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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-02-07, Page 3FIRST TUDOR SEDAN OWNED BY QUEEN MARY. The earliest coach and the latest sedan --both Tudors! Queen, Mary's was the.°karst Tudor sedaa. Creation of the original Tudor se- dan is credited to "one Walter Rip - pen," by ' Ralph Strauss in his "Car- ," ridges and Coaches, Their History and Evolution." "Rippon's first coach is supposed to have been built for Queen Mary in 1556," says Strauss, "and in 1564 the first 'hollow -turning' coach with pia lars and arches, for Queen Elizabeth, ' though precisely what is meant by `hollow -turning' coach is difficult to conjecture. "This. same Rippon, twenty-four years later, built another coach for the' Queen which is described as 'a chariot throne with four • pillars be- hind, to bear a crown imperial,,, on the top, and before two lower pillars w ereon ,stood a lion and a dragon, 'the supporters of the arms of Eng- land." "It could not •.have been very com- fortable," observes. Strauss, "and Elizabeth seems to have preferred an- other coach brought out of Holland by one William Boonen, who about 1560 was made her coachman, a position he was still occupying at the end of the century. "Boonen was .a Dutchman,whose wife is said to have introduced the' art of starching into England, whence followed those huge ruffs so conspic- • ' uous in all the Elizabethan portraits. "Boonen's coach could be opened and closed at .pleasure. On the occa- sion of the Queen's . pIa'ssing through the town of Warwick she had 'every part and side of her coach to be opened, that all of her subjects pre- sent might behold her, which most gladly they desired.' "This coach is described as 'on four wheels with seven spokes, which are apparently bound round with thick, wooden rims aec`ured by. pegs." "Even this coach, however, can not have been very comfortable and in 1568, when the French Ambassador obtained an audience, Elizabeth. was complaining of `aching pains' from being knocked about in a coach driven too fast a few days before. "'No wonder,' comments one his- torian; 'Haat the great Queen used her coach only when occasions of state demanded.' " LIFE OF TIRE HINGES ON CON- DITION OF VALVE CARE. "A very delicate piece of. metal about one inch loiig, faced on one end with a slight piece of rubber and sur- rounded by a small spring of very delicate nature, plays an exceedingly important part in the life of every automobile tire. It is known as the valve core. It is the little metal strip which '.screws into the inside of the valve stem. In large pneumatic cas= ings it is called upon to hold back a force of more than 100 pounds which automatically increases with severe road bumps," says "Automobile Di- gest." "A valve core frequently lasts as long as the casing, but tire experts recommend that this little piece of mechanism be watched carefully -at all times so that it will be in good work- ing condition and will not permit any of the air to escape from the tube. If the spring grows weak or the rubber becomes worn, a new core should be inserted." WRENCH HOLDS PIPE. A pipe cannot be held very securely in the ordinary type of bench vise, as the jaws permit only a single line contract on each side of the pipe. By using a monkey -wrench, with the jaws placed along the axis of the pipe, the effect produced is almost the same as that of a pipe vise. The wrench should be set so that it bears on the pipe only on the edges of the jaw. SPARE IS BAD BUMPER. Never use the spare tire on the rear for a bumper. The Idle Gold Piece. Idle money, like idle people, has no proper place in the world. Don't hoard your money; keep it employed. Put it into the savings bank that it may help along the great undertakings of busi- ness. That excellent advice comes from the Boston. Herald, which tells this remarkable little story, of a gold pieces In 1840 an attractive 'ten -year-old girl, brought to Boston to visit a rich uncle who had just returned from European adventures, received from him at parting a ten -dollar gold piece. She keptit as a memento. When she died fifty years later she gave it to a favorite niece, who kept it as an heir- loom. It has recently passed into the hands of another young woman, whose fath- er, aman of a practical turn of mind, said to her: "That gold piece has been loafing long enough. We will put it to work." And so he has deposited: it in the bank, but first he did a little sum. If the original gift had been invested at once at six per cent. interest, a rate that could have been obtained during