~ APRIL 4, 1028, / THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG = -- Spring Suggestions In Men's Wear Spring Hats in latest shades and styles. New Spring Shirts with collars to match. Choice assortment of the new,. narrow Ties. Kid Gloves to please all. Very newest in Spring Suits and Top Coats. George VanHorne's - 213 Princess Street. Phone 362w. - » By Trying: To Do dl Without Glasses [|| 22cire 2d Acoma TIME PIECES That is what we can say for our latest shipment of FANCY MANTLE » and CHIME CLOCKS Something out of the ordi- nary in Oak and Mahogany. MANTLE CLOCKS-- $17.00 to $25.00 When you should wear them you harm your eyes. But even that isn't all of it, nor the worst Jof it. Strained eyes have a bad habit of upsetting things gen- erally. There are many condi- tions, outside of the eyes, that eye strain causes. And proper glasses remove them all almost at once in many cases. We find and eliminate the cause of eye strain, 'LOVING LIES' AT GRAND |Exceptional Photoplay to Be Presented To-night and on Saturday. An exceptionally good photoplay is at the Grand Opera House for the balance of the week. It i "Loving Lies," a film story of the sea and pleased a large audience on its in- itlal appearance on Thursday night. The screen version is adapted from Peter B. Kynes, "The Harbor Bar," and for this reason it has attracted a great deal of attention. Evelyn Brent aud Monte Blue, two pop- ular screen artists; are featured in | the picture and the 'supporting cast | Is a strong one. The theme of the {story surrounds a husband, who / tells lies to his bride, in order to | save her from worrying. | Apart from the play itself, - the | scenes are wonderful. They are laid | { I on: the coast of California and greater portion of the play is given on board a schooner in order that the production might be given the touch that vis needed to make it 80 over big. Everybody loves a story of. the sea and in this production ome finds the most pleasant of any yet put on the screen. Monte Blue, who is al- | ways such a favorite with the movie fans, has the role of a sea captain and cargles off this part with hon- ors. Mohte Blue does not play the part; he lives the part, and in this connéction it 48 of interest to mote | that before going into the movies he served as a sailor, so this exper- fence gives him the ability to put the necessary "punch" into the part. Evelyn' Brent, the leading lady, is most charming and plays a difficult | role-in a most pleasing manner. {The story throughout holds inter: | est and the audience on Thursday | night was loud 'In its praise of the production. In addition to the feature picture |' the ever popular Ben Turpin is on the programme in "The Shriek of CHIME CLOCKS--- $40.00 to $85.00 Kinnear & d'Esterre JEWELERS, Princess Street, Kingston "The Gift Shop" BRICK, STONE, PLASTERING AND TILE SETTING DOUGLAS & McILQUHAM - CONTRACTORS : JOBBING WORK A SPECIALTY. . PHONES 2267F---928W. 400 ALBERT STREET A MURR RRR ON OO ROR 8 NewGlassware Heisey's Glassware is the best made. The price is lower, quality considered, than on any of the cheaper makes. See our new stock. Also coloured FLOWER BOWLS, LILY BOWLS and COMPORTS in Satin finish glass, Full stock of PYREX DISHES and CASSEROLE FRAMES. 5 CROCKERY GLASSWARE i CHINA - Robertson's Limited CQ vind % - Shmmer* Footwear _ 'SOMETHING NEW FOR EASTER + Suede and Nu-buck Shoes will be much ~ worn this Spring. Characteristic for their Spring-like smartness, distinctive style and _ guality--in Silver Grey, Fog Grey, Log ~ Cabin Brown, Beige, boo and Black. 'The dainty light, sandal effects and cut- . outs, which style authorities have decreed : fo Spring and Summer of 1924, Araby" and it is a cream from start to finish. It is one of Mack Sennett's best five-reel comedies. . "Living Lies" and "The Shriek of Araby" will be the attraction at the Grand to-night, Saturday matinee and night and the programme is one that merits a capacity audience at each performance. Ballade of the Derby Hat. Lord, but they strike one as queer and crude, The quaint old fashions of yester- year! \ Gone is the dandy, and gone the dude, Belles and beaux have to disap- pear. And ghort skirts--maerely a sou- J venir!, Bobbed hair's now only found brats; This I know, but clear-- . Where are the canes and the derby hats? ! on I can't see Gone is the ancient, virginal prude, Mark how flappers do gibe and jeer; Murderous feud; Painted girls in low necks are freer, " Horses and carriages how _seem queer, Restaurants change into automats; All this is simple, but tell me, dear, - Where are the canes and the derby