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Zurich Herald, 1935-10-03, Page 214-4 WATCH NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE for the Opening Installment of uce The -Iil By Adam Broome A baffling mystery --- in fact a series of mysteries presented hboadcast concert at Queen's 9beginning with Hall, London. big r er How to Ni•1 a Job The Stories Of Four Young People Who Thought Out Ways And Means Of Acquiring a Living In England if you haven't got a job, why not make one? asks R. J. Pocock in the London. Dally Mirror. It's riot easy, I admit. Yet it can be done. About a year ago, with practical- ly no assets except superb health and an unusual amount of self-con- fidence, a young friend of mine conceived the idea of buying up— at reduced rates—magazines and "weeklies" returned unsold by news- agents. Having got a stock he proceeded to sell it to dentists, doctors, barbers and private clients. His success with his first batch was such that he de- termined to continue, and it was not long before he had established a really good connection. thing she did was to turn her old playroom into an office, complete with telephone. Then she proceeded to call on the doctors, nursing home "heads" and hospital matrons inher district. Somehow she succeeded in convinc- ing most of them that she could al- ways supply the right type of nurse at a moment's notice. Through advertising in nursing journals she got into touch with,' a number of "free lance" nurses. She was equally successful in per- suading these girls that it would be to their advantage to put their nam- es down on her books and pay her a small commission for every case that she found them. She is doing well . . . Walking about this country of ours there is a small army of people whose names have become famous entirely through the jobs they created for themselves. Why, even as I write, I can see from my window a hundred or so children playing in a ' field that would have long since been built over were it not for the great gener- osity of the man who won fame and fortune by putting ice-cream on wheels. The Professional "Forger" As a result he now has a business which, even if it is never likely to make him a fortune, will probably provide him with a good income and congenial work for the rest of his life. Very different but equally success- ful was the venture of another ac- quaintance. Prom his boyhood he had possess- ed the rather dangerous gift of be- ing able to make a perfect imita- tion of almost any signature under � the sun. "r But little did he think that his ©Words�'�'i'�91L� cleverness in this direction would one day prove a godsend. When three years ago he lost his job through trade depression the • bright idea of making a living by forging other folks' signatures canoe to him. It was all above board and very ingenious. C.dling one morning up n a big firm vth'ese eikeetoVte X. eelly, he calmly suggested that he should sign these for them, thus saving them considerable time and trouble. "But," said they curtly, "we use a duplicating machine. "Yes," he replied, "that is why your circulars go ;lite the waste paper basket un- read Yon "+'_':1 zr aGr ;.' he con- tinted, on- tinTrj. "thee: yeu yerreelves treat sin i.ar :acres€endence in exact:% the same r:an:.er:' They Frankadmitted:hat . and they made him an offer. New he is employed by six or seven city com- panies pu t.r.•g hart -written sig- natures to their circulars. Rather monotonous work, per- haps, but he gets well paid for it. Gable and Young ANECDOTES This story of Mark Twain and the old lady in the Pullman should not be let die --saga Cyril Clemens lin "Mark Twain Wit and Wisdom," a - splendid collection of 3.54 stories and anecdotes about the famous humorist who was born one hundred years ago, come November 30 next) : Exhausted to the point of ex- tinction by a very full day in Chi- cago, Mark boarded the night train for • New York and retired to his berth at once for (as he fondly thought) a long night of blissful repose; but just as he was slipping over the border -line between wak- ing and sleeping he heard an old lady's voice wistfully soliloquizing and telling herself how thirsty she vias,with' the regularity and per- Nsstence of the ticking of a clock. "Oh, I am so thirsty!" OneJack Tl eLondon's Call of of the knownn books, Wild", now comes to the screen and has every known element to appeal to every movie fan. Clark Gable and Loretta Young are per- fectly cast and Buck, the dig, will win everyone. TSE \.a, ORLY'S ECM POULTRY CO1CRESS Meals for Housewives And near my home some enter- prising fellow is supplying half the housewives in the district with cheap but adequate little lunches neatly packed up in cardboard boxes. I don't actually know him, but I know his story. He started with a capital of a few pounds. He argued that as most -women loathe getting a meal for themselves only, there must be an opening for anyone who could deposit on their doorsteps, at the right moment, a cheap yet tasty lunch. He argued correctly. That is why he now has a dozen boys delivering lunches on tricycles. She Supplied Nurses! There is scope for women, too. A few months ago the young daughter of a friend decided to start a nursing co-operation. The first * * * At last, unable to bear the nuis- ance any longer, Mark got up in his aightclothes and