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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-01-01, Page 2etenersenneleraelMet FARMERS° CLUBS 4 IRPEPENYEAT PEALgR5 `Ve are Buyers of Ontario Grains and Sellers of Western Feeding Oats and Barley. 4 017 O1.Y.P PIZ %C..'S T T pNp .' 'o, 'BMA' [iSNB'J�L 3# t4� 8U LPIAG �,7` p �q �f, ADELAIDE li4593 A A �11 TO 4!"' lr I di?!'ti:+ i r. tismizr"'"iOI..,`e r..na "5a 7, aeseneee- Charge the Enemy, Fear. waye works in one or two ways, either "Perhaps the greatest obstacle to, we grow timid and are afraid to van - success is fear. Maxey a young hue-, ture, or we become perf. etly satisfied ness girl fears ridicule of her esso-1 'with ourselves and when we are elates and the criticism of her employ-; thrown with others we fail to grow be- er. She is overwhelmed by a thousand, cause of the contact. nameless terrors. Constant apprehen-I If you're a victim of terrorism begin siou not only destroys her efficiency,; your fight against it to -day. haven't but creates an atmosphere that reacts • you watched many men and women of to her detriment. When I find a girl Your acquaintance who "do things," of reasonable ability .held back for heagi committees, manage clubs and some unaccountable reason, ten fairs and granges, and wondered how chances to one investigation proves they could do it when you, better edu- that pit has its root in groundless ap-j Bated perhaps, could never do it? It prehension." i is simply because they have self -con - This remarkable statement by the fidenee, while you are fearful, Per - highest salaried woman executive inn haps you have even greater ability, Ameriea, Miss Henrietta F. H. Reid,1 andr are simply afraid to use it, assistant to the president of the;. Bush l We had a copy in school, usually Terminal Company, appeared in a re-; once a month, Whi h may help you: ever issued by the progressive,institu- cent issue of a woman's magazine, ins "We lose the good we oft might win tion. Total assets for the first .tin, e an article addressed to girls. It seemed by failing to attempt." If you have in its career rose over the $500,000p,0 RECORD PROGRESS BY ROYAL BANK Institu'i:ions Setilrii Cei k icardal Repot Best in its History —Liquid Position Strong -7 Profits For Twelve Months Sewed Gain of $613,418 at $3,423,264; Assets at New High. In further celebration of itsftrti.eth anniversary, the Royal Bank of Can- ada, in its statement for the year end- ed November 29 last, reports a twelve - monthly period of record progress t from the standpoints of financial upward by the sun seems to 1 .sail>r strength, liquid position and profits, the phenomenon. But when the bright Recent exhibits of Canadian banking institutions have indicated .that and dark rays radiate in all directions al- though the period through which the around the great cloud, then indeed banks have passed have been difficult the sun is' a burst of glory and the ones owing to the Importent readjust=• :name "sunburst" is appropriate. ments necessary, they have been able Step into a darkene& roon when a to further strengthen the already ray of sunlight shines through a pin - strong positions occupied at' the -mid hole in the Clark window curtain. ^ A of the war. shaft of light. falls through tete air of • The Royal Bank in its annual state -the room illuminating the tiny par- ntent, made public yesterday, nera titles of floating dust. If, instead of that it is no exception to this geeneral rule, the report being the most notable the darkened room, we have a dark • place where the shadow of a heavy mass of cloud is east, and the sunlight streams through a chink in the clouds, the dust or particles of moisture in the air will be illuminated and the shaft of light will become visible. The presence of dust or moisture in higher levels of the • atmosphere come visible. Perspective then causes produces exceedingly interesting re- these lines to conte to a point near sults when shadows of clouds are cast the horizon where the sun is hidden, while exactly opposite the place of the sun the lines come to another point. Occasionally a large •cloucl mass will completely cast a shadow over the whole sky whenthe sun is setting. A single chink in the right place in the cloud will let a single ray of light shoot straight across the dark sky. W; d Makes a Soo or t IVhat h it that in tho West. where • When the sun is high lit the