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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-03-04, Page 6THE MOST PRE CIOUS PEARLS "Don't forget to throw the woad into the "basement, Herbert," called Mrs. Griggs as the oar was ready to start. . "Always something for me to do, muttered Herbert, watching the ear .speed down the road.."I.don't see why Mother didn't te:I them to deliver the wood to -morrow. Then I might have spent the afternoon playing Indian with Billy." - u Tiek! Tock! Tick!Tock!" went the clock mill it struck one.. "I'm not going to waitaround all the afternocn for: the wood," decided Herbert. "I can throw it in to -morrow Morning." And away he went. When Billy saw Herbert coning he quickly slipped into his Indian cos - tune and met him in the yard. "Let's follow that narrow train through the woods," suggested Her- bert. "All right," said Billy. "Maybe we'll find a bear." • On and on they wended 1'.• . it way through brambles and thitasets and brush; climbing and falling eve- an occasional log till they reached a cross path. "Oh, I'm sure these are bear tracks. Look," shouted Billy. "I'm going to follow them." After a long silence Herbert asked. "Could you find the way home?" "No," whooped Billy, "but let's see where this path leads." Soon they were scampering noisily down a steep slope which led to a rickety landing where an old man sat fishing. "llpon my word," said the old fish erman with a twinkle in his eyes, "I thought a tribe of Indiana were on my trail when I heard you corning down the path !" "Any luck?" asked Billy, peering all around. - "Over there," nodded the fisherman, "under the sack." "Don't you get tired of .fishing?" questioned Herbert. "011, of course I'd rather fish for pearls: It's more profitable." - "How can anyone fish for pearls?" asked Herbert. "They can't bite." "Don't you know where pearls come from?" "Jewelry stores," responded Billy. "That's where Dad bought Mother's pearl ring." "Would you like to know how the jeweler gets them?" "Yes," burst out the two voices in unison. "Tell us all about it." "In the first place," commenced the fisherman, "pearls are obtained from oysters, as most people believe. The outer shell of a pearl oyster is rather rough, but the inside is lined with the most beautiful mother-of-pearl you can imagine. Inside are found the lovely pearls which are so valuable." "How do they fish for pearls?" asked Herbert. "They really dive for them," ex- plained the fisherman. "Your Indian suits remind Inc how the Indians used to get them. They went out hi a canoe. But at present schooners are used instead. The men who dive for them wear diving suits. After the oysters are brought ashore they aro opened with a knife and the pearls are removed. "But how do the pearls get inside the shell?" asked Herbert. "Boys, that is the most beautiful part of the whole story," continued the fisherman. "Oysters are among the most peaceful of all living creatures, When they are very tiny they swim through the water frolicking here and there. At the end of this short career they sink to the bottom of the sea and fasten themselves to rocks by means of tiny flaps that were formerly used - for swimming, and there they are con- tent to remain. "They settle very close together, and naturally se they grow larger they become very crowded, so crowded in fact that very often their steals are formed imperfectly, But it never oc- curs to them to push or elbow or grow impatient with one another as people sometimes do, and well may the oyster • boast: "No court to settle disputes in oyster land, For each one daily takes his own. affairs le hand. - "Of course they really haven't any' troubles for a court to settle," inter - misted Billy, "But they do," proceeded the fteher- nman, "for often tiny marine worms or other little creatures bore into the oysters' shells, or grains of sand get between the shells and irritate them. In a case - of this kind they neither complain nor fight back, but convert all these irritations and interferences. into prcieless gems by covering them with a substance which they secrete. In time this substance hardens .and becomes a beautiful pearl." "I-Iow many pearls does each oyster. make?" asked Herbert. "That depends on the number of' trials and discomforts the owner of the pearly -lined' mansion is compelled to convert into something more beau- tiful; and this mayvary from one to a- hundred." "I wish we could make pearls 'too, don't you, Herbert?" exclaimed Billy. "And so you can added the fisher- man, "if you will convert your tasks and your trials into happiness, your frowns into smiles, harsh words into kind ones, and