LIFE'S SOCIAL SIDE Editor of Women's Page, Teles 'phone 248. Private 'phone B857w. i . . » At the Wednesday meeting of the Badminton Club at the Armeuries it was announced that Major Willlams and Miss Mary Ogilvie had won she Douglas Young cup. Among those pressnt were Col. and. Mrs. | Anderson, Col. and Mrs. Stockwell, Col. and Mrs, Dawson and Miss | Gwendolyn Dawson, ¥rs. Francis _ Constantine, Col. and Mrs. Beverly Browne, Mrs. Horace Lawson, Mrs. W. P. Wilgar, Col. and Mrs. A. E. | Farris, Major and Mrs, V. Willams, | 'Mapor and Mrs. Tremaine, Mrs. | James Miller, Mrs. K. N. Hallo- way, Mrs. Hugh Wotherspoon, Mrs. Harvey, Prof. and Mrs. Bridger, Miss Mabe! Gildersieeve, Mrs. P. G. Lf. Campbell, Miss Aileen Rogers, Miss Nora Macnee, Miss Ritchie, Miss Laura Kilborn, Miss Cecil Mac- | nee, Miss Helen Strange, Miss Cecily i and Miss Aline. Rutherford, Cor. | Ritchie, Prof. McKee. - » . Mrs. J. S. Johnstone, 138 Fron-| tenac street, was hostess of a pleas- | ant surprise party-that a number of her friends planned in honor of] her birthday on Tuesday. The my-| sterles of Mah Jong were thorough- | ly enjoyed also the dainty refresh. ments which were followed by gpeeches and Mrs. Johnstone was made the recipient of a beautiful Christmas plant. The happy evening | was closed by those present joining | Bands and singing "For She's a Jol- | iy Good Fellow," and finally Auld | lang Syne, and while every one| gave the parting wish of many happy returns they also were earnest iy their hope that they might be invit- od to gpend many another happy birthday with their host and host- ons. - . » Col. and Mrs. Alexander Macphail, | Clergy, street, entertained at dinner | on Wednesday evening before the fecture in Grant Hall for Dr. Bliss Carman, when their guests included Principal Taylor, Prof. and Mrs. ! Sandwell, Miss W. Gordon and Prof. A. E. Ferguson. » - » The staff of the Royal Military 'College will give a tea dance on Sat- urday afternoon for the members of the rugby teams that won the Do- minfon championship, Queen's and g - . » Mrs. Norman Fraser, Queen's pce, Harl street, will enter- tain on Saturday evening for the girls in residence. WE MAKE HATS WE TRIM HATS WE SELL HATS. ~ Parisian Shop BROCK STREET A RIDDLE "Why get along with ~ just one pair of CUFF LINKS?" That's a riddle to ask any 'man. He'll hava three Suits of i clothes, and as many pairs of MH boots, but only one pair of Cuff Links. Some men. make oue pair do for every occasion, from tweeds to evening clothes. Theodore Du Moulin, Trinity Col- lege School, Port Hope, will spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Du Moulin, Sydenham street. . . - W. Winnett Club of On Tuesday Mrs. A. entertained the Bridge which she Is a member. to. * * Miss Evelyn Gilbert, Crntre street, was the hostess of a small tea on Tuesday for Miss Doris Donnelly. . - - Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Bleakney, who have been with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stuart, Alfred street, will | leave for Ottawa on Monday to spend | ana | and Mrs, ! the holiday season with Mr. Mrs. Bleakney, Sr. Mr. Stuart wili be with them at Christ- mas. t John McKelvey and his daughter, Mrs. ber 20th. Miss Nora Bidwell will from Bishop's Bethune College, Os- hawa, next week to spend the holi- | days with her parents, the Bishop of Ontario and Mrs. E. J. Bishop's Court, . . - Mrs. Sidney Secobell, Clergy street, west, gave a duster shower and tea, on Wednesday for Mis Doris Don- nelly, who is 2 much feted bride- elect. Mreg. W. H. Graham Bago! street, entertained on Wednesday for Miss Doris Donnelly. * . . Mrs. Hugh Wotherspoon, Hope, is with Wellington street. Mrs. A. E. Ross, William street, has returned from Toronto she was a guest at the luncheon Government House, on Tuesday. Mrs. F. S. Ferguson, Inverary, was in town on Thursday for the meeting of the executive of the Wo- man's Institute of the district of Frontenac. at * * Miss 1da Ronan, 'Bagot street, has returned from Toronto, wheres she attended the luncheon at Govern- ment House. Mrs. J. H. Elmsley and Mrs. Wil- liam Harty were among the King- ston women who were guests at the luncheon given at Government House, Toronto, on Tuesday, to the outstanding women of the province. BLISS CARMAN AT QUEEN'S. Noted Canadian Poted Appears Be- fore a Large Audience. That the poetry of Bliss Carman is not only well known but has touch- ed a responsive cherd in the hearts of his fellow Canadians of Kingston, was shown by the large audience that filled Convocation Hall on Wed- nesday evening in spite of the oth. er attractions in the city. Those who chose the reading of Canadian poems by their writer in preference to theatre or banquet were rewarded, not only by a rare treat but by hear- ing from the author that he haa seldom appeared before a more sym- pathetic audience. Principal Taylor introduced Dr. Carman, who read poems, new and "| old of his own, some of them only published recently and other old favorites. Bliss Carman has lived close to nature, caught her every mood, learned her wondrous lessots and given them to the world in pare, lyrical verse. God for him is the dir- eoting power that sends the wil geese flying north in April along the old, yet ever new trail to the "waters of desire." He tells the 'mud turtle to #leep In the roots of the lilies un- der the black ice and when the spring winds blow, to bask in the sunshine. The nature poems of Bliss Carman are so simple, so true