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Zurich Herald, 1926-11-18, Page 7-INVENTIOIIS THAT WILL COME Less Noise and More Speed in the Wamderworld of To. .. - morrow. This fs an age of inventions—an Mechanically propelled vehicles• will all age in which Science is always push- ing forward.'. and Industry pressing close behind taking inataut advantage of eyery •n•ew discovery and taming It to practical use. in such an age, how can we lzape tG forecast? Our most daring dreams will probably be dwarfed ny the reality. Yet it is possible to see, in some measure, where Science is going, This was done at the end of last century, when an nations appeared in a London paper on the subject of "Inventions Yen to be Invented." It called for a noiseless typewriter, for aerial nava; gation, for colored photography, and for mechanically propelled vehiei ;. All these are to-day—after a mere: thirty years or so — accomplished facts. London's Television Station. If we look forward to -day, what shall we see? There are many inventions to come. Just as, fifty years ago, the conquest of the air was undreamt of, so there are things to -day which the puny mind of man regards as impossible but which in the future will be the merest commonplace. Here is an example to hand. Tele- vision was, five years ago, an un - thought -of thing. Yet to -day there is one television station (2TV) working in London, while another experimental station is under construction a few miles out of the capital. And is television the limit of the possibilities of wireless? Why should it be? To -day wireless is performing -wonders which Jules Verne would' have given his eyes even to have imagined! The Age of Ndlse. Man has but touched the fringe of the possible uses to which the- wonder waves•:may be harnessed. Ships and aeroplanes have been guided short distances by means of wireless. rt is owe their propulsive powers, to ele - trieity or wireless. The former is al- most silent, the latter quite. War, the noisiest thing that man hap ever "invented," will undergo two phase's. The first will be that battle will be engaged in weirdest edienne, The "'death ray," about which so much has been heard, will undoubtedly` be discovered, Guns, warships, soldiers and sailors wilt no longer be required. A few wireless planes with wireless control- led cameras,. for spotting purposes, will be all that will be required. Thea the pressure of a button will release .death in its most devastating•—•and ,.» painless—farm. 'Tie second phase will' be•—non- existence. War will become so disas- trous that it will no longer be possible. When it becomes practicable for one swan to press a . batten and wipe out an enemy nation mankind will at last realize—what they might equally well have reaized before—the•sheer futility of warfare. Man's hast' mode of progression was .by means of his owu two feet upon land. Then he discovered how to build vehicles and boats. The latter prefaced the obnquest of the sea, which reached its climax when under- water craft . were successfully achieved. Land and 'sea were his. Then, after thousaficis of years, he bethou.gh him of the air, and now he is- mastering this, too. There •can be no other form of transit, but .the conquest ,cif the air has scarcely begun. The Berengaria, the Impera.tar, and their great -sister ships, which we look upon almost with awe and refer to as "fioatiaag palaces," will sson be as ridiculously old-fas- hioned as, a sedan chair or au Ancient Briton's Coracle! ' - Dreams of the Future. Aerial liners, a.ecammociating thous- , not too much to spay that crew'ess ands, will ply to every port of the liners will one day plough their way globe at incredible speeds. Crossing across the Atlantic under the direc- the Atlantic will be speedier, safer, tion (i ins man set before a little switchbeerd. The Stone Age and the Bronze Age came and passed, and this—the Age of Noise --will pass also. and far more comfortable than is crossing the Channel to -day. Ey then, the ,world having got too big Poi its bootee, efforts will he .made to visit Mars or' some other planet. One of tb:e most amazing. things Communication will certainly have about 'moden life is the''aniount of been established with any other in - noise we are forced to endure. The habited world there may be, and of sense of hearing in ancient days ,was forts to send a "landing party" will be oue of the keenest faculties possessed . niacle: ' by man. The cavemen ot, the Stone j Up to the'present, such suggestions Age relied upon their acute sense' Of have been made seriously only by the hearing to warn them of enemies, and Soviet Government, to whom all honor doubtless the titan with keen ears was for thinking of sb unique a method of Ile who survived longest. Ta -day, in getting rid of some of their "shining this age of machinery, man has be- i lights." But is travel through s'pac'e come deafened, and he can only hear: impossible shounds at short rflngc• Man has no knowledge, as yet, of Doing Away With War, what space really is. Ile only knows Mercifully . so, for everything in that a belt of air extends round the modern civilization is incredibly noisy, earth to a height of so many miles, and even the mast rural "retreats" de- After