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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-07-29, Page 7DEYONSIIIR E DEUGIIT Quitting Ilfracombe, on the elbow of Devon, I turned scud' .and rode into a dream of higel lands, musical with the thin crowning of cock pheasants, gild- ed with. gorse, ,ch•ecicered with clouds, fragrant 'with apple-blossen>rs in .sad* digin 1aa'mst;eacie where eerthern jars' bottled earnsbine for : early rhubarb, where bees hyrnwed of honey ;bout wicker hives, and cows. tuned Mari- golds into butter, Inglas of blackthorn, ehureh vaaree swimming, tholes filled level with primrosesand violets, smell ing as the angels must smell, Pearls of sheep on all the hills. Afar the blazing blue sea going uphill, as the sea always does for one -on high places flowered with. sails. Creaking carts, Braunton's- children going tees`chool, the girls' hair so tight in pigtails that their eyes went a. -slanting, the boys' with skim -milk eyes., one ,sees by all seas, eyes that Drake -and Raleigh must have had in their heads, wistful as fires in October, Saumton'e old -coun- try gentlemen in coarse tweeds. . I rode the full moon high into the ,sky across the sand barrens below Staun- ton. A mysterious world swept sea - weird skeletoned with ribs of old boatie, The air ran'silver; the sea went out till it was a jet- edge of limitless moon - Are and, opal. There laypetrified for- ests under the sea beheld by sailors where winds are northwest. Lyonesee and diamonds .. . for Arthur's last tournament. I get up with the larks• and, leaving Barnstaple . . rode west again. through radiant dawn along the -hats to Appledore. A ttecond down seread• ozr every hand, for the apple•+trees were at high tido. If you want to smell what. Beulah Land will be like, you muat have the tang of the sea blowing through apple blossoms. If you can add dawn's dew and Devon, so much the sweeter for your hose! Over 'a; bridge, and Bideford openedup its arms, it is a town fa'1lea asleep, like so many in Devon, to a dream of an- clent greatness when ite men in Volut- ed beards and starched ruffs, walked the street's like princes witli the flavor of far lands in their speech:. , Oak and bronze the Virgin Queen found the men of Devon. It le in Bideford that one may see inlaid Spanish can- non, annon, mouth down in the and. They washed in under the flea from the Ar- mada ships that broke their noble hearts on Devon's iron rocks, If Bide- ford's quays lie idle noW save for lit- tle boats, oak and bronze are here still and men who dare the sea. One has sails gleaming through his apple trees, maste above his cottage windows, dingy shops' that smell of hemp and. oakum and hold curios, shark's teeth, Javan beans, garnered from the world's ends, and inns full of the best tales of man, the stories of the sea... Robert P. Tristram Coffin, in "Devon the Delectable." WL StrawONDERFUs That Tell theCLOCKS Time. A clock, if it is a good one, makes a capital wedding present. Henry VIII. apparently thought so, for it is said that he gave the old clock at Windsor Castle to Anne Boleyn on her wedding morning. It is still working! • Glastonbury Abbey clock ran for about 500 years without a stop, whilst the church clock at East Hendren, a Berkshire village, .which was stopped recently for repairs, has told the cor- rect time day in and day out for four centuries, It is claimed, however, that the clock in Rye parish church, which also has just been renovated, is the oldests pub- lic clock still in service with its origin - Sky Splendor. When nature herself takes a oolor- ing fit, and does something eiktraordin- ary, something really to exhibit her. power, she has a thousand ways and means of rising above herself, but in- comparably ncomparably the noblest manifests - tions of her capability of color are in those sunsets among the high clouds. I speak especially of the moment be- fore the sun sinks, when hie light turns pure rose -color, and when this light falls upona zenith covered with countless cloud=forms of inconceivable delicacy, threads and flakes of vapor, which would in common daylight be pure snow-white, and which ' give, therefore, fair field to the tone of light. There is then no limit to the multi tude, and no check to the intensity, of the hues assumed. The whole sky from the zenith to the horizon be - al mechanism. It was built in 1515-- comes one molten mantling sea of at a total cost of £2 1.5c. 4d.! Cannon,_ color and fire; every black bar turns