is artaltimihteatlm ring up the police and get them to send a man up you can stay here and watch me give these letters from your father to him just as you like filled vh anger against herself for being unable to keep calm in his presence joan broke down ill do it if you insist she sat there in the chair with her hands hiding her face trying to control the sobs which rose in hei throat and were racking her body j she heard him mov over to the win dow she heard him come back and heard the sound of a match striking writers politicians clergymen as and knew that he lighted a cigar- well as lhe man in tht sum have every day living a weekly tonic by or m m lappin thk true wealth of life the readjustment of the social and economic order has been talked about a great deal in recent years your birth date reveals your vocation by ann piinmngton culture in russia the rlmarkable romance of an industrial dictator by pearl bellairs i synopsis joan dynby or humble 0i is in troduced us a social equal of miss georkina la fontaine rather than as her secretary she meets piers ilanmn royal yeast cakes and royal sponge recipes assure light tasty breads royal yeast cakes come to you with the protection of a special airtight wrapper for each cake this ajaures ab- koluto freshness full leavening power you can use royal yeast cakes the day you buy them or months later and be sure of uniform results no wonder 7 out of 8 canadian women who use dry yeast insist royal booklet tree the royal yeast bake hook aires tested royal spotmo recipes for thc breads illustrated ubovo and many others fkkic just send coupon buy mreix canada coods standard drands limitfnl frstre anil mberty st toronto one flme tend me th tree royal yesii oake book xsme- street- town millionaire who forces ins attentions on her lord edwards proposes lo joan joan leaves miss la fontaine to be come a mannequin at the salon celeste pier hainan takes loan and her family for a cruise aboard his yacht joan is horrified when confronted by ilannen with a blackmail letter from iter father ette when he aslted calmly after he had allowed her a little time in which to recover today today joan raised a tear- stained face in helpless supplication thursday hen ill give you three days that he should want to marry the daughter of such a father was be- i yond her but his next words like a t 1 whiplash across her face were like an answer dont think that it is to your honour that im according so much consideration ho said hut i have scruples perhaps foolish ones about my own scalded to the depths of her be ing loan suffered this without re mark how far away seemed thc day when she had told miss la fontaine that tiers ilannen would never do anything really wrong or ungener- if yon send him to gaol what will happen to mother and the boys she asked piteously i know father deserves ithe deserves it a thousand times but think of the publicity you name will be sup pressed but his and mine will be in every newspaper theyll send him to prison and ill never get a job again so that i can keep the others never for the sake of of what you once said you felt for me let father off i swear it will never happen again ill kill him if he worries you any j uore but ilannen laughed and in her- distressed state the sound surprised and shocked her gazing at the ag- 1 onised face he repeated gently for tiie sake of what i once said that i felt i then he rose and in his face she saw what had happened perhaps i during that last scene down in ilooley street perhaps during the long in terval since she had seen him his feeling for her had undergone a change his love was dead what he felt for her now was hatred- hatred and desire very well he said marry me joan shrank away from him the look on his face whipped up her en ergies collected the resources scat tered by the blow of her fathers guilt you cant make me do it she cried for answer he put his hand out to take up the telephone receiver shall i ring the police and give them my information now joan turned away her head you cant want to marry me and be willing to ruin my life too can 1 not the whole thing is absurd quite its the old trick adopt ed by villains the world over hut it works you see if it hadnt work ed my dear joan it wouldnt be such a favourite do you hate me very much thats beside the point he re plied and his face went white he- fore her eyes ous he spoke again this time casually and politely well he married at st stephens on thursday then ill let you know the time tomorrow 1 suppose it will be impossible to keep the wedding an entire secret it always is how ever you can tell whom you like about it very well said joan she rose took up her handbag and walked shakily to the door there was noth ing more to be saitl my chauffeur will drive you any where that you want to go io thank you the car is down below thank you no he opened the door for her and the softvoiced elegant secretary showed her through the outer of- nee into the corridor the door closed behind her and joan stood for a moment gaining command of herself i she heard the whirr of the lift in the shaft heard the hundred noises the murmur of work going on all over the big building all this was j ilannens all this and all these busy people moved to his will and now she too was in the toils to be continued one profession closed to women men retain nerveracking positions as shorthand reporters ottawa women may jualify as senators and as member of parliam ent but no woman yet has qualified fcr the work usually considered a feminine occupation of shorthand re porter in the house of commons at each session members speeches are taken down by one of six men who sit at desks in the centre aisle and who alternate each working 10 im only waiting to minutes in the hour the work is in tense and nervewracking members in the back benches sometimes mum ble inaudibly and there are often in terruptions after the shorthand reporters leave the house they dictate their notes lo women typists these notes ap pear in the official printed record hansard the next day circular upon request waverley 3461 bridget zrj htvenofug the toronto stock exchange 33 tempeltance si toronto crimes