Zurich Herald, 1927-04-21, Page 2ALONG THE LANE OF THE OCEAN.
North, south, east, and west, cross- the new and strange sightse th:t•they
ing and recrossing, threading their
--Way to the great and thriving comme+r'
tial ports and to the far -distant eel-
dom.-visited traria outposts situated on
some tropical island or the banks of a
vast and mysterious jungle ' river;
bearing on their broad surfaces the
/teals of myriad, ships, stretoh the sea
lanes of the world. There are many.
of them, some svbedled up with pride
at the importance of the ships and
cargoes that travel their way; others
are steady -going, industrious routes
that rest well content in the know-
ledge of task worth: to the traders with
far places; and other sea lanes, ~which
lead to some almost forgotten outpost
of commerce of empire, are neglected
and lonely --scarce two or Clime ships
pass silently over their waters during
the course of a year. Whenever a ship
sets sail and leaves the harbor mouth,
she enters upon one of the sea lane's,
for the routes of ocean trade have be-
come, in the main, so well -traveled
that the once "uncharted" ocean is
now explored and mapped to its far-
thest recesses, and the way from port
to port has become standardized --in
so far as it is possible to standardize
anything so vast as Father Ocean.
will see on the morrow when their
vessel is safely berthed. At eight
bells the watch as clanged, and the
First Mate takes the bridge, pacing
leisurely to incl fro, but with eyes eon-
staxitly returning to a point just off the
port bow At last, his. vigilance is res.
warded, and with au exclamation,
Where she flashes!" he routs the look-
out on duty out of his snug corner in
the wing of the bridge and dispatches
him to the Capella "Tell the Old
Man," he says, "that Gap Rock's li'ght's
two points off the port bow, and we'll
be in Hong'ICorig roads before sun -up,
Safe in Port.
Highways of the Sea.
Along the highways of the sea there
are no sign -poets whieh say: "This whose movements are d'eterm'ined
way to Cape Town," or "Turn left for laagely by the desire -of her owners to
Raratonga," but the captain of an save time and fuel, •sails a more direct
ooean steamer can get along without course between ports than does the
such explicit directions; with his sex- sailer, which often makes wide detours
Cant and chronometer and an unoloud- In order to catch a favoring breeze or
ed sun or a -clear night with brilliant ocean current, or to avoid treacherous
coasts where adverse winds might
drive her .ashore. Thus it is that the
trim sailing ships follow their own
highways dictated by nature, and
leave the grubby steamers that have
invaded -their realm to go their own
way, besmirching sea and sky with
their coal smoke—but rarely getting a
chance to drop cinders- and grime on
the itoiystoned decks and white sails
of the members• of the old regime:—
nese toward the continent that lies Joseph Leeming, in. "Ships and Car -
ahead, her crew In high spirits over goes."
The long voyage is =ended. The end
of the road is in sight, anal the ship is
a happy one ass she steams into the
bustling poet at sunrise. Here her
lien will forget for a time the leagues
of blue water that !ie behind them and
the endless stretches that 'sae ahead
when their -stay in port is ended, and
they drop the land astern, outward
bound, on another trail of the sea.
There are, perhaps, a dozen princi-
pal trade routes, and many minor sea
lanes, over which passes the never
ending procession of smoke -belching
steamers and the few lofty -masted sail-
ing ships that are still left on salt
water. The steamer, which goes on Its
way independent of the wind, and
stars, he is always able to find his lati=
tude and longitude, "prick" off his
position on the chart, marking it with
a neat X. Day after day, the X's suc-
ceed each other, each one a little near-
er to the port for whiioh the course is
set, and, at last, the smell of the land
is borne on the seaward breeze to the
nostrils of the watchers on the bridge.
Night comes, and the ship churns
steadily on through the gathering dark
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LAUD LORD LISTER'S MEMORY
Above are shown Dr. F. L. Grassett .(left), and Dr. E. St. George
Baldwin (right), two noted Canadian surgeons, who in Convocation Hall,
Toronto, paid glowing tributes to ',the memory of the late Lord Lister, the
father of modern antiseptic surgery, telling of theta personal association with
the eminent scientist.
