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The Seaforth News, 1924-05-29, Page 7For thC --.. Boys . and GirlA JUST PICK YOURSELF UP AND GO ON. This morning' yon' hurried along on your way, So eager were you to get out to your. play, . Not seeing the stone that lay right in your path Tilt down you fell, plump, while you sputtered in wrath. But didyou lie thele till the play hour was gone? Not you, You just picked yourself up and went on. In lire as in play, you will find it the same As you hurry along to take part in the game. Youwill stumble and fall where some hidden stone lies And rest there a bit, in indignant surprise. Iiut will you stay down till the players are gone? No, indeed. You must pick yourself up and go on. —By F. Jones' I -ally. HOLE BALL ISA GAME RUSSIAN BOYS .PLAY; This is a good game to play in a meadow or backyard if a "keep off the grass" warning does not prevent the digging of holes in the ground. There should be as many holes as there are, players, each hole, having a: number. The hole is big enough to "form a cup into which a tennis, golf, or baseball may be thrown. , Each player should draw a number. The players throw from a straight line drawn ten feet from the first hole. Count out to see who shall be the first thrower. The hole' into which tho ball goes counts as many points for the player as the number of the hole indicates. Suppose the ball goes into hole five —that means that the player receives five points. It means also that the player holding number five must play next. If this player's ball lands in hole two, his score for the play is two, and the player hold- ing the two number is next to cast the ball. When a player fails to score, the next one to play is decided by count- ing out. Continue playing until some- one reaches the grand score, which may be either twenty-five or fifty. LONDON IN AERIAL AGE SEEN AS CI•, OF ROOFED O®LDST3�EET` Prof. A. M. Low, the distinguished. London University philosopher, who besides possessing great learning has the vision which permits him to make application of scientific principles to the needs *of everyday life, has been speculating on the changes to be wrought in London's life as the plane becomes more popular. Here are the high spots in itis vision of London in the new air age: Safe, swift airplanes in the near future at a cost not exceeding $300. Airplanes capable of landing in a space not much larger than their own dimensions, Abolishment of London's parks in order to supply landing fields, Roofs ultimately to be placed over, all principal streets,,to afford landing facilities. Traffic regulations to prevent over- crowding of machines in the air. Wireless control of airplanes. Ultimate establishment of cables so that airplanes and motorcars can travel along without gasoline, draw- ing their power electrically from cables. Question of Improvements. "We are not far," said Prof, Low, "front the day when we shall be able to buy a -safe, swift airplane for some- thing like £60 ($300). It is simply a question of certain obvious improve- ments, combined with mass produc- tion. "Such a machine would be of about 3% horsepowel• (which will actually give as notch as 27 h.p.) It would have a span of wings of perhaps forty feet. It would be comparatively cheap 'speculate. The conditions I have sug- gested will probably be all that we shall live to see. "Another complication presents elf—that of overcrowding in the air and collisions, - "That, however, is a problem which could easily be bealt with by wireless. control. Already small electric powers can be transmitted over air gaps. It is not unreasonable to suppose that those powers can be greatly increased. We may therefore look forward to the time when airplanes and motors can travel along without petrol, drawing their power electrically from cables under the earth or sea' and meast3ng, the power they use by meter. "Such a cable would itself form a definite airway. Airplanes could travel over it in fixed airways at a fixed height. Night flying would lois half its terrors and fogs would 43e of no account •since the pilot' "would be automatically guided -to his destina- tion." theheart of London. He is frustrated at every point by "spires, pinnacles and domes, by roofs of ridiculously smaliaize, all of which make it impos- sible for him even to attempt a land - Mg. •But unless it is possible to land in the centre of the metropolis, half the value of the airplane as a swift method of transit, over small die- trances as well as large. is gone. "Wherethen are we to build our landing places? The parks will be the first to go; There will be an out- cry, no doubt, against sush a proposal. We shall be told we are choking the lungs of London and secondly that we are destroyingbeautiful places. The answer the first -is that if we made a landing ground of Hyde Park its value as an open breathing space would be in no way diminished. The answer to the second is that even if Hyde Park had any claims. to beauty, 'which it has not, there is an oven more beauti- ful thing than Hyde Park and that as progress—tie progress of the human brain. "Hyde Park and its kindred spaces, however, will soon be exhausted and we shall haveto turn elsewhere.. It will then be apparent that a vast un- touched Reid is waiting for us above the great unroofed spaces of Regent Street. Throw a roof across Regent Street and you would have one of the finest landing places in the world, in the very centre of the British Empire. "Whether the whole of London will one day hove to be uniformly roofed, whether there :nay be one vast roofing covering the city,11 i1 is not for me to to run, for there would be few upkeep expenses, and a running capacity of not less than 100 miles to the gallon, "The airplanes of the future will be able to land in a space little larger than its own dimensions, either by the use of electric air brakes, or by land- ing on highly magnetic"ground.".. 