heavens the rays of light are darting front be- the shadows of clouds are cast allnoet Wad big clouds? Scene people will vertically downward. Looking at the tell you it is a "Munburst." Others Hand cape fron> a distance the rays will say that you are looking at Jacob's sire rutin;; through tate cloud can be ladder, while some one else may in- seen extending down from cloud, to form you that the: sun is drawing earth; but wften the sun is low in the Water, and that it foretlls rain. sky, the cloud shadows are cast far When the shafts of light stream away toward one side from the sun, downward from the cloud, the Jacob's Looking at this from a position at ladder explanation seems .appropriate; right angle.'» to the Hue between clond and when the same kind of rays seem and sun wo see the rays streaming to be Coating up from the -sea or a very slantiugly- across the sky. . river, the idea of water being drawn < If we happen to be at the spot where the cloud shadow is cast when we look toward the suit, the marvelens stream- -ere of light and shadot, seem to radi- ate around the cloud. In other words, we are looking at the slanting sun - rays from a point near the centre of theta. All around us they fall, touch- ing the ground far around on all sides. Shining upon the dust or Water par- ticles in the air, we see them project- ed back to the' cloud with the sun as their centre. The illusion .is due en- tirely to perspective, a principle which makes all lines extending away into the distan.ee appear to 'come t'o' a, point. When the cloud is near the horizon, the rays •of light and shadow may slant directly across the sky overhead arta, if sufficient dust is present, be. too good to confine to young business been losing out through this failure, • women who are consumed with the l begin your reform to -day. desire to "make good." In fart, iti seemed to me that it belonged morel e to the farm boy and girl than to the! Ail that one needs to make 'good young woman in business. for it has tea is an earthenware pot, some tea Brewinu• Tea. nark, being shown at $533,647,084, a gain of $1.06,134,102 over the fig i es of a year ago. To this splendid ag- gregate liquid assets contributed $273,908,862, representing an inereaee in the year of almost 49 Millions and being the equivalent of slightly • in been my experience that the people; and water that is boiling at the time excess of 55 per cent. of: the bank's liabilities to the public. The latter into the air. Ordinarily we can not most liable to underrate themselves in, it is •poured on the leaves, which compares with 56.6 per cent.' a year sec these shadows, but when the min - this weed are the boys and girls who! should then be allowed to ,infuse for a ago and 53.2 per cent. in. the 117 ate particles of material in the air have eaten bred on the farms, kept; few moments, when the liquor must period. are strongly illuminated by the slant- throtiglz force of circumstances from be poured oft. That sounds easy and i profits for the year were. $3,423,204, ing sunlight the shadows become rubbing up continually against their it is all there is to it; it is astonishing compared with $2,80 ,846 in 1918Veor strongly visible by contrast, Let us fellows. how seldom this simple formula is equal to .21.7 per cent. on the a go up into cloudland and see how this Looking back to school teaching, followed out hi actual practice. The age capital employed during the happens.• days in the old country school it' housewife's most common mistake ,is twelve months: This .,compares wall c ay 20.1 per cent. in 1918 and 18 per cent. seems to me now that the majority of to use water ata temperature below , poor marks the boys and girls got the boiling point. No matter how were given thein, not because they choice the tea, if the water is not at didn't know the lesson, but because boiling temperature the important they were afraid to recite. I can recall constituents of the leaf are not dis- many a student whom I knew must be solved. Now that everybody is talk - able to answer every question I asked, ing economy it is a good time to call in the preceding year. The capital of the bank was increased by $3,000;= 000 during the year, an issue of $2,- 000,000 par value being issued to shareholders at 150 early in the •cur- rent calendar year, while a second ad-• ditional,issue was sold to the London but who only dumbly shook his head, attention