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CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE Spotted As Champion By Freckle On Nose CANADA FAITH IN HUMANITY Cliiueso laundrymaii in Uionxville, N.Y., went for a lioliday and left a nolo In the window tollinK people to get their Iiiunilry as the door was not locked. We doubt whtlher this goiu tltcnan has been Ihoioug.hly civilized and t'hristiaiiized muco coiiiIhk to this country. â€" Sirairord Iteaeou- Herald. PAINTING BARNS After a lap.se of live full year.s, Canadian farmers ure beKiniiiug to paint tlieir barns again. There is uo general rush, but hero and there throep"! incst of the mixed larming ercas. examples are readily noted. While important nnouRh in itself in view of the immense area to be cov. tred i:i familiar red, green or white, the 8;siii.'U-ance of fiie return of barn paint is that it means the first real Indication of a return of permanent. ly better times to Canadian agiicul. ture. â€" Financial Post. GOOD SALESMAN If the large numbi'r of people who Jiave visited tho t;anada Shop in L'iiulon since its opening last week Is inaintaiiied until tho date ot clcs- ing. the promoter.-! should be more than pleased with the publicity given to Cmadjau food products through this praciital adverli.iing medium. Oa Saturilay last the number of vi i- t<:is was ci'>-<ked. No fewer Mian 2,- 'M'l' pa.ssfd along tho counter.-; and in.ixcie I the foo<l stufT.-f. The ma- jority o, tli'ni purcliaaed .samples, as a ri'sult of which it Is reaiuinahle to aiilic ip.tie enhanced sale; by re. ta!! IS in the !(;( al.'ty and in such u'':iv l<;calilli's a:! w(^re represented by tlie vls:i..r.;. â€" C.uuida's Weekly. London. FARM PRICES RISING T!if m.<st .satisfactory year lor livestock production since I'JIJO, is the report made by a packing com. pany. There are many other evidences of this condition. I'i'.ces In all lines of livestock have advanced a long way from the low point registered aboiit four years ago. The same t'ling applies to most of tlie other minor products of the farm â€" dairy pniiluce, poultry and eggs, and all the many products from which the welt.anagtd farm derives much of U- revenue. â€" Winnipeg Tribune. PITY POOR MOTORIST Hard is indi' il is the lot of the drunk(.'n motorist who gtts caunht. Mo.st courts will fine him |10 to $2.5, occasionally give iiim ten days In Jail, and sometimes actually deprive him of the privilege of driving a car for OS such us a few months. And all of this simply because he delib- erately placed a largo number of fel- low citizens In danger of Instant death or of the loss of limbs or ot horrible and painful lacerations. â€" Toronto Telegram. A DEFENDER OF MODERN GIRLS N'lj liankc ri r after a period some- times referred to as "the good old times" 1b, apparently , Mr. Moyd George who, In spite of years that are occasionally considered rather advanced, Is siifnelently yontlifiil in spirit and outlook to refrain from tlie fault-finding in regard to the rising fc.'iieratlon of which older people are to ofti'ii guilty. I''ar from bemoaning what he linds In UK. dern yout^'i, tho former Prime Mini ter evidently considers tJiat it Is (luito all right, at least the te. »nialne par; of It. lie said Bo tho • >!!'.( I day when he (a product of tlie Vicloiian 1 ra) d' noniieed It as "pilm and grim' and remarked that he prelerrod U'u' mod(!rn girl and the cdication which makes her what she 1.?. ''The old academies for young ladles â€" they were not girls In those days,'' ho went on to .say, "at best were an expensive Joke, anil at their worst they wero an atrocity.'' â€" Drockvllle Recorder .'ind Times. LEPROSY IN CANADA Leprosy is waning in this c<iniitry end as Dr. .Murray Ma('I.,aren said when MlliiHter of Health, the danger of contagion Is very much exaggera- ted Ilul Di'. ('. P. IJrowu, chief ot the dLvision ot quarantine and medical Immigration for the Dominion, if li(> Iji being proforly quoli'd, goes much fiirtiher. The idea that n lieallhy person can get leprosy by touching a leper is ''mere nonsense," ho said. "No doctor Or nurso treating lepers has ever been known to full prey to the disenne." Then he adds tho more iist'mlshlng statement: "A native CHiia'lian never has been known to contract tho dlsenise." -- Monrton Tlmeg. KNEE PLUS ULTRA Paris reports i.'iat the sea-ou's first Winter style idiowing ut ('haiiel's this week revealed the fenilnino kiKc. You may roinember that Joint, it was much In evidence before tho depression. Then, ulong with stocks and things In general, skirt I'lenis came crashing down. For tho past live years it has been discreetly con- cealed Jilmost everywhere except in the nudist camps. May there not bo an outside chanco that business and fashions are re- lated in some way or .inot.'