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Zurich Herald, 1925-02-26, Page 7PREM: CIV US OTS OF.13L00111. It le gratifYieg'to the flower lover to leotion, the seedlings may give quite "observe the ever-inereasirig interest taken in hardy flowers, a border of which, properly laid out and planted,. forms au attractive feature of the gar- •den for et least six months of the year, Many fine perennial flowers can .be raised from seed et very little ex, pense, and those having the available •space adjacent to the home should now get busy, for it is unwise to postpone ' Although a biennial flowering the the sowing of perennials until late second year from seed, the Canterbury sprink or sump er, bell is well worth a place in the bor-1 The most effective arrangement of der. Most attractive during June and a wide border Is to plant in groups of July, the large bell-shaped flowers variety of lovely shades, The Iceland poppy isanother flne jllent, It flowers oyer a more extend- ed season than the Oriental and is more salable for the front of the bor- der as It grows not more than ane toot high. Tile Colors are charming, coining in shades of orange,. yellow, white, scarlet and pink. • one variety, of course spacing the plants sufficiently far apart that they. will' not overrun one another for at Ieast a few years.. Each group may ,consist of five or six plants according to the species, set •nine to fifteen borne on huge spikes, are always strikingly attractive and the colors pleasing: White,' blue, mauve anci pink :. any of these colors may be pur- chased separately so that speciae colbr effects can be carried out if the Inches apart. To enable the gardener border is so planned. The plants die after flowering, so that seed must be sown each year. The Gaillardia is deservedly very popular, due to its abundant and rich- ly colored flowers which comprise ail to arrange, his groups in this manner the seed is best sown in a temporary bed, transplanting the seedlings to the border some time in September, tak- ing advantage of showers or using water freely until the plants become shades of crimson, gold and orange. established. .. It flower's from late spring until fall. Wherever the seed 1.s sown, care Corso ' is: gran.diflora is another ex - must be exercised not to cover small cellent subject for cutting and an all - seeds deeply, and as the seed of some • season bloomer if not allowed to form species is very slow in germinating,, seed. The single daisylike flowers elle soil must not be allowed to dry are rich yellow An color and borne on out; to lessen the necessity of con tinued watering, the seed bed .lnay be covered with old sacking until the seedlings begin to appear. All weed growth must be kept from the seed bad, The hardy flowers hereafter named are easily raised fromseed, and all are worthy of a place in the perennial border. The Unrivaled Delphinium. The delphinium or hardy larkspur with its stately habit of'growth and noble flower spikes, ranging from the brightest to the softest blue, through all shades of lovely colors, from mauve purple and lilac to white; is one of the long stems. Other Charming Varieties. Shasta daisies or chrysanthemums are particularly valuable for cutting purposes. The eleage single powers are pure white witti.a yellow centre. The conefib er- rudbeekit is at its best during' late summer and fall, and it adds• a brightness to the border where earlier -flowering • subjects" are gradually going peat.. The long -spurred columbines' with „their dainty birdlike Owers in such a variety of colors, are particularly fas- cinating 'and deserve Co be well repre- sented. • Gypsophila—baby's breath—bearing most attractive and -conspicuous of all cloudlike masses of tiny white flowers, most attractive a is muck sought after for mixing with sug perennials. other flowers. The new double -flower - Grown as single specimens or group- ed variety is a notable addition to our ed in a ivass the color effect is always lit of hardy plants; it lasts much brilliant and pleasing. longer than the old single -flowered Oriental poppies usually give us baby's breath.. their frst flowers with the delphiniums, and what a show the two do make when grown near each other! Gor- geous! No other word can possibly describe these plants; and in June, just before the hardy border gets inta its summer stride, this fine poppy is at Ile best. The flowers are enormous and, al- though in common with other mem- bers of the family they are of tran- sient beauty, we are more than re- compensed by the freedom with. Which :they are produced. The predominating color of the Oriental poppy is scarlet, but there are a number of very.pieasflzg saimozi pink varieties, and if the- seed