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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-12-04, Page 2Th e r$, ,y * � , • .Loses alad Gains Do .exhibitions pay? It au oid, old lation; 1.000,000 boxes of Canadian leaeation.—a question. which has been fruit were purchased by Europeam raised anew in connection with the buyers; and customers who wanted closing oe the great ehow at Wembley. i such little lots aa 20,000' dozen boot And. like most general questions, it is I heels, $145;000 worth of Cyprus esbes- difficult,: if not impossible, to answer tela, 100,000 gramophones, and an or As a 1111e, the direct profits on such i instances—were�00 -m u. aro actual without some qualification. I gen worth $90, common. vast shows are small, or non-existent, A.curious case of opening new mar - though there have been exceptions to ; kete is, connected with the .Newfound - tills, saYs ewfound-thls,,says an English writer. The first; land exhibits. Our oldest colony sent exhibition in London --that of 1851,1 to Wembley, merely as a floral oddity, heldy in Hyde Park—was visited by' a small crate of eel gras:a. Experts more than 6,000,000 people, and the noticed that it has greater resilience profit was $825,000. Out of this sur-; than hay and straw, and is superior to plus a number of scholarships---"1$51them for mattresses and packing, and Exhibitions" --were established, and ! consequently ordered it in immense the South Kensington Museum was I quantities. promoted. This year, it Ls estimated, Newfound - When the Guarantors Smiled.Iland will export 100,000 tons of the The Paris Exhibition was also.a de- t weed, the shipping of which will prob- cided success, the profit amounting to ably develop into a great industry. $540,000, and the Chicago World's Fair I On the Credit Side. and the Great Exhibition at St. Louis ( The exhibition, indeed, achieved likewise caused no uneasiness to their two of its original objects—first, to respective guarantors. Thera was find, in the development and utilize- al„ o a profit on the Franco -British Ex-' tion of the raw materials of the Em- hibition at the White City, Shepherd's pire, new sources of Imperial wealth, Bush, in 1908. and second, to foster inter -Imperial On the other hand, the balance -sheet trade and open fresh world markets of the first exhibition held in London for Dominion and home products. after that of 1801 showed a deficit of $50,000. Still more unsuccessful was the Paris Exhibition of 1855, on which $4,369,000 was lost. What will be The financial results of Wembley? At present they are under What was the third and final pur- pose of the exhibition? It was to make the races of the British Empire better known to each other and to strengthen the sentiment of Empire. This has been done by attracting to tain; but in any case the loss will this country larger numbers of visitors probobly not exceed the guarantees— from the Dominions than have ever about $7,500,000 ---and possibly the as- before oome home in any one year nets, including buildings and equip- visitors who have renewed old ties,' ment, may wipe out the deficit. and formed new ones; by organizing' Even at worst, our gains from the exhibition will outbalance our losses.tiony g Empire ATS ere xxrfeesr,a: 4 oVEEAgnolti - 11 B CII`i orf .��►1iTIll11111111111111t11911f11 visits of seliooi children to the exhibi- HELPING TO GET T PAPER OUT (N TIME • b issuing a Bulletin of Emit res, but they are nevertheless culation of more than 150,000 copies real per week; and by bringing to the On the financial side there is the I knowledge of millions of people in'this additional business done by London , country the aim's and aspirations of houses of all kinds, which must be' reckoned in millions. From Oranges to Organs. the various 1JOminions. The conclusion is obvious. If there should be, from the accountant's point Account must be taken, too, of the of view, a loss on Wembley, great orders placed at Wembley, and of the rgains should be set against it—pecui- new markets opened there. Some ary gains, individual and collective, Canadian and Australian manufac- educational gains, and, above all, gains turers sold their output for the next that must accrue from the better ae- five years; five municipalities each or- quaintanee with one another of the tiered an electrical generating instal- races of the British, Empire. Middle -Aged Women Said to Be Disappearing. Gray hairs are gone, old age is out of date and a sign of the times is the zg disappearance of the middle-aged wo- man. This is as it should be. So long as a mature woman n does not ape a flap- per, why should she not keep her youthful looks into the forties—or the seventies? why