Zurich Herald, 1926-02-04, Page 6P 1CLOSOP J Y OF LIFE
Penned by Adam Brown, Dominant
Htory.
Adam Brown, Hamilton's Grand Old
Mna, who passed away on January 16
in his one dtun•dredeh year, left an un-
spoken address which he bad prepared
for the reeent annual meeting of the
Canada Life Assueanee Company, to
be presented at the meeting of that
Contpany in Toronto. The text of the
address alone must have stirred la: -
teases to greater endeavor, and added
to this the personality and character
of this dominant figure of Canadian
lt.istory furnishes power and enthuei-
asne for greater viotories,
A Psalm of Life.
The address to the staff of the com-
pany, in the poetic and imaginative
phrasing of this great man, reads in
part: "To our staff lett me eay that
duty begins with life and ends with
death. No one can live a happy life
who does not seek to benefit others.
So live then that the light you leave
behind you lightens the path of others..
We want living men whose acts.
brighten homes, relieve sorrow and
lighteu heavy hearts,
`If any 1dit of mine may ease
The burden of another,
God give me love and care and
strength
To help my toiling brother.' "
The address continues: "Be satis-
fied :with nothing but your hist. No
Life is worth living otherwise. Ohne
is but one happiness in life, and that
is in •duty done. In the faithful per-
formance •of it, difficulties. often pre-
sent themselves, but they have to be
met With courage, remembering ever
that hope is the mainspring of human
action, and that it is 'rough seas that
make a skilful mariner.'
"If one is asked: 'What is your
duty?' the answer is to do the day's
work that presents, itself. It is like
a beacon light that upward points the
wap.
"A faithful performance of work
leads from goon to better and from
better to still better. Live for some-
thing, Have something to care for
and something to hope for, and you
possess the very salt of life. Do not
flag in any noble effort until you suc-
ceed. By your life and actions write
your name on the hearts of those you
leave behind you. Now is the time to
do it, not to -morrow."
Heritage of Canadian Birth.
An appeal to better citizenship is
contributed in the address with the
words of the writer a simple testi-
mony of his life. "Our country has is to prosper, as it will we meet be as that fostered their prodectien Only short time, e.
a noble history and we who live to-' a united people. it was net that men Balzac was more conventional in replied. And so saying he scraped
day must be noble, too, and bend our' of one Province or another that car- his, methods and eeehewedt the con -
energies to advance its interest. They j`ried the day at Vimy, but it. was a. glomerate forms affected, by the auth-
who serve it with distinction well de- united body of Canadians, all one, and or of Les Miserab1es: He took his
serve highest honor. There is no had they not been so the result would mems in courses -but what •coursers+! ' is now considered a remarkable like -
predicting what the future of it eei11 have been different; so I say to you: A hundred oyatere, t dozen cutlets of nes+s.
be; each day revealing fresh wonders. Cease any disputes 1 Between Provinces Iamb or veal, a sole or two, a. duck, a Better Than Money,
Listen to what the gifted Pauline 'about wrongs that should be righter brace of partridges, tarts and pun -A' lucrative post has' just been de -
Johnson thought of the Canadian Do not make a political football play ding- and other sweets, washed down dined by the Etev. William Birch, Rec.-
born:
born: of them, but a calm drrscuss er at a' with wines galore. The elder. Dumas, for of All. Saints, •West Gorton, Man- ter.
'No title and no coronet is half so round table, and be like Byngn Boys when he took a snack to keep his
proudly worn at \'imy, w*hO We t r ysr r r ,I; as vmors sure, never ordered lea's thanseven hund+red and fifty farmers were
As that whish we inherit as then Cana- united Cansdia•u+=_, s win be a _ x rye beefsteaks at a clip.•Sons oft�48 03 . found eligible for the distinction, One
diem born; to accomplish. aayz g.' Dan O'Connell, the poet, was the Attention has+ recently been direct- of them, Jules La Sargue, was able to
only one of the Literary coterie in San ed to the fact that a family of small' establish that his family had been.