balls were used as weights, and the into massy gold, every ripple and wave quarters were sounded by two life-size into unsullied shadowless crimson, and bronze figures of "quarter boys." Freaks and Midgets. Eight-day movements in clocks were , ceived 'while they are visible; the in. tiring day; introduced . about 1690. About thatutense hollow blue aY the upper sky Let a cripple tell you that life is vain, time nearly all the clocks were con- deep, o melting through it all, showing mere But thank the Lard for my health, grandest music. "The rush and gurgle tie the difficulties that have grown out strutted with calendar dials, then con- deep and pure, and lightless; there I say of the water along the side of the ship,' of this situation. A girl will write that He has never proposed marriage to; 'Tis true I must work by my forehead's the music of the wind in the rigging she has been "]seeping company" for her. He may never even have men sweat, and all the little sighs and creaks of three or four years with a young man toned love. He has never assumed Must hiss some charms which Lila ,and ship as she rolls and pitches. Ah! i rich attain; that's brave music. And if you are and that he has suddenly started pay- any obligation to her, and if she has lying on the deck you can see the tall ing ardent attention to another girl let him drive all other mem away and; masts swaying and pointing at stars i who works in his office. ' kill all her chances of matrimony, she that twinkle until you can almost hear ; Or a youth writes that he has been ' has no one to blame but herself. From "keeping company" with a girl for a a practical standpoint it is impossible them too." (year and a half, but that when he took to imagine why girls tolerate the "keep Billy moved along the bench cleser her to a dance she danced four times ing company" custom for a minute.: purple, and scarlet, and colors for which there are no words in language things which can only be con - 114emorial to Lord Kitchener unveiled by the Prince of Wales :,.t the Horse Guards Parade, London. The Prince and Lord Peel are shown stand- ing at the foot of the statue after the unveiling. Ballad of Health. � . Night `Tunes. Why- should I., worry and grieve and fret That fame is distant and hard to gain? Life has much heavier care than debt, And rich is he who is free. from pain. Why should a strong man curse the rain Or grumble at hardships along the way? Let the sickly and sorrowful lives com- plain, But thank the Lord for my health, I say. I haven't been hurt by the shocks I've met, My ankle's not shackled by ball and chain; There are numberless joys.I may live to get; My food is good, though it may be plain. I've fallen and jumped to my feet again; l've the strength to last through a Billy sat on the old farmhouse porch with bis Uncle Paul, and watched, the fireflies' glimmering lights go dancing among the bushes at the water's edge A bat flew down from the great barn, and zigzagged across the yard. A tree toad started his whirring pipe. "Did you ever notice," said Billy's uncle very softly, "how everything on a night like this is music? It's just as though the darkness• put everything in tune, and no matter what sounds you hear, they are all part of the one big music. Listen to those poplars whis- pering now." Billy drew in his breath sharply and listened. The whisper of the poplars, every day the potential lovers would men away from her on the off -chance the voice of the tree toad and the tiny discover fresh charms and beauties in that he may propose to her if he does rustlings in the raspberry canes along each other and everything would be not happen to run across some other. the edge of the garden were like touched, unmarred, by any odious I girl that he likes better. And it is, sounds of sweet -toned instruments sense of duty and obligation. the world's crowning illustration of with a perfect accompaniment. A That is the theory of "keeping com- I folly for a girl ever to be a party to wave of perfume surged up from the pany," but the practice of it seems to 1 such an unequal bargain, a bargain in THE FOLLY OF KEEPING COMPANY Handicapping Love: By "A Woman With a Duster." One of the things that appear to they can foreclose or let lapse as they, trouble young men and women of to- day is the difficulty of deciding just what ju�risdl•ction each has over the like.. It commits. a man bo nothing.? It binds a girl to nothing. , You can't break a bargain until your other while thej