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(i * ! \ i - . - i Says Canada Strong in Day of Trial Bank of Montreal Heads Review Situation Annual Meeting at Bank's la the speeches of Sir Charles Gor- don, president, and Jackson Dodda, Joint general manager, at the annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal, com- ment was made on the Inherent trength being exhibited by Canada in the face of world depression, especial- ly In regard to the banking structure of the country. Sir Charles, while de- clining to prophesy as to the immedi- ate outlook, said that taking the long view "There la every reason to look forward with confidence to emerging stronger and more prosperous than ever from the conditions that now pre- T*ll," and Mr. Dodda remarked, "It would be rash indeed to speak with assurance of the prospects of the com- ing year, but It is surely permissable to lay that when international confi- dence and co-operation are restored, tad commerce in consequence im- proves, Canada will be among the first to ben^Ci." Sir Charles Gordon made particular reference to the manner in which the low price levels have affected farming, lumbering, mining, and newsprint manufacture, remarking in regard to the latter that there was reason to be- lieve that a better condition was being nahered in by the profit arising from the premium on New York funds and from consolidation of companies for the purpose of reducing overhead ex- pense asul effecting more economical distribution of the product While expressing the opinion that Canada's large foreign obligations would tend to prevent au early return ! of the Canadian dollar to par, he said ; he had no doubt that it would return to par. As factors already working to that end he remarked that the ad- ' verse balance of trade in the 12 months to September 30 had been re-; duced to $35,000,000 as compared with ' $100,000,000 for the previous 12 months, and that in the five months to October 31st last there was each ZHow to play Bridge AUCTION^ CONTRACT /y "Wynne Ferguson Author of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE" ARTICLE No. 2 If there is one thing about Auction partner, holding the remaining six and Contract that is certain and un- hearts, doubled and defeated the con- likely to be invented. Almost any pens even to the soundest of bids. month an excess of domestic exports system, if clearly understood by part- Here's the other angle: winning by over imports, so that it would seem ners and intelligently played, will pro- bad bidding. The dealer holds a strong that the country had reached the duce good results. The only difference no-trump hand but only two little point of an adjusted foreign trade. , between systems of bidding in both spades. Instead of bidding one no Jackson Dodds joint General Man- sames lies in the difference in the trump, he bid two spades and was ! skill of the MACDONALD: Fttve Gut Qa^noudoJb tyvne&t Qu^a/Letta tyotiacc^ w i th Z I C -Z AG papers attached In I0<vl5 <,and 20 <r Package! Owl Laff s aser with W \ Boo- in - Hie System8 ' "Something Tells Me" That times first became hard and advocating the dif- doubled by second hand. He then bid then got tough. The only thing that two no trump and made three odd. ; Tnat too manv people stoop :o con- Clasiihed Advertising AN OFFER TO EVERY INVENT! JH. Llt of wanted Inventions and full ... riu;i::.m aent tret. Th aanmy Com- pany, A'orld Patent Attornyi. J73 lank .Street Ottawa. Canada. S~- HIP US YOUR I'i'CLTRY -*"!> eggs. Absolutely highest market pricea paid. Cheques remitted ImmeJl- That nearly every person thinks 1 ateiy. Crates loaned, write for quota- thankful that we in Canada are as ' player. The writer has known of many fine example of winning by bad bid- that he can write a good book. pot-i/TR-i^'AND 8 EGG COMPANY Liit- well off as we are," he said business, match games between experts advocat- ding. | That those who could write the real, j tTED, MONTREAL. nevertheless, was at a low ebb, and al ln s different systems and, as a rule, Stil lanother example. The dealer, true confession stories aren't saying ; ~ Halt must be called to mounting ex- sucn matcn es have been more or less bid one no trump and second hand, anything about them. even. And it is very lucky that there holding the following: | Tnat a na !f-wit uncle la not a half shee reewed he proess I ' I 8 1 makes one system preferable to an- Second hand and his partner had a ' made by the Bank during the fiscal other is the fact that it is more easily set-up spade suit, but failed to lead it , year. Remarking that "we should oe understood and applied by the average because of the dealer's bluff bid. A 1 . penditures by federal, provincial and municipal authorities, aa these only aggravated the situation. Referring to the fact that the downward movement of prices had reached record levels during the year, he pointed out the impotence of a Central Bank In main- taining a stable price level as demon- strated by United States experience. Concluding, he urged the adoption of a policy by which as many unemployed aa possible will be made self-suporting by placing them on the land. The Hundredth Girl It Seemed Suspicious But He Be- lieved In Her Absolutely. By A. 0. Greenwood -{ pence at Earlsfleld Station at the end of their tramp. "Next Sunday at ten?" said he. "If you like." she answered, eyes shining. "Good-night." But on Monday, as he glanced as usual at the Agony Column of his dally paper, Eddie read: "10 reward. Lost recently la the "That's It," thought Eddie Scott, eye- Ing the pretty young girl, as she left nil shop clinging to the arm of the fat, florid, middle-aged fellow who had Just bought a very expensive engage- ment ring, "ninety-nine girls out of a hundred will sell themselves for a life of luxury-" He was enlarging on this cynical theme when Into the shop stepped a tall, slim girl, whose Robin Hood hat is no perfect system of bidding. If there were, the game would soon lose its fascination and charm. No one likes to feel that the other fellow Hearts 10, Clubs 7 Diamonds A, K, Q, J. 10, 7, I Spades Q, 8. 4 uncle. That there is no blackmail In dead letter office. the British Periscopes Best in World knows as much as he does and, if the bid two spades' on the theory that the I That !t ls to bad that ^ order lo c f r>fK NI ho bidding were perfect, no one could put dealer's partner, if he held a stopper in ' have and keep peace we have to fight expert s or vjtner s anythiug over. the spade suit, would undoubtedly bid ' for it. What really makes Auction and Con two no trump. It happened just as . tract so fascinating, however, is its second hand had planned. The deal- ! uncertainty. Every bid, practically, is er's partner bid two no trump, second book O j knowledge : That you don't get a lot in a lottery. That there will never be a finished in the nature of a speculation or a hand doubled and defeated the con-; of That for every fire-eater, there are gamble for there is no guarantee that tract by two tricks, making seven ' the cards will not be so distributed diamond tricks right off the reel. !no 3and9 wfl can drink firewater. that your bid, no matter how sound. These examples of winning by bad cannot be made. For example, sup- bidding are given as a warning. Never "Thanks for the lift," said tie wo- pose you bid one heart, holding five try stunts of this kind fo rthere's noth- man, as she climbed from the plastic hearts headed by the ace, king, queen ing to such bidding. If you win once, ' surgeon's chair. "I love you," is still and an outside ace. No one will say you aare encouraged to try again, and the sweetest sentence In any tongue. that such a bid is unsound under any you cannot help butt lose out In the b(U it ^ i ODKe r a life sentence system, and yet you arre doubled and long run. Learn some system well and lose your contract by three tricks, understand it thoroughly. Once you . . Drese n t hat styles result in no e P r seat n al West End, an ear-ring, consisting of an hand - holdl ng the following: , . There were seven hearts in one hand have mastered it. stick to it and you i fallln S ^ ll > marriage license against you. A bad break but no one will get results. The system you i rate, that will be final proof that love can say you made a bad bid. choose Is immaterial, but the applica- 1 is blind. A woman you know brags The following example hands apply tion is everything. Let your partner '. that she always says "just what she chase of foreign war materials. equally well to Auction or Contract, know what he can expect of you and ' thinks" is no great shakes of a think- while France makes her own, The dealer bid one spade and second don't disappoint. Be dependable first, ; er; 8ne ought to study up more pleas- enamelled eye and a pearl in the shape of a teardrop. All communications to S. D., Donnelly's Hotel, Bloomsbury." With the ear-ring in the palm of his hand, he read the advertisement again. Unlikely there could be two palro of ear-rings of such unusual design. At the thought he felt uneasy, and for the first time Mary's initial remark, "I found only one," occurred to mind. Had she picked It up? Didn't she know that findings aren't keepings? revealed a mass of dark curia. | What had he better do? See her? "Oood-afternoon," she said nervous- . She had told him not to come to the ly. "I I was