. a a Between Francisco that comprised Ambrose farmers, named' Breton, have been farmers in the village of La Coutie,
Close Attachment Bierce Arthur Mt Ewen, "Patsy" , cultivating the Name land for. a period 7`arn et Ga•ronr_e, since the Year 772.
Figure of 'Canadian
We Count no mita se noble as the one
who makes the brag.
That he was born in Canada beneath
the British flag.'
T,he Young Folk of the Farms
The possibilities of the fano in
reouldiug great lives for Canada is ex-
pressed in nee following exoet�pt:
"There has been 'too little attention
paid in the past to attract the young
people to stick to the farm. T mean
th+e boys+ and the girls, to remain on
the farm. The Honorable Mr. Martin,
Minister of Agrioudtture for Ontario,
has struck a ohord that is having a
wonderful effect in keeping the young
people of both sexes away from the
lure of cities by offering prizes of a
character to let these young people
feel that they 'alone are competing for
them. Letting these young people see
that they have a responsibility and
that they amount to something in their
clubs and meetings, on matters on
whioh the alder ones on the farm have
nothing to say; this is working won-
ders."
Power of the "Pioneers.
Further tribute to the progress of.
JANE AUSTEN'S HOME AT CHAWTON
With the coming 150th anniversary of the celebrated novelestt's birth an agitation has started in England,
calling attention to the sthabby: and neglected candition of the dwelling, which is now divided into separate tene-
ments. Her writing room is occupied by the village club.
Canada and the Strength and power :
of the pion:ewe is found in the para-
graph: "The progress since Confedera-
tion has been beyond words, and if the
present campaign overseas for set The Kiddies Knew. cheater- He will not give up his
tieR's proves what is expected of it in church work although offered 2800; a
bringing the right sort of people here, The well-known actress, Miss Lena year to join �a London firm as toy -de -
God prdrsper Canada, all will be well." Ashwell, is a great lover of GbiLdheir signer.
"As the aid guard passes away, may and tells some amusing stories of their Before taking Holy Orders, Mr. Birch
there ever be a new guard ready to lift meant sayings. Here are two of the was a Ritter. Toy -making is, now his
the burden which they carried, and, befit' hobby, and at present lie is engaged
with unswerving loyalty, wisdom and C tf on a dolls' house complete to the
honor, 'carry on,' following their glori smallest details.
ous example, and revering their pre-
cious memory. Every noble life leaves Sol The first Money Mr. Ramsay Mac -
the fibres, of it interwoven in the work Donald, M.P., ever `earned in London
of those who follow. They bore the li th was. for addressing wrappers on the
brunt for us, and all our kith and kin--' child. copies of the gazette of the Cyolis�ts.'
And, while Teeter to the old guard, let dish was a mulligan of sorts, a tripe- «Yee•» replied the youthful philoso Touring Club in 1885.
us, as loyal Canadians, ever keep pre-tage composed< of veal cutlets, lima pher, "but Solomon didn't say that Beauty and Brains.
till he was grown up." The Hon; Mrs. Richard Norton ie
Double -Faced! one of the most beautiful women in
Have you heard about the picture of London society. Before her marriage
the Marchioness of Curzon which Sir to the Hon. Richard Norton, heir of
John Lavery, who recently left for Lord Grantley, she was a Miss Kin-
" loch, daughter of Brigadier -General Sir
David Kinloch.
She has' now taken .over ,the man-
agement of the New Gallery Cinema,
Regent Street, and will be the first
Society- woman to manage a cinema—
a jab demanding shrewdness and judg-
ment. But Mrs. Norton will be sue -
Monarchs of the- Table.
The old idea that the brain thrives
best on a diet of herbs: and ,cold water,
and that the more you eat th•e• less you
think, is combated by no Tess an auth
erity than Sir Arthur Keith, the emin-
ent British physician. Sir Arthur in a
recent address declared that a man of
genius was nine times out of ten a ,
good trencherman, who liked his meals "wee were the foolish virgins?" one
often and hearty. Commenting on
Stories About e11 -(own People
child was asked.