was saved from a good representative col - Pyrethrum roseum has large daisy - like flowers in .various pleasing colors from white through shades ofpink and rose to scarlet. Excellent for cutting and flowers early in the season. Mallow marvels or hibiscus., bearing enormous flowers, makes a noble plant for the largeeborder and it blooms for several months. The colors range from white to glowing crimson. Other 'worthwhile varieties include Veronica, valerian, blue flax, platy - codon, plume poppy, shell fiower, loosestrife, burning star, globe thistle, foxglove anti hollyhock Fine dwarf -growing t+arieties are the clove -scented 'pink, gold' dust, peren- nial ,oandytuft, rock soapwort, suoev- in-suairiner. ,and sun rose. .. The Music of the Bible. "Music in the church," someone has said, "has been -responsible for co.n.- siderablo Music in the Home."- • ' This is true to a great extent. Th eastern of a group of people gatherin around the little old organ toe piano i the home on a Sunday evening after church to sing hymns, no doubt ha its rise in congregational singing. Con gregational singing in tarn doubtless sprang from the singing of the ancients as related in the Bible. This brings up the topic of religious music and music of the Bible. In this connection it is interesting to note that as early on in the Old Testament as Genesis, we find a reference to music—"Jubal he was the father of all such as 1•iandle the harp and pipe." The Hebrews were a music loving people, and a large part of their poetry was conceived in the form of sacred lyric song. ' David the harpist's time. was the golden age of Hebrew music, he with King Solomon: was responsible for bringing to the forefront the musical element in the religious service. David appointed four thousand Levies to be singers and musicians in the taber- nacles of Gideon and Mount Zion, whilst Solomon's religious musical ar- rangentents for the dedication o'ti the temple were upon a gigantic s'ca're; "The Levites, the singers, all of, them of Asaph, of Hettia.n, el! Jeduthun, with r their sons and their brethren, being ai'rayod in white Knee, having cym- bals, and psalteries, and harps, stood at the east end ot the altar." But not only we music employedfor rnpiratio'nal purposes, but also on festive occasions, bands of "sing- ing men and Amen" were to be found lit the palaces of both David and- Solo- mon, That Headache. The two commonest headaches are those duo respectively to eye -strain' and constipation. The eye headache o is apt- to be made worse by fine needle - g work, by reading much, or by reading n fine print. It is more likely to he • worse in the evening, although some d early morning headaches are also due - to the eyes. The pain is felt in the forehead, behind the eyes, or in .the , temples. If you suspect your head- ache of.being due to an eye -strain, con- sult an oculist, If yon are satisfied that your eyes are sound, and that your digestive sys- tem is not being abused, and still you get headaches, you should have a medical examination. It is dangerous to eudeavor to treat headaches at hone with patent medicines. You may abolish the 'pain, but you leave untouched the disease of which it is trying to warn you. The number of headache medicines is Iegion. They go under many navies —far more than there ate Varieties of medicine—but ultimately they all be-, long to the group ofcoal-tar deriva- tives, and all are poisonous more or less in the same sort of ways: A. characteristic of their use is • that while they relieve the pain for •the time being, they make the headaches more frequent, and so establish thtm- selvee tee an integral part. In a vicious' circle of headaches and headache cures. Remember that a headache may be the warning signal of a disease which treated early can he cured, --Front the League of Red Cress societies. Although no adequate data exist to' assist ir., in outlining"the T•lebrew sys- tem of music. -.If systern there retilly was --there is evidence pointing to certain characteristics worthy of note. The theory;of harmony Was unknown;' the songs and the psalms were ntelo- i dies, and at all periods meek was anti- phonal and choral. It is obvious from Biblical records that the Hebrews hall various kinds' a of musical compositions, ani ongst 1 t them being music for divine worship, I popular secular songs (Isaiah. xvi. 1.0)•, and, couvival songs (Isaiah xxlv.) 4 Wives among the Eskimos os etre stat- ed to bo useful' ;for d'oewing the skier of +>tle type of seal, whose hide is so, 0 ' tough thit ca1nof be used for hoots!.ti nralring until it has h:en W I chewed. tri 'wary Fragile. "Yes, s, my boy, I reckon you can have her," sighed Old avian Htewkins to his' daughter's suitor. "bat take