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1 wanted to write poetry when I was very young; My heart was full of little songs, just begging to be sung. But someone, very old and wise, re marked to me one day, "You need to have experience; what can you have to say*" ® I laid aside my pencil then and started on my quest I sought experience through the world ; I found it, east and west. * it‘s time to write my verses now, since I‘m no longer youngâ€"â€" But in my heart no little songs are begging to be eung. % _ â€"â€"Margaret King Moore. ward. You may possess "apologles" for logs, «ticks, for arms, and no chest. Exorcise would move the rauscles, and vyou would be a man. # * _ The contrary to exercise is atrophy Exercise‘! BRITAINS Leavened Bread. Man has been eating leavened broad for two thousand years. Give Your Natural Gifts Some Exercise. \n aptitude, if exercised, may grow ) a gift, and the gift, if exercised, iy bring you fame and much reâ€" llors and gamekeepers have the ost sight. Their calling compels : to exercise their eyes. â€" The bo.tl ‘rs in the world are those who d many hours in exercising fluil ‘s. The hegxt conjurers are those regularly and persistently exerâ€" their fingers. l c list might be extended until it led but the moral would 'romaln! ame. Practice makes perfect, tnd‘ ciso is needed to maintain perfecâ€" Otherwise there is rusting, deâ€" ration, loss of efficiency." ‘ousanda would be better mentally, Iy, and physically if they made reke" their watchword. onscientious oculist, instead of cribing expensive glasses for a who consulted him, told him that ho required to make his sight as | as it had ever been was exercise. iet on a hill and make your eyes out something half a mile distant. n you hear a bird singing in a tree, © your eyes find the songster." vorclse your brain and the power ‘ought increases. Minimum thinkâ€" may bring you three pounds a k;: maximum thinking may bring times as much. It‘s done by exerâ€" nsclence is the seat of morality. clso your consclence thstead of ng it lio quiescent, and you will be ‘r morally. Your judgment of : and wrong will be sure and s ago Cyprus was, of course, faâ€" for its forests, but these have liminished, owing to bad usage. hings still tend to destroy the . _ Goats are allowed to browse twigs and shoots, and the goat a wild, lawless tribe, have a » habit, when annoyed by anyâ€" of setting them on fire! onsequence, the British Governâ€" tarted a special force of forestâ€" and had fireâ€"paths cut through roods, along which the pollce is is our latest established @olony, for it received full Coâ€" tatus just three months ago. oods on camels and donkeys. us silk is very fine indeed, and ourage its manufacture, Queen in 10923, ordered Cyprus cocoons ised in the manufacture of silk : redecorations of Buckingham instead on still Cyprus was captured Turks, and it steadily declined. 1878 Great Britain occupledit, £92,800 a year to Turkey. Two {ier this the administration was rred from the Foreign to the 1 office, and in 1914 Cyprus was y annexed to the British Emâ€" it received full Colonial status AJ atrol. Clyriotes themselves are reâ€" ly primitive in many ways. ill plough with oxen, and carry on, the Greeks captured Cypâ€" the Romans took it from them. ext ruler, strange to say, was shmanâ€"Kink Richard I., who ! (Cyprus on his way to the nd in the Third Crusade. From e the island remained a British on until Richard sold it to a Lugignan. 4 00 vyears this man‘s descendâ€" \Assyrians .and the Persians and the Phoenicians worked v mines and traded in its timâ€" 0 years this man‘s descendâ€" »d the land, and Cyprus prosâ€" nd became a country of vast A Poem for Critics. ‘, besides copper, the chief mined is asbestos, from which bitants make not only packing ding materials, but oil, waterâ€" id furniture. n though it is our youngest is actually one of the oldest d lands, its known history beâ€" more tham= three thousand s fine climate, Cyprus proâ€" manner .of fruits in profuâ€" t there is no grass in Cyprus, is grown as fodder for the by the way, is Greek for _ _One of the surest signs that ;ho blood is.out of order are the