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"She looks aweet, but I do wish we could hear her speak and know what the talks about!" exclaimed a girl at a picturepalace, when a topical film thowing the Queen was flashed on the wereen. Hor Majesty could be seen amiling and ta‘king with varions peoâ€" ple. 9 Royal ladies do less "public speakâ€" ing" than their male relations, so that we bhave fewer opportunities of bearâ€" Ing their voices. The Queen has a clear, distinct speaking voice, which compels attenâ€" tion. She looks directly at the person to whom she is speaking and uses her eyes as woll as her lips. Her Majesty i a good conversationalist end pre fera serious subjects. Books, old and new;. historic and architectural antiquities; old prints, china, silver, and fans;, travelâ€"these are the things about which the Queen likes to talk to her friends. Often she surprises them by the extent and depth of her knowledge. The Little Duchess. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lasce!â€" les, has a much shyer voice than her mother, and sometimes she speaks so quictly that it is not easy to hear her. Despite this ifidence of manner, howâ€" ever, Princess Mary‘s volce has a posiâ€" tive note in it, and when she makes statemants or suggestions they are based on knowledge. % The Princess does not taks a great Interest in antiques, and is not quite so serious in her talk as is the Queen. Children ard children‘s welfare, flowâ€" ors and gardening, auima‘ls and birds of all sorts, from mice to horses and poultry, are aurong her favorite subâ€" jocts of conversation. Sho is also quite tond of discussing clothes with ber inâ€" timate women friends. An ideal. During his brief life of thirty years Percy Bysske Shellay wroto a great mass of postry. He was constantly in revolt against the narrow spirit of his times, but his verse is noble and filled with the very breath of freedom. fAnite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To dety Power which seems omn!po tent ; * To love, and bear, to hope till@Hops creates From Its own wreck the thing it conâ€" templates : Neither to change, nor falter, nor To suffer woes which hope thinks in This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and tree; Thisâ€"is alone Lifo, Joy, Empire, and Victory! Every time it rains the real optiâ€" mist consoles himsel{ with the thought that the sun is shining somewhere. Mere attention to words is not | enough:; for real style is not a matter | of showiness. Solicitude over verbal| niceties â€" quenches the ardour of| imagination. But no appropriate word | will be lost, If one . .. . by pro-l tonged and judicious reading acquires | x plentiful stock of words and applies | thereto skill in wrrangement, and, turâ€"| ther, strengthens the whole by ahund-l ant practice, so that all is constantly at hand and before one‘s eyes. Whent our words are sound Latin, significant, | elegant, and fittingly avrranged, why should we labor for anything more?â€" Quintilian. t A traveler, being in a great burry, told his hotel porter at the station to buy his railway ticket for him. The traveler then got aboand the train, and just as it was about to pulk out the porter galloped up to the window breathlessly. " Yer ticket, asir," he suid. "A dolâ€" lar ninety*sight, sir." "Thank you very much," said the traveler, the ticket as the train “W?g Here‘s a dollarâ€"you can keep ninetvâ€"cight cents for can keep t yowsself."* go hou A Poem Worth Knowing. M WHAT THE QUEEN TALKS ABOUT Mamma Has Her Reason. torâ€""Do you like to recite?" forteâ€"*"No: but mamma alw The Poor Porter mUTT AND JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. On Style. na always tors A more definite and much "bigger" vojce than one would expect from her slightness of stature belongs to the little Duchess of York. Like the Queen, the Duchess talks in a way which suggests . a woman of . great capability. _ She smiles a lot while talking, but always in the right places, but is bright and vital and viâ€" vacious. The Duchess like to taik about current topics, is keen to hear about new places and life in variovs parts of the world, and loves discussâ€" ing country matters, especially those relating to Scotland. "Her Royal Shyness." She is very interested in talking about new plays, and since her marâ€" riage she has shared her husband‘s inâ€" terest in industrial welfare. But where the Duchess scores particularly as a conversattonalist is that she has a real gift for talking