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Zurich Herald, 1926-06-03, Page 2: A TE. -HITTER :HUSBANDS!. r' tee Sweethearts Bett eir Off Than Wives? We hear a greet deal about the <lien- of matrimony with the chocolate lusicx.q of neetrimony. ' creams of courtship. A wife elle can - "'Before we were married," sighs a eiders the daily paper a barometer of disgruntle' Roman, "my husband her husband's waning affeotion, and never came to see me without bringing who fancies herself neglected because me flowers or a box of chocolates. He her John reads the paper in her pree- mies reyeves after marriage when lie never did so before. is equally`unreasonable. She forgets that John has no other place in which to read. When be saw her only two or three times a week, or perhaps for a little while every day, he had leisure in which to read, He reade at home now because that is where he lives and house, and when I try to talk to him where he has the right to expect to do he just grunts." I as lie pleases. As for for the woman who feels herself The Reason Why. i a poor, unappreciated creature because "Before we were married," laments :her husband no longer dslnrge$ heranother wife, "my husband was always with flattery after marriage, let her paying me compliments and telling me console herself with the thought that that I was his ideal of womanly per her husband is not unmindful of her fections. Now if I want a compliment charms. He hes only come to accept from him I have to extract it with {them as a matter of course, as we do more expenditure of time and labor any other blessing. than it is worth." Men are equally unreasonable. The These women, and others, demand to ; man who complains that his wife has linos why a man is so clanged by ' lost her beauty and that she no longer matrimony. The explanation is rim-: It ;!poke like the pretty girl he married plc. Matrimony is not courtship. forgets that she burned out her com is the plain bread and meat and mash- i plexion standing over the cooking ed potatoes of life, not the dessert. stove for him; that walking the babies hen a man rolls up his sleeves and . so that he might have unbroken sleep goes to work to support a woman he . is changed from a hero of romance in- ' put wrinkles around her eyes, and that the reason why her hands • are not soft to the family provider, and his symbol j and white is because she has made is no longer a fairy prince, but a cash j corns on them toiling for him. back, writes a woman correspondent. II A. woman who complains that her , Becausferent use he and afterusbande marrd eage are edi flowers isnot altaking her tbo her sign that they are failures as husbands flowers and taking der to places of and wives. The really and truly mated amusement as he did c the daysheof couple can take a lot of things for courtship ignores the havefact keephat he did granted and do witho t mauy outward not at that period to her in gra q "food and clothes. observances. Such a man doesn't have The woman who knows that her hue -1i • to buy his wife flowers to prove that band is bringing home every penny he , he remembers her. Nor does such a earns and straining every nerve to I wife fear to lose her husband's ; love keep his family comfortable is un- II by letting him see her when she isn't grateful to compare the boiled turnips !wearing her smartest clothes. doesn't now." "Before we were married," says an- other wife, "If there had been earth- quakes and cyclones and revolutions and society scandals,• with big head- lines in the newspapers, my husband would barely have glanced at them. Now he sits up with a paper glued in his hand every minute he is in the Royal Christening Robe is All Ready. Following the birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of York, the royal christening robe has been re- moved from its resting place in Buck - Ingham uckIngham. Palace to be in readiness for the christening ceremony. It was in this beautiful old ivory- colored robe of priceless lace that Queen Victoria was _christened and it has been worn by many noted babies since, including King Edward, the Em- press Frederick, King George and the Prince of Wales. Whenever possible, babies in the direct Line of descent to the throne are christened by the Archbishop of Can- terbury, usually et Windsor Castle, in St. George's chapel, from a massive gold font, which is brought for the oc- casion from the jewel house in the Tower of London. The christening of Princess Mary's sons from the stone font in the quaint old parish church of Goldsborough, Yorkshire, where Viscount Lascelles himself was chris- tened, marks a departure from prece- dent in the baptism of royal babies. Queen Victoria also was an excep- tion to the rule. She was baptized very quietly at Kensington Palaoe, but the christening of her first-born son, the future King Edward the Peace- maker. • was made the occasion of an imposing display of splendor. The infant Prince of Wales was "conducted" in and out of the chapel at. Windsor by the