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HOW TO RELIEVE YOUR COLD ALMOST AT ONCE ' !•****•:•* t*********''"'*********'''**'"*************'*'***'^'****** 2. Drink (ull glass of witer. Prpeat treat uient in i lioura. Follow Simple Di'ections Here For Quick Relief NNTion yoii have a cold, reniembor the Kimpic freatniciit pictured hc-rr . . . prescribed by doctors as the quick, saft way. HcsuUs are amazing. Ache and dis- tress go itnnie<iiatcly. Because of Asfiirin'i quick-disintegrating prop- erty, Aspirin "takes hold" â€" almost inslanlly. Your cold is relieved "quick as you caught it 1" All you do is take Aiptnn and drink plenty of water. Do this every 2 to 4 hours the first day â€" less often afterward ... if throat is sore, the Aspirin gargle will case it in as little as 2 minutes. Ask your doctor about this. .\nd be sure you get ASPIRIN when you buy. It is made in Canada and all druggists have it. Look for the name Bayer in the form of a cro.ss on every Aspirin tablet. Aspirin is the trade mark of the Bayer Company, Limited. DOES NOT HARM THE HEART 3> If throat is sore, crush and stir 3 Aspirin tablets in a third of a glass pi watLT and sarKle. This eases the soreness in your throat almost instantly Queen Given Fifteen Pound Casket Of Tea This year is the centenary of the tea-t;rowing industry in the British Empire, and the tea-producers of the Empire have eelebratt-d it by presenting to the Queen a casket holding 15 pounds of tea. The casket IB a lovely thing, made of Bombay rosewood inlaid with Ceylon satiii- â- wood and ebony, and the tea inside is unique. It is blended from 15 of the finest known teas, seven from Ceylon, six from India and two from East Africa. One of the components of this rare mixture is a t'a from Dar jelling, which looks more like to- bacco than tea, and is described as having a "very fine muscatel flavor." It is probably the most expensive tea in the world, .^3.25 a pound, and is used in minute quantities for flavor- ing teas (if bumblir viiitaKC. If You Eat Starches Meats, Sn-ects Read Thh Tliey're 411 Necessary Foods 'â€"But All Acid ' h'ortning. lleiu-e Most of L's Huie '"Acid Stomacli" At Times. Easy l\otc to Relieve. Doctors say that much of the so- called "indigestion," from which so many ol us suflcr, is really iiiid in- ^gestion . . . brought aboul by too many acid-forming foods in our modern diet. And that there is now a way to relieve this . . . often in tninutesi Simply lake Phillips' Milk of Mtignasia after meals. Almost im- mediately this acts to neutralize the stomach aridity tliat brings on your trouble, ^'ou "forget you have a Stomacli!" Try this just once! Take either the fainili:ir liquid "PIULLIRS" ", or. nuv. llie t;<jnvenicnl neio Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Tablets. Hut be ture you get Genuine "PHILLIPS' ". AIho ill lablrt Formt P>tilli|TS' Mill<ol MagnofiaTablet? arc now oi. sale M all JruK sturt**: •vwywlicre. Lachtiny tablet IS the ttimva- lent o( a Kaspoonfiil ^ ~^.. at (ienuine Phillips' fc^^/S] Milk of Magnesia. tt ' Phillips' MAOe IN CANADA Relieved/ ?'B«by'f Own Tableta have been the only medicioo my four cUildrco hnveevcrbad. lanoaingloiDitanca liaa it Iwen nec«»ary to oontult ' our doctor." 8o write* Mra. Harry Pilnior, Cumberland Bay, N.B. When the baby or young child ripetlle; is ilopplegs or re»t- haa coated tonfOtn, collo, cstioD, cold or diartlinea or bins . . . eIv* Bal>y'a Own n for lajf, Quick relief, frice 2&C at all drug atorea. jgg Dr.Williami' BABYS OWN TABLETS When tl losea npi Itsa, ba .^ udigcsti' U (cetbL Tnbletn Issue No. 2â€" '35 tl Curious World Out of the 9,400 commercial ocean- going ships in the world today, few- er than fifty can travel at more than twenty knots, and fewer than twenty have a gross weight of more than 30,000 tons. Australia's bulldog ant likes to fight so much that even when it is cut in two, a battle begins between the head and the tail. Nicknamed "The Boy Mountain," fifteen-year-old Bob Wadlow, of St. I^uis, stands 8 ft. high, weighs 25 stone 12 lb., and takes size 35 in shoes. A family of old-age pensioners are living together at Coalville, Lcieest- er.shire. The father, Mr. Walter Brcarly, is 1)4, his two sons 70 ami (18, and bis two daughters 72 and 07. Seven times married, the nineteen- year-old daughter of Monte I.atifoff, a Bulgarian gypsy, has now fallen in love. .She refuses to pick a quarrel with her eighth husliand. greatly to her father'.s indignation, as he de- pends for a liviiijc on the fee which, in accordance with the gypsy cu.