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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-06-02, Page 7>1 �r ltat trD'rake .en a Camping Trip. favor, is seen in the seam between Usually, the camping auto,lst takes too mucin paraphernalia. Yet it ' is better, to take .a little too ntiuc.h and really camp in comfort than tobake too little and be conipelded to "rough it" too roughly, Equipments for camping vary all the way frown a trailer, that is in effect a completely furnished bungalow to the vary mini- mum outfit, which 'consists of a jack- knife and a couple of mabehes. The more elaborate outfits are designed especially for tong trips of a month or nese. Fee' a trip from as few days to a fortnight in length, a good rule is to stake about What one would carry for a eanee ,trip of the same' length of eime. As in ordinary living, food, shelter •and clothes are the triumvirate that needs special consideration. If there is to be fishing, a little fishing tackle plus•what supplemental food can be seeured at groceries and bakeries en route, plus a few simple dishes and .a. cork screw, :will pretty well •solve the camper's food problem, Each member of the party should have an outfit of dishes) including a non -breakable plate or a deep soup pattern, a barge, non -breakable cup, .a knife, fork, large and small spoon. For general use of the motorist group, the cooking utensils should include some sort ,cf a grate under which a fire can be built and on which food can be cooked. Other necessities the seats and under this bed w'hee small children of the family might find repose. Some have tried various kinds of tent arrangements by which canvass is stretched from the top; Vide or end of the car to the ground. Others have put up regular tents that have side walks and blow down. in the event of a very strong wind. Others have built a lean-to of branch- es and leaves which protect from the moonlight, if not from the rain Still others have sought the more substan- tival •shelter of a friendly barn or farmlionee. But that takes most of the camp out of •carnpinrg and savors of the tenderfoot. A little "pup" tent fat two persons in the party has been found by many tourists to be . quite satisfactory. These tents take up very little space in the ear and are easily and quickly. erected. A email ditch around them will keep the occupants from getting wet in case of rain. A little mosquito netting at the front will keep out the bugs, • yet not interfere with good ventilation. And this sort of shelter egtttipineart is not expensive. As to clothes, the requirements are. not extensive. For a week -end trip light underwear, flannel shirt, khaki taausers, heavy shoes and, sjocks and a wad;•en sweater are euffieient. La- dies, of course, require even less Some folks may not want to depart; while camping, from so usual a habit as undressing. In these exceptional along this line are a frying pan, boil- cases a pear of pajamas are in order. hi'g kettle, toaster, coffee pot and a Woolen blankets should be carried in Mair of pincers for removing hat dish- sufficient quantities to insure keep - es. This lest -named article is by no ing the body comfortably warm while Means the least important, fox on undertaking to slumber. It takes such outings there are usually enough some• little time to become so acme - sunburns in arms and necks without termed •f a sleep in. •crump as to get good adding burned fingers to the list of rest. About 'three nights is the usual •casualties. requirement along this line for a two - Shelter is an important considers- i night trip. tion fcr the camper. If he doesn't It is taken for granted that camp - observe the law respecting taking ing enthusiasts, who propose to use things belonging to. others, such as their cars for conveying them to their wateisnelons, the auto.. camper is apt harppy` camping grounds, will give to find his shelter problem salved for their automobiles a careful "once him by local police authorities. Some ,over" before starting. Car trouble on folks have declared it to be ianpossible a camping trip is apt to take a good to sleep on the seats of an automobile. deal of the joy out of fife. It is worth Their number, however, is not legion. while to have the machine in the pink Some admit that they have found ro- mance, if not cornfeet, in rolling up in a. blanket and reposing in the open field. Outside of the inconveniences of mosquitoes, snakes eurd thunder showers; this . plan may have some merit. 