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The Seaforth News, 1928-01-05, Page 3Danger Lights From Little Europe Garden -Wall Quarrel That Migl;,t lxvplve Millions of English Dines. By Janos Maynard The Soviet's Nate to Poland with —sucle are the domande of the Lithe- respect to Litltttania's aspirations amens of all parties," lond8'Interest to this article by Me, They were not destined to .obtain ,Jamee Mayriaad,''who 10 one of our what they regarded as "the entire nee foremost authorities ole Lithuania. tlonei territory"; but they diel obtain their independence during the war, Once upon a time there ;was a Litli- ttauta which extended from the Beetle, and have since kept It. In the midst to the Black Sea. Chaucer, in his of the Warentowards the and of 1917. "Canterbury'Tin es," sends a brave --they elected a National Council.' English knight to visit it, and its This National Council proclaimed the rulers are said to haveiieigned a com- independence of Lithuania, The Ger-• mercial' treaty with England in them ans, wha wero beginning to want fourteenth ontury, The Lithuanians Mende badly, announced themselves of those days—no Slays, be it noted, as, "liberators," and gave Blinnde jure ilut men of Amen. origin, speaking a recognition, Subaequent attempts to anguago which has many, affinities go back on this recognition and create with Latin—smashed up the Teutonic some sort. of "personal union" be - Knights and stemmed the tide of Tale tar invasion.. Biding Their Time. tweeu Lithuania and Prussia were succesefully resisted; and the victory of the Allies made Lithuania sate for democracy. Later, when Russia rose; Lithuania Deen'so,•however, it has not enjoy - fell into decadence, and wee removed, ea the happy state' 0 fa country which like Pelted, and at the same time ea, has no history, Its, relations With both Polank.from the neap. Tho partition' Poland and Russia:liave been stormy. rif Poland was also . a partition of It has been engaged in hostilities with Lithuania: Most of 1t went to Russia; 'both oguntries. It is still nominally, at war with Poland, though years have Deemed since there was any fighting.. Tho League of Nations has tried in vain to cotnpoae the quarrel caused by the so-ealled "coup ' of General yoligowslei"—an alleged "mutinous" r,oldler whose unauthorized seiziire of 0 small fraction to Prussia; but neither Russia nor ,Prussia absorbed its portion, Tho Lithuanians kept their language and their indiviclualitY, tend; bided' their time. The War ' brought. them 'their opportunity, and they grasped it, A new Lithuania ;vas„set up; awl the bast book in which'to read Alio story of its rise. is "'Litlntanie Past and Present,” by 17. .'G, 'Harrison, sometime rritieh Vico- Consul at Vilna and Kovno. • It Irina course, a much clitedale tecl, .Lithuania. The eatenoton of its bouu- •daries towards the Black Sea never had any ethnical warrant. Its proper Vilne, necessitating the transference oil the Lithuanian seat of Government to Kovno, was afterwards endorsed by leis Government, end Is believed to have teen planned in concert with Marshal Pilsudskl. Filet FioWer of the Balkans, 'Still, in spite of these troubles, paeed lightly over here: because they place is in the North, with an outlet beloiB to current controversial poli- te the sea at Memel, According to tics, Lithuania ha•s done, and is doing, ` Should sixty marry 3 happy, six? you are ha , I• don't care if. I am. Should ninety marry nineteen? Can parties of such widely different ages really love each other? ' Are such marriages immoral? All these quos- tions bae been put to me since it was: announced to the world that 1,.a wo- man of :sixty-one, was engaged to marry a young man many years younger than myself. I have been derided, ridiculed, censured, and the object or gross newspaper attacks, which havesaid that old age is a bar to marriage when one of the patties 111 f1I All wu t'aarnda 0 • FUNERAL CORTEGE OF LATE PREMIER BORATIANU • Buried on his own estate, the casket was drawn on a cart by six oxen led by bid retainers. 