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ingly standing at the family gate. "Good morning, Mr. Snithers," he said to the dignified cashier of the town bank. The man's name was "Smithers," "Sand not liking Johnny's, distortion Of | mee it he did not answer. "Good morning, Miss Muck," he then said politely to the church or- ganist hurrying by. "You're a saucy boy," Miss Muir answered tartly. But when Mrs, Tolson came along, and Johnny again spoke up politely: "Good morning, Mrs. Toddle," the goodnatured woman laughed heartily. "Where'd you get my name, Sonny?" "On your door-plate, 67 Harmony Street, I saw you going in there. Have you got any little boys?" "You're pretty young to be able to read door-plates correctly," laughed Mrs. Tolson. "Go in and ask your folks if you can come along to church with me," Johnny-disappeared and soon a plea- sant-faced woman come to the door. "You're very kind," she said. "You see, we have only just come from a part of the West where everybody J knows and speaks to everybody else, and so far, it has been very hard for , Johnny. He doesn't know anybody, nobody speaks to him and he does not | know what to make of it." "You let him come along with me, and I'll soon fix that. He's made a pretty good start for himself already, although he's got ncmes mixed up a bit. If he hasn't exactly made friends he's attracted attention." Later, coming out of church, Mrs. Tolson greeted with more than usual cordiality a Mrs. Arnold who aad her two little boys with her. "Let these little folks walt along ahead of us," said Mrs. Tol™on, "I Yr to talk to you." Fifteen minutes later Johnny Smart's mother looked out of her win. dow with happy eyes at her small son as he approached flanked on either side by a smiling boy. Mrs. Tolson chuckled as she went her way. "'Toddle'--that's a good one, and he's npt so far wrong either. If 1 get much fatter it will be all I can d0.""--Issued by the National Kinder- garten Association, 8 West 40th Street, | New York City, These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. meee eee Modern Calendar Sought = By Abyssinian Emperor Addis Ababa.--In line with his plans to "Westernize" his primitive country, Emperor Haile Selassie is trying to introduce the modern cal- endar into Abyssinia, But the clergy, who are a powerful factor, are fiercely opposed to it. They insist on the retention of the present Ethiopian calendar, dates from pre-Biblical times. The Abyssinian year begins on September 10 in the Gregorian calen- dar. The months have thirty days each and are named Maskarram, "Tekemt, Hadar, Tahsas, Tarr, Yekatit, Magawit, Miaziah, ' Genbot, Sanu), Hamle and Nas'hi, are classed as holidays, The Abys- sinian reckoning of time is about seven years and eight months be. "hind the Gregorian calendar. The Emperor also would like to in- "'troduce the Latin alphabet into Abys- sinia, replacing Amharic characters. But here again the priesthood ob- jects, Speer Slows Car Traffic "By Increase in Spacing San Francisco --A study of vehi- cular traffic hy the California Automo- bile Association shows that increas- ing speed does not mecessarily in- crease the number of cars passing a : given point in a fixed period. . Theoretically, the faster traffic e, because as speed reases the Sole between automobiles tor. 'e driving also increases. an illustration it is pointed nt that at -~ wenty- and a half miles pag capacity of the| affic line is 2,600 vehicles. At forty- which The extra five days of the year, moves the greater the number of| CHEWING TOBACCO Latest Findings Findings i Science Earth's Diameter Expanding According to One Theory It cannot be said that Sir Arthur Eddington added, anything to our knowledge of the expanding universe in the address which he gave before the International Astronomical Union in Cambridge, Mass. At last year's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he re- marked that "the theory of the ex- p:° ding universe is in some respects 80 preposterous . . that I feel almost an indignation that any one should believe in it--except myself." But he believes in it so strongly that he has taken the trouble to figure the rate of expansion. Because of his work we now say glibly enough, as if it were an indisputable fact, that the universe | has doubled its diameter in the last 1,300,000,000 years. In these days space is as important as matter--perhaps more important. The universe is curved, because mat- ter wraps space around it. To deter- mine the diameter of the universe at any time we must therefore know the amount of matter that it contains. Here the mathematician may do little but guess. Dr. H. P. Robertson of Princeton, on the basis of some facts gathered by Dr. Hubble of Mount Wilson, has reached