Zurich Herald, 1926-06-17, Page 2Mit AND.. WOMEN -Of TWAY
A Cabin Boy's Romance. In her earlier days, Mrs. Be
r ter and iiset
Woe salting up the .grett•t Indian river, composed entirely of venial membere.
the Ilooghip. b On board was a brass- Mrs', Baldwin, then Mile Ridsdale,
e , and ship's boy polishing the brass- lived at that time at Ilottingdean,, hear
es, and doubtless watching his
the great ; Brighton, and .she was regarded as one
ci$y 'unfolding itself to his adiiiiriug of,. the ,club's best players. Her bat-
gaza, ting average, she said recently, was
That apy's next visit oto India was sixty-tWo in the year that gibe married,
u the capacity of��earVicago.' and Garver- Nowadays Mrs. Baldwin, sloes not
ear -General, five years
It was in these wards that the Karl play cricket, But she is a frequent
of Birkenhead reoently epitomized the spectator• at Lord's', and has Wight her
Forty years ago a full-rigged ship waft a very keen c icke ,
to play for "Tile
White Iloatlier C•.>,ib,"
romantic career of the .Marquess of
Reading, who has returned on the com-
pletion of his term of office,
The new Marquess is fond of recall-
ing his experiences of those seafaring
days, I once heard him say that he
.two sons , alt that they know of the
game; in the case of one of thein, this
is saying a good deal. . .
Well Earned.
To be given an Bonar ar a decoration
and not to be criticized is a distinction
learnt more at sea„ than he probably that falls to few. No one hasfound
would have done at Oxford, His two fault with the bestowal of a G.C.B, on
years before the mast .were followed Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Keeper of
by a short time on the Stook Exchange. the King's Privy Purse. Sir Frederick,
Afterwards he became a barrister, and who has rendered ,great service to our
in less than ten years was earning last three sovereigns' is one of. the
£ 40,00,0 a year.
Mrs. Baldwin at the Wicket.
Recent references by Mr. H. L. Col-
lins, the Australian cricket captain, to
, the cricket prowess of Mrs. Baldwin,
wife of the Prime Minister, surprised
many people who did not know of.her
interest in the sumrmer game.
most popular and respected of Court
officials.
It is his task to disburse all the
money granted for the• King's, personal
use. He has discharged ' what is a
Heavier responsibility than most peo-
ple realize' with great tact and caurtil-
uess.
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THE "INVENTION"
OF NEW PLANTS
FRUIT WIZARDRY ADDS
TO THE WORLD'S
WEALTH.
White Blackberries, Stoneless
Plums, Thornless Gooseber-
. ries Produced by Burbank.
Just one new plant of the thousands
invented by the late Luther Burbank
has added $17,500,000 to the annual in-
come of the United States. This was
the Burbank potato, which took the in-
ventor five years to produoe.
There is no more wonderful romance
in the history of invention than that
of this Californian nursery gardener,
who died just recently. -In 1898, Bur-
bank was making a good living out of
a large nursery garden; but all his
thoughts were turned to the produc-
tion of new plants, and he sold out in
order to give his whole attention: to
plant breeding. Listen to what he has Warrington, and Sir Rowland Biffen,
said of his.experiences during the nest C'on'sulting Botanist of the Royal A.g=
ricultural` Society.
Farmers all, over the world "owe a
debt of gratitude to the Gartons, who
have produced celeals (wheats, bar-
leys, and oats), not only of finer
quality than any previously known, but
also freer from disease and giving
and. found his reward in the joy of hav-
ing done good work.
The triumphs. of the plant inventor
are gained by patiently observing the
laws of Nature, and by experiment. At
the outset the inventor may take two
Pants and sprinkle the pollen of one
flower upon, the stigma of. the other,
thus producing a new plait, which per-
haps breaks away from the form and
character of both parents.
Following this conies the selection
of the very best plants or flowers
created by a series of suck breedings.
