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The Brussels Post, 1925-5-13, Page 2The AutomobLe AUTO iIECQIi'IES GREAT FACTOR IN SOCIAL LIFE, lie Mute as an effective medium in Many very definite seeded mega In a remarkable way. The social life of the farmerde- mantis easy and fairly rapid trews portation. He often livea in an iso - ton, Rrnctir'aily all authorities admit fated plane a considerable distance that the motor cur meets an economic from even the nearest neighbors :and meed, several miles from the moat acen?sibe The stories, however, which have village.. His .social life and that of been written about the motor ear a3 his family (Jetfonds an kris being able asocial medium have been in ,Humor. to get without groat inconvenicuco to the farmers' club tneetrgs ,ons instances 'far tram picturing this , to church modern rodusse ct as a social at. They°avenin,, a itil the 'movies, to lodge sen - have been articles which tend to makatone, to dances and other soe the superficial thanker believe the auto vents, had been invented for the prime per- ci3ANCES COMA WITS' CAng, pose of giving wider scope to the wine, In the pre -automobile dnys be had women and song idea of life, xn spite to resort to the horse and buggy me - of these over -advertised sdcial uses: to thod rind travel for the pipet part via wax had many r;tedale pinned on it. M an asset to business in pellets times it has .also received no little recogui- which the automobi a may be put Poor roads." The result was that he r isv n.. the a co once in a while, �a st structive contriution which the auto•. mobile is making to the social life of Canada. A5ES FOR AUTOMOBIr.E. While many ;geeple buy a car and use as all argument the idea that they often stayed at home, The Work in- volved in getting to an event and baek was not worth the pleasure derived while there. Now the automobile has changed all this. It has redeemed the social life of the ruralists, New ht all seasons of the year, even in win ter, in some parts of the country, he: need it in their business or that the finds himself able to visit with those wife' can use to save money in her friends whose presence be enjoys. Con - shopping or that the owner needs it to sequently country life in Canada 'is convey him to anis employment where-! becoming increasingly attractive and by he saves carfare and nervous en -.urban youngsters are now beginning orgy in getting to his - day's work, in to aspire to like in the country instead of making fun at the idea. Folks from both the city and coun- try make great use of the auto as a recreation and vacation medium of enjoying the wonderful out of doors. And, after all, a vacation is mostly a not n few instances, these are merely excuses' for getting a vehicle to, use socially. Some have not yet arrived at tb,e stage where they will admit to others what they know themselves, namely, that it is legitimate to buy a car solely for social uses. It is es- social event. So, too, are many events Rectally true of the face who live in , which ere connected with church mem- the country that the automobile meets : bership. Bell the Cat. A very funny little fable comes down from the remote past, the story of "Bell the Cat." It seems that the mire were kept pretty busy escaping from cats and they knew not what to do. The cats could creep up very silently and as the mice could net hear their footsteps, it was a dangerous thing for any mouse to do much else but keep his eyes open for eats. One clay the king of the mice called a general meeting of mice and there sere millions at the place when the time cane. After a great deal of talking and fighting it w.as decided that the best thing to do would be to make a large number of hells and fasten a beik-te. every eat so the mice could alwaye hca r the cats when they were after thou. After a great cleat of labor metals were procured and everything was j Bees can embalm as successfully as meeting?" ready to rust a great number of bells. 