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Zurich Herald, 1922-08-24, Page 3•5. • Bunny Tails. • .sow When Brown Bear decided to g• iv a party in the forest; he asked th 'rabbits -and the ,s'quirre'ls to help him The sq>irrelswere to carry the invi tations round, ,and, the rabbits wet to find berries and roots for, the feas There was much excitement b t1i forest when the squirrel messenger came whisking from place to plat with their news. All the animals :be gan to prink and preen. Every the a long gray tail flashed round a sum a ,cry would go up "Here comes' an invitation!" But the rabbits, though they had been 'prompt about prolnasing, dad no- thing. • They scampered round • and switched their :long tails,—for, mind you, that was in the days when rab- bits had long tails,—and they played game; and gossiped and. did not bother about anything else. When the in vited animals asked' them wast Brown Bear 'was going to have for'refresh rents they merely ;smiled foolish!• end flipped their ears. As time went by and Brown Bea failed to hear anything from the rab -bits he became uneasy and set out to see what was the hatter; Guided by .glimpses of long" tails switohing here and there, he Dame upon' a 'party of rabbits who. were romping in a dell. He gave.them' a great scoidting; "Do you want to come to my party?" he said at last. "Oh, indeed we do!" they all. cried. "Then you've one more chance," said angry Bear. "Go and look for these berries• and roots. Off with youIn ' With that he turned and • left. them. The rabbits went scuttling away as, fast as they could go, but they made the .mistake of, going together. Before long they came to another little dell that looked as if it had been made to play in. It was green and cool, and•on one side there was a great slanting rock. That rock was too much for them. "Oh -h -h! Ohah-h!" they �< squeaked. dh,;what a place to slide!" And they ell went dashing to the top of the rock. The surface of the great rock sloped ed p just right and was as smooth as glass. Up and down,,up' and down, went 'shone rabbits. They were no• sooner at the: bottom than whisk! they had ,eared.: �il1n ,rounds l"9 : geese -top and ^ they -were no'sooner at . the top' than zip! they were at the bottom.. .The eun-,went -down and the' moon aine up, :abut stall they sled. And it e was the night before the day of the A little after midnight Brown Bear name suddenly ;into the dell. "Have• e yon, found the refreshments?" he t, asked in a loud voice. . All the eabibits stopped sliding and e stared at•flim with startled eyes, "This e is the'day for the party?" one of thein asked timidly, "To he sure," ;said Brown Bear, "this e as Thu'rsday, the 10th of August. How- ever, you needn't disturb yourselves, for the squirrels have'done, your •work;' The rab'bi'ts !bowed Cheri heads for shame. They sleeked'; so pitiful that Brown Bear's heart".softened•. "Well, 'since you are sorry for your misbe- havior, I'll let you .conie�to the party," he said. At khat all the 'rabbits jumped or joyfulily and started to scamper away to get ready. But all at once Brown Bear thund'er•- �' 'nd "afted them, "Stop!" The ralbbits *stopped short in wonder. "I spoke -too Bear quickly," said Brown Bear. "You can't - come •to my party after 'all." "Oh, why? Oh, why?" cried the rabbits. "Because you have no tails." "Have no tails? No tails?" The ralbbitts stared. Had Brown Bear lost his mind? • "You have no tails," Brown Bear repeated. "That is, none to speak of. I don't want such looking guests at my party. True, I have a very short tail myself, but that's another. matter. It was never any longer." So saying he marched away. The stupefied rabbits could hear his steps growing'efainter and fainter in the underbrush. Then they began to look at one an- other, and they understood. There was not a tail left in the crowd; their tails had a11-,heen worn away on the steep, slippery rock. Nothing but little wads of fur remained. The rabbits wept and wailed for their beautiful lost tails, but it did no good. They were so distressed that they crept away and hid for a whole day • and a night. They heard the• ether animas going to the party and coming back, but they would not show themselves. Gradually theybegan to forget about it and to romp and frisk again. 'B -r from that day to this—so the forest people say no rabbit ever speaks of long tails.