about any subject in which the other person is interestâ€" ed. |of Irelandâ€"J. J. Dawlingâ€"Dublin 1s | the first port in the world to possese a completely automatic lighthouse and ‘tocwignu“ng service. Princees Helena Victorla hbas a pleasant, smiling way with her, and a voiece which I once hbeard truly desâ€" cribed as "motherly." "She spoke to me in such a nice comforting, motherly way," said a workgirl who had been sceared to death by the prospect of facing a real Prinâ€" Princes: Marle Louis» has perhaps the best speaking voice of all the Brtâ€" tish Roval ladies; she speaks with clear crispness and has a wide knowâ€" ledgo of many things. The Princess Royal, despite her old nickname of "HMHer Royal Shyness," is an excellent conversationalist, and*has veey definite ideas upon the things sho discusses Her two daughters, Prinâ€" coss Arthur of Connaugbht and Lady Maud Carnegie, have both nice girlish voices. 3 professor in the National ‘I{nlvprsu‘ Mr. Dowling has devised a quite simple arrangement by which the adâ€" vent of a foz starts the warnings of the apparatus. It has been under test at the Dublin port for the last year and, having answered all the d& mands made wpon it, is now . proâ€" pounced a complete success. On one side of the River Liffey is a lamp which projects a ray of light obliquely across the chanunel upon a large lens windlow in the wall of a lighthouse. The light is thereby conâ€" centrated on a light sensitiva cell withâ€" in the lighthouse producing a minute electrical effect which is enlarged by a magnifier until a current strong enough to operate a relay is produced. causing the powerful fogâ€"signaling maâ€" l chinery to operate. A special device prevents passing ships, pufts of smoke, seabirds or other ’ transient . interruptions from operatâ€" ing the apparatus, a persistent weakâ€" ening of the light, due to fog, alone having any effect. The apparatus is capable of operating without attention and the original installation, after a year‘s service, is giving complete satâ€" Isfaction. When the light ray ficiently by a fog, th What folly lies in forcasts and in fears Like a wide langlUfter sweet and opâ€" portune, * Wet from the fount, three hunded doves of Paul‘s Shook their warm wings, drizzling the ,_ golden noon, And in their rainâ€"cloud vanished up the walls. "God keeps." Iâ€"said, "our litile flock of years." â€"Louise Imogen (Guiney, in "Happy Ending." Virtue. But nevor will we barter virtue for gold. Virtue lasts for ever; money flles from hand to hand.â€"Solon. How Stylés Change. As a means of bocating the mortality rate the appendix h@s long singe given place to the accelerator. y Automatic Fog Warnings Made by New Device. Thanks to the invention of a young Doves. the re weakened sufâ€" lay cuwrrent reâ€" loctric cireuit, Women are being attracted to this life, in spite of the fact that it is a solitary one. But few women wou‘ld like to change places with Henry Edâ€" wardson, the loneliest man in Britain. The protection which is now extendâ€" ad to our wild birds has led to a numâ€" ber of peorle taking up a new profesâ€" slonâ€"â€"that ofâ€" birdâ€"watcher, says an English newspaper. Edwardson became guardian of the birds of Herma Ness, Unst, Shetland Islands, in the eightles, and for the last nineteen years has been watcher under the Royal Society for the Proâ€" 14 16 18 19 11 20 23 24. 26 The largsot motion picture camera in the world will be used to photoâ€" graph the total eclipse of the sun on January 14, 1926, at Benkeelen, Sumatra. Capt. Barnett Harris, U.S.R., of the "jarvard ec/!lpse foundation, is shown. 30 33 34 39. 40. 42 45 46 35 48. 49 50 52 53 55 Horizontal. . Treats maliciously . To stake money Britain‘s Loneliest Man. event. A game played on horseback. To be ill. Affirmative votes. The whole quantity. Took dinner. An so forth. To perform. * Crumbles into «mall particles A ery of surprise. To color. An affirmative. To be in motion. A character in "Uncle Tom‘s Cabin." A demonstrative pronoun. Looked forward to. A combat between two persons. To employ. Thin. A large body of water. Human beings. In such‘a manner. Put in a stable. You and L To make a certain kind of laceâ€" edging. Brilliancy of success or effort. To invite. A public school in England. A number. Countanance. An island of the Mediterranéan Sea noted for a Colossus. Conveyed or transfered by deed money upon a certain CRCSS.WORD PUZZLE L C PB BX T < A)«'w’;“ \ uies ; 1 But one of the lessons we have w| R »_,E~;.:;,§._;_,;>‘w ;“*“ ‘}j'w‘_‘::-*?f"'ié;:. $ learn as we graduate from youth to io kes w2 CR o l ~*~ jE maturity and to the assumption of re~| k es > t ~_ > $ sponsibility is that life cannot all be narem. | Numcrget t *;. o m play, that hoilidays are the guerdon of: s ... '“° working days, and we have to make up 8 M 2 m ouete our minds, if we are to be of lasting l a h &“*E account, that on the way we do eack f * * s al ;_«»_;,»& % day‘s work depends our ultimate ratâ€" 4‘m< )* .:E%;:r.:;?