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togeth-r with a four- 'the are measuring time in an effort to arrive at a fair estimate of the orig-| of spades. A must play the queen inal extent of the overhanging ledge, before its outer edge fell. ee aid. Russia to Manufacture : Soap From Suds Shortage of fats in Russia has in- ii Moscow. chemists, it is re, | ! to' devise ways to collect the tricks Z should discard the five of used soapsuds and rinse water from clubs and :the four of spades. A is hearts, A should play the queen and laundries, dish-washing departments thus obliged to lead a club up to the 1 oy ace queen .in Z's hand. On the first lead of clubs, Y should discard the ace of spades and thus all of Z's cards are good. If at trick No. 2, A leads the queen of hearts, Y should let it 'of restaurants and other places where much soap is used and to re- cover the soap chemically eo that it All ordinary kinds of soap are made lke beef fat or olive oil, and alka- Z, dealt and bid one diamond, a perfect example of the fourcard suit bid in preference to the no trump. The singleton club is a danger spot in no trump 'because a good player with a set-up club suit and the lead would pass the no trump. In this particular hand, A had a six-card club suit and roof projection, which is about sixty-|his partner the ace of spades, so that nine feet long. The cave to the right|a no trump bid by Z would have failed is low and damp, the one to the left |to make the contract by one trick. Z, is dry, habitable and seven feet high, however, possessed the first requisite While mate: had Seen taken from of the expert: good judgment; so he bid one diamond. A passed and Y bid ng a previous exca- yw, diamonds to give his partner an: vation many years ago, recent dig-iother chance to bid. B passed and Z d twenty-four arrow-|now had to do a little thinking. Y's heads of fine flint, jasper, chalcedony | bid of two diamonds indicated a will ingness on his part to have Z bid an- inch 'spearhead, several knife blades, | Other sult. This sult could be either hammerstones, Unio shells (a species | clubs: hearts or spades. of mussel) and potsherds. A thumb The expert figured that his partner scraper of red jasper (used by In< would not bid two diamonds merely to obtain a' club 'bid feom him because it 'dians' to smooth bone and soft stone'is just as dificult to go game at clubs implements) were among small spec . mens found at Bevans. Moody's, on the edge of Big Muck- -shaw Pond, two miles southwest of Newton id in the Bevans area, is another rocky cavern that has given Moody's has long been a Lil." 5¥ 0, ¢ 5 . trysting place for the romantic, who lh Ome say that on dak nights the moan of an Indian pincess of legendary fame can 'be heard across the silent pond which protects the cave's entrance. Today geologists are' with other rocks is Y lead a heart or (b) a club, iby chemical reactions between fats, | . Ike. w iso nd i hold the trick. If A then leads an: £ 3 2 25 g | here, Something for 'ev one man's joke is not another's. erybody, for old age? Answer.--Tell him a joke when he is youhg" The Wrong Hat And talking of Scotsmen, could one begin better than with this how ha Z's three-heart 4 a, 2 Tr iid A worthy Scot had been persuad- '+ led to become an elder. his power to produce the extempore prayer sometimes called for, he past-, ed a prayer in his tall hat so that he should never be caught unpre- Very soon after this, the minister was late in arriving at a funeral, and the elder He hurried into the hall for his hat, and bowed reverently over And then to the astonishment he cried out in No score, rubber yo "The expert, Mistrusting ng at the right time and called | it is this quality that 1s most strongly evident in the hand given. It may seem easy and the expert's play and bidding the natural thing to do, but how many players could honestly say that in actual play they would have done the same? If they can, they are in the class of the expert. If not, they still have something to which to look forward. We cannot all be experts, but we can all improve our game by ana- lyzing the expert's methods and profit- ing thereby. Put the expert "Under the Lens" at every opportunity and you canot help but benefit. example will be given In a later ar- of the mourners, agitation, "Guidness, this is no' my A party of clergymen, having lost their train, remained overnight at Expecting no other them in the Commercial room because it was the only room with a fire. After a chatting merrily round the hearth when a traveller popped his head in, and on Seeing assembly was Truel. i & 4, Solution to Last Week's Problem about 'to withdraw hastily. Hearts- K, 8, 7,3, 2 _Clubs--none 3 Diamonds---none Spades--A, 10 The Diamonds--10, 4, 3 TA 'Diamonds--none 3 z Spades--Q Hearts--none Clubs--A, Q, 6 Diamonds--none Spades--9, 6, 4, 2 "what was it like there?" There are no trumps and Z is in the | lead. How can Y Z win five of the drippings they| seven tricks against any defense? Solution.