sd THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG AR ni A RSET - Pyne Sh mt votes assis ¥ SATURDAY, APRIL, 24, 1920. of Women---Some Interesting F eatures If you have valuable Furs gets a Wayne Moth Bag, guaranteed, and lasts for several years; in all sizes, from Muff to Overcoats. Prouse's Drug Store Corner Princess and Clergy Oriental Cr FERD.T sxe Riy HOPKINS & Fe It's easy enough for the man afraid of a gun to talk war in times of peace, io Some prefer to dd their haymaking HOUSEHOLD FABRICS When any of the Curtains, Drapes, Chintzes and Carpets in your house look dingy, do not imagine that their usefulness has passed. Send them to Parker's to be cleaned or dyed. You will be amazed and delighted with the result. Whatever the nature of the fabric to be cleaned, we can Parkers DyeWorks Linited leanersaDyers 69 PRINCESG STREET : : KINGSTON The H. C. of B. is largely caused by waste resulting from spoiled cakes, pies and pastry. Many people do not consider baking powder a very important ingredient in baking, whereas it is most important--Success or failure depends upon the powder ~~ FGG-0 Baking Powder helps k down the HIGH COST OF BAKING, because, first, it is'sold at a reasonable price, and second, its double acti ualities absolutely as- sure rig ing at all times. Al- ways follow the directions on the label, you use less powder. Buying -0 in the larger tins is most ing Eau family Fo 9 os Egg-0 Baking Powder Co. Hamilton, Cankda ~ | lay there and reveled in the An Impossible Situation When I awakened in the morning, | for awhile 1 did not realize what had happened the day before. The sun was shining brightly, my bed was soft and comfy. Physically. I was feeling fine. 1 uietness {and calmness that surrounded me. { There was a light tap on my door {and Hannah came in, bringing a great { florist box, almost as tall as she was, {T opened the box.-to find a great bunch {of American Beauties and a card { which said, "Come home to me soon, { John." Then it all came back to me. I ask- {ed Hannah to turn the flowers out on { the bed. I knew she thought I was de- {lighted with them. I kept perfectly {still until she left the room, and then | T picked those roses up one by one {and feliberately tore them to pieces, scattering their fragrant leaves all lover the bedroom carpet. When I had done this I took 'the denuded stalks, {upon which only the thorns remained {and held them in my hands for a | mement. Again 1 felt a great desire {to laugh, but I told myself that I {must not do it, for I might really go mad if I let myself go. | The First Flowers These were the first flowers that {John had sent me since we were mar- {ried. This was the first time that I | had ever received gmything from him {that he could not help me enjoy. It was too obvious, as Elizabeth { Moreland said in the note she did not | sign. John was not going to let a rich {wife get out of his hands. | "For pity sake, Katherine," said Alice, opening the door and coming in. "What have you been doing; aren't { you ashamed to mutilate these beauti- { ful roses?" | "Yes, I am a little ashamed, dear, but you see : they weren't flowers to | me, They were a kind of something | that commenced as a beautiful dteam {and ended in one of those terrible { nightmares from which you awake in | cold perspiration. I was trying to dis- | sipate it, to put it out of my life and | memory as soon as possible." | "Katherine," asked Alice solemnly, | as she unconsciously stooped to pick | up the rose leaves, "Did Karl Shepard | send you those roses?" "No, my dear, I wish he had. But you know that Karl never sends me anything but white violets." f THE ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN The national assembly of Hungary has one woman member. Mills college, San Francisco, boasts of a woman's fire department. A woman's iin reaches its great- est weight at about the 'age of twenty- five. The = Business Women's club at 000 clubhouse. It is claimed that ninety per cent. of the women in this country buy ready-made clothes. Only eleven per cent. of the women and girl workers in New York state belong to labor unions, : Of the 2,000,000 excess females in England more than 1,000,000 are be- tween the ages of twenty and sixty, In the United States there are now eleven women members of state legis- latures in five different states. The women of Downers Grove, Ill., boast of having had the first Ameri- can Legion auxiliary the country. The number of worfien wage earn- ers in the United States has increased fifty per cent, during the last ten years, In the United States the average weight of adult females is 110 pounds and the height five feet four inches. Mrs, Olive Scott Gabriel is consid- ered the shrewdest woman politician If not--find out just what defect is ing it from boing Sa siosth am] fine esd To the special treatment suited tofits needs. § Greenwood, Mass., will erect a $75, at Cincinnati was attended by women | ho were recognized as delegates ermitted to offer resolutions and make addresses. | | _ For the first time in the history of | { France, women will be allowed to! rE Compete: on oa : - - | aminations in philosophy and philol- © | ogy. "I have no right to ask who did send them." All the Right in the World "You have all the right in the world, because it was one' of your own family." "Katherine Gordon, you don't mean to tell me that my brother John had the nerve to send you roses this morn- ing, after writing the telegram that I read on the blotter last night?" 