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«# th To Obtain the Finest ReY sh impress Upo f being ort ng it just : se 1 toor wh s may kembled thi a (3F» f‘» ';‘)""'.'1;; 4[" F: mm 34â€" in 2 $3 h ez e naes ME ET OS‘ dembsame . is ) le "Mather helped us fix a shelf behind the stove and we always put our boots and overshoes there when we take thent off," was the virtuous ansâ€" tion of another small boy. Fineâ€"but, if they are found lying about the floor, they are swept out into the icy woodâ€" house where it is not at all pleasant to find them when wanted. No use blaming the little folks for not putting things where they belong Superior to the best Japanse. Try it today. when there &n t which this r: B1 P the t P ilre Ki such as a cabinet. table tends across a lew windo times the case, it never l the ontside of the house. tain fastened at both tc by rods or elastic dire glass so that it raises at the sash looks better ar longer than one hangi the top, and it leaves t ghot the t clear whor upor whe €re Do you know very much about your eyes" 1 moan, do you know how they work,. and how to care for them" > Do you know why your eyes are healthier if you live in the country or at the seashore rather than in the city" Because when you look over far distances, the muscles are almost wholly reli sed. When you look conâ€" 1 f ORDERLY CHIH WI ha every 0 If some uncolored green tea procurable buy 4o Woman‘s Sphere they bel they belong. AS FOF NC PMNON® â€""I‘ll never sweep my child‘s ershoes into the woodhouse!" celaim indignantly. _ And yet really hurts the child moreâ€" ther drastic lesson which he reâ€" rs for weeks, or the perpetual g in whic‘h some mothers inâ€" or allowing the child to grow h untidy habits? K!TCHEN CURTAINS ; does not enjoy a light kitchen | ich to work! Even the most} : of curtains scem a superfluity | they darken my windows and ut an extensive and inspiring Keep curtains fresh and at.-} e adds to the work and when indows are opened for ventilaâ€" s kitchen windows so often are, urtains blow about and are more : in the way. Yet when all curâ€" are discarded except the roller :, the room acquires a bare and active appearance. Thus we a little interior decoration probâ€" ne satisfactory solution of which r th that Iried the ied and warmed. A CUpâ€" oys and other valuable posâ€" These make it just about as it things away as to drop anywhere. the pleasantness of being nat is easily worked out in ly. "I don‘t like mother to rings, for she chucks everyâ€" i beap in the dark closet," 4 ane small bov. That dark wAaTCH YOUR EYES ne piece of witchen iurnicure, a cabinet. table or sink, exâ€" ross a lew window, as is someâ€" e case, it never looks well from ide of the house. A sash curâ€" tened at both top and bottom : or elastic directly over the that it raises and lowers with h looks better and keeps clean than one hanging loose from . and it leaves the upper sash This arrangement is good itchen windows open directly e street or driveway and a deâ€" { privacy is desired without sly obscuring the view. I@SUE No. 43â€"‘23. t a more impressive ny weary hours of r‘s part. Fred would his cap where it beâ€" arch it out of a mi in the dark. "% 1 us fix a shelf behind r the little folks fori s where they belong: : is no suitable place| g! As for the pleas-i ver sweep my child‘s, to the woodhouse!"| GREEN TEA DREN to stantly at things near at hand, the eye must make a greater effort to focus upon the object. Practically no effort is involved in looking across a mountain range or at the horizon of the sea. The eye is like the camera. The theory is that every object reflects rays of light. The lens of the eye focuses these rays when you look at the object, upon the retina, which corâ€" responds to the sensitized place of the camera. The optic nerve carries this impression to the brain, and the result is sight. o --,,---;.‘: these lig 1 "tn(.‘ ho ce raliiredifieded o aPedstak se he vaher T in l To f'( lf there h’?ht t pro‘?ery cntry we saw a light twinkle in the the eye has what is called a "f06@l y ow nhoad b l.r;;:th'l If this is too long or too, ;, proved to be a wretched tumbleâ€" short, imperfect vision results. The jown farm in a grove of poplarsâ€"a lens of the eye or the '.Pan.‘lpal’ent‘fou]-sme]ling' muddy yarS’ a twoâ€" cuter surface may not be curved propâ€" roomed hovel of a house, and a barn erly, the muscles that control the which was tolerably dr?' and which focusin@ of the eye may not be strong W selected for our sleepingâ€"place. enough. So the eye may not be able The owner was a broken old fellow to focus properly on near objects, or whose sons were all at the war, and on distant ones Classes that are he received us with the profound calm ‘!" Te. C * isâ€"â€"and if of one who expects nothing but unâ€" properly made, correct thisâ€"â€"and 1 pleasantness from life. worn early enough; may be needed ° By this time we had recovered our only for a short time. ltempers, and I was trying hard to 1 & & 5 L Tolos uoo lt 2224 ETE : us asetens S dantn Es od PLueus Emm UUP PRPTTD NC worn early enough; may be needed " By this time we had recovered our . only for a short time. 