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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBOJNB, ONT. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1935 CANADA THE EMPIRE -^ \ 1 -- THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA fashion note Talking about epidemics,, have you noticed how the ladies are coming out In spots?--Hamilton Spectator. and now--qui mtu li ps W. R. Thompson, Main,Street, it curiosity in his flower'.garden this spring, where an old-fashioned yellow tulip has crashed to the t're page by producing five blooms on o stem, Both mother-plant and blooi are doing well--a fine family of •'quintulips" -- Petrofla Advertiser-Topic. when the lilacs bloom The world may be going completely to the dogs, as some people affirm, but it is hard to believe it when lilacs are in bloom and strawberry Ehcrteake season is in the offing-London Advertiser. good drivers. The majority of drivers go along J-ear after year without mishap; they are the conscientious people who re- ftliz thei not obsessed with the ana speed nor with that dangerc plex which expresses itself taking of chances. They are ever on the alert, guarding against the possibilities of danger, avoiding risks, never plunging heedlessly into situations in which the unknown or unseen constitute a potential menace. In other words, they proceed on their way, with their eyes wide open and their minds centred on the responsible work in hand. -- Hamilton Spectator. myster yfiction. Predictions of literary prophets that the craze for mystery fiction was on the wane and would soon be ended does not seem to be working out that way. For the last half dozen years wiseacres in the book world have persistently stated that the modern detective .story was losing ground, that its day -as about done. The I public, they said, had' sickened on i the diet of murder and horror which j was being served up to it, and that other forms of light reading would lake iiluco. Perusal of circulation.I cards in the pubMc libraries does not | bear out this opinion. j Today the mystery story .still remains one of the biggest sellers on *he book store shelves. And it is most emphatically not because mystery fiction has improved. It hasn't---Chat- do everything he can to detect the rays. He -uses receiving circuits and valves of extreme sensitiveness. But if a person does not want to receive waves that might interfere with his engine or himself he does not need sensitive, but insensitive, apparatus--that is, armor to protect him. It is very much easier to make insensitive than to make sensitive apparatus, and in fact an enclosure of thin metal foil should be sufficient to protect an engine or delicate part of a machine from any known sort of electrical ray coming from a source more than a few yards away.--Manchester Guardian. stripping the forests There is and always has been too much ruthless stripping of the forests, particularly the watersheds of this country. And the results are with us today. What with this ruthless cutting and the ravages of forest fires and ince its, the Canadian wood supply is being depleted with all the attendant detrimental effects-There is, as one example, great about falling levels in the Lawrence waterways, and the this very stripping of the watersheds and the banks of streams tributaries to the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes -Halifax Herald. chasing the hitch-hikers. Hitch-hiking still continues to constitute itself a major nuisance along he highways, although those wjio ngage in this cheap but botherson way of travelling report that drivei are becoming increasingly hard-heart-;d and free rides are correspondingly more difficult to obtain. fter all, why should motorists be expected to pick up individuals along >ur roads and supply them with free transportation?...... The hitch-hiker is sometimes a danger, and is always a nuisance, and it is not surprising to find the authorities in many sections of the con-declaring war on the persons who beg free rides.--Peterboro Ex- Drawing Fjr Farms Five hundred families await their turns to draw lots for tracts in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, U.SJ, rehabilitation project. Martin W. McCormick, first to draw, announces his luck to the crowd. Stories of Intelligent Dogs As Related By a Divinity Dean From the San Francisco Argoi Sir Walter Scott once said he never heard a dog story he had the slightest difficulty in believing. And Sit Walter, like most old British Tories, had a knowledge of dogs that will be denied to every Bolshevik, for we are convinced that no dog ever liked a rabid Bolshevik, or ever will- We shall not undertake to tell our readers anything that we know about dogs, though we know a good deal; but we propose to relate two stories that the Reverend Doctor Charles Carroll Everett, the dean of Harvard Divinity School 40 years ago, used to tell. Both of them may seem to most of our readers almost unbelieveable, but those who knew Dr. Everett are aware that he was not given to gassing, and that he was not the sort of man who gave ready credence to "old wives' fables." Dr. Everett related these stories of dogs and persons whom he knew well. One of them was in regard to a dog who brought a physician to a house that sorely needed him. An old lady was taken suddenly ill, and her granddaughter said, in the presence of the dog that she wished Dr. - could be reached. (This was more evidence. The extent to which reckless driving is responsible for grade-crossing accidents is shown by data submitted by the Safety Section of the Association of American' Railroads. Out of 3,322 accidents of this kind in 1934, it is stated that one out of every five resulted from motor vehicles being driven into the side of trains. In many cases this happened when trains were standing still. In such collisions 287 persons were killed and 1,865 injured. The association includes lines in Canada as well as the United States. Canadian motorists have certainly done their fair share in piling up the accident total.