HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-11-03, Page 2AN INTERESTING
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EXPERIMENT IN
NEW 13RUNSWICK
Crossing the Street.
"How did you cross the street?" is
, game that pleases the boys and
.girls. One of its uses is 'stimulating
the chld's mind and increasing ug his
Vocabulary while the physical part of
the game ,adds to its popularity,
The children stand' in a line and,
the leader says to first one arud then
!anther, picked at random, "How did
pee cross the street?" The child must
then croes the roam, walking, reaming,
bopping, jumping, staggering, danc-
ing or any way he can conceive. The
children shout the way, there being a
rivalry as to which shall first deter -
Mine Ms mode of procedure. There
fere a surprisingly large number of
trays in which a street can be crossed,
backward, forwa=rds sideways, and
even breathlessly, this last being an
especially difficult way for the others
to detect. ]f the street is crossed
without the children being able to
name the way depicted, ` •a point, is
scored by the one crossing.
Prepare for the Winter
ew is the tithe to: Build and put
.up biedhousee. Houses, put up now
beerme weather -worn by •spring and
they seem to be preferred by the
(birds. Houses put up now act ai re-
fuges for the birds, during storms.
Prepare a feeding station. This
may be an elaborate affair, a box with
one end out. or simply a shelf on
which food can be placed. If quail
are ht your neighborhood, make a
eltelter on the ground end place grain,
etc., at the fear end.
Watch out for cats. Cata clo a
great amount of damage during the
fall and winter. The lairds do not
seem to be so active and are easily
oauight by,these enemies of •ell bird
life.
Put up "Spare the Birds" signs.
The only way we can keep some peo-
ple frons killing beneficial birds is
to post our farms.
Ant Engineers.
It has been found that the popula-
tion of an ant hill has solved many
complicated miming problems. Thou-
sands df ants working instinctively
perform miraculous engineering feats
with amazing efficiency and without
profiteering. Each ant finds its area
work and the team work when big
problems must be solved is surpris-
ingly efficient. When one shift of
workers tires or must stop for food
or rest its place is taken by other
workers equally skillful so that not
a moment is lost. When an ant •be-
comes covered with dirt others in,
mediately dean it by washing and
brushing. During their .mining opera -
elms in digging holes and removing
stones an ant is often injured, where-
upon others rush oto its assistance and
carry it to a quieter gallery where
first aid may be administered. The
resourcefulness of these little engin-
eers
ngineers has been found bo anticipate
many of our recent efficiency methods.
A CHANGE OF HEART
By Jean Bertheroy
Translated by
'William L. McPherson
"Don't you recognize me? Don't you
recognize me?"
"Not at all," she answered.
And since they were not in a salon,
but in the big hall of a casince which
anybody could enter by paving a fee,
she spoke rather resentfully.
He told her his name:
"Jacques Martegne."
She gave a little "Ohs" of surprise
and quickly extended her hand.
"Are you alone?" he asked.
"Ail alone."
is full. So I came, also, to this deligbt-
ful spot with the idea of relieving and
refreshing my spirit.
Now they understood each other.
Without embarrassment they ex-
changed semi -confidences. Yvonne
rediscovered in Jacques' handsome
face characteristics which she had.
long forgotten his eyes of a blue so
deep that they sometimes seemed
black,; his•straight Latin nose, his fine
lips, half concealed by his beard, but
revealed by a melancholy smile. These
features, however, didn't inspire her
with any other feeling than the inno-
cent pleasure whieh one finds in con-
templating
ontemplating a harmonious • human face
—the chef-d'oeuvre of the created
world.
She allowed her glance. to meet
Jacques' without coquetry, without
He looked at her atter lively. Battle any provocative intention. He was
the war made her a widows ire- so conscious: that .she recalled the past.
many others? Newer axess, mei:binge She had, in. fact recognized him ex
in her dress- or in ber face *r' fcatied, astir .a what be had Been and: as
a recent bereavement. On .the con- what he had never ceased to be. And
trary, he found her more beautiful, since he was troubled mare and mare
more charming, more elegant than , by the tranquil confidence which she
exhibited: he ventured to express, un-
der the form of a banal -compliment,
the thought which dominated him:
"You have grown very beautiful.
