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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-09-16, Page 3For Boys.. .;d Girls THE LESSON NEIL LEARNT BY ANNA M. FORD. Neil Preston sauntered slowly and I 'suppose vacation is a sort of along the ;,path,, and ` threw himself ;blank space ie your life -ea aoet of no down on the erase by the garden-waL.' time at all, as far as -earning is sen- ile leaned on. hie z.iow_there,awhile,,corned? No'» what is enjoyrnent, my lazily 'watehing;the' fleecy. clouds that lead? What does it consist c#?.I sup - floated across the blue; sky. 1peel) yen have been enjoying yourself It was vacation, and Neil `bed an -.i immensely this morning, being as'yee ticipaled the time, expecting to have have not bothered to do anything bixt ' glorious fun. But, somehow; hie .ex- lie there in the grass." pectations had not been realized, al- Neil flushed a little' and looked up, though half the period of release from rather confusedly„ remembering his school duties had, epired, And Noll reflections of a few moments, before. was chinking about it - with several Than there was something in Uncle discontented sighs. Silas' tone'of voice w+hich strifes Neil Neil's thoughts were interrupted by as being, somewhat :sarcastic, and he the sight of Hs .sister, Rachel doming conceived -the idea that the old gentle - along the 'warden wall,. He watched ' man must be off the opinion that hej her with sons cu`i'"iosity, seeing that knew very •little for a bey of hisage. she was deeply absorbed in something "Well•,''how about it?" asked Uncle which ehe must have considered highly Sias, persistently, While Raohel swung important. She ware a garden hat, to her hanging -basket lightly in the air, shield her from the sun, and carried "Any one knows when he is enjoy a small, well-filled hanging basket, aing himself, I guess," answered Neil, trowel and' several other articles in evasively. Ler hand.'' "Very true," said Uncle Silas. Rachel. stepped to examine the "Now, Rachel, what have you te'say?" tendrils of.a vine :which clambered, in "About -what enjoyment is?"' said many a blossoming; anddgraceful fes- Rachel; with'a very bright look, "Oh; toon, over the wall. I think it is anything which is pleas - Presently she called to-Neil—being ant or Moe.. There are so many ways aware of his presence, because there and kinds of enjoyment, too; but I was nothing between them to screen do not think Nell enjoys himself half •him''fromdher view. as much as I do." "Wouldn't you like to get some of ', "You, don't, eh?" said Uncle Silas. these forme, Neil??" she said, point -("'What's the reason he don't, then? big upward toward the vine, while she You each enjoy the same advantages, stood facing him with an earnest and don't you?"• questioning glance.,"Oh, yes, of course! But you- see—" Neil -put on an impatient look, sy- said Rachel. _ . ing:' • Then she hesitated; while Neil +look- "What a,. little old maid you are, ed all -humored and angry. • Rachel!—forever fussing about doing "Speak out, RacheI!' said Uncle something and hunting up things you Silas, cheerily.- "Don't you know it's a can't get! Every day you just melt friend who will tell you of your yourself in the sun, doing—goodness faults?" knows what! What is it you're after "Well,;uncle," wenton Rachel, "Nal now?" knows it himself -Neil is -lazy. Every - Bache: laughed good-naturedly, and body says that Neil would make a carne across to Neill, just as old Uncle smart man if he only had more amhi- Silas :hobbled down the path toward tion-" them, leaning an his cane and mopping "And how about this little woman— his face with a red silk handkerchief.; here?" asked Uncle Silas, with a "Whet's it all about, hey, my pleasant smile. dears?" he asked, stepping up to them! "Me, do you mean?" said Rachel, as briskly as he could, for Uncle Silas wonderingly. "Oh, I am not half so was lame. ' "What dohs our Rachel smart as Neil, you know! but I like to melt herself in the sun for? and what learn things, and to do something—any des she want now, hey? Speak out!" time. I think that must be the way And Uncle Silas crossed his hands ! in which to be happiest -don't you, over the head of his 'bane, and gazed `-Uncle Silas?" from one to the other in evident inter "Surely, Rachel, dear. Live to my est. I learn—that's the way; and you will Neil looked provokingly at Rachel, find that contentment is far better thinking it good furl to have her ques- than wealth." tioned as to her doings"; but Rachel, Uncle Silas' could see that Nell was didn't stem to mind it in the least, beginning to meditate on the subject,. and began, without the least hesiba- I se he pointed his last remark to him. tion: - I "Now, about the weeds, Rachel," "Why,' Uncle 'Silas, I . have been and the old gentleman stooped down cutting