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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-6-16, Page 3IN THE DAYS OFAIRSIJIPS seas s 'A"}IEE WILL IU DENSE JRtJ FIC IN TILE SKr. Ileav<zs May Present Magic Scone of Gliding Vea,sols With Colored Lamps. rt will be beautiful at night secin the heavens . the ligiste •ti passing ships, They will apps and disappear k ti s like star It will bonderful to sail ove•rtlre lighted earth, to move, as ib were among the planets, through tli blackness of the sky, The airship aloft at night will b ane with the conutlese nri]lions o the celestial bodice, We shall sai through the moonlit clouds. Storms will imperil us. Then will 'b wrecks in Sthe. air. Far below sonic Peaceable citizen sleeping the Slee of the just will be awakened. in th night by the crash of a, collision to ar mate friends are Sir °banes C , GEORGEV.A PHILOSOPHER OUR NEW XtNt1' LEADS A DOM JIES'TIC LIFE, Chltraotor Study of Britain's Mon- arch, Who Bee the Maras of a Scholar. A• man who has led the domestic Life of Ding George never has many close friends, but the King's frientlslzips are the mark of his character. Amolrg his most inti - solidify the empire within itself. IIs brings to bear a wide and onlight- onct understanding of its needs. It is no indisosstion to refer to the fact that many of hie best speeehes, notably the, whole latter half of *hIs famous 'Wake 11p, England!' address at the 'Guildhall, have been delivered' on his own sole respon- sibility, anal without any prompt- ing or oven the knowledge of his intentions by his suite." FAMOUS MODEL•WOIt1CFR, Ile Constructed hi IfAiniatni'e the Whole .of London. ea. The leading maker ef models in e and Lord Mopntsteplhen. The Ki also has a deep friendship and nriration for Lord Kitchener f Lois( Oharles Beresford. He is. on terms of particular inti with any of tato political leade e though he shares his father's sp al liking for Mr. John Burns. His brother-in-law, Prince Alex- ander of '.Telt, enjoys his confidence n in a marked degree, and Lord Her- I';ngleed is John 13. `i`hor aazd hi =sole is essentially a million M's lindol'ed explosion engine, built of moat, but working on broad and hu'ttor, precisely as the'nimp]er en- gives of automobiles and motor boats .ase built of steel and work on gasoline, What is true of the muscle is true also of nerves and glands and other tissues of, the body, exce•it that they do vastly lees work than the muscles, and reed therefore vastly less food of any sort. "All gas engines, then, whether. they happen to be built of steel off•' of protoplasm, use' up their weight of fuel many times over before they wear out their substance once. With this discovery -that 'the n m- tcyland of a workshop ispin Gray's1Cnu' leas on a; non-nin suinoiro and Inn road, says'. a writer in, th.e' ri agar, presant ]n minute not Strand 1lfagazine. Lost. you son- c}uttntitics; rapidly cansumed and y oeive the idea of a•modarn.Caleb iapidly renewed -departed forever ince the ancient rigid divisions of, foods rs, into 'fuel foods,muscle forme rs,' eel- 'tissue builders' and the rest." let me describethe mode ermaker. Originally, Mr. Therm the air will bo .ailed. with cries, 11 will open his window and see hu man forme falling, rushing throug the air at a terrific speed. • here -Pane Tempest, the brother Lord Londonderry; Lord Hyde, tl h son of the Earl of Olerendon ; • Honorable Henry Stoner and Lo who is still a young man,devoted himself to the profession of an ar- chitect, but the best laid plans are not always profitable, and, being of of a studious disposition, he tom seemed researches into the history the of Old London. He, himself, dis- rd covered fascination in the work, Revelstoke are others of his friends. PHYSICALLY ALERT. WINGED GONDOLAS, Or, under happier circumstances; may not his slumbers be arrested by the sound of music and of dance? Past his windows winged gondolas will glide, marrying gay patties to some aerial yacht, which, brilliant- ly illuminatedi he will see suspend- ed in the sky. Most unfortunate of spectators • he, if some wayward beauty does not in passing throw through the open lattice a rosebud. • And to him gazing starward ''the dark back- ground of the heavens will present a magic scene of gliding vessels with colored lamps, as if overhead wero 'the Grand Canal at Vcnice'en some regatta night. PIRATE AIRSHIP. Other strange sights he may see perchance racing on the wings of the wind a rakish pirate ship, a police boat in pursuit, or some un- ruly aeroplane arrested for careless driving through the crowded air- way being in ignominous fashion towed to earth. And each hour will grow denser the mass of traffic overhead, where heavy cargo boats and the pleasure; traft_of as'hionaable women meet! and mingle, coming, we hope, into not too frequent collision. It is interesting to speculate on these matters; interesting, too, to think what changes will come about" airel;aman character: when we reach the age of flying. TRUE SUPERMAN. -. The flying man is the true super- man. Will he be more spiritual, more imaginative? Our bodies freed from the earth, shall not our + drantis rise, also to roach a plane more loftly? To rise high above the smoke and heat of the city will be to reach as now we do, by going :far afield, the region of fresh air that means 1 fresh ideas and new vitality. In our flights we shall learn so to look upon the earth as to see its life and problems in a manner clear and detachedgetting as it wore, wd.re, a bird's -eye -view. Every- rthiag will appear in a now, in a more nearly true, perspective. - AArna Woodward in Chicago News. -4 TESTING FISH'S MEMORY. `' •use of Color -Recognizing and Avoiding Danger. Even the fishes of the sea have pictures on memory's wall. T;x- pe,iiments have been made with several fishes as to their faculties. for remembering, but • the most. striking results have been obtained with the gray perch, which lives' shiefly on a small silvery hued ear- , 'dine, Some of these were " taken and colored red and were then put Into the tank where the perch was, with several silver colored sardines. Of course the normal sardine's were et once sdizecl and eaten, but it was not until hungry haat the perch ra>r;ilo a tentative meal of• ono of the red:. colored victims. • On recognizing the sardine fla- ror, however, he promptly denial- fshed tbo ,remainder: Later the peach devoured the sardines irte- spective of color, tills showing not only 'traces of n memory but also Wm power t , differentiate color. Subsognently sardines colored rod and blue e ere placed in the ' tank together with the "diver ones. per T}iri'e ms, mcen'c was 'repeated, the int blue sardines not being attacked of until' the ethers'were eaten and 'gra •'` bringer compelled investigation of riot the newcomers. After this intro- tea duction the perch ate the sardines fath al' all three types without any dif- cum Skelly. ern Some: spines of the sea nettle is d were then faistencd to the blue ser- him alines. These were at once. mead—fists mi by the -perch, who, promlitly got out.- the ‘v ay of tile,ncwdomei's. • owed traces of memory, as .bu1Cs of masers with: ac sea r/o1'a lihown steel rccogtlized. i and conceived the idea of recon- structing the most ]historical por- tions of the capital. It was mere- ly to gratify a whim that he re - Viscount Mountanorres gives interesting character sketch • King George in the London Express. He says : "<A•small enan, quiet of manhe with a pleasing • musics' vole tboughtful, heavy -lidded eyes, a wide, intellectual forehead, Majesty George V. gives at meeting the impression of a sell ar' or philosopher -when at re that is, for his quick, states movements, his keen eagerness when interested, reveal the enthu- siast, the man of zeal. "That same physical alerts which has made him perhaps ' premier shot of Europe is biou to bear on every matter that ap peals to him. His-extraoeclina nervous energy is to the casual server cloaked by his studious, re fieotive look, but it is there -the resistless, restless energy of h cousin of Germany. EX -SULTAN OF TURKEY ABDUL RAIUD IN THE' DAYS OF HIS EVIL