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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-05-06, Page 2-_...•.-.-moo' .-... _ _ IN TREE -TOP LAND BY MARTIN BRETHERTON, Dorothy wars a Tittle girl- of seven: She was a very small little girl, which is perhaps' why she had this>adveuhure, Slro wee walking through, her grand- mother's field when it came on to rain,! and before she hod time to wonder if she should run and shelter under one of the big oaks at the the field', a nibst.extraorddnapy thing happened. One of the oak trees began bantling down and dowel,It was not like an oak telae any longer; at'Ie;1 , it was not like a tree with a trunk whosel branches waved in the breeze, It was stili a tree, butit was rt .living tree. It was a gnarled, handsome.iookitig! old mane in a green knickerbocker suit, ! wearing a green hat. "You'll- etwet " he told Doroth g y, 'as he stooped d'owu: to pick her up i When he stooped he reached right down: to the ground, but when he snood up again with Dorothy in his arms she found liisef at once right among the branches. It was not to i I the least like being in a tree as Dor-' othy ;remembered it from those she, had climbed before. It was almost like' a palace. Here and there among the branches ran little pages dresses jn: green, carrying' beautifully carved acorn -cups filled with derv, all ready to do the oetk tree's bidding. It was; absurd to think of him as an oak tree; any longer. "Who are you. please?" Dorothy said. !'.Are yeti an oak tree or a man?"1 • QC'aRCUS THE FOURTH. "I am a King," the little figure said with 'great dignity. "I am King of the Tree. Tops. I am Quercus the Fourth, You must please speak to me as your Majesty. And who are you I know you are a little evet- mortal Do not tell nix that, "I am Dorothy, please, your Ma- ie-tv" "And who is Dorothy?" the King, uafd, Dorothy, for the first time since all t1 is had happened, felt rather fright- en'd. Th; King spoke in such a ma -1 jes tic vou'e. "If you please, your Majesty, I live with Granny in el.e house just below -you know." King Quercus shook his head. "I am afraid I don't know where :your Granny lives, Dorothy," he said.; "Oh, but you must know -your Ma-' jetty," she added hastily, "your tree Is in her field." "No more than her field is close to ' any tree," the King said haughtily. "SO that field belongs to your grand ,mother, Dorothy, does it?" he said 'after a moment's pause. "I have often wondered." "fes,our Majesty, it's Granny's. e y Didn't you know?" "Why should I kr.ow? Have you or your Granny ever heard of Quercus' the Fourth?" Dorothy shook her head. "De tel me, your Majesty," she said. "what does Quercus mean?? Is it your name?" "It means an Oak," the King said, "and I am the Oak, the King of trees,"; "Are all the trees tarn like you your Majesty?" j "Not all like me, Dorothy, for I ani the King; but perhaps you would like to see some of them?" Dorothy said she would, King Quer Bus tinkled a little acorn in its cup. A; little page came in. THE ROYAL TW WGL1l`.E. til "Bring round the royal twiggiage," said the King. The royal twiggiage was like a little carriage. Dorothy sat in the middle, of it. It moved very smoothly, as though it were drawls by electricity, and off they started, leaving the King in his palace, along a road connecting; ail the tree tops, Dorothy wondered why she had never eeen these roads before. "Why have I never seen this road from the earth?" she asked the driver of the twiggiage. The driver of the twiggiage .eves railed the twiggeur. It was spelt twiggeur, like chauffeeir. "Look down," said the twiggeur. "Can you see the roads on the earth:"' Dorothy looked over the side of the twiggiage. She saw nothing. She said so,_ "No ,one looking up min see our rands, and no one locking down can see yours," he said. .