justice mysteries solution experts money men and women ii you lrtvc aa inclination lor solving problem yet arc unable to solve tlic important one ol choosinc a profusion lot yourself write at oree lor our liter- tme giving detaua ol how you may wona oudifed to act in the well paid capacity ol a special investigator or special agent write fr lull information to tie british school of secret service founded england 1920 h boalicij avenue toronto oat their carriages a est foryou atdsabu too babys owi sap individual m reference to the good old days is assuredly to be found in the 25 years ago notes of thc ottawa journal the journal spoki sternly to the toronto star which had suggested that ottawa was overrun with snob bery and social climbers ottawa possesses said the journal prob ably half a hundred millionaires and we doubt if half of thc fifty keep carriages try and find the half a hundred millionaires today in ottawa all shaied in the talk nor has the talk abated 1 frequently receive letters mostly from younger men complaining bitterly about the un equal distribution of wealth here is an extract from one such letter ever since i was able to work i have worked hard before 1 got mar ried i saved all i could toward get ting married and since then my wife and 1 have always tried to live as economically as possible so that we might be able to do the right thing by our children we have three children two boys and a girl our oldest boy is just about ready j for college we think he should have a college education but al- though we have stinted and saved all our lives we have hardly enough to justify us sending him to college dont you think it is time something j was done to get rid of our existing order in which a few people have more wealth than they can handle and the majority have not enough to make life worth while well we are all willing to grant that there are laws in our social and economic order there always have been and it seems to me there always will be o human order is perfect but 1 think we must also admit that there is a very real at tempt being made today to improve things and it is true surely that things are not just as bad as they were many years ago on the whole the standard of living has been rais ed it is so easy to blame the exist- i ing order for so many things 1 am not capitalistically minded but i do feel that in a great many cases men could tlo a great deal more than they do to better their own positions i am not blind to the difficulties in the matter of getting employment i which have existed too long nor to the fact that there are glaring dis crepancies in our existing order but i know of many cases in which men with their wives and families are suffering needlessly if these men whom i am thinking of had only kept their eyes open to see opportun ity and had had the faith and cour- age lo go forth to seize opportunity i when it presented itself and makel full use of it they and their fami- 1 lies would not he in the position they are today granted that all classes of hard ship and suffering through poverty do not come within this category but it is nevertheless true that life is for us to a great exent just what we make it f agree that it is one of the outstanding sins of our own age that men especially young men have been kept without work until they are almost unemployable but it is a sin in which we have all had our part and to which we must all plead guilty to come directly to the case of my correspondent he is to be admired for having done his best no man can do any more i think however that the question which he has to first answer satisfactorily is is this boy a college curriculum if so it will enable him to make good in life if he can answer these ques tions in the affirmative then he should he willing to take the chance make the sacrifice ami let his hoy have thc benefit of a college career he will probably find that any sacri fice he makes will come hack to him greatly increased not perhaps in actual dollars and cents but in the satisfaction of seeing his boy equip ped to take his place in life and be come a helper of his fellow men xot the least part of our trouble today is that we arc materially mind ed we have a wrong view of wealth we think of wealth in trie form of a large bank account and while there are many things that a one problem of vital importance that confronts young people is to de termine the vocation or trade for which he or she is best suited the purpose of this column is to be of service to those who are seeking help in tits import ant mailer your birth- dale can be used as a guide to a proper decision let us suppose thai you or some one in whom you are interested were born between march 2tst and april ltb such a person should seek a type of work with a spice of danger or intrepedity would please these peo ple even more the profession as stir geon should prove successful to peo ple born during this period because of the knowledge that peoples lives and your own reputation depends on your actions the trade as construct ion engineer would also prove very successful a woman of this period being selfassertive and an excellent conversationalist should be success ful as a promoter dramatist writer a very good example of this type is mary piekford the actress and of the men charlie chaplin the movie star their great love of giving to the needy and their sympathy in abund ance will bring much success to these persons as this period is symbolized by the kam a person of this type will be large bank account can assure for us there are many other things equally essentially if not more es sential to happiness which the pos session of money however much it may be can never guarantee and even the worth while things which money can secure for a man are not denied that man who has no money for example even the poorest among us can have skilled medical attention if we need it thus ensuring care of the body while in most of our towns and cities there are public libraries and in small communities where there are no public libraries there is usual ly some club or institution it may be the church which provides cor responding facilities through