most of the time that the gold piece was idle, it would have amounted at the time his daughter received it to some twelve hu1idred dollars! . Why Not Sing? Anyone can sing, even if they only make feeble or gruff noises in the pro- cess. In any case it 3s surprising how quickly, gruffness or feebleness devel- ops into clear and pleasant sound by means of a little exercise of the voice. Singing Is of great benefit to every- body who "practises it. Its value to the health of the individual by means of its effect upon chest, lungs, heart, and •blood -circulation, is admittedly great. And the pleasure to be had by the singer from his ever so elementary trolling of a song or two, Is not les great. Some of the ,eminent singers, and hundred% of those .who sing *ell and give enjoyment to many hearers., began by emitting no more than the thinnest stream of sound. Nearly everyone has a voles that can be made to sing with some or other acceptance. If the good singing voice is a rare gift, the ordinary singing voice is a common possession. That shyness overthe sound of his own voice which so often affects the first appearance of the public speaker, is repeated in the potential singer who won't sing. It is only shyness, in most cases, which de- ters us: That Lotlging to Ply. "German aviators say it's quite pea- table ,to ffy to the North Pale,"" "We11, you can't blame 'em for.00 »W lidering any lit.le trip that would take 'em out or! Gerfeany just now." When Eyes Tell Lies. A well-known optician recently made the startling assertion that color- blindness is usually inherited, and not the result of disease. Sometimes, like gout, it skips a generation. People who are color- blind are always supersensitive: There have been cases where men of seventy • have hidden color -blindness from their friends throughout their lives! The famous chemist Dalton, a Quak- er, who first discovered color -blindness in himself in 1792, had only three nor- mal color sensations instead of six. 'A flower which he was told was pink looked blue to his eyes, and in candle- light reddish. When he cut his chin one day he saw bottle -green blood flowing from the wound! About a hundred years ago there lived a shoemaker who could not tell brown shoes from black, and always persisted in saying that anything pink was green. Somepeople are color-blind in only one eye. While the right eye may see red as red, the left sees it as black. A High Style. The ready wit of Henry Erskine, ;at one time lord advocate of England, has been preserved' in many ]aughable stories. Mr. Walter Jerrold in A Book of Famous Wits records several of his amusing sallies. One day Erskine met a verbose friend and, perceiving that his ankle was tied up with a silk hand- kerchief, asked what had happened. "Why, my dear sir," came the ans- wer, "I was taking a romantic ramble in my brother's grounds when, com- ing to a gate, I had to climb over it, by which I came in contact with tha first bar, and have grazed the epider- mis on my skin, attended with a slight .extravasation of blood." "You may thank your lucky stars," said Erskine, "that your brother's gate was not so lofty as your style, or you must have broken your neck!" Under His Breath. TwoIrishmen Ir men got into trouble at the factory in which they worked. The foreman sent for them. Pat was call- ed into his office first and Mike waited outside, After thefateful interview the form- er' came out. Mike inquired how he had got on. ' "Splendid," said Pat. "I simply told him to go to Hades." Fortified with fresh. courage, Mike went in, to take his medicine. A few ia1utes later he came out looking very" despondent. "What happened to you?" said Pat. "1 got the sack," replied Mike. "What for?" "Well, I followed your example, and sent him to a warm climate." "Did he hear you?"'said Pat, in as- tonishment. "Of course lte heard me," "You silly idiot," replied Pat. ] spoke, under lily breath.'' Ice takes about four and a half years to travel from the. Arctic Ocean north' of Siberia 'to the East Greenland ctirrent, where it begins to affect weather in England. TESTAMENTARY "Same day," said Perkins B. McGill, "I'll take an hour and Make my will. It is a job that T despise, although I know it's sane and wise, for it reminds the shirking skate that he'll be some day in a crate, and o'er his head the goats will browse, and also sheep and bob -tailed cows. -It should be clone, I must admit, and shortly 1'11 attend to it, but just at present, as you see, I'm busy as a bumble bee, and I shall let it, slide, I wot, until my work slacks up a lot." While he pursued