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i ! ? 2 Yo SAFE HIGHWAYS Pedestrians Not Not to Use the uto Roads, Nor Will Homes Face Them NEW YORY, Feb, 16.--Th= chase of 1,005 acres of land in Hig Jonny on which to build a model town for a population of about 25, 000 is announced by the City Hous- ing Corporation, a limited dividend [# pany of which Alexander M. is president, @ new community, which is to be named Radburn, will be situated ween Paterson and Hackensack, about seventeen and one-half miles New York city along the line f the Erle Railroad at Fair Lawn: what 1s now farm and pasture land, it is planned to build a com- te town providing for industry, usinees, home and recreation, The land purchase involved an expendi- ure of more than $2,000,000 and chris leted town will utimately #& value of between $50,- shia and $60,000,000, it is es- It is planned as a self-sus- Hun community having its own "industries, stores and amusements in such complete measure that if it were necessary the inhabitants would never have to leave Radburn, Plan for the Motor Age Y"Radburn will be unique and sig- nificant for two important reasons, on the basis of the plans now being developed," said Mr, Bing in mak- ing the announcement, 'For the first time the building of a city or town will be related definitely to the age of the automobile and the way of living, which has resulted from Its advent, Also it will be an initial step toward a more economic apd efficient growth of the New York region by providing adequate- 1y for industry and affording work- ors comfortable modern homes with gardens and parks without further burdening existing transit and transportation facilities. "In other words it will not be merely another dormitory suburb sending all of its inbabitants into Now York every morning and out Main every evening, Although re will be some commuters, it is ted that most of the dwellers Radburp will be employed in the town itself or in neighboring fac- tories and business establishments, Of even greater significance, |' however, is the novel street and Parkways plan by which it is pro- Posed to fit the town to the needs od the motor age by making it a safe place for children, pedestrians apd for motorists as well, Through motor routes will be provided for fast trafic, but not at the expense of the safesy and comfort of the families occupying homes in the gesidential sections, The homes will front on side streets, which will mot, however, allord through com- munciation, They will be used only for access to houses facing on them. Parkways for Pedestrians "The most notable innovation in the plan will be a complete system of parkways and garden paths for riaps, which in a sense, will complementary to the streets sy- stem, Children will be able to go # half-mile to school along these apd parkways without cross- # street; they will have play- 'grounds in the park areas which 'ean be reached by tree-lined paths leading directly from their homes, and neighborhood shopping centres will be equally accessable with the same safety, 'In Radburp it is planned to build highways, streets, paths and parkways each for its special use. The highways will provide for through trafic and give access Lo the short side streets where most the houses will be located. On other side the houses will face op individual gardens from which will run a path leading directly to # parkway. Homes for 600 fam- slies will be grouped around each of these parkways, which will be about 2 half mile long and the wid- th of a city block and in which will be located a school, play- grounds, tennis courts and com- Danity rooms. "In this way the cultural and families will centre about the central park space. The town will be made up of a number of these units with connecting parkways." The building of Radburn will be the second large housing enterprise the Cty Housing Corpora- tion bas underwritten. It is now Sompleting the Sunnyside Garden community for families of moderate means in Long [Island City which when finished will pro- wide for about i.500 families and have a value est. mated at $10,000,- 000. . Among the stockholders in the corporation are John D. Rockfeller, Jr., Aone Morgan, Felix Warburg, L. Mills and Mrs. George Gordon Battle. "GREATEST OF ALL WARS" .