6 report, a blind pers ary print. Ope of t has recentiy been s bitiori of scientific apparat Kensington, London. Another instruments is belng experimented | with at St. Dustan's Hostel | where Sir Arthur Pears a victim of blindness, ca work of building up ma TTT BNRARd soldiers Of the w The optophone is the inventior { Dr. Fournier D'Albe | mercial venture it is being 'per | by Dr. Barr, who, while ; that it is at present naturally a | expensive scientific apparatus to lower its market price in future. A blind girl, who has been learning only a short time and who' can alr ady read at the rate of seven words a minute, has been giving de- | monstrations at the London €Collegs Pr { 2 ois Editor and Of science to a number of incrednlous Masaging-Directos | investigators, and it is reliably stated Rf ssiness Om MEFRONES; on that a speed of twenty-five words a Bditorial Roomy 229| minute has been attained by one ex- : ~ | bert ' Job Office .. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | The practised. optophone recognizes words much in the same (Daily Edition) 6.00 year, delivered in wity . 3 year, if paid in advance .3a po 5 Pra year, by mail to rural offices $50 Way as the telegraph operator re year. to United States .. ++3.00 | cognizes the dots and the dashes of (Semi-Weekiy Edition) | Yiat ear, by mall, fash se iis 1.901 the Morse alphabet from the clicks year, If not pald in advance 1.50} te a ay. 2 a ave of tha year, to United States ......31.50|9f his sounder. The advantage of the | opto ne over the raised alphabet OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES | OPlOPhone over tl se alpliabe ; r, 21 St. John St, Montr hitherto in use in schools for the «130 Ring 5¢ E.| blina is that the optophone can he 88TH YEAR. of the London, *himself sx on his hopes near Published Dally and Seni-Weekly by {THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED ~ i J. G. Elliott Leman A. Gulla listener ¥ Ide F. W. Thompsoy * Toronto. Letters to the Editor are published | : . only 'over the actual npame of the | matter. Thereby it can release 3 nin | blind from restriction best job | prepared books, Whether it can ever | give the blind the same speed as the seeing reader, and whether it can {enable them to read faster by the | Braille touch system remains to be | determined to Attached is one of the printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. --- HOUR DAY. The eight-hour day proposal, as was expected, is proving a stumbling i block to the Drury government. The But how does the Portsmouth phil- ©Osopher explain it? It isn't tax revision we much as expurgation pendent upon the labor group for a He is a brave man who faces the music. Especially if it is jazz. | swallow their objections and adopt | a passive attitude for the present. It pe lis Those gas masks still be | useful to muzzle people who eat on- ions. | would It may be that Hootch will cure | some disorders, but headache isn't ane of them. prosperity and industrial activity, during which labor was in so great demand that the workers could prac- | tically name their own terms. The Most present-day, magazine dokes | riod of depression, however, has are purile," says-a writer. Doesn't he | omewhat changed the aspect of 2 : BS or Mean: senile? | things, and so we hear little in the way of dictation from labour. The eight-hour day has been None escape.fThe married man who | THE BRITISH WHIG (ctte mechani. wo Loon papers | ted | lus reading any ordinary printed | used for reading an p = { but he was wrong the | specially | - | THOMAS EDISON AND THE EIGHT- | has at least been made, veed ao | farmers do not like it, but, being de- | { majority in the house, they have to | more than likely; however, that the | measure will be dropped, simply be- | cause the demand for it has subsided, | The outcry for the eight-hour day | | was a product of the period of great | makes less than (wo thousand a year | has his ingenuity taxed. If men did the spring house clean ing most of the stuff in the closets would be burned as junk. When Germany turns the other cheek she is. just killing time until she can hide a few more assets. The end of suggestive movies is in | sight. In 2 little while they won't be Satisfied 'with mere suggestion And now when you refer to. mer from all 'walks of life," you refer on ly to track inspectors and postmen The British coal disturbance be gins to look less like a strike and more like a scuttle.