his useful game a dark blue auto climbed his frame. He gave a few brief anguished pants, and bade farewell to wife and aunts, and journeyed to that shin- ing shore where autos, butcher folks' no more. And his affairs were badlymixed; to get things st'raightened up and fixed, ad- ministrators and their clan came in a stately caravan. A second cousin filed a suit, a lawyer looked around for loot, and creditors sprung large accounts, and fakers asked for large amounts, and hungry relatives appeared with claims detestable and weird. • And when it was all settled up the widow drew the Airedale pup, and all the balance went to pay the casts—which is the good old way. The widow's busy •scrubbing floors and doing other drastic chores, and as she toils she murmurs still, "If Perkins had but made a will!" Anthem and Antiphon . Most people know that the word "Anthem" comes from the old "Anti- phon," which consisted of psalm verses sung from side to side of the choir, or alternately by men's and boys' voices. Not so many realize, however, how old the term and the style of music for which it was invent= ed are. It was •described asbeing very ancient by Philo, the Jew, a writer of the first century of the Christian Era,and this is confirmed. by the study of the old services of Jews and Greeks. St. Augustine and his fellow -missionaries are said to have entered Canterbury singing one of the Litanies of that time in Anti- phon. The modern Anthem; however, in spite of its name, comes from a much later style of music, and is more like the motet which in Roman Cath- olic Churches usually is sung where, in the Church of England, the Offer- tory sentences occur. Mirrors for Repairs. The last place one would .expect to find a mirror is in the au&o-repair shop: Yet a collection of small mirrors will be found to be very useful tools. l'or instance, when examining the differential, into which a light cannot; be inserted, a small mirror will be found useful to reflect the light from a lamp into the deeper recesses. Again, when working in back of the instrument board, a mirror may be placed on the floor of the car, reflect- ing the light upward. .. One great advantage of -this is that the light need not be held close to the face, which not only makes for dis- comfort but frequently defeats its own purpose by supplying sufficient Iight temporarily to blind the worker. It is a good plan to attach handles to the mirrors, so that they may be in- serted into narrow places. Commands That Clashed. Little Billy was visiting his grand- mother, and she was doing her best to give the small bay a good time. The morning after his arrival she called one of the neighbor's children over to play with him. , "There now," remarked grandma, in her kindliest tone. "You two can have a good time together." But the two boys merely stared at each other across the room, and grandma could not quite understand it. "Come now, children," she said. "Go on out into the garden, Billy, and strike an acquaintance." "But, grandma,' complained the lit- tle boy, "mother told me just before I came away not to light." Bargains. There are no bargains In the counter sales of Life, We think so, but some unexpected day We find our purchase Is a worn and shoddy thing, So after all in that "long last"—we • pay. • Experience That comes at prices all too high Is packed so often in the waste of tears, But when unwrapped . It will intrinsic value • show; Its worth will not diminish with its years. There are no bargains In the counter sales of Life, . But Time alone can teach us how to choose; Can show us that What seemed a loss is really gain, And where we bought for little—we shall lose. —Nan Terrell Reed. He Had Already Stolen Her Heart. Ellen, the cook, was of a suspicious nature. She distrusted mankind in general and banks in particular; she never banked her frugal savings. Part :of her wages were-hoarde t, in a stock- ing‘, in. tocking4,in. some obscure corner of her x m = "L`ii n's ".`gentlemen friend" was theaaaeighboring butcher, and as the 'friendship prayed . enduring her mis- tress was not astonished when the girl announced her pending marriage. "And I want to ask you, mum," said Elien, "what's the best way to put my money in the bank?" Her mistress regarded her in as- tonishment. "Why, Ellen, I thought you didn't believe in banks!" "No more I do, mum," replied the girl, "but since I'm going to be married next week I kinder feel the money would be safer in the bank than in the house with a strange naan about," Room for an Empire: ,Saskatchewan has room for another empire north of Prince Albert and North Battlefofa, in which agriculture canthrive well, said the Right Rev. Dr. G.'Eafen Lloyd, Bishop of Sas- batchewan, an his return from a six weeks' tour of the limits of settle- ment in his diocese. His trip of 2,400 miles was taken ostensibly to survey the possibilities of further settlement c:f war veterans from Britain. The country available in the districts re- ferred to could provide hones and liv- ings for a quarter of a million, was his estimate. I --AND THE WORST IS YE T TO COME RSIs f 517iVa1-`( Mo CoOki N ' N0i WAaar+!NN „al.wWED 114 R1OMe. r1RS4RIMES. 