{8t. Catharines Standard) Our old friend and mentor, Can- on F. G Seott, has been telling a nce shat the *'great- pe fs still to be fought. be the ome country about peace, was opinion expressed. It is to hoped - that this greatest of all war chaplains and worthy patriot is wrong entirely about any ew war, and certainly this country is i 30 ming gust Bow ih Sart pre- paring, and Great Britain is not perturbed either. A lot of people do their hardest work before breakfast--trying to get out of tchener Record. Two Tons Oo Eight Months ptical Glass Cool For Telescopes Dise Will Be Used for Mirror at Perkin's Observatory; P Bubble Might Have Spoiled Work 'WASHINGTON, Feb, 16, --A tub of about two tons of molten optical glass that has been cooling from a high point of 2400 degrees F. during the last eight months, has been opened at the Bureay of Standards and is found to be satis- factory for use as a mighty con- cave mirror in the new reflecting telescope for the Perkins Observa- tory, Ohio Western University. It is the first optical disk of the size ever made in the United States and has been equalled only r- [twice abroad. Since May 7, 1927 when the boiling glass was poured out to 'set, Bureau of Standards experts have been allowing it to cool at the rate of a few degrees a day in a specially designed mold and anuealing furnace, A single bubble might have spoiled the work, while the slight- est foreign matter in the glass af- ter it passed from a viscous to rig- id state might have started radical cracks which would have split it to fragments, Until the furnace was opened the experts involved had less assurance of ultimate suc- cess than a good cook with her pudding in the oven. In addition to pleasure at the success of the experiment, officials hope it will mark the way for a new develop- ment in industry, The giant disk that will be used in looking at the stars weighs a- bout 3600 pounds, while in width it is just under six feet and in thickness 11 inches. Several Am- erican . glass manufacturers were asked tn bid on a disk of the re- quired size but would give no as- surance when the work would be done, Four unsuccessful efforts were made by the bureau's glass sec- tion hefore the present method was hit upon, Half a ton of cul- let (broken glass of the same com- position as the glass to be made) and 4600 pounds of sand and chemicals were melted in a single large pot in a gas-fired furnace, After six hours' stirring by hand the molten liquid was poured in- to a specially designed mould, which at the same time was a care- fully insulated annealing furnace, provided with electric heat control, In the next week the temperature | was lowered from 2400 to 1112 degrees and the glass was held at this point for about four days to pire I uniformity throughout, At this point borosilicate crown glass is quite rigid, and yet is suf- ficiently viscous to yield to cooling siresses without danger of crack- ng. After May 18 the glass was cooled at about 435 degrees a day to 860 degrees. For the next six weeks it was annealed at this tem- perature, Final cooling started on Aug, 30, and the room temperature was attained in the middle of Jan- uary, During all these months there was no assurauce of what would be found in the annealing furnace, oe tub, when the top was lifted, and at any time a failure of circuit or a too sudden change of temper- ature might have been more fatal to the huge plece of fragile glass than holding a hot tumbler under the cold faucet in the kitchen sink. The next step toward completion of the reflector. is to drill a hole in its optical axis, Bureau officials feel so confident of success that contrary to precedent they have agred to do this at their own risk, The disk will then be sent to the optician to be ground, polished, and figured on one surface till it becomes parabolic, The mounting for the Perkins telescope was made by Warmer & Swansey, Cleveland 0, and a tem- porary mirror was obtained from Harvard University, Success in the work is ascribed to co-opera- tive efforts of men inside and out- side of the bureau Including J, Walter Drake, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Dr, 8. W. Stratton, president Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. C, C. Crump of Ohio Wesleyan, and P. H. Bates, A. Q, Tool and A. N. Finn of the hureau, hTe uncovering of the disk was wholly successful, Those present to view it at the critical moment included Dr, Stratton, Geo K, Bur- gess, director of the Bureau of Standards, and others directly in. terested in the success of the un- dertaking, Capital Publishment Needed To Curb Murders in the U.S. (From the Ottawa Journal) "A Buffalo preacher told: the local Kiwanis Club yesterday that capital punishment is 'the last re relic of parbarism,' Not so, Mup- der is a relic of barbarirm, apd murder has survived capita, pun- ishment in several States -- the State of Michigan, for instance.' --- Hamilton Herald, Judge ¥. W. Brennan of Michi- gan, who recently passed sentence upon the murderer of little Dorathy Schneider, used to think life the Buffalo clergyman. He changed his mind over the Schneider case, say- ing that it had convinced him to the necessity of capital punishment, particularly as a murderer whom be had previously