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british monarchs celebrate 37th anniversary of wedding spectacle for royalty london king george and queen mary of england celebrated their 37th nedding anniversay quietly at buck ingham palace recently they attended services in the pal ace chapel in the morning and during the day received congratulations from members of the royal family and per- eonal friends the kings second sister the prin cess victoria celebrating her 62nd birthday which falls on her brothers anniversary visited the- king and queen in the afternoon tho rulers of britain looked back over a life together of many events events common to every man and wo man and others perculiar to aersonsj and 1902 prince henry and prince cinemas were unknown the princess may as queen mary was known then daughter ot the duke and duchess of teck became engaged to prince george now the king only a little be- 1 fore they were married july c 1s93 i it has always been said the king and queen are an exceptionally afj fectionate couple after their mar riage they set up house at white lodge richmond park surrey as tho duke and duchess of york j a son was born to them a year later the infant who is now the prince of wales followed by another son the duke of york and then a girl princess mary in 1s97 i two more sons were born in 1900 1 ot their position there were births deaths marriages and on the royal side a coronation the responsibility of their empire in tho throes of war the neverending functions of state their marriage was a romantic af fair a film story in an age wjien george king georgo became monarch in 1910 on the death of king edward and the following year little prince david was made prince of wales with traditional ceremony at carnarvon castle wales airmen form social empire association compares of air force new flying club includes j canadians london comrades of the air force is the name of a new associa tion formed here for the purpose of linking up airmen in a social way air commodore charles it samson one of the most intrepid airmen alive presided at the inaugural meeting here recently i the comrades intend to establish branches throughout the country tn facilitate regular reunions all of ficers and men who served in the royal naval air service the royal flying corps and the royal air force are eligible for membership as are also members of the air forces of canada australia and south africa the idea ot such a social linkup is warmly supported by air marshal sir john salmond lord trenehard marshal of the royal air force has been invited to become president of the new association kingsf ordsmith to seek fresh record flier will take off from britain to austria j shortly los angeles plans for a solo flight from england to australia in an at tempt to break the record of 11 days were revealed recently by flight com mander charles e kingsfonlsmith pilot of the worldcircling monoplane southern cross kingsfonlsmith only man to fly across the pacific and atlantic oceans raid that he proposed to make tho flight in a light plane and set 10 days as the required time lie will fly by way of rome athens calcutta and liatavia he said tlie noted pilot said the light will sart before september for lie will marry mary powell in australia that month frontier clashes to be prevented berlin germany and poland are making a serious effort to prevent a repetition of frontier clashes such as have occurred in the recent past officials on both sides of the frontier are being instructed to act more care fully germany furthermore is determ ined not to let the germanfrench negotiations break off completely it is learned an attempt will be made to keep up the discussions on at least one of the many points involved the whole subject matter is com plicated tho fixing of the sum to be paid for mines the determination of the quantity of coal to be delivered to france and other problems need investigation but their solution may have advanced sufficiently for the league council to discuss them in september v v 1 deathtrap mine girl defeats aces takes 162 lives in british derby 70 bodies recovered 49 in- nation hails winifred brown jured are in hospital j as new air heroine neurode lower silesia long london miss winnifred s brown black flags wave over the buildings of t piloting an avroavian airplane won j the wenceslaus mine where 1c2 the kings cup in a recent competition j miners lost their lives as a result of with eightyseven other craft in a 750- a terrific explosion of carbonicacid rnile air race around england there- gas in diggings 1100 feet below the by she achieved a place in british surface popular admiration comparable to ninetytwo bodies have been recover- that held by miss amy