Lord Chamberlain and the groom of the stall in accord- ance with precedence, and luncheon in the white breakfast room, in honor of the 'notable event, was followed by a grand banquet in St. George's Hall In the evening. Twenty-three years later, Queen Vk- toria, dispensing with formality, in- sisted on holding another royal babe before the golden font at Windsor Castle—"George Frederick Ernest Al- bert," our present king, who had an unusually large array of royal and dis- tinguished sponsors. It was just two years later that Queen Mary received her amazing list of names—Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Clementine Ag- nes—this time at Kensington Palace. It is an open secret that the popular little Duchess of York, whose romance —one of the real old-fashioned kind— began with the ringing of royal wed- ding bells just two springs ago, is a great favorite with her majesty. :tee 1st And Necessary, Too. Motorist—"Why are you always in managing and tutoring a roomful smashing billboards al�cng the road, of restless• children, the weary teacher Jones?" will have acquired a sufficient number Jones (sarcastically)—"To get a of furrows in the forehead to make her view of the country, of Course!" It's SCLS V�'T "MUT B011,1")t$ It is no longer eutxotent, in the world " Horn books ere now so rare that of to1it , to have acquired the "three high, prices are given by colleetvrs for' P.'•s"•--reacting, wilting and "i•itlereetie, genuine s•p:eeieuens. When, in 1877, The simple old clane'.y edictl of a hun= the Caxton Exlilhition of printing eye be1 four s ectnlens years of horn-bnoks wez'e shown, and at an- d d ago seems never to have tlqulttee was held, on Y p en possible. Another great difference is iii the other exhibition held In 18,82 only school equipment. in the old days p•en,' elght. ink and paper were seanc0(.1:A5'18)11)0)&1_, ', black Them are no duncesto clay put into board's and chalk were unheard of, and eel -ors of the school rooms, with tall even slates and slatepeneils were lux- paper caps, ddke sugar loaves, on their uries. Howthen, sero the ehildn en !Leads. But the dunce was, a hundred taught thele, letters wor initlated into Years ago, a feature of every school, the meste'ies of even the simplest Always therewas the dullard, the sums? (stupid one, who could not receive- in - At till earliest period they learnt struction. fie= a "Horn Book." What was this 73wt why "dunce?" How did the now -forgotten thing? Is there to -day ward originate? It wasoriginally the anyone familiar with the appearance name of a man, one John Scat, or of a born -book? None. Collectors . "Scotus,," known in has day as "Duns rare l Scotus," because he came from the lit - prize them, for they are extremely th.ough'once they were very common. I tle town of Duns, in the eolith of Scot - A horn -book consisted of a flat Piece land, He nourished about 1265-1808, of wood of about one-eighth of an inch and was by no meats a stupid fellow. thickness, and o3 some three and a Chiefly he was a theological disputant half laches to six inches in length, and 10! the old school and entirely opposed about two-thirds of these ieeasure-;'to the then new ways of thought, rents in breadth. It was provided j which were the beginnings of the new with a handle; by which the child helot' learning. 1t On this flat piece of wood, corn- His followers were known as "the DUTCH PRINCESS STUDIES LAW Princess Juliana of Holland, who recently celebrated her 17th. birthday. Under the direction of mother, Queen Wilhelmina, she is studying Law since, according to reports, she is not sure that she will reign as queen. THE POORLY PAID SCHOOL -TEACHER Under present conditions the wagesed to being so; butwithout boasting of the average rural teacher are inade- I she artlessly .told how she 'had recent- quate for her support. She must be ly refused a much easier position be suitably dressed. She•must'subscribel cause in her overcrowded school were to literature relating to her work and I, a great many children she so loved she must attend conventions. All of . that she •could not give them up. this oasts money. These present ex- Affection like this is not ,rare and is pensee preclude the possibility of pro- reciprocal. We happen to know a man viding against the day when the school of 70 who remembers with deep affec- board decides that she has become too' tion his first teacher who 65 years ago old to be retained. In' the meantime, introduced him to the mystery of let - she has been so loyal to her calling: tern. These instances are the bright that she has declined attractive busi- side of the picture which makes the nese offers, so that when she is con- i teacher's life worth while. sidered no longer qualified to teach she + Modern school boards are becoming has no preparation for the years that; more liberal, but the rural teaching 1 f ss -on still continues to be one of monly oak, eves placed a printed piece of paper, generally bearing the alpha- bet and the Lord's Prayer, and