-itoni, each man presents to him for the band of his daughter. Lion taming lessons are being giv- en in a postal course by an American school. A rival organization trusts that the lion will recognize the di- ploma when a graduate .steps into his cage! A skull lies, yellow with age, in a recess behind the curtain of an old farm-house near Chape!-en-el-Frith, Derbyshire. Every time the skull is disturbed, disaster overtakes the farm. In his place in Surakarta. Java, the Sultan of Solo maintains a house- hold of l.'i.OOO persons â€" wives, para- mours, dancing girls, relatives, priests, soldiers, local officials, anii servants. Five CROOKet CHAIRS By FAREMAN WELLS CHAPPED HANDS? NOI APPLY HINDS See how quickly it soothes HINDS CREAM "you Digestive Troubles? Mr. W. J. Fislier, J93 nunlfr St. W., Hamil- lon, Out., Naid ; "I ftif- ffrrtl from ratirrl) oi the stom.ich, coul'1 eat but vcrr liillf and tlial w.iiilj laiisf d!str«*4. 1 grew weaker daily and had headache almost constant. ly. 1 became very much Uiiicour.iged. After taking I)r. Pierce'a Golden Medical Discovery I waa able to eat, gamed in weight and re- lumed my work." All druggiita. SVM0PSI8 Aduiii .Mcristtiii. u ruMiiei'a sun urilclid to a .•iolkltor. nialiea a brave but uiisucci'SMlul utttiiiiit to tliwurl lluee thieves III u IjaB-siia'^^^hliig nilit The liiig wu» torn fruiii I he baiida of a girl who atterwiirdH e.M>laiiis to Adam that It uontttlns tlia day s tukmga of her futher'a shop. Ho atteiniiis lo Hack the tlile\c» nmi rcachi'S uu old warehiiuBc. Adams ciittra the building while the glil watches the door Suddenly be heura fodtsleps. The man turns out to be Adam » «m|>biycr â€" (Jorvllle I'erUlii, Adam, In lila (irlvatu hours experi- nuiils with short-wave wireless. WulUiiiB homeward, Adan> Is nearly run down by n large swift car. He cullH on I'rlx' Ilia Nerval. Her father imi'iiiila the history or five aiitliiuc chairs he iionsesses. "It may be Hilly but I have a posl- tiively superstitious objection to breaking that promise, even If we are morally free from blame since we have made every effort to trace the man who sold Uiem," said the Pro. fessor. Adam agreed that it was an ex- ceedingly difficult problem. "But are bhey 80 much attached to their chairs in Spain that they make conditions like that when selling them?" "I don't know what they are. But it you saw these chairs you would understand that it is possible that the owner might value them beyond itnyl/liing ho possessed." â- â- Then what made him sell? I al- ways understood that Spain was one of those places where one can live on next to nothing without being forced to sell onc'.s furniture." "In. some parts that is almost true but at the time 1 bought, the Mar- tinis Valdamonle was reputed to be an extremely ricli man." "That makes it sound all uhe more dlfflcult to me." "I think you may lake 't that the situation that had arisen was of the sort that always does arise in times of revolution. Valdamonte was in danger, probably arranging an es. capo from the country, which I fancy would in his casy be far from easy. The (iovernmcnt was not prepared to let the old aristocracy export its wealt.'i. 1 Lliink he sold me the chairs because he thought that, as the pro- perty of a foreigner, tliey would be more easily exported. Ho may have sold other things that he valued, and with the same proviso. Then it he (iiiil get clear he would be able to gather round him his most prized heirlooms to cheer his exile. That is how the affair appeared to me at the time and why 1 feel a particular de- sire to keep my side of the bargain." Ad;!.in i)ondered the moral aand le- gal problems involved. At length he looki'd up to meet PriaciUa's eyes Kti'aclily regarding him. "What would you say was the right tiling to do?" she asked. "1 think," lie said deliberateJy, "that at all costs 1 would keep my promise.'' For that iie received a look that was positively congratulatory. "There is just one pos.sibility oc. cuis to me. " he continued. "That Is one might, if oiie could lind a pur- cha,ser under such a condition, sell with a proviso securing to the orig- inal