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'nheir official agenda, in respect ‘Of constitutional relations, does not carty n'atkmality, treaty prozedure, the interâ€" national status of members of the Briâ€" tish Commonwealth and channels of_. eccommunication between them‘‘â€" all‘ questions which, in cne form or another, have previously been under review. Yet delegates will witness chang'mg scenes. They will be brought twe %to face with changing problems.~When the Imperial Conference of 1926 formâ€" ally accepted the Balfour report reâ€" cognizing the dominions as autonomous communities within the British Empireé "equal in status, in no way subordinate. one to another in any aspect ot their domestic or external affair," it soemed as though the coping stone had been finally placed on the steadily â€"growing structure of dominion autonomy. Constitution Altered Passing years have seen many de- velopments; nowhere more than in the Irish Free State. For the newest of aominions has made vital changes. Te Empire statesmen, when they.gather» ed in ecnference on May 14, at London, England, will survey a rapidly evolving. Many Changes in â€" Status of Dominions Expect Delegates to Deal ith Problems at London Conference Next Month._ It costs nothing to eat_ggfifi_s simple contestâ€"nothing Te t y 4 om to buyâ€"nothing toâ€"seHâ€"noeâ€" ebligation of any kind. Come in anc get*fnlf.mférma‘mn at 17 Pine St. N. dn ied w n 94000 a o Jewellers 4. The executive cocuncil:â€"exercises the executive authority and power of tue Free Stgte instead of the King but for the purposes of diplomatic and consular agents and the conclusion of internaâ€" tional a;gmeements the countil may avail of "any organ used as a constituâ€" tional organ for the like purposes" by any of the members of the Commonâ€" wealth of Nations. ° . 5. The .president .ofthe executive council (prime minister) is elected by <he Dail ‘Birann: :(lower nouse» insiead of appointed by the governorâ€"general on the nomination of the Dail. India, on the other hand, is emergâ€" ing from tutelage. On April 1, there came into effect the first stage in the great scheme of a federated fndia. The ~scheme, when it cames fully into being, ‘will mean a federation of British India nd mdign ‘hative statesâ€"a federation ~â€"Fast and west too, changes have come. Newfcundland no longer enjoys dominion status. In consequence of financial troubles and need to secure assistance from the United Kingdaom, the constitution of Newfoundland was suspended in 1933.° Government in Newfoundland is still carried on by a ccmmission responsible to the governâ€" ment of the United Kingdom. ; 2 The.. governorâ€"general . no longer summons and dissolves parliament. 3. Recommendation for the approâ€" priation of publi¢ money is made by the executive council (cabinet) instead of by. the governorâ€"general. ~1. The oireachtas_(parliament) conâ€" sists of one house instead of the King and two houses. The net effect is that for internal purpases, at any rate, the King‘s repreâ€" sentative is wiped out of the constituâ€" tion of the Irish Free State. Phone 190 It‘s quite right and proper for a mother with her first baby to have a bassinette frothy with lacse and satin bows. But later when she really gets deeper into this business otf making a pleasant home, she won‘t have time to keep all those ruffies crisp and fresh. From then on she will be watching for things that look as nice and demand less in the way of upâ€"keep. Toâ€"day we‘re going to describe some children‘s rooms of this type that we‘ve visited lately and liked. room to himself, just big enough for a single bed, a chest of drawers and a desk, all of maple. Beside his bed hne placed a radio of his own (bought with money he earned selling vegetables he raised last summer) with some book shelves near by. A plaid woven coverâ€" let in dark blue and white does beauâ€" tifully for the bedspread, while the dresser scarf is a bright length of Scotch plaid . . . the Bruce plaid by the way. But the thing that really delighted us in :'-,:B'ru_ce's room was the wall decoraâ€" tion. He had covered the walls with pictures of his own choosing and they ran all the way from a large locomotive to an autographer picture of President Roosevelt. After all, it was has room so why shouldn‘t he have what he liked? And the very boyish haphazardness of the design made a pattern of its own. Needless to say, Bruce takes a lot of interest in keeping his room in nice order, thus saving his mother responsiâ€" bility there. And the day we photoâ€" graphed it, he was so pleased he could not keep the grin off his face! Kate has had a hand in the decoraâ€" tiong of her room also. It is painted '.' pile pink eramel, quite a sweet little Qhade. But a good washable enâ€" ‘emel. The curtains are light blue and white checked gingham and so is the bedspread, so they can go right