J ' | says a critic. Evidently be means the 034d discretion. THE BESOM OF DESTRUCTION. It is time to address the annual apostrophe to spring cleaning. The reek of old hats and rubbers pours from chimneys, blue mattresses are exposed to the sum and the public, fully fingers the blisters raised oh his unsophisticated palms by the car- pet beater, The Housewives' Festi- val is in spate. In Greece of old there were cer- tain religious mysteries pertormed in the sacred groves by women aloné, No male eye might ever witness thosé ceremonies save at the risk of death. The old creed may be out worn but the instinct whieh prompt- ed it still finds outlet in houseclean- ing. Man is relegated to the menial condition of a serviceable nuisance and woman, militant, triumphant, rides the dusty billows. It is assumed that men abomin- ate this open season and that women revel in it. This is ond of the rules Final proof of spring's arrival ia afforded by while shoes on the win- dow sill. x man never realises what a bun den dignity As until his back itches in a crowd. Dictionaries are funty. Ours de-/ fines a cabinet » 8 place to keep *The south dag no definite aim." - southpaw. It frequently happens that the Sp. ? " ape] for the Purcdase of Canadian goods, | Cesses ¢ ¢ ishing touches on. friendship are # | tying the foot-rail It is easy to pick out the bay In diem securities. But this Is a matter) though, tor'the luxury of soft pillows the third class who is called sissy. | His ears are clean. Jou an efiemy If you can't be as gn- mable ss he is ---- Another thing that 'should be planted now is the grafter who rifes the public treasury. Nobody really emjoys ridiculing hicks except the countryman who but recently moved to town. { at we can't understand !s how x -maker gets results without a Sunday school picafe. There were "great critics" ia Pu- ritan days, but they were called com- mon' scolds and ducked. -- . The test of being a tree country is the privilege of being unorthodox 'Without dodging bricks, ---------------- It a modern child has it, it ig ar- tistic temperament; but in the old days it was swell-head. ------ L 'The worm turns, put he usually ta over his pay envelope when his wife finishes talking. _ Firpo may retire. Perhaps he thinks the referee' would let Demp- Sey use a hammer next time. ------------ . Bush leaguers who are unable to \y up will now know how,to sym- of the game, which adds greatly te the general enjoyment. Where would be the fun if two teams were both trying for the same goal? So the man growls as is expected and the woman is resoliite and indefa- tigable. - Secretly he is probably de- lighted to see the lash of all those odds and ends of living which accu- mulate about a room, The gleaming floors, spotless curtains and trang, parent windows are as refreshing as a spring rain. But wild horses coyld noy make him admit it 80 at'last the rite is concluded, the house swept and garnished from garret to cellar and the dust begins to reappear in the usual corners. Life is normal again and spring is hee! : A-- THOSE ; WHO SPEND ABROAD. Whenever there is an active cam- palgn In progress'either for the pro curing of an increase in the tariff or for the combatting of a decrease, we are sure to hear a lot about the argument that it is the duty of those who earn money in Canada to spend jt in Canada. We are hearing a great deal of it at the present min. ute. Like most arguments of the kind, this ome has a certain degree of validity when applied with reason : It is desirable that { Canadians should mot spend outside lof Canada more thai the amount which hey) receive from outsiders | pius some pertion of what they re- pa In payment for exported Cana- {wich is pretty eficieally regulated i \ | iy She soDDaSE lxws of interna i Lion Fria burs ly to pa or is emburgoed, its currency . degrecisted in gold-using coun- tries. The mation which seils more than it bard will soon Sind itself ob- { Higed to sell Jess: for it will sccumu- laze more gold thay it needs and its price Jewel will eventually rise 0 as to make the export of commodities securities dificult. This is the is beginning 0 be the Se felt a great deal more bat by the Saances of a large part of Europe, cansing Baropean owners of gold or of exportabie commodities to ae them for American invest- ments even at an immenss disadvan- tage in price, just because they can get no such degree of safety in their own countries. But to return to the alleged du- ty of Canadians, of spending all their income in Canada, If we really did it, the result, as we have already