The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 6

ENGLISH HARD LANGUAGE FOR NEW SETTLERS IDIOMS useTare hopeless to FOREIGNERS Strangers Are Too Apt To Take Things Literally TO wonder our language is so dif i flru't to foreigners; we scarcely understand it ourselves. We sny so many things we don't mean, and then expect others to understand, that it is astonishing that more muddles are not made. For example: We sav we wash a cup up. and a shelf down. We do no such thing: we wash the cup out, tind the shelf across Perhaps wish to visit a friend who mav live at some distance, so we say.

"Well take the train. (or bus. as the case may be), knowing quite well al! the time, that It is the conveyance which takes us. Then, when we ace it approaching, we are apt to remark. "This one I our'" al the time knowing that it is no such thinif, as it bclonprs to a company.

A friend calls on us. and we sue st sittng in an armchair: but how would they look, or feel, if they d.d? Clearly we mean them to Jit on the cliair. We are apt. too. to tell a child to "sit down." but if it ia at all huddled we direct it to sit up.

and eeem surprised if the poor child confuses our instructions. Through Life' Rough Lough!" We tell our maids to "turn out a room" another impossibility. We mean them to turn out the contents of the room. Ve apeak of reading a paper from "end to end." but how can we? hat we mi an to imply is. that we read it iroin beginning to end.

Another curiosity is that at night we lie down in bed. but when we are ill we are laid up. How ctten do we tell our clerks to "take down a What we mean is to take dow notes of what we ish to say. We in rhaps possess two things, a dog and a pencil We lead the dog. and the pencil is lead both are si It in the same way.

yet how different are their meanings. In another case the same word is used to indicate the past and future sm as. "1 want to read that book." or. "I read it last week." We remark that we are going "up" or "down" the road. Io many of us know which is up or down In this sense? No! Neither do we mean that we actually walk in the road.

If we did. what would be the use of the pavement? Another commonly used expres ion Is that of on a 5am sitting on eleven other people. No; what is meant Is sitting "with" a Jury. There are also innumerable words Which are pronounced alike, but pelt differently, in sometimes as much as three different ways. Others there are.

spelt alike, and pronounced differently. This particularly applies to the "ough" aeries. In such words as "cough." dough." rough." "bough." and very many more of the same kind. 3 CAUSES GIVEN FOR BALDJIEADS Some interesting views on the Causes of baldness have been put forward bv Ir. Ouelpha.

of Paris. He concludes that there are three reasons for its effect on men. In the first place, their hats are too hard and heavy; in the second, they cut their hair too short: and. tbirdly. they eat more meat than is yood for them.

Wearing a heavy or hard hat obviously exerts too much pressure, and is decidedly harmful, ('lining the iair short leaves the roots at the mercy of any variations of temperature and atmospheric conditions. Too much meat, says Ir Ouelpha. Increases the acids in the blmd, and consequently in the perspiration. This is si ill more harmful to the hair, for it quickens the supple ebum. which thickens round tie roots and clogs them.

This is the reason why fat men are more addicted to baldness than those who are thin. rr Ouelpha declares that if men Would only wear light felt hats Instead of low lers there would be lees baldness. SUCH IS LIFEI Making its maiden trip round world is a five masted, barque rigged sailing ship, large rrumy ocean liners. It is 43' feet If and arnes :0.000 Frju. ire feet of ranva.s The vessel is Ianish.

and is the rojenhagrri. The big freight carr ing sailing ship haa Out yet ot en driven from the sea Why 'A Lytton and ii'i ker.s (nc two iieu 't ic I'jstri'iu' 'a rwj ever livej" Bfcjuse l.Mtor; "Night and Uurning" and "UUeJ ftie i itoun SWAT SWAT! i i' Thougn Babe Ruth's daughter, Dorotry, is only 16 months oldv tries already walking in the footsteps of her daddy, the king of iwjt. as this picture shows. CARE OF DOGS A MYSTERY TO MOST OWNERS PUPPY, LIKE HUMAN BABY, SUFFERS FROM COLD Wet Feet is Responsible For IV any of Their Ills IF dogu and their management were better understood, the populari of the canine race would be greatly increased. Like the human baby, the Puppy easily subject to cht'L An ex ellent precaution ia to teach I im to wipe his feet when he con 'es in out of the rain.

