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aruftum ihtmtixm 9 remarkable romance of an industrial dictator by pearl bellairs synopsis joan oenby of humble origin is in troduced a3 a soelul equal of mis georgian la fontaine rather than as her secretary she meets piers llannen millionaire who forces his attentions on her lord edwards proposes to joan joan leaves miss la fontaine to be come a mannequin at the salon celeste piers llannen takes joan and her family for a cruise aboard his yacht she ask in what- were try to why do i go on living ed joan because were meant over happens joan said meant to struggle on and keep smiling but iydia only stared into the ire with her great dreary burning eyes joan slaved until late to cheer her up but the would not be moved from her bitter and despairing attitude finally joan had to go and she found herself infected by her friends mel ancholy she was tired and depress ed herself as she went home on the noisy rattling district railway why she wondered was scte always think ing about hannen sometimes kind ly sometimes bitterly hut always thinking arguing with him in oier mind over that last unfortunate scene between them next morning when she went to work iydia was not at the salon cel este joan was afraid she might be ill and had just made up her mind that rite would ring iydia in the lunch hour to make sure that there was nothing wrong when a message come through for her from one of the big hospitals asking her to call im mediately and see a patient a miss vaughan who was asking for her joans heart sank something ter rible must have happened she wa i sure of it she asked leave from madame celie and hurried to the hospital hoping against hope only to find her worst fears realised lydia had drunk half the contents of a bottle of disinfectant early that morn ing and had been rushed to hospital in a critical condition there was little hope for her tcie sister told joan before taking her to the bed in which lydia lay screened from the rest of the ward she had refused to give the address of her parents or relatives and had only een able to scrawl out joans name and the address of the salon celeste on a sheet of paper for her tjiroal was ton burned for her to be able to speak joan was utterly overwhelmed by the sight of the girl her loveli ness all drawn and livid her head turning from side to side on hie pil low in the intensity of the pain she was suffering unable to speak she grasped joans hand and would not let go joan was hard put to it not to break down but for iydias sake she knew she must be as calm and cheer ful as possible while she sat by the bed a young house surgeon whom the nurse addressed as dr harvey came and gavo lydia an injection of some drug in her arm it seemed as though lydia knew that he would help her for the agony went out of her eyes and hope and trust came into them as she looked at him for once thought joan with an aching heart lydia trusted a man she waited to more comfortabb stupor under tin narcotic the and then she j ee iydia bcome and sink into a influence of the surgeon bad given her went back to her work at the salon celeste she told madame celie that lydia had had an acci dent she realised that the fact that lydia had attempted suicide must be concealed for the girls sake though if she died concealment would no longer be possible but lydia little as she wished to live yet clung to life next day she was holding her own the day after that the nurse told joan that there was a bigger chance for her now at the end of a week she was able to whisper a few hoarse words to joan rather go on living she whis pered than make a mess like this darling you must go on living said joan cod means us to go on living it was so wrong of you try try now to get better lydia clung to her hand and joan thought that she saw in her eyes some impulse towards life a newly acquired bravery joan spoke to the sister before she left and the sister told her unit they beieved that ly dia would ptll through its young dr harvey said thoi sister i think hell save her hes been so wonderful with her and day by day lydia improved dreadful as this experience had been for joan it made her think very seri ously about her own life her com parative good fortune ami the possi bility that she might waste it by making some foolish mistake not that she would make the mistake that lydia bad made but that she might in her lack of understanding throw away some of the best things of life when she thought of iiers llannen now she realised that his love over bearing and domineering as it had been had not been anythig to scorn oven though she could do nothing but reject ir because of her own feel ings she had been careless and cruel she had not given thought o the pain be was suffering which had made him behave as ho did and though she would still refuse him if lie asked her again all that she had seen lately of the dark side of life had taught her to be more kind the spring went on and it was summer loan went to see lydia regularly it was ten weeks before she came out of the hospital and she came to the salon celeste the day af ter to see joan and the others who had been her friends there all her beauty but thai of her lovely dark eyes was gone her face had always been pale but now it was sallow and she was so thin that she was almost a skelton her voice was hoarse still for the acid which she had taken had burnt her throat but she was smiling smiling as the old beautiful lydia had never smiled and there was a light in her eyes which had never been there before to be continued women farmers i take honors london of recent years wora- suit your type select becoming colors plenty to choose from en farmers of the british isles hav what color will you choose for been steadily proving that they can your new outfit time and time again hold their own with the more astute this vexing question crops up but males in the ancient art of agrteul- youu have plenty to select from this ture lal year at he great at stock season as shades are particularly shows which come in december the varied stock shown by several women land- many have borrowed the rich deep owners gained championships uni this colorings of a bygone century ueds year while not as many women wert- that stand out vividly or darken to a exhibiting the honors gained by them rich rose wine berry shades witli a were just as interesting bluish tinge a comparative newcomer lady v- oreens vary from a bright kobin i cline maud robinson widow of sir hood lime and olive on to subdued hues that give an almost fated ap pearance lots of black is shown in b-b- the