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I! In order to correct thin error we odd an extra day tn leap year. Even this Om not emulator: matters, for it the: the your back forty-013m min- ntor too much. 'trr thin reason the norm: any in nometllnoe December nu and sometime: December 22nd. In 1928 the honor belonged not to the 21st, bat to the 22nd. It was on Saturday. Member 22M, that the nun reached its extreme Daemon south of the Equator. and that winter actual- ly began. Occasionally the shortest day my come as late as the 23rd. In order to make up for the forty- elght mlnntes' error. leap your 3 owned in every tun century year not divisible by 400. But ven this come- tlon do»: not put our reckoning quite right. . The mistake amount. to about onetenth of I an in each 600 yearn. It this error Le not corrected. Christ. mas will gradually come later and later, until In 709.103 we shall be keep- tng the mldwinter festival at midsum- I you nsk I Ichoolboy which . the Most day tn the year " will un- vor "Doc-ember nu." Thu indeed. is the Raoul Ida. yot not I correct one. A you I: not An exact number of daya, but actually consists of 305 dun I hours 1nd 49.7 seconds. TO KNOW AUTO ADDS TO JOYS or' :IOTORING. At an prep-:2! tug. of automobilo history tho motor car has become I staph trio‘s. It is commonly found no a necessary ndjpnct to a family, like a piano or toothbrush. Tho y upon-d busehoi takes th, The young person growing up is expoeed 'o the nu‘omobile ea to other household eugentinle. Consequently he fakes the nummobiie for granted. Ten or fifteen years ago the auto- mobilu was a nn'clty and had not reached its high state of eftieUner. In those days :.‘w'o:nohile schools were founded for la purpose of teaching the various- irieaeics of the machine and how to drive it. Then it was nec- essery for a person who was going to take I job as chauffeur to either eerve a long term in a factory or repair shop or taki- the shorter method of learning how to take care of the car through tt course in a achool, " many roadside repairs were necessary. Although tn-day automobiles have reached a supp-Em state of perfection and service nations or repair shove are everywhrre in evidence, it is still desirable that the operator of a car knows the principles of the workings of the different parts, in order that the machine may not be abused in handling it and may be given the care necessary to insure e renewable length of life. Than faint not nor fear, For His presence is near; 11". faith in His unchanging love; Th. mods of each day Of our plleritnnrs my, Bl: wonderful favor will prove. lounde the va And he nary The New Year is here; May it bring us good cheer, And blessings our VI, to attend; The Father Ibovo Nndeth atll things in love, Mis (no. will be our! to the 0nd. and unite nations or my are everywlwre in evidence, dash-abie that the operator knows the principXes of the " dark be the by, "r if vary the way, 'hu matters with Him by our side? .Iu presence will bless, And His love will cams. if goodor if ill doth batik (ii)2ifj': (s,1,iiJjiF, (9 o i'ii . .4 & o . = MI I [ ‘3 ." TD Christmas at Midsummer. " she turned him down hard With a strong arm athletic, As she caught him on guard, And results were pathetic led to an an?“ thold etiserrtitt'as i the nummobi? n " fifteen ye lo was I have " its high star ' days automd Red for the nu Faint Not for Fear. “g --Fred Scott -surard. The Great sum. “it took me quite a long time to tind out how to make a speech It a ban. quet," contesaed J. Fuller Gloom; "tmt finally l discovered that when called on to utter a few well-chosen words, as it were, I could register a hit with almost any audience by rising, akin; to he excused and then sitting down." 1m snags; "You know how terribly true that is, Dolly; tor just a few weeks no one of the finest men you ever sow. sn ex- pert man in his business. made the first mistake and paid for it with his life. And just the other day there was that terrible explosion at the gas factory. A workman had neglected to turn the