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the remarkable roavange of an industrial dictator velvet and steel by pearl bellairs your handwriting reveals your character all rights reserved geoffrey st clair graphologist tea at its best editors xote letters continue to come in in increasing volume as more and more of our readers wish to avail themselves of the help and intimate guidance of this wellknown graphologist do you need his help your letter will be confidential see article for details kynofsis joan dvnby or humble origin is in- tviduced us a social equal of mlsa gooritlna la fontaine rather than as her secretary she meets tiers hannen millionaire who forces his attentions on her lord edwards proposes to jean she was sure that miss la fontaine understood bat a shade passed over her friends face of course i shant need you to night my dear child 1 wouldnt think of keeping you but miss la fontaine cut her short by saying briskly of course you must go with piers you havent been anywhere for ages hun along and get yourself ready darling there was nothing more to be said joan glanced at piers hannen whose face was a study of restrain ed triumph and finally left the room she went slowly up to her bed room seething with exasperation gcorgie for having allied herself with the enemy she knew that miss la fontaine was impatient with iter he- cause of her resistance to a man like piers hannen so eminently eligible eligible joan thought of that story of the dancer in monte video and shuddered even though he want ed to marry her tlie fancied that she would be more than just such another incident in his career his interest in her had dated from the time when she had hit him in the face in fact i lie wanted was resistance and when that gave out heaven knows what ones fate would be- how silly of her not to have thrown herself at jils head in can nes then no doubt he would have avoided her the trouble was that his manner and his mere physical presence set iier teetli on edge and now georgie was on his side quietly joan changed into a simple tailored costume and pulled a little hack hat down over her golden curls she looked at herself in the mirror and smiled smiled at the idea which had occurred to iier it was as simple and effective a way of finishing with piers hannen as one could hope to think of and really if georgie was going to take sides against her she must defend herself in some way she went downstairs to the draw ing room again and miss la fontaine looked at her a trifle critically won dering joan knew winy she had put gs to your druggist or department store and bay rit dye any color 15c 2 for 25c use it then tell us in a statement of 50 words or less why you prefer rit 1000 pairs of monarch debutante full fashioned shadowfree pure silk chif fon stockings latest spring shades guaranteed 100 value will be given at prizes to 1000 entrants there are dozens of reasons why you uill prefer rit rit comes in 33 basic brilliant colors from which can be produced over 50of the newest paris shades 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joans good taste and after all she looked delightful in that little black hat it amused her to see piers han nen escort joan out of the house piers hannen for whose admiration most of the fashionable women in london would have given their eyes she felt a little nervous when she considered the fact that he actually owned the factory in which mr den- by worked but joan she was sure would be careful to let nothing sus picious escape her a car was waiting outside not the crimson one but a small weather- beaten racing car i hope you dont mind being ex posed to this inclement englisn weather said piers hannen as he helped joan into tde car this is the only bus i have in london just at present it was dark now and a veil of fog hung between te houses along the vistas of the streets while the roads were wet underfoot joan watched him as he put on his leather motor ing coat and there flashed upon her the recollection of the time when she had seen him throwing on his bath robo on the plage outside the hotel mediterrance she pictured again the sunooth brown body with rippling muscles the powerful shoulders and th scar one could not forget the scar and here she was with the same man in his car he looked more powerful and virile than ever here in wintry london her impulse to be scared again was lost in guilty ap preciation of what she was about to do he got in beside her and they drove off ive not much idea about what is on in town at present do you like musical comedy or theres a play on at present called the alley someone told me it was good its a comedy of sorts about life in an east end slum i dont think i would like that said joan wouldnt you you dont want to know all about the great poor he said adding lazily theyre wonder ful people really the great poor wonderful people said joan he meant to be appreciative perhaps but it was patronising they arent wonderful she said in a weary little voice d you think its possible to be wonderful after you have work ed for eight hours out of the twelve at something that requires neither skill nor invention when you have to think about every halfpenny and when theres nothing ahead of you if youre lucky but grind until you drop i wouldnt be wonderful in those circumstances you just do your best thats all he laughed you seem to have ideas about things ho said as they shot ahead of another car or does it make your own comforts pleasanter to imagine thus vividly the woes of others be cause i cant imagine that you know- very much about the dark side of life joan said nothing but smiled to herself he imagined that she know- nothing about it well scie would show him she would show him a comedy of a sort about life in an bast end slum mr hannen she said turning to him with a smile dont let us go to a theatre i really promised to go is a young wife doing the right thing by encouraging the attentions of a single young man without the knowledge of her husband here is part of a letter i have just received which is selfexplanatory dear mr st clair i am 23 years old goodlooking and before i was married four years ago was popu lar with both sexes my husband is older than i am being 37 years of age but for all that i am very much in love with him and he with me unfortunately however he is called away frequently to work sometim es several weeks elapsing beofrc he returns home and it is impossible for me to go with him on these oc casions you will appreciate that 1 am thus left very lonely and being young like to have at least a fairly good time i have been going out of course and on one of these oc casions when my husband