Zurich Herald, 1926-12-30, Page 2DOORMAT MOTHERS
Children Who Trample Their Parents: By Dorothy Dix.
41 mother who has atlwaye, made her- cause they are intentionally unkind,
'Self a doormat for Isar children cam- but bemuse +they have always done a'a,
plains because, .fgaratively speaking, anti they are using her just exaotly as
they wipe their feet on her, i she has taught them to use her,.
Prom the time they were born this It hurts this mother that her Childs
*Woman has been her children'e slave.; ren never a.51c her advice or consult
If there has been any hard job to .do, her about anything they are going to
mother has done it. If anyone has do. But why should they? What wis-
hed to do without new clothes, it has dom has she shown is the manage -
been mother. It has always been meat of hem own affairs that should
mother who has been left, at home make her children respect her opini-
when all the other members of the on? Why should Joan. consult a stab -
family went off on a pleasure jaunt, by little woman about what to buy
and whose happiness no one has ever
stopped to consider,
Don't Slame the Children.
And it is not because these children
ai'e selfish and lacking in feeling. It the household?
is 'because they have never really When children are selfish to their
thought of their m'oth'er as a human mother, when they fail to show her
being. They have only •considered her proper respect, she has nobody but
as an adjunct to their comfort ,and herself to blame,
they subconsciously bracket hes with' If from the time they are old enough
the gas range. f to know auythiug at all slie teaches
It would give the youngsters quite a them to look up to her, to admire her,
tarn to find out that their mother had ! to think that she is the fountain of
desires and impulses like their own.' wisdom; if she teaches them to honor
They have never thought of her sacrl-', and obey her and respect her, they
fees for them in the light of sacrifices» will believe that mother is the most
They have always thought that they
were just manifestations of her pe-
culiar tastes,.
Now this mother, and her name is
Dirs. Legion, for there are thousands
of her, has expected to get her reward
when her children grew up and were
olcl enough to appr'e'ciate all that she
had done for them. She has thought
that they would exalt her and put her
upon a ped.estall and worship at her
feet, but to her amazeinent they do
nothing of the kind. On the contrary, her in any way.
they oontinue to walk over her, not be- It's up to you. mothers!
when she goes to get a new dress?
Why should John talk over the prob-
lems of his life with the one who has
always been the humblest member of
wonderful woman in the world.
This is not theory. Yon can see haw
it works out in the: households of your
acquaintances. You can see the child-
ren who save up their pennies to buy
mother a present, who help mother
with whatever work is to be done, who
consult mother about everything, and
who make mother the dominant factor
in their lives. And you see the child-
ren of other households, who let moth
er do all the work, who never consider
A. Ship of Dreams.
Her heart is a red stip of dreams
With Pave and beauty in its held.
Its scuppers tat t-•ith wine; its seams
Are calked with ruddy sunset gold.
A rosy barque of rosy dreams,
Full to the hatches with its freight,
It floats adown unearthly streams
Careless of tides of Time and Fate.
Her heart is a red ship of dreams
Drifting upon enchanted seas;
Led to and fro by wandering gleams;.
Moen hither-tbither by the breeze.
Her Steam is a red ship of dreams
With moonlight on its sails and
spars,
,And all its rosy rigging seems
A trellis, for the climbing stars.
Her heart is a black hulk of drew ms;
Gone are Its crimson and its gold;
It lies upon its broken beams
With corpses floating in its hold.
—Ronald Campbell Macfie•
"Loneliness Man" Returns Home,
Progressive Sentences.
Here are some curious sentences in
which each word contains one more
letter than the preceding word.
I do not care about garden parties,
although receiving numberless invita-
tions periodically.
"I go," was that hero's answer, dash-
ing forwards, Napoleon's battalions
immediately surrendering.
I am not very sorry Walter tumbled
headlong, screaming alarmingly unut-
terable maledictions.
Igo ten miles every Monday, through
pleasant woodlands. afte•ntime•s judici-
ously accompanying excursionists
mountaineering,
I am sad when fancy brings mock-
ing memories returning; detestably
importunate. occasionally disappoint-
ing, unquestionably disembarrassing,
unreaeon ableness•, conscientiousness.
I do not feel alarm, having happily
overcame jaundiced prejudice's innum-
erable traducements, determinately un -
restrainable, notwithstanding unextin-
guishable misinterpretation, charac-
i terletically intercommunication's in -
After spending nearly seven years 1
alone in the Arctic circle, James 1 Larks.
