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"Latest Addition To Army of Robots Electrical Device Now An addition was recently made to the corps of robots which the New York Telephone Company has devel oped and put into service in the last fow years. Its function is to speed "up the service:given to telegrams that are dictated over the telephone, and it performs this function so efficiently that, on the average, only one second Passes from the time an incoming telephone call reaches the device to the time when a typist answers the call, ready to take down the telegram. All New York City telephone calls In which a person asks for Western Union are handled by this machine. The telephone operator connects the party desiring to send the, telegram with the receiving station of the es Western Union. There the call is . handled by the new receivinng unit, which can connect any one of the 120 incoming trunk lines with any one of the 110 operators who can _work at one time. In other words, this unit must select from the 110 telephones in the station ome which does not happen to be in use, and connect it with the trunk line on which the call has come in, If all the telephone operators are busy, it "stores" the call. The operator knows when a call is on her wire because she hears what is known as an "audible"--a tone like that which is heard on the ordinary dial telephone. She Im- mediately says "Western Union" and proceeds to type tthe telegram on the noiseless typewriter which is on her desk. What the device does, therefore, is to cut down the time re- quired to connect the party with a girl who is to take down his message and forward it. A visitor to the Company's new building would see no sign of the com- plicated machinery which is helping the girls there to handle the calls. All he would see would be groups of girls sitting at desks, their head-sets clamped on' and their transmitters dung ready, taking down the tele- grams as they came over the wires. The robot is on the floor above. It consists of a mass of wires, rotary switches, reldys, protective devices, timing circuits, ete., al! mounted on tall frames. One of the novel poits of the new equipment is a signal board which indicates, by names of colored lights, bow many of the operators are busy and -whether any calla are being forced to wait. ---- wn. cr Life Life's more than breath and the quick round of.blood; I is a great spirit and a busy heart, The coward and the small in soul scarce do live... . We live' in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths, In feeling, not in figures on a dial, We should count time by heart throbs, He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best, Life's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, things. Goll, .iv.. Upon thé summit of each mountain-- thought Worship thou God, _ pure From worldly taint by the repellent straogth Of virtue. Think on noble thoughts and deeds Bver. "Count o'er the rosary of truth; And practice precepts which are proven wise. Rt matters not then what thou fear- est, Boldly and wisely In that light thou hast; There is a hand above will help he on, --By Philip James Bailey. ---- A Motorist's Paradise Leipzig, Germany.--Motorists who Violate the ordinance against parking in front of the Gewandhaus during eoncerts now find, when they return to their cars not a summons to court, but a note reading: "New regulations govern the driv- ng up to, leaving or parking in front of the Gewandhaus. Your car was parked today in violation of these reg- ulations. You will find on the back of this notice a map showing the places where parking is possible, If mean, and end to all Keep thy spirit ~le - further information is desired please telephone the traffic department, No. ; This method has brought so encour- 5 & aging results and so much praise for Is to be extended to cover violations of parking ordinances generally, ee ee ein If your plano sits near either a 'radiator of a steam pipe running " , 12321, extension 257." the Leipzig Police Department that it Piano Health through the room, keep a couple of * "Mle tins under the piano full of water, be § i This givés the piano the necesSary = ""hoisture to keep it in good health, You will be surprised how quickly the pans dry out. Refill them often, ; -------- { Evidently the a buthing suit i odio © feiiiale wearer the more it . Bolds the man. oa - Talking lighthouses to tell saflors miles ont at sea just which lighthouse | they are watching, or even to enter tain these passing mariners with news of the day or weather forecasts or the latest song and dance hits, were predicted by O. H. Caldwell, former United States Radio Commissioner and now editor of Electronics, in a recent address to the Virginia Section of the American Chemical Society in Rich- mond, Virginia. The secret, Mr, Cald- well sald, is the modern process by which music, speech or any other sound may be "modulated" on a light beam much as radio programs are sent out on the beams