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Handkerchief Has History Was Invented by Marie Antoin- etteâ€"Now Used As Decoration It was Marie Antoinette, the French queen who lost her head on the guillotine, who invented the handkerchief. The story goes that when this young Hapsburg princess was ready to leave Vienna for Versailles to wed the son of Louis XV, she burst, into tears, and having no- thing on which to dry them, she tore off part of the square lace fichu from the neck of her dress, and with it wiped her eyes and cheeks. Madame Dubarry, Louis XV’s court'favorite, took up the idea, and handkerchiefs became the fashion, even the king demanding one. As the ladies of the French court oft- en used this new invention to dust the powder off their black mouches or beauty patches, it became known as the mouchoir. Chinese Make Them The mouchoir became the hand- kerchief, most dear to every mod- ern woman and man, and one of their most important accessories with every type of costume. Right now the popularity of handkerchiefs is helping to keep rice in Chinese bowls for the un- declared war with Japan has stimu- lated one of China's leading export industries, needlecraft or hand-em- broidery and other handwork on linens, especially handkerchiefs. But in modern usage handker- chiefs are not only used for wiping away tears. In the pockets of suits and dresses they add a last dainty touch; suspended from the wrist by a rhinestone bracelet they accom- pany formal dresses to concerts, dances, etc. Or tied, peasant-fash- ion over . the head they take the place of hats and caps for sports or evening wear. Requirements Of Good Physician The Essential Things A Doctor Needs Before He Can Be A Good One Here are the essentials of a good doctor as detailed by Dr. Robert Hutchison, president of the Royal College of 'Physicians, London, in the Lancet: â€" Good Health,â€"Not the athlete’s type of health, but that sort of wiry constitution which is able to resist fatigue and infection, and often goes with quite a poor phy- sique. Luck.â€"Pure luck is one of the chief factors making for happiness and success. Luck in your back- ground, home and parents , . . above all, luck in your wife. But hard work and patience can make up to a large extent for the want of it. Brains.â€"It is unnecessaryâ€"per- haps dangerousâ€"in medicine to be too clever. But don’t suppose that brains are of little account.. Diligence.â€"The faculty of steady work, unhasting and unresting, will compensate for almost any lack of cleverness. Humor.â€"It will help you to bear with the vagaries of your patients and still more with those of their relations. Humor will save you also from the two besetting sins of the doctorâ€"faddery when he is young, pomposity when he is old. New Brunswick’s Silver Salmon 600 Miles of Coastline Provide, Rare Sport for Anglers If there is one species in par- ticular to which the Province of New Brunswick owes its inclusion on the angler’s map of the world it is the Atlantic silver salmon. Although small in area when compared with the Central and Western Provinces, New Bruns- wick is blessed with 600 miles of Atlantic coastline. On the south the tides of Fundy lash her shores from Passamaquoddy Bay to the Isthmus of Chignecto. Northum- berland Strait lies between the New Brunswick east coast and Prince Edward Island; and Bay Chaleur, that inreaching arm of the open Gulf separates the north coast from the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. Northern Ireland is entertain- ing thousands of tourists this sea- son. %ews Commentary on tha Highlights of the Week’s News BOOM FOR â-  BUSINESS: If the West’s 1938 wheat crop turns out to be as bumper as predicted, our prairie farmers are going to have money in their pockets againâ€"to spend, to pay their debts with. Ca- nadian business will be given a big lift. It will help the railways out, too. Both The C.N.R. and the C.P.R, have long been saying that if the West could grow just one good crop, the revenues resulting from heavy freight hauling would cut operating losses and substantially reduce the , railways’ indebtedness. MATTER OF FACTâ€"Little good though the Runciman mission to. Czechoslovakia is likely to do, (the Czechs didn’t even,ask Prime Min- ister Chamberlain to send him), this