RA Ta a Th. i RT en & ee y Aa el ar TS BE TR SLA IG, Ci ok 0 AL rE a hey i AE A x i w Baz Ra oT =a penny de Ba lt Se TI id x, Eee 3 (FH sh you, but~ I drinkers will © find -a sheer delight inthe exquisite flavour of Salada fait Japan tea. Try a package. Wiss " SE UR "Some" Record He's Been Married § Times ~--She's Had 4 Husbands | -- Spring Gardens, Preston, Eng., have --between them--a total of nine mar- SEY riages. He is 79, has had five wives. She is a year younger, and has been married four times. - They. live on $6 a week -- their old-age pensions. Neither has ever been divorced. : Mr. Wilding said to a Sunday Ex- press representative: "I first married when I-was 21, "That was Marjory. She died four years later. ) "Then came Margaret, followed by Elizabeth and Mary, and now I have Caroline. "When my fourth wife was living, " i 4 he GREEN GHOST by Stuart Martin a friend asked me: "Which wife has been the best?' "I replied, 'The first was a good one, the second was a good one, and the third was a good one. This is my fourth, and she is the best bé- cause she is still here. "If they asked me that now I would answer in the same way." Mrs. Wilding said she had had good husbands and bad husbands, but she never had to leave one of them. She added: "Once, when I was SYNOPEIS Maud Barron and Hughes return to monition of disaster. She hears padding footsteps. Rushing into her fatler's study she finds hlin dead. ; Dr, Sidney Foster, a friend, 1s folned by Detective "One Eye" Uttock, a mulatto, who has never lost a man. : Maug Burron awakes with ua pre. '- England. Dr. Foster gives Maud his address In case of need. He recelves a telegram Informing "him "The Ghost' . has. reappeared, Foster takes . Elsle 'Monteith for drive. She confesses her "love for him. "Had a good night, Miss Barron?" © "The most perfect sleep for a long time, doctor. I'm feeling ever so < much better. If it wasn't that you ~ told me not-to go-out-alone I'd-love to have been out early this morning. "But... I promised I'd not go out alone." a © "Well, if ever you go alone at any . 'tine, take the Alsatian with you But don't go after dusk in any case, "dog or no dog." "The dog? Didn't you know?" "Know what?" - - dog {is dead." * will Hughes said he would teil suppose he forgot.. The his necessary articles converted it into a mortuary, had no knowledga of the ion, if that conclusion reached at all. 0-00-0000 place. He found it easily enough. He brought a .gardener"s barrow and plenty of sacking, a shovel and a trowel, and dug up the Alsatian's body, carting it back- to the house without anybody seeing his action. He had the empty garage ready for what he intended to do. There was plenty of water: available. -He got together, locked the door of the garage and He held a post mortem on the dog. He burried the aog again in the same spot just before lunch, and all afternoon he spent making tests and investigation. = By tea time he had established what he had feared. His knowledge cf poisons had stood him in good stead, but any student who peculiar substances obtainable for destroying life in the West Indies would have had a much longer road to travel before coming to the same conclus- had been He cleared away all traces of his young, a fortune-teller read my hand and said I would be married four or five times. I laughed, but she wasn't far wrong." Between them Mr. and Mrs, Wild- ing have had 16 children, Here's Hope For Aspiring Authors WINDSOR, Ont.,-- "Anne of Green Gables," the story that depicted life of Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century and a 'best-sellet more than two decades ago, was turn. ed down five times before it was fin- ally- accepted by the publishers, Mrs, L. M. Montgomery MacDonald, the author, said in a lecture here.. "Don't be discouraged if your sto:rfes aren't accepted," the noted Canadian author told -her audience, a large, part of it young girls, as- semb'ed under the Bordcr Council of the Home and School Association. "Anne of Green Gables was rejected five times," she continued. "I put the manuscript away in the "uPeald" Ohaus gd lots, ths garage in oe attic. A couple of years later, while "Yes, Will Hughes found him dy- th en >on nto oe lon Y1 housecleaning, I found it and sat i Ang ~AT8&Y 'tho' -main road late last hn ho ar 5 Yo pUreiases, down and read it. night. He brought him home and m being a farge BIASS| rf found it interesting, so I thought ""§¥i6d to doctor him up with pills, but the poor thing died. There was no time to send for a vet." Yoster laid down his knife and fork and sat up stiff and eager. - "But what killed the dog?" "Will Hughes says he must have eaten something on the road that "was poisoned, There are poachers about the district, and they have been known to get rid of dogs that way. "The vicar's dog was poisoned like that not very long ago----" «= s4Poisoned meat, I see. And where is the dog's body? Not given to the Cat and Dog Home, I hope?" "No. We are some way off such an -institution, so it was buried. The gardener and Will: Hughes buried "him." : "I see.' ; . "By the way, I was thinking of going out in the car to-day. Have