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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-07-22, Page 73 1 e 1i CUM BY ani SUN I ick. ts, As*e *ua,, and Mang Other Dzseateee Fly Before Sunlight. Browny speaking, there are three food to supply the deficiency of certain fin ortant Q1ements, children with riokets benefit wonderfully. And with regard to anaemia, properly prescribed sunlight oaueesa rapid increase both in thenumber of the red oarpuscles of the biped and in its coloring matter. People of feeble constitution, those suffering front general debility, and eine regard the word tuberoulosis as those recovering from acute fevers, applying to consumption of the lunge. . are all lufluenoed in a lasting and ao- lels is quite incorreot;" Tuberculosis tive manner when sunlight la adminfs- may occur in almost any of the bones, toned to then, glands or other tissues of the body. It is, however, useless to expect that But wherever the disease, the: sue the first two classes• can be niade ro- ferer miry always hope for a great inz- bust in two or three weeks. It mcie proVenrent In his oondition, and even take months, cure, provided he will keep a brave People who have become used to the • heart and can place himself in the treatment are able to go about with a hands of a Vhysdoian wile has the minimum of clothing even in cold neoessary experience in applying the weather. healing property of sunligkft. In a certain sanitarium on the Con So wonderful are the results obtain- tir.,en,t, where many consumptive ed by sunlight, that ina book written youngsters are brought back to health, by one of the chief physicians who the boys wear nothing but a pair of practises this treatment, you may see bathing drawers, and the girls a com- photographs of eases of great deform- bination of white cotton. Ity caused by tuberculosis, cured by Olad in this manner, they skate on sunlight so that no semblance of the the`1ce in the warm sunshine, whioh deformity exists. • gradually transforms them from puny, Under the proper conditions of sun- diseased little mortals into robust, Nght and air, and with the necessary well -grown youngsters,—R, de C: nportant diseases in which. Sunlight i0 of supreme importance. These are eoneumption •••- t'1110h doctors call ttt- hemuresis; rickets —• the frequent cause of gravo doforrities in child - bad; and anaemia or Dearness of reed. ,People who have not studied meds. Wild Apples. Almost all wild apples are handsome They cannot be to gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look .at, The, gnarliest Will have some redeeming traits.. even to the eye. You will discover some evening redness dashed or sprinkled on some protuberance or le some oovity. It is rare that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spot- ting it on some part of its sphere. It will have some red stains, commemor- ating the mornings and evenings it has witnessed; some dark and rusty blotches, in memory of the clouds and Soggy, mildewy days that have passed over it; and a spacious field of green reflecting the general face of nature, -1 green even as the fields; or a yellow ground, which implies a milder flavor, 1 —yellow as the harvest, or russet as the hills. • Painted by frosts, some a uniform clear bright yellow, or red, or crimson, as if their spheres had regularly re- volved, and enjoyed the influence of the sun on all sides alike,—some with the faintest pink blush imaginable,— some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine • . . red rays running regularly from the stem -dimple to the blossom - end, like meridional lines, on a straw- colored ground,—some touched with a greenish rust, like a fine lichen, here; and ,there, with crimson blotches or The Snow. • • It sifts from leasee 816468, It powders all the wood, !It fills with -alabaster wool The wrinkles of the road•• It makes an even face Of mountain and of plain. --- Unbroken forehead from the east ;Unto the east again. lIt IIt reaches to the fence, wraps it, rail by rail, . Till it is lost in fleeces; 1OIt flings a crystal veil n stump and stack and ste•m,— The summer's empty room, Acres of seams where harvest were, Re0ordlese, but for them. . —Emily Dickihson eyes more or less confluent and fiery when wet,—and others gnarly, and freckled or peppered all over on the 'stem side with flue crimson spots on a white ground. : - . Others, again, are sometimes red inside, 'infused Bonuses for Brides. set, ltt1.0.II F+::•r .