HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-10-09, Page 7WINDOW DISP
Although winter and spring flpw.er-
lag bulbous plants, such as hyacinths,
tulips and daffodils, are so ,easily
grown in rots, yet their culture by the
home gardener is not taken up to the
extent they deserve.
The flowers are in the dry bulb when
purchased, and all that is necessary is
to place thew in Boil in pots and put
away in a cool place until they are well
rooted; then on bringing hem into . a
heated room, preferably a sunny win -
OW, every bulb will in duo course
• send faith its buds,
Neither greenhouse nor garden is
required to assist us in growing these
beautiful flowers in pots or bowls, and
there is little risk of failure, provided
that a few simple rules are observed.
To get the best out of our winter-
flowering bulbs it is well to make an
early start and • so obtain abundant
root formation before attempting to
force them into bloom. It cannot, in-
deed, be too strongly impressed' upon
the grower that to pot them up and
then place the pots in a warm room is
simply courting failure. The pots =set
be stored where it is dark and cool,
thus following the bulbs' natural habit
of growth as when planting thesis deep-
ly in the open ground.
The hyacinth is the favorite and
most dependable of our winter-flower-
ing
interflowering bulbous plants when grown in the
house. The most suitable compost for
potting is mode by using two-thirds of
good turfy loom, very old dry manure
that can be rubbed through a fine sieve
and a little sande To this may be add-
ed charcoal broken up quite small. In-
stead of manure, leaf mold may be
substituted, or good garden soil may
be used instead.
The soil should, be used in a some-
what dry state to make the work of
potting pleasant, and herein lies the
advantage of preparing the compost
wine time before it is required. If old
pots are to be used, they should be
washed, scrubbed quite clean and al-
lowed to dry before potting begins.
The size most suitable for a single
hyacinth bulb is a pot five inches in
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The bowls and vases used inust be
non -porous and without holes in the
bottom, so that they may be arranged:
in the homewithout fear of damage to
tables or other furniture, The most
suitable sizes are from four and one-
half to twelve inches in diameter and
from three to Ave incites deep.
The peat or moss fibre to use in the
bowls is a mixture . of_ fibre, charcoal
and finely, broken shell. No drainage
is required, but place several pieces of
charcoal at the bottom of each bowl
to absorb excessive moisture, and also
to sweeten the mixture, Over the
charcoal spread two or three inches of
the fibre. Moisten it if it is at all
dry, but it must not be soaked.
The bulbs are now placed in position •,
on the fibre, and more of the fibre is
worked in between the bulbs with the
fingers; it must be gently pressed, but
beware of making it too firm, Small
bulbs, such as crocuses, 'scillasand
snowdrops', should be covered with the
fibre, whereas hyacinths; tulips and
daffodils are not quite covered; allow'
the tips of the bulbs to show above
the -surface" The bowl is filled to
within, half an inch of the top with
fibre, thus allowing amble space for
watering.
The bowls w s are first stored in a dark
but perfectly cool place, . but from
which frost is excluded. Here they re-
niain'for from six to eight or even ten
weeks, depending upon the growth
and also the kind of bulb. Examine
the bowls once a week; if the fibre ap-
pears dry water must he supplied, but
excessive moisture at this stage may
lead to. decay. If the fibre appears to
bo too dry tilt the bowl to drain off
the superfluous moisture. When
growth is well advanced and the bulbs
are brought to the light, water will be
given more abundantly.
•AN1 THE WORST it
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tiu,uer.,,
We laugh heartily to see a whole
flock of sheep jump because one did
so. Might not one imagine that sup-
erior beings do the same, and for
exactly the same reason?—Greville.
Hercule Lununis of Wyebridge, Ontario, is the envy of the other boys of
his town, because of his pet red deer, which he has tamed and tared for
since the animal was very young.
diameter. .e 1, six-inch size will hold
three bulbs.
Plantingthe Bulbs.
Place a good piece of crock broken
flower pot --over the hole at the bot-
tom of the pot, then fill the same with
the compost loosely. A hole is then
made for tbo bulb, scooping it out with
the fingers, but not so deep that the
bulb is entirely Covered. The top is
left above the soil. When in position
press the soil down, but not too firmly.
