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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1935-06-27, Page 6„pit tit„ 4,11.00 a;;7 t4.1 �t� ;:,'''CAN elx CANADA FASHION NOTE Talking about epidemics„ have you noticed how theladies are coming out in spots?--Iiamilton Spectator, AND. NOW—QUINTULIFS W. R. Thompson, Main Street, has a curiosity hi his flower garden this spring, where an old -Fashioned yel- low tulip leas crashed tothe front page by producing five blooms on one stem. Both mother -plant and blooms are doing well—a fine family of "quintulips.” — Petrolia Advertiser- Topic. WHEN THE LILACS BLOOM The world may be going complete- ly to the dogs, as some people af- firm, but it is hard to believe it when lilacs are in bloom and strawberry shortcake season is in the •offing.— London Advertiser. GOOD DRIVERS. The majority of drivers go along year after year without mishap; they are the conscientious people who re- alize their responsibilities and are not obsessed with the mania for speed nor with that dangerous com- plex which expresses itself in the taking of chances. They are ever on the alert, guard- ing against the possibilities of dan- ger, avoiding risks, never plunging heedlessly into situations in. which the unknown •or unseen constitute a potential menace. In other words, they proceed on their way, with their eyes wide open and their minds centred on. the responsible work in hand. — Hamilton Spectator. 'MYSTER YFICTION. Predictions of literary prophets that the craze for mystery fiction was on the wane and would sobn be ended doeginot seem to be working out that sway. Foi- the last half 'dozen years wiseacres. fn the book world have persistefitlp stated that the modern detective story was losing groiund, that its” day was about done. The publfc, they said, had sickened on the diet of murder and horror which was, being served up to it, and that other forms of :light reading would take its place. Perusal of circulation --fad-itn the -public libraries does not -bear out this' 'opinion. Today the mystery story ,still re- mains one of the biggest sellers on the book store shelves. And it is most emphatically not because mystery fic- tion has improved. It hasn't. -Chat- ham •Netvrs, MORE EVIDENCE. The extent to which reckless driv- ing is responsible for grade -crossing eiceidents is shown by data subhnitted by the Safety Section of the Asso- ciation of American Railroads. Out of 3,322 accidents of this kind in 1934, it is stated that one out of every five resulted from motor veh- icles being driven into the side of trellis, In many cases this happened re'. i.en. trains were standing still. In such collisions 287 persons were kill- ed, and •1,865 injured. The association includes lines in Canadaas well as the United States. Canadian motorists have certainly done their fair share in piling up the accident total.—Winnipeg Tribune, do everything he can to detect the rays. He uses receiving circuits and valves of extreme sensitiveness. But if a person does not want to re- ceive waves that might interfere with his engine or himself he does not need sensitive, but insensitive, ap- paratus—that is, armor to protect him. It is 'very much easier to make insensitive than to make sensitive 'pparatus, and in fact an enclosure of thin metal foil should be sufficient to protect an engine or delicate part of a machin a from any known sort of electrical ray coming from a source more than a few yards away.—Man- chester way.—Manchester Guardian, RADIO PILLOWS. There Is no end to inventions to make the listening to radio pro- grams comfortable to the very lazi- est of fans, There is one new idea that ,is also a comfort to those who do not want to listen, which some- times is a whole neighborhood. With a pillow of the type now 'in- vented it is said you will be able to go to bed and listen to the radio all night if you choose without stern injunctions from others to turn the thing off. A sensitive set is concealed. in the sponge rubber interior of the pillow and the reproduced sound can be heard only when the ear is rest- ng on the pillow. It was a feature of this .year's re- alio and electrical exhibition at Syd- ney, in Australia.—Brandon Sun. UNCONGENIAL OCCUPATIONS The most unhappy people on earth titre those who are in uncongenial oc- cupations, who got the wrong kind of educations and jobs and had to be content to be forever square pegs in round -holes, With good advice from the vocational guidance council, many Such mistakes will be eliminated.