red is goo ml finest glade girlhood dangers men and women of today a 8cot prank on abrlther the latest story about sir harry leuder concerns another famous scots- ihan lord dewar iord dewar had sir harry staying with him for a fortnight when the comedian was leaving his host pre sented him with six valuable homing pigeons as a farewell present lord pewars pigeon lofts are worldfamous biit he cautioned sir harry to keep the birds penned for a fortnight other- vise they might fly back sir harry waited the prescribed time and a week longer then he opened his loft think ing it would be safe immediately the birds rose up and away for their old home even a scot cant get the bet ter of a brither frae the land o cakes from poverty to a palace the miracles of the arabian nights ore not finished i have just heard of russian doctor living in poverty who wandered into a oinema and saw the film of the coronation of the new fehah of persia he thought the shahs face was familiar and some days later recollected ho had met him when the shall was serving as a pri vate soldier in the russian army he wrote to the new shah and some weeks later received a letter appoint ing him court physician to the king j mother and when the singers liquid of kings and asking him to come im- 1 notes trilled out he jumped up with an mediately to teheran the persian excited hist mummle birdie mil- capital who said put not your trust ba regards that as the greatest coni- in princes ptlmebt ever paid to her voice collapse of douglas a good story is being told in fllm circles of douglas fairbanks and mary pickford and king alfonso of spain the fllm couple were invited on their european tour to meet the king and douglas in particular was determined to make a good impression ho pre pared in advance a pretty speech about american and spanish friendship and had it ready to trip off his tongue when to his amazement the king stepped forward with how do you do mr fairbanks hows fatty ar- buckle king alfonso who visits england nearly every year is almost us keenly interested in films as he is in tennis goodbye melbal recently dame nellie malba easily the most popular of prime donne sang her last songs in public to a london audience she made her first appear ance as an operasinger at brussels thirtynine years ago her popularity is almost as much due to her unfailing kindness of heart as to her wonderful voice and by her retlral australia loses her bestknown citizen c the story about melba which i like most runs thus hotel on one of her tours andsat down one morning to practise a little boy happened to he in the room with his your ear sight if for any reason the authorities j forbade music in cinemas the firm in- dustry would die attendances would dwindle not because the absence ot through a weakening of music made for dullness but because the blood a tonic is needed the pie tares would flatten and lose life we should not be able to see in their early teens it is quite eom- thein without music a quarter as well moa for girls to outgrow their as we do now with music j strength and mothers should carefully it is a scientific fact that we assist watch the health of their daughters at our hearing with our eyes and assist this time it is when use strength is our sight with our ears do we not j sapped by raoid growth that anaemia when we wish to listen hard screw develops the first signs may be no- our eyes up the act is involuntary tlced by peevishness langour and and has the effect of sharpening the j headaches the facegrows pale hearing breathlessness and palpitation become the reverse effect is obtained when j apparent with low spirits and depres- our ears take in sounds our sight is slon quickened by actual experiments lt neglected anaemia often leads to a has been proved that those who could i decline but if you see that your not read printed matter without spec tacles have been able to do so unaid ed when mu6lc was played the violin on its high notes is the instru ment which 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reliable remedy sold by all medicine dealers or sent by mall at 50 cents a box by the dr williams medicine co brockvlle ont cork is cooked cork is the bark of an evergreen tree which grows in southern europe the bark is of great thickness and gets thicker every year one layer forming over the other after about ten years the bark falls off naturally but for commercial pur poses the outer layers are striped be fore this and are strippel again every eight or ten years the bark is removed by making a deep cut in the tree and then slicing off slabs with a curved twohandled knife these pieces are boiled or steamed for an hour in order to get rid of certain substances in the bark and also to decrease it in size the pieces are then scraped and finally pressed flat by machinery the cork is- then ready for the market the corks that are used in bottles she was living in a are made by machinery and the waste the old gate it was a boisterous day the wind was tossing the tree tops into billows over the hills of the evergreen isle a thick cold mist was blowing whitd caps rode the waves of the lake and crows shrieked from the top of an old fir tree my dog sat shivering at my feet lets be off to the woods beau aid i the road ran up a gravel hill then wound along through the woods hos- pltable maples in their gay spring green spread their arms in welcome dignified firswearing buttonhole bou quets of dogwood bossoms stood like helps to make floorcloth give confidenc to young mothers ushers frisky willows nodding ferns by always keeping babys own and drifts of blue alder smoke lured i me on after- about a mile the road turned off mysteriously into the woods i stopped to listen to water trickling down through the ferns beau had chased off into a thicket thenjt was that i noticed the old gate it stood open leaning back against the bushes the road followed the ravinedown the biil in persuasive way but i did not venture in i leaned on the old gate while i waited for beau the wind has calmed