The Brussels Post, 1917-9-27, Page 2DC
Stitches in Time. with a magneto; as the engine starts
Be careful to dry the spokes of a best when magneto spark is advanced.
The novice jacks up his wheel to
wire wheal rafter washing • As the 1 put on a chain—not so the exporeneod
enamel chips off the metal rust starts motorist. There are two ways of sp-
end loosens more of it. Careful dry- plying the chain, One is to drape it
ing will prevent this to a great extent. over the wheel, .the other is to lay it
Every time you change a wire wheel on the ground and run the car over it.
put grease on the metal surfaces of The latter method, apart from the dif-
wheel spindle where the hub touches fieulty of steering in straight over
it. If this is not done the wheel will something you cannot see, has the ad-
rust and stick to the spindle and it ded disadvantage that the chain on a
will be extremely difficult to separate. muddy road is in bad condition to
6,000 MILES. IN
A COCKLESHELL
FROM MONTE VIDEO, URUGUAY.
TO ENGLAND.
Amazing Voyage by One Who Wanted
to Cross the Ocean for the "Big
Scrap" hi Flanders.
In. these days of enemy submarines
and mines any kind or sea voyage Is a
hazardous undertaking. What, then,
must have been a six4housanq-mile
trip, in rough weather, on board a tiny
tug ?
Be careful that the spare the on the Quite recently the writer undertook
handle. So drape it over the wheel such a trip, It oecupied over eleven
rear of the car does not hide part of and you will have a much cleaner job. weeks, and involved enough hair -
the number plate, and that the plate Apply it in such a way that the points breadthlonglifetime•
death -dodging to last him a
of the Bross links are away from
For some time I had been in the em-
ploy of a meat -canning concern at
Monte Video; Uruguay, South Ameri-
is properly lighted at night, The police the
in many sections are enforcing the law tire, so as to prevent them from cut
very strictly, and you will find that ting into it,
paying a fine is a very expensive way The proper use of the extra or spare
to learn of such mistakes. tire which every autoist should carry ca; but for various reasons, both
When following other pars on a will enable him to make such examine- national and personal, I +wished to re -
crowded country road, watch out for tions and repairs at the proper time. turn .home, says Mr. A. M. Smith, in a
a sudden stop. Get in the habit of At regular intervals the extra tire can London paper. In war -time, however,
running the car slightly off the road, be used to replace one of the service getting a passage to England was
if there is room, so that if the brakes tires, and the one removed should be neither easy nor cheap. After one or
do ndt hold you will be in no danger gone over immediately, All the eute, two disappointments I heard of a
of hitting the car ahead. cracks, and breaks should be sealed by, favorable chance, and lost no time in
.Among the necessaries when tour- vulcanizing, and the weak places re- grasping it. Heroes were wanted to
ing should be a supply of tire valves inforced. If a car is in constant ser- take a tug to Cardiff, and 1, who knew
and caps. A. slight leak in a valve vice, one tire exchange per week, and little and thought less of the kind of
will cause as much delay as a. blow- in rotation, will enable one to keep job I was rushing at, engaged for the
out. A good valve is often hard to all the tires in as good eondition as service. I rued only once, and that
obtain when on the road and consid- possible. Of course, this period de- was practically from the moment of
erable annoyance can be avoided by, pends upon the driver and condition sailing until the day S set foot in the
carrying these accessories. A valve of the roads travelled. By this ar- Welsh coal capital.
tap and die should also be added.
When using the self-starter be sure
that the spark is retarded as a back
rangement the extra tire will be kept
in good repair for emergency calls,
with the emergencies reduced to a
kick may wreck the mechanism. This1rninimum, and in most cases the tire
is not necessary if the car is equipped, mileage will be almost doubled.
WRITING WITH LEFT HAND.
Sensible Method Which Will be of
Value to Many Soldiers.
The difficulty of educating a right-
handed person to Write with the left
hand, and the best method of overcom-
ing it, is described by Major Edwin FI.
