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-MYI1FE IN LABRADIIR.
By lir. W. T. Grenfell, C.M,G,
Of all the many'tb:rtlling ineidents and ,entered the hone we found, the
in Ma life, the moot exciting' started mother dead on the Ikea, and the father
One afi ernoon ...some eighteen yearns lying on the floor, dying,
ago, with en emergency ca11 for Tedi- Nett Meriting w'e improvised' two
,oaa help from a place sixty miles sautlh coffins, .contributed from the ward -
of' Sit.Anfirluony,NorthernNewfounddan, d, robes of ala hands enough black roa-
'Wher•e; T was etaying at the time, 1 tel"sal 'Nora "stetelnly" f ever se, ana later,
etarted off lounediabely with a team of steaming up the bay Ito a sandy atretch
fine dogs, and all went well until I bad of land, •burite'd the two parents—sand,
to break through some pack-ice..wihilefound ourselves left wall five Uttto
eroreting an d'nlet—a cofnmon expert- mortals iii black ,'sating on the grave
mound. There and then we founded
our first orphanage,
One day a fathee of eight children
sent in from a neighboring island for
immediate he4p. His gain had gone off
while his hand was on the muzzle, and
hash Practically blown it to -pieces. To
treat him ten miles away on that is -
"pan" broke into two, and I was . land was innpossihle, so we. brought
plunged into further trouble, the only hi'm in for operation, To stop the
escape from which was to chive into bleeding he had plunged his hand into
the icy water and, with my invaluable
dogs, swim to another.
The "pan" was about the size of a
dining -table, and cit it I ,spent a night
"and a day, orad only in a light sweater
and vest, without hat, coat, or gloves. our nurse tended him, as he hovered
between life and 'death; but eventually
he pulled through, and at last a
secondary operation for repair be -
Ella companions during the .night, and carne possible. We took chances on
fione-grafting to form a hand, and he
used their skins for coveirlet% their was 'left with a flipper like a. seal's.
bodied for windshields, (heir harness But there was no sarin for it. So a fel-
far pu;Gtem and their frozen legs as , low doctor and I shared the honor of
a flagpole, on whichI attached my supplying some.
shirt as daylight carne, in the hope of IPat--for that was his name has
attracting the attention of someone on bean a veritable apostle of the hospital
the ,Ilene or ,oleo passing craft. I ever ,since. Though he has English
In this way I drifted some twenty Episcopal skin on the palm of his hand
miles, when, fortunately, some men en- and Scottish Presbyterian skin on .the
gaged in seal -hunting observed the back of it, the rest of him still re -
"pan" with its 'peculiar burden, and mains a devout Roman Catholic.
reported my p1•ibht to the •nearest vil-
lage, The wind was in my favor, and
was drifting me in towarclsa the shore,
although" no boat could be launched!,
epos.
To out a long story short, 1 found
myself on a piece of ince which broko
loose trout the main part. In an in-
etrant I out looete the dogs trent the
slough, otherwise they would haYe
been drawn into the vorttex, and I
should. have been left aaone. Then, the
a flour barrel and then tied It up in a
bag, and as' a result the wounded arm
was poisoned away up above the el-
bow.
lbow.
He preferred death to losing his
right acm. Day and night for weeks
I had been three times in the water,
and 1 should have been frozen to death
but for the, dogs.
I was forced to killthree, of my faith -
The Substitute Bride.
I have found the Eskimos a singu-
larly interesting people. They are.ex-
as the ice along the Coast was break-traordinarily free from .convention, as
ing up. Before daybreak, however, a the following anecdote will prove.
flue volunteer crew had been got to-
gether, and they 'effected a rescue. •
Fight to Save a Life.
A. travelling minister: was called on
at a place named Spotted Islends to
marry a couple, the bridegroom being
a kind of head man in the vicinity.
When at last I stepped ashore, tied When the minister arrived at the is -
up in rags staffed out with oakum, and land he found all the islanders await -
wrapped in the bloody skins of my ing him in the school -room. It was
dogs, my night on the inhospitable ice not till he had actually entered the
eeenned like aghastly nightmare. building that he discovered that the
The founding of our .orphanage here • bride was the deceased wife's sister.
was the. result of a grim incident iu I This being a forbidden relationship
my life amongst these sturdy fisher- • at the time, the minister ,naturally re -
men of Northern Labrador and Now-' fused to proceed with the ceremony,
aoulidland. I had been summoned to a: whereupon the intended bridegroom
lonely headland. to see a very sick quite calmly remarked:
family. Among the spruce trees in a "Never mind, mister, one of these
email hat laved a Scottish salmon fish- others will do."
er, his wife and five little children. So, turning to the •expectant crowd,
When we anchored off the promon- he eel+ected a partner. She being will
tory we were surprieed to receive n•o ing, the ceremony was performed, and
signs of of welcome. When we landed the merrymaking started.
