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(•'VMIM â-  >i»i II I II* Stork Sense of Direction Innate, German Observatory Finds Bavanan Professor's Elxperi- ^ paiiiainontK" auj g» merits Show TViat Young Birds Fly Unerringly • ' South Even it Loaderless DIesssn-Am-Aninipisr'p. vt P.oslt ten. the lonely spk ot sail 1 and salt naribes on the Kurlschon Nuhnmg, â- lands tliR great bird observatory In whicb BO niany ex|)?rliiici!ls already ham been made toward clparluf? up ♦hp pnibl.'nis of h!rd fliRlit. Th'> fit- tin/? out <:( tlip birdK with rings bear- on. Huw will I such bird-f fly? Will hii Inralliblc nt'iiio of dirijclUia iMlut thetn t'.'o way?" I'rofediior Tliloncr.uim th-^reupon Hat about flnjlug auHWoni to tikfaa j problems and dexcrlbos liU procedure as roUnwH: "I decided i-o choose atorks for pur- poses of oxperlnient, 1>e<'aiiss tbo route taken by theso typical migra- tory birds to the siiulhurii extremity of Africa haa been determluod beyond poasibiilty of do-'.ibt by tho experi- ment of providing th» birds with rings. Kach of tlienB rlnifs bears n 'Vogelwarte to fly. Th?y were kept In an In^lo.iuro and were extremely restless and up- set for a week or so after the others were gone. Then they quieted down and were sot free. Uud weather i-A iu and the xtorks made no atteuipt to set aboiil tho ouolomary flight. I However, a couple of weeks later, when the weather cleared they alt set off at once. This was on IS, 1928. Test To Be Repeated This Year on Larger Scale; Preaence of of Species In- dicates Prosperous Area grew up On both Belgradeâ€" Perpetual motion, which used to rank with the pholosopher'a Ing l> date and Iho nam> of the ob- ; „un,^p,. a„j jhe word.s •ervatory has led to niauy Interesting R^jgiup,, Oerraania.' results. Now I'n.fr.jsor J. Thiene- ' „ ^ ^ , . .< â-  _. .1 1- . • 1. . ,1 Rout« Taken to Africa nann. the director, is about to use tho i period of niiRratlon to make various I "The route taken by tho birds leads new cxpeiiineiits in the hope of d!s- f''°'" '•''>'^' Hi«::<Ma s )v.anl the Kouth- covorlng Something about the methods '^»-'"- Enough Hungary, over the Bos- by which the birds llnd their ways ' I""'"*'- ">"'<'«'» -^"'^ ^"""'* *"A''*' *"•' on i.eir far fllRhls to warmer lands. The question which the proiV'.s.ior put to hlnuclf was the fol'.owln?: "What happens If migriilory blrd<<. bred In tli(! «i)viiiK. are arliM(lali.v held back in autumn, and let loo.^e when all the other birds of l!o sani,? species already hnvo made their way to the South? They would b" thrown back •upon their own resources, aro with- out a leader, cannot attend the "bird of Syria and Palestine to .\frlca. and tl;eii up the valley of the Nile and in the eastern half of the Dark Continent down to the. Cape. This being estab- llshed, I can at oiico ob.s >rve whether any of my experimental atorks diverge from tho accustomed route." Last year the profotsor made an ex- periment on a small scale. A few storks wero artlilclally held back when the other storks were preparing Thleneoiann. "These birda in the oaals of Koaltten. Septsniber *''l8'« «' ">««" lay water, tho Baltic | »'o,n» *» »cUnce'« greatest probiem, ' Sea and th« Kmisehe '^Hatf, «nd to is a burning question no longer, if the The next day they *-^^^ '>l%ritBi.Z?\^ll^ ,lTrl^^ f^^^'^L^' V>t^ ^l^'^l^^""' ''^ * '""" ^"''' "• ^"" flying lu a group to the south of the' 5!!/'^..'"?,?.^*' _1''''*L*',!* _""''."..*"! "»1''"°^"<^1':.. '^^ at thefr- Kuriscbe Nohiuag; the day after over the .Snmland, in Bast Prussia, and t;:en nothing more was heard of them until the beginning of Decem- ber, when tlie professor received a re- port from Athena that one had been found. It 'had been discovered. In company with others of a similar species, between Athens and aurlon. The foot ring, also was rofuriied The Creek police had forcibly retain- ed It in the interests of science In spite of the protests of the fortunate owner, who wanted to Hecp the ring as a lucky talisman for himself and his family. The finding of this stork showed that the experimental storks had tlown further westward than tho nor- jia^e become very Inattentive to their mal route. jlesson.s, for they think of nothing but "It is very strange," said Professor catching frogs. both directionsâ€" why did not these ' face value. His chief problem aow Is blrd4 fly off