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Pithy Anecdotes
Of the Famous
The power; house of the electric eel
is situated in its tail in a aoft, jelly
kind of substance, and it is no joke
when a well-developed eel gives you a
shock equal to some 400 volts of elec-
tric energy, declares Gertrude Gleeson
(in her fascinating book, "London
Zoo.") The shock given varies in in-
tensity according to the way in which
the eel administers it. When both
bead and tail are in contact with the
victim, the shock is greatest and a
bluish flash is sometimes then visible.
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Then there's the lobster:
"Have you ever tried to mesmerize
a lobster?" asks Miss Gleeson. Our
answer is, No! It's the other way
round. But it is nice to know that it
can be done. Here's how:
"If you stroke it gently in one di-
rection (before it is cooked, of course)
It falls into a trance -like state and
does not budge. It can then be made
to balance tail upwards, standing on
Its bead with claws outstretched."
"This trance does not last long and
the lobster is exceedingly warlike
when it come to," warns Miss Gleeson.
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"Among the records of the Zoologi-
cal Society is a list of the contents of
the stomach of one ostrich which must
surely hold the record for adaptability
in feeding. There was nothing finicky
about it, for it had swallowed three
gloves, two handkerchiefs, three feet
of stout twine, a spool of films, a draw-
ing pencil, half a comb, a bicycle tire
valve, two long nails, a glove fastener,
a large key for winding a clock, part
of a rolled gold necklace, two collar
studs, half a foot of wood, a penny,
four halfpennies, two farthings and a
franc."
Next time you hear someone boast-
ing of a digestion like an ostrich, ask
whether this record isn't a bit beyond
him.
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One of the amusing stories told by
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (in her
rather breath -taking reminiscences,
"Crowded Hours") Is of her first meet-
ing with F. E. Smith (later Lord Bir-
kenhead), the English statesman,
jurist, and wit. It was at a fancy-
dress party at the Cornelius Vander-
bilts' at Newport.
"My room was used for a coatroom;"
recalls Mrs. Longworth. "During the
night I went there to repair my make-
up, and was sitting at the dressing -
table, when a voice behind me said,
'If you don't mind, I'll take some of
your powder,' and a man in Chinese
costume proceeded to powder his nose.
• • * *
"That was my first meeting with F.
E, Smith, who was stopping with
friends in Newport. It was at some
moment in the coupe of the evening
that he drank a toast `To the intoxicat-
ing women and the intoxicated men of
Newport,' at which the place buzzed
with indignant appreciation."
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mer from time to time, 'Very moving,
very moving,' in a perfunctory way.
Borah, on the other hand, Caved as
if the scenes bad been taken on the
spot and became almost emotional
about thein, blazing with indignation
at the cruel behavior of the French
'nobility,' f:a•Iy palpitating with sym-
pathy at the vicissitudes of the popu-
lace and heroines."
•' • • •
Then her comparison between King
Edward and his lit thew the former
German Kaiser—both- of whom she
had dined with—is piquant, to say the
least.
"If you compared him (the Kaiser)
and King Edward with individuals, say
In the banking world," she says, "the
King would be the Morgan type, while
Mr. Charles Mitchell would more near-
ly approximate the Kaiser."
• • • •
But the best Alice Roosevelt story
is one not told in her book—which
rather makes me think it is too good
to be true for she revels in telling
stories against herself. Owen Wister
says (in "My Friendship With Roose-
velt") that a friend once asked Theo-
dore Roosevelt:
"Why don't you look after
more?"
"Listen," he said, "I can be Presi-
dent of the United States—or--I can
attend to Alice,"
By the way, Mrs. Longworth dis-
wons a famous Coolidge story general-
ly attributed to her.
"I spent much time saying, `No. I
didn't say that. I wish I had. It is
most amusing, but honestly I never
said it," she explains. "I do appreci-
ate what others say, but I am not a
wit or a wisecracker; 'less wit than
mimic, more wit than wise,' describes
me pretty accurately
Alice
Farming As An Occupation
By Hall 'Linton, le the. Toronto Mail • rile hole, 1 grew up with the farm and
and Empire. have become a part o1' it. After my
three years at college in Toronto I
felt no desire to find another vocation.
Even my year in London could not
wean me away from the farm; in fact,
1 felt more attached to it than ever."
From .St. Marys, Norman McCully
Writes that farming never grows mon-
otonous to him, and adds: "I would
nub r'tther work in the glorious set-
ting that nature has provided than do
Inside work in an office or factory, I
prefer working with living things to
working with machines."
