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there are faint] tient should take Dr. W Pills, the most reliable e "Three Cities" are slight and even in habit by i and 'when | 1s tressing symptoms lot us get right back to the this medicine is Mrs. nounced Zaytoon), into Dingli, or into the sister island of Gorzo. If ever a " t eat, sleep nor rest, and I grew 80 living photograph of the apostolic type not eat, + was flowing like a stream in spate was revealed before the gaze of our eEvOuR. hat be suallest Mises with taxicabs, buses, and automobiles : modern, bustling civilization, surely | "oo lh me. y opti y Brew all making steadily southward. Hoots not have strength! ang cries, rumble and road of wheels, | screaming of brakes, filled the morn-| ing alr. As I looked down the!l wonder, and what shadowy recol- thoroughfare it seemed to be tightly packed with vehicles fro: here we haye discovered that photo-|4; yoyo about without help. I was graph. § 3) ach 3 Als a ust a miserable wreck, and became dae B Ho sual lands Tiles very much discouraged as I had tried A away: from the changing iu: many medicines which failed to help hiddg ; Angie me. In this wretched state a friend uences of intervening centuries, not 8 | yyg0q me to try Dr. Willlams' Pink canvas, not a stone image, but a real|pjjjs | gid so and before long found human model or photograph (or call it | troy wore helping me. Gladly I con ywhay you uh of fans ive of people | tinued taking the pills until I fully FO Tere ve Jesus into their midst. , |regained my health and strength and ould you see a little carpenter's|y pave since continued in the best of shop with the children helping the |peaith, Later my daughter became father with hatchet and saw? Here |gnaemic and six boxes of the pills re- s the woman at the well with an}giored her to (health, strength and earthenware pitcher. color. Natural + v.91 consider Dr, Wil- There is one difference only and |jjams' Pink og a blessing to weak, that is this: The people of Malta [run-down peoyf conform to modern custom inf the way | you can these pills through any of clothing, more or less Thus the|dealer if medicine, or by mail at 'average visitor rushing around the|50 centsfa box from The Dr. Williams "sights," as he calls them, looks not|Medigiie o., Brockville, Ont. on the people because they are not f what he calls "picturesque." The auto- mobile whisks the tourist to a stones here ,a Neolithic temple there, here a famous tapestry to be seen; there a grand master's fomb, now a church, then a fanfous dome, yonder " eh ely vista and now an old fort or " 'what-not, and all the while the tourist may miss what is perhaps the most unique and rea yorthwhile exhibit anywhere to i gple them- fe --. 'HE DIDN'T SHAKE--MUCH m had passed through a harrow- perigifce. He had seen a ghost, © come out of de cowshed," "an' ah had a pail of milk h hand. Den ah hears a noise pside of de road an' de ghost » u shake with fright, Sam?" selves, who ctions ne of his dusky andience. of those J now what apfshook wid. seeking tg yin' for sutghin' ah shook in fact, when alf got home ah been trai pilk fone, an' two The dire paid." roving son§ re astom of serv- f ints. th ' meron i. lock tea in business inability to sioep piace' becomes inner ev mete | Dro- 1s the | 0d nerve tonic known. The|to conclude with Hamlet that all fs "stale, flat, and unprofitable upon this sterile promontory, the earth," | and then.one mbrning--well, let me ng those who have |cite an example. curb. parently, to travel down Southamp-| ton Row to Kingsway and the Strand. so that {if any recalcitrant person | Ough!) Does he liken the hoot of the should wish to go in the opposite | ¢laxons, rather contemptuously, to the direction he would have to wait, it |Cry of tigers and the roar of lions in séemed, for the turn of the human |the southern night? If he does, then tide, One huge purpose was work- it is not strange that he should ignore Ing there, and anyone who set him-|even the dignity of a traffic police- What a seasoned and veteran an. counts!traveler he must be, moreover! agatust all men. ------ 7. who had sailed the seven seas and tramped the five continents, who has ridden thousands of miles in box cars and has been hoisted out of steam- ghips innumerable times by specially constructed derricks--such phant, certainly, has got past marvel: ing at Southampton Row. he has long been a London citizen, is a philosopher by natural how little a single him, win 0 8 fine system of¥ intensive c Many Cana- | of a quarter of an acre dian,t™ ell as British- | 'chéd up here and there be® born je now order | eat limestone bowlders. Rainer,| Red Rosefiiea for their ce mother and children rise with the staffs, bsofieh proceed to church to 5 y's| qualityfas th 3 blessing, and are at wo teas. Sold by' » the morning. The day's toil over, to | ~f church again to give thanks. He | takes his labor and his devotions gladly. At his work he sings the day || "THAT M We through. It is the same old roy ! uch ater, bright, cle a m. 80 it seems to the casual listener from: | §Q] d Ba G abroad. . The words are invented by |™ oul et? | Thi as the tune progresses. | ~A Famous Autho 's Rule dearly loves his "fiesta," & oa By Ruth Brittain £ave the year through In order to contribute his