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modern world devours figures experts count everything j from a birds meals to i blueeyed babies before writing a paper for a scien- tlfic journal on tho skylark noble rollin took the troublo to time more than a thousand songs of that bird he i found that tho range varied from oiej to nineteen minutes and that the autumn song was twice as long as that fn july during tho past century tho whole genera traviss universe has been reduced to figures there is nothing too small or too great to bo carefully counted from the number of electrons in an atom to the distance between our sun and the star islands remote in space we spoke of the skylark the statis tics accumulated about birds alone aro sufficient to fill many volumes we know tho exact size and weight of several thousand kinds of birds the size and weight of their eggs we know the weight of food each eats and tho speed at which they fly delightful for cooking too for empire marksmen ra rt vn 1 1 i t for dinner tonight serve macaroni and cheese baked golden brown for tomorrows luncheon give the children toast covered with tasty bub bling cheese but be sure you use kraft cheese for kraft being fully matured is readily digestible and because it is exceptionally rich in butter fat it is a particu larly nourishing food madebythemakeisorkraftsaladdcssingandvelveeta the farmers worst enemy immenso pains have been taken to find ou exactly what amount of fish each sort of british gull eats and how much in each case consists of tho kinds of fish that man eats it has beon found that the guillemot is tho worst offender 5142 per cent of its food consisting of food fishes the razorbill comes next while the com mon gull eats only 61g per cent of the eame sort of fish that human beings can eat naturalists have analyzed and count cd the contents of tho crops of num berless birds and so proved that tho woodpigeon is tho english farmers worst enemy eight hundred grains of wheat were found in tho crop of one bird by watching a pair of spotted fly catchers for sixteen hours on end a naturalist was ablo to prove that a family of these invaluable birds con- eume just over 15000 insects per week russians die earlier we have recently had a census man 5s o course mans principal study and tho facts revealed by censuses are extraordinarily interesting for ln- btance we learn that the average age of french people is thirtytwo and a half years while that of the people of the united states is only twenty- five france has 12c persons in each thousand over sixty years of age but russia only fortysix tho census enumerator does not ask the color of your eyea or hair but scientists have collected figures on these and similar subjects and some cf the results are distinctly odd among them 446 per thousand have light or palecolored eyes but among women the proportion is only 342 per thousand one hundred and twenty- three men in each thousand have dark eyes but the feminine proportion is 207 twins occur thirteen times in every thousand births triplets 100 times in a million births but quadruplets are twenty times rarer than triplets our favorite names botanists aro fond of figures and have told us that a bushel of wheat contains 550000 grains a bushel of lye 8s8000 but it must have taken much patience to prove that there aro no fewer than 10400000 seeds in a bushel of clover a peculiar fact is that a twentyyearold mulberrytree produces 217 pounds of leaves suitable for feeding silkworms careful statistics have been collect ed as to names from which we realize that john is tho favourite christian name in england followed by thomas william richard and robert in that order mary is tho favorite among womens names and during the past hundred years sixtyeight girl babies out of every thousand have been chris tened mary eliza sarah anne jano and ellen come next among girls names or did so up to tho dato of tho great war nothing is too small to bo covered by tho statistician ho can even tell you the number of pins wo use the average- number being 520000000 a week all tho year round london answers owl laffs miss ima hardnut of brushville has returned tho lavallier her sweetie gave her because it made a green spot on her wishbone teacher robert here is an ex- amplo in subtraction seven boys went down to the creek to swim but two of them had been told not to go in the water now can yon inform me how many went in robert yesm seven if you want to find out how valu able you aro about an institution lay off a week and see how easy it is to fill your place this is a a good cure for a person who has allowed his con ceit to assume undue proportions flattery often leaves a pleasant feel ing even though you know it is flat tery there ought to be a law against travel bureaus sending their alluring summer trip folders to busy folks they disrupt tho entire days work it is now claimed that no man can really love until he is 60 a lot of peo ple are lying about their age if this is true the radio inventor who will in vent a radio which will tune out pro grams filled with boring advertising broadcasts will make a fortune an optimist is a guy who thinks his wife has quit cigarettes when he finds cigar butts around the house a scottish lassie who applied for a ob as an artists model was told to come down again the next day and