H" Liste Why does mother wash the dishes and let her complexion go to the * doge when she might be earning her forly dollars a week In single Lless- edness as the belle of Exchange Row? Why does father wear nis faded ! last year's suit and plaster a mort. | age on the home so that young | Percy may go through college? ------ was necessary to keep life going at | all, First it was only a quivering jelly swayed by a steaming tide. Then gradually, through countless ages of | darkness and light, heat and cold, the earth ehaped into the form we | know to-day. With each evolution | there were radical adaptations, to | u circumstances. Always | t altered THE Da: is ra .Y BRITISH WHI G. IS ABOUT FAMILIES proud of your tall, my friend. Once the world revolved around your ciaws / Gradually such things were (sLed, but always something better came in its place. Always the new {form or 'the new function made for (Idea on the programme, fuller and freer life. Always it pro- vided better defence for the species anc larger health and "happiness for the individual. For a long time the reptile ruled function. Centering at first in waler, life gradually drew iself * "Love?" ! and I thought you'd gay so. Love has [the 1 become a regular patent medicine {up on the bank Neses and lungs formula as appled to ail human ec-! formed in those masses of Jelly. oentricities. But you're not going to | Skins and scales appeared. Scales, in escape that easily. love--yes. But turn, gavd way to hair. Fins turned why is love? - into wings. Once you were proudest Have you ever thought of the true | | there was a distinction both im form | |and was the latest word in the na- {tural plan. Then something hap- |pened. The Great Ice Age began, land the Great Ice Age raised Hob | with local soclely. Some of the Best Fins were wiped clean off the map and the Noblect Tails took up wait- beginnings of this thing we call fam- fly life? Do you know the vital me- tive that underlies marriage and the breeding and education of children? Do you know why "free love" in its" commonly accepted interpretation, implying freedom from all socia! bonds and domestic restrictions, ac- tually violates Nature? It is all bo- cuuse SAID THE TRACHODON TO THE THERIOMORPH, WHEN THE WORLD WAS ° WARM AND NEW, E SWAMP BELONGS TO THE REPTILE CLAN, WHAT USE 1S THERE HERE FOR You ?* ls Man Isn't a Snake, No, I'm not writing copybook axi- oms. ['m stating a biological fact. The reason that men have families and take care of those families and build a soclal code for the protection of families in general is because man is a mammal--and the essential at- tribute of a Mammal as differentiat- ed from the next lower evolution of dife, the Reptile, is his propensity to have families and his dependence on families. "The mammal is a family animal" -~-there you have it in a nutwhell, and when you have assimilated that much you'll regard Mary's dishwash- ing and John Henry's mortgages in quite a different light. Wells tells 'us about it in his 'Outline of His- tory." Up from the slime he traces life and the things Nature did to life. She was a versatile schemer, was Old Madam Nature, in those first upheaving days. The world was In Rn Puligun and infinite contriving THE ICE CAP WENT, AND THE HAUGHTY REPTILES FROZE, AND THE THERIOMORPH HE RULED THE EARTH WHEN THE SUN ONCE ~ MORE,_UPROSE ! 'OM, HOW DID, YOU TURN THE TRICK, THEY CRIED "WHEN THE REST OF US GOT THE CAN? AM A FAMILY MAN!" Laas --m v | The higher" we soar, the smaller ve appear to those who cannot fly. - % mi, Optimism rte the clouds and the tangles and costs nothing, \ , . . . . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Sai - iH Protection When the Mercury points to "zero". -- Your Mercury registers "summer heat." For, the exact style and weight of rment that suits you is obtainable in phd Underwear. Fine cashmere--a world 6f comfort to the man who spends much time in- doors; or, heavier weights for men who must face the wintry weather. ; of. At all good shops. Underuwe BUT THE ICE CAP CAME & PAA, "|is satisfactory. rrr x CS DLT, LRRD Wb) JACI 2%) SAY At Av =D 5) Soe 5 Rd iD ©, BA 8-5 gy E SY ID EEO "BECAUSE, SAID THE THER- JOMORPH WITH A GRIN, THE MAN ON WATCH Politics in municipal affairs might yield a snappy election, but that is the ex'ent of the ylald. With a large women's vote the contest might be still snappier, but the female vote In municipal elections is very limni'- ed. | The trouble about the city council of late years has been that those who are well qualified to"be aldermen will not offer "hemselves, but will only criticize. Those who are serving are doing their best. To ent the pastor's salary Is about as dirty an' act as a church can do if itscan afiord %o pay and the minister Of course a people can do what It wishes, even up in London, Ont. That was a pretty thing to attempt to do--to cut dancing out of Queen's college curriculum just when "he football team won the championship. It ever there was a time the students wanted to dance it is this week, and perhaps next, Everybody has been talking about Boo-hoo, the Queen's cub bear, and its antics at Montreal laet Saturday. It must be remembered that Boo-hoo "Iwas not in a dry town as it was in Kingston the previous Saturday, and someone may have mixed Boo-hoo's drinks. If the church folk who turned out to welcome the championship foot- Lallers las' Sunday gave the stranger as