seen, would be to prevent foreigners from buying Canadian exports, since the foreigners would have nothing (except gold) with which to pay. for them; and they can neither go oa perpetually sending us gold nor we perpetually receiving it. But the amazing part about this argument is that the people who uge it--the bene- ficlaries of existing tariffs or the would-be beneficiaries of hoped-for tariffs--are the precise Canadians who spent the largest proportion of their personal income outside of and the tired business man thought-' tion | tor (he surplas of imports, | United States, aud which | the disturbed and insecure slate) out of Canada just as effectually) eternally calling on the rest of the population of Canada to spend their | money at home. It would be inter- | esting to know just what percentage | of the dividends and executive sala- | ries paid by Canadian protected in- .dustires is spent in Canada by the recipients. RECHARGING. "Good morning; had a good sleep?" With so gimple and ordinary a question we tpuoh upon one of the | greatest of those mysteries with | whichthis strange lifé is thromged. What is sleep? No one knows ex- actly, although everyone is more or less addicted to it. At the accys- tomed hour we lie down, The mugeles relax and the heart action slows down perceptibly, The thoughts become incoherent as the branches of the nerve cells separate from each other and curl up like butter. fly tongues. And then---uncon- sclousness, mystery. : It 1s curious that we welcome and seek out this form of unconscioustéds though we take fright 'at the thought of pro- ducing a similar state artificially by means of a blow, hypnotism or chloroform. There is evidently some relation- ship between sleep and fatigue, but it is. not a fixed one. One often hears the expression "too tired to sleep," while it is well known that some of the greatest workers get aloig regu- larly with five hours or less. Others who do very little, sleep a great deal. To a certain extent, sleep must be a habit. If so, the tendency is to indulge it too little rather than tao much. The human system is like an electric bat- tery which is charged during sleep and exhausted by activities. If a bat- tery is discharged below a certain point.jt is injured, and the restless, excitable human batteries one so frequently meets proclaim the same law. They are suffering from chronic sleeplessness, self imposed. It is suggested that since the pro- cesses of-mind and body are electro- chemical, science will soon be able to recharge our systems electrical- ly, this, making sleep unnecessary. We could\toil day and night at our professions) and pleasures with only brief Intermissions for eating and { recharging. Probably. the two pro- ould be édmbined by electri- of the lunch | counter, What a poor exchange, { about one's ears and the quiet fingers of sleep disengaging the cares of the ! day and drowning thé weary mortal je restful oblivion, i I -------- THE BOYS' CHOIR. { Kingston is thoroughly accustom- {ed to sending off teams to try con- {clusiops in other cities. Hockey, rugby, baseball, bowling, curling and {half a dozen other kinds of teams | regularly take part In district, pro- vincial and intercollegiate series. But has Kingston ever before been repre- sented by so youthful a band as that which get out Thursday to compete {at Toromto in the Ontario Musical ! Festival? They go forth untried, in- | experienced but hopeful. Win or lose, it will be a gorgeous experience tor the=thirty youagsters, of whom the city is justly proud. 3 This is only one of the benefits of appointing a competent music in- struetor in the gchools--a step which when it was taken caused much mis- giving among the penny savers. But it is by no means the most important result. The real value of this branch of iastruction does not consist in This plede of justifiable display is only incidental to the main work of teaching whole classes to use their voices accu It is undoub sage of music demands much more co-ordination and exercise of the fae- passage of literature. Consequent- ly the study of music possesses a direct and important educational value in addition to the aesehetic | head has not grown. developing a picked band of singers. |! ulties than does the reading of al. die is a remarkable fact that the pro ductive capacity of the mation dur: ing this century has ceased to in- |erease, The population has grown, but the wealth-producing power per The demands for a decent standard of life have been - increasing, but the means of satisfying them have not increased; and to demand what is not there is crying for the moon.