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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-11-22, Page 3Royalty to the Rescan. The rescue of a drowning sailor by King Christian of Denmark, •term Copenhagen recently, recalls an ear. lier incident of which this deservedly lioPular Monarch was the hero. While cruising off the Danish coast ho the Royal yacht the King heard the sound of firearms. Cutting quickly through the water, the yacht came up with a spectacle more suggestive of the days when piracywas still a fairly, respectable Profession than of the ttt%entieth cen tury, From the deck of a steamer a number of men were firing on a row- ing -boat. As the yacht approached, a girl jumped out of the rowing -boat into the sea. Quickly a motor -launch was teet- ered from the Royal yacht, and the drowning fah' one was hauled aboard • this by his Majesty in person. It was at this point that the Icing observed another boat in the offing with a large camera aboard, and dis- covered that he had provided the movies with a right royal thrill. in Everybody's Memory. riere is a delightful story about Sir In Foster Fraser, whose career has eluded many amusing episodes, but tot many more amusing, I'll vow, than this incident which happened in .a large provincial town. Sir John'wes due to give a lecture, but the local mayor had to have his little say first, "Ladies and gentlemen,"` he said; "the lecturer we are about to listen to to -night is a gentleman whose name is known in every Quarter of the globe. Amid the frozen deserts of Siberia, the hill -tops of the Himalayas, the grim regions of Tibet—there is, In fact, no quarter of the earth, north, south, east, or west, where his name is not known and respected. Lathes and gentlemen, I have much pleasure in introducing to you Mr.—er--Mr,— er--or—M. John Foster." Lord Renfrew. of Wales likes travel- ling' Prince 'The ling "like any other eohnnie," and sometimes carries his zeal to surpris- ing lengths. A train -traveller was sur- prised not long ago to find himself vis-a-vis with the Prince at luncheon, the Prince insisting at the end on the man regarding himself as his guest; and, if the story of a certain Canadian immigration officer is true, the Prince filled in the information form at Que- bec with ail the serious precision of'a traveller Whose confession album was really required by the authorities. As "Lord Renfrew"—his nom -de -voyage —he 'answered the following ques- tions: Present occupation? -Nothing. Future occupation,—Nothing. Purpose of coming to Canada? -To enjoy myself. Amount of cash?—Enough. for my present needs. Can you read? Yee. What langunge?—Some five of them. The answers were quite satisfactory, and he was allowed to proceed on his way! Before Winter. T1eTo1acco of ail and in pp c k ,4„g s Manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited Surn es and Their Origin fish's teeth as big as those of a hu-, Self -Adjusting Wrench a Ivan - being. A' fault in a cable 'running from 1 g g Success. Pin land to Portn al was diagnosed as One of the handiest Yankee tools being due to oysters, which had en- crusted thonleelves'in large quantities round the sheathing; While in an- other instance' the carcase of a Whale WAS found to be the obstruction, BATES la Lithuanian, Baltromejus and in Variations—Beatty,-Batson, Batson.( Illyrian, Vratolomije, all of them forms Racial Origin—English. , 'which very few persons in this conn. Saultry would think of connecting with Source—A given name. Bartholomew. The following family names are all developments of the given name of PERKINS Bartholomew, a name the sound. and unusual epelling of which just natural-, Variations Pierce, Pierson, Peters, ly lent itself to violent variations from the original term, particularly when it is remembered that in the Middle Ages the individual writer came pretty leased. as he to spelling P near As a given name Bartholomew is of Hebrew origin. Like other Biblical In some of these names the Anglo - names, it was widespread in medieval Saxon influence can be traced, and in England,; where the Anglo-Saxon trend others that of the Norman French, toward short forms of names, however, while in still others there is nothing brought it down to the popular form of to distinguish which influence pre - "Bat." dominated. ' As the family came developed from.. Peter, as a Christian name, was one it it took the various forms orf'""Bat- of the most popular throughout Eur - son," ""Beatson," ""Bateson,'" "Beaty- ope in the