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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1926-07-08, Page 6"Swat the fly" Jt ILL Id It A teaspoonful of Gillett's Lye sprinkled in the Garbage Can prevents flies breeding Use Gillett's Lye for all Cleaning and ,Disinfecting Coats. little but a4wayta effective u,� Nr'vaaeeest;.i', Bucket of Water Helped to Produce Lifeboat. A woman carrying a bucket of water stopped to talk to a man, Quite ab- sent-mindedly he poked at a piece of. a wcoden dish that floated in the pail, and so discovered that it was self- . righting. Nothing would make the dish remain upside down. Later, a little group of men sitting ` in their club -house, which faced the sea, saw a ship wrecked and the whole ships company perish—because those on land had no suitable boat to launch in the raging sea. Horrified at the disaster, these "Gen- tlemen of Lowe House,' as they were called, inserted an advertisement in a Newcastle paper offering two guineas reward for a model of a boat that could keep afloat in stormy weather. The man who had touched the wood- en dish in the pail of water submttted a model—and won the prize. Pram his design the first "official lifeboat was made. It cost £76 3s. 9c1., and did service for forty years, saving higardreds of lives. It is just over a century ago that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed by a little group of citizens who met in a London taxern. It is "voluntary to the last yard -arm in its boats," and it has never been known. to flinch from duty. A Whitby lifeboat crew was • once called out seven times in a single day. On the last journey it capsized—and only one man reached the shore. Yet when an hour later another S.O.S. call came from a ship in peril, a volunteer f crew came forward, launched an old. boat; and brought the wrecked crew s to safety. Lifeboat men have battled with the b raging sea for thirty hours without t cessation, and women have striven with the men, waist deep in icy water, to launch a lifeboat ie.the teeth of a t winters gale. THE STOLEN BABY I"It's awfully late," she said. "I. It was two minutes past twelve. ought to have got there at eight Only a very little after midnight. ,But, o'clock Only Iwas prevented. :I must all the sante, mystery and adventure get the baby. You' see, my sister.'s so began to settle upon the city. Already i ill, the streets Iooked deserted, apart from. "But 'Khat does she want the baby a few couples too absorbed in them- for? I asked, puzzled:... selves to matter more than sidewalks I "She's in hospital. She's going'to and ,atop posts. It lied been very hot be operated on to -morrow, and so she all day, so hot that I had gone out ` wants the baby out of the way. She seeking coolness rather than advert-' didn't know she was going to have an ture. But the night was nearly as hot; operation. But someone's got to take as the day, and 1 had -spent the lust I the baby while she's in hospital. Don't two hours in a state of semi -collapse you see?" in the Paddington Recreation ground. I had sought for a taxi in vain, and The taxi had by this time reached now, feeing exhausted, I was waiting Victoria and turned southeast into a for an omnibus. Thos my thoughts i network of little black streets. It stop- weee directed upon myself rather than: ped suddenly at a corner, and 'Rhoda upon my surroundings; the foreground leaped out, telling me to wait a mo - of my mind was occupied by the sod-' ment. I craned out of the window to den state of my collar, by a violent i see where she went. She almost dis- aspiration to the cold . bath I would I appeared into the .darkness, but I had find at home No doubt, for that res -1 an impression that as she stopped at son, I failed at first to observe that a doorway she met another personsBut my watch was shared by a young girl.' my strained eyes at once lost sight of And when I did observe her, I aegis- that other shape. I' felt that I must beret' casually that she was dark and have made a mistake, for, by that time, pretty. She did not interest me. It Rhoda had disappeared, either into. was so hot that she might fall down the darkness of a porch, or down some in a fit if she liked; I wouldn't have staple into a basement. I was not ex - the energy to help her up. actly enjoying my situation; though I However, after a moment, my ad- sat in a taxi, I was in- the middle of venturous habit of mind was animated some particularly unpleasant slums. by the discovery that she was walking No doubt the girl thought that, by up and down very fast, That any- stopping the cab some distance from body, for no obvious reason, should her destination, I should fail to trace walk up and down in this torrid air her upon her stradge mission. But she II. suggested lunacy or crime. 