johnson who cd and 19 injured are lying in the recently flew alone to australia for mine hospital while 70 bodies arc still miss brown is the first woman ever to imprisoned in the chamber where the capture the greatly prized trophy of blast occurred in an attempt to save the british air derby the lives of 130 men in the next sec tion it was necessary to slam tho air doors shut after the explosion leaving j si to their fate miners fear closing in the drawn faces of those waiting at the minehead the suffering of these people whose average family income est brother but not occupied by them finished eighteenth and seventh re spectively flight lieutenant ii r d wait- in a seaplane mrs a- s butler piotig ore oj the other five machines entered by wo men in the race finished fourth her husband was second princes plane eighteenth planes entered by the prince of wales and prince george his young- graphic incidents were witnessed by the king queen and other members of the italian royal family at the italian air pageant which took place at tho littorian aerodrome near rome bobby jones is earthquakes cause mysterious welsh by extraction new disease physicians declare is 1 a day may be easily read yet despite tlie danger and the loss of lite wlikh has practically decimated the village ue are discussing ner vously the possibility that the govern- intiit may order the mine closed down as unsafe there will he no money except tiie dole then more than s00 were turned off on july 1 owing to the depression there are another 100 who wont have to he paid off is the grim com ment of more than one realist among the watchers carbonic acid gas which is heavier than air and often develops in pockets j to a pressure of 150 atmospheres i horn who last year miss england ii will i run next year london england lord wakefield owner of the motorboat miss england- ii lias decided not to race her again this year as a mark of respect to sir i henry seagrave and e halliwell who perished after breaking the worlds speed record on lake windermere i it is expected she will compete again next year in an endeavor toj improve the present worlds record as many famous pilots have already j offered to drive her and both the engine and the hull are reported to i ho undamaged by the accident to tho hydroplanes step which caused the boat to overturn london bobby jones who now holds the british open and amateur championships is welsh by extrael tion the name suggests it and en- dersby howard has confirmci it i joness origin in wales dates back several generations but the line is unbroken and his mother was a miss clara thomas he is linked in marriage to ire- land his wife was a miss malcny j ptl and excited she could not bear the strain of following oer husbands matches at st andrews she stood on the balcony of the hotel waiting every day for news and waving her handkerchief to him when on several occasions lie was so hard pressed as to he brought to the last green j gangtok state of sikkim india j this little state perched on the top of the world on the main axis of the himalayas sustained the brunt of indias recent earthquakes rocking like a skyscraper when tlie shocks swayed assam and other mountain- ous districts hereabouts public opinion blames to some ex tent the earthquakes for a mysterious epidemic resembling cholera which has broken out here fortyfive per sons haxe died of it within the last few days the disease countinues to spread one theory of physicians is that the earthquakes disturbing the earths surface uncoverod dormant germs to whicli the people were then exposed many buildings were damaged here government buildings schools and shops were the worst affected many houses were cracked throughout the country streams forth when an accidental tap loosens the pocket wall it works rapidly and painlessly we find them as if they had simply fallen asleep a doctor said known as deathtrap this gas has long been known here ami the wenceslaus mine has always i i t were eligille won the schneider trophy or great britain could win no bettr than third place with his blackburn bluebird the performance of miss brown who is twentysix years old is con sidered remarkable by aviation ex perts only one other woman previ ously has finished near to the front in the air derby which is a handicap event that was miss winn e spooner who won second place two years ago she flew a martlet plan in the last derby average 1027 miles an hour miss browns time was seven hours- and twenty minutes over the 750mile course an average of 1027 milesan hour she won lso the siddeley tro- i phy a pecial prize offered in connec- i tion with the race and for which oniy members of the light airplane club halfamillicn dollar ape farm half a million