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kd oe" ri Dr RPS Ps SA a Sr > A 3 2 he 5 . oe : nis : SN Fm vir SE 2 Rar re NA Br Ee "CANADA THE EMPIRE THE WORLD 'AT LARGE ge CANADA - PLACE OF THE SHINE: An omployer can judge 'an appli «cant for a job by hoting where the shine is -- on the shoes or the seat of the pants. -- Woodstock Sentinel. Review, . FIRST MOTOR CARS The first automobile owner in Can. ada was a resident of Hamilton, a native of Malahide, Sir William Mu- lock was the first pioneer of gasoline machines built in Canada. He order- 'ed six motor tricycles. and quadra- cycles for the use of the Post Office Department and "soon the streets of Toronto were frantic with the chuck- ing of these red machines." -- St. Thomas Times-Journal, 'TIS A WORTHY PLACE The rise of Stratford in the realm of baseball is one of the phenomena of the age. And to choosg a shin. ing mark like St. Thomas showed an audacity that had much to do with our neighbor's success. Next thing we will be hearing that the Classic City has developed a football team. ~--St. Thomas Times-Journal, ° CURIOSITY SATISFIED Princess Oftaboni reported to the police at Montreal her purse had been stolen, and it contained $320. Ot course, that't too bad, but at the same, "time it satisfies a ceriain curiosity we have always posse:rsed to know how much a princess carried in her purse. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald,' THAT PRETTY TEACHER The superintendent of schools in Rockford, 111, announces that he will engage nothing but good-looking teachers in future. We used to think there was a pretty teacher on the tenth concession, but there was al- ways a mean look in her eye and a certain frigidity in her voice when she said something about siaying in after four.. -- Stratford Beacon- Ilerald. d - ODD BOOK MARKERS A librarian in Manchester makes known some of the «things which he finds used as-book markers in the vol- umes which are re:urned. They in- clude needles, safety pins, pleces ot wire, love.letters, pieces of biscuit and slabs of bacon. . What, we wonder, was wrong with the pieces of .bacon 'that they were put to such use? And what if some swain left a love-letter from a girl and the book was next taken out by a rival? Zowie! -- St. Thomas Times- Journal. MONTREAL'S HORSES One of the beautiful sights in the City of Montreal is the horse-drawn vehicle -- provided always that it is conducted by a. driver who has a re- spect fcr his horse. The horse goes proudly forwar,d with his ears set to ca ¢h the noises that come from in front. becaus2 he has no fear of the men with the reins. One of, tire ugly . sights in the city is the horse with his ears trained back fer fear of what may be coming from the man with tie reins. We occupy a city that is one of the las. :trongholds of the horse. We have some charming, happy hors- es, and if we want to keep them, we had better see that we keep them with their ears expectant for what is in front and fearless of what is be- hind. -- Montreal Star.o iy: IN THE SUBLIME A speaker at the American So- ciety of Sanitation Engineers' con- vention asserted that in time every bedroom everywhere will have its own bathroom. The idea is in the nature of the sublime and at lea-t is calculated to encourage the plumber, or rather the sanitary engineers. -- Montreal Gazette. ' EASIER You see, it's easier- to mortgage the home to buy a car than to mor- tgage the car top buy a home. --- Bran- don un. GOOD IN WORST OF MEN A group of men, Will Rogers among them, sat through a long evening .in the lobby of a hotel in the Cuban capital, and in the course of the con- versation several famous political figures in Europe and America were mentioned with disparagement by one member or another of the group. In- variably it turned out that Rogers knew the man mentioned and had found something attractive about him. Finally he admitted with a grin: "I just can't seem to dislike anybody I ever met. If I want to' hate him, I've got to stay away from him." Charles Lamb had the same chor. asteristic, "Don't you hate that man?" someone rok d him on one occasion, But Ilia took his head. "How can | hots Bim?" he asked simply. "I know him." ' There are some men, like Rogers and Lamb, who have the actuteness | i to see the altractive- qualities that lie in everydne, often under: a cove ering of: very unatiuractive