of radlo waves from a broadcasting station. To the eye such a music-carrying beam looks quite as usual but if it is allowed to fall. on a photo-electric cell, properly arranged with vacuum tube amplifiers and other apparatus, the sound mes- sage on the light beam may be picked off and made audible, from a revolving lighthouse; "example, might be made to a definite note whenever its rays fall on a small photo-electric cell mounted on a ships bridge. Even the captain in his cabin thus would know, by the distinctive musical note of the beam, which light- 'house of several along a coast was then in sight. Such lighthouses now are distinguished by color or by the 'number and arrangement of flashes as the light revolves. The use of color necessitates decreased intensity of the light, since colored lights are not so bright as pure white ones. The recog- nition of lights by flashes requires considerable practice. It might be easier, Mr. Caldwell believes, to have each lighthouse Identify itself by a musical note or even by spoken words, although the former might require ship's captains to possess musical ears in addition to the manifold qualifica- tions already necessary for that job. Russia Also Has A Family of Smiths By Helen Christine Bennett McCall's special representative to Russia In America we have one family name that crosses all boundaries, It is the name of Smith. It may be borne by the socially elite or the wo- man who goes out by the day. We knew there must be its equivalent in Russia, When asked, smiles came at once to the faces of Russian women. "Of course we have such a name, In Russia It is Ivanoff." It is the Smiths --the Ivanoffs of Russia who tell the story of the new life.--The Editor of "McCall's." One of the most revolutionary changes brought about by the Soviets has been the freeing of woman to an extent not equaled in any country in the world. In Russia today woman may vote and hold office with none of the discriminations found in other countries, She has equal sex rights and privileges; she may marry and divorce 'at will; she has equal rights In her children and all her children, born in wedlock or out, are legitimate, She may do anything a man may do without stigma. She is free as no woman in the world has ever been free--as man is free, When you first arrive in one of the great cities of Russia and look at the people on the streets, you search in vain for the smart, well dressed men and women you are ac- customed to see on the North Ameri- can continent. The Smiths who pass you wear the clothes of workers. 'They are comfortable and useful clothes, but there is nothing luxuri- ous about them. Let us look at the women. The one just passing. dress- ed in khaki shirt and knickers, is the foreman of a construction gagn, The older woman, with the red kerchief that marks the member of the Com- munist Party, is a high official, and the woman with her, in a drab gray, is a factory manager. Behind them are two doctors, a judge, and a "superior soldier" (officer) in uniform. There are in Russia women soldiers with a rank equal to that of a general, All work 48 open to women, But if we want to know the more typical Mrs, Smith of Russia, we must go to the factories. At the Melangi "Combinat, a textile factory at Ivan- ovo-Voznesensk, where there are 7000 workers, Martha Smith--Marfa Ivan- off--stands before a great spinning machine. Seven hours a day she watches the spindles. The week is five days, a "I get the children ready for school before I come to the factory," she sald. "No, I give them no breakfast --that is at the school. My shift be- gins at ten. Pieter and Lydia stay by the school two hours after my work, that I may buy for the house. Dinner? It is at the school. Mins is here, at the factory--My breakfast also. My husband, he eats with me here. At evening we make supper at home. At night? Now--"her eyes sparkled--"1 go three time a week to the clase, I learn to read and write. The chil- dren? The sleep. If my husband goes, my neighbor listens." "Every cook," insisted Lenin, "must learn how to run the government." Marfa is learning. To help her, the government has shortened her working hours, served her children free meals at school, and given her and her husband meals at low prices at the factory. As a worker, Marfa actually receives much more than the 80 rubles a month she is paid at the factory. She and her husband have food cards, clothing cards, cards for railways tickets at less than the ticket office sells them, soap cards®and cards for sweets, and through the factory Soviet government is frank in fits reply. 