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Woman of 102 Wishes for Youth Her Wish is For Youth Reâ€" newed and Capacity for Work and Playâ€" Guards Sho declared emphatically that it is not worth it, and this is why, in her own words: Secret of Longevity Londonâ€"Who wants to live to be 102 years of age* Is it worth it? Mrs. Mary Aun Pricst is the oldest woman in England, and when visited on her 102nd birthday in the Kensingâ€" ton institution where she has lived for twontyâ€"five years had no doubts on the matter. No one lives who remembers the days when I was a girl. 1 live in another ageâ€"aimost anâ€" and all the hard work that was threeâ€" parts of my life. "No, I should not ask how to live to 102 if I were you. If you live to that ago you will stay in your bei while the world goes on without you â€"only you will know that it goes on. One Wish "I have the pleasantest life it !s possible to live at my age. I am surâ€" rounded by kindnessâ€"and as you grow old you appreciato that more and more. "Butâ€"k is worth it?" Old Ann shook her head, and smilâ€" ed sadly. "If I could have a wish, what would +1 Tokyoâ€"Reconstruction of the capiâ€" tal following the carthquake of Sepâ€" tomber, 1923, is now practically comâ€" plete after more than six years of enorgetic labor and an expenditure of 700,000,000 yen (a yen equals about 60 cents), and a fitting observance of the gigantic achievement will be held in the presence of the Emperor on March 26. The restoration of Tokyo is a monuâ€" mont of Japanese determination and competency. _ The task flt?,! seven years ago was that of rebuillding the greater part of one of the largest cittes | of the world, of rebabilitating shatter= ed and disrupted public services of all kinds, of reestablishing disorganized Industry, _ Thus the Tokyo of toâ€"day is a now Tokyo both physically and in the spirlit of its people. The ceremony will be&#@pnducted by the national Government in coâ€"0opera tion with the Tokyo prefectural and municipal boards, and prominent perâ€" sons among the offticials and private citizens will be the guests of the re construction bureau. It is expected that these will gather from all over the country to the number of some 10,000 More than 30,000 medals will also be distributed {a commemoration of the completion of the gigantle task, ane of the zreatest of the kind in his The world goos on without me. Mra. Priest is a wonderful old woâ€" 1an but she is a lover of youth, not zo, and her years weigh on her more ian most centenarians will admit. "How have I managed to live to 12* Why, 1 would not tell you if could," she said. Everybody‘s Pet Mrs. Priest lives in a most comfortâ€" ble ward, and is the most petted old idy in the world. By her bed stood cake with pink and white icing, and overed with 102 candles. "Yos, I could bave no kinder friends 1an I have here," she went on. ‘‘The nurses are kindâ€"but nothing in make up to one for youth, work, nd play. Even the worries of youth re worth whils. I have no worties The reconstructio ated the removal or the debris of some of every descriptiot mtacles, both econot quesil ments monia eity. URP® Tha Emporor has expressed his ioâ€" tention to make a detailed tour of the wholo reconstructed area during the two days preceding the colsbraâ€" It appears that the musta become fashionable again It will be a welcome change things that some of our yG have been wearing. "Most criminal laws are enacted to meet the convenience rathor than the conscience of society."â€"Lewis E. Lawes. Life is back a f1 Seven Years After b : is 102. You must remember that sixty and enty even seem young to me. My Idren would be older than that if y UMved atill. 1 have memories, I remember my rting days, when I was martied, i all the hard work that was threeâ€" apan in 7 Years Builds New Tokyo at Expenditure of 700,000,000 Â¥Yen TH Why, to do a day‘s work with the t, to be able to scrub and dust and my shopping, fall asleep tired at end, to wake up fresh as a lark another day. . . That is all." r world 1O > is an echo that never sonds a false or uncertain reverbation. reconstruction work necessitâ€" s removal or claaring away of wis of some 200,000 bulldings y description. _ So many obâ€" both economic and physical, ncountered and overcome that toration of Tokyo becomes unâ€" nably one of the great achieveâ€" of modern times, and a testl to Japanese enersgy and capt ires that last t of our young men mustache is to zain this year. hange from the Vancover Province (Ind, Cons.): There is no sonse at ail in trying to make out that the Pool is extremely virtuous because it is holding 1ts wheat for better prices, There is no sense in talking as if the British grain dealer and millor were blackguards and enemies of Canada because they are buying their wheat in the cheapâ€" est market. If the Pool is guessing wrong, the Pool will pay,. If the Briâ€" tish dealers are guessing wrong, they will pay. The unsentimental view of this business is the only sound view. "Long skirts and formal clothes sound the final knoli of short halr." â€"Captain Molyneux. Excess acld is the common cause of indigestion. It results in pain and sourness about two hours aftar eating. The quick corrective is an alkalt which noutralizes adld, The bost