Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Sep 1917, p. 20

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Upper Right. -- FALEARLY understand, the person with the man on the step-ladder ie no lady. She is a poster. The man an the ladder is an artist. You observe at once that if this poster is to adver tise anything it must be something ut of the common. The style of de goration used looks suspiclously like wreck of an aeroplane. But it is AINTY little person in white, snuggled in the cushions on her roof-top rest rcom at Bath Beach, New Jersey, is feeling very sure that pretty soon the New York Sundays will be publishing her picture and the critics saying nice kind things about her first appearance on the stage of the Metropolitan. Who? Well she is not an American. No, she was born in Sicily among the sulphur mines, not far from where old Ulysses used to put wax in his ears so as not to hear the sirens of Scylla. And about six years ago the late Dan Frohman-- drowned on the Lusitania--went to a little village opera house. There he heard Mlle. Aguglia in folk songs. He induced her parents to let her go to New York for training. Now she's ready for the grand bow to the 400 next November. JpLEAsE notice that this rustic wag- gon carries not merely as fine a load of femininity as any eye-glass critic could say "The deuce!" to; but likewise a cargo of real brains. These are aH undergraduates of Toronto University going to camp from the berry plantations at Beamsville, Ont. Lower Right.-- real art. Any artist will tell you that setrin A RR ssn ri it ls--Futurism. As to what this ex- traordinary poster advertises--sh! It is to be a show, a lavish and spec- tacular presentation In the Strand, London, of what some people used to consider a great drama. Sh! keep this quite under your hat. The name of the thing is Three Weeks! * And the poster-person ls supposed to be the lady in the case. RST photograph ever published in Canada of negro women on par ade. This was, of course, in New York, where if you want anything you have to march down Broadway to get it. These coloured ladies are justly in- dignant over the race riots and lynch- ings that took place not long ago in St. Louis. They organized this parade to advertise their protest. Whe says wash-day is blue Monday in Quebec? rs dct RE THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1917, | ¢ Personal Accident, Health Li- ability, Automobile, Plate Glass, Guarantee, Burglary and Fire Canadian Head Office: Ocean Insurance Buliding, Toronto CHARLES H. NEELY General Manager for Canada. J. K. CARROLL, Agent, Kingston. MERRYWEATHER'S ROSES Nurseries Southwell, England Orders should be placed by September 10th Catalogue Post Free on Application. M. A. BRUSH 20} Wellington St. West, TORONTO Phore--Main 3480. Tinting of the Hair Tinting of the hair should only be performed by an experienced operator, guided by a past master in the art. When visiting the Toronto Exhibition consult W. T Pember, Canada's leading expert on treating the hair and scalp, and tinting the hair to any shade desired. Hair goods of the finest tex: ture and latest designs in wigs, Toupées, Transforma- tions, Pompadours, parted on side or centre, Switches and Bangs in great variety. Make . the Pember store your head- . Quarters at Exhibition. THE PEMBER STORE 129 Yonge Street Isbell, Plant & Co. + Members Standard Stock Exchange Specialists in Mining Standard Bank Building, Toronto TORONTO MONTREAL New York Stocks WEEKLY MARKET LETTER SENT WITHOUT CHARGE ON KEMERER, MATTHES & C0, 108 Bay, Sree (Members Standard Stock Exchange), (Members Philadelphia Stock Exchange. . . CANADIAN § NATIONAL EXHIBITION 'Aug.25 TORONTO Sept.10 Jubilee Spectacle 1,200-- Performers--1,200 Fifty years of fascinating history dramatically told Super-Climax in Patriotic Pageantry Innes' and Twenty other leading Bands Persian, Italian, U.S. and Canadian Art Mobilization of National Resources Constructive and Destructive Needs for War Giant Live Stock Agricultural and Tractor Display National Motor Show Trap" Shooting Dog and Cat Shows Entire New MIDWAY | biggest and best yet sts of Free Attractions -- Air ights and Fights---Model Camp--- inch and Bomb Attacks---Naval ay----Day and Night Fireworks Stars of Hippodrome and Circus ts - World. ; y La Reduced Fares on all lines of Trane 19,25 -TORONTO- Sept. 10 y

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