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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-09-23, Page 219 M LAPS FORTHE LIGHT"' A TED I alk, Understandingly l0aoh day, 1 take nit' torn atxtaktralda--- N I understand the Sky--• because 1 know it torn umbrella (.an cloud bursts xuodify. Pasch day 1 take my torn ulnerella And bid ray 000lc good by, And as a stick my tarn umbrella 1 owing, and gravely tris, upon my arm I wear my 'jacket, My bat. serosa my head, And in a simply folded Packet 1 carry simple bread. Within a wood I gravely enter, I talre the beaten path: 1 would not be a wry dissenter, ' Late home for aftermath. By Temple Bailey. A, girl said to me the ether lay:. patently, be a sense of the importance ,d 'iia f .doth thitt e differerttl'e. To r'ol]ow ."-"2laile of the old inodets Will help , o g g •anoderns. What our mothers dict is the advice of their elders, to listen to out of elate. The books they read fail mother, or dad, or Aunt,;l!'lary, or to illumine our lives: " The areceiats Uncle J•ohu, would seem to them weak - that guided them ace not for us to fol minded, not up to things, out•inoded. lose, We have a new psychology, a Yet there is this to be said about it: new philosoeh,". Everything is new. Tktat, though the lamps which shone W• need a brig filter light. New lamps for the girls of a past generation were ay old." of another pattern, the light which 1 souuded amazingly s,opbisticatod. buret d in there had a clear and steady And at first I was impressed. I racked flame. The standards of the past had my brains for the right things to 'say. to do with integrity and honor and in- ner air Fal been so convincing. She dustry anti intelligence, They had o had the reoverboard so calmly every- do with sympathy sand kindness, wito thing that belonged to the past. In chivalry and unselfishness. A lamp Se.pteritber she is to teach, having fin- without such lights as these will fail !shed school in the spring. It seemed to illumine any life, whether of yester- important to me that she should have some standards. She takes herself most seriously, yet has no rules to live by. There are other girls who voice the saute perturbation, girls who will go this fall into new worlds—into callege, business, a profession, or even into matrimony. All of them ask for new lamps. They are weigbed down, ap- day cr of to -day. A lamp with thein wi]1 make bright the way, however shadow- ed by anxious questionings. If you will believe this, you can trim your new lamp light-heartedly, burnish it and hold it high, as your mother held hers, and all the girls before'her. Old lamps or new, their fire will shine down the ages for the others who come after you. Your Own Harvest. fi It is always interesting to know • what aspirations people cherish, If it be known what a man expects life to bring him it is an easy matter to as- certain what course he is steering. Usually, a man gets back what he gives, if not in quantity, at least in quality. "• Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also leap." Put these questions to yourself: What am I living for? What do I ex- pect from life? It is not a bit of use living for self here and expecting to get another's blessing afterwards. If it is true that every cause has an effect—and it 9s true—then how essential it is to live so that. if everybody else lived as we do, the world would be full of good people. Nothing in this world comes hap- hazard. Everything is related to everything else. For otir daily bread a series of services have been render- ed by others; someone has toiled. Sow- ing and reaping are continually taking place. Goethe once wrote:— We must not hope to be mowers And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And watered the furrows with tears it is net just as we take it This uiy stical world of ours, Life's fieri will yield as we make it stone e i a "earth" by a marvellously complete A harvest of thorns or of flowers. through as if done by a "bit" in the "earth" We hear a Haan complaining that hand of a mighty ;giant. Here Na- ti - life' has been rough with him. that poleon was said to coana often. things have not turned out as he had Standing behind the hole, the effect hoped: He blames the lack of educa• w•as like looking through a telescope. King Fouad Of Egypt, in official