The Brussels Post, 1924-10-8, Page 7bIILBS FOR THE WINDOW DISPLAY
Altltouglt winter and springnewer- The bowie and verse used must be
non -porous and without holes in the
bottom, so thethey may be Arranged
in the Menlo without fear of (tentage to
tables or Mbar furniture. The most
suitable sizes ara from tour and ona
bait to twelve •inches in diameter and
trent tltr'ee to lie° inches deep.
The peat or inose fibro to use in the
bowls is a mixture of flbre, charcoal
and finely broken shell, No,drainage
is required, but place several pieces of
charcoal at the bottom of each boWi
send forth its buds, to absorb ex0essive moisture, and also
Neither greenhouse nor garden is to sweeten the mixture, Oyer the
required to sestet us in growing these charcoal spread two or three inches of
beautiful flowers in pots or bevels, and the fibro. Moisten It if tti"is at all
there le little riak of failure, provided
that a few simple rules are observed,
Te get the best out of our winter,
flowering bulbs it is well to matte an
early start and so obtain abundant lingers; it meet be gently pressed, but
root formation before attempting to beware, of Making it too firm, Small
'force them into bloom, It cannot, a.i' bulbs, such as crocuses, Beilies and
deed, be too strongly impressed upon' snowdrops, Should. '• be co' erect with the
the grower that to pot them 'up and I fibre, whereas hyacinths, tulips and
then place the pots. in a warm room is daffodils are not *Be covered; allow
simply courting failure. The pots must [daffodils
tips of the -bulbs to show above
be .stored ,where ;it is dark and ,cool, the ;surface,, Tho hgwl is 11110d, •to'
thus .following the bulbs' natural habit I within half an inch of the top with
of growth as when Planting them deep-
ly in the open ground. -
The hyacinth is the favorite and
Ing bulbous ilate, aches
hy
acltth
s,
tulles and, daffodils, are 80 easily
grown In pets, yet their culture by tits
imam gardener is net taken up to ttte
extent they deserve,
The flowers aro, in the dry bulb weep
purchased, and all that is necessary le
to plats tlterl In soil in pots and put,
4LWay in A Cool piece until they aro well
rooted; then on bringing thorn into a
heated room, Preferably a sunny win-
dow, every bulb will in due eourse
dry, but it trust not be soaked.
The bulbs are now placed in position
on the fibre, and more of the fibre is
worked in between the bulbs with the
fibre, thus allowing ample space for
watering. -
Tile bowls are first stored in a dark
most dependable of our winter -flower• but perfectly coal place, but from
ing bulbous Plants when grown In the which frost is excluded, Isere they .re-
house. The most suitable compost for ntaln for from six to eight or even ten
potting Is made by using two-thirds of
good turfy loom, veryeeld dry manure
that can be rubbed through a fine sieve
and a tittle sand. To this may be add-
ed charcoal broken up quite small. In-
stead of manure, leaf mold may be
substituted, or good garden soil may
be ;teed instead.
The soil should bo used in a souse-
what dry state to make the work of
potting Pleasant, and herein lies the
advantage of preparing the compost
some time before it is required. If old
pots are to be used, they should be
washed, scrubbed quite clean and al-
lowed to dry before potting begins.
The size ,most suitable for a single
hyacinth 'bulb is a pot five inches in
i. ANn TME WORST 1
weeks, depending upon the growth
and also the kind of bulb, Examine
the bowls once a week; if the fibre ap-
pears dry water must be supplied, but
egoessive moisture at this stage may
lead to decay. If the fibre appears to
be too dry tilt the bowl to drain off
the superfluotfs moisture. When
growth is well advanced and the bulbs
are brought to the light, water will be
given more abundantly.
We laugh heartily to see a whole
flock of sheep jump because one did
so. Might not one imagine that sup-
erior beings do the same, and for
exactly the same 'reason?—Greville.
' norCule Lunlnris of Wyebrldge,'Ontario,is the envy of the other boys of
nis town, because of his pet red deer, which he has touted and cared for
since the animal was very young.,
diameter, A six-inch size w111 hold
three bulbs.
Planting the, Bylbs.
Place a good, piece of erocis--broken
flower pot -over the hole at the bot-
tom of the pot, then fill the same' with
the compost loosely, A hole is then
znadp for Pie bulb, stooping It out with
the fingers, but net so deep thatthe
bulb is entirely covered. The top le
lett above the soli. 1Vben in position
press•the 011 down, but not tee firmly.
