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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-11-26, Page 7For the Boys and Girls ,THE WATER LILY'S .MESSAGE On and on Reynolds trudged. At ing. He just believed that what the last he came to the woods, but he did water lily meant about climbing was not stop until he reached the lake. to be big and brave, -Then he'd begin' Then he dropped down on the grass his climb right now andi g instead ad of to rest and to think whatto do next whining he'd whistle. IIe did whistle All at once he 'heard a strange --then he : stopped -he .thought he sound.. -it came from somewhere on heard his father's whistle again, Rey- the lake. The solitary water , lily no:ds answered with 'a lender whistle which had 'attracted his attention than ever and he heard quite clearly when he first reached the lake seemed his fabler palling: "Reynolds! Reynolds!" "Yes here I am!" and hurrying through the darkness he soon found his father. "Reynolds! Reynolds!" saidhis to be tatting—it was talking! "What a wonderful world!" it was saying. "Well, you, don't haveto live in my house," Reynolds replied, "or you wouldn't think it wonderful!" father quite harshly., "Where have "The home I had wasn't wonderful You been? We have been searching either, but this one ie." - for you for hours." Oh, I see, you ran away from I guess I =went to sleep down by yours, too. That's what I'm going to the lake—but I've learned something do," cried Reynolds. about climbing." His father ' couldn't imagine what Reynolds meant by his last remark, but thought he must "still be half "No," said the water lily, "I didn't run away. I climbed away." "But, isn't that thesame thing?" said Reynolds. The watex lily almost laughed., "Noe They soon reached home. Mother indeed! Not, the same thing, at al; was wetting in the doorway for them, I was deep down in the mud and "mire ;but sire did not say a word; She just and if I had tried to. run away I took Reynolds in her arms and held should just have run into more mud him close.' and mire." "I guess," said Reynolds, with his "Well, what did you do?" asked arms around her, "I guess, instead of Reynolds. Ire ' was beginning to feel a fellow running away from things interested. he thinks he doesn't -like, he'd better "The only thing there is to do. If stay right there and learn how to you don't like the place where you climb high enough to conquer them," are—the thing to do is to cihnb up, And somehow Mother understood, up, up above it." a "But how could I climb, and where to?" Reynolds questioned. uestioned. The Seven Fathers. "17pg to' the light," the water 1!_y lack Miner, the lover and student of bird life tel answered simp:y, is a very "Up to the light—what do you mean?" "Maybe," said the water lily hesi_ tatingly, "I colud explain better by telling . you my story --or would you care to hear it?" "Oh, yes; please." 41iVel1, I had been down under the black mud, asleep I guess, until one day I felt something stirring within.. me. It was a desi'ie to get up, out of the mud. I didn't know how far I'd have to climb, nor how .many tangled roots I'd find in the way before I reached the light, but I started and just kept climbing a little every day." "How long did it take you?" r -'Oh, I don't know—l- Was so happy knowing I was moving upward that I didn't think of anything:. else,• I just kept busy looking for the light, I shall never forget the day when my climbing finally brought me to the surface of the water. How wonder- ful it was to be out into the light and :ear! Yet I was still only young, and 1 didn't know the great surprise there was in store for me. Biot it meant so much to be out in the light that I was happy all day long, and the happier I felt the more I. grew until T awaken- ed one morning to find myself a full- blown water lily, seeing the sunshine and hearing the birds sing. Then I was so happy that all I could say was, 'What a wonderful world! What a wonderful world!'" "Yes, I heard you saying that just as.I came up to the lake." "And I'm going to keep on saying it, I've been thinking thatit might help the other water lilies that are still down in the mire. Wouldn't it be fine to help them up to the light! I'm going to encourage them to come up—and I know • theywill, too." "We:1, I guess I'm not awake," said Reynolds, "fin. I havent heard any. call." "Oh, d'mi't you hear it now?" asked the water lily. Reynolds listened. Some one was calling. What were they saying? Far away in the distance he heard the call "Reynolds!" a whistle -then "Reynolds" again. .He sat up' and rubbed his eyes. That was his -fath- er's whistle sure:y. How dark it had grown! He couldn't even see the water lily. Where was he? Then he remembered how he had meant to run away from hoose and how he had fallen asleep by the pond. How dark story to show the good side of an un - Popular bird. Miner himself doesn't really like English sparrows and calls them "'flying rats." But lis has learn- ed that