wondering If you would house or write, because of her old care to huy thla?" Eddie took from her outstretched palm an ear-ring, consisting of a miniature eye, enamelled in natural colon, with a pendant pearl In the ahape of a teardrop. "I found only one," she explained; "and one ear-ring Isn't much good, Is ItT Yesterday I was unlucky. I had my bag snatched. Nearly two pounds tone!" It was some time before Eddie real- ised that In the case of ninety-nine such cuatomerg out of a hundred he would hare asked questions. This girl cousin. But this was a business mat- Hearts Q, J. 9, 8, 6, 4, 3 Clubs 6 Diamonds K, Q, J. 6 Spades A correctly bid two hearts. last and all the time. ant thoughts, or atop talking so much. Hearts Q, Clubs K. 10. 4. Diamonds non^- Spades Q ter, and an urgent one. He ought to go. He went But no Mary Ridley | lived at No. 6. So she had given a sham address. No wonder she would not let him see her home! But what was all this leading; to? To the con- clusion that she wasn't straight Ri- diculous! Of course she was Hearts none Clubs A, Q, 3 Diamonds none Spades 9, 5, 4, 2 There are- no i rumps and Z is in the lead. i seven tricks against any Solution in next Article. ted by a correspondent, with the state- ment that be was unable to solve It and asking for assistance: The dealer's Problem Hearts K, 8, 7, 3, 2 Clubs none Diamonds none Spades A, 10 Hearts 9, 6 Clubs 8, 7 Diamond!- 10. 4, 3 Sum!" < : How can Y Z win five of the : "Tell me what it all means first. If| "Thank you." Mary said, smiling, you mean to harm her I and went to Eddie and held out her "Harm her!" echoed Mrs. Dowson! hand. fectly sound explanation. He must wait till they met on Sunday. He waited for her outside Earlsfleld Station on Sunday morning waited till one o'clock but she did not come. Had she seen the advertisement and j shrilly. "I believe her to be the daugh- ! ter of the only man I ever loved! You I know me. Everybody knows Sophia Bell!" To Eddie the name sounded vaguely familiar. In the nineties it had been post on Monday morning Eddie read: ' "So terribly sorry I couldn't keep I appointment, but my cousin was sud- I denly taken ill, and I couldn't possibly was the hundredth. Questions didn't taken alarm? Wag she afrald to meet occur to him. He merely observed hlm? Mlserablv> he ded(led that lt that the pearl was worth a couple of . WM up to Wn t(J communicate witn pounds, and then sympathized with the advertiser at Donne i, y - 8 H otel. her about the bag-snatching. , Bloomsbury. They chatted for a little, and it was j He rang up. It was Mrs. Dowson he only when at last she said "Good-after- 1 wanted, said the girl In the office. She noon" that he remembered to ask her would be back on Monday evening. name and address. On a postcard that came by the first "A mere matter of form," he added; hot he felt he couldn't let her vanish and be utterly lost in the world. "Mary Ridley," she said. Eddie repeated the name as he leave her. I tried to 'phone you, but scribbled at her dictation in his order- could get no reply. Mary." book: That evening Eddie went to Donnel- "Mary Ridley, No. 6, Fairfleld Road, ly'g Hotel. He was shown up to a pri- I know It." jvate sitting-room, where he found a Swiftly he preceded her to the door florid-looking, middle - aged woman, and opened It. A tog had come on. | smothered in Jewels. "It looks pretty thick," he said, j Eddie explained his mission, and won't you wait? Please do. It looks ' showed her the ear-ring. She pounced hardly aafe especially with all these ! on It. Hers? Yes. She'd know it bag-anatchers about." [among ten thousand. Questions pour- "Well, p'rTiaps I'd better just a few e( j from her. He explained. minutes." | "You mean,' 'said rhe, 'that this So Eddie got a chair for her, and girl picked it up somewhere and told they talked till Eddie, glancing at the it to you? That's a crime, you know." clock, ejaculated: | "I'm sure it wasn't," said Eddie. "I'm "Four! Would you think it fright- certain she has a perfectly good ex- ful cheek if I asked you to have a cup pianation. >f tea?" | Mrs. Dowson glowered, then said: The tog was friendly. At five o'clock i "Give me her name and address." It WM thicker than ever. At six hej "i i' m afraid I can't," Eddie said reported that, though artichoke ax>up awkwardly. "She gave them In con- may lie nicer than the pea variety, it ' fidence." This is good-bye." "And now, Mary,", declared Mrs. Dowson, "you must get ready at once to go back with me to my hotel." To Eddie's amazement Mary sorrow famous. Sophia had been a musical fully shook her head. There was her comedy star. old cousin, so strict, but a darling. It "I gave poor Andrew one