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ed Wr | SPINACH, AND THE DIONNES ~ Some folks may grow a bit weary »f reading about the Dionne quintup- fets, We don't. We get sort of tickled every time there is a report which says that the little ladies have added another ounce or half ounce, Likewise It ia iuterestivg to read of the chan- ges which ace being made in their diet, "The last repcrt was good. In addi. tion te the human milk which is fed Yo the five girls each one receives 20 Irops of tomato juice per day. That, Nye cansider as being splendid. 'I'ne reason» tor mild joy is that the Yomuto juice should have received yreference over spinach, The tomato 8 a regular old standby, It goes into tetehup, chow-chow, pickles, stewed wmaloes, tomate soup, raw tomatoes ind al! mannar of things, and the omato is such a handy thing to fling thou! when a little trouble stirs in the community, It produces no injury ut is capabi- of the maximum am- unt of discomfort. [t is such an all. round sort of thing, or v dy i er or Spinach has heen making an at. tempt to ons' the tomato in popular faney. Some person started the re- port that spinach had vitamins There wersy some doctors who fell for It, When a patient came in looking a little white atout the %ills and not quite hitting on all cylinders, the ad- vice was that vitamins were needed and gpinach could supply these strange things. People who write things for the papers have been talk- "Ing epinach. snd the folks at home make people est it under the guise that it's good for them. We were feacine that they would be starting to feed those Dionne sisters, five of them on spinach. and then the thing would pet into the papers, and there wonld be a new spinach campaign un- der way, --Stratford Beacon-Herald. '1 WORKS BOTH WAYS Many girts ir bathing suits mu more artoactive in their street clotines Bor many look more attract- Ive «uv their street clothes than they do in bathing suits, --St, Thomas 'Times Journal THE WHISKERS PERIOD Tha male Mcrmons of Utah have all crown whiskers in order to [fit- tingly celebraie this year the arrival of Brisham Ycuug and his trail-stain- ed followers at Salt Lake In 1847. L¥tle is to be said abont the his- tori 4+ aspects ot this group of poly- gamisis: but the wish will be general that il.e idea ol expressing tribute by reviving the hirsute decorations gf a past period muy not become infec- = tious Our owu sturdy forbears, who ere aso worthy of all houor, leaned rather strongly to whiskers at a time swheo razors were scarce and barbers fank.aown, Yr who kuuws? One of these days the suggestion might be made and accapted that we should abandon the look hn wl RES PR Ar oi I a LAR EN ~ n 2505 RSS "op 5 "shavitg habit and give a belitting de- monstration of what our ancestors looked like with their flowing beards. As ' ot weather thought the thing is agonizing,--Brantford Expositor, GRANDMOTHERS A Chicago woman a grandmother at 32¥ What ot it? The report fails to dmpress Mrs. Lela Corn She's a great grandmother at 49. She was a grandmother at 32, Her mother is a groat-great-grandmother at- 76, daughter is a grandmother at 33, and the .arters chid is a mother at 16. All of which recalls the ancient command: "Arise, daughter, and go to cour daughter, for your daughter's daughter nas had a daughter,--Kam- loopa Sentinel, COURTESY A PLEASANT TREAT Mating reference to {he death of 1 notable public man it was said of it bim that he will be remembered for 3 re his anfalling courtesy. That feature 'way slressed ard that is as it should @e. (here is rothing as fine as unfail- : Jug courtesy, whether it be ip man or AE & - woman, It smooths the pathway of ife and makes contacts with our fel- lows much more pleasant. It is a plea- furs to do business with a truly cour. teous man or woman, No matter what the business may be courtesy is a grea' factor in bringing ft to success, But courtesy must be something in. . hats, not forced.' The: outward ex- ression of an inward state of mind. Niagara Falls Review, y © THE TRIUMPH OF THE AUTO : Dealing with fast automobile driv- 7 ; yrs 13 not a new thing, In the Oltawa Journal it is recalled: that 25 years ago there were complaints that cars were travelling "on Wellington and ptha. rtreets a: fast as thirty miles " "Rn hour," : That was breaking the civic by- ' ws io many small pieces because . the speed limit then was ten miles s~ per hour and on the Ottawa Improve. 2A 3 ment Commission's driveway, of Sy Vs which some sections were In use, sev- pa pn miles the utmost speed allowed. # AS "In the same column of The Jour- rE al it 1s related that there was rebel. 