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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-12-27, Page 713ritish Coast Guard Service Faces Incessant Hazards Well of the Peril iu i3raved by Vo11,1ntcer Crews aid Tragedy Is Always at ,Hand w The hitzar'de of Coast Guard secs revealed that t4he, beached^v sel ,. u.a.. os, vice arta thrown _nate -fresh relief by hogond immediate v uch of any Main time recent loss in an English Channel Coast Guard station, A shore signal • storm of . s,eventealr volunteer life- station telephoned to the t;'oaet fiaard severe•—alinQst ail: the able-bodied officer H oS the ion. T ioj District devolved d tl)o hove Division. The job d01'olved men of the tIny'Kentleit fishing vi1- upon the lona volunteer ]ifeboal at lege a Rye I3aibor, Rye-Barbet,- put out, wo.1 came fH, the ship- emergencies throughout the Hefted (1ve minutes After he fire•saretsThe communications tie-up for su h wirecked Crew sought off ilttngeness Kingdom emblem° in all some 2,81 had been safely 'picked up by,a pass- CoastGenzd stations besides ninctetit ing steamer, But it wits too late"Ser shore signal stations una.•foz•ty-four thin message to be shouted to them' atuxiliary watchkeeping stations, A the lusty oarsmen were well beyond courier -a hnock from door to defer the roaring breakers. I r.4 Rye Harbor --a word that hell) was`'Some hours later the' anxious tee- nedded. and the seventeen best ewe of men and children; huddied on' the the cottages responded, just as their beach, saw the lifeboat returning in feathers had responded before there. the teeth of the gale. Once the befit, IPoh alacrity= in such sespolse is one totting like it chip, appealed plainly of the traditions of the Britislh co,ts;'t: on• the crest of a curling swell. A ALL IN TUE DAY'S WORK smut bad been rigged up; the men A mite from Rhossilli last Decent.- were used to, canvas,' no natter what bur the hifasaving company caught tlhe blurt uddenly the mast snap- up with a vessel driving ashore after sped under, a blhtst of wind and the /meting her cable- in a heavy ground boat was' capsized by a great wave swell. The crew of, three were putting from bebincl. The bodies were Wash- ofl' in a boat. "The company there - ed in afterward, the bereaved women upon descended tho cliffs -with belts forming chains in the Still to recoverand Mllewading end out into the tin surf assisted the boat and crew to safety," reported the Board of Trade. Nino of a threeszllasted schemer's • THE TOIL OP THE SEA, 'The tragedy Vete 'dellen the worst flirty -two years 'of , lifeboat tvorl: crew strandecl en t the ] o Gama' Sands at oft, the south coast. It increased that Buddonness,, were rescued the pre - Much tea grim, immemorial scare of vious November by Car'noustio life the sea. But it also emphasized anew •savers, who worked waist deep in both the gallantry and the orgnniza-1 water for seven hours. With rocket - then by n which a iseafaring people linos falling short because of flood sought to co-operate' onshore with tide, the company formed a human s, imperiled mariners afloat, to the' end chain to within hailing distance of .•i1h&t`the seas score he kept down. I the schooner. Telling the crew to take •The ill-fated rescue attempt at Rye tc boats, the company met the boats 'Harbor . was therefore) typical of its they came pounding in. Coast. Gnaid) -service in the United' Ships driven ashore thus on the. Kingdom, particularly on stretches' British coastknow that alarms will of const where rolinnce must be placed soon bo sounded and that willing upon volunteer assistance from the hands will attempt to give them all, flaherfoik themselves. The S 0 S -had possible assistance. House Plants Ferns Cactuses, , Begonias, Primroses, CyClanlins Thrive Indoors - 11 is not ' so easy to grow hous • plants fn .furnace heated houses as'1 used to be in the old days before rued ern Improvements became universe High temperatures, a dry atmospher and tete ;presence of gas aro obstacle Which Interfere with the enccessfu cultivation of house plants iu variety Nevertheless, there are some plant which have a tonaciout hold on itf and will thrive under very elvers ccindations. When they are grown, at least a reasonable degree of eucces may bo counted upon. These are no necessarily plants which flower. Some icinde are distillate -.ornamental be camel of their good nolor, gracefu habit and ornamental .toliege. They are the plants to choose when but