1VIy inter- could not realize my profound know,- est developed as the girl passed me, edge of London; I was in Guelf' Street, wheezed Viciously upon her heels, in a reptetedly criminal part of Pim- tramped by again. She was paying lico. It was quite possible for a gang no attention to me. Her pretty little- of roughs to hold up the cab. But if nose was held high in the air; her this was a trap, I should have been small, bare hands were clenched on the asked into the house; besides, adven- handle of a parasol, with which occa- sionally she gave the pavement a jab. Now women are always interesting, but they are at their best in two con- ditions; tears and temper. When in tears, they want to tel: everything; when in a temper, they can't help it. So I kept my eyes fixed upon her while still she went up and down; she did not respond. Then, after a while,' I carie to the gloomy realization that the young lady was angry because the omnibus did not come. What a come down! So much distorted passion, just or a missing omnibus. Ireeson enough, perhaps, if a missed omnibus means a ix -mile walk in a temperature recall: - rig that of the Gulf of Mex'co ... ut how dull! It was at that moment hat a kindly policeman, as he saun- tered past, remarked tome: "No good waiting, sir. The last went at ten 'to weave." - "What?" shouted the girl, furiously. "Where ?„ are you going to?" I asked. "Pimlico." Minard's Liniment for Sore Feet. Where Puss is Tailless. As everyone knows, Manx cats are tailless. They have just a tuft of fur, without any bone, Why some cats should be talllere has never been satisfactorily explained: e The species', quite common in the East, t is said by some to have been evolved c 'by the priests of one of the old-time f pagan religions, who regarded the eatill as a . sacred -animal, and who, by de- t priving all kittens of their tails, at last succeeded in getting a tailless • species. Th8 idea was to prevent a sacred animal getting coutaminated by Its tall picking up Impurities. Many cats must have come to the is- land from the East and they have re-. main:ed tailless because their island home prevents crass -breeding with the ordinary tailed eat, Why a. cat is said to have "nine lives" is really nothing but a tribute to its body. its -spine is very tough; its paws are thickly padded, and its body 3s extraordinarily flexible. "All right," I said, getting in. "It's a long way," I said, the heat turesses do not look for their prey in having evidently trade me idiotic. i the neighborhood of the Chippenham She surveyed me with infinite con- ,the poorer part of Kilburn. So I tempt, reflecting, no doubt, that I was watched, and after a quarter of an just like a man, as is the habit of hour, from the doorivey came Rhoda, women when things do not happen slightly staggering under a white xactly as they like. At that moment burden. She was breathing hard as here appeared at the top of the street she arrived, and feverishly jumped oming toward us, a taxi that peace- into the taxi. u:ly crawled along. Excited by this "I say," I "remarked, "where do you eavenly vision, I resolved to leap into . wantt to tor' - iittledd go home,n face umovedt the sight of the; I „ t4Back,»go ;she said, with a gasp. said: "Can't I give you a lift?'i Back, Quick! Back!" She took one step back, glaring at, „You mean to the Chippenham?" me, evidently suspicious: "Where do Yes No, no, not that. Tell him you live?" she asked to go to t ...Ill te71 hint. Here, hold "Near Victoria Station," I lied. tal "I expect you're telling me the e," !seemed to be asleep, while she told the she remarked in a matter of fact tone.' cabman something hurried and then An ostrich yields about 8 lbs. o feathers yearly. After Every Med doesn't take slouch to keep you in trim. Nature only asks a little help. Wrigley's, after every meal, benefits teeth, breath appetite and digestion. f A Flavor for Every v y Taste�ste l3Wu No. 2.