When potting is completed give
them. a thorough soaking with water
before placing in the dark. If the com-
post was very dry, it may be necessary
to repeat the watering two or three
times to make sure that the soil is
thoroughly wet in the bottom of the
pot. The pots are now put away in the
dark for six or eight weeks, when they
are gone over and those in a forward
state of growth are removed to a cool
room and placed In subdued light.
As the pots are thoroughly watered
when stored, no further moisture is
needed until they are removed, when
care :mist be taken that the soli never
become..dry, When 'in the warm liv-
ing• ooin it may be necessary to water
them at least once a day, " With two or
three dozen pots of hyacinths to draw
upon and by bringing two or more.
pots tothe light at intervals of seven
days the season of bloom rna:v be ex-
tended for several week's.
Daffodils or narcissuses are hidis-
pens•able to our colieetiorl of spring -
flowering window plants; their bright
yelloar, white or lemon -colored dainty
blossoms are unrivaled by all other
stating blossoms. The bulbs must be
well rooted before attempting to force
them, for if introduced to Heat before
fe`strong root system,' has been com-
pleted blind flowers, will be the result.
A Sasrinating Way ,of fgrr;wring.
A roost fasdnating way of growing
bulbs is to plant thesis in fibre. All
that is required is a dark cool room, a
supply of good bulbs, fibre and some
bowls in which to grow them, and
liter a light ;Window.
The Kremlin.
Peter the Great hated Moscow. and
above all, that stroughold of intrigue
and crime, the Kremlin. He was
raised -there e,3 a child, but he never
lived there in his mature years. When l
the great Napoleon captured Mos•cow-_
in 1812, or rather when the desperate
Russians fired the-eity and left him to t
camp among its ruin,', the Kremlin t
still •stood, and the emperor, always a b
trifle theatrical, insisted on sleeping
in the bed of Peter the Great. It was
a boy's bed, in a ,small and stuffy room
and very damp, but Napolelon curled
up in it, looking anything but digni-
fled, The next morning he was asked f
how he slept and what he dreamed.
"I did not dream," he replied, gruffly,
"but I caught a confounded cold."
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3,5130 MII.F.S IN THE
ARCTIC
Three thousand five hundred miles
on foot across frozen land and frozen
sea, the discovery of two new lands,
i meals of boiled sealskin and ox -hide,
1 wading for miles through icy lakes of
water above a solid sea -top, and finally
to be "marooned" on an Arctic island
and dramatically rescued—with the
thermometer sometimes down to 50
below zero, and blizzards blowing—
such are some of the features of Har
old Noise's "With Stefansson in the
Arctic."
Noice jeined Stefansson, and this
relief expedition to Wrangel Island
last year, was nineteen when he went
in the.. whaier that discovered the
"lost" Stefansson on Banks Island in
1915—Stefansson, the head of the
Canadian Arctic Expedition, who,
when his ship was crushed in the ice,
calmly set off northward hop with two
companions across the frozen Beaufort
Sea, intending to live on what he could
find!
Sleeping•in Snow Huts.
The world ,gave him up for dead,
while he was in fact discovering Bor-
den Island.
Noise joined Stefansson, tand this
book isthe record of two Rears' ex-
ploration with Stefansson hundreds of
miles north of the Arctic Circle, liv-
ing mainly on seal and caribou,' and
sleeping in snow huts.
By the time he was •twenty-one
Noice had done more than 2,200 miles
by sledge and dog -team. He had been
the first man to set foot on Meighen
Island ---away north of where Frank-
lin and his crew perished.
Stefansson took possession of this
land in the name of the King on be-
half of the Dominion of Canada. This
was on June 15th, 1916. There were
three men on the trip.
The return from Meighen Island
took them across an area previously
reported as land, but this supposed
land they found "buried under some
hundredfathoms of salt water." They
found themselves "out at sea •on near•
y impassable ice."
Next year-1917—Voice went with
Stefansson still farther north across
he frozen sea about level with the
op of Greenland—and the little party
arely escaped disaster.
Encased In Ice for Seventy Years.
