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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-05-02, Page 6A Tea, will ge further on iE§El. sign and give better satisia ctioa. than any other Tea obt`; .�laab1lea a a a a Not ahallow O. doubt about this. • TRY IIT si Tlic Air allci Mc girl By GERTRUDE ROBINSON. PART I, I'm sorry I've gdt to go home for Milly sat on the back porch shell- meals to -morrow. Wish I was going ing peas. The August sun shone on to be here for breakfast. You're her pretty brown head, turning making raised waffles, aren't you? strands of hair to gold. As she That cook at my place doesn't know snapped open the crisp green pods how to make 'em or much of any - she frowned disdainfully. After all,' thing else. Next year this time what was the use of working all the you'll be making them for me, eh?" afternoon to get supper? The men! Milly was still silent, but he, could eat it in half an hour, and then i watching from the doorway, saw a she would have to wash the greasy; pink flush creep up the nape. of her dishes and get the table laid for neck to the verytips of her half - breakfast. She chased a pea that hidden ears. e tiptoed clumsily escaped down the starched folds ofacross the uneven floor and, bending her blue gingham, caught it and put over, kissed one of the irate lobes. it reflectively into her mouth. As; She wheeled around, and for a sec - she was munching the juicymorsel' andherblte eyes blazed athim.Th„n a voice sounded back of her. ! her small, dripping hand shot out "Supper 'most ready, Milly?" and dealt him an unerringf dishwat- "Pretty near, Arthur," she respond-, ery slap across one smiling cheek. cd without turning her head. I His mouth worked. The smart - Arthur was Miliy's betrothed. He neo s of the blow brought tears to his owned the farm next to the Vinol eyes. He looked at his betrothed in place and in common with other men bewilderment. Then he quietly left of the neighborhood was helping her i the kitchen. father with the threshing. The habit; Miley reverted to her dishwashing of ofd -fashioned neighborliness had, with such vigor that; by seven o'clock not died out in remote Danby. ( she had finished the dishes, tidied the Milly lazily watched him as, he kitchen, and completed the prepare - strode to the well and ducked Ms. tions for breelfast Then she made a ENE FLYAG BOATS BOMBED I.BOATS TUB GENIUS OF A 'BRITISUER, COLONEL PORTE Canadians Made the Best Pilots a'd Held Records for the Number of Enemy Subs Wrecked. With the yesterday of the German submarine piracy being rapidly for- gotten in the to -day of surrender the writing of a few tales of the flying boats, the creation and operation of which hold as much romance as any particular effort in the war, seem imperative, for little is known gener- allyin this country about flying boats or their work, partly because they were attached to the silent navy and partly because they were produced n the service. For instance, few people know that Zeppelins have been brought down in the Bight of Heligoland by flying boats, or that they bombed forty-four German submarines in 1917, or even that there were boats that flew. Buf these winged, wooden -hulled, hydro- plane -bottomed boats, which carried a specialized crew of four—first pilot, navigator, wireless operator and en- gineer—were specially built for downing submarines, and so well did they answer their purpose that the Germans got out a seaplane fighter expressly designed to attack them. Few landsmen and, strangely enough, few seamen, realiee the diffi- culties which had to be overcome .in flying -boat design and operation, the former because they know nothing of the sea and the latter because they know nothing of the air. And a fly- ing boat had to be both airworthy and seaworthy. To the energy of one man alone, Colonel J. C. Porte, C.M. G., Britain owes the service flying boat, as all the types of flying boats used successfully by this country in it was a business that had to be learned. Good pilots are few, and when found were usually worked tine til they cracked tinder the strain. Canadians seemed to be best fitted for the work, ,,and probably as high as three-fourths of the good boat, pilots have conte from Canada, Both Zeppelins were brought down by fly -I head beneath the spout while the 1 slice of toast, a cup of tea, and the war were evolved by him, But hired man, Hank, pumped vigorously.; climbed up the stairs to her mother's the history 'of their creation and de- She thought he looked very much! room. As she opened the door her velopment, with its record of ten-• like a drowned puppy as he emerged i mother, a slim, tired -looking woman acity of purpose, fights against dieSs from the clucking, his black hair; with brown -gray hair and faded blue belief, and triumphs