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among 55 com- Intario Gov eru- . Royal Winter photograph. my husband and the ‘ one grand time uv oye on the wan the 0 out!" COD :ltural judging 1g indication of the fears of "disturbing r congregations. The of educated church -ars must be a grow- he pulpits as a de- : medium. and a pro. timidity.” at [d ’take ICCSS 'ork in earnest 'm‘ Mrs. Murphy. 311’ T GS 330W o-oouo. a. -o- antâ€"Wo- 101‘ e we were talking one day in our ’home on the things that needed more emphasis in the lives of most people. One said neighborhness needed more stressing because more people travel these days, and as our neighbor is the one next to us. travelling by car means that 0131' neighbor is constantly chang- -_._ make more time for quietness. Our bodies and minds require more restful hours than we are inclined to give them. Then we decided we would ask your opinion on this subject. I am very pleased to hear from 'you again_ I _think thae subject you have .is courtesy in letter writing. There are a great many people who fail to see that answering letters is an act of courtesyâ€"just on the same footing as a reply to a question or the courteous‘ attention one gives to the conversation of a friend. One good method is to jot down on the envelope the topics you wish to discuss in the answer and then when you start the letter you do not have to wonder what to say. Another method is to write a portion of the letter on subjects that do not ' require a date. This leaves the mind free to go on a new train of thought. Family letters can be written spontaneously because they contain the account of the little happenings within the fam- ily circle and community. A great many times a person is not in the mood for letter writing. I have learn~ ed from experience that it only re- quires a little determination to conquer There are peOple who neglect writ- ing letters of sympathy to those who are bereaved. This is indeed a golden opportunity wasted, for no letter is more helpful than the one containing sympathy for those who sorrow. To be sure it is not an easy letter to write but most things in this world that .- are worth doing require concentration of thought, perseverance and patience. We should take time to make our writing legible. We have no more right to steal the receiver’s timeâ€"the time he wastes to make sense out of our scrawlâ€"than we have to steal his silverware. When Lord Haughton lost his wife, Tennyson wrote him this letter: “I was the other day present at a funer- al and one of the chief mourners reached me her hand silently, almost over the grave, and I as silently gave her mine. No words were possible. And this little note that can do really nothing to help you in your great sor- row is just such a reaching out or the hand to you. my old college com- rade of more than forty years’ stand- ing. to show you that I am thinking of you.” I am sure those simple words must have conveyed a thrill of com- fort. Though a letter of condolence is When we are the recipients of letters 'of sympathy we should acknowledge themâ€"only a few words are required to say “thank you”. It is only a little task. yet it is often neglected and it is discourteous to do so. Neither the letter of sympathy or its reply need to be lengthy it is quality not quantity that counts. Is it lack of imagination on our part that makes us so often fail to one of the most difiicult tasks we un- dertake we should do our best remem- bering that “when two people share a joy. it is doubled; when they share a sorrow, it is halved” Come in 8: Chat Awhile â€"Rnth Baeburn. paper we are writing on represents our listeners,weretheywithusinabody things we would thingsofinterestwithintherangeoi vision. So often the lack of these little details raises wondering and curious questions in the mind of the receiver of the letter. ' Aim to write bright, cheerful letters. Avoid writing depressing thoughts, you don’t know what state of mind the are better than any tonic we get in a bottle from the doctor. We all are most charming in conversation when natural and simple. Then why not talkonpaper? Afterallthatlsall letter-writing is. STONE AGE REUCS FOUND IN CAVES Iinportant Discoveries Made By Joint Expedition to Iraq.â€"Co-relates Pre- Bistory of Europe and That of Asia. Age have been found in two groups of cavesâ€"one group to the northeast and one to the east of Sulaimaniah. One of the caves at Larzi in the first group contains a. deposit especially rich in known as cro-Magnon. Still older industrial remains have been found by the joint expedition in the caves of the second gronpâ€"re- mains left by a race corresponding to that known as Neanderthal in Europe. According to Dr. MacCurdy the find- ing of cultural remains in Irak dating from the upper and middle Paleolithic periods is of unusual importance since it adds materially to the evidence making possible a correlation between the prehistory of Europe and that of Asia. Iraq is in the region of the Euphra- tes River in Asia Minor. Doctor Needed Two revelers returned to their hotel late one night much the worse for their revels. One of them insisted that the other needed a doctor. vâ€"â€"v-v v A deetor was summoned and the ailing one put to bed. The doctor arrived. The symptoms were plain. “See any pink elephants or sky-blue tigers?” he inquired. hand-éprings on the “Well, you are all right,” said the doctor. “Sleep it off.” And he departed. But the friend was not satisffied. “Look here,” he said to the clerk, “That doc is all wrong. My fren’s in a: 1.02:1 E; 3315 you hEar him say he didn’t see any elephants or tigers or sea-serpents. wellâ€"hicâ€"«the (room is full of them.” letter : ' “I have received your application. but as I already belong to several good orders I do not care to join your Income Tax at this time.” A little negro schoolgirl down in Florida in answer to one question, “What is anatomy?” wrote the follow- mg: “Anatomy is a human body. It is divided into three partsâ€"the haid, the chest, and the stummick. The haid holds the brains, if there are any; the chest holds the liver and lites, and the stummick holds the entrails and the vowels, which are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w any y.” The Treasury Department is report- ed to have received the (following obNo.” “No.” sea-serpents or girgfies turning Not Interested â€"Ruth Raeburn. rugs?” The barn raising was safely over and only the clearing-up to do when the pike-pole dropped. A young man went down with a broken nose and a. gash in his head. 'At once they hur- ried the victim to the hospital in Christine MacGillivx-ay Ctmpbell in The Farmer's Advocate Durham. When as neighbors we called to enquire for him at his home a few days later, we found he had gone to his work. Plucky, you bet! But what a marvel and what a mercy it is that such expert repairing can be done on the hurhan axiatomf’ eVen away out here in the country on such short no- tice. Our neighbor received excellent A stalwart youth who came here with the threshing outfit last week in- formed us that he had undergone an opei'ation in Durham Hospital. We care as well as skileld surgical atten- tion, his wife told us today. asked him how he liked the hospital. “Fine”, he replied, with emphasis, all unconscious that we were collecting evidence. “You liked . the hospital?” we quizzed our neighbor across the fence when she brought home her thriving girl twins. “Oh, yes”, was the eager reply, “the nurses were splendid. It is wonderful the rest and care you get. And Miss Fettesâ€".” Like many others, this enthusiastic patient could find no words adequately to praise the superintendent. Then there was the clever little school-girl across the swamp" who two years ago was struck by a. motor car in Durham’s main street and was taken to the hospital to have a frac- tured leg set and cared for for a few days before coming home. She, too, had nothing but kind words for the in- stitution. Any patent medicine company would be rich if it could gather in one small community so many unsolicited testimonials. Thus, gradually, into the most con- servative country places like ours. there leaks the idea that a hospital may not be the worst place in the world to go when hurts are too deep for casual home healing. Yet in the days when hospitals were far away and a racking and expensive train journey was only the first item of expense, who could blame those who put off the evil day and the distant hospital as long as possible. Durham and its vicinity have been learning in the past six years what it means to have a hospital at home. Today we were more than a little pleased to go and see for ourselvesâ€"â€" in the name of “The Farmer’s Advo- cate”â€"what is going on in this much- frequented institution. Before enter- ing, however, we made our way among piles of lumber, where carpenters were sawing and measuring and a contract- or was earnestly studying a roll of blue-prints. In a few weeks Durham Hospital will be a much more imposing structure than it was this morning. Finding that its babies, which ordin- arily came singly or at most in twos, have begun to come by threes, the in- stitution doubtless feels justified in making room! tes not too occupied to show us through her house of healing. She received us in the front room which v..