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© efficiency expert Is the man who, when They had nothing on above the table; ~ and I was ashamed to look under." "It's impossible to get money from those Who have no money," says an ~~ economic expert; and next to.impos- « sible to get it from those who have, 'we would add, Our idea of the real horseback riding, wears only one spur, ~~" because he knows that if one side 'goes, the other must follow. This old| world might. seem like a heck of & place, but just try to imagine what it would be. with three sexes. When he _ was about to have a tooth extracted, a patient suddenly attacked the dentist; a8 the dentist won, however, it ended | in a draw. What you save, you leave behind; what you spend you have for awhile; but what you give away in a worthy cause you take with you, The - happiness of people is all that makes _ business or anything else worth while. If you don't earn your reward you ~ won't enjoy it. There is nq man liv- ig who cannot de more than he] thinks he can. A woman should know that often, from the shape of things, one cannot blame hosiery for want- ing to run. For Doormat Husbands A judge deelares that home life needs # Co-operation--who'll deny it? *Tis hard to bring the bacon home And thep to have to fry it. When it came to the naming of the new mine, the prospector's wife said: Wife-- "Will you name it after me,| dear?" ' Prospector--"Yes, darling, 1 will. Yes, I'll name it in your honor." "And from that day to this, one of the richest gold mines in the Black Hills of South Dakota has been known as "The Holy Terror." Heck--"How did Slim, the burglar, eome to reform?" Jack--*He went ' and got married, and the wite won't let him out nights." Young Man--"To what do you attri bute your longevity?" Old Man--"To the fact that I never dled." . R --------. Clarence--"I had a date with a real gold-digger last night, She spent all my money." Emma--""And 1 suppose you got in &t 11 o'clock sharp?" Clarence--"No, I got in at 1 o'clock flat." - « Jerry--"I hear you've been studying for months how to increase your sal ary. How did it turn out?" Freddy--"Poorly. The boss was studying the same time how to cut down expenses." There was a clever young operator who caused the rescue of a sick man when she heard him groaning into the telephone, She knew at once that something was wrong because the groaning came before and not after he bad tried to get a number, Housewife--""What do you work at, my poor man?" = Tramp--""At' intervals, madam." First Salesman -- "Meeting with much sales resistance lately?" "Second Salesman--*Yes. I ran into three brooms and two bulldogs yes terday, -- New Method Devised- To Oust Plum B_stles Entomologists of the United States of Agriculture have de- vised a simple and effective "jarring sheet" for use under peach trees te eollect plum curculio beetles. Jarring the pests from the trees in the Spring] 'destroying them has long been recommended as a supplementary con- trol measure, but the new jarring sheet is an improvement over the col- lecting frames formerly used. ; 0. I. Snapp and J. R, Thomson of veloped the improved jarring shest, sewed the Bureau of Entomology. who de- Rock Study _ Vastly Extends Earth's Age Geologist Turns Back Clock Seven Hundred Million Years ] Washington.--A vast aecon--known to geologists as Liphlian time--1650- 000,000 years--appears to have drop- ped completely out of history, secori- irg to Professor Charles Schuchert of Yale University in a report issued hy tte National Research Council. Search the world over has failed to reveal the slightest clue to the er- rant millenniumg during which some of the most momentous events in the history of life on earth occurred. The pages of rock on which the long story of life was written before man begun to record events seems to have been torn cut and thrown away for this The record of time, Prof. Schuchert explains, runs back in fairly goud order through the period known as Cambrian time, - about 500.000,00¢ years ago. Then there was abundant life in the gréat oceans. Many of the creatures had hard shells. They died, sank to the bottom and were buried.in the mud. Through the millenniums the seas disappeared, the bottom mud became rock and was raised up into mountains; MOLLUSC DAYS. . The fossils of the sea creatures were embedded in the rock, so that geolo- gists today know what they looked like and what families they belongd to. Some of them were relatively enor- mous creatures, measuring from six to eight inches. They represent practi- cally all the divisions of the animal kingdom now found in the seas except those with backbones such as fish, mammals and reptiles. Seen in a museum exhibit today these lords of creation a half billion years ago look like very primitive creatures. But they are probasly closer to the highest developed forms of life today than to the most complex forms which preceded them and of which there is record. Just behind them lie the lost millenniums during which animal life was beginning to take on the evolutionary processes auisiale had Need lime they eettainky wo ave been recovered by time. This absence of skeletons ix all! the more astonishing since it would seem that there must have been, an abundance of animals feeding on other animals and on plants." Now, he points out, it must have taken a very