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ot - about _A DEFENDER OF MODERN GIRLS "Np hankerer after a period some- , ted. But Dr, C, P. Brown, chief of the "fmmigrations for thé Dominion, if he . is being properly quoted, goes much astonishing statement: "A native (Canadian never has been known to coufract the disease." -- Moncton THE WORLD CANADA FAITH IN HUMANITY Chinese laundryman in Bronxville, N.Y., went for a holiday and left a note in the window telling people to get their laundry as the door was not locked, We doubt whether this gen. tleaenan has been thoroughly civilized and Christianized since coming to this country. --- Stratford Beacon. Herald. PAINTING BARNS After a lapse of five full years, Canadian farmers are beginning to paint their barns again, There is no general rush, but here and there through most of the mixed farming areas, examples are readily noted. While important enough in itself in view of the immense area to be cov- ered in familiar red, green or white, the significance of the return of barn paint is that it means the first real indication of a return of permanent. ly better times to Canadian agricul- ture. -- Financial Post. GOOD SALESMAN If the large number of people who have visited the Canada Shop in London since its opening last week is maintained until the date of clos- ing, the promoters should be more than pleased with the publicity glven to Canadian food products through this practical On Saturday last the number of visi- tors was checked, No fewer than 2. 300 passed. along the counters and inspected the food stuffs. The ma- jority of. them purchased samples, as a result of which it is reasonable to anticipate enhanced sales by re- tailers in the locality and in such other localities as' were represented by the visitors, -- Canada's Weekly, London. : ' FARM PRICES RISING The most satisfactory year for livestock production since 1930, is the report made by a packing come pany. There are many - other evidences of this condition. Prices in all lines of livestock have advanced a long way from the low point registered four years ago. The same thing applies to most of the other minor products of the farm -- dairy produce, poultry and eggs, and all the many products from which the well-anaged farm derives much of its revenue. -- Winnipeg Tribune. PITY POOR MOTORIST Hard is' indeed is the lot of the drunken motorist who gets caught. Most courts will fine him $10 to $25, occasionally: give him ten days in jail, and sometimes actually deprive him of the privilege of driving a car for as such as a few months. And all of this simply because he dellb- erately placed a large number of fel- low citizens in danger of instant death or of the loss of limbs or of horrible and painful lacerations. -- Toronto Telegram. times referred to as "the good old times" is, apparently , Mr. Lloyd ieorge, who, in spite of years that are occasionally considered rather advanced, is sufficiently youthful in spirit and outlook to refrain from the fault-finding in regard to the rising generation of which older people are «0 often guilty. Far from bemoaning what he finds in modern youth, the former Prime Mini:ter evidently considers that it is quite all right, at least the fe- minine part of it. He said so the . ther day when he (a product of the Victorian era) denounced it as "prim and grim" and remarked that he preferred the modern girl and the "education which makes her what she js. "The old academies for young ladies--they were not girls in those days," he went on to say, "at best were an expensive joke, and at their worst they were an: atrocity." --- Brockville Recorder and Times. LEPROSY IN CANADA Leprosy is waning in this country and as Dr. Murray MacLaren said when Minister of Health, the danger of contagion {s very much exaggera- division of quarantine and medical further. The {idea that a healthy person can get leprosy by touching a leper is "mere nonense,"she sald. "No doctor oy nurse treating lepers has ever been known to fall prey to the disease." Then he adds the more Times. - KNEE PLUS ULTRA Paris reporiss taat the sea on's first Winter style showing at Chanel's advertising medium. AT LARGE - knee. You may remember that joint. it was much in evidence before the depression, Then, glong with stocks and things in general, skirt hems came crashing down. For the past five years it has been discreetly con- cealed almost everywhere except in the nudist camps. May there not be an outside chance that business and fashions are re. lated in some way or another? Cer. tainly, business i3 looking up. And now skirts are apparently following suit, Chanel has chopped off three inches at one stroke, an upswing as convincing as anything provided by economists' charts, When the coy patella once more blossoms forth in all its pristine perfection we shall perhaps Known the corner has been turned and that wo are again to find ourselves knee- deep in prosperity. -- Windsor Star. SUN TANNERS BEWARE! Intense sunlight has the same ef- fect on the body as it has on the top of an automobile, It causes de- hydration and premature wrinkling. --Hamilton Herald. [. ---- LESS RELIEF AT THE SOO "ere are one-third fewer families on relief in the