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#{ V s ISSUE, No. 44â€"‘29 . Bright metal packages keep it always fresh. "A doctor sald wery softly and sadâ€" ly to an aged patient: "‘I am very sorry, but it would be wrong to hide from you any. longer that you are a very sick 1an. Yes, a very sick man. Is there anyono you would Wke to see?" "The patient nodded feebly." "‘Who* â€""The angswer came in a scarcely audible whisper. "Another doeter‘" CORCY EMBLOIDERY JOURNAL §72.11 . St. Catherine St., E., Montreal sn may learn anything upon which be set® his heart. ‘Tojensure sucâ€" cess, he .hbag..simply so. to digcipline his mind as to check its vagrancies, to euro It of"fa.gontant proneness to be doing more t&figs #t a time, and compel, it to direct its: combined energles slmultameously to a single ebject, and thir to do one thing at ence. . ‘This 1 consider as one of the most difficult, but one of the most nseful; lessons that a young an'can{ karnâ€"Dr,. 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But certainly there rests much in the hearer‘s judgment, as well as In the teller‘s falsehocd. It must be a probable le that makes the Judicious credulous; and the relator too must be of some reputation, otherâ€" wise strange stories detect some de formity in mind.â€"Feltham. We view the world with our own eyes, each of us, and we make from within us the world which we see.â€" W. M. Thackeray. This implies a thorough overhaul}â€" ing at regular intervalsâ€"say every aix : months ~or better still, every month. can eafely play, and you can at -tho same time obtain‘ a reasonable acâ€" curate e_stlmate of your vital age. _ _Only & doctor wl estimate the "tone" of your muscles and digestion, and a beart specialist can demonstrate the actual working condition of the heart on a screen. There is not the least difficulity in nndi,nrA out what games, if apy, you It is quite easy to estimate the ‘conâ€" dition of the arteries and the bloodâ€" pressure (which goes with it) and be accurately measured. This actual age can be assessed with reasonable accuracy today, It~ is really quite illogical to say thatâ€" your, age is 50~(or whatever it may be) because youn birthday certiâ€" Geateâ€"tells you this. ‘You may be 55 or even 60 as far as these vital facâ€" tore ate concerned. _ Or, more hap plly, you may be only 45 or less. Then on S#farday, or gimday, or possibly: both, thiy‘ walk many miles round a golf course swinging *clubs violently â€" and straining * hg@rt and arterles alike at‘ fairly frequent interâ€" vals. Thig is not wise. _Bowls 4s the more suitable game for the alderâ€" manic e!derly. ~â€" It involves but lit te strain. yo> Many men over middle age read "woft" and ‘sedentary lives, They recline in‘ cars, getting fresh afr, it is true, but no exercise, ‘Their _muscles arze flabby and théir dfgestion none too good, for during the week they are ‘rather indulgent to “bflt"'.\’ry." perhaps..., . _ ", C o Thete are also your dyspeptic "tone" to be assessing your age. . * Clearlyâ€"sa beart. of that kind "can not safély stand the strain and exerâ€" tion o% Â¥ielent ssgphe. Even swingâ€" ing. a club at gofft®"the presumed safe game for <he elderlyâ€"is not.devoid of some gisk, #part.from the condition of the ~arteries. "But the cofftdtion of the arteries is not, thé only critericn 6f age.>There are @thers. Bhe state" of the heatt, for one. ‘THis, without being actually the seat OW’ may be fatty or flabby or. both. * / TT Cricketâ€"if you are not a bowlerâ€" may oftem. be enjoyed till the halfâ€" century mileâ€"stone as may be gentle temnis or golf; and bowls to q still later perfod. 