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a third of a mile of peonies about an infants neck hang peonie it cures alcydes crueil mala- die said joshua sylvester the 10th century english poet with reference to the ancient belief that the seeds of the peony worn round the neck acted as a charm against the powers of darkness indeed from the earl iest times traditions gathered around the peony both as a talisman against evil and as a cure for many illnesses in eastern europe the origin of the name with many variations in spell ing was associated with the fabled paeon or paion or paean who cur ed the wounds of the gods in the trojan war as mentioned in the ii- liasi of the ancient greek poet hom er in the far east the peony with its glorious colours was an inspiration to the poets of china in the misty past while the common people were of a more practical turn of mind as they do today the inhabitants of northern asia boil and eat the roots of the peony and grind its seed to put into lea the tubers of the com mon peony are also used as an in ternal medicine being credited with wonderful properties for the cure of internal troubles biliousness colic dropsy convulsions and hysteria an infusion of the dried leaves is used successfully as an astringent for a hot weather internal complaint whether or not the oldworld wonder of the hanging gardens of babylon were made glorious by the splendour of the peony is unimportant because the beauty of the peony has been recognized from time immemorial and the fact remains that the peony is one of the most important peren nials for the canadian garden there are many amateur gardeners in canada who justly boast of the length and beauty of their perennial border of peonies thirty feet of glorious bloom in a garden makes a rare and imposing show and one worthy to be proud of but what can be said of a third of a mile of the most beautiful peonies ever seen in canada so000 blooms in a breath taking colour riot of everchanging shades white flecked with crimson bronze and gold red dark red pink madder flesh white all blended into one glorious kaleidoscope this hap pened at the international peony show held in the horticultural build ing exhibition ground at toronto on june 24th and 25th the exhibition being held in cooperation with six teen horticultural societies of to ronto the canadian peony society several horticultural societies of the province of ontario and the ameri can peony society in this a record is created for the exhibition marks the 33rd annual exhibition of the american peony society and its first exhibition to he held in canada all the principal growers in ontario giv ing their wholehearted support for the success of the exhibition how to make iced tea infut llx heaping itupoom of salada black tea ia a pint of frcih boilinj water after ix minutes sbain liquid into twoquart container while hot add ia cups of granulated sugar and the juice of lemons stir well until sugar dissolved fill container with cold water do not allow tea to cool before adding the cold water otherwise liquid will become cloudy serve with chipped ice a us visitor comes to stay age laura wheeler crocheted lace has beauty that endures think ot anything the reputation oi summer vacation it is difficult to more harmful to this district as a land than the complaint ot an ameri can visitor who was seeking a site for a summer home that the ontario government son him an island in a lake in peterborough county to which there is no access either by road or water comments the peterborough examiner if the facts are as stated the whole transaction should be quickly review ed by the government with a view to making amends to the complaining tourist d u tyrol of fredona ny who declares that when ho was buying the island he was assured there was a fliio road right to the lake but after arriving with his wife and three children he has found that the nearest road is two miles away and it is impossible to get supplies into his proper the official who handled this mat ter for the government undoubtedly knew why the land was being pur chased if he knew the facts about the is land in question lie had no business selling it to a man who desired to build a summer cottage for obviously nobody wants a summer home so situated that the only way into it is by air or by tramping through two miles of swampy bush on the contrary if he did not know all about the property he was equally guilty of selling it for a purpose for which he did not know whether or not it was suited it is most unfortunate that such an incident should have arisen lor it has proved a disappointment to whs sre author unknown his where can a man buy a cap for knee or a key to the lock of his hair can his eyes be called an academy because ther are pupils there in the crown of his head what gems are found who travels the bridge of his nose can he use when shingling the roof of his house the nails on the end of his toes can the crook of his elbow he sent to jail if so what did he do how does he sharpen his shoulder blades ill be hanged if i know do you can he sit in the shade of tne palm of his hand does the calf of his leg eat the corn or beat the drum ot his ear on his toes tobacco lllliil crocheted square pattern 1049 whod ever guess this handsome tea cloth was once a pile of beautifully simple squares youll crochet yours the same easy way a souare at a time using white or colored string the sample square is uickly memorized its repetition doubly easy when youre a number laid by join them for a bedspread cloth or scarf -pattern- 1049 contains complete directions for making the square shown illustrations of it and of stitches used material requirements send 20 cents in stamps or coin coin preferred for this pat tern to wilson publishing co cedleeraft dept 73 west adelaide st toronto write plainly pattern xumbeii vour name and address playtime their must be planned as working hours if so why not grow corn on the big bill in canada neglect of personal appear ance is hazard when jobseeking boston elizabeth gregg -mac- gibbons has made an intensive study of women and their jobs last year she traveled about 28000 miles and talked before 85000 women in 2g cities she says that though business wo men may be rated mental giants with every qualification for their jobs sheer ability wont help them half so much as keeping themselves free of the telltale marks of neglect or age theoretically continued mrs macgibbon a girls appearance should have nothing to do with her getting and holding a job actually however it counts 75 per cent the head of the alumnae placement bureau of a wellknown college has found that younger women arc