HE MADE SURGERY
µSAFE
Lord Lister's Great Work.
- a He taught, • lectured, wrote, demon-
strated, challenged. He stirred public
opinion, by pointing out that surgeons
were Mating their own patients -. by
causing woundinfe'ction. The very
operating coats they wore lasted from
year to year and acquired an Marne-
, tatiou of'i,fllth of which the owners
j Surgeons the world overpaid seemed proud! Instruments were not
I grateful l tribute to the memory of the properly cleaned—nor the hands of the
'late Lord Lister, -the great Englishman, surgeons, The tale, if fully told, would
born ou .April 5th a hundred years ago, seem incredible to us. But.it was
! who revolutionized' the art of surgery what Lister found, fought against, -and
by his discovery of the antiseptic pain- ultimately abolished.
ciple. To deal here with the whole range of
If he had not fought the great fight his antiseptic treatment in detail is ire -
for antiseptic surgery, and won, yours possible, and would require the use of
might have been the fate of countless difficult medical and •surgical terms.
others --to have survived an operation But there is no hospital gangrene now -
ea
Flowers to Eat!
The extensive use of violets for
itavoring salads is to be a novelty in
Freuch cookng this s:pring,.we are told
by M. Prosper Montagne, the Paris
chef. He adds that the petals of nas-
turtiums and roses, toa, will be blend-
ed with the more usual constituents of
salads.
A yellow chrysanthemum salad. at-
tracted much interest at a London
luncheon -a little while ago. The
petals, which were garnished: with but
ter, cream, and white wine sauce,
tasted like slightly -perfumed lettuce.
A number of flowers are used as.
food and drink. The most familiar to
us is the crystalized violet. It is very
important that only the plucked -off
petals should be used, for the seed -
pod, like the underground sten, is
poisonous. Roses are eaten in many
forme; the candied petals have a deli-
cate flavor, and ever since Elizabethan
times old country homes have held the
secret of making a delicious petal jelly
and roee sugar -candy. The rose, too,
yields a much -esteemed syrup and the
budsscan be crystallized.
Flowers make excellent pickles. In
. Stuart days the petals of nasturtiums,
roses, eiderburyprimroses, rosemary,
and violets were often pickled in vine-
gar, with their own weight In sugar.
;n the Balkans, where more roses are
grown than anywhere else in the
migrante from the British Isles has
been declining, while, to snake. mat-
ters
atters worse, our emigration has `been
largely Canadian. or British born.
Weeds Cost Fanners Millions.
The loss each year to Canadian
farmers through growth of weeds in
their crops is something enormous.
It has been estimated that in the
Province,-•- of Saskatchewan alone
weeds cost the fanners' more than
$30,000,000 each year. One of the
greatest enemies of weeds is., the
sheep, who is a very close and per-
sistent -feeder while on pasture, and
every farmer should have a flock of
these profitable little •aniinals.
and then to have died because the
wound became septic.
Saved Six. Million Men.
Lister's discovery altered all that.
He had the joy, too, of seeing his great
discovery become incorporated in sura
gloat science. It .has been said that
if those wounded in the war, who owed
their recovery and lives to Lister, were
Oh, I can be happy here, where elbows formed up, a vast army of six millions The south bank has had views of her;
touch, would hail him as their saviour. The thorn shall exact his dues of her;
The clang and the clatter I do not His life is not only immensely in- The willows adream
hind much; teresting, but holds a great inspiration. By the freshet stream
But there's whiles I look with long- His forebears were (makers, and plain Shall askwhat boon they choose of
ing beyond the window sills, tradesmen and freemen of the City of her.
adays; no infection of wounds. His
Gospel of Cleanliness—for '• that is the
basis of the antiseptic treatment—has
won.
A Song for April.
List! list! The buds c nfer;
Geraniums. This noonday they've 'had news of
her;
And think about the quiet of the
great green hills.
Up with the breezes, above the grind
and grime,
The clean- hills and the green hills
I long to climb;
But I smile across to neighbors, who
rub their windows clean,
And bless the gay geranium for look-
ing so green,
—Douglas Hurn.