should a dowager as lune that it is her duty to be dowdy? writes Mrs. Fitzroy Stewart in "The London Mail." A black gown and. a while heart are not inseparable. and dull gray and goodness do not always go: together. If a woman is "all glorious within" it is well that her. looks make this mani- fest. Nowadays our social world seems to be divided into girls, young married women and women who are great - gran -mothers. No more ' do you see the middle-aged matron, with her prou:i grace and reserved bearing; or the handsome mother of forty, with her• fiow of talk and flock of dull daughters. And we never come across the sweet-faced, sad -eyed single wo- man—the typical. maiden aunt of the 'Victorian era. Sad to say, the ideal old lady has gone for ever, with her silver hair, white cap, black gown and gentle, dig- nified manners. 01d ladies, such as those depicted in Whistler's famous portrait of hie mother, or in Manet's picture of Mme. Monet mere, have ceased to exist in our social life of to- day. Everything in life --art, dress, rules of health and beauty culture --tends toward the exit of the middle-aged woman. And she is out of it on the stage and in fiction. Balzac's "Femme de Trente Ans" seems a back number, as many heroines in up-to-date novels are well on in the forties and fifties. And the same note is sounded in the plays of the period. Most of us live up to this august example. Women of sixty or seventy yacht, , Bunt, ,shoot, 'dance, play golf end Hockey and drive their own motor ears. One peeress, who was married jn the sixties, drives her tar with suc- tess; and another of the same age leads cotillons, although she is' the proud owner of several grandchildren. Much can be said on the side of perennial youthfulness. The desire to prolong one's youth' shows vital force, and is said to be a sure proof of na- tional well-being. Every evomau for her own sake would fain keep fresh • and young, as she' is well aware that so long as her looks remain she can rule men, and there will be no "Finis" written on the page of her book of life. 'Beavers Too Numerous, The beavers of Yellowstone National Park, protected against trappers, have become so numerous that their des- truction of trees at ,some pouts is •a" serious problem. in Capt, Gook's Memory,' Martin-In•Cleveland, 'Yorkshire, birth - ,place of Captain Cook, the navigator, received a commemorative Cation Jack f1'om G:ishorne, New Zealand, Where' Cook landed on Gcfther 8;, 1769, I ' Lost Limbs That Ache. It is a curious thing that a man may feel pain in fingers or toes with which he has longparted company, a but the p Y. explanation is simple. The plan of . the nervous system is not unlike that of electric belts in a large house. Pain is a danger signal which calls attention to the approach of some enemy, and each nerve twig over the surface of the body registers its warning. in th'e brat, whe re Ts ani Gator to show the site the The nerve trunks -which convey the messages to the brain lie snug among the soft tissues of the limbs and body; they have no feeling of their own; it would ,serve no useful purpose if they had. But if by chance a nerve trunk is pinched or pulled the pain is felt at - the bell -push, and not in the wire. Hence the pressure of a crutch under the arm or of the hard edge of a seat on the leg gives rise to "pins and needles" in the hand or foot. When :a limb has been amputated and the nerves cut across, the nerve fibres always sprout from the out ends in the forlorn attempt to connect up again with the bell -push which is no longer there. And it is these bunches of loose ends which are so apt to be caught up in the scar or to be pressed upon by the artificial limb. Everything depends upon having a well -fitting bucket to the new leg, in which the pressure is taken evenly by the whole stump. As a rule, with time and practice, the result is good, and nothing more is felt than an occasion- al twinge to remind the bearer of the toes which were once his own. Waysideay in a. Y g "The most wasted of all days is the day when we have not laughed." "The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams." "The man who confesses his ignor- ance shows it once; the man who tries to conceal it shows it many times." "A hundred men can make an en- campment, but it takes a woman to make a hone." "The heart that loves is always young." "He who finds not love finds noth- ing," aThose gains cannot be entirely put in- Study, which in a short time had a air- I to ,. Breaks in Paper Mean Loss of Time and Material—Forest Products Laboratory to Rescue. • Newspapers and paper mills have home•run during a shift of eight about all the troubles with which, any hours is