CORRESPONDENT of the Londen Observer recentiy went to Monaco to interview the Prince and owner of that —. which Monte Carlo has made famous. “He writes: This is where all the old-fashioned theatre curtains were born. Here you have in a single vista, from al- : ‘most anywhere in Monaco, conven- 7 tional compositions of rugged moun- tains, gorgeous flowers, pines and sion red villas with’ Majolica | roofs and frescoed eaves, a sapphire- jturquoise-emerald sea and sparkling igwunlight, with a picturesque white — posing prettily in a baby-blue sky. A policeman in Monaco wears blue trousers with a brilliant fed stripe, a blue coat blazing with red cords s, and tassels, gilt and eilver, braid and \ |brass ‘buttons, and a blue pith helmet corded and trimmed with metal. The soldiers in front of the palace have all that and in addition plumes of red, white, and blue cock feathers fn their helmets; to say nothing of their bayoneted guns. A corporal adds a dozen or two medals on his chest, most of them awarded by France for valor in the war. A captain's unif- form ba Mere words to deseribe. Then there is in that army of nearly eighty men a cglonel. went up to the fortress-castle- palace.of the Prince of Monaco to see Just how uneasy lies the head that wears hia crown. For all its beauty the imposing structure With Its pon- Gerous bastions, rampes, turrets, tow- ers, castellated walls, and noble driveways, brings a smile to one’s lips. It looks so absurdly an illus- tration from a “Prisoner of Zenda” @tory. As you stand in front of, the Palace in the incredibly pretty square between it and the tiny town of Mon- aco, with its toy-like streets and houses, all as clean as a stage set on opening night, you hear a flourish of trumpets. I found Albert Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, not in the palace, but stand- ine before his desk in-his laboratory the Oceanographic Museum with a blue denim apron over a well-worn business suit such as would not have attracted notice ‘on the streets of Toronto or Montreal, >». He is a quiet, almost difident eld- erly gentleman with a short grey d, mild eyes that might be called or brown, the features of f@ Frenchman of upper middle class and a good out-of-doors complexjon. He was at his beloved hobby, the science of oceanpography. The splendid granite museum he has built and fur- nish contains perhaps the most eomplete collection and history of deep-sea life in the world. He speaks English idiomatically and without accent, but with a slight- ly French intonation. His manner alternates between a consciousness of the amusing features of his little khtigdom and a deep seriousness when Be Aposks ot te future. + q@ Ias , a6 ruler, what was his ntstanding politieal problem. v red ‘slowly. “You see, up to. sheet ten years ago I. was ute monarch, as were.all the Grimaidis for centuries back. But the age is Lertlhy Hy one of “democracy, constit govern- ment, popular legislatures. So I said amy we in Monaco opght not to be behind the times. “The day of autocracy is past,’ I told them. ‘You shall have a constitution, the latest word in democratic ¢ ters. You shall make your own laws. You shall govern yourselves. I have divided Monaco into twenty-four dis- tricts. Let each of them elect a re- Ppresentative and these shall be your national legislature.’ “Well, I had to do a great deal of explaining to my people. They took it into their heads that I was trying to foist on them work which rightly should be done by me. ‘We've got along for centuries without this new- fangled fol-de-rol," they said to me. “Why bother us now to change?’ ‘Be- cause you have to keep up with the times," I told them, ‘What is the matter with our modernity?’ they de- manded. “Haven't we automatic elec- rer lifts, the most modern transit, faultless paving, electric lights in the humblest villa, power plants, 1920- model school houses and hospitals. telephones in every home, and so on?’ ‘But not a modern Government,’ I retorted, “Well, that is your work,’ “We have our own to at- id I looked so incredulous that ] shook his head and smiled. “It is only too true,” he said with iq a not too care-free look. j -“E hope to make this harbor the he port for Switzerland,” the Prince said earnestly. “Why not? We are tunnelling and bullding railroads, and when we are through the short- est route from the Mediterranean to Switzerland will be by the way of this harbor. When my plan materializes Monte Carlo will be less important than the harbor of Monaco: and when that day comes the gambling goes.” i Our Farms. 