The instruments are simple—very of-
ten only a camel's hair brush, with
which to remove the pollen, and a
watch -glass in which to carry it. But
the patience required is endless.
Some years ago a perfect mont-
bretia, of a deep orange color, was
shown at an exhibition of the Royal
Horticultural Society. It was exhibit-
ed by Mr. G. O. Davidson, who had
spent twenty years in evolving it from
the original weedy -looking montbretia
from South .Africa.
"The bloom' you see here," he said,
"has .only been obtained after weeding
out some 50,000 unfit flowers."
There are in Britain several great
plant inventors, among whom the most
notable are the Garton brothers, of
few years.
Couldn't Afford a Microscope.
"I knew what it was to feel the
pangs of hunger. I have slept 1n
noisome places when I had no roof to
call my own. I have fought off fever
when I had not money enough to pay
for the daily pint of milk which stood much heavier Grope.
between me and possible death, and Help for Farmers.
for years 1 could not afford a micro- Crossing wheats is delicate and dif-
scope, so important an instrument for ficult work, for the flowers are self -
my work." fertilising, , Just before the bloom
Yet, in one year before he .died, 6,000 shows, the lesser embryo kernels are
men, "embracing the very pick and cut away with the dissecting scissors
flower of the scintilla life of two hemi and the remaining florets robbed of
asking for more light upon his work. their anthers. If any trace of pollen
*spheres," visited Burbank, and he re- is left 1n the fioral envelope, Nature
ceived nearly a hundred letters a day will complete the fertilising herself.
One of Burbank's most amazing When pollinated, a tiny hood of tissue
achievements was to reform the cruel- `paper must be drawn over the head of
ly spiny desert cactus„ He induced wheat, so as to prevent any meddle -
it to shed its spines and produce someinsect bringing pollen from an-
smooth
nsmooth leaves fit for deeding cattle, other flower.
while its fruit reached a perfection Beardless :barley, which is also a
never attained by that of the wild me- much heavier cropper than older sorts,
tus. Rosea, blackberries, raspberries, is another of the Garton inventions.Sen, helping him to escape ,from im-
and gooseberries he also persuaded to A variety from Nepal was imported to I prisonment in the Chinese legation in
act as one -of the parents of this new London in 1896.
barley, Sir James Cantile was the founder
The Gartons have done for cereals and president of the Royal Society of
what Luther Burbank has done for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1921-
flowers and fruit, and farmers who use- 23, and latterly was Consulting sur -
and to some people' unpleasant. Bur -their seeds can grow from fifty to one geon of the Seamen's Hospital Society,
acre than their fathers could. The x872, and included such service as
value of the plant inventor's work is head of the cholera, expedition to
able nuts, but take long to come into beyond price, for It is he, and he alone, Egypt in 1883, dean of .the College of
Burbank produced a new who can save our descendants from I Medicine for Chinese, 1889-96; plague
bearing. the food famine which will threaten
chestnut which began to bear at a officer for London, county council and
l' and lied a fine crop sae sec It populations keep 0n increasing as consulting surgeon in London for the
they are doing at present.
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES
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Nature and Hobbies.
Learn to love that great wonderland
—out-of-doors. .Be a lover of nature,
not. one who is simply willing to toler-
ate the gentle winds, the rays of the
sun, the song of the birds, but one
who eagerly climbs into nature's lap
to hear her relate her stories.
There is .always something to learn
and to enjoy in nature. Even if one
is on a desert, there are still the sky,
the clouds and the sand --grains at
one's feet. The greatest and most per-
fect picture gallery in the world is
out -of -doors;'"" -yet, at first it is 'ex-
tremely difficult to _select one scene
from among them all, and have eyes
for it alone. To do this is the power
of the artist. . He of skilled eye for
beauty sees something in nature,
which if taken from its surroundings,
The Child in a Muse.
