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-- Longer Skirts Style where is should be this scason," re- Hh . plied the milliner, : nil Decree For Spring "It makes no difference where it 2 ~ ¥ a » i » [N Paris--"Longer skirts" is the ba id be, gy Me. Ve TA decree of the latest fashion showing y iy, : DS ave i on ths 1 and, as the hemline came down, the| © With i atked iil i 8 3 fashion designers also began to get . hitreh side?" asked the mi nz down to the serious business of] ".\ . : establishing their cdicts for spring Yes, church side. 1 sib next fo hy 3 ey the left wall, and I'm not: going to In the midst of displays stressing pay for a lot of trimmings that can't slightly longer hemlines for 1925, be seen. I want it on the other side Hein struck a new note by exhibit- where all my friends in the congre- ing skirts which were only seven or gation can see it." ' eight inches from the ground. They eT 0 are designed with a soft gored full- Left 'Handed Advice © yess breaking away from the old ---- tight line with the rest of the sil . . houette molding the bust and waist. A Joung man who wished to get "Wear capes" was the next edict married wrote to his father asking iMustrated by a collection which dis his advice. He received the follow- played them in every length from mg advice: . , waist to knee. Outstanding among "My Dear Son: - Your mother them wexe models made of two to and I would like to see you happily four or pelts, framing he | married. She tells me to point out wearer's face and swooping around the many advantages--cosy fire- the arms. AYiere were also hip- side, chair, slippers, pipe, and 80 on, length evening capes of silver fox with your darling wife sitting be- and ermine and three-quarter length side you. I am proud to know, my wool capes topping wool frocks. boy, that you have decided to scttle Full-length fitted. coats in navy, down at last. black and grey wool, were often ¢ol- "P. S.--Your mother has just Jarless and with cape-sleeves bord: left the room. Keep single; you ered and navy and silver foxes. darned idiot-- Father." They showed no fur next to the face. entrees swm-- _ -- All have a share in the beauty, yr All have a part in the plan; Knew: What She.:. Wanted What does ot er ls duty I'alls to the lot of man? Mrs. McGoolty, who lives over| Some one has blended the plaster, the back road, rushed into the mill Some one has carried the stone; iner's at Blue Springs greatly ex-| Neither the man nor the master, cited. Ever has builded alone. "My new hat has been trimmed | Building a house for 'the King; } on the wrong side," she said, "and Making a roof from the weather. A it has to be altered." ' Men have accomplished a thing, "The trimming is on the left side Only by working together. Brita: © Britain Reforms Road Rules. {Prey --_-- matrons, for example, have written i Campaign Being Waged {o iy say gi hae give their wards 43h Cn (Cosa 1e first quiet nights-they have ever i Insure ( reader known, We began it last July in the ¥ Safety London area only, and it went so J well that in September we extended 1. ndon One of hie moot tatked- | HE to all built-up areas throughout abont men in Britein is Le lie Hore. | the country, Built-up areas in this Pell Doo Mlinistoy of (sport writes | country are areas with streetlight Clay ice ia the NOY. Tmes, The [ing systems and they include about silvnce order at wight which he has | a thitd of our total road mileage, : iin Sed on motorists and the black. | If You figire that we have about and-white posts with orange globes [177,000 miles of public roads in thiy on them which he has installed at | country, you can reckon that on a Cstreet corners to indicate pedestri- | little less than 60.000 miles of roads pan erossinegs--the famons--Belisha- beaecons-- have caused him to be ridi- | ing your horn between 11:30 at culed, criticized and applauded on | night and 7 in the morning. every road in Britain, At 37 he is Good Manners on the Road. the younge tof British Ministers, "The kind of driver we try to He has been in the House ever sinee | set at in this silence order is not LE Ie was a youngster of 23, and no- | the man who makes a limited use body else in British politics has his | of his horn to tell somebody ahead EAB saving pert and flippant things of him that lhe is =ceming, but the in solemn and deliberate manner, | Man who blaves "Get out of my Ala moment when Britain is at [| way!' at everything in front of dim. Lier wits end to devi-e some means | That Kind of driver is -a pest by of reducing the accidents on her | day just as he u-ed to be at night. roads, he has succeeded in focusing Good manners are one of the things on himself the hopes and anxieties | I want to encourage on the roads --- of motorists, cyclists and pedestri- just plain good manners -- for good une - and thee three classes of | manners and careful driving go to- yord users may be said to include gether. But in this country we have about every man, woman and child in | @bout 1,000 local highway authori the country. ties, and a DMinister of Transport } at RT HOE ane Ho georter