Zurich Herald, 1926-05-27, Page 711u OF SPICES INTERWOVEN
WITH EARLY ROMANCE AND WAR
Nowadays the nations of the earth
can get up a tremendous• amount of
excitement over oil wells and rubber
trees, And it llama .been so long
either since some of our ancestors
used to pop out trona behind . a palm -
covered island to take a pot shot at'
the Sp•auish treasure ge•1leons , But it
bas beenhundreds and hundreds of
years since cloves were a part of- a'
bride's dowry and men cold the shirts I
off their backs or bartered their im-
mortal eoule to bring 'back a cargo of
cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper to some
chilly city In northern Europe. it may
be gasoline the •world needs nowadays I
or a good 5 -cont cigar. But once upon '
a time, long before Queen -Elizabeth
was puttingthe flirty young princes
of Europe in their places, merchants '
wanted ginger, rhubarb and the pre-
cious root called galingale.
In the Middle Ages the spines came
across the deserts of Arabia by camel
train, traveling at night usually to es-
cape the burning sun. Sometimes the
merchants •game from the mysterious
lands to the east by way of the freez-
ing Caucasus, where men were alter-
nately.robbed, Frozen an.d burned by
pillagieg tribes, mountain snow and
desert sun.
Some Spicy History.
It was all very 'mysterious to people
in the north. They knew that the
spices eventually reached the riots city
of Alexandria, in Egypt, where Ger-
mans from Bremen, Italians from
Genoa and Venice and Flemings from
Ghent used to go ha their crazy little
ships to buy their cargoes. There was
a theory abroad that somewhere 'near
the head -waters of the Nile was the
Paradise of Adam and Eve There was
a river in Eden coiled";Gihon, and the
spioe trees bent over^it, They dropped
the spice into the river, it floated down
the Nile to Alexandria, and the Egyp-
tient gathered it up to self—the pir-
ates! • All they did was to collect it,
but they charged enormous prices for
it just the same.
Absolutely Necessary.
One thing was certain, however,
cinnamon; cloves, nutmegs and mace
were absolutely neces•aary in mediaeval
cooking. They even put pepper into
their sweetened pastry, and their
meats were always stuffed with every-
thing from sugar and honey to subebs.
They had to do it. Breeding fat cat-
tle for food in those days was not what
it is now. Besides, even Charlemagne
or-• Frederick Barbarossa had no ice
boxes, When the meat became a little
bit rank the imperial cooks used to
disguise it as best they could. Some
of the recipes indicate that they were
, not unsuccessful. Our own minee-
meat goes back to the days when
everything was spiced to the limit. It
is practically the only descendant we
have of mediaeval dishes.
The kings and nobles knew that
spices were indispensable to a well-
' kept table, A skylark was. best cooked
t with raisins and cinnamon. A venison
pasty needed cloves and nutmeg, and
so .did wine. When an ambassador
went on a journey the king gave him
an allowance .of cinnamon and carda-
mon and other things to take along.
"Evil
COMMUaliCatiOnS Cor-
rupt Good Manners."
"Train up a child in the way he
should go," is an oft -quoted -saying of
the wise man, which is emphasized by
the friends and workers of the Sun-
day school in the moral teaching of
the youth of the laud. Thousands of
boys and girls• have received excellent
training in the Bible through the ef-
forts of faithful and self-sacrificing
teachers in the Sunday schools.
But what about music? Has the
average Sunday school scholar ac-
quired a taste for the higher and bet-
ter
etter music through the hymns that
have been sung from Sunday to Sun. -
day, or bas he acquired a taste for the
light and frivolous, one might almost
say the "jazz" of so-called sacred
music.
Some Sunday schools have bravely "Fall in!" sounded the silvery notes
tackled the music problem, and have of the bugle, and the men rushed to
made serious effort to secure the best take their places.
leadership in the best music available. 1 "Dress by the right!" roared the ser -
But too often there is a haphazard grant.
selection of the hymns to be sung. and I The men shuffled into a straight
the light, lilting modern tune is used line.
to sortie frothy rhyme, that teaches ab-: But the sergeant;an old soldier, was
solutely nothing of the great truths. of I not satisfied.
the Christian religion, "Come forward, McGinty!" he cried.