sentenced to life im- prisonment had escaped, and after- wards committed another murder, To take any man's life hy law or otherwise is a very grave thing. But it is questionable if a less penalty than death for murder has any de- terrent effect upon anybody. Some- times discourses are heard to the effect that imprisonment for iife is a more terrible, or at least a more frightening penalty, than death. Such theory is little better than an insult to the intelligence of most nf the public, who have noted the fea- tures of murder trials anywhere. The eriminal who fears tie death penalty is ready to plead insanity or anything else to escape it. His law- yers, if they think they cannot ar- gue the plea of insanity with sue- cess, are always urgent in pleadings to court and jury to male the pen- alty imprisonment. The murderer is almost unheard of wio does not prefer a sentence of imprisonment even for lite to the sentence of death. To even a criminal who really prefers death to imprison- ment--we do not believe there have ever been such--there is always the hope of release from the imprison- ment. An angry citizen noting in a Michigan paper an article main- taining the view that capita! pun- ishment is a mistake, wrote to dif- fer and his picturesque language is perhaps worth quoting. He gaid, in part. "Resolving as capital punish- ment is, murder more horrille and revolting. The murderer in the secretiveness of his own heart plots the crime. The poor vict.u does not have the slightest cpnance again- st him. "But the dastardly murderer when he is caught has every chance to escape the most devilish of all erimes--murder, Much maudlin sentiment is wasted upon him. Musp sob-sister phiissopby is prin- ted and preached for his detence. "In our weeping os wailing for the human rat who did the mur- der we forget the poor victim and herd family and friend". We some- times almost talk of them 2s though they were urging organized society to make a wictim of this vicious animal. We speak of the State killing another vietim. Be- fore we are through with Jur ridie- ulous vaudeville trials we have stir- red ourselves into suea a state of maudlin sentimentalism that we talk as though we had an archangel on trial and that the biood-thirsty believers im capital punishment must have a victim to appease their) thirst for blood. "Great jurists like William How- ard Taft are asking that we pay scme attention to the poor victims and to the protection of decent cit- izens from the viclous, dastardly murderer and less attention to the protection of the murdorer, We have a right to self-protection and we have a right to use the method that will obtain the best resuits, and we are on the verge o! using more virile discipline to restrain the vicious 2ritaiials, "You sneer at primitive ven- geance, at the punitive methods of dealing with crime, What are you going to put in its stead? You do not know, but if at this called upon to give us a system of dealing with criminals that will protect society, you could not do it." The writer made a further point, however, which is pertinent wheth- er we believe in capital punishment or not: I pelieve in the relentless en- forcement of capital punishment as yis done in England and other countries that have been experi- menting with erimes longer than we have. Those countries have the feeble-minded apd g]l other types ot minds just as we have, but they do not have the deaily hurri- cane of crime that exists in Am- erica." "As is done in England." And so far in Canada. Namely, not merely capital punishment, but prompt and resolute enforcement of all law. It ie the certainty of law enforcement that makes capital crime rare in England as compared with the Unit- ed States where murders are many and executions few. The machinery of justice when it operates with al- most complete certainty will hold crime in check, but no severity of punishment will prevent crime if offenders do not fear detection, cap- ture and prompt justice. SUBSTITUTE FOB "AM E NOT?" (Hamilton Herald) Among grammarians thers is at present a discussion over the per- missibility of using a terse substi- tute for the form "Am I not?" One learned professor goes so far as to say that the vulgar "Aint {" should be allowed. Such a suggestion must shock precisians; but "Ain't 17" is not worse than "Aren't 1?" which used to be quite commou half a century ago. Why not "Amn't I"? It was a form used by quite fashionahle peo- ple in England in the early yaars of the last century, as every reader of Jane Austen knows. Aanyiow, it is more consistent and correci than either "Ain't 1." or "Arven': 1," for it je just an abbreviation of "Am not L." SCOTLAND'S POET (Hamilton Herald) England has her Shakespeare and Milton, Italy her Dante, Germany her Goethe, France her Moli Spain her Ceryvantes--all of greater writers than Buras, but not one of them is so close to the hearts of his countrymen and regarded by them with so much pride as Burns is beloved and admired by Scots at home and abroad. - |satins, You have some faint] ideas about what you would do, moment you were | Y Tues, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928 LEADS PARIS SPORT STYLES * Pleated Skirt Favored for Spring Golf ( Costume PARIS Feb, 16.