Zurich Herald, 1926-07-08, Page 2PROFESSION WITH A HUMAN INT ' '
Towadaye When nearly .every woman without having these, dictated to her,
onfiden�e so that
callers will %willingly tell her their
affairs, Her employ-.-, whose time is
obviously more valuable then her own,
may not wish to talk to everyone hian
self, and if the matter is soImportant
have
that he must, it will be •helpf
the .gist of the subject before him so
that lie need not waste time in pre-
liminary inquiries,
ship, and paradoxical rely remains a The secretary nmust tnot appear bur -
at
has to,choose a career the one who She must ruspirt 4
cannc afford to graduate or to em-
bark on a long and expensive training
seems to be eoutroz ted with a difli
cult problem. She may. have had a
good general education and be In-
terested -in many subjects but feel no
urge to pursue any special one. Many
a woman placed in this position has
Round a happy solution In a secretary
it may sound
a good
. secretary rare
secretary. ! rigid even if she is busy, for each per
By a secretary le not meant some- son's affairs seem extremely import-
ono
mportono who taps a typewriter at au In ant to himself. Courteous attention
credible speed, nor transcribe
her own longer thameone and n doeserest standing nottake any one
who neverafates to Shorthand
ri e eye on the door and the other on the
shorthand notes. Shorthand sad type- y
writing, though essential, are mechani- speaker. The result, however, may be
cal and do not constitute the secretary- vastly different.
ship, Her quality depends on the more . But, you may say, where does the
elusive mental equipment she brings secretary some in? Is she to give
with her and exercises and perfects as everything? Certainly she should give
she goes along. Her most important all she has, and always seek to add to
duty is to act as a buffer between her her store, but her return will be pro -
employer, who le probably a busy man portionately rich. She has an 1)2-
,011 -Ian with important work to do, teresting life, a good salary; is of real
and the outside world.
Discretion.
.service to some6no, and earns his cone
eclence and gratitude. She can get an
Not until she has made her employ- insight -into the world's work. If she
er's• interest her own, has learnt the
joy of willing service, and acquired the
ability to handle a- difficult situation
with tact, can she claim to be a secre-
tary. She must be so discreet that
the most private business can be dis-
cussed in her presence with abs_Glute
certainty . that no word of the conver-
sation will be repeated, and that not
because she hes not understood what
it Is about. She must be able to act
on her own initiative, to write letters angle of actual experience.
has a bent for literature; what invalu-
able experience may be gained by
helping someone engaged in it. If to
be a journalist is her ambition there
is no bettter method of becoming one
than to act as secretary to an editor.
Many women who have made their
way in commerce have served an ap-
prenticeship as secretary to a business
man, while social work and politics
may all be studied from this useful
More Than Grass.
On ,my breakfast table there is a
pot of honey. Nat the manufactured
stuff sold under that name in shops,
but honey of the hive, brought to me
by a neighboring cottager whose bees
Barrel Gardens.
Every gardener -concerned about
strawberry growing will be interested
to learn that enough strawberries to
supply a family for a 'season can be
reared in a barrel. Thie is the proof
often hum in my garden. It gives, 1 of an experiment successfully carried
confess, more pleasure to my eye than out by Mr, Delavan D. Johnson, of
to my palate; but I like to taste of it, California.
because it is honey. , . . What were He filled with earth a barrel in
honey to me if I knew nothing of Hy= which holes, each of sufficient size to
mettus and Hybla? if my mind had take a strawberry leant, had been
no stores of poetry, no memories of bored. In each of the holes a plant
romance? -Suppose me town -pent, the was set, and under each plant was
name might bring with it some plea- built a screen platform to support it
santness of rustic odor; but of what as it grew and bore fruit.
poor significance even- that, it the ' As many as sixty plants can be
country were to me mere grass and cultivated in. one barrel, and by this
corn and vegetables, as to the man method hundreds of plants can be
who has never read nor wished to read, reared in a restricted area.
The poet is indeed . . . above the I The berries are said. to be better
world of sense, trodden by hidebound , than those grown on the ground, since
humanity, he builds that world of his t they get more sun and air and are not
own where -to is summoned the unfet- so cramped for room.
tered. . .Why does it delight"me to -_—
: ,
see the bat flitting at dusk before my
window, or to hear the hoot of the
owl when all the ways are dark? I
might regard the bat with disgust, and
the owl either with vague superstition
or not heed it at all. But these have
their place In the poet's ti orld,•, and.
carry me above the idle present.
I once passed a night.in a little mar-
ket -town where 1 . . . went to bed
early. . . I was presently awakened
by I knew not what; in the darkness
there sounded a sort of music, and
I was aware c,° the soft chiming.
of church bells. `Why, what,hour could
it be? I struck a light and looked at
ray watch. Midnight. Then a glow
came over me. "We have •heard the
chimes at midnight, l\laster Swallow!"
