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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-05-07, Page 7HAD LUMBAGO FOR Six YEARS Spent a Lot of Money Seeking Relief For six years this malt suffered with lumbago. After spending a great deal of money on various treatments he; tried Bruschen Salts, Within three weeks he got welcome relief. He expresses his gTatittlde in the following letter:— "For six years I have suffered from lumbago and rheumatism. I have spent a great deal of money on treatments, without avail. I was ad- vised several times to try Krusehen Salts, but only recently did so. Now, after three weeks' treatment, I feel a new man, and walk with pleasure instead of pain. I sleep as I haven't slept foryears, and am filled with a deep sense of gratitude to the chem- ists who have evolved. Ifrusehen Salts.—R.T. Lumbago, like gout and rheuma- tism, is frequently caused by an ex- cess of uric acid in the blood, If you could see how Kruschen dulls those uric acid deposits, then dissolves them away altogether, you would agree that the Krusclzen treatment must bring relief in many eases of lumbago. Me Gels "The latest writer abut Shalee- fspeare the man confesses, in effect, 'that there is little hopeof learning (more about him than already has ;been made known," observes the Ot- tawa Journal. "This is a good thing. It is not the man but the genius whom the world acclaims. Those who think they explain the creator of Lear and Juliet, Touchstone and Falstaff, by. citing facts, real or supposed, about the man who was known to others as 'William Shakespeare are utterly mis- 4taken. "To understand Shakespeare, the creative genius, we must understand the England that. made him, even to understand the world that made Eng- land. It is no wonder that the pry- ing inquisitiveness about men of gen- ius has provoked to their worst in our times those who engage in the ghoulish activity of "debunking." When admirers try to make a god of the man who was possessed by gen- ius their errors are so many and so absurd that even. a half-wit can lead Ithe crowd in ridicule against them. The man of genius, living or dead, bas rights which all others are bound in decency to respect. The genius is openly displayed in the works produc- ed whether those works be buildings, poems, laws or systems of thought. It is the right of anyone to examine those works, to appraise them, to ex- plain them; but the life behind the 'Work is no more on display than any other. -To inquire too deeply into it is not a worn of acclaim or admira- tion but of morbid' curiosity. It de - •feats its own ends. For the more the biographer deals with the life the far- ther he wanders from consideration of the genius which alone makes the life worthy of his attention, A bio- graphy so planned and produced may be a monument of devoted labor of ripe scholarship, of great literary !skill, but it obscures rather than re- veals that in which the world is in- terested, the workman whose creative power has enriched and glorified man- kind. It is an error of pharisaism such as that which insisted upon re- ardi 8 ng the gift upon thealtar as greater than the altar itself." If you are seeking mental Improve- ment and efficiency, you should write for particulars of - the courses offered at moderate fees by The In- stitute of Practical sad applied Psychology. Read "TIiE HELPER." — a new monthly magazine of help for every- body Published by The Institute of Practical and Applied Psychology One dollar a year Sample Copy — Ten Cents Write for your oopy TODAY 810 CONPEDERATION BUILDING Montreal — Quebec. ICE BOX "Opalite" Refrigerator Good as new, suitable for small 'restaurant or large family. Make offer. Room '421 73 Adelaide Street W. TORONTO Elgin 3101 an o nada Pians Boilding Site Now Is Being Sought For Own Quarters At Ottawa OTTAWA, ---Negotiations are be- ing carried or by the Bank of Can- ada for purchase of a property on Wellington street oh which it is pro- posed to erect a building which wolild serve the needs of the bank for many years to come. Graham Ford Towers, governor of the bank, questioned on the --report that a property had been bought, said nothing had been set- tled. The site for which negotiations are under way would place the bank pre- mises .in close proximity to the Con- federation Building and the new Justice Building, which is now near- ing completion. The new bank would be almost directly opposite the latter structure, which will house the de- partment of Justice and offices of -the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, At the present time the Bank of Canada occupies rented quarters on Wellington street and will probably remain there at least untli the pres- ent two-year lease expires. The pro- posal is to erect a modest , building sufficiently roomy to provide for ex- pansion. Before Parliament prorogues it will be asked to consider a resolution which calls for the acquisition of sufficient shares for the Bank of Canada to give the government ownership of the controlling interest. Under the existing set-up it is large- ly