When potting is completed give
thein a thorough soaking with water
before placing in the dark. It the com-
post was very dry, it maybe necessary
to repeat the, watering two or three,
Limes to make sure that the soil is
thoroughly wetin the bottom of the
pct. The pots are now put away iu the
dark for six or eight weeks, when they
are gone over and thapo in a forward
state of growth are removed to a cool
room and placed in subdued light.
As th0 pots' are thoroughly watered
when stored, no further moisture is
needed uutl1 they are removed, when
tare must be taken that the so'l never
becomes dry. When in the warns liv-
lug raetnit may be necessaryto water
them at least once a ;day, With two er
three dozen pots of hyacintlts'10 draw
upon and by britigtng two or morn
pats to the light at intervals of seven
days. the season of bloom may be ex-
tended for several weeks.,
Daffodils or narcissuses are incus
pensable to our collection of spring•'
dowering window plants; their bright
yellow, white or lemon -colored dainty
blossoms are unrivaled by all other
spring. blossoms. The bulbs must bo
well rooted•before attempting to Remo
them, 'tor if lntrodueed to heat before
a strong root system hoe boon com-
liietod blind fiowors will bre the result,
A r:ascinating Way of Growing,
A 10081 fascinating way of growing
bulb:e is to plant theta lu fibre,• All
that is required Isa dark cool loom, a
supply of good bulbs; fibre and some
bowls 'in Which' to grew thesis, and
later a light wbtdoww,
The Kremlin.
Peter the»Great. hated Moscow, and
above all.' that stronghold of intrigue
and crime; the Kremlin. He was
raised there as a -Child, but he never
liven there in his mature years, When
the great Napoleon captured Mcecow
in 1811, or rather when the 'desperate
Ruesiatis fired the city and left him to
camp among its ruins, the Kremlin
still stood, and the emperor, always a
trifle theatrical, insisted on sleeping
ih'tlne bed'of Toter the Great, It was
a boy's bed, in a entail .and stuffy room
'and very damp, but Nepolelon curled
up in it, looking anything but digni-
fied. The next mm'ni'ng be was asked
how he slept and what he dreamed.
"I did not dream," he: replied, gruffly,.
"bet lecasight a contemned cold."
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3,500 MILES IN THE
ARCTIC
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Three thousand five hundred' miles
on foot across frozen lend and frozen
sea, the discovery, of two new lands,
meals of boiled sealskin and oxhide,
wading for miles, through icy lakes of
water above a solid sea -top, and finally
to be "marooned" on an Arctic island
and dramatically reseued—with the.
thermometer sometimes down to 50
below zero,' and blizzards blowing—
such are some of the features of Har-
old Nofce's "With Stefansson in the
Arctic,"
Noice joined Stefansson, and this.
relief expedition to Wrangel Island
lastyear, was nineteen when be went
in the whaler that discovered the
"lost" Stefansson on Banks Island in
1916—Stefansson, the head of the
Canadian Arctic Expedition, who,
when his ship was. crushed in the ice,
calmly set off northward ho! with two
companions across the frozen Beaufort
Sea, intending to live on what he could
Bildt
Sleeping in Snow .Huts.•.
The world gave him up for dead,
while he was in fact discovering Bor-
den Island. e
Notes joined Stefansson, tend this
kook is the record of two years' ex-
ploration with Stefansson hundreds of
miles north of the Arctic Circle, liv-
ing mainly on seal and caribou, and
Bleeping In snow huts.
By the time he was twenty-one
Noice had done more than 2,200 miles
by sledge and dog -team. He had been
the first man to set foot on Meighen
Island --away north of where Frank -
11n and his crew perished.
Stefansson took possession of this
lend' in the name of the Icing on be-
half of the Dominion of Canada. This
was on June loth, 1016. There were
three men on the trip.
The return from Meigben Island
tools them across an area previously
reported as land, but this supposed
land they 'found "buried under some
hundred fathoms of salt water." They
found themselves "ant at sea on near,
ly impassable ice.
• Next year--1917-Noicewent with
Stefansson still farther north across
the frozen sea—about level With the
top of Greenland—and the little party
barely escaped ,disaster, •
Encased 1n lee for Seventy Yesre,
,,_ Later a wonderful thing happened.