little safety valve.” ihlly was not smiling now. “The moral forces at our disposal," continued her unola, 'are far greater than all the physical force: ot the uni. verse, but the law is Just the same. There is something terrible in the war judgment follows a wrong turn, an evil act; ‘one little gin,' as you call it. Life, love, beauty, hope, trust, purity, tortrettMsss---a11 blown to pieces inst because s willful little person tumod and said, Ttl put this over just onea,' Be careful to remember the secret ot the machines. One slip may and you and mm; untold misery to other: besides.” But remember. phase. the law by which we live; We are not built to comprehend a lie; We can neither love not pity nor for- give: It you make t sup in handling us. you diet "Dolly, you love big machines, don't you” said Uncle Ned. “They do such wonderful things at the single touch ot a button or the swing of a little lever. They reveal to us the great power: that are round us, and that are It the service of men who will use them wisely. You know the little poem. the Secret ot the Machines? Man says that he wants big things done, bigger than have ever before been attempted, and various machim: mute newer. Hear them hum and sing: "It is easy! Give us dynamite and drills'. Watch the iron-shouldered rocks lie down Ind quake As the thirsty deservlevel floods and an: And the valley we have dammed be. comes I lake.' In spite of the dependability of 6 car, occasionnlly something does go wrong on the road that my easily be flxed if the driver is able to locate the cause of the trouble. In learning to drive it is much better to get this initial experience in a car equipped for teaching driving than to risk dam- .ges to a new machine. The automo- bile school has cars equipped with dup'deatts control pedals, so that the instructor may let the driver use his own head to the point where an acer. dent is inevitable and may then take full control of the car. "Oh, one mlea won't count. uncle; one little sin won't hart," said Dolly. "Mr dear---" bean Uncle Ned. But Dolly lifted her lovely taco Ind smiled. "Oh, everybody does I little wrong once la a while, now don't they? They wouldn't be human if they didn't slip, now would they." This makes it possible to learn the art of driving without danger of in- jury to the student or damage to the car or other people or their property. At the same time the student makes more rapid progress, because it is not necessary that he be prompted in ad- vance u to every move he should make. yourself. That courtesy has A plum on the roadway. That brakes must be kept In per- WHEN DRIVING. ALWAYS REMEMBER- That you would not willingly injure t child for all the world. - 'riG iiéuwhavo resolved to drive reasonably It all Ines. The Secret of the Machines. That 'it, “are at times a pedestrian Immense areas of the bed of the ocean are covered with deposits form- ed by the remains of organisms from the surface. Such deposits are called oozes and are classified according to the kind of organisms that predomin- But even at the greatest depths there is animal life, and in some places it is abundant. The abundance of life at the bottom of the sea is of. ten in proportion to the abundance of life at the surface In those parts of the ocean where there la almost no life in the upper waters there is little or none at the bottom. On the other hand, we once drew up sponges, which are a form ot animal life, from a depth of 4.173 fathoms, or some four and three-quarters miles. That haul was made near the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific, where surface life was fairly abundant. The explanation is that deep-sea creatures depend on the creatures at the surface for food. It is true that some deep-sea animals prey on others. But the others in tum must be fed. Virtually everything goes to the bottom; there is a constant "rain" ot dead organisms from the up- per strata ot the sea to its bed. Those organisms form the primary food sup- ply for the animal life below. When the ordinary person thinks ot the bottom