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why french people r heumatism do n o t emigrate regardiug the wellknown fact that the french do not emigrate a few reasons have been given by abbe ernest dimnet in the literary digest the french aro no linguists the rery notion of foreign languages has a queeruess for them it makes them mlle there is an unreality about it some of my humbler friends in france who know that i use english as my chief literary medium find that fact hard to believe germans slavs and orientals arc actually attracted by the pleasure of conquering a foreign tongue and think nothing of tie iffort the french regard the achieveihet as be yond their possibilities it is amus ing to see frenchmen of the old school who know latin well act as if languages much easier than latin offered insupperable difficulties you may say that the english are no lin guists either and yet emigrate but they mostly emigrate to coun tries where their own language is current if tiiye did not have relaj fives or friends all over the world they would demur before leaving home the french are not fortune mak ers the history of a carnegie or a ford which has trebled the am bitions of many a young man ar riving in america sounds to the av erage frenchman as a fairy tale but does not act as an incentive good food a little wine and no uncer tainty about employment amply suf fice for the happiness of most french people year after year see trades men retiring from business as soon as they have a competency the no tion of adding to it till it becomes a fortune does not appeal the most powerful motive in the behaviour of the average frenchman is independence like any other kind of independence englishmen have a fatalistic tendency and frequently show that gamblers recklessness which they have passed on to ameri cans and notwithstanding their pas sion for freedom they do not hesi tate lo accept strange situations many a timo i have seen the rela tives of a neerdowell in england decide with undenionstative kindness to pay his debts and support him to the end the prospects of such an old age would be unbearable to most french men early in childhood they are taught that one must never be a bur den on anybody else and even in adolescence they lay by in order not to lake hat hateful risk emigration may be a way of getting rich quick but the story of one failure can also be enough to dampen courage and such stories are numerous and sup ported by statistics from which the leader must infer that emigration is a form of gambling instead of hav ing recourse to such desperate me thods he limits himself io the only infallible one he saves with his eye everlastingly on the possible evil day this tendency accounts for his prefer ence for civil service jobs finally the frenchman is a sen timenialisl this may sound strange to the many people who regard him as a cynic without realizing that cy nicism is a sentiment turned sour and trying to counteract its own bit terness with a little humor i feel cer tain that the lack of political sense of the french comes from their in- horn belief in he loyalty of friends driven out1 it should be realized rheumatism is not inevitable if the poisonous acid fluids of the system are kept on the move thus preventing the formation and deposit of painful crystals in the joints the sohent stimulating action of phosferine has a masterly effect in liquefying dispersing and expelling the harmful acid crystals and it re charges the tortured and exhausted nerve centres with the energy to restore easy movement to the stif fened joints and suppleness to pain rigid muscles this exclusive property of phos ferine is illustrated by the recent experience of mrs k brewster who writes for mouths my husband was in terrible pain with kheuma tism in his feet walking with agony until he tried phosferine and now all his hliemiiatic pain has yone and he says it is wonderful to walk with ullllll denmark and the danes by prof s b mccready editors note this is the fourth of a series of articles which were pub lished recently in the harriston re view while written specially for the review and addressed to resi dents of minto township particu larly we believe they will be found interesting to many of the readers of this paper because the problems of the farm folk of minto township are the same problems that con front rural people throughout the province in the fust of these articles i sug gested that minto township has reached a point in its development requiring a new outlook that from this time on it could not export readily very many more of its sur- oul any pain 0 greek street hull plus population in the third article the speedy expulsion of kheu- 1 1 explained my interest in rural edu- matism is something to be trtankfiill cation and the reason for my visit for apart from the saving in time and money for it means that phos ferine has revitalized the body cells regulated the blood pressure strengthened the stomach and circu lation and maintained perfect health and many happy returns of ac- tivitvl english alphabet the english alphabet the origin of which has been a mystery yields up its secret at last observes the christian science monitor in this editorial dr george lamsa and smithsonian institution scientists working together find the key in the armani a semitic language which spread through the euphrates val ley about 900 bc and which came to be the native tongue of jesus the christ the alphabet almost as it is known today was developed with every letter the picture of a famili ar object a was the face of the strong alpo or ox once worshipped as a god and having that signifi cance b outlined a house of the period c caught the camels lump d more of a triangle in the greek form was the delta at the mouth of a river what could be more na tural men began to spell in the terms of the simple things they could see 11 was hawta in this pictorial al phabet outlining a trail used to catch foxes i was aena or the hu man eye t was tara door of a tent y was the human hand fingers spread the great alphabet mystery is surprisingly simple in the light of the new discoveries other discoveries too are on the way mens first speech it is now agreed consisted of exclamations of surprise of fear of reverence devotion was not difficult for early men they had not then made them selves many inventions to trick and mislead them it was easy for them to see that there was actually only one mighty power through the i simple objects ami simple time they looked with god to denmark in this article i want to show a picture of denmark and the danes to me denmark is the most in teresting country in the world i believe it