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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-03-25, Page 6LIEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY Miss Barrymore Scored, drops of water"--ansl for goedivailct Who! Berryanore, the actress, Is a salts) put some anuli into it," past mis,reee at repartee, as was ex- A Charmed Lite. erne/tilled at a recent runner party. A few people are anxious regairdtng A, ratan who did not like women, but the safety, of our PrneO but I del not who had to sit next to her, exelaired: think they need worry, says an Eng - "All this feminism is nonsense." lieh writer. Although the Prixioe has Diss. Barrymore got ready, but said lied a goodly (or badly) share of hunt - nettling, hag accidents., I ant told be will not "There isn't a woman alive," pro- take Mute so many risks in future-- for ixture—for the sake of others rather than of himself. He likes taking ratite (other- wise he would never have taken that hedge the other day when he broke his collas -bone), and Fate rewards hlm by giving hint a charmed life, A small boywas overheard diseuse- ing with the nirserry cat the Prince's; last fall. "I3e's beaten you by four," deelarea the boy. Tho cat made no comment, but his nurse asked for an explanation, "Cats on'y have nine livers," said the child, "and this is the Prince's thir- teenth!'" Despite the Priuoe's enthusiasm, he cannot enter every phase of life, how- ever, and the other day referred to two omissions when speaking at the `South African Luncheon Club. "I understand that in South Africa you either have to excel In Rugby foot- ball or serve aoperiod in gaol to gain success in that great country. I am afraid I am tillable to share lu either distinction!" needed the man, "who wouldn't rather be boautirul than clever." "Quite so," nodded Miss Barryntore, "but that's because so many men are /stupid, and so few are blind!" Not What He Meant. Although Mrs. Margaret Whaling - ham is no bouger, a British M,P., hav- ing sufferer: defeat at the last general election, her name will go down in his- tory as having been the first English - born woman to sit in the House of Commons. In her early c'ays she was a school teacher, and eatery She is fond of tell- ing conoerne a certain inspector, who was an enthusiastic temperance advo- cate. One day he carie to take a class in singing The children were singing "Little drops of" water, little grains of scud," but the afternoon was sultry, and they showed a lack of enthusiasm in ... vocal efforts. "Come, now," said the inspector. Try it again. Now then! 'Little THE TRAIL OF THE STOLEN JEWELS By Albert Jean Translated by Wm. L. McPherson She •spilled out the cigars and sound,- THE ound I ed the box with her knuckles•. 1 "It will be splendid if we stuff it with tissue paper,' she said. The man looked at her as she work- ed. Her dexterity. reminded -'him of the time when she was a bundle wrap- per in a big department store, while he rode a delivery tricycle through ,r the. streets of Paris, She was then When Baron Philippe de Lurbey en- Germaine Chaffeux and he Antonin tered the hotel lobby several guests Fournel. ' "Isere! You, who have a good hand, write on it `Sampios:°without value,' " the baroness ordered. The fountain pen scratched the ad- dress on the package. "Fine! We shall see our little girl early next month. Then we will get were talking excitedly before the glass -covered bulletin board. "What is the matter?" the baron asked a boy in livery. "We have just posted a description of the jewels stolen from Lady Ken- iham," the boy answered back the jewels. After that the police M. de Lurbey approached the group at the board, shook hands all around n'ee'd not worry us." and then stuck a mantels in his eye. It was not without a certain embar- "Ohl Oh!" he cried, after reading rassment that M. and Mme. deLurbey, the notice. "There is a robber who three weeks later, entered the parlor made a job of it! Six rings, a brooch of the boardingsehool. Although their and a necklace. Aman must be very consciences did not prick them very audacious to empty a beautiful wo sharply they could not but regret be- ing compelled by circumstances to "Thirty thousand francs reward for make their daughter an unwitting no - the return of the jewels. The robber complies) in their larcenies, will have to look out for himself," re- The child appeared and there was at marked. Commander Baracci. once a round of caresses whose sweet - "They are love mementos, I fancy," nese net es the baroness nor the said the baron disdainfully. fbanns could fully enjoy. The electric ele.;aor carried him to I „How about the netertainment? Did the second floor, where he and his wife everything go off well?" Mme. Lurbey had a three-room apartment. Baroness'; asked her daughter, as she expertly de Lurbey was waiting anxiously for untied the package of cakes. "Oh, mamma, if you only knew what him, a success I made!" the little girl ex - "Well?" she whispered after he had 1 Hocked the door. . I claimed, "There was a big crowd. All The man's face changed, dtsetasing the parents were there. You were the the fear which haunted him. ! o • nly ones missing." "Thirty thousand francs reward for i , Your father's UusinesS