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"There is ouly one safe way to hold hand bandaged. Then the question: a hammer or a bhatchet," said the sutrâ€" "How did you get yours?" geon with a tumorous twinkle in his . "In cog whesls. I didn‘t notice my oye, as he propared some bandages. ; hand was so cloge." "How‘s that, doctor"" ! Another case of inattention. "With both hands." | _ The next day a young man with his Though suffering some physical pain arm in a sling was waiting his turn wlong with a greut deal of remorse, for a dressing. tho waiting patient, who had crushed "Is yours seriou?" be was swked. the tip of a finger by the inadvertent _ "Broken at the wrist and the shoulâ€" blow of a hatchst, could not forbear der." a laugh. "How did it happen?‘ "I think you‘re right, doctor," said "I was on & bicycle going down a hoe, "but the way I feel now is that it road to go out on the highway. I had would be safer still not to hoid one t0o 80 to the left as scon as I reached at all." the roawd. When I went out of the "Well, let‘s have a look at it." gate a team of big horses pulling a L0 Banll avans ces frune dnnema sns oc 1 had "Well, let‘s have a look at it." The patient held up the lacerated indox fHugor of the left hand and the surgeom as be went on with the appliâ€" cation of the dressing sald: "I see hbundreds of accidents like these, some more severe, some less. Most of them are accounted for by momentary inattention. _ In the handâ€" ling of a m#chine or even such a simâ€" plo implement as a bammer or a hatâ€" chot, the muscular action after a time becomes a mechanical habit. _ It is than that the attention is apt to stray from the task in hand and while the bammer is swinging almost automatiâ€" cally through the air, the mind may swerve to something else. It is in that moment of inattention that acciâ€" donls occuwr. 1 think that most of the automobile accidents occur through moinentary inattention on somebody‘s part. In dealing with weapons, tools, implements, utensi‘s, machines or heavry weights, the mind should never be allowed to wander, no matter how skilful the man or how accustomed he is to the task.," R "A day or two aso," the surgeon wout on, "a man came here with a erushed hand. He had been a printing pressman for forty years and never beâ€" fore had a serious accident. By keep Ing his attention on his task he could have run his press safely in the dark. 1 needn‘t go Into the details of Low it occurred. His accident was readily interpreted as ons of momentary inâ€" attention and a printing press has no mercy. It takes a terrible grip and thera‘s no saving a hand once it goes under a roller. "There now," said the doctor as he clamped a plece of adbhesive on the gauze, "you‘ve lost the nail, but you‘ll have another in six months. The fin ger won‘t be the «ame but you‘ll be aurprised how much it will be restored. Come and have it dressed every day for at least & week." lost my whole hand." "For a moment I didn‘t notice where my hand was." That was bow he desâ€" eribed it. That day in the surgery the doctor told of a patient he had attended that morning. A woman was ironing. She was stanmding close to the stove, which wes on ber right. Holding the heavy tron in her hand she drew it back vigorously for the next stroke. Her elhow hit the sharp corner of the stove with the welght of the iron behind the blow and cansed a serious laceration. She said she forgot about the stove Next day in the surgeon‘s waiting room hbe saw another man with a bandâ€" aged hamd Fellow suffering was sufâ€" fcient introduction, so he asked: "How did you get yours "In a stencilâ€"cutting machine." "How did it happen?" "I was working at the same machina as I have bhad for eight years I was plugging alony as usual and for a moâ€" ment didn‘t noticse where my hand was. I was too sure of myself. My hand was just under the cutter when a woman at the next machine shoutâ€" ed ‘look out for your hand.‘ At the instant she spoeke I had tripped the machine and though I pulled my hand away I didn‘t pull it away fast enough and the cutter caught this finger. If it hadn‘t been for the warning I‘d have As the patient left the office two words kept sounding in his brainâ€" "Momentary Inattention." ind when bhe recalled his state of mind at the time he banged the head of a hatchat on the tip of his own finâ€" ger he telt inclined to contess to himâ€" self that they applied also to his case. ree, but i: The next e waltlag at MUTT AND o9 »r the next stroke. Helr| Cotton In China. : sharp corner of the stove! Cotton is culttvated in virtually ght of the iron behind the;every province in China, from Manâ€" med a serious laceration. | churia in the north to Canton~in the * forgot about the stove| extrems south. In totai annual proâ€" uo. Iduouon the country ranks next to the was inattention in a de.