Eras = a - qu. he! i High Rates She Was a Vision of Beauty, and She Had Asked Him to Help Her! Down the Portsmouth Road sped a "little, low red, semi-sports car. Re- elining in the drivers' seat sat a square-Jawed, blue-eyed young man in 8 belted dustcoat, his brown bands resting lightly but firmly on the gently quivering wheel. From the tiny dick- ey protruded the heads of a few golf- clubs in their bag and the handle of a tennis-racket. A many-labelled suit- ease lay in the boot. James Trufitt pulled his snap-brim- _ med felt hat a little lower over his "eyes, the better to shield them from the westering sun. "The little bus goes well," he mut- tered; "but, by gee, I wish I could af- ford something bigger." He passed at speed through Hipley. Beyond lay a stretch of fair and frag- rant country. For three miles he saw "He never meant to pay you for your petrol, He hoped you--you would just look at me lke--like the others do, and-- and be silly, and generous. He does it every day, and I'm tired of it--sick of it!" : "Ridiculous!" sald Straggle Beard, with a snarl hidden in his voice. "You've got a touch of the sun, my dear." The girl reached into the derelict's dickey and drew out a small, cheap suitcase. "I'm through," she said, with two shining globules on her lovely cheeks, "You're only my step-father anyway, and I never want to see you again!" Straggle Beard endeavored to grasp her arm. She threw him off with sud- den fury. "Don't touch me, or--or I'll bite you!" James stood looking on, perplexed. He couldn't quite make out what the trouble was, but his sympathies, of course, were entirely with the girl. Especially when she turned and came close to him, so that the illusion of a no sign of a petrol pump--not even an advertisement for anyone's hotel, From the adjoining fields spread a scent of hay. Overhead the sky was flecked with white, woolly clouds. High in the blue a hawk hovered on flapping pinions, On the rise where a lane forks left for Copley there was a stationary car. Beside it in the road stood a man and a girl. As he approached the man stepped to the centre of the road and ; "Allow me waved his arms, James applied a light toe pressure to the right-hand pedal and brought his car to a stand- still behind the stranded vehicle. This was, he saw, a dilapidated derelict of ancient vintage, encrusted about the chassis with the mud of many moons. The arm waver was an elderly man with a straggling, whitish beard and a suit of shining serge. At the moment there was an ingratiating smile upon his face. "I's very annoying," sald he,c"but 1 have had, the misfortune to run out of petrol. 1 wonder if you could--h'm --oblige me with a gallon?" James eased himself from his red shell, A little breathless he was, for behind the elderly supplicant stood a « youthful vision. She had eyes of vio- Jet blue, her lips were poppy red, her cheeks the intermingled petals of Gloire de Dijon and Madame Gaulain, her figure as slimly straight as a Ma- denna lily. Quite a flower-stall she looked, even though, at the moment, there was a tiny, vexed line between her exquisite eyebrows and her white teeth were nibbling at her lower lip. "Petrol?" said James. "Ah, yes, petrol." With an effort he withdrew hig eyes from Elysium. "It go happens Ym carrying a spare can, th_agh from the size of my steed you might think He reached into the it impossible." boot and withdrew a battered tin. "Al- Jow me to put it in for you." He of the straggly beard rubbed his hands gratefully. "Thig ie most kind of you. Jong since disappeared. ended drain slowly, very slowly, in. eyes were on the beaut: She was gazing at him with a curl ous air of annoyance, the reason for a cheque from them this morning." which he could not fathom. Possibly | his tie was displaced, or maybe he had eyes. a smut on his nose. Slow though lie was, the can was at He would only have kept it' "I thought if you would just be kind enough to - drop me in Golford, 1 could cash the | cheque at a bank there and then go I'll find a room some- lagt emptied and the cap replaced Straggle Beard drew a purse from his pocket, incpected its interior, and fin: ally extracted & pound note. "1 am go sorry I have nothfng gmall- up to London. 