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Â¥ mtc ‘bo Th "and I might as well psv for < pereil I tcook, ?:o‘feu psy for a years ago when employed*;t ':.‘;e municipal hospial. A 60â€"cent payment to the city **conscience fune" eased the mini of a middleâ€"aged former Pi:t> burgh woman. She appeared at the healch burâ€" ean and paid for two boitles of hand lotion taken more than two The studios bave found, he says that real flowers wilt when they are brought out from refrigeration to the sound stages which are supâ€" erheated by hundreds of incandes cent lamps. they have been handled :oo much to be used agair, Murdock can &n plicate them. in thg property acpartmenfi an_d Another reason why artificial flowers are used is that sometimes scenes have to be retaken, and then it is almost impossible to try and match the flowers previously ased if real blooms were employed. But the artificia blooms are stored "~But we can‘t use real fliowers «during the winter months," he exâ€" plained, "becanse they &re so perâ€" ishable and often the ones we want are not blooming at the time." One of Hollywoo«w‘s leading florâ€" Ists estimates that the material and time used to manufacture an erehid costs the studio about $5.00, which would buy a corsage of real erchids. The flowers used in motion picâ€" teros for the most part are artificâ€" lal, aithough they cost more to make than real blooms, even more than fragile orchids. Movie Flowers Maureen O‘Sullivan, young actress, eonsiders swimming a definite and mecessary hobby. This is an enjoyâ€" able way to keep in trim ard relax im the sun during leisure hours. Conscience Crows are birds of illâ€"omenr and harbingers of death, according to a kreat many. Ravens have a reputaâ€" tion almost as odious. Peacocks are unlucky birds. Owls make most country people and many townâ€" dwellers shiver when they hoot shrilly through the night, And now, if you see & white blackblrd â€" and there are, of «ourse, occasional albinos to be found here and there â€" the sight presages evil of the direst. There is a strange legend conâ€" nected with the blackbird which has its origin in Italy. Onee, says the story, the blackbird was white but during one terribly cold wipâ€" ter he took refuge in a chimney and so acquired his coat of soot. Near Brescia, the days from Janâ€" aary 30th to February 1st, are now known as "I giorni delia merie," or the blackbird‘s days, meaning the days during which he was incarcerâ€" ated in the chimney. * Are robims lucky or urlucky? This appears to be a moot question. Anyway, it is supposed to be unâ€" lncky to kill or hurt a robin, as many a country cottager still warps her birdâ€"nesting offspring, if a roâ€" bin taps on your window, he is tryâ€" ing to warn you of evil to come. will Sureiy Tollow. A swallow nesting on a house is said to bring good luck. A raven Nying and croaking over a sick house portends an early death, as does also a bird flapping its wings upon the sickroom window. There are many curious super stitions associated to birds. Many people think it is extremely unâ€" lucky to kill a swallow, mariin or wren; some dreadiul misforture will surely follow. Blooms Used on Screen Sets Must Be Lasting About Birds Strange Legends Have Long Existed Regarding Robins, Wrens, Swallows and Others the womas, POPai Haze quicker growth than most other trees and will spread to fence corners and fields where they become pests. In all the tree planting projects that are being carried out it is well to remember that there are weed trees that are to be avroidâ€" ed. Manitoba maple and Carolina poplar make quicker STrowth then IN WINDOW BOXES Dwarf French marigolds do exâ€" tremely well in the window box. They are to be had in single and semiâ€"double forms in red, canary, orange, garnet, brown and comâ€" binations of these colors, but the clear shades are most effecive from a distance. The leaves, lacy and graceful, are a rich green, and the plants go right on biloomâ€" ing from summer to frost. Morningâ€"glocies grow happily in a sunny window. There they will make pleasant flower patâ€" terns wherever they are g.ven a bit of string on which to twine themseives. The variety Heaverly Blue is stil unsurpassed, and it comes is an early floweriag form, Clark‘s Heavenly Blue. siunes practically all day, there are three outstanding flowering plants; geraniums, French mariâ€" golds and petunias. Of the formâ€" er little need be said excepting that the colors range from white through pink, salmon and red. Attractive color combinations are possibleâ€"for instance, a plenting of saimon geraniums in front of which are cascades of balcony peâ€" tunias of the same shade interâ€" mingled with others in cornâ€" flower blue and silvery HMlac. Those who prefer high color might choose red geraniums to go with petunias of velvety texture in purple and violet. This scheme would be effective only if the background were quiet and harâ€" monious. For a place where the shines practically all day, For Very Sunny Spots The thin man feels blue and irâ€" ritable when his