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othe "Die in. First Four, Months Toronto.--Retirement from active public service of Dr. Helen MacMur 1d and extended during her long de 'eades In: the work; as 'she herself : instruction and ~ chy, as chief of the Child Welfare Division of the Dominion Department of Pensions and National Health re-| calls her. years of valiant battle for "the. 'protection 'of mothers and the extension of better "provisions for obstetrical and maternal care in Can- ada. While serviges: nave 'been develop- has .polntéd out, oir maternal and still-birth rate has, shown little im- provement until the last twenty months, But now come the prelim: inary figures for Canada for the first tour months of this year, recording the death of 276 mothers and 4,723 babies under one year of age. hind these figures in sich extracts ag the Canadian Council on Child and Family 'Welfare quotes from its heavy correspondence with mothers across Canada. One letter: runs: "Thank yoy very much for - tne series of parental lefters. With great regret I must say I will not require the post-natal series," Every day brings its evidence that we are not availing ourse'ves of the modern means of: safety and preven- tion that do offer for the protection of life. - Aigreat number of these in- |} fant and maternal deaths can be pre- vented If all women receive proper care during preg- nancy, at the time of delivery and Turing; the post-natal period, slogan chosen by one community. --"Public health is' purchasable, With. _ In natural limitations any 'community ean. 'determine its own death rate." --ls: just. as true. of your! 'elty,, town or countryside, Opportunities. for expectant mothers to obtain free advice are afforded by the 'series of nine letters, senf' free on request {4 anyone asking for them by 'the: Canasian Council on Child: and Family Welfare, These are avail able in. both, French and English as is a series 'on the care of. the baby } to one year of age. and now on the press a series on the cae and train- Ing --ot children from one to gix. Write to Council House, Ottawa, and one or all of them will be sent to you. f 7 - News Oddities James: Carroll, arrested at New _York:on a charge of falsely inserting | a notice of his wife's death in a newss paper, admitted his offence; explained that he did it in the hope that his| wife's 'relations would. see it and k away from his house; 0. Sep risoners at. McNeil Island Peni- tentiary, near San Francisco, are to ke given an aviation course, The. pri- 'son officials have thoughtfully remov- ~ ed the wings of' the! 'machine so that |. none: of 'the: Pupils will be tempted 4 1 Fxedugie a and. leave school too quick- A French Daturalist states that rob- - ins sing'in their sleep; mackerel swim |: while asleep; elephants _sleep while | standing up; 'and ants yawn 'and stretch like human: 'being 'when: they wake. Two spinsters named Kemenitz, liv- ing in the small 'Boumanian port of Galatz, have been convicted of harbor- ing too many cats, When police visit- ed the house to demand the destruction of the cats, they discovered them to number one hundred and fifty] A shrieking leather bag, intended to foil snateh:and-run-raiders, was tried recently by members of the committee of Lloyds,. The demonstration showed that no one could snatch: the case with- out setting in motion a Klaxon horn inside it. The case has. been designed * for bank messengers and other: em- ployes who have to carry large sums through the streets, e : Nightly Brushing of 'Hair Important |' "A woman who wishes. to be truly beautiful should consider the brushing | of her hair almost as importa cleaning her teeth, Bas If you're 'going to brush your |. tresses in a haphazard manner, there is. just no use in bothering at all. First of all, learn how to do it cor- Teor: to. ferive, Sebi from a 6a which 8 1 dividends, Poy sid. The best time to briish your' hair is just before you go to bed, You should 'devote at least 156 minutes to this beauty rite, Begin at the back of your head, It is' best to bend forward from the waist, allowing your hair to fall down | over your face. Brush upwards from the: nape. of your meck until the 'back of your scalp tingles, - Now stand erect, throw your ead slightly backward and brush the front of your scalp upward from the hair- line to the crown of your head. Part your hair into little sections-- | ata brush eac on, the: a your sealp to to start nine it slowly u hay it on Ia 3 ona iB Be section, SY LENE the'news | 2 on to 'Robyn's could . 