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9, x} ig KS i 2 7 a XO a XOX 21 XOCXX NOOO a vo, PAX __ BYNOPBIS Michael Borde, 10, unmarried, born and bred In a Birmingham slum, 1s now a wealthy motor manufacturer wrapped up in his business. One day he feels an urge to visit the contryside around his old home and motors up there one . 8pring day. He rescues Daphne Eden from a menacing tramp, falls In love with her and pruposcs. She accepts and introduces him to her fether who greets him with the words, "Get out of here, you cur. <You ruined my home . .. stole my wife . . . broke my life . . . curse you!" In the silence of the inn parlour he painstakingly disentangled a jumble of memories sorted out faces and fig- ments of past happenings. "Gosh! 1 wasn't to blame," he said at last, and stretching himself glanc- ed up at the clock. The hands stecod at two He sprang up alertly. ""Well, anyhow there's the business of the Ynuse to get through first," he said. 'Daphne isn't the sort to bottle up a grievance, I'll leave her to have it all but with the old man, then they will have to hear my story. Ho took off his boots, went quietly upstairs and its says much for the type of man Michael Borde was, for in less than 10 minutes he was aslesp A BIT OF BESOM In the morning Michael got up ear- ly. Freshness of the April breeze came in at the open window as he shaved, he could hear the clamor of rooks, song of thrush and blackbird, and the piping of chiff-chaff, All at once he laid down his razor. It was the notes of the chiff-chaff almost drowned by other songsters, remind- ed him again of Daphne.' MN | The Preeminent Hotel Achievement \ TUDOR HOUSE i By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH . (Author of "Sing for the Moon" "Strange Lovers," etc). i - D DOOR IOOXERIIIRIIIXRRX IRR XX DOORS NINN WV | PCS LOO eee, tened again to the persistent note of e, ot ol The y ol DX) I] LQ) XXX vv, - OOO -, a . » Yesterday when thoy stopped the car, a slender, olive bird had flutter- ed from a hawthorne bush to the willows in the hollow, and the faint echo of his song - had floated up to them and Daphne had laid a finger to her lips. "Spring is here when the chiff-chaff sings," she whispered to him. "He only sings those two notes, yet nobody tires of it." i Michael Borde found himself dis: turbed and his face grew grave. "This won't do," he said, "I'm not a love-sick youth. Anybedy might al- most think--" : He did not finish his thought, but picking up his razer resolutely went on with his shaving. Buoyancy returned. He was going to buy the Manor house. Once the deeds were his he would feel secure. He could go to Daphne and she would not have the heart still to refuse to listen. There was no doubt about it, she had been taken aback yesterday just as much as he. With the optimism: of the man who has never yet failed in anything he has set out to accomplish, Michael Borde ate an excellent breakfast of eggs and bacon, looked at his watch, and decjded to walk to Werberge Lu- cy. His appointment was for ten-thir- ty. } As he walked along that low rutted lane with hedges so high they shut out the view, he visualised the future Smiling pleasantly he saw himself with a dog at his heels, perhaps a gun on his shoulder. A dog certainly of any sort had never interested him. Once, when he had made good over a gigantic deal in cars, which really had precipitated him into manufacturing them, another man had persuaded him he ought to play golf. For three months he tried, then chucked it. Mn- ney-making was pastime enough, He did not need games to keep himself fit. Now turning off from the lane to a cart track where tho winter mud was drying in April sunshine he lis- A PAGE 'MY DIARY FROM by IP.C.2 It's a mystery to me why some men can't take their foot off the accelerator once in a while. I suppose it's some kind of disease'--'"speeditis"' I'd call it--and it takes a real shock of some sort to cure it. it's a For Like hiccoughs only sight more serious. in- stance-- Two days ago, about tea- time, a big car sailed past me this side of Jonesville. Had a clear road all right, but they so | were hopping to it -- thought I'd check up, maybe tell 'em to slow down and a bit, That's how I came to be 'right there when" the crash came, two minutes later, A, I" Did that foolish driver slow down through the village? ot by a jugful. Just went wasn't. ther, And wight by the cross-roads in the middle of the village it happened. Old man Higgins' big police dog ran out right in front. 