"Evil communications corrupt good! "McGinty', not here," said a voice.
'manners," is another proverb that may; The sergeant frowned but was un -
be used in this connection. Children • daunted.
love to sing good music, but give them' "Come forward, the man next to
a few Sundays of the lighter stuff, and hili, and sharp's the word!" was his
they lose their taste for the better.' command.
The best music is never too good for
a Sunday school, and even though it: 'Twas Ever Thus,
may seem a little more difficult to in-! The leading soprano of a touring
troduce it, a few' Semdays of careful opera company (not in this country,
prearrangement, and just as careful be it added) was an extremely attrac-
teaching, will give the scholars. an add- tive lady. Iter charms one night in -
ed zest in the music. spired a young man in the audience
to try to see leer behind the scenes.
•- Many Canadian people will respond Interviewing the manager, he begged
to the national appeal for the protec- to be allowed to speak to the prima
tion of the forests for the sake of pre- donna, and went on to say: "You're
serving the natural beauty of the land. lucky! You see her every day. Aren't
Songbirds are heard most joyously you in love with her?" "Rather!" was
where trees are plentiful,. where they the reply. "Oh," said the young man,
nest and live. Tree -planting on the "her husband, perhaps?" "No," said
prairies has been accompanied oy a the manager "her son." The enamour -
welcome increase in bird population.
Happily the leaders of all parties in
the Federal Parliament and in the pro-
vinces are united in indorsing the na•
tional crusade to'save the forests.
The Home Town.
Man loved not Adieus in her golden
days
More tenderly than these the tree -
lined town,
Which, lacking muses
praise, •
Lives in their hearts
sweet renown.
Red -Letter New Testament.
Bina up three bemired !rages in e
boolt,
Typed large for wondering childish
eyes to clean
And wear it in your pocket where none
look
Upon your treasnire In morocco frame;
Print all the Master's wordsin, crime.
son ink
And yon wit see how very few they
show ;
But on the least of eli their phrases
think -
-
The seed of boautY thousand*fold shall
and pliable, place on a 'Ace of glass or
grow. tin.
I am the Light of the World Is ye 2, In thinning prepared paint, al -
believe ways follow directions printed on the
Every one about the farm and home
should be able to do a little occasional
painting, awl do it ,skillfully. The fol-
lowing simple binte have been gather-
ed from practical experienco, and Treat
cabinet-makers of the old school; all
of them are tried and tested, '!'hey
should help the amateur,
' 1. Turpentine will soften putty se
quickly as oil, To keep putty moist
Ye may remove this mountain to the label,
sea. 3. If you stand brushes le water
Ali things ye ask in prayer ye sha11 over night, do not sink them below the
receive.
i'th' ou always. Follow me. buretethe easings.00 will swell and
Lo, i am w y YThe !rest stunt is
And, if it were not so, I would have
Rt. Hon. George H. Roberts told.
Former minister of labor and food con -
Oh, these are words with more than
troller of Great Britain during the edge of gold.
transport strike in 1919, who believes —Isabel Fiske Conant in Christian
that the great strike in England goes , Science Monitor,.
beyond the immediate question of 1'
for a wilder
in still and
The market square, the wagon in the
dawn,
The streets like music when their
names are said,
The Sunday spire, the green, untram-
meled lawn—
These be the things, on which their
hearts are fed.
--David Morton.
Undismayed.
wages:,_but is aimed at nationalization'
Eating Sunlight.
of the mines Failure of the strike, g
he says, will mean crippling of the When the scientists began to invests
unions for many years to,come.