= • Dorothl 'saw teat there was no ati- swer'to this, 'Then they came, to the other trees. First there 'were the shops, TREE -TOP a,ucSRB, The Spanish'.' Chestnuts were the bakers and confectioners, • Dorothy found; There were alleserts of bread encl.:itta cakes in prickly ovens on the windows of' the branches, The twiggeur stopped and.cal ed out to the pastry cook: "The usual order for the Paiace to -day," and they mored on. "Ills Majesty is Bending me to the tailor's about the piece of cloth for his next suit," said the twiggeur. They stopped outside .what 'seemed to Dorothy to be a Sycamorer'but.she saw what she had never seen before, that all the little sycamore flowers were really ;itt;e mocle's dressed in finest robes to show the King. Quercus rind his queen. After this. they went to the Bank. The Bank was of course the Copper Beech. Then the Elms were .the house - builders, and the Horse. Chestnuts de- corated the houses when the Elms had built them. Dorothy 'thought slip, had never seen such finely cut glass as the swinging candelabras she had hitherto thought tee be only' horse -chestnut flowers. . TREE-TOF SHOE:WAXERS. The birches were the shoemakers. They saw a pair of shoes being made for King Quercus out of bark like satin; and the beech's leaves made carpets for him to walk an. The pine needles stuffed his pillows, which were made out of the great leaves of the plane -tree. When they got back to the Palace Dorothy asked King Quercus if one day, perhaps when it was wet again, he would pick her up, and Granny, too, and let them conte and do their shopping among rhe tree -tops. Iiing Quercus smiled. '7 will do that on one condition, Dorothea" he said. "If you find -You can see our shops from down below Wins High Honor Dr, Ales-Ilerdiicrca, of the Smitlt- Sorttan Institute, 'Washington, who has been . aw.ardod the highest. British honor yin 'anthropology, 'rite I•InsIey Wonders of Light. Rays. What is color? It is not what most of us Ihink it is, When, for instance, we look at, a blue flower we take it for.. granted that the flower creates its owns blue. Actually what we see -is the re - suit of the flower's power to select, ab - !sorb. and reflect certain rays of light that fall on it Color is made of light, which, in it - 'self has no color at all, but i$ purely, a form of energy that the eye is able to pircaive,just as the ear is able to dis- tinguish certain 'vibrations of air, called sound' Sir Isasc Newton found that when a beam of light was passed' through a solid wedge of glass, or prism, .It was split into a horizontal band of seven colors-red,'orange- yel- low, green, blue, violet, and indigo: This band is familiarly known as the spectrum, The rainbow is a large - &'>ale spectrum in the heavens. The colors of objects depend entire- ly on how the substances of which the objects are composed deal with the light falling on them. If the object is what we call, white, it will send to our eyes all the rays that fall on it. If it is what we call colored, our eyes will pick up only a certain proportion of the'rays. Black is caused by an object absorbing all the rays of light that fall on it. Incidentally, no flower does this. What we call "tints" are pure colors diluted with white -light. Pinkis red mingled with white. "Shades" are medal. In writing hie great work, ''OId Americans," -he journeyed over half the globe. 'Prof.' Ripley, of Harvard, is the only other American to win 'the 'award in 2.0 years. 100000 of Doses with particular col - when you get back to earth again. Ifee you cannot, then you roust be content with your own shops. In fact, no other shops'would really suit esu." "But, your Majesty," said Dorothy, "how can I tell you if I do see tate tree -top shops?" "Never mind that," the King said. "I shall know." The very inetant King Quercus had .tcwped to earth with Dorothy again she looked up. She saw nothing. `She was not very much surprised. She remembered that the people looking down could not see her. The rain had steppes, and She hurried in to Granny, but she never saw any of those trees again without thinking of the little twig people shopping up among their branches and Ring Quercus driving along the invisible roads in his little twiggiage. -a. 7r if No Raise for Him. "Sir. my expenses at home are in- s r<nSiiig and I em growing old in your sn p'oy. and-" "Well, what do you expect nee to do, f,trnish you with monkey glands?" • .