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celves 'he Ahost" kes Elsie tonfesses her : ably to Hlame for! the th wood, 1 take the s too Feady to pick a gee him I will} whe Hi do not think ng him for the death kh is just coming in," said Elsie, ad turned to look out of the ) Shall I call him up. here?" "scene. 'Don't "you think ight, undoubtedly. I t was capable of misinter- tion. I only mentioned the el we had, because it was part he explanation which was due ou in another direction. It can- ( d your notice that es and RKare-a trifle dis- en we 'meet at table." "noticed it." e could' 'avoid seeing it," S eyes glittered as 3 ster. : Vell, I will take the first oppor- of apologising to him." 8 that one of the reasons you} 'wished to leave?" asked 'Maud, shrugged his: shoulders. 'Elsie teith was looking inquiringly at him. 1 r face had gone very pale. her bout the dog, Miss Barron. Have I your permission to hand the affair over to the police for inves- tigation? You see, it may be that achers, or bad charac- i , who desired 'the death "of the dog. If you get another dog the same fate may overtake it. But there is the question of the manner of the dog's death, That is what I can't get over." "We often have gypsies coming p from Epsom way," said Elsie. ese rvople have strange knowl- dge, and they-are wandering tribes, Pion know." "That is true, but"I have never 'heard 'of any gypsies who had a - "knowledge of. South Burican poi- : >sone SESE ~~ %Qh, I don't know. There was a here just before 'yous-came: [a pretended 'to tell fortunes, and - he/recognized a picture of Jamaica vv and one of Cuba that hang in the hall, Don't you remember, Maud?" "Of course, I forgot that. He had travelled all over the world and ~ knew Spanish America very well. I "tried him in Spanish and he rode to the test." "But you never asked him. about ! poisons, dear," smiled Elsie wearily, as, she rose to her feet and passed her hand across her brew. "If 'only Dr. Foster had been here he would have introduced toxicology into. the 'conversation. My goodness, how Go to your room, Elsie, and lie ? said Maud. "She has had a most of the . afternoon," a "I wonder if you now?" "Elsie laid a hand on his arm, elt the pressure of her with which she conveyed the] It she were telling him not ; 'able to her in front 8) that their secret was to n a secret for the time being:| "My dear Dr, Foster, not all the igs you have could remove ny cadaches, I've tried all kinds of t's nerves, that's all, and 'me. like a good sleep | ~ If I'm not 't appear for vening, you'll y y. for | to-mor- i § tp o matter into o hands of the. "suthoraat "Doctor, doctor, haven't I 'already sald that you are to do as you think : _ "Very well, think fit" _ She held out 'hand impulsively. "] have always you to rely on, haven't 17", "Always--so long as I can advise and bring you back to health" "Thanks. And there goes the din- ner gong. I am coming down to- night, I feel the drive has put lite into me." He was on the threshold when she called him. "By the way, please take a look in to see Elsie later. I am sure you could relieve her of - those head- aches." "Is she subject to them?" "Only these last few days. I am not surprised. We are all a bit up- set." Elsie was not down to dinner, but Hughes was there, and after the meal Foster made a point of speak- ing to him, He followed him into the hall and made an apology for the scene near the wood. Hg took the blame, accusing himself of be- ing too ready to flare up, and he hoped that Hughes would forget it. To Be Continued. Never Lost A Baby Aged Swedish Nurse" Assisted : At More Than 100 Births "NO 'letters after her mame, hor a specialist in obstetrics, yet she has the credit 'of having brought more 100 babies into the world success- fully since she passed her 60th birth day. This is" the record of "Grandma" Grandma Lindstrom That the League of Nations fs ir.' revocably committed to halt Musso- linP's - invasion of Ethiopla was the opinfon expressed in an interview. with Boston Transcript by Miss Sarah Wambaugh., who has just returned from the League's Geneva sessions. Technical adviser and deputy mem. ber of the Saar Plebiscite Commis. sion and for many years an authority on various European questions, Miss Wambaugh said England's self-inter- est coincided closely with the present trend of League activities, but she scoffed at-what she said Is a frequent allegation that England controls the League for her own purposes. "No one pretends that England controls = Russia," , Miss Wambaugh sald. "But Russia 18 firmly supporting the League today. So are the Scan. dinavian countries, but it {s self.in. terest for all of them rather than any leadership of England's that they are following, . "These countries all see their only hope lies in collective security against aggression. They know that any one of them might be some other nation's Ethiopia." : "The fact is that England is' ab. solutely committed to the principle that any action must be League ac- téon," she sald. As