â€" is supposed to be the office, though in it is a cot. In the next room she has a couch for herself and her reception room has been turned into a nurses’ dining-room. In fact, this gracious lady is much in the position of the Arab who took pity on his camel and allowed the beast to squeeze into his tent but was obliged to move out him~ self. Very frequently in its history, Miss Fettes told us, the hospital has been crowded to the breaking point of its resources. "The Durham Hospital THE DURHAM CHRONICLE ment of ‘ an evening’s fun with her There are nurses’ rooms tucked in the rear, they also rather overcrowd- ed now with probationers ooming in and graduates not yet departed. There is the operating room with electric sterilizersâ€"the beginning of what will some day be very adequate equipment: There is a baby room and there is a linen room for reserve supplies. There were three tiny babies in immaculate cots and one stepped softly past their precious slumbers. No, these. were single babies of separate mothers, but in another room we were lucky to have a glimpse of one of the famous trip- months in the hospital under the care of the nurses, but this 'one had had'a touch of bronchitis and had come back to its aflectionate foster-mothers for a little extra care. The healthy little lady was lying in a basket quite alone in the room when we entered and was unconventionally attired in two elementary garments and certainly was quite happy. As Miss Fettes spoke' to her and gently carressed her, the little one smiled and seemed to ap- preciate the bit of pleasantry, but she made no protest when we turned away. It was vidence that a baby who is comfortable and who is accustomed to being left to her own devices between bathing and feeding time, does not de- mand, with screams and cries, that she be taken up and bounced every time an adult comes near. The triplets, as everybody in this! district knows, are the infant child-3 ren of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Caswell and. are really farm proudcts, though, since their arrival their parents have taken a home in town. These little people, Miss Fettes told us, were premature babies and took their first feedings of diluted cow’s milk from a medicine dropper. Their total weight was twelve pounds. From the beginning they were put on a schedule of feeding four hours apart. They were given no patent foods or medicines; only cow’s milk with the usual orange juice and olive oil. During their entire life at the hospital they never had a setback and rather oddly the smallest of them sooned gained on the others. The little lady who had slyly played sick to get back to the hospital is Hazel Isabel, while her sister is Ethel Chris- tine and her brother James Allen, and they have five sisters and brothers at home to love them. Since triplets do not come rushing into Durham every summer’s day, their advent caused a tremendous stir and it immediately became necessary to defend them, as is the Prince of Wales sometimes, from the interest, curiosity and affection of the whole community. They were definitely “not at home” to curious visitors, while more intimate friends could hardly be persuaded that the newcomers did not need to be patted, hugged and kissed as most long-suffering babies are. Still there came a day when they had theirj hour of open publicity. Dolled up in cunning new baby pretties, they were taken down town by the nurses and before one of his tremendous audienc- es they were publicly christened by an evangelist uncle who was holding' open-air meetings in the town. On another day, too, they were motored gdown to the photographer’s gallery to ipose for a charming picture. Lastly, they were judged strong enough and ltheir mother rested sufficiently to have them taken home. “And we cried when they went away.” Miss Fettes admitted while her eyes misted in a most unprofessional way. During the height of the excitement over the arrival of the little strang- ers, rumors began to fly concerning a bounty which His Most Gracious Maj- esty is pleased to bestow on babies who come in threes. A thousand dollars a- piece, some prevaricator asserted, and the triplets were probably counting up the number of all-day suckers and gay, buzzing toys for three thousand dollars would buy. But the King’s Bounty proved to be no; so bountiful. Translated into Canadian coinage it is fifteen dollars and this sum has been received by the proud parents. .L‘- A The triplets ha_d gone hgme game LVVVLVV“ .. '___ ‘__ Our personal opinion is that the Caswe 11 babies have a considerably richer heritage than any money bounty. Besides having many kind relatives and friends, they also have a