Hector, lay down your Brazen Tools

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 14, 14 October 1932, Unnumbered Page

Hector, lay down your Brazen Tools

ate Hector, lay down your brasen tools a space And listen... Crim millions will turn those wheels that pace elnd glisten Even as the globe's inexorable track. Can’st, Hector, discern the voice of the dead? Vot so! When scarce this hand, this voice so nourished And slow To vanish, else than insensate shadows scent. ~ He two drop swiftly in a winter shower ind-fade, Dissolve, scarce mirroring the grey clouds’ Lower dnd shade Sweeping from south with an avenging sound, | Speak to me only of your dreams, your desires "That surge, That roam over the foaming wave-ways, fires To submerge ALy soul in vapour, in flickering glorious aurora.

R. C.

Castle

"THE Broadcasting Board is to be congratulated on the efficient manner in which it reluyed the second portion of Josef Szigeti’s recital. The appreciation shown by the audience was a tine tribute to a master performer. Szigeti’s superb technique, faultless interpretation, and depth of tone will long be remembered by all who listened in. * Ds ais THE remarks of Mr. David Moore, who spoke from 2YA on dogs, would interest all lovers of these canine companions. Although haying been a great. breeder, Mr. Moore has never owned a dog since he went to reside in Avystralia five years ago, and when ask4. the reason of this he replied: "BecWuse I had neither the time nor facillties to give him the attention that a dog deserves." Mr. Moore traced man’s rise to civilisation, and showed how much this had depended upon his fourfooted friend who had hunted with him in the common cause of the human family. In Australia and New Zealand it was said that the country lived very much on the sheep, but he would rather think they lived on the dog. On a farm a dog was worth at least five men when it came to mustering. . r * * No countries, suid Mr. Moore, were more suitable for dog-breeding tha are New Zeuland and Australia, where wide open spaces allow the necessary physical and mental exercise that dogs require. He was quite sure that if proper attention were given to the matter a very lucrative business could be established in export of pedigree dogs. s % 3S R. MOORE was often asked: "Should a dog be given a raw-meat diet?’ Raw meat is the natural diet for a dog, essentially a carnivorous animal, and there would be less skin diseases in dogs, and they would live longer, were they fed as nature inteniled them to be-on raw meat, A cooked-meat diet might have been encouraged years ago by a certain section of the veterinary surgeons whose business depended upon consultations wigh owners respecting ill-health in dds. * % % USINESS and home-women are welcoming the popularity of the ensemble, said Mrs, T. W. Lewis in her talk on "Fabrics and Fashions" (2Y¥A). With this style a womau can achieve 2 summer outfit most inexpensively. The weaves of mateyials are as beautiful as the patterns, and dresses are made up in three-colour contrasts. There seems to be a vogue to strong contrasts, and there being so much latitude allowed it is essentigl that one should be acutely alive to good and bad style. It is easy to spoil an outfit by overdoing these contrasts, Nearly all dresses are made in one piece and are either sleeveless or have short, puffed sleeves.

OST housewives will appretiat¢ Mrs. Lewis’s hint re washi blankets. Use cold water, but make a good suds with boiling water inte which put some rock ammonia, using one shilling’s worth for twelve blankets, When washed put on line and hose with clear cold water, and the blankets will be like new, ; * & a Ce HERE are many places of which wa hear little, or even give a thought to, and Finland is one of them. J£ we think at all we usually connect this part of Northern Europe with Bsquimaus, ice huts, log cabins, reindeer and excessive cold, yet this country is a highly civilised one, was the first European country to introduce women’s suffrage. In the population the pers centage of illiterates is one of the low« est in the world. Professor Algie in his talk (1YA), "Impressions of Finland,’ gave some enlightening facts. Ifelsingfors, the capital, is one of the most modern and up-to-date cities in Europe, in comparison with which Loncon and Paris are in many respects backward. here are, too, many beautiful lakes, islands and magnificent forests which together cover about ninetenths of the country. Besides its luitural beauties, Finland has produced some very fine musical composers, of whom Sibelius is one, and who is by some people acclaimed the modern Beethoven. Te was born in 1865 and is the first Finnish composer to become world-renowned, He is a _ genuine, creative musician and one of the. first wnong living composers. & xe % JLISTENING to Miss Dora West, O.B.E., last. week, when she spoke of "England, the Homeland" (2YA),nud in the course of her lecturette mentioned the flower fields of Kent, recalled to my vision the lavender harvest which usually takes place during the early part of August. To watch the girls and women gathering this, the sweetest of all herbs, carries one’s imagination a further step, to the streets of London, where the cry is heard of "Lavender, sweet lavender; won't you buy my blooming lavender: sixteen good branches a penny, all in full blow." This cry surely hag an Elizabethan sound which Shakespeare must have heard. Among many others in their different seasons, were such as "Cherry Ripe, Cherry Ripe," "Oranges, Who'll Buy My Oranges?’ "Cat's Meat. Cat's Meat, and the Cat’s Meat Man," light-footed as the Pied Piper of Hamelin, trudging along with his furry children following at his heels. These old cries seem picturesque to us, but had we lived in those days, might we not have cursed the sounds as now we curse the noise of the motor horus and the ever continuous traffic?