d•reas, as pears in his latest photograph. he "Bouncing -BO." It oovered nearly half a bnadt in its tnrestrainid exuberant* of growth. Day after day as the street oar ltass;d this point one bad smiled -half induf- getltly, half refractively. Oue' could only speculate as to .the probable, sea= son •of this vana.ne lot on a principal street of a lanes, and busy city. But so it remained and bearing this mute testimony of its yesterday. ".Rou.ncing- Be"' crowded its rich soft, uudscaur- aged beneath the hot rays of tate sum- mer sun, askng neither ' tilling nor watering, and putting forth the pale pine floweret named for buxom conn- try maids. One saw with retrospective vision a cottage, sitting by the main traveled road, lovingly kept by housewifely hands, These same hands had' planted ' 1 note the trees, how wild and shaggy a bed of "Bouncing -Bet." No doubt They circumvent the storm, here were also moss and mignonette. I note the leaves; how wild, and craggy Here children had played is sunshine They hold their hardy form. and shade, and at dusk the little fa may had gathered, at the doorstep to 1 have observed a deer, wide -eyeing, enjoy the cool evening hours• and to ap- And. nimble -bodied there, I cauuot help if 1 was spying Upon a thing too rare. I made a rabbit leap and travel As but a rabbit can, I wonder•if God can unravel The way that rabbit ran?' I wonder if the mighty oak -tree Clasping the great sun, I wonder can that mighty oak -tree Sometime in heaven run? —Scofield Thayer, Radio -Proof Room The only room in the world that is discuss the important events of the day. Did they °meant at all of the great city whose foundation they were helping to lay? Men had come from the four points of the compass, bad builded and bar- tered, had invested labor and capital. *here yesterday an occasional team and wagon or the smarter horse and buggy had rolled by, today the clack and clang of the street ear were con- tinuous and automobiles flowed In an unceasing stream. Where the meadow lark and thrush had soared spread the mighty wings of the airplane. Changes had been wrought every- where. Tho tall buildings with many windows that crowded the near -by proof against wireless' waves from the streets looked -with ercpectancy for most powerful stations has just been greater changes, for greater business completed at the National Physical prosperity. Only the "Bouncing -Bet" I.,aboratory, Teddington. grew as it had grown, claiming the in - It is to be used for carrying out im- element of the yesterdays in an ever- aertant and delicate wireless expert- increasing sisterhood. The duet and ments that would be spoilt if outside noise and .city throngs meant nothing transmissions could find a way inside the room. But the room is as •completely closed to wireless waves as a vacuum is to air. inc•most expert wireless oper- to it. But now to -day one had seen a thing to remember'. As the street car slowed down to accommodate its out- going passengers, the customary ator with. the finest receiving set glance was given to the field of would not hear a sound from any sta- tion in that room. The windows are covered with flue "Bouncing -Bet." ' In its very midst, knee-deep, and happy, stood an aged Negro woman. She held a large bunch wire netting, which also runs under of the flowers and was eagerly pluck- the luck the floor and over the ceiling so that ing more. On her lips was a smile of St. Helena's Color. the utmost satisfaction. Here was an I forget a good many of the points the six sides of the netting make a box old friend with which the "arm of the of St. Helena, but a few still cling to inside the room. When the door is law" had nothing to do. . No "Please memory. One In particular was a hole closed it fastens with a triple tock, do not pick„ placard marred the lis- in a lonely rock calved "The Emper- whilst the jambs of the ,door are of solid napper. covert' of the comfortable, homespun or's Eye." This was a huge mass of OLD COACHING SCENES Let tis imagine the sceeue at ail WI `Thanks to .the 1Sinnern who have left 4 theeerrival of a coach a htiruired.. us a legecy of ecc),ueininta and engrav sad twenty gears ago. The coachman truss, , w hove a vfow c f tits has ust-iiniebed''.0 feet stage;. 