somewhat rare. factory is confronted, but they also When these breaks occur, be they have one of their own, that is the .in the newspaper pressroom or the cause of much lost time and ma- paper mil], splicing of the paper is terial, says the Natural Resources In- necessary. • seconds count, and the telligence Service of the Department machines must be started again at the of the Interior. This worry of the earliest moment. What is the best pressroom and paper mill Superinten- splice and the best way to make it? dents is the breaking of the paper as:', This problem was taken up by the it passes through the machines. With Forest Products Laboratories of the the speed at which newspaper presses, Department of the Interior, with the and newsprint machines now run, un- abject of finding a way to improve less a machine can be stopped in- these conditions, and an investigation stantaneously, when the paper breaks was commenced. Actual methods and a large amount accumulates in the ma- conditions were studied, both in the r chine. This takes time to remove, and, presroom' and the paper mills, and when a newspaper is ready for press specimens obtained of splices that had there is nothing more valuable .thin failed to hold. It will be of interest to time.. Local subscribers. may 1 the reader to learn that in the paper lowed to worry for a few minu t if mill adhesive tape is used in splicing, al a hot iron beingapplied tothejoint. o arrive at 't -d their paper does not e its Pp time, ut sail trains will not wai `t I .Varying widths of this tape, toget er -'-`wit different weights ' an tempera - 1 c ciente:, of"tbe;tt!!t it- ,, , h t g d tempera ' aneeat nothing shall delaythe it- tures of the iron were used,an and tests suing of the paper. Ion the holding power ' of the splices Newsprint machines are to -day run- made .until -a satisfactory determina- i ning at speeds of from 800 to 1000 feet tion was arrived at. This information ;per minute, making a sheet of paper , is now available to those requiring it. !up to 234 inches in width. It can No doubt, were the newspaper readers :readily be seen what a .break in the aware of the part the Laboratories paper will mean in loss of production, take in assuring the arrival of their apart from loss of the paper damaged paper on time, they would appreciate in the machine. These breaks in the the good work that organization is do - papers are not infrequent, ire fact what.: ing for the paper and lumber., indus- is known in the paper mill as °a tries of Canada. • Age-old Question of the Arms of Venus de Milo. I It may be some consolation to art lovers throughout the world who have wondered in what position were the missing arms of the famous Venus de Milo statute in the Louvre to learn that even the ancients themselves were perplexed on this point Dr. Edde, a French physician, has just made known that during a recent visit to Egypt he came into possession of a small bronze statuette of the same period as the Venus de Milo. This' statuette is an exact c6py of the fa- mous Venus, and, like the original, it has no arms. Dr. Edde therefore con- cludes that the Venus de Milo never at any time had arms, and he believes that the sculptor, when he had carved out of the stone such a divine form, gave up all idea of adding arms, 1 When the Venus de Milo was dis- covered on the Island of Milo a large reward was offered to any one -who could find the arms, but in spite of ex- tensive search nothing was discovered. How it Goes. Tell a man there are 270,169,325,- 489e346,239 stars and he will believe you. But if a sign says FRESH PAINT he has to make a personal in- vestigation.. Go Forward. The man who, i nthe poet's words, "has'a heart for any fate" will usually find fate in a kindly mood. It's the Shirker who gets into diftrculties. The man who has the pluck to go over hedge and ditch "gets there" first. Fate is mostly of one's own making. Bad luck often means bad Manage - tune • Some people are for ever strik- ing,.streaks of "bad luck." Come to gnaw them, and you find they never shape for good luck. They are stick- in-the-muds. e The man who reached the Celestial City was the man who struggled through the Slough of Despond to its farther side. The other fellow, who was a booster, also struggled out—but on the 'side he went in. He had "no- where to go but back." That. is Life. Forward is the word that pays. Anyone can turn back. The. winner is the one who knows how to go on. Tree Grows on Chimney. The county of Chester, in Pennsyl- vania, is the owner of a tree, d:bout 'four feet in: height, located on the top of 8, chimney in the rear of the annex Of the court house. It is thought' a bird carried a seed of a catalpa tree to the chimney. • RANSPORTATION IN.. FAR Huskie Dogs Provide Means of Travel Over the Snows of Canada's Vas t Hinterland, -ll'bat the camel is to the desert and • the ,motor :Far ls. Malang• maoadiiuized roads, • the "huskie" is to travellers over the snows of the far North. The efficiency of the dog team as a mane of travel is shown by' the fact that a trained team can inake a .distance of 40 miles a day and maintain this speed • for days together. Used largely to as- sist commercial enterprise, the "hus- kie also does his part in forwarding the interests of justice and: order. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has 128 trained dogs in its service, of which 98 are in use in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and the province of Manitoba. These dogs and sleds are employed for travelling between the scattered posts, for carrying the mails, hauling wood and various other , supplies, and for patrol purposes, in- vestigating a murder charge or re- porting on some other case. The origin of these dogs is not de- finitely determined. The pad on the foot of the ."huskie" is tougher and stronger than that of the domestic dog, which wears out quickly on the sharp, frozen surfaces of the ice and snow. Where it is possible to procure nourishing' food, the dogs,are bred by "'the police;bat many of the teams are :'purchased. A•good serviceable dog can be bought in Greenland fdr- $5 and ' brought across • to Canada, whereas.' the purchase price at Winnipeg is from ' $40 to $50 and sometimes as high as4 $100 in the Mackenzie district. At the age of one year he is ready for the harness and is hitched into the team, where under the combined influence of the driver and the dog -leader he speed- ily becomes efficient, sometimes in the course of a single day. Between the ages of three and five years he is gen- erally at his best. Asa rule the teams are composed of from five to seven dogs, and occasionally one sees three teams of seven dogs each cotn- bined Pulling an upgrade load. ' The average team is hitched in'tandom to the 'sled when the snow is deep and soft, but it also travels fan -shape where the going is level and hard. The harness, which is made up of col-' Jar and belly -band with traees, "s of leather, As ie the came with all an•i- mais of intelligence, the dogs: quickly recognize the fact of human person. ality and bend to the will of the driver who means business. While largely a matter of trails, loads are figured out to the ounce, especially for a long trip, Each dog is calculated to pull a load of 128' pounds: The average dog does not like to leave . the beaten track, but an intelligent dog when he hears the order "gee" or "haw" knows it is all right and does so. The "huskie" is of different colors, some teams being entirely black. How- ever, colors do not lessen or increase the dogs' efficiency, and where the. colors match it merely reflects the pre- ference of some driver who takes see- cial pride in his' team. The dogs aro fed but once a day and then only in the evening. At the end of a trip the men cut the wood for a fire, unload and prepare their camp and have their meal while the dog -feed is being pre- pared, viz. either thawed or cooked. To prevent fighting over the-meel, each dog is tied up to a separate tree or the driver stands over them with a whip while they are eating. The re- gulation' meal is from three to five pounds and consists generally of dried or frozen fish or meat, or, warmed corn,, cat -meal, or rice to which tallow is added to get the needed fat. In the winter the dogs rely on the snow fox drink. Like the dog of civilization, he is also subject to distemper and every now and then some mysterious epi- demic will kill he animals in numbers, They are decidedly clanish and herd together in cliques. A dog who wants to rejoin his special camp will make a wide detour to avoid falling among those of another clique, Whereas the Indians let their dogs shift for them- selves in the matter of quarters, the Policedogs are' kept in kennels in a corral with boughs of trees serving in the place Of straw, a practice which serves to keep them out of the wind and renders them more get-atable when wanted quickly. Sometime You May Need It.. "Past question every experience is serviceable to us. Where got Ben- Hur the large hand and mighty grip which helped him so well now, Where but fromthe oar with which he fought so long at sea? You remember the chariot race in Ben-Hur, when Messala, .striking his rival's steeds a cowardly blow, sent the startled horses forward in a mighty I:eap that would have brought defeat to any other driver there except ,Ben-Hur. But bitter though Ben- Hur's