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Zurich Herald, 1924-04-17, Page 3• Malnutrition Adults A person who ie too thin is said to There Are No Exceptiona In Health. be :malnourished and the condition is ;oiled "malnutrition." . Malnutrition is; not confined to child- ren.` The underweight adult shares; opinions. be the basis of our deoision's. the troubles of the Malnourished ohild .There .lea feeling that the person who but the treatinent of malntrtritien in does foolish things after all bee the ,adults .a tis effective ae it is in child- advantage and ,is eared fol'' be a spe- Ten" sial Providence. We seldom analyze The essentials for health aro Hutch a situation sufficiently to s'ee that, the same es' for children., namely;' while these persons do what seem to To removo physical, mental and u5 .very unwise acts,they do n'ot go ;social causes of ill health. far 'enough to upset their health, We To take proper' food at regular in do not wait for the effect "in the 1•on:e tervals. run.," but, like children, expect that To, prevent• over -fatigue, the ;offender will be struck down at Tosecurefresh air by .dayand by ,once. Even la cases cited as examples night. of immunity from some striking indite - To establish sttfiicient .control to in- gence or dissipation, . our interest le sure good food and health habits, centred upon this particular act, and Physical Defects. we ignore the healthy activity, outdoor life orother condition which acts as 'Defects 'of the nose and throat may •Compensation. lead to a test of other' troubles such. Wken we analyze the programme of a,s `bronchitis, neuralgia, ,rheumatism a well person, we find that it is made' •anti,. heart disease. Neglected teeth tip on the whole of good habits. Innatters of health, as in so many other in.terests',, we judge largely by appearance, and let impressione and .." jlf�(i • niay do the s'am'e thing and in addition` - v Prevent thorough chenvng of food London Busses Crowded Both •which is necessary to good digestion. • Flat feet may have a far-reaching Night and Day. effect. They cause pain in the legs, Many who learn that London's popu- 'knees and j'oints; also backbone. The • lation is . about 8,000,000 are not victims' beoome unable tostand on amazed, because' all of them seem to their feet for any length of time; and be, trying to get on the same bus that .are obliged to give- up' exercise and' you 'tried to get on. Nowhere has the many activities,. ees'entlai , to good ordinary competition between human health. I1.1 health and weakness lead beings just to get somewhere develop - to the fatigue posters whichgives the ed self-reliance' in women more re- appearan'oe of cd•d age. This leads to markably than in London. The women the sinking down and`'deLsplacement of run otter moving omnibuses and leap internal organs—and the ills which aboard them with arms full of pack accompany it. '• ages. And conductors ,never have to Eye strain causes improper pasture, warn them not to hop off backward, and is, the causeof many wearing head- achese Pallor loss of •color—is• one of the signs, of ill health. Beauty and illness' seldom go together, and the glow of health Le rightly accounted one of the most significantsigns of "good looks" Good Habits. The work of our - bodies is affected by our health habits. Onre activities and our relationship to others are con- trolled by the habits; we have formed. Even a watch does, better when it is regularly wound. Our lives' are much more satisfactory to ourselves and to others when our fundamental habits have been formed against a back- ground ackground of a' wholesome, sane, well-con- trolled home life: Bad food 'habitewreck many lives. Children who are indulged and catered to at home find hardships awaiting them when they grow up and are ob-. iliged to deal with the impersonal man- agement of - hotels•, boarding-houses, restaurants and lunch counters!. As a ,part of our lives that taken attention. at least three times a day, and that .ca:n reduce our efficiency almost to nothing, food habits deserve more than, the casual consideration we now give. them. Fast eating is not confined to._child hood, Many adults need to have some- one take them in hand and help them conquer the habit -of rushing through a eneaI, washing down with liquids the food that does, not adopt a breakneck pace.., Health' Habits. It is the same way with the health habits, People. become "indoor mind- ed," and • shu;t themselves away from refreshing air, Ovee heated houses and 'offioes being the mei the state, of • mind that shuts, down the windows and places rugs under doorsfor fear that a ]little "air: may be