pimples and unsightly eruptions that break out on the face or body. The same condiâ€" tion is indicated by an attack of eczema or scrofula. You cannot get rid of these troubles by. the use of purgative medicines, as so many peoâ€" ple try to do. Purgatives merely galâ€" lop through the system and leave it Still weaker. "What is needed when the biood is shown to be out of order is a tonile which will restore its missâ€" | ing cleménts and leaveâ€"the blood rich and red. For this purpose there is no other tonic can equal Dr.. Williams‘ Pink Pills, every dose of which helps enrich the blood, drives out impuriâ€" ties, and,brings a new feeling of health and energy. Mrs. R. E. Bishop, Hawthorne Ave., Hamilton, Ont., tells for the benefit of others what these pills did for her. She says:â€""I was suffering terribly from scrofula. I doctored with several doctors, but |wlthout success. My complexion was sallow, I had no strength, feeling very weak and languid. My neck was full | of lumps called scrofuld, and at times they were very paififul. After trying several soâ€"called blood medicines, Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills were recommendâ€" ed to me and I got half a dozen boxes. After taking them I found a decided Iimprovement in my appearance, and | to my jJoy the lumps were disappearing lfrom my neck. I persevered in the Are Proof the Blood is in a Weak and Watery Condition. =~ treatment, and finally the only sign left of the trouble was a scar on my neck where one of the swellings broke. Since that time I have been in robust health and heartily recommend Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills to any suffering from impure blood." Ofâ€"‘particular practical significance is the fact that by December 12, two imont.ha after storage, the polished apples in this particu.ar lot had beâ€" | come so wilted that they were pracâ€" ?t.ica'zly unnaarketable, whie the unâ€" lpolished portion was in good marketâ€" able condition. You can get these pillsâ€"through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box fraws The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Polishing apples ifiterferes with their keeping qualities. The real function of the bloom of apples and other fruits is not definitely known, but apparently it affords some proâ€" tection and is associated with certain life proccsses. Po.ishing the fruit either purposely or in a more or less accidental minner interferes with these natural prgcessâ€" es and causes earlier break down. (On one occasion a vo‘ume of apples‘ crated on October 11 was divided. One allotment was carefully polished and the other went into storage in a naf‘ tural Way. The polished appies deâ€" creased in quality rapidly, and by January 22, 34 per cent. of the lot showed marked breaking down. Not only did the polished fruit show more rapid deterioration and greater loss of weight, but it showed a uniformity greater loss for the period. In other words, the loss of weight by the polâ€" ished fruit was noticeable from the first day, and there is no indication of the heavy loss of this fruit early in the storage period being equalized by more rapid losses from the unpo:ished lot later. § yours . _ , | "Ohb, fairly well. But I wish I had | bought a horse. She‘s always stopping | to look at herself in the puddles." BLEKXISUEs OF THZ SKLN ler." Encouragement. She (as train toots at grade croseâ€" Ing)â€""George, you‘ &0 right ahead. Don‘t let that big pmte builly you." French chemists have developed an artificial resin from which panels for radio sets are to be made. We supply cans and pay express charges. We pay daily by express money orders, which can be cashed anywhere without any charge. To obtain the top price, Cream must be free from bad fiavors and aAantain not less than 30 per cent CREAM To obtai must be f contain no Butter Fat. For referencesâ€"Head Office, Toronto, Bank o-f"fiâ€"é;tml. or your local banker. Hstablished for over thirty years. The Wandering Mind. "Reggie fancies he‘s a grea -‘;Yos, his mind‘s always wandering." Vanity, All is Vanity. "How do you like that new mare of Polishing Hurts Apples. wE WANT CHURNING Bowes