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B | EN TEA - 'Fresh from the gardens' r=-P - k What New York | London Shopping | Everything you can name is made in London--somewhere. And yet it BY ANNERELL is not as a manufacturing town that it figures in the imagination. It is the greatest port in the world, and yet one might come and go without even noticing the shipping. The most obvious occupation of London is, buying and selling, from highest finance down to street hawking. Many visitors come here merely to "shop." Men of the same trade still fol low to a certain extent the medie- val plan %of congregating together, At first thought this seems a bad ar- rangement, since a person "shop- ping" often needs a variety of goods in a short allowance of space and time. On the other hand it has some clear advantages. .. , 1 once went to Fortnum and Ma- son's and asked to see the head of the foreign department. He was out to lunch, which sounded human: I feel sure that such a thing would never occur in a general store. "Oh, all right," said I, "I'll go to a mat- inee and come in later." When I confided to him that I wanted a hamper for a son in Tan- ganyika, he was at once "on the spot," and told me, with a good deal of incidental fun, exactly what would "do," what would travel well through the Tropics, what the exile would eagerly welcome, and a few surprises that he could stick in side- ways at it were. He seemed to have been there himself. I left that shop feeling that a real friend was going fo put it through for me. This friendly spirit is not con'ned tn any one type of shop ar iegion of the town. The other day I went into a City typewriter shop for some spare part, anl the man oroke ou. with, "Im in such. a bother U've lost ¢ safe." "Gracious!" sail IL "Why, the place seems full of safes." "Ah, yes," said he, "but this is a s of flecked | Bpecial one and has a green top." So we both grovelled on the floor to, hunt for it, and eventually I spied] it, to' his great relief. But my greatest surprise was in a little grocer's shop in Portobella Lane--a rather low district of Not- ting Hill Before 1 could demand my packet of candles the harassed woman looked up at me and said, RTHINGTON Justrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Here's ou charming dre: wool rayon voile, so smartly suitable for immediate and all fall wear. Its simple line gives it such a trim Jook. It has the new sleeve cut. The! use of bows, that accent the slim- ming diagonal line of the bodice, give it a feminine touch. y The hips are snugly moulded to the figure. ; ses : "Oh, do tell me what I can have for And irs as easy as falling off a log dinner' I have had steak and had- bo ae 3339 may be had in sizes dock so often that my husband is 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 tnohes) getting unpleasant about it."--M. V. t] . ' ' t] « a a | Hughes, in "London at Home." bust. o Size 36 requires 21 yards 54-inch. ! - : It will look splendid too in a mono- | Rustling Silk tone lightweight diagonal tweed mix- winter in swansdown white is girt, ture in rich brown tone. But however the west winds sigh Black crepe satin, wine-red can- yoy wil] hear no swish of her snowy ton-faille and navy blue flat crepe skirt silk are attractive schemes. | As she passes by. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- Spring comes in with a dancing shoe ly, giving number and size of such' And a footfall light on the ground, patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in But her girlish robe of gold and blue stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap! Makes never a sound, it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Summer has trimmed Bervice, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. ! Tose Sh | The round of her rainment's hem, . But you'll never learn where the sum- Famous Wax Figures mer woes . i By a word from them. Slowly Decaying . Effigies of England's Mon- archs Show Effects | of Time | with lily and But autumn walks in her stateliness { With a whisper of lifted sheaves, And the rustle is heard of her silken dress In the drifted leaves. --Will H. Ogilvie, in the Glasgow London. --Probably the most inter Herald. esting "waxworks" in the world, and ! mag ents Ser possibly also the oldest, are threaten- od by decay. They reperesent the Il Luck great kings and queens of England I have never known a person to and, unknown to four out of five Lon- | succeed co any extent who is all the doners, | are in Westminster Abbey. | time predicting his failure, expect- They are more valuable, more histori- ing things to turn out badly wtih eally accurate and more lifelike than ' him; the man who is always talking any waxwork models exer exhibited about his illluck, that the fates are 3n the galleries of Mme, Tussaud, {against him, that the trusts and the These figures, which are hundreds great combinations have ruined the 'years old, provide fascinating like- | chances for the ord'rary man. It is of England's sovereigns from | not the pessimist, mot the complain- time of Edward IIL to the begin-|er, nor the doubter, the kicker, but g of the eighteenth century. Most! the man with a great faith, the e effigies were modeled from life | optimist, who believes that the best carried in royal funeral proces- | is going to come to him, that Le is , Nearly every figure is dressed | going to win out in !M. undertaking clothes which were actually worn. who gets to the front. y the | personages depicted. ie tt ft ct older figures, which