4o "P.T." for example, is compulsory for the fit urider the age of 35 in the Services. Over 35 it is voluntary, but is only induiged in after the© M.O. has thoroughly overbauled you. And as the years roll by its practice should become less, too. Footbnll, the most strenuous of all games, Is generally given up by wise men in the early thirties: > The arteries are resilient and elasâ€" tit tubes up to a variable period . of middle life. After that they begin to harden and thicken, and many considâ€" erable degree of this process should it you are wise, constitute a bar to all the more strenuous‘ games and exerciges, First, there is the question of .your age. Thore is a very ancient" doe tors‘ maxim which says that "a man‘s age is the age of his arteries," and it ts a perfectly sound one so far as it goes. What sort of exercise and games, It any, is desirable for these is the problem I purpose to discuss in a practical spirit, and in the light of modern medical knowledge,. It has raised anew the whole quesâ€" tion of exercise for those of advoneâ€" Ing yeare; men who have reached the peak of life at 45 to 50 and are de scending the slope on the othor side â€"as slowly as possible. There has been an anusyal numâ€" ber of sudden deaths of apparently sound and bealthy men of Jate, sut ficient to attract public notice. Dangerous Fifties OUR WORLD By DR.Cc. BrowN _ P muscular and consgidered in "Not or that. â€"I hid them there to get them.out of my possession, and I E0o9 mr o c api es t 300 enc d t t "And you put the arsenic that you had left in a vase in Mrs. Raynor‘s rdom to incriminate her?" Zizi‘s black eyes glared at the tranquil nurse. "Becauso the atrophine and the morâ€" phine so counteracted each other that all traces of both disappeared. Thes they found only the arsenic.", stolén the will. Miss Raynor was not a person who would take definite steps and Miss ‘Turner felt sure the law womld not harm her even in the event of an afcusation. . * "But, look here," Zizi_said, "if Mrs. Raymor‘s tablets that she gave to her husband secretly were harmless, what were they?" * ._"Atropineâ€"to counteract the effect of the morphine he was taking.* ‘Well, why wasn‘t the morp}‘;lne disâ€" covered at the autopsy?" She had no fears for herself, for though she had poisoned Mr. Raynor, his wife was in no position to call her to acebuntâ€"nor was hi# son, who had " She was taciturn but willing to anâ€" swer questions. She admitted her atâ€" tempt to poison Mr. Raynor, but said, she didn‘t mean to kill him, only, tol make him ill and then promise to. restore_him to health if he would give her a large sum of money. This he had done, &nd the bonds she had reâ€" ceived from him were, she said, comâ€" pensation for her past ills at his EASY TO USEâ€"BETTER RESULTS Lizi did, and BPobbins called the nurse to them. R Dia mond m3 Dyes _ \(#%" Sur. Proof® 'gg:;,fiiufz‘: "That‘s so. There‘s Miss Turner nowâ€"want to talkâ€"to her?" s ..@ "And each one so agitated, so shockâ€" ed, that no clear account can be got from anyâ€"of them." "It does seem likely," admitted Zizi, "but I wanted to show you that there wasâ€"there is a possibility of her being the criminal." 10â€" > 7 "Oh, Lord, there‘s a possibility of any "of those people who stood at those various doors." e "Well, wellâ€"now, come, you . do make it sound plausibleâ€"but, no, if she had murdered Raynor, Miss Turâ€" ned woukd never have come back here. She would have disappeared entirely â€"yes, sir, so she would!" [â€"then Mr. Finley started from . the east verandah, then Mrs. (Raynor started from the west terraceâ€"all these people atarted ‘because of hearâ€" ing that shot. Now, I say it could have been fired by Miss Turner, she could have hurried back into the house, and standing in that north door beâ€" tween the house and the sun room, she could have turned on the lightsâ€" just as we know she did doâ€"after she had killed her man." > J Nevp sdfinet choihy Wubmsidt wvitrine ds resid> 4s sc p is a -,mi_ fiaml-a‘â€"'wf‘ -B-l:l'k"';;& t‘s why thwve such clear, a‘:fg;;;: ‘“,nh it yo’{,‘"@.fi' dye your bi newâ€"loo colors, which valuable articles of silk or wool with keep their depth and brilliance so results to the finest professional remarkably through wear and Wwork. \\'l%:‘youbuyâ€"-ranember thil Tee me o. in 95 pranoa m Next timg 'hnvoibé!a‘kt.o » e package will d try Diamond Byesâ€"at our every kind of goods, including tfi.mmm»xfi ndetlou-dealerhab‘;g compore results You : . packages, « because th?;o are made from real anilines, without a trace of fillers to injure fabrics or ‘give things that redyed look. . Diamond Dyes contain the highest lity anilines thaot money can buy. That‘s why they give such clear, "But that was after the shot. Miss Mattie ‘didn‘t leave her room until she heard