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3 bs. f Va Handkerchief Has History Was Invented by Marie Astoin- ette--Now Used As Décoration It was Marie Antoinette, the French queen who lost her head on the guillotine, who invented the handkerchief. The story goes that when this young Hapsburg princess was ready to léave Vienna for Versaillés to wed the, son of Louis XV, she burst into tears, and having no- thing on which to dry them, she tore off part of the square lace fichu from the neck of her dress, and with it wiped her eyes dnd cheeks. 4 Madame Dubarry, Louis XV's court favorite, took up the idea, and handkerchiefs became the fashion, even the king demanding one. As the ladies of the French court oft. en used this new invention to dust the powder off their black mouches or beauty patches, it became known as the mouchoir, Chinese Make Them The mouchoir became the hand- kerchief, most dear to every mod- ern woman and man, and one of their most {important accessories with every type of costume. Right now the popularity of handkerchiefs is helping to keep rice in Chinese bowls for the un- declared war with Japan has stimu. lated one of China's leading export industries, needlecraft or hand-em- broidery and other handwork on linens, especially handkerchiefs. , But in modern usage handker- chiefs are not only used for wiping away tears. In the pockets of suits _and dresses they add a last dainty touch; suspended from the wrist by a rhinestone bracelet they accom- pany formal dresses to concerts, dances, 'etc, Or tied, peasant-fash- fon over the head they take the place of hats and caps for sports or evening wear. Requirements Of Good Physician The Essential Things A Doctor Needs Before He Can Be A Good One Here are the essentials of a good doctor as detailed by Dr. Robert Hutchison, president of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in the Lancet: -- z Good Health.----Not the athlete's type of health, but that sort of wiry constitution which is able to resist fatigue and "infection, and often goes with quite a poor phy- sique. : Luck.--Pure luck is one of the chief factors making for happiness and 'success. Luck in your back. ground, home and parents . . . above all, luck in your wife. But hard work and patience ean make up to a large extent for the want of it. Brains.--It is unnecessary--per- haps dangerous--in medicine to be too clever. But don't suppose that brains are of little account. i Diligence.--The faculty of steady work, unhasting and unresting, will compensate for almost any lack of cleverness, A Humor.--It will help you to bear with the vagaries of your patients 'and still more with those of their relations, Humor will save you also from the two besetting sing of the doctor--faddery when he is young, pomposity when he is old. Arctic Indians Good Patients But Nurse at Fort Vermillion Says Diagnosis of Their Ills. Often Difficult EDMONTON.--Jenny Balcourt, » nurse at Fort Vermillion Hoszital, 300 miles northwest of here, thinks northern Indians are "pretty good" patients although thelr taciturn at- titude often makes diagnosis, of their ailments difficult. "Besides, you can't tell when they are pale," said Miss Balcourt. Nurse Balcourt flew with thruee patients from Fort Vermililon to Edmonton. One of her charges, Peter Beachmas, 28, making his first trip to the outside werld, was literally "dumbfounded" by the glimpses of the city. When They're Pale "He ig down fu the mouth about having to stay in bed and wants to be up and around," the nurse add- ed, Miss Balcourt whose ability to speak the Cree language, has Leen a great help in her work, said prac. tically all 'her patients at Fort Ver- million are Imidiang, "I never say so many Indians before in all my life, It was my first time that far north, and I got a real bang out of it." Native coal miners of Warkle, Rhodesia, sport shorts and flats nels on Stmdays. Northern Ireland is entertain. ing thousands of tourists this sca- son. Wows Hite Commentary on ths Highlights of the Week's News . . & BOON FOR BUSINESS: If the West's 1938 wheat erop turns out to be as bumper as predicted, our prairie farmers are going to have money in their pockets again--to spend, to pdy their debts with. Ca- nadian business will be given a big litt. : It will help the railways out, too. Both the C.N.R. and the C.P.R, have long been saying that if the' West could grow just one good crop, the revenues resulting from heavy freight hauling would cut operating ( losses and substantially reduce the railways' indebtedness. MATTER OF FACT--Little good though the Runciman mission to Czechoslovakia is likely to do, (the Czechs didn't even ask Prime Min. fster Chamberlain to send him), this much is certain, that, while he is on the scene studying the situa- tion and preparing to arbitrate be. tween Germany and Czechoslovak: fa, Hitler cannot afford to make an open move against the little repub- 'lic. 