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^ >•« «â- Â«â™¦Â»Â»â- Â»â- Â»-«« Gems of Peril By HAZEL ROSS HULEY. y*^^y^ â- Â«â- â™¦-♦-♦ ' .Mjuirtcd it on him by mistake, and â€" " I Mary burxt into peals of laughter. I "How do*s he explain those waxed I mustaches?" she demanded. "Don't tell me he keeps them like that in I self-defenfc?" ! "That I don't know," Delia denied. I "but I do know I'd have got married I meself years iiKO if I'd have found me 'as tine-lo<jkin' a young man as him!" (To be continued.) .SY.NiJI'.SI.S. KIrh oil) }klis. Jiiiiltir Ih robbed ami niur(l«r«d duiinn the eiiKUKCox^nt party â-  ha cave fur l>«r Hvcretury, .Murk Mai .;- ncs*. 8uit|di'ion poliilK to .Niary'x br(i- thcr, Bddle. who Is killrd by a I'ar as he SO«s to meet her. Iliuven. poU'-e report- er, discovers a lacctraik crook I'alled The Kly to whom IMdle'owcd money. Mary meGts Howen It) a sl'eakenny where The Kly Is KaUl to be hl.llni,-. Ulrk. her fiance, coniow to take hir lionie. lie Is m hlK way to look up the Jupiter necklace In his ornce safe. Just as Dirk locks up the necklace tliire Is a iranh outHl.l.-. Ilowtn lets the Ihleies Btnii.th Into hl.s car rather than overtake Mary a. 1 Dirk. Dirk disbelieves the exl«ten'-e of The Kly and Mary go. s oft with Uowen. CHAPTER XXII.â€" (Cont'd.) Bowen came hurrying in, his arms full of packages. In his left hand he held a whisky-bottle carefully by the neck. ".Sorry to be so long," he explained, •'but I had lo buy some powder and lomc other junk. . . I got a pretty good thumb print, I think, hut the rest are not so good . . . wanta wait here a little longer till I go up and develop this? I'll hurry. . ." "Whbt's the bottle for?" Mary ask- ed, bewildered. "Don't touch it!" He drew it away .f om her pointing linger. "It's hi.s â€" The r'ly's. Ho drinks a special brand. Mike sneaked it for me while Jack's back was turned. Let me get ups'.airs with it, quick, before soniething hap- pens to it." He was laboring under strong excitement. "Can y' imagine it? I been carrying this down the street like this. Afraid to wrap it up and smear the print. Wonder I wasn't pinched." He started off and Mary followed. "Oh, don't leave me hwel-v^One more black marlv-OIT my reputatT(K14ioa.-Qf that parting â€" all but won't l.\irt--rnrgoing up with you." And howled wit}i 'laUgW-er. - .-JJlrtKe elevator she asked bitterly, "Did you know what was in that magazine you gave me?" When they were out of hearing of an exotic-looking couple who went up in the elevator with them she told him. Bowen did not .seem impressed. "Oh, who reads that lousy little sheet anyway? A handful of nitwits with more money than brains, who know it anyhow, and about a million repressed schoolteacher.? wh' won't understand it after t'ney read it. For- get it." "Kniily Ann Ruyther reads it," Mary said worriedly. "I suppose she's in the midst of a pink fit by now." "Forget it! We'll .' ave Kmily Ann begging your par-on on bended knee bcfora we're through." He propped the door of his room what day it is! And the packing! open with a book i -.d laid his pur- , Who's to do that, if I don't, and how- chases out on the table, the precious can I do it at all if I don't begin?" To "Not much," she confessed and fol- lowed him, almost wobbling with faintness «nd weariness, to the grill, which was empty except for the couple they had seen in the elevator. Mary recognized them without more than a brief glancu. The odoi of the woman's oriental perfume was overpowering. The man with her was odd-looking, too â€" foreign, apparently. Such of their talk as drifted to her ears was in French, and his clothes sloppily worn, his hair thick and long below rrv,gg„ his large black felt hat. He wore a s all waxed mustache. Mary began to feel a peculiar un- eiLsiness. She had been unconvention- al in going to that room, if anyone chose to be priggi.sh about it. She would not have given it a second thought if it had nc been for these exotic-looking peojde. Continentals of that type always made her rush for .safety to the ideals of her Puritan ancestors. She drank hot coffee gratefully. Bowen did not talk much. "I was supposed to cover a Red riot in Jersey City tonight," he observed. And added complacently, "The heU with it." After that he did not talk at all. The couple pa.s.sed out of the room just ahead of thorn, pausing in the doorway to kiss passionately. •'Au revoir, my darling," muttered the siren, in a guttural voice with a iiiark.d accent. "Mus' you go?" "I must, sweet." He tore hiniiself from her arms, and 1 urricd out. Mary ami Bowen made amused grimaces at each other. In the door- way they gave an ex."ggorated imita- the kiss. Autumn Maple What Ki>l(l';n Idior rose through trunk and bouifh IVoni unimai^lnod .