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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-09-17, Page 7Finer yr for all your .salads Y1-IclYl. SY P N KRAFTOId-Fashioned Boiled Salad Dress- ing has a piquant, freshly -blended flavour that adds new pleasure to every salad dish. It offers delightfully rich smoothness . . yet has no oily taste .. Best of all, it costs just one-half the price you're used to paying ... A large, generous size 12. oz, jar costs only 25 cents. Get some to -day. CQdlicerlima Boiled Salad Dress MADE IN CANADA Made by the Makers of Kraft Cheese and Velveeta ameasonsoll Rock Study Vastly Extends Earth's Age Geologist Turns Back Clock Seven Hundred Million Years Washington.- :•vast aeon—known to geologists as Lipalian time-150,- 000,000 ime-150;000,000 years—appears to have, drop- ped completely out of history, aecor1- Deg to Professor Charles Schuchert of Yale University in a report issued by tie National :Research Council. Search the world over has failed to reveal the slightest clue to the er- rant millenniums during which some of the most momentous events in the history of life on earth occurred. The pages of rock on which the long story of life was written before man began to record events seems to have been torn out and thrown away for this period. The record of time, Prof. Schuchert explains, runs back in fairly go•,d order through the period known as Cambrian time, about _500,000,000 years ago. Then there was abundant life in the great oceans. Many of the creatures had hard shells. They died, sank to the bottom and were buried in the mud. Through the millenniums the seas disappeared, the bottom mud became rock and was raised up into mountains. MOLLUSC DAYS. The fossils of the sea creatures were embedded in the rock, so that geolo- gists today know what they looked like and what families they belongd to. Some of them were relativelyy enor- mous creatures, mestsuzing from f ix to. eight incises. They represent practi- cally 1#10the division's of the animal kingdom now found in the seas except those with backbones such as fish, mammals* and reptiles. " Seen iii a museum exhibit today these lords of' creation a half billion years ago look like very primitive creatures. But they are probaoly closer to the highest developed forms of life today than to the most complex forms which preceded them and of which there is record. Just behind them Iie the lost millenniums during which animal life was beginning to take on the evolutionary processes which re tilted in the mammals of many millions of years later, In the next oldest •..known rocks, Prof. Schuchert says; there have been found traces of some primitive sponges,some tiny protozoa -like crea- tures known as foraminifers, trails of wormlike creatures and of some un- known invertebrate animal. There are also limestone deposits of peculiar formation laid down by tiny plants, the blue-green algae, who are still busy in American rivers after almost a billion years. There also are traces of bacteria. Even some of these were . already high in the scale of life, espe- •cially the worm -like creatures known as annelids. SKELETON GROWTH MYSTERY. But, Prof. Schuchert says, "not one of the known animals had yet learned to use lime for skeleton structures, either external or internal, and this when there mst have been present a highly diversified mass of inverte- brates. We know that the pre -Cam- brian seas must have been replete with lime salts in solution. If any of the Send for This FREE BOOK Mari the Attached coupon and we will send you a copy of our new cook book. The Good Provider " with over a hundred delightfui.. recipes for puddings, pies, cakes. pestnes. 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Sce he says, "Lipalian time stands for the unrecovered interval durin which the marine animals evolve mostly from very small floating an swimming forms without exterio skeletons into the much larger an highly diversified life of the Cambrian How long Lipalian time lasted can only be guesse i, since we have no guidance at all from radio -active min- erals or from rates f organic evolu- tion. "There was no more fundamental evolution during the whole of the paleozoic period (the tithe of the be- ginning of life) than is indicated by this interval, and we have guessed its duration to be of the order of 300,- 000,000 00;000,000 years. To be on the safe side in our table we have allowed only half as much time and the future alone can tell how near our guess is to the truth." • The evolution of living creatures, Prof. Schuchert points out in his re- port on the possibility of determining the age of the earth