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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-12-30, Page 2At it what ailed it about asked eoege • r me:" Martha Wells, with clinging to her, went u 'room which her brother h for her when her home was broken after her mother's death. There was a cheerful fire in an open fireplace, and Martha sank into her favorite chair with . a sigh of content. Now we are going to have a happy week together," she said. "Every one of us has got a Christ- mas gift for you," said Susie, {`even Billy -Boy." "And Rax, and Mr. Tommy -Cat," added Mary. "We're going to have the biggest tree we ever had," shouted George, putting his head in the door. "Just come to the window and we will show it to you," cried Susie, drag- ging her auntie to the window, "Father is going to cut it down for us the day before Christmas.' "Cut that beautiful young evergreen tree down just for a Christmas holi- day?" exclaimed Martha; "why it would be cruel." t dust class Joyce i know d Mrs. it to sked Martha. said, and she shall never see ely as a tree; .e hungry mouth is prest ae earth's sweet flowing hat looks at God all day s her leafy arms to pray; pe that may in summer wear est of robins in her hair; on whose bosom snow has lain: ho intimately liveswith rain, nems are made by fools like me, ut only Gad can make a tree' " Ftxr a moment no one spoke, then Lary said, "What does a `nest of robins in her hair' mean? A tree hasn't any hair." "When I was here on my spring va- cation a. robin was building a nest in that very tree you want to cut down. Do you remember you wrote me, Mary, that there were five little birdies in the nest and that they all came off the nest safely, and that Mr. Tommy -Cat did not try to catch one of them?" "Of course he didn't," said little Emma, fondly stroking the head of the pretty cat curled up in her lap. "Tommy never catches birds or chick- ens. We talked to him when he was little and told him he mustn't." "It seems strange to me," said Mrs, Wells, "that so few persons under- stand cats. They think they can ABANDON 5151 SALVAGE FOR WINTER Due to the fact that the lives of the divers were imperiled eriled through th e freezing .. z p g e seri ,g of the .air" lines, the work of raising the sunken U.S. submarine from 129 fathoms off Block Island 'has been to, the postponed -searing. Photo shows the final descent into the icy waters being incl;. grain, and fasten them to the branches all over the tree with fine wire or cord for handles. Next, get your father to give you some of his cracked corn to spread under the tree for blue jays, squirrels, and perhaps pheasants, if therer a e any about here. That will make a Birds' Christmas Tree that will keep a good many of our dear lithe friends happy for days,— in fact, I am sure you will keep it, supplied all winter, when once you see what a joy it is," The crows were calling to each, other back of the barn, where cracked corn had been placed, and she was al- most sure that she saw a pheasant. "I can vouch for that," said Mr. u •Wells. I saw threepeasants come out of the woods and enjoy our Christ- mas treat when 1. 'went to -the barn just as the sun was rising, and the squirrels were scampering around as. busy and happy as they could be." "Our teacher told us to drive away the English sparrows," .said George. Auntie, that is splendid! We shah "I am sorry she should say that, for love to do it," said. Susie. two reasons," said Auntie Martha "Indeed we will," echoed Mary. "one is, that the greatest lesson in "It's surely. a fine idea," said Mr, the world to teach children is to be a og anyt ing, but do not know Wells, and his wife added,— indeed kind to.: every •living creature. If eve. once begin to teach children to do. anything to hurt or frighten any kind of bird or animal; we can't tell where it will end. We are teacl in ki d ness and Hardening their hearts so that that first thhig we know, they will be cruel to each other, or to unfortunate dogs or cats that have no one to care for them, and they will get air guns, and shoot at any kind of bird." "It is strange that so few persons know how useful English sparrows. are," said Mr. Wells. "I have watched them feed their little