'IRIDE OF 63 CONFESSES I. Asked Him to Marry Me Forj Fell in Love With My Boy Husband ---Sister of the Ex -Kaiser, Who Recently Mar- ried a ar••rieda Russian Many Years Her Junior, Gave this Exclusive Article at a Special Interview in the Palace at Bonli to London Tit -Bits the Russo -Lithuanian Peace Treaty, well, and may reasonably hsps to to, 'signed on July 12, 1920, It had an area bettor. - "01 all the Baltic States," .of 32,000 square milds and a pepula-• Mr.'Harrison says, she "enjoys the tion of: 4,200,000. Part of this Terri- most 'favord economic and financial •tory,,howover, was seized by Poland, Position," being predominantly an ag- in circumstances of which, more shall ricultur'al country, and producing be said in a 'moment, and its present within her own borders everything population Is said to be' little more , necessary to a self-contained indepen- •than two millions. dent existence. Her soil is fertile.: Hor' staple crops: are rye, wheat, bar - Between Hammer and Anvil. loy, oats, peasepotatoes and flax. Af Tho war, .as a glance at the map tor agriculture, her most Important will. show, found the Lithuanians be- source of,,national wealth is timboi, of tweed the hammer and the anvil, and whichth principal , species are 'pine, still in his or her 'youth. engaged them in. a .oanflict in which which the princip�'ai species are pine, ,!e theywould muck 'have preferred' to 'oak, Sir, birch, maplo and lime. Her But I contend that levo is no re - remain neutral They suffered hor- amber industry is also important, for ribly-mush more than the Belgians, the Baltic coast is the onlyy area in the, though much less has been said about world where the collecting and mauu '-their sufferings—firet from roquist- facture of amber is carried on on a tions and then from deportation. 'A sufficiently large scale to be- spoken o4 as•ae industry, few sentences taken from Mr. }Iarri- ,• •son's book will give a faint idea of the ',extent of 'the trouble.. "During their retreat the Russians, .destroyed everything• which they were -unable to remove... Villages and farms were given -to the "flames, ma- ehinery and implements were curled off, and unspeakable, miseries began Nor are the arts ignored. Some of the artists have a European repute- tion.—T, epute- tion. T. P.'s Weekly. • Wasted Millions Experts have been busy showing us tor the inhabitants of these desolated how much money we Waste in a year, areas . 'Unlike Belgium, Lithuahia 'Starting with cigarettes ,they tell us that out of a population_ of forty mil- lions, at least ten .million men and women, smoke on. an average tan cigaretes a clay, and waste not less• than one-fifth of `ditch cigarette. Thus an equialent of twenty million cigar- ettes is wasted daily. At a cost of up. The peasants' first sought refuge one shilling for twenty, tho yearly di'd•notbeneft from the liberal aid ex- tended by the United States and, Spain. "When in accordance with the jin- . :human Russian policy, thousands .of • Litheanlan adults had to leave the •country; entire families - were -;broken • in .the towns, but were moved on far- waste is nearly £ 18,000,000. Ther by the Russian soldiery. • Parents Mel thus to abandon their children, and were themselves transported in- to Russia in cattle trucks. -At Vilna, for example, thousands of children ran about the streets vainly seeking 'their parents. The Central Lithuanian 'Committee subsequently placed.; them, in orphanages.. But these institutions were without funds necessary to pro- vide proper nourishment for the child- ren, meat and milk being particularly scarce." • The Cause of Self -Determination. During the German occupation things gradually got better. The Ger- mane had no motive for de -triaging a country which they hoped . to annex 'or for persecuting those whom they regarded • as their future - subjects. 3iist as the Russians had tried to Russianize the Lithuanians, so they tried to Germanize them. They were more successful than the Russians had been because their methods were less ;brutal; but the success did not amount to much. It was restated, not only by Lithuanian patriots at home, but also by Lithuanian patriots abroad. The latter were active from the 'first. As early as October, 1914, the nethuanians in the United States call - en a natioua lcongress, which mot at eicago and declared itself in favor of tile reorganization of the Lithuani- an 'State in conformity with the prin- ciple of self-determination."A Lithu- anian Bureau of Information in Paris was entrusted• with tit task of diffus- ing knowledge of Lithuania among the general•public A commissioner- J. Gabrys--was. appointed to treat with the belligerents on behalf of Lithuania, .A series of Lithuanian conforences• were held in Europe, at Berne, at Lausanho, at the Hague, at Stockholm. Demands were formulated. Bore le a typical declaration issued at Lausanne: "Tho Issue of the war 18 tncortttln. Whatever it niay bo, Lithuania does not wish to return to political servitude or to revert to a situation which would permit Russia or Germany to imposo their yoke up - en the country, A. free Lithuanian pen- . pro occupying the outir o national ter- ritory, and hitting free political, hi- telleotual and economic development The 'habit of putting salt. on the side of the plate instead of sprinkling it on food means that one spoonful in two is