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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-03-04, Page 3zr- N AND WOMEN OF TO DAY Over-Eattinated, • The -"father" Or the HPus1e of Com- mons, lYfr, T, P. O'Connor, was recent- ly es•ked by a nevely-arrived colleague whether it was true that when he first came to London be secured a ,lob on a daily naiwep#aper, got "saok$g�d" after a week's trial, and found h.mself in Fleet Street with only a shi11ing in his Pockbt. T, P. smiled that whimsical smile of his. ,..,,e , "No, sdr" he replied, "It his unti'ue. It wait only"ninepenee," Hisx�irsi. Speech. The other day I heard this slew story Of Douglas F'airbanks.. He made' his first stage appearance, when' a a3choolrboy, in,a i!oeai pre-•e,•a- tation of Shakesipeare, bang allowd t'o go '.',on" as ' one of the friends, in a funeral- proceisiton. Hie Line was: "Stand aside and let Use coffin pass." For *nays beforehand he recited the life, in order to be word-perfect. Whet} the big night came and he got his. cue, he stammered: "Stand -aside and let the parson cough!" Such Is Fame. An, amihsing story is going the rounds of the London• clubs concerning. ` the Prince Muster. While travelling in the SoixUi or France some time ago he met a man ' with whom he had been at Cambridge. The Premier introduced himself as "Baldwin." "Baldwin?" Baldwin?,:, I.eteme see," tltt3,'other, ppilderod; ' Tatou suddenly hie fame lit up. "Oh, yes, of course I remember you naw;. Sta#lley. 13al'dwie, waasiet, .it?We, used to call you 'On, Salley on,' you, know, because you were ea energetic. *nd Pit" het You haveget on." Then, seeing a. somewhat, sur- prised look on the face of the Prime Minister, he al•ddied btterrogat1vey; "But tell r"ne--yciii don't iuiitd' my. asking, do you?—what are you doing now?", Not What He Meant: Although Mrs. Margaret W1ntring- ham is no longer an M.P.; haying, sue fared defeat at the last General 101ec- tion, her name will go down in history as having been the first English -born woman to sit in the Howse of Com- mons. In her early days she was a school teaob.er, and a story she is fond of tell- ing concerns a certain Inspector, who was an • enthusiastic temperance relvfe mate. One day, he came to take a class in singing. The children were singing; "Little drops of water, little grains .of 'sand, but the, afternoon was sultry, and they showed a lack ofenthusiasm in their yocal efforts.. "Came now," said the inspector. "Try it again. Now then! !Little drops of water'—and for goodness sake put some spirit into it" Pleasure and Trouble. Pleasure and. trouble. This .curious pair 10fan is apt to encounter most any- where, • And strangely enough, • though it's truth I tell, ;Neither is easy to handle well. Though one is bitter and one is sweet, Each 4s.,a dangerous foe to meet. Trouble is vulgar and ooarse and rough, Roaring with. bluster and bold with j bluff;.. Sometimes cruel and sometimes stern, Giving man`nothin.g but what he'll earn. But he who will battle him face to face Shall come from the struggle with add- ed grace. Pleasure is subtle, with smirks and smiles And false sweet thrilling and count- less wiles; It steals man's senses or makes him proud And sets him strutting before the crowd. Trouble la bitter, but pleasure can And doe„ work havoc with many e man. It's hard to be brave In the face of •care, ' But it's harder to stand; .when.your skies are fair. With your feet on the ground and your senses cool, .Refusing, though tempted, to play the fool Trouble's a tyrant, but pleasure' lays Ile pitfalls for men in a thousand ways. —Edgar A. quest. --a Testing Precious Stones. With increased facilities for faking diamonds and other precious stones, the amide in Imitation goods in this line of business is increasing to an. alarming extent, and*diamond mer- chants and }swelters nowadays have perforce to devote a lot of time, and often expense, to the detection of the frauds. When once a jeweller suspects• the genuinenese of a stone, he subjects it to various and sometimes very severe tests•. When a stone, .for instance, is ,placed in clear water, and starts- to lose its brilliance, it is immediately discarded. as