Zurich Herald, 1932-12-29, Page 7INew Novel By
Irene Moody
Rview by John W. Garvin
itToted Canadian man sf letters, To-
ronto, from the October issue of the
Canadian Bookman.
ADelphine of the Eighties," by Irene
H. Moody. London, John Bale Daniel -
Boa Ltd. Book Craft 1o. Ltd., Toronto,
Canada. Sold by all booksellers in
Vancouver.- 252 pages.
"Irene .. Moody, who lives in Van-
couver, B.C., was born in Ontario and
educated at the Collegiate in St.
Thomas, and the scenes of this book
are laid in her native province with
London as a centre.
Mrs. Moody was chairman of the
Board of School Trustees in Vancou-
ver and has been president of the
B C. School Association. So far as I
know, this is her first book and it is
the initial volume of a proposed tri-
logy.
" 'Delphine of the Eighties' is
the most important novel of its kind
mince the publication in 1908 of 'Anne
of Green Gables.'
"The heroine is a girl, the only child
of Mn and Mrs. James Avery, the hus-
band an. Englishman and Um wife of
Frencl- descent, but both immigrants
from, the Ise a Guernsey.
"TwO faults, if faults they be. may
be found in the story, it stirs one's
feelings too frequently, and certain of
the characters appear too perfect. But
it is well to have ideal characters
placed before us occasionally in fic-
tion, lest we forget in this life of
struggle and misfortune to strive
to attain the ideal,
" 'Delphine of the Eighties' should
oe read and re -read by parents, guard -
ns and teachers—as the character of
ouch a child in the nands of the
thoughtless and selfish could so easily
;save been blighted and ruined. Del -
Rhine gripe the heart of the reader so
tightly that the next volume of the
erilogy will be looked for eagerly."
KEEPING THE PROMISE.
Mrs. Briggs had been attacked by
st. dog while out with her husband. To
Iter disgnst, Mr. Briggs had immedi-
ately taken to his heels, leaving his
wife to her fate.
"You're a coward!" she told him
lvhen she had made her escape. "Fancy
leaving me t., be bitten like that!
lirhy didn't you grab its collar?"
"Well, dear," pleaded Mr. Briggs,
'when we got married we agreed
tever to keep anything back from
kWh other, didn't we?"
Prince of Wales Has
Expert Knowledge of Tongues
Details of the Prince of WidestS
addres.,on the valve of a knowledge
of languages in promoting foreign
trade are :ontained in the English
newspapers. The Prince's remarks
Were made at Oxford where he spent
many happy hours visiting his old
college—Magdalen--and recalling his
undergraduate days. His visit was
for the purpose of inaugurating the
new extension of the Taylor Institu-
tion, centre of the study of modern
languages.
"I know from my own experience,"
he s.aid, "what a difference it makes
if you can speak to the foreigner in
his ovir tongue. Barriers seem to
fall, the ice is broken.
"Great mistakes and irreparable
harm may be done if negotiating
parties do not fully understand each
other's idiom. Not every word has
its exact equivalent in another lan-
guage, and often a mere shade of
accent or phrasing may alter the
whole sense.
"As a result of my travels my in-
terest in modern lanugages has grown
year ay year. I am glad to learn that
the School of Modern Languages
which, in my undergraduate days,
was still struggling for full recogni-
tion, is now one of the larger schools
in the university."
Recalling that it was his own col-
lege which had been the first to teach
modern languages, having appointed
Giovanni Florio, the translator of
Montaigne, in 1585, the Prince quoted
his dictum:
"I wish there were such a law that
any one who should bring up his chil-
dren without teaching them foreign
languages should be beheaded."
"Much as I believe in the value of
modern lanugage3," he continued,
amid laughter, "I am not prepared
to go so far. However, to learn a
new language is to have a new life
opened up to us, to know new people
and new modes vf thought."
Mexico Plans System
To Link All Highways
Mexico City.—Developmerg of a
highway program, which, when com-
pleted, will provide trunk lines con-
necting widely separated sections of
the country, has been •undertaken by
the government through the National
Highway Commission. Second routes
serving areas joined by trunk lines el -
so are under consideration.
The trunk highways planned are five
in number, with a total ' sngth of 5,062
miles. Subsidiary roads branching out
from the trunk lines will have a length
of about 4,784 miles, so that the total
system of national highways will ex-
tend approximately 9,846 miles.
The approved system of highways
will provide not only direct communi-
cation between all the states and ter-
ritories of the country, but also each
of the federal divisions ed. the main
highways of the United States and
Guatemala.
The federal government is co-oper-
ating etnle the various states in the
constuction of highways.
