Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1938-07-01 / 1-2. szám
14 TÁROGATÓ What is Good for One— Sixty years ago a Mr. Thompson, of Yuba City, Cal., decided to try grapes on his farm and he imported, amongst others, a cutting of a Turkish variety. This cutting grew, and the first season produced heavy foliage but few grapes. The next season, after the usual pruning, it produced an abundance of new wood but no grapes at all. Mr. Thompson decided that the vine was worthless. A neighbour took a cutting and planted it, thinking it would do nicely for an arbour on account of its rapid growth. It was not pruned at all, and the next year it bore such a heavy crop of seedless grapes that it broke down the arbour. Then it was learned that this variety bears its fruit on the last year’s growth, and will not bear at all if they are pruned off. What is good for one man may be hurtful to another. Men are just as temperamental as grape vines, and must be treated with proper discrimination. The discipline which is effective with one may ruin another. The teacher and the parent need to be students of human nature, and it is a good thing for them when they realize that children (and adults) are really and even radically different. What makes a man of one may make a scapegrace of another. The theory that all men are alike will not work, for it is not true. Air-Minded at Eighty “A man is as old as he feels”, so says a modern proverb, and if that be true of Mr. James Inskip, of Norwich, Eng., then he is in the full bloom of his youth, and rapidly qualifying for a stirring career in aviation! As a matter of fact this sprightly old gentleman is over eighty years old, and in addition to that—he is blind. But that did not prevent him “going up” for the first time, recently, and when he came down again he said he thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and only wished that it had lasted longer! Mr. Inskip was one of thirty blind people who were entertained, in July last, by the chairman of the Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club. He has had a long, eventful life, having served as a soldier in India, and in South Africa, and though he is to-day handicapped by years and blindness, he is still “full of pep,” and thoroughly determined to live to the utmost, every minute of his remaining span of life! Recently quite a number of instances have been cited where people of eighty, and even one hundred, have displayed keen interest in the world of to-day. The flying yearsi do not relegate them to the “back seats,” buti with their wisdom and accurate reasoning they make a good many younger folk “sit up and take notice.” There is, for instance, Mr. Bard, of Bardsville, Ontario, who celebrated his one-hundredth birthday last November. This splendid old gentleman still conducts his own business affairs, cultivates a large garden, during the spring and summer seasons, and walks to church every week in all kinds of weather. His keenest delight is to recount tales of endurance displayed by the Canadian pioneers, and the splendid ways in which they overcame their difficulties, and he remembers high spots in industrial history, such as the coming of the first transatlantic cable message. There is also another old gentleman in Scotland, Ont., who was ninetynine last November 18th, who is described as being “healthy,” and whose particular advice regarding longevity is “eat two meals a day, and be strictly temperate in all things.” We also recall vigorous public men, such as Gladstone, who was a power in the House of Ccmmcns when he was eighty, but it would seem that air-minded James laskip isi something ahead of them all for eyes oi- no eyes, he went up in an aeroplane and to-day his expressed ambition is to go up again! Jungle Ferocity The fierce life of the jungle that preys upon other weaker life is graphically described by William La Varre who has led five expeditions into the South American jungle. “Every living thing there,” he says, “has its public enemy.” The cycle of combat goes on in dramatic repetition: I have seen the ground black with army ants as they devoured a jaguar caught helpless under a fallen tree; a giant
