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| 'HE WORLD . |"AT LARGE THE EMPIRE | | . CANADA GAS BILLS The Dominion Bureau of Statistics yeports that during 1985 gasoline sales in the Dominion totalled 534, 782,018 gallons and that Ontario ac- counted for 48 per cent of the pur- ~ chasing, with Quebec next, 17.4 per cent. Any motorists who think that all the tax levies go to the upkeep of roads have another think coming. ~-- Brantford Expositor. THIRTY MILLION IN SMALL CHANGE Over $30,000,000 in Canadjan coins have been turned out and placed if circulation by the Royal .Canadian Mint. The commonest coin is the one-cent piece, of which over 279 million have been struck, There are over 90 million five-cent pieces, 86 million 10-cent pieces, 44 million quarters, and five million half-dol- lars scattered throughout the world. In April, 1935, 428,120 Canadian gilver dollars were minted, of which 417,760 were issued, but not many of those are in circulation, most of them being kept as souvenirs or 'keepsakes. Another uncommon Can- adian coin is the silver twenty-cent plece. They are seldom seen now- adays but there are 46,000 in circu- lation.--Canada Week by Week, KING OF WHEAT The grand champion of the world's grain conference in Regina, in 193% - has been crowned Wheat King for 1935. The new distinction came at the International Livestock Exposi- tion's 17th annual grain and hay show at Chicago. The winner is W. Frelan Wilford, grain farmer * of Stavely, Alberta. s Lif Reward wheat," with which he car- ried off the honors, including sub- stantial cash awards offered by Ca- nadian farm organizations, was de- veloped by the 'Canadian Govern- ment in 1928, since which time it has won the world's championship every year except in 1931, when the honors. went to Herman Trelle of __ Wembly, Alberta; with a sample of Duram. The winning variety this year weighed 66.6 pounds to the bushel. The crown was won in competition with thirty-five states, seven Can- adian provinces and eight samples from New South Wales, Australia. Wilford's victory, moreover, gave the Canadian growers 52 out of the 87 prizes awarded by the judges. The runner up for the capital award was another Canadian, William Rog- ers, of Tappen, B.C. He exhibited Durum of the Mindum variety, which weighed 65.4 pounds to .the bushel. A third Canadian Walter Nagel, of Fisherville, in Haldimand County, Ontario, won the blue rib- bon for white winter wheat. The three Canadians who thus upheld the credit of Canada in wheat-grow- ing are to be congratulated, and so is Canada.--Toronto Mail and Em- pire. : . MARRIAGE We get out of marriage just about what we put into it. ADVERTISING An important statement was made Jast week at a conference in New York city 'of the representatives of associated business papers. Ernest C. Hastings, editor of Dry Goods Eco: fomist, declared that the daily news- paper was the dominant force in bringing buyers into retail stores. Department stores spent -approxi- mately $160,000,000 last © year for newspaper advertising, he said, twice as much as was spent in other forms of advertising. 'Newspapers always _ have been and always will be the dominating force to bring people /in- to the store," Hastings said. "With- out local papers, the department and dry goods stores of this . country would soon become as dead as a Borgue.~5t, Catharines Standard. ; t] FAKES : We have a news story from New York which complains bitterly abput ~ the number of titled Europeans now kicking 'around the Anierican metro- polis and causing no end of embar- rassment to honest folk who are not 'accustomed to their ways. For lin- stance, it is highly mortifying, we "learn, for an American to give a dime to a hat check girl and then find' out that she is a Russian-coun- tess. Also it is destructive to "the easy. camaraderie of the republic to ~ have citizens overawed by doormen ~ who have been grand dukes and wait- ers who have been 'barons. We ~ would hazard a guess, then, that wholesale leg-pulling is going on in ew York. We would like to bet at a good 90 per cent, of the mis and dukes and princes who doors, check hats, drive taxis, ¢nees and nibble hands in New rk are just plain fakes.--Vancou- EW FABRIC as given a new fabric to As a result of experi rch workers a cloth, texture as well eather, has Dominion spruce | Iwood. It is expected that the new cloth will not only provide abundant opportunities for punsters, but that with its further perfection the for- est resources of Canada will be con- siderably enhanced pire Review, OLD MAN EXPERIENCE Experience is the best teacher, an old adage declares, but the cost of- tentimes: comes high. This is par- ticularly true of the mistaken policy of settling the areas of persistent sub-normal moisture. in south-east- ern Alberta. That error cost all too many farm families precious years of life, besides the lack of success, the loss of governments, both ipro- vincial and federal. Now an effort is being made to restore the dried out 'areas to ranch land as they were for untold centuries before the com- ing of the white man, This is not an easy task, but the Dominion Farm Rehabilitation Act set up a commissien to further the work. Re- grassing wi be undertaken and the range held for - livestock pasture.