through the electric washer and ironer. The walls, being washable, are left to Katie‘s discretion. Usually they have large paper dolis pasted around them, though sometimes she draws crayon balloons or umbrellas or daisies there. And someâ€" times she gets a roll of wall paper with children‘s designsâ€"the motifs she cuts out and pastes up to her own taste. Poco‘s real name is Deidre, but she‘s much too snub nosed and freckle faced to live up to such an ethereal sound‘ng title, so she‘s Poco which doesn‘t mean anything. But she‘s just the type to outgrow her Poco personality and Firn into an exquisite Deidre after all. Her There was Jay‘s room . . . he was the This is â€" Jay‘s room, and it is boyish with crisp, clean charm. Plaid wall paper with blue below, and a wall aper border betwern establishes the colour theme.. Note how the wall paper border is used to decorate he crib. Net and Ruffies are all Right for the First Baby, but a Busy Laody Doesn‘t Have Time to Keep Them Up. Here are Ideas for Yourg Rooms that are Both Practical and Attractive. ° THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TTMMINS, ONTARIO PLEASANT HoMES Children‘s Rooms in Busy Families second baby in the family so by that time his mother was ready to get down to brass tacks. She had his room paâ€" pered in a fresh plaid wall paperâ€"white with blue ard red. This went all over the side walls and on the ceiling which sloped here and there since it was under the roof. About two feet up from the floor a moulding ran around the room. Above this went a wall paper border in red and blue on white and between this and the bnsebonrd\ the space was painted blue. The plair anc: white panel and crib had the same wall paper room looks like a combination day nur. sery and library. We counted nearly twenty dolls tthe day we were there, and the bed is placed in .La bookcase frame, that holds dozzns Of the books selected by this ten yearâ€" 01‘ ; : Poco‘s room itself has white walls with doors and wosodwork painted a bright turâ€" quoise blue. The curtains. and spread are white dotted swiss with accents of bright red, and the rug is machine hook. Altogether it‘s a room.that‘s very right for Poco at ten, and it‘s not a room that complicates her+mother‘s housekeeping in the least. o because with the exception of the crib the other pieces can be made to last | a good many years. As a rule, the most practical way is to buy a separate crib, then a chest and whatever else you may have room for. Maple is our favourite wood for a child‘s room because it can | take a lot of rough and tumble. Paintâ€" ed furniture is fresh looking and very pretty and our next preference, maybe because we‘re thinking of all the childâ€" ren‘s rooms that have to be fixed out of what is on the placeâ€"that usually meants a pairt job. Oak, when you can get it in simple designs, is apâ€" :( propriate. Walnut and mahogany are | all right if your child is respectful °nough In buying floor covering for a chfld $ In selecting furniture for a child‘s room, keaep in mind, of course the fact that it should grow up with him. If you feel you must have real nursery furniâ€" ture, the1 you can plan to paint it later, room, simplicity of upkeep is the>big point.. We‘re partial to linoleum for this reason plus the fact thakit‘s a very clean sanitary floor. For practicability and enduring usefulness, it‘s probably better to get a plain and pleasing colour that will fill an older decorative plan later. On the other hand you can have the linoleum inlaid with a nursery moâ€" tif, or with a monogram if you are feel. ing plutocratic. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin +8A on border outlining the panels. A clothes cupboard, painted white to match, also finished with wall paper borders. A studio couch cover of blue with white fringe, a little toy chest in red, starched white curtains, some blue rag rugs, and Jay‘s room was finished to a T. It looked as fresh as a daisy and had a clean crisp charm about it. And the beauty of it, to a busy lady, is that it would be no trouble at all to keep that way. And we liked Bruce‘s room, toO. Bruce is eleven and has a tiny attic ‘There are lots of nursery design rugs that are gay as a circusâ€"many of them are quite inexpensive. »Rag rugs are the cheapest solution of the floor question, biut their main drawback is that they do get dirt so easily. New "G.M." Beacon Light at Melbourne for Aircraft Anyway, the next nicest thing to hayâ€" ing a little boy or girl around the place is fixing them! And how they do enjoy a room of their own. That in itself simplifies housekeeping because it concentrates their necessaries and makes a place for their junk to be colâ€" lected away from the front room. Rae Boykin) i lt ds se c hi â€"Since fixing a child‘s room usually means using odds and ends of old furâ€" niture, there‘s usually painting to be done. The