HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-12-09, Page 2THENATIONAL ITER GAME
Hockey the Most Popular of Outdoor Winter Sports in
Can ads.
Heelvee is Canada's great national
winter sport. Although many other
forms of otutdtoor recreation are enu
joyed during the litvigoratiug season
of ice one snow none of them hers at-
tnined the position of popularity among
ado .elas(es t'ha't is held by hockey. No
other grams requires so much speed,
aaouraey, hardihood and quick -think-
ing in the player, nor doss auy other
form of sport so fased'ete and thrill
the spectator. his great winter game
holds among Canadian's., both young
and ole), a position sinri1ar in many re -
sleets to that occupied by the summer
pastime, baseball, emote; the citizens
of this oeaLt'iui ut. To the yountger eu
thaisd:aste the cleared ioe-usrfaoe,.
whether it be on frozen stream, river,
Stake or in a backyard, serves the
same purpose for hockey that the
eanrdlot does tor the playing of base-
ball. There the young hockey player
receives his grounding in the game
and there also is aroused the ambitions
to o.te duy compete in the great ama-
teur send professional series which arra
rondtu,cted each winter throughout the
Dorn+inion.
In hockey. as In most other sports,
it is the rule that those who would be-
come e(s'petieity proficient must play
the game from childhood. The swell
neighborhood rinks anal the rinks
maintained by playground oomm4s
stens in the various cities:, are the
proving grounds for the future "big
league" stars. Therd the youthful as-
pirant learns the pri'noiples of the
game and develops the sturdiness of
frame and oo-ordination of action of
foot, hand, and brain which are so es-
sentia•1 in the sucoesefui hockey
player. However, in the 'clear invigor-
ating air he gains more than one
standting skill in a form of recreation;
the fteudations for good health and
sound moral charaoter are laid, initia-
tive is developed, as well as a spirit of
fair postr and good sportsmanship.
Forming a Team.
Six players equipped with skates
and hockey sticks oompries a hockey
team. Each. team consorts of a goal-
keeper, two defence players, and three
for'w'ards; and these players take tip
their positions f:,cing their opponents.
The rules of the game are very s'bnpde
and a new s:;agitator requires pole a
short instruction in order to be able
to follow the pkty. The general ob-
ject is to place the puck ie. the oppos-
ing team's goal the greazterst numbeh
of times during the period of the game,
whtolt :is in league fames sixty min -
tees.
The lhat game of ice hockey la Cale
tele of which there is any official re-
chord was played in I ingeton. Ontario,
in. 1888. Whether other genies Dat re-
corded were bayed about that time 15
not clear, but what is certain is that
from that date hockey developed
rapidly in all parts of the Dominion.
So great is the popular interest in the
game that although new and larger
siaks are constantly being erected, the
d'e'mand is ever for more aeco;:nnnoda-
tion for layere rind spectators. The
game is taking ho5d in the northern
United States and gaining in ponlarity
there as the chief winter sport. Ice
hockey has also obtained a definite
foothold in the United Kingdom and
in. several of the countrlee on the Con-
tinent,
Hundreds of Leagues.
Literally hudreds of hockey leagues
operate throu.ghout the Dominion dur-
ing the winter season, providing sport
and enjoyment for the majority of the
population. The senior aampetitione
are those tor the Allan Cup and the
Stanley Cup. The Allan Cup series es
among the senior amateur teams of
Canada for a trophy donated in 1908
by Sir Montagu Allan of Montreal. In.
the professional series, which is simi-
lar to the contests leading up to the
world's baseball series in the United
States, the ul'ti'mate object is the pos-
session of the famous Stanley Cup,
presented' by Lord Stanley, while
Governer General of the Dominion, in
1893, which represents the champion
ship of the world.
Hoeltey is played in every province
of the Dominion and is as much the
game of the people in the great outly-
ing farmiz.g districts and in the
centres of the lumber and power in-
dustries, as it is in the larger •cities.