â- ;prlngs wltbi'J the earth With Boundless flo.v tho summer long, that now This fountain luminously comes to birth And spills upon tho frosty air a s:iray That stai.'s with gold this blue Oct- ober day? descend will Dominion's newest weather at Moosonee on James Bay should prove of great value to avia- tors, according to Andrew Thomson, chief physicist of the Dominion Mete, orological Service, who has complet- ed a visit to several northern sta- tions. The 1)ureau, ranked as a first class station, will record - temperatures, hours of sunshine, precipitation, wind velocity and other information neces- sary to the work of forecasting wea- ther conditions. k% at other outlying stations, the Moosonee bureau will wire reports twice daily to the Toronto observa- tory, stations are already establish- ed at Fort Churchill, Chesterfield In- let and in the Hudson Straits, and -tbe new one will fill a gap and The dandified stranger, cane over hi.' arm, small waxed mustache bristling, paced the curb impatiently as tho doorman sought a cab. Mary ai.d Bowen, waiting their turn for a taxi, watched him involuntarily. He was like something out of "La Vie -arisienne." When the cab came up, he .said loudly, "Can you take me, please, to Jupiter House, at the Point, Pleasant Hills?" Mary clutched Bowen'.s arm. "I ki.ew I'd .seen him .Somewhere! It's Bruce Jupiter, come hoine!" .she cried. CHAPTER XXIII Delia thrust her head and demamled : ing to get up. in the door 'Aren't you ever go- Miss Mary? Think bottle occupying an open space all its own. After that, they did not bother to talk. Bowen .set to work and Mary watch, ab.sorbed. The thumb print cam9 up clearly, the others were, .*is he had said, too faint to be of much good. Presently he raised a flushed, per- spiring countenance and said dram- matically, "Now!" He laid on the table the sheet of paper containing the fingerprints obtained from the gun. Beside it he placed a finger- print chart and a magnifying glass. Occupying tho place of honor stood the whisky-bottle, erect, its powder- blackened r.ides showing a variety of finger-smudges. He bent his eye to the magnifying glai>R, moving it from one to the other, back and forth. "I'm no expert," he said, at last, "but if those thunih-prints aren't Identical, I'll cat 'cm. I'll get an ex- port's opinion on it, if yon want it. The boys in the identification bureau will do it for me." "Do it, will you?" she asked eager- ly. "I accept your word, but we must be absolutely certain." "Right. TomoiTow, without fail. Well, Miss Sherlock Holmes, let's shut up shop for tonight." Ho removed a pile of clean shirts from a dresser drawir, laid his ex- hibits carefully away in the empty drawer, locked it, and they went out. "It's only 10 o'clock," he whispered In tho elevator. "You'll be home and in beddy-bye in an hcur. What could be sweeter? And don't worry, your boy-fricnd'll como around all right. Kc«p a stiff upper lip, and remember what you've got now to knock sense Into him with,â€" that whisky bottle!" .She didn't wrnt to hear him talk about it. She was more grateful than ahft could ever say for the surety ho had just given her. It made her course «Iear. But personally, he had become faintly repulsive to her . . . that de- claration of hi.i was shocKiiiif, some- how, centred as her emotions were in Dirk, and Dirk only. Perhaps she drew away slightly; her feelings may i>avo shewn in her face. "Listen, forget what I said a while ag^o, wiH you?" he sain. "I ought not to haveâ€" but hell, ytu asked for it! And I know it doesn't make any dif- ference lo you." "Oh, I'd forgotten all about itl" she astsurcd him, surprised at his percep- tion. They stepped out into the lobby. "Hungry?" he a.sked. "Better have a cup of coffee before you go. You 'v dene up. Did you eat anything :: -y's?" Mary gave up trying to feign sleep any longer, and forced herself to face the old servant's curious eyes. "I'm not going away just yet, Delia," she told her. "Don't ask mo any questions. I can't bear to talk about it. And put these things out of sight, won't you?" She pointed to yesterday's purchases piled about the room. Then she turned her telltale eyes away. "An' a fine moniin could wi.sh for a grumbled. "Oh, I'll be getting married one of these days â€" don't look so dour," Mary assured her, "I've this and that to do first, that's all. Did Mr. Bruce the au- showers that deepen soon burn, shed pools* upo: tumn grass That seems to mirror .some refulg- ent upon Whoso sun is held Immobile in the glass. â€" .