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i] : this point diverged considerably from How many miles I had run, or in what directsan, I had no idea; and around me the prairie was rolling in 3 swells und pitches, without a ingle distinctive feature to guide me. ¥ had a little compass hung at my ; and ignorant that the Platte at its easterly course, I thought that by keeping to the northward I should certainly reach it. So I turned and rode about two hours in that direction. The prairie changed as I advanced, softening away into easier undula- tions, but nothing like the Platte ap- peared, nor any sign of a human be- irg; the same wild endless expanse lay around me still; and to all appear- ace I was as far from my object as ever, . . . It occurred to me that the buffalo night prove my best guides. I soon found one of the paths made by them in their passage to the river: it ran nearly at right angles to my course; but turning my horse's head in the dire.tion it indicated, his freer gait and erected ears assured me that 1 was right. But in the meantime my ride had been by no means a solitary one. The face of the country was dotted far The Believer Speaks Many may not agree with the writer (who prefers to reman anonymous) when he lauds the rising generation 4n the following lines: I like the rising generation. 1 like the way it laughs,--with head thrown back and wide mouth full of wolf-whte teeth, I like the way it's built,--slender and supple as a willow wand, to bend and not to break. like the way it moves,--like a bird swooping, direct and certain, but gra:eful withal, like the way it talks,--slangily, suc- cintly, chary of words and prodigal with laughter. hd -- like the way this rising generation works,--matter-of-factly, and with a proper. pride. I like the way it plays,--wholehearted- ly gaily, with a nice appreciation of the fine points of every sport with a really sporting spirit and a liking for them all. like the way this rising generation dresses, riding hatless in the easy comfort of jodphurs and open shirt, orswimming in bathing togs and soul of brevity--its street clothes trim as a clipper ship,--its evening dress formal to the last degree- of ele- gance. I like this rising generation,--its non- chalance that lifts 1 politely bored eyebrow at reference to the "Golden Rule," the while it tucks a steadying hand beneath Old Age's elbow. _ 1 like this rising generation,--its wis- dom and the poise it gains there- with, and I like its delightful occa- sional descent into infantile ingenu- ousness. like its canniness,--that leaves a picnic ground immaculate, but strews its small belongings from attic to front door, at home, for those whose best love shows itself in service to pick up. ~ ht like this rising generation,--I ad- mire its standards, its overwhelm: ing honesty, its clean, wise mind in a clean, fit body, its persistence, the sporting spirit in which it takes its knocks,--or, having attained a mea- sure of success, the wholehearted- ness with which it extends the help- ing hand to the next fellow. like its perfect grooming,--from dense, brght hair to shining finger tips and well shod, high arched, eager feet. yr - like this rising generation, --I like its friendliness--and cool indifference. I like its level-headedness in danger, its efficiency in difficulties. I like it for its derring-do, its super- ficial gloss, its basic strength and fineness, like this rising generation--with its future held securely in both strong, slim hands, a smile on, its lips and high hope in its young heart. I LIKE this rising generation. eesti High Production of Water-Power Ottawa.--Water power is the source bf about 90 per cent. of the total out- : 'ARide on the Prairie and wide with countless hundreds of Luffalo. They trooped along in files ard columns, bulls, cows and calves, on the green faces of the declivities in front. They .crambled away over the Lills to the right and left; and far off, the pale blue swells in the extreme di. tance were dotted with innumerable' specks. Sometimes I surprised shaggy old bulls grazing alone, or sleeping behind the ridges I ascended. . . . I was at leisure to cuserve m:nutely the objects aro in. me; and he, for the first time, I noticed insects wholly different from any of the varieties found farther to the eastward. Gaudy busterflies fluttered about my horse's head; strangely formed beetles, glit- tering with metallic lustre, were crawling upon plants that I had never seen before; multitudes of lizards, too, w.re darting light lightning over the sand. 1 had run to a great distance from the river. It cost me a long ride on the buffalo path, before I saw, from the ridge of a sand-hill, the pale sur- face of the Platte glistening in the midst of its desert valley, and the faint outline of the hills beyond wav- ing along the sky.--From "The Ore- gon Trail," by Francis Parkman. Advise Farmers on Lamb Feeding More revenue from lambs for North Dakota farmers and feeders is the object of a series of twenty-four lamb grading and feeding demonstra- tions which opened in Pembina County, N.D. The sessions were sched- uled by extension agents in six coun- ties and are designed to provide far- mers with information on market grades and methods of feeding which will be of value to them in increas ing the returns from lamb feeding. J. T. Dinwoodie, live stock feeding specialist of the North Dakota Agri- cultural College extension service, is assisting with the work, says a re- cent bulletin. men Britain Credits Will Be Fully Paid Sept. 10th London.