Zurich Herald, 1931-10-15, Page 6•
The Little Mountain Giti
I recall walking one suudown on an
old upland road that ran over the edge
of a long -deserted mountain orchard.
It was a place I was very fond of
partly because of the fine view to
be had there of the far -shining valley;
partly because of its solitude; partly
because of the manner in which, from
the coign of vantage, the watcher can
see how the stars march up the great
dome of heaven, as If they 'were an-
gels in procession, carrying tapers,
joyously climbing a•mighty hill, I
reached the acture just at the right
moment. The dark -blue flower of tail-
light was opening wide. The sky
showed lilac lanes, wan gulfs, sea
breakers of misty red.
In that high pasture I thought my-
self alone; but presently, as I sat on
the roots of a gnarled and anoient ap-
ple tree, two cows with tinkling bells
carie by. They were followed by a
tiny mountain girl, not more than five
years old.• I knew her well, but I
hardly had expected to see her so far
away from home at such an hour. She
recognized me at once and stopped to
talk with me; and the cows., no longer
urged, buried their broad noses iu the
dewy grasses of the hilltop,
"What you doin' out Dere so late?"
she asked, 'with womanly directness.
She, of course, had her work to do;
but why should I be loafing around?
"I like to watch the stars come out,"
Itold her, "and I like to see the val-
ley down yonder in the mist,"
"Do you like them things too?" she
asked, in a tone more kindly than that
in which her initial question had been
put, "I nearly allus stops here when
it ain't rainin'. I don't get lonely when
the stars come out."
"Why do you love to watch the
stars?" I asked my tiny comrade.
"I talk with them," said the child.
"And they ;fights m;, hone."
In a moment she was gone over the
fading hill, leaving me with another
treasured memory about solitude. And
I never look at the spangled heavens
without recalling what that baby said
of the stars—"They lights me home."
Archibald Rutledge, in "Peace in the
Heart."
Nomads of the Sky
lorikeets nearby. Just as soon as the
flowering is over in one district, they
move on to another where the trees
(Animal Life) , are blooming, and in that i°vay they
Just as the nomad savage wanders wander throughout the country, breed -
to and fro about his wilderness, mak- ing in favorable localities when spring
ing his camp here one day, miles comes upon them.
away the next, according to the ever- •• Migrant birds form a stream likea
fluctuating supply of the bare neves- tide that is always ebbing and flow -
titles of life, so do certain birds pass ing. Only for a few weeks in the year,
the greater part of their existence in when some are nesting, is there a
moving around. Few birds are really period of "slack water" before the
stationery during the year; in fact, it turn. Birds are not only leaving for
is rather the exception for a species and arriving from countries on the
to be absolutely sedentary. Many, if other side of the world, but are mov-
not all, young birds are great wander- ing from one state to another, and
ers, being driven from their birthplace throughout the four seasons move -
by parents or deserting it voluntarily ments of one kind or another are tak-
as soon as parental care becomes un- ing place. Nevertheless, we see little
necessary. enough of migration actually in pro-
• In the autumn, when quarrels and gress, and the ordinary man in the
bad friendships associated with mat- country might never suspect its exist-
ence were it not for the complete ab-
sence of some species at certain sea-
ing and nesting in the previous spring
and summer are forgotten, many birds
become gregarious, and forming into sons ,or the periodical variations in
companies, both large and small, un- the numbers of others. Migration
dertake roving movements throughout
the country—and even the world—to
suit their feeding. Bush -cats, larks
and parrots are among these nomads
of the bird world.
Either as nomads or migrants, the flocks may be heard overhead on a
chats cover a great area of Australia still night, even from city streets and
in the course of a year, and they con- to the lighthouses round the coasts
sume enormous quantities of insects. great numbers of migrants are often
One spring I made a rough calculation attracted, under certain atmospheric
of the number of insects consumed by conditions, by the blinding glare of the
twelve families of hush -chats nesting lanterns, when many dash themselves
in the radius of an acre at the edge of to death against the glass.
a tidal marsh. There was an average The movements of the nomads of
of three young in each nest, and a the avian world represent incipient
conservative estimate made between migration in the past, -which never de
the time the young were hatched and veloped in the species of their ancest
whenthey hadleft the nest, revealed ors to any greater •extent than that we
that those 36 young birds accounted now witness.
for no fewer than 36,000 grubs andin
sects. It was impossible, of course, Scots View First
to estimate the number consumed by
the parent birds.
