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hh;h Sty14, ds steak, % iPner N a t w to Lr ad CGeneral Sir Henry Rawlinson, whose father was famed for his discoveries among the ruings of the ancient kingâ€" dom of Chaldaea, says that the latter used to assert that the oldest joke in the world was the one about the Irishâ€" man who had a run of bad luck and dectded to commit suicide. A man discovered the Irishman a few hours later. He had a rope tied around his waist and wag dangling from & tree. "That dre you doing?" asked the Man, "I‘m bhanging myselt," replied the Irishman. "You can‘t hang yourâ€" selt by putting the rope around your waist," said the man. "You should put it around your neck." "Ooch!" replied the Irishman. "I tried it that way, but 1 couldn‘t breathe." This story, insistâ€" ed the elder Rawlinson, is fcand on Friedrichshafen, â€" Germany. â€"â€" DT. Hugo Eckener announced recently that the Grat Zeppelin had finished its 1930 Aying season. It will be deflated and given a thorough overhauling durâ€" Ing the winter months. a little over the recollections. At length he said, "Ay, Maggte, an‘ . hae mo loved onybody since you! I hae never forgottern you!" "Andreow," ghe said, with a little moistening of the eyes, "you‘re just as big a leear as everâ€"an‘ I believe ye jast the same!" _ Father (meekly)â€"What‘s up to now? i Babylonian tablets of 2,000 B.C. CHEERFUL AEMINISCENCES In their younger days they had been sweethearts. Now there was silver in hor hair and snow on his, and they sat and talked of the times when they were yourgâ€"their first meeting, their first quarrel, their last kiss, their last quarrel. Perhaps they both warmed like you every The most embarrassing â€" situation ene can‘ think of is to wake up on Christmas morning and find that a gir! you hadn‘t even considered has sent you a Christmas gift. A sclientist says that bow legs are hereditary. â€" It is quite obvious, howâ€" ever, that they don‘t descend in a diâ€" yect line. Georgeâ€"Ohb, Gladys, dear, this will be the jolliest Cbristmas I have ever spent. . Now that we‘re engaged, I think only of the future. Gladysâ€"Do you? Well, at this time of year, I think only of the present. "Well," asked the man, "what there about that to which ycu object "The music." she said. May He who in the manger lay Bring to your heart this Christmas day The peace that never fatls to bless, The joy that makes true happiness. "@ don‘t like daneing to jazz," sait the girl. "It‘s nothing but hugszingz set to music." Two little boys were talking. One said to the other: "Aren‘t ants funny little things? They work and work, and never play." "Oh, I don‘t know about that," re plied the other. "Every time I go on a picnic they are there." A financier says that the business slump is caused by a change in our spending habits. Well, anyhow, a change in our spending habits has been caused by the slump. Consider the Christmas toy; its life is brief, but it certainly does get the They were talking about mocern music and dancing. % ANOTHER invITE A very subâ€"debutante sent the folâ€" lowing message to Santa Claus the other day: Mandyâ€" vagant to Sandyâ€""Of course, not! It‘s econâ€" omical The same plece of bread floes for both." The reason why it is so hard for college graduates to find jobs is beâ€" eause most firms already bave presiâ€" dents and general managers! ul a~ / ~COPeeenubl May it weigh as a feather, If the Christmas spirit does not mean making others happy, then the Yuletide will not hold much real pleasâ€" ure for you. ‘ o0 may your skies unclouded be And sunny be your weather, And if you meet adversity, e c ces ols Ard get it in a hurry. We wish for you an o A past that‘s free from We hope vou euaceas 200 LCCE mETCmRe We hope you have abounding With Ager a care or worry, Mr. Santa Claus Your presents are requested by Miss Genovieve Van CGoldenhessen on the Evaning of December 25th &t 7704 Lakeview Avenue. Motherâ€"That boy of ours gets more g+» CHRISTMAs wisHnEs Craf Is Laid Up Owl Laffs yor profits double. you get much worldly C 1 think it‘s extraâ€" and butter and outlook bright, a trouble; "what is he been "Well, and how do you like your new kouse?" she asked. "Oh, 1 suppose it‘s all right," came the reply from the young wife, "but there‘s a young couple next door who quarrel all day." "How very unpleasant that must be for you, to have to listen to that," said Mrs. Golders. "Yes," said the young wife, ‘and the wors. of it is they‘re French, and my husband and I can‘t understand a word they say." "Yes," said Brown. "I thought it was rather good myself. Tomorrow," he added, "I‘m going to try the seeâ€" ond hole." ; Mrs. Golders was in conversation with a young married friend. Brow 1 was trudging along the road, a smile of triumph 01 his face, and his golf clubs swinging over his shoulder, when he was confronted by King, & fellow club member. "Sixtyâ€"three!" echoed King. "And you just a beginner Why, that‘s amazing." “Hal[o!” said King. "How did you get on in your game today?" _ "Oh, not so badly," replied Brown. "I took sixtyâ€"three." 