corâ€" rective is Philips® Milk of Magnesia: It has remained standard with physitâ€" clans in the 50 years stnce its invonâ€" tion. One spoonful of Philips® Milk of Magnesia noutralizes instantly many 75. BRITISHERS in Canada may now bring forward their Families, Relatives and Friends on Easy Terms. forward their Fa Relatives and on Easy Terms. For full details apply :â€" 3. D. CAMERON, %, J. D. CAMMIIUE PDist. IIPL Colonization Canadian Pacific Railway, Toronto BRITISH # REâ€"UNION ASSOCIATION DrMWilliams‘ PINK PILLS i# W@FARES to CANADA ADVANCED IN“E‘Q,MM y wOP ay mmbliat ms 56 sgeos * is not as great as it once was, and the blood stream is vitalized, anaemia easily lays hold on the system. At first, weakness that ordinary tonics cannot avail. "and was in a very bad state. As a girl I had taken Dr. Williams® Pink Pills for a runâ€"down condition and deâ€" cided to take them once more.. Again the result was marvellous. In a little while 1 was fully well again." You cannot begin too early to check anaemia. Dr. Wil liams‘ Pink Pills are sold at your druggist‘s or by mail, postpaid, 50 cents, from The Dr. Williams Medicine Coâ€" Brockville, Ont. A Business Deal "Aa nousemouo NAME IN 84 counTrigs ** L of TOTAL Stomach Serving With Soldier Elephants Capt. Graham Archibald Hope. _ In India, at one time, elephants were used to draw batteries ‘of artil« lery. I served with such a battery and learned that Hathi, as we call her in India, is in some ways a fine, and in some ways a terrible, soldier. I say "her," because we used only cow elophants, Bulls are far too uncerâ€" tain of temper to be used for draft. By far the queerest fact about ele phants is that the great majority never have seen a man, except to run away from him, till they are full grown. Yet, in spite of being one of the shyest of animals in the wild, Hathi needs no more than a year‘s gentling and training to become a peacef4l, hardâ€"workinrg friend of man. _ But temperamental, Waile a cow elephant is ordinarily more gentle than a horse, she may become annoyed and then the results are startling. I knew one gigantic cow, Sylvia by name, who made up her mind that railroad traveling was not for her. Special trucks are provided on Indian railways for elephants, and into one of these Sylvia was led. She was perfectly quiet till the truck was fasâ€" tened up. Then she lifted up her atâ€" tendant and placed him outside, after which, without effort or hurry, she smashed the truck to matchwood and stepped out of the ruins! Acid Wa realized at once that she had handed her man out so that he might not get hurt, The railway made two more trucks, especially for her, But Sylvia preferred traveling on her own feet, and in the game of railway comâ€" pany versus Sylvia, Sylvia won. Elephants are useless under fire beâ€" causo they aro subject to panic. Of nothing aro they so afraid as of the singing of bullets, unless it is a small dog, or worse still, a mouse. â€" * know of a case in which the flank elephant of a battery was frighten«d by a stray bullet from a range. When one elephant bolts, the rest will follow. The result was u stampede. The white gunners on the limbers tumbled off at once, but the mahouts stuck to their places. When they regained conâ€" trol, six or eight miles further on, thero was nothing left for the eleâ€" iphants to pullâ€"everything in the six gun carriages had been scattered over the landscape. But normally, cow elephants beâ€" have very well and enjoy wsing their strength. To see them at their best you must watch them getting the guns u, steed, rocky slopes. Literally, they get down to their job, craw.ing up particularly bad slopes on their belâ€" lies. And they always ge the guns up. I never knew an clephint that was a quitter, One kears a lot about elephants‘ memories, and not without reason. l‘ remember a new clophant that joined| the battery,. After the very first parâ€" ade, as soon as the clephants had been stripped, she and an old battery eleâ€" phant who had well over 20 years of service, made a dash at each other, twined their trunks, thumped each other, gurgled and squeaked as eleâ€" phants do when they are specially‘ pleased with life,. Finally, they lumâ€" bered off to the water trough, holding trunks and chattering. If, as the ma houts said, they were old friends, ' their friendship must have dated from jungle days After 20 years, they had recognized each other, After all, 80 years is not a great slice out of an ‘elephant‘s life, which runs to well |over 100. There was an clephant in iour battery known to have been in lcnp(:ivi!;y for 70 years, who showed no sign of failing strength! Elephants show good sense when they are under medical treatment. Haithi usually knows that the doctor is working to relieve pain. . One eleâ€" phane in a London zoo had an abscess on the jaw, which had to be lanced. The first cut, which made him scream with pain and bolt away, was not enough,. The surgeon was nervous about making a second incision,. The keeper, however, knew better, and after petting his charge awhile, told him to come back. Jumbo came, though ho was trembling with fear, and of his own accord put down his head and allowed the cut to bo made. When hot weather comes, you give elephants a cooling medi¢ine, a pill