'bemper.-, and I was trying hard to . Never strain the eyes; close and rest put my new Kismet philosophy into | them every little while when at work, practice. I reckoned that if risks and do not read on jerky strains, nor, were foreâ€"ordained, so were difficulâ€" with the light dim or badly placed.| °S and b,Oth must be taken as part You should not wear other people‘s 05. the days._w‘ork. W(;th the rem?fin(si zlasses, even for a minute; nor look at s e c irtaan. ser Hunger, x widcadlts 5. 4 h s milk we satisfied our hunger and moving pictures if your eyes time €48â€" curled ourselves up among the pease ily, unless you have correcting glasses straw of the barn. Blenkiron anâ€"| for them. Avoid using eyeâ€"drops unâ€" nounced with a happy sigh that he less prescribed by an oculist. ihad now been for two days quit of his An eyeâ€"wash or lotion which can dyspepsia. | safely be used consists of ten grains of| That night, I remember, 1 had a boracie acid and one ounce of camphor 44°¢" dream. I seemed to be in a water. Drop this lotion into each eye wild place among mountains, and I [ with an eveâ€"dropper, night and was being hunted, though who was : C pper, might nc INCLâ€"|after me I couldn‘t tell.. 1 remember ing, or when ghn eyes are irritated bY sweating with fright, for I seemed dust. Luxuriant eyclashes not only to be quite alone and the terror that add to the beauty of the eyes, but they was pursuing me was more than huâ€" protect them, preventing the entrance man. The place was horribly quiet | of dust and other foreign matter. The and still, and there was deep snow | growth of the eyelashes can be proâ€" lying everywhere, so that each step ‘ moted by applications of petroleum| L took was heavy as lead. A very orâ€" | jelly. Use but a small amount on the g";'aer::"{;u:f’h';‘r{htv-",'z“:f'f’;‘ e)’g;lm\:g: 6 j 3 ay. 8, there 1;"'“; Oftlhp‘::(}s’ ‘bemg eareful not "o‘lfeature in this one. The night was glet i onter the ©36: |pitch dark, but ahead of me in the I â€"â€"â€"â€" ~~ ithroat of the pass there was one water. Drop this lotion into each eye with an eyeâ€"dropper, night and mornâ€" ing, or when the eyes are irritated by dust. â€" Luxuriant eyelashes not only add to the beauty of the eyes, but they protect them, preventing the entrance of dust and other foreign matter. The growth of the eyelashes can be proâ€" moted by applications of petroleum jelly. Use but a small amount on the edge of the lids, being careful not to let it enter the eye. se o i in i OE o ccev m T I / ‘ing up some kind of conveyance. My, 24479 NC |task was perfectiy futile. The colâ€"| .l . _ _| umns passed, casting wondering eyes N.i on the wrecked car among the frozen l | *3 ‘rushes, but they could offer no help. |\ My friend the Turkish officer promised ito wire to Angora from some place s un‘ > n ‘or other for a fresh car, but, rememâ€"| _ 4478. White Swiss dotted in yelloW bering the state of affairs at Angora,‘ is here combined with white organdy I had no hope from that quarter. and finished at the free edges with Cars passed, plenty_of them, packed picot edge ribben. This model is nice with staffâ€"officers, Turkish and Gerâ€" for printed voilo, for batiste, embroidâ€" MSW: but they were in far too big a erod materials or bordered goods. hurry even to ston and speak. The Simple and effective would be a deâ€" only ‘.cond".'f.‘;m 'l reached from my velopment in â€" white batiste or handâ€" road_slde vigil was thak fthings were f h i s c bamt gotting very warm in the neighbourâ€" kerc}?wf linen, with hemstitching f0r food of Erzerum. Everybody on that a finish. road seemed to be in mad haste either The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, to get there or to get away. 12 and 14 years. A 12â€"year size reâ€" Hussin was the best chance, for, ME M PE » Tlans mamatart 4# as I â€"have said, the (’ompepions ha'd erod materials or bordered goods. Simple and effective would be a deâ€" velopment inâ€" white batiste or handâ€" ws L sve e ulc lwal kerchief linen, with hemstiichning 10f a finish. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12â€"year size reâ€" quires 3% yards of one material 36 inches wide. To make as illustrated requires 1% yards for the waist, and 21, yards for the skirt and plastron. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15¢ in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide Strcet, Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. | Minard‘s Linlnent Heals Cute Foes of Memory. Scientists have discovered that the memory is stronger in summer than in winter. Among the worst foes of the memory are too much food, too much physical exercise, and strangely, too much education. There is no use in trying to «how some people the error of their ways. They will simply persist in looking at yours all the time. NY# LOBss R; Y < .‘-l'\ P1 w /'.' CA :t 41.X 78 4\ \34 , & t tvv,:_fE | savagely. | The! __ Hussin was the first to strike oil. ects He came back in twenty minutes with news of some kind of dwelling a ©Y©® couple of miles up the stream. He C At went of to collect Peter, and, humpâ€" COfâ€" ing our baggage, Blenkiron and I the plodded up the waterside. Darkness this gnd fallen thick by this time, and we sult took some bad tosses among the bogs. \When Hussin and Peter overtook us my.'the{ found a better road, and presâ€" ocal ently we saw a light twinkle in the *** hollow ahead. M Te It was so disgusting a mishap that we all took it quietly. It was too bad to be helped by hard swearing. Husâ€" sin and Peter set off on different e o on AGes c Lo t vas as likely as to find snowballs on . bubdh atycalyo nc old insl Aniegt tel 700 m he Congo. It was all but dark and ing of the fourth day, after the old | here was no time to lose. I got out farmer had blessed us and sold “5‘ he petrol tins and spare tyres and some stale ryeâ€"bread. Blenkiron beâ€" ached them among some rocks on the strode the Arab, being the heaviest, nillside. Then we collected our scanty and Peter and I had the screws. My aggage from the derelict Studebaker. worst forgbodings were soon realized, Jur only hope was Hussin. He had and Hussin, loping along at my side, zot to find us some lodging for the had an easy job to keep up with us. night, and next day we would have We were about as slow as an OXâ€"| a try for horses or a lift in some passâ€" wagon. The brutes were unshod, and‘ ing wagon. I had no hope of another with the rough roads I saw that their car. Every automobile in Anatolia feet would very soon . gQo to pieces.l would now be at a premium. ;We Jo%gec: %long l_ilke & tir}xlket"l's caraâ€" It was so disgustin 2 ‘van, about five miles to the hour, as we all took it qgiet!y.gfirvr:}as:‘:gott}::; feckless a party as ever disgraced a to be helped by hard swearing. ue Ngarend. 2 sin and Peter set Off on different The weather was now a cold drizâ€" sides of the road to prospect for a zle, which increased my depression. house, and Blenkiron and I sheltered %}:iemm?::sed iu; artl.du;i_ls:ppegfed ih under th s R , going a irty miles an the nearest rock and smoked pour to mock our _slo‘wnesz. None of heai pet 1. d ctal ts db lt deiatsifiataty I Eass over the next three days, for they were one uninterrupted series of heartâ€"breaks. Hussin and Peter scoured the country for horses, Blenâ€" kiron sat in the barn and played Paâ€" tience, while I haunted the roadside near the bridge in the hope of pifl(- hn d i 111 0 t TB s s ciliicc s aÂ¥iiinbnlrits. 5; trindnntl 70 a very special and peculiar graft throughout the Turkish Empire. But the first day he came back emptyâ€" handed. â€"All the horses had been comâ€" mandeered for the war, he said; and though he was certain that some had been kept back and hidden away, he could not get on their track. The second day he retu‘rn‘ed‘with twoâ€" omm omm Sm ooo ras s miserable screws and deplorably short in the wind from a diet of beans. There was no decent corn or hay left in that countryside. The third day he picked up a nice little Arab stalâ€" lion: in poor condition, it is true, but perfectly sound. For these beasts we paid good money, for Blenkiron was well su};plied and we had no time to spare for the int rminable Oriental bargaining. Hussin csil be had cleaned up the countrysids, ond I believed him. I darcd not dlsy anothcr day, even though it meort lsaving him behind. But he ha"‘ se votion of doing anyâ€" thing of the kind. He was a good GREENMANTLE BY JOHN BUCHAN. us spoke, for the futility of the busi-' ness clogged our spirits. I bit hard on my lip to curg my restlessness, ard I think I would have sold my soul there and then for anything that could move fast. I don‘t know any sorer trial than to be mad for speed and have to crawl at a snail‘s pace. I was geting ripe for any kind of desperate venture. o hae NPR E poorin ol oo peainde s About midday we descended on & wide plain full of the marks of rich cultivation. _ Villages became freâ€" quent, and the land was studded with olive groves and scarred with water furrows. From what I rememâ€" bered of the map I judged that we were coming to that champagne counâ€" try near Siwas, which is the granary of Turkey, and the home of the true Osmanli stock. _ _ VC s M m uen ns O PeC Then at a turning of the road came to the caravenseral ;1 00 t n 1. M . 