wasted. As practically all the inhabitants of the British Isles use table salt there,'is -a yearly loss of 50,000 tons, wort£8,000,000. Waste in matches is 'amazing. Quite three-quarters' of the wood used in the manufacture remains unburnt. Assuming, that no more than ten aril - lion • people each use two boxes a week, approximately 1,000 tons are scrapped every year. If tho wood were collected, it might prove invalu- able in the manufacture of useful pro- ducts such as oxalic acid and paper pulp. Amateur photographers throw away used hypo containing silver, One pic- ture-making firm saves £375 a week on waste. hypo. What must be .the amount waste!). in hundreds of dark rooms in Britain every year? specter of ago and that the fire of true love can burn as clearly and as purely itl the heart of a woman—or a man -at the ag of eighty .os eighteen! If tee persons find that they aro soul mates -that they are consumed with the 'grand passion for each other—: then they have every right to, marry".' Ago has nothing to do with it at all —it is cufdelont that the all-pervading emotion, love, is present. There al-. ways enters, of course, the question 08 children—but in this age marriage Is not cousldered declasseeor immoral because the parties do riot have child- •ren but live alone ttgether In unin- terrupted bliss. l -le Would be Unhappy Without, Me. Children may bo a blessing to mari tal happiness, but they are not essen- tial, and because the two contracting parties do not—or cannot -increase the human race is no reason why they should not marry. Marriage is an in- dividual estate -it Is personal, and it has, greatly annoyed me that so many people have concerned themselves in my, love idyll and my fulfilled deter- mination to marry the man I' love, even though he is many years young- er than myself.' There can be no wrong present where true love rides paramount, and I submit that if I had refused to mar- ry the man I love because I` amso. much older than he, then I should not have been doing him a kindness, but a wrong -for I know that his love for me is such that the 'rest of his life would bo barren and unhappy without me by his side. There is little doubt that in the course of years we shall bo separated, because I am likely to be called into the Great Unknown many years before my husband, but I shall havo had those • few year's of unutterable happiness and bliss with the man who possesses' all my heart, And doesnot every woman agree with me? If one loves, then one has a right to snatch all the happiness that love brings. And if the object of one's affection loves also; then the world has no right to deny either happiness. The question of their • respective ages does not enter into the matter, Old Age le No Bar. - ' I am quite in agreement that youth should marry youth—that i1 18, per- haps, better—but I am not prepared toadmit that old age is a bar to mar- riage or real love. Rather two per- sons of while different ages marry be- came they really love each other than two young things who are ..entering, matrimony for reasons other than af- fection, and who, although perhaps not disliking each other, yet aro not in love. The marriage between my brother, the Kaiser, and Princess Hermine 1► was a love-match—yet both' are .no chickens, to put it rather vulgarly, True, they are not so very different in age, but 'they had every right to marry because they loved, That was tite answer I gave to my brother, the Kaiser, when he remonstrated wah- ine on my marriage. ' "Victoria,' he ,paid, 4'700' are acting And now a worm' Mu crashed into madly, If you marry this ishan you politica, 'according tet a leading Ohio will ,be the laughing -stook of Ger- Detnocrat. However, he refer.e to the, manyt" • oor'n-borer, not the taxpayer. Ohtaa-. "Wilholih," I replied, "you _married 00 Daily Nows, when you Were nearly my age, and words as they can pronounce. '!If rtes pick on hubby fee's apt o pull a bunch of hariil,` blue eernacular." The Art of Keeping a Diary d"" All the Mental Faculties De- pend on it Memory is the faculty poseeased by the, mind of preserving what has once been,preeent in consciousness so that. the laughing -stock df this and the it may again be recalled. Thus it next world, I am going through withconsists of both retention .and recol- it. , You will admit that I am; per- lection retention representing the haps, old enough to know my own p g power of storing up for future use, mind!" and recollection the power of bring. My brother was silenced, and has ing back into consciousness. since refused to have anything to do Often impressions 'are received' by with pie, and. up to my wedding, day c S retained his disapproval of my mar•: he various