ot the Bea, said Dr. C. H. Townsend, director of the New York Aquarium, to a writer in the Ameri- can Magazine, he imagines it covered with the wonderful plant lite he has seen. either in reality or in pictures, covering the bed ot the ocean near Jamaica or Bermuda or the southern California coast. But such wonderful sea Mra is to be found only where the water is relatively shallow. It cannot exist without light. More than half of the hundred and forty million square miles of water on the globe is more than two thaunnd tathoms deep, or rather more than two miles. At that depth there is utter darkness; the visible rays ot the sun do not penetrate deeper than a few hundred fathoms at the moat. Conse- quently the greatest part ot the bed of the ocean does not have any plant life whatever except microscopic dia- tombs FOOD KITCHENS FOR DISASTER VICTIMS Floods in Italy, resulting from the bursting ot a dam on an artincIaI lake at Glenco, caused the deaths of over five hundred people. or one village ot 400 inhabitants, only seventeen escaped death. The picture shows soldiers preparing food in open-air kItchena for the homeless. What the Sea Bottom is Like. I take an egg to Gaffer Gray, whose hen's no longer laying; "You've saved my life this blessed day," I hear the old man Bay. ing, "tor I've rheumatics in my legs, and cannot earn my living. and I was suffering tor eggs, which hentrult you are giving." I hope he'll soon be rid of pain, and go my way, remarking, "i sure- ly have not lived in Vain, relieving pain that's carking. To make a hearaiek fellow amile, to put food in his manger-that graft is surely worth the while of any pilgrim stranger." I'm often bored by life’s routine, and all my chores cause friction; I'm tired of burning gasoline and reading kickless fiction; rm tired of statesmen and their spiels, ot vital theme and question; l'm tired of sitting up to meals, I'm tired of indigestion. "All earth- ly things have lost their lure," I say to my Aunt Patty; "we only CHEST Ind endure as we grow old and batty." And then I hear of some poor guy whom fate has sorely smitten; I carry him a custard pie. and eagerly it': bitt.en. "The gods reward you," mutter: he, "you'" brought A glimpse of heaven; accept my blessing No. S, of Series XXVIL” And so I say to people bored by stagnant grief: and others, "Go forth and blow your anfhls hoard, and help your ailing brothers." Rip li Rh F??.", $1533 1al,'t,t,';,tt.,ji"i'il: HELPING OUT 33669555, we l "*kg’igogg‘ g'J10ts's'1fhdl? _/--_i'tf'-i-' - p - '" M, "cl To You o. r" . t If IN RABBI i‘BORO To Be a Balkan Queen The pretty youngest daughter of the King and Queen of Rounuutia, Princess Ileana, who is to marry King Boris ot Bulgaria. She is only sixteen years of age and is a sister of the new- ly-exiled Queen of Greece. The red clay is perhaps the oldest deposit at the bottom of the ocenn. It must have formed very slowly and partly trom volcanic matter such as pumice and volcanic glass; the trag. ments were slowly worn to pieces, and the various substances fhttvlly decom- posed and formed clay. The red color is owing to oxides ot iron and ot man- ganese In the volcanic rocks. Other immense areas ot the ocean have beds ot red clay. There is no ooze covering it, because in those parts there is virtually no life at the surface. The red-clay are” are far trom any shore and so receive none ot the sediment washed trom the land. They might we'i be called the deserts ot the sea, fur they have no plant lite and almost no animal lite. ates. There are diatom ooze. ptoropod ooze. globttrerhta ooze and so on. 