wander through the have made one. You aan't lose a thing no man's, land prior to the time when you have never had. You can't .im the young man proposes. marriage and pose the ethics of a betrothal or of there is a definite betrothal. matrimony upon those who are, in ef-i This period is commonly known as feet, mere acquaintances. , "keeping company." Theoretically it should be ideal, a time of vague antici- patiou and nebulous dreams, when It takes monumental self-conceit and selfishness to make a man willing to monopolize a girl and keep all other garden. work out very differently. "I've noticed it wherever I've been." Tie That Doesn't Bind. continued Billy's ncle. "Out at sea There is not a day that I do not get sometimes at night I've heard the a dozen letters calling upon me to set which she inevitably takes the great-: est risk. She has no right to feel ill-' used when the man -who has been ""keeping company" with her ands the friendship. sidered to be more important hen, the modulated by the filmy, formless . . minute hand. transparent vapor, till it is lost imper Freak clocks were greatly favored ceptibly iu its crimson and gold years ago. Fan -shaped clocks were The concurrence of •circumstances constructed, also some in the form of necessary to reduce the sunsets of , But a full night's sleep on my bed I a suspended bird -cage. There was a which 1 speak does not take place get . sudden fashion once for mystery above five or six timesin the summer, And my bread is made from the gold- clocks—just two hands on a glass dial, and then only for a space of five to ten en grain; And many have died while I still re- main, to his uncle, who went on: "In reez amportn- There are pleasant games which Iwith another fellow. Also that he has . They have everything to lose by it and; bei one night when 1 was idiscovered that she occasionally goes nothing to gain. still can play; away over on the other side of the out with some other man. In conse- I It is a good thing for men and woe those despair who can't stand the world, when the night was so soft and ' strain, thick and dark that you could almost quence of which he feels himself a •men to see and know many women . the Lord 'form health I and men before they pick out their life But thank X , feel it: Lying in the harbor with the much -abused individual. "Keeping company" is merely 1 partners. This is impossible in the I say. water lapping against Lire side of the LNVOYWoman have on each other, and boat,a sort of sentimental option that a man i thereaping company" Custom. monopolistic conditions imposed by 1 felt sometimes as if I might There's many a task for my hands and hear the nigbt lapping around the coils and Where were the works? Usually the mechanism was about the size -o1 a Penny and concealed in the knobs op - minutes, just as the suu reaches the horizon. . . . Granting the constant vigor of ob- posite the pointer end of the fingers. servation, . It needs but a mo - Moving weights inside the knobs ment's refection to prove how lump, caused the lingers to revolve. In able the memory is of retaining for Munich, Germany, there is a clock any time the distinct image -of the made entirely of straw, no glue even sources even .of its most vivid impres- sions. What recollection have we of the sunsets which delighted us last year? We may know that they were being need. Astronomical clocks once enjoyed considerable popularity. A good ex- ample is found in an abbey in the New magnificent, or glowing, but no die - Forest. Another, with its sun; moon tinct image of color or form is retain - and signs of the zodiac, can be seen at ed Hampton Court. It was made about I•t-is..a strange thing how little pea 1540. ple in general know about the sky. Many stories are told of this famous There is not a moment of any duty of timepiece, which is known as the . our ,lives, when nature is not produc- _"olock of death." On the death of ing scene after scene, picture after Anne of Denmark, wife of James.I., it picture, glory after glory. . - Every is said that the clock stopped suddenly. ' man, wherever placed, however far !Several instances are recorded of the from other sources of interest or of clock stopping on more recent occa-, beauty, has this for him constantly. stens, the latest of these sinister coin-. The noblest scenes o•f the earth can irldences being reported not many be seen but by few; it is not intended, months ago. 1 that man should live always in the Britain's Biggest. midst of