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Mr. Perkin turned into a rear ofâ€" fice on the first floor, slamming the doo sharply behind him. It bore a commo#place company name and the information that they were Corn and Seed Merchants, Adam went so far mss to try the door, It was eviâ€" dently secured by a modern lock, Feeling that somehow this was all quite useless to him in his present delemma, he went out and entered & tiny teashop tha; commanded n‘ view of the building. ~ bua 23,.. 01_"_ "CF F&INET‘s shop. Me attempts to wack the thieves ana reaches an old _ warehouse. Adam enters the building while the gir) wautches the door. â€" Suddenly he hears footsteps. The man turns out to be Adam e employerâ€"Corville Perkin. Adam, in his private hours experiâ€" ments with shortâ€"wave wireless. Waiking homeward, Adam is nearly run down by a large swift car. He calls on Priscillia Norval. Mer father recounts the history of Bve untioue chairs he possesses. ‘ Adam is extremely puzzled over the ¢onnection of Corville Perkin and Montada who wants the antique chairs. Then Priscilla is spirited away. 2 °_ CC tmeves in a bagâ€"snatching rald The bag was torn from the hands of a Kirl who explains that it contains the da.y.'- takings of her father‘s shop. TT @p o Prrrmver 9 i aapnmiipree & Adam _ Meriston, a farmer‘s articled to a solicitor, makes a but unsuccessful attempt to : three thieves in a bagâ€"snatching The DBLK Was LOrm frims the 1.R ud i w t ie ie t y e i n it p x4 ty & PX PORRbRD q 4/ PÂ¥b4444¢ ?0*“0 mmm«uugmgm,“,“" P lpllpeite4 ig IN A DERELICT BoaAT FIVE CROOKED CHAIRS By FAREMAN WELLS + a brave to thwart This suited h#s present plans, and he made his way rapidly to the upâ€" stream end, where iron railings proâ€" jected a foot or more over the water. It was a comparatively easy task for an agile youngster like him to clamber round â€" the railings and thus enter the place. After skirting the damp shrubberies along the bank e at length came across a row of boats all lying keelâ€"upward on the gra:s and smelling of fresh tar. | The only kind of craft afloat was an old squareâ€"ended punt, waterlogâ€" ged and roiten,. Reflecting that, if this were missed, they would think | it had been carried off by the curâ€"| rent, and would not make much en«‘ quiry after it, he began to bale the thing out with an empty paint can, | It was now considerbly darker, andi the mist : had thickened â€" over thel river as the air grew cooler with thex coming of night,. There would not be much likelihood of his being notlced.! He found a single car, and, putting hs bailing can conveniently amidâ€" ships, he cast off. | looking infinitely deserted in the thin mist that trailed across Its lawns and shrubberies ol e ie ue e se sys C Te +] I would ‘ke to take this opâ€" portunity, now that this series of articles has been running in this paper for over a year, to thank all On the whole, the two of you seem well suited. I hope that, whatever you do finally decide to do, you will get more happiness than seems to have fallen to your lot in the past. However, your own writing shows that you have this same characterâ€" istic, so you are well matched in that respect. There is one point about him, though, that is worth mentioning. He is no sitâ€"atâ€"home. He likes to be having a good time. I do not suggest anything vicious by this, but simply that your friend likes some variety in his lifeâ€"shows, parties, dances, probablyâ€"things of that sort. ‘ WRITE THE SOCIETY DE HYâ€" GENIQUE, DEPT. E, 441 Seyâ€" mour Street, Vancouver, B.C., for confidential information on family limitation. He is also ambitious and hopefulâ€" should get along very well if he has half a chance, because he is anxious to be someone in the world. He has no outstanding vices, so far as I can judge from the very small specimen of his writing that you sent me. i | me after a year. I haven‘t seem him ’since, and he has not helped to supâ€" port me, although I know where he is living. Now I have become fond of a young man, and he wishes to marry me, if I get a divorce. I can easily do that, but would like your opinion about my friend‘s character. I also enclose some writing of my husband‘s." Your husband‘s writing â€" merely confirms what you tell me about him. He has a violent temper and is selfish. Thinks of no one but himself, and his own pleasures. The writing of your new friend shows that he is reliable and honestâ€"normally â€" afâ€" fectionate, with an underlying sense of judgement or balance. | _ In spile of improvements in transâ€" port that have taken place in the last few years, the fastest train from l London to Edinburgh is one hour and , ten minutes slower in 1935 than it was in 1895. Here is a letter from a young married woman who is separated from her husband. She says: "I was married four years ago, but mine was an _ unhappy â€" marriage. My