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.' "•
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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 ,: