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The Constant Nymph BY MARGARET KENNEDY The reading of "The Constant Nymph," is like put- ting out to sea in a small boat, and going with swilt, firm strokes of the oars to a place populated by strange minds and no manners It is a story of the ever-in- creasing clash between conventions and inconventional Souls, but it is done with such a sure touch and such quaint charm. Reading this novel is a new experience which is as stirring as it is fascinating, and all who like new! ex- periences will enjoy its vivid skill, R. Uglow & Co. Hard Wood Choice Body Hardwood. Soft Mixed Wood. Kindling and Slabs, DELCO.LIGHT power for coun. and Small towns, W. C. CANNON 164 Barrie St. 'Phone 1158), Electric try homes, it and PETER PAN GRAMOPHONES Made in England This is one of the smallest machines made and can be fold- ed up into a small box no larger than an ordinary camera. This is no toy but a high class Gram- ophone--with perfect tone and plays any size record. $25.00 Just the things for Camps, Mo- tor Boats, Canoes. Kinnear & d'Esterre JEWELLERS 168 PRINCESS ST. SOLE AGENTS JORBING WORK A SPECIALTY Brick, Stone, Plastering and Tile Setting Douglas & Mcllquham " OONTRACTORS If you think our doctrine of laugh- | ter is right | And yet you find nothing to laugh | at in sight, | Just glance in the mirror up over the shelf, Take one look, and have laugh at yourself. a good ells "Em. Lorraine: "Do you believe in | fairy tales?" | Genevieve: "No; but my husband seems to think I do." --Eleanor Levis. | i He | No Fun In That. "May I go to the movies, mo- "Why, Lester, you went to the movies yesterday, and you know we never let you go more than once a week." "I know, but yesterday hadn't ought to count. That was an edu- cational movie that teacher said we ought to see." And Yet Practice Makes Perfect. Mrs. Dennis: "Does your daugh- ter smoke in public?" Mrs. Potter: 'No, holding secret practise." ~--Mrs. Louis J. Buehler. she's still Some men make hay while the sun shines while others make trouble while the moon-shines! If They Had Written for the Confes- sional Magazines. Daniel DeFoe "The world will never know how I Ceceived it,'"'sald Robinson Cru- soe. "Friday was not a man, but a woman. If I can save someone else from taking the dangerous path, this confession will not be in vain. It was a desert island, and I was starved for love when I saw her lit- tle footprint in the sand...." . . . Charles Dickens "I am dying," sobbed Little Nell. "Be good to my little bird when 1 am gone--my little bird, that the pressure of a finger would crush! It is all I have, now that the man 1 loved and trusted has deserted me." i . * . Lew Wallace "Kiss me!" commanded Ben Hur, "or get out of my chariot and walk!" I could have screamed! It was pitch dark, and four miles to Rome. «Judith Bender. The Music Department. . » . Furnishing A Punch. Bliss: "How was that ghost story you heard on the radio?" Kiefer: "It was the most realis- tic thing imaginable. On account of interference there were weird shrieks and howls at the most thrill ing parts." -- Laurette Simpkins. . . . Piqued. Olive: "Did you have a good time at the party?" Millie: 'All but our musical friend. She brought her music port- folio along, but nobody asked her to play." --K. H. F. A Musical Family. Father is so beautifully henpeck- ed that he works the soft pedal when his wife {8 around. Mother is certainly referring to the stupidity of her husband and says she has to drum things into him. 3 The older daughter is a particu- larly close observer and makes notes of everything she sees. The daughter next in line is a con- ceited little thing and ' trumpets forth her own praises all the time. The older son is full of the charms and graces of the girl he loves, and harps on a single string. The son next in line is the whole noise in a club of politicians he be- longs to and runs the organ of the association. And then there's a thirsty ser- vant in the family who has a sneak- ing fondness for a horn. ~-N. M. Levy. Trying Period. | 'Music Teacher: "You'll be able to ay in time; if fyou only have pa- kPupli: "1 have plenty of tt, but jot so sure about the rest of * »=Dorothy Ullmaa. Brawley Is Given Benefit of Doubt Found Not Qulity of Robbing Millan's Grocery--Martell Repudiates Confession. Ross Brawley, charged with break- ing into Millan's store on the night of April 15th, and stealing some money and a number of packages of cigarettes, appeared before Judge H. A. Lavell on Friday afternoon and was found not guilty of the charge. Judge Lavell, in discharging the prisoner who had been confined to the county jail for the past week, stated that he had a grave 'suspicion that he was guilty of the charge and the evidence might warrant a com- viction, but he had decided to give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. Judge Lavell stated that if the evid- ence of Thomas Smith, who testified for the prosecution, had been cor- roborated, it would have been a dif- ferent matter. His honor was satis- fled that Smith was telling the truth when he stated that he saw the two men on the night in question. He also stated that if Constable Garritty had been absolutely certain that the two men he saw were Ross Brawley and George Martell, the latter now serving a six months sentence, hav- ing pleaded guilty to theft, he would certainly have found the prisoner guilty. George Martell went into the wit. ness box and stated that Brawley was with him the night he entered Millan's store, and alsd Ris signed confession regarding Brawley, were not true. He also stated that the man who was with him that night was a man by the name of Hender- son. Judge Lavell stated that by Mar- tell going into the box and denying the evidence which he had given in the police court certainly weakened the case for prosecution. The judge stated, however, that the evidenca of Martell did not have much weight with him. Thomas Smith, night watchman for the C.S.L., Canada Steamship Lines, swore that he saw the two men, whom he stated were Brawley and Martell, hanging around in vie- inity of Millan's store, on the night of