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Madame Lacroix's delicious CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE 34 cup butter ] cup sugar eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup milk 234 cups pastry flour (or 2 cups and 3 tablespoons of bread flour) 3 teaspoons Magic Baking Powder 3 teaspoon salt Cream butter; add sugar, a little at a time, beating until light; add beaten yolks and flavoring; add flour, sifted with salt and baking powder, alternately with milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in 3 greased layer cake pans in moderate oven at 375° F. about 20 minutes. Recipe for Chocolate Icing and Filling is in the Magic Cook Book. Why Magic Baking Powder is used exclusively at this Montreal School of Domestic Science "We teach our students only the surest methods," says Madame R. Lacroix, -Assist- ant Director of the Provincial ; School of Do- mestic Science, Montreal. "That's why I always use and recommend Magic Baking Powder. Its high leavening quality is always uniform. You get the same satisfactory re- sults every time you use it." And Magic Baking Powder is the unquestioned choice in the major- ity of cooking schools throughout the Dominion, Cookery teachers-- and housewives, too-- prefer Magic because of its consistently better results. Free Cook Book--When you bake at home, the new Magic Cook Book will give you dozens of recipes for delicious baked foods. Write to Standard Brands Ltd., Fraser Ave. and Liberty St., Toronto, Ontario. "CONTAINS NO L" Thisstate- ment on every tin is our guarantee that Magic Baking Powder Is free from alum or any harm- ful ingredient. Fifty-Fifty "That letter I gave you this morn- Ing--did you post it?" asked the wife. "Well, no dear," said her hsband. "Of course you didn't. And I told you it was important that it should go today." "Yes, dear." "And you forgot to post it. #hat's not jst like a man!" "But, dear--" "Don't. 'but' me. I'm angry." "But, dear, look at the letter. forgot to address it!" rr mr Direction 1 find the greatest thing in this world #8, not so much where we stand as in hat direction we are moving. To yeach the port of heaven we must sail etimes with the wind and some- against it---but we must sail and drift--nor lie at anchor.--0. W. If You The Green Murder Case BY S. 8. VAN DINE. SYNOPSIS Philo Vance, with a hobby for solving mysteries, becomes interested in .the Greene murders when District Attorney Markham and Sgt. Heath® are called in after the.fatal shooting of Julia Greene and the wounding of her younger sister, Ada. Old Tobias Greene's widow, to- gether with five children, Julia, Chester, Sibella, Rex and Ada, live in the old Greene mansion. Police investigations reveal nothing; then Chester is found shot dead, seated in a chair in his room. Again footsteps are found to and from the entrance of the mansion, Ada comes to Markham's office and informs him tha: Rex Greene has not told all he knows. Five minutes later word comes that Rex has been shot. CHAPTER XIX.--(Cont'd.) Vance wag pacing up and down, his eyes almost clozed. "It grows madder every minute," he said. "It was insane enough with- out these foot tracks and that cpen door. There's something devilish going on here, Markham." Von Blon entered. His usual suav- ity had disappeared. He bowed jerk- ily without speaking, and smoothed his r.ouctache nervoucly with an unsteady hand. "Sproot tells me, doctor," said Markham, "that you did not hear the shot fired in Rex's room." "No!" The fact seemed both to puzzle and disturb him. "I can't make it out either, for Rex's door into the hall was open." "You were in Miss Sibella's room, were you not?" Vance had halted and stood studying the doctor. Von Blon lifted his eyebrows. "I was. Sibella had been complain- ing about--" "A sore throat or something of the kind, no doubt," finished Vance. "But that's immaterial. The fact is that neither you nor Miss Sibella heard the shot. Is that correct?" The doctor inclined his head. "I k' ew nothing of it till Sprout knocked on the door and beckoned me across the hall?" "And Miss Sib:lla accompaaied you into Rex's room?" "She came in just behind me, I be- lieve. But I told her not to touch anything, and sent her immediately back to her room. When I came out into the hall again I heard Sproot phoning the District Attorney's office, and thought I'd better wait till the police arrived. After talking over the situation with Sibella I informed Mrs. Greene of the tragedy, and remained with her until Sproot told me of your arrival." "You saw no on€ else upstairs, or heard no suspicious nvise?" "No one--nothing. The house, in fact, was unusually quiet." "Do you recall if Miss .