-- Calgary Herald. BACK TO GRASS Large areas in southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan are being reverted to grass land under the Dominion Government's drought rehabilitation plan. Experience has taught a slern. lesson in these areas, and a costly one. Settlers in the past thirty years have been permitted to break up Jjarge tracts of light soil in districts where the normal rain- fall is insufficient to grow crops. This large-scale error has cost many farm families precious years of life. It has cost millions in cash expend- ed in the form of relief, and it has brought large losses through the building of towns and services which must now be re-adapted to a more permanent utilization of the land.-- Winnipeg Tribune. AIR HOSTESSES Seven domestic air lines in the United States employ a total of one hundred and ninety-seven young wo- men as hostesses. Each of the air lines--has--received--thousands--of--ap- plications for hostess positions, and air hostesses for American Airlines besides being registered = nurses, must know at least one foreign lan- guage--Canadian Aviation. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE TEN GRAND? . + Prosperity is no longer 'just around the corner" in the United States. If we may judge by appear- ances it has actually arrived. The sad cra of "Brother, can you spare a dime?" is past. For eighteen months Americans have listened witl a sense of envy to stories of recov- ery in Great Britain. Now they are celebrating their own recovery. They are spending money once more. This is. attested most impressively by their night life. In all their big 'cit- ies long queues may be seen outside the theatres and cinemas. Hotels, so long deserted, are crowded. So are the new stream-lined and air-condi- tioned trains.--W. F. Bullock in London Mail. - FAIR WARNING TO MONTREA At opposite ends of the earth new steps in the development of Brit. ish commercial -air routes are being taken. The message of our corres- pondent at Ottawa hints at the im- portance of the discussions, in which Great Jritain, Canada, Newfound- land,Cand the Irish Free State will take part, over the proposal for an Atlantic air service. . . The decis- ions . taken now may determine the main outlines of other services which will have to be set up during the next quarter of a century. What happened in the early days of the railways is in process -of happening on the air routes, Once an air route is established, it is a matter of in- convenience and expense to divert it. The great city which misses its chance today to place itself, on a great air route may have the ut- most difficulty ten years hence in recovering a lost opportunity. That fact is perhaps as fully appreciated in Canada as in any part of the world, . . All the signs at present point to Montreal as the focal point of .the first Atlantic services; and the fact that the forthcoming dis- cussions are being held in Ottawa may perhaps be taken to mean that Canada "has suggestions to make, and is prepared to do her full share in promoting a set of arrangements which would rmake her part of the main aifway soon to encompass the world.--London Times. THE BARNYARD PIONEER The chicken of 1898, and we men tion this in order to be fair, scratch- ed its own living from the soil and was, perhaps, a bit thin from chas- ing grasshoppers and toiling from dawn to dark trying to scratch earth worms from heavy clay loam, It earned its own living, hid its eggs under brush heaps, while its pam- pered descendants of today are fed from silver spoons. So one looks back on the hen of fifty years ago 43 rs a in value.--Em-| Elliot Roosevelt, son of the President, with buffalo he bagged She private preserve of Frank Phillips, kla. Head will be mounted for the with one shot during hunt on oil magnate, at Bartlesville, President. / [roi | get your attention. | late, and when it fails her callers |lady was to go out to dinner with a ry week we know of =n callers who come to see you. They never jangle the thell--they don't take up your whole day trying to o it in a way that is most consider- ate of your privacy and your conven. paper! * In this way you have only to list- en to those you know at a glance have something that interests you. They make it short, too, so you can gather quickly just what you want to know. You ean receive and hear them all without noise or confusion in a very few minutes. In fairness to yourself look over all the advertisements. The small- est and the largest -- 'you never gan be: sure which one will tell some- thing you really want to know. Real Tussle Word has been received about a young lady who has an apartment in a brownstone in East Fortieth street, on the third floor. The door bell that connects with her 'apart- ment hasn't been working well of are dependent on the whims of a caretaker, who is rarely ever heard from, The other evening, the young Queer World A £60 proposal of marriage has been made--and accepted--by tele- phone between London and the U.S. A. Most expensive call on record was made