— Niagara Falls Review; AIRPLANES AND RAYS. :Recent reports from Italy of the methods . of stopping airplanes by rays sound rather fantastic to the ears of professional physicists. There is one important general con- side.ation to be remembered when claims of this Sort are being advanc- ed, When rays have effects at great distances, as with radio waves, it is due to the efforts of the receiver to STRIPPING THE FORESTS There is and always has been too much ruthless stripping of the for- ests, particularly the watersheds of this country. And the results are with us today. What with this ruth- less cutting and the ravages of for- est fires and incests, the Canadian wood supply is being depleted with all the attendant detrimental effects. There is, as one example, great concern about falling levels in the St. Lawrence waterways, and the greatest cause, we are convinced, is this very stripping of the watersheds and the banks of streams tributaries to the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, —Halifax Herald. CHASING THE HITCH -HIKERS. Hitch -hiking still continues to con- stitute itself a major nuisance along the highways, although those alto engage in this cheap but bothersome way of travelling report that drivers are becoming ,increasingly hard-heart- ed and free rides are correspondingly more difficult to obtain. After all, why should motorists be expected to pick up individuals along our roads and supply them with free transportation?...... The hitch -hiker is sometitnes a danger, and Is always a nuisance, and 'it is not surprising to find the auth- lorities in many sections of the con- tinent declaring war on the persons who beg free rides.—Peterboro Ex- aminer. A CAT AND A BIRD. It is possible to domesticate a cat •and snare of ;.it a c eltghttul.44de 'Canzpani an,..'�t�^•ief'slctu"`zii't'`ef'c�"'•a�'`-'�t rand it reverts to the life of its an- cestors. The cat has not unproved a particle in a thousand years of world progress. It will rend. a young 'robin as ruthlessly as its ancestors did in the days of Julius Caesar. Toronto Star. rn Drawing Fp'* w Five hundred families await their; turns to draw lots for tracts in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, U.S., rehabilitation project. Martin W. McCormick, first to draw, announces his luck to the crowd. restore them. The small mixed farm has become definitely uneconomic in Britain, as in most Continental coun- tries, and every year of progress, ev- ery invention of science and machin- ery, increases the efficiency , of the large farm as compared with the small, Further employment upon the land is to be obtained, not by a return to earlier conditions of sub -division, but by an intensification of the meth- ods of production on larger units of cultivation, Under organisation even modern production of certain select- ed commodities will admit of the par- ticipation of single -man units, the lack of efficiency of which is offset by the social and psychological advan- tages they confer.—A. D. Hall in The Nineteenth Century and After (Lon- don). VAL S DOWN Litter Of . Ten Silver F Once Worth $.65,000 Iir Cash Shyness Has Stories of Inteliige Related t Dogs As y a Divinity Dean From the San Francisco Argonaut, Sir Walter Scott once said he never heard a dog Stogy he had the slight- est 'difficulty in believing. And Sir Walter, like most old ,'British Tories, had a knowledge of dogs that will be denied to every Bolshevik, for we are convinced that no dog ever liked a rabid Bolshevik, or, ever will. We shall not undertake to tell our readers anything that we know about dogs, though we know a good :deal; but we propose to relate two stories that the Reverend Doctor Charles. Carroll Everett, the dean of Harvard Divin'ty School 40' years ago, used to tell. Both of them may seem to most of our readers almost unbelieveable, but those who knew Dr. Everett are aware that he was not given to gassing, and that he was not the sort .of man who gave ready credence to "old wives' fables." Dr. Everett related these stories of clogs and persons whom he knew well. One -of them was in regard to a dog who brought a • physician, to a house that sorely needed him. An old lady was taken sudclenly ill, and her granddaughter said, in the pre- sence of the dog that she wished Dr. could be reached. (This was before the ..day of telephones and there was nobody she could send for him.) Suddenly the doctor walked in, to the surprise of the lady, and when she asked how he knew he was want- ed, be told her that her dog had come to his place and set up a tremendous barking in front of the door. When he came the dog indicated in various 'ways that he desired the doctor to follow, ,him and he had done so. Per- haps the mot remarkable feature of the story is that the dog was not in the habit of calling at the. doctor's liouse. The other story is of a dog who was exceedingly fond of two young, Cambridge men who were almost