over failure, will, hanging in wisps and his collarless ; eyes, sat up on the side of the bed. I have to be written later, and the tales; shirt open at the throat. After a i "You've had an awful lot to do, .taken from the records of the great preliminary shake he came and sat, haven't you, child," she commiserat- down on the bottom step of the ed. "It is a shame I had to play out porch. His blue eyes, red about the I to -day. I feel better now." rims from the irritating dust of the! Her daughter placed the tray by threshing, gazed fondly at the girl.; the open window. "Come sit here in She drew her dress away from his; the breeze and eat your toast while ooziness, tucked back a stray wisp ; it is crisp/' she coaxed. Her mother of her tidy hair and went on shelling • slipped from the side of the bed and peas. I walked,- swaying a bit, to the window. rte &retched out his hand. "Give 1 As she sipped the tea the tired lines me one. Milly?" he asked. She at- I faded from her face. The wind ruf- tempted to drop one in his out -1 fled her hair and in the twilight she stretched palm, hut with a quick! showed a striking resemblance to her tern of the wrist the caught her hand; daughter. Presently she leaned over rnd held it a minute. I the sill. "Why," she exclaimed, "isn't Flame -red, she Snatched away her l Arthur going to help finish? He is. hand. "Don't be silly," she admen-! driving away." i:hed. "Besides, you get me all wet! Milly glanced guiltily out of the end dirty." i window. Sure enough, Arthur was He laughed tolerantly; neverthe-; driving rapidly down the lane to the less he turned his c•yc^.s away from t roach. "He's been good help. I don't the girl's fresh daintiness and stared! know what your father would have intently down the road. Presently he done without; hint." continued her took a small cornh from his pocket, mother. Still Milly was mute. d 1:estan to disentangle his damp "What's the matter? You and he mat of hair, using the tank of rain haven't quarreled?" persisted the water beside the. step as a mirror.! older woman. Meanwhile Milly finished the peas; PART II. and went into the kitchen with then•±.' "He wants me to marry hint so he hell an hour later the men came can. have waffles every morning for trooping in from the barn. After as breakfast," cried the daughter. summary • a cleaning up as Arthur; "There, there," soothed Mrs. Vinol, had indulged in they gathered /lois-' "all men like good food. But I guess ily about the lore table spread on he cares about you for some other the side porch, Mill y's father sat at reason than that. Was that what the head of the board with his pros-' you quarrelled about?" pectivc son-in-law next to him. Six. "I dont want to marry Arthur, other men were ranged along the mother. 1 don't want to marry any- s11es of the long table. Milly served.body. What good did it do you to the meal alone. Her mother' was inmarry father, and he is better. than led with a sack headache. As she • most of themen in Danby? All minds! deft tripe between the table they think a woman is good for is to mai the kite dell Arthur'e eyes fol- cook for them and clean the house, lowed her admiringly. He was bolder and bring up what poor babies chance than usual,. for the men were too - to live." 1,urried to atop eating for the custom-! "Millet!" exclaimed her mother, in a„ , 1 ca 1n.g they metel oat to him.1 surprise: Theo' granted to week another hour] (To he continued.) care: so as to finish t%inol's .z 41,1 e:hilg and move on to the next i l An Invocation,, f 'ri thatwas writing fur thor , Tey ; .11,7wed th, ;u,css 1'r}tlst Ia4nli, • Breathe 00 111e, Spirit o1 the Spring, s 'atilt lh^a,>, 1 fest hrc:lti, iced tea, and i And let me live again steamed pudding that was served In brooklets, lilting, rippling laughter, than, in appreciative silence. I In roal'irg rivers turgid after As the men drew back noisily' from ! Showers of April rain; the kitchen, John Vinol stepped to i In wild hepaticas '-blowing, the kitchen door. In trees and shribs and grace a -grow - "Mother skit?" he ineoired lanai- ing (sally. Milly mulcted, In flower besprinkled lanes! -Lucky the tlhre hing''s over," : Oh. Spirit of the Verdant Spring, rcr.Inhi1ltPri the master of tha farm., Breathe life in me again. Ile lighted his pipe from a taper in -1 serest. 