tub remarkabllf romance of an industrial dictator vct end by pearl bellairs tlmm west plants many trees war on drought f i v e million more will be started next year every day living a weekly tonic by dr m m lappin ryhopsis joan deriuy of humble origin is in troduced us a social equal of ml georglna la fontaine rather than her secretary she meets piers tlauneit millionaire who forcea his attentions on her lord edwards oroooses to joan joan leaves miss la fontaine to he- come a manncouln at the salon olste llers hannen takes joan and her family for a cruise aboard his yacht joan began to feel that she might come to regard hannen as a friend though her fear of him in any more intimate capacity she felt would never leave her his nature had its kind and generous side and it was not for nothing that her two young brothers worshipped him mr hannens a corker ain he joanny ken said to her is he benny boy perhaps he is in some ways so the trip home drew to its close and they were cruising up the chan nel on a sunny morning well are you so sorry now that i persuaded you to come hannen asked her on one of the rare oc casions when they were alone togeth er persuaded she laughed at the word your ideas of persuasion you havent been unhappy he stated quietly not a bit ive loved it joan he began softly but she grew frightened and reserved again at once ive been happy she said be cause you havent reminded me of why you brought me here he looked a trifle dashed but not utterly disheartened i think its cured isnt it what detestation perhaps detestation is im not such a hopelessly horrid person you know i couldnt really detest any body once i got to know them well thats an advance at any rate hannen said at southampton the boys were so sorry to leave the yacht that they almost cried benny when he got in to the roadster actually did hannen went to london with them and there was not much room in the car mr denby and maude and the boys were all in the back seat while joan and the chauffeur were in front it was a tight fit for three and joan wedged in between the chauffeur who was driving and hannen on her other side was amply protect ed from the wind the fact that she was crushed against the chauf feur hardly entered her conscious ness so deeply aware was she of hannens proximity to allow her room he was compelled to sit with his arm behind her shoulders resting on the back of the seat and at first i have a letter before me now ty pical of a good many letters that 1 have received from time to time and indian head sask western can- raising a matter about which 1 crave ada is bringing the forest to its far- always intended to write it enables mers to stabilize its agriculture i me souml a much nec warning there was something suffocating to providing shade in summer shield this letter gives me an opportunity her in his nearness but scon she be- in winter and aiding agrarians in to do so now came used to it and only when she their war on drought and soil drift t ettr mm yunj was thrown heavily againsc him as ing lercd he looked her and smiled with a sudden unex- farms m manitoba 145000000 trees have beerl the letter is from a spinster of thirtyfive she writes saskatchewan iu p pceted tenderness her heart raced and alberta in 35 years of system- 1 live all al011e j a smai1 a but her emotion was too powerful atic planting five million more menl anu g0 out to business each for her to understand whether it j wi be planted in 193c j j havj a been backward was unpleasant or not j norman m ross chief of the tree and slow to make friends and con- of j planting division of the federal for- j soquently i have very few friends est nursery station here and h as- none that i call intimate friends sistant c a edwards dipped into lately i have been feeling loneliness facts and figures and found the love rather keenly i noticed an advertise- of trees brought by farmers from meat in the inserted by a older settled areas provides the lev- gentleman who would like to meet eler for western agriculture a companionable woman of my age to folk who pulled up stakes in the accompany him to parties and break maritime and ontario and moved the loneliness of life for him at first westward at the turn of the century or came from the old country brought their love of home beauty with them and in that was born the tree planting program which is from your doctor if the pain remedy you take is safe dont entrust your own or your familys well being to unknown preparations before you take any prepara tion you dont know all about for ihe relief of headaches or ihe pains of rheumatism neuritis or neuralgia ask your doctor what he thinks about it in comparison with aspirin wc say this because before the discovery of aspirin most so- called pain remedies were ad vised against by physicians as being bad for the stomach or often for the heart and the discovery of aspirin largely changed medical practice countless thousands of people who have taken aspirin year in and out without ill effecl have proved ihal the medical findings about its safety were correct remember this aspirin is rated among the fastest methods net discovered for the relief of headaches and all common pains and safe for the average person to take regularly aspirin tablets are made in canada aspirin is the registered trademark of the bayer company limited iook for the name bayer in the form of a cross on every tablet demand and get aspirin suddenly she began to think the scar in his ribs and the dancer in buenos aires who had inflicted the wound and a violent anger shot through her changing abruptly to a feeling of dreadful grief she did not know why this awful sadness should suddenly overwhelm her but she could hardy speak for it all the rest of the way to town when they arrived at hooley street mrs denby met them at the door with a welcoming smile are you too tired said hannei to joan as the others went into the house or will you come out to night her feeling of depression softened her