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~ . = © Professor-- "Will you please stop | A motes In the back of the mon" The boy who a pair of heavy boots all winter ~ doesn't know the real joy of going barefoot in the summer. Plumber (to his wife)--"Doncha be- lieve them cartoonists, dear. I ain't never found no lady in no bath tub." Stray Shots i The older a man grows the more he cares for comfort--and the less of it he obtains. One has to keep up if the up-keep is to be kept up.. No golf course is complete without a mourn. er's bench at each tee. The best rea- son a girl can have for starting a diary is that she knows enough about men to fill a book. You have to think out some things for yourself--nobody can help you. Success is the privilege of 'doing what you want to do, when you want to, and as you want to. Most women do mot know what they want until they discover what their bus- bands do not want. Character is the diamond that scratches every other, stone. Love, sweet child, is the last word in a letter asking for 'money. | Digging in a garden may. improve "one's philosophy more than the read- ing of books. Doctors have proved that an ordin- ary person retains only one-fifth of what he hears. Which goes to prove that a woman isn't an "ordinary per' son." : Accused--"How could I commit for- gery when I can't write my own name?" | Judge--"You are not accused of Sreat sacrifices are yet mot capable' ,.1a not tell him writing your own name." An old Indian went into a bank to to take pleasure in 'working by de- wag my own fllus | grees; the progress of the truth is borrow some money. Banker--""What can you put up for, security that is, how many ponies do you have?" Old Indian--"Got 100 ponies." Six months later - the old Indian came in with a very large roll of bills and paid the note. As he turned to leave, the banker aid; Banker--"We let you have money when you needed it, now why don't you deposit your extra money with us? . Old Indian (grunting)--"All right. How many ponies you got?" mre ---- Making Children Grow Growth may be remarkably stimu- lated by diet, according to reports of recent experiments by Dr. Summer- feldt, described in Good Health (Battle Creek), Mich.). By feeding eleven children on a diet in which were large quantities of vita- min B and extra supplies of other vita- mins and minerals, he succeeded in|- securing a rate of gain nearly five times the ordinary amount. Says Good Health: "The dietary by which this extraor- 'dinary rate of growth was secured consisted chiefly of farina, oatmeal, corn-meal, and wheat germ. One per cent. each of brewer's yeast and alfal- fa leaf-meal were included. Besides the above plant foods, 2_per cent. of bone-meal was given, probably to sup- ply lime, but an abundance of this ele- ment should have been found in the alfalfa meal, the wheat germ and oat- meal; or, if more was needed, another portion «! the alfalfa meal would easily have supplied it. Bone:meal may be suitable for lions, tigers, and other carnivorous beasts, but it is not a proper constituent for a human bill of fare, . 4 "This experiment clearly demon- strates the tremendous importance of diet regulation, especially during the growing period. It is certainly not a pleasant thought that many thousands of children are stunted in their de- velopment by wrong feeding, and yet there seems to be no escaping this conclusion. Children while dependent wpon their parents are in the position of interned prisoners. They must eat what is given them. If they are in- §aeuatsly fed, their parents or guard- ns are responsible for the conse quences, "With this new and rather startling Information concerning ths possibility of securng a notable increase in sta-| 'Student--"They're not notes. They : has never had to wear take | tu acids is the methou they are follow- ~ are dollar bills. We're shootin' craps." ing 'and bring into blos-| _ Protessor--"Oh, pardon me." jam. ral attractiveness that -- 'they possess: every morning they a half-teaspoorful of Kruschen Salts in a glass of warm water before breakfast. d G They do this every morning--with- out missing one--for "it's the daily dose that takes off the fat" When Kruschen is taken daily, every particle of poisonous waste matter and harm: and gases are expelled from the system. At the samé time the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels are toned up and the pure, fresh blood containing Na- tures six life-giving salts is carried to every organ, gland, nerve, and fibre of the body, and this is followed by "that Kruschen feeling" of energetic health and activity that is reflected in bright eyes, clear skin, cheerful vi-' vacity, and a charming figure. Ee _ MINOR GIFTS Cad there be no intellectual gifts short of the production of chef-' d'oeuvres? , Surely God's dew falls on tiny flowers as well as on forest- trees, and many humble works the fruit of goodness! Doubtless there is a multiplicity of books, and one book more is but a drop in 'the > Never mind! If all books are not destined to win fame or im. | morality, some will do their work by | comforting some few lonely souls, or will be useful like daily bread for cer- tain passing needs among men, al. though they may be forgotten by to. morrow.