'We have no Communism yet in Russia," said one official. "We are but nursing the first feeble germs of Communism. We live now under a dictatorship of the proletariat, of the workers, It is a transition period and will not last. It is the first essen- tial step toward Communism." "Is 1s essential." These are the words of a woman of the intelli gentsia. "You must understand that for centuries what the Russian work- ers earned was the property of the czar, the nobility, or the church, So little was left for them that they lived unspeakably; joy for them was nothing but vodka, There is a prov- erb--'Work loves a fool' To do as little as possible was a creed of self- preservation, Then came the war; revolution, famine. If we were to survive, it must be through a new idea of work. The Soviet government cre- ated a nobility of industrial workers, and Russians began to work." Despite the money which has been expended for health measures, the people of the U.S.S.R. suffer acutely from lack of one ol the greatest of health assets--a sufficient allowance of house room. Marfa showed me her apartment in a "model" six-family house. Two bedrooms, one kitchen, one wash- room (sink and toilet, no bath), In one room, spic and span, a single bed, a cot, one small table, two chairs, curtains and plants at windows, rag rugs on the floor. Marfa and her hus- band and their two children slept in that room. The second bed-room is willing rented by Marfa to a married couple who share with her the small kitchen, Next door are eight people! Yet Marfa and her neighbors do not feel crowded. It is the remnant of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie who suffer in this terrific overcrowd- ing. Yet many women of those classes have found themselves under the new conditions. Listen, for instance, to Najeda Ivanoff, my interpreter, "I was not a revolutionist," she sald. "But now that this thing has come, I am happler than ever before. "I was a physician's daughter. We had an apartment of 14 rooms for father, mother, a six children. I was educated as a lawyer, but under the czar I was not permitted to prac- tice. I studied languages, I lived abroad, But never did I feel right. There were four porters in our apart ment-house, and the one at our door had one room, dark, unheated, There were his wife, a half-grown son, and a new baby. There was one narrow cot. The boy slept on the floor, The new- born baby lay in a hole in the brick wall, 'There was a little table, a chair, and that was all "They must have cooked on another porter's stove, for they had none, Now nobody lives like that. Next to me in my apartment is a charwoman, Her work is to sweep and scrub the flags at one of the big stores. Her husband works in a factory. Bhe has two winter coats, blankets, a good bed. Her husband has made a radio. LHer baby was born in a hospital, and she was taught to care for it. This costs nothing. Such things were un- known ten years ago, [y husband always was a revolutionist. Now I have learned to believe." Buch intelligent, cultivatéd women in Russia today go forward, not seein, clearly the future for themselves an their children, but willing to go on and work, because justice is nearer than before.--"The Reader's Digest." Guard the Baby Against Colds To guard the baby agalnst oolds nothing can equal Baby's Owa Tab- lots. The Tablets are a mild latative that will. keep the little one's stom: ach and bowels working 3 It 1s a recognized fact that where the doctor stomach and bowels are Ja good order that colds will not exist; that the health of the little one will be goad and that he will thrive and be happy | and good-natured. The Tablets are by medicine dealers or by mall 3 to Sailors) No chance of this modern incubator failing. more than 1,000 eggs, this new revolving incubator was one cf features of Los Angeles poultry show. With capacity of A ------ - Owl Laffs Brushville Judge--"See here, I'm go- ing to put a stop to this here horse stealing, or none of us will be safe." Mary, Mary, quite contrary-- How you hem-line grows! It used to swirl above your knees, Now it nearly hides your toes. * Young Bride--"I haven't the heart to fry the eggs. They look up at me so piteously out of sad yellow eyes." Looking back over the years, the proverbial * line of least resistance seems to be a woman's waist line. Hat Clerk--"A wonderful fit, old man." Customer--*"Yeh, but suppose my ears get tired?" The life guards at the bathing beaches ought to make good book- keepers. They all know how to handle figures all right, all right. A New York salesman was staying in a Texas hotel where he observed an old-fashioned roller towel. Salesman (to man in wash rogm)-- "Say, doesn't the owner of this hotel know that it's against the law of the State of Texas to use roller towels Lnow ?" Man Addressed--"He knows it all right enough, but I reckon that law wasn't passed when this towel was put up." ] Flapper Motto--"Better be fat in the head than thick at the hips." A young man, who had an enormous mouth, became engaged to a girl, and went to her father to ask his consent. Youth (smiling broadly to hide his confusion)--*"I have come to--to--ask you for your daughter's hand, I--I--" The Father--"Excuse me, but will you close your mouth for a moment 80 I can se who you are?" One thing you never hear one girl say to another any more is: "Why don't you take a tuck in it?" The