FOR'T'UNE. Cs.nnot Atroustozn Himself to the an built, in miniature, Old London Fact That He Ilas Ceased of bridge, but a friend to whom it was lily shown was of a more practical turn to Reign. of mind. During his thirty ears' reign "Why ?not construct the whole of ip y Y'25,G00,- e, 0 u s r the omnipotent master of .,5,000,- e, the more interesting portions of 000 of men, Abdul Hamid, ex-Sul- TRAVELS Landon? he said. The average• , T1 AVELS OF GEORGE V. AMONG JJ1J 'J OSSItlSS1Ol S OF Git,EAT JUUTA1N, Beyond Question (lie New King le the Most Teaselled of ivlontuella Bing George V. of England is without question the most travelled of monarchs,, i the London .Mmes says, Few, moreover, of his sub- jeets, as he saki to tine Royal Co- lonia} Institute in 1909, have land- ed on so. many different portions of British soil His travels began at an early age,' as his education was entirely a naval one. He dntered the Bri- lat tauerrembarked upon tu 1878 and nis longly e years DANGERS IN ST IMIJI:ANS in the Bacchante with his brother,' the late Duke of Clarence, which r• air: ,t as Is the Standard Article " p READY FOR USE IN ANYQUANTITY F r kin o me soap, A 1,,.. 2 Pr aofpoaing water, removing old paint, tlisinfeetinj sinks, closets, drains and for many pthe' purposes. A can equals 20 lbs. SAL SODA. Useful for 500 purpo,ea-Sold Every?,?r.e, 5.. W. CIL LE'rr COMPANY UNITED D TOIIoNTo, ONT. s.r:.r1,•.., ' , cue .w: soar' , , took him first to the WeJt Tn<lies, SMOKING PROTECTS AGAINST and thence to Maderia, Simon's 13a,yy, the Auetralien ports. Fiji, Yo. FEVER. ka>balna, Hong Kong and Sings- pore, HIS IMPERIAL MISSION, Tu the year following the death of Queen Victoria he undertook. as Duke of Cornwall and fork, the ghost Tmperia] mission through ;Smoke, and you will be tolerab- which he ie chiefly known to his ly free from cerebro -spinal menin- subjects in the overseas dominion;. gitis, or spotted fever, as it is of- of the crown. Sailing from Ports- ten called. Thi's is the view of Dr, mouth in the Ophir on Mareh,15, ;.ii•ene de Karmabon, a French .army Snelling Conclusions as to Effects of Tea, Tohnees and Alcohol. head, we should certainly give up tea and introduce our great-grand- father's punch bowl to the light of day. Even more disquieting to tee- totalers must be the conclusions ,arrived at by Miss Ethel hal, Elder- ton, assisted by Dr. Karl Peer:ron, in inquiries into the iasfluence of parental alcuholi•m en the phy- sique and ability of the offspring, Some of the conclusions at wlich she arrives are RATHER STARTLING. No one, for instance, would expect a scientific research to reveal that tum general 'health of the children tan he went first to Australia where surgeon, who has just uilished of alcoholic paren'e appears, on a , Londoners love of theof Turkey, was a riddle, per- he opened the first Parliam t the result of his abservatians which• the whole, slightly better than that his capital is 'plexing and impenetrable, to the the Commonwealth, en T of 1 cover a y 'during cf sobei parents. There are fewer firsuch that a model, . when replete T then to New l period of two ears oddelicate children, and in a most th panoramic equipment would whole world. Now, in the days of Zealand, thence to South Africa 1 which he treated forty thrze soldt his exile in Salonika, his attitude 'tern sttfferin from than disease. Of marked way cases of tuberculosis e',..'"bring him from far and near to ( and finally to Canada and New g at ,e •_ and epilepsy are less frequent than among the 'children of sober par- ents. But Miss Elderton, in trying to find a. reason for this, suggests that "the physically strongest in the community probably have the greatest capacity and taste for al- cohol." Miss Elderton, like all other workers in the Ga'ltun laboratory, approached her work without bias . Smith-Dorien, in charge of the I of any kind, not. as a social re - es. former, but purely as a scientifio Aldershot command, one of the I investigator, and the material largest and most important in the niiieh was used for the tables of ki'sigdom, who has put