Company Limited, 9»* An Artificial Resin. a great travelâ€" A Barrie Yarn. Sir James Barrie, the dramatist, in whimsical mood at a luncheon recently given in his honor, chatted gayly about Sir Francis Bacon %nd other writers and gave a Barriesque contribution to the perennial Baconâ€"Sh :kespears conâ€" troversy. "It often has been said that Shake speare was like a cuckoo, the bird that lays its eggs in other birds‘ nests," said Sin James. He then referred to the ghost of Stationers‘ Hall, saying, "The ghost, I understand, is a scrap of paper which proves econclusively that Bacon did not write Shakespeare‘s plays. [ J. E. Barnard, seated, who collaborated with Dr. Eye in the research which led to the discovery of the cancerâ€"virus. He is shownâ€"with his assistâ€" ant. ¢ , "This docunment, I am told, and soon I will know for certain, is signed by Shakespeare and is.â€"in these words: ‘Received from Lady Bacon for fatherâ€" ing her play of "Hamlet" the sum of five pounds sterling.: " ; Then Barrie went on in even a lightâ€" er strain, much to the delight of his listeners, declaring: "After all, that famous old liverymar of.the Worshipâ€" ful (’ompany of Stationers was probâ€" ably the wise man who said to Ben Johnson, ‘I know not whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare, but if he didn‘t, it seems to me he missed the opportunity of his life.‘ " "Just Baldwin." A striking instance of the British Primes Minister‘s utter lack of affecâ€" tation came to the writer‘s notice at a reception other night. An ov;rseas visitor was announced. Hearing the name, the Premier turnéd and extended his hand in greeting. Seeing four of their plays running in London at once is a pleasure allowed to few authors. But Mr. Noel Coward has recently been enoying the experiâ€" ence, for he is the author of "On Wwith the Dance," "Fallen Angels," "Hay Fever," and ‘"The Vortex." The last has come to the end of its long run, but it is said that Mr. Conrad is soon to| turn out another play, entitled “Easyi _ "How do you do, Mr.â€"â€"," he said, quietly. "My name‘s Bald win." Virtue." So possibly he will again have four plays running at the same time.. And he is only twentyâ€"five! Variation â€" Marlay, Marley, Mahrie, _Mehric, Merle, Merley, Merly, Varâ€" ley. Racilal Originâ€"Irish. Sourceâ€"A given name. Few of the variations in this group . of family names would be popularly regarded as Irish. Yet they are. If persons bearing these family names toâ€"day were to spell them in the true Gaelic fashion, it woulid be "Macâ€" Mparlr.olgh," but the pronunciation wouldn‘t be materially different, barrâ€" ing those certain twists to the vowels and the fain guttural which you someâ€" times hear in the speech of the Irishâ€" man and the Highlander and term variously a "brogue" or a "burr.‘". The form of Marley comes a little closer to this pronunciation than Marley, though the latter of the two finghclze:@ forms is the more common spelling. This clan took its name about 1150 AD., from a chieftain named "Mearâ€" laoch." The meaning of this given name is "quickâ€"warrior." * The form Varley, not often met with in this country, is a variâ€"tion embodyâ€" ing a Gaelic twist, for in certain comâ€" binations the Gaelic letter "m" takes the sound of "v." The letter "v," though not the sound, is absent from the Irish language. Stories About Wellâ€"Known People given in Whitehall the MORLEY. Prolific! Surnames and Their Origin Once when Dr. Alington was escortâ€" ing the father and mother of one of the school eleven to see the son play he dawdled so long that they became irâ€" ritated. On reaching the ground his face lit up with pleasure when an Really Over! Â¥ That great Wead master, Dr. Alingâ€" ton, who rules the destinies of scholars at Eton, has a great dislike of all games so a friend of his told the writer. _ / umpire «alled out "I‘m very glad it is," said Alington, and promptly returned to his study!" A fow days ago, at a welfâ€"known Lonâ€" don hotel, I stumbled on a remarkable realâ€"life romance, though a sad one. I discovered a princess working as a chambermaid, and thankful for the opâ€" portunity. She is Princess