SOVIET AND CHINA
A London Times Editorial Gives the
British Analysis of How Far Mos-
cow May Affect the Chinese Situa-
tion.
London Times (Ind.) : The submis-
elan of the tiuomintaug to the diota-
tion of 11Ioscow has given 'them tem-
porary strength in their battle with
their rivals. They have learned from
'M'oscow•nrany lessons in the matter of
•organization and propaganda, and the
successes they have won through the
application of those lessees encourage
them faithfully to follow Soviet advice
in td'le hope of carrying their campaign
still further until all China is subdued.
Their whole organization 'has been
renrodelei•ed on Bolshevist lines; they
are entangled in the intricacies of
Soviet technique; in their public
speech they continually re-echo the
accents of Moscow. This is their pre -
sant advantage and their ultimate dan-
ger. for it is by no means a foregone
conclusion that Chinese National•iem
must inevitably take this aggressively
aliens form.
The French Peasant's
Meal -Time..
When meal -time cams, we ail, great
and small, gathered about the long
table and seated ourselves on pine
benches, each bench being supported
by four wooden legs. An earthen bowl
and a tin spoon lay at each person's
' place. At one end of the table was
the 'enormous rye loaf, as Iarge around
as a certwlheel, wrapped in a linen
towel smelling not disagreeably of the
'lye in which it had recently been
washed. From this loaf the grand-
father, with one stroke of the oarvitig-
knife cut a piece sufficient for the
needs of the moment, and then with
the same knife, which he alone was
entitled to wield, subdivided this piece
into as many equal parts as there
were hungry mouths to feed. .Each
person then crumbled his share into
his bowl in such fashion as best suited
him.
Next Came the grandmathet•'s part.
A'big-bellied pot was hissing and bub-
bling over the blazing fire on the
hearth. It sent forth a savory odor
of turnips' and bacon. Armed with an
iron laddle plated with tin, she dished
up, for each in turn, first a portion
of the soup to saturate the bread, and
thea a good helping of turnips with a
bit of bacon, half fat and half lean. To
the end of the table, opposite the rye
loaf stood the :pitcher of water for the
unrestricted use of the thirsty. Ah,
what sharp appetites we had, and how
good the food tasted ;especially when
a white cheese, home-made, concluded
the repast!
At one side of the room blazed the
" Fish Have Nicknames.
A sea trout is simply a river trout
Which has taken to the sea to obtain
more food, lint it has still to visit freer.
water to spawn.
A sea trout hes various names in
different parts of the Country. In Dev-
on Med Cornwall it le always a peal;
In Ireland :it is a white trout. In Scot -
lane, finnock, heeling, and whirling are
names given to the young sea -trout,
another na•nto for this fish is salmon
•, trout.
Az a rule, sea fish, not river . fish,
lta.ve njeknam•es. • The red mullet, for
instance, is often Galled the sea wood-
coek,becalise cf rte taste, and the dab
is sow comes known as salter.
Fishermen call the h:alce^lite sea pile.
because its shape :is a little like that
of the hike, and they terns a' flounder'
a fiook or Hulka,
One'of the:gurnards has the name of
etacloo-gurnard, by reason of the odd
gonad it makes when caught. The
brill is tonl•eti.nles called kite, no doubt
beoause of its shape.
Dogfish have many names', none of
thein oanrpli eatary..' Pennyhound' is
_ the least Mailbag, The bass is the
Most sporting of sea flab, but it is not
athtil it reaches the ftsilunonger's shop
that it is called oalmou bass.
bese'vea Credit.
Stage tflendr---"i'm doing ut tliomseed
mien's joie .for one ' rear's. pray.".