1 could the ancient.Egyptians. It often' ,lust as they were about to pour the! happens In damp weather that a slug metal a wise little mouse jumped into: or snail will enter a beehive. Thls is, The bo the place and said: 1 of course, to the unprotected sing a river's ba - "Who wlfl bell the cater lease of sudden death. The bees fa11 an inqu':s Ail the nice scratched their heads; upon him and sting him to death at mitred w ter this was a very strange problem, l once. But what to do with the carcass, They thought about the matter for a becomes a vital question. If left where it is it will breed a regular; pestilence. Now comes in the clever-_ nese of the insects. They set to work and 'cover ft w t wax. and there you may see it lying embalmed just as the Ilore old mothers --mothers with white nations of old embalmed their dead. hair. When it is a snail that is the intruder,' And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly he is. of coarse, impenetrable to their sung; so they calmly cement Yids shell. The Jonquil. Through the brown and withered bulb, How the white germ telt the sun In the dark mould gently stirring His spring children one by one! Thrilled with heat, it split the husk, Shot a green blade up to light, And unfurled its orange petals In the old enchanter's sight, One step more and it had floated On the palpitating noon, Winged and free, a butterfly Soaring from the rent cocoon. But It could not leave its earth, Aed the May -dew's tender tears, Se it wavers there foiever Twixt the green and azure spheres. He --"Titer say t,eoige Washington —C. G. D. Roberts. newer told a lie." She --"Don't yon suppose he ever 'phoned to Martha Washingtpn and told her he wits detained at a Cabinet e at�it s%,it A envious Custom. The South African natives in Boer. land still preserve their old Customs and one of -the most curious is that of carrying off ,a girl fora wife. This CUSTOM is called "nkutwala," and the girl, though not indisposed to accept the man. causes 'every obstacle to be placed in he) way. The suitor watehes h#s opportunity (after first placing so many knead of cattle in the ]trawl of the girl's father) and eventually carries away the girl by main force. The heart-rending cries of the bride, as she is carried away, are soteetdting pitiful —a ery that pierces the heart of a Christian, but bis pity subsides when he learns that in native language It means: "Don't take rue, lint don't let any one help Hie, because I want to. gel" How Bees Embalm. Hot Water Lake. A. second hot water lake, 50 acres in extent, has been discovered in the Mount Balser national forest in north- west Washingtop. The other lake of hot water in the Mount Baker preserve is about 30 acres in slze, ' The new lake is at ;an altitude' of about 5.000 fMet, and the temperature of its waters is 112 degrees -Fahren; heft. Pointers on Small Fruits in the Home Garden By nI I, icing, B.S.A. idvety Heine garden shoals grow' the Weeks the Sauliders bybt!tds have swine small" frtnits to keep the table' proved the beat, °These :era tllipiax, euppliod with g fresh pr'oduot, Straw -.Kerry, Saunders, Magnus. bet'iriea, raspberries, currants midi In gooseberries one must confne- goaseboa'rie9 are easily grown :Atwell::: • onesei( t0 the American sorts Into quantity to be plante(l can bejud!Downing or Pearl. Silvia and Charles, from (P0 ylelc)s thoy generalg1two ,sew`IntroduetIons, will soon iia ]Clot' ee, a. tlducefeat ow Aavailable and etre much better in site 1! d f On Wi 'elf clock is said to be the most dangerously situated light- house in the world. Without a moment's warning, a huge sea, sumieient to wash away three ton.'s'57 supplies, as'once happonee, will sweep across'the nding•,strawberries w]prouseSomrand giusltty, live to forty quarts of fruit if well i IR gro;lvlfg fruits 'plenty of m5,0010 eared taro, t;aspbarries about half that'18 an essential, and in the fli'st•year of amount, wbile two or three boohoo of ilio strawberry bed n tittle sttrate of currants will Yleld• ettouglt for an aver, j coda applied abput a month alter set• age fausUy oP iivo rind the canto nuts• i ling the plants, hastens early t•uanor bet' of gooseberries 'will supply the 7 rinatian, whieb moanrt a bigger crop gooseberry lnnt far the season. 