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Reminiscences Early in thfj 1929 Paris discus- iions of tha Committee of Expertsâ€" which resulted in the Youn); Plan â€" Owen D. Young wanted J. Pierpont Morgan, his American colleague, and Emile Francqui, the Belgian repre- sentative, to know each other. So a conference was arranged betweon them. Meeting Mr. Francqui the next day, he asked him what sort of a conference they had. •Fine, Owen YounB," Mr. Francqui •aid, "I say wow-wow to Mr. Mor- gan, and we go home." • « • Something else had to bo devised, so Mr. Yousg invited them both to toa i(8ay3 Ida M. Tarbell, in "Owon D. Young: A New Type of Industrial Leader"), and before either had had an opportunity to say "wow-wow," he had them both talking about their iilooded stock. Mr. Morgan of the hogs he laisea, iu Kngland, Fnincqui of the cattle on his Belgium estate, with the result that Francqui went off jubilant: Mr. Morgan had prom- ised to send him two prized hogs. • -* » Francqui always addressed Mr. Young as "Owenyoung," evidently thinking it was his name. "Owenyoung," he said on one oc- casion when they were at tea together â€" after many weary sessions dis- cussing German reparation.s â€" "Owen- Young, we neglest our business; we sit t'.ere one week, two weeks, three weeks. What do we talk? We talk about fifty million marks a year. We talk about two hundred million marks a year. Your great-grandmother marks a year, our grr^at-ffrandmoth-r still alive?" • * « And when Mr. Y'oung told hin; "No," at which he seemed surprised, he said: "She come i^. life; she say, Oweii- Young, how much you pay at the Ritz today? You telt her; she drop dead." After this (adds Mi.ss Tarbel!) Mr. Young's greab-grandmother leav- ened the awe of big figures. Mr. Y'oung loves beautiful things- his collection of rare books and prints is famou-^ â€" and thereby hangs *a story told by a Boston friend and law associate. On one occasion, after scurrying around the antique shops of Boston for a wedding gift, Owen Young found something that really pleased him^an unusual old snuff- box. Six months later (says his friend) Y'oung came into the office one Monday morning positivoly snorting. He had spent the week-ena with the friends to whom the snuff- box had been sent and he had found that they were using it as a soap-box in the bathroom. He wanted to steal it back, he said. « * « One of the pleasant custons pre- vailing at the time of Owen D. Young's birth (Says Biss Tarbell) was to let a friend name the baby. The friend to whom Mrs. Y'oung paid the compliment, having road a book in which the hero was called Owen, named the newcomer Owen; thinking there should be at least a middle ini tial, she put in a D â€" no name, siniply D now as then! Amateur Gentleman" have marvelled at the skill displayed by the author in his descriptions of fistic encounters. But the secret is that Jeffrey Faraol is an expert boxer himself. He jour- neyed all the way from England in 1921 to attend the championship fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier, at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, and that, if you please, is enthusiasm indeed. • • • That dear old Thackeray was a pi ize fight "fan" is shown by a unique {loem he contributed in lx>n don "Punch" venting bis indignation over police interferencv at the crucial point in the historic fight between Tani Sayers of England, and John C. Heenan ("The Benecia Boy") of America, on April 17, 18C0, whi:h erded in a draw when the police sud- denly appeared on the scene. Heenen, by the way, later married Adah Isaacs Menken, the cehbrated beauty, whose name crops up with suspicious frequency in biographies of the mid-Victorians. She was a friend of Charles Dickens and Alger- non Swinburne, among other nota- bles. Heenan died on October 2.^. 187;{, at Green River Station, Wy- oming. • • • Mention of Thackeray reminds me that Sir James Crichton-Browne, enri- nent physician, recalls in his remin- iscences "What the Doctor Thought," that he knew Venables, the man who b oke Thackeray's no.se, the unlucliy fight which resulted is the life-long disfigurement of the great n(Tvelist'? nose occurred when Venaliles and Thackeray were students at Charter- house school. It was a wet half-holi- day and a boy named Glossop asked leave of Mr. Rompell, a master at Charterhouse, for Thackeray and Venables to fight. "We wanted .some amusement," Rompell recounted later, "so we IH them fight it out in the long room, with the unfortunate result to Thack- eray's nose." • « « Every one knows ot George Ber- nard Shaw's interest in boxing â€" through his loud talks with Gene Tunney. But G. B. S. has no use for brutality or commercialism. In a preface to "Cashel Byron's Profes- sion" he offered the opinion that bare- fist fighting lived by its blackguard- ism and died of its intolerable tedi- ousness. What New York Is Wearing lllu»trate<l Drestmakiiig Lcnton Fur- inshfd With Every I'attern 2341 CH>nan Doyle â€" creator of Sher- lock Holmes â€" whose famous story, "Rodney