7 Pills will be found most valuable. They purify and sarich the binod; build up the nerve cells and correct rundown conditions Concerning them Miss Margaret Torrey, Indian Road, Toronto, Ont., says: "When I was attending high school 1 suffered a complete breakdown. My heart would palpitate at the least exertion; I could not slsep and nothing 1 ate agreed with me. I began taking Dr. Williams Pink Pills and before long I gained in weight and every disâ€" tressing symptor left me." Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by medicing dealers or by mail at ui Sents ;‘\mx from The Dr. Willams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "Many a woman cries because she feels better ‘after the baw! is over‘." In the "teenâ€"ago" years when school or office work is exacting and outside activities se up so much en ergy, many girls undermine their health and spoil their happiness for years to come. ‘ At such a time Dr. Williams Pink Taxes the Health of Thousands of Young Girls. PREPARE YOURSELE pounds too much." * All of which goes to show," remarked the goodâ€"natured druggist, * that women take on fat so rapidly that ufl don‘t realize it." * If that woman doesn‘t watch out," he continued, " when she comes in two weeks from now, the scales will be wrong about 20 pounds." " Is thelennrthingthatwill take ofl‘ fat outside of three or four hours of strenuous exercise every day ?" asked Sufeg‘ s hate of salest 3: ns ing a tube of ocintment for hi lame finsee: | * Not m{ thinsg,” answered the dispenser of drugs, * but lately there: has been a demand for a comâ€" bination of vimnng mineral salts that many of my fat customers are enthuâ€" u&' about, k "It is called Kruschen Saits and it must do the work for I can see for myself 't.hst many of them are losing ve ltln an inexpensive way to take off fat," continued the drug store man, * YOUR SCALES NEED FIXING " dressed woman in a drug store the other dayâ€"** they make me weigh 12 * Better get these scales fixed," exâ€" claimed a rather stout, fashionably for positions in all departments of Investment Security and Stock Brokerage Houses, or in statistical, research, analytical, advisory and security departments of Banks and Trust Companies, Insurance Comâ€" panles and large industrial corporations. ‘This institution offers a thorough, intensified training to fit students for the above positions. 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Now, when so much is being written about the Victorian Age, she comes to its defense by placing on record her memories of some of its manners and customs, I feel compelled to write on this subâ€" jJeet because of all that I read in the present day about the reign of Queen Victoria, written by those who perâ€" haps scarcely remember the days of Edward VIL, and who are pleased to associate the word Victorian with all that is ugly and uninteresting. I am aualffed to speak, having been born before Queen Victoria had been nine years on the throne, ard â€" having reached the agoe of 55 hefore I saw the accession of another sovereign,. I , feel, therefore, that I can claim to | know something of the manners and customs of the period. | To begin with, many now seem to | forget that other sovereigns reigned [ in the nineteenth century belidu‘ < Queen Victoria. Much of the furniâ€" ture, for instance, now labelled Vicâ€" torian, belongs to an earlier period, as I can prove from & house furnished by my grandfather in 1819, which re mained untouched during my youth. There you found the straight, hard backed armchairs and sofas now dubâ€" bed Victcrian, but in the ‘60s we had easy chairs and couches well stuffed with horsehair, kept down by buttons, and the prevailing tasteo was for light colors, whiteâ€"painted furniture, and varnished wood for bedrooms, with bright, shiny chintzes for covers. Gllt and Plush Chairs Little gilt chairs found their way into drawing rooms, and silkâ€"upholâ€" stered furniture, concealed by chintzes in the daytime, but uncovered for evening parties. Then came a craze for plush, for velvetâ€"covered mantelâ€" pieces, for brass nails, for fringes and tassels, for woolwork, for little velvet tables with twisted legs. It was a reâ€" action from what was called