� ;./•,aat`.t��A.,::•,l n ,�r;0.V,t. rt'7.i fhtlf•+�,. ¢�i y>r1al THE VICTORY Nelson's old flagship, now in course of reconstruction at Portsmouth Dock yard. Her new masts are being fitted as at Trafalgar. The of Roads. • If we leave our Meaning ip on the coast Community Singing. we need roads to travel by on land, with us go ugity hinging is very much annot and this was an especial need for'the escape it. Nor wouere ldwelifl w ee ccould. Romans with their huge Empire to ad- j It is the sort of thing •that was to be minister. By the roads treasure was expected; for, if the plain truth must cm—Leered to Rome in sealed baskets, be spoken, it is in the very nature of user, hence our word "fiscal." We are things ---the outcome of music's na- all of no far too ready to take things tural growth and development. Even for granted; we walk on a Roman road its bitterest enemies are willing to ad - and are not thrilled; we may say, mit that community singing is better "Well, after all, it is only a road," and than community scrapping and fight -1 we forget the travellers who, through ingl If we would enjoy life to •the • all the centuries, have hurried along full, we must give up the selfish no- I its surface. It is interesting to speeu- tion of living to ourselves alone. In -1 late why a road should be in the posi- tercourse is natural and helpful; so is , tion we find it. The answer, that it community singing, A familiar maxim 1 COMJNG 0F �U N.I�EfR EVENING The pools of gold about the oaksThe qkr beeanie lavender,colored, tbi. slowly drained away, and• the sky moon' duet falling with the 4144 sat , above became a' profound blue. Three , forming e, gauzy veil above. The Wentswi'ft's passed above, wheeling in deal : of the waves pounding the distant flight before t, fore creeping their nests: • headland was borne on the' wind. bur - of straw -speck and saliva under the with foam fragrance and, the' tiles of the church, The conies .of the scent of the •sweet Waver fields beyond warblers and thrushes, ere the 11ght' the village, It stirred the green corn, drains away, . . . tang of the beauty' carne fitfully, then sighed to silence, of summer: the swift's cries belong Col I was alone with the wheat that 1 the spectral light of the stare and the loved. , I pressed my face among mystery of infinite space. The swift' the ,sweet wistfulness• of stalks, stained is the mystic among birds. and glowing as with some lambent fire, Gradually the sun sank into the sea, pale, ?mysterious. On each pale dame. its fire spreading its broad glow blade depended a small white light, a through the cloud strata over the far • dewdrop' in which the light of the moon horizon, One by one the eters crept I was imprisoned. , , Faint ae the Into their places, waiting for the sea -murmur within the shell, the voice queeu•nioon to lift her head above the 1 the corn came to the inward ear hills of Exmoor. Antares shone in the j Ever the same was the earth that it eolith; above were Lyra, Aquila, North -1 knew, the east washed with faint rose - ern Crown, and all the heavenly con l water in the day -spring, the lark -bight course: Mars glowed red, with Spica !loosened upon the. bosom of the drawn Vidginis swung low in. adoration and wind, and the golden beams of the sun !Bending its' wan green area to the i breasting the hills of the morning. , - j watcher. Slowly the afterglow drench-; The moon fixated • in the nightpoal j eft In the gray waters, an owl quavered with the Swan, the distant roar of the lin Ioneliz.ess as it fanned . over the ! surf floated from over the clover fields. churchyard; a jackdaw answered l . • X walked toward the village, , 1 sharply, querulously, and night had while the landrail began his jarring I come to earth, crake -crake in the corn, and the little A pale golden vapor over the Ex- moths went down to drink the honey moor hills, and them eon rose, like i of the night -opening floweflowersoar•s the head of a yellow moth oreeping • while the mon . . .was in its fullest, from its case. It swam into view oyer I beauty. Antares was a dull red ember the dark hills, and I looked into its in the south.