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' elfare of | ; hn mouths a. unique Outpost Ua Sot 'al a unas | 3 Al 4 ; ust release o Red Cross for ahem, had at, an almost exclusively Jew ay six now out oberation in ti > number roughout: Canada| Provinces: of Al po i Eley 1928, these Seloaing. of 'suell 'hospitals to forty-four, sin the berta, Saskatchewan, Mautioba, New |by priest and nuns, with a local Red k. ™ Ontario and New Some ¢ [15,202 men, women and (chil. dren were treated in or through the "He past" year, with a death rate of a little ° itd one per To EAT Thos ie is 'recalled 'that many of 8 purses resident. in these attgtions. ave 3 kinds of acon int the aid of medical men, 7569 births occur- I've inthe 'outposts; while the out +! /post nurses | attended 180" women in tireir,- homes: for their confinements. JInjonly: 50 of: the, latter cases was there any medical = attendant, tbe nurses supervising successfully 130 _ maternity cases, 'In all frty-four out. posts' there is accommodation Tor 302 adult patients and for 64 children and 'during 'the past twelve months 1,557 operations; 1850 'of which were major, were performed by visiting surgeons. In-patients: pumbered « 4,367, while 9,898 out-patients came to the out-| posts' for medical or surgical care, Ag hospital' days of patients num- bered 47,202, in all the outposts over the entire year and among the many : other odd jobs done by the nurses in charge was the medical inspection of X 3,864 school children in 176 schools - or ~Ontario, where 112 health ks were also given, it may readily {1 Pe deduced tat: the Outpost nurse ~particularly perhaps in the 23 New Dutetle hoSpitals--has little time on ge er for Tost, or pleagure, : A are the 'shapes assum- » Outposts: © Some are ay Suds on the extreme frontiers 4 of settlement; some are well equip- pod, eight to twelved roomed hospi: An "irailiay: 'towns: where the |G. has, been glad to supply build-{ ing 'and 'equipment while "the Red Cros 88 ros Ora 12 operation; some are porary affairs in caboose or cabin : . such as thie one (conducted this year A at Woman Lake from June to Decems suber forthe intrekking miners and settlers; while still others may be fine néw buildings provided by muni , cipalities: or. districts but. under Red ! Goer 'management and partial sup 3 nse if ipwh 'outposts put in opera- ern Ontario this year, are situated at: Cos Hill, Redditt, Bon- bridge, while one has lsed. at Kakabeka Falls and heen ostad opened in January at Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan, and> another at Clair nurse was supplied i e North Bi section' and ¢ Crosg-car and nurse in the vicinity of Thunder Bay. It is not difficult to elon what the naked hands a for instance of but oll equipped and well "manmed" | with two intrepid nurses set ina dis- to meet all | Made and hung the curtains, besides CH Ed tt f tion ed n 1 ag a, municl ings eh the peop! to Il to the sup- | it is. found that ae obtained. Not port. of excellent French wand Catholic population ac- customed to centering all their ac- tivities about the church, were to be served. It was an experiment, bit with the able support of the project Cross. organization formed to under- take - the furnishin 0 supplied by the municipality, the out post was successfully launched. Every room was tastefully furnished and decorated by the women of the §éattle- ment. who murescoed the walls. paint: ed the woodwork, wove the rugs; raising 'money to buy all the furnish. ings. To-day this outpost {is the pride # as well as the: most highly |° treasured utility in Bonfield and the enterprise {3 no longer an experiment. Tre Red Cross outposts has demon- strated beyond the shadow of a doubt that every ' community wants and needs a small hospital; it has shown that one way to reduce maternal and infant mortality is: to provide pre- natal as well as natal and 'post natal' nursing care for the mother; it has rendered comparatively safe the set- tlement' in. remote districts which was onee so perilous a matter for the family of the.ploneer; and it 's going far to prove that the money invested by itself or communities which fina- nce outposts is: in the nature of a very profitable: investment. a aS V.O.N. Headquarters Supplies Nurses When five people undertook to re- mind the Victorian Order nurse in one of our western towns that she had lost. a 'button: from: the front of her uniform, it was time for: the nurse to write in to Central Office at Ottawa and "ask. for more," buttons to each Victorian Order nurse land 300 Victorian Order nurses across Canada equals 2,400 buttons and some extra ones for emergencies. Not only does Central Office in Ot- tawa supply the nurses in each of its forms: The! National Headquarters is the liasion, officer' between the ' Vic: toriany Order nurse and the Canadian public she serves so well. Bach local Victorian - Order district is largely autonomous, but receives guidance from Ottawa in matters of policy. The National Office also sets standards of sists through correspondence and hy mefal organizations. cently, in "yisits in ian homes, --~ ! Ti the Pine inside out and blind -- Bum oh even and a building] Eight bronze distriots ' with' button for their uni: service, provides supervision and as. visit in solving local problems and}. { "with other According to figures published re- fice, Victorian Or-| poo 8 made a total of , of id , 183,925 were to maternity cases. eo. ends after sing them into the pred 45 of the "garment. French seams and ; nin putting: in: sleeves; that method gives tod bunglesome an ap- pearance for to-day, so raw sleeve edges are eft alone to lie flat against the , unless the material frays top and | Sodlx snd vibe lon, more than ry fing thread. fis an Fagings are invisibly tack- ed, 'not beautifully -overcast to the materfal as they wers a while ago, presenting an inside figish of which the maker night be proud. . An fp- terior presented by this method now 'stafhps 'the effort as that of'aniama- teur unobserving.of modern ways in dressmaking. Fully three-quarters of the pains. taking work put on, the frock by. the average home dressmaker is not only unnecessary, but it actually 'stands between the frock and the chic to which the maker aspired. To-day it seems just as necessary to know what fiot to do as it 18 to know what to do! And any observing woman can learn much in this line by seeing what the! clothing manufacturers are" putting out. She will note, too, the part played by new materials, No matter how new is the cut of a frock, it looks out of 'date if the material employed is not up to the minute. Manufacturers are very careful, also, in the matter of suiting the material to the particular style they are reveloping. They know that the wrong material, one that is too heavy or too flimsy, too soft or too stiff; one. that will not drape where drapery 'is required or will not flont where an airy, dainty effect is desired, or plait where 'plaits are needed--in short, materials that will not give ex- actly the riglit expression to the par- ticular style being used--will ruin the frock utterly, But how is the home dressmaker to know all these things? How can she choose the right material for the froek she wants to make? : This infor- . mation has all been gathered for her With: Buttons . by 'the best pattern' manufacturers of « And. Other Things the day. Tn their costly laboratories expert dressmakers experiment with the actual materials and discover which of the new fabrics are .best suited to the new styles. So. the woman who makes her own clothes should choose a pattern for which this expensive experimental work hag been dome, for it will tell her just which materials will give her the best re- dings were once | Color, "too, has much to-do-in the making of a chic frock. Every per son, each season, has her best points, and color plays a large part in bring- ing these out and subduing undesir- abl charagterietics. For instance; beautiful eyes may be made more beautiful and 'éven.eyes of an indif- | ferent color may be given a glint the owner never dreamed possible, by just the right shade of the right color; A blue too brilliant will make even love: ly eyes look faded," while a softer shade will add to their blueness. It is difficult in an a limited market for the average woman to find ready-made a frock exactly the right shade of tha right color, which is also the right style. Unless she can be her, own dressmaker she is often embarrassed in finding what she needs, unless she is so fortunate as to look pretty in any pretty dress. There is no better way of selecting colors than the method followed in the ateliers of the great Paris cou- turiers. Here, the customer stands 'before a full-length mirror and drapes the end of a bolt of material around her face. Both she and the sales- woman study the effect of various colors against her face and learn, hy comparison, which brings out the hest points in her skin, hair and eyes. Of course, every stout woman knows that a white costume will add size to her appearance, while black and navy blues will diminish it. But she need not eenfine herself entirely to dark colors and shades of dark blue, dark gray, dark green and dark brown. By choosing the neutral shades of the season instead of tha vivid ones, and dull-surfaced fabrics of inconspicuous design instead of shiny materials with White Rule in East Africa Stephen Gwynn in the Fortnightly Review: Tutelage is only justified as a preparation for some period when tutelage will cease. But Africa withdrawal may be more easily centemplated because there is no per- manent settlement of white men. In ast Africa the problem is different; for apparently there are large regions where the European .can perpetuate his race, as at the Cape. From the standpoint of the native population, there is a strong case for maintaining a system fo indirect rule--directing, developing and devising native law and custom instead of abolishing them; and there is no likelihood that this: will be carried out with full re- gard for the native interest except un- mit herself a wider range of color fory a becoming frock than she had thought possible. - Contrary to the belief of the aver- age woman, color is as complicated a matter ag style. It requires constant study, for not only do the fashion: able tones change each season, but woman's . complextions and figures change, too, from season to season, One cannot assume that because a color was becoming at one period in one's life it is always a safe color to chooge. Nor is it wise to select a certain color because of its popularity alone, A shad2 that is exceedingly smart may do dreadful things to one's eyes, skin, hair and general figure. There was a time, and not so very far back, either, when the woman who so studied to have her frocks express her individuality was considered silly and vain, But to-day it is recognized that it is the woman of higheset in- an telfigence who is always well dressed. "It