The Seaforth News, 1926-09-23, Page 7For ill
Boys and atir
HOW NELLIE BECAME A DENTIST
Ne:!:ie's father was a dentist and "Dear me!" •said the little girl; "I
lived in the village of D-- She was wonder why shehasn't any teeth? I
a bright, active little girl, full of fun, guess she's old, and they're all dropped.
and often in mischief. She was brave, out, If must ask Daddy about that.
too; for whenever she had a loose What can .I get mow, I wonder?"
tooth she would have it pulled without She hunted about .the yard • and
a cry. Besides, she was not afraid barn; but at last gave up in despair,
to go to bed in, the dark, nor was she and thought she would go into' the
afraid of thunder and lightning•, house and get a picture -book.
Ne ole liked to ride tc ;her, father's When she opened the hiving roam
office with him, and then walk home door, she saw her grandfather, ageep
on the•sofa. He was facing her, and
had his mouth wide open.
' "Oh, I guess I could pull one of his
teeth!" thought elle. •
She walked noiselessly to the sofa;-
took the inetrument from her pocket,
and, before she knew it, she had puill-'
ed one of her grandfather's teeth.
Bet as soon as the tooth came out
again. Sometimes she would go into
theoffice and watch ,her father at
work, or look at his curious instru-
ments, or the ghastly looking teeth in
the glees case. -
One bright June morning her father
called:
"Nellie, want a ride? Well, get your
hat!"
When thee readied the office, Nellie the blood began to run: That fright -
thought she would go in for a Tittle ened her, and she dropped the tooth
While, as she had nothing to do' et .and pincers, left the room and ran be
home. She was so tired of playing hind the barn, crying:
dolls and rolling hoops, and; in fact,
of all her games. She did wish that
she had something new to do.
Sha walked around the room again
and again, At last 'she spied some
dental instruments on a stand near
one' of the great 'chairs.
"Oh, niy!" said she, to herself, "I
know what ]'i1 do. It will be just
splendid! I41I piny dentist!"
She slipped one of the instruments
into her pocket, ran to the door of the
back•offiee where her father was, and
said:
"Good-bye; I'm going home now!"
It did not take her lestg to get home;
but before she reached there she had nor low.
decided to have her office behind the Then Nellie noticed that grandpa
-barn, for it would never do to play was not in his place, and a great lump
where her mother might see with what came into her throat, and- But just
she was playing. then the door opened, and grandpa
After she had fixed her office, she o
erne in, smiting, and said:
began to think whose teeth she should "I. overslept myself and do you
pull. Just then, pussy came walking know, while I was asleep, thatloose
leisurely around the corner.
"Oh, pussy, pussy, r
come. here!"
"
cried Nell. h e!
Pussy came. Nellie took the poor
cat into her lap, opened his .niouth—
but, oh, dear! The pincers was too
large. Besides, puss scratched fear-
fully, and Nee was g -;ad to set her
free. Then she thought she would try
a hen. She found a setting hen in the
coop and brought her to her office; but
lol when she opened her mouth she
found no teeth.
"Oh, dear, I'm afraid Iive killed
him! Ho didn't stir a -bit! Oh, dear!"
And the poor little girl threw her-
self down upon the- green grass and
cried herself to seep,
The dinner -bell" awoke her. She
jumped up and ran into the house,
washed herself, and went in to dinner.
She had entirely forgottenlher dentist
experience.
Pretty soon her father remarked
that a pairof his best forceps were
missing at the office. He had laid them
upon a stand. to be convenient for- an
expected patient; but they had dis-
appeared, and could not be found, high
tooth which has troubled ire so much,
and which I dared not have out, carie
out itself! for I found it on the daven-
port after I woke, Why, Nellie, what
is the matter?"
For Nell was by this time in his
arms, crying;
"Oh, grandpa, I thought I had ki•'-led
you! I did it! I took Daddy's tooth -
And, sure enough, after dinner, they
found' the forceps under the sofa.
' Bricks in Ancient Rome. •
The characteristic feature of Rvman
building proper- la the. long, narrow
bricks, beautifully fitted together, and
giving,in the mass the impression of
enormous -solidity and steengtb,`These
masses of brick were, at least under
the empire, generally faced with mar
ble or some other precious material,
and if one soratohes at the base of -a
wall one Is nearly certain to find some
fragment thereof.