Ail day in exquisite air
The e.ong •ciomb an Intl-sibl'e stair,
. Flight on flight, scary on story,
Thom, known as the "World's Lone-
liest Man," has returned to his hone
in Scotland. He received mail once
a year, and to meet the boat carrying ;into the dazzling glory.
bis annual batch of letters from hona.i
be was oompelled to travel more than
400 miles with his dog team. He was
employed as representative of the
Hudson's Bay Company.
Tires Made into Shoos.
Discarded auto tires are now made
into shoee that are worn by Spanish
peasants. Strider shoes are worn by
the Chinese and by native blacks in
South African diamond mines.
Quite Right.
Boy Dell (to Girl Doll) --"We're nice
and naw looking now, but I hate to
think what we'll look like after u few
weeks in the nntsery!"
::1ud -,ever aid make a more quiet,
innocent recreation than ang"ing.—
heal: Walton,
There was no bird, only a singing,
i tJp in the glory, climbing and ringing,
1 Like a small golden cloud at even,
Trembling 'twixt earth and heaven.
I saw no staircase winding, winding,
Up in the dazzle, sapphire and blind.-
Yet
lind-Yet round by round, in .exquisite air,
The song went up the stair.
---Katharine Tynan in "Tile Flower of
Peace."
Willful Waste.
"I wish you would speak to daugh-
ter," said the anxious Mrs. Brown to
Mr, Brown. "I caught her kissing the
fee man this morning."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the
father.
"Yes," con'tinu'ed Mrs. Brown.
"Think of the idea of her wasting her
ttnle with the ice man when we owe
the butcher sixty dollars!"
The Tipping Question.
"Rave you enough money to tip the
"Yes, so little la's enough to up-
set him."
THE .L 'S SMALLEST MASTERPIECES
It may be as great a feat and need
as muck ingenuity and skill to make
a watch as to build a li:ridge, and both
are useful products of labor; but there
are many instances of ingenuity
waeted on exquisite but treeless
thinge. •
in the clays of Queen i',iiz«aboth,
Mark Scaliat, a blacbstnith, made a
lock consisting et eleven pieces of
brass, iron and steel, all of \s lica,
together with the key, weighted but
ore grain. He also made a gold chain
with forty-three links, and when 1t•ca
bad finished it he attached it to the
lock and key, put the chain ,round a
floc„ • and that nimble insect. easily
d+re,w the lot.
World's Smallest Picture.
Another man, even more famous for
Ma minute contrivances, was Oswald,.
u'x Northingerus, who is said to have
made 1,600 'dishes of turned ivory, per-
feet and complete to the last doteal.
So minute were they that they could.
aid he contained in a cup made from an
ordinorasized pepTnerooril.
A woman once pal n ted a landscape
depleting a windmill, millers', and a
Mrs. Sun Yat Sen
Who le to be first president of the
Nattoaialist state, it is said, according
to the plans of the Cantonese govern-
ment,
overnment, in memory of her husband, the
founder and first president of the re-
public.
--
Let the Dog's Ears Alone.
The sense of hearing is highly deli-
oate, and' the ear itself very sensitive
to pain, The hearing and the health
of many cloge have been injured by
owners who were " over -zealous for
cleanliness or .appearance.
A dog's eaeas need very little wash -
leg, and then only the auricle. Let
the inner ear entirely elksne, unless
symptom's of disease appear. Then
call a veterinarian. That is not a, mat-
ter for amatour doctoring.
Do not clip your dog's ears. This
cruel practice is now prohibited in
England, where it originated, and,
thank goodness, will soon be unlawful
here. Don't let any one tell you that
it dotes not hurt, that the dog "enjoys
it," etc. It causes extreme pain --and
often additional suffering when the
splints conte off and have to be put on
again, The time is rapidly corning
when there will be no ,ear-elipp•ed dogs,
A New Arrival.
There cane to port last Sunday night
The atteerest little craft,
Without an inch of ragging on;
I looked and Spoked and laughed..
It seemed so carious' that she.
Should cross the IJnknown water,
And moor herself right in can 'roam•,
My daughter, 0, any daughter!
Yet by these presents witness. all,
She's welcome fifty times,
And camas .consigned to Hope and
Love
And .chronometer rhymes.
She has no manifest but this,
No flag floats. o''er.•the water,
She's too new for the British Lloyd's—
My daughter, 0, my daughter!