little direct shnlightis available: Some of them' arc almost 'restated, and will thrive for a time at least, oven in roomsi or halls where the direct rays of the sun never penetrate. Probably the aspidistra is the best knows of these good natured house plants, and .is gradually finding its way back into living rooms, `where it grows year atter year with but little ettcation, attaining gre.tor size each season, - Boston Fern Attractive. window on the shady side of the house. If the plant has good drainage and is not neglected in the matter of moisture it requires but little atten- tion, although it may need an occas- ional sponging off, especially in the city. The loaves of any foliage plant e are likely to become clogged with dust t and should be 'frequently cleaned.` If. scale appears, it should be dealt with L immediately and :usually can be re- s moved with a tooth brush. It is a s great mistake to try: to improve the ap- 1 'pcarance of ferns or any other plants by anointing them: with olive oil or e any sticky substance. e Several Kinds of Cactus, e' There are. several forme of the can- - tux which slake good house plants s and grow with but little attention. 1 They must have perfect drainage, however, so that water will never - stand around the roots, au dmust be 1 watered very sparingly. Too much moisture toil cause them to rot at the point where they come through the earth. Because they grow tinder desert conditions in the wild state, it is necessary to stimulate these condi- 'tions as much asposslbie when they fare cultivated indoors. This 'means. !that the soil in which they are grown must have a very large proportion of sand. Small cactus plants made up in the form of a miniature desert garden are very attractive, anti such gardens offer wide scope for a display of the I gardener's ingenuity. It is quite pos- hiblo tointroduce mielatur e bridges e s and other ,iapanese aceossories in ar- ranging a window garden, Small coo- tus plants may now be purchased at a low price, as' a number of persons In Texas and other Southern States have made a business of gathering thein ' and shipping them. The phollodendron is another Wept whlrli can. he grown readily in a room which receives little or 110 direct suiz- light. It has large notched leaves, and :after a time gets to be a large plant and somewhat ungainly: For several years, however, it will prove a. good douse plant, although not et - tell seen in a living room. Begonia Is Hardy. lore for flowering plants,- The 21st Of those {Which eau he grown in the average living room is not long, but includes several wiel,e11 aro particular- ly'' satisfactory. P1`ably the small - flowered begonias t•'ghould bo ' i01n first place; This is a plant which of- ten towers continuously for half the year.. Its flowers- arenot very large.. Inn' particularly showy, but they are' very pretty and appear in revered col - ore, like red, pink and white. 'i'his Is 000 of 11te best plants for a north or est Window, requires only a mo1010le ; amount of water, and will thrive in lydtitaly living room .temperature: ! The next best house: plant tor tho omen who has het, little time to' give 1. or flowers is the primrose. Primula! be0nica 1s the Brost free flowering.1 1, too, blooms for many months and i mikes a neat, compact plant with'lppl al primrose blossoms. Unfortunate -;j ', it aometiinee causes a rash. on 1101+I oils who handle R. . This 15 not very ornmon, but 'any Whelan who has0111 'a' 1'aa11 end' a. l'l'inlhila obsonle'a ley suapnr.i the latter and do awns Rh It. 11 is saki, howevc r, that 'lf lis person handling :this plant. 11111 eel1 ills hands and feed 1u alcohol ai- ✓ touch !rig the foliage 110 1r0ulde 111 be sufferoi1, "1.111111 to 11 good point peep 111 1011111, Thole rwothog' 1lrinirnan called. rilnui r c•hhiotiehe winch ie about 811 • �etty 1ud a1814f (11)00 111111.64'ht uw qui The leaves of the aspidistra do not grow out from a C01.11 -10a stalk like those of most plants, but come up from the root' stalk, and became of that fact ueav plants can he obtained with tile greatest. east. It is. only necoasar'y to cut them off with a per- tion"of the root and put them up. This should be done ,at a time when the• plenty are making growth, and oilers an ;easy method by which to keep large plants from becoming oversize. Of course tile aspidistra should not he neglected in the matter of water, and its wide leaves throw- off a large amount of lnoislure. It should 1101 be, kept toe wet, however, and must have good draieage, for otherwise there is anger that decay will set .in. An oc- casional application of - plant food is beneficial Less is known, app,/arently, about the sausoviertia, huteellit is another' 11'oi1- clad .house ,pla.nt which - is decidedly ,........decorative and is recommended to housewves 110110 11110 soinetlting green in their rooms, but do riot have time, to fries with the more tender plants, 1 The sansevirrtia makes n0 upright growth, producing broad sword -like leaven• which extend almost straight e into_the air, The foliage. 