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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1921-12-22, Page 7The Prince as a Humorist "lie is a shy nnti sensitive boy," a well-known personage once said of the Prince or Wales, "hitt although he says liths he thinks a lot, and has a ten t 1 brain and kaon ;;else of humor," it is this latter trait In his character which has won for the Prince a reputa- tion as a story -teller. The Prince, in- deed, sees the tunny aide of every: tTting, Once, in Au;ittalia, whilo taking an early morning gallop, the Prince had some diiiicelties with his saddle, An u A atziiliati. botizidai rider 'y d arrived and, tiotieing tate English accent, 'tilted, politely, if he were an enzlgraiit? aril the Prince of Wales," H,R.Ii. send, soh, are you," replied the Aussie. "Well, I'm his father." Next day at a reception the Prince taw the same man and, pushing his I way' throegh .tine crowd, seized him • by the hand and exclainied, "Hallos, dad!" The Prince's stories. are straightfor- ward In their appeal. Here is a characteristic ane, a product of the Idiahland season: "Itich„ perhaps," the Prince re ed; but hang it all. not dile „ Even in his younger days the to the Throne enjoyed a good A rather inquisitive man once a him if lie was not worried over responsibilities involved In being 1{ing's eldest sen. "Well to tell you the truth, never looked itt it quite in that 1i the replied. "But I think It is ra good luck to he an eldest sen, for 'one does not have to wear o broth; r' " e a old clothes. Perhaps the best of all the Prin jokes is that concerning the lady had been reading about some brid having been swept away by a ft She turned to a male friend and marked: "These bridge disasters terrible." "I should say so," the man rep] "My wife lost all her year's pin mo est it last night." The Prince is fond of legal stor is one be once related to eminent judge: A plaintiff teid the Court that bed found the debtor eating ro chicken and yet, while he owed pounds, he was offering only hal crown a week to pay it off. There a sensation In court. "'Your worship," the harassed d or broke out, "it is true. I could afford to keep the bird." During his visit to America, Prince was at the White House. T President took the Royal guest ov to one of the windows, "It was from that window," President said, "that your grandfath °red to tears by the un tort. Heir joke. sited the the Pre titer then) ne's ce s who; ges ood, re are led. ley . ries. an he ast: five , f was ebt- not An old Iady from the remote High- lands of Scotland was taken to Edin- burgh, where shoe heard modern sing- ing in a church for the first time. ,Ask- ed by her lady companion what she thought of it, the old woman replied: "It's verra, verra bonnie. but 011, mateddy, it's an awfu' way o' spending the .Sawbeth." Tho Prince delights. in relating an incident which occurred in London. I•Ie had -been "hung up" in his car, b while clashing from ane public meet- o ing to another. A man, not recogniz-n ing the occupant of the car, nudged lids mate, remarking, "Ona of the idle 1 rich". * , g the he er the etS• 'ani, the worst is yet ta CnP> ing round f public entertainments, escaped one fght down a rope ladder," "I wish I had a rope redder in my uggage," the Prince remarked as he a zed out of the window, Th% Teaching of Medicine in the Provincial University. a a whose duty it will be, as physicians nd surgeons, to improve the health nd save the lives of the sick and "Great City of London." If the scheme for centralization of ublic utilities urged by the London unty Council is put into force and e new administrative area is re- arded as one city, London will be 'comparably the Iargest city in the orad has ever known and wall greatly distance New York both in terri- ory and population. The proposals, whicr have been aced before the Royal Commission London Government involve the Interviewed in regard to the effect injure in d this province:' upon the teaching of medicine of the generous gifts of Sir John and Lady` Eaton and of the Rockefeller Founda- tion, Sir Robert Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, said, p "These gifts have made possible the r'o appointment of physicians and sur- ih geons of established reputation who are to devote almost all their time to in ie o ganization of medical education w " and the administration of the medical out departments in the General Hospital, t This reorganization. so long desired and previously so impossible, has al- Pl ready shown its superiority over the on .ormer system and the change has Abe made possible the segregation, sty for better treatment and more care- w'h constitution of an entirely new author - to carry on certain public services ich will extend over the greater' .fel observation, of patients suffering p from similar diseases. This unifica- Su tion and cc -ordination of all departs chi ments, medicine, surgery, gynae,;ology, etc., •has naturally resulted in a more an efficient organization both in the fun Vacuity of Medicine