Manager'' "Nonsenee1"
"Is' iit 7 Every eight I tette stand fn
the Wings and make a noise like a
Preach Revolutionary Mob i "
\ Mis•Cortune cyan make si loan proed
bet sufrering -makes hint hutmblo,
wood fire .im the enormous fire -place
there, in very cold ,weather, whole i
tree trunks were ,burned. In a cor-
ner of this monumental fireplace,
which Was well coated with soot, these
projected a slab of slate at a conveni-
ent height for holding the, light, used
in the evening. This consistede of a
blazing pine splinter, carefully chasten
and well irnpreguatod with pitch. It
funnelled only a reddish'•ancl smoky.
illutnluaticn, but eorved to eke out the
sienclor supply of :walnut oft that fed
the, wick of the crude lamp.—Jean
Henri Fable, in - "Souvenirs,"
London Cat, Commuter, Earns
Rail Fare as Rat Catcher.
Matinee -cat that walkecl by itself is
left in the shade of its favorite woods
by the London cat whiclt has, leaped
into fame 08 a con neteter.
Every morning the cat boards the
Southern RailWey's 10:45 train from
Victoria Station, London, to Dover,
rides down to the Channel port, waits
in the refreshment room and ,patches
,I
tho',itext train. back tb London. 1! t ffy,
However, earns tree transportation 08
well as. fr eo rnege by acting as a stet -
tion ratcatc'lier.
ROYAL GRANDMOTHER AND .LITTLE PRINCESS
The Duke and Duchess of York sailed on Jan. 6 from Portsmouth, aboard the British warship Renown, for
Australia, where the Duke Will officiate at the opening of parliament in the new federal capital, Canberra. Prin-
cess Elizabeth, the baby(laughter of the young couple, will be left in the custody of her grandmother, the queen.
The latter is shown with her grandchild.
A PROPHECY?
The British Radio Leadership Suggest
That Article In the Manchester
Guardian May be Prophetic of Bri-
tish Invention in the Near Future.
"If the phonofl'1m wins its canes it to the garden he slashedofftee heads We feasted, we men
es plain that the great gap. between of the Largest poppies, thereby aam-' Who first had mat that morning
Poppy Legends. , •
Stranger- rier si.
The poppy has been the symbol of Day had laid a carpet
death silted the time the son of Tar- Bordered with Tills
quinius Superbus asked his father In her wide house of sunlight
what should be clone with the people : Whose walls were the hills.
of a conquered city.
Tarquin did not reply, bu.t going in- - And through the flooding noontide
the kfnem:a anti the theatre has been mending the massacre of the loos
bridged and the proper distinction befltrential citizens.
tween the two arts, though not des
troyed, will be importantly cliniinished. blood, also symbolizes death. When
The lovers of the theatre have always Persephone was stolen by Pluto, her
•
mother, Ceres; searched for her day
The color of the poppy, resembling
argued with justice that the glory of 'e 11" '"gee The gods, pitying her and
the spoken word and, of the thought"'"
to resters Persephone, caused There r,was
whichhit alone -can convey is essential- p The e no roam far sadness
b h feet She
And would not meet again.
Beside the, speaking river
With the friendly trees
We laughed a while, and parted,
Our hearts at ease,
ly different deem any facial pray or
subtlety of visible effects which the
kinenta can command. A well -con-
trived phonofilm will mitigate that dif-
ference."
Stage Letters.
On the stage, letters are usually
written at such a furious speed that
all Teeters would seem to be expert
stenographers. The reason for this
haste, of course, is that the attention.
of the audience would flag if a letter
were written at the normal slow rate:
Stage inkpots never contain ink;
the danger of a "spill must not be;
risked. Ant until lately quill pens
were used, because they shoved up
better than eteel nibs, but the practice
has been dropped except he a few
theatres.
Letters that have to be read out are
nearly always indited word for word,
to save -The actor the labor of studying
the .contents. But the prudent actor
takes good care to .have a working.
knowledge 'of the words; otherwise if
the letter goes astray, he may find
hims'eee in a fix.
For instance, a dressing -room "wag"
once purloined the letter of a eel -
league, a lazy actor who had not trete
bled to study the words, and substi-
tuted a blank piece of paper for it,
In the play the letter was highly im-
portant, for it announced in long -wind-
ed phrases the heroine's rejection of
the recipient's suit. And so when the
wretched actor caane to the point
where he ]mad to read the letter, and
Pound that he had nothing but a blank
sheets, he suffered• agonies for a mo-
ment. But he eaved the :situation.