little share to the de-| cordtion of the village church and Streets and the festivities which are ~uspal accompaniment of the tronal festival of his church, ------ GABBY GERTIE BS Da A Baby specialists agrees nowadays, that during the first six months, babies must have three ounces of fluid per pound of body weight daily. An «ight ipound baby, for instance, needs twon- ty-four ounces of fluid. Later on the rule is two ounces of fluid per pound of body weight. The amount 5 fluid absorbed by a breast fed baby is best determined by weighing him before nd after feeding for the whole day; it is easily calculated for the bot- one. Then make up any de ith water. gverish, crying, upset and la fewdrops of Fletcher's Ca | For these and other ills of bal hildren . such as colic, diarrhea, gas on gtomach and bow g tipation, sd d Ba "Nut lugs tulfes, tires and bolts 'the story of spare change ols, ing impatiently for, their turn to | walk, dividing the traffic before it as a y _ Gre n, as the vicar of a been a marriage in his parish for fis 7 more than , Gretna London | spectacle is denied us, for he a ig enough-- ing | English policeman and the En that city is a com- always temper their law and log jueca of runaway couples, is en- world and a| with common sense. He 1s complaining that there has not. famous In song and story as the oying_ traditio popularity as a t is a good [signa] whatever, but retires with as gnity as possible to one while the elebhant, Ww carnate, {ramps on with 's pause, All things con- feel that the policeman Happy: Philosophy - | mow the clutches gears once more and the wheels be-| to practice | much at the Gretna Green blacksmith's forget within one week this "sea- son." " act in 1856, which makes it com- pulsory. for ome of the contract ing parties to have been. resident in Scotland for twenty-one days be- -fore the ceremony, a death blow was dealt to the custom of uniting young couples at any hour of the day or night, "and no questions h 1 was standing at the corner of self against that would , Whats Coming? But wait! What ix happ down there by Ruskell Square? Is there not a slight 'rift in the solid | mass of trafic, as though someone or something had mightily determined, cost what it might, to come this way? Who can have had the temerity to set his puny purpose against all these! thousands? And yet it is clear that a different idea; some sturdy bit of individualism , is struggling down there with the concerted mass of "every heart resounds opinion. Someone intends to get to string." Euston Station in spite of the fifty rate, and to me that steady march of thousand others who hold with per- | the great gray elephant right against fect unanimity that the only thing to the do is to get to Kingsway and the | traffic Strand. A thrilling -thing it is, al-|pur ways, to see one purpose pit itselt | Neve against thousands. And look, now, sli of the road, has somehow managed (0 leave a free channel. The huge huss rs of agility in wrig, tax whic it a police patrol? Is it a donkey, cart? Is it the King? still block the nearer view. What ever ia moving there is no hurry; it comes on no faster than a man migh whale does the waves of the sea. But now, at last, there it is! Now I un- degétand. A vast and lofty brow, e, majestic, imperturable, looms once above the hubbub. One ance at that lofty forehead explains why the crowd of vehicles opene! obsequiously below and why the tle taxicabs darted off into obscy byways, If 1 had been a bound along Southampton Row the City and I had met an elepha for the Euston Station, I should prob- ably have adopted the same prudent course. An African King For there is an air of command about that massive brow that is not to be lightly gainsaid, and there is a look of absolute self-sufficiency in the small determined eyes which seems to say: "I am bound northward for reasons that seem good to me, and I propose to move in that direction at my own accustomed pace. If all Lon- don chooses to go at the same time in the opposite direction, that is Lon- don's privilege, but London will have to make room for me." And behold, London does make room. How composed and collected the huge beast is as he shuffles past me on the flexible trées he uses for legs, looking' sagaciously out of his little by sufficient water often If it doesn't, give him "| tainly unprovided for in his code of eyes at the most wonderful city men have made, as though he had taken gur measure and was not at al] im pressed. How small and trivial and 'hurried a man looks beside this ma- Jestic animal, Yes, any man--even a D man. Directly before the ele- p ow, in the very path of his irresistible march, stands the stately official who directs the traffic of the street. Motors are banked up twenty deep on either side of the row, honk- ¢voss, What will the stately official do now, he who has mever been at a loss betore? Wiiat signal will he | give in this situation, 'which' is cer- instructions? Oh, it he would only I 'mighty white-gloved hand continued to uphold its reputation. Nine marriages have taken place With the passing of the Marriage asked." Vy Nevertheless Gretna Green has re f flect that probably all these people are! ¢ philosophers, whe know that every- ~ these, i soll, ~into cities lke Zeitun (pro-| nF: Patta