when Britain went 'off the gold 'standard, one conversation costing £200, : ~ Top-heavy rugger men, because they have grown too fat to wear the shirts they brought from New Zea- land,' several of the All-Blacks are now on a strict diet, cutting out pastry, potatoes, sweets and. beer. Amiable Alligator," Ali, owned by Mr. Robert Lloyd, of South Bank, near Middlesborough. is nearly six feet long, but there's not an inch of. wickedness in him. He roams the house at will and likes to be used as a footstool by his master, __Golf- Before Education--To reduce unemployment, the town of Palermo, North Dakota, applied to the relief board for permission to build a school. The request was refused, but the board offered funds to construct a golf course and bird sanctuary which they declared, would provide more work, A dummy policeman for duty at dangerous cross-roads has been in- vented in Budapest. The robot po- liceman holds "an electric torch in onehand, A sign-post hangs from his arm, On his back is a telephone con- nected with the nearest police sta- tion and ambulance post. He has se- veral pockets containing motor maps in. different European - languages, and traffic regulations. - Make Your Hip - Line Symmetrical - "Bending and stretching exercises that cause a direct pull of muscles and tendons in the back of the legs burn off fatty tissue, thereby reduc- ing weight on the thighs," says Don- ald Loomis, trainer of Hollywood stars. That's a good thing to rem- ember during coming weeks "when you're sure to eat -pound-adding sweets and holiday feasts that threat- en your figure. 7 "You can't reduce 'the hip bones, of course, s0 don't wear yourself out trying to obtain a V-shaped figure. |" 'to have] Women aren't supposed with some of the respect and hon- our which we accord the pioneers. --Toronto Star. "GETTING ABREAST" Somewhere eventually in Canada the process. of draining wealth from the rural communities is going to be reversed. The drift of people. in- to the cities, where the resources of Canadian wealth are controlled, is de- trimental to the best interests of the nation. A new national policy has to be found to make life in'the country more attractive, with ecc- nomic security for workers in the primary industries. Whoever: is fo give the lead in this direction, it is encouraging to see the signs that Quebec - is getting ready to be abreast of the times.--Ottawa Citi- zen. "HOW LONG?" Fifteen thousand acres of farih lands in southern Alberta has just| been' sold for $185,000. As the de- spatch from Lethbridge stated, thig would indicate an agricultural come- back in the Province. One wonders how long it will be before big real estate deals are announced in the ci- ties.--~Edmonton Journal, FARMING IN THE NORTH It should be more widely realized that Northern Ontario has agricul tural land unexcelled anywhere, and 'present and potential weath that is not limited to its minerals, --Ottawa Journal, : broad shoulders and narrow hips. However, the perfect figure does have symmetrical thighs that are firm and round. : "Deep knee bending is useful both for developing muscle and for burn- ing off fat. To reduce excess weight, the movements should be rapid. To develop muscle, they must be done slowly and deliberately. The old riding-the-bicycle . routine -will slenderize legs and thighs if you do it quickly, It will develop them if you do it slowly, making the muscl- es stretch and pull with each motion. Rolling back and forth on the floor will help to reduce the thighs, too. "Another good exercise to slen- derize the thighs is done flat on your stomach on the floor, Clasping your hands behind your back, raise your chest upward. Then, keeping knees straight and stomach flat, raise the legs--slowly upward inthe direction of the small of the back. Hold the position. a few, seconds, 'then lower feet to the floor again. - When you have mastered the technique, repeat rapidly ten times night and morning." ! Double Apple Exports It is expected that the export of apples from Ontario this year will be easily double the small one or last season. Greenings, Snows and Mcintosh are "thie ~ varieties being chiefly -exporteyl at present. Spy and other winter varieties are most- ly stored for later export. / Great improvements have been made in the export of Ontario ap- ples in the past ten years, largely through the efforts of the Ontario by Secretary P. 