they have one good quality, They caro for the orphans of theta* flocks. Iie wanted to get rid of. -a sparrow family that had built a nest in one. of his bird -grouses. He placed u. snare over the door of the house and In that way caught both the mother and the father bird when they attempted to leave their nest. In due tiuie the baby birds in the nest began crying for food. Before be could remove the unfortunate or- phans and dispose of them, Mr. Miner had reason to belleve that a father English sparrow had gone In with food for the helpless family. ` He •set his snare again and waited. Sure enough, out popped the head of a kind-hearted feathered neighbor, and Mr. Miner dis- covered that he had trapped another father. To make a long story. short, Mr. Miner caught seven fathers that day. Every one of those old English spar- rows had Beard the nestlings' cries of distress and lied gone to feed them. Thus it happens .that, 'taught by the :seven fathers, Mr. -Miner credits these unpopular birds with one good trait, On Her Last Lap.- "It looks like Miss Passey would end her race for a. roan with the old geezer she's Just carfght." "Yes, she's on her last lap, I'd say." To remove the smell of onions, wash it wast: Two big tears started down the knife that has been used to peel his cheeks. Nol he wouldn't cry. He them, as well as the ^hands, in cold -made up his mind right then and Water. Hot or warm -water makes the there that hetvas'through with whin- odor. more lasting. : �s . .,3x3`- .. �'•S•,w o't�,4?i'1s y`.�.�u33r< .a. .�''�' ^.x£hxti''��..• �T?Ff• � � x #. a9'sr .. l3ranu.ng the Met of thebison inthe equeese'at Wainwright buffalo parr:, ;Alfas., before removal to the new reserve, 400 miles south of the Arctic circlo Stalking Bluebeard. A blue tiger, especially a Chinese blue tiger, does not sound real; it sug-' gests'to the mind some such fantastic orestion'of Oriental part .ae. a pibrple elephant ora green dragon. But blue tlgere are real .and dangerous animate. Mr. Harry R. Caldwell, an Ameioan missionary and an expert tiger -bunter, has seen and stalked the' beast and has wri•tten• an intea•eeting book called Blue Tiger, But blue tigers are blue only, as blue fox, blue Skye terriers and blue Persian cats are blue, They a,re..blue-gray where the ordinary tiger !is a.rufoua orange, and they bear, .up. on .thta background, the usual dark tiger-atripinge. lee The 'blue tiger hunted by Mr, Cald- well and nicknamed by him Bluebeard was a magnificent creature, at. once daring and cautious,. which alai been killing •cattle and goats.;and attacking human beings,. appearing and disap- pearing so mysteriously that the terse- ! fled villagers regarded it as an evil spirit. The hunter tethered a goat in a proris•ing ravine, where two 'frails crossed, hid himself nearby and wait- ed. At length his attention was sum maned by "that mysterious something which no woodsman can explain, but 1. STORIES OF WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE The Boy Scored., Stephen Leacock having once been a schoolmaster probably accounts for the fact that many of his best stories concern schools and schoolboys. One he Is fond of tellipg is,about a pertain inspector who, wishing to test the alertness of a °less of small boys at a school In the East End of Londbn, made as if to set a steeple addition sum on the blackboard, and for this purpose invited the pupils to give him a series of numbers in the tens. As each number was called' out he delibrately wroteit backwards on the board -54 becoming 45, and so •on— but judging from the general silence not a eingle boy noticed the difference, "Incredible dullness!" thought the inspector, and, as a final test, asked for one more number, Whereupon a voice with the choicest Cockney ac- cent called out; "Fiftyfreer''-`Nah muck abaht wiv which directs the eye to a point where that!" ! something;'Sas moved, without the Her Ancient Office. conscioue. realization of Having seen - it move." There was Bluebeard, lying To a girl of twenty-three belongs the f like a great domestic cat, with tread erect, slowly whdpping-Cho end of his tail. In . some way the great cat aonsed danger, for he rose. and bound- ed into the brush before the hunter. could get a shot. Later in the Beeson news was than that of solicitor; it dates back to brought him that Bluebeard had dash- the pre -Reformation days, when mac - ed into the open door of a cottageand tically all the learned professions were i tried to carry a child that had fallen in the hands of the Church, The Arch - asleep under the table. Fortunately bisHearts—Q, 8, 7, 6 hop of Canterbury, through hiss Clubs—K Dim for the youngster, iris head aa he lay master of the faculties, -admits a can -I Spaadesonds --10,—n8o,ne6,4,5 was against a table leg, and on the didate to the office. further sf•da of it. The tiger, in its An interesting point Is that, accord - lightning pounce, seised a mouthful of 'Ing to custom, Miss Amphlett can now table leg instead of the child's head claim to have her word considered as• and leaped through the doorway, car- good as- that of any two ether people! Tying off the table, which it dropped Discussing the Lecture. 