\da's door was open?" The doctor pondered a moment. "I don't recall--which means it was prob- ably closed. Otherwise I would have roticed it." "And how is Mrs. Greene this morn- ig?" Vance's question, put negli- gently, sounded curiously irrelevant. Von Blon gave a start. "She seemed somewhat more com- fortable when I first say her, but the news of Rex's death disturbed her con- siderably, When I left her now she was complaining about the shooting puins in her spine." Markham had got up and now mov- ed restlessly toward the archway. "The Medical Examiner will be here any minute," he said; "and I want to look over Rex's room before he arrives. ' You might come with us, doctor. And you, Sproot, had better remain at the front door." CHAPTER XX. We went upstairs quietly: I think it was in all cur minds that we should not advertise our presence to Mrs. Greene. Rex': room, like all those in the Greene mansion, was spacious, It had a large window at the front and another at the side. There were no draperies to shut ou: the light, and the slanting midday sun of winter poured in. The walls, as Chester had once told us, were lined with books; and pamphlets and papers were piled in every available nook. The chamber resembled a student's workshop more than a bedroom. In front of the Tudor fireplace in the centre of the left wall--a dupli- cation of the fir:place in Ada's room --sprawled the body of Rex Greene. His left arm was extended, but his right arm was crooked and the fingers were tightened, as if holding some object. His domelike head was turn- ed a little to one side; and a thin stream of blood ran down his temple to the floor from a tiny aperture over the right eye. SAVE THOSE OLD, WORNDOWN SHOES! Yi le, ill holes, cracks Jeet Is Daented, guarhteed, none mmable ~=there is no suc cenluli inilotion, Widesonge of Eni Final 'suggested. flapping their green chintz curtains, the 'tracked ir "dirty Ee Balcony and for- got to shut the glass doors." ; We were scarcely seated in the drawing room when there came Knocking on the front door; and | Sproot admitted Snitkin and B andy "You first, Burke," ordered the ser- » . Loan, as the two officers appeared, minutes, "He was shot standing still, Mr.' Markham. He collapsed in a heap' and then straightened out a little after he'd hit the floor." Vance was bending over the dead man with a puzzled expression. | Heath studied the body for se "Markham, there's something cur- Kin, ious and inconsistent here," he said. "It was broad daylight when this thing happened, and the lad was shot from the front--there are even pow- der marks on the face, But his ex- pression is perfectly natural, No sign of fear or astonishment--rather peaceful and unconcerned, in fact, . . It's incredible. The murderer and the pistol weren't invisible." Heath nodded slowly. "I noticed that too, sir. It's pecu- liar." He bent more closely over the body. "That wound looks to me like a thirty-two," he commented, turning to the doctor for confirmation. "Yes," said Voa Blon, "It appears to have been made with the same wea- pon that use used against the others." "It was the same weapon," Vance pronounced somberly, taking out his cigarette-case with thoughtful delib- eration. "And it was the same killer whe used it." He smoked a moment, his ¢roubled gaze resting on Rex's face. "But why was it done at just this time--in the daylight, with the door open, and when there were people close at hand? Why didn't the murderer wait until night? Why did he run such a needless risk?" "Don't forget," Markham rem:nded kim, "that Rex was on the point of coming to my office to tell me ore- thing." J "But who knew he was about to in- dulge in revelations? Hi: was shot within ten minutes of your call--' He broke off and turned quickly to the doctor. "What te'ephone extensions are there in the house?" "There are three, I believe." Von Blon spoke easily. "There's one tn Mrs. Greene's room, one in Sibella's 1com, and, I think. one in the kitchen. The main phone is, of course, in the lower front hall." "A regular central office" growled Heath. "Almcst anybody coulda lis- tened in." Suddenly he fell on his knees beside the body and unflexed the fingers of the right hand. "I'm afraid you won': find that cryptic drawing, Sergeant," murmur- ed Vance. "If the murderer shot Rex in order to seal his mouth the paper will surely be gone. Any one over- hearing the phone calls, d'ye see, would have learned of the envelope he was to fetch along." "I guess you're right, sir. going to have a logk." He felt under the body and then systematically went through the dead man's pockets. But he found nothing even resembling the blue envelope mentioned by Ada, At last he rose to his feet. "It's gone, all right." Then another idea occurred to him. Going hurriedly into the hall, he called down the stairs to Sproof. When the butler appeared Heath swung on him savagely. "Where's the private mail box?" "I don't know that I exactly under- stand you." Sproot's answer was pla- cid and unruffled. "There is a mail box just outside the front door. Do you refer to that, sir?" "No! You know I don't. I want to know where the priyate--get me---- private mail 'box is, in the house." "Perhaps you are referring to the little silver pyx for outgoing mail on the table in the lower hall." "'Pyx,' is it?" The sergeant's sar- casm was stupendous. "Well, go down and bring me everything that's in this here pyx. No! Wait a minute--Fll keep you company. . . Pyx!" He took Sproot by the arm and fairly