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cur t ACMWP °_ °_ (me ornamental and useless things were absolutely _ dispensed with people would live in huts, wear sking for clothing and produce nothâ€" ing much more than the food necesâ€" sary to sustain life: There are useless ornaments _ on every motor car, in every shop, in every store and in every public building. There are lots of them in the Parliament Buildings at Toronto, Some of them are in the premier‘s office. Every visit a person makes to a motion plcture show is useless. Every cigaret and every cigar that is smoked is useless, every drink of pop, coca cola or alcoholic beverage is useless, The spending of a haif dollar to see a hockey game or a ball game or any other athletic conâ€" test is useless, | If all the ornamental and nuolon‘ YMHGS WOIG | ZBSOMELGI . MHomomensd pop, coca is useless dollar to ball game There are many ornaments in this province which could be dispensed with. Every home is full of them. Every picture, every fancy cushion, eve:y radio, every plano, every muâ€" gical instrument, every piece of bricâ€" abrac, every piece of lace, every adâ€" ornment to dress is ornament. Every white collar, every necktie is an ernament. Many homes themselves are ornamental, The whole question then resolves itselft to this: The office and the Government House are to be considâ€" ered as ornaments, which cost someâ€" thing, as all ornaments do; should they be altogether abolished because of that? Msrm famou; stories now told for the first time in PICTURE will appear wee ly, starting next week, in this paper. WA‘I'Crg FOR TfiPlgM. NoT aALL GLoom Perhaps one of our main troubles today is that we talk too much about our losses, We have made it a f2â€" shion this lengthy recital of woes. And it stirs the listenows ‘tell anâ€" other story ol suXeriny ~Aimost all conversations consist of tales of woe. We are inclined by this genâ€" eral psaim of misery to magnify what we have lostâ€"that is in comâ€" parison with the boom days of some five years ago, It does not aid our recovery nor bring back a normal mental attitude which might help us work toward helping ourselves, _ It seems to need someone to whom we will listen to tell us to consider what we have left. No man with health, loved ones, mental facuities and opâ€" portunities is without considerable wealth and blessings.â€"Brandon Sun. The sinister yellow wizard of of mystery crime and exploits TROUBLES. People who read the newspapers daily and observe the wide variety of pleasant and unpleasant thirgs which happen to great numbers of persons should not be inclined to magnify "unduly their own troubles and worries,â€"Kingston Whigâ€"Standâ€" ard. the meanest thief and remanded for sentence. Fine, but what about putâ€" ting him to work so the $35 worth of goods can be replaced?â€"Strattord Beaconâ€"Herald. Foung man in London, Ontario, broke into a news and tobacco stand operated by a blind woman and stole $35 worth of goods. He was called At a girls‘ school recently the senâ€" jor scholars were asked to write a short essay on the subject: "What 1 would like to be when I grow up," and to give their reasons. One upâ€" toâ€"date young woman attacked the matter right away with: "I want very much to become a film star, but as I am not considered beautiful and am lacking in sex appeal, I think I had better become a teacher,"â€"Lonâ€" don Advertiser. CANADA THE EMPIRE ABOLISH ORNAMENTS? \ oct MEANEST THIEF. NO OTHER WaAY CANADA . in every shop, in id in every public are lots of them in By SAX ROHMER zard of villainy dominates the creepy stories exploits of detection. ¢ ht THE NEW Day in music An English seaside resort has dropped its military band in favor of a dance orchestraâ€"and crooners. Thus anotherw:;l-l-cflien-t' institution bows in defeat before a modern one. Which leads us to wonder how STATES REQUIRE sarEeTY GLaAsSs Beginning January 1, 1996, the New York State law providing for safety glass for all new cars sold in the State became effective, bringâ€" ing the total of States baving such requirements to ten. The Legislatâ€" ures of at least twenty additional States are scheduled to take some action in this direction for the inâ€" creased protection of the motoring. public and it is not improbable that safety glass will eventually be comâ€" pulsory in all of the 48 States, â€" Financial World. CcoUuRrTs NEED disciPLinNgE In New York Rudy Vallee took a "poke" at the counsel appearing for bis wife, and the judge in charge of the Webbâ€"Vallee case invited one of the other lawyers to "meet â€" him outside," Somewhere, at some time, Ameriâ€" ican â€"judicial discipline slackenedâ€" and the appalling results of that proâ€" cess are now apparent. The British Commonwealth of Naâ€" tions is recognized as a world factor no matter what the Native Sons may blink.