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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-01-06, Page 2Leave Home By . Dorothy Dix. '�,i'hy. Sortie. FathersJL.es• for We bane a theory that ct•1de'n her because she was listening ere, and Himself' b d 1Moxzn the strongest up1e ogtie that binds a eth'er, Sometimes *liensh would go o out byih m gra marled t coupl r and Baby hands cause that left her free to indulge in 'this i=s trine spiritually, , wield a magic that makes an unbreaher child worship. able , tat wonder' that a man. so circum - abbe coed between a husband and st�W What oed takes his Injured vanity for wee. Very often itis .traewos an materially., for 'many a man and woman enduxe .him see she caned e$s his woman lversat owho tsn the sake of el unhappy marriage fox'. more interesting than the babbling of the eerie of their ehlldrem. a baby? What wonder that he finds But children separate their parents other companions when his wife pre - furs nursery sallies' to going tow places Just as 'often as spa unite them, and of a ursery with him? to if the true co respondett in many a divorce ease was named, it would bei Thousands of men who would have a baldheaded, pink infant with its firet ' been good, loving, faithful husbands to' i e its mouth, whose sof gurgle were the end are alienated from their wives gurgles and and literally pushed into other wo- garried on bye means of e g •es goes and other f ntte Cr dle. men's arms by their wives' obsessing The Thief In the Cradle. passion o motherhood, For to many Far in many a marriage the first rift'. women their husbands are merely within the lute comes with the first - their ohildren's father. They do not baby. The first cloud on many a do- I exist as either men or husbands, with inestic horizon is the ai'ive and the ' any rights• ae such. sane of a feeding bottle. Many a plan Susituation firly es man span mere eTo bitter r finds in the cradle the rival who to steals his wife's heart from him, toiled lie ad slavewhifoe r they played; to tYp to the time of the baby's arriv , have worked everything heel reser happy and oases have I splend�ente andth3enit ile bex obbed�of his wife's affection by his'children and de trended of his, .children's love by his wife. To get neither love, nor grati- tude, nor appreciation. To be just the human cash register that they punch for all they can get. it is a wieked thing that a woman does when she permits herself to love her children more than she does her husband, and to put them above him. She cheats him when she does it and fails in her duty as a wife. ful. The man had, been cock of the walk, with the household revolving around hien. all But with the advent of the baby a was changed. The man found himself deposed as king, wit'O. roue so poor as to do him reverence. His wife no longer considered his taste, or his hap- piness, or his pleasai:re. The baby was her sols thought. She was never will- ing to go anywhere of an evening be- cause sh.e couldn't Ueave baby. She answered at random when he tslked,to Glow From Fireplace Radiates Subtle Nourishment, Says Doctor. The perennial fight itt England on the merits or demerits of the open fire- place wales hotter. It has been going From haversacks and pouches, on for centuries—since 1273, in fact, 1And from bags of dull red brawn when King Edward the First told his Come pearling tricks and rackets royal lawmakers, that the shit coal lFor every girl in town' smoke and the fog interfered now and Knickknacks stmeam in gaudy show then with his slumbers. announcement by the coal distribu From peel; and portmanteau; Dozens of quips and baubles Range themselves in row. Journeyman. A loug•way and a short way, And a way of twisting feet, Is the road he took to Andexmatt From a neighboring old street. tore' p�arliamen.tary cam'mittee that serious effort was being made to elim- inate the coal fire from all new haus'es has aroused the ire of Dr. Marie . A highway and a low way, Stapes, who takes an interest in pub- ile eaffairs and helps to Loalc• after the nation's health. She contends that a glowing open fire is "nourishing," A. fireplace gives Il . THE PRINCE AND THE SHOP GIRL ; Amusing Stories of Our Most Popular Bachelor. I•Iow the Prime of Wales was "ft's all 'very well or you to talk+*, h'ens tricked into a s�u)il'e for 1?'io, most pope• sir," said Tomlumy, gu'rousiy and l lar photograph is told by Major F. Ver- viously. "You've got bats of money ney, the Prine'e•'•8 personal friend, in and are the Prince of Wales, and I aU "H,R,FI.: a Character Study . of the eand n the Prince's ens - brake Prince, of p of - change •plaice$ with, During one of thePrince's Can'adia,n, v�sr: "Tommy, r4 visits he was surrounded by profes-I you if I<had the'chaarce." slonal photographers • who had spent 1 Of hie early life Major 'Verney match time and patience in a trying o writes: He yearned to Wile Plat lb a any an engine-. get a picture of him with his face. When the Prince was sign.