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Money (o Loan, Owens & Goodwin Bacristers, So icitors, &e. Wiidsor Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Money to Loan. De MATIXE Ww. S.OWwHXS Ww. Ht, COORWIy Notary Publ ae W. nary: Weir, - Notary Public Auctioneer for the Counts of Pert ‘and Water Convesances, dees, wills. mortgages drawa tod affidavits maden vit Veir block, over iS deine eee ts ede, ler, Oftie ask of Nova Scotia f Marr. seh Licens. . for the pani of Pert Real extate house old. A few choice fue wmanedliate sale, MONKTON, ONTARIO R. E. Beggs, V.S. VETERINARY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Barr’a old stand Sore Queens Hotel Beat «ccommodation for Commercial tray ‘ellera.and others, ‘Two large Sample Rooms. GPO.-F PAULA, Peop., Milverton, Ont Societios. iMilivedton Lodge No. 478 ALP. & AL. mai R.C. Mectnovery Monday evening on or before ‘uit moon iim every onthe ‘im their ball wisn brethren always welcome JH tbewis, ‘B, Slegner, i Silver Star Lodge No. 202 |. O. PL nail over Ben Mating brethren alway w IN. Fleine Lot, 3am Fin -Secy. Mectwevery Friday ate! 3 of BO): L. No. 45, Milverton Meets every Wednesday on or be- fore, full, moon in their hall above rug St Visiting brethern alwaye welcome. Geo, J. Coxon, Abe /.ttridge, Master. We are agents forthe Appleford Counter ~ Book Co. This firm turns out only high-grade work’ at very reasonable prices. Ear Bm See our samples and get our prices before u etary epg | spot Ch 1 A Paper Chase on Holly Hill. riers is one Hlsce her’ ach helly eearaa “gs "diy mas time young folks from all] in Bermuda, b yohy. for Chri tmas decorations, ee t other times of the year the hill i anaes seared except for the regs bints and ‘uebirds that pais Hing up and down in every|o ectio Hill a fine place for g: ‘paths are like trails through ale wilderness. tty had never i wast sener chase! en Holly Hill, erie. oe eae, years Her dearest: friends were twins | wi named Stisan and Mary, and they, too ih were seven years | d Susan aie play it on’ m Hally Hill withthe! older boys and’ girl One day when Betty's sister Mab and her brothers Fred and Peter wondering where they could find other] v boys and girls of their own’ age to| © lay ear chase with them| Betty said, “Please let os play with youl Ples ee ie are too little, Hea Mabel ei “If you should fall dow: an bump your nose you'd ers, and if Saw a cow you would so frighte! tened you’d scream.” “Mabel,” Betty unite “if I fall down and bump the skin off the whole of my nose T won't ery. And if a cow s to hook me I won't cry, either. Tern jump right on her back and 29 horse gl? Mebel could not help laughing, and Peter said, “Let's pla lay one game with the little children, and it they act like babies then’ they cannot play with us agai ci t Betty ran into the house for Aitos baskets and an old magazine, and ath the children helped to tear the paper into tiny bits and t itl th children; Peter said, “run along together and seatter the paper wherever you give you a good sta eady!’ and we three will count five indeed be fives betes cs start.” Then Mabel and the boys hid their faces. | Presently. Peter called, “Ready ‘vay went three happy ae girls, Betty and Susan and Mar: straight up Holly Hill scattering bire of paper as they went, They knew that, if they - ad 0 grews that the; Place from ae shee started, they Hill. At, would win the game. om ra ning oe be eyes were eee and she rant-| win so easily. el T were home,” play fair, ee losing over thick-standing Nllies she saw |yard of the Portuguese family, sti she almost fell from her tree; from the tree, war dems toed bee ta thie Gecieand thes jeould scatter all the paper and get h ack a their pursuers to the en ‘they-eams tothe “Arét eross- nd go to the hill to gather, ing of the paths they put their heads erties to talk about which way to Th non and on ran, ¢l they choos- Sng first one path and tien daatlier, ing im! laughing and aus and seatter- a thickets ‘yeside the iittle erence bits of paper a went. me of them fell dont Several