dragged him from the room. A few moments later he returned, crestfallen. "Empty!" was his laconic announce- ment. "But don't give up hope egtirely just because your cabalistic diagram has disappeared," Vance exhorted him. "I doubt if it would have helped you m° ch. This case isn't a rebus. It's a complex mathematical formula, filled with moduli, infinitesimals, quantics, faciends, Merivatives and coefficients. Rex himself might have solved it if he hadn't been shoved off the earth so soon." His eyes wandered over the room. "And I'm not at all sure he hadn't solved it." Markham was growing impatient. "We'd better go down to the draw- ing room and wait for Dr. Doremus and the men from Headquarters," he "We can't learn anything But I'm here," : We went out into the hall, and as | we passed Ada's door Heath threw it open and stood on the thresho'd sur- veying the room. The French doors leading to the balcony were slightly ajar and the wind from the.west was On the light damp ae, "Any signs of an entry 'over the wall?" "Not a one" The man's overcoat and trousers were sm from top + to bottom. "I crawled all round the top of the wall, and I'm here to tell you that nobody left any traces any- where, If any guy got. over that wall, he vaulted." "Fair enough. And now you, Snit- (To be continued. ) ---- Journey's End No matter how long it takes me to "find The finch. haunted wood, the mea- dow I knew, Until they again greet my heart and mind No port is a refuge, no journey is through, Whether a' year or a dozen from now, Whether my eyes are in peace or in pain, ll handle the haft of the friendly {plow That waits for the hands again, song of my I'll drink of the winds I couldn't forget Rekindle the hearth to a sunset light, Stand where the dew on the clover is wet, As gay in my heart as the day is bright; Firm-rooted at last--as a man should be-- Ten jumps from a stream and next door to a tree! \ --Bert Cooksley. i -- ee Hot Dagger Put on Tongue To Test Guilt in Arabia Trial by fire was used in a murder case hefore the Tribal Control Board at Mazar, South Trangjordan. 'A man had been killed during a feud between This story about J. Pierpoin . gan is told by Captain a Mot Neil, late of the Mauretanja--in his breezy reminiscences "In Great Wa. ters": "I remember one voyage during which he (Morgan) made a few caustic remarks to the Purser about dogs being in cabins against the Company's rules. It appears that he had been disturbed about 1 a.m, by people talking outside his window and more particularly, by the bark- ing of a toy.dog, "There was only one toy-dog on board, and the woman who owned it was on deck with her Belgian but- terfly-hound. Two men friends came up and were thoughtless enough to tease the dog, who was always ready to yap, like most small dogs. Mr, Morgan's cabin was just at this spot and, after a while, he put his head out of the window .and asked these people why they did net go to bed. One man replied by asking Mr, Morgan why he didn't go to bed him. self. 1 was told later that the man who made this retort was Mr. Mor- gan's own secretary." Mention of small dogs reminds me of an amusing story about James Gordon Bennett, who owned the old "New York Herald," Bennett was a great dog lover and always had a pack of yapping poodles at his heels. He was one of those who believe that there can't be much wrong with |a man it dogs like him, and there. by hangs this tale: Some years ago, Bennett had as London correspondent of the "Her- ald" a certain newspaper man (a two. Bedouin tribes, Money was claimed by his relatives, and three men were brought before the Board. The fire test was agreed upon, and an old and grizzled sheikh plucked a red-, upon it. There was the sizzling sound of hot iron touching moisture, and that was all. Now it was the turn of the accused. One of them stepped for- ward, the hot steel was placed on his tongue, There was a sickening smell of burning flesh. Guilt was establish- ed, The man was sencenced to pay $1,500 in money or in kind. The Arab explanation of this test is that if a man is innocent, the normal moisture of his tongwe will prevent the hot iron from hurting him. ee A ne Artificial Fogs Developed To Protect Growing Fruits Artificial fogs have been develop- ed by French chemists in a proms- ing effort to protect growing fruits and vegetables against night frosts. Special devices have been evolved and the process consists in dropping a compound such as chlorhydrin on chalk in an appropriate apparatus, The chalk thus heated throws off hydrochloric acid and other matters, which mix with the damp air and produce intense opaque fogs. Despite the acidity of these dense vapors, their action on vegetation is not harmful. Experiments are now being. conducted to attempt to im- prove the effectiveness of these arti- ficial fogs by giving them properties destructive to parasitic growths.