and something some strange drawning of happiness struggled through the confusion of her feel ings when she hesitated he clinch ed the matter with a return to his old smiling dominance v im coming for you anyhow well go and see georgina if youd rather not be alone with me this was so encouraging that she consented she did not want to make him too hopeful and yet when he was charming it was impossible to be unkind he drove off and she went into the house to hear maude telling their mother all about the wonderful wonderful time they had had the boys too could hardly keep still for the excitement of telling about it seeing them here ill the mean drab little kitchen she saw- how changed they were how sun- bursed and well hannen had been very kind he could not have been more so she lost her depression and felt her radiant self maude soon went off to report at her sweetshop the boys ran out to play and mr denby departed for the public house well toany did you like it yes mother i did oh mother you should have come it would have been lovely for you no no my girl id have hated being on the water what was all that about you and mr hannen be ing left ashore when a storm came on joan told her he behaved ever so decently mother he isnt so bad i dont think do you begin to like him bet ter i dont dislike him any more she was full of burning resent ment thinking once again about that girl in south america i suppose ho looks upon me as ho looked on her she told herself after her mother had gone out to do some shopping and she was putting the boys clothes away upstairs in the dingy little attic but still she did not quite believe this to be continued i hesitated then i pictured a young man in a similar position to myself so i replied it has turned out very much differently from what i expect ed this man was evidently looking teachers license is refused because she weighs 182 pounds tho board of examiners of the board of educotion of new york has filed an answer with dr frank p bcard of education cf new york has cation to an appeal made by miss rose freistater of 1m5 davidson avenue the bronx for a review of hie boards refusal of a teachers license on the ground that she was over weight miss freistater applied for the license in march 1931 the board of examiners denied the application be cause siie wieghed 1s2 pounds miss freistater being five feet two inches tall should iu the opinion of the proving its value in dollars and j for somethmg other than companion tho 120 pounds if cents today to modern farmers to the credit of tho tree planting placed better farm ship and i have had tho greatest difficulty getting rid of him the ox- perience has greatly upset me and i am in constant dread o him turn ing up program was gardens adequate protection against windstorms improved appearance and added home comfort retention i there it is a very old game and of snow moisture an ailid in growing one that is being played daily hun- fruit successfully protection for i dreds of innocent women and girls stock and poultry attraction forj been cau in the mesh of bird life protection against drought suc rogu and have learned by bit- ami provision of small fuel ter experience that it is not always fifty thousand trees were planted safe to answer such advertisements in 1901the first year the federal m correspondent is fortunate indeed government directed the work since if she has been able to free herself then manitoba has planted 18700- before becoming wholly ensnared to 230 broadleaf and 344093 ever- say the least it is always risky to greens on 32705 farms and alberta answer such advertisements records showed 37s79855 broadleaf and 661370 evergreens on 11126 farms oddities of playing cards it has been left for a correspon- my correspondent seems to have a grudge at the paper in whioh she saw the advertisement but that is fooish in all fairness it ought to be said was to be licensed to teach in new york the board agreed to issue the license however if miss freistater could reduce her weight to 150 pounds within the next six months in her application to commissioner graves for a review of the case miss freistater said that she had not been able to get down to 150 pounds in six months tho trouble was she said that her mother had not beeu well during the sixmonth period and she had to devote so much time to her that she had been unable to diet wholeheartedly and had got down only to 100 pounds she had asked the board she said for an extension of another month to get rid of the ten pounds this request had been refused said miss freistater an action on the thrift workshop has number of interesting exhibits fall hazards accidents due to falls take heavy toll a study of accident reports re veals the fact that accidents lxv t falls constitute a heavy drain on com pensation funds some of the chief causes of the falls are listed below for your consideration with the hope that thee hazards will be elim inated insofar as possible in your individual operations 1 tripping over objects on floors and stairs 2 grease oil and water on floors and stairs 3 stepping on material that will shift under foot 4 floors irregular or in pcor con dition 5 worn or broken steps or stairs g inadequate or no handrails on stairs and platforms 7 stairs with irregular tread s loose or obstructed floors on scaffolds and platforms- 9 shoes with runover heels or the triumph of creative handicraft in an age of machinery was illustra- j so 10 walking in places too dark to that the greatest care is generally j part ot the bq ot examiners which taken to see that advertisements ac cepted for the papers are bona lide but even with the greatest of care ad vertisements will sometimes appear that not what they appear to be on dent of the times to point out that he surface such advertisements are the club suit of cards is the only j usually inserted by very crafty people and aro cunningly worded if they british tonnage in sharp decline london the total tonnage of merchant