Nashe, of the British Army Medical
Corps, in a Ietter to The Lancet. As
many persons, by reason of an injury
to the right arm or hand find them-
selves faced with this problem, what
Dr. Nashe says is important, especial-
ly as it is based upon personal ex-
perience.
Dr, Nashe undertook to treat a thir-
teen -year-old boy whose right side was
paralyzed and who had been given up
as hopeless by the teachers of many
schools. He found the trouble was
that the teachers, unable to write with
their left hands, tried to get the boy
to copy with his left hand the motions
they were making with their right.
His brain was unable to perform this
looking glass act of translation. So
Dr. Nashe determined to learn to write
with his left hand,and then to get the
boy to copy his motions. This he did
with highly satisfactory results.
The secret of success lies in exactly
reversing the right hand position of
paper and pencil. Instead of the up-
per edge of the paper sloping up to the
right, it should slope up to the left.
The line of the writing should slope
down from left to right at an angle of
about fifty degrees with the edge of To know that youth sees still life's
the desk, and the slope of the writing holier way,
should be backwards at an angle of Though friends in sorrow wait in vain
about 45 degrees to the writing line. to see
"In this method," writes Dr. Nashe, His fair young face. Yet with these
"It will be found that the fingers are we say,
in the most natural position for writ -
'Tis
ing, the arm and the wrist being in a Tis sweet to live with heroes such as
straight line, and there being a wide he.
sweeping motion of the wrist If re -
Transcendent faith that like the morn -
AT DUTY'S CALL.
(Lines written on the death of
Angus McIntosh, of Port Elgin, Ont.)
By W. A. Sherwood.
From far-off farm and college hall
they go,
First at their country's call and
scarcely deem
A matter of much consequence to show
The world how Christian lads can
cross life's stream,
Though high the flood of raging tor-
rents flow.
The length of days is not life's
measurement,
Nor years of toil the fulness of the
man;
Nay, he whose mind is on high pur-
pose bent
Treads well life's path, ere youth's
fair morn is spent,
And wins the goal for which he early
ran.
Thus do we sing of those at Vimy
Ridge,
At Lens and other fields of martial
fame,
Who at the call leaped headlong o'er
life's bridge,
Into the tide of death unstained by
shame.
With McIntosh we link each glorious
name.
Thus college hall and farm will better
.quired." This is much easier to learn
than writing straight across, and re-
sults in less cramping of the fingers.
A. fine pen is the tool to use; a
broad pen results in blots because its
point is cut for right handed writing,
and there must be no attempt at hur-
ry in the beginning.
She Ought to Know.
Charles, aged five, having been told
that baby sister had just arrived from
heaven, marched into the room and The persistency with which the use
said: "Now, Miss Baby, tell us all of corn -bread is being urged in order
about heaven 'fore you forget it" to conserve wheat flour, will no doubt
have the effect of keeping the price of
Why owe a letter interminably corn at a profitable figure.
when, after all, the actual writing of To make fly -papers, melt some
the letter is no work at all? resin, and, while soft, add some sweet
The greatest eel breeding farm in ' oil, so that when cold it is about the
the world is in Italy, the industry hay- consistency of honey. Spread the
log been carried on in a swamp for, mixture on newspapers, and burn
centuries.
iwhen covered with flies.
ing star
Glows still more beauteout as the
night departs,
So when the darkness of this wicked
war
Shall pass away, communion then of
hearts
Will bind us here in love that none
can mar.
Bedlam Aboard.
Our "ship," some eighty-five feet
long, fifteen or sixteen feet beam, with
a gross tonnage of ninety, would have
been an ideal boat for some ornament-
al lake in a park. Perdiz was the
name she owned to, though I shall al-
ways associate her with a similarly -
sounding word of three syllables.
Owing to the lack of bunker -room
for coal our voyage'was to be ,made in
stages. The first stage was to Rio
Janeiro, a distance of just over one
thousand miles. We made it 1n dis-
comfort, and,,six days.
At Rio our skipper left us, and the
flrst•oflicer, a young fellow of about
two -and -twenty, took cbarge. I am
certain he was many times sorry after-
wards that he did.
