The Seaforth News, 1928-07-12, Page 7P9 Mothers
The Baby That Walks Like 'a
I3eaa' Need Not Alarm
Its Mother
Non.Shatterable
Glass
Tho 'compound sheet -glass some-
times used lu automobiles to avoid
Like a little bear or tiger,^the baby shattering la caro o@ aooldonts, la
begdn to walk,- not ungracefully, en manufactured as follolve, aoaordnig to
a oorrespondeutof the iSt, Paul News:
Its hands and feet through the union „The t
station to Toronto. It was a hot' type used in Windshields and
rummer evening, the baby had been windcwo of eatemobiles consists of
three layer. The two outside lama
trying, the mother wee tired, loaded are plate or sheet glass. Tile middle
With ba'ndles, nervous, but when thte layer is a transparent sheet of cella-
happened she swept the child into her lose motorial,, lilke ce11u>gOd, which
ar}na and hurried away, That mother 1 may,, In fact, also be need,
4 \ "Two pieces of glass and one piece
of this material are first out to the
exact Size and sham of the desired
d1 not and probably does not, realise
that what happened there may have
opened e1 new chapter in the develop-
ing 'aeience in anthropology, Since
the world began. liioueands of windshteldor window, This i be
Inman infanta doubtless have' done done With care, causo afterer it' is
the same, end the behavior has', finished Triplex can not be Cut or
passed 'unnoticed, or at most altered in slue:
aroused cemment as a childish
idiosyncrasy. But near Urea mother
was seated a gentleman with an eye
for Just such Gauge, and an unsur-
passed background of knowledge with
which to interpret them.
His 1- eyes th
I Ye followed o child with ill.
concealed curlositY, which the mother
obviously resented. She realized that
there was something "queer" about her
child, and she was touchy about it.
Dr, Ales IIrdlleka, curator of physi-
cal anthropology at the National Mu-
seum of Washington, had hoped to
question' her—to [Ind out something
of `the little one's heredity and proy-
ious behavior, But it was obviops ho
would get a cool reception if he al?-
preached
ppreached her, and thea there was no
possibility of extracting any informa-
tion.
Probably gossipy neighbors in some
small ' community already had made
the most of this child's peculiarity to
the poor mother's intense discomfort.
Perhaps they had nicknamed it "Little
Cat," or something of the kind.
But Dr. Hrdlicka stored away the
f ncident in his memory. This was
the second case of "quadruped pro-
gression" among human infants ,that
are had witnessed, The -liret was years
before, among the -Indians of northern
Mexico.
The thought came to him now that
this odd behavior of infants about one
year old might be the opening for a
the likelihood that here was an atav-
ism -a peculiar physical throwback
to some fer-distant quadruped ances-
try: He believed that it was rare.
Since then a wide appeal has been
made for information, -as a result of
-which nearly 100 instances have now
been brought to Dr.Jlydlicka's atten-
tion. Nearly all of them have come
frown the better- educated type of Cana-
dian and U.S. families.
"I suppose," says Dr. Hrdlicka, "that
Many persons who have seen suck be-
havior hesitate to write Inc. about, it
because they feel that it might be a
reffeetion on their children. This la
borne out by the fact that the bulk
of my correspondence has been from
well-educated parents who appreciate
the scientific value of this study.
"It is, of course, no reflection what-
soever upon the child. This behavior
and not mental, and the child does
Is purely physical and physiological,
not continue it long after tearing to!
walk naturally on its two feet. Par-
ents have no reason to be ashamed of
these manifestations, for generally the
children showing them are rather.
:above than below the average -both
mentally and physically; and 'every
instance correctly reported is of great
...value to science.
"The whole subject of physical be-
havior atavisms is an almost untouch-
ed field' which seems to have been
tapped by these accidental' obseravt
tions, and no .one earl tell what may
eventually'come of it"
"I have seen a nephew of my wife
travel as much as a halt -mile on all
fours when he was about five years
old," writes a Chapel Hill, North Caro-
lina, physician, speaking of a great-
great-nephew
reatgreat-nephew of John Randolph, with
eight generations of Amerman ances-
try on both sides. "The sequence of
hands and feet was sometimes a trot,
and sometimes it wab Much like a fox
trot."