—Henry 'Williamson,.mson,• in face, while it shrank into a silver disk. j "The Moue Swallows." Daily Milk. _ _ M icai Growth of CanadaHere in the city there are no green Procee in Apace, fields, Those who believe that music pro - No running streams, no pasturage for vides one of the best means of escape miloh cows, from the monotonies and the anxieties And yet every morning sees fresh. of life are glad of the fact that the milk waiting at the door, music of our country is !n the healthy I There it stands in shining glace bot- vigorous state observable on all sides. ties, There is very good reason, indeed, to Crowned with golden cream—o1ean bo pleased eh the progress music hast now milk. made, and is making, as an interest to' people who own many and diversei II can see the cattle on a thousand hills, views respecttng things worth while. Green pastures and still waters, The energized study of music in the Swishing streams of mllk, silver palls, I schools, the large attendance at the Big cans, great trucks and toiling men. colleges of music, the growth in the I can smell the sweet aroma of warm ° number of musical societies of many can milk. !kinds, the widespread public newly m smell wind from new -mown hay drawn to the art by the music of radio, —tiothy, daisies and clover. of the phonograph, of the player piano can hear the bobolink's belie, the —these and other heartening signs of cicarda's viol, the times gives us reasonable cause nd the interminable squeak of the for satisfaction. ca cricket. Incidentally, too much attention ma - i not be given to that great reservoir of Stone walls and cement streets can ; musical possibility, viz., the child. It, not bar out the country, tis worth the while of all who desire to IC comes into town n ith every bottle see the future adult life of this country of milk. j interested in music, intelligently ap- -hloyd Roberts. f preciative of music, or merely enter - _________.0,..._ ••--• tained by music, to do whatever they One Step at a Time. l can to advance the teaching of it to Men who have undergone the hard, the children, to increase the range of serves to connect two towns, may not runs to the effect that "third-class do- contain the whole essence of the mat -ling beats first-class watching any ter, because we can go on to ask why i time," Such a sweeping statement, the towns bave grown up in these ! like many other maxims, cannot be plaoes. There must be certain ways 1 swallowed whole; all the same, we do up and down a country, but these ! not doubt that "third-class Singing would not be very useful unless they beats first-class listening in the ma - connected areas where men could jority of instances," grow corn, or cattle, or find iron -and Those of us who are in the habit of coal with which to work. attending the great Competitive Fes - Nothing 1s more expressive of the • tivale have experienced some of the Roman genius than the Roman road. thrills obtainable from community One of the most urgent questions to- singing at its best and under the most day is the traffic problem, intensified by the coming of motor trainee Dur- ing the early part of the nineteenth; eutury, we lost the road sense; rail- ays began to carry men and goods bout, and the roads fell into disuse, 'orse still, the people had not any Sas of town -planning, so as the towns veloped, hideous factories were built the suburbs, and grouped around ese were the back-to-back hovels of e workers; the narrow medieval es were not widened, and remain to- y as the bottle -necks which throttle By the will of a French emigrant o who, starting his career as a •pedlar,, w became one of the wealthiest cotton a planers in the State of Louisiana, ! W every bride in the welsh of West Ba- Id ton Rouge is provided with a wedding ' de dowry. Behind the will is the story in .` of an unhappy love affair, the exact th ' detalle of which, however, have never I th come to light. lan The planter, Julien Poydras, cited a da lnuiidred years ago. On Irl he let fall some rambling statements ' dr r about the girl he had loved but never un married. Apparently, the two had been the unable to wed because of their lack of hu I means; however this may have b I favorable circumstances. It is won't worth going to a representative com-' petitive gathering to hear the com-' A. bines singing of the audience. One of the most thrilling moments of the' writer's career was that experienced at a great cricket match,, played on tbe occasion of a royal. anniversar'Y, when the vast assembly, at given signal, t rose to its feet and sang the "National l Anthem What a grand volume of! t e arterial roads. Today one may ive through a maze of crooked lanes, ing Harbor. for til, turninginto a great high road, A wide sky and a wide sea; th g I car a settles down with. a contented i =� heavy roll, and a wind that ripped to m, the driver is happier ,incl every- 1 The waves, and showed them white; be e much safer, because one is ou ,a l } ad designed some eighteen hundred ! A wind that whistled, a wind that old romance by ensuring in his will that Cuennen, in "Everyday' Life in Ro- ' thereafter !And tore the cora,, and sent it flying se with a beautiful blush, fairy food, too beautiful to eat,—apple I apple of the evening sky! But like of Hesperides i shells and pebbles th parish h sew on commemorated the path t' Poydras, who remained a bachelor all •ro his life enc years ago.