Wet feet are the cause of more trouble nan is generally suspected, espectall in the smaller breeds. luring tne first ml to 111 month of a puppys life, when distemper is so liable to attack him. this seem ingly unimportant matter of failing to dry he feet should never be overlook. Wet fet often cause toothache if young dogs. Rubbing the gums with spirit of camphor Is a remedy.

Cure for Disobedience Some logs are Inclined to run awav when taken out. They refuse to "come to heel? or attend to their owner's oice if they have a mind to jump it norses, bicycles, and so on. I Sometimes drastic measures have i to be adapted. The proper course is to get a long thin cord, and tlx one end a slip knot around the dog's ne k. the other end being secured to the owner's wrist.

The lin measuring several feet I in length may be carried in a coll in ov ner's hand, so that when the dog ru.hes off in defiance of his word i of i.trol it continues to un in til the extent of the rope is reached, when the offender ia i pul'tM up with a sudden Jerk. It he going nt tcp speed the i slip knot will sometimes beccmc so tight as almost ch ke him. but the sever. of the jerk will depend upon his own actions, and in due course he is sure to connect the dis comfort with bedier.ee to orders, and a cure is a natural result. IS YOUR NAME LEACH This name has not always the same origin.

Sometimes it comes from a person who arred the pa of doctor ars the. ary and used lee hea, a id imeti it is from a dialect word, lache, a bog, and was giver in the ri'si place to man who lived nar a GOES FREE An esc. iiH of a prisoner ii lierlin. A rnai: was ernff tried, and the judge ai'Ter him was engross e.l in hi. ntper.

Without looking up tile Jude laid, "Vd'l ear. go." meaning one the warders, but the warder h. already left, and the prisoner. "he at hu i word, wal out of culirt. What the be.st butler Ir, wor le coat.

the THE TRIBUNE JUNIOR ADULTS ENJOY WITTY TALES OF CHILDREN HAPPY WHEN GROWN UPS MAKE MISTAKES Domestic Animals Figure in Juvenile'Humor A LITTLE girl ran downstairs calling: "Mother! Mother! There's a man upstairs kissing nurse." When her mother rushed upstairs the child shrieked: "April fool! It's only father!" This was one of the stories told at the British association recently by Dr. C. W. KTm mins. for 18 years the chief inspector of the education department of the London county council.

Ir. Kimmins has made a special study of children's humor. The following are stories told by a boy and a girl and recorded by Pr. Kimmins to i'lustrate the things that make children laugh: "One evening my mother and I were in a District railway train which was rather crowded. When the train stopped at a station a woman entered the train.

A gentleman rose, and the lady said: 'It Is quite all right, keep your seat, for I am poing to get out With that she pushed him back into his seat. Again the man rose, and again the lady pushed him back. The man. after being pushed buck three times, said: 'When you've finished. I want to get Auntie's Mistake "One day my brother, auntie and I were going a journey on the Underground railway.

There was an automatic machine standing in a corner where you put the money in and the ticket falls out. My brother said to Auntie. 'That is where you get the tickets. so Auntie walked up to the machine, bent her head down, and asked the machine for three to Paddington. Of course, we all started laughing, Auntie Iomcstic animals play a large part in the incidents which appeal to children as being funny.

This is clearly shown in the following: "One day we heard a noise in our parlor, and we went in very quietly, and there was our cat sitting on the music stool at the piano. His front paws were on the keys and he was mewing Just as hard as he could. He was trying to sin." Another incident is a trifle pathetic: "Our dog Is very affectionate, but he is very Jealous. We had a lovely kitten given to us. and.

of course, we made a great fuss of It. The dog went out of the room and had a good cry. and when he came back his eyes were red and his cheeks were wet with tears." Children delight in the mistakes of adults, and often rejoice at a failure of "father." Father Does the Cooking "When mother went away for a week, a girl of 13 declared, "dad tried a hand at the cooking. Uf course he was sure of himself, as all men arc. "After fussing about for some time he decided to make some cakes.