.iei'; (kr- tainly, business is looking up. And now skirts are apparently followuiK suit. Chanel has chopped off tlireo inches at one stroke, an up.swiiig as convincing as anything provided by economists' charts. When tho coy patella once more blo.ssoms forth in all Its pristino perfection wo eiiall perhaps known the corner has been turned and that wo are again to liiid oiiiRelvcs kneo- deep in prosperity. â€" Windsor Star. p SUN TANNERS BEWARE! Intense sunlight has tho same ef- fect on the body as it has on the top of an automobile. It causes de- hydration and premature wrinkling. - Hamilton Herald. LESS RELIEF AT THE SOO T-liere are one-third fewer fanillje; on relief in the Sault at the present time than there wero a year ago. the figure now being about 400 compar- f'd to COO at the end of July, lii;!!. That is a welcome improvemont 'n conditions, and contrasted to the figure of over l.SOO families on re- lief In May, lit;!!!, shows a steady gain since that time. Ttiis is due to a large measure to the betterment of industrial con- ditions hero, resulting from the re. organization of the steel plant and from tho general advance in busi- iii> s and employment throughout Canada. There are indications, too. that things will continue to improve? un- less !!orae untoward event uiappeiis to cause the present trend to be iip.sot â€"Sault Sto. Marie Star. WAS COSTLY LESSON Twr'iity-ono years ago â€" June L'.S, to be exact â€" a liosnian youth llrod a shot into Hurope's powder linx and sot the world on lire. The nightmaro that followed resulted in the death of 10,000,000 soldiers and i;!,(Hlll,uO() civilians in :;o,(iilii.ooo maimed, in dollar losses of GOO. iiiio. 000,0(10. Kvery nation lost, and every nation still is paying for its defeat, says the I'ltts- Inirg.'i Press. On the surface, tlic world appears to have forgotten the friglitlul les. sons of 1914-1 S. Yet, ha; it'.' Viscount Cecil lias niaile public in London the results <il a great peace rererendum. The lOiiglish I'liictorato voted 11,000.000 to .'i.'in.oOO for lirlt- aln to remain in the l^cagiie of Na- tions; 10.000,000 to SOO.OIIO for a gen- eral arms reduclion; 10,01)11,000 to TOO.OOO for taking Ihe protlt out of arms tralllc; 10,000.000 to (100,000 to apply economic press i re to attacking nations. Hero was a popular vote for law and poaoo voice, as Lord Cecil said. In "pas-lonate intensity." Wlien the masses are willing to light the warmakers as passionately as they have been fighting imagin- ary enemies, the sword-ratlliiig rul- ers of earth will linil themselves without armies to llgilit ami without taxpayers to pay tor their ri>llie-. â€" St. Catharines Standard. Marriage Makes For Long Life According To Statistics Those Who Are Wed Live Longer Than Those Whose Lot Is Single Blessedness r.ob Tujpin won the Worhl'.^ Freckle Face Clianipicnsl.ip by a no.se â€" which is one big freckle â€" at a recent contest. His smile makes his freckles run tojje'her. Value of Advertising Shown By Actual Test Â¥/ith Product NKW YOUK,â€" Advertising doubles the number of persons familiar with a brand, triples the number who try it and (luintuplels the number ot us- ers. These figures are averages from a study ot bund paper made by Charloi C. Stech, research expert in advcrfisiiig. Actually t^'ie scanty ad- vertisir gets a smaller rate ot re- turn than his average, while the big one gets an increase mueli greater. Rtetch stiiilied Ihe use of 27 brand.s of bond paiier by printers. He learii- eii the percentage familiar with each brand, the percentage wlio tried out each one and tlie percentage who tie- canic regular users. There W(?re three brands of paper know to more than 75 per cent ot the printers. Of these 72 per cent tried out the three brands and 2o.l per rent were regular u ers ot tiheiii. At the bottom wero seven hraiuls of papc'i-, known to 14 per cent of the printer . Six per cent had tried them out and less than half of one per cent of these printers used the seven. When the average of persons know- ing about the brands was raised to ;15 per cent, in a different group ot bond papers, Oho trials rose to 15 