wont can RO just about as far and about the Molise neon os . o ui 0 fas an as he can get the local au- what was coming next o Hm thorjies to zo With him. xt. They do things differently in "What | want to do next is to other countries," said Mr. Hore- extend the silence order. to. the Belisha, "In I'rance, for example, whole twenty-four hours, but -for $e government ddministors the fae that I shall have to wait until the tional roads and the local authori- eal Highway atihvorities want me ties have only the local roads to to act" he said, ' maintain, Here every road -in the country enjoys the full blessings of "lI have had thousands of letters ||[local government, It doesn't make to show the welcome the silence |[#ny difference whether you are fly- order has had at night. Hospital ing along a main road from London roe to Liverpool or ambling through a t i 8 A) i 4 2 fof } £ 2] ' 57 i { AY These two members of Toronto's Chinese Boy Scout Troop collection in that city, when 180, ands of pairs of shoes were gath were among the 3,000 Scouts taking part in their a : nnual ohtvlothing 000 articles of clothing and thous- ered for distribution to {he weedy. OIL_are rE . 8 . f You are now prohibited from sound- | pyoved-to be --replanning ofthe Canada's Gift To The King Perhaps the most precious sin for Britain was placed in the s liner Aquitania at New York, This is none other than Can It is a gold box measuring 18 x1 with hand-engraved crests of the Dominion coat-of-arms, with mapl "To His Mo its inscription read: f the Sena! V., humble address o Canada on the occasion of Hi The box was designed and made by The box was presented to His Maj It was delivered to the Aquitania ment of External Affairs, Ottawa, accompan gle shipment that ever left Canada trong room of the Cunard White Star ada's gift box to King George V. 1x3 inches, elabora'ely decorated nine Canadian provinces and the ¢ leaf and crown borders. Henry Birks & Sons, and King George st Excellent Majesty Commons of e and the House of s Majesty's Silver Jubilee, 1935." esty on May 8. by an official of the Depart- ied by a detective. country lane, the local authorities have charge of all our roads, The Minister of Transport makes grants to the local authorities out of the road fund, but every time he wants to introduce come new principle into the road system he has to coax the local authorities into agreement. The Picturesque Highways. "look at our trafic situation. More than 2,000,000 cars on the roads already, aud 300 'new ones go- ing on the roads every day. ('ars are getting so cheap that in five years' time everybody will have one. { The motor industry is the most pros- | perons indusity we have --- but our "roads are costing us 130 idead and 5, "000 injured every{ week, Our roads are picturesque, but they were never built for motor traflic, In the United States the roads were made by JSu--- clid. They are all geometrical straight lines, The Hpjy thing to do is to begin all over again, and that's why I've got a five-year plan." Mr, Ilore-Belisha's five-year plan stiff test on the driver of public vehicles, but not on private drivers. Heretofore there has been nothing to prevent a private driver from buying £6 wor of old junk and pro- pelling this lethal apparatus down the public highway without anybody's knowing whether he was fit to be in charge of it or not. Beginning fn Ap- ril we are requiring all private driv- ers to undergo eye and ear tests and a few clementary driving tests. They will have to start their engines, car- ry out a turn in a confined space, back their cars between two posts and so ol, "Also, we shall make certain that they know the highway code, It is a reasonable as:umption that every driver has a copy of the code be- cause it is issued to him with &is driving license, but hereafter we shall be Sure that he has read it, In- cidentally, we shall have a new code hefore long. Changes in Speed Limit. "Another innovation has been a change in the speed limit, Hereto- | was?" he asked "I'm an advertising man," he re- plied, »well, young man, we can do busi- ness, l've been trying to sell this farm for a long time. If you'il write me a kor-Sale ad, Ill give you "What did you say your work! breakfast. ! 'he young man prepared the copy and handed it to the farmer, who read; ° | SACRIFICING FOR QUICK SALE -- Beautifal modern¢ountry home on State Koad; 220 acres of tertile farm' land; Mother Nature's gift to man- kind; rolling green pastures; virgin foods, whose stately trees defy the ages. Spring-fed brooks wend their! way inaustriously through fields of ricn, black soil, providing adequate' cool water for all livestock. Truly a' garden spot of the world. The farmer halted for breath and cried: "Where is this farm?" 