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ies and Traditions," is vyory ful ot| smiles. One of the biggest concerns & voyage when his father commanded s‘ ship named the Growler. It was home ward bound from Bermuda, and among those upon it were some troops anpd their wiyes. In the middle of the voyage one ot the soldiers became a happyÂ¥ father, and the captain found in the deck log, among the ontries for the middle watch : geant Blank, safeiy GeDNNVONCN M6.M MiQC child, Growler Blank." The captain sent for the boats w atn, und askod him to explain it. "Custom of the sea, sir," respond ed the boatswain. _ "Any child born on shipboard is given the ship‘s snaume." "But the child can‘t go through life named Growler," exclaimed the capâ€" tain. heen, Iy. .3 cauptain, however, refused to re cognize the custom ‘of the sea, and as the boatswain altered the antry he muttered that the Service was going to the dogs. "Mustn‘t it be awful to be a King Or a Qusen, or even a Prince of Wales?" gushed a young thing recently. "How sick they must be of the crowds!" 1 wonder"t The Prince of Wales does sot seem to mind them, and on more than ome occasion has been known to travel as an ordinary rail« way passenger instead of in his priâ€" vate saloon, for the mere pleasure of mixing with his future subjects. Little Miss Growler. Admiral Sir Herbert Ki Fwled, now, the colors are, Rrose and bine and red; Faded quite, but, whispering Of a day long dead. Cross and lazyâ€"daisy stitch, Letters that entwine, Spelling out, for all to read, "Annabel, aged nine." Buch a slender litt!s girl, In a pinafore, Eitting on a cozy stool, By a cottage doorâ€" How her tiny fingers worked, On the linen square! How the suulight found warm In ber braided bair‘ Faded, quite, the colors are, Red and blue and rose, ®tMaybe they gleam brightly v Youth‘s gay laughter goes! Cross and lazyâ€"daisy stitch, Letters that entwine, Spelling out, across the years, "Annabel, aged nine." Buck a little girl sho was, Pinkâ€"cheeked Annabelâ€" Where she lived and when Who of us can tell* Did she come to know life‘s pain, Life‘s despair and passion* Did she dwell, through @1 her years, In the peaceful fashion? Did her dreams drift far away, ‘As hor fingers sewed? Did she raise, half questlioning, Childish eyes that glowed, Â¥From the linen in her han«ds? Did she hum a tune, Holding ail the magic of A forgotten June? Custom of the sea, li!‘“’l'l]l ‘am Music. ’ m armibomume / \ The meaning of song goes doep.‘ l veem l P Who can express the effect that muslc‘ Wondertul Vitality. has on us? A kind of Inarticulatas un 1s; poctorâ€""I have a number of tathomable speech, which leads us t0| pationts I‘ve attended for twentyâ€"fAve the edge of the infinite and lets US fOf | yearg," a moment gaze into that.â€"Thomas| snq Doctor (slyly) â€"â€" "Wonderful Carlyle. bwbat vitality some people have, isn‘t | CX _\ utormametiiaretemment â€" .. it * Refreshing Change in Home«. One of the best and least costly methods of effecting a refreshing change and adding beauty to the home is the lberal use of wallpaper. The Way Out. "Would you like to dance the rext one?" asked the poor dancer. "Certainly. Would you mind Andirg a partner for me*" repkhed the fair ludy. MUTT AND JEFFâ€"By Bud Fisher. Royalty ‘and Crowds. MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY Mrs.® Blask, wife of Ser . safely delivered of,.a girl the biggest concerns a is father commanded a Growler. It was home m Bermuda, and among£ were some troops and the boatswain doggedâ€" 210 â€"Margarat E. Sangstor rt â€" Kingâ€"Hall‘s "Naval Memorâ€" when she diod, where of Queen Mary, also, do¢S ‘ | complain of the throngs. . ago, when she visited an ‘the crowd surged round h | was advised by a Royal 0 aaz__os « Queen Mary, also, does not seom to. leomoldn of the throngs. Not long ago, when she visited an efhibition, | the crowd surged round her, and she !m advised by a Royal officlal to e# | cape them by walking, on a path that |avoided the main thoroughfare. She | shook her head, however. \ __"It! you only knew," she exclaimed, “"tho pleasure 1 feel in being in a Brtâ€" | tish crowd, you would not suggest that ‘to me." Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, who has just published his antoblography, tells a deâ€" lightful story of Sir James Barrie, who has never been renowned for his talkâ€" ativenesa& Onee he was asked to take a beautiâ€" ful but nervous girl in"to dinner. At the second course Barrie broke the silence. "Have ~you ever been to p on l ho a dA is 4 iBA c ts sllence. "Have ~you ever been to Egypt?‘ he asked. The girl was too startled to answer immediately, but later she managed to saY "No." Again silence. . 15 s es a® litt] Don‘t wait.'tor .oppommuy to knock; I‘s ready when you &re. Time and again we‘re informed that "Opportunity is knocking at the=door" by all manner of wellâ€"intentioned folk. But this fact is hardly as vital as the question it brings in its wake. Are you ready for Opportunityâ€"or Success â€"when it does knock? For the man or woman who can supâ€" ply a demand efficiently, there is alâ€" ways opportunity in this world. The reason so few succeed is that they "do not supply that demand. * Opportunity is always at the door; Success depends solely upon our ability to use it. The vital consideraâ€" tion in the life of everyone who wants to succeed, to "get there," is to be ready. Train yourself, teach yourself, watch everything that goes on about you, lose no opportunity to gather knowledge and experience which may be useful later on. Then, â€" not when _ Opportunity knocksâ€"for it is ever knockingâ€"but when you feel ready to answer its sumâ€" mons, you should open the door to Sucâ€" cess, and, it you are ready, the prizo will be vours. P v So first decide the ling of business you‘re tackling, then lra!n l@ke a pugilâ€" ist for the fight of his life, like a raceâ€" horse for the race of its career, like a footballer for a Cuptie. And, remember, no one can take from you what you bhave once learned. i Nove! Plan. l | _ Bridos (to architect) â€""I like the | plans, but couldn‘t you make the house i’. bit smaller, with more and larger ‘rooms?" Sir J. M Wrong. "My dear, what a quaint ring you‘re wearing! Is it an heirloom*" ® "No, It‘s an ametbyst." * £ 25e s - . Barrie the Slient. For Success? tar she plucked k, "Have you*" came into Barâ€" & HER MAJESTY, QUEEN MARIE, A S10UX INDIAN While passing through North Dakota on her tour of the United States, Queen Marie, of Rumania, was greeted by Chief Red Tomahawk of the Sioux Indians at Mandon, N.D., and was made a member of the Stoux tribe. Photo shows Queen Marie with the oficial war headâ€"iress of the Sioux. A At daybredk the world was wrapped in fog. Sounds seemed to come from a distance. _ The roar of a freight train was muffled, and the whistle of When the fog lifted it began to roll away in long cottony masses. Two hours later the skies were ccovered with a woolâ€" white canopy saturated with sunshine. The light seemed to interpenetrate the clowds until they became seamed with radiancy. Ths seams speedily became rifts with sunâ€" bursts anmd glimpses of blueo. . The fNekis below woere filmy . with fairyâ€" breaths and snowâ€"smoke, and the counâ€" \t’ry roauds were long paths of steamy gosshmer. iho locomotive sourded smothered Gradually the woolâ€"packs evapo uted, leaving straggling vapors. These soarâ€" ed into higher ailtitiudes where they became more determined in outline and formed into endless processions moross the vast sapphire gulfs. These clowd processions are comâ€" mon aftor storms or misty nights upâ€" on the Plains, and ere always specâ€" tacles of loveliness. They seem like great sunshineâ€"freighted ships, or like great birds with wings outspread, sailâ€" ingâ€"sailingâ€"sailingâ€"all the rest of the day. The moon has rison, silver 'waeti‘ against the sunset‘s dying gold | The sun, behind the furthest hitl, has left ber promise in eachi cloud ; t The waves (what secrets they m\u'.i know,. what #ecrets they have never told!) _ ! _ Ard murmuring A thousand songs ‘ l that they will never sing aloud.| ,Aml softly, as a mother rocks her llt-'l tle child upon her knee, \| A tiny child, whose tired head is «cuddled down upon her breatt;‘ |Tho gulls Hide on each singing waveâ€" t the gulls, the children of thoi I don‘t know what they made her of ‘ Blt buttercups and bits of love, And singing laughtor of the world, _ And bhair a fairy finger curled +8 With dew of gold upon it so "Iwould look like go‘d when all the glow ' Of jeatous sunbeams in it lieâ€"â€" Amd that‘s not all, for there‘s her eye, And rosy lips and cheeks that vie With roses of the velvet May That dream us back to yesterday. 