1-ANDLAmo w � g e . - �`may 1;. ----'\ ur a 1 Stories About Well -Known People Mastering the Atom. With his entrancing personality and his patience with less olev.er people, Sit William Bragg is a scientist who proves that all professors are not "as dry as dust." Sir William has achieved a world- wide reputation by his services to science in connection with X-ray re- search, and in 1916 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. You should have ,seen him as a kind of "uncle," explaining` the atom to children at a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, London.. He did conjuring tricks with a dish of sand placed' on a beaten drum, a lead ball : sinking izrto the sand .and a celluloid sailor bobbing up most quaintly. The children came away talking of the ninety wonderful worlds wrapped up in the ninety different. atoms, and of how Sir William put ping-pong balls into a tank and made them mysteriously race to the centre, to illustrate how electrons form around an atom. Putting Color into Films. It is good to know that a Briton, Mr. Claude Friese-Greene, has invented a way of making colored films that satisfy the eye 'and do not exhaust the pocket. Only twenty-five. he is, the son of the late Mr. W. Friese-Greene, one of the pioneers of the film industry, who paved the way for others to make big fortunes but died himself compara- tively poor. Mr. Claude Freese -Greene is going to add lustre to an already famous name. Business WAman of Eighty. Alert and nimble-dngered despite. her eighty years, Mrs,. F, G. Kettle is one of •Loddon', most wonderful bust-. nese women. For sizty years she bas acted as cashier in her husband's shop and all .day sits at a pay desk in New Oxford Street. Who said that modern "business is a worry? airs, ICettle keeps serenely on, living proof that the introduction of women into business is not quite so recent as we sometimes think. Spelling Reform Overdone. The famous American evangelist, Mr. "l3illy" Sunday, attributes much of his success as a public orator to the fact that he speaks to his hearers in language they are familiar with and can easily understand. "It's no good talking ever the heads' of your audience," he told a reporter the other day, and as an illustration of his meaning he went on to tell the story of Mr. Curran and Mr. McManus. The two friends came to New York tosee the sights. Among the objects was a fine new public building. The feature of this building that appealed most strongly to Mr. Curran was an inscription cut into a huge stone. "MDCCCXLVIIL," he read aloud. "What sloes them letters mean, Tim?" "That inscription," replied the cul- tured Mr. McManus, "stands for 1848." "Oh!" replied Mr. Curran. Thea after a thoughtful pause, he added: "Don't yez think, Tim, that these New Yorkers are overdoin' a bit this new craze for spellin' reform?" Tall Women. I love to watch tall women when they go Slenderly, as they shoultd, and some- what slow— Unhurried, gracious, altogether sure That they are comely. Yet a shade demure. Loved women, who know life and are complete In every little circumstance of joy— Who have quaffed deep the cup and know the taste • Of those lastbitter lees. . . I see them go Raptly, with steadiness and undis- mayed By any small inconsequence of days. High hearted and insuciant, I think Tall women are, and wholly underter- red By trite opinions. I have watched ahem go Their straight unhindered ways with swinging stride, And lithe and lovely, with a• careless pride In their so stately bearing. So I say, Tall women, thoroughbred, intrigue my eyes With their long lines of beauty, when they go Slenderly, as they should, and some- what slow. —Barbara Young. The Fundamental Beauty of Music. Too many persons regard music and its performance as some sort of mys- tery, comprehensive only to those pos- sessed of special training, whereas to a certain extent any one who has a good ear and will apply common sense to this consideration of music can de- termine whether he ought