Pernambuco was our next port, or
should have been, but, owing . to
serious engine trouble, we had to put
back into Rio, and stay there for re-
pairs four days. Once again shipshape,
we reached Buco all right, and then
trouble arrived in heaps.
It began among the men—a very
mixed and lively lot. Against their
own agreement when signing on they
now demanded shore leave and money
to spend. As an alternative to whole-
sale desertion the skipper gaye way to
them, and dished out a small sum per
man. After that we had .Bedlam
aboard, and three men were paid off
as potential murderers.
Riding the Storm.
From 'Buco we next headed for St.
Vincent, in the Cape Verde Islands—
a run of nearly seventeen hundred
miles. Here I might mention a fact
which will illustrate the really risky
nature of our voyage.
The...bunker capacity of our vessel
was not more than thirty tons, yet, to
reach St, Vincent, we needed at least
eighty tons of coal. To manage this
we stowed on deck, in sacks, fifty tons
of fuel, a risky proceeding at any time,
and in our circumstances exceedingly
dangerous. The overload sank our
craft until she was awash aft, and
when we ran into rough weather—as
we did two days out from 'Buco—she
was flooded from stem to stern. Cab-
in, galley, and engine -room were deep
in water, our clothes and nearly all
the food being drenched, so that we
could get neither a dry change nor a
warm meal.
Fpr sixty hours we rode the storm,
pumping until the pumps choked.
Then we bailed for life for two days
and nights. To make things worse,
several of the men fell sick, and this
entailed extra work on the others, who
were already worn out. Another en-
gine breakdown seemed to presage a
dive, but somehow we managed to
keep on top, Immediately we touched
St. Vincent half the men were put un-
der a doctor, which is saying enough.
Five days in port did all of us a
power of good. More hopeful, if not
exactly cheerful, . we started for Ma
Beira,. but an avalanche of fresh
trouble compelled the skipper to make
for Teneriiffe instead.
'Drifting Sideways and Backwards.
Once more it was the ergines, The
boiler pipes would not draw, and all
attempts to uiake them .de so proving
vain, the englneroom hands were
fgreed to take strong measures,
Drawing the fires, they waited hours
for the boiler to cool, then unscrewed
the door, and filled up the tank with
water from. buckets. Replacing the
door, the fires were relighted and
steam got up • again, This laborious
process never took less than four•and-
twenty hours, and all the time aur.
vessel was 'drifting, sideways and
backwards.
Once we went through :the opera-
tion in a terrific gale, with four feet of
water in the otokebold, I think the
only reason why we did not founder
was that some member of ear crew.
was horn to be hanged.
At Teneriffe, which was reached on
the ninth day out, all but two of the .
men demanded to be paid off. On the
captain refusing to comply, the •dis-
contents began to steal the ship's
stores and sell these ashore, with the
result that one or two of the ring-
leaders found their way into gaol.
Eventually live were discharged, so
BRITANNIA'S ROLL CALL.
As in a dream I saw a host
Tike sands beside the sea,
And every roan was but the ghost
'Of what he used Eo be,
Yet still they marched with martial
mien,
Scars healed and cripples whole,
And answered, while with sobs be.
tween
Britannia called the roll.
We ares the men who .died for you
From castle, court and hall,
The gilded youth, the tried and trno,
Who had, and gave -yeti all;
Noblesse oblige—at your command,
Through war's red gate we passed.
To that strange unimagined land
Wherein the first are last,
We are the men who died net you
In stifling, baffling waves;
Por us no tears, as tribute due,
On peaceful churchyard graves.
Instead, our weary bones are tossed
To alien deeps and bourns,
Where only for the loved and lost
The loneseabird mourns.