--'26 Iit. ..." Stupefied,Iheld the baby, , whi Ch "Still, I've got to fetch my sister's 1O joined baby to -night." I held the door open. As soon ear the door closed she "Wait a bit," she said. "'You get in ' snatched the baby back from me; turn - first. I tell the cabby where to go. I, ing her .shoulder away, she held the and not you."i bundle against her, making little "All right,": T said; getting in; soothing noises that were quite un - slightly stimulated by the idea that' necessary since the child was asleep. she wanted to,conceal her destination.! Indeed, I did not clearly hear what I unknown trd to talk is her, but asome she said to the cabman. She jumped m.e reason a se hardly answered nil - up by niy side, and the cab drove ori. cit She was ina a state of febrile her citement. At last, when I asked her For a moment we did not speak. what was the matter, why she was She was sitting upright in her corner, 1 in such a state, she muttered some - her hands folded before her, evidently; thing about the woman having been stiffening herself against approach. so rude and trying to overcharge her. She was perfectly charming, with I was rather annoyed The adven- dark eyes, long •lashes, and a petulant tura was absurd. To spend over an little red mouth, ' But what interested hour, on such a night, carrying a girl me most was her strained attitude, I and a baby to and fro in London was could guest what she was thinking of• most unsatisfactory. So I sulked. In So I said: "If you think I'in going to compete silence we arrived at a point kiss you, don't worry She flushed in Elgin Avenue where the cab stop - so dark that I could perceive it as we ped. "This is. where I get of," said passed a street.lamp. I realized that Rhoda. She was pulling, hserself to - perhaps this was rather rude, and gether a little tiow, "Thank you very ded: "It isn't that I''don't want to, much. A hot littlehand grasped mine ar from .it! But I don't want to pre- for a moment. Carefully she got out. id to do you a goad turn, to inveigle I did not follow her, for I was par - u into this cab, and turn misbehave. alyzed with amazement': on: ti corner set your mind at rest, and tell me of the baby's coat I had seen an elab story of your life." At this she considered me with mere attention : "You're a cure," she - re- rked at last. "Still, handsome is as ndsome does. ire got nothing ainst you, and, by the way, thank u very much. I dfn't know` what I ould have done if you hadn't tome ng. You see, I've got to fetch illy ter's baby; and I've just got enough tiny to pay the woman, and to pay a taxi back here." '1 see," 1 replied. "But Ws very to fetch a baby." ad tel yo So the a ma yo ag sh ale psis mo tor late NURSES The Toror', Hoppllet for tnoureblet, in aff iletibn With eeltesds nod Allied Hospital,, New York City, offers u three yuan' Cauree. of Tratnlna to ,i+luntl women. haVlno.,, the required eduastion, and desirous of beoomine nurses. Thle Hofpttatdrar adopted the eight. hour tyetem. the popilr reeelve uniforms of •.the S hoe,, a monthly oIIowanea rind travei:dp exsentat to and from Now YorK. -'F'or further Intorm: tion writ. the Snporletandant oretely worked aoat ;off ern* HMI cox, ons t. - - It must have been the heat, 1er,1G delayed a moment iii fellewing berg, Then the cabman called me, back fele eciously, since 1 had not paid hien.. There was some confusion, far tie matt was rude. When at Inst 11'ol1ow ed her, I had lost a minute I ran down a little street., bordered with. front gardens. It was very dark, how- ever, so I stopped wildly in the middle of the roadway. 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The name suggests tho fragrance of countryscents and: rural scenes, and it was as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century agreat market for the hay and straw which the wagons of the farmers in - the Home Counties conveyed to London. Aggas' map et London shows it girt, by -hedgerows, with a cluster of henget, and where the Carlton Hotel and His Majesty's' Theatre now stand, in all the glory of nmoderi architecture, visited by.. the elite, washerwomen are shown wash- ing their clothes. The wales loaded with sweet-smelling hay began to roll in in the titne of Queen Elizabeth, and not until William 1.V., the so'called. "Patriot Ring,". resigned, did they change their course to St, 7a eee's Market, which was held on the ground where Waterloo Place now extends it- eelf, and to Curnberland Market, Re- gent's Parlc: P. IIY, Litchfield, in `"Lon- don's West End.", - Mlnar'd's• Liniment fol 'Rhein titres ' GRE -EN TEA inns It is by far the most delicious.