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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-07-01, Page 6"Sivas e BE sal A teaspoonful of 1Gtillett's Lye sprinkled in the Garbage Can prevents flies breeding Use Gillett's Lye for all Cleaning and Disinfecting eep Costs little but always effective 99 einge IW Bucket of Water Helped to Produce Lifeboat. A woman carrying a bucket of water stopped to talk to .a man. Quite ab- sent-mindedly he poked at a piece of a wooden dish that floated in the pail, and so (Recovered that it was self- righting. Nothing wendd make the dish • remain upside down. Later, a little group of man sitting inn their club -house, which faced the sea,saw a ship wrecked and the whole ships company perish—because those on land had no suitable boat to launch in the raging sea. Horrified at the disaster, these "Gen- tlemen of Lowe House,' as they were called, inserted an advertisement in a Newcastle paper offering two guineas reward for a model of a boat that could keep afloat in stormy weather. The man who had touched the wood- en dish in the pail of water subenttted a model—and won the prize. From his design the first "official. lifeboat was made. It cost P76 8s. 9d., and did service for forty years, saving hundreds of lives. It just over a century ago that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed by a little group of citizous who met in a London taxern. It is "voluntary to the last yard -arm in its boats," and it has never been known to flinch from duty. A. Whitby lifeboat crew was once called out seven tines in a single day. On the last journey It capsized—and only one man reached the share. Yet when an hour later another S.O.S. call, came from a ship in peril, a volunteer crew came forward, launched an old boat, and brought the wrecked crew to safety. Lifeboatmen have battled with the raging sea for thirty hours without cessation, and women have striven with the men, waist deep in icy water, to launch a lifeboat la the teeth of a winters gaze. Mlnard's Liniment for Sore Feet. Where Puss is Tailless. As everyone knows, Manx cats are tailless. They have just a tuft of fur, without any bone. Why some cats should be Millers has never- been satisfactorily explained. The conies, quite common iu the )fast, is said by some to have been evolved by the priests of one of the old -tithe pagan religions, who regarded the cat as a sacred animal, and who, by de- priving all kittens of their tails at p g t t last succeeded in getting a tailless species. Theidea was to prevent a sacred animal getting contaminated by its tail picking up impurities. Many cats must have come to the is- land from the East and they have re- mained tailless because their island home prevents crone -breeding with the ordinary tailed cat. Why a cat le said to have "nine lives" is really nothing but a tribute to its body. Its spine is very tough; its Paws are thickly padded, and its body is extraordinarily flexible. An ostrich yields about 3 lbs, of feathers' yearly, After Every Meal It doesn't take much to keep you in triln. Nature only asks a little help. Wrigley's, after every meal, benefits teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. A Flavor for Every Taste • I. THE STOLEN BABY It was two minutes past twelve!0 Only a very little afterernidnight. But, i° all the same, mystery and adventure', i began to settle upon the city. Already the streets looked deserted, apart from a few couples too absorbed in them- selves to matter more than sidewalks and lamp posts. ',It had bean very hot all day, so hot that I had gone out j seeking coolness rather than adven-i tare. But the night was nearly as hot' as the day, and I; had spent the last two hours in a state of semi -collapse' in the Paddington Recreation Ground. I had sought for a taxi in vain, and now, feeling exhausted, I was waiting for: an omnibus. Thus my thoughts were directed upon myself rather than, upon my surrounditugs; the foreground of my y mindwas occupied by the sod -I den state of my collar, by a violent aspiration to the cold bath I would. find at home No doubt, for that rea- son, I failed at first to observe that my watch was shared by a young girl:! And when I did observe her, I regis-1 tered casually that she was dark and: pretty. She did not interest me. It i was so hot that she might fall down in a fit if she liked; I wouldn't have' the energy to hep her up. However, after a moment, my ad- venturous habit of mind was animated by the discovery that she was walking up and down very fast. That any- body, for no obvious reason, should walk up and down in this torrid air suggested