groped his way the length -of the cold, dark car to where the drinking water was kept. Filling a glass, he carried it back to the elderly victim of loquacity and thirst. This good deed done and- a payment in heart-etthanksfrom got rm the old lady duly pocketed, back into. his berth and pulling the blankets' up over his head with a }deep sigh of relief and content snuggled down to sleep. But just as the sandman was bending over him a now all -too -familiar and accursed Voice began to exclaim and kept it up at minute intervals the rest of the night: "Oh, I -was so thirsty!" The preliminary announcement .of the World's Poultry Congress which meets in Berlin next year has just Ebeeu published. Congress sessions will be held in the "Opera Kroll" and will be officially opened on July 24th Mary Constance Fowler in Spirit Never to step upon the fragrant shore The far eye follows as the vessel drifts, Is to have known Iittle;'more Than birds know what lies there further than the * a, * And here is Irvin S. Cobb's con- tribution to Mr. Clemens' collection: by Chancellor A.dolf Iiitler. A young reporter called one morn - During the Congress the afternoons' ing as the great humorist lay read - will be devoted to excursions to places of interest within the city of Berlin and outside. At the close of the Con- gress the delegates will attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympia Gaines and then take a week's tour through rural Germany, including a trip down the Rhine. A six weeks' trip is being arranged for Canadians when France, Switzerland and Bel- gium also will be visited on the Con- tinent, and a few days in England on the way home. So far the following countries have definitely decided to participate:. Canada, Argentina, Australia, China, Czecho-Slovakia, Great Britain, Ecu- ador, Esthonia, Haiti, Holland, Hun- gary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, South- ern Rhodesia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. may lie healt 'know love Their .eeuutless words, who sing, are mourning tales Of diem -remembered dreams, where' shadows move. Unknown to day; and daylight tell- ing fails Yes, spell out color in a blind man's hand, An for the deaf turn color into sound; Do these. There are no words, though they are sand, To tell love to the loveless. None are found. And to be loved, not loving, is but to know The sun is heat upon the lids, not light. e Therefore the smile is secret, the tongue is slow And falters, seeking words to trans- late sight. o�¢Soi3�¢c��� C� b► b rE %" .* , (>1:•;;'11 Wse Pipe Smokers! Fill up with "`GOLDEN 'VIRGINIA' - and enjoy� rt l ' ,• good smoke! Is se e No. 39 - �- Irl roving PoonPor ... A e _�r treat for green tea, drinkers I� r 1 Y torH ' varlit� g Tells •; tur Real By GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphologist) X111 Flights Reserved. Recently I seem to have been re- I of hundreds of letters that exPres,s :caving more eanetelltjust when ie ul advice le of and guidance. fAnd what ing whether I has helped so many others, dais, 1 suggest, a message for yeti, too,, if , you see it in the right way. This might also be an opportune time for me to reiterate once more ; that the advice I give in cases of per. sonar problems is not necessarily final and arbitary. I often have letters from readers of my articles or lis- teners -in to' my radio broadcasts, tailing me definitely that they will do whatever I advise. In some cases this has to do. with a choice between two - men ,for a suitable husband for a girl who writes me, and it is a tre- mendous responsibility to have to shoulder. I amnot afraid to give ad- vice when it is asked for or appears to me necessary, but I would like to say that any advice I give is render- ed with a view to giving You a new point of view on your problems. If you ponder over it and use it as a basis for finding out the truth for yourself, then the advice will have . served its true purpose. mar- riage might be expected. I would like to be able to answer questions of this kind, but it is quite outside the scope of my work. Ques''ions having to do with fortune-telling are entire- ly beyond my sphere of influence or advice. If you ask me to tell you what kind of disposition yon have, or your boy friend 'or girl friend — then 1 can help you there. Graphology also shows whether a writer is reserved and sensitive, or spontaneous and ardent; greedy and selfish or kindhearted and generous; broadminded and tol- erant or narrow-minded and partial; refined and cultured or purely physi- cal -minded and material, and in fact it will reveal the chat c You tics are that hat go to make up w cause you to act in the way that you ing and smoking in bed, and an- do. pounced that he would like his life- Graphology, allied to psychology, story for his newspaper: Mark Twain plus a smattering of common sense took a draw on his pipe and com- toe, will help youe dge of human immensely in sole menced: "Well, in the days of King George ing the problems that daily confront the Third when I was a young somBuit wof NOT tell your fortune, man I deed to . . ." "Pardon me, right there," inter- nor is it able to pierce the veil that rupted the reporter. "I know that hides Tomorrow from Today. It is you are, not a spring chicken, but based on scientific foundations, and how could you possibly have been whilst