senses; eig$t, hearing, nage. Ido not look my age—only smell and taste, without our being the other,clay I was told that I look conscious of them; for this reason ideasare sometimes twenty-five, but I must admit that : , believed to be or - this; was flattery. One thing I will Iginal when they are not really so, say, and that is that 1 have kept my andon this basis may be explained looks and figure—not by artificial aids somo oases of involuntary plagiarism, and cosmetics, but by exercise and a No idea that bas over been in the healthy life. I consider myself to bo mind can be entirely forgotten. In on a parwith a woman thirty years abnormal states, s are ras e fever and younger, and• I think that my husband delirium, memories aro revived which have not married an old woman, ox- • not risen into actual conscious - has cept n the matter of age, but a well neva for many years. The' dying often e p g ' revert to eeperienees which they have. preset, wife that will do her duty had in childhood. andhave apparently to him as stanchly as 1E she. were long ago forgotten and there is a twenty-five, widespread and popular belief that Forked 'tongues -have said all sorts a man• on the point of drowning ro- of unkind things about us. It is a fact views in a flash all the minute events that, I' am a Princess of the Blood of his past life. Royal and that I am a wealthy. wo- man, ;and -these two -facts have been Progress Without Memory used in order that my husband may Of all the faculties .possessed by be termed adventurer. This is a gross•: libel. Firstly, he did net seek my hand. .I asked him to marry me. Secondly,' during the first days of his courtehip'he was unaware of my posi- tion or wealth, and thought that I was en ordinary German woman of per- haps moderate moans. No -one was more surprised than he when he found out that I was Princess of Schaumburg -Lippe. It is therefore certain and obvious that he loves me for, myself alone, and not for that which it was my pleasure to bestow on, him on our wedding day. I think that we are going to be the happiest couple•in all Europe, and far Denied Tobacco fxeY1e111lo0uswmiecthisdsapfoxtoeUfnitnanpiptoem 'afeote frota000 mokndro. are doeoribed .1n a lecture by Dr. W. 10. Dixon oe tire' Cambridge a41lg) Pharmacoiogloal Laboratory, rePertod in o hliia,Journal( (I,ou. don)Th. Brltishporous oanbicetangl ohe says, may bo put into the sten), of the pipe; the space for cpoling And condense, Non may, be inoreased, ox some web+' stance which facilitates oxidation may be placed . in the bowl of the Pipe. These last pipes are called oatajYlis, land rho bowls are' lined with our: metallic oxid, like that of platinum, in a fine, state of division. By Passing tobacco smoke over it the nicotin and pendia derivattres aro decomposed: These pipes have not, however, found .favor, he reports. He goes 001 "Another • method of improving to bacco consists 111 removing some of its nicotin by moans of solvents, , These 'eo-called denicotintzed tobac cos have 50 per cent. or more. of their uiootin romoved,. anal have been re• learned; therefore, by physicians as relatively barmlese, at all events as far as their nicotin-Is concerned,' Un. fortunately this is 'not the case, be. carts it has been shown that these. de. nicotinized cigars yield in their smoke as much nicotin as.was present in the , c same class of cigar before denicotint'. 'ation., ' The 'Visual" and the "Auditory." But It is best of all to cultivate the third and, highest form of =mum, the "imaginative," or "representa- tive." The fortunate individuals 'ivho. have naturally a large share 'of this useful faculty of recalling vividly past events, belong to 'the worldpoote, painters, and all creative artists. They may be divided in respect to the kind of imaginative memory thy paseess, Into; two., clesses, the visual and the auditory. The "visual" remember by form, and the "auditory" by sound, and in order to bring representative memory to its highest perfection, both varie- ties must bo cultivated. Those who find that they remem- ber a page of a book by seeing men- tally, the shape of the letters should try to hear in their' minds the sound of the syllables, while the -"auditory"1 (who are usually good linguists) should try to visualize the printed words. But, above all, a good memory can be formed by the habit of concentra- tion. Clearness of recollection' , de- pends entirely upon clearness of re- tention, and unless an impression en- ters the mind firmly and lucidly it will be remembered 'vaguely and confused- ly. • The Will as an Adjunct. It is natural for the mind to fly off at a tangent when it tries to fix itself upon some particular idea, and lack of attentfion Is a habit which grows