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Mappy Medium Between Comfort and . Economy. How far to let economy interfere with comfort and how far to let com-j 'fort interfere with economy in buying and operating an automobile are deli- cate questions which require keen dis- .crimination. To get the fine balance between the two is a fine art that can ' 'be cultivated to the advantage of the motorist. ' Just as the thrifty person is apt to lean over backward in his parsimony and penny pinching habits, which are not in reality the qualities that go to' make up genuine thrift, so the pros- 1 , pective owner of an automobile or the ' . present possessor cf a car is apt to carry economy methods to ruch an ex- ' treme that a great deal of comfort and . enjoyment which ought to be a driver's . is weighed in the balance and found wanting. For instance, the man who is am- bitious to own a car and his name is Vegion approaches a salesman to be . to'd that such and such a car will go . BO many miles on a gallon of gas. He will infer that because of this fact it is an economical machine to purchase. .. This particular car may be the hardest riding car on the market. Therefore, if there is any economic value in com- fortable riding, this automobile may not represent a thrifty purchase at all. Springs a Big Factor. The whee'.base of a car ia a factor that enters into its comfortable riding qualities. The springs represent an- other factor that make for or against easy transportation. The upholstery of one car may be more comfortable than that of another. The size and kind of tires make a difference in the' ease with which one- rides. The way a car is balanced affects comfort. So does the balance of the engine, which has to do with the vibration. Whether a car is of the closed or open type has a great deal 10 do with comfort, espe- eially in the cold weather months and during the spring and fal! rainy sea- 1 son. Whether an engine has four, six,' . eight or twelve cylinders affects the riding quality of a car. The more cylinders the more even the torque and the less the vibration. The height of . the car from the ground affects the probability of its tipping over under certain conditions, and consequently the comfort of the occupants, or at! least their peace of mind. A low ! swung car usually has about as much' road clearance as a car with a bodyj higlu'v off the ground and is less apt to turn turtle. The weight of a car, aftV.'t* its riding qualities. So does the amount of gasolin? and oil used. The comfort of the driver is affected also by the position of the levers and , pedals and the general set of the front , teat. Some of these factors in comfort cost a little extra and the prespec- tive owner has to decide whether the ad<le 1 comfort to be secured will be 1 worth the added cost. Usually it is worth all of that and more. Of 'and the worst is vet to come course, the matter of comfort can be carried too far and a lot cf money', can be spent on things which add a : mirr'mum of comfort at a maximum of expense. But the reverse is more apt' to prevail. An extreme case of econ- omy vs. comfort is illustrated by the, man who did not want a self-starter, on his car. He preferred to crank' the engine each time he set out on a journey in preference to using what 1 gas might be required to develop the' power to operate the generator that charged the starting batteries. The Ideal Car. The ideal to be hoped for is to get a I car which will transport the owner from where he is to where he wants to go at a reasonable cost and with a lib- 1 eral amount of comfort. Having pur-, chased a car the owner is still up against the question of economy va. ' comfort. He may cut down the gas to' the lowest possible point when operat-j ing his auto. On a cold day it will take many minutes to warm up his engine on this plan. The power to accelerate and get away is impaired. On the, other hand, if money is no object to him, he may use too much gas and, develop carbon trouble. Consequently,! comfcrt may be- limited by too much of a good thing as well as too little. < Certain methods of driving save ; gas, like speeding up then coasting with the throttle closed entirely, but this does not make for comfort in driving. It U often a mistaken idea; to keep out of car tracks when the' road beside them is rough, because the owner thinks the tracks cause ex-j tra wear and tear on the tires. To go out with a car on a wet day' and neglect to put on chains may make for a little easier riding of the car for awhile, but the fear of ac- cident more than offsets this and the saving effected by not having chains.' With motor accidents on the increase, it is in keeping with comfort of mind and the lowered expense of avoiding accidents to take every possible pre- caution against dangerous experiences.' Accident, suits of damage and wreck- j ed cars are very expensive. There are a lot of patent economiz-; era or. the market, headache pills and powders for gasoline, devices fastened on the manifold to give the engine a shot of oxygen or morphine. Some of' these economizers are all right, but many of them tend to frugality at the expense of comfort. Supplementary