HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-08-09, Page 2Stories of Well -Keown People
Making Sir James Jump
An excellent etory concerning the
laorsisteut attempts of an American
lady to int ervieve Sir Jamie Barrie is
being told.
"1 simply must see him before Igo
back," said the American lady. "I want
to tell him how greatly I admire hie
acid kis work, but nobody will help me.
I have introductions to several of his
personal friends, but they all say he
Would aot like it, and would think
them unfriendly if they attempted to
introduce nae to him, One friend of
his made a most ridiculous suggestion.
He said that my only way was to go to
Sir James's chambers, sit down out-
side the door, and make a noise like a
lost child, If Sir James heard me,
- he said, he would be touched and open
the door to look out, and would so be
delivered into my hands.
"'But, .1 asked, 'what would be
think whenhe saw me; a middle•aged
woman, behaving, like that?'
" 'Oh, well,' ; said Mr. X., 'you must
be tactful. Didn't you say your daugh
ter. had written to laim for his auto-
graph? Well, you mush get up at once
and exclaim with dignity, "I under-
stand you have been corresponding
with my daughter, and I am here to
know what it means."
"'Naturally, he will not want to dis-
cuss such a matter on the landing,
and will ask you inside, and there you 1
are.'"
The Cabby Scored!
A joke was played on Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle by a French taxicab dri-
ver recently. Phe man had driven
the world-famous creator of "Sherlock
Holmes" fuels the station to the hotel,
and when he received his fare he said,
" Merci, M. Conan Doyle." ,
"Why, liow do you know my name?"
asked Sir Arthur.
"Well, sir, T have seen in the papers
that you were coming from the South
of France to Paris; your general ap-
pearance told me that you were Eng-
lish; your hair had been clearly lasts
cut by a barber of the South of France.
I put these indications together, arnd—
I saw your name on your luggage!"
"News of the Weak."
The bachelor -author, George Ade,
must have his Sing at marriage, and
at a wedding the other day he said:
"We bachelors on an occasion like this
are thought very little of, but permit
rue to say that, were I editor of a
newspaper, I should insert all mar-
riages in a column headed 'News of
the Weak.' ,,
How to Become a Millionaire.
"No man should start to make his
' fortune until he is forty. I never
saved any money before that age."
Mr. Henry Ford the motorcar .king,
reputed now to be the richest''anan in
the world, ham,. been making observa
tions on the quickest and happ'i'est
road to wealth.
TO COME
"I never attempted to Make :a for-
tune in my life. There le only one sure
road to success'. That is the road of
service.
"I don't believe in the theory" of
thrift as a necessrry basis for a for-
tune. A man should alwaye save
enough to provide for certain neces-
a'ities—sioknesz, to,secure a home, and
so on ' on the same basis that a man
shvuld net take a railway trip without
having money enough to buy a return
ticket.
"Men and women should devote their
'lives until they are at least forty to
one ideal—that of making themselves
as efficient as possible In their buss -
mess or professlon, if they do that
they will make so much money after
they are forty that all the money
they scrimped for and saved before
they were forty won't matter."
Paderewski's Hands.
The king of pianists, M. Pedere'ws
ski, who recently returned from Arne -
erica, told the writer the other even-
ing his secret forkeeping his hands
supple.
"The night before I play I turn my
hands over to my valet, and he rubs
my fingers until they tingle;" M. Pad-
erewski said.
"Then he takes one finger after the
other and turns and twists . it in the
palm of his, hand, always turningthe
one way. That makes the fingers sup-
ple, and keeps the knuckles, in good
working 'ceder.
"Then' he rubs the palm of each
hand very hard -as hard as I can bear
it. Just before I go on the platform
to pray I have a basin of hot water
brought to my arestsing-room. In this
T immerse my hands.
•
"Hot! I ehould say so; just about
as' hot as it is, possible for a man
to stand it."
Collarless Premier.
Amusement hasbeen created in War-
saw by the efforts o1 a Polish news-
paper to open a "Cravat Fund" for M.
Witos, the peasant Premier, who ab-
staiurs from wearing either collar or
tie. A large sum in. Polish marks
was stated to have been collected
within twenty-four• hours.
The Minister, when presented with
the subscription, declined to 'accept
this token of the solicitude of his
compatriots, and the:sum was handed
over to the local Red Cross.
Carpentler—Shipowner.