apace unless corrected. From this point of view the will can be made a man memory is the most vital to im- valuable adjunct to a good memory, provement and progress. The way of ,for it can bs' called in to bring back ;experience is the one way through the wandering thoughts when they life; without experience there can be stray from the subject in mind, no progress and without memory. ex- But the mind must desire to attend, perience`is of no use. A human being and for this reason too severe an ef- without memory would bo at the end fort, causing intense fatigue, Is to be of the longest life no further advanced avoided, since lack of concentration than at the beginning: . is ono of the first signs of nervous ex - All the mental'facuities depend up- • haustion,Interest and novelty tend on memory. Neither • sensatiott nor to st mul ate this mental desire for voluntary movement could exist with- 'concentration, and therefore monot- out the guidance of former recollec- one is apt to snake It difficult and tions; we cannot voluntarily pe;.form tedious. any action unless we know' before- Repetition is a great aid in memos - hand what, we are going to do, and the lung.. The more often a thing is re - knowledge comes only kola- remem- panted the more deeply is it impress-. from making any difference to our bering that we have done it' before. ed upon the Mind, and each repetition love, the difference in age between us Since memory is of such, inestimable ',means 'easier execution, greater speed will rather cement lt. There is only one thing that mars my husband's de- lirious happiness at our marriage, and that is the fact that I may be taken from him before many years are pass- ed. That was the only consideration which has kept us' back in any way in our deslre'to become man and wife. Love will not be denied, however, and after, considering the matter fully we decided that we would snatch our few moments of happiness no matter when` it cost in heartbreak later, when it be- comes necessary for us to be parted across the bridge that separates tlsts life from the next. Love Knows Ne Locksmiths.',: In conclusion, I would exhort ' all those who are denying themselves happiness because of the age bar to marriage to :take courage into both bands and stand before an altar and not to have happiness stolen from them by public opinion. Age: 18 no bar whatever to marriage. Love knowe no locksmiths•=not even the bars of. old age. Cupid .is a wily rascal. Perhaps it is rather tragic when he ehoote his .arrows' In persons very far' removed in ago, but when he docs so letyour heare'dictate to you, If 'your heart says "yes," then have courageand: go through with it, and if true love is fn deed proeent, then I do not think you will live to regret it.' The jolly, old readers seem to bo' in bnthuslattto agreement with, out plea for much lose talk by radio -an. nouncers, but the consensus 10 that we are too severe itt advocating a rule that an ilifnouncer must' confine Himself to -subjects ho. 1cno-0M some- thing about; S. S. C. for instance, suggests a milder meaanre: that an - annual) be allowed to use only•sueh importance it be 'hooves mankind to ,and •dexterf y. Even when a thing use and strengthen it to its full ex- once learnt seems to have been forgot - tent, for that habit is to the. individual .teb, it is found that on a second at- tempt itis mastered much more easily and 'quickly. Trusting the memory serves to strengthen it. ` It is not alwaya a good plan to depend entirely upon volumin• out notes, for just as a limb that le never used will waste and become useless, so the memory will become weak and undependable from lack of what heredity is to the race. Memory. can be greatly cultivated, and, the power of recalling minute incidents not only acquired but marvellously in• creased. 150,000 Words by Memory. The Brahmins of India do not de- pend upon .the written word for im- parting their sacred teachings. They development. learn prodigious gnanftitesby heart; Finally, in the words of Quintilian, some of them can repeat as' many as 150,000 words without hesitation. The faculty, of repeating long lists of names end;dates is not necessarily much by heart, to meditate much and a sign.of great'intelect; people of no if possible daily, lathe most efficacious torious stupidity and weak mentality of 'all' methods."