and in the Gen- roa eral Hospital. ho "Instead of clinical teaching being Beiv Supplanted• by laboratory experimen» ora tation,, as was forecast by some who sue failed to see the advantages of the new system, the amount of time actu- iste ally spent by the students in clinical m stu*. has been greatly increased and lata the clinical instruction, which for the for most part is in the hands of men 8 whose time is largely devoted to hos- a c pital work, is adequately supplement- poo ed by instruction given by ;nen whose 01 primary interests are those of the sPr'+f ,�_ general practitioner. Indeed, there is trai now in the Faculty of Medicine more that • clinical teaching than there has ever be before been in the history of the Tm provincial university. The same lab-, fro oratories which were in operation mile under the aid system are now used to aim supplement clinical teaching and to; omy make it in every respect more effec- roan tive. whit "Without saying that the individual thes teacher or the practitioner in the hos-, ify tl pitel is better, as such. than his pre- �with decessor of a generation ago, it is+ No quite within the truth to say that the + will general co-operation, the team work, Possi is such under the new system that bet- recti ter tesuIts are secured both for the end; patient in the hospital and for the talk student under instruction. wort "In brief, the two magnificent gifts referred to have made possible the inauguration of a highly effective So organization in the Faculty of Medi- had cine and the result of this is that tonne those who aro ill are receiving better ilar p treatment, while at the same time fares ntoro thorough instruction is being in the given to the young men and women unem Pa of Middlesex and large areas in - be carried to the brain; an organ rrey, Esser, Kent and Hertford - re. • The large number of decentralized thorities has led to increasing con - ion in the control of transportation, ds, electricity, water supplies, using and so forth. An attempt to t e the difficulties with various co- inating committees has been un- e cessful and a delegation from the s County Countdi saw the Prince Min - r, whieh resulted in the appoint- nt of a Royal Commission, Now the 1 government has submitted plans a single central authority. it John Been said he did not want ity for the rich and cities for the r growing up side. by side. Many• the cities and towns which have ng up around London want a cert - supervising power. It is suggested the name "Great City of London" used if the proposal is accepted. he area would extend forty miles - Windsor to Gravesend •and thirty s from Reigate to Enfield. The is for greater efficiency and econ- , which will mean the scrapping of y little urban councils in boroughs h yet are to be heard from, and e may so object as greatly to mod - ie scheme, but in general it meets widespread approval. niinally the County of London become the City of London, with bilities of growth in every Bi- on which in all respects should as long as England prospers, all of New York's rivalry as the d's greatest city. ANIMALS HAVE KEEN SENSE OF DIRECTION DARWIN'S EXPERIMENT WITH BEES. Facility of Perception is Low in Man, But it May be De- veloped and Trained. It is well known that any of our domestic animals can find their way home from a distance of many miles, even after the lapse of some time. This faculty is perhaps oftenest seen in the dog, the horse, and the cat, but is known to be almost or quite as fully developed in the ox. The facul- ty has been supposed by some natur- alists to depend upon a ,sixth sense, independent of sight or smell. Such a theory :evolves an organ of sense by which the needed observations may which must be distinct from eye, ear and nostril. Physiologists have not, as yet, found any such organ in the constitution of any animal nor have they. found any nerves different from hose which belong to their own nerv- ous system. This is almost conclusive vidence that animals -possess no ense different from ours. - If we watch the conduct of a dog • me Canadian cities which have experience • in tree planting in ction with waterworks and sint- rojects are considering the re- tation of non-agricultural Iands district as a means of relieving ployment, sizes eagerly such a trivial , destructive fault-finders. It is ge dormant B earer by sup - a a e ar nes^, thus that there might be hoRe after .ail, owing plainly that all the men had Swift to 'condemn, :slow to commend, and the command. The operator those who sit in judgment on those the transmitter then spoke to the who stand or run in duty have •their n again, in reply to their ready own responsibility, though they dis- pais, and bade them wait for fur- claim i,, 'Phe real optimists. however, the instructions, will not give in to them; they will be I ! sufficiently robust to appose a stout hearted and militant resistance. The The mind recoils from the world, in feet, is becoming cold and m waste of huge armaments and } turning a deaf ear to the tribe of ere ttin