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building contracts highest in four years building contract s awarded in canada during the first seven mon- j ths of the torrent year are the highest in point of value in four years they are moreover 305 per cent in advance of 1934 figures for the similar period the aggregate according to maclean building re ports limited was 91113700 the month of july reported a total of 18019200 as compared with 11- 190500 for july 1931 included in the contracts awarded up to the end of july are residential awards totalling for all canada ex clusive of apartments 18530300 os against 1715s000 last year ontario during the same period this year building in canada states launched building enterprises valued at 1005s00 as compared with 10238800 for 1931 statistics for toronto for the seven months of this year and last show contract totals of 14110300 and 12283500 re- spetivey a substantial increase these statistics are encouraging as showing a decidedly upward trend in construction throughout the dom inion this trade will undoubtedly be greatly stimulated by the dominion housing act which is about to be come operative concerning this re cent legislation building in canada has this to say this act is one of the most important pieces of legislation ever enacted in the dominion with respect to the building in dustry and while the total amount of the federal appropri ation for providing 20 per cent of the building cost may appear not very large the act bears promise of effectively assisting the horse building industry at a time when it is most needed seme have feared that the act might possibly open up a large amount of illconceived speculative building operations by making funds for such opcr- atiens easy to obtain the regul ations cf the act clearly and positively rule out anything smacking of wild cat activi ties in the case of dwellings to be built for sale the regulations distinctly state 25 per cent of the amount of the proposed loan shall be with held until the house has been sold to a pur chaser on terms of sale satis factory to the lending institut ion and furthermore in cases where a multiple d w e 1 1 i ng house apartment or duplex is being erected for rental purposes 25 per cent of the amount of the proposed loan shall be withheld until the building is 90 per cent occupied and until the leases for occupation are satisfactory to the lending institution it is al so expressly provided that any house built with assistance under the act shall conform to sound standards of construction and jlans and specifications must he submitted and approved before lending institution makes any advances toronto mail and kmpire the 13th of th month friday mere often than day falls on on any millions of young pine trees saved ontario forestry branch acts quickly against sawfly catterpillar sault ste marie ont im mediate action by the ontario for estry branch has saved millions of young pins trees on the 5784acrc government plantation north of thessalon from the ravages of the man hows your hay fever friend so much better that i avvf cau it was learned now feel safe in starting out vviti only three handkerchiefs instead of canadas foreign s0wthe windby trade gains being too unselfish n ii bu lot and reap tornado commerce has held up remarkably well in comparison with that of other countries- during the four dei m r presslon years from 1930 to 1934 is mother dlscovers that spoli- dominion notes largely reduced bank of canada has with drawn 87000000 in six months an instant the dozen i usually take while it is oing strong it is just about this time of the year the child figures how he is go ing to keep out of college while dad figures how to keep him there p when are you going to pay me that 10 for pasturing your cow ive been keeping her now for ten weeks mike why pat she aint worth ten dollars pat well suppose i keep her for what you owe me then mike no indeed pat but ill tell you what ill do you just keep her two more weeks and then you can have her getting rich is easy just hold on to vacant lots and let other people build a city around you jewel i asked cleveland if the grapefruit was very juicy helen and did he tell you jewel no but i read the answer in his eyes last week discovery of the sawfly at thes salon marked the first time it had been found in northern ontario forestry branch officials sprayed the trees saving most of them from destruction while investigating the sawfly at tack g h li phillips chief forest er and rod goodall forester found the white pine weevil attacking scotch pine they were told by the entomo logical branch at ottawa this find was the first recorded attack of the white pine weevil on scotch pine prehistoric chinese women wore furs and used rouge natures signs when you see sweet juicy apples hanging low upon the trees and you hear a kind of yawning in the mild september breeze when the5ees all start to act like theyd got droneblood in their veins and you feel a growing coolness in j the slanting autumn rains when you find the monthly rcses dont have near so many blooms and the folks drift off the porches to the family setting rooms get a plate of cakes and cider and pull up ycur rocking chair you can bet your bottom dollar old king winters in the air jock mactash while walking along the street met sandy mctoon carry ing a new piano on his hack jock sandy are you economiz ing again sandy no i dinna wish to wear out the wheels washington prehistoric chinese women apparently wore fur coats and painted their faces thousands of years before modern women thought of the same ideas the smithsonian institution indicated recently in report of its stone age excavations in northern china the archeologists dug deep into the remains of a prehistoric village in shansi province where they found lumps of cinnabar prehis toric rouge and indications that the population wore furs of 1500 bc style the village sprawled over an area 500 miles long and 200 miles wide c w bishop associate cur ator of the freer gallery of art of the smithsonian institute said the inhabitants lived in beehive shaped houses