--Z should lead the deuce other heart, all of Y's cards are good. If he then leads a club, all of Z's cards are good, Y discarding the ace of spades as before. (b) Suppose A leads a low club at Y should discard the ace and thus all of Z's cords be- come good 'except the five of clubs at In all cases, therefore, ¥ Z must win five of the seven tricks against 'any defense, False Solution: Suppose Y wins the He must then lead hearts. If he leads a lo, heart, B will win the trick with the nine and make his diamonds. It Y leads the king of Here is another with the same and Y-should play the ten, thus allow- o¢ ing A to win the trick. B should dis- card the seven of clubs. A now has '|the choice of two leads: (a) He may A parson invariably carried in his pocket a bottle of an Indian pickle of his own make, for which he had Staying at a small hotel where the only other guest was a commercial traveller, the parson prog duced the inevitable pickle at lunch, and pressed the traveller to partake. He did so, and when he regained his breath, he began, "You are a par- son, I belleve?" "Yes me, do you ever preach about damna- tion and hellfire?" thought so, and you are the only parson I ever knew who carried Tog (a) Suppose A decides to lead a heart. If he leads the six of hearts, Y. should play the king and lead back tht deuce of hearts, which A must win, On these first spade trick, thus enable B to win the second heart Played in this way, Y Z can only win three tricks. This {8 a good example of not allow- ing an. opponent to force the lead in one's *hand when by #o doing one or more tricks will be lost. "Now, tell "Oh, yes." "I Soviet Government Tums invaded the Arctic. Still another about a parson:-- A clergyman who had sacked his cook received an inquiry from her prospective employer with regard to his use of the term "Biblical cook" He replied, "Dear Madam,--The term clearly expresses Everything my late cook did was either a burnt offering or a bloody sacrifice." Puffing and Blowing of their chemical factories were re- vealed in the recent trial of several engineers ia that country, Mr, Delgass "Ot course no trials can help," he adds, "when there is a lack and where untrained men are appointed as managers of chemical plants." to Arctic for Chemicals Russia In its quest for chemicals has in his reference. An apatite plant, scheduled to pro- duce this year more than a million tons of concentrates, used chiefly for fertilizer, was recently opened: in the Khibiny Mountains, according to Ba- sile W. Delgass, former vice-president -| of the Amtorg Trading Company. -He says In reporting Soviet scientific ex- plorations for Industrial and Engineer ing Chemistry, journal of the Ameri: can Chemical Society, that the fac -| tory is beyond the Aretic Circle, eighty miles north of the White Sea, and ap: proximately 100 miles inland from the rt ss ein, Growing Populations The N. Y; Times. --Amoug the many things in the. present world which the pre-war imagination would have found it hard to believe ia population in France growing at least as fast as in Germany. 'The recent French census with a population of 41,835,000 showed everything he saw. F HT i eat those eggs." er. "Weel?" trick, stopped, trumpeted ed him in the fix -nines. authentic! -- him some real good ones. thought you were driving." telephoning from?" ras pes that?" asked his friend. skipper of the Annie Laurle minutes in each of these hours. I| engaged at the last moment before It our arithmetic is correct, that . | have known quite a lot of people--| sailing from Aberdeen two deok-|8ives each of us 350,400 waking mo- mainly--who refuse to| hands, Mackenzie and McCralg. Mac- ments in 1932, in any one of which we 'at this. "Question.--How can! kensle had a good character, a fact |may stir our ambition, may hear the you make a Scotsman happy in his which the "Old Man" was always |call to higher Ideals, to selt improve- rubbing fa to MeCralg, who hadn't. |ment or in any of which our machin. "Aye, aye,' was invariably the lat-|ery of thought may evolve a splend! .| ters dour comment, Soon the smack encountered very [heights of success. | dirty. weather and Mackenzie, com-| Each of these moments, tiny seg- ing up to swab the deck, was swept, | ments of eternity, is a portion of our | bucket in hand, into the mountain lite, each a potential crisis for better ous sea. McCralg, having witness. [Or Worse fn our life--they seem' many od this catastrophe, sought the skip- in their total of a lifetime--yet how "Ya ken yon mon Mackenzie--him | Dass, note, the moments do not. wi' the guid charaster?" he querled.