camouflaged with sugar, Usually Hathi bites into the nasty medicine and spits the pill out. Then two men must force her mouth open while a times its volumes in acid. It is harmâ€" loss and tasteloss and its action is quick,. You will neyor rely on crude mothods, never continue to suffer, when you learn how quickly, how pleasantly this premler method acts. Pleaso let it show youâ€"now. _ Ba sure to get the genuine Phillips‘ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physiâ€" clans for 5 years in correcting excess ;;la;. _ EHach bottle contains full direcâ€" tlonsâ€"any drugatore. third rams in the pill. Hathi owns herself beaten, and, judged by the movements of her throat, swallows the pill. But watch her. When she thinks no one is looking she turns to blow some dust on her flank, and then ‘turns back again, as innocent as you‘ please. But mahouts know even more than elephants, and one of them goes round to pick up the pill that Hathi has stowed in her ckeek till she saw a chance to spit it out again. This is too much for her. She bolts, a mahout after her. Presently he leads her back by the ear, yelling blue murder like a naughty child. Then she gives in, swallows the pill, opens her mouth to show that it is .gone, and then pitches into her big flour cakes. The funny thing is that she never makes any real use of her strength. If she did, only a locomotive could opâ€" pose her, Yet a little brown man lugs lher along much as he would<a proâ€" testing youngster. Ted Hogan and F. Vincent, both of Montreal, do . thrill crowds who turned out to witness Quebec meet. Hathi is sometimes playful, but her humor is on a dangerously large scale. We had one elephant in »ur battery who loved a joke. She played one on me, one day. She with other elephants had beenbathing, and as I was riding in the evening, I met them going home. They were all feeling good, especially the joke merchant, who had no man on her neck,. When I was near the herd she suddenly cocked her ears, rolled up her trunkrtlgrht. trumpâ€" cted like a wild bull elephant, and charged. We didn‘t wait for her, my horse and I. Of course she couldn‘t catch us, and I don‘t suppose she wanted to. What she wanted to do â€"and didâ€"was to scare us stiff and make us run. When I pulled up and looked round, I saw her capering about after the manner of her fiveâ€" ton kind, waving her trunk and laughâ€" ing. Yes, laughing! An elephant laughs all right, with a sort of shrill, cackling squeak. Her pals were laughâ€" ing too. They laughed all the way home, and when I went to see the eleâ€" |phants fed, the joke merchant was still chuckling. Elephants can think for themselves, and seem to have a rough code of conâ€" duct. The biggest elephant in the batâ€" tery, Anarkully, was a bad bully. She had thrashed all her companions, except one, called Sooksoondry. She made a special victim of Zirra, a very small elephant, Managing to get loose one night, she went over to Zirra and began to hammer her without mercy. Sooksoondry was the one I menâ€" tioned as having 70 years of service, She was, perhaps, the strongest cow elephant I ever saw. If a tethered elephant really wants to get loose, she can generally manage it, and hearâ€" ing Zirra‘s laments, she got loose and went across to take a hand. She beâ€" gan by butting the bully in the ribs, knocking her endways. Then she cut loose and thrashe! the other elephant into submission, finally driving her back to her place. After that Anarâ€" kully let the other elephants alons,. I might add that she was Sooksoondry‘s leader, and as she would always shirk pulling if she could, it is quite likely that they had had words before, which came to a head in his matter. Good companions, and good workâ€" ersâ€"alephantsâ€"and _ though they proved useless under fire, I couldn‘t help feeling a pang of regret when they got their discharge ‘rom the service.â€"From The American Boyâ€" Youth‘s Companion. January Where is the New Year better than the Old?â€" The same poor players; the same _discontents; The same old willâ€"o‘theâ€"wisps, the fairy gold That fades; the same harsh huddle Yet there‘s a solace, there‘s a boon bestowed, That shames to silence all our murâ€" muring; For we have turned the corner of the "People will do anything nowadays to save a few, minutes, though what they mean to do with those fow minâ€" utes is quite another questlon."â€" Cyril Norwool. Minard‘s Kills Dandruff. And see afar the chestnut spires of spring. of events: SKILL ISs REQUIRED FOR THIS SPORT ONTARIO ARCH TOROoNTO Perfect Balance in Pairs STORMY WEATHER HARD ON BABY The stormy, blustery weather which Canadians experience during February and March is extremely hard on babies and young children. Conditions make it necessary for the mother to keep them, confined to the house, whose rooms may be overheated or badly ventilated. The little ones catch cold and their whole system becomes racked. To guard against this a box of Baby‘s Own Tablets should be kept in the home and an occasional dose given the baby to keep him fit, or if a cold suddenly grips him to restore him to health again and keep bim in good comjflion till the brighter, warmâ€" er days come along again. Baby‘s Own Tablets are just what the mother needs for her little ones. They are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels, ‘sweeten the stomach; break up colds and simâ€" ple fevers; banish constipation and indigestion and make the cutting oft tecth easy. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25¢ a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Being Alone ‘ Loneliness is not so dreadful as we sometimes suppose. So much depends upon our attitude to it If we regard it as something that cannot be susâ€" tained and as the worst possible conâ€" dition of life, then, indeed, loneliness is a desperate thing. % But why should we so regard it? If loneliness is a trouble to us, 1t rather suggests there is some fear of ourselves. The greater height of happiness is reached when we are capable of be~‘ ing content and we hare to rely en-‘ tirely upon ourselves for that content, Those who can do this do not mind being alone. Of course, there is a difference between the persons who seem to be morbidly happy when they are alone and who keep clear of their fellowâ€"men, and those who, forced by some reason or another, spend many hours of their life alone. Being alone can be the most pleasant of mental conditions. In fact, we ought to train ourselves in the art of it because there are innumerable times when all of us are alone, and unless we know how to be alone we shall suffer greatâ€" Iy. And being alone is good for us, There is time to think, and sometimes out of the contemplation there flashes a gem of thought that transfigures our life. In others, it gives birth to a great idea which some day enriches the world. Being alone, rightly used, need never dismay us. Wickham Steed in the Review of Reviews (London): (Foreign propagâ€" andists, misunderstanding the British habit of selfâ€"depreciation, have asumâ€" ed that Britain is "down and out.") Under the leadership of Mr. Gandhi, the Indian National Congress has proâ€" claimed independence, has run up an Indian nailonal flag, has palliated or condoned crime, and has announced an era of "civil disobedience." What part has been played in these pro ceodings by a belief that anything is permissible under a Labor Governâ€" ment in an England on the verge of economic collapse, it would now be futile to enquire. The fact is that something more than a threat, not merely to Great Britain but to the whole work which the British Raj has done for the good of India, has beon utte®d, and that Mr, Gandh{ and his associates have undertaken to make it good. For the sake of India, no less than for that of the British Comâ€" monwealth as a whole, the threat imut be faced and with#tool. In reâ€" sisting it, with the firmest modera tion, the Government of India will ‘huo the support of all the lawâ€"abldâ€" ing elements, and may regain the reâ€" hspect of many waverers, "When love comes," s&ys ag Munich doctor, "the eye is blurred, the face becomes pale, the heart palpitates,‘ sleep is irregular, and the sufferer loses weight." Sounds like the fu / The Menace in India do a tandem ski jump to Unseen Guard Crisp New Banknote Can be New Yorkâ€"A $50 bill guarded by an invisible day was offered recently to any person who can pick up the money without making the ray sound The ray was set up at a meeting of the New York Illuminating Engtâ€" neering Society in the Westinghouse Lighting Institute by James L. Mcâ€" Coy, research engineer of the Westâ€" inghouse Lamp Company. It was anâ€" nounced that the money would re main indefinitely bebind the ray awaiting all comers, or until someone solves the riddle. ‘The bill was put in a fivefoot safe with the door closed, but unlocked. Somewhere athwart the safe, probâ€" ably across the door, an ultraâ€"violet ray was placed. It is harmless. It cannot be felt by human touch,. It is invisible either in darkness or light, It "shines," so to speak, upon a photoâ€" electric eye some distance away. Anyâ€" one attempting to pick up the bill inâ€" terrupts the ray, thereby costing an unseen "shadow" upon the mechanicA, eye. â€" Thereupon the eye loudly goes "bing", ringing a burglar alarm. Having introduced the merits of his invisible detective, Mr. McCoy proâ€" ceeded to suggest falabilities by deâ€" monstrating how other kinds of rays may be fooled. First he used a plain, bhonest light ray. While one hand, picking up the bill, interrupted this ray, McCoy with the other hand turned a fiashlight upon "bing," the photoâ€"electric eyo.! The dumb eye mistook the flash for the same light as the detective ray and kept quiet. . Next Mr, McCoy emâ€" ployed on invisible, infrared ray. This time he kept "bing" auict by holding an ordinary lamp in front of the eye while extracting the money, Infraâ€"red is nearâ€"heat and an ordiâ€" nary jamp produces enough of it to fool an electric eye. "But," said McCoy, "you caunot fool an ultraâ€"violet ray so readily because of inability to produce the ultraâ€"violet radiation. "With these rays it will be possible for jewellers, bankers and other cus todians to add greatly to the security of their valuables, It can be mado T impossible for an intruder to move about without detection, as the rays can be placed at various angles in a room. _ They may operate a tearâ€"gas barrage, or set off a sllent alarm. 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