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Lady Baden-Powell Most
Enthusiastic About Work
in Union
‘*1 am leaving South Africa convinc-
jBdrofthesoundnesaoftheGirljGuide.
movement here,” said Lady Baden-
Powell, the Chief Guide, in an inter
view in Cape Town. '
* “Guidiug in South Africa is as sound
as a bell. The fact that the associa
tion owns so many guide halls and
camping sites is a tangible sigh of
its stability, and the enthusiasm of
the ghides themselves has been a
“vtomferfuTexi^ -mq, “ - - -
“During this long tour through Rho:
desia and the Union I must have met
almost every guide in Africa south
of the line. The rallies held in the
country towns and villages were like
huge family parties, and I managed
to come into personal contact* with a
great nuiffber of people. The guides
travelled long distances to meet them
and to see how my scattered fam ly
were getting along.
. “The importance of guiding cannot
be overestimated. > The movement
.helps girls to train themselves to be
useful citizens and to have a variety
of interests in life.
“Materially, guiding is useful in
the facilities it provides for travelling
guides. No guide need be a stranger
anywhere. If she goes to a strange
place she has only to write to the
guide headquarters there and she will
find companionship and help, what
ever her age may be.
jfcady Baden-Powell’s personal In
terest in all the people she met de
lighted everybody during her tour of
the Union. After one meeting with
Guide officials completely strange to
her she could uame them all with un
hesitating accuracy.
( one of her daughters accompanies
her to every rally and jots down with
paper and pencil every person of au
thority introduced to Lady Baden-Po
well.
When she returns to the hotel after
a rally Lady Baden-Powell is drilled
by her daughter until she is name
perfect.
Names lea: ned in this way are not
retained by the ordinary memory for
more than a few days but that, is suf
ficient for Lady Baden-Powell’s pur
pose ch her tours round the world.
It is a social triqk practised by the
royalty,- naval officers and reporters.
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Ooce in an Eastern palace wide
A little girl sat weaving:
So patiently her task she plied • ;
The men and women at he’ side "
Flocked round her almost grieving.
“How is it, little one,’’ .'they said, ’
"You always work so cheerily?
You never seem tq. break your thread,
Or snarl or tangle it, instead ,
Qf working smooth and clearly.__
“Our weaving gets so worn and soiled*
Our silk so frayed and broken,
For all we've fretted, wept and toiled,
We know qur lovely pattern’s spoiled,
Before the King has spoken.*’
The little child looked ”in their eyes.
So full of care and trouble; .
And pity chased the sweet, surprise
-That filled her own as sometimes flies
The rainbow in a bubble.
“I only go and tell the King,”
She said, abashed and iheeekly, t
"You kr.ow He said in everything”—
“Why, so do we!” they cried, “we bring
Him all our troubles weekly!”
She turned her little head aside;
A moment let them wrangle;
“Ah, but,” she softly then replied,
“I go and get the knot untied
At the first little tangle!”
O little children—weavers all?
Out* broidery we spangle
With many a tear that need not fall
If. on our King we would but call s
At the first little tangle?
Emerald Is Termed Most
Valuable ’Precious Stone
; Today
Helping Nature
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The Cambridge University School
of Agriculture has added a fresh
triumph to its invaluable animal
breeding innovations bey. ..transfer
ring, artifically. Seminal fluid from
.a champion Suffolk ram to a> group
of Polish ewes. This fluid, extracted
in a test tube by Dr. Arthur W’alton.
was dispatched by air mail, taking
two days and three hours. to com
plete its l.iOtkmf.e journey to the
Zoo Technical Institute at BOrowina.
Here, it was introJuced by Profes
sor Prawochenski to some selected
ewes of native stock.. Now one of
these -beep has given birth to a
sprighi.r half-Polish, half-Suffolk rani
lamb. From this novel experiment.
'scientiSc-]1]sheep 'breeders anticipate
the use only of first-class sires for
the world’s flocks. Choicer mutton
chops; more savoury shoulders ’and
legs'will thus.be the houseyrife’s re
ward. ’
Smart women are searching London
England-, and London jewelers are
scouring the world for emeralds. Far
shion has ( decreed” the stone, once
shunned by the superstitious, for cor
onation year.
Countess Havgwitz - Re vent low —
Barbara Hutton is said to have
bought for 240,000 pounds in Paris
emeralds which dnee belonged to Na
poleon III.
The emerald, is the jmost valuable"
stone, today. ’
Hatton-garden dealers are. prepar
ed to pay four times their pre-war
prices. Fine stones today fetch 1,000
<iinds a carat. ,1 # , .