some .slips, and transplanting and plucked something from several some pretty plants and' flowers for any different places in the grass. "What hanging -basket. They say that in is this, Rachel? Can you tell me?" • August is the best time to de so. And .And he handed what lie had plucked then I wisli to get some seeds from to her. - this vine along the wall, as I have "Why, uncle;" she said, examining promieed them to some of my school it attentively, "there are two kinds friends. It is ca:+:ed the trumpet-yine, here—chickweed and purslane." I think, and those blossoms have left ."Just so! Now give me the names of little seeds, from which new vines w11 a few others." grow." ! "Weld, Uncle," continued Rachel, "Very good! -very good!" - said looking very much interested, "there Uncle Silas. "And now about the melt- is foxtaii, burdock, pig -weed and ing in the -Sun?" • I dandelion and sow -thistle." "Oh, 'I never melt!" said Rachel,) "Sow -thistle --that's what we want quickly, and meth an innocent air. "I to get at!" said Uncle Silas, briskly. think it is a pleasure to watch the "Now we have been told that one plant flowers every day • aiid see how they of this produces, on an average, some - grow; and then `I pull up the lit-t's where about eleven .thousands seeds; weeds and thistles and things. I have dandelion, somewhere between two a very .nice time." - and three,thousand." "Weeds!" cried out Neil, laughing. "Why, uncle," chimed in Neil, "it's "Who would stop to pull up weeds in a wonder the•who'-e world lent cover August, or any time, for that mat- ed with weeds, at that rate." • ter?" I `Wel!., I suppose it would bet any • "You dant know much about weeds, boy, if some people governed it!" was then—do you?" said Uncle Silas, knit- Uncle Silas' answer. • ting his broave es he took a survey of, Then he asked, looking sideways at Neil, stretched out so lazily upon the Neil. ground. - I "Now,what's the use of pullingup • "What do I want to know anything; weeds? and what are they most like? about weeds for, uncle?" asked' Neil, Who can tell?" pettishly. "I like to enjoy"myse'f, and 'Bemuse they grow fast,' said Ra - not to botlser about weeds or seeds or, clue:. "And I thank they are most like anybhii e s>, especially during vada bad habits." tion." I "Just sol" said Uncle Sias, nodding "Oh! that's it, is it?" said Uncle his head with great satisfaction. Silas. "So then :you think you know Neil looked as crestfallen as -he enough a answer all present purposes, possibly co•udd. • Deese o, e •Ye r pilots a smallest"train.in the world, oyer the tracks at the world's smallest practical railway, . Lu159 . R., . ?r? p to when he spends a day with the"400. public and• industrial school boys who are his guests at New Romney, "Suppose we change the subject, o • Neil," he added, with some haste, see- ing that Nei; was applying every re- mark to hamself: •"What ' is that yon- der and wherd d d it come from?" Neil looked' in the direction indicated by his uncle, saying: "Thatpine tree, do you .lean? Why, the pine is a native of Ameri+ca." "Good enough, Neil; but I meant the tree nearest us—the walnut tree." ! "They' say the wa'Inut—also the peach, -came from Persia," answered Neil, readily. "Why, I didn't know that'before," said Rtiohel, candidly. "Where did the chestnut come from, uncle?" _"Italy, ' I believe. But, children, do. you know that it is almost dinner- time? And I think we have each and all ;'learned enough for this morning. What do you say?" Neil and Rachel laughed in; chorus and the three preparedto elk to the house, Rachel for the time forgetting about the seeds she had wished''' to procure. Rachel had greatly enjoyed the lit- tle conversation, but Neil took quite a different view of the case, and learned a lessons that morning, which he never forgot; and he often -remembered Ra- chel's innocent remark: "I• Iike to learn things and to do something—any time!" "What is it that you wish?" Life asked, And thus I answered, being tasked: "I'd like this moment to attain What .men have worked for years to gain. • Pew are the wants which I rehearse, I'd like to have a rich man's purse, I'd like to walk the streets and buy Whatever trinkets I may spy. "I'd like the wisdom of the sage Without the burden of his age. I have ambition and a will, I'd like the master artist's skill. Then life replied: "Oh, eager youth, Have you not grasped the simple truth That twenty cannot hope to be So calm and wise as fifty-three? That cherished wisdom of the sage, Requires the silvered touch of age, That ease, which men of fortune know, Was earned by. labor long ago. "These splendors which you ask of me Are favors which can never be. - t Youth 'cannot at a leap attain What men have worked for years to gain. "Learn wisdom slowjy, day by day Be you as diligent as