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Zurich Herald, 1931-06-11, Page 3eett Lome ads ey A ANN BAST ivw►:" "Keep close to du y. Never mind touch noses sometimes. That s some - the future if you only have peace of thing like our kisses, I suppose.. mind. Be what yon ought to be; the rest is God's affair" Handicaps It does us good to read biographies of successful men and women and learn there that they had to contend with great handicaps but conquered them. We find very often the. handi- cap was the cause of their success, Not one a us is free from handicaps which appear to impede progress. We struggle with disease, even sometimes deformity. We wrestle with doubts and fears:, over -sensitiveness, feelings of inferiority and all sorts of disabili- ties, For encouragement read about the man or woman who has achieved things. We find in every case the life was difacult, not always in keeping the wolf from the door, but in .material- izing his vision. Nothing is worth having that is easy of attainment. To know this gives one courage to keep on and teaches us to overcome our handicaps. Some years ago a mau was a victim of ea gasoline explosion which cost him his eyesight. Like men in the full vigor of life he did not anticipate auy such handicap and had made no if Mamma Lady and Billy hadn't loved provision for the future. His lack- them and given them such good care. You see they began to have pretty good times together. You remember, don't you, about the time Rover chased Fluffy up a tree when she was a little kitty? And Mamma Lady bad to pun- ish Rover for doing it. You remember about that, I'm sure. Well, Fluffy soon found out that she could climb trees almost as fast as a squirrel and she also found out that Rover couldn't climb at all, so she had lots of fun teasing him if she was feellu.g funny, for she'd run in. front of him, real fast, right under his nose, to get him started, then dart up a tree. Then he'd stand under the tree and look at her and bark at her. But as soon as he looked away at something else she came down just far enough to reach him and then she'd stretch out and catch the fur on his back with her paw. He'd turn around quickly, but she was always too quick for him and back she'd run up the tree again. You see she was laughing at him. Yes, they began to have pretty good times together. Rover thought Fluffy a real nice kitty, worth taking care of. Of course, you know neither Rover or Fluffy would have been nearly so nice ness of despair was more intense than the blackness of his sight. The years stretched out impossible. But in this day and generation there is a way out. Twenty years ago it would have been a real tragedy, but thanks to science, which has thrown a helping hand, no handicap need floor one now if he possesses the courage to face the future with con- fidence. This patient overcame his despond- ency when attention was centred on this man's cense of touch, Within a few weeks he learned to distinguish between various degrees of smooth- ness of sand when rolled between the thumb and forefinger. Ho began to Practice with flour and became au ex- pert flour grader by sampling it through his sense of touch. He regained his feet financially, paid his debts and earned five times what he had previously received. He felt proud of himself and happy in overcoming his handicap. Why could he do this? Because of thenC e ri i l p p of compensation, It came to •bis rescue. Take away one sense and others Sourish, We have Robert Schumnian, the musician who, while practising on the piano permanently injured his right hand so he could make no more ap- pearances in public, Again the law of compensation came in. It stimu- lated his creative faculties and he has composed many of our finest compo- sitions. As a lad, Theodore Roosevelt was handicapped by a frail. body. Admir- log physical strengah, he proceeded to develop it by living on a ranch, He rode, bored, lived in the open, until eventually he became strong in body. He gained through perseverance, not only strength of body but strength of mina, will and character and accom- plished great things in his day. So it is not by any means just being a genius that has sent people far ahead of us on the road to achieve- ment, but rather a dogged persever- ance that would never allow them to give up. TWILIGHT HOUR STORY Chicks and Other Little Friends NO. 23 Well, we haven't found Fluffy yet. Do you know, even Rover was begin- ning to feel lonely without Fluffy. Anyway, he went around poking his nose into corners and looking around everywhere for her. Perhaps you can hardly believe It, but really and truly, Rover was growing to like Fluffy. Auyway, she often walked right under his nose now, and alt he would do was to prick up his ears and look at her and, mind you, I've even