| Wouldn't it be well to make 1932 "Weel; he's awa' wi' your bucket." | 0US fragments of our lives than we've An explorer travelling in Africa)ever done before? came upon an elephant which was . in acute pain. Regardless of dan-| No matter iow bad you aim, when ger, and with considerable difficulty, [You throw bouquets at a man they al- ho extracted a thorn from the ani-| Ways hit the right spot. mal"s foot. Years afterwards he visited a circus where the.chiet at-| Men were digging a ditch in a wet, traction was the performance of sticky soil that was in danger of flood- some trained elephants. One ot|ins. these, in the act of performigg his Young Foreman shouting) -- "All shrilly, | out!" ; and charged towards the auditorium.| The men were out of the ditch like Pandemonium ensued, but the crea.|3 flash. : ® ture calmly lifted the explores from Foreman shouting) --"All in!" his one-and-tenpenny seat, and plac-| The men tumbled back futo the The sxcuse for including the fol-} Qut tumbled the men. situation was explained, and before | lowing is that it is guaranteed! 'Foreman (shouting)--"All in!" long the late comer had joined in y The conversation tuned to dreams, and one of the parsons related how he had dreamt he was in heaven and how lovely it was. Then the traveller said, "I had a similar kind of dream, but unfortun- | overheard to say to the ately I found myself in the other archly, "Well," was the explanation, "it it's 350,400 Chances to Make Good in 1932! There are 365 days in 1932, with aix- teen waking hours in each and sixty idea--may set us on the road to the swiftly we pass through them--we count more in the use of these precl- ditch, thinking taht the call had heen a false alarm. Foreman (shouting)--""All out!" UR POULTRY ND Sen Chott Hiercal writ N OFF X 8 _-- n seat The ay Pena HIP US YO daly arnion dented, MOS SENIED 0] ve us. a L AND EGG COMPANY L TEM: MONTREAL FEMALE HELP WANTED ADIES W. lars, National Manufacturing Co, treal. sli HIDES - FURS HIGHEST PRICES PAID TRY US William Stone Sons Limited Ingersoll, Ont. Canada Silk Industry For five years in succession the silk industgy of Canada has shown in creases in the value of production. Even in 1930, a year of slackened trade generally, the output of the silk industry rose by over 20 per cent. Stik manufacturing is one of the newer in- dustries of the Dominion and the rapidity of its growth has been re markable. Records are available since 1917, and in the jutervening period the value of production has risen by over. 650 per cent. The growth of the industry has beea well sustained throughout the 13 years, although there have.-beén some fluctua. tions. In 1917 the value of productiom And they disappeared once again In Some years ago In a north coun-!'thy ditch, grumbling a little. try seaside town, there was display-| After half-a-dozen repetitions of this od a phrenologist's card with this ln-|business the workmen became angry scription, "Heads examined 1s. each." |and asked the foreman what he meant Two yokels read it, and one was by it. other, One Workman very demanding)-- "Helds examined for 1s. each! Why, |"What's the game? = There's no water the fella"s a feul, when ye can buy a tuppenny comb and see for yersel." in." the traveller, "sqmething | A clergyman was much surprised | like this: T couldn't get near'the fire ' one day at receiving a basket of isn't, but I find that you fellows take potatoes from an old woman of his|out more dirt on your boots than you parish, with a message saying that, [do on your shovels, as he had remarked during his ser- mon of the previous Sunday that| You'd think a mam who was rich "common taters" (commentators) |enough to quit work at 3 o'clock and did not agree with him, she had sent | play golf all afternoon would be happy, but golf seems to take all the joy out Two revellers, who had dined too!of life for most men, well, got into thelr sports two-seater late one night, and zig-zagged down | "| Will"--A New Year Resolve Piccadilly. The passenger, VAgue-| 1 will start afresh this new year ly alarmed at the erratic course they {with a higher, fairer creed; were taking, murmured sleepily ,"I| | will cease to stand complaining of way, Algy, old boy, I think you|my ruthless neighbor's greed; ought to drive a bit more carefully," | | will cease to sit repining while my "Goo' lor'," sald Algy, "goo' lor', I|quty's call is clear; I will waste no moment whinTng, and The report of the death of a city my heart shall know no fear; merchant was, like Mark Twaln's,| 1 will look sometimes about me for 'grossly exaggerated." Thinking t0|the things that merit praise; reassure one of his friends he rang| 1 will search for hidden beauties him up, and