Isom fossils and from the thickness of rocks laid down by sedimentation, appears to have. gone on at such a variable_ gate thrpghout history that it is a verty unreliable guide to elapsed time. Thus certain sea shells now living can be traced back practically with- out change for 400,000,000 years and the race shows no signs of degenerate ing through old age. On the othef• hand snailshells in an artificial lime created in Wisconsin evolved into a recognizably different species in sixty years. On the basis of deposits sedi- mentary rock, Prof. Schuchert made up a calendar of the earth's age back to the beginning of the Archeozoic area—about 700,000,000 years. A Happy Normandy Village "For a good apple year the year has not been too good, but for a b.ad apple year the year has not been too bad." That is the .classical phrase attributed to Norman apple -growers. It is heard in a. thousand variants; You can never', get nearer the facts, Things might have . been better, but then they might have been worse. On the positive side the Norman philosophy is lacking.:, There are no. enthusiasms, Superia- , tives are eschewed Everything is comparative. In my Norman village I constantly heard the non -committal reply. The workmen were putting up an elaborate kitchen with incredible complication of pipes to carry hot water from room to room; and were painting and car- pentering and generally making' my old mill inhabitable in order to Ariake it habitable, Would they have finished in a week? Surely they were -approaching the end? They had already been a month and a half longer than they had led nee to believe. Could I rely on them to complete their task by Wednesday? "Why, as to that," said the enrepre- neur, blowing up his forge, "as to that, it will certainly be well advanced." "What do you mean by well ad- vanced? Do you mean it will be fin- ished or not?" "I cannot say it will be finished, and I cannot say it won't be finished, It will be well advanced." "But you have told me that for. more than a month. What am I to think?" "It will be well advanced" Wordsworth could; not induce the child to alter her simple reckoning: "We are seven." I could not induce the entrepreneur to abandon his phrase: "It will be well advanced." "Well,' said the Mayor of the tiny comrnuae, "rim advice would be—stay on the epot if you would have the house made ready. They have so much work to do that they rush from, one place to another. They do the most urgent jobs, They will never be- lieve"that your job is urgent if you do not take up your abode. Then when they:see you camping in confusion they will take pity on you." I thanked him for his counsel. "Yours must be a happy village If there is more than enough. work for everybody!" He shook his head. "For a village where there is plenty of work there is not too much cause for complaint," he said, The sun shone on the red roofs, ir- regular, old, rain -soaked and sunburnt. The hills on the other side of the river were green enamelled. Their mead- ows were rich and shining. Here and there a cloud, white in the sky, cast deep shadows on the grass. The trees that crowned the slopes showed every hue from pale gold to black. The or- chards on the right were heavy with fruit: For a village where nature was both generous and charming, where there was employment for all," there was little room for grumbling.—From "Between the River and the Hills," by Sisley Huddleston. g The West Through d Eastern Eyes Here we have an interesting and informative article. written by Eimpei Sheba, city editor of the Japan "Times and Mail," wherein we view customs and habits of the Occident as seen by the Orient. Snow Scenes Stepping into the wonderland of white, Our lanes in snow, I am so heaped with bliss I wonder which bewildering wealth to miss That I may hold just bearable delight: Tree -corals or lamp -shadows, moon cut bright, Roofs deep in ermine, tarry barns gone hoar As fabulous rocs that slumber ever- more In a valley of diamonds and forget- ten flight. No, there's a port -hole opening on ro- mance Wider than any Sinbad knew; the hold Burns richer than most ancient Span- ish gold; My breath, my thought hang in a frozen trance Before a ship unanchoring from the stead— The window of a child just gone to bed. Geoffrey Johnson. Speeding Up the Trees The English Lake District Is now undergoing a .process of transforma- tion, large areas, formerly bare, hav- ing been planted with trees, which are gradually changing the appearance of the mountain -sides. This is part of the systematic plant- ing of trees fox' timber which is now in process in Great Britain. Side by side with this, experiments are