The Brussels Post, 1924-3-26, Page 2130W -LEGGED WHEELS.
One of the very surest way to Scrub
Mit your automobile tires in recordr
time is to permit your wheels to get
out of alignment.
There aro a number of coalitions
which will tend to throw a wheel out
of line; and the great trouble is that'
the driver site where he cannot see hie,
wheels when the car is in motion and
so may not realize justwhat the
trouble is until much damage has
been done, If a motor -driven vehicle
is run up against a curb So thet the
immovable stone construction is con-,
siderable, somthing has to give, and
that something is naturally the part
which holds the wheel ih place. Care.1
less driving over rough roads deeply
indented with rute is also liable to
throw a sudden strain on to some rod
or bearing that will wrench a wheel
outo f line. A driver should realize,
this and be particular to drive care-'
fully, not permitting one wheel to
drop into a rut suddenly, but, if pos-
Bible, to steer the vehicle so that all
four wheels will have a fairly smooth
or level surface to pass over, or one
or two' wheels will take the change
of surface necessary very gradually.
Sometimes a slight accident, or a
sudden strain caused by the force of a
heavy blow or impact, or the careless
rounding of curves, or descending
steep, rough hills at a high speed will
bend an axle, knuckle orsteering rod.
When demountable rims are used
precaution must be taken to see that
the rims are put on perfectly straight,
for if they are carelessly placed the
tire moat take unnecessary diagonal
grind and wear.
INCREASING LIFE OF SPRINGS.
If you would increase the life of
the springs on your car, take them
apart At least once a year and place
graphite between the leaves, This will
keep them flexible and will afford the
car the protection for which the
springs were designed, instead of ,
them getting rusty and stiffening
very perceptibly.,
ELIMINATION OF VIBRATION
LENGTHENS LIFE OF CAR,.
The number of forms of vibration
on •a motor car are legion. Some of
them can be eliminated; others can
only be lessened; most` of them are
unpleasant and some are destructive.
11 vibration could be eliminated en-
tirely,'the car's life would be consider-
ably lengthened, To dream of such a
thing, however, would be like chasing
rainbows; interesting perhaps, but
with no chance of success. The object,
then, of both the designer and the
user is to geep unnecessary vibrations
on the blacklist.
KEEP BATTERY UPRIGHT.
Always keep the battery in a ver-
tical position in taking it out or re-
placing it in the sar. Sediment may
be in the bottom of the jars, and tip-
ping them may cause it to get between
the plates and short-circuit them.
TIRE SPREADERS OP WOOD,
Tire spreaders can be made of vari-
ous sizes to meet the demands of the
tire repair shop. For this purpose
wood will serve best, maple being pre-
ferred. These should be about ten
inches long, three inches wide and
one inch thick. The step-down for
various tire sizes man be made to any
length that may found convenient
for the work.
Airplanes Should be Equipped
With Radio Sets.
The army aerial world tour will be
attempted without the use of radio ex-
cept on the last leg, across the Atlan-
tic from Hull, England, due to the con-
servation of weight, the chief of the
a -any air service bus announced.
Radio experts and some filers be-
Iievo that this is an unfortunate de-
rision, sdnoe through the use of radio
in connection with aviation greater as-
surance of suceeiafnl flights and the
afe:ty of pilot ha; r .=ulted generally..
Hut the project, t : of the flight do not
consider radio essential.
Weather condita,ns, ordris and
emergency calls can be received im-
i -dlately by pilots on radio equipped
craft, and they in turn can send mes-
sages as to pragre: s, position and
changes in routes, as well es requests
for assistance, posiltien reports and de -
,s -red information.
Ona pane it is now planned, will be
equipped with a transmitter and a re-
s giver set at Bull, England, but what
would happen if that plane should
(gash is not announced. The radio
telegraph transmitting set is a 200
watt nonsynchronous rotary spark
with a plane to ground range of about
n hundred miles: The antenna will be
a s'ing'le weighted trailing wire, and
the whole est will weigh approximate.
17 1.00 pounds. Six hundred metres
will be the wave used.