4 Canada's farm lands show a steady : average increese In value from yeer Pe to year and by decades, as revealed by the census. It Is an important measuring rod of a country’s deveipn- a ment. For example, the avrerace ae value has risen in the five-yesr per- ‘a fod-from’' 1914 to 1919 from $38 per [acre to $52 per acre, or an increase of 36 per cent. The Banana. The productivity of the banana is infinitely greater than that of any other food-bearing’ plant. One acre pod a little laber will annually pre @uce 17,000 pounds of bananas. famous little comic opera countrr’ palms, marble terraces and fountains, . “eream-col ten Cavallo,-.a band ey For insiance—,s 74 Spenine num- ber, a lively march is played, some- thing briskly suggestive of an. assem- bly of the clans, ss it were. But Mr. Cavallo does not direct t & number, nor is it set down in the pro- fram, The program be with an overture which he diretis after the march. Naturally, this innovation suggest- ed originality of method. li was sug- j gested also, to Mr. Cavallo, that he desired to make a personal effect by entering after the attention of the audience had been secured. ‘To this he replied “yes” and ‘‘no." He says that the opening march is really not a part of his concert program. It is an invitation to people to come and listen to the concert. This invitation having been accepted, the concert be- gins when Mr.. Cavallo enters upon the scene. “These concert programs are ‘not 80 popular in composition, as might be supposed,” says Mr. Cavallo. “There are. overtures, light opera music, grand opera selections, an oc- casional medley, and waltzes, marches, polkas, vocal duets and quartettes. This is a popular pro- gram. Yet, when such serious and comparatively unknown quantities in music, such as a descriptive fantasie called ‘Columbus,’ the overture to Alfieri’s ‘Saul,’ ‘Eugen Oneguine’ by Tachaikowsky, } Py ag on the programs, it is interest- ing to know hew they are. kept popular. Le “To audiences, if concerts are to be popular, you play something good, which they ought to beer. _Ever po- lite, the audience app Then you play them something they like. They have not applauded the music, in the first instance, but the le who play it and the conductor who directs That "a the kindly habit an audi- ence has of applauding the individual, and is the origin of ‘encore fiend.’ He sotktuee or over the artist: But at popular concerts, it is intended that the music shall be liked. ht rand the popular number succeeds the ious selection. The popular a Cases, concert succeeds, the crowds attend and the entire eter Pp immense success. How simple, when one pete the formula, The program i ‘tial— ane ages on which nothing more than to hang the bait. 2 complete demonstration of a aeamits theory.” An Arabian Prince. Emil itgaer-| on son of the King of the Hejaz an ef of the bianaray thathelped the Brit-. ish f in Syria the Turks, won many friends f asd ash 29 cause at the in Paris. A ithouss his Oriental tante and personal charm were widely noted by correspondents, it. was his witty re- torts to questions as much as any- thing else that gained him his popu- larity. On one gig writes, Mr. Lowell Thomas in @ correspon- dent asked him’ his opinion of mod- ern statesmen as a result of his acquaintance with them at the con- ference. He replied: ‘“‘They are like od intings. They should be hung in a | ee on ag ¥Fiewed from a distance.” ime, at a meet- seaverit of the Council i Ten, M. Pichon —- the claims of France - hh | Hag Bri were a Feisal tu to- ward him and Emil Fe mildly: “I am not a great student of history; would you kindly tell me which of us won the Cr es?" Mr. Balfour Pere tried to find out what Emir thought of the British ellison He succeeded. “It reminds me of a caravan in a desert. Yousse an im- pressive string of dromedaries in the distance trekking single file across the shifting sands. .When you first overtake them you observe that the last came) is tied to the tail of the nent in Hne. When you reach the head of the column you find that a ittae donkey is leading the whole string. Cedars Victims of War. uring the war the hand of de struction fell heavily upon the age- oid cedars of Lebanon. These trees, which date back to ancient history, were famous during the wars of Sen- nacherib, § e Roman his- torian, Pliny, claimed their wood to be eternally durable, and the Arabs are said to have believed the trees had existed for all time. After 2,000 years the timbers in the ruins of ancient Assyria w found unc In remote — the oil fr as a cure f used by the — for preservative purpos uge cedars are often 90 feet. in height and 42 feet in