HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-11-13, Page 7PREVENTING "CAT C NG" DIS
riAND ME WORT IS YET TO COME
This is the season of the year.wiFon :,a, pencil that is NUM moist from the I :, /
school children ane Moat liable.to con month of iiiothee eisiTd.` "Hands 'aft°
munieabls or "catching" diseases. In worse effenders then any other objects
Qotoi»er the 'common cold is most cone mentioned beoaune they have, so ivany.
mon,. In November the sore throat opportunities far infection and they,1
rate is the highest, The great influen- travel so frequently to the mouth. Fors
za wave of 1018 swept oyer the coun- trruately,, the custom is fee a person 1try in' a►� ':
l paonly; v.e`
be at itsee worst in tober. rSeptemberF, within There is t his telling to his
happen
three weeks after the beginning of if somebbdy made it fashionable to
school, It 'is reasonably certain; to put one's fingers in another man's`
° pyo
reach its peak during one of the mouth, 0
A Possible Spreader.
months between Labor Day and New
Year's Day.
The 'Portals of Disease.
Measles, whooping cough, scarlet
fever, and pneumonia started mount-
ing a month ago,' but they will not
reach their peaks until later in the
winter or early spring. All of these
diseases enter the body through the
mouth and nose. Probably as many
of the eases get their infections
through the mouth . as through the
other parts.
Diseases are often spread by means
of objects which children habitually
put, in their mouths. Among the ar-
ticles are toys, pencils, . penholders,
spoons, forks, cup.s, the mouth parts
of playground, street and school foun'
tains, . whistles, the mouthpieces of
band instruments, tooth . brushes and
fingers;
Hands.
A child will not infrequently chew
One observer studied the possibility
of the toothbrush as a spreader of
diphtheria la a boarding school, Tho
boys kept their toothbrushes on a,
rack. " They had a eommon bowl of oar-
bolio tooth powder, into which they all
dipped, It sera assumed that the oar-
bolio in the powder evade it safe to"use
it in .common. The study showed that
the disease could be spread by tooth-
brushes. Furthermore, it was Lound;
that it is not easy to sterilize a tooth-
brush with chemicals +ouoe it has, be-
come infected: The only safe plan
seems to be to train children to keep
such objects as • penholders and pen-
cils out of their mouths. The mouth
seoreeion of a child who seems to be
in good health may cause infection..
The child may be about to be sick or
he may be :a carrier. The safe rule is
to put nothing in - the mouth except
clean eating utensils, clean food and
clean drink.
A USE FOR
KEEPSAKES
The problem of the appropriate gift
on., such occasions as commencement
days, -anniversaries, weddings and
birthdays Ls not so simple as it used to
be. It is often hard to judge what a
pride and groom" who are to begin life
to a distant city will need or what will
beat suit a young man who is leaving
the -university for his profession. Gifts
of money, of course, are sure to be use-
ful; but it is hard to give the desirable
couch of sentiment to cold cash. Still
the money gift solves the problem of
transportation when the new home is
far away andthe problem of selection
when 'there is no clue to what is want-
ed, It risks no awkwardness of dupll
rtesugar spoons, it saves hours of
search for just'the right thing, aid it
permits the recipient the plelasure of
leisurely choice. Therefore there are
'times when money is the best gift to
make. •
A litle keepsake of no value, tree;
sured for assoeiations, if sent with. the
money gilt, lends a touch of. originality
arid interest, especially if a .note of ex
planation' or a jingle goes, with it. One
mother, who wished- to give her'son's
fiancee a cheek, to cover the cost of a
Tourney across the continent to visit
the ;new family -in-law, enclosed the
cheque in a tiny shoe that had been
her son's first bootee, kept among her
valuables all the intervening years.
With it :she sent a rime' telling about
the shoe and the purpose of the gift,
ending with these lines:
"We want you here to visit us,
And, so this little shoe
Goes, trotting over hill and dale
To take my gift to you."