'Most important of all for the gen- eral public, it will be safe. Many ac- cidents of the present day are due to fires. That is hardly surprising, since the aviation spirit generally emp:oyed is more inflammable than ordinary gasoline. The airplane of the future, however, will not only contain engines of far greater horsepower than at present, but..may be run- on eithera mixture of alcohol or heavy oil, with tiny engines completely inclosed. "Such a development *is bound to -imply a,vast'change, not only in the machines themselves, but in the arclxi. tecture of cities. Landing In London Impossible, "At present no airman can land in HOW FAST DQ YOU 1 GROW The average baby,,ia�nineteen an a half' inches in ).e'Aith at birth, and during its firs year -of life grows nine Inc 85g, 11 he—or she—kept .up thla r-te of growth for seventy years, the result would be a giant sixty-four feet in height. As a matter of fact,the rate of growth slows down amazingly after the first year. Between the ages of one and two a child grows only three and a half inches, and during its third Year two and a half inches. After that tho'rate comes down to an average of one and a half inches for the next thir- teen years. Years of Greatest Growth. From sixteen years onwards the rate of growth• continues to diminish. During his seventeenth year a boy grows one and a quarter inches; dur- ing ,his eighteenth, one inch: The nineteenth sees him grow three-quar- ters of an inch, and the twentieth half an inch. The average young man does not • atteWhis Pull height until ho is twen- ty-five years of age; but the'rate of in- crease duringthe flve preceding years le only one-fifth of au inch, a year. The height:of a full-grown and well-. p,oportioned pian should be six and three-quarter• times tho length of his foot; that of a woman, six and a quar- ter the length of her foot. , Different parts of the body grow at different rates. The legs double 'in length by theend of the third year, and triple by theendof the twelfth. When growth ceases, they are five times as long as at birth. Before the age of ten the foot is shorter than the length of the head; at ten they are equal; ,after ten the foot is longer than the head, Where Girls Beat Boys. Boys ,and ghls grow differently. Tho year of greatest growth in boys is us- ually the sixteenth , or seventeenth. That. Is to say, the weight increases most during that year. In.giris'the chief increase is in the ,fourteenth year... Girls usually reach their .full -height at or about sixteen, and their full. Weight at twenty; boys, ss: we. (lave. 'seen, are slower in development. Boys are stronger than girls from Deprived of both crown and kingdom, the former Empress Zits, of Aus- tria finds herself a widow at 30, .with eight children to look after. At the left is the 11 -year-old Archduke Franz -Joseph Otto. birth to the age of eleven; then girls become superior physically ,up to seventeen, after which age the tables are turned again, From November to April children gain little, either in height or weight; from April to July they gain in height, but not in weight; while from July fo November they put on weight but do not grow much in height. Eyelashes Don't Lash Flair grows at the rate of .018 inch Some of Them Do, No Doubt. a day, but the life of each individual hair 1s on an average only six years, Geography Teacher -Now, Willie, Then it falls out. If hair never fell we've seen that the cold currents of out and always went on growing, a woman seventy years old would have tresses nearly thirty-eight feet in Iength, Eyelashes grow steadily, but are not long-lived. They last only four to flvo months, then fall out. Their growth is about one -twentieth of an inch weekly. Nails grow more rapidly than is gen- erally supposed. The finger -nails re- new themselves in a little over four months. The brain weighs nine to ten ounces at birth. When a man is full grown his brain weighs about three pounds and one ounce; a woman's, two pounds and ten ounces, Irish Logic. An Irishman wanted to send a tele- gram to a friend. The clerk told him the charge would be 1s. 83. "An' how do ye make that out?" asked Paddy. "A shilling for the wire and nine - pence for delivery outside the radius," answered the clerk. "That be hanged:" retorted Paddy; "ye send the, telegram an' I']1 write an' ask my friend to call for it." air oome from the polar regions— where do the hot air currents origin- ate?" Willie -"In — in Washington—don't they, ma'am?" The Infant Flapper: A small boy who was the youngest 01 a large family accompanied his mother to see his married sister's new baby. After barely glancing at the baby he wandered idly round the room; soon he became absorbed in the contents