ping The Thinsg Ia Paris night. The e protection es than for hway Trafâ€" URABLE? NCES FLECTOR® Simple Words yeles is pres H the the ind the n oY Ma "The biggest game of all is going On all the timeâ€"I mean life."â€"Eddie Cantor. L ‘ "Long ago the thinking people realized that a high standard of livâ€" ing by itself does not bring culture or progress."â€"Andre Siegfried. are tox Monitor. Popular entertainers may find surâ€" feit in the honeyed words of cheer that assail them. It is not so with the rank and file of humanity. One trouble with fan mail is in its ineâ€" quitable distribution. Its recipients Hut there is a discipline of praise that, for the vast majority is more efective. Nothing stimulates effort like a little homest appreciation. As Dr. Samuel Johnson used to say, "The applause of a single human being is of great consequence." Bc A popular radio performer divulges the fact that he cares to see only letters in the day‘s grist that give him a "panning." Praiseful missives «â€"far more numerous we are led to bolieveâ€"are read by his secretary and quictly find their way into the officé waste basket. Alas for all the lflll}i pacans to our hero, whether borne on rough foolscap or on stationery Icso.tinted and crested! Remarkable artist, craving only rebuke! sSuch an attitude is understandable and doubtless partly wise. Something may be gaid for the general claim that "very knock is a boost." We learn from our failures. For many years, various business concerns have adâ€" monished their patrons, "If you like our work, tell others; it not tell us," Give us the criticism, is the idea, commendation will take care of it. gelf. Physicians at the meeting, amazed at the success reported, concluded a amall percentage of cases could be Buccessfully treated. Aâ€"ray treatments have been given ber over the fiveâ€"year period, and the physicians said she was apparently in sound health again. They believed it to be the first case in which the cancer known as meduiablastoma had been arrested. J m O o+ Drs. Newell and Leef said surgeons has refused to operate on the woman. When first brought to Stanford Hosâ€" pital in San Francisco suffering from cancer of the brain and spinal cord. Yosemite, Calif. â€"A young woman who five years ago was so near death from a cancer that an autopsy perâ€" mit had been signed was reported by physicians to be making plars to be married. How Xâ€"ray treatments brought apâ€" parent recovery to 23â€"yearâ€"old victim was told at the 64th annual convenâ€" tion of the California Medical Asâ€" sociation by Drs: R. R. Newell und‘ Edward Leef of Stanford University. Praise and Criticism F Ee t fos i cous oiee For the evening the only change is that the leather is silver or gold kid. _ The little flat evening . bags which were held under the arm are being replaced by the square or rectangu‘tr forms which open widely and are able to contain the innumerâ€" able tiny objects which are indisâ€" pensable to a woman‘s happiness.â€" The claps is either gilded metal or tortoiseâ€"shell and most often one side closes down over the other and is decorated by the indispensable monoâ€" gram which must be enormous this season. 1 Girl, For Whom No Hopc' Given Five Years Ago, } Prepares To Wed | One of the most attractive exâ€" amples of this new mode is the enâ€" semble for an elegant purpleâ€"blue aftezrnoon dress. A high white belt is perforated in a tiny charming design, and the gloves, shoes and purse of the same white leather repeat this eutâ€"out design through which shows a background the same shade as the dress. A blue or white hat is trimmed with the same motif. .A black dress is set off by a similar ensemble in white or in a new beigeâ€" rose, very soft and becoming. Te â€" Cseus . 3 Parisâ€"The importance â€" of accesâ€" sories in the smart woman‘s costume cannot be too often emphasized. Parisian designers are finding â€" new ways to develop the tendencies toâ€" ward matching ensembles in this field. Leather as soft as silk, and as easily worked, after being tanned, softened, stretched and dyed in many eclors, is being used to create enâ€" sembles of trimmings and accessories which will meet the greatet popuslar approval. Although it is not new to match for sports or travelling, shoes, gloves, belt and purse of the same leatherâ€" box, crocodile pigskin or peccary, in the scale of shades «m light brove to dark havana,â€"this original inâ€" novation in accessories which _ :omâ€" plete street costumes is entirely new and it is becoming more perfect every day, â€"RAY CURES BRAIN CANCER Acce ies Add & rre F icnca l' ‘N(:):e. e'l.'o Dayl HER ARMS AND LEGS And Eveni:i Costumes | IMMGVAB[E â€" Access ories few.