"I am so glad my 'six monkeys' are
of interest to you," writes a Tennes-
see mother, "for I always insisted it
was interesting for a whole fainly to
run about like that. The children all
ran about on all -Yours after they could
walk. The girls, were slightly more
agile than he boys, except for the old-
est boy. -
"The youngest child climbed steps, ,Labor leaders of Bombay are out to
ladders, bars on doors, chairs, every- create as much tr able among the
'o
thing, in fact, before she made Puy workers as possible. The incessant
effort to walk. She has gone up small activity among the employees le Pro -
trees and posts by literally walking during a situation of acute unrest
lip them -ever slime she was a small that the papers say may in the rear
child." a.
future cause grave inconvenience to
'As a rule," Dr.'Hrdlicka says, "the the public.
children • that develop these phenomena,. With
are the cotton mull strike in a
- n
born 's strong and healthy, have chronic stage, the agitators have turn
above the
ample vie ,average
, and frequently remain ed their ,attention to the railway and
erage 1n strength, actio. municipal workers, the tramway ean-
tv
i , and even mentality. It is remark- sily ploys and the port trust, and in turn
ahl that there e a I e le not n
e one really sickly
induced each of these .groups to
have to ted
p
or .detective child in the whole series,
and there le put forward demands for the retireesne record of a child
not o
who has died.
"It -s • ma apo
oa s to conclude
that it
1s the robust and healthy and and
not the weakling or otherwise defee
tive baby that is liable to develop the,
peculiarity 6f walking or running on
all-fours,,instead of creeping."
I write love stories but candidly I
f y
don't believe In them. -le tby. M.
Ayres.
'"rhe three layers aro laid together
and putth,rough seventeen different
processes, including elaborate choral -
eel cleaning, pressing between huge
presses, which exert'many 'tons' Pres.
sure 00. each piece' of glass, heat,
grinding, and polishing, and aeailug.
"The : three la'minetioiie become se
closely welded together that they are
actually one 'piece. In thickness, it
is the same as ordinary glass.
"A vital and Interesting atop In the
manufacture is the sealing. If you
inspect a -iece .of it, you will notice
a narrow black strip along the center.
01 every edge. This is the sealing
own:pound, which, fs appiled to the
outside of the juncture of the three
lamiu'a,tions. It keeps out weather,
Moisture, vibration, and all other in -
nuances, which, if they could get in
between: the layers., would in time
eliminate the very safety features
which are essential.
"'Under impact, the compound. sheet
data not shatter or create flying
fragments, because the flexible center
layer holds tightly to the outside lay-
ers. The whole glass.- is flexible un-
der strain, as was demonstrated in a
recent accident, where the windshield
was bulged four lnche'e out of line
without shattering.
"Under severe Impact the glass•
will let a liming body ,pace through It.
But even then- ' it does not make jag-
ged edges,' and dons not lacerate the
body,Its edges are smooth and
flexible.
"Another type Is the impenetrable
kind, used._ to protect against 'bullets
Phis is heavy, consisting of a layer of
glass, a layer of the binding composi-
tion, a middle layer of glans, another
of the composition`, and a final layer
of glass.
"The :five . laminations may be an
inch thick. They turn aside machine-
gun fire at fifteen yards."
"Lost City" Found
by Aerial Pictures
Fliers Locate Ancient Border
Town of Ops in Meso-
potamia
Aerial photography has proved
itself an effective means of locating
the ancient border city of Opia in
Mesopotamia.
Photographs taken from the air by
the aid of British military aviators
distinctly showed differences between
mounds formed by nature and those
which were heaped up by the ruin of
sun-dried brick homes and walls, con-
quest of invaders, burning and weath-
ering.
Following the location of the city
excavations were begun and some un-
disturbed foundation stones with writ-
ings were uncovered"- giving the expe-
dition an almost certain proof of the
old city.