Later a wonderful thing happened. I
They oaine to Dealy Island, off Mel-
ville Island, and sawa pole sticking up'
rom a pyramid of rocks. Near it was
the depot left in 1858 by Captain Kel-
lett, of the Franklin Search' Expedi-
tion!
"Great;; oaken barrels., three tiers
deep. stopd cased in snow and ice. We
opened` some of the barrels. Some
contained heavy wool sweaters;
others fine brass -buttoned, scarlet -
colored; and satin lined broadcloth
peayackets; others had brightly -color-
ed, fancifully -designed mittens. There
were barrels of long leather sea -boots,
felt shoes, knitted underwear."
Why is Lightning Forked?
Science recognizes several kinds of
lightning, although authorities differ
as to whether some types are not iden-
tical and merely appear different be-
cause of the peculiarities of. human
vision.:
Forked lightning is the most common
type. The irregular . path of the»,dis-
charge, is believed to be clue to the
pressure of solid particles and electri-
cal charges that make a jagged course
along the path of least resistance.
Sheet`.;' lightning, which illuminates
large areas of the sky, is, believed to
be merely the reflection of forked light-
ning froth a°distance.'
The `majorityof victims of lightning
are not killed instantly. They are
merely stunned,, and can be revived
by the"a Plication ofartificial respire-
tion and the, other first-aid' measures
commonly employed in eases of drown-
ing and asphyxiation.
Most of the exceptionally tall struc-
tures of the world have been struck
by lightning > more than once, but have
escaped damage because the lightning
has been carried harmlessly to the
ground by ''lightning -rods, The Eiffel
Tower in Paris, has been struck many
tines without daniage, despite the be-
lief that •lightning never strikes twice
in the sante, place,
I A single flash of lightning concen-
trates many times more energy than
could` be produced at one instant by
all the power. plants in the world.
In Line Wlth Her Wish.
Pussy Patient—"I felt so 111 that I
wanted to die, doctor."
Doctor—"Ah,, then you were per-
fectly right to -;send for me."
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l,1any people claim that their corns
warn them of weather changes. But
probably the corn is merely register-
ing change in the shoe leather. This
varies with the amount of moisture
in the air. A 2 per cent. change from
normal either way is all the average
foot can stand without discomfort.
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Gold was probablythe first metal
to be used by man. Metallic gold was
fouird•in the beds of streams. It was
used for ornaments before any other
metal was discovered. The first metal'
put to practical use was copper, made
into knives and other implement's at
least 6,000 years ago. 1
Stories About: WeH1 nown People
The Home -Maker.
"The greatest, week it the world,"
is how Mise 1Viargaret Bondfleld, M.P,,
describes• houreenaking.
"Some woman," she sand recently,
seem to think that it is better to be
an architect pr a doctor than a home-
maker, I hold ,entirely the contrary
view. It is the duty of women to build
up the life of the family around them.
I have no patience with women who
leave their husbands and children
more or less to themselves' while they
seek outside work because it is more
intellectual. Home and children need
the greatest intellectual effort in the
world."
Miss Bendfleld' is one of the most in-
teresting women of the day, As Sec-
retary to the Ministry of Labor she is
the first woman to hold a Ministerial
post in Britain, She was once a shop -
assistant.
Painleve and His Trunk.
Paul Painleve, president of the
French Chamber of Deputies, has a
reputation for being absent-minded
which would seem to be justified by a
recent incident at the looal railroad
station. '
M. Painleve eanee to Haz-ve to attend'
the Franco-Belgian ceninzemore,tive
ceremonies. Ho was on the train,
1 ready to return to Paris, when he an -
pounced that his. .trunk was missing.
He had his several valises, but no
trunk.
The train was held fifteen minutes,
while all the station crew searched Per
{ the missing luggage. Then M. 'Pains
leve called the station -;master aside:
"Don't wait any longer; I have just
remembered that I did not bring
trunk."
Comparing Notes,
1VIr, T. P, O'Connor, the famous
journalist and parliamentarian, anoe
wadered away from his native haunts,
and, finding himself in a golfing coun-
try, looked up the local club secretary
and asked for a game. The seoretary
obligingly discovered and introduced
hint to an old gentleman, and a. game
was arranged.