--M. Dupanloup, SACRIFICE | Thousands that are capable of of the little ones which are all that are required of them. God seems as the permeation of leaven, or the, growth of a seed: a multitude of successive small sacrifices may work more good in the world than many a large one.--George Macdonald, mh SINGLE-MINDEDNESS Single-mindedness and the absence of self-consciousness in the perform- ance of great duties are the charac- teristics of the greater order of minds.--Bishop of Ripon. wn fi a | Canadian Divorces Decrease Divorces in Canada decreased 21 per | cent. last year from 1930 total in' nine | provinces, g There are from fifteen to twenty mistakes in each of the cartoons which will appear weekly on this page. See if you can find them and then compare with list which will be published next week. Travel in Picturesque Mexico Looking for a Paradise on earth seems a Don Quixote-like quest in the twentieth century. And to look for it in Mexico, which most of us associate exclusively with revolutions, bandits, cactus, and sombreros is queerer still, To Mexico, however, Miss Marian Storm, an American, optimistically set out. After months of wandering her aven of rest was as elusive as ever. So, having reached a somnolent town called Patzcuaro, she tells us in "Lit- tle-Known- Mexico," she said to the proprietor of the hotel: "I am going to take the train to-day." "The up train or the down train?" "The up train. I am going back from Patazcuaro to Mexico at once, and 80 to Vera Cruz and sail for home." I that I had not and that now I be- long-heard summons fon--that 1 had given found the place, lieved that its up the search. Then, by mistake, hastening down the hill, I took the train that went the other way, so mow I am bound for Uruapan, some town at the end of the line! The "Place" Urnapan turned out to be the "place." Her little' mistake with the trains had led her there. Tired out, she spent an afternoon and a night resting in the hotel, until she was awakened by Primitivo, the hotel's factotum, knocking on the door: "Don't you want to change your room for a sunny one on the other side of the patio this morning?" he said. 'Don't you want to have your coffee? Our swi pool will soon be built, In These Trying Times ~ SCOTT'S J AVIRY[e], of Norwegian Cod Liver Oil istance PURELY VEGE TABLE They stimulate your liver, get rid of poisons and Improve your . APPETITE Sold in out at the back, but there is a very nice bathhouse -a few blocks away. While you are there, Emilio and I will move your things to the better room." I saw the winter sunlight on the flowers in the patio. I was slowly pos- sessed by a peace and comfort like dawn in the blood. "That seems a good plan, Primitivo. There is plenty of time, though." I did not care to think that I should ever have to go away. Primitivo gallantly brought her a fresh bouquet of flowers every morn- ing. Indeed, politeness seems to be universal. There is, for instance, Emilio, some twelve years of age, | bage-boy, shoe-cleaner, guide, and a | dozen other things: "Emilio" "Command, senorita," "Is the duck which you adopted in good health?" "A 'thousand thanks, senorita. duck is as usual." Everything is colourful, picturesque in Uruapan. Even the morning's de- livery of bread is, to say the least of it, unusual: A handsome aborigine brings a whole day's supply for the hotel in his hat--a vast hat with a little central peak that fits his head tightly and rolls out into an unfathomable brim laden with pan, dulce and those good crusty loaflets called pan bolillo, Lunch With the Guard But before she attained her "de- sired country" Miss Storm . had to pass almost as many Hills called Difi- cut and other obstacles as Christian himself, But, except when she made a detour into Guatemala, she was re- ceived with kindness and patience al- most everywhere. On one train jour- ney she forgot to take any food with her and was told by the "conductor; who seems to be equivalent to our guard, that there was no chance of getting anything to eat on the way, but, he said, that did not matter. His sisters had fixed him more lunch than he could possibly consume alone. They had even put in a little bottle of wine, What a pleasure to share it with a recently The | foreign lady who was starving! Never {in my own country had a conductor given me half his home-made lunch. 'Another time, at a jungle station, all the same. But a cavalier with a long knife 'as well as two protruding pistols speaks: "A lady's hat and coat in the rack, and so many other things! These are cosas delicadas. I cannot move these. We had better put our own baggage on the floor." Shot At With Arrows Once, however, she was shot at with arrows. It was on the island of Xan- icho, where the local children have discovered that visitors are good for just one thing--pennies. There in their dreary fishing settlement hang- ing over the water, they await such arrivals, but I did not know the Xan- icho custom and I had brought no pen- nies. Rashly, then, I turned my .back upon the infant horde, to scramble down towards the waiting boat, and at that moment a sharp pain told me that a stick pointed with a nail and shot efficiently from a little bow had driven through my coat and given me the priceless experience of being at- tacked with arrows by hostile Indians (two feet high and mone the less in earnest), all because I had no pennies. On another Sunday morning, too, she and some other white people en- countered a group of Indians who did not approve of visitors from the vague beyond, or for their probable religious convictions. Gathering in a circle, they began to shout fiercely: "Viva la Vrgen de Guadalupe!" and "Viva" so many saints and-famous Mexican holy places, that at last, roused to a wish for some sort of ecclesiastical expres- sion myself, I leaped upon a massive maguey leaf and cried to heaven: "Viva the Dutch Reformed Church of Hopewell Junction, New York!" In the mountain district of Tlaxcala, where bandits are an all too common feature of the landscape, she had an adventure. She was alone, and day was darkening as I started down the twisting hillways again. 1 argued with myself that I was not lost, but I knew I was being trailed--and prob- ably by a real specimen of that "evil gente" of whom I had been warned, and he was getting closer. 'I ran and he ran, but he did it better: I fell. "What do you want?" or approximate- ly that, I cried in Spanish, resolved to séttle that point before falling farther down the path. "I want to show you the Church of San Francisco," said be, And he did so--and protested that a fifty eentavos tip was too much! The Letter-Writer In Mexico Miss Storm found the an- cient rubbing shoulders with the mod- ern in the oddest way. In the sunlit market-place of one little town she saw this: Sitting motionless as a sibyl is an Indian woman swathed in gaudy stuffs, with long hair down her back, neck- laces of gold and coral, and huge rings in her ears. She is a public let- ter-writer, ready to make love or hate legible for a fee, just as in La Giocon- da's Venice, but in front of her, on a box, stands a brand new typewriter of familiar U.S. make! Scarecrows in the rice flelds are human ones--a perfect job for those of a mediative turn of .mind! All day long thé "pajarero," or bird-boy, sits on a little platform raised on poles in the midst of softly rippling, sunlit leagues, a ragged canopy above him, and scares away the birds from the precious crop. Sometimes, with a ter- rific bellow and an agitation of the arms, bouncing up and down. in soli- tude. But for quiet certainty he pre- fers a sling, which he keeps ready to hand along with a pile of stones, Suitors at the Window The Mexicans carry on their court: ships with all the formalities of old Sosin, At one place where she stayed Storm saw the ter of the house sitting in the darkness behind the barred window ef her room An ] Shesanty dressed suitor lounged out: o wn. Presently a sec- ond youth, Jess stylish in his baggy | best suit, came down the slop- he 'and stopped with a salute at other corner of the embrasure, ax J fi > 5 | 'Now by the laws of propriety the first suitor should have taken his leave, but he remained, both standing in stiff silence, and I imagined how keenly the enamelled coquette with'n must be enjoying this momeat. It ad tot last, She dropped somthing from (that languid hand--her handkerchief, ja flower--both admirers stooped and there, bent, unseen by her and mak- ing no 'sound, they wrestled until 'the hands of one gripped the other's throat, and he, -all unknown to the lady, dropped supine on the stones and then rose and glided off. "Little-Known Mexico" is a refresh- ingly unconventional travel-book. Miss Storm brings the gorgeously-hued - | Mexican scene clearly before us, and if her writing is a little over-exuberant what can one expect when she has such a colorful and fantastic subject? Even the mineral water she had at times to was" in and the drinking water the colour of coffee she had to drink have failed to damp her en- thusiasm for the country. Xochimilco, T! san, Cacah il; and all the rest of the tongue-twisting places --to say nothing of the Mexican choco- late and the turkeys cooked with chiles--have stolen her heart away.