to bring along a pair of tights she brought her father and mother their husbands are made to order a girl may allow herself to be led to tho altar but thats when the leading ends dashing young ladies often lead fast lives even in these swift modern times occasionally a girl may be found who is so slow that it takes her thirty years to reach the age of nineteen 4j the handsome silver cup shown above was sent to lt col r j bird- whistle secretary of the dominion of canada rifle association ottawa by the canadian pacific railway company to be shot for at the famous- meet ing at bislcy england by teams from various parts of the british empire at long ranges it is 30 inches high including the triple wooden mounting which forms the base the figure of a rifleman in the prone position is reproduced on the base of the cup coinciding with tho front and rear faces of the pedestal paul are you going to kiss me goodnight eve mercy no thats the last thing ill do v paul all right then wbatll we do first egypt yields secrets of animal god cults the crocodile of a sanctuary recently dug up was one of many creatures the ancients held sacred its terriblo to be poor and old but it isnt very much better to be old and rich either gerald hello arent you a stranger around here imogene yes to you any store any business that lets a gang of loafers hang around it no matter how fine and charrfiing they may be personally is sure to fail these hangerson wont buy much but they will keep real customers out of a place mrs pomberton it is said that the young girls today aro abandoning all restrictions the suns munificence boundingly up through nights wall dense and dark embattled crags and clouds outbroke the sun above the conscious earth and one by one her heights and depths absorbed to the last spark his fluid glory from the far fine ridge of mountaingranite which trans formed to gold laughed first the thanks back to the vales dusk fold on fold of vaporswathing like a bridge shattered beneath some giants stamp night wist her work done and betook herself in mist to marsh and hollow there to bide her time blindly in acquiescence everywhere did earth acknowledge suns embrace sublime thrilling her to the hearth of things since there no ore ran liquid no spar branched anew no arrowy crystal gleamed but straightway grew glad through the inrush glad nor more nor less than neath his gaze forest and wild erness hill dale land sea the whole vast stretch and spread mr pemherton well id better the universal world of creatures bred not catch mary katherine without b sun munificence nlike gave hers on praise robert browding in poems simpson hallerston is the most brutally frank business man in town lewis how so simpson when ho remits in pay ment he writes you have already found the enclosed cheque its up to the girls when skirts wero short some funny things both fat and thin were viewed wo hope those props will be improved ero short skirts aro renewed paris suburbs grow paris paris suburbs are growing raridiy the recent census shows while the city itself expands more slowly tho explanation lies in the housing problem and in suburban communications in 1926 the census showed an in crease of 220000 inhabitants in the suburban districts of the depart ment of the seine while the popula tion of paris itself decreased by 27 000 since then paris has annexed father lo son who is leaving on the outer zone whero the old fort1r ami of leath jitjii cameto believe summer vacation dont let me hear fications stood with a population of t ll0 nl co their goodwill 40000 and apartment buildings have 1y offerings nd prayers been built within tho city limits ac commodating 39000 notwithstanding thli increase the any had reports about you son ill try dad hut you know how these things leak out new knowledgo of an ancient egyptian cult will result it is be lieved from the recent discovery of the first complete sanctuary with all annexes of the crocodile god sekneb- tunis this sanctuary composed of a long processional way a temple and priests dwellings within a walled en closure has been unearthed by an italian archaeological mission in the fayum district limestone reliefs in a vestibule at one end of the way show seknebtunis in several aspects as well as a procession bearing the sacred crocodile on a litter much has still to be learned of the many cults of the ancient egyptians though it is known that hundreds of them were recognized by theologians oven in late dynastic times when ani mals beasts birds fishes and reptiles were worshiped the egyptians ex tended their veneration to human be ings to the groat powers of nature and to the large numblrs of beings with which they peopled tho heavens the air the earth the ky the sun the moon tho stars and the water these animals were not venerated in dynastic times as animals but as the abodes of gods the cults had their origin in the precarious life of primitive man when the physical conditions of egypt were similar to those in certain parts of central africa today the land was covered with forest and the ground obscured by dense undergrowth great numbers of beasts roamed about the forests huge serpents of various spe cies including hosts of deadly rep tiles lived in tho undergrowth and the river was filled with great croco diles such as may bo seen even today in the blue nile when the