7a : fon fa Spain and King Alfonso was % ooted in the streets, y iy) . Thus the speeding autos and the ern a quarter:of a century ago, The 3 . fr of Spain were matters of con. utos seem to have been possessed greater powers of realstance, They 7 L; a {ll epeed but to use the phrase of Is ; + 7 : ' Voice of the Press Canada, The Empire and The World at Large ---- Her] MME BB a a a Premier Hepburn, "Alfonso is out," --Stratford Beacon-Herald, PUTSCH'S EXACT MEANING 'I'he word "'putsch" is in these days seldem out of the central European news for long, But, according to a German scholar, it is being used very wrongly, when as has come to be & widespread practice, it is made syn. onymous with revolution. It {8 correctiy applied only to an at- tempted revolution which ends in a fiasea That was the outcome of the affair at Munich, in November, 1923, that brought Hitler to the fore: and led to his arvest {un a beer hall after whi: he served a year in prison, It wasn't in describing this abortive atteiupt at revolution that the word was lirst extensively resorted to in the despatches But thy movement that made him Chancellor was cer. tainly not a pulsch sense That launched against Dollfull Weodnesday had the term applied to it before there was any assurance ei- ther ¢( its success or failure,--Edmon- ton Journal, THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN L.et'a s2e. Unless the war debts were cancellod three years ago the wor'd was to sink in chaos. Unless Britaiv gave India independence two vears ago, the white man was to be driven into the sea, And this year if the Government collected a tax on goli, mining wouly be ruined. What's the text croak ?--Sault Ste Marie Star, 'CONE SHIELING" RECALLED The late Professor Donald Suther- lani Mcintosh of Dalhousie University bequeathed to his native province, of Nova Scotia, 100 acres of land in Cape Breion with the request that on it there would he erected a building sim- ilar in design to the "lone shieling" made famous in Scottish literature, Probably the most quoted stanza in the poem called "The Caaadian Boat Song." is a3 follows: "From the lone ghieling on the misty island Mouairains aivice us, and the waste 0 seas- But sill the roca is strong, the heart fa High'ana, And we in dieams behold the He- hrides," r The: poem which first appeared in Blavtwood"s Magazine in September 1829, has baen attributed to John Galt, John G Lockhart, the Earl of Eglinton and cthers, Periodically the discuss'on of the authorship Is reviv- ed. but it has never been settled del-: initely and probably never will he.-- Toronto Maii and Empire, POLITE POLICE A provincial motorcycle officer has been 1elieved o' his duties on the ground of disccurtesy to motorists, in the originall' Japanese tank display staged at Tank Corps base in Tokyo brou the pupils of the Tokyo Academy of Music. casies of modern death-dealing war machines which were demonstrate officers explain operation of turret, po H ght out many women, among them i lively interest in every detail of the intri- Gls Shawsd thay d and are scen.grouped about as EASY MONEY DOES IT Why is business imprd¥ing in Great Britain? 1, Because foreign countries have confidence in our ability to man. ufactute and deliver according to con- tract. 2. Because the banks, by pay- ing virtually, no interest on deposits, are forcing idle millions into produc- tive channels. --London Sunday Re- ferae, VULNERABLE WOOLWICH 'I'he War Office is said to have un- der consideralion a project for mov. ing Woolwich Arsenal to South Wales. The primary object would be safety from air attack, but it would have a great many other advantages, In the War, London proved to be anything bat ap ideal gite for an ordnance fac- tory. Sooner, or later, and the sooner the Letter, not only the Woolwich Ar- senal, but all our aircraft faclories, will have to be moved to places less accessible to enemy bombers, as a mateo; of common precaution--Lon- don Sunday Dispatch, With The Gangsters "I am not being boastful," says Mr. Gordon Fellowes in "They Took Me for a Ride" (Allen and Unwin, Gs,), "lL called for the constables resig- nace" Generar Williams, chief of the Provincial Police, announces. "We intead that om men shall be court- eous, amd any constable that isn't TONHeTIS can Eet@anotlier job." On the whole we believe Ontario has a whizh it may well be proud, In all de= partments it seems to be doing good work. The motoveycle division Is par- ticularly sma.l and efficient and the various officers with whom we have' come in contact left nothing to be de- sir:a in the way of courtesy, We quite agree with General Wil liams that it iv desirable to have the force known everywhere as a 100 per cent ccurteous body, A traffic officer can do his duty and still be courteous, Occasionally one finds a constable,' who_does nol appreciate this fact,! Such a man, ot course, is unfitted for, the work.