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Send order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Toronto, Ont. ran I A SP a ee ne BR RT PE ER RR + Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., - 'Toronto, i NE HIRST | Family Gunselot la I feel my place is at home with my child, don't you? * "I live at some distance fram my people, and I just haven't the money to see them when I want to. There's nothing left after I pay the bills, "I am 80 upset! me some advice. * How many parents are re- sponsible for the situation in which you find yourself to- day! Instead of inculcating in their sons the habits of hard work, regular saving, and fin- 'ancial stability, they indulge him like a child. Even your husband's marriage has not given him the sense of respon- sibility that every self-respect- ing husband accepts. For over a year Please give you have expected, you will have to take .a firm stand, and .make him realize the need of living on a: sfrict budget. He. will' shud- der, at the- idea, but he will have to admit its logic. List monthly expenses -- household, upkeep: of the car, and other living .costs. "Add the estimated hospitalization charges and your doctor's fee. Balance these against the fami- ly income--and show your hus- band where he stands. It will needs if he is ever to stand on his own feet, and not crawl to his family for continuous hand-outs, Tell him now how this habit has mortified you; every woman wants to be proud of her husband--and how can she be when he will not take care of his own? His -objection to your work- ing earlier was a gesture of blind vanity. His complacent suggestion that you desert your baby for a position is as selfish, and reveals his ignor- ance of women and the sacred duties and joys of motherhood. Let us hope that the first sight of his son will awaken some sense of the responsibili- ties of fatherhood. Unless he is committed to an Army career, he should pre- pare himself for more remun-. erative work when his term of. service ends. His acceptance of the respon- sibilities he. must-assume will be proof 1 his Jove wor you. ~ LJ How as are those engaged couples who discuss finances be-- fore they marry! That Is the time to prepare for the responsi- bilities of marriage . . . Anne Hirst has ideas that will help you face facts. Write her at New PRAYER BOOK CLUE TO FORTUNE Hidegarde Wimmer, of Reit- im-Winkl, Germany, reading through the family prayer book, was surprised to find a passage written in her dead father's handwriting stating : "Whoever reads this prayer book shall get my money." The rest of the passage di=- rected * the reader to a hid- ing place in a barn where re- posed a substantial sum of sil- ver coins, Stick an adhesive. backed pic- ture hook to the edge of window casing. Slip the curtain tie back over the hook. No need to dam- age wall or casement by pound- ihg nails. M.A. METCALF JOHN PULLEN ek. Ang National 8 becomes d ii ail Aaistant to 4A p iit eo mousing fn ap FE dent. and Robert H. A eth Metealf, who has been B 4peutive oe-president f, for the past /A{ARGO D.L GRANT hy Bri A Metoalf, CRE, is i ited 8 ¥ies President of 1.01. jas for. yo. ent of ohh allen, who en AIT, secretary Gin tumeht, Donald {lord oMQa. " ad iy "His wi vd x ig yh intimate ve and close associa Canada and United Bates years, borne the brunt of his weak- | ness, and it has not been easy. . now, however, when a baby is be a shock, but it is one he - . Folk- Schools, Triple-Treat Topper--Imported from Italy: is this innovation for milady's Easter bonnets, The hat, designed by Georgy Iturbide, can be worn three different ways, as shown above. ARM Clathe Tonge] Last week 1 did a complete right-about-face in 'regard to Folk Schools, Heretofore 1 had not been too enthusiastic about this form of rural education and culture. ' Since we already have ~Womep's Institutes; Farmr--For=---- ums, * Junior Farmers," Night Schools. and various projects sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, I- thought folk schools must surely be overlap- ping on some of these various rural activities, Now I find my opinion was_the result of ignor- ance as I had never before béen to a folk .school to find out other- wise. But I was away two days last week and came home with - very different ideas. In fact it was the most enjoyable two days I had had for a long time. St now my criticism is not of the : folk school but of the number of country people who fail to take advantage of it--just as I failed in that respect myself until this year. However, I think the purpose of folk schools is" becoming bet- - ter known and as public aware- ness of