stupidly toward the how to stop the machine once 'U fias north?. On the contrary, they flew ott been started. quito correctly tpward the south, al- i Tho idea is Very simple, Ha}daK>- though they had no leader. It would j vltch explains, for It came to him set^m, therefore, that they have a ^ when he saw a wheel pumping water feeling for the southerlr direction. j out of a cistern. The machine con- "This year t have repeated the ex- ; gists of some wheels, with certain periment on a much larger scale, for one must give cTiance as much space as possible. I am at present the happy owner and nurse of scventy-flve young storks. It Is no J<Jk% to be the foster-father of such a family. The problem of their dally dinner le not so lightly solved. The (Ishermen of Rosltten are hard put to It to haul enough dabs out of the Kurisch© Haff, and the village hoys, I am afraid Perpetual Motion ''Solved/' But ^ . Problem is How to Stop Device Machine Is Simple, Elxplains Young Serb Who Got Idea From Water Pump; Invention Patented and, Experts' Opinion of Blueprints Is Flattering . weights on one o( them. H* Mr* Ml machine It not Ideal, hat prMtl l P RIs Inrentlon has bean patMteC aaf (he opintoa ot experts who hsrs Btm the bluepmtg it rtrj flattwtac. When tha first iThMl â- tsrta tk« other wheels graduaJUf Mnma a Uif hlflo speed, and hi orAsr to atop thea^ many deTteas must b» bromSit InM play. It is suggested la iclentiSa circles that this mac^hine wlU creats a technical revolution. Hajdarovltch is without educatioa and admits total Ignoraooa of the laws of physics. THE LAST OF THE VICTORIANS The Death of Thomas Hardy Closed the Career of the Last of the Great Victorians â€" For 30 Years He Enjoyed Fame, and Lived Long Enough to See His Books Definitely Among the Classics Uy WIl.M.W I.VON PHKI.PS .\ulhor of "Kssays on Modern Noveli.^ts" and "The Advance ot the English Novel" j He sincerely believed that "God" was an IT with no moral characteris- tics, and that men and women would have been happier and better off If they had not had minds, but had pos- '. sessed only the senses of the lower I animals; and how far astray his ! theories led him as to the actual con- ' dlllons of modern life may be seen by the following extracts from "The ; return of the Native": I "The view of life a* a thing to be ' put up with, replacing the zest for prose Action for twenty-flve years and poetiT for nearly thirty. His poetry has enough quality to Insure him a place among the poets ot bis time; but suppose you had to cbooae between Francis Thompson â-  and Hardy, or between Alfred Hous- man and Hardy, or between 'Rudyard Kipling end Hardy, which would you take? His poetry l» Interesting !>»• cause It proceeded from an Interest- ing mind; but In poetry, style and ex- , presston are the main thing. There is I »>«ll never forg«t tho first time I In thi.'t respect he was In advance of read- a novel by Thomas Hardy. 1 1 'â- '•' "'"* had felt an attack of "flu" coming and, remembering that I had been cured of tonsillitis by reading "Treas- nr-^ 'slanil." I decided to read an- other RCfd hoo't. lu the hope that It would divert both th« mind and the «>Id. Thfi voliime I i)lcked uu had f^e Inviting (lUe. "A I^ir of Blue E.res." I do nol know bow I had escaped fcesrlng about H»rJy> love of tragedy, bnf I began reading in that ignorance which has been called blis.'t. After I reached a C'jrt.iln point In tha story the heroine and the two heroes were In sorlou.s dlflNoultles; but I had so often in olher books seen ' 1 gilt along belter on other themes. I a.sked him what he thought a novel should be. He repllerl emphatically that It should alw:i;.s be a story; the foundation must be a fable. He did not admire the modern custom of exi.ttence which was so intense In . no doubt that Hardy's mind was far early cIvlHzatons, must ultmately en- more interesting than the mind of ter so thoroughVy into the constitu- Alfred Tennyson; but no one ot lion ot the advanced races that Its Hardy's poems, interesting, original. expression will become I, ac- appealing as It may be. Is equal in beauty of expression to "Ulysses." It stilt seams clear to me that facial cepted as a new artistic departure." Is It any wonder that Hardy, with all his artlstlcs genhis, and with all , Hardy'a novels are the most Import- ... ,, , I bis sincerity, failed