sald, "Did you see the |that elude the grumbler's gaze; report in this morning's paper that| [I will try to find contentment in the I was dead?" "Good gracious, no," |pathg that I may tread; replied his friend; "where are you| I will cease to have resentment when | another gets ahead; I will not be swayed by envy when "A pantomime is like a cigar," re-|my rival's strength is shown; marked the theatre manager on the| I will not deny his merit, but will first night of the new show. "How's |try to prove my own; "Wall," I will try to see the beauty spread good | before me, rain or shine; McCulloch had been showing off everybody wants a box, and If 1t's| [I will cease to preach YOUR duty the beauties of his mative land to an | bad no amount of puffing will make |and be more concerned with MINE. American visitor, who kept up "Old it draw." belittng After likening Mike (scowling as he reads grocery | bf rit At the basis of all morality, aH|pill)--"What's this? What's this?" the Forth Bridge to a "pretty plece knowledge, all lofty endeavor, lies the| December 1st, cabbage, 25 cents. of child's fretwork," the noble Tay. truth that God reigns.--Horace Gree-| December 3rd, * peck potatoes. to 'a "Brooklet," and Schiehallion to ley. December 6th, ditto, a gain of 2,625,000 over the year 1921. The rate of annual increase is seven- the | tenths of ond per cent. For Germany in the years 1927-29 the indicated .an- nual increase: was six-tenths of one per cent. 'The change has been | brought about by an acceleration in and a more than cor- ine fn 'Germany. In t "venus Flowers son and heir or a bouncing baby | He who does not love flowers has their 76-pound offspring and, the hind all fear and love of God --Ludwig Di ber 10th, ditto. Cecember 16th, ditto. Mrs, Mike (indignantly)--"It's a lie, There ain't been a ditto in the house!" Some time when you are talking about yourself, stop for awhile and see it anyone present will remind you to start again, We are all strong for the other guy to take his medicine and be a sport. Right now this country needs more fdterviews like this: "I have nothing to say." You can judge a girl's modernism by discovering a blessing--a necessity--a luxury--an afiliction, or a joke. A man who ia clever enough to be boss at home is also wise enough not to brag about it. err Ape te Business First dangling ropes of a balloon at th country fair, When he was being carried aloft, and the crowd was "Tkey,. Tkey, throw out some - of our bithaith cards!" : rt frien : "| Tleck. t whether she regards her husband as! standing aghast as he hung head downwards, his father cried: -- | waa $2,372,000. By 1920, when prices were at their height, it had risen to $5,376,751. In the next five years there were * fluctuations, and in 1925 the value of the output was $5,483,363. From that year on, however, the bal 'ance was unbroken. In 1928 the value reached $10,897,273. In 1929 it was | $14,476,080, and in 1930 it rose to $17 coming and there's no sign of a cave-lgog seg, In the five years betweem 1925 and 1930, it will be observed, the Foreman (smiling)--"I know there vajua of the product was more tham. trebled. The Canadian silk industey is db vided {nto two distinct branches, real silk and artificial silk. However,"ow- ing to the fact that there are only twe plants in the latter section, the par tlculars for the artifielal silk industry are not available separately. In 1930, in the two branches of the industry together, there were 26 plants fn operation, all of them in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, The plants In Quebec numbered 15, with only one plant producing artificial yarns, the larger part of which was used by the same firm for weaving artificial silk fabrics. In Ontario there were 10 plants, one of which manufactured only artificial silk yarns, which were sold to hosiery and knit goods mils and to producers of silk fabrics, ---------------- In Father's Footsteps The vicar called at the home of one of his parishioners, and for ®& while was left in the room with the pride of the family. x He patted the little fellow's head affectionately, and said by way of making conversation: "You look & good little boy, I suppose you al- ways do what your mother tells you?" The boy stopped tinkering with the family wirelessset, and sald: "Yes, vicar, and so does daddy." a m-- SUSPICION ? Suspicion {is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. --aste imesdioras In Britain divorces are becoming much more common. In 1871 there were 166 cases in England, Scotlsad and Wales; in 1929 there were 3,396, aft -- The Dr. Papillaud Pill } for Constipation Imported direct from France. This Pu dissolves and acts only in: the wele. A trial and you will be con- | | i A Jewish boy was caught by tha | x