long time for animals to have learned to make skeletons-- either shell or bones. Consequenily the Cambrian ereatures and the crawl ing worms of the next oldest rocks cannot have touched each other in So: he says, "Lipalian time stands for the unrecovered interval during which the marine animals evolved mostly from very small floating and: swimming forms without exterior skeletons into 'he much larger and highly diversified life of the Cambrian. How long Lipalian time lasted ean only be guessei, since we have no guidance at all from radio-active min- erals or from rates »f organic evolu- tion. ; "There was no more fundamental evolution during the whole of the paleozoic period (the time of the be- ginning of life) than is indicated by this interval, and we have guessed its duration to be of the order of 800,- 000,000 years.: To be on the safe side in our table we have allowed only half as much time and the future alone can tell how near our guess is to the truth." % The evolution of living creatures, Prof. Schuchert points out in his re- port on the possibility of determining the age of the earth 1rom fossils and from the thickness of rocks laid lown by sedimentation, appears to have gone on at such a variable rate throughout history that it is a very unreliable guide to elapsed time. Thus certain sea shells now living can be traced back practically with- out change for 400,000,000 years and the race shows no signs of dégenerat- ing through old age. On the other and snail shells in an artificial lime created in Wisconsin evolved into a recognizably different species in sixty years, On the basis of deposits' of seli- mentary rock, Prof. Schuchert made up a calendar of the earth's age back to the beginning of the Archeozoic area--about 700,000,000 Yours, or Serna Snow Scenes sponges, some tiny protozoa-like crea- tures known as foraminifera. trails of worm-like greatures and of some un- known invertabrate animal. = There are also limestone deposits of peculiar formation laid down by tiny plants, the blue-green algae," who are still busy in American rivers after almost a billion years, There also are traces of bacteria. Even some of these were already high in the scale of life, espe- cially the worm-like créatures known as annelids, ' SKELETON GROWTH MYSTERY. But, Prof. Schuchert says, "not one the known animals had yet arned to use lime for skelet: truct when there mst haye been present a highly diversified. mass of inverte- brates. We know that the pre-Cam- brian seas must have been replete with lime salts in solution. If any of the ------ which resulted in the ma Is of Stepping into the wonderland of white, many millions of years later. Our lanes in snow, I am so heaped In the next oldest known rocks, with bliss Prof. Schuchert says, there have been | I wonder which bewildéring wealth found traces of some primitive to miss either external or internal, and this | True knowledge is to know how little: an. bo Bnowp.. Cf That I may hold just bearable delight: Tree-corals or lamp-shadows, moon cut bright, Roofs deep im-ermine, tarry barns gone hoar ~ As fabulous rocs that slumber ever- more In a valley of diamonds and forget. ten flight. us ' No, there's a port-hole opening on ro- mance Wider than any Sinbad knew; the hold 7 / Burns richer than most ancient Span- ish gold; \ My breath, my thought hang in -a frozen trance a' ship stead-- The window of a child just gone to bed. ing from the --Geoffrey Johnson, -- ee Speeding Up the Trees The English Lake District is now undergoing a process of transforma ing been planted with trees, which are gradually changing the appearance of the mountainsides. = 7 This is part of the systematic plant. oR LTR ave atter, but then they might have en worse the positive side the Norman philosophy is lacking. There are no enthusiasms. = Superla- lives are eschewed. Everything is Oompa tive. Eo In my Norman village I constantly eard the non-committal reply. The workmen were putting up an elaborate tchen with Incredible complication of pipes to carry hot water from room to room; and were painting and car- pentering and generally making my old mill inhabitable in order to make it habitable, i 'Would they have finished in a week? ~| Surely they were approaching the end? They had already been a month and a half longer than they had led me to believe. Could I rely on them to complete their task by Wednesday? "Why, as to that," said the enrepre- neur, blowing up his forge, "as to that, it will certainly be well advanced." "What do you mean by well ad- vanced? Do'you mean it will be fin- ished or not?" "I cannot say it will be finished, and 1 cannot say it won't be finished. It will be well advanced." "But you have told me that for, was little room for grumbling.--From more than a month, What am I to think?" Hg entrepreneur to abandon his phrase: "It will be well advanced." commune, "my advice would be--stay on the spot it you would have the| house made ready. : 'much work to do:that they rush from one. place. to another. They do the most urgent jobs. They will never be- lieve that your job is urgent. if you do not take up your abode. Then when they see you camping in confusion they will take pity on you." 1 thanked , him for his 1 y . 