being spurious. Another test is to place a drop of water on the gem. Ir the globule breaks on being touched with the point of a p•encil,the stone is an Imitation. Sometimes a black dot is made on as piece of white paper, and the precious stone held in front of it. If the da ;appears blurred, the diamond is faked. Another determining factor is the hardness of a stone. As is well known a diamond is one of the hardest known substances, and may be filed without being s.cratclred. Au imitation dia. mond on •the other hand, will crack and probably break up under the weight of 4 -se file, • Sentence Ser'm pis. We Are Slaves—To every habit we Cannot break: • -•-To the social custom that over- rides ottr better judgnnei t, To the motley that stifles• duge'coil•' science. the hatred that embitters our• RotiOOMSOS. -To the fasthions that snake us feel uncomfortable. —To every irrejudite that blinds us tothe good a,boutus, —To every sin of'yesterdty that fills is day witth. fear. Day of enjoyment. The journey over the entire length, of the. Banff -Windermere highway through 'the heart of the Canadian Heckles matt bo made comfortably in oho day. The route lies through gin wilderness, but:,rest ramps, auto- mobile. •camq ing grourpclo, bungalow damps •and•servtee stations, aro located along the wary ht stUch nnntbers as to guazvraitee attoointnodittion for those who wish to snake a more leisurely survey of the road, Lowell Thomas, Youthful desert explorer, whose ad- venturers constitute an epic. At 18 he edited a' paper• in Colorado. At 22 he instructed in two colleges: Eventually. he reached Egypt and Allenby, Arabia and Lawrence. He was. the first to make an airplane flight over the des ext. Froin Egg to Adult. Very remarkable transformations m- oue among the amphibians. Most of them in tb:e adult state axe air breath- ers, but with few exceptions the larva are aquatic. • The common toad,' though a lover of the dryest soil,• habitually repairs to the quiet pool in late spring to deposit its five thousand eggs in a gelatinous string, 'from whence issue in a week the well- known black tadpoles, legless, and In fact with no semblance to their warty. mother. They breathe by means of gills, to which there is a small opening on the lefthand side of the neck. In a month or two hind legs appear and the front ones break through the skin as the tail begins to be absorbed. Meanwhile, lungs have developed within and the young, an inch or less in length, are ready for life on land. " Thrushes.,; . Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices' make the emptiness of • light A windy palace. Quavering from the, brim Of dawn, and bold -with song at edge of night, They clutch their leafy pinnacles an'd sing Scornful of man,, and frost' his toils. - aloof; - ---Siegfried .S a.s sori. --- Fish ---Fish That Cries. In Hong -K=ong harbor, a strange fish, of tho size and appearance of a tabyia head, has been caught. 'It is like n big orange, with, eyes, mount, nose, and "'two ;;Muth • uncommon•look- ing fins. . This' curious ereatare iesemblin , what the Chinese• describe as a "kwai fish, • is Peptilarly Jeno,'ii as a mer- maid's child, and titters a sound like. the, cry• of. a bawby. The possession ofthis fish is'.4aiil''to bring good luck. Not the Right Feed. Kieggirl e,;"A t---I..sSey elletve you any credal&, corn?" Groeer-- "Neo—sor1y--Wha.t you want t for?" Reggio--•" 1 have. a Pet 0h101010 Craocer--"Aw, you wanta feed her inethinj; botter'n that!" PROOF OF HAVOC WROUGHT BY CROWS . In support .of his contention that the craw is "'both a murdeor' and a robber," and should be decimated 1n order to proteet other species of birds, Jack Miner, the 'Kingsville naturalist, points to the phctograpiis shown. above. -'Phe upper picture stows a crow's nest, containing 52 eggs of other birds, the , contents of which have been fed to the young crows.. The lower picture shows a clew -up of .some of the 3,000 eggs which Prof. I3. H. Warren, Pen- nsylvania State ornithologist, gathered beneath crows' Wrests within a week, • A Poem Worth Knowing. "I Love All That Thou Lovest." Shelley was possessed of the spirit of revolt, and was out of tune witli his age. But he was a rare spirit, and his poetry is one of the supreme treasures of our literature. 