much is certain, that, while he is on the scene studying the situa- tion and preparing to arbitrate be- tween Germany and Czechoslovak- ia, Hitler cannot afford to make an open move against the little repub- lic. ’Twould be a bad breach of manners for him to do any such thing at a moment when he is courting the favor of the British. The delay may be maddening to him, but Herr Hitler will just have to stand aside politely till Lord Runciman’s through. But then, boys, ah! then .... WE’RE BEAUTIFULâ€"The well- known English landscape painter, F. M. de la Coze, arrived in Canada for the first time, is full of praises for our country. He had no idea it was so beautiful. us ai ow fer o w> E tor C to in ou ta Neither had some of us. We are- ed to thinking that far-away fields e greener, ‘more lovely than our n. We' have developed an in- •iù'.'ity complex on the subject of own country and its beauties; 3 roll our eyes in the direction of irope or the States instead. Now that someone who should .ow has told us unequivocally that mada is beautiful, we may learn believe it, to feel pride and joy our Canadian countryside, our jrn particular sweet corner of Oa- rio. ne Hi til A Ilf BEHIND SCHEDULE--The Chi- sel nniv not be such hot; fighters bikt they are managing to hold their ira against the Japanese invasion, leir aim now is, not: to drive the ;ps out of the country in a big of- nsive but to draw them further nd further afield till the Nipponese ar machine can be finally stalled. When the undeclared war began, the Japanese military heads had a schedule doped out which must be adhered to if succès is to be theirs. They expected the campaign to last but a couple of months. Now, m|ore than a year later, when Chi- ;se resistance has slowed up the süheulde to a point where it can scarcely be said to work any longer, tfie Japanese chances of success e becoming smaller and smaller. THIS WEEK’S «QUESTION â€" ow many Eskimos are there in e Dominion of Canada? Indians? .'newer: 8,000 Eskimos and 123,000 dians (approximately). CANADA MAKE STARLINGS WORK If the starlings present with us in such numbers would only take it into their heads to dine on army worms, their reputation would improve immensely. â€"- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. WITHOUT THE TURKEY Thanksgiving Day will be held in October again. The great trou- ble with a thanksgiving on that date is that the turkey crop is not ripe while the cranberries are scarce.â€"Guelph Mercury. TELL THE PLAIN TRUTH We wonder whether it would have a salutary effect if the newspapers, instead of calling these deplorable affairs accidents, were to state plainly that someone was the cause of his own death or that of someone else. It might.â€" Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. h y Si e: k t: of HREE explanations Woman near Belleville has a i en which laid an egg with three -ollcs in it. Our poultry expert ays any one of three things can ixplain that: (1) the hen does not :now how to count, (2) she is a aifle ambitious, or (3) she is short shells.â€"Peterborough Examin- POLL TAX FOR WOMEN Barrie town council has en- dorsed the proposal to make wom- en who earn over $100 a year, subject to the same municipal poll tax as men. There is really no valid reason why there should be any more discrimination between the sexes in taxation than there i in giving employment. Some day the provincial legislators may. have courage enough to place both upon equal terms in the matter of poll tax. In the meantime, the fair sex have little cause to worry over the matter.â€"Barrie Examiner. For Seagram Gold ' Cup Last year, as the cut shows, Ralph Guldahl got his hands on the Seagram Gold Cup but that was all. Lighthorse Harry Cooper,: one-time Hamilton boy, got the cup, the $5,000 cash and the Canadian Open Golf championship. Now Guldahl is burning up U. S. golf courses, retaining the U> S. Open title, winning the Western Open and leading all the golf stars as point winner of this year. He’s one of the biggest threats for this year’s Canadian title, to be played at Mississauga-Tordnto on Aug- ust 18 to 20. So, for that matter, is Cooper, and there are a hundred other threats, including ace golfers from Bermuda and South Africa, coming for the first time to Canada. NAMES IN THE «K<******| NEWS ‘ vanced it to first rank among such enterprises in Canada. He has also been a successful Secretary-Treas- urer of the Woodstock Agricultural Society. “Educate the People" Always interested in people and events, Mr. Dewan was inevitably drawn to politics. In 1931 he won a seat on the Woodstock City Coun- cil; in 1934 entered the Ontario Legislature as Liberal member for Oxford; following last, autumn’s el- ection he was chosen by the Pre- mier as Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Dewan would like to see the mass of our rural people live pros- perous and happy lives. Co-opera- tion, in his fervent belief, would help to bring about that end. His mission is to educate the people to its value; he would like to have a staff of instructors go out into the Province on an educational crusade for the co-operative movement, but in this he is sadly handicapped be- cause the government isn’t prepar- ed to spend money on such a pro- ject. (Not only farmers but people generally would benefit by partici- pation in co-operatives, Mr. Dewan says). Wants Wheat Pegged Again, the Minister of Agricul- ture: ‘Tf our young people are to continue to live on the farm, rural life must be made attractive to them.” At present, Mr. Dewan is urging the federal government to set a minimum price for payments to On- tario wheat producers, as well aa to western growers. He points out that the price for Ontario wheat now ranges from 35c to G5c, instead of 80c, per bushel. HON, P. M. DEWAN ‘‘Through co-operation lies the salvation of Ontario’s rural life,” is the central theme of our Provin- cial Minister of Agriculture, Hon. P. M. (Patrick Michael) Dewan, (pronounced to rhyme with “swan”). That farmers should organize in their own interests is the message of this public-spirited Irish-Canadi- an, born a farmer himself (near Os- goode, Ontario) and trained from the earliest age to the problems of a farmer. He has had plenty of ex- perience in co-operation, too, hav- ing graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. (the cradle of co-operation in Can- ada), and from the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph. In 1925 he became manager of the Oxford Co-operative Association, has ad- The EMPIRE NO DEATH FOR ME Five hundred and thirty-six people were killed, twenty thous- and seven hundred and eighty- eight injured on the roads last, month. These figures will not mean much to you. You know you are a careful driver. You know you walk delicately. People read of the casualties on the roads as they used to read of the casual- ties in the war. You always think the other fellow will get it. Never yourself.â€"Daily Express, London. Campaign Against Hatless Germans Hard-up Germans have been economizing and joining the hat- less brigade, with the result that there has been a terrific drop in the sale of hats. Apart from an intensive adver- tising campaign, women are being asked not to walk with hatless men. It is “primitive,” say the authorities, for a man not to wear a hat. Where Dopesters Are Registered There are 30,000 registered opium smokers in the Straits Set- tlements. One is an American, an- other a Belgian, whose names are not mentioned. Then there are 29,500 Chinese with a sprinkling of other Eastern races. The sale of opium is a State monopoly and buyers must regis- ter each purchase. FINE CUT AGRICULTURE i Champion cattle, I Y» famous horses, , â„¢ magnificent live- stock of every de- scription ! See the tremendous farm- implement exhibits with all the latest in- ventions on display. Watch the judging of champions! FROLEXLAND â€" for thrilled young adventur- ers and oldsters! Aeroplanes, roller coasters, wh’ip, merry - go - round, beautiful girls, intrepid acrobats, shoutingshowmen, lights, music, action, and new features galore. $&â-  YT United Kingdom Pavilion’’ The history and de- velopment of Brit- ain’s transportation and communica- tion routes shown in enthralling dio- ramic formâ€"per- fect working models of ships, cars, planes, trainsâ€"from ancient "coracles”, and i ('•W th e famous "Rocket” locomo- tive built in 1829. f Write for ticket reservations to Canadian National Exhibition Information Bursa#, 8 King St. W. Toronto. GEORGE BR1GDEN President ELWOOD A. HUGHES*! General Manager 1879 1938 DinmonD - jubilee AU5.Z5-5EPT.10