--With the repayment of 2,500,000,000 francs to. France on Sept. 10, the United Kingdom will have re- paid in full the entire amount of for- eign credits obtained by the treasury in the financial crisis of September, 1931. The credits totalled $200,000,000 from the United States, and 5,000,000, 000 francs from France, of which half was advanced by banks and the re- mainder subscribed by the French public in the form of bonds. The whole of the United States credit was repaid by the treasury in March and April, with the right to re- borrow $50,000,000 at any time up to August 28. This right not having been exercised will now finally lapse. caret ees Size of Peas Lead To Strike in London London.--The size of peas led to a strike in Covent Garden. The prevalence of small peas de- cided pea shellers to ask more than 2d. a quart for shelling peas, on the ground it taken longer to shell a quart of small peas than a quart of large ones Between 60 and 70 women were in- volved in the dislocation of the pea traffic, which is headed by a family that has supplied shelled peas to res- taurants and caterers of London for more than 100 years. Be Microphone is Installed In St. Paul's Cathedral London. -- When Sir Christopher Wren built St. Paul's Cathedral (16761 1710) he left a note giving the dis- tances at which speakers could be heard from the pulpit. His instructions have been render- ed obsolete by the installaiton of a microphone in the pulpit, and a sys- tem of loudspeakers concealed in the choir. Hitherto, it has been difficult to hear a speaker owing to the reson. ance under the great dome. ---- ree Farmers Become Fishermen Owing to the slump in the potato market many farmers in the Maritime Provinces are preparing to engage in lobster fishing, and consequently the catch is expected to create a record. The season opened a few days ago and will last to Oct. 15, according to a recent bulletin, ml mii Only what we have wrought into character during life can we take Marshal of Great Britain. How Dickens Found Names For Characters London.--One of the problems which always have fascinated lovers of Charles Dickens' work is that of where he got the names for his char- acters. It is slowly being solvéd by the verger of a London church. It was long thought that Dickens, out of his own imagination, had coin- ed such surnames as Chaband, Tigs, Guppy, Marley, Dorrit, Mold, Var- den, and Boffin, but these very names have been found in the parish reg- ister of St. Andrew's Church, Hol. born, where the verger, A. Jones, has spotted them down for many years in the course of his normal work. Jones thus far has listed 40 names of people probably living in Holborn during Dickens' resid- ence there. A few other Dickens' names have been traced in Kent, where the nov- elist spnt his earliest years, and Pickwick, as is well known, is a name Dickens found in Bath and treasured up for later use. The or- igin of such names as '"Micawber," "Chuzzlewit," and "Copperfield" re- main obscure, No methodical search of the parish files ever has been undertaken in Holborn, but now that it is revealed that Jones is so plainly on the right track, it is probable that such a search will be made. The novels which contain most of the Holborn names found sp far are "Pickwick Papers," "Black House," "David Cop- perfield," "Barnaby Rudge," "Little Dorrit," and "Our Mutual Friend." These are doubtless names which Dickens, in his méanderings, saw on shops, gates, and houses. Visitor--""You say you enjoy book agents coming around here?" Farmer--"Yep.,"" Visitor--"But you're not fond of reading." ~ Farmer--"No. But I have made several book agents pay 10 cents a glass for condensed milk and purty near sold one of 'em a hoss." reli Record Office Holders London--Having accepted an in- vitation to continue in office as Mayor and Mayoress of Paddington for 1932-38, Sir George and Lady Hand- over will extend a remarkable record of scrvice, for it will be the tenth time that Sir George has "een Mayor, while Lady Handover will have heen Mayoress on 12 occasions. Sir George previously held office from 1912 to 1920 and agaln in 1931- 32, Lady Handover has twice officiat- ed as Mayoress in addition to acting in that capacity during her husband's mayoralty, aon ei -- What a pity wisdom doesn't grow on a man like whiskers! Ta central electric stations in Can- away with us.