-- 16.--Sport Clothes have attained perfection, the Paris couturiers modestly aver and con- tent themselves in thelr collections of Spring and Summer fashions with minor suggestions based on [the familiar but practical jumper frock, For golf devotees jersey in beige or dark color, flat pleated into comfortable skirts with matching jersey jacket and jumper blouse is suggested. Patou cuts the neck of the jumper into a deep V. exposing a white crepe de chine underblouse with a turnover col- lar and tie, But most designers are content with three pleces. Modernistic or floral inserts on the jumpers and borders of con- trasting color add variety to these sensible suits while bright hand- kerchief scarves of crepe de chine accent the color contrast, ; When less serious sport than golf beckons, the skirt may be of crepe de chine, pleated or even of plaid chiffon, as Drecoll makes it, with a jumper sweater of striped Angora wool or fancy open-weave bouclette, The tennis frock could find no better color than white in light silk, like crepe de chine or pongee, and could find no substitute for the pleated skirt und simple at- tached sleeves hlouse, though Le- Long does add an abbreviated cape-back sometimes, For resort wear, white or cream is phenomenally popular now. Coats of cream wool, basketweave or other coarse weave add to the cut with shoulder yokes, pleats and smart belts, Other sport clothes may be ne- glected, but heach costumes have intrigued the imaginations of every designer this season wonderful results, The bathing suits them- selves have been made as exagger- atedly backless as evening gowns by such a staid designer as Patou, while Jenny makes pony ballet costumes of them in pale-colored gold-braided, beaded and peilletted with aviator caps match- ing. Sun-bhathing costumes run gamut from Regny's naval officers' woul uniforms with short trousers and bathing suits underneath, to Le- Long's pyjamas with unlined three- quarter-length printed coats, jump- er blouses and oxford bag silk "trousers. Patou's design is more feminine with a longer cretopne coat lined with raspberry pink satin, pink pa- jamas, a big sun hat lined in pink and rubberiged cretonne bag to hold the bathing suit, Ambition is a longing 8 lot of peo- ple have for a more pleasant place in which to do nothing--Sault Dally ersey Jacket and and Blouse With| desirability by having a Norfolk with! and sometimes weird! Fo FRICKE [How to > Ventilate the House - To Ensure Even Temperature By Secret tof Health 91 ! Fresh Air; There's No Need to Have Drafts Since open windows, according to the latest scientific standards, are the chief mean of ventilation, it is important to know how to open them correctly, say Dr, Thomas Wood, and Ethel Hendrickson, of Columbia University, New York. The usual method of opening win- dows is quite haphazard. One waits until a room becomes unbear- ably warm or filled with unpleasant odors and then throws one or two windows open as wide as possible for a few minutes until the air in the room becomes chilly, The windows are then closed complete ly, until it is necessary for the same process to be repeated, Good ventilation calls for some fresh air to enter rooms continual- ly, This means that some of the windows in every room should be set open slightly all the time, ex- cept in the very coldest weather, when the outside temperature is below freezing. The best type of window for ven- tilation is the double-hung, vertic- ally sliding window, The openings on such a window can be perfectly controlled, In cold weather a slight opening at the top, not even enough to admit a crack of light, may be sufficient for ventilation, The window shades, for good ventilation, should be set down a few inches from the top of the win- dow, This allows air to pass into the room over the tops of the cur- tains where windows are open at the top, otherwise the incoming air will be dellected downward by the curtaing and will chill the floors of the rooms, Shades that are set down below the space required for the top window opening will not rattle in the wind, Opening Cascment Windows Many modern houses find the casement windows more artistic than the double-hung vert.cally sliding window. But casement windows are not as good lor con- trolled ventilation, The opening they -afford