1n the court outside, 1 The ViscountessCurzon1 1 Aga' bait' and waited, in coin :an with his taken a keen interest in charitable, distinction of being the first woman notary public 01 the British Empire. She Is Mise Anna Amphlett, of Colwyn Bay, England, Her father is also a'. aiyLe�ssons in AUCTION . BRIP GE New Serie s by NE FERGUSON' ' c4uthor of '.Ferguson on c/luciion.trzdge" G CoYYr[eh$ 3925 by I:oyk, Ir. �.,. ARTICLE No. 7 'In the preceding article„the writer referred to several hands that were mis- played and asked for criticism. The first hand was as follows: rA 13: Z Hearts -6 Clubs — K, Q, 9, 8 Diamonds - 7 Spades—A, Q, J, 9,7,6,2 No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid four spades (a fine preemptive bid, by the way). A doubled, Y passed and B bid' five heaves.' Z and A now passed and Y doubled. When all passed, what should Z have opened? This hand offers an ex- cellent example of the proper opening lead after a double. If a player doubles after his partner has made a bida�h}ie ex- pects his partner to lead the suit'he bas bid. If a player has Made a bid'bf his own and later doubles, he expels his partner to lead that eine In this ,G exam- ple hand, Z has bid four spades aria his partner,Y, has doubled five heartseUn- der these conditions, Z should hale opened his ace of spades. This opel�ing would have et the contract one trick. Y had a singleton spade and doubled with the expectation of a spade open- ing. Z, however, thought of none ,of these very good reasons for a spade opening, He opened the king of clubs and AB just made their bid and thus scored game and rubber. This band is a fine example so study it over carefully. The following is another fine example: Hearts -5 Clubs -9,:8, 6, 3 Diamonds - 7 6, 2 Spades —A, It, 8,7,6 Hearts — K, 6, 2 i Y : Clubs—K, A 13: Diamonds-K,i84 Z Spades Q, 10, 4, 2 No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid four hearts A bid five diamonds and all passed. '�i opened the king of spades and B's hand, the dummy's in this in- stance, was placed on the table. Z played the three of spades and A the five. Y should have rearpned somewhat as fol - Jews: "What sort of hand did Z have to P justify a four, heart bid? If he had wanted;a heart lead, She probably would ,. have doubled. His four heart bid prob. ably consists of at least eight hearts with four honors' and very little side' strength. He also probably has a single ton spade and bid four hearts in the hope of shutting out a spade bid. There- , fore, my bear play is to lead,the ace of • spades and hope that Z can trump the third round of spades.” If Y bad fol- lowed this line of reasoning, he would have set' the contract one trick. -die failed : to do so, however, and led a heart at trick two, which A' trumped. , A then led trumps and scored game and rubber, losing only two spade tricks, • This is another hand that should be carefully noted. The play in the following hand should • be y but sometimes the easy ones are the ones that go wrong: Y :A 13: s Z Hearts— K, Q, 9, 8, 4 Clubs—A, Diamonds—J, 7, 6, 2 Spades -9, 5 No score, first game. Z dealt and bid one heart, A and Y passed and B bid one spade. Z and A passed and Y bid two hearts. The final bid was four spades due to the fact that Y raised the heart bid twice more. He also doubled four spades:What should Z open? This 'hand is similar to the first one in that Z has bid a suit and his partner Y has doubled. Under the rule set down in the analysis of that hand, Y certainly ex- pected a heart lead by Z. Irrespective of that fact, however, Z should have lei, a heart i -i the endeavor to set up a trick in that s�tit before he lost his reentry in clubs. Instead of doing so, however, Z opened the ace of clubs and then led the four, hoping as he said, foe- a ruff., This lead gave AB a game that they couldn't have scored if Z bad openat' the king of hearts. Note all three of these hands very carefully for they are typical hands and involve points that come up in every session of play. notary public, as is her brother, Problem No 3 The oflioe of notary public is older n M. Caldwell set his bleating has always Hearts -3 Clubs—A, 6, 5,14 Diamonds— Q, 10 Spades -9, 7, { Y :A B;m Z Hearts—K J,9,5: Clubs — Q, J, 7, 3 Diamonds — none Spades — A, Q There are no trumps and Z is in the lead. How can YZ win nine of the ten tricks against any defense? This is a tricky little' problem that has just arrived from England. Solution in the next article. Hearts — none Clubs —10, 9, 8, 2 Diamonds — J 9,8.7 Spades — I{, j • cook, who saw the beast first and pull,e work, and has many good stories to The Story bf Iy1AYarnboi. tell oP her i glanced, saw what Ile tools to be a' Ona she rs fond-oP relating cuucerus man in tho common blue garment of three lads of the colter type who, at a the Chinese , stooping to gather herbs ;club for working boys In alio East End e. er ences ed p his master's stn s dee ve. Mr ;; Ca1d ell w and whispered, "Man." "Tiger, surely of London, were discossing a lecture; tiger," insisted the cook; and tiger it • they had attended. was.' But he never got Bluebeard! 