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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.,
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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.
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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
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