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En British Honduras, the Dominican . played a skilful and intricate mass of ~ mmounted to jewelry. dues. was a purely fictiti- non-existent currency, meaning grains of pure.silver--a theore- Yet in gold 'it varied from 67" cents The Shanghai asi in 1929 was 58.42 cents, but fell to 31.12 when British India netized silver. Professor E. amerer of Princeton University was Eo to devise a new system far China. He advised a gold unit valued at 40 cents, to be called ths "sun," af- ter China's political hero. In the period of transition," however, the Chinese have decided to reduce the value of the tael 28% per cent. and ~ hame the new unit after our dollar, Other countries outside the United Btates which now designate their local " imoney 'with the dollar sign are Argen- tina, Brazil, British Guiana, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ethiopia, Hongkong (a British crown colony), Macao, Mex- ico, Newfoundland. Paraguay, Portu- gal, Straits Settlements and Uruguay. Republic, Liberia and Panama the United States dollar constitutes the currency medium, and in Cuba a spe- celal law makes American money legal jender. x ------ How Handicrafts . + Guild Judges Work Enquiries made by exhibitors Sites the Canadian Handicrafts Guild's cent display have prompted the 5 'monton committee to try to indicate the principle upon which judging is concluded. Not infréquently it hap- pens that really good work in a given medium has not a class devoted to, ~ that medium alone and consequently} Shanghai to 74.8 cents In the stories on of 3 Amster- % : 4 dam there are two il of 66 2 = and the other of 189 houses. These 1 % T 1 [8 h have a clubroom for social pur- poses, where religious services are - held and instruction is given in handi- x crafts and needlework. 'With certain modifications accord- 2 2 ing to differences in national outlook : us ha and character, it is felt in many quar- | § "BZ ters that these Dutch schemes have v . something in them of value for lands far way from Holland. Somewhat i ' similar proposals were, made several , years ago by a responsible body in Glasgow, but nothing at that time 1 i came of them, : x It Britain should adopt some form of the Dutch idea; it will be an interest- 5 ing case of reciprocity, for the super $ visors who are so important a part of 7 the Dutch scheme are all traned in the 4 59 fundamentals establshed by the Eng- | lish social reformer, Octavia Hill.-- 7 The Christian Science Monitor. ' : ! FREED FROM PAIN Horizontal 48--Small chunk 16--Having a spik i 1--Kind of nose 50--Songs 18--Soft ok . AT 9 4--Mantle 51--Encore! 20--Luminary S--Ouiting tool 53--Implements 22--Courage What a great thing it must be for rfl a page 55 Tulle 23--Gum resin this woman, after suffering from rheu- 0 2 Hs 26--Homo sapiens matism for many years, to be free a, 61--Card game 27--Subsidiary circuit |from pain again at her age. She Er 62--Assistants - 28--Appendages writes: --*I should like to tell you that reat dominion 64--Before 80--To sink since I commenced taking Kruschen 19--Poles 65--Japanese coin 32--Mark on card Salts two years-ago, I am completely Zi-Eletrifien particle 66--To seize 36--To marry relieved of rheumatism, fram which Bp cataie 67--Browni 38--Counts I had been a great sufferer for many eit dent AH Ba ertical 41--Defense cage years. Iam now in my 95th year, and Pe i rn 2p i 43--To entangle much appreciate being free from pain, 3 Con x n tree - 45--Thigh armor which 1 attribute to. the regular dose i Copenh 47--Nothing of Kruschen."--(Mrs.) A. BE. 8. B Ocean Re ie: persons 49--Tree trunks If only everyone would realize that] rr 8 52--Cabbage the "little daily dose of Kruschen" is Xie of crow family 6--Conjunction 54--Kiln to dry hop just as important as internal cleanli- sect egg 7--EBroded §6--To soar ness as soap and water are to exter 39--Chinese weight 8--Japanese spirits of b56--Deer nal cleanliness, there would soon be 49-70 acole the dead 57--Title no more constipation, no more slug- ' 9--Glistens 59--Age gish livers, no more rheumatism, gout 44--Part of flower 10--Tune 60--Japanese coin or Inmbago. ! 46--Secret society 11--Small 63--Prefix: down Kruschen is a combination of six i has to be compared with the t thing with which it might compare. As an instance may be mentioned a table submitted, the top of which dis- wood inlay. It therefore naturally was placed in the class for furniture, Here It competed with obviously -superior cabinet work to its manifest disad- vantage. Further as there was a class for metal work, the class for furniture was limited to. woodwork, though many pleces of metal might have been ranked as furniture. Then, too, this classification had to embrace wrought Iron, repousse copper, brass and pew- ter, cast and tooled metal, and what All of which are just so different in manner of working as to render comparison dif- ficult. In the facé of these and other troubles, however, the judges tried to 'recognize what was evidently good work in one way or another. I NUNN Welsh Seaside Resort ~ To Supply "Native" Color C Wales. --Colwyn Bay, on the : es coast, 1s. meeting the of many visitors who express ord that they hear little '| to exchange ideas with their tellow- The Drama Festival The Dominion Drama Festival, just finished at Ottawa, was beyond doubt a distinct success. To organize and carry through such an undertaking in- volved a great deal of hard work, and the able manner in which the whole business was discharged reflects the greatest credit upon the - honourary ecretary, Col. Osborne, and his staff. e Governor-General must have been gratified with the great public interest taken in the competition, not only in the regional presentations, but also in the final performances at the Little Theatre in the Capital, While heartburnings ovef the re- sults are inevitable, a very graceful spirit of mutual appregiation has been manifest. The benefit of such a fed tival is not confined to the winning of the trophy. It will be seen in the re- vival of interest in the drama from coast to coast, The hundreds of ama- teurs who have taken part in the com- petition have discovered that they can do things. They haye been helped to realize that there is a great deal of gequine talent scattered throughout the Dominion, and that all it requires for ite proper development is public encouragement. They have been able Canadians from other cities | have | 10 thus been enabled to 'hensive viewpoint. : ,| Has clothes-lines woven in and out; +| And all the-linen pinned bout Answers tb Last Week Puzzle dress at the close of Saturday's per- formances, it is in the realm of the ideal and the spiritual that a nation is ultimately tested. The seed sown dur- ing these weeks of rehearsal and of performance cannot but result in gen- uine cultural progress. Lord Bess- borough may well have builded better than he knows. The spirit of friendly rivalry in 'artistic achievement is a fine one to foster, ard the develop- ment of 'such an important factor as drama in the social life of a nation is a work in which His Excellency may most fittingly play a leading part. It is to be hoped that the Festival, so happily inaugurated, will become an annual feature, and that its benefits 11 DETER I | ,| own problems from a more compre: © The Washing Day The little cottage on the shore - The waves the door, Catches the the gales; And, leaning to the ide, Pact Ready a onraes' win he Tee he sparkling waters 3 ad New : ming ripples at the feet, Me 8 over-head ean and sweet. slopes | xen: | mark, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, salts--each one is necessary to some particular organ of the body. Just what you need to persuade your sys- tem back into a healthy condition? very gently but very, very surely! ee pm Freighter Speak but a name, and 1 shall sure- ly see, With its shaped freedom lately from the mines, Black, hungry steel long lines To its new prison of the sky and sea; Shall, with the ship's every trembl- ing, be Faithful to every prompting in the heart, Shall answer to her toil In every part, And earnestly her 'strength .shall 'comfort me, wr run swiftly in As galley slave against the Afric wind, nti], spice-heavy, came they home to Crete; So fight these iron monsters, low with wheat, And darkly slip into their ports as- signed. For what has urged him on since time began, For all his iron ships, man. ~--Leo Cox, in "The Wind in the Field." eee Qe Builders to Meet ; Lonfon. -- The Internajional Con- gress of Building Societies will meet in London June 59. Sir 'Enoch Hill, chairman of the council of the National Association of Building Societies will be president of the congress, and among the countries ted will be Britain, United Germany, Austria, France, Den- still urges Poland, Bulgaria, Canada, South Africa tish Government will give a to the delegates at Lancas- ter House June 7, with a reception and Guildhall the following even- vious meetings of the Con- een held in London, San "Philadelphia. L pays to "Roll Your On with TURRET FINE CIGARETTE CUT TOBACCO VE THE POKER HANDS may d. than 150 is Ssceted rom poy Jealous Fiance--" Why didn't you "'- troduce that fellow to me?" Girl--"Dearest, I couldn't. gotten his name." "Then why did you call him 'dacl- ing?" "I've just told you -- I've forgotten his name." I've for- The circus was touring Scotland. The baboon died and was cast into a ditch. Two Highlanders passed and saw the corpse. "Who'll that be now?" asked Tam, "1 dinna ken, replied Angus, thoughtfully. "It's no' red enough for a Macdonald. I'm thinking it must be a Macdonald. I' mthinking it must be one o' those English tourists." Youth--*"Will you gve us ten cents to help the old ladies' home?" Business Man--"What! Are they out again?" A 'man who had had a rush for the morning train and had not time to buy a paper said to the other occupant of the compartment who was reading one, "Well, what's doing in China to- day?" "Dunno," said the other. cutlery." "I'm in Ask Me Another What are the most common forms of holdups?"' Answer--"A man's suspenders and a woman's garters. @Girlle--"0Oh, dear, I've lost my