'Twould be a bad breach of manners for him to do any such thing at a moment when he fis courting the favor of the British, The delay may be maddening to him, but Herr Hitler will just have to stand aside politely till Lord Runciman's through. But then, boys, ah! then . , . . WE'RE BEAUTIFUL--The well- known English 'landscape painter, F. M. de la Coze, arrived in Canada for the first time, is full of praises for our country. He had no idea it was so beautiful, ty Peter Randal Neither had some of us. We are used to thinking that far-uway fields are greener, more lovely than our own. We have developed an in- feriority complex on the subject of our own country and its beauties; we roll our eyes in the direction of Europe or the States instead. Now that someone who should know has told us unequivocally that Canada is beautiful, we may learn to believe it, to feel pride and joy in our Canadian countryside, our own particular sweet corner of On- tario. BEHIND SCHEDULE--The Chi- nese may not be such hot fighters but they are managing to hold their own against the Japanese invasion. Their aim now is not to drive the Japs out of the country in a big of- fensive but to draw them further and further afield till the Nipponese war machine can be finally stalled. When the undeclared war began, the Japanese military hecds had a schedule doped out which must be adhered to If succes is to be theirs, They expected the campaign to last but a couple of months. Now, more than a year later, when Chi- nese resistance has slowed up the scheulde to a point where it can scarcely be said to work any longer, the Japanese chances of success are becoming smaller and smaller. THIS WEEK'S QQUESTION -- How many Eskimos are there in the Dominion of Canada? Indians? Answer: 6,000 Eskimos and 123,000 Indians (approximately). NAMES EEE ELEY EEE LEE EEL REL ELE LEE TE me NEWS 2 002s Coaloeleloeloelo eds DEOL LALBEIEIEOSLELES INT IOEOIDIODINO DESI IILLEIEPESOLT xy ---- fe HON. P. M. DEWAN "Through co-operation lies the salvation of Ontario's rural life," is the central theme of our Provin- clal Minister of Agriculture, Hon. P. M, (Patrick Michael) Dewan, (pronounced to rhyme with "gwan'), That farmers should organize in their own interests is the message of this public-spirited Irish-Canadi- an, born a farmer himself (near Os- goode, Ontario) and trained from the earliest age to the problems of a farmer. He has had plenty of ex- perience in co-operation, too, hav- ing graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. (tho cradle of co-operation in Can- ada), and from the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph. In 1925 lle became manager of the Oxford Co-operative Association, has ad- vanced it to first rank among such enterprises in Canada, He has also been a successful Secretary-Treas- urer of the Woodstock Agricultural Society. "Educate the People" Always Interested in people and events, Mr. Dewan was inevitably drawn to politics. In 1931 he won a seat on the Woodstock City Coun- cil; in 1934 entered the Ontario Legislature as Liberal member for .Oxford; following last autumn's el- ection he was chosen by the Pre. mier as Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Dewan would like to see the mass of our rural people live pros- perous and happy lives. Co-opera- tion, in his fervent belief, would help to bring about that end. His mission is to educate the people to its value; he would like to have a staff of instructors go out into the Province on an educational crusade for the co-operative movement, but in this he is sadly handicapped be- cause the government isn't prepar- ed to spend money on such a pro- ject. (Not only farmers but people generally would benefit by partici- pation in co-operatives, Mr. Dewan says). Wants Wheat Pegged Again, the Minister of Agricul- ture: "If our young people are to continue to live on the farm, rural life must be made attractive to them." At present, Mr. Dewan