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Zurich Herald, 1930-11-13, Page 3Coin Chats , 'MARIE ANN REST Misplaced Matter She was a thin, ,3ent, wiry little old lady and looked rail and worn. Two worried lines were deeply marked on her forehead between her eyes and she never seemed to have time to even angle. Her home was always immacu- late. The garden was a bower of im- maculate flowers, fresh, clean flowers In lovely color, and she surely had the horor, if one calls it honor, of having her place immaculately differ- eut. It was because she was an indefa- tigable scrubber and all she could see was dirt. The house inside was scrubbed in every nook and corner, yes, and outside in every nook and corner as well. The garden paths were swept So dilligently that they be- came shiny black pathways.. No stray leaf dared to have a resting place for long in that garden. 0118 even won- dered if they might have an inkling that they were unwelcome and fintter- ed down just outside of it, for it seem- ed one never could see any leaves there at any time. The trees too looked different, the leaves showed they were maples but the trunks were of a light creamy color not seen else- where. People wondered at their ap- pearance until the information was whispered, that the trunks were 'scrub- bed. Little Mary was just three and of- ten forgot to say please and thank you, often her mother would say "flow Mary, you must be a good girl and remember to say please and thank you." Shortly after, Mary wanted to play with the neighbor's little girl and was asked "Will you. be a real good girl over there?" "Oh yes, I be good." "How good?" said mother. "011—I be Yank you good." The One Minute Cold Sponge People who do not take the cold sponge bath each morning are Missing a very important daily necessity. To the uninitiated, chills and a very disagreeable time are visualized but it is not hard •to take if done very quickly and brings with, it a glow and vitality that lasts through the day. It is the best preventive for colds that can be given. Do not miss it. About Flowers The Amaryllus bulb which has such a beautiful red flower clustered on top of its long stem, should be repotted about every two or three years. When through blooming cut off the green but do not rest the plant by putting it in a dark place. The little lady died before her time, wan and wrinkled, and the house was silent, but as the weeks passed how •soon the garden gradually became as other gardens. Leaves fluttered down and strewed the paths and even a weed dared peep through the ground and grew until it went the way of all weeds. The trunks of the maples be- come golden and gradually put on the coat of nature's brown. Although the -place did not bloom with the -unusual colors of misplaced cleanliness it soon took on the glory of nature's gifts and best of all through it. walked the new owner with her straight, beautifully modelled figure. The bloom of health was on her .cheek and in the glint of her eyes as she walked through. the quiet garden in pensive leisure, loving the flowers which nodded and bloomed fully as contented with her average care as under the strenuous and ex- tremely misplaced diligence of the former owner. It did seem the little old lady never could enjoy her home for she was al- ways seeing what she c ailed dirt, whether it was dirt or not, and she missed altogethernature's beauty at her very door. After all is not dirt only misplaced .mattea. and -we the choosers • of what is misplaced Does this not indicate that we 'sometiMes carry our own ideas to unusual ex- tremes? Good Things to Eat "Wonderful lemon pie," says Jim- mie. . 3 eggs, 3 teasps. water, 1 cup sugar, 1 lemon. Method—Put beaten yolks. water, lemon juice and grated rind and 11/a cups sugar together, cook ou sfove, stirring 3 minutes or longer till it thickens a little, about consistency of cream. Beat egg whites and fold in- to them 1/2 cup sugar. Fold cooked mixture slowly into whites. Pour into baked crust and brown. in quick oven. 