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i m smiles and chuckles never envy anyone if they have something you want work until you get something like it the fisherman saw what looked to be a likely looking p oi and turned to a man lounging on vtj nnk fisherman is ll trime to catch fish here man crime if you catch any itll be a miracle nero is credited with once having having spent 150000 on flowers for a banquet vhich is about 150000 more than some men have spent on flowers for their wives in the past de cade grocers delivery man ou cer tainly have some wonderful chickens mrs stillrich do thfy lay well mrs stillrich oh they could you know but in our financial posi tion of course they dont have to lets start the column today with these cheerful lines we found in the christian science monitor boomerang when a bit of sunshine hits you after passing of a cloud when a fit of laugher gets you and your spine is feeling proud dont forget to up and fling it at a man thats feeling blue for the minute that you fling it its a boomerang to you small div applied for a job at a business office do you smoke asked tio ios no sir but i dont mind having an ice cream cone life is never free of troubles even the fellow who lives on a bed of roses has the thorns with which to contend postmans wife why pa you look all tuckered out postman i sure am ive been all over town lookin for a guy named fragile sergeant your late to go on gtard wots the wia 1 rivate i overslept and sergeant in all this bombard ment private ij be sooug yet if some guy hadnt been writirg with a scratchy pen it is the thinkable things of one ge neration that become the workable things of the nexc british democracy will outlive all the dictatorships new york miss irene ward one of the nine women members of the house of commons spoke recent ly to members of the league for political education at the town hall and told them that british democracy would outlive the dictatorships of the european continent for a little more than an hour miss ward spoke fluently extemp oraneously giving her analysis of the ethiopian situation nazi ambi tions the significance of sir oswald mmosely and the ill effects of the versailles treaty to the question do you find it a serious disadvantage being woman in parliament miss ward replied no disadvantage at al- wc have complete and absolute equality and my colleagues of the opposite sex make our lives as easy as they possibly can be most of miss wards speech was devoted to a discussion of the part played by great britain in the italoethiopian war and to the ques tions raised by nazi germany she repudiated the suggestion that brit ain was progerman at the present time and insisted that its existing government was definitely anti- nazi she believed that there was no threat in great britain either from fascism or communism barring the contingency of an other war which she considered a possibility though not a probability miss ward said she believed that british democracy would outlive the dictatorships of europe democracy she observed is the best form of government and its been tried out for centuries many extravagances begin under the guise of efficiency do men like brainy women asks a magazine ad well every man thinks the woman w says yes to hlii has brains but after she has lived with him a while the woman is sure she didnt have any when she said it the new minister was calling upon the members of his flock what a cute little girl he gallantly remarked upon viewing one of the children and this sturdy little urchin in the bib belongs to the contrary sex i presume oh yes said the mother shes a girl too the only ojitii dinner speai that is assured of a big hand i put it all one one deck plttse radios 10 and up ouv dikect fmm factory distributor save as nifch hm su off list prices send for particulars and phntns all dtandanl makes state cattery or electric battery rano3 12 up electric radios 15 up capian radio corp 2s2 college st dept a toronto an apple a day some useful hints regarding ap ples 1 a chopped apple sour or oth erwise added to a brown stew im proves the flavour and is said to as sist in making a tough piece of meat tender 2 a chopped apple may be added to curry or curry sauce 3 slices of apple are good fried after ham or bacon and served with it a chopped mixed with some cur rants spice and brown sugar or syrup they make a good lining for a roly poly pudding in place of jam 5 cut in pieces or chopped they are excellent in a salad served with lettuce and mixed with pieces of cheese raisins dates or finely shred ded raw carrot etc and salad dress ing 6 cut up and cooked with a very little water sieved or mashed finely and mixed with sugar lemon or or ange juice and served with pudding 7t try a chopped apple in an or dinary suet pudding it improves the flavor and seems to make it less heavy the open shoe by a ringer when a shock comes a person siiould be prepared but who was to know that there would be four horseshoe pitchers all with over u per cent ringers who would be prac