most remarkable grandfather whose traditional physical endurance and force of will should be of much more value to the youthful trio than any donations of money or raiment. ’ There was no local hospital with open doors for Robert Grierson (please let us interlope this story, even if we socket of his shoulder. Even then the lad (for he was only eighteen) refused support from the pitying arms held ,out to him, just as later on, he turned l wrathfully on some well-meaning ‘ - ~L-_Aoo ‘A’ a wrathfully on some wen-meaning person who urged him to study for a profession so that he might have an‘ easy life. He has a contempt for the easy-job kind of man. With his one arm he teamed logs, farmedâ€"pitching hay and grain with his one hand and a kneeâ€"followed the threshing ma- chine again for many years, feeding the machine or drivmg a horse-power, doing all these and many other things as well as, and often better than many men could with two arms. He married and has supported his ' family single- *Still farming on the second concession of Bentinck, he writes insurance as a side-line and has served many terms among the township fathers. Robert â€" -Amn+h§fla of among («[16 DUWHDLMEJ .swv---__.- . Grierson’s record IS somethmg of ’ bly which the tnplets may reaspna - boast to the end of then' happfly be gun dayga -1. .â€"1.9 nna' mm at Though, as yet, only one' case 01 triplets has drawn the hospitél into the limelight, there have been five pair of twins delivered by the big bird with the basket slung from his beak within the space of five yeast.)e arid Naturally, atflrstpatientswerechief-‘ Lv Durham people, now the majority comefromthecountry. “I have been here six years,” Miss 'Fettes informed us; “Yes, I began with the hospital. I came on the first of November and we opened on the 15th.” We recalled that unceremonious open- ing to meet the urgent demand of a number of patients. There was a for- {mal Opening all planned, with dignit- iaries' invited to Speak, but it never came to pass because the hospital was always too busy: “I Was crazy, I think, to permit the hospital to be opened with such meagre supplies as we had six years ago,” Miss Fettes went on, “We had so very, very little to work With. Such a struggle as we had!” Needless to say, equipment has been added to as far as available funds would permit. yet there must always‘ he need where there is so much daily‘ use of furnishings and equipment. Miss Fettes spoke with cordian appre- ciation of the help of the Women’s Board. Never an appeal to them has been unneeded, never a request but they have bestirred themselves to supply the need. ; ~With our backs against the linen shelves we paused to discuss phases of hospital workâ€"the advantage ‘of the hospitai, for instance, to the mother who needs to get away from the sound of her own dishes breaking and of her children’ s bumps and squabbles and the echoes of neighborhood rows. I Then the now accepted fact that it is cheaper to go to the hospital. This was diflicult to understand, doubtless, in the days when grandmothers and aunts and anxious neighbors rushed to do homage to the new-born and wash- ing for himâ€"but now that a trained or practical nurse and help by the day to boot is the expected order of things in the home, the hospital with its complete shouldering of all the worry is beyond question the less ex- pensive as well as the safest and most satisfactory solution. Then there was the rather amusing aspect of the complaint of the individ- ual who possibly had dropped a dollar in the passing hat and had felt ag- grieved not to be granted free treat- ment in the hospital for this generos- ity. As a matter of fact, though patients may sometimes find their hospital bills difficult to meet, the average daily rate of the small hos- pital is never commensurate with the benefits of board, laundry, clothing and skilled care by day and night. In the home where a trained nurse is employed the nurse’s fee alone is usu- ally more than twice the daily hospi- tal charge, while the household must meet all the other expenses listed above. In the hospital the shoe is on the other foot. Having granted us a most interest- ing interview, Miss Fettes took the trouble to come out-of-doors to bor- row the architect’s blue-prints from the contractor to show me the plans even now being carried rapidly into reality. She pointed out with happy anticipa- tion the new space for an elevator, a baby-room, an X-ray room and sun- room, with an excellent lighting sys- tem. One could not help sharing the exultation of this splendid woman in the furtherance of her work of mercy and healing. One felt also that this work is a consistent