-- Montreal Star. "God has wonderfully blessed this land," says a minister. Especially by locating it so far from the Balkans -------- When you buy your first plece of ice you will understand what is meant by the first robbin' of spring. ---------------------- It sounds morbid, but we always wondered what a suleide thinks about | while he is waiting for the poison to | &et busy. A news story tells of a dominating | woman who sat on a jury and "held it under her thumb." founds like a stunt for a contortionist. Heinie has uneasy moments when he fears that the first forward leap Qf the Allied armies wasn't the main | Spring of the watch on the Rhine ---------- Clean-up week In the city has been fixed for the last week in April. Let 8verybody get busy, and give the city A more presentable appearance 5 « The story that eighty-three ser- Fant girls were arrested in New York year will be news to those who n't think there were that many Servants girls anywhere. ~ When a girl looks as though she | Situated. bad fallen face downwastis fn a flour barrel, it is not safe to conclude, say: the Walkerton Telescope, that sha kas been helping mother with the baking. IWere registered at hospitals were un- able to vote because their rames were not on the lists, then a full and com- plete enquiry should be at once insti- tuted. Those respongiblé for the * blunder--if that is what it is--should Bor escape criticism, at least. 4 w---------------- READING THROUGH THE EARS One of the most fascinating and important inventions ately put forth is the optophone. By means of sounds Produced through its extremely deli- «| tion for it is still vigilant. If it is proven that soldiers who | sident of the French republic has set | bis hand to & new lgw "for the re proven a failure in many countries. it has not accomplished what was ex- pected of it, and there has not been the corresponding increase in effici- | eney that wad predicted. On various | occasions the Whig has shown the | reverse tb the case In ¢ountries where | the plan has been thoroughly tested. {By looking back at some of the | achievements of the past, however, we find that some of the greatest ana most productive workers have been men whose Working hours knew no thw greatest examples « found. tu the life of who has sald that of his success was #« hours and rest san those who were work ng srvund him the etaht-bo day He says Today | wondering what would have happened to me by now f Bfty years ago some fluent talker | bad converted me to the theory of the ! eight-hour day, and convinced me | Han it One. of of this treats Thomas A the gre that be wr wag § a RA Faison wwrpet are interesting. @m that it was not fair to my fellow | | my gun, and slew the Johnsings, one | by one > the war ended It hum: of 'moral "sh a sane the world seems 'as if, for a while, suffered a sort and lost, temporarily, the determination of wha! bad balan 1 is decent and tolerable The effects of it will not pass away in a moment, but we would do wroug to take the dark view that the world is growing worse and that the rising generation is headed straight ion bow-wows." ent Kinds of ugiiness were bound to flash upou the great screen turmoil." We shouldn't be frightened by them or ose our wits, hysteria and of PUBLIC OPINION Soin His Falling. Cincinnati Enquirer) 4 A man can be smart enough in other ways and yet be a big enough idiot to argue with his wife td The Reform Cranks. tBaltimore Sun) Most of the theories designed sumption that fellows Mrs. Harding's Share. (Detroit Free Prass) An applicant for citizenship in Chi- | cago said that if the President should | die Mrs Harding would get the job, All Mrs, Harding gets out of the presidency is salary Making Progress (Brantford Expositor It is'noticeable that during the pre- | sent "'Bone-dry" campaign in Ontario no one is found to advocate a return | to the licensed bar, whether in hotels or otherwise liquor interests the present effort tions is defeated it will before the old order of turns ot be long A ABER RR Walt Mason |! THE POET PHILOSOPHER i I bought a shotgun at the store and slew the family next door. And I was moved to honest tears when thus I ended their careers, for they had never done me wrong, and had known them well and long. Re- morse burned in me like a fire when I shot down the aged sire, and plug- sed a nephew and a niece and gave two aunts eternal peace, and when I burned the residence it shocked my fine esthetic sense. But I had tried 80 many ways to break into the pic- ture plays! 1 chased the managers around and begged them, while they vawed the ground, to give me just a single chance; I knew quite well I would advance But they looked down with cold disdain and sald I gave them all a pain; a creek, they su!d. was near my home, and there I well might soak my dome. I'd never have a chance to trot with all the gilded movie lot unless I played some startling game designed to give me Widespread fame. But now the of- fers come my way--I'll draw a hun- dred plunks a day. As Bill the But- cher, on the screen, I'll teach the young that vice is mean, that ehild- ren are biit dizzy fools who do not B80 to Sunday schools; a moral tag BREAKING IN. | attached to crime hands out a lesson | most sublime. And when 1 think how His views on | I'll improve the children, where the movies move, I'm almost glad I took --WALT MASON. A man always has a funny look in his eyes when you get tha laugh on him. If you dond want a thing well | workers to put forth my best efforts | tell the waiter to bring it rare. in my work. I am glad that the eight- | hout day had not beeh invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I | don't believe 1 could have accom- plished a great deal. The country would not amount to as mueh ag It | does if the young men of fifty years | ago had been afraid they might earn more than they were paid. There were shirkers in those days, to be { sure, hut they didn't boast of it." These are the words of one of the world's greatest workers,'.and he | ived up to the policy he proclaims. | The result is geen in the fame which is his, and in the more than nine hundred different inventions for which he has taken out' patents. {Great things cannot be accomplished {by working, grudgingly, for eight | hours a day, and the sooner that fact | is recognized by the workers who ¢lamour for the eight-hour day, then the sooner wil they themselves rise | above the state in which they are | EVEN PARIS IS REFORMING. Yes, even In Payis, that "naughty town" of the world in gong and story, morality is yet strong and precau- The pre- pression of outrages upon good man- ners committed In theatres amd places of amusement," a measure the oceasion for which lies resident, among others, in the story that "at present in the Folies Bergere review 00 less than twenty young women, clad only in a few beads, appear | every night under pretense of repre- senting classic figures or statues." i Scandalous Performances have | to | all would be well it | the little fellows could boss the big the | Nor is there any public { man'in this province who is prepared | to openly espouse the cause of the | This much progress | If, however, | to stop importa- | things re- | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1520, by The Cincinnati Enquirer. . s True Charity. ; would disburse BITS OF BY-PLAY | | 3Y'S i Va-- Paw Knows Everyibing. Willie--Paw, what is a critic Paw---A critic is a man who can't io 2a thing himself, but wlio how fellow tells the other doesn't do it son A Hot Deck. The boy stood on the burning deck, He didn't cuss or frown Twas cooler standing up, by { Than it was sitting down heck wr is an awe | Ouch! "That of yours said Jones. "Oh, T don't know { "He aims to tell the he's a d-n poor hoy Var" replied Smith, truth, 1 guess.' "Then shot, sald { Jones He Couldn't. Old Adam was the onl It seems to me, Who didn't blame his downfall on man Haw, Haw! He says he's red-blooded, He I suppose 1 know that it shows on The end of his nose ---- Answers to Correspondents. Deaf Luke I am trying la rhyme that begins like this; "There was a little girl Her name was Mercy Who tried to milk a cow Whose name was Percy." vou give me rest | rhyme in your column ---BE. J Columbus, Ohio. Sure, we gan is, io Can the The is as follows But he wasn't that kind of a cow." Hooray! most every day, lakes and The sun will shine { The sun will shine woods also . goods on | And through the thin : - | { Ho, Hum! | (From the Reflections of Dusty Miller) | Luke McLuke says & man {in the the attic, but his main objection | tne location is that it's too far | the cellar, | i | Modern Nursery Rhymes. i as an Old-Hen | Old Hen settin' pretty in that State Higgeldy, piggeldy, my Old Hen, She lays quarts for gentlemen Gentlemen come every day, To see what my Old Hen doth lay. Well, We Should Worry! Well, sir, here's another baseball sea. son in our midst, as the fellow said, and thus far fio one seems to have thought of inventing a rubber pop bottle. What were the members of the Umpire's Pro- tective 'Association thinking of all Winter? . We'll Bet They're Tough Eating, A man in Hamilton, Ohio, advertises two bronze turkeys for sale. Help! % One hand was 'all he used to steer, The other arm hugged Myrtle; They felt a skid, and then, oh dear! The doggone car turned turtle. ~--Luke McLuke, -- To this thing, Burbank, pray give heed, And quiet our alarms; It's evident our crying need Is young men with three arms --iNewark Advocate. Names Is Names, This country will celebrate Corn Week next fall. But what we started to tell you was that Bunion Day lives in Paris, Ky. Our Dally Special. Good Intentions Are Usually Good To Be True. Too ry | FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH The picture shows the miners leaving the Dorsey been going on pretty much all over pil, in response lo-their union's orders, - right, | recall | | of this Smith, | rest of the rhyme | Sweet Summer's now well on her way, | skirt is down | world when he has to live in to } from | In West ¥irginia a still is now known | And there's many an | \ Cadillac Electric { | | | { t | money can buy anywhere! 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Lockhart: Clarence Street, Kingston Phones 1035w. or 1707}. NE Coal That Suits Just so far. But when a woman falls she Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, 'Had- dock, , Halibut and - Cod BOOTH FISHEIERS (Canadian Co. Phone 520, 03 Brock Ste Ni, 09-3240, . The Delaware, Lackawanna an) Western Kallroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The 02ly Goal handled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot of Queen St. e's a black business, but we treat you white." --