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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-08-20, Page 6For th Boys and Girls ORIGIN OF SOME NURSERY RHYMES BY K.ATRINA DEANE, -• "Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper," old ballad, which tells of Richard III of which,if any of you have not `murdering his own dear little heard, T feel very sorry for you, is a nephews. 'very old story. Thousands of years The story of "Little Red Riding ago it was told to boys and girls. The Hood" is found in the German, but original read that. an eagle stole the not exactly as we tell it in English. slipper of a very pretty Egyptian The Germans have a gepat variety lady and bore it off. It dropped it, of young -folk -lore, or stories for little and some one carried it to the king, ones. who madeit known all over the king "Mother Goose" was a real person. dem that ho would marry the lady She ,lived iu Boston. 'Her daughter whose tiny foot it should fit. And so Elizabeth married the printer, Tom Cinderella, the cinder -girl, became Fleet, who gathered up the nursery queen. In France, Germany' and this melodies of his mother -in -low and pub - country the story has taken several lashed them. shapes, and has always been a fav- I mast tell you of the meaning of A rake group of three great. Canadiau poets, at Maskoka Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman and Wilson Macdonald. ssembly. tion. Besides, ou a dark night two's company and cue's lonesome, self. "Any dealer would give that; and, being oat to work, the matey It was thus that Diana learned of would les useful to hint." HOSPITALS IN THE SKIES Sixteen Years of Air Triumphs. Sixteen years ago, on July man `made himself world-fallious end wrote his name for all time en the scroll of adventure and achievement. This :annelid fon' the first tithe what is now done-seeeral times a 'day. He; flew the Clander. His name was Louis j3loriot. Nowadays it docs not sound much of en adventure to. cross the English Channel upon wings, but when Bieriot accomplished what was then thought to be impossible Ise did' it on 'a tiny monoplane with an engine of only 25 11oes;e-power, : Auything-meght have happened, ti d th was 25th a eariving wel over a "dozed $assengers le'a,simple task for some of -our -big 'planes, Frons being; then, simply a spectacu- lar and. hazardous, foaan of epgrt, .in sixteen• years-, flying has become a re- liable' and useful means of transport in, all` weathers except when there :is fog. The fog difficulty is being over- come by experiments. with wireless. Consider, too, the Vikers "Vimy" ambulance, now h1 use in some parts of the world. This machine,;' carrying two 450 horse -power engines,' has ac- eemmodatie, for a crew of two, a doe, PP. . 1. EVERYDAY HEROES .Have you ever considered that there are thousands of people who live bravely every day;there they ate fighting poverty, oppreseion, disease, and death in a happy fashion, never oomp'la.ining nor -explaining away their Tot. There le little reeogndtiOn for them, and they dont ask for it,, Willey Met plod along day by day, `summer and winker. Ask them how they do : ite and they will pretend not to know, By accept- ing what acmes they'.maks the best of things. They. ask for no eympathy and tltey will assure 'you they aro as hap - happened, los' aft a. me ea tor, nurse, and four stretcher'cases or pi as anybody else, always very -close to the aerial pioneer, eight sitting up" ca,s'es. The interior But think of their flgb1 Little to re- Bieriot's reward was $5,000 and fame, of its•.cabin is not unlike' a miniature lime their daily monotony, yet they He seared both. To eros's• the narrow hospital are always in the line of fire and never strip of water' on that. primitive ma- chine w tempting Pate indeed' • 'Wonderful•long-distance flights, sueli get to the base. of thinga. Sometimes ea the England -Australia and New- they get wounded, but their courage as' e [V Three Mlles a Minnie. foundlantldlieland journeys; etre almost doesn't fail; and somehow Usa wounds It i bewildering to think of the pro- too numerous to mention, .become healed. Toffee they laugh s bewildering and trouble they cheat by d the •' since that red Wireless has been united with flight away, . letter have on, The dtypike ex- da lin re' orders of thousands of such people in every; ti•euies have been reached typically in � days of radio telephony the the • laud, and often beneath thou laughter :•ti tread grass made in le cars n i I within cent memory. Before file ing upon it and defying it. There are Mien the Evro baby motor glider of 3% a 'squadron -leader were sent too a au , a experience Brite. an aid nursery rhyme. Four and Joan Barton's half -discovered secret.' I She opened the noon again. Little Jack Hor- twenty beackbirds made into a pie , She showedsuclleardentausTintelligent she leapt to her fent and ran to the horse-uorver and in one or two types pilots in the air by means- of a code, and singing there loss an exile I must toll you of in the reignof these are the :four -and -twenty hours; iatereet that the youug chemist poured! sviirclosv. ! of giant aeroplanes carrying Napier I but to -day air -drill instructions are that has brought theme through can- ner. In England, H rner, of the. day, The "pis" is the space his story ' into her ears night alter 1 "sire gasped. "It's, and Aldstlsliot Cub engines of 1,000 'transmitted in the air by means of Mot and pain. Henry VIII, there lived a Mr. o yI cant believe it. g p ed to tear dossrn between the earth and the sky—the eight. v ndeefui to be true!" i And we have progressed telephony, file pilots hearing their' cool- Other people, who ,seem to have 3 �nry, the king wish too r o the fine monasteries and abbeys- fat -looking ground being the bottom "21 I could hit the formula," he said,' of Fhngiand, sell their lands and pocket crust, the birds in between, and the i' , money. sky being the cue:. -•u top crust. This Mr. Horner was butler, or "When the pis was opened," i, e., sa.aathin ' to an old abbot, who when the day began to break. "The "I might—if 1 bad the means, said ; g, stance, who were. elle keenest rivals. ;Journey he alt exposed to ilio draught thought he would gain favor with birds began to sing," i, e., the hems stuck, "I've got to a Point where I'm gAn hour later` Diana stepPsd into a of his propeller, while his cockpit was Henrybygiving him twelve of his to begin merrily. "The -king in the stuck, not for ideas hut ,far cash, With 1 taxi and directed the delver to "Kee- by no means a lap of luxury. When Y ' ver best and richest monasteries, So parlor counting out money"; the a few hundreds I might succeed le a •the air traveller today, in ills•Ilaaldley- yton :Manor, Stanton Heath" the abbot sent deeds' of them to the "king" is the sun, the monarch of the fore months; without, ft may years." if : ;Page or his Instone alt liner, flies 9s a phi1nto11s,t. and a reader of • fromspeer, of round about thirtyj menden' above the roar • of the aorta : everything desirable for a happy life, from spe�sids� I "it would revolutionize steel. We could ; stamp news, ihsae was uo collector in miles an hour to Dues 200 miles an beat the world again," ; Britain whose name she did not knew. - hour And 3013 will) thrilled Diana• r tw at B1ac:l llani, for ha When Bleriot 'started 'On hie perilous Th king by thia John Horner. But Hoc- day. 'There he is enthroned in the ner thought, as re "sat in a corner sty. a is a t 'Ask father," said Diana, "It's busi- Presently she found 005315across the Channel, be 'does so in a 1 th I He said to be counting ou Hess." I Prsseuce of a shabby old man, seated; comfortable armchair, and he may use thesunshine is gold "Ile hates me for the part I took in • ata huge writing -table In the middle I read with ease, or lake refreshment, or that the carriage wwould se his way to the great color;mone,beta 1 of a vast 'room. He was the Earl of he would see what all those great corer; see how he "counts it out," the stripe," f i glance at the panorama of cloud and iso was carrying should flings it about him, the beautiful gel- I—I—didn't know you—then,"whir A41rgiey, 1 seascape. No draught. No cold. And, papers which y g 41 . "What can I do for you? tie said. mean. "He put in his thumb and den sunshine. "The queen upstairs peied'Diaua, her heart Milking. She Il ive 'ou ever seen a path of blue, bearing iii "mind the light ' fatality pulled out a plum"—i. e., he opened eating bread and honey." Of course, and read the deeds, put the one for if the king is the sun, the queen is the the largest piece of land in his own moon. "The maid in the garden, pocket, gave the rest to the king at hanging out clothes." This "maid" London and came home and told iris is Aurora, the goddess not of the day, saw John's face harden. " 3' 1figures, little risk. "It was nothing to'e Aly wages M'auritus?" said Diana, in e. level Other situs of progress are equally remained the same whatever nmhappen-'Voice• iderin Onl a few weeks ago a ed. But I knew the pud.dlers were not I The old man's features began to A(oth" true -seater aeroplane was flown getting a living wage. Perhaps' I was NW'k convulsively, Ile glared at Diana ! t ] an master that Henry VIII, for his but of the dawn Now, "up jumped a a fool—I sided with them," 1 as dhaugil s 11at1 tl from London to Zurich and back, a dis- tance of 1,000 miles, in a day. Anil fidelity, had made him a present of little bird and nipped offher nose." "But that's --three yeaus ago. Dad h Did thatrosary insulted lted hibih m e.1 one of the large tracts of land. "Blue Beard," too, is very old. He is supposed to be Giles Delaval, Lord of. Rais, and was Marshal of Prance in 1429, The little bird who did this very un- has forgotten. Call to -morrow night. gallant taring is,; of course, the first I know he'll be in. Tell him what you hour of the day, for Aurora, or dawn, have told me. You eau do no harm 1f disappears as soon as the king, or you do no good,' sun, arises. I think that this old bale But even Diana did not realize how plane engines, This is, perhaps, the are as anaemic, as 11Cele5s as snails. most remarkable development at all. Surely, if anything %hauled make people In France, too, an aeroplane has been happy, money, pleasure,' ales' homes, flown for ehortperiode finder wireless and friends ouglitto secure it? Often n c itti•ol—that is, without a pilot being it is Lhe reverse. People who have all on board. —fuel's than .ail—they 'want are as Wireless is als-o 1100d on the regular. mi'ser'able as human nature can be. Continental air • routes. By its- use They are :fretful and whining, worry. pilots are enabled to ascertain their ing about their possessions, with no position osition should• they become lost time to .give to oilier claims of life, in haze or fog, and they can also re- They have but little heroism about port their positions to the chief aero- them. Yes; it's a withering thing to themes, live only for oneself. ,1 short time ago an air passenger Who are the people yeti admire most on the other aide of the Atlantic de- in life? Not those Cor whom every ceded that he would like to 'buy up bar- tiling 1's done by sonteone else. Ser.UMtain shares without delay. By means vents are all very well, but for tint- of wireless, and Rhilo still in the air, portant things the best help is self- -he got into tench with hie stockbroker help.- The men who stand highest in and secured the Shares! the world aro those who accept what —wretch—send 1 You here—to ask that question? he' stretched, and his plead bath fallen up - stuttered. ' - I on them. "No, ind•oed! Has he got one?" At the sound of her voioe' he looked asked Diana, I up. But alta h,arl never seen 'hint look The question seemed to send the old so haggard, so tragic! man frantic. "Dad," she said, "what is it?" "Gat ons! Got one!" he fumed. "I'll have—to shut down," he said, in "Didn't he outwit and outbid me at the a hopeless voice.. "1 can't—go on. All Gaston sale three years ago for the the big contracts are going to Sweden. "Babes 2 "something, that has the door upon them, siva deliberately only pair that has been in the. lancet in the Woods" is a vary of the hind abouttOo for forty years? I was a tool not to touching story, 7 think the origin of happened than to have to "make it all .listened on the other side, She heard o an, They're worth double forties. this may be considered a very, very up as you go along," you know. John's rather lame explanation 01 his g "Jack, the Giant -killer," came from lad had this simple and quaint sig implacable her father could be, India. He breai c forth in all sorts affixation., John Barton to see you, of doings all over the story -looks of The reason almost all these stories father," she said, as she pushed the the young. And so of "Jack and the have their origin in fact is that it is young man into the presence of his Bean -stalk." • a -great deal easier to write anything employer. Then, although she shut A COUPLE AND A DOUBLE By A. B. Cooper ,\•nen Diana Denton visited "Card Ju--" she was only Carrying out the t,a :',.ion 'bequeathed to her by her !mailer. Josiah Denton, the ironmas 0 was as hard as the metal by which ire : ad made his money. His workmen wee- "thend'a" to bine, machines made foe mutating and moulding and forging. at the human hemi, especially a 1 s s •man's, le very subtle, That Diana bed ocoasSonaly visited "Owd Joe," be -1 fore she bad met John Barton there, , was true, She often reminded herself I of it when her conscience, pointing an 1 accusing linger, said: "It's John, not` Joe. you go to see!" John Barton was as Innocent of col- lusion as a near -born infant. 1f onyoue had told hien that Diana Denton thought hint "romantic -look- ing," he would have laughed them to scorn. He was probably dimly aware that his hair was blackk and wavy, that his eyes were "a sort of violet" that Ole nose \vas sxraight and inclined to run to size, that his mouth was large, and that, lastly, be weighed 11 stone 0 pounds and stood 51t, 111,5in, is his socks, but the lcnowlerlge did not in- terest him. Something in a retort, something which fused and hissed and spat, which glowed like the heart of the sun —something 711ca that did interest hint, it excited him because he was a metal- lurgist. He had been drawn to "Owl Joe" partly by his kind heart and partly by their mutual love of books. Now that the old puddler was neable to see to read for himself, it was only natural that Jobn should drop in occasionally to read to him. The old ohap's library was in a box under the bed. It in - experiments, his lack of cash, and his eluded Plutareh's "Lives," "Leeengro," 1 diffident suggestion that Mr, Denton Progreae." "Owd Joe" would say: I terms to be arranged if his work turn- Dip in t' lucky bag and read fust yo', ea a succese, grab la'd" and tbat'a what John died, i She hoard her father's hard laugh, Lamb's "Essays" and. the "Pilgrim's should put 0300 at bis disposal on One night it was raining when Diana' Sho heard him say; "Aye! you incite essayed to go home. She bad happen, the men to rebel You mulct me in' ed 10 drop in at "Owl Joe's" with some - thousands a year extra wages—then new -laid eggs. Sho could have called you expect fns to help your hare -brain - earlier lu the day. There was no reg -1 ed schemes,. I shouldn't help you 1n son why a girl of leisure should pay a any case, and especially after what I visit to "Owd Joe" at 3 p.m. That she: beard to -day, You've been seen in the 1 aotually did call at that hour had no I company of my daughter a little too connection with Wednesday and the often. I want no hired agitator even probability of John Barton being there. ! speaking to her. 2 should have sacked you three years ago. i was too tender - That at least, is what she told herself. i'hearted. I sack you now. Go! I'll see She always .affected great surprise off the premises.' Arad "Owd Joe" had other company; I you• s * µ and John—humble soul—accepted her John Barton sat disconsolate in his surprise at its face value, But to -night, I basement laboratory at his lottginge in had she not en : o3 a full before she Foundry Street. "Owd Joe's" box of might have been Thome long before the books was dumped on the brick floor. storm came on, Now, in her flimsy rue old Mil r' legacy, "I "I've nowt to offer ye' but a hood give and bequeath to John Barton, kindest of friends, all lay books." game," said Joe. "It's' as big as a Being now unemployed, he might size." irkis tent an' wad cover ten o' your look over his inheritance. Nothing astartling, "Lavengro," the 'Pilgrim's "If Miss Denton would allow me to progress," Lamb's "Essays' --ah what me her to her door—I—could hold the is this? umbrella—over her," faltered John. He reached to the bottom of the box "It ie very kind of you," said Diana. for a book lying there covered with The upshot was that they faced the dust. Evidently It had not been dis- storm together. turbed for years, "If you—wouldn't mind—holding on "Well, well! A etamp adbuu." dress, elle nnlst face it But that's not all; that pair makes the Titchford collection---and---cud-1'11 never have another chance." Dtano. opened "Owd Joe's album. "Thepair!" the Earl almost scream- ed, "The, pair! Child! Child! Toll me—will you—part with them?" "I thought you would- like to see them," said Diana. "1'm Just going to Rixdon House -.-I've kept my taxi—to show them to Sir Robert' Titchford, Then, of course—" "No! No!" cried the Earl. "You mustn't. You really =et not He'll persuade you -aye, T believe he would rob you ratbbet..than I should have that pair. 1'11 write a cheque this„moment for fifteen hundred pounds. Don't say no!” I ".Make it two thousand and the pair Is yours, said Diana, and,flve minutes later the Earl bowed her out with the words: "It's worth two thousand if only to see Titchford's face when ho ]snows he's no longer top dog!" As for Diana, sae went straight to John Barton's lodgings. He cane up from the cellar, his facer and hands stained with chemicals, to rind Diana in his little parlor. "Oh, I've such svonderful news for you!" she exclaimed. "I've sold a pair of stamps out of 'Owl Joe's' album for two thousand pontis—and you'll be able—bo buy all you need—for your ex periments—and-and-oh, John!" A minute later her heart was on John's shoulder, and his arme were holding her tight, He was saying the most unheard-of ,pings—things site never dreamed he could say—and she w^as thrilling to every syllable. * * N w • , Two months later John Banton pre- sented himself again at the ironmas- ter's door, " Diana admitted him. She tapped on the library - door,. There was no response.` A sudden fear clutched her heart. She opened the door, and then ran for- ward wadi a,littie cry of fearea The ironmas'ter's army were out - to my arm—Miss Denton—" It was pitch dark or he would never have dared to say it; and—perhaps— Diana would never have dared to hear it. But she linked her hand through the crook of his arm, and tried to make bar little feet keep pace with his, big ones. He held the umbrella low. She felt shat in from the world—with bim. John felt he would 111te to go on and on and on, walking through the storm and darkness right to the world's end! Bet that was the first of many oc- casions for seeing Miss Denton home. Why not? John's lodgings and Diana's nvanslon lay much in the saute direc- REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes. teems! YOUGH7A\ / HOARD WHAT:. i ,lsysM16 DU&AN Skit, TO MISTER DUFFY '114E Pi.EECEMIPI! SS 4-25 He turned over a few pages without much interest, Then his face bright- ened. "Diana! She's mad on stamps,- It was thus that Diana received next morning a mysterious package accom- panied by •a brief note detailing the cir- cumstances of its discovery, and ask- ing her acceptance'ot it item,smoiy of "many happy evenings with `Owd Joe," Diana turned over its pages with ap- praising eyes, but soon made up her mind to return the album. "He had no idea' be was giving ine thirty of forty pounds," she told her - WHAT DID NE SAY? IdE SAID "YotiRE AFRAID •t0 TOticH ME You -BIG ST1FF! ! JUS' tDARE YA, 100 B1G' FRAIDCAT i „ The Bartel Secret Process has knock: ed the bottom out of the steel trade." Nor dare to touch His probe or try "But w'ltat abort the Barton Seet'at 'Co "walk earth, hand in hand, with Process, dad?" Him. "'Tho—Burton! .. I never heard of such a process'." We dream el heaven and like to plan is, improve it if possible, but always Temperament. Some want a heaven with streets• of gold And mansions facing seas of glass, Nor crave a blossom to unfold, A bird to sing a sunrise mass. Some keep their God enthroned high ivlid c'berubim and seraphlm, "Because you wouldn t listen;' "Do you mean that -i11at •---'•" "Yes! John Barton hits revelation - [zed the process of steel manufac- ture!" "Has—child?" "Well, he has found a formula that will make Boreal the most hopeless back number—and—lie's here to offer it to you—at a certain price." "But --mill. I haven't the money!" "No, daddy but yen have the prioe!" ""4VltaY?„ "11E-dudely! Ile wants Alia—cud I want -41111." "Show Trim in, Lana," said the iron - ?.,•11> '•43/0 .r �(1,�. tM6''' A radiant Place, where life will shine, Forgetttug that a Superman Bas made earth's common -round divine! —Anne M. Robinson. Wonders. Water -Drop Interesting pictures of the myriad forms of life that exist in a single drop go through with the job and smile at apparent impossibilities, If you. complain you will never win, neither will you, get much joy if you are always comparing your life with someone else's with one that eppears more favorable. Tho heroism of lite Comes out whoa yon -run in spite, of bandicaps and try your best to win, You used not be great ht 'order to be heroic. You -can never be heroic 'without being great, Life's mistakes are made when we thinit we don't count. So long as life is'iis our veins we mist be of value. • Altar all, it never has been entirely true that the groat performances of life have been the moat important. it is much more necessary that 'to nra.n should light hie own earner than that he should enter 'Parliament; that a woman should keep., hoe house clean than that she should be a magistrate! The best way to make things better, than they are 10. to 'live wholesome lives; and for that we need a- constant of water were shown In a recent film, berotam that ie never off duty, A pond covered with green slime and When we have finished here it will apparently tette ie in reality a teeming uteri of life. A.drnp of water taken up in the eye of a needle and magnified I evan pnMien thnes reveals a swarm of wriggling creatures that in the or- - limey way are invisible; they appear master. o 0 be ruled by a great jointed monster that looks like a sea serpent, but wbose actual length is tees than three- sixteentbs of an inch. . The rotlfler, an inhabitant of stag- nant ponds, has a "waterwheel" on- , entice to his internal system and catches his victims by means. of suc- tion. Gam of Her Collection. "Does May seem pleased with the engagement ring Jack gave leer?" "Yes; she says it's really the pret- tiest one she has." The Largest Rosary. What is believed' to -be Ole largest rosary in the worldhas been presented to Pope Pius by an expert woodcarver of Merano, who made it,. The rosary measures more,than 15 feet In circum- ference. Each bear, of finely carved wood, is larger' than an average -sized. egg, Built -Like. a Nut. Teacher --"What is 'an oyster?" Johnnie --"An oyster is a ilsea built like a nut, miss.". Sentence Sermons. Suppose We Gain the World --And lose the confidence of our only son— what is the profit? —And, break the heart of a loving wife—what is the cost? •--And fail to carry the home .pro - tinct --where is the satie-action? —Arid hive no time for an old tslend—who can estimate the loss? —And sacrifice our own home—what molter very little whether we have made money, but 1t will be all Import- ant whether we have utatlo good. Itis Better to fall' than not to climb, Better to fail' than not to try • Make for the highest, and achieve the best, Such are hero souls, Curing Sick Goldfish. Goldfish are not as hard)' as ie gensr- -• ally supposed, and many line specl- meus are lost because of ignorance On the creator's part. When these fish are Rept in acquariums they are liable to. fear from a curious disease known su as fungus growth. This traces. the form of e. spreading white deposit. As the growth increases the fish become:: Use- less and disinclined to swim: It will certainly die unless curative measures are taken ae soon as. the white coating is, noticed. Give the fish a alt bath -this is one. of the best ways for coutbatting fun- gus growth. Prepare a rather s•trchg is, it worth? solution of common salt and water, al- -And wreckour ea -resp Il' cot itis lowing a heaped tablespoon 'of salt to It be -en worth while? cob Dint of water. When the salt has .---And kill our eanacience -where all dissolved, put the mixture into 0 ern we 7cok for hope? ' bowl. — ;`- — Now catch the tieh, using'el net if he The Filk plush of every Pullman and evades your hand, Tlandlin,, the, pa - Wagner parlor cal is made of Art ora ileal." veru gently, Put it In the bowl gcat hair. ne salt water. and leave It there for troe minutes, 'ellen lilt it "in- s to a bowl of- fresh, water, and make this ohange several limas—chewing from two to three sniirules hi each bowl. ' Wiped the fish is replaced in the aquarium it,will aim cat initnedietoly' show improvement mare life. and ac- tivity, and will continue I0 gall—the white coat-ctis.appearing nmluitimo. It any of th.e growth remains stubbornly, I. or theealens to 1oturn after 11: has gone, a ascend batli shoals be given in the same way, _ '1'11% treatment atoned not be repeated to, frequently', however, as it thee become% Injurious to 111-0 goldit571. - -4 The Devil's Funeral. A smile girl, late for echool, excused herself by saying elle had l'inger'ed Ors the way in order to. eco elle Devil's funel'al, "The Devil's amoral," said the teach- er; "what nousense_is this?" "Weil, .replied the child, "I am sure it was the Devil, because 1 heard a'inanys saying, "Poor :devil—only three da 'Distance Lends Encourgaement, GOsVia D10 MISTER DUFFy TURN(AROUN ANS Soag WITH TW5 l W CLOS? N 9 1A5MIS-rag tioocKS AWAY WHSN d1M>/it'SAP 0 abou tL i Utes d h4 1925. 0y The Ben B sdicata. Inc,