Shanklin, N.B., Who | Southampton Row and Tavistock | (ing Whatever Is to be seen in Loy- 'About four years ago I be-|gquare, waiting for a conveya 0; came very much run down, I could |iake ie LOR Jor a {Tore an elephant was to be expected. My own philosophy is not so complete, however, that I can forbear gazing after the shambling leisurely toward St. Pan- cras Church. What thoughts are his, GIVE CONFIDENCE TO YOUNG MOTHERS By Always Keeping Baby's Own don sooner or later and that there- lections? m curb tol crowded cla All London had decided, ap- jungles of his abyhood? (Merely to think of that walking hill as<having once had an infancy is startling en- common ills of babyhood and child- hood should be kept in every home where "there ia either a baby or a young child. Often it is necessary to give the little ones something to break up a cold, allay fever, correct sour stomach and banish the {rrita- bility that accompanies the cutting of teeth, Baby's Own Tablets in the home as a safegua' 1 against the troubles that seize their little ones so suddenly and the young mother can feel reasonably safe with a box of these Tablets at hand and ready for emergencies. oon learn man. thorough laxative that act without gripping 'and they are absolutely guaranteed free from oplates or other harmful drugs. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. and so i right, Well, one heart does at any { might suggest, but the story of a holi- day in Switzerland. It is a very old custom and is celebrated during the last of April. The Guilds of Zurich burn up winter, which they think las lasted long enough! whole current of the morning's before the Opera House, and on top of it is placed what looks like a large snowman, but he is in reality built of chicken wire stuffed with fireworks amd covered with white paper. ude." That is the way in which great ings are done, and-not by flaccidly # toward the curbstones, and |d¥eiding that the way everyone is go- x. dart away into side streets|ind a moment ago they would! for pave disdained. Who or what can It ss e-tht-is«ghown such deference? Is ig about 20:~all meet, arrayed ip the niost gorgeous costumes, each nion having its own ceremonial uniform, come of which are preserved in the museum afid use only on this day. course, be the right way 0, .@4, course, one may problem Of tndependence and stands ten or twelve jut mere bulk is not the A dontey scarcely | tect hi} I cannot yet be sure, for the bfises | essential squaré and groups around the bon fire--after circling slowly and im- pressively around it--and the towns- people on foot form a ring on the out- side. When the clock strikes six the fire is lighted. and as it burns the men and horsesscommence to circle about, going faster and faster. would have had the-same success if he had been actuated by the same in- domitable purpose. fidently expecting to see a donkey pit southward-setting traffic of Southamp- begins tg blow up, and everyone joins in the cheering, for winter has gone. Finally, bunchés of flowers are thrown and the ery goes up that sum- mer has begun. coming up Southampton Row en route' mer may be a mere matter of pack- ing but your thrifty housewife knows it involves much more than that. Here are a few of the more important things that must be done. TOOK ONLY WINE "When you were in Japan did you take a jinrikisha often?" "No--confined myself "and bid him to A simple and safe remedy for the Oxperienced mothers always keep | Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but At Six Bells This is not a sea story, as the title A huge bonfire is lald in the square The guilds--and there must be The procefision marches into the Phen the snowman catches fire and Closing I House Preparing for a vacaion in the sum- Lock all the windows, and if there is. no open fireplace, fasten a top floor window open at the top for circula- tion. - To forestall spontaneous com- bustion, place floor dusting mopheads fn covered tin cans, burn oily polish- ing cloths and throw out any paper and light trash that may have collect- ed. Blankets, if they are first clean- ed and sprayed with insecticide, are safely stored in chest or linen closet. Ranges should Be given a thorough cleaning and coated with stove oil to guard: against rust. Motors must be oiled, vacuum 'cleaner bags emptied. 1f vou have a mechanical refrigerator, pull out the electrical plug or turn out the gas, Foods and soaps should be left in. mouseproof containers, the flour bin. shouldbe emptied and all paper packages replaced by Jars or cans, Furnishings, of course, need protection against dust, moths, and sunlight. Old slip covers suffice for wicker, while overstuffed furniture should he vacuum cleaned and spray- should be hun be. I away. In clean, bright Aluminum = . Western Islands of Scotland Have Grave Grievance British Postmaster-General's Proposals Opposed by All Parties in Parliament * ead of | Canada, Hill the Mover, ILL THR MOVER--PIONEER DIS- TAN Canada. movers Sheedy padded vans. New me it me a HS halogen hover write 'us orb ing the hareen NH fice Hamilton, Ontario. London.--Western islands of Scot- land, the defects of whose sea com-|Switzer, Granton, Ontario. E HATCH FOUR VARIETIES. Write for free catalogue. A. 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