1 was are charmed and don't even bother to afraid 1 might have to walk to the ' see if they hase. mearest petrol station.' He unscrewed | the cap of a gravity-fed tank in the slowing down the better to hear her. scuttle dash, the varnish of which had | James up- the can and let its contents I've a chance to earn my .own living, For his and flower-stall was rendered. more vivid by a faint and adorable perfume, "I am so sorry to make a scene like this," she said, and her voice now was as murmurous as a summer brook; "but 1 can't go on with him. I simply can't! Would you--could you possibly take me on with you?" "1 forbid it!" cried Straggle Beard hastily. "Don't listen to her----" James bowed to the vision. "Of course, 1 shall"be delighted," said he. to take your bag." He placed it and the empty petrol can in the boot of the semi-sports, the girl meanwhile slipping into the passen- ger's seat as if she were accustomed to its small dimensions. Straggle Beard danced in the road- way. "Stop! 1 forbid you--" James squeezed in miraculously be- side the girl, and the semi-sports moved slowly forward, sweeping the expostulating step-parent from its pathsgJames raised his hat. "I am more than repaid for the pet- rol," said he. The last they saw of the bearded man he was cranking savagely at the drowsing derelict, which seemed re- luctant to wake from its slumbers. "He could never catch us anyway," sald James, accelerating tp a perilous fifty. "I haven't had this little bus all out, but it could beat that old peri- patetic perambulator on one cylinder. Er--forgive me, of course." A sort of cracked laugh escaped the girl's lips, She dried her eyes furtive- ly. "He's only my step-father,' she said. "We were on our way to stop with his sister for as long as she would have us. [ think he must be the meanest man in the world, He never buys any petrol. - He just pretends to run out, and then stops young men in sporting cars and asks them for a gallon to carry on. Then he offers them a pound i note, hoping they won't have the cor- rect change. Most of them just look | at me like you did, and--and say they "A very happy notion," said James, "I won't live with him any longer. I've been so (sob) unhappy. But now I won't go back. Without his | knowing, 1 sent a story to 'Hearth and Home, and they've accepted it. I bad "Splendid," said James, opening his "That was quick." | "Of course, I didn't show it to him. She .! turned to him appealingly. er," said he; with an air of apology. "1 where and--" wonder if you have chang. ®" | bis hand deprecatingly. "Oh, don't trouble about that," he said. "Glad to | have been of service. He smiled at the girl ! Surely now she might regard him with a little more approval. "Well, it's extremely kind of you--" shal 1 do?" began Straggle Beard, returning the | mote to his puree with alacrity. "No, no, I won't have it!" cried the the road. girl suddenly, stamping her foot. They both started--James pleasur- ably. She clenched 'her little hands. "I can't stand it any more, ~1 won't!" Straggle Beard stepped forward. "Now, my dear," he began anxious- Jy, "don't be--" The girl appealed to James. "I'm afraid you couldn't cash the James, still watching the girl. waved cheque at a local bank," said James. "It's probably crogsed." She stared at him with sudden ap- "Oh, I--I didn't know. hopefully. | I'm so awfully ignorant about business A tear started up in the prehension. and things.' 1 won't Tears of vexation stood in her beautiful eyes. top. corner of a lustrous eye. pocket for a note-case. "Oh, bow kind you are!" gir], in thrilling tones. She opened her handbag, fumbled and drew out a folded slip of paper It was & pretty thing in pale green, With "Hearth and Home" written across the which she handed to him. "Southern Counties Bank" acros "Oh, what "Now, you needn't fret," said James | soothingly, drawing up at the side of "You can let me bave the cheque 'and I'll cash it for you." He stopped the car and reached in his sald the These two charming mermaids of the sun are Jean Armstrong and Marion Crow. brought the bathing season on with a rush. the middle, and two scrawling signa- tures at the bottom. And it was for £10, payable to Miss Joyce Dabney. James counted out ten one-pound notes und gave them to her. "You know," he said, flipping the cheque, "you were really rather lucky to get ten pounds for a first contribu- tion, How many words was it?" She flushed slightly and closed her bag on the roll of notes. "Oh---obh, it was quite a lot of words. 