Never till then had I heard them. And
the town in which I slept was Eve-
sham, but a few miles from Stratford -
on -Avon. What if those midnight bells
had been tome as any other, and I had
reviled them as any other?—George
Cissinfl, In `Tooke and the Quiet Life."
harts can be ed, accord-
ing'
d
Finger p g
ing to a finger, print expert who dis-
plays evidence of such a case.
G,��.h
Good Mark.
"Your son is getting good marks at
school I suppose?"
"I'll say he is — outs, bruises,
scratches and black -eyes."
Hotter Than Our Sun. ce
The side of the sun turned away
from the earth is hotter than the edge
we see, astronomers believe.
SEEING ROUND THE WORLD
A New Use for Wireless
Actually taking shape now are pieces controlled automatically
of apparatus, inhumanly human, which
spill enable operators not only to con-
trol pilotless aeroplanes while they are
ground.
Focused on these air -borne screens
by Powerful lenses, just as it tran-
high in the air, but to endow these spires, will be --the actual scene it is
meatless machines with a power of desireccllhh t that
ththe
of the
senworld
d •seshall
ls
seeing' electrically what is in front,
on either side, or above and below, and on the screen, "seeing" what the lenses
of flashing back that bird's-eye view !project upon them, will flash their
by wireless so that it is reproduced on marvellous vision for thousands. of
soreeus, miles distant, ata point where miles in all directions.
the controllers sit with their intricate We shall study the newspapers and
gear. '' note when something we are lnteieest-
In the bodies of such weird winged ed in is to take place at some point an
craft will be special lenses which one immense distance away. But this dis-
might describe as "automatic eyes." tance will not matter in the least.
Through them will be passed a picture When the time comes for the event to
of all that lies wtthia visual range. take place_we shall just stroll into the
These images will be focused upon cinema where one of the great receiv-
light-sensitive receivers. Then they ing screens' etas been erected. There,
Will be transmitted wirelessly to the'reprotluced faithfully in every detail,.
land -station which has sent aloft these we shall see that Beene enacted thous
All -seeing eyes, writes Harry Harper ands of miles away, perhaps on the.
in 'The London Daily Chronicle," 'other side of one of the mighty oceans-
How It WIll Be Done. 1' Sight and Sound.
At this ground -station an operator Great horse -races, great boxing
will sit before his illuminated screens. matches, g. c :t cereiunnial events, the
On them, ever changing, will be a beauties and wonders of foreign lands
aeries of pictures, and as he studies''
them they will show him everything
that to visible within range of that
pilotless -lane he is controlling, and
Which may be rushing through the air
many tallest distant.
Could there be anything more auras- green of the trees, the Hash of many
Ing? Picture what it all means! It
Means, ultimately, that when some
great event is to take patee, no matter
fn what part of the world, light aensi-
tive screens will be raised, aloft above
the spent in Specially -designed hover -
PAVING STONES MADE: AT HIM
The writer ;recently saw a wonder- should be filled about one-half full with'
de's with many ar, half mend and hall cement, whieh has
fully effective
gar ' been mixed with a little more water
With 4emes blocks
these Paths llafd than the flret batch. Then, the remain -
one
Cement bl cks which were all oder of the space should be felled* with
one side, They were abour. 6 by 4 inches large, and it was learned they the same mixture (half andhalf) 'to
made aat home and were life work which has been added 4 times its bulk
were� brostone ori brielc
of a woman, .A.noth,er garden which in Tiais'kwenork must be do,ne rapidly it
also made a line effect was paved with
largo "bricks," In both cases the perfect union is to. be achieved, for
separate stones of cement were laid the layers :dry quieltly, and for neat
work they need to mix and Inter -
as is expensive Bagging. I mingle, drying all together, After.
As cement in many parts 'of` the pouring in . the last mixture of all, it
Country is. muck less expensive than is a good plan to draw a straight piece
paving stone it is of interest to know. of wood acrossthe top to secure an
how these blocks are molded. They .aboolutely Smooth surface,
may be large or small as taste prefers, I As ,cement sets quickly, it will be
and the effect of irregular paving can' quite hard in about 20 minutes, buil
be achieved by •casting a variety of those from whom tile writer learned
shapes and sizes, but it really never of this work said they left the blocks
looks like broken stone, therefore the in the rholdfor two days at least and
email -blocks laid regularly give a finer then, they were dry through' and .
effect.
process, it is very, easy toeturn them,
through. As they shrink a little in the
GIRL REFUSES ROYAL ASSISTANCE
Miss Betts, a -London girl, was struck by the King's automobile, on a
street in. London, a few days ago, and suffered slight injuries. The King, on
seeing what had happened, got out of the car and helped the girl up, and
offered to take her home. - Miss Betts was more surprisedon coming in con-
tact with the Icing than with being hit. She refused, however, His Majesty's
offer to assist her, 'and saying she was all right, departed for her home. The
following day she'received flowers from His Majesty. This photo shows Miss
Betts at: her home in London, Englak.l.