under control of the government, but the intention is to obtain owner- ship as well as control. The Skunk as a Pet Writes the S t r a t f or d Beacon- Herald.: "A news item the other day stated that some people in Ohio were due for a surprise on opening a box stolen from a parked car as the con- tents were—a pet skunk. As a natter of fact skunks can be made very delightful pets. It is necessary, of course, to extract the sac containing the fluid which he uses for defence, but when that is done the result is very pleasing, for besides being a very pretty animal, the skunk is a gentle and playful companion and can be trained to do things just like a dog. People who have deodorized skunks report they are affectionate and amusing and quite harmless playmates for child- ren. People are too much down on the skunk. He is really one of the best frienls a farmer has. He destroys more beetles, grasshoppers and small insect pests than all other animals put together. True, he eats eggs and sometimes kijls a chicken, but the balance is heavily in his favor. Quite a respectable fancily man is the skunk. If you are fortunate you may sometimes see him stepping along sedately at the head of his wife and children — about ten of them—in single file, searching for food. He does not seek to annoy any- body, but if you come upon him sud- denly and startle "hint, look out. When he turns his back toward you it is time to run." 14) Fxtra Cluffe For Fiyillg Pest Air Mail Fees Between London and North Sea Countries Abolished LONDON No extra "air mail" fee is now necessary for postal air transport from the United icing- dom to Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Letters and postcards addressed to places in those countries will be ;conveyed by air at the ordinary international postage rates when- ever use of the air method will ex- pedite delivery. Once again, Great Britain has taken, this time with the co-operation of four countries, a big step forward in the develop- ment of air mail services. Mr mail leaving London one morning is delivered by first post in Copenhagen the neat, "Italian Fascism is less concerned with the happiness of living ,ttaliians than with the gallant effort to make ancient Romans• of then. an.'• —Dorothy Thompson. "The Contester" -- A Weedy Bulletin Service for Contestants, Artists and Authors This service consists of International Prize Contests, Markets for Car - teens, Illustrations, Borders, Designs for ,Magazines,! Advertising, Greet- ing Cards and 'V'erses. Articles, Limericks, Poems, Slogans, and Stories. $2.50 for 1 year, $1.50 for G months, $1.00 for 3 Montilla, 50c for 1 month, and a 'sample sheet iQe, Send a 3o stamped, addressed envelope for • other money making ideas, Gaff Baker, 39 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Canada Farm Pr blems Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL with the co, -operation of the 'various departments of Ontario Agricultural College, The business of farming is yearly becoming more and more dependent upon facts that have been gathered regarding livestock and livestock management, crop production, soil management, disease and insect con - trot and business organization of the farming industry. Individual prob- lems involving one or more of these, and many other phases of agricul- ture, engage the attention of Ontario farmers from day to day. Through this column farmers may secure the latest information pertain- ing to their difficulties, To intro- duce this service Professor Bell has prepared the following typical 'prob- lems to indicate the_ information which should be given in order that a satisfactory answer can be made. If answer is desired by letter en- close stamped and addressed envelope for reply. Address all inquiries to Professor Henry G. Bell, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ont. N. V., Algoma Co. (a): --We wish, to top dress our hay fields this spring with commercial fertilizer. The soil is clay, not acid in reaction. Tlx hay is Timothy and Alsike. Which of the three should be used, Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Am- monia or Nitro Chalk? How much per acre, the sand being poor? ANSWER: — Of the materials you mentioned, I believe you would be safest in top dressing your hay fields with Sulphate of Ammonia. This material applies 20 lbs. of pure Nitrogen to the 100 lbs. of salt. Its only objection is that it produces a slightly acid reaction. If 'you scatter it evenly on top of the dry grass at the rate of 150 I lbs. per acre ,your grass should not ,suffer from burning, 11 it is ap- plied when the grass is damp, there is a danger of the particles stick- leg to the. leaves and having a burning effect on the grass. If you Continue to top dress your soil with Sulphate of Ammonia, it will be necessary for you •to lime your soils once in three or four years to counteract the acidity, other- wise, legumes, 611211 as clovers, will die out, Nitrate of Soda is a neutral salt which carries 15 lbs of nitrogen to the 100 lbs. It is very soluble and readily taken UP by the grass and legumes. Its only defect for your land Is that It has a puddling effect on clay. QUESTION II (b):—Is it good prac- tice t ospread Wood Ashes over the manure piles and covered up again, then mixing it. Would it save the chemicals of the ashes or would it harm the manure? This is don for lack of space, to re- tain ashes under cover till spring. ANSWER:—It is not good practice tice to spread Wood .Ashes over ure pile, Ashes carry about 6% actual potash which, of course, would be a good addition to the manure. However, manure carries over 30% of active lime (CaO), This would have the effect of let- ting Ioose the Ammonia from the manure whereby you would lose nitrogen from the manure. 