One highway which is receiving a
great share of attention is the one ex-
tending from Mexico City north to
Laredo. This route will form part of
the Pan-American Highway,
DVE-HARDS ,
A famous actress has declared that
she will never have a grey hair as
long as there is a chemist's shop do-
ing business,
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22—To engrave
24—Knowledge
25—Celebration
26—Surgical threatds
28—Fabrics
30—Mohammedan Lame
31—Beverage
32—Huts
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A Lift in the Spirit
By Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt
I think out of all these months of
hardship and sorrow there is going
to come one great good, namely, a
growtb of understanding andof inter-
est among all the women of the city
and nation in their sisters who work
for their daily bread. I feel in the
last few weeks a lift in the spirit of
the country, a new sense of hope.
Whether there is any tangible rea-
son for this hope or not, even though
we may not be able to put our finger
on any aPecitio thing, stilll am con-
fident that the mere feeling that lies
within us will bring better days for
ua all. But these days will not come
liaises each and every one of us has
learned a lesson from the hard days
tvo have been through.
The fire of true enthusiasm is like
pie fires of Baku, which no water
Dith ever queneli, and which burn
dioadily on from night to day, and
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Toledan Adventure
You have here a brown, warm
plain, studded with villages, donkeys,
olives and dome-shaped walls; from
this plain, without any warning, a
great granite rock thrusts itself, and
all the objects on it are squeezed to-
gether, one on top of the other; and
below in the chasm of brown rocks
flows the brown Tajo. -
So many periods and civilizations
enter the hard clutch of the Toledan
rock. And then, in one of the nar-
rowest streets, from the barred win-
dow of a human cage a bird's-eye
view of Toledo is revealed to you:
one single surge of flat roofs beneath
the blue sky; an Arab town, glisten-
ing in the brown rocks, gardens on
the roofs, and delightful, languorous
patios with an intimate and comely
life df their own.
But if I were to take you by the
hand and show you over everything
that was revealed to me in Toledo, I
suppose I should first lose my way
in those winding poverty-stricken
streets. Not that I should regret
that, for there too we should have
to keep clear of the donkeys, patter-
ing over the cobbles with their
nimble hoofs, we should see the open
patios and the majolica encounter
people. Perhaps here I should find
that Mudejar chapel, white and chilly-,
with its fine horse-shoe arches; a
little further on is a rock which falls
sheer into the Tajo, and opens out
a magnificent and austere vista; and
the synagogue del Transito, bestrewn
with fragile and curiously relined
Moorish ornamentation. . . If I were
to enter another age it would net be
another age; It would be only a be-
wilderingly fine and high adventure
lake Toledo, like the Spanish land.
—From "Letters from Spain," by
Karel Capek, Translated by Paul
Selver. (New York: Putnam.)
"If the power to do hard woTk is
not talent, It is the best possible sub-
stitute for it."—President Gaefield.
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Because each of us pauses at this
season to renew his expression of
Cheer and Goodwill, all Christendom
puts aside ,its work to do homage to
the Spirit of Chrietanae. Cease the
exchange of merry greetings and much
of the charm and potency of Christ-
mas is destroyed, '
And so it is fitting, we believe, that
this column convey to you our wishes
for a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Ch ristirias
This Christmas Day let's "lay away
The burdens of the year,
With gladsome shout let's go about
A -spreading of good cheer
May we on this Blessed. Christmas
Se filled with joy and mirth,
And our hearts re-echo the anthem,
Peace, and good will on earth.
When a literary man gets so much a
word for his writings, he spreads
them around as thickly as confetti on
a returning hero,
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Her—"I think dancing makes a girl's
feet too big, don't you?"
Him --"Yeah."
Pause.
Her—"I think swimming gives a girl
awfully large shoulders, don't you?"
Him—"Yeah."
(Pause).
Him—"You must ride quite a lot,
too."
"Most of the girls that come here
don't want to marry."
"How do you know?"
"I've asked 'em."
Human nature is man's excuse for
a lot of his ornery actions. When r.
woman has a suspicion he is always
willing to share it with others, Per-
haps the greatest optical delusion In
trade is the price tag which says
$2.98. Strange, isn't it, that so many
critics remain only critics? Too mane
people are like the sea—they never
can dry up. Some successes are made
from the fine art of profitine by early
mistakes It's as natural for a boy to
want a clog as it is for a girl to desire
a doll. We heard a sheik say that a
flapper's complexion doesn't always
taste as good as it looks. Jobs have
a habit of seeming easier when done
now, rather than to -morrow. Once .
month every man complains of his
family's extravagances.
Landlady—"You'll have to pay your
bill or leave."
Lodger—"Thanks, awfully. My last
landlady made me do both."
