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cns to me without doubt saverant. The Weatherman was the only Torontonian to give the Shriners a gool reception. Th of it th mu ti af h No Handsome Giants Sun Breaks High Pressure Starting 6â€"Month Period of Rain Rocont news dispatches announce the beginning of the great annual monsoon in India. _ This event will put a stop to the Indian civil disobediâ€" ence campaign of manufacturing salt from sea water, for the torrents of rain will turn the salt deposit areas into mud and slime. I‘‘» North American continent has no phenomenon like the India monâ€" soon, which recurs with seansonal reâ€" gnularity like the annual floods of the Nile During the winter there deâ€" velops over southern Asia a great peak of high barometric pressure. If It were of rock instead of air, one woul! see a huge mountain _ whose base extended across southern Asia. Including the great Himlaya Mounâ€" tain range and all of India. ] Wet Monsoon Brings Relief to India BD College Students A stray itam in a small town newsâ€" paper conveyed the information the other day that James Washington Clark (the aame is entirely fictitious)| had arrived home from college to spond the #ummer vacation. _ The‘ brevity did not indicate just what‘ James Washington intended to do‘ with his spare timeâ€"whether he oxâ€"‘ poected to chauffeur the family car,‘ sample exciting novels in a hammock,! become the oficial supervisor of all‘ the strawberry festicals and golft tournaments in the nelghborhood, or‘ turn his attention to more urloui pursuits. not as popular as it used to be as a pastime _ for unocculed college stuâ€" dents If a census were taken of summer occupations, it would be dis covered that youth toâ€"day is directâ€" In@ its energlies into many useful and tal As a matter of fact, lolling "under the shade of the old apple tred" is l ' 1ope we desorved al thits" t o im MB Mamia n ot 0n 5 i Manchester firm, enclosing a â€"Colonel F. M. H:u”' am C istomer‘s le.*tter. which runs Most men grow a moustache by inâ€" llows Dear Sir,â€"Kindly send f i. stalments, says a barber, They start : of your HMlustrated Catalogues with so much down ‘ews goods and materials, Please ________'_______ i are send it to me I shall be very | Teuâ€"â€"â€"O 23 ecause I heard of you what you i~ one of the honesty and faithâ€" urses an e ‘ss man in the world. Please sir, 1 it to me next mail if it is imposâ€" h,:l.lll’::::”'l{:.g:fi‘"‘:: m 1 delisht to say you will send it Rospitals, N+w \ork City, offers a Three . N_ ARLLLLL a¢ Mualnins en anne mormally tall persons are not lly strong for their size, according ecan Lecoq, writing in Le Petit mal (Paris}. They are, on the conâ€" v.. wonerally weak, deformed, and ised. He writes: liny person: admire glants, perâ€" : envy them, and imagine that iro examples of a superior hbu ity. A complete error; for gigan is an anomaly, a monstrosity, as 1 so as dwarfism. : is really a disease. The work ithropologists has shown that the | is a man that is still a child, in o case growth does not stop at azo when normally he ought to osing of schools in early summer: erly permitted rural youths to emâ€" their energles in work about the 1, hut that contingency is no longâ€" n important factor througbout the itry. _ ‘There seems to be no good on why native aptitudes and inâ€" ctual curlosity should be allowed lumber when the warm weather. vos: instead, summer should ofâ€" uch change of employment that ilons are reâ€"enforced and frest tus is given to the happy habit vror k There is probably ncthing + uninteresting and unproductive i aimless loafing. I ysicians who have studied glanâ€" iy that glants are all diabetic. sor Landouzy says also that alâ€" ill of them are candidates for ulosis, ‘They are subjects to all of other morbid troubles, they »ner than normal persons; they ufit for all violent labor; their «_ are weak in spite of their nal channels, certain of them Iy remunerative. _ Some of these « persons will doubtless go on ‘ay, but the larger number will summer jobs in line with their ial interests _ and _ enthusiasms, : which affords them a practicel Work in t Lasts for Six Months sreat storm which brings to a e drought caused by the winâ€" Iry monsoon is known as the nsoon,. For about three weeks m continues without appreciaâ€" ement. _ After that the clouds way, but the wind continues steadily and freshly from the st, bringing frequent rains h entire wet monsoon