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Zurich Herald, 1923-06-28, Page 7The Hullo xri Interp 'et r. i • leen of 'lowers itt u rases we 'grow and bleed fell Upon. it the flower was reds so•nlytle 1 sledocs'know us,". i . 'one of the gather for ourselves that` are really e t older sid%ers ent;laimed to' ,auris des - ours: It iG'tbe "Mane-grownroses that prai inrl : "She doesn't look like it1it'sof lovingly attend to that give you t, Y Beth, and there's nobody to help us I the greatest'deneht. Pep into your bear it; mother and father both gone, garden and sae the roses and rose and God seems so far away I can't find IHim."• ous revel trees and climbers Ina riotous get far eL rie was only a boy. Serious ill- of 'color and fragrance, We g . nsss and sihch sore grief were new to 1t;ina, but his heart was full of aym- patby, and he grasped Jo's hand,. "I'm here," lie said reassuringly. "Hold on to me, Jo dear!" Readers of Miss Alcott's Little Wo- men will remember the pathetic scene and perhaps the author's sage reflec- tion that follows: "She could not speak. but she did 'hold on,' and the warm' grasp of the friendly human hand coin - forted her sore heart and 'seemed to lead her . ` nearer to, the Divine Arm; which alone could Uphold her la her trouble." All Christian teaching is in essence an effort to interpret God to dull or careless• or groping .naiiids. What we too often overlook is that our acts are far more convincing interpreters than our words. What we do in disinterest ed kindness or heart and under the in- spiration n 1 s iiration of love --our eacrilices, our cheerful 'self -denials, our sympathetic ministries—may: seem discouragingly inadequate to meet the need' to which they respond, but quite apart from what they tbelneelves accomplish they bring ,thea needy heart nearer the Greater Helper, whose name is Love. "God seems so far away`I can't find Him," is a much commoner plaint than • most of us, imagine: To the unthink- ing.'onlooker Mary's breaking a box • too often overlook is that out acts are feet seemed a reckless waste, but the 'quick intuition of the Master realized thei significance of the :action; la :its smallway it meant the same as hit own sacrifice upon the cross. The alabaster: box in the hands of her whose Ione kept nothing back 'has been as it were, a lens to bring Calvary within range of shortsighted eyes and to reveal the unselfish heroism of Him 'who gave his all tor the salvation of a sinful world. "It was my mother that first taught me as a. child what the love of God is like,': 'a grown-up, son declared as 'he stood by the grave of her to whom he head paid that grateful tribute. "No, I don't mean religious instruction, not in the conventional s•e'e at least," he added in reply to the question of a friend,' "She taught us by precept, to be'*s'°hre, but her Whole. life was the lesson we never forgot.- When fattier died .I was two years, old, and my old- est bretlxenr was nine; and for years as we struggled oh'the verge of poverty mother sacrificed everything for us. When "I was old enough to readesuch verses as 'Greater love hatlr,no man gum this, that a man lay down his fife, for hisfriends,' it seemed as if I'd had the.; commentary before my eyes all my life, and I didn't need to be told what it ineani.'z more out of our garden than we give, dened by its contract, Sveneet. epee to of it: "Whites as the native rose before the change Venus' blood did in her leaves Whiclt� Vo impress," In Devonshire a blooming lass le said to look like a double xose. y An old writer remarks that whoa we desire to confine our Words to fiecre5Y not one day is without wealth, and 'W eommonly'say they are atrokeli into our life aro crowded countless "under the rose," sub rose, whence treasures of flower and fruit, fragrarme the proverb... "Under the rose' be it and song that ,gladden our hearts relent The explanation usually of- through, the summer menthe. But no fere(' is as follows'•The rose was sao- flower do we 'love more than the the Goddess of Love, and den rose. Queen of Flowers, red tt V o enus, ted byqupid to Harps- and names them after her lovers., then was the ra casts them into the water, The leaf crates,' the God of Silence, to bribe Trim not to betray the amorous