felt." Exercise becomesinconvient, and with this, lose go the delights of the bath and rub- bing down after active exertion. When baths are taken merely for the pur- pose of keeping cense one has cut himself off mm the best forms of one of the Pleasures of life. There is a gradual surrender to• habits of ease and indulgence, until it • de believed that middle life is a. series a,f pitfalls, from which health can be rescued only by the add of drugs and +doctors: It is easy to degenerate into a sedentary life and gradually -make iiuuriender' tri old age before its time. The woman of "sixty who can tot'ch.. her toes, and still has the . nseasiire=' - merits of eighteen; and the man who has not varied• a pound in weight since he began to train in college over thirty years ago seam unnatural exceptions rather than the ordinary course of life. r Over -Fatigue. Over -fatigue as' a habit IS very com- mon. Many people never know *bat it is to be free from it. Many persons seem to take a fool- ish pride iu keeping, "keyed -up" as long as pos•sible. Women will boast that they never take time to lie down during the day. Scientific inanagetuent Is, showing says Raymond Tompleins in a London letter to "The Baltimore Sun." Every night it looks as though all 8,000,000 are trying to get to the theatre at once. It is a mighty poor playhouse that hasn't its, queue one block long at the box ofiioe window two hours before the curtain rises, and two or three blocks long an hour and a half later, The London idea of an adequate tea establishiv,ent is. three doors, each floor as big as a •convention hall, with an orchestra in each one and crowds et the doors waiting for employ tablets. People rather than things throng one's memories of London, for even her architecture, with all its medieval pomp, her museums with their un- counted treasures, her acres of chim- ney pots, like the bad dream of a keep era of asparagus beds, are articulate with the tonguese of every age. • A Man No One Could Lift. A new trick recently caused con- siderable excitenieut;in Paris. Johnny Coulon, an American and former: ban- tam-weight an-tam weight champion boxer challenged the strongest pian of France to lift trim. His one condition, according to newspaper dispatches, was that his op- ponent should face him and grasp him at his sides' betweenhis ribs and his hips. "Before"•the word was given Cou- lon would rub the neck of his opponent slightly just below the point of the left jaw and, letting one or two fingers. rest these, would lightly place two fin- gers of his left hand on the other's right wrist: And his opponent could not lift him! At first people were amazed, es, peeially when it was said that a magic current, generated by the position of Ceulon's hands, held the little man fixed to the ground;. But after a while the trick was shown to be very sample indeed. • It was the position that the big man was obliged to take that made it im- possible for pini to lift the bantam weight. By placing :his' fingers under his opponent's, `jaw, Coulon kept him at such a distance that he could not get sufficient purchase to lift even a much lighter weight, for when he 'be- gan to lift, the centre of gravity was in front of his toes, and he overbal- anced. Like the man in the familiar old trick who, bending over a chair with his head A.ga,inst the wall, tries to. lift the chair and in the same mo've- m'ent to stand erect, the big French - than was handicapped; he was on the short end of the lever. • Improving the Machinery. There had. been some criticism late- ly about the running of a certain rail- road whose trains were deplorably slow and uncertain. The ,other day a traveler arriving at a wayside station ,remarked to the agent: "I notice that your service has, fm - peeved lately." "Can't see it," said the agent sus- piciously. "01t,.I ,can," said the traveler; "for instance, you:, engines are able to the inoreas'cd production .possible un- Whistle without stopping, now." der conditons• of alternating activity` No Excitement. rind rest, We fare rept to try to crowd "What's all this noise ab'cut, you too much • into a particular period. breakfast is rushed, and often. too. Voant, The forenoon is a time of Crowded 'activity with Out relief. We come to the noon ineal' under 'stitain, and -either eat more than we can pos refit, digest, or take too little, because we feel faint Wel tired. The after - neon ,is another breathless race, re- lieved bye:peals• of 'heavittess, which wo resent, and so suffer the more. Dinner is almost euro to be a time et overeat- ing, and the &Veiting has •:its• own cion- flitting interests, When. tho bed is ret eked one daces