period, ists for six months. H rooms On sed to grow. The giant is ilâ€"proportioned; his hands iro almost always too large, s gonerally distorted. nerves lack resistance, and »ften affected with neurasâ€" indsome glants are rare." of the Declare Doctors theories discussed Yours faithtul | Â¥ear‘s Y |the School, a monthly allowance and A travelling expenses to and from New iYork. For further particulars write or nl If your health is poor; if you are n pale, nervous and easily tired; if you l)l suffer from headaches and backaches; to‘ it your digestion is bad you may deâ€" ." pend upon it * that thant â€" AUninkmuas apply to the Year‘s Course of Training to Young Women, luvin, the required education, and desirous of becoming mnurses. This Add a few currants, or if you preâ€" fer, a few chopped raisins, and lastly the stiflyâ€"beaten whites of egg. Have ‘ready in a fryingâ€"pan some very hot | lard, drop the mixture in from a tableâ€" lapoon. and fry until nicely browned. Drain well, pile on a paper doyley, 'sprlnklo castor sugar over and serve | at onee. ’ This is an easilyâ€"prepared, unusual ‘and delicious light sweet. _ Crumble | three or four stale spongeâ€"cakes in a | basin. Pour over them half a teacupâ€" ! ful of boiling milk and beat thoroughly | with a fork. Leave standing until | cold, then stir in one tablespoonful of | flour. Beat the yolks and whites of | two eggs separately. Stir the yolks | into the spongeâ€"cake mixture and beat ‘ well again. "The nation which utilizes most fulâ€" ly the individual gifts of each citizen will have the greatost measure of wealth, contentment and happiness." â€"Colonel E. M. House. Some inmates of the Kiagston pentâ€" tentiary are writing their matriculaâ€" tion examinations, though as a disâ€" patch says, they aro handicapped by limited time for study. It will puzzle the ordinary teacher to understand how this handicap could operate in a ponitentiary. Cortainly we can imagâ€" ine no better way in which inmates could spend their hours than in study that will help make them selfâ€"supportâ€" ing and selfâ€"respecting members of the community on their release. Mrs. G. M. Andrews, Halifar, N.3., | writes:â€""I always keep Dr. Williams‘ 'Pllk Pills in the house, When I was | a young, anaemic girl they completeâ€" | Iy restored my health. After marriage my health broke down and once more these pills brought me back to health, l My friends all tell me how well I look | and for this Dr. Williams«‘ Pink Pins Cogs s y Euee € T00 | deserve all credit." | You can get these pills at all mediâ€" cine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. |DO YOU VALUE | _ YOUuR HEALTH? A man may become wealthy, he may become very wealthy, in the sense of acquiring money, He may become a millionaire, and even many times over, by working for it directly. But very common men have done that. Indeed, many of a low type have done it. We now have sense enough not to call these great men. Careful analysis will show, in every case, that it requires service for one‘s fellow men to constlâ€" tute a great man. The man who is working for greatness alone is the man who ordinarily never achieves it. â€"Ralph Waldo Trine. Service Constitutes Greatnossâ€"Not Riches Half a dozen ratafias crumbled with the spongeâ€"cakes give a specially deliâ€" clous flavor to the fritters. Babies Catch Cold from Kisses â€"Not from Fresh Air The wise mother should not allow any stranger to kiss her child. The stranger may only be suffering from a slight cold, but this, f passed on to baby, might pave the way for much more serious complaints. Kisses Dangerous Doctors Declare Doctors are continualiy telling us that kissing is one of the chief causes of colds, and insist that mothers of small children should not allow little ones to be kissed. She wraps him up and is caretul that he does not lie in a draught, yet he often suffers from a bad cold. She forgets that colds are caught from germs, not from fresn air. The adâ€" miring grownâ€"up is often a source of danger to baby‘s health, if not to his life. Baby suffers much more from the evil effects of kissing than his older brothers _ and _ sisters. Admiring friends, fond relations, and adoring strangers are all cager to kiss baby and the mother is usually flattered that her child should receive such atâ€" tention. pend upon it that these symptoms come from an impoverished state of the blood. That unless this condition is remedied a complete breakdown may follow. Dr, Williams‘ Pink Pills are a perfect medicine for any one in this eondition. They enrich and purify the blood and thus promote health and strength. Sponge Cake Fritters Limited Time? . Williams‘ Pink Pilts Every telephone call to America which comes from â€" Europeâ€"Stockâ€" hoim, Paris, or Berlin â€" Passes Man is generally led the way which ho is inclined to go. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another timg. through an elxxange in Queen Vicâ€" toria Stroet, don. "Why do they call a bell boy in a hotel ‘Buttons‘?" Pride is a sign of the worst poverty â€"ignOrance. ; ;With the pious God is strict, even to & hair‘s breadth. Commit a sin twice, and you will think it porfectly allowable, Minard‘s Drives Away the Headache. Who is rich? He who is satisfied with his lot. "Because ho‘s always off when you need him most, I guess." Baby‘s Own Tablets are specially designed to correct indigestion, conâ€" stipation, colic; break up colds and simple fevers and to allay tecthing paing. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Derangements of the digesiive orâ€" gans are responsible for most of the ailments which afflict young children and keep them backward in developâ€" ment. Baby‘s Own Tablets regulate the stomach and bowels, restoring them to normal action and this is all that is necessary to set the little sufâ€" ferer safely on the road to health and happiness. And though thy children will be fed On what the Lord decrees, Give us this day our daily breadâ€" And wine and fruit and chease. â€"Louis Untermeyer in the Saturday Review of Literature. God of the grape whose bubbles are taught To make flesh of the sun. Lord of the olive tree whose thought Brings oil out of the stone. Father of fig and orange trees That laugh to bear their load, Forgive us all our trespasses On thy tooâ€"tempting road. "Oyez, oyez, oyez! Lost to the care less beholder of nature‘s beauties, but found by the truly discerning, the magnificent scenery of the ancient borough of Great Torrington, a wonâ€" derful panorama bestowed by nature with a lavish hand and unrivaled even in the fair county of Devon. God save the King." Thrive After Use of Baby‘s Own Tablets. This year‘s contest created great exâ€" citement, and local patriotism â€" was roused to its highest pitch, for Ernest Baker, the home crier, was defending his title against 17 challengers from all parts of England and Wales. At a luncheon before the competition each entrant was presented with a silver match box bearing the borough arms as a souvenir of the occasion. London.â€""Oyez, oyez, oyez!"‘ came the cries resounding through the air of the peaceful little North Devonshire town of Torrington when the Town Criers Championship of Britain was staged there recently during the anâ€" nual May Fair. The following announcement formed the test piece: Wilma Brink, born and reared near Kansas State penitentiary is said to come naturally by her gunâ€"handling propensities, and is chosen to head coâ€"ed sharpshooters‘ team of Kansas. English ‘Oyez, Oyez, Oyez‘ Artists Compete for Town Crier‘s Crown BACKWARD BABIES |C. Australia Owes About 300 people were present on Grace Without Meat Reflections on Life â€"From the Talmud. | Big Debt to Women | _ Following the competition each crier had the opportunity of giving a ery of | his own selection, and local patriotism was much in evidence. The Barnstable crier, W. Haris, seized tho chance of Iboostlng the mill :nary of Efigland'- | oldest borough, while W. H. Small of | Bideford, Devon, capably advertised | Bideford Regatta as the "Henley of 4 the West of England." The City‘s Nolse It will not be long before Alice Springs has an air service. With the The big spaces of Australia are, of course, gradually being broken down by means of rail, air and motor travel. In the middle of the desert plain on the route of the eastâ€"west air service at Christmas there was a wonderful surprise for passengers. When they stepped out of the lines on the Nulâ€" larbor Plainâ€"just a wide immensity or unrelieved, stunted bushâ€"they found in the hostel (where the night on the journey going and coming is always spent, a Christmas menu of iced asparagus, oysters in the shell, roast turkey, pudding and iced drinks. Motion pictures and a Christmas tree added their part. _ The experience nearly took away the passengers‘ breaths. _ Here in the very heart of the desert was a party almost as brilâ€" liant as anj that could have been organized in the city. ‘ Women Bring Comfort and Home Life to Vast Wilderness Already there is almost a fashionâ€" able note at Alice Springs, the presâ€" ent head of the line. _ The only hotel there has an advertisement in the Adelaide dailies inviting tourists at a reasonable tariff, and even hinting at delicacies. _ This is really revolutionâ€" ary hospitality. Adclaide, S. Aust.