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7 iy AR et Te) Nos 3 oh r, hp GREEN 1 RB BS a as oo a SYNOPEIS Maud Barron awakes with a pre- monttion of disaster. She hears padding footsteps. Rushing into her father's study she tinds him dead. "Magnesium," said the other shortly. "Guess that was the flash his daughter saw." He turned the key in the lock and held out his hand. "See you tomorrow, maybe. Good- night. I'm tired. Always feel like this when thunder is on the way. Bet we'll have a storm tomorrow." © He went down the stairs yawning and mopping his head. Foster called to one of the maids who appeared just then in the hall. "Is Miss Barron able to see any- one yet?" "I'll see, sir. She has recovered a bit--" "Tell her not to bother if would rather rest. I can wait." He went into the drawing room and began to pace the floor, beating hig fists into his palms as he march- ed up and down in restlessness, He was still walking about, ten minutes later, when the door opened and Maud Barron entered. He shook bands, scrutinising her keenly. "I wanted to tell you that I am al your service in any way," he said. "Thank you, doctor." She sank into a chair. She seemed dazed, hardly yet understanding the tragedy that had come to her. Her face was drawn and haggard, but she -------- rhe strove to overcome her feelings; and clasped her hands in her lap while her gaze was fixed on the har- bour and the twinkling lights of the ghips at anchor. Foster had met her on many oc- casions, both on the ship and in England. He had stayed once at her home in Surrey for a week-end with a fellow officer, a man of his own age, who was captain of a sister ship. He wondered if the truth was that this girl and the captain were attracted towards each other, He could quite believe it. She had a fair beauty that was soft and charming. "I sent for you, Dr. Foster," she said at last, "because you are the cnly one I could think of." "I am ready to help in any way---" "Do you think he--he--took--his , own life?" 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There wuz something majestic in her grief sciacthing noble in her humili'y, Sidney saw her as he had never seen her previously. There she stood, full-bosomed, not a sharp angle in her outline and form, a woman de- veloped and fashioned as ideal wo- men are fashioned, smooth skinned, rounded with the beauty of one who is naturally clean and fresh and wholesome as Eve. Her hands were clasped in front of her and as she stood there under the brilliant light of the chandelier Foster felt a thrill pass through his frame. She was beautiful, wonderful just then. ' "I do not believe he took his own life," said Foster firmly. And he meant it. "The other doctor thinks so. 1 heard him say it. The revolver was there by his feet. I have never seen him with a weapon like that, nor with such a weapon at all--" "It was not his, then?" "I cannot think that he had it and did not tell me he had it. I had ac- cess to his private papers and his desk. I used to help him with his correspondence--not his most in- timate business letters, but general- ly--but I know he was afraid----" "Afraid?" "Yes. She hesitated and her fingers tightened. A shudder passed over her and she sank into a chair. There was a silence during which she strove to check the emotion that almost overcame her. Foster's brow wrinkled. or "Tell me this," he said gently. "Had your father any enemies?" She nodded, unable to speak for the moment. "What was he working at in study tonight?" pursued Foster. "His photography. He always was a keen amateur, but lately he de- veloped a kind of craze for taking pictures. He used to take them any time, at night as well as day. He often took flashlight pictures of the forest, at least that is what he told me he was doing these last few nights----" "Then it 'was the trace of mag- nesium-that--¥-smelled in his room? His camera was upset. Do you think that he may have set off some of the magnesium by error and the flash may have' given him a fright. His heart was weak, was it not?" It was not too strong, and I cer- tainly saw a flash as of his mag- nesium flaring just before 1 heard his groan. But that does not explain the revolver. Why should he ac- cidentally set off his flashlight -- it was not a revolver shot I heard--if he contemplated such an act? No, I heard nothing in the nature of a shot. And yet one revolver was there. She could not speak any more, and let her head\{all on her hands while her form sho®Rk with the sobs that convulsed her. "I think yo his had better lie down, Miss Barron," Ye said gently. He called her id _and saw that she was taken up to hér room, then he returned to the drawing room. The negro who acted as butler in the house was moving about the hall like a dark shadow. Foster called to him, "Yaas, sah." © "Did you hear anything at all before Miss Barron aroused: the household--any sound out of the ordinary, anything suspicious?" "No sound, suh. I bin sleepin' like a squirrel in de wintah, suh." (To Be Continued.) For Baby's Bath More than that of any other member