--Border Cities Star, PUBLICIZING THE PIG tlt an explavation of the apparent preference for pork in Canada is sought it may perhaps, be found in the power ot advertising. The merits of various brands of hams; bacon, sau- sage end other pork products are set forth consistently in the packing, house advertising, but does any one recall ever having read an advertise- men! concerning a tempting roast of beet or a tender juicy steak,--Monc- ton 'Pranscripr, FINGERPRINTS I've files of tke U.S, Department of Justice contain miore thai' 4,400,000 fingerprints. But any home with aj. baby can show that number on its walls -- Woodstock Sentinel-Review, SMOKING FORBIDDEN 'Ne smoking' was the notice that! greeted the hundreds of guests who danced at Ham House, Lord Dysart' historic mansior. at Richmond. it was only on condition that this noticy was hung in various parts of the house and that strict observance of the rule was enforced that it was possible to hold the debutante's ball there for the mansion is insured for six bundred thousand pounds. Guests who wanted to smoke had to do so outdoors, : Guests who included Prince Arthur of Connaught, the King of Greece, Princess Katharine of Greece and the Prince and Princess Christian of Hes. so, had the first pine trees to be plant. jand sat him ed in England floodlit for their bene. tit, Other sights were floodlit for the "when I say that I am one of the few men who have ever been taken for a ride by gangsters and lived through the ordeal." It certainly sounds a su- premely uncomfortable: experience. He was acting as a criminal investigator in St. Louis at the time, and could Provincial police system wth, have been too popular with the angsters, So they arranged an ap- pointment with him:-- "As 1 walked up to the main door of the Pierce Building four men con- fronted me, and I realized at a glance that I had walked into a trap, One of them, a big, blustering man, making no pretence of concealing the gun in his hand, barred my way. "Fellowes," he said, "we're going to take you for a ride," I knew it would be useless to argue, and I knew that in all probability I was about to begin my last hour of life. T had a curious feeling of ex- hilaration. ....... THIRD DEGREE METHODS, They rushed him across to a car in. the back between them, They drove him out to a deso- late part of the country, and sét to work, What they really wanted' was to find out where he kept his copy of the confession of another gangster who had betrayed his comrades: -- From seven-thirty till nearly mid- night--almost five hours--I was cross- examined, searched, struck witli-guns and fists, and subjected to every im- aginable form of mental and physical suffering. . Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, the car drove along: those quiet roads, and in turn each man questioned, threatened, cursed and struck until IT was hardly in:a state of consciousness, But, in spite. of everything, he re. fused to give in, He felt that once they knew where the confession was hidden, "the next dawn would have found' my body lying in a ditch" -- "bumped off." As it was they let him 80, Later hg received another warning, He was working with a prominent Senator who was determined to sup- press the gangsters, and he knew that they both were suspected, One night, lie says, "I answered the telephone to hear a voice, which I did not recognize, saying in cold, precise tones: "You're on the spot, Fellowes, and this is the last warning you will ever get. Got me?" I certainly had got him, IT would have heen a fool tp have ignored the warning, He went to the Sendtor and told him that he was going to lie low for a bit. That evening the Senator was murdered in the theatre! POLICE WARNING, According to Mr, Fellowes, many of the police work hand in hand with the criminals, He was shot at one day, and next morning was summoned to the police station to identify a couple of possible assailants. In the ante- room, ' An officer walked up to me with a smile--not a very. pleasant smile, "Say, Fellowes," he muttered, "you don't know these guys. Get me?" "Well," I returned, "I should rec- ognize the man who took a shot at me." "You'll do nothing of the sort!" snapped the officer, "You'll keep your mouth, shut," Thinking that discretion was the better part of valor, he would not SIMPLE TEST TO DISCLOSE CANCER PRESENCE FOUND Blood Reaction Indication, Says Polish Scientist, Pupil of Prof. J. D. D'Arsonval, Paris -- Announced Academy of Science Paris,--A simple, inexpensive test which doctors anywhere may perform to determine if a patient has cancer was announced recently at the exclu: sive French Academy of Science by Prof, Jacques Aresene D'Arsonval as the discovery of one of his pupils, Dr, Ladislas Kopaczewski, a Pole. The test consist of congealing a blood sample by incorporation of 10 per cent. of lactic acid at a tempera. ture of one degree centigrade, Dr, Kopaczewskl, in an exclusive ex- planation of his test to the United Press, sald: "It will now be possible for any human to undergo tests cheap. ly, as often as he (feels it desirable to satisfy himself whether he is suf- fering from cancer tumor, The blood of a normally healthy man without cancer should congeal under those conditions with the addition of lactic acid fn 120 minutes. Blood of persons suffering the worst cancers congeals first time, and included the gate that almost instantly. has not been opened since Stuart! timag and the Dally Telegraph, ilex gro4i.--London "Between those two exlreme we have charted an index which allows positive proof of whether or not a person is suffering from cancer and to what extent, Thus far we have been unable to discover a means of pointing - out the exact location of the cancer, but the new method will enable any doctor anywhere to ex- amine thn blood And determine be. forehand whether! surgical interven. tion is necessary, "Tests every six months show the start of cancer, and allow immediate treatment 'with almost certainty of a cure if treated sufficiently early in development of the malady, Thus far we have made no progress in. iso. lating the cause cancer, but when we can now proved whether a human has the disease we have made con- siderable progress." H Dr, Kopaczewski lectured in New York hospitels in 1929,. Being poor and not practfcing, he was enabled: to carry his experiments to success through tie assistance. of Professor D'Arsonval, tamed as the father of electric therapeutics, who took him in as a pup!l and gave him the use identify the men---although he recog- nized one of them perfectly well, And nothing more was heard about the shooting. Mr, Fellowes tells -us that he and the Senator "tapped" the telephone line of a high police official and heard some astonishing conversations. One day a gang leader rang up and de- manded that ohe of his men, in prison for killing a bank manager, should be released. This was to be: done by fixing the murder charge on some- body else, Next night they 'heard this: -- "Guess I've got the guy you want ,. His name is McG----, and he is lo- cated in Detroit waiting for sentence for another rap, I suggest I get the Judge to pass him to us for the Phelps murder." "Fine! 1 knew you'd do it for me! How much do you want for the job?"] The police official * was undecided about his charge. He said , . . he would content himself with asking for an advance of five hundred dollars on account of current expenses, This was agreed upon, and the two men proceeded to elaborate the details of a scheme whereby a high police offi- cial should charge with murder a man who had no connection with: the crime in order that the real - murderer should go free, , . . THE GANGSTERS' INCOME, The profits made by the-gangs are enormous if we are to believe Mr. Fellowes, In Chicago, he says, Jack Zuta, a prominent gangster before his assassination, told him that - The weekly income of - Chicago gangsters and extortioners derived from about 8,000 speak-easies, 2,800 disorderly houses paying protection, 200 of the larger gambling dens, and 2,000 bookmakers, amounted to about 6,000,000 dollars. Mr. Fellowes is speaking of condi- tions some few years ago, Things may possibly be better now, But ever saw one. \ (This was in the days when an Eug. lishman always went to the Continent in-a cap.) f "And behold," adds Lucas, "the end of the room was all' mirror, and it was himself and his friends that werg reflected in ft," » Ld LJ LJ A warning lo autograph fiends! 'My. favorite .story.of- that - house (Ralph Waldo Emerson's) relates how the Olympians of Concord decided to have a club," reminisces Clara, E, Laughlin ( in "Travelling Through Life.") "It met on a Monday evening in Emerson's study, There were Em- erson and Hawthorne, and Alcott and Curtis, and Thoreau, and 1 can't re- member whut others; and they sat about, . stifly, while conversation languished because no'one could think of anything sufficiently Olympian to say. : "Presently Hawthorne, willing to be social on a low level if they couldn't attain a high one, asked Emerson: 'Do you get a lot of letters asking for your autograph?' "'l do indeed,' said Emerson, "'What do you do with them?' " 'Throw them in the wastebasket,' "'But they enclose stamps,' sald Hawthorne, "*Of course,' sald the author of 'The Over-Soul'; that's where I get all my postage'." L * * LJ] In case you may think it is a mis- print for "hook," Sir Wilfred offers some additional evidence