scurt, Most people, however, are sugpicious and take longer to. get acquaiited. They are like the twe London finan. cial men in one of the Bab Ballads. Every reader of Gilbert will recall how these two men, the bitterest of ene. mies, went on an excursion together and were the sole survivors when their ship "Wan, wrecked on a desert island, Gilbert "dsscribes the trans. formation thus: in communi:y of wrongs. They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs. They told each other anecdotes db:paraging their wives, On ceveral occasions, 00, saved each other's lives, -- Vancouver Province, - THE EMPIRE THE EMPIRE'S OPEN SPACES : The point raised frequently in the they "They soon became like brothers |: ¥ "factory smokestacks. 100 foot high locks used in floating her, clustered on her bottom like a group of Win be The Konig Albert, German battleship scuttled: by her crew in Scapa Flow in ~ 1919, is pictured as she is towed to port after being raised from the bottom by Scottish salvagers. [] tour of the Empire delegates is that of the undeveloped Imperial estates. Canada's population is in the neigh. bounrhood of 10,000,000; Australia over six and a quarter million; South At. rica, 7,000,000 (1,700,000 willtes); and New Zealand about one and a halt millions (Including 66,0000 Maors). | One or two of the Dominions have their -own special .problems ----- that of Ausiralia with its great empty spaces, and that of South Africa with its millions of natives. Probably the case of Australia is the most serious, for at no great -distance from the shores 'of the Commonwealth is mili- P-- In Ottawa | A "OTTAWA,--Prime Minister Ben- nett last Friday evening lit the fuse to fire the first big gun in the Feeder- al Conservative election campaign. Speaking to a radio audience over a nation.wide hook-up, Mr, Bennet covered a lot of ground in thirty min- utes, taking a fraction -of that time to defend his administration's en- tary Japan, with a population cal'- ing for ou.lets. The pride of Australia Is its white population. It is not be- ing reinforced. Indeed, there has been' a standstill in the British Commbn. wealth which has intensified the un- employment problem in the Old Coun- try. An Australian. speaker in Glas: gow put his firger on the weak spot in. his country, He said that they themselves had - 30,000 unemployed and it would be unfair to ask British people to come out and swell that number. Instead of British people g0- ing to the overseas Dominions, many have returned home. Two things are certainly needed to bring about a real revival in Great Britaln -- 'a great development of- the British Common. wealth and real. stimulus to world trade, -- Edinburgh Evening News. SLANG AND "AMERICANISMS" Slang is many things; satisfaction of need, asser.ion of vigour, defiance of ~authoriiy, friendly intimacy -- most moods and situations and ex- periences produce some. English must not only borrow--when in its long history did it refuse to borrow ?--but it is becoming a basic duty for the Briton to get on close terms with the racy speech of America's plains and cities, or else how will he understand O. Henry and others, or follow Ho!- lywood's flicks? "The English langu- age," writes Mr. A. Lloyd James in a book we referred to some days ago, "is a very much more widespread language than the world has yet seen in its history, and the first thing the English--peakng peoples have to learn is that there are many good ways of speaking it." Calcutta Statesman. ! TRICK CYCLISTS -- A TRAFFIC PROBLEM The traffic problem of Hong Kong has always been the subject of much discussion. We refer now to the sec- tion of the community more common- ly known as "trick cyclists," and it may be said without exaggeration that these cyclists are a constant source of danger to the community 'in general. It may not be known that these cyclisis are, most of them, merely beginners and the danger of learning how to ride a bicycle along roads that are being constantly used by motor trafic may readily be ap- preciated by even tliose~with the dullest imagination. Along crowded places Hke the Wanchat district, this menace is even more pronounced, The cyclists all hive the knack of {ndulg- ing in their acrobatics In the even- ings-when most of the people are out of doors, and' especially in the hot weather, when joy-riders are more freely indulged in, the