-- Scientific American, «The prettiest dress at the picnic" everybody said "I must tell you about going to a big, all-day picnic," writes a woman from Ontario. "I thought I couldn't go because I had nothing fit to wear and couldn't afford a new dress. The day: before, the druggist showed me a wonderful new tint powder made by the people who make Diamond Dyes which I have often used in dyeing dark colors, These new Diamond Tints, he explained, are the same high quality as Diamond Dyes. The dif ference is they are for light shades and \ don't require boiling. I had a dress, left from last year, which faded and was so streaked and ugly I was ashamed to wear jt. I decided to try Diamond Tints on it. I just dissolved 'the powder in the rinse water, and the dress came out the lovgliest green! 1 got to the picnic aftér all and every- | body said my dress was the prettiest one there, thanks to 'these new Die | friend of mine),--who shall be name- | less--but who by all signs and tok- jens, seemed to be skating on very ( thin ice, so far as the security ot his job was concerned. One day my friend received a wire ordering him to report forthwith to Bennett in Paris. It was an omin- ous sign following on what had gone before. But, forewarned 4s fore- armed, we are told, So, before leav- ing London, my friend, who knew ot his employer's faith in dogs, procur- ed some choice pieces of liver and added thereto just a soupcon of aniseed, Dressed in his best--morning suit and silk hat--he left for Paris. On arriving there he proceeded to the Bennett apartment, having first seen to it that the choice bits of liver, flavored with aniseed, were safely safely reposing in the tail pockets of his morning coat. He was shown into a room adjoining the drawing- room and left to cool his heels for more than an hour--an additional sign that all was not well for him, Presently, the folding-doors opened and in walked the great man with half a dozen or more yapping poodles at his heel. The sequel was sud- den and complete. With tails wag- ging and noses high in the air, the dogs made a concerted leap for my friend. They jumped all over him, licked his hands and face, and were particularly interested in his coat tails. . Bennett's face lost its hard- ness and became wrerathed (with smiles. Well, .to cut the story short, 'nstead of the axe falling, my irfend returned to his post in London after a week's sojourn in Paris (evjoying himself at the Commodore's expense? with a substantial increase in salary and a cash bonus, To go back to Captain McNeil's re- miniscences: He says that after lis- tening in on a talk between Charlie Chaplin and some "Montreal and New York business men" during 2a crossing in the spring of 1931, "it appeared to me that Mr, Chaplin would have been just as big a suc- cess in commerce or banking as In the films." "In the early summer of last year (1931) Mr. ew Mellow, then Secretary the United States easury, Bali over with me and sat at my table, where at the same time, 1 had three of the biggest men on Wall Street," recalls Captain Me- Nejl. "As this was a chaotic time in the oil's stock markets, and cabin 50 that 1 could ue 'them, tele request, Se thi , an amusing story. sociable aor. He would walk the streets taking no notice of saluta- tions, but one day two ardent young spirits (one suspects that Barrie was one of them) determined to get a word from him. With what they con. sidered fine ingenuity they waylald 'him on a lonely road and inquired it he could kindly tell thet the distance to a certain village. "Tam" mere: ly lifted his staff, pointed to a mile- stone in the near vicinity and silent- ly passed on. Here's a Whistler story I don't re- call having seen printed before. It Is from Frederick Keppel's "The Golden Age of Engraving". During Whistler's last visit to Paris he was making a call on a lady of exalted yank, and: she said to him: "You are well 'acquainted with King Edward of England?" "Well, no," said Whistler, personally." "Why," said the lady, "His Ma- Jesty was speaking to me in London recently and said he knew you well." hot dagger from a fire, thrust out his own tongue, and put the heated steel "Oh," sald Whistler, "that was only his brag." "not The thirty-seventh anniversary of the death of Mrs, Cecil Francis Alexander, who wrote the never-to- be-forgotten hymn, "There is a Green Hill Far Away," recalls the fact that Mrs, Alexander was the wife of Archbishop Alexander, of Ireland. At the age of nine she began to write poetry and until her death poured out a stream of hymns and other verse, one of her books reaching a sixty- ninth edition. Gounod, who wrote a setting for "There Is a Green Hill," declared it almost set itself to music. Shane Leslie in his delightful book, "The End of a Chapter," has When a child he recited the hymn to Mrs, Alex. ander, and was asked at the close which verse he liked best, "The last," he replied. "And why?" "Be- cause it is the last," he answered firmly. Her interest in children amounted almost to a passion, She was one of the first to introduce the kinder. garten into this country. Here is a letter she received from the mother of a young hopeftl who came under her care: "Young Lady, "Willy seems to be onto his foot most of the time. These is all the butes Willy will have to Krissmus, Can you learn him