â€"If it were not for the women, the occupation and development of Central Australiaâ€"or what little there is of ttâ€"would hardâ€" ly have been feasible. _ Women have made settlement possible by insurâ€" ing just suflicient of the domestic amenities to enabis the men to siay. They have bridged the difference, that is, between practically uncivilâ€" ized isolation and meager comforts. The railway, so far as it has gone, has improved matters and enabled the settlers to push a little further out into the empty spaces. When lthe transcontinental passes through the center of the continent, as is conâ€" templated, a large part of the problem will have been solved. There would then be not only transport facilities, but cheaper freights; and where now only rough homesâ€"a bit of mud and a few gum boughsâ€"are seen, timber and brick structures will appear. Mr. Baker cried himself into second place with 93 points, and though his supporters must have been disappointâ€" ed at his failure to retain his title, yet the crowd gave him a fine ovation as runnerâ€"up. The winner received a handsome silver bell _ and three guineas. the Torrington fottball field when each contestant in turn made his cry from a platfort. beneath one set of goalâ€" posts, while the judges sat out of sight in a tent at the other end of the field. The order of crying was settled by lot and after a very close fight the championship fell to W. Abâ€" bott of Lyme Regis, Dorset, who obâ€" tained 9 points out of a possible 100. ‘The Better Insecticide, Funglcide and Fertilizer A Quick and Sure Death to the Insect Prevents Blight Stimulates the Plant Through the Leaf 46y Guarante . d King Bug Killer AT YOUR DEALERS Write us for Literat Write us for Literature KING CALCIUM PRODUCTS Box C When Mrs. Schaffer is at home she works on a cattle run, doing exactly what a man 1Joesâ€"riding hard, +randâ€" ing calves, inding up, and mobilizâ€" ing cattle. _ She is as expert as the best of them. _ There is camping out | at night under the stars when the | bush is in its most beautiful mood, a |mood soft and caressing and full of thrills. so efficient, Th has sgoured. The instant re'fi!es‘(;ogrfi a‘l'k:fi Wwhich neutralizes acids. But don‘t use crude helps. Use what your doctor would advise. The best help is Phillips‘® Milk of Magnesia. For the 50 years since its inventioh it has remained standard with physicans. You will find nothing else so qul\ck én its effect, so harmless, What most people call indigestion is usually excess acld in the stomach. Mr. Jabbsâ€""It takes you women a long time to see a thing in its true light." Mrs. Jabbsâ€""Yes; and that is the reason why so many of you men are able to get married." development of the tourist traffic, and increasing business activity, the link is really now in the forging. Gradualâ€" ly the mode of life in the interior is changing. Many of the old settlers will not like it. _ Big treks with mobs oft cattle will go, but much of the routine cannot be altered yet a while. Waveney Station, which is 250 miles from the nearest railway in Queensâ€" land, is where Mrs. Annie Schaffer lives. _ One of the heroines of the bush, she not long ago visited Adeâ€" laide with a consignment of cattle, but she was glad to get back to the gilence of the spaces. } "I cannot tolerate the ceaseless nolse of the city," she said. _ But the lure of the bush was also in her heart. "I‘m in a hurry to get back," she sald. _ And so soon as the cattle marâ€" kets were over, Mrs. Schaffer, the real lover of the bush was off. On Waveney Station they have hot weather for eight months of the year. Sometimes the temperature reaches over 120 degrees in the shade; but, amid difficultis and discomfor‘s, Mrs. Ihaffer insists thai the life is full of delights which she would‘ not exâ€" change for the artificial pleasures of the city, and strange sights. People are apt to sympathize with these farâ€"away bush dwellers, but Mrs. Schaffer commiserates city folk. She thinks they are to be pitied for what they miss, the spicy air the unâ€" matched glitter of the evening skies, the ample freedom, the wonderful birds in their gay tropic plumage, and the indefinable charm of a selfâ€"conâ€" tained life, The country in which Mrs. Schaffer lives is hilly and scrubby.