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The Brussels Post, 1924-7-16, Page 2OPE -N LEHERS TO A FARMER By Rev. el, V. XellY, (Continued from last week) out a propaganda; erowde are alWaye used• to disseininate dangerous IRMA- ture, eaecielestic or otherwlee. You can understand, also, how inutile the aesoolations ot working houre have to do with associations of hours XII. City OecepatIone Dangerous, To your country life, there are few eeeek-day employmente with anY la- r tt effect upon the religious ciad moral habits a the people. I presume you do not meet to And yourbaysduring leisure. The ordinary boy and. awl girls so Protected in the city. girl in a city make most of their ac- Domestie employment IS u avoided by the girls of city families. Tiney look for occupation in huffiness offices, letpres, factories, on the stage, or in some way connected with play- houses. One calamitous outcome necessarily follow.% eontinuous engage- ments in ally of these. There Is coln. 'Pieta estrangement from the home duties. They are not trained t� house- keepiug; their taseee are for some- thing else; the crowd, the rush, the excitement they have been used to, make the routine of private We un- bearable, When they marry, settling down to the duties of a housewife seem well.nigh an impassibility. Many never settle down; it they are of the ;shoeing class, they will leave child- ren and home neglectea, in the anxiety to find employment where things are not so dull and quiet. if they are peo- ple of mea.ne, home and family are be- ing constantly neglected in the fulfil- ment of social requirements and amenities. Often the husband is dis- sipated and receives condemnation from every quarter; if the whole truth were known, he would be excused; be has no home, not even a palatable meal after his day's labor. It is not • necessary to draw your attention to the proenects ahead of children brought gilaintancee Where they work, through these, frienclehips are formed. In company with friends so made, they go to places of anineement; the amuse- ment atilt be What the friende are, What is perhaps a greater clanger than all these often awaits the young man or woman seeking employment in the city. You are probably more or less apprehensive that several reput- edly successful business establish- ments put through transactions with- out any scrupulous regard for honest dealing. it may be that their whole system of business is carried on along these liaes. Things are done there, as a matter of course, which you could never bring yourself to do, which you cannot understand and man doing who expects to one day give a account of his conduct before an All -Just Judge. As a city resident, year son or (laugh. ter, in sear& of a position, may ans- wer an advertisement and be accept- ed. It may be a long time before they discover the character of the firm or of those carrying on business there, they may never discover it, but, mean- while, they are giving their days, their ability, their energies to help on the dishonest work. Every deal they at- tend to, every letter they write may be aimed at taking from others what •,••••H•-••••••••.,:,; The above photograph shows H.M. Xing George presenting the colors to the First Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, at the review at Aldershot. for those companies; would you wish it had been yours? (To be continued). ......----0.----... Destroy the Flies. up in such conditions. belongs to them. The fly kills more people than the Leaving aside the thought of her Do you suppose for a moment such man-eating tiger. for the young girl who spends her things are uncommon? Let me cite' Jule'. August and September are the future, have you not some misgiving a case in point. A young girl of good months when the intestinal diseases days in an office, departmental store, family, just out of sob.00l, was engaged are most prevalent, and most deadly, you feel altogether easy, were your as stenographer to a firm promoting and these are also the months when factory, restaurant or theatre? Would the sale of mining stock. I heard her house flies are busy selecting their own daughter so employed? That innocently remark: 'Day after day, me breeding places in any accumulation &instantly moving in the crowd work consists in sending out circulars of filth they can find in the neighbor. whether of women or men, the pub. all over the continent. Von know we hood. The prevalence of flies in any deprive them at least to some extent are selling shares in several mines. neighborhood is an indication of the licity of their lives, must necessarly • of the peculiar charms everyone as- The tireibme thing is that we are al.' existence of manure piles or accumula- sociates with their sex. A boldness ways saying the same thing about till' tions of decomposed animal or vege. a self-assertion, an indocility, a tem: the mines." le is not at all likely this ' table matter. It is often a short route faithful stenographer realized that no from such accumulations to the kit - common characteristics. Not long such mines really existed, nor were Chen door and the baby's milk bottle, per bordering on the masculine, are ago. I heard a man of sixty remark, the being operated, and that what she and the result all too often is a severe actually was doing was trying to get! case of summer diarrhoea. with a fatal father of a large family, that in his money under false pretences from i termination. 