Marvellous Merraories.
gate the riddle of.,eodrhiver oil they
found that this oil had more disease -
fighting properties than any other
known substance. What made it so
Among the various Pests of memory potent in combating-iilhealth?
which have been recorded from time) It was ultimately ascertained that
to time, the achievement of a member cod -fish, from whose livers this oil is
of the staff of the Prussian State , prepared, feed entirely upon a sea -
Library deserves a special niche. I vegetable which floats upon the sur -
He has specialized in weather re-' face of the water. In other words,
ports, and claims to remember exactly they feed upon sun drenched food and
what sort of time we had on any day j nothing else.
that can be mentioned between 18811 But it was a long time before any
and the present year. Name the day, one thought of applying this know -
and he wi11 heli you all about it—he ledge in a practical way to other foods.
will even give you the oiiiclal they- That has now been done.
iaom•eter and barometer readings.I The action of sunlight upon disease
His claims have been tested by the 1 has long been known and understood
MordiogdcsS Society of Berlin, and., The unseen, but potent ultra -violet
aocaccording to reports, that body has I rays fortify the blood against invading
been quite unable to "catch him out:" I germs• The same results are obtain -
Memory. of course, is largely a mat- able by means of ;suers al sun lamps.
ter of training, and some marvellous j But it is not yet possible to give this
demonstrations• of the .extent to which! treatment to all sink people. Many
it can be cultivated: have been.,given ailing people, .especially little children,
Dates, for instance, would put a
from time to time. I live in remote districts, far from the
date nearest artificial sunlight clinic. How
—and the coarect date=to any event i were these patients to be treated with
you liked to .name; while another cul- sunlight?
tivator of the same branch of know- I The solution came when it was de -
ledge, a stoker, memorized the whole cried to see what effect food radiated.
of Haydn's "Dictionary of Dates." 1 under these powerful light -batteries
One of the pioneers of s.teeplechas-' would have upon the sufferers. In a
ing, Colonel Charratie. had also this !northern hospital food was radiated,
amazing knack. He once memorized i packed, and distributed to remote pa -
the day's issue of a newspaper, adver- bents.
tisemeuts included, for a wager. How were results to be checked?
After these feats, the ability, en- One of the diseases' readily curable • by
joyed by Macaulay and Lord Randolph! artificial sunlight is rickets., which
Churchill, to repeat a page of print af- ` leaves bones soft. A number of small
ter a single reading seems a small 1 rickety patients were X-rayed :before
ed one left, hurriedly.
Spider Eats Birds.
The bird spider of South America
catches and eats small birds.
FRANKNESS AND TRUTH
to hang them in raw linseed -oil, so the
bristles are just covered, in a covered
vessel.
4. To remove fresh paint from any-
thing, including brushes, use gasoline.
Its action is far more rapid and per -
teat than turpentine, and it is much
more 'pleasant to use.
5, To put,a new brush in proper con-
dition for painting, dip it in paint and
By Maty E. Stover. `though it must bring on a lot of tette
A neighbor had volunteered to stay , ing and fussing every time you leave
with little Ruth and Ellwood whilehome," she sighed.
their mother went shopping. "Do they I "No, it doesn't. From babyhood
know that you are going?" this woe both the children have been accustom-
ed asked, when she appeared in the ed to my bidding them good-bye for a
kitchen ddorw•ay with a knitting bag Little while: They know that T. will
over one arm. • I never leave them uncared for nor stay
"No, I haven't told them yet, but away an unreasonable time. Come, let
me introduce you as their temporary
auntie; then' listen to our farewells."
They goodhearted neighbor followed
outdoors with some misigivings, but
playing all right now, and you can slip she found that these children took
out this back way without their sus-
their mother's going sensibly. After
noting a thing. They mazy not miss watching to wave their gay "hankies"
you for an hour." as she turned the corner, they eon -
The mother hesitated, but only for tentedly went back to their' play.
words with which to make a tactful The neighbor recalled thoughtfully
reply. She- decided that candor was
best. ".1 couldn't slip away from the
children so. It would be too great a
strapn on their faith in nee. They have
a right to suppose that they will find
ane at home or else know when and
'where I went just as, it is my right to
expect the same of then!, If I should
slip away- in . ecoret, they might feel
themselves justified in following the,
same rosse."
The accommodating ne•ighbar `le
childless; but her troubled eyes have
watched big and little children, even
to those of six -fact adze, slinking away
there'll be time enough before I start
for my car."
"Don't say a word to them! They're
the, scenes in which her young neph-
ews, and nieces• always indulged .when
they found. their parents gone. "This
must be aiiotlter proof that honesty's
the best policy with children—espe-
cially when you begin with it from the
first," was her comfortable ,decision
as she set knitting Ili peace.