'It seems thin but thickens up fine. Kentucky Salad 1 cup celery, 1 cup canned pineapple juice (if not enough fill cup with. water). Put liquid and sugar on to boil, take one envelope Of gelatine. soak in Va cup cold water, fill cup with boiling syrup, stir into rest of syrup, set to cool, when it begins' to set stir in the fruit and put into moulds. Irene Biller,. favorite of Budapest's thea that it is not unusual for her to receive as marriage a week. Slightly above the aver Autumn Leaves Beauty of russet and scarlet swirled) Criap brown scraps of parchment, curled, Veined transparencies, Scalloped sheen, Little gold fans and arrows of green— Dow a you flit by twos and threes, By scores and clouds from the drowsy trees. Dancing there in a giddy round, Drifting here to the cordial ground, Quiet or sleeping, none of you grieves. On a bright and spirited autumn day Wily shoulkl anyone sight and say, "Dead leaves?" tre-going public, who is so popular many as a ,hundred. proposals of age one must •admit. Dressing for Kentucky Salad Juice of 1 orange, Juice of 1 lemon, % cup water, 1 teasp. butter, 1/1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 teasp. cornstarch. Put orange, lemon and water in double boiler, add sugar and bring to boiling point, have egg well beaten then add to egg the cornstarch dissolved, put all in doublehoiler, stir till it thickens, then take off—add butter and when ready to serve add whipped cream. Sprinkle chopped walnuts on top if desired. "Glauc.ing over the paper at break- fast the first thing that hits•oue's eye is the grapefruit.", Travellers (PaYiug his bill)—"NOW, ;easa ate all: squaae," Landlord of Tun— Yes, and I hope you'll soon 'be round few Sunday School Lesson Wood Destroying Fungi Mauy stains and all rots in wood are caused by plants of simple struc- ture, known as fungi. The wood-de- stroing fungi develop within the wood and at maturity produce .their fruit on the surface. These fruits are the, best known parts of the fungous plants. They appear only on wood which is in an advanced stage of de- cay or stain-, and take the form of toadstools, fleshy or woody shelves, encrusting sheets, or of mitinte incon- spicuous bodies scarcely diedrenable to the naked eye. sL At maturity fungous Milts shed clouds 'of fine, dust -like 'particles known as spores r which function' in the same manne Tits seeds of higher plants. These spores are microscopic in size and are scattered fay and wide by air currents, spreading disease whereever a spore can. get a foothold. Tree disease in Canada is combated by the Forest Products Laboratories of Canadian .ss Department of the Interior. " • James A. Macls4all Whistler, artist; James Monroe, sTatesmau; Matthew Fontaine Maury, scientist; and Walt -Whitman, poet, have just been elected to the American Hall of Fame. Wil- liam Fenn. ran closely behind the leaders. November 23. Lesson VIII—The Rich Young Ruler (Refusing a Life of Sacrificial Service)—Mark 10: 17-27. Golden Text—And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Luke 9: 23. ANALYSIS I. REFUSING THE CALL TO SERVICE, vs. 17-22. II. THE HARDSHIP OP THE RICH, vs. 23 27. Finds Bees Equipped With Radio Sets Swiss Scientist Learns How the Insects Communicate with Their Hives Genevea—A Swiss scientist, Dr. Leueuberger, has discovered that bees possess in their bodies a 'natural wireless set' with which they com. municate with their hives. During his experiments Dr. Lieuenberger placed In his garden a saucer of anal's(' water near a hive, but had to wait many hours before a bee arrived for a drink. As the insect was drinking, the Swiss scientist marked a yellow spot on its back and then watched its movements. "After some time," he said, "the bee flew back to the hive and en- circled it seyeral hundred times, eva dently trying to show its companions that it had discovered a mine of nec- tar and wanted theat to enjoy it, but they took no notice. "Then the bee flew back to the saucer and sent out wireless calls, "Between the two last rings of its stomach a brilliant, humid light ap- pears when the insect wills it. This light is different in every hive. As soon as the bee sent out its message of wireless light hundreds of bees flew to the spot in a few minutes to enjoy the feast. "About fifty years ago naturalists. discovered that the bee possessed a perfume gland the use of which they could not explain. The perfume dif- fers in every hive and each. hive has its own wave length," HO, fbr the new adventure begun, With "release from the bough! There is wind, there is sun: There is hope that builds already for spring. Who forever would dutch and cling Even upon one beautiful tree? Now, little lingerers, now you. are free! Free to flutter and float and fly, Each to be quiet at last, and lie In a gentle sleep under snow, under rain, Till spring shall rouse you over again; Ont of your dust in the fragrant mould, Mingled with essences manifold, Sap and strength from a quenchless Source, Life and love for an endless course. Dry leaves, old leaves, tired but glad, Who should be frightened, who be sad? Off for renascence, none knows how,. Perhaps to bud on a fairer bough, Not a single green leaf, by a Rose instead. No leaves are dead. which had come to them through the teaching of prophets and wise men of the past. Their