--Humboldt, 2.EES TEES z $ HEH F HL i Sir John Salmond retires in April and here we see his brother, Sir Geoffrey Salmond, who will take over the reigns of Chief Air A capable family! Liverpool Reported : City of Widows For every six women in Liverpool, England, married or single, over 19, there s one widow, and there are 37, 698 of them, outnumbering the wid- owers by three to one. 5 Authorities cannot = explain this abundance of widows, but they declare that there is no doubt that Liverpool has been a mecca for young widows, who have been thrown on their own resources, and have started in busi- ness here in the belief that they would prosper in such a busy centre. An official of the Mercantile Marine Service Association pointed out that demands on their funds from widows of seamen were so heavy that recently there were 4,000 applications fro help, to which they were unable to respnod. A large proportion of those 4000 widows live in Liverpool. rr nnn. Barnacles "Color Consecious" Ocean travelers, perhaps, might select their ships according to color if they knew that this would speed up their trip, writes the Berlin cor. respondent of the Christian Science Monitor. They could, for instance, take a red or green boat when in a hurry or a white or blue one for a more leisurely trip. For the barna- cles and other crustaceans of the seven seas have their own notions about color, They appear to be at tracted more by one shade of brown or blue than by another. As they cling to the hull in masses they na- turally affect the speed of the ves- sel. Passengers. may scarcely no- tice the difference but experts must bear all this in mind and select the color which is most suited to ward off the sea folk. For the examina- tion of these questions a special laboratory has just been established in Cuxhaven on the North Sea where the big liners stop hefore going up the River Elbe to Hamburg. amend -- Reed Instruments The reed instruments undoubtedly grew out of the original wind instru- ments, the Pandean pipes. The addi- tion of a reed to the mouthpiece, i.e. a thin strip of cane, once it was thought of, made a whole new world of music possible. It created the oboe and the clarinet, the former of which, like the cor Anglais and the bassoon, has what are called double reeds. The reeds of these instruments are pinched between the lips and are set vibrating by the breath of the player. Ji r--_ A Party Puzzle If you have friends dropping in fre- quently, it is a good stunt to have a jig-saw puzzle on hand. Have it care lessly spread out on a card table-- when you know that guests are com- ing. The natural desire for everyone will be to put the pieces together, The evening will pass quickly and you will be saved the strain of searching for conversational topics. A i Inspector (severely): "I under stand that since you joined the force you have neither madé a single ar {rest nor issued a single summons!" Policeman (complacently): "And now what do I get? Benito Mussolini has devoted much A pair of white ! personal attention to the work, plau- ning to make the city a model center | of a prosperous farming region. - Half way between the sea and the Sermoneta Mountains, it will. be vis- Evolution of Blondes The first blonde to appear in a race of brunettes resulted from a process much like changing water into gas, it was revealed recently by a scientist's new picture of Low evolution works at Ithaca, New York. A new idea of what happens inside genes, the microscopic units of hered- ity that carry such traits as blonde hair, blue eyes or snub noses from mother to daughter, were presented before the International Congress of Genetics by Dr, N. Timofeef-Ressov- sky of Germany. He said experiments show a gene is _ robably a large molecule, or bundle of atoms, a single physico-chemical unit like a molecule of water. The change, or "mutation," such as would be necessary to produce the first blonde in a race of brunettes, would be a rearrangement of the atom in the gene-molecule, just as atoms in a vater molecule are re-arranged when the water changes to gas. Tha new theory of Dr. Timofeefl- Ressovsky is contrary to the old idea of many scientists that genes are partially or wholly destroyed in the process of mutation. Instead of being destroyed, he holds, their atoms are merely rearranged, thus producing some new characteristic in the next generation. Such a rearrangement of atoms, perhaps, gave early fish their first air-breatling apparatus and helped turn flippers into legs for , alking on land. : Use of X-rays to cause artificial mutations in fruit-flies is the basis of the German scientist's new theory. Genes causing certain characteristics, such as eye-color in the flies, "dis- appeared" under bombardment of X- rays, but also reappeared under the same kind of treatment. The muta- tions caused by X-rays worked in both directions. If the X-rays had destroy- ed the genes that "disappeared," the same genes could not have later re- appeared. Instead, ne believes, the different changes in the genes resultzd from streams of elec'rons of different speeds, caused by impact of the X- rays on the genes. "You seem to prefer the beach to the piazza." 3 "Yes; I prefer to be burnt by the sun than roasted by the gossips." erat frig Health Hostels After the youth hostel the health hostel--if Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician, has his way. In a recent address Lord Dawson suggested that a new type of institu- tion, distinct from the hospitals, was required to prevent disease. What he had in mind was a sort of health hostel, where people would be suitable diets, and enabled to regain the physical fitness and flexibility which so often disappear with middle- age. ; Much of the disease which is treated at hospitals is preventable, and health hostels of the type suggested would probably reduce the demands gloves, ain't t?