trick cyclists make themselves publi¢ nuisances of the highest order. Hong Kong Daily Press, ¢ THD QUALITY OF MERCY Time and time again some private mechanical injustices of a Penitaps | too complicated system of justice. Consider the action of Lady Wels gall, who wired £10 to secure the re. person steps forward to mitigate the deavour tp negotiate a- satisfactory trade agreement with the United | States, and al.o to drop a hint that]. a very important announcement con. cerning ihat matter would he shortly forthcoming. It could be taken from the Premier's address that realiation of the importance of such a treaty had not just dawned upon the Con. servative party. Since the United Sta'es Congress had vested the presi. dent' with power to enter into trade treaties, the Bennett administration had been dickering with the Republic to the south. . Mr. Bennett also made an an- nouncement last week. concerning the 50 per cent. ad valorem surtax im. posed by Japan upon certain Canad- ian goods entering that country. Canada is not going to bow to the will 'of Jana by any means, and if the gurtax is not removed, then Canada will do the one logical thing--secede from the terms of the Anglo-Japan- ese commercial treaty. If that course is finally taken then the- Dominion would be free to take such other steps as the national interest may require, The Anglo-Japanese com- mercial trealy has regulated trade between Canada and Japan since May, 1913. The Dominion regards the Japanese surtax as discriminatory action against Canadian goods. How- ever, Canada is earnestly hopeful that the government.of Japan may yet be persuaded of the justness of the position taken by the Canadian governmen: and will take steps to remove the surtax and make it pos- sible to attain a friendly settlement of the present controversy. In its talks with Japan, the Canadian goy- ernment 'reminded that couny of the very substantial concessions ac- corded to imports from Japan by re- ducing. the exchange duty: which made full allowances for the extent to which the competitive advantage arising from the deprecia- tion of Japanese exchange had been offset by the relative increase in the price level in Japan. : With election day not so very far away, voters naturally are' thinking of the march tp the poll: It may be to some advantage 0 them to know that a.number of changes have taken place in the election law. Heretofore, in rural polls, a person who = was known to be eligible as a: voter but whose name was not on the list, could vote by making an attidavit. This, no longer is. possible. If he is not on: the lists he cannot vote on October 14. Another innovation con- sists in provision for absentee voters. Fishermen, lumbermen, sailors and miners who are on the list for a certain constituency but away from it on election day can go to a polling booth where they are, fill out a bal- lot and have it sent to their own home to be counted. This is possible only within a province. An Ontario man, absent in Quebec for instance, could not have his ballot sent home. Another new provision {3 that every voter--urban or rural--is to be noti- fied by the returning officer as to the precise location of the poll at which he is to vote. Heretofore the parties have done it, : Ontario tobacco growers, through a local scheme approved by the Do- minion Marketing Board, may expect to see stabilization of prices in the very near future. The scheme applies to Burley tobacco, and is another of the many that have helped producers of other commodities in the past. By negotiations between producers and buyers, the tobacco industry will no doubt benefit to a great extent. I'DLKETOBEA COUNTRY DOCTOR Famous Writer Chooses Pro- fession That Would Appeal . Most To Him If The Clock \ Could Be Put Back Fifty \ Years, I'have seen a good many men in my time, writes H. de Vere Stacpoole in the London Morning Post, includ- ing emperors and kings (at a dis- tance), world-famous artists, poets, philosophers and | politicians, and looking back on the lot, trying to determine| which of them was 'most really successful in the only art worth considering as an absolute as- set to its practitioner--the are of being happy--I find myself at fault, I turn them over till I come to the doctors, and the doctors till I come on a funny old figure in a top hat for whom I have been, perhaps, Subédnsciously