at we know ourselves we are pretty well informed. Anclent saying: "Madam, won't you have my seat?" : "Knowledge without gction is like | ail without wind. Anyway, the 'fellow who's out of ine is always heard. All modern girls appear to be the jughters of. millionaires. motor version is that two can a8 cheaply as one. friotism: God bless those who with me and damn the rest. If you can't boss yotrself, you ¥e to pay somebody to do it for @ married women must won- hy -any vampire should wish & husband. Shrdmeetsinc-- is short---that is why people it on a few luxuries even though y can't afford them. -------- this sentence: "My hus taught me to drive," said she, never once spoke crossly." re were smart Aleck sons of dads in the middle ages, but ¥ weren't called Young Intellec- ™ ne idison says that noise is essen- il to our happiness. This is the st kind word parliament has re- fs commendable for a man to others to have a good opinion E but he should not uraish it dy-made. / On his return from his present P the Prince of Wales will select it is sald. Then he'll start on r long voyage. astronomer claims to be able the weight of stars, but does- it that any of them have been on his knee. choosing a dog consideration TRIALS OF GOVERNMENT. An observation made by the Min- ister of the Interior on Monday last will scarcely be questioned, even by his most censorfous opponents. said: "Canada 1s a desperately hard country to govern. wifo has had a admit that." It would be just as true it they did not admit it. The difi- ion are very great. They grow out of geography, racial separations and economic conditions, and really pre- sent a most complex problem. Hon. Mr. Stewart, referred with manifest aptness to the question ef the tariff. Self-interest arrays the western aad eastern provinces against any policy in that regard Which translates itself into taxation. On the other hand, Ontario and Que- inte , insist on what they call "adequate protection," which should | relly be described as "high protec- tion." Between these antithetie views there-is little room for com- promise. In such a situation, poli- .tleal necessity, joined to national necessity, has pushed both protec. tion 'and free trade aside in favor of & tariff for revenue purposes. . That is what we have in Canada to-day, and, since the war imposed heavy revenue needs on the country, we have a fairly high tariff. It prac- tically excludes controversy. But our western friends are not disposed to take a wholly unselfish view. They sre willing to see the tariff rest on a revenue basis, so long as it does not touch the things they have to buy. Such a treatment of the mat- ter, of course, would very clearly in- volve the raising of taxation on such !'imports as the eastern provinces re- quire; but when that aspect of the situation is put up to western re- Presentatives they merely shrug their shoulders. The same difficulty arises in the matter of freight rates. It seems al- most futile to ask the western agrar- ians to take the broad and economic view. They are apparently unable to get away from the effect of rail- way tolls on the prices of their pro- ducts, especially their wheat. It they are told that lower rates for them would simply and unavoidably mean heavier burdens for the cen- tral provinces, already carrying nearly 72 per cent. of the weight of taxation, they again give that mean- ingful shrug. The Minister of the Interior is right. Canada fs a hard country to govern. Yet but a single factor is needed fo remove much of the dif. culty, That factor is a cheerful spirit of compromise--the yielding of sectional preference for the broad Rational good. 'It should come to that, and, happily, there are signs that the approach has begun. Out- side bt more or less self-appointed spokesmen, the farmers of the eouns' try are not articulately lined up against the economic policy which obtains. If they were, they would find themselves separating both quickly and widely as to what the alternative should be. . -------- LAW ENFORCEMENT. According to the Credit Men's As- sociation, 95 per cent. of the people are honest. The credit men's pro- blemt is with other 5 per cent. That is, of course, true of human character generally. Life would be impossible otherwise. There are never enough soldiers to keep any population subdued, and never enough police to enforce all the laws on all the epple. If all debts had to be collected ir courts, and all conduct regulated by injunction, there would not be enough working people left to feed the judges it would take to regulate them. Law enforcement is for the co- ercion of the few and the intimida- tion of everybody. But the actual conduct of man- kind depends on most people con: trolling themselves. ---------- INTOLERANCE. = The great crime is to think. The herd does mot think and its intoler- a culties of government in the Domin- | bec, with their immense industrial | |is right, so that there is a public] {danger in allowing anybody to go {anheard." | Do not dismiss that sentence witir | study. smotheped under a wave of tempor- |ary int nee. . | MOTHER THINKS IT OVER. The trend of social life during re- | cent years has been rather trying on | mother. Left to her own intuitive judgment, she would have very cer- | tainly seen that the tendency toward distractions was likely to make her restless. And she did get restless. Perhaps no social phenomenon has come to be more clearly identified since, say, 1900, than the dis- position of women to engage in new activities. It has almost taken on the character of an epidemic. Mother did not want to be odd. She could not very well hold aloof from what her neighbors were doing, and so she | got caught in the swirl of thidgs. It was a swirl that took her a good deal away from her home. Fundamentally, mother was not changed by this venture into yather hectic experiences. She ldn't change. Eons of living along cer- tain lines had fixed the maternal instinet in her very being, and, as she tried to keep pace with other mothers in