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Details of the decline in wages in Japan in 1931 are found in a report reâ€" eently put out in Tokyo by the Bank of Japan. Last year the general index of wage rates moved steadily downâ€" ward and in December was approxiâ€" mately 4 per cent. below the January level. The wago ~ates of male workâ€" erg decreased slightly less than this, but the wage rates of female workers declined by fully 5 per cent. The movement of actual earnings showed approximately the same rate of deâ€" eline, although the downward tenâ€" deney was less regula~. Here the fall, so far as female workers were conâ€" eerned, w : still more marked, the inâ€" dex sinking from 80.2 in January to 13.9 in December. This decline is atâ€" tributable very largely to the reducâ€" tion of waszes in the cottonâ€"spinning and â€" silkâ€"spinning industries, where women workers predominate. Why Magic Baking Powder is used exclusively at this Montreal School of Domestic / SCICnCce % 46 .. $ 4 w [ \ Absk‘ x Gouie n t s e 424 ha k Pm j 7 / * 1. t % es hB \ Y« Sh .A 4 * * ids & € T "We teach our A P22 | students only the E. _ es | â€" surest methods," P fia,,' says Madame R. . â€" ol Lacroix, â€" Assistâ€" * Y wC\ _ ant Director of \b"‘“"f:" the Provincial School of Doâ€" mestic Science, Montreal. "That‘s why I always use and recommend Magic Baking Powder. Its thigh leavening quality is always uniform. You get the same satisfactory reâ€" gults every time you use it." And Magic Baking Powder is the unquestioned choice in the majorâ€" ity of cooking schools throughout the Dominion,. Cookery teachersâ€" and housewives, tooâ€"prefer Magic because of its consistently better results. Free Cook Bookâ€"When you bake at home, the new Magic Cook Book will give you dozens of recipes for delicious baked foods. Write to Standard Brands Ltd., Fraser Ave. and Liberty St., Toronto, Ontario. 34 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup milk 7 244 cups pastry flour (or 2 cups and Cream butter; add sugar, a little at a time, beating until light; add beaten yolks and favoring; add flour, sifted with salt and baking powder, alternately with milk. F old in stifly beaten egg whites. Bake in 3 greased layer cake pans in moderate oven at 375° F. about 20 minutes. Recipe for Chocolate Icing and Filling is in the Magic Cook Book. 3 tablespoons of bread flour) 3 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder 34 teaspoon salt Madame Lacroix‘s delicious CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE Wages Drop in Japan 1 Economy Products €o., 20 Hayter Street, Toronto "Please do. Oh, butâ€"my packages! Where are they?" The fat proprietor indicated a pile of boxes neatly stackâ€" ed on a nearby table. They were crushâ€" ed a little, but not damaged. She thanked the fat man profusely. How careful and kind they had all been! "I can‘t thank you enough!" she to‘d him happily. "Those are my wedding clothes !" "Ahâ€"ah! So!" He retreated as she tried to press a bill into his hand. "Nah nah give it to Tim, thereâ€" he has a big family!" The bill she pressâ€" ed into the policeman‘s hand met no protest. She made this wish known to the policeman, who held her arm firmly as if he feared she might go faint and drop again. "What happened?" she asked. "Truck going the wrong way on a oneâ€"way street," he told her. "You can‘t go out that way, lady." He movâ€" ed between her and the door. "Why can‘t I? What‘s out there?" "They‘re cleaning up the mess. The cab‘s all smashed, and there‘s a lot of broken glass. Besides, there‘s probâ€" ably a mob of people waiting to see the corpse‘â€" Say," he broke off, "you want to thank that driver, lady! He saved your life!" "Oh, 1 will!" Mary exclaimed. "Where is he?" "They‘ve taken him home. He‘s not bad hurt. I‘ll give you his name if you wantâ€"" When Mary became conscious someâ€" one was shouting, "Bring some brandy for this lady!" and moving her arms about and slapping her hands. This, she later learned, was merely an atâ€" tempt to discover whether or not she had broken any bones. At the moment, however, the indignity of her position â€"she was lying on a couple of chairs She was in a restaurant, apparentâ€" ly. About her hovered anxious faces â€"a waiter, a fat man who turned out to be the proprietor, and a niceâ€"lookâ€" ing policeman who kept saying "Just a little accident, you‘re all right. Take it easy!" "Want to try it?" he indicated the front door. "I‘ll go firstâ€"" "Oh, no! Isn‘t there some other wayâ€"" â€"brought her upright and awake more quickly than the burning liquor they were forcing down her throat. Well, she was taking it easy, she thought fretfully. Her head ached fiercely from the jar when the taxi crashed into the building but otherâ€" wise she was all right, and she wanted to go home. The policeman called "Hey, Jack!"