SC THE BRITISH WHIG| 80TH YEAR. | the Christmas mail. | failure to grant it will react upoiu i THE HOLIDAY MAIL, There is nothing Jjanreasonable in | { the request of Postmaster Stewart | for public co-operation in handling Such co-opera- tion {s more in the interest of the patrons than of the government and | those now asked to glve fit, Happily the need for asking public co-operation in dispatching Christ- mas mail Is not what it was, The! | people are becoming accustomed tc mailing parcels early, packages of letters, to wrap securely and mark legibly. | or fall to take note of these requir ;. | ments, but the number is decreas(ng { | Published Dally and Semi-Weekiy by THE BRITISH wi CO, LIMITED a ma------ PRR 4. G. Klllett President Leman A. Guild ,...,.... «Editor and ~ maging -lirector | | TELEPHONE | Private Exchange, 4 i ar-- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally kdition) | One year, in city Une year, if paid in advance SL. .80.00 | Ome year, by mall to rural offices $2.50 | Une yeur, tv Lnited States «e300 (Demi-Weekty haiti svn) Ome year, by mull, cash ..,. 'a oa One Jean if met patd in advonce OH | Ome Year, 10 United States . " pak Ee he 1 VUT-OF-TOWAN REFRESENTATIV gy ¥, Calder, 1: St, Joka 51. Moutren) | ¥. W. Thompson ....100 Ming >t. W.| ' Terento, | Letters to U any over th writer. -- Attached Is ome of the best Job Priniing vilices In Canada, Editor are published actusl name of thy Tho circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO / Audit Bureau of Circulations i a an nt UP The surest thing in betting on 2 sure thing is the loss. ar-------- | A burnt beefsteak often marks the end of the hopeymoon. There are times, too, when misery likes company to go home. It is such a rising generation that it is frequently above itself, The lost chord of the concert of} nations appears to be accord. | sn Hatsune | Friendship accounts, as well i bank accounts, are easily overdrawn | The smaller the man, the more! pompously he can say: "Quite so." Even so, the straits over there cause less trouble than the cruoks. The trouble about an income tax | return is the frequency of its return Ar te etre There are many $10,000-a-year men, but few of them get over) $3,000 Another "better speech" weak, Ain't we done enough of that sort of stuff? | Sophistication {s something the | young boast of and the mature try | to hide. a "What," asks a writer, "is 80 do- mestic as the clock?" Well, there's the safety pin. : * Still Solomon in all his glory pro- bably didn't seem quite as majestic ~ 88 a traffic cop. The prophet who said the moon shall pot smite you by night wasn't -#peaking of moonshine. There are times when a man's friends can render him a real serv. ice by letting him alone. "Drink-more-¢offee-Week" will be all right, but we register objection to drinking more weak coffée. Who are these Scots who are deg~ manding independence? We never knew a Scotsman without it. It is only a question of time until | every great man will sell a magazina | article telling how he reduced fat. _ "This place looks Inviting," said Jonah, at the sign of the Whales Mouth; "I'll just drop in for lunch." A perennial smile indicates that Nature has equipped her with a sweet disposition or a good set cf teeth. It becomes painfully evident tha: it takes more than a clause in a "peace treaty to make a boundary line. -------------- Another nicé thing about a phono- graph is that it can't see your pleas- ed expression and come back with an encore. ------------ The difference between a republic {in the mail in | one of his sons, who | ned them? ! of he poetry from verse. | of their purchases. it { 'starts early, takes reasonable time 1p | placing its orders, this can be ac . Correct this sentence: "Every day | d in every way," the stout dame erled 'happily, "I am getting fatter and fatter." S------------ A good amateur mechanic is one Who can take his jitney apart and robm for all the accessories when he reassembies it, constantly. Already Chri§tmas packages are thousands. Thesd parcels are getting to their destina- people recognize that *'mafl early" is quite as satisfactory and possibla | as 'shop early." Both practices coms- mend themselves, They ought 10 be adopted universally. THE POET SON. That wealthy Chicagoan whose wlll, recently probated, specified that is a poet, thould get a larger share of