husband was cruel to me, and left The world‘s biggest clock, with a dial surface about six times the size of "Big Ben," is being built in Montreal. The clock will have three faces, the diameter of each face beâ€" ing 60ft., mechanism weighing about six tons, minute marks over â€" 3ft. apart, and minute hands 30ft. long and weighing 2,500lb. In the course of a year the minute hand will travel 812 miles round the face of the clock. open Across the top floor he moved, only an inch at a time, until he arrived at the door of the little blanketâ€" shrouded room. There was a faint chink of light under that door. Careâ€" less of anything he flung it sharply there until he felt he could hang on no longer, Then he scrambled as lightly as he could up the pitching. Clearly, an individual had just left the Grail Street warehouse by» some form of mechanical bridge. He hoped that someone might still be there. It gave him a thrill of assurance to find the little door under the arch once more ajar, and a still greater thrill to diâ€"cover wet footmarks leadâ€" ing up the stairs again. MOTHERS ! That‘s Curious! t hing about over â€" 3ft. 30ft. long the course ’ Would YOU like to have your own character analysed from your handwriting? .T his well . known Graphologist can help YOU as he has helped so many others. And he may be able to help you to know your friends better. Send specimens of the handwriting you wish to be analysed, stating birthdate in each case. Send 10¢ (coin) for each speciâ€" men, and enclose with 3¢ stamped addressed envelope, to: Geoffrey St. Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ont. All letters are confidential and replies will be mailâ€" ed as quickly as possible. past, and for the many kind expresâ€" sions of thanks for help given. The letters that have come to me in the mail have been one of the brightest parts of this work, and I am very glad to have been able to help so many of you. I do appreciate the many pleasant comments made from‘ time to time by readers.. those who havc_e written to me in the "What we want is the ballot, and the ballot we‘re bound to have, if we have to let down our back hair, and swim in a sea of gore." 1 Co oA de o PR Aaeey & "The only decent thing about man was a rib, and that went to make something better. (Applause.) "And they throw into our faces about taking an apple. I‘ll bet five dollars that Adam boosted her up the tree, and only gave her the core, "And what did he do when he was found out? True to his masculine instinct he sneaked behind Eve, and said, ‘twan‘t me; ‘twas her,/ and woâ€" man had to father everything, and mother it, too. "They say man was created first â€"well, s‘pose he was. Ain‘t first experiment_s always failures? ciples, but n band besides "I believe that the ';vvolev;lâ€"mtodly would be happier if man never existed. "As a success man is a failure, and I bless my stars my mother was a woman. (Applause.) "I not only maintain these prinâ€" wb ts 6+ d uen ce EWB "I believe sexes fwe;;'c;é;z;d per fectly equal, with the woman : litpl_e more equal than the man. F hC ue tm eniaet "Miss President, feller wimmen, and male trash generally, I am here today for the purpose of discussing women‘s _ rights, recussing â€" her wrongs, and cussing the men. But the American man was never criticized by any foreigner quite as severely as he was by an American women‘s rights lecturer, a certain Mrs. Skinner, three generations ago. Here is a sample of her oratory: (From the San Francisco Argonaut) Americans have always been sensitive to the criticism of forâ€" eigners, whether it came from radiâ€" cals or Tories; but most of it, perâ€" haps, has been owing to their realiâ€" zation that the foreigners saw some things among. us about as they were. â€" It is generally admitted toâ€" day that Charles Dickens saw Ameriâ€" cans‘ during the Jacksonian era, quite as he has described them in his "American Notes" and in "Martin Chuazzlewit." ‘ Brands Ltd., Fraser Ave., Ready to Swim in Sea of Gore, but maintain a shiftless husâ€" en Supreme GILLETT‘S LYE TORONTO "Every day is a little life," wase an old thinker‘s wise opigram. If each day gets the better of us, how are we going to conquer in life as a whole? Only as we make each day & victoriows battleground where selâ€" fishness and shirking and disobediâ€" ‘"Hence, even If you never have boonâ€"doggling in Canada, you‘ll know that it merely means making good or useful gadgets." "Part of the term, at least, is good Elizabethan English," he told a reporter. â€""Even yet in parts of England something good is referred to as ‘boon.‘ And a ‘doggie‘ is, as I see it, nothing but an archaic slangâ€"term similar to the modern ‘gadget.