inseparable, In course of time both) .' of them went out into the world in: search of fortune, and were both' gone for several years, . Finally one of them returned. home on a visit, and the dog mani- fested an almost unbounded delight in his presence. Later he went to the home of the alter ego, evidently having reasoned that where the one was the other would be also. But the other had' not returned, and the grief of the dog was almost incon- solable. nconsolable. Swedish Use of Color Impresses Scotswoman Many Causes Love of color is a highly charac- teristic feature of Sweden, and a visit to the summer homes on the islands But Most Children Are Rendered around Stockholm or in the beauti- Sensitive by an Oversoft Exist- ence—We "Unifit" Thera For Life Once there was a boy who was ever so strange. He never flattened his nose against a plate glass win- dow to gaze at catching gloves, or masks, or nice smooth bats. He wasn't jealous of his cousin who had a new hockey stick. He didn't get excited when two fellows began to pummel each other and roll : in the gutter. Naturally he had to enjoy his own company more or less because all the others liked the same things and ceiddrh understand a boy who wasn't more or less a roughneck. ,He liked books and fishing, or any- thing one could do alone or with an- ther quiet fellow like himself. 011 r.lte was, very; very strange. FARM FATALITIES. Last year, on farms of the Domin- ion, 37 persons were fatally injured by animals, 11 by falls from loads, 28 through being struck by animal - drawn vehicles and implements, 10 as results of sunstroke, etc. The to- tal of 150 fatalities gives some !slight indication of the number of non-fatal accidents that occur. — Woodstock Sentinel -Review. The EMPIRE THE OLD BOOKS AND SONGS. An anchor of sanity in a bewilder- ing world. That is how we should regard the old songs and the old books that Britain has befriended for many decades and still holds close in her heart. "Lorna Doone," "David Copperfleld, "Treasure Island," still live. ' And "Home Sweet Hoene" and "Love's 01d Sweet Song," still live, too. There is a revealing glimpse of human loyalty in the publisher's list of the 100 Best Selling novels. We cling to those books because their sentiment is true; universal and for all time.—Manchester Sunday Chron- icle, THE KING'S TUTOR. James Neale Dalton toured the world with the young Princes in the Britannia and the Ophir. His sturdy character and his mind, as human as it was scholarly, were a strong influ- ence in building up the Character of King George; a character which has slowly impressed itself upon a troub- led Empire as the ideal of what a constitutional ruler should be, During the months of Jubilee celebration the eyes of all the world are upon King George. But we may allow ourselves to glance aside from the central fig- ure for a moment to the wonderful old man who was his tutor; Only a few years have passed since Canon Dalton stamped through the Cloisters of Windsor, a loud -voiced veteran, striking terror and awe In all Who beheld him. Hector Bolitho, in The Fortnightly (London). FARM PROBLEMC IN BRITAIN, The decline in the number of men employed upon the land has within the ,last sixty years 'been very great; at the same time the small farms have been diminishing in numbers, in have been out taking pi( little baby foxes all of one hetet the ranch of Col. Fred Andrew, This litter of 10, although 1;6 s not get the spotlight of the Dianne quintuplets, would have caused some- what of a sensation back in the boom years when fabulous sums were paid for Prince Edward Island ` pups, a prominent rancher conitheni ed. "That litter in 1913," the rancher said, "would have been worth at least $65,000, or an average of $.6,- 500 .6;500 apiece." And then he went on to tell of the bull market on foxes and sales conditions in the good old days. "As a 'matter of fact I sold options around May 15, 1913, for other ranchers at $14,000 a pair and a few weeks later sold six pairs for the Tuplin Fox Corporation, acting through their Charlottetown agents, for $16,000 a pair." Fair Attractions The Directors of the Ontario As- sociation of Agricultural Societies, at a recent meeting, discussed at length attractions for fall fairs. It was agreed judging should be arranged to afford educational op- portunities and be as attractive - as possible. Suitable rings should be provided for all live stock and the names of winners should appear on hall exhibits. Inter -community competitions were recommended, such as special prizes for Women's Institute displays. Jun- ior classes have been found to arouse much interest and this year Agricul- tural Societies are sponsoring ever 180 clubs for boys and girls. In addition