a ban upon I rescue consists of to see it." and charaatsr remain unaltet d foundland. It was after his return these, nineteen were non-smokers, The models of Old London 'which enigmatie as ever. Atone moment from this voyage that, Speakingat: thirteen occasional smokers, and he is raised to the heights of bliss Guildhall on the evening of the ay; only eleven regular devotees of to- liocauso the fear of assassination when he was created Prince of; beam. Of the nine men who sue is no longer ever-present; at the Wales, he delivered his famous; oumbed to the malady, four were the n'axe than fulfilled. The receipts next he is east into the depths of message from the Empire to the: non-smokers, four smoked very lit - es ght during the exhibition amounted to d sair,wih e recollection that Motherland and called upon his; tie, and only one was a confirmed nu less than • .$50,000. But these autocracyand absolutism have countrymen to - "wake up." Coulee smoker, writes a London correspon- a models of Old London represented I V T11S fd from hint. two years ago he once more visit- r ~dent. r prodigious labor and i rancrs McCullagh, the ware the east of Canada in order to Don't smoke or if you smoke at ob Patience that corxeapondent a were on view at the Franco -British Exhibition in 1908 were the result. The prophecy of the friend was is given to fete men to possess.I o whow s preseut in attend the celebrations of the Tsr al,'it must be smoke, pipe, says Gen. H. Every cleatil.in the structure wast Constantinople through the revoln centenary of t�luebea, ihistorically correct. Years and tion, has writtteu a clever analyti- c of Abdul Hamidis over - A GREAT READER. "Like the 'Kaiser, too, he is man of more than ordinary intel lectual ability. Sovereigns have o necessity to be schooled in a multi tude of subjects, and .whateve their taste may be, they must ma tar, at any rate, the rudiments o many branches of knowledge. Bu our present Icing's attainments a net the mere result of a painstak ing sense of duty. 'As a younger brother, his eerly training...was not shaped by the prospect of a subsequent sower eignty, so that., his acquirement are the outcome of natural bent and inborn ability. He is, it is quite safe to say, .the most intellectual potentate of modern times. An om- nivorous reader, a quick observer and a close reasoner, with decided artistic tastes and exceptional gifts of oratory, he reveals more mark- edly than any other of the same stock his descent from Prince Al-. bort. Judged as, a man, and not as a King, he would • rank among 'ho best informed of his day. INTELLECTUAL TASTES. "In his tastes and his habits, no cess than in his intellectual bent, he takes after his grandfather. His interests are in the serious oog- earns of life rather than in its so- cial side. Be is the domesticated man of business rather than the gay leader of a fashionable world. "He is better known among the hip owners and merchants and •ofessors of Liverpool than among he 'smart set' in London. "In every matter that interests re he insists on taking an' active, ay, generally the leaching, .part. is not content to be a mere fig - ahead. He is a worker and ass- esses his personality and his ewes on all who Como in contact th him. He has the knowledge to able him to form opinions, and o courage to take a cleoided line rates support of them. As is so often 13o1 o vasa 10 1n -I on of ability, he ea al r esses himself tersely and pointed; a d and this habit has no doubt and en strongthened by his sea of b wining. He has the frankness of A 1nly rooted convictions in e<h'o- wire ing his views. In a word, he wen ows his own mind and is nob who aid to express it. TRUSIJ\STIC IMPERIALIST. is search i•n i ca} stud years were devoted' to a throw, and the events which led up dusty archives anti 'f ! to it. There is an arresting, after Inc late Kin set foot in In hes men smoking cigarettes. This two series of thou h gloomy, ieturea - Asa the statistics bearing on drink and its. , n h anyone ke • new thoroughly conversant with! tbw history and romance of the~ g , P of the neo present King and Queen -order is the result of representa effects on the children. Those wets a greatest capital in the world that roma exiles life in his palace -Fri- landed in Bombay on Navomber ,, tions maal•e to the general of the tits re of is of the Edinburgh i c , the Villa Aliia'tini. He cannel 1,.08, en their tour through the In• harmful effects of cigarette smoking 1 nChar- •Y har- Jperson is Mr. Thorp. Especially 1 a t himself. tothe fast that he dian Empire. The tourwaspro-, by the medical branch and b t e J i tv Organization Society and from � hes ceased to reign, and from time longed and arduous, but it was � plty'silcal training instructors y The ' s::L•ools of Manche,)ter. ARDUOUS JOURNEY. Exactly thirty years, all bu a day, wore the Americans interested ceus om rinse t i the work, and one man from across. the Atlantic opened 1 to time gives incoherent oilers With an expressive u sing r rugs 7 f exhibition' as it stood," said Mr. stole to get for him. h "Arthur Smith," said the teach - rt Thorp, "might have been sold 1,000 A PREY TO MOODINESS. er. impatiently, "what is it you are .fidget -ng with?" +marked by complete success. I gymnasaun staffs have been oom- e andthe Queen hoped to carry the ~tome with them "not only a warm 1 LACK OF DEVELOPMENT. sympathy and affection for the peo- r h s checkbook HE SAT TIGHT. s h p ve gesture Tho. a. k f>o tit hick it ie impost The King on his arrival said that plaintng bitterly of recent years of but a man has many ,years ofnh s life to the con- Always the prey of the demon of pie of India, but an increased and in young soldiers, and they ettri- Although the lad colored up he melancholy, his moodiness has in- ,abidin interest in India's wants, bate most of the harm to cigar- dill not reply. The class "sneak,' struction of anything, the affec- y' g p, creased h . lr and an acquaintance, '•1 however, was ready, as usual, with lost the horde, f 1 Iron thafi springs up is high abovea un kedfold since he has and problems 1 ettes But they may snake a pipe -1 of the Queen Alexandra was one' glen, and moosahibs,aoranainuse- no nlthe lofircial various Britishclasses, official Incline, I w ken off duty l lull information. 1 most interested visitors to and Indiau,! Don't drink, or, if you want a "It's a pin he's gat," he said, the. exhibition, and the sixpence: � ment-men, whose duty ilt was at who under God's providence are stimulant; drink tea, coffee or co- triumphantly. s which her majesty p Yildiz Kiosh to charm away terra laboring to one end --the well ly;;i,1g' ran' instead of •alcohol- That is "Take it away from him and a l y paid at the turn- I fying delusions. Sometimes, after ef India and the happiness r.•f her ; What the teetotalers urge, because bring it here," said the instrue- strie for admission is a treasured having sat for hours wrapped r peoples." 'they say, with regard to tea in par- tor. The offending 1g pin was taken __ f. gloomy meditation, he strikes theIN titular, that the beverage contains to her. and theta was no more TOUR INDIA, all the stitnulatin TRE FOOD 111I; table with his fist, and cries, g powers one trouble from Arthur. Presently it IQUESTION AGAIN, we •i 1„ Within the space of four end a! :wants. Tea, they contend has S _ _ 11Ialed ction . Malediction . Y wits the youngsters turn to read, half months t s. n1 t r. He u n 'vi •tr1 on t}t in tl, pr ly• be tr 111 cat kn a,fr IN Must People Abandlon the Nitrogen • Theory ,Inst Acquires~. The Indians of the plains, who lived almost eptirely on flesh, wero fierce and warlike enough; the Es- kimos, who also ]live entirely on flesh, are among the mildest and most peaceable of men. The unfor- tunate Armenians, on the other hand, are periodically massacred by a rate of vegetarians. The Hindus of Bengal are the traditional horrible example of the effects of living on rice. But the Chinese and Japanese, who also live on rice -in sufficient quantity -are about the toughest and most enduring of .mankind. During the race of the allied ar- mies 'to Pekin the Japanese army en a diet of rice