1 Who was this 'oro Nero we was Just as he woe about to mese .the trig-; , earin' abaht, Bill?" inquired one of ger he noticed that the tiger was 1n -'them. . tently watching something in the ra- 1 Oh," replied Bill, "'e was the bloke eine below, and, glancing down, he ! wot was always •cold," saw two 'boys., utterly unconscious of 1 Cold!" put in the third. "Nero their peril, gatheringan,ferns and cold? Notam! Nero knew 'owto grase. lie dare no's fire, lest the'.kdep himselfwarm, and don't you fee, creature, wounded, shot.ld roll down get it. You're drinking of Zero, an - upon them: Instead, he stood up and other bloke altogether." ! moved to distract its attention le hi 0 1 World's Wonder Railway. fire boys passed- safely and leisurely! on their way, Then, but too late, the The Buenos Ayres and Pncifio Rail - hunters strove to creep round and way, of which Sir Arthur Watson has lc, been appointed general manager, is But e most wonderful in the world. Though she OA two termini, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso, are tropical towns, •the line, owing to the immense elevation it attains in crossing the Andes, runs for hundreds of miles' through a region of eternal snow, and is frequently blocked by avalanches, as the_ Prince of Wales recently dis- covered.' , Among its. wonders is a spiral tun- nel that cost five million dollars to build; a natural bridge of rack, and a string of 118 steel bridges, linked to- gether by short stretches of solid per- manent way.•- steal upon' their prey from the flan Bluebeard was gone. Inscription for a Brass Door -knocker, (From Verse) Lift lightly, friend, And let it fall Lightly again, "And: that is all. Such summoning Will bring me out Much sooner than A heavy clout. - —William Berry, Plenty of Deep Water. Tho average depth of the seas of the warisi Je three miles. The natives called him Duramboi, Hie English name was Davis, but for many years he forgot the latter and answered only to the former. His sitory is .a strange one. At the age of fifteen he, was transported to Australia as a convict, and a little later was sent to the new penal settle- ment at Brlebane. Tho new settle- ment was not, well guarded and s0 Davis hard no `difficulty in escaping, He plunged into the' bush and was adopted by the aboriginal inhabitants at Wide Bay. Many years afterwards a company of explorers found him. By that time there was 'little differ- ence between him and the aboriginals among wlroin he had lived' except that his skin ' was a shade lighter than theirs. lie was an adept in throwing the boomerang, in climbing' trees by means of the looped vine, in tracking animals; He followed all the strange customs and practiced the same brutal rites as the blacks, He had practical- ly forgotten his mother tongue, and it was with some difficulty he regained it when he was brought back to civili- zation. No one imagines that Davis reached this state of degradation all at once. It was something which came slowly but surely with the process of time. The strange part abort the whole mat- ter is that within a hundred tulles of where he wee living his degraded life a township with all the amenities of civilization !tourist -Led. There it was the worst, the light restrictions im- posed on a "ticket -of -leave" man. But longears he lived throughout'the, { Y ! with the blacks he was content to live their strange life, to eat bunya nuts, and snakes, and grubs, and, if the truth were known, to engage in canna balletic feasts, for such was the cus- tom of these blacks. He willfully abut himself out from i the best in fife, until there came a time, when he was unable to detect the best when it came his way. �A characteristic mark of sin is that it makes friendship with God impos- e Bible and shuts. the sinner out from the very best w4lch life has, to offer. That is what t sin always does to men. They are Children of. God inas- much as God has given them life with all its possibilitiess• but sin shuts them out from Companionship and fellow- ship with the Grekt Father, Instead of God being the radiant and benevo- lent centre which attracts their souls, He is either nothing to them or else that which causes them to fear as often as they think of Him. Without that' iuplife which a sense of God brings to men they descend lower and lower in the moral scale as Duramboi did among the aboriginals. Planned Balloon In 1505. Notes lett by the great painter Leo- nardo do Vinci show that in 1505 he understand the principles of the fire balloon and parachute and had plans Each of us in an engineer—of his possible for him to have gained all for a vertical rising heavier-than-air own life. ! the