--London Chronicle. J . That Body "of Pours By James W, Barion, M.D, Do Athletes Die Young? You have read from time to time that athletes die young, that they have a higher rate of mortality than non athletes. "Just as often, you have read arti- cles, also based on statistics, show- ing that the athletes as a class live longer than those who were not athletes in their youth. When the Surgeon General of thd United States Navy produces figures depicting the life of the naval offi- cers from boys in thelr teens up to the age of sixty-two, you can't ig- nore them. He states that officers noted f their athletic prowess during their cadet life at the Naval Academy, were breaking dowa sooner than the non-athletic cadets. On the other hand Dr. Anderson of Yale reports, that after investly- ating the known deaths of all stu- dents who have graduated during the past fifty years, that the mort- ality amongst the athletes was just about half that of the non-athletes. Now what are you going to do with two statements so directly op- posed to one another? I don't believe the ordinary stat- istics along this line can give you much choice. For instance you'd naturally ex- pect men who were prominent in aheletics, who had won their color, would be of superior physique, su- perior fibre as it were, and should resist Illness much better than ona of poar physique. In other words the athletes are practically picked men. On the other hand, the non-ath- letes would not mean just men who did not like or go in for athletics, but all- the non-athletic participat- Ing students of the college. There would be the men who would not be strong enough to com- pete for a color, Men who might try for it, but were hardly good enough for it. Further, one man might win his color for simply doing a high Jump, whilst angther would put in months of Intensive training as foot- ball. One might get his color in base- ball, another in boxing, where the training might be light, and another in basket ball which is the hardest on the heart of any other known athletic sport. Then again an athlete, who when he graduates, continues to take light exercise, to walk a bit, and keep an eye on himself generally, really preserves the asset of a good body with its accompaniment, good health. The athlete who, immediate- on leaving college rides in a motor car, takes no exercise what- ever, and yet preserves his big ep- petite, has made his athletics. 'a liability, because he has a large strong heart that will be asking in vain for work to keep it from gett- ing flabby, and lungs that will be asking for air to completely ful them, because Nature abhors a vacuum. A little -thought about diet and exercise will give the athlete a little advagtage all his life. SOME HOTELS SIMPLY 'DIRTY, Vancouver Sun Too many hotels in the small towns villages of British Columbia are ly and 1 x ly true that the co and rect and pleasing rendering of a pas- be classified as bad, worse, or still 'Worse, : Fortunately, excellently conducted small hotels, real hostelries that the trgpeller remembers with satisfaction and revisits with pleasurable antiei- pation, are the more numerous cate- sory. In the objectionable minority re- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG of their condition. Nevertheless, it; BIBBY'S ~ Seasonable Bargains THE POPULAR SHIRT . Genuine English Broadclothe-Tan, The New Hat With Fancy Band. All newest shades. Extra special value. *3.50 Cream, Grey, Mauve gr White. 14 to 17. value. 5 ROSE Pure Cashmere Hose -- Tan, Black or White. Extra special. ' 2 PAIRS for 81.00 Sizes A regular $4.00 and $4.50 EXTRA SPECIAL VALVE yk T . | $29.50 Suits are sure a full measure for your money = tailored by expert hands--fabrics are genuine pure wool English Worsted in rich shades of Blue, Brown or Grey also meat, Pencil Stripes and Donegal Tweeds, We are safe in saying the SUITS IN CANADA. ¢ KINGSTON IN 1850 Viewed Through Our Files Queen's, the Great Failure, April 13.--Queen's College, the university of the Kirk of Scotland in Canada, is also located at Kingston. Its scholars are not so numerous as at its Catholic neighbor (Reglopolis College) neither is tuition, except to students in divinity, so cheap. It has no edifice of its own, but is lo- cated in hired buildings. The plain fact of the matter is, Queen's College is a great failure, arising out of sev- eral causes. The disruption of the Free Church from the Kirk of Scot- lapd did it immense injury; and the vaciliating policy of the government, at one time endowing it apd making it a branch of the University of To- ronto, and then repealing that act, was of no less damage to its pros perity. And last, but not least, the growing tendency of the Christian world to renounce high Calvinistic tenets for I» milder oneg.of Episco- pacy and those of Arminius are do- ing it a permanent injury. (There were at this time thirty- five students in attendance with some fifty boys in the preparatory school). ------ April 17.