going on with a view tel producing the Per- fect tree for timber purposes, The object of these experiment:`: is to produce trees which will come more quickly to maturity, and yet which will yield sound timber, Some of the l trees which grow fastest aro, unfor- tunately, unsatisfactory in other ways.' But it is hoped that, as a result of selection and cross -breeding, for in- stance, poplars which will be ready for felling after twenty years. �. KNOWLEDGE True knowledge is to know how little can be known— $ore Just as our Japanese days appear unaccountable to you, so your Occi- dental ways are equally unaccountable to us. Suppose I set- down a few of the customs, observed during a brief stay in the United States, which seam strange to a Japanese:" It is early morning in a typical American home. • You are resting on soft pillows and spring beds. We are different even while we sleep, since in Japan people lie on hard beds and rest their heads on firm pillows, those reed by the women encased in wooden sheaths. Presently you awake. You sit up and stretch yourselves, facing the foot of the bed. As we in Japan rise, we make a turn so that. when we stretch ourselves, we have our faces turned in the pposite direction, lo - ward ma pif o''v.— to orua,r,.,,s y..�, teeth you devote as little time as pea. :sibie to the undertaking. Our .-oun- trymen take as long as possible. In fact it is not uncommon for a Japan- ese of the lower classes to be seen out on a morning's work in the neighbor- hood of his home, brushing his teeth. After washing your faces, you use a dry towel. We wipe our faces with a moist towel. As the typical American fa nily is about to sit down to brealct'ast, the mistress of the house may call to her. husband, "Harry, won't you run up- stairs and bring me something to put over my shoulders?" And Harry runs up In a Japanese family, Mr. Sato would be sitting at the breakfast table while his wife was still busy in the kitchen As she came into the dining room. Mr. Sato might call out: "Run up, will you, and fetch my glasses,," Mrs. Sato would obediently 'fasten upstairs. Yes, it seems we do things in exa.t- ly the opposite way—even tie saying grace. In American homes, if grace is said, it is before food that is eaten by the living. In Japan prayers are recited only before food that is prof- fered to the dead. And, when we say grace, we have our faces turned up, while you pray with your faces turned down. American and European wo- men in mourning wear black dresses. whereas ein Japan -women wear only white during this sad period. On the other hand. black is the conventional costume worn at weddings in Japan. Your people develop love before marriage, and it very frequently hap- pens that this love grows less intense as the months lass after the ..ere mony. Our people frequently develop love only after the marriage ceremony is over; for in the majority of cases the man and woman : re not sufficient- ly well -acquainted even to hold hands during the period of their engagement. A Japanese carpenter pulls his saw, while an American pushes his. In using a pair of scissors your womee- tolk operate the handle end, while we push together the tips. You stand your umbrellas with the handle end' up; we stand ours with the handle down. In carrying a closed umbrella you hold the handle, but we dangle curs from a string attached to the op- posite end. In entering a house you first of all take off your headgeer. The first thing we do is to remove our footgear. If you have brought a guts: home with you and he has a gift, he presents it immediately, Our custom is to leave the gift on parting. In presenting the gift, you inform your host that it is someth ng very nice and you hope he will like it. In Japan x o assure our friend that anything we may choose to present as a gift is really Of no Value and we know he will have little use for it. You open a gift in the presence of the person who gives it to you. In Japan this is never done. Our "after dinner" speeches are made before dinner. in Japan people will wait hours, drinking tea. before commencing to eat but will leave as soon as the meal is over. In western countries people object to waiting for their meals but will stay for hours after their meals, drinking coffee. In the Occident people are supposed to eat all that is on their plates. This is bad taste in Nippon. You stand as a sign of respect, but in Japan it is disrespectful to stand -one must always sit on the floor in greet- ing a guest. Again, in America it is regarded as undignified to have no furniture in a room. In Japan it is undignified to have furniture in a MOM, We differ not only in our actiots but in the way in which we look at things. For instance, a European visitor to Nippon finds a litter of un- wanted puppies left in the bushes. He cannot, .help protesting against such cruelty. %=. On, the other hand, when a Japanese hears that in western co'.m- tries unwanted pups are killed, he will ask, "How does, any one know that the to>:,;,.w.v.y.1,itr'S Y1to•...