It the best volley to be h nest and
frank with children. Deceit may seem
more profitable for a while, but it
bringsen penalty in suspicious child-
ren who naturally fall into deceitful -
way's themselves,. indeed, whoever is
troubled by deceitful traits in a 'child
to lilacee. and companionship' of whieh should scan her own ways and. speech
,their parents weuld not approve, with care. Deceitfulness and candor
"1 .doii't know show often deceitful both seem to be highly centagious to
children aro the result of eleeettful pap children. It is for use to choose which
.:cants, but I guars your Way is beat, they shall "catch" from us.
lay it :aside for several heurs, turning
it over ouce during this time,
6. An oil etsin lime mahogany call
I be put on a lard and glossed surface
without any rou•,bing of the surface.
7. To paint wicker•workc, thin the
Paint so that it is runny, aid use a
I long—bristle 10u0t thee is ;lather ,in
the bristles.
8. 'l'o refinish a hard surface that
hers become, seratciie'i and bruised, it
10 not necessary to burn away and
scrape away ell of the old surface. All
that is required is that it be roughed
Mighty yet evenly with medium -grain-
ed sandpaper. Such a roughed sur-
face will grip the first Goat of flat paint,
9, Before using paint that bas been
standing, strain carefully through a
wire screen with a line meshso as. to
remove all foreign particles.
10 ,A hard or enameled surface can
be given to anything painted if to each
:coat of the fiat paint there be added
clear varnish, In the proportion of two
' of paint to one of varnish, or half-and-
half. This varnish wil set the surface
hard, and will not chip off so easily as
cheap enamel. The varnish can be
1 added to paint of any color without
affecting that color,—A Rutledge.
When May Arrives.
When May arrives, all hearts forget
The winter time of dark regret.
With lilac fragrance 'on the air,
And blossoms bursting everywhere,
Could any mortal grieve or fret!.
The winter's timid seen has set,
Rude March a sonibr•e fate has met,
And Princess April seems less fair,
When May arrives.
Old Nature is not hankdupt yet:
Now Beauty comes to pay her debt,
The gardens ridicule despair:
Could any weep—would any dare?
When May arrives!
—Thomas Curtis Clark.
In a Straight and Narrow Way.
Dryden—"Drunk again! My friend,
do you know where drinking leads a
man to?"
Wetroore—"Sure! It leads him right
to the places where they sell le"
thing. I the sun -impregnated food treatment The Poet.
X-rayed after a course of sun -food. Wide must the poet wander
A Two -Ton Carpet. _ The pictures showed that bone had To garnish his golden cells,
Cleaning at Windsor Castle ise lien- actually been formed by'the sunlight For in yesterday and in yonder
culean •task, The special dread of the I absorbed into the food. The sepret of poesy dwells.
royal
spring cleaners is beating the
was started. And they were again
two -ton carpet which. covers the floor
of the Waterloo Chamber—the royal
ddningraom, during Ascot week. when
the King and Queen. malts Windsor
their headquarters.
It takes sixty men to carry this mas-
sive "rug" downstairs to the lawns. always thinking that a man is follow-
Eighty feet long and 40 feet wide, it is ing me. Do you think I suffer from
-Sure Proof.
A particularly sour and plain -looking
woman had come to oonsult the doc-
tor, and was explaining her symptoms.
"Do you !snow, doctor," she said, "I'm
the wonderful carpet which took the de• ailuciaations.
of Agra to' "Absolutely certain you do, madam,
prisoners came tike prompt reply.
ti
Clamps for Concrete Moulds.
Notched metal clamps have been in-
vented to hold the forms used for mak-
ing
aking concrete columns, to save time and
labor.
weave.
seven years
Hockey Among the Irish.
The rather active game of hockey
does not fit the temperament of hash
lasses of to -day. It would appear from
complaints made by spectators, who
assert that the players are addicted
to "bad language" on the field.. Offi-
cials of Ireland's ,governing body for
that sport are little concerned, believ-
ing the colleens,. will denovate their
utterances without, compulsion.
OH MR. ADAMSON.
