Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Nov 1920, p. 9

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"is made in England - andepjoyedall over the world. It has a new and de- licious flavour, distinct -- quite 'distinct from any other sauce you have ever had before. Verbena a Sacred Plant. The verbena plant was held in the Sreatest veneration by the ancient Romans, who believed that a few leaves of it worn on the person would protect against injury, and Roman brides who gathered" and wore a wreath of verbena were considered fortunate. - The plant came by its name from an old Roman custom. Whenever a dispute was had with another nation an official called verbenerius was sent to discuss it with the offending country, This official wore a wreath of verbena. If'\war was decided upon an firon-tipped ' spear with a sprig of verbena tied to it was shot into enemy territory, as a declaration of war. , The Druids dedicated the verbena to their priestess, gathering it at the full moon. No one was allowed to touch it with the hands. It was up- rooted by being tied to the foot of a young, girl. Hungarian gypsies be- lieve that if a cut is made in the palm of the hand and a tiny piece of verbena leaf is placed in it and the wound allowed to heal over the per son wiil be able to open all lock: with a single toueh.--Detroit News. ~~ , Dotty Iecarns a Few Things From Her Garden. "I think it's'So funny' exclaimed Dotty, as she looked over her gar- den, where nodded blue, red, yellow and purple blossoms. "What's so funny?" asked a squeaky voice, and S8queedee, the el- fin from Joyland hopped from among the grasses at her feet. "What seems +30 funny to you, Dotty?" "Why, how all these flowers can grow in the same flower bed and every one of them be dressed in dif- 'erent colored gowns!" replied Dotty, shaking the little elfin's hand. "It loes seem queer, and when you think he color of thé dirt is brown, yom wonder why they. are not all brown )lossoms." , "Well, 1 guess if little folks could answer @ll the questions that come Into their brains they never would be little folks!" laughed Squeedee. "It does seem queer, but déar me, there are so many other things that set us to thinking! First, I'll try and tell | you what makes the color in plants. "The earth is made up of hundreds of different minerals Each and every plant to grow and bloom suc- cessfully must have a certain kind of food. - The certain kind of food or mineral produces a certain cofor. In- stead of eating just any mineral in the earth, each plant seeks the kind | best sulted for its growth and that | mineral food has grains of coloving | matter in it, and if the flower is bet ter made blue than red, it saps up the color proper for it. "But 1t seems so many of them growing in the same spot would not be of so many different colors," laughed Dotty. "Just the way it should be, how- ever!" laughed BSqueedee. "I waen't so and all of them wanted the same mineral for their food, they'd .s0on run out of food color." "Just what I've been telling my neighbor . here," laughed a sweet voice, and a beautiful fairy poked her head out of a bright red rose. "You see, my sister who lives in the white rose castle thinks she'd like to be blue, like the for-get-me-nots. Why, it would be a dreadfully mono- tonous looking world if we were all the same color! 1 think things are Just as they should be, to Make a lovely world." "So do I," laughed Dotty. "I'd much rather you'd all dress different- ly. It looks so beautiful to see the colors all mingled together this way." "Some folks are never content," continued the rose fairy. 'Now, for instance, look at Miss Fern, yonder! First, she wanted flowers, then when she got them she didn't want them and gave them away. Then she grew tired standing still. She found a wishing stone one day and wished she could walk." "And could she?" asked Dotty. "Sure "enough," replied the rose fairy. "'She walks everywhere, but the sad part is she lost the wishing stone and now she never gets a chance to rest. She has to go on walking until the end of time, I 'ues. Well, I never complain! I'm happy just to stand still an oloom a beautiful red rosg, and 1 THE WHEN MEALS HIT BACK '""Pape's Diapepsin" instantly Ends Indigestion, Sourness, 2 Stomach Acidity Are lumps of undigested food caus- ing you pain? Is your stomach acid, gassy, soury or have you flatulence, heartburn? * Then take Pape's Dia- pepsin. . AJust as soon as you eat a tablet or two of Pape's Diapepsin all that dys- pepsia, indigestion and stomach dis- tress caused by acidity ends. These pleasant, harmless tablets of Pape's Diapepsin_ never fail to make sick, upset stomachs feel fine at once, and they cost very little at drug stores, guess I'm better off than some who are never satisfied." "Indeed you are," replied Dotty, as she flipped the sparkling dew from @ glorious red rose. "Oh, I don't know!" laughed Missy Walking Fern, merrily. "When _I get tired, 1 stop and stick my foot in the ground. There 1 rest until an- other shoot grows "long eéSough to reach out, «then on 1 go--and see what a lovely carpet of green | make. I've made my wish and have to live up to it, go there's no need to grum- ble. I'd make the best of it." Dotty was sorry when mama call- ed her in to lunch, but bidding her posy friends and 8queedee goodby, she ran into the house. In Memory of Captain Dog. The sun shines o'er the autumn fields, ; The woods are bathed in mellow light, And on the fence the clustering pes tempting--an alltiring sight; : A yellow leaf drops slow to earth, While autumn broods in silence here, And all is bright and calm and still As inthe days of yester year. But oh! the sun seems not so bright, The walk along the old farm lane Has lost itg charm, as all alone I wend my wandering way again; For he, that joyed in autumn strolls, And leaped and barked in raptures glee, Lies sleeping in his lowly bed And roams no more the fields with me. A tribute in my heart I bring, A loving word in memory, A wish that I may ever prove A friend as kind and true as he. --Helen B. Anderson. Consecon, Ont, Inventer by a New York man, a new heavy iron for tailors is moved by an electric motor that operates a roller, which is heated by electricity as well as the flat section. A procéss has been developed in India for the vulcanization of crude rubber mixed with a large