--Winnipeg Tribune. radio pillows. There is no end t0 inventions to make the listening to radio programs comfortable to the very laziest of fans. There is one new idea that is also a comfort to those who do not want to listen, which sometimes is a whole neighborhood. With a pillow 0f the type now invented it is said you will be able to go to bed and listen to the radio all night if you choose without stern injunctions from others to turn the thing off. A sensitive set is concealed In the sponge rubber interior of the pillow and the reproduced sound can he heard only when the ear is rest-ins on the pillow. It was a feature of this year's radio and electrical exhibition at Sydney, in Australia.--Brandon Sun. uncongenial occupations The most unhappy people on earth ere those who are in uncongenial occupations, who got the wrong kind of educations and jobs and had to be content to be forever square pegs in round holes. With good advice from the vocational guidance council, many such mistakes will be eliminated.-- Niagara Falls Review. airplanes and rays. Recent reports from Italy of the methods of stopping airplanes by rays sound rather fantastic to the ears of professional physicists. There is one important general consideration to be remembered when claims of this sort are being advanced. When rays have effects at great distances, as with radio waves, it is due to the efforts of the receiver to companion? but let it out for an hour and it reverts to the life of its ancestors. The cat has not improved a particle in a thousand years of world progress. It will rend a young robin as ruthlessly as its ancestors did in the days of Julius Caesar. -- Toronto Star. farm fatalities. Last year, on farms of the Dominion, 37 persons were fatally injured by animals, 11 by falls from loads, 28 through being struck by animal-drawn vehicles and implements, 10 as results of sunstroke, etc. The total of 150 fatalities gives some -slight indication of the number of non-fatal accidents that occur. -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review. The EMPIRE the old books and songs. An anchor of sanity in a bewildering world. That is how we should regard the old songs and the old books that Britain has befriended for many decades and still holds close in her heart. "Lorna Doone," "David Copperfleld, "Treasure Island," still live. And "Home Sweet Home" and "Love's Old Sweet Song," still live, too. There is a revealing glimpse of human loyalty in the publisher's list of the 100 Best Selling novels. We cling to those books because their sentiment is true, universal and for all time.--Manchester Sunday Chronicle. the king's tutor. James Neale Dalton toured the world with the young Princes in the Britannia and the Ophir. His sturdy character and his mind, as human as it was scholarly, were a strong influence in building up the character of King George; a character which has slowly impressed itself upon a troubled Empire as the ideal of what a constitutional ruler should be. During the months of Jubilee celebration the eyes of all the world are upon King George. But we may allow ourselves to glance aside from the central figure for a moment to the wonderful old man who was his tutor. Only a few years have passed since Canon Dalton stamped through the Cloisters of Windsor, a loud-voiced veteran, striking terror and awe in all who beheld him--Hector Bolitho. in The Fortnightly (London). farm problem". in britain. The decline in the number of men employed upon the land has within the last sixty years been very great; at the same time the small farms have been diminishing in numbers, in spite of the legislative attempts to re them. The small mixed farm has became definitely uneconomic in in, as in most Continental countries, and every year of progress, every invention of science and machinery, increases the efficiency of the large farm as compared with the small. Further employment upon the land is to be obtained, not by a return to earlier conditions of sub-division, but by an intensification of the methods of production on larger units of cultivation. Under organisation even modern production of certain selected commodities will admit of the participation of single-man units, the lack of efficiency of which is offset by the social and psychological advantages they confer--A. D. Hall in Tl Nineteenth Century and After (I VALUES DOWN Litter Of Ten Silver Foxes Once Worth $65,000 In Cash Uharlottetown. ^^~P frott have been out taking pictures little baby foxes all of the ranch of Col. Fred Andrew. This litter of 10, although it doe? not get the spotlight of the Dionne quintuplets, would have caused somewhat of a sensation back in the boom years when fabulous sums were paid for Prince Edward Island pups, prominent rancher commented. "That litter in 1913," the ranch, said, "would have been worth least $65,000, or an average of : 500 apiece." And then he went on to tell ot: the bull market on foxes and sales conditions in the good old days. "As a matter of fact I sold options around May 15, 1913, for other ranchers at $14,000 a pair and a few weeks later sold six pairs for. the Tuplin Fox Corporation, acting-through their Charlottetown agents, for $16,000 a pair." Fair Attractions The Directors of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies, : recent