dollars has been ap propriated by the rockefeller i-oun- datlon for the establishment and niain- tenance ot an ape farm at orange park fla where apes will be bred scientifically and their progress care fully observed by a group of anthropol ogists under the direction of prof robert m ycrkes of yale university demand for wood steady although each year sees more sub- stitutes on the canadian market the amount of wood used remains prac tically constant this is due to the new uses being continually found for wood as aicsult of the great amount of research now being carried on with a view to finding new uses for wood in its natural condition or by modifi cations chemically or mechanically plane rushes swiss mail to huge liner cherbourg france steamerair plane mail service between switzer land and america was established july 5 when a plane from basel brought 500 pounds of swiss mail for the united states to the steamship ijerengaria tho plane left basel at am ar rived at cherbourg at 101 and had the mail aboard the berengarla at 1 pm the liner sailed for now york at 3 pm new system proves highly successful cincinnati o with the declaration by the proctor gamble company of a quarterly dividend of co cents a share on common stock or a 240 annual basis as compared with 2 a year ago tlie possibility is raised that such success as this indicates may be coniderably due to vhe em ployeedirector employee-profitshar- ing and guaranteed employment plans whicli iiavo respectively been in force since 1sss and 1921 tho proctor gamble company was founded in 1s37 in 1ss8 its profitsharing system was established thus causing the company to be among the first of tho american business or ganizations to realize and act upon the fact that a time would conio when workingnien as well as moneyed per sons might to the profit of tho or ganizations bo shareholders in grow ing corporations in august of 19211 the employees j under an extension of tho profltshar ing plan were guaranteed 4s weeks work in the year men from the ranks became directors womans air speed mark set by amelia earhart detroit mich amelia earhart transatlantic flier established an in ternational womans speed record here recently by averaging 1s11s miles an hour over a three kilometer course earlier in the week she had made another record by averaging 1749 miles an hour over a 100 kilometre course the flights were checked by observ ers from tho national aeronautic as sociation and the federation aero- nautique internationale our idea of cruel and unusual pun- ishment would bo to sentence a native son to writo the history of canada in 500 words i paris to aid in building 20000 apartments paris the city municipal coun cil has approved a project for the con struction of 20000 apartments by a private company whicli will have municipal support some flats will be let at a rent which will show a loss but others will ho rented at rates whicli whilo ex ceeding by 33 per cent tho maximum provided by the loucheur law will still bo 25 to 30 per cent cheaper than rents generally are for such ac commodations youth parents liavo a wonderful way ot forgetting how they felt when they were young and sail the billows fine but keeping books in a pickleshop is as near as i get to brine rains deluge desert in central australia grass springing up adelaide s aust quick trans formation almost overnight from parched desert to a region of hooded rivers luxurious vegetation and con tented grazing stock is not unknown in australia but it has rarely been experienced on such a scale as lias been witnessed in the central areas of tho continent watered by the best rains in many places for half a century tho whole region has been transformed tho hoods spreading over enormous ex panses cf dusty thirsty land and a green tinge of almost forgotten grass covering the landscape country whicli has not had rain for more than threo years received inches of magic moisture there were areas that had had only from a half inch to an inch of rain for several years some places have received as much as ten inches during the recent rains soon the land will be carpeted with wildllowers converting it into i a rich garden kvcn in some of the more favored areas these hoods aro the most ex tensive for 30 years the wide empty banks of the river dlamantina one of central australias great rivers in tho years of long ago aro covered ever by a sea spreading out for miles tho flooded ground will provide feed for sheep and cattlo for a long period it is difficult now to so where herb age is not growing even the mailman who is used to tho dusty tracks and hardly knows any other was held up for several weeks by hoods no ono who has seen central aus tralia in normal times can imagine tho