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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-07-01, Page 6QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY Kingston, - Ont. d Y 17I5 Jr9 G n ARTS tit (J •�gg • Part of the Arts course I d9.i4 • J. may be covered by '• correspondence SCHOOL OF COMMERCE BANKING MEDICINE EDUCATION Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical ENGINEERING SUMMER SCHOOL tifilliGAT1011 SCHOOL July and August December to April ALICE SING; Acting Registrar %tie � e dF -t r Cheque Bo k By ALTA LAWSON LITTELL. PART 1. The old clock ie the sitting rpom • had wheezed eight at least fifteen minutes ago and still Melissa scoured the kitchen knives. The separator was yet to wash, bread was running over for lack of mixing, green corn was waiting to be cold packed, there was pie to make for Dan, Sr.'s, dinner and junket for Danny. Yet for five minutes stir ght Melissa had seoeued • the brick -defying spot just above the handle of the ]neat knife. Slie was thinking and the cause of her deep abstract`on was one of great import- ance. She ]tad decluecl that she was entitled to h phare in the family pocket boo., ehe owed it to Danny. And when Melissa decided that any- thing ivaz owiego Danny it always carne. Knov;hig. he up.nion Dan held of a woman's ahs tip to handle money or her light, tc taly share in the farm profite, he had „bout as much hope of getting any as she lead of b&ng . elected Ontario'e first woman Member of Parliament. And Melissa had no political wires laid. To be sure Dane had been different ever since the nurse on the • Baby • Special had labeled Danny 09 and 99-100 per cent. perfect, thereby vindi- cating his mother's ideas on infant feeding. But Melissa well knew that' feeding his sore and touching hi; pock-; etbook were sabjects of widely differ- ent importance where Dan was con- cerned. Her own idea of a share in the family income was a new one, for Melissa had been brought up with the idea that woman was created t> eerve. There had been a meeting foe far'r' women in the Community Hall MeLssa was at the meeting. There were, three speakers, two town women, and a specialist from the agricultural college. The town woolen slid not interest her much, She knew then] and had heard their line of talk he-' fore --the beauty, and glory of farm' life, the great God's ou:.doors, the inr-: mense importance of the agriculturist. i She woriderel rinee the work was so "glorious" axil "import-rnt," why a' few more towwu women didn't come' out and take it up? As for enjoying,' the outdoors;' -she barely had time to look out occasionally and se. that; Danny didn't fall off the porch and; break his neck. Things should im- prove! .The specialist was a brisk b.rsine: s-' like woman, with a kindly face and a manner which plainly meant feeds. "How many of you have money to spend without ask'ng'hini' about it?" she asked her .audience. `:`I mean for thiagse you actually know you need not the cream or poultry money for grocer:es ?" ' This was startling! But five of the thirty-five. women raised their hands. "How many of you can buy the children the books and educational things they should have, to say no- • thing about games and toys? Ilow many of you have a fireless cooker? How many have a washing machine? - A gas or electric iron? Food chop- pers? Grater? Egg beater? Egg risk? Kitchen wagon? How many even have plenty of common sharp 'knives?" She shot the questions at them. 1 One woman had a washing machine two had fireless cookers, perhaps a dozen had food choppers. At least a dozen women admitted they hadn't enough ,shar„p knives to work with. Several had no mixing bowl. "How ninny hate a phonograph?" the smiled as nearly every hand went up. "Cream separator? Farm Ina- ' chinery? yes, they help bring in the money in a direct way. T counted 20 out in front. Yet phonographs, autos . and cream separators cost hundreds ' of times what sharp knives, egg beat- ers and fireless cookers cost, "If you had money' of your very own, to spend as you liked without being asked what you did with it, what would you do w:th it?" I "Buy a washing machine," a frail Iittle woman in the front row spoke up. Seems as if the h washing- is 'the hardest thing I do. If I could make !that easier—" "I can wash all day, but trotting back and forth to a hot stove after irons just -beats me out," I said a heavy -set woman. "I'd get an oil stove," broke in a :third. "It just seems as if I never ' could get through another summer in my box of a kitchen with a coal range," "Why don't you have the money?" the speaker challenged. "There must' be money in the family or you couldn't have phonographs and cars. This is acknowledged to be the most prosper- ous section of the province; I haven't seen a neglected farm nor a thimble - clown building. You women are all well dressed. You earn half the money. Why don't you claim it? Just how long would the home machinery run if you stopped? How long