\delaide Love, in "Voices." Aid to Aviators The bureau Proper Toys Aid Self-Expression In Children Play Tilings Help Learning â€" Children Bored Without Adequate Play New Haven, Conn. â€"Children devel- op tantrums because they are bored, according to Dorothy Cannon Thomp- son of the Yale University faculty and director of the Cannon Nursery School of New Haven, a laboratory of child life where students in the Department of Eduttation of Vale University study child development. It is Mrs. Thomp- son's belief that the lack of proper provision for play Is probably the most common cause for the 'cantaker- ous child." "Children who are supposedly hav- ing the best of modern care in super- ior homes. In hospitals or In Institu- tions are being almost universally hampered in their growth through lack of proper provision for play," Mrs. Thompson said. "Active, constructive play leading to growth is by no means a panacea for the difficulties of child- hood, but the implications in the so- cial, emotional and mental develop- ment are such that one can no lonser afford to ignore the subject. Seek Self-Expressior. "A child is always seeking self-ex- pression. Just like a grown-up, he feels the thrill of accomplishment. In the cradle he wants to wave a rattle, because in moving his arms and mak- ing a noise he feels that he is really doing something. He is making things happen. After he begins to walk he is conscious of new possibilities. He wishes to carry things, to push things about, to build things and take them apart again. He sees his father and mother doing things he wants to emu- late. Picture books, small-sized house- keeping toys, such as mops and brooms, miniature garden tools, enable him to fulfill this desire, while such things as blocks, paint, clay, ham- mers, nails and pieces of wood will ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALAM "Fresh from the Gardens" too, as anyone weddin'." she greatly assist- the service, accor'ding give him the opportunity of carrying to Mr. Thomson. The Meteorological Service worka under what is known as the "polar fvcnt method," which was worked out in Norway during the war years. Great strides have been made dur- ing 'tlie past few years, Mr. Thom- son says, but. reports every six hours and observations by means of planes would greatly facilltato the work of forecasting accurately. The Moosonee Bureau is establish- ed at James Bay Inn. The wind in- struments arn on the root and the other instruments are set up nearby. James Kingston, manager of tjie Inn, has been placed in charge ot the station. Gems from Life's Scrap-book Power "Patience and gentleness is power." â€" Leigh Hunt. "Power obeys reality, and not ap- pearances; power is according to uuality, not quantity." â€" Kmerson "Power dwells with cheerfulness." â€" Emerson. "God is everywlicre. and nothing apart from Him is present or has power." â€" Mary Baker Eddy. "Pretension is nothing; power is everything." â€" Whipple. "The highest power may be lost by misrule." â€" Syrus. "Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose." â€" Tacitus. out his own ideas in an original way. ".\t all times a healthy child is a dynamo ot energy. The younger he is the shorter Is the time he can stick at any one thing. It is, there- fore, necessary to have on hand a variety of toys, especially things to manipulate and experiment with at first. Later he will need more con- structive materials to use his increas- ing abilities. When children are "can- takerous' it is often because they are bored. They have exhausted their immediate environment and have grown restless for new worlds to con- quer. 