of the breadth of a cod"s appetite and--dig- estion. "Scissors, oil cans and old boots have been found in them, One s8kip- per who lost hjs keys overboard in the North Sea got them in the stom- ach of a codfish," he goes on, "Two full-grown ducks, feathers and all, were found in another, apparently having been swallowed alive, Candles, guilemots (beaks, claws, and all), a whole hare, dogfish, turnips...... But, there, that's enough! . LJ -® * Of course, you mustn't expect to find such treasure trove in the inter- jor of a cod lying In the humble cor- ner of a fishmonger's-stall, No," sir, Sir Wilfred is talking about the-big fellows. "phe Labrador record cod was 102 'pounds in weight and 5 feet 6 inches long," 'he says. "The English record is a poor second, He was 78 pounds in weight and 5 feet 8 inches long, The largest cod recorded from the Newfoundland Banks was 136 pounds, In the International competition the 'honors go to America with a Bank cod of 160 pounds. An Aberdeen man hooked a larger one but unfortunate- ly It broke the line and escaped. When the Englishman suggested to him that it was a whale, he replied that he was tising a whale for bait at the time." Baby Harp seals are practically all born--on floating ice--on the same night, March the fifth, Thousands of them! They are very beautiful in their "white coats," says Sir Wilfred Grenfell, But listen to this: "To make the rich milk the moth- ers have to leave their offispring: both in fair weather and foul, lying on the ice which has moved in the mean- while, and return to find their one parparticular baby amoung all the other thousands, Yet mo man could tell two baby seals apart. Moreover, in maternity hospitals, with only a few dozen human babies at most, each. has to have a little brass tag. chained to his arm, for fear that their moth- ers will not know which is which." * * * * Speaking of codfish reminds me of LJ judging from the publicity given to John Dillinger and others, America still has a long way to go, Mr. Fel- lowes has certainly written a most exciting account of his experiences-- many of which, we imagine, he would not like to go through again, He now finds it safer to live in England. Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous Quoting Andrew ~ Laing's little. known lines about the two men who thought they were looking into mir- rors and were looking at each other through a pane of glass, E. V, Lucas (in "Post-Bag Diversions") tells -about an amusing experience along the same lines that once happened to a friend of his "now a legal lumin- ary," First, let me give the Laing lines: ' Brown his tie adjusted, And Green arranged his hair. They each exclaimed, disgusted, 'I thought--I hoped--I trusted My face was far more fair!" As Brown his tle adjusted, And Green arranged his. hair! * LJ » LJ 7 Now for genial E, V, Lucas' story about his friend, the "legal lumin. ary: "He and some friends, were visit- ing Paris; and one day went out to Versailles, As' they were walking along one of the gréat florid Galler- jes they saw advancing ,upon them trom the far end a party similar in number, also bent upon tearing the secret from the sumptuousness of the Sun-King. "Look," gald my friend, 'here comes a story told by the late Professor John W. Burgess, of Columbia Uni- versity (in "Reminiscences of an Am- erican Scholar.") Recalling the days when pedagogues were not paid the princely (!) salaries they now receive, he tells of the exultation of a fam- ous old Amherst Professor when his salary was raised to $800, Rushing home, he burst into the front door of his cottage and cried out to his good wife: ~ now have codfish for breakfast." * * L * It was this same professor--'to whoni Amherst was /the centre of the world and Amherst College the soul of America and of universal culture" --who always carried an extraordinary looking umbrella, an old blue cotton concern tied in the middle by a string. "I value that-umbrella more highly than anything I possess", he told a triend one day. "It belonged to the first president." . "Indeed," said the friend, "anyone wonld value highly an article once used by Washington," "Oh," replied the professor, look- ing a little disconcerted, "f did not mean Washington, I meant President Moore." : * LJ ® LJ President Moore waa the first Pre- sldent of Amherst College, and he was, therefore, the firat president .to thé professor--Ebenezer S, Snell salu. tatorian 'to the first class 'which gra- duated from Amherst College, the lege from the day It opened until his death in 1876, "He was an institution in Amherst old Amherst man himself, the British tripper with a vengeance, of laboratories and his compatriots with him, I ask when she decides to turn blond. "Martha, Martha, thank God we can_ clags of 1822, and connected with col. College," says Professor Burgess, an 12,764 pounds at §3,099, The turning point in a girl's life 1s compared with 1,376,704 at Jroumdua you ever see such ""dand such a cap? 