to get the Nobel ant. part of hia work; but la ordar wrmng trea.,.,os. diarle.,. prop.,- p,„,, ^^.j ^^^ „,^^^ ^^^ andD, w,r«t not, and calling the thinc one of the most remarkable thlnri' ,u.te e>pr«islon, coming as It does about hie long life i» that be attained j from the HilghMt possible- sovrce, I emlBanoei n four kinds of art. He^ wtU qtiote, with theimodt profound was a successful and prtce-wlaning respect and appreciation, from a let- architect; he became the foremost llr- ter that Mr». Hai^y was kind enough Ing English novelist, the last of the to write (o me February 14, 1926, In great Ictorlans, and Is enrolled per- j which she notea "the curious fact manently â€" so far as we can see â€" Ameriban critic* bestow nearly thair with Dickens, Jane Austen and Field- whole attent'on on the first half o< ln«: he became one ot the leading Mr. Hardy's literary career (1871- Kngllsh poets of the twentieth cen- I895)snd none on the seoond hatf „ , . , ^ ,„ ,. , tury; his eplo tragedy ot the Na- (isw.i92«). Yet the wriUngs of the Mrs. Hardy Joined us. We walked j p^ie^^o ^„g_ "The Dynasts," h" I flrat half were dictated by accWents METROPOLITAN CHURCH, TORONTO Recently destroyed by fire. The firemen saved the Carillon one of tha finest in -Canada. author would manage [t If any one reading this arliil-- has no; read "A Pair of Hlue Kyes" I In- vf; ' vfiu 111 stop half way Ihrough the narralivp rnd .-isk yourself this uuo:!- t(on: In what way could the slory end that would hurt my foellngs iBo-il ? .\nd I feel .sure no one would be able to imagine an onding so bad as l!ip one In llie la^t chapter. When T (Ini-lied that novel I threw It a.s far' as iiiv dlmiiiif^'od strength would per- 1 I was Invited to come to a novel. I told bim that even If I had .not known he had l>een a professional architect I should know It from read- . Ing bis books. "Because I Introduce 'so many architects?" "Oh, no," said 1 1, "hacause tha whole structure of I lyour novels Is so beautiful archl- ' I tecturally." .\nd in fact, the out- line of a'most any one Is as sym- , , . '""'" worse ; metrically engaging a.s a Greek statue, emergencies from which the loading characters had come off scot free that 1 felt no apprr>hen^ion or alarm, mere- ly curlosltv to see how Its clever' T. 7 " '•'"^♦â- '^ I paintings. ' was inviiea to come to | ,,,3 ,„ ,jy that It will find led ilie npxi day. and 1 told them that i ,„r many years to come. "'»" any- 1 He always (after 189S) wished to few days j,e regarded as a poet, not as a novel- left In Kngland. we were on a bicycle' lour, and I niu.-il consult my partner 1 (lifel. He said they would be havlug I tea in the garden Iho next day at 6 ' o'clock anyhow, and we could come I or not, as we found It convenient. We Went He was literally covered with cats, tnli; I vowed I would never read an- j Several large cats wero purring over other book of Hardy. I went to bed '''â„¢' ""'^ ** different places on the and .-itaypd there one week. .Such ; lawn and In the shrubbery I saw WS' the pffcr-i produced on mo by a saucers of milk. "Are al| these your pa'r of blue eyes. j own cal.s?" "Oh. no, only a few of the author of seven -volume* of original lyric3,and the author of "Vt* Dynasts'" is one aud tb«:«ame maaâ€" Thomas Hardy. â€"N.Y . HeraM'fW- bune. ' .' about the garden and entered lHo apparently given him a place among' and clmjmatances not under his own ":'.*•„_*? .**' ."**.â- ''.""'*. °'.^'"l tl>« ereat English dramatists, for It 1»| control, while those ot the second readers half were the reeult of uncontrolled personality." while I had rather do that li'lng el.se. we had only a When one remembers what time: haa done to crltloal pronouncements list: lie Insisted that his poems were and Judgments one Is â€" or should be â€" better than his prose and that they humble. It Is, of course, possible that wouldl Ive longer. ' some centuries from now Hardy will It Is possible that "The Dynasts" he known chlefiy as a poet; to-day will live as long as anything lie wrote: ' one can express only personal pre-] but It Is the novelist we think of first ferenoes. It has always been thought I when his name is mentioned. 