takes real intelligence," says one of the great dress designers in Paris, "to keep yourself so well informed that you can choose the few superla- tively good things that: you need each season. It takes charcter to buy noth- ing else, to forego charming but un- necessary, unsuitable or inappropriate things. It takes energy and foresight to keep your clothes neat, fresh and orderly, It takes unselfishness to make the unremitting effort to be at your best always for the sake of the added happiness that your charming clothes afford to those around you." Christian Seience Monitor, Indian Civil Service. mmgmopomin dpe In case any debate with Great Bri- tain over frontiers arises as the result of the Byrd explorations, there will be a hard, cold job ahead for a few sur- MUTUAL DESTRUCTION Jones: Brown: 'sharply outlined figures, she may per- veyors, day are ruining automobiles? in West der the rule of a bureaucracy like the The automobile is ruining the young people of the present day. Yes, but have you thought of how young people of the present "I McGill ~Uniiversity, Gover . ment, Paper Associatoins Unite to Solve Prob- lems na The development of the Canadian pulp and paper industry during the last decade is probably without par- allel in. the Industrial history of the world. Dr. A. Papineau-Couture, Do- minion analyst and laboratory chem- ist, Department of Health, Montreal, declares in a report to the American Chemical Society. « "It has brought Canada," he says, "from a position of secondary impnrt- tance to one of domination fn the newsprint field, with a production 70 per cent. greater than that of its ¢losest rival, the United States, which itself is far ahead of its nearestecom- petitor, "It is rather surprising, and .at the same time quite creditable, that it should have reached its present stage in spite of a most inadequate, almost negligent knowledge of the constitu. tion and properties of its basic raw material, wood. "This deficiency was keenly felt by the technical men. They showed the executive and financial leaders of the industry the necessity for filling this gap. The latter, with characteristic foresight and business acumen, rea lized the importance of fundamental, technical and mill research to the maintenance of the position attained in the course of the last few years. Three Agencies United "A plan was therefore carefully laid out for bringing together the threa essential agencies capable of carry. ing out such research--the university, the governmenc and the industry--co. ordinating their work so as to rake a homogeneous whole without useless duplication apd waste of effort. "As a result, we now have the Pulp and Paper Research [istitute; probe ably the only one of its kind in tha world wherein a large and powerfnl industry has aliied itself with the gaz. ernment and with a university ta carry on pure or fundamental re as well as technical and enging research, to solve the major proh'esms facing that industry. "The institute is a co-operative un- dertaking of McGill Unive %, tho Dominion Government and the Cana- dian Pulp and Paper Association. It is administered by a joint committee whose function is to co-operate and unify the work of the three active research organizations, Half Million Already Spant "Apart from the land, which belongs to the university and has been leased for a nominal sum, the undertaking represents a capital outlay of approxi- mately $500,000. Yet it comprises only the nucleus of what is seen as its future development. The construction is practically finished and the:work of installing the equipment is nearing completion. As soon aa the staff has haen brought up to the full strength decided progress should be made on the program which is being elaborated. "A start has already been made. Data are being collected on known physical and chemical evaluation methods. A unique feature of this work is that it is being conducted co-operatively with similar organiza- tio: + in the United States and in the chief pulp and paper making countries An Air View of Yachting Scene 00 ATT ENT iz Wr SAY in Europe with the ultimate view of adopting methods which may be offi cially recognized as standard in inter- national trade throughout the world." a The Australian Trade Victoria Times (Lib.): (Hon. James Malcolm has promised the lumbermen of British Columbia to consider subsidized steamship vice to Australia.) better transportation facilities is prompted by the much more favorable conditions under which the lumber. men of the United States are able to do business with the Antipodes. Large sums of money already have been expended by the United States Government on what officially are call. ed mail contracts; but it is no secret ser- sidized plying between American and Australian ports carry little mail. The rest of the cargo is made up of lum- ber ,which British Columbia mills na. turally think they should be selling to the sister Dominfons--which they think they would be able to sell in much larger quantities if they had better means of getting it to those markets. ----h British Settlers Britannia (London): No condem: nation of British political parties, no futile recrimination of the Canadian immigration policy, can hide the fact, patent to all observers in Canada, that the inclination of native Canadians is toward a firmer alliance with the Uni. ted States rather than any tightening of the tles with the Old. Country. Englishmen THE Tequest for" that in many instances ships so sub.