Of recent years the installation of
artificial iceemaking plants in the rinks
1n the principal cities has lengthened
the hockey playing `season by several
weeks. Where artiiiela•1 ice may be
had, skating and hockey are begun as
early as the middle of October and
continue until late in March. How-
ever, among the great maorlty of skat-
ing and hockey enthusiasts, and par-
' ticulariy among those who must de-
pend on natural ice, the season does.
not get under way until the early part
of December; and the mile weather
u scaalle encountered in mid-March
rings dowse the curtain on these re-
creational activities as it does on
many others.
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Man to Live Longer.
Professor Julien Huxley, the biolo-
gist, phophesias longer life for man in
am essay on "The Meaning of Death."
"By eugenic measures,' he says, "we
could unquestionably raise the aver-
age span of human life, even without
further progress in hygiene.
"If, as we may confldeutly predict,
the present trend of a.ffairs continues,
more and more men will attain an ad-
vaoed age, whether aturaliy or by re-
juvenatdon; the death rate of infants
and yonug people will continue to fall;
the birth rate will ootinue to fall also;
and as a result we shall in a few de-
cades have a population in which the
relative members of young and old peo-
qr1e will be quite different from the pre-
• sent."
Professor Huxley reaches this con-
clusion after tracing what happens iu'
the death of trees (many of an age
numbering thousands of years) and of
lower forms of life.
Of tree life he says: "There is noth-
ing in the tree that causes its death,
merely the long -continued ehoeks and
buffets of the world, preventable
things, one and all; by which I mean
that if one couldch'stter the tree from
storms, keep off its active enemies,
and provide it with a reasonable and
oonstaat supply of food, water, and
air, we must suppose that it would go
on living for ever."
Mr. Huxley doss not prophesy such
eternal physical life for man. He re-
fers to tho records of Steinach, Sand,
and Voronotf, and their method of
grafting for rejuvenation.
"One is scientiticai•ly impressed, if
not morally edified, by the record at
, one patient who, after suocessful re-
juvenation, began leading 'a very gay
14fe, To big friends' remonstrances he
replied, 'What. matter? 1 eau always
go to Voronoff again,
"There are,- however, some facts
which make it dear that reuvenation
cannot: be repeated indefinitely."
Origin of Clearing }louse.
After the early Landon bankers'
ceased to !rase notes the inconveul-
eine of making all payments in the
Battik of England notes and gold was so
great that some change was .necesrsnry,
says "The Market. for Exchange." At
first the system adopted was crude.
and certainly unsafe; for the clerks
of the various banks us•atd to perform
the exohar,nges at the centers of the
streets, and on top of a post.
A pttblic: house was next chosen as
is good meeting place, but the Mamie
ity awe/roe/lying such an arrange-
ment led the hankers to organize and
rent a buildtng in Lombard Street,
Vieth became the first clearing house.
e •
• Wasted Effort.
"Run along, Junior, and wash your
luitnds and cacti tlematigh1y, bemuse
•we may have company;"
^i;ai!., mother," replied Antler. Itope-
fuily, 'strpveer cern pan y • doeieee
't)nie 1"
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Immigration gration to Canada.
Immigration to Canada for the first
nine months of the calendar year 1926
shows an increase of 66 par cent. over
the same period a year ago, according
to a statement issued recent'l'y by the
Department of Immigration and Col-
onization.
In the nine months January to Sep-
tember, 1926, immigration. to Canada
amounted to 112,835 ars compared with
67,878 for the same nine months -in
1925. Of the 1926 immigration 41,419
were Britieh, 16,776 from the United
States and 54,640 from other countries.
The returns show substantial in-
cre'ase's in all three classifications.
During September, 1926, immigra-
tion to Canada oonsi.sted of 4,152 Bri-
tish, 1,990 from Untied States, and
6,267 from other countries, a total of
12,409 ocimpartec1 with 6,666 in the
same month a year ago. For August
there was immigration of 4,125 M-
esh, 2,552 from United States, 7,269
from other countries, a total of 13,946
compared with 9,812 for August, 1925.