and dried fish out - marched the Europeans by 50 per cent, Evan in India the Sikhs and Rajputs, who oat but twice a day and rarely touch meat, aro among the finest men physically' and the best soldiers on earth. In the old days before the tele- graph, says 'the Metropolitan, the songer service from Madras to Bon and Calcutta vas made up Sinners who did sixty miles for s;y's work and kept it up 1,000 1,100 utiles on eud•--on a diet oiled rice. coercing to this writer the place re the first scientific cliieticians 1 wrong is this: "The muscle o it does work consumes. its substance. There is no gime- about that. Bet it does not eine all its constituents equal - Tho early physiologists as- nssiod that it dines, and that there - oro the wants is to to renewed only y footle such as cheese, beans, ries, mill: and especially meat, all 1 which, like the 'muscle itself, ontain nitrogen, worde, "Padishaltim tehok Yasia" "Ass a Matter of fact, a net which' C`"•Long live the Sultan"'). The cry as proved the very first time the1 came f 1 l no' from reactianarh4.s,, but 11W 11 tion scuts 'That he is an enthusiastic im- lye name is well known, while his s elligont incl active zeal in behalf 1 British' contnaerce has won the h tofu' admiration of all true pat- p s 11,e is a modern king who o It..es---again as tli•cl his grand- o er nttd ass loos the Kaiser --that coerce is the life blood of a mod - nation. That as a 'sovereign he stetniinod chiefly to concern self with +advancing 'the inter of British i,ommeree is no see "Hisreal 'and d lamoaited pre<le- 0699011 found' las natural sphere in the domain of foreign policy. George V. intends to develop and He does nob knots the meaning of they saw more ,-f In done much fox the cause of peace bit instead of standingupas the refreshing slumber. Whenever be Glia than most people are nritl?e;- and temperance, Quarrels have other students had done 1i sat still aloe looked frightened. "Well, why don't you proceed with the leading?" exclaimed the teacher. "1f you misbehave any .more I shall make an example of you ." "Please, teacher," stuttered lit- tie Arthur, "1 can't stand up 'cause the pin you teak keeps my 1•a -pants up." The peculiarity of a crash: is that he always thinks it's his turn. is obliged to close his eyes through ecl to see hthey a lan t n -i nd ever *- ben patched up over it, nrtsunder- sheer exhaustion, lie is fully dress where y abiding impress! standings have been 'cleared away, ed and his couch is a long chair. sion of gracious and kindly b,tcr, ch•eerfu'lness and good feeling have Suddenly Its will start up and rush est in the welfare of the populaea.1, fnlloeved in its wake. At Calcutta ttaT roundtae h King1' d roanand the But tea d his chem' according t her as, o the �a- 6 if pursued by phantoms. Often foundation stone of the Pietoria: txntal School Blue Book, is now he spends the livelong night before Memorial Hall, the stately building drunk to such an extent that it an open window, gazing in thedi- devised by Lord Curzon which • is ranks before' alcohol as an enemy rection of Constantinople. Thirty about to bo erected on the Maid:n. tf •pubiie' health. ' This, hs one At Rawalpindi he reviewed ee,0001 commentator remarkqui- s, "is /lis members of his harem are sharing, his exile with him. These he gets troops of all arms, the flower of the sting, and were it not that in these to tell his fortune by cards, but be- Indian army, commanded h -v Lord commercial days the most import - fere the eperation r- e , _, ,.