book shelf ohn robinson had a small gruio of aberdeen angus cat le from her kirklinston hall estate near newark paris nottinghamshire at the norwich with brilliant colors introduced as yoke belt or scarf royal blue steel grey and purple are also featured while tangerine and green red and blue orange and turquoise effective ly combine in day and afternoon frocks a famous dressmaker once gave a word of advice always keep the color of your eyes and hair in mind when choosing fabrics this is very sound as there are certain shades that can absolutely overshadow your own coloring women can be broadly divided into four types those with soft rather delicate coloring the florid the dark complexioned and those whose color ing is indefinite tne fair complexioned by this blondes alone are not referred to but also the fair skinned brunettes can afford to wear bright shades as the fairness of their skin subdues color to a certain extent green blue and black for the golden haired and red blue orange for her darker sister the swarthy type can wear green shades of brown and orange to good effect those with florid coloring should select the rich subdued tones of the berry shades but they will find that black or navy will do more to help them to soften their super fluous coloring than anything else color to give a touch of relief can be introduced at the neck in the form of collar and cuffs scarf or waist belt as to the inbetween type who are neither dark nor fair select bright shades you can wear shades that are colorful without being too bril liant birmingham and london stnithfiem shows at norwich her heifer iris o kiiklington animal reserve lady ro- champiou and at birmingham she also won the supreme honor with another virkliiig on animal reserve lady ro binson thus won three challenge tro jphies worth approximately 1500 and 150 in cash prizes later at the final court of appeal for all fat stock smithfield fat stock show in the royal agricultural hall islington iris was again reserve to the supreme chanmiou of the show champion this time being another s a a a a s e a down the ice by foster he witt reginald saunders toronto 3150 is a volume longneeded on canadas national sport hockey players and hockey fans will want a copy of this book by foster he witt who with his close contact with player coaches and hockey authorities is probably better qua lified to write on these subjects than any other person today how many know the year this national sport came into action iu canada for that matter how many know the origin of hockey these questions and many more are an swered in this fascinating book as a matter of fact every hockey fan should have a copy then when vi sitors arrive who have never seen this game on the ice just hand them the book of words rather by mair m morgan i bob a h i than a lengthy discourse on the subject high speed skiing by peter lumi reginald saunders toron to 125 is a handysized well- printed handbook on skiitig writ ten by so great an authority as the captain for the third year iu suc cession of the british ski team skiing in canada year by year is gaining its enthusiastic fol lowers the toronto ski club starting in 1922 with a handful of enthusiastic tyros now has 1500 members with a commendable av erage of skill it is recommended to these members that they all should have a copy of peter luims book unlike a great many experts he knows how to put technical ideas in clear and lucid language what more could you ask as a re commendation graphic portrait emil liuhvig presents hin denburg life la detail quints set the fashion angus heifer shown by j j cridlan of maisemoro park another titled lady whose stock has won several prizes at the english shows was baroness bur on with an gus stock from her inverness estate in fact these tw ladies along with h m the king and mr cridlan just about provided all the champions and uunersup at smithfield fanny la dy leon of bletchley park also had one or two riim rhowing a lon- n but could scarcely reach the charmed crce of champions at the scottish national fat slock show at edinburgh where last year mrs brewster grant won the sup reme championship sincere regre was expressed on all sides when word came of her death the day before the show seven of her animals were for ward and look a good share of the prizes as usual miss e m smith of kennerty peterculter the noted clydesdale horse and shorthorn cat- tle breeder was forward with sever al prize winning pure bred and cross bred steers to mention only a few of the landed proprietresses who are playing an important part in improv ed farm practice in the old country waiting to be told it is human nature for the mass to fix its attention on and follow the examples of the chosen few with the passing of time those ex amples have been broadly labelled fashion and canada has no more important leaders of fashion than the dionne quintuplets it is no exaggeration to say that the bulk of the recent arrivals in this country and others having their clothes their daily rou- i exponents of the examination system tine their diets in fact their very with a lot of explaining to do i has lives determined by the quints been shown for example that not on- and taken by and large it seems a ly are the markings widely different very sensible practice for that time when done by more than one board at least that the callandar babes j but that the same examiners o not something is wrong with you young people who are always wait ing for some one to tell you how it does not matter what your per plexity is how to get a jolt how- to get a raise in salary how to make friends how to win the approval of the boss you are always looking for an advisor and leaving it to him this does not mean that good ad vice should not be heeded it is a question of attitude if you assume that you have to be told how to do things you want to do if you are at a loss until somebody comes along to act as a signpost pointing the way for you to take then your chances are poor there cannot be any great degree of successs for a leaner self reliance is one of the indispensable qualities ask advice if you are in doubt take advice if you feel it is belter than what you had thought out for yourself but do not feel that you are helpless without an adviser are you troubled an examination of the examiners from the ieterboro examiner they have been making an investi gation in england into the question of examinatons both school and civil are service tests and the findings leave the nest remain under the supervision of their commonsense phvsician dr a 11 dafoe latest fashion set by the quints is that