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BRITISH WHIG 918T YEAR. Th BE EB - td EE | EEE Peblished Dafly and Semi-Weekly b THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISRING €0,, LIMITED J. M. Campbell ....... Leman A. Guild veess Presi cease Editor snd Managing-Director TELEPHONE Oftice ........ ersertan Rooms ......- pe SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) 20 me year Im CIty ...c.caiainan sl Se Ty Pd ny to rural offices, $3.50 Une year, to United States ........ (Semi-Weekly Edition) Ome year, by mail, avn ss Bl0 One year, io United States $32.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥. W. Thompson King St. W., Toronto. Letters to fitop' are published only over ni mame of the re Attached ia ome of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Ofroulations And another spring sign is "fresh paint." The cheaper the car, the more happiness it holds. The man who wants to do nothing never runs short of assistants. An ugly man is a mighty sight better looking than a pretty man. You must meet your expenses if you expect to meet your friends. Cynic's motto for married people: "United we stand--each other." Be careful about what you want because you are liable to get fit, Any man can make a success if he has enough chances to practice on. A true optimist is one who can find beauty even in a half-chewed cigar. It isn't the tea that gets a man's goat at these afternoon affairs, but the tee-hee. It the world doesn't believe In you it's probably because you don't belleve in you. Human nature is what makes you knock your town while in it and fight for it when away. Another advantage that Adam had. Eve couldn't theaten to go home to her mother, A college man's rule of correct "dress for all ocoasions: The best clothes his roommate has. The man who is In the habit of giving three cheers for himself usu- ally gets exactly three cheers. A waggish doctor of our acquain- tance speaks of his "medi-kill" pro. tession. How's that for candor?' Marry in haste and repent. Take your time and probably she will not wait for you, What's the answer? ep t------ A man can lay no claim to pro- minence these days unless he has been sued for divorce at least omce. Listening to a banquet speech, one can sometimes guess what the sub- Jéct 1s, but seldom what the object is. The expert blame-shifter and cre- dit-taker is another form of animal life that the world could get along without. a rp Correct this semtemce: "Yes, offi- ger, I suppose I was exceeding the speed limit and I guess I deserve to be fled." 5 tt. Some day we will read about light- ning striking a tax collector's office and say the applause sounded like thunder. io Fable: Once upon a time there Was a mere man who knew the dif. ce between purple, lavender and Reliotrope. ' "Seeing by radio soon possible." And perhaps they'll some day get it to the point where we can hear satisfactorily by it, 3 BIBLE THOUGHT PURE RELIGION and un- defiled before God and the Fr is this, To visit the father and widows in their affliotion, d to keep himself unspotted from the world.--James 1:27. THE HOME FOR THE AGED. | The directors of the city's house of refuge, which during the past few years has cared for the aged poor oF} Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington, have found it necessary to increase the weekly rate to the counties owing to the fact that a de- fieit of five thousand dollars has ace cumulated through capital expendi- ture and increased cost of mainten- | ance. Originally the city's home cared | for the poor of the three counties tor | $2.50 a week. Then the rate went up to $4 a week. Lately the rate was raised to $6 a week. Lennox and | Addington accepted the new rate, but the Frontenac council has decided to wash its hands of the burden of car- ing for its aged poor, has repealed. the bylaw, and thrown back upon the township councils the respon- sibility of looking after their own indigents, The Kingston home is sufficient to care for the poor of the adjoining municipalities and will no doubt con- tinue to be used for the purpose under a working agreement with the directors of the home, The directors have no desire to make the institu- tion a profit-making concern. King- ston, of course, has first claim upon it, and when the rate of four dollars | per week has proven insufficient to | cover the cost per inmate, there must | necessarily be an increase. While | the directors have fixed six dollars a | week as the new rate, the outside municipalities will not really pay this | amount, as they wil] be given credit for the Ontario government grant | which comes to the home. This grant amounts to ten cents a day or seventy | cents a week for each inmate, so that | the weekly charge would be only $56.30 a week. | It is the directors' attention tol have a careful Investigation made as | toc the city's capital investment in the institution and the exact cost of maintenance. Should this prove to | be lower than