ships registered under the british flag declined 2668492 tons one in which the royalties together possess six eyes the knave being counted for this purpose as a roy alty all the others have no more than five it is perhaps a matter of gallantry that the queens are the only figures who always get their full set of eyes the kings have only seven among them and the knaves six the knaves on the other hand have a monopoly of symmetry for two look to the right and two to the left whereas both kings and queens are eyes left in the pro portions of three to one little matters like these empha size the fact of the invisibility of the familiar how many people pay bridge regularly and would yet be puzzled to answer this examination paper unseen 1 which king shows only haif his face 2 how many jewels are there in the royal crown 3 what do the queens carry in their hands 3 which king has two hands 4 which king carries the orb 6 which knave is threatened with an axe 7 which king has a moustache that does not curl 8 which king wears ermine 9 which knave has a w on his shoulder the style of all the cards is em were not so no advertising manager would accept thorn every reputable paper wants to build up circulation and such advertising would only pull down the circulation figures clean straightforward advertising is tie de mand of our press today to me it is somewhat surprising that anyone will seek companionship through press advertisements there are so many legitimate channels through which one can make friends lonely girls can ahvays find compan ionship through the medium of one or other of tho girls clubs that are in voguo today or through the yw ca if a girl is living at some dist ance from such organizations a let ter to the secretary will i am sure always be sympathetically treated and apart from these organizations there is always the church all churches have youth organizations in which amiable companionship can usually bo found the best thing to do is never an swer an advertisement of tho nature that has caught my correspondent napping i jiave known cases where it has led to tho ruin of a splendid type of girl to my correspondent i want to say if this man turns up and begins to pester you threaten him with the police if ho persists communicato with ta police if jie she characterized as arbitrary and unreasonable the board of examiners said in its answer that its requirements as to weight and other physical char acteristics were those adopted by in- surace companies for standard risks the board held that such require ments were reasonable in view of the insurance aspects of the teachers retirement system teachers should moreover said the board be acceptable hygenic models for their pupils in the mat ter of weight as to tiiis the board of examiners added that miss freistater was now- back at 1s1 pounds which substan tiated tho original opinion of the ex amining physician that any reduction in weight would be merely temporary and the condition in the middle years of her life might become a handicap not only said the board was there no record of application for recon sideration of her case but there was no confirmation or official evidence that she had even reduced her weight at one time to 1c0 pounds new york heraldtribune ted by an exhibition in london to which women iu villages throughout england and wales sent work the exhibits were shown by the national federation of womens istitutes and they combined beauty with economy the duchess of york offered her choice of a gift bought five velvet pigs economy was especially apparent in the thrift workshop there banana crates made baby cradles bits of linoleum made soles of bed room slippers of which the uppers were made from last years discarded felt hats hens feathers and sheeps wool which had been picked up from the hedges were used as fillings for dainty quilts one of the exhibits contributed by a cambridge shire woman mrs ber nard jackson was a beautiful rug made entirely of old sill stockings on a foundation of coarse sacking the day has gone by when any physicist thinks that he understands the foundations of the physical uni verse as we thought we understood them in the nineteenth century robert a millikan ask your mm phatically tudor the king of hearts is said to show henry viii in his proper robes and the queen is a picture of elizabeth of york wife of henry vii but the ladies between 1930 and 1934 the board as a whole are an insipid lot the of trade journal revealed today on december 31 1934 there were 8- 602 steamships registered with a total of 12s78412 tons 41g8 mo- torships of 2826160 tons and 4135 sailing vessels totaling 359109 tons according to the journals statistics things to remember what shall wc keep from out the misty past what keep in mind through all tl i passing years pictures of joys whose memories eer shall last or sorrows days with all their sighs and tears better to keep in mind the happy scenes days that were bright undimmed by loud or rain kingly attitude is one of authority rather than bonhomie the knaves offer more variety of type but they arc unifonrly poor creatures as knaves should be the practice of duplicating the figures so as to be equally intelligible from either side does not turn up again you may count yourself extremely lucky but be sure that you have profited from your ex perience dont let it worry you put the whole thing completely out of your mind join some church society or the ywca and find companion hip that will enable you to forget about this nasly jar which you have received note the writer of this column women haters getting anywhere in alberta college edmonton ted bishop found er of the university of alberta wo men haters club is going to the national federation of canadian university students conference at kingston ont next week and ted admits ho may seek formation of women haters clubs in every university in canada ho or ganized the women haters organiza tion here a few years ago and it has a membership