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Housing was the keynote of the whole 'conference, and this problem cropped up at intervals all through the three-days gathering. Councillor Mrs. Price-White discussed 'Electricity in the Home." - Mrs. George Morgan, a {co-prasident 'of the council, said the Mglvern branch hed erected over 40 t-coritained flats' with small garden attached, at a cost of £300 to 8 for each domicile; the Bromley branch was building cottages; Cam- ridge was converting large houses in- 'to flats for professional women; in Bath; a t venture sch was in progress, and Birmingham branch 'was converting old derelict properties nto habitable abodes. Liquor Control. Or the last day of the conference an imated dis fon fol d a paper read by the Lady Frances Balfour, on "The Oxford Liquor (Popular) Coun- trol Bill." Lady Frances paid a cor dial tribute to the courageous efforts of the United States to free itself from the thralldom of drink, and hazarded the opinfon that in the future Great Britain might also come into line in this respect.' Scotland had more than | one "dry" district today, owing to Ii i § 1 4 £3 Ek if 2 2 S E strength end feel like a new woman. I never neglect an opportunity to recom- mend this remedy to those who. are For all ailments due to weak watery blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will be found a specific. You can get the pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50¢ a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co,, Brockville. Ont. 0 Fountains. Jarring the alr with rumdr cool, Small fountains played into a pool 'With sound as soft as the barley's hiss 'When its beard just sprouting is; Whence a young stream, that trod on moss, Prettily rimpled the court across. PROPOSED BRIDGE TO BE The bridge shown above will be approximately 600 feet in length wi trafic. The company erecting it is willing to go above the $4,000,000 mark terest to Canadians and strangers situated, as it Will be, adjacent to Niagara light & might be looked upon as the gateway to Canada, CONSTRUCTED BY THE CATARACT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF BUFFALO th a trafic width of 70 feet and wil be to provide a beautiful structure, Falls, in the Its environment will be of the greatest fo very centre of country rich in the traditions of Canada. In this solely for pedestrians and motor cae A PLAIN TALK TO NEIGHBORS The Value of a Kind Word: By Dorothy Dix. An invalid woman whose sufferings had made her a little morbid made a curious request of a friend. "When I am dead," she said, "my neighbors will come to my door with regret and sympathy, Do not let any of them in the house, because I have lived here for years lonely, and for- lorn, and shut in, and not one of them has dropped in to cheer and comfort me with a little human comradeship." Now this woman's peighbors are not particularly hard and heartless' people. They are just busy people, en- grossed in their own affairs, even ag you and I. And, even as you and I, when they hear that the poor invalid - and l{e there enduring the long-drawn- across the street is dead, they will be out weariness that ig her ous lind radiantly happy if, while he was alive, we had let him know that we admired him, or if we had ever sat down for an hour and listened to his garrulous talk of old times. But we never did. We were not even civil to him. We pushed him aside. We let him see that he bored us. The first attention we ever paid'him was when it was too late for him to know, or care, whether {we came to his house or not. And there is Miss C., an invalid for years and years, able, on her good days, to patter from the bed to the window, and on her bad days juet to turn her face to the wall, And in the pool's clear 1d! Moving lke dreams through happi- ness, Shoals of amaill bright fishes were. --Lascelles Azercromble, --ee Thirty cancer cases have been pro- nounced cured by the lead treatment developed by Dr. Blair Bell, of Liver- pool, England. 67 College 8t, Toronto 2, Ont. r Mr. Bditor: \ A spirit of warm friendliness to rds the Hospital for Sick Children ag Toronto exists all over the local option, and prohibition in the Orkneys had been a marked and won- derful success, Lady Balfour's plea for "reorganiza- tion" met with a good deal of opposi- | thon. Miss Agnes Slack, president of the British Women's Total Abstinence ' Union, said that the union supported the local option section, but not the "reorganization," which she denounced as dangerous and a waste of public A ; EE i ~~ OldHouses Beautified by Add- ing Stai ingles at Sav- Stained "There {8 a new ray of hope for the ~ "ugly ofd house," according to an ar- ticle on "Stained Shingles" in Arte and Decorations." Of all the recent move- ments in the direction of remodeling and revaluing old houses, perhaps the one destined to have the most far- reaching