we do not claim infallibility living during the time of George for it, no do 1 myself 'claim that all the Third?" the delineations I make are entirely "Fine, young man," retorted beyond criticism, at the same time Mark, smilingly offering the young there can be no doubt that it is a man a cigar, "I heartily congratu- tremendous mosepower tfor gor ood,hst and a a late you.. You are the first and only power, affordto ignore, if they are peop reporter I have ever met in my cannot whole life who corrected a mistake anxious 1to make the have evidencemost of tfem- before it appeared in print." selves. By the way, Cyril Clemens is ' president i the International Mark p, ACRE AGE'wain Society and a relative of the IYl�,ppeloved humoristwhoserealname . � . mnlin�ti`� rnS` . ?13.19;ftl..ia�:C1.f,X1S,�� ,� r REAT BRll Both grass,•and soil from pastures that have been grazed for a number of years without manure or phos- phate applications will show a de- ficiency of phosphorus. Even if most of the droppings of grazing animals are returned to the pasture there is a net loss of phosphorus in the production of live stock and their products. This continued re- moval of phosphorus, never very abundant in the soil, soon becomes a limiting factor in the growth of desirable pasture crops, particularly the legumes. The failure of legumes, and particularly white clover; due to phosphorus deficiency, contributes further to the thinning of the grass- es dependent upon the legumes for nitrogen. Superpb'ospate (acid Phosphate) is the first fertilizer material to use and the one most likely to pay through stimulation of both legumes and grasses. ' Application of 300 to 500 pounds of 20 percent. superphos- pate per acre or its equivalent is recommended and should last from three to five years. Commercial nitrogen in addition to superphosphate, applied at the rate of 150 to 200 pounds per acre as ,soon as growth starts in the Spring, will advance grazing from one to two weeks. To avoid burn- ing the tender leaves, apply when the pasture is dry. Under conditions where very few desirable pasture plants remain it may be better to plow, fertilize, and, reseed the land with an adapted pasture mixture than to depend upon fertilizers alone for rejuvenation. Brisk Walking Keeps Nonagenarian Fit Though .she is more than 90 years old Mrs. H. O. Ness of Dawson, Minn., who is paying a visit to her son, Oscar Ness, in Winnipeg, is still as spry and cheery as most people half her age. She rises at 6 a.m. every day. She does an enormous amount of work, keeping her home and managing her own business affairs and is incident- ally a. great church worker and act- ive in all community projects. Every evening, with very few exceptions, she takes a brisk walk. It is this exercise, she says, that keeps her body so remarkably supple and straight. She was born in Bergen, Norway. She is an inveterate traveller. In the 500 -mile motor trip with her son frim Dawson to Winnipeg, she would not let him break the trip for an overnight stop, and when they arrived in Winnipeg, she almost in- sisted on helping to untie the lug- gage from the car. • Puts A Red Ring • ithough John Philip Sousa earned a lot of money from his musical compositions, he soil the publication rights of the famous "Washington Post" march -of which millions of copies have been sold — for a, mere $35. "I had no adequate idea of the value of my composition," he ex- plained, "and sold the Washineten Post' and' several others for $35 apiece, and I was also to furnish three arrangements, one for piano, one for orchestra, and one for band!" * * * Sousa once had an amusing ex- perience during a visit -to Venice with his wife, where they had the delight of hearing Castiglioni's band play "The Washington Post." He relates it in this memoirs, "March- ing Along." At the close of the piece Mr. and Mrs. Sousa entered a music store near the bandstand and inquir- ed for "the piece the band had just played." A. clerk went over to the bandstand and on his return hand- ed out an Italian edition of "The Washington Post, by Giovanni F'ilipo Sousa." Around The 13th Winnipeg.—Fred Wise put a red ring around the 13th on his Galen- da2, after he was handed .$62 of I "found" money at the pollee std-, tion. In fact, two Friday the laths got the red insignia. He found the' money on March 13 last and turned it in to the police station. Nobody claimed it and now he has .received it back. APPLE COLOUR CHART There has been a steady demand for the apple colour chart prepared recently by the Horticultural Divi- sion, Central Experimental Warm, Ot- tawa, to assist in the harvesting of McIntosh and Fameuse apples at the proper stage of maturity. This chart may be obtained free on application to the Publicity and Extension Branch, Dominion Department of Ag- riculture, Ottawa, •Rud IN SACK Or &ARS- INSEM' Plaoereteeeena,R, mare $Ft25 AllDnigehl , D®seriptivo !oldie toned Also excellent for T otinorery neatness and Read Noisesy due to congestion caused by colds, 1�ru and swimming, A. O. LEONARD, Inc. 7o Fifth Ave., New York City * * * Sousa was much impressed, and after examining it, said to the clerk: "Who is this Giovanni Filipo Sousa?" "Oh, he is one of our most famous Italian composers." "Indeed! I am very interested to hear it. Is he as famous as Verdi?" "Well., perhaps not quite as fam- ous as Verdi; he is young yet, you see." "Have you ever seen him?" "I do not re *ebbe*, Signor." At that point Sousa turned to his wife and said to the clerk: "Then let me introduce you to his wife: This is Signora Sousa!" And Mrs. Sousa, in turn, observ- ed: "Permit me to introduce my hus- band„ Signor Giovanni Filipo Sousa The total area under cereals declin- the composer of 'The Washington a ont. to 094 600d by 0,0acres e acres, hi c wheat, Post"' There was much explanation and oats and rye being more than count'. laughter and then •the elerk nobly er-balanced by, a substantton reduc- offered to charge Sousa only the decrease timall r the ase ao get b e rleyand as wholesale price for 'a pirated copy again a reduction in the area under of his own march!