18 striped iu an attrectat'e'way, and the plant ocru- pies but little Fence. I The sansovloria may be grown even 11 in a hall or. Clark corner fur weeks at h a time If it is occasionally refreelled o by a few clnye 10 a. dight whitlow, )t 1 needs. puly -'n Iltoderate amount of 1 Water, hilt most have good drainage v and should not be allowed to dry out is at any, time, As with the aspidistra, s an occasional application of plant food c is advantageous, although repel 11 growth le not to he dcnlred as n rule ti and elimulatlotz is not required, ! W Neither of the planta x'hlrh have a - horn named is 011 well trim sen es the Is' T00,011' fern and 11011her, for 11111 )not - ,lee tel, is as lasinlu)ino, 'I'hes! occupy* tv , lits spare, how,'4'cr, and tire esliler to i to grow.5 Yet the BOS10»'fern 111 )1Y 1101. means a tlltticrill.:st111je•let; end le, per- 1' haps, the beet Plaut we Imre! for 0 In .1111 ? hive in .Africa Corner Stones of Canadian Deveioprent' Scanty Cult are 4Jnt Art Canada's z'0000rces during t;,e two States put^obabes, tips^ salol to this tient oenttary has been huilt htrgeiy Uzttted, 1S'izlgdotu consist cb1etly of food produets anti only to a miner upon export bailee ullall euecese to exteet of other elaasos of Koods, Bx- finding ample markets abroad for the .eetly tbo •,roverae applies to the nui- produets of tb0 Douiiniou's faarzn8, fac- ted States, Nomeood products-- tories, forests, minee and by on. And such as paper, mineraie and limber "Magic" BoQh COQ Years 014 Concocted for 13eauty .Secrets by London Society the two great cornerstones of Can- ---aceitent for over fcurASthe of our 1'onclon, T3eauty secrets 804 yearly. ado's exhort trade aro furnished by sales to the Unitod States and food nitl 510 ztow "1128'sought by actz'asses the Markets of Greg . notelet end the prodeotster lesz4than one^lith; ahid society folit from a be ee r0d United States The joint effect0_ 111090 widely !end faded "Mute" book of the seven - Normally the ,Prilfsh and United different.; 48/001111 uront 0311ada's teentiz century, States markets togethur take about resources has been to glee the broad-; Between it sworn covers are re• heeled the `"conceited secrets" of !Somme beauties of Past ages, Which, judged by the mark their users made in 11151017, have a potency little short or magic. "Three eeuturlos ago Women made theirowu beauty'pz'eparetions, which were handed down 1:ts a pr001011 legacy fz'oin mother to daughter," said Mims Charlotte Bond, owner of the book, "They were concocted In the still -room with the coffee and were carefully guarded secrets" Among the quantity phrased pre scriptlons in the book is a "pack" of rose leaves, made moist and bound To U.S.A, u U.bt. on the face wltlt muslin It was left 65.620000 ou over night, to beautify the akin during sleep, Pim those with thin or fulling hair; a 1001810 15 giveu "which maketh the haft to breed ex• oeodingly," Aids to beauty had to be potent in those days, for, said Miss Bond, "in 1028 women slid not use much pow - dor on their, -'faces, but they black" enc d their eyebrows and palntQd their faces pink. There was no up- tick; that is a, modern liroduction." The book is dedicated to Prances, ountess Dowager of Exeter, by a , true admirer of her noble virtues," nd is said to contain "all the virtues vhiob ought to be in the coluplete omen." The "complete woman" ust have had her hands full, for, In ddition to the beauty recipes her "vir- es" covered a range' of knowledge eluding solutions for every concete- ble difilculty of domestic life, from medies for toothache to cooking a nner that even a husband of long andnig would be glad to 'eat.. Toothache, we are tol,d will yield to handfulle of daisy routes" suitably ranted, but if the remedy should fait s tooth may be painlessly extracted EXPORTB OF ALL PltonveTs F 1-1^K^ ''466420000 To U,S,A, •4i ti5'2U,000 °446,870.000 7j yjjp F4?OXD BROOD CTS ONLY' To U:K. ' *378,600,000 EXPORTS OF NON-F0001iR00tJCTS ON LY To USA, s400,840Q06 368,270,000 MIS ROYAL HIGHNESS TALKS WITH WHITE FATHERS CANADAS SALES TO UNITED KIN6OOMANDUIVITEDSTATES UUMdmfliuns yf„y,ndl.l; Msrch.l827: An ineldont at I-loima, Africa, on. the Princes recent tour before lie was, recalled owing to the King's illness, '1`11e "White leathers" ure au order 1 who devote their lives to teaching the natives Christianity, eo free flowering. 