canals dried up the crocodiles wandered about the field at will and ato what ever came their way when man cap tured them he tamed them fed them honey put crystal and gold earrings into their ears and bracelets on their forepaws after death he embalmed their bodies and buried them in vaults worsjiip because of fear facts now available indicate that primitive man worshiped animals he- cause he feared them they possess ed ho thought greater strength power and cunning than his own they wore endowed with some quality which en abled them to do him harm and to causo his death ho regarded them as tho personification of tho powers of wedlock ofton develops into a dead- i total gain in the 1931 census was 20- lock bathing beauties are among i 000 for the city while the popula- america knuckles down to marble playing this 1 tho marble season boys arei knuckling down all over tho united states with shouts of clearance and dubs and with arguments over tho valuo of immles and aggies in new york tho annual tournament for tho marblo championship of tho city was recently concluded and tho winner received a gold watch given by the rotary club and presented to him by aldcrmanlc prcsldont joseph v mc- kcc the gamo of marbles is played dif ferently in different sections some play ringers and somo play liners and some play a game in which the marbles aro tossed into a hole scooped in tho dirt tho gamo played in new york city championships is a form of lingers thirteen marbles are ar- ranged on a small mound around which a ring hap been drawn tho ob ject of tho gamo is to hit tho marbles out of tho ring each player gets a turn lasting as long as marbles are successfully hit out or until his im- my docs not roll out of the ring tho baro necessities of life tho late husband catches tho early morning lecture tho turning point in a mans life often is when he begins turning his pay cnvelopo over to his wife men havo only themselves to blamo wo men buy nearly everything on their account some wives seem to think wool highest prices paid the canadian wool co ltd 2 church st toronto tlon of the seine department was augmented by 2so0oo migration of the pavis population to better quar ters in the suburbs has been made possible by improved transit facili ties a sense of progress i was dining onco in london quite informally with a great electrical en gineer a very trim maid in attendance at the table near my hosts right hand was a small block of white marble and a tiny silver mallet when ho wanted tho maid ho struck the mar blo a resounding blow i was somowhat amused and asked him it ho had ever heard of a push- j id catalokuo go for their spirits must he appeased tho egyptians having developed tho idea that individual animals were tho abodes of gods believed that cer tain ideas werrs incarnate in them they wero beloved by him and treat ed with reverence and care apart ments were set asido for them in the temples throughout tho country whole cities wero dedicated to them sacred animals wero washed in hot baths their bodies annotated and per fumed rich beds wore provided for them to ho upon and tho greatest caro was exercised to givo them the most comfort the fear of the serpent tho abject foar of tho egyptians for the serpent seems to have been con stant in all generations and many prayers were said to deliver the hu man dead from tho serpents which are in the underworld which lie up on the bodies of men and women and consume their blood the egyptian so coveted tho power of the serpent that he learned those prapers which were most certain to bring him its powers after death when his soul wan dered about the earth i am the ser pent sata whoso years are many i die and i am born again each day i am the serpent sata which dwelleth in the uttermost parts of the earth i die and i am born again and i re new myself and i grow young each day at the period when the sorpent was being worshiped in lower egypt the vulture was the chief object of ador ation in upper egypt so powerful were these two centres of worship that tho kings gave themselves the title lord of the shrines of the vul ture and uraeus to proclaim their sovereignty other wild animals which wero worshiped by the egyp tians were the lion the lynx and the hippopotamus not much is known of the cult of the fish but several species were venerated the beetle or scarabaeus became the symbol of the god of creation and resurrection it was often placed in tombs because it was thought to give potential lifo to the dead ody upon which it was placed provided the pro per words of power were first said over it or written upon it the idea of life appears to have been associated with the scarab from time immemorial in egypt for to this day the insect is dried pounded mixed with water and then drunk by tho women who be lieved it to be an unfailing specific for tho production of large families one oftho oldest animal cults was that of tho apis or bull which was worshiped throughout the nile valley his birth was commemorated by an annual festival which lasted seven days and during this period no man was ever killed even by a crocodile the bull was turned loose in the court- there is a duty on tea now of four cents per pound and four percent sales tax all imports of tea now pay these extra charges but we have 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