3 N ! . "» * l y TE Vomgmiar" "Yours must be a happy village if there is more than enough work for everybody!" He shook his head.. "For a village where there is plenty of work there is not too much cause for complaint," he said. The sun shone on.the red roofs, ir- regular, old, rain-soaked and sunburnt. The hills on the other side of the river were green enamelled. 'Their mead- ows were.rich and shining. Here and there a cloud, white in the sky, cast deep shadows on the grass. The trees that crowned the slopes showed every hue from pale gold to black, The or chards on the right were heavy with fruit. For a village where nature was both gemerous and charming, where there was employment for all, there "Between the River and the Hills," by Sisley Huddleston. \ The West Through Eastern Eyes Here we lave an interesting and informative artic written by Kimpeat Sheba, city editor of the Japan "Times and Mail," wherein we view customs and habits of the Occident as seen by the Orient. Just as our Japanese days appear unaccountable to you, so your Occi- dental ways are equally unaccountable to us. Suppose I set down a few of the customs, observed during a brief stay in the United States, which seam strange to a Japanese. It is early morning in a typical American home. You are resting on soft pillows and spring beds. We are differerit even while we sleep, since in Japan people lie on hard beds and rest their heads on firm pillows, those tsed by the women encased in wooden sheaths, Presently you awake. You sit up and stretch yourselves, facing the foot of the bed. As we in Japan rise, we make a turn so that. when we stretch ourselves, we have our faces turned in the .pposite direction, to- ward the pillow. In brushing your teeth you devote as little time as pos. sible to the undertaking. Our .oun- trymen take as long as possible. In fact it is not uncommon for a Japan- ese of the lower classes to be seen out on a morning's work in the neighbor- hood of his heme, brushing his teeth. After washing your faces, you use a dry towel. W: wipe our faces with, a moist towel. As the typical American fa nily is about to sit down !o breakfast, the mistress of the house may call to her husband, "Harry, won't you run up- stairs and bring me something to put over my shoulders?" And Harry runs ur In a Japanese family, Mr, Sato would be sitting at the breakfast table while kis wife was still busy in 'the kitchen. As she came into the dining room: Mr. Sato might call out: "Run up, will you, and fetch my glasses." Mrs. Sato would obediently "hasten upstairs. - Yes, it seems we do things in exact- ly the opposite way--even to saying grace. In American homes, if grace ia said, it is. before food that is eaten by the living. In Japan prayers are recited only before food that is prof- fered to the dead. And, when we say grace, we have our faces turned up, while you pray with your faces turned down, American and European wo- men in mourning wear black dresses. whereas in Japan women wear only white during this sad period. On the other hand. black is the conventional costume worn at weddings in Japan. Your people develop love before marriage, and it very frequently hap- 'pens that this love grows less intense as the months pass after the cere- thony. Our people frequently develop [ove only after the marriage ceremony is over; for in the majority of cases the man and woman : re not sufficient- tion, large areas, formerly bare, hav: 'ly well acquainted even to hold hands during the period of their engagement. A Japanese carpenter pulls his saw, while an American pushes his, In using a pair of scissors your women- assure our friend that anything we © may choose to present as a gift js --George Sand. really of no value and we mow he will Lhave little use for it. You open a gift in the presence of the person who gives it to you. In Japan this is never done, Our "after dinner" speeches are made before dinner. In Japan people will wait hours, drinking tea. before commencing to eat but will leave as soon as the meal is over. In western countries people object th waiting for their meals but will stay for hours after their meals, drinking coffee. In the Occident people are supposed to eat all that is on. their plates. This is bad taste in Nippon. You stand as a sign of respect, but in Japan it is disrespectful to stand--one must always sit on the floor in greet- ing a guest. Again, in America it is regarded as undignified to have no furniture in a room. In Japen it is undignified to have furniture in a room. We differ not only in our actions but in the way in which we look at things. For instance, a European visitor to Nippon finds a litter of n- wanted puppies left in the bushes. He cannot help protesting against such cruelty. On the other hand, when a Japanese hears that in western coun- tries unwanted pups are killed, he wili ask, "How does any one know that the helpless puppies prefer to die?" Told that it is better for the puppies to be painléssly put to death than to be left in the bushes where their chance of keeing alive is very small ind2ed, he is certain to ask: "Why then are no! famine-stricken people in China killed painlessly?" Take the case of aged people. Elder- ly folk in America generally do not live with their grown-up children. In Japan the children. out of considera- tion for their parents, prefer suffering a little discomfort--often it is a great deal of discomfor§--to having their parents live apart from them, Another matter