1 heard the brakes go on then --the car almost lifted itself off the road--I heard a wo- man scream and the dog's last shrick--the car wobbled for a second as it went over the poor tyke, and then it struck the post in front of the store. I was there almost on the second--and what a mess! Radiator and bumper smash- ed, fenders crushed--driver stunned and bleeding, his wife in hysterics, And a poor old dog dead in the road. Why can't people slow down going through towns and villages? You tell me, right on as though the place] Well--I'll be seeing you. H was not sure of the gun, for sport| her ey2s seemed colourless. when I live here," the chiff-chaff and although remem- bering yesterday, he still felt unac- countably sad, the buoyancy that is born of certainty returned. There were cuckoo-flowers in the hedge-bank, their pale lilac buds and blossoms reminders of spring, celandi ines shone golden, primroses gleamed and as he paused for a moment be- side a five-barred gate and looked ac- ross at a furrowed field Michael Borde again remembered ironstone, for the earth shone red. } "There'd be money "in it," thought, and his mouth tightened. Mud squelched as he trod, picking his way rather gingerly. Budding hawthorne reminded him of the days when picking 'bread and cheese" with other urchins these green morsels had seemed good. He stopped pluck- ed half a dozen buds, put them in his mouth biting thoughtfully. Then all at once, up the vale float- ed the call of the euckoo, and Mich- ael Borde bared his had as the old superstition flew back to his memory. "Wish three times when you hear the cuckoo call for the first time. and your wish will be granted." He smiled grimly, turned the mon- ey in his pocket as Warwickshire peo. ple do, and rememberd how once, long ago, but not far from where he stood he had wished for riches. Well he was a millionaire now. Walking on, he came in sight of the Manor house, set in a thickly wooded hollow. Its gables, turrets and chim- neys gave one the impression of a much larger mansion, seen from cer- tain angles, and the many mullioned windows told of the airy spacious rooms within. Michael Borde's face softened. Sun- shine jit up the daffodils, the half-tim- bered gables were partly overgrown with ivy, the ancient chimneys gave it a picturesque air, and he remember- ed with satisfaction that more than two thousand acres went with the old house. Something: worth while that. A pretty good background for one's children, Once upon a time there must. have been a moat and drawbridge, accord- ing to the old prints, and although the house had been built in peaceful times, designed as a home of the fa- mily instead of the great houses that were mere fortresses, there were signs of bombardment from match. he and remembering what he had read, Michael Borde recalled how the Man- or House had suffered during the Ci- vil War. . His hand, encountering coins in his pocket, tightened. 'I've got the dibs," he said. "This is the place for me." He was expected and the butler showed Him into a large room with beautiful' oak panelling and- plaster ceiling bearing the arms of the Ham- ill-Hardys. Here the chimney mould- ing too was very fine, and Borde with his back to the door, was examining this with the eye of a would-be con- noisseur, when he turned sharply hearing a sound. ' "Framed in the doorway, stood a young woman in riding kit, who came forward slowly, her eyes on him. She laid her hunting crop on the table and to Michael's surprise walked up to him, The only touch of colour about her was the vermilion of her lips, Her face was exactly like a mask. Even 'Oh,' she drawled," so you are that man Borde." BN He started. It was exactly as though she had flicked him disdainfully in the face with her gloves. Instantly recov- ering himself, he bowed stiffly. 'My rame is Borde," he said. "And yours?" Her head went up the merest frac- tion, bul her cold grey eyes did not flicker, "I merely wished to see what you were like," she returned. Her calm insolence stung him to a fury. The worst of it was, he reflect ed, afterwards, she must have known this, for Michael Borde who could hold his own with any man, felt his face crimson liko an embarrassed boy, Her hard eyes studied him They reminded him of the sea on a winter's day, grey, with cold fury beneath. Yet something about her, perhaps the way she held herself, impressed him. In spite of 'her arrogant impertinence Michael Borde was interested, Suddenly his eyes twinkled, seeing tho absurdity of this situation, and she wag taken aback. When Michael Borde smiled years were taken off his age, those lines a- bout his mouth vanished, and he look- ed what he was in his off moments, an untutored schoolboy," Watching him, her eyes changed too, and he saw a gleam of interest there. The mask-like face altered to one that was human, 'So you are going to buy Werberge Lucy?" she remarked, Certainly her tone was more civil, "I hope so," he said, with the ver. fest inclination of tho head, "It is the most beautiful house I've ever geen." Watching her, he saw her eyes sof- ten. Do you hunt, she queried abruptly. "Not yet," he answered, "I ghall.., x locks and callivers on the oak doors, Distinctive Quality 708 Fresh from the Gardens E Gems From Life's Scrap Book -- "The eternal stars shine out as seon as it is dark enough."