of the baby's basket. After turning over the various dainty trifles that it contained he picked up a powder puff. Turning to his sister, he said in shocked tones: "Isn't she rather young for that sort of thing?": _ 4 Adjusted Compensation. Mary and her big brother Harry had a few angry words. In her anger she kicked the cat. Johan', her favorite brother, saw the performance. "Maty, that .cat ain't all Harry's; 1t is part mine," he exclaimed reprov- ingly. "Well," replied Mary with a rather self-satisfied air, "I - kicked Harry's part." NOTED MEN'S NAMES WRITTEN IN BRITISH SO i ERS' ALBUM The British Legion Album, just pub- lished, is a book of unique interest, says a London despatch. No such volume has ever been produced be- fore, and the proceeds of the sale will be devoted . to the benefit of British ex -service men of all ranks. It contains a collection, which' has never been paralleled, of autographs and passages written in their own' hand by the most famous people of the day and by representative leaders in every department of human activity. Numerous illustrations, cartoons and caricatures, many of them' in colors, add to the lure of the book. There is a foreword by Field Mar- shal Earl Haig, of Bemersyde, remind- ing all that by "readiness to help liv- ing ex-servicg.lxien, the depth and -ain- cerlty.of•ou"r respect and gratitude to- ward the dread; toward fallen com- rades of ours, who, dying, loft homes and dear ones destitute; toward those gallant lads who fell on the threshold of life can best be manifested." A11 the greatest admirals and gen- erals, British and allied, who fought in the war, have contributed "their sig- natures. Lord 'Ypres "affixed his auto- graph on the battlefield of the Marne in September, 1922,,on the occasion of the- celebration' of the Marne victory." At those sante celebrations he obtain- ed the autographs of M. Poincare and General Mannoury, who opened the battle with the Sixth French army and began the great stroke at the German flank. Marshal Foch and Marshal Jof- fi•e sign in closely similar hands. Among, the quotations or original thoughts are the words of Prof. fil- bert Murray's touching appeal: "These are they which came out of great tri- bulation; surely they shall not hunger any Lloyd George writes: "Never in any generation have so many young men faced the torments, of mutilation and the terrors of death for their country's honor and for the redemption of man - hand." Before he died the venerable Fred- erick Harrison framed a last message to English men and women entreating them: "To help all service men to en- joy a fitting life at home." Among the famous actresses is Miss Ellen Terry with her large, legible script. The Victorians n'iake a deep impression. Thomas Hardy's signa- ture is as firmly written as any young man's, In the page of Belgian names is that of Cardinal Mercier, who signs• with his title in English, "Archbp. of Malines," and of M., Max, the honored burgomaster of Brussels. NATURAL RESOURCES AND MANUFACTURE Development and Production In Canada the development' of 0 tural resources and the advance manufacture are closely related. Th rapid settlement of the'Prairie. Pr vinces, and theinvasionof the pulp woad forest—the two most prominen features of. Canadian development du ing the present century—&ave been outstanding hut at the same time no the' walk lines upon which this con try has advanced, says the Natura Resources Intelligence'Service of the Department of the Interior. The general development for menu facturing forms, in itself, an impres sive record, entirely aside from the growth which, has and is taking place in the pulp and paper -making Indus tries, A wealth of figures might bo mar stalled to illustrate the growth o manufacturing within the past twenty years or so. For instance, the total value of goods niaufactured in Cana- da, as reported in 1920, was more than eight times as great as the census re- turns show for 1900. Such statistics merely suggest the extent of progress, Owing to the;variations in census methods, the rise in: prices and so on,. they. give a rather exaggerated mea - eure of growth. Taking the other ex- treme -the most conservative test— the number of persons reported as be- ing engaged in manufacturing pur- suits doubled' in the twenty-year period. The exact extent of growth, how- ever, is not the only consideration. It is equally important to note,that the progress has been well distributed geographically and :otherwise. It is true that both Montreal and Toronto— Canada's great industrial 'centres— reported more capital invested in manufacturing in 1920 than was shown for the whole country in 1900; but the smaller cities have not been eclipsed. Twenty years ago. only four cities in the Dominion were credited with a manufadtur'ing output of a value exceeding ten million dollars, whereas, in the latest returns, over fifty cities equalled that figure, about thirty doubled and nineteen trebled' it. Not only geographically but in the nature of enterprise as• well has Cana- dian manufacturing growth been wide- ly distributed. No one or two classes of industry have entirely outstripped the others. The idustries, producing textile and metal and chemical goods, as well as those finishing vegetable, animal and wood products, have shown excellent progress. For