was away became acquainted with a very like able young man about my own age he comes from a good family and took a liking to me so that he asked me quite often to let him take me out there is nothing emotional about our friendship it is entirely platonic but for some reason or other i didnt tell my husband about him really i think because it didnt oc cur to me that it was worth telling about now that we see each other quite often it doesnt seem possible for me to tell my husband and i am beginning to worry a little because i wouldnt want him to be worried is there anything you can tell me or advise that might help me solve this little problem i can quite appreciate the lone liness that this young married lady has to put up with when her husband is away for long stretches and the temptation to make friends too while away the lonely- hours the difference in the ages of this lady and her hus band is considerable and if there was any question of incompatibility or divergence of opinions between them an affir of the type that she describes would certainly complicate matters however she says that she is very much in love with her husband and there is apparently no bone of con tention it thus simplifies the case to a matter of loneliness and the necessity of having friends it is a peculiar fact that in cases of this kind the friend who appears to constitute a problem is always a member of the opposite sex i sup pose that this is natural because of the humanness of people and the natural attraction of the sexes but it certainly provides a source of potential trouble and unhappiness and in the present case this is in creased by the fact that the husband has been kept unaware of the friend ship this is the point that can provide the spark of real danger because the husband is quite likely to place a rather suspicious complexion on the affair when it comes to his attention and it is certain jo do so before long my advice to my correspondent is to tell her husband after all he is not an ogre and it is a hundred chances to one that if the wife tells him all about it without placing too vital a stress on it he will under stand then the young man may be invited to the house when the hus band is present and in that way a family friendship begun i have neglected to speak of the possibilities almost probabilities that the young man might eventually feel more than platonic to this young wife and start further com plications because i feel that at this stage a frank explanation on the wifes part will clear up any vestige of difficulty arising from the situation star gazing a fine puzzle game have you any problem that mr si clair can advise you upon would you like his help have you any friends whose true characters you would like to know perhaps you merely wish to know what your handwriting reveals of yourself send specimens of the writings you wish to be analysed slating birth- date in each case send 10c coin for each specimen and include with a 3c stamped addressed envelope to geoffrey st clair room 421 73 adelaide street west toronto ont letters will be confidential and re plies mailed as quickly as possible heavy water cure lis effect 011 slowing heart action is put to test drs t cunliffe barnes and j war ren of the osborn zoological labor atory yale cut out frogs hearts put some in ordinary water and some in heavy water reporting in science they relate that in ordinary water the frogs hearts beat tan times in eleven seconds but in heavy water only ten times in more than sixteen seconds this slowing effect may have its uses in the treatment of fast hearts but drs barnes and warren make no such prediction more experim ents must be conducted with higher mammals rats rabbits and the like before heavy water can be prescrib ed for human beings whose hearts are in a violent flutter besides the lowest price thus far quoted for heavy water is 2 a milligram about six teen drops that heavy water should retard the heart is natural chemical sys tems in which heavy hydrogen is found have less energy than others hence a slowing down should have an effect like that brought about by bathing in ice water for babys bath more lhan thai of any other member of the family babys tender delicate skin needs the greatest care and attention the soft soothing oils in babys own soap make it specially suitable for babies and its clinging fra grance reminds one of the roses of france which help to inspire it 7tj laljor you and bahy too 272s issue no 23 35 iv home and seo my people tonight i ought to go would you ene to come with me he looked surprised then obvious ly triumphant of course id like nothing bet ter they live rather far out of town but it wont take long to get there in the car excellent scheme which way do we go along the strand past the man sion house past aldgate after that ill direct you as we go splendid somewhero in the ep- ping forest direction or is it black- heath he hazarded its a complicated sort of place to get to evaded joan ho drove on through the iraflic and soon they were at mansion house the face lifted over the wheel determined and possessive wore a look of satisfaction and once or twice he turned and looked at her with a smile in his eye joan snuggled down in the folds of the rug he had put over her and nearly laughed aoud she realised tho con- mructlon he must be putting on her i decision to take him home to sec her people i to be continued devoted kingfishers observes the calgary herald were the degree of marital nffectioi of a pair of kingfirhers judged by the sweetness of their notes they would rank low in the scale of lovers in stead of softening and growing sweet as the notes of most birds do during the nesting season the en dearments of such a pair are strident shrieks best simulated by the rapid turning of an oldfashioned watch mans ratlle to watch a pair of these birds as they fly well above the tree tops along the rivers and every streeh of the bow and elbow has its guota of kingfishers is to imagine a real domestic squabble in progress for their harsh voices belie the tender feelings which they are trying to express but like maggie and jiggs be hind all the apparent bickering they are a most devoted couple with a strong homing instinct which makes them return year after year to the tunnelled home in a river bank where they have raised suc cessive broods therefore it is a matter of lack of voice culture that creates the impression of churlish ness it is from the kingfisher that the expression of halcyon days has its origin for the oldfashioned name of this bird is the halcyon according to ancient fable and like so many of them showing grave lack of knowledge of natural habits of