Dr. Mayo says the human body is
worth sixty-seven cents. How does he
explain a doctor's bill for $500 worth
of repairs on a sixty-seven cent ma-
chine?
Teacher—"Willie what is an adult 7"
Willie --"An adult is one that has
stopped growing except in the middle."
"Eavesdropping again," as Adam
said when his missus fell Gut of the
apple tree.
In England it has beea decided cows
have a legal right to use the roads.
This' must be a great relief to the
COWS.
A woman journalist has started a
school to teach women how to buy
clothes. Why doesn't somebody start
a swimming school for fish?
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Little Jean was certainly looking
rather 111 when she returned to the
house from the garden.
"Mummy," she said, rather softly,
"is it true that an apple a day keeps
the doctor away?"
"That is the saying, my dear," she
said. Why?"
"Well, Mummy," said Jean, I've kept
twelve doctors away this morning, but
I'm afraid we shalt have to have one
now."
Jake—"Did you travel in Europe to
satisfy your thirst for knowledge?"
Carl—"No, just my thirst."
Geneva, 1932
(A plea for reconvention of the Dis
armament Conference)
We who are serfs, Lord, each to ins
own dark mind,
Or to the greed of nations, as of old,
We who are still idolaters of gold,
Foregather yet from every shore to
find
Ease from our own forged chains
whose fetters bind
All earth in armour to an end fore-
told;
Only Thy solvent Light, which we
withhold,
May melt the shackles that enslave
manldnel.
Not all the punishment and waste o
years,
Nor sacrificial blood and agony
Of guiltless youth, heirs of the erring
past,
Avail to make us masters oi our Pease.
Burn us with vision, manhood, Lord,
so we
Stand freemen shriven in Thy sight at
laet.
—Grace Clementine Howes, in tixo
Boston Transcript.
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Franc," Lowers Marriage
Age of Men to 21
The organized women 01 France,
although they have not yet achieved
the vote, appear, in the light of the e
periodicals, to be muvb mere interest-
ed man the men, wh e her organized
ex not, in a project of law which would
allow a man to man ei the age ir
21 without 'onsent of parents er
guardians, instead of making Wen
wait until he is 25, as ix 110W .s.
A won esi
ed b • the new me.rure; the age aboee
which she may defy her parents . d
marry whom he simese, tG rell,a1b
at 21.
The Roman traditiea Lear the raid
is subject to the father's authority
for life obtained in France mai) entr
the Revolutiere As late as the et. Ler
part of the last century e man
not marry without the consent of eie
father until he had passed the ban. -
century mark, nor could a women
until over 45.
When, some years ago, a nneneh-
man was considered eligible t, Jute
at the age of 21, he was not entriele
for marriag on his unratified vo:i-
tion met)) 25, although 'a woman who
could not vote, could contract a mar-
riage on her own al -count and teso
assume the responsibility limey:at
transactions at the age of 2].
The new bill has alrende paeem the
Chamber and is now marking time ,n
the Senate. Why the men have ehoWn
no particular into) est in It ,s seat ta
be due to the fact that pnrents ine
the World War have been extremely
amenable to their wishes anti if; aey
case, it was easy enough to summon
intraasigeant parents by an "att.-
respectueux" eau so have r.',e ex.gt"n-
cy of tna age m]it waive.i. alteough
this right hwbeer rareI3 arise
One of the greatest t oritiee
legal relationsheps in France is Mai-
tre Levy anal he ha e take ) the occa-
sion Lc change his view of the et
marmage," mnartivea de t ea-
eanence), ve'snen he feraeily aperes-
ed as being al c retie -nal osis
French family life. He new considers
that if persons who reach heir ma-
jority were allowed entire freedom in
regard to marriage the e would be
many more happy and laetleg unions
in France
Women Motorists Declared
No Better—No Worse
London, Eng.—These latest stet-
istics seem to settle he question of
driving ability.
Leading insurance companies at a
secret cort.cerence here recently, at
which the whole question of insur-
ance risks was reviewed, decided
that the woman driver was no worse
a risk from their point of view than
tbe man driver.
This decision was reached when
it was decided to increase the cost
of insurance on motor -cycles and re- •
duce that on motor -cars by offering
larger no -claim bonuses.
A suggestion was put forward that
the woman driver was a greater
source of danger on the road than
men drivers, era should be charged
more for instance.
Statistics were called for, and these
completely vindicated the woman
driver.
It was found that certain women
drivers were very bad risks, but the
same applied to their rivals.
An average wet taken, and it was
found that there was little to noose
between them.
"All that is made is the work of
God, and all is geod."—Mary 13a.ker
Eddy,
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