Another mother gave her daughter
is cheque with which to buy her table
linen .and silver and dinner set, and
-on the envelope she tied with silver
ribbon a souvenir that she had kept
r thirty years—the wishbone of the
first. chicken she baked in her own
yen in her newly -married days. The
Wishbone, sheaassured her daughter in
It little note, would bring her good luck
�ery time she used the linen and the
ina
.A daughter, living far from home
wanted to give her mother a silver
teapot that she knew she had been
Wishing for. So, on the mother's sit -
Ver wedding day, there arrived from
the, daughter a carefully -packed wood-
an box. 'Inside the box, safely wrap-
ped in :folds of tissue paper and ex-
*Osier, was the tiny doll's teapot that
the !nether hatd given her 'little girl
=many -years ago. And inside the spout"
eit the teapot was a draft for enough
Money for the silver tea things that
the 'mother had wanted so long.
Sometimes a .keepsake without any
romantic associations is amusing. Once
Upon a time a little girl heard .of the
cold -tune custom of saving the first
curls of a Iittle boy and giving them
years•later to his wife. The little girl
*as thrilled at the idea, for she adored
her little brother; but he had straight'
c•,
E. Des Baillete, well-known Cana-
dila sporting figure, has been appoiht-
ed winter siibrts director at the (;ha.,.
teen Frontentc, Quebec. He has• had ..
wide etperietoo in this connection MI
awiteerland.
hair. Still, she resolved that she
would find something belonging to him
that she could keep for his future
bride. Everything belonging to her.
brother appeared to be in use, except
one tiny pair of outgrown knicker-
bockers that her mother had made for
him of soft blue French serge. They
were far smaller than any pair ever
found in any store. She took them and
rid them in her treasure box, sate from
moths. Twenty-five years went by,
and the brother became engaged to
her own best friend. Perfectly de-
lighted, the older dieter rushed to the
attic, found the little knickerbockers,
Dressed them neatly, put some five-
dollar -gold -pieces into the tiny pocket
and wrote a jingle to her friend., the
future bride. The jingle contained too
many lines• to be quoted in full, but
these are the concluding stanzas:
"And so these little pantaloons
I stole that very day,
And with his future bride'in mind
I hid them safe away.
"The little pocket then contained
Some pennies bright and clean.
You'll find them in the very place
Where they so long have been,
.""I took them out and shined them.. up,
And :nope perhaps they'll do
To buy some. things that you may need
When Geoffrey marries you."
For a gift to be deposited in a new
baby's bank book one proud grand-
father sent a cheque that stuck out of
the chimney of the little red toy bank
into which his son, the baby's father,
had dropped the first penny that he
ever earned.
And a young college senior at com-
mencement time found in her post-
offiee box a package from her grand-
mother, containing a quaint daguerreo-
type of the grandmother at the age t
of twenty-two, in hoop skirts and Pais-
ley shawl—and folded. inside the
frame a loving letter enclosing twenty-
two dollars "from the girl in the pic-
ture,"
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Zoo lea Gardens on A t co i Is
With the object of 'transforming lit-
tie by little Anticosti Island, his do-
main, in the St. Lawrence,; into huge
zoological gardens, Senator Merrier,
eh000late kiz}g, ha.s issued instate -
tient! to hit representatives to take
means of bringing two new specimens
of animals to the famous. island..
Awarding to instructions he has
transmitted, a party of men will leave
early next spring for the northern
lands to•get some musk oxen, & variety
of the buffalo, which is on the eve of
being destroyed in the Arctic regions
lead of food at •eertaia periode at the
year,
While this spo010$ will certainly
prove interesting if the •experffeent is.
siuoeeessfui, .Senator 14enier has also
decided to try and save another.
variety by purchasing some pante*,
which are now living under unfavoes
able oonditions on Isle aux Sables, the
lost island in the A tlantic ocean,
are for Ponies.