experience as a galley slave had Distinguishing Marks. There is born with every one of us, and continues unchanged through all our lives., an unfailing and ineradic- able mark or marks which absolutely distinguish each one of us from every other. fellow -being. These physical marksnever change from the cradle to the'grave. This born -autograph is • impossible to counterfeit, and there is no duplicate of it among the teeming millions of the• world. Look at the insides of your hands and; the ,soles of your feet, closely examine the ends .of • your fingers; you see circles and curves and arches and whorls, some prominent with deep corrugations, others minute and delicate, but all a well-defined and closely traced pat tern. 'There is your physiological sig- nature. Rub your hands through your hair and press your finger nails on-a'piece of clear glass. You:see all the deli- cate tracing transferred -=not. two fin- gers alike—even "the left hand know- eth not what the right hand, doeth," pressman. i They•are all distinctly different. Even He laughed, took off his coat and : twins may be so dimilar,.in size, fen. - rolled up his sleeves. "I served a long, I tures and general physical. conditions weary aprenticeship as a -pressman as to be scarcely distinguishable, yet before I became an eiditor," he said. 1 their finger autographs are radically His " pressman watched him In , different been, it helped him then to steady: himself in the lurching chariot and to1 • quiet his frightened racers: An American went to Cuba and bought the leading newspaper. Then he ordered a cylinder press from New York. Not a printer in Havana had' ever seen anything except the old-fas- , 'toned hand press, and no one knew' how to put the new press together. • They told the American that he would have to send back to New 'York for a amazement. He knew the exact use of every bolt and screw; he knew how to lift the heavy cylinder; he knew how to fit every part into its place. in three hours the press was ready for work. Never miss an opportunity.to learn something that is wortlee learning. Some time you may have need of that bit of knowledge. The Substitute. Although he had never been to sea' before, Casey got a job as a deck hand. The vessel was four days out, when a member of the crew lost his equi- libriam while admiring the hounding main and fell into it Casey hurried to the captain and told him what had occurred. The lat- ter let loose a string of expressive ad- jectives, and told the Irishman to throw a buoy to the drowning man. Irl less than two minutes Casey re - 1 In fact, in all humanity every being • carries with frim his baby fingers and his wrinkled bands of decrepit old age show the identical curves, arches and circles that were born with them, Nothing except dismemberment can obliterate or disguise them. Grimly.- ' cis may burn or scar their hands, but nature, when she restores the cuticle, 1 invariably brings• back the natal auto. graphs. I—se—ea 1 Weather Wisdom. 1 "Red at night is the shep'herd's de.., light, ' Red in the iorntng is the shepherd's: warning." This is the old English rhyme, but. the idea it expresses is 'known is nearly every country in the world. Even the ancient Egyptiaus and Greeks had sayings similar to the above. Furthermore, it is scientiiicai• turned, gasping for breath, and blurt= ly true. Red skies are really weather ed out; 'forecasts, "Please; sir, Oi couldn't .catch the boy at all, so I threw the Chinese cook overboard." • These ancient cannons once formed the defense of Fort Louisburg, Nbw XrUnswick where they were photographed, but their sting has gone with the advance of modern weapons 01 war, a If the atmosphere is clear in the evening or morning the snn'n light is red because the blue, of which the or- dinary white fight of the situ is tirade up, has been absorbed by the great length of atmosphere through which the slanting rays ol: the sur. have to, pass. • : , In the evening the rosy light of the sunset illumines the clouds on the • eastern. stde of the sky. Tbis shows that the clouds ,have gone by a'ntl are taking the rain with thein, 'Thus wo get red at night, indicating fine weath- er, It the morning, the rising sun be- ing in the east, the light illuminates the western horizon and its clouds, which are on their vary to us. We ;.iced not be shepherds to know that if the Illy is redand lowering in the mora ng we eke in for a good "no:titer" be - fere ltineh-time comes, Stop pine 'Tree Movirj,' bt;cuttse of the rlititgor of :spreading blest:or rust disoaso, Seti`eral forest: authorities have ruled a'galast the practice of tourists digging up white pines tor transport<a tiou'to it air homes •in distaxtt localities.