As they drew near the first tee the
visitor remarked:
"I'm a four man. What are you?"
! "I'm a grocer," replied the old, gentle-
man.
Lying Down to Fly.
To lie luxuriously on soft cushions
and thus pilot your own small air ma-
chine is the latest possibility in aerial
flight.
Tiny air -cans are being designed and
are to be tented in flight, in which the
narrow body, with wings on either
side, accommodates just one occupant,
lying.. prone. This will enable the tiny
engine to drive the machine more'
swiftly through the air than would bet
possible with th air -resistance set up
if a body was provided big enough for
the pilot to_ assume the ordinary sit -1
ting position.
Perfect comfort will, it is claimed,!
be 'assured by •a sofa -like reclining '
frame. On this the pilot, enclosed in
his miniature machine, will tie face -
downward, looking outwards through
a front window or sideways and down-
' wards through other little windows,
Not What He Meant.
A man complained bitterly of the
conduot of his sen. He related at
length to an old friend all the young
:nap's escapades.
"You should speak to him with firm-
ness and recall him to his duty," said
the friend.
"But he pays not the least attention
to what I say. He listens only to the
advice of fools. I wish you would talk
to him."
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The window is shown in the church at York Factory which was present.
ed by Lady Franklin as a memorial to iter husband and a token of gratitude
to those who took part in the .search for him after hie last fateful voyage.
Modest Mouth -Organ of
Physical Benefit.
The little harmonica—or mouth -or -
gen as it is known to most people in
Canada—has been adding to its laurels
of late. Newspaper dispatches and il-
lustrations appearing in our papers
have been telling of numerous celebri-
ties who have recently fallen prey to
the alluring tonal beauty of this
modest little musical instrument.
But the reason for such popularity
is not hard to seek. It can be summed
up in fourteen words—"The mouth -or-
gan is simple to play and is capable
of giving forth wondrous mush."
Those who are skeptical of the place
played by the mouth -organ in health,
need only read what Paul V. Winslow,
M.D., the famous ear, nose and throat
specialist, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has to
say. i
"Since my conversion to the cause
of the harmonica," he states, "I have
experimented very extensively with
this instrument to establish its value
as a therapeutic agent. I have aseer-
tained that the harmonica is a most
' effective agent in developing the chest
and respiratory organs, and in anae,uic
1 children and adults a programme of
I regular practice with the mouth organ,
which develops breathing, results in
aeration of the blood and tones the
1 sy;stem generally. The development
of the breathing power, which can be
obtained most effectively through the
harmonica, is an important factor in
building up the body. In practically
every form of exercise deep inhaling
' and exhaling are striven for, and this
is exactly what you got in playing the
harmonica. Therefore the hygienic
results are meet satisfactory, -
I `Another important point is that the
patient does it along the lines sof least
resistance. He is interested in learn-
ing to play the harmonica. He is
greatly encouraged in his playing be-
cause anyone can master this tiny in.
struznent and become a proficient
art', -t after just a few lessons."
Great Sportsmanship.
A sportsman. with a wonderful
power of imagination was telling how
at one shot he ,hind bagged two part-
ridges and a rabbit, His explanation
was that„ though lie had hit only one
partridge, the bird in falling had
clutched at another partridge and
lircught that to earth in its claws.,
"tut how ubcut the rabbit?" he was
asked.
"Oh,' was the (mini reply, "my gun
kicked and knocked me over, and I
fell on the rabbit as it ran past,"
They Had a Road Map.
"1 haven't got much faith in these
newfangled doctors," said Jinn Bliv-
vers., the blacksmith.
"Why 'hot?" asked the neighbor
whose horse was being shod.
"Well, to -day," said Jim, "nie (looter
told me to take pills ter me hoapt,
tablets fee me stomach, eaesulea for
1ne kelneee and pellets ler nab liver --
an' whit litizzles rue is, how do these
darn things, know where to; go when
they get inside."
'l'iie great herring season, with it
a day harvesting their tainouis sea crop.
wealth of picturesque risorii, has opened in England and 'the tishtftg
rawiers aro working twenty-four heave