'make clothes seem od : One' glimpses the individual tragedies be- 'answered, from the wet pavement, in I tilt it each h and every hair bo 1 ro pti | f= The Tre Has 'Gone da aes sevseoses Two amend 4 a young man's first love, 'By. Donovan Bayley, None of the other mannequins at; be tempting as Tessa did when . Ww in them, at lunch. and he me, up and down among the cus- tomers in the cafe. Worldly, cool-headed women had been seen to sit with forks or cups half-way to their lips until Téssa had passed by in the precious merchan- dise she adorned for the moment. Often such women, not understanding that she had what they lacked -- a slim body on long, beautiful legs-~ bought themselves unsuitable things, and so that was good for trade, In 'a new "line" of pyjamas and a bath wrap, Tessa was walking among the tea-tables, Suddenly she was recalled from her thoughts by the eyes of an old woman, She had evi- dently come in from the country, with a man, too young to be her son, dressed in weathered * tweedy and thick, brown shoes. - The hard, old eyes were staring. at Tessa. implacably; the aged, wrinkled lips were pressed in a thin, disap- proving, line, Tessa was startled by 50 much animosity. ""The girl's'a brat!" the old woman said harshly. "She wouldn't mince in" those 'things: in public if she weren't." : - Tessa shrugged and passed oni. She understood. . The;man: in tweeds had been. amused and admiring, and the old woman had seen, 'and hated" and 'feared it. In her own things, hidden under al. raincoat, Tessa left" after her 'day's work: The man who had been having teatwith: the rudeiold. woman. was.on the pavement, in a gleaming. white macintosh; Tessa was walking on, but he stopped her. "Can you spare a momert, please?' he said, in a voice she warmed to be- cause it was- firm and unaffected. "You want something?" "To apologize for what my grand. nother said. She'd no right to talk at you, Besides, it 'wasn't true." "And you've waited all this just to say that?" = = "I drove her home and 'came back." He nodded at the old two-seater aut the kerb, muddy with splashes from country: lanes. "I wanted to. It wasn't fair of her. - Tessa:held out her hand to him. im. pulsively. , "I wouldn't have . your conscience on a night like this," she said; "but, 1 think you're very kind." "I simply had to come," He turned 'towards his car, got in, and started 'his "engine, Evidently, having done hig: errand, he meant to .go,. Tessa stepped forward. "Which is. your road?" she. asked. "Towards Hillings, and then--" "I live a mile out on the Hallinge road, and it's a soaking night. I wonder if you'd give me:-a lift?" ns I'm not everlastingly dis- Do get in, The hood doesn't oak much." He. opened: the door quickly, - On. the way she lebred that 'he was Richard Cargill, farmer, living with his formidable grandmother at Hallingé Minnis, - - "It's a grim old house," he said, "but 'to-day you made nie see:it as it might be if I had a wife--that pretty wrap of yours, you, yourself. Oh; you can. guess! 'A girl there, wearing charm' g things, as if she'd every right to be there and to please her- self. You. didn't look a brat. You looked heart-breaking!" ; "How was I to know I was giving a strange young man domestic long- ings?" Tessa said, smiling, "You'll "find: they: won't last; though!" "Once you've pressed: the trigger of a: loaded: gun nothing can: stop: the explosion;" he warned: her, Tessa peered through the. winds screen. "I want to get down three 'doors past thé next turning, please!" "Shall I see you again?" © "Lots of men come to Robyn's for tea, as-you must have noticed." "But I won't come unless you say I may," he said gravely. : "Come at your own risk," time Tessa Old Mrs. Cargill was a plain®spok- en woman, still full of vitality and fight,. The first Sunday on which Richard succeeded in getting Tessa to the farmhouse for the day, she tackled the girl as soon as they were alone together. "You've seen a lot of my grandson. You like him?" she began. "Yes, I do" Tessa powdered at the heavy mirror, moving. her face to avoid the spots that were eating '| into the silver. "Yes, the glass is speckled, ? Mrs, Cargill said, "It won't clean off, Do you know why we were in Robyn's the day my grandson saw you in your Sleeping, things?" Wed come to see the Tawyer, 0 raise a mortgage on the farm. We're - No doubt the whole house was like 'have a lot to do," Tessa suid slowly, latest 8 way, Since then I've my er away." on sorry!" 'Tessa looked vound the bed-room, crammed with rich, heavy furniture, as polished as glass after fifty years of rubbing in wax. that, a gleaming memorial to fifty years of wasted work. "You must "From morning to-night it's one long grind. It never ceases. Richard lost his mother when he was born, 50 I've had no rest.. And the end of it shall 'see it all carried away and sold he, to strangers." EE "And yet," Tess« said deliberately, knowing it would never be repeated, "if Richard asks me to marry him 1 say 'yes', BR "It'd break soul In a year you'd be draggled and Qispifited, Think of it when the babies come--fresh ex- perise, new worries, everything to do yourself, and no money to it on. Look at your soft white hands, and think." "It wouldn't be like that." "Don't think I'll stay here to. do your work while you and = Richard make love to each other, When he' marries I rest, His wife shall do the work." "That's what I'd wish, too." Mrs. Cargill took her from room to room, unlocking those now shut up, and all the rooms were the same. "Even the old, out-of-date things I laid aside are clean and polished," the old women boasted. "Could you keep this house like that?" "No," said Tessa quietly, "I don't think I could." * ¢ * wx - - "Richard, she couldn't do it," his grandmother said that night when he kad come home after driving Tessa back to town. either give it up and leave you, she'd sink under it." "It'd be a long furrow for her," he admitted. "And the plough too heavy. She knows nothing, except it's. clothes. Dickon, you want to marry a farm- er's girl, some modern farmer's girl, who knows how to make shift in days like these." That problem was taken. out of Richard's hands by the manager of Robyn's, Ltd, "I'm sorry, but I've been ordered to cut down," he said to Tessa. "You'll have to leave in a week's time' She waited until Sunday morning, when Richard came to see her, before she told him. "Let's go for a long, quiet ride to- gether," she said. "It may be our last, you know. I'm leaving here.' "When? When are you leaving?" |, "To-morrow; but I'll keep my room for another week, to see if there's a job here; but I don't think there is. It'll mean London, I suppose." He was very pale. "I can't let you go, Tessa." "Tell me, Richard--tell me why?" "You know, I Jove you!" Presently he said: "It won't be easy as my wife, sweetheart. I think you see that. But I'll do all I can to make it easy." "The man's point of view," Tessa said dreamily. "Why should I want it easy? I'm going into this thing, and I'm pulling my weight." "Every pound," he said tenderly, thinking how few. pounds there. were, and how much to be done with them. Mrs, Cargill: was saturnine when Richard brought is wife home. : "You're expecting a wedding pres- ent. 1 told you I'd have it ready, and here it is," She -lifted 'a box from the floor to the table, and Tessa opened it. was neatly packed with polishes, blacklead, brushes, and dusters. . "They'll be your best friend from now on, my girl," the old woman 'said. "These, and what strength you have in your pretty, frail body." Mrs,- Cargill went before nightfall in the local bus, leaving them alone or "It'd break her. She'd | Tt) 'Ranks With Foremost Women Fliers Ann Lidbergh Has Achieved Skill as Pilot, Navigator and Radio Operator New York.--The aviation wor'd mar: velg at the unassuming hut meteorle rise of Ann Lindbergh into the fiont rank of women fijera Mrs. Lindbergh 'has achieved skill as a pilot, navigator, and radio op erator, capable of taking part in flights that "aviation history, with so ljitt'e attendant hallyhoo, that" her ability was unnoticed 'when' tha names of women filers were mention-! ed, Mrs) Lindbergh's fying. achieve- ments, howaver, 'differ from those of Anielia Earhart, Amy Johanson, and Maryse Hilez, of France, in that she has accompanied * her bLusband, and never engaged In the mora gpectacu- Jar solo flights. Her responsibi. ities' on Lindbergh's flights, however, have been such that only a veteran fijer could meet, 3 : Husband's Training All her training has Deen under the direction of Col, Lindbergh, and began before thay were married when. the young aviator, engaged in a good-will flight after his famous non-stop flight to Paris, visited Mex: ico City, Lindbergh took Ambassador Morrow's daughter on several flights, on ong of which they cracked up on landipg, due to broken gear. After their marriage Mrs, Lind- bergh accompanied her husband on several flights, cross-continent flights, one of them to east completed a few months before the birth of her first son, Already she was acting as co- pilot on their flights, : Studied Navigation When Lindbergh planned a vaca: CE -------------------------- tion trip to the Orient she' took up the study of navigation ang radio telegraphy, and proved herself super. for to her husband In' the latter, It wag Ann Lindbergh's messages from the plane that kept the world in- formed of their progress while they flew over Canadian northwest terri. tory, and over the desolate Bering Sea. This summer's trip was even more ambitious than the Pacific flight, but Mrs, Lindbergh. handled her duties ike a veteran. The trip was over 30,000 air miles in five months--far- ther than around the world at .the; equator, and almost twice di far as the distance travelled by Wiley Post in his record solo around the world. It led them over mountainous terrain in Greenland never before flown over, and into little African ports whera the arrival of a seaplane was occasion enough for a civic ce'ebra- ton, The flight over the South Atlantic was in itselt a major achlevement, Guided by Mrs. Lindbergh's naviga- tion, the plane never once left its course, Miss Johnson has to, her credit solo flights from England to Aus- tralia, to Cape Town, to Tokio, and a flight with her husband across the Atlantic, Miss Earhart crocsed the Atlantic by air route twice, the sec- ond time alone, She holds thc wo- men's non-stop distance record, and the autogiro altitude record. But Mrs. Lindbergh's flying since her marriage, while not of the spectacular kind, entitles her to rank with these foremost women fliers. sat together in a great oak. chair till the fire died down to white ashes. Richard locked the outer doors, barred the windows, and carried the lamp upstairs, His wife went before him, the silk 'of the frock in which she had been married gleaming in the Jamplight.: "Murs, Cargill, after one grim note to say that she was having her first rest, answered no letters, Let them work it out for; themselves, as they must, she thought. She was turned out by a girl who did not even pretend she could keep a 'man's house decent. Iet the dainty little fool break her- self, But at last a call came which -Mis. Cargill could not refuse to answer. Richard had a son, Though she were over seventy, and felt now that to 'take up that burden again was some- thing she could hardly face, she packed her trunk and came back. "You'll find \ changes," Richard | warned her, when they met at the station, She did. She found all but four of the rooms swept bare, and locked; the four still occupied were queerly altered. The great. draughty kitchen, with its wide expanse of tiled boor, was closed - THe scullery took its place, painted, high-pressure oil stove and dresser. The living-room, she supposed, was what moderns admired. Bare enough, but comfortable. For the first time she realized that the room had a good shape, and it could be dusted in five minutes, "Tessa planned it and. carried it out," Richard said. "She uldn'c bear to see so much money ald" "Money?" "She had everything valued. got fifty guineas for the bureau." "Do you mean I broke my back for fifty years, polishing fifty guineas, when we were often so hard put to it for fifty shillings?" "You did, Tessa got.in over £300, half of it for the Tudor stuff in the We together in the ancient house. They attics It's set us on our feet." and fitted with a modern, tea is still the most economical drink "But how have you used it?" she asked anxiously. = "You've seen some of it. Well, what was the parlour is not fitted as a. packing-room, where we send off fowls, eggs, fruit and butter, Tessa sends them away looking as smart as if they were parcels from Robyn's. Granny, we own our things now; they don't own us. Tessa can really help me instead of wasting herself on a treadmill." "And she did all this--that child?" "Drove me into it," he said, "I married a business girl, grenny. She works with her head. It was a respectful old woman who went up to see her great-grandson, and stayed to kiss her grand-daugh- ter -- London "Answers." --- -- a -------- Despite Price Rise Tea Still Most i Economical Drink For {he past two years people in Canada have been enjoying the lowest prices for tea in a decade, but this has meant tremendous losses to growers, who, to save thelr industry, have re- stricted tea exports and caused prices to advance, Tea packers, particularly those supplying very fine quality teas, have reluctantly been forced to in- crease prices. Notwithstanding this, next to plain water. The New Bride Mrs, Newbride had "had a brace of pheasants sent to her for Christmas, and she told ithe servant to codk% them for dinner on Boxing Bay, as friends were expected, Next morning the girl asked, "Please, mum, do yoy like the birds igh 7" 3 Mrs. Newbride: "Like the bird's eye, Mary! What do you mean?" Mary: 'Well, mum, some folks likes the birds stale." Mrs, Newbride: "Oh, like the bird's tail? * Yes, certainly, Mary; bring in hoth the eye and the tail." ! A New Year's Greeting That each of you may have: Health--enough to 'make work a pleasure, Wealth---enough to support your needs. Strength--enough to overcome dif- ficulties. Hope--enough to be confident of the future, Falth--enough things of God. Love--enough to see some good in your neighbor, to make real the Insurance Agent (who had been a long time on Mr. Snagg's trall)--"I wish you would tell me what Is your objection to having your life insured?" Mr. Snaggs--"Well, I don't mind telling you. The Idea of being more valuable dead than alive Is very dis- tasteful to me." For Simile Collectors--Tiresome as that advertising chatter over the radio. Two burglars had experienced great trouble in breaking open a safe. At "last they succeeded. First Burglar--"Gee, Bill, it's full of coppers." Seeond Burglar (peeping through the window)--"Yes, and so is the street." Correct this sentence: "I refused to sign Bill's note," said the friend, "but he seems to like me ag well as ever." Splinters , Sume-way when a girl thinks she's dressed up she walks different than she does mornings around the house. The trouble with a rapid reducing diet is that it shows the chisel marks, It's too bad Burbank died before he evolved a Christmas tree that would grow with the presents already on it. A woman always sems to like the gifts aman buys her untilafter ghe marries him. Trying to get even often puts a fellow in a worse jam. Mone doesn't necessarily make one rich, but plenty of it does. No matter how much money a man piles up, if he can't laugh he Is indeed poverty stricken. We have a head on us for the same reason a_pin has--to keep us from go- ing too far. Mother says a couple of woolen hlankets make about the best anti-freeze mixture. A little know- ledge Is a dangerous thing, but we are a brave people and so many love dan- ger. A lot of .folks are happy and don't know it until something unpleas- ant occurs. Suitor -- "Your daughter thinks there's no one in the world like me." Father--"Well, I suppose you are a | bit odd!" Waiter (in higli-class hotel)--"Din- ner here is a la carte, sir." Scotsman--"Well, wheel it along, my boy." ' The pumps the girls wear gained popularity from the fact that they can be slipped off under. the bridge table, Waman="0h; dear! Troubles never come singly." Her Husband----"No, marriage Is the source of them all." pers but bean soup's better for them what's got to wield a pick. Wife--"Dear, to-morrow's our tenth anniversary. Shall I kill tho turkey?" Her Husband--"No, let him live. He didn't have anything to do with it." A Scotsman holding an important job In the city was always being twit: ted by an English friend about his "Jow on earth is your office managing to get on without you?" "Fairly well," caitfously, "You see, I left two Eng: lishmen and four Weélshmen In my | place," Re --_-- is This Service Lady--"Can you give me a room and bath?" madani, bit I'm busy now and will "Ve i give you the bath laters Angel food's all right for church sup-|- Colds in the Head Shall we adopt the Japanese hand- kerchief? asks the Hamilton Herald, That is a suggestion that arises from the advice of Dr, Percy Edgelow, of Queen Anne Street, London, England, who has been interested in the ques- tion "What is cold? How do you-eatch it? How cure if?" There are several answers to this query or series of queries, His is a radical one. Dr, Edgelow declares that a large "| number of cases are the result of auto. Inoculation. The germ origin, he says, Is situated in the pockets of those thus affected. "A handkerchief saturated with the Infective coryzal (i.e., cold in the head) discharges from the nose or mouth is deposited in the pocket, and will transmit this infection to the walls of the pocket, Micro-organisms so placed will remaln active for months, and are capable of affecting a clean handkerchief when brought into contact with them." Dr, Edgelow holds that the ordinary fixed pockets are notoriously dirty, of- ten flithy, and certainly carry infce- tion. Pockets should bé made to be easily removed and replaced after thorough cleansing and sterilizing by boiling in the same way as an ordin. ary handkerchief. After wearing such pockets for a year, Dr, Edgelow states, he has lost "an inveterate coryza which had trou. bled me for a very long time without traceable cause," He has his coat and cluding the coryza or cold in the head, which is merely an effort of the blocd to rid itsclf of these germs in the dis- people. c-------- an Hue and Cry A Londoner, staying at a small coun. try town, lost a valuable dog, and in serted an advertisement in the local paper offering £10 reward for iis re covery. No one claimed the 'reward, so the Londoner went to the news- paper office again. "I want to sce the advertising mane ager," he said. "He's out," said the oflice hoy, . "Well, hi: assistant." "He's out, too, sir." "Well, I'll sce the Editor." "He's out, sir." "Great Scott!" shouted the man everyhody out?" "ly "Yes. They're all lookin' for 'ere lost dog." RE A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it fs much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander over many--Seneca, Be ] Classified Advertising PATENTS. A N OFFER TO EVERY INVENTOR, Info List of wants ' inventions and full rmation sent free. The Ramsay Come any, World Patent Atturnevs 272 Bank Strea;. Otauwa Canada nationality, By a curious chance the two met on holiday. i "Hallo," chaffed the Englishman, answered the Scot, Cletk=-""1 can glve you a room, |} DOG PELLETS DOG CUBES DOG BISCUITS a HM SILVERTIP B CD. LIMITED MONCTON NE ---- Agents for ONIATIO! cmt REESORS MARMILL, Popt. 'W, Markham, 15SUR No. 52--'33 trouser pockets regulariy removed, thoroughly washed and disinfected now, with "a very gratifying sense of cleanliness." Another experience is related Ly a layman who has suifercd most of Lis life from colds in the head, The ox- periment has continucld now for six months, during which tie he void ordinarily have had six Cl.oront cols in the head, whercas he hos had none, The remedy has been in Livia ap as nearly as possible the use oi =u, io, or only in the most spaving way in his food and entirely abandoning ili: vse of candy or sweetmeals of any vind, " The.phtlosophy of this is that sugar contributes to the acidity of the blovd | and body, which should natura'y be alkaline. Without sugayr in artifical forms the natural alkalinity of the body remains In balance and checks the growth of any kind of germs, in- agreeable manner familiar to co many. this at random 1 a > Ly RT Cin RE TA / Ar, a