1'1 the ;losedng• rang.',; aad ; in bustling of the birdsreturning, etre to off, Mille scrubbed the cools-; Their pitting, nesting and their yearn- ing dishes with unnecessary vigor.! ing . Her father's attitude angered her. i Antiphonal refrain; He considered only the work, which : Iii bleating lambs and cattle lowing, might have been interfered with by 1 ill the Creator's wise bestowing h 1 i made her turn aro nd Of life with joy and pain, Ins wife's i?nes�s. A rattling noi.n be - Arthur, r, :? t' Oh, Spirit of the Vital Spring, , rthtu, his. hallus full of dishes, :Its airing in fi'c>n the porch. "Thought' Let me liV again, I'd turn hired girl fr,r a spell,' he announced' cheerfully. "Wish I had Tn play of children in the wood, time to help clear up the whole mese, In then' unselfish brotherhood, but i'\ r. gut tet fro back to that And lives a itlhout a stain; th , .?ie, In faith which cultivates the soil, ` roSlica's r ,-i•.," ei riliciunicated 1n hopes for Imre t. after toil, last ills,. Through summer's heat and rain. "Serge." He edged tags -era the O11, Spirit! Spirit of the Spring, r :sea r,p I .d alread turned an un- Let me live again. Beed upon the f + f she sesasen he Ire ,:luted, tarn -g, p le a large Lind of sea weed, c> e' and I)lt,.rged recklessly of commercial use for the sake of its , s tsc,n' soda and iodine properties: "gay, :Ili ,y, you'd better believe est seaplane station in the world;:: deal only with the varied work of the flying boats • against the enemy. e, It was at Felixstowe that Colonel: Porte, then commander, R.N;, devel- oped the flying boat. In 1914 the boats weighed well under tevo , tons and - had engines giving a totaltt 180 horsepower. These were • comic machines, with conic engines, and the stout lads who tried impossible feats in them had usually to be towed back. by destroyers. As the navy people could not understand anything being made which was not sufficiently.• strong to be safely dropped from 100 feet, or seaworthy enough to ride out a gale, or as reliable as the come ing of the day of judgment for the Hun, much' criticism and chaff during' this period was worked off. on both boats and pilots. But improvements went steadily on. In 1915 there were very large experimental flying boats in existence, much larger than any- thing which at that time had been? designed in the way of land machines, and in fact bigger than any land ma -I chine that was flown in this country until 1918. One of these boats called the Porte Baby, was so large that it carried on its top plane a scout land machine, with pilot complete, which, while the boat was in the air, was successfully launched and flown back to an aerodrome. In 1917 the boats in service weighed some five toms, had a wing span of some ninety-three feet, were fitted with reliable engines giving a total of 550 horssepower, and began to be asked, as a platter of course, to co-operate with destroyer- flotillas. estroyerflotillas. Now in 1918 the latest boat to be completed and tested, celled the Porte Super -Baby, had lifted a weight of fifteen tons, has five en- gine, giving It total. of 5,000 hones - power, and is the most powerful aircraft ever flown. Had to 'Train Pilots. Besides the perfecting of the boats, pilots had to be trained, and the making of a seaplane pilot is a longer job than the making of a land machine pilot. The actual flying of the boat is the easiest -part of the work. The pilot has to be able to navigate accurately in mist, fog and rain, so that he knows where he is at all times—no easy job over a waste of water, one square mile of which looks like every other square mile, while buoys, light. vessels and ships are few. Ile must recognize instantly the difference between our own and German submarines seen •at strange angles and oddly foreshore= cued; know the silhouettes of sur face ships according to their kind; fight; plisses-; the physical stamina to stand long patrols and flying in rough weather, and the mental make- up to resist the monotony of long spells of unprod 11.'-ive work.. from the repairing of the boat and the handling of them on shore to the, dropping of a bomb on a submarine, All grades. Write for prices, TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLIFF - - TORONTO ing boats flown by Canadians, and , EAGLE mom, submarines sighted and bombed are ►� also held by pilots from the country north of the Great Lakes, the records for the number of hostile I Man and Beast. I ant less patient than this horse, And it is fleeter far than I, Its hair is sill:} mine is coarse; Grasses have shaped that larger eye, V'Tllile to feed me live things must die. The birds make little darts in air, And fishes little darts in streams, here Peacocks are peacocks everywhere, y , And men buy too tight boots, and swear, Then sleep—but dreams? haven't dogs fine You glow-worms, too, who to the weary Are lamp and oil and wick and friend; You bearded goat, half up the quarry — I ani a man; yes, I am sorry— ' A clumsy man. But wait, perpend! Horse, though I'm slow; my back Yields nothing useful; fly, You lucky birds; track, Rabbits, is far too fine. alack, For me to follow; though I'd die. If I lay long in watery places— Fish, how I envy you your rings— And though I'd rather not run races With dragon -flies, nor thread the mazes Of a smooth lawn with ants and things. O yet, 0 yet I've more than these, V\Tllich they neglect them to possess; They do not count the Pleiades, They do not see through glimmering trees The stars and planets numberless; They do not know the leaf and stem And bud and flower beneath their feet. 