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hospital for sick children college st toronto aar mr editor recent discoveries in medical science hare called attention to the itreat service rendered by an up-to- date hospital through facilities prc- vliitd for research probably few laymen appreciate the amount of this work conducted under the auspices ot the hospital for sick children yet it is only by intensive atudy of the causes of childrens diseases that the hospital staff has been able to establish a world- famous record for cures statistic how that the rate of infant mortal ity in this province has been 3teadlly decreasing until it is now among the lowest in the world what that means is that hundreds of ontario parents owe their childrens lives to the research work in the laboratories of tho hospital tor sick children although the doctors give their services freely the bills for equip ment add up annually to a good many thousands ot dollars but in low ot the results attained i feel that not one of your readers will cavil at the money so spent and i confidently venture the hope that many of them at this christmas sea son will wish to enrol themselves in the hospitals campaign on behalf of ontarios childhood to carry on this research work there is not one cent except what comes in from voluntary subscrip tions for the care of the children occupying hospital cots there are oertatn statutory grants but these represent scarcely moro than half what tho hospital needs last year for instance the hospital doctors looked after an average of 253 in patients and 192 outpatients daily quite a colony ot ailing youngsters and the expenditure although whittled down to the minimum com mensurate with efficiency was 318917 the income to the extent of at least 100000 depends upon the regard which tho people of on tario have for the hospitals work and tho generosity with which they express that regard may i ask you mr editor to point out to your readers that siace the establishment of the hospital for sick children at least four more ontario youngsters in every hundred have survived the trials ot child hood for with that simple state ment of fact brought to their atten tion i feel sure that many of them will bestow their benediction upon the work of the hospital for sick children by sending some christmas gift according to their means in careof the secretarytreasurer at 67 college street toronto faithfully yours irving e robertson chairman of appeal committee since the hospital opened its doors in 1875 65231 inpatlenta treated 603055 attendances of outpatients j first postagestamps the first british postagestamps vere made at 69 fleet street london over eighty years ago about 1819 two men came over from the united states and started a print ing and engraving business which to this day is known as perkins bacon co ltd they were jacob per kins an inventor and gideon fair- man an engraver and with them were associated the two sons of james heath ra the famous perkins process of en graving on steel was applied and when millions ot postagestamps were first required the perkins method was adopted and proved to bo just what iwas wanted credit for the invention of the ad hesive postagestamp has been claim ed both for sir rowland hill and for mr james chalmers a bookseller of dundee tho ilrst british postagestamp was black and waj introduced in 1841 it iwas a queens head designed by henry corbould and engraved by frederick heath unquiet earth a canadians gift to the empire col r w leonard of st catharines has recently presented to the british empire a famous old mansion in st james square london as the headquarters of the british institute of international affairs which was founded in 1919 by the delegates of the british empire to the peace con ference its 800 members are kept in touch with affairs of foreign interest the picture shows the house in the background and inset is the tablet be side its door telling of its occupancy by three prime ministers and also tho picture of col leonard 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williams pink pills for your blood than to give way to un reasonable alarm about your kidneys if you really suspect your kidneys any doctor can make a test in ten miuutes that will set your fears at rest or tell you the worst all dealers in medicine sell dr wil liams pink pills or you can get them by mall at 60 cents a box from the dr williams medicine co brock- vllle ont been obliged to resort to methods of deception the simplest means ever employed was to write the love message with fresh milk instead of ink on the re ceipt of a blank sheet ot paper all the recipient needed to do was to sprinkle it with soot or charcoal the grit stuck to the lines traced by the pen when the trick was of no avail chemists would perform the task of writing with acetic acid another chemist applied sulphuretted hydrogen gas to the letter and the secret was unfolded another sympathetic ink is that produced from cobalt the writing of which disappears in the