1 love all that thou lowest, Spirit of Delight! The fresh Earth in new leaven dressed - And the starry night; Autumn evening, and the morn, When the golden mists are born: I love snow and all the forms Of the radiant, ,frost; 1 love waves, and winds, and storms;" Everything almost Which is Nature's, and may be Untainted by man's misery. I love Love—though it has wings, And like Light can flee; And above all other things, Spirit, I love thee. Thou art love and life! 0 come! Make once more my heart thy home! He Was Willing to Learn. repeated complaints had been made to Mr. A, superintendent of the Indian agency at Si. that a certain Indian was in the habit of heating his wife out rageoussly. Mr. A had remonstrated with the Indian in vain. Finally, after a particularly severe beating, ho sum- moned the Indian to his office. Mrs. A happened to be present. "John," said Mr. "1f I beat my wife they'd put me over there on that rock pile." He pointed to the walls of the state peuitent#try, vlsibie through the office windows. "They wouldn't stand it," he went on, trying. to impress the Indian; "they'd lock me up THE LILY POND.We descend the steps into the sunk- en garden with a pleasant feeling of entering a well -liked place, shady and -verdurous. The turf hank round the lawn is a deep, base for the wattled �'APAiVIORS lNTTREES i wise told the other day a pleasant that their supple constancy .and friende flet aborts 'Sit henry Oampbeli-Ben-1 'had made the, atznespllere and ttei'nia`nt vihiclr will endear% niliitzt still t sultakiizlti in vvlticlf Wti moved, ntor'c to some ant ;make hiappear, I I should, .however; ,#lud, Yo 0:fhard to Rill idown bee<:h trees of all trees, for after perhaps, absurd to others. Whoiz he !many affairs of the' heart .with: trete, wont from; London to his estate ,of I3el, • my affections have settled finally on moat in Scotland, it was his practice them as the pride' of our English woods to walls teapot lilt; park and take Mr. lands. With what stateliness they his hat to tbe.trees he love;; motet. If spring from the ground, how noble Sir Henry had beeu given to irony, it their sl ede,' hew exquisite the green might be supposed that `tiro gesture of their leaves in spring; bow rich the was Intended as a compliment on the gold of autumn, what a glowing carpet company he had left behind at West- they spread for us in ewinterl If I go minsters ''The more I'see of Wren," he • to Epping Forest .it is to see' the .grand might have meant, adapting Pcat's patriarclie of the tribe who are gathr farncnzs phrase, "the better I like 'erect' together in solemn conclave in trees." But 1 do not fancythere was Monk's. Woods, and if I place ]3uoking• au any ,ge,i' with sten in his greeting. I hamshire high among the counties, It He saluted his favorite trees in the is because there you will find' a more spirit in •whioh Xerxes, when passing abuzulant wealth of beeches than any; with his army through Lydia, decor- i where else In the land. ated with golden ornaments a plane; But I am no narrow sectarian about tree of extraordinary beauty, 'and left trees. If I put the beech first, I wog:• a warrior from the Irhmortal Band to ship at many shrines, When I go to be its special guard, as you may read ('ikenies it is to pay my devotions to 1n Herodolne. He saluted thein be- the Duke of Bedford's oaks, and esu cause he loved them, and no one who pecially the aforesaid Queen Eliza - has the spirit of the woodlands in him beth's oak, which still strews the will think the action odd or even fanci- greensward with aoorns, though in its ful. It. has never occurred to me to go ancient trunk, hollowed by the cep- about the woods taking off my hat to Curies, you could seat a tolerably large thin kings of the forest, but that only teaparty. And who would go' to. Shore showS that 1 have less imagination and, without a visit to those stalwart Span- less.,phivairy than he had. ash chestnut that are the glory of the It is not possible to live mtich among fluke of Northumberland's park? It trees without et per;iencing a subtle is worth a journey to Salisbury, not settle of t:ontradesi,ip with them. Our merely to se the squire and Stone- intimacy fr ay not go so far as that of henge, but to make the acquaintance of those magnificent cedars In Wilton Park. There Is an elm at Nuneham that I go to see much as I go to see a venerable relative, and there is, a won- derful yew -tree in the churchyard of Tidworth in Surrey that is better. worth s pilgrimage than many a cathedral.