Zurich Herald, 1921-03-10, Page 2THE LIE
"It simply wasn't trae," said Kate
n puzzled disgust. "What do yen
appose mads her tell me such a thing
when there wasn't the least need to?"
As Lucy laughed. she .caught herself
" up, "Oh, you know perfectly well.
What I mean! Of course there can't
ever be any need of `a lie. But there
ea vies not evexi the excuse of cowardice
for this one, It was just an offhand
invention casually thrown intothe
conversation. When I asked her Mrs.
MacVane's opinion all she had to do
was to say shedidn't know. • What
could have possessed her to invent
such a tissue of fibs? When 'I spoke
to Mrs. MacVane and began to thank
her for ,her appreciation of our ef-
forts I -found she'd never said a word
about at to anyone. Emilia must have
made it all up on the spur of the
moment. I've suspected before that
Emilia was careless about facts, but
r anything like this -well, it's the end
of everything between Emilia and me.
I've no use for a—"
"Don't call her that! Please, Kate!
She is, in one sense; but in another
.she isn't anything so seriously bad,
and. I do hope you won't avoid her.
Did you tell Mrs. MacVane?"
"No, though I hardly know why. I
• can't • see how you can excuse her,
Lucy. You'd cut your tongue out of
course before you'd fib, yourself."
"That's right; say 'fib' instead of
'lie,'" said Lucy. with one of her sud-
den warm smiles. "That's what Em-
ilia calls it to herself, I'm sure; she
would think that important lies are
lies, but she doesn't feel that little
ones are wicked." •
"But, Lucy—" •
"Hush, hush, my child! I'm a rock-
ribbed truth -teller, just as you are.
I wouldn't defend Emilia if you hadn't
shown that you meant to stop being
friends with her. She has a fault,
and it's a serious fault; but she's
worth trying to belp. And, Kate, in
one sense it's the ruinous extreme of
a virtue. She told you that yarn to
please you—"
"Please me!"
"And to encourage you when she
saw that you needed encouragement
and were hoping to find it in Mrs.
MacVane's opinion. By the way,
...when you'd explained to Mrs. Mac -
Vane she did agree with you, didn't
she? And say nice things?".
"Yes, she was a dear; but that
doesn't alter the point"
"It doesn't in our.''nzindse,but -44t
would in Enailia's. She was sure that
.was how Mrs. MacVane felt. She'd''
think she didn't falsify anything es -
I sential, but merely anticipated what
Mrs. MacVane would say."
"Lucy Lyndon, I can't believe it's
you talking! As if that justified a
lie!"
"It didn't," conceded Lucy. "But
I'm trying to put- myself in Emnilia's
place. Haven't you noticed, Kate,
that she's the kindest person that.ever
came into our set? She says the pret-
tiest, . sweetest things . and means
them. She gasps sometimes at our
bluntness, which seems .to her cruel-
ty—"
"She needn't! We understand one
another."
"Yes; often we understand well
enough not to mind, and when we do
hind, to forgive.. But there's quite a
little forgiving to be done,—admit
that there is, Kate,—and sore spots
are made that take a long time to
heal. We're cruel with our tongues
sometimes even to our dearest
friends; but Emilia never is,"
"But if you can't trust what she
$ay$—"
"We can trust her heart; she's good
and loving, And if without being
cruel we can make her understand
how much we want to trust her word,
too. Besides, if we are going to be
hard because we are truthful, we are
lowering our own best virtue."
"We, hard, indeed! I may be, but
you've a heart like a pudding! All
right, Lucy, I'll admit that with her
fibs eliminated Emilia would be a
darling! You can tell her I said so;
but mind you add that she's neither a
darling nor a friend of , nine unless
they are!"
"I will," said Lucy soberly,
He Got Even•
A smartly -dressed woman was sit-
ting in an omnibus when a quiet -look-
ing young man accidentally trod on
..her dress.
She lectured him for ten minutes,
and wound up by saying; "A gentle-
man would have apologized."
The young mail bowed. "A lady
would. have given ine a chance," he
said, calianly.
Canada's faun Ianda show a steady,
average increase in value front year
td year and by decades, as revealed by
,the censure It is an impertarals ries'
tiring rod of a country's development,
Ivor example, the average value has
:teen izt the five-year period from 1914
to 1919 from $28, per acre to $5ii per
sere, or an increase of 96 per oentl
RICH, RED BLOOD
MEANS HEATH
Pale Cheeks and Bloodless Lips
Are a Danger Signal.