springs, for instance, 1 often make for ease in riding, but they should be selected with care. Tonneau wind shields add to comfort and to the amount of gas required.; Headlights that give added brightness and a well directed light make for comfort. Economy in lubrication should not be carried far unless the driver wants the discomfort of a dry bearing and the expense of repair-! ing it. The happy medium between comfort and economy exists and should be con-! stantly studied by the motorist who is interested in both. CORRECT BREATHING VITALLY IMPORTANT LONG STEP TOWARD HEALTH AND HAP- PINESS. Breathing is, in Effect, Our Most Important Function, ^ Say Noted Physicians. It is thi'ouKh ignorance of our own powers and of how to develop and uso t!iL-m that we fail to attain hap- piness, and in the case of each of us the extent of that ignorance may easily be measured by simply noting the degree in whkh \ve fall short of being happy, says Dr. Goliardo. In tinvtively we feel this, and instinc- tively therefore we are all endeavor- ins to dispel our ignorance and reach- Ing on i for more exact knowledge of our rwiwers and how to develop and uff them To express this deficiency and in- efficiency in a brief simile, civilized mankind may be likened to a tree that U conscious of the nutriment drawn by it from the jrroumi, but has so com- pletely overlooked the fact that a large proportion of Its substance must be drawn from the air tlwt it has neg- lected to put forth leave*. We all know that such a tree^would very quickly perish, and, as a matter of fact, it is equally true that the very portion of the human race which con- aiders itself most highly civilized is in reality creeping along on the very brink of extinction for no oilier rea- son than the fact that it has fallen uiidixv th evil spell of an ignorance and neglect of one of its most vital functions. This ignorance and neglect are. indeed precisely similar to that whivh in our simile \ve have attrib- uted to our ImagiiiHry tree which over- looked the usefulness of air and the consequent desirability of putting forth leave* to vatch the air. Dependent I' pun Air. In other words, we have overlook- ed the fact that a large part of our n:au?rial bodies is derived from the air. and that when we neglect to so develop snd utilize our lungs as to get from the air the full benefit which na- ture intends us to receive from the. air we pay the penalty not only in de- creased bodily efficiency, but a!sk>.' and in an even greater degree, in a certain falling: short of mental alert- ness ami spiritual viajor. The cultivation of our lungs which means the cultivation of die art of breathing ought to be the very foun- dation ard commencement of our edu- cational system, instead of being so little understood and appreciated that very little information about the sub-; jeot is brought to the attention of our children while they are still in the re-, oeptive ar.d plastic stage of human life. A life time of aimiessness of pur-' pose, of k>ose>r*9s of thurkfnfr, of: clumsiness of action and barrenness of achievement is the penalty which many of our children pay as the natu-i ral and direct result of this criminal; neglect on our part ;o properly in- struct and train them. Far better in this respect the custom of the so- i called savage racea In which the mothers most carefully watch the- breathing habits of their children and takeeffec'ive measures to prevent them ! from falling, for example, iino such a slovenly practice as inhaling through j the mouth instead of through fclie nose. Chief Task .-. Human Body. Thwt the art of breathing ig in reality the meet important funotkm o^ the human hody is shown arvd etai>-' iished by the fact that, although we can live without food for weeks and without water for days, the- best of us could not livo without a-'r for mo-re | titan two or three miir.'.tes at most. Death would ensue from lack of oxy-j gen, the element which Rives warmth' and energy to the body the element which makas it possible for the food : which we eat to be transformed into) rmisolo ard bono and tissue the el-j ment in short which can be called the steam of life the ste*im which im-| parts motion and effectiveivess to that wonderful machine, the human body,' *o perfect in Its adaptability to all i purpose's of life aivl vc-t 90 neglected and miihaixUwl through ignorance that th-e average man lives but half hi; possible days and during the days that he does live enjoys but half of his possible energy and efficiency, and consequently attains to but half his possible happiness. Although, therefore, a part of this! falling short of the full abundance of life comes from failure to understand and care for the stomach the gal- vanic centre in which the food is re- ceived and separated in various con- stituents required by the body yet by far the greater part of our inef- fectiveness comes from failure to, understand and operate the lungs. A celebrated English physician, Dr. Tucker Wise, says: "Learn to inhale habitually through the nose and not by the mouth. Children ought to be taught this habit when they are young. The nasal passages act as a filter for the inhaled air. Many at- 1 mospherir impurities and disease germs which would otherwise enter the throat and lungs are thus arrested and are finally expelled with the nasal mucus." KM!