kept him information leading to tate arrest of ; in the south, the bara$,ess explained. the thief! We are done for," said the ► "What a shame! You would have been proud, papa and you. I was the baron' prettiest of all," "Really?" "Yes. The seamstress made over world will be here within twenty-four for me an old spangled dress which the English teacher gave me. The hours. We are trapped if we don't teachers allowed me to put up my hair. succeed in getting the jewels into I had •little silvered slippers." some, safe place., - "We don't know anybody here," said "And the jewels which we sent you?" the baroness, wringing her hands. "Oh! yes; the rings, the brooch and "And have no means of finding an accomplice, If we went away sudden- ly we should attract the attention of the pollee," There was a deathlike silence. They heard stens, in the hall, a telephone rang; the Water was running slowly from the faucets in a. neighboring bathro.om. '"Died you stop at the post office?" the baroneas asked•, "Yes," answered M. de Lurbey. "Was there anything there?" "Nothing of interest. A letter from the little girl." "Is She sick?" "On the contrary. She is getting ready for an entertainment which they are going :to glee at the boarding - school ---a kermess, a luncheon in the garden and a play. She asks me to send her some money. It seems. that She to to take the role of princess in the little piece which the teachers are to produce. She else asks• if you could send her a scarf, some feathers and ` some bite of lace.". Mme. do Lurbey dug her linger nails into her husband's hand and her face brightened. "There is Something better than that to Bandelier," she announced,' The Men. 'shuddered. "The jewele?" "yea, Who will have the idea of hunting for them on a child's neck and fingers?"' They ransacked their baggage to find a suitable bot In which to put the stolen jewels. ' "We must .try to dig up something • which will leek well," said the niau, wiping, hie brow. "Hove foolish! • A real case? And with a value declared? So that they will open it at the postofiice?' Not at e11. We need the plainest kind of a bon, which Meet not avert beregia- erred," She cautiously produced the rings, the brooch diad the neeklaoe, whiolt had been hidden. in a little leather trunk wheel/ layer ilnee. "Yotir e!gar •box ---just the thing," "Do you think so?" groaned his wife. "Certainly. All the detectives in the the necklace? They weren't bad. But every one could see that they were samples, without any value. Even on the stage they- would not have been very suitable. So I gave them to one of my little comrades for a lead .pen- cil box which I liked very much." Spring Speech. Again the violet will grow On slopes washed bright with rain, Harebells wit]. follois after snow, And golden grain. Each little bush will bud and wake And twigs• put forth their green, Robins will rustle in the brake, And willows. lean. • A wind• will rock the branch and stir The cradle of the birds; Wo two will walk where erisp leaves were— And God will give as words! —Ilaruld Viral, CHIEF SCOUT, 69 • Sir Robert 13aden•Poweil recently celebrated hie 69th birthday:, Ile le still an active member of the Scout movement w•hic'ui 1.e fouutled In 1908. This photo shows hien as Di Donna Night Glee Shee, the chleftains"hip of a Canadian tribe with which he was rocently Invested. THE SURVEYOR'S ! Copenhagen Flower Market. TFJ <ESCOPE In the center of ane of the ancient I squares, so numerous in the city of tixe Silrveyox + Copenhagen—t, "'the flower market is bed k1 -ow liar --ani L See With it? II (dat'.y, each vendor havusg her appoint- ed place for the erection of hes booth A question •commionly asked •the in summer or winter : It may seem topographical surveyor is - "How far !strange that one of the busiest, thor- •• can you see with the telescope of your • oughtares of the city should be chosen, transit?" The question is really put !but there is an open way on every side in a rather bad rains, as with the 4 for traffic, where strangers often pause naked eye, unassisted. by a telescope, we can see •sitars in the sky which are T---:-MENILE COMMUNITY GARDENING Bed 13: Spencer, for than Ontario • iortioultural Aajoetatioe, The Weetee, Oa-tario. PlOrticuItnrai.� &aa,4iety hoe set a tine eaearteple to kooletiee in other parts of the pro- viaice iu, establishing, as they have, a Juvenile Garden.. Com.meuciate a fest years ago vacant lata were used and were divided into plots for the papils of the public echoot, Having to move their location from time to timeon account of the lots being r'equired'by the owners., two years .ago,. with the c6-operatiqu and asol tan.co • of the. intinicipalit4 an Acme of load was pur- chased. 