'I don't know what has got into Johnny, he is so naughty.' It usually means that John Jr., having been pro- vided with no suitable play materials of his own, has appropriated the kit- chen clock, or the family carving set. "At the age ot six, it not- before, a child must go to school to begin his formal education. But what a lot he must have learned to be ready for this; to manage his own body skilfully, to climb and run i.nd jump; to find out about the world immediate- ly about him; to know tho meanings of a great many words; to distinguish between different sizes and weights, between things hard and soft, things round and square and how these all work together. "These are some ot the things that he may learn from his toys, and he will if his play materials are chosen with that end in view. Manv of them [need not be purchased. Packing j boxes, boards, orange crates, as well las spools, pieces of cloth, wrapping [paper and kitchen utensils, presented to him for his 'very own,' help out tremendously in the family toy bnd- jget. There are other things that may ineed to be bought and these should pass three fundamental tests: they [should be simple and durable, should jbe suited to a variety of uses requir- |lng Ingenuity, and should fill a defin- ite development need of the child. Toys Which Please Parents. "Far too many toys are bought sim- ply because they appeal to the father and mother. "Toys should fill some need of the child, and it is only by studying chil- dren that it has been possible lo de- termine what these needs are and how best to sati.sfy them. That is why modern toymakers are rapidly aban- [doniug their conventional designs and are appealing to the child psycholog- lists for guidance." } The Doctor's Task ' By Dr. J. Bentley Squeir, President of American College of Surgeons. I The passing of the "old-time" prac- 1 titioner has been made a subject of much lamentation, and, from a purely I sentimental angle, deservedly, for em- [bodying, as he often did, the attributes [of friend, priest and physician, he held [a very personal relation to his patient, I and his virtues have beeri loudly ex- tollejl. The paucity of his scientific infor- mation was offset by a great breadth of character and a wealth of human understanding. These qualities will jever remain the most distinguishing I signs of greatness in any pliysician jof whatever period. i Every new step on the path of know- I ledge has opened to our vision un- i charted deserts of human ignorance. I If the goal of scientific progress Is I the production ot human happiness, ; we ot today may become objects of se-vere criticism fifty years hence for not having better utilized the scientific [discoveries ot this generation. j It behooves us to acquire the "old- â- time" doctor's human understanding, I kindly disposition and humble atti- . tude, for these are fundamentals of I our calling, and also In order to I neutralize any criticism of our own j shortcomings which in years to come I is bound to be made. Champion Cheese Taster "Yes, and gone away again, al- ready." Delia thumped pillows about grumpily. "I don't know whatovcr's come over the world that a nice young man like Mr. Bruce can't set iooi in his home without his own father layin' it onto him. Faith,' and if I wius Mr. Bruce, I'd never come homo, that I would not!" "Delia! What do you mean?" DellaTet sturdy arms akimbo, and gave forth the details with relish. "Did they row! Kaith, and ye never heard the like! Says his pa„ "You're a skunk and a scalpeen lallygaggin' 'rounil Kurope with them low foreign- ers, too busy spondin' money to come home, and yer mother lyin' dead! Too busy to send a cablegram or a wreath o' flowers for her coffin! How have ye tho fact to walk in here with the black con.scienco on ye, dressed like a dudo and niiellin' of rotten per- fume?'" Delia paused for lack of breath. Discounting the obvious Celticisms, Mary was still able to form a good idea of what Mr. Jupiter had said and meant, in greeting his only son. 1 "What did Mr. Bruce say?" she prompted. Pumping servants was not | a thing one did every day, but Mary [ excused herself on the groun<l that | she had to know what Bruce was go- j ing to do, before she could decide what i to do herself. "Oh, sure, he'd a bunch of excuses j at his tongue's tip. He'd sent a friend out to send off a cablegram, ho said, \ and how was he to know it never j went? And it was only a fortnight ago that hp got the newa, indeed; he ', was that high up in t^em Alps moun- j tains, paintin' pictures of glayshers, ' and the like of that. An' whei. he got the mcesage, he come down at once, ' iwid took the first l)oat. An' if his pa want.s lo know where come that per- fume from, the man in the barbershop ".