I your permission?" She was laughing, her gaze rest- ing on his face quizzically. "Why, of course, by all means. You: are practically all right now." "Are you going to be busy? Any- . thing to do with those drugs you bought 2" - ...He considered. "Yes, I have : 'something to do, I'll be rather busy all morning." After seeing them off he went round to the back garden and found: the gardener at work in the hot- ~ £ house and after some conversation ¢ he obtained the location of the dog's grave, Then he sent the gardener off 'on an errand to Surbiton so that for a time. Immediately: the man was gone he went down to the wood and searched for the dog's burial 'the man would be out of the way} bottle in which to keep his dence." fore dinner. The three ladies after he had gone on his found Elsie Monteith Maud by the window. The he had expected, but there was once, ination. "I have found I have found." bending forward taking in word. "What is your asked, accidentally "poisoned at all. lieve it was® wilfully done." FOSTER APOLOGISES thing 2" "evi- He returned to Shirley just be- had come back from their drive shortly errand, and he at once sent a maid up to When he entered the boudoir he sitting - with former glanced at him, but her smile was not very warm, nor as cordial as too much on his mind to reflect on the fact. He plunged into his™subject at He told them how he had dug up the dog's body and made his exam- indisputable . evi- dence that the Alsatian died froma poison that is extremely rare," he said gravely. "I doubt if the toxi- cologists of, this country are very well acquainted" with . the substance Elsie Monteith was staring at him with wide-open eyes, and Maud was every conciusion?" she "I believe that the dog was not I be- Maud gave a little gasp and her companion uttered an exclamation, "But -who--could have done such a "That is what I intend to find out, it 'possible. I propose to lay. the there must be something to it, so I sent it to the Page Company, of Boston,- They accepted fit only be- cause a girl on thelr staff of readers came from Prince Edward Island, and she bulldozed t¥ém--into-it?*~z Maud to see if she would receive| Lucy Maud Montgomery, to use him. He was told to go up right her pen name, suggester that all away. young people should form the habit of noting in books any experiences and stories they hear from older persons. Such notations, perhaps 'in later years, would form real material for books if those in possession of them develop a desire to write." Natalie Carr Hates New York Life NEW YORK,--Natalie Carr, youth- ful heiress home after two years in a Quebec convent where within a few years she could have taken final vows to become a nun, hates "the noise and clamor of New York life." "Life in the outside world is very strange," the former Vassar College student said. "I cannot welcome this change. : "I am very undecided about whe- ther I shall return to the convent, I can't truly say." . Natalie's grandmother, Mrs, Hal- tie A. Weldon, prevailed upon her to leave the convent at St. Hyacinthe and try to live in the 'outside world," again the girl indicated, ; Mrs: Weldon has aserted her hope her granddaughter "becomes reconcil- ed to a life in the world, But if a religious life is her vocation I shall not stand. in her way." fidence Millions of people have con thatassutes safe,economical, satisfactory heating. Ea Ea ap Yah Ca A in the blue colour saps matter in' the hands of the police, with your-permission." "The police?" "1 think it is time to ask their aid, Listen to me, ladies. Is is not a remarkable thing that this dog did mea service that may have seemed sniall, but on the other hand 'may have' been the beginning of a green = ghost might have heen solved 2" "Tell us what "it was!" asked Elsie, breathing hard." am rel with Hughes over the black cloth he had found, and the dog's eager- dog had been brought back to the i house by Hughes, and his search | had Jed to nothing. He was well to that in-telling them this he rowing some sort of suspie- n Hughe ut he hastened gsion, Mr. and Mrs, William Wilding, of |. ~ ? Cli a. ws A WEEKLY TONIC by Dr. M. M, Lappin auspices of the: Noise and Clamor of trail whereby the mystery of the| 'He told them rapidly of his' quar-{ ness to get on the scent: how tha) pa HOW MUCH SLEEP? A correspondent is afflicted with that terriple affliction of insomania. She is a victim of nerves, she telis me, and only gets on an average about four hours sleep nightly, For sleep each night, but now the drug seems to have lost its effect. She is wondering whether she can get some drug that will be permanently effec. tive, or if she should just try to carry on with what little s'eep she can get without the use of drugs. ' * Well, I question very much if the amount of sleep one gets is just as important as we have sometimes been led to belleve it is. I am cértainly not in favor of the use of drugs or sleep. ing powders unless these have de. finitely been prescribed for the indi. vidual by the doctor. And here, I must remind my readers again that my fleld is psychology and not medicine. I cannot undertake to give