hunting. It is Docetor John Townsend of Penfield in Zum- merset, He's the mad, | 'Honestly, I almost believe that, if the clock were put back fifty years, the humanity of a gracious lady It leage from prison of a Birmingham labourer who had been |committed because his eldest son had broken bail. A wife and eight children de.' pended on this man; but officla'dom: takes no account of such matters, Its fron heel stamps blindly. nd But for Uo : might have stamped this family into destitution, We plead guilty to senti- ment in 'the matter. We hold the tender heart is not the least assat of civilised society, -- "London Sunday Referee. SE Akay en aad the curtain rung down and the Great Dramatist should say to me, "I am re-casting this play, what will you be? Here's the lot---emperors, poets, politicians and dustmen, take your choice;" if '1 were to say, -"I just want to be This," he would reply, "And maybe you are right." The Old Fashioned Kind Townsend--the name is. fictitious-- was the typical old-fashioned country doctor. He had no saloon car; cars were coming in just as he was going out; anyhow he would not have used a saloon--he liked weather, Two horses and an old gig served him for 'his work, and the radius of his prac- tice, compared with the radius of the country practices of today, was very limited. iW : His house, with its rose garden, is, I imagine, no longer used by a doc- tor, That is one of the melancholy changes the motorcar -has brought about; for the country practitioner now generally lives in a town and swoops an his prey, regardless of dis- tance, at the call of the telephone and with the speed of a hawk, Yet what a pleasant house it was, espe- cially when seen in summer with the roses in bloom and the apples ripen- ing. in the little orchard. : hé roses Were Amongst his pa- tients, for he was a keen gardener, and he visited them every morning in summer and autumn before start- ing off "to visit other patients, mot roses--no, not roses by any means-- humans, and very human at that; mostly cottagers and small farmers, with a sprinkling of tradesmen; the parson and his family; the squire's Vservants and retainers, and the ; 1 a, 1 compensation | "motor gogles on motorcycles, squire himself when brought "back from the hunting field on a hurdle or when port wine had laid him out with the gout. ; ; All these were the doctor's family --he was a bachelor--and with the roses, the "Morning Post," "Punch," his pipe, a book and an occasional rubber of whist at the rectory, they pretty well made up his life. A life undisturbed by sound of telephone bell or hoot of motor horn. : Wore A Top Hat He nearly always wore a top hat-- think of that, ye medical spectres in who think nothing cf a fifty mile journey before lunch--and he wore it on his rounds, or sonietimes even: in. his surgery as he stood with it tilted back, his pipe in his mouth, unpack- ing bottles from a crate or marking items in a drug list. It was the sym- bol of his relationship with his wide- spread family and so regarded by ' ' them. REC Without it I think he would have lost half his power to heal, despite the power of his drugs--and such drugs! Real old Victoria knights in armor led . by Brigadier - General Prussic Acid, ably followed, under the banner of the old Pharmacopoeia, by those doughty warriors; Strych- nine, Tartar Emetic, | Laudanum, Aconite, Hyoscyamus, Salicylate of Soda, Calomel and Jalap. No. finick- ing coaltar products, no pilules, Pills the size of pistol bullets and boluses the size of bombs--nearly. With this horse, foot and artillery he fought the Great War--I mean the. Great Influenza Epidemic of the year--when Whs it? -- and many a lesser war with voctories forgotten and unrecorded on his tombstone, 'which stands a bit crooked and a bit weathered in the pleasant little churchyard of Penfield. Battles with the Guardians over extra relief for Officer over the same sort of thing; battles with 'Stupidity as when one of his sheep-faced flock would swal- low a liniment instead .of a mixture, or a whole box of pills on the prin- ciple'that thirty would do thirty tim- es as much good as one; all these minor engagements if they did not as vents for a none too perfect temper that, however, black in- gratitude--in the form of unpaid bills--left undisturbed. You, see, he was a shepherd, not a sheepshearer, and if not blind to