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Zurich Herald, 1919-09-05, Page 3,_ ._.._..4.1,1.- •.w....._. I. VOUNCxELEPHANT DISCIPL NED RY MOTHi=R In a recent article it is stated that elephants are amazingly like human beings In the way they discipline their young. In proofit tells an amusing incident seen by a French traveller in an extensive lumber yard in Burma. While the adult elephants were faithfully at work the youngsters played about the yard. The elephant that attracted the traveller's particular attention was hauling, in her chain harness, huge tree trunks from the bank of the river. She hud a heavy load, a fact that her °Veining did not realize. Bent on ',toying a prairk, he wound his little trunk about one of the chain traces and pulled back with all his strength,' Conscious of the suddenly increased weight, the mother stopped and looked around. She. saw the youngster and shook her head.•solomnly, but paying no further heed to his teasing, bent again to her work. Meauwhile the little rascal with his mischievous trunk hacl loosened the ring that fast- ened the traces to the load. While the mother was straining to set her burden in motion again, her rascally son pulled with all his might against her, and pulled so sturdily that she was quite unaware that she had been disconnected from her load. Then, suddenly, the youngster let go. Naturally enough, the mother was thrown to her knees and her driver hurled in a wide circle from her back. The culprit sought a huge wood -pile that seemed to offer him at least a temporary protection. His mother, However, was soon in pursuit, and he had to flee. Round and round the wood -pile he dodged, but his mother, with her iron harness clanging noisily behind her, •kept ease at his heels. Although the little one's greater agility gained some space for him at the corners, his mother eventually .overtook him. The first blow of her trunk drew from hint a bawl of pain. At the second he sank, quite humbled, to his knees; end then he endured without a murmur, although with many tears, a sound thrashing. L'inal- ly the mother let him up. With tears still streaming and with drooping trunk he took his disconsolate way out of the yard. The little fellow had won the com- plete sympathy of the observer. Cott sequently he was overjoyed to witness, during the noon hour a touching re- conciliation. The .mother did all :she could to • comfort the penitent little sinner; she caressed him with' her trunk, cuddled hilt up against her, and looked at him as if to say "You still have a mother who loves you." WONDERS OF A FAMOUS FOUNTAIN After night has set in upon the Schwarzenbergplatz in picturesque Vienna, hundreds of enthusiastic tour- ists were wont to throng about the place to hear a well trained outdoor band peal forth strains of classic music and to gaze upon the wonders of its glorious fountain,' Before the palace of Prince Swarz- enberg is the celebrated "lumineuse" fountain, lighted by twenty-seven hid - :len reflectors, containing a total power of 270 million candles. The bowl is tremendous in size and sprays of water ascend in every color and shade imaginable, built within each other in circular form. The outer part, for example, will be drimson red, while the extreme inner centre sends forth a brilliant ray of gold, and each few seconds the former changes to a fainter tint, going gradually from the original hue to garnet; ruby, and last- ly, light red. Meanwhile, with the ,gold section running into bronze and yellow, a sudden outburst of dark green emerges from another spot; blending its spray to an apple, olive, and finally nile shade, with the beauti- ful contrast of a deep blue at its side, this also changing from navy to its more delicate colors. Little springlets of quickly revert- ible brown, pink and orange play to- gether, and link over each other, dropping back into the large pool in an entirely different tone, •namely, violet, Immediately on top of this, heliotrope and pale lavender bounce up, and so they go on, always illumin- ating the tiny drops differently upon their descent. With all these marvellous interplays of every existing hue, perhaps • the greatest splendor of the scene lies in the fact that each radiance of dew takes turns at shooting up the high- est, and often one must cast his glance to a considerable height when gazing upon the tallest little bubble. T44... Wanted to Know. "Say, pa,' are second thoughts the best?" "So we are told, any son," "Then why don't we have them first?" British companies are preparing a Scheme of aviation insurance. A MOTHER'S TRIALS Care of Home and Children Of- ' ten Causes a Breakdown.. The woman at home, deep in house- hold duties and the. cares of mother- hood, needs occasional help to keep her in good health, The delnands up- on a mother's health are many and severe. 