are most] Facility of A sation disintegrating, are made of laster of boiled hides, the more | Bach nation grows after its own BY REX BEACH SYNOPSIS 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinsse merchant of San 'ancisco, announces that a son has arrived at his home, only Officer Dunne besides his wife ws that the child is really a white foundl- ing. Sam Lee, is raised as Ying's is sup . A college girl, ce Hart, pre- tends to think a good deal of Sam and secures a promise from Sam's wealthy father to send her to Paris to pursue her art studies. Then she refuses to Jarry Sam who returns to college disillusion Everett Himes, a blackmailer, schemes with Esther Stevens and her daughter Mona. Mona on a pretense, entices Sam into her apartment; then her mother comes in and Mona begins to ory the mothér accuses Sam of leading her daugh- ter astray. Himes, as a friend of the Stevens family, then demands of Lee Ying that Sam marry Mona. CHAPTER XII.--(Cont'd.) "Before speaking with my son 1 would like to talk with the girl and her mother." "I assumed you wou.d," said Himes. "I think you should dc so right away." "If he is guilty of indiscretion J shall make suitable and satisfactory arrangements to--" Mr. Himes furrowed his brow, he hesitated. "Frankly, sir, I'm afraid it involves something more than what you suggest." "Indeed?" "You see when a kid like Mona falls for a guy, she falls, head over henls, Money doesn't mean a thing to her. She's crazy about him. There's some- thing mighty sacred about an inno- cent girl's love and trust: it gets you, and I don't mean maybe. Of course all her mother cares about is her daughter's happiness. She's broad- minded that way, and--" "So? It is, then, a question of mar- riage?" Through the narrow aper- tures between their lids Lee Ying's watchful eyes blazed. "Good lord, what else? I hope you don't think I came here to-- Why, Mr, Lee! This isn't anything that money can square!" "Bring them here at once," Ying ordered. He was still seated in his big carv- ed chair when, an hour later, Himes returned with Mrs. Stevens and Mona. Then he rose and bowed gravely to "them. When he saw the girl his heart sank. Followed a trying half hour for the father. When it was over and he was again alone he felt old and feeble and exhausted, for his world had crashed. His son, the Favorite of Heaven, a common: man, a deity with feet of clay! He smote his hands together and a servant appeared: in a lifeless voice the merchant said: "Bring me my prayer robes." The man fetched him an elaborate garment, stiff with embroideries of gold and black, a small round cap and a pair of silken slippers, Lee Ying put them on, he washed and perfumed his hands, then he passed into a small room, the presence of which no straag- er would have suspected. It was a shrine, a tiny, secret place of worship the door to which was a sliding panel ornamented with storks and dragons. A smiling idol sat upon an ivory throne, a bronze bowl of pa- per prayers stood before it, smolder- ing joss sticks gave off thin streamers of smoke. Lee Yin: moved slowly and with pain, as if he trod upon sharp stones: stiffly he knelt before the image and into the celestial re- gions drifted the incense of his devo- Lee White for Evening tion. He prayed long and earnestly, but his plea, abridged and translated would have been, "Show me the way of righteousness, and give me the strength to follow it." Later that day he wired for Sam to come home. Cm im * * Lee Ying sat bolt upright in his 'high-backed chair, Before him, as if in audience upon some royal person- age, stood Sam, He was whitey he neither moved nor spoke. "Together we shall pay," said Lee Ying. "Women mean nothing, your amusements do not concern me, but your future is another matter. It is '1a family matter: a matter that con- cerns thé honor of our name, The girl insists that you marry her and the Jaw is on her side. It is seemly that we abide by the laws and the customs of this country, no matter how senseless they appear as compar- ed 'with our own. If you have Jone wrong, it is too late to argue: the price is set; there is no bargaining. You will marry her at once, . . . But the New Year approaches, when all our debts must be settled and when those who cannot pay must expiate.-- the lanterns are not put out until every account is closed. Those who have preceded us, as well as the liv- ing, are implacably firm in seeking what is their due and we--I, at least --have been false to them. I shall, therefore, meet my debt in the only honorable way. I could not live to see ! you linked in marriage to a woman of the sewer, and I doubt if you could long. endure the disgrace of such a union. But that is for you to decide. The sword of our family hangs in my room. When you have set right your folly I shall ascend to Pan Yi. If it please you to go hand in hand with me, so be it." "May 1 speak?" hoarsely. The father inclined . is head. "Don't feel that 1 hae condemned you with- out a hearing. Speak truthfully, therefore, and den't fear my anger, for I have none." "Well, there's no truth in the story," Sam declared. "It's all a lie." A silence ensued which Lee Ying broke by asking: "You owe the girl nothing? . . . . She has no claim on you?" "Nothing! None whatever! This is extortion, blackmail. I've paid it, in one way or another, to every Ameri- can I ever knew. Yes, ever since 1 was a boy. The children here in this neighborhcod always preyed on me. I had to buy their friendship. It has been the same in