in- stance, the industries manufacturing vegetable products such as flour, sugar and tobacco, took first place in 1920 in point of gross value of output, but the iron and steel industries led in number of persons employed, while the wood and paper group surpassed all others with respect to, the net value added to the raw materials by manu- facturing processes. Advancing Side by • Side. in anadla. a- , The variety of factors that have im' of pelled explain the breadth and balance o that have marked the growth of mann- Pro facture:• - - First, the settlement of the prairies t gave'a powerful impetus td countless' r- industries --producing a huge supply of raw materials for flour mills, pack - t ing plants and other industries finish- n- ing farm ",products, and at the same 1 time creating a large new market for the machinery, textile, rubber, Leath er, furniture, and other factories of Eastern Canada. The influence of this - prairie market has radiated in every direction. The purchasing. power of the western sales territory isstudied with the keenest eye by th manufac- turers of almost everything from plows to plans. Secondly, the rise of manufacturing in the Dominion owes much to the wonderful advances made since the. opening of the century in the use of electric power. The advances along these lines have enabled Canada to realize upon her unexcelled water- power resources, and hydro -electric power has proved a unique asset. Since 1900 the total water -power her - nosed has .increased from about 150,- 000 50;000 to nearly 3,000,309 horsepower, serving a variety of uses ,that touch practically the whole field of manufac- turing industry. Not only is the in- vestment in electric light and power enterprise in Canada greater than in any other branch of manufacture but, further, every large extension of water -power development has brought in its train a series of subsidiary in- dustries, Added to the opening of the West and the Dominion's happy position with regard to hydraulic resources, two other factors of primary import- ance have contributed to the advance in manufacture. One is the influence of American industries in establishng branch factories in the Dominion. The growing value of the Canadian mar- ket, the advantage of location for trade with other parts of the British Empire, the availability of raw ma- terials, and so on, have drawn hun- dreds of industries of American par- entage. Such subsidiary concerns, backed by the capital, experience ,and directing force of strong parent com- panies, have given the ranks of Cana- dian manufacturing industry many of its most valuable recruits. Again, the war with its multiple de- mands tested the resourcefulness of Canadian initiative as never before, and revealed an *unexpected capacity for complex and specialized 'manufac- ture. Some of the new industries then created have been able to survive un- der peace -tine trade conditions, but the net result has been a permanent gain of no small importance in the diversf- tying 'of Canadian mill and factory out- put. i MUSIC AND THE TOMBS OF KINGS i 1 From the Valley of the Kings in up per Egypt, while exploration of the recently discovered' tomb of Tutank- hamen has been yielding now revela- tions of the culture as well as the power of the Pharaohs, may yet come some monumental disclosure for the musical historian. Press dispatches from Luxor, describing daily the ob- jects removed from the tomb, and brought to the light of day after four thousand years, Have had a few re- ferences to musical instruments, fifes, harps, and eimbals, as among the ob- jects thus uncovered. "Evidently," ran one line of comment, "the king was musical," That Egypt was the musical- school- master of the ancient world- is con- ceded -by all who have traced the art back through the centuries. The Jews in their period of bondage sat at the feet of the musicians of the Nile, and learned much - of what was ' later brought to flowering in the time of Solomon and the Temple, when 4,000 musicians participated in ritualistic services. It is known that there was a popular as well as a sacerdotal music among the Nile people; indeed, it is to bo presumed that there, as elsewhere, nuisic began with the peo- ple rather than with the priests. The cheraot'er;of. the instruments used has longbeen known, net only from an- • Weary of her exp'erienea with British politics, Mrs, Philipson, who shared Lady x stor's honors eer•in the British parliament, is about to retireto her farm, lIog-raising is her specialty. as a' pion - dent carvings, but from "examination of the instruments themselves. As to the nature of the music sung and played in the dawning of history there can be only conjecture, guided somewhat by the traditional airs of the Jews, -and some other music be- lieved to be of the ancient East. So far as research has been able to es- tablish, musical notation was un- known and melodies were passed on. from individual to individual, and from memory to memory. This is difficult to reconcile with the advancement and the high intelligence of the Egyptians. Scientists and art experts at the tomb of Tutankhamen have been particular- ly impressed by the utility, as well as the beauty of objects unearthed there recently, and have become convinced that Egyptiancivilization reached its zenith much earlier than has