The North Wind be his igloo sits
Where arctic waters roll,
And weaves white blankets of the
snow
To wrap the frozen Pole,
The East Wind 'has a bubbling pot
He stirs and stirs away,---
The
way,—The brew of storms, o'er which a
steam
Of fog hangs thick and gray:
The West Wind is a sailmaker;
He fashions out of cloud
Royal and main and flying jib
To make a tall ship round.
The South Wind is a lazy blade
A child of sun and spring;
He frolics with the birds and bees,
Acid never does a thing.
—Minna Irving.
would be perfect in itself.
Begin to study bits,: of nature, single New Royal -Baby "Takes
out pictures here and there, forget After" Her Father.
their great mass of surroundings, and
try to find how much you can discover
in a little. 11'be praet1c ! llnereake na-
ture nearer and mote beautiful to you;
it will quicken your selective power,
make you a poet and an artist; it will
picture itself in the music you play
and be reflected in the music you
think. . . . Remember there are
many poets who do not write.
Natrue monopolizes more hobbies
than all the arts combined. You might
spend all your hours out of doors
watching her phases, and after a life-
time come away a child. Nature is
wonderful because she is exhaustless.
The wonders of "Arabian Nights" are
surpassed in any part of your garden
plot,—Thomas Tapper, in .. "Ghats
With Music Students."
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Sir James Cantile Dies; Famed
English Surgeon.
Sir James • Cantile, noted surgeon,
died on May 29th, in London. He was
a close friend of the late Dr. Sun Yat -
shed their horns,
Hustling the Chestnut.
This man of miracles did as he
pleased with plants. The dahlia is a
lovely flower, but its odor is coarse,
bank produced one with the rich, de- hundred per oent more wheat to the His career in medicine dated back to
Helots scent of .a magnolia.
Walnuts and chestnuts produce valu-
year o ,
and year. He made a new walnut
which grew so fast that in thirteen
Years it was six times the size of an
oil -fashioned walnut twenty-eight
years old,
He produced 300,000 .distinct varies
ties of plums, some stoneless, and all
different in foliage, fruit, and keeping
qualities; 60,000 different peaches and
. nectarines; 5,000 almonds; 2,000 cher-
ries; 2,000 pears; 3,000 apples; . 1,000
grapes; 5,000 walnuts; and 5,00.0 chest-
nute; besides many thousands of ether
fruits and flowers.
Labor Saving.
"Bobby, I see your music teacher
coming, Have you washed your face
and hands?"
"Yes'ma
"And your ears?"
"Ya, the one that will be next to
her."
`Twenty Vears for a Bloom.
This plant lvizard made 65,000 ex
periments with blackberries, out of
which he saved one plant only—his
famous white blackberry. - He used
sometimes as many as a million dif-
ferent plants in one test, and more
than once rejected almost every one A
of a million new products. He would
keep only the beat, and once burned
66,000 two and three year old berm
bushes in one bonfire, and had four-
teen other bonfires of Similar sure on
ltie place he ono summer.
Motley he made in large' amounts,
but he would not spend it on. himself.
All his earnings went back into his exp
perimeiits. Seine years ago he con-
fessed to having put $250,000 of his
own earnings into hie work. No patent
can be obtained, for any_ imbrovetnant
in piants,.and Burbank often said that
Ire was glad that was so. no plat un-
told millions into thsliockeets of others
The Duke and Duchess of York's
baby daughter "takes after" her father
rather that the Bowes -Lyons of her
mother's side.
The new Princess is blue-eyed and
fair-haired, and very much resembles
the children of the King and Queen in
their early infancy. Owing to this fact
Mayfair has been speculating whether,
like her father, the baby will be left-
handed.
Queen Mary, herself, like the little
Princess, is recorded in the royal fam-
ily letters as having been an especially
pretty and good-tempered baby, who
never criedat eight.
Northeastern Railway_ Company, He
wrote many books on medical and sur-
gical subjects.