cir- cumference, During the world war the Turks cut down many of them to obtain fuel for locomotives, and the oppos- i forces continued the work of de- | tion for military purposes, An Island for Artista. | The island of Comacino, which Ia | widely known among artists who! have had a foreign experience as one of the most beautifu) gpots in the re- nowned Lake Como, was recently left to King Albert of Belgium upon the | death of its former owner, and the} King has turned it over as a haven! for artists, to be cared for by the) [talian Government. | There Are Others! Among the Moors women do not | celebraté their birthday. A Moorish | woman considers it a point of henor | to be absolutely ignorant of her age. | Topeka has five drivers. women taxi rm, peotiletnd tous gant . . . spins eu - See nd “sien eat ae ‘He did it in 1913. AGHT HON. WINSTON SPEN- | eee: over the Colonial Office, suc- Lord Milner. In Jo- ith a0 Sadioud bark to the office which saw him start his official career as Under Secretary in 1905. Twelve years ago it was predicted that before he was fifty Mr. Church- i] would run the whole gamut of human experience. He will be 47 his next birthday—November 30. He therefore has a little time left to achieve the height..of his or ores]? wiz., to be Prime Minister of Great Britain. e But even without the Premiership he tan borst—and some say he coes —of a career few men can look back He was a soidier at 19 - has n through five campaigns a fighter and writer. He saw the ‘Span. ish campaign in Cuba, was with British forees in India frontier war- fare, saw paises in the Soudan ampaign of 1898, won distinction in the Boer war, making a dramatic eseape from Pretoria after’ being captured, a then fought with the Guards in the great wer. When he went to the front it was said that he had seen more fighting than most WINSTON CHURCHILL. of our generals and had written more vivid and better c dence than anyone in Fleet street. He has written books. Who's Who gives the titles of seven. “Churchill himself modestly says: “tI ve writteh the samfe’nudiber of *books’ as Moses.” He was the first Cabinet Minister of the world to act as an air. pilot. He has sailed in submarines. - Born the eldest son of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill, he entered Parlia- ment as a Conservative but turned Liberal in 1804. Since then he has been Under Secretary for the Col- onies, President of the Board Trade, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister of Munitions and Secretary for War. He has been more frequently car- tooned and more bitterly cursed than ogy boot? man in Britain. He has ed "The unsinkable politi- bs ” “The Times, student of politics, says: “Some meh hang themselves on their politics, others hang their politics on themselves, and these need to be stout pegs, as indeed Mr. Churchill is.” ~ He was prominent in the negotia- tlons last year for a new Central party. He has not yet been Premier, but, as pointed out before, he has three years more to go before he's fifty. He will not waste time for, as he has himself said: ‘‘The Churchills pay out early, so I mean hed make sure of my inning while " And in spite of all, they call him “Winnie,'S . Women Always Painted. Six thousand years ago the ladies painted their cheeks and pencilled their eyebrows, according to Dr. E. J. Banks, who conducted the ex- pedition into Babylonia and helped dig up the ruins of some of the an- elent cities. In describing “Modern Babylonia and Its Buried Cities,” Dr. Banks tells about many kinds of earthen wares found among the ruins of the ancient dwellings. One kind of “twin” cases, he says, attracted espe-| cat attention because they show that painted their cheeks and ‘penciNed their eyebrows 6,000 years ago, just about as some of them do to-day. The inside of one of the cups of}success that he now tries “It is no‘longer quite correct for a truly proper and unexceptional wo- man not to have something to do Part from her Husband and her house. Wome re inter- estingly and usefully full will have no time to be morbid. Their minds will be nourished. They will think more of thelr own minds and of men's minds, and less of their own bodies and of men's bodies. And men will assuredly be thereby led to do the same. The phenomenor will shed pes lal adgpledy grossness. Affection and habits will be modified accord- ingly. “The great and terrible fact which girls do not and cannot imaginatively pan and-which parental criminals and do not, is that girls die young. Boys may live nearly for- ever. I have known boys of sixty-six, in practically full possession of the