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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY, MAR. 23, 1935 WOMEN'S CHATTER By Mair M. Morgan THE BOOK OF THE MOMENT Any book from the pen of Frederick Niven is an event. It is indeed a compliment when reviewers impatiently wait for theii copy, "THE FLYING YEARS" has a big- appeal to Canadians. In this novel, the changing years are used as the background. Opening in Scotland, then the Canadian West of a generation ago, we are able to envisualize in the lifetime of one man, the panorama of vast buffalo herds, stalking hunters, creaking carts giving way to shrieking locomotives and droning planes. Through all this, like a thread, multi-colored, runs transient man, puny in regrets and tears, "gigantic in his hopes, ambitions, love and achievement. THE GLAD SEASON NEARING In spite of snow flurries and sudden drops in temperature, we all know by the calendar that spring is just around the corner. The following lines may aptly describe your home and make you glad: , THE OLD HOUSE (Howard'McKinley Corning, in the New York Sun) Once more that season when the northeast gales Decline, and sober windows nudge awake And blow their .candid curtains out like sails; When doors stand open, and freed children make A sounding trumpet of the sunny day. When mothers search the yard, prying through drifts Of blackened leaves for lip-like buds to say The Spring returns. For now new sentence sifts Along the indoor blood, and hunger, salted The Winter through, grows fresh as maple sap. All life spills out into a world blue-vaulted. Only the gable garret keeps its nap, Grown warm once more with sun upon the roof That Winter-long wore snow for weatherproof. FLOWERS FOR PEACE GARDEN The Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, under the presidency of Mrs. A. E. Walker of Bartonville, is setting an example to the women of the world. Each province is subscribing to a fund to establish within the International Peace Garden, on the boundary between North Dakota and Manitoba, a plot to be planted with peonies, lilacs, irises and other shrubs and perennials. Money for the maintenance will also be provided. The provincial presidents are co-operating in the movement and a committee, of which T. A. Cohoe, Pilot Mound, Man., is convener, and Mrs. Alice W. Fen wick, Atholville, N.B., is treasurer, has been organized. Importance Of Alfalfa For a number of years the fora L „ ■ •.-uiuUste at the Central E perimental Farm have been studying the species and mixtures best suited for pasture in this district. Among other things it has been found that the inclusion o£ alfalfa wherever possible, on land to which it is adapted, increases the yield of good quality hay and produces an early second growth which may be cut for hay or grazed at a time when the cider pastures are at a minimum level of production. The importance e-f this fact cannot be over-emphas-ized, because good hay and good pastures are very necessary for the maintenance of high-prdducti herds. The use of some alfalfa has also keen found to prolong the life of the *eld as pasture for an additional year or two, for, being a perennial plant, alfalfa persists after red clover has disappeared. "To leave out theoretical things is to be too insanely unpractical, even for a practical man."--G. K. Chesterton. Their Song Is Ended ns change In everything-" so. It has been many a e 1 had a dentist ask me i the tooth to take horns Conqueror* Of The Depths Sszk Heights \ THIS LAURA WHEELER HANGING S IS FUN TO DO These four fair mermaids, who form the champion swimming-team of the Seattle, Wash., Athletic Club, get the "feel" of the air in plane of Lee Bowman. They are: (left to right) Doris Buckley, Mary Lou Petty, Betty Lea and Olive McKean. Flies To Save Time WALL HANGING PATTERN 94K A dream cottage nestling in a profusion of flowers--an inviting-bird-house --■ a lovely garden--all suggesting- peace and comfort. What a lovely thing this will be hanging on a wall. It is to be done in wool or silk and is the simplest of embroidery st:tches. You can easily imagine what a pleasure it will be to do this hanging---the varied colors in trees and flowers--the flowers growing gayly under your needle in French knots and lazy daisy stitch. The hanging is 15 x 19 inches and, of course, needs no framing -- just a lining and a rod and you've a striking wall decoration! In pattern 946 you will find a transfer pattern of a picture 15 x 19 inches; material requirements; a color chart and key; directions for making the hanging; illustrations of all stitches needed. Send 20 cents in stamps or coin (coin preferred) for this pattern to Needlecraft Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide W., Toronto. Statesman's Daughter Weds - Physicians were battling desperately to save the life of Donald Osnos, 8-year-old Detroit boy, who is suffering from a rare blood disease, after Dr. E. G. D. Murray, of McGill University, made a special airpane flight from Montreal with the newly perfected serum, said to be effective in combatting the affliction. Dr. Murray is shown above about to board a police car which rushed him from the Detroit Airport to Harper Hospital where the boy is confined. Miss Diane Chamberlain, daughter of Sir Austen Chan-,.' i. .. ::. famous British statesman, and A. T. Maxwell, son of the late Sir Arthur Maxwell, shown on their return to Rutland Gate. Sir Austen's home in London, after their marriage,in the crypt of the House of Lrjundung The Canadian Jubilee Camer Fund Campaign iiita Pag.;, blonde film beauty asked annulment of her mar-e to Nacio Herb Brown, . writer, in Hollywood, Cal.. ; picture was taken on the occasion of the National Broadcast in the interests of the King's Jubilee Cancer Fund . Shown in the photo are Her Excellency the Countess of Bessborough, the Right Honorable Sir George E. Perley, who spoke i behalf of the prime minister who was absent through illness; His Excellency the Governor General, Lord Bessborough, and the Right * - leader of the Opposition. Her Excellency is shown handing to Sir George Perley an official ftCk- indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in St. Louis, Mo., on charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with the alleged sale of fake medical diplomas.