1 the fn0Fril ing year, " All fruits may be planted 1R early pR. cHARLge G,AesoT.;il" spring, and 411 olceept s rawberrios, Don't negleet to protect the straw,107 Washington ashin to may be also planted • in the tall. If that berry bed in fall Uy an application oP year tri around RIs leaving 00 a four- plant re in good condition when sot i str'a`w` There are many disappointed y p round tfts�l'orid, mwaauring out the tratnsplanttng will npt, if done people this spring who neglected that 055 rout the- daily tl07 (isen the iut Inter.sun, reoatitten last autumn, stars •and early enough, cause any set hawk. wits of long range weather forecaating, The selection of varieties is most One of the greatest present dilam l - Important. In strawben Sion make carr ties in successful raspberry culture Is Min that one of the varieties produces the control of a disease called mosaic. both. male and female Hower parts, This Is quite readily recognized by the otherwise disappointment will, follow, Farsonte Beauty, a perfect variety, and Portia, an itnperfect, males two -good sorts, the latter beteg, especially fine tor canning purposes. In raepberrles'tite' Herbert and New- man No. 23aretwo: of the best, Fqt' 'tome use„ unless a,'cnnuing berry lid desired., probably the Herbert Is the beet selection, in ourrantsy for a red try Red Cross, Perfection or Fay's Prolific, while in long time and then every mouse went hone and forgot all about the bells. Old Mothers. sweet tt9th murmured blessings over sleep- Imprisonment for life, with no hope of wait wax to tine bottom of the hive. ing babes. pardon- Tctt So- in something in their quiet grace That spaake the taint (LP Sabbath after- noons; His Line of Reasoning. A knowledge in their deep, tinfaltefing A father persuaded the village eyes elergyman to speak to his indolent That far outreaches all philosophy son, and try to get that lazy person to Time. with cares ing touch, about do some work. them weaves "But why should I work " enquired The saver-tlsreafted fairy shawl of age, the lazy fellow. While all the echoes of forgotten songs ,'In order to make money," replied Seem joined to lend is sweetness to, the thrifty vicar, their speech. "But what do I want with money?" Otd ntathere--as they pass with slow-! persisted the idle one. timed 'step, j "Why, when you get plenty of money Their trembilng hands cling gently to you will be 'independent, and will not youth's strength; -a ! have to work any more," replied the Suert mother- - as they paea, one sees, clergyman. again I "I don't have to work new," the Old garden %elks, old roses and old` other answered—and the pastor gave ---i?haries S. Ross. I: the task up In despair. Faithful Organist 60 Years, Although Miss (lope has played the organ in a London church for sixty years, she has only missed a Sunday service four times. Norway's Coast Coast Line. Norway's coast lie --1.700 miles in a straight line --becomes over 12,600 miles if followed round the fjords. In these fjords ars' over 150,000 islands. He Had. y had been fishing on the -::t for quite four hours, when itivo man carne along and in- tim be was -doing. "Fislting, • replied the boy tersely, "Cot anything?" asked the pian. "Yes," came the reply. 'What?" sitnerted the stranger, "Patience:' said the angler, still more tersely. see.. OU the Cricket. A little three-year-old girl, while her mother was trying to get her to sleep, became interested in some outside noise. Site wee told that it was caused by a c rt, let, when she sagely ob. served: "Ma -then, I think he ought to be oil. ed," Saved in Vain "Woman," said the dejected young man, 'Ys a disappointment and a fraud." "Indeed?" said his friend. "yes, I Saeed up" all my tobacco money and lived on porridge for two wins to take bliss Truelove' to the opera and a supper, Then I asked her to marry tete and she said she was afraid I was too extravagant to make a good husband!" Conservation Again. "You waste too much paper," said the editor. "But how can I eeonomize7" "By writing on both aides." "But you won't accept stories writ- ten on both sides of the sheet" "I know, but you'd save paper just the same." CROSS -WORD PUZZLE to THC INTCNNATIONAL SYNO CATC. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES-. Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, , and they in turn to still others, A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and'.. running either, horizontally or vertically pr both. -" HORIZONTAL r^58—Measure of length 1 -To trade 59-7o sell In small quantities 4—To make a great show of 60 -Pertaining to the horse 7—To poke sharply - VERTICAL. 