For certain of the more pretentious
buildings stone blocks were ennployed,
e.g. for the construction of the vari-
ous imperial fora, or the theatre of
Marcelles: but the brick, with its
beautiful dull red color, is the namis-
takable sign of Roman work. It: looks
??s particularly, effective In the round
arch. So attractive is it to' the eye
•.that the Renaissance builders copied
the colpr, and the prevalent note of
the older quarter of )modern Rome is
the same dull red, verging sometimes
on a y,eliow three. • They developed au
extraordinary skill, which the modern
Roman inheritsin working In that
product of mdrhle, stucco, and some-
how orother succeeded iii`making at-
tractive what in other countries and
climates' would appear hideous. I have
tried in vain to fluid anything intrinsi-
orally beautiful in the Roman baroque
palaces, but I must admit that in the
bulk they achieve a pleasing effect.
This is probably due to their magnifi-
cent proportions. They have never
been equalled in. size by anything un-
til the •advent of the monster hotel.
The -Palazzo Doris, for example, at the
right-hand 'south end of the Corso,-
once housed a thousand retainers of•
the family. All to great palaces—
Doris, Borgh se, Rospigliosi, Caetanl,
Chigi, Sciaira, Barberini, etc. --are
now let out nto flats,' of for museums,
galleries, clubs, libraries, and even
newapaper offices. The new quarter
of the Prati, like most oe the suburbs,
Is a horrid visa of shining and un-
relieved whiteness, but It will tone
down, and there are some charming in-
teriors even now. ,
A complete knowledge of the ma-
teriels used by the Roman builders
in different ages enables the expert to
"dote with certainty most of the
crumbling remains which have noth-
ing' else recognizable about thein ex-
cept their nanous whdch have come
down to us. It is a fact that builders
in different periods used bricks of
various sizes and colors, and mortar
of different composition. In later days'
many bricks and tiles ware stamped
with the name of the factory where -
they were made, and sometimes with
the name of the feigning emperor.—
Colin R, Coote, in "Italian Town and
Couttry Life." .
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Good -Smoking
Good -Smoking Tobacco.
ICentucky Farmer—"Wow! My to-
bacco barn's-onfire! It's full of aired
good smoking tobacco, too, SI,",
One of the season's most popular
books—the fu.): pocketbook.
THE BRITANNIA
The King's yacht, with his majesty an board, taking part in a race at the
Cowes regatta.
The Light . Keeper.
The brilliant kernel of the night,
The flaming Itglitroom circles me:
I sit within a blaze- of light th
Held high above e dusky sea,
Far off the surf both break and roar
Along bleak miles of moonlit shore,
Where through the tides the tum-
- bling wave
Falls in an avalanche Qf foam •
And drives its elmrnedd waters borne
Up many an undercllff and eave.
The Clear bell chimes: the clock-
works strain: ,
The' turning lenses flash and pass,
Frame turning withiu glittering frame
'With frosty gleam of moving glass:
Unseen by nie, each dusky hour
The sea -waves welter up the tower
Or, in the ebb subside again;
And ever and anon all night,
Drawn from afar by- Charm of light
A sea -bird beats against the pane.
And lastly, when dawn ends the night
And belts the semi -orb of sea,
The Fall, pale pharos in.the light m
Looks white and spectral as ay
be,
The early ebb is out: the green
Straight belt of sea -weed now is seen,
That round the basement of the
tower
Marks out the interspace of tide;
The night is over like a dream:
The sea -birds cry and dip them-
selves•; •
And in the early sunlight, steam
The newly -bared and dripping
shelves,
Around whose verge the glossy wave
With lisping wash is heard to lave:
r s e' *
As the steady lenses circle
"With. a frosty gleam of glees;'
And the clear bell chimes,
And the oil, burns over the lip of the
burner,
Quiet and still at his desk,
The lonely light -keeper
Holds hiswlgil.
This is his country's guardian,
The outmost sentry of peace.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Billy Was In Luck:
Little Billy tripped over the edge of
the carpet and dhopped the dish" of
tapioca he was carrying. Picking him- d
self up, he remarked, cheerfully, 'e
"That's jolly lucky!"
His mother was indignant."What's jolly lucky, I' should like lo
know?" she asked.
"Why, it's jolly lucky I don't like
tapioca "replied Billy.
CANADA'S FRUIT EXPORTS TO BRITAIN _.
Considerable opportunityfor the ex-
paneese of the fruit export trade from
Canada to the United Kingdom is dle-
ciosed through the investigations of
the Iniperial Eiconomio Committee,
which lu its report urgesa big Em-
pire effort to replace the substantial
foreign fruit import with Dominlon-
grawe product, The greater pari, of
the fruit," It states, "now derived from
foreign countries, ;with the exception
of grapes and oranges for winter con-
sumption, might, . In the not distant
future, be derived from British
sources."
