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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-06-12, Page 6ACTIVITIES OE WOMEN Denmark has several women ters, Mexican women never a,t end uaier�lls•;,. lHiudoo v amen are anxious bave the • vote, ff nurses The demand for 44 s is, xs increh+s- rtng, r�lpldly. Vienna women have .•c n a begun aa. era- " •against miale flirts.. it ` The majorityf 3. e es o apn ewomen marry at the age of 21. The proportion of women to men is 100 to 110 in Australia, i:tIn England a. reward of $25 is rid to women who becoime moth- Some 30,000 .woolen are out of employment in New York City at the present time. Wages for barmaids in England 'are no more than domestic Servants demand in this country. London has a ,school for moitoring for women, which is owned and )managed entirely by women. The nearly 43,000 female factory workers in Michigan receive an overage dadly wage of $1.14. Swiss girls are =gradually farsak- bag the domestic employments for those of the officeand shops. Fran Melfi Beese, German's only woman aviator, is the only wonvan who conducts a flying sohool. Mme. Curie, who with her hus- band discoveued radium, is the only Fer sinn in the world to hold two No- bel prizes. i - Since women have been permit - 'bed on the judges' bench in Norway, justice to women and girls is being more uniformly done. It is claimed that the working class wife is a. more efficient spend- er of household accounts than her middle-elass sister. A New York bank has opened a women's department and a suite of rooms is placed at the disposal of its female customers. Bloomington' Ind., has a wo- men's bootblack slap, where only .r,' women can get a shine and have it drone by one of their own sex. In the little town of Willesden, ;Eng., a1I the married women go out ;" hwork while &he husbands stay at ome :and keep` house. Less that 17,000 women showed ,their preferehce for the vote in a test• conducted by a, Paris news- ,per at the recent ele,,statl•n. •„ In Switzerland womeil• are310W- ..,0Triplo,yecrin government offices and in the post "offices; and in some in Stances are raised to be postinie- trees. England ' now has seventeen ^.,schools where women are taught gardening, poultry raising, bee- 'tltee,ping, farming, horticulture and domestic science. Miss Katherine Shaw, a fresh - 'man at the University of Michigan, swings a heavy sledge for 4,14 hours !once aweek in the engiazeering de- partment, where she is studying to 'be an engineer. The Woznen'.s Educational Union recently founded in Cairo, Egypt, its doing much to educate the Mee- k -tern women, who are ,anxious to be ruble to compete with their more `civilized sisters of other countries. Of the ten Massachusetts Indus- tries employing the largest number of adult females, three—hosiery, confectionery and paper mete than one-fifth of their female em- ployees receive less than $e per week, and more than one-tenth receive over $12 per week. The Canadian State department has issued a public notice that mar- riages between women of British aitionali'ty professing Christian re- itgion and . Moslems, Hi,ndoos and other persons belonging to coun- tries where polygamy . is legal, should not be allowed: A Stinger. OVERWORK AND WORRY A Fruitful Source of Broken Down Constitutions _. A little worry does a great deal of ilarsn. Overwork and worry gives rise', to headaches, nervousness, to sleeplessness, weak back, lack of interest in your work, indigtesrUor artdan� s aetimes a complete—break- down of the nervous system leading to paralysis, If these are your syinptams you need a tome. And the, only way to tone up the nerves is through the blood, Dr.Williams': Pink Pills for Pale People: are a dir'ect nerve tonic • because they make new rich red blood,' which feeds the. nerves and strengtheias every organ in the body, Under the tome influence of these Pills nervousness and all the other evils of worry and overwork quickly dis- appear. . They restore the digestion and enable the body to take full advantage (roan the food eaten.. Mrs. J. C. Chapman, Om;emee, Ont., says: "I became completely run down and my nervous systema shattered from overwork and worry.. I 'always felt tired and ex- hausted and slept badly at night. I tried several medicines but did not find the hoped, -for relief. Then I decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I took them regularly for several months and they restored me to perfect health, anrd I have since been well and. strong. I can recommend these Pills to any af- fiicted with nervousness or a broken constitution as I feel sure they will effect .a cure." These Pills are sold by all medi- cine dealers or will be sent by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co,, Brockville, Ont. He—"When I was a boy, they .used to tell me if I