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Zurich Herald, 1920-05-06, Page 2TVIrTYYrYrrrrrry TTPPTTVTT,.TTTPT,.{T 1 WQ Where Did I Come Prom?? This question the child is bound to ask sooner or later, There are two ways of answering it. One way is to levade the question, telling the child that the stork brought tom or some such fiction. This is a bad way, for the child knows it is not true. lf, at first., he does not know it is false, he soon will. The other way is to tell the truth. One mother answered the .question of her eight-year-old son with the simple statement,- "You conte from Mother, dear. You grew within her body and lay close to her heart for a long tine. She knew you were coming and got ready for you and thought about you and loved you even before yell were born." The boy looked at her, threw his arms about her and exclaimed, "Oh, Blether! that is why I love you iso." Ile had been told the truth, and he instinctively ' knew it was the truth. a :die dice not have to find out later that this mother had deceived him. When any child finds that he has been deceived by his another he naturally loses confidence in her. Venally he will not ask her any more questions but will listen to vile stories !roan other people and will think that they are true and that that is why his another is not willing to be frank with trent. Every another should tell her own ';children about the corning of new !life and she should tell them before evil-minded persons have a chance to pollute their minds. The first impres- sion that children get on this subject is the one that lasts. Make the com- ing of new life seem beautiful to your child. Tell him the stoey of the bird's life, how the nest is built, how the eggs are laid, how the parent birds sit on the eggs to keep them wwarm, how happy and excited they are when the eggs hatch out, how they cam food to the young birds aat;l care for them until their feathers grow and how finally they teach the young birds to fly. Teach the ehildrear to respect moth- erhood, to be tender and careful of all mothers. Tell them when pussy is going to have kittens. They must he very gentle with her and feed her well and help her all they can. They will love the kittens they have thus evatehed far more than any other kit- tens they have ever had, and they will Ream to understand and respect all smothers. The boy who is cruel to animals will very naturally be unkind to his mother, his sisters, and later to his wife and children. Much can be clone to supplant the instinct of cruel- ty with loving care and thoughtful- ness in the impressionable hearts of ! young children. Mothers, make your children thoughtful and loving, teach them to cherish what is weaker than themselves. Do you realize that the snaking of the next generation is in your hands? To a great extent you; can make your children just what you - want them to be. What a glorious responsibility is yours! Spotting the Spots. `fl::t soft finish of much of the cloth how worn seems to have an affinity for dirt, but a slightly dampened whisk -broom is more efficient than one which is dry, and sometimes rub- bing the cloth with a dry sponge is advised for threa;.is, ravelings and lint quickly adhere to the sponge. Remove spots es soon as they oc- cur. The following formula for a cleansing fluid is an excellent one: Benzine, one pint; chloroform, ane - sixteenth of an ounce; sulphuric ether, one -sixteenth of an ounce, oil of wintergreen, one-eighth of an ounce; aleohol, one-eighth of an ounce. This must never be used near a fire, as it is highly inflammable. To avoid the ring so often left by a cleansing agent, app1.' the fluid to the clean surface, 'outside the spot, then rub toward the ieenti e. When woolen garments have to he washed, a quick suds can be obtained by using pure soap flakes. several brand: of which are now on the Market. The flakes are exceptionally haice for washing knitted goods and ',baby clothes. Dress goods. and teen's And boys' clothing can be washed with as decoction of soap -bark. To. one Ounce (costing about Hive cents) add Ione quart of boiling water, Allow this )to steep for a while, strain through a ?loth, then add to the water in which peeler: clothes are washed. Oil and paint spots can be removed !With. turpentine, Wax can be mrmoved ,by first scraping the surface of the pot, then covering it .with blotting aper and ironing over the place With waren iron, The French chalk me - hod is recommended for silk, Rubbed nto the fibres of material it will re- i Move. many spots. After applying Vlinik neveral times, leave a fine layer i on the spot about twelve hours, then brush off. Don't Throw Avray, Old Window Shades. • Many house furnishing stores will tell you that Holland shades are off the market. That is not quite true, but it is a feet that linen shades are scarce; many stores have no stocks of them at all, and when obtainable they are very high in price. This causes a housewife to hesitate about throw- ing • away old shades that have be- -come wrinkled, faded and thin. Gen- erally the trouble with the old shades is that the filler has dropped out of the linen. Window shades that have. deterior- f I at -e 3 1 i, .t this way can be made to tool. almost as good es new at small cost and with little trouble. Go to a paint store and buy a can of ordinary flat �i� Wall paint, Reduce it by adding twenty-five per cent. of turpentine. Remove the shades from the rollers, tack them down smoothly on a bare floor or table and apply one coat of the paint. To eliminate brush marks go over it immediately with a dry stiff brietled brush. If it is desired to have the shades harmonize with the decoration or trim of the room, any color of flat paint may be obtained with which tcl..accom- plish it. It is possible to have the outside of the shade one color and the interior side different if preferred. By the adoption of this suggestion window shades can be kept looking bright and clean at the same time seving the expense of new ones. Diseases of Bees. Dee diseases are of two kinds: Dis- eases of the adult bee, which liappil.•, in Canada, have so far beer of a tra:.sient nature because no effective treatment is known; and diseases of the brood, of which there are three. .,t ierican foul -brood, European for! - brood, and Sacbrood. Sines each of these three discasc.i is tr:ated differently, and since the first two cause great loss when ne- glected, it is important that every bee- keeper should be able to recognize and distinguish them so as to treat the eorieuee ones effectively an ' with- out delay, The diseases affect the larva rr worm stage of the bee. In American foul -brood, the larva, { just after capping, becomes a coffee - colored mass which is so tenacious or viscid that it will rope out sometimes fto a length of several inches if a tooth- pick be iuserte' into the cell and withdrawn, and 't has ar unpleasant glue -like odor, The mass dries down to a scale that adheres tightly to the lower wall of the cell, The e.appin of the cell containing the affected larva is usually discolored; it is of- ten irregularly perforated, or it may be removed altogether. In European foul -brood, most of the larva are stricken before they are gapped over, They lese their shape and collapse at the bottom of the cell, appearing as if they Led been :netted and turning to a relit straw or gray color. The decayed brood has a slight- ly sour smell to which is sometimes added a strong odor cf putrefaction, The mass ropes out either not at all or but little, and the dried scale Is easily detached. In Sacbrood, the full grown larva lies stretched out on its back in the cell, discolored, but with skin and shape intact. The juices of the larva are watery and contain curd -like par- ticles. American foul -Brood is treated by shaking the hese into a clean hive con- taining frames fitted with foundation without any of the honey, and taking away the combs of brood and honey which contain the spores of the dis- ease. The bees ntuat not be allowed access to the ]coney unless it has been belled for an hour, although it is fit for human use. 'Tie combs may be rendered into wax. The hive should be di -..infected by scorching. Whet Happened. A young moan who was asked to spend Christmas with a maiden aunt in the country, 'having ia:rge expecta- tions from that quarter, had to re- gard the invitation as a command per- formance. His aunt filled his plate with turkey end accessories, and then heaped up another plate with Christ- mas pudding of the- dreadnought grand. Fortunately the old lady was called from the t'nont for a moment and the pudding went through the window into the garden. Some minutes later the maid entered, wear - ng a look of consternation, "Please, num," she said, "three of our ducks s sunk," ss eseeeseresees Prince of C Tales Diego. Cal., where he tralia. being. escorted by Mayor and Committee at San made a brief stay on his journey westward to Aus- DREAMS ARE FOUNDED ON FACT OCCUR IN PERIODS OF HALF -WAKEFULNESS. How to Get Rid of Nightmare —Dreams Are An Index of Character. Dreams have a great significance Scientists have found the visions of sleep can reveal far more important facts than the nature of the dishes served at supper. 'When soundly asleep we don't dream, Dreams occur during periods of half -t, akefulness, when the mind works in spite of us, rather than - cause we are deliberately thinking Certain classes of dreams' are, the outcome of , physical conditions. If you strati the clothes off a sleeper he may dream that he -is out in the snow. You can make a person dream he is in a storm of rain by sprinkling water on his face. So much for dreams due to merely mechanical causes. But we all lt,ave nightly visions that cannot, in any way, be traced to such •origin. How do they occur? Built Upon ideas. All dream -pictures are built up of memories. When we are awake we select the ideas that bubble up into our mind, because they are interest- ing or ustiVeful. hen asleep we are denied dais power of choice. Women Bleep more lightly than then ---due to their inherited instinct to watch an infant—and. accordingly, dream more, and remember their dreams more completely than do men. The scientific interpretation of dreams is based ort the following facts: 1. A dream Is not a representation of feet, but is symbolic. 2. Dreams include, as well as real- ized memories, ideas that we are un- conscious of in our wideawake daily life.. For instance, I dreamed on one oc- casion that I met a friend I had not seen for a long while, and he was wearing convict's clothes. 