owner the right of rcpurcliase." "That is a suggestion worth hhink. ing about," remarked Norval, and from the tone of his voice it was (!videnl how grt^ully he would feel rolleved if>-hy some such means he could see his way clear to dispose of hhe chairs. But the girl would have none of It. "No!" .she siuld wit>!i quite extra- ordinary emphasis. "I feel as if even that would be doing vvrong somehow. It would be just trying to abide hy the letter rather than the spirit of the deal. The owner's actual words, you hav<! .said many times, were that you s>hould not let the chairs go out of your possession without giving him the option to buy them back. Isn't thai what he said?" Noival smiled lugubriously. "You ail! quite right of course," bg agreed, and then turning to Adam: "It Is ob- vious wo shall never ge.t rid of our chairs with my daupliter's consent. I believe she is aciiially in love with ilicni." "Well. I do want to keep thedn, I'll admit that. They're quite the love- liest things we iiossess. But it is a sort of Instinct v\ith me that we must hang on to them until tiie very last, and I should feel Just the same about that if they were poslt. Ively ugly." "Ilight iheii. that's settled. We shall hang on until they are sold by order of the OlRcinI Uei elver. 1 think before it does come to tfiat though if wo still can't find the owner, we are entitler] to try to sell under a proviso such as you suggested." The clock â€" a rare French .sipecl men- revealed the blighting Informa- Uion that it was already a tiuarter paat eight. For .\dam, time had sped asloni.shingly, which was not surprising con.iidering that the com- pany consisted of tilip mo«t wonder, fill girl in the world and a charming man who had travelled half the world in search of antiques. "I should like yo\i to atop, hut I c^n't let you miss your last train and have all those miles to walk." tlie girl explatnetl as she rose. Her father, however, destroyed the eCle<:t of her consideration, making Adam miss his train after all. "But you haven't seen the chairs!" he cried. ''You really (;an't go with- out seeing them. It woa't take a minute, and I assure you they are worth It." The three hurried upstairs to a bare low attic with celling sloping to the piitch of the roof. It was uu. furnished In the conventional sense, but it contained, in addition to one or two pieces of light furniture, five big elalKirate chairs. They had high curving backs and s.lender, writhing arms, while from under their broad seats projected squat, sprawling legs. All the wood- work was elaborately and Intricately carved, and the whole design gave one the impression that the crafts, man had been under the urge to re- lieve his tortuous, witch-ridden, medieval mind in ti!ie production of somo involved and grotesque fancy of his own. Kven this had not led him to overlook the natural purpose of a chair, and the seats looked comfort, able enough, the padded backs be- ^trve the Best Tea "SALAM TEA What Does Your Handwriting Reveal? GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphologist) All Rights Kesened (EdH«r't Note. Hundreds of our readers have been helped to • greater understanding of them, selves through sending for a person- al character analysis from their own handwriting. Have YOU? See the invitation In the following art- icle). The early part of a new year Is a good time for stock-taking. Just as all business firms generally take advantage of this time of the year to balance up their stock, find out where they are short, and what they can do without, so may each one of us take advantage of this psychol. . . ogically opportune time to have a speaking a restfulness with which mg^ti^i g^Q^.