times they stood still to listen, and after a Whe many little paths make Holly, while they began to wonder why they id not hear the others coming. “Maybe it took Peter a long tim out ie hat “Anyway, let's Met wre cin. Hs ral wasn WE Lai said, “they will Tet us play pesice ae n- ie to pe on usan ane ebatane The three a le girls won the gam pros no one Pits e. understand hat d and -wait- ed, but no one came; and that seemed | stranger still. e they fooled us ani went Mars said at last. “But that vould be mi “No,” answered Betty, “they always I know what I am going I am going up the hill and climb to the tippety-top of the big sca iree and there take’a 100k.” re Betty was fisltviay up the sof is yard of a Portuguese Samal in in which items retain etpece on ground was a big dog, which walked from tree to tree and jumped and barked. The Portuguese children, too, ha been playing pene ‘hase that day, and Mabe! | followed the ene Ca and Peter and Fred had That was why they had come at. last he dog had chased them up the trees. Little Betty was so astonished ae but ¢ 1T know Where the They in a field the Vil get them! rn. si oe drersredly. ned Mary and Su- le. of their bar Shaking, she came and shut ; it turned out ie was knew Be ue ght Atte: ait eile were willing to let her and Mary Sus: paper chase fie Thain on Holly Hil, —You the twins, play 's Companion. THE NEW EAST ||, 2 It By Robert Neville. China is all stirred up. The govern-}'t ment is trying to take away her chop- suey alphabet 20,000 characters, chop-suey letters have stood the test more than 3,000 years, and their i . Civilization Henle ia Ke balance rocked progress. The Ministry of Baueation, however, has gone ahead watt the ctvilization- wrecking work and prepared an alpha- bet of thirty-nine ratinele, which will ha aay? ee berate Chinese to write his lang- nage sent peril a mp sronatety two months t of this alphabet is to standardize ne pronunciation of Bee national language ai Rare, romo- ol ation, and has been nie in an official uate issued recently The Chinese language heretofore has been divided into two parts, the written, or classical, and the spoken, each amounting to a language within itself, The rhea, language was not , and the language was ThesvoRE In ‘each signi- | 5 ty a a pauls object or action were |! t | tin Fils Beneficent Highness the Keep- ler cf Learning, otherwise termed the ! Minister a cates Lockwocd committee. and tore it Hitie Colectrial Ntterateurs, risi of Educat le {0 a defence ef tieir 20,000 ciaatianee chopeuey al habet, in a discussion published in the Shun Pao, Shanghai, ought to prove that their classi ents no more her-| bh. a task than do most of the Oc- eidental languages. es canni students of the eet RRS very gr} pa ‘otelener to stre: i not ‘exberlonca this eats syste that which will do away with this dimeutt erstanding of the meaning of un- familiar words. Spoken and mae Chinese are dif- erent eres he Chinese mass- tneratind Re ane ae gusge.wher it iv spo Rede eee tt when a guiveratat: age Chinese peasant can well with a yocabulary From these he will coin oi 500 words, Se more by compounding, and thus posse: words ss himself of several thousand His learning of the language is made simpler, too, by the fact that: there is no distinction of gender and no declension of verbs. that the Chinese experience is the lack A handicap n by. which he wien: add remendously to bis vocabular; poken Chinese aimi- r Weetanchs is the fact that -nine our alpha- diphthongs, is ch tone Thus “o” may, according to the nein <a it is uttered, signify st,” “goose,” “I “me,” “hun- “evil.” It is difficu ran 88 these tones The Chinese naturally do em of ti has made a most Sigeatigs anova formulation of the namely, the iptesguict ical figures in writ- ‘old the number of new alphabet to ot cf 195 it was de- ided i plate @ mathematical eceffi alongside e: aa character to indi- ate its toni acce Prefesscr Chen, hed of the Chinese Depatanene of Columbia University, Yew York, does not share the fear of is literary contemporaries in ee the introduction o: A student of English, they declare, | manner zoe building words will result a must put in eight ape at grammar | in school, four years in high school pus four more in college, a total of sixt ta teers he is able to write the ‘heir Oriental bpd nis prevented them telling | the half of it. On the other hand, they maintain it. any Chinese student of average Sapstiigchbe can he same length of ordering. © tine raat an gare Hite in the the. “That shows what The cookery book says it’s perfectly } delicious. 