"Them as didn't get married, ,was
the reply. •.
• omon was quoted to a smallboy
in order to illustrate the theory that
sparing the rod meant spoiling the
this utterance, The Argonaut drops in-
to reminis+cenoe about the facts. at
table of some of the great writers of
the past.
Victor Hugo, it will be reealled, had
a Gargantuan appetite. His favorite
cious the memories of our illustrious
dead, wlio gave their lives for us in
the terrible war, and saved our be-
i.oveed Canada for the Empire and far
us,"
For a United Canada. tafel, and drenched down with easel America, painted last year?
"Canadians from the Atlantic to the forums of toffee. A man that could After the portrait was finished, Lord
•
Pacific should be a united people. That .,mop up this" sort of mess from a suit i Curzon said he did not like it. When
was the thrilling speech made et Cal able porringer must obviously have 1 Sir John heard this• he asked Visoonn-
gary by that gallant soldier, our Gov been •capable of any sort of intellec-''tens Curzon to'see him. "Would you
ernor-General, Lord Byng, where he ;mal effort. and the imperishable solid-, like to have your picture painted?" lee
urged that Canada sthould be so, hay- ity of Hugo's literary remains bear inquired. "Certainly," answered the
ing no race or creed ery. If Canada witness to the emeacy of the mulligan Viscountess; "how Long will it take?
" th minter
beans+ and oil, ameltets�, roast beef with
tomato sauce (which should have .gone.
with the veal cutlets.), mill:., vinegar,
mustard. cheese and ether odds and
end, mLxed all together, like the cur-
ries and umbels in a Batavdan.. rite -
out the face of the original portrait
and substituted the beautiful counten-
ance of the Viscountess. `T e picture.
BE GREAT! I.
t:is a tragedy to be mean and petty,
to give up to be afraid. Nev_ ec get the
idles that you:were brd•ught here to be
different frown others, In order to twin
t eeugh;` others have lied to bo as, 'big
as they know hew in spirit and belief.
Ask people what they want and,
though, tlttey may :answer in various
ways, the anawens will resolve them-
selves into life, power, and vision.
Nothing e' -se is: of importance if a
man can live much and be strong and
see,
- . Life will rub us• very closely before
we have done with it, and it -will be a
folly to become irritated or to rebel.
It does no good at all to ,d�esp�air or suf-
fer hopelessly. If we have to fight
evil and ni�eet ignoble deeds, then the
only way to conguer is to be great.
To be great our resources of strength
roust be sure and constant.
What is defeat end what things 'de-
feat us'? Surely those from which we
find no way of etsea,pe. Only when we
are in a corner or held down' by some
great weight ecu we come to believe
that we are not victorious,. But then
the greatness of our soul will come out
as we rise above and evade the dead-
ening effect of"the"evil that molests
us.
Envie one of us has that power at
our call- We talk of our handicaps
and obstructions. Really, we should
be silent when we compare ourselves
with other people. Listen to the
stories or heroism some people cin
relate, and watch the lives of those
nearest to you without Letting them ,
know they are being watched, and you
will wonder, not that anyone gets
wrong, but that anyone goes right!
Find a refuge from the tantalizing
thing that oppresses you. Remind
yourself of Habei, the blind man who
felt his calamity to be overwhelming
until he gave his atten.tiiou to the.
study of bees and became the great
authority on bee Life. In this way he
escapes the sadness of blindness and
became happy and victorious.
Never admit that yen are beaten.
From every difficult experience there
is a way out. However lonely or for-
saken you may feel yourself to be, er
whatever •hardships you .are called up-
on to endure, love someone or some-
thing. Let it be a person, Nature, or
boobs. Such will not be the attitude
of a coward but of"a strong heart. The
little ,pettifogging annoyances of life
will pass as you invite and cultivate
some big love. Freedom and peace
will result.