to the waste caused by using County, Westminster & Parr's Bank, while some more self-confident class- water below the boiling point. To 1 Limited, with which the Royal formed mate arose and rattled the lesson cff. prove that one can waste in making l lasto t working t price of $00 arrangement per nshare There was nothing to do but put down tea get two grades, one a very cheap These increases brought the outstard- a bad mark, though. , • tea''and the other a tea of the same ing capital of the Canadian institution Fear of making a mistake, of being kind but double the price: Draw the up to $17,000,000, the premiums on not. sell to advantage. But the have laughed at, held these children back cheapest tea with boiling water and the new stock amounting to $3,000,000 g y The workman was digging. The in school. It will probably hold them the better sample with water below were added to reserve, bringing, the a special market of , their own, being wayfarer of the inquisitive turn of back through Iife unless they make a the boiling point. You may be sur- latter up to a parity with the capital. sold to cheap restaurants and boarding locate stopped for a moment to look on. determined fight to overcome it. Those prised at the result, but the taste will P. & L. Balance -Over Million. houses: • "My. man,'' said the wayfarer 'at "thousand nameless terrors," how well cone -ince you that boiling water drawn After all deductions, which.incit d- «•cracked eggs (technically known as length, "what are you digging for?" the sensitive person knows them. And off cheap tea makes a better drink ed disbursements among shareholders checks) go the same way largely; The workman looked up, ' "Money," , no one but the sensitive person knows than is possible to brew with water during the year in the way of • dives but if they are "1eakers" they pass he replied. t, what untold bravery it takes to over-' which is not boiling even when the dends and the 'anniversarye.,. wtth rot cap." _ i'ioney! " exclaimed the amazed eomo thorn. Cerin over the top re- tea itself is of good quality. ' aixtoulltrng to $2;205,196, tli ri 1� , • Thesare mat ors of •great eoanner wayfarer. ":end Wen do you exiiect Coins- mauled a balance • lit the credit 'of to strike it?" . "On Saturday," replied the work- man, as he resumed operation'. . When is Egg Bad? i vacuum, they are ground to a meal 1 resembling sawdust in appearance. There is no such thing as a bad egg,1 Their market is the salve as that far though some eggs are better than frozen egg-fluia. drinking glass if a common glass is others. The rotten eggs are strained and used by both patient and baby; and This, of coarse, does riot represent, sold to leather m.anufa,cturers, who use you won't miss it if you wager, on the housewife's point of view. It is the, them for finishing their product, the baby's catching cold. The common commercial idea. Nothing is bad that i oil contained in the yolks giving a drinking ..cup is responsible for much can be sold for money, and no egg is most desirable polish. of the widespread, ravages of many so rotten that it will not feteh a price. diseases to -day. Dirty eggs are in a class by then- �,440dE�0.‹oli.opo.,1Owe <tecv k. Protecting' Baby From Colds. Next to digestive disturbances, babies suffer Moro from colds, bron- chitis and pneumonia than from any other disorders, In fact, during early infancy pneumonitt heads the list' of infant deaths, only to be displaced a, few months late by that Most dread,• ed summer disease ---diarrhoea, ' Little tiny babies are so helpless, so dependent upon their ..seniors for life ;itself that our a'esponsibility is indeed great. ..We should put forth our best endeavor to avoid and pre -- vent common colds, for they so often. go into coughs,. croup,, :bronchitis and even pneumonia. And now as we eini'merate a few of the common causes 'for baby's cold — we hope the reader wi•11 put forth a big effort to prevent such thoughtlestt occurrences. 1. Some one brought the infection to the baby, Children coming in from school and father from the office 'should bear in mind baby's suseep- ,tibility. to, "cold catching." - 2. Somebody coughed in hie face. A cough spasm may be difficult to control; but to cough in baby's face is nothing short of criminal care- lessness. 