..They carte to Dealy Island, off Mel-
ville Island, and saw a pole 'sticking up
from a pyramid of'xocks. Near it was
the depot left in 1863 by Captain.. Kai -
lett, of the Franklin .Search Expedi
tion !
"Great oaten barrels, three tiers
deep, Stood cased in snow and .ice. We
opened some of the barrels, Some
contained heavy wool sweaters;
others fine brass -buttoned, acarlee
colored, and satin lined broadcloth
Pea -Jackets;, others had brightly-color-
ed,
rightly-color•ed, fancifully -designed mittens. There
were barrels of long leather sea -boots,
felt shoes, knitted underwear."
Stories About WEU -Known People
The Homo•Maker,
"The greatest work 1A the world,"
how Margaret P,
is Ivlisn Mu a Ban field M
, r
describes home -making,
"Some women," site said recently,
seem to think that it 1s better to be
nn architect or a doctor than a home-
maker. I hold entirely the contrary
view. It le the duty of women to build
up the life"'of the family around them.
I have no patience with women who
leave their husbands and children
more or less to themselves while they
seek outside work because it is more
intellectual. Home and children need
the greatest intellectual effort in the
world."
Miss Bondfleld is one of the most in-
teresting women of the day, As Sec-
retary to the Ministry of Labor she is
the first woman to hold a Ministerial
Post in Britain, She was once a shop -
uneaten t.
hop-asalatent.
Palnleve and His Trunk.
Pant Painleve, president of the
French Chamber of Deputies, has 'a
reputation for being- absentminded
wbioil :Would seem to be justified by a
recent incident at the local railroad
station.
Why is Lightning Forked?
Science recognizes several kinds of
lightning, although authorities differ
as to whether some types are not iden-
tical and merely appear different be-
cause of . the peculiarities of human
vision.
Forked lightning is the most common
type. The irregular path of the dis-
charge is believedto be due to the
pressure of solid particles and electri-
cal charges that make, a jagged course
along the path of least resistance.
Sheet lightning, which illuminates
large areas of the sky, is believed to
be merely the reflection of forked light-
ning from a distance.
The majority of victims of lightning
are not killed instantly. They are
merely stunned, and can be revived
by the application of artificial respire -
tam and the other first-aid measures
commonly employed in cases of drown-
ing and asphyxiation.
Most of the exceptionally tall 'struc-
tures of the world have been struck
by lightning more than once, but have
escaped damage because the lightning
has been carried harmlessly to the
ground by lightning -rods.. The Eiffel
Tower fa Paris bas been struck many
times without damage, despite the be-
lief that lightning never strikes twice
in the same place.
I A single flash of lightning concen-
i trates many times more energy than
could be produoed at ono instant by
sail the power plants in the world.
Inline With Her Wish.
Fussy Patient—"I felt so 111 that I
wanted to die, doctor."
Doctor—"Ab, then you' were per-
fectly right to send for me."
e
Many people claim that.their corns
wain them of weather changes. But
probably the corn is merely register-
ing change he the shoe leather. This
Varies with the amount of moisture
in the air. 'A 2 per cent. change'front
normal either way is all the average
toot'can'stand without discomfort.
Gold was prob- a- bly the first metal
t0 be used by'man. Metallic gold was
.found in the beds of streaims. It was
used for-ernuments before any other
:metal was discovered. The first metal;
put to practical "use was copper, made I
into knives and other implements at:
least 6,000 years ago,
M, PAinleve came to Reeve to attend
the France -Belgian Gammemarative
a e. n
ceremonies, He was a n tli. train,
ready to return to Paris, when be an-
nounced that his, trunk was Missing.
He hada his several valises, but fie
trunk,
The train was held flitsen m inn s
to ,
while all tate station crew searched for
the missing luggage. Then M. Pala -
love called the stationnnaster aside:
"Don't wait any longer; I have just
remembered that I did not bring a
trunk."
Comparing Notes.
Mr, T. P, O'Connor, the famous
journalist acid parliamentarian, 0000
weaved away fl'oln h'ts native haunts,
and, finding himself in a golfing conn-
try,looked up the local club secretary
and asked for a game, Tile secretary
obligingly discovered 'and introduced
him to an old gentleman, end a game
! was arranged, -
As they drew near the first tee the
visitor' remarked; •
"I'm a four man, What are you?"