'for the early coaches of I•logerth's time , j, last six iuilis•ihe:I1 p};aipg the cattle and from I'oll�rird'•s drawings . . and bus covered the ground on a fiat road in twenty-three minutes. He throws down the reins to the hostler, for his Work :for the time is over. The eoacit is surrounded by an admiring crowd. Some of the .onlookers tush forward to greet their friends, and help them with their luggage and band, boxes, others, ate there to speed de- parting guests. Within two minutes the fresh team is harnessed, and off All wireless waves are carried to blossom of a well remembered past. tl tnnneT dril•le•d right tion., lack of influence, bad luck. It rarely occurs to him to blame himself. Shakespeare wrote of a "Divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may." That must be modified ,a little. That Divinity can only shape them according to our own Of course, you saw nothing but sky and water—limitless water—but the sea seemed bluer, and ,the sky -tints richer and more distant than when gazed at from the open. . • • Another place of interest was the F3eranium Valley, the walk to which inclination. A man may thwart the farmed one of our favorite rambles. kindness of God and man. 13ut it is The road wind -icing away from the always true that both will aid the man town, rose- to a peak which overhung who is striving to do his best. a sort of ravine where the flowers of We need to use common sense in the geranium bloomed in such pro - this matter of what we get out of life. All things declare that a man is the maker of his own destiny. 1t is un- doubtedly true. Sow a thought and you reap an act; Sow an act and you reap a habit; Sow a habit and you reap a character; Sow a character and you reap a d'es - tiny. Her Metallic Voice. "ghee has a decidedly metallic voice." fusion that the eye was almost dazzled "Yes; they painted her throat with looking at. them, while their perfume iron so often when she was young." scented the island like a summer house: Out of the Earth. We used to say the Gardeu of Eden Out of the earth, and out of the,trees, couldn't possibly have looked prettier Strength comes flowing into me; than this. Billowing aver the oppo- Out of the brook comes quietude flbroke and tell in site hill, the ow•ers rc to Down from the sky comes wisdom's plumes and tufts lull feathers of food That comes to mean that a man's color cloud Ilere., trailing down the hillside an cascades of w erm a present. Lowell wrote: "Be noble and orange; there, topping the crest of I've died and come to life again; the nobleness that lies in others, sleep- some immense boulder, overhanging For only men who are brave and good e ajes and draping it -in festoons of living . Cau come out changeless from: a: wood. Davies sic e il li n and As oft as on the earth I've lain future is wholly conditioned by his ing but never dead, will rRse in m emerald and pink, the grey tones and—Mary Caratyn ty to meet tbine own." It is, a natter climb or desoead. P some jutting rock, and falling lake in, stalactites in a cave, and the color There is mt variation to this tan. darting everywhere from their glitter - It 19 true 1n the natura•1, mental, and ing facets as the light air moved them, like rays from prisms. Here a slab of soft -hued mother-of-pearl, there a massed battalion of red -coated sol- diers; over there, look, a patch of esbinieg snow. All the colors of the r for ach to decide whether he shallhues of the stone beneath gleaming lett' through. Hare, suspended from The pewee A gentle wind stirred the nodding pink heads and it, seemed that it spoke voted Hindu Woman. weloome. It was as though it said, Mrs. Sarojlni Naidu, Hindu pastes "Here at last is one who appreciates my faithfulness' and loyalty and 'the shown above, is the first of her sex t honest results of my untiring efforts." be elected' president of the India As the street car moved on it took -Natio fit former with it a delightful picture of the field of flowers, the old colored woman and her revealing smile. aro-fainiiiar with the shapes of the creek coaches of the Regency --rhe "Telegraph" aud the "Quicksilver Mail," the "Stamford Regent" and the "York Hightiyer" "paper carts"-- whioh, drawn by the pick of teams, made it possible for lettere to be de- livered to any part of England front the General Post Office within ,two calendar days. As we ret in our chairs, we enjoy the goes the coach