'em. Aw, I tell you, everybody wasn't looking for a chance to skin you alive then. Folks were willing to live and let live. But, as the teller saya. them days is gone forever. The highest hotel in Europe is now being built near the summit of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of 11,800 feet. tfl,l.9,E?,,r Wei. Do you rem. Ar,er. the good old times when you could got a square meal for a quarter and could stop at a hotel good enough for anybody for a dollar a day? Or it you didn't want to squan- der money in that reckless manna: you could get for a nickel enough crackers and cheese. mixed, to stay your stummlck tor quite a spell. It you wanted to dine a llttle more elab. orately you could buy for fifteen cents u fair-size can of dove osestei.s/Giii get the crackers thrown In, and so in- to the back room of the store to eat Though the lithium unsung! " Mlnynthetic and ngxlutlnntive, it he: I kttr--aomethine you would hardly expect ot u language that is described by two Much awe-inspiring words. The key I. "Knack tuna?" erh mean: "What in its name?" With it you can learn the Eskimo name: for all ma- terial objects, but. it you use it to in. quire about a nonmnterinl thing like 0. hole, you may--it we can judge from an experience that Mr. Donald B. Mae. Milian relates In the World's work--- tind yourself in difficulties. i The business man who yawn: and stretches at his desk in the afternoon would save time it he went for a short walk until the effect of the fresh air revived him. We may be very well in- formed in regard to mechanics and. are able to inform our friend that his re- fraetory gasoline engine is not getting tsumcient air, but It this knowledge were turned in our own direction and our own air requirements were given a little more attention, the ravages of the great white plague would be ma- terialiy reduced. it is pathetic to repeatedly read "Housewives" as heading the list Irt tuberculosis patients in the sanitarium reports. Would it not be better tor the e same housewives to drop some ot their daily tasks, even it occasional- ly the house did go a little untidy in order that they could get at least the benefit of one hour per day in the pure outeldui‘. I discovered one night, says the arc- .,,.........e . - tie explorer, that the rising heat from can]: continues to n our oil stove had matted a hole reputation for 51min: 1 through the root of our snow house. curing the host and ttighe Pointing to the hole, I inquired, "Kan minabie in agrieultura1 nok atinga?" _ Awards tor a resmu"scmie ' One of the girls promptly replied, agricultural products com ‘O_o;_)-sha-sul-nee-eye." rpagon of the excellencY Free Air. The funnier gauge sign, Free Air, gives one a suggestion in regard to the importance of air on health. The tact that fresh " is free tor the taking mar have something to do with the tact that it is not so highly sought at. ter as it might be. Humanity is u- sailed by the evils of excessive alco- holic drinking, excessive smoking and the excessive ithor habit, and ot the three it is apparcxt that the last named is the worst Nr it is largely responsible for the reduction ot " tality. She was thoughtful for I. moment and then replied: "There isn't my such thing. It It is a. hole, it is a hole in something, or it wouldn't be a L_IAIDI hole.' " I jetted it dowel immediately in my notebook. spelling it phonetically. and wrote after it the word "hole." A tew days tater I happened to tear the knee ot my bear skin mum on the corner of an iron-strapped biscuit box. Embodyfng my newly learned word in Finally after I had repeatedly ln- quired the cause of thelr merrhttttat one ventured to reply: "You asked me to take my needle and thread and sew up the snow hole in the root of your pants!" "What do you call such a hole?" "Reed-la." "What is n hole in the ground.'" "Poo-too." "What is a hole In feet" "That is another word." "What is a hole in Ivory?" "That is another word." "What is a hole in iron?" "That ls another word." "Now, listen," I mild. "I do not want any of these words; I went to know the simple word tor hole." the sentence, I requested Too-cum-ah, one of the girls, to get her needle and sew up the hole in my pants. She burst out laughing, and so did tho other girl. What is a Hole? -'" EVERY TIME I WANT; A LITTLE MONEY To i "t GO SHOPPlNG v1.3.1 ARraRC TORONTO gnaw APPLE HONORS ACHIEVED BY CANADA “Goodness. you're behind the times. These tur neck pieces are the latest “no!" Up-to-Dlu. "Why the Idea. of having a live cat