â€"Christian â€" Science new mode is the enâ€" elegant purpleâ€"blue . A high white belt is tiny charming design, ‘[*~Ence . OL actesâ€" t woman‘s costume often emphasized. _ are finding new he tendencies toâ€" The underlying idea is to have a series of wind vanes at the top which will catch whatever breeze there may be and start a whirl of air inside the spout to create a vacuum, This would give a& vacuum core on the The funnel would be constructed so that it would be tapered with the broad end at the top and the whole suppored by struts and pillars, It would be about 450 feet in diameter at the top and resomble a large telâ€" escope standing on the smaller end. n | From the Border Cities Star _ Men are still seeking | artificial rains and Mr, Bernard J. Dubos, of the Meteorological Society of France, is the latest to have a scheme, He would build a steel and concrete funâ€" nel 2,000 feet high, Through this he would force water vapor into the upâ€" ber air with the thought that it would supported by struts and pillars, _ it area. Another fabric from this house is called "Crepe Peanut" probably be. cause it looks like a splotch of sand would if you scattered a bag of pea. nuts over it, pushed them gently inâ€" to the sand and then removed them. This makes a particularly â€" novel crepe that washes admirably and reâ€" quires no ironing. : Among the new mixtures in modâ€" ern fabrics are wool and mohair; rayon and wool crepe; velvet and metal, and cotton and taffeta. We learn something new about laces and tulles from Dognin who makes them of woven linen threads with an elastle quality so that if you happen to snag your frock, it pulls out as if to tear and then snaps back into place without even so much as a bulgy place where it caught T200 00 C ememmemennnemmmmmmeniemmermmmnrenrmmgrens GIGANTIC FUNNEL 2,000 FEET HIGH IS LATEST SCHEME To BRING RAIN "N«ve found ways of wafting it into the cleverest little beach ensembles, cocktail frocks andâ€"hold everything â€"even evening gowns for summer evenings! tiny tot‘s wardrobe, either! Marcel has made "Les Trois Petits Cochons" in linen, wool, silk and tafâ€" feta and Paris dressmaking houses have found ways of wafting it into the cleverest little beach ensemhlac ven into 1935 hbr_icvs'a;(‘l' printed on novelty silksâ€"and not only for the tiny tot‘s wardrobe aithat mtadntndiPuas 123100 the natural channel. Peanut Crepe Novel Fabric For Spring mpinianiiined wairirint s 0. *Artntaiiadih. ) L). the kidneys, and assist them to expel the dissolved uratic needles through W Vitt n L o% I Alea,3,"3 . C Coming more supple. Already I can ecat without assistance and dress myselfâ€"which I had not done for ten years." â€" M.BH, Two of the ingredients of Krusâ€" ’chen salts are the most effectual solvents of uric acid known to mediâ€" cal science. They swiftly dull the sharp edges of the painful erystals, then convert them into a harmless solution. Other ingredients of these Shdti have a simulating effect upon | Th Tiokmasmes ~wiesiy ie n o . & IP ETTE 2090 EZTTC greatly improved, and mMmy | gradually becoming â€" more Already I can ecat without : and dress myselfâ€"which T j _, * suffered with rheumatism," she writes, "and had been bedridâ€" den since 1920. I could not move arms or legs, and had to be fed like a child. Everybody thought I should be an invalid all my life. I forced myself to fight against it, and tried a number of different things. It was Kruschen that eventually sayvâ€" ed me and toâ€"day I consider it is‘ saviml; my life. _ My condition has Pram#lhe hulsss a L 1 10 this woman it must have been like commencing to live a new life, when she began to use her arms and legs again, afte they had been helpless for ten years. "I suffered ‘with rheumatism," she writes, "and had been bedridâ€" den since 10920 L mankE witk esc The three little pigs have Ten Years With Rheumatism & To this woman it must have haos my limbs are been wo. spout, And he is finding it hard to get anyone to gamble the $10,000,â€" 000 on the chance that the thing might work and produce rain, _ It would take a lot of bushels of wheat, for instance, to pay the interest and principal on that much money, Perhaps Mr, Dubos will not get anyone to take him up on his ven. ture. But that will not curb other: scientists and inventors trying to find some way to get rain from the clouds, And, some day, one of them is quite likely to solve the secret, even though people