1 silently held out to her the card, She looked at it and groaned. "Katherine, you are not going to live with him. I will not allow it. I did not think that it was possible that my own brother could live a double life of this 'kind. And because: he has used you as he has I shall never speak to him again." ; "Wouldn't that be a little foolish, dear? Yqu see it is very easy for him to send flowers to pay all the atten- tions that a man may pay to a wo- man that he thinks is necessary to keep her interest. Already, Alice dear, I am learning that money can buy at least a semblance of love." "Poor Katherine, you are al- together too young to be so cynical." "One doesn't grow cynical because of the passing\of years, my dear, but because one recive hurts that do not heal, "You Have Seen the Wire" "I shall write him today that I shall | no longer live with him. Of course he| will think that my sudden riches have | gone to my head, and he will accuse me of living with him only because I did not have money enough to take care of myself, He will say that as soon as I found myself independent, I tried to get rid of him as soon as pos- sible. You, Alice, know differently; vou have seen the wire he sent to Elizabeth Moreland." "Yes, dear, I have seen it, and unless I had seen it with my own eyes I would never believe my brother could be such a despicable creature. Are you going to send it to him?" "No, dear, I am just going to say | © Mrs. Elisabeth Whillfng, of Roch. { ester, Eng., who last year swam six- | teen miles in the Medway, will this | year try to swim the English channel. | France is taking up seriously the | problem of her 2,000,000 marriage- {able girls, who as a result 'of the | war's losses can never hope to have | husbands. | Lady Surma D'Mar Shimun, -the {only woman ambassador in the world, has arrived in London, where she will represent the Assyrian tribe as plenipotentiary. Fifty per cent. of the girl war workers in Washington, D.C., are un- dereating because of the high price of food in lunch rooms, boarding | houses and groceries. Miss Susie B. Sigler, of Waco, Tex, | has the distinction of being the first woman deputy district clerk of the United States district court in the western district. : The average salary received by women and miners working in Texas mercantile establithments, telephone exchanges, laundries and factories is between $12 and $13 a week. Persons employed in households in Denmark are not known as servants, but are universally called house as- sistants, and ars addressed as Miss by members of the household. Over sixty per cent. of the engin- eering firms in England who em- ployed women during the period of the war are satisfied with their work and will continue to employ them in preference to men. | | Mlle, Blancaaert, a Belgian, who | persons to . get | | through the German lines during the occupation, has been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre by the French government, Official investigations in New York, { New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1918 and 1919 show that from two- thirds to three-quarters of wage- earning 'women in unskilled and semi-skilled occupations are getting less than $14 per week. Septlets were born to the wife of Jesus Lopez, a private in the Mexi- {can army at Montezuma, Mex. The | helped over 400 that I am not going back to him, but | arrivals are three girls and four boys, I am not going to write him today. I will wait until tomorrow." Isn't it fortunate that we can not look ahead even twenty-four hours?" (Copyright by National News: paper Service) (To Continued) in New York city. She is also an able lawyer. During the period of the war, French women kept 800 soldiers' hospitals in operation with 700 beds and cared for 780,379 men. Women workers in Kansas will, under the terms of a recently enacted law, receive a minimum pay of $11 weekly for an eight-hour day, Woman's participation in the or- ganized labor movement is not of re- cent date. Fifty years ago, in 1870, the National Labor Union Congress RED RT CrecamCheese Le LA Ru Fs ISSIR | {| weighing about two pounds apiece, ! and each perectly developed in every respect. Told in Twilight (Continued From Page 3.) Dr. William Smith, New York, son of the late John Smith, job printer, is in the city for a brief visit. Mr. and Mrs. Egerton VanLuven, Kingston, were in Napanee this week. Miss Mary VanSlyck, returned to Napanee, after spending a fewgdays in Kingston the guest of Mr. "land Mrs. A, T. Doller. Mrs, Charles Anderson, Napanee, has been visiting in Kingston. Mrs. Gilbert Johnston, has arriv- ed from Montreal to visit her daugh- ter, Mrs. R, J. McKelvey, 134 Bagot street. 