'Arry in Parry if I - Basis of Peace, Women Informed Professional Group Votes at Geneva to Safeguard Rights _Geneva,--*Talk less and do more" was the advice given by Miss Lena Madesin Phillips to the International Federation of Business and Profes- sional Women when, as president, she addressed the opening board meeting of that organization during its cons ference here recently. "We must go farther," said Miss Phillips, "than mere good will if we are to restore the peace of the world. Real prosperity and international comity," she said, "rest upon an eco nomic, perhaps a political, base, We must take an active part in economic and political affairs if, as women, we are to help bring this chaotic world into order." ' Business women from France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Great Britain, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Canada and the United States participated. Heat- ed discussion centered, during the early stages of 'he conference, around the question of the discriminations which are being made against women in both state and private employ- ment, MARRIED WOMEN AFFECTED In a few countries no specially drastic steps have so far been; taken, but in the majority of countries-- particularly in Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Hun. gary and Germany--women, and es- pecially married women, are serious: ly affected and express the opinion that drastic action should be taken in order to stabilize their 'position, The conference registered its agreement in a resolution, The fed: eration, however, does not intend to affect women. Women belong to the study of economic conditions as they affect women. Women belong to the great mass of the world's wage earn- ers, one speaker said; and beéause of this, those who are: organized will be wise to turn their attention less to 'the paricular' point of view of the woman in 'business than to the point of 'view: of 'men and women in busi- ness-side<by side Possibly the presence at the con- ference of Mr. Tate, an official of the International Labor Organiza- tion, had something to do with the decision of the federation to view economic, conditions in their broader aspect. Mr, Tate was in a position to explain matters in regard to the '48-hour week, the convention on night work for women, and other in- ternational questions dealt with in Geneva. JOINS WITH LABOR His explanations led delegates to propose a closer relationship between their federation and the Internation- al Labor Office, which: relation, they suggested, might be confirmed by the appointment of Miss Phillips as cor- responding member between the two organizations. lesearch has played, and will con- tinue to play, an important part in the work of the federation, During the past year, the Canadian federa- tion has drawn up a comprehensive two-year course in economic study, The Italian federation is organiz ing special courses in agriculture and applied art designed to open up new opportunities for women. Norway has made a comprehensive study of working conditions among business and professional women and has listed the professional opportunities. In the United States panel discus sions on natur.. and world problems have been instituted, with special em- phasis upon economics. Plans are on foot for the opening up of extensive field work during the coming year, If these plans develop, the executive director, Miss Dorothy A. Heneker, will travel into many new countries. Double-Ended Omnibus Puzzles London Folks LONDON -- In future harassed Londoners rushing for their omni- bus will have to be even more alert, for they may find it difficult to tell whether buses now being introduced are coming or going. They have stairs at both ends and the engine in the middle, : By having the engine in the centre the space beside the driver has be- come available for another flight of stairs, and instead of increasing the number of seats additions have heb made to the comfort of the passen- gers, The eyigine is accessible through a panel in the side. Distribution of weight is said to be better for safety as well as for comfort, RISING EXPORT OF POULTRY J The growth in the export of dress. ed poultry is impressive, due to heavy purchases in the British mark- et. The total in Juwe was 113.900 pounds valued at $22,005 of which 101,714 at $19,143 went to the United Kingilom. A year ago 'he total wus The export during the past twelve mouths was 2,316,124 pounds valued at $40148¢ 271,00) in the previous twelve mcntns, * »