#; ing as servants of the race. We are comammemem anenibietnersieecie "not called on by our fate to lead a en " x 4e P3 K _ | eavairy charge, or direct a symphony .' & ’4“. l “”_‘)"l will h'_ used to ;.hot.o | orchestra, or thrill the multitude from anuary 14, 1926, at Benkeelen, Sumatra. the motionâ€"picture soreen, or write & irvard eclipse foundation, is shown. lbook that tops the list of ‘best sellers, mennmzmnt<n~~â€"â€"â€"â€"fâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"__ | or sold exalted political office, or wield ’:"f'l‘lm of Birds. | a farâ€"ramifying power as executive In |\ _ For a third of every year he lives corporate administration. . But with in a small but on the crags, and his eyery worthy design of making the | only contact with human beings is most of our opportunities and the bost onee a week, when food and letters‘ of ourselves, each of us in his place ‘are brought from Haroldswick, the| eyery day has the same amount of | postoffice, "farthest north." Out to| time committed to his charge, to use sea from Edwardson‘s hut is the well or i!! according to his own free Muckle Flaggo Lighthouse, which just| choice. The day belongs to each of us, beats the watcher‘s home as the most| the same number of sunny or becloudâ€" northerly inhabited dwelling in Bri-led hours are bestowed on "rich man, tain. poor mon, beggar man, thief," for virâ€" macmmamsmmmemadlfiteemmenes mt mas | tue or for vice, for business or indolâ€" Live Ow! in Police Court. Among the list of lost property pubâ€" lished by the police of Leeds, England, is a live owl with rings on its legs. 10 13. 16. 17 20 21 23 27 28 29. 81. 33. 36. 38. 39. 41. 43. 44. 45. 47 49 51 53 Garden implements. A game piayed on borseback. Sick. A preposition. ‘A piece of canvas used on a ship. Mirth. Belonging to me. A stinging insect. A thin narrow sthip of wood used in building. One who accompanies someone. Not capable of being divided. A deer. Free from moisture. Shrubs with evergreen leaves and white or rosy flowers. . Established a dwelling. Partakes of a cortain meal, Luster. A Greek letter. A small shield carried in the 14th century. To imitate. A girl‘s name. * An implement used for dusting. Required. Consumed. Came togoether. A solemn appeal to God. Parts of plays. â€" To go ashore. Smail rodents. Also. Wicked. * Initials of a northwestern state. Ferrous (Symbol). Every Day. fl’hsmdnoonmlnutehnotw gird ounselves that we may face exâ€" ceptional, overwhelming ct}ses, but rathor to meet with ceurage and good cheer the occurrences of every day. We are not to blame when ghe longing stirs in us for a new and thrilling inâ€" cident, a change o scene or a ‘contact with a fascinating personality that shall transport us from the environâ€" ment we know so well to a different sphere of thought and feeling. The urge is natural and primal. It may supply an Incentive or create a fixed ambition. The thought of a good time coming is an inspiration while we labor in a task of duty and of conâ€" science whorein the element of fun is meagre or nonexistent. ence. It rests with us, one by one, to decide how we shall use the time. The kind of day it is to be depends not on the weather, not on the caprice of forâ€" tune, but on our own valorous perâ€" forniance, each in his own place, through thick and thin. Man Who Chose Unknown Soldier Works for Grocer. Auguste Thin, the private selected to choose the body of the hero who lies beneath the Arc de Triomphe and to whom millions already have paid homâ€" age, is now â€" a mcér's assistant in Paris, and is glad to be alive. On November 10, 1920, he was sumâ€" moned by the Minister of War, who handed to the private a small bunch of flowers saying: "Soldier Thin, you have in front of you eight coffins draped with the Tricolor. The cofiin upon which you deposit this bunch of flowers will be designated to repreâ€" sent the Unknown Soldier of France." Thin saluted, tremblingâ€"he was 18 years of age. He stumbled past the eight coffins and halfâ€"dazed, placed