may laugh â€" at his efforts while he is experimenting. There is one detail curbing â€" Mr. Dubos from building his core at once, He requires $10,000,000 to go ahead with construction, It will take that much to buy materials and build the spout. And he is finding it hard to get anyone to gamble tha %1n nan _ principle that cuum cores, _ine new theatre aud mands of a dramatist that longer condescends to it slightest degree, but meet own intelligent and e emotional level." â€" (Geny OTTAWA,â€"Income tax collections }in April started the 1935â€"36 â€" fiscal year with a drop, the decline from the corresponding month of last year being $439,101. Figures â€" issued by Hon, R,. C. Mathews, minister of national revenue, _ showed . las t month‘s collections to have been $5,. 788,027, compared with $6,277,128 for April, a year ago. April Provision will be made for playing soft ball and horseshoes late in the afternoons, and there will be evening entertainments of music and dramaâ€" ties, Wlptatsfclst nc ~ To s s 7 will be an uplift in itself, especially to lovers and sweethearts, but to common people as well, An excellent programme of demonâ€" strations is being arranged for the ladies, and there will be interesting exhibits in other departments of the College, relating to plant diseases, insect and weed pests, fertilizers, farm machinery, honey and dairy‘ products, etc, ‘ ine campus, with stretches of smooth shs beautiful trees and m flowering shrubs and i There will be much of interest in the field crop experiment grounds and in the vegetable and flower garâ€" dens. “The In the daily parade of fine live stock, the famous Clydesdale â€"staiâ€" lion, "Craigie Realization" (recently arrived from Scotland) will be an outstanding attraction since he is eaid to be the best Clydesdale ever brought to Canada. INFORMATION, INSPIRATION and RECREATION will feature the Farm and Home Week programme at the Q.A.C, June 17th to 21st, and the many thousands of farm folks who visit the College at that time will be sure to find the usual hearty welcome, While probably most sf the visitors will be able to spend only a day, those who can should remain for two or more days so as to absorh as much as possible of the three "‘ations‘" mentioned above, and to do it without hurry or fatigue. The rooms are comfortable, the meals good and the cost very low. to ... ! Read all about ©@ In certuin parts of France the bride‘s wedâ€" ding costume has salt campus, . with its broad of smooth shaven lawn, its trees and many kinds of shrubs and its many hunâ€" varieties of blooming roses, Collections Lower AT THE O.A.C theatre audience â€"deâ€" waterspouts have va it meet it on its and _ experienced â€"â€" George Jean o plant diseases, pests, â€" fertilizers, he no in the "*~ _ famous British Oravox Hearing Aids. Also most varied‘ stock in Canâ€" ada Non.Electric Aids. Tell us your problem. Repairs and batteries all inâ€" struments. Send for illustrated litâ€" erature. J. G. Wallace, 421 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC, But the most ominous phase is that of the advance of the "young of the new generation." They will feed in swarms and severely damage the crops. Later on, when the harâ€" vesting of the small grains begins, or if a new drought makes their food scarce, they will "crawl" (being not yet fully equipped with wings) toward adjacent fields of corn and other forage crops. If they are not beaded off by wet weather or by the "trench" warfare planned by the science strategists, the devastation that may be expected is described as follows: The United States Department of Agriculture is arming for the camâ€" paign,; but it has for the "season‘s fight" only the price of a "few hours‘ barrage by modern artillery." If the defence is to be decisive this year, it is â€"stated by the agriâ€" cultural strategists, a "favoring break" from the weather will be needed. The bugs have Winterâ€"quarâ€" tered, concealed in the wild grasses, but they are now showing their strength as they begin to move into the fields of young wheat, oats and other grains. Like a living carpet, every stitch of it a ravenous little apâ€" ¢ (New York Times) ‘| From man‘s first appearance on f this earth there has been war beâ€" 8 tween him and the insects, which | were here before him. Milton must have had them in mind as well as the wild beasts when he, in "Paraâ€" dise Lost," cried "shame to men" for levying cruel wars "wasting . the earth each other to destroy." ‘ As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough beside That day