-- John O'London's Weekly. RT CANADIAN NEWS Vancouver, Britsh Columbia. --Sum- marizing the growth of the grain trade in the port of Vancouver during the past decade, . .r. R. C. Milroy, retir- ing president of the Grand Exchange, sald: Ten years ago Vancouver ele- vator accommodation was 1,150,000 bushels. Today, including additions now under construction, the port has the largest ocean grain elevator ac- commodation in the world, 17,728,000 bushels, In 1921-22 Vancouver expor- ted 6 per cent. of the Canadian wheat crop. In 1931-32 this port exported 44 per cent. of the Canadian wheat crop. | Ten years ago Vancouver's oats ex- {ports to Europe were 4,500,000 bush- els; last year they were 7,000,000 bushels. Last year's exports from Vancouver were 84,000,000 bushels of all grains, the second highest move- ment in the history of the port. Edmonton, Albe.ta. -- According to a statement of the Department of Ag- riculture of the Province of Alberta, 400,000 acres of new land were bro- key last year and are now under cul tivation for the first time. The value of Alberta's farm production in 1931 is placed at approximately $147,000, 000. ofl well, McLeod No. 4, in Turner Valley, passed the 7,000 foot level re- cently. Penetrating formations never hitherto explored by the bit in Tur- ner Valley, the test is being watched with great interest by oil men. Mec- Leod officials hope that they will en- counter the crude oil pool believed by many engineers to underlie the lime- stone from which Turner Valley naph- ed. tha is now obtain "Your daughter was to give me an answer to a very important question this evening." "Be seated, she will be down in a half hour or so." "Is she making up her mind?" "No; that would not take long. It's her face." FACE, "PS Gifts Generally speaking, those that have the most grace and the greatest gifts, and are of the most usefulness, are the most humble, and think the most meanly of themselves, so those boughs and branches of trees which are most rightly laden with fruit bend down- wards, and hang lowest. --p MARIRED MEN FALL EASIER. Some curious investigator in Eng- land has discovered that married men injure themselves much more fre- quently by falls in the early part of the day than do bachelors, Dien A strict relief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we dare to stand in awe of night and day.--Epicurus. | Calgary, Alberta.--Canada"s deepest in the oh Country Give the O14 Folia the best sible 8 t see them this year. Enjoy the dhrll of doing your stmas shopping in Ld? Glasgow Ocean Rates One Way Return Book through your local Agent--no one can serve you better, or CUNARD LINE, 217 Bay Street, (Elgin 3471) 'Toronto. C Nov. 18 ATHENIA B' Nov.26 ANTONIA FIRST SAILINGS FROM HALIFAX Dec. SCANIA PI Dec 16 wLETITIA BY bin from $104. $192. Tourn from 89. 157. ird 67. 119. Nearl: tury of sea- ence is back Nearly 2 cork BEY Stasespetion b dati < and Weekly sailings throughout the Fall t. LAST SAILINGS FROM MONTREAL AURANIA Riymouth, Havre, London ast, Liv 1, Glasgow Glasgow, Belfast, L'pool. ymouth, Havre, London ast, Liverpool, Glasgow #From Saint John on Dec. 9 UNARD ANCHOR-DONALDSON Notes From Berlin KITCHENS OF LONG AGO. Four thousand years ago Jonathan Flintface left some arrows and a primitive jackknife on the kitchen floor, but evidently forgot to come home, The result is that German savants today are able to reconstruct something of the history of the earl iest known inhabitants of the region that is now Berlin. Recently, workers establishing a new settlement in the district geologicaliy known as the "Spree Valley" in the south of Berlin, discovered the kitchen---one of four hearths made of carefully constructed pits lined with field stone showing the effect of fire. The arrowheads, as well as other flint objects, proved to be of excellent workm.nshiv. There were algo pots with handles, a corn grinder, a krife more than three inches longz and a flint auger, or drill. The archae- | ologists place the date of the relics as | between the stone and the bronze ages --about 2000 B.C., the period of the | earliest known occupation of the re- | | gion which became the capital of the! German Empire. SQUARING THE CIRCLE. In these days of relativity, even the commuter must beware. If parallel lines meet in