We are the men who died for you,
From factories, shops, and farms;
that when we resailed we were more We dropped the tasks we used to do
than ever short-handed. And changed our tools for arms,'
As it happened, however, though we And in -the inch by inch advance
were now in the war zone and en- Through labyrinths orcaves,
countered rough weather until we We filled the ruined fields of France
reached home, the tlnal stage of our With harvests of fresh graves.
trip was. almost without incident. All
the same, when we dropped anchor at We are the men who died for you,
Cardiff nobody felt regret at leaving The disinherited,
the Perdiz, and .I ani sure none of us The low -born, slum -bred, reckless few
would voluntarily court disaster in Who also fought and bled.
such a tub again, In life dishonored ancfdenied,
With the elect we stand,
TRUE. TO FORM. They asked us where we lived and
Easier to be Heroes in -the Trenches; Vire said in No Man's Land. r
Than to be Heroes at Home.
In France, nowadays, the soldiers We are the men who died for you,
ivho have won medals are almost Gathered from ends of earth,.
ashamed, since they know that nearly As welcome and as .loyal, too
all of their comrades merit them. But As men of English bitch,
it is often easier for them to be heroes We gave to serve our mother's needs
in the trenches than to be heroes in Our love, our blood, our breath,
their own families. Of different breeds and different
One of the men in our hospital at creeds,
Royanmont, says Miss Kathleen Burke But brothers all in death.
in The White Road to Verdun, had
been in the trenches during au attack. We whom the gods love died for you,
A grenade thrown py one of the By water, air or fire,
French soldiers struck the parapet
and rebounded among the" men. With
that rapidity of thought that is part
of the French character, Nules_sat on
the grenade and extinguished ft. For
that act of bravery he was decorated
by the French government, and wrote
home to tell his wife. I found him
sitting up in bed, gloomily reading her
reply, and I inquired why he looked
so glum.
"Well, mademoiselle," he replied,
"I wrote to my wife to tell her of my
new honor, and see what she says: 'My
dear Jules. We are not surprised you
got a medal for sitting on a hand gren-
ade; we have never known you to do
anything else except sit down at
home 1."
BUILDINGS OFi + CANADA.
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Of approximately 2,000,000 build-
ings in Canada, less than one-tenth of 'descriptively speaking, is not ,inap-
one per cent have been built with propriate. At worst, it is harmless.
proper consideration of safety from I But there is another species of toad -
fire. In the cities and towns from, fish, native to the waters along the
which statistics are available, almost lsouthern coasts of the 'United States,
'70 per cent. of the. construction is! that is very dangerous. It carries on
frame. The vast majority of brick; its back, just behind the head, two
buildings are structurally .defective , spines that are hollow and connectat
their bases with venom glands:
The whole arrangement, indeed, is
structurally Very similar to that of
the .twin fangs in the upper jaw of a
And some to war's wild wreckage
threw
Rent lute and unstrung lyre;
Others shall hear your trumpets blow
When victory ends the strife,
We are content, for now you know
We loved you more than -life.
—Julia S. Dinsmore,
FISHES THAT CARRY VENOM
Natives of the Southern Coasts of
North America. ,
if you a fishing go anywhere along
the New England coast, you are more
likely than not to catch a Gape Cod
minister.
Such, one regrets to say, is the dis-
respectful name given to a particular-
ly hideous kind of fish, about six
inches long, that is an angler's
plague in those waters. It is mostly
mouth, and nobody, so far. as known,
has ever tried to eat it.
Its other name is "toadfish"—which,
and inadequately protected, and only
one in every 1,200 is even nominally
fireproof.
With such conditions prevailing, the
enforcement of measures regulating rattlesnake, with the genom glands
thereto pertaining. -
Experiments have proved that pres-
sure on these spines causes them read -
future construction cannot immediate-
ly effect any substantial reduction in
the volume of fire waste. There are
sufficient combustible buildings in ily to .eject their venom, which is
Canada to supply the present rate of thrown out with such force as to
loss indefinitely. squirt for a -distance of two feet.
There is no question of the danger-
ous character of the glandular secre-
tion, and Dr. Barton A. Bean, of the
Smithsonian Institution, who has made
a study, of this toadfish, is inclined to
believe the fishermen's stories of
deaths caused by careless handling of
specimens captured.