| United States and India. ratiention nevertheless. | suutiont Aibirecrerffgesmacer eomeress MOMENTARY INATTENTION How Some Accidents Occur. H t man was in had his whols JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. TORONTO His case, perhaps, might hardly be classified as momentary inattention. He was alert to an apparent danger but not to the possibility of a second though unapparent one. His terrible experience illustrates how alert the rider or driver of a vehicle on the road must be to all possible situations of danger. A few seconds‘ pause would have shown the danger in his case. All accidents are not caused by inâ€" attention. Some are accidents pure and simple, unforseeable and unpreâ€" ventable. But according to the surâ€" geons, who sest the broken bones and bind up the wounds that arise out of accklents, a large proportion of acciâ€" dents are caused by allowing the mind to wander while handling dangerous wempons, implements or powerful and swiftly moving machines And it is as often the highly skilled as the igâ€" norant who are hurt. From performâ€" ing a certain muscular action over and over again the action becomes me chanical and it is then that the mind is apt to stray and lose its apprehenâ€" slon of danger. _ The most skilled therefore should be the most watchâ€" ful, watchful not only of implements or machines they are handling but also of themselves. "How did it happen?‘ "I was on & bicycle going down a road to go out on the highway. I had to go to the left as scon as I reached the road. When I went out of the gate a team of big hborses pulling a dray was coming towards me. I had ewough space to cross in front of them and did so but didn‘t see an automoâ€" bile that was racing to pass them on the other «ide. As soon as I cleared pest the horses it struck me. I hadn‘t thought about the possibility of anâ€" other vehicle being on the other side of the team." The only safe way is to think safety all the time.â€"F.D. Like a Woman. "Well, at least I can say I‘m a selfâ€" made actress." When Spring peeped in the window I put my work aside, The tasks could wait, I must away, For oh, the fields stretched wide. Her smile, or was it sunshine‘ Turned rug and chair to gold, And sudden joy possessed me "Don‘t bother to apologize, dear. I‘d just make the best of It." In garden ways I found her, The Spring, so young and fair, And all the op‘ning blossoms Were tangled in her hair. The "human form divine" was prob ably discovered by a chiropractor. And more than I could hold Spring at the Pane. â€"Alix Thorn PADDED GARMENTS FAâ€" VORED IN COLD SNAPS. Small Hotâ€"Water Bottles Are Used, But Western Ideas of Heating Spread. KEEP CLOTHES The first cold snap of winter in China is not the signal for a rush to department stores to lay in a stock of warm clothes. Not that the Chinese are tmpervious to the rigors of winter. As a matter of fact, they prefer thick clothes and a cold room to living in a warm room with a minimum of clothes. Whon the first chill blasts of winter sweep down from the north they give the signal for a rush to the pawnshops, which are the wardrobes of millions of people. Pawnshops in China do not hide their light under a bushel, as in the West. Neither are they mere havens of rest for the financially weary. Pawnbrokâ€" ing is an old and dignified profession, drawing a clientele from the rich as well as the poor, and performs a very gecessary function in Chinese social Afe. Especially in the Yangtze Valley pawnshops play an important role. They are the farmers‘ trust and credit oanks. They finance his crops and sarry him over the poor seasons, and so extensive are they that many towns measure their prosperity by the numâ€" ber of pawnships. Nor is pawnbrokâ€" ing an undignified profession. bu COMING TO LEARN CANADiAN FARMING. A party of young men from public and gecondary schools in England leaving Liverpool to take up an agriâ€" cultural course at Macdonald College, McGill University, Montreal. After a short tuition perlod they will work on salsabat farms hafors raturning o the collece in Noverfiber. Afterwards they will set up for themselves. selected farms before returning to the collegg IN PAWN SHOP garding clothes. It is all a question of layers, governed by the season. Two layers in summer and six in winter is about the average, to be increased or decreased according to the degree of heat. A man‘s bulk in winter is jJust about twice as much as it is in sumâ€" mer and this is the change which most foreigners always regard carefully. It is no disgrace for a Chinese lady of fashion to appear in the streets wearâ€" ing clothes which give her the appearâ€" ance of a barrel, or the fat lady at the show. Her progress may be slow, but she knows she is fortified against the piercing winds. A slim and slender fAgure is fashionable in summer be cause it is practical; in winter the stout figure is fashionable for preciseâ€" ly the same reason. Except for the ultraâ€"modern women who have adoptâ€" ed the principles of Western fashion in their clothes, Chinese women do not allow questions of figure to dicâ€" tate to their bodily comfort in winter. And so the pawnshops continue to renâ€" der their service. The sign "tong," by which all pawnshops rendering this service are known, is to be seen in nearly every Shanghai street and in some cases the big, black character covers the whole side or front of the pawnshop. "That is one thing I learned in Engâ€" lad," he says. "There is nothing to beat a log fire for heat and cheerfulâ€" ness combined." Anotbher political leader, who was educated in the United States, favors steam heat. The heat strikes the visitâ€" or as soon as he opens his front door. A third man, also a political leader who has traveled in the United States and Europe, has adopted nelther methâ€" od of heating. He still adheres to his "kang" for his bedroom, but the rest of his house is like a refrigerator. He receives callers in a freezing atmosâ€" phere, but sticks to the hotâ€"water botâ€" tle, "The trouble with your foreign‘ A faithful friend is a fine image of clothes is that they are not practical the Deity.