A leading ’ Hatton garden jeweler
told'me, writes* an English journalist:
The trouble is there is no recognized,
source of supply. 1 hat Colombian mjnes
]. n »- ; Hered out. Russian stones cut
of the Ural • mines are inferior in
quality. Our hope is old collections:"
- It is reported that the crown ot
;;r Lady of the Andes — a diadem
uiice owned by the Incas of Peru, gi
ven to the Roman Catholic Church
by Pizarro, au|d n6w sold by them —
..r>3 been bought for 1.00Q.000 pounds
y a United States syndicate. * The
crown blazes with 453 emeralds, of
. * first water.
Recently that astonishing stripling
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his
97th birthday, and came out with ten
rules for a long life. They eeemed
reasonablv-good-.r.ules_tous,but.nQ.t
to Mr. Charles W. Eldridge ot St..
Petersburg, Florida,' who is sc&mp&v
ing about in his 105th year. -
. Scoffing at Mr.. Rockefeller’s ad
vice, Eldridge sd^d:
“The young feller asked fcr it.
His ten rules of health ain’t bad for
a youngster in Kis’flO’s. But for the
second 100 years >th.ey justf won’t do
..“Take-rule No. 5 in young.Rocker
feller’s list. ‘Don’t-allow yourself tq
»gqt annoyed,’ it says, rThat poppy
cock. I’ve been annoyed most of all
my 105 years, and two or three
times it saved my life.-
“Once I got so mad at a couple of
doctors who said I was done for that
I jumped out of bed for the first
time in three months. I was 92 then
and grass has been growing over
them doctors graves for ten years.”
Mr. Eldridge, we must say, rather
impresses tis. In -the first place, we
have never been able to learn how
not to get annoyed. We’ve played
golf with people who came'out'of a
bunkefr in *five shots whistling the
Londonderry Air, or something like
that, but we have -always felt they
“would be bettor off -if they came-out-
with a loud wail. It’s a matter of let
ting off steam. In other * words, what
is the biological, spiritual or qther
sense of not boiling without if one
be boiling within? The only1 differ
ence we can see is that the first with
out the last is less honest than both’
together. .. . ,
Moreover, there’s a lot of non
sense talked about rage. It’s the
cleanest of passions. We. don’t be
lieve in a man being tenacious over
trifles, but,, a topped shot when one
has a good lie is no trifle, and if a
man wants to get into a-■ towertag
rage over it and show that he has
got into one, there's a lot to be said
for him. It’s the vain man, the fel
low who wants to be thought self
composed, and all that, who repress
es himself. " !
There’s something else., A lot of
people confuse indignation with an
ger. Yet they’re different. Anger mMy
be born of spite, or of blind hatred,
ot a lot of other evil things; indig
nation usually comes from detesta
tion of wrong. It tells that one hates
injustice* that "has certain loyalties
to ^certain things. Attachments. ’
No. we have little use for people
who don’t get annoyed. Mostly, we
think, they’re “poseurs,” without,
friendships, people who don’t like
somebody or something, people with
out spirit or soul. Either that or
they’re top proud to be themselves;
so vain that they go about killing
themselves with repressions. ,
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Helen Vinson Perry Is Even
Learning How to Gook
1 NEW YORK—-Helen Vnison. gold-
en-haried motion picture actress, the
wife 6f tennjs star Fred Perry, likes
married life so much that she has
added “Perry” to: the name of her
dog. ■
The dog, a shaggy Scotch terrier,
is r«dw “Jack Mag Vinson Perry,’’ she
said recently.
To the mind of Miss Vinson, mar
ried ten' months, this is proof that
“I’ve settled down”—as much as an
actress of ten on the wing ever could
with a gadabout tennis champion.
Further ‘ proof is the fact that
brown-eyed Helen is, pondering how
to cook meat and potatoes for her
husbandj Wimbledon tennis cham
pion.
Ob. Canada!
Sons of sires who fought for glory
'Neath the Fleur de Lis of France;
Sires to whom jthe God of Battles
Gave at last the lesser chance.
Sons of sires who fought for freedom
And for conquest, too, at times,
'Neath the flag that’# ever flying
On" the breeze, in many climes.
Sons of sires whom revolution
Vainly tempted, Sorely tried;
Choosing bravely life in exile,
British, bom,; they British died.
Sons of sires who fought at Queen-
ston .
Fought and won that bloody tray;
He^r re-echo through the forest
Bugle blasts of Chateauguay.
Sons of sires who felled the forests.
Felled the forest,-tilled the field;
Sires who wrought, and wrought un
ceasing, ,'ii
That their soil should harvest yield.
Sons of sires who garnered harvests
From deep depths, beneath wild waves
Sires who seldom garnered harvests
With the aid of human slaves.
Sons of sires whose, ships, seaworthy*
Flung their bunting to the breeze.
Wooden ships that carried cargoes
* the shores of seven seas.