tically tied for the dominion cham pionship fred harburn of crom y ont after trying for seven years broke the tie to win the cup for the orst time rotirt lefty ferris of toronto rlverdaie was fcond only 12 points down john simons peer of indian play ers from melbourne ont finished number three only 4 points below ferris john bad won this event twice before as had also george val- win of richmond hill and will have to try again next year if h wants to break the alltime players record jirimio daniels of tjrouto beaches was only 3 oints behind simons on the total but played a very bad game against him the finals were run in one round- robin group of six players with all hiving at least one los3 registered against them geo craggs defend ing champion was eliminated by fer ris in group 5 by only 2 points dean mcglaugblln of oshavva was the most impressive of the new crop of players one lj always in terested in those from a distance and jas rose of saskatoon was closely watched ho lost all his 4 prelimin ary games by such close scores that you just had to wonder how it was done after all was over they just natur ally had to have a dance an if you surmise that horseshoe pitchers do not bother with rls you better be on hand for 1937 thus endeth the year when the players pitched so many ringers that a least 4 peg sockets were smacked off their bases the boys at meaford pitch in the church shed all inter and extend an invitation to visitors so loma you see there really is a santa claus behind the new streamlines of the dominions seam lines streamlining on locomotives according to engineers is only the outward symbol of the radical changes which are taking place in railroad idling stock as modernization programs proceed with in dustry advancing into the age of auoys entirely new materials which give greater strength and ruggedness are being used in this field canadian nickel as an alloying material with steel is being used in new railroad equipment throughout the whole world as well as in canada an interesting historical point is the fact that the discovery of canadas nickel resources was originally made when the line of the canadian pacific was being pushed through the sudbury district now years later the metal discovered then is a vital factor in the development of better rail services top a trio of the giant cnr 6400s reported as the worlds largest streamlined locomo tives in which canadian nickel is used extensively bottom one of the new canadian scmistreamined trains in service brief comment germany is giving blood tests to find out whether fast drivers are intoxicated perpetual faultfinding is just as demoralizing as overindulgence with children emily post we suppose the king of italy does all the reigning mussolini thinks ne cessary brandon sun a contemporary laments that the word mater is falling into dis use mums the word pearsons if gilbert and sullivan were only alive sighs a surveyor of the euro pean scene and yet we dont know the overwork might kill them de troit news credit must be given to father coughlin for knowing whan hes had enough all men who enter pol itics are not as wise in this respect chatham news with 300000 americans now liv ing on the road in trailers it looks very much as if the brush salesman would have to buy a motorcycle san francisco chronicle germany is now clamping down on its humorists it knows there would be no greater threat to the nazi regime than a laughtist move ment toronto saturday night premier hepburn says mr rowe the conservative leader is only a cabin boy anyway he should re member however that story entitled from log cabin to white house queer birds coventry england authorizing their banks to pay the odd shillings in thoir accounts to the king george v national memorial fund 5115 was realized all men use them and save dollars manufacturer uirts lo introduce quickly singer le luxe kazor blades new process latest type double edge fin est smoothest cutting edge none made better for all new and old doubto edgo razors free samples will be mill ed on request send 10c to cover cost of packing and posting direct sales dept vvp rost ohiee bt 72 cuelph ontario the johannesburg star observes among the most peculiar breeding habits of birds are those of tue hornbills several kinds of which oc cur in the transvaal bushveld and are abundant in the kruger national park most hornbills make their nestg in hollow trees and have the pecu liar habit of imprisoning the fe males in the hollows where they re main fr a considerable period hornbills are always on exhibi tion at the pretoria zoo but hitherto they have not made any attempt to breed about ten days ago it was observed however that a yellow- billed hornbill had imprisoned his mate in a hollow tree stump in one cage about 18 months ago two tree- stumps which had been hollowed out for the purpose were closed at both ends and provided with an en trance hole and a pecrh these more or less natural breeding boxes were placed in the hornbill cage without any immediate result the pair of yellowbilled