per cent but the regular customers rose only a tenth of one per cent. Hut when the papers were reached known to 50 per cent of the printers the users rose to nine per cent. Above that came the phenomenal jump to 20.4 customers in the top- most tt'irce kinds of bond paper. The study showed an unusually large increase In steady customers wlien nearly everyone wa; familiar with the brand. No satuiation point was revealed. The highest single brand was known to 90 per cent ot the printers, and apparently its rrg. ular users were far greater In pro- portion than tliose of any of t.he les- ser known papers. There are nearly 6,000 marriages every week in England; 857 a day, or nearly thirty-six an hour! A care- ful analysis of the British llegistrar- Oeneral's late t review shows that, on an average, thlrleon out of each 857 marriages will end in Mie DI. vorco Court. Superstitious people, please take note. That dreaded num- ber thirteen. Cnnslder, though, how small a per- centage thirteen in every 857 repre. sents. Immediately someone is divor. ced all the o'.d tales about six-month marriages are dug out and paraded with much shaking of iicads. Il'a so unfair. Divorce is not nearly as popu. lar as some people would have us believe. Roughly, about IVi per cent, of our marriages ond in divorce. A very small proportion surely? "People can't afl'ord to many young today â€" they leave it till later in life." "Wo are marrying later." How often have you heard those veinarka? They have no foundation In fact. PEOPLE MAURY EARLY Let us take you back to t!ie Reg- istrar-General. His i^ccuracy l3 quite ruthless, his figures unnue.stionable. And what do we find? Out of 307,000 marriages in 19.'t2 over 5.000 men mar. ricd before they were twenty, 13,000 married under twenty-one and an- otlier 150,000 by the time they were twenty-six. These figures of course, concern baclielor bride-grooms. Thus, more marriages in England take place at or under the age of twenty, six t>'.ian at any other time. Why tell in then, that men have ceased to marry young? Twenty.six Is barely a bath-chair age. With spinster brides it is the same: 47,000 married before they were over twenty, 49,000 under twen- ty-one and Ifil.OOO before they were more than twenty-six. The average age of t.!ie bridegroom today is twenty-seven, and of the bride twenty-live. Youthful enough. Incidentally, there has been little variation in this average for the last thirty years. Between 1901 and 1905 the actual average was 25.37 for spin ter brides, and 2C.90 for bache- lor bridegrooms. ' Extremely youb'iful marriages still occur. In 1932 sixteen men were i married at tlie age ot sixteen, and over 5,000 before they wore twenty. With women no fewer than 75S were married at sixteen, and 2S.000 before I they wore twenty. HARDER TO MARRY It is harder for young men to marry now than It was years ago, according to tho llnltod States Coniniissioner of Education, owing to the broader outlook of womiui. lie holds that marriage la not very attractive to many of tliese bright modern girls- â€" certainly not so attractive as to ti'.icir graiulmolhers. They have the alter- native choice of careers and coii8<>- (liieiit Independence. - Kingston Whlg-Standard. ABUNDANCE OF CROPS .Nature bus been good to Canada Ibis year. KIglit across the Ddiuinion from .N'ova Scotia to Itritlsli Colum- bia li'ieie are bountitiil crops. It is doubtful if Ontario, and particular- ly Wi'Stern Onlario, ever had such abuiiilaiiee of crops. Hay, wheat, oats, coin, vegetables, fruit, ev('rytlilnK grown in this fertile peninsula will have yields above the average. â€" LoMdon Free Press. To Get Inside Story Of Asylum Reporter Patient Seven Days "SKVEN HOfSi:" DAYS IN TllK MAD- Tlie above banner line appeared recently on the Chicago Dally Times frenl pag.;, ri>lerring to the experience of Frank Smith, Daily Times reporl- er, who spent seven day; and nights in an asylum. The sensational story was the result of Smith being "coni- inilted' to the Kankakee, 111 Stal<' Hospital. For I'll' occasion Willis O'lloarke, another Dally Times reporter, bu- came Smith's "brother.'' and com- miitled his to tho state Insane ho - pllal, following the receipt of nuni- eruus complaints by llio Daily Times that conditions wero particularly bad at tho Kankakee institution. To as- certain conditions, Smilli, n former college football player and lile guard, wilio lips the scales at 200 pounds, was asked to do a series ot articles, ill addition to Interviewing olllclals and other persons, lie iiiidertook to spend a week as an inmate in the hospital. His story of brutal tnatmont. be- ing sul)J(>cted to unsanitary condi- tions, including 15 hours in a tub of dirty flowing rive water to cure his feigned viulenco, is appearing In a serie- of articles tills week. The Daily "I'iiiies' circulation Jumped ueiirly 10,000 yesterday, as a result • if the story, according to Louis Hup- pel, managing editor. All marks of identification were re- moved from Smith's clot.'