'iide' was put into suitable Condition. and properly fenced for gar- dening pn•rposes. The lot was. divided into three nsan subdivision% Senior etudeuts were given lots of 800 sq. ft.; I Intermediated 600 eq, ft,,; Juniors 400 sq. ft; and Beginners 200 eq. It. Each section was d"lvlded into ten lots, mak- tag a total of 40 gardens. The experience of the children in previous years developed a love for the work, and the whole area was• taken up by the boye end girls. All - the children were asked to bring a rake and hoe, but the Planting ma terial; including +seeds and bulbs, was given bT the Soelety and planted eve der: teu.pervieion, . The 14008on wawa divided into two »eriod.v and lttere* were awarded in each, acearding to the eilielency tthgwn At the end of the serasen a chew wase held, In .the town hall,' which was wi3ll. iatron1sed• by the otflciale and citizens of the town. .Although acme of'the etudante eouid be found working their plots alanost every evening, one evening a week was set apart as "class night," when instructora were on hand to direct the efforts of the .ohildren, The public took a keen interest in the work, and paid viettee to the garden, particularly on class nights when they were able' to watch the workers --a11 intend on making their gardens a success. The originator of the Juvenile Gar - clew in, Weston•was the i3everend W. M,MaKay,` a past president of the On- tarlo H.ortieaultural Association; and now stationed at Sault Ste. Marie. Reverend Mr. Meliay was asssoclated in his early eniort with Mr. W. J. Pol- lett, President of the Weston Horti- cultural Settee'', who is now carrying on the work in which both• .the child- ren and adults of the town aro main- taining a deep and sudtainod interest. Vision. The airs• of heaven. blow o'er me; A glory,shin,es before me OL what mankind 1shulli be,— Pure, genenoust brave, and free. to, watch the interesting aativiliea Whet masses of colter meet the eye millions of miles from the earth. What as ono emerges from one of the nar- is really meant is.,- "What is the far- row side streets leading into Amager -i thest distance at Which you can detect tory. It has ou OM World charm. The certain details with your telescope " cheerful smiles and picturesque dregs-. for as is generally gnown, the duty of es of the Amager flower women, who a telescope Is to snake objects appear came to this country from Holland in : • closer than they really are. Thus., if a the sixteenth ceutixay, add to it. tree one mile away is observed There is little attempt at color har- through a ,telescope magnifying twenty many, bub .all is merged into a avoir times, it will appear as if only one- darfui scheme of color from the shat twentieth of a mile distant. This pro- owe cast by tall houses• surrounding perty enables the surveyor to read the square. In :the colder weather the marks on his rods which would other open booth i converted into a mfnka- wise be invisible to him. ture hothouse by a glass screen. •cover The telescope of a surveying inetru ing the flowers, in which is burnt a ment permits the instrument to be :ac squall spirit lamp. The tale of "plenty The love of God and neighbor; An equal -handed labor; The richer fife, where beauty Welke •hand,in hand with duty, —Whittier. Coach and Four Regains Place in England. The old-fashioned •coach,and four is coaxing back In England to compete with. the motor oar. Regular coaching, trips between Brighton and. London will be instituted: this spring for the benefit of travelers• who prefer the ro- mantic atmosphere which eurrount'ii the old tinin conveyance to the prosaic automobile. A famous• vehicle, the Berkeley, which won all the coach •events at the Richinoncl and Olympia horse shows last year,•"is to be used ote the Brigh- ton -London "highway, front which the horse has almost •di•sappeared in re- cent years.. curately pointed in a given direction'. in our land" is retold here as eve�y- In this way it perrorms the Mame tune- where, as each season sends• forth its - tion as the sights of a rine wlbh far nevem ending supply, clad in rainbow greater precision, of course, than hues, ever as fresh as the clew. would ever be possible with bare sights. Indeed, h•efore the invention SowedMany WildGoats. Alcibiades became a famous Greek in his later years but in hie youth he Telescopes, like people, may be good sowed wild• oats very plentifully. or had. It is necessary that the sur- • One night when be was. shaping dlce veyor be provided only with good ones at a tavern he -rade a wager -that the if he is to make accurate maps. next day he would walk up to the connection with the work of map Greek magnate, Htpponicue, the ping our Dominion carried ou by the wealthiest of the vicinity, and .slap the Topographical Survey, Department of old fellow on the cheek. He did not the Interior, a physical testing labors- wait until the next day but went direct tory is maintained at Ottawa, where, from the inn and won his wager. among other things, the telesoopes of When he had sobered up he went all instruments intended to be used by hack to the rich man's house, stripped the ,surveyors are tested before they himself •and asked the magnate to fiog are accepted from the instrument him. Hippcuicus, was s•o pleased that makers. The test is sovere,and tele- he gave his daughter in marriage, par- s•copes must rigidly meet the required Boned him and gave him ten thou,sancl specifications, to pass. By this means, interior instatement are at once de- tected and much expense and annoy- ance is saved that would result from sending instruments with low grade telescopes into the field. "Mame.," said a, little boy who ki'ad been sent to clry a towel before the "is it dame when its brown?" of the telescope, astronomers