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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-07-12, Page 7Former London Waif is Host Of Theatre's Queen During 90's HOLLYWOOD—Forty years ago Mrs, Patrick Campbell was the toast ,of London, Outside the theatre gath- ered the hoi polloi, to touch the hers l of royalty's garment. Among the throng was a six-year- old waif from Lambeth who scamper- eid across the Westminster bridge at night' "Just to smell the perfume of the ladies as they passed into the theatre," • So it -was a memorable occasion this week when the former waif, now the world's greatest comedian, entertained Mrs. Campbell at a din- ner party. It was the first time they bacl ever met, Mrs. Campbell was fascinated, Charlie Chaplin was inwardly stir- red. Inspired by the great lady's trans- parent ti.dmiration, Chaplin was at his best. He re-enacted a recent. Jewish play, speaking what seemed to 'be Yiddish.. He did imitations and impersonations, and ended by putting on a wig aid playing a classic Japanese drama.. - "In heaven's name," said Mrs. Campbell In amazement, "where did 'you learn Japanese?" "I know no foreign language, but' I know the music of most of them," Charlie replied. The Praying Mantis In many warm countries there is n queer -looking insect which goes by the name of the praying mantis, or ioothsayer... The former name was given to it because the first pair of legs which spring out of the front part of the body are generally held' in such a way as to suggest that the creature is putting its hands together In prayer. Its scientific name of • mantis, which means soothsayer, or diviner, was given because the insect was sup- posed to be endowed with strange powers. If a child lost its way and asked the mantis the direction of its some, the insect was believed to point to the right road with its outstretched iegs. We know better than this now, and ,merely regard the mantis as a very interesting insect because of its strange form and habits. So far from being devout and gentle, as its praying hands suggest, it is quite a hypocrite among insects. ft is 'one of the most savage and. bloodthirsty of insects. It lies in wait for its prey, and when an unsuspect- ing insect alights near by, the man- tis, with slow and stealthy steps, moves towards it, and suddenly its forelimbs shoot out and the victim is caught and crushed. At once it begins to tear its prey to pieces with its strong jaws, and then, when the meal is done, the man- tis again puts its legs together in the attitude of prayer, as though saying grace after meat, while it piously waits for its next victim. Making Books Live stated that there were certain chemi- cal ingredients which could he used when dyeing leather that would re- sist the destructive atmosphere oN' any city, thus •guaranteeing the life of a leather cover indefinitely. This mean,s that from now on every book published can be made -.to last for centuries. .A. valuable contribu- tion indeed to the world of letters. No more disintegration! No •snore pulverization! It is a staggering thought: But in reality Mr. Inne's solution only touches the fringe of the problem. What we now need is for him to apply his genius to the discovery of some method by which the contents of a book may he guar- anteed to live as long as its cover.- The Christian Science Monitor, The Seeing Heart For many years librarians, pub - ushers and authors have labored long and in vain trying to find out why leather-bound books should disinteg- rate so rapidly. The problem has baffled the entire book world for ages. Various reasons have been put for- ward in an attempt to explain the matter. Some have said it was due to insects. Others have suggested that dampness may have caused the trouble, while certain literary critics have cynically stated that poetic jus- tice alone was responsible. It now appears that all these conjectures were wrong. In England, recently, chemical ex- perts, carrying out some interesting experiments, have solved the mys- tery. They selected twu books — one from the royal library at Buck- ingham Palace, and one from the library at Windsor Castle. The Buck- ingbam Palace selection was a vol- ume of Disraeli's letters, while the book taken from Windsor was an edi- tion of Lord Salisbury's letters, The investigators found that the one with the leather cover which had rested on the shelves of the city lib- rary was in a state -of powdery de- creptitude, while the one that had enjoyed the benefits of a puye, rural existence at Windsor had remained In a vigorous and unwrink]e.d state af preservation. This seemed very mystifying at first, although a literary critic ex- pressed the opinion that Disraeli's letters would naturally pulverize a t book cover more rapidly than any- izing Lord Salisbury ever wrote. This dew, however, was discarded by the chemical experts as entirely irrele- rant. After much laboratory work, Fara- lay Innes, a descendant of the fain - nu; Michael Faraday and .himself a aoted chemist, was able to prove that the poor condition of the city -dwell - Ing book cover was due to the Sul- phuric