'a good answer to the Baconian | Had he never written a novel his fanattca that for one man to write! poems would hare won for him an ^ the thirty-seven plays was marvelous; audience; but it w«s fortunate for that for another man to write the him that the poems were published Kssay wa ; marvelou.'". Imt that for ! with, the tremendous prestige ot his one man to write both was inconcoiv- name. It Is true, as he always in- able. RATHER LISTEN THAN REAO He: Do yau read love stories T Stie: No; I like to have them told to mo. But Pitch Is the Inconslstpncy of hu- man nature that within one year I had rcRil h'-' man's complete works. Shfe t'-on I have ror.-ad many, as he Is cn^ "f i'i'< fow authors of our time whose Iicol; ! become more Interosl- Ing on rori'ru'-al.'f. lip w-as iho Eng- lishman tthom I ino?;t wantr>d lo meet; and my wish was Rralilled on a beatill- ful .SeplenilMT diiv in Iho year 190n. We w.?rp on a bicycle lour in south- western Ki'gliiiid: at Woymoulh 1 bonglit :i ' opy of one of my favorilos â€" Far Krnm the Madding C'rov.-d" - and Oi-nu-d with tl>ls I called .-it Max Oate. Dorchester, the aulhor's home, which looked like !in liluslrallon for "The \Vo<id!aiMli'rs." The scrvaiils InforniPil niP that Mr. Hardy would •ee me at ."! o'clock. Maud was nt awaited In the garden with any .sharper eagenipss than l\ A man was sma.slicd up in a rail- road accident. Tho family received a wire saying: "Mr. Hess In railroad ! wreck. Both legs, both arms, back j and neck broken, and skull fractured." them. Bui may cats invito the cats sisted In later years, that his career] It is an amazing fact in our own o' the n(>igliborliood in to tea. Thay , as a poet, even going only by actual time that tha author of "Tess," "The! And a few hours later a second dls- ' publication, was longer than his Return of the Native," "Far From the patch arrived: â- Not .so bad as at career as a novelist. He published Madding Crowd," "The Wood!anders,",llrst reported. One arm not broken." know that saucers of milk will be provided and many come who are not invited. Thpy Just hoar about It." Tills pleased me, for I have always bcfn an ardent caltiat. A poem that Mr. Hardy published many years lat- er. "Last Words to a Dumb Friend," Is the most beautiful and affecting tri- bute to a cat lliat I have over seen. I asked hini if he had put much of h'.s own experience Into his novels. He said that "A Laodicean" had more of tho events of his own Ufa in it than any other of his books. That was pub- lished In 1881; during its composition ho was seriously 111 and expected to die. He was unable to wrto, and therefore dictated the whole novel from a horizontal attitude. My admiration for Hardy's novels. Canadian Athl'>tes Leave For Olympic Games I ' almost idolatrous as It was and Is, did .1, looked forward to that hour found him by bin front door ^ clad in kni.kerhockers, possibly out »• »»• 8l'"l>'«. unaffected, quiet, of con.^lderailon for my Informal K-nu'no; and 1 fait that he would blcylpalllre. lie was a smallish, | l^ave Immeasurable sympathy for any â- lendeh wiry man. with a gray mus <|iche and a gray face. .\nd allhougli ^Is expression was grave, and though ^ ft never heard him laugh, he was as j far from being severe as ho was from I t>elng petulant. During our convcr- 1 I action -wo sat together on a bench â€" , t>a made no remark that savored , nwn consent he stood first IMlher of cynicism or of bitterness, celved all kinds of honors, university teut ho was, as might be expectM, un- degrees, medaU, and the highest dla- I|d«nlab1y serious. ' In two respects I grieved him, but no in Kirrow or trouble. My previous boiief, that his pessimism was caused by sympathy for others, was sirength- cned by lalkiivg with him. The dawn of the twentloth century found Thomas Hardy without a llvlnj; rival among Kugllsh writers. By corn- He r»- \fl knew I ought to be sincere. He I told me that he greatly preferred his ^voems to his novels, whereas I liked the novels much better. At that I time his first volume ot poema bad ( hsen out only two years. He also ;^ald that he regarded the shooting of Kame birds as wicked, as sinful, and aaked me if I Indulged in that prac- tt;*. Alas, I told him th«t I w<i« l^y fond ot shooting, thong)) not in th* English fashion. I wa* lucky to tt£ (wo or three bird* In a day's mardh. lie aald that he had endeavor- ed ta Mt others to co-operate in an attempt to abolish ghooting in Bng- iLnnd, but ha rightly regarded the project aa hopsf«ss. It iii^y be that