a consequence, she added, the present situation must de- velop either a war, a satisfactory | agreement between Italy, Ethiopia ing by Mussolini. --Miss Wambaugh -said- she saw-a number of posters in Italy a few weeks ago which might be construed as threatening to England's African territories, one of which proclaimed: "I 'belleve that the It&lian program is the greatest threat power that has éver occurred in my lifetime," Miss Wambaugh said. "And I do not regard threatening Lake Tsana or her Afri. Lindstrom of the Athabaska district, who, now more than 80 has given up 'her work of love and care for others which has taken her, at times: into bitter winter weather over miles of icy roads, tic husband, whose wife was lying alone in some lonely shack has' ever been ignored by the old lady who is known and loved by all the residents | of the district for many miles. She came as a widow of 62 from Sweden. From the time of her ar- rival Mrs, Lindstrom has been in de- mand as a midwife. Twenty years were not what they are today, but no weather or roads were bad enough to stop her when he felt that her as- sistance was needed. No student of medical books and zenerallv obliged to work in some lonely: little log cabin, poorly heated and lichted only-by a: coal oil lamp, "Grandma" Lindstrom has never lost '|a single baby, and on none of her cases has she ever had the assistance of the doctor, Dancing In School . young women school teachers should not" be commended for teaching older boy students the art of ballroom dancing. ° Teachers who spend much of their spare time teaching boys in their expect to maintain discipline in the classroom, in the opinion of C. C. Carrothers, retiring chairman of the board. It was his speech which killed a motion commending teachers for their dancing instruction. Chairman Carrothers said he was unalterably 'opposed to teachers: giv- ing lessons in ballroom dancing. "It certainly can't help discipline," said, Trustee Joseph Jeffery, who had asked that the teachers be commend- ed for their extra-curricular activity, said he wouldn't use the word "ball- room." "All right "then! came back the chairman, "I'll say waltzes, fox-trots and tango, Yes, and the rhumba," "| Gems From Life's _ Scrap - Boo k "God never made His work for work for man to mend."--Dryden, It is only imperfection that com- :| plaig of what is imperfect. The more perféct we are, the more mory 0 & those ted No call from a fran- ago, roads in the Athabaska Tistrict Can't Help Discipline LONDON, Ont.--London Board of | Education decided recently that its! classes how to dance could scarcely, he| can-lands' but as threatening her whole prestige in the Mediterranean." | Miss Wambaugh sald that Germany appeared to be eager to maintain 'frieldly relation with England at this juncture, and that the German pub- lic has manifested cansiderable fee!- ing against Mussolini ever since his | interference with the Austrian.Ger- ina affairs at {he time of the assina- i tion of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfus. fw Names For New Warships Observes the London Times -- Among the names assigned to ships of the 1936 new. construction pro- gram are Liverpool," Manchester, Gloucester, Cachalot, Sterlet, Bittern; Sheldrake, Kittiwake, Gleaner, Plov- er and Research; The three cruisers which receive the. names of English cities 'will. make up a total of eight in this new class, An innovation is made this year in order that Man- chesfer may have a representative ship in the Fleet. ~ Cachalot will continue a series of marine monsters like Grampus and Narwhal, submarine mine-layers. The name of Sterlet will be the twelfth, all beginning with "S" and all nam- es of fishes, which have, been chosen for patrol type submaries since 1930. : Bittern is a convoy sloop. Sheldrake, a name going back to 1806, and Kitti- wake, new in the Navy, belong to coastal sloops. Gleaner is appropriate for a surveying ship. Plover, bestowed on a costal mine- layer, commemorates the capture of the Dutch ship Kievit (peewit, plov- er) by the Morning Star in 16563. A gunboat Plover was concerned in the Boxer operations of 1900, and .there was a destroyer Plover in the late War. Research, borne by three earlier ships of the Navy since 1846, is a fitting designation for the new mag- netic survey vessel, Work Their Way Around The World An attempt to work their way around the world in ships is being made by two young Vancouver sis- ters, They ate Clara M, Wilson, a schoo} teacher, and Katharine, a stenogra- pher. They started out on the first lap of their journey aboard the Bri- tish freighter Harmatris, on which they signed as members of the crew, early last month, The Harmatris will : take them to Sydney, N.S.W. From Sydney they hope to catch. a boat for India or the west coast 1| gentle and quiet we become towards of Australia, work their way to 1 the; defects of others." Fenelon, , South Africa and up the east coast of Africa and then go through Eu: rope and England, returning by New : York and Montreal, and the League, or a complete yleld- "To Whom {s East Africa? To Us!