of five so if other varsity clubs do spring up coeds wont have to worry un less the membership goes over big ger than at the university of al berta is comparatively modern it would i is a trained psychologist and an au be interesting to know whether thethor of several works he is willing earlier pictures gave fuller details of costume london observer onepnpil school three pupils at tended a school near tweedsmuir beaver in nothing is human nature so un fair as in its liking for some animals and its dislike of others and the beaver has always been luky to have stood on a dam and see a lodge in some far spot of canada or new foundland and even to have looked for without seeing tho bubbles or the nosetip that mark the passage of a beaver is to feel a special al most proprietary interest in tho creature but even so little as that is not nccesary to have read of to deal with you problems and give you the benefit of his wide experl ence questions regarding problems of everyday living should be ad dressed to dr m m lappin room 421 73 adelaide street west toron to ontario enclose a 3c stamped addressed envelope for reply peeblcshlre two left when their beavers is to love them they have fathers moved from the district now the quality of dearncss shared with thero is one the education author- the squirrel the beaver is by fam- ttes have decided that britains small ily an aquatic squirrel the pen- cst iichoo shall remain open moro guin nnd the kinkajou london farm workers are expected times eafness headnoise jeonara weilr oix iui witrcnkri discnjtjn ftiiir ia insist also excellent for temporary deafness and head noises doe to conception caused by colds flu and nwlmmlnr a o leonard inc 70 filth ave new york city hdd ih back or car- ikf en in hostrui before you give your child an unknown remedy to take every day unthinkingly mothers take the advice of unqualified persons instead of their doctors on remedies for their children if they knew what the scientists know they would never take this chance doctors say phillips for your child when it comes to the frequentlyused milk of magnesia doctors for over years have said phillips milk of magnesia the safe remedy for your child remember this and a ways say phillips when you buy your child deserves it for your own peace of mind sec that you get it gen uine phillips milk of magnesia also in tablet forin phillips milk of magnesia tab lets are now on sale at all drug stores everywhere each tiny tab let is the equivalent of a teaspqonfnl of gen uine phillips milk of magnesia phillips at tin cfafamiemcl made in canada see well 11 unguarded floor openings 12 loose covers over floor openings 13 improper use of ladders or un safe ladders 14 substitutes for ladders such as boxes barrels chairs etc 15 stepping into or out of elevators which have been stopped a little a- bove or below floor level 1g poor eyesight 17 winters snow ice and sleet it is obvious that stairs and steps should bo kept free from slippery substances loose objects and debris provided with substantial and prop erly maintained handrails and well lighted- the principal causes of falls from ladders are breaking of ladder or parts slipping twisting or falling of ladders ladders therefore should be constructed of substantial mater ial and periodically inspected and maintained in a safe condition they should be provided with nonslip feet and where practicable with safety hooks at the top falls from scaffolds stagings runways platforms etc may be caused by defective materials slip pery surfaces lack of protective rail ing etc tncy therefore should be constructed of suitable material inspected regularly and kept clean and in good repair tile majority of falls of workers on level surfaces are due to slippery substances defective flooring pro truding nails materials in aisles and passageways etc if the floors are kept in good shape materials prop erly piled and stored and refuse disposed of all aisles and passage ways kept clear and unobstructed and well lighted much will be done towards preventing such accidents splintered floors are particularly dangerous puddles and drippings cf oil and water make the floor slippery and should be cleaned up immediately and provision should be made to prevent a recurrence it is nbvious that special provis ion should be made to protect em ployees having poor eyesight winter presents its peculiar haz ards the chance of slipping is in tensified by snow sleet and ice suitable precautions should there fore be taken to guard against such hazards this coming winter employees should be encouraged to report and correct unsafe condit ions and practices in short good housekeeping on the part of all concerned will great ly assist in eliminating the many needless accidents and their due to falls- x b- accident vention association costs pre- issue no 2 36 is jk wtrnn colors for 1936 inspired by old chinese pottery colors from pottery made by men who died 2000 years ago will adorn the hat of fashionable miss 1930 for the past few months h f wilson of the british color coun cil has been working at the mus eums in south kensington adopting subtle shades from chinese vases many of them dating back to 200 bc now he has produced a new color card with 24 colors most of them chinese for millinery in 1930 here arc some of the colors taken from the pottery of ancient china coolie an unusual typo of saxo blue which the coolie of china dyes his clothes with to this day crfrn stalk a golden yellow with which the chinese loved to decorate their beautiful vases mandarin blue made specially in yorkshire for export to china ruby the red of the precious stone taken from chniese vases lotus bud a delicate pink th same color as the flower faience blue a pale blue of the type known to the chinese as sky after rain tropic red and sail red two iron rust colors the chinese were masters of color wilson declares i have spent a long time with the kind av siatance of the museum authorities matching up my colors