Beauty of plumage and definite in-
dividuality mark the fev families of
chats in Australia. In point of colora-
tion the crimson chat surpasses both
the handsome little orange -plumaged here on Sept. 5.
chat and the common black and white The circus consisted of eight ma -
member of the order. It is without chines, including Captain Barnard's
one of the dazzlingly beauti- 12 -seater Spider, an autogyro, and a
fel birds of Australia. The forehead, French Pot which was making its
crown, breast,, and upper tail feathers first visit to Scotland. In addition
are a brilliant crimson, while the
throat is white and the back brown—
a veritable gem in the outback bush
lands. The chats are unique Austral -
takes place very largely at night, even
in the case of birds which are not or-
dinarily nocturnal, and for this reason
usually escapes notice. Sometimes,
however, the cries of the travelling
"Air Circus"
Renfrew, Scot.-Scrtland had its
first opportunity to see an "air'cir-
cue recently when Capt. C. D. Bar-
nard, British pilot, led an aerial
pageant at Moorpark Aerodrome.
to the aerial acrobatics and other
carnival features, Mr. J. A. Mollison,
who recently made a record flight
from Australia to England, gave ex
ran forms. They belong exclusively hibition flights and practical lessons
to this part of the world, having no in aviation.
relation to the whinchat and the stone-
chat of Great Britain. They go about
in flocks, and are most partial to moist Chinese Aviatrix Gets
localities, such as river valleys and
tidal marshes, and most frequently Nanking—Miss Wang Iiwei-fen, the
the dry»saltbush country in the in- first Chinese young woman to receive
terior, while, as its name would infer, an American airplane pilot's license,
the "desert chat," or gibber -bird, lives
in the more or less arid areas in the
north of South. Australia, the west of
New South. Wales, and the country
around Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens,
All of them make their nests quite
close to the ground, usually in tufts of
grass, rushes, or briar bushes, and
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sometimes near the roots of tall
thistles.
Many birds de, ire the company of
their fellows in winter, and it is cus-
tomary to see large flocks of different
kinds feeding in field and forest. The
gregarious nature of the red -breasted
robins forces itself upon our notice a
little time after the birds have finish-
ed nesting, but this flocking habit is
witnessed at its best in autumn, when
the birds form into companies and un-
dertake a well-defined migration from
highlands to lowlands to escape the
rigors of winter. Often the males
keep to themselves, and there is troth-
ing prettier than a flock of these
sprightly and gaily -colored little crea-
tures moving across the open lands,
flying from one stone to another, then
to the ground, and to another stone or
a fence, and so on, feeding as they go.
City parks and suburban gardens are
frequently visited by these dainty win-
ter migrants,
Probably the best example of no -
Iliadic migration are afforded by par-
rots and Iorikeets. Their movements,
like those of the chats and robins, aro
purely In truest of food, and as this, in,
the case of the lorikeet, is found in
the flowers of the eucalyptus, we find
"the birds following up the irregular
flowering of tho±tree$. ,When the bloc -
°ming of the handsome crimson -flow..
tired eUCal t .us 'fn suburban: streets
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alld 40i 6219 stlmost assured of
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Official Appointment
has been given an executive post in
the aviation administration of the
Ministry of War. She returned re-
cently from New York University,
where she studied aviation and quali-
fied as a pilot. She intends to work
in Nanking only for one year, after
which she will go to Europe to study
technical aviation, hoping ,to assist
China to establish its own airplane
factories.
Ancient Village
Found in Shetland
Glasgow—A prehistoric village ex-
tending over several acres of shore
land has just come to light in the
island of Shetland off the north coast
of Scotland.
Excavations were begun earlier in
the summer and already relics have
been unearthed which point to a
Bronze Age survival. It is expect-
ed that it will be some five years
before excavating operations are
completed,
Aviation Laws Taught
Los Angeles -College students at
the University of Southern Cali•
forma are offered an opportunity to
study the laws of aviation in a new
court° which opened hero this fall.
The instruction offered .also includes
radio law.