™ to British, it as merely * From the Chicago ° Daily | ews BACK of prison lls the abund- ant life has never been a ruling theory, and achievement of the more abundant life through the de- struction of wealth would seem to be for subtle an idea for the eminent- 17 pragmatic minds of criminals and keepers. Nevertheless, the principles of AA A have taken firm root in Stateville down Joliet way, Thera Warden Joe Regan has decreed a reduction in the canary crop. It seems that many of the lads have been raising canaries for sale, What more fitt- ing occupation Who should know how to raise cage birds better than jail birds? And could a canary born to live in a cage find a more con- genial birthplace than among caged men? The warden, Rawaver; thinks that 2,000 canaries are too many for Stateville. He has limited canaries toa quota of one per prisoner. Ob. viously one canary cannot produce more canaries. So the revenue of the canary raisers who have been selling the birds for $2 each is likely to be cut off, Of course, Stateville's appreciat- ion 'of music is likely to suffer, too, For the restriction edict is said to have been caused by a violent quar- rel between two canary raisers over the respective singing abilities of their pets. The warden, it appears, will have no primadonna stuff in his "stir" -- even among the impresar- ios of the feathered songsters. This is doubtful policy. Some ob- servers, noting the popularity of philosophical works and belles lettres with long-term and life patrons of prison libraries, have voiced the hope that, during the present dark ages, philosophy and the fine arts would somehow be preserved in state-main ed monastic retreats like Stateville, But what chance has musical critic- | ism under thigsnew~canary AAA? THE OLD-STYLE SPELLING BEE (Owen Sound Sun-Times) The Rotary Club of the town of Simcoe staked something mew - in Norfolk county when a picked lot of champion spellers from all parts of the county participated in a spelling match to determine the county championship, senior and junior. - Something new in a way; but really a revival of a very old- fashioned form of entertainment. 'Back in the olden days 'spelling matches, or spelling bees, were quite popular; but in recent year they have practically disappeared as a Friday afternoon feature in some of the public schools. They were good fun and it was next to marvelous to look on and see difficult word after difficult word spelled correctly until one wondered when someone would slip. And there was always a long: battle at the end, often ending .in .a draw, when the star spellers were left alone to up- hold the honor "of their side. Nowa- days one wonders how long a spell- ing contest would last; for one of the penalties we seem to have paid for progress is loss of the knack--- or gift--of correct spelling. The average business man has not time to bother about the correct spelling of a word--he dictates it to a steno- grapher and leaves it to her to do the rest. And the stenographer, if she is wise--and most of them are-- keeps a dictionary in her desk for use .in cases of emergency. Spelling is rapidly becoming a lost art. People nowadays are looking. for new ideas in the way of amusement; the endless round of teas, bridge and dancing becomes monotonous; ama- teur plays demand practice; musical affairs, unless fairly high class, do not attract, Why does someone not try the old-fashioned spelling bee? It would be a drawing card, for instance, to stage a match between the City Council and the Board of Education or a picked team from the Board of Trade, The Service €lubs might fatten their exchrequers by an inter-club tournament. Even, a city spelling league might be or-| ganized. Perhaps. a restriction might be put on that school teachers .and public school pupils be barred or handicapped. "We can well be grateful that more and more of our people understand and seek the greater good of the .fgreater number. --Franklin-D, Ro- osevelt. "The public can stahd a fot better motion pictures than it has received the opportunity to appreciate, -- G., Wells, ; re] 2.10: [0] «+ Bot Just "repaired," but REBUILT from top to bottom AT THE FACTORY, Written new machine guaranties with every one, Bes us or writs at once, ate 'Make and Size Preferred, el Ay Tea at its Best' Climbs Mountains To Please Husband (From Edmonton Journal) The holder of the women's moun. tain climbing record hates mountains and climbs them only to please her husband and children. This is not gossip, It is the frank statement of Mme, Hettie" Dyhrenfurth who, in 1934, reached the summit of Queen Mary peak in the Himalayas, a glant of 24500 feet and outdid the mark of 22,900 feet set by the late Mrs. Bullock-Workmann in 1906, She says she thinks records are silly. Sports should be for the fun of it and, in her opinion, there is no fun in mountain climbing, She gives a graphic description of the blizzard that caught the party at 24,000 feet on her record-breaking climb and which resulted in ten Germans being frozen to death. For nine days we stayed there, with avalanches roaring down the moun. tain, the snow so thick we couldn't see, no alcohol to cook on and the air so rare we could not make kindling burn and it took hours to bring water to a boil, We went around puffing for alr, I tell you it was awful. The only reason I went on up and .