good care of her for she's been riz kinder ten derlftre, taillight acres is all I ever Gust• her to plow between .sttnup end dark. She raiz do light work sech as It ell diggin" anis steer brand]n', but she ain't used to no rough stuff, so you'll have to be gentle with her, "I tell you it's mighty .hard to have to give up uty little sunshine, for front now on I'll have to split my own wood ad tend the stock and shovel Away he snowdrifts and -do all the: other' 111- aie choresthat it seem.,; like a woman wnz jest cut out to do, "Take hes', son, but, for e loviic' old father's salts treat her gentle.", F3ress Polish Hurts Nickel, Brass polish should: never be used, rr 111dkel trimmings, as; abrasive par - cies is the polish scratch the plat, g., ,.--,,A111) 'i'!4L WORST IS YET TO COM When Sweet Alice Bolted. yards, upd saplings and Elephants, though the wisest and whatback not while farrootein the distance most ponderous of animals, are among Alice. still plunged an, wlth the can the most prankish. "No one Is. ever stili clingtng to her trunk like a. able to tell what they're °going to do, or when they're going to do it," says Mr. Courtney Ryley Cooper in his de- lightful circus book, Lions 'N' Tigers elephant, for whom cans had lost their cream pitcher on the head of a cat. Half an hour later she was• recap- tured and released, a much chastened 'N' 'Everything. They love play, and lure. they choose unexpected playthings. There was, for example; -Alice and the tin cans. Alice was a ga,y„young thing of forty-five summers and seven' tons avoirdupois. Her hobby was stepping on tin cans. She loved to feel then squash. If she was in need of cheer and change, her keeper simply `.took her to the nearest city dump% its tin The Worst. The dear old lady in the railway train hacl never taken such a journey before in her life. ' She was very ner- vous lest she should pass the station for which she was bound, and accord- ingly she repeatedly asked her fellow travelers if they had arrived at Car - can section soon looked as if a steam-tersviile yet. Suddenly there was a roller had run over it, and Alice crash; the train gave a terrific lurch ambled back to the circus grounds, her own sweet self again. Sometimes, solemnly marching with her com- panions', trunk to tail in the parade, she would slip ou't of line for a ino- ment to -squash a can 1n-•tate gutter, squeal with delight at the achievement and trot duteously back to her plx'ce, "No,' was the reply, "this is a ca - But Alice smashed one can. too many. Iamity.» and now she smashes them no morn It was the noon hour. The parse had returned; the coolrhoitae was `#a full swing. At oue side was a celi c - and jumped the rails, ran down an em- bankment, causing a lot of the pas- sengers, including the old lady, to be hurled into a field at the bottom of the steep incline. Opening her eyes, she inquired of the man who had fallen beside her:, "Is this Cartersville, please?” A Scientist's Feat: On one occasion a scientist had :the tion of four-pr-five-ga?fon cans" t'h z MO and 1866 Atlantic" cables jot led once had contained pie apples. Ellice at Newfouedlaud, thus making one spotted them; she glanced toward her complete loop of 4,000 miles. with a keeper; he was busy and not looking,' single cell consisting of a silver Quietly Alice sneaked from her place : thimble containing a little dilute acid, and set her morefoot on a can and in which. had been immersed a small then on another. They squashed sat- :rod of zinc, lie sent signals through isfactorily and gave out a deliciousthe icanibined cables and received odor of apple. She investigated. fur- 1 them on a zuirror galvanometer. ther and another can. The stuff, as the sensitive tip of her trunk exulored the depths for more and more, tasted, as goad as it smelt. But there wasn't Driving Economies. Well inflated tires. .Proper carburetor adjustment. much left, and that inquiring trunk Brakes in correct working order. was still poking when, in a fit of ab -i All 'working parts lubricated to as- sent -mindedness, forgetting it was sure smooth running. there, she allowed the old smashing , Disengage clutch whenever: possible urge to 1'eturn upon her. tip went -a and coast. heavy foot, poised over the can and Obtain sufficient momentum when then came down. ; approaching .a heavy grade to carry The next thing the circus knew one the car.a considerable distance up the end of the cookhouse had departed; grade before changing Beers. performers were scattering, tables - were overturned canvas fluttered in the breeze, and a screeching -elephant "Cogon" Grass. ran wildly for the free and open come In. the Philippines there is a grass try,.with her trunk waving.madly in a vain effort to rid itself of a five -gal ton can that had clamped upon it with the tightness of .a vise. A small tree got in the way, then got out, roots; branches and all! ''hiatles shrilled; nen i•an for fast horses; menagerie at - branches scurried• frantically forth fields u Upon a trail of broken fences; ruined years. known as "Cogon," which grows as high as a man's head and has roots so tough that no ordinary animals can drag it plow through it. It 'has.been tat)ruin of thousands of farmers who, by the use of fertilizers and other methods have tried to keep the same rider cultivation for periods of ' FItQNT YARD$A ND BACK YARDS • .