laws were based upon the ancient laws of Moses. They look- ed for a golden age of justice and universal peace under the rule of a great King and Saviour of David's line. This King, some of their teach- ers held, would be himself divine, exalted to the very throne of God and only those would enter hiS kingdom who kept the,lawa of God and lived upright lives. To have eternal life was to be fit and qualified for admis- sion to that kingdom, and therefore to triumph over death and all its terrors. The question which the rich young ruler asked was of the.highest import- ance to him and it is evident that he was not entirely satisfied with the answers which he had previously re- ceived from his teachers. What Jesus meant by his answering question, "Why callest thou me good?" is not clear. Matthew gives it in a different form, "Why asketh thou me concerning that which is good?" Jesus may have seen in this form of address an effort of the questioner to pay him a compliment, nd may li2.ve desired to turn his thoughts from the opinions of teachers. however good or great, .fda the demands of God And, therefore, he refers the questioner to "the com- nrand..,..911 -good- Jaws. lieved to be the laws of God. The young man's answer is no doubt hon- est. He has observed all these laws from his youth and yet is not satis- fied. He asks, "What lack I yet?" Matt. 19: 20. Thereis an interesting expansion uf the words of Jesus in an ancient writ- ing, the so-called "Gospel of the Naz- arenes." "How sayest thou, `I have kept the law and the prophets?' •HONV does it stand written in the law? `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- self;' and see, many of thy brethren are covered with filth and dying of hunger while thy house is 2 nil of good things, and nothing at all goes out from it to them." There was evidently much good in this young man, and "Jesus looking upon him loved him." Jesus must have seen that -nothing but a life of service to his fellow men would satisfy that deep soul hunger which had prompted his question. He called him to such a life, his, ;wealth given to feed the poor and he himself one of the dis- ciples and fpllowers .of Jesus. • "But his countenance fell a's the saying, and he went away sorrowful. II. TH'E'HARDSHIP OF THE RICH, vs. 28 27. The possession of great wealth was more to, this young ruler than the call of God. One is tempted to say, "The poor rich .man." We often speak of 'thShardships of the poor. Jesus says, "How hardly • shall they that have riches" ,get the best things in life, "enter into the 7cingdoin of God!" It is hard, not f•ta• the rich, but "for them that trust in riches." INTRODUCTION --The lesson raises the question of the attitude of Jesus to wealth. Did he regard wealth as a curse rather than a blessing? Did he think it wrong for a man to accumul- ate wealth? The answer to such ques- tions ca' only be found by a careful reading of the whole gospel narrative. Jesus' own folk,.the family of Nab- areth, were not rialas -but' apparent -1Y. people of moderate means. It wouldse . also that his disciples were of the same class. But when he entered upon his ministry he seems to have made no distinction between the rich and the poor. He listens:to-the peti- tion of the rich ruler and of the cen- turion and helps them in their need as readily as to the poor and the outcast. He sees clearl; the temptations of wealth to selfish living, but does not 'anywhere condemn the possession of it. He commends the servant who renders faithful service to his 'lord. That man, he declares, is foolish who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. If love of riches srevents a man from rendering the best service of which he is capable to his fellow men then it becomes to him a curse, It is not the having or not having of worldly goods thatais in the mind of Jesus a matter of importance, but the goodthat he can do. In one never-to-be4orgottei. sentence he makes his mind clear on this subject when he says, "A man's lifa consisteth nrt in the abundance of the things \‘..lich he possesseth," Luke 12: 15. Jesus would therefore have men put the pursuit of wealth 'in its proper place, not first, but second, and stib- ordinate to the real and infinitely pre- cious things of the kingdom of God. I. REFUSING THE CALL TO SERVICE, vS. 17-22. •• It was, according to Luke (18: 18- 30), "a certain ruler" who came to Jesus with the question,"Good Mas- ter, what shall I do that may inherit eternal life?" No doubt he was a man of some intelligence, well brought up and educated according to the customs, ideas and manners of his time. The Jews had a great ; inheritance in the history and