Stone," contains one of the best and most exciting accounts in fiction of a prize fight, was always keen on the noble sport of boxing, and in his younger days was no mean performer with the gloves. "They say that every form of knowledge conies useful sooner or later,"--he wrote in his Memories and Adventures" â€" "and certainly my own experience in boxing and my large acquaintance with the history of the prize-fight found their scope when I wrote Rodney Stone.' " Conan Doyle never concealed his opinion that bo.xing is an excellent thing from a national point of view. "Better that our sports should be • little too rough than that we should run a risk of effeminacy," he be- lieved. * * * Another well-known novelist with a passion for the piize-ring, and Air writing about it, is Jeffery Farnol. Many readers of Mr. Farnol's novels, "The Broad Highway" and "The A few days before the Dempsey- Carpentier fight Mr. Shaw wrote an article about the coming ooulest, in which he said it was fifty to one on the Frenchman winning. Aft^r , it was all over, in another article, Mr. Shaw proceeded to show that, .nor- ally, at all events, Carpentier really won. .And he had the entire French ration agreeing with him. I forget upon what theory Mr. Shaw worked it out that Dempsey lost and the I renchman won but I am sure it v.as along scientific lines us opposed to what is called in the boxing world "the punch." * * « That sturdy liberal. Moo 'field Storey, who.se biography has been written by M. A. DeWolfe Howe â€" "Portrait of an Independent" â€" used to tell a story on .â- Vmerican bankers which is particularly aproiws at the moment : "It was said that when a financial measure was pending in Congress two deputations of bankers, one from Boston and the other from New- York, called upon Mr. Lincoln. The first told him that if the bill pa.ssed, the country would be ruined. The other told him that if it did not pass, it would be ruined, and they left him in a state of some uncertainty. The next day he received a letter from one and a telegram from the other, each reversing his former opinion and taking the ground of the other side. Since then I have always hud my re- serves with regard to the opinions of bankers." Can't you imagine now ravishing this dress would be in a g-iy red and v.-hite printed cre;je silk. A white crepe silk cape collar cov- ers the sleeveless arms sufficiently to make it quite suitable for town fjr warm days. The edge of the collar is finished in the daintiest way with a narrow frilling of self-tissue. The cleverly cut skirt gives extreme snugness through the hips. The panels will make you appear tall and slender Style No. 2341 is designed in sizes 14, 16, IS, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. Size 16 requires SVi, yards of 35-inch material with % yard of 33- inch contrasting. Carried out in one material a plain marine blue crinkle crepe silk is lovely. HOW TO OPDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you .vant. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferreci' wrap "it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West .Adelaide St., Toronto. Catching Health Col. Robert Ingersoll said one time in about these words, "without Intend- ing to be irreverent, it I were in charge ot the universe I would make healtti catchingâ€" not disease." It Is a lot easier to radiate good nature and buoyancy when enjoying robust health. Lord Bacon on the Art of Prolonging Life lu urging pliy^icians to give more thought to the art ot prolonging lite. Lord Baooa in The Advancement ot Learning says : â- This is a new part" ot medicine, •and deilcieiu, though the most ntble of all; for it may be supplied, medi- cine will not then be wholly versed tor necessity, but as dispensers ot the greatest earthly happiness that could well be conferred on mortals." "One can hear some sour Sohopen- bauerian protesting, at this point." says Will Diirant, commenting upon this statement in his Story ot Philos- ophy, "against the assumption that longer lits would be a boon, and urg- ing, on the contrary, that the speed with which some physicians put an end to our Illnesses is a consumma- tion devoutly to be praised. But Ba coo, worried and married and harassed though he was. never doubled that life was a very flue thing after all." This statement of a great philos- opher furnishes a sufficient answer to latter day critics who say that human lite never has been prolonged never cau be prolonged, and never should be prolonged. « Hlookworms Kill Live Stock. About JIOO.OOO.OOO In live slock Is killed each year by uemas, or hook- worms. July 31. Lesson V â€" The Giving of the Mannaâ€" Exodus 16: 1-S. 14, 15. 35. Golden Text â€" Every good g.ft and every perfect jift is from atJOve, and Cometh down from the Father of iightt. â€" lames 1. 