their function increases, so, too, will their popularity in- crease, ay In this country the one held last week was the biggest yet and'I haven't a doubt but what next year there will be an even larger attendance. Well, you may ask, what is a Folk School? Strange as it may seem I 'still find it hard to give a good definition. However, this is how Mr. D. E. Stauffer, of the Ontario Folk School Council puts it.. "The folk school movement is an ideal built on a foundation of true faith in God, faith in de- |" indie a ia * Backstage -- Charlie the Chin- mocracy, and a belief that in every community there is unlim- ited talent, that can, and must be used." That, 1 think, sums it up very well. There is no age limit for, those taking part in folk school acti- vities but every effort is made to encourage interest and parti- cipation among the young folk, as being the future leaders in community life, Thanks to the generosity of rural -- families, students enrolled for the (our- day course are generally guests at a farm home, but in addition to house-students every day car- loads arrive for one or more ses- sions and all take an active part in the discussions and entertain- ment, -The keynote is friendly informality. As a result there is no discernible stiffness or ner- vousness at any of the gather- ings. Living. in. students have' various hougéhold duties before the sessions begin and of course there is plenty of fun, music and 'laughter. The theme for the Folk * School in this district was local history--an intensely intercst- ing and informative programme from beginning to end. There were also other subjects given by local talent art and wild life --plus short observation trips of -anfiques and model farms, How- ever, this is not meant to be a press report--far be it for mv to steal anyone's thunder. All I am .concerned with is putting myself on- record as now being whole- heartedly in favour of Ontario If you who read this .column" are no +more enthu- . siastic than I was at one time I can prescribe a cure. Take yourself out next time .a folk school is set up in your locality and you'll come away, as I. did, completely sold on folk schools . and all they stand for. - One thing I must admit , . there was very little co-operation" " on the part of the weatherman. | The weather was about as bad as 1t had been any time during the winter. Windy, cold, blowing "snow; and ice on the roads, had Intended driving and taking friends with 'me. But I backed out and we took a taxi, The | t | i | ~The berries he next day a neighbour, braver than I, drove her car and two of us went along as passengers. 1 suppose everyone, like our- selves, is getting awfully 'tired of winter, But cheer up, every day brings spring a little nearer. The birds are sensing its com- ing. Starlings in increasing num- bers are out in the yards and gardens; crows flying across the fields, juncos and bluejays more in evidence, as are squirrels and : rabbits, Modern Etiquette Q. May one use a small piece | of bread for dipping up the gravy that is left on one's plate? A. It is bad manners (tb "wipe up" the-gravy with a piece of bread- held in -the fingers. However, it is all right to place the bread down in. the gravy, and then eat it with a fork. Q. When a man is in an ele- vator In an office building, and a woman acquaintance enters, "should he remove his hat? - A. He should lift his hat in greeting, but it is not necessary' for him to remove it in an of- fice elevator. Q. "Is a man ever privileged to remain seated while being in- troduced? A. No; he should 'always rise, regardless of whether the other the other person is a man or a woman. Q. Would it be all right for a man's family to give an en- gagement announcement. party, it the girl's family cannot afford the expense of one? A. No. The man's family may give a celebration party, but the announcement must be made by the girl's parents, and they could do this very well through the local newspapers. ' .Q Is "I know Miss Brown" 'the proper _thing to say when being introduced to her for the | second time?" A. No; this sounds as if: it- were trouble to make a second In spite of these har- acknowledgment. It is better to ~ bingers of spring, late winter is say, "I "have already had the not an attractive time on a farm pleasure' of meeting: Miss but, if you ever fee] inclined to | Brown." --t--era- star, was-a-very worried man. --| You Can Learn While You Sleep Ramon Vipay, the Chilean op= With less than a week to go he had to sing a role. in "Carmen" in Ttalian 'in the famous opera + house of La Scala, Milan, and his Italian. was* poor, He had a heavy Spanish accent and