Hugh Carroll of ions Station writes:
"Bike to go through a barn at night
and see the cattle lying in their straw
beds chewing their cuds in contena
inent; the pigs all stretched out in
their pens. I like to drive a tractor
la a field when you get the fresh
breeze • blowing, an, occasionally a
'flock of quell pass overhead." A- 1
he assert; his stirring conviction:
"Farming to -day is a challenge to any
young man."
"I think this depression has done a
great deal tower' making young men
realize the good irl'ependent living
one can get from the farm," comes
from Earl Roseborough, on a farm
What makes farming so attractive
to -day as, an occupation? In the peat
three years 101,265 Canadians have
left the cities and towns to take up
farming, according to recently pub-
lished government figures. What is
the reason? Is it just because there
has been uo available work in the
towns and cities, or is there also a
greater appeal in farming as an occu-
pation than there used to be?
There was a time, and not so many
years ago, when the ambitious farmer
boy felt that he had to look tothe
city for an outlet to his ambition.
Many influences, such as the country
school, friends who recognized his
ability, ambitious parents, pushed hint
in that direction and It was a rare
youth with the love of the soil in his
blood who had the courage to stick.
So we have numbers of men heading
our industries and -commercial houses
to -day who came from the farm. Check
with any city gathering of middle age
or more and you'll find that a surpris-
ing number were born on the tarns.
One recent check of this kind reveal-
ed that 25 per cent. of that particular
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city group were country born; other. near Peterboro which he is rapidly
groups might show even a higher making famous for its pure-bred Ayr-
shires. Regarding the latter he says:
"I wish to suggest that anyone who
has`always kept grade stock will never
realize how much more interesting
and profitable farming becomes until
he purchases a few pure breds-"
Jack Fraser of Streetsville contri-
butes this pertinent thought: "Farm-
ing must be more interesting than
other lines of business or we would
never have so many moneyed men
farming for fun." "There is not the
drudgery in modern farming," adds
Jack Robinson of Bolton. And Stewart
Bell of Barrie produces this timely
thought: "Farming at least assures
one of steady employment as does no
other occupation."
Recently the Ontario Department of
Agriculture received au interesting
letter from a young man who three
years ago gave up town work and
chose to operate a small farm for his
living. This man has completed one`
short course at Ontario Agricultural
College, attended another held local-
ly, and his letter requested informa-
tion regarding a third. After recount-
ing some of the struggles and difficul-
ties he had had to face, he concluded
with this: "Do I regret farming? No!
A thousand times, no! It has been a
struggle, a worry, but as I look around
the cities and see the hundreds out of
work, the hundreds with no future or
prospects, I can say from the depths
of my heart—Thank God for the step
I took from the city to the farm."
ratio.
But to -day, in the words of Dr. G.
I. Christie, president of Ontario Agri-
cultural College, "there is a different
spirit` abroad in the farming sections."
Young men are showing a keener in-
terest in farming and there is not the
desire to get away from the farm that
there was twenty or thirty years ago.
When collecting information for a
series of articles, letters were written
to a number of young men who have
recently taken up farming, yet whose
names have already come to the front
in the agricultural publications. These
questions were asked: "What is the
outstanding appeal that -modern farm-
ing makes to your mind? In what de-
par•tment of agriculture are you most
interested? Is there any other voca-
tion you ,could prefer to farming? In
other wor•,is, why did you choose farm-
ing as a vocation?"
This is the reply of Jim Gibson, two
years ago a graduate of the University
of Toronto and an ex -student of the
London School of Economics, yet not
above himself tending his cattle as he
shows at the Royal Winter Fair: "I
believe in farming because it pro-
vides me with a better opportunity to
express my complete personality than
any other vocation known to me. By
that I mean that I have room to grow;.
I am not overwhelmed by the madness
of the crowd; I am not enslaved by
the machine. I believe in farming and
stick to it for very much the same
reason that the groundhog sticks to
For example, one day I was at my
doctor's. When I came in lie was
grinning with amusement and said,
'Mrs. Longworth, the patient who has
just left said something that I am
sure will make you laugh. We were'
discussing the President, and he re-
marked, "Though 1 yield to none in
my admiration for Mr. Coolidge, I do
wish he did not look as if he had been
weaned on a pickle." Of course I
shouted with pleasure and told every
one, always carefully giving credit to
the unnamed originator, but in a very
short time it .was attributed to. me."
The witty treasurer of the Fabian
Society, F. Lawson Dodd, had a tedi-
ons acquaintance who says Arthur
Campton -Rickett (in "I Look Bach")
would hold forth in and out of season
upon the hopes of reincarnation, "I
might come back ar au animal—for
instance, a horse, or even a sheep."
