Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1939-03-01 / 9. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ over them. Then they found that the owner was in the habit of feeding the bull sugar, and he was just waiting for his usual allowance. My work takes me into twenty-six countries in Europe. I say without the slightest hesitation that, with the exception of a few blundering politicians who want to cover up their mistakes, there is a universal desire for peace. “Give us brotherhood instead of rivalry” is the prayer in most human hearts in Europe today. — Bishop of North and Central Europe. Coloured bands have been used in the banding of 5,000 young gulls at key stations in Canada and the United States, and now it is possible to report that one has seen a herring gull with an “aluminum band over red, over yellow, on left foot,” and this description will at once tell the National Parks Bureau just when and where that bird was banded. So we expect to learn more about the herring gulls. Robert E. Speer says that now there are 6,000,000 Christians in India, after a little over one hundred years of missionary activity; and in Korea, after only fifty years of Christian preaching, there are more Christians than there were in all the Roman Empire at the end of the first Christian century. The Jews in Palestine have changed their occupaitons to some extent. Of little more than 100,000 workers, 23.5 per cent, are in agriculture, 23.2 per cent, in industry and handicrafts, 10.6 per cent, in building, 6.3 per cent, in transport, 9.1 per cent, in domestic service and hotels, and 12 per cent, office employees. TEACHING ONESELF College is excellent for scholars, but what a man learns he must very largely teach himself. It is said that this is most emphatically true of Einstein. He “taught himself.” Teachers are by no means to be despised, but the best teacher is one’s own self. Experience is a fine teacher, but not all learn anything even from this old professor in the school of hard knocks. It is worth a good deal sometimes to have some one show us how to do something; but often it is worth ten times as much for a man to discover the way himself. Study, stem, hard, unrelenting study is essential to steady intellectual growth. HARD TO PLEASE One evening the painter, Whistler, was walking beside the River Thames in a very difficult mood. Nothing was just right. “But,” said a friend, “look at the stars! Surely they are beautiful.” Whistler stared into the sky, and said, “Well, not bad, but there are decidedly too many stars, and they are not well arranged. I would have done it differently.” There are many just as hard to please as he. Not a few people could have made a vastly better world, if they had been consulted. Possibly some of our readers belong to this number. Yet, after all, we are not nearly so wise as we think. Most of us have yet a few things to learn. • THE RICH MAN Long ago Emerson wrote, “He who knows the most, who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.” The gold of life does not come chiefly from the mines; there is a more enduring gold which is found within the man, the kindness which tells the saint, the faith which refuses to blanch at any fear, the patience which never wears through, the love which streams out over the whole of God’s creation and embraces all which God himself loves. Such a man or woman Is rich beyond measure, no matter how empty the pocket and the larder may be. SOME INTERESTING DUCKS Jack Miner, who always has something worth while to tell us, says that at his famous sanctuary there are mallard ducks which stay on the ponds all summer, but raise their young as far as three or four miles away. When the young are hatched, the mother duck starts homeward towards the pond with her brood trailing behind. Jack says that time after time he has looked out of his window and seen a mother duck with a whole brood of little one standing at the gate, waiting patiently for him to come and open the gate to let the whole family in to the ponds. Of course, the mother duck could easily fly over the gate, but she would not leave her young brood; and while she herself had never gone through that gate, she had seen Jack open it several times a day, and so she concluded that she and her brood could get through when Jack came to op>en it. The duck must surely have something like a rudimentary reason.