and night for his deâ€" struction wait. Word comes from science‘s headâ€" quarters that an attack by these anâ€" cient enemies on a wide front is imminent out in the great breadâ€" producing area of this country. This time it is the army of the malodorâ€" ous chinchâ€"bugs that i s menacing what it left by drought and dustâ€" sweeping â€" winds. In fact, the drought has been its ally. _ Heretoâ€" fore chinchâ€"bugs have not been "troublesome" outside of the Kansasâ€" Oklahomaâ€"Missouri region. But by favor of the hot, dry Summers for| two or three years the map of their| inrfestation shows deep black or| lighter snadows well toward , the | j Great Lakes and eastward to the| . Upper Ohio Valley. i Chinch Bugs .__Menace U.S. Wheat Lands The 74th Toronto Rover Crew (Chalmer‘s Presbyterian), _ were guests of the 3rd Hamilton Crew, The experiment of having P. L.‘s and Seconds take all instructional classes of the 3rd Guelph Troop, proved such a success that it was repeated. Instruction included Scout‘s pace, Kim‘s game, compass, Second Class, first aid and signalling. The 1st Timmins Scout Troop will have fine new headquarters in a basement being constructed beneath the Hollinger Recreation Hall. Toronto Scouts were called upon to supply ushers for the Toronto Garrison church parade held in Maple Leaf Stadium, Sunday, May 5th, and another party of 200 for the Silver Jubilee services in front of the Provincial Parliament Buildings, May 6th. ‘The thrifty Scouts of Oshawa and Owen Sound, held Scout Apple Days on an April Saturday, selling apples purchased and stored away last fall. A demonstration of first aid by Scouts of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Barâ€" rie Troops, was a feature of a recent luncheon meeting of the Barrie Lions Club. , The coastâ€"toâ€"coast chain of beacons by which Scouts celebrated the King‘s Silver Jubilee on the evening of May 6th, was a huge success. Fires stretched from Sydney on the Atlantic, to Prince Rupert on the Pacific. The great Midâ€"Canada bonâ€" fire at Winnipeg, was lighted by Lord Badeftâ€"Powell himself, in the presence of a crowd of many thousand specâ€" tators. At Edmonton in the presence of a similar crowd, a towering beaâ€" con was lighted by ~Lieut.â€"Governor Walsh. In the Old Land some 2,000 Ecout beacons burned from â€"Land‘s End to John o‘ Groats. RPP SCOUTI \6,; l Here + There h ~:>. Everywhere A brother to every other Scout, without regard to race The big ranches have piled up debt, hoping for the price to swing upward. The small settlers ha‘ve down the road and up to the road to Williams Lake and seen it sold under the hammer at two cents for top steers. Up and down the Cariboo Road, from old Ashcroft to Quesnel, from Green Lake over to the Gang and up on the Chilcotin plateau, the good news has gone forth â€" beef prices are climbing. They have waited for that news a g?)'og many years now, the big cattle companies, and the seitlers with half a dozen whiteâ€"faced steers. They have slaughtered their beef far below the cost of producing it. ‘They have driven it all the way in from Alexis Creek and Tatla Lake, from The Cariboo‘s advice is to stay away unless you have a certain job or a grubstake, but that doesn‘t alter the fact that it will be a great year up there. But having said that, the Cariâ€" boo will never forgive you if you don‘t add a warning to city greenâ€" horns who think that there is gold at the grassroots and jobs for everyâ€" body. As usual this year, hundreds of men will go to the Cariboo lookâ€" ing for gold and will come back broke in the Autumn, and there will be far more job seekers than jobs. | If the depression and the general madness of these times have got you down, what you need is a trip to the Cariboo, ‘There isn‘t any deâ€" pression up there, nor any madness. As this late Spring cpens, with soarâ€" ing beef prices and more gold mines at work, the Cariboo is looking forâ€" ward to one of the biggest yearsi since the old placer days. ; BEEF, AND GOLD 100, IN THE CARIBOO HILLS "When I come to die I hope I shall be propped up in bed with a rewspaper in my hand." â€" Bruce Barton. "Like the rest of the nation, Main Street has become sophisticated."