meeting, discussed at length attractions for fall fairs. It was agreed judging should be arranged to afford educational opportunities and be as attractive as possible. Suitable rings should be provided for all live stock and the names of winners should appfar on hall exhibits. Inter-community competitions were recommended, such as special prizes for Women's Institute displays. Junior classes have been found to arouse much interest and this year Agricultural Societies are sponsoring over 180 clubs for boys and girls. In addition to the ujsual attractions, the following were suggested, having been tried by Societies and requiring little cash outlay: Antique displays. Oxen demonstrations. Hitching, driving and riding competitions. Milk maid contests. Horse drawing competitions. Classes for jumping horses. Teams for horses, versus six or eight men. Horse back wrestling. Sheaf binding competitions. Log sawing. Potato races. Musical chairs--mounted. Band competitions; old time fiddlers' contests, etc. Demonstrations of various kinds. ENTHUSIASM "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm-" --Emerson byness Has Many Causes Bpt Most Children Are Rendered -'Sensitive by an Oversoft Existence--We "Unifit" Them For . Life Once there was a boy who was ever so strange.. He never flattened his no:e against a plate glass win-dowlto gaze at catching gloves, or p, or nice smooth bats. He I't jealous of his cousin who had *~ hockey stick. H,e didn't get when two fellows began to 1 each other and roll in the turally he had to enjoy his own company more or less bee au e all the others liked the same things and couldn't understand a boy who wasn't less a roughneck, id books and fishing, or any-i could do alone or with an-et fellow like himself.. Oh ery, very strange. ^flirJ^but^e 1 it- Neither did his par-neither did the parents of /fiier "odd" youngsters. he grew up. So did the rest. And lo and behold, few of them are strange any more. There are Richard Jones, head of the testing-laboratory at the Institute, and Mark promising young lawyer. Samuel and William often pictures in the paper for ,g 0r other they've done in iusiness or chosen profession, of them is a courageous figlter in the world of wits and science and law, with the courage of his convictions and "moral" courage to persevere. And these are the strange one who wouldn't use their fists or shinny up telephone poles to. watch a baseball or football game. These lonely ones that some people called "odd". Yes, in a way they were retreating from life during boyhood. Not from life exactly, but from life as they found it around them. Why do we think a boy isn't a man unless he likes to whoop and punch and do cartwheels and swat a ball? Some boys develop a sort of antisocial attitude (or just let us call it shyness) when babies. They seem to be horn with an inability to face the sandpaper of life. Others get it by criticism and ridi-cub when little. Still others are rendered sensitive by over-soft existence. They are coddled, protected, treated like fine china and never learn what roughage means. And they are kept apart, alone too long. "They might get something." "They might learn something they shouldn't know." "They might get hurt." They must be "good" boys. . Then suddenly someone expects, everyone expects, these boys to develop biceps and calves and pugnacity over night. They expect the .small hermit to go out and lick all the rough lads iii the neighborhood. First we unfit them and then we expect them to right our mistakes. "Inherited" shyness is no one's fault, but certainly not the boy's. It is a mistake, too, to try to force any small child toward courage he does not feel. "Roughage" is actually most successful, if applied in very <<mall and rather gentle doses by people he likes, at first. It will gather its own momentum. "... nothing is more attractive than to see a young man . . . bending all his energies in the direction of truth and duty and God ... to be such a young man is to be like Christ, the highest type, the most illustrious example of enthusiasm the world has ever seen." --J. McC. Holmes him.) Suddenly the doctor walked in, to the surprise of the lady, and when she asked how he knew he was wanted, he told her that her dog had come to his place and set up a tremendous barking in front of the door. When he came the dog indicated in various ways that he desired the doctor to follow him and he had done so. Perhaps the moot remarkable feature ot the story is that the dog was not in the habit of calling at the doctor's house. The other story is of a dog who was exceedingly fond of two young Cambridge men who were almost inseparable. In course of time both of them went out into the world in search of fortune, and were both gone for several years. Finally one of them returned home on a visit, and the dog manifested an almost unbounded delight his presence. Later he went to the home of the alter ego, evidently having reasoned that where the one the other would be also. But' other had not returned, and the' grief of the dog was almost inconsolable. Swedish Use of Color Impresses Scots worn an Love of color is a highly characteristic feature of Sweden, and a visit to the summer homes on the islands around Stockholm or in the beautiful forest scenery of Dalecarllia is an education in its use, writes Honor Stuart, in the Glasgow Herald. The Swede has the good taste to insist upon simple furnishings for mer house, but the plain painted wood furniture is so charming in hue --lime-green or blackbird's egg blue, warm russet or a sunny yellow, the natural grain of the wood being util ized for decoration, with perhaps some simple "motif" in