medical advice, nor am I qualified so to do. I can only deal with physical dis- order when it {is evident that such paysical disorder is the outcome of mental disorganisation, Of course mind and body are closely interre- lated, and it is surprising how man physical disorders are due to the lack of straight, positive, and constructive thinking. There are really very few people who have been trained to think 'properly, and it 1s this fact that gives rise for the need of the psychologist and what service he can render. Now, then, to come back to this matter of sleep, There are sonie folks, who can get along nicely on much less gleep-than others, Of course, there is nothing, perhaps, that is' more trouble- somé and annoying than to lie awake for hours in the night with the mind running riot. Someone has aptly called those hours of wakefulness "The Cruel Hours". ; Let it be remembered, however, that the mind is only half awake dur- ing those hours. One should therefore not be unduly disturbed by the wild thoughts which ~ rush through the mind in quick succession during such sleepless hours. If 'when morning comes we go forth to the day with the thoughts of our sleepless hours haunt. ing us then they wiil most certainly rob us of the vim and vitality neces- sary to a successful day's work, So, it you: cannot sleep, don't lie worry- ing. Do not deliberately review men- tally everything that- has happened during 'the day. Do not allow the mind o contemplate the things of to- morrow or the following days. Dis- miss instantly 'every -dull and drab thought that enters the mind. Think only of the pleasantries of life. I believe sleep can he invoked. In fact, I know it can. One should be active enough during the day to be just tired enough at night to sleep. Over-tiredness is likely to produce restlessness. Ga to bed, then, before you are over-tired, The bedroom should be airy and it should, if at all possiblefi be inthe quietest part of the house. It is better not to have the sheets and blaikets = tightly tucked around" oneself. They should rather be oversized so that they can be loose unhampered inJhis sleep. It's foolish to imagine that you do 'not move in your sleep. Everyone does --. and a great many times too! When you get into bed relax every nerve and every muscle, Get into a comfortable position. As far as you can, rid the mind of everything, Try to imagine yourself enjoying a most pleasant and refreshing sleep. Sug- the ability to sleep. And, if you do these things with a little determina- tion, you will Drobably be surprised at the results. The! chances are that you will get enough. sleep to.carry you through from day to day. So, what- ever else you do, DON'T WORRY. NOTE: The writer of this column 1s a trained psychologist and an .au. thor of several works. He ls willing to deal with pour problem and give you the benefit of his wide "experls ence. Questions regarding problems of EVERYDAY LIVING should be ad. dressed to: Dr. M: M. Lappin, Room 421, 73 Adelalde Street, West, Toron. to, Ontario. 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[as fa ng palatable, and many points need to be considered in the ander White's new book, the scene of the historic building of the C.P.R. through the wilds of Algoma along Lake Superior's North Shore is being published in four countries: Country Life Books, United - States by Scriber's, New York; in Australia by Angus and Robertson, Sydney; in Canada by Copp, Clark 'Company, Toronto. It is a volume: of: animal * showing 'the creaturés of the for- est coming in touch for the first time with the bringers of - the steel. who carry forward the first transcontinental road through Ca- nada, mingle with the human ones in' book is appearing --at time, almost coincident with the celebration of the building of the Canadian Pacific, this anniversary of the linking up of the steel Fast and West with the driving of the last spike. "Man Scent" is just off the Country Life Books press .in London, England, 'and the' Ca- nadian edition will be ready, for . distribution by Copp, Clark™ Com- pany within a few days in Tor- onto and all cther places in Can- ada. : For Christmas gifts you could do no better than give one of the following--there is a book to meet every reader's demand. stance "Mary Quéen of Scotland - by Stefan Zweig '| would be and The Isles (Macmillan's, Toronto) the "ideal book for those who like their history in biographical. form, told in this author's best style. SALAMINA by Rockwell Kent (Geo. J. McLeod, Ltd. _profusedly illustrated by the au- thor will thrill all those who love adventure. 2 "MAN SCENT", Samuel Alex- set in In England by London; in fiction and animal characters ~~ the persons of the surveyors, en- gineers, invade "MAN SCENT" is illustrated by the author with 'a large numbe: of pen and ink drawings depict- "ing the four-footed inhabitants of the north, and the combination of Samuel Alexander White's author- artist work forms a striking con- tribution to the native literature of our own: cotintry this year. The who wilderness. construction gangs the rugged | he Book : Shelf BY MAIR M. MORGAN - terial should fill three books. by Arthur Kober (Musson's, Tor- onto) brilliantly illustrated by that well-known artist Mr, Hoff will appeal to those sophisticates who read the New Yorger. THE CLUE OF THE RISING (Mussor's, Toronto) is a mystery thriller which will appeal to all who like their fiction exciting'and a logical reason? why so-and-so was' bumped" off. Imagination F. airy 'lack of inspiration. 