.iing before he and 0'U(}Urke set out for Kanka. lice. In relating his struggle with hos- pital atleiulanls preparatory to being subjected to the "water treatment," Smith states: "With ^omelliing like pardonable shame I -havo to admit here and now that if I coiihl have made myself heard, I would have given up uncon- ditionally. I'd have confessed to ev- erything. To hell with the investiga- tion. To iiell with tho Job." After being relwisod from the h.v- drollierapy ward. Smith parllclp»ated in the routine of a patient, subjected to the common drinking oaip, vile food and general over-crowded condi- tions. He said in his story ho par- Ih'ularly critiilzed over-crowded cou- ilif us. Simple Type â€" Firs't Fall Days THE EMPIRE It was reveahil last wi'ek that tho donor of the Aiioio'iiuius Fihicatlon Fund for tho ti'illdren ot nlllc'ers of the lloyal Air Korce, which, Hinco 1II2S, b.is expended nearly .t! 4,000, was the late Mr. T, E. Shaw â€" Col. oiiel Lnwronce of Arahin. Tho fund was llnanced by the money received from the piibllcalloii of Lawrouco'a book, "Hev(dt in tho Desert." T.'ie decision to make this fact known was reached nt n meeling ot _ the roiinrll ol the lloyal Air Force ' 21 I lierievolent Fund over which Lord VVakeli(dd presided. Ill a letter to the Press Lord WakeheUl said: "Mr. T. E. Shaw allowed lilm- si.'lf no share in tho llnancial r uc- Cfiss of his book, 'Revolt In tiSio Desert.' and JU 15,000 rcceiveil from this source wa.s invested, so as to establish an educational fund for the benefit of Ihe chil- dren of ofncers of the lloynl Air Foice, "The Anunynioi H Fihuatiou Kniid. as It has always been known in del'erenco to his wish. OH, iias since 192K expended near- ly JU 1,000; during i;(,'t4 afone It was able to provide X795 towards the education of 42 ehilldreii, the majority of whom are fatlier- Ikss.'' In future. Lord Wakclleld said. Ihn fund will bo known as "The Lawrence ot Aialila Ediicalion.il Fund." London Times. World Weary Lay me down in the arms of Sleep, in tho comfort of her breast, For 1 am weary of all hut her and fain would bo at rest. Hide me close from the cares liiat haunt the futile, waking hours, And round and over me slied the .scent of unrcmenilicred flow- •rs. Hid the darkness to fold mc, the stars to veil their light, And mute the pul.;c of eternal life â€" the music of the night. Hush the murmur of waters' flow, atul let there be no song, Hut only an untouched silence in a night deep and long. Send me nought but oblivion: no thought, no dream, no pain; Whisper not throiigli the darkness that I must wake again. Hut lay ine down in the arms of Sleep, over and ever blest. For I nni weary of all but lier, and fain would be at rest. â€" Angola K. Dawes. It is vain to gather virtues with- out humility; for the Spirit of God (Iclightetli to dwell in the hearts of the humble. â€" Kra.smus. i 2864 Here's one of those simple day frocks that find* an important place ii\ every waidrobe. It's fashioned of wooly-'' oking crepe silk with satin-back in rusty brown. The casy-to-sew sleeves that cut in one v.itli tiie should- ers, made of the reverse si li! of the crepe, provides siS'art oou- trasting effect. Style No. 2S(! 1 is designed for sizes II, IG, 18 years, 'Mi, 38 and 40-inch bust. Size 1(1 retiuires •'^•'^ yards of u!»-incli material with 1 \ii yards of S'.'