early days when the re- sole" etc. llgious authority of Rome was recog- The droppings of the ending "son" nized universally in all lands, owing from "Beattyson left Beaty or Beatty to the prominence of St. Peter as the and "Bateson" minus the "on" became chief of the apostles and the founder Bates. The variation Betsou is duo of popes. Later, atter the Reforma undoubtedly to a change in spelling tion, it lost somewhat of its popu- after it had become a family name. levity, though it was far too wide - Were 1t not for the fact that the wo- spread by that time to be eliminated man's name "Betty" is a comparative-` as a given name. By this time, also, ly modern derivation trona Elizabeth, and did not take pleas until after the period In which family names were formed, there might be grounds for the belief that in some instances at least 13etson is a development of "Betty's son." It is interesting to note some of the variations of the given name of Bar- tholomew, for they show the widest dissimilarity in form. In German ap- pear the forms Bartold and Mewes; in Bavarian, Bartelme, Wawel, Wabel and Wabm; in Russian, Vartolomei; September, October and November, They are fearless, So now while the smolder of leaves In the ditches With tongues of flame and fire Utters words of autumn prayer, Let you; my neighbor, and I, Go through the silence of the tented evening corn. Let us light a fire at the edge of the fields and the woodside, And let us stand round it watching the leap of the shadows, Saying over and over to ourselves, "This is our mother, our sky mother autumn, Who brings shadows' and: death all about us, Who fills our hearts with the glory of dying And soothes us with the promise of snow." We thrust our bands into the memory of the night And grasping the hands of our earth fathers, earth mothers, They who were loyal, We stand till the last flare and Ricker yields to the darkness, And the darkness is peace. —7'. R. McCreary. Took Them Cooked. A vegetarian had an amusing ex- perience the other morning at break - Met. His family was out of town, so he went to a restaurant and took a seat next to a stranger. The vege- tarian took occasion to advertise his creed by telling the stranger all meat was .injurious, and that the human diet should be strictly vegetarian. "But," replied the stranger, "I seldom eat meat" "You just ordered eggs," said the vegetarian. "An egg is prac- tically cheat, because It eventually be- comes a bird." "The kind of eggs. I eat never become birds, answered the stranger' quietly. "Good gracious," cried the vegetarian, "what kind of eggs do you eat?" "Principally boiled eggs, sir." m Parkins; Park, Parr. Racial Origin -Medieval English. Source—A given name. Perkins, with its many variations, is a surname which takess or it origin from g the given name of Peter. Site of "Ivanhoe" Opened to Public. ! Temple Ncwsam, wbieh was opened to the ptllillr. of Leeds recently, has been called the "firemptee Court of the North," and le must certainly rank as a serious • rival of the ancient pile in theoutskirts of ,London, which was built by Cardinal Wolsey and refitted by Henry VII:I:—"Fer hie own derling, Anne Boleyn." Its books, pictures and antique fur- nishings are worth a fortune and are nowthe property of the Corporation of Leeds, which body obtained the maneion on very generous terms from Hon. Edward Wood, Minister of Edu- cation, the latter having to relinquish the estate owing to the great burden of 'post -guar taxation, says a London despatch. There is a herd of cattle in the park belonging to the corporation, and a scheme is on foot to establish a model municipal dairy farm there. Not every lover of "Ivanhoe" knows that many of the stirring incident& in that romance take place in the court- yard of Temple Newsmen. Sir Walter Scott visited the historic Jacobean mansion and was so impressed with its perfect environment for a story that; he took Temple Newsom for the locale of the chief scenes of "Ivan- hoe," the name becoming' "Temple stow." The mansion fitted in exactly be- cause it received its real name from the fact that it had originally been the site of an ancient priory of the Knights Templar. yet devised is a self-adjusting wrench that is able to grip email nuts or large ones, and even seize and hold pipe UP to one and one-quarter inches in dia- meter, The new wrench has a curi- ous, .movable Jaw at one end of the handle, the holding lace being attach- ed by two claws or links of different Mrs. Dyer Fell Off to 72 Lbs; 9 Gains 