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he THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Pronger's | ovelty Store ¥ -¥ BIG SHIPMENT OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES & STATIONERY Fountain Peng. .0 0 a hay per phe .. 05, 10,18 1 Qeoyban. ox 000 ; IL A Postcards, 20or iz L) ap oH All the SCHOOL READERS, GEOGRAPHIES, ENGLISH HISTORIES, ARITHMETICS and COMPOSITIONS COME AND GET YOURS. O. H. PPONGER, Prop. Sr) AY Te IS Pe ING { pr Chatham Bob Sleighs Made in three different sizes: > Two-inch Two and a half inch Three-inch - Cross Chains and Swinging Bolsters | or Short Reach. Prices-and Literature on application J. S. CORNER, Oxdrift, Ont. Agent for -- s INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY of Canada, Ltd Drumbellar (DEEP SE A) t does not pay Galt wok ak to let your team stand out if the cold. Get a pair of good : ANTHRACITE Horse Blankets from us. We have a large and varied as- Stove and Nut sortment for you to choose Coal trom. a ¢ Winterbottom Lumber, Coal wok ok ow : and Builders' Supplies. Agent for-- ER a KLOSE ] HARTFORD TIRE INS. --_-- And don't freeze yourself, : Get one of -our Heaters--ai J. sizes, all patterns. Fi iro EE EN The Cry of the Childreq ! The very existence of the British ace obviously depends on a robust {and healthy rising generation. ig Cuote the King: "The foundations of wnational glory, set in the homes of the people, they will only remain un- shaken while the family life of our race and nation ig strong, simple and pure." Today the old country fallg lamentably short of these ideals. 'Englands Empty Cradles' is an im- | portant factor in the national problem cf race continuity, but let us look for a while at a ful} cradle (which inci- dentally, may be an orange box or a part of the apology for a bed which serves the rest of the family). It is in a cold, badly-lighted, ill-ventillated room where the beg takes up most of the space. Here lives the man and wife with three to six children and here the occupant of the cradle enter- | ed the world. What a merey had it died ere its little eyes opened on such a scene. Long hefore she is physically fit, the mother, if she ig fortunate en- ough to. be n employment, goes to her daily toil, and the baby is left in the care of g neighbour, an older child or & consumptive husband, thus early to imbibe those germs which will make its life a misery and send H toan early grave. | must note here tha in many districts it is possible for the mother to take it to a creche on hey way to work. There, at a small charge, it ig fed and cared for all day and the mother takes it back to its "home" at night. Home! What a travesty? Britain is not treating her rising generation of boor fairly. Ae- cording to the "Observer" Health Talks column, Canada is drifting to wards slumdom and if that is correct, . in the name of humantiy, Stop! Let me show you more; a large house, once the residence of g Pros- perous trader, may have four rooms on a floor in which live, or vegetate, four families under conditions, sani- tary and otherwise, which to the Can- adian would seem incredible, I speak that T do know, Quite recently a case came to light in which a man and wife and five children were living in one small room, the father and three of the children were consumptive, and the mother wag shortly expectifig to contribute one more toward the solu- tion--or accentuation--of England's problem. The medical officer inter- prets the true official sentiment when he says that, as things go on in Lon- don today, this state of affairs is not 'so bad. What then, in the eyes of } English Officialdom, would be bad? But I am well aware I have not written the worst, It follows that the infant mortality in Londen and other big cities is too awful to contemplate. While the birthrate is important, it i of paramount inporigpes that children should be given a chance te live. Shocking housing conditions. are almost invariably accompanied with semi-starvation, - Separated milk and other unsuitable foods (and that in insufficient quantity) is the lot of the slam habies of England and England prides herself on her Christianity. What does He think who suggested millstones for the necks of those who illtreat His little ones? The state of affairs I have descrip- ed is typical, not only of London and other hig cities," but. in the country also. I have seen slumdum in its vilest form right away from the towns amid the lovely English scenery of rolling downs and waving cornfields. OBT. SWEENEY BUILDERS SUPPLIES mov 5 hi : : Picture Framing eneral Blacksmith & fanitoba Gypsum Hardwall and Wood Woodworker fibre, Fig. J 85 8 ' ' Sin Diy en acetylene dolakng in consenting Welding | in connection . J. CROSIER WATKIN'S PRODUCTS eneral Merchant, Complete Line OXDRIFT, ONTARIO FOR FARMER or CITIZEM : EEE Special for Summer Season tr v Goods Groceries [FLY OIL & PADS, DISINFECTANT ~~ Boots and Shoes ho COSMETICS OF ALL KINDS lardware and Farm Produce Susanne DRINKS st & Wood and ET ; Cockshuit Implements DAD ROWLAND, Retailer x: SLA Gk Gp y BR try WE MAKE A SPECIALTY oF WEDDING CAKES, AND BAKE CAKES OF ALL KINDS TO ORDER FOR EVERY OCCASION. OUR BREAD Is SWEET AND NUTRITQUS QUALITY GOES INTO EVERY LOAF swell the slum population of the towns There where land ig plentiful the land monopolist holds it, A village within fifty miles of London is owneq by a member of the House of Lords, as is also the whole countryside for miles around. Some years ago there were four acres close to the village which did not belong to his Lordship and it was in the market. No cottage had been built fer years. Young people would have preferred to remain in the country married and there being no accomodation were foreed into the towns, while others shared the already overcrowded cottage of the 'old people, but this was often vetoed. * Hope beat high that very soon some speculator would buy and cover the four acres with cottage dwellings, but the opto- mist reckoned without hig Lordship whose agent wag instructed to buy regardless of cost. Ahsb wanted Na- both's vineyard and he got it. There are now in England many thousands of "model dwellings", I have lived in them. The same condi- tions obtain in many of these and the hetter type are occupied by those who are able to pay rents far beyond the reach of the poor. Let Canada shun these as she would a pestilence, Land is 'the crux of the question. The owner either refuses to sell or de- mands an impossible price and the law stands impotent by. The new housing measures provide for compul- S0Ty acquisition of land, but are a dead letter so far ag price is concerned landowners are at We so far have had almos ! Own way with the land 'is a new foree making England's birth rate cease to be the desp former. both birth rate and m ing with, and opinion i i factor than the land. ever-recurring problem deal on another occasio GEGRGE FI Kingston on Th 'which is always exhorbitant.. The stminister and normal with g well-housed and well- fed population of workers, then will PA 0 : oe the infant mortality be reduced and CLOVER HULLERS Theer is another face which effects closely allied to that T have been degl- is divided as to whether it is not go more * import the public house. With that I may. t entirely their laws, but there itself felt, the dawn appears on the distant horizon. can be made 2ir of the re- ortality, It ig I refer to : of drink and n. DDYMENT ames, England my g-> Pronger's Grocery We carty a full 1 GROCERIES, FRESH FRUITS ! FRESH VEGETABLES, ete; i 2: Of tee ~-SPRCIAT.. F resh Walnuts hz 49c per Ib Just arrived :-- RED GRAPES FANCY TORAY BLUE GRAPES GRAPES CELERY, PEARS Thi SERVICE QUALITY BEGGAR HAD LOTS F. Vaupell, a beggar by the police Saturday while he was soliciting alms in front of the Opera | House. When searched her had $107 in his possession, and a bunch of ye- ceipts for money which he had sent to his home in Edmonton. He hag been in eastern Ontario "doing" the DRY fairs, and had apparently a very pro- fitable trip. He wag advised by the Magistrate fo buy a through ticket to his home town, which he did. Kenora Miner. & News. OF MONEY. 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Williams, and Martin Hunter wel have all contributed which will be enjoyed. est for everyhody of nunting and fishing Git" } many interesting articles in the No- vember issue of "Rod and Gun in Can- hunting story by A. A. Merrill, « Makes Good," the account of the peri- thrilling capture of "Uy Nineteenth Black Bear" by Theodore J. St by C. H. Gibbons is also of particular interest. The November issus econ- tains a dozen good stories and articles for the sportsman, while all the regu- lar departments, "Guns and Ammuni- tion," "Along the Trapline," "Qut. door Talk," Fishng Notes" and "Ken- readers of "Rod and Gun in Can cover, this issue is packed with in'ey gen on any chase GUN Stampede" by ory of the time the appearance only one of the interested in e geod moose 1 Ud lonely Ganpet|* on the Gannet Dale, and the tocks, western mouyn- A description "Bare Island" t and informa- J. W. Wingon I-known to the good - a or outdoor life. 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