1 don't really know how many." "About a thousand, do you think?" said James, slipping into gear and driving on. » "Oh, yes, just about that," she said gratefully. "Well, well, and so now you're going to make your fortune as a writer, eh? You've certainly started well. Ten pounds, by gee!" "And you're going to take me to the station?" said the gir], blinking at him with long-lashed eyelids. "Oh, rather," said he, beginning to look right and left as they éntered Golford High Street. Presently he pulled up at a red brick building with sundry white bills in its windows and a blue lamp over its doorway. "But this isn't the station," sald the girl shakily, with a sudden pinched look about the nostrils. "Oh, yes, it is, my dear," said James, slipping out of the car and putting his arm persuasively through hers. "This is the police station. Let's just go in- side and make a few inquiries, shall we?" The inquiries having elicited the fact that "Hearth and Home" had had no contributor named Joyce Dabuey, and further, that several faked cheques purporting to come from them had lately been presented at their bank, "Joyce Dabney" was detained and a constable dispatched iu James Tru- fitt's pillbox to secure the person of one Straggle Beard, who was found with the derelict; at Golford Station waiting to pick up his spurious step- daughter, "Of course, I'm not really a roman- ticist,' muttered James Trufitt, as the red car proceeded on its way later that afternoon, "or I'd have let the girl go. She was a good looker all right' He pulled his hat lower over his eyes and chuckled, "Stil', one has to protect those silly and generous young men she spoke of. Oh, yes--Ten pounds a thousand, by gee! I wish I could have got rates lilre that when I first started the writing game."--Answers, ep Tue ultimate ninimum of praise is contained in the appraisal made by a 'dealer when you're trying to trade in 8 | your old car. ToP wit YA bi © |PheASE COME [|e Hairs ff AFTER I Le T ! « SMATTER POP-- Every Rule Has an Exception. is the emblem of Canada. dians Toronto's eastern beaches smiling in The recent heat wave "The Maple Tree Forever" As everyone knows, the maple leaf Around the however, the In- have woven. many fascinating egends. One legend is to the effect that an old squaw put moose meat on the fire to cook and used the sap of the maple instead of going to the stream for water, While the meat was cooking she ecame interested in a friendly dis- cussion about styles in dresses or about an effeminate Indian that help- ed his wife with her work to the dis- grace of the tribe, At any rate, when she returned to the cooking moose she found it was covered with a brown sticky mass. In great alarm she fled | into the woods for time to think of an alibi. As she crept timidly back her husband noticed her, running to meet her with great shouts: of endearment, The unconscious maple sugar flavor- ing she had given the meat made her famous in tribes around. There are many varieties of maples. The maple tree we most frequently see in the cities and residential sub- urbs is the Norway Maple. maple tree itself, "The Lost Chord had to be found before string instruments - could be made." » ree ee re meee Jimmie--"Uncle, will you go down ploiting crime stories in a way to edu- sata. youth in the techuluve and Taise] allureme! to safeguard young people of an 'im- pressionable age from imitating erim- inal acts of which they read in the "papers, according to Herbert G, Coch- ran, judge of the Juvenile and Domes- | quency. tic Relations Court- oft Norfolk, Va. during his stay in Boston at tional Conference ot Social Work. leaders at the conference deprecated sensational exploitation of crime the press, saying that their experience in social work that many impressionable young peo- ple absorb false notions about crime Slated, although a full and frank dis- from such dime-novel methods of deal ing with crime news. imitations of lurid details of crime as played up in the press," Judge Coch- ran said, That | Agreement among newspapers on years had treatment of crime news--how to crime by which ment © new! Ww. to pre- ; feta : ent needed information without ex- vores t of crime--would do much Na- perience of a; great number of children and youth is} , occasioned by cheap journalism which | in exploits crime/" Mr. Chute added. 