'city, people unconsciously stop to ad - rich and poor—the poor especially, i To dwell on this question may seem mire a weinan or girl of real womanly widows, servant girls, etc.—all over ' like harping on an old and time -worn appearance, so few answering the des - America. Most farmers have heard subject, but at this season of the year caption are any longer in evidence. of such things going on; they have we cannot afford to overlook what has This is taking things at t eir best. been the victime often; the money , been fully describe as ' est Whit' aeseciations is a young girl in they invested at thee solicitation of a ; and most deadly animal in existence. danger of making in establishments promoter was never Intended to real- I if allowed to breed and roam uncheek- empe :dna large numbers? What is i ize in their interest, no meter how , ed, files can cause more deaths than her ( ompany? Even the best disposed have difficulty in avoiding the unde- sirable. Daughters of the most re- spectable families otter complain that throughout the lire -long day, there is absolutely no restraint upon the lang- uage they are obliged to hear from co-workers. Factories and shops from which this eveil is absent stand out in public estimation something extra- ordinarily exceptional. But these are matters of which you have probably heard a good deal already. The occupations awaiting your sons in the rity will be so multiplied and The vacation time should naturally do eases, varied. there can be no forecasting of this, but It is also the best opportunity i,.. Clothing. eireerneteinces; the company they will le correct minor physical defects in The clothing worn in Bummer should be brought in a. irregularity of children sveli as adenoids, enlarged be light, in -order to keep the body cool, their dutlee, cannot in the least be end diseased tonsils, bad teeth. and absorbent in order to take up any sufficient physical exercise and out - provided against. Their hours may be Parents who allow the vacation to perspiration which may collect on the by day or night; they may have to ire- pass without attending to the. defects wince. door life is most apt to be taken, appe- vel here aud there and everywhere. that can be corrected, and then take Tho general plan should be to "keep , tete Is the most reliable guide to the d I creasing the amount and Lime of eating. While a rosy the prospect. Some person's son! the wild beasts that roam the Jungles. or daughter was doing the office work Fl ea carry the ger fever, diarrhoea and many other dis- eases and the most effective warfare we can wage against than is the elim. Mattel' of the dirt and filth in which they are born and bred. Continual vigilance is the price of safety. "Twas a Famous Victorf!" "It is a great day for England," said William IV., as he lay on his death- bed on June 18th, 1817, and listened to the guns firing for the anniversary The Ault otTlobile 7, Natural Resources Bulletin. automobile engine with power, gaso- line is what most motorists ask for when they stop to fill eta their feel Wake. It may go under some other name, but to a coneiderable extent it is gasoline just the same. Since this is the situation, it is well The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept, Of the interior at , When it eoluee to providing the be inipracticable to design an engine Ottawa ear 1,-- tha w p theea down to Agriculture 18 the economic heart no pressure; that is, to nee MI the of Canada, Among the natural re - pressure. Sueli an engine would need sources of the Dominion arable land to he bulky and heavy, as compared estparrirdsisuenrolvtiaeltiluede,telyIt thise ddifefigcruelet too with the present types,• which they are responsible for •rms. ACTION OP gfCilAtisr were. The exhaust valve is set to open tabling the industrial and emilreureiel Lumberiper, mining, and fishing in the for the owner to use this liquid to the life of Canada regarded as a whole. best possible advantage. when there is still considerable prea- primary production, the A driver, for instance, May sure in the cylinders, This pressure mixture of gas is used, This would means that 1 isVII sphere ef bent in the cylinders, that the gas is the essential services rendered by the carburetor so that a velrtiells:nt , of course,t iere C 1 secondary industries of manufacture, give him a high mileage per gallon of stili burning' The gee "glue is a transportation systems and by purely gas but would make acceleration veil?, heat engine; that is, it derives its _ commercial enterprise—all contribute dncl regular running of the from heat. Therefore, when to national income and de- slow,difficult when the engine is at a low engine the -cylinder exhaust valve is openadjulaterhillY while there is still heat 10 the en- eminent But agriculture is the pre- eminent basic activity by which Can- 4, hill climbing ability very poor pewel. temperature. Such a condition would gine, about 35 per cent. of the total' amount of beet generated by burninz' ada's economic stature and character also require exceptional skill in driv-1- . • - have been determined. It forms the ing to get desieable reeults. the gasolme is lost. Another reason1 chief direct means of livelihood and, why this loss is necessary is because Again, a driver can undertake to moreover, the rural population of the beat his apparent waste in gasoline time must be given' to clean the cylin-, Dominion—constituting both a broad dors of on one stroke