-inch con- tr:istiii,u. HOW TO OFvDKU I'ATTKUNS Write your name and acUlrcss plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as >ou want. Enclose ilOc in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it caro- fiiUy) for each number, and ad- dress your order to Wilsm Pat- tern Service, 73 West Ad;.'lai.lo St., Toronto. At the other extreme 1,S11 mei .iiid 694 women married between tlu ages ot sixty-live and aixty.nine. Tl cap even that â€" eighty.aix men aoi ten v^'amen married when they wen past eighty. Wliich is the most dangerous yea of wedlock? People talk learnedly from experience, of the sevenu with it.i entire lack of glamour ani romance, its dreaded monotony. O perhaps they will warn you agains the first. Examined in t»he cold light of tacti and figures, both seem wrong. Mori marriages are wrecked in the tentJ year than at any other time. Unions to the number of 1,0* which had lasted between five an( ten years were dissolved in 1932, am 1,442 of between ten and twent) years' duration. Only ninety-flvi sought separation after le s thai two years, and under 450 after mori t.han twenty years. So scrap youi fears about the notorious uumbei thirteen and beware of matrimonial bickerings In the tenth year of mar. riage. Doctors often advj^e their patients to get married. "It is man't natural state." they say, "and the one in which he is likely to be most •healthy." Very true. Statistics whole- heartedly support that view^. A comparison of leugth-of-life and marriage statistics reveals the fact that married people live longer, on the whole, than unmarried. BRIDEGROOM'S AGE â€" SS ! We hear much talk of second mar- riages these days. Certainly tiaey are becoming more popular. It is argued, very reasonably, that people who have married and failed once are not likely to make the same miitakes i( they marry a second time. In 1932 somo 14,50 widows married again, G.SOO to bachelors and 7,700 to wid- owers. In the same year approxima- tely 23,000 widowers remarried, 15,- 500 to spinsters and 7,500 to widows. From this it appears that widowers are twice as likely to ramarry aa widows, while widower; are far more fascinating to spinsters than to widows. -Actually, in tie year 1932, one of ot every sixteen people mar- ried was married a second time. UoUi the widow and widower are becoming far more cautious of mar. rying again. Widowers, in particu- lar, leave it until late in life. Thus the greatest number of widowers re- married in 1932 between the ages oI fifty and tifty-four. Over 2.000 left It until sixty â€" sixty-four. One Peter Pan suddenly got the spring mad- tjess in his veins at the age of ninety! Tho greatest number of widows re- married between thirty-five â€" ti'ilrty- nine. Nevertheless. 51G waited until sixty-fiveâ€" sixty-nine, and one even developed a soul-storm at eighty- eight. The average age of widower bridegrooms is forty-nine, and of widow brides forty-four. Wh(-n bacheUn\s marry widows they u ually choose ono about their own age, but when widowers marry spinstcMS ti'ie widower is, on an av- erage, ten vears older than his bride. Dark Thought For 1936 While we naturally admire thi horticultural or biolofrical expert with a taste for research who bj combining the best qualities of dif- fering fruits gives us a new and bet- ter fruit, or by careful selection and lircetling furnishes us with thicker and tenderer beefsteaks, we may not sulViciently reflect upon what might happen if Nature turned her hand toward the production of bigger and better pests. Yet something of the kind is happening in the insect world if we are to believe Winnipe.c: des- patches. A mosquito has made itsj appearance there which has so farj improved upon the ordinary mosiiuito 1 l)iteâ€" from the mosquito point of view â€" that it can remove a small segment of the tiuman form divino with every nip. Evidently, here is something new, a grafting- ef the bl;K-k-fly bite technique up >n that blight of the Canadian verandah, the ordinary house mosquito, that ventures where the black-lly dare not show its head. The next step is manifestly to improve the mobility of this new type post. Our fro"d old- fashioned mosquito is a bit slow on tho wing and even slower a-foot,â€" - its most serious handicap is the work of rendering human life mis- erable. Armed with a black-fly bite and the houso-by's nimblcness and speed of wing, and perhaps slightly streamlinej, next year's model of the mosquito ought to be somethimr that will lift Canada out of tho dcpres- sion, â€" or anything else it may bo sit- ting in. If man can produce the liit- talo and the ugli, why should Nature not come back with a patent nios- (luito? â€" Montreal ally Star. ^ One hundred and two years ago, Juno L'Jth, l,Si)3, John Wilson and Ilobert I. yon, two young stu<lonts-at- law at Perth, fou,ght a duel in North J'ilmsley near the Tay Uiver on the outskirts of tlie town, the latter be- ing .hot dead. Wilson afterward! became a Justice of the SuprenM Couit of Onario. â€" Courier.