â€"Sault Daily Star, tie Britisa Commonwealth of Naâ€" tions," There isn‘t a British constitution 6r a Santa Claus either, nor in fact many other conceptions that move men mightily. If all these were enâ€" shrined in law books they wouldn‘t lose a fraction of their hold on manâ€" kind. "Autonomcus communities _ within the British Empire, equal in status; in no way subordinate one to anâ€" ocher in any aspect of their domestic or foreign affairs, though united by 8 common allegiance to the crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Naâ€" Still it is well to know that it was the Imperial Conference of 1926 â€" with official representatives of all the autonomous British nations in attendanceâ€"which coined the phrase "British Commonwealth of Nations." The resolution then defined Great Britain and selfâ€"governing Dominions as: of us There is always somebody dissatia-' fled with something, and the N. S.l of C,. are free to kick about anything | they do not like, just like the rest| BRITISH COMMONWEALTH or NATIONS "There is no such thing as the British Commonwealth of Nations." Bo says the 1935 "catechism" of the Native Sons of Canada. Further, says the "catechism," "The British Commonwealth of Naâ€" tions is imperialistic (sic) propaganâ€" da," and the number of people employâ€" ed, and the undoubted fact that the chief justice could, as the premier says, attend to all the necessary duâ€" ties, it is scarcely worth bothering about; not worth all the fuss that is being made over it, For each perâ€" son in Ontario it doesn‘t amount to what it would cost to buy a postcard and send in a protest.â€"â€"Port Arthur News Chronicle, Considering what thew office costs the people in relation to what the occupant distributes to maintain it to some, perhaps, be l;etter“ ofl:‘:l"l;; Lieutenantâ€"Governorship may or may not be one of them. There are a great many things which the people and the state could get along without and, with respect pe5 THE WORLD AT LARGE | _ At_a recent boot and shoe exhibiâ€" tion in England, sandals made of fineâ€" ly spun glass were shown for evenâ€" ing use, and it was related that "a really ~smart woman wou!ld wear a colcred ring on the small toe of her left foot to match the hue of the nail varnish on her fingers." The extent to which civilization is going ahead by leaps and bounds is almost breathâ€"taking.â€"Brantford Expositor. If you feel like sneezing, sneezeâ€" and don‘t let considerations of poâ€" liteness or the conventions or any» thing of thhat kind interfere, That is the advice of an English "medical woman," Dr. Octavi Lwein, who, in an address to a group of nurses, ofâ€" fered the following comments: Never backfire a sneeze and don‘t turn your nose into a popgun when you blow it if you would be healthy. Even Aristotle had a good word for it, she said, for the old Greek philosopher wrote: "Salute the sneeze and honor‘ the brain.‘"â€"Savit Star + It is the little things that count which is the reason why gum manuâ€" facturers are wealthy by disposing of their products at one cent per stick and it is also the reason why penny . bank deposits in Ontario toâ€" talled over $1,200,000 this year.â€"St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal. A MISTAKEN ATTITUDE,. As a result of further discussions between the New Zealand Minister ltor Finance and Federal Ministers there may yet be a new trade agreeâ€" ment between Australia and New Zealand. Such is the latest progâ€" ress report received from the Minâ€" ister for Commerce, The whole busiâ€" {ness savors of negotiations between two countries which have been at each other‘s throats for years, and which in seeking a rapprochement must be very careful not to give away to the enemy more than is extorted in return. Yet to the plain man Australia and New Zealand are sister Dominions of the British Emâ€" pire, exploring in the most friendly fashion the possibilities of increasâ€" ing the trade between themselves, to their mutual benefit. Statesmen apâ€" parently have a keener perception of the perils which attend the atâ€" tempts â€" of neighboring _ countries, bound by the strongest ties of kinâ€" ship and‘ common ‘interest, to enter into _ closer _ commercial relations’ with each other.