the report, then she started 4Z practically the sameâ€"method as any other dye. Thez go on easier, thoughâ€"more smoothly and evéenly; without spotting or streaking. That‘s NoOW GO ON wWITH THE STORY "Well, no, miss. You see, Miss Rayâ€" nor, now, she was on the stairs behind where Miss Turner wasâ€"" Douglas Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening on the floor of the sun room of Flower Acres, hiwnz d{;hnd home. Standâ€" ing over theédead man, pistol in hand, is Malcolm"Finley, ormer swectheart of Raynor‘s wifé, ancy. Eva Turner, Raynor‘snurse, stands.by the light switch. ‘Then Nancy; her brother, Orville Kent; Ezra Goddard, friend of Finley; Miss .Mattie, Raynor‘s. sister, and others, enter tfio room. ‘-,Lionel{ Raynor, son of Douglas Raynor by first marriage, comes to claim 'his‘ father‘s estate, but is forced to reveal that his claim is false. Pennington Wise, a celebrated detective, and Zizi, his girl assistant, are called to take the case out of the hands of Detective' Dobbins. Dobbins and Zizi are disâ€" cussing the case, Dobbins admitting[ that he suspects Nancy most trongly. of the killing. ° ' DIAMOND DYES are used by practically the sameâ€"method as Real Dyes are easier to use BEGIN HERE TODAY J Tib i ealgte Diamond Dyes are better dyes. Efle white package of aBuamom! Dyés is the highest quality dye, prepared :&gcneral use. It will dye or tint wool, cotton, linen, rayon or any mixture of materials, fie blue "I don‘t knowâ€"nothing much, I think,. I found Miss Raynor at my side, and I think I grasped at her, we rather clung together. Mr. Finley conâ€" tinued to stare at the pistolâ€"and kept on rubbing it with his handkerchief; Mrs. Raynor didn‘t do anything, just stood and staredâ€"" i You said she was going out." }She turned and came back, and i stood in the doorway. Then Mr. Kent came and he flew to her side." "Without looking at Mr. Raynor?" "He didn‘t seem toâ€"as I recollect. He rushed to Mrs. Raynor, and put his arm around herâ€"or she looked as i. she would faint." . "You tike Mrs. Raynor?" Zizi asked this quite casually. "I don‘t know," Eva returne. slowly. "Mr. Kent didn‘t come till three or four minutes later." yous> : k _‘*What did you all do in th» mean~ time? . "As you put it," Zizi said, slowly, "it would seem that those two, at the east and west doors, were the actiors of the ‘drama, and you two at.the north and south doorsâ€"you and Mr. Kent. ~â€"â€"were the audience." .. > not proven Â¥erdiet, There is no pos sible doubt, butwf it can‘t be proved thgr} they can go free,"I suppose." TORONTO "When I first came here I hated her." "Yes," Zizi said. "I have timed it, and I know it must have taken you at least a full minute to get from the pantry to that door and to push the light button. In that minate much could have happened." "All right," said Eva Turi.er,""then you ought to get those two off with a _ "And saw," Miss Turner said, "and saw Mrs. Raynor going out and Mr. Finley holding the pistol. Is more needed to convict éither one of those twoâ€"or both2" "And saw?" said Zizi; "tell me again." C "Besides," Miss Turner went on, "I was in the pantry talking to the cook when the shot rang out. Cook will teil you this. Then I ran to the door and turned on the lights." ._ "You didn‘t do it yourself?" asked ‘Dobbins. _ j Eva Turner stared at him. "Gracious, no!" she said; â€" "I‘m scared to death of a pistolâ€"I wouldn‘t touch one. I don‘t know how to handle firearms at all." 4 Zizi looked at her curiously. All this might or might not be true. iahofl" s io _ Eva Turner looked puzzled. _ ‘"Honestly, I don‘t know," she said; "I can‘t help thinking it was Mrs. Raynor, yet it may have been Mr. Finlay. It was surely one or the other, as I‘ve said all along." _ â€"_ thought they‘d nevéer e discovered. I‘d no idea the detectives would make such a thorough search." # "Miss Turner"â€"Zizi looked straight at herâ€""who do you think fired that 99 x4 rather than reproach. ‘"And it‘s her ""Nobody cduld be very fond of that ok!