To be pale is no longer the fashion;
to be languid is an affliction. Today
the most winsome girl is the one with
the pink tinge of health in her cheeks,
lips naturally red, and eyes sparkling
with life. Add to this a quick, active
step and everyone can tell the girl
whose veins are full of the pure, rich
blood of health. How different she ap-
pears from her ailing sisters, whose
aching limbs and weak backs make
them pale and dejected. Anaemia is
the cause of so much suffering among.
girls and women that it Cannot be too
widely known that Dr, Williams' Pink
Pills have transformed thousands of
delicate, anaemic invalids into happy,
healthy women. These pills help to
put rich, red blood into the veins, and
this blood reaches every part of the
body, giving strength, rosy cheeks and
brightness in place of weakness, pros-
trating headaches and a wretched
state of half -health. Miss Edna E.
Weaver, R.R. No. 1, Chippewa, Ont.,
says: "I was very much run down,
weak, nervous and troubled with pains
in the side. 1 tried different medicines
but without .any benefit until I began
the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Ander the use of this medicine I gain-
ed strength, had better appetite, slept
better and the pain in my side disap-
peared. hly health has since remain-
ed excellent and I advise any one
troubled with anaemia, or weakness,
to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair
trial."
Try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
anaemia, rheumatism, neuralgia and
nervousness. Build up your blood and
note how the purer and richer blood
fights your battles against disease.
Take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as a
tonic if you are not in the best physi-
cal condition and cultivate a resist-
ance that with the observance of or-
dinary rules of health will keep you
well and strong. Get a box from the
nearest • drug store and begin the
treatment now, or send to The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont., and the pills will be sent you
postpaid at 60 cents a box or six
boxes for 1;2.50.
Harder Than Stone.
"I'll bet a dollar I have the hardest
name in the whole country," said !a
travelling -Man as be breezed into .'
store.
"I'm sure mine is harder," a fanner
came back, "and I'll take .that bet.
"What's yours?"
"Stone. What's yours?"
"Harder, sir," said the farmer, "John
Harder. Didn't I tell-*eu it was,"
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BY DSR, 3, J. MIDDLZ'+ QN
Provincial Board of Health, .Ontario
Or, Middleton will be glad toa:uswer questions on Public health mat-
ters through this column, Address him at the Parliament Bldgs.
Toronto.
Overcrowding is the friend ofdis- York City ae living in a state of
ase. The whole world at the present over -crowding.
In spite of those terrible conditions,
the infant mortality rate, viz., the
number of deaths of infants under
one year of age per 1,000 births,
during the past year was only 85, the
lowest on record. This is an extreme-
ly creditable state of affairs, when
one realizes that there were 133,000
babies born in New York. City during
the past twelve months.
Commissioner. Copeland, however,
eads to anticipate what the infant
m*talityi may be in the near future
if the present lamentable conditions
of overcrowding continue.
-Do the majority of these 133,000
new arrivals belong to homes on 5th
Avenue or Riverside Drive? No, in-
deed. Over 100,000 of them are born
in ;tenements, Moreover, there are
1,000,000 children attending the
schools of New' York every year, 750;
000 of whom come .from tenement
homes,
The whole resources of the State
and Nation should be at the back of
those 'who are trying to rectify con-
ditions such as these, and yet compar-
atively little can be done through lack
of funds for Public Health purposes,
Dr. Copeland, who returned recent-
ly frons the inter -allied conference on
housing, held recently in London,
states that the house shortage is a
serious problem all over the world.
There were' 29 countries represented
and 600 delegates, all of whom had
the same overcrowding story to tell.
The same conditions prevail in To-
ronto and other cities and towns in
this Province. Overcrowding' is .in-
deed a world problem.
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time is suffering from this affliction,
the housing problem being one of the
most serious problems . of . the. day.
Overcrowding is a menace to the
health and morals of the people and
to the stability of government. 4R
man can be expected to be a gout
citizen if he has no roof over `his
head, or cannot get space to •enjoy
what portion of the roof he has. • It
is almost as bad as being hungry and
no government issafe while large
numbers of the . people are living
under conditions that should not .be
allowed even for animals..
I have .just returned from New
York, where I learned much about
housing conditions in that city, and
the reports are very disquieting. The
Health Commissioner, Dr. Copeland,
states that there are 100,000 more
families living in New York City to-
day than there are houses to accom-
modate. In some sections there are
half a million people to the square
mile, and ten thousand people in one
city black! That conditions shonld.be
so serious is hardly believable, .and
yet this state of affairs exists, in
New York to -day.