Star of "Big Swim"
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aped Ronne
isr
Margaret Baylor, 'i'iiiner of ten
prize at Canadian National Exhibitioiz: 'I
secutive time, is escorted through •s
triumph as a part of elaborate pros
Life Dormant
Million Years
U. S. Scientist Declares at As-
sociation Gathering
Cleveland.—Dean Charles B. Lipman
of the University of California des
cribed to the Botanical Society of
America the nature of his experiment
that convinced him that it is possible
for life to remain dormant millions of
years.
The report, delivered before the bot-
anists'
otanists' meeting carried forward pre-
viously announced conclusions •bared
on the finding of living organisms:. in
the interior of anthracite coal from
deep mines in Wales and Pennsyl-
vania,
Belief of the California scientist that.
athon and $5,000 first
th, for the second con -
:Philadelphia, Pa., in
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For:
s Song in Autumn
enough roving In a world
miner skies;
fight be merry then, and
sore at heart,
and silver trnkets .for to
with laughing eyes,
`,gray donkey and a high-
ell cart
iglu be merry then—aye
s; I„have been.
dowt, the country when”
e' .starred with flowers,
voodiand singing, and all
eadowvs green,
lamplit window for to
his; evening hours.
r he'd walk with Wonder, but
ow 'els Sorrow old,
ft,[' taint 'voice that follows him,
,t'at.'goes with him along,
And a, •elta him on the. hillside, and
tx ai;hevalley's gold,
nd .tweet in, roadside gardens filled
with** autumn robin -song.
t
the organisms have been in the coal
since it was formed from rotting vege-
tation of coal -age swamps is founded
chiefly on unsuccessful attempts he
made to force such organisms into the:
coal.
In the grinding up of the coal and•
at all times in the experimental steps
he said, the samples were shielded
from contamination.
Dean Lipman said: "I believe it is
quite possible for a cell like a spore
to remain in a state of suspended ani -
/nation.
His studies warrant, he said, the be
lief the micro-organisms that he has
made to resume animated life and mitt-"
tiply •are descendants directly' fromi
cells "dormant in the anthracite from 1
•the time .of =its ,fn enation "..whitmoo- 'a
r h.a,..
logists calculate is from 15,000,000 to'
200,000,000 years.
to
'Tis &`a r but hire have , dwellings, over
4� 1�tli. shires,
Ove all of England, from sea to
'iuisty sea; "
And nten will come at twilight to
their own hearth's fires.
And mice will build their winter
nests beneath • the wild rose
tree.
Aye! 'tis well e..dugh roving when
the land,;isrbright,
A. p4idiii, might he merry then, be-
*, �fore.the swallow's flown,
iii.)t)11 a er, a lamplit 'window for. to
"Talkies" Used In
Court Evidence
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Melbourne, Vic.—A sound' • film,
specially recorded for the , purpose,
was recently admitted'., as evidence
in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
The case was one in which $500
damages was claimed by a Mel -
'bourne suburban resident for nui-
sance caused by noises in an adjoin
ing dairy. Before the hearing of
the case a sound film recording appa-
ratus was installed on the premises
of the claimant, and a' record made
of the dairy noises during the night.
The judge then visited the studio
and heard the talkie run .through,:'
Justice Lowe ordered the,. dairy
proprietor to refrain from using las-
bottling machine between 11. . p:ih.
and 7:30 a.nt., and to refrain :from
causing a nuisance between those
hours.
In Wales the maternal death -tate
has been, during the past forty years,
about forty per cent. higher than that
of England,
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secret?" Mabel --"Well, I kept it for
a week. What do you amt o think I a a
cold -storage ,oar . , w
Glider Flies 26 Miles
Rochester, N. Y. — Mr. Hawley
Bowlus, glider instructor at the ',Le-
roy Airport, recently flew from Le- mo
roy to Rochester, a distance of 26 •a,a
miles, in a motorless ship. for
ahaunt lam through the night,
one ' n the
e an
1 d d his little d k y o
n J
j I',dar_k road. alone.
--Ea ilis Maclar'e"it:,!n the Spectator.
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Salvaging of Treasure N
"Vilave' something serious to
'd love you, dearest."
that all? I've known that
e. I!"thought you were go-
lme that you had a job that
ort both of us."
wonder why we can't save
He -"The neighbors are al -
ng something we can't af-
Accomplished
For many months salvagers
been working to recover gold froirk
Biseay in 1922.. Final preparatidns v'rti
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Here is l:'ortun Sodini,n e k .
e e oto one of d y t
Rat 41 04 enter iu bell type apparatt
tan ship Artig'.io 1 ..:
Egypt sunk in 1>r.✓ o.