tem as the news that an old very weary to listening to their peeve-- tel English warship is being used islt, atrabilious jeremiads. It longs s a fioatiug laboratory for the for voices of comfort and hands of nvestigation of foot-and-mouth healing, and to these it turns in thank - ;seas, If the ordinary man fulness, quite willing to be bid fare» could only visualize a warship in well to the other school of cynics, he daily production of smile misanthropes, croakers and prophets angibie good he would be bet- of do in at it lam is Breaking! ffeard Four Miles c�+ Terrible disasters have been caused by the irresistible swirl of rushing flood., inwhi IunsuspectingC xspecting persons were caught without warning. In one. instance, years ago, a gay party on a four -horse tallyho Was enthusiastic..,; •ally. exploring the wonders and beam.' ties of Turkey Creek Canon, near fe Golden, Colo. Gathering rainelouds! failed to east a shadow upon their high spirits, and no serious thought was given ren to danger from the era id•1 approaching storm, because the tour lets were not familiar with the char- acteristics of the local tempests, nor with the topography of the surround.' ing country, d The storm suddenly blast with great fury upon the unprepared: pleasure seekers, and the deluge of water caused them quickly to •aban-' don the tallyho and hunt for shelter. Closely huddled against the towering sides of the canon, they soon realized, 1 with anxiety, that they had not reek- i tined with the forces of nature. The h terrific rush of water down the canon; r. sides swept them from their feet. and: hi down to the bed of the canon, where th a torrent of water now raged. De- of spite their struggles, many of the party lost their lives, and those sur- viving were seriously injured. t Another instance was the great n flood at Johnstown, Iia., and the more an recent was the disastrous flood at se Pueblo, Colo., where the toll of lives, c and property damage, reached enor- th mous proportions, as As a proteotion against such ter- alI allele events as these, a system of an Swat to "essimisj lc 'The pessimist's pet theory is. itha success of the endeavor, These tests optsts aitd enthusiasts are fool$.. were eendfueted in the Catskill Moun- It as his bits nesac if he hai* to dant t ens, by a specially trained group :el p Jsplhirlt re a;1 akjng hit mordant p raters. A tower, 30 ft. high was P y P vaz . Ie is the pxdcts, erected to ltokl the gigantic amplifl- eat one; they are the fattnotls theorists. ens and the immense projectors which He has the right and the truth, and. measured 15 feet in length and 4 the world requires his acrid dentinclu.+ et in height, tion, not their "sullies of glee." To determine just how far the nu -f There is too much pessirnianz rano man velee coul4'be heard with these rang rt large to-:pell There b.o itre aids, was accomplished in rather a many ready tl carp a' a who are trying to g do things, r weird manner, •because the time se- g * I find it " ways lecte•d was at night, Four men took stole to belong to a eomrtli ec+," says up prevaeusiy agreed-upon stations, ata woman, 3aecause f seep hem delle distances of one, two, three, and tour just what I know they ' htn't to clot miles from the. tower. As the tune but they won't Relieve r' to I tell new near for the experiments, the thein, It does not coeur to her that four men applied mateltes, to specially she might h wrong, lit 01 net enter prepared torches which her mind that the :spirit of eorttto see gave large iso, of sacrifice, of wiilingpess to se$ flaring Barnes. that there may be ooznet ;ing• its Meanwhile, at the tower, were other's point of view, is what main, gathered a party of men chosen to tains the peace on earth .and 11<Ia observe the tests, and who interested progress possible. y watched the tiny flickering torches' The pessimist wants to stop you in n the .distance. When the "'zero' the midst of work ,and present his as»• v d� ther time set for the tests, sir- sorted reasons .for bblieving that the vs . e operator the transmitter took' , downfall of civilization and the de- s apparatus, and ine a natural tone struction of mankind are imminent. voice, ordered the far-off men to He is aggrieved that ,yon do ttot at wave their torches. once assent to his preposterous pre, Breathlessly the watchers at the raises and his exasperating cancl�u-. to peered through the inkyblack- tons. the looks from the ase,a ess at•the flickering � tower of his• own defended sansei and d the the fli torohiss steel to of de, he does not like what he beholds, so vibe vi he buttonholes the first he meets and gorous circles in the air. Ex- denounces and says what "they" ought la mations of satisfaction canoe from to do. Firm in his conclusion that e watchers, which rose to a shout, whatever is is wrong, he is impregn- the second, then the third, and fin- able to humor, to reason, to new light, y the fourth torch was seen to dip to the.roices that venture to intimate d wave wildly in th d k , n re- uge telephone transmitters and