Senor Vinay feared he would be booed off the stage by the hard-to- please and excitable audiences. It was suggested to Vinay that he have a recording of his role, sung in Italian, Haved to. him while dropping off to sleep and while asleep, Vinay thought the idea fantastic, but was persuaded to give it a trial. Within a week he could sing his part without a trace of a "Spanish accent. Ramon Vinay"s experience is but one in the new method of learning while you sleep, which is being more and more widely used in America today. It is, some scientists believe, a blue- print for the future when school for our grandchildren will not be school in a classroom. but on a spring mattress. The Idea comes from New Yorker Mike Sherover, who was chairman of a .company that taught people foreign languag- es by recordings. Always inter- ested in the problem of earning, he was impressed by a statement of a doctor friend that we learnt best when we were in a relaxed state. We were most relaxed 'when asleep, he reasoned. He experimented first with his small son, Charles. In the small hours of the night while his son --slept, Father Sherover read over grumble at your surroundings, take a drive past a few of. the newest suburban - subdivisions and you'll be thankful for your home in the country. I came past one such locality last week -- a ~ few miles west of Six Points -- and I saw a woman fighting her--{-- way through the mud to a wait- ing car at the road. Never in my life have I seen such mud "before. How people 'ever man- age - with small : children I'll never. know. t chilla gets ready for a relax- ing smoke after taking part in the Chinchilla Show. Rip Van Winkle Up - to - date For 30 years 50-year-old Emile Robert had. been an honest, assiduous bookkeeper of un- blemished reputation. He had been with the. same Parisian firm all 'hig eareer, and was well liked and highly esteemed both by his boss and his colleagues. Then just about a year ago he suddenly disappeared, and has just been found. Police dis- covered him in the middle of a dark, wild forest, swarthy and unkempt, with a long begrd and clad only in rags, drag him away the miserable built himself from tree trunks. found- in the forest were his only food. Now. he has told his story. It seems that one day he was called into thg boss's "office. "There is money missing in the cash, Mon- sieur Robert," bellowed the boss, lookifg grim. ' That was too much for Emile Robert. An accusation like that after 30 .yearg' faithful service! by force from With a _ white face Jie turned round, banged the door, and dis- appeared. No trace of him could. be found, until recently 'a peasant' woman was walking through the* . woods and discovered his hide- out. Police were soon on the spot, but he obstinately refused to come back to Paris, civiliza- tion, and his old job. He felf he would not be able to stand the disgrace. : Brought home in sits of his rotests, he learned that his innocence had long been proved. The boss himself arrived by .car soon after, embraced his long- lost bookkeéper, and humbly begged his forgiveness. Now Emile is back at his ledgers, They had to little: hut he had ° | | l} i | i Q. Is it all right for a guest to eat the skin of a baked po- tato? - A, Yes; many people consider this the: best part of the potato. Q. A friend has told -me that our dining room chairs should not be placed under the table be- tween meals, but should be plac- ed elsewhere about the room. Is this correct? A. No. Theréd is nothing at all wrong with placing the chairs 'under the: table, - 'Q. When introducing a per- son to a group of people, Is it necessary to repeat his name to everyone in the group? A. Usually once is sufficient. However, if the group is rather: large and there is a chance some- one did not catch the name, it may be repeated. Q. How should the invitation to act as a Sodpatent be ex- tended? A. Either varbally - by for- mal note. The request can hard- _ ly be refused, and one should "consider it an "honor to be asked to stand sponsor for a chitd. .. Q Is it really considered proper to eat the olive or cherry In one's cocktail glass? A. There is nothing at all wrong with this, i Time-Bombs For Sleeping Sickness Time-bombs will be used later this year in a new blitz against the dreaded tsetse fly in Africa-- chief cause of sleeping sickness: War on this mottled brown, blood-sucking scourge of the At- rican continent has been waged for years, but today. plans are in. preparation for bombing large areas with time-bombs contain- ing. poisonous gases. Test bombs have already been dropped in recent weeks in this country. Each -bomb includes a