-broke the women's record was because I could. not get back without having some of the men take' me back. So I went on. I could hardly breathe. When 'we 'got to the top we could not even see the view. I did all 'this for what? To break a record? Nonsense! And when the photographer asked me to smlle for a picture I boxed his ears, I was so mad. Mme. Dyhrenfurth explains, how- ever, that it there is one thing great- er in her life than her dislike for mountain climbing, it is her Jove for her husband. The latter, born in the Alps and commencing a distinguished climbing career at the age of ten, entertains the belief that the great- dst sport in the world: lles on the peaks that have never been scaled. So his wife goes on breaking records just because she knows it makes him happy. Unquestionably, back of her pro. testations, there i8 more than the obedience of a dutiful wife. Apart from record breaking, Mme. Dyhren- furth has made distinct contributions to the world's knowledge, and there must he a real satisfaction in such work whether one cares for the sub- ject or not. Her frankness, however, causes one to wonder how the me. moirs of the majority of men and women who have done things would read were they recorded with such unsparing honesty. : How many - public heroes. would have failed the mark had they not feared a dressing-down at home more than they did the perils to which they set their faces? How many games have been won because of love for another person rather than love for thé game itself? King of England Still Crack Shot London, -- Despite his 70 years, King George still retains the keen eye and the steady hand that made him one of Britain's best shots, and certainly the best shot among the world's monarchs for years, : Next to yatching, shooting has al- ways been the King's favorite pas- time and he hae a collection of guns almost comparable in value to his stamp collection. Whenever His Majesty gets away from the affairs of state at Buck- ingham Palace and retires to his country estate at Sandringham. one of the first things he does, his health permitting, is to ride out to the fields in search of 'grouse and pheasants, ~ And it takes a fast man to reload the King's gun.. 0 OO RE RL: EO The Book "A VISIT TO AMERICA" by A.G. Macdonell (Macmillan's, Toronto) is delightful, reading--one of the best, I think, of impressions gathered of that vast union of states, by a vis iting British author. Mr, Macdonell has a deep sense of humor combined with a keen insight of human na- ture. One hilarious chapter deals with an afternoon's attendance at a football game. He covers a vast am- ount of territory--New York, Balti- more, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and back, San Francisco evidently captured him completely. His recounter of the mad dash by auto, travelling at the rate of nine- | ty miles an hour from San Francis- co to Los Angeles is a hair-raising episode." A perfect gift to any An- glo-Saxon, ; JEAN VALJJEAN as told by Sol- omon Cleaverf (Clarke Irwin, Toron- d Dr. Canada, who h Cleaver tell this famous story. This is the history of this little book: A young minister in Winni- peg some forty years ago decided, 'after two careful readings of Victor Hugo's Les - Miserables, to tell the | story in his own words in place of a scheduled lecture. It-was received | with such enthusiasm that before he had once committed it to paper, he had repeated it more than 800 tim- es to our 100,000 people, and had been obliged to reject one invitation in every four which crowded upon him. From have heard Dr. Cleaver have come requests for his story in permanent form, that he has been prevailed upon to have it published, By good fortune an excellent screen version of Les Miserables was, produced re- ,| cently in_ France, and" the publish ers have been able through the kind- ness of the Compagnie 'France Film to include fourteen scenes from the photoplay. A CANADIAN HEADMASTER by Watson Kirkconnell, (Clarke Irwin, Toronto) is a brief biography of the late Thomas Allison Kirkeonnell by his son. Dr, Kirkconnell 'taught in the schools of Ontarlo for fifty 18, shiefly, at Port Hope and, to will deligh®\the' audiences all over| ~~ so many of those whol. are but bare facts onsets 6 Shelf BY MAIR M. MORGAN [00 HEH HBA CUBA NAC - COE - -NAEN aN Be BN} ing an unusual character of rare un- derstanding. All pupils and teachers throughout the country should read it. TOY BALLOONS by Florence Stei- ner (The Ryerson Press, Toronto) brilliantly illustrated by Elsie Deane. Contains some verse for children that is quaint®and delightfuliiElor- ence