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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1935-07-11, Page 7HEAI 7 Here "here Everywhere El brother to every other Scout, without regard to race or creed Considering how many opportunit- ies ws have or making mistakes, even' the worst of us do fairly well. First ]Friend:-- Hear about the Scotehman who Sent insane? Second Friend—Na, what was tee matter? First Friend—Ile bought a score card at the ball game and neither side scored. When we get wisdom teeth it does ,not mean we are wholly wise, but just learning a little more about ;teeth. Short engagements are better. The bride hasn't time- to wear out her fin- ery showing it to her friends, Kelley and Cohen were having din- ner together. Cohen helped himself !to the larger fish and Kelley said: Kelley—Fine manners ye have; Co- hen. If I had readied out first I'd have taken the smaller fish. Cohen -Veli, you've got it, haven't .you? An Indian Village was an interest- ing feature of the Scout Forestry Demonstration Camp at Angus over the 24th -of -May week -end. The vil- lage was made quite picturesque with a couple of painted tepees, a rustic cabin and decorated Indian wax shields, A council ring with log' seats and central fireplace completed the scene, The village was in charge of Basil Partridge, an Algonquin Park Indiana One of the most senseless things. imaginable is cratiei$ih vtlien all facts and factors are unknown. Angry Wife—Now that I have an electric refrigerator, see what you can do about getting a mechanical stenographer. Passenger (to captain of sinking ship) .Captain, as there are no more lifeboats and all the boats are full, will you teach me to swim? Pretty Girl—My, how very bashful you are! Thong Man—Yes, I 'cake after my father in that respect, I guess. Pretty Girl—Was your father bash- ful? Young Man --Was be? mother says if ,Father hadn't been so darn bashful, I'd be four years older. * * Ottawa Scouts interested in stamp collecting have organized a Scout stain» club to foster their hobby. The club meets on alternate Saturday mornings. Over 300 Cubs, Scouts, Rovers and Scouters gathered at Nassau Park for Peterboro's Third Annual Scout Field Day. Together with eight Peterboro Scout Groups there were present Scouts from Frankford, Co bourg, Lindsay, Oshawa and Can- nington. The well diversified pro- gramme was in charge of District Commissioner John T. Hornsby. * * * When Scouts of the let Arvida Troop -'isited Quebec for the Baden- Powell rally, they were shown through the various departments of the "Chronicle -Telegraph" newspaper plant. * * * t in her lifetime she was ereely desired :and as paseioo tely loved as lVlary Fytton. Another Mary usually dogs ..ea ath as I wander to and fro over he face of Britain, also fiercely need, and in her latter life rrlosb nhappy. I came upon Mary Queen f Scots first in Derbyshire. As I was 'walking over the hills near Crich I carne to a tiny hamlet with aa large and ancient oak outside a the training of Scouts of the 1st; medieval church, and in the inn 1 Beamsville, Ont., Troop for thein! tie s' told how the boy Anthony Scout Fireman's Proficiency Badge, Babington of Dethick, having once The boys tested hydrants .and couple, gazed on the fast of the hapless ad hose in most •eiricient style, ac- queen as she was brought to Riber cording to the firemen. Manor on her 'way to Wingfield, * , thought of nothing else than ways and means te,rescue her, and ae- rie inclusion of twelve tually staxte(rto dig a tunnel from Scouts in the troop membership is Dethiek to the manor in whieh she a claim for distinction of the 49th was imprisoned. Toronto Troop. It is believed to be a Ile was caught and hanged, and record in Toronto Scouting.j Mary once more •moved on. This Smile, and the sun will pierce the shadows, Trust, and the mists will roll away; Give, and the heavens will shine with gloryi Love, and your life will be one glad. day, One little boy was asking'What• headstrong meant: "That's when ma makes up her mind. to have "a new hat," he replied naively. * 1' * Sinicoe, Ont., Scouts were guests of the Kinsmen Club at a banquet at which the guest speaker was Joe Primeau, of the famous "kid line" of Toronto's "Maple Leafs". ,. ;q * The fun of accompanying the local firemen on one of their weekly practice runs was the high spot of Man: --I've just been reading some statistics here—Every time I breath a man dies. Friend:—Gosh, man! Why don't you use some of these highly adver- tised mouth antiseptics? Marriage hasn't failed. It isn't the school's fault g a lot of pupils ex- pect to pass without working at it. Ragson Tatters:—What's the news, Windy? T(rindy Woif:—I'm not reading the news, I'm looking for a job. Ragson: It appears to me that are reading the "Female help wanted" column. Windy: Well, ain't my wife a fe- male? * tame to her final prison at Fother- An increasing number of fraternal ingay. lodges are backing Boy Scout >raops, It was through hiking that I came or helping them in various ways,''The by accident on the birthplace of the problem of an adequate headquarters fair Rosamond, mistress of Henry for the let Montague Troop, P.E.1-, II a remote twelfth -century manor was recently solved by the placing aa. house in the tiny village of Framy- their disposal of a large soon' in ton -an -Severn. Oddfellow's Hall by the L0.0.F. * * * k * * Over 2,000 trees planted was the record of this year's week -end re- forestation camp at 'Miller's Lake by Scouts of Halifax and Dartmouth, N.S. A number of district Scout troops have permanent cabins in the Miller's Lake reforestation and wild life conservation area. The initial hike of the new '141st Toronto Scout .troop, composed of coloured boys from a downtown sec- tion of the city, was a huge success and created great enthusiasm. ' -The boys went to Armour Heights for instruction in camp fire making, cooking and camping. * * * During a hike early. in May a Scout patrol of Medicine Hat, Alta., found a gull with a broken wing. They placed the wing in splints in best first aid style, and the bird will soon be able to take the air .once more. The man who always "says what he thinks," says it clown town. At home he's careful to think what he say's. Canada Passing Pioneer Age in Art Cultural Progress Viewect By National Council Toronto.—"The era of pioneer work has practically passed, for Canada," said the report of Miss .Elizabeth S. Nutt, Halifax, conven- er of the arts and letters committee, to the . National Council of Women recenti3'• "Canada is also so far ad- vancedn her industrial and manu- facturing • life' experience that the cultural ere has naturally risen well above the: horizon." The first art exhibit • in British; North America was held more than 100 years ago in Halifax. Art ex- hibits ,1Lre now plentiful throughout Canada,, the report said. His Ex- cellency the Governor-General in founding the drama festival has given fresh impetus to the drama. Music also had found a secure place among Canadians, and a dis- tinctive national note "is now found in both the prose and verse of Can- adian writers." "Growth in every department and an increasing interest in fine arts sand letters is the chief good which has come out of the depression," said the report of the Vancouver convener. For Manitoba "reports show the development of practical trends." Sixteen nationalities are represented at the Winnipeg Handi- craft Guild. The largest musical festival in the Empire was held in April, with 1350 entries. An arts and crafts exhibition and handicrafts hobby show were New Westminsterti's features of the year. Moose Jaw held an exhibition of Indian art. Saskatoon Local Coun- cil "are to be congratulated on their activity in cultural lines; valuable Indian research has been continued'." home grown flax is being woven in- to home made linens. Interest is increasing in the treas- ures of the Ontario Museum, Miss Nutt's report said. Toronto was particularly active in art, literature, drama and music. Kingston "reports 'an ever increasing art conscious- ness." The Maritime provinces have formed an association forlai ions ting ang. the public by iaegular lectures. A summer school in paint- ing is an extension of the N.S. Col- lege of Art. West Algoma Council reports "the little theatre movement has been most active." IN CIVIC LIFE Need of a dignified and colorful ceremony each year for the young men and women coining of age, to make them "realize their duty and responibility to their community and country" was recommended in a re- t on citizenship byMrs. A. J. �oz man, convener, iagara Falls. From all parts of Canada, Mrs. Hol a. ata; ponied, Adman pori. 4. activity Ad in civic d edneationat life. Edmonton, with a woman elected to the school board, had a working committee of seven keeping in touch with civic affair's."• Twelve members form the citizenship cont rnittee• in Moose Jaw and. a. -study group Was formed, Women are on Junior: What's a debtor, Daddy? Father:—A man who owes money. Junior:—And what is a creditor? Father:—The man who thinks he is going to get it. PR1Z P C for Artists and Authors AUTHORITATIVE COUN- SEL ON WINNING PRIZE CONTESTS is the title of an article by one who is a consistent winner. This article and monthly listings of Prize Contests, Syndicate Markets and Mar- kets for I • llllst„tratiop„s for I e- sigris, Greeting card De- signs and Verses, Stories and ejtm.cl. sui 1 „ jar, ayearly ti'f subscripo ,0 0. DIFF BAKER 39 LEE AVENUE tORON' O Lancashire is an ideal land for 'the hiker in quest of the mysterious. I came upon the place where the Lancashire witches used to perform their unhallowed rites and where they are ultimately burnt • at the stake for their sorceries, I also saw Bashall Eaves where King Arthur fought a battle and the fairies built a stone bridge in a single night to help an aged wood- cutter to escape from the broom- stick -riding witches. Only by walking through Lanca- shire do you realize how little it has changed through the centuries in spite of the great industrial de- velopment and upheaval. De Hoghtons still live at Hogh- ton Towers, and Townleys still hold sway in the Brough of Bowland, one of the finest mountain pass walks in England, just as they did in the days of the Wars of the Roses. The passing of Bonnie Prince Charlie seems only yesterday to rural Lancashire. In the house where I spent the night on my way through Wigan I was shown a claymore bearing Ferrara's own in- scription that had been dug up in the garden, a relic of the Jacobite advance or retreat. During my walks I am always corning across traces of this romantic Prince. * * * 1 am just home from a fascinat- ing excursion into the unknown... I \vent out with the idea of wander - the school board and city council. In New Westminster an unemploy- ment office oganized by the citizen- ehip committee found positions for 170 persons. Women have been elected to a number of civic bodies in Regina, while in Saskatoon plans are'being made for a committee to arrange public ceremonies for reception of naturalization papers. In Victoria and Vancouver, the latter With a ing along that piece of the Fosse study groupforming, women are Way, south-west of Cirencester, that sewing on municipal bodies. Niagara Falls and Hamilton 1e- is just a wide green track heading straight for Bath. I passed at ported increasing number of women Pinkney a glorious I pa manort in civic positions, while cted e first house that I was told was haunted. time a woman was elected to the In the seventeen hundreds two Ottawa Collegiate board i. t s n _.- terested brothers cane Maack Halifax meetings-:diennaeidzt:'. r., heard ,pn a proposed civic ceremon ' -ing at the great door' t dtheme they for those reaching . their majority, heiress sister opened In Yarmouth, N.S., the committee -stabbed her forthwith, but she, see - looked after lighting of parks, and ing their Intentions, made one last attention was drawn by this body wild grab at the door to get back to untidy premises. In Truro, N.S., to safety, too late. Her finger-paints, where an adult study class was 'covered with blood, made so deep formed, an annual honor prize was an impression that in spite of wash - established for the county academy' ing and repainting they still ap- girl student who gave promise of the pear after two hundred years. best future life of citizenship. hat led into Cired encester e tall iron Park. For t the first three miles I had the forest smiling old lady curtsied past me, and I carne to two temples, then to a clearing with a monument to Queen Anne, and, on the right, a stone Summer house with the words "Pope's Seat" inscribed on it, and a castellated house covered with ivy. Pope wrote most of his poems in the houses or parks of rich friends. And he always seemed to make his friends build quite retreats for hint in the loveliest places. Cirencester was of importance long before the Romans turned it into one of their great strategic cen- tres. It was known to the Britons as the "town at the head of the waters," and if you don't feel like following any of the Great Raman roads out of it, the Fosse Way or Ermine Street, try the much less well-known track as the White Way which leads to the grand Roman villa at Chedworth. It was - in 1864 while a rabbiting party was digging for a lost ferret 'in the woods on the banks of the Colne that this villa was acciden- tally discovered. - It dates back to the second century A.D., and you can now see in .addition to the baths, kitchens, and other rooms, a fine LARGE PLUG Thrifty men will tell you, p,> That "Dixie" cuts expense, The Plug that lasts much longer, And costs but twenty cents. 11 PLUG S G TOBACCO collection of tessellated pavement, pottery, coins, carved altars, tools, daggers, and bones. I know three of these Roman villas well, and I have discovered each of then by hiking. I once took a walk over the smooth chalk down to Dorset past that queer stone known as Cross - in -hand on Batcombe Down, where Alec D'Urberville made Tess' of the D'Urbervilles place her hand and swear never to tempt him, to Dor- chester where there is a vast Roman amphitheatre known as Mauinbury Rings where the Roman Gladiators held their games. And it was while I was doing this walk that I dis- covered the enormous earthworks known as Maiden Castle where there are ditches and ramparts 60 feet high, and the outside triple line of defences is nearly two miles round. In places there are five or six of these ramparts overlapping and covering each other. It is the most stupendous British earthwork in existence and covers 115 acres. How it ever came to be built by men of the stone age is beyond our power of conjecture,_, but it must have given even the Romans pause to see how gifted an thea eart of, --defence. 