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Zurich Herald, 1926-04-15, Page 3j� LI1' IDEAS HAVE LEI) TO GREAT THIN The Preheat vast rubber trade owes much of its exkytonca teethe simple in- I ventiots of a .» taat veterinary var- ve'on This Irish doctor 'hwas concerned chiefly with an attempt to improve his boy's bicycle, and evolved the idea of; the pneumatic tire, The name of the looter, Outline, is perpetuated in a concern employing over twenty-eight thousand people, with factories all over the world. But Dunlop's little idea represents even more than the development of factories for producing rubber tires. The development of mechanical trans- port has resulted from it. If there had teen no such thing aa• the . pneumatic tire thirty years ago, the development of motor -cars could not have come about, for the materials the automobile engineers had at their disposal at that time were incapable of -withstanding the stress and strains of high speeds over rough road sur- faces. Pb•e advent of the pneumatic. tire smoothed away the difficulties and made the motor -car possible. But th•o outcome of this one little idea of Dunlop's goes still further. From the motor -car sprang the aero- plane! Had it not been for the motor- car, it would not have been possible for engine designers to construct motors of suffieieutly light weight- to enable aeroplanes to fly and maintain themselves in the air for more .than a few minutes on end. _ o * * .., - * There are people living to -day who were born before matches, as we know them, were made, for in Mr. William Henry Beable'e book, "Romance of Great Businesses," he tells, us that it is less than a hundred years ago since Jahn Walker, of, Stdekon-on-Tees, in- vented the first 4riat i, for which he charged a shilling a hundred, with an addltionai twopence Lor the tin oone twiner: in each box was a piece o! sand. paper, which had to be doubled over the head of the match, and the latter drawn out forcibly. Today :Bryant & May'e alone em- ploy over 4,000 men and women They have their own forests, and grow their own trees from :seed. One of their machines turns out 66,000 match splints a minute! * * * Coventry is to -day famous for its bicycles and motor --cars. But if yott had been in London in 1869 you might have seen an Englishman, who had been resident in Paris, riding au ex- traordinary machine. It had two wheels of almost equal size ;show with iron, a slightly curved backbone, and a saddle into which the rider had to got the best way he could. The spectators, to use the man's own words, were filled with "surprise, fear, laughter, astonishment, admira- tion and pity." This "Velocipede" was brought to England by Mr. Rowley B. Turner for the purpose of having it reproduced here, into few years • it was taken up, and from it Was developed the modern bicycle and motor -car. It is interesting to note that it was not until November, 1896, that the law of England permitted a mechanically propelled vebicle to be driven ou a public road at more than a walking pace. Previously, in order to ensure that the four miles an hour limit should not be exceeded, a pedestrian had to go ahead of such vebicles displaying a red flag as a symbol of the danger that was approaching—anti this less than thirty years ago! --A. R. W. • Growing the Gladiolus for Ornamental Effect ti nes ' By Henry J. Moore, Ontario Hort - cultural Association. Tho average person who grows the Gladiolus will merely •purchase the corns which are of a flowering size and plant them to produce flowers, during the first year. It is not necessary to have a special plot for the plants un lees the object is to raise flowers or corms for sale in which case better cultivation -can be effected when the plot Ls devoted to the gladiolus. When grown for sale the plants are usually set out _eine inches apart in rows which may be two or three feet apart to allow of cultivation. The corms are planted about three inches deep during May. .. It is, however, with•the culture of the Gladiolus for ornamental effect that 'thisarticle will deal. it is not fully sold Mine.. realized by even many expert growers Toni—"He '1 her "sweetheart ly at Vienna. Almost immediately place. Those who have no proper stor- age place may use shallow boxes or even baskets in which to store the corms. A moderately dry atmosphere and a temperature of about 45 deg. le. in the storage place will be proper. Do not lift the corms until the leaves and sterile commence to show a Alien- ed condition; even should a light frost occur the corms will not be inured. Memories, Larkspur and lilies jostling one ant' other, A tangle of gillyflowers brown and • gold; Dreams, there�•.are dreams in the satin of the lilies, And rnetneries that heal in the brown and gold. A porch _new thatcher' with heavy, heavy roses, Facing out westward to the warm day's end; A crooked unreasonable roof of visions Above it—you see It at the beech - lane's bend, Down the path, and between the rebel roses •- Diligent bees go gathering In their store; At work with his castles of earth and air and wonder I see a child—who is a child no more, —•Olwen A. Joergens. . A. Riviera for Wales. There is no reason why the villages of Wales should not be as beautiful ad any of those that 115 on the •slopes of Itelian hills or the shores of the Riviera, according to Mr. R. G. Wil. 1!lains-FiJis, the well-known decorative artist, who constructed Llangoed- Castle. To prove his contention, Mr. Wil- liams -Ellis is building a little village, to be named Port Meirion, on a pro- montory near Portmadoc. It is his 'aim to make a colony of houses "as native to the soil and as much. in har- mony with the lovely surroundings as• any white -walled township of the Invades the "Lords." South:' Miss Margaret H. Kidd; of the Scot - which Mr. Williams -Ellis' view, Wales, fish bar, who is the first woman bar which is one of the loveliest •countries rioter to appear before the House of in the world, is spoilt by its villages and townships, which are quite out of keeping with the beauty of the sur- rounding scenery. He hopes that Port Meirion will show what can be done by taste and imagination in building to improve the Principality. The project has the wholehearted backing of Mrs. Williams -Ellis, who is a daughter of Mr. St. Loe Strachey. It is hoped that representatives of every class of people who love artistic Lords. She is appearing in an appeal. "'Tis Better to Have Loved." This truth came, borne on bier and pall; I feel it when I sorrow mo•s•t; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all It was Alfred Tennyson who' came to this conclusion concerning the true value of love. When he went up to Surroundings will be attracted to Port Cambridge as a youth he met another Meirion, and for their convenience Frost should, however, not be allowed young man of similar tastes, named every comfort devised by modern in- throat. to reach them after the corms are Arthur Henry Hallam. genuity is being embodied in the The dogwood boughs are glowing. • lifted. • Tennyson took his -chum home with houses under construction A party of The lilac bush is sweet again, Down every wind that passes, Fly flakes from hedgerow and from lane, The bees are in the grrss•es. • Rivers Supply Sea With Tonle of Salt,k tyne+; Face Up to . ,ifs. It is not an away thing 10 lets The automat of water to the eoeans Self fully in the Yate, We aro Qom fry 302,000,D00 cubic m'1eb, or thirteen: twitted about oitr vanity, but it is trY tim'ee the .het me`of all the iaud,abeve. Ing for anyone ito consider himself, be - eve. The average height of •tee : cause we each are ewers of certain level. t? various lend areas above the level of things in la which y nesenary other Jenoing to the sea is about forty-four .one-hun- fl vr dredtbs of a mile, the, overage depth u,s• to lay all our weaknesses and vir- of the sea is somewhat over two miles, toes on the table and examine them in trays an American writer: private Penn time to time, Not to do Ea.dh year the sea reeeives 157,000,- it 13 an expression 01 weakness. If we 000 tone of sodium train the rivers in- to which. the mina have washed it from the soil. Let us see what . the' flow of a• river nneans in this connec- tion. Every year the Mississippi Rives carries to the sea 98,369,000 tons of' saline matter, taken from an area of 1,259,000 square miles.; the waters of the St. Lawrence bring down 29,278,- 000 9,278; 000 tons from atr area of 286,900 square miles; the Colorado delivers 13,416,400 tons from 225,000 square miles and the Potomac brings down 771,000 tons from 9,650 square miles.. An average of the waters of nine- teen. rivers shows 762,587 tons of sa- line matter for each cubiti mile of river water. Thotis•ands of millions of tons of gold are dissolved in the watems of the ocean, in a concetutration of from half a grain to one grain per' ton of water. At this concentration there would be $10 worth of gold in each 250 to 600 tens of ocean water. Except in the extreme north and south the temperatures of the ocean below the surfaoe sink rapidly at first and then more slowly, Taking the ocean as a whole, the temperature of all the water below 3,000 feet s less than 40 degrees. On the bottom at 9,000 feet or more it is only 35.2, de- grees. The great mass of ocean water from one's own failure on to another. therefore, has a temperature not musk Facing up to life is just having the above the freezing point. courage to blame oneself for not do-' ing better, and determining to im- April Weather. prove in future. In a frank and honest Oh, hush, my heart, and take thine way, ask questions about life in gen- �ase. oral and do it fearless+ly. Get toi know For here is April weather! what relation there is between your The daffodils beneath the trees life and that of every other thing." Are all a -row together, Measure them up and face them squarely and. in the name of all that The thrush is back with his old note; is best, having counted the oast, move The scarlet tulip blowing, on and make the goal. And white, ay, white as my love's_;; There are far more prizes in the world than we imagine. The honor of - are afraid of anything we are slaves to that thing. It is unnecessary to .indulge too much Sn salt -examination, None of us le per- fect, and to linger n_ thought upon the • unworthy to to mise the ideal, A man may be so concerned wlth..the muds- rake that he is unaware of the sum. above him and ,his life will become sor- did. To take oneself too seriously is' unhealthy. But there is the honest side