--Carlyle. "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares. --Mary Baker Eddy. "With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's ¢ight grows clearer." --Lowell. : "Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine becomos from the skilful pruning of the bushandman."--Mes- tastasio. "Let me be pruned, that grow.,"--Blishup all) I may "Whatever pur'ficy, sanctifies, and consecrates human * life, is not an enemy, however much we suffer in the processes."--Xiary Baker Eddy, Who Rules U.S.? -- The regular daily and nightly hom} cides, the regular stick-ups and hold- ups, the regular gang shootings and other crimes of violence continue at their regula: rate. They are too tamiliar to be considered news. So, we ask, in all gcod faith, who runs this country? We dcn't see how the decent people can cialm to run it, We don't ever see how the city and stat: and national governments can claim to run it. [Ir the people or the government did run it, do you think for a minute thy: a few thousand criminals could terrorize with fm punity "the -richest and most power. ful nation on earth?' -- New York Journal. Market for Rayon While grocduction of rayon in Cze- choslovakie has notably increased, it i still insufficient to supply domestic demand, according to a report from Nr. Sam E. Woods, commercial at. tache at Prague, mad: to the United States Department of Commerce, Be cause of fashion changes, an enor- mous Increase fn rayon consumption cccurred in' 1933, amounting to 5,800, C00 kilograms, ag compared with only 4,000,000 kilograms in the preceding year. Three rayon factorier were operat- ing during 1933, although one of these was forced {(¢ auspend operations to- ward the close of the year. The total output of these plants amounted to 3,200,000 klicgrams of viscose rayon, And He Won! Consider the recent campaign In the incomparable state of Kansas, One candidate for the state legisla- 'ture boasted of his honorable dis. charge from a local madhouse, In every stump speech, he waved the documents triumphantly, "I have pa- pers here to prove I'm not crazy," he would cry. "Can my opponent say the same?" P.S.--Heegot the job,-- The New Yorker, Thief Carries Off 200-Pound Safe JOHNSTOWN, . Pa, -- Chas. Per- ando, 37, is serving two to four years for Johnstown's most ambitious rob- bery, containing A 200 pound safe, $1,000, was carfied from a store, pried open and ther submerged in a creek. iL lieved! In hot weather, end indigestion HORA Gisndre oceur more fr. quently, Also children may Pay too hard, Mrs, Mary Mason, 53 Atlantic Bt, Halifax, N.8., eay, ('When the children. are overti ond restless in'warm weather I give them Baby's Own Tablets be- ore retiring and inf the mornin they are. happy, contented chi dren", Safe Sven for the tinjest baby, thesorweet ittletabletaeffecs Bint, ie ov od i noms o fover disorders, . \* Hines = (To be continged) ' Dr Williams: 260 package. 3/0~ BABY'S OWN TABLETS { A- Museum J wing. A fine feathery edging has to EXPERT DENIES FEMALES MORE DEADLY THAN MALE New York--Kipling was all wrong in the opinion of Dr. W. Reid Blair, when he observed that the fe- male of the species is more deadly than the male. Dr. Blair is in a position to know a lot about animals, boih sexes. He is director of the New York Zoologi- cal Park--Bronx Zoo to the nature- loving, bear-feeding and lawn-litter- ing public. ) The male of the species, Dr, Blair declared today, is more dangerous, more powerful and more courageous than its mate. "Among the higher forms of ani- mal life" he said, "tha males are larger, fierrer and better equipped with defensive and offensive wea- pons. "It has been ny experience, hand- ling ull sorts of animals here at the 200, that the males are much harder to handle, much more dangerous than the females," . The reason, he sald, 1s that upon the rales falls the Yurden of pro- tecting and providing for the home. He gave credit to the females for greater docility, gentleness and adaptability, He also *hinks females exLibt more intelligence in captivity --if intelligence is rezarded as the ability. ot a creature fo meet new situatiors. Tha females are less obstinate and Director of New York Zoological Park Says Male bf the Species is More Powerful Than It's Mate headstrong than their mates, he as- serted. In some high orders of the animal world, notably among ile birds of prey, the female is larger than the male, Even then, Dr. Blair said, the male makes up for his deficiency in size by possessing more dash and courage, So, in Dr. Blair's opinion, Kipling was merely taking advantage of his nice-sounding, but unscientific adage. ts ouly basis in