the bunch of flowers on one. Then four privates, decorated with the cross of the Legion of Homor, the French Military Medal, the Croix de Guerre with many bars, stepped out and while "La Marseillaise" crashed out its inspiring hymn the coffin of the Unknown Hero of France was reâ€" moved from the citadel of Verdun to a beflagged gun carriage to be entrained to Paris and thence to the Arc de Triomphe. Thin now sells half a pound of butâ€" ter, a box of sardines and with his meagre wages keeps his little family. His daughter, aged 2, accompanied M. and Mma Thin to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier recently. The three Thins were in the crowd, but Mme. Thin was inwardly more proud than the diplomat strutting under the Arc de Triomphe, while more than 200 French flags dipped as they were carâ€" rled past. S|A 6O S A EV B U| RIE T A +T a +) n Answer to last Jeff is Very Efhicient at Doing Some Things. TORONTO week‘s puz? Rama VI. King of Siam, who passed away re cently after having occupied {he throne. for fifteen years. The shepherd is an ancient man, His back is bent, his foot is slow ; Although the heavens hbe doth not His face is like the pippin, grown Red ripe, in frosty sung that shone "Tis hard and wrinklod, as a stone The rains have rained upon. When tempests sweep Some fltt} words are all his store. Why should his language be increased * He hath no need for more. Short Jhere is no change he doth desire, Of farâ€"off lands he bath not heard; Beside bis wife, before the fire, He sits, and speaks no word. â€"Arthur Chiistopher Benson A matter that is causing grave con-’ cern to Canada‘s responsible financial | and business men is the investing of| tke farmers‘ hardâ€"carned gavings. | Canadian farmers have had good crops | this year and are receiving falriy good | prices therefor. By far the preater | portion of them have a little put away‘ in the bank for a rainy day. This is ell to the good. l Unfortunately, there are ceriain parasites that find easy pickings among Canadian farmers when times are good. These are the promoters of doubtful companies and salesmen of securities or articles that are not worth the prices paid therefor. All kinds of companies are floated and etock sold at from a few cents a share up. Much of this is unloaded upon the farmer. He receives a stock certifiâ€" cate, and in manyâ€"ray, the majority â€"of cases, this is @ll he receives, Farmers shculd beware of these genâ€" try. Any proposition that is worth the price to«day does not have any dif, fieulty‘ in placing its gecurities. Legitiâ€" mate bond housee report a dearth of good securities. This is evidenced by the keen competition for government and municipal issuee«. When the Canadian farmer is apâ€"‘ proached by those who would have bim l part with his savings, before signing | any paper he should consult his bank | manager. The latter is in a position | to safely advice, and his advice | should be taken. The responsible , bond salesman will be only too glad to have the banker‘s endorsecent, . while the fake promoter will endeavor to show that the banker is prejudiced | against his scheme. This ahouqhbo sufficient to put any investors on their | guard. After the farmer has parted with his money regrets will be of m,-‘ tle avail. "Is any of the Bible lost to the world?" Yes, nine books and one psalm are mentioned in the Bible, and we have no trace of them. These He scents what He is :e_o'e-;l;e columns of the rain, The stormâ€"cloud‘s shattered elge Protecting the Farmers plain, stands unmoved beneath the hedge, The Shepherd. The Incomplete Bible. Savings. he hath for man and winds shall blow the dripping S 5| _A despatch from London says:â€"So prtain ‘ many American antique hunters have kings carried across the Atlantic old fashâ€" f lmes‘ ioned English copper bed warmers eps of| that the price of these articles in Lonâ€" on "Of | don has trebled in recent months, The 6 notl Americans selze upon the warmers as § Alllfim things to hang beside an open ind i fireplace or to use as chestnut roastâ€" r ers, or corn poppers. The ordinary a we!warmer is about the size of a wash ,emfl_.basin', with & lid and ‘a threeâ€"foot jorit v,ha'ndxe.. In its heyâ€"day it was filled SiÂ¥eR l with live charcoal and thrust beâ€" 5 & en tween the sheets at night to take off *‘ | the chill. â€" I-----'A"â€"â€"“"-w purc B fi 7.0 I‘he Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Deptâ€" olthel’mrnt Ottaws says: |_ _ P One of-‘;an“'l greatest natural