"I'm a grocer," replied the old gentle"
man,
Lying Down to Fly.
To Ile luxuriously on soft cushions
and thus pilot your own small air ma-
chine is the latest possibility in aerial
flight.
Tiny air -cans are being designed and
are to be tested in ilight,.in which the
narrow. body, with wings on either
side, accommodates just one occupant,
lying prone. This will enable the tlnY
engine to drive the machine more
swiftly through the air than would be
possible with th air -resistance set up
if a body was provided big enough for
the pilot to assume the ordinary sit-
ting position.
Perfect comfort will, it is claimed,
be assured by a sofa -like reclining
frame, On this the pilot, enclosed in
his miniature machine, .will lie face-
downward, looking outwards through
a front window or sideways and down-
wards through other little windows.
•
Not What He Meant. '
A man complained bitterly of the
oonduet _ of his son. He related at
length to an old friend ail the young
man's escapades.
"You should speak to Nim with firm -
nese and recall him to his duty," said
the friend.
"But he pays not the least attention
to what I say. He listens only to the
advice of fools. I wish you would talk
to him."
The window, is shown in the church at York Factory which was present-
ed by Lady Franklin as•a memorial to her husband and a token of gratitude
to those who took part in the search for him after hie last fateful voyage.
Modest Mouth -Organ of
Physical Benefit.
The little harmonica—or mouth -or-
gan as it is known to most people in
Canada—has been adding to its laurel%
of late. Newspaper dispatches and il-
lustrations appearing in our papers
have been telling of numerous celebri-
ties wise have recently fallen prey to
the alluring tonal beauty of this
modest little musical instrument.
But the reason for such popularity
ie. not hard to seek. It can be summed
up in fourteen words ---"The mouth -or-
gan is ,sIntple to play and is capable ;
of giving forth wondrous „music,"
Those who are skeptical of the place
played by the mouth -argon in health,
need only read what Paul V. Winslow,
h1.D„ the famous ear, nose and threat
specialist, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has to
say.
"Since niy conversion to the cause
Tho great herring season, with Its -emelt of picture
n' day bprvesting their famous sea clop,
tie do
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a opened in Mislead and the fishing trawlers, are working 'twenty -runt hours
•
of the harmonica," he states, "I have
experimented very extensively with
this instrument to establish its value
as a therapeutic agent. I have ascer-
tained that the harmonica is a most
effective agent in developing the chest
and respiratory organs, and in anaemic
children and adults a "programme of
regular practice with the mouth organ,
which develops breathing, results in
aeration if the blood and tones the
system generally. The development
of the breathing power, which canbe
obtained most effectively through the.
harmonica, is an important factor in
building up the body. In practically
overt' form of exercise deep inhaling
, and exhaling' are striven for, and this
1e exactly what you got in playing the
harmonica. Therefore the hygienic
results aro mcst satisfactory.
"Another important point is that the
!patient dose it along the lines of beast
I.reaistanoe, He is interested In learn-,
Ing to play the baa-monioa He is
DRESSING OF HAIR
A HUMAN VANITY
IN EVERY LAND UNDER
THE SUN.
Savage Tribes Give Unusual
Attention to Appearance of
Their Locks. .
The flapper who spends houre curl -
lug her bobbed lochs to hake them
stand out three or four inches frgm
her head has nothing au the Flit Ise
lenders. There even the men make
their wool stand on end at the top 00
.their steads to a height of six inches,
The Fijian dandy weans at ftlght an
uncomfortable oompreseing band t0
train h1s wiry brush, , writes "The
Pathfinder. "
To add to this grotesque impression
the Beau. Brummel bleaches his coif-
fure to a sickly yellow with lime made
from coral, or dyes• it red with annotto.
To further enhance his charm he rubs
in scented cocoanut oil and then atlas
varieties of real flowers in his hair,
When the Iiopi Indian maiden of the
Southwest States decides to gonquer,
instead of announcing her debut in the
newspapers she parts ber hair in the
middle and screws it into two whorls
just aboye the ears, Whereupon young
men who prize their liberty take to
the woods. South' of Mahamauina in
Madagascar, reports the National Geo-
graphic Society, the women do • their
hair in two rows of little balls, while
behind their heads ,they place a piece
of hollow wood ornamented with brass -
headed nails. In this celinder they
keep all their pins, needles and small
valuables. Near the coast on the same
island the women plait their hair in
tine braids, which •they twist thee thin
fiat circular coils otfrom one to two
and a half inches in diameter.