'Iter own health trials and her children's welfare exact heavy toils, wletie hurried meals, broken rest and much indoor living, tend to weak- en her constitution. No wonder that the woman at home is often indisposed through weakness, Headaches, back- aches and nervousness. Too many women have grown to accept these visitations as a part of the lot of motherhood. But many and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is simple and the• cure at hand. When well, it is the woman's good blood that keeps her well; when ill she must make her blood rich to renew her health. The nursing mother more than any other woman in the world needs rich blood and plenty of it. There is one always unfailing way to get this good blood so necessary to perfect health, and that is through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pills make new blood abundantly, and through their use thousands of weak, ailing wives and mothers have been made bright, cheerful and strong. if you are ailing, easily tired, or depress- ed, it is a duty you owe yourself and your family to give Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. What this medicine has clone for others it will surely do for you. Chinese Medicine. Dried frogs and asbestos are com- mon ingredients in the "order" which the Chinese doctor prescribes for his patient. For the sake of variety he may include in the prescription any of the following for which the patient perhatrs inay express a preference: Scorpions, rhinoceros skins, wood shavings, flies, crushed pebbles, moths, centipedes, toads, lizards, cater- pillars, powdered snakes or wasps. She'd Learned. The puppy hacl been punished, and was sulking in a corner. To him came the small daughter of the house, to administer, not com- fort, but advice. "You may just as well be good first as last, Spot," she admonished. "Everybody that belongsto mother has goti.to. mind ,I'.ve been through, it all -and 1 know" "k TWO MARVELLOUS VOYAGES The growing light of the autumn Morning greying the .eastera sky showed to scared watchers on the, beach. three strange ships that hacl, apparently, sprung from nowhere dur- ing the night, And the watchers on the beach were scared, too, for though this was the year 1492, not one of them had ever seen a ,ship before in his or her life. Then stranger things commenced to happen. Something dropped, from one of the ships—caravels, their crews called them—and into it stepped men. Then it commenced to row ashore. This the watchers understood,.for they used small boats themselves. Slowly it made its way towards the tiny is- let standing like an outpost of the New World, a tall; gaunt man, verging.' on middle age and dressed richly in scarlet, standing in its bow, with a gold -bedecked flag dropping from its staff in his hand. ' The boat touched land, and the tall man, in an ecstasy of joy, with his great eyes glinting with pride, flung iliinself to., the sand. Presently he kissed the dry ground; then, with tears of sleep emotion rolling down, his cheeks, drew his sword, raised his flag, and proclaimed that he annexed the land as part of the dominions of his Majesty Fernando, King of Spain. After a Perilous Voyage. He was Christopher Columbus, the doyen of all Transatlantic voyagers, a dour personage, who, during his for- ty -and -one years, had "undergone trials not a few." Behind him lay a voyage of seventy days, wherein he had seen no lance. or anything made by men that floated' on Use sea. IIis high -bowed and high- sterned caravel, Sancta Maria, driven by snowy sails with a scarlet cross emblazoned' on them, had carried him at a slow 'eight knots across the hith- erto uncharted waters, the sport of - the tides, dependent upon Nature's winds for her propulsion in the right direction. Columbus' crews were unwilling ex- plorers. It is on record that some were felons brought from prisons to make up the companies of the three - ships. A few crude navigation instru- ments and the sun and stars were all his aids in the keeping of a due -west course, and the caravels had neither speech nor sight of their, fellow -hien until, seven months after they set out, they once again Made Spain..., Only then could those who granted.Colum- An Exception in Daylight Saving The daylight saving laws effective in many countries have never been placed in operation in the Panama Canal one. This is for the reason that there is very- little seasonal change in the time of sunrise and sun- set for this latitude (approximately 9 degrees north). , The earliest sunrises, occuring in May and June, are approximately 6 o'clock, and latest, in January and February, about 6.35. The earliest sunsets, in November, occur at about 5.50, and. the latest, in June and July, at approximately 6.40. The usual working )lours in the Canal Zone be- ing from 7 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, the morning margin of daylight before work varies from twenty minutes to one hour. The evening period of light between 5 o'clock and the beginning of twilight (sunset) varies from fifty minutes to one hour and thirty-five minutes. To advance the time one hour would throw the 7 a.m. workers into the twi- light period and tend to reduce rather than increase their hours of daylight labor. The morning twilight period is about half an hour the year round, the evening twilight slightly