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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-10-29, Page 3For the�.-` O3S a d Girls A PSP INTO FAIRYLAND Little Trotcosey was going to bring home the cows. A, yellow-haietel childwith sun burned cheeks and bright brown eyes —a little girl whose bare feet danced along over the daisies. Andas she danced, she sang: 'Fairies, fairies, come back once more Come from the old, forgotten shore! Bring your treasures: from land and sea. r Fairies, fairies, come back to mo!" For this was old Nita's favorite song and Nita had been telligg her fairy -stories all the afternoon, as they Melted ripeblueberries together in the pasture, until Trotcosey's head was full of fairy visions. As she sang, she looked this way and that and waved her branch of tall scarlet lilies in her hand; but she could see only the leaves rusting in the breeze, and the sunbeams braid- ing themselves. in and out among the reeds and rushesby the river. "There must be fairies -somewhere," said Trotcosey, "for Nita says there are, and Nita knows!" Here Trotcosey paused to pick up a poor Iittle fledgeling which had fal- len out of his nest in a hedge, of alder bushes, and to put him back again, to the great relief of the flut- tering bird -mother, who was uttering sharp cries of terror and dismay as she flew around and around in ever- widening circles. "Don't be afraid, birdie!" said Trot- cosey. "Do you think I would' hurt your poor little one?" And she trudged along, still singing:. Bring your treasures from land and sea. Fairies, fairies, listen to me!" Just then she found a withered rose lying by the roadside --a rose which some one had gathered and flung away. "Poor rose, how pitiful you look!" said Trotcosey. "If I were to sprinkle some water on you, perhaps you night revive again." And • she carried the poor withered rose to the river edge and laid it care- fully down where the ripples could wash its dry stem and wet its droop- ing petals. "There, rose," .she said, "now grow beautiful again! Let me see— where Was I? 'Fairies, fairies, come back once more!' Oh, hero is a poor rabbit, limping along with an ugly thorn sticking in his foot. Come here, bunny, and I'll pull it out for you!" The rabbit was too lame to run away, and se he stood still. But Trot- cosey thought he cast a grateful glance up into her face au he scamper - cd away, with the cruel thorn remov- ed from his foot. ""He can't talk," said Trotcosey, "but he certainly looked as if he were obliged to me" And she stood stili, with the branch of tall red lilies in her hand, to Iisten for the sound of the bell around the Ioacler-cow's neck. "I hear it jingling up in the woods," said Trotcosey, "and it's coming this way. I'll sit down here and wait until they come." So Trotcosey sat down on a round moss -covered stone, little dreaming that it was the very wishing -stone, of which old Nita had that day told her, upon Which a fairy 'spell descended, once in every year, justes the sun was setting, And the yellow light cane down upon her head—the last beam of. the 'sinking sun -exactly at the moment in which she said: "How I Wish I could get a peep into Fairyland!" Swift as the gliding of a river's current, the trees and rocks and b golden•sunset sky vaniseed away, and Trotcosey found herself sitting on a d throne of glistening pear:s, in a gar- s den of flowers, where fountains spark- led and strange birds sang, and where h she could see a palace, with columns • of shining spar• and eleps of opal!! t And, a;! around her, the fairies were_ a orowns of shining stars, and wands a]1 tipped with diamond .sparks, and, all the air was -filled With golden mist. And then it seemed to part away, like curtains of sunshine, and Trotcosey saw the fairy queen herself, with her tiny diadem of dew and her sceptre of precious stones. "Where is the iittlo girl who scat- ters kind deeds as she goes along the world's pathway?" said the fairy And the robin fiew down ,among the blossoming trees, and the rose, fresh and crimson,, once again dappped into the fairy queen's 'dap, and the leime rabbit nestledat her feet, and they all cried out, at once: Here she is! Here she is!" "For this, three wishes shall be granted to you," said the fairy queen, "Speak and tell me what they are!" "If you please, fairy queen," said Trotcosey, very much frightened at the tone of her own voice, "I should like, first, for humpbacked Peter to be made straight again; and next, I should like little Lotty, the miller's daughter, to become as ,strong and well as I am, because she's dying of ,consumption, you know, fairy queen; and=and, if you please, I want old Kattchen to find the blue hen she lost last week, because she's very old and poor, and she needs the eggs!" The fairy queen smiled as she listen- ed to the unselfish litt:e girl.