that one feels the poet has perhaps lived so apart from the world of men the better to learn the mystery of the great mother, that the world of men and things is a sealed book to him. But in "Shamballa," one of the fin. est poems read on Wednesday even- ing, and one of his most recent works, he takes us to the city "where the keys of all mystery are," from whence come the p of all ages to heal the ills of the world, and we realize that the poet knows the sins and sorrows of mankind as he does the wonders of nature. Some of the new poems were of the great west and the Rocky Moun. tains among them an Indian legend "The Truce of Manitou" and the song of "Vancouver. The great ponts of the west, Tyre and Sidon have vanished but "Here is Vancouver on English Bay with tomorrow on her brow." Prof. Sandwell moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Carman, saying. . he had long been urging more attention to Canadian literature and felt him: % Another One! Yes, we had no stewed chicken We had no stewed chicken this year, | | We'd scalloped potatoes, nice cab- x Henry Wilkinson will leave for | Long Beach, Caiifornia, on Decem- return | Bidwell, | evening | Port | Major Wotherspoon, | where it | The Editor hears ! That a Kingston lady { Albert street picked a bunch of | pansies in her garden on Sunday, | December 9th aii 'dandelion blos- | the neighborhood. In Ottawa the | buds on the lilac trees are swelling and evidently nature believes we are | going to escape our usual Canadian { winter. | That the story is told of Charles | D. Roberts, the noted Canadian | writer, that when asked what his | cousin, Bliss Carman, who was be- gigning to write songs that caught | the faney and touched the heart of | Canadians, was like, said, "Oh, Carman, he is more than six feet tall and adored by the ladies." That the shops are still full of pretty things, The mild weather is delaying the Christmas shopping fov {it is hard to realize that there is only ten shopping davs left, when the weather is so unlike Christmas. That two energetic Napanee girls started to hike to Kingston on Tues- day and although they got a few lifts they covered most of the twenty-five miles on foot, arriving in town { about four o'clock not tired, but i hungry. { -- | That the Christmas decorations in the Kingston shops are well done and most attractive. That a New Yorker declares: "Lovers are divided into two kinds: | perennials and amnuals. The former are less showy, but "xoh can always find them in the sam& place. The latter make a grand display while they last--but even the coptinual attention they require cannot keep them alive longer than a single summer." Why Shoes Wear Out. | The average step is 26 inches. This | means 1,920 steps to the mile, or 13, 400 in a five-mile day. A person weighing 160 pounds, in a day has pounded into his shoes 751 tons and 600 pounds of meat, bone and trou- ples, and all this he carries above his shoes. Men buy three pairs of shoes a year. A steel hammer, weighing 160 pounds, coming down at that rate for four months, would have to be renewed each day and would have to be fished out of the deepest hole in the earth at the end of the four months. No wonder ghoes wear out. But what about the poor feet that have to carry this load.gnd thie incessant pounding? Out of 200 bones in the human body, over 62 are in the feet. And, as if one tooth aches--it is enough-- so if one bone in the foot is strained or not properly supported, it causes pain, discomfort and nerve troubles, pot only locally; but its effect is felt thronghout the entire system. Great was the shock at the revela- tion of hundreds of thousands cases of fallen arches and other foot deformities during the war, and the public is now seeking shoes which "support" as well as cover the foot. Special attention is now given to proper support of the arches, not by props 'and inserts in ordinary of the shoe itself Of these there are two principals followed--the rigid shank under the foot arch and the flexible shank allowing the foot free- dom as if barefotted. But a combina- tion of the rigid and the flexible methdd 1s found in one shoe which living on | some were gathered in town and in | of | shoes, but in the basic construction DAWNING OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IN INDIA 'An Address Given by Prof. | Yohan Masik, of Indore i Theological College. In Chalmers church on Wednes- day evening, Prof. Yohan Masih, of Indore Theological College, Central India, gave a most vivid picture of the dawning of Christian principles (and the spreading of Christ's doc- trines among the many millions of that vast country. A great change has come with the great awakening and unrest which has been stirring the soul of India in these latter days. Prominent leaders 'in their speeches quote contigually from the Bible and hold Christ up before their hearers as one of the greatest lead- ers in the history of mankind. Gandhi is proud to take Him ag an example and to endorses His teach- ings as the highest and best for men to follow. "India," said the speaker, "is above all a religious country, the | most. religious perhaps in the whole | world. A Hindu is born religious, {lives religious and dies religious. | Bvery act of his life is performed | religiously. India has never. been sceptical. Superstitious the_ people lare, idolatrous, misled and 'groping |in darkness but yearning always for a vision of God. A land filled with {heathen temples, with