didn't stop !smoking; it would drive me crazy." She—'Well, why didn't your,, Dila. "Whe t,do you think of ray mus- tache I hadn't noticed it. It's rather a dark day." The way to write a .satisfactory love letter is to forget that you have any common sense, The ;last:. red eerier in North America is now held by British Col- aimbia, and it is predicted that,. within the next five or six years, ,hundreds a£ mills, will, be erected to caw the trees aid prepare the wood :to market. Hubby --My dear, I see you are , (having isome •clothes made for your Po04le, Wine—Yes; it is the latest Sad, Hubby ;Well, I'll tell you now .alae I Won't button any dogs, dawn the btinck, F READY-MADE" ORCHARD S. Land Companies in Tasmania Pre- pare Them for Settlers.• • The snug' little island State, Tas- mania, has long since established an enviable record by its fruit pro- duetion,articularly of apples, large consignrne,nts of which reach England just when there is the greatest demand for the best frqit; and every year, encouraged by this demand, increased shipments go to England. There are 'still available +apu , -Tasmania •comparatively large areas of land highly suitable for' • fruit production, and already it would seem, that a very happy and promising scheme has been put into operation. It is. to this effect. Good numbers of Anglo -Indians and Bri- tish re•sidenters in other countries, who ar :Ameble at present to get to such delightful places se Tasmania, are looking to the future and hop- ing to spend the evening of their life in this picturesque place. They have been able, by satisfactory ar- rangements with local land compa- nies • in Tasmania, to secure areas to be devoted to orchards and to have these areas &reared and plant- ed, 'so that in the course of a very. few years the fortunate owners will be able to step in to their "ready- made" orchards. When it becomes known that it is possible for the people to secure land, and have it properly laid , out by reputable firms en the spot, there is bound to be an increase in the demand for areas under these conditions,. A well-known fruit 'ex,peat from Mel- bourne 'recently . paid a, surprise visit to some of these young orch- ards, and was • delighted with the results of ;his observations. Along the Tamar River, where the clim,a,te the whole year round 'is not sur- passed by drat' of any other coun- try, there are, the expert states, splendid epporbunities, for the ex- tension of • this very interesting scheme. ROSY AND PLUMP Good Health from Right Food. "It's not a new food to me," r'e- marked a man, in speaking of Grape -Nuts. "About twelve .months ago my wife was in very bad health, could not keep anything on her stomach. The Doctor recommended milk, half. watery but it was not sufficiently nourishing. "A friendof mine told me one day to try Gra re -Nuts and cream. The result was really marvelous, My wife •soon regained her usual strength and to -clay is as rosy and plump as when agiri of sixteen. "These are plain facts and noth- ing 1 could say in praise of (Gripe- Nuts would exaggerate in the least the 'value of this great food." Name given by Canadian Posture Co., Windsor,; Ont.; Read "The Road to Wellville,y,in pkgs, 'Mier e',s a, Reason," Ever read the above' letter'? .1► met? one appears; from time to ^bane. They are genuine, true. and full of' Ilari.an interest. Coinnnent on Elvemits Of dist• • ance tess ancenseerflS to have • brought wireless telephone close to a coniilloz'cial- basis. • 'Soon, it reports be true, We may all be able to talk through the air .without the aid of tons of copper, strung on poles or buried in conduits. One of the operators, who has,•eaperi- mented with the new method oaf tu' nncaf a o t asserts sseate that a radiation of about two amperes will carry the hu- man voice 1,500 miles under favorable condi , s tics ' 300 Q miles ;antler moderatelye 1' adverse conditions.... , The vocal transmitter, used in send - big the first cormnereial,inessage,;•is de- scribed as a simple device that can be made cheaply, Should wireless telelihope nrieet& the expectations of the ss.lentists •aiid, in - venters, who believe they have solved the problems invalited; there will un- doubtedly., be a demand tor some rind of "universal language" to supplement tbe present international. telegraphic code, which speaks In all. tongues and Is understood •everywhere: A. dying Superstition. The news from Russia that a case of "ritual murder" at Kieft has resulted in the verdict of only an "ordinary" mur- der is encouraging of the emergence of that people from the shadow of a super- Stutatiry.on prevailing from the middle ages even in the light of this twentieth cen- There was a recent instance in which this old racial and religious, prejudice held a controlling influence upon the determination .of the