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Zurich Herald, 1926-05-20, Page 241 The Bridle Path. 'THE RUNNING 'WATER OF CONVERSATION I which eethecho Gs is 'the at intervals ,, Creon maple leaves hang like pale tan experience p'here of charity azid Purity. Yet with - harms aver and zs hang imps oe Ian. The field of oto daily p .o a .country warns out the Mining water of eoitversa�oll, foliage tlzero 'are tiny sozxl7yer'Ircols'Qf may e eyes out of sound of the run. ;-his inlagiiiative Country will retnaiz rain that are slowly vanishing into the oonversatiou.: Carrying, ' imaginative, fpr it lacks that sound earth that softly'lps team surfeit. The ilillg Water Uf the simile further we may divide our ; which gives it actuality. The r1e1i b path is hagE sunlight, half shade, Cool t day into its 'various parts;: the great of the conversation is • the rule If the � and l wholesome in stpats; then dry and open fields of our daily labor's; se- ' which ^tlltione ovel doesszioteringotruo, ii! it � suzuinorl". 1 dace retreats of study and literary conversethele the; The path bears fresh scars, me- 1)1'0V/singe ngs and Pleasant, sunny hill- : lacks wit, taint' orrpurpose, ults of then th - ; mentos of caresssa from hoofs of noble aides of play and relaxation. 'Through wore. is doomed, n•descriptilts are in construe - animals, animals. Little scallops., cttrverag ores - all of these pursuits we Bear continual- i tion, torm d to faulty convey- Cents', and receding blunt depressions ly ,the sound Of that running water. cant when comparedhave Been lately placed on the hard Quiet we .must have at times, and so 1 sation. I surface where the 'road rests in the we journey to solitudes of .complete' A Vigorous Flow, .laughing sunshine in moister places invariably return to the many cases the running water there is the fall imprint of a recent I silence, .but the my y In too z a Y �; is earth with heightened joy. anon is not in consonance motnena•de Loft in the plast accustomed sound wi g of conversation A. meal eaten in silence is a dull iwith the varied contour of the novel as How unfrequented Is the bridle affair; our food must , a bauks of a stream of friendly filter- ; narrative and action, through valleys oity park with its trees and flowers! And' 11 ht chatter if it is to be oY descriptive beauties, the running How charming its d•eseetion, its quiet ... MEN AND WOMEN Of TO.DAY be served on tire ; . whole 'Olin^ottgll rugged peaks of ! path that leads through the blossoming Lord Beaverbrook ctrxun 'pleasant and palatable. The running stream too often Rows along at the desuetude! Along the boulevard that water of conversation sounds through- sante level as though it were a canal may bo seen from the hilltop there are out our daily routine, 1 heightening our joy, and multi-.; teresting line The water flows, it is 1 smooth brown road. But only a few• :• Churchill to prepare his speeches, but ightening our cut straight through in one Rat unin- ! hundreds• of motorcars gliding over a Canadian -bort editor, newspaper owlt- et' and politician of England, who is now writing a "Life of Christ," follow- ing •the recent publication of his "Re- collections and Reminiscences." No More "howling," Sir ,OI!ver. Lodge's :discove't.y •Qf a reln.edy' for "howling,." hitlerto the 'bugbear of wireless reception, adds an- other achievement, to the many that stand to hie credit In connection with wireless. Almost exactly forty. years ago Sir Oliver showed how a spark in one Ley- don jar' could be Made to cause a spark in another Leyden jar sone distance away. Soon after this he made the lest electric bell ring without wires, at a distance of forty yards. And he lead a wireless apparatus working in Liverpool two years before Senator Marconi Came from Italy to take out his first wireless patent. Behind the Budget. Mrs. Winston Churchill, whose hus- band's Budget proposals are being freely discussed, plays a far greater !part in political lite than most people realize. - She not only helps Mr. tasks, teles ng , P lying every benefit Which accrues to true but there is nothing inspiring in people revel in the joys of the bridle Light From Plants! attends the House of Commons regu- us. How little we would get from our ; the sight of it. Since the novel is but path, walk their luxurious -animals ' By exposure to the glow of a lumin- early to Bear him deliver them and, reading and study were we shut off the complete leap of the imaginative over the scented earth, talking to them oats plant found in Bengal, a photo presumably, to Criticize them after from a friendly interchange of views. I country which the author wishes his the while, or inhaling the perfume of graphic plats has been successfully wands!