—From "Many Furrows," by Alpha of the Plough. Giles Wif terbouiii, ie. The Woodland - ere, who could tell' what sort of trees he was passing in the dark by the sound of the wind in the branches— bet without that erudition it can create an affection almost personal, not unlike that we feel for those quiet compiva,ions of whom we have' not thought much, perhaps, until we find fence, overgrown with lasuiine, for long time heavy buds of amethyst sthia, and a stray shoot of willow starting from the interlacing stakes yV".ith disconcerting liveliness. They eeiubine in an impenetrable mass, shutting out the southern gales, and Making a firm screen for the lily beds. The terrace wall, open to the western sun, rises from the hither side of the suuken garden, nasturtiums fling gold end scarlet streamers over the weath- thrust out like sheaths of precious stone, and thea with an exquisite sur - Prise of revelation great white petals open and the slender stems sway, flex- ible as steel: Sunlight Under Water. The lily beds are guarded by the flowery growth of the Siberian wall- flower so that they rise but of an airy er•-stained surface, and stocks, carne- orange glow; at dusk.. this splendor of tions and lavender form a busby crest: I setting becomes intense and trans - one ran see the strong Upward thrust lucent as the sunset reflected in the from the roots. 1 pcoi, and the ardor of the sunlight ap- A Satisfying Flower 1 pears to be drawn down, and pre - ere is no flower more satisfying! served in a curlews underglow, con- pears in its .tom no ti mss than the illy; a trolled by the verdurous coolness like such a vigorous and yet restrained ap- i `sunlight uncles water. pearance when the close -packed leaves The pool is oblong, with a rounded thrust through the earn;; and then, `end; four box bushes stand as out - so gradual and composed a rise un- posts, and between them is a pleasant folding in due season with uudeviat-!border of black and white and yellow ing reserve. No flinging forth of 1 tiles with a tiny shore of sand anti bias oehes, no bustling exuberance of ;pebbles at one end for the birds "to leaf and bud; one by one, leaVes ap-'flutter in after they take their bath. pear in proportion to the upward -tis -1 A fountain sends a thin trickle of ing stein. with green buds gradually 1 pm ater into the alt, sonietltotnrfalles ihn a per - swelling into the high note as at the `Petttal. tinkling; the shaft end 0f a scale; a chord in a new key, ; spurts high and the spray flashes otrt which is yet the expected and right I into a tracery of bubbles, a parnre of Progression and completes the har-! diamonds--•- Invisibly suspended --the rue rt There is something of the coronal of the lily garden. r3 g Pre -I cision of sculpture in the curve of Lovely Moving Picture. lilies; that is why they look so benuti- sg" each Iiteiow the silvery spire a bink lily appear - fail in the•unken arrle.n, The Indian glanced at the peniten- ing with the inevirablertc�;s of a. statue, ? spreads its beautiful dark leaves, each Bary walls, gray and forbidding, then! with a patina of bronze, lying in the immobile ns alabaster, in leo cool{ at Mr, A. Then he looked et 1\Irs. A. y.,eclusion, each lily grow into ma- i lapping ripples that send a crystal film "She pretty nice lady," he told Mr. ! turrty, from the red and orange intense scar.et of the cups i over the shadows where the bronze A earnestly "How you make he of the purple or yellow martagons, tlie' leaves crinkle into subtle folds as the ,rater sways them; a lovely moving Turk'sCap, deli - I Gately turbaned, to the vestal -likes Writ sculpture, supported by the stalks, M- I pressing. np through the weight of water in swinging lines, and melded. by- the splatter of the spray and su flee ripples into finer subtle- r' of the daurioums the swinging hells : deepens into purple. Theheart-shape mind?" A Way to Save tt. "You're lo•okin' bad Wullie". "Aye, I've been in the hospital an' the doctors have tooken awl' ma ap- pendix." . "Toe,had,you hadn't put it in you're wife's na.