33 on Tania "For nearly seven years," recent- pfaey' timme I could eat even retain I 17 said Mrs. Kittle Dyer, of 21 R.q'il-, broth and toast on my stained),and way St, Hamilton, Ont., "I had Set- reettnl .sleep would not come to me, i fered from' a complication of troubles "Neither 0Yeeif, m or y friende' Peculiar to women, and finally my. thought I would ever get well, but ;, strength all left me and I broke down am now feeling as fine as I ever did completely, in my.xife, and am weighing one Lune lengths, These claws are cortneeted "When I began taking. Tanlac I dyed and five pounds, which mak by a stout spring, Once it has gripped only weighed seventy-two pounds, and can e nevelrtthan 1 praisa evelac abeiey the bolt or nut, the' harder you turn had been so weak and nervous forenough." the wrench the tighter it holde. ret nearly two months that I had to be Tantao is for sale by all good drat- 1 11 releases instantly when the ores- assisted from my bed to my chair. •giste. Accept no substitute• entre is put the reverse Way. I.----e— THE, FALL WEATHER its crystallization into various family names was well under way. Perkins (Peterkin's son) is stamped with Anglo-Saxon influence in the diminutive ending "kin." The "k" in other variations is a remnant of this. The softer Pierce shows the French influence, and Sands somewhat or a counterpart in the names of Pierre and Percy. In many sections of Eng- land there is a tendency, and always has been, to pronounce "er" like ""al:" Bence Parkins, and finally Park, de. veloped from Perkins. i TO ENGLAND IN A MINUTE! 1 Birds of remote regions, tropic and arctic, accommodatingly come to our doors every spring, and autumn. • -A fat person's bitterest foe is a sweet tooth:. In spite of the rapid strides made by wireless, the under -sea system of sending message•. from one country to another is more popular to -day than it has ever been, a fact which is emphasized by the laying of what 1s now the largest cable in the world, running from West -super -Mare, Eng- land, to Far Rockaway, Long Island, More than 1,S00,000 pounds of gut- ta-percha, 4,000,000 pounds of cooper, and 80;000 miles of iron and steel wire worn used in the construction of this mammoth cable, which will be cap- able of transmitting htmdreds of words from the Old World to the New in less than a minute. dad. Once again, however, the Fates stepped in, this time so effectively that the project was abandoned. The chief electrician ruined the cable by working it with too high a power! 250,000 Mlles of Cables. was not until ten years had d that further efforts were made England and America by cable, work being tarried out by the Eastern. Over a thousand utiles le were laid; then a snap oc- curred,all attempts at picking up the cable being futile. Subsequently r cable. was laid, the older cable afterwards being located and spliced. the end of the seventies four were operating between the countries, the total length oY cabin at the present time being over miles. network of cables linking up Continents is now so eobtpllcatefl tips ars constantly employed in ing the different systems, lo - faults and remedying Chem, ship carries. a stats of electri- ciansaud telegraphists, and their es occupy from two months to a 1' more. of the commousat causes of damage to cables is corrosion, brought by the action of the sea. Chaf- ing cause of trouble, ccs having, been retarded in a cable has been wore clean gh in a few months. Breakdown Through a Whale. Submarine upheavals frequently Lt•terruptlon of the services up to within a low years ago le creators known as the bor- ing did considerable damage to Hundreds of miles of cable clGgtroyed, by the pest, which is combated by covering the core brass tape, Fish also rause downs by biting into the cable upsetting the insulation. In th rn Telegraph...Cotnpany'soffice Writer was drown sections , o in tivhiclt were firmly WORK -WORN WOMEN Care of Home and Children Of- ten Causes a Breakdown. HARD ON LITTLE ONES Canadian fall 'Weather is extremely hard on little ones. One day it is warm and bright and the next wet and Icold. These sudden changes bring on colds, cramps and colic, and unless I baby's little stomach is kept right the result may be serious., There is noth- ing to equal Baby's Own Tablets in keeping the little ones well. They sweeten the stomach, regulate the bowels, break up colds and make baby thrive. The Tablets are sold by merle, cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' ,Medicine Co,, Brockville, Ont. For