wonderful sight presented by water glistening over thousands of acres of this empty continent dry conditions have reduced the flocks and herds to such an extent that for tho present there is not much stock to take advantage ot natures feast restocking has already started but it is a slow and costly process finance will bo a difficulty but the railway to alico springs will facili tate transport in a manner that was not possible a year ago a wet win ter is required to put the pastoral in dustry on a sound basis and most of the interior will still want one or two good seasons to set these long dry areas on a secure footing but station owners aro proceeding as fast as pos sible with restocking making ready for the better seasons that now seem to bo assured meanwhile the new railway to alice springs which is the capital of tho southern half of central australia has promoted a tourist traffic to the interior motor excursions arc running out to tho scenic beauties of tho mcdon ald range which la unlquo in its mns- slvo charm and climate of crystal ex- haratlon a view of an imposing work ot the new knipp steel voks in essen germany on the rhlncllerne canal these works will probaty bo visited during the berlin world power conference this year the markets produce quotations toronto wholesale dealers are buy- ig produce at the following prices eggs- ungraded cases returned i fresh extras 27 to 28c fresh firsts j 25 to 20c seconds 21 to 23c eggs graded fresh extras 29 v to 30c iresh firsts 272 to 29c icconds 21 a to 25c j butter no 1 ontario creamery i solids 27 to 2714c no 2 25 to 2k i churning cream special 27 to 28c no 1 26 to 27c no 2 23 to 24e cheese no 1 large colored paraf fined and government graded lgz to 16e provision prices following are the range of prices toronto smoked meats hams mcd 28 to 35c cooked loins 48 to 52c smoked rolls 2sc breakfast bacon 30 to 40c backs peamealed 34c do smoked 46 to 55c pork loins 29c shoulders 21c butts 26c hams 2ic cured meats long clear bacon 50 to 70 lbs 24c 70 to 90 lbs 22c 90 to 110 lbs 21c heavyweight rolls 40c lightweight rolls 25c heavyweight rolls 40c lightweight rolls 25c lard pure tierces 15c tubs 16c pails 17c prints 17 to 17vic shortening tierces 13c tubs 13 pails 11 special pastry shortening tierces 15c tubs lsic pails 16c grain quotations grain dealers on the toronto board of trade are making the following quotations for car lots man wheat no 1 northern 98c no 2 do 95 no 3 do 92c no 4 90c no 5 82vc no 6 67c feed 57c cif goodrich and bay ports manitoba oats no 1 feed 42 c no 2 do 39 4c american corn no 2 yellow 94c no 3 do 92 uc millfeed del montreal freights bags included bran ton 2425 shorts ton 52625 middlings ton 3125 ontario grain wheat 95c to 1 barley rye and buckwheat nominal hay and straw prices wholesale dealers in hay and straw are quotitg shippers the follow ing prices for carload lots delivered on track toronto no 2 timothy 14 no 3 timothy 13 to 1350 wheat straw 1050 oat straw 1050 live stock quotations heavy beef steers 8 to 935 butcher steers choice 875 to 925 do fair to good 750 to 8 do com 7 butcher heifers choice 875 to 925 do fair to good 075 to 7 do com 5 to 7 butcher cows good to choice 675 to 750 do mcd 5 to 625 ennners and cutters 150 to 3 butcher bulls good to choice 6 to 675 do mcd 150 to 475 do bologna 4 to 425 feeders good 7 to 750 baby beef 9 to 11 ltoekers good 525 to 650 calves good to choice 1050 to 11 do mcd 9 to 10 do com 7 milkers 50 to 90 springers 70 to 90 lambs choice 12 to 13 sheep good 2 to 4 do yearlings 7 to 8 hogf bacon woc 1175 to 12 do selects 1 per hog premium do butchers 75c per hog discount do fob price 1 cwt tinder woc do trucked in 30c cwt under woc i had a particularly bad reputation as aj deathtrap tlie precautions taken in- i cludo setting off a charge of dynamite before a new shift goes on in order to shake any of the necessarily ex- posed pockets of gas loose it is also i forbidden to use vibrating hammers inj drilling for fear of opening up a dead ly wall of poison nevertheless there is no absolute safeguard except the closing of the mine which is said to j she started from hanworth field- near london ii fourteenth position an hour and sixtcn minues behind the first started she was seventh at bristol 122 miles away and roared into third position at manchester where she has her home hundreds cheered her there at newcastle the halfway mark she vought her plane further to tho front after a sensational ncck-and- be unprofitable anyhow and to pro- 1 duel with vaghorn who is a vet eran of the fastest seaplane races ever reld stone ami coal loco tons ac- ian bureau of points out that nent is in the h must be dis- oin a distance are all above duce a poor grade of coal explosions