the conclusion that the universe has expanded to thirteen times its original size. the difference in the results if the existence of dark matter is consider- ed. Thus Dr. Robertson has shown that, if enough' matter of that kind be presupposed, the universe may have expanded to less than twice its original size, suggestion that the universe may be shrinking instead of expanding. The outer nebulae would then appear to rush away just as they do now. An observer outside of the universe atoms, animals, planets, stellar sys- tems. "We walk the stage of life, per- of the cosmic spectator," he said at Cambridge as he did when he deliver- ed his presidential address before the Royal Astronomical Society. "As the scenes proceed he notices that the actors are growing smaller and the action growing quicker, When the last act opens, the curtain rises on midget actors rushing through their parts at frantic speed. Smaller and smaller. Faster and faster. One last J aicroseopie blur of intense agitation. And then nothing." BACTERIA THAT ATTACK STONE. For seven years Professor S. GC. Paine of London, England, has been studying the decay of stone. "Com- mon air and water organisms are nearly always present' in decayed stone in surprisingly large numbers," BACKACHE NOT DUE T0 -AGE Many people think that backache.is a trouble that comes naturally with advancing years, but this woman of 71 proves that it is not. "I suffered for a long time from cars passing a given point, thus in-fyacpache," she writes, "but put. it| creasing the flow of traffic, Pract to 1). Reading your a To rope states, file' Js an. own le my a8 UL). es announcement, I Sought 1 would try been taking it ve found great would like to Kruschen Salts, for some time an relief. I dv Pains in tho Back are tie penalty an hour the safe. distance in all true. nd-1abor, BI as a aot the , blood throws of eres no more trouble; no more pains; back- memory, The highly problematical character of all these estimates is shown by Eddington has made the interesting would see everything contracting-- The earth would spiral nearer the sun with dizzily increasing speed. formers of a drama for the benefit paid for inactive kidneys. Kruschen| he told the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Apparently many of these stone-attacking bac- teria are developed in rain water. Professor Paine finds that nitrifying bacteria, which destroy buried rocks, are likewise present on decayed stone. Even cement may be disintegrated by: them, What usually passes for sul: phate inerustation on building stones may be due, in Professor Paine's opin- jon, not to sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere but to a recently discover- ed bacterium which is capable of liv- ing on sulphur compounds. DIAMOND DIES FOR FILA- : MENTS. In a sense the inhabitants of the little town of Trevoux in France are responsible for the glare of Broad way and the hundreds of Main Streets that imitate it. For nearly all Tre- voux is engaged in the inherited task of drilling diamond dies through which tungsten is drawn to produce the filaments of millions of electric lamps. A little six-watt incandescent lamp has a filament four ten-thousandths of an inch in diameter, which is ten times finer than the average hair of a man's head. Even after it is coiled 1,390 turns to the linear inch to form a spring-like filament through which electricity flows to produce light, the filament has an outside diameter less than that of a human hair. Enough filament wire for 666,656 lamps is drawn from a bar of tung- sten three-eights of an inch square by twenty-four inches long, weighing 11-3 ounds. The bar passes through ninety-five dies of progressively smaller aperture. Nearly two-thirds of these dies are rough-cut diamonds in which the workers of Trevoux have « tilled minute holes. A six-watt fila- ment wire in its final drilling passes through a drilled diamond no bigger than a mere speck. Often as many as thirty attempts at drilling must be made before a good die results. A conical hole is drilled exactly through each side. The aperture formed hy the meeting apices of the two cones constitutes the die. HOW THE MOON WAS BORN. Hundreds of millions of years ago the earth was undoubtedly a perfect sphere of gas, The late Sir George Darwin, son of the great Charles, pro- jected himself' back mathematically a spheroid and then of an egg. As with a crust thirty-five miles thick, constituting the bulb was wrenched loose, in that stupendous convulsion the Moon was born. Some astron- omers profess to see in the basin now filled by the Pacific Ocean the scar of that planetary catastropne. Dr. Arthur Neuberg of Meissen steps forward to destroy this theory. A simple calculation shows that the basin of