so when given a stiff hill to climb or ' voir of raw materials—is an indirect the next by increasing the eemPreesiem But it can take in burninga gascharge ef fresh gas!. consunaing market and a large reser- heavy load to haul or a slight accumu- en The remaining proportion of loss is! but vital factor in fostering extensive lotion of carbon, the engine will knack engaged in other phases and cause trouble. thrOugh friction and inisceilaneousteeflYipinreimnistrieye industry as well as in ways, mostly friction. In order to use °- Loss IN WATER JAOKET. the heat developed, it is necessary to manufacture and commerce. The water jacket is to blame for have some sort of mechanical contri- unusually generous endowment of Canadian agriculture rests upon an some loss. The loss through the water vanes or devices. that slide ovdr each jacket is necessary in order to keep other such as the pistons in the eyee cultivable lands. Present information the various parts cool enough to op- inders and bearings that hold tee! Permits milY a rough estimate of their erate. The temperature of the burn- crank shaft in place. Wherever these actual extent, but it is ceitain that it will still be needs- ing mixture is about 3,000 degrees.l• sliding"parts come there also comes' fel' manY years This extreme beat when brought in I frietion. l sary to measure the Dominion's total arable area mainly by the untilledeet contact with the metal parts of the I Then some power must be expendedi engine would burn the lubricating oil to operate the cooling fan, the valves !cultivation. Of the 300,000,000 acres acreage rather than by that unde,e` from their surfaces so that the pls-.! lubricating pump, ignition device, gen:' believed to be physically suitable for tons would not slide up and down in orator for charging the batteries and,' agriculture, only 60,000,000 acres, or the cylinders. It would heat these in most cases, water circulating pump. one-fifth of the t ta o 1, have been placed metal parts so greatly that it would be impossible to control the ignition. Sometimes an engine will run after To get the highest possible g.asoline, under, field crops. The,remaining four - power, great care should be given o fif.. tns comprising 'some 240,000,000 keeping the carburetor properly ad-, i acres are capable of sustaining many the ignition' is turned off. This is justed, to operating the spark scien-I added millions of population, and they caused by the cylinders being hot tifically, and to watching the radiator, include an immense acreage sufficient - enough to cause ignition of the charge Some cars have a thermostat control ly ripe for settlement as to ensure without supplying a spark. On the of the radiator shutters which opens that the extension of agriculture will other hand, over heating the pistons or closes them as the engine gets hot s continue to be a main highway of Can - causes them to freeze or become stuck, or cold. This helps to keep the engine ada's material progress. Despite the of the Battle of Waterloo, The Battle which makes no end of trouble, operating at the best temperature, I rapid advance of settlement during of Waterloo was fought by eighty The purpose of the water jacket is Watch the quality and quantity of the last two decades there are to -day, thousand French and two hundred and to cool these metal parts so that. a oil. There is some friction in the oil 1 in the three prairie provinces of Mao -4 fifty guns, against sixty-seven thous- film of oil can be maintained. In doing itself, this being greater in the heav-i iere a, D Saskatchewan and Alberta and English, Hanoverians, and Bel- this, however, much of the heat gen- ier oils. 'Use, an oil as light as pos- i alone, at least 25,000,000 acres of un- gians, assisted by a large number of erated by the gasoline is carried off Bible so that there will be a minimum occupied lands situated within fifteen Prussians who came In at the last mo- and consequently cannot be used in of, friction in the oil itself and yet miles of existing railways, and avail- ment The British casualties on the sending the car forward,' , heavy enough to insure keeping the able for purchase at figures represent - field were fourteen hundred men killed Another percentage of loss is ae- metal parts separate and preventing .ng i but a fraction of the values and nearly five thousand wounded. counted for by the exhaust. It would excessive friction between them. placed upon lands of no greater fertil- Four thousand of the allied forces ity in the older farming communities d f the 'United were killed, and the total number of their wounded was twenty-two thous- and. At the time it was considered a very dear victory; but it is, perhaps, one of the most famous and important of all time. It has gone down into the glorious history of our country, eaary- lag with it an aver -living memory of our great countryman—Wellington, Hoofs in the Heather. Fetch the cattle through the heather, eMary, blue-eyed lass of mine; rellow is the glow of sunset, Long the shadow of the pine! Far away the bells are tinkling In some lush and watered dell; Lonely are the paths of heather, Lonely for the twilight bell! Often you have brought the cattle, 0 MY pretty, slender lass; You have' found them in the valley Knee-deep in the tender grass! You have sent them through the' star - Watchers of the Skies. Compared with birds, human beings have a. poor sight. It is well known that an eagle Is capable of