sit when he is thrown apse his ow amplifiers has been produced, which he sources to find his way home, we shall will throw the human voice a distance at see that he has made good use of his five senses up to this time and that cif four miles. Extensive testa have me en made with this apparatus, which sig n; he purposes to make good use of thebe have proved the practicability and th in the immediate future. It is al- ways assumed that the dog has not - � T' '--- slept during the time that he has traces them at all. He has no sense been carried from home. If •he were to inform him of the changed position. to sleep, he would lose all clue, wheth- of the family, nor of anything more er he had a sixth sense or not, for than would be known to a man under 8 in sleep all the senses are equally - the i. same circumstances, 1 ut the case is made eI Bee Line for Home. P sng that the dog's master has left The case has been submitted ,of a b• home, gun in hand, while the dog has ] e dog taken by rail a distance of two been detained for a time. The man goes straight to the woods, but after t hundred miles in a circuitous course and set down fifty miles from home. getting out of sight, makes a turn so t He disappears and the next dA • as to bring him to the opposite sad found at his oil haunts. He couldot nIs of the house. If .now the dog is let loose he takes to the woods at the it have followed the rail by which he pont where he saw his master enter. came, for this would take him a. t t From there he trusts to his eyes and longer time; he must have struck across country, nose, keeping close upon his master's e question is, did he take a di_ trail, -.g line for home, or did k h If the dog hada special sense of the 1 er content to pay the cost of The truth is that that in this world, s upkeep. where we depend so much on one an- other and all are human, there is litt:e room to damn with hard words or Infinity and Finitude. black looks those who are doing the ack and forth went the man with best they know. he awn mower, leaving a wider space rect shape direction he would net so easily be of v his general course so as to come out thrown off the pursuit of a deer or a he upon some familiar spot—nil-lest it fox by the animal taking to thewater, natic may be, from his home --and f &Netlike "—` grass with every cut. As stopped at the end of the yard he Progress in Eastern Canada. nom that point follow remembered paths? Developing the Human Faculty. betw Hunters say that the latter is most The most interestingandhe frequently the case, perplex -as ti rsa Suppose. in the dog's absence, the thatchave beeases are n taken soose in me distanceiHe old home .has been burned down and, frons home in closed cages have yet Left his master's family ,have moved five-, found their way back without diffi- way miles to the right or Left, but are at eulty. This shows a highly developed To the same distance from the point at sensitiveness to every change of di- won which he was set down. He will go rection. back to the old spot, and from there This other will trace the famil b ed a slight movement on the bar een the two 'wheels of the lawn Experiments conducted watt the wer, Getting down on his knees, peat deposits of Prince Edward' Island ' that the moving object was a have proven that it makes a splendid measuring worm. fuel burns freely, give§ intense heat, started the mower again and and is represented to Have consider - the little fellow measuring his able commercial value. The deposits here and there over the machine. which cover a Iarge area are entirely the worm the machine was a whole surface, and es the production cast leh When the man reached the would be small it is anticipated that end of the lawn the worm was this fuel will be used to a large extent busy at its work of measuring. on the Island, Even ' few minutes the man looked A total of 269,830 quintals of fish to make sure that it had not were caught by the Grand Banks fish - off. ing fleet of Lunenburg, NS., during en he had done his mowing and the past season, the third largest in turned toward the sited with the history. The fleet consisted of 04 vex+ the measuring worm had also schooners and one steam trawler, and ed its long journey across the the average catch per vessel was 2,540The er. He left it measuring one of quintals, a record for averages. wheels. spring catch of 72,000 quintals was No the man was imattinative, He sold at $6.75 per quintal, and the por- en thought a the tiny worm and; been of the summer catch, which has orld, How big and interesting been sold brought $6.26. tnyaterious it was to the Tittle Apple syrup is now being manufao rer! And the worm knew 110 turgid by the United Fruit Company at of the man who had pushed the its canning plant at Aylesford, NS -- r-•--�L...vu is 1VW iii still y y scent, if he mere but it may be developed and PipplingRhqmos 0 -Walt t�asoe TWO SCOUTS It is a dark and dismay day; the wind is keen, the skies are gray, and rain, of many cheap jobn sorts; comes down by gallons and by