Not Wanted! -
Ottawa Journal (Cons.) : Announce-
ment is made that the Immigration De-
partment has entered into a new ar-
rangement with the shipping com-
panies by Which the latter are to have
more freedom in bringing in agricul-
tural immigrants from Southeru Eur-
ope. . In the light of all that has
been said in recent recent years about
malting quality and not quantity the
standard of our immigration policy, the
new departure is a little surprising. In
recent years, as the statistics show all
too impressively, the percentage of inn
world, the buds are frequently pickled,
The Indians make a sort of bread of
the phogaili flower and eat large
quantities of the blossoms of the but-
ter tree. The Chinese make a candied
sweet of the jasmine. Water -lilies of
various ldnds are used as both food
and drink by the Indians, Chinese,
Japanese, Turks, Kenya natives, and
other races,
A word. of warning: many flowers
are poisonous or semi -poisonous.
Those of the daffodil, fon' instance, are
powerfully emetic. It is not generally
understood that many plants may be
poisonous in one part, A„striking ex-
ample is the rhubarb, where only an
inch or two at the top of the stent lies
between the poisonous leaf and the
delicious fruit.
London. From his father, whose work
and investigations in optics gained a
Up! up! The world's astir
Fellowship of the Royal Society, he in -
The would-be green has stiword of her;
heriteda love of science; and whilst Rot and germ have heard .of her,
still at school he wrote ,essays on "The Gaining to break
Human Structure," and similar sub- Their sleep and wake
feats. He dissected fish and small mil -
Their hearts with every bird of her.
Birds Are An Agricultural
Asset.
Birds are nature's check on insect
life. By : controlling the increase of
certain insects they prevent the di-
struction of plant life, and without
plant life, animal life—including that
of lien—would be impossible upon 1
the earth. Each species of bird has
its special office. One cares for the
leaves and twigsof the trees; another
guards the teunk and limbs from .at-
tack; still. `others hunt upon the
ground, seeking their prey beneath
the fallen leaves and loose sail. The
stomach of one "Lob -white" quail has
been found to contain more than 100
liotato beetles. Birds are one of the
Doniin'ien's greatest agricultural as-
sets.
Just As Good,
The grocer had just put a new boy
to work, and among the other Inetruc-
dotis was this:
"If you don't happen to have what a
cuttenner wants, suggest soiiietheng
• else as nearly like it a.s possible."
Soon a womlaii. Came into the store
end, asked tate boy, "Have you any
fresh green staff today?"
"No, ma'am," answer,& the boy, "but
we have seine plea bluing,''
mals. and articulated their skeletons.
Then, still a child, he sudden y an-
nounced that when he grew up he
would b8 a surgeon.
It was entirely his own idea. No
Lister had ever dreamt of embarking
on a professional career. his father
discouraged lxim at first, but when it
was clear that the boy's bent was to
surgery he raised no further obstacle.
And for that we may be glad. At the
age of seventeen young Lister started
his studies at University College, Lon-
don,
Nothing would turn him from his
goal. He took bis B.A. degree, and
then began his medical studies in grim
earnest at University College Hospital.
He began his study of surgery shortly
after the discovery of anaesthetics,
-and he was present at the first opera-
tion at which ether was used.
He welcomed that as eliminating one
shocking element in operations—the
pain inflicted --but iris beart was sad-
dened when he followed tip his cases
in the wards and saw the deaths that
carne from sejrtie and gangrened
Wounds. Not long afterwards he read
a paper • before the Hospital Medical
Sooiety on "Hospital Gangreue"--the
first step towards his goal, of antiseptic
surgery. +
Gospel of G"teaniiness.
Having gained a B.A. and M.B. and
become a Fellow of the Royal College
of .Surgeons, Lieter began his, real
work. It was a Ding campaign against
wound infection and hospital diseases.
MEN AND WOMEN OF TO -DAY
King George Dislikes. Any'"Bou.'
