain
earnest, est, It was t
three against one and meet Unfair,:
But it was very delightful, and I could
+not resist the temptation, Now and
then we gained the victory, and there
was much rejoicing. Then I privately;
struck the passage out thyself, It had
served its purpose. It had furnished'
three et us with good eutertainnsett.l
and in being removed from the book I
by nee it was only suffering the_fate
originally intended ter it.
Where Dogwood Got its Name
The dogwood tree derives its name
from a long eonnectiouwith butchers,
and not from any mettle associations,
Prof, T. C. Frye, Of the botany delimit -
meet of the university of Washing.
ton, says.
"Fears ago, when meat Wae rcasteti
oven an open lire, elicits of bard wood
to withstand thaeheat were put in the
meat to keep it from falling apart
When .dorso," said Prof, Frye. "The
sticks were of dagger wood, This was
later shortened to dogwood,
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(Signed) Miss Margaret Danyow,
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Relieved by Lydia E Pink -
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1 • Verdun, Montreal, Quebec. - "I am
mw of thousands who have taken Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
I have great faith in it. I can safely
say it has relieved my troubles and I
shall never be without a bottle of it itt
my house. Since my last baby was
born I suffered frompains and backache
and would feel so tired I could not do f
anything in niy home. Since 1 hav
been taking the Vegetable Comppouu
and Lydia E. Pinkham's Elood Medioin
I feel so. different. I recommend it
all my friends and hope it will cure oth
women who are suffering from the tree-
hQiesueb1. Lad."• -Mrs. Te0S. H. GntcDIcER,s
821 Evelyn Street, Verdun, Montreal,(
ec.
1, Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Coma
pound is a dependable medicine for the
new mother. it is prepared fromroots
I and herbs, contains no harmful drugs
and can be talc\, n by the nursing mother-
' Its worth in ilestoring the mother to'
' normal health and strength is told again
and again in just;such letters as 'Mrs.
i Gardner writes..
-
A recent Canvass of women users of
the Vegetable Compound shows that •
98 out of every 100 women taken the '
medicine are benefited by it. Whey
write and tell us so, Snrlievidetlse en -
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for women. Itis for sale by druggists
everywhere
ISSUE No. 24-'23.