1t is a mistake to exploit crime too alluringly, George W. Kirchwey, for-; mer warden of Sing Sing prison, de-! Judge Cochfan and several other had convinced them closure of crime conditions is an aid to awakening pubM¢ indignation and reform. Crime n.ws should be kept| from children, he said. Tabloids and cheap magazines do even more than the press in spreading false notions. As a whole, the press is of great bene- fit in its 'exposure of conditions. The harm comes from misrepresentatibn and overplaying crime news. = re for Mi re Eau-de-Cologne and Lavender Water Always Fragrant' and Safe "Anti-social acts are often merely "A boy of 15--intelligent, quick, bright--who came under my care, confessed to me that daily read- ing 'In the press of the exploits of Richard Reese Whittemore for two Conditions Will Be Normal by Autumn? Metropolitan Life President is Optimistic for "The village all declared how much he knew, - "Twas certain he could write, and ci- pher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage; And ¢'en, the story ran, that he could guage. In arguing, foo, the parson owned his skill, For e'en thoughsvanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around--- And still they gazed, and still their wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew." Granting that we no longer stand in awe of the teacher, the fact remains that she is one of the most important persons in the community--the des- tinies of our children are in her hands. You will notice that I have said that Canada T --"I anticipate a return to What could be a more laudable am- "she" is one of the most important bition for a summer day! Frocks are persons in the community, When more flowery this year, hats also, if Goldsmith published his "Deserted the term may be applied to them. If we would be thorough over the whole business we must follow suit with our, perfumes. But that is more easily | said than done, Good perfume is apt to command good prices; a perfume which is cheap often smells so, and rather than resort to a second best many a woman decides '0 leave w 'alone. She decides wisely, perhaps, though if she gives the matter con- sideration she will realize that there are other alternatives.' normal conditions in the middle of the summer or in the early fall," was the optimistic declaration of Frederick H. Beker, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in a recent interview. "Conditions both in the United States and in Canada seem to me to be extremely good," Mr. Ecker went on. "There are, of course, weak spots, but_then there always are weak spots at dny time." The President of the Metropolitan Life, 'who is in the con- cluding stage of a continent-wide tour of his company's field of operations and activity, declined to consider the existing situation as far below nor- mal. "If you compare it with the condi- tions in the spring of 1929, it is ab- normal, but then conditions at that time were far above the normal," he said. "But if you make a comparison between conditions to-day and those in 1927 or 1928, I think you will find that things are not so far below normal." Farmer Important Mr. Ecker pointed out the great ef- fect that agricultural prosperity had on financial conditions. "When the farmer is prosperous, there is a great increase in consuming power," he said. "The United Statés has developed a tremendous increase in comsuming power and this in turn has meant a large Increase in mass production." Asked what effect he considered Em- pire free trade would have on the rela- tions between the United States and the Dominion, Mr, Ecker said: "I look on that from rather a broad point of view. When two countries have so much in common, when they have so many points of friendship and con- tact, a comparatively trifiing distur- bance cannot disturb their balance, "After all," he added, "when there stance we will take for granted the most important practice] side, which consists in scrupulous 'daily cleansing of the whole body. Th>t obvibusly is the first step tewards | ing as frag- rant as a flower; such jicms as scent and talcum powder are hit delightful accessories, 4 After cleanliness, however, one feels that they are worth encouraging. It's nice to smell nice! ; Now for your choice. If you can manage it, have your talcum powder, face powder, and scent all of one per- fume. 