- of Nose Breathing. Again. Dr. Clinton Wagner in his treatise on mouth breathing by chil- dren says: "Those of mature age must be impressed with the necessity of per- sisting in nose breathirg. It is ex- tremely difficult for one who has been. addicted for any length of time to the habit of mouth breathing to break himself of that bad habit. For those who are addicted to the practice of, keeping the mouth open during sleep only enforced closure may be success- fully carried out by means of a linen support over the lower Jaw. properly adjusted." Th.? fact is that the nose has sev- eral important functions. The one with which we are here concerned is its use as a passage through which the air should properly obtain access to the lungs. The air nassinjr through the nose i* raised to the temperature of the body before it reaches the larynx. Furthermore, the air is made moist by the secretions of the nos. and the hairs which grow in the nose act as a filter, which separates the impurities from the air so that they do not en-ter the lung*. This is easily . demonstrated after you have been in . the streets by passing the point of your little finger covered with a cor- ner of your handkerchief into th* mostrils. When you withdraw your finger and the hancikershief you will find it covered with dirt which would : otherwise have uassct 1 into the throat and lungs and possibly cause*! n-ouble. The Winning Side. Do you know this, that iu yourself You hold the power to make or mar Your future life, and you can be A better man than now you are? Though Fortune frvwn. though days be dark. Though all seems los* beyond recall. That is no reason to despair. For you. yourself ew-n change it all. Asik then, sincere!}, what you lck If it is faith, or strength of mind, And, if you auewer ae you should. No fau'.t with ottiers >oa will find, The very fact that you are dc-wn. That you no chance ii; life can we, ShouM urge you on to try again: The *pur is your r.evessity. Remember that, as you are ivow, So were the great men in the past. What they have doiw you, too, can do. 1 Where'er your walk in life Is cast. ; A cheerful smile, a steadfast heart, A faith that will not be denied These things alone shall lift you up ' And put you or. the winning ide. George B. Rlghter. BEST WAY TO RE- MEMBER ANYTHING Irrigation received a considerable j aliure of the attention of the members of the Alberta Legislature during the! sassier, that has just closed, writes . James C.'olley, Secretary. Western j Canada Irrigation A*soeiatior., Ca!-j gary, Aita. Biiis making provision for the guaranteeing of the ixmds of the Ur.ited Irrigation District and the Maclecd South Irrigation District were passed and a swtion was added to the Irrigation Districts Act, 1922, giving' pcwer to the boarris of trustee* cf. irrigat:c:i- districts to accept listings' of lands within their respe.-t.ivp dis- tricts and to conduct negotiations for! the sale or other disposal of these' lands, subject to the general control < of the Irrigation C-juncil. In 'the case of the United Irriga- tion District the government guaran- tees amounra to $645.000. The dis- trict covers an area of 61,19o acres, cf which 23.000 acres are irrigable, be- tween the Waterum and Be'ly Rivers and west of The Blood Indian Reserve in Southern A'berta. The bill f 01* the South Macleod Dis- trict embracing an area of approxi- mately 98,000 acres, of which about 60.000 acres may be considered irriga- ble, lying south-west cf the town of Macleod and west of the Bdiy and Waterton Rivers, gives the govern- ment of Alberta power to guarantee the bonds of this district up to $2-050.- 000, provided it is satisfied thru satis- factory arrangements are made as to the settlement of the surphis lands in the district. In his report of the South Macleod Irrigation District which was tabled in the house during the seseion, D. \\~. Hays, the consulting engineer to lh Arberta Government, estimates that the cost of construction of the wcrka of ih South Macleod Irrigation Dis- trict will amount to $1,778,657, or $29.81 per acre on the basis of 60,000 acres of irrigable land in the District. Allowing for the discount of the sale of the bonds and their capitalization for a period of two years during the construction of the scheme, Mr. Hays estimates that a tocal of $2.042279 will be required. The bill giving the trustees of the irrigation distracts power to accept listings for the sale, of the surplus lawsi in these d^triet-s is a practical indication thai the matter of securing settlers for the irrigated areas ia baing attc-rvied to. The report of tfw Survey Board foi Southern ASfcerti the Royal Cam- mission that was appointed by the government of Al'-Jerta for the purpos* of inquiring into the conditions ir. '.hat part of the province resulting from I succession of years of drought ram* in for o-rnsiilerable discussion in the earlier part of the session acd was frequently referred to throughout :'. sitting. In this report irrigatkr. 