'Right here," - replied man, "Phe heck it is," said the farmer. "Guess I'll keep it myself." . Store Will Try Five-Day Week five-day week the young Kitchener. -- The scheme 'will be given a trial for three months by A. R. Goudie, pro- prietor of Kitchener's largest de- partmental store. During June, July and August his store will re- main closed all day Monday, but will stay open Wednesday afternoon, the traditional half-holiday here. The innovation is admittedly an ex- periment and was favorably voted upon by the employes. That Nice Shore Moss (Annapolis Royal Spectator). That Carrageen Moss (often known as Irish Moss) has become the subject of recognized medical attention and value will not be sur- prising to the shore dwellers of | Maine and western Nova Scotia who have long picked it and bleach>d it and dried it and used it for a health- jelly. It grows on the rocks at the edge of low water and is a delicate greenish white color, somewhat like coral in appearance, but perfectly soft, and when dried and bleached becomes quite white, in which state it will keep indefinitely, making a lovely jelly that can be flavored and used as a food by the most delicate | of the body sulin. Our early DIABETES GAINING McGill Professor Advises Ways of Happiness and Comfort Toronto -- Addressing the joint convention of the Quebec and Ont- ario dietetic associations at Ottawa, recently, Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch, as- sistant professor of medicine, Me- Gill University, gave some hopeful information on diabetes. : There will always be diabetics, said Dr. Rabinowitch, because here- dity is one of the important causes of the condition. Diabetes is also on the increase and, it is, therefore, im- portant to make every effort to con- trol the condition--not only to pro- long life, but, also, to keep the di- abetic happy. At no time in my ex- perience with diabetes, may I, there- fore, say have I felt more optimistic than at present, in view of our ex- periences during the last five years | with our high carbohydrate - low calorie diet and these experiences fit in with a variety of data of ani- mal experiments which have accumu- lated during the same period of time. These data clearly show that it is now necessary to pay attention to parts other than the pancreas; that the pancreas is not alone the important factor in the production of diabetes. As a matter of fact, it is now possible to completely remove the pancreas from an animal and that animal will either not * develop diabetes or the disease, at the most, will be very mild. This is made pos- sible by simultaneous removal 'of the pituitary gland. An animal in which the pancreas and pituitary was Tre- moved simultaneously was kept alive in the biochemical laboratories at McGill University for about eight months without any diet or insulin and when the animal died the death was not due to diabetic coma. FOOD INFLUENCE There are also a variety of parallel experiences with respect to the in- fluence of different types of food on carbohydrate tolerance and upon the susceptibility to insulin. These clear- 'ly show that a diet rich in carbohy- drates improves, whereas fats im- pair, carbchydrate tolyerance; and that a diet rich in carbohydrates in- creases, whereas fats decrease, the sensitivity of animal and man to in- experiences with the high carbohydrate diet reported in "1930 have now been well confirm- ed in other clinics. The first result i traffic needs of ireater London. Already he has made Britain safety- con-cious. After less than a- year of the Hore-Belisha regime, motor: ists, cyclists and pedestrians are thinking and talking safety today as they have never done before. The reporter brought him away from fite-vear plans and back to the immediate future by inquiring what other new road regulations he was preparing, "Generally," he said, "we are tak. ing over much railway practice as we find useful on the roads, No doubt the railways have been influ- enced by the roads in the last few years, One of the most hopelul things about the yoads today is the realiza- tion that we have much to learn from the railways. We have already copied their signalling system, and the bea- {cons which mark pedestrians' cross- ings are also drawn from railway practice. In fact, we have copied the railways so well that some motorists say we have too many signal lights on the roads, Nevertheless, [ think eventually we shall see the beacon as system extended to pedestrians' crossings throughout the country. "That, of course, will depend on the local highway authorities, add "at this point we get the one out- gtanding difference between rail- way and road administration, The railways are under unified controls. Your train leaves London on a track of 4 feet §', inches' gauge, and the gauge remains the same all the way to Liverpool, But on the roads the width and. surfacing change every time you cross a county line, fore we have had a limit of thirty miles an hour on heavy cars, but no limit on light cars, The police could prosecute the driver of a light car for dangerous, careless or negli- gent driving, but not for exceeding a speed limit. We have now im- posed a limit of thirty miles an hour on all cars in built-up areas, At the same time we -are doing away with the speed limit on the new by-pass roads. I believe that all these changes are in the right direction, If we can give the u-er of the roads every possible safety