A sunerheteroyne receiving set will
also be carried in the communication
plane, but no radio compass. The
transmitting set is capable of being
transferred to another plane if neces-
sary. Spares and some replacement
apparatus will be carried across the
Atlantic.
Broad Hint.
For hours they bad been together on
her front porch. The moon cast its
tender gleam down on the young and
handsome Couple who stat strangely
fax apart He sighed. She sighed.
Finally;
"I wish I had manes, dew," be oak.
"I'd travel."
Impulsively. she slipped her hand in.
to his; then, rising swiftly, she sped
Into rho ]Kruse.
Aghast, he looked, et his bawd, In
Me palm lay a nickel.
You cannot pull hard with a broken
Tope.
In a bedroom built of glass at Guy's
Hospital, London, patients have been
kept hermetically sealed up for five
days In an atmosphere containing
double the usual quantity of oxygen.
Dr. Harold Wismer
London specialist, who has discovered
a means of diagnosing certain types of
disease through X-ray examinations of
the head. His method is an examine
tion of the athenoidal cells,
The Old Men of the
Poorhouse.
The old men of the poorhouse sit alone
Among the gravestones in the au-
tumn son,
One peeks a little maple stick, and
one
With a clay pipe leans forward from
his stone
To paint out where the first wild geese
have gone
Over the meadow, past the golden
wood,
One Iles against a broken slab to
brood
On grassy quiretudes--perhaps his own.
Now over the stubble fields the dinner
gong
Sounds through the hin h
g o eves �' when
the late bees pass,
The old men Heave their atones and
trudge along
The empty road, But from hie plot
of grass,
Still tbe old one grooding does not
rise,
And stile the gray geese ory along the
skies.
--Mavis Clare Barnett
Enjoyment stops where indolenee
begins.
Invocation.
'timely, rarely comost thou,
Spirit of delight]
Wherefore hast thou left ma now
A1anY a day tend night?
Many a weary night and der
'Tis since ilieti ar t iced away,
How shall ever one •]lice Ain
"Will thee back again?
With the joyous' and the tree
Ttou w•]lt scoff at peen,
Spirit faleal thou least .forgot
All but those who need Thee not.
love snow and all the forms
01 the radiant frost;
1 love waves, and wind's, and Women,
Everything almoat
Which ie Nature's, and may be
Untainted by main'e misery,
I love tranquil aolitude,n
And such society
As is quiet, wise and good;
Between thee and me
What dtfferenoe? but thou dost pos-
sess'
The things I seek, not love them less.
I love Love—though he has wings, ..
And •lake light„can flee,
But above all other things,
Spirit, I love thee—
Thou are love and life! 0 come!
Make once more my heart thy home!
--Percy Bysehe She1tey,
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How Nqt to Eat. -------- -
Table manners in the seventeenth
century must have stood in need of Do Continents and Seas Float on the Earth's Surface
considerable improvement, if we may
take seriously the advice that Hannah'
Wooley gave to young ladies. in 1676,
It meet be admitted that Miss Wooley
"wielded a trenchant pen.”
"Gentlewomen discover not by any
ravenous gesture your angry appetite,
nor fix your eyes too greedily on the
meat before you, as if you would de-
vour more that way than your throat
would swallow. In carving avoid clon-
ing your fingers in your mouth rind
linking them alter you have burnt
them. Close your lips when you eat.
and do not smack like a pig. fill not '
your mouth so full that year cheeks
shall swell Like a pair of. Scotch bag-
pipes. It le very uncomely to drink so
large a draught that your breath is al-
most gone and you are forced to blow
strongly to recover yourself,"
Biggest Concrete Bridge.
What will be the biggest concrete
bridge in the world ,is about to be con-
structed by France, to connect Brest
with Plougastel. It will be 600 meters
long (six miles), consisting of arched
spans of 180 meters each. .Seven-
elghths of its length will cover that
much of the estuary of tbe River
Elora,
This will be the second concrete
bridge since the war, the other being
that at St. Pierre du Vauvray, which
was opened to traffic last year by
President Millerand.
A brave man, were he seven times a
king, is but a brave man's peer.
If I were asked to name the three
things which were retarding civiliza-
tion most, I should say—ignorance,
self-indulgence and selfishness.—O. S.