hats? women wage endless Every home has its own home- brewed, Gone, all gone is the beer; Movies are censored by unco guid, Books are banned, and the cabar- ets drear. Gas has gone, and Milady's ear; There used to be forty-five dollar flats; I should worry. But Just see here-- Where are the canes and the derby hats? five-cent Kids, don't think that I'd interfere, All things must change, and I'm not austere, But, speaking of sideburns, suspend- ers and spats, Where are the canes and the derby hats? ~--G. Burgess in Harper's Magazine. ------ A Gramophone Fell on Tad. Allan Chariton, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Charlton, Brookville, had the misfortune to fall to the roadway when a wagon' loaded with furniture, swerved suddenly. A gra- mophone fell from the vehicle on) top of the lad, inflicting paigful 'bat not gerious injuries to his nose and face, ' . White Seaman Turns Black, « Hull April 4.--The medical profes. sion here is puzsled by a Danish sea- man who has gradually turned black in the last six months, The man has been admitted to the local Poor Law hospital: The skin all over the body is so discolored that he looks almost like a negro. 0 o Che un Maxson wT The Inquisitive Reporter . . . Our Inquisitive Reporter yester- day asked this question of three peo- ple chosen at random: "Do you regard the Hegelian em- piricism, taken in the ilght of Von Clausewitz's metabolism, as a priori indicative of a subconscious conflict --making due allowance, of course, for inherited predilections?" ' Gustav K. Tannenbaum, Paper- hanger. "It all depends on how much yeast you use. Some likes it less yeasty and some likés it more, "I get the best results by skimming ev- ery three days. It depends how you like it." > Florence Weemick, Stenographer. 'No, I'prefer Rodolph Valentino, I didn't see Lightnin', but I hear John Barrymore was just lovely in it." Oscar Eisenberg, Plumber. "No spik Englis." Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod Women remain the puzzle of our life, . But this he knows who knows he ' never knows them: Keep your eyes open, looking for a fe, For when you've got her, you will have'to close them!, --_ ~The Stroller. Pod em His Move Next He: "Don't you think this bench would be more comfortable if it had a back?" She: "I think arms would make it just as comfortable." -- Fablegrams (With a Bow to AEsop) FN By Percy Waxman The Ass in the Lion's Skin An Ass once found a Lion's skin. So, putting it on, he looked in the mirror and said to himself: "Every- body laughs at me just as soon as they gee I'm an ass, I wonder how they'll 'treat 'me in this disguise." 80 he hurried off to his native vil- lage to try its effect on the people. Nobody recognized him, and every- body was scared to death and fled, leaving him In sole control of the Whole Place. zs Moral: Every politician knows the value of a make-up. q - . oo. ! The Dog and the Shadow It happened that a Dog 'was one day carr; ag home a large plece of meat fh his mouth. ' As he was crossing a brook he saw the Shadow of himself and his piece of meat in the water. After a momentary glance he said: to himself: "That's only a shadow. I never could believe in this Conan Doyle stuff." Then he ran along so fast to his dinner that he got into quite a sweat. Moral: And that's how the phrase "Hot Dog' originated. : Polished Ebony Cornered recently before going to court, Martin W, Littleton told this story in the corridor: They were pulling off a William Tell stunt down where I came from and William's son fell ill. The man- ager got a negro boy to take the son's place. "You stand over there," he ex- claimed, "and the champion rifle shot will shoot an apple off your head." "What's dat?" demanded the negro. 'Who is gwine to shoot what off whose haid?" ~ -- Some people speak from experi- ence. Others--from experience -- don't speak. oy - Readers are requested to contri- bute. All humor: spigrams (or humorous mottoes), jokes, anec- dotes, poetry, burlesques, satires, and bright sayings of children, must be original and unpubMshed. Ac- cepted material will be paid for at from $1.00 to $10.00 per contribution; from 26c. to $1.00 Jer Iine for poetry according to the character,and value of the contribution, as determined or of es Fun Shop." ripts must be written on one side of the paper only, should 8 newspaper, and hould 'be ad Fun Shop Headquarters, 110 West 40th Street, New > y the All ma ork City. - ~ DRY AGENTS RAID Private Car of Railway President and Seize . New York, April 4.