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gossip via wireless is called new factor in empire building m m the remarkable romance of an industrial dictator eivei an pearl bellairs ire synopsis knby of humble orluln ts ln- as a social equal of miss ueorgfna lu fomaim rather tlian her secretary she meets iiers liaiint luillionaire who forces his attentto on tier lord edwards uroijoses juan i was out lancing with al brooks yesterday afternoon lie works in the garage next to the sweet shop but hes coin to be a boxer hed training for it said maude she pulled on her stockings and admired iter own shapely legs x dont put up with anything from him the way to keep a boy is to keep him guessing thats what i say make him jealous thats what i do go out with one then with the other and they both dont know what to think there was not much room for them to dress in the narrow attic maude watched joan critically as she dress ed and when joan stood up stood alongside her to compare the merits of their respective pairs of legs yours are a bit longer than mine from the knee down she told joan adiling generously thats what makes you look a bit smarter than me no wonder you get a fellow like mr llannen joan hurried and when both were dressed they went down the rieketty stairs together mind your step said maude one of the stairs at the bottom is going this time itll give way pretty soon and break somebodys neck they had a hurried breakfast of tea and bread and margarine mr denby had already gone to the fac tory and joan had to hurry as she did not want to he in eton place later than nine oclock she often spent the night at home but she was afraid that miss a fontaine would wonder where she was as she had raid nothing about going home yesterday evening before she went her mother said 1o her in a subdued and anxious voice dont you go taking a bit of notice of anything your father said last night joany you be a good girl and dont let anybody be deceiv ing you however fine he may be you mustnt worry joan told iter smiling tenderly youre worry ing about nothing i tell you mother there isnt a chance of my seeing that man again is that true joany ft would hurt her mother loo much joan felt to say that she had deliberately brought piers llannen there in order to discourage him so she simply assured her again thai she was speaking the truth leaving mrs denby convinced and relieved jem set oil for eton place miss la fontaine was already up and sitting at the writing table in the palantial dignity of the great drawing room my dear child so here you are she cried when joan came in i wondered where you had vanished to i went home for the night joan oxoained liss la fontaine looked at her tscareliingly a little put out for surely piers must have wanted to esecrt her home after the theatre ami at her refusal he might have kusnccted something 1 hope began miss la fon taine and broke off for of course she knew that she could trust to joans discretion well was it a pleasant evening she enquired in stead joan looked at her a little rueful ly knowing that here the shock was going to be the severest of all jeorgie she knew was going to in very cross when she heart what had happened oh yes joan replied and tak ing up a pile of letters she began to sort them her slight embarrassment made miss la fontaine suspect all sorts of things the main of these being that joan had decided not to dislike piers llannen as much as before i was afrait you did not want to go with piers miss la fontaine re marked lightly hut perhaps you were not so sorry in the end what play did yoo see we didnt go to a play said joan i took him home to dinner instead you what im awfully sorry georgie said joan smiling ami not to be daunt ed i didnt want to go out with him at all but he insisted and i think you knew that i didnt want to go and yet you backed him up you mean lo say that you took him down to ilooley street breathed poor liss la fontaine we had dinner with the family well gasped miss la fontaine it was impossible that joan could have done such a thing youll never set eyes on him again she said grimly and rose from her chair joan saw that sweet tempered georgic was really angry ami upset this time she realised how dreadful it must seem to her that piers llan nen should have been down to ilooley street you mustnt be angry she said with a disarming mixture of gravity and sweetness dont you see how much better it is i dont want to see piers llannen again isnt this much the best way of making him see his mistake after all i have done for you joan io give yourself away like that everyone will know joan who had not considered this aspect of it before disagreed after a moments thought he wont tell anyone i think per haps the whole affair made him look loo silly she laughed no piers wont talk miss la fontaine had to admit it was awk ward enough for herself when she considered how she had introduced joan and passed her olf as a girl of good breeding among all her friends but youve completely finished yourself so far as he is concerned at any rate to 13e continued from the glasgow herald inhabitants of young lands have their hardships but they are spared many of the ardors of the older world and live on privileges they did nothing to acquire thus in the australian hinterland as it fades toward the dry bush country of the neverncver the coming of wireless has been a blessing that makes our fireside sets at home as commonplace as watertaps it has just emerged in the report of the rev j a bbcr of the australian inland mission to the presbyterian assembly at mel bourne that settlers wives in the back blocks now make a habit of relieving the tedium of their lonely lives by a little gossip over the air many homesteads are provided with transmitters with a ratlius of about 300 miles as well as the ordinary re ception arrangements permitted to the uptodate world in emergency this is a great boon at a hint of serious illness a doctor may be summoned and in no time at all he arrives by air and when there is no emergency it is also a boon for the women can gossip their traditional whispers being taken up by the microphone and sent to and fro