Shingled tails and .shingled heads
are in the same class with King
George. He doesn't like horses, with
bobbed tails. any better than lie likes
shorthaired- women, and, he has been
very frank•in saying so at recent harsa
shows.
A Young Man's Luck..
Like the iariaee of Wales, the British,
Prime Minister enjoys "faterniting,"
and a characteristic story of him is be-
ing told at the moment.
The other day he went to his club
for luncheon, and found it practically a
"full house." There was no empty
table deft, but plenty of tables had one
person of importance sitting at them,
with an empty chair waiting fox a
eeeoud person of importance.
Any of these important people would
have welcomed the Premier es his. vis-
a-vis, but Mr. Baldwin dad not choose
any of then. Instead, he walked to-
wards a young man from the Foreign
Office.
"I say," said the Prime Minister, himself 13111y Moon.
See! see! How swift concur
Sun, • wind, and rain at the name of
her,
A -wondering what became of her;
The fields flower at the flame of her;
The glad air sings
With dancing wings
And the silvery shrill acclaim of her.
—Charles G. D. Roberts.
"w01114 it put Yon cut If i :shared your
table?"
If that young mean keeps a diary, his
record of that luncheon should be in-
Geresting —bun, being in the Foreign
Office, he would doubtless be too diplo-
matic to reveal iti
A Lucky Little Boy,
If you were to look up Mr. A. A.
Milne in "Who's _Who," you would and
this,; "Milne, Alan Alexander; writer;
assistant editor of 'Punch,' 190E-14 ,
born 18th January, 1832 , ,••oavv'
son," Just that --one son, I antipope
it's all right,
The compilers, of "Who's Who" can't
be expected • to 'say much ,about people's
babies, blit I think they might, -have
done a little more for this particular
little bay. For tide "one son," as you
May have guessed by now, is Christo-
pher Robin himself, the charming lit-
tle fellow who has had so mach to do
with his father's inimitable verses and
stories. Christopher Robin, is really
his name, though be prefers to call
He Saw Too Late.
A surly old Scotch bachelor was em-
ployed as a gardener. One day his em-
ployer saw him carefully sweep the
dead leaves off the lawn and part them
in a basket. He looked at the basket
for some time, then took a running
kick at it, and scattered b2:sket and
leaves all over the +lawn.
"Why did yon do that, Angus?"
Nell, surra' do you remember a
housemaid you used to have named
Agatha, about twenty years ago?"
"Yes --I remember the girl quite
well."
"`Nell, sir, oxie night I was talking
to her in the stable yard, and she said
to me, `Angus, I'm cold.' So I gave her
my muffler. A, few minutes after she
said, `-Argils, I'm still cold.' So I gave
fuer my overcoat. It's only just dawned
on me that she wanted to be kissed,
and I missed my •chance."
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Aviation Bills of Lading..
Airplane freight companies of Eur-
ope are planning to issue international
aviation bills of lading.
Decision.
Dark the day and long the way,
Cruelly the foes oppress.
Shall I run or shall I stay?
Is it failure or success?
Faint and •weary now am I, •
Here my burden Layouldeatrop,
Vain it seems again to try,
•Shall I fight or shall I stop?
bf I.quit the battle's lost,
Hope forever fades from sight,
IIowso,ever I am crossed
Fighting on, perhaps I might—
Might achieve the goal I seek;
Here I must decide. my fate.
I am weary, I am weak,
Shall I fail or sixell I wait?
I can end the struggle now,
I can stop, and hope is gone.
I can quit and lose. Somehow
I may win by fighting on!
Edgar A Guest
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National Flower Emblems.
Nearly every country in the world
has its flag, and nearly every nation
has its national flower, which, like its
fiag, is emblematic of the brave deeds,
virtues and ideals of its people. It
is said that when Louis VII of France
led his army of crusaders to the Holy
Land, he selected as his ,badge the
white fleur-de-lis, because it symbol-
ized, he believed, the righteousness
of his mission. Since that time the
finer -de -lis, or lily, has been known
as the French national flower.