of earbonicaeid gas have j been known to have force sufficient to disrupt a moss ol weighing more than cording to the pra mines which fnrlhci the most dangerous m use of explosives vhi- charged electrically fi and when the in n the ground it is impossible to ascertain cause of the catastrophe now but it is puff sleeve calls for a demure delict assumed that it must have been start- j ate fragrance the magnificent the delicate fragrance now that every one is striving to keep pace with the mode and appear ladylike romantically modern quaint ly smart or demurely elegant the exotic types of perfumes just will not serve unquestionably the anklelength de- mureness of the net gown with tiny ed by a driller coming unawares on a pocket president von hinderburg sent a telegram of condolence and 2500 for tlie bereaved families while the prus sian government sent 25000 and the reichstag will vote a sum for relief southern cross is rresented to backer floral fragrances and bouquet odors opera gown of velvet with its attend ant blaze of imitation or real dia monds requires a harmonizing scent similarly the feminine formal suit with its soft frilled blouse of satin or crepe needs a subtle feminine odor the skilled simplicity of the more elegant sports mode exacts a correspondingly sweet odor what shall these perfumes be santa maria calif lieutcolonel charles kingsfordsmith recently pre- j seated the famous plane the southern i cross to g allen hancock backer of i its transpacific flight and then flew to san simeon calif for a holiday the return flight of the ship will end its career whicli emblazoned it in aviation history as one of the great est pathfinders of the skylarks with lieutcol kingsfordsmith on his last trip in the sturdy plane were two other members of the crew whicli with the new silhouette these light floral scents and sweet bouquets create an allure and further the secret ot femininity they need not be en tirely unsophisticated as the newer odours offered by the best perfumes attest revenge the very harassedlooking young man stood outside the big jewellers shop window clutching half a brick in flew the southern cross from ireland j his hand presently he raised his advertising for a slogan a company which manufactures soaps and per fumes got this it yon dont use onrj soaps for heavens sake use our per to san francisco capt j patrick i saul irish navigator and john w stannage radioman and mr and mrs hancock mr hancock said he plan- ned to place the southern cross on display at an aviation college ho founded here and later might place it in a museum j six bullseyes bisley camp england sergeant mackay of scotland is 7s years of age ho won the kings prize classic for empire marksmen though it was called the queens prize then back in 1ss3 but if anybody thinks ho is los ing his keen eye and steady hand he has only to point to the score card he hung up at the pisley meet recently six consecutive bullseyes at 200 yards etuptive core of vesuvius widening naples italy the eruptive cone in j have my meals arm to throw the missile when sud denly a policeman arrived on tho scene and held his arm what are you doing ashed tho constable angrily im going to whack it through that window snapped he young man de sperately smashandgrab raid eh replied the constable officiously youd bet ter come along to the station oh but i dont want any of tho jewels put in the young man hast ily 1 only want my revenge on them for selling me a weddingring last year answers making sure wilson the commercial traveler looked at the long list of calls and the list of trains he had to catch dur ing the weeks trip i dont mind getting up early in the morning he ventured but youve left very little time for me to mount vesuvius had widened recent ly under the force of continued erup tions during its belated period of spring activity tho lava flows rapidly through un derground passages to the crater where it piles up the incandescent material in the bottom of the ciatcr has doubled since the activity rabbit gives birth to 23 winnipeg a rabbit has scored omething of a iccord according to local authorities a gray chinchilla owned by w toole recently gave birth to 23 young ones ot these 20 arc mm alive and doing nicely you can cat on the trains replied the employer yon cant waste much time with all those calls to make wilson departed and a week later he returned to the office well asked his employer got a good bunch of orders wilson hesitated for a moment and then said cheerfully well i havent got any orders sir but 1 caught all those blooming trains answers a man i under the influence ol drink within ten minutes of taking any alcohol said a medical author ity giving evidence before he licens ing commission