So keen are Georges CaDpentier and
Francois. Deacamips,. his friend and
manager, on - everything British that
their daughters are both to be edu-
cated . in English schools. Descamps
is also keen for his boy to be sent to
aneEngiish public school.
There is now also e firm ef.•Car-
pentier hand "Slabea""thss,; .fisshingboat'
owners,, Georges arid -Francois have
invested money, in . three big French
trawlers, which do paying work along
t1he coasaof Boulogne•'
How Hiawatha Made His
Fires.
Did it ever' occur'to you that fire
!asking is a comparatively modern art
•---that is, modern compared with the
existence of man on this globe?
Old, old legends, handed down from
the thin and distant past, tell of a time
when man had no fire. He lived and
roamed and ate his food just as the
other animals of the forests and plains
did. Teen sone one discovered the
value of fire -aa a means of keeping
warm, fighting enemies Band later cook-
ing food. And a new era of human
life' was opened up.
But at that time fire had to be taken
from Nature -from volcanoes, light-
ning and at a few spots possibly from
flaming crevices in the rocks. Once
started, the flame or coals had to be
carried and kept :alive year after year
If this great boon to human life was
to be spread any great distance from
its original source. This had a strong
tendency to cause people to' come to-
gether in groups or communities, se
as to be able the better to keep the
fire coals alive.
It was countless ages after this that
man first learned how to make fire.
This was a. great step forward and was
probably the mostmostimportant invention
of that age. It released man beam the
necessity of living in villages, and
again he started to wander. Perhaps
It was et that time that be first. emi-
grated to continents and islands where
there were no. aotive yolcanoes and no
known sources of fire.
The fire -making apparatus of the
American Indian when the white man
first arrived did not differ very 'much
from. that found in other parts of the
world.When Hiawathaawatha wanted to
make a fire he first found a piece of
dry loose -fibred wood and some bits of
soft, papery, inner bark of some tree,
such as the willow or the birch. Then
by eepidiy whirling between his palms
a bard, pointed stick pressed into a
hole in the softer stick, and having the
tender bark close in touch, enough
friction was created to finally bring
forth a glow wb.ich could be blown in-
to a flame.
This was a hard job and some tribes
developed an improvement on this ap-
araV,tns• Instead of twirling the etIIek
etween t'he psalms, a bow with a
loose string wag useed. By taking one
or two turns. of the string around the
shaft of the fire stick, the bow could
be made to whirl the stielr. very rapidly'
when moved back and teeth. r
So: when you thougbtl•eesly stripe a '
math or two arid got a burst of flame
Without afi�ort, paaise to think of the E
tremendous` strld�es� we Melo Made in
Mahe' develoerne'tt of science since the
days of the'lire such sial thefir., bow. I
Not Entirely In Command.
Friend: I suppose you're master in
your home, Bob?
Bob: Well—•sem—paymaster, let's say:
An airplane being built in France
is expected:to do 250 miles an hour.
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Planet Uranus Has Strangest
of Skies. ' •
The distance to the stars is so vast
that you could not see any aapreciable
change in their positions', evaa if -you
were to go to the furthest planet. They
lie around the solar: system' like a
pendent on its own :constitution, but
its sunshine depends, wholly. on how
it is placed im'its orbit. There are two
zones, an Uranus, that might be com-
pared tp''our own frigid or Arctic and
Antarctic caps:
On earth these. icy caps .extend 23%
shell, with this little family bf:tworlds degrees from the'pole, and in them itis six months or more day, and six
in the centre, and the
vast empty menthe • night: On Uranus these zones
blackness of apace about in all .direc are each of 84 degrees radius, and ex
tions.
But whale the appearance of the that an the planet pursues one of its
stars as a whole is unahangeable huge 'eighty -six -year-long years about
throughout the solar system, the' way the sun, half the world will be seemed -
they set in the sky varies from!. planet ed in unbroken gloom, while the other'
to planet. On' Mars the skies, revolve side will have daylight without break
tend tulmosit'to the equator. This, means
much' as they do on earth.On Jupiter
they seem to, wheel in a dizzy whirl,`
for this great:globe turns noire than.
twice as rapidly as the earth: Jupiter's
pole star Is one of the stars of Draco; safety' rules for factories, ,mines, street b
and not our fani:iliar North Stat crossings in . the cities', on children's.
The sky has the strangest ;_appear- playgrounds etc.,•whyisn't it .a good
ante of all:on -Uranus, T i l g d
us h satdtstant time for farmers to consider accident
globe lies over on its side'as i' spins. prevention?
Its north pole points to a s t near
Ever summer the newspapers
Y re=
the bright red star Aldebar; For port', accidents caused by farm ma-
UrnnusAldebran :s the nor=t -oar a ' ,
h.
c mer rc'.,: �
h struck Y h h s uCk stianv ,
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fla
min c r indeed.
R
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y. g yn'o1Sp� bap1ders . in fields 'that are.la'eing. <
r it.
U anus d ffers� from
r m all tplanets
the
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e plowed, or cultivated, or cropped- A b
Inside its orbit. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, fanner living near me almost lost. .a' u
Safety First or Never.
While so mach is being said about .1
Morning.
A$ I went striding thro' the points of
drawn
Into, the gneen-walk, the, trembling
horn
Of an insect .rover questing for the ,
sear
Ilreehed my ear,' Then a fairy' gun
Snapt in the brake where •tlte-• small
folk dwell..'
And an elfin watchman cried "A11'
well!„
s
Straightway a stirring. And clear
down -•-•
Sharp' as littlewind white teeth gnawing
lemond rind•- •
Came the pin -point piping of a moss
couched wren,
Day was, at the hover and she dozed
again, •
Till all along the greenwood bards
began to shout—
The wing -way was open, for the sun
was out.
—Asa Davies
Hay Fever.
It was an Englishman, a Dr. Bovtock,
.that first described about a hundred
years ago an affection marked by
sneezing, profuse watery discharge
from the nose and conjunctivitis and
recurring' at about the 'same time each
year and always in the haying season.
Because of .its seasonal occurrence he
called the affection hay fever. Since
that time we ;have learned that a simi-
lar annual
•imi-lar'a:nnual visitation may come to dif-
ferent people at different periods' of
the ••summer, to some early; to some
late, and net in all cases, does it coin
cede with haying. But the name has
been ,popularized `and will probably re-
main.
Hay fever, like many of the casts of
asthma; is owing to what is, ,called
"Protein idiosyncrasy,", though the pro-
teln,is of vegetable origin, whereas in
asthma it Is more frequently of animal
origin.. The malady is caused by the
pollen of : certain grasses, avid weeds;
some persons are susceptible to the
pollen• of one "species of plant; some
are susceptible to the pollen of a•them
The spring variety of hay fever, often
called rust cold, is owing to the pollen
of Various grasses or .grains; often rye.
The more ,common late summer form
is caused by the wind-blown • pollen of
numerous weeds, most frequently rag-
weed and, goldenrods
The attack begins with a tickling'
in the noose, bellowed in a day or two
y violent paroxysms of sneezing and a
profuse watery discharge. At the same
time the eyes• water, often itch intoler-,
ably and are sensitive to light. There , Retired.
rs itchingalso in the roof of :the mouth 1
and at the sides of the throat. After
the trouble has lasted for some time
troublesome cough "ol,.wheit� ;- e, 1
tisthinaw �a follow:The-.Sa
�+ y ,� "edn !
e prevented' If the sufferer'`finda ref-
ge in a place where "hiss particular
The Life Worth While.
Living the life worth'whiie,
that is, doing all „true good Yee
can as you go along, scattering
your flowers as you go, knowing
that you will never go the same
• road; again, giving everybody a
lift, encouraging everybody who
is down, being kind and genet-
ous, and true, is infinitely better.
than znakiug a great fortune by
being' selfish, snobbish, cold-
blooded.
Neglecting the Best Crop.
"Canada needs more ancestral
homes, more riveting of families- to a
common spot; we shall have a better
country, a liner patriotism and a high-
of sense - of responsxbiltity when are
have formed' the habit' in Canada of
clinging through many generations to
the sarie spot of land. The city may ,
be well enough as place to be youtg
in, but not for the years of wisdom
that should • corns with the mellowing
of age
In their anxiety to pay. off the mort-
gage or` to buy more land or build an -
ether or silo inany.a farmer n
barns and
his wife lose sight of the only farm
product that is of lasting benefit to
them—the boys and girls,. By the
time the desired end for which the
parents' have toiled is; attained, the
boys and girls have become men and
women. • And remembering the long
hours of toil that eeey endured, prac-
tically without remuneration and ; the
absence of any real plan for recrea-
tion and amusement, these young
people have rebelled against then
mode of living and have gone to,the
1 towns and cities: Here ;thery find
wages better, hours shorter, compare
ionsbip and recreation'more -accessible,
With the increasing shortage of farm
labor and the neeessiey for greater
production, it behooves every farmer
and his wife to take stock of the equip-
ment .'of farm and home, in order to
lighten the toll and shorten the hours
of labor that are so surely driving the
young people from the farm.