â€"Melbourne Argus, er, we are told, the appointment of a committee to discuss means of enâ€" couraging the physical and mental development of the nation. We sinâ€" cerely hope that the committee will come into being and produce what cannot but be a valuable report. â€" London Sunday Dispatch. ing impressed by the Englix;hwi)h;';- ique. Now the Council of the Brit« ish Medical Association is to considâ€" FOR A HEALTHY NATION The Briton has no special cause to worry about being a Briton and is little inclined in consequence to inâ€" dulge in invidious national compariâ€" sons, When he does so he finds the comparison in nearly all respects flattering to himself, There is, howâ€" ever, one large black fly in this ointâ€" ment of racial content. Every time he considers the matter he has to admit *that in the matter of physiâ€" cal fitness this country is steadily falling behind its more progressive neighbors. All visitors ~ returning from Germany comment on the magâ€" nificent physique of the Labor Batâ€" talions there, We never hear now,! as once we did, of the foreigner beâ€" no more wood and fodder.â€"Calcutta Statesman. + TREE PLANTINGâ€" IN INDIA We suppose it is not impossible to spread some understanding of what is due to forests, and why it is due. The simplest villager san be made to grasp the necessity, when he cuts down a tree, of planting not one but many asâ€"recompense to a robbed earth, or of sowing sced of those trees that do not take kindly to transplanting, ‘There is nothing formidable in the .simplest elements of silviculture, That would be a useful first step, to persuade villagâ€" ers that in their forests and junâ€" gles they have valueable assets which must be used with a thought of the future, They are not likely to unâ€" derstand that what they do naturâ€" ally and habitually on a mouniain. side may affliict dwellers in the plaing hundreds of miles away, nor would their hearts be troubled if they did‘ know it. But they can grasp _ the ; simple truth that when the forests‘ and jungles are used up there is‘ many of our customs which we call "institutions‘" are either ancient or deepâ€"rooted or vemerated. A generâ€" ation ago the military band coucert was a sanctified custom â€" &n enter» tainment for allâ€"the family, as the radio and radio orcohestras are toâ€" day. And so it goes. Time executes a neat revenge on popular _ innoâ€" vators.â€"Montreal Herald. A mustachioed soloist on the corâ€" net took the bows now reserved for the crooner, Many people with a fair taste in music still like military bands,. But the majority‘ tune in on the dance band and the crooner. A generation hence. the crooner will be a sentimental relic of the«se times. His audiences will nod a little and think of their youth, Anctber form of entertainment will have caught the popular fancy,. THE EMPIRE 11 Come with me, then to a little wood I know, a natural temple, where the tall, symmetrical trunks become cathedral pillars between which the alabaster aisles of ’chequered light recede toward unâ€" seen altars until they fade into dimness, ‘The mighty elms and oaks give a roof to our temple as they lift their latticed crowns into the infinite blue; and, sifting tirough the trees, filling the night with its mellow glow, shines the moonlight, serene and mystic., All about us on the new fallen snow are laid the still shadows of the trees. Our little world is etched in black and white. Yesterday mornâ€" ing, with the sun glowing in an unâ€" clouded sky, the shadows were disâ€" tinctly blue, warmed occasionally by a touch of mauve, but tonight they are practically black, and the drawâ€" ing is arresting in #ts sharpness and contrast, However, it is just possible that we plain persons may be able to find in such a Winter night someâ€" thing more than a study in temâ€" perature. We can, at least, push