He put on a big blue apron which nearly enveloied him and commenced to mix the batter. I knew he was putting the wrong flour in and not enough sugar, and I tod him so. but he waved me aside and told me to keep quiet. I soon tired of looking at it. so I went upstairs to do my lessons.

Presently I noticed a faint smell of burning. Uushinr down the stairs three at a time 1 beheld my dad. the blue apron practically ruined, the kitchen full of smoke, and his face very red. "The humor of the situation struck me and 1 burst out laughing. 1 his was to much for him.

tiet tmg a handful of the cakes (which had been hopelessly burnt) he threw them at me. I managed to dodge them and ran upstairs When asked to give an account of the funniest sight he had ever si en. a boy of 14 years of age said that be had never seen a funny sight llr. Kimmins told the scientists). Inquiries seemed to indicate that this boy never derives any pleasure from a humorous situation.

He is quite intelligent, but apparently he never laughs. Asked whether he ever went to the cinema, he said. "Oh. yes. I go because the olh boys go.

but I have never seen anything in the cinema to laugh at." Too LATE sehool inaster was angry I The when Thomas appeared ten minutes late for school one morning. "Why ar you late, Tommy?" be said sharply. "Please, sir," replied the sinner, 'it was late when I sta'ted from home." "Then why didn't you start earlv?" Well sir. it was too late to start early." The average depth of the Knglieh Channel is 180 feeU MAXIMS SUPPLY HELPFUL II I One way to be happy is to set a limit to your wants and keep them there. It is all right to spend money to make character; it is all wrong to spend character to make money.

The most undeserved as well well as the most TIangerous flattery is that which we bestow upon ourselves. Thirk twice before' you speak. Even then, nine times out of ten. the world will not lose anything if you keep quiet Anyone can point out difficulties; it calls for brains and courage to look beyond difficulties to successful accomplishment A pess mist is a man who on every opportunity sees a difficulty: and optimist, one who in every difficulty sees an opportunity. Man sometimes learns more by failure than by success, and it is better to aim high and fail than to succeed in paltry scheming.

HUGE BANANA SPIDERS MAKE OCEANYOYAGE TRAVEL TO EUROPE JN CRATES OF FRUIT Very Poisonous But Make Splendid Pets COLl'MBUS went from Europe and discovered the West Indies: hairy spider has come from the West Indies and discovered Europe. To its discoverer it seemed as strange and terrible as Columbus seemed to the natives. A Covent porter re ceived the visitor. He had been carrying crates of bananas, when, feeling something unusual on his reck, he put up his hand, felt hai prick nis fingers, and imagined that something in the way of demons was making itself at home above his collar. It was a huge banana spider, similar to the one whose arrival in similar circumstances at Liverpool, was reported some time ago in the C.N.

When the porter recovered from his fright, a second spider was found, and both were taken to a naturalist One of them should manage to live in the land to which their adventure brought them. Spiders as Pets Many such spiders have done the voyage, srus; in the shade of banana bunches, and two achieved a sort of immortality. They lived so long that they gtt into the scientific literature which tells of the spiders of the world. Bananas yielded the two specimens to a. Dunfermline gentleman, and he cased aad petted them, and fed them.

At first spiders did quite well on flies, then, when these failed, on beetles, and then, during the winter, L.l.,a b.1i1i.1i ni Oil .0 ii" difficult to obtain. Three a week of these noisome creatures formed one spider's diet until moulting time came. Then ceased to eat for a month, cast Ks skin, ate for a couple of months, diminished Its diet for fur months, and fasted for six mo v.hs. In rather less than three years the first specimen moulted five rimes and grew but little. The sixth moult was fatal.

Casting the Skin The second specimen bore captivity for nearly four years. but moulted only once a year. As with crabs and lobsters, the casting of the skin is a deadly operation. It sometimes costs a limb; it sometimes costs a life. As with he first one.

so with the second; the effort to jump out of its skin am leave tne lining or me digestive organs and breathing tubes behind was too much for the spider's vigor. It died after three years and 10 months of Scottish air and diet. The poison of these huge spiders varies in its effect upon different people. To some it is very serious, to others scarcely perceptible, hut the envenomed hairs upon its body set up irritation in any human flesh with which they come in contact. A new and improvefl version of an old story about a famous Judge was told at dinner recently by the Attorney neral.