patri- mony than the other heirs, has caus- ed a great deal of discussion by his strange bequest. Many men make funny wills, but! { he who in his last testament puts the handicap of wealth on a poetic son flies hardest in the face of con- | vention. The popular idea has been that starving poets produced the best verse in all ages. Thus the an- clent Chinese rhyme, so cleverly | translated to read: Be cruel to poets, and don't let them think You like their 'preposterous pat- terns in ink, For poets write better when not overfed-- The time to praise poets is after they're dead. The lines seem to be written i» irony, for was it not a poet who pén- Goodness knows, most written .. nowadays seems to indicate that the poets ira all given to gout and indigestion, It is interesting to recall that the most popular of al] English poems, the "Elegy Written in a Country | Churchyard," brought Gray never a penny his life long. Modern seem to suffer little from an ingrow- | Ing sense of dignity. LOSING BY DELAY. There is virtually no mercantile selfishness in the tocsin, "Do your Christmas shopping early." The call 1s sounded in the interest of the cus- tomer more than in the interest ot the store. Merchants want to render service. They want to p.ease their patrons. They want them to have the option of the greatest choice in the selection the publie complished. But this {is scarcely pow sible if everybody pours into the narrow neck of the hour glass and expects to squeeze through in time. While merchants are compelled to replace and reinforce their stocks' during a busy Christmas season, ne- cessarily there comes a time when the stocks are thinned out, when the variety of choice is restricted, whea certain sizes of garments are out of stock, when the most attractive toys, have ben sold. Purchesers who wait until that belated hour are certain to find some disappointments--dis- appointments that might have been avolded 'had heed been paid to the doctrine of "shop early." Then there are the store staffs, the clerks and cthers who must na- cessarily grow weary as the shopping season advances. If the buying were evenly distributed this might be avoided, but it cannot if all the rush comes at one time. - Some con- sideration, not only for the store girls but for the selfish interests of the purchasers, suggests early shop- ping. . Many valuable days have already passed. Something has been lost al- ready by delay, but the loss will 1a- crease in geometric progression as the delay grows. Shop early. THE GODS AWAKEN. Not for 3,000 years had the two rooms which lie below the tomb of Rameses VI., pharoah of Egypt, bean opened, until the other day Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter ex- plored them. It was impressive when they came into the funeral chamber of King Tutankhamen, near Luxor. "First," says a cable dispatch, "they saw three magnificent statues, all gilt, with exquisite carving and the heads of Typhon, Hathor and a lion, Op these rested beds beautifully carved, gilt and inlaid with ivory and semi. precious stones, and also innumer. able boxes of exquisite workman. ship." Three thousand years! PAnd in al that time, while mankind slowiy reached forth from his Egyptian cradle, like Moses stretching his hands out to Pharoah's daughter in the bulrushes, struggling to the light of civilization. that sometimes led him to great heights, and some- to bind ug | Many still refuse | He thought it | was undignified to make money | poets really | "ow ~PHE DAILY BRITIS | tinves plunging into the morasses &f warfare and dark ages--in all that time the three statues, Typhon, Ha- {thor and the lon, kept guard over | i the bones of Tutankhamen. e three statues, even had they | e deities the ancient Egyp'- seen nothing of all this, the most glorious phase in mankind's history. | For they were entombed with Tut- they have slept. BETTER BOOKS IN DEMAND. The information disclosed by a | hooksellep as to the kind of books which were most in demand for Christmas presen's will be gratifying {to all who desire to see good taste cultivated In popular literature. It {1s stated that the best sellers are not PUBLISHING tion while the getting is good. The | trashy novels of 'he type which {formerly led in sales, and that the | beautifully bound - and printed but | rather empty "gift books" which once | were popular are not wanted