some- times the numerals as well. The paper was kept in position and guarded from injury .by being placed under a thin, transparent sheet of horn secured by a brass edging. Hence "horn -book." Im the older kind the type used was of the Gothic, "black - letter" Old English sort. The earliest lcnown horn -book dates back to about 145G. With the growing use of paper and print, chap -books and small primers, They were simple contrivances, con• the vogue of the horn -book declined; and it went entirely out of use at the sisting of a long, plain board, with a opening of the nineteenth century. The raised edge. This was supported, last order for a stock of these articles table -high, by trestles. The board was was given by a firm of stationers in covered with fine sand, on which, with 1799; and as the then old-fashioned their fingers, the children formed the things proved unsalable the unwanted letters. The sand was then prepared stock was destroyed some years later. for the next lesson with a "smoother." Duns men,' and as the new ways gained ground and the old lost favor Duns Scotus and those of his way oaf thinking 'were treated with oontempt and were regarded as ignoramuses. That is the pedigree of the word "dunce." The dunces of the schools a century ago would have spoiled much 'paper and spilled much ink, but for the fact that children then were taught to trace the letters of the alphabet on the sand -table. Sand -tables are now also very rare. Wanted Him to Come Home Ear y. Smith—"I'm going to paint the town to -night." Mrs. Smith—"Well,» don't give it more than one coat." On Memory's Film. The sparrows . . . come day by day for their:reed of crumbs spread for them outside my window. . Very early in the morning I hear the whirr and rustle of eager wings, and the tap, tap, of little beaks upon the stone. The sound carries me back, for.it was the first to greet me when I rose to draw water and gather kind- ling in my roadrender days; and if I slip back another decade they survey • me, reproving my laziness, from the • foot of the narrow bed fn my little at- tic overseas. Looking along the roadway that we landmarks remain to her. Pi'o e i _ have see the When one sees the hundreds of hap- the poorest paid. greataveand traveled we which have deter, on faced commencement of a no ane" aches J mined the direction of our feet. For on commencement dray ands'- realizes i those of childhood stand out that they must soon face the problem Sentence Sermons. Money a Man Saves—By not helping those in distress never makes him really happy. —At the expense of his hep never wilds a prosperous, business. —At the cost of honor never erects, truthful monument. . —By staying out of school is always Each Home. some, . The above all. the . rest; but I remember of how to live upon a salary much too small for their needs one feels more They err who think that lodestsars 1 few notable ones and those few the em- likemust be all i phatic chord of .the universe rather condoling with rather than con- 1 than any commerce with my fellows. gratulating them. Nor should it be Of the first magnitude and general b There was the night of my great disap- considered surprising that days come fame; t when the overworked teacher is in- Or that to be a talisman, a name pointment when I was borne from my °lined to regret that she did not spend Must he of those men publicly extol. a 1 comfortable bed to see the wonders six months at a business college in- I of the moon's eclipse. . . Then stead of two years in a normal school. Dazzle may temporarily enthrall- a poor investment. there was a night at Whitby, when the Over against this picture is the con- And moths be singed within the garish —By starving his soul is never en- wind made speech impossible, and the tflame; joyed• seas rushed up and over the great gazesher profession n that the average teacher re -—Is a better index of character than lighthouse. I like better to remember a.rds . as a prelude to Strivers forget the way by which they the money he earns. the scent of the first cowslip field an• marriage and follows it only long came —Sometimes costs too much. der the warm side of the hedge, when enough to provide herself with her In answer to ambition's siren call. wedding finery. This may be true in part but it is far from being a common But many an exile loves some little experience. After a few years spent Thrums, What time his restless feet are led to roans, And with the strife of emulation past, Back to the first -loved hearts and scenes he comes— White ways forsaken for' the lights of home, And London lett for Stratford at the last. —Alice Lawry Gould. A. peculiar thing about short dresses is that women seem satisfied with the least they can get for their money. THE QUEER WAYS THAT BIRDS EAT It is intere tfng tee watch the differ- accumulate a steady supply of gnats. ent ways fru wiii h birds feed. A remarkable fellow is the cuckoo. The trash. who is eery fond of No young, juicy caterpillars for him, if snails; takes thew to