seen then. MAINNITMOIRIMI You see if Mamma Lady didn't take such good care of Billy and laugh at his jokes and funny ways he wouldn't be nearly as nice a little boy as he is. Love and care made Billy a fine, beautiful boy, and it is just the same with our pets, If we love them and care for them they grow so very cute and make great playmates, dou't you think so? But where in the world has Fluffy gone? Topsy, too, is calling around for her kitties. Wasn't it too bad the little one left for her should get run over? Topsy even came in the house to Mamma Lady, hunting -her baby. She stood up on her hind legs and caught a hold. of her dress, so Mamma Lady would look at her, then anxiously said, "Meow, meow, where is my baby?" Then she went to Billy and did the same thing. Oh, wasn't it too bad? Mamma Lady held her up and stroked her and then even let her sit in Fluf- fy's chair, which made her feel a little better and not so lonely. "I guess Billy we'll have_ to find .a little kitty for'Topsy.c' "But where will we get one, Mam- ma " asked Billy anxiously, "I don't know, dear. We'll wait a day or so and perhaps something will turn up. We'll let Topsy stay here. She seems more contented, doesn't she? See she'.s curled herself up and has gone to sleep?" New Measures To Catch Criminals London.—Plain clothes mobile po• lice are to be a new terror for the thief in the car. This is to be the outcome of one of several conferences between Lord Byng and the "Big Five" at Scotland Yard to deal with the problem of the car thief. For a fortnight in the near future about one-third of the uniform police on duty at night are to be on patrol in plain clothes. Their duty will he chiefly to keep a close watch upon all the shop centres in each division. Some will also be detailed to watch bridges and narrow portions of the highway in order to put a barricade across the road as soon as a raid has been signalled. Twenty-five per cent. of the mobile police will be disguised as ordinary motorists and they are not to deal with motoring offences but with critu- inals. If the scheme proves to be success- ful during its period of trial it will be made a permanent routine. "Liberalism is a state of mind -- progressivism is a state of politics." —Herbert Bayard Swope. MUTT AND JEFF -- 1/41C. -.FF, tkle'P_E'S A GUY vie ovGi2-Laol<eD IN ThcE– ccNsuS4 tT`S stupwRECtc t<GLLY TV1C r PA6POLE. insikABNiANTv —By BUD FISHER. N w York Is Wearing By ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON X ltiNstratc d Dressmaking Lesson pd4x- nislied With. Every Pattern Enhance your charm by wearing flattering jacket costumes. It is a season of jackets! The one sketched is in. the soft green printed crepe in combination with plain green silk crepe that matches the ground. The skirt shows slenderizing line in pointed hip yoke treatment. The jacket is in popular hip length. Style No. 3436 comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 4 yards of 39 -inch figured with 1% yards of 39 -inch plain material. Navy blue flat crepe silk with white eyelet embroidered batiste is exceed- ingly youthful. - Brown flat crepe silk with white IS ever so smart and wearable. , Wool jersey, tweed ..;At cls: *, ►g also s ie f " 4elln1 tii'fl lf+cirlg model.' HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of sir i patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. "The (xr.ayloees must have suf- fered some heavy financial re- verses." "Why do you think so?" "Mrs. Greylock has to my knowledge worn the same gown to three separate and distinct afternoon functions.". The village of Crawley, Hampshire, which Thackeray described in "Vanity Fair," calling it' "Queen's Crawley," has lately come up for sale, Thackeray often stayed in the village. DO 'YOU LIVE; ciCRC ALowe ' lime `Poo A 'RAW() RAT is YOUR LAUNDRY / MARKT 'Do YOU SAVE StNGt Mow Do ',too LIKE ',tout?. unday School Lesson Jie ,21, Lesson XII—The Sin of e jetting Others to Stumble (Tem- f prrance Lesson)—Romans 14: 13- 23, Golden Text --It is good { eelther to eat flesh; nor to drink. ;wine, nor to do anything whereby I thy brother stumbleth,—Romans • .14: 21. ANALYSIS -.1: ra0814MS 01P THE EARLY CIWRCH, I, ,;, Romans 14: 13-15. Thj CHRISTIAN STANDARDS, Romans 14: ,+' 16-23. X. PROBLEMS OF TIME EARLY CHURCH, Romans 14: 13-15. Many difficult food questions arose inn` the early Church, in particular the following two. The Christian who had Jaen brought up a Jew had been taught from his childhood as the Law Of- God that he should only eat "kosh- Vf" meat, that is, .neat from an ani - real which had peen killed in* a par- ticular way. Gentile Christians na- turally had no such scruples. What, then, was to be done at Church meals and at dinner parties +,o which Gentile Christians invited Jewish Christians? Was the Jewish Christian to