1 a goou For in- MAN, The Unknown by Alexis Carrel satisfy the more thoughtful of , your friends, (Musson's, Toronto) - will YOUTH UNCHARTED by Ste- phen Lawford (Macmillan's, Toron. - to) is another real-life adventurs containing 50 many extraordinary Toronto) would be imagination, eye." wanted and were necessary in life, © | key needs Ris adventures that one feels the ma-. THUNDER OVER THE BRONX MOON by = Valentine Williams - G odmother's Gift CALGARY -- Live adventurously not monotonously, Mrs, Nellie L. Mc- Clung, well known- Canadian author, told members of the Women's Mis- sionary Society of Grace Presbyterian Church here. She said lots of people | die not from lack of bread but from and expeditiously carved. "No human being should be sat- isfied with a self 'fiddling' job," Mrs. McClung 'said. "It isn't the size of things you do, it is the quality; it-is not the height, it is the direction. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give people one gift and that gift the seeing Middle age was too often a time of disillusionment, she thought. It was a time: people had to feel they were ROUGH HANDS OAP AND HOT WATER? APPLY. HINDS (Restate rd i - < 3 precy FROM. For a Bright New Year § 'Give Your Family a ) 5 dn thy ta selection of the bird, It is well to choose the turkey at least a week before it is needed for consumption. It is easy to pick out the young bird by its smooth, black legs, moist and supple feet and eyes that are The hen bird is, as a rule, more plump and tender then the male bird. On a young bird the spurs are short and stumpy. On an old bird they are lng and gain in sharp. to carve the turs engory freshened up a bit, It's stirely an art any man may be proud of to neatly and skil- fully carve a roasted bird. i SFE ! The placing of the turkey on the table is gH The head should privilege it w be toward the left hand of the carv- er. This brings the drum-sticks to the right andthe side of the bird directly in i Bi the carver, or Insert the firmly over the breast bone at the highest point. Do not remove the fork until the carv- ing is done. : "First remove thé whole leg, thig and drumstick in'one piece. To do this make a circular cut around the joint close tothe body. With the blade of: the knife press the leg back and cut through the ligaments hcld- ing the thigh bone to the back. 'A quick twist of the knife easily sever the joint. However, if you: want to, it's perfectly 'proper' to hold the end of the drumstick cov- ered with a paper frill firmly with the fingers of the left hand. Then a quick gash of the skin between the body and thigh, a little tweek with the finger and a downward -cut with the knife and the leg i3 neatly The two joints of the leg repose on the plat- the 'breast: carved. Next remove the wing by making a circular cut around the joint and pressing back with the knife just as the leg was done, ~ However, the fingers cannct be used for the wing. Care should be taken not to cut any of the white meat of the breast with the wing. Place the wing on the platter. - Now, with the fork still in posi- tion, cut thin slices lengthwise from the breast, beginning close to the place from which the wing was re- moved and working up the ridge of the breast bone. 'Now. remove the fork and separate: the drumstick from the second joint. -The 'dark a should be divided into small inviting from the tail end of the bird with: a large 4 erving spoon. 2 \ Woman of Eighty-Nine Played Part of ~ Village Doctor Three years ago, advancing age forced Mrs, Stewart" Ballantyne, wi. dow of one of the oldest residents of Ballantyne's Cove, N.S. to rétire from the impoftant role she had held in the life of the community for al. most three generations. d Playitig parts of both doctor and "[niii¥ge in the days befora Ballantyné's Cove could boast of 'either, Mrs. Bal. '|lantyne 'as midwife had up to her re- tirement" helped 'more than 200 of this 'village's babies into the world, Some of the children were sons: sisted at birth years were grandchildren, = A short time ago an urgent call for Mrs. Ballantyne came from Cape George. Hesitant at first, the 89. before; a few '| year-old woman hustled off on the errand of mercy when she learned a doctor and nurse sumnioned to the Cape George home from Antigonish, géveral miles away, had been delayed. 'When the doctor and nurse did ar- rive, the old lady held the safely.de- livered tén-pbund boy in her arms. 'States - this month to de rkeys- clear and free of scaly surroundings. ter while the wing is severed and meat on the thigh and drumstick - portions. The wing is divided in two i parts. The stuffing is taken out and daughters of babies she had as. : OTTAWA Cana Fowl obi A000. | 000 Christmas trees to the United ~~ ~