Gasping out, "Site jilted tee, , .
There's a mist before my eyes .
I can't see t o 'read it," he departed het-
,foot to taste vengeance on the practicer
joker. ,
Britain's Old Oak Trees
Suffer From Epidemic
)3ritain's oak trees, whose praises
have been sung by bards foe hundreds
of years, are being attacked by a toys-
teyrlous 'epidemic which is being in-
vesttie,ate.il by research workers on tee
Forestry Commission.
An assistant of the •eolnlniss•ion says
mildew .anti rover math are respons-
ible for the disease which has spread
ever the sota"thern conntries and 1ti1•led
many ot. the oldest oaks. rears aro we
pressed that the finest oaks planted six
the seventeenth Century will be wiped
cut in another twenty years.
An English Founciet
The founder of Worth's, the fatuous
Paris drebsn faker's business, was
Charles Werth, a Liizcol•nsiltiee solicit -
on who went to the I.r'renoh capital 'to
desrlgn frocke in the days Of the lent -
prase Eugenie.
poppies to 'spring about her ee .
inhaled their heavy, bitter s�oent, and.
put the seeds into her mouth, and pre-
sently sleep closed her eyelida and s'he
gained that test which her weary body
needed.
The State flower of California is a
brilliant yellow poppy, which shines
on the mountain elopes under which
goad lies hidden. The Saxon name for
teeny is "nopig "
It used to be a custom in olden days
to strike a poppy ];etal in the hands
to ascertain whether a lover was faith-
ful or not. If it broke, it signified
that the was unfaithful, but if it held
together and made a noise it showed
he was tree.
What They Are Saying.
Henry Van Dyke: "Christianity is a
religion that will not keep; the only
thing to do with it is to use it, spend
it, give it away."
Edgar Pi Hill: "The great life, the
Successful life, leas to do with the or-
dinary things in the ordinary way."
Amelia Sears: "To suggestible
ple without'a proper critical sense,
there is serious menace in the daily
publication of criminal matter."
Mrs. John M. Hanna: "My slogan iu
dealing -with girls is 'Inform instead
of reform.' " �i
Bruce Bliven: "Good newspapers aro
growing better and bad ones worse."
Premier Mussolini: "Nothing can
Happen to me before my task is done."
Count Bethlen: "True democracy
consists in the education of masses and
giving thenn opportunities of education,
ter domocracy does not fall like a
rile )lulu into the isp of the people." i
Under the sun,
The morrow was God's sending
And the world one.
"Thera is no •cause for sighing,"
Said I, alone,
"For any titan I meet now
Is not unknown."
And as I took the long road
I .eeemned to see
How day had ,caught the shining
Of eternity.
• —T. Morris Longstretch.
London Puts Up Signs
to Guide Pedestrians
The latest addition to the ever-in-
creasing number of visible traffic re-
gulations in Loudon is a conspicuous
sign reading, "Please cross here,"
stuck up at oertaiu points on the side-
walk far the direction of peclesrtrians.
The first of these signs has just made
its appearance on Parliament Square,
where the maze of traffic snakes cross-
ing an ,exciting adventure.
This points, in the direction of adopt-
ing the American .system of right-
angle crossings gt street corners, but
London streets, not being laid out at
right angles, -require a mathematical
genius to discover the logical points of
crossing. Such a 'genius appears now
to be at work at police hee•adquerters.
Lit by Fishes.
At a depth of a mile the ocean bed
is wall liiatminatecl by the luminous
organs of the fish living there, accord-
ing to one scientist,
Premier Bruce's home in Australia, where the Duke and Di:whose of York,
who are on their way thither, Will stay when they open the new federal
ba l )ital• of the 'commonwealth, a town specially bunt for that purpose, 1•ilca
Ottawa and Washington, •called Canberra:: Like Moat of the Canberra build-
lees it is sroareely complete, but everyttleg is being hastened in the new city
i? y p
to -completion for the gala event,
A BRITISH VIEW
The Intal,. Liberal paper, The Dare
cjon Truth, says "That there is Kbvi•'
ouslry a suboonseious fear be Me
minds, not only of American profess
sora, but of the Governunent at Wash
iagton, that le the next half-oentuly
thea may be a hostile oombinatiou
in Jturope against the 'United States,
It would certainly be wise, therefore,
on: the part of the American Treasury
to Taloa the 'been geste' while there
le still time, and to earn some .gnats,
tude for 'tire remission of debts whitdt
they certainly will not be able to Bole
le,L„
And Again--
- In the London Observer: 'In 1026
the world has been passing out of the
abnormal phases sI -post-war transition
with ,all its discords and distractions.