of the family; baby's tender, delicate skin needs 'the greatest care and attention: The soft, soothing oils in Baby's Own Soap make it specially suitable for babies, and its clinging fra- gidnce reminds one of the roses of France which help to inspire it. "10s best for you and Baby too" 27.28 #eor er, ean for.to measure won't allt out du : Issue No. 23 -- '35 16 ' 'no such prediction. Your Handwriting Reveals Your All Rights Reserved Geoffrey St. Clair Graphologist (Editor's Note: Letters continue to come in in increasing volume, as more and more of our readers wish to avail themselves of the help and intimate guidance of this well-known Graphologist, Do YOU need his help? Your letter will be confidential. See article for details). Is a young wife doing the right thing by encouraging the attentions of a single young man without the knowledge of her husband? Here is part of a letter I have just received which is self-explanatory: "Dear Mr. St. Clair--I am 23 years old, good-looking and before I was married, four years ago, was popu- lar with both sexes® My husband is older than' I am, being 37 years of age, but for all that, I am very much in love with him and he with me. Unfortunately, however, he is called away frequently to work, sometim- es several weeks elapsing beofre he returns home, and it is impossible for me to go with him on these oc- casions. You will appreciate that I am thus left very lonely, and being young, like to have at least a fairly good time. I have been going out, of course, and on one of 'these oc- casions, when my husband was away, became acquainted with a very like- able young man, about my own age. He comes from a good family, and took a liking to me, so that he asked me quite often to let him take me out. There is nothing emotional about our friendship; it is entirely platonic, but for some ..reason or other I didn't tell my husband about him, really, I think, because it didn't oc- cur to me that it was worth telling about. Now that we see each other quite often, it doesn't seem possibl2 for me to tell my husband, and I am beginning to worry a little, because I wouldn't want him to be. worried. Is there anything you can tell me or advise that might help me solve this little problem?" I can quite appreciate the lone- liness that this young married lady has to put up with when her husband is away for long stretches, and the temptation to make friends too while away the lonely hours. The difference in the ages of this lady and her hus- band is considerable, and if there was any question--of -incompatibility- or divergence of opinions between them, an affir of the type that she descrives would certainly complicate matters. * ' However, she says that she is very much in love with her husband and there is, apparently," no bone of con- tention, It thus simplifies the case to a matter of loneliness and the necessity of having friends. It is a peculiar fact that in cases of this kind, the friend who appears to constitute a problem is always a member of the opposite sex. I sup- pose that this is natural because of the humanness of people and the natural attraction of the sexes. But it certainly provides a source of potential trouble and unhappiness, and in thé present case, this is in- creased by the fact that the husband has been kept unaware of the friend- ship. ; This is the point that can provide the spark of real danger, because the husband is quite likely to place a rather suspicious complexion on the affair when it comes to his attention, and it is certain to do so before long My advice to my correspondent is to tell her husband. After all, he is not an ogre, and it is -a hundred chances to one that if the wife tells him all about it, without placing too vital a stress on it, he will under- stand. Then the young man may be invited to the house when the hus- band is present, and in that way, a family friendship begun. I have neglected to speak of the possibilities--almost probabilities -- that the young man might eventually feel more than platonic to thiz young wife, rnd start further com- plications, because I feel that, at this stage, a frank explanation on the wife's part will clear. up any vestige of difficulty arising from the situation. Have you any problem that Mr. St. Clair can advise you upon? Would you like his help? Have you any friends whose true characters you would like to know? Perhaps you merely wish to know what YOUR handwriting reveals of yourself. Send specimens of the writings you wish to be analysed, stating birth date in each case. Send 10c coin for each specimen, and include with a Geoffrey St. Clair,. Room. 421, 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ont. Letters will be confidential and re- plies mailed as quickly as possible. Heavy Water Cure Its Effect on Slowing Heart Action Is Put to Test Drs. T. Cunliffe Barnes and J. War- ren of the Osborn Zoological Labor- atory, Yale, cut out frogs' hearts, put some in ordinary water and some in heavy water. Reporting in Science, they -relate that in ordinary water the frogs' hearts beat ten times in eleven seconds, but in heavy water only ten times in more than sixteen seconds. -~This slowing effect- may -have -its uses in the treatment of fast hearts. But Drs. Barnes and Warren make More experim- ents must be conducted with higher mammals--rats, rabbits and the like --before heavy water can be prescrib- ed for human beings whose hearts are in a violent flutter. Besides the lojvest price thus far quoted for heavy water is $2 a milligram--about six- teen drops. That heavy water should the heart js natural. Chemical sys- tems in which heavy hydrogen is found have less energy than others. Hence a slowing down should have an effect llke that brought about by bathing in ice water. A Farmer's Luck A despatch from Dundalk, Ont, to a Toronto paper, says: "Hardluck has been dogging R. Osborne, of Wareham. His daughter has been gerfously ill in a, Toronto hospital. His wife was thrown from a buggy and badly shaken up. In the mix-up the vehicle was damaged and the horge hurt. During this time Mr. Os- borne was "batching it' and making maple syrup. One boiling of - maple syrup burned and was no good. As if this were not enough, the fire from his camp ignited a cedar stump near- by and burned the cross-cut saw. Upon extinguishing the fire, Mr, Os- borne came up to his barnyard only to discover that a large brown hawk had killed a number of hens. He set a trap and caught the hawk. The bird. was shipped to Riverdale Park in Toronto." The two healthiest places in Eng- land and Wales, accepting the avers age age of the inhabitants as a guide; are Thurstanland, in the West Rid- ing of Yorkehire, and Aberayron, in Cardigan, In both these villages the average age is forty and a half, retard. Devoted Kingfishers Observes the Calgary Herald: -- "Were the degree of marital affection of a pair of kingfirhers judged by the sweetness of their notes, they would rank low in the scale of lovers. In- stead of softening and growing sweet, as the notes of most birds do during the nesting season, the en- dearments of such a pair are strident shrieks, best simulated by the rapid turning of an old-fashioned watch- man's rattle. ; To watch a pair of these birds as they fly well above the tree tops along the rivers --= and every strech of the Bow and Elbow has its guota of kingfishers--is to imagine a real domestic squabble in progress, for their harsh voices belie the tender feelings which they are trying to express. But like "Maggie and Jiggs," be-. hind all the apparent bickering, they are a most devoted couple, with a strong homing instinct which makes them return year after year to the tunnelled home in a river bank where they have raised suc- cessive broods. Therefore it is a matter of lack of voice culture that creates the impression of churlish- ness. - It is from the kingfisher that the expression of "halcyon days" has its origin, for the old-fashioned name of this bird is the Halcyon. According to ancient fable -- and like so many of them, showing grave lack of knowledge of naturai habits of -animal life -- the halcyons were believed: to build their nest in the form of a crude raft, floating on the sea, and to possess a mysterious power over the elements to calm the troubled waters while the eggs were hatching and the young birds were being reared. 4 And so the halcyon days, in the minds of the simple people of those times, were synonymous with days of fair weather." , : Examination Howlers ------ @A catacomb fs the thing on the top of the rooster's head." "Hansom was the name of a fam-}| oue, good-looking cab driver." "The Pllgrim fathers left the Dutch people on account of their language." "Napoleon escaped from Melba." "Kdgar Wallace was chosen King of Scotland by Edward the First." | "The Merry Monarch wag Old King Cole." SE "A republic is a place where no- body can do anything in private." | "Ramsay MacDonald is the prime mixture of England." / a STAR GAZING A FINE PUZZLE GAME Life may well' exist on Mars, says Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg, of Tordnto, one of Canada's three women astro- nomers, "There is oxygen there, though it is only 1-1000th of the content of our air. In their summer, which is twice as long as ours, the polar ice caps melt," Dr. Hogg stated, "The only other planet in our solar system on which physical conditions for life existed was Venus, which had so much cloud around fit it was impossible to pierce it with a tele- scope." She thought it pos:ible there might be other solar systems like our own, id To Dr. Helen Hogg, who has just come from the Empire's second larg- "est observatory at Vivtoria, B.C., to, the largest Empire telescope, the Dunlap Memorial, at Richmond Hill, Ont,, Her work is a 'grand puzzle- gam" gnd finding the answers is the 'big kick she gets out of life, accord- ing to fin interview in the Toronto Daily - tar. ; Dr. Hogg has come here. with he husbapd astroomer, a Toronto grad- uate whom she met at the Harvard observatory. She is discovering "in- constant" stars in certain beautiful circular = masses ~ called "globular clusters," which contain as many as 50,000 stars, all in a group brighter than the sun although invisible to the naked eye. } Her work confines her to about 100 of the:e multifoliate clusters, all of which are above and below the Milky" these stars vary in light, it is pos. sible to work out their distance from the earth," explained Dr, Hogg, Only one or two out of the 50,000 or more stars in the cluster may be variable, so her work is very pains- taking, First she takes a photograph. 3c_stamped addressed envelope, to: -e-Fecord:-- (en Some tific -- Tater makes other photographs of the same cluster. One negative is placed over the other to see which stars have var- ied in size. She takes as many as 20 plates of each cluster, Pig il Dr. Helen Hogg has already taken 400 plates on eight clusters at Vie- toria; this has taken eight years-- for there are 'complicated mathe- matics to work out too, She hag six .to eight more clusters to work on here and each will take about two years Tree Planting (Forestry News Digest.) Planting of 164,000,000 trees on state and national forest lands in 1934 sets a yearly record to date in the United States, reports the Amer- ican Tree Association. The = report shows more than 86,204,000 trees were planted on state forest areas of more than 85,000 acres. On the national forests there were planted more than 78,000,000 trees on more than 77,000 acres. Planting programs for 1935 now well advanced and the expec- tation is that there will be consid- erable increase in plantings on state forests while it is expected 100, 000,000 trees will be planted on na- tional forests, There are Spring plantings in the shelter belt area aggregating 2,000,000 trees. This is a .small amount compared with what can be done in 'the same area in the proposed 10-year planting pro- gram, but the 2,000,000 seedlings are all that are available. are Test your weight at a slot machine' and get a £40 life policy lasting twen- ty-four hours for a penny. A plan of automatic insurance is to be sold through automatic weighing mach- inces has been presented to the Ok. lahoma State Insurance Commission. 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Clocks of all ages, fro models showing the - earliest known method of recording time to shining little engines encased in steel and mirror glass personifying the pres-| ent day, are on display. A striking example of the changes which have been wrought during the past twenty-five years is manifest. There is a group of clocks dated 1910--the year of the King's acces- sion--flambouyant affairs of marble, gilt, or bronze. A loan collection is in the case adjoining them. There is comparatively small difference be- tween these 1910 models and those made two and three hundred years earlier. . But.match them with the wonder- ful clocks of today and tomorrow, land you will see changes-.so great that 'the same name seems hardly applicable. ; 9 These newest clocks are like mo- dern life itsel®--hard, brittle, shin- ing, crytic; devoid of everything that could possibly be . considered superfluous. Detail in the way of minutes has been obliterated. Fig- ures have given place to a stroke or a dot indicating the hour. ing shown in London is extremely he told me. heen born an 'only'! [larger family. LARGE FAMILES VERSUS SMALL ONES To Which Would You Rather Belong? : -- Her twenty-second baby! That was a German mother's recent re. . cord and Hitler became the god- father, writes Eileen Elias in the London Daily Mirror, | 14 It set me. thinking. Is there, after all, something to Ibe said for the old-fashioned fam- ily? ; : I rounded up a number of people on the telephone, and asked them their opinion. The majority were in favor of a family of three or more-- and quite often more! : x "Give me a good old-fashioned family!" said one girl. 'It's so much - jollier: We children always enjoyed: everything twice as much because we were a 'crowd, Of course there wasn't so much money to go round --but then there's a lot ¢f fun in sharing. And now we're grown up, our nephews and nieces do add color to our lives." Quite the reverse was the opinion 'of a young man whom I called up. "Relations are the pest of my life," "I wish to heaven I'd You get priv- acy in a small family; you can de- velop along your own lines. And of course you get more opportunitics, Yeu have the benefit of a good sfart in life or PARENTS' ATTITUDE What is fhe parents' attitude? " Business men scem to favor the The only child is us- ually a disappointment, a bank man- ager told me. He rarely shares his father's interests, or wants to come into the business. With thrée or four children there is more chance. Perhaps town and country have something to do with it. A country mother Was all for a biz family. Many hands, she reminded me, make: work light, and a big family is more helpful. "You don't hear so many grumbles," she added, "or so many wails of 'What can_ 1 do. next,' There's more team spirit about the large family." Fite 'But a townswoman friend was otherwise inclined. : "Children? 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