ones and seen them fay to- their nests again and again with their little beaks full of that with a little patience and with= it is." out harsh treatment, a cat can be taught to mind. Plenty of cats live III in; the room with and when the "Cruel? What do you mean?" cried birds are out of the cage never think the children. of touching thein. They have been "Let us not talk about it now," said taught better." Martha soberly. "Run away and let "Sometimes my cat and my da me rest a little while, then I will come mind me better than my children,' down and talk to you:' said Mr. Wells, with a snail;. "I don't "ink Rex ever disobeys me." II. Rex, who was lying on the floor by Mr. Wells' chair, hearing his name It was after supper and the chit- nailed, Iifted his head and thumped dren,excepting Bill -Bo were p g Y Y, sitting his tail on the Hoar. around their beloved auntie in the "To, get back to the tree," said parlor. Mr. and Mrs. Wells were with Mari ha, "That is just the tree for them, els" Rex and Tommy -Cat. I to take shelter in when the cold George ttaddenly spoke pp,-,...`�FoteY winds are blowing and the snow fall- • c Christmas morning dawned bright and cold. Snow covered the ground } and the children shouted with delight. I when looking out the window they saw g I the' Birds' Christmas Tree alive with I birds. Susie, who had been making a !study of birds, announced proudly that she had seen the winter chippie, jun- 4 cos, blue jays, chickadees, woodpeck- 1 ers, a lame blackbird, cedar birds, and IEnglish sparrows, at different +limes, since she first began looking out her = window as she was dressing. a.uzitip n: arrld` be cruel to cut ing. I am sure you would not wish to �''° •$ down our Christmas tree," `take away the birds' comfortable "I rather felt that way myself," house?" 18 said Mr. Wells, slowly. "I was wait -1 "Oh,' no, auntie," the children all ing to hear what your auntie would cried in chorus. say about it. Speak up, sister!" 1 "But our presents—it'll sort of spoil I shall begin by telling you some- our fun, won't it?" said George. thing about my work," said Martha. I "Not a bit of it," answered his aun- "When I first began to teach school,- tie. "I have thought out a fine way five years ago, I soon realized that the to give the Christmas presents." children had not been taught to think.' "Tell us!" cried the children, so I saw that a good deal of the trouble eagerly that they jumped up from and the suffering ie the world was their seats and set Rex to barking. because older people as well as chil-; "Let us go back to the tree again," dren did not stop to think whether, Martha. "Suppose we make our first what they wanted for their own cone.; Christmas present to the birds." fort or pleasure was going to hurt , "How can we do that?" asked anybody else. When I say anybody;' George. else, I mean any creattaxe that lives ; "We can begin right away to get and can suffer. I have always felt, the presents for the birds. We will that we have no right to cause suffer- I buy two pounds of beef suet and eut Ing to others for our own selfish com- . it into squares, or any shape you like, fort• I then make little wire baskets that we "I began to have any pupils commit; can fasten on the branches•and the to memory poems about birds and ani -1 trunk of the tree. That will be a great mals, and flowers and trees, and it was , attraction to' the wood -peckers and surprising what a difference it made : chickadees. The blue jays will be in that neighborhood in a short time. ! greedy and get more than their share, The boys stopped robbing birds' nests' but we can't help that—we don't want and firing air guns at living targets. I them to starve. If the squirrels,"or They unchained their dogs, but did the sparrows, are very hungry, they not let them chase after their bicycles, may take same of it, but we will pro- -or cats. Theydid not desert their' p � vide other food for them. Then we will poor cats and kittens and let them bake two ' dozen large potatoes to ng starve. The grocer's boy no longer t enough to make the skin hardt g so that whipped the poor horse he was driv- we can cut them in halves. a yell Each o- ing. All this I did witho'rt interfering • tato will make