erplliar around your neck y' Tobacco can... Stain: may be removed from copper or brass ash trays try applying a little denatured alcohol with I brush. When washing pink cotton goods the color may be mad. fast by using "red" inltead ot bininz. This can be made by boiling a piece of Turkey red material in water, bottling, and using like ordinary biuing, being careful to tent tor shade. WIDELY SEPARATE!) SEC. TTONS OF DOMINION- Three special prise: were won by the Auocinted Grower- at British Columbin and two by the United Fruit Companies ot Nova Beetle. The tirtrt named won the Over-lees Daily Mull gold cup for the beat exhibit in the overseas section; the Goodwin Ltd. silver cup tor the best entry by my British Columbia cooperative arseni- zation; and the Poupnrt Ltd. prize tor the best British Columbia exhibit in the overseas section The United Fruit companies secured the Goodwin Ltd. silver cup for the best entry by any Nova Scotin eo-operative organi- zation and the Poupart Ltd. prize for the bent Nova Beetle exhibit in the overseas section. H. L. Thompson, of Ottawa. secured eecond place for twelve apples (dual purpose) in the small exhibit eeetion; whilst the Cold. strcam Ranch of Vernon, 13.0., secured the third place in the clan of late culinary variety. In the British Empire notion. the ttrat place tor “my dessert nriety" went to the Associnted Growers of Bri. tish Columbin. and the third pluco to Macdonaid College. In the name loc- tion, tor any cooking varieties, tho fourth position went to the Miochted Growers of British Columbia. Special Prize. We». The United Fruit Companion of Non. Scout took Brrt prize in Blen- heim and Burk varieties and second in "any other varieties." Morley Honey. of Abbotrtord, Que- bee, took first tor Snows. The second prize for McIntosh we: tllen by Mae. donuid College. St. Anne'l, Quebec. The prizes won by the Associated Growers of British Columbia were'.--- First in Wealthy Ind McIntosh; first in the group composed of Jonathan, Cox Orange. Spitsbergen. Newton, Wagner, King, Spy and Greening; " so Brtet in the group “a, other uric- iiiriiviatoce, and the D constantly on the alert tor bility of securing fresh land an” Wuuuuv- -- mutation for striving after and se- curing the host and highest thet is " tainabie in agricultural production: Awards tor a remarkable diversity of agricultural products come to her try reason of the excellency at her crops and livestock. and the Dominion is constantly on the alert tor the possi- bility of securing fresh lands. Follow- ing closely upon distinction attained in dehryftig and livestock. Canada has made good the reputation she has slowly built up as an apple grower by carrying away many ot the premier honors at the imperial Fruit Show at Manchester, England. 7 . ”A‘A F.‘-_ muuuucnwn, ---'"" In this exhibition, in which Cans- dian apples came into competition with the product of every other section of the British Empire, they continued the trinmphsl prtWe" commenced last year in London. and widely separ- ated sections of the Dominion shared in the honors achieved by the Cans- dian fruit, In the oVerseas section. tour first prize were awarded to Bri- tish Columbia growers and two to Nova Scotis growers, whilst one ttrat prise went to Quebec. Canadian grow- ers likewise secured many lesser but still high swords. Yemier Prizes Won at th Imperial Fruit Show Held at Manchester, England. The "Plnk" Materlala‘ to maintain her Ono of the Inc-(st: rainy ~1','? (in way of I punt, is the --_.