'W. Hodgetts, and their overseas representative, And- Fruit Growers' Association, directed rew Fulton. Large exports of apples are re- ported from Nova Scotia, To Octob- er 16th overseas shipments through Halifax and Pdrt Williams totalled 403,297 barrels. Last year, as of October 23, shipments totalled 299,- 748 barrels. Thus shipments this year, on what is said to he a smaller crop, have been very much .greater than a year ago, 2 * 0 2 A most commendable change in Ontario's penal system #8 announced by Hon, Harry Nixon, whereby boys and young men who are 'first offen- ders" will not be incarcerated with hardened criminals from whom they secure advanced lessons in crime, Hereafter, youth convicted on first offences will all be sent to the Guel- ph Reformatory, older first-timers will go to Mimico and the "repeat- ers" will be incarcerated =a 'Bur- wagh. By this arrangement, the c¢hances of reforming youthful off- enders- willbe gladly increased. Edsel Ford was cited as a perfect- Jy dressed business executive. Wil- liam Rhinelander Stewart was called by one stylist "the outstanding man in a dinner suit" in New York, "Tony" Biddle has "a great variety of clothes for any occasion and} knows how to wear them." William Goadby Loew was called the "Beau Brummel of Wall Street." The tailors - said Busch "great 'versatility in dress for busi- ness and social life. He wears a gray topper at steeplechase events. Marshall Field is known for the "meticulous attention he pays to all the details of dress! Perry is "sophisticated in his formal evening attire and in his outing attire." Richard K. Mellon, nephw. of An- drew Mellon, is "outstanding for his| hunting and outdoor attire." : Teague is "very original in his selection of clothes," and is known for individuality. : 5 shows somewhat older gentleman of con-- siderable dignity and portliness. A little while after he was supposed to call for her, he phoned from a drug store on the corner that he couldn't get any answer from the doorbells, She told him to come on back and she'd attend to it. = She opened "a window and, when he ap- peared, shouted over the plunking of a hurdly-gurdy pleying at the curb that she was throwing. down her front-door key. She did, bhav- ing wrapped it in a bit of brown paper; It hit the sidewalk accur- ately, and the gentleman made a dive for it. So did the hardy- gurdy man, There was quite a tus- sle, in which the caller's dinner shirt was ruffled and his hat knocked off The hurdy-gurdy man won, but whend he opened the paper and saw what he had 'captured, he handed it over with an apologetic bow. The gen- tleman came up the stairs puffing and red; : ' Bedbugs and Roaches Plague Fifth Avenue T'ifth avenue and tenement families sometimes have a common problem --bedbugs and cockroaches, "Bedbugs and cockroaches came over with our best families on the Mayflower--and our best families still have them," scientists agreed at the convention of the National Association of Insecticide and Dis- infectant Manufacturerers, "The tery wealthy as well as the very poor are affected with all sorts of insects and bugs," they said, tion is now 15 times its original size, But during the same period, its mem- {bers admit, bug and insect life in the. United "States has increased 1,000 er cent. P | The "bugologists" talked of these} «thing: it £4 | The germs on your "clean" finger ti 000,000,000. Bacteriological damage In the United States amounts each year: to $2,000,000,000, The total weight of the insect po- pulation of the world is more than 800,000,000,000 - pounds, greater than the weight of the human popu- lation, ; : "A bedbug must bite a human be- ing five times before it grows up," the delegates were told. "A germ breeds one million off- spring a day." : The Longest Play | at aiplay in 30 acts, presumably | hopes for a kinder reception of his work "than was accorded "another long-drawnsout dramatic experi ment, "Oonah," by Edmund Falcon- tre, London, in 1866. The curtain went up at 7.830 p. m, and 'when the last of the audience withdrew, just after 2 a: m., there were still several scenes to be played. 'With the thea- tre empty, however, the weary actors refused to carry on and the cprtain fell for the first and last time on what until now, seems toshave been the longest play ever inflicted on the British, public.--Mancheter Guardi- an, "The bee: fight I ever fought w= one in which I never said a word-- and that was with a woman," ~Prof, Wikel, History, Purdue Univ. Bh iH aa br : Instead, they |may be ience. They advertise in your news-| NEW YORK.,--Society matrons of | Founded 22 years ago, the associa-| ps in 24 hours will number 500, Tugene O'Neill, who is working, er, produced at-Her Majesty's Thea-| - the. Go slow on curyes. Se When going up hill on high, cut off and float over the crest ready for a quick stop, Jatin Sof Never cut out of line to pass a car unless you are sure of ample room. 'Never pass on a hill or a curve. Slow down for sidS roads and eros .yoads, >. ois UT oo Never turn your head while driv ing, re Let the other passengers enjoy the landscape. :. Slow down as it gets dark and keep below 30 miles an hour after dark. ' $250,000 000 For Britain's Defence London--The Government . an: nounced last week that about $250,- 000,000 of the total sum realized by- its previously announced $1,600, 000,000 'bond 'issue will be' allotted to defence, : It is expected the first installment that the long-anticipated reconstruc- tion of Britain's fleet may be un- dertaken immediately. Informed circles here believe a succession of bond issues will fol- low.. However, they are not likely to involve a sum as large as the is- sue just announced, : In. addition to the sum allotted the Agmiralty, financial circles here anticipate a lesser amount will be earmarked to finance industrial re- construction in those regions which suffered most from the depression, A portion of the total will alsy