courts. • To break away from' it is a Step' toward freedom. There is much more to be done in Russia before the emancipation of the ignorant populace shall be -effected . But as the light breaks in the action of the Judiciary in such a case as this le en- couraging of the proximate death of ancient superstition.' Xs the Home Passing? A contemporary notes the.' change brought about, in 'home life by modern conditions. in the cities. The difficulty of obtaining domestic servants is said to be tilling up apartment and boarding houses, and the old-fashioned household is passing away. Physically' even, the home has wondrously changed. The fire- place, the sacred shrine of the old-time home, has been walled upand no•longer casts its blessed glow on life. The lamp, about which all the family gather - .ed in the evening, is; gone, too. The liv- lug-room—the home room' ' as' the Dutch more appropriately call it, and more appropriately use it—survives only in name. The father has his "den," the mother has her own room, the small children have. the ,nursery, and the half- grown has the back yard and the streets. •The modern home is a place to sleep and take most of, our meals—we live else - here. The children to -day are brought up, not in the -home, but in the schools. It Is all for the best, no doubt. But the change, even in the lifetime of the mid- dle-aged man has been great—and Mary Dann is not alone responsible for it. Epoch -Shaking Events. If memory serves there have been se- veral cures for baldness in the market and out of it, but bald-headed men will be delighted at the report of two more discoveries. A Polish peasant who has something good for anything that ails you is the author of a decoction of snakeweed that would make hair grow on a .stone sidewalk, and an eminent physician of Budapest plants hair with gold wires, 1,000 to the square inch, so that after the sewing there, is a beauti- ful crop, luxuriant and glossy. This is great news. The energy that will be set free when• the bald-headed men have ceased .to concentrate On, re- pairs for unthatched .roofs should de- velop power enough to run a planet. In its ultimate effect conservation of for- ests would pale into insignificance by. comparison with the conservation- of hair. ' Judging by the good omen we may even predict the time when trium- phant inventors will have a curalor heads that are bald on the inside. Temperance in Ruttttia. The Russian peasant has many vir- tues. If he is superstitious -he is also genuinely religious, and of his loyalty to the Czar there has never really been any question. The Nihilists are, of ourse, very terrible people, but com- pared with the mass of the Russian population they are the merest drop in the bucket, But the Russian peasant in Russia has two great faults—he drinks like a fish, and when drunk he can be most abominably cruel, Sober, he is the most ,charming peasant in the world; drunk, he is a human beast, wherefore his pastors and masters have for a long time been trying one means after another for persuading on forcing this good' fellow to keep away from temptation. It is a little known fact but most true, that hardly any govern-,. meat has adopted more drastic temper- ance legislation than the Russian. The latest deviee is to snake use of the cinema theatres which exhibit films which deal with the evils of drunken- ness. The Russian peasant is one : of the most artistic people in the world, and he will be ready enough to watch the pictures which show him into what a brttte vodka cart turn a man. Re will be a. keen student of the actor who at- tempts to portray scenes which he knows only too well by his own experi- ence. Eating rah in a Restaurant. A writer in a London paper asks the question: "Did you ever eat the fish call- ed a bloater in a first-class restaurant?" And then he answers. the question: "I did the other night, It was quite an in- ferior specimen; but they 'called it "har- eng grille e. la .maitre d'hotei,' and it took thirty-five minutes to prepare it -- which name and preparation added greatly to the price charged." The bloater is a herring, and the annual yield in Norway, Sweden and on the British coasts is about four thousand millions of this fish or about that num- ber of pounds. When it comes to sery ing fish to a ;iatr'm whether in a Duro- bean or an American restaurant 'the proprietor with malice aforethought pro- ceeds to treat the patron as a malefac- tor so far as he can by levying a special tax upon him. Even at our lakeside: re- sorts where it may be supposed that fish should bo abundant the resorters• are discouraged from asking for this article of diet and are switched off to beef and bacon. Sanitary Science. A very advanced proposition is that of New York's new health commission- er Dr. Goldwater, that the city once a year test the health of every roan wo- man and child of its 5,000,000 and odd inhabitants. In this way many unsus- pected oases- of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases would be reveal- ed, It wo`uld be a long step in preven- tive sanitary science. Enforced physi- cal examination, however, is a very drastic thing to force upon the individ- Cal ;and no doubt would be stoutly ,re - ;listed. Whether such a law would stand a court test seems doubtful. And yet the health or sicbness of every teem., ber• of society is the concern of the whole, • Cool. o. "Was your husband cool when ,you told 'hire there was aburglar in the house?" asked Mrs. Hammer. Cool, replied Mrs, Gehl), "I ,should say, the was cool, ' Why; his teeth chattered." EI.,EC'd111ICITy CUBE. Humanity Met Learn 01orc A.'l;mut. Itself, Says )Idison. The future uees of electricity that will benefit humanity most will be through its medical applioation. A new source of .electrical, ,supply will bedirect from coal without need: for etea•m boilers, These arepredictions of Thomas p a, A. Edison; •whose inventive genius is respi asible for the widespread. applicatnor '7df electricity. `Elect ioity has been the princi- pal factor in'the enormous progre s of eiviligation in the last 35 years," more acuderful uses of it are ::held Edison said. "But greater and more wonderful uses of it are held by the future. "It must be possible to generate electricity direct from coal," he said. ."Wheat that is a000mplished we will record" a new epoch. .It may come taatiorrow. We are working on it now. "Considerable is being done to reveal the medical functions of electricity,"? he 'oonrtinwed, ,"but its possibilities in this direction are practically unknown: "This research work must be done secretly, as the thousands of quacks now applying electricity to humans for all sorts of ills seize on every advance announcement from scientists to advertise their claims. "Till we know more about our bodies it will be difficult to tell what can be done with electricity as a medical aid. "I once asked Du Bois Reymond, psychologist,' what makes my finger move. It isn't heat, light, electri- city, magnetism. What is it 1 :„Rey- mond had studied it for 30 years,, but he couldn't answem me." " Sleeps Longer Now. Edison now sleeps about five and, a halfhours a night. For years he only slept four. Mrs. Edison, he explained, doesn't permit him to work all night any more. His daily diet does not exceed a. pound and a half of food. He smokes cigars and chews tob:aoeo, but bans cigarettes. He is sixty-seven and says he is en- joying rewards of right living and moderate eating. He reads regularly 118 scientific and trade ;periodicals and five daily newspapers and keeps in intimate touch with every form of human activity, including baseball, golf and the stage. - "I read four lines at once," he said. "They should teach .that kind. of reading in the public schools." .WHEN BABY SUFFERS • FROM CONSTIPATION Mothers, if your baby suffers from constipation, if his little sto- mach or bowels are out of order, give him Baby's Own Tablets. They never fail to give relief, and an ocoasioaial dose will banish consti- pation and , keep the stomach and bowels in perfect order. Concern- ing the tablets, Mrs. 3. H. Gagnon, St. Simon, Que., writes: "1 can- not recommend Baby's Own Tab- lets too highly•as a cure for consti- pation, as I have found them the very best medicine in the world for this trouble." The tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents abox from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine 0o., Brockville Ont. INSECT INGENUITY. There aro Many Mechanics Among the Bees. Insects are snow making their ap- pearance in the garden, and there is no better *lace than a garden to study these wonderful creatures. At present a dark-colererd beetle•—'the oil-beetle—may be observed, and as soon as the bees come- the larva of this beetle contribes to get upon a, bee's body, bo> as to be carried away to the bee's home where it• feeds upon the food there, and eventually leaves, as a perfect bee- tle. Other kinds of beetles act as grave -diggers; oertadn awaits keep a dairy; and there are masons, car- penters and upholsterers among the bees. The mason -bee constructs its cell of mortar. By dropping eea- liva on • bits of earth and nixing both together, it pounds the mix- ture into a sort of cement. It then works this into the shape of a mould, inside which the female de- posits her egg. Several such mor- tar cells may often be found lying cloee together. The carpenter -bee makes its home on decayed wood, and lines ;it with pieces of leaves, which it cuts off in the form of a cir- cle and adjusts so skilfully that its nest is made water -tight, without. any coating. A very ingeniously constructed home also is that of the upholsterer-ibee, which . dexterously cuts out the petals of the half -ex- pended flowers of a poppy: It then strengthens the folds, and fits them so that a splendid tapestry over- hangs the walls of its home in wallah the honey is deposited. 