\t least thirteen Arctic: explorations are plenued for this :unmet•. ors; red and black mixed - give na brown or dark red. The blending: of lights, however, pro- duces ;a different effect from colors mixed on, say, a palette. Yellow and blue nixed in the ordinary way, pro- duce green, but yellow• and. blue light mixed yield a taint pink light. The reason is that on the palette we do not mix aitual„,coiors but merely' the ab- sorbent properties of the substances concerned,' The Sandman. I waited for the Sandman.,. Down on the stair, The landing wee so dark I thought • I'd catch him there. I only wanted little dreams For Mummy's eyes, She's sick and just can't go to sleep, She tries and tries. I took my little egg -cup To hold the sand, If I explained to him I knew He'd understand: Somehow I didn't bear hien Go tippy -toe, Besides he's' -very hard to see," All grey, you know. When morning cane I found me Iu my own bed; 0Ig cup was empty, but he'd tilled My eyes instead. - Elizabeth George. ?--•- Diamonds ere a better investment than pearls in the opinion of many jewellers;' pearls can be destroyed, but diamonds cannot. "PUT YOURSELF IN S PLACE" I borrow the title from Charles Reade's novel of that name, and leave; it there. Let us seer how the plan: works and what we can do to make it work. There is no better policy -in the world titan this if we are to under- stand one another, • Moat of our troubles come upon us be - cause in our outlook there is room in the' world for -none other than our selves. We think and plan and work and get just as though this big world had no other soul in It but our own. We form our judgments and pass cur opinions in the spirit of one whose life is ideal, and can entertain no pos-, sibility of anyone else not beiug fa- vored in just the same degree. We I forget that every life has its own en-' vironment and every separate identity its peculiar experience. One of our national sayings runs: "To know all is to forgive all," That, can only be as we do our best to esti- mate another man's life by learning" something of its joys and sorrows, its I heights and depths. This must be a definite and deliberate study for us. It is not to. be learned from books and teachers so much as by actual contact. in aur busy life time must be found for it. se man cannot do his best work in the world by permanent isolation, nor by constantly thinking of his own When you desire to board a tramcar in motion, you usually run nlongelde a few steps and then jump. You don't approach it at right angles. if you did, you would be in grave danger. Now it is very much the same with ptople. The minds of nen are in constant !motion, and al of them think upon matters different to those we think 1 • about. If we are to help them, eve must get mto line with then, not jump directly at them and expect to make an effective landing. We must put ourselves in their place so far as we can and imagine what they are thinking, and let our remarks be In' line with their thoughts. When two minds get Into Sympathy they cam discuss without conflict. We encourage our friend to say -"Yes,"' and "That's right," and. "I've noticed that myself," and lite becomes worth while and people are glad to know us. There Is no other way of costing into the secret places of a person's life than by sympathetic understanding. Our existence here has a tendency to make us timid. Like the hedgehog, we draw in when another is about. We become suspicious and distrustful, and nothing makes us more fearful than that. _We fail to understand one an- other and we grow to be nervous and. secretive, which, after all, -is not help- ful. Dou't say: "Life is too short for this "' or, "I have sufficient trouble of my own without wasting time on�I�i�ll others," That is the very