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MAY "KNOTS" AND "NOTesr The old superstition of "Mairy in May, rue for aye!" digs hard, even in these prosaic times, and the bride who values her happiness postpones her nuptials until the leafy month of June, The prejudice against the month of May dates from the earliest days of civilization. The Romans observed the Festival of the Deacl then, and during that period the temples were closed, religious ceremonies were ne- glected, and talose who contracted matrimony then were considered to be setting the gods at defiance, and court- ing all planner of evil fortune. A writer who flourished in B.O. 43 wrote: "The common. people profess r theof ' is unlucky tomarryit tie rt Y May." The superstition is shared by all European countries, with the ex- ception of Greece, where it is the popu- lar bridal month. Mary Queen of Scots married her third husband, the Earl of Bothwell, in May, and that was the beginning and the end for her as queen and as ruler; so it may be that the remem- brance of her unhappy life, and the tragedy which overtook one of the most fascinating figures in history, may have something to do with the reluctance, of Scottish brides to enter into matrimony during this month. In ''this, as in other respects, there are scoffers who deliberately choose May for their nuptials, and it is a. coincidence that within recent years several of them have had cause to re- pent their temerity. One notable instance was that of the King of Spain and Princess Ena of Battenberg, whose wedding was cele. brated with the pomp and magniflc- once on the 31st of May. Everybody remembers vividly the sensation caused when"it became known that a bomb had been thrown under their carriage on their way back to the pal- ace. The bride's gorgeous wedding - robe was stained with blood. Romance and superstition envelop every detail of the bridal ceremony, and prospective brides may be inter- ested to learn some of the things which they must, or must not, avoid If they would ensure their future hapi- ness. Should the bride be awakened by a small bird—a finch preferably (a city maiden may have to content her- self with the chirp of a sooty sparrow) —size may rejoice, as this is consider- ed a good omen. If swallows should sweep past her window at dawn, they invariably portend good luck. And other harbingers of health, wealth and happiness are a dove, a lamb, or a frog. encountered on her way to the church. But a pig, a hare, or a cat are unpropi- tious. If whilst she is dressing for church a spider is discovered In the folds of lien dress, it is a sign that she will never want money. Once she is fully attired, a bride must not return to take a final peep, or, if she does, she must add a rose or a pin to her toilette. If she is Wise, she will turn hoe bade on her mirror while buttouieg her glove'. If she breaks anything on the event- ful morning. it is a sign that she will not live happily with her huxband'e relations. 1'f she forgets to feed the eat. it may spite ber by bringing down the raid,- Itnd if it mews angrily aa she is leaving for her honeymoon, then :'Ire may expect family jar:;. under no circumstances must the bride permit herself to read, or listen. to the reading, of the marriage ser- vice, or part thereof even, on the eve of her wedding, let alone the day it - I self; nor must she look upon her bridegroom until she meets him at the altar. HUNS FIRED 278 ROYALTIES. One German State Had a Royal Person For Every 5 Square Males. A German professor figures out that the abdications; and dethrcme- ments in Germany include 273 per- ' tons. Bavaria leads with one King, one Queen, fifteen Princess, eixteell Peincesees, five Dukes, and one Duch, eee. Prussia hue sent 33 royalties into seek, including the Emperor, Em- press, twenty Princes tend eleven Princesses. Ilrunswick is at the bottom of the Ilut, with Only the dual couple and their three children. The two tiny principalities of Reuss, whose area is hardly one -three hundredth part of that of Prussia, have exiled 38 royals ties. The principality of Lippe, only about twenty square miles 1 r1I A : then the Reuss states, had a roy ai ,..amity num- boring 24 persons, Most extraordiu- ary is the case of Schomberg -Lippe with its area of 1.311 square miles, r where there was nearly one i(pyal per• sonage for every five square miles. These included the reigning• Prince, seventeen Princes and ;seven Pr;n, tosses. The first month is the ceifleal period in the life of r