it is not very clear from the cables whether or not mr barber is happy about the development gos sip which actuary passes for con versation with most of us has not a very good name there may be the suspicion that the new facility may be bad for australian womanhood it may be felt that instead of busying themselves with good works and looking after the masters socks the women of the lonely stations are using the fine air of australian mornings in sending idle twitterings across the wide open spaces just as their sisters in the cities whisper one to the other on the stairhead however that may be we are not prepared to be despondent about it indeed- we are inclined to see in the news fresh hope for the white australia policy with gossip in the role of empire builder it has been said that among white peoples suc cessful colonization is impossible unless women have a hand in it the colonist must have a home and it requires a woman to make one and to support it with her art once it is made the problem in undeveloped australia then is to persuade wo men from the south to go north with their men hitherto that has meant giving up gossip and the sacrifice has on the whole proved too great now the gossip is as it were laitl on the situation has taken a new and hopeful turn we would not perhaps bo prepared to die for the theory but it is plausible serve the best tea guard peed agamst sponge by heat nows the time to get panlry retdv for warm weather if past thirty you should around use eyes night rich cream every get wrinkles lines across i correspond- disappeared before long im what can i do find golden voles for talking- clock advertising held aid in distribution going on a holiday we can give you the best whether you want to rest play fish a j mertc linfroni lcd ardbcg onl jam north of tarry socnd paris lord luke british in- tlustiiasist frold the international chamber of commerce recently that advertising is one of the most economical as well as one of the most effeive means of obtaining adequate distribution he declared great britain spends c70000000 annually on advertis ing a sum which he estimated to be three per cent of the total retail trade and considerably less than 10 per cent of the total cost of distri bution the delegates debated the co ordination of roatl and rail distribu tion to make a closer link of mass production with distribution boston in halifax too close driving not many bostonians know it but there is a large portion of the city of boston located in halifax when tourists from the united states make their temporary head quarters at the- nova scotian hotel in halifax they are still on ameri can soil it all tlates back to when oil sailing vessel down to halifax from boston ballast the ballast of course was soil obtained in boston many tied hind the fellow in front up at the pier close to the present the ballast was manchester guardian after a search that has been go ing on for months through the tele phone exchanges of this country to discover a golden voice beauticul in quality free from accent with full ness of tone and nothing niggardly ajoitt it the perfect golden voice has been found among the nine candi dates selected for the final test it was selected by a committee of such high authority that it includ ed mr masefield and miss sybil thcrndike who sat in a room at the general post office and began at eleven oclock to listen to the un seen candidates speaking from a lit tle distance two hours later they awarded the first pric to miss ethel cain a west croydon girl who works at the victoria exchange the second pnzc went to miss i ii dunn who is at the trunk ex change all the other finalists re ceived a prize in addition to the honor ami glory of having come successfully through the three pre liminary tests the golden voice will be worked pretty hard before it has completed its task of making records on sound films to be used on the talking clocks that are to be installed in centres outside london and when she has finished miss cain will be glad to know that she herself will not have to tell anxious subscribers the exact time but that they will be satisfied with a tinned voice the price of miss cains victory was the ordeal of being confronted by a room full of journalists press photographers and men making talking films in the presence of the judges who included mrs atkinson of burleyinwharfedaie henceforth to be known because of her unfail ing courtesy at the telephone as the perfect telephone subscriber it was curious to see all the blaze and dazzle directed on a girl who spends her working hours in the obscurity of a telephone exchange and who is only known to her busi ness worltl by her voice in her free times she often takes part in private theatricals a leading part one imagines but in spite of that her voice fulfilled the requirement of being without any trace of the theatrical the test passage she read from lauegro gave every opportunity to show the fullness of her vowels and mr masefield said afterwards that she was right in reading as she ditl without emphasis knowing that the words themselves were enough he said that miss cain had a sense of beauty rhythm and justice miss thorndike expressed her ad miration but admitted that unlike the telephone authorities she liked to hear a voice with the rich ac cents of the north and said she would love to hear a scottish voice tell her the time predict wheat yield before seed sown minneapolis a method of pre dicting the yield of wheat months before the seed is sown was de scribed to the american association for the advancement of science re cently by homer j henney of kan sas state college the forecast is like reading the future from a deck of cards for wheat the cards are the weather report on the rain of the previous year they show the rains from july to december the aces and kings are the amount of rain and when the showers fell with them the forecaster can in form the farmer in january how much yield to expect from the seed he is yet to sow two or more months later an unusual form of cannibalism among indians in north america was described recently- by l a wil- ford of the university of minneso