now; {customers {instead are calling for | thoughtful fiction of the better sort, {for works on travel, and especial | for books dealing with history and | biography. | Less attention is being given to binding and more to content, , Sev- eral reasons are advanced for the change. One is that books cost so {much more now than they used to that people no longer feel ashamed {to choose them for Christmas gifts. |A few years ago, the | boak for about a dollar, there were j Tose who feared they would be con- {sidered niggardly if .they spent no | more than that on a present; there- fore, they demanded the expensive | leather-bound "gift books." But {now that a novel costs $2 and non- | Action as a rule two or three times that much, there is no longer that | feeling, Non-fict'on | novels, is selling as well as his may be attributed to {the fact that the war and the suec- | ceeding events have broadened the average outlook on life and the world; at least, that accounts in 'Some degree for the demand for | hooks treating of general history and | the lives of statesmen, i Whatever the causes are for the | Improvement of popular literary | taste, it is to be welcomed as evid- len *¢ of the spreading of intelligence. | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY BAM HILL et te ets Smt tees Can You Beat It? They don't use sponges in sponge cake, And yet this fact I've read-- They always have to use a sponge When they are making bread. -- Observations of Oldest Inmhabitant, The old-fashioned women who used | to brag about what a good housekeep- er she was, now has a daughter who brags about what a good bridge player she is. ey | | -- An Exception, "Pa," sald Clarence, "when a man is caught in a lle or something and is ashamed they say he changes color, don't they?" "Somet#Hiies," admitted Pa. "Well, is a dyer ashamed of his job since he always is changing color?" asked Clarence, -- Amen! Many a man who puts a mufiler around his neck doesn't need it there mouth.--Sam Hill in Cincinnati En- quirer. Can't muffle? a lot of fellows' ~--Dusty Miller, 'Nother Kind of Hero, They 'sing the praises of the heroes bold, Who in grim war have risked thelr lives, 2 But they don't say a word about the boob, Who married and lived with seven wives, ~R. H. B, -- -- Drink Didn't Change That. "What's .you full names" sternly asked the Lieutermamt--ut the Wesk. "Hic! Same's 'tis--hic--whe I'm sober," tittered the souse. \ Fool Questions, F, C, J. asks: "Couldn't you call a visit to the bathing beach a 'see tripe» Might, if you didn't take your wife along---you won't see much but the sea if she's with you, Lives Up To His Name, Dear Sam: Over In Lawrence, Kan. I saw this sign: C. A. Smart, Lawyer. Guess he is one, for he is a former Judge. JE. E. CorfiznColumbus, ---- Another Pest, I'd like to bolt the door On William Drood; \ It's simply flerce the way He bolts his food. -- : Gems From Guide Book To Success, Spend the otherwise idle hours in silent thought, ang from out of each dozen mental conceptions you win And at least one that is well founded and will prove productive of much §00d if acted upon, Try H. Be ---J. BE. I. -- Gob of Gloom. In a good many homes this year ft ls gonna have to be a choice between Alling up the stockings or filling up the coal bin, : -- Daily Sentence Sermon,' The more you Use your head the Detter It gets, -- That Isn't Thousands Miles From Truth, Either, "Cutting out the foolishness will ao more to prolong life than eutling out ° hought they were, could hava | ankhamen, and like Tutankhamen | bookseller | states, when {t was possible to buy a | half as badly 2s he needs it on his | mouths, Sam---they blow 'em right oft' I A BBLE THODCAT FOR TH | GOD 18 MERCIFUL: -- | Thou are a God ready. to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow | , and of great kindness. | Nehemial | | the tonsils, adenoids«and appendix. -- | foolishnesg and | not consider life | ' worth living. | --4¥. H. Reed. | ---------- § 3 News of the Names Club. Did you know you can buy pants j from A. Coat, who is a clerk in one of Cincinnati's depart stores? Curtis \Will Stutter lives on Pros- pect street, Kansas City, but he has { io impediment In his speech, ] | i { r fe BLUNDERS } « < | e of weg Why Is This Wrong? The answer will be found among | to-day"s want ads. (What "Blunder" do you suggest?) Copyright, 1922, Associated Editors. ere Bipremeeret semrec imeemesereenn * 'Our Canaaian Question And Answer Corner : oven | Q---WHat is claimed to be the | greatest transportation system jn the | world? | A.