You need to remind yourself that,
after all, the biggest thing we know is -
ceseful, I ani sure, for she possesses Life. Throughout the ages to come
brains as well as, beauty. Some years life will continue. Get in iave with •
ago she helped. in a furniture painting its depth and wideness. , The , person:
business at Chelsea, which her 'moth- ality will then be'always.large and
er, Lady Kinloch, started with -the ob- graceful, finding no room for the
ject of reviving an old craft.: peavish and spiteful pin•priclrs that
s°
ton's
cherish so long and ° so
An interesting sequel to Mrs.Nor- much.
ton's appointment is the news that the Be noble and the'nobleness that lives
Duke of Manchester has become man -
in others,
agar of the Gaiety Ciaem+a, Marches- Sleeping, but never dead
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Environs.
One-half the world wonders at the
places in which the other halt lives.
The Eskimo, moved south into steam
heat and the confines of brick walls,
suffers acutely, repining for the aurora
and the ice sheet. Kaffir and Hotten-
tot are chilled and blanched by the
mere description of the wind and •cold.
In bis stone hut of the Andes or the
Himalayas a lonely herder thinks the
world spins about bis point in space.
Lhasa, capital of Tibet, is quite as
sure as Boston that it is the hub of
the universe. We domesticate our-
selves- in the incredible fringes of
Labrador and Siberia as readily as in
the Everglades or the morasses of
Amazonia. Dr. Gorges, sanitarian of
Havana, Panama and Guayaquil, told
us that mankind would find the equa-
torial regions the most congenial
Habitat; a Rasntusts�en or a Stefanascn
comes along and upsets such ideas by
inssistence on a friendly Arctic, 1f
a man learn bow to outwit the natural
inhibitions. One of the marvels of
the human meanie is its ability to
adapt itself to conditions of feeding,
clothing, sleeping, sheltering and even
war -making winch it seemed that flesh
and blood could not endure.
We can to some extent make our
own environs. One with the true in-
stinct of a home -maker can make a
home anywhere; a woman who knows
how can'make a het or' a pie or a
family life out of material that another
would ;merely fuss with and spoil. One
man a4vil�s at the conditions of his
employment and fumes with discon-
tent in. his colleagues, while another
goes to work and uses what he ba',
what there is and makes a lot out of
it, beyond the dream or belief of those
who have watched the miracle
• wrought, • What we see round us all
the time we often fail to appreciate
because, we' ere too close to see it in a
just petsp•ective, Sometimes we need
to have noine one come froth outside
to tell me that values still retrain in
the materiel we were about to dis-
tend. How adrni,t;ab.�e it is when a
man, instead of cola,reeling With tools
and terata of employment and other
niers, addresa�cs hiitse•1•f to the best
that he crit do'and basee his claim to
apDrecis tion and reward not on loud
talk and incesean't complaint but on a
"fln%tl ed nrothiot delivepedl .treat his
baud
Lloyd George and Daughter : Bigelow- and other gifted ' writers of of 253 years.. The Berton farm is. It is very doubtful if this' can be
Alaskan Strawberries
Grow in Snow Famine
Strawberry plants and grace crops
were growing in the mild, springlike
David Lloyd Georges quick aban- thirty and forty years ago who could situated, at Merlaut, near the eastern equalled anywhere. But Fmgland's wetatttea at Seward, Alaska, in mid-
donment of his vacation under sunny ; aspire to touch even the hero of Hugo's limit of the Battle of the Marne. j County Durham has a right to be January. At this time last year ro
Mediterranean skies to hasten to the i appetite; but he *could make a multi- France could probably provi�cle many proud of the record of Belle Vue Farm, tart' snowplows were fighting snow-
Mediterranean
of Mies Mega -n, bis favorite gap against any Frenchman and could ,•other examples of similar cultivation Stanhope. This farm has been mai- ,elides. It was raining on January 16th
and the
child, who is now convalescing from' give Dumas a hard battle on the beef-
an appendicitis operation, is only an-- steaks.
other example of the close attachment -!__,_ ,
between the two. And On a Plate,
The former Premier and his young-
est and only unmarried daughter are i\Ii1ly—"Bring me a ham sandwich."
almost inseparable companions. Me- Billy—"With pleasure."
gap, who is :about 25, is his staunchest nlilly—"No, with mustard."
suppoe-ter and his constant companion
in London and on his political cam-
paigns.