In wells, rubbish heaps, and ruins
of the old town Roman wins, vases,
pottery, and many other evidences of.
the Babylonian and Assyrian civiliza-
tions were found. More than two tons
of these specimens are new en route
bo Toledo on a' freight eteamer.
Charges Made Against
Indian Labor. Leaders
Of. Causing Unrest
Bombay.—The newspapers .here are
discussing the urgent need for some
form of legislation to deal with the
ever -recurring disputes now such a
painful feature or the industrial life
of India. It is .becoming increasingly
apparent, they oay, that the extremist
I have been whipped, but by Heaven,
sir, there 10 another clay, and some-
body else may be whipped An that
elberday...Selnat,ir Hiram Johnson of
California. '
of grievances, some of which the em-
ployers declare are preposteroue. They
hold out to the authorities concerned
a threat of direct' action- should the
requests be ignored.
Warren Hasting'e watch, hallmark-
ed 1744, is reported by its present In-
heritor, Sir Sohn Murray of London,
to, bo still "In 'perfect working order,"
It's good to have money, and 'the
'things that Money' can buy, but it's
good, too, to check up once in a while
sand make Sure you haven't loot the
things that Money won't buy, ---Dr, G,.
ii,rTarinaer, . •
ROYALITY INTERESTED IN STRANGE SPECIMEN
Prince,Potonzianl, Governor of Rome, and his daughter Princess Ninon are seen visiting the sea lions—the big
cousins of the clever seal.
Sir Tho
rnaS Lipton bow those daya ' had been brought The Exodus of Brains
back to himwhen he visited New
Tells a Couple York •
five .,oars ago,
it' "I had just been taken by a tug off
the 'ship," he said, "and I was full of
beans. There were a -lot of people at
the Battery, all.' there to meet the fam-
ous' Sir Thomas Lipton. I began to
swell up and put on frills.
"Then one man stepped out of the
crowd and came ep to me. He said,
'Your name Is Lipton?' I said It was;
"Sir Thomas Lipton? 'Sir Thomas,
Heli!' says he: 'Ain't you the Lipton
used to live at Mick McCorrlgan's?'
I am,' I said meekly. He turned
away with another 'Sir Thomas', Ilell!'
"I lost all my frills right 'there."
Former
Former . Boarder at Sir
Thomas' New York Home
Would Not Stomach Title
at All — Knightly : Frills
were Lost
Here is .the favorite Scotch story of
Sir Thomas Lipton, millionaire yachts-
man and world famous sportsman, as
he told it to a reporter.
"It hicppined on a train from Lon-
don to'Adinbu'rgh, There was a Scot
climbed on at London. At. the first
stop, a few tulles out, he rushed out
of the railway carriage and rushed
back aboard just below the train
started. At the next stop a few
miles farther on he did it again. When
he bad done it about tea times, eaoh
time fast catching the train by the
skin of his teeth, a :fellow traveller
couldn't stand It any longer, and ask-
ed him the reason for his strange per-
formance.
"Look here; said the Scot, open-
ing
pening his coat, 'Here's nay name and
my Edinburgh address fastened in-
side -this coat.'
"'What'e that got to do with it?"
asked his fellow passenger.
"'Under the British law; said the
Scot, '11 you die on a train the rail-
road •mist send your body home. I've
Just been to a specialist in London.
He •tells me I have heart disease and
I'm likely to drop dead any minute..
So I'm just buying my ticket from
station to station. If I die on the way
home, why should I make the railway
a gift of a full fare -,when they've got
to carry my dead body free?' "
Sir Thomas threw back his massive
bead and roared with laughter. Then
he recalled his early American experi-
ences when, a 'penniless immigrant
boy, he had slaved and starved for a
few dollars• a week In New York and
New Orleans,
He spoke feelingly of the time he
lived free in McCo'rrlgan's boarding
house in Now York—free by virtue of
the fact that he had rounded up 18
d d 11 d
To Arms! To Arms!
The attention' of all husbands is
again drawn to the distressing but
unavoidable fact that the salad sea-
son is once more "-upon us„
Allover the land, according to Mr.