clockwork mechanism which can be set for any period up to thir- teen hours. Aeroplanes will fly over mil- lions of square miles in West and East Africa, Tanganyika and Uganda, carpeting the bush with the bombs, All will. be set so that, at a set time, they will emit the poison gas. Hopes are high that the blitz will wipe out a large proportion of the deadly flies whose bite has caused the death of 200,000 peo- ple from sleeping sickness in five years in Uganda alone, Burning out the bush -coun- try has in the past rid the reg- ions of millions of the flies which lie low during the day but swarm at nightfall, attacking cattle as well as humains, Now it is realized that much more drastic action is vital. If the time-bombs are effective, vast ~ arcas of fertile land will be sav- ed. Aerial spraying of drugs over thousands: of square miles of Zululand has helped in recent years {0 keep the tsetse fly at. 'bay: there. * 1t costs about five shillings an acre -- money well invested. : : YOU CAN DEPEND oy Wea kidneys fat ta. Y9 sro ath eer ¥ noons i, = KIDNEY J WB pis ate igasrs +0 RIN i norma y. on IRR * feel best atedp NAT 's _#t any PE 3 ~ awake are short, sharp an the-verses-the-boy-had-been-set--] to learn in school, It seemed to promise results, but Father Sher- over began to get circles under his eyes. So he got a record-play- er to stand-in for him at certain . hours of the night, Young Charl- es learnt his poems faster than he had before, so Sherover put his idea up to the University of Carolina. Impressed, the Univer- sity decided to test a group of students, The students were told they "were being tested with the. elec- tro-encelphalograph which meas- ures the waves of the brain, and they went to sleep with the ma- chine electrodes attached .to 'the skull. Nothing was said to them about the 'experiment of learning during sleep. . Actually, the encephalograph was an essential part of the test. Our brains give off different tiny - electrical waves when we are are away and when we are asleep. The waves when we are ast, In sleep the waves are and lacking in pattern. Wh encephalograph recorded that : student was asleep, a miniature: gramophone, which had been concealed in the pillow, began to recite a list of fifteen short words. It repeated them monotonously over and over again, thirty times, The next morning the students who had been taught in their sleep were tested, together with a group which had not been taught in this fashion. THe two groups were asked to . memorize the Tist of fifteen words, while scientists. stood by with stop-watches. Those who --had-been chanted to-in--the-night - memorized the list in a quarter less time than those who had not. Other experiments also showed the same satisfactory = results. The spring mattress school meth- ods may mean a general speed- ing up in all learning. ir The system has possibilities, too, in getting rid of bad habits such as nail-biting. * At the col- lege of William and Mary, Dr. Lawrence 'Leshan made an ex- periment to see if he could cure y twenty boys: at a summer school "of this habit. While the boys chewed their nails in their sleep, the doctor's voice droned away. { "My finger-nails taste very bit- ter . . . My finger-nails taste very bitter." vbice said the. sentence over and over for times every night. Results came after a month two others Joined him, and a week later five more stopped. '10st the habit Another practical use of Sher- over's discovery . of Hollywood director. He knew that many actors and actresses, being very busy people, could not find time to read much more than their own parts in a film play. He knew also that for a perfectly directed film he want- ed actors and. actresses who knew- every part so they would feel the play properly, Not with- out some trouble he persuaded them to have a recording of the whole story of a forthcoming film played to them each night for a week-while they slept. The result of the: experiment ance by all. members of the cast. Another use lof the technique was applied in the case of a po- tentially brilliant student who persistently failed in his-exam- inations because his confidence had been shattered and he 'ex- pected to fail. Every night for a month while he slept a re- cording implanted a positive at- titude in the student's. mind with carefully selected phrases such as, 'You have nothing to fear. easily." examination | briilangy,® ~~ Boautity_Linens. | when one boy had had enough and stopped. 0 weeks later - When the camp closed, eight had 3 + learning . through sleep was made by a was a vastly superior perform.' 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