* and the fat man bustled up again. He: looked more than a little worried, as well he might be, for the sidewalk in front of his place was a morass of splintered wood and shattered glass. The place was one of the innumerab!: speakeasies housed in the basements of old brownstone fronts, And the proâ€" prictor was hardly convinced yet that what had happened was a mere traffic accidents. _ Acc‘dents in Mr. Jack Shay‘s life had a deeper significance. Fearing gang warfare as he did, it was no wonder he appeared far more nerveâ€"wracked by the occurrence than Mary, the vietim, did. t Â¥ 2 W.’.OD'Q”DQC#“W "Come this way," he invited, and Mary and the stalwart officer followâ€" ed him to a door at the rear of the long room. Here the fat man knocked, entered, spoke a few words, and then held the door open to admit the others. "O.K., come on through." The room was a small private dinâ€" ing room. Half a dozen men sat about a wineâ€"spotted tablecloth, smoking and drinking. _A sudden silence, like paarâ€" alysis seized the group. As Mary and the officer appeared, one man, tall and foreignâ€"appearingâ€"or was he merely wellâ€"tannedâ€"rose from his chair abruptly, then sank back again. Mary smiled slightly and inclined her head in perfunctory recognition of what she took to be an act of politeâ€" ness. They passed through the room, out 6 0 404 4 eâ€"4â€"4â€"46¢ CHAPTER XVII. sYNOPSIS ancther door into a black hole of a hallway, and entered the back door of :. drugstore opening on a side street. Here the officer deposited her packâ€" ages into a taxi, and helped her in. One revealed a litlle black dinner dress that was a love, all cobwebby lase at the top with a skirt made of stif" ruffies of net. They both hugged it, held it off and «aressed it with their eyes, Mary had bought it for dining and dancing on shipboard, but she was tempted to wear it tonight. After all, could any night of her life be more important? Her last "date." There were embroidered slippers to match, and a white evening wrap. Mightn‘ they be going cut to dance a little? Dirk hadn‘t said. _ "Oh, keep me out of it!" Mary begâ€" ged as she handed him her card. "My â€"the man I‘m going to marry would be furiocs!" This wasn‘t quite true but it was true enough. The policeâ€" man did not protest when the taxiâ€" driver drove off rapidly. "I‘ll give you that driver‘s name," he said, taking out a pad and pencil. "Do. And the other man‘s name, and the address of his restaurant," she added. "Perhaps I can take a party there for cinner some time and pay him back that way." "Don‘t worry about Jack," the poâ€" liceman replied. "He don‘t want anyâ€" thing you could give himâ€"unless it‘s a bulletâ€"proof vest." "Oh! Why?" The policeman had finished writing, and tore off the sheet and bhanded it to Mary without reply. _ "T‘ll have to take your name and ad dress as a witness," he said. She was not much delayed, and felt no worse for the misadventure except a heightening of the sense of exciteâ€" ment that had been thrilling through her veins all day. A glance at the clock on the mantel showed nearly 6 o‘clock, and Dirk would come before she could freshen up and change unless she hurried. F.tigue vanished magically as she dashed about. Lured by curiosity, the lumbering Della came in to help, and to her own surprise as much as the maid‘s, Mary seized her about the waist and waltzed about the room with her. "I don‘t know how to tell him, Della. I promised to stay, butâ€"oh, if Mr. Bruce would only come!" "Ah, that young spalpeen!" But the packages were a more poâ€" tent attraction than the derelict Bruce â€"they forgot him in the joy of snapâ€" ping string and burrowing