rules are included in Miss Boykin‘s bulletin "How to Paint Purâ€" niture" which will be sent on receipt of a stamped, selfâ€"addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1937, by Elizabeth Macâ€" The new Australian plant of General Mcotors lecated at Fisherman‘s Bend on the River Yarra, in the vicinity of Melâ€" bcourne, was recently opened with great ceremony. In the presence of over 1500 speciallyâ€"invited guests, the Prime Minâ€" ister of Australia, the Rt. Hon. J. S. Lyons, pressed a button which set the factory in motion. The central sprinkler tower of the administraticn building, which is beautifully floodlighted, supâ€" ports a oneâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half million candle pswer beazon for aircraft and also a supplementary beam which continually flashes out the code signel "GM." This tower is visible sea and landward for cver 50 miles and is intended as a lead for both ships and aircraft. Ottawa Journal:â€"A fortune awailts e inventor of a lifeboat that will cat on a sea of trouble. How Long Does It Take to Stop an Automobile? Theoretically this is a comparatively simple question to answer, but police and cthers interested in safe highnway travel state that a definite answer is out of the question. It is, of ccourse, a wellâ€"known fact that whe.n braking conditions are 100 per cent. efficient, a car travelling ay 20 miles an hour should be brought to a standstill in 13.4 feet; at 30 miles an hour, in 30.2 feet; and at 40 miiles an hour, in 71 feet. Unfortunately, nowâ€" ever, these figures do not allow for the human element that enters every time a miotorist reaches for the brake pedal. It is this human element, known as "lag" or "reaction distance," tha: makes the exact answer impossible. (Montreal Star) What distance does it take a motorist toa stcp a icar going 40 miles an hcur? Many tests have been carried out in an effort definitely to establisn the amount of "lag‘"‘ required by the averâ€" age driver. It has been found that many drivers take a second or more to apply their brakes after observing danger. An experienced and alert driver takes action almost immediately, while thne average gocod driver reatts in threeâ€" quarters of a second. In threeâ€"quarters of a secondâ€"a car moving at 40 miles an hour travels 44 feet and at 60 miles an hour it travels 66 feet. This means that an average good driver, driving urder 100 per cent. efficient conditions, will take approximately 105.8 feet to stop his car travelling at 40 miles an hour from the time danger is first obâ€" Under the same conditions it will take him approximately 226 feet at 60 milés an hour. Even these figures arc far from accurate, however, for they are based on a 100 per cent. efficient The vision and policy of Samuel Cunard of Halifax, the founder, and of successive generations in the Company, have culminated in the "Queen Mary", but the background of these ten decades of progress has been one of individual attention and personal service to passengers. In the deep draught steady ships which regularly sail from Canada to England, Scotland, Ireland and France this spirit prevails, as elsewhere in our fleet, and the ships‘ personnel stands ready to serve the traveller just as our offices and agents throughout'Canadé are organiied“ to assist the enquirer. B The llrgt roguhr tuns-Atla_n?lc steamship â€"service, uninterrupted since its Ipeoptlon in 1840. â€" Largest fleet on the Atlantic. Individual attention and â€"personal â€" service . ashore and afloat. The world‘s fastest ship â€" R.M.S. "Queen Mary" For fifteen consecutive years,~Cunard White Star has carried more passengers than any other line. 217 Bay Street (Elgin 3471) Toronto but the man to see is your local agent. brakes, tires and roads, an almost imâ€" possible ccombination, especlahy in cerâ€" tain : provinces. It is pointed out that mos! azscidents ccocur while one car is overtaking anâ€" other. Police hold that no driver should attempt to pass a car going in the same direcition unless he hasâ€"clear vision for well over 100 feet after having passed the cther automobile. : (Powassan News). Wife: ‘"Where can Harold be?" Her Friend: "Why?" Wifie: "He‘s been trying for a week to lose his cat, and as a last resort he took her up in a ‘plane this morning. He said he would take her up three thousand feet and drop her over the side." Her Friend: "Well, what is there to worry about?" Glcbe and Mail:â€"It‘s a brave boy who will risk his life .to save a dog. even if it is a Dalmation, which is gaod cnly in spots. Wifie: "Lots.. Harold isn‘t home yet, and the cat is!" : It must be the nervesâ€"tired, exâ€" hausted, irritable nerves. You need Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food to restore nerve force to the system. It is the timeâ€"proven dependable restorative. Dr. Chase‘s . THURSDAY, APRIL 3TH, 1037 THE CAT CAMEâ€"BACK P1