alkalinity drops. They said that the weather proâ€" foundly â€" affects numan blood chemistry. With these blo o d changes go the feelings of exâ€" hilaration and buoyance or of depression. In the stocky person an increase in blood alkalinity accompanies exhilaration. moodas of normal persons. The spring, summer and fall effects on slender and stocky persons were found in studying records of mental hospitals along with weather reports. Weather, the doctors deciared, will bring out latent heveditary tendencies. A vague mental difâ€" ficulty may be changed, with a weather change, into fullâ€"fledged mental iliness. BLGOD CHEMISTRY AFFECTED The slender person should beâ€" ware of mental effects of the weather in the spring, and the short, stocky person in summer and autumn. This was suggested to the Amâ€" erican Medical Association in a report of the influence of the weather on personality. The reâ€" port was by Doctors William F. Petersen of the University of Ilâ€" linois, Chicago, and Hans H. Reese, University of Wisconsin. wWEATHER INFLUENCES PER. SONALITY The â€"weather, they said, in fluences the mental balance of the mentally disturbed and the moods of normal persons. The spring, summer and fal affacte Spring Bad Tim For Thin Person Certainly a new angle on the usefulness of the crow! And why shouldn‘t crow be as good eating as chicken? They cat exactly the same food. Crow eatâ€" ing may be a solution to some of our fooed problems, with people all over the country starving and crows all around us just waiting to be shot off. Our Ontario acquaintance reâ€" ports having enjoyed & crow pie recently after a successful crow shoot. Only the breasts are eatâ€" en to which onions and seasonâ€" ing are added to make the pie filling. We‘re not trying to play a joke on you but recently we learned that young crows are a delicacy in the Old Country and are beâ€" coming popular as a dish here in Canada. We are told that they are so popular in Great Britain that the Sanity in Summer, ~Fall Short, Stocky People on the Contrary Must Guard Their Try Crow Pie BY VIC BAKER NTARIO UTDOORS game stores sell sun rcomnonali o n esc campaign before the end of this summer. After that, likely in the fall, the additional home defence forces will be raised by compu}â€" sory service. So it is likely the ‘"new army" will begin its trainâ€" ing in winter quarters . . . Men will be called from their jobs for the training period, and return to them when it is over, taking their uniforms home with them. flls Because training will require only a few weeks, exemptions for ocâ€" "Besides that, 40 infantry batâ€" talions of the nonâ€"permanent milâ€" itia will be recruited to nearly full strength, to be on call in an emergency. This will give Canada a reserve of 25,000 to $5,009 more for home defence â€" aroundi 130,000 men, aside from the new home defence army authorized by the legislation for conscription of manpower and wealth. Manpower And Wealth "It is planned to womplete the C. A. S. F. and militia recrauiting on o in neomone aver Ne ReAt Continuing: "There are now 65,000 men of the C. A. S. F. in Canadar and 70,000 more are being recruited as rapidly as posâ€" sible. The government plans to send the second division of 25,â€" 000 to 30,000 men to England to aid the mother country. That will leave more than 100,000 fvllâ€" time soldiersâ€"infantry, machinsâ€" gun battalions, artillery and tank corpsâ€"in Canada for home doâ€" fence, in addition to such units of the navy and air force as resâ€" main in and near the Dominion. fiuts will be buiit to house them. The men will be uniformed ard will train with rifles and other service weapons. The whole counâ€" try will be an armed encampâ€" ment." A complete picture of the Canâ€" adaâ€"toâ€"be in the rext couple of months was given by H. R. Armâ€" strorg, writing in the Toronto Daily â€" Star: "Every town and hamlet in Canada will resound to the tread of marching feet when the Dominion‘s home defence forces go into training under the compulory service plan . . Units will be trained in their own localâ€" ities, in armories, rinks, auditor iums or such other buildings. Huts will be built to house them. Nine months and ten days aftâ€" er Canada entered the European conflict, the Dominion Governâ€" ment announced plans to mobilize all human and material resourcâ€" es . . . for the defence of Canâ€" ada‘ ... ; conscripting all ableâ€" bodied men up to 45 years of age, except those needed for vitâ€" al industries . . . placing all the lives and property of the people of Canada at the disposal of the Government. lO0,00Q Fullâ€"Time Soldiers REG‘LAR FELLERSâ€"Outside THE WAR.