â€"Napoleon. de ;i.f{ Â¥e"> f Electric Lights Help Fish. ! Electric lights over the water in fish hatcheries have been found to attract insects and thus aid in feeding the and npothing like as warm as Chinese clothes, which are padded and perfectâ€" ly coldproof," he says. "I learned a lot from my residence in Western countries, but I was never won over to your ideas on clothes. You wear thin and impractical clothes, sit in a hot room all day and then go out into the cold streets and catch a cold. Forâ€" eign clothes are just death traps." There‘s music in the upper air, not just when morn is nigh, But when the twilight shadows come to veil the evening sky. So when the chores at last are done, pull up an easy chair, And tune the radio to catch the music in the air‘! "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, are like a string of pearls. O take me back, O take me back to ‘Gin, ‘Gin ‘Ginny girls. The price of eggs is 30 cents, and cauliflower‘s high. For all the lads they smile on me while coming through the Rye! "O honey, honey doan you know, I‘se | got de homeâ€"brew blues? l Your winter hat may be broadâ€"brimâ€"| med or turban as you choose. ; O thou sublime sweet evening Btar.l rest on my spirit‘s dream, t Red Riding Hood she saw the wolf,‘ and then let out a scream! t "Some vegetables require, of course, a light and sandy loam, ‘"Tis jJust a love nest (tum te tum) that we can call our home. The price of chicken feet is high, but less in quantity, So roll ‘em, girls, roll ‘emâ€"my Swiss miss misses me!" There‘s music in the evening air and there i also speech, To entertain or edify, to kill the time or teach. So put your good old slippers on, and pick an easy chair, Tune up the radio and catch the music in the air! it and told the clerk to charge it. "On what account?" called the clerk. "On account of not having any money with me." "Is 1 port?" A customer went into a store and‘ vemand Tor C/aSsSsy Pigs. picked up an article, walked out wlth‘: More than 250 pedigres pigs were "You are the sunshine of my M!o.] Your smile falls like lightning into : my soul. _ With you by my side I; would defy all the storms of life." 1 The Music in the Air. this a proposal or a weather re | Had His Nerve. Sister in Doubt. â€"Elsie Duncan Yale That‘s Carrying a Joke a Bit Too Far. ] There appears to be no end to my liking for Nature; whether a tree is !so leafy that it reduces the whole bheavens to a few blue eyes, or whether | the twigs are as thin and bare as the birds‘ legs that use themâ€"it is all the t same to me.â€"â€"W. H. Davies, in "Later lDays." ployment in Canada‘s mining industry. To these employsees salaries and wages totalling $83,000,000 are peid annualâ€" ly. This money is circu‘ated in Canâ€" ada to pay t8xes, purchase food, clothâ€" ing and the many Canadianâ€"made luxuries that our standards of living demand. But the mining companies spend much in addition for the purâ€" chase of machinery and supplies from Canadian merchants and manufactur ers; the sum of 20 millions is spent each year for fus! and clectricity alone. I Talking with a group of friends on the subject of children, a mother made !tho proud boast that she would not part with hor boy for a million dolâ€" llll‘!. A bachelor who was standing ‘nearby, knowing something of the Iboy'l mischievous nature, remarked in an undertone, "And I wouldn‘t gglvo ten cents for him." Mothâ€" ers usually incline to the higher | valuation, and they are right: The poâ€" ltential. va‘ue of a boy is beyond comâ€" ‘ putation. He may become an illusâ€" | trious leader and benefactor and make the whole world his debtor. In belpâ€" | ing a child we can never tell how great the service we may be rendering to | the nation. Incidentally the profit« of the sucâ€" cossful companies go to increase the liquid capital assets of Canadian citiâ€" zens who have invested in the indusâ€". try. â€" Unfortunately many of these profits go outside (hs country, since British, American and other investors have been shrewd enough to buy in many valuable properties, and the reâ€" wards of development are naturally theirs insofar as actual cash dividends are concerned. Many of the stronger interests operating Canadian mines are farâ€"sighted enough to reâ€"invest part of their profits in the acquisition and development of additional proâ€" perties so that part of surpiuses never leave the country. Fortunate‘y, also, for Canada, wages and other operatâ€" ing expenditures have to be made in Canada, although in some instances lthe ores are shipped to plants in the United States or Euvrope for treatâ€" ment, and other countries