1 do not know what they made her of â€" Why, beauty, and the breath of love, h dE L o dWB cb db dibut anineditiaand P n elam ols C l And sunbeams and the golden truth Of beauty in the Pe«.rt of youth. No man may trace my gcenes with me, No comrade guide my way; Hut each, alone, our tapestry Must weave as best we may. What then? Song makes the labor glad ; 4 The pleture grows, in beauty clad; The picture grows, n NCal It glows. & deawning Day! And heor the whispered lu‘labies, and fold their wings and dare to rest. Misty Morning. Gulls at Evening. A Little Girl. â€"â€"Margaret E. Sangster Tapestry. â€"Arthur Powell NTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO You say you canuot hear The river‘s song; You do not Nsten, you Must listen long. It will not give Itself At once to you, It will demand your dreams And your love, too. Its songs are not for losing So have a care And walit, wait patiently, Its songs are rare. Faint rippling melodies, Old secrets, new As early spring and gay As skies of blue. This diet, says a noted London specialist, is a certain cure for the | present epidemic of influenza in Engâ€" | land. * | _"I have prescribed this diet in | gozens of cases in the last few weeks," ho said, "and in no case has it failed But you must !|isten long | to have the desired effect. . Usually ‘ the cure takes a cqup_lé of days. And earnestiy, Give all yourseif to this Deep reverie. : : blood becomes polluted with acid. The | @iet 1 recommend contains certain ; in!kllis which counteract it. ‘ | _ _"For a normal attack there is no ; | need to lay up. Provided you keep \reasonably warm it is better to be uy | and out of doors." | wouss in meadfpas in snn Isaac Newton‘s Riddle. 'I Sir Isaac Newton, the distinguished | man of science, once composed a ridâ€" | dle, and sent it to Sir Horace Walpole. | The laiter could not guess it, but a lady to whom Sir Iforace handed it .| found theâ€"answer in a few minutes. Here is the riddle: | "Four people sat down at a table to play. % They played all that night and some y ~_ part of next day. ; This one thing observé, that, when all were seated, Nobody played with them, and nobody id betted ; Yet, when they got up, each was winâ€" ner a guinea. +\ Who answers this riddle, I‘m sure is no ninny." * The apswer is "Musicians." Freshly bolled potatoes and greens, buttered toast. waterâ€"and nothing e! 18 C The last white survivor of those who accompanied ~Livingstone on his Afriâ€" can expeditions, Charkes St. John, a former boatswain in the British navy, died recently in the Isle of Wight. Elophants Slsep Only Four Hours. In spite of its wonderful capacity for hard work, the elephant seldom, if ever, sleeps more than four, or occaâ€" stonally five; hours a day. The quality of wocl is materially affected by tho kinds of feed given to the sheep. * Two Days‘ ‘Flu Cure. Last Livingstone Aid Dies. River Song. â€"George Elliston. "lu Cure. dam on the Blue Nile, which is the | a largest in the world. Ultimately lhll‘ toes and greens, arid and empty district of the Sudan, er‘â€"and nothing!some 6,000,000 acres in area, will be | |reclaimed by a barrage from a desert | i noted London |and transformed into one of the richâ€"| iin cure for the‘est octtonâ€"growing â€"regions in the ; influenza in Engâ€"| world. Plans so far call for lmmedlate? = ‘krinflon of only 300,000 sores, which | d this diet in|are estimated to produce 400,;000,000 | : last few weeks," | pounds of cotton yearly. _ case has it failed Restriction May Be Temporary. effect. Usually| wpother this restriction w!il be 16 of days. | maintained under the new circumâ€" h!' i_p_fluexfz_u‘&l! ‘ stances, however, remains to be seen. HOPE TO WIN CROWN OF KING COTTON PROPOSED _ IRRIGATION OF THE SUDAN. Will Ultimately Open 6,000,â€" 000 Acres for Cultivation of Fibre. Great Britain‘s bid for controi of 1NO world‘s cotton supply may be reganded as carried a stage farther with the re cent appointment of Sir John Maffey, formerly chief commissioner of the Inâ€" P 4 UE mas in PPR RERTOS ANIERT MSLoet dian porthwest