the first estimate, the | counties will be charged accordingly. Kingston's home for the aged has the | reputation of being one of the best conducted in Ontario. The old folks are splendidly cared for and royally entertained, as weekly reports in the press will show. It is an. institution of which the city may be proud. REST IS RUST. What is nobler from the tongue of man than, "Let me dfe in the har- ness?" Could the poet better ex- press love of living and love of work, which is life? Thoughtless youth, which works at its play but has not yet learned | how to make play out of work, likes to dream of the age of retirement. It talks of the years of labor between youth and maturity as life's penalty and as years which should be Bwift in passing, No man is successful until he has learned to love his work and no man who loves his work could desert it after work and worker have made the climb to the top together. Find the man who is Impatient for a time when he can retire to a life of indol- ence and inaction and you generally find a man who has not succeeded in life. At the age of 90 years Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- vard University, refuses to step out of the harness, At the age of 35 he assumed the task of aiding in the education of a few hundred students of Harvard University. To-day at 90 he retains a share of the greater re- sponsibility of educating tie English speaking world. While lesser men diminish their burdens as the years advance, Dr, Eliot augments his. Thomas Edison, 77 years old, keeps on inventing, spending his days in his private laboratory or his fac- torfes, planning new conquests in electricity and boyishly hoping for successes. Henry Ford, past 60, plans greater industrial empires and like Edison is content with one short vacation a year. History is signifie- antly shy of poets, writers, painters, sculptors and political leaders who refused to permit anything but death {tself to end their worldly work. There are three classes of workers --those who hate all work, those who have not found their life's work and those who have found their work. Those of the first classification work with retirement as their sole aim. Under the second classification will be found some who will never find their vocation and will retire from work as soon as possible and others who will find their life's work and work at it until the end of life. Un- der the last classification are none but those who live in their work and will work as long as they live. For many years it has been the custom of the farmer to retire into the towns at middle age and financial independence. The result has been that the retiring farmers have not been contented with their inactivity and soclety has suffered through ten- nant farming and {dle farms. Many question the advisability of com- mercial and industrial retirement rules which do not recognize earning power after the retirement age. _ There {& an adage which reads, "the man who retires after years of active wark only because his fortune will permit will not long enjoy the fortune which permitted him to re- tire." The adage must be taken for what it is worth, but it containg muth | food for thought, | may now | "pommes de terre," soup "potage, | "champignons,'" ete. TH FRENCH MENU VANISHING. A Cleveland reporter, struck. by | the absence of French names from | the bills of fare of high-priced rest- | aurants which used to employ them | 80 extensively in describing their | dishes, has interviewed the proprie- tors of some of them. He learns that | the public dislikes foreign names for viands for which there are good Eng- ish equivalents and that the restau- rateurs are yielding to the wishes of their patrons. It is another {llustra- tion of the fact that French is passing as the language of polite soclety, and that English is coming into its own. The French have always been not- ed for thelr cooking. In the days of Louis XIV, 'the grand monarch," they regarded it almost as a fine art. This probably accounts in part for the use of French names on menu cards, But there was something more behind it. For several cen- turies after the conquest of England by the Normans in 1066, French was the language of the English court, and this established a tradition that | has survived down to the present-- | the tradition that French is a refined language, and English, the tongue of the 'common people," a vulgar one. And so eating house keepers who sought to cater to the elite have thought {t desirable to give French names to their dishes. It is time that the ridiculous and snobbish idea be- hind the custom was abandoned. Some French names for fodd which supplanted the Anglo-Saxon equiva~ lents after the Norman conquest be- came so firmly established that their foreign origin has been forgottem. "Beef," '"'veal," "mutton" and "pork" areexamples. There are other names, more recent acquisitions, | | which still have an exotic flavor, such | the trouble, but feels that