space, who is to gainsay the contention .Lat a circle need nol be round? The first problem plainly is one for Dr. Einstein. But the circle belongs to the Stadtbahn--Berlin'c efcient and rapid suburban railroad service, Visitors are inclined to mar- vel at the geometric exactitude of its course, It is shown tracing a perfect curvature through th: outskirts, cut- ting through the heart of the city like a ramrod, reaching more distant places such as Potslam, Bernau or Strassburg upon tangents as direct as ! the stroke of a draftsman's pen. Bu! inquiry develops that the engineers who laid out jhe Stadtbahn were not responsible for this geometric. design. Actually the "ring" is an irregular quadrilateral with ovoidal corners which Berliners coripare to a dog's head in a muzzle. Some tracks follow the shores of Berlin's canals. Others dodge here are turn there at unexpect ed places. It just happened that the makers of the maps which are posted in every Stadtbahn car "went mod- ern." They decided to conventionaliz. the chart in the interest of simplicity so that the customers could tell where they were going without bothering to find the way. . PHOTOGRAPHY MADE EASY. Mysteries of the photographic dark- room, where amateur snapshot hunt- ers toil in an eerie light over trays of queer and acrid solutions, have been reduced to the simple process of press. ing a button. Dr, Paul Hatschek, a German physicist, has invented two machines--a '"'zrandometer" and a "kopimeter" that take the guesswork (which, of course, has been half the fun) out of amateur darkroom proce- dure. As every camera enthusiast knows, photographic negatives are not alike all over. They are black in some places and ligh. in others. Now the amateur simply takes Dr. Hats- chek's machine, which is no larger than a man's hand, and attaches it to the lighting circuit. A red cross glows. The amat places the lightest por- tion of the film above the cross and turns a button until the cross is no longer visible. He then places the blackest part of the film over the cross and repeats the action until the cross disappears. Upon a scale he now may read not only the kind of paper on which the negative should be printed but the time which it should be ex- posed. One machine is for use in mak- ing pictures the same size as the nega. SIGNS FOR TRAVELERS. Foreign travel has its complica- tions. Some Berliners recall the con- usion of the wife of a distinguished - i American over the sign: "Not Aus-| Bg." She knew that "Ausgang" |; Classified Advertising N OFFER TO EVERY INVENTOR. List of wanted inventions and full information sent free. The Ay Com any. World Patent Attorneys. 273 Bank Street, Ottawa, Canada. FORMULA. NY FORMULA, $1.00 EACH. WRITE A Midland Laboratory, 308 Burns St, Winnipeg, Man. »P AL. ANDWRITING--CORRECT CHAR=- F ACTER analysis from handwriting, $1.00. 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H \Walkins Adelalde St. Toronto means "exit." But why, she asked, combine it with an English word? It was only after being told that "nct" was not English, but the German for "emergency" that she got the points Travelling will be simpler for her in the future. Berlin has recently ro ceived word that the international ¢ ference of railroad mana7>ment hos agreed upon the first four symbels a "universal" sign language for railroad stations. A question n will appear above the booths. An oper trunk customs department. A chair will in- dicate the waiting room. A crossed cane and umbrella will show the "lost and found" department..--7ihe Chris- tian Science Monitor. to be us inform wiil mark the Good Reaczon One of the clerks at the employ nt agency was considered a bit of a wit, and he was preparing to gain a laugh at the expense of the next in the queue. "Where were you born?" he asked th man--a Scotsman. "Glesca'," was the reply "Glasgow! Whatever for?" the clerk continued. "I wanted to be near mother," said the other with devastating meskness, ap -- The convicts were doing their daily exercise in the prison yard. Two new- comers were carrying on the usual whispered conversation. "How long?" asked one. "Five years," replied the other. "What for?" "Robbing the First Ballyhoo Bank. And you?" 'Ten years." "What for? "I was its man- ager." Irate Father--"I don't like the time you spend canoodling and cuddling my daughter. When I was courting my wife we sat on opposite sides of the room." Prospective Son-in-law--"Well, sir, if 1 had been courting your wife I should have done the same." SEL eon "Jack, the darling, told me I wag the only girl he ever loved." ™ "Yes. and doesn't he say it beautifully." _ ACCOUNTANTS WANTED. UNTANTS AND OFFICE ni tive and the other for enlargements. ty