-.1 of Australia, that land of “w i that. When in full bloom, {hm rr' A I III. of Mlored Bowery. i.' _ " , “stone. boh- juu like a in! Welcome to Them. The United States m u ur onenunrter of all the vnimzz. world. There are abum 4 volcanoes. und the United t' lane! 106, halides hundred In pooh. In planning, the farmer Vilyl have in mind that ht, Mk. low costs per bushel. A Trlumph m Dye Thulh to the vegetable u eat chromatic: creatrd in Ind European laboratories. possible to reproduce H0 blues and red; in Persran have been puzzling tho- wrx um tor cannula. The biggest “or. in the wori one roof la in Moscow. it is a ' department tttermr, or bazaar l than“ durerent bonds. Fra', kinds of goods and Carmina: ir. kind of Maine". The tourUt trUtie to I ward Ialand Ia rapidly exp-z the many beautlea of the 'r, an attraction hard to rub varying width of from nu miles, any portion of the within a abort distance of baa a climate which doe, , extreme. of heat and cold. the best of ferry connoczh r. grossive. whilo at the szxvm tented people of Prlnee EB“ have a portion of Canada they my he juatly proud. One of tho chief nttracth Prince Edward hand, says tl. turd Resource- Intelligence y of the Deputment of the 111“ the hoeplhllty of the people. T! tor in nude to feel at home, a: i all Isl-mien nre proud of thti province, etch does not constit' tself a real estate agent. lv, t? eral towns and cities tieturesn ', abound, and . drive 330:1: an lent highways in the spring 1- tg picture not Been elsswhvre. T of Prince Edward Island p» distinct reddish shade. Cu "' bright green lines of ome I', T and the glistening skulls vj. undue due to the use of .h , bed mud as fertilizer, pm i tum not - forgotten. 5m " tht 'ttt.1rruiliiit a! St. law in Cumin buy 11m. Purine. of Prince 1Mward mu“ In], been” Pteueah eve 0 work productively. Of I totaling: I!“ of but 2,184 square my.“ “d . mutation of 88,615, it beam the - number of people ptr Nil-lira In“. of any province in Vanna, 40.57. " A comparison, 01mm. an most populous province, with 1; tum} am of 365.880 Square mil. F" . t n Pop/a. don of '2,988,0',2, has I it l ‘2: lo the mute mm. No less tl: ' a 3,. “FL of the population in m " n , irs',. em, $1,758,000; fishevies, r, r 'tr foxes, $1,000,000. The r! . r, {out has become an imports _ i try in the province, there h w " fox farms registered in 1922. _ 470 minds valued " t'.?.8u'.?,n't I property value in lands, build can, of $763,235. Fish Abound in the watch .’ . Gulf of St. Lawrence, rspwini‘y o) the shores of the island. The :2 i ulna of the catch was $1,015 a', 1922. During the fishing M": " 1922 Prince Edward Island pru’r 8,758,800 pounds of lobsters, hut F . handed nine of 3651.449. This; it tn here-so of more than two n: 'l pounds over the production " I ' The blind was formerly a larru T l ter producer, but over-fishing rw In the depletion of the brd= t. othtrrlstively stated, however, . the oyster beds in Riehmond Rm v. giving promise of a nturn to m ' fertility. calm; the average sire I (If!!! II 88.8 acres, and new. only 277 tenant in kind. Wtth the srnr". worm farm it is Chr hnd be intensivdy Cui,' agricultural interests a? province rccnfrnire this f remit that the field I'", Litth value per new. Thr, gone largely into tin- t, registered seed, "srr'ciiC:, To quote Hon. Wrdhrr M. Commissioner of Agriru Ihtnr.g the part season 'mt '1 V [up demand devt'.n,rz." f r :3 land and potatoes. Dash”..- "r F my produced could have bur" w j of to American buvers an! ' . C, price. A "cent shipm'm r,r r butch left Burnmerr,irV fry \ T tad other eastern State .,'- ',i. the Welt Indies are (ml-:1 rrsl',' secure their pure seed HIMZiw the 13th province. A annoy of the agri- sour-cu of the provinm w conducted by the provirr" ment, Ind showed the foflm for 1923: Be1d crops, t19/r stock. $8,i60,000; dairy pr problams nm to make tl little am of country tum it intensively, and thing: we speciniize in. grains and seeds of vatr,1 will require, and to v." much labor." Evnyunded " tho se- a, Cull-(U- his lid Prawn -rmq I ce. Moscow. " Store " out. the - "In!" sh, 4tlgr. the mu land .m ant. 13.701 then on ths in the " Mbe m hon-dot - list in manned to I group " boarders I not: porch am: - and in only “no-gun to out. "t am . . Che divulged In the count of th .Trstit$ott. "my Muhnnd has hem two yum “a I do not intend t " again. t have two children girl Is It”: me Ind tt with W grandmother nun " [up are _ tor nld he ought to n sun-er. "t broke up 1 an I am taint Caro. I make a trim my own t mason Mend co tw tor l said new tl The Wisdor .1 Stopping the Mouth ndepende " tt Ml L% mth