Dr.. Copeland is working energetic-
ally to relieve the situation, but -is
handicapped at every turn by the
necessities of the moment. As a re-
sult of a recent survey, it was found
necessary to reopen fcr human habi-
tation every old shim in the city,
"There is nothing else to be done,"
said Dr. Copeland, ,"except let 'people
live on the street."
In Brooklyn, four married couples
and a baby were found to be living
in three rooms, a four -family house
in Brooklyn was actually occupied by
fourteen families. The 'Bronx is lit-
tle better, for two houses there 'that
were built to accommodate six femil-
ies are housing fifteen. families at
the present moment. A larger house,
built -to accommodate eight families,
now contains sixteen families id
twenty-four ledrs, while 4
family house rs at pxesent" being 'Oc-
cupied by twenty-four families and
ten lodgers. From the survey n'ade
by the Health Departrnent during the
past few weeks these conditions have
actually been found to be existing,
and it was also determined to 28 per
cent. of.the total inhabitants of New
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the finest fo®d on earth, and
wife that is a good toad
mak is a real h:=1p at3 to
the bread winner. Bread is
the one food that 'Perfect!
combines in Itself a&1 th le-
e its that : give strength to
the body. nldren who ® eat
lots of go'd home made bread
thrive the best, -----they nevem
get slob from ating good
break. tread making is a,
sus ip1' operation. ;Fread
mad = H the home itht".O 'al
Yeast Cakes passsees a,
greater degree of nourish-
e�°,�, t avd vvI11 ke}=p fresh
than that made e with
anyothe:i W
scientists
aipp fists hi aly recommendyeastas e
food and as a corrective agent for certain
f tlinctionii disarrangements, attributed
to pool' blood conditions. ,Soak a cake of
Royal `.'east for half an hour in a cup of
luko - Wni'm water with one teaspoonIo
sugar. Then stir well, and strain once or
twice through muslin and drink the
liquid. results will be or twined
by allowing it to soak over night and
half an hour before breakfast.
Repeat as often as desired,' Send name
and address for free booklet entitled
" Royal Yeast for Better Heald"
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If "W. D." c/o The Elm -vale
"Lance," will send me his address I
will communicate with him personally.
Edison, Optimist.
Though Edison is seventy-four, his
reactions to the world of matter and
the world of mystery are as s•cintil-
lant as ever, He tells an interviewer.
that he can't give advice to young men
on how to achieve success in business.
„Who can?" he adds naively. But in a
letter written August 9, 1917, he gave
this recipe as the flrs•t rule of success
for a young man: "Got a job and do
more than he is expected to do." He
has taken- his own medicine, and in
large doses. Mr. Edison has always
worked without paying the slightest
attention to the clock -hands. And lie
has done the unexpected. He has
had, as Wordsworth said of Isaac
-.Newton, "a mind forever voyaging
through strange seas of thought
-alone." He went beyond the confines
to lonely regions of pioneer research
where none could help him. There is
much for aspirant youth to ponder in
Edison's words:
"All I know is that if a man has
reached the age of twenty-one and is
dead mentally, no amount of advice,
example • or experience will ever
change hint in the slightest. If at
some period between twelve and six-
teen he can be interested in•some sub-
ject and become enthusiastic, he will
advance and become a high type of
man. If not,, he will be a mental dead
one."
Edison himself began as a newsboy
on, the Grand Trunk Railway, at fif-
teen printing a little newspaper of his
owl in an old freight car that he also
Used as a laboratory for, his incessant
tinkerings and electrical and mechani-
cal apparatus. He got his chance to
study telegraphy for saving the child
of a station -master from being crushed
beneath the wheels of a train, The
"luck" he has had has been three
parts pluck and persistence, building
011 the endowment of a phenomenal
mentality. Nature was reluctant to
tell him many of the secrets whereon
the invention and the perfection of,
processes were based; - but he was
dauntless, indefatigable and pitiless
to self while in pursuit of truth. All
that Edison.is in the. general acknow-
ledgment of mankind he has earned.
Tactless Suitor,
• She was a large woman, and not.
what you might call handsome. But
she was an heiress. Still, the design-
ing youth sbould,has•e•been more dip-
lomatic.
"Miss Tubbs," he said, when he
thought it was abaut time to bring
maters to a head—"Sarah---for months
pact my thoughts and aspirations have.
been centred on one great object---"
She stalled encouragingly,
"Miss Tubbs---•Sarah•--•need 1 say it?
You are that great object!"