into tissue paper. One simple little dress was all she was looking for, to wear this evening, but somehow it seemed necesâ€" sary to open all the boxes. "Dells, Della, I‘m going to be marâ€" ried tomorrow! But you musn‘t tell a soul!" She had just taken a quick showâ€" er and given her hair a stiff brushing that made her whole body feel tingly and rested, and slipped the black dress over newly bought underthings of inâ€" credible softness, when the maid came in, quite breathless with chagrin. Della made her decision for her by whisking away the empty box. "You think I should, Della?" "‘Indeed, you should!" â€" And thai was that. "Tomrorra is it? Oh, Miss Mary! And does Mr. Jupiter know?" "Oh, Miss Harknoss, I didn‘t hear you come in! A Mr. Bowen has been calling you repeatedly. He has some important information for you. He gave me his number and said he‘d wait in until you called." Mary took the card she proffered and went thoughtfully to the teleâ€" phone. Bowen‘s voice sounded very clipped and businessâ€"like over the wireâ€"there was no sign of the wiseâ€"cracking comâ€" panion of yesterday‘s meeting. His serious tone impressed her as much as his words. "Miss Harkness, the man we were speaking of is in New York. Not hidâ€" ing, exactly, butâ€"in retirement, and seems to have a good deal on his mind." l(Yes?’, "The talk is that he did both jobs. And underworld talk is usually pretty accurate. At least, I think this is. We can safely assume he is the man we are after. You understand, don‘t you? Rotten trying to talk over the teleâ€" phoneâ€"" "What ean we do, you mean," he corrected her. "I don‘t know. Several things. I don‘t want to muff this. Is there some place I can see you?" "Whatâ€"what shall we do?" Mary asked. Skhe sat down suddenly, surâ€" prised to find herself shaking with excitement. Mary thought rapidly. If Dirk was still at the office ske could go and meet Bowen and Dirk could call for her and bring her home. Dirk had gone out to dinner, the bookkeeper said when she called his office, but would be back. Mary gave him the address. Mary drove into town in state. Bowen stepped out of the shadow of 2 flight of stone steps to greet her. It was not until they had entered the place that Mary recognized it #X . "Why this is where I was this afterâ€" noon!" she exciaimed as they threaded their way botween tables. Half a dczen men were ectin'? and drinking. Mary was about to relate the story of the taxi accident, when she caught sight of an unforgettably ugly face reflected in a sideboard mirror. It was Mike, the waiter. Mike served them with an impassive countenance. The fat proprietor lookâ€" ec in from an adjoining room but failâ€" ed to recognize Mary in her evening attire, apparently, and slipped back. Oils which froth when burning, such as fuel oil, crude oil and lubricating oil, are the most easily extinguished with water. The Bureau of Mines has worked out a method which has proven satisfactory. Bowen grinned. "The reason we‘re Cining in this dump tonight instead of in a joint that would fit those swell clothes of yours is that I‘m cating off the cuff this week." The old belief that an oil fire canâ€" not be fought with water has given way before the advance of the science of fireâ€"fighting, and in these days, with proper procedure, oil fires may be exâ€" tinguished with water. _ The whole question is one of technique and the nature of the oil which may be burnâ€" ing, says "The Washington Star." The water used is sprayed lightly and in small quantity on the burning surface in order to accelerate the forming of froth. This layer of froth serves to form a blanket which keeps ovygen from the oil and frequent inâ€" termittent applications of water gradâ€" ually cools the oil below the flash point. Great care is necessary, of course, in extinguishing a fire in this manner, for too rapid and too forceful application of the water would cause the oil to burn over the sides of whatâ€" ever barrier were keeping the fire conâ€" fined. Perennials planted in the autumn, or where it has been found that losses have occurred in previous seasons through winter killing need some proâ€" tection. In most cases the damage is caused through heaving by the action of the frost in the ground and the