* driver; then a Scottish, piper, the a ing the visitor's book at a country policeman. Instead,'o One was sent to "Look Oxford, a'nd, there,•en club, ;one at these men shouted, • out, Prince, you're signing the pledge!"half a dozen men as�selnbled under - The Prince's face broke into a wide', neatit his window and began ballads, tren- and smile which was "captured''' by the ad'e him itth iwhistles, he e stet ane smart photographers and sent to all saucehis tpes blaring in fill blast and rout- edbaso p the performers. Her Royal Patron. corners. of the earth, , The Drug -Store Girl. The Prinee c'isaikes .snobbery, and at a dance at Panama lie unwittingly THE INTERPROVINCIAL BORDERLINE AT CARILLON shocked ':society." After a few duty deuces with partners who had import- half f the watex of the Ottawa river at Caril- d partner that only about one-tenth slender, was oful and tskit- he During the war a sergeant told Major Verney what he thought of the Prince 'at Wales as a recruiting of- time:— belonging •claimed one o of the water ani husbands, he secure a firer:--- "There wasm't ranch o 'ion, sir, and. ton it was met with winccontention iovluea, it being said that. thea bord�enline' atpthat point: fuloand began enjo himself. 'e didn't say.. much. hg ate did open 'is in to this i' points, ran foe er1 s n't , sir, bslbng� g all so instead 1l along t the th middle of as'esho stream, onathe�aacompanl g map. Re. ' staff detect o p some miles along the s.outli•,shore the Wraps were at fault signs searches made by Ontario ;strengthen fur e_ in a deputation of three leading mem- and that the borderline should be shown at miaetream, Quebec pmovince bof local society charged with eon - it now recognized this province's Tight to a fifty-fifty divi'ion n oft the beer. bers ing the gra ie news that the girl )t foiLows that Ontario should get one half of all the power ey c i n ng Prince was da The erose' whom the Pr . t that point in conjunotian with btu�ebea power interests. T with The Prinoe saniled cheerfully, and Chamonix. his only comment was, "It must be a jolly good drug store, then." But when' out of it" he has the greatest s}gym• Chamonix has a, charm all its own. It the general wave of scandalized iridis- athy. During a dance one evening Byrn.- - ha Ire- � p' Soon. the Princes t d the• tact mouth 'e opened it" ed tris view that of genial disquiet an inquiries of an equerry resulted His sense of humor is on of his greatest assets. During his South African tour he spoke to a Dutch farm- er who said he had thirteen children.: "Thirteen?" said the Prince. "That's supposed to be a very unlucky num- ber, You'd better do something about this before we meet again." For those who appear to be "left veaaped a on the map indicates roughly the location of the power site. Light of Home. Ch was an assistant in a drug store. Much I've done and much I've seen, To many places I have been, But to me there's no delight Like the lights of home at night. Hall globe twinkling from afar, Window lights which softer are, Shining through the inky gloom From a peaceful happy room. I've seen lights onships at sea, Lights that flash incessantly, Beacon lamps, and those that shine In some merchant's costly sign; But my pulses faster 'beat As I turn a little street And I see the lights of home was Twinkling at me through the gloam. Nowa such quiet little village. h a e the numbers coming" Rest is here, they seem to saY, Peace is here to close the day, Love is waiting to embrace You within this little plane. Hurry faster! Hurry in.,said in a tone that res Where- there'sneither hats nor sin of modern the place oris all still quiet and ! platform, and made the audience Bowl Nor the cruelty and care `1't with delight. of the greedy world out there. th thoroughfare And a level tread of feet, Brings a score of laughing lassies Toward Andermatt's one street. _Gertrude S. Mc.Calmont. is almost ludo -fumble, but it is there. natibat was explained to In the magnificence of its snow sum came annoyed, and though he was mite the grandeur of its glaciers and thinking of changing his partner for the