8—To imitate 1—Whalebone 10—Man's name (abbr.) 2—Stay, remain 12—A musical medley 3—A nger 4—An animal's skin 5—Did business, traded 6r -A great American Inventor 7—A middleman 9—A part of a flower 11—To twist violently ` 13—Old English (abbr.) 15—interjection 17—Sorrow 19—Away from 22—Single 23—Disease of chickens 26 ---"Knave 27—Month of Jewish calendar 31—A small breed of chickens 32 --Bull, dark brown dolor ' 33 -Lithesome 34—A mild falsehood 35—To force 37—A cabinet member 39—A country of Surope'(abbr.) 40—Not in 4i--Thrcef0' d 43—A famous American pioneer 46—Forolen 48—A weight (abbr.). 49—A salt inland see in Russian Turkestan 50—A 'hawk'Illsc bird 52—Aloft 14—Active 16 ---What mammals are usuaity ' covered with 16—To distil,.aa dew, upon 18—Suffix used to form superlatives 19-01sloyal 20—The busy Insect 21—Honey.eating bird (Havialien) 23—An island possession of U. S. (abbr.) 24—A measure of weight 25—Prefix, same as "In" 26 -Interpretation 25-A South Atlantic State (abbr.) 29—Porkers 80—Jacob's brother (Bible) 86—Interjeotlon 80—Knowledge '41—Preposition 42—Funny word for "heads 44—Prefix meaning "not' • 45—A measure of capacity (abbr.) 46—Part of the body 47 -Sharp sounds of a horn 49 -Request 51—Familiar flower 53—English river, flows, by birth- place of Shakespeare 54—To cook over the coals ' 60—To make a shrill sound 56—Human beings 67—A num total (abbr.) n mottled appearance of the leaves and, as the plant gets older;' by the yellow- ing of the Soilage and the stunted, un- thrifty appearance. The only •control is to remove all affected plants and ing through the country, he reiterates destroy, If tele. Is. trot done tete whole the statement that In .his village no - petrel is liable to succumb to the trou• body :seems to'care about its appear- b1e, • AP": It is a regrettable fact,'however, that in far too; many Canadian muni. cipalities a spirit of "dor,°t dare" pera. vades the residents,,nuts this is evi- denced'in'the appearance of the vil- lage. The roadways are in good app•+ dition, but -the sidewalks are dirapi- dated, the fences are out of repair, and tidiness.. and the planting of flowers is unthaught of. It is with a sigh of relief that prob- ably the next, place through which the driver passes has some leader among the residents who has inspired' them -with a -feeling of pride in their home village, and what a difference It makes. You cart feel it as soon as you enter the place. You would like to stop, because it is inviting and ap- pealing, and there is a spirit of wel- come at everyturn. is it any -won- der that such places go ahead? Time was when anything would do, but that day is past, and, it hoped, will never return. It used to be that railway stations had an unkempt appearance, but to- day stationmasters vie with eadh other to see which can make his station the more attractive; and this rivalry and enterprise is _appreciated so much by the railway that prizes are provided. Canada's attractions t6 tourists have to speak largely through her smaller communities. This year there will be many more visitors than usual. Why not do what we can to put on the, best front possible, so that our visitors can carry away a good im- pression. Surely a leader -can be found in each community who is ambitious enough to atart a clean-up and dress - up movement. Natural Resources Bulletin, The Natural Resources Intelligence. Service of the Departmt:nt of the In- terior at Ottawa says: How often, as the motorist is driv- Keep Flowers 'Fresh, Flowers put early in the morning will last muchtlonger than If cut later SU the day, while.those takeh before` they are in 'full blossom will out -live either: On the' other itand,,a little pow- dered charcoal placed In the bottom of the vase will successfully revive the faiied,'otA. The, water should, - of course, be changed each day, and it will add much to their lives if the stenis of the Howers aro wiped before replacing. Silver vases, it will be found are apt to make roses fade very quickly, and it is a goad idea to use a little mortar in the water. A much more satisfaetoryme"thod,,however, is to use wet sand In place of water. Where vases or howls, other than glees onest are .used, It not only keeps the flowers" -fresh longer than water, but has an additional advantage in keeping the container stable and leas easy to knock