„tisk gold are under t•, -a;,•.
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Y h� "• arctic after a
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Canadian Apples "Short Hair"
Bought By France !Declares Paris
Ten Carloads Ordered to be Decision Reached at ' Recent
Sold in Vending , Hair Dressing
Machines Convention
Ottawa. — Automatic "coin-in•the- Paris. ---Women will wear their hair
Slot" . machines will be used for the short, with the ear lobes exposed, the
sale of apples in France, according to international Hair Dressing Congress
a report received from Paris by the decided recently, but many Paris ex -
Department of Trade and Commerce.' pests on the subject merely mumbled
One of the largest fruit importing "yes? maybe," and adopted a polioy of
firms in France has placed an initial watchful waiting.
order for ten carloads of apples with! The congress was pretty definitev jn
an approximate value of $18,000, and its conclusions, despite the fact thato4 Ul
is considering dealing -in the Canadian! short hair admittedly . handicaps dies' •:•
fruit exclusively. Two thousand ofithe; wearers of Empress Eugenie hats," al4,
s
automatic vending machinewill be gowns which , date back toward
placed throughout France, and the period when the consort of 'tbedhird
firm has also organized a series of pub -I Napoleon was galivanting around Eur-
lic auctions for the sale of Canadian can,
apples. Hercule Barre, Canadian
trade commissioner in France, work-
ing in conjunction with J. Forsyth
Smith, Canadian fruit trade commis -
The hair will be drawn hack from
the cheeks and waves or curls will ap-
pear low on the back of the head and
on the neck, the congress decreed.
sioner at London, was responsible for There were 24 nations represented in
the sale to the large French firm. the competition for the best style of
The exteat of the activities in de-
veloping the French market for Cana-
dian apples is realized when it is seen
that only 2,415 barrels of apples were
exported to France from the 1929 crop
while 28,261 barrels of last year's crop
found its way to that country. There
were practically no shipments of
Canadian apples to France previous
to the 1929 crop.
Crowds'
Berlin
hair dressing. The first prize went to
England, the second to Germany and
the third to France. The United
States was represented only in the
judges' box.
•Eugenie Hat Blamed
The Eugenie Hat style was general-
ly blamed for the quarrel, for the long-
hair style was more becoming in con-
nection with the new dress and hat
models. The short -hair advocates,
however, ' were ready to adopt other
styles for the winter.
Applaud French Film Several well-known exponents of
Berlin.—Twice every night, one long hair had been letting their locks
thousand men and women of Berlin grow for some months but they cut
it all off again at the last minute.
Some of them said they found short -
hair was much more convenient on va-
crowd one of the city's largest cine-
mas to applaud a film in which, with
very few exceptions, nothing but
French is spoken, writes a correspond- cations and at the beaches. They
ent of the Christian Science Monitor. said they would not worry about in -
Now, this may not seem strange in ability to wear the new hat styles with
any other country. But after all that
has happened between Germany and
France, such an incident is worthy of
note. It is not merely a slight con-
versation that is carried on in French.
On the contrary, one mass scene fol-
lows another, and French songs,
French cheers and the chattering of The word jazz was in use, however, in
French crowds sweep down from the New Orleans, where its origin has
short hair and many milliners support-
ed them.
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The Birth of Jazz
Strictly speaking there was no jazz
music before the World War. At
least, it was not known by that name.
screen and fill the vast auditorium,
The Germans scarcely understand a
word, but they do not mind. They
been traced, perhaps twenty years be.
fore the end of the Nineteenth cen
tory. But it was used in the verb
laugh and enjoy themselves like child- form and applied to a rudimentary
ren while they discover that the syncopated type of music as a cue to
French are subject to the same feel-
ings as they are, And when Georges
Milton, the chief actor in this French
film entitled Le Roi des Resquilleurs,
makes a final bow from the screen,
applause fills the hall. Leaving the
cinema one cannot help thinking that
in this instance, at least, the moving
picture is working for the rapproche-
ment of the people of the world.