4 hare, this latter ech also = aid to thi existed in China nictwesa | and the intellectuals my dear, wrong with this aking away from the classics. which has always the masses it Musi S cabstatiies 8 that ae re eems to me, is ‘patio age e Bride fasting triumphantly) — it you know about it, Never yy wal Sash on it a ‘paddle cites in ‘soapy which it ira used will taste soapy. Use q a little ; soda. oben ori CONSTIPATION AND HEADACHES Comele tely Relieved by this Grand Meat sy ev Te ASTINES” MR. ALFRED DUGOISSEAU 482 St. Catherine St. E., Montreal. “For three years, I was a terrible sufferer from Indigestion, constant Head- aches and Constipation, took various we were only visiting the East ‘ought eee so boon of en- during the most interfering traffic Hiee and, the most that cartes mentioned e Bill Larg- its real enei Brot thi Manisha ihe say! a binder ‘The East | in the West even one debenture would mean some _ med that 6,000 bushels bill unpaid, some comfort done with Fist he pein 18¢ a bi et him iy is just as sane as the it re|. ‘The West e- R Pane It sees corong: its own dema- es just as iy 8 and oe “fete more, om ely ener tern fae ss the last ma on ue ears to > tolerates Bolshevi if, suppose, the basis of “this Sabie distrust is due to sometimes extrava: 7 the alla 's by western orators, the 3 ate should sha mber that vg uh the piaind young. law, take for pois Sato the winning a e Scripture and ras, nat Winemere she railways were getting ree ‘was_also, the cage e United Farmers nth wi as Ratatat” any mask. ‘This Pees there no medicines forth g seemed to do me any good. * Then, a friend advised me to try ‘Fruit-atives. Now I am free of Indigestion and Headaches, the Constipation is cured, and Ihave gained considerable weight; and my general health is fine ‘Fruit-a-tives’ is a grand medicine and I cannot say enough in its favor.” ALFRED DUBOISSEAU, ‘Fruit-a-tives’ are made from fruit ar gentle and mild, yet always “most ape a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 250, Ay al aealeaean sant postpaid by Pruit-a-tives Limited, Dive: Ont. ive! WOMEN ON THE FARMS OF CANADA AGRICULTURE IS AT- TRACTING MANY. | Women in Dominion Have Tackled Most Things and ‘= F. aS Success of All. of the umlioes with ihe Pech aie of the army, or more correctly since Heh y of transport after the return of the Canadian troops, women from the British Isles and have crowded the cleaeaty arriving at Do- Many were war brides iter ianer consisted of e whom war employment ten {gone with the Teen of the men froi | the front and wd _phing inieeneeteae belonging to two cen grcabicns eainatie ge ided to start o1 anew in a virgin field where their ot forts were not only obviously needed but urgently sought. minine Hegira. This movement continues unabated der government auspices to find homes in every part of the Dominion. Many ‘of them belonged to various i tiene yomen army, many ex. porienced land workers, others : Mallow. ed pursuits purely feminine. Groups are bound for domestic service, others to fruit sections for light land work and still others, with Pa Pius are taking up small pieces nd for themselves Groups G women go straight wg the boat to pees Bone and other factories, being engaged i aie old tout saat brought nt ” ihe pieseeencit of these industrie, it 18. a-burning /queattod 4H older fabinttien opportunities et Oe irls in Canada. ‘Ther ides ead mizconception that “cauadian life is to severe for girls rear a apaDltg of the ur fidred. of thacklagporia, “walla ig is pointed out that the government