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Writer The Winnipeg Free
—There remains, of cours, the prob
lem of cooling off the male rieck. Even
the mar. who goes in for linen suits
must still, if he would be “properly”
■Ir.ssed swathe his neck in tl.rte folds
of cloth—two of shirt collar and one
of tie. Thete^is always the expedi
ent of discarding the tie,and opening
'the- collar, but this plan, v^ry suit
able on sandy .beaches^doe-'not quite
do’ k r city streets; Will someone de
sign a shirt which can be "left open
at tjie neck without looking untidy-
or Byronic? Such a garment w,e
tuink. would catch or. even though
t ie Atlam’s apple is rarely a
of beauty. . .
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Some Record !
Four women of Berwick*
910 CO
Mbiitre
have .quite an imposing record —
an aggregate age ot 385 years.
Headed by Mrs. Collins Dodge*
who has seen 1M winters roll by.
the' quartette also includes Mrs.
Clara MacMillan and Mrs; Lavinia
Gould, both 95; and Mrs. John
Somerville, 94. k
Cracking Down on Peddlers
rites the St Thomas Times-
Journai—The City ' Commission of
East Cleveland has a bylaw.which
might well be copied. It declares that
a misdemeanor has been committed
when a peddler knocks at the door
or rings a bell of a home where a
card says that solicitors
Wanted.
This is a welcome step for the
housewives of that area,
them many unwanted callers. These
solicitors or salesmen have no 'one
to blame but themselves it women
are brusque and shut the door quick
ly; Therie may.be cakes or pies in
the oven which spoil while the spiel
is being ’made.
The trouble with most of these
people is that they will not take no
for an answer. Haring .got the . lady
of the house at the .door they keep
on talking once she gives- ear. They
feel annoyed if sto Joses patience
and cuts off the monologue by slam^
ming "the door, but it is just what
they would do themselves if the posi
tions wer^ reversed. '
res that
are not
It saves
Sons of sires who laid foundations
Of a mighty “nation, we;
Elder. Younger. New, Canadians,
Worthy of our sires must be.
Wr’iten is our name ‘Canadian,’
Written red on fields of fame;
Ours the pride that those. who wrote
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Wrote it red in freedom’s name.
But remembering those who wrote. It;
rraught with sadness is our pride;
War, forsooth Is man’3 worst madness
Man, for whom a .Saviour died. -
Ours to make our name 'Canadian*
Spell ‘ContehU-vrsn: sea to sea;
Ours to make our same 'Canadian*
Synonym for Liberty; %
Time and spage are mtch contracted
Facts to which we can’t be .blind;
Ours to make Canadian vision. .t’
All-inclusive of mankind.
Ours to build oa b.oad foundations;
In the spirit of our ^ires;
Build.': and build on firm foundations
Until Time itself expires.
‘"O Canada! mom tues amours”
. , ‘ T. A. Patrick.. Yorktqq.'S3sk.
Physiologists declare that it is im
possible for a human being to live
without breathing, but as the heat
wave receded we could have positively
declared that we breathed for the
first time in several days, comments
The Stratford Beacon Herald. Dar
ing that tropical spell we must have
extracted a certain amount of oxygen
from the torrid atmosphere, or we
would not now be alive* but we did
not breathe—we gasped.
What a refreshing, sensation that
was to drink in deep draughts of codl
air! With what heavenly relaxation
we lay down to sleep after nights of
restless tossing on the billows of
heat with our bodies drenched in per
spiration! The sensation of relief
was similar. to that which came to
the “Ancient Mariner” when he ex-1
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O sleep! it is a gentle thing.
Beloved x from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.
My lips were wet., my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had* drunken in my dreams.
And still my body drank. ||
Canada is - a land of climatic ex^
tremes. In the course of the year the
temperature swings „from. tropical
heat to semi-artic cold, and in the
process of enduring these extremes
Canadians have been rendered hardy
a^d resourceful. We may complain J
about the zero blasts, but we fight
back at them and are unconquered, by
the elements. We may not endure
the scorching heat of July as well,
but we laugh and poke fun at it until
if retires in ^isgusL For the rest
of the year ' we rejoic.- in a climate
that..is salubrious and invigorating.
We^enjoy our summers and our falls
all the more because of the severity
of our winters, and' we receive the
sweet, cool air and the rains w:jh
greater relish, and gratitude*because'
we know p-little of the oppression, of
heat and drought.
Canada’s is the epitome of all cli
mates. and Canadaas lire life to the
full. It is a. great privilege to have
been tore in- Cana la, tto-reXt
,in this cour.irv. \ ■ ’
’ TORONTO —• Ten music student*
in Ontario, outside Toronto have been
awarded special Jubilee SchnliraMp
by the Toronto Conservatory ot Mon
ic in honor of the Conservatory's 60th
Anniversary this year* 2
The scholarship were/offered to
piano pupils only, for continuance of
their studies at the conservatory.
