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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-03-03, Page 2Anticipates its exquisite A vco �� Scud,ars a postal or a !ree; sample. Please State tho ',price you now pay and whether Black, (ha ven or Mixed i!t7C3 Address Saiada, Toronto. Lucy Barnhill 's Garden By J. GRACE WALKER. I, 1 plain duty," Mrs. Shoemaker said se - Above the continuous din of half a • verely, dozen sewing machines and the ac-' "It seems she was next to Elvira companying clatter of tongues, al Shoemaker in the bank this morning," single sentence reached Mrs. Wierse- Mrs. Bailey explained in an under - ma's ears where she sat making row' tone to Mrs Wiersema."Medea Advertising Chinese gargailas.. A l3t'ilii. Columbia friend tells fire how the bargain wile oz'a..o hits tee Chinese quarter in Vuneouver. The local Chinese district, lie, Ws si has launched forth into a "nriee•cizt- ting", orgy that has do lareoeden't in Chinatown's history. Bengalis stiles range ,from. gineeng to jade, arid trent chop suey to herbs, , Chinatown has two newspapers. Ono is published in 'Victoria and is the mouthpiece of progressive or New China, sometimes called Young China, The other Chinese publicition. is pub- lished in Vancouver. It has the pre- ference of the conservative element. Each paper carries display adver- tisements by Chinese. Occasionally there is a familiar "ad" culled front the provincial 'papers faire t•raius1.ated, firth Chinese. These, however, are infre- quent and tentative. But Chinatown has another form .of publicity that le iuilnftely more popu- lar because it coats nothing to read, The brick walls of Chinatown abound with cryptic characters telling of things interesting .to the Celeet.ial reader. Inscribed in Chinese characters of multi -colored hues and gigantic pro- portions, are senton:ces that draw crowds and comment from the faithful read ers. Ocoasi•onwiily an euterprisin,g Chinese upon row of beautiful buttonholes --1 noticed she'd drawn out au she had in merchant breaks into pidgin English her stint in the'day's work of the --twelve dollars,—and said, You with something like this in the 7rt ss= Ladies' Aid ,Society, must be goin' into the city to shop age: "It seems as if some of us ought to. with all that.' You know how young Very Cheap for Bargain •Price—. go clown there 'fore she goes, and , folks will speak, even when they don't Please Buy Some. give her a piece of our mind'." - 'knew each other. And this Rhoda, it But it is not all illiterate or labored The speaker was Mrs. Ezra Shoe- - seems she threw back her head and ,5 'Yes, " I aril I'm going away English maker in the full tide of righteous sa> s ,,. fthat one finds. Hee and there indignation. Mrs. Wiersema hitched from this town to -night, back to are se -en "ode" written in the polished }ser chair. round until could touch Kings Mills. And I wouldn't come English of the Chinese -English athol- 1'rlrs. Bailey on the itssheler with hex back here toliveif I was tobedrawn ar. There is one—it tells of tea -that thimble. by wild horses!'Course Elvira flew contains this flower of lofty spe'ech.:— ' home and told her mother, and she "Who they talking about, Mary? thinks the girl ought to be spoken Every Drop a Vision of the Perfect Who's going, and where they going j to by a committee" Tea That Only China Grows! to?" 1 Mrs. Wiersema's face settled into And this ane about somebody's silk: "Why, that Lakin gird that lives' lines of grim amusement. The Silk With a Shimmer That is kitty-corner from you. She's going! "I'm not one to want to serve on More Than Human—Rare Indeed, to leave her father and them two little? that committee," she asserted. half-brothers and go back to clerk in I A stir among the ladies round the for Value. • the store at King's Mills where she dining room door announced the cam- Chinatown's poultry section is kelt with gems of quaint advertising. Tacked upon the crates of imprissoned fowls, in one Celestial hennery is a sign that tells the beholder: was before they come here," exclaim- sing of refreshments. Ravelings were ed her friend. brushed to the floor end laps smooth- ed, preparatory to the passing of nap - work," Mrs. Shoemaker went on. "She kins and plates. Mrs. Wiersema was don't like to scrub floors and such thoughtful while she stirred her col - and