lit- tle pink bow!" Boy Friend--"How perfectly awful! What did he look like?" Home should be a place where joy is doubled by companionship and trou- ble halved by sympathy. A woman In an English court, charged with shoplifting, was asked by the magistrate if she had anything to say on her own behalf. "Yes, sir, 1 have," she replied hope- fully. "I take only British goods." Some One to Look Up To Landlady--"A professor formerly oc: cupied this room, sir. He invented an explosive." New Roomer--"Ah! I suppose those spots on the ceiling are the explo- sive?" Landlady -- "No, fessor." they're the pro- Faithful Guardian's Sacrifice The dog is man's best friend. If you keep a dog, there's never anything left for hash. " A news story tells about a man and his six sons, each of whom is more than six feet and a half tall. * We'll bet a thin dime it's one of these fel- lows who always takes a seat just in front of us in the show. Man--"1 found a four-leaf clover on my lawn today." -Neighbor--"1 suppose Fou think that cky 1" set do. m Iucky to find any- thing in that lawn except dandelions and weeds." Lo -- _ Things go by opposites. For in stance, when a man clerk takes a va cation he just sits around on a river bank and feels sorry for the people who have to work. When a woman knife ever made two pounds, has 1,851 is valued at more than , house, paints the floors, cans fruit and ' vegetables, polishes the floors and th flowers, +The mag goes clerk gets a vacation she cleans the |- back to the store all worn out. The woman goes back with a smile on her face, Cure For Dumbness Jack--"This liniment makes my arn smart." Joan--"Why not rub some on your head?" Pat--""My brother never met with a disappointment in his lie." Mike--"How's that?" Pat--"He never looks for anything but trouble." Man--*"What cured Fred Hymes of arguing with his wife?" Neighbor--"Arguing with his wife." A boy goes around giving the com- bination to his heart to every girl he meets, yet he always acts surprised when some girl steals it, He--"People living together get to look alike." She--"Here's your ring. risk it." I dare not > University .of Toronto School of Nursing Young women who are thinking of nursing as a career will be interest ed in the new School of Nurging, In its three.year course the School plans to give a thorough general training in nursing, one that will en- able the graduate, if she so wishes, to proceed easily to post-graduate work in any branch of nursing, This three-year course prepares the nurse for both hospital nursing and public health nursing ang thus gaves a year in the time of preparation for those who wish to enter public health nurs ing. A young woman who has com- plete Pass or Junior Matriculation and the Upper School or Honour Matriculation subjects as outlined for admission to the Arts Courses may take the training in nursing in this School instead of taking it in the usual hospital school of nursing. This School has close affiliation with the Toronto hospitals for the purposes of practical training, The Calendar and full Information may be obtained from the Secretary, School of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, sere Not Enough Children Born in Cities of U.S. New York.--This nation's intelli- gence is being nurtuved in its metro- politan areas where women are not bearing enough children to reproduce the -population, while the peak of fer- tility is in the farming districts, Fred- erick Osborn, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and Sec- retary of the Galton Society of that institution, said at the annual meet- ing of the American Eugenics So- ciety. Farm women, he caid, basing his figures on the 1980 census, produce about 50 per cent. more children than In the cities with populations of over 100,000, on the other hand, approxi- mately half the number of children necessary for permanent replacement are born. 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Telephone Now Linke Canada and Indian Points New York. -- Regular telephone communication between Canada and India was begun through the co-opera. tion of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, the British Post Office dnd the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, it was announced last week. eerie titra Send In your old gold watch chain ring, jewellery, etc and receive {( money Srger by return mall If no satisfactory return money order, anl receive back your gold. Better prices are given at TISDALLSE "ractory-to-Pocket" Jewellery Store, 150 Yonge St., Toronto AC ot and $ A Quickly Heals Pimples, Rashes and Eczema Soap 25¢. Ointment 25c. and 50c. YOUR LIVER'S MAKING YOU FEEL OUT OF SORTS Wake up your Liver Bile ~--No Calomel needed When you feel blue, depressed, sour on the world, 40 's your eed which isn't pouring ite daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels. Digestion and dimiaation are being slowed ulating and decaying inside eel wretched. Have you ever felt that [you were too weak to do anything . . . that you did not have the strength to do your work? Women who are weak and