Marden.
There was ,not long ago a violent
storm along the coast of France, so
violent that it shook the seismographs
of the observatory at the Parc Saint -
Maur, near Paris. The movement of
the earth was not nearly so great as
at the time of the Japanese earth-
quakes, but still, considering the dee-
tance of the sea from the French capl-
tal, therecorded shift was enough to
bring into much,,prominence the theory
of Wegener, the geologist, that the tra-
ditionally believed Immobility of con-
tinents 1s fallacious, and that In reality
instead of being firmly fixed, the
Americas, Asia and Europe float aim-
lessly about like masses of seaweed'
in the Sargasso, on a stratum of fluid
matter.
Writing under the heading, "A New
Contribution to the history of the
Earth," Charles Nordmann says in "Le
Matin":
"Here is something to shake our
ideas concerning this planet of ours,
where the mediocre human melodrama
is staged and which we call dry land,'
and, even more erroneously, . 'terra
firma.' With the classic theories of
the learned man this upheaval of the
continental mass would be incompre-
hensible,.but we have Wegener's body
hypothesis, which not only explains
the fact, but elucidates a crowd of
enigmas; not as with Trissotin,, who.
so far, has only floundered with sol-
emnity without results,
"Wegener's idea simpler than is gen-
erally believed, is as follows: .The
continents are not immobile; they are
floating on a sort of layer, denser than
the earth's crust, and which consti-
tutes at the same time their support
and the bottom of tbe sea, and might
be likened to those light pebbles which
roadrnakera throw on the heavier as-
HELP
My neighbor, Smilax, was in trouble, he had two broken
limbs.; and to him went old Mrs. Bubble, with tracts and helpful
hymns. And to his home went many neighbors, a good; kind.
hearted crew, to hope he'd soon resume his labors, and bo as
good as new. The village optimist proceeded to his dire couch
of pain, and turned some sunshine loose and pleaded that he
would smile again. The brethren of his lodge were present at
every crucial hour, to make the sickroom sweet and pleasant as
any maiden's bower. And I alone refrained from calling upon
that tortured goy, though sympathetic tears were falling; at
times, from either eye. And people said, "Your heart to hardened,
you visit not the sick; believe us, you will not be pardoned for.
such an evil trick. You hear your neighbor Smilax yelling until
his larynx cracks, and yet you visit not his dwelling to ask him
how he stacks. You carry him no piea of custard, no bowls of
wholesome soup, you pack no sandwiches, with mustard, t'o
Smilax in his coop." But when the invalid was better, and feel-
ing pert and smart, he said to me, "Oh, donnerwetter,•1 thank you
from my heart! When sickness laid its aeadow o'er me, and
made me wilt and droop, you, you alone refused to bore me with
sermons and with soupt"
phalt, which is still in an unaoliditied o1 an immense puzzle, It i8 not Parte
state. alone, but all Inhabited lands which
"Wegener by his surprising hypothe- have the right to the disturbing motto
sis, maintains that formerly, that is to 'Fluctuat nee mergitur."
say, some myriads of centuries 'ago,. "lentil lately, our doctrine of the
all the continents were united in one firmness and stability of the earth
single block, and 1f one could put to—united tbe land of lost dreams to this
gether the various sea coasts of the' one of ours, of sentiment and human
Atlantic, one would And that they fit- vows. This land of the living and the
ted neatly into one another, end the dead, which we believed to be forever
evidence of the underground disloca- 1 anchored to the bottom of the sea, is
tion would also tally. In a like man- but an inert mass of wreckage, drift -
tier the continents of Australia and ing about on a viscous subterranean
the Antarctic would be found to It 1n sea,
to the now empty notch of the Mediter- "Still, who knows, perhaps some day
ranean-Sea. millions of years hence, these drifting
This extraordinary and suggestive continents may come together in a
hypothesis explains very well the anal monstrous union and join what now is
ogles which exist between the fossil- separated.