When you were a young girl you
didn't seem to promise to bloom out
so magnificently"
She knew well that she was more
beautiful now andmare desirable. The
ever before. Not daring to question
her further, he spoke of himself.
"Have 1 changed so much that you
didn't recognize me? I have let my
beard grow, it is true. And a long
stay in the Orient has told on me.
Five years out there count double in
a man's life."
"Yes," she skid. "five years out
there and three since—that makes it glauces of other man had told her
eight pears since we have seen each that. In spite' of: the trials she had
passed through, nature, always vigi-
lant, had continued its work, and had
brought her to this point of perfection.
She said indifferently:
"What shall I do with my beauty
now? I have completely renounced
the desire to please,'.
Was her sincerity beyond question?
And why, then, did she wear that
delicious hat. whose shadow empha-
sized the golden tint of her hair; and
that charming gown, which accentu-
ated her graceful figure? Jacques was
piqued. Nothing could hold him back
now. He dashed down the perilous
slope.
"Ahl If you only would."" he sug-
gested. "You are free. So am I. Per-
haps happiness is near at hand for
both of us:"
She looked at him steadily and said,
after a brief silence:
"Do you know that I was once deep-
ly in love with you?"
The young pian started. His ex-
pression changed,
"No, I didn't know it. I never had
the ordinary masculine fatuity. If I
had suspected. it, Yvonne! Ah! Mon
Dieu! But, you see, fate has brought
us, together again. I have come back
to you."
"It is useless," she said placidly. "I
don't love you any more?"
"Why so? Why? Could I have Yost
favor in your eyes? Or Isla the mem-
ory of another?"
"1 cant explain it to you. It isn't
any of the things you mention. But
my heart bas changed. That lone is
completely dead in rue. It is as cold
as a corpse. I tell you truly, Jacques.
I couldn't love you, now."
He turued livid.
"How could you be an cruel? Don't
yen understand hew rnuch I shallsut-
tee and how 'unhappy 1 shali1}e?"
She turned a little pale; out of pity
and human sympathy. But she re-
membered what elle, too, had suffered
in the day's• et her adolescence --what
she, too, had suffered from that first
wound of leve, which time had healed,
"Each in his turn," she said in a,
low voice.
other,"
She smiled calmly. Yet she 'had
passionately loved this man. Before
marrying the soldier who had fallen
sae had dreamed of marrying Jacques
Martegne. But he hadn't seemed to
Share. e. her sentiments. Perhaps he had
neves suspected them. To -day he ap-
pe.,, •I to be more upset than she was
by °'::s unexpected meeting. He gave
,l:e. 'a curiously eager look.
• tilence fell between tnem—one
of these silences in which souls meet
anal often discover more than they
could with the aid of words. Then
Yvonne Raveaux resumed:
"Are you surprised to find me in a
place like this after my widowhood?
But I wasn't made for solitude. After
spending many months in retirement,
I decided to seek distraction. I came
there to pass the winter, to enjoy the
sunshine, the blue sea, the spectacle
of men and women who know how
to throw off the burdens of life."
"I am almost in the saaue state of
mind as you," he -answered, "Not that
I am in mourning—except for my lost
illusions. I have seen so much suf-
fering and grief around me!! The cup
An Unusual Telescope.
There is a mine shaft in
Chile that happens to dip at
exactly the proper angle to
catch Mars at the zenith
several times during 1924,
when the planet' will be
nearer the earth than at
any other time within a
century. Accordingly an
American astronomer plans
to use the shaft as the bar-
rel of a huge telescope and
ventures to think that he
can get a magnification of
25,000,000 times, which
would bring Mars apparent
ly within 'a mile and a, half
of the earth. He expects to
prove that life exists on
Mars and to take snapshots
of just how the Martians
are getting ready for. the
War of the Worlds."