--This {gue contains a long letter from W. L. MacKenzie, dated Washington, 'April 10th, and shield lined. $28.50 value. BEST $29.50 BIBBY'S a. Real Estate and Insurance 58 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 323J and 1797J. discussing the latest political and financial gossip of the American| capital. v man--, Discipline, May 18.--The Editor tells of a convict at the provincial penitenmti- ary, who during the previous year is sald to have received 60 lashes of Dr. W. O. Vrooman| DBNTAL SURGRON Corner of Princess and Barrie Entrance: 314 Street. Barrie PHONE 3404J. Hours: 8.30 a.m. te ¢ p.m. the cat, was twice heavily ironed, confined five times (10 days) in the black hole, on one of these. occasions on bread and water for seventy-two hours and was 47 times on bread and water, once for ten successive midals. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CEARLES #5. extending the rain-making process. Some of the moisture in this warm layer condenses and falls as through the ordinarily cool, northwest wind below. the general rein continues even af- iter the sudface wind has shifted. rain dry, Therefore, On the other hand, the rapidly passing low may travel faster than the winds behind follow on course, In this case a down dreft is produced its behind the storm, and the SPRING OVERCOATS Nobby Slip-on models in fancy Tweed-- Sizes 85 to 40. F or $14.75 SPRING OVERCOATS $22.50 Genuine English Gaberdine Cloth, nicely tailoved~--newest model, this smart Coat. A regular Don't miss seeing Machine Shop This machine shop is not alto« gether merchanical. Our equipment represents the most modern mechan- ism, yes--but we employ men: wha are capable of suggesting and exe. cuting shop work of distinctive qual ity. Bishop Machine Shop FRESH G EN SEEDS From Best Seed Houses In bulk! or package. Special varieties of Sweet Pea, named Spencers. 'Queen. City' Lawn Grass Shady Nook' Grass Seed. ~for under the trees and dark corners of the lawn, i Dr. Chown's Drug Store 'We are pleased to nee that we have again in stock this celebrated water after an ab- sence of ten years. Price, per dosen pints ..... ..-- =. Jas. REDDEN & CO. sky quickly clears of high clouds; though low ones, sometimes with light showers or snow flurries may form, especially on leewidrd boasts ||| and windward mountain slopes. This is usually the case on the Pacific coast, the western slopes of the Rockies, the east and south shores Of the Great Lakes and the western enjoyment it ylelds. . To-day we brag of our boys' choir, but not till the day after to-morrow, when these lads and lassies are reaching their twenties, will the full value of this instruction become ap- parent. Then our choirg aud musi- cal, organizations will reap the rich Canada. It is not the workingman ferred to, however, it is not only or the farmer or the member of the smaller professional classes (dis- tinctly below the level of the corpar- ation lawyer) who packs up his fam- {ly as the Canadiaz winter draws "I near, buys a book of travellers' cheques and starts off to spend four BROOKS Storms Slow to Clear. When a storm passes and the wind shifts to the northwest, we us- ually look for clearing and coider weather, If hbwever, the storm is a very slow moving one, this optimism athize with the Prince of Wales. i p H i or five months in the Southern States or California or the West Indies. It is not the workingman or the far- mer who returns from this excur- harvest of the good werk which is may prove unjustified. A low may travel slowly or even remain stat- ionary at times and yet be accompan- slopes of the Appalachian highlands. S-------- Agnes McPhail, Canadian M.P., was received on Thursday by Presi dent Coolidge at Washington, Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Great Britain, is to visit Canada at the end of July. Bronze is an alloy of copper, tin TN Adel OAL QUARTET TE HEN the weather seems mild and balmy at this time of the year it may be bluffing. Re. member that thers is a cloud behind every silver lining and remember our 'phone number when you make up your mind to order coal, PHONE 9. Crawford,'