Sir Janies was born :n 1851. He was
created a knight in 1918.,
Sailors,
"So the shark took your leg?" •
"Yes, bilt 1 w•anted.a new one, any-
how, the old one being too short."
Votes for Women. ,
Artist—"This picture is a bit of
anotent Greeee, entitled `Votaries of
Artemis'
Mrs. Tadltiniber—"My, I didn't know
the Greek women had votes 1n them
days."
Sons List Ex -Crown Prince
- as Rural Squire.
Wilh'eIm and Louis Ferdinand, sons
of the former Crown Prince Frederick
William, have 'entered the University
of Bonn, the traditional alma mater of
the Hohenzolierns.
RrIlliolm will study law and Louis
Public Libraries Keeping Pace
With Increased Public
Interest iu Mustc.
The provision of musiq in public
libraries is something which is receiv-
ing much .'more .'attention bran in for-
mer r�q, -
The ysaMetropolittLn Borough of Fins-
bury Library, in London, kinghvud, was
one of the first to provide music, and
diming recent year's considerable addi-
tions trove been made. A classified
catalogue of the .collection has recent-
ly been issued, and a casual glance
through its . two hundred ` and fifty
rages reveals the comprehensive belec-
Con of music which is available,
The •catalogue is divided into three
parts,: Music, instrumental and vocal;
hl#tory and criticism of tnuaic; and in-
atruotion and study of music, All col-
l;eoiions and albums oon'taining music
by various composers have been anal-
yzed and classified, and each piece is
catalogued under the composer's
name. Works. of individual composers
have also been analyzed and classified,
and by type means the catalogue--sbowe'
all composers represented in the col-
lection, and also their work in any spe-
cial form.
Instrumental music Is ao'presented
by works for organ, piano, violin,
',cello, string and quartetee and larger
combinations of strings full, orchestral
pieces and military band music. The
vocal music includes vocal scores of
operas, oratorios,cantatas, and a large,
number of songs for solo voice. In all
sections there is music to satisfy bot
the cultivated musician and th
amateur. Good indices are provided
enabling the inquirer to find out wha
compositions by a given composer ar
in the library or w'h'at the library h
of any certain form of music. To othe
public libraries building up their co
lections this catalogue- 'should prov
most useful.
Piano Playing Increases in
Lamps and Lights.
No doubt the foolish virgins of whom
Christ told us in the parable had ex-
cellent lamps. If these were changing
styles in lamps., these girls very likely
had the latest, most attractive and
most popular. Same of the lamps inay
have been old, genuine antiques,
family heirlooms, greatly cherished
and proudly displayed. The old ones
were doubtless well polished. _ It was
an important occasion, and the lamps
were all in good order.
They lacked only aill; and there
came a time when there was need of
oil.
Having had a share in • perhaps a
thousand weddings, it does not sur-
prise this writer that five of the vir-
ginas forgot . something. Bridesmaids
frequently do. And what was more
easily forgotten than oil? 011 was
such messy stoff, and so liable to soil
a wedding garment. There surely
would be other girls there with more
oil than they needed. It would be easy,
they may have thought, to borrow
some when it, was needed. Unfortun-
ately it was not. There is something
tragic in' the preparation which had
filled the minds of these girls for
weeks beforehand, but which lacked
the one thing which they were most
certain to require,
All in all, we are doing quite enough
for the outside of life. We spend
quite' enough for automiebiles and
amusements and for such comfort and
culture as we have. But the spiritual.
requisites of life are not cheaply bor-
rowed at aininute's notice at the mid-
night hour of need.
No man can ride in two automobiles
at once, and no •young woman has need
of more than one fur coat at any One
time. We soon reagh the limit of the
good that can accrue to us from ma-
terial things'. They have their value.
They are not to be despised. The wd-
ding fast and the wedding garment and
the wedding festivity are all legiti
mate. But none of them are market-
able in exchange for oil,
These were in all probability very
attractive girls. ` If they had. been at
the wedding, their costumes would
have been admired, and they them -
Favor of Audiences.