weapons of boys. But few girls sur- vive thelr thirtieth year. Herein is the gravest of all sex inequalities, and nothing will cure it—at any rate, in our day or in the next million years or so, After thirty another be- ing has taken the place of the girl." Do. Mirrors Make You Look Ugly? A medical authority recently stat- ed that too much looking in the mir- ror tends to depreciate the appear- ance. By constantly gazing ,at one’s re- flection, it seems, the eyes have a ten- dency to get hardened and to lose their light. Anyone can test this for himself. Let him gaze at a mirror, say, for three minutes, and he will gtadually behold his eyes losing some of their luminosity. Again, too much area ds to impress the gazer with, : of his imperfections, for ment faces have more imperfections than beauties. This sense of imperfection will gradually worm itself into the person's mind, and he will be so af- fected by it that his appearance will deteriorate. This avoidance of the mirror has been recommended to several people who were rather annoyed with their looks. One man found it was such a to shave without a mirror, and is willing to risk a few cuts rather than go back to his old method of staring at him- self each morning till he felt suicidal about = appearance. It is a theory that anyone can eas- ily test “tar himself or herself. * Giant Panda Preserved. One of the rarest of animals, the giant panda, was recently added to the exhibits in the U. S. Museum of Natural History, the skin having been obtained by a missionary in Western oa Although the animal resem- a bear and is about the size of = lack bear, it is really a distant relative of the raccoan. Its black and white coat and short muggle, with eurlous black patches about the eyes, give it an extraordinary appear- ance. Almost nothing is known of its habits, but it is supposed to live on roots, vegetables and bamboo shoots. The giant panda was origin- ally discovered In 1869 in the moun- tains of Eastern Tibet by the French missionary and explorer, Pere David. A deer, which David also discovered, is as remarkable as the panda, being of grayish brown, with white mark- ings. Horns grow to a length of 31 inches. The tail reaches to the hocks and the gait resembles that of a mule. When David discovered the animal in 1860, the only known examples were in the hunting preserve attached to the imperial palace in Peking, In 1894 the Hun river overflowed the hunting park, and the deer dis- appeared. Bird's-eye View. For revealing details hidden from horizontal observation, the value of the “bird's-eye’’ view was demon- was red, while the other was black. The twin vases were found in a room that was undoubtedly a boudoir of the period. Doctefts In Babylon. In the days of Babylon the doctor | or surgeon who was unsuccessful was made to pay severe penalties. Fall- ing in an operation, for Instance, he might be condemned to have his hands cut off by the public execu- tioner. A Long Journey. After traveling more than 60,000° miles in the ‘Black Maria,” and carrying nearly 40,000 prisoners, , London police ‘sergeant has just se tired. Times Have Changed. In the reign. of Queen Arne a Man Was sentenced to -imprisonment for! ; life for writing a pamphlet to prove ' that communication with the desc was possible, strated anew in Iowa not long ago. The attention of a flier, circling about | ne ur Des Moines, Was caught by var- | cae ribbons of emoke arising from | apparently deserted regions, and clos- r inspection revealed a number of autos hidden in the brush, says Popu- | lar Mechanics Magazine. When the juirman returned with a companion jand made a landing, a large copper ‘still was discovered, attended by four jmen, and fed with corn from a wagon | | The Bute Trout Hatcheries. F Sraucial Strength strength of a Bank. The Bank of Montreal began with a modest capital of $1, 250,000, and for over a century it has followed a conservative—aggressive policy until to-day its capital and reserve fund total $40,000,000 and its total assets are in excess of $560,000,000. BANK OF MONTREAL’ HEAD OFFICE : MONTREAL AE Principles upon which a Bank is founded, the of years it has been in operation, and the policy, followed during these years—these features, com- bined with its present standing, form the criterion of the business in the’ year 1817, Branches in every important city and town in the Dominion and Newfoundland [eV GOSSIP FROM PARIS. Some of the Effects of House Short- ; age In France. The great difficulty in finding lode- ings in Pwris has been the cause of Many unusual incidents recently. Divorced persons seeking