AN ADVENTURE WITH A 1'IGGER
I was stationed, some years ago,' tethered close at tend. They bad
with the corps to which I belonged, been straining at their picket -rope'
in Northern ludia, at tine foot of the fou• some momenta, and now began to
Hitulaleyaa, 'A party was detailed to plunge violently,
survey and report upsets the stake of Suddenly, any attention, was arrested
an adjacent disiriot. To this Party 1 by what looked Mae two bright emaee-
alds guttering in elle moonlight. In
another instant, I perceived the body
of a huge tiger, even them. crouching
to spring upon me.
It was' the dreaded "man-eater," ot
which I had heard the natives Speak-
ing during the day, With a wild, des -
.pairing ery, I started to my feet, but
before I had taken a step toward the
hut the •creature was upon me, and I
felt his cruel clrawo �tea•ring my Reels.
Weak as I was with my rscent 111,•
ness, I could not offer the slightest
resistance. One ,of the Sepoys, aroused
from sleep by my cry and the fleece
growl of the tiger. as he sprang upon
me, rushed from the hut, and dis-
charged his rifle at the ferocious beast.
The tiger wile only slightly wound-
ed and sprang with a yell of rage at
with me. the unfortunate Sepoy. The tiger's
On the first night after the doper- attention was thus distraced from me.
ture of my comrades, feeling the I saw the man fall beneath the orea-
small, low room in which I slept eat tures• claws, but I remember no more,
ceedingly oppressive, I went out, hop- for I fainted dead away.
ing to find refreshment from the cool- I learned afterwards that Steele, my
er air outside. servant, was only awakened at hear -
The night was perfectly still, save ing the report of the Sepoy's rifle,
for the rippling of a stream, which when, seizing his weapon, he had
.come down from a glacier high up in sprung from the hut, and, perceiving
the lofty mountains. in front of me. what had happened, he aimed at the
The only other sound. taxi the aces- tiger with deadly effect.
was attached. We had been march-
ing for some days under a Bearebtng
sun. Inhabitants of a temperate •eli-
naate 'can Suave little idea of the ter-
rible heat of the valley along which
aur route lay.
We halted, indeed, at midday, but
even in the early morning and evening,
the heat was overpowering. At the
end of our march one day, I became
seriously unwell. We had no d•gctor
Ring out, wild bells, and tame ones attached to the party, and the ofieer
too, in command advised me to remain be -
Ring out the lovel'e moon! hind for a day or two, in the hope
Ring in the little worsted socias! that rest would •resto•re my.liealth and
Ring in the bib and spoon! enable me to resume my duties.
Ring out the muse! Ring in the nurse! I accepted his kind offer, and took
Ring in the milk and water my quarters in a small bungalow just
Away with paper, pen and ink— outside a native village. Steele, my
My daughter, 0, ray daughter!! servant, and two Sepoys, remained
—George W. Cable,
.r,
A Duck at the T eller.
1 was standing on the edge of the
Round Pond in Kensington Gerdes. It
was one of those blowy days on which
the Round Pond is a tumultuous ocean,
whipped by the storm into huge roll-
ers six inches high. As the little
model. yachts ploughed their way
aoros•s the pond; many of thein heeled
over till choir mainsails dipped into sional cry of some wild animal br night The ball •entered the ear, and passed
the tide. Two of them had their sails bird. clean through the skull of the beast,
1
so heavily weighted with water that I watched, with feel'
were unable to right themselves feelings of solemn who fell dead. It was just in time to
theya lay helpless and drifting mon elves awe, the moon slowly rising above the save my life, but too late to rescue the
crest off the mountains, casting some unfortunate Sepoy, who probably had
`sides. parts into deep •shadow, while others perished in an instant.
The ordinary duck, when it sees a
� were lighted up and glittering in the The .grateful villagers gave us win,
yacht bearing down on it scuttles out moonlight.
of the way as human beings do when Presently, the sale.mn silem,ae was
getting out of the way of a motor bus. ,disturbed by the uneasy, terrified recovered from the fright of that ter -
1 . . This duck, however, was dif movements o1 our horses, who were rifle night.
i ferent. A beautiful green yacht with tat - .
`bellying white sails bore down an it P
Y ; while it was not looking, and the duck, S yY a.. xf
even at dog .shows, and we should all on turning its head round after a vigor-
ing help in recovering our runaway
horses, but it was some days before I
lend a voice at every opportunity to one preening of its breast feathers,
hasten the arrival of that giaci day.