Gustav Clump hungry husbands are
Nodding home from the office, the fac-
tory, the roundhouse and the 'brew-
ery and the fields spurred by pulsat-
ing thoughts of corned beef and cab-
bage. '
coats, tuck napkin's into their collars
and cast their eyes over what should
'be the groaning board, what meets
their gaze?
Parsnip salad, with mayonnaise
dressing!
"This must stop," declared Mr. Gus-
tav Clump to au exclusive interview
recently. "We are the people and we
must be ted. It is time for the salad -
ridden husbands of the nation to rise
in their wrath, shake off the shackles
of mayonnaise despotism and declare
their independence.
"We who dog ditches for 10 hours
a day, lay bricks for eight hours a
day, keep ledgers for seven hours a
day, shine shoes or five hours a day
or write newspaper colyums for two
and a hal( hours a day, deserve bet-
ter than chipped carrots with vine-
gar.
"Only by organization, however,
can we hope to achieve our purpose
and roast beef with mashed potatoes."
Qpebec Chronicle -Telegraph (Ind.) :
(The brightest of Canadian young
men are leaving in large numbers
every year for the United States at-
tracted by the much better salaries
paid by American employers,) When
one realizes that the matter of keep -
i ing our university boys and girls at
home to serve their homeland goes to
the very heart of the fiscal policy of
the nation, one sees, too, how diffioult
the problem becomes; also why it
should be a political iesue. Any fair-
minded person should grant that there
must be reasonable protection for
home industries, When there is not
_that protection, those industries can-
not prosper in the face of fierce cons -
Chill lren Gain by
Innovations
Better I -lousing Beneficial to
A11.: Free Dinners for
Poor Pupils
Dublin—The Qevernment of Sem,
'Stet Eireann (the 'Irish Urea State)
autos done a :great deal for the children
;both directly and indirectly, Ender
the Batter Leading may be placed the
grant of £ 800;000 which they have
set apart to build houses or the poor.
It is the children Wbo will 'benefit
t most •by this, A childless couple can
, lino with' decency and opmparetive
comfort in one large room, But when,
• as frequently happens, there are
"-eeight or nine children who, with thhabr
parents, earl got no better aecoinino-
dation, the ' case is Yery different,
The £990; -0D will provide at least
t 11000 bosses of three rooms each.
'Many of them are already 'built, and
"'bre oocu'pied by large amiliee, at a
lower rent than that formonty paid
for one room, in a weetehod "teno•
anent Mouse:' Ent ee many thousands
of these houses are still required a
great deal has been clone by private
charity.' I The Linenball Public
Utility Society, chiefly founded by were 66,$49 arrests during the year
NOT SO CRAZY
A huntsman met a lunatic out for
a walk..
"Good morning," said the lunatic.
1 "Nice day for hunting."
"Very nice," replied the huntsman.
• "What's your horse worth?" asked
! the lunatic.
"Anything from £50 to. .:100," said
t the fox-hunter.
"And the other horses?"
Anything up to £200." '
"How much is a hound worth?"
"From £2 to £10."
"And the fox?"
"About half a crown."
"Do you mean to say you've got
about £1,000 out chasing halt a
crown?" '
"What about ft?" asked the hunts
man.
"Well, it seems you'd better come
on home with me," said the lunatic.
The American Influence
Quebec Action Catholique (Ind.):
Our dependence on American money
has become so pronounced that the
obervant Canadian can tell, without
much fear of mistake, when the
American electoral campaign has,
commenced, even though he does not
read the American newspapers. Those
who have suffered trent the shock in
Montreal of the New York Stock Ex-
ohauge's somersaults, will no doubt
profit next time by their experience.
The New "Poor Man's" Sport
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ESTABLItHED NEW HYDROPLANE SPEED RECORD
• Charles Ilolt of Long Beach and his "Firefly”, in which' he set a nor hydroplane record over a .mile
away, when he atLairled a speed of 88,43 miles en hour, in competition,
London Murders
Are All Solved
Commissioner of Metropoli-
tan Police Force Issues
Annual"Repart
IoThdan.–Sir Wi'l'liam liozwsiod,
Comuaisaioner of Poldce for the London
aneteopoiis, canelmding his report for
1027, after praising the excellent "eon -
duet ,and clIselplino of the force" oT
10,880 men nand 60 polioewomr n, says
that while the number of indietsbbe
o1I•olrs'os had decreased during the
year, "breaches' of the law relating 0et
the sale of liquor in some 1792 rgio•»
tered elubs oontinued to be a iaaurm
of much trouble," Forty. six clubs had
been ;struck ,off the register.
"All night cafes appear bo be in-
creasing," say's Sir William, "end are :
e `0000-oe of trouble to the police les
they are liable to become the rendez-
vow of
en,dis -.vonsof undesirable characters." A.
feature o f the night club -business is
the frequency with which: jnopr leboa s
and managers prove to be aliens," ATI
the 27 cases of murder a'ccord'ed, amid
Sir Wrilliegn Horwood were solved.
Tool f=
la value a stolen Properly Brty r CpV
er
M3
\MS £130,924 in the 12 ntonitlle. There'
the exertion of the. Rev. E, Young end 104,899 summonses for maatom
and the Rev. It. S. Grfttln, bee been offences, although the police force la+aie
veiny su000esful in 'providing cheap 181 below its full strength, ,
The oonurruiegio'ner says that a ban.'
on collect rg money' from this publics
would reduce the radical ' polibbosi
gatherings. Nearly 18,000 oohs of
fiavgerprinte added during the . year
brings the total up to 481,009. Scat -
land Yard, which as now equipped with
four -roomed and five -roomed 'houses
in a very poor part of Dublin for the
working classes,
The :Government benefits children
more directly by 'supplying free din-
ners., five times a week, to school
children whose 'naronta are too poor
to pay for them. motorized "flying squmd4s” reooveled
In April, 1927, visits were paid by , 1,418 of the 1,982 automobiles and
the Infant Aid Society to women in motorcycles stolen from all parts of
their tomes; 29,780 cunt bottles of {Great Britain last year, 'This to the
p1rie milk were given tree to themLord Byng of Vlmy takes over tour
when necessary, and to bhe'ir children .stand of the Force almost' immedlato.
1178 eta battles were eold at a re -1'17.
duped rate, and 972 tickets issued
which entitled each recipient to a
free dinner.
A greet deal has also been done
for the education of the children. At-
tendance at school Is oombvlsory 1n
Dublin and in many harts of the
country. All the teachers are highly
trained and the school rooms are
made as attractive ars poselble.
There is a large children's library
in Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin,
with a o1:4ldren's librarian who is-
sues books free to over 1000 children.
The children in the country districts,
unless they happen to live near .one
of the free libraries, are 'provided
with traveling libraries which are
highly apprecirted.
Cans da Carillon
In conclusion, there 1s one feature
of which, I desire to make special
mention. It is the inscription which
appears on the largest bell. In the
fewest possible words, the inscrip-
tion seeks to epitomize the purpose
of the carillon as a national me-
morial, oommemorative et the Peace,
and of the service. and sacrifice which,
contributed to that great end It
appears In both English and French,
doubly significant when one recalls
the association of the two peoples In
the Great War and in our country's'
s tory.
The inscription roads:
This carillon was }metalled
by authority of Parliament to
commemorate the
Peace of 1918
to keep in remembrance
the service and sacrifice
of Canada
In the Great War
"By authority of Parliament," there
is something splendidly impressive in
those words! There is no oompara-
ble authority in the affairs of state.
"To commemorate" and "to keep in
rementbranoe,' 'what words more full
of meaning will be found in our Conservative Opposition's pretest.
language! To Leonardo da Vinci we The Dominion Administration, is con-
owe
onowe much for the portrayal of the vinoed of the necessity of being re -
sacrament with which these words presented by someone with the Can-
adianpoint of view in the Far East.