tlnctlon of all, the Order ot Merit He won everything winnable except the Nobel rise, and In my opinion his frleitda did biro a disserves by bring- ing his name up publicly every year. Jf the Nobel PrUe wore granted mere- If for literary distinction he might hare receivod It long ago; but, Ilka the Pulitzer prizes In this countrf, the Nohel Prise must be given to work of an ideaHatlo and npllftinc character. Now, although (here la not lb* alifhtest doubt ot Hardy'a literary eminence, or ot tha sincerity, (leauty and nohUlty of bla character, his pbUo8«phloai views were athslsUo and pesamUtlo. I say this not as an ac- cusation, but aa an accurate descrip- tion. Canada's ropresontattvea at ths Olympto Qames at St. Moritf, Swit- zerland, now on their way across the ocean, poumeyed from their homes to the seaboard via Canadian National Railways. Most of tha party were photo- camera man at Montreal en routo to Halifax. Photographs show: Lower left, Tho Varsity Orads hockey team, of Toronto; right, Lohon and Dupuls of Monlreal and Ottawa respectively, graphed by the Canadian National, aki-ing representatives. Upper right. the ViTt/ aboard the Maritlme'^- pross ot the Canadian National Rail- ways; left, Ross Robinson, Toronto speed skating champion, who will re- present Canada lu the speed skating events. Do Popovers Pop? The Conduct of the Popovef Becomes More Predict- able if a Standardized Recipe Is Used There la something about popovera, apparently, that Induces a general feeling of inadequacy In otherwlea self-confldeut cooks. And that som*< thing, to draw conclusions from ouf own experlenije, Is as llkaly as not tho fact that la every cookbook you find an entirely different recipe for making hot bread. Apparently thora are aa many different way.* to make popovera as there are ways to ralae a baby, and each adviser Insists that her way is the only possible road to success. Popovera may be made with one, two or thr* aggs, according to the cookbook you use. The recipe may or may not call for a little butter.' Some authorities t«k« a 9rm jitan^ abotil tha necessity of using heavy Iron pans for baking the popovers. while others ignore this matter com- pletely. Practically no two cook- l>ooks give identical directions for re- gnlatinK the oven temperature for haUng -popovers. .One recipe- will advise a quick even: aad another will recommend a slow oTen tbrousboat the. baking time. It deftnita teu»pera- turea are-. given -they- may vary from KO to 47a -degteea In various cook- kooki. It is easy to see. In view of ail thia varia'tion in recipes, why so simple a thng aa a poporer may go astray aa often aa not That tho poporer may truly be ahnple, tractable and eaally managad was reoently proved In tha research and testing kitchen of a stove company. All the popover rsclpesaTallable were tested and tha raaults ware carefally compared. U was found that aatiaCactory poporara may be made by using the following recipe: A Tosted Recipe 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, M tea- spoon salt. The addition ot one tableapoon ot fat mtUI increase the tenderness of this product. The addition of one egg will also Increase the tenderness of th« poi^ overs, but a three-egg recipe results in an eggy flavor. The most desirable recipe for pop- overs was found to be: 1 cup flour, 1 cup milk. 2 eggs. 1 tablespoon melt- ed butter, U teaspoon salt. Add the beaten egg to the milk and combine slowly with the sifted flour and salt, beating Just enough to mix thoroughly. Beating the whites and yoLks of negs separately not only does not Improve the product, but causes the texture to become some- what similar to that of mufllns. The best temperature for baking popovers was found to be 450 degrees Fahrenheit for .10 minutes and then 350 degrees for 13 minutes. Melt the butter and add It last. Use heavy Iron muffin pans, previous- ly heated for ten minutes in an oven heated to 450 degrees. Pour about one and one-half tablespoons of .bat- ter Into eacb. small pan. "Whan the time eemes for New Year'a raaalutlana tho flrtt thlna a man ganorally glvas up la tha pnaa af â-  table roaervatton." • Quit*. 'Why were you late at Suodaf school this morning, Tom?" asked tha teacher. "Why, the bell rang before I got I here," the littla fellow eiplalned. Carpet Is purchased by the yar^ an4 worn out by the foot. \