is usually too great for cold weather ventilation, When casement windows must be used for ventilation it is desirable to ve- move a section of the glass and pro- vide a small transom opening or a small sliding sect.on of glass. Some persons believe they are get- (ing good ventilation and are martyrs to it because of cold floors. A cold, drafty floor is an enemy to good ventlation becausg it induces the room occupants to turn on more and more heat in an effort to warm the floors, Consequently, the air of the room is too warm for good ventilation, while the floors still re- main cold, Ventilating on Stormy Nnghts Cold floors indicate defective con- struction and certain building changes and insulations will re- move the a:fiiculty, The air at the floor is always the coldest air in the room, but it need not be cold, A little bey who had been taught both at home and in school that he should sleep with his windows open Wotested 80 vigorously, refusing to to sleep on a night when his windows were closed on account of a severe snowstors), that his mother opened the windows as usu- al and tacked bath towels over the openings. This may have been the beginning of the idea of the mus- lin window screen, i the Bedroom For a time many have thought that air to be fresh must be as cold as that outdoors. Those who ad- vocate sleeping witli open windows wanted these windows opened "wide". Now it is known that if alr is in gentle motion it is fresh if it is under 68 degrees, But that does not mean that the air of sleeping rooms need be no cooler than 68 degrees, We can leave the temperature to the choice of the sleeper. Usually a tempera~ ture around 45 degrees will be de- sired in winter, Cold air feels pleasant and induces sleep when one is well protected and the ex- tremities are comfortably warm, Care must be taken, however, not to use too much covering at night, If the body is too warmly clad the sleep is disturbed, Unpleasant dreams can often be traced to a lack of fresh air in the sleeping room and to too much covering, The person in normal health will usually not require more than three or four layers of loosely woven woolen blankets even in the cold- est weather, Those whose cireu- lation has become impaired may need to take the precaution of a warm bath or of a brisk outdoor walk or some other moderate ex- ercise before retiring in order to sleep warmly, It is important to train children to sleep in fresh air and have just the right amount of covering to be comfortable without becoming over warm, All heat should be turned off from the sleeping room at night, if possible, In cases where there is danger of freezing the pipes or where difficulty {s experienced In getting heat into radiators in the morning when too cold, heavy blankets or papers may be used to protect the radiators, Children Like Fresh Air them in making it more convenient tor them to play on the floor, There the Alf Ia caslent, 20 that the deny: ing baby and the toddler with toys have the best of a bad bargain in an overwarm house. It usually is recognized that children must be taken outdoors for a daily airing. But the importance of keeping them always in fresh air while in- doors is overlooked in many homes. Occasionally a parent is wise en- ough to provide fresh air ¢ontinu- ously for the baby and the rum- about. This does not mean that they must be kept outdoors all the time| A room can be get apart for them with windows open and tem- perature kept around 50 to 60 de- grees, while they are at play or sleeping. It should be warmer, of course, for dressing and for meals, but never have 68 degrees except while bathing or otherwise ex- posed. It the house is too small, or i the rooms are not closed off from each other, a window tent can be arranged. One New York woman cared for her baby and kept him, by proper care from having colds or any other iliness, She used an im- provised tent built out into the room from the open window, Ordinary sail canvas was used, Eyelets were set along the hems to lace the canvas down so that the cold air from the open window did not chill the room, When the child needed attention he was brought in- to the warmer room, Ventilating the Kitchen Many housewives deny thelr fam- ilies certain foods, such as cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, onions and the like, because of the odor these vegetables produce in cook- ing. And, in fact, the odors are so distasteful to some members of the family that the appetite for other foods is destroyed, Some cooks are unable to enjoy the food they have prepared for this very reason, Perhaps one reason why children usually dislike these foods instine- tively is because the appetite has been taken away by the effects of the odors. Children in {ll-smelling, poorly ventilated