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# T Toldi in Brief The average ie of of a "copper" (or bronze) coin in everyday use is about | forty years. In the last ten years Londons tele. Bo 8 Sishanges have ingreased from Ponales to the number of 1,888,409, 920, and worth £7,868,874, have heen | made at the British Mint since 1860, Eleotrig shocks of various types are being tested as a means of increasing ~ the size of flowers and the crops of vegetables, ~The popularity of craising in the United Kingdom is baving the unex- pected; result of making continental + dishes pepylan in that eountry. » The British medical register now contains the names of 66,000 qualified pen and women, This 1s 22,000 more than ' * 1920. Age is no bar to matrimony, In 1932 eighty-six persons in Gt. Britain over bridegroom was more than ninety. For the fifth year in succession the birth-rate of England and Wales shows a decrease, the figures for 1933 being the lowest on record, Although they have been offtelally J recalled by the British Mint, there are 220,000,000 pennies dated hetween 1860 | end 1895 stilkin circulation, Foodstuffs containing Vitamin D,} 'such as milk, egg, yolk, fish, and anil mal fats, are sald to be essential to the production of perfect teeth. - Of the 20,000 special constables en- rolled in London, very many have never turned out for duty as there is no compulsion on them to do this, London's largest reservoir, situated miles round {ts banks, and could pro- - vide ample anchorage for a fleet of hattleships. ' 8mall farms, of from fifty to seventy- "five acres each, are in demand in the North of England, where the farmers are' taking up dairying instead of ploughing. H.M.S. Nelson, which recently ran Harbour, carries nine sixteen-inch guns and has a crew of 1,368 men and' over 100 officers. While ts have a strong pride In their race and country, they neither hate nor fear any other nation, accord. ing to Colonel Reitz, a Boer who com- "manded a Scottish battalion during | the War, One of the oldest Court appoint ments in Gt. Britain is tRat of Coroner of the Royal Palaces. With a jury of "twelve Royal servants, he holds in- quiries'into all causes of sudden death in the Royal residences. The appoint. ment dates back to the time of Ed-|' ward I. The Old Road The new road is a high road Thrust straight across the hills, With sweeping, wide-arched bridges, And long firm leveled fills-- 'A blade of flashing whiteness, it cuts through woods of beech, And on through blue-grass pastures, Then, far as eye can reach, Across the green of wheat fields, It takes its clean, swift way--. , To skim it is sheer gladness-- It calls and yho can- stay-- It dares the eager hearted To worlds yet to be won; 'Compellingly, it beckons - Btraight; straight out to the sun! The old road is a low road, Along the river's bed, A winding thread of gravel, Gold brown, and yellow red: Great sycamoreg and willows Half shade its narrow track; Beyond lie valley corn lands, * Green plerced and velvet black. There, on hot August evenings, When silver vapors rise, They're hung wiht flitting lanterns 01 fairy firefiles, That shine against the elm treeg Down by the covered bridge, And glimmer in the red buds That top the hills' first ridge And violets, in April, Long-stemmed and rank and sweet, Make magic purple carpets = - To tangle gypsy teet--.. A lovely, lazy old road-- A road for loitering--- : A charmed, alluring old road, Bnow-hushed, or bright with spring-- Bome days I choose the new road-- Bome days I choose the old, Where river trees lay patterns . Of lapis on: sand gold-- ~Ethel Arnold Tilden in the Chita. ESSE fa I, Mother Has Twins Twice In Eleven Months C. Brown is twenty-two years of : age, and his wife twenty-five, They lve at Sutton road, Terrington St, Clements, Norfolk, Eng, They were _ married in May, 1982. Twins were born to them in Feb- ruary, 1938, and a second two babies| arrived in December, 1088, There is nd record of any twins "having been born in the Brown family before, Mr. Brown 18 one of seven children. Mus. Brown is. one of six, She ia a small woman and' weighs only 98 Ibs. A perambulator is being bought to hold the four children, It seems a fashion in the village to | have twins, Forty years ago one vil leger, Mrs. Kerman, had two sets of | twins within fourteen months, and ever since then thére has been an ex-| Yet there 5 are only 1,200 people in the village, - cessive number of twins, Telephone calls are avallalle from London to every Edropead country | With the exception of Albani, * mighty years of age got married. 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FREE BOOKLET--The new edition of the Gillett's Lye Booklet gives doz. ens of practical hints for saving time and work with this powerful cleanser and disinfectant; also contains full di- rections ' for soap making, thorough cleansing and other uses on the farm.. Address Standard Brands' Limited, Fraser Avenue&Liberty Street, Toronto, Ontario. GILLETT' EATS DIRT H . -Bigambous Man Liverpool, Eng,--"Bigamy is never 80 bad in the case of a woman as in that of a man,' said Mr, Justice Rigby Swift at Liverpool Assizes recently, "When a woman commits bigamy," he added, "the only harm done is that some man is disappointed with matri- monial life, When a man commits bigaiy it may be that some unhappy | woman-is ruined for life." The judge bound over a man ac- cused of bigamy. He sald that there were circumstances in his favor, "CHILDREN § + grow up only once. The health giving Vitaminsin | EMULSION 1 helps them grow; pro. tects them from disease) ~ makes strong bones od p 2 teeth EE | Charles | help." .