The awards will be applied to. ths
winners* tuition fees for the ensuing
term.' . ' '
Winners in Western Ontario Were ‘
Mary Heard. 519 Hamilton Road. Lon
don; Virginia Mathoney, Ursuline
School of Music, Windsor;
Howge, 59 Curtis St-, St. Tbosusf
Dorothy E. McCormick. RiL No. 1.
Paris; and Ruth Parkinson, Thom-
bury
Winners in Eastern Ontario wore
Nancy Wyatt, 190 Dufferin Road, Ot
tawa; Marion Walker, 261 William BL
Belleville; Norah D. Osborn, 81 Loui
sa St.. Ottawa; Aileen Forrestal. 8L
Joseph’s Academy, Lindsay; and
Helen Epworth. Box 91, Newmarket.
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An. Embarrassing Moment
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Comments the Wall Street Jour
nal—Mayor Laguardia recently ad-/
dressed cadets of the Salvation Army
before a large audience. Shortly af
ter he sat down plates were passed
for cash collections and pledgee.
When the plate was passed to the
mayor, he fumbled in his pockets *'
and embarrassedly whispered to the
commissioner of the Army.
After tpe collection was completed
the ’commissioner, with a broad smile
turned to the mayor and declared
that "the Salvation Army is the right
place to come when a "nmn- hasn't a
nickel 7’
The .mayor had hurriedly changed
his clothes -before going to the meet
ing, and left all his money in. the •
. Giber, suit. . • -
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Day of F<uis Is Passing
Notes the Brockvlile Recorder and
Times: Laid away sacrediy in that
trank, in the garret «which contains
the treasures of elder days there is
surely, a lady’s fan. It Was a beauti
ful thing, usually the. gift of a de
voted admirer. It .might be a crea
tion yof beautifully ■ fretted ivory
slate* carved out of the-tusks of a
great African - elephant, ® or. just a
simple .little thing .of painted silk,
biit sometimes it. was . a gorgeous
affair made of kne’y ostrich- feath
ers* with . precious stones/-inserted
cunningly. Perhaps no lady’s equip
ment of a generati :«n ago . is more
■symbolic of romance, and the temp
tation to dwell, .:por. i* is irrestible
to the good novelist. - . , • ••
'Fans have always had a place in
ceremonials and are used even now
in the East. The • are carried on
state occasions in papal proress.ons
iw< Rbtne. In Cah-ada they may still
,be found in'country churches, 'manu
factured of straw for ptility pur
poses on a hot summer day.' --
■ But the' fan as an accoutrement
for the lady is ^el! nigh gone; Our
imports last year amounted to only
£2,500.-. v.They cr.me nsair.lv from
Japan. Italy, Cbrna. 'Austria and
Hong Ronj,'and r'.any al-'o from
Usilted State?. ■ . - ' "
This informstito cemes from
-External. Trade Brtn.th of .h'o
minion Bureau of
of Trade and Commerce. *»
A Nova Scotian Magazine
Notes the Halifax Chronicle —
The second issue of The Bluenose,
edited' by | Robert Murphy, of Hali
fax. ha= just.4come off the press and
'shows, 'in two'issues, definite pro-
gress. The July' number ' is, a tour
ist, edition and Nova Scotians.' native
apd adopted, gate their impressions
of the province’s <&arm.
We hope, that the edition wih cir
culate among the people far from
Noto Scotia-'and that .the articles
will, awaken in them a desire to en
joy the beauties of Acadia. Perhaps
the most appealing article of this
sort is that'written by Vk M. Kipp,
associate editor of the Ottawa
Journal His account oi “A Day Well
Spent*’ carries extra conviction be
cause .it is written by a vis-tor and
not by a patriotic native.
“To write of such a trip,” he says
“is to relive it in memories of Nova
Scotia and precious and enduring.”
fcsute No. 31 — ’36
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Sheep_Countmg Decried
Observes the Quebec Chyoniclcl-
Telegraph—Counting sheep to in
duce sleep is a waste of time. So 'is
stuffing -the, bays with cotton; Jftsom.
n:a may .»e cured’wit tout drugs. Al!
..t.tot is netes^ary to -insure 'restful
‘■Icep is for the sufferer to ca’m the
ne.ives an-1.'muscies of the • stc-mato
vjth.a tablespoor.f-j’_jc«f olive of 'be
fore bedito’.e. Faiiehts who’^a^e, a
distaste for olive oil stouH sr.iff men
thol to clear the ! jr.gs'ard reduce
the effori of breaching tol a mi-i-
mur:-.i Tke.se simple K-Jt-s are L’d-cut
Ly a French .tokttist.. M. Maurice
Boigey, in a, took just -putolsto.l if
Paris. c-r,ti:’e»i , “The 'hkierce of
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