reason why you haf'e s� much trouble of your 'own. There is nothing so strengthening foi' one's own life as coming up against He --"Miss Passe Is (rite .0 gold - another and' knowing its lights and shadows.. -Phe only way for us to get to the noble an fine in life is by aiding each other, Just try It and you will find it true. So, before you criticize or condemn, put yourself in the other fellow's place. Know bis temperament and rir ' cutustances and trials and weaknesses. You may be more tolerant then. emeeleeee 4syLeissons-iii AUCTION: Mz`I O stew Sekies by WYNNlli FERGUSON* _author of `Ferguson on auction Bride ' Copyright 1925 by ogre, Jr, ARTICLE No. 30 One of the charms of auction is the peculiar fact that ' interestipg hands have a' -habit ofeeoniing up: at. the most unexpected moments. You will be play- ing along for hours and 'only -'normal hands will be dealt and,then a puzzling hand: will come up, one that invites dis- cussion and a store or less wide differ- ence of opinion. Auction players. every- _where love to talk over hands'and the so-called "post-mortem" is as much a part of the game as the play, and' bid- ding itself. The "unexpected" is really auction'sgreatest charm and because of"theitffinite numberof hands possible,: this unexpected element always will be present. _. , It really is remarkable that good players, even in the same group or club, differ so radically in their theory of bid- ding. Such is the caseehowever, and it is really a tribute to the greatness' of. auction as a game. The individual ele- ment has so far prevailed and as long as it does auction will retain its popu- larity. To really enjoy a gathe or com- petition of any kind the player likes to feel that he is as good as the next one, that he has an even chance, and auction certainly offers that attraction. Hand No.1 ggea'rts - A fabs- Q, 9- 6432 Diamonds K,.Q, 7, 6 Spades -A If it were the rubber game and no score, what would you bid with the foregoing hand? The proper bid is one club. It is too unbalanced a hand to justify a no- trump bid, and yet it is too strong to pass. The only other alternative is a bid of one club. Hand No. 2 . Hearts -K, J, 9, 7 Clubs - Q, 10, 9, 6 Y : Diamonds -A, 7, 5 ' --s A B : Spades -A, 6 Z. Score, .YZ' 20, AB 0, rubber' game. Z Problem No. 15 Hearts- K Clubs -K, Q,9 Diamonds-, 8, 5 Spades -K, 5 - Hearts - none Clubs- J, 8, 7, 6; 5,3 Diamonds - 7, 3 Spades -J dealt and bid one no-trunjpg,-A doubled, Y passed and B bid two !Jeans. . Z bid„ three diamonds, A three hearts, Y four cltamonds and all passed, What should A open? This hand is a perfect exainple of a trump opening. A'sroper opening . is the ace of diamonds, followed by the . seven. He has the other three suite well protected and in each of them he would prefer to have the suit led to him. The high bidding of his oppgvents indicate that A's partner cannot have a trick in trumps so the trump lead cannot lose' and the other element of a proper trump. opening is also -present. Hand No. e3' Hearts - Q, J, 8, 7, 4 Clubs -8, 6 • Diamonds - K, 10, 8, 4, 2 Spades -1i Y eA -Bs Z Hearts -A, K Clubs -K, 7, 4 Diatnonds- J Spades - A, J, 9, 8, 6, 4, 2 No score; rubber game. Z dealt and bid one spade, A passed, Y' bid two hearth and B passed, Z bid two spades, A passed,.Y bid three diamonds and B passed, Whet'should=Z now bile Y's bid of three diamonds is questionable. After: Z's rebid of spades,. Y should figure that his singleton king is a val uableaseet and that there is a better chance for game in spades than in dia- monds.'After his bid of three diamonds, however, Z should not hesitate to bid three spades. There-is`a much better chance for game in spades than in hearts. He is almost certain. toget a club opening, just the one he wants, for it is the only suit that hasn't been bid. All in all, the three spade bid seems preferable to three hearts, the only other alternative. A -Y B Z . Hearts- A, 3, 6, 4 Clubs - none Diamonds -K,-Q Spades- Q, 4, 3 s Hearts -8, 7, 5, 3, 2 • - - Clubs- none