cheerfully perform your daily tasks as best you can." "Those would be the most precious 1 pearls of all, wouldn't they?" cried Herbert. "I'll have to be going now, boys," said the fisherman. "Those dark clouds mean rain before long.' This reminded Herbert of a certain task that might be changed into a pearl, and when his" mother came home she found that the wood was not only thrown Into the basement, but that it had bean neatly piled as well. Don't Worry. When you have done your very best, Don't worry! Just wait, and leave to fate the rest - Don't worry! Sit tight, The cares that press to -day With time are apt to pass away, So turn a brave face to the fray Don't worry! Time will straighten out the kink - Don't worry! With passing days most troubles shrink- Why worry? To this one question please give ear: Does that which worried you last year To -day se big and black appear? Don't worry! Chilton Chase, Done on Time, Hubby -"Dinner late again! You've done nothing lately on time!" - Wifie-"Oh, yes, dear, I've gotten a piano and a new dress lately -both on time." Former Kaiser Wealthy. There is some annoyanoe in Ger- many over the report that the former Kaiser has permitted a French flhn company to take moving pictures of his home lire at Doom. for exhibition In. cinema theatres all over the world. Seeing that William Ile has received about 5400,000 0 year from his aban- doned kingdom ever since be left it, and is now closing a haygain with. the Prussian governanent by which he gots "royal" properly worth something like 5100,000,000, he cannot be said to 'Meed the money," PAS DOG DERBY WINNERS. .Shattering a world's record. when be covered the first 25 miles in two hours and 22x/2 minutes, Emil St. Goddard won the 120 -mile Manitoba dog class last week.' In the above photo ho is shown with "Heart," the lead, dog of hta crack team. Grandpa His Out. What's that you say? .Ain't these times jolly? - What can you know or the spirit of. fun? Give me the -days of the red -berried' holly, When practical joking kept all on the run. Give me the clays when we snowballed old fogeys - Or made slides on pavements old maids to annoy; Give me the days when we'd ghosts and we'd bogeys, Give me the great days when 1 was a boy. The Conquest of the World. "I have conquered the world" - Who said that? - A young man, not yet thirty-three yews of age, Alexan- der the Great. He had solidified the do- minions of Macedonia and Greece, had humbled Perla and made Egypt his own, subdued ]radia and Mesopotamia. He 'wept because there were no more worlds to ..conquer. Most celebrated of all military leaders of history, and generous and magnanimous as well as powerful, he merits the descriptive line of Pope's Temple of Fane in which he is called "the youth who all things but himself subdued" He died in his thirty-thiisd year, and his king- dom was rent into four parts and has What do you know of the jolly old never been reunited under any leader dancing? _ who can be called his successor. ' How can you guess at the fun of it Another young man. of just about all? • the same age said the same thing one Give me the days of the polka eo Thursday night three -centuries later, prancing, • land the next day they led Him out and Or lancers that ever bewildered us hanged Him. It must have required all. Those were the times when your col- lar was missing, Dances athletic the starch would destroy, Then 'neath the mistletoe 'we'd time • for kiesing, Give mo the rollicking days when I was a boy. What is the jazz but'a stiff sort of walking? What are your tunes but. a horrible row? • Partners so languid they'ye .no use for talking, - Where are the smiles and the sweet blushes. now? Give me the suppers at which we -were famous, Our iron digestion they'd fully em- ploy, Youth of to -day is a mere ignoramus Compared with this dug -out when I was a boy. Beech Trees. A full grown beech tree has lines and contours we never know until we look for them; it et as If they had been told to be as distinct and individual as they pleased without encroaching on the borders of their'brothers. There is one trait which marks a beech tree, Which none of the other children of the forest can rival. This is its pillar - like trunk, with main branches rising vertically, while - the subsidiary ones. spread outward, giving the whole tree a rounded appearance. - The beech is a bystander for same' time at the autumn pageant and dips its dress in a beaker of rich dyes later than some. When the colder weather comes it tuns to a golden brown be- fore dropping Its wornout garments. When all other trees have donned their gala attire at spring of year it sleeps on; the