over. The idea of peeping cut Bowers has, by the way, been taken much further. "A friend of mine dipped the blooms of her favorite Hower in a solution of gum arabiv. They were then hung down to dry, and, after three such coatings I am told that the blooms kept fresh for months. The gum does not spoil their beauty in the least, and, owing to be - Ing transparent, is hardly noticeable. Needs inoculation. Two children were at a tea-party, It was evident from the tears of one of them that something was wrong, "What Is It, Margaret, dear?" asked her mother ,anxiously. "I don't want to sit next to Mary," wailed Margaret. "But why riot, dear?" "Well," said Margaret, "she's got freckles, au' I might catch thein." $30 to Wire.aPhoto. The cost of transmitting a picture Prom London to New York by radio is bettesen '$30, and $40. The computa- tion is' based an the number of words that could be sent at toll dates during the thirty minutes required for he tranainisaion of the pleura. France7s National Flower. The lily of flour -de=lis is the national Rower of France. - Sheffield Piate'� S1renlele plate is a Combination of silver And copper,_ Solution of last :week's puzzle. U1211Ca® ®©® ©t311d® ('(ou'P.e A Tola5ADORt You'Re" GONNA riGHT""ELTOlep`. Tttc- MOST VICIOUS n'.rLL THAT euece ATe c'A0TUS. You'.RG LUCtcy! EV[(aYttob'J At-oNG . 1hRoADWAY WILL Qe _J TALtrtNCa at /ov: _,_ ✓ 111,211131 o®ogt1i l , ' ©o Dil- ©' 131410©.121 tri©G1 421 • Web. v©u©o©o't Dull :10 C1Du tape" mannutam% m3,3©®r®0©;Y I]0 ►tr�©� F IIH !:113®121®x12©®ra®A®®® IOWAN! ©utll©" QUID o -mon w©W®o u man ©u®® LUI ©4 "®1'21121 m WIN out --MUTT-AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. It Looked Like a Case of "Please Omit Flowers. - - '• ('(ou'P.e A Tola5ADORt You'Re" GONNA riGHT""ELTOlep`. Tttc- MOST VICIOUS n'.rLL THAT euece ATe c'A0TUS. You'.RG LUCtcy! EV[(aYttob'J At-oNG . 1hRoADWAY WILL Qe _J TALtrtNCa at /ov: _,_ ✓ „THIS BULL tiAs c oseeD f ty16- . 1o(EAboteS `1.6 bdAl-H • So �SUST' TeAlloMC: ot` 'Ci -1e. 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Many attempts 'lave been made to determine the age of the earth, Ed- mund Halley' the, astronomer, endeav- ored to calculate the age from obser- vations of the amount of sal' Int Inter- vals of one or two centuries, Professor Joly recently entire etc the age of the earth to be S0, to 00 million years, from the amount of sodium in the sea, judged by the rate at which the rivers pour saline waters into ilia oceans to be slowly concen- trated during the ages. The temperature of the. mirth 1tt- ereases towards the centre, end from the temperature gradient Lord Kelvin calculated that about 1.00 million years ago the earth was a molten mass. Geological and biological require, manta seein to indicate that this esti. mate Is toe lOw. Sir Ernest 'Rutherford estimated that a mineral known to be very old had existed 240 million years, Pro- fessor Joly is responsible for another recent method—one-which depends on the fact that color changes are brought about in minerals by radioactive sub- stences'. Microscopic haloes pre to be seen surrounding minute particles of uranium and thoriunm. Professor Joly has estimated the ege of the haloes in Irish tnica to be from 200 to 400 ' nmillion years. A $150,000 T lb1e Service. An excellent Instance of colleting. chickens before they tare out of the incubator Is furnished by the hlatory of a ivagniligent allver table service now lying, packed in forty cases, the Iiofcdisbattk in Berlin, its story starts with the ex-Cirowu Prince's wedding in 1805, when the Association of German '''owns decided to give' him the tnoci wonderi'utl table Service. of silver in the world. 17or years the best artists in florntany worked at the gift, and when war, broke 000 the work was perposcly "elowod"down In order that 17 -might be completed to coincidewith the Crown Prince's triumphal entry into. Berlin altar Germane had won the was' and annexed. France and England. The serviee was actually completed only to few days before the Armistice, but Use pian for whom it was haute trade, instead of entering the capital lu triumph timid the plaudits of the crowd, was fleeing over the bonier' intoI-roilnndl The service is volteul et $15'4,0370. Danes Weil Educated. '1'lterq Is Practice:1j' no Illiteracy la Denmark, '