hornbills referred to have now taken posses sion of one stump the female hav ing been walled up in the usual manner the entrance hole has been filled with clay only a narrow slit having been loft in the centre and through his the female obtains air and is fed by her male it is hoped that tli domestic event will result in the rearing of progeny in due course it is fortunate for human beings that one ancient insect became ex tinct fossil remains discovered lear elmo kansas by dr frank jt carpenter of the harvard museum of comparative zoology show that this particular dragon fly which lived 150000000 years ago was nearly two and onehalf feet long mamie you poor eld bachelor you have no one n sharu your home jasper llie heck i dont i own half of i rnd the realtor still owns the other half bigger rsctjer thicker plug the perfect chewing tobacco here there k everywhere jj it brothei to every other scout without regara to race or creed tiny tim may swear to attract attention quarrelling among young children may lo eliminated in great part by more earrul organization of hfo la the home advises miss anna e mc- lin director of the child education foundation in new york speaking before the parents forum of the foundation recently she suggested the following meads of at taining a more peaceful family atmos phere curirg poit iveness by giving children toys in common with ne another instituting light meals and short rest periods in the afternoon so that children will not be tired and hungry before supper and ignoring children when they aro misbehaving in order to attract attention and tiny tim is given to swearing that is just a way he has o attracting attention by shock pay no heed as though the child was not heard miss mclin said and he i ill drop the habit as useless thirty scouts ot the 2cth hamilton chalmers scout troop spent a weekend in buffalo as guests of the 19sth buffalo kiwanis troop the hamilton boys took with them and presented a union jack to the ameri can scouts reciprocating the gift of american flag presented them a month ago by the buffalo scouts nearly 150 patrol leaders and troop leaders attended the junior leaders training weekend confer ences held simultaneously at chat ham owen sound and wlllowdale un der the direction of field secretaries speed paddon and jones of provin cial headquarters all troops in the three districts were well represented a live wolf captured as a cuh in northern ontario and brought up by one of the young members of a new wolf cub pack in the mount dennis area of subruban toronto was the unique and excitingly interesting cen tral figure of the organization meet ing of those junior scouts the wolf sat docilely on the council rock in the centre of the council circle while the boys practiced their ceremonial grand howl as long as they have the wolf the boys of the new pack will not require the wolf head totem polo usually carried by such junior scout organizations it is not often that a boy scout troop can report 50 per cent of its members as having attained first- class rank this achievem lit has been recorded by the 9sth toronto st pauls presbyterian troop c- last christmas the boy scout toy shop at london made a generous bulk shipment of toys to the scout toy shop at saskatoon sask a christ mas good turn to help the saskatche wan scouts in meeting the heavy de mand tor santa claus gifts from needy families of that area who had moved up from the driedout areas of the south the london scouts aro repeating this good turn job this christinas it has been announced that the canadian scout contingent to the in ternational scout jamboree to bo held next summer in holland will be headed ofllcially by mr j f m stew art ot toronto chairman of the ex ecutive hoard of the canadian cen- eral council of the boy scouts as- sociat ion m13 a superb cluster of stars the finest one to be seen in the whole northern hemisphere consists of at least 100000 stars each bigger and brighter and hotter than the sun which is itself over a million times bigger than this earth of ours they are all in npid motion to gether through the heavens like a stupendous swarm of bees in flight through the air a densely crowd ed central mass surrounded by nu merous stragglers scattered about on the outside m13 the clusters of- fcial number in astronomers star charts sends out 2b million times as much light as the sun yet so im mensely distant is it that the unas sisted human eye is only just able to see it when visibility is good as a faint little patch of milky light on thee black night sky it is so incred ibly far away indeed that a light ray or a wireless signal which can fly seven times around the arth in a sngle second would need no less than 33000 years to travel from the earth to this wonderful star cluster london ont slightly more than 27 per cent of the gross rev enue of the london and port stan ley dance pavilion at port stanley was expended in taxes licenses and fees during the past season it was reported recently labor union regulations gave 945 to the st thomas