These ponies have,an interesting
history whioli. brings back souvenirs
dtr@ to the constant campaign conduct of over three hundred yeare ago, At
ed against them by the Eskimos, that time an attempt was made by
Used for Food. Monsieur De Monts to colonize Canada
With some prisoners, who came from
Plans are being made to bring fifty some French jail. His attempt we*,
representatives of that dying race to fortunately, not successful, and the
the island, where they will be assured ntateeity of - the would-be settlers
all the facilities of growing without starved to death. However, horses
any interference and under ideal con -1 which had been taken across by the.
ditions, according to experts, who i expedition were able to look after
claim that Antocosti is wonderfully lo-; themselves, but lost their original
sated for such experiments•,. There is ' character until finally to -day they are
much similarity between the musk of the size of ponies.
oxen and the buffalo and'in bath cases I To try and improve that dyirg raee
their destinies having been subject to; Senator Monier is to make also an et -
the
conshant attack. •of the hunters, l fort to get some of those ponies .trans -
who had as an excuse that -,they were' ferred to the island and to meet that
• generally the only means they had of'I end has entered izrto pourparlers with
food, This is what is stated by the' the proper parties,. As a result next
Eskimos, who are said to be slaughter=: spring a number of the ponies will be
Ing the animals because they are in transferred to the large island.
Edibles from the Ocean.
Along the Great Barrier reef of Aus-
tralia la found that,curioue sea beast,
s M the dugong, and those who have tasted
its flesh declare there is• nothing else
to compare with it for delicacy. Du -
'The Age of Fourscore.
In a letter which The Star has re
ceived from a reader who is in 'his .
Warnin 1
eightieth year, there occurs this in
teresting'passage: 1 We wish to draw attention to the
"What puzzles me is, where have matter of unpacking the piano during
gone the eighty years! They Have• the months between November and
slipped away almost unnotioed, and I Aitril, when the temperature le liable
suddenly awaken to a realization of to be below the .:freezing point, as, 1Y
the fact that I have long since parsed • certain precautions are not observed
the allotted span of life, and even with Serious damage zvlll follow.
this knowledge I do not feel like an The gaveinring principle is that the
old man who should lay aside interests instrument must be warmed gradual -
in contemporaneous events• It really ly before being taken from the case and
is wiser to load an.active, industrious
exposed tole warm interior air; or
life. It ensures against melanchelg if, this is impossible, then -the three
and idle repining, mental conditions impervious wrappings must be left on
that must impress health." _ ., and not removed' for an instant until
contemporaneous events. — Toronto
13tar:
There is surely muolr wisdom in this the instrument has, been taken into a
opinion based. on the experience and ,temperate -room and left covered for
obseiwation of a long and useful life, at; least 24 hours. The physical prin-
But even more ineresiting than the ex- =ciple involved is that warm air carries
pressed opinion is the wonder as to a larger percentage of moisture than
"where have gone the eighty years-" cold, which. is being brought in con -
The years of a man's life slip by al-
theyvery steal" by him so: ;aely' gives,.up its moisture by conden-
soft-fodtedly that his attention is . not 4 sation 1f 'the .feral of a thin film of
attracted_ Others may see changes in ;eater which covers everything,' pre
-
attracted.
whlc t "ls unaware.. His liair-'�`• as happens tb 'one's spectacles
may whiten ' b t so anti oe i when conaIng into the house out of a
g y d s Time
use the 'brush, h;a:tone does not feel I zero temperature. This. surface moss -
it, and so imperceptible is the change ture leaves a •coat of mist over all
that one's own eyes • can scarcely de- 'metal parts with disastrous effect; ;but
toot it, And a man feels that he is him- still more fatal to the highly polished
stelf; he feels as, he ,expects to. feel. I surface'er the hard varnish at this time
If he does no run to catch a street car j undergoing 'a severe process of con-
er a train, it is because he does not traction and subsequent expansion. If
want to run. It is a matter of inclina- ' this "mater is carefully watched no
tion. The question of his ability to 1 trouble will result from shipping in
run does not arise at all. He Is wiser
cold weather, and the instrument will
than be was and is in time for his open lip in as good shape as when it
train. He is more of a 'philosopher was packed. Observe principally that
than he was, and know :that if one the'- more gradual and thorough the '
street carr leaves without him, another change from cold to warns before un-;
will follow almost at once. It is -not covering, the better.
hat he is old, but that experience to
him has been instructive. He orders So Well Trained.
his comings and goings with a just and The school teacher was very proud
sensible precision which it would be of the results of her,labors during the
well 11 others used. past few weeks. Day after day she
An English physician has been mak- had trained her pupils in the intrica-
Gifts of that kind are such fun to ing quite a stir by teaching that men cies,offire-drill, and at last they seem-'
show to your friends! The little keep- do not become stooped because they . ed perfect.
sake that came with the money makes- aro old, but become old because they "Now," she said one day, "what !
a perfect transformation. "See what s-oo It i A
mly aunt sent me for my sixteenth
birthday --a, cheque pinned like a sail
to the mast of the little toy boat my
father whittled for her 'when she was
sixteen and he was ten!" Or, "Just
see this clever wedding present -the.
bride's first toy piano, with a note
fret] her father telling her to ex-
change it for a larger one after ,elle
gets 'to her new home."