8. Germ -laden hands have handled.. the baby. If the mother or caretaker. is compelled to share hei' attentions with another member of the fancily suffering from this grippe or from a . ,cold, baby should always be approach- ed with hands that' have been scrub- bed with a brush -dipped in either alcohol or a weak solution (one level teaspoon to the quart of \vater). A. clean, large apron' that covers well should be worn when baby needs care. 4. He has drunk. from an infected glass. Countless germs cling to a selves.. No matter how fresh, they do The Pay Bnvelope, 5. Thera is not enough moisture. in the air baby baeathes. The ordinary home is deficient, in the amount of moisture necessary for health. 6. Somebody wiped baby's face with an infected towel. Like the drinking cup, a common carrier of cold germs is. found• in the family.towel. It doesn't ' need to be a regular towel—for it may be any old, clean, soft cloth. cheesecloth, a piece of old soft and:.• wear --but whatever it is, let it be baby's personal" property. There is comfort in knowledge that no one else uses your towel. Children should be Belgium Will Electrify Railways. trained to help keep the order in the bathroom, and if the little fellow The Belgium Government will elec-is given "his towel" to place on a trify its railways,.. beginning with the particular hook or..in a definite poli - lines from Brussels -to Antwerp, Lux- tion on a rack or towel rod two birds - quires no greater courage than charg- Tea is often served in a china tea- profit and loss account of $1,096,418,. ing the enemy—fear. Fear of ridicule, pot containing the tea leaves and a or overtwice the amount carried into fear of failure; fear of making a mis- Iarger pot supposedly filled with boil - take, as Miss Reid puts it, keeps more: ing water. Tea made by pouring the people back than any other thing. I water into the small pot through the And the country -bred person, I be- i tea is often unsatisfactory •because of lieve, is more liable to those fears than the difficulty of keeping the water up the city -bred. The boy in the city is to the boiling point. It may have been early accustomed to measuring him- boiling when poured, but the Old pot self by his fellows. The street is his' chilled it just enough to make it too playground, and while it may be un- l cold to draw a good cup of tea. desirable from many points of view,! Wasted tea leaves are just as real at least it affords hint an opportunity i waste as uneaten bread, or fat thrown to find himself. He ,is inspired by the into the garbage can. It is not nec- daring of his braver fellows to try essnry to economize to the extent of each fear -producing stunt, and learns., cutting out your cup of tea, but when in time that one failure isn't going to you draw it see that you get all the wreck his life. ,..1 virtue there .is in the leaves. Use The farm child hasn't this oppor-i boiling water., and practice real tunity. He has only the short recess' eefliomy, •� and nooft hour at 'school to meet his play -mates, and their hurries home, As ( Will Human Race Die Out? a result he ,is apt to grow shy • and:From the recorded facts extending distrustful of his own ability, to be -I come a victim of apprehensions.which that nearly flee e averagventures, it is ofna keep him back from success. The best i Dura for this is to keep him as Much; man in Europe was 1.75 metres, or, with other children as is possible, say, five feat nine inches, while in 1790 ;it was only five feet six inches. In 1820 it was five feet five inches and a fraction. At the present time it is five feet three inches and three- quarters. It is easy to deduce from these figures a rate of regular decline in human stature, and to apply this, working backwards and forwards, 5o the past and to the future. By this calculation it is determined that the stature of the first man at - Interest payable half yearly. tained the surprising average of six - Paid up Capital $2,412,57t. teen feet nine inches. Truly, there leseeeeseeesesemelesasusleassesteemeatm were giants on the earth in those ---- -- clays. The race had already deter - Isolation is bad for everyone. It al - 'fife Great West Permanent Loan Company. Toronto Office 20 King St, Weat 4% allowed on Savings. Interest computed quarterly. Withdrawable by Cheque. 