_ maigi_," Zizi said, in a tome of pity "Naney Raynor is « woman who loves very few people. She adored her .ather, she worships her brotherâ€"and she is passionately in love with Mr. Finley. ~ She is friendly with Misg Mattie, but there is no real affection there." i2 "Very much : the martyr type ence." * "She gives me Zizi said. e%* "Good for you, Miss Turner," Zizi cried. "*Now, will your sense of jusâ€" tice go so far as to answes a few questions?" "Certainly." I "Then, knowing Mrs. Raynor fairly well, as you must, do you think she is a woman who would take her husâ€" band‘s lifeâ€"no matter what he had done to make her miserable?" 1 "No, I do not. Butâ€"" "You‘re going to say we can‘t vouch for a desperate woman. But I want wour honest opinion. Aside from the facts of secing Mrs. Raynor fleeing out of the sun parlor that night, aside from any thought of evidénceâ€"you would be surprised to learn that Mrs. Raynor was a criminal." ‘ "All in all I nade Douglas Raynor pretty miserable and I‘m glad of it. )He vented his anger on his wifeâ€" but I couldn‘t help that. If she did shoot himâ€"it was no more than could be expected o a woman who had borne all she could bear. No one but myself knows what awful misery that man heaped on her head. If Nangy Raynor is nccusedâ€"if she is tried, I will go on the stand and testify to cruelty she received, to ignominy and scorn that was heaped on her, and to brutality unspeakable that she endure 3, until no jury in the world would give any verâ€" dict but full and entire acquittal: Yet even with all that, even though I pity her from my heart, I can‘t say I like her. We are not congenial, she doesn‘t like meâ€"but my sense of justice will make me witness for her, if it ever comes to that." Need leo s Pain! atiom on aomeci) 47. _ VVCB TBemâ€" _ Aepirin is alwa ys available :'&rfifim-fifl- 1b never fails to help. Famili a physician can yourself 'flmflflfl&ma m.m':h..?,nf.'?.fi"- MA'Diflnhbleum.b.o. lutely harmless, You have.. the medical profession‘s word forthat; they do not depress the heart, 8So, don‘t let a cold "run its eourse." Don‘t wait for a headâ€" ache to "wear off." Or regard neuralgia, neuritis, or even rheumâ€" atism as something you must enâ€" dure. Only a physician can cope dote for pain. It works! Nowadays, people take Aspirin for many little aches and pains, and as oltenuflnyqnoounwuym CASPIRIN surprised. " She is of . She suffered in silâ€" It is a proven antt th at impression," Tok for raig, avoid a lot of needless suffering, SHADoOWS The larkest shadows of life are those which a man himself makes when he stands in bis own light.â€" Lord Averbury. w12 EMCY Een mE 0) k4 1 "Down to the Falls," he replied, patting her thin little hond as. she pushed it through his bent arm. â€"_., "It‘s true," ise said, Many jury would exonerate Nancy Raynor if she had shot her husbandâ€"but I want to prove that she didr.‘t." x "And that Mr. Finley did?" (To be continued.) R For o BELIEF If it is hard for you to. believe the best in people and easy to believe the worst, you therehy disclose the worst in yourself. ) "I‘ve told you AGA!IN AMV TB"! 2. " don‘t know which one it was! I‘ve thouzht it over and overâ€"I‘ve picâ€" tured out the scene with both of them, and all I can say isâ€"it was certainly one of them." « © «What about a man from outside?" "That man from outside is all very vell if you can find him." h t d 7izi had caught sight of Pennington, Wise walking down the path and she ran after him. § ‘ e e s t s : > â€""Where are you going?" as she caught up wi_th__him. own faultâ€"she‘s so prÂ¥DNE out. Well, now, Miss Tun another question. Do yoR Finley could have commi murder?" "Yes, I do." * "I thought you were sU Mrs. Raynor who shotâ€"" z_flzuv:mmnm Sprainsâ€"Use Minard‘s Liniment 7 Pemtrinntfizal t â€"â€" C m, Do you think Mr. have committed that ;;:in Amd 'l‘if she and curiâ€" a~ here‘s Fp W running from 'l_l"y'et-l; ‘l'l;;:rd- who &re able to look after thomselves and have exbe;ient homes. 