11 considered to be the main soiuticn ol the problems of Southern Alberta Another report Healing with irriga- tion that was tabled during the es-ioi was the first annual report of the !r rigarion Council. IS TO FORGET ALL ABOUT IT, SAYS THIS WRITER. Cautious. "Would you wish the lady's nanu> [ engraved in tho ring?" the jeweler supges^ed pleasantly. "Kh? Why. no." the cautious young man resporuexl. ''Suppose you just! p. : t "To my beloved." Well-Trained Mind Knows What to Forget, as Well a* What to Remember. My friend Tomkyns attributes his success in life entirely to his capacity for forgetting. It is not half so diffi- cult to remember anything ad it Is to forget what we don't wish to rsuieiu- ber. But forgetting is an art well worth cultivation. The great Disraeli always claimed that the reason he got on so well with Queen Victoria was that he knew which of her instructions to forget. We all have to prat-Use the virtue of overlooking little indiscretions on the part of our friends at one time or an- other, but probably few o( us realize that th'-s question of forgetting goes to the root cf every detail of our daily existence quite apart from the attempt to dismiss troubles from the mind. It may appear a startlrr.s statement. but it is perfectly true that we can never do anything while we are think- ing about it. It is not till we have for- gotten it that we can do it, strange to s-.iy. In the case of sport, dancing, singing, etc.. this is perfectly plain. To cogitate about it is proverbially to fail in the performance. How often we say that a person is too self-coa- sciou-s -or. in ether words, thinks about whai he is going to do too much, to be successful in performing the task. In connection with health, forgetful- r.e*s w all-important. If we remember that we have eaten such and such a dish, or can't sleep after coffee, we are certain to be the victims of our idea?. Our bodily functions should operate quite unconsciously. Directly we think about them we throw them out of gear. If you ask me about breathing, di- gestion, etc.. I reply most emphatical- ly: "Forget them for your health's sake " Don't Pamper New Ideas. It is perhaps less easy to understand tua: we can reason out problems with- out thinking about them, but as a mat- ter of tact cur mind often works with- out definite thought on our part. The operation of memory' -perhaps the greatest function of the brain- works almost entirely unconsciously. How often we realize this when we can't think of a name, or place- or date, and so long as we try to bring it to mind we fail, but directly we put !t out of our thoughts. It eomee to mind apparently of its own accord. The super-mind Is essentially the one that knows there is a time for re- member ing and a time to forget. Sup- posing a problem has to be solved. So long as the tired brain Is tortured for an answer, so Icng will tfce mind re- main a blank Take the other line, however. For- srei ail aboil 1 it. i-eave t.he thought alone, ami after a night's sleep it may bo that the desired idea will present itself bright from the mint of the un- derground workshop of the brain. lu the domain of hea'th nothing may be wo :*. th.ui a pamperi'J thought. Jumpy hearts, for instance, ca-n easily be produced by n wrots Mea. Get vjd of the notion that the heart's action is affected, and the organ beats correctly again. A physician friend givea me the following: actual cn.se in his ex- perience: "A young man came to me cotnplniu- ing of severe pain iu the region of the heart. It had. according to his ac- count, been gradually increasing: for some time. It frequently came en af- ter lie had ruu a;-.-; IKS. or when ruu- n.:ng to catch a train. Would I tell him if his heart was all right * 'I examined the heart, and found no trace of any abnormal condition. I told him that his heart was absolutely sound and there was nothing to sug- gest disease anywhere. He went away, and I never expected to see him again. Five months later, however, he came to thank me for 'curing his heart.' I 1 remembered the case, and was fairly : staggered. " 'But. bless my soul.' I said rather brusquely, 'there never was anything the matter with your heart.' As Bad as the Real Thing. " 'Xo.' he replied, this time with a quiet smile: 'I know there wasn't All I cau say is that from the time you told me It was all right the pain disap- peared. But before that the pain was real.' " My medical friend says that no doubt it was. This young fellow, otherwise a sensible youth, had, by coming to believe that his heart wa* diseased, quite unconsciously so ex- cited the nerve centres that the brain received exactly the same impressions as would have been caused by the dis- ease. Kant, the great philosopher, was subject to oppressive palpitation of the heart, but he conquered his trouble by giving his whole attention to in- tellectual work, and forgetting all about hid ill-health. In factories i! has been found that the best work is done when the opera- tor gets into the swing of the task and does not think too deeply about the job in band. It is Jiwt as easy to make up our mind one way or another, to get rid of a thought or to dwell on one idea. As Wil'.iam James, the American