^ taking. the woodwork seemed puriiosely to contrast. Their uijholstery was in a dull rod leather, lozenged with faded gilt lines, and in each of the lozen- ges was a little gilded device. In one a shield, in another a plumed helmet or a fleur-de-]ys. In .spite of their grotesque qiiaint- ness tliere was an air of quality, of aristocracy about these chairs that could not be denied by the most su. perlicial observer. MR. PERKIN'S CLIENT All liiought of Adam's train seem, ed to have been lost in the enthusi- asm of the moment. Norval ran his hand caressingly over the carving as he expatiated on unique features. He explained how the joints were made, how the leather had been worked in- to sihuipe without the usual foldings and pleats, how each of the devices had been hand-tooled against a car. ved die, the infinite pains of it all. Adam forgot his train, lie even for- got his concern with Mr. Corville Perkin's dubious methods. He was only conscious that he was in the presence of S'onielihing beyond ordin- ary greatness and that his Scylla_ her great dark eyes glowing almost wor. shipfully, was sharing his delight. The only news when he returned homo atlcj- his long late walk from Mens'biidge was that Grimsby had at last returned. T'he old cat was coiiifoitably stretched out in his usual place, his fright forgotten. It would have been distressing to have had to associate the deVeloiHueut of his invention witli tho sacrifice of so old a I'riend as Orimsby. The state of being in love, he found, made him fonder of all Idlings of which lie had been fond before. He turned eiithiisiuslically next day to his scienlilic work and man- aged in his spare time to tabulate enough data to feel conlUlent that he would not be disgraced in the expert eyes of Professor Starling when he approached that gentleman. Uuriiig tlio intervening days an interesting case had come into the office, that of a well-known rough character who went by tlie name of Hagar. lie was accused, this time, of an attempt to relieve 'a visiting dl. amond merchant of hi.s samples, in view of the fact that violence enter, ed into the charge, and that the evi- dence seemed unshakeahle, the case was generally looked upon as likely to bring Mr. Hagar a furlOier sub- stantial term of penal servitude. In some way the man interested Adam, who saw him at the Police Court pro. ceedings. He was a powerful fel- low, and though not perhaps dull- witted seemed to have an extraordin- ary difliculty in making a cohei^nt statement. « (To be Continued 1 Link Between Scotia and Greece Scottish People Ihiilled With Duchess Of Kent And Her .Affiliations With The Land Of Heather In wliat qualities of character are we short? What do we lack In order to take advantage of the opportuni- ties that a new year offer? Are we on the right track? .\re we exerting our fullest energies in the right path? â€" or are We pursuing a course that will lead to disaster or at best to unhappiuess? Xotihing can stand still. We either progress or retrogress. And no one of us wishes to go backwards. It is my advice to all my readers that you quietly explore your abilities, your characteristics, your talents, â€" don't be afraid to tell yourself the truth. You are cheating no one hut yourself when you wilfully overlook points in which you are lacking. How can Graphology help you to make tne most of yourselves? Well, it can do what most people are fundamentally .unable to do â€" it can tell the truth about you, without bias or favour. It will show up un- erringly your faults and weaknesses and, it will be quite fair too. It will show equally wherein are your good characteristics. Handwriiing does reveal the truth about the writer. This has been em- emplified so often that, today, there iire very few scoptrics. "Madge" of Moose Jaw, Sa.sk., writes, in part: "I am enclosing a specimen of my husband's writing as well as my own. I would like to know if my husband intends to re. ally mend his ways, as he has prom- ised. Will he keep his word?" Well. .Madge, your own writing shows that you are of a reserved nature. You do not revecJ your real leolings. You are 'i-'so Inclined to study your own self-interests, to some extent. And you also display some lmi>atlence, and consequentl) irritability. The writing of your husband In- dicates that be has a somewhat hlghly.strung nature. He Is impul sive, and often does tbinj;s with, out really stopping to consider care fully what he Is doing. There la an- other trait in his character that he ought to check. H© Is a procraatina. tor â€" indefinite and rather vaclllat- ing. He does not seem to to able to make up his own mind, or lay down a definite course of action. He certainly needs to cultivate more determination and decisive- ness, instead of taking tie line of least resistance. He undoubtedly means well when he promises you that he will mend his ways, but I am afraid tliat he is hardly of a sufficiently strong character 10 keep to this, unless he buckles