"My dear fellow, not again as a
Sheep!" protested Dodd with s. disarm-
ing smile.
Then, tco, her story of a Washing-
ton dinner party during the Reduction
of Armament conference at which
Arthur (later Lord) Balfour and Sen-
ator Borah were among the guests.
Alter :dinner a moving picture was
shown. It was "Orphans of the
Storm," with the two Gishes playing
the leading roles.
"I watched it seateti on a high gilt
sofa, between Mr, Balfour and Senator
Borah,'' Bays Mrs. Longworth, "and
most entertaining it was to observe
the different ways the two men were
affected by it..
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"11 was a big spectacular perform -
of the French
In 1382, Henry George—of Single
Fax fame—went to London, where he
was a guest for a month of H. M.
Hyndman, great Socialist leader. re-
minisces Charles Edward Russell (in
"Bare Hands and Stone Walls: Some
Recollections of a Side -line Reform-
er.") Ilyndman afterwards spoke dis-
paragingly of his guest's intellect.
"It is far from a first-class mind," he
said.
explains, apropos his use of the word
"push -cart":
"The English, in their barbarous dia-
lect, call it a `barrow,' but of course
they mean a push -cart, One must
make allowances for a backward
race."
The joke is on Russell for the Eng-
lish always call such a "push -cart" a
"stall"— a "whelk stall" or a "coffee
stall," etc. There used to be a popular
song that began:
"As I was coming from a frieudly call,
I saw some kippers on a coaster's stall.
I asked the price of the merchant
there,
Said he 'Lor' lumme, they're a penny
a pair'."
A donkey "barrow," yes, but a whelk
"stall."
But for this low estimate alio :ance
is to be made, for Henry George had
wounded Hyndmau's British 2.nsibili-
ties in their tenderest spot, add; Rus-
sell, "How? Why, is a London street
one day he stoppe.: and ate whelks
from a pushcart at the curb. That,
perform-
ance with lurid scenes of course, could uever be forgiven."
Revolution. Mr, Balfour would new, In a foot -note Russell humorously
KNEES PELTAS IF1N CEMEN
Woman Who Had Rheumatism
NOW WALKS 4 MILES
WITH EASE
"Since coming here from England
10 yearn ago, writes a married wo-
man, I have suffered terribly from
rheumatism. I have been in bospital
and spent money to no end. I have
used medicines and lotions until I was
Weary. I heard of Kruschen Salts so
often, that I thought one day I'd try
that. By this time my knees bad be-
come locked, as if in cement. I was
just desperate, for I felt that the day
was not far off when I wouldn't be
able to get about at all and it made
me so downhearted. Well, I bought a
bottle of Kruschen, and took a tea-
spoonful every morning, When the
bottle was finished I said, 'Oh, it's the
same as everything else; T'm no bet-
ter.' But my husband said 'Persevere;
try another! Give it a chance to act
on your blood,' Well, I got another,
and before it was finished my knees
'unlocked—honestly they did, I could
hardly believe it myself when I could
!stoop down and get up again without
r help. I was so excited about it. 1
kept on, took another bottle, and be
for 10 Years
Neve me I am met like the same wo-
man. I walked four miles the other,
Empty
things.
When she's
else.
Who possesses
predation.
People would rather be amused than
instructed.
Don't mortgage the
good time now.
Endeavor to be what you desire to
appear —Socrates.
The more happiness you give the
more you have left.
When I'm afraid it's prudence, when
he's afraid it's cowardice.
One fallen preacher gets more ad-
vertising than fifty other fallen men.
The size of your gift depends
on
the
the
spirit that prompts it, and on
amount you have left,
Hush, little High Chair, don't you
cry; you'll be an antique by and by.
The honeymoon is over when she
serves him hot tongue and cold
sboulder,
Women live longer than men—they
are bound to have the last word.--
Nortb Hastings Review.
day and felt fine, whereas before I,
could hardly walk across the floor,
"My husband has been out ot work
all winter, but I'd get my Kruschen
Salts bef6re I'd buy a thing to eat. It
means so much to' be well and able to
walk. I feel I should tell you all this,
If it will benefit others."—(Mrs.) E. A.
What more need be said to Convince
other sufferers? At any rate, they
should give Kruschen a trial.
Kruschen Salts is obtainable at all
;Drug Stores at 45e, and 75c. per bottle,
Isn't It A Fact,
stomachs are
dangerous
in fashion she's in little
most has
least
ap-
future for :1
This Glory
The flower and tree, though dying,
live again
Each spring; after the
winter's sleep
They break in floods
earth,
That we again
beauty reap.
