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WRITE FOR FREE CATALOGUE NO. 5 TO-DAY London Feather Company, Limited 144 Yonge Street, Toronto SPRING EXHIBITIONS IN MONTREAL i | -- : i » the Outcome of Shows Started | in the Forties--The Great Pro- [THE . gress Made. | The spring exhibitions of *he Mons real Art Association are the outcome of shows which were organized chief ly by amatéurs about the forties, when the British soldiers were there, says Mount in The Canadian Cen tury. Among these military men many were talented, especially neers, who were all draughtsmen These were later recalled to be sent to the Crimea. Most of the officers stationed here and their families were persons of high education and taste his naturally | assisted the people in their efforts to ward elevating the standard of socie tty, and therefore any endeavor to wards the fine arts met with great ! encouragement Every year they had a small ex: hibition of paintings, drawings and so forth, to encourage and bring forward the local talent and to enable com: parisons to be made between their work and that of other contributors These were small beginnings, a few pictures, a few drawings, still they were the pioneers of art in Canada, and we owe to them what we have now. Those exhibitions were organiz ed and judged by the early patrons of art, who every year gradually be- came more discriminating | Such men were the forerunners ol the Art Association, which was offi- cially organized in 1800, and ever since the Spring Exhibition has been | an anxiously expected event by artists j and by the artistically inclined public. A writer has said: "Probably many of the pioneers who led the way and opened a path for the arts in our country had little merits as artists, but they are objects of curious inquiry to us of the present dey, for as we earnestly desire to know every parti- cular relative to the first settlers who raised the standard of civilization in the wilderness, so the same rational desire is felt, especially by artists, to learn who were . their predecessors, who raised and who supported the Just the corn-kernel-- the veritable "sweetheart of the corn---rolled paper-thin and crisped a golden-brown. Kellogg's TOASTED CORNFLAKES is just a little better than delicious! The first spoonful will tell you better than a page full of adjectives, why this is the cereal you never tire of for breakfast. 10° Look for the name on the package ad a FACTORY METHODS INSURE FERRO QU Ferro Engines are reliable because Ferro factory methods are accurate. 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Knott, scion of a Southern ashington, May 8.~Following futile family, and oa, Friend Albart Arm: pions for mercy, Ploresce Rennett]' ON%: ~ feolivad sentences for : ¢ ES he years each. Benjamin Knott, an elder Rt - - Fiat, Si She 'hadgee rather conv eted of complicity in the A degead bo the iten- | g : $e 2 0 Yemen. applied | just : came," fled iextisn for Hea yours. Her husband, 'a yew trial and wis ---- wir bail Sh standard of taste and decorated the with. its Corinthian '0 these annual exhibitions all ar tists may send pictures, but no work 15 admitted which has been exhibited before in Montreal, the aim being to re: artists (0 new eflorts. It will be at once remarked that there is a great unevenness in the quality of the work. This is the re- suli of the peculiar conditions sur- rounding the exhibition. Amateurs of more than usual merit are éncouraged to exhibit, as are also students. As years go by the standard is much | higher Nevertheless their work is not judged from such a high stand- point as the work of the professional nrtists x The Council of the Art Association { usually call in two or more arusts of reputatian to assist them in judging the pictures. The technical side is considered as well as the general ar- { Wistic value. Lenieney is shown to ateurs and to promising students but woes to them if they do not | improve from year to year, for they { may not pass the committee. { It ix not easy for outsiders to ap- preciate the really great progress | made, but to ene following the exhibi- tions carefully every year the progress 18 remarkable. Year by year new names are being added to the roll of acknowledged i leaders. Besides our veteran Harris { we have Brymner, Cullen, Suage-Cote, Morrice, Hebert, Hammond, Ram Reid, Brownell, Clapp, Laura Muntz, | Florence Carlyle and others. | The educational advantages given to thé children as well as to their elders in visiting these exhibitions cannot be over-estimated, for the study of works if art elevates the taste for all things i good aud" beautiful. As Ruskin says | "To cultivate sympathy, you must be | among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admira- { ton, you must be among beautiful { things and looking at them." A a -- ! Concurrent Sentences. | There is no one who enjoys a joke { more than James P. Haverson. and one who scents one on himself quicker than the same "Jimmy." It {is a clever man whe is able to put | one over on him. But Mr. D. C. Hos- { sack, now a lawyer, though formerly | & minister, turned the tables on his j Iellow-legalite not a great while ag: Mr. Haveg approached Mr. Hos sack with/words to the effect that he wished spiritual advice from the ex- preacher whom he said he regarded as his father-confessor, "In the course of my defence of my clients, the hotelmen," he said. "1 have to tell the same Lie over and over again. Now, suppose | have told a lie fifty times, will 1 be punished in the hereafter for one lie or for fifty lies? Perhaps you better take a day or too to think over that question before you answer it." "No need to do that," responded Mr. Hossack. "The answer is a very sunple one. You will be punished for everyone you tell, but if it is any con- solation to you to know it the sen- tences will run concurrently." --Toron- to Star. ---------- By Way of a Tip. A New Brunswick clergyman had riormed the marriage ceremony "How much do you charge?" quired the groom. : "Well, the law allows me two dollars and a hall," said the hopeful clergy- man. , "All right," handing over fifty cents, "this will make you three dob lars even." abob side. » west and the south side of tr the Nabobs. The little : must pot promenade other, which ix alloted by her business people and the Bobe. $2,000,000 From Chinese. revenue from . Chigese head the eng | in. A ANN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY. MAY 6 A ---------------- -- | And the Second Kind is Net Se Pepu- lar as the First. Lord Ikeston," upon whom fell the | honor of moving the address in the House of Lords, is one of the few physicians who have-made a name in politics Formerly known as Sir Walter Fos. ter, he was a member of the House of Commons for a quarter of a cen. tury. He was in the best semse the honorary physician 'to the House, for, lh Sve uck Would 3 have it, be was at any member Lord Ilkeston first beeame famous as a physician i irmingham : he has been vice-president of iti largely to e Hiei : much to do with the reorganization of the party in the years which followed the ill-fated eficrt to introduce Home Rule. He held important int. ments under various Liberal Indeed, as a rule, or the late Bir Charles Dilke that was the first to get his name ticked off by the clerk in charge of the division list, and while waiting for the doors to be opened both used to entertain the younger members with reminiscences of not- able Parliamentary personalities. Lord Ilkeston has told a good story concerning another kind of "Home Rule" to that mentioned above. Tired and dusty, & party were returning by train from a holiday trip. Simkins, a little bald man, seated himself down to read, but dropped off to sleep. On the rack was a ferocious crab in a bucket, and when Simkins went to sleep the crab woke up, and, Snding things dull in the bucket, sta exploring. By careful navigasion, Mr. Crab reached the edge of the rack. Down it fell, ahighting on Simkins' shoul. | der, and it bed the man's ear to steady itself. The passengers held their breath and waited for develop- 1911. A ----, | MAKING A TAXI-DRIVER. How London Trains its Cabbies Whe { i ' Turn Chauffeur. No good purpose would be served by raising anew the /question of the relative supply of "taxicab .drivers and taxicabs. In the view of the . taxicab proprietor, of course, there never will be an adequate number of skilled drivers available: but the known facts a! the situation give strong probability to the reply that, 'due 'allowance being made for the large percentage of taxi-cabs always i in the garages for one reason or an- ! other, there is ys The Westminster { Gazette} no y in placing the { available mot on the streets | of London through lack of qualified | drivers. {| Be the supply of drivers plentiful {or scarce, however, a state of things ivolvel in the making of » known to the and conveni- | ht molor-os exnumber of vehi cles. of this description plying for hire in the London' streets by per- mission of Scotland Yard is now well over 6,000; and for the privilege of sharing in the work of controlling them there are something like 400 Jpamners constantly busy in connec. ion with the various garages. It is safe to say that Beotland Yard is called upon to test the skill of at least 150 applicants for drivers' li. censes every week; and the first glimpse of the state of things we speak of is secured when it is re. membered that as many as 90 per cent. of these men fail to pass the test on the first trial Last year the test of ability to drive a motorcab was applied to 6,110 applicants for licenses, and of this number 3.777 satisfied the re. quirements of the police. By a ocon- cession to the horsecab driver, he is allowed six tests before being finally turned away as a helpless case, but men who are new to the business must prove their efficiency as motor-cab drivers within the limit of four trials. When a cab-driver of the fast-dis- appearing horsed type has at last made up his mind to qualify forsa seat behind the whael of a motor-cab, he may seture a "permit' from Scot- | them w | users ments, but Simkins only shook his | head and said: "Let go, Sarah; 1 | tell you I have been at the office all | the evening I" | } | The Natural Park Man. | Howard Douglas, Edmonton, has | been (giving interviews down in Spo- | kane, Washington. He's the natural park man who works for the Dominion Goversment. During filteen years Douglas has managed eight natonal | pals in Albérta, Baskatchewan and | ritish Colambia. He was the first superintendent of the Banff Park, the | first - resorwation of ite kind In Can- ada. Douglas is going to hSsuporinten- dent of still. another park. Up in the Yallowhead. Pass through the Rocky Mountains, theré are 4500 gquare miles of hotsprings and scenery. This is Jasper Park--and Howard Douglas has! ecxnmenoed i opening it up. , Too Much Reafigm. "Do you not feel at times," rema:k. | ed the fireside critic, "that realiem can be carried too far on the stage?' "Yes," replied the tragic mctor, with a sigh. "The last man I was working for did it. He wanted to pay us all-off in stage money." : One Botile Will ||| Show You. Why don't you give Abbey's Salt a chance to show you what it can do for yom ? A 25c¢. bottle of = ' Eat iS f is all right to try.. Get one if you are Bilious, have Headaches, or. teed a good Blood Purifier. This one bottle will prove that Abbey's Salt is just if the spring tonic you 8" | i Hl i | | i HY Hs TORONTO, ONT. Prince (FoRGE- Horr Three Blocks fram Union Station In the centre of Theatre, Shopping and Business District. 100 with Private Baths CURSPEAR and AMERICAN PLAN A ia Carte Rosturant At Teasonable Prices.' Sam. H. THOMPSON. Poor ---- ------ me {Geo | Maller & Son pe i who | mote | the prevention of disease in. England land Yard to commence the training | process, always provided that he be a man of good character and under fifty years of age. On presentation | | at one of the garages the applicant is medically examined prior to bei placed under one of the instructors. | After passing this preliminary test, the learner begins work in earnest by appearing each day at the garage | between nine and ten o'clock in the | morning in order to be taken out by the instructor with two or three other novices, "You can come back to the garage for dinner," said a taxicab driver has now surmounted all the difficulties of the learner, "which usually consists of hread and cheese; and you go out again at two o'clock until half-past six. This is repeated every day, until the instructor thinks you may try your luck at Scotland Yard; and the time occupied so far has been about a month. If you fail to' pass the'test--as you probably will --you are put back for a fortnight, and the instructor again takes you in hand. Failure on the second trial means an extra month's training; and those who do not pass the third trial may have three more attempts , at intervals of two months." "The Savage Lander." A recent copy of The Melbourns (Australia) Times contains the follow- | ing news despatch under a St. Peters. burg date: A ravage landor got into Bt. Peters. burg yesterday, and the people of the city were terrified. After considerable difficulty the beast, which came from Tibet, was captured, taken to a re. lace and there despatched. It is a that this is the first animal ol the sort ever seen in Russias. How he reached the city aller his fights with the natives of Tibet, which is a comparatively unknown country, is a mystery. 1 A copy of The Manila Bulletin shows the bald telegraphio despatch from which the foregoing was devel. | oped to have been as follows: "Bav- | e landor arrived petersburg from tibet suffering hands natives." Exchanges received from London contain the information that A. Sav- ! e Landor, the explorer, had arrived at St." Petersburg from Tibet after suffering greatly at the hands of the natives. . 23 ; French Family Life.. ! 1% is a threadbare criticism by Eng- | lishmen that the French have no word for "home." They have "foyer," which answers nearly enough, but even if that he thought to stand for something different the obligations of family are strong and general, The respect and affection of English sons for their mothers do no} compare with those of French sons, and in France family tics extend to relations whom English p's should regard as hav- | ing 'no claim upon our consideration... The frothy gayety and the solidity _the French dualism -- mobility for | the visitor to see at a glance, solidity | for him to discover if he takes the trouble.--~London Spectator. Crab-Eating Monkeys. People are so much in the habit of thinking that monkeys are found only i in forests that it comes as a surprise to learn of one that bears the name of the crab-eating macaque. It is found through Burma, Siam and Ma. lay land, living among the trees that line the tidal creeks. The chief food of these animals consists of seeds, in- | sects and crabs. In pursuit of crabs | they must take to the water. 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