—Ethel Browning. hairs been known to be able to per- form each feat's of memory. It is a -porter that depends.. upon the lowest form of memory, -that which is known as "memory by contiguity." A higher form Is l'memory by as- sociation" or "rational memory," and this is a more useful form to culti- vate. In searching for past ideas and sensations that have "escaped our memory" for, the moment, we `try to renteinber'something that occurred' at the same time, or we turn over in our minds similar ideas, trying to' flx'the Particular time by comparing them with .other things that we know to have happened at a certain moment. "If anyone ask me what is the only and great art of memory, I shall Say that it is exercise and labor. To learn This kind of memory is made up mainly of association of ideas and the Ancients, notably' Simonides, in 500 B.0:,invented systems known as, "mneaionios1 which depended upon symbols and places. Mnemonics are still in vogue, especially in the per- nicious erinicious practice of 'cramming,',', which is like a permanent crutch to a weak- ened limb—a help at first, but a hind- rance when the limb couldgrow develop 10 ori g- . if 'allowed t leve tai strongp I g Mal power. THE WORST THINGABOUT HER • "What is the worst' thing about bar?" "That lnalpenMcant little Pani! Saalpp who to always at her aide." • ---4. The companionate marriage .le financed by the parents of the con- tracting partiefi, just as are the lase heroic, measures in: the education of the young, ,. "Improved methods of removing the nicotine are, however, now being ex. perimentecl with abroad. Boxes of cigara and tobaccos in various forma are treated with .superheated steam; by this means practically the whole of the nicotin Is said to be removed, and the tobacco Is left nicotin-free; the nicotin has a ready sale for agri cultural purposes: I have had no op- portunity, however, of ;experimenting with these products. "Tobacco is a substance foreign to the: body, and its alkaloid is poison. ons. I am not suggesting that tobacco should bo guaranteed to contain not more than a specified amount of nice tin, in the same way .as spirits are standardized for alcohol; but as to- bacco is similar to alcoholic borer ages, in that excess of both leads to serious results, the public should have some sort of guidance or pro- tection. It is almost certain, for ex- ample, that it is the moistness of the tobacco 'which is indirectly respons. ible for many of its most serious ef. feats; thatthe pyridin derivatives are largely responsible for morning cough, which leads later to chroni0 bronchitis and cardiac failure. These are conditions which at least are cap- able of improvement. ,The Ministry of Health, which has already done much for providing pure foods of a curtain standard; will, I hope, before long see in tobacco an important fact- or in the public Health-'' Practical Knowledge The 110. Hon.' T. J, Macnamara, who t - was at one time a teacher in an ele- mentary school, tells an amusing story of a city -bred young: woman who was put in charge of a coeatry school: Tho class in arithmetic was before her. She said; "Now, children, if there are ten, sheep on one side of a fence and ono • jumps over, how many sheep will .be left?" "No %heap, teacher," answered a tle lass of ten summers. "Oh, no," cried the city young wo. man reproachfully. "'You aro not --a::;.,, stupid as that! Think again, If there were . ten sheep on, one side of the ,fence: and one sheep jump over, nine sheep would be left. Don't you , see that?" "No! Not Not" persisted the child, "If one, sheep jumped over all the others would lump after it. My father keeps sheep." Then seeing the puzzled look on the teacher's face; the little •girl explain- 'ed apologetically: "Yon know 'rich rattle, miss, but I know sheep.' Cr -� Convenient—For Wifey Behind -the scenes at the tondos,^ Hippodrome recently a •discussion, arose as to the relative generosity in'' money matters of American and-Eng'..1-••+^-•. lisp husbands. Miss Alice Morley, who sings the "Halleluja" number in Hit the Deck,,' and who is American born of English' parents, remarked- that toe' average, British husband wan at least as gen- erous as the average American. "Ohl interjected somebody, with ' an Interrogative lift of the 'eyebrows: • Whereupon Miss Morley narrated the followingincident in support or; •. her contention. • A lady friend of hers, a matron ol( some years' stand!ug,, was paying -1100 first visit to a young bride,. "My dear;' alio said, during tit; course of tea, "what ,financial arrange': meats^hays yon mads with Charlie Hoes ho make You a reiular 'allow anee, or do you just ask him fej' money when you require It?" "Oh—el—bejh,". replied the bthi,. naively, Tho magnitue of the ends you s l and serve .10. the measure of personality. 4t Jones, to the trader-s0trnn: "How 11 you haven't requested me to De your account?" ,Tradesman; "0h4, hover ask a gentleman fes^ money'. "Xndeed. Then how d'y'on get on • bre does, not pay?" 'Why, atter woe tain time I conclude lie a of 01'oral LOAN and then 1 ask ]lint•