frontier province, to succeed Sir Geofrey Archer as Govern« or Goneral of the soâ€"called Angloâ€" Egyptian Sudan. The appointment of ‘the new British administrator for & territory as large as the whols of westâ€" ern Europe, which this country virtualâ€" ly annexed as a sequel to the assasBiâ€" nation of Sirdar Sir Lee Stack in Cairo two years ago, and which Great Briâ€" tain plans to develop into one of the greatest . cotton producing areas in the world, colncides with the injection of a new economic factor into the still unsettled political relations bet ween England and Egypt. Egypt on Vorge of Criels. ‘ 'l‘ho:att_umn&ryhonth.vm of a s economic crisis due to the slump in the cotton market and, fol towing the example of the United States, has now decided to restrict the output. The Egyptian government has drafted a decroe limiting acreage wnâ€" idm‘ cotton to twoâ€"thinds of the present area. It is proposed that this decree, which is still to be submitted to Parliaâ€" ment, should be operative for three years. The proposed three years reâ€" striction of the Egyptian cotton outâ€" put as a result of the backwash of the market depression coincides with the imminent development of a new source of cotton supply which must inevitably react on price levels the worki wide. . This is the Geziroch area in the Suâ€" dan, where a large acreage of first class cotton land will soon be irrigated as a sequel to the completion last | spring of the great Makwar or Sennan "It was originally accepted by the Briâ€" i tish government as a concession to the ‘Egypu-an government, which feared ‘that the development of the Gezirch ‘area in the Sudan wou‘d divert the {flood water supply, whoreby the whole Nile Valley lives, from the irrigated areas in upper and lower Egypt. Durâ€" ing the political crisis following the assassination of the ‘Sirdar the British gobernment canceled the existing conâ€" tract with Egypt for the allocation of the water supply and announced that the area to be irrigated in the Gezireh district would be increased "to an urlimited extent as noeds may arise." This threat was withdrawn, howâ€" oX over, after it RAd played its part in | §t1 ironing out the crisis.. This country.; a popular ta however, took advantage of the erfsis "pidan," which to expel all the Egyptian éivil and mill~| progh ‘gucks*" tary eloments from the Sudan, WHCH ;rom soda Strs was, and nominally still is, "adminis" jng water and tered under Angloâ€"Egyptian "condomiâ€"] ;4 giored for nium." | While Egypt still maintains a claim ‘:;::l; I'E;’:;‘l: to sovereignty in the Sudan â€" this ;n fresh eggs; great stumbling block in the way Otidumyod by : settiement was informailly discussed | during Premier Sarwat Pasha‘s recent ns visit to London, but without the least | Human t advance being registered â€" England| The Hife of has been oreating a fait accofpli O0f hair is about wholly British administration in this fixes the rate vast and still searcely tapped territory.‘ oneâ€" thousand It is probable that an all line will soon link London and Paris with North Africa. The Air Unton will most Ukely absorb the French Compagnle Aeronavale, which bas run a flying hboat setvice from France to Corsica for some time past. » Air Line to Africa control of the Wait Till Jef Gets Hold of That Barber. Dougias 5. Cole Canadian Trade Commissioner to the Woest of England, South Wales ard Midland, at present visiting in Toronto. Mr. Colé says that the present Imâ€" perial Conference shows Canada to bo on the outer circla | of still greater drives in the Interests of empire trade, IPRTRER EVC O BC | with the rest of British Columbia beâ€" | fore the war. The laund to be drained had been divided into city lots for sale but fell into the hands of the Governâ€" ‘ ment for nonâ€"payment of taxes. The {Governmen-t decided to dispose of it ‘for agricuitural purposes because of |its remarkable fertility. The British Coltmbia Government, which â€" successfally reclaimed 30,009 aores of rich agricultural land at Suâ€" mas, in the Fraser River Valley, will undertake another slmilar »cheme which will make an area of 1000 acres available for agriculture. . This land lies near Port Coquitiam, outside Vanâ€" couver, and will be cleared of water by a system of drains‘ and pumps. This scheme is an aftermath of the land hboom which swept the Fraser Valley Music Manuscript Discovered. 