days of sunshine may lengthen, the breezes may he soft and caressing, but the beech remains un responeive In its bronze dress. Then eomess a day of rain or a warmer night and in the "twinkling or an eye" as one night say, the bronze mantle gives place to delicate green foliage, more like a .elrinimoring tell, each leaf being fringed with soft silky hairs. What a look of prosperity, it wears all the summer from a sense of a vigil well performe-d and days well spent! somem courage and faith on the part of his followers' to recall his words and write them down as of the night when the shadow of the Cross fell athwart his path: "Ile- of good dieter; 1 have overcome the world." One might moralize at any length on the differences between the conquests of these two young leaden; but all that is now nocessary is to recall that now, nearly two thousand years after Jesus aald It, we are better prepared to understand and believe the truth of it than the world could ever have been before. The higher ideals of the world that ere making its constructive forces effective are derived from Him. Fila kingdom, never primarily of this World, now represents the visible as- pects of its power in tangible assets 01 church and college and library ahs hospital and other vielblo and material Institutions compared with which most human establishments are email. But these are not the larger or more Important of his conquests.. Beginning le the power that .enables mento col• quer themselve0, It extends its glad, and gracious conquest from life to life rind home to house till 1t gather into Its realm all inusle, poetry, art, litera- ture, and all that is sweet and holy iii human life. This kingdom is an ever- lasting kingdom. Jesus and Alexan- der both truthfully claimed to have conquered the world; Alexander worild have been bewildered and might have treated the claim ol',Jesus with con- tempt. Bet 11 is Jesus - whose Con- giiest is to endure forever. They Give Dowry or Die. Failure to provide "dawry is punish- able by death is a law of the jungle which has just come to light in Manila in the,glayings of a number of persons in the Negro dletrict, high al) to the mountains of Luzon. When one of the tribesmen 'marries and the father of the bride fails to keep his promise, or the bridegroom himseslf is lax, the primitive Negrltoe believe in cutting off lits head. Since reinforcements of constabulary have boon sent to supplement: the police for^e, peace has been restored. To remove fat from soup or gravy, strain through a cloth that has been soaked in cold. water. - asjLe £sons AUCTI RIDG Near Series bYw n07NE e'1RGYUS,G i author J'Perguso Copyright 1925 by Hoyle.. Sr. ARTICLE No. 21 One of the best known bridge players was asked thebther night what he con- sidered the greatest qualit,for(a'play- er 'to' have and he replied without any 'hesitation: "The ability to play losing cards well." Think- that over carefully for it is a regular lesson on the game. Learn to play your losing cards„ well and the good ones will *eke care .of themselves. One of the most unusual succession of hands ever latown was held. by 0•well- known player the other night and as they are`very good illustrations of the preemptive or shut -out bid, it iE well worthwhile to discuss them, The three hands were held in succession anti are as follows: Hand No. 1 Hearts - A, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 3, 2 Clubs -J, 9, 2 Diamonds - A Spades - K The dealer and second player passed and third player, holding the above hand: bid four hearts. All passed and he failed to make his contract by three tricks. His opponents, however, had an easy game in spades so the shut -out bid saved the game. Hand No. 2 Hearts- 7 Clubs - K, Q, 9, 7, 6 Diamonds - none Spades - A, K, Q, J, 9, 7, 6 The dealer passed and the second play- er with the above hand, bid four spades. 1 passed and he made five odd. In this case the shut -out bid probably made little difference, • Hand No. 3 - Hearts -A Clubs- A, Q, J,,7 Diamonds- A, K, Q, J, 9, 7, 5, 4 Spades- none The dealer with the above hand bid five diamonds. All passed and he made a little slam. The opponents could have made five odd in either spades or hearts. In this hand, also, the shut -out bid made little difference. The hands, how- ever, are remarkable for being held -in succession by the same player, some- thing that probably will not happen again in a decade. The hands given in: the preceding article were illustrative of the-firoper bidding of two -suit hands and are well worthy of careful study. The question In each case is, what would you, as dealer, bid? Hand No. 1 Hearts- A, 10, 9, 8,7 Clubs -A, 10, 8, 7. 