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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-01-01, Page 33; 11 (1-lonie Cuts ay , Ales.REANte BEST Then •give to the world the -best you have, and the best yll come !seek to esOn,--111. S. Bvidgee• Monotony •Istit' it amazing with every kind of Work we leave to ele no matter how Pleaeant it dray be., we fIn(1 if it is takei»esally - seriously- there come dines when it palls amine and the welt seeress /Ike drudgery. To the w: -•.,•and mother especially it Is ditileat to get.eway from monot- ony. The elaye to many mothers are filled with the performance of .getting ettesing them, setting Olean dishes; on -the table,. washing them af- terwards, +hen putting on •babs/rs clothes am/ sending him out to plaY, sweet anti clean, only to bring him in again to wash the ,grimy little face and hande. Then for a change there a -re more iihes, cleaning, baking, ittonitig and the little face is dirty again ainethere are Wore dishes. So mometeny stalks along while do- ing the hone duties; it also }seem- panle.s ullImeinese efforts and is close by:while •tme is acquiring an education The routine must be done and the wise Mau or isterean, is the .one who keeps steadlastly in . view the finished te .1. se ill% 4% cups flour, p- wder. ...— Twilight Hour Story—The Chapter 5 1 tease, baking • Chlokies After a while Mamma Hen thought she better get tip too and show .her new babies what fine world really looked like. She felt pretty stiff atter staying on that nest for such a long time but she stretched her wings, then her body this way and that way, and soon felt alright again. When slie got hp and looked at the nest where,she had been silting she uoticed the other four eggs 1y -big there, Perhaps you will remember she laid eight eggs, didn't she? She stood and look- ed at them and didn't know what to (10. about them for they took ep a lot of room, but just then Miranda, Spar- row flew in. .Say, didn't she think those little chickens were cute? Well, 1 should say she did,- but when she saw the other four eggs there she knew right away what Mamma ITen should 'do, so she whispered 'in her ear again and then out she flew and away off MO the blue sky outside. As soon as she was gone. Mauinia Hen did what Miranda; Sparrow told her. She took one of the egg and rolled and achievement. If we can only visualize pushed it out of the nest and she del the flower while the ground is being it very carefully, too. I wonder why? prepared the digging does Mit seem so irksome or the aching back so painful. It ;IS true that after climbing one hill another loons up unexpectedly cast- ing its. shadows of doubt, while after those are dispelled another hill is there- to climb with its new species of drudgery, bet nevertheless as you look beck down the flight of past years you see many importaat bridges haveheen qhoply: 07 World's Fastest Wt New York Warship Tested Is Wearing Do you know why? I'll whisper it to you just as Miranda Sparrow did to Mamma Hen. "Those eggs didn't have any Rale chickens in them so they Were bade --Ohl Oh! And if one would break—Oh, dear me, the smell would he awful, and then -Well, Het would have to put a clothes pin on all the little chickies' noses so they couldn't smell it, but then she crowed in the humdrum of life.— c,ouldn't put on a .clothes pin, could Have yen ever noticed in studying she? Because her nose is very M- art that so many people think of art .ferent from our noses, isn't it? I wen- aceomplishmeots as only a pasthue. der of you have ever noticed what the We veil iz'playing," or the "art of chicken'e nose looks like. Look next •sineing," and give them a very super- time you get a chance, won't you? So ficial study. often thinking they are that. was why Mamma Hen rolled it only the -frills." The study is hap- -1=AM • and anything is considered good enomee. This is why most of us never get past the primary stage. We are afraid ef the, monotony and drud- gery of teal work. Naturally the children require the smile idea and do nut see' Che importance of .doWn- right hard work. Art is not plass and yet it is wonderful, souleinspiring.