That the consumption of ' Empire -
grown .brilit in the United, Kingdom is
growing is quite clear. fu 1904 Empire
countries supplied 11 per cent. of Bri-
tish requirements, and in 1924, 21 per
cent, but approximately three-quarters
of the United Kingdom's fruit Imports
continue, to come from foreign coun-
tries. Of the 248,000,000 sterling ex-
pended on imported fruit since 1924 no
less than R38,000,000 sterling was paid
to countries outside the British Em-
pire.
Export of Apples.
The Rem in this fruit consumption
In whleh Canada is most interested Is
the apple, and In this connection cer-
tain figures published at the same time
are very interesting. The average
Englishman in 1924 consumed 100 ap-
ples, and of these 98 came from the
United States, 25 from the United
Kingdom, 19 from Canada, 8 from Aus-
tralia and New Zealand. and 10 unre-
corded, Thus Canada, whose product
has been adjudged second to none, s'u-p-
plied less than one-fifth of British re-
quirements and exported to the United
Kingdom only one-half of the volume
of the United States, Fruit exports- to
the United Kingdom have not been in-
creasing in the manner the -general de-
velopment of Canadian -trade might
lead one to expect.
Total fruit exports from Canada in
the past three fiscal years have had
va nes respect voly of $8,838,174, $7,-
823,311, and $8,385,500. The shale of
s the United Kingdom in this has been
a $7,605,976, $6,625,060, and $6,764,302.
e The export of green or ripe apples In
the same three fiscal years has been
t respctively 1,653,206 barrels worth $7,-
271,683; 1,4.06,237 barrels worth $6,316,-
020; and 1,388,493 barrels worth $6,-
, 250,186. The greater part of these
An Old Whistling Match.
, Addidson, the English writer, wa
present at Bath, .England, when
"whistling match" took place. I -I
says that tbeprize was one guinea
which was to be given to the lies
whistler—that is, the boy who could
whistle the most clearly and go
through -his tune without laughing
was to be regarded as the champion
of the town, and the prize was to be
awarded to him as such.
As soon as the first whistler began,
a "Merry Andrew," or clown, dressed
in fancy costume, commenced to make
faces and cut capers directly in iron
of the•whistler. The great crowd was
made to laugh because of the 'clown's
antics, ugly faces and strange pos
audit was extremly difficult for
any one to contain himself. The first
two whistlers failed outright and
Jolliet in the merrimetlt. The third
boy kept a straight face and whistled
through two tunes with so settled a
countenance that he bore away the
prize, to the great admiration of the
spectators.
Nowadays, "straight -face whistling"
is a source of great amusement to
boys. Not one boy in fifty can whistle
a' tune clear through if his com-
panions get around him and do all in
their power to make him laugh.
have gone to. the United Klugdom, the
figures being respectively 1;537,996
barrels worth $6,739,347; 1,271,922 bar-
rels worth $5,667,291; and 1,290,050
barrels worth $5,742,009. The remain-
der went to the United States, Ber-
muda, British South Africa,China,
Denmark, Gea'maaty, Hong Kong, New-
foundland, New Zealand, • N'orway,
Sweden, and other countries.
An Empire Preference for Apples.
An Empire preference for apples in-
to the United Kingdom In which Can-
ada would share has long been regard.
ed as a deadderatum, and it is consider-
ed probable that this product will re-
ceive attention in the expenditure of
the appropriation made bf the British
Government for the encouragement of
the import of food products from the
British Empire. Time and time,again
Canada has proved in coh'petition with
other fruit -growing countries that gee
produces the highest type of apple for
all purposes. Nova Scotia, Quebec, On-
tario and British Columbia are all ex-
editing
x
porting apples at the present time.
Furthermore it must be considered
that with an annual •pradnotlon of from
2,700,000 barrels to 4,000,000 barrels of
apples and • an export average of about
1,600;000 barrels per year,, the possi-
bilities of Canadian apple production
have barely been touched, and the pre-
sent commercially producing areas
might not only be much more Inten-
sively developed but could be dupli-
cated in other smarms of the country
which have the same latent possiblli-
ties. A greater export trade developed
with the United Kingdom would mean
greater opportunities in the' Dominion
w
for apple production, a phase of agri-
culture in which settlers from the Bri-
tish Isles have a'hon a special interest
and engaged in so extensively.
In connection with the above it is
interesting to note that the cadet
board organized to direct the market-
ing of Empire products in Great Bri-
tain has been appointed. with Lieut:
Col. L. C. Amery, Secretary. of State
for the Dominions, as chairman.