—Youth's. Coma- panion. PAINTING PICTURES IN QUEER PLACES REMARKABLE ATTEMPT marine painter. Off the shores of California, where he lives, the water is not" only deep close in shore, but as clear as emerald. He makes the bet - tom of the sea his studio, his artist's these, being a diver's full`'rigout, He paints for twenty minutes at a spell, and then returns to the surface fora breather. He has to have special TO GET LOCAL COLOR. implements of hes draft for thissub- marine work. His pencils are ,of solid oil, his canvas is oiled leather, and his easel is of solid ;iron, guaranteed not to float. The landscape painter from time immorial has been subjeot to the. scrutiny of stray donkeys, the destruc- tive appetite of a wandering and om- nivorous goat, or the attack of a dis- gruntled bull, This adventurous artist has, instead, shoal's of fishes for art critics. An ice Easel. The Poles, Top of Mont Blanc and the Ocean Depths Have Served as Studios. A Parisian artist has just completed the portrait of a lady which has been painted on the summit of Mont Blanc, the great Alpine peak. Both the artist and his sitter were wrapped in thick furs, and the former was obliged to wear woollen gloves. As the thermometer was 27 degrees below zero the sittings were only of Short duration, and the couple were often obliged to return to the observa- tory to warn'! themselves. The back- ground of the picture is said to be a wonderful piece of work, A large number of "Tartan" .paint- ings were exhibited lately in London. They are by a young Bohemian with an unprovounceable name. Criticized by Cod Fish. - After studying his art in Italy, at- tia.cted by love of adventure, and the oheapneee of models, he went to India and Ceylon. There ho plunged iv to the jungle, learnt the dialect of a primitive tribe, and in the depths, of :the forest lived with eavages and epee,: where he could find wonderful models -and settings for his canvas. The word "submarine" is almost too familiar lu'this country, but it is not often applied to painting. Yet there is a painter in_ the United State's who is not only a "thariue painter, 1' ut a sub - There is -something greater, in you than that which its• holding you back from your auibiti,on, Which is keeping you In poverty, which is thwarting 7'oui' desire far ae, education. There is something in yon that is bigger than any cruel tate, than any, thing which can Jnr r your career, something which is independent of fire and flood, of hard tunes or • failure, somet•liing wh'ioh can ruse above sickness, above dig- ease, above poverty, above every- thing that Wool) hinder you from heeoxning the Irian or the woman it is possible for yoi to be, from doing the thing yeu long to do, ---SueceSe. On one memorable occasdon a shark paid hien a visit of inspection, prob- ably with the intention of discovering whether the ?mermaid picture he was painting was as delicious a mouthful as it• looked.. The Submanin+e artist carie to the surface for Itis breathier without delay, L Swedtsh'painter has been -up in the Arctic regions., trying to get a bit. of `change" out of an .iceberg, a Polar bean•,• and a walrus or two. Hs has succeeded' very well, for his pictures' sold to the aristrocracy of:Stockfh'olni for good prices. Some •of the pictures were a great surprise . to the public. To see nail lions of bright flowers cheek by jowl with a stranded iceberg or ,growing un- der the ice of a mighty glacier looked into .battle with the fleet.' .The Illeg- ally, an w'hicli he was. the adniii•al'e pleat, was blown out.of .the water by a for+!undo, But lieebaps, the most rens ibable at-. !tempt to get local color was made Qu the tiihores of Brittany lately ley a I+'reric'li artist. He is not a painter but, a eoelptpr, end it was his earnest wish to represent in.marble the terror, the horror!', the awi;ul suspense, and tragi cal cliziaax cf n nazi slowly but surely being swallowed up ie quicksand, with no Jielp near. Ile ;could not ask a model to run tlie, terrible risk, so in the'inter•ests of hie;' art he becanie his own model; He en- gaged ciniemato ,aphers to• accompany hint to a famous queoleeand,.near Mont St, Michel, and, o ,propriately made up, allowed (himself to sink into. then- un- • til they reached his. chest. The risky experiment nearly .ended in tragedy with the •engulfing both of artist and oinenrta operator, and' they. were •only saved in'tbe nick of time by the intervention of the fishermen. However, the sculptor went back to Paris happy. He had ' got his• effect, and ensured hie work getting into the Salon. Royal Accomplishments. Princess Mary of England, whose marriage to Lard Lascelles rece'ntl'y occurred, is • extremely popular; indee she is a close second to' her •brothe the Prince of Wales. Before bbe wa she was little known except as the:co Stant companion oa her mother, th Queen; and persons were inclined` t emile at a certain shy girlish mimeos d r, r e 0 s that characterized her in public: Then; too;' there was• her inevitable tittle cot- tett, tightly clutched umbrella, which.' it was whispered her teasing brothers had .dubbed "Mary's twin." But the war made known her good sense, her geed feeling and her readiness for real work. The princess has a wholesome, na- tural taste for domesticity and outdoor recreation. She, has no very marked talents or hobbies; but not long ago at an exhibitions in the interest of