down, and realizes that this procrastinating and indefinite way of doing things and behaving is not to his advantage. To "Ellen," Bloor Street, Toronto Your wrtiug shows that you have been making an effort to control your excitable disposition â€" and I congratulate jou on this. Keep it up and you will reap the benefit. You have a careful regard for order and neatness, aud are particularly scru. pulous about details. This is a good uait, but don't be too fussy. Miss M. J„ London: Yours is a cool and poised nature. You are not a girl to get easily ruffled, no mat. ter how tense things become. Some- what reservedâ€" you display a tend- ency to study your own interests. True, there is some generosity, but you are never impetuous, and us. ually discrimiuate in your giving. In other words you look before you leap. Can Mr. St. Clair help you? Can he help you by telling you the truth about you from your handwriting? And have you any friends about who you would like to know the real truthâ€" without frills? Send speci- mens of the writing you wish to be analysed, stating birthdate in each case. Send 10c coin for each sped- men, and enclose with a 3c stamped addressed envelope to: Georffrey St. Clair, Grapiiologist Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, 'Toronto Ont.' Letters are confidential, and re. plies will be forwarded as soon as possible. propriately, the patron .saint of lovers. FROM GREECE TO FIFE The ssfint, according to tradition, preached the gospel in Greece and Asia Minor, and it was in the city of Patras, in Achaia, that, after a cruel scourging, he met his death by crucifixion in the year 70 A.D. It was a Greek monk, named Regulus or Rule, who, having ex- humed the bones of St. Andrew, took them on board a ship, and, accom- panied by fourteen other monks, set out for some distant land, eventually bcinp cast ashore in a storm on the coasi of Fife. There the holy relics were reverently reburicd and a little church erected over the saint's new grave. Thus, it is said, was the town of St. -Andrews founded. -â- Mthough we in Scotland do not appear ever to have made much of our patron saint in his caiiacity "is the patron saint also of lovers there is no doubt that St. Andrews has al- ways been greatly honored in thi:; respect on the Continent. AMOROUS CUSTOMS On St. Andrew's Eve the country girls of Germany who may be desir- ous of ascertaining: what will be the color of the hair of their husbands to be, go through the time-honored ceremony of taking- hold of the latch of the house door and repeating three times: "Gentle love, if thou lovest me show thyself." The girl then cluthes through the opened dour at the darkness, and in her hand, when she withdraws it. she is supposed to see a representation of a lock of mascifline hair. The peasant people of France have a similar custom. On St. Andrew's Day itself the French country girl fasts all days, and when night comes she gets into bed on the wrong side, and, on lying down and closing her eyes, says aloud: "Sweet Andrew, show me, I beg you, the man whom I am to marry." Tae revelation is not immediate, but comes to the maiden in a dream when she has fallen into slumber. Links between Scotland and the Duchess of Kent were forged in quick succession, writes May (Jihson in the Glasgow Herald, following her first acquaintance with our country on her September visit to Balmoral. One was the conferring of the Earl- dom of St. .\iidrcws on her fiance, the Duke of Kent ; and later there was the appointment of the L^ady Mary Dorothea Hope, sister of the Marquis of I.inlithfrow, as the Duch-j ess' I.ady-in-Wailing. ' But is_ it not also an interesting coincidence that the wedding of the Duke of Kent was solemnized on .St. .\ndrew's Eve? For not only is St. Andrew, whose day is November .'10, the patron saint of Scotland, but he has also a close association with the Duchess' own country, (Jreecc. Moreover, St. .\ndrew is, most ap DONT RISK BAKING FAILURES l^ ^ORTH OF hakes a perfect cake. There's no guesswork with Magic. It assures uniformly fine results ! That's why Canada's leading cookery ex- perts use and recommend it exclu- sively. Ask your grocer for a tin! CXJNTAIN.S NO ALUMâ€" Thlo stattment on every tin la your guarantee that Maftlc Baking Powder Is free from alum or any barmful laftredient. MADE IN CANADA