the Maâ€" hogany Reign of Terror, â€"and led to many sad acts of vandalism, old maâ€" hogany fourâ€"posters being cut down into halfâ€"testers, Chinpendale chairs banished into servants‘ rooms, and I have heard of at least one industrious lady who painted a whole set of maâ€" hogany furniture gray with ber own hand. I now turn to that oftâ€"debated subâ€" jectâ€"the girl of the period, of whom I was one. I can assure the public that we never faintedâ€"unless from illness, that we rode, even hunted, that we walked (I admit in button boots), that we played gamesâ€"though neither tennis nor golf; and if croquet be obâ€" jected to as being nonâ€"athletic, I would ask any modern girl to stand with a mallet in her hands, often for four hours at a stretch, in the hope of beâ€" ing able, when her turn came, to drive a ball through an iron hoop. It was a test of endurance if not of active exercise. . We also really danced at balls. The twoâ€"step waltz of my youth carried one along much faster than the foxâ€" trot, and there was no sittingâ€"out in * Never heard of that treatment," said the scholarly looking man, * but 1 haven‘t any fat to lose anyway." * I‘ve beard of it," chimed in a wellâ€" built middleâ€"aged man who had just come in. * I was 15poundsorm â€"was getfing fatâ€"and I give Salts credit for ridding me of th: unâ€" welcome excess baggage." "They‘ll have your picture in the per if ?vou aren‘t careful," said the s:uggm' t laughingly. No they won‘t," replied the wellâ€" built man, " but I‘m not backward about saying a good word for a good product, and 1 can say in all sincerity that Kruschen Salts are good. Not only did they help me to get down to normal weight, but they eep my bowels and kidneys in good condition and I‘m more vigorous and active than I have been for years." * That‘s good enough for me," said the scholarly looking man. " Glad you came in," said the proâ€" prietor. ~* I‘ll tell my fat customers what you said." Kruschen Salts is obtainable at all Drug Stores at 45¢. and 75¢. per bottle. Says Girls Were Bound by Strict Rules, But Had Gay Ti and the Period Was One of Progress Customs of Victorian Age Defended By Lady Leconfield Dances and Chaperons one person for 30 Carriage exercise was a great feaâ€" ture in Victorian times, and I spent many long afternoons of my youth in a barouche, the large open carriage of those days, In hot weather the drive would sometimes be enlivened by a stop at Gunter‘s, where we sat comfortably in the carriage under the trees in Berkeley Square eating ices, but more ‘often the day ended with a drive around the nark, thenâ€"as many can still rememberâ€"crowded with carâ€" riages open and closed, barouches on Câ€"springs, sociables, chariots (with the coachman on a hammercloth, the footman hanging <n behind), fourâ€"inâ€" hands driven by amateur coachmen with their friends «clustering on the back seats,â€" the solitary male in a phaeton of a cabriolet, sometimes even in a tandem, plumâ€"pudding dogs runâ€" ning behind thhe carriages of their owners, a royal carriage often to be seen making its way through the throng; all this gave the park a more festive appearance than the rush of motors and taxis zan do now. But let no one suppose that our proâ€" gress ‘through the streets was unimâ€" peded. When I read in the papers now about the traffic problem I reâ€" member the half hours we often spent in trying to get round Hyde Park Corâ€" ner, or in struggling to get through the narrow neck of Park Lane. This was the only thoroughfare between that end of Piccadilly and Oxford Street, Hamilton Place being a cul de sac; and the turn from Grosvenor Place into Piccadilly heing through & sharp angle, with traffic struggling to get through both ways, and no police control, the consequences may be imagined. Pleasures of Youth It may be thought, after what I have written, that the girl of the period bad but a poor time, but youth generally manages to enjoy itself, and the Vicâ€" torian maiden found a partner for life in spite of all oldâ€"fashioned notions. At balls, quadrilles. and lancersâ€" square dances as they were calledâ€" alternated with waltzes and gave op portunities for conversation; supper also was enjoyed in teteaâ€"tete, then evening partiesâ€"drums as they were then calledâ€"garden parties (for some inscrutable reason called breakfasts), riding in Roten Row, where one‘s chaperons often had a friend of their own and left one at liberty to talk to a friend of one‘s choice; all these alâ€" lowed time for cultivating friendships, and the long afterroons spent in croâ€" quet did not discourage fiirtation, The present generation also ignore all