'Some have found joy ion 'a patent bed .arrangement which. -tri folds and stretches in the car over the tcps of the front and rear seats. One posesibility of this plan, although not necessarily an argument in its of •eendibion. Thousands of motorists will become adult scouts during the coming waren Weather season; They will undertake to mutate nianry of their younger scents' stunts. They will do well fixst of all to heed the Boy Scouuts' motto: "Be Prepared:" Then they will find no end of jay and comfort in Camping by auto. Properly done, such spirt is unsurpassed for an unadulterated good time. Extracting Oil From Coal. Improved processes for extracting oil from bituminous coals are being -developed in England through two new inventions, the details of which •are as yet secret. One of these treats the fuel by in- ternal heating in such small space and with such simplicity of mechanism that the ell is extracted and the coal reduced to semi -coke while it is pro- gressing by gravity from the main bunkers containing the fuel to the mechanical stoker hoppers. The second process is of special in- terest to believers in the ultimate gen- eral use of pulverized fuel for steam raising and furnace work. For the distillation of , the fuel takes place while the latter is being reduced to powder. It is a simpler method than that or- dinarily employed, inasmuch as the drier commonly used in the pulverized fuel system disappears and the pow- dered fuel, being in the form of septi. •cafe, can be transported by less com- plicated mechanical apparatus. The semi -coke may be stored in- definitely without being affected by heat or moisture. Gases from the fuel in process of distillation are in part' eondenced to oil in the usual way and the remainder is carried to the fur- nace burners and injected into the fur- nace with the powdered semi -coke. • -ani the worst Ls yet to come Graphite. The Brai'n's S.O.S. One of the non-metallic minerals Remarkable instances of thought with which thepublic is more inti- transference were related by Dr. Sten- mate- is graphite, otherwise known as son Hooker, the well-known English plumbago or black lead. It is a soft, nerve and diet specialist, in a recent dark grey, opaque solid•, of a greasy interview. metallic lustre found in detached "On one occasion," he said, "I w's masses, • beds, crystals and sheets. a mile from home when I saw in -my Ceylon is the chief source of the world's supply of graphite, but it is also produced in Canada, England, A Modern Ark. No secret seems to have been made of the method of construction adopt ea by Noah in building his ark. On the contrary, the specifications are given in detail in the Bible. Imitations of it have been attempt- ed now and then in recent . tires. Thus, in the year 1609, a Dutch mer- chant named Peter Jansen built at Hoorn a ship on the same model, though not of corresponding size. It was 120 feet long, 20 feet broad and 12 feet deep. The vessel was found to be remark- ably well adapted for freightage, and it is said would hold otte-third more lading than other ships of like size without requiring more hands to work it. Much more recently several so- called "fleutenr or floats, were built after the model of the ark in Denmark. About Due. "Well, it has happened." "What? "France has limousines with k chenette and bath attached." Can You See ti le Funny Side? A sense of humor gives a man the power to gee things in, their proper Proportion; anything that is out of proportion appears to him absurd and laughable; he is thus prevented from malting a fool of himself, far a fool is merely a person who has an exagger- ated idea et his own itnportance,`-or the importance of things which do not 'really matter. "Myself and God," said the `ex- I{aiser, in a famous speech, "control the destiny of the German people." If . he had had a sense of humor he would ver have 'said this, or a thousand other things of the same kind, all equally ridiculous; there : would have been no;war. vQar. To say that a man possesses a sense of humor does not necessarily mean that he is" capable of saying amusing or witty things; for wit and humor are. two different qualities. Humor means the power of seeing jokes or the comic and ridiculous side of things;. allied to a quick mind and a oertaiu power of expression, It often produces, wit. We cannot all be wits, but every- dime can help to brighten the world by one ea nh.elp o brighten the world by cultivating a sense of trainer. mind's eye a telegram awaiting Die at my house. I `sensed' a message that I was warted in some distant town. Forest . Fires in Canada With the opening of another Are wise use. Irrefutable evidence of this season, the geeetion of forest fire may be seen over thousands of ,eeuare losses becomes of direct personal in- terest to every Canadian. Forest pro- teetive organizations, Dominion, pro- vincial and rovineialani private, are increasing in strength and efficiency, but still the provision made is far from adequate in everyforest province of the Do- minion. Our average annual losses from forest.fires still runs into the mil- lions of dollars, Most of these forest, tires are preventable. To check this enormous drain upon our resources, it is necessary that the individual citizen interest himself and make his interest felt in the matters of improved administration, and in- creased appropriations for the better protection of our forests. Govern- ments and legislative bodies are, for the most part, alive to the situation, but they are keenly susceptible to en- lightened public opinion, and, in' fact, require its support when measures are under consideration involving large expenditures or material changes in, policy. Expenditures on forest protection New Zealand, Siberia, Germany and I hastened baclk and found a telegram the United States. In Canada it is from my wife, who was away, asking found in Northern British