—Marjorie and C. H. B. whipped„ ! th no girl of his sw tl ' 'ueling discipline of training for the j that teaching, to improve its methods, ng mileage of u marathon have told Ito assure its influences upon the recep- tive child wind, where so much that is• st of sinew, heart and stamina that, written is an Indelible record, and sides the physical ordeal, there is a j where an impulse once Iodged may ental hazard to be overcome; as that 1 come to be of permanent and decisive adage has it, the head must save importance. Not only is the boy the e heels. The young, green runner, 9 father of the man; the children of to- eing the large field pitted against ,day are the nation of the future, nt at the outset, feels that he mus ee heart s marc. Britain," Into the thin and chilly air on a seashore, pars s ould be unable to nrarr they must be seen as they sparkle need of a dowry. He endowed a5 3fuOr nd amid the withering leaves In some dell for the purpose with the sum of $30, - in the woods, in the autumnlial air, or 000, and in doing so made innumerable se they lie in the wet grass, and not l brides and bridegrooms happy. - when they have wilted and faded in The fund is administered by the the house. It would be a pleasant pastime to > nd suitable names for the hundred Varieties which go to a single heap, • • . it would exhaust the Latin and Creek Languages, if they were used. 1 and each of whose wives had reoetved We should have to call in the 1 a grant from the toad! State and the financial circumstances l of applicants are carefully looked into; before guy grant" is made, A. recent applicant was tli had already been married Eau r times False Hopes. Mrs. 1'08S—"1Irs. 13.rowne is so ciis• appointed in her husband." Mrs. Foote --"In what way," • Mee Foss --"Well, before their mar- riage he told herhe would die for ]ver, and now she's found nut that he hasn't o brtcle of a man who a bit of insurance." sunrise 2121 a'e and the sunset the rainbow' and the autumn woods .and the wild' To boil milk 11 A gray dawn and a distance gray, And night behind. And everywhere A call for home. And one lone boat Unswervingly her haven sought, And snuffed her lamps, and furled her sail, And tumbled into the sheltered port. Relaxation, Retribution, "Did you have a good rest, dear?" 'li'sl'e•-"`L'anc les, John, I went Into a few shoe y you buying that loud- 1 stores, speaker! Yen know I, ,,._ people! , urntI,ernaath Ancient ceremony. Owers, and the woodpecker and the rinse the without scorching, us worry 08 with theirs," ! The ancient custom of garland weav- e in cold water before prole finch and the squirrel and the !putting in the milkHubby--"Don't worry, dear. This is j ing bras observed at Newmarket, Eng, , Y and the butterfly. , . . it!" land, recently, "1'ot if I had a hundred tongues, a "'.-____._... hundred mouths, _ _ An iron voice, could L describe all the fortns And reckon up all the names of these wild apples," Thoreau, -in "Excursions." Relics Dug Up in Florida. Remnants of a race believed to have existed in rlorida 2,000 years ago, bave been dug up in I3rowa -d county in that state. Near a burial mound. was discovered au idol, thirty-five feet tall, made of sed mangrove, or "wood eternal," as it is nailed by those who regard it as nondecayable. The fea-, tures, seemingly those of a female, l were cawed from shells. They were j 0 the Mongolian type. The body was fashioned from wood. Scientists found !1e burial mound about 5(10 yardsfrom e Atlantic ocean. It is one of the *hest spots of the country and the j pi+te of the first white settlers who 1 tame to Florida, Married Life. "Let tis pray we were married," said ott'le Edith, "and I'll bring my dolly.' lead say, 'See baby, papa?" "Yes," replied'Jahnny; "and 111, say, 'Don't bother me now -••-i want to look through the paper," In Case of Ivy poison, As the pelson from Ivy takes some t,,tte to penetrate the elcin, much of it �.n•be removed by, washing the skin thoroughly soon after expostire. No One, Maybe too much stress is sometimes lata on efficiency and waste. A water. Motet is 99 per cont. water, it is said, 5 but who would want a More condensed •r . I, watermelon? ADA1VMSDN'S , ADVENTURES Y AD 1Sol-4! v,wY 00t T you sivr IHARRter)P teteeal; rI-s IDEA 0P PIM I' ON MY 1 8..CK FIGHT ,se/AY? r.