young farmers were boasting about the size of the vegetables they had grown. Finally one of them turn- ed to Uncle Seth: Young Farmer--"What was the big- gest thing you raised this year, Uncle Seth?" Uncle Seth--""A squash." Young Farmer--"Well, how big was it" Uncle Seth (drawling)--' 'We never measured it, but we used the seeds for snow shoes." First Travelling Salesman -- "Being on the road ain't what it used to be." "Second Ditto--""Naw, I've been on the road for ten years now and never had to sleep at a farmer's house yet." Hostess--'""Would you like a sonata before dinner?" Her Guest (glying a start of surprise and pleasure)--""Thank you, I had a couple on the way over here, but I think I could manage another." Oustomer--"How much will it cost to have this guy bumped off?" Hi-Jacker--"Shucks, partner, I leave 1t to you. You pay me accordin' to the £00d yer gets out of it." Little Girl Next Door--""What's the new baby at your home, Johnny, a boy 'or a girl?" Disgusted Little Brother--"Aw, it's & si. 1 saw 'em putting powder on BR , She's a girl of rank." = "You can't go out with} pre - -- -- Danger from Colds Every woman beyond middle age should realize that a majority of the troubles she has to fear have their origin in what are known as common colds. Each attack lowers her vitality and reduces resistance to disease. At this season of the year every wo- man should see that her blood Is toned up to meet the rigors of the climate and especially that styength should be restored after any cold, however slight, For this Dr. Wil llams' Pink Pills are a reliable tonic. These Pills are not a mere stimu- lant giving temporary relief. They build ap the body by creating that rich red blood which imparts the glow of health; steadies the nerves, improves the appetite and digestion and make the users capable of with- standing the rigors of our Fall and Winter months, They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box from the Dr. Willlams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, apart Excavating of Old Fort Reveals Roman Past Glasgow.--The fort baths brought to light during excavation work on the Roman fort at Cadder promise to give very clear evidence of the vari- ous periods of Roman occupation, sald John Clarke at a meeting of the Glas- gow Archaeological Society, It was hoped to complete the excavations next year, Mr, Clarke added. The fort had been the sixth of the Antonine Wall forts from the west end of the wall, During the year a large outer sys- tem of defenses had been discovered inclosing an area of 15 acres, appar- ently anterior to both the fort and the wall, Neither the period of this sys- tem nor its relation to the smaller fort were yet certain, Several rare objects In pottery, a coin of Galba, and several interestinng iron articles had been found. ---- There are still a great many people who simply will not let the dentists do all the looking down in the mouth, Care for Your Hands By Dally Use of Cuticura Soap Heal Rashos and Irritations with Cuticura Ointment How Women Lose Fat In England How would you like to lose unhealthy fat that you don't need and don't want, and at the same time feel better than you have for years ? How would you like to lose your double chin and your too prominent abdomen, and at the same time make your gkin so clean and clear that it will compel admiration ? How would you like to your weight down to normal, and at the same time develop that for activity that makes work a in ambition and keen- ness of iq? ms Sot Cen a of Krischen ts, of hot finished the first bottle leasant way you'll also six vitalizing salts of have presented you with us health. ay ie Hip Kogisiwomen keep Now you will know the to lose fat, know that Kruschen Tet, 4nd 1 am ae renk Les Baux (From The Atlantic Monthly) There 1s no need for vain regret. For envy of the lives whose lot Is set In this enchanted place, : Where grey crags touch the sky-- while far below, ' Meadows, miraculously green, Are sunk in sleep, between Uptowering rocks, and from the cliff's sheer face White-flowering bushes grow. Should you live here, you must choose The mountain or the valley--and so lose, For one, the other joy; too soon the when and where Would have you in_ their customary | care, Rather, let your dwelling here, Be In the mind--and you are free Of all the range the ravished eye can see; May house you without fear In the topmost pinnacle, where the star-pricked dome Shall roof you through the night's slow-wheeling hours, Or make your home Among the lilacs and flowers Down in the valley--at your will Be shepherd, huntsman, poet; may dance i With the linen jiggling on the line | In the cherry orchard by the water mill, | Or where the sunbeams shine From the blue backs of swallows, as they glance In the mid-air, below The rocky terrace, to and fro Your insubstantial form may go, Now vast as night, now infinitely small-- As having nothing, yet possessing all. --Freda C. Bond. the meadow you ered Cottonseed Meal Found 2 