he hardly as "consomme," "bouillon" and | "mayonnaise," but which have come | into such common usage that they | be accepted as English | words. No one will object to their being used on menu cards. There is no reason, however, why | restaurant men should call potatoes "| cheese '"fromage,"' mushrooms The public Is wise in asking that dishes be given names which every- one can understand. + PICKING A WINNER. The Montreal Herald recalls the fact that some time after Mr. Ernest Lepointe made his first appearance in the House of Commons twenty years ago, the late Tom Owen, former edi- tor of Hansard, picked out Mr. La- pointe as one of the big men in Can- adian politics. Nobody paid much attention to Mr. Lapointe in those days, but Mr. Owen, through his long acquaintance with the character of the men in politics, recognized the marks of ability and character in Mr. Lapointe and said the time would come when he would be leader for Quebec province in the house. Mr, Owen did not live to see his prediction fulfilled, but it has been fulfilled during the present session. Since Sir Lomer Gouln resigned, Mr. Lapointe, now the minister of jus- tice, has been the recognized lea- der of the Liberals of the province of Quebec, and his qualifications for that position were amply demon- strated in the inspiring speech he delivered on the address from the throne. That speech was in a way a sort of a duel of ideas with the Hon. Arthur Meighan, and the re- sult was certainly a victory over the leader of the opposition. In his campaign during the past winter and in his speeches in the house, Mr. Meighen has endeavored to create a feeling of distrust in the King government. He has repre- sented Canada as on the road to ruin as a result of the Liberal ad- ministration, Mr, Lapointe com- batted the arguments and insinua- tions of Mr. Meighen! He showed that Canadian commerce, far from declining, is expanding every month, and as further instances of the pro- gress being made under the King regime he showed that Canada has a favorable balance of trade with foreign countries; that she had been able to absorb easily the loans is- sued by the goverment; that the number of commercial failures had diminished and that the Canadian dollar had been brought back pretty near to its old standard, He further showed that Canadian exports had been increasing under the Franco-Canadian trade treaty carried out by the present govern- ment, and he showed that the Cana- dian government had also taken the right attitude im regard to partici- pation in the Anglo-Turk disagree- ment. Mr. Meighen declared at the time that the King' government ought to have sald "We are ready to £80 to war with the Turks," but Mr. Lapointe was able to quote as against this the statement of the late Bonar Law who afiirmed that the appeal to the dominions was a piece of folly. : Mr. Lapointe's speech was one of optimism backed by facts to support that optimism. Mr. Meighen's speech, on the other hand, was one of pessi- mism backed by arguments which Mr. Lapointe showed would not bear examination" Of the two speeches, the house showed unmistakedly its approval of that by Mr. Lapointe. which was a message of hope, of confidence, of life and of progress. Not looking where you are going! | cure. | by logical persuasion he appeals to may cause that ; Tun-down feeling. } By James WW. Barton, M.D, Ministers and Priests as Physicians There was an article in the paper the other day stating that in Lon- don, England, they were establishing a clinle for sick people, and that half the staff would be physicians, and the other half ministers or priests. I could not help but realize how much like a minister or priest the average physician must be, and also how much Illke a doctor is the priest or minister. And so this clinic should be wonderful success. To such a clinic will come all clas- ses of sick people / The slek individuals with some form of nervous ailment will be the most numerous, Because there will actually be some form of nervous trouble due to an organic disturbance, or else an ailment due to some outside or ingide emotional disturbance. And so after the physician makes all his tests, and can.find nothing, the minister or priest will take him over, and by sympathetic questions will often be able to find out the origin of the trouble. Many a man will be frank with a minister of his own denomination, and will unbo- som himself in a way that he would not do with a physician. If a min- ister can get the original cause of knows enough to help him, he can quite properly hand his information over to the physician to complete the The physician finding no or- ganic. trouble, finds himself up against a stone wall. The minister or priest breaks it down for him. He then brings the man around to the point by suggestive questions. Then the reasoning powers of the indlvi- dual to get his complete cure, As I said In a former article every one of these cases where the person is not