been re- cognized. If, in the course of further delving, ono written phrase of Egyptian music can be found and deciphered, the dis- covery will be one of far more signifl- canoe . and world profit than the un- covering of another mummy of an Other king, the, probability now excit- ing the tourists who, it is said, are crowding the hotels' at Luxor. Life can never he restored to a mummy, but music once written down never really dies, though it may be neglected through countless centuries, It Is there, to speak again, whenever one who knows its language goes to it for its message. Even without a note of written music from ancient Egypt known to be iu existence, the possibility re- mains that in the store of melody of unknown origin which has come down to the Western world through the Jaws, there remains some fragment that would have been as an old song to King Tutankhamen. Keeps Enda Apart. "There's one num who doesn want to make ends Meet." "Who can that be?" ".Tile middleman." r�-- WORLD'S GREATEST LIBRARY The British, Museum Library is the first library of the modern world. Like many other British institutions it owes much of its greatness to a for- eigner, Anthony Panizzt, a renegade Italian: Born at Modena in 1797, Pan- izzi became a student at Parma, and then joined a revolutionary movement in his native duchy. The revolution" failed and Panizzt lied; first to Switzerland and then across' Europe, arriving in a destitute condition in London. He became a teacher of Italian; received an ap• pointment at the library, and came in- to power asits keeper in the first year of Queen Victoria's reign. What Panizzi Did, At that time the library, which had been founded in 1753, was languishing for want of intelligent supervision. It contained a valuable collection of sone 250,000 books, but the 'catalogu- ing and arrangements for reference were bad, When Panizzi left its service, some thirty years later, 1t contained 650,000 volumes, housed under a single dome. This dome, which is second only in size , to that of St. Peter's, Rome, was one of the many clever ideas of Panizzi, who was altogether a remark- able character. He was knighted some time before his death in 1879. The difficulties of cataloguing a libr- ary are not generally recognized. Be- fore the coming of Panizzi there had been many unsuccessful attempts to evolve a satisfactory way of classify- ing the collection, but it was not until 1839 that a system, called the "Ninety- one Rules," wee devised. The first attempt to make 0 cata- logue on this new system was unsuc- cessful, and 13d to an erudite squab- ble. In 1848 the catalogue consisted of forty- eight :volumes, all printed. This, however, was still far from at- taining perfection, and the "slip" ss. tem was finally evolved by two offi- cials of the Museum. A11 entries were printed on small. slips, : which could easily be transferred. This "slip" idea was 'really the fore - ruler of the modern card index sys- tem. The general catalogue of o -day consists of rather more than athous- and volumes, and there is an excellent subject index. Treasures of the Ages. Strange, indeed, it is to sit at one of - the desks, with their curious contriv- ances for the supporting of books, and know that around and above you are priceless literary treasures that ohly await a written command to be brought before you. The sum of human know- ledge now- ledge condensed into five million vol- umes! On .acme of the thirty-seven miles of .bookshelves are wonderful ex- amples of flfteentlx-century Bibles from Mainz and Mabarin; MSS. in the • hands of Erasmus, Luther; Montaigne, and Darer; books in Sinhalese and Syriac, Sanskrit and Icelandic. To read these books come people from the four corners of the earth. There are many cosmopolitan centres in London; but none so varied and strange as the reading -room of the Bri- tish Museum. The Hermit Thrush. Hark! The rich tones of wondrous tune Come up from the brakes, Stirring the coverts of Canada's June And gladdening the lakes; Tone of a passionate, joy -laden heart Whose fervid desire Springs from the infinite fountain of Art, Intense as a fire; How each exultant, wild, ecstasy -note, In melodious rush, Bursts from the song -mad, silvery throat Of the hermit Thrush Sweetest of songsters, queen evermore Of the joy -breathing throng, Opening to heaven, unwearied, the door Of tumultuous song; Filling the silences far from the ways Of self-seeking men; With billowy outburstsof turbulent pobsrates From stream and from glen; Thine is no heart-rending sorrow that s In year -freighted lay; Thine is n music that vibrates. and throbs With the gladness of day. When thou dost sing, 0 jubilant bird, Thy music intense Seembth far sweeter than heaven hati2' heard, To spirit and sense. What is the wondrous urine of that t cam Thai mellows thy voice? Where is the sun and soul of the gleans That bids thee rejoice, Making' thy song like an iris of fire, By some angel hand Flung from a rainbow,—an exquisite lyre From the ttntale•land? --Albert Durrant Watson. The carrion crow, like many of Otto wild birds,is loyal to his mate as long: as she lives. The swan mates for life. If oneofthe pair dies the other never remates,' :A pretty respectable social yen! ,life exists among birds. I They don't say most who talk.talk.most. Nor do they do' most,