college. Men, wo- men, they're all alike. They merely use me for their own profit. That girl you sent to Paris--she was will- ing to sell herself, for a price. She as much as told me so, but I had some pride. This creature is even lower. She isn't fit to touch." Le: Ying ros: and went to his son, his lips were moving, his eyes were wet. He enfolded the boy in his arms, his bony hands caressed him, stroked him, patted him. Lee Ying did not juestion his boy further, he was content with Sam's denial, "We will say no more about it and you will forgive my faltering faith," he declared. "I rejoice that you have not defiled yourself. My heart is warmed, the sap rises in- my limbs, there is a song on my lips. 1 feel the peace and the happiness of one who, after much trouble, rests beside red poppy fields and sees the silkworins gorging on the mulberry- trees. Sit here at my side and tell me, not about this vile experience, but about your studies and your play, your comings and your goings--the little things which a mother yearns to hear. I am both mother and father to you, and you are both my son and my daughter, Sam inquired your voice I hear the music of harps and of mallets striking on temple bells, See? Tears come to my eyes. Humor me, for I am a foolish, starved old man, I--I would like to hold your hand in mine." CHAPTER XII Chinatown was in something of a turmoi when Himes and his compan- ions arrived at Lee Ying's for a "set- tlement." The New Year's celebra- tion was drawing to a close, Store fronts were decorated with banners, festoons of lights were strung across the streets and lanterns spun and danced in the wind. In spite of the cold there was a festival gaiety to ones of wax. The latter, which genius, and has a civilization of its 'Queen Elizaeth, Charles IL,!own. ... The like progress that Is 'Mary. and Queen Anne,! made by a boy, "when he -uts his the loft of the Islip eye teeth," as we say--childish il 'the north transept of the | lusions passing daily away, and he seeing things Jeally and comprehen of these figures sively--is made by tribes. It is the of reserva lesralng tho (It dn secret of cumulative , on the mew lines seen during a A charming evening wrap mad recent fashion show don. } ) the place, for the pavements were carpeted with confetti, gaudy stream- ers whipped and writhed and many fon the final night of the-old year. It your honor is precious to me and in h lege to spend the New Year with me. Tonight, you know, ig our Feast of Lanterrs, the most important of all Chinese festivals." PY "So it is," Himes agreed. It was the first time he had seen Sam and he eyed the youth curiously. Sain, be it said, had been told no- thing whatever about this meeting or its purpose, and he was as disagree- ably surprised to see Mrs, Stevens as she was to see him. He turned a worried gaze to his father and opened his mouth to speak, but the latter ignored him and addressed Himes, saying: "You told me you had been to China 80 you probably know that we make it a practice to settle all our accounts is the universal Chinese custom. Those who can pay must and those who can- not pay must expiate. The lanterns are not put out until the last debt is paid." "Righto. It's a good custom." "Not so good for us," Mr. Marcus declared with an affable smile, "It would ruin tho law business. But what do you mean, a man who can't pay his debts must expiate?" Lee Ying shrugged his shouldérs. "Some cxpiate by suicide. + « . . Now then, it appears there is an obligation due you--" : Unatle longer to restrain himself, ilam interrupted with heat. "It's nothing but blackmail, I tell you. It's an outrage and--" "I suppuse you didn't have her up in your apartment?' Mrs. Stevens blazed at Sam. "I suppose I didn't find you with her right in my own home? You didn't tay to buy her off, either? Oh, no! Wait till she tellz a jury what she told me." "Will you be sti'l?" Himes implored. | "No, I won't be sti. They can' keep their money: I want him to make an honest woman out of Mona. don't care if he is a Chinaman. willing for her to--" (To be continued.) mente. I'm Open the Door If cheerfulness knocks at our door we should throw it wide open, for it never comes inopportunely; instead of that we make scruples about let- ting it in. Cheerfulness is a direct and immediate gain--the very coin, as it were, of happiness, and not, like all else, merely a cheque upon the bank.--Schopenhauer, | "Disarmament will present a way out of the world's economic and poh- tical unrest." --Arthnr Henderson. Secret Gardens 1 hope there are not many who have no secret gardens. . . . There have been such places for me in the green fields of BEngland--the fair, lovable country that is the most sat- isfying in the world. A spirit pos- sessed those woods and valleys and pastures that was more than the spirit of the English tradition. But whether it would appear for others there I cannot tell. I can only write of the joy I had when I stumbled upon them. One of them was not far away upon the Chilterns. It was a wood of young, silver beeches, very straight and slim and evenly spaced, stand- ing innocently and unknown at the top of a narrow lane which climbs from the little hamlet of Spain. It was enchanted ground, enclosed from the world as from the bright fields that skirted its edge, until the wood- cutters came and the sound of the axe and the voices ravished that love- ly- listening silence that was differ- ent from all the other silences I have ever known, ' Out of the brilliant sunshin:, live ly with bird and bee and butterfly, the sound of reaping or hay-making, one took the little path between the fences and entered the kingdom of faery. . The trees closed behind as one entered in. The light at morn- ing drifted through the glades in palest primrose, that changed Im- perceptibly through the long, tran- quil day to silver. No bird sang in the still branches, and ths wind passed there with but a rustle and a whisper. . . , . Was it the. "hush that follows a great music recently ended, or the pause before it begins?