--The greatest transportation | system in the world is claimed to be {the Canadian National-Grand Trunk | Railways with a mileage of 22,375 | and 102,000- miles of telegraph lines. | Q-~--What are the latest figures of | Canada's mineral production? | | A~--Canada's mineral production for the calendar year, 1921, 'was 1$172,327,680, and for the first six | j months of 1922, $57,682,044, ! | Fire Near Consecon. | Consecon, Dec. 13.---The barn, drive-house and shed of Harry Bur- ris, three miles east of Consecon on the county road, were destroyed by | fire. The stock was saved. Twelve | | hundred bushels of grain, hay aud straw were lost. The origin of the fire {8 unknown. It started in the hay loft over the drive-house. Mr. Burris states that no one had been up there since Saturday. The build- | ings were« insured for $1,100 ana | there was nothing on the eontents, The institution of an electric stor- age battery . car service between | Brockville and Westport on the Can- | adian National line is annou ged to take effect on Dec 27th. } Fred Robinson, proprietor af the Windsor Hotel, Belleville, received a, | {Tuessage announcing the death of his | brother, Robert Robinson, Madoc. | | | | | It is pretty hard for a wise man to fee a girl who makes herself con- spicuous, i] wwe | F arms F or Sale 1-100 acres in the Township of Loughboro, three miles from Sydenham, close to church, cheese factory, school and railway sta- tion; good, frame dwelling, four bedrooms; large barn with goed stabling and silo and other neces- sary outbuildings; about 70 acres fertile soil under cultivation; well Siained; well watered. Price $4, 760. 2.--183 acres, ten miles from Kingston, fronting on the Bay of Quinte; cheese factory and at the door; two dwellings, large ; about 140 acreg tilled; plen- ty of water; wood for fuel. Price $7,600. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Life Insurance Phone "22J or 1797J. 8 BROCK STREET TH WHIG. Ss, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1vaw, . BIBBY"S who have wisely known as the block made famous by th Price Men's and Boys' Wear Store. a - OB We extend a cordial welcome to the many merchants moved to the metropolitan block, betweenKing and Wellington streets, e Bibby's Limited, Kingston's One- THE NEW STORES: The Dominion Stores, Groceries, Provisions Hogan's Meat Market. Jack Elder, Cigar and Tobacco Store. Austin's Red Cross Drug Store. Johnston & Ward, Stock and Bond Brokers. . Kingston's Art Studio. Dr. Millan, Dentist, and the New Taxi Stand. ey - BIBBY'S 78, 80, 82 Princess Street, Kingston, Ont. _"BUY A MAN'S GIFT IN A MAN'S STORE" = Sn. SS. ------ iy ts Dr i ---------------- re Moores Toyland "WIDE OPEN I ES STOCKED WITH A WONDERFUL LINE OF TOYS AND CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. DON'T FORGET WE HAVE SLEIGHS AND HOCKEY STICKS AND SKATES. SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT MENTIONING AL L THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES. THE STORE YOU WILL LOVE TO SHOP IN BITUMINOUS Egg and Stove Size Air Furnaces ang Quebec Heaters. Price "TECUMSEH RANGE" The Finest Range McClary's Ever Made. BUNT'S HARDWARE McCLARY'S Come and see it. Our Une of it King St. ~MIRRORS, Dr. J. O. Maedonald 327 BARRIE ST, (Near Princess) OFFICE HOURS: 2-4, 7-8.30 "PHONE 1710. 15.00 Ton Crawford ee ---- It is a waste of time fof a shoe salesman to tell women "if the shoe fits put it on." Sho does not care a rap about the fit. iook small even if it gives her fits. About the only way for a man COAL Phone 0. Foot of Q.ern Se. always to remain a hero to his wife /1s to die right after the wedding cere- 'mony, ~CILOUCKS, We are headquarters for "Tom Sraith's Christmas Crackers and Christmas Stockings All sizes, All prices. Jas. REDDEN & Co. "The House of Satisfaction" Phones 20 and 990. She wants it' to pot all_ziike, others, IVIOORE'S 'TOYLAND WHERE, SANTA HAS LEFT ALL HIS TOYS FRENCH IVORY A gift of this beautiful pro- dyct is always acceptable, . and uniformity of texture that js | found only in the best makes. ~~ | ~BRUSHES and COMBS, ~PHOTO FRAMES, ~--PERFUME ~--JEWEL BOXES, ~SHOE HORNS, According to some women men are Bome are worse than