In addition to the above immigration
during August, 6,281 Caniadians were
reoordetd as having rammed from the
United States after having entered
that country with the intenion of re-
maining there permanently', and in
September 4,221 euoh returiug Cana-
dians were recorded. These now de-
clare their intention of permtanentey
residing in Canada.
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Taking Every Precaution.
An Employer walked into his ship -
eine rcoan, and was .startled at the
sight of two employees in an unusual.
posture. One was reeding a letter,
while the other was' listening and at
the same thee holding hie hands over
the ears of the reader.
"What are you men doing?" inquired
the .pu zzleld smp;rcyyer.
"You see, sir," anstvere•d the one
who was reading the letter, "Jones
Can't reed. He got a letter from bis
girl this afternoon, and I am reaching
14 to him."
"Iiut what in the world are you do-
ing?" the employer asked rhe mimic
ate one
"Oh,"_
-
"Oh," repl;i'ed Jon'es; "I'm stopping I
tip his ears. I don't mitral Itis, reading
my leiter, hist.} don't went him to hear
what e]te l:us written."
The Happy Poet.
Surely. though tho world think not
so, he is happy to himself that eau
Wee the poet. 14e shall vent his pee
sions by hiss pen, and ease his heart
of th'ei'r weight; and he shall attest
raise himself a joy in his raptures;
Which no man oan peroei re but he—
Owen I'eilthafn, in "Resolves," 1620,
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Pir'st Thanksgiving Preacher.
Mallory records that the first thanks,'
giving held in North Ame'ric'a, was reit-
deleted by an 1:ngldsli pitemalt.er named
Welfall, in the ever 1578, on the sitortj
of Newfotuidlend..
An Hour With Winifred
L,ugran Fahey, Canadian
Prima Donna.
I3y elertrude Pringle.
it was on one of thase.glorioue Au-
turnu days tor which Ontario is noted
that I swung open the gate leading to
the tents court. Even before I came
in sight of the players I sensed the
tenseness of the game when there
came a vibrating shout of 'Splendid,
Billie," and then a .gay laugh such as
might come from a girl of sixteen. As
I turned the corner, the action of the
play was revealed—on one side of the
net a young girl and robust man, on
the other a fair-haired, laughing boy
and a trashing woman. The game was
vigorous, intense, but watching it I
soon realized that the perfect team
work of the boy and the woman was
wearing down the skill of the man and
girl. The woman particularly was ex-
hilarating. Like a hash she would
•dart from one side of the 'court to the
other, to beck up the boy's play, or
swoop to the net and smother the at-
tack of the opponents. It was splen-
did, spr:rkling play and the snatch of
daughter or woreof encouragement
that aecompaseed it showed that the
joyous thrill of the -game wars behind
every stroke.
When the set was won by the boy
and the wom'a'n, who was Winifred
Litgrin Fahey, ate came laughingly
toward me, full of glee and at that
moment just a girl, so joyous and
exuberant. The father, ' Nora the
daux'hter and Billy the
n, nae strou-
led over to a table under a maple tree,
on whlch stood a big pitcher of iced
lemonade and a plate of cake. Gladly
I accepted Madame Fahey's invitation F
to join theta, and the interview ceased.
at that moment to be an terview,
but it was as if I had become one of
the fa,mitity and ehared in the happi-
ness that is so characteristic of them.
"Reale," said Madame Fahey, "It
seems too beautiful out here to think
of anything but what is so close to.
us—the trees, the flowers, the grass,
sky, clouds and dancing sunlight. But
since you've been patient enough to
wait through our game, I am sure you
won't mind if i give you in tabloid
form an outline of what lies behind.
Homesteading in Alberta.
Sinoe the beginning of the present
year apraximattely 198,000 acres of
dominion lands have been taken far
hemesteatls in the Edmonton district.
The number of those who obtained
this land for farming purposes is 1240.