doings which is the last to be over powered ,egen 13Y: OWEN STAPLE rjj10 rose is ,supposed to burst forth from its bud et' the opening sone' of its lover, the nightingale, and thus the Venus of flowers. is associated with the Apollo of birds, and love is set fort/sin the moot poetic fashion •that sentiment could devise. The rose is a magic plant and used to he regarded as being under the spe- ciel protection of elves, dwarfs, and fairies, who were ruled by the lord of the rose garden, The name of this. King was Laurin. In some parts of Germany the dam- sel who has several lo'vens uses the rose to divine ebieb one will be true. To do this she takes some rose leaves The rose, the .ackneevledg;ed` queen of flowers, is to be found in a wild stats in Asia, Africa and North 'A.meri ca, and extends over the whole of Eur- ape. It is in the temperate regions of Asia, and throughout Europe general ly, that those species abound from which nearly the whole of the presen garden varieties have sprung. The utter inability of man to set forth the charms of the rose led to its being conaidered,as a (symbol of sir' ence. Poets and painters have alike exhausted their powers lei setting forth Ito beauty. " The red rose is said to have sprung from the brands which had been light - of the goddess: Hence the flower be- came the emblem of silence. In Germany it was customary' of old to place the figure of a rose :'in the and sink, is that of the young suitor who will become her husband. A City of Roses. The . culture of roses was a trade at ceiling of the banquet kali, • as a .re- pa,estrum, a town of Tucania colonized minder to the guests that the convex by itte Sybarites about 500 yehiar''ch blie- sation there carried on should' not be fore the Gliristian. era. and wt repeated elsewhere. The rose was con- the time of. the Roman ez� perers, watt the Jacobite as sweetie ter- he beauty of' sequently adopted by 1 d principally m . an emblem of the pretender, because its roses.• t could only render him and Fii�tory The Sultan caused the, bath in the p=rblem of ansiand+\ palace garden to he filled: to the brim Beeidee being the euzhlem of fang. With rose water,to p lease His favorite land; the rose ie the -badge of the Ma Sultana, The actio:' of the tun soot monde. "'Renee the rose in;the mouth •concentrated the silty partleles wl}ich of one of thea foxes which eAtpport alta were 'found-floatiaig,ou its surface, anti shield in the iiuhlic hon called° tits Rolland Arms, I ensln;gton-" lite rose was else associated with heraldry ea the shield of a Roman 'warrior, A Rose Proposal: There°a le no flower which so un,ivex • sally and constantly represents love as the rose, especially tlae monthly rose. The yeliew rose allows jealousy, the while the rose -leaf expresses that the recipient may still hope oe. Lovers have been described as declaring their si n by .p passion s. o resenting to the fair one a rosebud. Site was supposed to favor his pretentious, As time increased the lover's affection he followed up the first present with that of a half -blown rose, which was again succeeded by • one full-blown, and if the lady wore the last, she was considered as en- gaged for. life, Roses in Stone. The rose appears more in art than architecture, but Ube northern portal of the cathedral at Upaala, in Sweden, is Covered with sculptured roses which was said td idluetrate the fast that the the attendant, supposing the water to have become corrupt, began to skim it for the Purpose o1: taking"leff the` oil. The globules burst under the process, and emitted such a delightful odor that the idea of preparing this beautiful partings was at once suggested. Roses are grown for the purpose of manufacturing rose water at Provine in France and in Surrey and Kent in England. In the process of dfstille.