•...,, �.,7',9Y> r�nirt, that it is Metter for the puppies to be painlessly put to death than to be left in the bushes where their chance of keeing alive is very small indeed, he is certain' to ask: "Why then are, not famine -stricken people in China killed. painlessly?" Take the case of aged people. Elder- ly folk in America generally do not live with their grown-up children. In Japan the children. out of considera- tion for their parents, prefer" suffering a Iittle discomfort—often it is a great deal of discomfora—to having their parents live apart from them. Another matter in which the Jap- anese differ is in smiling when thy are. reprimanded. This has caused a great deal of misunderstanding be- tween foreign employers and Japan- ese employes—almost as much mis- understanding as the Japanese custom of actually saying no when yes is meant, and vice versa. Visitors to Japan frequently Mai it di ficult to keep from laughing out- right en observing some of the ridicu- lous things we do in an effort to affect western ways. This is especially true in the case of English signboards. "Ladies have fits inside," you may read over a dressmaker's shop; or "Have your head cut here," over a barber shop. When the first train was run be- tween Tokyo and Yokohama, the late Meiji Emperor attended the memor- able ceremony. To be in keeping with the wave of westernization that than swept the eountz'y, the Emperor plan- ned to ride to the station in a horse- drawn .carriage rather than in the court palati iuin. The only difficulty in using a carriage was to find a suitable livery for the driver. After a search in the official wardrobe, a foreign gar- ment was discovered which seemed to answer very well. It was dignified, had buttons and decorative stripes and was said to have been bought at a foreign auction in Yokohama. So His Majesty rode in his new carriage, and all seemed wen to Japanese eyes. But 0 KEEP YOURSELF HEALTHY The lot of most people Is much indoor work and .little real est. milk. That's why it's sensible, every se often,to give the systeoa a.gentle, thorough cleatutme with lir. Carter's Little Liver P All vegetable. 60 years 25e & 75c red packages ,Ask your druggist for MRS =PILLS ISSUE No. 37- 1, Oh. JkliVt&44.1A wo.„ ►� :; A - . D OSEGOOX40 2,CVMACE. SLIMS '1RP lialrel .?4 OraqiiikIctoe A was difficult for foreigners among the spectators to keep from laughing. and naturally so. The driver was in pajamas! But there are things in America which seem just as ridiculous to Jap anese eyes. For instance, in New York recently, when I happened to be walking on Fifth Avenue, I beheld a sight which almost caused me to hold my sides lest I burst from laughter. For what should I behold in midday and in the very heart of the greatest city in the world but an American woman pridefully walking along, wearing a dark blue Japanese coat, or "bappi," on the bails of which, in flar- ing red Japanese characters six inches in height, were the -words "Fire Ex- tinguisher." It was a coat patterned after those issued by the Tokyo fire c:epartment. So, hereafter, to the American visi- tor in Japan who exclaims, "Gosh, you're a strange people!" permit me to reply—in a spirit of friendship, of course—"The same to you." The Bible It Iays a pillow for the weary head, It puts a staff within the pilgrim's hand, It meets us at each bend of life's rough road, It evermore anticipates our range, It is a guide to life's last boundary line, It opens wells no drought of Time can fill, It satisfies the most artistic sense, It is a gallery of matchless charm, It is an honest critic of the soul, It Is a cheque-book we too seldom use,. It kindles hones beyond our fondest dreams, It has a balm for every wounded heart, It speaks a language that all under- stand, It ends in an apocalypse of gold. —Alexander Louis Fraser. Done to a Turn A new system of memory training was lilting taught in a village school, end thm. tQa'Cht y ;ae:..s :4w .,i, ttnusiaet ,<, "Porei'instance,' he said, "supposing you want to remember the name of a poet—Bobby Burns. Fix in your mind's eye a picture of a policeman in flames. See—Bobby Burns?" "Yes, I see," said a bright pupil. "but how is one to know it does not represent Robert Browning?" 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