|after a briet delay was ushered into "1 a custom introduced centuries ago to | Shakespeard's 'Henry the Eighth,' al- ways carries an orange for the same}f. -| a smal] bouquet of fresh flowers; this, .| ages from his works, Sir Henry says i matie critic and author of that sues Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous Not long before the the late Sir Henry Flelding Dickens--youngest son of Dickens~-retired from his judgeship at the Old Bailey, he invited | his Philadelphia friend, A. Edward] "| Newton, worthy Dickensian and jolly Johnsonian that he is, to sit on the the day before, Judge Dickens sald: "You mect me at a few minutes past {ten at the Sheriff's Entrance to the. Old Bailey. 1 shall be glad of your a = . Herbs In Court ] "1 was punctual to the stroke of ten," relates Mr. Newton (in "End Papers: Literary Recreations"), "and - a court room, took my place in a great armchair, .and began to look 'about me, The court room was crowd- ed. On the desk in front of me, on 3 | the carpet, and wherever they could} be lodged was a scattering of herbs, sweeten the air and reduce the chance of jail fever (Cardinal Wolsey, in reason). a LJ L] J Flowers "Presently Sir Henry entered, his horsehair wig hardly serving to give one of the most humune of men & ferocious aspect, His Worship carried with the scattered herbs, gave a sweet and fragrant atmospheré to the whole place. But there was another atmos- phere, even more important than the one occasioned by the herbs and flow- ers, which is never absent from an English courtroom--an atmosphere of justice and dignity, which is sadly lacking at our trials." Follows, an amusing--and a delight. fully Dickensian--account of Mr, New- ton's day on the Bench .at the Old Bailey, with plenty of "Your Worship's running through the dialogue, oF J o |e L 3 © Dickens' Humor' Speaking of Sir Henry Dickens, he was 21 years of age when his famous father passed on, 64 years ago come June 9 next. Recalling how his father taught him shorthand and helped him to 'work up his speed by dictating pass- (In "Memories of My Father"): "How well I remembér how he made me laugh. So much so, indeed, that '1 was soon reduced to a state of help- less imbecility, with the nelural con. sequence that when in the end, I had to tranacribe my notes, I found myselt confronted with an. immature collec. tion of undecipherable hieroglyphics. I doubt whether any student of short. 'hand was ever exposed to such a try- ing test as this." Card [) » * * Secretive Soul - 'he late George W. Zerkins, who got his partnership in .. P. Morgan and Company on the recommendation of Jamas Stillman, the hanker, used to relate an anecdote illustrating Still. man's incorrigible secrecy, says John K. Winkler (in "The First Billion: The Stillmans and the ...ational City Bank"--an epic of an epoch). Meet- ing Stillman one day, after the bank- 'er had returned from Europe, Perkins remarked: Aik "I gee you are back,"Mr. Stillman." Stillman 'looked at Perkins quizzl- cally without saying a word, "Oh, you needn't confirm ft, Mx, Stillman, you needn't confirm it," add- ed Perkins hastily. ® » a * To the Point One time Stillman and H. C. Frick --the !atter "as unccmmunicative and as hostile to public attention as was Stillman"--were in conference when a -artain financial writer begged a word as to their opinion of the busi. ness situation. They kept tLe gentle. man waiting an hour and then sent out this card: "The U.S.A, 1s a great and growing country. (Signed) Jas. Stillman, H, C. Frick, "This is confidential and not for pub- lication unless names are omitted." "This was about as much humor as Stililman--'Sunny Jim,' a witty Mor- gan partner: dubbed him--was ever known to display," adds Winkler, [] » w » Chicken Fancier When Madame Vandevelde, wife of the ' former Belgian statesman, was visiting the Pederewskis some years ago at their beautiful place on Lake Geneva, she discovered, in a rather surprising way, that Madame Padere- waki=who passed on the other day-- had a pession for chickens. At din ner, one evening, when all were dress. ed in their best, Madame Paderewski received a whispered message. In great excitement she called for her overalls and rushed out of the room. Paderewskl explained to his astonish. ed guests that some new kind of chicken' had- heen hatched out in the incubator, and that his wife simply had to be present on all such occa: sions, [ [] LJ . "If I'm Spared" - William Archer, distinguished dra: cessful play and "movie," "The Green Goddess," numbered Robert Louis Stevenson among his Intimate friends, SCOTT S 8 EMUL LSION G UCHAL TANT Thereby hangs this story R.L.8.)s mother told Archer of him when he was a child. It is In the biograpy of Archer by his brother, Charles Archer; "| Bench with him and uelp him try some cases. Making the appointment ----- and Austria, A German lookout post down in the snows of the high Zugspitze in: Bavaria, where a funnel forms the boundary line hetw een Germany a er, "used to be