2 20. td Gruts insd It was a dingy, battered place, with‘ the pink plaster falling in patches from its walls. There was a court-‘ yard abutting on the road, and a flatâ€" topped house with a big hole in its side. It was a long way from any battleground, and I guessed that some explosion had wrought the damâ€" age. Behind it, a few hundred yards off, a detachment of cavalry were enâ€" camped beside a stream, with their horses tied up in long lines of pickets. Eomm y O in p enc ooo I And by the roadside, quite alone and deserted, stood a qarge new motorâ€"car. In all the road before and behind there was no man to be seen except the troops by the stream. The ownâ€" ers, whoever they were, must be inâ€" side the caravenserai. _ h I have said I was in the mood forl some desperate deed, and lo and beâ€"| hold Providence had given me the| chance. I coveted that car as I have, never coveted anything on earth. At} the moment all my plans had narâ€" rowed down to a feverish passion to get to the battlefield. _ We had to find Greenmantle at Erzerum, and once there we should have Hilda von Einem‘s protection. It was a time of war, and a front of brass was the surest safety. But, indeed, I could not figure out ahy plan worth speakâ€" ing of. 1 saw only one thingâ€"a fast car which might be ours. 4j (To be continued.) _ The idea of the game is to see which ‘of the contestants can first construct [an unbroken line of toothpicks from ‘ the starting to the finishing line. | There is no set rule how the toothâ€" | picks should be placed, except that any | given toothpick may be touched by only two others. There must, moreâ€" over, be no breaks in the line. Draw on a level patch of ground or on an even floor two parallel lines ten feet apart, one for the starting and the other for the finishing line. Furâ€" nish each « toothpicks. The London cockney, who imisproâ€" nounces his h‘s, is the constant sport of the paragrapher. _ In Titâ€"Bits we read of a district visitor who was callâ€" ing on Mrs. Harris, a new arrival in the village. | "You seem to have a good many children, Mrs. Harris," said the visitor. "Yes, mum," she replied, "and what‘s more, all their names begin with haitch. There‘s ‘Ubert, my oldâ€" est. Then comes ‘Mda, ‘Arriet and ‘Orace. Then there‘s ‘Arold and ‘Arry and ‘Ector and ‘Onoria. They‘re all haitchesâ€"all except the baby, and we christened he Holive." "She‘s c right!" "And what beautiful: silk stockings she wears!" Whales measuring as much as 105 feet in length have been caught in the Antarctic. Minard‘s Linimeni fo. Candru® A TOOTHPICK RACE Holive the Exception. ;(_);néstant with a bundle of In Plain Sight. ‘imbing the social ladder a * As the debts due to Great Britain have been occupying considerable atâ€" tention, it may be recalled that the debts of her Allies and the Dominions are as follows:â€" War Loansâ€" Australia ...........> $ 457,265,000 New Zealand ........ 148,115,000 Canada .........>>>* 69,050,000 _ South Africa ........ 61,430,000 _ Other Dominions and Relief and ReconstruC Austria ..........+ Poland ..........> Rumania ........» Yugoâ€"Slavia ....... Other States ...... $108,000,000 Belgian Reconstruction Loans : â€" 1. aaa AAA Other Loans:â€" Armenia ......... Czechoâ€"Slovakia .. Pat had got a jJob as steward on board a liner, and onhis first trip he was anxious to have everything as nice as possible so as to please the captain. Accordingly, the first thing he did was to have a good cleanâ€"out of the captain‘s quarters, and amongst other things he polished up the teaâ€" service, of which the captain was very proud Unfortunately, he let the teapot slip overboard, and it sunk like a stone to the bottom of the sea. Colonies .......â€" Ruséla ...........s France ........}..« Italy ‘..;...;.....%+0 Yugoâ€"Slavia ....... Portugal, Rumania, Greece and other AMOG ....+«s.«* "Captain, can anything be lost it you know where it is?" "No, certainly not," replied the cap tain, rather sharply. s "Well, $ir," retorted the Irishman, "your silver teapot is at the bottom of the Atlantic!" To Wind Yarn. When you have no one to hold your yarn for winding, place two flat irons ;)ii the table as farfapart as the length of the skein and stretch the yarn over them According to statistics the populaâ€" tion of the world more than doubled in 114 years ending with the year 1914. Millions Due to Britain. 