pre ferred and that older women are rele gated to the sidelines of business life i find myself fighting harder in behalf of these fading creatures than i do for those who suffer merely f om their own neglect i urge them to refuse to resign themselves to n useless old age i try to instil in them the spirit of fighting youth i tell them they have the balanced judgment of maturity which business men need in their assistants and if the will bestir themselves in the matter of dress and spirits they may command far higher pay than the kittenish thing who has no more than simple and simpering youth to recom mend her representative of the finest class of tourist any district could hope to ob tain tho man who comes in and pur chases property establishes a sum mer home and returns year after year to spend the summer with his family in the neighborhood is a splen did asset and should be given every encouragement and assistance it is upsetting to nd stupidity in flicial circles making a victim of a visitor who was entitled to special consideration especially from the re presentatives of the government of the province notes the brantford expositor william hale thompson popularly known as big bill who was mayor of chicago for 12 years during which the finances of the city became hope lessly embarrassed so that it was im possible to provide even for civic ser vices is visiting canada and has an nounced that he intends to establish t a summer residence in this country labrador indians are cheerful and happy st johns nfld declaring in dians of labrador although hard- pressed by privation and of a nomadic nature were nevertheless cheerful rev edward obrien of northern bay left st johns to return to his mis sion for the 17th year the missionary said that not once during his 10 years in the north had he seen anything like prosperity among his parishioners and attribut ed this mainly to the fact that the in dian were too busy supplying the need of their wandering families for food to be able to devote sufficient time to the fur industry big bill became his famous speech in dared that the then should be given a notorious for which he de- king george blow on the snout for meddling in chicagos af fairs no one ever seemed to know in what way his majesty had meddled with chicago but that did not prevent mayor thompson from making a demagogic appeal to the voters of the city however his game ultimately played out and he was driven into oblivion where he has remained for a number of years canadians will perhaps count it strange that he is coming ovei to establish a summer home in the georgian bay district in the late kings realm on which he proposes to spend 25000 australian budget surplus is record camberra australia a record budget surplus of 3502000 about 17810000 for the year 193530 was announced recently by r g cazy treasurer of australia it was the fifth consecutive sur plus for the commonwealth the showing was attributed mainly to increased customs and excise re ceipts totalling 3588000 about 17940000 study business courses at home ml save living expenses all imslncss and secretarial courses studied successfully through our home study ixpartmnt hundreds of successful tjraduaten during past thirty one years reduced fees no e3etba charge 11 you enter college to finish in day or nujht school write for free particulars canada business college imperial bank builtlinff bloor and bathurst toronto properly staked plants ensure an orderly garden lack of proper stak ing means that you are reasonably sure to have some wrecked and messy beds later in the season a heavy rain or wind storm is likely to knock over tall and heavy foliage plants which naturally have stems not suf ficient to stand up under such cir cumstances delphiniums are first plants in the garden to show the need for staking the heavy spikes of bloom on these stately perennials make them singu larly susceptible to destruction by winds or heavy rains stake them be fore the buds start to open and save the beauty of the delphiniums gladi olus with heavy spikes of bloom are likely to need stakes lillies and iris of the taller types also need this as sistance tall african and french margiolds are tipped over by the wind or rain and become a jungle staking would have saved them the first requisite of gool staking is that the stakes should be strong and capable of holding up the plant but as unobtrusively as possible green painted stakes are least con spicuous the cheapest and most ef ficient stakes are the bamboo canes sold in varying lengths by dealers they may be bought already painted or in their natural color and you can paint them yourself tliey are strong and durable recently heavy wire stakes have been offerd and they are least obtrusive of all especially when painted green plants can bo tied to them easily and hung upright so that the tying cannot he disting uished until viewed at close range set the slakes and tie the plants before they come into bloom a good job ot staking that will not make the plant look stiff and obviously tied up can be done after it lias come into bloom for plants of lighter growth that are apt to sprawl and bo of un tidy habit twiggy branches carefully applied make the best supports the tall snapdrarrus need staking if pinched back and tied the tall types throw out branches anil become py ramids of bloom th- long terminal spike is sacrificed but a much greater quantity of bloom and finer garden display is obtained get in a supply of stakes and give the plants known to need staking attention early in their career tho sooner staking is attended to the less obtrusive will it be when the plant reaches tho ma turity of its bloom many people have felt like murder at the bridge table the august members of the court of appeals at warsaw capital of poland must be bridge playets if they arent bridge players every where will agree that they at least have a rare understanding of the emotional side of the game it seems that a polish gentleman named josef lljas having bid three no trump played the hand and was set four tricks his partner instead of keeping quiet as a dummy should criticized his play throughout the hand so mr iljas overtaxed by a strain no bridge player can bear finally drew a revolver and shot his talkative partner through the shoul der in due course he was sentenced to three years in prison and now the appellate court has reduced this sentence to two years remarking that the trial court should have tak en into account the excessive ner vous strain under which the prisoner had been laboring can any bridge player fail to sal ute these judicial gentlemen for the setting of a useful precedent black flies writes