they, Then when as many years save flown These . joys' you crave shall lie your own." —Edgar A. Guest. '--e'- — Taking Advantage of the Half -Fare. A Scotsman had applied to his chief for- leave. "Do you mean to tell me, MacNab," said "the letter, "that you want your next year's holiday now—in November?" The Scotsman acdded his head. "Well, you see, .sir,'" he said, "it's on account of my youngest boy, Sandy. He'll be over twelve if I dinna go th' neo." REG'LAR FELLERS ----By Gene 'Byrnes.. teRateSPRIL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO as -7 A )DD HELPER i/ FOR YOURGELF IN TNI$ ST0RE2 -o OH J1MNuEl • THERE'S RAM. ENOUCeil MONEY ltd . TH15 SUSile SS -FOR Mg: I IPSO OUT TES91E CULLEN BUT SHg WAS��,,.T1ORE BOWE MAN 51i WAS WORM( STYLE IN THE JOB U� , By Angelo Patrl. Teach a ohild to do a bit of work, well -cleaned square gives courage to In the """terms of' the old specifications; in a thorough and workmanlike man- ner. , In the first place a touch of style, a 'bit of form, to one's job Sifts it into the realm of work and, at once separ- ates it from drudgery or labor in the mind of the worker. A child who droops under the pressure of labor will enjoy working In the spirit of art. There is art in farm chores if youput it there for art is no more and no lees than the high spirit of man. . Suppose the youngsters are going. out to do a bit -o weeding. That is a most Instructive, educative, uplifting job if one'seee it the right way. .;You dress the children for the work. Put a touch of beauty in the overalls. In Our house last summer, they were trimmed with scarlet and had stare on the breast pockets. A ilright red handkerchief stuck jauntily out of the pocket and;the-hats flaunted red bands and one gaily -dyed chicken feather. You cannot imagine what a difference thabmade In the. attitude toward the work., Scarlet on the Uniform. Each youngster had a little end cov- ered with black oiiclothstitched and decorated in reds and on that he knelt as he pulled up the baby pigweeds and scratched out the "pusley." A touch of scarlet on a working uniform is very helpful' in locating a worker, - some- thing not to be overlooked when the age of him demands careful super - It belie if each child has his own set of tools. There are tine ones in the market, of good quality and sensible Mize. The proud owner paints the handles of his set in his chosen color and there are no disputes as to who Is Using spade or rake. Ttsaves the adult tools and improves the quality of work, too. But remember the style! ltIark off the bed to be weeded in three feet squares and teach the weeders to clean a square beginning in a certain corner and working steadily toward the per and opposite one. In this way they keep trach of their progress. One start the nvetealat and the next. A bed weeded 11; Molnarstyle means c nfu ion yihin'That suggests confusion to - the working mind of a child is bad teaching. Style and order is the law of good workmanship and good thinking: , , The same rule holds good inside the house.. I once knew the wife of a clergyman who had suffered much at bhe hands of her guests. A clergy- man's wife hes to extend the hos- pitality of her home to many people bf many kinds of manners. She usual- ly has to-do bhe work of the •hove -her- self and so bears the brunt of the hos- pitality in terms of weary hands and feet. ... Leaving.a.Clean Room. One day this lady, tired after a day's housecleaning; sighed as she took up her darning needle and•said, "I always judge a 'person's Christianity by the condition in which he leaves the bath- room. I mil sure the Lord Win reward those who remember to put towels where they belong and to wipe up the water they shed and cleanse the bath- tub after they've used it. I have to keep popping In and out of the bath- room like a Jack -In -the -box to make sure the place Is in condition for the. .next person who needs to use It." That's a matter of style and finish to a job. Teach a child to look about him after he has used the bathroom or even the ordinary wash stand or wash bench, and to put it in order before he leaves. Have the proper wiping clothe handy and teach them to use them. Have a place for soiled towels and see that they learn to put them there. When they are too little to wipe the !iib out by themselves, let them help you to do It even though it gives you a more difficult live minutes. It is im- portant that they be trained to finish a task in good style and that they re- member those who are to follow them. There is a lift about leaving a clean job behind one that pays for the time and labor expended upon it. There Is an attitude of mind that comes from good style,.fiue form and thoroughness, that is most precious. suammmormismenagemmmassmsmis ■mAOfO' �waunNlr' mm iii!•!• !