device, if we can compel vehicles to conform to safety standar.. if we can get a high standard of future road construction adopted 1 believe that our road trafic will eventually begin to flow with some of the safety which rail traffic has achieved." wisi Quick Turnover \ Well-dressed, suffering from three days' hunger, a young man knocked at a farmhouse near Akron. Time: 7 a.m. "Good morning,' to the farmer, "I am an advertising man out of work. I'm starved. Wonder if you'd please give me some breakfast? I'll be glad to. do what I can to repay you." people. Now comes Miss Margaret Ruth Butler, of the Department of Bio- chemistry of the University of To- ronto, with a very comprehensive brouchure printed at the University Press in Cambridge, . England, tell- ing all about the substance, scien- tifically, chemically and culinary. She says the proper name of the substance is "Chondrus Crispus" and she has evolved a method where- by it may be reduced to salts and made an article of commercetin that form. Description of the method in the pamphlet seems to be technical- ly very complete -but people who have been familiar with its value in a homely way won't bother to con- vert it into salts any more than they will worry as to the value of balm-of-gilead balsam for cuts and coughs, or real spruce gum as some- thing nice to chew. Aint It The Truth ? Slow up at the railroad track-- It only takes a minute-- And then your car will start again, And better yet, you're in it! 11 Off For Polo Games Traffic Being Segregated. "Another piece of railway prace- I tice which we are getting introduc ied little by little on the roads is that of segregatng traflic according to its type, We have got the principle of twin carriage ways on our main high- ways established, and lately we have got separate tracks for cyclists to in Middlesex and Coventry, Another railway usage which I want to see adopted is the provision of guard rails .at the curb to prevent pe- destrians from stepping off into the heavy traflic of junction points. I have just got my first guard rail agreed to. ' ' "And then there is railway uszage in fatal accidents, For years the railways have held a formal inquiry into the cause of every fatal accident. Wo can't hold a full-dress inquiry into every accident on the roads, but we can get at the causes of road fatalities by means which are almost ag effective, So we have prepared forms containing 400 or 400 questions to be answered, and in future, these will be used whenever a fatal acci- dent occurs on the roads, In this way wo shall get the fullest possible light on the casses of accidents, "Another railway principle which we have taken over is the rule that the man who drives a vehicle must understand it: mechanism, On the , Toads we havle always imposed a Stephen (Laddie) Sanford, Mrs Sanford, the former Mary noted U.S, society polo star, and | Duncan, stage and screen beauty, They are enroute to - | mortality. Voice of the Pr CANADA STYLE CHANGE The girl who used to spend a lot of time in front of the glass making sure her hat was on straight now spends the same amount of time making sure it isn't, -- St. Thomas Times-Journal, MENTALLY ILL, _There is decided merit in the pros posal of the Hon, Dr. J. A, Faulkner, the provincial Minister of Health, that the word "insane" shall be de- leted from Ontario's statutes wher ever it may occur and be replaced by the phrase "mentally ill and de-, fective." We have made much pros gress from that dim period in which individuals suffering from mental illness were considered to be in such - a hopeless state that they were con- fined in virtual prisons and set apart from the world for the remainder of i their days.--Brockville Recorder, ] ISLAND STEPPING STONES Soon every little island in the ocean is going to find itself important and it is certain that, with aviation developing as it is, places which in the past have not even been spots on the map will become centres of interest. Here, for Instance, is the case of the Wake Islands, away out in the Pacific Ocean, These are threo small islets, with a total area of not more than 2,600 acres, yet they are to be a point of call on the pro- posed U.S.-China air route, plans for which are now well under way with Pan-American Airways and the Unit- ed States Government co-operating. --Sault Star. Ir BRITAIN'S PROGRESS The soundness of the bas's on i which British recovery has been bulit ! fs shown more clearly than ever in Neville Chamberlain's budget for the coming year, The average Br ton's 'standard of living has steadily im-~ proved, The cost of living last year was substantially below the level cf 1931, when tlie National (Government came into power. Industrial produe- tion rose 12 pec cent. last year; ex- portd increased $143,009,000,----Wini:- pez Tribune, "THE STAGGERING TOTAL" Any attempt to establich the ab- solute total of direct and indirect vietim; of the war in the whole world, Professor Hersch of the with this diet is that the patient feels, and looks, better and there is a lesser tendency towards infection. The second result is that there