- But you have asked nothing for yourself!" said she, "All the same, you shall not go empty-handed out of the Fairy -world!" She touched Trotcosey's tawny hair with her wand, and it became bright and shining like gold. She laid the withered rose against her cheek and the loveliest tint overspread the sun- burnt skin. "I grant you a heart that is always. merry and footsteps that are ever right," said she. And as Trotcosey listened, there was the far-off sound of chiming bells, and the pearl throne and glittering columns faded away, and she was sit- ting once inoro among the ferns, with the cowbells close to her ears and the stalk of red lilies in her hand. �I-must have been dreaming," said Trotcosey, "for it's long past sunset, and the cows are on their way home! But it was almost as good as real Fairyland to have such a beautiful dream as that!" So she walked along home, singing the old song as she went; "Fairies, fairies; come back once more!" queen, and just on the edge of the meadows she, met a little lad skipping and dancing. "Why, surely!" she said, "that can't be humpbacked Peter, for he is as straight as a young birch tree. But he certainly looks like humpbacked Peter," Wonder of wonders! It was 'hump- backed Peter, cured of his -Bad afflic- tion. The child had scarcely ceased mar- veling, when along came old Kattchen, with a face a=1 emi;os. ""Little Trotcosey," said she, "have you heard the news? I've found my blue hen again, eating berries in the cedar glen! And what is better yet, Lotty, the miller's daughter, is much better to -day, and the doctors say she will soon be wer1 again:" And then Trotcosey knew that she had really been in Fairyland. When she got home, everybody cried aloud with surprise, ""What has come to our little Trot-. cosoy?" said they. "Her hair is like spun -gold, and her eyes are like'dia- monds, and her sarin is softer than the heart of a rose!" - Trotcosey told them her adventure, ut they shook their heads, Except Nita, who was nearly a hun- rod years old, and knew many trange secrets. "Yes," she added; "yes, the child as really been in Fairyland!" But, although Trotcosey sat on the wishing -stone at sunset many a time floating with their gauzy wings find i gain, she never got another glimpse nth, Fairyland. .. Mustapha Kemal 'Pasha; president of Turkey, sets the fashion of the new regime by wearing an American hat. It is said to have officially sup- planted the fez. YOUR BODY'S y OE° ems Marvels You Little Suspect. Thee days ago I bruised a knuckle; •could show some of the labors that to -day the wound is healed over, and are carried on there. It ls• a labora- I accept the bit of new skin as.calmly tory for vital, processes far beyond the as if it were a section of repaired skill of men. pavement. But if I knew about the It is filled with what we tali proto- thousands of cell lives that were lest plasm. Protoplasm is simply our ig- in that catastrophe on my finger, if I .noe'ant.name for the unapproachable could see the tens of thousands of life- secret of life. The ltfe in protoplasm producing labors that have been per- !e directed by a speck called a "nuc. formed- there, that speck of flesh lees." That is our name for the mys- would appear a great and miraculous tery that lives in that tiny space. Far structure. within the nucleus, all but invisible to When I carelessly knocked my hand the most searching gaze of ecience, is against the door f destroyed an area the mechanism that can direct the of akin about"), quarter of an inch birth of a new cell. long and an eighth of an inch wide; If I see a hawk flying overhead, I This had been composed of perhaps know that the bird was once in an egg fifty thousand individual cells, which and was born. It is just as obvious were all so broken or detached that 'mat any cell was born. It must have they perished. My body had no power grown out of a cell, which- has grown to bring up a regiment of similar cells, out of a previous cell, which had dump then into the breach, and say, grown from a previous cull. There "Be healed." The Secret of Life. No, those dead cells were of many Investigators, by combining their sorts—flat and horny ones at the sur- observations fora generation, have fa.co; below, tin'ee layers of different learned enough to give• us a picture sorts that were packed like mackerel of a cell's birth, in the 'hold of a fishing schooner; and, First, the nueletis ,swells.; cevera! in a lower layer, many intricate Bets loops appear in its liquid; they grow of apparatus like ,nerve -ends, capil- cannot