twop baskets. Fill them at all with my other lessons, and any with a mixture of bread crumbs and MUTT AND JEFF—By Fisher. JEFF, 'You GeTTA RANI) tT' -t'ta mkt x'Ur LPsNbeb `(roti A S.tve--Lt. PART IN AN ANIMAL. PteTVt2C, ANIMAL% t `a (AV Dtsl-t: RIGIITo. kmovu1(JG Yaut�'. oNDNG8S Fort f1NIMAt.S A SIGrtiCb `(OE) UPttR Tests lateTefe4 AT ()Neel, 28 wriggling green worms. I should hate to see any bird or animal go hungry, IV. -- and winter is a hard time for English sparrows, as well as other birds in the city or country." Christmas afternoon was a happy time at the Wells farm. The chil- dren were kept out of the parlor all the forenoon. When the- door was opened they all exclaimied with delight. The tables werecovered like a coun- ter in a store, witheall sorts of delight- ful things. To each article a narrow ribbon .' was attached` and .- carried across the table to hang over the sides like a fringe, the ends finished with a round shining button. There werefive different colors, a color for each child. Susie was invited to begin by drawing toward her any one of the blue rib- bous, and the article at the end of the blue -ribbon was hers. The children took turns, each seizing one of the ribbon ends, and carefully_ pulling it toward them. If the present at the end of .the ribbon was large and heavy like a train of cars or a box of blocks, it made all the more fun. There was a great uproar when George, fol- lowing his color, a red ribbon, an across the table, found that it ledto a new sled that was hidden under the table. Another emailer table had gifts for the older ones with pretty cards, and still another- table, when a snowy cover was lifted, displayed a feast of sandwiches, fruit, candy, cake, 23 22 ° set out in readiness for the children's • supper. _ (. So the day ended, and as the chil- dren were going to their night's rest most total lack 'af the essential vita-. George said, : T think this is the best mine. The usual manifestation .is i1l. and merriest Christmas we have ever health -_-poor appetite, headaches, dys= • I I had, and .I'm awfully g;ad we gave the pepsla, intestinal indiioesiion neural - . 19 ®?5 3i • .36 '1 `9,3'3 i7® x�• 20 32- 39 29 ;0 3! Theant Glory of the Common. l at.,+th Breath ler . 0 40 need ;to bavo. a.ey special floW the glory of, the commonplado snails;, upon u g ways! That izeleoiue ,tell-taI click of the awing ink, "garden gate, The homey sound .of pine -knots burn Mg in the open grate, :• The ring of. chilais!h laughrter . that comes floating dawn. the stair, And that adient, holy moment that is kept for evening player The; nightly rounds of tucking In the te.of little beds, And. the soft {kisses placed on sleeping golden heads The glory of the commonplace cants a halo' round our days, —Ruth Holway. Faith. If on this night of still, white cold, I ctih remember May, New green of tree am underbush, A hillside orchard's mounting flush, The scent of earth and noon's blue hush, A robiu'�s .jaunty way,-. If on this night of,bitter frost, I .know such things can be, That :lovely, May is truer- ah, ; Well, I shall believe the tales neon tell, Wonders• of bliss and, asphodel, And immno�rtality, a --Hortense Flexner; Vitamines. The t`yo subjects that are engaging the attention of medical .nen mare per: haps ;than any others at +the present time are vitamines and the internal secretions, or hormones. And the .two are in a manner one,' for it has been -1, found that, the proper action of the 'glands• that give origin` to the internal ' secretions depends largely upon a suf- ficient gpanttity-of vitamines in the food. It is difficult to give a satisfactor y e i definition oP vi - Pini taminesS for their csemi- cal'-composition has not -yet been dis- covered, and we know their and can classify -them only by their effects. and by the evil results to . men and animate when they are absent from. the- food. We know only that they are substances, contained in small amounts - in fresh foods,. and that they are es e sential to normal nutrition;" they are. I different from '•the energy -producing e principles in food—proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Perhaps the best ex- . planation is that given by a recent u English writer, .who