our libraries we have access to the great minds of the ages and are thereby able to enrich our minds in a word the true wealth of life may be said to consist of love faith hope sympathy courage and hon esty a good name is better than riches and money can never buy that note the writer uf tins column is a trained psychologist and an au thor of several works he is willing to deal with your problem and give you the benefit of his wide experi ence questions regarding problems of everyday living should be addressed to dr m m lappin room 421 73 adelaide street west toronto ontario enclose a 3 cent stamped addressed envelope for re ply winter sunset i heard the wind blow through the pines i saw their branches bend and sway i saw the sun sink low and paint the snowy slope in colors gay beneath a pine a rabbit paused his head thrown back his glance alert my gun beside me was forgot that helpless life i could not hurt a bird flew low a streak of black in bold relief against the white the day was fading fast the world was resting in the arms of night gone was my passion for the chase i bowed before the ageold law live and let live in this calm place amid the pines i knelt in awe beverley githens do this to ease sore throat instantly if you nre seeking mental improve ment and efficiency you should write for pariicuiary of the curms offered at moderate fees by the in stitute of practical and applied psychology read the llblvklt a new monthly magazine of help for ev erybody published by the institute of practical and applied psychology one dollar a year sample cory ten cents write for 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which they have started a personal reply dealing with one important question will be mailed to anyone sending the day month and year of birth together with oc and stamped and addressed envelope lor reply address all correspondence lo anne lennington ltoom 121 73 adel aide st w toronto out any om sec- ou can bet a t us lor so s23300 why take a chance cndliantl piano wit reconditloned one little or a new o leiios to suit write for list of specials mason and risch limited 042 king st w toronto ont kew york the desire of thoughtful russians to widen the cultural basis of the people is re flected in a questionnaire which has been laid before 300 readers by ogonek shortstory magazine writ es harold denny in a special article form moscow- in the v york tim es th questionnaire consists of 10 questions for readers to ask them selves and their friends to test whe ther they are really cultured the tet ircludes such problems as recite bv heart one poem by push kin name and characterize live plays by shakespeare what composer do you like best name three of his bestknown works which three paintings did you like best in the art exhibition you saw last season the others include a smattering of mathematics soviet automobile man- 1 ufacturing and sports and one ques- lien of great current interest i explain in detail why the stak- iim off movement became feasible in our country ignorant of politics in presenting thc questionnaire ogonek remarks editorially that there are now too many cultured people who have a splendid knowledge of their own specialty but are extremely ignorant of politics art and science and that the truly cultured man must know these latter its well as his own work in this campaign ogonek is trying to correct a trait that many foreign ers note in soviet russia great em phasis is being placed everywhere on cultural fie but despite russias magnificent theatre and lively if too often crude literature the encourage ment of veneration of the great ar tists of russias past and the liqui dation of illiteracy in the remotest parts of the soviet union the mean ing of the vorld culture to the average russian today is pretty vague piano k1gii point to most cultural life means hav ing a gramophone radio and per haps for the betterpaid russians even a piano slickly varnished furni ture colored rayon lampshades and the use of cosmetics toothbrush and bathtub in other words thc common places of the more prosperous of the working class and the bourgeoisie in america in its unobtrusive campaign ogonek is adding its voice to a number re cently lifted in the soviet union ask ing that the word cultural be made to mean what it maens in advanced western countries caution in caledonia gilletts pure flake lye takes oil those ugly yellow stains and wont harm enamel or plumbing once a week pour it full strength down toilet bowls and drains it kills germs banishes odors as it cleans frees trap and drainpipe from ob structions and use gilletts lye in solution for all 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make it appeare that he is betrothit lo anither wo man then he schal be free most distressingly a united press dispatch points out that queen mar garet of scotland wasnt then on the throne thus somewhat clouding a charming tradition but the legend isna a bad one with its implication of scottish caution in the matter of plunging ino matrimony a lale is told of a braw and canny young scottish farmer who had been courting a long tinie so long in deed that maggie felt it owcr lang she and he were driving one day in his dogcart yere use speakin much th day duncan spoiled maggie two miles later im wonderin if yetl marry me maggie im be gey pleased duncan three miles later yere vena quiet lhe noo dun can im wonderin if i haena said owcr mucklo aready reflectively replied the admiring but cautious young swain on the whole there is something to be said in excuse for the dilatory suitors slightly less than ardent wooing it was all very well for sir walter scott to apostrophize o caledonia stern and wild meet nurse for a poetic child but everyone knows poetry and pounds mix none too easily after duncans somewhat uncertain en couragement maggie might have the following leap year herself done the proposing gif he then refused to tak ir to bee his wyf and a fine of anc hundrit pundes should be thc penalty dug out of some musty old statute book well thats a heap o siller for any man to fintl even in countries not lap ped by thc waters of the silver tweed christian science monitoi