The Seaforth News, 1929-11-14, Page 7Central America's
Valley of Kings
Mysterious ruined ;,sties, their
Q the
lied stone temples hidden
almost impenetrable Ylayan iungles,
some day may yield' the actual story
cif the first Amerleam. Four more
of these cities .were discovered on
. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's explora-
tion flight over the Yuealen penin-
sula—cities where one of the highest
known aboriginal cultures was al-
l'eady on'the wane waren Columbus
voyaged to the New World.
Whence olid they come, these ,p00•
Pie who reared a great edifice to
Kuhn! Can, , the feathered serpent?
How did they , build their temples
with chisels of lint and calcite and
without even a wheel to ease the pil-
ing of stone on stone? What caused
them to suddenly disappear, leaving
the physical evidence of their civiliz-
ation as a slowly crumbling enigma?
The oldest Mayan native have only
ono answer—"Quien sabe?"—Who
knows? Even the archaeologist has
penetrated but, a small way behind
this veil of centuries.
Mayan research progresses uncial a
ladder of question marks. flow
Coes it happen that their language
resembles the Japanese insound,
but not in meaning? What strange
migration took plane that they should
• use the hul•ohe throwing . stick,
similar to the weapons of the Eskimo,
and still have no acquaintance with.
the bow and arrow of the nl1d0on-
tinent Indians?
And their jade—here as another
query, Wath •unbelievable patience
they worked precious stones,. green,'
gray and black jade of a type never
found an the American continent.
The workmanship, for all its abort
ginal character, possesses 'a delicacy
that has been likened to that of Genial.'
But the source of the materialit-
Bell has no explanatiolh.
The research under way, at Ohichen-
Itza, in ..northern Yucatan, is add-
ing much to the knowledge of this
Mysterious rens. It is being direct-
ed by the Carnegie Institution under
an agreement with the Mexican Gov-
ernment. Recent interest in the
puzzle has led to important correla-
tive ,work in the Mayan linguistics,
without which the undeeiphered'glyphs
that cover almost every one of their
major structures cannot be made to
yield their secret's.
'io discoveries on the Lindbergh
flight add new possibilities to those
already waiting for 'the archaeologist
in other Mayan cities which are
known but not yet explored. The
flight Is credited with , accomplishing
as much in twenty-five hours as a
reconnaisanee party, hacking its way
through the tangled growth, could do.
on foot in five years. Yet the sub- year it was 4.42 (exceptionally high
Sequent work is of -necessity slow. figures), in Italy 2.7, in the Scandi-
One pioneer in Mayan research found navian countries 2.6, and in the Neth -
a valuable object reduced to a thin errands 2.8' Now these unfavorable
conditions of motherhood have two
major results of a, most disastrous
character. One is, obviously, to in-
capacitate tens of thousands of women
yearly for further child-bearing, an
evil the magnitude of which may be
prettyaccm'ately computed. The other,
which in America at least is widely
recognized and is presumptively of
great extent, but it is not susceptible
of statistical ascertainment, 15 to de-
ter thousands of women, through fear,
from child-bearing or even from mar-
riage.
QUALITIES
We may satirize character and
qualities in the abstract without in-
jury to our moral nature, but persons
hardly ever. Poor hints and sketches
of souls, as 'we are—with some slight
transient vision of the perfect and the
true—we had need help each other to
gaze at the blessed heavens instead
of peering into each other's eyes to
find out the motes there.
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growing
'children
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vv your growing children!
See that they have the health'
and energy necessary for
their sehool work and play.
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Languor, nervousness,d ,
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nt
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A' Flapper's Prayer FR
Of comp
May ho have money and 00.18' e
Burglar
love' me better° than life, And, 0 of the year for colds one y Bob he g arid How he
'Mord, may I divorce him easily and warm, the next oold and wet, and un.
n- Played Santa Claus for
find another, less the mother is on her guard, the
We got a kick from the following may hang on all winter, Baby's Own Crime does not pay, Crooks work
from a Texas paper and you probably Tablets are mothers' best friend in very bard to get a living, and sooner
or later they get "time." Whether it
is "over the Alps," which means
Dartmoor, or in "stir," which means
Brixton or Wormwood'Sor'ubs, the old
lag realizes that he is up against a
system that inevitably puts him down
for the count,
I had a heart-to-heart talk with
crooks who make a club of a certain
place in Shoreditch: They were old-
timers who were making good.