sighting its quarry Brom a great height. and is able to swoop down and seize it 'exactly in The recent celebration of Dominion the centre of Its neck. Day, Canada's national birthday, culls Most birds have good sight, but in attention to the progress which this some the faculty is more developed le stance, him the remarkattle power of may be in prospect for country has made since the commence - f th and w andhitt Id than I t.1 Th woodcock Or in - thickets as though it were flYieig come. t this s young flying at a great speed through dense aggressive country in the years to • through an open space. It is also astonishing to see the pace • judging the course of national devel- ' There Is no formula, however, for Single -trailed with plodding feet; or building. Only most acute sight may prove extravagant, and the most opment,. The most cautious forecast at which a bird will alight upon a tree of the Dominion an o States. What of Canada's Future? • no lore. e mento e presen century, Before School Begins Vigor of School Children. It is light Sununer Vacation is the Time to Build Up the Health and al Defects ' • 4,, Also a Good Time to Attend to the Correction. of Minor Physic • e taken at any ttrne and heather how quickly birds discern food that oapectiominipsitiischmmaeyntfall fsaixrteyhoryteonfrsactaugaal You have brought them through the enables it to do this accurately. Then,' Summer is the best time of the year fluence of warm weather upon body 0 Water may b President Lincoln pointed out, in his for school children to be brought to activities, upon the food supply and i In any amount desired, provided it is Fringed with blossoms, purple. has been left on the ground, Throw a sweet! piece of bread down at a time when hi h tpeak ofPhysical fitness. the greater prevaleuce of certain dis-' not too cold nor is taken to avoid the no birds are near, and in a few ino• that the population of the United second annual message to Congress, neeeeslty of chewing food—a proce• Draw the bars and set the stanchionst meats a number of them will be on <lure very common with children. Mary, bring the cattle home States in MCI would exceed 186,000, - Candy should only be allowed after For the whimpoor-wills are singing • ' 000 if the rate of increase continued the spot, During the vacation period, when r tremendous slime, hold their wings out' i 1700 and 1860. The 'United States meals, as desert. Ostriches, which can travel to a to be as great as it had been between And the blooms 00 heather gleam! . . YouMay loiter with your love If you will, but not too long; when they run. They do not e did record iitiazing progress but the Fetch the white kine through the however, merely using the outstretch- "--ndi population in 1920 failed, by some heather; ed wings to balance their bodies as 80,000,000, to reach the number men - Lo; their hoof -beats are my song! i Moiled in Lincoln's message. thei sway and turn. 11 experiences are valuable for the!thg ('hildrenAgain, aocohtisetvreipmesltItiro7puoytiojou.st tie —Leslie Clare Manchester. Vnu can have some idea what the the children out of classes during the coo variety of their company. what the school year, are making a serious nits- weight of garments as the tempera - pastimes resorted to, what the habits take. ture changes. In order to meet sud- and practices there are no attending children easily become discouraged den changes In the letter, as following cow:alum to control. As you are at when they became unable to keep up a storm, those who go to excursions present in the quiet regularity of with their sehool work on account of and other outings must be taught to coun•ry life, were a son of yours simi- filmes or minor cperatione, and when provide against possibilities by taking laxly .iniated for the space of a week, they see their classmates forging along the necessary coat or jacket. your ;Alarms foc his future would grow ahead, they may, all too readily, fall They must be impressed with the well-nigh desperate. into the "I don't cure" attitude. Such 0 necessity of changing all clothing that Even when the city seeing man re- defeete, le allowed to go uncorrected.] has been wet by either min or excel- turne punctually at six p.m, there are may poison their systems and keep' sive perspiration. Frequent change of underclothing, even daily (often dry- ing and airing instead of 'washing the garments), is very necessary iri order to have at all tim-es a garment next the skin of which the absorbent quail- tice are active. Loosely woven (knit) cotton underwear fulfills these require- ments. Excessively large mesh is no advantage, since the large holes, like each meal, and teeth should be clean - the similar openings in a sponge, are ed after eating, not the enee to take up the moisture. ,, 81,0p. ' Materials are absorbent in the follow- Children reqUire much more sleep- ing order: wool, silk, cotton, linen— than adults. Twelve hours daily is the first named, wool, being the most not too much. A large amount of sleep efficient. will go far towards building up a A hat should always be worn in sum- child's health. Children ahould sleep tiler to protect both the head and the in separate limit, in well ventilated eyes from the sun. It should be of rooms—all Windows open In summer straw and as permeable to Lite air as and care should be taicen that neith. er bed -bugs, moaquitoes, nor flee are present to disturb their rest. • Bedremns nruht be tightly •fierecned, not