Diamonds- 10, 6 Spades -9, 7 In this hand spades were trumps and Z was in the lead. How can he play the hand so that he and his partner can win four of the trine tricks against any de. Tense?. Answer to Problem No. 15 Z should lead the seven of spades, Y winning the trick with the king. Y should new lead the king of clubs. If B trumps with a low spade, Z will over- trump with the nine of spades and lead 'the deuce of hearts. B must now lose two heart tricks. B's best play at trick two is to trump with the queen of spades. Z must then discard the nine of spades so that B cannot force him in the lead. No matter how B now plays, YZ are bound to win three more tricks: Note that if Z doesn't discard the nine of spades when 13 plays the'queen, YZ will only win three tricks. Suppose Z discards a heart. 13 should now lead the • king and queen of diamonds, the ace of hearts and then his last spade. Z is forceed to win this trick withthe nine and must now lead the eight of hearts. B should allow hint to win this trick. • . B must now win the next two heart tricks. Played in this way YZ can only win three tricks. The problem is thus noteworthy in that Z mdse discard a trump in order to avoid the lead and thus gain a trick. - - 1 Driftwood. Each stick and spar and battered keel, That conies to rest upbn the shore, Holds prisoned ghosts o`f other days -'and chimes, p'roni far off seas, and scenes of war and death, From barque and brigantine and tropic isle. They bear' strange memories Of youth and life and love and gallant deeds. Those restless ghosts. Within their bleached andrsait-encrust- ecl 'varix, Await the torch to set them free To rise in iridescent tldme And Join the storied romance of the sea, .-Herbert Greer French. digger," - r. She "Yes. She must ave got her The Next Best Thing; start in the gold rush of 18411." A Scot cautiously entered the den- - fist s surgery. Some Change. Boarder- "Whist's for breakfast? I hope ii isn't ham and eggs again." Maid -"No, sir; not barn and .eggs this morning." I "Thank goodness: , What is it?" "Only hams" "What'll ye chs-r-ge'for puffin' Dot a tooth?" Ile asked. "Well, leas have aloes at it," said tis dentist. 'Sevn•ancl-six." "Sven shillings and elepencel Mon, teat's an awfu' lot 0' stoney. ^S\rlta111 ye char-r-ge for slacicenin' it?" REG.'LAR FELLERS -By Gene Byrnes,. MOTHER- E &A �sVE isAE A PREStaleT ..TLW SOLID eour.) 'C1111 S'% -mxr L01IB BETCHes CANT tUSSS WHAT1�. These Fish Aren't Vary Thirsty. TWO CAD FIN/ lee CsOWN' R5 W1 IN THE HOUST ANY Pt -AY WITH 'EM RIGHT NOW 'CAUSE THEY'RE ALL MINE 1 DID 'IOU GiVE FRESH WATER -CO -iHE"- &C4D FISIAT `THEY AIN'T HALF FINISHED - t� THE WATER Y GAVE 'EM THE DAY"BEFORE YESTErDAY MOW. / 3-24 (Copyright, 1926.. by The tell Syndicate, Inc.) t�,ti''X,"'- tan'» SOME FACTS ABOUT CATS Tito true orjgirt of thte`.tame" liousa- cat is- not certafrily',knowiL, and ,1110 ctfllond•iy. of recognizing, its ncestors It any of the wild kinds has caused naturalists to thlnit,that-the r omiitcin cat (Pees ctorirestiole) ie the prodatot of many crossings, of different ent sped -co, T'hieee le an Arabian legend that trace tiro cad back to Noah's Ark,, and v1i1t1t gravely •states• that i( was there sneezed 1'1.0111 rho nostrils of the- lion -not -a bad idea, if eve remember that the dat and the lion are'-t:he twn -ex- treme representatives' of the great Go- dreg sof the Pelidoe, But,ttih eai'lost est thenti e history nI Mtstreee PesSY begins in Egype,: about , sixteefi. 