These figures are considerably en ex-
oess of the nnzsnber of homesteads
filed upon in the corresponding period
of 1925.
Astonishing.
Freddie --"Julia,, dear, I lame some-
thing to eay that maty surprise you, I
think—"
Julia—"My! That is a surprise."
ore L.
"I wag borzi in Freaterictott, N.B., of
Vetted' Empire stools, my father being
Charles Lugrin, jon eecullst and. writer.
When I was very young oar familtY
moved to British Coletalet!a, and that is
the Boone of my earliest memories.
`!'hare le a spark !n Vioterla cltr.wu by
the sea among 'the rooks - and amid
the fir trees•, that I shall always feel
is me home. Yet I love,ell of Canada,
and on my last visit to New Bruns-
wick felt a glow of pride to think I
had been born in such a levelly part of
the world. But Ontario has lured me
—it is so beautiful, the trees, the tove-
ly 11'elds and va1lays, what an inspire -
tion
.spire -tion they are.
"Oh, about me singing? It seems
absurd, but do you know I made my
'first public app'ear'ance before I was
tbe'ee years old. Of aours'e my voice
was just like any other baby votee,
but as my dear mother was a singer
herself, anti very active in musical af-
fairs, I suppose it was quite natural
thee I should figure on the ppograanm+e,
"There are six girls, in our seemly,
and our father and mother always
urged us to do s'om'ething to help to
make the world happier and better. I
have • found• all through my career this
has been an incentive and one of the
feroes which hes impelled me to ad-
vance. _
"i•tt my early glrlhootl I do not re-
member any inrddcratiou of having a
voice. I ueed to sing with my sisters',
though, for we aewa.ya bred xn sic at
home. No, as I grew up I fancied I
wanted to paint. I. used to draw most
Of the • time just like so many other
girls, 11'Iy school books were tilted
with pictures, and I.remejmber I had
what seined to nse then a wontlee'faul
studio la the attic, the walls liberally
covered with picture's. I stili paint
and draw, and in the spring it seems
almost a necessity for me to get out
into the woods and paint, but it is not
quite satisfactory because my piotures
never look the way I want them to.
Everyone feeds an urge t0 do some -
tiring, and I •oan. remember when at
s'c'hool studying the piano, I used to
go into the drawing room in the dark,
sit at the piano, play, thinkand dream.
I did not know then there was grow-
ing in me a desire to sing. But one
day, when I wazi about, seventeen, my
sister's singing teacher said she be-
lieved I had a voice. So I took a few
lessons, but being the younger mem-
ber of the family, my parents felt
there was plenty of time. It was not
until wafter I was married, and my son
Billy was two years old, that I started
to sing seriously. Since that time I
have worked very hard, always taking
advantage of every opportunity to ad-
vance. It has brought me great joy,
however, because I feel that in singing
I am giving ha'ppin'ess to others, and
after all nothing gives one such satis-
taetion as that."
Nora and Billy had mnaved on to the
court again, and as the eyes of the
Cana'dia'n prima donna followed them,
they seemed to grow rich iu depth and
feeling. I remember having noted this
before, when Winifred Lugrin Fahey
was receiving the applause of a tre-
mendous audience, to which she had
been singing. And yet, regarding the
group on the cornet to her expression
there was added a touch of tenderness,
the look of the mother in possession
of her very own. She turned away
with a little, sweep of the hand. `After
ale," she said, "that is just what we
want to be, happy and free like child -
nen. If we would aril do a little to-
wards increasing the jay of the world,
it w.ouki be a brighter and happier
phos."
With these last words in my thought
I went away, realizing that in this
great singer I had -found something
very wonderful—a mother.
Long Statiojt Platforms.
Manchester's Claim of having the
longe(stt station .platform In the world
(2,175 feet) lies been beaten by Sone -
pore, in India, which is 2,450 feet.