I'VE COME' TO PPC( you
TupVEtsteep
By the overflowing of the Yellow
River, an area of more than 1,500
square miles of China has recently
been flooded. This is stated to be the
worst flood since 1887.
at is where the rainbow resteth,
And the gates of the sunset be,
And the star in the still pool nesteth,
And the moon -road lies on the sea.
—F. W. Bourdillon.
-a-
Canadian Capital's Centenary.
In the plans for celebrating the Cen-
tenary of Ottawa, the Capital of Can
ada, next August. the fact that Mar-
quis wheat was originated at the Cana-
dian Government Experimental Farm
in the city is to be emphasized. By this
discovery in 1904, Dr. Charles E.
Saunders, who was then the govern-
ment
overnment cerealist, has• increased not only
the agricultural wealth of Canada by
many millions of dollars, but also that
of the hard wheat growing area of the
United States, for 90 per cent. of the
spring wheat grown in Canada and 60
per cent. of that produced In the States
is Marquis,
This famous• variety of wheat,
which has won more world's prizes
than any other, is the product of the
development of experiments with a
number of other hardy strains.. Mar-
quis wheat not only revolutionized
wheat growing in Western Canada and
the northern states of the middle west,
but it reduces the period between
seeding and harvesting from 120 to
110 days. This meant that wheat of
the finest quality could be garnered
well in advance of the time necessary
for the ripening of the former varie-
ties and diminished the risk from rust,
frost, etc. It also meant that hard
spring wheat could be cultivated much
further north, and brought millions
of acres in Western Canada within
the wheat belt that hitherto had been
thought to be beyond the cultivable
zone. I
This year a new variety of wheat
known as Garnet is being in.troduced
that by proven tests promises to bring
about a further revolution in the grow-
ing of hard spring wheat, for it is
hardier than Marquis, will ripen quick-
er, and can consequently be grown
much further northward. It will, there-
fore, open up millions more acres in
Western Canada to successful wheat
growing. Marquis wheat will, how-
ever, continue to be a popular variety
throughout a large section o fthe Cana-
dian West and the United States and
in view of its contribution to the food
supply of the world and the agricul-
tural wealth of North America, its dis-
covery is properly to be noted in the
features connected with the centenary
celebration of Ottawa, now a city of
such engaging beauty and charm that
it is often called "The Washington ot
the North"
Dr. Saunders is now living in retire-
ment in Ottawa. his birthplace, on a
handsome annuity granted by a coun-
try that appreciates his great contri-
bution to the science of agriculture.
Readers of Classics.
I know not how it is, but their com-
meroe with the ancients appears to me
to produce, in those who constantly
practice it, a steadying and compos-
ing effect upon their judgment, not of
literary works only, but of men and
events in general. They are like per-
sons who have had a very weighty and
impressive experience they are more
truly than other under the empire of
facts and nacre independent of the
language current among' those with
whom they live.—Matthew Arnold,
Proof Positive.
'Che twin sisters had been misbe-
having and had been sent upstairs
without supper and with strict injunc-
tions to go to beet and stay there.
". "Mother," called Betty, "what do you
think? Susie's got cut 01 bed and is
walking about the room, and you know
what you told us."
"'Yes," answered her mother, "I
know what 1 told both of you--aeot to
get out of bed. But bow do you know
that Susie', not in bed? There's no
light in your room."
"How tiro I know!" cried Betty in.
dignantly. "Why, I've just bumped in-
to her in the dark."
Vegetables.
Long before some sleeping folk
Are thinking to begin
Their daily tasks, 1 take my•knife,
Clean ands sharp and. thin.
And with my, basket on niy arni
Oardenwards 1 go,
Where so wetly and so green
The vegetables grow.
Chinese Medical Women.
A medical school for :!!!ruse 'el tes
bele been established in $haeliaa1,
Brought to the Sar.
A lawyer is a member ot the bar
simply because he has been actually
admitted past the bar used in courts
to separate 'court people from the wit-
nesses
itnesses or spectators. The expression,
"brought to the bar," was. used in
France wben an average of fifty per-
sons were daily taken before the actual
bar before being sent to execution.
Of Course.
School Teacher—"Now, who was the
father of the Black Prince?"
Bright Lad—"Please, sir, old Kling
Cole!"
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES
OH! BUT
INSIST: