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-- a PS A Em re nn i pn Ae Eg eh Feat) Pages oS AA a Ro o = RAL Suntfs ) ae hy x AS =k Sa, a = ek af A) * -- 2 BE = EE EET -- 5 Drawing For Farms ] CANADA i in ha) THE EMPIRE Q (25° THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA FASHION NOTE Talking about epidemics, have you noticed how the ladies are coming out in spots?--Hamilton Spectator, AND NOW--QUINTULIPS W. R, Thompson, Main Street, has a curiosity in his flower garden this spring, where an old-fachioned yel- low tulip has crashcd to the front page by producing five blooms on one stem. Both mother-plant and blooms are doing well--a fine family of "quintulips." -- Petrolia Advertiser- Topie, WHEN THE LILACS BLOOM The world may be going complete- ly to the dogs, as some people af- firm, but it is hard to believe it when lilacs are in bloom and strawberry shortcake soason fs in the offing.-- London Advertiser, GOOD DRIVERS, The majority of drivers go along year after year without mishap; they arg the conscientious people who re- alize thelr responsibilities and are not obsessed with the mania for speed nor with taat dangerous; com- plex which expresses itself in the taking of chances, They are ever on the alert, guard- ing against the possibilities of dan- ger, avoiding risks, never plunging heedlessly into situations in which the unknown or unseen constitute a potential menace. In other words, they proceed on their way, with their eyes w'de open and theiv minds centred on the respon ible work ih hand, -- Hawmilicn Spectator. MYSTER YFICTION, Poedictions of literary prophets that the craze for mystery fiction was on the wane and would soon be ended does not seem to be working out that way. I'or the last half dozen years wiseacres in (he book world have . persistently stated that the modern detective «tory was losing ground, that its day was about done. The public, they safd, had sickened on the diet of murder and horror which was being served up to it, and that other forms of light reading would take its place, Perusal of circulation cards in the public libraries does not bear out this opinion, Today the mystery story still re- mains one of the biggest sellers on the hook store shelves, And it is most emphatically not because mystery fic- tion has improved. It hasi"t.--Chat- ham News, MORE EVIDENCE. The extent to which reckless driv- ing is responsible for grade-crossing accidents is shown by data submitted by the Safety Section of the Asso- clation of "American Railroads. Qut of 3,322 accidents of this kind -in 1934, it is stated that one out of overy five resulted from motor veh- icles being driven into the side of trains, In many cases this happened when trains were standing still. In such collisions 287 persons were kill- ed and 1865 injured. The association includes lines in Canada as well as the United States. Canadian metorists have certainly done thelr fair share in piling up the accident total, --Winnipeg Tribune, RADIO PILLOWS. There is no end tg inventions to make the li:tening to radio pro- grams comfortable to the very lazl- est of fans, There {8 one new idea that is also a _comfort to those wo do not want to listen, which some- times is a whole neighborhood. With a pillow of the type now in- vented it is said you will be able to go to bed and listen to the radio all night if you chooze without stern injunctions from others to turn the thing off. A sensitive set is concealed in the sponge rubber interior of the pillow and the reproduced sound can bo heard only when the ear is rest- ing.on the pillow. It was a feature of this year's ra- dio and electrical exhibition at Syd- ney, in Australia.--Brandon Sun, .. UNCONGENIAL OCCUPATIONS \ methods of stopping . The most unhappy people on earth are those who are in uncongenial oc- cupations, who got {he wrong kind of éducations and jobs and had to bo content to be forever square pegs in round holes, With good advice from the vocational guidance council, many suoh mistakes will be eliminated, -- Niagara Falls Review, : AIRPLANES AND RAYS. Recent reports from Italy of the airplanes by rays sound rather fantastic to the ears of professional physicists, { There Is ohe imporiant general con: pideration to he remembered when -, claims of this sort are béing advanc- ed. When rays have effects at great ~ distances, as with radlp waves, it is due to the efforts of the receiver to li do everything he can to detect the rays. He uses receiving circuits and valves of extreme sensitiveness, But if a person does not want to re- celve waves that might interfere with his engine or himself he does not need sensitive, but insensitive, ap- paratus--that is, armor to protect him, It is very much easier to make Insensitive than to make sensitive apparatus, and in fact an enclosure of thin metal foil should be sufficient to protect an engine or delicate part of a machine from any known sort of electrical ray coming from a source more than a few yards away.--Man- chester Guardian, STRIPPING THE FORESTS There is and always has been too much ruthless stripping of the for- ests, particularly the watersheds of this country. And the results are with us today. What with this ruth- less cutting and the ravages of for- est fires and incests, the Canadian wood supply is being depleted with all the attendant detrimental effects. There {s, as one example, great concern about falling levels in the St. Lawrence waterways, and the greatest cause, we are convinced, is this very stripping of the watersheds and the banks of streams tributaries to the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, --Halifax_Herald. - CHASING THE HITCH-HIKERS. Hitch-hiking still continues to con- stitute itself a major nuisance along the highways, although those who engage in this cheap but bothersome way of travelling report that drivers are becoming increa ing'y havd-heart- ed and free rides are correspond ngly more difficult to obtain, After all, why should motoris's be expected to pick up individuals along our roads and supply them with free transportation?... pry The hitch- hiker is sometimes a danger, and is always a nuisance, and 'it is not surprising to find the auth- 'orities in many sections of the con- t'nent declaring war on the persons who beg free rides.--Peterboro Ex- aminer. A CAT AND A BIRD. It is possible to domesticate a cat and make of it a delightful indoor companion, but let it out for an hour and it reverts to the life of its an- cestars, The cat has not improved a particle in a thou:and years of world progress, It will rend a young robin as ruthlessly -ag. its ancestors did in the days of Julius Caesar. -- Toronto Star, FARM FATALITIES. Last year, on farms of the Domin- fon, 37 persons were fatally injured by animals, 11 by falls from loads, 28 through belng struck by animal- drawn vehicles and implements, 10 as results of -sunstroke, ete. The to- tal of 150 fatalities gives some slight indication of the number of non-fatal accidents that occur. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, The EMPIRE THE OLD BOOKS AND SONGS, An anchor of sanity in a bewilder- ing world. That is how we should regard the old songs and the old books that Britain has befriended for many decades and still holds close in her heart. "Lorna Doone," "David Copperfield, "Treasure Island," still live, And "Home Sweet Home" and "Love's Old Sweet Song," still live, too. There is a revealing glimpse of human loyalty in the publisher's list of the 100 Best Selling novels, We cling to thoie books because their sentiment fs true, universal and for all time.-----Manchester Sunday Chron- icle, THE KING'S TUTOR, James Neale Dalton toured the world with the young Princes in the Britannia and the Ophir, His sturdy character and hig mind, as human as it was scholarly, were a strong influ. ence in building up the character of King George; a character which has slowly impressed itself upon a troub- led Empiro as the ideal of what a constitutional ruler should be. During the months of Jubilee celebration the eyes of all tho world are upon King icorge,. But we may allow ourselves | to glance aside from the central fig- ure for a moment to the wonderful old man who was his tutor, Only a few years have passed since Canon Dalton stamped through the Cloisters of Windsor, a loud.voiced veteran, striking terror and awe in all who beheld him.---~Hector Bolitho, in The Fortnightly (London), FARM PROBLEMC IN BRITAIN, The decline in the number of men employed upon the land has within the last sixty years heen very great; at the game time the small farms ih a ii aa ms mall - ------ "Five hundred families await their turns to draw lots for tracts in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, U.S., rehabilitation project. W. McCormick, first to draw, announces his luck to the crowd. Martin restore them. The small mixed farm has become definitely uneconomic in Britain, as in most Continental coun- tries, and every "year of progress, ev- ery invention of science and machin. ery, Increases the efliciency of the large farm as compared with the small, Further employment upon the land §s to be obtained, not by a return to earlier conditions of sub-division, but by an inten:ification of the meth- ods of production on larger units of cultivation, Under organisation even modern production of certain select- ed commodities will admit of the par- ticipation of sngleman units, the lack of efficiency of which is offset by the soclal and psychological advan. tages they confer.--A. D. Hall in The Niweloenth Century and After (Lon- don), VALUES DOWN Litter Of Ten Silver Foxes Once Worth $65,000 In Cash Charlottetown, -- P h otographers have been out taking pictures of 10 little baby foxes all of one litter, at the ranch of Col. Fred Andrew. This litter of 10, although it does]. not get the spotlight of the Dionne quintuplets, would have caused some- what of a sensation back in the boom years when fabulous sums were paid for Prince Edward Island pups, a prominent rancher commented. "That litter in 1913," the rancher said, "would have been "worth at least $65, 000, or an ayarage of $6,- 500 apiece." ~~ And then he went on te tell of the bull market on foxes and sales conditions in the good old. days. "As a matter of fact I sold options around May 15, 1913, for -other ranchers at $14,000 a pair and a few weeks later sold six pairs for the Tuplin Fox Corporation, acting through their Charlottetown agents, for $16,000 a pair." ed Fair Attractions Legis The Directors of the Ontario As- sociation of Agricultural Societies, at a recent' meeting, discussed at length attractions for fall fairs. It was agreed judging should be arranged to afford educational op- portunities and be as attractive as possible. Suitable rings should be provided for all live stock and the names of winners should appear on hall exhibits, Inter-community competitions were recommended, such as special prizes for Women's Institute displays. Jun- ior classes have been found to arouse much interest and this year Agricul- tural Societies are sponsoring over 180 clubs for boys and girls. In addition to the ugual attractions, the following were suggested, having been tried by Societies and requiring little cash outlay: Antique displays. Oxen demonstrations. Hitching, driving and riding com- petitions. Milk maid contests, Horse drawing competitions, - Classes for jumping horses. Teams for horses, versus six eight men. Horse back wrestling. Sheaf binding competitions, Log sawing. Potato races. 2] Musical chairs--mounted. Band competitions; old = time dlers' contests, ete. Demonstrations of various kinds. or "fd ENTHUSIASM have been diminishing fn numbers, in spite of the legislative attempts to "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~Kmerson Shyness Has ~ Many Causes But Most Children Are Rendered Sensitive by an Oversoft Exist- ence--We "Unifit" Them For Life Once there was a boy who was ever so strange. He never flattened his no:e against a plate glass win- dow to 'gaze at catching gloves, or masks, or nice smooth bats, He wasn't jealous of his cousin who had a new hockey stick. He didn't get excited wien two fe'lows began to pummel each other and roll in the. gutter, '. Naturally he jad to enjoy his own company more 'or. less becau:e all the others liked-tlfe*same things and couldn't understand a boy wo: wasn't more or less a roughneck. He liked books and fishing, or any- thing one could do alone' or with an- other quiet fellow like himself, Oh yes, he was very, very strange, He had jut about a million bro- taers -- under the skin -- but he didn't know it. Neither did his par. ents, And neither did the parents of those. other 'odd youngsters. In time he grew up. So did the rest, And lo and behold, few of them are strange any more. There are Richard Jones, head of the testing- laboratory at the Institute, and Mark Smith, a promising young lawyer, Fred, Art, Samuel and William often get their pictures -in the paper for comelhing or other they've done in their business or chosen profession. Every one of them is aecourageous fighter in the world .of wits and science and law, with the courage of his convictions and "moral" cour- age to persevere. And these are the strange one who wouldn't use their fists or shinny up telephone poles to watch a baseball or football game, These lonely ones that some people called "odd". Yes, in a way they were retreating from life during boyhood, Not from life exactly, but from life as they found it around them. Why do we think a boy isn't a man unless he likes to whoop and punch and do cartwheels and swat a ball? Some boys develop a sort of anti- gocial attitude (or just let us call it shyness) when babies, They seem to be born-with an inability to face the sandpaper of life, + Others get it by criticism and ridl- cule when little, Still others are ren- dered sensitive by over-soft exist- ence. They are coddled, protected, treated like fine ching and never learn what roughage means, And they are kept apart, alone too long. "They might get something." "They might learn something they shouldn't know." "They might get hurt," They must be "good" boys, Then suddenly someone expects, everyone expects, these hoys to de- velop biceps and calves and pugna- city over night, They expect the small hermit to go out and lick all the rough lads in the neighborhood. First we unfit them and then we expect them to right our mistakes, "Inherited" shyness {is no one's fault, but certainly not the boy's. It Is a mistake, too, to try to force any small child toward courage he does not feel, "Roughage" Is. actually most successful, » if applied In very gmall and rather gentle doses by people he likes, at first, It will gather Its own momentum, (Are " , , . nothing 1s more attradiive than to see a young man , . , bending all his energies. in the direction of truth and duty and God . . . to he auch a young man {8 to be like Christ, the highest type, the most illustrious example of enthusiasm the world has over seen." --J, McC, Holmes -- v-- Stories of gent { From the Ban Francisco Argonaut, Sir Walter Scott once sald he never heard a dog story he had the slight- est difficulty In believing, And Sir Walter, like most old British Torles, had a knowledge of dogs that wiil be denled to every Bolshevik, for we are convinced that no dog ever liked - a rabid Bolshevik, or ever will. + =1 iy We shall not undertake to tell our readers 'anything that we know about dogs, though we know a good deal; but we propose to relate two stories that the Reverend Doctor Charles Carroll Everett, the dean of Harvard Divinity School 40 years ago, uzed to tell, Both of them may seem to most of our readers almost unbelieveable, but those :who knew Dr. Everett are aware that he was not given to gassing, and that he was not the sort of man who gave ready credence to 'old wives' fables." i Dr. Everett related these stories of dogs and persons whom he knew well, One of them was in regard to a dog who brought a physician to a house. that sorely needed him, An old lady was taken suddenly {ll, and her granddaughter said, in the pre- sence of the dog that she wished Dr. could be reached. (This was Dogs As before the day of telephones and there was nobody she could send for him,) : ~ Suddenly the doctor walked In, to the surprise of the lady, and when she asked how he knew he was want- ed, he told her that her dog had come to hls place and set up a tremendous barking in front of the door. When he came the dog indicated in various avays that he desired the doctor to follow him and he had done so, Per- Maps the most remarkable feature of the story is that the dog was not in the habit of calling. at the doctor's house. The other story {s of a dog who was exceedingly fond of two young Cambridge men .who were almost inseparable, In course of time both of them went out into the world in search of fortune, and were. both gone for several years, Finally one of them returned home on a visit, and the dog mani- fested an almost unbounded delight in his presence, Later he went to the home of the alter ego, evidently having reasoned that where the one wag the other would be also. -But the other had not returned, and the grief of the dog was almost incon- solable. 1 Swedish Use of Color Impresses Scotswoman Love of color is a highly charac- teristic feature of Sweden, and a visit to the summer homes on the islands around Stockholm- or in the beauti- ful forest scenery of Dalecarllia is an education "in its use, writes Honor Stuart, in the Glasgow Herald, The Swede hag the good taste to insist upon simple furnichings for his sum- mer house, but 'the 'plain painted wood furniture is so charming in"hue --Ilime-greén or -blackbird's egg blue, 'warm russet or a sunny yellow, the natural gra'n of the wood being util ized for decoration, with pérhaps some simple "motif" In' addition -- that the eye is perfectly satistied and' one feels instinctively that anything more e'aborate would jar. BROWN AND GOLD In a country where the timber in- dustry .is a staple one, fit -is, of course, natural that this should be the medium employed, but it ¢omes. almost with a sense of surprise that its decorative u:e should be of so advanced a nature, If the walls are but of pitch pine, the wood is painted or oiled into a beautiful symphony of gold and brown; the floors are wood too, and the carpets are woven from anclent designs where peasant instinct, usually sure and sound, is evident. : * There are few hangings or drap- eries, and the cushions and covers for window seat or table are severe and richly colored, In one or two of the tourist centres where the big hotels have been carefully furnished after old Swedish traditions, I have been - surprised by the