that—space. But what space serve the nine no longer. Where is may consist of and how to traverse it there any pace in this time of motor- cars and motorcycles, reaping and are for the moment beyond him. But so were the air and the possibility of 'threshing machines, tractors,. and what' human flight bexond the comprehen- not.? I sion of the caveman. Everything that man has made , Only dreams et the,efuture? Maybe, emits harsh sounds. put that is the i but men of old dreamed dreams which next thing that pian will conquer. came true. Wolsey's Farewell. This is a famous passage from ' Your Horne Decoration. • "Henry VIII•, one of" plays at:tri o • picture or 'piece of fabric can bated to Shakespeare but which prob Lydd such a glowing note to a room as ably only contain certain passages a flower. Therefore, when consider- Ing your home and its appearance al- ways try to have as • many flowers in the house as you •can. So important is the part flowers play in the decoration of a room that time spent in studying howto achieve the happiest effects is not wasted. In- deed, many women wlao are interested M gardening give as muck thought to arranging artistic 'effects with flowers indoors as they do to obtaining color- ful results in their flower -beds. This isn't a waste of time—flowers can make even a poorly furnished room beautiful. Light is one of the things to be con- sidered. Put near a window in the daytime, fldwei*s gain hi brilliancy; and at night a direct artificial light on then brings out the color and makes a note of living decoration' in the room. How to Get the Right Note in which are his -- passages no other hand could have written, no other brain conceived. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness'. . This is the state of man: To -day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, to -morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day comes, a frost, a killing frost; And--evhen he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening—nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ven tured, Like little' wanton boys that swim on bladders, • This many summers in a sea of glory;,. But far beyond my depth; my high - blown pride At length broke milder me; and now has left me, Weary, and old with servioe, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever bride me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye; I feel my 'heart new opened. 0, how wretched Is that poor man who hangs. on princes' favors! ' There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars and women have; And when he falls, he fails• like Luci fer, Never toehope again. Scattering the Light. Scattering of light In the atmos- pheie is due partly to &mall particles of dust. Gypsy bog Has Own Plate, A plate from which a dog Ilea eaten will never be used for the preparation of human food among trtte gypsied, ( FAMOUS LORD ELGIN AND THE HEIR TO THE TITLE `- GOVERNOR WHO RESPECTED AUTONOMY OF CANADA AND HIS GREAT-GRANDSON 1)0 these two pictures look alike?rotten-egged by "loyalists' 'in Mont -was a Carnegie and he was born in Are they as similar as Elgin watches?real, and Andrew, the two-year-old sonAndrew Carnegie's native village of They are great-grandfather and groat -and heir of the present Lord Eigin.Dunfermin'e, where is situated the El - grandson, the 8th Lord Elgin, wboAndrew is named after Andrew Car -gin ancestral home, Broo-mhall, negotiated the reciprocity treaty innegie, of whose library foundation lois 11854 with. the United States, and wasfether le a director. His grandmother TIE PASSING OF RURAL ENGLAND Rural England Is passing, and its place is being taken by a new country- side. Village and country life, as it has been known by the past and pre- sent generations, will never be known by the next. Instead of isolated regions whose in- habitants are steeped in local lore and whose dialects are almost incompre- hensible to an urbanite and the out- look and experience hardly extend be- yond the county, city and country are joining hands. England is becoming a unity in thought, in speech, in in- terests, in fashions, from London to the once most remote hamlet. The radio and the motor -omnibus are shaping the new solidarity. The coun- try girl new rides to a .city in the bus that passes the "bottom of the lane." There she has her hair bobbed and buys her flesh-oelored or tan artificial slit stockings and borrows courage to wear her skirts nearly to her knees. Her brother has a wireless set, per- haps only a $5 contrivance with cry- stals, but in the. evening the family ' dons the head -phones and listens to • voices from a metropolis. The world `rushes into the common -room of the i cottage, and there it leaves its news, its facile acquaintance with important { things, its talks, lectures, speeches, its I music, its great artists and, flnaIly, its amusements, I News From Afar. • I Now it is a fox-trot from the Savoy !Bands that starts' country feet to jog- ging not the local, scraping fiddler. 1 Now it is news of national events that 1 gets discussed by the hearth, not only •the village gossip. Grand opera takes the place of the folksong as a standard Iof beauty. A great metropolitan preacher delivers a sermon that for ' modern outlook and flue thought could not be touched in the local rectory. 