-• till'egt ' hi MU Ilymtlen:o,. Th Wily Double Trouble? hi t Proposing by Flowers. In remote Alpine hamlets. and via lages, especially in the Bernese Ober- t customsland, there still exist ancient and met - ; customs of proposing marriage by the language of flowers. If a maid accepts a bouquet of edel- 1 wales from a man she at the same time accepts him as her fiance, the idea be- ing that the man has risked bis life to obtain the flowers far the woman he loves. Another method which exists in the • Canton of Glarus is for the young man to place a flower -pot containing a single rose and a note on the window- sill of a girl's roam when she is ab- sent from Home, and wait—perhaps days --for a reply. If the maid takes the rose the young man boldly enters the house to arrange matters with her parents; but if the rose is allowed to fade the proposal is rejected without a single word having been exchanged between the couple, Exploding to Live! OUT bodies are made up of• millions of tiny :sells, and these cells are con- tinually exploding to keep us alive! Whatever movement a person makes, f only the raising of a finger or the l ovement of an eyelid, it means that 'ho energy to carry it out Inas been replied by the disruption of some of 10 cells of the body. A slight movement .means, of course, sat only a few cells have explodedbeamshers a big effort, such as running, brought about by a great rnany oelis exploding. The result of these minutcaple- t=iois what one would expect ---heat. nus a person who makes a great ef- rt becomes very heated. in •the pre- ss. Also, owing to the destruction so many cells lie loses weight. A e'er" in the course of a fight may lose mob.mob.as eight or nine pounds. Popular. low do you like your new job as bill collector?" ne "Flue, thank you; it takes e into ny fine tepee." 'Butt do you evdr sense a thought t you might be a tiny bit unpoprr- !get ahead and keep ahead from the start; that if ho lets all or many of these competitors precede him, he may I never catch up with them again, I But the wise old-timer, settling clown to the slow and steady grind, follow- ing the tactics of the tortoise versus i Ithe hare, contentedly lets others set a swifter patio and get far ahead of him, , sure of himself, confident that in time 1 they will wear themselvea out in the burst of speed that they cannot Iong maintain. Then he will gradually I overhaul them and show them the ! way to the goal, Meanwhile, he is not ' looking and thinking far ahead to the' 1 end of the race; his concern is to keep the human machine steadily and sintoothly moving ahead one step at a time. Some of us in the course of our everyday lives are trying too hard to crowd the distant future into the im- mediate present and to achieve to -day all that should be distributed through months and years to come. We have to learn often at the cost of pain and disappointment not to try to live the whole of our lives at ones and not to waste lo anxious conjecture and fore- boding the energy that should be given to the duty of the moment. To few of us is it permitted to see 1 Ir j the distant goal, - to know that the ! course we are to cover Is plain and 1 t easy, to be sure of victory over irnper-ISI sonar circumstance and personal com.1 ti petition. But there lies before us al ways a way to take, however hard and! 0rough. that way may be; and when we !w cannot see the end from the begin is I tying, we can take one step at a tinge, j 1 is 1 Moon.. i Tl j Voiceless and with bated breath, I run fo From beauty such as this ( 00 } To seek the hands of friends, 1 of !And simple ,things I understand-- i be j The white feet of my love; the wane ' a's security Of near heartli•iiree; familiar books; The rooted round of family tasks. 1 Bind 1110 to eerth,'0 mortal !And familiar. hands I love! .•L tea I Hold ere, bold mi' to the hings where. tba of I knowi tier ---Y. F. Swain, j , Not So Bad. ' Paddy was milted whether his twins diel not make an awful uois•e•at nights. ' 'Well," he said, "net NO bad, not 110 had; yon wee. One )bakes suclt adirt that you carni hear the other," `Oh, nol Nearly everyone to -day, or instance, asked me to call again." Meanest Brother, "What are you crying for, Elsie?" "Willie saw a nian break his leg tt1l° never .called ane till the anrbulancea camerr'