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PS Cee Egyptians U Wedding Ringe igin of Ceremony Have Been Offered -- Gold Ring Intro- duced In Second Century Varlous explanations have been offered as to the origin of the use of a ring in connection with mar-, riage, . It was an ancient Icelandic cus- tom at the betrothal ceremony for the bridegroom to pass' his four fingers and palm through a large ring to receive the hand of the bride. Wedding rings appear to have been used by the Jews before the dawn of the Christlan era, the ring being worn on the index or forefinger. Swinburne has stated that the Book of Genesis indicates that Rebecca may have been the first bride to wear » wedding ring. Others hold. Egypt to be the cradle of the wedding ring, Egyp- tian hieroglyphs representing eter- nity as being round or endless, and the ring, denoting the unend- ing flow of mutual love and affec- tion between man and wife, In early"Roman times a ring was given to mark the betrothal, prob- ably merely as a pledge that a contract would be fulfilled. At first these rings were made of iron, but in the second century the gold ring was Introduced. Before the Reformation, the wed- ding ring in England was common- ly worn on the thumb, as is the custom in India today. The choice of the third finger as the ring finger Is sald to have resultéd from an old fanciful conceit that from that digit & vein or artery ran dir- ectly to the heart, and the choice _of the left hand is said to result from the thought that the left is the hand of dependence, while the" right Is the hand of authority. | There's ATrick To Using Perfume Middle And what's more Ann Rutherford knows what it is, Never does the starlet make the mistake of put ting perfume on clothes or ever her hair. She puts it right on her skin, Behind the ears--on the palm of the hands and just a whiff across her lips. In this way the young ac- tress knows that the true scent of the perfume remains intact. VOICE PRESS NO SIGN OF APPEASEMENT By the way, has any reader ever seen a picture of Winston Churhill with an umbrella? --London Free Press. A MERE SPOONFUL Four hundred and sixty thous- and gallons of cod liver oil con- sumed in Canada in one year... Now will you complain about taking one spoonful? ' { --Timmins Daily Press. BOTH NOT UNCOMMON A 'traffic officer, -says that speed exceeding 72 miles an hour is not uncommon on the Queen Elizabeth Way, Nor are the ac. cidents uncommon neither, --Hamilton Spectator, CHURCH ANNIVERSARIES . This is the season of. church anniversaries and it is refreshing to note that ° despite the war which has furnished many new s of service the work of the cHWch is not being forgot- ten, And it is right that this should be so. In fact, never was the ministry of .the Christian needed more than it is today. ~--Oshawa Times. THE SOIL DRAWS THEM | Seventy-five thousand people "saw the concluding performances at the International plowing com- petition near St, Thomas. Was this. evidence; of: euriosity only, or of keen interest in observing the basi¢- industry. engaged: in its most fmportant business: the land? There are few a Ate brivis ' ao expert plowman going: Al Worl --Toronto obs A TR 2 ities Saving Ontario's Natural Resources (NO, 15) KEEP-OUR LAKE TROUT Fish, like other creatures, must be adjusted to their habitat or their race will not survive. A warm water kind cannot long ex- © ist in cold water and one that is used to plenty of oxygen will die it placed in a stagnant pool. Our lake trout is a good example of ° this, It must -have cold water, well aerated, for normal life but as it lives in our lakes, which warm considerably at the surface in summer, it has had to go down into the depths for part of the year. Often the deep waters lack oxygen so we find that the trout live at a medium depth where the water is cool ard yet above the stagnant bottom, Protect Spawning Fish Lake trout are allied to the speckled trout. They grow large and 26 to 30 pounders are not uncommon, Their main food is herring and whitefish, though perch will be taken where these first two are lacking. These food forms can live in the depths and in cold water so the trout finds food throughout their habi- tat. The angler, to catch these fish, must use a heavy spoon and a copper line, sending the lure down to where the fish live. Lake trout are found throughout Ontario in all suitable waters and are the mainstay of a con- siderable commercial' fishery in the Great Lakes. ' The conservation of the lake trout depends on the protection of the spawning fish and on the stopping of over-fishing, They spawn on gravel or stony bars late in the fall and the poachers use gill nets to catch them over the shoals. Such .ets are de- structive and can take almost every adult fish in a lake if set throughout the fall. So, protec- tion against poachers should be the first step, then, we must sce that only a Imiited number of trout are taken from each lake. Long continued angling is as de- structive as' poachinz, shorter season and lower bag limits are necessary if we wish to preserve our lake trout. SCOUTING . . . To Boy Scouts fell the honour "of providing a guard of honour for His Excellency the Governor- General, the Earl of Athlone, upon his first official visit to Mon- treal, October 7th. The sturdy, smartly uniformed party of 150 First Class and King's Scouts made a fine.impression as they lined up in the Windsor station concourse to receive the Chief Scout for Canada. His Excel- lency formdlly inspected them, and complimented District Com- missioner Rabley Mackay upon their