Sault at the present time than there were a year ago, the figure now being about 400 compar- ed to 600 at the end of July, 1934. That i8 a welcome jmprovement in conditions, and contrasted to the figure of over 1,600 families on re- lief in May, 1933, shows a steady gain since that time. This is due to a large measure to the betterment of industrial con- ditions here, resulting from the re. organization of the steel plant and from the general advance in busi. ness and employment throughout Canada. . There are Indications, too, that things will continue to improve un- less some untoward event happens to cause the present trend to be upset --Sault Ste. Marie Star. WAS COSTLY LESSON Twenty-one years ago -- June 28, to be exact -- a Bosnian youth fired a shot into Europe's powder box and set the world on fire. The nightmare that followed resulted in the death of 10,000,000 soldiers and 13,000,000 civilians, in 20,000,000 maimed, in dollar losses of 500,000,000,000. Every nation lost, and every nation still is paying for its defeat, says the Pitts. burgh Press, On the surface, the world appears to have forgotten the frightful les- sons of 1914-18. Yet, has it? Viscount Cecil has made public in London thé results of a great peace referendum. The English = electorate voted 11,000,000 to 335,000 for-Brit- ain to remain in the League of Na. tions; 10,000,000 to 800,000 for a gen- eral arms reduction; 10,000,000 to 700,000 for taking the profit out of ams traffic; 10,000,000 to 600,000 to apply economic pressure to attacking nations. Here was a popular vote for law and peace voice, as Lord -Gecil said, in "passionate intensity." When the masses are willing to fight the warmakers as passionately as they have been fighting imagin. -ary' enemies, the sword.rattling rul- ers of earth will find themselves without armies to fight and without taxpayers to pay for their follies.-- St. Catharines Standard. HARDER TO MARRY It is harder for young men to marry now than it was years ago, according to the United States Commissioner of Education, owing to the broader outlook of women. He holds that marriage i8 not very attractive to many of these bright modern girls-- certainly not so attractive as to thelr grandmothers. They "hive the alter. native choice of careers and conse- quent independence. Kingston Whig-Standard. ABUNDANCE OF CROPS Nature has been good to Canada {his year. Right across the Dominion from Nova Scotia to British Colum- bia there are bountiful crops. It is doubtful if Ontario,- and particular. ly Western Ontario, ever had such abundance of crops. Hay, wheat, oats, corn, vegetables, fruit, everything grown in this fertile peninsula will have ylelds above the average. -- London Free Press. THE EMPIRE It was revealed last week that the donor of the Anonymous Education Fund for the children of officers of the Royal Air Force, which, since 1928, has expended nearly £4,000, was the late Mr, T. E. Shaw -- Col onel Lawrence of Arabia. The, fund wag financed by the money received book, "Revolt in the Desert." The decision to make this fact known was reached at a meeting of thls week revealed the feminine the council of the Royal Air Force from the publication of Lawrence's | KP his fréckles run together. Spotted As Champion By F -- reckle On Nose ® Es Bob Turpin won the World's Freckle Face Championship by a nose--which is one big freckle--at a recent contest, His smile makes NEW YORK,--Advertising doubles the number of persons familiar with a brand, triples the number who try it and quintuplets the number of us- ers. . These figures are averages from a study of bond paper made by Charles C. Stech, research expert in advertising. Actually the scanty ad- vertiser gets a smaller rate of re- turn than his average, while the big one gets an increase much greater. ; Stetch studied the use of 27 brands of bond paper by printers. He learn- ed the percentage 'familiar with each brand, the percentage who tried out came regular users. There were three brands of paper know to more than 75 per cent of the printers. Of these 72 per cent tried out the three brands and 20.4 per cent were regular users of them. .-At the bottom were seven brands of paper, known to 14 per cent of the each one and the percentage who be- | Value of Advertising Shown By Actual Test With Product printer: Six per cent had tried them out and less than half of one per cent' of these printers used the seven. When the average of persons Know. ing about the brands was raised to 35 per cent, in. a different group of bond papers, the trials rose to 16 'per cent but the regular customers rose only a-tenth of one per cent, But when the papers were reached known to 50 per cent of the printers the users rose tg nine per cent, ' Above that came the phenomenal jump to 20.4 customers in the. top- most three kinds of bond paper. The study showed an unusually large increase in steady customers when nearly everyone was familiar with the brand. No saturation point was revealed. The highest single brand was known to 96 per cent of the printers, and apparently its reg- ular users were far greater in pro- portion than those of any of the les. ser known papers. : To Get Inside Story Of Asylum Reporter Patient