Gifts 'or money presented in. that
way never seem sordid or impersonal.
The recipient cau convert them in
iniagiriation into just what he wants.
No two families keep the same sort
of souvenirs•, but nearly every house
contains some long -treasured toy or
trinket that would add to the value of
a gift of money. Some little thing can
always be found to glorify- a .gold piece
or a greenback—and the giver need
never worry lest his gift be a ."white
elephant", to the rscip:ient,
Stage Coach to Revive
London -to -Brighton Trip
Old coaching days will be brought
back again—although with a differ-
encs -when a stage coach for passen-
gers` will run. between London • anti
Brighton, a distance of fifty milee each
Way, on alternate Clays. It is reckoned
that, leaving Louden at 10 am., the
eoaols should; arrive at Brighton by
5 p.m., so. that itcan hardly be con-
Mitered a rival of • the railroad or the
charabano, since the train now does
the trlp• in an hour and the cal•abanc
in ,just aver two hours,
There,are to be seven teams .of coach
horses for :*,he journey, and changes
are to be inarde at the sane places en
route as used to be made in the days
of old. One Jim Selby covered hem -
self with glory, and incidentally Won
a 'wager, in the three of the eerie'
Georl;ee, by driving :his coach from
London to Brighton and back Tlr'Seven.'
heure and fifty minutes.
The Housekeeper.
The frugal snail, with forecast of re
pose,
Carries his house with him wiiere'er
he goes •
gong flesh is now being cured like Peeps out, and if there comes a shower
of rain,
pork and exported to this country.. Retreats to• his small domicile again.
As population increases man turns
more and more to tbe'a1most untapped
resources of the sea for food. The
amount of fish taken today is three
times greater than it wasfiftyyears
ago. The war taught us that the flesh
of whalee is good food. The tongue
and the tail of the flnner-whale are as
good as beef.
Touch but a tip of him, a horn—'tia
well— • •
He curls up in his:sanctuary shell,
He's his own landlord, bis own tenant
stay,
Long as he will, he dreads no quarter
day.
The octopus, formerly used only for Himself he boards: and lodges; both
Invites
bait, is; when properly cooked, a real And feasts himself; sleeps with him..
delicacy. In Italy it is a favorite dish. self o' nights!.
Many seaweeds can be used either
for salad or jelly -making, or can be He spares the upholsterer trouble to
cooked as vegetables. That called procure
Chattels; himself is lits own furniture,
laver is popular in South Wales•, and
you may see it in the markets in Bath And his sole riches, wheresoe'er he
and Bristol.
Beche-de-mer is now. being imported
from the trepang or sea cucumber, of
fro mthe trepang or sea cucumber, of
which there are no fewer than thirty-
six different varieties,
Trepans is, dried. for export, and
must be soaked before cooking. It is
boiled for: eight:'hours: in salted water
and then allowed to cool, after which
roam --
Knock when you will, he;a• sure to be
at "home.
—Charles Lamb.
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The Left Hand in Pians
Playing.
Are you a one -handed pianist A
it. Can be eaten either with meat gravy famous teacher of fire piano hos re-
oentiy said that thele are very few
or made into soup; two-handed pianists, to -day, although
most people use both hands in playing
the piano. The reason for this is that
very few people can make musdo with
each hand alone and separately, but
must have both hands working in the
same way. There is music writtee.for
the left hand alone, and if pearl°
would practice this more than they
do, if they would learn to piny tunes
I with their left hands• in Such a. way
as to be pleasant to listen to, they
would be better players altogether,
, People who have studied the subject
will give twen ty reasons, why lefts
hand music is useful, but the principal
; one is that only by using it can we get
both hands to work equally well. And
- +�: cit ss only by getting both hands to work
equally well can we get both sides of
Good Advice. the brain to week equally well for
"Hey, Joe! At last I've figured out q '
each hand is worked by a different
a sure way to beat the races." ' side of the brain, the right by the left
Gee! : Howzatt?" and the left by the right.
p. s so. generation or two would d if I told that tl Dont bet
ago in Ontario, in villages and ou the building was on. fire?'"
