6 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE BRITISH WHIG THE MATTRESS EVIL. There is a movement on foot for the passing of legislation by the federal government forbidding the sale of unfumigated second-hand mattresses. The gale is declared to be one of the greatest evils of to- day. There has been an agitation for some time in New York in re gard to the matter and early in the present year the East Toronto Rate- payers' Assoclation entered a pro- test against bedding from quaran- tined homes being bought by rag pickers. Federal legislation against the manufacture of the unfumigated 'material into new mattresses was urged. It is declared that in the United States unscrupulous manu- --ffacturers-use-the contents-of-bloody, Jebitnbes Bay and semi-Weekly Wb: 3) 9! WHIO PUNMLISHING o0., ITED, KINGSTON, ONT. RE ------------------------------------. M. Campbell ....cco00.0... Presiden. fo A. Guild ,........, Editor and My Director SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES: (Daily One In city or One Fear B2 I te rural offices, $2.50 One te United States $3.00 TE ay a ah sue AR rr B14 Ky RRL 1 +] UT-0F-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ohn St, Hontreal Ming St W. One One ome of the best job Attached fis printing offices in Canada, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG 1s suthetyieated by the A Audit Bureau of Circuiations Another state governed by woman 1s the state of matrimony. Ate- The dea are not like some teria patrons. They pass on. A war period is one during which only disloyal citizens cuss the coun- ry. Thrift is the art of keeping a fly fu the bedroom instead of an alarm dock. No country is doomed until its pride begins to fead exclusively on its past. A hick town is a place where a san with $15,000 enjoys telling how be got rich, There may not be enough cars to go around, but too many trying to So around. . . The poor are lucky at that. They eam't afford things and thus make them desirable, An educated man is one who can Quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible. . Sr memes As to density of population, it poems very hard for the dove and stork to co-operate. If ths boy is wandering it may be either a spirit of adventure or lack of parking space. Oorrect this sentence: "You dance divinely," sald the sweetie to her fat and ancient mealticket. The art of powdering red noses Was developed too late to do the vil- Jage soak any good. Loss of memory never makes a 'wenderer of the man whose wife has enough to support him. Conscience doth make cowards of us all, not to mention making med- diers of about half of us. However, that new Old Testament fn modern language doesn't call them Solomon's "sweeties." When the swords are turned into plowshares, the same crowd will turn war profits into steel shares. Qorrect this sentence: "We've Seen married a year," said she, "but I still (hink of the house and every- thing a3 his." -t Wail of unfortunate loser: "Peo- talk about me." Wail of un- Is ie winner: "People don't talk sbout me." Grand Duke Cyril has received a to move out of Bavaria. That has not more than room enough its own would-be monarchs now ~ When Bastern society is unable to fave's real empress to dntertatn, it | do the next best thing and kow- jo a woman who would like to x Ny Those Cleveland folks who predict 'world will-come to an end in are considerate in a way. F 'have brought the world » an end before Christmas. pus-soaked and vermin-infected mattresses without fumigation and make them into new ones, whigh are nicely covered with bright colored materials. Bacteriological examina- tion of the contents of some new mattresses has shown them to con- tain germs of infection, Is it any wonder then that scarlet fever and worse diseases break out in come munities where health officers are at a loss to account for their origin. Germ-infected mattresses can spread various diseases and the menufac- turers of them are enemies of man- kind. A REPLY TO GOLIATH. "This is a dead town," sald a re presentative of Big Business to the Collegiate Institute pupils the other evening. Of course he was far too suave to use those exact words, but they convey his mgeaning. The speak- er had as his ideal the big, "pro- gressive" standardized city, and be- cause Kingston stoutly refuses to be anything but herself he totally failed to comprehend her. His as- surance