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Zurich Herald, 1926-03-18, Page 6BLISS CARMAN'S NEW BOOK By Etta CamPbeil 1Clear as dawn Mt the ranges Bidding the valleys awake, So, even; est came the message, i The law they must learn end keep, Olean as the Wind of moreinii• Parting the Miele of sleep. From hint who d•esireth greatly 1 f No wisdom shall be Concealed, ° To him the future is' presentee. "gee Fiorizi>ns'" is• na.�ade tip of poems that have been written within the past few years. None have ever before been printed in book form, and very few have appeared anywhere. Cannan The vision is' gleaming still, is here, of course, as always', the in- terpreter of Nature, and the writer of Although I have only quoted a stanza lines that are hauntingly melodious, here and there, !t ie enough to show what a great inspirational. poem it is% Carman's idea of God in nature is always very beautifully .expressed: Who drills the ducks in late Septette her, in floating 'line or on whist- ling wing? Who bids •the slumbering bear remem- ber? emember? guides the run of the salmon in spring? All secrets shall be revealed. In solitude, silence and beauty, On many a lonely hall The word of the wind is waiting, Every poem bears its touch of fineness and there are many passages we long to quote. The spirit of Canadianisan is very strong, and the beauty of the West, and much Indian lore figure in the book. This from the first poem in the book is exactly the Cannan of former days: Lord of the lilac ranges' That lift on the flawless blue, .Grant us the b:eant of rapture The earlier ages knew— The spirit glad and ungrudging, And light as the morning air, To walk with the Sons of Morning Through the glory of Earth the fair His poems 'about trees have always been exquisite. "My Teachers," he calls them in this new book: The people of the forests In crimson, green, and ton,— The trees; have been my teachers To make of me aemran. 'They awed me with their beauty, Their tender strength and pride. They gladden me as comrades, Forever at my side. I dare not ecorn their patience In learning how to grow, They do not waste their powers In rushing to and fro. Nor spend a moment thinking How soon they have to die AU occupied, enhancing, The hour going by. I love the dark hued spruces Because their hearts are warm, And the tall pines leave taught me To front the winter storm, Remembered Birch and Lilac Have taught me loveliness, They are so fair and fragrant In their seoft-colored dress. And little trembling Aspen Who always says her prayers, Has taught me by example To tell God all my tares. And One in gown of scarlet, The first beloved of all, Still tells me tales of glory When autumn days befall. A poem that is wondrously full of beauty is "Revelation": Who reads the blessed seriptures of the wilderness may find. What God means by night and morn- ing, by the wild bird songs in spring, Or the mighty dirge of winter when the great pines sway and swing. Whose reads the shining legend writ- ten ritten in the stony brook By the author of the granite and the midnight's starry book, Shall find radiant revelation. Science toils through glimmering night, Until wisdom of a sudden floods the shadowy peaks with light. Wouldst thou learn God's primal secret? Hark what beauty has to say, When the spirit thrills with rapture and the gates of pride give way. be tliy speech es sweet as lilacs., and thy touch as• clean as dew? Truth is walking in. the twilight still, au•d has, a word for you. Who Who teaches the hawk the wondrous curving that builds his spirals against the sun? Who steers the flock of sea -snipe srwer- ving to dart and dip and dasth as one? Who but a great and brooding being, taking at will the image of man, Endowed with memory and foreseeing, the Thought of God for his feck- less clan! There is nothing in the book more fairylike or musical than "Down the Pass." Over the rim of the rocky pass I saw the sage green moon Come forth and dance on the silent snow, Like a girl with silver shoon. Oh, fairy -work was the spell she wove, For the trees spun round with her, As she cast her veil of golden mist O'er lodge -pole pine and fir. And ever she sped from hill to hill, Ae down the pass we flew, Till hand in hand, for her saraband, The hills were whirling too. In gold and greeu through each ravine She led them dumb and fond, And the sparkling drift would sink and lift To the lure of her gleaming wand. For beauty le ever a sorceress, And we must dance with her, Whether we be the children of men Or the seed of the pine and fir. We are dream -enchanted beings, kin to rhythms of light and air. Singing wind and running water have us in their fostering