cold hut ap pears again as often as one chooses after being exposed to a moderate de gree of heat characters written in dllutod sul phuric acid and lemonjuice become when they call earth quiet i think they have not seen old roads covered and old paths losl there is nothing more restless than small fine green that stirs in the seed that the wind has tossed the old earth mother in every field and thicket uncovers and recovers bearing without rest eggs and sprouts and lichens mouse and worm and cricket and wild red honey at her warm brown breastl seed that dies to live again and no man understanding sour green fruit that loves the sun but waits till frost for sweet and that old word ot dust to dust destiny commanding flower and fruit and seed to make the year complete the earth is never deaten she has harvests in wild places tho bear knows the berry the fox knows the grape and all the old dead in her come out with flower faces she trembles with the forces that quiver and escape when men call earth quiet i think they do not know how root calls to root and breaks tho brown cldd theyve never watched the woods come where men no longer go and eat the long road where our feet once trod louise driscoll his hearing restored trie tobacco of quali ky manufactured by imperial tobacco company of canada limited no ancient utensils ever found in tin the invisible ear drum invented by a o leonard which is a miniature megaphone fitting inside the ear en- many centuries yet ancient vessels of tlrely out of sight is restoring the tin are so rarely found by archaelo- hearing of hundreds of people in new gists as to be well nigh unknown this yorkclty mr leonard invented this j u due to the tact that tin rusts drum to relievo himself of deafness j f the metal does not combine cherul- and head noises and it does this so with the oxygen of the air or successfully that no one could tell he j t 0 water but to the circumstance is a deaf man it is effective when j tnat a gort 0 decay does attack it deafness 1b caused by catarrh or by producing a change in its crystalline perforated or wholly destroyed natural structure the nature of which does drums a request for information i not beem to bo c understood t0 fei i fj i this ends in reducing the tin to a fine gray powder the process proceeds out of step an irish sergeant was drilling two very stupid recruits who could not be slw prevailed upon to keep step losing j all patience he shouted if i knew which of ye two spal peens was out of step id put hlnr stralght in the guardroom a avenue new york city will be given a prompt reply advt the hairnet owing to the fine texture of human hair no machine has yet been invent ed which can manufacture hairnets ninetyfive per cent of these nets are made by hand in chinese homes the training required for the knitting of the nets is long and tiresome the natives start when they are quite j young when their fingers are supple j and their eyes keen j the hair is tied end to end strand by strand to form a long string and is then wound round a bodkin or a i stick of polished bamboo this stick regulates the size of the mesh of the net each- net is tied in much tho j same way as in the manufacture of biackorb7ownrthosrwviue or nammocks only in this tions of nitrate and chloride of cobalt i caso ss of a sinsie strand ls a and ot chloride of copper are render- i mora duous the strands being ed green the color disappearing when tery short fl th makine ot the paper is allowed to cool in a moist one net an hour is rc as much moro rapidly at certain times than it does at others and seemb to be transmitted from one piece of tin to another almost like on infectious disease kicked out when you refused him my hand papa did he go down on hl3 knees well i didnt notice just where he landed a number of sharpened gear shaped wheels that intermesh do the work of a lawn mower that is almost noiseless if all things for the same purpose are kept together time and trouble will be saved the housekeeper wyfeuneyes refreshes tired byes wrkemurlnecochlcifiotbceyecarcbook place guard the baby s in the head get quick relief rub nose inside and out with at all drug storei write or frc samie the mentholatum co crldgeburo ont box 30 making loveletters private there have always been parents and 7ii 6 j u a j u i colds will not exist that the health guardians to hinder and thwart the 1 wo- i vi ot tno will bo good and that to guard the baby against colds nothing can equal babys own tablets the tablets are a mild laxative that will keep tho jittlo ones stomach and bowels working regularly it is a re cognized fact that where the stomach and bowels arein good order that work human hair ls imported in the raw i btate from china to the united states and europe after being straightened and assorted to various lengths sub- sequently it goes through many chemi- j cal baths in order to cleanse it and then it ls dyed a variety of colors tho finished hair goes back to china to be sold to hairnet manufacturers o keep mlnards liniment in tho house