1 At a Dunsforth farm (rear Aldborâ€" lough) in England a music manuseript has recently been discovered. It has \been submittel to British Museum ‘uuuxormes. who are of the opinion . that it is part of fourteenth or fiftconth t century hymnal, and that it is a part ‘ot the hymn for St. Martin. The parchâ€" \ ment is written upon insthe old style |of sevenâ€"hbeaded notes in four line ;suvea. and the words are in Latin. ‘It is probable that the hymnal was |that of a Cistercian monastery, and Iww taken to York Minster, Fraser Valley Reclemation used. Experiments have shown that there is as much vitamin A in pidan as in fresh eggs; but vitamin is entirely | destroyed by the process. Pelicanâ€" bill." Strange Food. A popular table delicacy in China is "pidan," which is made by preserving fresh ducks‘® eges in a paste made from soda straw fish, table salt, boilâ€" ing water and slacked lime. The pidan is stored for a month before being Human Hair Lives 6 Years. I The Hife of each individual buman | hair is about six years, and science | fixes the rate of growth at eighteenâ€" | oneâ€" thousandths of an inch a day. We : move to except adult whiskers, which‘ grow at least oneâ€"eighth of an inch a day. a \ Too Small. Why did you move out of that flat you just sented ?" "Oh, it was too sma‘l to read the Sunday papers in!" Exactly. "Mr. Fish, you just fill the ’of the coal strike on the heayy indusa tries and the increasing dificulty th« shipbuilders of Britain awre experienc . _ ing in obtaining steol a remarkab}« series of. new ships have recently either been completed . or launched ‘uyusbondon despatch. They include the laumch of the Al cantara, forming the sgeconté unit of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany‘s fleet of motor ships, a nNow the ~Donsidson Hner for the Canedian ard trade, two Blue Star passenger and ito, ‘cargo liners for Bouth American ser Im. vice and the first ship of the now 8! ha var Line which is to operate in the Pacific. The most remarkable feature of this series is that all, with perhaps ons exception, have. been BDuilt with the T V uns comintcs Aadb eCERWE : Hke NCR C PC P exception, have. been built with the assistance of the Trade Factlities Act guarantees, and possibly without this incentive their owners would have d~ ferred their building programs. On the assumption that this is the case it is safe to say that few or uo ships of any consequence would have been turned out by any British shipyard re cently. ‘This is a maiter which provides much food for thought, beacause the amount of unemployment in the shipâ€" building districts is toâ€"day very large and, of course, would have been very much worse | Economic Importance of the I fro of ag Who is bo‘d enough to maitompl recty to estimate the cconom portance of agricu‘ture in a c~ like Canada® It is corhaps we!! w the mark to assert that at loasl gent. of Canada‘s total popu.atio every walk of life, deponds abeo‘ on the farm, directly or ind These are imposing fAigures and = ‘ead thinking men to specu‘ate ( possible performiance of (Ca: lmiculture in terms of nations velopment, were we in the hap; gition where more than a more ‘ of our egricuturol area was producing basis. If, for insta:; ‘m producing on oneâ€"h>il, â€" on â€"oneâ€"third, of our areo.o instead of on‘y oneâ€"sixth, arar‘ fair occupational baince, our | economic probems wou‘ld vorn > night. The time is ripe for br such a situation about, We na MV&M naturel resources markets are thero, we only ne manâ€"ppower and the capitai to © the cirele. And theat is purs 1g ter of intelligent business o:; Autumn. It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks « sheaves, And, like Uving coals, the apples \ Burned among the withering leaves â€"Lougteliow turol area was s. 11, for instan g on eneâ€"hail, or of our areble y oneâ€"sixth, grart ral balunce, our |/ ems wou‘ld von‘sh me is ripe for bri n @bout. We na naturel | resources hers, we only n d the eapital to cor w. PETERSON 'h'l “fi(‘“‘.â€" largest single ‘ife. with the effect indus ip of doâ€" Ly exerâ€" nce upon ns of the it T m In U to B J(« STORIES KNOWD tion anun has Now*