• . Tits professional planners have . formula, and a good one, whiph they use lrr the apportionteent of the land about a house. They insist that it shall be divided into three portions quite . distinct fawn oars another and differing materially in u,5e. First is the front yard, This will lie .between the front door and the public road. It should be relatt'vely small, It should be neat and well kept, rather sober and severe in its treatment, and open to the public view, It should .not include any spe- cial ornamental features, such as ,fountains, 'cast-iron dogs, swings or seats, Second is the service yard. This will connect directly with the kitchen. On the farm it will usually connect also with the garage and the barn- yard, In this service yard the wash is hung out, the woodpile Is built,: the milk cans are sunned, and all those other operations inseparably belong- ing with the house work are oeutred. Where the Family Lives. a ,of lilacs, dogwood, spiraeas and other hardy shrubs is usually effective and pleasing. Trees will help Where there is room for them, A teeiljs with climb- ing roses an it is etceijent. In all parts of the Old World iwalls of briolt or stone or eeinerat are fre. quently built to melte these subdivi- sions, Such walls are unpopular In Canada; but the truth le that, Cana, diens are sometimes too demoeratio for any use, and a well-built wall here and there, properly designed -'and pre- perly connected with buildings, would not be a bad idea. ha all this planning a funt omental requireinent is simplicity. This great and indispensable qualty belongs es- pecially to the farm home. All "trick stuff" should be banished and freak trees and, wild and woolly, shrubs should be omitted from the plantings, One doesn't choose a wife like that; 'why matte a home like that? Looks Best and Wears Longest. All paths and roade are better when tihey are as simple and direct as prat- ticable. It used to be thought better landscape gardening to make graces ful curves in roads and walks, and gardeners used to invent spurious ob- stacles to justify such curves. But they didn't fool anybody. In the front yard aforementioned, between the public road and the front door, the insertion of a curved walk,' is especially inappropriate. This front yard connects width the front hall of the house and should exhibit the same qualifications. It should be simple, short, direct. Though this simplicity really looks best and wears longest, there is an- other most practical reason for it—up keep, Every home grounds requires care. Ninety-nine out of every hen - dreg ought to have a lot more care than they get. The simple yard, there- fore, with few elaborations, with small areas, straight walks and no frills, can be taken care of with much less labor, The clean, well-planned farmyard is for clean orderly families. Thank heaven, there are thousands of such families in Canada. Third, there is the garden itself— that is the portion of the yard where the family lives, Here is where the hammock hangs, where there are seats and tables and perhaps other fur- niture. - Here is where there is:a:shady arbor or other shelter. Here is the place .for the tennis court, Here is where the flower garden blossoms. Here must be some good clean lawn too. This is the real home part of the farmyard. It should therefore be warm and. sunny and protected from the wind. But there must be good shade in it too. One or two big shade trees or a summerhouse. This home garden area should tbere-' fore be set oft from the rest of the world. It may be separated from the service yard and the kitchen activi= ties, and it may be equally protected from the front yard. Such separation can be secured by various means. A hedge of evergreens is perhaps the simplest and some- times the best. tin informal border Col. Sohn H. Patterson, D.S.O., noted British engineer, sans the most thrill- ing experience of his life was when he waited up all night to shoot two lions that had killed 130 of his men while on a construction job in Africa. Giving Tea Its Smell. .In an unpretentious part of Dews- bury is one of