the Canadian Mother. It is a matter of interest to note the relative esteem in which Cana dians hold increase of Canadian popu- lation by immigration and, increase by natural processes. Although every- where lip `service is given to the principle of healthy increase of Ca- nadian population by natural pro- cesses we find, if we consider our position frankly and from a detached viewpoint, that we are actually bend- ing more effort to attract outsiders to our country than to the more im- portant duty of making it possible for our own Canadian families to in- crease in healthy normality. Federal The woman at home, deep in house- appropriations for the promotion of hold duties and the cares of mother- hood; needs occasional help to peep her in good health. The demands upon a mother's health are many and severe. Her own health trials and her child- ren's while n' ;liarsexact heapY e s w hurried meals, broken rest and much indoor living tend to weaken her. No wonder the woman at home is often and Infant welYare be given full, lin- indisposed through weakness, head mediate, and continuous attention: In aches, backaches and nervousness. Too many women accept these visita- tions as a part of the lot of mother- hood. But many and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is sim- ple and relief at hand. When well, it Is the woman's good blood that keeps than that of a good number of conn• her well; when 111 she must make her tries which have given serious blood rich to renew her health. The thought to the welfare of their citi- nuising mother more than any other zen mothers. Our Canadian maternal woman needs rich blood and plenty of deaths for 1922 were more in num- It. There is one way to get this good her than similar deaths for 1921. And blood so necessary to health, and that the tragic, yet hopeful, feature of the is through the use of Dr. Williams' situation le that a large percentage Pink Palle, These enrich the blood, of these deaths—a great deal more and through their use many weak, ail- than hall of them—were preventible. ing wives and mothers have been Sclent!lie knowledge has progressed to benefitted. If you are ailing, easily an advanced paint, sa that it le now tired or depreteed, it is a duty you owe Possible to say, "If men and women yourself and your family to give Dr, are given the information easily Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. availgble, and_if there is careful super You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills vision during pregnancy, and proper through any dealer in medicine or by attention during and after delivery,. mail at 50c a box from The Dr, Wil- the maternal death rate of any eoun- llama' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, try will diminish almost to the van• ishing point" A Broken Bowl. Our problem in this generation,' then, has become one of disseminating One of the most extraordinary cases knowledge, of insisting on the observ- of what may be called an accidental ante of the simple yet vital rales of invention Is that of the lifeboat. A hygiene, and of providing adequate man named Wouldhave was out walls- care of the expectant mother and of ing one day when he was asked by an the mother who has already given old woman to help her lift a can of birth to a child. If there were to water which she had filled by meanS develop a strong popular demand that of a broken wooden bowl. these necessary conditions be met, we The bowl was floating on the sur- should soon discover that our Provin- face of the water, and as he talked to the woman, Wouldhave turned it over with his finger. It immediately right- ed' itself. Amused by its"ant!os, he re- peated the performance; then it struck him that he had made a won- derful discovery. The result of his chance meeting Was the self-righting lifeboat, which was designed by him Ott the lines of the wooden bowl. What he had discovered was that anything made of floating material and shaped like one half of a basin could float only with its convex surface' downwards. A boat made ou these lines cannot remain upside down for more than an instant when it is turn- ed over by a heavy sea. immigration projects are a great deal larger than the combined provincial appropriations for the conservation of health—a fact, for which no one but the people of Canada themselves are to blame. Important as our immigration prob- lems are, it is undoubtedly more im- portant that our' problems of maternal the first place, we find that our