effect is a plan inaugurated i of laying stained shingles directly over old siding." Even the shabblest and ugliest of houses are improved by the softening influences of shingle colors, claims George Monroe, Jr, in Arts and De corations, ] . "Pafoting must go on year after ds rot," inues | article. Now - . year, -else..clapb owners are told that they can stop this painting expense, merely by lay- ng sained shingles right over the old siding. The cost of the application of the shingles is, on the average, about equal to that of two complete paint ngs. -And, once applled, the shingles care at all for years, as they y stained and preserved. y, 50 that, with only one light brush 0 to $1000 at the a decided saving in fuel, "and 'all' that modern medical and Ing thrifty: management. Lelp "Lhe; _valual paper. © Sick ont p and it § with the pears, It has been enhanced to a vonsiderable extent by the clinica (which have been conducted fn so many centres in Ontario by doctors from the Hospital who have picked out curable cases which up to the time of the clinic had been seem ingly hopeless -- eventually sending the little patients home from the Hospital healed and fitted to be valuable assets to their muniefpali ties, & of tlin 1, and | pathetic burdens. Your readers, in common with the people in all other progressive com- munities, are interested in.the Hos pital and what #t is doing, The keen interest in orippled children manifested by the Rotary, Kiwanis, Gyro, Lions and other service clubs, SER, 2 o unfortunate children, often from re. mote districts to the various centres where the members of the Hospital staff have attended and have been able to hold huge clinics with the result that there has been a steady 'stream of children admitted to the Hospital from all over Ontario, for a long time. . ' This is but one branch of the thorough service rendered by the Hospital. It is the best, equipped institution of its kind on the con- tinent for the treatment of all child ailments. No Ontario child 'requir 'ng its services is refused admittance surgical skill combined with loving ish is b d care can pl d upon the sufferer, without distinc tions és to religion or nationality or becausa thdse responsible for the child ate in poor circumstances. Heavy expense is Involved in this merciful work, Mr, Rditor, as you can real _ sources of revonue, including oi to Hospital for Sick Children | saved Christianity for the world: lence stricken at having fatled Bf ang days--months--years--of dreary kindliness to her, and will try to atone drab monotony. We are alwuys In- for their neglect. tending to go to see her, to take her Vain Hunger for Love. a jolly book, to send her flowers, to I often think that the most cynical do something to cheer and brighten thing in the world is that we have to her lot, something that will, at least, die to find out what our family and tell her that she has our love and friends think of us. The words we |sympahy. But we don't do ft. hungered and thirsted to hear, the love! We treat the members of our own | that we broke our hearts for, are only | family in the same way. If the spirits | whispered into deal ears, of the departed are permitted to come {When old Mr. B, died we told each back to earth, it must surprise many a one to read on his or her tombstone that he or she was the beloved hus- band, or wife; of So-and-so. The poor ghost had never suspected such a thing. In life, he or she had only known callous, cold indifference. Neg- lect. Fault finding. Querulous com- plaints. Never a word of praise. Let's not wait until people are dead to show our love and appreciation of them. Let's send our flowers to the living. ,other what a wonderful old man he had been. Why, he had lived through (the times that made history! He had | seen villages grow, into cities and 'railways thread the country, The de- velopment of the telegraph, the in- vention of electric lights, and the phonograph, and the telephone and wireless. Such an interesting old man! We even repeated some of the things he used to say. It would have made the old man A PERFECT MEDICINE | "FOR LITTLE ONES | Baby's Own Tablets Should be in Every Home Where There Are Children. The perfect medicine for little ones is found in Baby's Own Tablets. They are a gentle . but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels, sweeten the stomach; drive out constipation and indigestion; drive out constipation simple fevers and promote healthful refreshing sleep. It is impossible for Baby's Own Tablets to harm even the new-born babe, as they are absolutely Ruaranteed free from opiates or amy other injurious drug. : Concerning the Tablets, Mrs. Alex. J. Perryx Atlantic, N.S., writes: --*"I always keep Baby's Own Tablets in the house for the ehildrem, as I have found them a perfect medicine for little ones." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25! cents a box from The Dr. Willlams' | Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ----id cei The Ten Best Sellers in Christendom. Dr. Albert C. Dieffenbach, in an article, "The Best Seller in Christen. dom," names the ten books which have Typical Cantonese Soldier Representing the troops In whose "Str ," by Cl t of Bo hands, under the leadership of the cover the actual cost of mal of the little patients, notwithstand- 1d friends and new. ones: are relied upon to .the difference and Ba i readers of your paper. The Hospital for 'en does not share in the funds of the Toronto Federation for pis. Lo) 'Sei because it tak: : uatients. EE Wyetift. Flats tak Tous ~ "The Divine Soviets, the lives of foreign citizens are endangered. Hankow fs one such city, and the troops are proceeding to EEA dy {Foo Chow. oh ," by Dante. -- em ion of Christ," by Thos. | Ps" let indigestion after meals, biliousness, : heartburn, or dyspepsia take the pep out of you, 'Take Seigel's Syrup. Any drug store,' Sheetal --" . ' Correspondence In Clay. . Business letters sent 4,000 years ag | were inscribed on clay tablets and put _ {in envelopes also made of clay. 3 "Contessions," by St. Augustine. "Summa Theologia," by St. Thomas Aquinas. "The Imitat who has been Radio Now Installed on the Haldenby Farm. The first summer's nevenue from the camping space in the fleld down by the gate netted the Haldembys one hundred and forty dollars, which the family decided to spend on a Christ- 'mas present for itself. A radio was the thing every one of them wanted. | When mother and father drove into town a week before Christmas to | choose it, they were somewhat worried about the pain which seized young Tom on his right side, They called at the doctor's office, "You say you are going to buy a radio?" asked the doc- tor, "Well, this boy has appendicitis, and from what he sells me, I don't wonder. You can't have appendicitis without constipation, and he has been suffering from constipation ever since the cold weather came in. With noth- ing but an outdoor closet at home and at school, he has mot beén regular in his habits, with the result---constipa- tion leading to appendicitis." The father said they had hoped to install an indoor closet in the house this fall, but had put it off. "For the radio?" asked the doctor. "That's all very well, but health first." So they went to the plumber's and arranged for a chemical closet, quite | Creation. If I had an acre of land, 0, an acre of land! Within cry of the hills, the high hfils, And the sea and the sand, And a brook with its silvery voice-- I would dance and rejoice! I woudd build a small house on my land-- So I would, a small home! Within cali of the woods, the high woods, Within flight of the foam! And O, I would dig, I would delve, cent. over the totals reported for the first halt of 1925, Progress in Mining. Canada's mining industries showed continued progress in the first half of 1926 and production neponts from ab most every fleld pointed to the estad- Mshment of new records during the present year, according to a statement issued from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Valued at $98,305,788 the output of metals and non-metallic minerals including coal, gas and ofl, in the firet six months of 1926 marked an advance of' $8,048,000 or 8.9 per oS SER Plans Ror Homer 4 | Last word in beilders' aid. ca wv | up-to-date stions op oso Ta | building, ing, d Ta Sandewiag., Pro uel illustrated, a § gestions. Send Hi AK He Adana Bt. W., 3 'oronte, Ont. & i b GRIPPE. Heat and inhale Minard's. Also rub ft on the throat and chest. The ae A rt i Make a world by myself! 0, I would keep pigs and some hens, And grow apples and peas; And things that would multiply, flowers For my hive of striped bees-- i I had an acre of land Life wonld spring from my hand! --Hamish Maclaren. sapien apron riNARD'S AIN__ be LINIMENT] i os or A Musical Wit. en Much has been told of the wit and personality of Leschetizky, but little that is essential seems to have been told of his ideas on planoforte play- ing. Of course, he was really a great wit. He used to delight in telling the story cf a stingy banker who had rapidly sprung up from the peasant inexpensive and costing very little for upkeep, which was installed in the basement the following week: Tom's illness left a very small bal- ance in the radio account and the family's 'Christmas present had to be postponed. Last week, however, the boys were busy with ground wires and the aerial; the radio is now in place, paid for from ; [this summer's camping. And we say | | with the doctor, "A radio is all right but health first." i London's Past Gardens. | Somebody once complained to me that London was "so towny," a charge | not easly refuted. The speaker would ' doubtless have preferred a small place I happened upon lately, with a sign- post pointing at the market