1 have Â¥isited 487 Ufilo:.ul all except two were "It has been a great pleasure to me to visit the foster homes of our childâ€" ren and find so many of them in comâ€" fortable homes; when you consider the kind of homes these children were taken from you would hardly think it possible for the majority of them to do so well. Wp have many foster homes in o. county that I think it would be better notâ€"to visit as some of the children are so young the fosâ€" ter parents do not like to have agents calling and making onquiries about them. ‘Then there is another class nn,g from 18 yearse upwards who One of our Children‘s Aid ofcials took a trip through his county to en quire how vartous wards were getting Along. . Here is what he reports to the General SBuperintendent of tho Children‘s Department: ® A silent but impressive enhancement in the fame of Hailg. It is wot for con temporaries to pronounce the succes sive verdicts of later generations; but already we may believe that he wil! rank with Wellington in British mili tary annals, and we are sore that his character and conduct as soldier and subject will long gerve as an example to allâ€"By the Rt. Hon, Winston = Churchill in the Cosmanolitan Even the eleven yenn;r;-t passed since the war ended have And the greatest proof lHes in t final phase of the war. The qualicic of mind~ and spirit which Dougla« Haig personified came to be known by occult channels throughout th« vast armies of which he was the chic! Disasters, disappointments, miscalon lations and their grievous price wore powerless to affect the onfidence of t.llg soldiers in their commander. But‘“{- I saw after the war was over, for the first timé, the histori< "Backs to"the Wall document writton before sunrise on that fateful April morning in 1918, and realized that i hadg been wrftten with his own prcâ€" eise hand, â€" pouring out without a check on ction the pentup pa«â€" l!on_‘ of Jrurt. my vision of t man assumed a mnew sale and colo The Furies indeed conmtended in \»i BQA!; but that arena was Jarge ono»: to contain their strife, Even I who saw him on twenty oc easionsâ€"some of «them potentially fatalâ€"doubted whether he was not insensitive nd irfdurated to the torâ€" men and drama in which he dwelt. There was a majesty about it which proved an exceptional greatness o! character. It showed a man capabl of resisting unuspal~strains, interns} and external, even when prolonged over years;.it showed a man cast in & classic mold; it recalled the heroc« of antiquity and the fages of Piuâ€" tarch. ‘Then everybody saw how admir ::Jud been his demeanor since th: The next thing beard about : Field Marshal was that he had fal\ down dead, like a soldier shot on : battlefield, and probably from caus that had originated there. Then « curred. manifestations _ which 1 from the very heart of the people. . Bo he lGeked around from his sm Mlouse beyond the border and saw 1| % great many of his soldiers a «#ifother officers were in the = so far as work was concern, and. that In addition many w« stricken with wounds and many m« were hard put to it to keep th homes together. To their cause a fortunes, then, he devoted himsc}{ However, Haig said nothing, . He ngither. wrote nor spoke in his own defense. People began to criticize his cam paigns. ‘here was deep resentmen against slaughters on a gigantic seal« alleged vpqp some notable occasions to have been needless and fruitiess. This, though it cheered hi# heart by no meansâ€"once the organization was set upâ€"cccupled his time or gave scope to his abilities. So the yoar passed. _He must just go home and sit hy the fire and fight his batties ove, again,. He became one of the perman. ent unemployed. â€"~It would be affectation to prets; that he did not feel this, Ho was on fiftyâ€"sevenâ€"full of energy and expc: ence, and apparently at the mome when he was most successful tho was nothing for him to do; he w; not wanted any more, » |K.â€"rmu- of Cities, of bangquets and ‘the like; but in fact the Comman. derinâ€"Chiefâ€"of the British armies |» France passed, as he left the gangway and set his N on the Ner. from a position of almost supreme respon. sibility and glorious power to the o,. dinary life of a country gentlioman Titles, grants, hopors of every kind, all the symbols of public gratitnd. were showered upon him; but he was given no work. He did not join in i\ councils of the nation; he was pot in vited to reorganize its army;Ma , not consulted upon the treaties; », great viceroyalty was at first at hi disposal; no sphere of public activi(y was open. j Foster the Cosmopolitan have seen of the en he m. of otg ut at te d 1 T Tuk #+