resources, and one to which we give very little thought except when we are individually affected, is our water supply, perticularly for domestic purâ€" poses. We have become £0 accustomâ€" ed to having the water available simply by turning a taP or by using the pumpâ€"handle, that on‘ly when something untoward happen® and the supply is absent do we give any real consideration as to its source Or its adequacy. Canada is fortunately well providod with water. We have no arid are2s, and very few sections where even durâ€" ing periods of minimum precipiution the occasional well becomes dry. In, the cities and towns where water is supplied as A public service large equipment and wellâ€"organized staffa are necessary, while enormous investâ€" ments are required for the distribuâ€" tion of the water. Even for this serâ€" vice the price we pay is very reasonâ€" able, because we are paying only for service. We pay nothing for the water â€"it is one of nature‘s gifts to Canada and is provided to consumers$ for their own use without charge. When, howâ€" ever, the water used is commercialâ€" ized, or made to earn & monetary reâ€" turn for the user, the guardians of Canada‘s natural endowments collect ‘.pulp and paper industry, our mining development, our chemical plants and many other commercial endeavors are rolely or almost entirely dependent. The primary resources of Canada are many, and of these we have been in most cases generously supplied, but | of none can it be said that it is more | valuable or of more general use than |\our water supply. Canada‘s natural endowments collect a value in the common interest. A recent illustration of the cost of a water supply is contained in a reâ€" port of the operating expenses of the steam railways of Canada in 1928. For the use of their locomotives only, the steam railways paid $2,550,891, quite a tidy sum when measured in dollars and cents, but small in comâ€" parison with their corl bill, which was $59,280,418. And yet the fuel repreâ€" sented by the latter account would havoe been of comparatively little use but for the water necessary for steam making. £ Eue oc These warmers were part of the winter equipment of almost every English home until the arrival, some | forty years ago, of the stone hotwater | bottle, said to have been concceived by Mrs. William E. Gladstone, wife of ltho famous Prime Minister. The Grand Old Man used to avake up !thirsty during the night and drink ;tho water nearest him, usually that in | the stone bottle beside him. To give ‘him something more palatable his wife \filled the bottle each evening with | boiling tea, eweetened. Stone boitle | warmers, although replaced by rubâ€" | ber articles in the cities, are still used \ in English country districts, where | they are known as "Gladstoncs." EEEAROE+ Water as water has many uses, and in very few of them could a substiâ€" tute be found, while the power proâ€" duced by flowing or descending water, when harnessed, is one of Canada‘s basic elementsâ€"one on which our Hunt for Bed Warmers as Relics Increases Price | A despatch from London says:â€" ’The Highlanders of the Isle of Skye ‘and the Outer Hebrides, off the West corst of Scotland, have abardoned their traditional oatmeal for a more luxurious diet of tea, white bread and jam. This fact has been brought out by the chief medical officer for the | Invernessâ€"shire, which includes Skye, ‘Iwho declares the change is "dietetic lfolly" and is the resu‘t of indolence. | _ The medical officer says that radio, ‘lcrossword puzzles and other modern ‘ideas are threatening to spoil the ‘island crofters, and to remove all the | picturcsquéness of the country of the icrofters. as the sma‘l High.and farmâ€" lers are called. The authorities of the region are making attempts to introâ€" ‘_duce easier methods of preparing *porridge so that the islanders will not | stick to their new tea and bread diet | simply because it is easier to make !nady for the table. M {There was a man who was so fond | _ Of dreaming what he‘d find beyont (His years on earth that carth‘s four ) seasons Became four dull walls like a prison‘s | Within whose gloom he aged and paled !And planned escape and died jailed. Isle of Skye Forsakes Simple Life for Radio To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth.â€"Bathascar Gra» â€"George H. Dillon, h * » Of th ro th #l tw 6e in FRUIT CANNING m BRITISH CoLUMe BYâ€"PRODUCTS OF . CHARDS OF PACIF] COAST. Outp Ranks in Qua w Â¥kT_.% m ‘roducts epaging ‘ith Be