setting down? "Respectfully, "MRS. BEER." Which gives me the chance to pass men along a fish story I heard the other day. Two experts, each with a cost- ly outfit, had fished for a whole morn- ing without catching anything. They were about to pack up when a little girl threw out a line and pulled up a two.pounder--a beauty. "What kind of a fish is that, my child " asked a passer-by, "Those gentlemen," she "call it a 'd--limit," replied, ] PAIN relieved instantly - 1 Aspirin will disper any pain. doubt about that. One tablet will prove it. Swallow it. The pain is gone. Relief is as simple ag that. No harmful after-effects from Aspirin, It never depresses the heart, and you need never hesitate to make use of these tablets, So it is needless to suffer from headache, toothache or neuralgia. Th pains of sciatica, lumbago, rheuma- 'tism or neuritis can be banished com- pletely in a few moments. Periodical suffering of women can be soothed away; the discomfort of colds can be avoided. Aspirin tablets have other important | uses--all described by the proven di- sections in each box. Look for that 4 Loy accept Be Peditatan : an. isa 8 irae mark reseterct 'a pinch on the Joi 8 eq tive ot greater acuity ai to The experiments were reported by George W.. Hartmann of Pennsyl- vania State College, Back of the experiments lies one of the new messages of psychology for the person who tries to overcome his natural handicaps. The message of the eyes is that they do not function virtually alone in seéing, as commonly supposed, but that sight is really only a part of the "unity of senses." In other words, a person seeming. ly crippled in some needed talent can replace part of this. lack id training some other part of his be- g. Unfelt Jars Aliect Sight A discovery that human eyes are subject to unfelt jars which cause them sometimes to see intermittent. ly like the shutter of a movie camera, was reported by Dr, Milton Met. fessel, of the University of South- ern California, who credited the dis- covery to Dr. Wichart, his assist. ant. The looker does not realize he is seeing intermittently. The effect is called stroboscopic seeing. Dr, Metfessel, "motions of 'the jaw in talking or vibrations set up by an aeroplane motor, can produce inter- mittent vision. - Under certain con- ditions the pulsing of blood in and about the eyes can produce the same effects, Explanation Suggested "These experiments suggest a pos- sible explanation why wheels of automobiles and propellers of airplanes are perceived as appar- ently standing still." The well known aversion to start- ing a hard job is just a momentary matter of heart beat and oxygen, as explained by Herman J. P. Schubert, of the University of Buffalo, In this first few minutes of muscular work the heartbeat and also the intake of oxygen rise rapidly, They climb hill. But after that for a long time they ride along without much change on a level plateau ofeffort. This may apply to mental work as well as physical, for Louis B. Hoisington, of the University of Oklahoma, declared: "Datermina- tion" to do something "is nothing other than a state of tension in the muscular system." Thus he linked "will, desire, purpose, aims, ideals, and attention," as in some degree related to the muscular system, ee ree f Italy Ordered Wommes 5 To Put on Weight Mussolini leaves nothing to 'chance or diet. He evidently likes fat women, so an edict has gone forth that Italian wo- "shall return to more generous lines," and, says The Observer (Lon- don), "in this 'new crusade' it is hoped that the gracious models of the great master painters of Italy will be brought to life." ; "pitian painted the plump ones, but some people prefer Botticelli, whose maidens are as: slim and long-lgged as any emaciated damsel of to-day; while while the Virgins and angels of the Sienese school, with their angular bodies and enigmatical eyes, look as though they lived fasting. "Because the Duce, like Caesar, 'likes men (and women) about him that are fat,' he fancies that woman- hood to be 'real' must be 'curved. Probably the scraggy laidies of medie- val Italy eyed their well-covered sis- ters with envy, and the plump ones, 'than the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf'." imi ---- Sees Profit in Long Haul Airship and Plane Lines Stuttgart.--Professor Pirath of the aeronautical department of the Stutt- 0 | gart Institute of Technology, who has made a detailed survey of the 'possi: bilities of developing regular trans- continental and transoceanic airlines along the "air highways of the world" would not only be profitable but would. produce a surplus sufficient to cover the deficits of the present continental commercial airplanes He proposes to run dirigibles on the lines from Europe to India, Australia, ume of traffic on these lines is large enough for the bigger payload ca~ pacity of airships, while airplanes, he holds, will be sufficient on' the lines from Europe to the Far East. nd to South Africa, \ "The jarring from walking," said. revolving" for all their slimming, remained fatter South and North America, as. the vol- Ce Ls