Seven Days "SEVEN DAYS HOUSE" IN THE ,MAD- The above banner line appeared recently on the Chicago Daily Times front page, referring to the experience of Frank Smith, Daily Times report. er, who spent seven days and nights in an 'asylum. The sensational story was the result of Smith being '*com- mitted" to the Kankakee, Ill State Hospital. - - For the occasion Willis O'Roarke, another Daily Times reporter, be- came Smith's "brother," and com- ynitted his to the state insane ho:z- pital, following the receipt of num- erous complaints by the Dally Times that conditions were particularly bad at the Kankakee institution, To as- certain conditions, Smith, a former college football player and life guard, who tips the scales at 200 pounds, was asked to do a series of articles. In addition to interviewing officials and other persons, he undertook to spend a week as an inmate in the i og His story of brutal treatment, be- ing subjected to unsanitary condi- tions, including 15 hours in a tub of dirty flowing river water to cure Benevolent Fund over which Lord Wakefield presided. In a letter to~ the Wakefield said: "Mr. T. E. Shaw allowed him. .- self no share in the financial suc- cess of. his book, 'Revolt in the Desert' and £15,000 received from this source was invested, so as to establish an. "educational - fund for the Denefit of the chil. dren of officers of the Royal Air Force. "The Anonymous Education Fund, as {it has always been known in deference to his wish. es, has since 1928 expended near- ly £4,000; during 1934 alone it was able to provide £796 towards the education of 42 chilldren, the majority of whom are father. less." In. futiire, Press Lord Lord Wakefield sald, the fund will be known as 'The Lawrence of Arabia Educational Fund." ---~ London Times. 4 as p 43 his feigned violence, {8s appearing in 'a series of articles this 'week. The Daily Times' circulation julnped nearly 10,000 yesterday, as a result of the story, according to Louis Rup- pel, managing editor. All marks of identification were re- moved from Smith's clothing before he and O'Rourke set out for Kanka- kee. In relating his struggle with hos- pital attendants preparatory to being subjected to the "water treatment," Smith states: =~. : "With comething like - pardonable shame I have to admit here and now that it I could have made myself heard, I would have given up uncon- ditionally. I'd have confessed to. ev- erything. To hell with the investiga- tion. To hell with the job." After being reléased from the hy- drotherapy ward, Smith participated in the routine of a patient, subjected to the common - drinking cup, vile food and general over-crowded condi tions. He said in his story he par- ticularly criticized over-crowded con- ditions. 7 ; ; World Weary Lay me down in the arms of Sleep, in the comfort of her breast, For I am weary of all but her and fain would, be at rest. Hide me close from the cares that haunt the futile, waking hours, And round and over me shed the scent of unremembered flow- rs. Bid the darkness to fold me, the stars to veil their light, And mute the plilse of eternal life--the music of the night. Hush the murmur of waters' flow, 'and let there be no song, But only an untouched silence in a night deép and long. Send me nought' hut oblivion: 'no thought, no dream, no pain; Whisper not through the darkness that I must wake again, -- But lay me down in the arms of Sleep, over and ever blest, For 1 am weary of all but her, and fain would be at rest. + --Angela K. Dawes. It is vain to gather virtues with- "delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble,--Erasmus, ~~ = - arriage Makes For Long Life According To Statistics Those Who Are Than Those Whose Lot Is Single Wed Live Blessedness Longer There are nearly 6,000 marriages every week in England; 857 a day, or nearly thirty-six an hour! A care- ful analysis of the British Registrar- General's latest review shows that, {on an average, thirteen out of each 857 marriages will end in the Di. vorce Court. Superstitious people, please take note. That dreaded num- ber thirteen. ~ Consider, though, how small a per centage thirteen in every 8567 repre- génts. Immediately someone is divor- ced all the old tales about six-month marriages are dug out and paraded with much shaking of heads. It's so unfair. Divorce is not nearly as popu. lar as some people would have us believe. Roughly, about 1%; per cent, of our marriages end in divorce. A very small proportion surely? "people can't afford to marry young today--they leave it till later in lite." "Wo are marrying later." How often have you heard those remarks? They have no foundation in fact. PEOPLE MARRY EARLY Let us take you back to the Reg- {strar-General. His accuracy is quite ruthless, his figures unquestionable. And what do we find? Out of 307,000 marriages in 1932 over 5,000 men mar- ried before they were twenty, 13,000 married under twenty-one and an- other 150,000 by the time they were twenty-six, These figures of course, concern bachelor bride-grooms, Thus, more marriages in England take place at or under the age of twenty- six than at any other time. Why tell u3 then, that men have ceased to marry young? Twenty-six {8 barely a bath-chair age. With spinster brides it Is the same: 47,000 married before they were over twenty, 49,000 under twen- ty-one and 161,000 before they were more than twenty-six. - ° Ey The average age of the bridegroom today is twenty-seven, and of the bride twenty-five. Youthful enough. Incidentally, there has been little variation in this average for the last thirty years. Between 1901 and 1905 the actual average was 256.37 for spinster brides, and 26.90 for bache- lor bridegrooms. ; Extremely youthful marriages still occur. In 1932 sixteen men wetre married at the age of sixteen, and over 5,000 before they were twenty. With women no. fewer than 758 were married at sixteen, and 28,000 before they were twenty. Simple Type -- First Fall Days REE O. oF, "Xap iy w . 