comes nearer to genuine democracy than even england there is a far closer approximation to social economic and political equality than we have in canada or great britain while there is a monarchy there is no privileged tit led class the barons of former days are gradually disappearing and their estates broken up for sale to small free holders no new titles arc granted economically they are a progress ive people they have a saying which discloses their philosophy re garding wealth that country is a good country which has few people with too much money and fewer still with too little that attainment of economic equality is a national ideal they do not grow millionaires in denmark and they have no pau pers politically they govern themselves very wisely their upper house corresponding to our senate is elected as is their lower house on a proportional representation system of voting this ensures freedom from corruption and an equitable representation of all parties the present government is a union of social democrats and liberal lefts farmers are strongly represented senators are elected for eight year terms half of them retiring every four years in social legislation they have been worldleaders nowhere are the aged poor and unemployed the unfortunate and helpless the sick and needy better or more scientific ally cared for by society two thirds of the entire population which means all the people except children are covered by sick insur ance giving medical hospital and convalescence care it would take ontario a long time to catch up to denmark in social legislation what i have said about denmark or allies they are often naive gullibility and the foundation naivete i sentiment silly judgments sarnia canadianobserver a judge of tiie montreal court of i sessions explained in an interesting address to a commercial club in that city how sometines it was necessary to hand down a judgmen that look ed silly to the public in order to conform with the law the quebec liquor law was especially at fault in this respect ami he recounted an in cident to illustrate this a man was prosecuted for selling liquor without a permit two gov- j ernment inspectors told how they had gone to the place with two friends had ordered four john col linses were served properly and paid j over the money to the accused the lawyer for the latter listened intent- ly to the evidence any questions the judge asked this lawyer there being none the prosecution completed j the case for the crown then the lawyer for the defence cnlmiv requested that the case be dismissed 0i what grounds inquired the judge on the grounds that the court has not been told what a john col- 1 lins is answered the lawyer it may contain liquor and it may not the judge had no alternative he had to dismiss the case and his de cision was upheld on an appeal j as a private citizen the judge might know what were the ingredi- dents of a john collins but presid ing on the bench he could only base decisions on what was brought out in evidence i the case may be of value to gov- j ernment informers hereafter when trying to trap illegal sellers they will probably call for the straight varieties of the beverages simplicity and saw applies equally to the other scandin avian countries- namely sweden finland and iceland the our nomination for the most use- j fact is that our scandinavian cous- ess thing in the world a lapsed life ins have outstripped us anglo sax- insurance policy ons in many respects we should know more about their developments than we do 1 would recommend that the minto township school lib raries as well as the public librar ies in harriston clifford an1 pal- merston should keep it in mind to select hooks about these countries in their next purchases i heard one traveller remark that it was an un fortunate day for england when the danes went back home about the time of king alfred so much for their progressive de mocracy now a word about the country itself as nearly every one knows it is a little country it is about one twentyfifth tde area of ontario though its population is practically the same namely 3500- lls frequently just an idea not old age and according to scientists may be something no more alarming than a touch of acid stomach at about d0 many people think theyre growing old theyre tired a lot have headaches stomach up sets dizziness nausea well scientists say ilic cause in a great many cases is merely an acid condition of the stomach the thing to do is simply lo neutralize the excess stomach acidity when you have one of these acid stomach upsets all you do is take phillips milk of magnesia after meals and before going to bed try this youll feel like another personl take cither the familiar liquid phillips or the con venient new phillips milk of mag nesia tabids made in canada t also in tablet form phillips milk of magnesia tab lets aro now on sale at all drug stores everywhere each tiny tab let is the equivalent of a tcaspoontul of jen- wine phillips milk of s magnesia phillips want quick relief then treat pain as authori ties advise with omega oil far better than internal dosing it works down deep to correct the cause three times faster than ordinary liniments safer and surer oat all drug stores 35 cents inega mm u w o i a it i hi rub it in it wont buster 000 to be more exact its area is 17100 square miles which is 133 minto townships the same propor tion of its people live on farms as in ontario namely about 35 it3 capital city copenhagen is a little larger than toronto that is 700000 it has no other cies to campare with hamilton and ottawa but has three approximating london and twentytwo cities ranging between the population of owen sound and kingston there are a great many smaller towns and country villages much as we have in ontario there are 200000 facms in den mark compared to ipoooo in on tario these figures include 1 acre farms so of necessity they are much smaller one half of danish farms range from about 8 acres to 37 acres and one third from 38 acres to 150 acres one fifth of the farms range from ivi acres to 8 acres the soil on the whole is per haps naturally not so good as that of minto township their weather has more moisture less sunshine and more slush in winter than welling ton county the danish smallhold er farmer now aims to work from 15 to 17 acres on this area he will keep about g cows there are prac tically no tenant farmers in den mark land ownership is a sort of religion the people arc much like their close cousins the scotch thrifts canny and devoted to education they arc lovers of the soil and nat ural born farmers unlike minto township with its admixture of eng lish irish scotch and german ra