quarts, and people, splashing through the mud, hand out remarks that chill the blood. And Mr. Cheerup cries, "Hooray! Unpleasant things will pass away; to -morrow will be bright and fair, with sunshine glowing everywhere, and well enjoy our bliss the more because today seems quite a bore. We must have rain and slush and sleet to make our better days complete," And Mr. Cheerup's song and dance are heartening, as we advance up- on our errands, vain or sane, amid tan slush and mud and rain. But Mr. Killjoy says, "My friend, this doggone rain will never end; and if it does there'I1•be a freeze and we'll have green pains in our knees. The weather's hourly growing worse, and he is wise who hires a hearse; there'll be an outbreak of the flu, and that will put an end to you." We hear him spieling in the rain, and feel that everything is vain, and when at last we reach our holies we're shooting spasms in our domes and rheumatism here and there, and mumps and falling of the hair. Thus these two scouts go up and down; one tries to cheer the weary town; the outer journeys to and fro, and scatters stove -length chunks of woe. trained. There are persons who sleep down best with the head toward the north, fallen Let such a person when travel'ing on WI a sleeping car make it a point to a had tide upon the course the train is going moi as soon as he wakes from sleep in the reach night, and he will find himself rapid- mow 1y gaining new power to determine the directions, N Darwin's experiment is an interest- oft ing one. He put some 'bees in dark its w paper boxes and carried them by a and circuitous route a distance from the mean hive. When they were set free they more all returned in a straight line to their home. Again he took them over a similar route, but on the way he spun the boxes rapidly around. This time only two of the bees reached the hive, and perhaps these got back only by acci- dent. While spinning around in the boxes they lost perception of the di rection in which they were being car- ried. China no doubt thinks that war is a stupid way to settle international dif- ficulties; nevertheless figures lately published show that China has an active ,army of 1,370 000 men, The array is, indeed, divided 'between the imperial North and the republican South, but that lessens neither the urden nor the potential destructive- ess of it. mower than it knew of the stars shin- This product can he inantifaetured at ing in the sky at night. The man a reasonable Gest in commercil quan- tities when he realized that the warm titles and will be retailed as a sub» had not known that the lawn mower+ statute for maple syrup at 75 cents a had moved at all; to the worm it was gallon, a great fixed thing on which he lived. The highway bridge, connecting An. of - To it the yard was as the universe and napalis and Granville, has been the lawn mower as the world, fficialiy opened, thus realizing the ef- In the eyes of God do we not seem fort and work of half a century. The much as the tiny ,measuring worm new 'bridge with ant expanse of 2,273a seemed to the .man? Though our plan- feet, Scotia,ithe longest bridgeuin Nova et is one of the smallest, it is the and cost the provincial gorern.. "whole world" to us. We circle the mpulpt 000d Ois being shipped from sun once a year and never realize' various points along the Dominion At - that we have moved. And as for Him { lantie Railway line to Bear River, NS., whose hand holds up the worId and - following the re-cpening of Clarke the sun and the stars and whirls them Bros. pulp mills early in Noven,�aer. round in their orbits, we have never Promises that early orders for 35,• seen Him and•would not know that 000 tons of steel rails wi1I be placed He exists if it were not that in His at Sydney, N.S., have been secured. love and mercy Ile bends down close front railway officials at Ottawa, ac» to us and speaks to us in words that cording to a despatch front the Capi, we can understand. How humble and tel. The mills are busy at present tit reverent we should bel the C.N.R. order for 20,000 rails, se' • L "—°�-- cured sonie time ago by the Dominion eeseeeeeeeeseeeemeseseeeeeeseeeeasoneeseseeneeemeseeese REGi:�+ R P'E.; ,i.,i S -.w I5y ._._.. _._ lame Byrn ZS 3 Steel Corporation, and indications are for a busy winter season. At the Imperial Fruit Show, hold re. , Gently in London, England, New Bruns. 1 Wick, in competition with the other provinces of Canada and the other Dominions of the .Empire, wasp success. ful in carrying off the first prizes and gold medals; for Mel$tosh and Fa.' tneuse, and also it third prize sett bronze medal for Golden Russell and j Princess Louise. Artificial ice was first made in 1783. Stretching the spine for a, foto min+» utas each day is the l+'ateat rem :Mat , prolonged yotit., Planes leave Paris for London daily at 9.80, 11.80,12.46 and 16,00, arrivin# in London at 12.04, 14.00, 15.40 and 38.80, respectively. Returning planet leave Loudon for Pori; daily at 10,110 14.00, 12.t5 art 1 14'40, arriving atm 10.0u. 1d 00, ,.% and 18,30.