very pious, and was always saying, "If 'm spared' One day Louis was walking in the street with his father, and was explaining to. him some new phenomenon he had ob- served In the construction of the street lamps, 'I'll show you it when we come to the next lamppost,' he sald, 'if I am spared'." [J [ [J] LJ Started G. B. 8. . Another close friend of William Archer's was George Bernard Shaw. It was Archer who obtained for Shaw the post of art critic on Edmund Yates' celebrated weekly, "World"-- 0. which Archer vas dramatic critic at the time--and thus paved the way, more or less, for Shaw's success as a journalist. The story can best be told in Archer' own words: "The post of art critic of the 'World' fell vacant, and Edmund Yates asked me to undertake it. I told him I'knew nothing about painting: he said that did not matter. LJ LJ] LJ » ; Teuthful =! "I did the work laboriously and 'mn. famously for some weeks, until my conscience could endure it no longer. I then got Shaw to do a specimen article, which I sent to Yates, and thus easily secured him the post. Then the post of musical critic fell vacant, and I secured it for Shaw, by the sim. ple process of telling Yates the truth; namely, that he was at onca the most competent and the most brilliant writer on music then living in Eng- land!" a i .e ° L L] > Tactful There is'an amusing postcard from Shaw to William Archer, written Irom Stockholm, just after Shaw had visit ed Strindberg. The conversation 'con. sisted mainly 'of embarrassed sil- ences," reports G.B.S,, "and a pale smile or two by A. 8. (Strindberg), and floods of energetic eloquence in a fearful lingo, half French, halt Ger- man, by G. B. S. during which A. S. took out his watch and said, in Ger- man: 'At two O'clock I am going to be sick'." The visitor accepted this dellcate intimation, and withdrew, adds Shaw, en, Ld Shrinking Problem Under Survey London.--The greatest trouble with cotton and linen garments is their lia- bility to shrink in the wash. A new process claims t¢ eliminate shrinkage entirely so far as cotton and linen 'fabrics are concerned. Wool and other textiles are still in the experimental stage, = The process is one of 'mechanical compression, The cause of shrinkage is that the fibres of fabrics, in the process of manufacture, are under great tension from start to finish, If the result of this stretching can be re- duced before garments are made no further shrinkage need be feared, and this is what the new process accom plishes. Marked lengths of fabric, measured off before passing through the compression rollers, when re- measured after the process was com- plete showed a reduction in length of as much as 26in. Thus it will now be possible to put on the markets of the world cotton and linen garments and materials which can be certified un- shrinkable, emt imi "If you were to fite yourself, astride a projectile, straight out into space, turn to your starting point."--Albert Einstein. -- THAT DEPRESSED FEELING IS LARGELY LIVER Wake up your Liver Bile ~Without Calomel You are Wierd 1 punk' simply because your EE " bd te srry | "Hig nurge," chuckled R68. moths on America's camp, very emphatic that she was more at- in a few million years you would re-|: ---- Modern Girl Gets Her Innings College Heads Say She Has a Much Saner Attitude To- wards Real Values of Life Than the Girls of Previous Genera- tions Cleveland.--Leaves from a dean of women's notebook: The girl of to- -day frankly admits she would like to get married, whereas the old-fashioned girl shyly declined to confess the am- bition. - To-day's young woman looks on marriage as a partnership: Her count- erpart of a generation or two ago con- sidered it (frankly) an economic need. And the marriageable girl of 1934 is a good deal more serious-minded than her sister of even 10 years ago. That, rnyway, is the gist of a serles of comments by three well-known deans of women who were here re- cently for the convention of the United States Education Association's depart- ment of super-independenco, Maybe Depression Helped . Dean Agnes Harris of the University of Alabama, who is president of the National Association of Deans of Wo- men; Miss Harrfet M. Allyn, academic dean of Mount Holyoke, and Dean Margaret S. Morriss of Pembroke Col: lege were as one in appraising the girls- under their surveillunce, The three did not want to say the 1934 edition of the girl graduate was better or worse, artistically, morally or spiritually, than her predecessors but they were tractive, had less false modesty and was more sensible," Life, . they agreed, had done some. thing 'to the girl student in the last few years, Perhaps her parents had a bit of rough going during the de- pression, and the girl, sensing her re- | sponsibilities, has accepted her share of the work, As Miss Harris put it, she has found 'a much saner attitude toward the real values of life." ° . 'o* "Every big war has been followed by a. perfod of liberalism, a period of financial depression, a period of men- tal and moral conservatism'--Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, "HERE ARE THE USUAL SIGNS OF ACID STOMACH BeecsenssERETAR RETIRE RIP ARRNRSISRRRRE ay Neuralgia Feeling of Weakness : Headaches Mouth Acidity Nausea Loss of Appetite Indigestion Sour Stomach Nervousness Sleeplessness Auto-intoxication WHAT TO DO FOR IT TAKE--2 teaspoonfuls of Phillips' Milk of Mag- nesia in a glass of water every morring when you . 