net feel sleepy, earl the drop light is >ee handy that it presents• an invitation • to feral the pernicious haeit of "read- ing himself to sleep." The night is a trottbled'erne, end the next (ley opens, with Still ess beleate on the health, strength Stet enttal'anee 'aoeox+ht: (tng rascal?" "Well,' Mary said if I kept on --crying a great big mouse with big green eyes' would' come andsit on the end Of my bed, and I've' kept on, but it hasn't come yet!" ' „0.1 nnuuu111{1 * A Picturesque Herding. One Apple. Many curious old-world customs are in an orchard from which twelve associated with the Mennonites in thousand barrels of apples are shipped North America. One of the most plc- every year one individual app'le.does tures'que, which Misee -Victoria Hay- not seem worth thinking about. Yet ward describes' in the Canadian Maga- injust such an orchard not long ago zine, is the way the people of Oster- tie, foreman of the packing force made wick, in Manitoba, herd their cattle. .:_. a • determined search for one apple. The cows, says Miss Hayward, are anWe've got to find i't!" he declared. assembled each morning ats'ix o'clock 'Come,on now." by the blowing of'a horn. The herded The men soon learned that the ap- starts at one end of the village, and, pie was in one of two barrels that had blowing his horn, goes' down the whole just been headed up. 'Into the first length of the street. Then he turns 'iuen't a packer; he took cart the first round, and just as fast as. the rats foe:.lager and the second and third and so lowed the Piper of Hamelin the cows, on down througih half the barrel he- oome out of the various gates one •ef- ifore the 'desired apple appeared. ter another. Of course before they "Se,e!" creed the foreman, turning come out ,milkmaids' have been hard at ! tho fruit bottom up. "Note that speck work. Few cows are ever permitted of rot? That's, why I was so insistent." to be late. :One a the pickers had found the The herdsman is obliged to report to apple on the ground, It was a singu- the head overseer of all- the herd: "a -tarty, large and well -shaped winesap, man who is elected for on year. He and it weighed half an ounce more knows just how malty cows each vil- .1t1164 the biggest apple ever found in lege hes, and pays, the herdsman with that orchard, but it was a windfall and grain and with part of the money that wa•s bruised.: each owner pays a head foe, pasturage; • 'Ph'esse barrels go into. cold storage," -At dusk the cow come home; there- •exialained the foregnan. "They acre for are two hundred and 'twenty-two of - late winter and early e tin trade and P g them in the, village. 'Each•Mennonite 4;1 ening high prices: That speck of gate has its.faniily grouti.etancling in- .� roe'sVould have spread on that apple aide or sitting ou the fence to we -telt ' and,thee would have infeoted otheire. the hope -coming. It is never monoton- near by. The whole barrel of apples our, for every night the question 1 might have been ruined before the re- aris'es,-How will th,e cows eairy their taller cuu,d dispose of then.' tails? On that circumstance depends , So should we cope with bad habits. the weather for the next twenty-four Run down that evil trait; its: infection hours. If the cows come with their will : sprea,d. Summary 'treatment is tails straight out behind .theme, it will the 'cure. That is the teaching not rain. If they come with their tails only of religion but of psychology. Go down, ft will be fair. The. manner of to the buttons of the barrel if noes- their going in the morning apparently sary, doesn't matter. Doors of Daring. The inountains that inclose the vale With walls of granite, s'te'ep and high, Invite the fearless foot to scall Their stairway toward•the sky. The restless, deep, dividing sea That haws and foams from shore to shore, Calls to its sunburned. chivalry, "Push out, set'sail, explore!" The bars of life at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doers, of daring set Ajar before the s'ou'l.. Say .not, -"Togo poor," but freely give;, Sigh not "Too weak," but boldly try; You never can begin to live Until you dare to die, --Henry Van Dyke. Not Entirely In His Hands. "Well, I suppose your happiness lies enti'rely 3n Bob's hands?" "Not 'entirely—there's arms attach- ed to his• hands." Aviation • for t� ockholm. A hew flying station is to be estab- lished at Stockholm. The founders of the project aoespeci'ally interested in getting Seto ,kholniiincorporated as soon as po�ss'ible. in `the European air traffic system. Size of Sun Shown. Tho sun is larger t emeall the plan- ets put together. 1 ti ter r • ens - WN NEVER 6.0e4t4n SPEAK To 'ioOtt Mo-ItAect A.61.1N vfhEtW TNZ !