lunacy or crime. My inter- est developed as the girl passed vie,' -wheeled viciously .upon her heels, tramped by again. She was paying 1 no attention to me. Her pretty little nose was held high in the air; her small, bare hands were clenched on the handle of a parasol, with which occa- sionally she gave the pavement a jab. Now women are always interesting, but they are at their best in two con- ditions; tears and temper. When in tears, they want to tell everything; when in a temper, they can't help it. So I kept my eyes fixed upon her whi',e still she went up and down; she did not respond. Then, after a while, I came to the gloomy realization that the young lady was angry because the omnibus did not come. What a tome down! So much distorted passion, just for a missing omnibus, Reason enough, perhaps, if a missed omnibus means a six -mile walk recall- ing a temperature reca- in•g that of the Gulf of Mexico .. , but how dull! It was at that moment that a kindly policeman, as he saun- tered past, remarked to me: "No good waiting, sir. The last went at ten to twelve." "What?" shouted the girl, furiously. "Where are you going to?" I asked. "Pimlico," "It's a long way," I said, the heat having evidently made me idiotic. She surveyed me with infinite con- tempt, reflecting, no doubt, that I was just like a man, as is the habit of women when things do not happen' exactly as they like. At that moment there appeared at the top of the street coming toward us, a taxi that peace- fully crawled Along. Excited by this heavenly vision, I resolved to leap into it and go hone, but the sight of the little drawn face moved me. So I said: "Can't I give you a lift?" She took one step back, glaring at me, evidently suspicious: `"Where do you live?" she asked, "Near Victoria Station," I lied. I "I expect you're telling me the tale," she remarked in a matter of fact tone. "Still, I've got to fetch my sister's hely to -night." I held the door open.' "Wait a bit," she said. "You get in first. I tell the cabby,where to go. I, "All right," I said, getting in,I and not you." slightly stimulated by.the idea that I she wanted to conceal her destination, Indeed, I did not clearly hear what! she said to the cabman. She jumped' up by my side, and the cab drove oft» For a moment we did not speak.' Sho was. sitting upright in her corner,' her hands folded before her, evidently, stiffening herself against approach.) She was perfectly charming, with I Ion dark eyes, .olashes, and a petulant little red mouth. But what interested' the most was her strained attitude. 1' could guess what she was thinking of. So I said: "If you think I'm going to' kiss you, don't worry." She flushed so dark that I could perceive it as we passed a street lamp, I realized that perhaps this was rather rude, and added: "It isn't that I don't want to. Far from it! Bat I don't want to pre- tend to do you a good turn, to inveigle you into this cab, and turn misbehave, So set your mind at rest, and tell me the story of your life." At this she considered me with more attention: "You're a cure," she re- marked at last Stili, handsome is as handsome does. I've got nothing against you, and, by the way, thank ,you very much. I don't know what I should have done if you hadn't come Llong. You see, I've got to fetch my Isister's baby, and I've just got enough money to pay the woman, and to pay "It's awfully late," she said. . "I ught to have got there at eight 'clock. Only I was prevented. I must get the baby, You see, my sister's so "But what does she want the baby for?" I asked, puzzled. "She's its hospital. She's going to be operated on to -morrow, and so she wants the baby out of the way. She didn't know she was going to have an operation. But someone's got to take the baby while she's in hospital. Don't you see?" The taxi had by this time reached' Victoria and -turned southeast into a network of little black streets. It stop- ped suddenly at a corner, and Rhoda leaped out, telling me to wait a mo- ment. I craned out of the window to see where she went. She almost dis- appeared into the darkness, but I• bad an impression that as she stopped at a: doorway shemet another person. But my strained eyes at once lost sight of that other shape. I felt that I must have made a mistake, for, by that timer Rhoda had disappeared, either into the darkness of a porch,. or down some steps into a basement. I was not ex- actly enjoying my situation; though I sat in a taxi, I was in the middle of soave particularly unpleasant slums. No doubt the girl thought that, by stopping the cab some distance from her destination, I should fail to trace her