receive even greater benefits in employment and investment than does the country which has furnished the raw material, A New Animal. The huarize is a recently. developed animal, a crocs between the Hama and the alpaca of Peru, bought in Great Britain by the Russian government alone last year, and the export trade generally in British pigs during the year enjoyed a boom. Mexican Children. Mexico has no courts for juveniles, but the Society for Protection of Childâ€" ren has appealed to President Calles to found such courts. Get Light From a Tree. The oil drawn from the shea butter tree of interior Africa provides fuel and light for the natives. It must not be forgotten that minâ€" eral resources, un.like water powers or forests or agricultural products, once used, can never be replaced. There is only the one crop. It is not difficult to understand why that single crop should be developed only under such circumstances as will bring the greatest prosperity and benefits to the country. Two L.onq Lakes. Lake Baigal, Siberia. is nearly as long as Leake Supericr. It behooves us, therefore, as good Canadian citizens, to see that Canâ€" adian ores are treated, so far as is practicable, in Canadian mills and reâ€" fineries, using Canadian power, omâ€" ploying Canadian workmen and buyâ€" ing Canadian machinery and supplies. Natural Resources Bulletin. Upwards of 64,000 pgro_ons_fir_xd emâ€" What Is He Worth? Demand for Classy Pigs Liking Nature. | "The oficers will { do for themecives. |enbordinates ha!d 1 ih came to his know a great deal of gru [ rank and fite, who ‘and wer» foct«#ore Like a fash the whole stepped forward with the ex« a very emallâ€"thin Tommy, wih budge an inch. . Many a wife who cares nothing for her husband lives on his account. "No, I‘m not, sir," said the "I‘m not able to walk the thr for ward." An old French philosopher said: To know how to wait is the greatest se ret of success." Yes, a good many men who have done that have saved up enough tips to buy an apartment "I must see the doctor t« don‘t like the look of my wile "That‘s an idea. IPll come with you, old man; I can‘t bear the «sight of mine efther." He Understood "Fatigue" Duty Anyway. In Mr. Seymour Hicks‘s amusing book, Chestnuts Reroasted, there is this story of a British regiment that was stationod some years ago in Egypt. & before them â€"and ak> severity If they know wl meant Me followed with ture on the subject and © ing, "Any man who does march the sixteen miles racks take three paces to The colonel looked at him with pride and, patting him on the back, said: "So you, my man, are the on‘ly soldter who mderstands what cuty really means. I am proud of you. You are a crodit to the regiment. You of all these men are ready and able to march back the sixteen miles, are you?" If a man loves his wife he shows it by doing things for her. Ditto his home town. Amny old cat may be the ca kers, but it takes a tomâ€"cai i cat‘s paw. The full etrongth woere taken route march of sixteen miles int desert, and on being ordered to the colonel addresscd them, s 8Bo when th for the men to My girl is so fat that t1 she cam buy readyâ€"toâ€" wea kerchief and an umbrella ‘"‘Mother, are we going to some day ?" "I hope so," was the reply. "I wish papa could go too." "Well, don‘t you think he w "Oh, no. He couldn‘t get aw the office." Many men le best whe: trying to impress upon the ie how truthful they are It‘s perpetual hard times for the felâ€" low who waits for soft snaps. "Keep that schoolgirl complexion," advises an advertisement, and every druggist does. No, Gladys, a powder magazine not a cosmeticians‘ trade paper. What‘s the Use? What‘s the use of loving? It cannot last always. What‘s the use of kissing* You‘ll tire of him some day What‘s the vso of eating* It only makes you fat. What‘s the use of sleeping? I‘d rather be a bat. What‘s the use of pleasure* You have to pay a price. What is there to treasure? It always ends with life. Civic pride is just another name for patriotism locally applied. The short skirt has also revealed the fact that all family skeletons are not kept in closets. Old Maidâ€""In all my life I have never seen a man make an impropor advance to me." Flapperâ€""But I‘ll bet you‘ve wit nessed some rapid retreats." he heard a noiso upstains. "Who‘s that?" he called. "Nobody." answered the burglar. "Funny, I could bave sworn | heard a nolse." An absentâ€"minded professor thought OWL â€"LAFFS (On With Laughter) P n [.lP0®G n on )â€"d private; ly thing a hand« A3 gomont tlon of y 1 h 10 n n no Cal * p "A musician," eays t "Is one skilled in the ar In the light of the als and in answer to the al thanks you for t but ah can‘t do i.‘ A musician, in t ene who is skilled most people w the words of the to change a :# «notior tacular person watch the his wagon But this one«sided of soul filled w an intonse } «imply wi Is that a1 shut out for which swys, can‘t goi son why to whi belong And 1i: quines 1 use of 2 ean hes! ary, unts "mnolsns.‘ Wou each n half of of Many enabled ing they would 1 () m T T Even if Th And An P Ar Or Wi laus H« #° # h) 1 high«! The mnour}sl wr Al’e YO\I &A rfluliddn n Nine peenâ€"es %k. while Ave now )6 () hh 1 mu it Senten I} N. t rt