separate apartments are having such difficulty In finding them that, In one case at least, they composed their tempera- mental differences in order to keep their old apartment, A painter and his wife who had been divorced by mutual agreement were “both looking for apartments. Frequently their paths, crossed in their sexurch for quarters The first time they met they bowed gravely, but politely. Their mutual smile! eradually broadened as the hunt for flate narrowed down to a few hovels in the slum section. back to our fat."" the wife finally said; and they did. President Millerand, who recently took possession of the Elysee Palace, received forty-one applications for his apartment on the Avenue de Villars. Henri Landru, who has been in La Sante Prison for the past twenty months awaiting trial on charges growing out of the disappearance of eleven women, recently was dispos- sessed from the flat that he had occu- pled on the Boulevard Rocherchouart, a rather sordid section of Paris. Requests came from every quarter in Paris, some even from aristocratic Auteuil, asking that the filut be re- served. A Vagrant just finishing thirty days in La Sante Prison told his cellmate, dling, that he dreaded to return to eold, dreary Paris. He was home- leas, and the prospect of spending ihe winter night under Paris bridges did not appeal to him. The prisoners ex- changed clothing and cards of iden- tity, and when the warder called for the vagrant to send him out into the cold world the swindler responded. The fraud was discovered only when the swindier's lawyer called at the jail. Oldest Bchool In the World, When children, puppies and kittens | more then merely amusine “Let's kiss and make up and go} | | | | 0 under sentence of five years for swip- | serves. They are realiy, they do not know it, Nature's school—and are the things they will base to- a6 later on, says Tit-Bits. A kitten plays with a cork or red of cotton, and in doing-so learns te pounce upon a mouse. Young wolves pretend to fight and chase other because in after life they will have to pursue their prey and Gght for their lives. Puppies do the same things for the same reasons, though in the case of doge the necessily has ed | onkeys amuse themselves by ewinging and jumping from one branch to another, and thus leara to escape from their hereditary ;enemys, the tree snake. Boys’ games are really mimic bat- tles and survivals of the tribal in- | etinct, Football, for example, is only ea sham fight between two tribes, as are all games fn which sides are taken. It is, however, a curious fact that man — like dogs and other domesticated animals — really practices for a life that is thousands of years behind him. This would seem to prove that we are not quite ee civ illzed as we imagine eur- selves . Peanuts In Baby’s Bath. When a new baby arrives in China it is the custom for the mother’s par- ents to supply It with several outfits of clothing. If the baby’s maternal grandparents are wealthy it is net unusual for them to furnish all its elothes until it is 6 or 10 years old. Though customs vary in different Provinces, just as dialects do, It is a common thing when the child is three days old for the parents to present boiled eggs. dyed red, to relatives, friends and neighbors, thereby signi- fying that they hope that their chil- dren will be as numerous as the eggs. Frequently the number of eggs given away (totals 2,000 or more. | For the baby's bath two tubs of Water are made ready, one fer its body and one for its head. Dragon's eggs and peanuts are thrown into the water in both tubs, this being sup~ | Posed to insure long life and success in all undertakings of the child's ‘adult life. It is customary for relatites; to indulge In play they are daing much drop money arpa into the wuter. them- —London Tit-Bit After being in operation for eleven years, the Quogach Treut Hatcheries, md hee the Jsland of Bute, are closing down. The hatcheries are owned by the Marquis of Bute, and wére erect- ed al considerable cost, and specula- ition é¢xists among anglers in the West Jot Scotland as 'o whether the estab- t ‘ishinent might not be taken over as a commercial undertaking. The place ia -able- to produce about 100,000 yearling trout annually, and 16,909 to 20,000 two-year olds, Pho eae 2 from | ca Pat | other teas. If your grocer v were , greedy for profits he would not be content to sell and recom= mend Red Rose Tex at a less profit than he makes on Butitis a fact that he dces eS ee Es See | 4 make less on Red Rose than on other teas, and he recom: mends it because he Knows its quality is thé best. “ev ®