can men work if they don't eat? What would 'he' say if you were to tell him to-. morrow you were going to take a month off ? You may not raise the crops but you're 'the pian behind the gun,' all right! If you haven't money, it's your own fault." "Yes, but how are you going about to get it?" a drooping -mouthed wo- man asked plaintively. "I think the same as you do and I've said so times enough but it never got me a cent." "That's for each woman to find Met for herself. I don't know your hus- bands," laughed the speaker. "I can't tell you hcaw to manage your partic- ular man but I do know every man is putty in a woman's hands if she goes at him the right way." Melissa in the rear row of seats kept silence while the discussion raged. Her 'passive face registered no interest and the lecturer would have said she Was 'the' only one un- touched. Yet of them all she. was the only one who really took the talk seriously. The thought of money to her own had seanetinies occurred to her but only as a glorious dream never actually to be experienced. Here came a woman who told her that half Dan's money belonged to her and she was to be blamed if she didn't claim it. The woman looked as if she knew what she was talking about. More- over, she gave what was to Melissa the one working argument; she was entitled to it to spend for Danny. If she had money, she could have a gate for the porch, a fenced -in pen under The Miracles of Nature - Man Is the climax of nature, of law splendent flower which shames the and Providence. All things converge glory of kings. toward hint. He is royal and has been twice crowned. Once "with riches and honor" and again "with loving kindness and tender mercies," For him the fields toil and the great stretches of grain turn to silver and golden grains. For him the' flocks and herds increase. The cow becomes a chemical. laboratory, turning crude material into streams of life. How the patient fowls work for him. For him toil the patient ox and faithful horse, and new we come to another great toiling host which from spring till fall work fir hies with a persiisagece which excites aur wor;dli Let' us think' H, ! moment of the laborers in the veget- able kingdom. There is no sound of saw or ham- mer, no call to toil—no laborers' song —yet at the same tiine persistent, tre- mendous, quiet work on an immense `scare. "Tule labor of the alive"— an int perial fact dressed in poetic garb. I, e love the thought. It opens a wide door. When the waren wino, thaw, the snow, and the genial sun ushers in the spring, and the frosts let go their grip of the roots, it is like the call of day to the sleeping world, Calling then. to breakfast and to work. Then the toil begins. "Behold the lilies how they grew. They telt not, they spin not"— according to human view, That is, like man they do not card and spin and weave. .They use no pencil or paint brush. But consider how they grow. Down in the silent earth the tiny' rootlets. wander, threads of life gathering in sustenance quietly, noise- lessly, ceaselessly, day and night. Like tireless servant's they are reaching out for dainties to send up to that re The tree is one of the most indus- trious of all the armies that toil for man. Look all over the farm, and it le work, work, everywhere! Here is the timber grove. How cool and de- lightful when the breeze comes through on a summer day! it is all quiet here; yes, quiet but busy. Con- sider what the records of those yearly rings mean. There the records of a summer's work are registered. Two feet added to the height, an inch add- ed to the diameter; figure up the ag- gregate and how many loads can be taken from the forest, and then only th0 equivalent of the growth is taken away. The trees are in haste to grow that their labors may feed the stove and bring the warmth of summer into the chin of winter. They have' been condensing the sunbeams for men and etoeing Miele, u., wrapping them in that rough bark so man may have posts for the farm, poles for the shed, lumber for buildings and flel for the stoves. Plant trees in the 'waste places eel they will dig gold out of the earth and gladly they will toil night and day for our comfort. What faithful friends stand guard around us! The trees, the blessed trees, not only check the burning blasts of summer, but they defend us against the colli north winds of winter. And is it not wonderful that man can take a' bare brown piece of earth and of his own volition fill it full of faithful friends who will stand by him in summer's heat and winter's cold, and work for. hhn as no man will work both day and night? Surely we live in wonderland if we could but open our eyes to the miracles a lr{trb ,ere telfelai.g wit A.11 •aground its. the apple tree, linen picture hooks— everything she now' just wished she could get. It was new doctrine to Melissa who had always heard that .wives should submit ' jthmeelw es to their husbands. .taut it sounded right.. This mousing the intoxicating thought of money of her uwn'held up the wheels of pregress•in her usually busy kitclree. Dan's voice in the pantry' brought her suddenly back to earth., "What's this stuff running all over the shelf here?" he demanded. "My bread!" • Melissa forced her mind firmly back to realities, Bead must not spoil though the family finances hung in the balance. 