be made to eat meat which he would instinc- tvely. ; regard as unclean and disgust- ilig, 'or was the Gentile Christian to peovide only "kosher" meat, and, if ao, what became ',f Paul's principle that the . Law was not binding on Qlurlstians? .; The second problem arose in this v ay. In a heathen city, such as Rome or Corinth, much or most of the meat offered in the market place or in the Watchers' shops was taken from beasts that had been sacrificed in. heathen t'eir.ples to heathen gods; certain parts had been retained in the temples and Ville rest was sent out to be sold. Much of the meat publicly sold, then, had iieen dedicated to some heathen god, and some Christians felt that it was, therefore, contaminated by heathen- ism, and no Christian should touch it. Were Christians, then, to refuse to buy meat in the market and to refuse all invitations to dinner unless they were given satisfactory assurance that the meat set before them had never had the faintest connection with a heathen rite? Or, again, if a Christian was invited to dinner at the house of a non-Christian friend, and if the non-Christian host were to pour but the first glass of wine as a liba- tion or offering to his god (much as a Christian host might "say grace"), as the Christian guest to refuse to ouch it III. CHRISTIAN STANDARDS, Romans 14: I. 16-23, _ Such practical problems as these ?r ( of eaten has in mind in his a,--fc> ft soften has in mind in his ra, eraea eit• `" esea speee ..tie', all -PauLh- les �, .hese s cr x.,nw.aa..1 down the fundamental principle oe Christian freedom, A Christian should be ;r:-e•from petty scruples and super- sti'iious fears. But there are "weak" brethren, very leer to Christ, though they seemed rather contemptible to some of their :eliow-Christians, who could not, with a good conscience, eat meat or drink wine, unless they were assured about it. Paul tells the stronger brethren that they are not to despise the weaker nor to laugh at them, Their scrapies may be foolish, but still it is, after all,a matter of conscience with hem, and .nen must, at all costs, be loyal to conscience. On the principle of the Christian man's freedom in respect of food and drink, Paul is dear (v. 14), but we are not to despise or laugh at those who differ from us, T. 13. It is good to be free, but t is much more im- portant not to make things harder for your brother, 'ot to make him sin (v. 15), for, feeling as he does, these things would be sin to him, v. 14, It is good to be free (v. 16), but, after all, matters of eating and drinking are of very- secondary importance. It is the Christian character and the Christian fellowship which really .natter. You e'n surely compromise for the sake of the weaker brother in these affairs of the table, v. 17, Yet, unimportant as these matters really are, you may be destroying tho woke of God if you in.;iat on your freedom without respect for other men's con- sciences, v. 20. Better never to eat ,neat or drink wine at all, than lo hurt your brother's conscience. It is not likely that the,.e were actually any vegetarians or total abstainers in the Roman Church, but Paul is taking an extreme instance, v. 21. Happy is the man who is able to follow the dcc- tates of his reason with a good con- science (v. 22), but remember that for turnto Stage Lady Lindsay Hogg, wife of Sir Anthony Lindsay Hogg, better known as iV11ss Frances Doble, Canadian actress who sprang to fame as leading lady in "Young Woodley", returns to stage after temporary retirement to play leading role in. "The Old Man." The Fur Industry In Western Canada Although fur -bearing animals trap., ped in their native habitats continua to supply the greater part pf milady's furs, there is a constantly increasing' volume coming from fur -bearing ani- mals in captivity, says a bulletin from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, "Canada, which for generations hat been one of the principal sources of supply for furs of a wide variety," says the bulletin, "and still continues , to be, has been one of the principal sources of supply for Curs of a wide variety, and still continues to be, has in recent years been augmenting the catches of trappers and hunters with the products of fur farms. The fur - farming industry is followed on a commercial scale in each of the nine provinces and in the Yukon Territory. In the past few years the industry in Western Canada has grown until it is now a substantial one, Official sta- stistics recently issued show that the total value of fur farms in IVfauitdba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Col- umbia and the Yukon Territory am- ounts to $8,677,142, an increase of $2,- 860,000 in one year. The total num- ber of fur farms is 999, of which 572 are fox farms, 249 mink farms, 108 muskrat farms and 70 raise