4,The Wallace Oil Shale Test Plant of the
Anglo -Persian Oil Company. It is located at
Rosevale, New. Brunswick, not far from the
city of Moncton. Ten thousand gallons of oil
were to be extracted from ` the shales of New
Brunswick and- a large plant erected if the,
results are judged as satisfactory. Photos_by
courtesy Canadian National Railways., / v . ' ` '
'7%!
FAMOUS MEN PAY
TRIBUTE TO MOTHERS
INSPIRATION GUIDED
THEM TO SUCCESS.
Men Eminent in Many Walks
of Life Testify to Their
Parents' Influence.
The old saying that "the hand that.
rocks the cradle rules the world" is as
true now as ever it was. Almost
every great man of the day can point
to the ideals set by his mother as the
inspiration which guided him to
goal of success.
Mr. Lloyd George might -neve
risen to be Prime Minister of"'
Britain had it not been for his moth
'My mother had, a =hard struggle to
bring up her fatherless children," he
.declares, ,"but she never .complained.
It was not until long after that we
were able to apreciate how fine had
been her spirit."
A Sweet Memory.
The memory of a mother's loving
care is often a spur to great things,
and, as in. the case of Mr, Thomas A.
Edison, the world-famous inventor, the
childish impressions of a sweet parent
often urge one to strive to live up to
her nobleness.
"I did not have my mother long,"
Mr. Edison writes "but she cast over.
me an influence which has lasted all
my life. If it had not been for her'ap-
preciation and her faith in are at a
critical time in my experience I should
never have become a great inventor.
Lord Tennyson, the son of the late
Poet Laureate, and a. former Governor
of Australia, pays perhaps the :finest
tribute of all when he writes:
"As her son I cannot allow, myself
full utterance about her whom 'I loved
as perfect mother. With' ner 'tender
spiritual nature' and instinctive no-
bility of thought, she was ever a
ready, cheerful, courageous, wise, and
sympathetic counsellor.
"By her selfless devotion, by her
Solomon•"e Temple, for the building
of which practically the whole man.
hoed of Israel was commandeered,
would have coat $5,000,1)00,004 td eon-
utruct at present prices.
quiet sense of humor, by her faith, she
was a help to the utmost in hours of
depression and sorrow, and I can say
in my father's words:—
Happy he
Witit such a mother! faith in woman-
kind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all
- things high
Comes easy to hint."
In business•.1ife in particular a math
er's steadying influence in earlier
years counts, a great deal, a fact whioh
is acknowledged by Lord Kinnaird,
the great. banker and financier, and
President of the Football Association.
It is impossible to compute the
debt I owe to me another," Lard Kin-
naird writes to us: 5'It is incalculable.
But the fact 'that she visited the
nursery every night, whatever might
be her engagements, and prayed with
her children; and the astonishing fact
ha during.. all the years I was at
Eton„ she wrote me every day, are
Some measure of her anxiety to lay
the foundation of character deep and
strong."
The guiding care of a loving mother
sometimes snakes all the difference
between failure and success, a „senti-
ment with which Sir Harry Lauder en-
tirely agrees. •
Work and Honesty.
"I •owe such a lot to my mother I do
not know where to begin," he de-
cla=res • "-In the first place, she
taught me to respect my father that
father was head of the house. She
taught me a simple prayer, and al-
ways to be honest, whether at work or
pley. Certainly I never had much
OMB for play, for she not 'only taught
me to work, but also that work was
always man's best friend."
Again, Sir Oliver Lodge, O.M., the
great scientist, declares that his
Mother was "an extraordinarily com-
petent woman, and most of the brains
and energy possessed by her children
probably came •from her side of the
-family."