ta bones excavated from northern minnesota indian mounds wilford told the anthropology meeting showed that while the early indians may not have eaten the flesh of their dcatl they drained the marrow from the bones antl the brains from the head for food and for industries such as tanning woman makes garters for bowlegged men seattle a womans success as a manufacturer of garters for bow- legged men was held up recently as a shining example of feminine in itiative the story was told a preconven tion meeting of the national federa tion of business and professional wo mens clubs by mrs e pearl war wick of champaign hi mrs war wick is department manager for a household loan company without naming the woman mrs warwick said she knew from her husband who is a tailor the difficulty of making trousers hang properly on men with bow legs so she decided to create a corrective garter the price range is 350 to 15 customers are world wide since it is impossible to get a mailing list of bowlegged men she advertises in magazines and news papers you will he interested to know she employs only women in her factory these women did not look for opportunity to come to them they hatl the idea antl the courage to sell the idea they took the lead in summertime i between my eyes and my forehead writes ent so far theyve every winter but afraid they wont to prevent them well first of all you can wear colored glasses whenever you are riding in a car or sitting on the beach these of course protect your eyes from the suns glare antl keep you from squinting choose a pair that really fit the shape cf our eyes if you expect to wear them while reading you ought tj consult an eye specialist before you make a selection in addition belter wear wide- brimmed hats as much as possible theyre smart this year anyway and the certainly tlo prevent lines across the forehead if yon already lave a few stub born furrows learn to smooth them out each night before you go to bed when you have cleaned out face apply tissue cream especially across our brow around eyes anil on the expression lines upward from corners cf the mouth using finger tips on both hands flatten the lines until they begin to disappear keep on with the gentle macage until you notice a definite improvement repeat each night every woman over 30 should leave a bit of rich cream around her eyes while she sleeps as a matter of fact allowing a little to remain on the space between eyebrows will keep the skin soft and tend to pre vent lines eleven children and a career wife of australian prime minister makes speeches writes and is in politics population 170496 in greater ottawa ottawa the population of great er ottawa is 170490 according to the new city directory there are 153920 residents of the city proper an increase of 12839 over 1934 and 16576 in the suburbs an increase of 702 washington mrs j a lyons whose specchmaking articlewriting life as wife of the australian prime minister closely parallels mrs f d roosevelts recently celebrated her 3sth birthday at the white house beamingly she chose the occasion to talk about her 11 children desmond sheila enid kathleen moira kevin brendan barry rose mary peter and janice their ages range from is years to about 20 months how could she keep a career going and keep 11 children going at the same time the plump and blond mrs lyons just considers such things as sewing making all t lie little childrens things herself a real delight and relaxation doing anything with the hands is a spiritual refreshment she said though to tell the truth i once thought making little boys trousers a terrible job and it actually has been pretty difficult at times still i could get someone to stay with the babies once in a while while i went out antl made speeches my husband is a great believer the civic equality of the sexes he very keen on it to please him i took up politics i wasnt 38 when he married me he was then minister of education when i was a candidate for par liament i hatl seven children then women were asking why wasnt this woman at home taking care of her children my answer was that if i had spent my time playing bridge would have been a huge success socially womens crjicism seemed to me prejudice without reason behind them mens was more clearcut and of two types the first group con tending womens place was in the home 05 which they meant ground down by hmehold tics the other was that women were too fine for the sordid political at mosphere i said if it was too sordid if was time some cleaning influence got to work at last us may bow to albion by adopting the solar topee writes the chatham news four cars figured in an automobile crash near stratford at least two of the cars became involved because the the days drivers were following too closely came behind other cars this is a point which it is well to remember it pays to be a reasonable tlistance be- i site of the hotel unshipped and was used by the honor demands that a nation haligcnians in levelling groun 1 in shall achieve its ends regardless of that section of the city cost a a milne you feel weak and nervous is your i housework a bur- den takclydia k pinkhams vegetable com pound mrs m a k c 1 i y o f woodscockncw brunswick says i was weak and rundown a neighbor brought me your vege table compound it helped me so much that i am taking it now at the change gel a bottle now it may be just the medicine you need mimimtf issue no 30 35 2s from the new york herald tribune when the briton rides the natives hide in glee because the simple creatures hope he will impale in his solar top- ee on a tree thus has mr noel coward but recently immortalized one of the great institutions of imperial bri tain the pith sun helmet and only the british genius for unbelievable nomenclature could have thought of calling it a solar topee has been an object of awe ami romantic im pulses ever since kipling if not be fore it has probably sold even more tourist tickets to the british tropics than the cane chairs the long drinks the punkahs antl the fragrance of oleander blossoms with which it is indissolubly associated it has pre served generations of strong in articulate antl just young men from