‘ what a Tafustoa 6 of Really Pure Fine Tea Tastes like Black, Green or Mixed ' Never Sold in Bulk (All ~ FROM OTHER PAPERS articles credited. The Banner doesn’t necessarily agree with views express A GOOD CURE (Guelph Mercury) Intoxicated motorists think Hamil- ton a poor town, They give them six months in jail there without the op- tion of a fine. Hamilton's not so bad as we thought it was. AID FOR HOSPITALS (Guelph Mercury) It is quite within the right of the province to assist the hospitals with a better grant than the fifty cents per patient per day now allowed. It is the first.duty of the state to protect the health of tite citizens, and the maintenance of hospitals should not be left wholly to the. uncertain sup- port of the charitably disposed peo- ple, while others evade all appeals for such purposes. The cost of upkeep for hospitals has grown the same as in private life, and except for the reas- onably well-to-do families hospital accommodation is out of the question, with the result that restoration to health is unduly prolonged, and in many cases, life is jeopardized. It’s a plain duty of the government, and should be fairly and squarely met. ~ BAD NEWS FOR PROFITEERS (Toronto Globe) War profiteers throughout Britain are beginning to shiver again, They were suffused with the warm glow of delight a short time ago when.a re- port appeared in the Press to the ef- fect that the Parliamentary commit- tee inquiring into the subject had de- cided that it was not practicable to make a special levy on war-created fortunes. The report seems to have been a dud. A real shell exploded last week with the announcement that the committee not only thinks the proposal practicable, but has de- vised a plan whereby $2,750,000,000 can be collected from 75,000 war profiteers A nice tidy sum that for the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. There will be ng@tears of compassion in his eyes at the thought of adding it to the credit side of his Budget. He is more likely to be smiling at the prospect. Will his thought waves, wafted by favoring breezes, travel as far as Ot- tawa, say, and suggest anything to; Sir Henry Drayton. Whose Budget is) expected this week? Or is Canada to! witness a further imposition of spec- ial taxes upon the things that the! poor cannot do without? | | SIZING UP LIFE (Toronto Star.) | It is not easy for a young Man to understand how inexorable life is. | A fellow may save up money in| dimes and dollars by practising salty denial for three or four years, and then, by being foolish aed for one| moment. lose it all A man may make a_ hundred) speeches in public, all sound, sensible! speeches that mark him as a man of, force and ability, and, then, by two} minutes of foolish speech on some im-| portant occasion, queer himself for good and all. , It is possible for a fellow to get into} more debt in ten minutes than he may be able to get out of in ten years. It takes half a lifetime to learn that, a man is judged by the mistakes he: makes’ rather than by the genera] run of his conduct, which may be of a high average. | it is much the same in everything} else as it is in the matter of homicide. A man may never hurt a fly until he reaches the age of fifty, yet if he then kills anybody. they hang him for murder and his whole history is that of a murderer. So it is and it can, of course, never be otherwise. But men, when they are young, ought to reflect upon the fact that reputation is a thing that takes long to make, but which an hour can destroy. Ontario’s Best _— vanes STRATFORD, ONT. We give thorough courses. We give individual instruct- fon We have no summer vacation. Students, may ene ter at any time. Commence your course now. We placo graduates in positions. Write for our free catalogue. D, A. McLACHLAN, ‘| Possibly, an awful .—” Thesstout UNCLE SAM AFTER CAR THIEVES (Ford’s Weekly.) This summer will be the first real test of the Dyer Act, the Federal law designed to stop the stealing of auto- mobiles. shipment of stolen cars, and adds an- other link to the chains that are sup- posed to bind cars to the owners. Most stolen cars, especially the more expensive ones, are not stolen in the legal sense. Théy are taken by some one who wishes to go joy rid- ing, are driven until the gasoline in the tank is gone or they are wreck- ed, and then abandoned. It is in the lighter, more. popular cars whose rlarge numbers prevent easy” identi- fication that theft has become a scien- tific business. The effort to combat this traffic with state laws has not proyed an en- tire success, because it is easy to drive the stolen car a long distance from the place where it was taken, change motor numbers by the processes the thieves have devised, and sell the a “to a legitimate dealer in used car With Federal intervention, this be- comes dangerous. Even joy riders, who cross state lines, face the rigor- ous Federal courts and the effective overnment investigators. Recent sentences have been as heavy as three years in prison, and the practice of Federal judges of giving heavy sen- tences is not likely to make the road smooth for malefactors. Summer is the gala time for the automobile thieves, and on the re- duction in thefts of cars and the num- ber of thieves safety housed behind bars depends the decision on whether the Dyer Act is sufficient, or whether other measures are needed to down the illicit business. Anyhow, it is a good idea to lock your car. THE DOMESTIC HELP PROBLEM (Toronto Globe) Housewives bemoan the shortage in home help. Many of them find themselves seriously handicapped by the inability to secure needed assist- ance in the work of the household. They offer tion reasonable hours, and deairabia living ‘conditions. But even the most lib- eral inducements fail to bring the capable aid they require. The prejudice against domestic ser- vice for women is unfortunate. It is largely due to the old notion of elass distinction, which ought to have no | place in this young democratic Do- minion. The time was when employ- ers of domestic help were wont to fasten a badge of social inferiority on housemaids, nursemaids, and other women workers in the home. It bred a.tendency to regard domestic ser- vice as an inferior occupation. Many irls, in consequence, would rather work long hours in factories, stores or offices—often under far less advant- | ageous conditions—than engage in domestic service. It is time for Canadians to rid themselves of such false and foreign conditions. The Ottawa Citizen sug- gests putting the domestic workers’ occupation on a business basis. it ' believes organization would be bene- ficial alike to employers of domestic help and to the women qualified to engage in domestic work. It would make domestic service a business un- der which the domestic helper would be no more concerned with social status than is the paperhanger or the plumber. But the main thing is to remove the taint of servitude and social in- feriority from this worthy calling. as The Citizen says, there still may be some old-fashioned homes where the maid stays from childhood till—like Peggotty’s romance—some willin’ Barkis is rewarded after years of circumspect courtship. But the status of women in industry has ‘changed considerably since the time of Dickens—and changed in most in- stances for the better. There evident- ly are still a few people living in the past who talk about the “servant class.’ But they have no place in Canada, and they should be made a- ware of this fact. They make it dif- ficult tor self-respecting capable girls to engage in domestic work. No girl with a public school education in Can- ada is willing to be labelled with the badge of servitude and social infer- jority. _When this is realized gener- ally domestic help will be more read- ily secured. Quite Unintentional _ A tramecar collided with a milk cart and sent can after can of ing into the street. large crowd gathered. A very short man coming up had to stand on-tip-toe to see pasta stout woman front “Goodness!"’ he exclaimed. “What cnt Ae agai ss, glee — eaid, It penalizes the interstate) | stout woman turned round and] : interesting place imagin able to visit would be Venus, Almost any clear flight we can see her shin- ing brightly in the sky—a veritable twin of Earth, — = ee ai and somewhat nearer to th Why does she rantee s0 brightly? It is- because a perpétual envelope. of clouds completely covers her, : have noticed that the “‘thunderh es which oftet>appear in the summer sky shine as white as snow when il- luminated by the sun. The sun is shining upon Venus, and her cloud- 4efivelope brilliantly reflects the light. Seen through a great telescope, Venus looks as big as does the moon to the naked eye, Once in a while she passes between us and the sun, and then her disk is seen to be sur- rounded by an illuminated ring. This is her atmosphere, which is supposed to filled with-vapo A damp planet a must be. Un- fortunately, her envelope of clouds so hides her that nobody knows what she really looks like. But for that, we should already have a pretty notion of her geography, inasmu as she is so near a neighbor. | It may be taken for granted that the surface of Venus is mostly ocean. The planet—only three-fourths as far away from the sun as we are—gets twice as much heat from that source, and evaporation is correspondingly greater. Hence we must figure Venus as a very rainy world, with swollen rivers-and immense areas of swamp. Thanks to the cloud-envelope, the climate must be pretty much the same all over Venus; at all events, there are no great differences. For that reason, also, it is probably no hotter there than here, although one might imagine the humidity to be fright- fully oppressive. Under conditions such as those de- scribed there must be an extraordin- ary luxuriance of vegetaion. Indeed, the landscapes of Venus to-day may easily be imagined to resemble those of our own planet during the coal- forming age—perhaps with a similar Yauna of extraordinary reptiles, and as yet neither birds nor mammals. Venus, in other words, would seem to be a younger sister of Earth, not yet ready perhaps for supporting the higher forms o . Mars, on the other hand, was old long ago, and now is certainly very dead. The notion that Venus always pre- sents the same face to the sun no longer gains acceptance by most as- tronomers. Apparently she revolves on her axis once in twenty-three or twenty-four hours, her days being thus about the same length as ours. Her diameter is 7,630 miles. Bathing In Dead Sea. The Jericho region is supplied with three kinds of water, and this pro- digality, coupled with the historic famé of the Jordan Valley, has furn- ished a regular formula of bathing for pilgrims to this hot depression, nearly a quarter of a mile below the level of the sea. Of course, every tourist has to bathe in the Dead Sea; it is the thing to do, writes Maynard O. Williams in the National Georgraphic Maga- zine. Lucky is the man whose skin does not crack in the heat of the valley, for Dead Sea water on a cracked skin or the film of the eye reminds one of boiling oil and the Spanish Inquisition. Having performed the necessary rite and dutifully completed an ex- perience which can be recorded in the diary of the trip, the poor pil- grim, laved with a tenacious fluid that seems to be composed of salt, kerosene, and lye, drives off to the Jordan and seeks relief in the muddy water of that river. Then, as night rapidly settles in the deepest wrinkle on the face of Mother Earth, the tir- ed traveler rides between the miser- able hovels which constitute modern Jericho and dismounts at the Sul- tan’s Springs, once sweetened by Elisha. Here the water is collected in a large pool, both cold and clear, and few, indeed, resist the temptation to plunge into it and remove forever any lingering signs of the holy but muddy waters of the Jordan. Chinese Kidnappers. Bands of kidnappers recently have caused much alarm in Tenchowfu, Shantung, China. Operating im groups of from thirty to fifty, they have carried away and held for ran- or wealthy Chinese for whose re- ease they have obtained as much as to. 000 in some cases. Ten citizens were kidnapped in October. Promises to pay ransoms have been exacted by torture. Troops have tried to capture the bandits, but heve failed. It is believed the kidnappers come from Dalny, crossing the Gulf of Pechill in boats in which they escape with their captives. News In Jerusalem. The first daily newspaper tn Jeru- salem - printed in the English lan- guage has» made its appearance, and the title is Jerusalem News. t is “an American newspaper,” tts sub- title says; its founder is Blizabeth L. MeQueen and its editor and man- ager is W. D. McCrackan. It will in- terest the student of racial influence to observe that the Scotch, not the Jewish strain, is manifested in this characteristic American pioneer en- terprise ‘ Not Apparent. 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