Seven members will sit on the board
as representatives of the British Isles
whilst the Dominion's and the Colonies
will have one, member each. W. .A.„
Wilson, agricultural . product repre-
sentative for Canada in the United
Kingdom, has been appointed- Cana-
dian member of the board.
Walking Cures the "Blues.”
If you are feeling a bit blue, inclined
to melancholy, or pessimistic, a good
brisk walk ought to clear 1t all away.
t To a person who is normally cheery,
a feeling 01 peaslmism is, a sure sign
that all is not right with the system.
s- What has probably happened 1s this,
There has not been enough exercise
lately and the simple action of breath-
ing has slowed down. When the
breathing slows down the circulation
of blood becomes ,languid, and with a
lowered circulation the brain is af-
fected.
Instead -of the brain being kept clear
and fresh, stale blood collects, and the
action of Elie brain is slowed down.
And the effect of this is very often
pessimism.
Well, a brisk walk sets the heart go-
ing strongly, and automatically the
breathing becomes deeper. •In this
way, not only is the circulation speed-
ed up,but the blood is charged with
fresh oxygen, which tones up the
brain,
Adjust Family - Finances to
Ownership of Your Home.
Perhaps the most vital step in home
ownership is the matter of adjusting
the family finances to the Pew order'
of things after moving into the new
home. The first payment is out ot,the
way, there .Is a new scale of living,
with a Iong-time obligation ahead. Get-
ting the right silent is of utmost im-
portant*, and you can logically eaten -
late just about what all obligations..
will amount to during the coming
years and pan a definite program for
taking care of: them
If the program works out aucoeas
Cully as planned In the flrst'year, then
It will prophesy well for the future"
years, If, it feats to work out as plan-
ned, then some refiguring or retrench-.
meat will be necessary. Its feature to
work successfully does not necessarily
mean disaster td your plane, -but It
oes mean that you must develop your -
elf as
ourelf;as a better manager,
Scottish Potato Crop.
Scottish potato growers are perturb-
ed over the appearance of blight In the.
crop, which promised to be above the
averages'
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Judging by Appearances.
"I am wedded to my art,"
"Apparently a secret marriage."
leaf!"
Do not slice apples into even pieces
when making a pie. It is better to
cut them in irregular pieces. Then
they da -not "pack the hot air gets to
them better, and they cook nierel
quickly.
Rising As We Lift.
The boisterous old notion of hero-
worship, which has been preached by
so eloquent a voice in our age, la, af-
ter all, now seen to be half-truth, and
to contain the less edifying and the
less profitable half of the truth. The
world will never be able to spare its
hero, and the man with the rare and
inexplicable gift of genius will always
be as commanding a figure as he has
ever been. What we see every day
with increasing clearness Is that not
only the well-being of the many, but
the chances of exceptional genius,
moral or intellectual, in the gifted few,
see highest in a society where the
average interest, curiosity, capacity,
are all highest. The moral of this for
you and for me is plain. We cannot,
like Beethoven or Handel, lift the soul
by the magic of divine melody into the
seventh heaven of ineffable vision and
dope incommensurable.; we cannot,
like Newton, weigh the far-off stars in
a balance, and measure the heavings
of the eternal flood; we cannot, like
Voltaire, scorch up what is cruel and
false by a word as a flame; nor, like
Milton or Burke, awaken melee • hearts
with the note of an organ -trumpet.
- But what we can do — the
humblest of us in this great hall.-
is by diligently ,
n . seeking to ex-
tend our owopportunities to others,
to help to swell that common tide on
the force and the* set of whose cur-
rents depends the prosperous voyag-
ing of humanity. The thought
that this is so . . lifts us from our
feet as on wings, opening a larger
meaning to our private toil and a high-
er purpose to our public endeavor; it
makes the morning as we awake to
its welcome, and the evening like a
soft garment as it wrapa ns about; it
nerves our arm with boldness against
oppreseion and injustice,; and strength-
ens our voice with deeper accents
against falsehood, — John Morley, in
The Birminghani Address,
The heron makes from 240 to 300
separate movements with its wings in
an hour.
REG'LAR' FFJ .I ERS—By Gene Byrnes.
Experience is the Best Teacher.