et life which does Ease up to its claims and discovers the means by which failure may be changed to conquest, and re- treat become progress. Surely none of us is satisfied with his treatment of Ife's opportunities! and possibilities and.responsibilities?; We have missed so many and shirkedL so many more. Had we but grasped' them at the moment, life would have been very different with us, We were left behind In the race just because we Were not ready to start; or someone passed us because we •omitted to equip ourselves for the ordeal. The tendency with many of us is to blame these omissions, It must be true in such instances to say: "If it hadn't been for so-and-so we should have won." Yes, but how do you ex- plain the "if"? That surely is your business and not another's. It is ai • him of Somersby Vicarage, where Hal- lam fell in love with his sister Emily and became engaged to her. Hallam had a tremendous admiration for his poet friend, and be told Gladstone, who was born in the same year. as Tennyson, Thin be the greatest pot of our: generation, hiu perhaps of our century," althoughThitt Tennyson had only just tamed twenty. Then, unheralded by any sign or symptom of tidisease, the blow fell like. Tl1i a thunderbolt from a clear sky. The .thin news came that Arthur Hallam, a tweet •two; had diets sudden- . Thin architects ,writers, and others visited Wales at Easter in order to see the progress being made with the scheme. Think Right. that he "promised fair to Think smiles, and smiles shall be; k doubt, and hope will flee. k love, and love will grow; k hate,.and hate you'll know• nk good, and good is here; nk vice—its• jaws appear! k joy, and joy neer ends; nk gloom, and dusk descends. youth of Y ca, s ` that the. full beauty of the plant when mine:" i Tennyson began to write Itis great iii full flower is revealed only when' Dick—"Yes, he's working her for masterpiece, "In Memoriam," in which compared with other garvien subjects gold." he argues the question: "Is this the end?" He comes eventually to the Getting the Worst of it at Both Ends. conolasion that life persists beyond Little Mary always had an objection the grave, but, he says, even if it did not, "'Tis hetet to have loved and lost ready to hand either about going to than never to have loved at all." That bed at night or getting up in the morn -is to say,love, whether for wife or ing. Ono night, when her mother re- friend, is its own reward, and has an minded her that it was her bedtime, influence on character and life quite independent of death. or when growing in company with them. . Even the person who owns but a small border ivay grow a few gladioli among the herbaceous perennials where they will 'be perfectly at home because growing he .proper company_. What plant is better adapted for the herbaceous border than the Gladiolus? she said: It is a perennial although it haste be "It isn't fair. At night you tell me lifted in the fall in Canada. The state- I'm too little to stay up, and in the ly spikes afford variety to the border morning you say that I'm too big to but• harmonize with other flowering stay in bed." plants. A great deal, however, de- ------+. pends upon the arrangenien•t of the Selling Milk to the Britisher. bulbs and the choice of their position • in relation to that of other subjects. The National Milk Publicity Coun- scent wth a slight pressure of the ring For use in.the herbaoeous border the oil, a British organization which seeks finger. corms should lee planted in numbers of to .promote the use of milk on the a, perhaps twelve in masses.. Smaller "tight little isle," bas engaged a wo- A Candid Advertisement. numbers will, however, make a nice man, Dr. Florence Jack, as meth al Truth out, even in advert!se- clump. Straight lines of the corns adviser. Dr. Jack will lecture to wenmeats, will out, misprint shows: fare workers, nurses and mothers, and ''Waited, general of Perfume in a Ring, A perfume bag has been designed with a cameo setting concealing the container filled with cologne. A spring arrangement shoots a spray of • the should never be planted In the border 1.1 ornamental effect is desired. Form- ality of this kind should be strictly avoided. The natural beauty of the entire border will be impaired or be spoiled by the inclusion of a formal' line. When planting the corms a position: about the middle of the border is a good one for masses of gladioli. Only a few widely separated masses, how- ever, should be planted. The tall her-. baceous perennial% will not as a back - volute anti the • clwaes•f ones a fore- geettntl to the flowers The cortins in the' masses should be about nine inches apart. The mosses should near be so piaeed that the tall peren- 'ntiris obscure' the° gladioli when in dower, Nor stould they. be placed so near the front of the bonder as, to•stand out abruptly ns to.' be most consptcu. tine. The gladioitis, like all other garden snbjeoto, requires care and attention it it Is to produce the 'finest flowers and corms. • Cultivation produces good leaves which help' to fed the corals, Which are annually, formed on the old once.' The feed pf tite pbtht is ela.b- orated, in the leaves --that la prepared for titre. It is not usually •r:egesled that- the cutting of the flowetting'spikes fox gest