1 would advise storing the ashes, protected from rainfall and scat- tering it on the ground in the spring when you are getting the seed bed ready. This will give you full advantageous from the ashes. A PIage of Ylice Over -running Southern On- tario—Short-Eared Owls Aid Farmers Many parts of Southern Ontario are suffering from a plague of field mice. Young fruit trees and shrubs of many kinds !lave been girdled, corn left in stooks in the fields over winter has been robbed of all its grain and grassland is honeycombed with the runways and burrows of the mice. Mice have been more abundant than they have been for many years. At the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, there has recently been placed on view an interesting ex- hibit illustrating another phase of the mouse plague. This includes a pile of owl pellets containing the skulls of hundreds of mice eaten by short -eared owls, which roosted during the winter on the grounds of the Bathurst Golf Course just north of Toronto. The bones and hair of nice eaten by owls are not digested but are cast up in the form of com- pact pellets. A half bushel of these pellets were gathered up beneath ornamental evergreen trees which had served as winter roosts for several owls. Examination of 350 of these pellets selected at random 'from the pile revealed the remains of 536 mice and 4 birds. The mouse whose unusual abun- dance is attracting such wide atten- tion is the meadow or field mouse, sometimes called vole. It is a stout mouse, covered with rather long brown hair. It is distinguished from the house mouse and the deer or white-footed mouse, the other two common species found in Ontario, by its short tail, small ears and tiny eyes. It is active by day while the other two are active at night. Several causes have been sug- ested for the present abundance of eld mice, including the scarcity of awks and owls, many of which are nown to feed extensively on mice. t is known that mice of several binds vary in numbers from year to ear in much the same way as the now -shoe rabbit or varying hare oes. Over a period of years, they radually increase in numbers until nusual abundance is reached, when hey begin to decline until they are gain scarce. Such fluctuation re- ur with surprising regularity in the opulations of many animals. In e case of the rabbit, it is nine or 11 years between successive peaks. is not known definitely what the ouse period is but it is probably ur or five years. The present al of numbers of the meadow ouse is an unusually high one. Correspondents can assist the el - its being made to understand these ctuations in animal numbers by inmiunicating their observations on e present mouse plague to the Ro- 1 Ontnrio Museum of Zoology, z'onto. g fi h k I y s d g u t a C th to It fo pe fo flu co tlz ya To Sure To See It Sister ---"Where can I put this so I won't forget it when I go out?" Brother (like all brothcrs)-..."Put it on the looking -glass." IQuack Grass Wheat (Toronto Telegram) Quack grass, hated in the United States as a noxious weed, has been hybridized with wheat by a Russian plant breeder, Dr. H. B. Tzitsin, the Tess Agency at Washington has been informed. The new grain grows perennially, like its quack grass parent. This, says Science Service, would presumably give it the double advantage of not having to be sown every year, and of covering and binding the soil against erosion with a continuous mat of roots. Small-scale experiments with the hybrid grain indicate that it will yield more flour, bushel for bushel, than "straight" wheat. Bread baked. from. ;tile hybrid Frain hose.' is said to be of good quality and flavor. Another of Dr. Tzitsin's . hybrid wheats combines four wheat varie- ties in its pedigree, and is declared to be a phenomenally heavy yielder, one stalk producing as many as 411)0 grains, Still another hybrid wheat has been evolved for growing in the short -summered north; its grain can be matured in as little as 67 days, Car LigMs Howard Vincent O'Brien in Chic- ago Daily News writes: "The auto- mobile headlight, however, remains at the horse -and -buggy and -buggy level. Not a particle of progress seems to have been made in the effort to provide a light which will not blind the other fellow. There are various devices on th: market which are supposed to eliminate glare. I have seen no evi- dence that they do. On this trip I have seen a half- dozen large trucks lying