memorial for, as a tablet in the hall point out, the hos- pital is a perpetuation of the memory of the local boys who died in France. Forthwith our mission included a icall on Mrs. J amieson for the latest ’news of the Women’s Board activities! For, while the successful inner work- ings of the hospital are due in incar- culable measure to the remarkable measure to the character of its mat- ron, the existence and progressive history of the institution is credited very largely to Mrs. David Jamieson, whose husband is well known to On- tarions as a former Speaker of the Legislature and latterly as Director of the Mothers’ Allowance Commission. The mere sight of the white pillared verandah of “Bon Accord”, the Jamie- son residence, always recalls the first response to Red Cross needs in Dur- ham when in war-time the Durham Red Cross Society was organized with- _ 2‘1 - _‘_ L‘vuu vs vvw .â€" - -â€" in the shadow of its hospitable pillars. After the war, when many small as- sociations breathed a sigh Of relief that woe and want would assuredly die away now, folded away their band- ages and ceased to auction autograph quilts, the Durham Red Cross turned its energies toward local needs. With no slight courage the society mooted the support of a district nurse. Mrs. Jamieson, whose regular re-election constitutes her a permanent presid- ent. delivered her startling ultimatum, of a hospital or nothing. Hospital it' was. A tremendous undertaking for a few women, and week-end collisions on the highways had not then become an expected thing. i Mrs. Jamieson kindly helped us to check over some of the details of the story of how six years ago the Society bought the old English Church Rec- tory on the hill-crest overlooking the town and the river. They paid $2,000 for the plain, substantial resid- ence and fitted it up with such furn- ishings as could be had. Many kindâ€" whole town has been tions may come. or an ed by the expertly-a: of city organizations, society carries on. $5.3 ' “We have just been buying new 11n- olemn for the hospital kitchen." Mrs. Jameson told us, “and our next aim istobeanelectricrange. Mywhole heart,” she reiterated. “is in the ad- vancement of that little hospitaL. Though Mrs. Jamieson is president of the Women’ 3 Board. Dr. Jamieson. President of the Men’s Board and Dr. only child. house-surgeon to the hos- pital, it seems only fair to correct the impression that the concern is a Jamieson-Jamieson-Jamieson combine. Certainly the other doctors in Durham and in neighboring towns are as much at liberty to bring and attend their own patients there as Dr. J amieson is and they are glad to give credit to the stafl for their co-operation in caring for those patients. Although the hospital is distinctly anassetandacredittothetownwe were informed that the board has never askedâ€"nor receivedâ€"one dol- lar from the town council so that it can‘ rightly claim to be self-support- ing, though such a term would be mis- leading if it were construed to mean that patients’ fees pay all expenses. 35 it stands, the hospital has a clean slate and, therefore, looks forward gallantly to the meeting of its pay- ments on the new $20,000 extension. for which the town has issued debent- Arising from the unquestioned achievement of this valiant Red Cross society, this hospital, superintendent and nurses, comes an idea that buzzes in our bonnet and refuses to be brush- ed away. There are so many local institutions, W. 1., and I.O.D.E’s and various other initialed bodies who sedulously scurry about and make money industriously in country places and country towns. At annual meet- reborts of proceeds of their activities and conscientously account for these funds by showing how a great percent- age went to headquarters and _various to doubtless excellent causes. Far-03 charities seem so pathetic.! On wonders what might happen about the greatlyâ€"lamented exodus to the cities it all country institutions took up some well-defined objective in their own community and proceeded to make life rather more convenient and civilized right at home. There are so many attractions for our young people in the city. technical schools, colleges. libraries, fine hospitals to train in. soul-stirring pipe-organs in churches and not infrequently some of these in- stitutions are dependent on the money that kind country people subscribe. Why not provide some of these things directly to the young people (and their folks at home) in their own neighborhood? At least, it has been demonstrated that such things can be done with concentrated effort and everlastingly keeping at it. For cofici'ete éxainple, the Durham Memorial Hospital! PAGE 8.