2864 Here's one of those simple day frocks that finds an important place in every wardrobe, It's fashioned of wooly-lcoking crepe silk with satin-back in rusty brown. that cut in one with the should: ers, made of the reverse sile of the crepe, provides smart con- trasting effect. Style No, 2864 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40-inch bust. = Size 16 requires 28 yards of 89-inch material with 134 yards of 89-inch con- trasting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainly, giving number "and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin 'out humility; for the Spirit of God coin foie) or each number, and ad- dress your order to Wilson Pat. tern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. The *easy-to-sew sleeves . referred; wrap it care- | the ordinary house mosquito, ventures where the black-fly dare not is manifestly to improve the mobility of this new type pest. Our good old- fashioned mosquito is a bit slow on the wing and even slower a-foot,-- the work of rendering human life mis- erable. Armed with a black-fly hits an speed of wing, and perhaps slightly streamlined, next year's model of the mosquito ought to be something that will lift €anada out of the depres- At the other extreme 1,811 men and 694 women married between the ages of sixty-five and pixty-nine, To cap even that -- elghty-six men and ten women married when they were past eighty, Which is the most dangerous year of wedlock? People talk learnedly, from experience, of the seventh, with its entire lack of glamour and romance, its dreaded monotony. Or perhaps they will warn you against the first. Examined in the cold light of facts and figures, both seem Wrong. More marriages are wrecked in the tenth year than at any other time. Unions to the number of 1,047 which had lasted between five and ten years were dissolved in 1932, and 1,442 of between ten and twenty years' duration, sought separation after less than two years, and under 450 after more than twenty years. So scrap your fears about the notorious number thirtéen and beware of matrimonial bickerings in the tenth year of mar- riage. Doctors often advise their patients to gét married, "It is man't natural state." they say, "and the one in which he is likely to be most &ealthy." Very true. Statistios whole- heartedly support that view. A comparison of length-of-life and marriage statistics reveals the fact that married people live longer, on the whole, than unmarried. 5 BRIDEGROOM'S AGE -- 88! We hear much talk of second mar. riages these days. Certainly they are becoming more popular. It is argued, very reasonably, that people who have marriéd and failed once are not likely to make the same mistakes if they marry a second time. In 1932 some 14,60 widows married again, 6,800 to bachelors and 7,700 to wid- owers. In the same year approxima. tely 23,000 widowers remarried, 16, 500 to spinsters and 7,600 to widows, From this it appears that widowers are twice as likely to remarry as widows, whild widowers are far more fascinating to spinsters than to | widows. Actually, in the year 1932, one of of every sixteen people mar- ried was married a second time. Both the widow and widower are becoming far more cautious of mar- rying again. Widowers, in particu- lar, leave it until late, in life._. Thus the greatest number of widowers-re- married in 1932 between the ages of | fifty and fifty-four. Over 2,000 left it until sixty -- sixty-four. One Peter Pan suddenly got the spring mad- ness in his veins at the age of ninety! The greatest number of 'widows re- married between thirty-five--iairty- nine. Nevertheless, 516 waited until sixty-five--sixty-nine, and one even developed a soul-storm at elghty- eight. 'The average age of widower bridegrooms is forty.nine, and of widow brides forty-four. : When bachelors. marry widows they usually choose one about thelr own age, but when spinsters the widower i8, on an av- erage, ten years older than his bride. | Dark Thought For 1936 While we naturally admire the horticultural or biological expert with 'a taste for research who by combining the best qualities of dif- fering fruits gives us a new and bet- ter fruit, or by careful selection and breeding furnishes us with thicker and tenderer beefsteaks, we may not sufficiently reflect upon what might happen if Nature turned her hand toward the production of bigger and better pests, Yet something of the kind is happening in the insect world if we are to believe Winnipeg des- patches. A mosquito has made its improved upon the ordinary mosquito bite--from \the mosquito view--that it can remove a small with every nip. Evidently, here black-fly bite technique blight of the upon show its head. The next step its most serious handicap is and the house-by's nimbleness sionj--or anything else it may be sit- talo and the ugli, why should Nature quito 7--=Montreal aily Star. wr ing shot dead. Court of Onfario.