5 4% on Debentures, """"'"`°'es'o° ° iorated in the days of Og, and Goliath , F Poultry, New Laid Eggs Dairy Butter, Beano, Soiling Peas, etc. Write for our Weekly Pries List and advise what you have to offer. $peoiai Prices for f=ancy Quality (Gunn, Langlois, & Co., Ltd. (Dent, W.) Montreatl, - - One. JOHNSON The oiliest established LTD. RAW FUR DEALERS in Montreal 1#ighest Market Prices Paid. Satisfaction Guaranteed to Shipx.rs. 08 n4 for Owe' Price List. 410 St. Paul St. bleat • Montreal was quite a degenerate ogspring of the giants. Coming down to later times, we find that, at the beginning of our era, the average height of roan was nine feet; and, in the time of Charlemagne, it was eight feet eight inches. But the most astonishing result of this scientific study comes from tho a.ppi.cation of the same inexorable law of diminution to the future. The calculation shows that by the year 4000 A.D. the stature of the average man will be reduced to flfteeneinehes. At that epoch there will be only Lilliputians on the earth. Both men and women need to be good mixer,; ---a men in his business and a woman in her kitchen. London tube railways which were tacit fifteen years ago for an average. vest cf .C600,000 per mile, would now cool, at least £1,000,(000 per mile, " sial importance, for checks and dirties constitute 5 per cent. of the entire egg creep. Mostly they are "broken out," together with hopelessly stale eggs, .into large cans, being thereupon frozen and held in that condition until the season of egg scarcity, when they are sold to bakers and restaurants of the 1919 accounts from the previous year. Comparative figures of the po- sition of the profit and loss accounts of the past three years are given in the following table: 19191 1918 1917 Profits .$3,423,264$2,309,846 Prev, bal.. 935,757 664,264 Total ....$3,059,021 $3,374,110 Less;— Dividends $1,366.106'81.614,702 Bonus ... .340,000' Pension F. 100:000• 100,000 Premises.,• 400.000 400,000 Govt. t'x's 156,406 133,001 Patriotic 40,000 Halifax F. 50.000 Reserve . 500.000 Tot. ded $2,362,001 $2,036,353 'Balance $1 006.41 S $535,757 Th..balance sheets of tete fears compare as follows: AssnTs. 1919 Coin and notes.. $f;5.0:.1,547 Cent. Gold 'Res... 21,500,000 Notes oth. banks 3,464,200 Cheques; dn. 23,757,240 Due by Can. -bits. 17,103 Do. outside ....-13,101,373 Govt. securilies..45,323,598 Other securities. 52,815,433 Call loans, Can. 16.435,614 Call loans, out. . 33,312,751 Tot liq. assets.$273,903,862 Curr. loans, Can. 143,259,518 Curr, loans out. 90,210,271 Overdue debts.. 3655,089 Real estate ... 1,495,271 ]:lank premises.. 7,016,444 Letters credit . 16,467,975 Cir. deposit .. 750.000 Other assets „x 173,645 Totals „ $533,647,084 Li A1.IL1TTES, 1010 Deposits, dem... $159,050 229 Do. notice ... 259.465,169 Circulation .. , . 39.337,265 Due Gott 14,000,000 Due ether batiks 7,463,323 Bills pay.806,770 Letters credit ,. 10.467,578 32,327,979. 552,346 inferior class. ., $3;130,826 How can the very poor get eggs -'in eriburg and Ostend. these days, when the price is so high? - le -a -•- • 81,549,::4 The answer is that they buy them.l>'y 1 o Harness Ocean Tides. 100,000 the pint, cracked or othnrw•ise inferi',or. 360,000:eggs being commonly sold by push- cathect experiments- to determine 128,357 thee possibility or harnessing oe can 60,0001 cart peddlers iii city slums. Checks, dirties and. stale eggs are tides for 'theconduction of electric 528'300 largely used also for evaporating', power will be conconducted by the 82.616,061 Rendered water -free by heat in: a blench Government.. 8564,284 Last two 1913 $42,124,658 • 26,000,000 10.78,020: 20,��4,890 6,042 10,391,516 36.599,976 44,705,300 10.067,431 24,374,101 8224,982,098 115,154, 715 64,175,163 358,513 1,171,131 6.492.011 10,162,629 742,818 213,810 8427,512,932 101s $135,248,278 197,343,439 39.380,915 9,000.000 6,005.721 10 162, 039 Public liab. ....$497.607.243 $397,547,1.),3 Capital 17,800,000 14,000,01)0 Reserve 17,000,000 11,000,000 Acer. divs., etc., 953.422 480.122 T'. 