is raging we immigration “ot ils willing to take up domestic ser- vice. Whatever may have been true of a young woman’s hardil oe prior to the war is no longer so, and it has been proven itt girl can ttiow success fully most unskilled i ttiere iethe Tafitaniental thavihe rly balanced which pansive field to wo- just what and gi No tribute too ich or worthy can be paid to the wives and pater of the Canadian derculiatas egions, but as a generat rule agricul- path to oarvedtadt Wartoe lemorean ed! pensive a scale for woman to take any but a supplementary part. It is not uncommon to see a farmep’s wife driy- ing a binder at Hoe whilst her hus- band is on an panying machine or plaob ing the ers as she cuts, but this is occasional and es ce of the Sudencdeoner dag well oc- in her wmideatigld sic her and her superintendence of Instances of Decided Success. There are to be found, however, a few instances in which women (in one case a former successful London jour- nalist decided success oper- ating a grain or mixed farm. This however presuppcses a good deal of Capital to initiate the enterprise, and such cases are few. from,the disease of the returned sol- dier, thought to take advantage of the Soldiers’ Settlement per- mitted them to take soldier land grants for their services overseas and made the long dl e the Spirit River district of the iver Ty. Here have ‘akan four quarter sections, in the middle of ts a ‘cabin has jie erected, and hi menced ir operations this “spring witlf the ana confidence of success, e com: » or the next pudding fe It must be pie sh however, ae ae an ceptional rae nine on te large farms ut the eh bank people here in. the East there } is an attitude of restraii ell; What will ttle bit afr: aial And in palway circles I know officers wit a ple serpent ae Y Ne had ship, bushels aa Sate rate pas ‘sol oe for in the year he w: railways had taken t could have told inka “Eastern railway officials even amples of election-time arithmet than this one. There is far rato careless addition and subtr: Hpnt here in the Bast, But if they ‘ted Western cases—there was eis n enables ue 08 an ine to Pilot Mound the total ens a alone was greater than the entire ae quarters |in 0: ic Sdaewee he Te is alwi Lahm pete ctor to, shit ped in carloads from ‘oronto to eilof ‘carey ws ae was sd in | tempe! 6.40; an actu at Sue If carried in car- loads P Winnipeg and re-shipped As binder from that poi : you ve only one railway xa the whole combination of ould you explain to Eastern alway. officials as oor Bill Lang.- fr, Brown's |e! good d ese youngsters get up: and talk hae uh an ology 0 of the railways prosperous ¢ Dinos enough to ¢ the dev connitkys Of course it is foolish to preter that demagogery is not dange: angmentt of rash spe cabled, have er oe the pocket hooks of people who nts never seen he. harvest= ery 0 1,000 to ee se tare 0 hold y ool debentures—‘ a t anes ng formed easterners know the amount jc of buncombe of that talked aiuong “the litter Saveltorss in the c Bast and in Englands Roni peor te whom the loss of the interest o2 ld Signed) 7 (From the Montreal. G: Pics raplaten Wain Phat iaty to toa Sean wast te said, there are thousands of ee ‘The greater phases of farming, ho ever, “apbes! to woman, vec ae the robust, sturdy out-of-do and this mode’ opdlvelinbod.as periaty appealing to those girls on the land during the war ae in the experience they ae learned to love the free, untramelle: e P. vince of British Coluitbtas especialy in ay settled fruit areas, many shied anes tine eae Piemcketa trai armani ing © work: en- tailed themselves, In the same Pro- vinee, close to is et towns and larger centres, many women are finding poultry etter a profitable means of livelihood and a. calling which does net overtax their physical strength. Still oer oa a are ° heaithy revenue in In the Niagara pentane ue other fruit regions of Ontario the same con- aoe ae and here women are to found ing a living in ae plecaautaet pe pilvirauniedenan eet ing coe atticae e a cc L migration from | tjiesclfest ann towis.t6.thake ‘late profession and calling ing an ie packibe fruit a profitable 11 as pleasurable manner of spend- ing"a Rrohity. ge Teekling Most Things Successfully. | ‘The small farms of the: Maritime! inees, with their admirable set- f equisite scenery and acces sibility to all the markets, offer partic jay fine Shueetialies to groups of wo or more w either in growing int and evade in dairying. No region can hold forth greater attrac- tions or be more suited to the healthy, 'q i ‘getic, cut o’dcor girl feels to making her fae Women have tackled most things and made a fair success cf them even to attaining | y ole rank in the provinejal legis- py latures. Last year a British: Cotes bia j woman attained some prominence be- cause, findin, se la the ahs ope she out trap. from her iT ee ate from an initial ontlay of $30 made a little nest egg bp spring cf 1, pe ae 1 des’ newspaper. good dressing and the United ee in the opinion! But al Woodmen ee eridiey Lo that the best gentine Republic. when he writes ours or tho: if both in ste and qectean: rom the easily yielding | atRrigl ane sas eos sleeves, + the knees sade in natal reticence, ne being de they are quiet. Ww. made ving on the teats both “AS in Canada may be said to ter than the ean, isited. Lon mi ng the time pte on her see him wearing a green te eth blue sccks, d’s he has ceased to be cane poem any older nations have yet | to lea The Best Dressed Men. There are mene 2 ashions for men in 2 to be “nei among the best | Philadelphia aproval for | be! era Bri mericans who fol- their Have Vou When the day is, rumning trac, Who’s on guard and-taking care? in |W fe has done his part, have you? Any day and anywhere? When the moments smoothly 0, Whohil helbel fo smalte mbiosee Have youi es' free men, “ine e alls of the majority. ong comes an Sir direct- expert, managing indo isn tee a nar Keep Forests Alive. Living forests provide us with woo ndteria NM kinds for our and industries, but burned Ss vide no lumber for the i, no work for the worsingina, no busines for the me ha fr the a ee iD. The ‘otal is that everyone should be tui with he in the wood he poeni s 8, but of the Aagiit ici Rated group follow “Save for white duck suits and light olored pajamas in which fo, lounge uring the day, Bat Aue are lik se of Fr peaks apes to rgentine woman, for example, oa breris of appearing in mixed company clad in a bathing dress, Bs sees in nee, or the United | States, or Canada, or, for that tee SHADOW TEST However high a bid may soar, it seeks its food on eart! ee “The they may iat ie eaters ohuiaes where there mixed Cea “They regard in the same spirit any care nee be pattern or color, and ational custom .abets their long spells of full eed even for third tthe omen are ylis’ Invariably the akc are six months ahead T admit that American wo- w a S| ress Weak Muscles Strengthens eet Cured, nan fopek atraigulote A tailor- r an ‘Abeonting woman for the men, they too dress bet- Hagtshman of the sae An Argentine cutter who Is don the SRucnans ‘ot “You would never an in a Ped suit, =) SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! -P.H son i vesight pene) 2 would nev. He is neat, and he a MRLGreRToH, binant »800. Indications are that girls are becom: id more attracted to the xe. tive side of farm life, and is is sig nificant to note that this. year’s gradu- ating clars at the Ontario gee ae College includes the first wo! in Canada to take the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. oe aa geet a Weaving. My life is but a weaving Betwe jod and me; © I may but chose the colors, And I the underside. sagiley flowers stand drought be!ter E han ‘other. alight wil Beneirate clear water THE SUCCESSFUL MAN TO-DAY—— Is the one Who! gives careful attention to his clothes. To him his business suit is of as much consequence as the clothes he wears for social — engagements. He realizes the importance of | bein Pai aacrceeed at all times. He requ uires — Q besides style, finish a correct — ioxng Ty us for Your. next su DU FFIELD, THE Pat NKT te ares a depth of 1, .