- tion, six pounds of rose leaves are said to lie enough to make a gallon of rose water, the best stage of the rose leaves being just before they are full blown. The rose has been valued in medi- cine from remotest times; the Romans believed the root to be efficacious in cases of hydrophobia, hence probably the term "Dog Rose," It is • sad that the Roman gardeners' The Rose In History. The rose has played an important part in English history. Ids adheren s con The Wars ;of the Roses were fought. the fifteenth century between the first preachers of Christianity in the assistance "sub rest.. flood out means of o0 in nstructmg hot houses, whdch they heated with tribes Houses of • York and Ltortsezy and Flower of Poetry. lasted for a. period of thirty years: f The rose was the national emblem. fill d 1th h h ater and this induced i th north came from England, where the timed emblems e w o w war ceased through the union .o e salts that Roses are ever este loses and lilies to flower in Decem of Ienry erose the the fa ,. it appears o love and queens of the floral world. two Houses by the 'marriage the rose was the favorite flower for, f them to the rosy ler' n V11., of the .Lancastrian line, to Eliza strewing graves, also in parts of Eng; The Greeks dedicatedi g as carried o d t Eng - fingered goddess Aurora. Poetry is Pass tram beth; heiress- of Yark, and a es' land people all aimed at having a sero upon a grand reale both at daughter of Edvrard .IV.' Now the bust, on the grave of a lover. ed at Bethlehem for the purpose of , lavish of •roses,: It heaps ,them into and . in the environs of Rome. The burning to death a holy maiden who beds, weaves them into, crowns, twines sale of flowers was in the hands of the had been when oily accused of some them in arbors, twines them into. m ,on the bosom prettiest girls, and the Latin: poets crime, but who in her hour of angu isl t chains, and Plante the have immortalized the Haines of sever- ed to God that He would help henf beauty. As. an emblem of ,the Vir- al of these charming rflower girls, and The airy was miraculously quenched, gin, the rose, both white a P have even defied some of them. The and the brands originated the first red pears at a very early period and it rases that ever man saw. Last Stand of the Flamingo. The greatest wander of the •bird world is Flamingo City in the lagoons of Andros. This unique :and remark- able sight le shown -in the picture. pormerly twellre thousand of these wonderful red plumaged- bipede• made up the inhabitants of the city; now there is danger that they will soon be a mere tradition, Well-nigh exter- minated, only a paltry •twelve hundred are left, Their 'threatened extinction is due to the Hungry Negroes of the Bahama.Island,s, who, oaring nothing for the beauty of this rare bird, and tilting its flesh, have sought their.. breeding places, destroying them in llmmense numbers, Being unprotsoted, there is danger tiskthere will soon, be but a memory, Flamingo City is the only breeding plata :left IA North America, and this is on. British land, To protect these beautiful birds from their human ene- mies, .the president of 'the Audubon Societies is; journeying ;p, their behalf #,o the I8lande to seek tine official co- iaratton. of the governor of Andros to guard and prated them by securing Ruough wardens, to patrol their last elace of refuge, ''he birds' built their ast mud city in. the rich feeding 'monde of Andros, as the vast lagoons teem with a email sheligis sailed Cerithium, their} choice and principal' foodstuff, • When an intruder approaches their nests they utter a deep, trtunpet-like kali "Honky' e'Honk" and untucking Flower of Love. was especially so recognized by St. Dominic, when he institutedthe de - Another tradition. tells 'us that the votion of the rosary, with direct re- rose the blood of tereuce to St. Mary. The prayers aP- was, derived Yr allied as roses. d' to one 'legend, the p and Turke roses are grown t t Cupid, The Rose of Jericho has been called Persia y hI goddess at flowers has no other origin. . Persian: Rose Gardens, The poets of Persia idolize this flower. In no country is it so cults- colorI ear to have been symbolized vated and prized by the natives. In Adonis. According ,1 rose was originally white, e, ui. end dancing amongst can the gods,.upset a' cup 1St. Mary's Rose, and tradition affirms for the manufacture of rose r has upon it, and it became red; � that when Joseph and Mary were talc- the famed :Altar of Roses, which of nectar p yet another fable says that the rose: Ing flight into Egypt, one of these flow- received so t received its color room. Venus, who in ars sprang up to mark everyp haste to relieve Adonis when in pain, where they