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WHERE BRITAIN'S
HISTORY IS _STORED
According to Sir Henry C. Maxwell-
Iyte, the seventy-eight-yeai'-obd chief
of ,the Public Record Office, who 1s
soon retiring from this post after forty
years, few visitor& to London know
that this office exists,
But It does, and thane you can see
a letter, dated 4th July, 1797, written.
by Lord Nelson. Thr; writing 1s normal,
sloping to the right, for this was per-
haps the lag letter written' by the fa-
mous Admiral before the loss of his
right arm a few days later, A second
letter is preserved, signed by Nelson,
written .Immediately . after the acci-
dent. In this the. writing slopes irre-
gWla l'Y, aasd 11 is obviously signed with.:
the left hand,
Who was the first British Icing to
sign: has name se distinguishedfrom:
the mere marks formerly used•? The
ep.rllest record is a letter signed by
King Edward II, granting to a prioress
near Bristol a tun of red wine every
Christmas!
The Domesday Books.
Wiled. Queen Victoria came to the
throne, the national archives ' were
scattered du about sixtyplaces, but by
an Act passed in 183a.„theywere con-
centrated in the Public Record Office,
which sow contednis records of the
Chancery, Exchequer, various Courts,
and departments of State such as the
Treasury, Home Offices Foreign Office,
War Office; Admiralty, Board of T.rade
and Customs. -
Amongst the principal exhibits are
the Domesday Books, that are the out-
acme of a general survey of England ,
ordered by William the Conqueror at
the end of 1085.
Then you can Inspect letters from
Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots,
John Knox, Sir Philip Sydney, Sir
Francis Drake, and Robert Dudley,
Earl of Leicester. Napoleon Bona-
parte signs other letters, whilst King
George III. is the recipient of a note
from George Washington, first Prose
dent of the United -States. William
Shakespeare's signature in an abbrevi-
ated form de found at the foot of some
legal documents, and in auother file
is a letter from Lord Byron.
The Gunpowder Plot was diecovered
through an anonymous letter sent to
Lord Monteagle, believed to be writ-
ten •by one of the conspirators, 1t -
advised him "to devyse some exscuse
to shift of attendance at this parlea-
avert."
-- Signed After Torture,
According to the historic declarer
tion of Guy Fawkes, that can be seem,
Catesby proposed to have the con-
spiracy against the King "performed
by gunpowder and by making a myne
under the Upper House of Pariement:'
Percy "brined a house at Westminster
for that purpose," and the conspirat-
ors describe how they went to work.
One stood as sentry whilst twenty
barrels of powder were moved into
the cellar and covered with faggots.
The shaky signature of Guy Fawkes
to this confession is said to have been
affixed only after severe torture.
A delightful little love -letter is tree. -
scree. The Earl of Essex writes to
Queen Elizabeth: "Hast, paper, to
thatt happy prescence whence only
unhappy I am banished. Kiss theft
fayro correcting hand which layes new
plssters ole my lighter hurtee•, butt to
my greatest wooed applyeth nothing.
Say thou rummest from shatning, len-
gulabing, despayriug S.S."
One of the most amusing items is
the dispensation by the Archbishop of
Canterbury to King Henry VIII, and
Jane Seymour for their tnarriege, al-
though within the unlawful degrees of
affinity.
Why We Raise Our Hats.
Most people extend the right hand
on meeting a friend, but few realize
that tbey are imitating the cavalier
of the Middle Ages, who held out an
unarmed hand as a token that his
sword was sheathed, and that he was
a friend and not an. enemy,
You take off your hat when you en-
ter a house—but why? It is because
the knight of old doffed his helmet-
the most vital part of his armor—
when he arrived, to show that he came
In peace, As he touched his helmet on
meeting a friend: to show that he was
prepared to unhelzn, his descendant of
to -day touches or raises his hat,
Even the clothes we wear aredis-
tinct in showing allegiance' to more
ancient ones- What is the Norfolk
jacket but a• reproduction of the chain -
mail hauberk, the oldtime wafentok,
which was worn over armor.
The clergyman's cassock' Is a sur-
vival of the days when almost all men
were skirted; while the wig which to-
day's barrister dons links us with the
time when every gentleman had his
horse -hair peruke.
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Rare Fruit`
The mangosteen can only be grown
where the temperature never drops
below 35degrees above zero. It is the
size of a mandarin orange, deep pun
ple externally, with a thick, woody
rind, Within are several segments of.
snow-white pulp of extremely delicate
flavor. Because of its great delicacy
and the difficulty of transporting it
long distances, Queen Victoria, It. is
said, onceoffered a handsome reward
to the first lean who succeeded in
placing a dish of mangosteens on her
Wile at Beckingham palace, but the
reward was never. won,
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Men's fall hats will not only be
seen, but felt, •