• roots, a small increase in the acreage under turnips and swedes. After a Design for Living substantial increase in the previous year the sugar beet acreage in 1935 Enough o£ joy to balance pain, Something to lose; something to showed a moderate decline. There was a small decline in the area gain. under the four principal vegetables, Someone to love, songe one to care, a further net increase in the acre. A simple faith to mold in prayer, ago devctell to fruit. The acreage 01 A sense of peace, of sweet content, hops was unceiangod. To greet the night when day is ,pent. • Occupied Agricultural Land In England and Wales 30,- 370,000 Acres,. Can Mr. St .Clair give you a newt slant on your own character? Per-' haps he can • reveal some unusual angles about your friends, too. Send speciments of the writing you would like analysed, stating age In each case. Enclose 10c coin for each speci-1 men, and send with 3c stamped ad-! dressed envelope, to: Geoffrey St.' Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide Street, West, Toronto, Ont. Your letter will be replied to as quickly as is pos.' sable In view of the volume of mall: that es continually arriving. And your. letter will be strictly confidential, The total area of agricultural land occupied in England and Wales in June, 1935, was 30,359,000 acres, com- pared with 30,454,000 -acres in 1934, a reduction of 84,000 acres or 0.3 per cent. according to a report just is- sued by the British Ministry of Agri- culture. The area returned as under crops and grass was 24,984,000 acres, a decrease of 82,000 acres or 0.3 per cent. Contrary to the general trend in recent years, the total area of rough grazings at 5,422,000 acres showed a small decrease of 2,000 The Love of Nature< xa:' asl. ` why 1 write of Neee,1,e, Of bird. and .blossom antl.:bee; . You ask why the ways of the wild - wood Bring joy to the heart of me— And. why I write not of the city Of its life and its busy throng, And why the joys of the country Are luring and deep and strong. I once was a child -of the wildwood, ,As free as the birds that fly, As free as white clouds that wander Afar: in the azure sky; The flowers of early springtime, The whispers of forest pine, The call of the wind from the hilltop Were pleasure that all were mine. The robin securely nesting On a beam in the old log -shed, The swallows from homes on the barn eaves Showing their shining heads. Where friends and dear companions To the little country child, Whose spirit was shy, like the bird- ling's That flew through the forest wild. And when the summer waning Brought autumn's tender days, When fields and woods alluring Were bathed in yellow haze. The painted leaves, slow drifting To earth in, the sunlight gleams, The purple haze on the hilltops Filled life with the joy of dreams, So must 1 write of Nature, So must I sing her praise, With her I walked and 'wandered In the freedom of childhood days. And in the picture before me . Of tree and blossoming sod, Of lake and stream and hill top - I can see the hand of God. —H. B. acres compared with the previous year. For the first time since 1918 the steady decline in the arable area has been arrested and there was an increase upon the area in 1934 of 144,000 acres (1.6 per cent.) to 9,- 304,000 acres; the total arable area is now rather larger than 1932. This increase was due almost entirely to the expansion in the area under clover and rotation grasses. On the other hand the area actually under crops, excluding clover and rotation grasses, at 6,775,000 acres showed a decline of 62,000 acres or 0.9 per cent. on 1934. A further .substantial reduction of 15.9 per cent. to 286,000 acres occurred in the area of bare fallow. This was the lowest figure re- turned tinder bare fallow for several years. For the second year in succes- sion there was a reduction in the area of permanent .grass amounting to 227,000 acres, representing 1.4 per cent, the acreage under permanent grass of 15,554,000 acres being very little more than in 1930. Sold by alt Druggists --25c, 35c (tube), Sdc and $1:00 CA' „lM to,,. A When you feel like aae lag and our than muscles tire easily, it's likely, that wastes that shouldn't be . in your body are sending out poisons into your blood. At times like these, take a bubbling, bracing glass of Andrews Liver Salt each day till the trouble clears up. Then take an occasional glass --once or twice each week—and you'll stay perfectly fit. Get Andrews now, Small tin, 35c; Large tin, 60c; Extra 1'.fge bottle, 75e. Proprietors, Scott & Turner, Fii Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, g