have been any gap In the series of descents since life• began on the earth. //Lemons in xa „N Cr New Series byWYNNE FERGUS N author e 'rergzsson on auction. Sri e° Copyright 1921. by 1Ioyle, Jr. - - ARTICLE No. 3 A rather interesting question has been submitted to the writer. "If your part- ner bids no-trump and second hand bids two hearts, with what type of hand should you double?" There are two separate and distinct cases !n which the partner of the no-trump bidder should double an adverse over bid on his right. For example, suppose the dealer bide one no-trump, second, hand bid two hearts and you hold the following hand: Hearts -• 7, 2 Clubs—K, J 7, 4 Diamonds—A, J 10, 5 Spades—K, 10, 2 Don't you think you should double two hearts? If your partner has a no-trump hand, it should he impossible for the heart bidder to make his contract. On the other ha;d, it would be difficult to i score game at no-trump or a suit bid. On the other hand, suppose your part- ner bids one no-trump, second hand bids two hearts and you hold the follow- ing hand; Hearts— J, 10, 9, 7, 5 Clubs- K, 7 4,2 Diamonds—k, 10, 2 Spades -10 Dont you think you ought to double two hearts with this hand? If your part- ner has a sound no-trump you should defeat the two heart bidder by two or three tricks, These hands are not in- consistent„They merelyspecify the two types that justify a duble of an ad- verse two bid over partner's no-trump. The same player has suggested that with strong hands of the first type, it would be better to double with the un- derstanding that the original no-trump bidder should bid his best suit. This type of informatory double has been tried out many tunes but is not consid- ered good tactics. The whole purpose of the informatory double is to force partner who has not yet bid to' show his suit. To extend this principle to one who has already bid is carrying the principle too far. By bidding no-trump, Hearts — J, 10 Clubs -10 Diamonds—IC, Q Spades — Q, 9 a player declares himself as having at least two quick tricks distributed In at least three suits. To ask him to give further information is unnecessary. If he has greater strength than indicated by his no-trump bid, he should he al- lowed to show this strength voluntarily without being forced to do so by his partner's informatory double. 7=Ie has done his duty by bidding no-trump. If he is overbid, his partner should not take up the burden. If he has a good suit, he should bid it. If he has a hand that justifies a double, he should double, If he has a hand that justifies a two no- trump bid, he should bid it. If his hand does not justify any such action, he should' pass. It is then up to the no- truesp bidder to make another bid if his hand justifies it. Auction is a part- nership game and the object of the bid- ding is to find the best bid of the com- bined hand, the best bid for twenty-six cards, not thirteen. This can be best arrived at by biddingafter partner has 'bid rather than by ue of the informa- tory doubles which force bids, because forced bids are always hard to read. They may have strength and they may not. Never voluntarily place yourself in a position where you must guess as to your partner's strength if there is any other way open. Guesses, no mat- ter how brilliant, can never cope with cold, hard facts, In this connection a restatement of the nature of a business double is perti- nent. A business double is a double made for the purpose of defeating the bid doubled. Any double is a business double if made after partner has bid or doubled, or any double of an original suit bid of four or more, or a double of an original two no-trump. In this con- nection please note that after partner has bid a no-trump and opponents have overbid and the partner of the no-trump bidder has doubled, such a double is a business double and made for the pur- pose of defeating the bid. Problem No. 2 Hearts — Q Clubs—Q, 9 Diamonds—A, 8 Spades— 8, 5 Y :A Bt Hearts -9, 5 Clubs— J Diamonds -7, 5 Spades— K, J • Hearts -8 Clubs -7, 6, 3, 2 Diamonds —10 Spades —10 There are no trumps and Z is in the lead. How can YZ win all the tricks against shorter and anal thicker and then become p pigment -makers, muscles, oil- straight; they then arrange them - glands. any defense? Solution to the next article. re of We had best not eay anything about thevnucleus, esvIt they weresoznauy these complicated organs of the skin, bits of a small, round match placed since most of them ar beyond exam- end to end. These are called the ination. Let us content ourselves with chromosomes. Each splits down its the largst, most obvious, most uniform length into two equal parts. cello:, those of the third layer from