of my ear- would all be so lovely, but it was Im- rings on the day I sailed for New possible quite Impossible. until Eddie breathed freely again. Mrs. Dowson broke in. The cousin should go to a nursing home, have attention, every York," she babbled. "A love-token it was a pledge. But I failed him. For years I j " New York. He died. I came ly, back to England a rich widow But I ' afraid I wasn't being quite stralght- never found Andrew. All I discovered forward. I see I was using Cousin was that years ago he had married Victoria as as an excuse. I couldn't She wept. "Surely." she demanded, "the gave some clue to her identity?" "She gave an address which was was incorrect," admitted Eddie: "and a name, Mary " i. Jnit a. thick. And before It hmd I " O h!" was her comment. ''Well, i :f utcQ i""' M ~7 .-"T to l d " ae 7storv country 'you'll have to give them to the police, ' somebody else. 1 never forgave my- accept for my own sake. I'd i be happy. Since I was sixteen I've Then, recovering: I worked. I like working. I'm proud of girl keeping myself and depending on no- , body " "Mary! My de-ah, you don't real-' "Oh, I do! You want to be wonder- ind. It is kind breath-taklngly Many girls, 1 expect, would have The manager of the hotel was sent j jumped at your offer. I can't. Why, for. A page brought the "London Di- rather than sun-bathe on the Lido, I'd rectory." In vain they went to three 1 rd " different Fairfleld Roads. j she hesitated, gave Eddie a glance "I must find her," said Mrs. Dow- mat thrilled him and seemed to say son, sobbing. "Driver, is there no] "it's 'yes'," though all that she said other Fairfleld Road?" [aloud was: "Dessay it's Phayrefleld Road you | "\vhy, I'd hike in the rain on a Sur- want, ma'am," answered the man, and i-py heath any dr.' Answers. spelt the name. "That's Balham wye."j He was right. Mary herself opened the door, staring at excited Mrs. Dow- son and anxious Eddie. "The "first-floor front" happened to be vacant, and there Mrs. Dowsoii. ing. Physicians aa: one million wo- men are over-weight; these, of course, are round figures. A good citizen Is one who wants to give back to the world some of the good he has got out of it. Old-time "innocent amusements" are still innocent, but they are no long- er amusements. It la always well to remember that an ounce of keeping your mouth shut is worth a pound of explanation. Mule in a barnyard, lazy and sick. Boy with a pin on the end of a stick. Boy jabbed the mule mule gave a lurch (services Monday at the M. E. Church). The restaurant advertised sudden service, but didn't give it. A patron gave an order, waited patiently and fell asleep. He awoke to hear the waitress' voice: Waitress "Did you order this sun- dae?" Customer (in dismay* "Good heavens! What day's this?" It was Sunday morning in a church school. "Will you please tell me," said :i member to the teacher, 'how far in actual miles Dan is from Beersheba? All my life I have heard the familiar phrase, 'from Dan to Beersheba,' but I have never known the distance." Before the answer could be given, another member aroi-e and Inquired, "Do I understand that Dan and Beer- sheba are the names of places?" "Yes." "That is one on me. I always thought they were- husband and like Sodom and Gomorrah." mit Supremacy of British roduct London. When the submarines foreign nations are out at practice, the observers spotting the supposed en- emy must peer through British peris- copes, says Pearson's. The reason is that British periscopes are miles, ahead of any manufactured abroad. The United States have Just placed a big order with a British firm for periscopes, to be fitted into their sub- marines. France used to buy our peri- scopes, but is now barred from doing so by a decree prohibiting the pur- But. she works under the supervision of British experts. Japan's whole submarine flotilla s "periscoped" by Great Britain. Before the war we were fighting neck and neck with Germany for pre- eminence in this high-skilled trade, but since then British design has been, vastly superior. The latest advance in periscope manufacture is in the measure o light that can be gathered into the lenses. It is not only necessary nowa- days to control torpedo fire, and watch, enemy vessels, but also to observe air- craft. And, in all these vital essen- tials, Britain's periscopes are best. Knowledge Knowledge will stoop and lead you to the stars, And witch you with her mysv - till gold Is a forgotten dross, and power and fame Toys of an hour, and woman's o.ire- less love, Light as the breath that breaks it. lie who binds His soul to knowledge steals !h .