3c L. balance 1.096.418 t 535,757 Totals $532,047,084 9427,512,932 World's Simplest Pest Office, The world's simplest post office is in South America. From a ,high, rocky cliff overlooking the Strait of Magellan is suspended by a long chain a barrel which receives email, It has no postmaster, nor is there any regu- lar letter carrier or collector. Every ship that goes through the Strait stops and sends a boat to this curious little post office, looks over the letters that are in it to see if there are any for the men on board that particular ship, .and places therein letters for seamen on board ships that axe known to he heading for the Strait. cin ordinary snail travels at r.ti average speed of one mile in ::dour-. teen days. Celebrities Who Pied in Prison What would thd'world say to -da Y if on arriving in Ireland after their ing- nifleent flight across the Atlantic, the heroic. Alcock and Brown, instead of being received with the enthusjasm they so richly merited, had been seized by the, authorities and thrown into the Detention Barracks in Dublin? And yet it was into a gloomy dun - goon that Christopher Columbus was hurled for an exploit no less daring. All the gratitude that he received was the displeasure of his so-called pat- rons, the abuse of the populace, threats, imprecations, and then; as if that were not sufficient, the luckless discoverer was clapped into irons. •. All that Galileo, got for his services to science was public ridicule and a prison cell. It was Galileo who de- clared that the earth went round the sun; for which preposterous •section his judges had only one sentence. "We'll let you go free if yen admit this statement to be a tissue of lies," he Was told after lie lxad languished ill prison for months. "Very well, the earth does not go round the sun," re- marked the great astronomer. "It does, for all that!" said he to himself as soon as he had quit the judges' presence. 1 are killed with one stone. 7. Baby was allowed to play on the floor. A friend wrote me of a pen he had arranged by building a fence around a sanitary' cot. He reports a • royal good time that his baby had and of its freedom from colds. Floors aro cold and drafty and if baby is compelled to play on the floor extra clothing is necessary, such as leggins, sweaters, comforts, etc. ChildMirth. Sir 'C+7alter Raleigh spent ov i, ten Mirth seems to be a result of goad years of his life in prison, and' the feeding. The underfed. cannot play, beautiful Mary Queen of Scots a_.much • They have net the power of spontaite- longer period. So absolutely bored ous expressigii of happiness. was the first. named .with prison life ' Recent studies of children in Ger- that he 'attempted to destroy himself. As for Queen Mary, she, too, became terribly depressed .owing to ber, monotonous existeuce. It was from one of the niany prisons in which she Many and Apstria by physicians and, teachers in their Public schools inform us that as early as the severe Winter of 1916 children were apt to sit Indoe lentiy gazing in front of them, to be was confined from time to time that roused only.by some strong stimulus she escaped just prior to the Battle of and soon relapsing into inattention. Langside, „effect which. disaster to her D? -Hilda Clark wrote last .lune that cause she was once more promptly' she had been in Vienna four days be - placed in custody! fore she saw a child play. It was as a prisoIler that Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote" and Bunyan the '+Pilgrim's Progress." Leigh. Hunt wrote some of his finest essays in prison, and the late W. T. Stead used to refer to the months he spent in Hol- loway as one of the Happiest periods of his life. Barnum, the famous showman, once found himself in jail, though when he Dr. A. Thiele, of Dortmund, say's that thougli-tete nervous system re- sists deprivation of food well, the lack of certain ;,important universal salts soon prodted in the children a ten- dency to rapid mental fatigue, associ- ated with excitability. Loss of energy and initialdve speedily followed; final- ly .all desire for mirth and sport died away, and cdhrse, primitive ,instincts left it it was in a coach and our, sur- began to assert themselves, , rounded by crowds of admirers!. Of a total population elf. 300,000 in Napoleon III. spent a number of Dortmund, Prof. Engel found 5,000 years behind bars, as did also that children between two and seven -years mightygeniusMirabeau, one of the of aThe Lancet (London) ge who were unable.to 'to walk. greatest -statesmen Prance ever lire- the majority of children in Vienna will doted, grow up with stunted bodies and ques- tions whether their mental life will ever again overflow into mirth and the exuberance of animal spirits. ,6 In cold temperatures rats are found to develop a sort of "overcoat" or additional outer covering, which grows very quickly. Thanks to the automobile, the cub» urbs of every country town now talo in all the surrounding country for ten . utiles or more