~ The catâ€" tle feed on mulga and water comes from bores and wells. The homestead is 60 miles from the nearest township, but that is only a flick of the riding whip as distance is measured in these places. The stores are delivered by motor lorry from the railway, and the mail comes once a week in the normal season. But there are times when the river is in flood, and six or eight weeks may elapse before any news is received from the outside world. Mawson in the Antarctic was closer to civilizaation with his wireless tlun' many of the settlers in Central Ausâ€"; tralia. The picturesque feature of, life in the outback in these days is‘ to see the blacks driving their own’ motorcars. They have become a.rilto-l crats of the bush. Some of the oldi settlers will not use a motor, Neithâ€" ed will Mrs. Schaffer. | "I prefer a horse any day," sheo says. "There is nothing romantic‘ in rushing about the country in a dull,‘ inanimate vehicle." | "I am trying to reverse the postâ€" tion," remarked Mrs. Schager during a chaf in Adelaide. "What a sensaâ€" tion one of our northern camel trains would cause winding its way through your streets. People would stare, wouldn‘t they ?" . Countless remedies are advertised for constipation. Many relieve for the moment but they are habit formâ€" ing and must be continued. Others contain calomel and dangerous minâ€" eral drugs, which remain in the syse tem, settle in the joints and cause aches and pains Some are harsh purgatives which cramp and gipe and leave a depressed after effect. ‘A _ purely ve%ctable laxative such as Carter‘s Little Liver Pills, gently touches the liver, bile starts to flow, the bowels move gently, the intestines are thoroughly cleansed and constipaâ€" tion poisons pass away, The stomach, liver and bowels are now active and the system enjoys a real tonic effect. DO YOU _ Avoid lubricating oils which only grease the intestines and encourage nature‘s machinery to become lazy, _ the system enjoys a real tonic effes All druggists 25¢ and 75¢ red pkgs. Where Blacks Drive Motorcars SUFFER FROM CONSTIPATION? effect. ' Jigesflon , Me was devising plans for marsh |draming around Babylon when he : died; ho has become one of the most | romantic of historical figuresâ€"a sup | porter of learning and civilization as f well as a great soldier. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips‘ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physiâ€" cians for 50 years in correcting excess acids, Each bottle contains full direcâ€" tionsâ€"any drugstore One tasteless spoonful in water nouâ€" tralizes many times its volume in acid. The results are immediate, with no bad after effects. Once you learn this fact, you will never deal with excess acid in the crude ways. Go learnâ€" nowâ€"why this method is supreme,. have afforded the purest, sweetest and most satisâ€" factory method J:.u..r...s..u. and bair. Cuticura Soap and Ointment He was more than a conquerorâ€"he taught the language and civilization of Greece wherever he conquered and he planted Greek kingdoms in Asia that flourished for centuries. Alexarlder the Great died 2,286 years ago and divine honors were paid to him in Egypt and other countires. "In the newly born infant the eyeâ€" ball is about twoâ€"thirds the size of the fully grown globe; though an inâ€" fant will multiply its weight at birth some sixteen times by the time adult life is reached, the size of its eyos increases by only some 50 per cent." â€"Mr. J, Herbert Fisher, MB., B.S,, FRC.S., at the Royal College of Surâ€" geons of England. To clean a carpet quickly, sweep briskly with hot bran. Minard‘s for Falling ‘iair. then he took Kruschen, _ _ _ " My doctor told m{ landlady that I could mever walk again. had rhoumatism set in about Christmasâ€"tima, and was confined to bed for two months. * I am nearly sixty years of age. After taking six bottles I am starting to work next week, ** U&I!l two years ?o I had been a Chamâ€" alon ing Cyclist, 1 have won ‘hffl” every me I have ridden. â€" Belng an athlete, but & scholar, it would take me a week to write muu about Kruschen Saits." _ â€"W. H. B. Who could imagine a more story this? A champion mâ€"mz. 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