picturesgeeness of its surround the next dance he insisted on one more lugs it is unsurpassed. . . . When with the girl from the store. Then he the shadows have .chased the sun. from soothed the lacerated feelings of the valleys, when the Alpine glow , society by dancing the remainder of bathes the vast stretches of ' Mont • the evening according to the calendar Blanc in its soft, weird, mysterious of local precedence. glow, making rocks and mews grow A story is related of a mayor who, ruddy and pink, and the very atmos- in the presence o the Prince, lost the phere to cliffnse .color then the wonder, thread of his oration. - ful lowliness of it all impresses the Said .the mayor, nervously,"Not only beholder as few other places do, do we welcome your Royal Highness• There was a time when Chamonix as a representative of His Majesty the King, but we---we—-we—" Then he began a frantic search foe his next page, which he had displaced in his nervousness. ' "We—we—w�e�----" he began again, At last the Prince Caine to his rescue. „If it is any help to you, you can say "We welcome you for yourself," ha - d e y,re under the patronage of the d the ! Prince of Wales." - , - Something to be Thankful For. The P'rince's. opinion of Court eti- quette is given in the following story. During a train journey he invited sev- , eral officials to come into his saloon --t• for a drink.- One of them, a Colonel T—, rose from his chair in the •sway- ing train each time the, Prince address- ed him. At last, when he had risen for the twelfth time, the Prince, with A Guest " " To play it, none but that he had forgotten or mislaid a merry twinkle in his eye, said "For the leader must understand what decoration. Compietelyy demorll zee , Heaven's sake, T—, don't 1eer,p bob- - ---•'• required. Let the leader enter the 1 he stainin•ered to' the Prince: "I had bing up and down. Make yourself come out something -subtle, slte maintains, �-liLilgo's Imagery. and is nourishing to the system the The grace of absolute spontaneity same es vitamine and the ultra violet ray. A brightly glowing fire, Dr. j Hugo, even. s finest Ms best, dept to have Stopes says, should be present in 1 SeSs nunnery, and in the principal liv- ; a .certain hardness at finish roundte- ed IngrY I symmetry, an ing roomeof every household. "I read the prauoun:cem�emt of the 1lhenesseonsciouslartist, little we 1 awe amuch t t smoke abatement advocates with the", greatest dismay," declared Dr. Stopes; Wiese are the most precious gems in "and I cannot conceive that such in -I his poetry acid intent on giving each roads en public health and liberty are of them the fullest benerfit of.wor f en- actually beingkcontemplated." bill, ship eke abatement bill, with a lot gee too th isphly exhausted d too e hard, thein The smoke re too thoroughly from outside to see the great "white mountain" that the primitive village has became a progressive town with good hotels., pretty shops, and open- . 'tales. . , . Yet for ell the march the Prince made a beeline for a neg- lected wallflower. "Good evening," he 'said. "Are you not dancing?" The girl blushed. "I haven't danced yet, sir. .I know hardly any people here. You see, I don't - live here. I be- long to a touring company—theatrical. I've been. on the stage ehioe I was sev, en." "Do you like it?" ' - - "Not much, sir," she answered.. "It's not much of a life in a small touring company f get rather tired of it Willa - times." • "I can •sympathize with you," replied the Prince. "I've been a showman all my life. Will you have this dance with me?" At the end of the dance he said, peaceful,and away from the busy lit- tle the repose a' IIs. . —From "Adventures in the Alps," by Archibald Campbell Brow es, of amendments, is now in the hands of a standing committee of Parliament. Similar proposed bills have gene thus fax for several generations. Haymaking in the Iain. Grey clouds are piled on grey clouds, on grey vapors that •come creeping up over the hills, while a misty drizzle drifts dawn the scented .air—air laden with the smell of steaming earth, of wet spruce -tress, and damp vegetation. i alae Roadside grasses' bend slender beads 1 tion of a pattern which without it beneath the weight of diamond drops; would be bare and blank. The images blare harebells bow also, as if weeping where, they do not inhere. Cut out You n u ready ,. res h les a ands `from S i ear thw , � roll tears an image their at t h so t white ox -eyed daisies raise,watery i will usually find that you are cutting faces to the lowering sky; and many i out a link from a chain of ideas. Hugo's other wayside flower's lift bedewed 1 ideas do not come in chains. Each of heads. There Is the handsome purple , them stalks in solitary grandeur, like "hard -head," that fears not pelting a corporal, at the head of a, squad of storms, and raises its. proud flowers 1 images. This. corporal is a recruiting de'sp�ite the rain -drops hanging an : officer, and the squad that follows him them; there are wild strawberries 1 may be indefinitely multiplied.