child- ren, where model nurseries planned by different d'istin'guished peatsons we're. displayed, one of the most: practical: and pleasing was, that which Princess' Mary had designed. The princess's; mother, Queen Mary, has no 'special talents. Neither had Queen Viictenaa, unless, perhaps it was a talent for music; she had a pleasing voice and a good ear and once sang two' of Mendelssobm's songs 'for the coanposser•himeelf Ma manner to win his sincere commendation: to others afterwards as well ea his compliments at the moment. In France much more than in Eng- land Sovereigns and princes have ate tempted arts and crafts., usually wi`` out great sepses's_ Louis-X1V: thd•U well of tin self as a cook and li: potter oveyasiousess lain > auoc•e cF ed in a special suet of silver eauce Louis XVI.eavase. a.sfairly .'good'Is smith, His ill-fated queen, lelariefe toinette, loved to singand.' act in the little: theatre at the Trianon; but des- pite her beauty and. her natural grace off the stage she was always awkward upon it. As for singing, she had neith- er a eith-era good voice. nor a true ear. But of course her performaucea were always applauded to the echo, although` it was sometimes difficult to obtain a full house. Once the Swiss guards in full uniform were ordered in ' to fill the empty seats. The usual quality of royal accomp- lishments was perfectly summed up in thte famous, answer of the clever and charming court painter,Madame Vigee- Lebrun. A duke of the royal house, who had been rendering a song very badly, turned to her suddenly and asked, "Well, madame, and 'how do you think I sing?" "Like' a prince, monseigneur;" `was j the reply. , .Al 'that -;st asa 11Icku CHILD 'To T-Pda. CARI; 0I' MAILS AND Tfl IHILDADN cove tq-talo things for themselves. And:, .it is an excellent trainihirfor them to realize that, happy and carefree as mother wishes them to be, e are certain little responsibilities ust bear upon their -own small them a self-reliance and a eer- of dependability which will In good'§tead in later years. • ittle Reepoi sibilities, Ev other realizes the importance of takin: " re of the nails and the teeth, and if she, a wise••woman she will early train the 11 tie one to take care on his or her own ! ; T �y possible way of insuring good c -j i, .uard them against any trouble, agins "when very young to take ry precautions one is pretty `grown-up" stage arrives illness wills otherwise) assessor of a set of think. that. "surf-- y: mean "frequent" Course, to brush the Songs Carved in Wax. The process, of making gramophone records iso a closely guarded trade secret' Consequently few eeople leave any idea: of how it is done. The original wax record is made by the :singer in a room kept at a very high temperature so that the wax may remain soft, The sound -box of the re cording instrument is very like that.. of an ordinary gramophone, .except that it is, provided with a sharp cutter instead of a needle. As it travels over the soft wax it carves out minute hills and valleys onits, surface. Once cut, the record is 'hardened and then placed in a galvanic !bath, where it ie covered with a theii'iayet of copper deposited on it by means, of an electric current. The wax is then emoved, and all the tiny indentatione which it contained are found copied aithaeliy 'on the copper disc. • Prom thole "master matrix" others oonsdderably stouter are made by the same process( of electrotyping. These are .mounted in special: presses: It now remains to turn out thous- ands of wax' records for the public to buy. To do this; blank"diets, of warm. wax are placed in the presses. Down come the matrices under great pres- sure, and when they are raised the area diets ate. withdrawn, each bearing am impresslon of the grooves out in the original record by the vibrations of the voice: r a trifle incongruous. ` But the artist said it was quite a eeniinon sight in i f the short summer around the North Pole. One of tie finest memorials of a brave man was seen in London some seasons ago when the late Dr. Wilson's wonderful Antarctic paintings were ex- hibited, Quite often ,his easel had been a hummock of ice or a berg, and not a few of the.pietures were painted le the Polar darkness by the light of the fear venous Aurora' Borealis. A"e all the work- knaves, Dr, Wilson was one of the three men found.sleep- ing their last sleep in that tragical tent eleven miles the wrong side of One Ton Capp, Soitle of the pictures were actually found lying by his side 'qtr when the survivors of the Scott ex- pedition found their dead coinrades. yo He Deserved, All He Go"t,. th " Out of practice, Customer—"You don't seem very ick at figures, my boy?" Newsboy --•"1,'m out of practice, sir, X u see, most of the gents say, 'keep e change.' " One of the greatest dr liioderli Rua, „tau artists perished in the Russo- Japanese war. He Was a !marine paint. as er and battle painter, so