whose walls were plastered and whose only entrance was from the top our prehistric chinese were not nomads wandering about with their flocks bishop said they planters depending for food on they grew revealed in an analysis- just complet ed by the satstical bureau or the league of nations world exports on the gold dollar basis iu the last four years the ana lysis shows have declined 571 per cent while those of canada are down j by only 499 percent thus the do minion has resisted the decline more successfully than has the world as a whole japan alone of the larger nations has a beter record hie comparisons are interesting the decline of canadian exports by 199 percent contrasts witha decline of 15c9 percent of the exports of the united states with 572 percent of those of the united kingdom witlj c5s percent or germany with 584 percent of france and with 5s1 1 college and now it seemed ho needed as more letters to get him a school ottawa the bank of canada fid child wont reform in has now been functioning for six mrs wilson sat looking at the sea she was alone because she was on a rest cure but oh how soothing it was the friendly sea to which she could talk and not have to listen to an answer she marshalled the facts that had tumbled out of the blue in the past months it commenced activities march 11 in the period elapsed a total of 87000000 of the old dominion notes have been withdrawn from circulation and replaced by the smaller bank of canada notes when the central bank opened there was 98000000 of dominion notes outstanding now there is about 11000000 the total of both bank week they were these she was j of canada and dominion notes out- tired and iil the doctor said she standing august 28 was s0000000 would have t have a change there j on january 1 next the chartered was little money all the surplus banks of canada will be required they had was to he spent on burks to reduce circulation of their ma course so he could teach it had been hard getting burk through hats of aluminum tropical experiments indi cate its use as a cooling lining while ho was sweltering under the egyptian sun dr g p crowden of the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine was struck by the fact that some iron buildings were not as hot inside as they theoretical ly should have been linings gave him the clue to this mystery line a corrugated shed with three plies of some insulating material and the inner surface is 12 degrees f cooler than the outer testing various combinations of lining the inquiring dr crowden found that if the threeply lining is supplemented by aluminum foil the effect is even better the difference in temperature between the inner surfaces of iron sheds lined with onlv threeply stuff and with threeply plus aluminum was 23 degrees the air itself was 30 degrees f cooler in the shed that had a supplementary aluminum lining this gave the doctor an idea why not line helmets with alumi numthe kind of helmets that ex plorers of the tropics wear the results were just as striking as with sheds the air within an aluminum- lined helmet is 20 degrees cooler than that within a helmet lined with usual fabric in the bulletin of hygiene lon don dr crowden now recommends aluminum for pretty nearly every thing exposed to the tropical sun sheds helmets tents food store ship cabins near funnels if you tell the wife you would marry again she is peeved if you tell her you wouldnt on a bat she is also peeved queer critters wo men were what prince sets vogue of pleated belt bride what can i do to steps in preparing a meal married friend move next to a delicatessen door september breezks a hay fever cure is not unlike religion helps some but doesnt take with others the best way to feel for the needy is to put your hand in your pocket two dimples go well with the fat of the land peace at any price is cheaper than war at all costs ho who hesi tates is bossed slogans do riot have to make sense to he catching a pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck a slighted woman knows no bounds laugh and grow fat if business is worth any of your time it is worth all of it there is no substitute for work an important factor in cannes france the prince of wales started another craze in mens fashions recently when he appeared on the wacrfrfont with a pleated cord belt fastened with a five inch silver anchor dealers swamped with orders rushed demands to paris wholesalers for thousands of similar belts the heir to the british throne wore the belt with a white sport suit percent of italy japans decline w approximately 47 percent tae only major exporting nation with a better record than our own in the analysis reveals alo that in poin of volume of trade canada con tributed 371 percent of the total world exports in 1929 while last year she boosted her share to 399 per cent that i interesting information and encouraging it is proof that can adas foreign trade has suffered less than that of any other nation except japan it is interesting to note too that the dominion now occupies sec ond place as a source of supply for great britatin in contrast to fifth place ten years ago similarly it has moved up from eighth place to fourth place in the ranks of britains cut- omers in the same period stratford beaconherald warm water route discovered in arctic all business is promptness even a mule will develop horse sense if you treat him like a gentleman but he is never afraid of the boss if he knows he is doing first class work our idea of a soft job is a feather renovating business probably a man becomes a grave digger so ho will he prepared for any undertaking if a criminal hasnt a sear by which they can catch him they are hopeful he has a woman the prayer meeting is the only attraction that isnt discouraged by empty seats the best way to break a bad habit is to drop it moscow- the soviet ice breaker sadko reported by wireless last week it had discovered a warm water passage through arctic ice which might be a section of an open chan nel through which steamers could navigate to the far east from europe by way of the polar regions george ushakov head of the