overturn- ed in ditches—grewsome spectacles. I cannot say what caused these mis- haps, but I would guess (1 headlight glare, (2) sleepy drivers. Truck driv- ers are"sometimes required to work longer hours than the human frame can endure. And a sleepy driver is more dangerous than a drunken driv- er. While on this theme I might men- tion that good driving seems to be on the increase, There is unques- tionably less speed, and infrequent enough to be notable are instances of such follies as passing on hills and curves. Still at large, however, are numerous examples of the sort of imbecile who goes past parked cars at forty miles an hour and who sticks too close to the car in front of him." SAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE - And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Tho liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile isnot flowing frcely, your food doesn't digest.' It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach, Yougetconstipated. Harmful • poisons go into the body, and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. A more bowel movement doesn't always get at the cause, You need something that Warks on the liver as well. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get those two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up". harmless and gentle, they maks the bile flow freely, Thoy do the work of calomel but have no calomel or mercury in them, Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name 1 Stubbornly refuse anything else, 26'c. DIXIE burns slowly, and lasts longer. The flavour is rich and mellow -;always! Hurry Cited As Acci4e,t Cause Pedestrians, Cyclists and Mo- torists Would All Benefit by Making Haste Slowly. Hurry is certainly one of the im- portant causes of road accidents; hurry on the part of the motor -car driver, the pedestrian, the cyclist and other road users, writes Oliver Stewart in the Londcn Morning Post. It is one of the hardest of all causes to deal with, which is perhaps why it is so rarely mentioned. Most motorists have met fairly frequently the pedestrian who sees his omnibus starting on the other side of the road and who, in his hurry to catch it, darts across in front of on- coming traffic. At such moments the pedestrian fails to note the speed of oncoming vehicles or whether the road is slippery or not. He fails to notice whether it is possible for him to be seen as he makes his sudden dive into the traffic. The only thing that carries him forward is the hurry to get on the step of that omnibus, The cyclist in a hurry does various things. One of the commonest is to turn a left-hand corner while traffic is passing and, instead of awaiting all opening to get on the correct side of the road, to ride along close to the left-hand curb. This is a danger- ous practice which is extraordinarily prevalent. ens. One sympathises SCS ir il those who ride delivery bicycles, who are often hard pressed to get through all their orders in the time allotted; but theyshould be persuaded, 210 matter how great the hurry, to re- sist the temptation to ride on the left-hand side of the road. The motorist in a hurry manifests his condition by violent acceleration and braking and by frequent use of the horn- He makes stabs at every opening to try to get through and jumps away on the amber at the traffic lights, To be drunk in charge of a motor -car is regarded as a serious offence. To be in a desper- ate hurry in charge of a motor -car is more dangerous, Bad Manners I have known drunken drivers who drive in a slow, rather dignified, and essentially safe way; but I have never known a driver who is in a desperate hurry to drive other than in en exceedingly dangerous way. Hurry is one of the prime causes of bad road manners, bad driving, and bad accidents. So far those who snake it their business to invent regulations have not hit on any means of determin- ing a state of hurry, so they have not made it an offence when in charge of a motor -ear. Possibly they do not appreciate what a large part it plays in road accidents. But motor -drivers should recognize the risks which attend it, and should train themselves to resist it, It is difficult, when the traffic refuses to "run" and every clock shows that. the chances of catching that train, or being punctual for that important appointment are receding, to refuse to hurry; but such refusal forms an essential part of the training of every safe driver. In a run of 50 miles the amount of time that can be gained .,by hurrying, as compared with fast, but Issue No. 18 -- 36 safe driving, is extraordinarily small. The driver should learn to recognize his fastest safe speed, and refuse, no matter what the incentive, to go beyond it. No natter how one con- centrates, one cannot drive through traffic and populous districts faster than a certain average — which varies slightly with the car, but very little with the driver — and the important thing is to recognize that average. "A thousand and one ways to make money," reads an advertisement. 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