The two sets then draw apart. Mean - the top, . Even these cannot be re- while, the whole cell has bean prepar- placed in bulk. For each one is art in- dividual, differing in some degree from its neighbors, as men differ in a regi- ment. Every one of then was born from a parent cell. Are you startled by heating about the "birth" of a dell? Imagine that I had a needle fine enough to detach one of these cells and to hold it under a powerful microscope. Suppose that I Ing to divide; a groove appears on its outside, Thts groove grows deeper and deeper, until the call splits in two. The result is two small cells, each composed of half of every detail of the previous cell esc with a complete equipment of cell life. These grow quickly to full size and are now pre- pared to reproduce in the same way as often es they have orders to do so, Radio Earthquakes. Wireless has been blamed lot caus- ing many unpleasant phenomena. The latest charge to be laid at its door is made by Dr. Nakamura, an eminent Japanese scientist, who has Just com- pleted a research of the district of Sanin, where severe earthquakes took place this, spring. Dr. Nakamura says that the earth, instead of contracting as it cools to- wards owards tho centre, is expanding on ac- count of wireless activity setting up an internal pressure. Pressure such as this from the interior of the earth causes earthquakes. Other Japanesse seismologists, while agreeing that earthquakes are the re- sult of internal pressure and dislo- cations of the earth, ascribe the latter to the great faults existing in the bed of the-.opoan off the ooast of Japan. Dry the green tops of celery in an oven, rub them down to powder, store in jars, and use as flavoring for soups and stews. Ho Drove a Car. She—"Thirty days mean don't they?" Ho-"Yes—when they don't mean a jail a month, Magpie Attacks Horses. The magpie west of the Rocky Moue - tains. sometimes, attache horses and mules where the flesh has been lacer• aced by the harness. If you wart to borrow trouble you will always find people willing to :end it without securit y The Wistful Lcdy. She was a wistful lady, A wistful wistful lady.° Sire did not know nothing But she did not know much— Heigh-ho! She wished when she was twenty And she had time a -plenty; But after while she was forty— Alt me, life is such, Well -a -day! And she gave over wishing, , As a man comet home front flshlug , Who bas not caught nothing Bat who has not caught much, Heigh -Ito! She had a silver mfnny, A skimpy thing and finny. It would not be uo supper. But none grow fat on such— Well-a-day! It would not do for a skillet - As codfish, pike or millet, (Per she had not learned nothing Though she had not learned much— Heigh-ho! And goldfish are more shiny; But this was bright and time So she put it in a goldfish bowl And treated it as such— Well -a -day! • She wished no more to be wistful, Of fish she had no fistful; Bat she did not have nothing, And she did not need much-- I3eigh-ho! !Marjorie Allen Seiffert• Wireless existed when the pre- hie/boric man first felt the moaning of a smile of encouragement from the girl. -Senator Marconi. prehistoric Lived to 99 Eating Light. The 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Cornero has just been cele- brated in Italy. After doctors had given him up to die In his fortieth year he found a way to live to be ninety- nine, or thought he •did, and he led an active life to the end. Before he died he wrote a book about his experience 1n which he said: "Moet people oat too much; over- eating, and ovordrinking kill more men every year than fire and sword or a serious epidemic. By eating spar- ingly and drinking sparingly I` cured myself of my ailments less than a year after the doctor had given me up. Eat what sults you but sparingly, never get up from the table with the fooling you could eat no more. Leave it with the feeling you eould well eat something else, A serene habit of mind will follow. Most of the bad temper in men and women comes from acids formed' by undigested food and drink, But I cannot tell any man ex- actly what he is to eat or drink. Not even a doctor can do that as well as the man himself. I am very fond of rich pastries, creams, several kinds of fruit, but they hurt mo and I eat them no more." In no meal did Cornero consume more than twelve ounces of solid food and fourteen ounces of wine• The wine ration may seem large in this country, but would be considered a small quantity In Europe where wine takes the place of water and where claret frequently is diluted with water, The Obliging Boss. Clerk—"Sir, 1'd dike to have my salary raised." Boss—"Well, don't worry. I've man• aged to raise it every week so