ex pedition exploring arctic areas said the passage was g50 feet wide cut ting through previously unexplored territory between franz josef land and nickolas the second land he reported the water lane was flanked by fields of impassible ice i ushakov who also announced the discovery of a new island said lie believed the water was a part of l the gulf stream the passage was reported extending due north from the position of the sadko given as 81 li degree northern latitude ap- proximately 700 miles from the north pole thero are too many people looking or some one else to do something for kieen henry ford ww sism win ivck ai boy problems grow up an editorial from the itotarian magazine to most men a boy is one ot the most interesting things on earth no two are alike to one the description a noise with dirt on it may apply another will be shy and serious with oddly conflicting idea struggling lor expression in action wise adults tin ders and this tor they know that the growing period of a youngster is above ail a time for adjustments to a constantly expanding social and physical environment but boys grow up and so do their problems youngsters have iiad an especially difficult time in making their adjustments in the past live years for the conditions about them with which they would come to terms have themselves been shifting un certainty in the world has hyper complicated the task of getting set faced by youth in the late toons and twenties every nation has its youth prob lem superficially it may vary from country to country but the same eco nomic ami social factors that bailie a young man in north america today underly t3io situation of the unad justed youth in england or france or australia or elsewhere sharp winter ahead warns indian chief but when jerry her husband heard what the doctor had to say ho went off and bought her a ticket and gave her enough to pay her board at the little resort for a month burk had been pretty silent he had not said anything but she could not forget his blank look when ho heard the news unexpected tidings in her hand now flutered a night letter she had read it over fifty times but still she clung to at as one would hold a snake that would strike if released burk was married he had brought his young wife home and that was all there was to it she was is did no know a thing about house- work and they had no money jerry would be frantic she could picture i the place with her away and jerry j making scenes her heart fluttered and she held her side it was all her fault if she had taken a stand and refused to leave it would not have happened what did burk mean he hadnt said anything about a girl she hadnt known he was in love i er told her anything about his affairs 1 but she put that down to his being sensitive and shy although his father i had another name for it i she tried to think back over the i years she had shielded him and i shclcred him had gone shabby time i and again to get him the best of i clothes had taken few summer trip i so ho could go to camps and then as he got older increased her at tentions to keep a grip on his affec- i tion that she felt was slipping cruel i lit lo economies to keep him in poc ket money silence to his father over some of his boyish escapade extra desserts perpetual laundering light left on bed turned down just so marriage for spite and without a word to her her boy had done this he knew it would bring her home too at once the telegram almost seemed to say well you shelved me this time so ill show you no she shrank from the thought it wasnt true burk couldnt he like that in her heart she knew it was the truth the boy had lost sight of everything but himself gratitude she had supposed all children par tially grateful tor what their parents did but the scales had rallen ba rents meant nothing to children now adays only a source of supply and it had been her fault they would be expecting her now by next train suddenly she sat up and threw the telegram through the rail she walk ed down to the office and sent this message congratulate burk but toll him ho is stronger than i am will not come home rent the house furnished if you can and join me here burk can support mary if he takes that job at meyers when burk got the word he exclaimed she couldnt take it eh my own mother come on mary well get out and stay out if we starve 1 thought she was my friend ycll this ends it shell never see me again own notes five percent- the first of the cuts under the new bank act which over a period of years will see char tered bank notes in circulation gra dually reduced to a minimum al ready the chartered banks are tak ing steps to be ready for this five percent contraction theres no tobacco like ogdens thats why rollyourowners everywhere are getting back to ogdens finecut theone tobacco that assures cigarette satisfaction and ogdens costs so little that it doesnt pay to deny yourself the best tobacco youll toll ogdens best with chantecler- or vogue cigarette papers 52 poker hands any numbers now accepted os a complete sqi no limitation to size or cost of new houses may borrow up to 80 per cent for homes costing 10000 or more ottawa under the new domin ion housing act there will not be any limitation on the size and cost i of any house a person availing him- self of the terms of the act wishes i to build there already have been i inquiries from persons wishing to borrow to build homes costing 10- 000 and more in this- regard it is pointed out fine cut vour pipe knows ogdens cut plug new light aids dentists rays of the mercuryvapor arc a help in diagnos ing defects the bluegreen rays of the mer curyvapor arc under which the skin appears dead and the veins look like dark rivers has its dental uses uunis turn purple almost black teeth fluoresce and stand out brilliantly vhie all this makes diagnosis eas ier according to information supplied a b mckenna westinghouse engineer we distinguish red only when red rays are present in the higherclass homes will also con- illuminating rays reduce the nuni- tribute to more employment and her of colors in light and the appear he nev i l f the act is