addition -- that the eye is perfectly satisfied and one feels instinctively that anything more elaborate would jar. BROWN AND GOLD In a country where the timber industry is a staple one, it is, of se, natural that this should be the medium employed, but it comes almost with a sense of surprise that its decorative use should be of so advanced a nature. If the walls are but of pitch pine,.the wood is painted 5f- 5°iiSd -iS.t0~a. ..beautiful., wood too, and the carpets from ancient designs where peasant instinct, usually sure and sound, is evident. There are few hangings or drap-■ies, and the cushions and covers for window seat or table are severe and richly colored. In one or two of the tourist centres where the big hotels have been carefully furnished after old Swedish traditions, I have been surprised by the beauty which color and the right use of material AMONG THE PINES There is one villa which is a revelation of what can be done in this way. It happens to be the gift of a wealthy Swede to Invalid members of his own profession, but the exquisite taste displayed might be that a art connoisseur. High up in the wonderland pine forests of Jamt-land, backed by the mountain of Areskutan -- in winter a paradise for iinners, in -summer a delight for the city dweller and a surprise at all times for the tourist -- the brown-walled house stands, the music of a waterfall behind it, pine needles a carpet outside the garden. A skilful architect has modelled the house from an ancient Swedish country residence; there are loggias opening from every storey, whioh gives upon the river or the pinewood. And here, too, a sure hand has blended the colors of furniture and hangings into perfect harmony: reds and browns that suggest the forest and the bright berries of autumn; blues that mirror the river or the sky; green of birch leaves and purple of heather; gray of the plumage of the mountain birds. symphony lv^o^jiojjjfi. mill n are woven this action comes wli 12 Simple Rules For Tire Health There are twelve simple rules tire health, which, if followed, would cut the average motorist's tire bill anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent, annually, according to Technical Superintendent, for a tire company. Those 1. Maintain recommended or rated air pressure at all times. The recommended pressure is a minimum below whioh tires should never be allowed t0 fall. Nor should pressure be kept much above this figure. 2. Whenever you put on a new tire, whenever a tire has been off the rim, do not start on a long drive with implicit faith that its air presure is correct. A tire may lose several pounds of pressure immediately after it is put on the rim- Have it checked three or four miles down the road. 3. Do not run a tire constantly on the same wheel. Shift your tires from wheel t0 wheel, which will produce 4. Do not rely on the generally accepted theory that it is all right to run old tires on back wheels, because a rear tire blow-out is less dangerous than one in front. A rear tire blowout is every bit a3 dangerous as one in front. 5. Don't go around corners at high speeds. It wears tires faster than any-' thing else. 6. Except to prevent an accident/ do not slam on the brakes. The imost gradual breaking possible is best for tires. 7. Have your wheel alignment-checked occasionally, rear as well as front. 8. Lodk over your tires occasionally) o see how they are getting along. 9. Do not drive too fast on hot, dry : oads. In extremely hot weather on' dry roads, high speeds heat the tires,' and hasten deterioration. 10. Start up gently; do not spin your wheels. I 11. Do not bump into curbs or, run over them. Tires have not yett been so perfected that they will per.; mit this kind of abuse without injury. 12. If your car begins to steer-queer-off, the road., and ^ hen a tire is preparing to blow. Inspection may prevent accident. British Brides Prefer Early Ceremonies "Get Married Early In Day And Leave Town Without Delay" Their Motto Tradition, especially in so far as t concerns marriage, dies very hard' n England. This is the experience of registrars in the London area after a year's working of the Act which allows weddings to take place up till six o'clock . the e Hitherto the ceremony could only take place between the hours of 81 d 3 p.m., except by special | issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty Office. LITTLE DEMAND During the past year not more than 20 couples have been married in London and Greater London after three in the afternoon, and in the whole of England the figures available show that the number of marriages after that hour is fewer than 100. "It was believed that the extension of three hours granted by the Act would meet a really widespread demand on the part of business people employed in offices who, while wishing to marry, could not afford to get away before 3 p.m.," a London-registrar said. FACTS AND FIGURES "This, however, is not borne out by facts and figures. Rather has it. been the more emphasized that couples prefer to have the wedding ceremony early in the day, a midday reception, and then leave town for the honeymoon. "Of the few marriages that have taken place between 3 pm. and 6 p.m. an analysis shows that most of them were solemized in summer .months and in sunshine. 'Couples do not seem to want to have the ceremony caried out in the hours of darkness during the cold winter months. Although the Act ot Parliament is there it is not, and will not, I am convinced, be largely taken advantage of. x-"It has certainly caused no inconvenience to registrars or the clergy. Get married early in the day and leave town without delay seems to be the motto of most bridal couples."