our heads far enough out of our fur collars to lodk about us, and may even be able to share the pleasures of both poet and artist, though we cannot compose a sonnet nor paint a picture. Of course, I should have _ conâ€" sulted the artists as well as the poets, A poet might reasonably be so absorbed in the glamor of the glorious winter night as to overâ€" look _ these inponderable pictures athwart his path; while the artist, his eye alert for picture, might be expected to seize upon these studies in drawing as being right in his line, as, in fact, Twachtman and others have done. _ How could I so long have been blind to such beauty? How â€" was it that I had not even read of it? When, later,, I came to browse among the poets to see what they thought of shadows, I found many of them more ‘concerned with the dark, cavernous depths of the Sumâ€" mer forest, with the mystery, sinis ter or romantic, that lurks in the unlighted spaces, or with grateful shade from the heat of â€"the sun, And, while the poets seemed to find pleasure in the shadows sweeping majestically across the mountain sides, or nestling comfortably in the valleys and soometimes watched the "tenderâ€"pencilled shadows play" iin the wind, I could not see that utuch enthusiasm had been manifested for these tenderâ€"pencilled drawings on a snowy canvas. I had made a surprise discovery! As David Grayson says, "It had been there before, for long, but I had never seen nor felt it." | 1 suppose that ever since the moon began to rule the night and bathe the earth in its pale splendor, and the trees of the field began to yield their fruit, there have been Winter nights when the full moon, riding high and free in the deep blue heavens, hbas amused herself by throwing fantastic tree shadows upon a sheet of virgin snow all over tie slumberous landscape, And yet when, but a few years ago, I awoke to the beauty and _ fascination of these silenet silhouettes stretched softly on their silver screen, the revelation was to me as stimulating as if I had been the first of all men to enter the enchanted land of that experience. R. R, Greenwood Fred H. Byshe in the Ottawa Journal Seeking The Wonder Of Winter Woods There is wonder in the Winter woods, A subtle, allâ€"elusive mystery That haunts each placid grove where silence broods And woos eadh whited glen with witohery. s ; i i 5 he greens of Paul Runyan, King of American professional golfers, practices his putting touch on t $ the Miami Biltmore 'Country Club at Miami, Ffa., w hile his wife, Mrs. Joan Runyan (left), and Miss Maureen Orcutt watch. Admiring Gallery Of Two Watches Master Putter Limbering Up ’ Ottawaâ€"Hon. R. J. Manion, Minâ€" ister of Railways, will head the Deâ€" partment of Communications ~now that it is definitely known that the Department of Railways will be inâ€" cluded and in fact be the main one. A new portfolio will not be created. The work of the Department of Railways has been modified greatiy since the operation of the Canadian National was divorced from it, The railway finances which concern the Government come mainly through the Department of Finance. The new _ Because you are able to point out real faults and short:omings in the life of your friend or neighbor, that is no proof that you are profitabiy or helpfully engaged when you are doing so. It may be, for instance, that he knows as mush about them as you do and is even more concernâ€" ed for elimination or improvement New Communications Office Will Be Headed by Dr. R. J. Manion You would admire such a drawing if it were confined within a frame and hung in an art gallery, even though the picture iacked the ilâ€" lumination of the radiant moonlight that here in nature‘s studio touches every detail to poetry; but such picâ€" tures cannot be imprisoned, Human art craves perpetuity, so the sculpâ€" tor chisels his eternal marble and painter records his impressions in imperishableâ€" colors. ' Another feaure which the level snow canvas helps to reveal is the fine gradati% in tone of the shadow from the base of the trunk to the uttermost twig. The shadow has its greatest density and sharpest defiâ€" nition close to the trunk, and the stouter the trunk, the blacker the shadow, because the wider the shadow the less it is diluted with reflected light; and from the trunk and the