she's going to keep her hands fee; she gave but slight attention to out the wash water if she has to leave the sandwiches and scarcely .noticed that poor helpless fancily to starve when she began on Mrs. Pestle's vel - to death. I say it's .a burnin' shame vett' angel cake. Mrs. Bailey under - and ought not be passed over without took to rally her and received only a her knowing how respectable people blank eye in return. Finally Mrs. feel about it." "Some folks hates housework worse than others," little Mrs. Thorns ad- mitted. "Now I leve it, ser ubbin' and all,. but Ive eg-otn :geousrn, "She'd ought to do her duty by her fasn'ly regardless," put in Julia But- ler. "Nobody could hate to scrub worse than i do—seems to me I never get done—when 'tain't the kitchen floor it's the baseboard in the dining room, or the pantry ceiling—but Pl1 say this for myself, I do my duty by that house if I am skin and bone in con- sequence." "Yes. you do, Julia," half a dozen assured her. "Course Rhoda Lakin ain't but seventeen " Mrs. Thorns added after urge Mrs. Wiersema looked through the "All 'tis, she hates to do house Wiersema glanced down at her plate. "Goodness me, have I eaten my cake? I've a mind to ask for another piece." Ten minutes later she made a glass. of water=viii excuse 'tb ' follow her hostess into the kitchen. "I know it ain't manners to eat and run, Mrs. Postle," she explained be- hind the door, "bus I've just recollect- ed something I got to tend to, so P11 have to leave early. I'm taking a bundle of work along, and I'll turn it in to -morrow. Can't I go upstairs the back way to get my things? If one goes early, it always sets the rest of 'em off, and it appears to me there's lots of work yet to be done." "Take buttonholes!" Mrs. Pestle a moment of silence. Mrs. 'Shoemaker turned on her a reproving face. "Candace Thome," she inquired in a loud, scandalized. voice, "do you mean to say you think seventeen's too young to know right from wrong and do it? Why, every trees to the town clock before she turned in at her own back gate. It was barely half past three. In the house she stayed only long enough to search out a seed catalogue that had come the day before. After that she Iadv of us here was a member of the locked the door behind her, stiffened church before we was sixteen-" her shoulders and made straight for "What I want to know is, who'd she tell?" Mrs. Wiersema put in unex- pectedly. "Sounds to me like hearsay. ,To my knowledge there ain't a soul goes them, and she ain't a girl, from her face, to talk much to folks she the Lakin house across the street and up to its screened front door. Her knock resounded through the house. In the silence that followed she could hear the drip -drip of water from a loose kitchen faucet: but there don't know. I think she's lonesome, was no answer. The two little boys that's what I think." were still at school, 'and if there sis- "She's likely to be lonesome the ter was at home she made no move. best part of her life if size leaves her (But Mrs. Wiersema kept on knocking, and after a while there was the quick sound of an impatient step, and Rhoda Lakin came out of the front bedroom and stood looking through the screen at Mrs. Wiersema out of dark, hostile eyes. The room behind her was spick and span, but in the bedroom beyond dresses hung over a chain, and a suit ease lay in plain sight, spread out on the bed. This Mrs, Wiersema took in with a quick glance before she said: "I know you're' Rhoda Lakin, but I Baby's Advice— Don't !,,ISG; irtedicated soeps unless y` our skin Its sick---•' anal alon't make It sick by wing strong soaps, figments, or by neglect, Ilse Baby's Own Soap freely with worm Neater, rinse +rill and d0 carefully, end the most delicate skin will be kept soft and white and HARD SKINS ry ill become softer and whiter. 7,1'21 -yo Good Hens Very Fat With Much Eatings. Women! Use "Diamond Dyes. Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies. .. Eves fliitft y �' Each pacgage of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions for.dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins ma- terial by giving it a 'dyed -look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has Color Card, Curious Crime Clues. PP Many a murderer has been tracked by the camera. T1ie first act of the modern crime detector is to record every detail of, the scene of the crime and every foot' of the locality bymeans of a metric camera. This camera rules off the space under observation into small squares. The camera detective is the blood- hound ofthe laboratory force. He re- cords flnger-prints, impressions on the ground, unusual marks, — anything which he thinks might have a bearing on the crime. Criminals have often been caught by analysis of the dust clinging to their clothes; by dirt under their finger- nails and on the soles of their shoes; by the scratches that cold chisels have left, and by hundreds of other clues which hitherto have existed only in the mind of the writer of detective. stories. The nails of a suspect, previously much neglected in criminal investiga- tton, have become very important to the laboratory experts. Criminals, as e. class, are not patrons of the mani- oitr!st's art, and the dirt that has col- don't ob don't suppose you have the ghost of leeted under their nails often forms a an idea who I am." perfect means of accusation. The nails The girl only looked coldly at her of a murderer guard for a long time visitor and said, "No, I don't know specks or dried blood, while bits of fou, "'he more shame to the then," said Mrs, "The, briskly, "I'm your neighbor across the street in the house with the blinds. Your little brothers play With my jimmy --•,Timmy Wierse- hair and minute threads tornfrom a victim's• clothing are sometimes found. Not long ago a burglar was identified through particles of grease scraped from a cable along which he had slid ma, in an attempt to reach a goldsmith's The girl continued to look at her window. In another case a murderer left his vest in the ream in which h.is victim was discovered, The expent picked it up, and fat the laboratory placed it in a paper bag. The dust collected after beating the bag proved, uizclea' a micro scope, to be full of minute particles of wood. Obviously, the murdered was either a carpeuer or a 'cabinetmaker. Particles of glue Were also found, which, went to prove that the man be- longed to the latter ta,ade, and from these deductions be was traced. The grunting of hags is an ances- tral habit, Their feeding grounds. were thick woods Where they'could not see each other,. and sound was necessary to keep them together. siitli tighteped lips, 1 lies. Wierseina's eyes twinkled. "There's ons thing I'tn not;" she de- clared whimsically, "That's a book agent." A. glimmer pass:d over the girl's face. `I 'beg your pardon!" she said dryly. "Of course—come in. I'm ratiter bust just now, but if there's anything--- Slie led the way into the front prior and with an un- gracious hand indicated a ohair. (Concluded in next issue.) A special chapel evil) shortly be hi - stalled in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- don, in 'memory of Lord .Kitchener. It will cost i$50,000, ii4lnawd's LlniMent for Buret, etc. Fatter liar; Wife the More ' B •autif �-- : is "The fleet princess' 1 ever met'was a• wamxtti so fat she. could not got through the doorway to soe nw," says the Rev. John Roscoe, ethnologist. and East Afrieen explorer, in tel -ling of Ills; advetiturei 'settle tribes who never be- fore had seed a white man. "All the woinen of Blest Africa ere fat, and the broader they grow the Mere beautiful they are considered," lie said in a rocont lecture in London. "'tile natives all live On milk, and a man with only 100 cows wood consider himself poor. Such a man couldn't marry. IIe would adopt the native custom cf jotning with three or four' ()there and when enough cows had been obtained to support a wife they would combine and marry= one wife between thein. "In East Africa the women pierce their ears and inert any form of de coration in the distended lobe. Ona woman need a wine bottle for decora- tive effect, and another, who had lived near the white man's:civilization, used an empty cigarette tin." According to Lord Dewar, who also spoke at the meeting, the price of wives has gone up among the South African tribes wh•o use spearheads for money. "I found that while a good, strong, upstanding wife formerly cost four spearheads, the price has now risen to eight," lie said. Remarkable Dream Warnings. In 1912 a confession that a dream prevented him feonz sailing in the Ti- tanic was made by the Hon. J. C. Middleton, vice-president