literature of a thousand years, and in the high conceptions of Cleaning the Oil Range The energy spent in renovating an oil range is well repaid. I remove all screws which hold the burners in place and put them in a baking -pow- der can. These, with the burners, 'cores, chimneys and the pipe through which the oil flows, are 'immersed in strongly lye water overnight. In the morning the sediment in the fittings will be sufficiently softened to permit thorough cleaning. The pipe is cleaned by loosening the sediment with a long stiff wire, rinsing well with lye water. Lastly, hook the wire on a stout piece of cloth and draw through the pipe and repeat until the cloth comes out clean. That part of the burner in which the wick fits needs special eare. A long knife or anything that will reach. the bottom of the burner should be used. Scrape well and turn the burner upside down and tap the sides carefully so as not to make any dents. Large pieces of sedimeats will fall out. • Rinse out well with kerosene to i•e- move all particles of sediment. Very often when a new wick has been in- serted It is impossible when through with the fire to turn the wick low enough to extinguish the flame.. At such. a time you may be very certain that the burner contains a great deal of sediment and needs cleaning. All corrosion should be scraped from the cores. It this corrosion of the cora which causes most of the smoking and weak blaze, justice, righteousness and clean iv g MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER MAY HAVE MI rAULTS tift. \MFG AWACS S • t Ma • CotaISC lEfalTIOu MLITT, T skis DAY LI QM's FAN)Iti4a IS GRcAT laTtif stto "'tie cocl< HAVE Beeo sti.vg) Awe,- oNEY' • Hou; CP ial Rlaat• 6ocF TILL ,HArCA'GRT, ' GAS' Real World -Beaters Near Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, is a dam which is the biggest in Europe. Begun. nine years ago by the Brad- ford Corporation, it is now practically complete. Its purpose is to trap the waters of the Nidd and form a lake which will supply an area of 120 square miles with water. While this dam sets up a European record, it isn't a world-beater. .A surprising number of world records- howeVer, are held by Europe. England, for instance, can boast the world's biggest city. Belgium has the most complete railway system. There are more miles of railway line in pro: portion to area in Belgium than any- where else in the world. France boasts of possessing the world's largest wireless station, at St. Assise; its most powerful searchlight, at Mont Valerian, outside Paris; and its biggest airport, at Le Bourget. But Demark has the amazing record of all. Forty-seven out of every hun- dred -Danish families have wireless sets. Even America can't beat that— in the States the proportion is only forty-three. So the Danes an claim to be the world's champion wireless! enthusiasts. . • It requires the same kind of think- ing to make hard times and soft nuascles.. ..&(45607 "When the Stock nationality." Why countries pick their • a girl. only speculates abkt market it's because of het don't those South American ask The Literary Digest to Presidents for them? To Protect Polished Wood Glue soft wool cloth to the bottom of jardinieres, for no matter how smooth they feel they are sure to mark the table sooner or later. If a flowerpot and saucer are used, glue cloth to the ottoin of the saucer and. 'cover the inside with melted para- ffin, which will prevent moisture Min seeping through. Narrow strips of wool cloth glued to the bottom of rockers, anal small pieces to fit the bottoms of legs of straight chairs win! do much toward keeping polished floors in perfect condition. Sweet Apple Pickles Six pounds of sweet apples, peeled and cored, Stick two whole cloves iu each piece. Make a syrup of 3 pounds of sugar and 1 pint of vinegarj Drop in pieces of apple and 'cook -audit tender, thea pack in cans. When all) the apples are cooked boil the remain-, ing syrup five minutes, turn it over the apples in the cans and seal While, tot. Pears and peaches may be. 'alone in the same way. ss By the way, Barrie, who first made ' e real start in newspaper work on Nottingham Journal," was oncti .fcgked. for a recipe for. the production' of an editorial. Here is what he wrote: 2 pipes equal 1 hour, 2 hours equal 1 idea, 1 idea equals 3 paraj graphs, 3 paragraphs equal 1 editorial) Mutt Adopts Daylight Saving. 7 .IAH 4:toADN 1 TPV:ri. OTU / IZ s 'p i 'uNci.e, LAT MG Do 'You Dta'aft,,i6kit -SAYiNG ,• , ' ;<> HAVe tqw rridt.'cor4Fostm loom ,, i Mutr? 11444,11.1.1-_‘:\‘\.‘10I•-•.,''''..:,-"----'./ ." •oull .. TtMet 4 , • '',/". _.,,•• FIV . . 1-.1 : •••'" ''"-- f • '1IRYTaii1/4,3; 41011,, 21 4