•t +ytN� A :l, \1' btANP 404.0EN SHS $1'o?PtD ft' ANotst.914 (PatS'n `telSet\ Ot-tt' Wu t vitcCNtN 1 7r' seal/ �v t;ejjhe'esieei • Hard Lines. Bird—'"Of all the luck. I've swept oft thei,it eide'walk on sveculsetiou and find tlhey've gone south for the, win - 'ter." • i•1 Getting' a New Food Supply at Great Risk Taking the $wordfis i Requires the !est Skill of the Cana - than Fisherman. The rislt,attached to the overcoming The craft used mostly are the eme•ller of something different is very often' class of s'ehooner, from gQ to .aS Ronna I with auxiliary matoF Bawer, (In the the incentive to 1>rovid ng a fo'od's'up. bpwsirit ie co'ns'tructed. a stand, on Ply ;out of the ordinary. one of these which the `striker, or th i+arp rAtst, -is the swordfis'11 -- a fish which, al- s'tantls, while on the fore top, ie,st a' though as yet still very uncommon, Is platform :accomrosla.tes the esseirout.. rapidly fleeing an increasing market. As the fish swim on or very close to Until eomparativ©ly rreceet years, says the surface they are not hard to locate, the Natural Resource's .Inteiligenee , and, on s•igbting a frill the looleout Service of the Department of the In- quickly advises the: eours'e for the terior, the swordflsb was looked upon scho,oner to take. Quick action. and as a species that it was ,gt>od policy to euperio.r judgment '•mus'tbowed by the keep away from. Safety first was the striker with tate harpoon. The latter fis'herman'.s first •thought, as far as the is' attached by a long line to it buoy, swordfish was concerned, and it was and when the dart or weapon is embed, allowed the free run of the sea. ded in the body of the fish the line is Attaining a lengthof from twelve to allowed to run out and the buoy fifteen feet, and several hundred thrown overboard. From three hun- pounds in weight, the swordfish is ex- died bo a thousand feet of line are ceedingly powerful and savage. It used, to give the fish plenty of run to preys upon other large ask such as 'tire itself out. A dory's then lowered, the cod and tunny, which it pierces with a fish'erm'an picks up the buoy, and the its sword. It is also in the habit of at- exhausted fish is hauled in. A stout tacking whales, as also boats and even strap is pass'e'd around the body of the larger vessels. Though the sword can fish, and it is lifted aboard. 4.5 apre- be driven through the wooden hull it cautionary measure the sword ie at `cannot easily be withdrawn, with 'the once broken off. Forty varieties+ of ash froin the At- lantic and Pacific fisheries, are separ- result that it is often brokenoff in the struggle* ofthe fish to free itself. • Through the efforts of the Biological , ately listed by the Department of Fish - Board of Canada to popularize adsli-1 eries. The greater portion of these tional species of the many fish found i are in almost unlimited supply. The in Canadian waters, there is an. active fisheries are but one of the natural re - demand for the swordfish and fisher- sources which are annually returning men have become much'm'ore aggres- to Canada a very large revenue, the sive in their efforts to supply the mar- sea fisheries alone last year, valued as ket. There was a total of 1,367,300 they were caught, producing $21,831,- pounds, 21,831,pounds taken last year, according to a 022. Large numbers are em'plo'yed in bulletin of the Department of Marine the preparation of the fish for the•mar- and Fisheries, and the value was $86,- ket, thus greatly increasing the selling 671, while in 1922 the amount taken value of the fish, Efforts are being was 1,116,400 pounds, valued at $81,- made to increase the eon'sumption of 110. These were all taken n by Nova fish in Canada and this can be done to Scotia fishermen, a very large extent without endanger Taking the swo'rdf]sh: requires con- ing the source's of supply either from sid,erable skill and good seamanship. the sea or from inland waters. A Poem You Ought to Know. "The Ancient Mariner." Only an. 'extract from Coleridge's masterpieoe can be given, as it runs to some 300 lines. This 'description of a ship and crew becalmed in the tropics', written by a man who had never ex- perienced any of the sensations he des- cribes, is a triumph of constructive imagination. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Tomas sad as sad could. be; And.we did speak only to break The silence of the sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a. painted ocean. Water, water everywhere, And all th'e boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere; Nor any drop to drink. About, about, in reel and rout The death -fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white, And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if 'We had been 'choked with soot. Property finds out friends. The population of the world is in- creasing about twenty million a year. When Nightingales Sing. Last year an American ornithologist went to England especially to hear the ,iaightingale sing at noon. This was the third visit for th'e purpose snd un- like the other two was successful. The• idea was sic well advertised in the newspapers that the song of the night- angale was. no great rarity according to the letters, which Dr. Wood. received. The whole thing •seems, to be a matter of luck and those who are looking for this ornithological treat can find no better hunting ground than Surrey.— Scientific American. Reason in All Things. Johnny — "Mamma, do they sell babies by the pound?" Mothear "Yes, precious." 'Pp Johnny—"I suppose os�e that iv why peo- pleP 1e buy 'em when they're little." Where She Wore It. "It was the queerest thing! When the doctor examined me for life insur- ance, nsurance, he had trouble in locating my, heart.", "He should have looked on your sleeve." Cutting Scotland in Two! The Panama Canal has been an al- most priceless asset to' America—torr it constitutes a short cut for ships go- ing from the Caribbean to the Pacifier which has resulted in the saving of millions, of dollars worth of fuel. Simi- larly, the canal which it ,is pro'pos'ed to out across Scotland will be an in- calculable boon to the whole of the United Kingdom. The proposal for the construction of the canal was first advanced many years ago, but something has always prevented the final plans being put in- to 'execution. However, the fact that an enormous volume of trade is being lost to this country, owing to the ab- sence of the canal, is growing more and more apparent, and the Mid -Scot- land Ship Canal National Association are doing their utmost for the success of the project, Saving Six Hundred Miles, How does the position stand at the present time? The fact is that Britain blocks the traffic routes between a number of largo Continental ports and America,. Just as vessels wltieh' now go throgh the Panama Canal pre- viousdy htttl to make a detour round Cape Horn, so have trade vessels cit their way from the old world to the new, cr the new world to the old, to go by Dither the English. Channel or the Nortlt of Scotland, By cutting Scotland in two—that iss by constructing a canal from the Firth of Clyde to the Hirth of Forth, a lis, tance of only twenty-nine miles• --this loss of tine and fuel would be saved, A shill ,going from New 'Voris to `Hamburg, for instance, world save three hundred miles. But it would not be a boon only i.o foreign t•rada a es, ssis going from Glasgow to HuIt would save over six Metered milesw atilt' the length of muse voyages frim, the east to the west. coast, Deg sloe versa, The alternative to a twenty-nine. miles' voyage from the Clyde to the Forth is a three days' steam round the North of Scotland, or through the Eng-. lash Channel. There is already a Forth and Clyde canal, but it is fitted only for barges,' and not ocean-going traffic, and is of comparatively little use. There are many arguments' for and against such a canal. In the first place, while it would involve the ex- penditure of many millions, of dollars. this would, at the same time, help to relieve unemployment, as hundreds of thousands' of men would be needed for the work. Again, it is reported by mining an•th• orities' that ,otr the prcl>o0ed canal; route between Maryhill and Kilsyth lies an undeveloped coal-ileld' of 9,000 acres; which might yield 10,0,000,000 tone of coke and coal, in de 'eloping this. fertile area still more unemployed could be 'absorbed, Through. Loch Lomond. Two alternative routes are auggest- ed for the new canal, onebeing by way, of Lech. Lomond,: and if the ]atter,were,, agreed upon the e'airol would becoaua an attraction for tourists. ' Authorities' •deciet'e that in compare! son with the Panama Canal the cone etruction of this Dew Scottish water way would be mere child's pia•,', talk there Is a p �ecedent in' tiro Mane seer, Ship Gste, ,which carria»' comparative" l,y heavy' traffic and hags retsult,d earl' turning into a port the inland oily of Cottonopnlia. • •Coatldent that such a watexwa$ weul•d bring a wave of prosperity to the country, the Ship Gcanal A,osoele;- tion have asked the Government to ate point engineers to exauline the direeti route, which artend's frour Yokel''to, Grangern nxtle and the Prime Minister is being urged •to have, a report nladis on, the sdventagee et tacit e, renal elle would be Oiliest halved. ' its rose. •