ized fauna and flora of continents "This earth of human sorrows, with
which to -day are widely apart—for ex- its follies and its bopes and despairs,
ample, Africa and South America, drifts across the ocean for centuries
"Numerous observations, notably like Arthur Rimbaud's 'Drunken Ship,'
that of the foros of gravity and the but we may say of it, like the poet,
average density of the earth at differ- that ineffable winds have brushed it
eat parts cf the globe, tend to confirm lightly with their wings,"
this theory. he we are led to
believe to -day that, instead of the con- Beauty provoketh thieves sooner
tixenents beinposition,g securely n" a
fid the emerginanchoredg layeriof than Be greatgold 10 acts as you have been
earth is really floating on another and in thought.
denser viscous layer, and which serves
as a support for the continents. He tires betimes that spurs too
"So the countries, now inhabited by fast betimes.
men of different race, color and cub- The procrastinating man is ever
toms, are but the dislocated portions struggling with ruin.
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
The Library and Publishing De-, umes back to the library. During the
partment of the Canadian National; first year of the library's history,
Institute for the Blind is located at; some -700 volumes were loaned; last
142 College St., Toronto. It occupies year 13,075 were sent out. And since
the whole of 'a sixteen -room building every book going out means another
opposite the Conservatory of Music coming in, approximately 26,000 vol-'
umes were handled.
Do you know what a volume for the
blind means? The Bible comprises 89
ized, it owned. 8 total of 81 volumes, volumes and requires more than she
but its catalogue now shows works of feet of shelf room, And other ]works
literature and music aggregating are in proportion. Each volume costs
nearly 13,000 numbers. The whole of the Institute, from two to freer dollars.
the lower floor of the building is de- Think, then of what a library for the
voted to the housing, cataloguing,' blind represents in cost of books
mailing, receiving, etc., of that large alone!
collection of books comprising titles I Our Publishing Department prints
on almost every subject from the "Ar- works of; various kinds from Ontario'
abian Nights" to "The Coming of. Public School texts" to stories of the
Evolution,": and. from "Nature' Read-! calibre of "Maria Chapdelaine," that
ere to "Theses on the Atomic 1 beautiful prose idyll of life in the'
Theory." George Elliot and John frontier districts of Northern Quobec.i
Buchan Sir Walter Scott and Roberti It also issues for ten months each year
Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and a monthly magazine known as The
Conan Doyle, Daniel Defoe and •Alex- Braille Courier, This journal contains,
andre Dumas, Jane Austen and Char- news of the Canadian National Inse-'
lotte Bronte, W. W. Jacobs and. Mark tute for the Blind and articles, poems,1
Twain rub shoulders most amicably, etc., of a general and interesting char -
on the crowded shelves when not out a actor. .The Braille Courier is a hun-'
on visits to cheer the blind book -lovers' dred per cent. Canadian in spirit and:
in all parts of the Dominion. source of material, and is the only;
Books for the blind are carried free magazine fon the blind published inn
by our Governsnent,; which was the the Dominion. Through the courtesy:
first in the world to grant 'such aiof Canadian readers many copies are'
privilege, thus making possible the forwarded to blind people in all parts
fullest development of the circulating I of the world, so that the' name of curl
library system for readers without Institute is known wherever Braille)
sight. Books go and come in apeciallyl is read. 01 you come to Toronto do;
devised canvas wrappers which make not fail to visit the Library and, Pub_'
it unnecessary for a blind person to nothing Dept. of the Institute at 142
call upon sighted members of his faro-' College St, You will be welcome, and
fly to assists him in mailing his vol- you will be interested.
and is a;departmeet of which the In-
stitute is justly proud.
When this library was first organ -
ISN'T THAT SWAGGERING
CiABBii FROM
CABEAGE.1'OWN.DOC ?
YE.s,TMr'9 A DRUMSER
FROM `1r18COA— TsE,N1'
SUITS
IN RABBITBORO
TELL A RA681Y FROM
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Do. We Know Caiuda,
Welt Enough
Ilallfax is separated frem
Vancouver by 3,777 miles by
rail. When this distrinco is
compared with .that of 2,480
miles from IXallfaix to Liverpool,
Beare conception of the magni-
tude of Canada may be isppro-
elated, and at the same time the
thinking man will realize the
problem which confronts Can.