intent on get. no ting local color 'correctly •that he went There is lin goal worth reaching, neat as it appears to the hopeful, r remote as it ,seems to the ailuld. Mt, Lloyd George, of the Sea. a time in the earth's his - ere was no 'sea. The sur - fa a ., e young earth was too hot to a . the accumulation of water it basina. ltIore than that, there were no beetles,* for the surface of the earth must-'- ve been et 'any oneplace as flat pancake, 0 'average there are three and a 1 ands' of : salty material to eve dred pounds of sea -water,. Mot n three-fourths of the salts in affetae a consists o'f common salt (sodium chloride).. • ; Diffent parts of thesurface of the v' markedly in salinity, for it will , !ease where evaporation. is great'(as • in the Red Sea) and c1 brease where „the rainfall is heavy, or where there is little wind and much precipi- tation In a general way the salinity oorrespnds with the climate. The total surface of the ;lobe occu- pies about 197,000,000square miles, and about 71 per cent. of that area (namely, 140,000,000) belongs to seas, oceans and lakes. • Soundings have been taken in all parts of the navigable globe, and we know .that the average depth of the sea is about two and ,a.hlalf miles. }?;eat rays are lost at 250- fathoms, and even in thetropics the upper stra- tum of_'wa.rmia'h water is coniparative- ly •thin, The great bulk of the water in the oceans is cold. In the great depths the temperature is a little abase 'the freezing point of fresh water:. The ooze dredged from the oceeen floor .in the tropics is 'se cold that it ,cannot be handled without dis- comfort., , it is :calculated that Ent a •dlepth 0± 2,500 fathoms the,liressure'of the sea i rat 2y tohiseper•s'l1 t1e inch. There•; is' nit foundation for the sail - mai coihmon belief that ships, and men sank until they "reach their level," and then: remain suspended. Everything sinks to the bottom. • When;a.deep-sea fish rises above its usual !One in pursuit of its prey, the decreaae'`of external pressure brings. about ati expansion of the gases in the swim -bladder, and the specific gravity of the fish is reduced, The result is that, le spite of its efforts, the fish "tumbles' upwards" to the surface, and is killed sOoner or later by the diaten- soon of its organs, Dr, H, R. 1v1111 gives a quarter of a mile ,es ;the greatest length of a wind - wave front crest` to Cres"t and 50 ft, as the mitxiinuni 'height. But the bell of a blghthouse on one of the Isles, of Scilly was wrenched off by a breaker at a height of 100 ft. There is probably far more livitag matter in the sea than there, is in all the rest at the world. teeth often, ;after every meal and before going to bed at night, if possible; but it is equally as vital to be thorough' in the process. For every particle of food that is -allowed to remain between the teeth decomposes and sots at once to injure the enamel. Teach Tour child to rub the bristles up and down upon the closed teeth—down from the upper jaw to bring particles from the cracks and up from the lower jaw to lift them out. Show the little .one how to cleanse be- tween the teeth with a piece of dental floss by, drawing It to and fro In the spaces and drawing out any- obstruction, Insist upon the .brushing and cleansing being followed by a mouth rinse of line or soda water. The latter is really better, for it effectu- ally counteracts acidity. To make this rinse it is only necessary to keep,. a small jar of dry bicarbonate of soda on the washstand and to use a tea- spoonful of this in an ordinary glassful of water. As to nails, their care Is a bit more dif- ficult matter ifficultmatter for the kiddie to learn;:but with 'a, little patience it may be accom- plished: ry Tlieftrst'thing .that the child roust under-, good order they must be cleaned regularly and thoroughly, and never on any account must he bite them. Actual injury to the fingertips results from this ugly habit, and certainly the effect is most disfiguring. To break up this habit dip the child's fingers into aloes. For of all bitter con- coctions they are about the worst and yet are perfectly harmless. And any child who has had it on the Ups once or twice is pretty sure to remem- ber the dose and will refrain from biting the nails. Teach, the little one to push down the cuticle with an orange stink and to file the nails properly with a file. Never allow hint to use scissors for short- ening them, for clipping invariably coars- ens the texture, while filing makes it finer and smoother, The Right Way and Wrong. It is just as easy to learn to do things in the right -way as In the wrong, and the child should from the very first be taught, to remove the soil from under the nails with a narrow stick dipped into lemon Juice or rubbed into a soft paste. Thiswill make the soil disappear and will,nnt. roughen the .under -part of ,tin stand Is that In order to`keep