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We clothe it in romance, and fill it with thrills and exâ€" citement and the tumult of adventure, and we cling to it with a desperate deâ€" termination . to hold on to the last shred of its radiance as long as pOsâ€" sible. We idealize old age. We think of it as the purple twilight in which one sits at peace and rest with folded hands, one‘s work done, and in one‘s heart the placid enjoyment of those who bave worthily performed â€" their .msk. We are proud of being young. ts nus amand af haing old, but we are ‘ When you are young you Can go through the agonies of being eternally !dismced by having to wear a dress or | & coat different from those worn by | your companions. You can suffer ut |ter desolation of soul and feel that :there is nothing left in life worth havâ€" ; ing if it rains on the day you had planâ€" | ned to go to a picnic. You can know !every torment of the pariah if you are ‘a wallflower at a party or are too | bashful to go with the crowd. We are proud of being old, but we are ashamed of being middileâ€"aged. Disappointments of Youth, Now all this is utter foolishness. Middle age is really the golden age, if we only have the intelligence to realâ€" ize it. It is the time of full maturity, of the fullâ€"blown rose, breathing its heart out in perfume, not the hard litâ€" tle bud that is only faintly fragrant. Our giorifying of youth is a mere superstition. Youth, in reality, is not a time of happiness. It is a time of stress and tears, of bitter disappointâ€" ments and bafflied desires, when we suffer because we have not learned how to meet the trials and tribulations of life. 5 Middle age is far happie> than youth, | because by the time we reach fifty we | have acquired a philosophy that makes ius proof against the slings and arrows | of outrageous fortune. We have learnâ€" ‘ed to laugh at ourselves, and so ridiâ€" ‘cule has no power to hurt us. The ikeen edge of our desires bas been | blunted. Moreover, we have seen so imany hopes blasted, so many disasâ€" ters turn into victory, that we are conâ€" | tent to wait the tur= of fate. | To men, middle age is the time of achievement. It is then that they enâ€" gage in the big game of business and match their skil and wit and luck against the world. No thrill like that. No adventure like that. No sport like | that. Youth has no fun like that. I- Domestic Felicity. | _ And even the men who never do big ‘things have reached Easy Street by / middle age, if they are ever to arrive | in that pleasant thorough{are. They |have their homes, their comforts, and ’have settled down into a humdrum }comentment that youth never knows. | Middle age is the heyday of domes | ticity. It takes twentyâ€"4ive years for !most busbands and wives to reach a |\ working basis where they can enjoy leach other‘s good qualities and avoid each other‘s pecullarities, Gone are | the jealousies of the honeymoon; elimâ€" |\inated the friction of clashing wills. ;On the middleâ€"aged household roosts ;the dove of peace as it never does on ‘that of the newlyweds. seX c Women should go rejoicing towards middle age, because it is their time of emancipation, when the spinster no longer requires a chaperon, and when the mother has raised and settled her family and is free for the first time to enjoy herself. In about six years‘ time Australia will possess in the bridge to be built across Sydney Harbor one of the greatest engincering marvels in the world. The total cost of this vast structure, for which contracts are shortly to be allotted, will be about seven million pourds, nearly half of which will be expended in wages. The new bridge will eliminaie the slowâ€"working ferry now in use, and will bear four lines of railway, beside a G7(t roadway with broad pavements. T | _ The approaches to the bridge were | commenced some time ago by Ausâ€" | tralian firms, but they found it imposâ€" [ sible to carry out the whole undertakâ€" | ing, and tenders were invited from enâ€" 'iglneering concerns all over the world. Australians have dreamed of this unâ€" dertaking for many years, and there bas been much discussion as to what form the bridge should take, the posâ€" sibllities of floating and suspension structures boeing considered. Finally, a highâ€"level bridge has been decided upon. For pure grandeur, this great conâ€" struction is expected to eclipse the world fa2mous Forth and _ Quebec bridges, for although its span of 1,600 ft. is slightly shorter than either of these, it will be considerably higher above the water than ther are. Australia‘s Wonder Bridge. | _ A literary critic is a {finds meanings in a i , There are few great dificulties to be overcome in the construction, as the granite pliers which will support the bridge will have solid rock foundaâ€" tions on both sides of the harbor, thus making the venture jess speculative than has been the case with other large bridgeâ€"building contracts. author never knew weiâ€" B & PA tonk that the tw Roast Turkey w Thanksgivi pt te egp th Mashed P GC #C THANKSGIVING DINNEI saying gouldr $urke It thick pT The ch "I thin gt W Thanlksgiving mother. lm 1d 1e 801 h