of being immunized to diph theria the result of the press story announcing this precaution was a 60 per cent increase in the first dos es of toxoid given to toronto children over the average ior the year according to figures supplied the toronto social hygiene council by the citys clinics 01 first doses were given at 11 clinics over the two days immediately following the storv peace is the greatest of british interests everyone is agreed about that viscount cecil woman kept silence for twentyfive years miss eloiso iteinzi former teach er of seven languages who in the past 25 years had never conversed with her charlestovn mass neigh bors not permitted anyone to cross the threshold of her home died after being taken to hospital police summoned by nearby residents bat tered down the locked door of her house and found her lying on the floor with a fractured left leg because the 90ycarold woman refused to let anybody in the house tificate showing the student to have always see the same answers in the same way 1 tlie investigating committee sent a set of papers to examiners who had i marked the identical papers a year before and this time the marks were quite different similarly when answ ers were submitted to seven different igroups of examiners there was a var iance in ihe results that was ama- ing j finally iwo squads of examiners some of them in the civil service j were called upon to test 20 candid ates by the viva voce method and to place them in order of merit and it was discovered that the pupil who was marked first by no 1 panel was put in thirteenth place by the other panel and the first place student sel ected by the second panel was only rated eleventh by the first so much emphasis is placed mi the importance of examinations both dur ing school years and afterward that the publishing of these findings has caused somewhat of a sensation in england and already sleps have been taken to improve the system at the samo time another very progressive move has been undertaken in the de cision to abolish the matriculation ex aminations except in the case of pu pils who intend to enter ihe universi ties and to substitute a leaving cer a straw a thread of moss a wisji of hay a withered leaf a twig of las years date these are his prizes these his prec ious freight all things outworn and lost and cast away yet challenging the universal nay lie finds in each a brick predestin ate and from his innocent plunder of the state he makes a home out of the worlds decay and i too pick and choose with curious eye from out the multiplicity of things to build a niche agtinst immensity a shelter from the beating of times wings a thing of naught for others but for me a base a refuge a security p ii in the london observer 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t4i an luchvig u write tho biography of this great figure ho has written a powerful life ot xapol eon and many other biographies of tho leading political and military gnts of europe among the last of theso is hitler and hindenbuig as an example of ludwigs stylo and hit presentation of the man iundenuvrg as compared with hitler the follow ing portrayal ihmninaung here was a man of mighty frame who for seventy years had been ac customed to wear uniform confront ed by an uneasy fellow hitler who had come to wear uniform only through tho chances of war ami had speedily relinquished it a man whom nothing lilted not even the brown shirt that had been his own inven tion whereas old ilindenbuig hcil de voted whole days of ms life to the important problem of buttons buckles and decorations the man with the biggest moustache in germany wes confronted by the man with the smn- lest hie squarohend by the ovnl- head a man with no nerves was fac ing one who was a bunde of nerves a healmiy man a neurasthenic a good trencherman a vegetarian a pater familias a confirmed bachelor the i man who produced an effect spontan eously and without offovt wis con- fronted by the man who ws un ceasingly trying t produc n eivitt the man who did not know the meiu jolt of fear by ono who was aliva s in a slate of excitement ia vn i horn to command tho man who had grown nal u rally and ersiy to his high positoh by the man who had shot up into the firmament like lacks beanstalk a junker was faced by a petty bourgeois a protestant by a cathotic jvie foregoing may ho ovrr-rhclor- ical but the features and charac or of the subjeefc stand out in bold re lief according to ludwig ilinden- burg himself had arrived at his lofty position by a course of events no less freakish than tiose which rais ed hitler to power he tells the story of how this big but otberwiso undistinguished junker secured mili tary employment during the war ami became a national bero and legend within a year it appears that while hindenburg was the imposing popu lar figurehead taidondorff was tho brain iudendorff however was apt to lose control of himself in a crisis land it was the jmper urbable ilinden- i burg who is said to have never si newed anything to interfere with his victuals drink and sleep who calmly saw the thing kt rough hindenburg never had any love for hitler but when lie realized that the ambitious plebeian was gaining popular aeclaim he pocketed his jun ker pride and received him not al together with open arms the oh man at tho time was physically and menally worn out and probably weary of the whole business hinden burg showed embarrassment when ha came face to face with hitler but he placed the general we faro of ger many before his own wishes in bhis ho might be said to have been an opportunist as he undoubtedly was throughout his career but he must he given the credit for having trim med the sails of the ship of stae according to the wind and tuis avoid ing the rocks of disastrous revolution st rat ford beaconherald didnt want to leave classroom kdmoxtox farm women of alberta learned recently of a new system of teaching primary grade pupil it calls tor pupil participa tion instead of pupil listening and has already been adopted in io al berta schools mrs v iioss convenor of the committtce on education and miss mary crawford of edmonton ex plained the new method at the an nual convention of the united farm women of alberta miss crawford said children like to imitate the action of adults and situations similar to real ones anione adults must he presented in the classroom she told of one class of seven and eight-year- wlio were busy pi house- in 15 visited them in the school room they were working in commit- tees making ait ides used in houses she said when the time came to go home they did not want to leave the classroom