hearty a welcome as they did the pigskin boys, there would be some life im the local congregations. Cataraqui is reported to be short of water. Is that all the shortage out there? Kingston also has its shortages, and "good" water is one of them. = Our old friend, Professor D. H. Marshall has a good daylight saving scheme for adults, but it would not be any better than the old one as far as the kids are concerned. The Lampman has no particular love for daylight saving, but he is convinced that it is In the interests of the large majority in Kingston, and therefore he will vote for retaining it next year. on, they say that the anti-danc- tion introduced at Queen's society meeting was just nly to {nerease iu- Now Bometimes the meaning people in 8 town in regard Is like sweeping dirt trom the centre of the floor to the corners and leavs EN ANO CHILDREN OE {t there. It juat transfers it else- Where, \ . ' ---- Hadn't Told the Bull. A story is told of a ceriain Eng- lish poMtician who thought every- body knew or ought to know him. 'One day he --THE TOWN WATCHMAN. er's jobs. A form of life which had seemed unimportant in the more tor- rid days when living came easy and {soft and warm, now leaped ahead land became indeed the One Great The Age {of Mammals arrived, and before } them everything else gave way. | Nogy the Theriomorph, that first | ee Mammal, did not outstrip the {Snake by sheer size or strength. His beginnings were indeed intinitely weak and lowly. He outstripped the reptile because he represented a big- ger idea. Life was no longer a by- product of a general explosion. It was becoming highly specialized and more valuable, and as its function JI TEI PRs 1 ag 0 . STOMACH TROUBLE "INDIGESTION" Relieved By Burdock Blood Bitters ---- gestion or other stomach troubles who has to pick and choose his food is the most miserable of all mankind. Even the little that is gaten causes much torture, and is digested so im- perfectly it does but little good. Jov 'your food, you must put 'your factare its own digestive ferments. Mr. Wm. Kruschel, Morden, Man., writes: -- 'Some time ago I had quit a serious case of stomach trouble, digestion. I could scarcely eat any- thing, outside of some light food, and even then I generally had pains af- ter each meal. ment, and had almost of ever being well. commended Burdock Blood Bitters, and after using it a short time I felt much better, so I continued to use it until I was completely relieved. I can honestly say that B. B. B. done wonders for medicines failed." B. B. B. is put up only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. 3 clambered over, out of breath ania dignity, and found the owner of tha bull contemplating the operation. "What do you mean, sir," asked the irate politician, "by having an infuriated animal like that roaming |about the field?" "Well, I suppose the bull has some right in the flald," sald the farmer, ' , "Right? Do you know who I am, sir?" gasped the politician. The farmer shook his head. "I am the Right Honorable 8ir--" "Then, why on earth didn't you tell the bull?" said the farmer. Gorilla in a London Flat. Three months ago Chula, an at- tractive four-year-old gorilla with ears as perfect as a child's, livad with his parents in the West Afric. an forest. To-day he passes a lux- artous existence in a Knightsbridge flat, and eats with a spoon. Chula likes London food, but not the bon- don climate. "He cries the moment I leave him," says Miss Alyse Cun- ningham, who has adopted him, "and he spent most of his first night in London in tears. Chula hates men. He associates them all wich African natives, who are so cruel to animals. Chula, whose diet is hot milk and bananas, will be taugit table magners i» the same way as Jobn Daniels, the gorilla to whose room, bed, and blankets he has suc- ceeded." | ural state as the The sufferer from dyspepsia, indi- ¢ Before ycu can eat heartily and en- stomach right so that it will manu- snot look at anything like that. in- I tried many different medicines, but without any i oY TE prit. Firstly I could not understand | A neighbor re- how anything moving has me after all other | ~ Was said and done. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED DY ELSIE ROBINSON increased it was facing more and] more difficult conditions. Some ex- redient had to be adopted which would protect this precious thing | against its environment. That ex- pedient was the Mammal. | Wells says:- "A mammal is really 4 sort of reptile that has developed a peculiarly effective protective cov- ering, hair; and that also retains | ite eggs in the body unt!! they hatch so that it brings forth living young | (viviparous), and even after birth | it cares for them and feeds them by | its mammae for a longer or shorter | period. Some reptiles, some vipers for example, are vivaparous, but | none stand by their young as 'he real | mammals do. Both the birds and mammals, which escaped what- Tever destriictive forces made an end to the Mosozolc reptiles, and which | survived to dominate the Cainozoie | world, have these two things in com- mon: first, a far more effective pro- tection against changes of tempera- ture than any other variation of the reptile type ever produced; and, sec- ondly, a peculiar care for their eggs, the bird by incubation and the mam- nial by retention, and a disposition te look after the young for a certain period after hatching or