11 appal'eutlynever /'� cause a res h and 1 1 is nd .S first-rate recuse entlearnen plant, Then there is the baby in'iuu'os which has much smaller flowers b Wbilell produces dram in great nu bore at the top oftallstems. This is a charming house plant and ono which seems to be growing in . popularity. Most of those primroses are 00 inox- peneive-taht the (housewife need n feel distressed if' else is obliged t cast one aside o0casioually. - Whlfo speaking of plants 'in th class mention might bo made also the yellow -flowered primrose,' whlch blooms only intermittently but whic is very pretty and should be include whenever the housewife wishes t make even a small Collection of min roses, Cyclamen Shorter Bloomer, Teo Impatiens is et!!! another flo;, ening plant winch can be grown read fly in the average house and which i particularly generous,with its flowers Mee producing them without cessa tion throughout the winter months This is a plant which also flowers ou of doors; in . summer, but ono coul hardly expect it to bloom both Fu1l'r mor and winter. Impatiens Sultan's the kind usually grown, requires no special attention it it is kept tree from insect posts. Sometimes it becomes heavily infested, and }when that' hap- pens the flower grower mght as well discard it as to try to Cave IL Mention plight be made also of the cyclamen, which is one of the hand- somest oe house plants', although it yields its blooms for a'muclz shorter season. it ;is possible to carry it over, but as a rule it is better to buy new plants at the beginning of each sea- son. Shrewd housewives often buy them when they are small; because they can be obtained at a lower pries then, and let them develop indoors. 0' Mrs. Nexdoro;- Professor Allegro. called at our house yesterday, and my daughter played the piano for him. Ile just raved over her playing', Mrs, Nayber t How . rude l • Why., couldn't 11e conceal.' his feelings dike the rest of us do?' o, ut ne By Arthur N. Chamberlain Iii the New York Herald 'Tribune. the King1 ot o per cent. of our exports. satire development rest upon a corn-iu The adjutant, despite.' wind, rain, mud and the other minor hardships connected with life, at the airdrome just back et ' the front lines, looked fit to pose as the model for "The Perfect three-quarters 1927 .Canada's exports. Until recent Ye3ars the United King- dom was regularly our heaviest cus- tomer, but latterly the United States has assumed that role, Tho aocom- 1)a>SYing diagram is based upon fig•` our food•producing resources; while s urea issued by the Department of the United States market has played a Trade and Commerce" for the year similarly striking role in other fields, ; C ending March, 1927, and in that year With these two giant forces—the" ` -37.3 per cent. t Of our total sales two greatest buying powers in the � a abroad went to the United States world—combining in such a remark- s and 35.7 per cent, to the United able manner to draw upon Canada's v' Kingdom. None of the numerous r m resources of various kinds, the Do other countries, with which the Do- a minion trades, takes as much as five minion's prospects for broad and ver-; to est 7ciud of impetus to the • Domin• ion's economic expansion. The. huge r buying power of the British market has been the dominant commercial factor supporting the development ot is Soldier," We saluted snappily and The diagram brings out a striking merclal foundation of unique strength. a remember of tried to member the regulation re- _ re porting for duty sir, formula, 73ut the Then the monout tor toasts and' lead a cheer di adjutant took car f it that. ho wraith arises: "(gentlemen, the words that h for st h e o a A d met can fly ors, elz7 ho said ging—God Bless Him." O genially. "Well, cense in : and don't try to be military. We're glad to see 'Unemployment is rite in London you but its a wonder you wouldn't and the question of the dole sett 0 rills out are:. "Three cheers for