WHY WO
EN LEAVE MEN
Things a Wife Never Fo rgiv s; By Dorothy Dix,
The avez'wge man wile Mice it- lis- Ile never imag'in'es hat his wife stilt
satisfied and disooin.ten.ted wife es. be-
vriidcred by the situation: He dowel
knew what bas gone wrong.
"H•eaveaas! " .ececiainuei throwing
up his heeds iu despair. "I ca'n't un -
(teetered warrent! What ora. earth dose.
a woman want?"
I eau answer his question for him.
She wants romance. In particular,
she wants secn.tlmrn.t, and if I could.
give outs lsiece of advice more earnest drew and honey with a slab .cif rom t
than another to husbsrnda, it would be beef as to attempt to make a woman
Wants to be pursued.
It all seems goo tusneeeesareeto the
mean. Why 'bail 'a wiunan yen doge her
atter you have given tangible evidence•
of the fact by marrying leer? Why
swear eternal devotion, in word's wheat
s'h a •ca.n see . for herself that you ere
working yourself to death to keep hail
izt oomtortable cirenmsttaneeas?
Aboard reasoning! You might as
well try to teed a 'bird that lives ou
this.; -- happy wilt a love that expresses itself
Cultivate sentiment. AcquirOef- in nothing but a housekeeping sein-
froicuey in the use of sentiment as you aa.
have skill in rine parttcuiar line of Oen you wander that a woman who
business. ,hunger's and thirsts for tenderness,
Don't Stop Making Love. ' for appreciation, for flattery, for love
Of course, this will sound foolish to that is warm and vital, grows bitter
mem.. But it will do more than any and htai'd when h,er huatband never
other one ,thing on earth to settle itveis tea tiny? Is she to be entirely
their domestic problems and gatmnthezt. b'14amed; if 5h0 takes the lave that some
ch,eesfut1 and happy homes. other man offers hes'? We do not
You � Nn gest through doul do lifo I Shands on the tine Paiute of ethics when
without sentiment, just as yen 'oa .. go 1 we are starving �eithetr body or soul.
a long, hard journey over aria piaisrs '•
Therefore, I urge men to make a
ansi .desolate deserts. But why -choose ;study of s.entimes.t as eafirst aid to %w -
and
the dreary route vrhear you may make i cecsw in matrimony. Because you are
married do not ,oaas�e to melee love to
a pleasuro trip by way of silve�tsy j your wife.. Rather speed it up and
streams and verrdant meadows? W'e
t
always take the easy wap in ether ' I , what whe wears,
more ear Take an interest in
alai sin into it. Native.
i things, Why choose the hand :way its ' what she do'es. Remember her tastes.
I matrimony? Celebrate. every, a,nniverea.iy .
It is one of the misfortunes of the A wife may forgive her Iuo.sband for
(feminine temperament that a woman. not suplorting her, but she never for-
can remain a bride at heart for forty , glees hlm for'omittin;g the little' atteu-
r yearts, whereas a man's "brtdagrooml ;does, the little gifts that turn the
1 ' nees' usually ends at the alter. He :water of life into wine and make the
has caught the wtam•an he set out to !elegy hardships of matrimony worth
oatah and for him the chase la over. ; while,
Men of England!
Patriotism is not mere flag -wagging
and boasting of our military and naval
prowess. True patriotism is world -
patriotism, a constant desire to see arltl
nations prosper under the banner of
peace and progress. It this thought
which Thomas Oampbeil atreeseas in
the following
Men of o•f England! who inherit
Rights that cost your sires their
blood! •w
Men whose undegenerate spirit
Has been proved on land and flood.
By the foee ye've fought, uncounted;
By the glorious deeds ye've done,
Trophies capturercl—breaches .mount-
ed,
Navies conqueret3--•kingdoms won 1
Yet, remember, England gathers
Hence but fruitless wreaths of fame,
If the 'freedom of your fathers
Glows not le your hearts the same.
'What are mcanunnents of bravery,
When no public virtues bloom?
What avail in lands of slavery,
Trophied temi>les, arch, and tomb?