‘ The "boonâ€"doggling," permitted by the New York unemployment reâ€" lief authorities, much to the indigâ€" nation of persons there who could not find the term in any dictionary, is really nothing so very vicious, acâ€" cording to S. K. Marshall, instructor in English literature at Columbia University. "Boon Doggling" BROWN LABEL â€" 33 4 1b. OQORANGE PEKOE â€" 40¢ 4 Ib. A Little Life HOW 1| HATED CLEANING TOILET BOWLS Good English @ Never dissolve lye in hot water. The action of the lye iteelf heats the water. 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Bince his ©70th birthday Sauve has Couer D‘Alen, Jdaho. â€" Moses Bauve, 82, has built several thousand boats and canoes in the past 63 yeare Ult_ admits he "still is learning more show, < The whole world‘s dressed for hollâ€" day, The year has flung his cloak away. Has Built 1,200 Boats and Canoes Dons livery that jewels know, Great sllver drops like emeralds There‘s not a bird or beast of prey That does not shout a merry "Ho!" The year has flung his cloak away Of wind, of freezing and of snow. Russell Janney in the New York Times. From the French of Charles d‘Orâ€" leans, Poetâ€"Prince of the Fifteenth Century, The year has flung his cloak away Of wind, of freezing and of snow, And now his mantle is aglow Wlil broidery of sparkling day: The bhurdyâ€"gurdy last of the world‘s bonds, and it is a badour which more ink out in mean and sordid streets that the universe is not all mean and sordid; a note of play and courâ€" age flinging its challenge to the world! Sometimes there are singers acâ€" companying the hurdyâ€"gurdies, and what a brave and gallant thing to see and hear! . . Song daring to lift up its head and lift up its voice above the rattle of urban racket. . â€" . Art asserting its continuity and triviality of commerce. . . Joy callâ€" Earth and its creatures emerge, And the woodlouse sits on a splinter And fiirts with the cosmic urge. . . And in all the fliorists‘ windows the jonquil blows his golden horn. Then comes the note of the hurdyâ€" gurdy, and the New Yorker knows that it is Spring indeed. It is to him the first official announcement and it takes him back to the time when he was a kid and capered joyâ€" ously on the sidewalks to those straing. Each river, fountain, #stream . at Other signs that the vernal mirâ€" acle is about to â€" recur gradually appear; timid shoots of grass come up in the little wireâ€"protected plots at the base of city trees; the alley cats become more clamantly insistent in their midnight songs of courtship; the slush in the gutters turns to liquid black mud; dogs and their fleas attack each other with a fresh savageness; bock beer flows; the white gulls skim above the dirty East river with a new grace; a note as of the cooing of doves is heard from the top decks of buses . . . Out of the prison of Winter To hundreds of thousands â€" perâ€" haps millions â€" of New Yorkers the hurdyâ€"gurdy is all wrapped up with their sentiment about their city. It would not be really Spring to them unless they heard the grind organ. They begin to listen for it, subconâ€" sciously, with the first sunshiny promises of March, ' New York, in some of its aspects, is a place of bleak and barren ef. ficiency, where people get from one uninteresting place of business to another with the least possible loss of time, their elbows abraded and their ears lacerated by all the grindâ€" ing circumstance and raucous hulâ€" labaloo of traffic. If there is someâ€" thing beautiful for the eye, someâ€" thing lyric for the ear, something free and careless for the imaginâ€" ation, it is a note in the turmoil which thould be allowed to survive. him to. be an efficient and zealous public servant. Therefore, I should like to be one of 500,000 citizens of New York to write letters to him telling him that he is all wrong in this notion of his about the hurdyâ€"gurdy. The hurdyâ€" gurdy operator is not really a beggar at all. He is a vendor. What he pedâ€" dles in New York is music and senâ€" timent. And he is all too slenderly paid for his stock in trade. Don Marquis, in New York Heraldâ€"Tribune. Mayor Fiorello Laguardia has disâ€" appointed me by favoring the notion of banishing hurdyâ€"gurdies from the streets of New York city, on the plea that the hurdyâ€"gurdy operators arc beggars. I don‘t know Mayor Laâ€" Guardia, and I know very little about him, but his name has always sugâ€" gested to me something like a flower garden and the syllables flow with an appealing Latin liquidity which is almost the guaranty of a lyric soul. Judging from the name alone, one would naturally think of him as a friend of song and sunshine, and, judging from his record, we know HURDYâ€"GURDY SEEN AS SIGN OF SPRING Rondeau Of Spring is one of the beloved â€" vagaâ€" wandering trouâ€" than pays its business tay Parboil eggplant halves lengthwise center, leaving she Chop removed p «ups) and saute wi pepper in bacon fa Grapeâ€"Nuts, mix w maining | ingredien «prinkle with . a Grapeâ€"Nuts. 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