--From "Green Hills of England," by Clare Cameron, dren' th, have prep. red an intecini | report, which was issued receitly by the Medical Resear-h;Council, | The investipation was carried out imdes he supetvision Sirs, M. el anby and Dr. H. C. T, Langdon, a three residential institutions for chil: dren in Birmingham. "In groups, numbering from 65 to 86," state the Committee, "living under similar institutional conditions, each receiving a certain specific ad- dition to the standard dietary over a period of two years, the progress of caries in the permanent teeth has been significantly retarded in- those children receiving an added ratio of fat-soluble vitamis, as compared with those whose additions consisted : of treacle and olive oil respectively; the increase of caries in the vitamin group, whether measured by its incie dence or its extent, being approxis mately one-third of that in the other groups. : : "In two groups, numbering 82 and 79 respectively, living in the same in- stitution under identical conditions, each receiving as an addition to the standard dietary a measured ration of olive oil, to whica, in the case of one group, a solution of vitamin D was added, over a period of one year and a half, the progress of caries in. the permanent teeth was also signi- ficantly retarded in the vitamin group' as compared with the group which' received olivy oil a3 the only addi- tion. "When allowance is made for tha shorter period of he second as com- pared vith the first investigation, a general similarity is observable in the rate of increase in caries between the group receiving cod liver oli (vite mins A and D) and that receiving radiostol (vitamin D). There was no significant difference in the rate of increase of caries between the chil- dren receiving olive Jil and those re- ceiving treacle in the first investiga- tion." Calling the Moose In Autumn Woods Through the flaming red aisles. of the great northern hardwood forests | there reverberates in Autumn the call of the moose. It is the mating season, The massive antlers of the bull moose gare hard and glistening; the "velvet™ that protected them from injury all Summer, during their growth, has been rubbed off against pliant birch trees and willow bushes. Now in this full war regalia. the monarch of the Northland answers the mating call. a "1.d you have a good time at the seashore?" "Splendid. Every day a different man tried to teach me how to swim." ~ When You CAN'T QUIT Fatigue is the signal to rest. 0 if you can, Wes or can't, Joey cool and carry-on in comfort. . Aspirin was meant for just such times, for it insures your comfort. dom from those pains that nag at nerves and wear you down. One tablet will block that threatening headache while it is still just a Heat, Take two on three fa lets n you've cal a cold, and that's usually the end of it. irin tablets whi trap some at haa Ta AD homme Bt She Ses, Tike "save the day" and ae yo Ri Hem to lee han it No naa tin as eeu afford to cxplained in the ay a grumbling tooth Eas more of uses [i to those i guides are skillful enough to delude . | welcomes battle as eagerly as Hunters, taking advantage of this instinct, imitate the mate's cry to lure the bull moose to them. "Moose call- ing" is a mysterious art in which few the moose. From the middle of October to mid Decemer is the season for moose call ing. It is usually attempted in the evening, théugh some guides contend the time just hefore dawn is better; The best spot is near water, or at the edge of a moonlit clearing. All ig hushed and dim in the wood- land, except for 'the occasional "snap- J i ping of a twig by frost or the falling of a branch, The hunters pick out hid- ing places while the guide prepares to call. 'The horn is a delicate affair, rolled from the thin, lizht brown inner bark of the birch tree. The thinner the bark of the horn, th. better call Can be sounded. The guide picks his position, looks around to see that everything is all right, then places the horn to hig lips. Immediately through the forest, per- haps across a lake to a mountain half a mile away, rolls the harsh, yet plead- ing call of the cow moose. In that call is the spirit of the Northland--wild, fearful, primeval. One hearing it the first time feels a chill creeping along the spine, After th. echoes away in the night one hardly da es breathe for fear of breaking the silence that set. tles again over the Jvoods. J If, however, no far-of" crackle comes to the straining ear: of the men crouched in the shadow of shrub or tree, the guide climbs up in the granches and with a greater range for his voice again sends the call of the cow moose out over Lue forest world. Then, it luck is good, a snap and crackle sound through the frost-crisp- ed air from far away. "A bull moose hag heard the wail and is coming. Because it is Fall and the mating season, and beca* se his great fighting antlers are keen-edged for battle, he 18 careless of commotion and noise, If did the mail-clad knights of the Middle Ages.