A Man Who Can Not --
-Forgive an enemy carries a hea-
•
vier Load than the enemy.
—Smiio his way cut of trouh.• is
never able to fight his way out.
—Control his own temper makes a
poor boss.
—Lose gracefully never wins• glari-
ousiy.
—Take a joke gets' a lot of unneces-
' satry jolts out of life.
—Remember accurately should not
start to. lie.
—Manage fifteen dollars e week will
never succeed on fifty.
Fast Trimming of Hedges.
"From 300 to 500 feet of hedges can
be trimmed in an hour with an elec-
tetc trimmer invention.
Oxen Like Sheep.
Musk oxen are more eloseiy related
to sheep" than to cattle.
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—BV 0.
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Snakes as Medicine.
Dried snakes and lizards are still
popular remedies in parts of France.
As late as 1639 the dried flesh of the
vipem was described as a drug in the
authorized medical dictionaries.
The sin:guadarity of some of the "old
wives' " retnedie's in cartiain french
province's does not prevent then from
being effective. Sometimes they are
more succesgfui than the drugs elabor-
ated by modern chemistry.
One doctor form 13•edarieux says that
in many houses in his district dried
adders are preserved, and when any
member of the family catches a cold
or suffers from chills and Lever, he is
given a dose of liquid prepared from
pieces of the dried snake boiled,
water for an hour. This opens the
pores and causes the patient to per-
spire.
Pieces of dried snake are also sold
by chemists to drive away, amonget
other things, the rosy rash that ac-
companies zneasl'es.
In another district peasante treat
chills and fever with viper -brandy,
and it is related that when Queen
Anne of Austia was taken ill with a
violent fever in 1663, her attendants
were urged to give her powdered viper.
"Serpent tea" has always been re-
garded as a powerful msdicant in ono.
district.
For a long time the viper formed
the base of a popular preparation
known as, therias, used as an antidote
to bites of poisonous animals.
A Spanish doctor published in 1781
a memoir in which he discussed the
astonishing cures obtained with pre-
parations of lizards. "The patients
who used them," he said "experienced
a feverish heat accompanied or follow-
ed by fainting, perspiration, and some-
times convulstions.' On. investigation
it was found that the lizard the Span-
ish doctor used was the •common grey
wall -lizard found 'in Fiance in the
warm season.
Violet Ray Milk.
That violet rays enable cows to
give an. increased milk supply is re-
vealed in the annual report of the
Development Commissioners of Eng-
land.
Experiments carried out at Aber-
deen University on cows showed that
irradiation decreased the loss of col-
cium and phosphorus from the body
during lactation, increased the period
of maximum yield 'of milk, and safe-
guarded the health of the animals,
These results showed the import -
game of exposing milk •cows 'ter much
as penile() to direct sunlight. 'They
also indicated that irradiation of cows
with artificially -produced ultra-vicee•et.
rays during the winter ,months might
become a practical and profitable pro-
cedure.
The e addition of a mixture of Noe
genic
1101' -
genic sa:'ts to a ration commonly fail
to dairy cows produced favorable re
sults.
In the first lr:ettelon there was Ilttlo
difference in the milk yield, frit 111 the:
second lactation those cowls eeceit•.
ing the, mineral mixture yield's:l car an
average 100 gail•ons more milk i•hen
those rod on the crdinary ration, nncl
n the thtrti. lactation the results 'WON.m
in the Sonia direc•.eon.
Experiments in ploughing by neater
of electricity showed that the work
ooted be done more easily with veli-
ages very much lower than those lrro-
viaus]•y used.
Electrical disschargee had been
found to increase the grain yield in.
growing Crops:'"-Ele•ctrifled plants Karl
fewer ete•rl'.e flowers, sothat mnr'i
grain was, produced.
LoncIon':iWater Syctem"
A re?pulotion larger than that of
Canada, is reeved by the water system
of •the British eap)tel. The ruses
listed and to,•sial, would ;reach from
,'on'i'on vecvt'werd to Vawooan'Vor.,
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