While Sir Hall Caine, the author,
pays tribute to the "stoical unselfish-
ness of his father," the Lord Bishop of
Chelmsford, so long known to tens of
thousands of working people as the
popular vicar of St. James the Less at
Fallacies About the Strength of Insects
At intervals there appear accounts
setting forth the prodigious strength
of insects. Their muscular 'force as,
usually compared with their size by
stating, for example, that a flea can
leap so many times its own length and
that an ant can drag so many time`s.
its awn weight. Then it is said that
man, if he were strong in the sante
proportion, could jump so many rods
or lilt so many tons. These compari-
sons, according to the eminent French
investigator, *Rob,da, are misleading,
to say the least.
In his opinien, it is interesting to
consider solely from a mechanical
point Of view these comparisons be-
green the mescuine strength of man'
and that of insects. Strictly from
this standpoint they are by no means
extraordinary, and are only one of
the forms of what has been called "the
eonfliet of squares and cubes," The
law is well known—volumes decrease,
in More rapid ratio titan surfaces.
The force that a nmsele can exert
depends on its section --that is, on a
surface -although its capacity for do-
lag work depends on ifs volume, as
is logical. here is the explanation of
the astonishing strength of insects,
As an. example, compare two mus-
cles, that of a man and that of an in-
sect, the latter 100 tunes shorter than
the former. It is evident that the in,
sect's muscle will be 1,000,000 times
lighter than the man's, while its sec -
titan, and consequently the force it
can exert, will be only 10,000 times
less,
The conclusion is that since a man
can. 'lift 62 pounds; the insect will lift
10,000 times less, or 154 grains, and
one gets the impressive spectacle of
an insect lifting more than. 100 times
its weight. In fact, the smaller the
insect is the more it will astonish us
by an appearance of extraordinary
strength.
But it is no longer the same if one
examines the mechanical work effect-
ed The muscle of the insect, sup-
posed to be one-hundredth of a man's
in linear dimensions, furnishes, when
it contracts a force 10,000 times less
than the human muscle, exerted
threugl a space 100 times smaller.
Moreover, it seems (just as with
machines where the .smaller are pro-
portionately weaker), as if the insect's
muscle, instead of surpassing man's
Infinitely, is notably inferior to it in
quality.
Take the flca's'jump, for instance
Be its muscular contraction it, gives
, to its mass a movement capable o
raising it twelve inches. Man ran
raise his own weight about five fee
by leaping. For equal weight the
human muscle thus furnishes five
times more work than that of the flea
in e single contraction,
wa wawa a. mama emap.a..ato
Fortunes Waiting to be Won
Everybody declares that we live in
a wonderful age, and when everybody
says a thing it is supposed to be true.
Yet what a lot of things are waiting
to be discovered and invented!
Considering what a great advance
dentistry has made, for instance, how.
is it that no antidote for the decay of
teeth has. been discovered?
Nobody has been found yet who can
prevent .a man from growing bald.
Though fortunes have been made by
men'. and women who professed to
have found preventatives, these are as
nothing compared with the fortune
awaiting the: inventor who can pro-
duce something which will make a
man's hair grow again;.
The Secret of. Sleep.
Sleeplessness is athing that nobody
can cure: Although a doctor can give.
'a man a sleeping -draught, ant thus in-
duce a kind of comatose state, natural
sleep cannot be forced, The doctor.
who could put a wakeful patient into
an "infant slumber pure and light"
would be able to retire ,on his fortune.
in less than six months.
Indigestion still awaits a permanent
cure. Mr. Hdckefo]ler's• offer of a roil -
lion dollars' to the man who will give
him a new stomach still holds good.
As, in addition, the famous millionaire
is almost as bald as a billiard ball, ho
aright be induced to give the same
amount to the man who is able to
make his hair grow again.
In spite of advances made in avia,
tion and navigation,_we aro still very
much at the mercy of the weather.
We have to accept any weather that
Nature provides, and look on while
our crops are destroyed, our ships
sunk, and our trees blown down.
True, we are able to fly, but we can-
not fly in the face of storm, like the
gull, while the sea remains our mas-
ter.
f
It is not the man who can turn 'off
Nature's 'tap who is wanted, but the
man who can turn it on. Too much
rain is preferable to '.too little or none
at all. An invention for producing
rain when and where required would
mean fabulous wealth to the world.