1 could not, at first, get 'et the bottom of this vision, until I remembered that a few days before I had been reading a let- ter from my friend as I left my club, and .on revisiting my club I saw there was a pester opposite, displaying, in large letters, the legend "Convict 99." At the time of reading the letter I had not consciously noticed the placard on the wall, but tenet have reed it quite unconsciously. only really learning of its existence through the dream. lr. Bernard Hart relates a dream,, showing how en Idea objectionable to us when awake will manifest itself during sleep: An important Medical Fact. faction of finally .pushing nay colleague and friend outside the door,' The constellation of ideas that Dr. Heart would not acknowledge in the waking state managed to find expres- sion in a symbolical form during sleep. • Children have been known to dream when four months old. •Dogs dream, as the owner of one knows. Many of the unpleasant dreams are the revival into consciousness of fears and emo- tions that we felt in the savage state. Delirium tremens may originate dur- ing sleep. So drinkers, beware! The analysis of dreams, as it is called, is an important part of medical practice, especially in cases of shell - shock, diseased minds, or ileums- thenia., I will conclude with a prescription for nightmare. If a distressing dream is recurrent, as they often are, the cure is to get the idea underlying the nightmare ex- b���,._lrosedfeto the cleansing atmosphere of ttvorkaday life, when they will be en- tirely obliterated. Getting. Rid of Nightmare. A colleague who occupies a post senior to me upon the staff of ----, recently uppliedt for an aplIole altnaecnct another 1nstitut]cn. Would have meant my promotion; but he happens to be one of my greatest friends, and I should certainly resent the suggestion that Iiia.departure could oecasiou me anything but genu- ine sorrow. Nevertheless, I dreamt this dream. He and I were endeavor- ing to write in at inconceivably small room, The space was eel cramped that the movements of one constantly in- terfered with those of the other. A' quarrel resulted, and I had the Satin The simplest way to do this is to write the dream down on a sheet of paper. Make the description as com- plete as possible. Read the manu- script one, two, or three times, to make certain that no detail has been omitted, then destroy it. This may sound like African magic; but there is a sound scientific explanation of the result, and the practice is sup- ported by much experience. If bad dreams are disagreeable, it is comforting to learn that pleasant dreams are beneficial to health. - 'Take note' of your dreams. Pull them to pieces. See what they are made of, and you will obtain much valuable knowledge of your mind. Dreams are, above all, an index to character. They show us the weak points in our mental make-up. and the pitfalls to avoid. The expression "baseless fabric of a dream" is no longer correct. Every dream is founded on fact. Look for the fact; and explain the dream. Two Good Cat Stories. The Spectator. of London lately printed a' number of stories in praise of the cat, and they have aroused an eager competition among the readers of the paper to win for their respec- tivo pets the distinction of the Most remarkable eat in Great Britain. Ex- tracts from two of the best letters fol- low. The first was written by a niece of Lord Kelvin, the eminent physic - est: We had a beautiful tabby Angora that was a great pet with us. One sununet' we got e, couple of toads to wateb their habits. Iter ladyship, see- ing them sprawling and naked, jumped u1) to investigate. When she found diem also cold, her sympathy was tut- bouirded. She curled herself round them and drew them into her soft, fluffy fur with gentle paws as If they had been young kittens; but we no- ticed that although site laid her chin on talent and showed every sign of de- votion she never attempted to lick them. When we returned them to their damp box in the cold cellar, she remonstrated and tried to pull them out with her paws She did -not use her mouth, as she would have done with a kitten, and she was so dis- tressed that we had forcibly to re- move her. FIrst tiring the next morn- ing when she was let out of her sleep- ing quarters she returned to the cellar door and demaude:cl entrance. Mewing pitifully, she haunted the place all day and neglected her food, We had to avoid letting her see the toads at all, as it always started her fretting anew. This cat had limited but very strong affections. To my uncle, Lord Kel- vin, she showed great devotion. She never failed to appear as soon as he came, and she sat with her paws on his foot gazing up at him with a look of absurd adoration. She always brought her kittens to trim, even when they were very young, and she was not satisfied until he had examined and admired them. Once she wean to fetch one that was old enough to have a will of its own. It took tithe to bring it, and meanwhile he had gone. Great were her lamentations when she deposited the kitten at lois chair Health t Apoplexy. By the terns apoplexy, or apoplectic stroke, is usually meant the conditioe. that results from an effusion of bloo f . into the substance of the brain, Apo- plexy oecurs usually with great sad-. denness. In the severer forms the patient instantly loses consciousness; as if he had been clubbed. Ile lies absolutely ,insensible, with lips and cheeks flapping with each expiration; his breathing is noisy and snoring; his eyeballs are insensitive to the touch, and the pupils are usually dil- ated, sometimes unequally so, and do not contract in a strong light. The paralysis affects one side of the face and the arm and leg of the