is urging the federal government to set a minimum price for payments to On- tario wheat producers, as well as He points out to western growers. that the price for Ontario wheat now ranges from 35c¢ to 65¢, {instead of 80c, per bushel. * Warsaw, Poland, now has 66 motion picture theatres. More gold is being mined in Australia than a year ago. MRS. PIP'S DIARY. ARY.. { \ ---------------- ------------ Se __. disability. New Brunswick's Silver Salmon 600 Miles of Coastline Provide Rare Sport for Anglers If there is one species in par- ticular to which the Province of New Brunswick owes its inclusion on the angler's map of the world it is the Atlantic silver salmon. Although small in area when compared with the Central and Western Provinces, New Bruns- wick is blessed with 600 miles of Atlantic coastline. On the south the tides of Fundy lash her shores from Passamaquoddy Bay to the Isthmus of Chignecto. Northum- berland Strait lies between the New Brunswick east coast and Prince Edward Island; and Bay Chaleur, that inreaching arm of the open Gulf separates the north coast from the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, Patients Arise After Operation Rumanian Svrgeon Has Been Successful With New Method Of Treatment -- Believes It Unnecestary to Stay In Bed. In a hospital at Brasov, Rumania, a man was operated on for the re- moval of his appendix. As soon as the operation was completed he got up from the table and acted as as- sistant to the surgeon at the same kind of an operation on the follow- ing patient. situation at Brasov. Here the great majority of the patients get up from the operating table, dress, walk to their room or out into the garden and remain ambulant instead of go- ing to bed. Dr. Livius Campeanu, surgeon at the hospital, has been working for years under the theory that it is not only unnecessary for patients 'to remain in bed for long periods of time after an operation, but that it is beneficial for them to walk around, A Pgychic Stimulant Since 1934 Dr. Campeanu has performed 3,150 abdominal opera- tions in which the patients left -thieir beds on the day following the operation. Since the beginning of 1937, encouraged by his earlier re- sults, he has had patients, operated on under local anesthetics, get on thelr feet from the operating table. When operations are performed under spinal or general anesthesia the patients are on their fect the second day. They return on the sev- enth or eighth day for removal of stitches. Dr. Campeanu states, according to a report on his work in "The Journal of the American Medical Association," that getting up fih- mediately after an operation is a psychic as well as a physical stim- ulant and curtafls the duration of Among the 1,300 pati. ents operated on since January, 1937, there have been three deaths. Desert Yields 1848 Skeletons Believed to Be Of Eight Men Who Went on Expedition Into Interior of Australia The skeletons of eight men, be- lieved to be members of an ex- pedition led by a German explor- er, Friedrich Leichareit, which left Moreton Bay, on the Queensland coast, in 1848, to cross the contin- ent and disappeared in the inter- for, have been found in the Simp- son Desert in the northern part of - South Australia by a ranch-owner while rounding up cattle. - Grouped In a Circle Seven of the skeletons were grouped in a circle, suggesting that the men were around a camp- fire when they were surprised by blacks and speared. The eighth skeleton lay two miles away and the presumption is the wounded man fled and later fell exhausted and expired. © The expedition was last report- d at Innaminaka, just over the South Australian border, thirty miles east of where the skeletons were found. The South Australian Govern- ment is organizing an expedition to examine the skeletons, compris- ing an anthropologist, ethnologist, surveyor and a cinematographer. It is believed that torrential rains probably uncovered the skeletons, Campaign Against Hatless Germans Geruany's Latest Slogan is "Buy a Hat" Hard-up Germans have been economizing and joining the hat less brigade, with the result that there has been a terrific drop in the sale of hats. Apart from an intensive adver- tising campaign, women are being asked not to walk with hatless men. It is "primitive," say the authorities, for a man not to wear a hat. This Is not an unusual ~ "yolks in it. i ---- For Seagram Gold Cup Last year, as the cut shows, Seagram