When even China and Resole,` like,
ourrenolen nearly everywhere, are
tending towards stabilization in spite
of tall shooks auci teuirporary set-becksi
it is fairly safe to anilelpate that
America will be found not hindering
that broad preoessy but promoting it.
We must not prophesy, nor even force
the note of encouragement, But the
general world looks definitely as
though it were beginning to enter on
a prolonged period of more normal
conditions and improved relationships.
Making Crusee ,Live.
A film version of Defoe's master
piece is now being "shot" on Tobago,
which is known locally at•s "Robinson
Crueoe's Island."
Juan Fernandez is, of course, more
frequently associated with the great
childeren's •classic than Tobago, the
former being the scene of Alexander
Selkirk's adventures, on which Defoe's
story is supposed to be based. But the te
first British novelist did not keep to
the Selkirk story, and :tlle description
of the island given in the book is a
description of Tobago.
Mr. M. A. Wetberweil, who played
David Liviagstone in another film, is
taking the part of Creme in the new
production. In every sense Tobago le
an ideal background for the film.
Mount Dillon, which has been chosen
for Crusoe's look -out post, commands
views of haunting beauty aver both
land and s•ea. Then there aro great
stretches of sand for the mysterious
footprint and the cannibal feast, and
caves to satisfy a film producer's high-
est aspirations.
Tobago bas been a British possession
since its capture by Sir Samuel hood
in 1803. Prior to this it is believed to
have changed hands, more frequently '
than any other West Indian island;
Columbus claimed it for Spain when
he discovered it, and afterwards it
was held by British, French, and
Dutch.
In more peaceful days it has become
one of the show places of the Carib-
bean Sea. It is only a few hours' jour-
ney by steamer from Trite:lee, aul
visitors to the latter .colony ueually
make a point of seeing Tobago.
Round Tobago, with its 21,000 in-
habitants, cluster many small islets.
One of these, Little Tobago, has been
converted into a sanctuary and breedr'
ing-ground for the bird of paradise. So
great was the demand for the beauti-
ful plumage of these birds that they
were threatened eine extinction a few
years ago.
The Voice of the Pacific.
The one common note of all this
country is the haunting presence of
the ocean. A great faint sound of
breakers fellows you high up- into the
island canons; the roar of water
dwells in the clean, empty rooms of
Monterey as in a shell upon the chim-
ney; go where won will, you have to
pause and listen to hear the voice- of
the Pantile. You pass out of the town
to the southwest, and meant the hill
among pinewoods. Glade, thicket, and
grove surround you. You follow wind-
ing sand tracks that lead. nowhither.
You see a deer; a multitude of gttail
axises. But the sound of the sea still
follows you as you advance, like that
of wind among the trees, only harsher
and stranger to the ear; and when
at Iength you gain the summit, out
breaks on every hand and with fresh-
ened vigor, that same unending, dis-
tant, whispering ramble of the ocean;
for now you are on the top of Monterey
.peninsula, and the noise no longer
only mounts to you from behind along
the beach town ids Santa Cron but tram
your right also, round by Cllinatow'n
and Pings lighthouse, and from clown
before you to the rnolti'.it of the Car-
meli() River. The Whole wued.land is
begirt with thunderiug surges. Tice,
silence drat immediately surrounds
you where you stand is not so much
broken as it is haunted by this distant
circling rumor. . . . you strain your
attention; you are clearly ani un -
Usually conscious of Email emmeis near
at handl; you walk listening like an
Indian hunter; and that voice of the
Pacific is a sort of disquieting ccut-
patry to yon in your walk, --- From
'.Actress the- Plains," 1)y R. L. Steven -
eon.
American Wears More
Shoes Than European
Am04'icans wear four tinges as many
ehoes as Europeans, according to
Charles WMenu, .iuuerioan shoe
expert, in Paris studying conditions.
The average European wears the ;.ante
slums about. a year, whereas the ere
dinary American casts, off footgear
when it begins to show welts and buys
new every three or Pout inoutitie The
lulteopean product, Mr, Kinney says,
is marc costly thea the Americas., but
of better leather,
t