is a lesser tendency to break diet, be- cause with this diet, the diabetic may have bread, potato, marmalade on his toast, and sugar on cereal, or in tea and coffee. The third result is that the diet is applicable to all types of diabetes. The fourth -re- sult is the marked decrease in the 'incidence of coma. Coma has almost completely disappeared in our clinic; we now see three wo five cases a year only and the reason is that this diet deprives the diabetic of that food which is nessary to produce coma, namely, fat. A fifth result with this diet, is that less diabetics require in- sulin and, of those who do require if, the average dose is less than with the older types of diets. Lastly, and a very important result with this diet, is that treatment is greatly simpli- fied. None of our diabetics are now subjected to the old type "of educ- ation, where it was necessary for them to know about carbohydrate fat, protein and caloric values of food materials; nor are scales neces- gary with this diet--the best proof-is that we are now experiencing our lowest incidences of morbidity and Oakville Man Inventor Highway "Safety Line?" Oakville.--This town may yet be accorded the honor of inventing the { "safety line" now universally used to mark the centre of highways at curves and danger points, if Chief of Police David Kerr is correct in his reckoning. Stirred by the nation-wide search for the inventor or originator of the safety line, the chief harked back to his carly days in Oakville an remembered that W. H. Sweet, chief constable" of this town nearly 20 years ago, had the then town foreman, George MacLaren,. paint a black line down the centre of the highway from Navy Street to Dun- das Street. Tok Small sections of t visible, his line are still but to aid in settling disputes be- tween motorists as to the right-of- way. It was soon adopted by Hanm- ilton, where the color was changed from black to white and has since become one of the greatest safety devices on, the continent. New Body Controls: 24,000 Toronto. The newly-formed Canadian Curling association fs es- timated to have jurisdiction over 24,. 000 curlers througout the country and 613 chibs, 1 ganizations, took part n the forma. while the line was not orig- ment has taken unprecedented steps inally intended as a safety Measure, in the last two years {o reduce farm Eleven governing , bodies, most of them proviacial or-_ in: with. reducing farm production is pictured 'as they sailed from New York City. Lngland where Sanford will compete in polo matches. tion of the national association, University of Geneva sums ul, is doomed to failure," in the™firat placa "pecause we lack reliable data 'for the backward countries." Dut, he adds, "even with these gaps we as rive at the following approximate ei timates" cf death; directly and indi- rectly attributable to the world Var: Miltary Civil 12,637,000 12,219,000 175,000 - 1,500,00) 6,00) 13,700,009 99,000 950,600 76,000 60,000 Europe -...... America Asia Africa Oceania 13,055,050 28,379,000 Which gives the staggering total of "early 42 million people destroye:i" --a number actually greater than the population of France, Iingland and Wales, and four times as great as the total. population of the Dominion of Canada.--Halifax Herald, A SPECULATION, The population of the United States in 1800 was, 5,308,000, less than half the population of Canada today. - Even in 1820 it did not exceed 9,636, ~ 000, or 1,500,000 le s than the num- ber of people who live in this Dom- inion now. The rate of increase, however, was consistently g.cater than that of Canada, owing to the heavy immigration which continued until drastic restricive regulations were imposed fifteen or twenty years' ago. When economic conditions have improved it 'may he predicted that Canada's population will increase at / a greater rate than at any other time in her history and may reach 20, 000,000 within the next two decades, --Victoria Timez. - ORGANIZED CHILDHOCD "(he school child of twenty years ago knew little or nothing of air planes or radio or automobiles, but today these are gu part of his life. Child life is also organized today as hever before with Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, camps, clubs, choirs and athletic teams. The proce s of relat- ing education to this more socialized existence is in itself a problem of importance.--London Free Press, { PARADOX ON THE FARM, _Although the Washington Govern- production, an odd turn of event: hrs (resulted in a substantial increase in [ the number- of farmers, (ensus bwy'-,. | i eau officials estimate that at tor ey : {half a million new farms have sprung' N | up in the United States during the : 'depression. - For the mo t pari, it is believed that this is due to the re: turn to rural areas of city folk whose jobs vanished when factories shut down, Over a period of many years the American farm population stead- ily declined, Jt Is surprising enough to find this trend veversed, over a fivelyear stretch; but to: try to un- derstand just how this veversal fis quite a task.--Quehee Chronicle-Tele. graph, :