1 up. Take another "teaspoonful "30 minutes after eating. And another before you go to bed. ¢ OR--Take the new Phillips Milk of Magnesia lets -- one tatlet for each teaspoonful, as di. rected above, 'If you have Acid Stomach, don't worry about it, Follow the, simple directions given above. This small dosage of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia acts af once to neutralize the acids that cause headache, stomach pains and other distress, Try it. You'll feel 2 like a new person. But--be careful you get genuine Phillips® Milk of agnesia, or Phillips Milk of Magnesia Tablets when you buy=25c and 50¢ sizes. ALSO IN TABLET FORM Each giny vale otal ec uine Phillips' ) MADR iN CANADA ia Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Lyd The Printer's Error The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly, You can hunt until you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by, Till the forms are off the presses, it is strange how still it keeps, It shrinks down into a corner, and ft never stirs or peeps, That typographical error, too small for human eyes, Till the ink is on the paper, when it grows to mountain size, The boss, be stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The copy reader drops his head upon his hands and groans-- The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be, But that typographical "error is the only thing you see. We used to gather gapingly on the street corner when we listened to a medicine show. Now we can hear {it any time by sitting down comfortably near the fire and turning on the radio. Old Lady--"Why is it you are al- ways begging?" Tramp--"Well, ma'am, 'twas this way. I was given a bum start, When I was a baby, a girl shoved me around in a carriage for five dollars a week, and I've been pushed for money every since." : Truth in itself is a very fine thing, but far too many persons make a habit of telling the truth only when it hurts somebody -else, A certain man was recently talking about the annual statement of a cer- tain well-known local company. "The man who wrote that," he sald, 're- minds me of a window cleaner who was doing his work when a very loud crash brought the owner of the office into the room, "What was that?" he asked. "Ladder slipped, boss." "Have you broken the window?" "No, not all of it." There was a time when, if a boy kissed a girl she stayed kissed--but now he's lucky if she stays married after he marries her, Frlend--"Everything is going up." Poet--"Yes; only yesterday a lady offered me a nickle for one of my thoughts." We may feel sorry for the man who loaned more money on a piece of pro- perty than it would or could ever pay --but that's about as far as we can go. A lady entered a train and sat in a car containing a solitary man, The Man (politely)--"Pardon miss--"" The Lady--*"If you speak or annoy me, I'll pull the train cord." Every time he attempted to speak he met the same rebuff. At last the train slowed to a _stop,. nd the polite man arose to his feet. The Man--"[ don't care whether you like it or not, but I want that bag of strawberries you've been sitting on for the last twelve miles." me, If no couple really got married until they were actually prepared financial ly for the responsibilities of wedlock, ninety-five per cent. of the couples who are pairing off to mate would have to change their plans and remain single. -Arthur--"Dancing is in my blood, you know." Girl--"Then you must have very poor blood circulation. It hasn't reach- ed your feet yet." Girls. (to her sweetie)--""Do you re- member when you were first struck by my looks?" Boy Friend--"I think it was at the masked ball," Brown--"So you think that liquor stimulates the imagination?" wife imagines all sorts of things about me." First Shoplifter--"Does your sister still 'go in for shoplifting now she's married to a very rich man?" Second Shoplifter--"Na, she's rich enough to be a kleptomaniac." Just as everything comes off as ex. JTRS ER Mrs. Roosevelt Instals ~ Shooting Gallery Washington.--A shooting gallery is reported to have been installed in the White House at the instance of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, It is understood the range will be used for pistol practice. The wife of the United States President {s known to be a skillful shot and to carry a pistol with her on motor trips, She ! is on such a trip now, but'her itinerary has not been announced. The gallery is sald to be a long metal tunnel, properly safeguarded against bullets going wild. 4 \ If you have never t it Joow at our expense, We. burg distributed a great many special GIANT " packages which it sary bor yout to prove our claims for .Gems from Life's Scrap-Book Rest "God giveth quietness,"--Whittier. "Absence of occupation is not rest. --Cowper, "The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work,"--Mary Baker Eddy. "Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee."--St. Auguitine, "It 1s not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehen sion of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in the taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.""--F. W. Robertson. 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