the Pacific Ocean is only one-thirtieth as large as the Moon. Throwing in the material required to { fill the Atlantic and Indiana Oceans, Dr. Neuberg is still unable to collect enough to make up a Moon. He be- lieves that the Moon was indeed split off from the earth but not that it came out of the Pacific basin. mati Healing Throligh Repose Repose after struggle, absolute rest following effort, is an indispensable preliminary to healing through psycho- therapy. / The condition is technically known], as "anapausis," says Dr. E. Berillon in the medical review Guerir (Paris). Anapausis is really one of the hyp- notic states, self-induced or otherwise, The mind then tends in the most na- tural way to sink into a profound slumber. "The state of hypnotic anapausis ought to work out in a full, complete suspension of all thought. "Attainment of this state does not signify merely absolute inertia of the mentality, a total obliviousness to all excitations or stimuli from without; it is attended likewise by immobility of the bodily organism, calm, peace, tranquillity of countenance. "Ask the subject: 'What are you thinking of?" He answers: 'Nothing. This means the certainty. of full hyp- notic anapausis. "It is realized when the countenance of the patient expresses complete in- difference to whatever might other- wise excite of enervate him. He is in the antechamber of slumber. "Under the influence of the slight- est fatigue due to the effort to heed or to attend, of the least monotony or of the least encouragement in such a| direction, he will pass into a state of agreeable passivity, "The ease with which hypnotic ana- pausis can be attained by children ex- plains the remarkable effects of the application of psychotherapy in the school period of juvenile life, "Habits of lying, of theft, of idle- ness, of nail-biting, of cowardice and the like have been quite obliterated. "In view of the perfect safety of the treatment it is to be deplored that more children of the neuropathic, im- pulsive, and 'difficult' types are not given the benefit of it." ee ian "Mummy, that dentist wasn't pain- less like he advertised." "Why, did he hurt you?' "No; but he yelled just like any other dentist when I bit his finger." Do You +. e glaciers in the Rocky Mountains, --Photograph, Canadian National Railways, em this beautital mountain has been set er the Canadian Government as a perpeturl monument to Hdith Cavall, British nurs- ing sister who was executed by the Germans during the World War. Fach' year, on the nearest Sunday to the fourth of August, memorial ~* gervices are held at the base of the mountain, . 11,033 feet and is situated in Jasper National Park, Alberta. snow. covered the year round and bears one of the most striking It has an elevation of It is Writes Dr, Berillon: [ Loaves and: and Fishes He mastered his work until it seemed en coe Baty A aoe im spun y, A game to be played with Darwin saw a temporary collapse, + and vim; ya Heasure causing the egg to become a pear. |He mastered his thoughts till his | The stalk of the he yest developed a every word bulb, and the waist of the stalk be- Rang clear and uplifting to all who | came thinner and thinner. The length heard, ; of day was now only three hours. [He governed his likes and desires Tides raised by the sun aided cen- until trifugal force in distorting the earth.' He overcame bondage to personal The liquid pear, coated by this time will; fishes, Yet he always received far more than his wishes. N\ There was a time when a man had to read several fashion magazines to find out all that women were wearing, instead of just sitting in the same room with them. Then there's the story about the actor who toured the country in "Ham- let." Friend--""What kind of a run did you have in Savannah?" Actor--"Well, we beat the audience over the county line by three min- utes." It was a pretty wise man who said: "The man who isn't a fool half of the time is usually a fool all of the time." This 'N That The person who really likes to get things done seldom attends a commit- tee meeting. We may all eat hominy before we die, but we'll never see wo- men wearing cotton stockings again. To get on a man's friendly side say, "I've always admired your judgment." You can be afine, upstanding, respect- able citizen, but to a banana skin you're just-a flop. Lady (admiring a little boy who had been left in her care)--""Where did you get those great big brown eyes?" Little Toddler--*"Oh, they came with my face." Gladful Gladys says: "If kissing really does shorten life, a date with a few boys I know would prove absolute- ly fatal." Missionary--*"My friend, are you tra- veling the straight and narrow path?" In silence the man handed over his card, which read: | Tightrope