- Kitchener. lent at,;,,m r all ;s to keep a clear jumps to his feet and impatiently It intervals ill the lour the Rile:r! - .. sweeps the cards away, crying, "Futility 1 Futility 1" IN TILE PALACE. After Abdul Mantel's removal Oxy from Yil<liz Kiosk, "me' amazing donee~ owing to an crabreak of discoveries were made in the pal- of cholera. In his tarsus~~ speed, IIere is a store that gives 110 outside heat All its heat ace. There were rooms full of ru •Karachi' where the homeward is concentrated at the burners. An intense blue flame (hotter than clocks -time feces elaborately en- 3 ge was commenced, the King either white or red) is thrown upwards but not around. All the n said that the tour Lad hr-rn ' an' heat is utilized in cookin nnrelletl or inlaid with mother -of unending and an unbcaken series g -" none in outside heating. pearl, side by side' with one and mostof happy incl most lust 'active ex elevonpenny alarm chocks of Ger- man origin. In almost every room - - tame were patent medicines, and cupboards were filled with hair re- storers, complexion 'restorers, and quack remedies guaranteed to re- juvenate the most senile. Gold and silver, as well es gems of fabulous worth, were found in secret hiding - places, or lying loosely in open drawers and upon sofas. Under 11 heap of vags was found tite beauti- ful seal, set in brilliants, of the former Sultan, Abdul Aziz, and ale ngside it was another seal worth sixl o e loos Tlt4 Young 'Turk leaders who made these discoveries one day, beard many voices proceeding from a locked -up apartment; and their' astonishment was transformed into alarm when they distinguished the - had opportunities of enjo,•rug bits' small and big game shouting, but it was a deep disappo nement that` the great shooting camp assumed in the Nepal Terai had to be aban-! 0 kYou no longer need wear your- self, out with the weakening heat of an intensely hot kitch- en.. You can cook in comfort. tnattei' was tested by direct expert meth, and has never been gttestias ad singe, the working muscle uses up its non-nitrogenou•s-constituetuts amid needs therefore to he renew- ed by non-nitrr,genous foo<lslufl's.- Marches, fats, sugars, gyms and the like. "In fact, as we knot now, the; from hundreds of hungry caged parrots, which had been taught. this phrase. Abdul Hamid was ex- cessively fond of parrots. That is al'1 that ea11 be said .of him for good: One can't alwa,•s fins~ consent's-: Live 'people in a eonservat•ory, ---a WHY TREY DON'T SPEAK. "My ]rueband," bragged Mrs Jolles, "was a famous long-distance runner in his day. He once outran a horse in a twenty -]wile race." "Isn't that funny?" answered Mrs. Smith. "We once. had a horse like that," • Now Janes and Smith wonder why their wives don't speak. UNEXPECTED GIFTS. Mrs. Newhouse was patiently in- state -ling her Irish maid of all work as to the proper names of certain articles. "And, Bridget," she said at one time, "these are ewers -ewers ,•- don't call them jugs any more." "Sure an' T won't,'ma'am," said Bridget, joyously, "An' is -all them little basins mine too, ma'am?" NOT SHE, 'They tell me, Sadly, you are a goad laundress. Now do you do your washing with avidity,?" "No, I don't, 1ne'am, I uses 4 good brand o' soap," a fief vt) 3' - 4 1 entirely removes the discomfort of cooking. Apply a match and immediately the stove is ready. Instantly an intense heat is pro- jected upwards against the pot, pan, kettle or boiler, and yet there is no surrounding heat —1 0 S2 elfl - no smoke. Cantinisry Note? Be Imre iron get ti.h, stove --see that ,the name -piste reads Menvt'srfasuan', Why? Because The New Perfection Oil Cook -Stove is scientifically and practically perfect. you cannot use too much trick -it is automatically controlled. You get the maximum heat -no smoke, The.burner is simple. One wipe with a cloth cleans it-conae- quently there is no smell. The New Perfection 0iI Cook -Stove is wonderful for year-round use, but especially in summer. Its heat oper- ates upward to pan, pot, or kettle, but not beyond or around. It useless. for heating a room, It bas a Cabinet Top with shelf for keeping Metes and food hot. It has long turquoise -blue enamel chimneys. The nickel finish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, snakes the stove ornamental and attractive. Made with 1, 2 and 9 burners; the 2 and 3 -burner stoves can be heat with or without Cabinet. eves S aim erervwheret 11 not et earl, wrrit. • idnan5tu °ander to «,a nnuetteaela1 o11r,e The Queen CityIr; I Company, I.frlilted4 Toronto. ifinglaciriEMSZIMMEMSTIMIN=Itrili4sisttrosM1•T. 5, ...,, �.: +yam �m1oh"Il{C'I�".S�.�w.,�.a"�,^labk�uSii:lir1