ma- ternal death rate, although lower than that of the 'United States, is higher than that of England and Wales, higher than that of Norway, higher steriee of booklets ter mothers and fathers ie prepared for distribution in this department, and these publica- tions have been sent to thousands of homes But the provinces have a heavier responsibility in the matter of hearth. What are some of the plans they are following for the 'reduction of ma- ternal deaths 7 Some are increasing the numbers of their public health nurses. Others are. establishing small hospitals in. various localities where mothers may receive adequate care; Saskatchewan is training nursing housekeepers who will enter rural homes and take effi- cient charge of the whole family while the mother regains her strength, The Red Crose and the Victorian Order of Nurses are saving the life and health of many mothers annually. These are good beginnings. But yet we are losing about five mothers out of every thousand who give birth to a child, and for no rea- son at all except that our mothere have not been .taught to observe) simple health rules, or they have not' received proper .care before, during and after delivery. The remedy lies in our own Uncle It is to be found in a demand for increased -appropria- tions for health 'work by provincial governments and a determination to keep on extending government and voluntary maternity welfare schemes until every family in Canada is within reach of proper help.,, Norway has reduced her maternal mortality from 8 per 1,000 to 2,3 per 1,000. Canada can reduce her ma- ternal mortality from 6 per 1,000 to 2 per 1,000 if Canadians insist on it. His Cure. "Tom has a bad habit of always starting something." "Perhaps that second-hand car he bought will cure him," All By Himself. Teacher—"Willie, your mouth le open." Little Willie—"Yes, lilies, I know. I opened it myself." embedded •'Phe cable: system wus the outcome of the genius of both British and American telegraph engineers, who joined farces at a very early stage by way of giving effect to their ideas, The first satisfactory cable was laid between the South Foreland and San- gatte,seventy-twoyearo ago. A Battle Against Odds. Behind' the laying of the . first At- lantic cable, projected sixtyseven years ago, there Is a stirring story of indomitable ,perseverance and bat- tle ,against odds. Two warships, one British and one American, were lent for the purpose of laying the cable, which snapped when 380 miles had been paid out. Asa result, 700 miles of new :cable had; to be made, and the attempt was renewed the following year. Scarce- ly had the operations' begun when the cable broke again, The ends.- ware spliced, after a delay of several days, and the task continued, only to be interrupted by yet another break, Finally the cable was properly bed - It elapse to link the Great of cab lost another By cables two in use 250,000 The the that sl sur'vey lo- cating Each voyages year o Ono about ing is instar which throe Sub cause i l o wh a little ingw cables were now with break and u e Eastern s the t f cable MONEY ORDERS. Pay your out-ol-town accounts by Dominion Express Money Order. Flys, Dollars costs three cents, A Wonderful Invention. A lady employed a very ignorant servant, who would not rise in the morning at sufficiently early hoer, so an alarm clock was bought and pre sented to the girl, with tho words: "You know, Mary, that I require the fire alight every morning by seven o'clock; but I cannot get you to do it, so I have bought you this alarm clock, said; an Mary examined it, r "Thank you, mum; it's very nice. But fancy a thing bike this bolt' able' to loigltt a fire; sure it's a wonderful invention, plum!" It's always a pity when :the people who quarrel over trifles haven't some- thing worthy of their talents. Keep MInerd's Liniment in the house. True contentment depends not on what we have; a tub a• large enough for Diogenes but a world was too lit- tle for Alexander.