the agitations of a cotillon at the end of a ball, but here memory recalls the blank of an evening when no favors were received, so the subject has best not be dwelt upon. Nor was sunâ€"bathing considered a necessity. The sun, when it appearâ€" ed, shone on us through our clothing and no one invited us to take it off. Mrs. Grundy is supposed to be a proâ€" duct of the Victorian age, but I would point out that ever since the days of our first parents some form of garâ€" mert has been in use by the civilized, and it is hard that we old people should. be ridiculed because we still hold this view. Then as to dress. Much of the pity bestowed on us for our clothing is wasted. Do not let any one suppose that we walked out with our skirts hanging over our arms, as the modern maiden is said to have at Ascot this year. On the contrary, in the early sixties we had an arrangement by which we looped up our skirts over a brightâ€"colored petticoat when we went out, and later on ankleâ€"length skirts came into fashion for walking. I adâ€" mit that this involved a certain amount of toil, At a country house party you came down to breakfast with gloves on and in a long gown, changed into a short one for walking. Then began the fashion for teaâ€"gownsâ€"to be put on in the afternoon when you came in, and dinner required yet another dress. Nothing, I admit, was ever shown above our buttoned boots. I rememâ€" ber one day in my early teens seeing my mother and her sisterâ€"inlaw re turning from a walk and, bounding toâ€" ward them, was roceived with looks of grave displeasure. "My dear, young ladies do not show their legs like that," said my aunt. No, in those days we did not. 4 my young days. We returned after each dance to stand in front of our mothers, and when it was first whis pered that a girl had been seen sitting upstairs with a partner, the matter, it was felt, hbad best not be talked about in public. It would be hard for the present generation to realize how strict were the rules laid down for girls in those days. It would have been considered unthinkable for her to go out with a man at any time unâ€" less engaged to him; "indeed, girls were not allowed to walk out alone in London except with a maid, nor even to go in a fourâ€"wheeler without a footâ€" man on the box. An omnibus was, of ber elderly ladies walking in the park with a footman following, and I re member my grandparents proceeding to church with a footman carrying the prayerbooks, but these were then oldâ€"fashioned customs and hbad quite died out after I grew up. Minard‘s Liniment for all Pain, Then the abuse that i; heaped upon even rememâ€" 't‘hoer!nolln. 1 hold no brief for this garment; it was in most ways most objectionable, especially when sitting down in a burry, or in attempting to | enter a crowded carriage, but it had | ite points, as it allowed unfettered liberty to one‘s legs, and I remember, lu a little girl, thinking it very comâ€" fortable for running in. It gradually i altered its shape, became flat in front | and finally merged into the bustle of | the eighties; but all this can best be studied in old fasbion plates, as can &lso the fashions of evening gowns, which contrast much with those of the present day, much of what is now left bare being then covered, while the shoulders, now always concealed by at least aâ€"strap, woere then always shown, A little cap was considered suitable in the morning for even a young matron and bonnets were a} ways worn in the afternoons in Lonâ€" don even by young girls and always everywhere on Sundays; even the maidservants were forbidden to ap~ pear in church in a hat. ! Progress of the Age .: So far I have writted only of the ‘808, and as I remember them, but it is well to realize that the Victorian ago was not a stagnant pool, icebound in conventions and â€" prejudices, as some now seem to ‘think,â€" but on the contrary a time of steady progress, not only in politics, science and matâ€" ters ecclesiastical, which would re quire volumes to themselves, but in the manners and customs of which I write. One has only to look back upâ€" on the last thirty years of Queen Vicâ€" toria‘s reign to realize the changes that they brought. The white print, gilding and chintzes of the ‘60s gave way to Morris cretonnes, to green and even black paint, the taste for maâ€" hogany revived, and country shops and old cottages were ransacked for old furniture; the barouche gave place to the victoria and landau, the old chariots and coaches with coachmen on hammercloths and footmen behind were seen no more. Is there a baby or young children in your home? 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