And, along with the cutting, bet us
abolish the use of all those dilubolical
little instruments used on the show
dogs to make tlie'ni 'conform to certain
amazement of the assembled spec-
tators, scrambled en to the deck and;
took up its position at the tiller. The
"knife combs," "seuunchea+s," etc. ; yacht wabbled for a moment under the 1
What' does he care for "tulip -shaped unexpected weight, but the dunk wab-
ears'.—obi lis wants is to be happy, i bled tea and so kept its place. In so.
Really, it is hard to understand how heavy a sea a heavy cluck was an ad
any- one can subject a beloved pet to
such torture; and the truth is that
most of the show dogs are those bred:
for exhibition purposes and made to
conform to standards, regardless of
the suffering entailed. But such dogs
have just as much feeling as ,our per-
sonal pets, and the show dog =Vet
must be abolished.
I have said, let the dog's ears
alone. Barking for identification
necessary;is
ecessary; there are too mealy other
reliable ways. Let no one induce you
I suddenly beheld the deck leaning over
: toward it and almost touching its tail,
as though inviting it to step aboard.
IWhether it was startled into its next
action I do not know, but, quick as
standards. I am sure if the poor collie `lighnin.g, It wheeled round and, to the;
had a say in the matter, he would
quickly choose not to be "fashionable"
rather than wear the devilish little
to tattoo your pet's ears. It may be,
dangerous, if not •skillfully done, and
it positively is painful. An added fact,
worth consideration in some cases, is
that a dog tattooed with your initials
or other private mark is somewhat
less saleable, should you ever desire
to sell hint. There are many reasons,
against tattooing and not one good
argument for it. Let the dog's ears
alone.—L. E. Eubanks.
Two Hundred Foot Jump.
vantage to the yacht, which no longer '
layover at a dangerous angle, but be-
gan to move in stately speed across I
the pond. For a time the duck looked ;
about it as though a little puzzled by 1
the motion and by the seascape that
swept past' it at so incredible a speed.
. As it kept its footing on its •
magnif0ently flat feet, its self-confi-;
-donee seemed to grow, and it gazed'
round at the other ducks with an air
even of boastfulness. At last, as '
• through to suggest that it had been
ailing for years it ceased even to look'
round at the others and began to nib-
ble vigorously at its breast feathers 1
like a duck on dry land.
By the dine the yacht was thawing
near the opposite shore the duck ap-1
peared to be settling down to sleep,
j but, on looking up, it saw a cogeSvd of
' men, women and children laughing up-
roariously at it, whereupon it slid
t hastily off into the water and floated
loft toward the middle of the paid with
a ruffled air of contempt for so ill-
mannered a race. . . . That, I think,
The amazing leaps ot the fa.Itiii]ar, is the most exciting event that, has
firing squirrels mast take second place happened in Kensington Gardens in re-?
now that explorers report the flyingcent years. I am sure that no one who 1
was present on that blue and billowy 1
lemur of the Indianarchipelago able : day and who saw the duck
to sustain itself in a leap of more than going fora
200 feet. The animal is about 21/2 feet sail will ever forget it.—From "Solo -1
long and is equipped with a prem- mon in All His Glary,"by Robert'
brane connecting its limbs. Lynd.
•
liar,.•-, and cart, and half a grain of
turn was big vr_euglt to hitle the whole
composition.
At the nttisetnn ai Salenl. in New
Eugehn;i, theca is a cherry -stone con-
taining a dozen silver spoone. The
stone is of ordinary size and the
spoons are so small the+t tbe;lr shape
incl !iiililt can only b • admated with
the ale of a microscope.
Canada pus , :•na of die slimiest
engines in the world, 'It. measure:;
!. sa than a qn t lch• or an inch in any
rl,r; t rn, 0nd has ,t cylinder rne-
twa'nli .1h of an inch nt 1iatnetPr, A
working jeweller in T coli ntacie a sll-
ver model of a beane cugYine an inch in
height, composed or 165 pieces, cam-.
piete in every detail and weighing,
without the bed -page, ane and a half
peiinywoigirla,
A Turin jeweller, finding a pearl
which by its shape lent itself• to his
purpose, tirade it into a tiny Stoat, ltq
sant is of beaten gold stuthimi with
d:lam'onds, and the he,afl.light is a.per-
fooi. ruby. An elnera.ld serves as its
madder, and its stand la a slab of
vary. it's weight is leas than half an
mace, an it is -alined at £2,000,
Jan Bratiano
Rumania's uncrownetd king, termer
premier, and still the most powerful
man in the country. He and Queen
Marie have sometimes crossed swords.