-play after suffielent 'thee has been .spent in study esith sometimes its hours of monotony end so-called drudgery. We can't get away from it altogether., After all is it worth while? True, it is from tbe daily household task has come the wire beautiful well -ordered home and those grimy little heeds when he opened the door a big cold have growl: big with promise. The wind came in too, and that old wind felt awfully cold to these little chleks. Besides that they never saw a little boy before and lie looked terribly big to them, so they ran back to Mamma Hen before Billy saw them. And do youknow what she did? Well, she jst sat down 00 top of them like she did in the nest and there they were By Gt. Britain BY A.!' ABELLE WORTHINGTON ///ustr+d Dr csumaing Lesson F ue- 911?qte (7 With Pattern Makes 40 -Knots Easily With No Pressure on Engines . London—What is -believedto be the fastest w.arehip in the world, has just completed her Walefor the Navy, reaching a speed of forty. knots at times without .pressing her, machinery in any way. This is the new destroyer ilotilia leader, Codrington, 1,520 tome tem- pleted last June at the Swan Ses Hunter Shipyard. in, Glasgow, To the Admirality -officials her speed Came as a revelation, for she obtained an ayerage of 38 knots dur- ing a four-hour test, and reached a speed two kuots higher etetimes...,In conformity to the Adnairally'e regula- tions, her engines never were let out to full power, the/10 if they had been there Is no doubt in the ntinds. a•f British naval ellen that theeCods ringtou would have smashee existing records easily. 'The most remarkable 'featureof the -Codriegton's achievement, in the opinion of the Admiralty, is that she reached the 'forty knots without eX- ceeding the, designed horsepower of 39,000, although she 'had been de- signed to reach a speed of only thirty-five knots. Nothing in the - other navies has been Produced to outdistance this British whippet, which with a full load Could streak across the Atlantic in three and a -hell days if top speed could be main- tained. Centenarian Dies At Home In . Ontario Smith Falls, Ont,—Robert Smith, 100 years old, died here on Dec. 15th. Two weeks ago the most serious ill- ness of the few which came to him in his long life, forced, him to cease do- ing light chores about his home. The centenarian hadalways been .proud of his record of seldom missing .0 day's work. To hard work he attrib- uted Itis longevity. He died shortly regret that he was and about". out al the nest just as carefully as she could. Then she came back for an- other one until they were all out an(1 put them off in the corner where no one would touch them. She was glad when she got rid of them. After a while they dried up inside the 'shell and wouldn't Fallen any more even it You,did break them. , Thee Mamma Hen stalled out to tele a walk With her bebles:' They thought it was flue and scratched around in the straw in the hig been and looked so little and cute while they were having a, good time. Just then the door opened and the farmer man's little boy, Billy, came in, and business greive bigger and better, tak- ing an ever more important place in the . commenity. The accomplished artist, westering his art, can thrill others as well as his own being with the out -pouring of his soul and thus the world le e little better place to live in. Yes, it is worth while. "Why. hello Tommy!" said one old all safe and as warm again as could eat to another in one of the alleys be, and they didn't care how cold it where he lived. "How 15 it you are so was outside for they just. all cuddled fat a•nd happy? I have been away close together and went to sleep like you do when you have your afternoon nap. Next Hen Do with. my nit tress and when I left you :were starved and miserable, and now you are fat and hapey. What has luippened?" 'Oli," sell Tommy, "It is the Star • boys and eirls. They come around. and feed 1)0 With Milk aud fish, then they. put out water to drink and bits of meat, and in cold weather they fix ue boils in boxes and don't. eve love to see them coming around? They tette good oars of us. Well, here comes one news Good-bye." The conneion cat as well as the pr - $i)1) is the best rodent destroyer we leaves but they need systematic feediug to do their beet work. A humane society in your towel teasems the children to be kind to . - mats. A Good Cherry Cake for the Holidays 11e cups butter, 1 cup white sugar, , 'e eup milk,: 10c citron peel, 1 cup of 1 hvown enear. 5 eggs, 3 cups raisins, se lb. cundied cherries, 1 teesp, rem i Week—"What Did Mamma About the Cold Willa?" 