` Even the more or less idle chatter of ' reader to behold, the streams must new b1•oom, _their thoughts intact, un-. developed. Lately she has given much ofher 1 i leu frame . . From Discussion to Chatter. narrative, let the water come down fallen like rain, as they enjoyed the cd a eol4ection of luminous vegetation, Churchill is- a born Parliamentarian, Because of the variety of. topography i with a zestful sparkle; if there is a burgeoning blossoms, the trailing ,nays that luminosity was usually con- and knows the ropes as well as any of this conversational country, the i sheer cliff of sharp action, the stream vines, and the sight of robin red- { fined to certain spots, • but in some than. streams must necessarily range from !must come with a rush and then the ef- breast. ,eases the fiat surfaces glowed all over. "Drop InI" ad rivers of deep discus-' feet enhanced by water- Overhanging branches. from the bon h : d white treak of tight the deep, bio el anal vol- ices form a natural Tudor arch h A friend of imine, just r our playtimes is a necessary part of;follow the general contour down to its spoken, but tacitly shared with tier Mr. S. R. Bone; of the Carinlohael time and energy , to helping Mr. our relaxation end If there are sharp declivities of mount. Softly their horses' hoofs have medical College, Calcutta, uta, who obtain Churchill his Budget Mrs f t of the ciur is en lance I Stalks h owe a w tothehatter of tiny streams. of fall. Down through the sheltered and deriag t h d d ha ,along their .angt ipiAt;ve rumination the stream hors the solace of the woodland, back fom Bien ncthat partially shades the road an har- ing talk. Here are foam-. lays and meadows of description ing cataracts of words, oratorical.l con en waterfalls to please the sight-seeing ' should still retain a fresh smooth multitudes, having' a certain. grandeur, ledger, This rule of conversation applies but the continuous thunder of It event- ually palls, and the roar of it remains In one's ears for long after. There are seething rapids of debate, broken up by craggy rocks and snags into acri- monious crimonious riffles, or billows• upon which only the hardiest dare embark. Arti- ficial channels we have in abundance, where the current is siuggist and smooth, and which vie with the water- slang, mere verbal makeshifts, ac - tabs in popularity with the multitude. cumulate rapidly like timeformsuch Here the boating is easy and anyone and may embark with safety, the pace is a stubborn impediments to the natural lazy one, and no great expenditure oY current that the styeat heroic efforts are neces- energy is required to keep afloat. In our reading this demand for the . Like every stream it needs must sound of running water is more im- pick up additional breadth and depth perative than is generally- acknow- as It flows, and here again increasing ledged. A novel without conversation 'watchfulness is esseutial. If the would be a dull affair. The author stream is to retain its clarity and may give us an imaginative country of purity, every tributary that would a beauty that is thrilling. He may give bring with it adulteration or impurity us visions that entrance. Car horizons in any form must be diverted, and that glow with a truthful light. rraggy peaks that may be climbed ouly by the dint of earnest effort, and once at- tained exhilarate with their atmos - it is said that the light is due to a fungus whioh gives out a substance Fishes Change Color. There comes a steady, rocking that glows in contact with oxygen or On the waters of the, Gulf of Mexico, in the air, the resounding water. So long as the fungus lives it and, more specially in .the gulf stream music of a single horseman, made by continues to emit light. The planta, around Florida and Cuba, the fishes, nearly all of them, are so gaudy in coloring that they are always a great wonder to visitors.. There