rested. It was called in pierced her foot with a thorn. • A White Mediaeval times Rosa Maria or Mary's rose was growing close by, and as the :,Rose. Wagtail and Baby. A. baby watched a ford, whereto A wagtail came for drinking; A blaring bull went wading through, The wagtail showed no shrinking. A. stallion splashed his way across, The birdie nearly sinking; He gave his, plumes a twitch and toss, And held his owe .unblinking. Nexis saw the baby round the spot A mongrel Slowly' slinking; The wagtail gazed, but faltered not In dip and sip and prinking. A perfect gentlemanthen ueared; The wagtail, in a winking "With terror rose and disappeared; The baby fell a -thinking. Thomas Hardy. } Drastic Steps Are Taken. in Quebec. Because of the menaceof forest -fires in the Province' of Quebec, the Hon. Mr. Mercier, Minister- of Lands end Forests, has imposed further dras- tic renttrictione with regard to the use of fire in wooded sections of his pro- vince, e ,oe + "The • most ; reoeut decision, c ,-h• Minister is to forbid the granting of any more permits to settlers or farm- ers to burn slash, or tree refuse, until further notice. The regulation will be enforced until all danger from.forest hies is over. Up to the present, set- tlers were able to secure permits from fire rangers to burn slash, but now, even the pert system has been'tem- porarily suspended. It is also interesting to note that, for Ono has not felt at any hour einoe Filled the Prescription. 7ihe Teacher—"Your son .must im- prove. in his penmanship. Its impos- sible to read anything he writes." been sold for six times its weight in gold. From India we get a tradition respecting the first disoovery of the. method of : preparing ' the Altar of Roses. rose as their flower. House of Lancaster wore as its badge "And after death its odors shed. the red rose (TIte Rose Gule).; whilst A pleasing fragrencs o'er the dead." that of York wore the white or (Rose In France and Canada. Argent). There was after the mar- Monsieur Vibert, of Prance, was one siege a tradition, that then growing in of the most celebrated cultivators the garden of a certain monastery in among the Frencsh. He founded his Wiltshire was one particular rose- establisment at Chenevieressur-llla.rue,' bush, whiolrduring the troubles of the in the vicinity of Paris; in 2,815. land, had, to the amazement of the be- Lobel, who 'had .a garden at '1Iaok--' holders, borne at once `roses red and Hey and who was appointed royal roses' white.. About the time of the botanist by James the First, published marriage 01 Henry and, Elizabeth, all towards, the close of the sixteenth cen its flowers blossomed forth with petals tory :a work describing ten species of of red and white•` mixed in stripes, roses. which was hailed as au omen of future The rose amateurs of Canada are so peace and harmony. numerous at the present day that it is The Tudors, who were descendants almost impossible to enumerate even of Henry and Elizabeth, adopted the those who possess collections, of 'great merit, The Longest Day. There. Is a Sadness in the longest day, We feel somehow, the year has seen his best; He 'seem* to look around, then maks his way, Withshortening breath, down to his snow- wraptrest, But 'tis not so --his best is yet to be, Preventive Medicine. Many people do not understand the tern "preventive medicine." "Preventive Medicine" Is a science° and art, a system of teaching and of practising rules of health preventing disease. This, branch of medicine, so far as it relates to the individual, is concerned . with the normal . healthy When iiis.child,Autunin; shall with body and how"to:keep it so, the care gifts: abound, and usage it shoo] d' receive, --the- pro- And.when, at happy Yuletide, we shall tertian of the vital organa from abuse see or overstrain; how to fortify the body His snow white head with wreaths or diseases and to cultivate its of holly drowned, mental and physlcal efficiency, thus Then tell me not that life's best part prolonging the span of life. is gone, Preventive medicine as regards the Because the high noon of the da yis community pertains to the removal, here control, or lessening of the causes of There is a beauty in the twilight deep disease and physical decay, and to re- moval of conditions