the King—God eta bless him. t th comma suicide on Broadway without Yet on occasions When the King by permost in the workingmen's minds, chooses to move among his people as of coming all the way over here to do A few nights ago batons were issued a simple British gentleman instead of s' R."to the police, a most unusual proceed- a sovereign, he is amazingly freet They gave us a pdrty that wet. It .in, n g y wentrom th s a, and they charged with drawn annoyance, One afternoon he in wasn't W.C.T.U, ti00all', but some Of clubs, a labor meeting in , Trafalgar- this role to Wembley, where the Bri- th • those boys were, going out in the Square where the red flag was waved. tlsh, Empire .Exhibition was ' morning witlt fife dawn patrol and• housed the following method: "Take some the elder tree or the apples of oak rcies and, with either ot them, rub e teeth and gums and it will loosen em so you may take them out." there wean teany guarantee: that the t return trip Celeste would be honored. d If you .lead asked one et those hand- - some youngsters drinking a trouble • whiskey and soda why he was offer- ing his bright young life so eagerly, he couldn't have replied. You had to read the answerin the way they drauk that first toast: - "The King—God Bless Him," To this loyal, gallant and rather inarticulate ,group of British gentle- men the long symbolized everything they wouldn't put into words—duty,. honor, country. This was wartime of eour0e and the Crotty has always held a particular appeal for the gentry in times of strife, "Husbands should share the house- work with their 181808, says a wo- man's paper. We despise these self;, ish husbands who want to do it all themselves. But two years after the Armistice a. half dozen British and American vet- erans are celebrating the anniversary at a small restaurant in a third-class town on the French Riviera, One of the Britons, the host, spent four years hi a German prison camp after being horribly wounded—you can pick him Out by hie shattered look. He waxes confidential for 1111 Eng Shoreditch, one ofthe poorest There he moved quietly about among boroughs of !tendon, has most of its . the crowds and studied the exhibits mem drawing the dole and thole is from all cornersof the empire just as talk that followers of the red flag are the humblest person present did, growing more numerous there. The! 3t was hard for an American report borough Mayor suggests that it would er who had seen pre-election crowds hearten the people if the King paid in the United States break the police them a visit, The women demand lines in mimed rush to get 'near a can- thta the Queen be invited, They want didate, to understand. the British atti- first of ail improvement of housing tude, much as he admired it. While conditions, his London friends were trying to ex - The Royal Family is without fear.' plain it, an Ameripan rushed up to Queen Mary with graelous dignity, the King and thrust out his hand. consents to visit Shoreditch. There 1 "Shake hands with an American," rte are no elaborate police precautions— he" urged the ging. "I've never been Ve there is no military display. The this close to a King before." its Queen Is met by the Mayor at the! While I stood quaking in antieipa. street marking the limit of the bor. tion of the rush of detectives which ori ough and conducted through some of 13 expected would overwhelm my come. Ro the houses. I tryman and wondered whether I could tak Terrible places they are --without do anything to help him, unmannerly in drains or sanitary facilities --the own-' or misguided fellow that he was, the ors have refused to pay' the rates and King shook hands with him as if the T11 the tenants pay 0 rent. One of them' incident was an every -day affair. Plo tells reporters after the visit; I His Majesty .did let tall a mild re call "She was most kind and gracious. buke, however, Referring to the gra was Her Majesty. Not like my pztrisb l man's remark that he had never been, ora visitor. "I'm sure you keep everything so close to royalty before, the Ring Ticlean and tidy," she said to mc." { said, "I see that you are unfamiliar Bir . ,A crowd—not a too Prepossessing with our customs, also," From Lishman—"I'm washed out," he says 111 looking gathering—le massed in theJI an aside 10 a guest. "They told me street as the Queen ries f oends the Finally there, was the case of a lit- to-day—it wee the prison Camp did is steps of the last house she is to