4,0— 441,F,..o "I'd like to know if George tas any bad habits." "In that case, you'd better ask him to tell you the things he 10 go- ing to swear off in the New Year." MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER come OiJ, 4E.FE* INAN..c.. Th15 5PrNAct4 Alvt)\!ou'l.t. Retuce. A POUND ToDAY 1- e BOYS ARE 'RIGHT LIP TO The Nov...ire IN E.VE.RYTHINGJ 6-kENCE, THEY HAVE. HoPPED oN Th EIGHT DAY VET -n-,r 1)4As LAUNCHED BY 11-4E4-. BARRYMORE: MUTT AND JEFF DONkl" GET SYLPH I. it<E FIGURES fl wotfr Be. -ri-ke r-Auvr sPimake,H, AND DANDeLt ONS: after expressing unable to be "up R very Run Modern Factory Near North Pole A canning faetory, eqnipped with modern machinery and operated h electric power, has been established within a few hundred miles of the North Pole. It Is operated entirely by Eskimos, mostly women. The faetory, financed by the Dan- ish government, draws its power front the nearby rivers anti le equipped with up-to-date dynamos and oil me glees to tope with emergeneles. It is located in Holsenberg, Greenland, which has a population of about 250. A fleet of modern motorboats keeps the factory supplied with halibut, the principal catch of the vi,llnity. Empire Service League Invited to Toronto Toronto—The British Empire Ser- vice League, embracing ex -service men's organizations throughout the Empire, has been invited to hold its biennial conference M Canada next year during the Canadian National Exhibition. The Ontario Government, the mu- nicipality of Toronto, and the Cana- dian National Exhibition authorities joined M the invitaton of the Cana- dian Legion to hold the conference here. The F.,2npire delegates would take ,part M a Warrior's Day parade at the National Exhibition. It has the Russian spirit that is everywhere fashionables gather. gay and so easy to wear. ta,iee just 11 minute to slip into it. The'btet is adjustable. The neckline shows' a smart becomingness in its Softly rolledscarf collar. The side buttoned closing is decidedly slimming f eatttre. The under skirt is attached to a plip that is cut with armholes to prevent its slipping off the shoulders. It's, a dress that will give excellent serviee. It's dark green wool crepe. The ieontrast is strikingly smart in gree crepe with gold pin dots. The greei buttons hieve gold elms. Stlyle No. 2847 may be had in sizes' 16, e8 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches busti Clinton crepe, supple tweed, mare, cair4.4trpe and velvet alsol suitable for this *del. .'ine 36 requires 3% yards 39 -inch w?ei1114/4 yard 39 -inch contrasting and 1.74=Ards of 35 -inch lining. "Ite.y. Pop, Kin I stay up and see the old year ont?" 4.,,,secisie" lllistay "Bey, Pop." "I should say not." up and see the new year in?" Famous Gate Hangs In Buffalo Alley Buffalo, N.Y.—One of the mas- sive gates from historic Newgate Prison in England hangs almost un- noticed in a Buffalo alley awaiting transfer by its owner to the building ot the Buffalo Historical Society in Delaware Park. The gate was purchased in 1903 by George E. Marc,- of Buffalo, who hap- pened in at an auction in England when the relics of 0111 Bailey prison were put up for sale. Bidding a small price for the gate, which weighs 1,800 pounds and requires a two - pound key to unlock it, Mr. More's offer. was 'accepted. It cost him $150 to ship it to the Hulled States. LESSENS NOISE If you are bothered by the rattle of dish washing, you can get a, rubber mat for the bottsia of your dish pan, or better stile e fiber pan and a com- positiou drain mai,. A famoue golfer has/ been nreeented home. But Historic Flight Gifts Total 1943 Relics of Lindbergh's Flight to be Handed Down to Posterity st. Mo. --An inventory of the decorations, aud gifts •presented to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh following his flight from New York to Paris la May. 1927, has recently been completed 14) Mrs. Nettie H. Beauregaed, archivist and curator of the Missouri Historial Society., The number of trophies in the 'Lindbergh collection, which are housed in the Jefferson Memorial here, total's 1943. Pictures, poems and music lead the - list in. numbee, there being 523 articles 'under that classification. Iliscellan-, eous items are second and beoleseand games a•elose third with 298 and 287, respectively. The list of articles compiled by Mrs. Beauregard contains all of the gifts which have been planed in the Lind- bergh collection, none of which have ever been removed. The complete Het follows; Medals, 118; silver cups, trays and so forth, 37; statuary, plaques, 55; watches, clocks, 13; keys to cities, 18; stick pine, 6; rings, 9; pens and pencils, 15; miscellaneous jewelry, 39; coins, e; badges and lodge emblems, 38; purses and pocketbooke, 21; religious articles 26; lamps, 3; membership passes, 44; testimonials, 195; maps, 40; model planes, 48; hardware, wrenches, 17; laces and linen, 57; toilet articles, 54; clothing, 82; hats, 11; sporting goods, 24; ornaments, 8; dolls, 26, and tables, 2. Among other articles in the collec- tion is the map of Colonel Lindbergh used during kis flight, the aviation suit he wore and the water canteen carried in the plane. Russian Inventor Designs New Electric Train Moscow.