While the modern rural home may
cost more than the average farmer
feels that he can afford, yet he can not
afford to lose his boys and girls just
when he needs them most. And it
improving the home and living condi-
!tionee will tend to' keep the young
people on the farm, no farmer can
• afford to neglect the home and the
senee of living and thus lose the
farm's 'best asset,
and the earth and moan rotate`m the leg when his mower guaaale caught'
d rectof their revolution, That is, on a low, hidden stump in the `grass.
to . s s w a , An artery was severed and he had a
v
i nariety' 'of pollen is, not present.
The specific treatment is much like
that of 'asthma. Tests are made with
xtracts of the various pollens, and.
when the epeciai offender is•discovered
vaccine ismade from it and: injected'
n small doses so as to produce nm -
'amity. In some cases, brilliant cures
are thus, ,effected, but in other cases
the vaccine has failed, possibly be
cause the patient was sensitive to
more than one variety of pollen.
makes bur skit. seem 40 tare backward, narrow escape. . e
from east to•:'West. Uranus 'rotates Of course, the stump should ha'v'e
backward, from east to west, anti con been marked in the early spring before a
sequently the skies there turn from the grass'; became high enough to hide 1
west to east. If you oould go there it. Better still, it should have been
you would see the heavenly bodies blasted out and got rid of forever.
coming up where your earthly experi- Last summer an elderly man was
,BnCei tad taught you that they abould killed by being thrown off his binder
set, and they would set where you against a transmission Chain: whleh
caught his . clothing and drew him
into the ma:cIline. The accident was
caused by a boulder against which the
binder. struck. After the accident the
field was cleared oratories. F. A. H.
Her Eccentricity.
"Odd: creature, isn't she?"
"Oh, terribly so! Why, she owns
right up that the reason they "haven't
a motor car is because they cannot
night expect to see them rise.
'IJranus rotates on Ito axis much
faster thaw the earth. One day here
is - twenty-four hours long, 'but on
Uranus it is only fifteen. Eight of der
boars, •our usual working day, ; 'would;
be greater .than half of a Uranian day.."
Uranus's axis is tilted 84 degees to
the plane of its orbit, -while the eartb's
is inclined only 23% degrees. In con-
sequence, eeasonal
onsequence,-seasonal variations are pro
nounced on Uranus.
A world's• temperature is usually de- afford iti"
f
Resource is not an accomplish-
ment; it is the innate power of
falling back upon oneself for
new methods of meeting circum-
stances. It is 'invention; it is
courage; it la doggedmese---the
practical :e'presslo•n of 'a mend
that; refuses• to: admit ,defeat.
' "What.: le your occupation?" asked'
the judge. sternly
"I haven't any," replied the
main. "1
east cir ;ureas tareuirtl, so~ t +rssrsea; r'c.
• "Please: note," said the' Judge 'turn-
ing to the court clerk, "that this gentle-
men is retired from circulatlon for
thirty days."
Not the Place for Them.
Niece: That pictere gallery would
be so much more in'creating if there
were some marines 'Present,'
old Aunt: But, my dear; a muse=.
is not a ship!
se of Canada
BY BONNYCASTLE DALE
Those Great Wild Birds Nested in the Savage North, Cradled in the Mighty Gulf and Wintered on Our Icy Coasts.
As I write' this article I am looking
out of the window whish, commands
Barrington Harbor, N.S. (a sort of
divided attention I admit). Outside I
can hear "Honk! Honk! Iia! Honk" as
the flocks of wild geese leap in bunches
and fly out to sea. That busy animal
Man is somewhere around! Yes, I
see a tiny narrow white boat and a'
dark figure rowing towards those
swiftly flying geese. Glorious birds,
'hrow they die attract and defy main.
Here, in his three mile wide .and long
harbor, a ,frock is wintering and the
gunners are lawfully trying every way
to get the hugehonking birds; poor
Thing, it always calls out its approach.