oorative purposes entails muoh skill; bare the amateur often makes a great mistake. He cuts away tee much foli- age with the siiike, wiitelt results in the partial starvation of the corms, and the roots for sue•cessful blooming the renewing season. When digging the crop of gl•adleiva dttritig late autumn the plants ahottiel raleed by means of a digging fork end the coatis Ringed out on the grouted if the Weathe' le dry and favor- able. If Wait, the corms itad. butter be %pretd out tilt dry shelese itt iota; airy as will •conduct experiments. on the effect of milk diet on school children., • a the work servant. a small horse." to do Think faith. and faith's, at band; Think ill—it stalks the Iand. Think peace, sublime and sweet, And you that peace will meet. Think tear, with brooding mind, And failure's close behind, Think this: "I'm Going to Win!" Think not of what has been. Think "Victory"; think "I Can:" Tlien you're a \Vinutng Man! --.-David V. Bush. Stili Another -Sense. "Harry,," said a sailor, looking up from his writing to consult a friend. "do you spell 'sense' with a c or an s?" "That depends," said the friend. "Do you refer to money or to brains?" "Aw, I don't mean either of them." was the reply. "I want to say, 'I ain't seen him sense.' " Pope's Long Day. Pope Pins XI. rises at 6 in the morn- ing and seldom retires before mid- nigbt :lend .grief goes out and joy comes And care is but a feather, And every lad his love can win, For here is April weather, —Lizette W: Reese. n, Not For a Second. He —"Let me hold your hand for a secon Sire--d?"No; 11 I'm not the very first you can't bold it at all!" The Park at Dawn. Soon through the smoky baze The park begins to raise Its outlines clearer into daylight prose; Ever with fresh amaze The sleepless fountains praise Morn that has gilt the city as it gids the rose. —C melee de Kay. ten goes to another because we are slipshod and careless Life is always too big a thing to be careless. about. Let the utmost bo for the highest; do not doubt the possibility of failure. - So forget the wrong things said and done. They have blotted our copy- book undoubtedly—but every life bas its blot The more important thing is, to guard against further blotting. Improvement le to be progressive and to make to -morrow grander than to -day. Men and women of grit have made the world; and they have been those who could climb and not grow tired of the job they had undertaken. Life is always a grander thing than death. It has its problems, but the more there are the bigger the compli' meat life pays to tus. The man who hasn't strength and stamina to fight temptation Is rarely tempted. It is the man who is capable of the better thing who is tempted by the lesser. Why We Say It. "The Bitter End." This is one of those phrases that have only an apparent fitness and op- propriat:en.ess to certain occasions, for "to the bitter end" has no connection with tragedy and stress. but is a elm - Pie nautical term. It is impossible to say where it iirs•t appears in literature, but • Defoe cer- tainly twee it in its original sense in his great novel of adventure, "Robin- eou Crtts•oe." Here is the passage: --- By noon the sea weut very high in- deed and our ship red's foresastie in, shipped several seas, and we thoughr ` once or twice that our anchor had conte home, upon which our master ordered out the sheet -anchor, so that We rode with two •authors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bitter end.. What did Defoe mean by "thio bitter end"? He certainly did not mean to use these words in a metaphorical sense. Ile wee simply r•eferriug to the "bet," the nautical term for the turn of a cable, and the "bitter end" Is that part of the cable that is wound around the bit:t. "The biter end," therefore, is the extreme .end. ' As far as• is known, Defoe never ven- •titerd farther afield titan Spain end Portugal. The was the sen of a. butcher, and, having risked ltis life with Mon- mouth and helped to put William III. on the throne, he knew more about aold'iering titan about this sea. Yet he makes the iy2a so realistic in his great book that on.e can imagine oneself in Ws storms and shipwrecks. These things are miracles of von - :emotive imagination, and no amount of edueatton could enable a man who had not genius. to attain the eeme per- fection. 'Thus the use of the phrase "to the bitter end" becomes a sunt of tonehslone by which the accuracy and genius of Defoe eau be measured. �. . Healthy Occupation. Dr. Charles I4. Mayo, the eminent surgeon, says that he bas found that letter -earners are about the healthiest lot of inen in the country. If that is so. it is s.afo to ,say that they owe their good health to the fact that their oceu *tion obliges them to walk seven al 1111155 a day n the epee air. There is he better preventive medlrine than that in the pharmacopoeia, FAMOUS Biil-r151•i AIRMAN COMPLETES DARING FLIGHT Birds of Prey Dof't Sing. al 16,000 -mils dash to Cape Towu, South Africa, and t'e- It is a, cations fact •that tree 1)46 o1 Alan J, r:abliann, the itytng ace, greeted when he returned to t'lmiglaunl alter his .. s erisat,ioti , ..,., 'pa,eY baw� dim lift. of +ioitt. turn, Gobitattt tuned home •at an average rate of 100 Ingest breaking all Ulna ecortls for the flight. •a f