* » on the hospital ward very materially. taught wiser methods of living, put on| families will settle on®the land come to Littoria for marketing, vezsion and study. : Littoria will have a square to be known Forum and to be Rome's Plazza Colonna. BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaing Lesson Fur- 'mished With Every Pattern A particularly striking model with jacket-like bodice gives the figure charming slimness through its wrap- ped diagonal closing. Buttons are its only adornment. The straight line of the skirt with lew placed plaits proves extremely desireable for smart day wear. . And it's simplicity itself to make it. The original as soft tweed-like * oolen in black and white and shiny finished Persian-red bone buttons, Another youthful scheme is vivid green diagonal woolen with brass but- tons and brown suede belt. Style No. 25456 ma; be had in sizes 14,16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards 54-inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern --e The baby was being displayed to admiring callers. claimed one visitor, who seemed to find it difficult to know what to say. "How like his father." "Oh, that's only the hot weather," replied the young mother, crossly. "As a rule he's quite cheerful-looking." -- eee A clergyman discovered his three children in one of their games stag-' ing a wedding. The boy was taking the part of the minister, the oldest girl was the bride, and the younger sister the bridesmaid. "Where is groom?" asked the father. - "Oh," said the boy, "this ia a very quiet wedding; there isn't any groom. He Might as Well Get Used to it. great central twice the size of 0 : "Dear me!" ex-| then?" asked his friend. Foster, seats Sew 'The use of spoons { medicine is not recommended by the British Medical Council; as these uten- sils are not made to standard sizes. 'popular head gear, will in future have the final "t" sounded in Englagd, ac cording to the B.B.C. pronunciation . guide. London's largest clock, recently in stalled in a new commercial building, has a face two and a half feet larger than that of Big Ben, but its hands. are shorter than those of the older clock. Snakes which climb trees for a spe: cial purpose have been found in Vene- zuela, These reptiles swallow alli- gator eggs whole, ascend to the top of a tree, and calmly irop off, thus breaking the shells of the eggs. Only certain Lord Mayors--those of - London, York, and Belfast--and the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glas- gow are entitled to the prefix "Right Honourable," although it is much more widely used. ! Indian mangoes, which are like an orange in colour and size, but quite different in flavour from any other fruit, are arriving in Gt. Britain in such quantities that they should soon be on sale at popular prices. Nearly one-sixth of the entire popu- lation of the Australian Common. wealth are in receipt of pensions, at' the enormous annual cost of £14,000, 000. The payments are made for ill- ness, old age, maternity, or War dis- ablement, ! Licenses were issued to 2,078,000 road vehicles, ¢ tramear licenses, in Great Britain dur- ing the six months ending May 31st, an increase of 36,000 on, the same period last year. But only 22,208 mechanically propelled vehicles were licensed for the first time in May this year, as compared with 28,516 in May, 1931. Twenty-five cities in the British Em- pire have Lord Mayors, or, in Scot- land, Lord Provosts. They are London, Adelaide, Belfast, Birmingham, Brad- ford, Brisbane, Bristol, Cardiff, Edin- burgh, Elgin, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Mel- bourne, Newcastle, Norwich, Notting- ham, Perth, Sheffield, Stoke, Sydney, and York. BEATEN . Two men were boasting about their brothers. The first said: "My brother once went to a billiards match, pick- ed up one ball in the right hand and squeezed them, and the result was powder." "Well, that's nothing," said the other. "My brother once went to a bull fight, and he took one bull in the left hand and another in the right; he squeezed them; result-- meat extract." PROSPERITY The prosperity' of a country de- pends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings It consists in the number of its cultivated citizens in its men of education, enlighten- ment, and character. Here are to be found its true interests, is chief strength, its real power.--Martin Luther. irra in-- WHAT A SELL A boy, aged five, was told that if he was very good he might soon have little brother or sister. greatly excited over the prospect. One day he saw nurse with some tiny woollen boots, > "I know who those are for, nurse, don't I?" he said; and then: "But wouldn't it be a sell for you if it had boots and stockings -on when it arrives!" mn ly ee ON THE SAFE SIDE, Two middle-aged men were digcuss- ing the question of health and how to keep that boyish figure. "The doctor I comsult tells me to 'play: golf for my health," said Foster. "And if you already play golf, what "He tells you to stop," replied See tee _- 3 Two holiday-makers had a round on a short and simple putting course. Naturally they managed to do a num- "Beret," the imported name of the : excluding trade and. He became