'we` t.l 'A"F 2c lenders. It is not necessary to hike far to) get back thousands of years into our island history, but it is neces- sary to hike. Maiden Castle's contours are best seen from the air, but Maiden Castle's spirit can only be shared by those who have stormed her ram- parts in person and on foot. iking Trips Into Hist>raic Paces (By S. P. B. Mais. Condensed from Passing Show, London, for the Magazine Digest.) Almost the only way to ,eome into contact, with things past is to walk back into then. For instance. I should never have met the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, you remember, Queen Elizabeth's proud but dis- solute Maid of Honor, Shakespeare's unfaithful Mary, the wanton Mary Fytton, had I not been hiking through Cheshire, In a lovely village called Gaws- worth I came across a medieval rec- tory, the great hall of which is open to the public at a charge of a shill- ing. The rector's daughter showed me over the house and paused before a carved oak mantlepiece containing 'the mottor of the Fytton family, "Fitonus leve.” "The same," replied the girl. "She was born here, shut up in this house for kicking over the traces, went to court and—" she shrugged her shoulders. - Mary Fytton is not an easy wo- man to visualize., And yet of all women, this dark, cold beauty who tore Shakespeare's heart in two, is surely one of the most interesting. But I should never have associated her with a remote, almost ,unknown: village in Cheshire. * In the village of Weston in the same country I carne across the birthplace of another famous Eng- lishman's -. famous mistress — the lovely Led -haired daughter of ' a ilack'smitlr who tivas knowvn first ag "Emy" Lyon, later as Emma Hart,, who then married..a l;Ial> lr loved nci painted by Romney, and Lived with Lord Nelson, Enema Hamilton, like Shake- speare's Mary, died unhonored aihl she ran to the great Flammarion and asked for a job in his observatory. He made her his secretary and she. learned so rapidly he soon came to depend on her in his calculations in mathematics and other phases of astronomy. When he became a widower in 1919, she married hint, although he was old enough to be her grand- father. Mme. Flammarion, aside from her work on mars, edits the Flammarion Annual, and help publish the month- ly Astronomical Society Bulletin. Saudi Tin 360, Large `tin 800, Extra Largo B QUtf 0 7fb Scott & Turner Lid Nowoastle-upon-Tyne, Eng, Distributed in Canada by . . , A4GQiliivrayl3ros. Limited, Termite, ,5 Issue Issue No. 27 — '35 MAPPINGMARS UNCLE SAM BUYS GED Astronomical Work Being Completed By Mme. Flanunarion Old Metal Tested And Paid For According To Purity The U.S. government pays $35 an ounce for gold under the Gold Re- serve Act of Jan. 20, 1934. But the cii4 _must be of the .24 -carat kixzd. '' `` , • • ' ear ' made 'of. 14-curat- pse�e o.f • dew y gold is valued at only 14-24 of $35, or $20.41. It is not exactly easy .o sell old gold to the government. You go to an nssay office and find yourself in. front of a locked gate. A guard opens it, lets you in and locks the gate after you. Behind a- window is a man to whom you offer your gold. "Show me your affidavit" is shot at you. You must have one which declares that you acquired and transported the gold legally. MELTING AND WEIGHING The affidavit proving to be in or- der, the work of appraisal begins. Any article that contains less than 200 parts of gold is 1,000 is re- jected at once. Then come tests with the file and with acid. If these are satisfactory the heap is weighed. A receipt is handed out. Your lot of gold is melted down separately, just as if the assay of- fice had nothing else to do but at- tend to you, and poured into an in- got half an inch thick, three inches wide and six inches long. The weights before and after smelting must agree. Two samples are snipped from: the cold ingot, each about the size of a 45 -calibre bullet. Three assay- ers test them for their gold. After they have made their report you receive a letter telling you to call for your check, You look at the check. Too little, you think. Then you learn that a deduction is. made for the work the government has done. Paris—The monumental work of snapping the ruddy, canal -streaked planet of mars, started more than half a century ago by the late Camille Flammarion, "poet of the skies," is being completed by his second wife. Mme. Gabrielle Flammarion, fore- most woman astronomer of Europe, is working 15 hours a day on this gigantic task, in accordance with the last wishes of her husband. His body lies buried in the garden beneath the observatory, beside that of his first wife. Nightly, conditions permitting, Mme. Flammarion mounts to her powerful telescope overlooking the two graves and focusses it on the red planet that is mars, studying and photographing the planet that her husband loved more than any other heavenly body. In rainy weather, she charts and computes her vital findings, filling in the hitherto unknown spaces of mars for science She knows the canals better than she knows the streets of Juvisy, the Paris suburb in which she lives and works. In an interview, Mme. Flamniarion said she took up astronomy because as a girl she had a passion for stars and admired a bearded astronomer who: lived next to her school. He was Can,ilie Flammarion. t Left an orphan while still in her 'teens, she went to live with rela- tives. A wealthy, young man pro- sepoaed nih1h'ilige. asid''i"h .1 "advised her to accept. She wept and said she had rather be an astronomer. • The next morning -- according lo 46 this tale of romance' and science Classified Advertising $OBTDS .AZD CVS,FrExeznS w4.NTErh yl\II'EItIAL RUSSIAN, ltlianiAN AND Austrian government bonds, cur.. reueies wanted. highest prices paid. David Davis, Queen and York, Toronto, BITES Insect, snake, or animal , the best treatment is plenty of Minns d's at once. It 9e soothes, heats' anti cleanses. Draws Out the poison 1