Alla Mestâ€" chersky, although not one in a hunâ€" dred of the people on whont she waits realizes her identity. l Minard‘s Liniment for Corns and Warts Telling her story, the Princess. reâ€" vealed that she had lost her all in the Russian revolution. But the hardships she has suffered bere are almost as great as those of, which she was a victim in her own country. At one period she speW{ _“gms in a hosâ€" tcl for "downâ€"andâ€"outs." Then she got a post as a nursery governess, but illâ€" health cheated her of it. She has been a general servant,,too. Doctors have been gathering statisâ€" tics . on nervous diseases and their tendency to shorten life, and have isâ€" sued a remarkable bulletin against worrying. Â¥3o far as is known," the bulletlnl says, “no_blrd ever tried to build morei nests than its neighbor; no fox ever fretted because he had only one hole | in which to hide; no equirrel ever died‘ of anxiety lest he should not lay by| enough nuts for two winters instead | of one; and no dog ever lost any sleep | over the fact that he did not have| enough bones laid aside for his declinâ€"‘ ing years." : Get acquainted with great men. Finding out how insignificant they are will encourage you to greater effort. If you‘re given to poetic flights of| fancy you may find much symbolism in the fact that it is the family name of | Baldwin which the Jocomotive has made famous from one end of the‘ world to the other, provided, of course, you know what the name of Baldwin means. 4 It means "swift conqueror." 5Â¥ _It was, of course, in the first place, a given name. . It was of Teutonic origin, and was brought into England by the Norman conquerors, who were Teutonic in blood and who, for the most part, retained their Teutonic nomenclature, even after they had ‘I adopted as their own language the Celâ€" |t|c-influenced Latin spoken by the naâ€" tives of Northern France in the days iwhen they first settled in Normandy; which was, roughly, the same period in which the Saxons invaded Britain. â€" Racial Originâ€"English. Sourceâ€"A given name. The counterpart of the given name, however, existed among the Saxons of England at the time when the Norâ€" mans arrived there. ~ "Baldâ€"win," is a simple combination of ancient Teutonic words which are to be traced in so many of our given names toâ€"day. "Bald‘ meant "swift" or "speedy," and "win" meant conqueror. Our own â€"modern word ‘winner" and the verb "to win" come from the same Princess as Chambermald. Don‘t Worry. BALDWIN. "Over!" s 20 HUYE ues . > 4. K . Adgancia onA Je ‘Tooks into the arching" dome of " s ,\‘ky. +o ee," ,--,.,;,,â€"..‘c‘~‘ And stands there sti‘l, remembering l m Be@hyrm cce in ihit it t * He halts his pushâ€"cart ii'ndornntl;‘a A ruined temple hidden in a vine _ Of.ivy climbing on its portico, "And yonder, where the ripening olives grow, A woman praying at a broken shrine. He stands there still,â€" remembey‘ug Italy, 3 * * The woman‘s eyes beneath a veil of hairâ€" _ ~s The sun fades out, the &rching ¢Ky is dark, * e Bo dark, indeed, that he can hardly f seo 3\5 Roring That every one has gone and left him thereâ€" K The apple vendor, wailing "inâ€" the park. s f Mothers who keep a kox of Baby‘s Own Tablets in the house may feel that the lives of their little ones are reasonably safe during the hot weathâ€" er. Stomach troubles, cholera infanâ€" tum and diarrhoea carry off thousands of ‘little ones every summer, in most cases because the mother does not have a safe medicine at hand to give promptly. Baby‘s Own Tablets relieve these troubles, or if given occasionally to the well child they will prevent their coming on. _ The Tablets are guaranteed by a government analyst to be absolutely harmless even to the newborn babe. They are‘ especially good in summer because they regulate the bowels and keep the stomach sweet and pure. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 centsa box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. | ‘Military training of all students in :Japan. which is embodied in« the proâ€" , posed national military training sysâ€" |tem, was commenced recently. in the ‘normal schools of the empire. It is | planned to extend the system to stuâ€" ,'dents of middle and other schools of ’higher grade next year. SAVE THE CHILDREN x Ofd Stuff. n i * Wifleâ€"This menagerie manager adâ€" vertises a complete collection .of ‘ the world‘s animalsâ€"thefirst ever made." ~Hubbyâ€""Old stuffâ€"Noah beat him to it â€"before the flood." : By eating uncooked food ~we may "eyolute" into a race of â€"giants, accordâ€" ing to the theory of W.. T. Anderson, editor of the Macon Telegraph, and frequently nientioned in Georgia as a probable and formidablle cardidate for governor at the next Georgia Demoâ€" cratic primaries, "Men are dwindling to the stature of pigmies since the custom of cooking food has become the agcepted standard of civilization," declared Editor Anderâ€" son in a recent address. "It is high time we returned to raw food. _ Men were giants before cookstoves were Andâ€"waits forrchildren in theâ€"park used." i _ Aspirin is the ttade mark (registered in Canada) of Bafer Manufacture of Mononceticâ€" ; g.u‘um:r Balicylicacid (Acet;] Balieylic Acld, "A. 8. A.").h“w’.:eâ€" it is ‘&ll_rk.m-n 7 Aspirin means Bayer manufacture, assist the public tations, . blets of Bayer Company will be stamped wl"t: ‘their .ncllu-rn!t.mq‘flm al;." Estimated ‘cost of inaugurating the program in the lower and higher grades has been estimated at 6,000,000 yen. It is hoped the new system will be in operation in 1928 Military authorities will be asked to supply 300,000 rifles to the different schools and young men‘s associations. To be igmorant of what happened in the world before you were born is to be all your life a child. ‘{pAYER Raw Foods Would Make :. : §wyfe * Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Headache â€" Neuralgia _ Colds Lumbago Pain Toothache â€" Neuritis * Rheumatism WTWKXWIQ *) Ey qs Japan to Extend Drills. Us Giants. /ASPIRIN â€"Gwen Bristow "There they lay, ready to be packed, some carefully .selected gifts for the migsionary far away on the other side Of the world. The lady who was sendâ€" ing them reached across her desk, and | suddenly the room was filled ~with a | strangely «sweet perfume. I; was as if a gentle breeze had stolen in at the window across a gardén ‘of rosesâ€"yet it was winter, and outside the ground was covered"with snow â€"In stretching her hand the lady had overturned a vial of delicious ‘perfume, & little of which poured out upon the gifts that were to be sent on their mission. ° We are always giving; «ometimes because we delight in giving, someâ€" times because we see the need and feel a sense of duty; but all the time dlose beside out gifts stands an unâ€" opened Fial, and when we pour out some of its contents upon our gifts it increases the value tenfold. In farâ€"away China a tired little misâ€" slorary opened a package from Ameriâ€" ca, and a strange sweet. fragrance greeted her like a breath from a rose garden at home. It brougBt her an added Joy that the gifts alone could not have given. t 66 99 t Acgegt onlg Bayer‘"‘ packagt which contains proven directions. Handy "Bayer" boxes‘ of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and T0OOâ€"Druggiste. Oh, the vials of love and cheerfulâ€" ness unopened in our hearts! Let us keep them sealed no longer, but pour Out their contents upon our gifts, whether they mre for loved one or the stranger. How wonderfully the presâ€" ence of a loving spirit enriches even the noblest of gifts! It was the day of the school concert, and the audience consisted mainly of mothers, proud or envious, according to the parts that their children were playing. "Thefe, that‘s the Joneses‘ boy," she gaid, tartly; "He wouldn‘t be his mothâ€" er‘s son if he weren‘t trying to borrow something." & ‘ One #mall boy came on to the plat form. Striking a bold attitude, he be . Whereupon on of the mothers turn ed to her companion. me your ears." Minard‘s Liniment tor Aches and Pains t A Candid Little Thing. Chilgren, even when.well bred and polite, offen speak with disconcerting frankness.‘ As for example: . Afashionab‘e lady was calling on the small girl‘s mother. p "And "bow are you, my dear?" she inquired. 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