of the Akron - Canton Railway of Ohio, U.S.A. "I booked my cabin on March 23rd, he stated. "I felt unaccountably de- pre.ss'ed at the time, and on April 3rd I dreamt that I saw the Titanic cap- size in mid -ocean. "The following night I had a similar dream. The next day I told my wife and several of my friends, and eventually I •de•etrled to cancel my passage." Readers will remember how the Ti- tanic struck an iceberg on her maiden trip and sank with enormous loss of life. It is about sixteen years ago that tite Brixham fishing smack Lyra, was run down off the Devonshire eoa'st with the loss of five- men On the Sun- day night previous to the disaster one of the men, named. Furneaux, dreamt of the wreck and related his experi- ence to his wife. "II would not go to rail he said, "if :I could get someoue to take my place." Of course that was impossible, and he went to his grave. A Subway Bakery at Verdun. An underground- bakery, says the journal of Home Eoonomiics, furnish- es all the bread used by the refugee population in thhe retuned city of Ver- dun, No other building was sufficient- ly weatherproof to house a bread -bak- ing 'establishment for the returning townspeople, and the authorities were forced to -requisition the great -ovens underground in order to turn out the principal food. of the toelerr Several times each day the bread is brought to the mouth of the black oavern beneath the great walls where lushes' of people await their rations. Pbie bakeshop is a part of the fam- ous underground city of Verdun, built after the war of 1871 and designed to b;oiise thirty thousand persons during an attack, During the Great War thousands of soldiers and a few re- fugees lived in this. subterranean abode while the city was under fire for four years. The bakery was iu operation all the while. NOTIO Agents y,.antee. everywhere to inire- diace and sell new Auto Auco'ssors,. Will net big returns to you, Small capital required. For ppetictila.0 ivrlte J. S, WHITFIELD $ Marshal at, - Toronto Quite Appropriate. The new chaplain wanted to'amuse as well as instruct his mon, and ar- ranged for an illustrated lecture on Bible scenes and incidents. One seaman, who pcsaessed a phone - graph, was detailed to disconree ap- propriate intisic between pictures. The first of these represented Adenx and Hive in the Garden of Edon, 'rho sail- or ciid•geIl.ed his brains and ran through hies list, but could not think of music exactly appropriate to the pic- ture. 'Please play up!" whispered the chaplain - Then an inspiration came to the sea- man, and, to the consternation of the 'Chaplain and the delight of the audi- ence, the phonograph ground out: "There's only one girl in the world for me!" Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc, Executioners "Struck." The official executioners in the Ukraine recently "struck" at the num- ber of victims killed by the Bolshe- vists, and the latter had to advertise for volunteers. During the war the navy used 54,- 000,000..dons of coal. It takes a joint of beef to make a bottle of Bovril. NEVER PROFITEERED Has notchanged since 1914. Same Price, Same Quality, Same Quantity. HIDES -WOOL -FURS 1f you have one hide or skin or a dozen, ship them along. You will receive payment at the very highest market price. Try us with your next lot. WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO ESTABLISHED 1870 Vegetable, Ferm. Flower; New Improved Strains All l tested, sure to row Sem.-hrorcafsIo, ' COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. OLIFF - TORONTO At Your Servius Wherever You Live. The woman in town, or oazuttry, has the mune advantage as her sister in the city in expert advice from. the Isest-hanewn firm of Cleaners ani Dye= in Canasta.