schoolrooms were found to have less appetite for food than children in schoolrooms venti~ lated by open windows, Being less articulate than adults, it is quite probable that the effect of odors upon children is something they suffer unconsciously, but which is nevertheless reflected in the loss of appetite, In a warm kitchen the odors ride As it happens, only a few of us can have absolute control over our environment continuously, - If we sleep in a well ventilated room at night we may have to travel to work in an overheated conveyance and we may be subject all day to heating .and ventilating arrange- ments under the haphazard control of others, or, more likely, no con- trol whatever, Then there are the babies and small children, too helpless to know why they are uncomfortable, This Is the period in life when training for fresh alr should begin, and yet all too frequently these little | oneg are kept indoors in winter | and suffer from overheating, Fur- | thermore, through a mistaken idea of the solicitous parents extra clothing burdens them so that the be trained to like the cold air. Keep the Baby Cool Nature does tne best she can for | -- Should | | y By James Douglas, Women Propose! in London Sunday Express This is Leap Year, and ancient tradition authorises every maiden lady to bespeak the man she likes. The custom is six hundred years old, and in Scotland It was once 2 law, enforceable by a fine. {4 the man bespoken refused to mar- ry the maiden who bespoke him he was muleted in the sum of one pound or less, as his estate wight be. In the thirteenth century money was worth more than it is to-day, put even during the reign of her most blessed Majesty Margaret, the Maid of Norway, the most frugal Scot could hardly have been coere- ed into matrimony by the fear of losing 2 pound sterling. A relue- tant lover would pay his pound ra- ther than wed a lady he did not love. The truth is that Leap Year license is a crude masculine jest. the humor of which has long 220 evaporated. Even in the Middle Ages the ladies knew how to help the bashful wooer to come to the point and to take the leap in the dark. First Ala | It is doubtful whether any sane {man bas ever made a propdsal of marriage without receiving assist- ance Or encouragement or some form of first ald from the darl- ing of his heart. It is a fallacy to imagine that a proposal is a one-sided affair The actual utterance of the formal words is of mo importance what- ever, for the maiden knows the state of her own heart and the state of her lover's heart long be- fore he ceases to be inarticulate The proposal is 2 ratification, not a revelation. Why, then, has the awful cere- mony of proposing been imposed upon the man? Because woman is, and always has been, far wiser and far wilier than man. After she has chosen her mate, she takes care to he has chosen her. Thus. he and he alone bears the responsibility of choice. But the proposal is only the last link in the chain of love. It is only the culminating erisis in the ygreat mystery of enamourment. The happy pair have proposed to each other long before th: fateful question is asked and answered. it is foolish to pretend that a proposal is always the unaided work of the bewitched man. There are many ways in which a wom- endue him with the illusion that an can propose marriage to a man without words. The best propos- als are invariably wordless. The language of love is neither spoken nor written. It is a subtlety of the eyes that disdaing the help of cold syllables. We like to persuade ourselves that the emancipation of woman has altered her nature. We delude ourselves into helieving that the woman of to-day fis different from the woman of yesterday. But the possession of vote js a trifie that changes nothing. A woman's heart is the same, and it will always be the same, whatever her legal or economic status may be. It really does not matter wheth- er the actual proposal comes from the man or from the woman. for if they love each other they pro- pose to each other in a thousand ways before they comply with con- vention and custom. There is a blending of their beings before they dream of a formal engagement and a formal marriage. I think this explains the notori- ous inability of novelists and dra- matists to make a proposal seem natural and creditable. Tue words they put in the mouth of a lover are either hopelessly inadequate or unpardonably rhetorical. Their most cunning art cannot convey the intangibles and imponderables of love. Love's Language That is why lovers restort to the little language of love which curi- ously resembles the little language of mothers. These stammering endearments and diminutives are not meant to be overheard by eavesdroppers. They are a secret code that excites the ridicule and