longer. In the• latitude of Southern Ontario, sunrise varies from about 4.20 a.m. In June to 7.35 the first part of January, or three hours and a quarter, as com- pared with a variation of thirty-five minutes through the year in the Canal Zone. Sunset varies from about 4.25 p.m. 111 December to 7.40 in June 'and July, three hours and a quarter, as compared with the fifty niisfutes varia- tion in the Canal Zone between ear- liest and latest sunset. The twilight period is about the sante. Daylight hours are about eight hours and fifty- five minutes at the least in southern Ontario, and approximately fifteen hours and twenty minutes at the most. In the Canal Zone the hours of daylight range from approximately eleven hours and thirty-five minutes to twelve hours and thirty-five min- utes. The office of the chief hydrographer of the -Canal Zone has recently fur- nished the police stations with charts showing the daylight, twilight and darkness periods through the mouths. They are of use for occasional refer- ence in testimony as to the degree Of light existing at the time under in- vestigation, as in traffic accidents, or where the possibility of having wit- nessed an occu.1 once is questionable by reason of the degree of light at the time. The street lighting sche- dale is also to be arranged by the dharts. stetr- f der a ffee buy a tin of the healthful table beverage The quality is constant and the rich, even flavor pleases. No 1A aise �■et Prlce bus Permission to make the venture be told of its success or failure. And the only authentic record of the trip Is contained in a hand -printed book male at the dictation of Colum- busnaonths after he had recovered from the fatigue and exhaustion en - ruing upon his truly epoch-making Transatlantic voyage. „ ' The Pioneer of the Airway. But to -day school children learn that Christopher C'ol'imbus discovered America on October 112th., 1492, and across the path blazoned by Sancta Maria and her two frail consorts countless r'hips come and go with the commerce and travellers of the Old and the New Worlds. The grey light of a wind -driven sky almost hid the cigar -shaped hull of the great ship that had suddenly sailed into the purview of the thousands of eager eyes watching for her advent. Steam -whistles hooted and syrens yelled, while the waiting crowds sent up cheer after cheer to welcome, this Pioneer of aerial navigation. Then the great ship of the air stormed, and hovered at a height of two hundred feet above the huge field which had been specially macre ready for.ler reception. Suddenly a small speck detached itself from one of the microscopic carriages slung under her belly, and fell perhaps twenty feet like a stone. Then it seemed to stop, and a para- chute opened out, revealing to the as- tounded watchers a British officer des- cending to the ground to supervise the berthing of his Britannic Majesty's Airship R-34. This pioneer from the clouds carried a flag; nor could lie annex land in the name of the sovereign to whom he owed allegiance. He did not kiss the earth, though he was unfeignedly glad to_ feel it beneath his feet, nor diel he ,cry with joy. Instead, he set about seeing that the specially -trained moor- ing parties of American aviation me- chanies made R -34's anchors properly fast to her moorings. Then the great airship commenced to sink lower and lower till her belly almost touched the ground, and from her gondolas there stepped less than a score of hien. With Every Scientific Aid. Behind R-34 lay a voyage of 3,130 miles, performed in 103 hours and 12 minutes, or just over four and a half days. The great airship, 675 ft. long, had fought baffling gales and atmos- pheric storms, and nosed through fogs at an average speed of nearly thirty knots per hour, despite the fact n a.t fuer, petrol supplies were growing lir afiy short. Never had she been the sport of the winds, nor liad she been compelled to grope her way, for skilled navigators, armed with ultra scientific instruments, had guided her on the shortest route across the track- less wastes of air. Her crew were all volunteers—in- deed; one of them was so eager to make the passage that he stowed hini- sef away. Never was R-34 for a mo- ment unable to establish communi- cation with her starting point and des- tination, for at intervals her wireless told of her progress, and even sum- moned aid to stand ey her when her fuel threatened to give out. And in less than a minute after she had • touched ground, wireless tele- graphy told the whole world of her feat. And hundreds of cinema camer- as filmed her as she hovered and landed, and thousands of people the same night witnessed in photographs the thrilling scene. And in the days to come the school children will be taught that Airship R-34 made the first voyage from Great Britain to America, and reached New York on July 6th, 1919. Sancta Maria, under Columbus' or- ders, opened up the ocean pathways to and from America; R-34, com- manded by Major Scott, R.A.F., has opened up the aerial tracks, and sure- ly it is not too much to prophesy that airships will, in the not -far -distant future, be as numerous in the air above as surface ships are on the broad bosons of the Atlantic. 