to as sist in the building of more homes and while the hope is mean a large increase of homes suitable for the greater by mass of the people there is conclusion that the building that it will the type i the of of canadian building greater use materials i interpretations of the act arc be ing made as points arise for in stance it lias been ruled that whle the act permits borrowing of 80 pci cent- of the cost of a home it is not ncessary to borrow that much if a these hues only and the gums prospectvc builder has an equity i glie and tissues having no red higher than 20 percent further it to reflect turn dark purple on the has definitely been laid down that other hand diseased or affected tls- no secondhand or shoddy materials sues d not change in aspect slini- shall be used in homes constructed arly hence there is a sharp contrast ance of an object changes it turns black gray or the color of the rays that shine upon it hence the coirt trasts are sharpened apply this to the mercuryvapor arc it is predominantly blue green yellow flood the mouth with light or ton- light with money borrowed under the act mexican customs please canadians ontario woman records her impressions of visit protect your children 1 windsor iodized salt prevents goitre nleo purest ami bent for table cooking and oral health i ttor off and mail today canadian industries limited salt division windsor ont ia without obligation rleiwo bend apecial child- salt all over tho world addrett winnipeg old jeremiah rundlc chief of the swampy cree indians came down from his norway house resevation last week to tell the white folks a cool open fall was antici pated in the north country coal bins will need filling shortly he said chief jeremiah was born more than 70 years ago he doesnt re member just how much more at fake british employment agencies to be closed fake employment agencies are to he put out of business in britain the ministry of labor is consid ering establishing a special labor exchange in london which will de vote its whole attention to finding domestic employment thisbureau will serve the double purpose of finding employment for girls from the distressed areas and checking the activities of agencies which exploit girls there is a certain type of agency in london which brings girls from the northeast and from south wales on the promise of finding them domestic employment after extracting a fee from the girls these agencies send them to situations which tho girls cannot no need to go to alaska to be cool or to egypt to see the pyramids according to mrs e b flint of london out who with her husband attended the hotary international convention in mexico city its never too hot and never too cool down there and the aztec pyramids are almost as interesting as the famous ones on the banks of the storied nile mexico situated 7500 feet above sea level has an even temperature never above 78 and never below 00 the visitors were told- it has re tained many quaint customs and as yet has no large stores and few tourists owing to the lack of good motor roads in a city of more than 1000000 inhabitants there arc only two ma chine laundries mrs flint laid for the women still adhere to the primi tive method of washing their clothes in the streams with a flat rock to rub on the fruit and flower mar kets were a sight the pyramids built by the aztecs several hundred years ago were of great interest mrs flint said and not the least amazing feature was a primitive but effective shower in stalled in a niche in the wall the delegates had a mexican dinner in a restaurant made in a cave below the pyramids the floating gardens where land is so valuable that no houses are built on it was also another place of interest it is possible to raise seven crops of corn a year on this land and if a man sells a strip he merely digs another canal instead of building a fence to define the boun dary between sound and unsound portions of gum the course of the blood ves sels is more easily traced abscesses and inflamed areas are accentuated with the leeth it is the same tar- tar and film deposks do not fluoresce hut healthy enamel does enamel de fects betray themselves by differences in density ragged fillings and super ficial decay reveal themselves at once tho truth is uhat in modern con ditions nations can no more live alone than individuals viscount cecil classified advertising inventors 1 an offish to kverv inventor 11st of wanted inventions and full information sent free xiio xtamcay couipauy world futent attorneys 27j iiank street ottawa canada tiees and bicycle ba3qaiks tires 2 up bioycies 10 of transportation paid free catalogue toronto tire lyg dundas west to ronto farms and homes mfortunity someone selected will buy cottage fruit garden for 15 particulars stamp flgarsdalo tioatery ayllner ontario woman to spend winter in northern mining camp norway house 150 miles north of here he has just retired as leader a of his tribe and at present is enjoy- thc ppscl domestic exchange ing a little holiday in thc city charging no fees to cither mistress kimonton undaunted by thc one indication of n sham winter or mnil1 will carefully investigate umiauiucti ny inc one indication oi a snarp winter i i prospect of a long cold winter in in thc offing he said was that ducks lho w- of all emplo of athabasca mrs c shearing is plan- at no time- is one s character and ning to return lo goldfield sask temperament ones charm or its lack j with her husband who is working a are very lean this season and musk- rats are also scarce in the north issue no 38 35 prize contests and moneymaking ideas for everyone so clearly evident as in the playing or claim mrs shearing will be thc 291 games or in thc pursuit of sport emily post only woman camp in the far northern authoritative coun sel on winning prize contests this article and monthly listings of prize contests syndicate markets and mar kets for illustrations for de signs greeting card de signs and verses stories and poems supplied for a yearly subscription of 200 a sample sheet for 10c or a 3 cent ilamped cnvelopo for full information giff baker 39 lee avenue toronto