robbery. Constable Garrity also stated that he saw two men, but he was not so certain of their identity as the previous witness. Sergeant Marshall Armstrong told of a couple of conversations he had with Mar- tell while he was in the police cells, when he stated that Brawley had asked him to tell a different story from that which he told when he pleaded guilty to the charge. Mrs. Brawley and a young man by the name of James Wright testified that on the night of the robbery Ross Brawley had gone over to Hoag's drug store about seven o'clock; that he had returned home soon after and had not left the house again that night. The prisoner, when put in the box by his counsel, W. C. Hodgins, told a like story. ' Judge Lavell, in making his de- cision, stated that he did not put much stock in the evidence of James Wright as it was told in a "parrot like" fashion. It is understood that Crown at- torney T. J. Rigney 1s thinking of entering a charge of perjury against George Martell, as a result of him changing his story in court on Fri- day afternoon and swearing that when he said that Brawley was with him the night he entered Millan's store he was not telling the truth. ------------ Paris Pajama Outfit FE ey H WHIG WHAT ACCIDENTS CO! INDUSTRY EACH YE! Ontario Pays Over Six Millior Dollars--An Address Be=~ fore the Rotary Olub. "Accidents are costing industry in Ontario over six million dollars a year, but that is only part of the cost," said Mr. R. B. Morley, general manager of the Industrial Accident Prevention Afsociation, in an admir- able address before the members of the Kingston Rotary Club, at their luncheon in the British-American hotel on Friday. "There is the loss of wages by injured workers and the loss of production, but more than that there is the untold human suf- fering and misery. For instance, the average cost under compensation in Ontario, covering the loss of an arm, is $11,900, a leg at the thigh §$14,- 600, a hand 6,400, and an eye $3,- 100, but who can say how much suf- fering that loss has cost. The aver- age cost of the 402 fatal accidents last year was abeut $3,300 but you and I cannot, fortunately, fathom all the suffering bound up in those 402 funerals. Mr. Morley stated that employers have lately completed ten years un- der compensation in the province of Ontario and, in that time, there were 442,002 accidents reported to the Workmen's Compensation Board, in- cluding 3,983 fatalities. In that same period of ten years, there were 3,653 days, so that there was an average of over one death per day, in in- dustry in that time. During those same ten years the Workmen's Com- pensation Board has awarded 45,- 937,221.06 for injuries received in employment and this has been done at a cost of slightly over two per cent. for administration charges. In 1924 there were 58,675 accidents re- ported to the Workmen's Compensa- tion Board including 402 fatalities. A Liberal Act. The speaker told the story of the "Workmen's Compensation and Ac- cident Preventive," in a very inter- esting manner, and held the deep in- terest of the members of the club. He said that our act in Ontario is the most liberal in the world in its benefits to injured workers and their dependents, and this is a matter of which we may reasonably be proud, particularly as the rates of assess- ment paid by employers are not high, but are lower in many cases than in other places. Mr. Morley said that the pay roll represented by the employers in- cluded in the Industrial Accident Prevention Associations {is over $250,000,000, or a little in excess of two-thirds of the total pay roll in schedule 1, under compensation in this province. Need of Education. "Our work is two-fold," added the a speaker. We inspect plants for the purpose of correcting physical haz- ards and Interesting employer and employee in accident prevention, and We carry on a general campaign of publicity against preventable acci- dents. The inspectors of the asso- ciations are trained men, and their work takes them into the plants of nearly every one of our 7,600 mem- ber companies every year. Their re- commendations vary accorllTig to the needs of the situation, and are based on the general rules and standards of the associations. These genéral rules and standards have been approved ' by the Workmen' Compensation Board under section 101, of the act, and the lieutenant- governor in council, and are there- fore law and enforceable as such. It is a fact, however, that compulsion is very seldom used, it being better business to use persuasion to secure results. Our inspectors realize that they are there to serve the employ- ers and, for this reason, we have adopted as the Xkey-note of our policy "Education and Co-operation rather than Legislation and Compul- sion." Mr. Morley remarked that it is a fact that a certain misgiving was felt when the act was first drafted by Me late chief justice of the province, it Leing thought by many that the settlement of c by a board in- stead of by the courts could not be satisfactory to either employer or employee. Ten years' experience, however, has shown that a Work: men's Compensation Act, administer- H I | gE Trunks x § ; i mE English Solid Lah -- $23.50, $25.00 ¢ We can supply Your: wan} from $7.00 to $20.00. Steam The Abernethy § SIMMONS' MATTI E For the Relaxation and Sleep Yo! We feature Simmons' tresses as you want to sleep wu ly vouch for. Delivered-to you in sealed carton. pon-----yet thelr eo would be obliged to pay for inferior grades that SEE OUR DEMONSTRATION ALL JAMES R THE LEADING UNDERTAKER. For Good Meals a | Best Service Eat VICTORIA | 354 King Street. . luncheon was the presentation by the club of a past president's pin to Mr. Lyster, the retiring president. The presentation was made by Leman A. Guild, who referred to the able man- ner in which Mr. Lyster had "carried on" during his term of office. # The president announced that the name of Rotarian A. M. Stroud had been added to the membership and sports committees. 'Rotarian Howard Kelly was ap pointed by the president to F sent the club at a meeting Ble Sor ne d Friday night. extended congratul fan George : a very high him by