1 Tho villager of mature years may be tco ossified in mind to change vis- • ibly the habits of a lifetime. Bat his 1 son adopts new standards, he is awak 1 ened by new interests, his outlook changes. He no longer is a "hick." The war plowed up the rural Eng- landers, and now motor transport and With regard to placing, a plain, light background Is blest. Needless to say, it is the fragile, delicately 'colored flowers which require most careful ar- rangement. They need a simple back-' ground and plenty of light. Sturdy blooms like nasturtiums, with their strong, brilliant hues, can more than hold their own „ a-gainet any sort of background. Although pottery is ,delightful to'use for holding flowers, many people vote for; glass .Containers because the steins Can be Soon. And to flower lovers the stalks form an attractive part ' of the whole. Then, too, thele arse some at- tractive pieces of potery that won't 1 hold water. In any case, the simpler the vaso the better, for it should always be sub- ordinate to the liowere. Speaking gen- erally, one should choose vases that allow the flower stalks to be one and a half tinges the height of the holder. Out of Self, Ail the doers the lead inward, to the sacred plane of the Moat ;high, are debts on.tward—out of self, ottt of anialleses, cut of wrong,--- George Mac- daniald, the radio are seeding them. Boys went to France and some returned from France, and for all who knew them the world bad grown larger. Then during the war one of the fashions was to t organize village life. Social centers were planned for nearly every hamlet t in the •land and hundreds were built. They stand to -day and continue their duties as village dance halls, lecture rooms, "•cinema Muses and meeting places. Every motorist in England is familiar with them. They usually stand at a crossroads—low, one -storey buildings of red brick, with a. bulletin board beside the entrance. • On a Sunday a family can be seen going to church, with all three genera tions represented; the grandmother of England in which trains were a novel- ty, who reads only one book, the Bible, and still clings no the pretty legends of her girlhood; the mother of ;a less isolated girlhood but still indelibly stamped with the village mark, and, last of all, the bays and ,girls of to -day, as alike Londoners in their dress,' speech and interests as though they 1 to the fields and keep the young peo- ple, as their predecessors have done, from crowding into the slums around the English factory. And in the fu- ture the farmer's son and daughter may be willing to stay in the lonely cottage down the once lonely lane and Success at Seventy. carry are the lonelyyk of their elders, For To paint twenty-one portraits in ten hey no more. Tn thirty minutes for a "tuppence" they can menthe would be considered good ake a bus to the county seat or in work -for any artist, but for a man of two seconds they can switch on the Sir John Lavery's age to accomplish radio and have intercourse with a such a feat is almost miraculous, says world. an English writer. Sir John was born For the antiquarian and romanticist, in 1856, so is seventy this year. He rural England is dead: For the Eng- has painted portraits of twenty-one list who have to live there, it is being American millionaires since the end of reborn.—Raymond Gram Swing. November last, and has brought home three of them to exhibit in this year's Royal Academy. Some Odd Names. But painters do go on working be - An English writer has been heprt 1 yond the years at which most men re- ing odd names, a list of wahfch ha pre I tire. Mr. James Sant went on exhibit• seats in an amusing article. A little Ing up to the ageof ninety-four; Mr. girl at Barnstable is named Joy Berry, T. S. Cooper, ILA., ninetc•d for rev - which, of course, is about as pretty a oral• years after his ninetieth birthday, name fora girl as one wishes to hear. i and—most marvellous of all, --that But when the registers of the same greatest of artists, Titian, continued 10 vicinity reveal the fact that other per- paint up to the end of his life, and at sons are named Earnest Frosty Win, i his death he was only one year short ter, Autumn Winter, Winter Summer, of the century. Eve Christmas and Time I a h i In other matters besicl�ss painting Roses as Rent. King George is ties recipient of w 10Y' queer agents; .whi�eh, if of aao initrineln value, are certainly curious, Then are alsal'ly • sury v�i1aig. customs od fpr clewk days. The City pf London's rent for cer- tain property off the trend =islets et two knives', aix liorae'-shoes, and.sixty- pa>e mails, and it is paid to the King's •Remembrancer et the Law •Courts, The Royal Academy pays: a p•epper- eorti rent for the site of Harlington Nouse. The owner of Copeland Manor holds ban tenancy on 'condition that he sup- ports• the I(Ing'•s head should the Sone - reign be seasick 1 crowing froze Dover to Wbitsand, The Manor of Aylesbury is bound .to provide the King with. three geese if he goes there 1n summer or with three eels if it is in the winter. It is also bound to provide clean etraw for the King's bedroom three times a year should His Majesty pass through