upon her strange mission. But she could not ren:ize my profound knowl- edge of London; I was in Gue:f Street, in a reputedly criminal- part of Pim- .ico. It was quite possble for a gang of roughs to hold up the cab. But if this was a trap, I.should have been - asked into the house; besides, adven- "All right," I said, getting in, turesses do not look for their prey in the neighborhood of the Chippenham, the poorer part of Kilburn. So I Watched, and after a quarter of an hour, frons the doorwey came Rhoda, slightly staggering under a white; burden. She was breathing hard as she arrived, and feveeish:y jumped into the taxi. "I say," I remarked, "where do you want to go le?" "'Back," she said, with a gasp. "Back! Quick! Back!" "You mean to the Chippenham?" "Yes. No, no, not that. Te:I him to go to .. , I'll tel him. Here, hold Stupefied, I held the baby, which seemed to be asleep, while she told the cabman something hurried and then rejoined me. As soon as the door closed she snatched the baby back f rim me; turn- ing her shoulder away, she hod the bundle agttinst her, making little soothing noises that were quite un- necessary since the 'shill was asleep. I tried to talk to her, but for some unknown reason she,hardly answered Inc. She was in a .state of febrile ex- citement. At last, when I asked het what was the matter, why she was in such a state, she muttered some- thing about the woman having been so rude and trying to overcharge her. I was rather annoyed. The adven- ture was absurd, 'v1'o spen{i over an hour, on such a night, carrying a girl and a baby to and fro. in London was 1ti %t+l ' aae fora taxi back here." DI "I see," I replied: 'Butit's very', -- -- iFe ti No i7--'26. - late to fetch a baby " most unsatisfactory. So I sulked. Iii complete silence we arrived at a point in Elgin Avenue where the cab stop- ped. "This is where I get off," said Rhoda. She was nulling hserse:f to- gether a little now. "Thank you very much. A hot little hand grasped nine for a moment. Carefully she. got out. 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Has Stood The A,ustrallan , aborigines 'are amongst the moat backward people on earth. And the' tribes, of the, Cape' York Penineukt-the unknown finger of Auatradla pointing to the north— are the least olvtlized- of Australian aborigines, They are the People. Who Stood Still., The •oldest living race ed hu inane in :the world, they 'are 10,000 Years behind, the times. • 'They are reputed to be hoetile and treacherous, but Mr. J. McLaren, who lived amongst them for eight years, Domed them quite easy to get on with. Mr. McLaren:e bueinosei was, to plant coconut ,palms, and' his adven- tures during the eight years these trees take to come to maturity are told in "My Crowded Solitude," The only White man amongst these primitive savages, he was, in the be- ginning, more than a little nervous, He used to IM awake with rifle and re- ar -diver beside him listening to the wail- ing of curlews along the beach, the guttural barking of crocodiles in an adjacent. creek, the howling of distant wild dogs, and the imagined voices of stealthily approaching natives. Nothing serious happened', however, and by degrees he grew accustomed to his environment. A native woman, old and incredibly ugly, installed herself as his house- keeper, without somuch as saying "by your leave." He taught her to' cools "white man way," and she made a fairly apt pupil. • But It was as a nurse that site ex- celled, tending hint through severe bouts of fever, and applying native remedies that proved wonderfully ef- fective. The men, too, took pity on his "ig- norance," ns .they deemed it, .and in- strutted bim in the lore of the -jungle. Preventive Measures. She- "Why do 'men always try to' He (a trifle cynicirl)—"Probably to keep the giris from putting their hands in our pockets-" The Haymarket London. The name suggests lho fragranceof country:.. scents and rural pocues, and it was tis late tie the beginning of the eighteenth century a great rearltet for the bay and straw which the wagons of the farmers in the Home Counties conveyed to London, Aggas' snap of London *bows it girt by hedgerows with a cluster of houses, and where ,the Carlton- lintel and His Majesly's Tbeati•etrew stud, in all the glory of modern architecture, visited by the elite,' washerwomen are shown wash- ing their clothe:. The wiins loaded with sweet sthelling hay began to roll in in the time of Queen 171izabell,, and not until Williani -IV., the saealleil. "Patriot Itiing," resigned, lid they change their course to Sl .,bas's 1 market, which \Vali held on the ground where Waterloo Place now extends it- s•eli, and to Cumberland Markel, 12e- gent's Park.