opposite side. The facial paralysis may not be so noticeable while the patient is un- conscious, but is very evident later if ' he recovers eniisc•iouencss and tries to speak or smile or whistle. The par- alysis of the amrtt or log is made evi- dent by lifting the limb and letting go of it, when it will drop back like an inert mass, although the opposite member falls more slowly and is under more or less control even while the r patient is .,tx.11 un.at.scious. Partial recovery may follow in the course of time, but some paralysis always re- mains; and if the paralysis affects the right arm- and leg, the effusion into the brain is then on the left side. where the speech centre is located, and there will always be more or less trouble with the speech. Often, however, a stroke is less serious. When the hemorrhage is into some non -vital part of the brain there is little to be noticed 'beyond some trouble of speech and a slight mental contusion, Paralysis is hardly or not at all noticeable. i$ut such a slight attack is liable to be followed by a more severe one, which causes par- alysis to such an extent that the pa- tient, even in ease of eventual re- eovery, is confined for a long time to and, looking up, found it empty. the bed or wheel chair; and although. The other letter proved pussy's fn- the paralysis in these mild cases may felled to be as strong as her svm- virtually disappear. in the course of a few weeks or months, the patient will even then usually be conscious of weakness in the affected limb and will walk with a limp and be liable to drop things when he takes hold of -them with the weaker hand. One who has had a- stroke, however dight, must lead a very quiet life, give up all severe mental and physical labor and, above all things, avoid men- tal excitement, especially anger. His diet should be restricted and all high- ly seasoned foods and neat should be ' avoided. There is a popular belief that the third stroke will be fatal, but this is true only in so far as every succeeding stroke is liable to be more severe than those that have gone be- fore. pathies and affections. Not long ago a customer in a grocer's shop in Bloomsbury was waiting to be served. All of a sudden the grocer's cat be- gan to mew appealingly. "All right," said the grocer. "I know what you want," and he threw the cat a penny. The cat stopped mewing and, dragging the penny across the floor, got it gradually into the street, where site virtually Grade her own purchase from the cat's meat man. Last Arctic Sea Cow. The last Arctic "sea cow" was ,een in 185554—about a century after the first discovery of the species by white men. When full grown, the creature weighed as much as 8000 pounds. These animals frequented shallows at the mouths of ravers in herds; and while feeding they drove before them their young to protect the latter from danger. So tame were they that one could stroke their backs without objec- tion on their part. Unfortunately, their flesh was good to eat, resembling beef. Whalers got in the way of depending on them for stores of fresh meat, and so, in the natural course of event$, They were wiped out, ee- Time and space are two things no one has ever been able to define in simpler terms. Sohns Di o mound Is the ORIGINAL remedyr. or DISTEMPER, INFLUENZA, PINI{ EYE, COUGHS AND COLDS. Nevhr successfully imitated, it represents the highest attainment in veterinary science for the treatment of contagious diseases. Sold at all drug stores. f1?OuZ ItMDZCAZ CO., Beautiful Cannibals. According to travellers who have lived among them, some of the most beautiful women in the world are to be found among the natives of the Cannibal Islands, South Pacific. The men aro tall and massive, while the women are beautifully formed and very graceful, their skin being tawny Iike that of a white man who has been deeply tanned by the sun, Here is a description of one of them given by Mr. Frederick O'Brien, a dis- tinguished traveller, who spent twelve mouths among the cannibals. " 'Vanquished Often' was, perhaps, tbirteen, with a grace of carriage, a. beauty and perfection of feature, a rich coloring no canvas could depict. Hier skin was of warm olive hue, with tinges of red in the cheeks, and the lips cherry red. Her eyes were dark brown, large, melting, childishly in- traspective, Her hands were shapely, and her little bare feet, arched, rosy- Goshen, rad., :trailed were like flowers in the sand. She wore the slimmest of white cot- tc.nt tunics, and there were flamboyant flowers i11 the shining dark hair that tumbled to her waist," Nudity is commonplace among these Wanders at the bathing beach.' To their miaids modesty hos nothing whatever to do with clothes. And it is at the beach that most of the court- ing is done. A. youth finds a girl to his liking, and takes her home to his mother. If mother gives her consent a wedding follows; if not, the youth goes to the beach for another girl. They are plentiful, and, as far ski. charms are concerned, there is little to choose between Client. Imperial Mica Axle Grease and Imperial Eureka Harness Oil insure long life for wagons and harness. Put up in convenient sizes and sold by dealers everywhere. Imperial Mica Axle Grease —not only lubricates, but smooths the surface of the axle and hub with a coating 'of powdered mica, thus reducing friction and lessen- ing the strain on horses and harness. 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