fact, he said, is that sometimes the females shows a little more subtlety in its method of attack, ) Dr. Blair mentioned that down in the hasement of the animal world, amang the lower and more primitive creatures such as insects and crus- taceans, the female is usuaily larger and stronger than the male. Frequently, she kills and devours him after all biological -responyibili- ties have been met. But going up the scale of lite Into the more advanced forms, the mam- mals fcr instance, including man, woman's place is In the home and hers is the subordinate, domestic role. Since this pattern of nature's seems contrary to the ideals of staunch feminists such as public office-hold- ing, trans-Atlantic flying women,-- Dr. Blair discreetly deciined to do any theorizing or interpreting. Models Flies Woman is 'Responsible for - Insect Replicas at London Down a long, na'row passage, made narrower by the procession of mam- moth skulls stretching along it in dim perspective; pas' bays heaped night. marishly wi'h antlesed heads; and 80, at 'ast, up a ladderlike staircase to the west tower. » This {8 not tho epening of a thrill- er; merely a sumtaary of the devious ways behind the scenes at the Natur- al History Musecura, South Kensing- ton, London, Eng, by which one comes into the presence of the woman who 8 responsitie for those enor mous wax mniodels of flies and cater- pillars and mosquitoes which, placed in the glass cases of the entrance hall, have served as an interest-quicken- ing introduction to the Museum, Titivating the Monster See Miss Grace Edwards, in her towerroon, "iitivatsng - w ~nioifstrous waxen malaria mosquito, At present it le net quite iteelf; {ts evil, grey- ish body hovers on fts stand with only one wing; {te head glares bale fully, waving outraged antennae from a neighboring stand. But it is better met in this undressed state than in its finished glery, because now the intricacies of its construc tion are laid bare. The stages of {ts evolution are many. First of ali there it is life size--and so small that you involun- tarily crinkle up your cyes at it---in a little glass.covered box. Magnity- ing glasses and" book-illustrations assist at the various enlarged draw- Ings, which must be rigldly accurate and to gcale, When these have been done the actnal modelling can begin, A plaster cast of tbe body having bean made from a preliminary model, the wax is heated, correctly tinted, and then poured into this mould to cool and harden over central wires. Authentic Sheen When the body ccmes out of the mould the exact markings of the mosquito are painted on it, and, since the mosquito is a hairy fellow, it is stuck with dozens of real hair bris- tles, or stiffened silk "hairs." The wing-frames are then made of fine wire, bent and soldered into a beautiful tracery; on to this a gum. med fine silk muelin, which is var rose and green shcen of an insect's be gummed all round the wings. Thare is then the wicked head to be moanlded, proboscis and all, and the delicate antennae carefully poised, Then the Monster is assembled and mounted, poised high on a' stand, with wax models of'its larvae and pupa beside it, and, behold, it is tow long doe: ail this take? At any rate severa, weeks; such works of art cannat b= turned out to a fac- tory time-schedule. ' Aud that they are works of art, experts of all notions will testify, even the laymar can judge how ex. pert a modeller Miss Edwards is from a case in the Mugeum 'entrance hall, shewing a meal of bam and a roll with hoase-flies or it. The ham l00ks succulently real, the roll rather dry. A mouthful of wax would be your reward if you bit into either of them, rhe aspiring weign well the aurt-student should list of necessary qualifications before choosing this futerecting, but exacting career, First, » painstaking saccurracy of dranghtemanship in the preliminary skatches. nex: an uncanny skill in modelling and. thirdly, a color-sense keen enough to vope with the inde terminate; mingiinz shades of nature. That there are candidates who can pas8 thi: searching test 1s evident by the fact that, of late years, some of the. provincia! museums--notably Liverpoo: and Cardaiff--have enlisted a woman modeller te make such wax morsels as they may require. Ideas Wanted Artists and Authors, Amat- eur or Professional are invit- ed to send us saleable Sket- ches, Illustrations; Designs, Short Stories and Articles. ARE YOU ARTISTICALLY INCLINED? We offer you practical in- struction and criticism on Paintings, Landscapes and Flowers in Wafer Colours: Send a three cent stamped envelope for full inform- ation: Ideas Unlimited Thirty-Nine Lee Avenue, Toronto nished and tinted with the authentic | - CAN'T SLIP OR SLIDE FALSE TEETH Don't use any old kind of remedy to keep false teethin place--uso a reliable, recognized one which dentists prescribe