acid it had absorbed from the smoke -laden London atmosphere which the Windsor volume bad not been subjected to. Mr. luxes` also One grand, invaluable secret there is, however, which includes all the rest, and, what is comfortable, lies clearly in every man's power: To have an open, laving heart, and what follows' from the possession of such. Truly it has been said, em- phatically in these days ought to to be repeated: A loving Heart is the beginning of all Knowledge. This it is that opens the whole mind, quick- ens every faculty of the intellect to do its fit work, that of knowing; and therefrom, by sure consequence, of vividly uttering -forth. Other secret for being "graphic" is there none, worth having: but this is an all - sufficient one. See, for example, what a small Boswell can dol Hereby, in- deed, is the whole man made a living mirror, wherein the wonders of this ever -wonderful Universe are, in their true .light (which is ever a magical miraculous one) represented, and re- flected back on us. It has been said, "the heart sees farther than the head:" but, indeed, without the see- ing heart, there is no true seeing for the head so much 'as possible; all is mere oversight, hallucination and vain superficial phantasmagoria, which can permanently profit no one.—Thomas Carlyle, in "Essay on Biography." • ssignments Show Decline It pays to "Roll Your Own" with 1T ¢ ,Y� t <. Mj: R FINE CULT CIGARETTE TOBACCO We Recommend "CHANTECLER"-or "VOGUE" Cigarette Papers Reading in Bed Bad for Eyesight Never Work in Twilight or Any Light But the Best Among the hundreds of women who come to him for help, only a few really do right by their eyes, declar- es a famous oculist. The others, he sometimes remarks, must spend a good part of their days thinking up ways to harass and dull the orbs that should glow and sparkle with beauty. No one really means to hurt her eyes, but such a negative attitude is not enough. We must take 'def- inite steps to give them the care that will prolong their service to use and at the same, time make thezn better - looking. The girl who reads inseeed is ane of the worst offenders against both eye -health and eye -beauty. Not that anybody would wish to discourage so pleasant a habit. But as usual, there are right ways and wrong ways to go about it. Be sure that you choose the right way. First, look to your .light. See that it is bright, but not too bright, that it is shaded so that no glare is thrown into your eyes and that a steady, even gleam falls upon the book. The best position for it is fastened to the bed just over your head. If it is on a bedside table, the bulb should be higher than your head and arranged so that your page will not be shadow- ed. In bed you should sit, not lie, comfortably against your pillows, so that. your eyes may traverse the page without strain. When they feel tired after you have been writing, reading or sewing for a while, close "hem for a few minutes and let your imagination picture distant hills and mountains at which to gaze. Never read or work in twilight, or in any light but the best. Bathe your eyes night and morning with a re- liable eye wash, such as a teaspoon boracic dissolved in a pint of warm water. Keep your eye -cup clean and never use one used by someone else. Do not form nervous habitsof rub- bing your eyes. If a particle of dirt gets into them, wash thein and be careful not to irritate ley rubbing. Decrease in Bankruptcy Re- ports Shown At Ottawa Ottawa, — A substantial decrease was shown to liabilitiee and also in the number of assignments under the Bankruptcy and Winding Up Acts in April, as compared with the corres- ponding month of last year, says a re- port issued- by. the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Commercial failures in April numbered 141 with liabilities of $2,009,381 and ',compares with 184 as- signments and liabilities of $3,022,- 466 in April 1933. All areas showed de- creases with the exception of British Columbia where an increase of one was shown. In the Maritime provinces there were eight assignments in comparison with 15 in the same month last year, while in Quebec the failures number- ed 68, and in the 'Prairie provinces there were 13 as compared with 20 in April 1933. In British Columbia, the only area to show an increase, there were seven as compared with six in the corresponding month last year. "Now, Henry, give me a kiss and you shall have a penny," "No good to me," said Henry with disdain. "I can get twopence for taking castor oil," Moving the Nation's Freight �- AOR'•TO-DOOR rSERWICE l e The facilities offered by the naw loor-to-door freight service in certain zones in the East and recently pro. tided In the three prairie provinceS, Is making a distinct appeal to large - shipping houses and the smaller shippers who for some time past have wade use almost exclusively of high.