-me." donnas and the crucoums and spotted tiger-lUlx'e. Those large white lilies, ! golden-antherrrl and pale purplish pink Ioutside, are ;limi•her wonder, their stems are so e;lc'nder. their leaves of ties, They Iia upon the pool with such apparent immobility, such a fragile tender green. For a floating partially I • 0 '111 tl r r' t • t ova tl ADAMSON'S • ADVENTURES' CpHUMtMSS BEEN RENT; Fdi rA Hoerr AND NOW 1�E 5 AGA N OLAK'. DO YoUR DuTYl, ,i HOPE ales HAT AND c.oA't FOLLUveS1 npyngln, 1113.1, by The Rall Syndieata, rnr Fie's a Great. Help whole composition into a pattern, with: a changing rhythm for the eye. Among this lovely spread of half -revealed forms and aqueous hints of color, the pinkish. illy buds ride at ease, curving• out occasionally into heavy cups or carven marble. Here is no shelter of leafage, no trellised pergola; we are inclosed but not celled; and yet we are all the fur- ther from the sky because there are no trees to lead us toward its aerial kindnesses- The sun. rays seem to slant off from the walls; seen from these depths, the heavens• are of a strange remoteness Lamps a£ C2ther Days. The tinge when man's curiosity and courage first enabled him to invest;, gate the phenomena of fire was mer tain.ly not less than 35,000 years ago. It probably happened in Europe dau•- ing the Glacial Age. One of the earliest methods was by twirling a pointed stick in a hole In dry wood, leading to the hearth fife. Thin was followed by the shell laarp— a s1tell fili•ed with animal fats or fish loft, with grass or moss as the wick: The oldest bronze lamp known, was found In Cyprus, and is probably 4,000 years aid. In Isomer's. Odyssey the us,a of three braziers in the Palaoe to !give light is mentioned—a method made pose•ibis by the fact that roofs were commonly open in three days. Coming to more recent times., the cresset, a species of oage filled with, first old rope smeared with pitch, was in • Candles were st introduced by the Phoeiciarns about 1,000 years B.C., af- ter whic,'.h they becattie the regular in- door illuminant. About 400 B.C.• candles in all the chief countries of; Europe were (Replaced by oil lamps otl clay -and bronze and did not return to common use for a thousand years. The first friction match (.the lucifer), was•!rot invented until 1827, and a box of fifty 'cast half a crown; The intece duction of the Swedish safety match, dates to about fifty years ago, O Music and Hearing. That music develops the sense of hearing is selfevident; but that it mays help to train an individual for a higher, Proficiency in his work `in some other, direction seems to be a new aspect dis- cussed by au eminent heart and lung 'speeialiet, who sa.34: = - "We judge by perctsksion, tapping on the hand and by listening to the heart or lungraction, Dither with the ear or with the stethoscope. I really believe that you. develop a; 'sense of aecurate pitch by, listening to music. think • that It has' helped to. train my ear. I have discovered that those of guy ettu dents who have the meet acute hear; ing are those who have had eotne• Musi- cal training, or aro aocuetuur;ed to hearing music. My s•tttdea>.ts show the effect of their muelealsatesi es it1.•tbeir medical work. As tltey'tdevelop a sense of perfect pitch fttoin :their • music, -they become-iuori aodurate in {heir niedietal'analyses: Women. I find easier to train than melt- It is not 'that all women are born with perfect .pitch, but '.11a,1 they re-a%t more easily to training. They are snore sensitive. Cuba's Road Program. Cuba is planning' -IA co$Ystruct a high- way wetem to extends the ,etttire length of Um island from Pinard dol through :Havana to Santiago, a cti- Lance of about 500 miles, : Save Coal. It is estimated that the full develop. went, of the power in the proposor< St. Lawrence waterway evil! conserve about 'fifty million tons of c: oat fret year.