4 Diamonds -7. 6 ;Spades --6 Theproper bid with this hand is one club. If "overbid by either or by partner, bid the heart.. The reason for preferring the club to the heart as the first bid is that partner is more apt to overbid the club than the heart and so gives you a better chance to bid both suits. IlandNo. 2 Marts -8 ' Clubs -'6 Diamonds - I{ Q, 9, 4, 2 Spades -K, J, 10,/, 6, 5 With this hand tate better bid is one spade. The spades are much stranger than the diamonds and should be rebid before showin 'the diamonds. For that reason the. oncispade is preferred to one diamond. Hand No. 3 Hearts- none Clubs - A, K, Q 10,4 Diamonds -10, 7, 6 Spades -A, K, j, 10, 7 In this hand both suits are of fairly equal value so one spade should be the first bid. If overbid, show the clubs. Hand No. 4 Hearts - A, K, Q, 7 Clubs -K, Q, 10, 8, 7, 6, S Diamonds -none - Spades -Q, 6 -With this hand, one club is the proper bid. Clubs should be rebid at least once before showing the heart suit. -The- clubs are so much longer and stronger that the hand will undoubtedly give the best results with that suit as trutnps. Hand No. 5 Hearts -A,.8, •6 Clubs - K, J 9, 5, 3 Diamonds -- K, J,'9, 5, 3 Spades -none - This is a very doubtful hand. Itis really a sound pass but the two -suit character of the hand makes it a tempting propo- sition to bid, If you do decide to bid, one diamond is correct; Whenever the two suits are of fairly equal value, ale , ways bid the higher value first. Hand No. 6 . Hearts- K, Q, 8, 4, 3 Clubs- Q, 10, 9, 8, 7 Diamonds - 7, 2 Spades - J This hand should undoubtedlybepaased. Hand No. 5 is on the border lute but this hand is just under. Pass with the firm intention of bidding the hearts on the next round if the bidding makes such a course expedient. These example hands comprise most of the usual types of two-suiters, and the bidding as given should be carefully studied. Of Perfect Friendship. • True frimrdeblp unfeigned Doth rest unrestrained, No terror cin tame it: Not gaining, nor losing, Nor gallant gay glowing, Can overreclaitn it. in pain, and in pleasure', The most truest treasure That may be desired, Ts loyal love deemed, Of wisdom esteemed And chiefly required. -Henry Cheke, in "The Forest or Fancy" (1570). Loud. "What do you think of. my suit'?" "Ceara say that it listens well." Filled Up. • .. "I feel like a store with e, bargain sale," :groaned Tommy, its he all - preached tram the direction or the pantry, the immediate surrounf,ings' of lits mouth being a,,susiricious dark reel. "What's the matter, my dear?" „Janis' inside." The Family Bible. 'Twixt sober boards, girt thick, page large, With plain, square text and generous merge, And cherished plates, tbrie.e sacred it! First for its wealth of Holy Writ; Again for hands that forth it bore And ope•d it, to disclose its Tore; Again for crypt, where long have stood The record of a house and blood. 0 peaceful morns, -O gentle eves! When 'father" walked to" speech its leaves, And all the household gathered round, Fed on the manna of tlio'sound, And in a reverent circle there, Upon their knee, were joined in prayer- With quivering age and childhood's throat United In one common note. ' Clete shat within this. -hallowed tome 'We read the story of a borne, Here lined is told beneath each head When father, another, children wed, Who came to blew sweet joys, and then With trembling and deluctant pen Slow added, e'en as God decreed The roll of those who filled his need. Dear hands, that .once pages turned, Have' gained tine rest theywellhad earned, ` Dear forme that onceknelt side by side, Have strayed afar, are scattered wide; The cover show the print of .years, Tho records yield to time and tears; Ilut in its majesty of truth The, text preserves eternal, youth! __,Edward L. Sabin. REG'LAR FELLERS -By Gene Brynes. % ALL THE FELLERS SAY IF •YOU SREAi< A LooK!N' GLASS YOU I-\PVE SEVEN yTHATS O1JE'? AK! Ma AIN`T iT 1' 0M? NOTHItae. TO Vi''. SOME PEOPLE ARE SUPERSTITIOUS ENOUGH To BELIEVE IT! Mom Spoke Too Soon. eLA 'CAUSE x e oK.E ' THE SIC7 LOOKIN' CLASS tN -iHE' MAT NOM*, , t¢t ;r (ecpvrigl,a, 1521, by The Hell eynd!aato, Inc,) esaae THE r:AYS OF REAL Wo of what we are often inclined to cancluclo is the drab age ot'the coin nolrplurce, G) o era iu which generosity, courage, uneelfishire e and Yvon tand- ems are discounted, and in rvhicit the oniv thought of those who hope 10 510= Deed must „be for themselves, have been awakened necently to the realize., tion that the daye of weal el ivelry ai'e no more of the -past said tile future then of the present, says 11 writer in The Monitor, Hardly a day half: pass- ed in the last. week or