conâ€" sequent exposure of the roots to the elements. Mike, the waiter, totalled up the biil, scribbled on a pad, and laid the sheet of paper face down on the table. Bowen picked it up and prepared to sign it. His face changed color as hs read. He handed it to Mary. "The Fly is here," she read. (To be continued.) In the case of distillates with low flash point, such as gasoline and keroâ€" sene, the procedure is quite different. When these petroleum products are burning the water to be used is apâ€" plied in a very fine spray or fog over the burning surface and so dilutes and cools tha vapor air mixture that it is brought below the flash point. Plants set out this Fall should be gone over after frosty nights and made firm again in the ground, until the ground freezes up for the Winter, when a layer of leaves or straw should be placed over them and kept in position with branches or other maâ€" terial. Do not on any account cover the plants with stable manure, this might be placed on the bed away from the plants if the soil did not receive fertilizer before planting. For perenâ€" nial clumps that are established, a few branches, preferably spruce or other evergreen, will be sufficient protection with the snow whch they will collect. Do not be in too great a hurry to reâ€" move any covering in the spring, as much of the damage to the smaller and shallow rooting varieties is done at that time of the year when the frost heaves the plants during the night and the sun and air gets at the roots during the day,. Water Now Used to End Oil Fires Scientifically "I must tell you about going to a big, allâ€"day picnic," writes a woman from Ontario. "I thought I couldn‘t go because I had nothing fit to wear and couldn‘t afford a new dress, The day before, the druggist showed me a wonderful new tint powder made by the people who make Diamond Dyes which I have often used in dyeing dark colors. These new Diamond Tints, he explained, are the same high quality as Diamond Dyes. The difâ€" ference is they are for light shades and don‘t require boiling. I bhad a dress, left from last year, which faded and was so streaked and ugly I was ashamed to wear it. I decided to try Diamond Tints on it. I just dissolved the powder in the rinse water, and the dress came out the loveliest green! 1 got to the picnic after allâ€"and everyâ€" body said my dress was the prettiest one there, thanks to these new Diaâ€" mond Tints." Protect Perennials Now For Spring Flowering 15¢ «The prettiest dress at the picnic‘ everybody said AT AlLl DRVUG STORES <iO0 ARCHIVES TORronto Street to be Named After Womanâ€"Soldierâ€"Other Notes from Hungary _ In Ujpest, a part of the Hungarian capital, a street is shortly to be named the Maia Leibstueck Utcza, in honor of a woman who played a noble part in the Hungarian revolution of 1848â€"49. Born at Agram, in Croatia, Maria Leibâ€" stueck was only eighteen, years of age at the time of the outbreak in Vienna, but she interested herself on the libâ€" eral side in that incident and fled to 'Budupnst. There she became so proâ€" minent and appreciated among the _soldiers that she received the title of first lieutenant in the Hungarian Army, and was everywhere known as "Oberleutenant Karl." Serving under lthe famous general, Goergey, she took | part in the siege of Buda, and was |later imprisoned. On the resumption .ot peace, shoe was set free and settled , down in Ujpest. The citizens of Budaâ€" | pest, by their present action, show |their public recognition of a patriotic and courageous woman l Siam, an elephant brought by Naâ€" , poleon I from Egypt to France, still 'llves on at the Budapest Zoo. The |French Emperor received Siam as a gift in Egypt and took it back with |him to Paris; but it was such a wild |animal that it was a constant source of trouble. Almost as much out of a Isense of relief as of friendliness, Naâ€" :polpon handed on the elephant to his ifalhor»in-law, Franz I of Austria. | When it arrived in Vienna, it was placed in the Schoenbrunn Zoo, but its wildness was not to the liking of the Austrian authorities who, in turn, sent it to the Hungarian capital, where it has lived ever since. Siam is now about 150 years old, and bears few ,tra('es of its former energetic beâ€" , havior. It now spends most of its |time begging money from visitors. 