raccoons, martens, fishers, badgers, skunks, beavers, etc. Manitoba is the princi- pal centre of the industry in Western Canada, with British Columbia next. Alberta third and Saskatchewan fourth. The value of animals on the 999 farms last year was estimated at $5,450,000 of which silver foxes alone accounted for over $3,437,000. An in- teresting feature of the report is that the value of the muskrat population on the 108 farms increased in one year from $113,710 to $629,212, or over 450 per cent. the scrupulous, weaker brethren these things which you can do with a good conscience are really siii, for anything is sin which we do without having a happy conscience about it. In this passage, then, Paul is not directly dealing with what is called today the "Temperance Problem," but he lays down principles of Christian conduct which have their application to problems altogether beyond his hor- izon. Three important principles seem tp arise from the present discussion: first, the Christian man is free to eat or drink what .he likes. Second, that h is bound to respect the consciences of any fellow -Christians who differ from him in this matter, and, third, that our object in life must be, not to flaunt our freedom, but to do whatever is "edifying" to Jur brethren or, as we might say, socially serviceable. Imaginary Zeppelins Fly North Atlantic 500 Times Ithaca, N.Y.—The logs of two imag- inary niabinary Zeppelins which have flown the north Atlantic "successfully" nearly 500 times in a Dayton, Ohio, labora- tory, were recently described to the Cornell University College of Engin- eering. The flights have been made weekly the five years and the charts show that there has not been a single week in that period when a lighter -than -air shipla "ould oriel Edward noi t $wAave maeueax dse, tho e_ paascs�atogne., . chairman of the board of the National Cash Register Company, who spoke as a non-resident lecturer in engineering. He said the flights were plotted in the laboratory of the International Zeppe- lin Transportation Company. Each week end a Zeppelin took off theoretically from Paris and New York, their respective destinations the other end of the Lindbergh trail. Their chances of getting through were pitted against the government weather re- ports and their courses shifted to find the loopholes through storm belts, No ship ever was delayed more than twenty-four hours in reaching either metropolis. "The studies show," said Colonel Deeds, "that the flights are entirely feasible from an engineering stand- point." Women Radio Announcers Rade the Air in Italy Although Premier Mussolini is known to be somewhat like the ex- I{aiser in. holding women's sphere to be bounded by the limits of kitchen, nursery and church, one occupation connected with public life is complete- ly dominated by the slaughters of sunny Italy. All of the eleven pro- fessional radio announcers in the king- dom are women, There are three in Rome, three in Turin, two in Milan and ono each in Naples, Genoa and Bologna. Deau of the announcers is Signorina Maria Luisa Boncompagni of Rome, who has been at her post in the capital for six and one-half years. The Napoleon's Chess Set is On View Prague.—A remarkable set of chess- men which nearly changed the course of history is to be shown at a Na- poleonic exhibition at Austerlitz, in Czechoslovakia. The chessmen are hollow and con-, tain detailed directions for Napoleon's escape from St. Helena. Napoleon's friends sent them in charge of a British officer who was killed by a falling spar during a storm at sea on the way, so that the ex -Em- peror never knew the secret contained in the chess pieces with which he was playing. After his death the Empress Marie Louise attempted many times to send these chessmen as a souvenir to Na- poleon's son, the Duke of Reichstadt (Rostand's L'Aig'lon), who had been brought up at the Imperial Court -in. father's place in history. Whet at last a reliable messenger was found he arrived in Vienna just, after L'Aiglon's death. The set fin-, ally passed into the possession of Prin- cess Paleologue who has lent it to the exhibition. i eiae,; 1-,i:a:l iiavo to give up eridge.' "Really? Wasn't the game worth the scandal?" Artificialeyes are now so perfect that the pupils even contract and dilate as the natural eye would. "Oh, John," sobbed the young wife, "I had baked a lovely cake, and I put it on the back porch for the frosting to cool, and the d -d -dog a -a -ate it." "Well, don't cry about it, sweetheart," he consoled, patting the pretty flushed cheek. "I know a man who will give us another dog." Pa�verf. ax. eseerraemereseeeesee Cens's.s Loses An Ea3:.a?nerator. S Mit MiI 1 P Y*U"V' ls`!iCal Ula TPmtke mttR-rtmiRe • SAYS t1/4100Jf tem IN aro srm ti4:RG- FaR .v i ' flu s TiNke A Ha-ret- e,\mtA Gmfd. i\Ae. AN OUTSIDE