to the usual attractions, the following were suggested, having. been tried by Societies and requiring little cash outlay: Antique displays. Oxen demonstrations. Hitching, driving and riding com- petitions. Milk maid contests. Horse drawing competitions. Classes for junnping horses. Teams for horses, versus six eight men. Horse back wrestling. Sheaf binding competitions. Log sawing Potato races. Musical chairs mounted. Hated competitions; old' time lid- dlers' contests, etc. Demonstrations of various kin ar s. tiNTliUSIASM "Nothing great was ever ahieved reale of the .legislative attempts to without enthusiasm." ittersen ful forest scenery of Dalecar]lia is an education in its use, writes Honor Stuart, in the Glasgow Herald. The Swede has the good taste to insist upon simple furnishings for his sum- mer house, but the plain painted wood furniture is so charming in hue —lime -green or blackbird's egg blue, warm russet or a sunny yellow, the natural grain of the wood being util- ized for decoration. with perhaps some simple "motif" in addition — t+hat the eye is perfectly satisfied and one feels instinctively that anything more elaborate would jar. BROWN AND GOLD In a country where the timber in- dustry ndustry is a staple one, it is, of course, natural that this should be the, meditran employed, but it comes almost with a sense of surprise that its decorative see should be of so advanced a nature, If the walls are but of pitch pine, the Wood is painted had jtu t about a million bre or oiled into a beautiful symphony Bei- + �:.e. � 1��E$'e ri ,?".•�.+-'YAs�''inipw'*�t'k�n �3 �ar.=moi Eild; �+X1,i':-bI'w�''�4.t�7:•' n�.m�'r;= let know it. 'Neither did his par- ts. And neither did the parents of those other "odd" youngsters. In time the grew up. So did the rest. And lo and behold, few of then area strange any more. There are Richard Jones, head of the testing= laboratory at the Institute, and Mark Smith, a promising young lawyer. Fred,. Art, Samuel and William often get their pictures in the paper for. something or other they've done in their business or chosen profession. Every one of them is a courageous fighter in the world of wits and science and law, with the courage of his convictions and "moral" cour- age to ,persevere. And these are the strange one who wouldn't use their fists orshinny up telephone poles to watch a baseball ,or football game. These lonely ones that some people called "odd". Yes, in a way they were retreating from life during boyhood. Not from life exactly, but from life as they found it around them. Why do we think a boy isn't a man unless he Pikes to whoop and punch and do cartwheels and swat a ball? ,Some boys develop a sort of anti- social attitude (or just let us call it shyness) when babies. They seem to be born with an inability to face the sandpaper of life, Others get it by .criticism and ridi- cule `viten little. Still others are ren- dered sensitive by over -soft exist- ence. They are coddled, protected, treated like fine china and never learn what roughage means, And they are kept apart, alone too long, "They might get something." "They might learn something they shouldn't know." "They might get hurt." They must be "good" boys, Then suddenly someone expects, everyone expects, these boys to de- velop biceps andcalves and pugna- city over night. They expect the- ennall hermit to go out and lick ail the rough lads in the neighborhood. First we unfit them and then we expect them to right our mistakes, "Inherited" shyness is no one's fault, "but certainly slot the boy's. It a mistake, too, to try to force any adiall chiId toward courage he does not -feel. "Roughage" Is . acttialiy most successful, if applied in very s(inall and rather gentle doses by People he likes, at first. It will grs;ther its own momentum. , r. nothing is more attractive Ver. to see a young Man , bending ail his energies in the direction Of lth and duty and (hod . .. to be sl cit a yottnEtan is to be like Christ, tl highest type, the most illustrtoue e' :pie of enthusiasm the world has O'er seen?'