beauty which color and the right use of material can give. £ AMONG THE PINES There is one villa which is a revel ation of what can be done in this way. It happens to be the gift of a wealthy Swede to invalid members of his own profession, but the. ex- quisite taste displayed might be that of an art connoisseur. High up in the wonderland pine forests of Jamt- land, backed by the mountain=6f Areskutan -- in winter a paradise for ski-runners, in summer a delight for the city dweller ard a surprise at all times for the tourist -- the brown- walled house stands, the music of a waterfall behind ft, pine needles a carpet outside the garden, A skilful architect has modelled the house from an ancient Swedish coun- try residence; there are loggids open- fng from every storey, which gives upon the river or the pinewood, And here, too, a sure hand has blended the colors of furniture and hangings 'into perfect harmony: reds and browns that suggest the forest and the bright berries of autumn; blues that mirror the .river or the sky; green of birch leaves and purple of heather; gray of the plumage of the mountain birds, 12 Simple Rules For Tire Health - There are twelve simple rules for tire health, which, it followed, would cut the average motorist's tire bill anywhere from 25 'to 60 per cent, an- nually, according to Technical Super- intendent, for a tire company, Those rules are: 1. Maintain recommended or rated alr pressure at all times, 'The recom mended pressure is a minimum be- | low whioh tires should never be. al: lowad ts fall, Nor should pressure he kept much above this figure, ; 2, Whenever you put on & new tire, whenever a tire has been off the rim, do hot start on a long drive with im- plicit faith that its alr presure 18 correct, A tlre may lose several pounds of pressure immediately after it is put on the rim. Have it checked 3. Do not run' a tire constantly on the same wheel. Shift your tires from wheel to wheel, which will produce even wear, 4. Do not rely on the generally ac- cepted theory that it is all right to run old tires on back wheels, because a rear tire blow-out is less dangerous than one in front, 'A rear tire blow- out is every bit as dangerous as one in front. 6. Don't go around corners at high speeds, It wears tires faster than any- thing else. . 6. Except to prevent an "aceident, do not slam on the brakes, The most gradual breaking possible is best for tires, 7. Have your 'wheel alignment checked occasionally, rear as well as front, "8. Look over your tires occasionally to see how they are getting along, 9. Do not drive top fast on hot, dry Toads. In extremely hot weather on dry roads, high speeds heat the tires, and hasten deterioration, 10. Start up gently; do not spin your wheels, 11, Do not bump into curbs or run_over them. Tires have not yet been so perfected (hat they will per- mit this kind of abuse without in- jury, 12, It your car begins to steer-queer- ly, slow down, pull off the road, and inspect all four tires carefully, Qften this _aetion comes when a tire is pre- paring to blow. Iuspeetion may pre- vent accident. British Brides Prefer Early Ceremonies "Get Married Early In Day And Leave Town Without Delay" Their Motto Tradition, especially in so far as it concerns mgriage, dies very hard in: England, ; This is the experience of registrars in the London area after a year's working of the Act which allows wed- dings to take place up till six o'clock in the evening, Hitherto the ceremony could. only take place between the hours of 8 am, and 3 p.m. except by special license issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office, LITTLE DEMAND During the past year not more than 20 couples have been married in Lon- don and Greater London after three in the afternoon, and in the whole of England the figures available show that the number of marriages after that hour is fewer than 100. "It was believed that the extension of 'three hours granted by the Act would meet a really widespread demand on the part 6 of business people 'employed in offices who, while wishing to marry, could not afford to get away before 3 p,m." a London registrar sald," + FACTS AND FIGURES ¢ "This, however, is not horne out by facts and figures. Rather has it been the more emphasized that 'couples prefer to have the wedding ceremotnty early in the day, a 'mid- day 'reception, and then leave town for the honeymoon, "Ot "the few marriages that have taken place between 3 p.m, and 6 p.m. an analysis shows that most of them were golemized In Z0immer months and in sunshine, | "Couples do not seem to want' to have .the ceremony carted out in the hours of darkness during the cold winter months, Although the Act of | Parliament {gs there it 1s not, and will not, I am convinced, be Iargoly taken advantage of "It has certainly caused no incon: 'venience to registrars or the clergy. '(et married early fn the day and leave town without UelAy. seems to be ; the motto of most bridal ie, . ¥ "three or four miles down the road, or JER RICCO STICIRAR a Xb. la Fe RY = Pe bwmity Dean 'a L) 'shoes with a straighter inner Unhappy Feet A Common Sense Tr alk On a Sore bject Despite its impressive name the Great Toe is a comparatively small affair; it is only when something goes wrong with it that we find there is something in a name after all. Tight shoes inevitably lead to trouble. One of the commonest results likely to follow from pressure is that known as Ingrowing Toe-nail, In these cas- es the sides of the nail are squeezed into the flesh, which they cut, and the wounds thus made are apt to become poisoned. In the AH stages of ingrowing toe-nail, it is possible to cure the condition, and here is the best way to set about it. You should bear in mind at the outset that any attempt to cut away the sides of the nail will only make matters worse. Each time you do 'this you leave a sharper edge than before to press into the soft tissues. The first step is to cut the nail across in a straight line and not to follow the natural curve of the nail, Then try to cut out a V-shaped piece with the open part of the V pointing towards the end of the toe This helps to make the nail grow towards the centre, The next thing to do is to file the rounded surface of the nail as flat as you can with- out injuring the quick. =~ When this has been done successfully it gives great relief, So much for the early cases. Where septic infection has takenx place it is necesary to clear this up to. begin with. The best dressing to use is the hot boracic fomentation made by wringing boracic lint out of boiling hot water and changing these dressings every two hours or so. When the skin is once more clean and there is no discharge you should proceed as mentioned above. Old-standing cases will hardly bene- fit to any great extant by home treat- ment, and the only way to cure the condition is to have the nail remov- ed. In all cases, whether early or severe, treatment must always be followed by providing yourself with properly-fitting shoes. ~~ Neglect of this' precaution will Inevitably lead to recurrence. .* Another condition which the great toe is heir to is the bunion., and here again it must be confessed that the cause is the same--badly-fitting shoes. The bunion results from bending of the great toe outwards so that its joint is left unsupported and sticking out, a rcady prey to any pressure. The joint at first tries to protect itself by growing a kind of cushion, but with pressure continuisz this cushion soon becomes enlarged, red and painful. Try first of all to get the toe back to its proper shape. Get a pair of side and a broader toe-cap; Place a pad of cotton wool or other support be-, tween the great toe and the second one. It helps if you have your socks or stockings made with a separate compartment for the great toe. For.the bunion itself, if the case is an carly one, paint it with tinec- ture of iodine. : In chronic cases no home remedies are likely to be of any lasting bere- fit. The joint is probably permanent- ly deformed and the bunion thick and hard. Surgical treatment holds out the only hope or relief. Remember, you will save yourself endless misery by choosing your footwear with care and common _ sense, : Diagnosis -- An aged man at the union station Discussed the business sitch-ee-ation, I said that things were mighty bad, And somehow or other, it made him mad, 4 That aged man, he tapped my knee-- "D'ye. know what's wrong with things" said he. "I've been in fights," and the old boy glared, "And 'I always got whipped when I © got .scared. 3 Folks have forgot how to stand and grin When hatd Tick 'socks 'em on the chin, There's too much aroanin' -- not "enough laughs-- Too many crepe-hangers, 'too many of those graphs-- It sure don't help a sick man's heart To think of nothin' but his fever chart. There's too many experts tellin' how come The whole blame' world is on the bum Taere's {00 many people with an I'd rather listen to a darn good liel As soon as folks quit hangin' crepe Youll see business is in darn good ~ shapel I've got no use for golf as a game, © ; But I speak the language, just the same: - There's too many 'drives, many putts-- Plenty cold feet, guts, You aint my son, but if you was mine I'd darn soon teach you not to whine He wasn't cultured, and his words © were rough, But the old boy seemed to Know his "gluffe 2 Fog an' too and no enough 3 pr Eat