+'�: !lirAt i mak ■!AL MAS ■ �l Backward Trees. Ile—"I see the trees are still' here." She—"Why shouldn't they be?" He—"Because they usually leave be- fore this." If . IA the -mountains in the world were revelled the average height of the land would rise nearly 260 feet, A Petal Cushion. The smallest scraps of silk may be utilized for a petal cushion, and skill- ful sewing is not necessarily demand- ed of the one who undertakes to make it. Cut a paper pattern so'as to have each petal exactly alike. A'good `size is 4 by 4 inches a square piece, but the petals may be of any dimensions, according to the size of the silk piece. Fold the silk and pleat or gather all around the cut edges, drawing them close to form the stern end of the petal. d. Shape with the flnge-a when finished. Tack to a stout piece of canvas or trips - lin, lapping the petals so that the tip of one covers the stem end of the other. T,he'petals may be sewn on in rows; bit or miss es to color, or they may radiate from a centre flower in a skillfully shaded design. ' 'Different shades' can he obtained by tinting white silk. This is particularly nice work for one who has much time., at her disposal. WELL WOULOt�i YOU UkE 1'O NAVE • SOME ONS WHO WOULD WORK EVERY. DAY BEFORE AN' i AF fER SCFWOL WHO WOULi?iiT .WANT ANY PAY ONEY WHAT e ®,1'N ODA 1. NE NEEDED If —a -MAT SOUNDS TOO WOOD TO se TRUE t = DON`. BELIEVE THA -rt • From the Window. o quiet cottegesroom, Whose casements,' looking o'er the gardereclose, Are 'hid in wiidiugs' and the woodbine /bloori And many a.olambering rose. Sweet Is thy light subdued, Gracious and soft, lingering upon my book, As that which shimmers through the branched wood Above some dreamful nook( Leaning within my chair, Through the thin curtain I can- see the stir— The gentle undulations of the air Sway the dark-layered`fir; And, In the beechen green, Mark many a squirrel romp and chir- rup-loud; hir=rug'loud; White far beyond, the chestnut -boughs between, Floats the white summer cloud. A•t times I note, noaar by, The flicker' tapping on some hollow bole; And •watch upon the elm, against, the sky, - The fluting oriole; Or, when the day is -done, And the warm splendors make the oak - top flush, Hear him, full-throated' in the setting sun,- The darling wildwood thrush, —Lloyd Mifflin, in "The Fleeing Nymph and Other Verse." Remains of Merton Priory teeing Excavated.' The remains of. Merton . Priory, where the first Parliament was held in England, in the reign of Henry III, and which completely disappeared since the fifteenth century,' are now being excavated at'Wimbledon• Amongthe interesting discoveries made time far is the circular chapter house, where the Parliament met. There were passed the so called Mer- ton Statutes, some of which are still part of the living law of England. A coffin of the thirteenth 'century, out from a single block of stone, was recently found. It contained a skele- ton but there was no possibility of identifying it. - Menton Priory was one of the great church edifices of its day, and was only slightly smaller than WestminsterAb- bey. A railroad now passes over the site, and Merton Abbey Station stands over the South transept. The work of excavation -is being carried on under the tracks. A campaign is to be launched to raise the money needed to preserve the site as a public memorial. The speaker of the House of Commons has accepted the chairmanship of the com- mittee. "By Their Works." If stone work is well put together, it means that a thoughtful man planned it, and a careful man cut it, and an hon- est man cemented it.. . . So that when once you have learned how to spell these . legends, — pictures and buildings,—you may read the characters of men, and' of nations, in their art, as in a mirror .A man may hide himself from you, or misre- present himself to you every other way, but he cannot in his work: there, be sure, you have him in the inmost. All that he likes, all that he sees, all that he can do, his imagination, his affec- tions, his perseverance, his impatience, his clumsiness, everything is there. If the work is a cobweb, you know it was made by a spider; if a honeycomb, by a bee; a worm -cast is thrown up by a worm, and a nest wreathed b ya bird; and a house built by a man, worthily, if he is worthy.—Ruskin, in "The Queen of the Ain" A New Alloy Steel. Sir Robert Hadfield announces the discovery of a new alloy steel capable of withstanding abnormally high tem- peratures. A cast turbine wheel made of the new steel has been tested' at ,66,000 revolutions a minute, so that it was working at a temperature of be- tween 800 and 900 degrees Centigrade. Though brought to a very bright red beat, Its offieiency was not impaired. Opal Now Popular Cern. The opal is now one of the most popular gems, the old superstition sur- rounding it having largely disappear- ed. Jimmie Wouldn't Have to Search Far. YES leRS.MEIIRIL IF YOU WANTED NIM I B c: IDHA � ��CO�0��p, L.DgyFItd YOU % OF A BOY: earstriso. GC,dpyN t, io2& br rha'sen arr,dl, t , In1L �rIRKmS . 