pidly fusing through they are a pure race the lutheran church is the state church and there is only about two per cent of the popula tion nonlutheran uniformity in race and religion are probably fac tors in their disposition to cooper ate denmark has no minerals coal or water power so it has not develop ed industrially to a like extent with sweden scotland or germany agri culture has always been its basic in dustry there is an extensive fish ing industry and much shipping as descendants of the vikings they are still venturesome seafarers though hard hit by the restric tions resulting from the ottawa agreements they are very well dis posed to england their best custom er a great many danes visit eng land on holiday and english is very commonly spoken my intercourse was among school people largely and nowhere had i any difficulty in se curing what i wanted to know as there are a great many danes scat tered throughout canada i found most people informed about our country the principal of one folk high school said canada is the country for the danes if the de pression ever passes we want our surplus farmers to settle in canada they feel at home here as i felt at home in denmark they are very hospitable i wish a delegation of minto farmers could have such a visit as i had in the next article i propose t speak of their schools 1 think the most valuable lesson that denmark can teach ontario including minto township is one respecting educa tion the greatest contribution that denmark has made to the world is their folk high schools these schools have been the mainspring of their wonderful cooperative enter prises human nature they say the world is round and yet i often think it square so many little hurts we get from corners here and there but theres one truth in life ive found while journeying east and west the only folks we really wound are those w love the best we flatter those we scarcely know we please the fleeting guest and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those we love the best magistrate do i understand you to say that when you heard a noise you got out of bed turned on the light and went to the head of the stairs that a burglar was at the foot of the stairs find you did not see him are you blind witness mopping his perspiring face and blushing furiously must i tell the exact truth magistrate- yes the whole truth and nothing but the truth witness slowly well my wife was in front of me just think how many poor people were denied a horse and buggy in the old days because nobody had thought of this dollar down idea mrs cassidy my husband calls a spade a spade mis garner so did mine until he took one and started to spade up the garden and it broke in two you just cant buy a finer cuew the perfect chewing tobacco lady but jess so a pusson can cook i visitor so you are building a what difference does religion make new house eh how are you get ting along with it a fish story a fisherman got such a reputation for stretching the truth that he bought a pair of scales and insisted on weighing every fish he caught in the presence of a wit ness one day a doctor borrowed tho fishermans scales to weigh a new born baby the baby weighed forty- seven pounds judge what arc your grounds for divorce lawyer alternation of affec tions your honor negro woman applying for a position as cook i seen yo ad- vuhtisement in de newspaper lady lady interrupting but i ad vertised for a scandinavian negro woman i knows dat j head teacher robert what do they raise in ireland robert i know but i dant want to say it mother tells me i mustnt talk rough when silas stubblefield of brush- ville who owned a farm and was bequeathed another says one never can tell when misfortune will strike patrick visiting hospital and what might be your trouble patient tonsilitis got lo have my tonsils cut out patrick turning to another pa tient and you second patient blood poisoning they are going to cut off my arm patrick good night this is no place for me ive got a cold in my man fine ive got the roof and tho mortgage on it and i expect to have the furnace and the sheriff in it before fall were you scared on your wed ding day yes but ive learned since that i was not nearly so much as i should have been classified advertising inventors i an offer to every inventor list of wanted inventions and full information sent free the kahsai company world patent attorneys b7s hani street ottawa canada coiiliections scouting here there everywhere a brothel to every other seoul without regard to race or creed many other scout troops will envy a banquet enjoyed by the 2nd till- sonburg troop this winter a feed of bear and venison to make the evening complete the donor mr c b priddle told stories of winter hunting in the north and gave some pointers on the cooking- of game first old maid i believe that man over there is trying to flirt with me second old maid the old brazen fool wait until i call an officer first old maid dont call an of ficer call a preacher girls still marry for the same good reason- to get a home but nowadays they never stay in it pupil thanks for the wonderful memory training course you sent me doctor n doctor oh forget it live stock marketing shipping on ho cooperative plan has been productive of splendid results selling on the open market means real valuo for the owners cct in touch with us writ wire or telephone xynaiiurt 1143 the united pabmeks cooperative company limited live stock commission deit union stock yards west toronto the cuerpo national de scouts costa rica otherwise the costa rican boy scouts association has been recognized and registered at the scout international bureau in london the south american re public makes the 48th boy scouting country now recognized the british empire being counted as one scouts of st pauls troop fort william gave a colourful demon stration of scoutcraft at a regular dinner meeting of the gyro club at the royal edward hotel the boys did lashing such as used in the con struction of temporary bridges some fancy knot tying semaphore signal ling and put on a number of scout games the interest of seamen in boy scouts brings vancouver troops some interesting visitors from time to time to a meeting of the 7tn north vancouvers recently came the sec ond mate and the wireless opera tor of the ss frederika lensen their contributions to an interest ing evening included some instruc tion in fencing all the cub packs and scout troops of the wallaccburg district this man knows how issue no 7 36 you too can also learn how heres how make a sketch of this man and money 4 inches wide for tho best skctch submitted the choice 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