a regular dining he can help it. A "tough, hard-boiled table,a flattish stone littered with the guy," as they say in the Wild -West, he slier"s cf teeny a past feast. Here be; much prefers his caterpillars large streenettely hammers them until they land hairy—the hairier the better. are, broken. -and then proceeds with his Down in the loug lush grass of the meal. ditch he hunts and feasts on drinkers, The kingfisher, emerging from the oak eggars and "woolly bears." stream with a struggling minnow held crossways in his beak as a dog holds a bone, performs a really marvellous feat when be edges it round, head on, there is one food that no healthy wood - into the position in which he is able pecker can resist it is ants' eggs. to swallow it. Energetically, with beak and feet, he The shrike stocks a larder, usually in scratches his way into an antheap like a dense blackthorn thicket. Catching a terrier into a rabbit hole. The hawk frogs and mice, bees, flies and grass- drops onto his dinner, poised one mo - hoppers, he spikes thein onto thorns to meet, noiseless and almost motionless, await his gourmand's pleasure. Eggs, above the turf of the common --falling baby nestlings and even adult spar- as though shot the next. Try dropping rows and small finches are seized for a stone over a cliff exactly onto a spot Ibis larder, the making of which has far below, no bigger than your head, If Well earned him the name of the but- you would realize how skillful is lita Ober bird. feat. The snipe probes deep into the mud The nuthatch eats nuts, whenever for small, wriggling creatures with its there are any nuts to be had. Lacking long beak, the skin of which gives`'it the squirrels' sharp little teeth, . he a sense of touch as reliable as that of our fingers. Worms are the daily bread of the One might not unreasonably expect the woodpecker to dine up In the tree- • tops, where he seems to belong, but if might Well be expected to find insolu- ble the problem of how to open a nut. He carries It, however, to a ,rugged hesitate. There is still another side to the question. Recently we met a poorly paid and none too robust country school -teacher on whose roster were 70 pupils. She looked tired and -confess - robin and the blackbird, and they do oak tree–no other kind will do --fixed not stint themselves. A conscientious is securely into a crevice, and then, clinging to the rough bark, cracks it with two or three deft hammer blows from his bill. The skim gul lis the champlen hooll- dtarve to death it offered no other gan of the bird world. His mode of food, They do not usually pay heed to dining without the trouble of diving is any particrular !Wet, merely by shim, to thheee smaller gulls; forcing them to ming to tins fro over • ponds and disgorge •the fish they have fast ictreeins With their Menthe open they caught. observer found that a robin. eats • about fourteen feet of worm every day! Swallows, on the 'other hand, have no use for worms, anti will promptly —_. I sang to myself for pure joy of their color and fragrance. Again, there were the bluebells in the deserted quarry like the backwash of a south- ern sea, and below them the miniature forest of sheltering bracken with ite quaint conceits; and crowned above all, the day I stood' on Watcomhe Down, and looked across a Stretch of golden gorse and new turned field, the green of the headland, and beyond, the sapphire sea. . . . The forests, tote are ready with a story !rid in the fastness of their soli- tude. . . . It seems but last night that I wandered down the road which led to the little unheeded village where I had made my temporary home. The warm -scented breath of the pines and the stillness of the night wrapped me in great content; the .summer light- ning leapt in a lambent arch across the east, and the stars, seen dimly through the somber tree crests, -were outrivalled by the glow-worms which shone in countless points of light from bank and hedge.—Michael Fair - lees., In "The R:oadmender-" Harbinger. We half decide the bluebird Is• but a lovely myth, And April only a legend To sweeten fancy with. And then, some magic morning This miracle of blue Descends upon our gate -post And fairyland comes true. —Odell Shepherd. ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES .o JAKE 1 5Ez. A DRIVE - AR pUL' eelearneesseemearee First Arbutus. Pink, small; and punctual, Aromatic, glow, Covert in April, Candid in May. Bear to the moss, 1Ctiown by the knoll, Next to the robin 1n every human soul. Bold little beauty, Bedecked with thee, Nature forswears Antiquity. —Emily Dicktneon.' Hadn't Brought Bill. A young woman entered a milliner'si shop with a young nran and paid al sinall deposit on a hat, which Eke pro`, rased to call for fit a few days. How- ever, it was several weeks tater when she returned. The assistant, having; forgotten the transaction, asked if she had brought her bill, we're married n , replied, 'lieu see, ,"Oh, "no," she ow, and we otiu'h afford, train fad for two" fee fee Ch thi bu flu