far, haven't I?" REG'LAR F- El .i FRS—By Gene Byrnes. Well, "Watt" Do You Know? oH= YOU MUST MEAN MY \s2HOILEERM,rA�ME: 'WATT!" 0' +"�uti'i✓�L��z (Copyright, 1121, by The BO S7ndicnto, Incl SHOULD ,PARENTS ,MATCH AKE? Over the question of marriage we, se • a nation,' aro supposed to be idea - lets, says an English writer. We marry_ for love, and rather:paida our- selves ou the way we allow Ci pfd to rule the roost: Boys and girls choose for themselves; and should theirs turn out a muddled mating, we say that they have only themselves to blame, In France the parents are the na- tural matchmakers. As veer' as a girl child is born, her parents begin to save towards her "dot." When she ie old euough to marry, they begin to look out for a husband for her. Friends help. Tho family confessor lends a hand. There is no secret about the fact that mademoiselle is heady to become madame. The girl herself is fully aware that her parents are .scheming to find a good haeband for her. On the whole, the system works well, but it would not do far this coisn. try. Laughed Out of Court,. Yet between the cautiousness of the French parent and the carelessness of the British there should be a happy medium, which might lead to perfec- tion in marriage. Might it not be found in unobtrusive match -making? The old - fastioned match -making mamma was never of much use. Young men saw through her and her wiles. She frightened away many a possible suitor by her eagerness to welcome him Into the family. A man in love le like the Sussex pig—he "wun't be druv." Tho Via., • ., torten mamma was rather inclined to drive, Wo laughed the old-fashioned match -making cut of court, and of late years the average parent has left it alone. But we might revive it—with modifications. Propinquity has always been the: biggest asset in match -making. Wise parents can bring the right men into the lives of their girls, and the right girls into the lives of their boys, when they reach marriageable age. Bring Them Home! Only the unwise parents close the front door to the friends of their child- ren, "Bring them home" should be the slogan. A Human nature is such that opposi- tion will usually work the wrong way. Let a mother condemn her daughter's suitor, and the girl makes a hero of him at once. But when mother en- courages rather than condemns, "and seeks to be understanding, the love affair, if of the wrong kind, will be more likely to peter out. Commit sense can be as useful in courtship es anywhere,and a little common-sense match -making would not be amiss ii there dayset marrying for love, Parents can take a little trouble to bring the right kind of men into their ,•„, s daughters' lives. It should beeeefelfier rather than mother who 'isioca this, Out in the world father meets men, and knows them as mother nevem can. He knows when a young man is steady and brainy, and likely to get on. He can spot the ne'er-do-well and avoid him. Try the Half -way House. 15Iother can bring nice girls into the home circle when she has manriage- able boys. Open house for friends has kept many a young .man and 'girl from "taking up with" the wrong life part- ner. When a girl finds that a .man does not want to meet "her people," she may conclude that her friendship. with him had better cease. And when a man doesn't feel happy about intro- ducing a girl to his own mother, he must think seriously before he pro- poses to her as a life partner. There is something wrong, although be may not know what it is. Parents know their own children, and they should know the types they ought to marry. Let them look for those types and bring the young pen - pee together. That is ar far as their match -making can go. We may not want the arranged marriages of the Continent, but this halfway house might be a good thing. Sunday Best. The loveliest things life gives to mo -- Its songs and dreams and poetry -- I do not lock with care away But I use them happily every day. I know there's a creed of Sundaybest And of saving the precious out loom the rest, But I never could see why a time and place For the splendid things of tate human race. So I live with the best I can find each hour Steeped deep in the radiance, stirred by the power Soul treasure is mine for what it can. give To illumine the everyday life that I live. -George Elliston. Marhmals' Traits, 1 The mammals are distluguished from all other veretebristes by their ) habit of providing the young with intik and bythe possession usually of a hairy covering. bike the `birds they aro dlstrlbuted throughout' both the warns and cold regions of both itemise 1 phe res. The first messages e telegraphed fo public purposes in England led to thq arrest of a murderer. ;1.