Excellent Food for Trout Ithaea, N.Y.,--Cottonseed meal, long an accepted livestock feed, has been found an effective food for trout, re- ports Professor C. M, McCay, of the New York State College of Agricul- ture. Professor McCay, working at Cornell in co-operation with the' Con- necticut state fish hatchery at Bur- lington, Conn. also has found that cocoanut meal, dry skim milk and dry buttermilk are excellent trout | feeds. A half million dollars could be saved annually if the various fish and game commissions would make use of the recent discoveries, he says. The cottonseed meal is not fed! alone but is mixed in equal parts with dry skim milk and a good fish meal, With the newer feeds Professor Mc Cay finds that the trout is more efli- cient than the pig in converting feed into meat. In contrast to cottonseed meal, lin- seed oil meal, another livestock feed, is found to poison brook trout. The plinseed meal kills the fish in a few weeks, although they are capable of living without any food for several months, re Europe Telephones Chile New York.--Telephone service be- tween Chile, Argentine and Uruguay and 13 countries in northern and cen- tral Europe was inaugurated by as- sociated companies of the Interna- tional Telephone and Telegraph Cor- poration on Dec. 19. The service is made possiblé in Europe through co- operation of the Germany Reichepost in Berlin, adie A foreign visitor remarks on the large number of statues in London. They are not all statues. Some are patient husbands parked outside stores while their wives are shopping. | pe Classified Advert:-ng ---------- ee ABRADOR RETRIEVERS "HH world's famous Hls0Cie yg ar Whitmore strain I'rice re.zozehle. Powell, R. 3. London Ont. Sightless Author Acts in Own Play Paris--A play written by a blind man in which he acts with ansiher blind performer is being presented at a Paris - theatre. - It is called "The Triumph of Wil." M. Casler {is the authoractor. "There are two classes of blind peo- ple," he sald in-an interview, "Those who lost their sight in the war and those who became blind through some other misfortune. 1 am plead- Ing for the latter, It is not that the world is indifferent to them. "But we do not wish to make our living through the charity of others or by begging. We wish'to live by our own intelligence. We want to prove that we are capable of taking care of ourselves and even support- ing a family. We do not want peo- ple to encourage us to live !azily, but We do want them to encourage us to work. That is what I bring out in my play and 1 have a right 'to pro- pagate this idea because ! am the father of seven children and work daily as any normal citizen does," me i eee Do You Knoew-- Your electric cord will last much longer if you keep it suspended from a hook instead of winding it around the iron when putting it away? If you soak an orange in hot water the skin will come off easier and more perfectly when you peel it? A teaspoonful of glycerine added to each pint of rinsing water will make flannels and woolen blankets like new? -- earn NEW HANDLES. New handles for your percolator can be obtained at a small cost in any color you want to dress up your kitchen. You can screw them In yourself, putas nadie Hampson's Batteries for and Raaio, guar anteed abvso- lutely now. rubber case, Special $5.25 $5.25, volt, "B," $2.29; Medium "B, 'Will ship C.O.D. Satisfaction HAMPSON'S BATTER? WORL™ 45-volt Large $ juaranteed, 1379 Dufferin Sircet - - 'Toronto EE TE uh ATENTS List of "Wanted Inventions" ano Full Information Sent Free on Ilequest THE RAMSAY CO. Dept. W, 473 Bank St, Ottawa. Ont. ania rr 4 She Couldn't Be Hoodwinked. Miss E. Thomson, of Clapham, writes:--"I find that Carter's Little Liver Pills will do more to keep_the complexion clear, and the skin free from blemishes, than all the face creams I have used. I found the real cause of face blemishes was usually due to liver and stomach troubles. My druggist recommended them as a specific for stimulating the liver and expelling the constipation poi= sons from the system." Take Carter's Little Liver Pills for sick headache and indigestiong All druggists 20¢ and 75¢ red pkgsd GA W sar most people call indiges- tion is usually excess acid in the stomach, ¥ood has soured. The instant remedy is an alkali which neutralizes acids. But don't use erude helps. Use what your doctor would advise. The best help is Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, For the 50 years since its invention, it has remain- od standard with physicians, You will find nothing else so quick In ts effect, so harmless, so efficient. ISSUE No, 2--'31 One tasteless spoonful in water relieved S INDIGESTION SOUR STOMACH neutralizes many times its volume in acld. The results are Immed!- ate with no harmful after-effects. Once you learn this perfect way you'll never deal In any other pif sure fo get genuine Phillips'. It is always a liquid; never made In tablet form. Look for thg mame Phillips on the bottle, dareg- store sell it--b50c.