square, and plainly stating "To the Town," lest you should tactlessly fafl to recog- nize. But the truth is that London . . Is a garden city, since In addi- tion to the royal largesse of her parks, ! she keeps many a hidden garden up her sleeve, valentines these, for her, true lovers. Witness the surprise packet of a garden inclosed within the Bank of England, or.the unexpect- ed peep show of greenery under the | patronage of All Hallows' Staining, in! Star Alley, Again, ag we stand in the ' grounds of Chelsea Hospital, with Charles II. in front of ws, attitudiniz- ing in his toga, while at our back in the pensioners' dining hall the trayed | flags of Malplaquet and Mons hang ' brotherly side by side, we find our selves looking out upon trees little short of a woodland, and grassy ex- panses little short of a meadow. Where "believe us or believe us not," asseve- rate the nightingales, "we do sing-sing- eingeing tr-r-reemendously loud, from two-to-three, two-to-three, two-to-three, on May mornings." ! London's lost gardens--a captivat- ing quest, which "incidentally would lead us into some very unexpected places. For does not the Great West- | ern Railway handle its parcels at Pad- dington Station on a sloping, wide ex- panse still called "the Lawn," odd re- lic of a garden that ence was? Per- haps, when there is nobody spying or prying, during. the dereliction of a railway strike, let us suppose, and even then in the wan, small hours only, ' the stacked hampers turn fato clumps of dark-eyed sunflowers, and the milk" cans into flower pots, while fluffy, phantom owls bid one another "How- do-you-d0o-00," mid tossing, phantom treetops. -- Magdalene Horsfall, in "London Again, Again." | ---- Baldness, earthquakes, twins, and 'revolutions are among the "risks" TR ost Meter, Ss ie) ¢dn be insured agalnst at Iridium {8s mext to radiam as the : : ISSUE No. 51--'26, i most expensive metal in general use. Elf | (about five dollars) for « lesson at mie seis tH class to sudden riches. The banker approached Iescheétizky, when he was teaching in St. Petersburg as a very young man, and asked the planist to teach his daughter. When he learned that Leschetizky charged tem roubles that time, he was aghast. "Look here,' suid the banker. "1 don't want her taught everything. Now, I see that there are white keys on the piano, and black ones. Couldn't you teach my daughter only the white ww daily trains keys at, let us say, half price (five roubles) ?" "Ah," replied the master, "buf you don't know how beautiful the black keys are. "Let me play you a plece on the black keys." 80 Leschetlzky sat down and played | the black key study of Chopin so much to the delight of the parent, that he exclaimed: | "Well, if the black keys are as | beautiful as all that, I guess my daugh- | ter ought to have both, #0 Vil pay the | full price of ten roubles." H a | WEY Keep Minard's Liniment in the house. Sm teil --- Old Housewife. Our new house on the hill Is a very stately thing; 1 brought my household treasures But my heart I cannot bring. It lags behind within That simple home, where young I came a bride .. was mother .. Have suffered. .prayed..and sung. Oh, they have made a new shrine For all my worshipping; My husband, my grown children.. But myself 1 cannot bring. ~-(GGeorge Elliston. the Chief You really enter sunny Cali. fornia the moment you step aboardoneofthefivefamous Santa Fe cross-continent s. The new Chief--extra fare-- is the finest and fastest of Be the Santa Fe California § trains. Only TWO business J, days on the way. if No extra fare on the four Bs le other daily trains. Fred Harvey dining service sets the standard in the transportation world, Enjoy the out-of-doors this winter--take your family. California hote! rates are reasonable. » May I send you our picture folders? LX Fr purine oT A i a Fr Hendry, Gen Agent ita Fe Rallway ullding San 404 Transportation Phone: Randolph 8748 5% Defrott, Mie n High School Boards and DAY AND EVENING CLASSES Ed i the Dep. at THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL t of for In the Courses of St Are authorized by law to establish INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL AND ART SCHOOLS With the approval of the Minister of Education. b may be conducted In accordance with ti is given in various trades. The achoo!s and classes are under the direction of AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Application for attendance should be mads to the Principal of the school. COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, MANUAL "TRAINING, SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE ANC HORTICULTURE are provided Boards of Education ¢ regulations Issued by INSTRUCTION HOUSEHOLD udy In Public, '8chocls, Collegiate Insti Vocatl obtaied from the Deputy Minister, Coples of the Regulations Issued by the Minister arliament Separate, Continuation and High