tare. Live in friendship with the seasons, and their skill will make thee whale, Take the bird's tail and the brook's note for their tonic to thy soul. Bathe in renaissance et morning, drink the solace twilight bringe, Feed on beauty for thy welfare and iihe strength whence rapt(ur)e springs; So thy living soul me an Lug of Wold, Atte thy being know the secret that creation's morning Beard. shall sense the the Wondering Iceland As An Eden. Visions of Iceland as Europe's kit- chen garden are conjured up by a re- cent despatch from Reykjavik. It ap- pears that the results of experiments with the local geysers reveal great pose hibilities. • These geysers have already been turned to good account. Plans are under consideration for using the hot water to heat the town of Reykjavik, in the same way as it is already used in the laundries. This would mean leading off the water in suitable pipes and carrying these through every house, which would thereby be supplied not only with heat, but with a continuous flow. of hot water for baths and general do- mestic use. Attempts have also been made to use the hot water in vegetable gardens with a view to promoting rapid growth. Potatoes have been planted much ear- lier and have grown much faster than elsewhere. The water has been forced through narrow pipes in the ground at a depth of three feet in large airy greenhouses. This gives an ideal temperature for growth, and all sorts of vegetables, fruits, and flowers have been produced successfully. It is possible that Iceland may be- come an important source of vege- tables and fruits in the not distant fu- ture, possibly rivalling even the Chan- nel Islands in the way of flowers. The Happy Farmer. Happy the man whose wish and oar° A few paternal acres bound,, Content to breathe his. native air On hie own ground.; Whose herds with relek whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply hint with attire; Whose trees in summer yield hint shade, In winter, fire. "The Place of Vision" exquisitely enshrines a. custom. of young Indians, at the approach of manhood. They were in the habit of going to a. (gear- ing high. up on a shoulder of the Bea- verfoot Range, above the Columbia Valley, and, Awaiting the breath of the Spirit, Alone with the mountains Ione, Each through vigil and fasting To reoeive a sign of his own; A place apart and enchanted, Surcharged with mystery, -- The breath of thinge unuttered And might we Cannot se.a, With: exaltation ref spirit An'd `courageous heart's desire, Their eager souls' were illunained With a tench of ?Meiotic flat, They crossed the threefold cf Ding Where the render Aeneas Catty And peened the partaie of Windom That ieedeto the Shining Trail. They Steed -on the:eerie dt C'reetion In tfie'eweep of alto wheeling etin, In the spell of Megian powers `i Tette iViaker and resat are one. So„lOmiss so wine the vieion Of The via' they must eheoaely and take, "MAN WHO ENDED THE WAR" HONORED Corporal Sellier, who had the distinction of sounding the bugle call, "Cease Firing," for the armistice, has now been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the president of France. HOW TO SLEEP Acquire Proper Position in the La 'i'llousantd$ of i eop1.9' sur daily Who should be enjoying splendid health, Thousands of others are not able to de their •boost work, and do •not t realize the cause. They go on working from day to day under depressive physical and mental hsncliea'Ps, won - tiering why they are not feeling fit, be- cause they have thoughtlessly neglect- ed the most important thing of all— Le., How to Sleep, Plot and Characters. Without Sleep Man Cannot Live a Week. Hero is a selentiiic truth, yet how many people know, or even think, about this startling fact. We look upon food as an essential and it plays an important role, yet there are records, araptly,autlienticateci• than cause considerable trouble. The of individuals who have fasted for fact that we may not be immediately many days, and even several weeks, conscious of them or their cause, does without injurious results% Sleep, how- not affect the result, for It makes' its ever, permits of no such abstinence, presence •felt --sometimes by little• The body must have rest, for rest is , aches and pains, and et other times imperative. We live only as we sleep. ! by annoying little internal, disorders. One of the first lessons that we are i Now, it may never occur to many taught in physiology is that the human of us that these little disturbances body is -composed) of multitudes of : may be caused by improper sleeping tiny cells. Every thought, every ae- conditions, but very often our bed - tion, every tiny impulse consumes or spring is guilty