—Wil- gleaming ultiplied.—•Wil gleaming scarlet among the greenery; Liam F. Giese, in "Victor Hugo the and on every side is the vivid pink of , Man and the Poet." the 'clover, pink as only clover can be 1___ that glows from long eeposure to the Beauty the Shadows. Norwegian sun. Even through the, rain its calor blazes, red and pink on 1 Shadow is ane of the easiest to per - the roadside banks. 1 ceive of nature's beauties. As one Everything is dank and sodden witlt' ay; sere the charm of a profile for the moisture yet there, coatless in the first time when looking at a silhouette, downpour, work a mak, a boy, and e to one becomes aware o the perfec- girl. The first is busy with..a long- tion of a natural outline more quickly 1 handled Norwegian scythe cutting by seeing it drawn in once corer. It is ' grass; -while the boy and girl are r•ak- much simpler to trace the fairy fr`dt-.4 ing it up• Then the than stops, lays work of a mountain ash whet, it lies on , down his implement, and picks up one the 'grass le shadow than when the of the heaps of grass. He gathers as eyes are datzi•ed by the vivid green I rnoh as he eat in his arms, and car-' and clustering - scarlet of berry and 1 ries it to the roadside, where it is leaf against the sky- It 'has become t piled. up, to be presently carted home.' a blue tree on the green canvas of a It will be taken. away on .one of the field, , The colors ' of shadows,' quaint Mite Norwegian carts, and ; ver,y 'with climate and season; l:hey hung out on long lines to .dry, It is are niauvo or ripe corn, deeply black haymaking king that 1 ant watching itt this ' on: hot, white roads in summer, purple pelting dewt�patlr. Fitt, however loaf on ploug'hlands le sandstone cotutt1Y, i , they may bee, all tlhreae, man, girl, and silver-grey on snow. I31u'e is their pre- boy—are re boy are cheery enough and call down veiling valor, varying from the.sap-,1 Joking remarks to the melt waiting i phire of lave -iii -a -mist to indigo 'Mel below in they beet,.-•k`rance. Pitt in field are The National 'Itevlew. - metaphorical conteatt. They haxit much of ingenuiousiy organized ar- �rangement. . . , Something else than nature has been at work here. In- stead of a spray of dewy blossoms we get strings of pearls and clusters of diamond's, self-conscious beauties and shining images. . . . Hugo's imagery is not, like Shakespeare's, ground up as it were and wrought like shining Particles into the very substauoe of try. It is the surface decora- a tle station and s main and calm Solved the Problem. Burry in and sit --you down seems to •reflect 1 i utter. 'senile upon it .On another occasion the Prince's of the mountains S And forget the noisy town. tact came to the rescue. An Amines - Allthe door and he away 1 sive full-dress show•w as being held in. All the burdtns of the. day. - which the chief event - was the presen- Come and let them stroke your cheek, - t Let them ,laugh to ear y The Game of Alms Giving. Someone has invented a game called h you spear., anon of an order to a senior .aclminis- ' e festive official. Here all selfish biekeritigs cease, The Staff officer responsible found Here are love and rest and peace. Aline giving. laid the --Edgarto . 1a n . i d, l'u it of Liszt. roam with a basket on his arm. He it in my pocket in a small box. The fartable. A must act the part of a beggar, and, box is there all right, but Heaven' T— apologized, saying he was not VianY stories are told of the eels j "Halsey!" shouted the Fringe to I bending t the floor, keep saving•: • knows where the decoration is!" familiar with Court etiquette:. Vice -Admiral Belsey, his Comptroller of the Iloasehald, ",cams here. Oh, do . bility of Liszt. Once there was a young , .,What I want is ease. What will English girl who gave a concert in one I you give me?" f the Uig provincial teens of England. • Those who happe to offer anything "Give him the box," said the Prince, coolly, "That will do•to go on with." And the function was completed with - She w, n She ha d advertis�e,d herself as a pupil t beginning with an "e" he passes with out a Bitch. come! Here's a man who is not fa- of Herr Liszt. To her horror, the mas- thanks, but he rejects all other gifts One day the Prince walked into a miller with Court etiquette. Now," he ter happened to arrive 'in that very with eoutentpt and claims a forfeit. I club and found' a cavalry officer look- said, turning to T—, "you jolly well town on the day of the concert. Very Pat instance, ing very •despondent. go 'down on your knees, a,nd thank wisely, the young artist went to his playeas "Cheer up, Tommy" he said. "Don't Heaven you are not familiar. with hotel and, in great "rv,txes5, told him an be downhearted." Court etiquette. Her youth said "elephant," the beg- i ante if by •ohance ons of the says that he will give the beg- garr an "egg," or an evergreen," or "eel," or even. au gar thanks: him or her very heart'ly. If the character of the leader is well - feigned,, many forfeits may be gather- ed before the trick is discovered. The Inside of the Cup. To make life en this mortal sphere worth while, we must forget our Jeal w hat she had done, her tears touched the :heart of the maestro. "Dry your tears, my dear child," he said kindly. "Sit down, at the piano - and I wi11 give you a lesson that you may truly say that you have been my quoin, and you may likewise announce that Liszt tivilt play at your concert. And he did play. ousies, our hates and our greed. We - must •deaai up our bodi'ea spiritually s137 lb of chalk annually. One hundred hens produce in egg as well as .physically. shells about s root of a thunder -cloud. - Claud shadows in a sunlit e, inexpressibly alluring. Some are a mere breath on a Mirror, others are The countryside is dressed for win- i dark and ominous; but they aro moot ter; the mounta%ns with their snow i stately over mountains, for they alone capers, the rivers with their - mats of lee, have power to darken the everlasting and plenty of snow shoes in evidence summits... In glassy lakes the for the two feet OD snoser in the fields I and woods, fireweed for Winter',; surrounding woods meet in the ep s of the water and make a 0trange new world No wonder there are so many tehes under Izi rile ,lrlliy atra htrdy i enoul3h nn.o a et s 'villages cringe g leerily below to vI l itoemiti a Citic#ten-coop and ,as nevventer 11?iell • -Mary Webb, in below watch iron t!9 wv'au•'( make one large sprin s of Joy," "As He Thinketh." No 'one is higher up or lower down 1 in the scale of righteousness then his. thoughts aro. They are, therefore, the standard of his mortality_ A Polar Region Problem.. One of the great problems that 1 polar explorers are trying to salve is land of Ito cle'termfn'e the distribution and water in polar regions, ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By O. Jaeabsson. weLel (GUESS • I'LL N, H RE 'oR SLttLE6HPE'wieHT! (Copyright 1014, by The Hell Synd,aote loc.) y; Snow Upon. Snow. To -day I woke to hear at dawn's dim light A. -softly whistled tune. Now who coiuld• be .Abroad so early? so c onte'ntedly Alstir, -light hearted, on the edge of 1 night? 'Although. reflection told me it was John, - To Sweeping away the powdery snow • light -whirled-- Keeping his tone subdued to suit thee„ y wan, C'hdl1 hour and shadowy, snow -muffled world— 'Twas sweet, this milt recall frost dreamland's - weal, - 'Twos sweet to think what daylight. would reveal: The trees with or mine (lucked, late hilltops ranged In ehrauded curves, the snow's en crusted glaze Made feathery soft, the icy slopes. .all changed �To downy depths, a trackless, snows maze. —May .ikstnlhnsan. "TOUCh Oot�.10~ Vv --- To one who boasts continued good luck the reply is' often made "touch wooct" Has this phrase come down to us' from our tree worshiping anus. tors? The primitive belief was that spirits: resided lit trees. Without this basic idea being entirely lost there . ,cache the :period of the sacred groves, tr and the Druids' oaks, and then the dedication of certain sorts of trees to sail the ,earliest and simplest form of $1111• erstitton. We tach, wood to call the wok attention of, the tree spirit to the . fact the . ithat we recognize 'MOinfiuenee in the [ceder that he may not feel sight( and iVil [change our good fortune into bad; at I least, that is why rent ancestare touch• 1119 led wood " Beautiful birds are jealous of one \.anroth'er, says a naturalist; and one .. i+hirddtrs to think w"fiat the Sealing be,,,, tweet the peacocks and hir le of park: Idiot mast be. D It G It It es ti, Vs $a na th Yo th sa ed wi tart wi dila 511 th Pe 110 you tna