and sur- veyors had to employ bare fitted with sights to make their observations.' fire, . • Reindeer Eat Moss. .The caribou or reindeer, both sexes of Which boar alightly flattened ant let,s,'occupy the upper half of the con- tinents of. North America and Eurasia, where they feed upon moss and ..lith -1 ens. Sure` let 14gi; --"ITe's a tough guy, eli?r 2nd 1'6"g ---•"Yes, hse'si hard-boiled i" dollars to start in buslnese. He Knew the Reason. Young Husbaud—"Last night when I came home my wife had nay •chair drawn up before the fire, my slippers ready for me to put on, and— Old Friend—"How did you like hex new hat?" Heaven Help the Man. ])cctor--'*Mada , you Atonal have several Montixs of perfeot rest and quiet." Mrs. Gabb---"13ut, doctor, it's my husband you were caieed to prescribe for!" Doctor "-\nd I'm doing eo, madam —1 hope you will understand." • Not impressed. "That ratan who is paying attention to Madge is certainly a loud, dresser." "Doesn't matter. She turns a deaf ear to his salt." Blood in Babies' Bones. , Blood flows through the bones of very young children almost as freely ae through the veins. A/DAMSON'S ADVENTURES 'ILL HAvl. A Cocc, N uT AtiYwjy t ,‘‘I;,\'\ I1 '01 (C41pyrigit.1024. by lilt • cell Syn+atcite,Inc) „ He Changes i s 'Eilind Are Boys Interested in • .Music? Right at the outset here ie my opin- ion. Boys, as a class, are pimply full of tine love of music. Their enthusi- meta will mount higher and their. in- teres•t carry them farther than any or- , dina,ry class of girls. Deny this it -you wish, and argue It if you reel so disposed, but it is my firm .opinion Here is. one example: A teacher took chargeof a class, of boys, whose ages ranged from eleven to fifteen, and whose, voices ranged -- well, alt the way from. A sharp to •Z fiat, if that -wee possible. To look Por any flnenessa of finish or perfec- tion of tone would be but to cast one's' sett, In the capacity of a teacher, Into tbo deepest abyss of deep•air, and so to cast a illm or gloom over each and every tweeze This teacher eagle "I am going to teach these boys to love their music lesson. I will measure my success or failure by the etui)es er s ghst visible on their recce when the lesean period is anuounced." 'And so he began. One day he took for an appreciatioa lesson, I3oethoven'8 Fifth Symphony, Second Movement. He filet role' them. of. Beethoven, of his lite a; a bay_, or his .clru.nken father- wile woke him up at night and dragged 'ulna out of bee to practice, of hie peculiar dieltomition and how it carne out in bee valisi>•i, of the tragedy which aunrre•1 l:is' later - life, •ani all thrortgb the telling, so keen y, as the interest that the •c.lock on the 'wall could ase heard tenting: away the minutest • - Then be teal tbens of the ':inner. workiug" of e musical cosialiositioss, of how a ntu$lri nes had to Work and work to express raiz, ilea:., Inst. as they work- ed and worked to oxprssse their ideas in their school cc0i 0Sitions. HIe then, played the little bit that forme the theme of that movement. Ile told them that Beethoven worked 'a long, 1nng lime at that little bit be- ostusa he was Trot sa.tistied •with his` fissst idea: then of hew he developed the whole movement from that tittle, piece. He played that little bit over .and: over mail the boys could hum the tune; then he told them that Beetho- ven would hide that under another tune or mix it up a bit, and he wanted to see how many boys could recognize It wheneve they heard it, just as they) would recognize their chump If he were dressed tip foe, a masquerade. He theu played the record through, and the attention could be. :actually felt, it was so keen. At each part the variation of expression allowed, more plainly than words could tele, how.. much these boys were getting the com- poser's thoughts and ideas. The bell rang for dismissal, and the teacher'said, "I am sorry we will not have time to play it over again." A prolonged and dismal "A.wh" from the whole •class brought a sur- prised urprised mills to the teacher's face.' "You d•on't want to stay and hear it again?" ho asked incredulously. "Yea," the clioriisoe reply was not feeble. They stayed in and twat the larger part of their recess period to hear the highest of high-class music . ''oven again." • Could any interest be more plainly expressed? Learn English by Radio. Ali ingenious method of encouragiag the French to learn Snglials has been adopted by the Radio -Paris .isost of the Compagnie Francaise do Ita:diophotii:e. it is to begin a course in the English language by radio, it will bo con.alnt. ech by MO—nein •d'Hangest, a. professor at the .l,ycee 6inudercet tied a well. known, Etsglish scholar, Twice a week he wil] give hiss lessons to all who ecus to listen ,in, and his pupils will probe ably ins counted by itunclre(is of thous. ands, and mittens by trillions. Eng-, lien has become a nopular lii.hguage in France, and many people only require this little Abilities to. amply themselves seriously to the mastery of the tongue, Wisdom. The cyuios. say that every rose irsst guarded bet e thcru which grown To spoil otir,bboles: Xhst 1 no piassaare therefore leek; `1 keep' my liiefiletehind my btiok When; sentential roses, •° --Ellett T. js. ov/len