values was sometimés blind to value, as when, for instance, a scraggy old goose would be -brought to him at Christmas time and accepted, instead of the settlement of jan unpaid bill. Income tax a shilling in the pound, tobacco fourpence an ounce; hedged and bird-haunted highways and by- ways instead of tar-macadamised shambles, no petrol pumps, more a far away and. unfearful picture -- these and 'many other '= attractions would induce one to take a long holi- day in the far away land of old Dr. Townsend. "But," you will say, "to be him, to lead his life; surely you don't mean--" .. ; Well, maybe I don't, maybe I do. Anyhow, the thing would be 'next to impossible for you and®me, for it would imply the art of doing pretty much the same thing day after day as full and busy life without fussing over it, of doing good without desire or hope of reward. A complex art, ven rarer today than the almost lost art of thatching. another doctor practising in the Pen: field district, John Fry, the thatcher. He only attended roofs. Seventy years of age whenl knew him, he ad brought into the world all the lovely old thatched roofs of Festa and was attending them in theif last illnesses. The place is slated 'now, 1 hear, with council houses coming into being--ruined more effectively {up the attention, even when little is 'ftions for the Moslem couple whose | ful and valuable presents, He had |* It may bé the wisdom of the West || bride's trousseau, so that not till yp ------ i 5 4 Le (London Times.) * known "to "complain that marriage has tended to distract their minds from business and even to divide their attention. This may not matter s0 much when the marriage is hap- py, but unhappy marriages also take actually thrown, . : J So there may well be congratula- married lifesshas just come to an end, It was not happy, but neither was it long, being, in fact, under rather than over the hour. The quarrel began as soon as the knol was tied, because it was the bride's idea to go shopping straight away, and the bridegroom had apparently said things before marriage, imply- ing that his first and gayest actions in the married state would be to buy his bride all manner of delight. not really meant this, and high words followed, ending, st a dress- maker's, in a return to the registrar and a request for a swift cancella- tion of the marriage. : that, attaches such importance to a well after the honeymoon will the dressmaker's shop be able to loom large, It is explained that relatives and friends desire to give the mar- riage time 'to take root, and it is undoubtedly true. that people who give "wedding presents like mar- riages to last a reasonable time, at any rate until the presents are broken'or pawned, fi a ~ Yet it cannot be pretended that there would be "gratitude for the wise and helpful giver who an- nounced that his presents would |: mature year by year, and that he for his part was not in favor of prizes in advance. The presents trade at any rate will be quick to deny the parsimonious logic which}: says presents must be given either now or in the future, and will de- mand that' "and" 'be read instead of "either . .- , or. i 3 Unless: exception be made for Dunmow flitches and a. few similar bequests involving public competi- tion, the powerful lever of the pres- ent is not used until 26 years have passed, - Cotton and wood weddings, which come much earlier, have some- how never caught on, and Lancashire and the timbered Empire should turn their attention to the opening that exists for a skilful advertising campaign. : ~ Keen business men. have been | ative if properly done. ribs outside, ,and tie firmly. Serve Planked. Chops Or A Crown Roast, Followed By A (reamy Peach Mousse. - [Most cooks {like preparing 'meals ot for 'men because there's some sub-- stance.to the things they like. And because; too, they don't bother aboyt diets and fads. = Aart A favorite dinner with men cen tres around thick mutton chops, | planked. For these, you need loin chops off yearling lambs. det the butcher to take out the bone in one piece and put strips of bacon or the lamb'! kidneys in the centre of the meat and roll it up. Fasten it securely with small skew- ers or bind with a cord, then. cut into slices about one and one-half inches thick and wrap each slice with' a strip -of bacon or larding pork. Allow one chop for each person to be served, : TO 