Century -old Customs,
In Seville the women pile their hair
on top of their heads like a little
fortress, a custom they have practiced
for hundreds of years. Big chiefs in
some parts of New Guinea wear rigid
plaited frames on their heads, which
support cassowary or paradise feath-
ers.
Among African tribes the methods
of hair dressing are legion. The
Wemba men shave two parallel strips
of wool from the nape of the forehead.
Some cut all the hair off, leaving a
fringe high up an the skull. Others
leave just a shall circular tuft at the
back. The Wemba and Winamwanga
woman scent their hair with aromatic
plants.
The men near Lake Bangwe0lo some-
times wear wigs made of coarse mat-
ted fibre. The Bisa women weave red
and white beads into their stair until '
the hair itself in places is quite con-
cealed, Shinga chiefs roll their hair
until it resembles types of hair dress-
ing seen In ancient Egyptian bas-re-
iiefs.
Thi Bambala people shave their
heads except for a little round spot
resembling a cap on the top of the
head• Theu they paint the bare por-
tion with palm oil and soot. Au old
man usually covers his tuft of white
hair with a red cloth and a warrior
wears the bones of his victims wrap-
ped in a cloth on the top of his bead
for the magical properties they are
supposed to possess.
The Bakwese chiefs usually coil
their hair into five bunches. Tbb Ba-
ranzi men tie their locks into a bunch
at the back of their necks, while the
women plait it over their ears.
But the Bahamans take the Palm
for real beauty; they shave the trout
of their heads and paint them with
soot, curl the back stair and plait it
with red clay, shave off their eye-
brows and pull out their eyelashes.
A Century of Cement.-
This year is the one-hundredth anni-
versary of the invention of Portland
cement, Old records have been dis-
covered showing that in 1550 deposits
of rack needed for natural cement
manufacture were found, in Georgia,
and that •cement was masse in the state
before the Civil War,
The discovery at cement rock was
trade in 1950 at Content, Georgia, by
the Rev. Charles W, 2-lavard. In 1897
Colonel George Waring, of Savannah,
greatly encouraged in his playing be-
cause anyone can master this tiny in-
strument
took control of no plant, and Worsted
and become a proficient it as the Havarti Hydraulic Cement
art',^st alter just a few lessons."
Great Sportsmanship.
' A sportsinan with a wonderfulLL
power of imagination was telling howl Portland eentent. is a strictly menu.
at Duo shot he. bad bagged two part faetueee product, wbil,tt natural ce-
ridges and a rabbit. His explanation meat le largely a gift of Nature.
'vas that,, thong]) he had hit only one
Partridge, the bird in falling had
clutched at another partridge and An Unusual Sentence.
brought that to emelt in its claws„ A pscnliat' court scene was enacted
"But how about the rabbit?" he was in Paris before a 'venerable and be -
asked, nevolent`kaahlP,g judge, Before peas -
"Oh," was the calm reply, "my gull lug sentence, he consulted ilia two see
kicked and knocked me over, and I sedate judges, "What ought we is
fell on the rabbit as It ran past" give 11)10 relic e?" he rifted, leaning
----- over to the judge on his right, "1
They Had a Road Map. should say three years," Was the re -
"1 haven't got. niucll faith in these ply. "What is ypui' opinko , brgtlterl"
newfangled doctors," said 31m Bliv- to the other on the left. "Four years,"
vers, the blacksmith, I The ledge then Said, lieantin$$'', " les•l.
"Why not?" asked the neighbor osier, not desiring to give a ltjang Bund
whose horse was being shod, I severe term of, imprisonment, es i '.
"'Well, to -day," said Jim. "fine doctor elnateld stave delloifleft to myself,
fold mo to take pills for ane, heart,' have consulted ray learned 'brothers
tablets for mo stomach, r.apsilles fer and 011411 alts noir adyicti, 0110'$4>'01
me kidneys and pillets ter me liver-- three years, the oilier says foul' yearee
an' what mules me is, bow do those any own Moa was five years, so 1 sone
dnru things know where to go when tongs you to twelve y.7J.rs penal servl.
•they gat inside." r Ituda."
° Bnt Joseph Aspdin, an English brick-
layer, made the dlscovereyo2 Portland
cement 'Welt, and brought out his now
!material in 1924,