was superb and of course the youthful audience accepted his solemnities as periously as he deliv- ered them. ! d It would be great sport to reverse the situation and send a successful Kingstonian to patronize the wage earners of the Uneeda Typewriter Company of Toronto somewhat as follows: "Since leaving the train in your so-called Union Station, I have been walking around using my eyes and wondering more and more what ails your city. I am still wondering. I notice you have a charming situa- tion on the lake, and you will par- don me if I point out that you have allowed the ugliest possible sheds, factories and docks to shat you away from enjoyment of it. I am todd you have to go seven miles to Scarborough Beach or Sunnyside to enjoy what lies at your door. We manage better in Kingston, I need hardly say. Half our waterfront is a park, bordering lake water eo clear that you are tempted to drink it. I just refer to this small matter because the contrast made a pain- ful impression as soon as I arrived. "Only a person who has had the advantage of enjoying life in a real town can appreciate how unfortu- nate you are who live here. Your city grows bigger every year, like a lubberly fat boy, and there seems absolutely no hope of arresting that growth. You are compelled to be progressive in order to keep from being strangled by your trampling crowds. Thank heaven, we don't have to be progressive down our way. When we want an improve ment we get it, but any we don't want we do quite nicely without. And the price you pay, my friends, for living in a big, growing city! Think of the hours out of each day that you waste being hauled around in street cars, a nuisance to your- self and to every one who wants your seat. Think of your eity debt, which 1s like a two4thousand dollar mortgage on every house in the place. Think of the way you live, my friends, in apartment houses with about as much privacy as a goldfish, sandwiched between the quarrelsome family below and the dancers above. What would you give for a house of your own with a bit of garden in which to grow weeds and things, all within twenty minutes' walk of your job?! More than half my employees enjoy just that, a privilege which not ome in all this audience has, I am afraid that you who are content to grub along in a big city lack ambition. It is the dwellers in towns and small cities who achieve the good things of life which most of you wish for in vain. "Of course 1 walked along your main street, Yonge street I believe it is called, to see the changes there have been gince I was here fourteen years ago. How depressingly you have changed. It must be a hard life out there on Yonge street, where not one business in five has kindly expressed his opinion of my city. Ladies and gentlemen, it has | given me great pleasure to express my opinion of his. I thank you." | ARTIFICIAL BREAD. "Will you have artificial oysters, Sir, or a nice synthetic steak?" Such may be the ingratiating question of the future waiter who, mo matter how much his viands may have changed will doubtless still be looking for his tip. Our present means of supporting life are as antiquated as Adam. All food is composed of various com- binations of the elements nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen, with -a-dash of mineral salts... When we eat vegetables and grains we ac- quire these elenterits at second hand, after the plant has selected and blended them for its own use. When we devour meat, it is at third hand that we get these essentials. Henry Ford had realized something of this when he remarked that the cow is the most imefficient machine used dy man, It will be a great day for mankind when we learn to maunfac- ture carbohydrates ourselves, cheaply ahd directly from coal and atmogpheric nitrogen. Already we have learned to make plant food electrically out of air. If we could learn to make even part of our own food likewise, and fattem food plants on chemical fertilizer, the whole economic basis of our civilization would be changed. The Malthusians, those cheerful folk who can prove that the world will shortly be eo crowded that the inhabitants must starve to death, do not put much stock in this no- tion of artificial foods. It would deflate their theory considerably if they did. But even without assis- tance from chemical sciemce, the starvation, line may be much more distant than the calculating Mal- thusians will admit. It is said to take fifteen acres to produce the meat consumed in a year by ome man. But those .fifteen acres will grow potatoes enough to feed thirty people. What is to prevent future generationg from living exclusively on potatoes and proceeding without a qualm in the merry business of populating the earth? That Body of 'Pours By James W. Berion, M.D, Dropping of the Stomach. You have heard of some friend who has been having trouble with his stomach and digestion, and he informs you that his doctor says his stomach hag dropped down a bit. Now many of these cases are due to a poor muscular tome all over the body, just a general weakness, and the stomach shares in it. Unfortunately however, a great many of these cases are brought on by the simple method of overeating and overdrinking. It doeen't seem to occur to these folks that if they overload the stom- ach with foods or liquids, that the muscles of the stomach will be over- stretched, and can't take hold of the food properly to chura it up. If the stomach muscles are helow par any- way, you can readily see what is go- ing to happen. The actual weight of this overload of food {is going to cause the stomach to drop down- wards from fits natural position. This means that the food has to be thrown upwards, by muscles that are stretched, and have lost some of their tone or power. The result is indigestion, a heavy feeling, and gas pressure. Further, these folks that eat so much are very often the very omnes that take no exercise. What is the result? Why the muscles across the abdo- men which would help to hold the stomach up in its proper place (even if the stomach muscles themselves were weak) are soft and flabby. You see the poor stomach gets it coming and going. First it fs over- loaded, and then it gets mo support from the front abdominal muscles. Well, what is the best thing to do when thé etomach has dropped downwards? Just two things, First. Don't eat or drink too much at meal times. Remember ilk, water, or tea take up room just the same as solid food. Second. velop the abdominal muscles by thrée minutes of bending exercises daily and the stomach can't drop. In the meantime eat small meals even if you eat oftener { This condition will right itself if you are willing to observe the few suggestions above. KINGSTON IN 1855 Sidelights From Our Files-- A Baékward Look. Schools and Some Visitors. Feb. 9.---(Items from Board of can appreciate. Your president has ary enjoyed by them prior to last | | gradually to erect suitable school | year. That a system of finance be con- sidered so as' to enable the board bouses and form at least one school library. And it was resolved that the sal- ary of the local superintendent of schools be £105 for the present ycar The following committee of visi- tation was appointed: 1. For Mr. and Mrs. scheol--Dr. Mair, Rev. and Mr. G. Hunter. 2. For Mr. Morrison's school and the school on Union street -- Rev. Mr. Rogers, Mr. O'Loughlin and Mr. Bibby. 8. For Mr. Scott's and Mrs. Lin- ton's school-----Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Acheson and Mr, Rudston, : 4. For Mr. Dugdale's and Miss Graham's school--Rev. Professor Smith and Rev. Mr. Fenwick. § . 0DD FACTS ABOUT Are You a Coward? Fear has been man's greatest enemy. Strong and stalwart sav- By YALE 8. NATHANSON, B. Be., MA. Department of Psychology, ages face wild beasts and battle un- til 'one of them dies. They fear nothing that moves about them so University of Pennsylvania long as fhere is sunlight, but at Hopkins' Mr. Burns night, when the shadows begin to lengthen, they are afraid. Perhaps It is unfair to say that fear is man's enemy only, because in another sense fear has been the one great Incentive to make man do bigger and better things &nd has spurred him on to feats of great courage. Often the man who appears on the surface to be very brave is at heart a great coward. During the recent war a German officer was repeatedly decorated for bravery. He rushed into machine-gun nests and braved the bayonet charges with remarkable courage. Soon af- ter the armistice was signed, how- ever, he committed suicide and left a note saying that his supposed bravery during the war was done in the hopes that he might be kill- ed. He had committed a crime prior to the war and was afraid of ar- rest. Too much of a coward, he hoped that the war