psych. - legist, says, it requires as much mus- cular effort to take one p**t the dentist's door a* it does to take one iu. : All that is needed it to "w*K" the one thing or the other. And what is wlll- ' ing itself, but Che selecting and keep- ing hold cf one idea by banishing all the others ? It is the greatest mistake to be con- stantly brooding over ;my single idea. Once it had served the purpose of the moment, let it go. Forget it! Borrowed Gema. Perpetua-l pushing and assurance will make a s^emir.? -IE possibility ::'.ve way. Jeremy Collier. It was the saying of a great man that "if we could trac* our descents we should find all slave* to come from ' princes ar.d a!l princes from slave; ' Seneca. It is generally the man who doesn't know any better wbxj does the things that can't be done. The fooi doe* n't , know that it can't be done, so !:e t-.i-j ahead and does it. Charles Aa<'ia Bates. Finish every day and be dar.f with it. You have done what ycu could; some blunders acd ab*urd : r- crept in forget them as soon is -.1 t-aji. To-morrow is a. new day. and >v-u *hall : begin it wall and sereceiy. ar:J v.titi too high a spirit to be eEc-j:ub>Ted i with your old nonsense. Emerson. I saw a it. .cute flower h.i.l grown up two feet h : gh between tho horse's path aod ihe wieej-tract An inch . more to the right ,>r left had =ea:d :t fate, or an iach higher; a-, i yet il , lived to flourish as much a* ; rod ja thousand acrea of untrodi: . -;iac<i .around it. acd never knew t^-> '.a.r.get 1 it incurred. It did not borro.v '.rouble, nor invite an evil fate by a; -.-:; ::<! ing it. -Thoreau. The Day Has Come. "Wben I was a littie boy." !;e .- T- geant said to his mv;i. at '.iie e:ui of aji exhaustive hour of drill. "I had a set of wootlei: -. . . - There was a poor little boy in th-_> neighborhood, and af- ter I hod been to Sunday-scihool ona day. and listened to a st-irrtag tale on the beauties of charity. I wns softened enough to give them to him. Then I wanted them back, but my mother ?aid. 'Don't cry. Hertie. Some day you will get your wooden sc4.lie.rs back. 1 And, believe me, you nnr ton-headed, gooe^bruiaed. prehistoric s"t of certi- fied rolling-pins, that day has come! Dismiss !" > Shale Oil Record. Shale oil production ia Australia reached a record figure in excess ol , 2.800.000 gallons in the !a*t fiscal year. The Housewife's Problem in Russia An English woman who recently, made a visic to Soviet Russia was as-| tonished to discover that the house-, wife of that country i* in a sad plight, j Her investigation was not along the; lines th*t ore generally chosen by : the visitor. She made a poini of looking into the affairs of the Rus-; sian home, and her observation is thai every individual and every family | has reverted to primitive conditions. IK Petrograd and Moscow families] live in flats of great, many storied j ~cs, just as they do in New York.: The difference is tha* they h no j modern facilities. They mut carry their water up ;ong ilights* of stairs. and must carry refuse and garbage down i:i pails. They have no mn>! iving water sys;em ard r.o seweras* system. However, there is some comfort in! : h'; a-:t bh,t very li.ttje wate:- l % s, nccJt.i, fVr there is nothing to wan ar.d nothing to wash with. There ia] no fuel to heat rhe water and there J is no scap. For a while- there was a i.-.v^-d soap supply, but that is r.-'.v ev-.u'.st- 1 ed, and oiwy a certain favored few. HJ-O issued arty rations by the o''i^' j These few are fortunate enough w ( get somewhat !os tKan haLf a pound of soap a month. The rest must buy <f tli.-; are to have it; ar.d a pound of scap costs HO .000 ruble* SU.OOO at tiu 1 j.-to-war exchange rate. The housewife is frequently callod upon to ply her noedle and thread, but she has no new goods upon which to icw. Her ctTort in this direct : o - . u HJ ocr.Cir.4ial labor to kee;i tlu- raggedj garments of all member* of her famil? from faaing to pieces. Ore can im- :igine -.\-hat hollos* -ags the c^oth- i::g has become duririj the four years of Communist power, for there Hav I van ajnost no new goods produced in Russia, and the Utt'.e quantity that has come from the factories has been Oaken by tho Red army. Shoes are iv.. !::eraliy. a house- wife's problem; a:ui it i* just as well, for a new pair >v\s:s 1.000,000 mblos. The prlrscrpiai prx>ll*m is that of food. Commurism l-.as worked out ac- corxiirg to promise in that women are free t'rcm Icitoher. oares; but the rea- son for it is that there is nothin^ to cook. Meagre rations wer? issued for four ye>ars on the card system, and during that time any >ffort to buy food at an open market was p:u5ishaWe by death. N\AV ilsero is not even arty ration. !''.: s'-tin bw- ouits are eOttMMred a '.tix^ry. In the large cities thero we very few sira ! children ',ei. for they have died of starvation in Vr*at mmibiars. The dc.u h rate vast'.y exceeds the birth rau. TV. spite af all privations mothers any thers ia Carjadjj <^r Great Britain uj- der happic-r conditions. Thero are fortMiv.ie faniilies in living i:i the greatest plenty, who have the ?avi>r of tho Nvtet (.ic-vernmeat live exceedingly M T '-t '-hey are meve thounr.da, whi'.o i r \xa'f star's^