- Ask for it. AUSTRALIA'S STONE -AGE PEOPLE Where Civilization Has Stood Still for Thousands of Years. The Australian aborigines are amongst the most backward people on earth. And the tribes of the Crape York Peninsula—the unknown finger of Australia pointing to the north -- ere the least el'viiized of Aus,ttaIian aborigines. They are the People Who Stood Still. The oldest living lace of hu- mans in the world, they are 10,000 years behind the times. They are reputed to be hostile and treacherous,, but Mr. .1 McLaren, who lived amongst them for eight years, found them quite easy to get on with. Mr. McLaren'S business was to plant coconut ipahns, and his adven- tures during the -eight years these trees take to come to maturttyare ;told in "My Crowded, Solitude." The only white man amongst these primitive savages., he was., in the be- ginnin;g, more than a little nervous. He used to lie awake with rifle and re- volver beside him listening to the wails Ing of curlews along the beach, the guttural barking' of crocodiles in an adjacent creek, the howling of distant wild dogs, and the imagined vetoes • of stealthily approaching natives. Nothing eerious- happened, however, and by degrees he grew accustomed to his environment. A native woman, old and incredibly ugly, installed herself as his house- keeper, without so much as saying "be.. your leave." He taught her to cook "white man way," and she made a fairly apt pupil. But it - was as a nurse that she ex- celled, tending him through severe bouts of fever, and applying native remedies that proved wonderfully ef- fective. The men, too, took pity on his "ig- norance," as they deemed it, and in - There were Sumo things, howeve on which they would liot enlighte' him, amongst these being their smo signalling system, by means• of whin they covored distance. - Over and over again news was con), - veyed to Mr. McLaren in this manner, of occurrences that had taken ijra hundreds of miles distant only a fev hours previously. On one occasion the newe was -of . momentous kind. The man who terpreted this particular signal pinked u'from McLaren some scrap'' of English, and his version of the new conveyed to hdm by the distant rod oe smoke was as follows: "Plenty fellers fight. Them" peep% who make the smoke been hear tie - news from one 'nether people beau hear it from the men belong one outter what been anchor at their caia,pe Plenty fellers fight, and plenty oo fe dead. And oll them fellers, they whit fellers. Yes—white fellers: And th too much plenty, my word!"- That pidgin -English interpretation of a massage in smoke was the author' : first intimation of the Great War! On one occasion the Government Resident en Thursday Island sent Mr. McLaren a great bale of blankets for the natives•. The author distributed these among -- them, - telling them at the same time how grateful they ought to be to the Government for the gift. - The :tribe, however, were impressed neither by the ,gift nor by the'' Author's remarks. They took the blankets without comment, end that night slept in them. Next day• they complained that the things irritated, and after that they slept in them no more. They used them instead of bark for roofing their structed him in the lore of the jungle. huts. The Island. She walks amoiigst the loveliness she made, Between the apple -blossom and the water; She walks amongst the patterned bright brocade, Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter. This isl an island all with flowers in laid A square of grassy pavement tes- s&ated: Flowers in their order -blowing as she bade. . . The waving grasses freckle sun with shade, The wind-blown wavelets round the king.cnps ripple, Color on color chequered and arrayed, Shadow on light in variable stipple. Her regiments at her command parade, Foot-seddier primrose in his rank comes trooping, Then windflowers in a scarlet loose brigade, Fritillary with dusky orchis group- ing; They are the Cossacks dim in embus-- Scarfed in their purple like a for- eign stranger,. Piratical, and apt for stealthy raid Wherever's mystery or doubtful dan- ger. Iris salutes her with his broad green blade, And marches by with proud andepur- ple pennant, And tulips in a flying cavalcade Follow vaterain for their Iieutenant. The lords and ladies dressed for mas- quorade In green silk domino discreetly hooded, Hurry towards the nut-troe;s colon- nade,' Philandering where privacy's well wooded; They're the civiliar.s -' of this bold crusade, ` The courtiers of this camp ,by blos- som tented, With woodbine clambering the balus- trade, - And alt by briar roses bal:tle.ment- ed. There, in the :snulit grasses bright as Jade, She walks; she sees liar squadrons at attention. And laughing at her flowery escapade, Stretches her hands out to her sweet inven tion.. Sackville -West., in the Natio'► and the Athenaeum., TheReasonWhy— A Sunday ii boo; teacher asked a'pupil 1 why Ananlas was so severely punish- ed. I, The, little ono - thought a minute, then aniwerede i "Please, teacher, they weren't so used, to lying .in those days.''` Qriginal Barbarian. . In modern times the 'word Barbarian means something not .all nice but it originally meant, in. 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