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Keep Step.
Keep step with the marching hours
That are swiftly moving hy,
For they still keep tramping onward
From birth to the day you die.
If you let them get before you,
You'll never your place regain,
And you'll hobble along life's highway
In misery, want and pain.
Keep step with the band of progress
Which plays all the newest airs,
For the great and grand. successes
Are always to him who dares,
There are lands on tbo far horizon
Where never a foot has trod,
Even the
Where the gold of high achievement -
Lies close underneath the sod.
Keep step with the helpful army
Which threads out the path of goad,.
Through deserts of human failure,
Through forest, and fire, and flood.
Set the pace for the halting laggards
Who crowd in the army's rear,
And make for the glorious highlands
Of the far-off golden year! -
—.ASB. C.•
A -Guido Needed. ;
"What do you do when winter breaks
up?" asked. a man for whom Toofus
had been guiding.
"I may go to Niagara Falls," re-
sponded Toofus, "and be a guide." -
"But what is there to guide about at
Niagara Falls? Everything is in plain
sight."
"A guide goes around with honey.
A. Tale About Tune -Keeping.
Many thousands of years passed on
'The Method.
The ✓materiails necessary . are good out. Let thein stand in sun and wind
cement and. clean sharp sand in equal if convenient. ;
proportions, and broken brick or Cement Must Age Before Planting.
stone in the ,proportion to these. ofi Gement differs from stone in the ao-
four to on•e. 11 live quality of lime it contains. After,
Cast the blocks in wooden molds., laying a garden. with stone, one can
The work will be hastened if one sup °plant bulbs among the Crevides, border
plies oneself with plenty of thee�e 4",plants' around the. edges of bode, and
molds and fl is them all at once. They I sow seeds-.broadcast,,rand they will all
are not at all expen>iive and may be { do well, but cement has to- mellow
purchased - from garden furniture many weeks before it is_ advisable to
studios, or from a practical carpenter. I plant near it., Of course, 1f the blocks
They will, last for many castings, Of i have been made a year before the lay TM1.
oou;se they should be a, little Sanger I ing of them, they will be quite sale,
than the 'desired size of the "stones", and no "burn" will remain in the ma- ,.
for cement always shrinks. a trifle as terial to destroy.tender roots seeking
it hardens. to expand in the earth.
The first thing is to make a good When one has mastered making
surface for the stone by pouring in an paving "stones" a whole world. of gar -
inch of hard -cement and this is done den endeavor is seen to stretch ahead.,
by using -only one-third of water to Many ornaments can be molded, all
sheer cement, and mixing them thor- inexpensively. Gement takes on a ,
oughly before putting -them into the richer color as it ages and if correctly
mold and pressing the mixture firmly made will not crack when the elements
into corners. After this the mold platy upon it. -
TRAVEVEL BY AIRPLANE ; trials with a glider, which decision was
L afterward amply jus•tiaecl,
1!171 Satisfactory Tests..
BECOMING SAFER 1n the winter of 1924 he came to the
vice own that the time by the sum It conclusion that, with slight modifica
aknown that early man began his day tion, his structure would be able to
at sunrise and divided -it into twenty -carry a passenger. The airplane ar-
ranged hours, but it was not until ab
this .earth before man devised any de -
out RESEARCH WORK f Y IRI ranged as a glider ~ -was completed in
550 B.C. that Berosus, a Greek; invent
ed the sundial, says C. W. Mitman in TISH MILIARY MAN.
"The Story of Time -Keeping,"
The value of Berosus' invention was
soon recognized and sundials were Pterodactyl, . a Tailless Ma -
not, however, always 1 gratefully re-
chine, is Made Laterally
conservative:— For some three years Capt, G. T. R.
The gods confound the man who first Hill bas been engaged on •.research
found out
How to distinguish "hours! Confound • work in connection with "safety' in
erected in many places. They' were
;
ceived, as indicated by anStable at All Speeds.
old Roman
them all l flight" and before the members of the
Who in this place 6ettup a sundia
To cut and hack my days so rigidly
Into small portions! When I was a
bey
My belly was my sundial: one more
sure,
December, 1924, and was tried out in
a remote spot where he had done some
glid-ing. in the early days of flying. His
tests were so satisfactory that he was
satisfied that the machine would fly
under power and that no alterations in
design were i1ecessary.