"Seri" And a few moments -eater
the 'Would-be suitor crept dejectedly
from the house.
ISSUE No.10—'21,.
The grocer who rec#.,
mends to yoti.$ ." ,,d Rise er a,
than ,' }e does on other teas,
can be trusteei -ht n he re=
commends other ds.
Care o1 the Comp exion.
Don't bundle up your face every
time you go out in the cold. Let it
breathe if you want glowing cheeks
and a skin of satiny texture, Yoa
know many secretions of the body
are thrown oil' through the skin. If
the skin isn't breathing as it should,
it will look oily, enlarged pores will
come, and unsightly blackheads will
be; the result.
Now, don't let this happen. Every
night thoroughly cleanse the face by
massaging into the skin a good cream, I
Do it with vigor, too. Friction, you]
know, is good for the circulation. A
special cream for this purpose not ,
only gets every bit, of dirt out of the I
pores, but also whitens the skin and,
softens it at the same time. It is a:
cream with lemon as its principal in-,
gredient. If you have ever cleaned'
a straw hat with a lemon I don't need;
to say anything more about how well
this creamdoes its work.
Then there's a lotion to use that
acts directly on the pores of the skin,
and helps to make it breathe as it
should. It's well to use it in the
morning every few days. If you do,,
you are apt to be well pleased with,
your appearance the whole day!
through.
Be sure to select the powder that
isn't going to undo all the good work
of the massage. Too often we care-'
fully cleanse our skin, we stimulate •
it into activity, and then, just when!
we have it where it is beginning to
feel and look well, we undo the whole
thing by dusting on a coarse clogging
powder. So choose a powder that will;
help along the good work—one that
is healing and soothing and protec-
tive. There are such powders, sev-
eral of them. One of then is best
suited to the thin dry skin, the kind
that wrinkles • and ages early; while
another is better for the thick oily
skin that doesn't seem to hold the
powder so well.
Before the Days of Paper.
Papyrus is what the Egyptians
wrote on over four thousand years
ago, and our word paper is derived
from it.
Bladebanes of sheep were used by
the Arabs when paper was unknown,
and many famous sayings have been
found on these remarkable "paper sub-
stitutes."
"Album," used by the Romans, was
a preparation of white chalk, with
which they covered the woad upon
which they wrote. It is from this
chalk, viz., white "album," that the
modern worts album is taken. The
Romans carried taltlets of wood or
metal and a little bit of pointed iron
to write w-th.. The iron paint was
called a "stylu,s"—which suggests the
preeer-t-day "stylo." Two of the tab,
lets (sometimes covered with wax.
sometimes with album), were often
joined 'together by wire hinges, and
the backs ornamented with ivory, or
precious stones. An expensive substi-
tute for a double sheet of writing -
paper!
Leather was used 'by the Jews for
writing purposes, and they were re-
nowned for their skill in this respect.
Linen and silk took the place of
paper as "writing materials" in many
countries,
Thin plates of gold were used in
-Java in the production of a book be-
fore paper was made. It was written
an both sides of these gold plates.
Great writers, especially Euclid, traced
their designs with a stick ona table
covered with common dust.
The Subjugated Sex. -
"Of course there is no such thing as
woman's • supremacy," says a mail
whom the Cleveland Plain Dealer
quotes.
"Do you think not?" replied his
friend. "From the time a boy sits un-
der a street light, playing with toads,
until: he is blind and old and tooth-
less he has to explain to some woman
why he didn't come home earlier."
The rubber industry has become at1
important one in Canada. . Nearly
$43,000,000 are invested in it, employ-
ing 11,500. The annual production
value is $56,000,000.
HIDES -WOOL -FURS
"With prices low, it i4 necessary
tdhrecat r," you receive every cent pos-
sible for what hides and skins
you have. Make sure you get
same by shipping us your lot
whether it is one hide or a bun-
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Imperial Eureka Harness Oil,"—Save
your horses, your harness, your wagons.
` r= Imperial Mica Axle Grease lightens loads.
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It smooths the surface of axles with a coating
of plica flakes. It cushions the axles with a layer
of long -wearing grease, and materially reduces friction.
Use half as much as you would of ordinary grease.
Imperial Eureka farness Oil makes harness proof against
dust, sweat and moisture. Keeps it soft and pliable. Pre-
vents cracking and breaking of stitches. It pro-
longs the life of harness and adds greatly to its
appearance. Is easily applied and surprisingly
economical. W�yOIt u
,Both are sold in convenient crises
by dealers everywhere,
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