'It was one of those days in summer when tired farm women wonder if they really ever were girls a few short years before. Dan called for help outside; the neighbor's chickens got into the garden and spoiled a full bush,] of tomatoes for sale; the canning peaches ordered for next week arrived that afternoon; and just at twenty minutes after five, the neighbor down the road telephoned that the threshers would be on hand for supper! She had expected them the next night. Melissa felt she ,earned at least seventy-five per cent. of that day's income. Dan had been sitting on a binder seat all day, an umbrella over his head and iced drinks carried aut to him every time he cared to whistle when a turned the corner r bythe barn h All doubts as to the righteousness 'of her cause vanished when Danny tuna bled down the porch steps and got a black eye. If she -had a dollai of her own, she could have the gate she had asked for a dozen tunes. (To be concludednext issue,) hnitation Eeonoiriy. There is one • form of incitation economy that seems to,flourish alike in times of peace and of war: it is that which makes many Semen who buy recklessly dislike to destroy a use- less article and take every opportuni- ty to shift the responsibility for it on others, Let anyone ask for books to start a library somewhere' and see the result. Old schoolbooks, .scientific books long superseded, novels' of fifty years ago, gift books no one ever look- ed at, poems no one ever read, odd volumes of encyclopaedias, -hour they. 'come pouring in! Rumn.age sales have their ' place in . the modern economy, but was there ever a rum- mage sale where boxes of soiled rib- bons and ragged ball _gowns did not offer a problem to the management? As for missionary boxes—but to .the honor of the church the fashion- in missionary boxes has changed of late. years: But there are .missionaries worn in service and wise- .in the strange and pitiful ways of tune human heart who ,could tell iner•e.ible and sometimes heartbreaking -tales. As for the old and .decrepit;—furniture stored away in attics; to burden the, shoulders of..innoeek leel&ie has not known "strange, arise tales" oaf; such as these? It is, in short, one of the small, dark ways of the human mind—this unwill- ingness to destroy worthless things, this overwillingness to dulnp''ther up- on others at the first pretext. It as suredly is not economy, for;it wastes, valuable time, It is not honesty, for it. iss'' shirking our rightful responsibili- ty. It is not generosity; for it is giv- ing away what neither 'we nor others want. What is it? Theright name has not yet been discovered, but what- ever it is, it is a weed to be rooted from the garden of the mind, Where we are trying to raise the fine old- time'"crops known as thrift and fore- thought and judgment, The' Songster Music, music with throb and swing, Of a plaintive note, and long, 'Tis a note no human throat could sing, No harp with its dulcet golden string, Nor lute. nor lyre with liquid gong. le sweet as the robin's song. He sings for love of the season When the nights grow warm and long, For the beautiful God -sent reason That his breast was born for song. Calling, calling•so fresh and clear Through the song -sweet days of May, Warbling there, and whistling here, tie swells his voice on the drinking ear,' On the great, wide, pulsing atmos- phere, Till his music drowns the day. He sings for love of the season When the nights grow warm and long, For the beautiful God -sent reason, That his breast was born for song. —E. Pauline Johnson.' Up -to -Date Gypsies, The gypsy caravans drawn by horses, which were once a feature of their picturesque encampment, are passing, for the automobile has dis- placed the animals. These people travel around in high-powered cars in which have been incorporated some of the resplendent features of the old- time caravan, Canada ranks seeond among world countries in water -power resources, Per capita development is larger than that of any othe''r country except Nor- way. Minskrd'a Liniment used by Physician& Fighting the Cutworm. Cutworms usually cut tender plants off squarely, ust above the surface of the soil, during tho night; but they often strip the tender leaves from the tops of enlarged and toughened plants, especially tomatoes. In the home' garden last sutnmer, we fought the pests to a standstill by usingpaper collars or bands,one. placed around each plant at time of transplanting. Bands were cut from heavy Manila paper, each eight inches in height and of sufficient' length to encircle the plant, and stand two or three inches from it. Each collar, held together