through the village whole Picture of the coaching era. street, pant the idlers and ri"ossips•• We see the roads and the inns, the Iat• There are heads at the windows, shop- ter ranking high amongst the arehl- keepers stand at their doors, old teetural treasures of the country, Some ladles peer from behind dimity screens. Within the smithy the black- smith pauses to glance at the spank- ing team, and the guard blows from his "yard of tial" until the village is left and the dust slowly settles, of the inns are picturesque, some are stately, others.:are quiet and, unassum• tug, but all have that indefinable •cltar- acter which is so essentially insular. We visualize the facades with their or• narnsntal trimmings, we think of the Winter and summer, fair weather stairways such es those of The Duke's and foul, always with a ready ward for Head at King's Lynn and of The Red passengers, always scanning cattle on Lion at -Truro, and we picture to our - melee road, never failing to tice new selves- the elegant.' railings of The tenants in old houses, ready with a George at Grantham or the"'balustrade smile for schoolboys and a nod to to the staircase within The Dolphin at farmers, the `guard acts like a demi- Southampton. We •conjure up mem- god, He has the latest news from cries of stone -paved halls, of wide car - London, the mighty city which so few of the country folk see. He is the true patron of filching and the regulator of the time -table. It is to the guard that most of the passengers defer for in- formation, for none but the privileged dare address the coachman. riders branching off into labyrinthine passages that have a secrecy of their own, with turns and odd angled, end- ing in a perfect maze of side issues,— From "The English Inn Past and Pre- sent," by Harold "Dorvalds•,on Eberlein and A. B. Richardson. Jenin. Lot in the sunset's heart one patriarch palm, A silhouette upon the evening calm, Catches the wandering eye that fain would rest Upon the changing wonders of the west; And whine a bird uplifts a twilight psalm Above his mate in her leaf -hidden nest, We watch the •black -etched frondage And of the palm. And --Cliuton Scollard, in•"Songs of. Sun- rise unrise Land." The The And Oysters and clams contain about 200 Has times as much iodine an beefsteak. Arctic Patrol Makes Remark- able Progress. • Wireless reports received by the Director of the North. West Territories and Yukon Branch of the "Department of the Interior, show to rapid progress being made by to S.S. Beothlc in the annual patrol of the posts in Canada's Arctic archipelago. The 1926 expedi- tion, which sailed from North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, at noon on July 16, according to the most recent des- patehes, has reached Dundas Harbor, Devon Island. The ship will continue north to the posts on the east coast of Ellesmere Island. The Beathic has also visited the Danish port of God- havn, Greenland, and Pond Inlet, the post on Baffin Island. The reports, which are being sent by Mr. George I?. Mackenzie, officer in charge of this year's patrol,,.indicate the. satisfactory performances of the Beothlc, the 2700 -ton sealing vessel leased by the Department of the In- s' terior from the Jobs Seas, Fisheries l Company, Limited, of St. John's, New- naI -.Congress, an office ormer y l'foundland, for the 1926 expedition. The v Mahatma Grandhi. speed with which the Beothic is: mak- Harvest. The Felines come in England, The coverts drip with gold, And every farm in England., Has food within its fold.' The brief day draws to closing, Anti village lights apeep, Guide through the misty gloaming, A shepherd with his sheep. A creaking wagon cradles, The gleaners" latest toad, Iodine in Shellfish. is with- �' ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES spiritual worlds. The trouble is that a man sometimes believes he may sow wild nate and reap beautiful flow- ers. Ile forgets that Nature never omits to send in ber hill. She is the moat rigid accountant in the world. rainbow blended, in exquisite har- m this matter tf liarveet. there is ' mon,---a • glarieus poem in tone.