He say's, however, that the return of
Prince Carol is a dead issue.
Watch the Car Ahead.
The glass window in the beak cur-
tain of the car ahead can be quite use-
ful. Through it a let of dangers can
he seen in advance, nnich to the ad-
vantage of the man who is in the rear.
Where ears are being driven in such
a way that the road cannot be seen by
looking around the car ahead, it is
best to drive just fair enough behind
to look through its windows•. When a
quick stop its necessary the halting
of the ear ahead• will not be unexpect-
ed, nor so dangerous.
Helpful.
"I'm taking the census, lad'.v."
"Alt right. And there's sa'm'e
cans and: rubber tires ant in the y
Take them, too, please"
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(Cop�rtghe, 1914, by The POI Syedieeta, Inc).
PERSONALITY
J
When we come "down to brass
tacks," mere bulla, area, avohdumois,
wealth, and many ether outward
things are of little account compared
with that illusive and indefinable thing
we call Personality. That is why Jack
is so much more interesting than the
giant he slew.
The giants of antiquity were invari-
ably muddle-h'eade'd, stupid, slow in
the uptake. Jack was quicksilver; he
had the gift ;of personality. He could
make more use o1 a bean than the
giant could of a club. Jack had per-
sonality; the giant ,only -had "person."
You s•e+e the triumph of personality
everywhere. It is not confined to
human beings,. Dogs and horses have
it; even mountain's and rivers have
ipersonality — something about them
. which bestows distinction apart frerm
1 rise.
Parnassus is a pimple compared
with Everest, but it is the seat of the
1 Muses; the Mount of Olives is sacred
• In two hemispheres, th'ou'gh it would"
not rank as a foothill of the Alps,.
1 Nearly all the famous rivers of the
world are mere rivulets compared with
t the Amazon or the Mississippi, but
someone said that the Thames was:
"liquid history," and people cross
oceans to gaze on Avon, Ayr, and Yar-
row. The most fatuous river in the
woorld is the, Jordan, a mere mountain
tori ermt ending in the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem and Rome and Athens are
not .counted among the world's mighti-
est cities, but their personality dani-
inatee all the rest.
Do you see what I am driving at?
old It is what you are that counts. The
ala. measure of a man is, not the depth of
his pocket; but the •capacity ,of his
brain, the splendor of his character,
the love in lids heart, the power of b:s
imagination, the depth of this faith.
You man feel personality. It is liko
a meet,icat aura emanating from life
within. It makes the eye shines the
face ,glow. I have known people wham
to shake by the hand was an unforget:-
able experience, Tliey bad the: gift of
personality.
We sornet:Imes m,arvei that a swan
loaves barge in his generatiott. IIe
seems to 1111 a larger space than
others. The words he says, oven.
though few, are listened to as though
they iverre the weeds •of a prophet.
The poet Cray comes down to pos-
terity with his famous "Elegy' sander
,his arm, what manly voluminous autle
OINS et his cloy are forgotten. (Slay pelt
iris whole vete rier:;ay into that littera;'
and titereftre, and thereby, it its in-
destructible. -• au everlveting thing.
SsS'1'h1i1cleliquantityke a 5(011, Moto balk i apt to
0
Mahe etre+a•nh at thee.,
qua'ty floats dawn to fuddle ages, and
blesses tins world.
The old han'dlca•aitstate putt their
person'ali'ty into their• week, That is
why we aodmlr* their mantelpieces,
their -chilene,ys, 111eta• ehitito, admost as
much as we admire thein ttath2+drals,
It is act oiely the. artist alai ilia•"poet
who have. the gift of p eraou ality . It
gtrows in humbler soil. Thee mat at his
bench may have it. The 11)081 with a
PC) oti'c,:ity whittle has influen,0sd the
world for two tit+ousancl ye+trs served
his apst,rentitsoslilip es a carpenter. It
is a quality capable of •oultivation. Wo
1111151 s'e,ek to expresso the beat and
highest that is wi.t�tin us, The motto
o� po,rsonttty is; "The utmost ter the
h uyla'egt,,,
e ase. ernes can 144 70 feet -vett