birth, There is by comparison the greatest care- lessness about offspring in the rep- tile." Bo came the Mammal. So came | the family idea. Not! because it was a pretty idea, not because it was | more respectable--but because it saved MMfe. Therein lay the reason for families forty million years ago | Therein lies the reason for them now. | And that 13 why Mary's dishwashing | and John Henry's mortgages are su- premely beautiful and dignified; why, indeed, they surpass all other national functions in importance. | The marriage law may be, and un- doubtedly is, a faulty arrangement, but the Family Idea is the Hand of God on the Spawn of a shaping World. Next Week--' 'This Talk Is About | 9 Marriage." (Copyright, 1922, George Matthew mm. THE SLENDER LORIS. "All things In"%he jungle creeping Have their purpose and their place; Wh'le a tired world is sleeping Strange fcrms join the nightly chase. "Another curious pet that you might have, Teddy," said Uncle! Frank, "is mostly eyes. That is one | of the peculiarities of the Slender | Loris. They have eyes about ten times too big for their small bodies! and such surprised looking eyes at| that. Another peculiarity is the! slowness of their movements, for they look exactly like some very small kind of monkey until one examines them very closely. 'I was quite at! a loss to know what to do with the | first one I had. I expected her to! eat fruit and all the sort of things | {a monkey would eat, but she would | 1 {had a number of doves in the aviary | iat that time, and one by one they were killed at night. It took me! qiite a number of days to realize | that Mrs. Slender Loris was the cul-| 80 slowly | [could catch a bird, and then I mis- | {Judged her in thinking that she liv-| {ed on fruit. The loris lives on beet. | {les and inseots, but to look at one {You would never suspect it." | "I guess I would like a loris," | [sald Teddy, "but 1 wish they | | did not eat beetles. They must be | quicker at snapping up their food! {than one would think or they would | i never be able to get anything." | "That is correct, Teddy, and I also! expect that those big googoo eyes | : have something to say in the matter, Fascination plays a big part in the deaths that-occur in the jungle." -- Another Naughty Pet. * Then you might have a peacock, Teddy, although they make rather i dangerous pets for a boy. 1 used to live not very far from the low- country where peafowl were running | wild, and I have often had a pea- i chicken brought me-->did you ever { hear the word 'peachicken' before? I do not think you have. One of these birds I remember very dis- tinctly. He had a most miserable time from the fowls when he was young, as they used to chase him and pull the little tuft on his head. When jhe grew up, he got an his own back ! with interest. He was a great swell 'as he strutted about with his tail ; extended, and he beca 3 ied that he Adsl ke 2 FLASH Row . a = N SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1928. ts Guaranteed aly = MIXTURE AT ALL DRUGGISTS 'CHRISTMAS CAKES and PUDDINGS Now is the time to order your Christmas Cake and Pudding. WE USE NO SUBSTITUTES F. C. HAMBROOK 115 BROCK STREET. PHONE 1925w. ThePaxton Twins 'Will Go to College # A MONG the applications recently received at our Head Office, were two on the same date, signed by a Mr. Joseph Paxton. They were for Child's Endowment Policies for two children of Mr. Paxton; and it was noted that the birthday was the same for each. Feeling there might be an interesting story behind so unusual an application, we interviewed Mr. Paxton. "Yes, they are twins," he said, "and although one is a girl, I feel she is just as much entitled to a university educa- tion as her brother Peter. 1've seen so much of parents' plans miscarrying, that I determined to make sure my debt to my little ones would be paid. Ifigured that by little economies here and there,__ I could pay the annual premiums that would ensure a college education for Peter and Patsy." It transpired that when Mr.. Paxton looked into the matter he found the premium on Child's Endowment Insur- ance much less than he had imagined, This is one of the many practical applications of the Life Insurance Idea-- investigate its possibilities for your child- ren. Write for our Booklet on "Child's Endowment Policy." "NORTH AMERICAN LIFE Solid as the Continent" Le Kingston, Ontario. : to the bungalow. {He would assassinate the roosters | {and murder the hens if he got the | { chance, and he even went so far as to try conclusions with Taina, my | pet Wanderoe monkey." i "I bet he got it hot from the monk- | ey--didn't he, Uncle?" | "He certdlnly did, Teddy, and he | did not try it twice, He lost quite! a lot of his tail feathers and very nearly lost his life into the bargain. | He sure learnt about the meaning ot|| a 'monkey-business,' I had to keep: him in a cage eventually, but one day | i European Plan Dining Room Service De Luxe CHATEAU an Afghan trader brought me up a Deahen. Mr. Peacock behaved after | that. He spent all his time showing i Of to the hen, who did not seem to think very much of him when all | It is rather dif-| * Ecult to shoot a peacock in its nat-| birds are mostly | feathers. The best way to shoot 'them is with a pea-rifle, taking aim At some vital part. That's all for to-night, Teddy." kangarqo is not much big- BELVIDERE : 141 King E. Phone 1743 M. C FENWICK, Prop. ol ot