'There is nothing worse than a hotch-potch of perfumes all vielng with each other. "Still, if this cannot be managed, and it is more difficult than one might imagine, have your talc and face powder only faintly per- fumed, and let your perfume proper provide the dominant note. Let your bath soap be perfumed to match your tale or face powder; your face soap, if you use one, is better very faintly perfumed. Highly scented soaps are seldom good for the skin, and the super-fatted varieties considered. best for the complexion seldom have a strong perfume. J Now for your' perfume proper. Per- sonally, I feel that day perfumes ahd evening perfumes are quite different affairs, Day perfumes should, I feel, Village" in 1769, it is doubtful if wo- men were considered capable of teach- ing. Now eighty-five per cent, of our teachers are women. This change is full of possibilities, ood and bad, and the community thaf gives the teacher a place of hon- and of leadership will reap the greatest good. What are some of the contributions which a teacher may make in a com: munity, aside from her ability to as- 'sist the pupils to pass examinations? In dealing with fragrance in this in-' The first contribution is character. The teacher's attitude toward life will have a greater influence on the pupils than all her spoken teachings. Is she loyal, kind, thoughtful, patient, cour- ageous, and road in her outlook, or is she petty and selfish? Generally | speaking, the first description applies to our Canadian teachers. Only oc- casionally do they fit the secont pic- ture. But--and here is where the com munity fits in--even a sweet-tempered woman may be discouraged and made bitter by constant slights, and contin- ued gossip. 'The pupil's version of the teacher is not always accurate; but they can pick out a human weakness and use it to their own advantage. Therefore, {the pupil needs some home. discipline regarding fairness and courtesy. He certainly does not need to be encour- aged in making fun of the teacher, or in resisting school discipline, All of us who have children know that their sense of fairness is set aside very eaily if they wish to enjoy their "liber- ties." The teacher should be a leader in the community in matters of thought, of reading, and of those accomplish- ments of life which make us fit to as- soclate with others, Just here it might be remarked that, if possible, rural teachers should come | invested in Canada, is a dispute in a family, it does not have any lasting effects on the spirit of unity, of love, which existed in the tamily circle before the dispute." Mr. Ecker went on to observe that there was much United States capital and that the amount of British capital invested be fresh and fragrant, but perfume for the dance or theatre may be more exotic. from rural homes. They can better understand rural problems than. can girls from the city or large town. They can Mve more happily and usefully in rural conditions than can their city cousins. Our rural people would do well to encourage their right sons and The Wisest Choice Mercifully, the fresher and perhaps more ordinary perfumes can be class. ed under the "accessible" heading as they can be obtained at reasonable here was relatively less than it was before the war, Speaking generally, and without wishing to commit him- self on the point, Mr. Ecker suggested that the cause for this decrease of British investment in Cancda was a lack of resources available for invest: ment outside the British Isles. elf ne Speaking of the good old days, do you remember the old-fashioned girl prices. miliar fragrance that never palls: There are several very on your hands and knees for a few | who used to make ash receivers out way, Sox moments?" Stout Uncle--"Good gra-| of cigar bands? Well, she now has a i La. clous, what for?" Jimmie--"Well, I| daughter who makes one out of the| Anyone may make a mistake, but. want to draw a hippopotamus." | parior rug. "st none save a fool will continue init, i IN AN' TUR N INTO BED? » Bau-de-Cologne and lavender water are the wisest choicest for the girl who wants something for day- time use. Here, particularly in the case of lavender water, we have a fa-| made when they said of Christ--"Is Lavender water and eau-de-Cologne need not be as ordinary as they sound. brands of lavender water on the mar- ket, and each is quite different in its daughters to be fit to teach, and de- velop those about them, and to be- come leaders im the forward move- ments of the eommunity., Do not let us make the mistake that the Jews not this the carpenter's ron?" and "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" We lose many valuable citizens from Ontario because we do not appreciate their worth, The rural teacher should give more Service rice os community. She should be an he d part of it; a real citi- zen, Mterested in all that is going on, and co-operating with others in fur- 'ticularly 'the children. If necessary, she should be in a position to lead. Greater than all her other contribu 'ability 'pupil than twenty-five hours a week to the thering the welfare of the people; par tions to the community will be the ® x