might do it for him. The real hero is the man who is afraid and yet remains at his post. Who is the better actor, the man who plays his part on the stage and weeps and walls because he actually suffers as if it were his own sad life he was depicting or the man who moves his audience to tears and yet in his own heart does not feel, at all the emotion which he is portraying? Perhaps you like better the actor who actually feels the part, but, as a matter of fact, the better actor, from the profes- sional point of view, is the man who plays his part as any other in- dividual does His daily work. If you have any fears, it is pos- sible, usually, to direct them to some particular happening. Perhaps the thing occurred way back in the early days of childhood. For ex- ample, some people suffer a spec- fal fear of persons. One woman says, "1 can never step up and meet strangers cordially. I eam never look people in the eye, and I dread a stare more than a smile." Amn analysis of this case shows that when this woman was about fiva years of age she was frightened by a nurse who was cross-eyed, and the peculiar eyes used to refiain in her mind es a constant source of dread. If there is some particular fear which you have, it is necessary, be- fore the fear can be removed, that you mike a study of your own case. Some people are frightened into « nervous collapse by some one soaring them suddenly. The receipt of bad news has been known to turn a person gray overnight. Fear is best dispelled by investigating the mystery of the thing feared which them becomes quite simple and ordinary. To-morrow---Are You Afraid of Water? Copyright, 1924, by Public Led- ger Company: Bankrupt stock sale, The Club, three doors below Grand Opera House. Largest selection of gifts in the city at Robt. J. Reid's. ri tT in Egypt or Yucatan, a pile of New es Jraliige to be ae into pulp 3 The New. fork dibgotary WO STORE OPEN EVENINGS Men Like Gifts that Garb Them You are sure of your gift receiving a welcome if it is thing serviceable and fashionable. A few --the store abounds with others. Real Nobby SHIRTS $1.45, $1.95, $2.45, $2.95 PURE SILK SHIRTS (White) $2.95, $4.75 Elegant NECKWEAR 35¢., 75¢., 95c., $1.25 and $1.50 HANDKERCHIEFS SOMETHING SPECIAL 2 for 25c. Better ones 3 for 50¢. Still better ones, .. 4 for $1.00 See our Pongee Silk Handker- chiefs, initialled, 75¢. and 95¢. Dents Knitted Gloves 50c¢., 75¢., $1.00, $1.50 Mocha Glove, Wool Lined $1.45 Fur-lined Glove $2.75, $3.50 ENGLISH AND IRISH HOSE 50c., 75¢c., 95c¢. and $1.25 SILK AND WOOL HOSE 75c., 95c., $1.25 CLUB BAGS SOLID LEATHER $13.90, $16.50, $18.50, $22.50 DRESSING GOWNS $9.50, $12.50, $14.50, $18.50 BATH ROBES $7.50, $8.75, $10.75 HOUSE COATS $7.50, $9.50, $12.50 Camel Hair BOYS' SUITS $7.50, $8.75, $10.75 $7.50, $9.50 TRY BIBBY'S FOR YOUR NEW SUIT We think we can save you a few "en SCARFS BRUSHED WOOL $1.35 SILK AND WOOL $2.45 PURE SILK $3.50, $4.50 SWEATERS and S TER COATS SOMETHING SPECIAL $2.75 and $4.75 REAL SCOTCH SWEATERS are herewith advanced Warm to wear--someo- $3.50, $4.75 Boys' Overcoats $6.50, $7.50, $9.75, $12.50 Boys' Mackinaws $5.00, $6.00 BOYS' SWEATER BOYS' SHIRTS Boys' NECKWEAR NEAT KNITTED TIES 35c. - TUXEDO SUITS Three pieces. A beauty for $37.50 Men's and Young Men's Blue Suits Genuine Indigo Blue. $29.50 SUITS ENGLISH GREY SERGE NEWEST MODELS $29.50 Men's and Young Men's FANCY SUITS Choice patterns; first quality tallorings. Last Minute Styles. A Beauty for $29.50 GOOD KNOCK-ABOUT SUITS For Men. Sizes 86 to 40. $14.75, $18.00 Men's Mackinaws $7.50, $8.75, $12.50 AND OVERCOAT dollars. Trunks, Club Bags, Suit Cases, Umbrellas, Caps, Driving Mitts and Gloves SA Lh a The French Gift Shop Beautiful Gift Sets in dainty Satin-lined boxes. Brush and Comb Sets--Manicure Sets-- Manicure Rolls An endless variety of separate pieces-- new and interesting. Come in and see them. DR. A. P. CHOWN We have considerable funds to loan on Farm, Village and City Properties, at lowest cur- -- TOM SMITH'S Christmas Crackers and Christmas Stockings in greater abundance than ever, Early selection advised. Jas. REDDEN & CO. | Pembroke Resident Pembroke, Dec. Hanusch, aged forty, Tuesday has-become so | "77" editiors. Men atop the the ice while skating. | Robt. J. Drowned. 18. ~Wiiliam of this town, York | was drownad in the Ottawa river night 'when he broke Wicker Ferninis, $4.25, $3.50, Reid's. ay 4