'With this it buys bread and other ‘delicadeq for itself Recently, attenâ€" j tion has been attracted to it in the | press, and Parisian papers have sugâ€" | gested that Siam should be brought _back to the French capital Budapest Honors Woman Patriot This autumn, twelve natural scientâ€" ists and others plan to leave Budapest for Burma, where the expedition will investigate the racial characteristics of the Shans, a mountain tribe living in remote sections of that country. During the war, a Hungarian prisoner of war in Siberia escaped and made his way homeward via Vurma. In his travels he encountered the Shans, who treated him kindly, and further invesâ€" tigations into their customs, culture, music and folklore indicated a close connection between them and those of the ancient Mag=.rs (Hungarians). HMe will accompany the new expediâ€" tion, which will also carry on cultural researches in the upper reaches of the Ganges, Trawaddy and Mekong Rivers, during the next three years. Hitherto, racial and other connections have been discovered by scientific investiâ€" gators, between the Magyars and the Finns, and a few small tribes in the Ural Mountains, but it is now hoped that results of farâ€"reaching importâ€" ance in the linking up of the chain of early Magyar wanderings will be obâ€" tained. Two institutions which played an imâ€" portant part in the preâ€"war social life of Budapest have been affected by the economic crisis. One is the palace of the Count Eugen Karatsonyi in Buda â€"an imposing baroque mansion with a fine private theatre and a splendid park. Here, in former days, King Edâ€" ward VII, while Prince of Wales, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and many politically and socially prominent perâ€" sons, were often to be seen. Count Karatsonyi was at that time one of the richest magnates in Hungary, but now the house has been sold to meet the claims of the creditors. The other old landmark was the "Hangli" cafe, once the rendezvous of the old nobility. Here one might often see Count Khuenâ€"Herervary, a former Premier, Count Stephan Tihza, Count Albert Apponyi, and others, priorâ€" to their leaving to take part in the parliamentâ€" ary debates. The "Hangli," with its fine girdle of trees, provided a pleasâ€" ant shade in summer and a protection from the rain in winter, while the view across the Danube to Buda and the castle made it very attractive. It is now closed and it has yet to be deâ€" cided whether a promenade or an arâ€" cade will replace it. Roman Ruins Uncovered Archaeological remains of great imâ€" portance, unearthed during the digâ€" "CALADA ORANCE PEKOE BLEND Old Landmarks Disappear Hungarians Off to Burma Napoleon‘s Elephant ”chs-hh’rom the Gardens TEA ging out of sites for new buildings, rather than through specially planned scientific investigations, continue to‘ be found in Hungary, especially near the capital, From them, much ltghtl on the history o. the earliest Magyars , and of the Roman occupation is beinxs thrown. Only recently, when some old buildings were being demolished‘ on the Pest side of the River Danube, an old Turkish structure of the sixâ€"‘ teenth century was uncovered ; below' this a cemetery of the time of Arpad. tenth century, and still lower, the northern wall of a Roman watchtower, built by the legion which occupled[ Aquincum near by, in the time of lhel F lay _ wa. ctzitan Leaves talked in the tree "It will be," Wind with lifted tune "Soon," A squirrel shook the bough "Quick," "Now." squirrel ranged, Just as it stood. Wind, on fallen key, ‘It had to be"; Leaves drift through the wood When a factory moved ninetyâ€"four miles by truck and railway over night recently its production was continued without interruption. The plant was carried from London (England) to Paddington by truck at the close of the working day, then by rail to Chip penham. Included were 750 tons of machinery and more than 100 emâ€" ployees and families and their furniâ€" ture. Coal Age Trees 50 Ft. High Giant trees were features of the coal age, weird growths fifty feet high and a foot thick, and others just as strange with swordâ€"like leaves. "Aspirin" is a tradeâ€"mark registered in Canada. is detdnndc tss