17. ANALYSIS. I. .MURMURING, vs. 1-3, II. "BREAD FROM HEAVEN," VS. 4, -5. III. WJD'S PENSIONERS, VS. 14, 15, :i5. Introductionâ€" It is difficult U conceive the triumphant feeling which the passage of the Red» Sea called forth in Israel. The Israelites re- garded it as a signal act af God's favor and lovingkindness towards them. Their sense of gratitude was fittingly voiced in a psalm af praise on the shores of the sea, Exod., chap- ter 15. But after the Red Sea. the wilderne3.sl "That great and terrible wilderness," as it is so frequc;:l!y called in Deuteronomy. Here they were exposed lO privations and dan- gers on every hand, fierce roving tribes, whose hand ^.â- a3 against every man, wild beasts lurking in secret lairs, the oppressive heat of great, sun-smitten spaces, and the scarcity of water. The problem of water very soon engaged their attention. Btit God, in his lovingkindness. turned the bitter waters of Marah ':o a pleasant sweetness, Exod. 1.5: '12-2r>. In short, God was with them as they attemoted to revert, meanwhile, to the diffic'j'.t conditions of nomadic life. I. MURMURING, V2. 1-3. The Israelites, having left the oases of Elini. were now ia the wilderness of Sinai. Almost immediately the problem of food supply â€" always one of the most urgent problems of desert life â€" became acute. No mention of made that provisions had been brought from Egj'pt, and oven had there been some supplies brought along, they would be very soon co sumed. So ab- sorljed were the men of Israel in the distress ot the moment that they for- got swiftly and completely their joy- ous sense of gratitude that God had brought them through the Red Sea. Face to face with the difficulties ' f Kfe it is hard to sustain for very long an exalted spiritual i.iood. So these hunger-stricken Israelites turned against Moses and Aaron, their lead- ers, blaming them severely for having ever induced them to leav? Egypt, where they had had plenty, and to come into the wilderness, where they had almost nothing. .Although their murmuring was ostensibly airainst Moses and Aaron, it was in reality against God ; for Moses and .Aaron were but .servants under him. Hunger made the Israelites' memory, perh.ips also their imagination, lively; thoy recalled fondly the "flesh-pots" of Egypt. Most people in Bible-lands lived on a vegretable fare, but in Egypt the Israelites had enjoyed flesh. "They w^ere well off thero, whereas in th.! wildernes."! they .vere likely to die of starvation! II. "BREAD FROM HEAVE.N," VS. 4, -5. The world's problem has over be?n the problem of bread, but it is one in which God, the Sustainer of 'he Uni- verse, and the sleepless Kx'per of his people, is directly interested. He heard Israel's cry and promised them '"bread from heaven." What could this be? .\ promise iO vague was de- signed to stimulate tiieir curiosity and t" make them vigilant for its oming. I ' their r-i\ref'jl attention to the direc- tions laid down for gathering t, their obedience and their trust in God would bt put to the test. v. 4. Now when God gives bread from He.ivon, there is sufficient for ea^h dayâ€"hat no more. If 'srael followed God'? direc- tions there would be no davier "f hanger nor chance for hoarding. Eaoh day would have its labor of gathering, and each day its sufficient "iipply. God's command, "Gather a certain rate every day,'' is the Old Testa- ment counter, a.-v of the peti.ion in the Lord's Prayer. "Give as this day our daily bread." Evidently the 1, chering of the manna involved h.ird labor. No mauna fell on the Sabbath, but twice as much on the pp.'cedin,; day. The conditions under which the manna wa.s given reminded Lsriel that the Sal bath was to be k^pt sacred, even in the wilderness. III. god's pensioners, vs. 14, If), 33. Since the Israelites had had no pre- vious experience with this "bread from heaven" they exclaimed, i»n .see- ing it, "Manna," which means, in He- brew, "What is this?" This was the name by which the strange food was called lienceforth, v. 15. Its coming was mysterious. In the morning be- fore the dew disappeared it \v;i3 to be found on the ground, and its sppear- Miss Hld-k.j Maehata of Nagoya. Japan, who will represent her country at the Olympics, ia now In training at San FYancisco. ane was like hoar frost or, "like a thin .scab." \ description of what might be done with it is given in Num. 11:8. "They ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it." Now the Is.aelties live<, in a world of mighty â- wonders, because it was a world in- habited by the living God. To them the mar.nii was a wonder wrought by God. In this they were right. Biit God's wonders may appear in the ordi- narv process of nature. Travellers in the" Sinaitic Peninsula suggest that the manna ma\ have come through a process of nature peculiar to that re- giun. -A. species of tamarisk gives iff a sweet juice. "It exudes in summer b night from the trunk and branches. and forms small, round, white grains; in the early morning it is of the con- sistencv of wa.x, but the sun's rays soon melt it. The Arabj gather it in the early morning, boil it down, :»nd strain it thorugh coarse stuff. Its taste is agreeable, aromatic and as sweet as honey." Whatever may be the explanation of the manna, it had its origin at any rate in the b^ving- kindness of God. The Unvisited beyond that What was there, tbere farthest train. Da.v beyoad day the goutla wave- like plain. Deserts and deep canyons and silent forest 3 Climbing to snowy peaks without a stain. Groves of great fruits and towers built of old, Vlue-terracod hills and crystal streams and gold, softfronded palms, blue seas and golden beaches That murmuring fring<»s of white foam enfold. Dream-pralries spread with flowers Uuit never grew. And bree7.es balmier than ever blew. A aercec wilderness and mightier mountains .