Aylesbury. This obligation dates from ate time when. straw was a luxury for the bedroom floor. St. Olave's Grammar School, near Tower Bridge, le rented by roses, Originally the value of the land was 830. Its worth is now £5,000ea, year,. but the rent is stili a bunch of roses. The ancient city of Chichester is bound to provide the King with "a string for his croenbow," whilst tate lord of Bryanston, in Dorset, used to hold has manor on condition that he provided a boy with a stringless bow and an =feathered arrow whenever ih•e Ring made war in Wales. The tenant of i3radley Great Wood, near Grimsby, is compelled to send a wird boar or its equivalent in cash to the Mayer of Grimsby. As wild boars axe somewhat scarce nowadays the money is usually sent. • had bean born in Acton. Stopping Rush to the Cities, ', The change, you may say, is deploy- Able. You may believe in an archaic 1 countryside, where folksongs are still; to be heard in the original, where old wives still credit the physical presence of fairies, where the dairymaids wear bonnets and young men never get the hayseed out of their hair. You may say it is more,.picturesque and more healthful. You may dislike fox-trots . and you may not admit that urban standards and urban interests are good enough 'to be copied in the vil- lages. But the transformation has an ad- vantage that cannot be denied, how- ever great one's devotion to the love- ly, rustic English countryside. It is stopping the rush, to the' cities. It is giving the first hope England has had in twenty-five years that its rural life can be regenerated. The radio and omnibus are not killing the villages and the farms; they are saving them. I It may be they will give back workers y, t ere seems to be altogether too much : we have recently seen some amazing novelty. The English registers also ; achiever 1n'a' by men 00 aongea• rouug. ' show that persons have borne the foal Of these, the most startling was the \Vest Shore, Salmon Fish, Henry j September last, won the Jubilee.. Vase lowing names: Elizabeth Foot Bath, 1 feat of Mr. Spencer Glen. "who, in Speaks Welsh, Thomas Christmas 1 of the Royal and Ancient Goll Club at Box, True Case, Major Minor, Rose'. St. Andrews, at the age of seventy. Budd Arch Bishop and Married Brown 1 For a man of his age to play two stiff Clean Your Records. Buy a little gasoline and just before fitting the record to the gramophone !'1;;,"'"' 19won the Amateur Champion - fitting at Yloyl.,ke 'Fin was then a grand• dip a wad of cotton wool iuto the gaso- father. cord entl - 1 41 rounds a day Lor four days in :nieces - sion is a. galfling feat matched only by that of Mr. Charles Hukch.nn , ' e• w-1 • ne. Hub tine re g y al over, in the direction of th•o "tune." Than go over the surface with a silk hand. kerchief. This will successfully re move all tate almost invisible apecke I of•dust that have accumulated, and the record, will sound almost as good and fresh as when first bought. Indians Earn Penny a Day. One cent a day represents the aver- age income for tate majority of work- ) ing people in the country districts of 1 India. ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By 0. Jacobsson. • qq (Copyngtt, 1924. by The Beit syndicate. Inc.) Fatal FaWciiiat on, Mr. S. H. Fry won the Amateur 1311• liarde Championship for the e!ghlla time in 1Vlareh, 1.925. His first win was in 1893, thirty-threes years ago, and he was fifty-seven on the occasion of his latest success. Deathless Seeds. Seeds can lie dormant for centuries in a dry atmosphere, but the m m :int they are given moisture they awake and sprout as if nothing ,had ltatanna- ed. Grains of wheat found in the reek tombs of mesa who died 4,000 y'emrs ago have proved able to grow at once into strong healthy plants when placed in the soil, Oats, grass seadi, and even the seeds of certain. flowers have been found equally minable of withstanding the passage of centuries. One cf the most remarkable cases occurred when earth prepared from peat was used for patting young planta. In each pot appeared a moss which grows only in tropical regions. Twenty thousand years ago the di - mate of Britain was' much like that of Africa. The moss flourished here in those days, but sinco then its seeds have lain in the peat, lacking the beat they needed for development. When placed in the wartihth of the green- house they lived as though they had fallen to the ground but yesterday. Insect 1Can nibals. In Ilia struggle for existence many ereat.ures are driven to live at im- inense heights'. The cli.ar'.rers of Everest saw a herd of wild sheep sitting on a glacier sun ionndad by pinnacles of 'foe. '''bey found bees, mother and butterfli-es at 21,00 fact, and the last traces *1 per- znan;;nt animal existence far above the IIinaalayan snow -line and 4000 feet above the last vegetable growth.' These were small spiders. They five in islands of broken rock surrounded by snow and ice. There wee no signs ot vegetation or living ort:ituras near then:, and for food they ata one another. Wingless grasshoppers were found living at a height of 18,000 foot. Two of a Kind. Teacher—"A biped is something that goes on two feet. Is there Slip body that can give tee at examplel" Pupil -_•."A p•rir of shoes." a