the fort william times- journal black flies are bad in the bush said a man who spends a good deal of his holiday hours fishing but what the average angler knows about black flies is nothing to what the en tomologists of the department of agriculture have found out to the man in the woods a black fly is just a black fly just as the yel low primrose was nothing but a yel low primrose to wordsworths idiot boy or a rose is a rose to gertrude stein he might think more about ihem if her were aware that the en tomologists have counted no less than 38 species of black flies and each one is more bloodthirsty than the other no matter which you begin with mosquitoes do not deserve front place among the bloodsucking in sects of the bush for the little mos quito has the decency to give some warning of its approach by humming at the victim while the black fly makes a silent and mean attack and does n good deal more damage than the mosquito in fact it is quite possible to become innoeulated with mosquito bites so that the victim is immune to the poison and the bite leaves never a trace behind egotism is more like an offence than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself provided noth ing is advanced in favour but i can not help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are in reality nngling for approbation zimmcr- ran designed sales books for cash and charge sales the new burt sales book improved nonsmudge carbon improved paper improved qualify throughout manufactured by the originators of sales books tor price and complete particular phone the office of this newspaper or write the wilson publishing co limited 73 adelaide st w toronto france still owns statue of liberty vacation must be faced it is a cam paign against time and idleness and if mothers dont marshal their co horts the children for a little work then old nick as usual will drifting from day to day and hop ing for the best wont get us very far the more idle the offspring the busier and more nervous the parent because life without any duties at all makes children cross and contrary so up in the cool of the morning hey should be and then instead of answering charlies whistle or pollys call leaving the house to bedlam and to you mother have it understood that each one tackle his task at once ollcs job is with the sweeper va cuum on fridays the mop and the scrubbucket the floors are his in side the house and out housework for boys peg must make her bed and the boys straighten the rooms dust and darken them she can lay the table for lunch early as it is because by this time you have the kitchen and diningroom cleared up teach her to move quickly she wont rush dont worry but a certain alacrity may be achieved eustace gets on his bike and does the errands once a week he cuts the grass but there isnt anything wrong with oliver and his brother exchang ing jobs once in a while if they like or even swapping with peg as long as they dont bother you about it what boys make beds and sweep floors and scrub steps why not yes and even learn to cook and wash dishes in fact unless something im portant is pending all three should help you with the aftermeal cleanup pretty regularly many hands make light work thus is the worktime budgeted it can be changed of course to suit your fancy and to fit the ages and capabilities of the children the above is only a suggestion of course that may lead to ideas of your own by this time it is et us say about ten or tenthirty oclock and in gen eral tho rest of the day is theirs un less there is some practicing to do dont interfere with play and just as worktime is planned playtime must have some attention also children need suggestions it is not necessary to be an entertain ment committee of one and besides the youngsters dont want you but- ng in as they say but it is easily possible to provide background ideas materials and wellhidden sugges tions at the same time leave them free to act independently as though they thought it all out themselves boards boxes stones or old bricks will prcvo a vertitable mine for ex perimental hands or some paint a brush or two and very old clothes there will be noise and clutter and mot of the neighbors in but this has to be accented as another thing to be faced if the children are to be contented and happy it doesnt matter what idea you plant it may have nothing to do with yards or hoards or paint but fer tile suggestion leads to busy happy days and the wise mother will turn inventor resource is a great asset in vacation lime law regarding package cleese at the last session of the domin ion parliament section 7 of part i of the dairy industry act was amended by adding the following subsection 2 on and after the fust of january 1937 no person shall man ufacture import into canada sell offer or have in possession for sale any package cheese unless such package contains cheese of i full net weight of onequarter pound one halfpound one pound or mul tiples thereof but nothing in this subsection shall he held to apply to cheese of indiscriminate weight man ufactured by individual farmers and sold by them as explained in the house of commons by hon j c gardiner dominion minister of agriculture the reason for the amendment had to do with thej recommendations made by the price spreads commis sion in 1935 one of these sugges tions which had been discussed at some length was that prints of cheese offered for sale to the public should be made in multiples of a pound rather than in sises say of five ounces six and a half ounces or seven and a half ounces the amendment provides that the prints must be put up in either multiples of a pound or in divisions of a pound such as a quarter of a pound or half a pound the phrase but nothing in this subsection shall be held to apply to cheese of indiscrim inate weight manufactured by in dividual farmers and sold by them means that homemade cheese is not subject to this legislation it can be any weight it is not confined to mul tiples or divisions of a pound the cheese however must lie made by a farmer as well as sold by him when we went in for machinery on a large scale we went in for a world which said to us plan or per ish norman thomas e e why suffer any longer from the dull depressed feelliis caused by faulty digestion and poor ellmina- atlon if you feel faggedout and your vitality iy low avoid habit- forming drugs instead call write or phone to dept w for f sample of test it nt thorokleen is for young and leko ordinary our expense natures remedy old you make it harmless and nonhabit forming sold at your local druggist or by mail the thuna herb co toeonto new york 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