are several reasons gives for sound, this steady staccato beat of apanese �.rfBr23eI1 the great diversity of color, but the horse and horseman. The twain come Now Engaged in Businessthe theory is that the fishes have, into view. It is a new Centurion. A, A Government census reveals that in the course of millions of years, cod - twentieth century girl, riding like a' almost 1,000,000 women in Japan are ored themselves to suit the .color of the part of the beautiful horse—a crimson', engaged in business, excluding the ocean •landscape, corals, flowers, rider on a chestnut mare. They swing thousands of girls and women employ- •sponges and all things which form the past. Nothing separates thein, Mer- I ed in factories. curian wings lightening the hoofs of ' Of these 100,000 are in medical ser - the horse as they scale Parnassian vice, as• physicians., nurses, midwives Spain, toile lite this new story of K?ng Alfonso, who, by the way, le comiug to Loudon rami tlY, "gays an English writer. Driving recently just outside ] 1a drid, the King's car. came to a stand- still, and. .a minor adjustment had .to be made by the chauffeur. At that mo- ment a tired -looking workman, who was , walking in the saxne direction, came up, and, not recognizing the King, askd him for a lift as far as Ma drid. The King, with a smile, told, him to' jump in, and the car conveyed" him swiftly to his humble dwelling in the slums of Madrid. Then the King shook hands with the amazed work- man, ork man, who had begun to thank him, "Good-bye, old man," he said. "Have a good rest, and if you want anything at any time, come and see me at the Palace." His Ready Retort. Mr. Tom Griffiths, M.P., formerly Treasurers of., the Royal Household, whose ' outspo'keir comments on in- herited wealth have been attracting attention, has the reputation of never missing the chanoe of an apt retort.. Just before the last election he was speaking at a 'meeting in the course of which a member of his opponent's party shouted: "You're not fit to stand for us!" In a flash Mr. Griffiths replied, "That's all the more reason why I should stand for you!" equally to the novel and to our daily the cymbals of metal and firm carter, living. In the quiet fields• and valleys with a rising interlude as an occasion-' where there are no spectacular drops al surface rock is' struck. The rush of and rapids, the stream must be kept clear of obstruction lest 'it lose its deep, smooth sweep, and become tor- pid and sluggish. Unnecessary col- loquialisms and ban -al or even vulgar kept in a moist condition, glowed for ten weeks. the bridle path is broken by Ullanow !31�,DD heights. Ancient Clocks. In the little village of East Hendred ecene?y under the surface of the waters.. The groupers and rockfish of the and drug clerks. Another 80;000 are southern waters -are the ones which teachers, while 50,000 are telephone I I are famous for changing color, operators and in office work, There 1 As a rule, the changes come when are 600,000 women in what is described . the fish becomes frightened. or excited, in Berkshire, England, there is a as "commercial business," including and frequrently it will.change its color - church clock that has been telling the waitresses and motion picture actress- ing in a few seconds•_ time without interruption for four huu- es, the latter numbering 620. There The color suddenly turns lighter or dred years. At last they hard to stop it are 34,000 women hairdressers, 1,000 darker according to the tint of the siir- rderstet necessary,repairs might women employed in newspaper offices., every rivulet from a clear source andto o turned diligently into be made; but the old clock is again on and 200 musicians. The average wage has reached a hue suitable to the vege- that there was only one apple in the spring flowing bevgtable or. other growth in the vicinity. our flawilr river that its growth may the job, ready to run Por four centuries for women Is about twenty yen ($9.60) dish. She started to cry bitterly, and g more r o doubt. Even this• clock Is not; a month. Sctent s after a lot of P roundings, and keeps changing until it Children's Wit and Wisdom. "Granny," said small John as he was leaving the church after his uncle's wedding, "Uncle is married now, isn't he?" -"Yes, darling." "'Then what's hie. name now?" A little boy had been out to a party, On. the way home he rooked up sudden- ly at the stars and exclaimed: "Oh, -daddy, look at those pretty stars. What makes them keep up? Are they stuck or gummed?" Little Mollie was reading the family record book, containing the Pull names and birth dates of each member of the family. Finally she came to her own. She gave a cry of .amazement and ex- claimed: "Why, daddy, I was born on my birthday!" Two little sisters, Queenie and Doris; were having tea, when Queenie saw i c ou its who have studied thecoaxingsaid,in a plain - be equal lit to'tmagnitude. of Rye pariah has• one that was erect Value. e o p Bags. evenO • "Please, isle in quality y its the oldest in England, for the church ~- dishes in their ocean ones find that $ tive voice: w_ . _ . _ _ _.-.. __._. _ _ Vj i f Fa er Ba 8 as the fishes swim aeon d over ' Pl s mamma there's no ap Changing Signposts. Sense and Sensibility. _. ea fn 1515 and is still running wttli its The story is told of a man who, on Years ago, I admit, when I first had a original mechanism his deathbed, said, "The thing that car, troubles me now, more than even the great sius of life, is aatriek 1p ayre I when I was a boy. e lived was a moor, in the middle of which two roads met, and at those cross-roads ' was a rickety signpost. The arms of this signpost were loose, and one day for fun I took them down and changed them so that they pointed out the wrong read. I now wonder how many poor travellers I sent across that moor in the wrong direction." Do we ever change the signposts? I counted the total expense; I was able to say at the end of each day What it cost me in dollars and cents. I plotted the curve of expenditures, too, The gas and the oil that it took; And whenever I blew any tube or a shoe I entered it all in a book. But I found that T hated to go for drive Just look round, and the tendency for Before I had 'even begun; this in the world may be easily dis- A puncture, or such, would affect me cerned. To -day some of us call dark- so much nese light, and the bitter things are re- That it spoiled every hit of my fun. presented as sweet. "Smart" people So now I've abolished my system of can it -"seeing lite"; thosewho wish cost, for excuses talk of "sowing wild oats." 1Iy spirits are way above Par; I'm as free as the air, without worry or care And I'm really enjoying. my car! —Harold S. Osborne. a It all amounts to the same thing—the changin.g of the signpost. There is no necessity for us to be prudish or goody-goody. The world has no room for either the Pharisee or , the prig. We need to cultivate a breadth of tolerance and sympathy that can find room to appreciate those who think differently from us. Bu t it is vitally necessary that we shall mark out. the way with clearness in or- der that others may not be misled. It 1.s up to all of us not to trifle with the things that are dangerous. If a man cafes to risk his life, that is his responsibility. There is plenty with which to enjoy ourselves without our jeopardizing the best in us. Several uses, may be made of the varicolored seedbeds they- change col- for Doris." delivered suer- or as they bass; but it is a very in- ,roan,.'aged three,wished to' go into • the garden 'one foggy morning. She opened the door, ,and then returned to the room. "What's the matter, read?" asked her mother. "I can't _see outside," she replied. "It's ever so dusty."Little Doris had been for a walk. with Auntie. On her return she said to me: "We saw some birds, and auntie says they were wood pigeons, but I'm sure they were made of fetal,. ers." Papel bags to wrench are d --�.• plies from the stores. teresting study to watch their In an A Shock. After one has cleaned and washed aquarium. "Tommy, dear, slid you hear your lettuce, place it in a bag and Put it mother call you?" next to the ice. .It will be crisp and Princess Mary's Boy "Course I did!" - cold when taken out for'ause, and will "Then why don't you go to her at not discolor as it does in a cloth Tasting With Your Eyes. it is often said that blind people do not care to smoke, and it is true that blindndss robs smoking of much of its pleasure. It is equally true than blind- ness largely spoils the pleasure that the average person takes in food. Un- less we try the experiment 01 eating with our;