It would create. new empires in the
Sahara and 'the vast salt wastes of
Western America, and it would make
the centre of Australia . as fertile as
Tasmania.
Np man has, ever made a noiseless
engine' or a noiseless gun.The one
would make work in a mill or forge
almost a pleasure, while the other
would remove one of the horrors of
warfare. Incidentally, of course. the
latter would be a great asset to the
strategist Silencers, have been in-
vented for engines, but they only -re-
duce noiss.. They do net kill it, and,
though smokeless _powder has almost
been attained, a noiseless explosion, s
a thing unheard of. When there is a
burst, there is a bang.
Dodging Father Time.
Nobody has ever disovered a plan
for ;preserving the natural color of
human hair. It still persists in losing
its coloring matter with the approach
of age, and sooner or later goes,grey
and then white. The genius who suc-
ceeds in discovering device to en-
able the hair to maintain the color of
youth even in old age will reap a rich
reward.
The plough and the harrow, though
a little better constructed, are mueb
the same implements as our grand-
fathers used., and so are the spade,
the axe, and the pick. The wheel,
too, has never been improved upon as
a 'means of locomotion, the ; only dif-
ferences being the addition of spokes
instead of the solid wheel, the addi-
tion of cogs for machinery, and the in-
vention of flanges for rails.
Bethnal Green, testifies to the in-
fluence of both his parents.
"I have never learned anything in
my life to equal in value what my
mother and father taught me in the
earliest years of my life" he writes.
"The one taught me to pray and the
other to read nay Bible. They gave
me an example which is before my
eyes to this day."
Although a father's influence goes
a long way in moulding a son's char-
acter, it is usually the mother's part
to help and encourage the boy on the
road to real success,,
The father's outlook on life is na-
turally somewhat material, and what
helpful advice he has to give deals
more with praitical problems a young
man may have to face. A mother's in-
fiuence"usually is more spiritual: and
it is, the loving bond between another
and sen that, once forged, lives for
ever as an incentive to great things,breeding moble thoughts and actions
in a young man's life.
General Bramwell Booth had a groat
father and a great Mother.
"As a boy," says tlro General of the
Salvation Army, "I sometimes cone-
pleined to nay another about my much -
patched knickers, and the merriment
they excited in my schoolfellows:
'They :wlll think wo are so poor!' I
said. 'Well, why should you wish
them to think enything else?' She said.
we are poor!'
"I cors mare to that splendid love
of reality in her than 1• can telt My
mother was a. high' example of ousel
flair devotion etrrtcd by a thoughtful
persotutlity into ttvery doper an eel, of
an active life;"
".1, mother le a mother still, rho
holiest doing alive," wroth Coleridge,
anal it was perhaps, the thought of nil
tae_ owed to u: devoted : parent . that
prompted lam to pee lbceo Worths.'
The value of a another -and a good
wife—is summed up by the Rt. 'Hen.
John Burns in a few lines:—
"Mother anti wife, they ares the best
friends I ever had. Character and
career—all is due to their guidance
and. influence."
What She Wanted. ,
The housekeeper walked into the
shop and rapped smartly on the count -
"I want a chicken," she said.
"Do you want a pullet?" asked the
.shopkeeper.
"No," replied the housekeeper, "I
want to carry it,"
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The Road to Success.
If you would .:gain control
of your ability and increase
it, you '"must avoid as you
would poison everything
that tends to make your
mind negative, — worry,
anxiety, jealousy, envy,
fear, cowardice, the whole
family of depressing, des-
pondent thoughts.: Phey
are all confessions of weak-
ness, non -producers, power -
destroyers, T h e blues,
every bit of unhappiness,.
every feeling of discourage-
ment, of despondency,—all
of these are cripplers of
ability, You must drive
them out of your mind, out
of your life, with their op-
posites -the strong, posi-
tive, creative thoughts—
courage, ; hope, cheerful-
ness, love, power, expecta-
tion of good thingdd,,.,self
conflcicne% enthusiasm,
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