more that there haat not begat recorded upon the -scroll of unselfish human aohleveaneat sone ouitsitanaing let of real liercese n where those performingouch acts have been ; impelled by no other motive dr purer pose Uiaat that ilrresistibee impulse wheal brthgs with '1,1 the desire. and .1 willingness to owpresta., iu .conrrete : - form, the brotherhood of mankind. The affaire of the world, large and . small, will all be taken care of, one concludes, so long as there remains, to be obeyed this .pronrpi:lug, which, at times of petit or distress, ceases men and women to forget their own welfare or safety In the 'desire to soccer and save those who are unable - to 'help themeefves, Theme 'is no need to pass laws to compel those to do right who by impulse are uneedtleb. ..It would serve no real punpose -to enact into - law tine woa'dn of the Golden Rule. The massed armies and navies of all the civilized nations of the world would 4•„ never be able to enforce the ktwddy edict: "Love thy neighbor as tiny sell."• So the era of ohivaday will continue with us just as long as this inspired '-. counsel as voluntarily heeded. With this realization urea comes the grati- fying- assalranee that we should not too apprehensively view the confusing' and somewhat discouragingevidences so' profligately displayed which tend to, persuade us that the world of to -day is- e- very bad way. The discordant clamor of the mob impinge;- almost relentlessly upon hilosan conscious- ness, and as one is disturbed by; rauc- ous voices of the night, so do those who listen too closely to tate alarms which are sounded incline to the . opinion that the sterner and deeper note of'riglateousuesc and justice has been silenced..' But reason and right interpretation come with the morning. In the re- vealing light of flay we see outstand- ing, like' beacons to human hope, the unimpeachable evidences of the Im- perlsdiable brotherhood upon which rest the foundations of civilization and progress,. Just as we are able to for- get the discomforts which the night brought, so may we regard with less concern much that is said of so-called crime waves, of human selfishness, of human depravity and of man's in- humanity to man. All these things, it may be hoped, will in clue time pass away. A Friend in Need. "Possibilities of good can be found in even the worst appearing offenders. In this work for children} we find "evt- dences of that every day," said .7. 3.' - Kelso in a recent interview, "The danger is that Magistrates are naturally inclined to strees the offence instead of 'the offender: Sometimes a serious-orlm-e may be committed by a - fine lad who has no criminal tendency,, and, on the other hand, there` are habitual criminals whose whole career of 'wrong -doing la made np of many petty offences." It is the latter 'class who are a serious menace to the coo• triunity. To Illustrate, Mr. 'Kelso gave the following Incident: - In the early days of Child -Protection work a fourteen -year-old lad Wee be- ing tried in one of our County Courts for setting fire' to a barn. It was quite clear that he was guilty,. and without denyingthe feet, die pleaded that the farmer had been cruel to him and that Ile was driven to the act by, constant ill-treatment. Evidence was submit- ted corroborating the lad's story that he was not used right, and the gym- Pathy of the Judge and officials was with him, The jury brought in .a verdict of "guilty," but one . of the 'jarors got np and said that after a talk with the boy lis was satisfied that -he w11pro- voked to the act,; was now penitent and would do.weli in future; that he himself was prepared to take him hone and be responsible to the Court for him, The Judge ailed ailed, but finding the complain tent was willing to drop the charge. -au egreomontwas drawn up and after a collection had been taken to buy the boy an outfit or - clothing, be started oft for' bis new home... The Crown .Attorney, who tool: a personal interest lin tiro .boy, report- ed that he stayed with .This farrier for over live years'; that -lee afterwards. went to the city and took a position, saving'considerable inan't.7. Ten years - later he was' taken sick elied' after, an illness of abouts mwith, 'leaving his savings ameuntiing to 51700 to the farmer who ha,ci befriended hine, This case is eveu yet well known to a.nunt- ber of officials in,Eastern Ontario, Using Mamma (at the breakfast Lable)-- "you always ought to use' your nap- kin, Georgie." - ' Georgie-"1" am usin' it, mother. I've got the dog tied to the leg of the table vita it." Place n little salt `on the bottom of • the ,pan when frying and :the. fat will . not splash, ' - -