The story associated with Ger-
many's adoption of its national
flower, the blue cornflower, id another
interesting one. At the time when
Napoleon was marching on Berlin,
Queen Louise, the brave and noble
Queen of Prussia, fled the city and
went into the fields to escape Na-
poleon's army. While in hiding there
she made wreaths of this flower to
calm and amuse her children.
During the Wars of the Roses in
England, the Yorkists were united
against ,the Lancastrians, the former
wearing the white rose as a badge
and the latter wearing the red rose.
The House of York and the House
of Lancaster were afterward united
when Henr VII, a -Lancastrian, was
married to a daughter of the House
of 'York. As a token of peaceful re-
lations which came about following
this marriage, Henry adopted as his
badge a.ered and white rose, and the
rose has ever since been considered
England's national flower.
Reading the history of Canada, one
�M _• learns of the hardships its early set
tiers endured, understands why the
What She Would Do. • • people of our great country chose the
Bashful Youth—"If you were In my maple. leaf as our emblem. The
place what would you do?"
Modern Maid—"Hire an up-to-date
chap with good arms to call on the
girls for me."
Woman Kills 24 -Foot Python
for Shoes.
Girls may go to Sumatra and shoot
their own shoes. Mrs. Lloyd Diehl
arrive.µ at her hone in Washington
State recently from there with the
twenty-fou'r foot skin of a python she
killed while in the Orient, and she is
fixed with shoe leather for life.
The skin, with the present vogue
for reptile trim, is: worth $850, and
will make 300 pairs of slippers and
forty vanity eases and trim eleven
dresses. Besides the pythons Mrs.
Diehl went into the jungle and shot
herself a leopard for a .new spotted
coat.
'Oh
Experience.
could I tell, ye surely would be-
lieve it!
Oh could l' only say what I have
seen!
How should, I tell, or how can ye re-
ceive it,
How, till He bringeth you where I
have been? •
-F. W. H. Myers, in "St. Paul."
save
The Well of Mary, .at Nazareth, the little village in Palestine where Jc•su
the 'oarpeixher shop of Nazareth wars located.
,ent the early years of axis life, Close to this well
maple is a hardy tree and capable of
enduring the rigors of the northern.
climate. Songs and poems have been
written about the maple leaf and the
maple tree. •
The maple leaf, our emblem dear,
The maple leaf forever!
God save our King, and heaven bless
The maple leaf forever.
is reputed that
The United " States has neva
adopted a national flower, though
from time to time Congress has been
asked to do so. The goldenrod has
been favored by many, because it
grows in all parts of the country
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico and from• the Atlantic to the
Pacific Oceans.
A Pull All Together.
One forenoon in early summer, in a
village on the ;north coast of Scot-
land,'the whole adult population were
toli'r:g in vain to drag a big herring
smack down to the l t eh.
The smack, a thing of about fifty
tons, and herr ily built, had spent
eight months on land high above tide-
mark, and safe from the winter
storms; but now it must go out again
to do its work.
All the men, however, would not
move it—no, not even when they had
got all the •women to help them. Just
when the fathers 'and mothers and
grown-up sons and daughters of the
village were feeling tired and out of
temper with- the sulky Mary Jane,
whibh would not move an inch, the
door of the village school was thrown
open, and out poured a stream of boys
and girls, to got fifteen 'minutes play
•and fresh lir'.
They made, of course, straight for
the beach. They took in the situation.
instantly, and, without asking leave
to help, or being asked, every one got
hold, of the ropes somewhere, and soon
the Mary Jane slid down to the
water's edge iii the most pleasant and
obliging way imaginable.
Who did it? Was it the old finks?'
No they had failed. Was it the
laixghing boys and girls? No; but
. they all did it, because they gave' a
long pull, a strong pull, and a. pull all
together.
Grace.
He was a bright little boy, and lila
mother had taken li.i:'in on. a visit to
friends •
"Frecldy," said tixe hostess before
topper, "do yet have grace at your
house?"
"Yes," replied Freddy, without hot.
tatto% "I heard a marl with a bill tem
da'ct the other day that he had thirty
.days" gr".aee,"' -
A:xsd then, ftinid 'general e.oiiftisionci .,
Freddy waty hurried home.
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