contempt of out- siders. Mothers and lovers should be allowed to babble without the profane presence ot an intruder. Stage kisses and film kisses oft- en provoke irreveremt laugater be- cause they make thé spectators feel uncomfortable and ill at ease. They are outrages on our natural reti- cence, for kissing is essentially a private and confidential affair which unfits it for publicity. We feel ashamed when we are forced to watch it, and our shame takes ref- uge in laughter that 1s slightly hys- serical. Similarly, a proposal in a a0vel offends us, because we know chat we have no right to be there We shrink from the role of the Peep- ing Tom or the Paul Pry. And| we instinctively dislike the coarsen- ing and cheapening of love involy- ed in the pursuit of It into its most sacred shrine. There is no doubt that love is into a commercial commodity by hordes of novelists, dramatiets, and movie experts. This sage is suffering from the mass production of love scenes. It is losing its sense of the higher and nobler aspects of love. It is rapidly sliding into a eynical levity that gloats over the grosser appe- tites and the lower passions. There is truth in Thackeray's. saying that when a man rises from bis knees he goes away. The es- sence of love is reverence, and we are robbing young lovers of that spiritual rapture. Love is a puri- fying and sanctifying ordeal "Tt raises men and women far above the animal. It is a consecration and dedication. There is mothing holier in life than young love, and jt is a trag- edy when the bloom is brushed off it by lack of insight and under- standing. The duty of the older generation is to protect the youug- er generation against the defilement of love as an ideal, an inspiration, and a salvation, Civilization is an escape from the brute. Our eivilization seems to be in a phase of retrogression. It is receding from romance and chivalry. It tends towards the swinish and the sordid. It is wal- lowing in its sensual styes. Enfeebled Faith The degeneration of love symn- chronises with the degeneration of religion. It is a symptom of our enfeebled faith in the divine, the mystical, and the imaginative fae- ulty in mankind. A race that los- es its belief in redemptive and re- generative love is bound to decline and decay. We assume that our civilization is on the mp grade and not op the down grade. We cherish the filusion of inevitable and mezhani- cal progress. But history is strewn with the wreckage of high civiliza- tions. These cataclysms and catastro- corruption of religion and by the putrefaction of love. The soul per- ishes in a waste of shame. If our civilization is to survive it must pecover its faith in the un- skin bas almost no opportunity to | being degraded by Its conversion | on the overheated air to the top of the room and seep into adjoining {cooler rooms through every crack |and crevice, An escape must be provided for this expanded air with {its burden of cooking odors, The | best exit is through a duct In the wall near the ceiling leading up through the roof, Such a duct may {be equipped with a damper and closed when the kitchen is not in (use, | But, failing to secure the duet, the next best method is to open (windows at the tops, This method, [together with attention to the prop- ler cooking of vegetables, will re- {duce odors to a minimum, Veg- letables should not be overcooked, |and to steam them in airtight lutensils Is best, The best rule to follow is to have some windows open slightly at the itop all the time and to arrange |these openings so that a cross cur- {rent will be produced whenever {ceiling ducts are mot in use. MCDERN GIRL'S DRESS (Kingston Whig-Standard) Perhaps it may he considered ra- ther out of place for the above sub- | ject to appear in the editorial eol- {umns, but it is ome In which the !| health is considered, and is there. | fore one of public Interest. What | made us refer to It was seeing grave | charges brought by Dr. 8. A. Knopf | of New York against women's dress | of to-day. He claims that the *in- sane desire for a boyish appear- ance, and too much night life, are the causes of the alarming inerease in morbidity, and mortality from tuberculosis among young women." He deplores the limy modern dress of thin material, the sleeveless and low waist and short skirts, shoes and silk stockings worn in the cold- est weather, and the dangerous un- der feeding to produce and retain 2 boyish figure. But on the other hand in the course of our read- ing we have noticed other doctors say that modern dress is really an improvement on what we might venture to call the swaddlinz eloth- es of older days. Now; there they are: both sidés of the guastion: we will not dare to say which we think right; it is a subject wmupon which women must give