the strangest factories in •England. A liquid compounded there' is used to "scent" imitation of the famous Donegal tweed. The real cloth is spun in the one - roomed cottages of the Irish peasants, Often in a thick atmosphere of peat smoke. These conditions give to the cloth a characteristic odor, the pres- ence of which is considered to be a j nark of the genuine fabric. After the special solution has been applied to rolls of imitation homespun, the de-, ceptiion is so perfect that even an ex- pert is deceived, Faking the aroma of tea has long I, been a secret accomplishment of the Chinese. Poor qualities ot tea lack the refreshing fragrance of the young shoots from which the best China tea is -made, but the Celestial makes tip tho deficiency with a few broken leaves of jasmine. Delightfully reminiscent of peaches is the aroma of it certain expensive tea. This famous product is popular on this continent; but the real article. is expensive and ,some blenders spe- cialixo in the prorluctioii of tea 'tett funnily scented to resenlb;e .it. Long cigars with a fine Havana aroma are sometimes a deception,, t Chiefly composed of paper and ot'din. a 0 e 11g g "Educational Epigrams." "Youth has those fine qualities that belong to unsullied life and all those handicaps that accompany inexperi- ence." "Tho love of children and of educa- tion is a means of all good." "The supreme test of human pro- gress is the quality of child -life and its opportunities for wholesome develop- ment, happiness and satisfaction." "Any parent or any child who seeks education for the dellverance from the need of working hard finds it a disap- pointment, a delusion and a snare— both as a means and an end." "To seek to escape one's share of toil in life is really to waste one's ,powers, to wrap ones talents in the napkins and cerements of the tomb." "Couditious of rural Iife should be Made so attractive that the boys wial be impelled to work for sheer love of doing things, for the exhilaration sand delight that come through the labour that increases mastery for service." "Our duty and privilege are to learn all we can from the past, and to build education suited for making Iife use- 'ful and thereby joyous and happy for, the present," "The kind of teachers we require are those who are born into sympathy with the people's needs and trained into ability to meet them." "Instruction and training in youth are the means of bringing abundant harvests of national wealth as well as of some better fruits," "If the people wi11•starve the schools the schools may retaliate by letting the people starve, mentally, then nor - ally, and in a measure materially also; ' "Taxation among a free people is everybody chipping in to do what no eau's:0111d do alone, but which all can do together with great benefit to each," "`It is just as essential in the long run that the people should support the schools willingly as that their child- ren should attend them." "The kind of school I would like to oeo for rural life is one that spell: ability, intelligence and good will; fore the body --.-strength and skill; for the mind, grasp of truth and insight.: and for the spirit—'i'eace on canal, good will to mete." .• "There Is a living past as well as a dead past. We must ,see that we bring into our schools tate vital parts and leave the husks and the mummies and fossils where they belong." "Ignorance, inabilities, ami want of goodwills all come from lack of educes - tem or from peer schools. These are the most costly of ail the fixed themes leen prope:'ry are.1 human 1ifc'." ry ,leaves, they are wrapped in an uter 'covering of tobacco leaf, and - heir satisfying Bayer and scent are ntirely due to iinmersion in an oily hid that contexts a .proportion of ermine tobacco extract, .Amateur whiskey judges are .heaves - Sett by the smell of their refreshment: almost as much as by the taste, and some of the finest brands have that "peaty" flavor which some' palates re fish, Unscrupulous n1antifaeturers itzz- part this oharaeteristio taste and smell to inferior whiskey by the addition of creosote. George Arnold,a one-armed, itinerant, photographed at Oshawa, Olt-: talo t:ario, who makes a living by sharpening kut'ves not only uses a bicycle as oh a nr iu°w, c.f tssansl.ortatioii but also as lite workshop. ' ' re British golf balls are so popular in t]nited' States that praeticali ; the tire output otr'certain brands is ex- r te;l. Locating the Trouble, "Old matt, Sou oug'bl to get mar- ried," "1 am nareiEt,l, my troy." "'I'ben you ought to get a. divor,.t>. When Eggs Will ]'dein. It eggs are droppe;l out. of /teal. Planes, from a lteiglit of several thous- and feat., they disalrpc'at ilito int; egg rain before reaching the ground.'