` i ways, Canadian National officials re- port that this economical door-to-door form of transporting goods is pro- viding a stabilized freight rate strum tare throughout the country, 'rhe railways, in this innovation, are utilizing cartage facilities to amplify their rail service. conferred recently upon Jakov Melin- kov, skating champion; Michail But- usov, football champion; Alexei Max- umov, long distance running champ- ion; Maria Shamanova, light athletics champion; ,Alexander Rizhov, shoot- ing champion; and Dmitri Vasiliev, champion ski jumper. Mental sport won recognition when the title of master was conferred up- on Peter Romanovsky, famous chess player. Calf Has Three Eyes Two Mouths, Tongues Winstead, Conn., — A freak calf, having three ,eyes, two mouths, two tongues and two sets of nostrils, was born on the farm of John Peyre ap- peared strong and destined to live. The third eye is set in tbe centre of the forehead. Two well -shaped mouths appeared on .either side of where the mouth usually is located and the tongues and nostrils function separately. New Titles Moscow—Physical prowess is to be rewarded hereafter in the Soviet Un- ion by titles and decorations equal to those given scientists, writers and po- litical and military leaders. The title of "Master of Sport" was iialosounallawasauzasseetvoneanaeso Ask Mother' She Knows Mother took this medicine be- fore and after the babies cameo Is gave her more strength and energy when she was nerv- ous and rundown : ; : kept her on the job all through the Change. No wonder she rec.. ornmends it. LYDIA E. PINKKAit`S VEGETABLE COMPOUND eimmigolosuomommiimponemown is nue No. 27--'34 Discards Wig London, Eng. — It is all most unus- ual—even irregular. Lord Merrivale, that famous judge actually discarded his wig in court last week. The most dignified police in the world, as represented by the bobbies at Rochester, discarded their tunics and directed traffic in their shirtsleeves. As England steamed through a hu- mid day with no rain in right to re- lieve the country -wide drought, 500 police armal with birch brooms guar- ded the Ascot heath and race -course from the clanger of fire. The Prince on His 40th Birthday On June 23rd, the Prince of Wales was 40. Clair Price, writing in the New York Times Magazine has sever- al cernments to make, one which reads "A 40th birthday which Ends the Prince still content with his bachelor existence in York House cannot help but be another of the persisting re- minders of the war. If there had been'no war, no doubt everything would have been very different, not only for the first of • the King's 450,- 000,000 subjects, but for all tbe rest of the 450,000,000 too. No d:,ubt, long before this, there would . have been a Princess of Wales and Marlborough House would have been a sociel centre second in brilliance only to Bucking- ham Palace itself." She continues:—"Since the war the Prince has been hammered little by little back toward the normal course of his life. After a fling of insati- able restlessixess which has made him the most travelled Prince in Europe, he has given up travelling and has settled down at home. After risking his neck in polo, hunting and point-to-point racing, he has accept- ed a question in the House of Com- mons as a pereniflatory order and has given up those, too. Drives Own Car. "More and more he puts hiss Peter Pan years behind him and tecomes the serious citizen. More and more he takes on the sober coloring of his father, But he still sticks to York House in the west wing of the group of mellow old brick buildings known as St. James's Palace "Having accepted the tra+!pion, he spends his time (except the few hours when he is asleep) in a kind of perpetual standiug to attention be- fore the country, the Cabinet and the King. Whether he is laced into uni- form, covered with decoratica,s and standing calm and straight confront ing a crash of cheering with bis hand motionless on the hilt of his sword, or in a plain business suit is standing with. the Mayor behind the potted palms of a provincial plats nm, con- fronting the same crash of cheering and flngering his tie in a lane man- nerism which used to betray genuine nervousness but is now only an en - conscious playing up to the stirred emotions of his audience, he embod- ies the tradition of Britisb monarch- ism witis complete mastery of him- self. "But something 1n him, perhaps a bit of bis native obstinacy, impels him to put off the roses and ti'orns to the last possible moment. liven at 40, be drives himself home to York house in his own two-seater end lets hinisei'f in with his own Mtchkey; and the old splendors have nr'ver come back to Marlborough House. The great mansion in the trees re- mains as cold and dark as the tomb. Still Waiting. One of the most remarkable man- sions in London, Marlborough House is so vast that when Wren built it in 1709 for the great Duke of Marl- borough and his Sarah, it completely eclipsed "Neighbor George•!," estab- lishment in St. James's Palace next door. Its most brilliant memories are those of Edward VII and Alexandra as Prince and Princess of Wales, for it was theirs from the date of their marriage in 1863 down to Victoria's death in 1901, and to this day it is stuffed to bursting point with a red - plushy Edwardian magnificena e, "It was there that the preaant I{ing was born, there that he and