„ Parcels hem. the eei.ntxy sent by mall or exgress eecei're the same careful atteuiteori .as work delvers! penssoniiity,. Dyeing Clothing or household Paltriest. Far nem the name of " ant Reiss:" has Sigailiatt perfection in this wends of enalting old things Inale Idle new,. Whether her personsal garments of even tam most fragile gnat l„ es' home - :hold curtains, draperies,tugs,. eke - Write to us for further partite -furs or e tttl. neer jearcels direct to PLUMETICKING ON OSTRICH IM "ALWAYS LEAP YEAR HERE," SAYS MANAGER. Food Bill at the Farm is .Sixty Dollars a Day, Yet Girds Seem Always Hungry. It was plume -picking day at the oss trick. farm. A cty;'ious crowd stood out side the railings ,and watched a young man captor() the huge biretta He did it by quickly grasping a bind and bead - Ing its neck with one stand while with the other lie clapped a black hood over its head. When the birds had thus been blinded, he easily puslteed them into a small pen where other men cut the "ripe plumes" from their bodies. Tse plumes, are picked every nine months at the farm, where two hun• dred and ninety-six birds are oorraled. An ostrich is first picked when less than a year old, and then every nine months throughout its life. The older It is the better the feathers, and many of the girds- live to be seventy or seventy-five years old. The most valuable plumes come from the, wings, which yield twenty- four feathers each, sometimes twenty- seven inches long. The tail yields about seventy-five smaller feathers. All the snow-white plumes come from. the blackest birds .and always from the males. On the pertictulax farm of which we speak, which is the largest and oldest of its Mud in the United States, there are ostriches of two dis- tinct varieties, the South African os- trich, which has bluish -black flesh, and i the Nubian ostrich, which has pink l flesh, The birds have remarkable strength, a tremendous sbrid•e and speed, and, though sometimes coward they often fight each other furiously. Kicking forward, they strike their op- ponent in the chest with a thud that sounds l•ilco a shot in a barrel. Of course the fighting birds must be cepa- rated at price, but as no keeper dares risk his life among tli.em at these mad moments, some one rolls• a dozen oranges into the enclosure. The en- tire flock fly at the fruit, and the quar- rerl is quickly forgotten. Fights occur only in the, courting pen, for at all other timers tire birds dwell in their separate small enclosures, Can't` Teach Ostriches Sense. "It is eiways leap year at our place," said the manager, "for it is the female that does the• choosing. There are no domestic difficulties for those stately stepping creatures. They ante for life. Only once in the history of this' farm has there been - tragedy. Major McKinley.---a'regal fellow -he -kicked his mate to death because she would not sit on their eggs in the daytime, though he sat upon them dutifully all night. Day after day he was seen remonstrating with her, driving her toward the nestin the centre of their lot. Finally he literally kicked her to death, despite our beer efforts to save her. coon aftnrwarde, when he 'was put again into the courting pen, an- other one promptly chose hint; and will Mrs. No. 2 he has been 'living happy ester after.' They are funny birch-, but they seldom show, a grain of senate and we comet teach then any- thing." You would expect a loud, raucous voice from a creature whose head le sil month and Oaring eyes; but the only noise an ostrich can make sounds like a man clearing his throat, cr likes the dull cough of an exhaust pipe. Each pair is given its own high £ended lot, sufficiently large for them to exercise in; and in the centre the male bird digs a hale in the ground for a nest. There in the bare dirt the eggs are laid. Each egg weighs five pounds ---more than three dozen hen's eggs weigh. It Is the father's duty to keep the nest clear of ell trash and to sSt upon it every night, but as soon as the chicks aro hatohed the parent birds walk away in utters unconcern, indeed, no can is necessary. The baby bird, which is as large as a small hen, eats nothing for three or four days, then swallows a'qunntity of peb- bles ansi is soon ready for its first taste of alfalfa or grain, The food bill at the farm is sixty dollars a day, yet the ostriches se•eni all'''ays hungry. Paper Bowls. A new idea sal finger -howls has been patented by Simon Bergman, of New York. It is made of paper, and on the Inside of its bottom is printed at ad- vertisement iii invisible ink.. When water is poured. into the receple ole, the printing, appears, The inventor slays that the printing should become •visible with a slow de- velopment, sa that a person. using the fJnger-bowl will notice the gradual 'aln penning of the advertisement, and thereby have his attt•entioe directed to The same idea may be applied to a palt•ei' ice-cz'eam saucer or a paper drisrkihng cup.