Shrewd, humorous, and maybe cynical
they were, but they made very good
company,
My companion was an experienced
detective who knows the Plast End. of
London as we ordinary people know
ouronimnlbusedorning and evening trains or
,
'Bob," said he, addressing a delight,
ful little man, who lookedsomething
between a stable boy and a music -hall
comedian, "tell Mr. CordOr how you
played Santa Claus,"
Bob grinned, shuffled nervously, and
refused to be drawn.
This is the story of Bob the burglar.
It was Christmas time, and he had
Just ome out of gaol. He was lodging
with a respectable but hart] -up family,
Little 'Nipper'
little thee are seized with colds that
will, too:
Card of Thanks
1 wish to thank all of those who
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pecially those who e
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ess and opssednessof my late
husband.
Sincerely,
Ursnia Perriman.
We halfway expect-, the dodo. •to
come bock some time, but we are cer-
tain Ole cotton stocking never will,
The Valet "Please, ma'am, come
quickly,, Master has bitten himself,"
The Mrs.—"Whga du you mean?"
The Valet—"He ham sat on your
false teeth:'
preventing or banishing colds, They
aot as a gentle laxative, keeping the
bowels and stomach free and sweet.
An occasional dose of the Tablets
will prevent colds, or if it does come
on suddenly their prompt use will re-
lieve the baby. The Tablets are sold
by medicine dealers or by mail et
25 its. a box from The Or, Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont,
Most Daring Girl
In Britain
Acording to the cynic, modern' po.
lateness consistsin doing something
unpleasant to people every flue min-
utes and sayng "I'm sorry!".
It was their first airplane ride, and
the young woman of the party felt
quite nervous.
"You will bring us back safely,
won't you?" she said to the pilot.
"0f course I will, miss," he assured
her, touching his leather helmet. 'I've
never left anybody up there 'yet,"
"Faint heart never won fair lady,"
said the ready-made philosopher.
"That's right," answered the bash-
ful man. "The way the ladies dress
sometimes you've got to have your
nerve with you to look at •one long,
enough to feel acquainted."
A lot of troubles might not come if
we didn't go after them.
The Bureau of Standards at Wash-
ingson is working on a "non -wrinkle"
cotton, There is a much more gen-
eral demand, however, says Jack
Harris, _or a non -apple -in -the -knees.
wool suiting,
Teacher (to new pupil)—"What is
your father's name, dear?"
New Pupil—"Daddy]'
"Yes, dear. But what does your
mother call him'?"
"She don't call him anything. She
likes him."
Child -birth and Mother -death
W. F, . Pohnso'. in the Spectator
(London) : Great Britain and Amer! 1
are each confronted by two similar If
not identical problems of grave lin-
port—to wit, an ominous decline in
the birth-rate and a concurrent irk
crease in the number 'of deaths of
mothers in child -birth,
Such mortality is greater in Ameri-
ca than any other civilized country,
the number of deaths to the thousand
being ,0,5, while in Great' Britain last
limestone shell. Ile saved it by
spraying light liquid glue upon it with
an atomixer at intervals throughout
three days.
The possibilities of discovery in the
land of the Mayas are almost as rich
as among the tombs of the Egyptians.,
The Itza civilization was not so old
as that of the Pharaohs, but it bears
a similar erlation to the development
of the people of the Western Hemis-
phere. The student• of the Mayas.
may be working • in America's "Val-
ley of the Kings."
"Quien sabe?"—Dbristian Science
Monitor.
• The Anglo-American Accord
Sisley Huddleston in the New
Statesman (Landon); (It has been
suggested in the French press that
Ramsay MacDonald's visit to Wash-
ington was an "Anglo-Saxon" reply to
M. friend's plan for a United States
of Europe). In spite of an unprece-
dented amount of talk about Conti-
nental and world unity, we have.en-
tered a period of remarkable diplo-
matic activity: Some years before
the war the search for allies bad
practically ceased; there was a dip-
lomatic crystallization; the Powers
had lined up. Since the war there
has been a gradual dissolution of the
old associations; and although the
process le not completed, yet it is suf-
ficiently advanced for us to say that
an entirely new situation presents it-
self, The slate is not quite blank, but
it has been to a large extent cleared.