musicians union because port stanley is within its jurisdiction and standby bands necessary when a united states or chestra played got 350 the stand by bands were from st thomas the largest proportion of taxes went to the provincial government for relief during the seasons oper ation the dance pavilion collected 325911 in relief taxes the provincial license for the pavilion cost 3 port stanley village obtained 86379 from the pavilion the vil lage license cost 13876 and the taxes totalled 728 the canadian performing rights society netted 11424 classified advertising docs wanted pvogs wanted will buy puppies of lj all breeds write letter with lull particu lars breeds sex age colour casn prices prompt reply desired dogs for christmas de livery bulmers kennels 740 guy street montreal stamp collecting illustrated catalogue free united states canadian british colonials jubilees edwards sets sent for postage or entirely free empire stamp co dept pc toronto canada nonstop paragraph writes the walkcrton icitd- timcs s the inventor of a con trivance for putting on threshing machines that shreds the straw and makes it so palatable that cattle fat ten quickly and die happier in the shambles than heretofore it was somewhat the irony of fate tftat noah eusswurm the originator of this boon to the stock industry and which brought so many beasts to the headsmans block in early life should become a victim of his get-rich- quick scheme and be brought to the walkerton hospital to have the ring finger amputated fron hi- right hand because it was so lacerated when he removed it from the shred der into which he caught it while threshing on the farm of his cousin mr philip russwurm on tuesday morning that it was no longer good for either use or ornamentation to his hand goitre prevalent in somersetshire trappers attention prappers tune up now bo ready with fishers course on coyote fox wolf stamp for particulars a e fisher holbein sask ventors an offer to every inventor list t of wanted inventions and full information sent free the ramsay company world patent attorneys 273 bank street ottawa canada stammering ctammering corrected write free helpful booklet william dennlson 119 carlton street toronto stamp collectors bargains london fiftysix per cent of the elementary school girls in an area of somersetshire were found af fected by thyroid enlargement goitre and analysis by the medic al research council revealed a mark ed and consistent deficiency in the iodine content of the somerset wa ters investigation among the eemnt- ary schol girls in certain villages in suffolk county revealed only three per cent of the children suffering from goitre the waters of suffolk containing so much more iodine one marked feature of the investigation in each county was that the milk and pasture samples showed no signifi cant difference rural teachers pilver jubileej commemoratives pictorials colonials revenues blocks airs foreign usa precancers something honestly recommenced larkc packet fifty cents james shrlmpton wadena saskatche wan member canadian stamp societies pet stock liver bile- and youmi jump out of bed in tho morning rarin to go tho liver should poor oat two pounds liquid bilo j n to jour bovfols daily if this bilo is not tlowintr freely your food doesnt digest it just jeenys in tho bowels gas bloats up yourctoinuch yoirel constipated harmful poisons ro into the body nj you fed eonr tank and tho world locks ppnk a mere bowel movement doesnt always fret fit the cense you ncm something that works on tho liverrs well it takes those toed old carters little liver pills to get these two pounds of bile flowintr freely and mako yea feel up and op harmless and yen tie they make the bile flow freely they do tho work of calomel bat have no calomel or mercury in them ak for cartera littlo liver pills by name i stubbornly itf ago anything euo 25c issue no 50 36 b l canaries ijavb just received another largo shipment of canaries froin europe write for wholesale nricei good opportunity to moko money any quantity rhlpped any where canarv importing co 1 wel lington st west toronto the shows how o read character from handwriting at a glance 10c prepaid graphologist room 421 73 adelaide st w toronto writes the victoria times what of the rural teachers in britain here is a little insight into their lot mrs margaret wintringham a former member of the british houso of commons and now president of the womens national liberal fed eral ion asked one of these teachers a short lime ago what her lilies in cluded and this in brief is what she was told make wills for local people help choose wallpapers and cur tains attend and advise the palish council help a woman farmer coach a policeman for an examina tion fill in income tax forms play the organ in church dust cobwebs from beams in tho village shop kept by an old woman serve or the womens institute committee act as secretary of tho garden show organize outdoor sports call to see all the new babies visit the sick and tho aged ami finally cut old peoples haid bol and shingle