Sir, Ernest Pollock. IHiding the trial of an action the judge reproved a brow beating counsel by telling him that a witness was not ie essarily to be regarded as untruthful because he altered a statement he had previously made. "For instance," he continued, "when I en this court today I could have sworn I had my watch in my pocket. But then I remem bered I had left It on my dessing tabie at Lome." The Jucge's words were evidently overheard by several people at the back of the court, for when he got home that night his wife greeted him with: "Why ail this bother about your watch sending four or five men for itr' "ilreat Scott!" said the Judge. "What did you do'" "I gave to the first one who came," answered his wife.

OYSTER PEARL NOT MADE BY SANDGRAINS JEWEL IS FORMATION OF DISEASED BIVALVE Black Variety is' Rare Much Cheaper But THE old belief was that a pearl is formed In an oyster by a grain of sand, or other foreign matter, inserting itself within the shell and setting up an irritation, as a result of which the oyster builds up round the intruder a smooth coot of pearly matter Arguments are now being used against this theory, one that owing to oysters usually inhabiting places of a sandy nature, an oyster must have thousands of frrains of sand or other, bodies lodged against its lips In each tide. The lips of a pearl oyster consist of a curious vascular membrane tapering to a slimy, filmy substance ot the outer edge. A small speck: of sand would stick to these lips, and a larger body would cause the lips to close. Even if a grain of sand did manage to pass the lrps of an oyster, it would be impossible for it to penetrate to that part of the shell in which the pearl is usually found. Another proof that a pearl is not a collection of matter that a grain of sand has caused to form in the oyster, is that, although a pearl may be skinned down to nothing, a grain of sand, or any core different from the pure composition of the pearl has never been found.

The pearl is probably a disease, but It is unlikely to be caused through extraneous circumstances. Black and White Pearls vary in color. The South Sea Island pearls are generally a very pale golden or straw color, a certain proportion, however, being the purest white in color. Now and again back pearls ere found. The general belief that black pearls are of greater value than others is not correct.

The most valuable pearls ore "the pure white ones, which are perfectly round yi shape. These are most suitable for stringing as a necklace. The next in value are the white ones which are pear shaped, and which are made up and sold in British shops as pendants or ear drops. Tbirdly come the button shaped pearls, as those are called which are perfectly round except for a slight flattening on one side These are used for setting in a bracelet, pin, or ring, as the flattened parts can then be concealed in the course of the setting Blark pearls in all these shapes are worth less than the corresponding shapes In white. Occasionally pearls are found In freak and irregular shapes.

A pearl fisher In the South Sea Islands found a cluster of small and medium nixed pearls in the shape of an almost perfect cross. It is said that, after passing through several hands, these pearls eventually fetched 10.000. whilst the actual valne of the pearls, if separated and sold i one by one. even supposing they i were all perfect pearls, would not have exceeded 10. Blisters are bubbles in the pearly lining of an oyster's shell, which are sawn out by traders and sold for the making of brooches and the cheaper forms of jewelry.

GREEN FORESTS CHANGED TO RED German Scientists Effect Transfor mation With Dye "Can the leopard change Its spots?" is a question that may soon be altered to "Can a forest change its color?" I A number of German scientists have been experimenting with dyes. transform trees In two nights, and i transform trees in two nigts, and can turn them red or blue or purple simply by an aniline dye injection. One scientist made a large tree a perfect blue with two ounces of dye ar.d 200 gallons of water. He vaccinated it so successfully that not only the boughs and leaves, but even the interior of the trunk as sumed an azure hue. I By this process of injections it may be possible to change a forest to any color desired.

At present the colors of flowers are being chfcnged. by screening processes: and certain plants are having their growth promoted by violet rays and by tbe use of chloroform. Dutch bulbs have been retarded and made to bloom with greater loveliness when the effect of the anaesthetic had worn off. BATTUE OF THE BEES AND CHICKENS A chicken pecked at a bee at Barkway In Hertfordishirc. whereupon a large number of bees attacked twenty four chickens, four of which have since died of their stings.

The owner or the chickens" and the village constable saved the chickens trum worse trouble..