'PLANK CHOPS To plank, first boil the chops on one side only on a hot, well-oiled broiler. In the meantime heat the plank very hot and rub it with but- ter or other fat. Place chops, cook- 'ed side down, on the plank and ar- range stuffed tomatoes or stuffed peppers or both around the chops and put the whole thitig into a very hot oven finish copking. Serve on the plank, seasoning the chops well and. garnishing with. sprigs of parsley and sprays~-of watercress,. Potatoes au gratin'aréigbod to serve with this meat, 1f you use both . tomatoes and 'peppers, ; the peppers with succotash and the tomatoes with a mixture of celery and almonds, . Braised saddle' of lamb is a good dish, too. Serve it with fresh vege-. tables and mint sauce, A crown roast of lamb is decor- Usually the entire cut known as the rack is used for it and the roast is suitable for a company affair. With its filling it will serve eight or ten persons gen- erously and well. The ribs are sep- arated at the back bone and then trimmed and scraped as for French chops. Shape-in a circle, having the Trim the ends of the bones evenly, care being 'taken that they are not! too long. Wrap each bone with a thin strip of salt pork to prevent the bone from burning. FILL WITH CHOPPED MEAT Fill the centre with finely chopped add a zest to life, at any rate serve{' ' paupers, battles with the Relieving| | Satin Is In! ~ ' without 'tiring of the job, of leading | hich reminds me that there wag; of pattern wanted, Black and white -- lot of it is of the day, too! ; This simple smart dress tas orginally in black and white, as of satin with a velveteen ow posed at the shoulder. . Wool-like silk, woolen novel. ties, satin-back silk, 'etc, would also be good to carry out this sinyle to sew model, Style No. 3349 is designed for 'sizeg 16, 18 years, 36, 88 and 40- fithes bust, Size 16 requires 3% 'yards of 86-inch material with % ard of 86.inch contrasting and 0 'yard of 86-inch lining sleeve, th = 5] HOW, TO ORDER. PATTERNS. rite your name .and address plainly, giving, number and size netose 16¢ in stamps: or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully, and address your. * order. to Wilson Pattern Service, than Pompeii. Nh Ta 3 7 wr | 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. lamb--trimmings from the roast-- and finely chopped veal mixed with a little salt pork for flavor. Add a well beaten egg and mix thorough- ly. Round the filling up, letting it come within two inches of the tops of the rib bones. = Roast two 'and one-half to three hours in a moder- rate oven, Remove salt pork and cover bones with chop frills before sending to the table. . "PEACH MOUSSE ~ One cup whipping cream, 1 tea- spoon gelatin (granulated), 2 table- spoons cold water, 4 tablespoons hot water, % cup sugar, 1% cups peach pulp, few grains salt. ; Soak gelatin in cold water and _ dissolve in hot water. 'salt and gelatin to peach pulp and mix * thoroughly, © Let stand until cool and fold into cream which has been whipped until firm. "Turn into-- mold or freezing tray and freeze. If frozen in a freezer, pack in six- parts ice to one part ice cream salt and freeze without stirring. |The Open Window | I love: the flowery curtains all flut. tering in the breeze : And dappled by the: sunshine coming 'through the swinging trees; Ilove the open window with'a glimpse of sunny sky, 4 * dancing butterfly; Oh! _TI love the open window, with lupin pink and blue; Si I. nod a friendly greeting when the. gun is shining through! / |11ove the open wihdow with the rozes all" ablow ° And the ivy and _the jasmine a-nod. ding to and fro; 4 : I live to watch a spider or to trace i what Paris does for every hour A. g*gfeaming thread, 'And find him in a web of pearls bes .- E + SF 7 Jt Oh! I love the open window when the" hind a garden bed; lilacs wet with dew, When the morning's full of glory and "the sun is shining through! I love the open window, and when I'm iider stil, ~~ And the room js full ¢! shadows, dark and damp and chill; © When I'm tired and svorn with trys ing, and my heart is full of 'pain; When all my castles wonderful have tumbled down again, ! 1 will never loge my. courage, . for ops there's one thing I can do,-- I will open wide my window and let the sunthine 'through! ar --PEmily Sandeman ESET age By 4 » no ' 73 Add sugar, stuff A velvet lawn, a blaze of flowers, a - Ln dak