gnarled lower branches, upâ€" wards the shadow loses both in density of color and sharpness of line on a diminishing scale whose gradations no human hand could hope to duplicate, until, when the crown is reached, the shadows have resolved into something vaguely mysterious, and are sketched in the softest pencilling â€" of transparent grey. Of course the shadows are flat; there is no perspective, nothing to make them stand out upon _ their snowy canvas; they appear simply as silhouettes, yet they are veritable studies in detail which reveal every branch and twig interposed between the white forest floor and the benign eye of the man in the moon This wealth of detail is due not alone to the brilliant moonlight, but also to the level sheet of unbroken white that Nature has provided. These shadows would be lost on the bare uneven ground of Autumn, You will catch the idea if you should imagine a drawing on crumpled brown paper compared with the same drawing on fine, white bristol board. Someone has said that the pencil is the master of all art. Here, then, ’ls drawing by a master hand, We have caught nature in her forest studio with pencil in hand, tracing marvellous patterns on an evanesâ€" cent canvas, Fortunately the air is crystal clear, the moon is full and almost directly overhead. With a lowâ€"hung moon the shadows range out at long distances from _ their source, but as the moon approaches the meridian the trees seem to gather their shadows close about them as a hen her brood at twiight. Thus, compressed, the shadows are darker in color and sharper in outline, and can be viewed and studied with greatâ€" er enjoyment, Don‘t Be A Faultâ€"Finder branch to which power to add will be taken from Parliament will have to do with Government radio, teleâ€" graph, telephone, cables, though one wireless branch, dealing with ship ping will remain in the Department of Marine. The Department of Comâ€" munications will have nothing to do with rates, which come under the Railway Commission. The consolidâ€" ation will place the Radio Commisâ€" sion under a different minister but it is not designed to abolish it. R. N. Parker, of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., pictured at hearing before Senate Munitions Committee. He is reported to have said that "wine ana liquors were often as necessary as steel" during the trial runs of warships. Miss Elizabeth P. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark., president of the board, reportd that 137 junior leagues had continued their welfare projects dur ing the past year despite economic conditions. New York.:â€"On the basis of a questionna‘re answered by about six per cen‘. of the 27,650 members, ap proximately 72 per cent. of the Junâ€" ior League women are married and have an average of slightly more than two children apiece. The staâ€" tistics were presented by Mrs, Char les A. Lindley, editor of the group‘s magazine, to the executive board now in session. than you can possibly be. For inâ€" stance, we have found that the man who spend a great deal of his time criticizing the morals or manners of others, is almost sure to neglect his own to some extent. At best that is the only explanation we have been able to find for the well known fact that most strenuous and persistent fault finders usually have as many and as serious faults as ordinary people with a few added. We have about concluded that to find fault with othcr people helpfully, and without neglecting ourselves or getâ€" ting into the habit of a faultâ€"findâ€" er, is one of the hardest things for any man to do. Seventyâ€"two Per Cent. Of Junior League Members Married Wine and Steel of "Lord Warwick used to wear the coin on his watch«chain," adds Lady Warwick, "and often declared that he had never earned money so easily." When oilcloth is to be fastened to the wall above the kitch>n sink, glue it to the wall. This is a much better and more permanent method than tacking it. After Lord Warwick had brought the ferry back, the man thanked him and said: "It‘s a fine place. Been here long?" Afraid that his voice would beâ€" tray him, Lord Warwick mumbled that he had been there for some years. a civil chap, so here‘s something ereign into the peer‘s hand, he deâ€" parted. “Well," said the strnner, ctyo“nre for_y_?u,'f and pressing half a sovâ€" Lord Warwick was amused, and not wanting to embarrass the man, said nothing, and did as he was asked. back." In about half an hour, the Amâ€" erican again hailed him, this time from the opposite bunk. "Look fhrp," he cried, "I want to get THE Quaint circumstances under which the late Earl of Warwick once received a tip from an Amâ€" erican tourist, are related by Lady Warwick in her memoirs. Her husband, she says, was out early one morning at Warwick Castle examining some favorite flowers, when the American approached him, saying that he wished to cross the river Avon. "Just work the ferry for me, there‘s a good fellow," said the stranger. . saw nothing but ahead !" "AT THIS particular time, Lieut. Slocum was in charge. 1 cailod his atteniion to. what appeared to be land ambhead and he replied that it had looked just that way for the past two hours but that he had deâ€" cided it was simply a murage. 1 had the choice of taking or refusing the deck until I could convince myself whether or not it was really land that we saw. _ I decided to refuse. Imagine my surprise and relicf when, about five o‘clock, the sun rose, dissipating the black fog, and "During tho early days of che inâ€" surrection in 1898, 1899, the natives were still in control of the Isiands. The U.S.S. ‘Chasleston‘ was on her way south from Apari. I was .o reâ€" lieve the officer of the deck one morning at four o‘clock and when I went on the bridge :t looked to me as if land were in sight and not very far ahead. The capiain had authorized us never to take the deck if we belleved the ship to be in imminent danger. The responsibili.y rested on the officer who was watch. NMirages at Sca. "The woist mirages 1 i. seen at sea weie in taue pines," yarns Admiral Coontz goes on: The captain turned to the oificer of the deck and said "Take a souniâ€" ing and anchor tae ship at once." Thsi was promptly done. Wita the fog lifted a few hours later he ship was very near the beac»o, and there about one hundred yards {om the water‘s edge, was a hugs iaâ€" stack. The lookout was a . aime faarmer boy and he knew th:t if he could smell hay the ship must be close to shore. THENX THERE is the story of a farmer boy, turned sailor, who, durâ€" ing a heavy fog off the coust of Maine, sang out from the sow‘s net, where he was doing lookout duty, "I smell hay!" _ At first the captain on the bridge did not unâ€" derstand him and callied :o him, "Repeat your siatement lookout." The lookout again yelled, *i smell hay!" After that, every time he thought for using this expression at the mast, the picture of a dead rat came to his mind The crew never heard it again. WHEN the captain turned in, this peculiar dead rat odor offended his nostrils (chuckles the Admiral) and a seaich revealed the rat wi h a card tied to its neck on which was printed, "I smell a rat!" AMONG THE YARNS spun by Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. Navy, (retired) â€" in "True Anâ€" cedotes of an Admiral" â€" is one about a ship‘s captain with a very suspicious nature, whose pet phrase was "I smell a rat." A member of the crew who had been punished several times, decided that the cap» tain should have a chance to really smell a rat. _ So he caught one, killed it, and a few evenings later slipped down to the Captain‘s cabin and placed the ratâ€"in a prime conâ€" dition for smelling â€" near the capâ€" tain‘s berth. OF TaE FAMOUS SEA YARNS water a alac y on 118 Mope «diamond, which broug gedy to all its owners. How it ed Dethi is not known, and present owner will say that m long story." The pearl is whes long, four and a half §n circumference and weighs ounces. It is surmounted by t wl crown of France in red . and gold, set with fine diamor was once the proper Antoinette, is now in D from the collection of MHope, the possessor of MHope diamond, which tarno. amall 8t I €las 100 €on lis of aw an eiy prom 000 ; PV vention w« reached a George F. of Ontario. In Toronto Is First H J« W 11 pet K Th find hims ward. H who stoo operate profess to run Can me D) D Ar t} Mothe Moth would1 D Wa at te 1J It‘s T‘l M And She She Word‘s Largest P Harras very mu: coat and Collector (s of the year w for the poor Cook : about th« TY New Maid: ‘ praying before Corl Appl ro Villag ve (0) Heard? ft be H 81 m 1 H it H In Fire Pre H ApJ D« H