Canada is a Pacific nation: Canadian
interests across the Pacific are grow-
ing.—Christian Science Monitor
torial,
Canada in Japan
Alter one year's ezperienoe of the
practical value of the•Canadian lega-
tion at Washington, leaders on the
Opposition side of the Dominion
Parliament had no adverse criticism
to offer when the opportunity to. dis-
cuss Vincent •Massey's work came
during the voting of the estimates la
the recent session. Provisioh to en-
large
nlarge the field of. Canadian, service in
France, by .promoting the High Com
miss8oner to the rank of Minister
with a Canadian legation in Paris,
has been similarly accepted ' without
much serious objection,' on the part of
the Conservative Opposition, Before
the session at Ottawa dosed, haw -
ever, the Conservative leader, R. B.
Bennett, associated himself with Sir
George Perloy in opposing Canada's
proposed next step to appoint a Can-
adlan Minister to Tokyo,
The Conservative critics were in-
clined
nclined to the view that Canada is
ldirection
moving to rapidly in the f o
separate representation in foreign
countries. They spoke of the neces-
sity of maintaining a united front on
Issues of foreign policy which are of
concern to the whole British Com-
monwealth. Mr. Bennett expressed
the opinion that existing relations• for
the transaction of diplomatic business
with Japan were adequate. He cited
as an example the arrangement re-
cently made to restrict the total
number of Japanese immigrants. to
Canada to 150 a year. This arrange-
ment had been made without a Can.
adieu Minister in Tdkyo. 'It would
be more advantageous to Canada to
appoint several more trade commis-
sionere in the Orient, Mr. Bennett
said, than to proceed with the policy
of appointing ministers,
The vote to establish the Canadian
legation at Tokyo carried by mere
than a party vote against, the
will ever be associated. How full of
kindred meaning they are when ap-
plied to the service and sacrifice of
our young country, and to a peace
which relates itself to the entire
world! Around the rim of the bell
which carries' the inscription, are the
words:
"Glory to God in the Highest and
on Barth Peace, Goodwill toward
men"
Such is the message of -the carillon
=a message of rejoicing and tbanks-
giving known in Bibiieal lore as The
Angels' Song." it was heard from
the skies nearly twenty centuries ago
by
a few shepherds erds who were watch-
ing their flocks by night. Back to the
sides it returns at noon to -day, not record time of 10 menthe is 805 feet
the echo of a .mystical train heard longwith a breadth of 12 feet and a
on a Judean moor, but the voice. of. depth of 75 feet. .It contains 20,004
tons of •steel, 3,500,000 rivets, ''100
tulles of e4eetz'ical cable end pumps
p 'Ps
capable ex lin " 0 000 torus of
a bl 8
of
1� g ,
hoSelf-contained,i
water pem 1vr. ' with
workshop, it is e ui ea: with kitchen
oro q PP ,
dining rooms and baths.
The dock was in Otero r of four
powerful Dutch tugs. Its depawlw
rtl
from .the builder's yard was watched
by thousands of spectators who gath-
&Jed on both sides of the r n er. Despvtn"
Singapore Dock
Journeys Eastward
Newcastle-on-Tyne.—The first er
centre section of the 80,000 -ton Singe-
pore dock has left Wallsend' on its
8,600 -Milo fournuonths' journey to
Singapore via Suez and the Indian
Ocean. •-
The dock, which was constructed in
a nation in thanksgiving and praise
which will sound over land and sea to
the uttermost parts of the earth, and
which from the place where we. are
now assembled may yet, in the course
oftime, be .borne down the cantur1
ea
to •oomo.—The Right Honourable W.
L. Mackenzie Ring, , in "The Message
of the Carillon."
Great Sellnst
I ailed
Brussels,—A great bell, weighing the power of the tugs its progress
more th
an seven tons, presented by down the river was necessarily slow.
American engineers in memory of The first movement 04 the dock freni.
their comrades who fell in the war,1
'has just been Metalled in the tower ntoarings was the signal frim a fir-'' ig
of the ruew library at Louvain Iinl outburst of. cheerinig and the blowing
versirty, of steam whistles 'arid sirens,
�
"Do you think it e
unlucky to marry Art, like' morality, eonsiste in draws
aigbt- on Friday?" "Certainly. Why should ins the lino somew;uate.—G. It. Chryte
Friday be an exception?" to't911.,