Sines they return from their brief stay
in earth,
Again to light the world, and warm
the heart
01 much divine' „old titan flower or
tree art?.
llave we not in this glory too a p
—Prom "The Golden Goal,"
by Dorothy Sproule.
long cold
of glory o'er the
may dreams of
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About the time we think an old joke
has performed its last service to news-
paper, magazine and musical comedy
we turn the dial and there it is on our
radio.
Johnny (Oct. 15.)—"Lw, you're al-
ways picking on me. Why don't you
let Sis do it?"
Johnny (Dec. 15)—"Say Ma, ain't
there something more I can do to help
you?"
You can't kill a fly that is smart
enough to sit on your fly -swatter.
There must be a moral to this rather
important discovery of ours, but we're
hanged if we can provide it,
A bishop who was feeling very ill
called on his doctor.
Doctor—"You must spend the win-
ter in Bermuda."
Bishop—"Haven't the time."
Doctor—"Well, I'm afraid it's a case
of either that—or heaven."
Bishop—"All right. I'll go to Ber-
muda."
RICHARD G. BLOMFIELD
-Vice-President, Beecbams Pills (Can-
ada) Limited, who recently arrived
from England to direct the operations
ot the company and its subsidiaries
in Canada and the United States. A
new aggressive merchaudizing and
advertising program has just been an-
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Ca tile Men
Wrto grays Lor cattle men?
They're needing prayers!
For souls of ca.tle men
Wtlo cares—WL, caves?
The men at war and men at
Have rightful pace in litany
Because "Prayer changes things,"
but when
Do people pray for cattle men?
d, s a e
And in their ewe they keep,
Those cattle men,
Bewildered lives of sheep:
Those cattle men ---
Of lumbering btasts with eves that
stare
Darkly on death anct on despair;
Of young things, frolicsome,
Di old things, wort and dumb.
Short lives unc11tonicled by pen—
Friend, pray fcr cattle men."
--Fay Iucbfawn in Verses from a
Cbiuiney trunci.
The real object of the drama is the
exhibition of the human character.—
Macaulay.
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Many girls are getting men's wages
nowadays. But, then, they always
have.
A farmer caught a boy in his or-
chard stealing apples, and handed him
over to the police. As it was the boy's
first offense the judge let bim off, but
told him never to yield to such temp-
tation again, adding:
Judge — "You should have flown
from the evil one."
Boy—"So I did, sir, but he grabbed
me before I got over the fence."
Grandma Teliem from Brushville
says: "The woman who used to roast
her husband a chicken now has a
daughter who roasts her husband
about a chicken."
Hugh — "Strange
through my head."
Amos—"Well, they are in
place."
Men who used to struggle to live
within their income now struggle to
live without one.
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"Marriage," said the philosopher, "is
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pretty girl you stop; then you look,
and after you're married, you listen,"
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blacksmiths, boiler -makers, fish -ped-
dlers and—at least one musician.
No one ever asked you to worry.
That was your own idea.
There is still hope for good man-
ners when the drug store man sells
you a stamp and says "thank you."
A good many seem to be afflicted
with "sleeping sickness" about the
time the alarm clock goes off.
you stopping
to Balt)—"I've
you aro orig-
out of gas!'
There aren't many people that you
can find on the same side ot the fence
every day in the week.
What's in a Name!
Observes the Lindsay Post: Shake-
speare was about right when lie in-
formed
nformed his readers that a rose by any
other name would smell the same.
A two-line item noticed in an ex-
change bears out this fact, stating
that muskrats are sold for food under
the name of marsh rabbit.
Youngsters who have tried to sell
mudcats sot learned the same thing.
As long as they called them mudcats,
the good housewives of Lindsay shud-
dered. But call them catfish or some
nice -sounding name, and it was easy
to convince the ladies tbat they were
spending their money wisely in pur-
chasing the little fish with sweet,
white meat and practically no bones.
Mention frogs' legs and many people
will turn up their noses at one of the
tastiest dishes yet served.
The same thing is true of hundreds
of other foods. Like babi.: we let a
name frigbten us, and obstinately we
refuse to take a taste even though we
see other people eating the dish with
relish.
-4s
A speculative despair is unpardon-
able where it is our duty to act,—
Burke.
Visitor—"1 should think, by the look
of things, that nothing ever happens
here."
Brushville Native — "Oh! It's a
pretty lively place for its size. Why,
it's not two weeks since we had an
eclipse of the moon."
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"I treat all of daughter's boy friends
alike," said a mother, "whether they
are rich or poor."
Producer—"If I make you a star you
must lead a life of strict decorum."
Actress—"But Can't my double do
that?"
We've listened to several jazz or.
chestras over the radio made up of
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