appearance. + * * A practice of reciprocal visits betwéen Canpdian and American "Boy Scout troops : having the same troop number this year brought 80 members of Troop 8 of Detroit, Mich.,, to Chatham, Ont., as guests of the 8rd Chat- ham Bea Scouts. The visitors were met early on a September Saturday at the city limits and paraded to a camp site at Vie- toria Park: pear the troop's headquarters, where meals were served them, A civic wel- come was extended by Mayor Hubbell, They were entertained with games and competitions, and on Sunday attended a church parade of Chathaf® Scouts and Girl Guides. . LJ * ~~ The Bronze Cross, the Boy Scouts Association's highest re-- cognition ~ for gallantry, was awarded Scoutmaster G. Keene, for saving most of an ammunition. train struck by a bomb during an air raid over southern England. The Scoutmaster called for "vol- unteers, and in spite of flying shell fragments uncoupled and pushed out of danger all but six of a string®of 61 trucks loaded with shells and explosives, * * Scouts representing Fort Wil-- liam and Port Arthur Troops" were hosts to a party of Ameri- can Bqy Scouts from Duluth and Superior at the annual Lakehead International Labour Day week end get-together, The camp of . 18 tents was erected in the De- partment of Highways Park at Little Falls, The -programme comprised a Sunday Scouts' Own service, hikes to points of interest, boating and fishing, and finally a big campfire, The Canadian . Scouts were under District Com missioner H, W. Ellard and tha American lads under Scout Ex- ceutive Sig Kilender of Duluth, Because most of the wood for' tobacco pipes camp from the Mediterranean, 'countries, mann- fadturers may try to'.révive the pularity of the old-time clay pipe. : . ee last week, as the scene of war.. and times with Franco, Laval and Chatham * mutual defense treaty with Greece. | ot pt? CR a pi ad A SRR NE Nardowly missing an important Berlin railway station, an R.A.L. bomb created this crater in the capital of the Reich. THE WAR-WEE K--Commentary on Current Events MAIN BATTLE DEVELOPS - "IN THE MEDITERRANEAN The "Battle of the Mediterran- ean" was rudely elbowing the "Battle of Britain" off the front pages of the world's newspapers shifted southward and It became evident that for the moment the main Axis drive was for control of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The great show- down test between the seapower of Britain and the alr power of the Axis was about to be witnessed. After . Greece, What? _The Italian invasion of Greece - was seen as but one item of a com- prehensive program, the first parts of which had already been execut- ed -- tho occupation of Rumania and Italy's preparation for a trans- Egypt drive on Suez, Other steps, involving the remaining Balkan na. tions, werq- expected immediately the outcome of the Greek campaign was decided. General Goering's newspaper, The -Essener National Zeltung, predicted the next Axis step would be an-attempt to sever British connections with Europe, Asia and Africa so that no port in those continents would be open to British warships (ambitious un- dertaking!) Other sources -sald that France and Spain would also have a role in this plan. The Axis' new grand strategy undoubtedly was agreed upon by Hitler and Mussolin! at their meet- ing In Florence which followed a Hghtning trip by Hitler down into France to confer at. different points Petaln, Hitler's .Greatest. Gamble Was Hitler embarking on the greatest gamble of his career? If he could break Britain's control of ;the Mediterranean he would be able to pile upon her a disaster second in magnitude only to the smashing of England itself -- so great that it likely would determine the. outcome of the war," Failure to achieve this goal, however, after his inability to crush England by bloody bombing and Invasion, could just about write his finish. To By-Pass Turkey? The only othor power (aside from Btitain) conceivably in a position to aid Greece was Turkey, a large part of whose army was last week massed against thé Bulgarian fron- tler, But several factors militated- against Turkish fulfillment of her For one thing such action could bring Nazi (roops storming into Turkey from Bulgaria, and pre- cipitate a general Balkan war; for another thing, Soviet Russia's pol- icy of non-involvement In war might operate against Turkish par- ticipation, But supposing the Axis powers didn't dttempt to take the Dardanelles, by-passing Turkey in- stead by way of the Dodecanese Islands and Syria . .. would Turkey allow herself without protest to be surrounded, and her dominance of the entire Moslem world challeng- ed? If Turkey moved, the. entire picture would change overnight. Moscow Meditates For the time being, Moscow was silent on the Balkan situation, But pre-occupied, as diplomatic rumors which trickled through suggested, with consolidating the Russian posi. tion on all fronts. A new agree- ment with the Axis powers was seen as not unexpected; but more likely to come would be the signing of a non-aggression pact with Ja. pan. (Moscow obviously was not forgetting for a moment that Jap- anese troops still lined the Soviet Manchurian border; that between 80 and 90 German divisions faced the Red Army along the eastern European front). U.S, - Britain - China.