Fitted With a Bristol Cherub engine,
the pterodactyl, as Captain Hill chris-
tened his machine,, was ready to fly by _
October- the, following year.. Hie first
flight proved .satisfactory, and up to
date 21 flights have been made, -At top
Royal Aeronautical Society Lohidon, be speed -with a total load of b59 pounds
recently gave details of some of the the speed was 70 miles per hour, with
results attained. Faced with the fact engine revolutions per minute of 3340.
that many lives are lost yearly owing Stalling speed was 25 miles per hour.
to loss of control in the air, he studied The airplaue proved'' laterally stable at
Truer and more exact than any of the question of '"aerodynamic safety" all speeds; and if the control stick was
them._
_ or freedom from accident due to lack released when. side -slipping, It immedi•
•
The dial told me when 'twas proper 1 His i tiaatious led to steer returned to the centre and the
1 f a mAC111n0 a$
time
To go to dinner (when I had aught to
eat),
But nowalays, why
I can't fall to unless, the sun. gives'
leave. -
The town's so full of these confound-
ed dials
The greater part of these inhabitants,
Shrunk with Munger, -.creep along the
mooners," said Toofus "and keeps streets.
them from walking into those falls."
—__-�+- ;
Detecting Compression Leaks.
When pistons and rings are taken
out of an engine, compression leaks
can be detected by black streaks on
the pistons and rings after the oil and
carbon have been removed.
--we shall set+ theinall with our air-
borne eyes! Arid we may hope to .sere
them not just in different shades of
black and white, but In all• their na-
tural, tree -life (Joke's.
We shah see the blue of the 'sea, the
colors in a great horn: -race. And, se
sound is Opacity 'transmitted so per-
fectly by wireless, we shall have the
final and complete illusion not only of
living movetpentend natural color, butt
of the roar of eolno' great delighted
lbg machines of the helicopter type multitude;
Rr
Measurements.
"Can you give me a description of
of control. s rives 'assumed a level tree. It
the conclusion that the controls o
normal type of airplane were,adequate, would fly with feet off the rudder bar,
so long as the stalling angle was not and 11 this were kfoked over and re -
approached, but that they all became leased it returned to the central psi.
ineffective in stalled flight, while at tion and a steady straight flight was
the sante time serious, lateral insta- resumed. Gilding Power.
There proved to be no definite stall.
ing point, though there was a definite
minimum speed. With throttled en-
gine the airplane would glide at, say,
bility developed.
Captain Hill was of opinion that the
tailless airplane evolved by J. W.
Dunne some years ago achieved• great-
er success as regards stability than
any built before or since. His own 40 miles per hoar with the wing chorddesign, he thought, more nearly re --roughly horizontal; ifs the'stick were
sembled the most efficient gliding 1 pulled slowly back the speed de
birds, such as gulls or the tailless creased and the true angle of descent
your absconding cashier?' asked' the pterodactyls, which were said to have increased, but the airplane stili main -
detective. been capable of several hundred miles' tamed the sante attitude to the tor!-
"Well," answered the angry mer -flight at a stretch. He therefore set zon; although .it might thus be said
,phant, "I believe he's about five feet -to work to design a tailless light air to be stalled, - Yet it was under good
five inches tall and, about $700 short:=' plane and decided -to matte his early control even in bumps, In such alight
Ithe rudder control: appeared adequate
t " to maintain direction and carry out
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURESgentle turns even in bumpy weather.
Landing proved so easy that it seemed
to be almost impossible to make a bad
landing.
What Bobby Wanted.
The tiny brother Of the bride was
given a piece of wedding cake to put
under his pillow.
The following morning his Moths.:
said to him:
"'yell, Bobby, did. you sleep wita awe
wedding cake under your pillow are
dream of your lecture wife?"
"No, mummie," replied Bobby . "i
sated the cake, ''canis I •want lily wife
to be a surprise.,
'l.
Found After Twenty Yearn,
When some desks were being moved
in a Loudon solicitor's office 'a sov-:
reign, dropped anti`; lost ,by iteiieek
Py
twenty years ago,. tail found.
Too Weil Defended.
Edna- You say Jack was the ,'.,.titn
Of a heart attack','"
Mildre.t-- Yes, he tried to att„trlt> ,
nein P.."
For Children's Hospltal.
The Duke of Portland has offered,
aspaclous site in the Dukeries for the
erection of a large county hospital >li'
Nottinghamei ire for crippled•
.cliildra :
Thocostal! lumber and other build-
ing mttteria:s is a good argument PI
favor• of placing addition'Oa insur111
on the house and barns. Many qe
carrying the sante insurance trey ws
malty years a.ge. 11,;these good fol
were to have fire, it wati:il he alma,
inilroesilyil1,for them to re Hitt ,