\iiy (.-haiises for the bcttt>r ii; foot- ball this season?" "Yes. Understand that not more than one ticket speculator will be al- lowed to tackle a single patron fit tlie same time." Longer Ocean Liners A change in the dcj^.jjw ot steam- shii'S, involving a five per cent, in- crease In length which would bring an Increase in efficiency of almost 100 per cent, is near birth in the experiments ot German scientists, Pr. Fritz Zelcky, physicist ot the Calil'ornia Institute ot Technology at Pasadena, California, said. Dr. Zeicky said the principal experi- ments indicated that if most ocean liners were severed in tho middle and a section inserted. Increasing their lengths but slightly, an Immense im- provement would •be obtained. He told of tests near Hamburg, Ger- many, In which parafln steamship mo- dels were propelled at thu rate ot 30 miles an hour. I'Voin these tests have come the theory of an improved design through increased length, the physicist .said, and equally important research Is under way on the shapes of prows and sterns. The scientist predicted the future would bring considerable change In the types of prows. One of these would be designed with a bulge both at top and bottom, leaving the centre concave. Another proposes a straight profile, jutting forward at the top. Tests of this, the 'barge" type, have indicated It is better adapted to rough seas. He's the "big cheeae" among the cheese-tasters. Donald Smith, a .Mississippi youth, at a recent dairy show in Detroit scored hicshest and won the |750 prize. Turbulent, discontented men of (Hiality,ln proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and ar- rogance, generally despise their own order. â€" Burke. Polluted Air Disease Carrier Smoke, Soot and Dust Cut Off Ultra-Violet Rays Washington.â€" Polluted air, prevent- ing human beings from re-eiving their due share of ultra violet rays ranks with polluted milk and water as a health menace. Dr Fred C. Tonncy, of the Chicago Health Department, told the Public Health Association meeting here that ill effects r.n health of shutting oft the sun's ultra-violet light by smoke, soot, dust, fofe and other Impurities are more serious and widespread than gen- erally realized. Dr. Haven Emerson, ot Columbia University, reported there are even indications that it may be a contribut- ing factor in causing rheumatic fever that results in illness and death of many children. The amount of heart disease in children caused by rheu- matic fever falls off steadily from Boston south to Atlanta, he said, seeming to correspond to the increas- ing amount of sunshine as one moves south. Decreased sunshine may increase activity of the rlieumatic fever virus. There is no rheumatic fever in Puer- to Rico. Dr. Kmerson said, which has plentiful sunshine. Sanger In Smoke Dr. Tonney explained that smoke palls hanging over cities, especially in winter, often have such far-reaching and unsuspected effects as making teeth more liable to decay, endanger- ing health of mothers before and af- ter , childbirth, and lowering resist- ance to disease. Rickets, due to lack of sunshine, is one of the most preval- ent of childhood diseases. Laye;-s of children's teeth built up when sunshine is deficient lack lime and are easily attacked by decay which spreads to the healthier parts of the teeth. Dr. Tonney said. He added that lack of Vitamin D, sup- plied by ultra-violet light, prevents mothers from absorbing from their food the extra calcium and phosphorus they need during pregnancy and the nursing period. Dr. Emerson found that children who have had rickets are especially susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonii, measles, whooping cough convulsions and tuberculosis. "We can now provide a health mo- tive for the clearing ot the skies," Dr. Tonney asserted, "a motive as funda- mental and far reaching as those that brought about the control of water- borne and milk-borne disease." Plants wt-re raised recently in Kew f.ardens, London, from lotus seed found in Manchuria and believed to be more than a century old, and even four centuries, or older. Among the Royal stamp collectors, in addition to H.M. the King, there are the Queens of Italy and the Bel- gians, Prince Leopold, Crown Prince ot Sweden, and King Kuad of Egypt. 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