- V ,LI, Nine etd, in "Lon ilii s Wast Led!." r ' Li 1 yt f• 111 atis Still for Thousands of Years. There were some things, however, on which they would not enlighten him, amongetthesa being their smoke - signalling eyeteon, by means of whish they •covered. distance, Over and over again news was con- veyed to lefeeMoLaren in this manner of occurrences that had taken lace hundreds of miles distant only a few hours :previously. On ono occasion the news was of a momentous kind. The filen who -in- terpreted this particular signal bad picked up 'from McLaren some scrape of Bnglieh, and hie version of the news conveyed to him by the distant rod of smoke was as follows: "Plenty fellers fight. Them people who make the smoke been heat' the news from one 'nother people what been hear it from the men belong one cutter what been auohor•at their camp. Plenty fellers fight, and plenty Dome dead. And ol1 them fellers, they white fellers, Yes—white fellers, And they toomuch plenty, my Word!" That pidgin -English interpretation of a message in smoke was the author's first intimation of the Great Wart On one occasion the Government Resident on Thursday Island sent Mr. McLaren a, great bale of blankets for the natives. The author distributed these among them, telling themat the same, time bow, grateful they ought to be to the Government for the gift. The tribe, however, were impressed neither 11y the gift nor by the -author's remarks. They took the blankets without comment, and that night slept in them. Next day they complained that the things irritated, and after that they slept in thein no more. They used them instead of bark for roofing their huts. The. Island. She walks amongst the:loveliuese she made, Between the apple -blossom and the water. Site walks amongst the patterned brightrbrocade, Bad? flower` her sdn, end every tree her daughter. This is an island all with flowers in- laid, A square of grassy pavement tos•. seated: Flowers in their order blowing as she bade. The waving grasses freckle sun with sila{la, The wind-blown wavelets round the kingcttlts ripple, Color on color chequered and arrayed, Shadow cn light in variable stipple. Her regiments et her cotnntmtd parade, Foot-sc-dier primrose in his rank conies trooping, Then windflowet's Lt a ..scarlet loose brigade, Fritillary ith dusky orchis group- ing; They are the Cossacks dim in airbus- • cede, wit Original Barbarian. Tu nmt',c111 times, the Word 73arharian means .omething not all nice but it originally meant, in its home, Greece, merely a man who 0111 not speak the language of the Greeks. Barbarians wore no lto1"e regarded as inferior be- ings than anyone else. The same is true of Savages, a word which has been used originally to distinguish those who did not accept the Chria- tlan religion, whereas to -day a savage is a cruel sort of, beast. "Faint heart never won fair lady." "Wes, what about it? Ours isn't fair. She's a brunette." Do9 t Wear Out Your Clothes Scarfed in their purple' like a for- eign st.ranyer, Piratical, end apt for stealthy raid Wherever's mystery or doubtful dan- ger. Irls saddles her with his Motel green blade, - Au•a marches by with proud and .pur- ple pennant, And tulips in a flying cavalcade Follow. valerain for their lieutenant, The lords and ladies dress:el far mss-. geared e In -green silk domino dlscreetly. hooded, Ilurry towards .the nut -tree's twlon-. bade, Philandering where privacy's well wooded;,. They're the oivlilers of this bold crusade, The courtiers 01 thin camp by be s son tented: With woodbine clambering the balus- trade, Tend all bybriar roses baLCle-menL- Tecre, et the sunlit grasscs .bright as jade, She w 'los 0110 sets her aquttdroes 1 at attention, Aral laughing tit her Htives t e spade, Siretcl c; l'or bends out le her sweet invenlion. -V. Sackville -West, in Lite Naticnaand the Athenaeum . The Festoon Why. A Spad a'ystbsta t aeltera;eked o pupil wlty Ananias tills ra savercly punish- ed. The little one Ihoneht a minute, then answered: Please tcscltcr, they e reset so used to lying in those dials." • 918 libbing d�7 _ ,O- Simply dissolve Rinso (25 seconds). Put into the wash v,nater._ Put in the clothes. Soak twoshours, or more. Rinse-- And that's all. Hours of time saved- -Gloriously clean,. white clothes. Made by the makers of Lux R-460 OUT 0' DOO'RS_ What is It that makess, fine holiday, however brlof it be, sojoyous? Surely that it opeus.the adore' of our aitif.cia existence, frees us from the cramping onvironmetlt of four walls - Doors!' Thoy are synonymous with confinement- They shut out the "great Wide, beautiful; wonderful world," and shut in that workaday world which, -at its best sometimes grows wearisome and; oppressive and burdensome, - Doors! 