Religion a Higher Form of Gossip
Y ou a - 0 yon a 10
farm, Hien became old at a time of life Like one voice came the answer of The mere existence of newspapers
children assemb
when we would now call thein middle- the hundred o•r more
aged. No sooner was a man a grand- led,
father than he retired to. an arm -chair A few days later a lecturer visited
beside the fireplace, and spent the rest the school. Said teacher, with a beam -
of his days talking of hie rheumatism, .ing smile on her. face:
his other iiilments and the not always "Now, chiidoen, what would you do
ineeresting recollection§ of his youth. if I were to. tell .you that Dr. Wisehead
His day',s work was done, his evening.was . going: to lecture hero to -day?"
had come, he resigned h]m§elf to it,' Everyone knew,
'.and rested and r-uate�i away. • j "We would ,rise promptly, put away
' It is tot so- now—it is certainly not our books, then quietly and without
so in the great indusriai, li tnncial and disorder 'file into the street," they re-
busiiiesst cenres of Ontario, where plied ire' ehtsrus.'
men in their seventies• and eighties,: •
and even in their nineties, are stili. ac- ' clear are often visionaries. Women
tive, influential and, as our pones- are always practical—Mr. Winston
pondent .nays, keenly interested in l arc'lti;;:
- : is a proof of the religious instinct
among men, that passionate interest
in one, another which implies that we
are all gossips together, Gossips are
people aviio have only one relative in
common, but that relative the highest
possible; namely, God. Christopher
Morley 'in 'Religio Journalistici,"
Plenty to Choose From.
Mrs. Gabb (reading)—"Do you know,
my dear, that there are approximately
700,000 words in the Englisch lang-
uage?"
Mr. Gibb- "Only 700,000! Why, I
thought you used a great'•deal more
than that every day"'
This small lake was formed Try the .eennpot;ia$•' work of tt, colon i• ' of beeves,
a partictilni•ly fine bit of engineer
-
leg in its location: and' cpiietruotlon, The opening it the trees Is' the boundary between Saskatchewan and Alberta,
"Mad" Men.
•
The recent observance in France of
the centenary of Henri Fabre, the
great entomologist, recalls the fact
that to the villagers of Serignan,
where be spent twenty-five years of
his life, he was known as "le fon" (the
madman). A very similar doubt of
the mental powers of other great men
has been expressed by those about
them who observed without under-
; standing their habits of meditation.
Darwin's gardener, when asked about
the naturalist's health, replied, "Oh,
I my poor master has been very sedly;
Ido moors about in the garden and I
leave seen him stand doing nothing
before a flower for ten minutes at a
time, , If only he had something to do
I really believe he would be better."
An old laborer of the Dales, who used
to encounter Wordsworth wandering
along the roads "booing his, pottery,"
believed him "quite daft" but subject
to lucid intervals when he wassane
enough to say "Good morning, John,"
just like other people.
Dean of Chester Tells Story
in Fewest VVords.
Many people, probably, are familial
with the story of the serial friction -
writer who, being asked by his editor
to conclude .a certain Story in the few-
est possible words, awing to exigen-
cies of space, wrote as follows:
The hero thereupon took his hat, .his
revolver, his cl'eparture, and, finally,
bis life.
1 This story ihas been capped by the
I Dean of Chester with an anecdote
which illuetrate5 strikingly the ad-
vantages of compression in speech,
I A little friend of his had been asked
to tell thb story of :CTisile, and her re-
lily was: "El!sha had a bear and the
children mocked hila, and he said: "I1
1 you niork me 1 will set iny boar o
you, and it will eat you up.' And the,i
1 did, and he did, a11d it dish"