favoring tbeui. Its aim is therefore preventive rather than curative. • It regards the com- munity as a group of individuate whose health has to be safeguarded; title in- terests of one are the interests of , and it is the duty of each and ev'e1y individual to preserve those interests. some a , time past the Quebec Provincial dawn; And what is there for tired man to Government has • enforced a regulation hi .h requires all visitors to forest or - fear local: fire ranger for the purpose of dreams and sleep. mountain districts to get a permit•from w c When night comes' in with stars and a entering the forest; Even with a par - Alexander Louis Fraser. mit, the strangers are not allowed to a• ---- Calisthenics and Housework. cha fire under certainoconditions. Nod "Physical culture is, awfully interest - It urs is mads' for such a permit and interest- ing?" cried the eager girl who had just it can usually be obtained without Come back from hoarding school for a T tut h difficulty.e main effect of the permit, of vacation, "Look, papa, to develop, the Tharms I grasp this rod in this way and course, is educative, as it is accom• then move it slowly front right to left. parried by strong warning regarding Do you see?" "Wonderful!" replied her father in aid of citizenship. In, so far as its admiration, "What extraordinaryprinciples • are adopted and carried out things teachers • have discovered! If by the, individual, so will the race im- yott hada bundle of straw at the end prove. For the health of the individ- of that rod You'd be s'w'eeping." uals determines the health of the ea- tion.—By Dr. J, J. Middleton, Provin- cial Board of Health, Ontario. Tha Parent -"That doesn't worry the lire danger and its Possession un- me much. 1 showed a specimen of hie doubtedly ,creates a sense of 'responsi- writing to my druggist and 15 served bility with the card holder. me with a pint of. bourbon and filed ' nresults; it takes a the paper away in his prescription Anyone esti see book. wise man to discern causes. irt British Premier Belongs to ;��- ..Remarkable Faniily. Stanley Baldwiil'e succession to Ronal' Law as British Preznierreminds us again of the remarkable family to which he and Rudyard Kipling belong. Their mothers were, two of the four famoue daughters of the late Reverend George B, MacDonald, Georgiana be- same .Lady Burne -.Tones, Her beauty inspired the painter to create the type which is immoralized in many stained glass windows, tapestries and can- vases, as the Burne -Tones woman and her retiiiniscences of her husband i their long-neeks from their feathers,' marked her as a biographer of distinc- spreading their vermilion -lined wings, .tion and charm. Agrees became the. they step forward in impressive forma- wife of Pointer, the painter, , Stanley titin, like well-trained troops, When i3aldwin's mother, the wife of the the leader gives the signal, they's+priiig into the air, a flaming mass, and soar away till they become 'a mere rosy cloud on the Horizon, In each of their high and awlzward mud nests but one egg is laid, in Cat Language, Little Aline was cuddled up in a big , chair near the fir'e'place, reading aloud to her kitten, which was on her lap. Mather, 'coming into the room, smiled as, slim watched the _ two. ""What on eai+tit are you doing, Alice?" she asked. "Reading 'fairy stories to kitty," the little girl replied soberly., "Who.esrer 'beard of such a thing!" her mother exclaimed, "Why, don't you knew your kitty can't understand fairy tales?" "Of course I do, Alien admitted. i13ut I stop every little while and ex- plain .therm to her." millionaire engineer and ironmaster, was a woman of remarkable energy who made a name for herself as a writer. Alice MacDonald, the fourth sister, married Lockwood Kipling, a young designer ofpottery, Their son was christened I tudyard in memory Of 1.ludyard Lake in Staffordshire, it holt. day' resort at which they niet each other, From time to (line various maga- zines have urged trout fishermen to Ilse e, barbless hook,' A skillful fish - mien would lope few fish Brough lack of a barb, and he could release an undersized fish, without tearing its gills or holding it so tight as to rub; oft its protective ,covering of slime. Those who have tried fishing