hapless lover and many girls have surnames and their origin cadwallader variation calwalader racial origin welsh 6ource a given name cadwallader ls a family name to bo found frequently in virtually every sec tion of america in which welshmen have settled it is of course llko the overwhelming majority of celtic as do the welsh cadwaldr knew the name as mahoney variations omahony omahoney mahony racial origin irish source a given name the irish spelling ot this name 13 omathamhna or omnghghamhna family names derived from a given but tho pronunciation is not so far dif- name and in this case the family i fcront from that as we know it tho namo ls virtually tho samo as tho more common anglicized form being given name the prefix ap meaning but a phonetic english rendering of it son of having been dropped under the influence of english speech cadwaladyr as a given namo was one which had become surroundod with a halo of glory long before the normans swept into england and final ly brought wales under their yoko in the cymric tongue tho namo means battle arranger or more broadly speaking general or strategist a welsh prince of this name was canonized in tho year 63s being fa mous not only for his sanctity an at tribute which history proves to have been surprisingly common in the an cient wolsh royalty but for his re markable successes in war against the saxon englishmen indeed he ap pears to have been so uniformly suc cessful ngilnst them that the saxons came to regard him as the very op posite ot a saint and tho name caed- walla ns they spelled it became a by word f jt trlckinoss the ancient bretons who belong to the cymric branch ot the celtic race tho clan namo comes from the given name of mathghabhuln which means a bear or as tho irish lang uage literally expresses it calf of tho plains the clan namo developed apparent ly shortly after the year 1000 ad up on the rise to a leadership of his own on the part of a descendant of aedh- anghnrbh hugh tho terrible one of the famous chieftains of the odon- oghue clan tho omahoneys according to an an cient historical record were undis puted kings of ralthlean and had tho right to bo kings of cashel whenever the throne of that kingdom was vacant and from whom the kings of cashel had no right to demand any tribute but the bowing of the head the clan appears to have beon su preme in tho districts of cinealacdh clncalmbelce ibhconlua as well as a largo part of muscry and in later centuries ot scull and iveagh in coun ty cork he will thrive and be happy the tab lets aro sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from the dr williams medicine co brockvlllo ont o worth while some little word of kindness softly spoken to light tho path when skies aro dull and grey may servo to heal the heart thats wellnigh broken and bring new life and hope with evry day some little kindly act of selfdenial to place a fallen brother on his feet tho one bright spot that through long years of trial makes life worth while and memry passing sweet a cheery smile to make some heart feel lighter and help to ease llfos burdens come what will can make this dull old world seem all tho brighter and bring the heaven wo dream of nearer still a ratcrt the difference between a woman and a glass said the funny fellow is that tho glass reflects without speak ing while a woman speaks without re flecting and the difference between you and a glass said tho sharp girl ls that the glass is polished money orders send a dominion express money order they are payable everywhere there aro two elements that go to the composition of friendship ono is truth the other is tenderness mother give sick baby california fig syrup harmless laxative to clean liver and bowels of baby or child even constlpa- ed bilious fever ish or sick colic babies and child ren love to take genuine califor nia pig syrup no other nxatlve regulates the ten der little bowels so nicely it sweetens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels actlns without grip ing contains no narcotics or sooth ing drugs say california to your druggist and avoid counterfeits in sist upon genulno california fig syrup which contains directions r if- v s warners safe is the quickest and best relief for fmins in the back nnd the many other ndications of kidney trouble sold for raised tho standard of health among bo years satisfaction in every bottle at your druggist or direct from warner8 safe remedies co toronto ask for mlnarda and take no other cj 7 pimples disappear 1 zyou dont need mercury potash or any other strong mineral to cure pimples caused by poor blood take extract of roots t druggists call it mother scigtls jj curative syrup and your skin will- jf j clear up as fresh as a babys it 7 will sweeten your stomach and 2 regulate your bowels get tho a genuine 50candl00boules at drug stores b say bayer and insist americas pianos dog remedies book oo dog diseases ana htm to feed 11111 frw to rif adlrea by the author jbt clay clover co in 139 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