Steiner in this volume of verse shows 'a deep understanding of chil- dren's whims and whimsies. All her work is based on actual happenings in the bewildering life of children. For instance take this one: Our rover seems just right to me There's nothing missing I can see But he doesn't show a pedigree. The pup next door has one I know, For Bob, who owns him, told me so. I wish our Rover'd let one grow. He has two ears and eyes deep blue, A cool, soft nose, and four paws too, And a little tail he'll wag for you. Dad says he's finished perfectly He looks as nice as nice can be, But I wish he'd grow a pedigree. CHAPPED HANDS? NOI ow quickly it soothes Honey EAlmond CREAM Way Back In The Fourteenth Century Countess of Atholl Sat In Council, oa Would there be more women M.P.'s or fewer of them in the new British Parliament than there were in the last one, asks Mary Glbson in the Glasgow Herald, That question has now been settled,. Some people ure surprised that more women have not been "seizing the opportunity to be coms candidates for Parliamentary honors. It is possible that had there been ne female franchise today' we would have had the suggestion that women were being deliberately kept out of Parliament. Actually, however, it seems that women have always needed a good deal of persuasion to make them legislators. There is an instance of this away back 600 years ago. Incidentally, it may surprise some readers that there wero women in Parliament so long ago as that, since it was only in 1918 that Mr, Lloyd George and the Coalls tion Government made it possible for women to vote in Pariiamentary clec- tions and stand as candidates for Parliament, FAMOUS ASSEMBLES Actually women sat in Parilament --or the equivalent of that Assembly --aven earlier than the period just referred to. So far back as the year 694, Indeed, ladies of the nobility and aristocracy sat in Council with the Saxon, Witas; and in Wightiried's Great Council at Beconeed there were abbesses sitting in deliberation along with the king, bishops, and nobles, and five of them signed the decrees drawn up at that assembly. Reverting to women in Parliament 600 years ago, it is a fact that wo- men did act as leaders at West. minster; and there is an unusually interesting coincidence ~ between the reign of Edward III, and our own time in that connection, As everyone knows, the Duchess of Atholl was the first woman to be returned to Paria. ment for a Scottish constituency. One of the lady legislators of the relgn of Edward III. was Cartharine Countess of Atholl, who was the dau. ghter of an English nobleman, mcr- rled to the eleventh Rarl of Atholl, and mother of the twelfth and. last (Celtic) Earl of Atholl, That four teenth-century lady of Atholl was probably the first Scottish woman M.P. of all time,-as the present lady of Atholl is certainly the first Scot. tish woman M.P. under our modern franchise and Parliamentary systems, But the difference between then and now is that Catharine Countess of Atholl did not seek to ho elected to Parliament, but was forced to sjt fn that assembly. So were at the same time Mary Countess of/ War. wick, "Anna Despenser, Aliency Coun. tess of Ormond, Philipa Courtess ot March, Johanna Fitzwater, | Agneta Countess of Pembroke, Matilda Coun. tess of Oxford, Mary de St, Paul, and Mary de Roos. In those days the ladies were uit en to appear in Parliament, and there was no escape for them from their - dutfes. If by any chance they could not take their places they 'were bound to find proxies to appear and vote for them. Women were summoned to Parliament also in the time of Henry III and Edward: I. These were genera ally abbesses, as in the period of the Saxon Witas, AFTER A LONG DELAY Considering all this, it is all the more. strange that, in the following centuries, avomen should not only be banned from Parliament, but re- fused to vote, and that the long strugg'e for the fomale franch!se which began in the middle of the last contury and culminated in the Suf- fragette movement in the ycars be- fore the Great War should have heen possible in a country which had had women legislators a thousand' years = before, . In Scotland, indeed, our women were admitted as local burgesses cqually with men many centuries ago but they did not seem c¢ver to have been admitted Parliamentary membership. Hairpins Don't rome At All Palatable Theré's the atory of the Scottish farmer' who found that the mortality rate among his cows increased sharp. ly when he began tg employ milk. maids, The milkmglds dropped hair. pins, and the c¢Aws, Innocently en. ough, swallowed them. So the dog, 9 leading English vets erinarian pointfd out in a recent lec. ture, is not fhe only animal which acquires {llngss through swallowing foreign bodied. But dogs slill lead the field, Eng. lish_dogs, it Was brought out, have swallowed cols, stones, rubber balls and brooches, \ There is authentie record, moreoveN of one swallowing a silk stocking. : Ing things that ave y kno ws! calling them by names' 'K. Ch