the whirl of this new life, her conscience was just a little troubled at times. Her heart was in her home. She knew the family hearth needed her; but she could not be in two places at the same time. That was her difficulty. Still, she was doing just as well in that regard as were her neighbors; so why worry? Mother is mow thinking it over. It was inevitable from the very start that she would sooner or later be- come reflective, and finally reach the stage where her sense of real value would insistently claim a hearing. She began by looking backward. The retrospect brought to her mind a picture of her girlhood home. She could not resist measuring that kind of a home against the home of to- day; and the contrast made her ser- fous. What had become of the cozi- ness, the sweet and intimate asso- ciations of parents and children, the simple but satisfying games around the hearth, the domesticity and rich contracts, the completeness of it all? What had come in to take its place that could be conscientiously viewed as something gained? So motherly instinct and motherly good sense be- gan to rap insistently at mother's heart; because, much as we love and admire mother, we know that her heart is always a safer guide than her head. Very strangely, and yet very prom- isingly, the movement for the renaissance of the home has had its beginning right at the very centre of one af the most diverting agencies-- the club. Mother never really liked clubs. _ She only thought so. . The General Federation of Women's Clubs had a big meeting the other day in New York city, and the pre- sident announced that ifs'aim from now onward would be *"'to-awaken their sisters to the necessity of re- storing the old-fashioned home." This was frankly admitted to be "the biggest job the General Federation has taken on." Not necessarily, how- ever. It is all a matter of making the reversion fashionable; for, while mother feels the urge of the home, she has no thought of starting on a crusade all"by herself. The neigh- bors must be in on it. It is not for mere man to try and visualise the modern home restored to its lost simplicity. We should certainly hate to see the knicker, bockers go; and so we hope that mother will be willing to be a little compromising on that score, both for herself and for daughter. Along with the short skirt they have rather been on the side of wholesome out- door recreation. There is no use in permitting this proposed relapse to be carried too far. The mascn- line concept of what-adds to the pic- turesqueness and beauty of life should not be wholly ignored. Be reasonable, mother. | health. or the cabaret. Byt we are back- ing mother to win, nevertheless. She | | has always won. And this time she | has a noble incentive. He |a single reading--it is worthy of | Many of us need that guid-| I think everyone | ance, and especially when it is the | turn at the job will other fellow's opinion that is being | The Value of Our X-ray men discovered some years ago that in people suffering with gall stones, that is the floor of the chest or the roof of the abdomen-- did not move as in normal people. Another thing history of living a sedentary never taking any exercise. You see the exercise worked in ways. In the first place the heart was stimulated to hurry and strengthen the circulation of the blood through the entire body, the liver included. This meant that there would be no "delay" in the liver itself nor in the gall bladder, life, was almost an impossibility. And then the exercise acted In a mechanical way by actually squees- ing the liver. The liver is very soft, and as one writer aptly states "the liver sucks up the blood like a sponge, and the diaphragm presses it out as a hand squeezes a sponge." , In former days it was mostly our women folks that had gall stones, due to high corsets preventing the diaphragm from squeezing well down on the liver. The low corset now in use should help to loosen the num- ber of these cases. However any slight exercise that makes you breathe more deeply and rapidly, is really a preventive of gall stones. Even the use of the voice, and hence also the chest and abdominal muscles in speaking or singing, is a great help in keeping the liver stir- red into activity. A few years ago mechanical de- vices were sold to develop large chest capacity. The principle be- hind these machines was that by {nto the apparatus, you would gradu- ally develop the lungs. The weak point in this was that real lung need, the need for air, can only be pro- duced by making a lot of muscles work, and thus the lungs have to work faster gnd harder, in order to) purify the blood that these muscles need. Hence running or other vigor- our exercise, is the best method. chings really helped the users was because the deep breathing they ed- couraged, made the diaphragm go down further so as to press on the liver. This meant a good flow of bile down the intestine, and hence freedom from gall stones and con- stipation. } KINGSTON IN 1855 . Sidelights From Our Files-- A Backward Lok, Instituting the Mayor's Chain. Nov. 27.--At the last meeting of the Council the Mayor wore a magni- ficent gold civic chain, manufactur- éd to order by Mr. Spangenberg, of King street. A contemporary says that it is the intention of Mr. Gilder- sleeve to make this chain a present to the city, to replace the one pre- sented to ex-Mayor John Counter, | and at the same time to establish a rule that at the end of each civic year, the retiring mayor shall add a link to the chain, he himselt add- ing the first on January next. It is also said to be Mr. Gildersleeve's in- tention to wind up term of of- fice with a grand clvic panquet. There is every probability that Mr. Gildersleeve will also be called upon to add a link to the chain in Jamu- ary, 1867. A Sour . ' Nov. I Tena Tort. being a petty election for a messenger there was a goodly 'attendance of the members of the city council at their regular meeting. Upon a ballot Mr. R. 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