es t ts Ad P Emperor Diocletian. â€" The Christian Science Monitor. Branch is not changed: Stands the high stairway where the Aspirin tablets have other important usesâ€"all described by the proven diâ€" rections in each box. Look for that name Aspirin on the boxâ€"every time you buy these tabletsâ€"and be safe. Don‘t accept substitutes. Costa Rica Eats Lily Bread Lily bread has become the standard in Costa Rica for five years. It is made of yucea, a plant of lily type with heavy roots that has a high starch conâ€" tent. So it is needless to suffer from headache, toothache or neuralgia, The pains of sciatica, lumbago. rheumaâ€" tism or neuritis can be banished comâ€" pletcly in a few moments. Periodical suffering of women can be soothed away; the discomfort of colds can be avoided. Aspirin will dispei any pain. No doubt about that. One tablet will prove it. Swallow it. The pain is gone, Relief is as simple as that. No â€" bharmful afterâ€"effects _ from Aspirin, It never depresses the heart, and you need never hesitate to make use of these tablets. Factory Moves 94 Miles Resumes Work Next Day "Mow do you remember to water the plants while your wife‘s away in the country?" By keeping ‘em in the bath tub relieved P A | N ISSUE No. 39â€"‘32 instantly â€"Geoffrey Scott, "Poems." Return Airship and Plane Lines Stuttgart.â€"Professor Pirath of the ‘aeronuutical department of the Stuttâ€" | gart Institute of Technology, who has | made a detailed survey of the possiâ€" ‘bilities of developing regular trans«â€" !contlnenml and transoceanic airlines along the "air highways of the world" , would not only be profitable but would ‘produce a surplus sufficient to cover | the deficits of the present continental ‘commercial airplanes i Me proposes to run dirigibles on the ‘lines from Europe to India, Australia, \South and North America, as the volâ€" ‘ume of trafflic on these lines is large 'enouzh for the bigger payload caâ€" 'plclty of airships, while airplanes, he ,holdn, will be sufficient on the lines from Europe to the Far East and 10 ‘South Africa. Unfelt Jars Affect Sighnt A discovery that human eyes aro subject to unfelt jare which cause them sometimes to see intermittent» 1y like the shutter of a movie camera, was reported by Dr. Milton Met~ fessel, of the +«University of Southâ€" ern California, who credited the disâ€" covery to Dr. Wichart, his assist. ant. The looker does not realize he is seeing intermittently. The effect is called stroboscopic seeing "The jarring from walking," said Dr. Metfessel, "motions of the jaw in talking or vibrations set up by an aeroplane motor,. can produce interâ€" mittent vision. Under certain conâ€" ditions the puilsing of blood in and about the eyes can produce the same effects, Pleasant Odors f Improve Eyesight Pinch on Hand Also Has Efâ€" fect Says U. S. Psychologist Mussolini leaves nothing to chance or diet. He evidently likes fat women, so an edict has gone forth that Italian woâ€" men "shall return to more generous lines," and, says The Observer (Lon» don), "in this ‘new crusade‘ it is hoped that the gracious models of the great master painters of Italy will be brought to life." "Titian painted the plump ones, bu! some people prefer Botticelli, whose maidens are as slim and long1gged &« any emaciated damsel of toâ€"day; while while the Virgins and angels of th« Sienese school, with their angalai bodies and enigmatical eyes, look as though they lived fasting. "Because the Duce, like Cacsar, ‘likes men (and women) about him that are fat, he fancies that womanâ€" hood to be ‘real‘ must be , ‘curved.‘ Probably the scraggy laidies of medie val Italy eyed their wellâ€"covered sis ters with envy, and the plump ones, for all their slimming, remained fatter ‘than the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe whart‘." Liberty is not the right to choose evil, but the right of choice between the various paths that lead to good.â€" Growth of Love Love, instead of being weakened, is strengthened and deepened by being widened.â€"Dr. Philip Schaff, Sees Profit in Long Haul Women of Italy Ordered To Put on Weight Back 0 r words, a person seeming. ed in some â€" needed talent ace part of this lack by some other part of his beâ€" T ones, but UO¢ 44444944 De Sunda