propor- tion of waste material, forming a vear and weather resisting sub- stance. . mend kept me so busy when look ized my co! } was breakdown. down because of physical recent years. . "What was I to do? "Well, my wife had nervous Food. I had always been tem 1 decided to give it a much improvement, on many thousands of m wonien throughout the land. "The excitement of business emer- notice that I was losing out un in a mirror I rapidly approaching a nervous "About that time a friend of mine told me about what a large proportion e insurance applications were heing turned © di ties re- sulting from the tense nervous strain of and worried and had been for some time to use Dr. "You are beginning to slump physically,' eat said to-the face in the mirror." = HE enormous strain of the war had no appetite. Everything worried me 66 years had had fin fects on me as 0 that Tw fu irritable., But my wife saw to it that I did not miss my dose Chase's Nerve Food, and by the second to sleep time on this restorative tion. I could see then that treatment seemed to build me Of course I had a bad but that goes with nervous troubles, and see that the progress ward 'better health. was en and that 1 did not Week I one day more enly reals "From that I could me being - : at me Chase's Nerve pretty well and had not much faith in medicine, but sinee I realized the serious condition of my sys-~ try-out. - "During the first week I could not see and was rather discouraged. I could not: and ant Sot vee 3 continually nervous and of Dr. was upward DAILY BRITISH WHIG. | | | Newest Notes Of Sclence { Hingeless doors that are mounted | on pivots have been invented for au- | tomobiles | Cannon loaded with sind are used | to break up swarms of locusts in | Costa Rica. Its inventor has patented a spring | wire stretcher to. smooth wrinkles from neckties. . Paper) yarn that resembles Mnen is being woven i bags and pack- ing cloth in Japan.' : A wing nut and gaskets attach a new faucet to oil cans without the use of tools or solder. According to a Berlin specialist knitting in bed is an excellent anti- dote for tired nerves, Two ball bearings, "one set above the other in a retaining sleeve, form a new furniture caster. An English scientist has brought out a new electrical process for coat- ing iron or steel with lead. A new setting for jeweiry is ad- justable and can be used to hold gems of different shapes and sizes. A fireless cooker inyented by an English woman is heated by an ordi- nary incandescent lamp. Ripping nailed lumber apart with- out splitting it is the purpose of a Massachusetts inventor's tool. A process has been developéd In Europe for manifolding books in raised characters for the use d% the blind. Using oil for fuel, a new device heats a number of rivets at a time close to where a workman wants to use them. : Petroleum deposits believed to Be extensive have been discovered on fornia. For persons who have many pack- ages to tie, a Chicago man has in- vented a device to hold a ball of twine on one wrist, A light "automobile becoming popular in" Paris is steered and con- trolled with a pair of handlebars like a motorcycle. 'After a new umbrella is raised the stick can be moved to one side of the centre to afford better protection to a user. A stiff collar to be placed around a cow's neck to prevent her drinking her own milk has been patented by a Kentuckian, More than 400 commercial aero- planes are in use in England and they have carried more than €0.000 passengers in six months, A new dictionary , contains only words that have come into goneral use the last few years and defines them with quotations. Practically all of the electric pow- er used in the Italian city ol Milan is obtained from hydro-electric plants in the Alps. Any coffee pot can be made a peculator by the use of a new at- tachment so shaped that it fits in place of a lid of any size. Invented in Australia, a tap which can be screwed into any wooden bev- drinks withdrawn. A Massachusetts woman hag pat- ented toy animals with eyes that are 50 treated with radium that they are luminous in the dark. Ceylon pearl fisheries are believ- ed to be the world's oldest industry, as they have been carried on for more than thirty centuries. - A _ropeless, poleless and pegless tent for tourists is erected by fasten- ing one side to an autombBle and the other to sleeping cots, A process has been invented in Holland for manufacturing a food for swine from fish offal that does not affect the flavor of the pork. The invention of a resident of Washington, D.C., can be used as a bathtub seat, foot of a bed or a wall shelf. For sporting purposes as a rival to the rowboat an Englishman has in: vented a craft in which hand-operat- ed cranks revolve paddle wheels. The handle of a recently patented broom is tabular and can be con- nected to hose so that watér flows through the broom when it is de- sired Mexico's production of petroleum has multiplied more than three times in seven y®ars, the output last year exceeding 87,300,000 barrels. A United States forest service sci- entist has invented a device to en- able a farmer to know how rapidly moisture exaporates from his land. Tobacco has been grown success fully in an experimental way in New Zealand the last two years and the government will encourage tie in- dustry. nz A motor truck that straddles/ the load, picking it"'up and depositing it where desired, has been designed for handling brick packed in crates. outlet from the Victoria-Nyansza to the Upper Nile, are to be harnessed for the production of Slesthisiiy, 3 Ladders can be prevented. ffom slipping with a new stay tq ge ad- Justably fastened to their rungs and terminating in a "spoke or suction cup. The French government is plan- y ning to begin extensive research in France and its colonies for petrole- um deposits and to assist private in- itiative along that line. A Swedish paper mill which has been burning 20,000 tons of coal a year has substituted electricity for heating all its steam generating beil- ers. To save space in offices a chair and table for stenographers have been combined, one leg.of the former curving up and 'being joined to the latter. English experimen¥ers have de- monstrated the possibility of making newsprint and other papers, from peat, mixed with wood pulp for the finer grades. 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