by means of a cotton i cord and slipped over a plant, was pushed into the soil until approxi- mately three inches of the top pro- jected above the .surface.' Soil was leveledtrp evenly, both inside' and out- side llar. 112r.the Cutwcoorm found it impossible to climb over this obstacle. Discaraed vegetable tins, each with its top and bottom removed, may be used with equal success. i:cep Minard's Linime ntin the house. Serious Pursuit. _ "Has your husband quit work and gone fishing?" "I won't say he has quit work," said the woman, whose facial expression is both firm and unfriendly. "When he goes fishing he works harder than he ever does around the house." Canada's fur exports steadily in- creasing. For year ending June, 1919, $14,847,604. The Beauty of The Lily , can be yours. 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Bermuda, the oldest remaining Bri- tish "plantation," is preparing to cele- brate its tercentenary this Autumn, for which purpose $10,000 have been appropriated, says a deapateh from Hamilton, the capital' city. Since the Prince of Wales annouuced recently that he meant to pay a call on his royal subjects, they hit on the scheme of combining two festive' oecasicras and having -one grand affair en October '7, when the Renown, with the heir to the throne aboard, is to cast anchor there, It was August 1, 1620, that the 'Colonial Parliament herd its first sit- ting, but as the royal: engagements cannot very well be 'altered, itwa s thought wise to set backthe gala.du te, For nearly 300 years the business of governing this little outpost of the Empire has gone' en under the same forms without material change. It is but natural that. the 20,000 inhabitants of this 30' square miles of coral rock should wish to honor their aged ° con stitution. Origiraily founded by a shipwreck ed company under Sir George Somers, destined for Virginia in 1609, these lsolated islands have remained con-• tinucusly ,under British rule. Revenues are raised chiefly from tariff dues. No land taxes are levied by the colony. There is a very light tax on realty sin the parishes and the proceeds are used for maintenance of the poor. There are no diverse laws in Ber- muda and only one breach -of -promise case was ever tried there. Most or the cases on the calendar involve bicycle stealing, assault, petty theft; i there is' little serious crime, though in a region where everyone rides a wheel the theft Of a bicycle is regard- ed somewhat as horse stealing was in the West a few years ago. There are old-timers who have never . set eyes an a train or a trolley car; but of late they have hadrthe satisfac- tion of seeing flying -boats circling through the air',' Innovations' of any kind are apt to be looked on with some, suspicion. The majority is conservative' and that is perhaps why so Much sent nient is at- ' taehed to the- coming celebration of the 300 -year-old Constitution. Controversy Two persons who are thrown to- gether frequently are pretty sure to discover that 'on some subjects they hold different opinions.Whether those subjects are of vital importance or not, the difference in opinion is liable to lead to controversy. Indeed, it sometimes seems that the more in- significant the subject the more bitter the controversy that will rage over it. No one really enjoys controversy. Many people enjoy half a controversy —their own half. 'They get restless and impatient and often angry during the other half, and invariably the bit- terness that springs from a contro- versy overshadows the temporary pleasure that each participant derives from it. Since that is the case, why are people so foolish as ever to take part in controversy? Of course the impelling motive is akin to that which urges a man to de- fend his firm convictions when they are attacked. To most peoplb their opinions and even their prejudices are as dear as their principles; and they regard it as cowardly to keep silent when some one expresses contrary opinions. The mere expression of in- ; harmonious views need not resuit,in• controversy, but it usually does. A man who finale that his companion does aoL share his strong opinions or determined prejudices is often not satisfied with clinging to them in silence; he will usually seek to impose them, on the person who disagrees with him. Once embarked upon con- troversy, a pair who at other tines may be amiable and quiet will give way to temper, raise their voices and adopt a tone of sn,e,ering sarcasm. Moat persons who thus inisconduet themselves repent afterwards and re- gret even the half of the controversy; that for the time being they enjoyed, They suspect . that their opponents think lese of them and care less for them than before, Perhaps the of- fense is mutual—split, in the language of the day, fifty-fifty; that meane per- haps that the friendship cools on both sides. Canada's population two persone per square ]Wile; United States, 30,60 Argentine, .5.99;° Australia, 1,5; Nevi Zealand, 9, 3.