Now a third operation begins—the
same operation, ona larger scale, as
that which followed 1871. Moat ;of
the countries are actively ;seeking al-
lies. There are many feints and false
moves, but since nobody knows pre-
cisely how the world will have shaped
up twenty years hence, the feints :and
false moves arouse nervous apprehen-
sions, . , . It' has tomo to this—that
we cannot take a step towards an-
other nation without provoking fears
in a third nation lost we have found
the key to the post-war diplomatic
enigma which will open to us tit
doors of the future.
Sauced for the Gander
Toronto Telegram (Ind, Cons.):
When Premier Icing goes West some
one should lead 1110 out to the Al.
barta border and point out to him
that when Alberta was under a pro-
hibitory law liquor' poured in over the
border and Uncle Sam never'raised a
hand to stop it. Then the same Pro-
wler King might pause to reheat that
what' was good enough for Canada
when the United States was wet and
Canada was dry should be good
enough f01' the 'United States now
that conditions have ;been reversed.
Steeplejack and an Airwoman
for Fun
Brighton,—Brighton boasts a girl
who claims to be the molt daring
young woman in England.
She has, in. the course of twelve
months:
Done a steeplejack's work on a tall
chimney.
Flown her cousin's aeroplane and
looped it twice on her second solo
dight,
Tackled a mad dog and saved a
child from being badly bitten, put a
burglar to flight, and,' dressed as • a
man, spent a night in a brigand's
camp in Corsica.
This modern amazon is Miss Phy-
lis Knott, a pretty bobbed -haired girl
of 24, and she informed me calmly
that far from wanting to rest on her
laurels she is now looking for fresh
adventures and new worlds to con -
•
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed bathing suit that was described as
"!daring?"
quer.
One of her pet projects is to make
a record long distance flight In a bal-
loon.
"I don't really go looking for ads
venture; it comes' looking for me,"
Miss Knott said to me; "I can't es-
cape from it. Wherever I•go I seem
to land up against something excit-
ing.' It's either a gift or a handicap.
I'm not, sura which.
Wasn't. Looking. For Thrills
"I certainly wasn't looking for bri-
gands when I went tramping through
Corsica this summer. But they were
very. nice to men they gave me some-
thing to drink and some food,
"0f course they never suspected for
a moment that I was a woman. '1
heard afterwards that one of the ban-
dits was a desperate character who is
reputed to have killed two men.
"Nor was I looking for the mad dog
and the burglar. They just happened
and I had to deal with them as best
I could. Any woman would have done
the same,"
All -expense To
VIllians were not born, but made.
To be unduly elated If you win, or
unduly depressed when you lose, is
a sign that you are carrying too much
sail and not enough ballast.
"Among the most interesting relict;
of the mound builders that we dis-
covered," said the returned explorer,
"was a mummy in a perfect state of
preservation with a skull measuring
forty-three inches in circumstance,"
"My gracious!" ejaculated his hear-
er. "I had no idea there were movie
leading men in those days."
The hardest thing in the world is to
find a $10,000 job for a $4,500 man.
Nothing fails like some kinds of
success. —
English Mother—"Now Bobby, If
you don't behave, I'll get Mayor
Thompson after you."
Melissa (at the ,bridge party)—
"Well, Gertie, I believe you are about
to lose your prowess:"
Geraldine—"Sh-h-not so loud! Give
me a pin!!"
All the lemons that axe handed out
do not have ilne tissue paper around
them.
His Hearing Restored
The invisible ear drum invented by
A. 0, Leonard, which resembles a
miniature megaphone fitting inside
the ear, entirely out of sight, is help-
ing the hearing of a great many peo-
ple. Mr. Leonard invented this drum
to relieve himself of deafness and
head noises, and itdoes this so suc-
cessfully that too one could tell he Is
a deaf man. 4 request for informa-
tion to A. 0. Leonard, 70 Fifth Avenue
Suite 437, New York City, will be
given a prompt reply.—Advt.