animal life the halcyons were believed to build their nest in the form of a crude raft floating on the sen and to possess a mysterious power over the elements to calm the troubled waters while the eggs were hatching and the young birds were being reared and so the halcyon days in th minds of the simple people of those times were synonymous with days of fair weather life may well exist on mass says dr helen sawyer hogg of toronto one of canadas three women astro nomers there is oxygen there though it is only l1000h of the content of our air in their summer which is twice as long as ours the polar ice caps melt dr hogg stated the only other planet in our solar system on which physical conditions for life existed was venus which had so much cloud around it it was impossible to pierce it with a tele scope she thought it possible there might be other solar systems like our own to dr helen hogg who has just come from the empires second larg est observatory at vivtoria bc to the largest empire telescope the dunlap memorial at richmond hill out her work is a grand puzzle- game and finding the answers is the big kick she gets out of life accord ing to an interview in the toronto daily star dr hogg has como here with her husband astroomer a toronto grad uate whom sho met at the harvard observatory she is discovering in constant stars in certain beautiful circular masses called globular clusters which contain as many as 50000 stars all in a group brighter than the sun although invisible to the naked eye her work confines her to about 100 of these multifoliate clusters all of which are above and below- the milky these stars vary in light it is pos sible to work out their distance from the earth explained dr hogg only one or two out of the 50000 or more stars in the cluster may be variable so her work is very pains taking first she takes a photograph ic record then some time later makes other photographs of the same j cluster one negative is placed over the other to see which stars have var ied in size she takes a 20 plates of each cluster dr helen hogg has already taken 100 plates on eight clusters at vic toria this has taken eight years for there are complicated mathe matics to work out too she has six to eight more clusters to work on here and each will lake about two years new clocks are like modern life hard brittle shining clocks have an espcial fascina tion for many people their re morseless ticking away of the years unhurried and unfeeling is inhuman indeed when men first invented an arti ficial means of recording time they invented the first robot and now that the robot has been harnessed to electricity the secret of perpetual motion is in sight and the last frail excuse for unpunctuality has been swept away the exhibition of clocks now be ing shown in london is extremely interesting clocks of all ages from models showing the earliest known method of recording time to shining little engines encased in steel and mirror glass personifying the pres ent day are on display a striking example of the changes which have been wrought during the past twentyfive years is manifest there is a group of clocks dated 1910 the year of the kings acces sion flambouyant affairs of marble gilt or bronze j loan collection is in the case adjoining them there is comparatively small difference be tween these 1910 models and those made two and three hundred years earlier but match them with the wonder ful clocks of today and tomorrow and you will see changes so great that the same name seems hardly applicable these newest clocks are like mo dern life itself hard brittle shin ing crytic devoid of everything that could possibly be considered superfluous detail in the way of minutes has been obliterated fig ures have given place to a stroke or a dot indicating the hour large families versus small ones to which would you rather belong her twentysecond baby that was a german mothers recent re cord and hitler became the god father writes eileen elias in the london daily mirror it set me thinking is there after all something to be said for the oldfashioned fam ily i rounded up a number of people on the telephone and asked them their opinion the majority were in favor of a family of thrco or more and quite often more give me a good oldfashioned family said one girl its so much jollier we children always enjoyed everything twice as much because we were a crowd of course thero wasnt so much money to go round but then theres a lot of fun in sharing and now- were grown up our nephews und nieces do add color to our lives quite the reverse was the opinion of a young man whom i called up relations are the pest of my life he told me i wish to heaven id been born an only you get priv acy in a small family you can de velop along your own lines and of course you get more opportunities you have the benefit of a good start in life many tree planting forestry news digest planting of 104000000 trees on state and national forest lands in 1934 sets a yearly record to date in the united states reports the amer ican tree association the report shows more than 80204000 trees were planted on state forest areas of more than 85000 acres on the national forests there were planted more than 78000000 trees on more than 77000 acres planting programs fo 1936 are now well advanced and the expec tation is that there will be consid erable increase in plantings on state forests while it is expected 100- 000000 trees will be planted on na tional forests there arc spring plantings in the shelter belt area aggregating 2000000 trees this is a small amount compared with what can be done in the same area in tho proposed 10year planting pro gram but the 2000000 seedlings arc al that are available fundamentally the purpose of feminism is that a woman should have an equal opportunity and equal rights with any other citizen of the country mrs franklin d roosevelt parents attitude what is the parents attitude business men seem to favor the larger family tho only child is us ually a disappointment a bank man ager told me he rarely shares his fathers interests or wants to come into the business with three or four children there is more chance perhaps town and country have something to do with it a country mother was all for a big family many hands she reminded me make work light and a big family is more helpful you dont hear so many grumbles she added or so many wails of what can i do next theres more team spirit about the large family but a townswoman friend was otherwise inclined children preferably none at ill wf her verdict possibly one she conceded later but ones enough it may be all right in the 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