An American army officer here
knows, to his efnbarrass+m.ent, of Miss
Megan's constancy to her father. The
young major met her at a dance and
received permission to call her on the
telephone. He boasted of this to
friends, but when he telephoned Me-
gan was busy with her father. Again
he phoned; she was still busy. Every
day for a week he rang her up, his
brother officers watching his efforts
with growing smiles, Finally, like a
good soldier, he admitted defeat and
retired from the field. What chance,
after all, he asked, had a mere major
against the dynamic and magnetic per-
sonality.of David Lloyd George? Couldn't Believe Him.
Casey and Riley agreed to settle
their disputes by a light, and it was.
understood that whoever wanted to
stop should stay "Enough,"
Ca,sey got Riley down and was ham-
mering him unmercifully, when Miley
called reit several times, "'Enough."
As Caso.y paid no attention but kept
oat
administering punlehment, a by
standee said, "Why don't you let him
up? Don't you hear him spay he's had
enough?"
"1 do," said Casey, "but he's such
a liar, you :Can't believe hint."
Poor Enunciation.
A group of farmers were crowded
around a'postoiilce wllidow to get their
mail, when one of them stalked up acid
sheeted: •
"Any nail for Mike Howe?"
The pentameter, a stranger in the
commirnity, glared at hits over the
rime et his spectacled and shouted
back:
"No, not for yonr:'oow nor anybody
Lace's. cow."
by successive generations'. Her eons,
have always been famous for their at-
tach¢nent to the soil.
In 1823, when it was decided that all
French farmers whose families have
been cultivating the sante land for
ever three hundred yearsshould be
decorated with the Legion of Honor,
ADAMSON, TRY
' AMUSE MY
Kap FOR A d•'l1NUTE
WILL (0o- IV'E GoT
iO ANSWERTME
PHONE!
rated by the same family for over six i
'railroad except in the high mountain
i hundred years. " .e
,.: passs..
Hard to Answer. Beceause of the lack of snow for
sleds„ the contrectere have been me
i wonder i1 life is really worth hy-
ing?" I able to fill their meets. " As a result
1 "Well, what oleic can ,yon do with the railroad has ordered thousands of,
it?" tis. from Seattle to be shipped to
Seward by water.
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Sun Loses Four Million Tons
Each Second, Says Lodge
According to estimates made by Sir,
Oliver Lodge, ,the sun .loses 4,000;000
tons in weight every time the clock
ticks, says Popular Mechanics.
The scientist says this should oo•ca- •
Sion no alarm, however, for the sun
cult go on reducing at this rate for
hundreds, of years and still furnish the
earth heat and dight. The loss is re-
presented in burning gases, the
tare of which is to be studied further
when an eclipse owns,
In Her Usual Fashion:
A certain scelety young lady from
the city went to visit her married sis-
ter who lived on a farm. The sister
was Suddenly taken ill. "Dear ine,"
elib bewailed, "what shall T db ---with
dinner to prepare for threshers?"
"Nevod mind," consoled the sister;
"You lie down and I will take care of
le"
At dinner each hungry man was
s•orved with:
Two heart -shaped bread-aeenbutter
sandwiches, tied with pink ribbons, one
chicken patty, two .seveett pickles, one
mold of ice creast with two lady tn.
beers; elle small cup of coffee, mints.
Bobby's' Mistake,
The old lady came out of. a Balt doze
ars tUe train altpraa:ched' a station.
"Where aro we, Bobhy7" she asked,
"I (loan know, grandma:"
'flat didn't the' 'conductor call out
s•cmethlvg Jett now?" •
"No, grandma; he just stuck hie
head ins+fde the door and •sneezed;,,
"Bobby," elm "e elaitned, quickly,
"help me with these.. thingo! 'ihas is
Oshkosh,"