â€" the : early Canada Becomes Armed Camp Under New Conscription Plan The French Put This German "Panzer" Wagon Out of the Running W E E Kâ€"Commentéry on Current Events t ECCC 44 VALVD Out of the welter of confusion and disorganization, â€"little but I ENs Mn ntagrha i o vhaichaa l s 2â€") on the continent, which might put the Romeâ€"Berin Axis in direct opposition to Russia, and find the Soviet Union attacking Germany along the entire eastern front. While the country awaited the bringing down ‘of the Budget hy Finance Minister Rals:on, newlyâ€" appointed Minister of Defence, it was reported at Ottawa that more than one billion doliars would be required to fingance Canada‘s everâ€" expanding war effort for the curâ€" rent fiscal year. This compared with $166,000,000 the Dominion spent in 1915â€"16, the comparable period of the Great War. In A radio speech to the country, the Finance Minister warned of the impending taxation impostsâ€"finâ€" ancial experts said present taxeos would have to be increased at least by oneâ€"third. Jockeying ‘For Position In Europe, the situation deterâ€" forated day by day and hour by hour. Hitler‘s victory over France was assured; 2 great game was beginning for strategic positions on the continent whish wishe _... At the same time that he anâ€" rounced the institution of conâ€" scription, Prime Minister Macâ€" kenzie King told the House of Commons of the imminent reâ€" organization of the Government; the establishment of 2 department of national war service to direct the mobilization of the activities of Cansadians in tke war effort; increased recruiting for overseas service, with Canadz sending exâ€" pediticnary forces to Newfoundâ€" land, Iceland, the West Indies. Billion This Year si1uousy as one group succeeds another. The government has beâ€" gun a dominionâ€"wide canvass for instrucors . . . National regisâ€" tration has to be completed first, before the various classes can be called up . . ." broad as in the last war, when calling to the colors meant ful:‘â€" time service for the duration of the war. Clergymen and on scientious objectors will be o empt, as will those in vitl key occupations . . . Employers will be compelled to give â€" trainees leave of absence, with part or full pay, is is expected for the instruction period . . . Men will be _ called _ up by _ selective draft. All males 18 to 45 will be liable, but categories will be egâ€" tablished so that married men are not conscripted until unmarried men and widowers without chilâ€" dren in the same age groups have been called up . . . The armories and other training buildings, once in use, will be utilized conâ€" tinuously as one group succeeds cupational reasons will Information TORONTO not be as mele iiiimitandmines i SmA _A0 12 900 1 4 tive part in general worldâ€"wide hostilities : were becoming more plentiful. At Canton, the Japanese military spokesman warned French Indoâ€"China bluntly that if its shipâ€" ments of arms and supplies to the Chinese Government â€" did not cease, and if Indoâ€"Chine refused to "reconsider herself," the Japâ€" anese Army "must; undertake to wean Indoâ€"China away from hosâ€" tility toward Japan,." Again, a flowery cable from Japan‘s mi‘â€" itary heads, sent to Premier Mussâ€" olini, wished him overwhelming success in his European ventures. The â€" Netherlands Indies meanâ€" time had not been forgotten ‘by of Germany‘s panzer corps out of ly was in the battle of France at an siavia seemed in the -offing).'flâ€" FAR EAST: Indications thai Japan might shortly take an acâ€" anoRdnUnl on 1 old emo t e oL lal aspirations by forceful methâ€" ods (an Italian coup in Yugoâ€" slavia seemed in the affi~n. was seen aitempting to widen her sphere of influence in the Balâ€" kans following appointment of a new Soviet minister to Rumania. The Balkan balance, observers beâ€" lieved, could only be maintained if Turkey and Russia could find a formula calculated to maintain peace throughou; the peninsula by discouraging Italoâ€"Hungarian attempts to fulfill their territor sn dbaiâ€"Marinae 2 T MEDITERRANEAN: S p a i n, while reiterating its policy of nonâ€"belligerency in the war, ocâ€" cupied Tangier, a neutralized inâ€" ternational zone, "to keep order"; prepared to push with renewed vigor her claims on Gibraltar and French Morocco . . . Egypt had broken off diplomatie relations with Italy. . . Mussolini was lickâ€" ing his chops over the spoils of his sixâ€"day war with France. Balkan Balance BALKANS: The smaller counâ€" tries of southeastern Europe were looking last week in the direction of Moscow and Ankara for some lead regarding their future joint attitude toward the war, wrote Harold G. Laywock, staff corres pondent of the Christian Science Monitor, from Belgrade. Russia speculation could arise. Known for certain, however, were these facts: that Britain was determirâ€" __ed to fight on alone "until the curse of Hitler is lifted from the brows of men" (Churchill) ; thet Russia had gained unchallenged domination of the eastern Baltic; that Turkey, considering her pact with the Allies no longer bindâ€" ing, was staying out of the war unless Italy interfered actively in the eastern Mediterranean. Betrayed? FRANCE: The country overâ€" run, its "greatest fortifications in the world" reduced to just so much steel and concrete, disâ€" satisfaction _ grew among the French troops and people with the proâ€"Fascist composition of the Petain government and its refusâ€" al to transfer the fight to the colonies (cabled Helen Kirkâ€" patrick from London). Opinion exâ€" _ pressed in many quarters had it ‘ thta the French pepole had been â€" betrayed, either by military or ] political leaders, or both. B minister to Rumania. balance, observers beâ€" 1 only be maintained nd Russia could find LIFE‘S LIKE THAT sloun ons S oothes irritation and quickly stops intenso itching. 