really insane, but has a his- tory of nervous breakdowns, sleep- lessness, (irritability, forgetfulness, lack of concentration, morbid ideas about himself and life in general, has been produced by some one thing, weeks, months, yes, years, be- fore. Just what it was must be discov- ered by the minister or physician, and the work of reconstruction of the man's ideas and outlook must start from this point Mental disturbances are more fre- quent than ever before In the world's history. The war, our hurried Nves, the speed of everything, makes the keep- ing of the balance a bit more diffi- cult than ever before. But_it must be admitted that the treatment of these nervous or mental cases is on a more solid basis than ever before, y And the cures are as frequent as the cures of the ordinary physical ailments. a ---- MONEY AT WORK Brief but Important Lessons In Finance, Markets, Stocks, Boads and Investments Over a long period of time the wealth of the world mounts up at much less than 3 per cent. com- pounded semi-annually. Why? Be- cause wars destroy so much. Similarly, the average investor finds his wealth accumulating very slowly because he loses large sums grabbing for high yields. "In both cases a slow and sure course would show highly profit. able results in the long run. Often it is the hurry to accumulate that leads nations into war and the average individual into trying for unsafe high ylelds. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise still holds true. If a man is inclined to be a tortoise them, there is mo reason for him to imi- tate and envy the hare, becaiise most of the hares never "get there." Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of sll actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other peo- ple--~John Selden, EARLY BIR All the early birds are not in the trees. Our new Suits are surely some birds to stimulate early buy- ing. We are offering some of these early birds at particularly at- tractive, prices. at $29.50 at $25.00 A very dassy range of light, med- A very fine quality pure wool Her ringbone Serge in rich shades of Blue or Brown. All new models. jum shaded of Tweeds in Plaid and Herringbone patterns--two and three button styles. at $29.50 at $25.00 Real nice range of Tweeds in soft Fine quality, Pencil Stripes, Blue and White, Brown and White and Blue and Green. All new models. at $14.75 We offer something particularly good for the price -- neat pattern, good styles--Men's and Young Men's models. BIBBY'S | WHY THE WEATHER? | SecFetary, American Meteorological Society, Tells How. pnd Why We Need Barometers. We, personally, are much better equipped to act as thermométers than as barometers. readily recognize even a modérate change in temperature without con- sulting a thermometer, Yet when it comes to percelving ordinary wea- ther pressure changes, we must call the barometer to our assistance. The ear drum, it is true, proves quite a} delicate mechanism for detecting] sudden pressure change. But while! the drum of an aneroid barometer has a partial vacuum behind it and is increasingly bent in by increasing pressure, our ear drum has air on both sides. Air reaches the outside) of the drum membrane directly through the outer ear, but is sup- plied to the inner side of the drum less directly through a small tube léading from the throat. If the pres- sure ohanges slowly there is time for the change to be transmitted to the inner side, equalizing the pres- sure so that the drum is not bent. If, however, the alr in the outer ear is suddenly compressed, as when we enter a tunnel in a subway | train, the drum membrane is push- ed inwards sharply and the increased pressure is very plainly felt, Quick pressure changes in a train passing through a tunnel may amount to that of eight hdndredths of an inch of mercury. Similarly the decrease in pressure experienced when rising rapidly in an elevator will some- times: cause enough bulging of the ear drums to be felt. Going up 20 feet, or about two stories, will mean |\ a decrease of two hundredths of an |ihe World War and because it may inch. Though with the approach of' pg gaid that the way to prevent an- a vigorous storm the mercury baro-| sther such war is to have mo more meter may fall a whole inch. or more | yaisers, The Kaiser may have start- in 24 hours, we fail to perceive it. oq the war, but he did not fight it. For in this case a half hour instead |p; wag fought by millions of men. of a few seconds is required for 4.8 They will fight again if aroused, decrease In pressure of two hufifl-| kaiser or mo Kaiser. Nations that Teqths of an inch. want peace--that have much to pro- tect that war would destroy--must learn! that the question of war or peace is decided by the strong. The policeman is a peace officer. His function is to preserve order. No city is secure without a police force. No country is safe without the means to defend itself quickly and mightily. 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