to enjoy it or not. If music is an art at all it is the art of beauty in sound. We need not tor- ment ourselves by trying to arrive at a definition of beauty. Let us confess at once that beauty has never been successfully defined and that it is en- tirely a matter of opinion. But the fact remains tbat among the cultivated peoples of the world there is a pretty general view that its fundamental beauty is the beauty of tone. If the sounds produced by instruments or voices are harsh, rough, impure, or, in a word, noises rather than musical tones, beauty cannot exist. For that reason we may without hesitation as- sert that the chief object of all musi- cal technique is the. production of euphonious tone. Probably that is what Liszt had in mind when he de- clared that three things were needed to make a pianist. First, technique; second, technique; third, technique: What he undoubtedly meant was that a perfect and inexhaustible technique is essential to good piano playing for the reason that without it nothing o ng can lye made to sound beautiful.. Evensong. The embers of the day are red, 1 Beyond the murky hill,. The kitchen smoke; the bed In the darkling house is spread; The great sky darkens overhead, And the great woods are shrill, So far have I been led, i Lord, by Thy will; So far I have followed, Lord, and won- dered stili. The breeze from the embalmed land, Blows sudden toward the shore, And claps my cottage door, I hear the signal, Lord ---I understand, The night at Thy command Conies. 1 will eat and sleep and will not question more, —R. L. Stevenson,; Chatfield said "Iluinanity is much' more shown in our conduct toward animals, where we are irresponsible except to heaven, than towards our. fellow -creatures, where we are con- strained by the laws, by public olein-` ion and fear of retaliation." • Winter Trees. The winter trees have kinship with the skies When the pale sun of February lies Upon the level west and the air ie cold; Then the last chilly rays like splinter- ed gold Come slanting up the fields, and swift they set A torch in every treetop,—in the net Of naked birches, in the maple brush A twig or two will glimmer like a rush; And up the apple trunks a pinkness pour, And copper lights are in the sycamore. But soon the sunliglit wanes, and sud- • den slips The lovely glazing from the maple tips, And strikes along the evening cloud and glows In richest plummy hues and burnished rose. And now by field and dusky wood and lane The trees are faded down 'to .drab again. Only the upper branches in the sky Reach for the colored clouds as they go by, Tangle them in their boughs and pull, them down And wear them like a soft arboreal crown. —Christine Curtis. Platinum Substitutes. The great increase in the value of platinum during the last two decades has led many investigators to seek substitutes therefor. It appears that the search has been partly successful. Platinum clad nickel steel wire in in- candescent lamps; wires of nickel al- loys are now making the cheaper grades 01 artificial teeth; asbestos threads are taking the place of plati- num wires in gas mantles, and fused quartz ware has come into general use in chemical laboratories in the place of platinum utensils. Yet the intro- duction of these substitutes has not affected the price of platinum. The demand for the metal seems steadily to have increased 'in spite of then!. Bicycling is the most popular form of locomotion in France. Recent tax returns show that there are more than five millian bicycles in the coun- try—many more than there were in any earlier year. Where the mind continues to live every hour of the day, the body will also live in the course of time; and what we continue to imagine our- selves being or doing, without inter- ruption, and with deep faith and feel- ing, we will finally do and become in reality.—Christian D. Larson. A Clever Ruse. Farmer whof Farmers suffered from the us- ual pilferings of motorists the past season might try the plan that a sum- mer hotel manager adopted. He had planted a flower garden, but the guests broke off blossoms whenever they pleased and. were not particularly careful to avoid injuring the plants. Signs, "Do not pick the flowers," had little or no effect, but when the pro• prietor repainted the signs to read, "Flowers for sale" the depredations stopped immediately. And Avoid Clisappointtnent. "Many of the in -Migrants arriving in this country come here in search of liberty." "You dr :01, moan it's Why don't they take the little trouble necessary: to write to some native-born. Amerlcan before they ,set out? •