- -r, Meci, Abltnes wood too, and, the caepets are woven from ancient designs where peasant instinct, usually sure and sound, is evident. There are few hangings or drap- eries, and the cushions and covers for window seat or table are severe and richly colored. In one or two of the tourist centres where the big hotels have been carefully furnished after old Swedish traditions, I have been surprised by the beauty which color and the right use of material can give. AMONG THE PINES There is one villa which is a revel- ation of what can be done.,in this way. It happens to be the gift of a wealthy Swede to invalid members of his own profession, but the ex- quisite taste displayed might be that of an art connoisseur. High up in the wonderland pine forests of Janet - land, backed by the mountain Of Areskutan — in winter a paradise for ski -runners, in !summer a delight for the city dweller and a surprise at all times for the tourist — the brown - walled house stands, the music of a waterfall behind it, pine needles a carpet outside the garden. A skilful architect has modelled the house from an ancient Swedish coun- try residence; there are loggias open- ing from every storey, which gives upon the river or the pinewood. And here, too, a sure hand has blended the colors of furniture and hangings into perfect harmony: reels and browns that suggest the forest and the bright berries of autumn; blues that mirror the river or the sky; green of birch leaves and purple of heather; gray of the plumage of the mountain birds: 12 Simple Rules it i � For Tire eaith There are twelve simple rules for tire health, which, if followed, would cut the average motorist's tire bill anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent, an- nually, according to Technical Super- intendent, for a tire company. Those rules are: 1. Maintain recommended or rated air pressure at all times. The recom- mended pressure is a minimuhi .be- low which tires should' never be al- lowed to fall. Nor should pressure be kept much above this figure. 2, Whenever you put on. a new tire, whenever ,a tire has been off the rim, do not start on a long drive with im elicit faith that its air presttre is correct, A tire may lose several pounds of pressure lrnmedfately after it is put on the rine• Have it checked three or Moor miles down the road, 3. Do not run .a tire constantly on the same wheel. Shift your tires from wheel to wheel, which will produce even wear, 4. Do not rely on the generally ac- cepted theory that it is al.i right to run old tires on back wheels, because a rear tire blow-out is less dangerous than one in front. A rear tire blow- out is every bit as dangerous as one in front. 5. Don't go around corners at high speeds. It wears tires faster than any- thing else. 6. Except to prevent an accident, do not slam on the brakes. The most gradual breaking possible is best for tires. 7. Have your wheel alignment checked occasionally, rear as well as front. • 8. Look over your tires occasionally to see how they are getting along. 9. Do not drive too fast on not, dry roads. In extremely hot weather' on dry roads, high speeds heat the tires, and hasten deterioration. 10. Start up gently; do not spin your wheels. 11. Do not bump into curbs or run over them. Tires have not yet been so perfected that they will per- mit this kind of abuse without in- jury, 12. If your car begins to steer -queer- ly, slow down, pull off the road, and e t llateeratinee carefully, often this action conies when a tire is pre paring to blow. Inspection •may pre. vent accident. ritish rides Prefer Early Cer; mitnies "Get Married Early Ill Day And Leave Town Without Delay" Their Motto Tradition, especially in so far as it concerns marriage, dies very hard in England. This is the experience of registrars in the London area after a year's working of the Act which allows wed- dings to take -place up till six o'clock in the evening. Hitherto the ceremony could. only take place between the hours of 8 a.m, and 3 p.m., except by special license issued by the Archbishop or Canterbury's Faculty Office. LITTLE DEMAND During the past year not more than 20 couples have been married in Lon- don and Greater London after three in the afternoon, and in the whole of England the figures available show that the number of marriages after that ,tour is fewer than 100. "It was believed that the extension of three hours granted by the Act would meet a really widespread demand on the part of business people employed in offices who, while wishing to marry, could not afford to get away before 3 pan.," a London registrar said, FACTS AND FIGURES "This, however, is not borne out by facts and figures. Rather has it been the more emphasized that couples prefer to have the wedding ceremony early in the day, a mid- day reception, and then leave town for the honeymoon. "Of the few marriages that have taken place between 3 pm. and 6,: p.m, an analysis shows that most of them were solemized in summer months and in sunshine, "Couples do not seem to avant to. have the ceremony caried out in the hours' of darkness during the cold winter months. Although the Act of Parliament is there it is not, and will. not, I am convinced, be largely taken. advantage of, "It has certainly caused no incon Venieree to registrars or the clergy.' Get married early in the day and leave town without delay seems to be the motto of most bridal couples' 43