the nails ' -1n nail; as a sharp instrument will do. The eggs of buttcriiiee ,,ari, often striking, in shape and color. When Ice is Really Hot. When scientists say a thing is cold they ..really . meall it is not warm enough to be comfortable. When a thing, is said to be hot it is meant in the samea t it i too wyiha is warm m t o be comfortable. All degrees of cold and heat are really just different de- grees'of warmth. Absolute cold—that is, entire absence of warmth—has never been known. When compared with liquid air, ice is tremendously hot. And liquid air —which is so cold that were you to put a finger in it it would be burned off—is, hot compared with frozen hel- ium gas, the coldest thdng known. For an object to be hot means noth- ing more nor less than that the mil- lions of atoms that compose the ob- ject are vibrating very fast. The fast- er these particles vibrate the hotter the object becomes. If an object had no vibrations in it at all, it would be perfectly cold. ' The Highest temperature ever reach- ed has been in the region of 3,000 de- greesCentigrade—a temperature only obtained by the-eIectric arc. Ordinary temperatures sucls as that of the weather are measured by a mer- cury thermometer. But if you tried to measure much higher than boiling point of water, the mercury itself would boil and burst the tube of the thermometer. On the other* nand, should you try to use it below a cer- tain temperature the mercury would freeze, Because of this other methods have to be employed for taking ex- tremes of low or high temperatures. For very low temperatures a ther- mometer has. been invented, in which gas is used instead of mercury. Very high temperatures are mea- sured by several clever methods, one of which is to observe the exact color of the glowing object and comparing it with a standard color. When an ob- ject glows with heat the color is al- ways the, same for the same tempera- ture, emperature,. For every cltaingge of tempera- ture the color of the glow alters slight- ly, lightly. Men who have had much experience in judging high temperatures, as in a steel works; can tell at a glance how hot a thing is by its ,color, Worth Seeing,. Seeing,. "William was thirsty for knowledge, and interesting facts shone like jewels in ,bels brain. "/ read to -day," he said to Michael, "of the wonderful progress made in aviation. Men can now do anything-- absolutely anything--ku bird can do!" But Michael was tired of wonders-•. he was more matter-of-fact, "le that so?" be answered. "Well, when you see al's airman fast asleep, hanging on to a, branch of a. tree with one foot, I'll Colne and have a look!" What .Wrinkles Mean. Then& is ample evidence that char- acter can be judged by the lines and wrinkles en the face. People whose taoea become lined early in life are usually easily influ- enced and subject to constantly chang• Ing ' moods: When you see a man more than thirty years of age with a face free from wrinkles, you may be euro he has a placid, easy-going disposition. The possessor of two bow -shaped lines across the forehead is sensitive, and rather lacking in reasoning power. Three or four lines across the fore. Thread, curving downwards towards the nose, denote optimism and vivacity. The lines which accompany a jovial and humorous disposition are to be found on the cuter side of the eyes. Such lines curve upwards. Lines in the :same position, but curving down- wards, ownwards, are associated with melancho- lia, Those accustomed to exercise great authority get into the habit of, lower• ing their eyebrows. This causes one, two, or sometimes three transverse wrinkles to appear at the top of the n,ose.- A single perpendicular line between the eyebrows denotes a mastery of de- tail. • Both Mr, Asquith and Sir Ed- ward Clarke have the facial sign of this quality. Two vertical lines between the eye- brows denote a love of justice. Three similar lines accompany great powers of Concentration, Everybody has notic'e'd the curved wrinkles which appear on the outer edges of the mouth when a person laughs. If these wrinicies are there when a man is not laughing, he is of a generous and pleasant disposition, Safest Way. Silas (reading the ads)—By heck, you can learn to raise bees by nail these days." Blrain—"That's the best' way to raise 'em. Then you won't get stung." "And if I have the gift ift of prophecy, p I? y, and know all mysteries sand all know]- edge, and if I have all faith, so as to, remove lnountains, but have not level I am nothing." l When we perceive the good be everything we attract the good from everything, It is an entire waste of our life's forces to criticize and to condemn; it only reacts upon ourselves and holds, es in poverty. Opulence of spirit attracts opulenee on all planes of being, and when through our opulent eotiselousnese we forget that poverty exists, it wall cease to exist for us. --Grace M. Biota..