- U8.8.R.? That Stalin might be induced to join an antl-totalitarian bloc con- sisting of Great Britain, the U. B. and China was the considered be- llef expressed last week by Chin- ese circles in Singapore. These .same sources declared that Stalin would be interested in seeing the German and Japanese ,positions rendered desperate by such a coal ftion sgalnst them, Positive knowl edge was claimed, said*New York Times correspondent Hallett Ab- end, that China's Minister of Fin- ance was in Washington for the principal purpose of convincing the - United States of the advisabllity of joining such a coalition, © U, 8, Ald 'To: Britain Although the United States had by no means yet declared war on Germany, Secretary of Commerce Jesse I. Jones reported last week that the_U. 8. had shipped $780, 000,000 of goods to Britain during the first year of 'the war; and from New York it was learned that the U. 8. was sending warplanes to Britain at the rate of nearly 500 a month, and that the number was "Increasing , . . With the elec- tion over, anything could happen. Before Parliament reconvened at Ottawa this week, it was learned from Washington that arrange- ments had been made for an im- mediate survey and other prelim- fnary engineering work in the St,' Lawrence Seaway project , . Sad Losses At Sea "Twas a sad day for Canada when news came through that the Can- adlan destroyer Margaree, which replaced the fllfated Fraser, had been sunk in the North'Atlantic with the loss of 140 officers and men; and that the Canadian luxury liner Empress of Britaln had gone down as the result of enemy ac- tion, with 46 missing. The Week In Canada Official and seml-officlal an- nouncements on aiscellafeous matters of varying interest to the Canadian public featured the week: that young farmers whose military training was postponed in October would respond to the call Novemb- er 22 , ., that Canada was se¢nd- ing 400 motor vehicles a day to the United Kingdom . . , that Ot- tawa was keeping: a wary eye on the French Islands in the gulf of St. Lawrence, St. Plerre and Mi- quelon , , . that internees and members of Illegal organizations were ineligible for public office In Canada . . . that Canadian soldiers wero holding an important sector of the English coast, right in the front line . . . that Canadian troops might be sent to the Near East at a later stage in the Battle of the Mediterranean . . . that Can- ada had enough grain "to meot all Britain's needs for three years" | that private buying must be cur- tailed in Canada if the war pro- gram wis not to suffer . . . « Election Soon In Ontario? Tho Ontario. political pot, quiet for some time past, was last weok seen to be simmering again. There was a good deal of talk in Oltawa that Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn intended going to the people some- time within the next year (re-elect. ed to power fn 1037, the Ontario Liberal administration does not have to call a vote before the sum- mer of 1942). Within the past month three Dominion Cabinet min- Isters have Visited Mr. Hepburn . . . Ontario Conservatives, too, were getting busy last week . . . Yukon's Many Wild Flowers There are orchids in the. Yy- kon -- the Siberian, a large pur- plish pink bloom with white spots and a rare White Orchid--all to be found in great variety beneath the "slide" near Dawson. Our authority, writes the Ottawa Journal, -is Martha Louise Black, former Member of Parliament, whose second book, "Yukon Wild Flowers," has just been publish- ed. Co-starring with her in fils preparation is her husband, Hon. H Al Great Energy Good George Black, K.C., M.P., who personally took the hundred pho- tographs which illustrate the vol- ume. "Within 20 minutes' walk of the heart of Dawson," writes Mrs. Black, "even a fairly careless ob- server of Nature's handiwork may gather at least a hundred varieties of flowers, ferns and mosses, "From the beginning of March, 'when the days begin to length- en,' we Yukoners are alert to dis- cover the first sign of the Pasque flower or Northern Crocus thrust- ing its furry nose through the thawing ground, often still cover- ed with snow or ice. These brave flowers vary in shade from deep- est purple to mauves and pinks, with an occasional 'spot' of pur- est white, Of the anemones or 'wind-flowers' ther are numerous varieties, ranging from this Pas- que flower to the tiny yellow Water Crowfoot (ommon in our sluggish streams. to "The brilliant cerisa shooting stars, the saucy Dutchman's breeches, the wild Bleeding Heart --a tiny prototype of the eculti- vated variety we all knew in our grandmothers' gardens -- all these and many more are upon us in bewildering array as soon as sum- mer sets in with its 24 hours of continuous sunlight. The wlors of the north are largely pink; blue and magenta, with generous splashes of yellow: LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher AN WN \ -- | -- ra = i -- 2 rs i LC --~ 10-29 EE? NEE. "Yesterday | was to be a success . .. Today I'm a failure . .. * Prefty fickle scales, I'd say! |" * ve v [es ! FL add 4 v Fo 3 8 EEN ii Nr al 8 Ty rh, Ab SREY FL ha LONDONERS WHO WERE .VICTIMS OF N Ties : Pgs domi | a Ey a AZI BOMBS cn . te mines tah RIL nmin SI 0 20 ot A AE 53 Head bandaged, a victim of Nazi bombs, LEFT, sadly treads over a pile of rullle as ke sa'.ages With a temporary' dressing around his head, another air raid victim belongings from his London home. is led away by an A.R.P. warden after being dug from" from the ruins of his home. who managed to get into a crevice of wreckage and more or less escaped injury. master, He is carrying his dog He was rescued with his REG'LAR FELLERS -- Free Demonstration By GENE BYRNES WHAT'S THAT ROPE 18 THAT A W BRUSH.P WHAT: ON. 00. THE' JOB, AN' HOW MUCH "YOU MAKE A WEEK ? OR, MISTER ? } INE: : YOUGET Jus' A FEW MORE AN' I'M THROUGH / floral ~ TS & i! Re, oo { ne mn o-- ne ae ofa ENTS