because it fails to pro- exhausts these cells. Time the human perly support the spine. . body is -constantly wearing out. But- I The bed -spring may sag or slope it is just as constantly being renewed. away in the centre, When we rest For as, these little cells are destroyed upon it, the hips (because they- are or consumed, new cells are created to heaviest) rent in, the spot of . deepest take their place. This procese is con- depression. The result is that we tinvous, but nature gets in her best sleep in an are, or modified II shape, work at night,'and so, in a great mea- with the hips low and the head and of Nil. tunes et its vertebrae the spinal oord, or great nerve of the boee,runs. This nerve is the mala trunk line of the 1>ody'si •intricate network of nerves —a direct connection between the brain and the millions of nerves that go .'branching out into various Parts of the body 'through myriad outlets. In the spine. Obviously, any injury to the spine must have an effeet upon the spinal' •cord and this, in turn, must effect the other nerves. If the spine is wrenched or subject to shock, it follows that the spinal cord must also experience .simi- lar disturbance. Severe injuries are usually the re - wilt of accident or carelessness. But. there are other little spins strains also other. The play hinges on them." For example: "Had Dogberry been one We cannot heap thinking. of certain whit less conceited, one whit less poi - characters in Shakespeare • as actual pons one whit less tedious, he could. beings. We wonder what this person not have failed to drop at- least one did before the play opened, and after syllable that would have arrested Leonato's attentiou just before the tragic treatment of Hero in the mar- riage scene, which would not have taken place, and the *hole story would have ended then ,anci •there."— Albert H. Tolman, in "Falstaff and Other Shakespearean Topics." Coffee Peddler's Rise, • John Pearce, who sixty years ago. peddled coffee and sandwiches. from a' coster's barrow in the greets of Lon- don, is now at the head of a mammoth cateriug concern which feeds 100,000 people every day. Royal Congratulations. The Ring and Queen sent a message to Mrs. Ann Taylor, of Neville Street, Nottingham, congratulating her upon into the service, when any other less her 100th birthday. ingeniously absurd watchmen and night -constables would have answered the mere necessities of the action," A few writers had pointed the way to a sounder interpretation; but it was Dd. Furness who showed clearly that Dog - berry and his associatees were fore- ordained . . . for the exact roles which Shakespeare wished them to play, that the dramatist "was forced to have characters like these and none it closed. What was the girlhood of Portia? Why had Othello never sus- pected the baseness of Iago? What was the fate of Shylock atter the scene in court? Of what sort was the 'mar- ried life of Beatrice and_ Benedick? In Shakespeare'sbest work the •plot and the characters determine each other. We know that the playwright usually started with some borrowed story, 'but the final result often ap proximittes n perfect union of the two elements. The story requires the per- sons-, and the persons• fashion the story. Even the special students of the dramatist have been slow to appreci- ate this point. It was Coleridge him- self who spoke of Dogsberry and his comrades" in "Much Ado" as "forced sure, we overcome the loss that we ex- perienced by day by the gain that we make in sleep at night. How Much Sleep Is Essential? Big Peaches In China. .Chinese peaches weighing a pound are raised in Shantung. Nature, in her wisdom, tae given us day and night --reserving eightfor rest and recuperation --and so ap- proximately one-third of our life ta, or should be, devoted to Bleep. Much; however, depends upon' the individual, for different people require different durations of sleep. Infants need more sleep than eduits. Folks in the prime of life usually re- quire less then the aged. But it is not the quantity of sleep that counts so much as it is the quality. We Are Only as Good as Our Nerves. Anything that has to do with the nerves is exceedingly important, for the nerves govern the functioning of our muscles and internal organs, and so we tome to our spine. ' The spine is, not only the backbone of the body—it is literally the back- bone of life, for. down through the cen- woman. "Oh, clear!" exclaimed Edith to her doll; "I do wish you would sit still! I never saw such an uneasy thing in my lifer Why don't you act like grown people and be still and stupid for awhile!' shoulders, and knees an dankles high. The spine, instead of being supported at every