'They close on the child at his school -work; they close on the mother at iter home duties; they close on the father, the. brother, the sister, in mill and warehouse and office: Then the long -looked -for' 'holiday ioomcs" round. Those tightcloseddoofs all fly open at ones and—presto!—you and I, big and little, old and young, rioh..anul poor, •are drinking -big draughts of fresh air: We are out o' doors! ' No one standing on a breezy hill- top, walking on the sea oliffe, basking on the shining sands, diving into the sea, sitting in the shade of trees, mak- ing a beeline across heath or down;, hind, •can remain long in doubt about ' man's natural •environment. No won- der the aacired writers• put our first, parents in a garden. "God made the country; man made the town," singe :the •poet, and hesings: true. The town, with its myriad, doors, is closed, sealed, double -barred doors; - the country, with its open spaces its r'' "wind on .the heath," its rain -washed air, its lievedrenehed grass, its shine and its shade, its foreet Adore flecked with dancing sun-slpray—the country, with its freedom,' it quiet, its, rest • - fulness. Oar boasted civilization becomes more and more a matter of demi- which open and shut with appalling regularity, An ehd•eavor-•of the last fifty years has been to open them a little oftener, a little longer, a little wider. We do well to call those oceaslons "holidays"—or "holy days," oven though we may fail 16 remember their • holy significance. Would it, not seem that in these city -dwelling, industrial, machine -made days of ours the, sense of heart -expansion, of soul -uplifting, must of necessity be keener than ever It could be when everybody lived close to nature all the year round? That Sense sublime Of something . far more deeply inter- - fused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting sans, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and In the mind 'of man; A motion and a spirit, that impels • Ali thinking things, all objects of ail thought, And rolls through all things, 11 conies to this --that if your hold. day does not move yccr heart as well as expand your lungs, it has not done • you the geed it is capable of doing. There are. still "books in the ruining brooks," but -thank Heaven! --they are not ledgers. . Fish Cultpre Service Develops New Carrier, - Th:.e Hell of Canada are so Highly re- garded that efforts ere frequently made to etetatill-sb them in foreign countries, and, to aa?fst in such en- deavors, lintitetl• numbers of eggs of several species have recently hae:t stip• pried by the Fish Cultural Branch of the Department of Yhiarine and Flslter- ios for experimental an 1 observational purposes in Europe and ,japan. In 1924, ,salmon trout eggs ggs Iran C•ccrgian hay, lake Huron, and cut- throat trout eggs from Banff, Alberta, =.: erore supplied to the Killywhan Fisher- ies rear Dumfries, Scotian -a. Since the beginning of the present year epcali!es trout eggs leave been shipped from Vancouver to the Tokyo Angling and Toan country Club,,, Tokyo, Japan, , and e•ebago,, or landlocked sahlton- eggs, have been shipped from St. Joan, New Brunswick, to Dublin, Ireland. Ar- rangements have also been made to ship cutthroat, rainbow, and Kam Loops trout eggs front British Columbia to Japan during the coating .sprlog. _Shipments for any great distance of such a fragile. and ' perlebabie nature as flch.egse we`re at one time aocom- panled by attendants. but with the sys- tem of packing anti insulation now in vogue they are- forwarded by. express without misgiving as regards their safe dclllvery, provided no accident oc- curs. Tho safe, delivery at their des- tination of the salmon eggs shipped to Scotland in 1924. which reached Liver- pool during a dockers' strike and were consequently dehiyed tilt that port for several clays, is =strong testimony to the efficiency of the protection atid !n- wela•lion provided by the new'setppfng cases developed by the Department of • Maries.and iFlsherles. Sentence Sermons,. 1tpais. to Study—Your competit- or's a4ecess--yoll.may find where you are failing,' Your'own nust.altes--it will save you from repeating them. —Your excuses --you are ea' to die. covelehow.'foolish they are. —Your home -town- -there ars some hero-ln ht•it, g --Yoesuriviwrek poli to—volt 'are not so liable to be 'ambushed. -LYnui` job—you may be able to pre- pare for a bigger one. Arr.y sdocessIitl pian -- he has- a class you ought to know.