such as Dri Wernet's Powder--the largest seller in the world--grips teeth 80 secure yet comfortable they fee] natu« ral, Positively no slipping or clicking-- blissful comfort assured all day long: Forma a special comfort cushion'to pro tect and sooth gums: No colored, gum my paste-keeps mouth sanitary-breath pleasant, Inexpénsive---all druggiste: ready to make its bow to the publie, Issue No, 28-'34 Black Hole Victims A new heory that the victims of the Biac} Hole of Calcutta died from heat stroke and not of asphyxia was advanced by Professor J, Barcroft, Prolessor of Phyelology at Cambridge, in a lectyre before tbo Research De tenie Soclety in London, One of the greatest lving au. thorities on respiration, Professor Barcrott has often risked his life while carrying out his experiments, On vin accaslon during the war, when there was a dispute among selentists as to elflcacy cf prussie acid gas In warfare, ke went with a dog Into a chaaiber flled with the gas. The ani ma! was dead within 1 minutes 85 seconds. but Mr. Barcrofl walked out ungcatked Professor Beararoft, who 1s a meniher of the Chemical Warfare Concriltee of the War Oftice, refer- red te the problems or the protection of Lcndon from alr raids. "One possible procedure," he cone tinted,. "would be to have subterran- ean ronms in which the essential ser- vices could be carried on, and 1 was asked how many persons could, in an extreme case, werk in ap unventilated room of a certain tize. The first is- sue was this, if a certain number of pe-pls are In & closed room, what is the escential factor which will reduce the quality of their work? In a small - way it is the same problem as that of what killed the people in the Black Hole of Calcutty "History has always assumed that they died of asphyxia Modern views of ventilation ai point ip a different dircetion, namely. that they dled of heat stroke. If there 18 no through curcent and the amount of heat pro- duced by persons in a room is greater thau the walls of the room can carry tants must riss, and in the extreme care fatelly. --Londou Daily Tele graph, - z ~ aa See Bouncing iy Of Lightning Pittsfield, Mass.--Photos of a stroke of lightning, which bounced up and down ten times between the earth and a cloud, although to the eye it seemed a single flash, were made pu-\ blic recently The lightning was caught In a storm here this month by a camera filo. travelling a mile a minute and operated by General Electric engin- eers, The first stroke was down, fairly bright, and considerably forked, It appeared to grease a pathway in the air for what followed. This "grease" was ionization, a chain of air partj- cles reaching from cloud to earth, all so highly electrified that they prob- -ably made an air column more con- ducive than the best copper wire. For a millionth of a second after the first stroke the film was dark. Then down the ionized airway a thin.' dart of electricity shot from cloud to ground, As it faded a streak of fire shot upward, a tremendously heavy stroke travelling from the ground tu the cloud. y The downward darts travelled at speeds ranging from about 2800 miles a' second up to around 7500 miles, The big upward strokes showed speeds of 14000 up to 23000 miles a second. The light downward strokes are called "leaders." Whether they are. real data or just long thin lines of electricity, is in doubt, The picture evidence at present indicates they are more dartlike than anything else wir ' Deceiving the ~ Partridge On a neighboring estate the pheas. onts have been exaggerating an old, but not a frequent eccentricity, ob- serves the London Spectator. Not cne, but half a dozen, have laid eggs in partridge nests along with. the partridge's eggs. boa The pariridges, which, both male and temale, are among the best para «nts within the kingdom of birds, will on occasion seratch nvt or kick out the interloper's-eggs; and in any cvent the partridge, not the pheasant, will take possession in brooding time, Why the birds should double up in thig) way when sites are innumerable an to nest is bulit passes compre hensioh. ® The partridge mag be aware of tho difference betweer its own eggs and the larger eggs of the rheasant; but the nest-egg quite deceives it," This year several score of partridge nesls made by road or path-side have been found and robbed of the eggs for which mitations are substituted, The real eggs are gmt under hens, and as soon as they begin to chip they are hurriedly restored to the real varent, By this device, which has greatly increased the stock, of part ridges, the birds run the minimum risk of being disturbed by man or vermin or predatory 'birds, The courage and skill of the par ents when once the chicks are born secure the brood against most of the dangers that threaten the eggs in the nest, EE away, the temperature ci the inhabi. = »,