-y of heaven. N. P. W::iis. Irishman "Did you ever hear the joke about the Egyptian guide who showed a group of tourists two skulla of Tutankhamen, one -when he was a boy, and the other when he was a man?" Englishman "No, let's hear it." Mr. Gay "Tell me, my dear, how do you manage to get the maid up so early in the morning?" Mrs. Gay "It was Uher clever of me. I introduced her 'o the milkman." . He took a friend for a day's sport. The friend knew nothing of fishing, but decided to try his luck. After a long silence by the banks of the stream the novice said, "I say, how "You mean the floats? Oh, they're cheap. Why ?" "I owe you for one. Mine's just sunk." HIDES- FURS HIGHEST PRICES PAID TRY US William Stone Sons Limited Ingersoll. Ont. YOUNG MEN! ^ l.e TO SAVE YOUR HAIR c. Ointment25c.and5Oc. ,1 lifted they had arranged tramp (or Sunday. Tramping with Mary across a wind- swept Surrey heath. Eddie found her glorious; leemlngly fragile, yet care- you know." "The police?" "I shall put the whole affair into their hands. I'm not at aU aure that I leu of the miles and the hills; obTloiu- , believe your story. Mayb you picked lydalnty yet heedless of the mile d the ear-ring ui> yourself and kept It till the rain that fell towards evenl U reward was a dvertlsed-or perhaps On that walk he discovered that Mary lived with an elderly invalid cousin, a martinet, and was scarcely Tr tree except on Sundays, when an- the girl's your accomplice." Your father had treasured the ear- ring, Mary?" Yes; Mary had found It locked away amongst his papers after his death. "You shall come and live with me. Mary," declared Mrs. Dowson. "Yon will have your own dress allowance and be your own mistress. I'll buy you a car; you shall have lovely frocks, all , "That/ said Eddie, "Is a He. Shes a g , n could set Qer heart on; w . w ,,, ' as straight a: The door was burst open and In Somehow, the fact that a man would have made you miserable for Ufa is no > onsolatton for not having married him. Recipes come in books, but .coking, like love, Just cornea natural. Little men who s . into Important ; 'sirions seldom mlsi an opportunity to determine their ilie. A milliner usually tries to keep pri f-s under her hat. other relation spent the day with Cous- ; rushed an excited waiter. la Victoria. "Will you meet me next Sunday?" Eddie asked before aaylng "Oood- The unlverae aeemed sinking in the balance because she didn't immediate- ly My "Yes." But she did, finally. Eddie carried that queer pearl ring In his pocket on that tramp, and wondered If, one 4aj, wuiii have a fellow made, and would accept well, the three of Tali time *e dM not keep him te * go to the Riviera, the Lido every- where; you shal have everything:." To Eddie the little room seemed "It ees town!" he announced, and SU(ldenly to nave growu very dark Md held out a salver on which lay the dup- licate of the ear-ring Mrs. Dowton still held. "Be'lnd M divan la ie lounge among se fronds ot a palm, madame!" Mrs. Dowson snatched up the ear- ring. "Tell me," the cried, panting, glaring at Iddle, "all you know about that His dreams were over. And I shan't forget the debt I owe brought me your ear-ring, Mary, I thought It was my own He "Bird )iiiK"u:iou is a wonder- ful thing. The humming birds have started on their long journey over the sea." She "I wonder when the geeae go." The ambitious wife of a millionaire :4ave a big dinner party. Her hus- band, who had made his money as !.he inventor of a patent rat poison, was silent during the dinner. As the La- dies left the room, his wife found an opportunity to whisper to him: "Why on earth don't you talk?" "Talk?" he replied. "Why, what's the us of it? Not a single person here knows any- thing ..bout rats.'" remit Individual ceni * Cartons Try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Wha tfee waiter had geae. MM! _ ., _ . _ ., CI . The quitting whistle had blown Brazil lakes to Koller okates when Murpny shouted. "Has any one Sao Paulo. With the decline of, geen me vest?" "Sure, Murphy," aald She went Into details, and ended up: ! miniature golf as a popular sport, Bra- p a t, "and ye've got It on!" "Right and "He wouldn't hear a single word zilians have taken to roller skating, i have," replied Murphy, gazing sol- agalnst you, and flatly refused to give and several rinks have been built on emnly at his bosom, and It's a good me your name and addi >&s even when the grounds occupied a few months thing ye seen it, or PI -vive gone home I threatened him with the police." 'ago by "Golflnho" courses. without it" i Had fight with husband Another quarrel I She should take Lydia E. Pinltham'j Vegetable Compound to case those headache* headaches that nuke her nervous, irri table an J grouchy . ISSUE No. 5231