Ada in keeping her people homee.
genceus and those of one por-
tion considerate of the welfal'e
of those of other portions. Nova
Scotia has her advani•eges aud.
problem which are local to her-
self, while Britieh Columbia also
must provide for and overcome
conditions of which the eastern
province knows nothing. These
sea -bordering provinces; Woe -
wise, are free from some of the
problems and lack some of the
advantagesof the inland pro-
vinces. ,
Tibet the people of Canada
may be kept fully i:iformed on
, its component parts, the Natural
ResourcesIntelligence Branch
of the Dept. of the Interior has
published a series of pamphlets
on the provinces and portions of
provinces and territories of
Canada. Those at present avail-
able are Nova Scotia, New
Brunewiek, Manitoba, Saskat-
chevron, The Peace River Dis-
trict, and Central British Col-
umbia. ethers are in course of
preparation. This branch has
also published a number of in-
teresting maps showing the na-
tural resources of Canada,
Copies of any of these pamph-
lets or maps may be had free on
request to the Natural Re-
sources Intelligence Service,
Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa.
"He Refused to Quit."
On the campus of one o1 the large
univenslties in the Middle West of the
United States a monument has been
set in honer of one of the students, who
died fighting in France. On it is this
simple but"appealing inscription: "He
played on the scrub three years; he
refused to quit,"
Day after day the boy—Hanson was
his name—went oat and played with
the "scrubs" to help tbe "varsity."
Then came thesummons to play a
sterner game on the Raids of France,
and he took his place.
On the battlefield he exhibited the
same fidelity as on the football field.
One day hie Wilmer called for valuta
leers for a hazardous bit of scouting.
Hanson went out with the party but
he never reL',rned. And to -day that
little inscription on Lhe monument re•
calls to the hurrying 'students the
story of a man who refused to quit.
"lee refused to quit]" What liner
tribute can be given to any mea?
When Jesus named for his disciples
time qualities which Ito regerded as
most essential in a Christian disciple
be'put at the bead of ,rho list ethane,
ness; and he closed his discourse with
time solemn words that carry the
same sense, "NO man, having put -his
hand to the plough and bolting back,
is fit for the kingdom of God."
Restores Sight Lost in War.
There is still hope for the blind, ac-
cording to Dr, Bonnefon, whose ex.
periments on men blinded in the wet
have just been made The subject of e
report to the Academy of ialedloine,
When he read a previous report at
the academy Dr. B?onnefon presented
his first successful patient, a snldier
blinded by shellfire. Followhtg an
operation, this eau could see with We
right eye. Since thou the doctor has
operated an auother case, a man Wind-
ed just as the war .envied, who never
had 00811 two of his children- Several
months' persistent treatment restored
his vision, aud in a letter which Dr,
Bpnnefon produces the roan tells of
his delight at being able to sou ,Itis
children.
Dr. BonnoYan offers to perform his
operation 1 ,' say soldier blinded in
the war after a new medical examine.
tion . No doubt the volunteers will
be many.
Burial Place of Richard I.'s
Heart.
A controversy has arose over the
place where tbe lion heart of Richard
J. Iles buried. Whllo the French•say it
rests beneath the chancel of Rouen
Cathedral, All Iiallows church ]n
Barking, by the Tower of Lontiou, in-
sists it is interred in the original
chapel their., and is taunting a bander
bearing the,worde:
The old grey there'll by the `]'ower hill
Claims Richard's heart and your good-
will,
Tradition Mus it that 1tlebare's heart
went to Rotten, though sixty or seventy
y -e reg afte' his death clu'otttcles aver.
red It was at Alt Mellows. The can.'
troversy was revived by a wea'kman's
discovery at All Mallows' of what
may prove to be the altar :;tone of the
original chapel. There 1s at least one
pohit on witiolt all authorities are
agreed, that civic program., fn London
and Buglanri began with ttieltarrt of
iho .Lion's Heart.
Sake, the favorite Japas:ese bever-
age, ie distilled from rice, and has a
pleasantly exhilarating effect, Lager
beer is also popular in the land of the
ohryeanthetnum with those who can
afford it.