350 trial bottle proves i money back. Ask your druggist todsy for n.o'."tf.'mcscmmou. FLOCKS MNUCH REDUCED One farmer in Ontario reports losing 16 head of sheep killed by dogs in ore night, another 11 head and others smaller numbers. As a result of the menace from dogs there has been a reduction of 15 per cent. in the rumber of sheep For quick relief from itching of ecsema, pimples, athâ€" k:'floot_.n:lu.m{iu.mhufid otbegxm caused akin troubles, use worldâ€"famous, cooling, antiâ€" septic, u{“ido_“bg D. D. Prescrintion. â€" Grassrlase: Many sheep breeders in Canada are of the opinion that it is practiâ€" cally impossible to raise sheep proâ€" fitably on account of the large numâ€" ber of dogs which are allowed to run at large. This they consider is serious in a country that uses more wool per capita than any other country and which in warâ€"time finds itself under the necessity of importing large quantities of wool for war contracts and for general use. Dog Menace Said Serious The threat toithis continent beâ€" coming much more substantial, th U. S. Navy asked for another $4,000,000,000 for a 70 per cent boost in seapower . . . revision of the fleet expansion program was expected. The Senate unaniâ€" mously adopted a resolution deâ€" claring that the United States would not recognize transfer of possessions in the Western Hem:â€" sphere from cne European power to another. As an answer to German ecâ€" onomic activity in South Ameriâ€" can, President Roosevelt launch ed plans for a gigantic economic union ‘of the two American conâ€" tinents under a $2,000,000,000 Interâ€"American Export Corporaâ€" tion. It would result, it was exâ€" plained, in an almost totalitarian control over exportable surpluses of the two continents. UNITED STATES: The objecâ€" tion in the United States to sendâ€" ing American troops to fight in Europe was still overwhelming last week, although the desire to do "everything short of war" to help the Allies had been carâ€" ried to fever pitch by the tragic plight of France, the frantic ap peals by Paul Reynaud to Presiâ€" dent Roosevelt for aid. the Japanese â€" & juicy prize which they might seize whenever the United Siates and Britain were in a position of being unâ€" able to stop them. Canadian Sheepâ€"Breeders Are Upset Over Situation â€" Ont. Farmer Lost 16 Head of Sheep to Dogs in One Night 1 14 7 r P (1 _ ZÂ¥GP ", ts é /Z bitch Last By GENE BYRNES Ask {» BEE HIVE the botter we can combat desponâ€" dency and trouble and the longer we live." Read Newspapers; Retain Vitality Regular reading of newspapers is recommerded by Dr. William Lyon Phelps as an aid toward longer I‘fe, *"The three cents invested in a newspaper is one of the greatest aids to vitality we have," Yale‘s famous emerftus professor Of Engâ€" lish declares. "The paper provides us with inâ€" terests that will take us out of ourselves. The more we are interâ€" ested in things beyond ourselves, sheep and woo!l may be produced. a warâ€"time necessity by the proâ€" vincial legislaturcs, so that more raised iz one district, in which the sheep are regarded as the best payâ€" ing class of livestock. _A similar statement might be mado by a number of groups Of farmers in many sections or districts. WANT SHEEP LEGISLATION Unrless somothing is done to lesâ€" sen the danger from dogs it is cerâ€" tain less sheep will be raied. Sheep raisers throughout Canada are urging that legislation to deal with the menace be considered as J Famous Former Yale Profes sor Advises It As Ar Aid to Longevity By Fred Neher "By «examining seve *rees closely, we fol wore approximately sev to the quarter inch, Ad of growth, one inch w a span of 280 years,. some of these trees are inches in diameter, they approximately 10,000 y marked trees with a Cl cedars have not grown ty in fiftyâ€"nine ycar.i these inarks. Several 0 were on our survey li to be cut, and at th moticed that their rir close together that not be seen without th powerful magnifying g the Peco: north of some 61 UhC s by Jacob Keu veyor who lo« hTh gian Geore On Our Con The Oldest «"PcV Mmo in 1 el Diana Lewis truly has her cap when she wear off â€"theâ€"face hat in whit of ribbon, with grosgri navy as the trim, the a jaunty air by the | thrust throuch the <r ordin f'" s (:" l m ad Was sb acslt wel, awrites Donng editor. She must 42 ry herself so that mired for her grac« We once heard a class that smartne "Something von ait Pa Walking W i 8Ma it mp 1 H FOR SPORT CASUAL W MULY EXp Are Believed to Wi The Transâ€"Pecos + exa§ 14 n 01 integrai Part *Smartness"; / Acquired 1ess was wo NM vh ui wall ever " class who Tites Donna She must &n elf so that « or her grace Ker Y 4 you d can as Di J Ping in RCJIS Tex *) â€"O