judgmert. HOLT AND GUNDY (Farmer's Sun) At last, a brighter day the Maritime Provinces. It oe Gundy are about to assume control of the British Empire Steel Corpor- ge. Because this company has not been able to do business profitably, it has caused distress and aroused a general antipathy of hu- mane persons. [Its debts will now be compromised at so much on the dollar; its business will be reor- ganized; its securities will be call- ed in and pew securities of zreat volume will be floated on the pub- lie, in a cloud of puffing; the Gov- ernment will be asked at least, to stake, to pay bounties on iron and steel, for example, or impose Au- I I a oh church, where a wedding ceremon phes are invariably caused by the (when "Well, Pat, I suppose that's the high road to heaven you're flay- seen mysteries and the invisible se- crets of life. "Faith, a» is only a bridal poy Fol ation, known as Besco on the stock | there exchan, DECLARES MEN AREN'T FOOLED} BY FLATTERY, Husbands Want Admira- | tion Without Pretence, Says Anthony Wynne MEN ADMIRE PRETTY WOMEN, THAT'S ALL Qualities That Men Loud For in a Wife Are Not Easily Assumed LONDON, Feb, 16. --Anthony Wynne, an analytical writer on top fos of real human interest, says In the Sunday Pletorial: A lady who was sentenced recently in America for possessing six husbands said that she had acquired them all "by flattery." She added: "Unmarried girls who want husbands ought to study flattery." It is a pity that we cannot, at present, hear more of the methods of this evidently remarkable woe man. For "flattery" is a hig word, and covers a multitude of ways and means, It is a disturbing fact, however you choose to look at it; For up till now the Idea has prevailed everywhere that it was woman, and not man, who could be caught ease fly by the flatterer's tongue, T must confess, though, that thd ease of this American lady has ex« plained a good many things which, until IT heard of it, I could never explain for myself, I begin to une derstand, for example, why It is that so very few men possess prets ty wives, All men admire pretty womeny most men run after them and flats ter them, But not one man n a thousand marries a pretty wife, The prettiest girl T ever knew Id an old maid at this moment of writing, She had dozens of admirers, young admirers and old ones, rich admirers and poor ones, And, so far as I can learn, most of these men are now married, How was it that not one of them managed to make her his wife? I think, now, that the explana« tion is very simple: She had no gift of understanding. You were expected to flatter her all the time, And, of course, sooner or later, vou grow tired of that rather wearis some exercise, As soon as you grew tired, off she tripped to a new "ade mirer," Women Will Note This Mark that fatal word. An ade mirer is 2 man who admires you, whereas, as a rule, a husband is a man whom you admire! Who can describe the relief and satisfaction which steal over a man when he leaves the company of the "belle of the hall" to go down to supper with a girl, who "really seems to understand" him? Beauty is all very well. It is nearly always very troublesome, Whereas understanding' is a land of promise. "If I marry this gir," whispers the voice nf wisdom and selfishness. 'I shall have to spend my life giving her a good time and praising her. This other girl, on the contrary, will toast my slippers and mend my socks, She wil] hee Jong to me and not to her own good looks." That, of course, is another way of saying that every man sees hime self as the head of a household, its leader and its light, The woms an who lets him know that she has viewed him from that same angle will always score heavily. But I doubt whether this form of flattery can be learned. | It is idle merely to pretend that you admire a man; if you want to win his Jove you must really ads mire him, if only duripg a single afternoon, And there's the rub. Thé pumse ber of women who are able to feel a real, whole-hearted admiration for any man fs, I feel sure strictly limited. Such whole-hearted ad~ miration is a gift rather than an accomplishment. *She" Must Not Lengh I used to wonder why so few wives posses a sense o fhumor. Buf I sée now that nobody with a keen sense of humor could completely captivate the heart of a man bes cause nobody with a keen sense of humor could take him quite seris ously. The world may laugh at us; we do not care. But "she" on | must not laugh. She may not even smile excepf upon the rates, occasions. Indeed, she must not see that is anything to laugh at. Love yourself a temporary loss of If you are mot an actress you never possess this gift unless Nas ture has bestowed it upon you. Wives the wives we men hanker born, mot made. It ig do something, where so much is at | that