1'
The loss to Britain caused by farm
pests—the rat, the mouse, the house
sparrow, and the wood-pigeon—is es-
timated at 240,000,000 annually,
In 1913, South Africa imported 21,-
262,000 eggs. This year it will be
found that over 2,000,000 have been
exported, after' local requirements had
Upon the average, fire occurs every
year in one out of every 80 buildings
in cities and towns. Fire prevention
is concerned, therefore, not only with
the erection of new buildings, but with
what is of equal or even greater im-
portance --correction of the worst
faults in existing buildings so that
they may be less liable to destruction.
Strawberries like good, clean culti-
vation, fertile soil, and that really is
all they do require,
Professor — "What planets were
known to the ancients?".. Student--
"Well,
tudent—"Well, sir, there were Venus and Jupi-
ter, and"—after a pause --"I think the
earth, but I ani not certain." been filled.
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breakfast foods and bread,
Shredded Wheat Biscuit
is 100 per cent. whole wheat
grain prepared in a digestible
form—contains more real nu-
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potatoes and costs much less.
Serve with milk or cream,
sliced peaches, bananas or
other fruits..
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CARVING FACES
FOR WARHEROES
WOUNDS OF BATTLE COVERED
BY MASKS.
War Now Makes Art a Supplement to
the Surgeon's Skill in Badly
Mutilated Cases.
An entirely new form of art has
been produced by the war, that of
carving and painting artifihial faces
for men whose features have been
badly mutilated either in war or by a
serious surgical operation, Francis
Derwent Wood, Associate of the Royal
Academy and a famous sculptor, is
attached to the staff of the Third Lon-
don General Hospital as- a lieutenant,
and it is his work to make art supple-
ment surgery. ; -
In an article in the Lancet, Lieut.
Wood describes his methods. Where
the surgeon leaves' off he begins; his
"cases" are usually those which plas-
tic surgery has been obliged to aban-
don because the grafting of bone and
muscle and„skin has been carried to
the limit of possibility, and the unfor-
tunate subject is left with his wounds
healed, but noseless, eyeless, some-
times'with a deep hole where cheek
bones and jaws have been, -a hole
covered with grafted flesh and skin,
but that makes the face such a hor-
rible object that even the truest of
friends would shudder at the sight of
it.
"The features," writes Lieut. Wood,
"may have been originally ugly or
beautiful. As they were in life so I
try to reproduce them, beautiful -or
ugly; the one desideratum is to make
them natural."
Silver -Plated Mask.
First of all a plaster-of-Paris cast
of the patient's face is made. From
this a positive model is made. A mould
from this is built up to match the cor-
responding features or from pre -
wound photographs. When this is
erfeet and: accurately fitted, an elec-
trotype is made in copper 1-32 of an
Inch in .thickness._ Such attachments
as glass eyes are added and the whole
is silver plated.
The mask is usually secured to the
face by means of spectacles, but spirit
gum and ribbons have sometimes to
be used, varying with the character
of the wounded area.
The mask is now painted to match
the patient's complexion. This is
done in oil colors on a thin coating of
creamcolored spirit enamel.
"I do not use false hair for eye-
brows and eyelashes now," writes the
sculptor. "The eyebrows are painted
to match and the eyelashes I make of
thin metallic foil, carefully soldered
to the plate, mit finely by scissors and
tinted to match. I purchase the plain
glass eye -sections and paint the eye
match on. the concave reverse myself.
Sometimes I do not use glass at all,
but paint a semblance to match dr -
eat upon the metal: mask."
Readjustments have to be made
from time to time as the contours and
colors of the face change.
Cheese contains the same flesh -
building material as meat, and can be
used in place of meat.
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THE SULTAN'S
HIDDEN N T EA URE
COLLECTED FOR CENTURIES I3)!
TURIiEY1S RULERS.
Throne of Beaten GoklAdorned With
Millions of Precious Creme of
Great Price. a
In the Green Vaults of the Porte -
lies hidden away wllat is perhaps the
greatest treasure in the worldacollect.
ed for centurlel by Turkey's greedy
rulers and hoarded away from. the
gaze of any .inquisitive mortal. No
one has ever been able to estimate the
value of the Sultan's jewels, for the
treasures are guarded day and night.