wanting temptatious, Ides or great- er, all the time he is at work. In the office, store. or Declare-, he is rarely alone. Who are hie company? What de many of his associates reada them far below their best efticieneY. A gond final warning to parents is: Take your child to a doctor now and save time. Besides the measures that are re - Where are thee resorts in leisure quired the year round to maintain hours? What their thoughts, their good health, in summer certain special language? Nor are surh centres with. procedures are necessitated by the In- - • ' 125, "miticr....w. .. . nurosineseamozaso A 1)1101•641SPII Or thil OM Bible and ereyer book' presented to Rev. 1). N. Morflon, pastor of ell„ Jainee' Square Preebytericin Chureii, Taranto, by B, A. Penne, during the United Emeive ',oldi!. celebration et Belleville. healthy adult would have no need for eating oftener than three times a day, children who have been actively work- ing or playing outdoors may actually need, or with advpage take, an extra luncheon, morning and afternoon. This could consist of a glass of milk and a slice of bread, with or without f1111. Bathing. A daily moping bath is extremely desirable for all, if it can be obtained. The water should neither be too hot, nor eo cool as to cause shivering upon entering it. Cold baths are apt to ex- haust children, since the runount of body heat lost by them while In the water abstracts more energy than their email bodice can cipare. Faces and bands should be washed before its function --exclusion of the sun's direct rays. -will permit. Foe . It is well known that most people if masquitoes prevail, or one must are In the habit of eating an excess of eleep.under a net, meat, and while this 18 harmful at all Work or Play, . seasons, it is particularly so in sum. Physical exertion has tile same re - mer. Meat is essentially a repair „food suite whatever be its objecte, provided ad, as the ordinary wear and tear or of course the same -mutates be in - every -day life requires but little re- valved and they be used to the same earative Saintan,pe, but little meat extent, or other animal product is needed to The general principles to guide in maintain the equilibrium In eanit 0110. the limitation of a ffitild's or adult's During the Iserted of growth there is activities, whether at work or at play, greater mein for a prnportionately are that Ise should rest whenever tire(' larger Penentage Of meat or Its equIva- and that neither work ner play ;Mould lent, milk. While fats are particular., be attempted until thoroughly rested. 18 good for underneerisbea ohildren, ; If one'e health le poor, ' ne work summer is the season in which these , amid be undertaltan, unless absolute - heat producing fools Are least re, ly neeemary, A large stlolatiot el rest (Mired. 1 swi foul and ft ,mtall amount of play— Starchy food, am particularly 01111-1, all teken random's, Will do the meat ed for the summer dietary anti, there - good. fore, cereals enol fresh vegiaebles are Idge,bo. ir alWay.:be.fer INfne gets working cn the Canadian end of the Miebigan Central bridge nuW in the in order, I a ff!ty minutes rest before each meal, 1 Muse or cm:talon- wisdom they bring or ,suggest. But: 1898 the renowned scientist, Sir Wile Bachelors Rare in Japan. when you have once gained wisdom liam Crookes, delivered a very impreSee Old bachelors are almost unkneven and knowledge froin any experienee, sive statement on "The Wheat Prob- • In Japan. Practically every man who there is little profit in repeating it, lem" as his presidential address be- fore the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Reviewing the prospective sources from which the world might draw increased sup- plies of Wheat, the speaker stated that "the most trustworthy estimates give Canada a wheat area of not more than 6,000,000 acres in the next twelve years, increasing to a maxi- mum of 12,000,000 acres in twenty- ' five years." The passing of twenty-five years has shown this estimate to be too conservative. Canada's wheat area reached the estimuted maximum of 12,000,000 acres consisleraley in ed - Vance of expectation, and continued to ' increase. In 19213 an erea of niere , than 22,072,000 acres was sown to wheat, and Western Canada still pos- sessed many additional millions of acres of uncultivated land. But, though the rate and course of ;national growth baffle prophery, ' there can be no doubt that Canada has I yet realized but a small nusasure of 1 her potential stature in industry and commerce. With liberal reemorces of I the field, tho forest, Hee and writer- ; fall and the sea; with •exteneive eye- ' Mms of rail and water transportation, commanding gateways foe the corn- merce of the Atlantic and the P,sreific, I n geographical situation favoetible to I trade with the populotse markets of O Western Europe and the Orient, a ;friendly nation of more than, one hurt- dee& millions alike in langeage and leustorne . as neighbor to the south, ; with sound institutions; of govern - 1 meet, steam racial ties end with free but far-reaching political' assoelations. . ilm Dominion faces a emcee its which the period Of economics ynnthmid , growth has !,till n long and promising ii (Morse to r 111 . Look pleaeaht. Someone is tilwaya taking your .pieture, does not Join a Buddhist monastery —Prentice Mulford. especially if it has been unpleasant. An Iron worker pholograpi e I II handled rett, abovc, 01•02.N;,ig1ra iti ver 4 . ow'