Tee Brant is even more foolish, you
can hear them coming for miles, Yet
a hock of these will winter in these
Nova Scotia harbors and not be deci-
mated. It is wonderful when you
figure that every man is a'fte'r them
and that a flock often to fifteen eagles
lives upon teat flock all winter long.
Laddie and I have seen eight big Bald-
heade feasting on eight dyad geese.
The Eegle's Victittir,
One clay, When we were watching
these big cruel cowardly birds circling
above the flock of geese in a northern
harbor, they suddenly fell screeching
towards the sitting birds. The frock of
several thousand geese called wildly
(we daily enumerated them .until we
arrived at five thousand as a fair final
connt), tip went the flock arxd into it
swept the eagles: One big handsome
goose canoe fanning our way, beating
the air frantically with lts 'throe -foot
wings. Abnve il:, sailing swiftly but
never seeming to • hasten, resale the
k ,
eagle. A mile of this awful work -was nests•on the bogs before the ice has lamp -eyed terrors of the night •love a
young gosling, so site starts off south
ward, or it may be northward, In -
Sanaa. Bay breeding grounds, to the
tidellats• and open waters. There are
quite a few thousands of geese which
go north (No! not nearly as. rnany
kli,oiasands as you would think, I know
done in less than a minute. The eagle
was still sailing and flapping slowly
and the goose flying desperately. Now
they were right in front of us, the
eagle not more than flvefeet above the
goose which was waving its neck and
trying to protect that vulnerable part
--the head. Instantly, so swiftly that
we.,could but trace it, the eagle fell a
few=` feet and let its lege deep. It
clutched the goose by the head with
its big sharp • talons; or struck it with
its hooked beak and instantly released
it and swerved •off in a 'new course:
The fatally wounded gobse came right
towards us (it then fe:al'ecl no man)
and. settled heavily into•the tide chan-
nel in front of, me Tbere it sat With
the blood streaming off its bill -;•the
talons lead been deep and firmly suet.
Several times it dipped the poor ache
ing heard in the cold water. The eagle
meanwhile sat on a tree and watched
its vic'tim's motions. It knew full well
that it could not lift a ten-pound'goose
from the tido, so it waited. Sateac ,a,.
swiftly flying wild duck, a w.histler;.
splashed into the channel near the
goose and alarmed it. lip it gat 'on
huge heavy slow flapping wings and
.dew out to• the shallow water of tee
tide flats Ae soon as the tide had ell
run off, dr the goose had crept tip on
the shore • to bide, the eagle would
finish it and feast off parts •01 if.
• Lead a Hunted Life.
These wild geese lead a lif
ror and alarm:, They go,
the islands of the Gulf
ate Labrador : and ` th
foot of Sanaa - Bay,
melted in the smote, of the supporting
bushes and grasses. Here the young.
Erre hatched out averaging six. Al-
most at once the mother decides it is
'time to get away out of that, as the
owls and eagles, :hawks, and even
foxes, mink and martin and all the
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ci) Lose Cr
of but about seven to ten thousand
geese along Southwestern Nota Scotia
in a good year. Add to these the birds.
which fly north about Cape Race and
you have most of them True, there
are .flocks whichgo sap along New
Brunswick, but the wild goose is a
massing bird on this and ,every coast I
have been on). So this, flock of •sever
al thousand females - brings out six
tinges as many thousands, and never
arrive back here with as many geese
in the flock, young and adult,' as there
were when they left.,
There is, no hunting as :wonderful
and .none in w•hdeb more agony is given
more w'undrds 'l. 11 is
coandmmon thing to
eti Beabir ,aimoostsifulei
charge of shot rattle on the wings. and
feathers of a passing, Slack, hood by the
way, the wings beard at twenty-fiv'e
yards make a noise like the rattling
ina1 an cidwinwd.ooden-ribbed blind shaken
the
When the greatred sun has euua
belied the spruces on the snow -clad
fields, it is restful to sit: on the door-
step and listen to the cries of ale flock
of W!id gas`es. rrhe nult•nlm and Sweet
notes ofg the old geese, evictexitl'y;'tell-
ing the youngsters that ell is well.
'Phe swift creek "heels" of a gender
telling the other fellow to keep away
off over there,. 'fltee far up lei the sky
you hear "Melt!-Tlonkl--Iia-lia)ik!"
and e single big greedy gander feeding
there below on the flats' ratite "Hoek"
and tiro mighty wings of the arriving
host eicPs ch wo 'with• neem, ghostly
rustlings end all the flock calls out a
greeting,