8 Lost Arms Without Pain. Our story of a man being blown away, unhurt, by the explosion of a bomb which he did not hear must seem incredible to many people. Here is something like an analogy. King Edward once brought together at his dinner table Rustem Pasha,. who had had half his right hand and part of his arm torn off by a bear, and Sir Edward Bradford, who had had his left arm up to the elbow mulched away by_a tiger. The two mien compared notes. Neither had felt the least twinge of pain at the time, They imagined that their intense desire to save their lives dulled all other senses. Sound the motor horn when ap- proaching a turn .in the road or the brow of a hill. If boiling hot tomatoes a.^e to be combined in any way with hot milk,! always add aixloenth of a teaspoon -1 ful of baking soda to the vegetable) and then blend slowly, stirring con- stantly. SUMMER COMPLAINTS KILL LIME ONES At the first sign of illness daring the hot' weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours he may be beyond aid. These Tablets will prevent summer complaints if given occasionally to the well child and will promptly relieve these trou- bles if they corm on suddenly. 33aby's Own Tablets should always be kept in every home where there are young children. There is no other medicine as good and the mother has the guar- antee of a government analyist that they are perfectly safe, The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Weeping Potatoes. Traveller (to Irishman) : "Well, Pat, I see you have a small garden." "Yes, sorra" "What is it set with?" "Nothing, sorr, I set it with pota- toes last year, and not one of them came up." "That's strange! How do you ex- plain that?" "«cell, sorr, the reran next door to me set his garden full of onions." "Well, had that anything to do with your potatoes not growing?" "Yes, sorr. Betted, them anions was that strong that my potatoes couldn't see to grow because of their eyes watering." St. Isidore, P.O., Aug. 18, 1894. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemen, --I have frequently used MINARD'S LINIMENT and also pre- scribe it for niy patients, always with the most gratifying results, and T con- sider it the beet all-round Liniment extant. Yours truly, DP.. JOS. AUG. SIROIS. U n de r -Sees. The •little man made his way back to the box office. This seat number sounds like a German submarine; it's T7-19," he said. "You don't want to exchange it merely on that account, do you?" asked the ticket man. "No, but I thought you might be able to supply hie with a periscope to see over the big woman just in frpnt. 1121nard'a Linihnent Cures Earns, eto. Most automobile factories in Can- ada and the States are from 25 to 100 per cent. behind orders in output. Not much relief in sight for months, as orders far exceed production. GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKiN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents, Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white and shake well. This makes a quarter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and grow smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless,, and the beautiful results will surprise you. OW YOU CAN TELL GENUINE ASPIRIN ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH "BAYER C,ROSS" ARE ASPIRIN. If You Don't See the "Bayer Cross" on the Tablets, Refuse Them—They Are Not Aspirin At AIL There is only one Aspirin,that narked with the "Bayer Cross"—all other tab- lets are only acid imitations. Look for the "Bayer Cross"! Then it is real Aspirin, for which there is no substitute. 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Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone, which will cost very little, but is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn, and instantly the soreness is relieved, and soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with- out pain. It is a sticky substance which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin - in;; tissue. This discovery will prevent those sands of deaths annually from lock jaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. SiNCE 0 I870 DROPS a q STOPS Egar Ladies 703 or, ith YOU About Your Skin HY not snake Cuti- cura Soap your every - day toilet saap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Tal- cum, now and then as needed,and have in most cases a clear fresh complexion, a clean scalp free frons dandruff and irritation, good ha�ir, soft white hands and awholesome shin free from blemish, without resort- ing to tiresome, expensive "beauty" fads? Cuticura costs little and does touch. Sample each free by mail of "Cuticura, Dept. N. Boston, U.S.A." Sold by dealers throughout the world. Cuticura Talcum Powder• 13o not fail to test the fascinating frit• grance of this exquisitely scented face, baby, dusting and skin perfuming pow. der, delicate, delightful, distingue, it imparts to the person a charm income parable and peculiar to itself, ISSUE No. 86--19.