with a barbless hook -find it more exciting and more humane, which means more spot tsinanlike, What's Your Answer? - There was a •oroolked . man and lie w.Qnt a_creoked mile To sell 'scene •croolcgti' hootch to those waio hadn't .any guile; He met a crooked sleuth, who joined • his crooked game, And then the crooks together worked —and wato is most to,blame? Water Power Development is Allied to Forests. The prevalence of flood conditions in various river sections. of Canada dur- ing recent weeks, apparently in in creasing volume from pa;zt decades, is a matter of mystery to the average - man an the street. It has also been seen that there is, .a growing tendency for rivers of considerable, size to This is civilization, and • Is different shrivel up in late summer and fall, from •the individual life such as obtains Rivers that assured great paper Indus in a jungle. In the jungle every crea- ture thinks of its rights and none of its duty. That is the reason it is a in some instances, increasingly unre. jungle. • ' liable, making it necessary for various The aim of preventive medicine. is companies to buy u t other power sites' to promote health and raise the stand- at great distances as a safeguard tries of an adequate flow . the year around for, hydraulic .power are now, •—AND THE WORST IS YET TO, COMES = �^ Mountain Flying. Consideration tee been given to the possibility of aerial abservattons in the Himalayas. The range, it aP- oration of the annual precipitation of pears, has only six peaks above 27,000 Brier. slid itin, Stor ,e uild@S� feet high, and an aviator fiyi�tg at ,,..,.__•16111,- . - - �- ° about 28;000 er 24,000 fret sltionld l qye .stioh conditions will not area en water no difficulty in crossing If the hl•g iest s'ul3P1Y• peaks were avoided, while if he chose Experienced foresters point to the certain of the gorges an altitude of fact that the exposure of accumula- tions of snow and wind and sill' •stave greatest of the malty obstacles to be played haves with the econamic .value encountered is the mountain sickness, of streams hi the supply of hydraulic) power. Elvapoxa.t on rids areas of which • occurs in the highest altitudes through deficiency of oxygen. The moisture while the absence of suf- ficient climber, going afoot, is leas ftcient natural storage causes flood in g springtime and drought in later handicapped in this respect thSn the months. aviator rising suddenly' from sea level Forest fires are the chief, otiose of in his machine. On the other hand, the wiping out of richly -wooded Water - the pedestrian has more fatigue to un sheds. The litre neonate strikes at ria, dergo, and this practically equalizes ;tiotiel welfare frcini A nrttltitutde of +angles•, not the least important of whiob .is the maintenance of hydraulio' power, against future emergencies.. The answer to theirs developments! is the plain evidence of forest den. truction on the wa.terelteds. Densely shaded watersheds continue, to insure constant flow of Water, particularly where .water . storage 'conditions, are aided by the artificial means of dani9.I Almost any 'lumberman can point to, streams where Ise drove logs some feet years ago and which today show brace tically no flow at all because of evap- matters. The Debt Coliectoi`. A Japanese who obtained a situation with • au English firm was asked to write to a customer who had o'w'ed some stoney fora long time. "Write briefly,' said the cashier, Light Auto Top, An aluminum automobile top that leas been invented which thins lute a reetes in the back: of le car Is light "butet hint utirlerstand lis+titretty that enough to be manipulated with one' we expect'tiro to 1?ay without further baud. delay,,. b., ,. The letter was written, and on the In addition to the main forest nuts- tollowitg dal cant° a cheque for the ery at St Williams, Norfolk county, amount due; 1 three additional nurseries are being The letter rah thus: "Dear sir, --ii I developed by the Ontario -forest sem. you do tiot send at once the looney You , vice, These are situated tit°The owe, we shall be obliged to take steps ,Sandbanks" in Prince' Edward eo;inlet which will cause you the utmost as41 at Orono, in Durham county, and at, touishlnortt—Iteapectfully yours,----."IMtdhurst, Simcoe county'...