--Courfer, .. Only ninety-five | idowers marry |. appearance there which has so far point ~ of segment of the human form divine } something, new, a grafting of the that Canadian verandah, that ting in. If man can produce the ats not come hack with a patent mos- One hundred and two years aga, June 13th, 1898, John Wilson and Robert Lyon, two young students-at- law at Perth, fought a duel in North Elmsley near the Tay River on the outskirts of the town, the latter be. Wilson afterwards became a Justice of the Supreme Why Not Be Canadian? (Sault Ste. Marie Star.) A point well worth the consider- ation of tourist resort operators is raised in an editorial in Maclean's Magazine. i After pointing out that the tour- ist trade is growing so that the Do- minion's $140,000,000 revenue from that source last year is likely to show an increase this year, it goes on: oh Visitors come to this coun- 'try because they believe they will see and experience. - things that are different. Too many Canadians who cater to them have a tendency to believe that the thing to do is to make strangers "feel at home". They label hot-dog standsre- freshment booths, cafes and rooming houses with unnatural devices. » ' : Why "New York Cafes," "San Francisco Barbecues," "Holly- wood Huts," "Broadway Park- ing Lots" or "Bronx Cabins" in Canada? Why permit such cheap at- tempts at flattery as the flying of the,Stars and Stripes on hh stalls, gas stations and places of: lodging ? : In short, why shouldn't we -be content to be Canadian? The tourist who crosses the border comes to see Canada and meet Canadians. The true host doesn't put on false whiskers. There is much' to sticking to Canadian names and in Algoma the Ojibway language, for instance, affords opportunity for the adoption of many colorful and attractive words. : SHOWS WAR TREND Scrap Iron Exports From U.S. be said - for Italy And Japan Buy. Government reports record exports fn 1935 of scrap iron and steel -- war's raw materials. : Japan and Italy were listed by the commerce department as the big buy- ers in the greatest volume of ship- ments of "any. previous six-month period of record." ; ; The scrap iron and steel exports for the first half year were given by the department as 1,164,226 gross tons. This compared with 738,848 for the first half of 1934 and was larger than the full '12-months'- period in 1933 or any previous year since 'the war. . Japan took 724,246 tons in the 1935 six months against 407,692 tons dur ing the same period of 1934. Italy in. creased her purchazes from 94,308 tons to 145,923 tons in the same per- ols. The commerce department did not discuss potential war uses of the metals, or the possibility that mili- tary demands were partly responsible for the development of larger and new: markets. The best market: the department said, are "located in these countries having an insufficient supply of raw materials which must be augmented through the importation of scrap required to support a local steel in dustry and in those countries which have an extensive supply .of raw materials - available but import scrap where its use results in economics compared with the use of produced raw materials." : Annual figures on scrap shipments show that the-average yearly export during 1921-26 was only 69.735 tons. This jumped to an annual average of 335,178 tons in 1926-1930. In 1930 the total was 358,649, which fell to 136, 125 in 1931, increased to 227,622 In 1932 and trippled in 1933 to 773,406. Canadian Designer Intrigues Paris. -- A Canadian designer, Marjorie Dunton, recently intreduc- ed such novelties as 'stained glass window" wools, "milky way" chif- fons and wools appliqued with wood faggots to the winter fashion whirl. She displayd wools woven with multi-colored and barred effec's re- gembling = church. windows which were fashioned into sport suits. Colored kidskin blouses were worn with them, : Wools appliqued with wood fag- gots and tufted with gay: castles were made into daytime frocks de- signed in silhouette to follow tha slightly shorter skirts, Black, green, brown and grape were predominant colors for day wear. Hats were small felts jutting over the forehead or rolling back off the face. ; The "milky way' chiffons were of midnight blue splashed with silver stars, A draped evening gown dis- £] have more confer eo today in human bei S&4 tn 1 ; believe they will know how to adjust themselves.,"--A., A. Brill, "There is no greater cisloyality to the great pioneers of human progress than to refuse to budge an inch from where they stood."--Dean Inge. Paris. Bared At Washington -- 'WASHINGTON--The United States locally i a natural lines of the figure, with = id A 1 material. played well the novel material. ever had, I +i v! LS + Lt gM £15 RE ENA en os GF