World Shortage
of Soft Wood Predicted
Jerusalem—A world shortage of
softwood in' 15 years' time is pre-
dicted by Mr, Richard St. Barbe
Baker, founder of "The Men of the
Trees," who recently addressed a
meeting here, writes a correspondent
of the Chrstian Science Monitor,
In Palestine the Government
Forestry Department has done much
to conservu the trees, he said. The
Balfour Forest of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund was established out of
voluntary contributions.
The "Men of the Trees" in Pales- i
tine, he continued, are now end1eav-
oring to obtain concerted acton. Fi-
nancial support of some friends in
England and America has been en-
listed, while a present of 10,000,000
tree seeds was sent to the Girls'
Nurseries of the Federation .of Jew-
ish Labor by a Chicagoan.
"I see Jerusalem growing apace,"
Mr. St. Barbe Baker said. "Before it
is too late, open spaces for trees
should be provided."
3 %z -Ton Machine
Carried by Plane
• Perth, W. Aust.—A piece of ma-
chinery weighing 3 tons was re-
•cently carried by air '‘Over 25 miles
of bush to the gold fields in New
Guinea, according to Mr. 0. S. Lucas,
*ho has recently returned here from
•the island, writes -a correspondent
of. the Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. Lucas found that •the cost of
living in New Guinea was high,
bread being 2s. 6 d. a loaf, potatoes
1s, a.,pound, onions is, a pound, and
meat 5s. A pound of butter cost
48. 9d. and a dozen apples 7s. 9d.
Skilled Australian workers receive
approximately £25 a month. The
company has put a freezing plant in
operation for the employees and also
furnishes electric lighting.
C•tudy of Native Tongue
Urged in Scotland
Hawick, Scot. ---A proposal for the
inclusion of Scottish literature in the
1 school curriculum received the en-
thusiastic support of the Burns Fed-
eration at its annual conference held
here according to correspondent of
the Christian Science Monitor.
The means of realizing the plan
lay .almost wholly within the teach-
ers of Scotland, speakers pointed nut, .
since they are allowed a large meas•
ure of freedom in drawing up the
syllabus for literature. Meanwhile,
it was reported, good progress was
being made in the promotion of
I use of the vernacular.
speed it up, or to enliven it. Some
years later orchestras on the west
coast began developing this type of
music, and in 1914 a complete jazz or-
chestra composed of two saxophones,
cornet, trombone, violin, banjo, piano
and drums, played at Los Angeles. .A
year later this music, gained popularity
in Chicago and a banjoist and orches-
tra orgainizer there named" Bert Kelly
made an adjective out of jazzand call-
ed his own orchestra Bert Kelly's Jazz
band. This appears to be the first use
of the term "jazz band."
Dogs Deterioating
Veterinarian Declares
New York.—A back -to -nature move-
ment for dogs was urged by a .promin-
ent Park Avenue veterinarian who has
found that the canines of America are
being pampered and petted so much
that they are subject to fits of hysteria
and nervous break -down. Dogs, said
Dr. J. F. De Kiralki, can't stand the
pace of modern life. Owners feed
their dogs Russian caviar or oysters
tures to stand up and take it. "What
on the half shell and expect the crea-
those dogs need," said the doctor, "is
raw meat. A dog is naturally carni-
vorous. He'll degenerate into a regu-
lar pussy cat if he doesn't get it. And
Crepes Suzettes are not raw meat."
Last Course
An English business man was taken
out to lunch by a Scottish friend in
Glasgow.
"Now," said the host, as he called
the waiter, 'this is going to be a real
Scottish meal. We'll have cockie-
leekie soup, finnan hadies, a haunch
of version, sheep's head, jani roly-poly
with brandy sauce, and a bottle of
whisky, Now," he turned to his guest
"is there anything else you fancy?"
"Well," suggested the Englishman
in a feeble voice, "what about ordering
a couple of stretchers while you're
about it?"
Caution
The hotel manager was passing
down the passage one morning when -
he saw the Boots kneeling at one of
the bedroom doors cleaning a pair of
shoes.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Take them down to the basement at
once and clean them there."
"Impossible, sir," replied the Boots.
"there's a Scotch gentleman inside the
l,,om, and he's hanging on to the
laces."
The Tax Assessor—"Can you tell '
J what your husband is worth?"
Lady of House—"V don't know ---
but you can have him, for two. eelAte