â€" Sinclair Lewis. petite, they cover the ground. The very soil seems to be movâ€" ing. . . . A wave of chinchâ€"bugs will ruin a cornfield like fire while you watch. The analogies in human warfare are too patent to contemplate withâ€" out painful reflection upon "creaâ€" tures rational"â€"leading as it does even to "trenches" (literally), fire and chemicals. If men continue "each other to destroy," the insects are liable to be the victors in theJ end. Some 300 Toronto Scouts deliverâ€" ed 2,000 posters throughout the city, advertising the tag day of the Canâ€" adian National Institute for the Blind, May 1st. As in previous simiâ€" lar Scout community service, the city was laid out in districts and the disâ€" tribution looked after by Scoutmastâ€" ers of specified troops. The Scout troops of St. Johns, Que., were invited to provide an exhibit at the Annual Scoutcraft and Hobby Exhibition of Region 1, Boy Scouts of America, held in Boston. The 17th Toronto Troop installed a radio set in their headquarters on the evening of St. George‘s Day, in order that they might heard Lord Badenâ€"Powell‘s address on that aniâ€" versary of Scouting‘s patron saint from Calgary. The 3rd Lethbridge, Alta., Troop operated a very successful refreshâ€" ment booth at the Lethbridge Exâ€" hibition grounds during the Annual Spring Horse Sale. A "street accident" in front of Montreal Scout Headquarters, providâ€" ed the practical test for the Hugh Paton Provincial Ambulance Trophy competition. The problems included severed arteries, fractures of the skull, collarbone and limbs, and burns of varying seriousness. The‘ ambulance team of Rosemount First United Church won the cup. | Mayor J. W. Hanna presented test and proficiency badges at a largely attended and _ wellâ€"planned Open Night of the 1st Wingham Troop, Ont. The programme included a lecture on "Emergencies," by Patrol Leader Ross Howson. * i By Bruce Hutchison in the Vancouver Province and attended Sunday morning service with other Hamilton Rovers at Trinity Baptist Church. Later, nearby historical points were visited. without regard to race or creed The preference of lightning for persons standing in the open is not that which is often suggested â€" beâ€" cause persons are taller than their surroundings. ‘The prefernce arises because their bodies are warmer, especially if they have been runâ€" ning to escape the storm, swimâ€" ming rapidly back to a beach or have been exercising violently in â€" People who stand in an open field, a golf course or on a flat beach during a thunder storm are much more likely to be struck by lightning than people who keep close to certain bushes or clumps of small l trees. Refuge From Lightning Bridze River has settled down now, after its first wild excitement, to the steady businesslike camp which mining men had expected. It will not thank you for sending your friends there to look for work. They have already fed thousands of poor devils who thought there was a job for everyone on the far side of the Mission Mountain. But now that most of the original wildâ€" ’cats have disappeared, Bridge River is concentrating on the development of properties that have a real chance to become mines. 4 ; This season the Cariboo is rather more excited .bout,tbq.Barkervijle region. Last year, after an earlier boom, this area seemed to lose favor with mining men. You heard pesâ€" imistic talk of it everywhere. The people up there began to be wor-l ried. _ Gold mining, though it depends on the curious system of taking a metal out of the ground in British Columâ€" bia and putting it back into the ground in Ottawa, suffers no setâ€" backs from climate or prices. They will take more gold out of Cariboo this year than in any season since the days of the Argonauts and the Cariboo ‘Trail. Now the tide has turned. Sevenâ€" cent beef is arriving. The cattle man is getting five cents for top steers at the railway now and should be getting six and a half cents by June. The housewifé may grumble: You may see more pot roasts on your table and less prime ribs, but it will be some satisfaction to know that the cattle men are only beginâ€" ning to get back what they put into the beef, and it will take them sevâ€" eral seasons to catch up with losses incurred in the lean years. ‘ Back of the new beef prices, of course, is the meat shortage in the United States. In the worst years _ of American agriculture millions of head of beef cattle were slaughtered because their owners couldn‘t afâ€" ford to keep them. On top of that, millions more were killed pecause they couldn‘t be fed in the drought regions of the Middle West. Now the United States needs meat and will need it for syeral years until it can rebuild its herds. denned up in their cabins and lived on spuds and moose meat, someâ€" times with a few days‘ work on the roads. best betâ€" You‘ll love it in your pipe! 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