With the growth of the piano, it h
become 'possible to play foz• mac
greater audiences, In the time
Liszt, piano recitals or concerts
which the piano was a solo iustrume
were given in halls for about six hu
dred or seven hundred people, ev
less. Now recitals are given also
halls for from three' to five thousa
auditors.
The piano made to meet the geni
of Franz- Liszt has made this possib
This larger and grander instrume
demands a very different techni
treatment than that which Cesi e
played with his ten books of exercis
which were very largely devoted
digital training as dissociated from
rest of the playing apparatus. No lo
er is piano playing a more matter
lifting the fingers from the keybca
and hammering them down. T
muscles must have more swing t
them. In feet, the whole upp
the .body must .have the .
ease, grace and spring th
ize the muscles of • a g
Moreover, with the playing a'>pa
in this condition, • It is possible
transmit the musical thoughts cf
brain to the fingers, so that each
ger becomes a kind of individual
artist painting colons, yet control
In.the old-fashioned school of w1
Cess was the exponent, the 'colors
missing. There might have been
faction of design and great acme
but, compared with the modern s
it was like cotnparing a colorless e
ing with a great oil painting.
• The Value of Early Music
Association.
Patents Whose musical educt
has beau neglected should not d
their children that which they 1
been unable or unwilling to attain.
cause a man cannot read he does
deprive his :child of the opportunit
attending school. A musical ed
tion, that is an appreciation and kt
a
Selves would not have passed through ledge of good music, is not expen
the throng unnoticed. It was unfor in thesedays of moderate -priced
tunate that they were not among those etrunients.-
present. And early association wit'li
music is of inestimable value to e
child, and this can only be obta
outside the large cities by mean•
For those, inspired with .certainty, who the phonograph. To many poi
going who intend giving their children n
Exultant ways to death, obeyed high cal instruction, tbe--iniestion pee
laws;
arises ins to tvhetiner a phouo'grap
And for - those others who, bitterly therhome might not detract from
c a purelycultural ` knowing - study of the piano or the violin.
letters
will take Their cause was futile, stayed to : opposite effect of the phonogzap
letters and `science 'course. In the serve their cause. : the home can'perhaps be more e'
Matriculation papers was the gtiestion 7C upCroft Coope, understood wilcowilcoit is realized th
as to their father's oeeupation, The. ,:_._ert attain a degree a�; perfection in
ounce designated the former Crown forms of life can exist 'subject such as nuislc,'the creativ
Prince as:''Gutsbesitzer," which Means S0111.4 :owes for
owner or i shirt, the desire to produce, mu
estate
Epitaph.
country squire, without oxygen. .
sufficiently strong to make the u
sary effort and labor well worth
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Tle ..Inevi'tabl'e Phrase.
'Plushly of expression is one of
literary dualities instantly: sec
' able in the event, anti not in the
suscrptible. •of analysis, There i
Unerring selection of the word, th
eine turn of phrase,the ultimo
sees of torn, plus something b
definition which, along with
others, contributes to the feeli
inevitability --David Morton, in
Sonnet To-day—and ,Y'es'terday.,'
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The Official Reply,
An old soldier, oil leaving the
wrote to his cal nal as follows,
"Sir; -After what 1've suffere
the Army to go to blazes." ,
Ile, received a reply in the us
Tidal matt er:--•-
"fir, WAti'y suggestiozls: or in
ass$to movements of troop's' m
uotioii.' entered'on :Arziy:"E'ornr 128X1'Zr
of Which I ani ennlosizig,"
NEARING COMPLETION
New Government building for the Canadian NationalIxhibltfon, Exhibition Park, .Terouto,
she
The building, witieh Will house the government exhibits, will be ready for the fair opening -in afire atrturan
n In the -final stages of exterior eons
The estimated cost is half a million.
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