likens thean to the ,dge of medici�r to; understand tilt ' 4erp alyd • (irraw acts of mouth bi'e ., :ngr•, Paren�3 4re„p.ware that Ito ohil!tl, can develop prcrjiei ly, "ei+ tally or physically, until •teL�,���i�f-` underlie mouth breathing haver. removed,. Warped tonsils ar. aad.enoids ialooking the cbreatbing pass^. ages are usually to blame, and in elicit a case at is. useless to tell the child to keep lits, mouth but. Fortunately, the poorest parent Is naw able. to get treatment far' his child 1n our city clinics, but great disap p�aintmenjt sometimes, fellows the operation'for the removal of adenoids: The chill' does• not respond as expect- ed, but rein,aIus: �deiicette an•d slow with his' studies, and his mother may .ex- claim: "11& had hesadenoids removed; and he is, just asp bad as ever." On' examination,, a child of whom that is true will generally be found to be stilt breathing through his- mouth, probably on account of nasal passages that need to be cleared ors mucus, and, also partly because mouth `breathileg has become. a habit with ,liana. Whoa- . mouth breathing has -persisted for some; time the muscles all round the lower part of the face become' weak. and disiuciined to perform their job' Of f holding the face in proper position, and it is necesrsexy -to resort to exer- cises; tee train them .to do their work. Thus a . few minutes spent with the child every day will meet with good reward. First he must be encouraged to draw 'deep breaths with the mouth shut. The nasal passages mast of course receive attention if necessary, for no being, young'; or old' can keep on breatY in : ° i g through'. blocked nostxilg. Then -the child should be taught the difference between euperficial top -lung breathing. and deep, or bottom-lun g, breathing; he .should .raatice e r g'ym- nasties wiyh the -arms while breathing deeply. • But. all effort will ;avail little if the' habi� c1 ts• of sleep undo the work of the day, If the mouth falls' open as soon as the chtil•d: is asleep,. then mischief goes�'steaddly on. all nigiht. The teeth and. the mucous: membrane of the month and threat are exposed to germs;. the naturakemoisture of the mouth drieeout, and the child awak lie- With parched: throat and tongue. m -such a ease a. simple and most of carious remedy is�the use of a small square of thin sticking plaster to fast- en the lips together. It is, not at all an nplea a,nt remedy,. and it; helps to es -n tablish a :good habit. spark that ignites the fuel mixture eof a gasoline' engine, the spark, he says, is of no use without the fuel, dr' the fuel without the spark. There are at least three different vitamines• that are classed broadly -by 5 the diseases,that the lack of thein causes. Rickets results from the lack Of Q. vitamine, beriberi from the lack of B vitaniine, and s�cilrvy from the lack of C vitamin;. It is thought that the so-called "Hunger dropsy" is caused by a'defciency of D vitamine, but that is pure speculation as yet. Vitaminesarenot manufactured' in the animal body, and such of them as are contained in fresh meat, milk, but- ter and eggs - are derived from- the vegetable food of •tire animal or the fowl The - diseases above mentioned .i are not t th eon ones, 1 ons Y caused bya de- ficiency of vitamines; they aro seen only occasionally when there is • an a1 The Milkmaid Sings. Tis Mary; the milltmaid singing, A singing, a -singing o rarely and sweet that the larapv her feet, _ • All ready. to .start 'with a song in his heart, Presses closer the nest with his warm ltttle breast, Forgetting his lay as, he drinks; in the sweet Pure music of Mary singing. Norman Gale. Ancient Dental Tools. The better classes of people had arious methods of cleaning their eeth after each meal but it just hap- ned that the scheme was sometimes dange�rdue as exemplified by the ex p'erience of -a Sicilian king,`Agahera Agathoeles, who passed away 28,c9„.C. This king had a pretty good as -sort- .,.. mens of soldiers and with them he reamed all over his kingdom, slaugh- tering People 'right and left.