-4?,ussia may give the world a new electric rallroa I train which operates on ball bearings in- stead of wheels. - After the first test of tha invention of N. G..Yarmolchuk, an expert com- mission studying its possibilities has recommended that the government undertake practical experiments. Yarmolcbuk has worked almost a lifetime in an attempt to perfect sivh a train. He believes his work will prove revolutionary and his conten- tions appear somewhat sound in view of the expert committee's report. 3000 -Year -Old Barley Presented to Ontario Toronto. — An interesting exhibit has been placed in the museum of the Ontario Agricultural College. It is a sample of barley taken front the grain pits of the time of Solomon, the tenth century B.C,, at Tall -Fara, Egypt. The grain is blackened with age, but has retained its natural form through 30 centuries. It was presented by the director of the Royal Ontario Miaseun-. of Archaeology. Provincial Air Force Ends 1930 Season Teliesnto, Ont.—Flying operations of the Provincial Air Forces have now ilpou suspended for the season. The Viet plane of the fleet has re- portetl5''at the base at Sault Ste. alarie4IPOnt. for the reconditioning .,.4 prograth that is undertaken every winter. This year the service broke all pre- , TIM records: 14,160 flyiug hours were devoted by fire -suppression pa- trols, which is nn inerease of 2,500 hones over what was thought to be the unbeatable of 1929. New Air Service May Be Operated Toroetto—An air service between Canada and the West Indies linking the Federated Islands to the Domin- ionis the hope of Col. T. R. St. Johnston,hGovernor and Commander -in-Chief of the Leeward Islands, who is here to promote commercial stela. tions between tile two countries. Trade Treaty Signed By Japan and Pariam- a Panama gitY, R.P.--eJapan and Pans ama have ratified a trade treaty giv- ing frill rights of travel and commerce to nationals of both countries. Ar- ticle 10 of the treaty provides that the provisions of the agreement do not apply to the Canal Zone where a most favored nation clause is dependent up- on "stipulations agreed to or in the future agreed to between Panama and the 'United States.' The treaty covers three years and becomes effective immediately. An air -liner landed at Croydon re- cently, with a cargo of watches. Yet another proof that time flies. One of the best plants for the amateur is the Amaryllis, or Hip- Peastrem, tor use in the window gar - dee. It is cagy to grow and needs lltelet ear°. The pleasure watching the progress of the giant flowers on tang stems. They. may les had in $71,003,828 Decrease In Trade Is Recorded Ottawa—Canadian trade declined during the month of November by $71,003,828 in comparison with the corresponding month last year, ate cording to figures published in the current issue of the National Revenue Review. In November, 1929, trade for the month was valued at 9221,979, 663; Met month this had dropped to $150,975,835. Export from Canada declined in Value from $111,068,871 (exclusive ot e2,177,634 foreign re-exports) to 873.- 060,871 (exclusive of $1,551,162 foreign re-exports). At the same tine importe into this country dropped from 9108.- 733,697 to 976,363,302. Illustrating the effect of the low- ered 'price or wheat, the _figures shove' that while •$?3,550,931 was received for the export of 22,444,000 bushels of wheat M November last year, only ex- port of 31,217,294 in November :lust p$2a1s,s6e7(61:080 was received. for the Egmont Portraits Bring Some $40 000 Loudon—The sale of the art collec- tion inherited by the former Canadian rancher who is now Ituown as the Earl of Egmont has come. to an end and the coffers of Charles John Per- ceval, ninth wearee of the coeonet. are richer by 8,640 guinaee, or alma $40,000. A little known canvas by Reynolds briught 2,800 guineas/. A family group by Hugh Barron reali- zed 4130 guineas. Berlin Palace Purchased • By the United States Wash:ngton.--The Bleucher Palace in Berlin, bought for an American Embassy, cost the Government 91,- S00,000. The State Department recently an- nounced the building would be toed as a residence for the Ambassador tte well as an offiee. A Pessimistic Farewell Old 1930, as you depart, One thinks of many ills endured; Yon were a bad boy at the start with a completely furnished And grew much worse as you whist, does a golfer want with. a liome? various shades and markings. mat u re ti e......nonormermaramarratornMed...tr!ranatl..auss!TwasarTarscomalmgete, Taz,rxemtantrarrear!orresrateramina--staiarans,nentNexcarammenucemosealeasnotssatmega Gabby Gertie "Tee11ap/4y New Year sometimeA fills totes conscienee with forebods ing i11s, one's tummy with diges- tive ills, one's mailbox with big Chtislintts bills." Ladies:. shoes are to be more polite ed. 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