2 Mrs. Donald MacPhail, King street, returned on Wednesday from Toron- to, where she spent a week with her father, Justice Britton. . . » George Sanderson and daughters, Miss Lillas and Miss Bessie, woo for the past two years have been living in Montreal, have gone out to Van- couver, where they will now make their home. The last meeting of the Thursday evening bridge club was held at Mrs. R. Keith Hicks, Kensington"avenue, this week, when the prizes for the season's play were presented: The first, a dainty Ruskin vase was won by Miss Mildred Jones while to Mrs. R. Keith Hicks fell the second prize, & pretty cup and saucer. Ts. George Sadler, Montreal, is the guest of Mrs. R. J. McKelvey, , 134 Bagot. street. This ¢ (ternoon in the Montreal Ge- neral Hospital, a tablet was unveiled to the memory of two of its gradu- ates, Margaret Jane Fortescue and Gladys Irene Sari, Montreal, who perished when the Canadian Hospi- tal ship, Llandovey Castle was tor- pedoed on June 18th, 1917; Nursing Sister Fortescue was known as the "Little Mother" in the hospitals in France, and 'was beloved by all who came in contact with her. Mrs, Car-Harris, Mack street, Miss Van Stranbentgie, Beverly street and Miss Elizabeth Lyman left yesterday for New York, where they will at- tend the Bible Conference. Miss Muriel Wright, Rockeliffe. Ottawa, is the guest of Mrs. Carr- Harris, Mack street. Rev. Mr. Seager, Toronto, fs spending a few days with Dean Starr, Wellington street. Miss Helen Turner, who was Mrs. Alexander Macphail's guest, left on Nodheaday for her home in Knox- viile, n. . 89 Mrs. Parker Embury and Miss Minnie O'Hara, Marmora, spent Thursday ia Kingston. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. H. E. Pense, Albert rg returned on Friday from Peter! . Mrs. J. Howard Box went to Belle ville to-day for the week-end. The marriage of Miss ise Lauriston Merrick, youngest dagen ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ge Merrick, formerly of Merrickville, to Robert Collander, B.Sc., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Callander, "Ruth- venfield House," Almondbank, Perth, , has been arranged to take place it AH Saints' church, Montreal, on Tuesday next. N WOMEN FIND IT FUN TO DYE FADED GINGHAMS, DRESSES -- na Millions it is to turn all their ol House-dresses, ginghams, gloves, ribbons, skirts, draperies--everything can ful, up-to-date, stylish The Direction Book diamond dye .over any color. i a a 'Wil Hit Company Hard. Winnipeg, April 24.--The Winni- peg Electric Rallway.Co. refuses to consider the latest wage schedule of employees, which demands an appro: ximate increase of 90 per cent., and which would entail added expenses of $1,250,000 a year. The claim of the company is that the demands are so extreme as to make them impossible of a basis of negotiations. In Denmark a housemald is paid about fifty kroner a month in addi- tion to her board and lodging, while a cook receives at least eighty kroner, In normal times these wages are said to be equivalent in Denmark to the same number of American dollars In the United States. Better a Mve wire than letter. a dead For Colds, Pain, Headache, Neural- , Toothache, Earache, and for eumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neu- ritis; 1aks Aspirin marked with the name " r" or you are not Aspirin or > aking ccept only "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" in an unbroken "Bayer" Aspirin is the trade mark (registered | aceticacidester of Balicylicaeld. While it manufacture, to assist the public against will be stamped with their genera! trade ---- i a and Using "Diamond' Worn, Shabby Garmerits into New in package tells- how There is only one Aspirin--"Bayer"~You must say » WAISTS, STOCKINGS pa pp rm Dyes" and Turning Old, Awful prices are teaching women how easy d garments bright and new with "Diamond Dyes.' aprons, stockings, waists, sweaters, children's coats, be diamond-dyed {nto beauti. d effects, whether or silk; linen, cotton or mixed goods, they be wool to To match material, have druggist show you "Diamond Dye" Color Card. Sent to Penitentiary, . Woodstock, Ont., April 24.--John A. Higgins, Toronto, dope fiend, ar- rested on April 6th, in possession of y morphine, heroin and other drugs, was to-day sentenced tq two and a half years, with hard labor in peni- tentiary by Judge G. Wallace, Three charges were read against Higgiins, stealing $8,200 worth of bonds from Dr. C. C. 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