Columbia, me to join her and bring her back. in Eastern Ontario, in Ottawa, Argen- "Another case occurred when I was teuil and Pontiac counties in Quebec, making arrangements to visit a pa- in Carleton, Charlotte and St. John tient about thirty miles out of Lon - Counties in New Brunswick and in don. The invalid's brother explained Cape Breton, Inverness and Halifax the case and gave me the address, but counties, Nova Scotia. no description of the house. Just af- Graphite occurs usually in, the fis• ter the brother had left I had a nien- sures or veins of granitic or similar tal vision of the patient's bedroom. rocks, but is also found as isolated plates patches and pockets in what t• "On going to the house I found that all was as I had seen it in my mind's are known as bedded veins. It is com eye. While the brother was •talking mealy associated With truants, calcite to me his own mind had been focused and mica., according 'to the • rocks in on. the sick room, and iiiy mind, . in Which the graphite lute occpre. • sympathy with his, had. received the '� g p ` The crude• graphite :Must be ?-.Wr=y "lenpr essnon finely ground, to detach it from as- "I was talking to a 'widow, end she sociated mineral's, after which, :by a told nye she had never been the same concentration process, it is separated since site had lost her husband. At from the accompanying mineral par- ;that moment _1 saw her husband so tides, It is very carefully graded, plainly a was a o that I able t describe broth as to fineness and purity, to eliminate particles of grit. Graphite is best known through its use in the manufacture of lead pen- cils. Fax this purpose it is mixed with clay, moulded into shape and baked. The proportion of clay used regulates. the hardness of the pencil. For pen pears to a near relative are innunser- cil-snaking the best graphite is secured able, and I can vouch for at least one from Barrowdale, Cumberland, Eng- in my own family. The man to whom land, and Batugal, Siberia. the vision occurred did not believe in Other uses of graphite are in tele. telepathy. He w•as travelling in. Ger- manufacture of stove polishes; and., ninny before the war: Sitting one clay paints for ironwork, of crucibles for in his Hotel, he was amazed at a the casting of metals, and of electro- visionary appearance of his father. types. As a lubricant graphite is "Later a telegram reached him con - used, both in dry form and mixed with veying the news of his father's death. oil, in many industries where heavy He was actually dying at the moment work and high speed are required. In his image appeared to his son." foundries it is used in facing moulds 1 miles in both Canada and the United States. Irt all of our forest provinces, other, than the Prairie Provinces, adequate protection will involve the expendi- ture et only a reasonable fraction of the Crown timber revenue. There has In the past been too strong a tendency. to divert an unduly large proportion of the forest revenuetopurposes of gen- eral . governmental administration, leaving the forest to be .regarded a6'. a mine to be exploited, rather than as a crop to be reproduced. Educational propaganda for greater care by the general public in prevent- ing reventing and extinguishing forest fires is of inestimable value, and can scarcely be over -done. It is of the greatest importance to Canada to perpetuate the source of the raw material upon which are de- dendent the great timber industries of the Dominion, These industries provide employment for some 80,000 men and an avenue for the investment of probably more than $400,000,000 of must be regarded as . an investment capital. Forest products comprise one not only for the future but far the pre- of the largest items in our export sent as well. If existing merchant- trade and are a vital factor in the ex - able timber is to be kept from des change situation. truction, for immediate use; and if the With adequate protection, and scien- vast areas of young forest growth are tific yet practical administration, to be preserved, to comprise thethese great industries may be still fur - forests of the future, very substantial ther developed and maintained for all expenditures must be incurred for this time to come. Without, they must in - purpose and to so administer them evitably diminish, as are already the that non-agricultural lands will be great timber industries of the eastern kept in •a permanently productive con- and southern States, for lack of these dition. The forest is a crop, which may be perpetuated by wise use, but which will inevitably be destroyed by un- China's Great Canal. It is interesting to know that China's Grand Canal, at one time oue of the world's great engineering won- ders, Ls to be put in order and used again as a trade route between the north and south. The parts now blocked with mud are vital elements. Really adequate protection from des- truction by fire is the keystone of the forest arch. Weaving Seaweed Baskets is a Growing Industry. The strong, tough strands of the variety of seaweed known as giant kelp, which grows in abundance along the coast of the Americas., have been found to be an ideal material far the weaving of all sorts and sizes of bas- to be excavated, and a million and a leets, reed furniture, and like articles. quarter pounds are to be spent im- It is said to be greatly superior to wil- modiately. The work will be carried low and rattan for the purpose, as it out under the direction of American is much more pliable than other ma- engineers, and it is hoped that in a terials, and therefore more easily comparatively short period a section worked. Many persons believe that of one hundred miles will be made plants which grow in water are tender ready for navigation. when wet, and fragile when dry: This This canal, the most famous in the is not true of kelp, the fibres being of w-orld, was completed hi 1350, and leath�erlike consistency and toughness, took six hundred years to construct. and the strands., size 'for size, nearly It utilizes stretches of various rivers as strong as leather. In fashioning on its route, and, including these, is the various pieces of furniture, the over two thousand miles long. The strands are woven 1 such a .way that canal proper, however, is only about the natural brown shade of the plant's eight hundred miles in length, bit , as exterior farms the outside of ,,the an eg .old..5eighsh writes il: :said,,: "In tide, and the velvety white heart, the point of magnitude our most extensive interior. inland navigation in England can no more be compared to the grand trunk Roihschild's Golden Rules. that intersects China than a park or The following maxims were found garden fishpond to the great Lake of �� hint to his wife. She stated that the in the desk of Baron Rothschild, the Windermere. description was correct, although I banker, shortly after his death in In the &eys of its glory the canal, had never seen him when he was 1836'— had a wide and deep channel, and alive. Again the thought of him con- Carefully examine every detail of formed a great river, on which large jured' up in her brain had impressed itself on mine. "Gases in which a dying person ap- to give smooth -finished castings. The The .Accommodating Cocoa- electrical industry is using large Nut. amounts of graphite, and in the mane,In the islands of the Southern Seas facture of gun -powder it is utilized as the cocoanut palm supplies all the a moisture -proofing material. needs of the members of society. Canada produced 2,227 tons of It supl ed the natives with lumber to graphite in 1920, valued at $173,537, as against 1,360 tons in 1919, ee 5 build their homes, their boats, and value of $100,221. In 1920, Quebec their utensils. contributed 233 tons and Ontario 1,994 When the leaves of the tree are tons, while, in 1919, almost the entire young, tlsey are eaten. When they are output was from Ontario, old, they are woven into hats, clothes, humor helps a man to make light of his troubles, for he realizes that he is not the only person in the world who is worried or hard hit; it enables Bim to give a rebuke without exciting resentment, or to receive oiie without, feeling a sense of injury; and fre- griently it assists him to obtain some- thing he desires, If you can put the man from whom you are asking a favor into' a good temper; he is very likely to grant it.. A matt famous In the bushxese world started We as an offlce-hey. One day he went' Id his employer and asked for a rise. "How •much are you getting now?" he was asked. "Three dollars, sir." "But don't you think that's a very large salary for such a small boy?" "Please,' sir, I haven't had time to grow sine I carne to work tor yon!" Needless to say he got his rise. Look where you will among success- ful niers, and you will always find thole possessed of a keen sense of humor, The secret of controlling 'others lies largely .in. the ability to gave orders or administer rebukes in aspen a way that .the desired they will. procluco o s err effect without hurting people's feelings. Humor gives a sitar coating 'to the bitterest pill: • baskets bedding, paper, and thatch. 4.4 The ribs of the older leaves are made The Japanese Schoolboy. into spears, arrows, brooms, torches,. In Japanese schools the physical de- and paddles. velopment of a child is given as much The flowers of the tree give the attention as his mental development, natives wine, vinegar, and sugar, The On warns days he strips to the waist fruit of the palm yields oil, foods, cord, and his teacher watches him closely and matting. as he works. If he breathes inipro- It is said that even the roots are perly, he is corrected; if he 10 round- sometimes used es food. shouldered or flat chested, he is given For cutting thick weeds a new gar- special exercises; if he is too thin a deli trowel has been given one saw - special diet is recommended' toothed edge. As in Canada, every chid must go to school when he is six years old. ice A wishbone will do you no good receives a six years' course in mole A, sinless' you have a 'backbone to put reading, arithmetic, gymnastics, and poetry. with it. Are there flowers in your yard The Only Way. now? There night be. Some of the It was during the practical garden- ing lesson in a. large London •school; when the teacher was instructing the boys in the art of protecting plants from the frost. Jones was observed to be paying to attentionto the master's remarks, so the instructor asked hint sharply: "Now, then, Jones, which is the best way to keep the May frosts from the ' orchard and garden crops, dee to des -1 plants?" emotive insects, is on a conservative "Plant them in June, sir," was the 'estimate, upwards of $200,000;000. To i ready reply, this huge devastation must be added your business. Be prompt in everything, Take time to consider, but decide positively. Dare to go forward. Bear trouble patiently. Be brave in the struggle of life. Never tell business lies, Make no useless acquaintances. Never appear something more than you are. Pay 'your debts promptly. Shun strong liquor. Employ your time well. Do not reckon on chance. Never be.discouraged. Be polite to everybody. Mental Arithmetic. most beautiful flowers we have, come. in the early spring. They ,appear all the more beautiful because they break, so suddenly from a brown and sleep- ing soil. What is niore dainty—and less .trouble to raise—than a crocus or a tulip? Everyone loves their. "The annual loss in Canada to field, "Now, then, Johnny," said his teach- er, "if your father gave you seven cents and your mother gave you six cents and your uncle gave you four more, what Would you leave?" Johnny wrinkled up his forehead and went into the silence for the space of several minutes. "Come, come," said the teacher im- area of propelling surface. • patiently. "Surely you can solve a . In drawing the arms back to pre. simple little problem like that." pare for the next stroke, the fingers "It ain't a simple problem at all," are closed together, the webs not be replied the boy. "I can't make up niy terfering, and so the hands, on re- mind whether I'd have an ice cream turning toward the body, present to soda or go to the movies." If you would be different from other people, learn to live within your in- eome. the eirorraous tiurrtral destruction Many Like Her. eiumsedby forest insects, stored pro- duce insects, etc. it is certain tliatr these teeses would be much greater if it were not for our irnSeCtivorOrls birds." --- Arthur Gibson, l7omiS.iolr. tires, Brat -class upholstering." Ent oaiaolagist, Hardware Merchant. -"What land of a stenogropher have you got?" Motorcar Mani facturerw-"B.turabout, self-starter, variable ,speed, seldom vessels could ply. The water as main- tained by means of sluices, and snips were raised and lowered by mechani- cal devices. Apart from navigation the Grand Canal bas always done a great and valuable work by draining an enor- sncus stretch of swampy territory. A Glove for Swimming. A glove for swimming has been in vented. it may be made of rubber, silk, cotton or any other suitable ma- terial, the novel feature it embodies being that the fingers are joined. The webbing that connects the fin- gers is of the same material as the glove, and flexible, so that it may fold when the fingers are closea together. When a person swims, the hands operate as paddles, and ordinarily the fingers are closed together for obvious reasons. But if the hands be clad in a pair of these webbed gloves, they can paddle with fingers spread, appos- ing to the water a considerably larger the water a minimum of surface. The British Army of Occupation or the Rhine /lumbers about 13,000 men and costs $1,500,000 a month. MustVile—Continue to Pay? The fire loss on buildings and con- tents• for first quarter of 1921, amount- ed to $7,0$5,600, equal to $55 per minute, or $872,000 more than for the same aerled of 1920, Canada is passing through a season of business depression; the demand on all sides is for the exercise of economy, not only 'in private life but in public affairrs. Parliament is criti- cally surveying every item of the na- tional budget for possible reductions. The estimates call for the largest sum Canada has ever been required to raise, over $565,000,000, and yet; large as this stun is, the Minister of Finance could go into the open market and borrow the m.aiiey at approximately the ,lanae cost for interest as is retire - smite, ,-i our annual fire waste, Unfortunately, there is little indi- cation of a reduction in tho firc.lose, to much the target portion. ioof fire suf- requires but ordinary precaution .to macre easy bythe overcotli auv el the above copses, Wore the loss is anda little care may avert a conflag�~ fact that it is covered by insurance, : While this same condition tends to ration. make the general public callous of the fire danger, During the presentperiod of reced- ing values, there is a temptation to un- load property on to the insurance com- panies by cashing insurance policies, and the greatest vigilance should be exercised by insurance companies, fire marshals and fire departments to guard against this danger. Spring is usually a prolific season for fires among the smaller risks, due to cleaning -ftp fires, removal of stoves to summer kitchens, use of wood for temporary heating, etc. rubbish fires may easily get beyond control, ewe sequently • they should never bo lett alone or in care of children. Stove• pipes and chimneye should be cleaned anti, where pipes go through svelte or partitions, they should be protected by metal tumbles :with air -spaces., It