\nd deeper woods than traveller ever knew. News Oddities HKN Ali'JPTS KITTKNS. I.uray, \ a.â€" A hen which prefen kitten^i to baby chickii and which de- prived a cat in this vicinity of its :iis young ones has caused something ot • sen.satlon hereal>out. The hen is tne property of John Short of .-^Ima She found her ae«t occupied by a cat and half a doien ^new-born kittens, and promptly chas- ai. the cat out. Taking; possession of the kittens, the hen tirnily refused to allow their mother to get them again. This kept up for two weeks, ac- L'ording to the story, during which period the kittens had to be taknn from the hen's nest at mealtime and t,iven access to their mother. .Sixteen incubator chicks were put into the nest in an effort to alienate the aff**- tiuns of the hen, but she was not ia- terested. •MA.NU.SCRIPT LAUNDRY" Berlin â€" ".Any manuscript for ths laundry?" asks a nea dy dressed man who goes the round of the literary cafes here. His job â€" his uv^n ideaâ€" is making rejected articles look like new. "I am making a fair living out >f my literary laundry," he said. 'Manu- .scripts that have gone around a Jozea times are crease*!, thumbed, ink-stain- ed and penvil-marked. No wonder edi-. tors won't look ai them. "I clean them up and make them fit to be sent around again. Many cases I've known of them being accepted after rejection, and by the same edi- tor, too!" BUILD NKST ON GROUND. Cologne. May 20. â€" A pair of storks in the Cologne Zoo have upset tradi- tion and confounded -.rnithologists by building their nest on the ground â€" an unheard of thing in best stork circles. Wlien nesting time approached, the zoo management fur. ished the crut*© makings in the shap of a eartwheil covered with brushwood, mounted in the shi-ubbery four feet above ground. Whether .Mr. and Mrs. Stork consid- ered this elevation inadequate, or from some other consideration, they com- pletely ignored the arrangements and started construction work in a per- fectly fiat meadow, gathering in large quantities of paper scraps for lining the nest. -A, TALL FISHING STORY. Wm. Bergman and .A.U"red Crawford of Fort Kran.:es, Ont.. were about iti miles north of Mine Centre. Crawley felt that lake trout would be a wel- come change for supper so he began tishing. He caught a rtve-pounder. In the process of preparing it for tha pan he took it down to the lake to clean it. As he was doing so a huga great northern pike shot out of the reeds, grabl)ed the half-cleaned trout out of Ci-awley's hand and made off with it. Away went supper. Ami .\nJ mellower fruits and bluer, love- lier bays warmer starrier nights and idler days. No pain, no cruelty and no unkind- ness. Peace and content ^nd lovo that al- ways stays. â€" .T. C. Squire, in "Poems lyt .Atnerica and Others." Several pr.iminent ('anajian firms are having talking pictures made of their products aud pro- cesses to exhibit before the Imperial Conference iu Ottawa this month: It (5od were not a necessary Being of Himself. He might almost seem to be made tor the usa ot benefit of men. â€" .lohu Tillotson. Chile's Population Expected To Use 6 Million Paris Shoes The population of Chile is 4,271,- 39S. according to the otllciai .-onsua ot November ::T. 193i). and in normal times it is estimated that an aanual demand exists for between 6.000,000 and 7.01)0.000 pairs ot boots and shoes. Because these figures would alloir less than two pairs of shoes each year as the per capita lousuiniuion, the estimate given would appear to uuder-estimate the actual market, but it should be remembered that nearly 30 per cant, of the total popu- lation is composed of a ciass which either improvises its own footwear or goes barelooted the year round.â€" U. S. Commerce Reports. » Wool Manufacture Oldest Important Portuguese Tradfl Wooi maniifacturi! is one of th< olJest lui't imst important iudustriet in Porligal. parti'-ularly in the nor- thern part. The i.-lustiy. which U said to have e.\pan.ded lousidorably iu recent years, now comprises 198 mills, with about 50,000 spindlea aad l.^H ii jun. Covilha .ind vicinity, ;'i' • • -ti'.il weaving centres, has â- 1' ' â- ' : )oms. ot which 600 are h.i.'ii . The cloths mated 10,!t36 .'lOO.OOO annual priKliii-tion of wool iu l!ii> (^>vilha district is estl- at 4,.')iiU.O00 meters i meter â€" yards!. vaUieil at about $4,- â€"U. S. ComniercK Reports. A Higher Law Than That Of Man. VARCK4RSHAM COMMtTT**- ANfr C«(«Tvri»ft V< »p Tn*. oMir*^ »r/>T«v BwT Yovi'wc tfttw sr^>f OsjT ! tm..