1,1111 mail yearn before 'Christ.' _- Irl that country cat were -held sacred to the god Iris. They were worshipped during fife d an:'enibainred in'deatb, - When the oat, o:f,an Tlgyptian house held die -d5 the members of tlte.'i;atnily shaved their eyeb•rowe in torten of ear - row, and the body of their pat- was. burned in a' cemetery :corl.reelated to cats, at Bubastis, the eat sacred to tine moon, of which ,deity .the;ca:t was re•a• . ironed a symbol. The name people. w•eteused i.0 carry a cast with them in their huntiug or fowiing_e+xpeditions, nruoh`as a -sports- man al to -clay would"ccarr'y a retriever or a pointer. There are angle* eeuljr- tures which represent'eat retrieviug ' or recovering a -bird that has heels killed by a hunter., • ,. It was a orlme' autong. the -P y'ptians• • to hill a cat, and a Roman ,.oldier, who caused 'Ilia death of one by accident, Was massacred by ars infuriated mob. on -the monuments or Egypt have beenifoundrepi'esentatiOlIs of a sees *lee called the Nubian gloved Cat (Faris inantculaka ), )01.0a site a lul •Us e teeming forts of its tail epproach very nearly to the domesgtc cat of otir•iday. The nations in comniun-.cation with Egypt all had cats, which al's bclievod to ave sprung from, the Nubian- . • The cats now native of Malta, 4111- sia, Turkey, Sicily, ffapnn and, Mexico have %onto, or all, of the peculiar fea- tures of the ancient Egyptian breed, and our domestic ,pet'aire believed to. have descended from -the same stock. - In heathen-templee cats were kept to. consume -a vermin attrartrd by the remains of sacrifiees of flesh, frusta and vegetables. Cats were rare in Rome ancl'in ancient Britain. Pliny refers to theme auci I:he first. cat •mentioned in Greek hls'tory be- longed .to TheocrItus. Effigies of eats w ere borne on 'the banners cif the Caesars•. In the nitutI•Ie area they were believed to be emblems of witcho craft and sorcery, and if a a omen sus- pected of practicing the black ,aft" owned a cat= -especially a black sal - she was generally regarded as a witch. There are many curious and funny dhperstltions connected with tate, In Germany, black cats are kept ...from babies, as ill omens, and their ap- pearance in a house in time of sick- ness is considered a sure sign that a death will .bappen within twenty-four In Bavaria, a cat narked reel, white and black is Clubbed a "tire -rat," and it used to be the'mettom to throw such on' the flames of a burning banding, In- stead of, water to quench the lire. Their presence in a house is also sue - posed to act as a p ' ni . p preventive al„ rt..�t. fever. x When. the silt washci itself, it is a sure sign of fair weather. 1111 licks lj,se3 against the grain, or waeliee las face over its ears, or sits with its; tail toward, the fire, the weather will be foul. I1 there is- to be a wedding in a house, the bride should consider her- self very lucky if the family cat sneezes the day before. It is generally supposed that cats abhor water, and there Is an old Latin proverb, Coteig.amat places sed aquae introre recusat, meaning, "The cast likes flshee, burdislikes enter the water" Nevertheless, neither • the poular belief nor the INT:I crh is en- tirrly correct, for cats have been often known to Conquer their hatred for water in order to gratify their love for the tinny tribe. r Lettuce and 'Talk. , The lettuce is to tine a 1`1o51 inter Piling study. Lettuce is ill e conver- sation; it meat be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter al it Lettuce, like most. t tt11:"re., is, however, apt to mu rapi±ly to seed. Blessed is that sot) Which conies to 0 head, and do remain!,, like some peo- ple 1 kiuiw; 1400 wing stern solid and satisfactory and tender the tame . time, end 'whiter al: 5,'- centre and crisp in 1h h1 maturity, buttuce,.ilice conversation. rr!1 ul es a' *oil deal of oil to staid fetches and beep p talc (GM' pony !Tooth; :t pinch 1l of attic salt a clash of pepper, a retail; ity. or must red and vinegar, by all rnr 05 bitt so mixed that you n'ill melee rio sharp contrasts; and a trifle of eimar. Yen ran put anything, nerd tl-o MO re things the better into salad, az with colts'er'sa- 11,111 but everything depends upon the skill l of nixing .1 feel that 1 rem its the best society when T rut \'it11 lettuce- Chtules Putl'6' eA tsar, nr "1Iy Sum- mar in a Gorden." Hort His Feelings. A far inh ,nil (on 'telephone; -,e-"S ewe ' nue a bushel of note, ' foils Over tht, 1'rq'e•---"ZVL•o for?" • let riuhaid--eDon t gut funny 'with me, 'they're for my horse,"