benetta of free citizenship, or, at ',dying machine, RFC.'i A,R FELLERS—Bir Gene Byrnes. M®. HAVE You so'r CeANeB OF A tai NONAY65 PAPA HAS! 2-27 ON POR! HAVE '101) GOT CHASe5. OF A N1GELEl,P. SURE Cues sol NOW Do YOU WANT Too Much of a Surprise 'DIMES QUARTERS WILL. DO! f Copyright, 1025, by 'rite Bell ay,ulicntc, les ) A ' WORD OF FOURTEEN LETTERS By Adrian Veiy Translated by William L. McPherson On his return to Paris Lebriguie bur ri•ed to Diana's house, lint he felt more uneasiness than .joy at the thought of seeing her again, 'In the letters whicli he had received from her regularly during 'his .absence he had believed that he sensed preoccupa- tlone foreign to their love.. Diana had 'shown herself in them still affection- ate and tender, but did not seen very spontaneous or entirely settled in her relied. Something new appeared to have entered into her life. Diana .received him charmingly. Their hands remained clasped for a long time. Legrigue, nevertheless,'no tioed that her glance, though not avoiding his, wandered a little. - Her mind: seemed occupied with some inn- er vision. He concealed his worri- ment as best he •could and said, 'after sitting down: "I thought of you so' much that at times I had the illusion of having you. with: Me." "I thought of you, too," Diana an- swered, with the air of one who is thinking 01 something else. And her absent-mindedness was so evident that Lebrlgue 'suddenly des- paired of being able to keep up the conversation; As Diana, on her side, did nothing to sustain it, they sat there silent, not even looking at each other. . Diana finally ended the em- barrassing pause. She said In a voice Which made Lebrlgue tremble; "My dear, can you give me a tip? What is a word meaning 'reluctance to return'?" -. Lebrigue answered in an offended tone: "Is it my return to which you re- fer? And ought I to apologize for not having made It appear more enthusi- astic?" "What do you mean by such sug- gestions? It has nothing to do with you. I want a definition. "Reluctance to return.' What can that be. I can't find the word. Can you?" ' "I?" Lebrlgue stammered. "Ah! I tweet," cried Diana. "I forgot the most important thing. The word must have fourteen letters." "Oh'" said Lebrlgue, suddenly re- assured. "You are doing a cross -word puzzle?" "tirhat did you think I was doing? It is foolish to give such vague defini- tions. I 'wonder whether there isn't some mistake?" Lebrlgue noticed then that the little. table -desk was covered with diction- ariesand puzzle handboclts. He said with'a smile: "I see that I have 'interrupted -you when you were very busy. What an, noys me is that I feel I must disturb you further, • "Wiry?„. -"Because Iam going to ask you to think a little less of your: cross -word . puzzle' and to think more of us two." "You are not polite to talk that way to me. But I think all the time of that --of us two, One breathes naturally, without paying any attention to it. That does not prevent .one from :melt- ing a flower,” Theanswer was a courteous and sympathetic one. Nevertheless Le- brlgue did not gat all the satisfaction which he expected out of the campari- son, Said Ire: "Then, my dean', if you are willing, lot us talk about our marriage." "It is a goad idea," "What would you say to the twee- tloth of next month?" "Why, yes! Yes!" She Seemed, however, to be thinking it over, Perhaps there was some ob- jection. Lebrlgue waited. A minute later Diana repeated, aa if in a dream: "Aword of fourteen letters. 'Re- luctance to return'" Lebrigue made no reply, but he felt his heart contract. A servant entered theroomaril handed her a card. She glanced at it. "It's Darsanne. Bring him in." "That bore!" Lebrlgue protester,, "4.h! that is true. You don't like him very much. But be fes a nice fel- low. And strong on cross -word puz- zles, He is an ace, in fact. But I see you don't want to meet 1iim.. I will receive him in the salon. Wile you wait here try to find the word mean- ing 'reluctance to return,' LW the way, what date did we sot for the cere- mony? Well, we will talk that over again after a while." She dashed away. Lebrigue had kept the puzzle sheet between his fin gess, He lifted it and looked at it and his expression was charged with hate. Ile studied it for a long time. Then mechanically, his fingers relaxed and the paper fell on the floor. When Diana returned to the room her eyes were drawn at once to the table, where the puzzle street showed some letters, freshly written in, filling the fourteen squares of the word sought for. Site read it .with ecstasy "Disenchantment." . As for Lebrigue, he had departed. She never saw him again, Genesis of of the Tire, The pneumatic tire, which is now used on every type of vehicle from a perambulator to a mammoth motor coach, had a very humble origin,for. it -was suggested to the inventor by the sight of a length of rubber hose tied rennet the wheel of a 'wheelbar- row: • Patience may be a virtue, or it may be just plain ;laziness.