visit.I tie wizened Cockney. I met in New ---1'11 never leo England again -10c If . there ie to he trouble Cicero's Secretary Is Called Father of Stenographic Art Former Slave Preserved Sen-. ate Orations by System of Notes, Says Tampa Girl Tampa, Fla, -Mies Beulah Zino, a nographer, of Tampa, is not only rsed in the arts of her trade, but in history, as well, Shorthand, Miss Zinn says, had its gin in Greece,whence it came to me. Xenophon is said to bare en down the ,lectures of Sophoeles a crude system of shorthand. The learned slave, Marcus, Tullius a, freed by Cicero, and later em= yed as his secretary, might be ed the father of the art of steno- phy," Miss Zinn says, "Cicero's tions were preserevod for ail times means of the Notaa Tironianac, or onean notes, taken down , in the an -Senate by the former slave. "Tire's system, like the Chinese -al- phabet, was ideographic, and was made up of some 5,000 symbols, each representing a word. A prodigious memory, as well as infinite Patience, must have been necessary to master such an intricate system. "Atticus, a Roman bibiiphile, train- ed a foece of slaves in this art and by apportioning five manuscript readers to each group of 100 stenographers, published a great many books. The pay of the slave was a pound of grebe and a sldn of wine daily. "The sermons of some of the early church leaders—Crlgen, C1rysostom,. St. Augustine and Savonarola-were preserved in shorthand, Samuel Pep, astered the art and wrote his In that manner. Charles Dick - used the Buerny system in early when 11e recorded the proceed oe the British House ,of Com- mons.' Stenography died out during the "dark ages" from the tenth to the seventeenth century, Miss %,ihnh says, when it was again revived. "John Willis devised the first alpha- betical system of sh001110nd in the aoventeeuth century," she concludes, "and manyothers, mostly imitations of Wilifa, made their appearance in that and the next eentilry, Xn 1537,. thirty years before the advent of the typewriter, Lease Pitman • duvtsed .a system) of hooks. eurvps and dots, which was followed later by the f,regg system," Lady Asquith toils the foilowi eg story of her old friend,the late ,i. K. Steven, the famous writer of paro- dies. Ono afternoon he was invitett to discuss the future life with and see eeiu11y of cutates. After listening;tet 1,0me time tr: n lot o,: foolish' Vapour. inks, ho weals . "i;;oilllemen, iC is tree What Wordsworth toes: Heaven 'flee abput tti'sum leftossy,' but 18 thee a reason why we *le uld lie abalt8 1'1008011 in QU11 1111-10 el1e?" Just a platter of time—flours at the moment for lt,er 1 con_ A little man can con worst—weeke at the best." , rain himself no longer --he means to Members of Ancient Order Rehearse . ..,,1. ,,.•taw,. ... _ - _.. --__ ._.�...�..,.....w,:�+wrr>mw::aroaxmrt•�sm��tzuamti�mit3ir'S"i ChII31S.T MAS' CAROLS ARE STILL, POPULAR lulthllui ilol pft.al 7010111 of illiutc1ze ter, ,d.ng'land, f,)undcd-in 1015, .bus a boys' eltolr famous the 000118ry ever, York in 1919. Those days occaslonal- Iy proved stormy for stray English- men who ventured into places where De Valera's well washers were strong. The Cockney went into a shop to buy a collar and thought he pulled out a 25 -cent piece as payment. When the coin rolled across the counter it proved to be the King's 'shilling. The proprietor and his clerk were both of Irish descent. "That money's no good Here," said one of them in ugly fashion—"we haven't any use for Kings here—take your bloody shilling." The Cockney, as. I have said, was ys rym little and wizened. I may add that he ens was Poor, uneducated and in his own days country had often gong hungry, He big, faced a had beating tor an injudicious remark, but he was game. "Keep Your bleeds, collar," said he, pocketing the shilling. "I'm for the Icing—Gorl bless him." And they did and he'cifd, Who Gazes oln the River Who gazes on the river Forgets there is a sea. Who looks at every little shrub Neglects the taller tree. A candle may give 1ig111 enough, ` But yonder is a star! We are so bound by little things We dare not travel Sar. Who treads a narrow valley Forgets the mountain way. And in the water's fall will miss The rainbow of its spray, Otte cannot gate frim cellar walls, The view is from the tower, And 11e who dares not live and dream W111 mise; love's golden hour, Francesca Millen to Chicago Tribune, • Taet is getting bade . the engage- nient-ring without asiting for it,