— semething which le outside of our "Sam Noble, able Seanni>n, An Auto - power. We have to do our best and biography. then leave matters. The increase comes, from another; but we may be sure of this, that when we have done our past, the rest is certain. So think Medical Mistletoe. In the former days it was believed well, speak true, right wrong, and fon that the mistletoe had some mysteri- low the best that's in you. Ina.ke ons medicinal virtues, but, it was friends of all inspiring ideas you meet. thought, to become a really eiticacious. They will never forsake you and will do much to bring you peace. Elza5,r-tz OY', F fi". I torr as Cat"! Ce`itcti i11Q' I`(4 60 a 1,e4$y rci-,v?ar 2 h A remedy all mistletoe used medicinally must be plucked from an oak tree ups on which the parasite rarely grows. fit was considered unlucky to cut this, n or to sell it. In 1657 the only oak known to betir mistletoe grew in Nor- wood., Eng. Some person cut this mistletoe and" :sold pieces t o Louden a)tothecaries et 10 shillings each. A•c. eordiugly we read that of these "sa.c- ' rilegkoua wratcibes one fell lance, each of the others lost ,in rye; and the ring - leaner bt'olte his lee, Week is Proper Church Deeds, In. Spain and. in Italy it is tiot tor, Where He Fell, Old Dau, veteran Iced Indian fighter, was bel•11ng a croWd of eager listeners a ilirilling story. "Yes,," he said, "those' young Injuns cornered me in that cafiyon, killed nie hoed, an' fine anines,liition run out. Walls of rock surrounded me. I cotiid not escape--•" He paused abruptly as if to refresh his memory: "What did you do then?" asked a met to. attend church services • in thrilled listener.. bright colors. Black is the nati.oiial "Wall, sal•, right (liar's' where they rule for such eerettoules, killed mer" Jack calls from the stables, • Jill sings l•it the road. . Fall has come in England, 'coverts drip with gold, • every farm in England good within its fold. —Robert E. Key. 239 PM THE PRiZE ,BATHING "'BEAUTY WILL. BE PICKED ON THE , ATACH '3 eo SHARP MERE 7HEV COM E' °Wag,11 a4, by.'i•t, 61) syn5iw to Nearly Killed in the, Rush. ing her patrol ia, however, only one of the remarkable features of this year's trip. The maintenance of wirelss•oom- munioation with stations to the south from points as far north as Dundee Harbor' on the southeast coast of Dev- on Island far surpasses the record of previous years and officials of the North 'Nest Territories and Yukon Brauoh state that it is not expected that the Beothlc will he 'out of tquch with civilization for mare than two weeks. The greater amount of power available for radio broadcasting from the Beothic is given as the reason for the uninterrupted communication. Sailing from North Sydney at noon on July 15, the 'Beothic reported on tha 17th via- the Louisburg wireless sta, tion that she had successfully navi- gated the strait of Belle Tale and was off the coast of Labrador. On thb 20th the expedition had reached the coast of Greenland an,d at 1 o'clock on the morninE'•of the 22ud the ship anchored in Godhavn harbor. At 4,30•p.nl. the same day the Beothlc sailed for Pond Inlet. The middle pack int ice in:Ba:ilin Bay was navigated on the 24th and Fond I"nlet was reached at 2 a.m. on the 26th. The Beothlc sailed at mid- night for Dundas Harbor, Devon Is- land, which was reached at midnight on the 27th. Craig Harbor anis Franr Halm, both on EllesmereIsland, will be visited before the expedition turns southward on the return journey. At Godhaven, Greenland, the usuat courtesies were exchanged between the officers of the Canadian expeditions and the Danish officials, and arrange- ments were made for the. relaying of wireless messages to the Beothlc case of necessity. In, the Know: Farmer Hayseed made his way into the village post office that was the gen• eral store at the same time. "Anything for me, Seth-" he inquired of the postmaster. - The other raked over a l'ew parcels and letters but found nothing. "Don't see nothing, :lake;'• he said. "Did ycn expect'sontethieg?" "Yes," answered the fanner. "I was expeoting :it card from Aunt ,lenity, tenni' me when :Then confit'," s. 'Haan?iah!" called the ).ostiitastet to Ids wife, "seen a card Trott Jake's Aunt Jenny?" "Yes,," came the prompt answer, "Oben coming down on Tuesdadel" SSyf li honyi The leaves upon the esporrtree They poppind in the breeze And held the drifting bartnony Of music in the trees, -I,. 11. ttsilny. Beet Crafter! Skits, gtnited skin is best taken `front an- other part of tbo same individual,