Walker." "Signor Ballancio, Mr. Jones was in a nearby city res- j aarant the other day. He was study- ing the menu as the waitress ap- proached to take his order, | 'He--"Have you frogs' legs?" Waitress--"No, sir. It's my rheu- matism that makes me walk this way." A saxophone is manufactured every forty seconds in America, That is good news, because we thought there were more than that around. Fishing may be a pastime at which there is a fish at one end of the line and a fool at the other, but our ob- servation has been that the fish does not always perform his part of the combination. Agitated Caller--*I should like to see the judge, It's a matter of vital importance." Secretary--'"Sorry, sir, he's at din- ner right now." Agitated Caller--'But, must see him at once. pends om it." Secretary--'Perhaps, sir, all His Honor is at steak." look here, I My life de- but after sittle "lI wouldn't exchange my wife for any ten women I know." "I know -- one's enough these hard times." ieee Hold 50,000-Year-Old Tusks Tusks of mammoths which lived nearly 50,000 years ago are in stor- age at the London docks awaiting an owner, enc In warm moments make your reso- lutions, and in cold moments make that resolution good.--Tyndall. . For Baby's Bath More than that of any iother member of the family, baby's | tender, delicate skin needs the greatest care and attention. The ty soothing oils in Baby's Own f oR it specially suitable and its clinging fra- grance reminds one of the roses of France which help to inspire it. "It's best for you and Baby too." He sought to live life with a higher aim | That man's approval and world fame. He gave little heed to the loaves and Nothing like Red Rose when you crave a real good cup of tea What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern A simple and next affair is this darling sheer Llack woolen, now so modish. It is given new distinction by its pin tucked neckline and sleeve cut. The skirt is just slightly flared. It is very slenderizing, cut with gores at the front. And to make it! You'll simply be amazed at the extremely easy manner lin which it is put together. Style No. 2551 may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches , bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards 39-inch, Vivid green wool jersey, and tweed- like woolen in brown mixture are smart. To wear 'neath your fur wrap for matinee, it's stunning in Persian green crepe silk. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name und address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. nsec Schools As Consumers Under the heading "Schools Can Bring Better Times" Dr. John K. Nor- ton, writing in "School Management" (New York), compiled some interest- ing figures. We rarely give thought to the equipment used in the "little red schoolhouse" but the following table of supplies used by a Los An- geles school is quite an eye-opener: 60,000 gallons floor polsh, 5,000 baseball bats, 10,000 playground balls, 24,000 packages washing-powder, 22,000 cans of cleanser, 400,000 cakes laundry soap, 300,000 composition books, 360,000 boxes crayons, 40,000 pints library paste, 51,000 rulers, 40,000 blackboard erasers, 20,000 gallons liquid soap, 20 car-loads pupils' desks, 15 car-loads paper towels, 6 carloads teachers' chairs, 10 car-loads steel lockers, ------ Austria to Open Glider School Vienna.--A training school for glider pilots, the first of its kind in Austria, is to be established by the Austrian Air League on the "Schnee- berg," near here, at an altitude of 6,000 feet. re fren Genulne work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty . Founder and World- Classified Advertising ! N OFFER TO EVERY INVENTOR. 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Yet in human hearts we find Shadows lurking gaunt and grey, Shutting out the morning's ray Fro mthe chambers of the mind. We must rise, the day to meet, As the things of earth arise: Birds that face the eastward skies By the dew of night made sweet. From the hills the shades retreaty With the dawn the darkness dies, Only golden sunshine lies On the valley, on the street Let us put the past away, Face the future, fair and bright, What men do or what men This alone can make thém rig Looking eastward to the li Trying some untravelled w We must leave behind the n We must rice and mest the day. --Douglas Malloch, Noise-Abatement Society Is Formed in Budapsst Budapest. -- Prominent citizens of the Hungarian capital have organized themselves into an anti-nolse league. They complain that the sounds from loudspeakers, trafic on the streets, and particularly sounding of automo bile horns on all occasons, are make ing things unpleasant for the ordinary inhabitant. 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