—Agar.' A great man marvels that the world calls him great. If you want a nasty fall, jump conclusions. t 0! j Keeps EYES Clear, Bright and Bdatttifttl WrlteMurine Ca,Chlelgo,torEreCatcBook Mother! Give Sick Baby "California Fig Syrup". Harmless Laxative to Clean Liver and Bowels of Baby or Child. Even conStipa- ed, bilious, fever - isle or sick, collo Babies and Child- ren lave to take genuine "Califor- nia Fig Syrup." No other laxative regulates the Con- der little bowels„ so nicely. It sweetens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels acting without grip- ing. Contains no narcotics or sooth- ing drugs. Say "California" to your druggist and avoid counterfeits! In- sist upon genuine Mal Departments of health could ex- : "California Fig I Syrup" which contains dlredtfana. tend their activities so as to reach each most ignorant and helpless par- ent in our crowded cities, and each most remote and fearful mother in isolated rural districts. What has been done already? The Federal Department of Health at Ottawa has prepared a booklet for mothers, available to any parent wbo wishes information. It describes simply and briefly the important things which every expectant mother should do. It tells also how to care for a very young infanta A whole iy WANTEO- 'i'IIAM 'ENGINE, 12x72 CYL- inder. Reid Bros., Bothwell, Ont Wisdom begins when foolishness is admitted. Ask for Mlnards and take no other. COLD IN THE HEAD? Get quick relief. Rub nose inside and out with Menth I f•1.'.tas At all Drug stores, Write tog Fro, Semple, THE MENTHOLATUM GO.'. tirldaebnre, . Ont. 805, 38 ASPIRIN Say "Bayer" and Insist! America's Pioneer Dog Remedios nook Om DOG DISEASE ane now to 11'eed u:nra Free to ear Address be tae Author. 51. CLAY 0100 ER 00.. leo. 127 West 24th Street 14o8 05Plt. U.S.A. ofhache Bathe the face, If there 15 a,cav- ity in the tooth place in it apiece of cotton saturated with Minard's Unless you see the name "Bayer•' on package or an tablets you are not get• ting the genuine Bayo product proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twenty-three years for Colds 13eadache \�emeiin.iiiiii W�0 Toothache Lumbago �, -.. `+ � rache rheumatism V.4.0.", Iola r Pain Pain a la ,� 1 e t "Bayer Tcblets o[ �s . ✓' A cept g y pule„ only, Each unbroken package con• tains er directions. Handy boxes i 'roper re - CHILD qa s oar 591(8 Agents;tr:arola F. altehle A Co., Limited, Toronto "'I}ayer Cross. oftwelve tablets cost few cants. Drum gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark (registered in Canada) of Sayer Manu facture of iionoemeticacidester .of Saiicyticacid. While it Is well known that Aspirin means Bayer Manufacture, to assist the public against imitations, the Tab, lets of Bayer Company will be stamp. ,g.�na�oa�-u.i c--uamaasr How to Purify the Blood "Fifteen to thirty drops of Extract of Root, commonly called Mother Seieens Curative Syrup, may be m taken in water with meals and at bedtime, for indigestion, consti- pation and bad blood. Persist. encs in this treatment will give permanent relief in nearly every case." Get the genuine at druggists, 50e. and SLOG bottles. tpc®nn®npead'a.raa^'aa....ay....a. CII Cuticura Quickly Clears The Scalp of Dandruff On retiring, gently nib spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment. Next morning shempoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water, using plenty of Soap. This treatment does much to keep the scalp clean and healthy and promote hairgrowth. Soap25e. 0iatment25 and 50e. Talc= 25c. Sold throughout 34tPa5teLyo,.ite4S. 11., W Monnall. Cutleura Snap shaven without mug. MOTHER OF TWIN BOYS Tells How Lydia E. l8inkham's Vet etable Compound Relieved Her of Inflammation and Great Weakness West St. John, N. B.— "I was in a general run-down condition following the birth of my twin boys. I had a great deal of inflammation, with pains and weakness. 'Finally my doctor recom- mended Lydia B. Pinkham a Vegetable Compound. He said that your medicine would be the only thing to build me up. I am sure he is right, for I am feeling much better and am gaining. in weight, having gone dawn to ninety-threa pounds. I was in bed for over amonth, but am up again now. I have recom- mended the "Vegetable Compound to my friends and give you permission to use myy letter."—Mrs. ELMER. A. RYTCHlE, 87 Rodney St., West St. John, N. B There are many women who find their household duties almost unbearable ow- ing to some weakness or derangement. The trouble may be slight, yet cause such annoying symptoms as dragging pains, weakness and Arun -down feeling. Lydia E. Pinkc atn'r>.'Vegetable Com- pollee - ponlil in •: aplerieed medicine for such areiitions.It has in many eases relieved those symptoms by removing the cause of them. Mrs, Rttchie's experience is but one of many. You might be interested in reading Mrs. Pinkham's Private Text -Book upon the "Ailments of Women," You can Eet a copy free by writing the Lydia . Pinkham 'Medicine Co., Cobourg,; Onterirt. ed with their general trade mark, the+' - 13SUE No. 47-'23.