idols, hideous {and repulsive, with ignorance and | wretchedness and superstition, yet ithe soul of India, is spiritual." Restless and unsatisfied men are leverywhere seeking after a God who {will give them peace. | The greatest curse of this unfor- tunate people Iy the awful easte sys-| tem which hinders any spiritual or| {social progress. Christianity has dealt a blow to this in every case where conversions have taken place among the low caste masses. The children of these 'untouchables' (of {whom there are some fifty mtllions) are taken and cducated and return [to work among their people as doc- |tors, teachers, etc. This is a verit- able miracle to those enslaved so long under the awful hopelessness of the cruel system of caste, | The high caste man or woman who accepts Christianity becomes an 'outcast. The most sacred family ties are broken. Yet in spite of all the persecution, and the tragic sep- aration of brother and sister, mother and child, husband and wife, Chris- tianity is advancing with rapid strides. The population of all India has increased in a year 1.2 per cent., while at the same time Christianity increased 22.64 per cent. As many as 7,000 have beens baptized in one month. Many more could be gath- ered in if there 'were Christian workers to teach them. More money and more room are needed, and the native Christians are looking to us to stand by them. Everything is fa- |vorable for increased activity in mis- sionary work. The condition of women has un- dergone 'a wonderful change. A freedom never dreamed of has now come to them. Girls' schools are being opened everywhere and wo- men are even seen on public plat- forms pleading for the rights which have been so long denied them. "The key to the eastern problem," 'concluded the speaker, "lies in India. 'A truly Christian Igdia will sweep the whole east into Christianity. Solve the problem of India and you | have solved the whole eastern pro- blem."" Rev. Dr. Macgillivray presided at hes a spring steel support inside the the meeting and the speaker was sole extending from the-heel to just introduced by Prof McFadyen. beneath the scaphold bone, support- Prof. Yohan Masih, whose name in ing it and the meta tarsal bones of English is "John Christian," holds the foot. The virtue of this is that many important offices in\his native it allows the foot arch full flexibility land of India, among others that of of movement, while acting as a sup- the principalship of Indore Theologi- port at the proper point. This shoe cal College, and that of moderator not only covers and adorns the foot, of the Presbyterian church in India. but it defends and protects the arch. | Coffee Grounds. Something About Starch. After the sink is cleaned out, If you will starch the colored pour down.the grounds from the cor- dlothes and overalls from the time fee pot along with some hot water. of their first washing you will' find They will serve as a cleanser .nd the starch will prevent the di/® from carry away the grease from the getting into the fabric and keep the drain pipes. sun from fading the colors. ~ For Your Next LTo me the meanest flower that Try putting a half-cup of vinegar blows can give in the rinsing water when next you Thoughts that do often lie too deep | wash your hair. it will soften it and for tears.--Wordsworth. give it a pretty sheen, ~~ si rl a Th tk 3 QUEER SETS DI ARME 3 OF EARLY SHOPPING| The British Public Follows Suit and Trade Exceed=- | ingly Brisk. London, Dec. 13.--Queen Mary is doing her Christmas shopping early, and thé British public is following suit. Consequently, the Yuletide trade in London is two weeks ahead of its last year's schedule and is ex- ceedingly brisk. ; In keeping with the changing times, the formality and pageantry that were once attendant upom the shopping trips of a Royal personage have disappeared. Formerly a mem- ber .6f the Royal house was sur- rounded by almost as much cere-| mony as a State progress. Equerries | appeared at the selected shop, red carpets were hurried out, 8 way was cleared and decorated and vehicles in the street were moved away. Now, however, the favored store manager gets a telephone call a few moments before his customer ar- rives. He receives his patron at the door, and is in attendance during the shopping expedition, but other- wise the establishment carries on as | usual, . TO-MORROW'S HOROSCOPE BY GPONEVIEVE KEMBLB . FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14. This day may be memorable for sudden and abrupt change or jour- ney, which should eventually bring unexpected advantage. There may | be quite radical departures from the general course of events, involving | both business and domestic affairs, as the revolutionary Uranus is in close configuration with Sol. Al friendly position ef Venus with re-| spect to Luna makes for happy and | prosperous conditions in home and heart affiliations. The sextile of Mars and Mercury stirs all affairs to aggressive and quick movement. Those whose birthday it is may anticipate an eventful and active year, with unexpected change and benefits. There may be travel of advantage and general good fortune in both business and other matters. Pleasant conditions should prevail in . the home, and heart affairs should come to a happy understand- ing. A child born on this day will be quick, clever, versatile and fond of change and travel. It will suc- ceed in its undertakings and be happy in its home. 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