There are at least twelve sets of
heavily -barred doors to pass before
the actual entrance is reached to this
Aladdin's cave. For every lock there
aro two keys entrusted to as many
custodians, each having twenty-four
guards. These are supposed to spy
on each other as well as protect the
guardians of the keys.
The jewels appear to consist main-
ly of set and unset ,precious -'stones.
All information regarding tlTm, how-
ever, is kept secret, because of ' the;
impoverished condition of the country,
andlf the exact amount of the Sul-
tan's wealth was discovered certain
unscrupulous leaders, sudh as Enter
Pasha and his Young Turks, might be
tempted to "break in an steal." The
gossipers of Constantinople say, how-
ever, that if a person offered $3,000,-
000,000 for the Green Vaults' /and se-
cured their contents- he would make a
great bargain.
Golden Throne From Persia.
Perhaps the throne of beaten gold,
adorned with millions of rubies,
;pearls, diamonds,. sapphires, and emer-
alds, set in mosaic, is the most dea-
ling object in the treasury of the
"Shadow of God on Earth." How
Selim I. ever brought it from Persia
away back in the fifteenth century,
when traveling was so difficult, is
quite beyond human comprehension.
Nowhere in the world are there pre-
cious stones to compare with the two
great emeralds which adorn the top
of the Sultan's throne. One of them
weighs 4 lb., and is as big as a man's
hand, the other being a trifle smaller.
On a table of ebony and sandal-
wood, within reach of the throne,
stands a marvelous golden tankard
encrusted with 4,000 diamonds. By
its side lies a platter wrought of the
purest gold and literally veneered
with diamonds. On the ground sur-
rounding this dazzling sight are scat-
tered thousands of rubies, pearls, tur-
quoises, and emeralds, mingled with
exquisitely -carved, diamond buttons.
The magnitude of the whole thing
makes one gasp with amazement.
.There are effigies,,of the Sultans
clad in robes of Sta a from 14J1 to
1889, with jewels on the feathers of
their turbans, daggers, and swords
which are priceless, as are the won-
derful rubies and emeralds in the
clasps of Ibrahaim and Solyman II.
Treasury of Useless Wealth.
No museum in the world can boast
a richer collection of armor, scimitars,
shields,, pistols, saddles, sandals,`
canes, and the like, an bejeweled or
wrought of gold.
When the Sultana gives a banquet
in herharem the treasury is general-
1y raided for the occasion. At one of
these revels bouquets of diamond
flowers stretching from shoulder to
shoulder were worn liy the Sultan's
favorites. The Sultana herself was
adorned with ropes of pearls of un-
paralleled size, and in her -.ears were
birds the size of butterflies holding in
their beaks sparkling gems. The'Sul--
tan's grand -daughter, a mere infant
of eleven, used to be tortured by hav-
ing her hair done up in a knot on the
top of her head inside a diamond
crown, the front of her dress covered --
with diamond orders, while ]ler hands
were encased with golden mittens(
studded with precious stones.
Few are aware that the Sultan is in
receipt of the largest income paid to
any earthly sovereign—something
like $5,500,000 a year—and has the
right to ash for more should hie privy
purse run short, The treasury of
useless wealth hoarded away in the
Green Vaults, if converted into cash
and used for national purposes, would
transform the miserable Ottoman
Empire into one of the richest pow-
ers in the world.
Knew What a Sapling Was.
An American ambulance driver late-
ly returned from the French front
tells of visiting an instruction camp in
England before sailing for the United
States. A gunner, he said, was learn-
ing to shoot at targets, and the officer.
in charge asked the novice:
"You see that sapling on the hill-
side?" -
"No, sir," replied the gunner after a
careful look, "I don't see no sapling."
"What," yelled the officer, "you see
no sapling? Why, there's one right in
front of you!"
After another squint the soldier re- --
ported as before.
"Look here," said the officer, "do
you know what -a sapling is?" - w
"Oh, yes, sir," answered the gunner,
"a young pig."
Save the best potatoes front the best
hills—that is, trots the largest and
Most productive • planta --for next
year's seed,
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