- He spent many ;years• at this sort of thing. and finally had .hes- -subjects under absolute control, but -he was not able to sub- due his own family; One'fine day young Achagathus per- suaded�the favorite of the old king, Maenon, to assist his grandfather on the way to the other world. The young woman simply •sprinkled a little poison on tlio •"feat4ier with which- the king. cleaned his teeth every day"` and while Agathocles was still wri-thing in 'pain the grandsons' and sons cast him upon the funeral pyre. Centenary of Aluminum, The centenary of the discovery of aluminum ordure this year,- for Oer- atea claims to have •propai••eci this. me -bare in 1825 by coave•rting -aluminas ; into {chloride' and then reducing this by means means of 'an amalgam of potassium. His results were published in the early - Part of•1825 airl a specimen. of 'the new metal was 'exhibited before the Danisb Societyo of Scicnee: Two years later 'Mahler obtained aluminum in e fprin of a grey -powder. 16 YOPELhtb u vo n c r rN J "I ;want to learn skull .- '1 than ^ climbing andyodeling," i b �, g Y a ng, said �Viievt�. "How much do you charge'?" "Chsrge " replied the Swiss , ids. "I'll teachyou al 6'u 1 without pay if you .prom;se to inFktrnet me in that 'Yankee -- stuff you are now exhibiting." '" (ICindl draw straight lines between ...h Y g L eon t o numbers); Nol A 13CeiGAL -clGc>23 rtv 5cc-Ne. °NG Yqu COME our of A DeLlCATEssFN: IM ItuhrA AND A TIGele 15 SiTTr .IG laY' A HYbtzAtfri cur - birds our Christmas tree." ' gia.and neuritis:, sleepless -nese, fatigue It will make us all happy when we atter slight exertion, anaemia, neuras- listen to the bitter wind that is blow-' thenia andso on. ing to -night to think of the dear little The prevention or cure of the trou-` biiels and the crows and squirrels that biles. that . are traced to lack of vita - will sleep- warmer and ;better because mines is a change to protective foods they arenot ping hungry to their' in the -dietary—whole-wheat. bread, cold beds in the trees," said tender-'e$gs, milk, batter, fresh fruits, salads hearted little Emma, and Mrs. Wells, land fresh vegetables- cooked• -rapidly; for prolonged boiling or even simmer- ing destroys; the vitamines.. Toma- toes have all thevitamines in fair amount and so are very useful, but they can seldom' be eaten ' in large quantities because of -the ,acid they contain.: tanning meats and vege- tables destroye.the vitamines in largo measure. Canada is the chief ;talc producer within -the British Empire. Talc and stone, are found in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. as she led the little ones upstairs, re- peated: "'He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small, For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth 'all'." -Anna Harris Smith. Early Marriage _Rite. I3'ynien was probably originated by the Greeks. in the olden days it was Hyinen who led'the torch dance, as he carried the real "wedding torch' at the front of the procession which conduct- ed the bride to the home of theg r g com. In Rome as late as 1800 Hymen and his torch -bearers were a alrays part of royal marriages. tNC TlGFfa LeAtss eN You Rt,it `'e°v CNGASE IN atecece STI uG ,Lct 13QT acee'T Wo( Y At etaT `I'thAT: YOU'LL t<Now iT'S (Salt_/ R Mt-Livc- 'S'Ct2VGGLC-: EYeglasses enable about sixty per cent, of our business and professional _Hien to continue working after middle- age has been reached. tb Jeff • Wants to Have a Mstual Unnerst a••file Tib! In Commcrciai Ai/la-doh. TILT wi�i. Mae-\ TtGcta KNOW L -C'5 eNLY A MP -1 C'LICL'E S? -R u G G LC- i' Awswc-Ce Mc - THAT' ria kti1111111 British commercial av {.tion com- panies say that " thein' machines` flew 778,000 'miles in 1922 anal more than 51,000,000 miles- in 1924, cari•yirtg 15,- 000 passengers with only one fatal ac- e.. odent. Eliot Muocat alae . hottest isun. temple aturo ever reeomded was itt Muhcat, Q,11 the Por alan Gulf, where the, black null) solar thermometer liar registered. 187 de, : green. :Queen of GypslesDead. Familiarly known l among the 110- 'mtany t jlye: as "Queen of the'(,`'ripsies,," Geomging Ayres diet{ recently at the gipsy :encampment, Ash Vale; Surrey, aged 83: Tags on Sick People. The Delaware state board of health recently rated that ail persons having whooping cough shotild be compelled tb wear.a bright yellow erre band bear ing the words "Whooping, Cough State Board of Health,"