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RED, ROSE ORANGE, PEKOE xs extra good
One of the company Wee an inter.
national pickpocket who now lives in
a workhouse, but every Oilrismtas
Day he dines with a police court mie-
sionary. The two chat over their
wine and cigars (paid for by the mis-
sionary) and they talk of foreign
cities and strange customs, of life to,
its full; and then the pickpocket re-
turns to his Workhouse and the mis-
sionary to his court. Queer, but true,
Said I to a man who has spent
thirty years in prison and is now a
successful costermonger: "What do
you think about the changing condi-
tions of life, progress generally, scien-
tific inventions like aeroplanes, broad-
casting,. gramophones, taut -films —
things you never knew, things that
must have impressed you?"
He replied: "Women's clothes are
too short. They ought not to be al -
who had a little "nipper " who be- lowed to do it."
lieved in Santa Claus.
1Ie really thought that if he was
good Father Christmas would, come
down the chimney, bearing beautiful
presents from his wonderful toy fac-
tory lit up by the Northern Lights.
The kid sent messages up the chim-
ney to Santa Claus, asking for a toy
tricycle, and . Bob the burglar broke
into a shop to get it.
"Was he pinched?" I inquired from
the detective, who blushed and fumb-
led with his pipe.
"He paid for the blinking tricycle,"
said Bob, smiling at the embarrassed
officer,
No, chance for the heart to be right
if: the liver isn't
Friends•just naturally gravitate to
the person • who has no need of them,
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due to Acid
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ACID STOMACH
HEORTSURN
HEADACHE
GASES.NAUSE- A
What many people call indigestion
very often means ex0eas acid in the
stomach. The stomach nerves have
been over,etimnlated, and food sours,
The corrective is an alkall, which
neutralizes acids instantly. And the
best alkali known to medical science
Is Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, . It has
remained the standard with physl-
ciane in the 50years since its inven-
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e
0
4
rag
That is a true storx, and I submit
that it shows that the best and the
worst of us may be joined by a human
touch common to both of us.
Crime As a Trade
Afterwards we talked 'crime, not as
an offence but as a trade.
Said•I: "If you chaps had put your
brain' and energy into regular jobs
you would have made good."
They agreed, but a smile went
round the company. The detective
explained that smile an a well-turned
phrase: "Stolen apples make sweet
eating." ,
"A desire onthe part of travelers
to go in special parties under expert
tour management prompted our com-
pany to experiment with the all -ex-
pense, . personally -escorted plan the
past two winters," PassengerTraffic
Manager W. J, Black, of the Santa Fe
Railway, announced the other day.
They were so popular we will repeat
this winter. All necessary expenses
are defrayed. The passenger pays a
lump sum. The railroad takes care
of ell details from start to finish."
Five of these tours will be run by
the Santa Pe in connection with the
Burlington System, Chiago to Cali -
Ronda and back—a journey of about
6000 miles by rail, several hundred
miles by motor, and requiring three.
weeks on the way. One will leave in
January, two in February and two in
March, 1930,
The itinerary includes the Indian -
detour region around historic old
Santa Fe, also Taos, where Kit Car-
son ono lived. Grand Canyon Na-
tional Park next will be visited, like-
wise Tijuana and Ague Caliente in
01d Mexico. After viewing all princi-
pal points of interest in California—
including Hollywood, Yosemite and
Oatalina—the return to Chicago will
be by way of Feather River 'Canyon,
Salt Lake City, the scenic Rocl les of
Colorado and Denver.
One spoonful of this harmless, taste-
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stantly many times asm at once, and
the symptoms disappear
Will 'never use crude methods when Ancl
once you learn the efficiency this..
Go got a small bottle to try.
Be Hurc'to got the genulnb'Phillipa'
Milk of Magnesia -proscribed by physi-
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Spite is a little word, but it repre-
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Every morning take " the little daily
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The Morning Newsboy
Before the city rises from its bed,
Or the 'first smoke is to the sky un-
curled,
He comes, that we may know what's
thought or said,
Or done, in any corner of the world.
I never saw him, as I've never seen
The, power that swings the golden
gates of day;
Through snow or rain, in weather foul
or clean,
This gallant youth goes early on
bis way,
He ends the isolation of the night
We wake; the very world is at our,
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while
And
We
of
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hear
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tile waves beating on other
•
thug I thank the boy I never see,
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