them; . . . he ceases to feel Self-winding decks are one of the re- them if he be always with them; but Dent developments in time -keeping. the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is Current from the mains starts a small not motor every twenty -tour hours and re-! "Too bright nor good winds the clock. Synchronized clocks i For human natures daily food;" . foe common nowadays. One master' Who . . . can tell me of the forms Clock automatically controls a group and the precipices of the, chalu of tall of others so that they all register ex- mountains that girded the horizon at actly the same time. ' noon yes•terd•ay? Who was the nor The biggest clock in the British Em -1 row sunbeam that came out of the We, now being built at Clydebank, ` south and smote upon their summits and which has four dials each twenty- until they meted ani mouldered away six feet,xacross, will be controlled elec- in.a dust of blue rain? Who saw the tricailY from Greenwich in this way. dance of the . . . clouds when the Electric clocks also control apparat— us recording the movements of staff west wind blew them before it like and watchmen;' whilst the system is withered leaves?—John Ruskin, in being adopted in schools, where a master clock rings bells in the class - ?owns et certain hours. ' ' The world's largest clock is to be A polic.eni •n was crossiug e bridge, in the Jersey .City factory of Colgate, when a cry arose .that a li•ol le girl hail and Company. It is wound by a 14h.p, -fallen over the parapet into the river motor, and has a diameter "of'SOft. The below. Minute hand is 38ft. long, whilst the. The.nurse maid appealed to the vita hour hand meaaure5 2? ft.. the bands ser to jump into the seething current together weighing 3,8251b; More than and rescue her charge. He promptly 200 lamps placed round the dial make threw off his coat.and helmet, and in It easy to tell the tinie by ,night. "Modern Painters." Very Goo!! M► PI replace Can Be reanyinfenee, From roof ho cellar the fireplace can be a comfort and convenience, or it man be a nuisance and worse than Use May, ' .w.---•- - —•-- Furniture not provided with castors often s erttches po'lis'hed floors when it is nio'ted about. This can be avoided if rit17 &see et felt are glued to the bottom of the legs of the furniture, five minutes he had landed the half- drowned girl on the bank. The crowd applauded his heroism, when the, nurse came up and. said: "Do you mind jumping in again? Minnie had a doll In her hand when she fell over, and she's left it at the bottom." Country With No Misses, IVIarried worsen and spinsters will soon lee indistinguishable by Haire In Denmark, as they will both be address ed by the single profit "Pima?' (Milk), brain, of rope and the deck -houses. Over on Mx pockets but little o1 gold contain, the shore a native began to sing a1 0 Fame has missed me and fortune may, queer high-pitched song without any will only listen." Billy gave a happy ; duet, with the wind in the trees and But thank the Lord for my health, 1 beginning or end, that went on and little sigh of understanding. j the frogs all helping them along?" say• on until everything around seemed to "And the, old hoot owl over in the —Edgar A. Guest. be singing, too --a song that all things I Uncle Paul smiled. "`You'll never woods boomed in just lfke` a big boso- m had a part in. The stars hung clown =hoar anything in the world more I drum," added Billy. When boiling a pudding the basin so low they seemed as near and fa -;beautiful than the music we listened in whichwatit is cooked must be full of i uziliar as the masthead lights that gilt-! to down in the back pasture the other i The two sat silent. A little breeze the water will get in and the ,pudding I tared around the harbor. Oh! I tell night," he said, "Remember how the swept through the long grass beyond he spoiled. Ithe garden, and stirred the raspberry Danes into a frail, tiny rustle. The poplars again gave out their murmur' ous whisper and a soft tinkle of cow- bells echoed from the far-off pasture. The bat zigzagged back across the gar- den, and from the barn came the sub- dued stamping of one cf the horses moving in his stall. you there's brave music everywhere, I brook and the rattle of the cowbells rand music for all of us to hear it we over in the bushes made such a great ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES /APAMSoN,1 WANT YOU ( To COME UP To THE HoOSE Atd HEAR. 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