the present Queen lived as Prince and P3'•incess of Wales during the ten years of his fatier's reign. It was there that Alexandra rete'ned as Queen Mother in 1910. As a bride and as a widow, she lived there for more than half a century; and to the average Londoner tbe great house is still filled with her memory. "As soon as she died there in 1925, the Government got ieto the old plade and put in a year's work thoroughly modernizing it for the Prince's occupancy. The Queen her- self took charge of the furnishing of his personal suite on the first floor up, and officers for staff were made ready on the ground floor, "Presumably the Prince's suite is still read; and waiting; but this cannot ,tow ba :aid either of London in general or of Pall Mail in par- ticular, tor both of then gave up waiting years ago. For better or worse, a bachelor Prinre in York House has long been part of tate ac- cepted order of things." Bonus Helps South African Fruit Farmers Report Good Profits costs and those of the rest of the world. The bonuses have been maintained despite the fact that South Africa also is now off the gold standard, and they make all the difference between good profits and none to the producer of that Dominion. One other thing that is excellent in his home country was noted by Mr. Coltman in the course of his voyage. "I used to complain about our South African trains," he said, "but I'll never do so again after travelling on the American lines. We have hot weather too, but our cars are wider and you get a large and private com- partment to yourself very easily." Mr. and Mrs. Coltman are sailing to England shortly. The Password Is Quality in Poultry Canada Following Up Her Good Work in All Exports - "If Canada is going to get its share of the British trade in poultry, in ba- con, in live cattle, or in any other of its agricultural products, the value and necessity of doing things better, not worse than competitors must be regarded as all-important," said Mr. W. A. Wilson, Canadian Government Animal Products Trade Commissioner in London, England, during his pres- ent visit to the Dominion. "We made a good reputation with our first ship- ment of turkeys, because the quality was there and they were graded and packed according to government standards. The British trade responds to work well done. There is the mar- ket for Canadian poultry and other produets and the password is Quality. "The season for exporting potoltry to Britain should be desigued for the 12 months of the year. Buyers over there do not want to change their source of supply if they can be as- sured of the demand being met at all times." "Canada should follow the same policy in connection with the present opportunity open for the export of dressed chickens as it has done with turkeys exported to Britain for the 1932 and 1933 Christmas trade. The 1,000,000 pounds of turkeys shipped in 1932 were 100 per cent. as to quality. In 1933 they were not quite so good as the previous year but this was due to some unusual difficulties associated with the shipping and are surmount- able. Turkeys for the British Christ- mas trade must reach the buyers at least one week before Christmas day." Ottawa, — Relief operations in de- partment of national defense camps for single unemployed men in alt parts of the Dominion, cost approxi- mately $1,521,000 for April, May and June, 1934, it was stated in an order - in -council tabled in the Hous' of Com- mons. MONTREAL—South African fruit farmers know very well indeed that theirs is a happy, happy land. C. H. Coltman, citrus fruit grower of the eastern Cape Province is satisfied of this particularly since he and Mrs. Coltman have begun to realize that there are comparatively few fruit growers of other countries making round the world trips for pleasure in these arduous times. "Wire well off," he admitted when interviewed in. the Queen's Hotel here recently, "because aur fruit exports are still being bonused by the Gov- ernment. And from private inform- ation' I received a few days ago the bonusing will continue for some time to come." South Africa, he explained, bonused the Empire export of fruits and other farmers' products during the time when England went off the gold standard and most of the Dominions followed suit. South Africa, great gold producer as she was, remained on the gold standard for a year longer. During this time her farmers found themselves unable to sell abroad be- cause of their gold llasis costs, and hence the South African government established a system of bonusing ex- ports to crake up the difference bet- ween the South Afric o production STOPS ITCHING in One mute D. D D. Prescription Speeds Relief' For quick relief from the itching of .pimpios, mosquito or other insect bites, eczema, rashes and other skin eruptions, apply Dr. Dcnnis''pure, cooling, liquid, antiseptic D. D. D. Prescription. Forty years' world-wide success. Penetrates the skin, soothing and healing the inflamed tissues. No fuss—no muss. Clear, > rease- less and stainless --dries up almost trainee diately. Try D. D. D. 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