Gold Cup but that was all Hamilton boy, got the cup, the Shampiatisiip, Now Guldahl is the U. stars as BR Ria ERY oint winner of this year. He's one of the b this year's Canadian title, to be play ust 18 to 20. So, for that, matter, i other threats, including ace golfers coming for the first time to Canada. SY adn ard it, EA G" AE Fe AY 24d nist ie Ralph Guldahl got his hands on the . Lighthorse Harry Cooper, one-time 5,000 cash and the Canadian Open Golf { 1lda| urning up U. S. golf courses, retaining S. Open title, winning the Western Open and leading all the golf iggest threats for ed at Mississauga-Toronto on Aug- s Cooper, and there are a hundred from Bermuda and South Africa, "v6" hundred empty cotton mills in England have been con- verted into new factories. Brazil has ordered insurance companies not to agree to pay losses in foreign currencies. ~The World Voi ce of Canada The Empire CANADA MAKE STARLINGS WORK If the starlings present with us in such numbers would only take it into their heads to 'dine on army worms, their reputation would improve immensely. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, WITHOUT THE TURKEY Thanksgiving Day will be held in October again. The great trou- ble with a thanksgiving on that date is that the turkey crop is not ripe while the cranberries are scarce.-- Guelph Mercury. TELL THE PLAIN TRUTH We wonder whether it would have a salutary effect if the newspapers, instead of calling these deplorable affairs accidents, were to state plainly that someone was the cause of his own death or that of someone else. It might.-- Cornwall Standard-Frecholder. THREE EXPLANATIONS Woman near Belleville has a hen which laid an egg with three Our poultry expert says any one of three things can explain that: (1) the hen does not know how to count, (2) she is a trifle ambitious, or (3) she is short 2». the Press +-9-0-0-9 <> oo of shells.--Peterborough Examin- er. POLL TAX FOR WOMEN Barrie town council has ecn- dorsed the proposal ts make wom- en who earn over $100 a year, subject to the same municipal poll tax as men. There is really no valid reeson why there should be any more discrimination between the sexes in taxation than there is in giving cmployment. Some day the provincial leg'slators may have couraze enough to place both upon equal terms in the matter of poll tax. In the meantime, the fair sex have little cause to worry over the matter.-- Barrie Ixaminer. The EMPIRE NO DEATH FOR ME Five hundred and thirty-six people were killed, twenty thous- and seven hundred and eighty- cight injured on the roads last month. These figures will not mean much to you. You know you are a careful driver. You know you walk delicately. People read of the casualties on the roads as they used to read of the casual- ties in the war. You always think the other fellow will get it. Never yourself.--Daily Ixpress, London. You're MISSING something if you have not tried this new fine cut, which has a fla- vour and a smoothness that spells new luxury in roll-your-own smok- ing. It's backed by a name that guarantees quality with nearly a century of experience in the manufacture of fine tobaccos., Try it. Where Dopesters Are Registered There are 80,000 registered opium smokers in the Straits Set- tlements. One is an American, an- other a Belgian, whose names are not mentioned, Then there are 29,600 Chinese with a sprinkling of other Eastern races. The sale of opium is a State monopoly and buyers must regis- ter each purchase. AT THE €X' AGRICULTURE Champion cattle, famous horses, magnificent live- stock of every de- scription! See the tremendous farm. implement exhibits with all the latest in- ventions on display. Watch, the judging of champions! --for thrilled Gen, young adventur- % ers and oldsters! 3 Aeroplanes, roller coasters, whip, * metry - go - round, beautiful girls, intrepid acrobats, shoutingshowmen, lights, music, action, and new fcatures galore. \8¥ an ot °°? al e Vane ian w art eH en Sat SC ho. ae' Kingdom Pavilion The history and de- velopment of Brit ain's transportation and communica- tion routes shown in enthralling dio- ramic form--per. fect working models of ships, cars, planes, trains--from ancient "coracles", and § ¢ the famous "Rocket" locomo- tive built in 1829. Write (or ticket reservations to Canadian Naticnal Exhibition Information Bureau, 8 King St. W. Toronto. GEORGE PRIGDEN. ELWOOD A. 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