into a breeze tablets in the home a simple and safe remedy for the- common ills of babyhood and childhood should be kept in every home where there is either a baby or a young child often it is necessary to give the little one something to break up a cold allay fever correct sour stomach and banish tho irritability tbat accompanies the cutting of teeth experienced mothers always keep babys own tablets in the home as a safeguard against the troubles that jbbb5bbctbsegssb i1mbffwba the new kind of soap- dissolve ft ins and pour into water put clothes soak 2 hours or more that set all the trees to singing and j seze u liue ones so suddenly and the mist had begun to lift 1 heard a the young mother can feel reasonably door slam down by the waters edge safa wl a box of these tablets at and a boy whistling the ring of an ax hand and ready for emergencies echoed through the woods a manj babys own tablets are a mild but called then a womans voice singing t thorough laxative that act without heated up to me with a message of j griping and they are absolutely guar- content anteed free from opiates or other the next time i saw the old gate harmful drugs they are sold by the maples had changed their gowns medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents of green to ones of soft yellow firs ax from the dr williams medl- weie wearing dark velvet coats with boutonnleres of rich red burs that the dogwoods had pinned to their lapels adventurous sunbeams flitted through the trees andshadows lingered at the curves the gate was closed but i j did not feel forbidden for its weather- beatenboarda hungfronr theif hlifges cine co qrockviile ont holiness a white bird in a darkboughtod tree gave to the rainwet wood a touch of holiness a place where god had stood with the grace of an unspoken wel come once again i passed thafway the weeping greenness of the leaves poised iu the heavy air battered ear came chugging up the and n forgetting to fall since ho hill the boy was driving his dog alt- war standing there ting in the seat beside him in thej backseatsat the man and the woman and the iark houghs en and swept contented serene and so the gate still calls me some time 1 shall wander down that ferny drive sure to find a smile and a wel come hand to greet me there will be flowers there will be apple trees and teakettle will be singing in the kitchen garden hedges there are few flowers that tower above the stately hollyhocks or wear such dainty frills of pink silk petticoats and smocks together hushed words in an undertone talking of one bright beautiful mo ment long after the bird had flown marion peacock motorcycle piles up big mileage in recent economy test aisdthats all made bv the makers of at3 lux but take mo to tho hedgerows deep j the hidden lowly spots whoro bloom the shrined among forgetmenots ada borden stevens orlcket balls no color has boen found so suitable for cricket balls as red whlchnatural- ly shows up to advantage against grass grcon balls havo beentried but they proved a failure other col ors experimented with include yellow and blue ask him j science rays that of all sounds a i babys cry has tho greatest carrying witnessed by representatives of the press and members of the richmond va motorcycle club a new harlej davldson single reoontly hungup a highly impressive record for economy in fuel consumption a strictly stock machine with no previous preparation other than the sealing of the gasoline tanks proceeded to pile mile upon mile until it reached a grand average of 120 s miles per american gallon commenting on this welter an drews toronto distributor for the hnrleydavidson line stated willie economy tests arc very interesting and impressive tho real test of any motor cycle is in its every day constant uso hvartsease softly under such conditions the harloy- davidson single is plying up an im- preesivd record eishtysmllcs to the american gallon and 100 miles to the canadian gallon and better being tho overago report because of this tho motorcyclo has found its place in modern business and ever increasing number of stores and business estab lishments are installing motorcycles for rapid delivery service nor can tho nodding fouroclock present a stateller than salvia stiff and straight that flaunts a headof flaming are the california poppies vie with manycolored phlox blu butterflies of larkspur hide behind tho giant stocks the still small voice the voice of common sense as well as of conscience is not always as sertive above the strident sounds of the days work the importunities of social claims or busiuess we havo to learn to listen to what our better more deliberate judgment 1b ready to tell us even though it epeaks in a whisper not in a shout in fact the greater purer inspira tions of our lives never come noisily they take possession of our horizons almost imperceptibly like tides of a peaceful coast or clouds of a quiet sun down we receive these ennobling and fortifying impulses these clearer indications of the way to take when we withdraw to the deep intimate re cesses of our belug it is there that we meet our real selves and encounter instincts that are shy and usually in articulate ready to bo put to flight by churlish inhospitable- contacts as music cannot live on terms of fel lowship with noise so the essential re finement of a nature cannot survive constant discouragement the inward mentor that is ready to show us the things in life that are not merely most beautiful but most sensible will cease to function as a muscle atrophies if we never give it anything to do ifwe never listen when it speaks if we rush onward in a heedless and belligerent course never pausing to listen to that most precious source of counsel that was given us when the soul was be stowed upon the body for a faithful lifelong comradeship what is the use of the still small voice that la within us if we never heed living by his taste some boiling water a little tea and china cup with these a man can earn 2000 a year 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