411 gAaxruteTscu DIRECTO .7TAIN, BAKING POWDER scomoE FOLLOWINGt1NSRIC. ENTS ANDNONE OMR P1103NHATE %CARB- ONATEorSou= STMCN. Ori THE SU -PROTECTION CA MER THE INGREDLENT$ PLAINLY PRINTF D ON THE LAPEL. 1' IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM t J ' PRICED BAKING POWDER - esei+y, MADE I i^.CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAI ALUM ANO WHICH HAS ALL TH INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED 0 THE LAPEL. iiu MAGIC BAKING POWDER sNm CONTAINS' NO• Al - .UM ALUM, IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL PHAT'E OF ALUMINA'OR'SODIC ALUMIN1, SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT 13 MISLED BY THESE .TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY'LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ON.T, ;1MONTREA 1'a 8( u a FROM EON SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM TIER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going on in the Htgiilandst and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. The death :has ooeurred of Mr. Jas. C. Lurk, schoolmaster, Bolton, East Lothian. ' West Calder .dressmakers . have come -out on ;strike owing to dissect- isfaoton with ,the increase bf wages given which was 24 cents a week. The death has occurred in Aber- dean of Mr. George Falconer, ad- vocate., one of the mast prominent Law agents in the city. It is expected that ,the telephone system to Blair Atholl will be in fall working order in the course of a month. PIans have been passed by the Kirkcaldy Dean of Guild Court, for an extension of Kirkcaldy Hospital, consisting of additional ward, con- taining 20 beds; operating theatre and other rooms. Brechin Castle is on the market. It is the property of the Earl of Dalhousie and ,extends to about 2,330 acres, with a rental of over $11,000 per annum. Lady Nairn of Rankeilloin has offered to give a permanent home for the Vittoria nurses of Kirk- caldy. Mr. James Fairweather, an Ayr- shire schoolmaster, committed 'sui- cide after a. walk of thirty miles by shooting himself on the suspension bridge at Glasgow: On the cairn on the b•attl•efaeld of Culloden alarge wreath of ivy sent by Lieut. D. P. Menzies of Menzies- ton, has been placed by clansman Alexander D. Menzies, C.E., In- verness, in memory of the men of the elan who fell there. A woman who was charged with stealing a large sum of money, when examined by X-rays at Glas- gow Royal Infirmary, was found to have swallowed fifteen sover- eigns and five half sovereigns. A cow which broke away from an attendant caused great excitement in Perth. It attacked a number of persons and rushed at a number of soldiers in Barracks Square, who were drilling. The animal was eventually driven into the bar coal yard, where it eves secure About 500 men will be aff by the decision of the Orm master builders to grant crease of two cente per hour men in their employ. At the annual meeting of gow Choral and Orchestral L reference was made to the nee a large concert hall in the The financial statement for the season showed a, surplus of $ While lighting a paraffin la her residence, egidence, Parliaane Street, Glasgow, Margaret Bri 55 years of age, was so seri burned that she had to be co ed to the Royal- Infirmary, On the advice of the comm of management the Clyde Na tion Trustees will oppose the gow Corporation provisional o for power to construct ab over the Clyde at Oswald Scree Sir John Stirling -Maxwell, B chairman of the executive co tee which has been formed to o a supply of radium for use in gow, has issued an appeal to port the movement. While the motor car of the gow Fire Department was pro ing to afire it collided with a at the corner of Buchanan St The passenger of the taxi was b. injured. There are mighty few people can see the other side of a cas clearly as their own. • A mans has no.more right t an uncivil. thing .than to act no more right to sav a rude to -another than to knock him do• "Isn't Deeds, the lawyer, a' ther extravagant meet" "By means, I've .. known him to in one, suit.last for several years." 134 d Blood-- is lood - is the direct and inevitable result o irregular or constipated bowels an clogged -up kidneys and skin. T undigested food and other waste mat ter which is allowed to accumulat poisons the blood and the whole system. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pill act directly on the bowels, regulatin _ them—on the kidneys, giving them ease and strength to properly filterth blood—and on the skin, opening u the pores. 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