be guaranteed future loans 'when ilitation of the nation's iailways, as forecast in the speech from the Throne to Parliament recently. If the inside of the oven is cleaned regularly, cakes and burn so easily. One Pattern - - = - $362 80 auf 1 It's modern to be old-fashioned in 'a soft shimmering satin "nightie shirt" pajama or "nightie shirt" gown (see small view!). Besides being so smart, they're so comfy and warm with sleeve. : ERT And then for variety, yon can make a French gown or pajama . (see small view) as Paris_would have it, with deep open V-neck. and sleeveless, = RRA Four different nighties, quickly and easily made, ~~ © Style No. 8862 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 'years, 36, 38 and 40«inches bust, ~~ © oo 0 _ Size 16 requires 8% .ya f 39-inch material with 1% f lace for gown; the ~.quires/ 4% yards of i How = ay be granted to the Admiralty, so. the Government undertakes rehab- pies will rot ak Four Varieties their little boy collar and cuffed v right hand a 0 These things are important. re not the real basis of But they are not th 8 teal banigi of... beauty eare. Bauty care--and 50 per cent. health, If your blood is in bad condition and you come out in spots, it isn't fair to expect a layer of eream to im- prove your health, The go, but they will come: back if you don't take a tonics . ov Here is a questionnaire . for you. If you can give the right answers 'your looks will be lasting as. well as lovely. If you can't--i--t's not too {late to give them a fair chance, Do you eat regularly? I am not interested in what you eat -- you should know what is good for you-- but your food routine is important. Eat only a little if it suits you, but let it be regular, However tem- peramental you may feel, your in: 'side likes to know what to expéct and when. "Nerves" and indigestion are the risks--both expensive to looks. Do you drink enough = water? Heavy shadows under the eyes are often direct ascendants from kid- neys that are not doing all they. should. Drinking tea and coffea or what'll-you-have' may not do you as much harm as purists will vow, but you do need a little water as well. A half-pint glass, hot or cold, with a slice of lemon if ou, first thing in the morning and before you go to sleep is one of the less complex but really beauty treatments. Fresh Air Do you get as much fresh air as you reasonably can? That is a nasty. mean question I know. But it must be faced. i Do you spare a thought for to- morrow before you go to bed? Or just tumble in--a mass of jangling nerves, and powdered porzs? I don't believe in complicated before-bed 'spots may sound 'general' treatments--just-a- comfortable com- promise. Your skin should be and your hair either in a net or - pins, that's all. You know all beauty evperts harp on the good of scrub--- bing the skin with a circulation brushing, but if you are set against it you may use a'rcream' for {ihe cleaning, EAE ~ But -don't think you ars getting: all the cream off by just using cotton wool or a tissue. A mild astringent is necessary. Try spraying it on from one of your old 'scent-sprays, It is more refreshing that way. Soothes away rankling thoughts of what "She said about you" or . 7 . "Whether you remembered to turn the lights out." . quite clean . Wipe it "cff- . afterwards and see all. the clots of .°. cream you would have left behind. Hair nets that 'tie under the chin. 3 are disconcerting if your dreams tend towards strangulation. real-hair nets (the color of your cwn head) can be clipped quite close with blunt-ended pins and make you look merely well-groomed instead of tousled. ES ny - 'Now some niinor : questitns, 'but - important in the long run (like the: number of lumps you' take in your: tea). ; 5 Dry Face -Downwards a7 Do you dry your face downwards? That. is- how hangdog = muscles ara made. Dry -- on a rough rather, than a smooth towel--in upward swipes, and you are driving the muscles 'in skin, But it" helps you, yo | the right direction, stimulating the ~~ "Ave you continually debbaing 'on fresh draughts of powder? You should know better 'than that. A good powder base and careful pow- dering .in the morning should keep your nose and chin as soft gs a horse's (I'm not fooling; no woman can boast quite such a so ft and . smooth nose-tip asa horse). =~ ~~ Your Hands Your hands--do 'you take care of | them? It is not so difficult to have the sort of hands that are good to Hold as 'the 'careless believe. A good hand cream rubbed well in at night and gloves (on both hands) when you are out; a weekly mani- cure and you will never give a rasp- ing handshake, % Or are teeth your sore point? I don't mean merely cleaning them -- do you visit your dentist regulariy? 'Once in six months 'every mouth "should open for that dread probing. - The drone of the drill isn't so ad if it doesn't get on your nerves, but it will if you leave them uncar- ed-for long enough . . , And a good, a al 1 set of teeth may save your face at ~~ ° forty. GEE Etta a1 4 Sigs to ong |, "A jury is a group of twelye pes. le of ' aveir.gé ignorance,"--Prof, a a 8 |®pencer, Business, Univ. of Chicago. * it Fh 43(Compiled By Life, New Yoik)