in which the Jap- anese differ is in smiling when thay are reprimanded. This has da great deal of misunderstanding be- tween foreign employers and Japan. ese employes--almost as much mis. understanding as the Japanese custom of actually saying no when yes is weant, and vice versa. Visitors to Japan frequently find it diificult to keep from laughing out- right on obgerving some of the ridicu- lous trings. we do in an effort to affect western ways. This is especially true in the case of English signboards. "Ladies have fits inside," you may pead over a dressmaker's shop; or "Have your head cut here,"~over a barber skop. When the first train was run be- ween Tokyo end Yokohama, the late Meiji Emperor attended the memor- able ceremony. Te be in keeping with the wave of westernization that them swept the country, the Emperor plan- ned to ride to the station in a horse- drawn carriage rather than in the court palanjuin. The only difficulty in using a carriage was to find a suitable livery for the driver. After a search in the official wardtobe, a foreign gar- ment was discovered which seemed to answer very well, It was dignified, had buttons and decorative stripes and was said to have been bought at a foreign auction in Yokohama. So His Majesty rode in his new carriage, and ing of trees for timber which 18 Bow | folk operate the handle end, while we all seemed well to Japanese eyes. But in process in Great Britain. Side by! push together the tips. You stand side with this, experiments are going: your umbrellas with the handle erd KEEP YOURSELF on with a view to producing the per- up; we stand ours with the handle k : fect tree for timber purposes. =~ | dswn. In carrying a closed umbrella, HEALTHY The object of these experiments is, you hold the handle, but we dangle J to produce trees which will come more | curs from a string attached fo the op- The lot of most people ie fauch quickly to maturity, and yet which: posite end. In entering a house you Indoor Work ao TRtS walt will yleld sound timber. Some. of the | first of all take off your headgear. ercise. That's why it's sensible, trees which row fastest are, unfor| The first thing we do is to remove our gvery so ofiento ve the system tunately, wasatletactosy ia-other wavs, footgear, 1 you have brought 3 guar ; Sif' Sones Liver Sve i Bi ir aod i] resplt of home + e a : "All vegetable. 60. years ro A Soba, Br BY ii ately. Our custom ry 2 | stance, poplars which will b is to leave ft on pa In i for felling after twenty years, a ae Si you infofm your | 25c & 75c red packages, | Po OD feet Ly ost that it is someth'ng very nice and' + Ask your druggistfor KNOWLEDGE { you hope he will like it. In Japan we' ip A m-- it was difficult for foreigners among the spectators to keep from | and naturally so. The driver was in A pajamas! LS But there are things in America which seem just as ridiculous to Jap: anese eyes, For instance, in New York recently, when I happened to be walking on Fifth Avenue, I beheld a sight which almost caused me to hold my sides lest I burst from laughter. For what should I behold in midday and in the very heart of the greatest city in the world but an American woman pridefully walking along, wearing a dark blue Japanese coat, or "bappi," on the bac. of which, in flar- ing red Japanese characters six inches in height, were the words "Fire Ex- tinguisher." It was = coat patterned after those issued by the Tokyo fire cepartment. So, hereafter. to the American visi tor in Japan who exclaims, "Gosh, you're a strange people!" permit me to reply--in a spirit of friendship, of course--*"The same to you." -- i -- The Bible It lays a pillow for the weary head, It puts a staff within the pilgrim's hand, | It meets us at each bend of life's rough road, It evermore anticipates our range, It is a guide to life's last boundary line, 1t opens wells no drought of/ Time can! It satisfies the most artistic sense; It is a gallery of matchless charm, It is an honest critic of the soul, It is a cheque-book we too seldom use, It kindles hopes beyond our fondest dreams, It has a balm for every wounded heart, It speaks a language that all under- stand, It ends in an apocalypse of gold. --Alexander Louis Fraser. mf nas Done to a Turn A new system of memory training was being taught in a village school, and the teacher "was becoming en- thusiastic. "For instance,' he sald, "supposing you want to remember the name of a poet--Bobby Burns. Fix in your mind's eye a picture of a policeman in flames. See--Bobby Burns?" "Yes, I see," said a bright pupil "but how is one to know it does not represent Robert Browning?" as PLEASURE To give pleasure tp a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.-- Saadi. Such lather! Such refreshing fragrance, such skin softening and cleansing l= 0203p Individual Cartons 9-3 -- S------------------ m Classified _ Advertising N OFFER TO R. EVERY INVENTO List of wanted inventions and full information sent free. The Ramsay Come pany, World Patent Attorneys, 278 Bavk Street, Ottawa, Canada. OLD SCRAP BOUGHT FOR CASH. J Send gold teeth and bridges. Crown Specialty Company, P.O. Box 354, Station B, Montreal. DEEDS This is the law of a good deed be- tween two; the one ought at once to forget that it was conferred, the other never to forget that it was received: . 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