the sun which as every one knows never sets upon their dominions and it is doubtful whether the pro ducers of lives of a bengal lancer could have grossed as many millions as they did were the british army in india equipped with any less pictur esque form of headgear the pith helmet has exercised a peculiar appeal over the imagination and at the same time has always been peculiarly british for both reasons one cannot read unmoved the news of its tentative introduct ion into the american army will it displaco the campaign hat by comparison the campaign hat is an object as unlovely as it is un comfortable it is airless in the sun and it bow3 ff in the wind and during the war was one of the rea sons vhy our citizen soldiery yearn ed to get to france where it was not used but it also has a tradition behind it it is legitimately descend ed from the slouch hats of the civil war and the stetsons beneath which the western plains were conquered antl there is reason in the contention that even the sun in india is no hotter than the climates from which it has sheltered the american sol dier and cowhand in some f our insular possessions in fact the pith helmet was until re cently regarded with disdain as an affectation of effete englishmen and tourists but the helmet s been making inroads in the southwest and one suspects the hollywood influence and extraordinary con traption pressed out of papiermache into the form of a pith helmet com plete with an imitation pugree is now being widely adopted by truck drivers campers hitch hikers antl the other adventurous souls who have replaced the cowboy and the cavalryman the trouble is that the wretched article really is cool and comfortable and keeps the sun out of the eyes will freeborn america bow to al bion at last it is possible but it so we certainly wont call the thing a solar topee is your pantry all ready fcr the hot weather a set of well selected containers is one of the greatest aids toward keeping food in good condi tion glass earthenware enamel- ware or aluminum dishes are good for storing foods both cooked and raw milk fresh vegetables fruits and meats deteriorate in a short time and should be prepared promptly for the refrigerator when they come from market and immediately stor ed cleaning foods before putting them into the refrigerator keeps the ice or current according to the type of your refrigerator soft fruits like berries keep bet ter if they are taken at once from the box in which they are marketed antl spread on a platter or large plate cover with cheesecloth or wire screen antl keep in a cool place if a cool cellar is not available and berries must be stored in the refrig erator put them in the warmest place put food away quickly put footl away quickly after every meal when any food destined fcr the ice box is alhvctl to stand in a hot kitchen or left unnecessarily long on the dining table an extra amount of ice is required to chill it and of course there is danger of the milk antl cream turning buy as little as possible in hot weather make it a habit lo use leftovers promptly unless of course you have adequate refrigeration cooked vegetables that have been served buttered for the first meal may appear in a vegetable or com bination salad or may be reheated in a cream sauce or serve atl gratia this changes the dish enough to make it acceptable for the folllow- ing meal vegetables am meats that have i been prepared with milk require extra precautions the millk should be actively boiled if there is a chance of some of the tiish being left after the meal it should be coolet quickly antl stored in the coldest part of the refrigerator all creamed dishes should no used with- in twentyfour hours its a worthwhile precaution t reheat all creamed foods gravies sauces antl soup stocks that must be kept more than 24 hours bring quickly to the boiling point boil vigorously for a few minutes antl cool quickly on the morning of the second day then they may be kept on ice with perfect safety for an other twentyfour hours guard against mold bread antl bread crumbs require particular care crumbs and odd slices of bread should not be allow ed to accumulate in the bread box those not usable for toast should be dried thoroughly in a cool oven antl saved for crumbling frequent scald ing and sunning of the bread con tainer helps to keep bread fresh antl prevents mold buttered toast does not keep well and should never be storcc in the bread box it seems wisest to buy flours anil cereals in small quantities wmc the weather is hot dry foods deliver ed in paper bags should be turned into glass or metal containers for safety against mice and weevils flours cereals and sugars tire sen sitive to moisture in the air and ab sorb it readily so airtight cans are desirable for this reason also crackers and readytoserve cer eals lose their crispness very quickly if they are exposed to the air how ever they can be made crisp again by placing them in the oven for or fifteen minutes they must cooled before serving be enjoy a really fine handmade cigarette by rollinq your oun ujitn golden virginia a alsomadupin pipe tobacco a toy train ccb st thomas timesjournal most boys take an interest in toy trains so much so that if boy hood inclinations were criterion of the man nearly all would want to be railroad engineers however tastes change as boys grow up or their vocations are decided for them by various circumstances many however continue to take an interest in trains antl there is in england a model railway club which has a large membership throughout the country members not only buy or make their own engine trains tracks sometimes on a very elaborate scale with tunnels bridges and so forth but they hold an annual convention and exhibi tion the english club was founded in 1910 to bring together all those in terested in model railway constiuc- en anti owns a c6foot oval track for various gauges a passenger- carrying track and fanshaped lay out for shunting competitions the membership comprises ex- officers of the army antl navy pro fessional and business men railway workers in their spare time in fact anyone of any age interested in making railway models