--The private ; car of George E. Boutilller, president of the Long Island railroad, . was ralded by two prohibition agents as it stood in the Pennsylvania station Yesterday, and several cases of al- leged wines -and whiskies seized. The negro stewart of the car Was ar- rested on a charge of illegally having | liquor in his possession, : | Gananoque | April 4.--Mr. and Mrs. Charles | Sheats announce the engagement: of | their daughter Luella to Wilfrid | Chérleton, Syracuse, N.Y., the wed- | ding to take place on the 19th in- | stant at 6 p.m.' : Mrs. William Hawke entertainad at a large progressive 'euchre own Wednesday evening. Mrs." Pause, Mr. and Mrs, Liddell and Mrs. Frank Taughter motered from Kingston yesterday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs, James Sophie, Princess street. The death occurred yes::rdav at Maple Grove of one pf the most es- | teemed residents of the community when Charles Thomson passed away | after a brief illness of pueum aia. Besides his wife, he is survived by one son, James Arthur, and two daughters, Mrs. W. E. Pisrce, Maple Grove, and Mrs. M. J. Hill, Niagara Falls. : L. P. Shortall has returned after spending the Hast few days in To- ronto. y Frank H. Lutz is home from his western trip and says there is more winter here now than he saw at any time in the west where he has been for about six weeks. He will. be in Gananoque for about three weeks; Mrs. Blair, Ogdensburg, N.Y., is | the guest of her sister Mrs. Sanford | Delaney. ) Mrs. Joseph Belfie and daughte Fordie, who have been visiting Dr. and Mrs, Belfie in Ottawa, are re- turhing tomorrow and "will be ae companied by Mrs. Belfie, Sr., who will spend the summer here . with friends. Mrs. George Ryan, who has been 'here for the past several weeks on account of the serious illness and death of her mother, Mrs Willis, re- turned to Watertown, N.Y., to-day. The remains of the late Charies Lattimore, who passed away in To- ronto on Monday, were laid at rest in Willow Bank cemetery yesterday upon arrival of the Toronto train. R. D. Gordon, Toronto, is in town. J. H. Valleau left yesterday for Osh- awa, > Mrs. W. Walker returned to Buf- falo, N.Y., yesterday after spend- ing the winter here with her sister, Mrs. W. B. Mugtie.. Martin Hokanson, metallurgist, Duluth, Minn., is in town for a few days renewing old acquaintance. - The post office lost another very popular member of its staff on Wed- nesday when Miss Freda Thompson became the bride of Harry McAlpin Woodburn. Word was received Mere to-day of the death at Vancouver, B.C., of Frank Kinnimond. Frank has been in failing health for a long time, and contracted pneumonia a few days ago. He was an old Gananoque boy who was extremely popular and his mother, brothers and sisters will have the deepest sympathy of a large circle of Gananoque friends. ------ A Great Bargain, Men's Umbrellas; bankrupt price, 79. The Lion Clothing Co. -- rer -- -- Go To Islands. Mr. and Mrs. John Pollock, who have conducted their farm on the Johnstown road, Gouverneyr, N, Y., will spend the summer at Hart Is- land, on the St. Lawrence River, where Mr. Pollo¢k has accepted a position on the Boldt estate, . Are Ready for the Trip. Five young men and one young lady have volunteered to ride to Washington to "carry the invitation to President Cooltdge to attend tHe U.E.L. celebration in Belleville in June next, ' -------- It is mighty hard to rob a man o. here. We believe it is impossible to make Shoes prettier than this season's patterns, and prices are right--eyerything right Abernethy's Shoe Store the Furnit! : 2 SAVES SPACE, RENT In the average home to-day the quest is for space with economy. When day is over a slight pull transforms your "KROEHLER" BED--roomy, comfortable and' sagless. * Mattress, Pillows, Sheets and extra viting bed, unfoll with astonishing ease. minute's 'work to close the Kroehler and it "JAMES REID The Leading Undertaker AND FUEL into a real Covers all made wp into a sleep in- In the morning it is only a again stands a: lovely piece of rw Phone 1478 3 A Dangerous Doctrine. To have only a little money is re. garded as.evidence of failure (in the United States of America). That fs why many lose their sense of stric. BWENEIA] probity. Wherever money Is respected and riches looked on as proof of success, there is bound to be a low standard' of public honor, Healthy opinion values most highly the benefit of a goed reputation. PAA A ey & those who are "content with a little" ~r a Tr ind' whom nothing can tempt to hange a single mode of life.--loB~ lon Daily Herald. THOMAS COPLEY Carpenter. = Phone 987 See us for all kinds of Ca r work. 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