'STEADY PROGRESS OF AVIATION IN CANADA MANY, VALUABLE SER- VICES PERFORMED BY AIRMEN. Canada is Constructing Her Own Airplanes, of a Type Most Suited to This Country. ' The report on civil avlation in Can- ada for the year 1925 published by, the Deparment of . National Defence, read in a retrospective light, furnishes most pleasing' evidence of the..progr'sse the Dominion has been malting: and con- tinues to make in the utilization of the aeroplanein many phases of the na- tional fife, The Dominion,. with its great spaces and Widely 'separated populated centres, is peculiarly the realm of the machine of the air and the training of so' Many young Canadians with the Imperial flying service dur- ing the war deft Canada with a vast amount of valuable material to utilize. There is every indication that this has been done widely and wisely. Naturally and necessarily the de- velopment of aviation in Canada has been along lines peculiarly adapted to the Dominion life. Dominion enter- prise has been along the direction of improved .methods of observe;tion and such work, Forest Protection and Rust Elimination. Services for the better protection of the forests, in signalling the outbreak of fires and thereby enabling means to be promptly applied to their extinction before the flames reach dsvaating pro- portions, have increased the number of aircraft in operation and the areas served. The further economic utility of the service was shown in which the Royal Canadian Air Service shared in the investigation which was carried out by the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture upon the spread of the spores of wheat rust in the Prairie Provinces. The airplanes secured evidence that rust spores are carried high in the air for considerable distances andthe machines thie year; If suggestions made are adopted, wIil be used to coi- led further information upon the dis- semination of rust spores and continue experiments in the control of rust by "dusting" wheat fields with sulphur. Mali and Passenger Service. The importance of air mail and pas- senger service is fully appreciated and the question of its establiehmnt as an organied system of air transport throughout the country has been dally considered, but it le realized that this would entail very large capital and operating charges without holding out much promise for some years of any adequate returns: It is interesting to note in conclu- sion that Canada is now constructing her own airplanes. of a type consider- ed to have no superior for Canadian conditions, and that in future the Do- minion will be able to furnish her own requirements in this connection. As a tribute to the high standard of Cana- dian avibtlon it is likewise interesting and gratifying to note that in 1925 there were no accidents to aircraft in- volving eatastrophies or death, Mahni esbury Abbey Has. Interesting History. Whet remains of Malmesbury Abbey, an historic Norman min, now serves as the parish church of Malmesbury. England, a flourishing commercial centre in the Middle Ages. Tb•e •ruin is in need of immediate re- pairs if the structure is to be saved, The parish is too poor to bear the ex- pense and the vicar has made an ap- peal to Americans, as the neighbor- hood is closely associated with the his- tory of the Waehingtons. The first church on the site of the abbey was built about 637, and a stone church was ereoted half a century later by Aidhefm, the saint, who lies: buried under the present ruin. King Atheletan gave Malmesbury 500 acres of land for the help it gave him against the Danes, and his body also lies under the abbey. The presentabbeywas erected in the middle of the twelfth century, - y Very Ancient Civilization. Yucatan, South America, has been dis- covered to have some -of the; most in- teresting ancient ruins in the whole world, It would seem from what has already been learned that there was an aneisnt civilization in Yucatan long before Egypt had started on her pyre rids, Scientists are unable as yet to tell whether Egypt copied from Yucatan or Yucatan copied from Egypt. Among the ruins already uncovered in Yucatan are temples, pyramids; as- tronomical observatories and convents and monasteries dating back at least twelve thousand years before our era. Crude as they are at times, the In- scriptions are et great value. So far a venw small portion of these monu- mental writings have been translated, but practically every lover of antiquity is to -day working on the quaint write lugs. At a marriage ceremony in India the bride stands on a large plate filled ' with mi•.:k and rose-colored sweet- meats. - _