point, ie famed out of its na- tural turves. Strain affects the opine' cord, and other nerves suffer. Their nourishment may be out down Their efficiency is checked. There is addi- tional strain on eramped muscles kept too long in an awkward or uncomfort- able position, and we wake up in the morning, paying the penalty of pain: that an inefficient bed -spring, phut our own thoughtlessness have caused. To retire at night healthily fatigued; to stretch out easily and oomfortably, upon a perfect bedspring, and feel its soft, resilient, restful support;_ to breathe the refreshing aroma of cool, eight air, and freshly laundered bed - linen; to experience the luxuriant `•sen cation of drooping eyelids, flickering shadows, hazy thoughts, and then— drop off into calm, untroubled sleep, is a-boonrthet evenkingsmight envy. Yet it le the heritage of everyman. and Burnt Children, etc. "He says he wants nothing more to do with red-hot mains." "Burnt children dread the fire." Jewel Fad Invites Theft. • A new British fad, of wearing neck- laces with strings hanging down the back, is viewed with alarm by Soot - land Yard, Detectives assert that pre- cious stones are thus offered tempting- ly to the thief, who can snatch them much more safely than when worn in the regulation manner, with the stringe. og jewels at the front. —Alexander Pope. • Children Herded Like Dogs. Lenin's widow blazes• the present Soviet regime for the frightful condi- tion of children in Moscow as reported in reoent newspaper dispatches, which said they roam the streets like- little wild animals and are herded like doge by the militia. In a recent article, she says that the failure of the present government, rather than the sins of the older regime, is to blame for their I predicament. Killed in Her 'Tracks. ' ''Why doe% a hen crass the road?" "She deesnt, any more; the auto- -Mobile sees to that" ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES A ToKTL! THATS . FINE P o o.p (Copyryw,hh 1514. by'rhF BeH-Svodicmia req) Like Seeks The Difference Between Business and Hospitality. "For -driving a close bargain," said the horse -buyer, . "commend me to a' Scotchman, but that isn't 'all there :IS to him." _ • Pressed for an explanation of his statement, the.;horee-buyer continued:, . "A few years ago I was up -country) buying horses. I had purchased two when I cani•e upon a Scotchman who offered me one. I looked the horse over and offered. the man $185 for hi& horse He wanted ,$19.0. We talked quite a while, but the. Scotahnran stuck to his price. I had other..peospecta; further north and wished to see them,' and I was twenty Miles from home,: and the roads' were bad. Seeing that I could make no impression on the. Scot, I said, pezlhaps a little impatient-, ly, 'Weill, you can have $185 or keep your horse.' • "The Scot coolly replied: 'We'll •split the difference. I'll take one hundred' and eighty-seven dollars and flftyi cents for him.' I looked the horse over; again. He seemed to be just the kinds I wanted, and I closed the -bargain. The look of•grineeatis'faction: on the Scot's face impressed me, He had maintain- ed his reputtation• as a good bargainer.' 'Then.he said to nee, 'Where are you, going for the eight?' • " 'Going back heme,jnow,' I said, I fear a little shortly, for I was impati eat at the delay caused by our hag4 gling over theTrice -of the horse. 'I • must take the ,hotBei home et.once.' " 'I thought You were going 'farther north to buy more horses,' he said. - "'I am, to -morrow,' sairl'I. • - " 'Well that will be a hard trip home and back again,' sale he. 'Better stay; here over night. 1 can l.ut you up :MI' right.' "I was very tired anal cemented,i though I almost feared what 1 would have to pay in the morning for the so - counted a ti o n c-couniedati0n "When I we,s ready • to go, in the Morning, 1 :asked the Scotch -man for my bill. "'Oh, That's all right,' saki he. "I was so taken back that I stam- mered. 'if I were at a botstle I'd have to pay,' said': 'and. 'tn ready to pay you eat the same.' "' 'You pay' me nothing,' said be. 'You a•re my guest.' - " rept, understand,' said 1. 'You entertain t1 man •and four horse§ over night; and charge nothing, while lass: night you "drove lire holiest bargain I ever made and clrimekd ..lie last fifty cents. "'Oh, that's butS•lness,`•.said the Scot, 'and We my dui*. to get, the best price ler Imy horses ....bet, :entertalit ing a guest 1s another matter.' "• - Grasshoppers. i.n., Ice. Grasuho•pper glacier,- near Y.eilow- see no P•hrk, ' cotntaitls .• idt trruerable frozen g '•asethopper's, Comet and the Earth.. • - Thereie about:one y,hknee lu•.20,- 000,000'year'. •of a comet's Welkin*the Lice eat'ti ,: