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SALT FROM CANADA AND PEPPER
FROM THE TROPICS,
Interesting History of These Moat
Common Articles on Our
DInner Table.
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in these days of kaleidoscopic
changes and rapid ads; (1001nent in
both social and 1(nsluese circles must
of us fail to appreciate the origin law]
vital import:(nee of the things with
which we cun10 in daily emitter, Take,
for inetance, (((t1. 108 found on our
tables. Have you over paused et a
meal and wondered 1(ow the dishes in
which your meal is served are made?
Or where the salt and pepper tenon
frau and the different processes they
pass through before reaching your
table?
ho, you are more than not, like all
the rest of us busy folk in this; rapt(
Lige, not to obeerve the small things
of life which are usuelly overshadowed
by the large ones fwd are after all the
most Interco:tlug when we conlo to
study then] and their relation to 000
daily lift.:. So let us now make a little
excursl0ti into the mysteries of the
things commonly found -on our tables,
and I feel sure that we will discover
many facte of great Interest.
Salt is Luxury in Some Places.
Most everybody thinks salt Is only
used to give food a pleasant flavor,
when from a physical standpoint it Is
a most important part of our diet.
Where salt is scarce it is considered
one .of the greatest luxuries mrd prob-
ably no one article is in more waver -
sal use, unless it be water. You pick
up the salt shaker and sprinkle your
food with it, not once thinking of its
wonderful qualities, where It conies
from or how it is prepared for your
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• No. 8292 ---Child's Paddling or Beach
Apron and Sun -fiat. Price, 15 cents
108.
Salt is sometimes found in an almost
pure state, but as a general rule it is
mixed with other things that must be
removed before it is suitable for table
use. However, there are some salt
mines where the only thing necessary
for its preparation is to pulverize R.
Salt is found in large quantities in sea
water, but this kind has never been
used for the table as the purer forms
are so 11111011 more available, Rock
stilt is the purest form of salt, and the
greatest deposit of this kind is in Rus -
elan Poland, where one bed alone is
known to be five hundred miles in
lemet11, twenty miles wide and about
twelve hundred feet thick. In many
of these European salt mines the men
w:n'lcing there never conte to the sur-
face, as they would lose too nitwit
((Inc. As a result some of then( have
lean known to spend their entire
lives down in the bowels of the earth
with their four walls of nothing but
salt, salt, salt. In one of these mines
there is a church scnintnl'ed entirely
from salt.
The salt wells of south-western On-
tario furnieh us with practically all
the: salt we use. Besides its table use,
must remember that salt occupies
a most important place in the com-
mercial world. It is used extensively
in the process of glazing earthenware
and In the preserving of moats, ]hides
and many other articles. Certain
smelting processes require its help in
separating metals from Heir ores and
It is utilized in fertilizing dry soils.
Probably you do not know that your
blood contains about the same propos.
tion of salt as tho water of the ocean
does normally. Forthat reason when-
ever you 'put an excessive amount of
salt in any of your food very soon af-
terward you feel a craving for water.
This is because your system calls for
water or liquid of some kind to Donn.
tenet the oversupply of salt you have
absorbed. So, you see, after all the
tiny salt shaker has a big history to
tell if we'll only take the thne to in-
quire into it.
Black Pepper From West Indies,
But 104 Cannot make mention of salt
without considering its sister shaker
—pepper—which is almost as impor-
tant to 80010 people, The black varie-
ty of pepper usually found in the table
pepper shaker is a tropical plant and
most of our supply comes from the
West Indies. It grows there as a
rambling and climbing shrub whose
smooth and spongy stems are often
more than twenty feet in length, to
which are attached very broad, leath-
ery leaves. This black pepper, 01'
/011111100 pepper as it is usually called,
is a fruit about the size of a pea,
changing to a bright red when fully
ripe and gathered just as it begins to
turn from green to red, for when al-
lowed to get more ripe it loses a great
deal of its pungency and, of coerso,
"pep" is wbat we like in pepper. When
In cultivation the pepper plants are
supported by poles, or somet111138
dwarf tre15 are planted to glvo the
'0110 ti support, the se0btltl method us'
unity proving the more satisfactory.
It is propagated by means of cuttings
(111d comes into bearing within threo
tr Icars afterbein4lg plentod, At -
er boginllal to boar the Mack Pepper
yields tivg crops annually 101' abed
'
-twelve \ o',' , lifter whielh.the vino
loses its vitality for production and
another must be planed to take ire
piece,
When the car stop's steldenly at idle
1oaat1 the first place to look is 1(n the
gasoline taunt, The veteran motorbet
does not need thisthisadvice, but the
newcomer should 'take it to heart.
Xtoo'k lute the gaeolialo tank firsts
• Cut in 5 sizes, 1, 2, 4, 0, and 8 years.
Size 4 requires, apron and hat, 2 yds.
27 ins, wide, or 1%yds. 40 ins. wide;
facing for hat, % yd. 27 ins, wide.
No. 8804—Child's Iiot-Day Dress
Price, 15 •cents
Body and sleeve hi one. Cut in 5
sizes, 1, 2, 4, 0 and 8 years. Size 1
requires, with or without belt, 13(, yds.
32 or 36 ins, wide.
McCall Transfer Design No. 848.
Pr:ce, 10 cents.
^ �r 3 t, ��t e�• p p iIt r} ((+ LAKE LOUISE AND THE ROCKIES,
I To tlos nio4.orto 011 roads lea t
Rome, ,and it M103 Ihr tn.hltiun "
3(1(101, nod Old 11 101011 1lo 'I'dfrn:t
City" and its \ven de'rs. Now, : howeveoee rr
(eight say it 1; the anilnlinn 0
every Canadian to behold the Eteraa
„tows," reel ,. the AppianAppian.10:13 led t.it
11ume,, su file great 40114011rued, Ih
( uuulinu Paeltie Railway, h 11 to l.h
Rocky 31ountains. ct:na Bail: have t
• wide (1 34 to pick awl dominonono Irnm it
ihr' nlotter of ((lures to :,0'1,1(1 huli(lays
' but ILe eS'e:ht hots as :attt1,' 10(1 all it:
(1(011.e
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e 11180 is one of rho 1111113
\V'111 n it girl 111 h, 1' teen:; becomes
pe, vi: h, ladle:es '131 dull, weer' Pelle
..—_.-/ n0, seems to flit. re; t her end dalutll,i
(11) 111,t (.1MA 1111' 1110', tit,., 313(1 away he
((('t:,tu that s(1 ae ds 1011(( pull
11'4',1 then her. ^3. t1 nt is provided
with, Benne lollongher 1113111(1 cheeks,
freynunt h0adarhe+:, and broathle,s•
(wee mei heart p llit.:ttiau will con-
firm that she 1., anaemic, Maty
1net1(erti am the (Tann. of their own
girlhood (.spe1'ienec• curl promptly de.
teat the early signs of anaemia, nod
the 18180 111011011'111011011'doe8 ant. 'sail. for the
No. 8690—Child's Rompers
Price, 15 cents
Closing centre -hack, orto bo •slipped
on over the head; dropped back; sides
snapped or buttoned. In 4 sizes, 1,
2, 4 and 0 year;. Size 1, either style,
1% yds, 27 ins, wide; collar and fac-
ing, belt and sleevebands, ie yd. 27
ins. wide; sleeve facing, belt, 7/s yd.
27 Ma, wide,
Theee patterns may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer, or
from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St.,
Toronto, Dept, W.
SUMMER COMPLAINTS
KILL LITTLE ONES
At the first sign of illness during the
hot weather give the little ones Baby's
Own Tablets or in a few hours he may
be beyond aid. These Tablets will
prevent summer complaints if given
occasionally to the well child and will
i promptly relieve these troubles if they
conte on suddenly. Baby's Own Tab-
lets should always be kept in every
glome where there are young children.
There is no other medicine as good
and the mother has the guarantee of a
government analyst that they are ab-
soiutely safe, The Tablets are sold
by medicine dealers Or by mail at 25
! cents a box from The Dr, Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
VERSAILLES' HAUNTED PALACE.
From the Days of the 'Grand Monarch'
to Date Has Been Under
Troubled Shade.
There is something of irony in the
fact that democracy's greatest victory
has been signed and' sealed in that
dream of tart which Louis SIV.
"wrought lo'd]ike into stone" to sym-
bolize and perpetuate the magnifi-
cence of royalty.
It is a haunted house, that palace of
Versailles. The ghosts of the illus.
trious and notorious, the beloved and
the execrated, walk down its halls.
First of all, the "Grand Monarch" who
lavished the people's substance in in-
credible sums for a grandiose depic-
tion of himself and the splendor of his
reign. The troubled shade of De Pom-
padour comes back in lonely flours,
again "to rule a king arid misrule a
nation," to witness the triumphs which
ended finally on a dismal morning
when lackeys tossed her coffin care-
lessly into a coach, There was that
lite which was a royal idyl, into which
the despair and hunger of the mob
were to come thundering at last, to
splash the elegance with blood, to
jeer Marie Antoinette on the way to
the guillotine, to make of France a
shambles. Thus ended the palace as a
chateau. It was never again a place
of residence. But two centuries after
the "Grand Monarch," the King of
Prussia occupies tie palace and the
Iron Chancellor's dream is realized in
the proclamation of William I., Ern -
peer of Germany,
A Star Shower.
The soft mosaic of the Milky Way,
That arches ]heaven with loveliness
by night, a
Has floated down, across the floor of
day
To pave a primrose path for earth's
delight.
SPEAKING FROM THE SKY.
Every Word Distinctly Heard Fifty
Mlles Away.
Wireless telephony has now been
definitely adopted on the London to
Paris air route, states the Air Minis-
try, and its value in night flying was
recently proved by a test.
Soon after IlandleyPage machine
liacl left Kenley communication was
opened, and, after speaking to the
ground station, the receiver was turn-
ed in and speech was very clearly
heard from Kenley. The officer con-
ducting the test states that he easily
recognized the voice as that of an of-
ficer known to him,
To a distance of about 25 miles the
strength of signals was so great that
speech from the nia111ine could be
distinctly heard at Kenley with the
receiver laid upon the table.
At 50 miles it was still distinct and
constant, and was heard until the aero-
plane was crossing the Channel and
was in touch with Marquise, the first
ground station on the French side.
011 the. return journey conversation
between the Machine and Marquise
was again picked up at Kenley, and
the latter station itself was in com-
munication with the machine 30
minutes before it landed,
Ono of the recent developments In
this connection is the production of an
aeroplane set which can be converted
within a few moments for transmis-
sion of either voice or Morse signals,
Too Careful. •
Arizona Joe, the animal hunter and
trainer, was telling an after-dinner
story:
"Old 13111 had charge of the animal
tent, and among his pots was a leo-
pard He was a bac] leopard, too, and
gave Bill no end of trouble. One day
I went away to arrange some busi-
ness. While I was having dinner a
telegram was ]landed Ina, It read:
'The leopard has escaped. Prowling
about town. What shall Ido?—Bill'
"13111 was 0110 of those fellows who
had to have explicit directions to doanything; even in an emergency. He
was always afraid of making a mis-
take,
'Shoot him on the spot,' I wired.
I forgot all about the affair until about
two hours later,.; when I returned to
the hotel, and another telegram was
handed me. It proved to be from care-
ful, conscientious Bill, and asked:
" 'Which spot?'
The cycle of cultivation dining the
crop year consists of 'after harvest
cultivation, fall plough'in'g and spring
seetl1bed preparation. Each of these
three distinct phases must be prac-
ticed systematically if the most suit-
able Beed -bed conditions are to bo con-
sistently anatint'tdaled',
F W,
A Health- ringer !
Make your morning ce-
real dish a strengthener.
is 'not only most deli-
cious in taste, but is
a builder of tissue.
"There's Reason `°
trouble to 11evolop further, but at 0210(.
give,( her daughter d course with Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, which renew the
blood supply and banish anaemia be.
fore it 11(ts obtained a hold opal the
system.
Out of their experience thoulamis
of mothers know that anaemia is the
sure road to worse ills. They know
talo difference that good red blood
makes in the development of womanly,
health. Every headache, every gasp
for breath that follows the slightest
exertion by the anaemic girl, every
Pain hie suffers in her back and limbs
are reproacher if you have not taken
rho best steps to give your weak girl
new blood, and the only sure way to
do so. Is through the use of Dr. Wil -
[Items' Pink Pills,
New, rich rod blood is infused into
the system by every dose of these
pills. From this new rich blood
springs good health, an increased ap-
petite, now energy, ]sigh spirits and
perfect womanly development. Give
your daughter Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,
and take them yourself and note how
promptly their influence is felt in bet-
ter health.
You can get these pills through any
dealer in Medicine or by mail, post-
paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes
for $2.50 from The Dr, Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
CARIBOU FOOD PRODUCT.
Explorer Stefansson Also Suggests
Musk Ox as Source of Supply.
Villijalniur Stefansson, the Arctic
explorer, by a recent address before
the Canadian Commons and Senate,
has awakened Canada to the import-
ance of the caribou and musk ox as a
source of food supply for the nation,
The Dominion Government, upon the
recommendation of Arthur Meighen,
minister of the interior, has appointed
a commission to make a thorough in-
vestigation of the Arctic and sub -Are -
tic regions with a view to the conser-
vation of these wild Herds.
There are between thirty and sixty
million caribou in the North according
to estimates. They range as far south
as Churchill river in winter and retire
to the tundra region in the summer,
Thousands are slaughtered by wolves
and bunters every year. Their meat is
equal to fine venison and their hides
tan into leather that resembles cham-
ois skin. The completion this year of
the Hudson Bay Railway, a branch of
the Canadian national system, extend-
ing from the Pas to Port Nelson on
Hudson Bay, will open a route by
which the animals can be conveniently
shipped to market.
The mush ex are not numerous.
They never venture south of the Great
Barrens, Their meat is line beef and'
they yield a wool equal to that of
merino sheep, Mr. Stetansson be-
lieves that if the herds were superin-
tended by a force of rangers they
could be greatly, increased and would
become in time a valuable commercial
factor. -
The Old Melodeon.
There, like some ancient visitant
Of bygone days it stands;
Its yellow keys a welcoming
to the hands.
No fingers wander o'er the keys,
No feet its pedals press,
'Raft of the soul of music there
It 'waits some hand's caress.
It leans against the chamber wall
Like some 8111 broken form,
Too weak to stand alone without
Assistance in the storm.
Its bellows gaping wide is flung
With cobwebs to the floor;
The dust upon its yellov keys
Is strewing thickly o'er.
Ah, in the stillness of the night
The ancient thing it grieves,
And plaints in echo to the soft,
Low whisper of the leaves,
Then from the lonely chamber float
Sweet tones of Beulah Land;
A spirit song from spirit throat
Chorused by spirit Band.
But when the light of morning falls
In glory everywhere,
The (lust upon the yellow keys
Is strewing thickly there,
From Beulah Land the player came
To spell away the gloom;
And passing, left behind the same
Sweet lavender perfumer
Royalty and Movies,
The movies have a great fascination
for sevoral members of the Royal
Family. Princess Arthur e2 Con-
naught visited the Cine 11a Palace at
Marble Arch some time ago to see a
spacial Rhin depicting the work of the
Church Artily among the troops, Lady
Patricia Ramsay is another enthusiast,
and tapes her fattier to see the plc -
tures occasionally, Prince Arthur
thinks that the Most enjoyable films
are those of current events, and she
delights In seeing "the week's news in
Pictures," Scarcely a Windsor visit
passes Off without a cinema Show at
rho Castle, when the Watol'loo Chan'
boo is transformed into a miniatureminiaturetheatre,
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P Iasi'' "913 grandpa 1(118 reached
t the Lige of ninety-six. Isn't it. wonder -
1 2111 ?"
Bobby '•'Wouderful nothln'1 Look
at the tine it's ((then him to do it"
From Bad to Worse,
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LiiMYJip • ;-RATS OF ,/
FROM HERE &THERE
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Anyone Could.
1(4(41(3 40'0(13 1(1 Mt' ]lock 1(0nnt:,Ino
(llal 11 titin \\''111 (01(11 e01,11101fr+l ett01
pl''te without. a slot' -off there. I,11:'
Luir,e is one of the Lakes in the.
('loads (the others being Lance AgneSR
and Mirror Lake) and at one time it.
existence was (1013 known to the Ind
ions, Now, however, thenl(1 to the
enterprise of the C.l'.R:, it is visite
by thousands, of tourists yearly, til
railway passing through at this point
and a palitittl hotel, the Chateau, hav
ing been erected on thetheL•,kefront, of
feeding ample accommodation.
Steppic!; " R the train at Laggan the
tourist bo:u'ds an electric car, which
runs up the gradient to the lake, the
trip only occupying twenty mimltes.
The drive is a most delightful one, the
car, being open on both sides, affords
an uninterrupted view of (Inc wonder-
ful scenery wlth the minimum of oxer -
tion, The Bow River is crossed by a
pretty little bridge, and In the early
morning sunshine the waters sparkle
like opal fires, tossing furiously in
eddies' as the river forces its way down
the valley,
Arriving at Lako Louise one feels
transported into another atmosphere,
if not to another world; feelings of
wonder, awe, and admiration grip the
mind, compelling a reverential silence.
The lake itself is small, but a perfect
gem, lying at the base of the Victoria
Glacier from which it is fed, its waters
being pure turquoise in color, -that
deep turquoise so difficult to describe.
Behind the lake Mt. Lefroy towers
lilts a giant to the heavens, reaching
an altitude of over 10,000 feet—one
huge mese of dazzling snow and ice,
resembling the Matterhorn in Swit-
zerland, Mt. Aberdeen and the Vic-
toria Glacier form a background unsur-
passed for grandeur,
The surrounding country suggests
an Alpine valley, Ranges of snow.
clad mountains stretch as far as the
eye can reach, while the air is filled
with the scent of the pines. Flowers
of brilliant color bloom everywhere.
Facilities can be obtained at the
Chateau to escort parties going to
Moraine Lako and the Valley of the
Ten Peaks by automobile or carriage;
ponies can also be hired to take tour-
ists to Lake Agnes and Mirror Lake,
On the 'tvay to Moraine Lake a splen-
did view of Mt. Temple is obtained.
This mountain is one of the highest
peaks in the Rockies, rising to an alti-
tude of 11,000 feet. Its sides resemble
walls of solid ice, and its crest is cov-
ered with snow. At this point a fine
view of the Bow Valley is obtained
from a height of 11,000 ft„ the river
looping like a slender silver thread
down in the valley. Still other beauty
spots are the Giants' Steps and Para.a
dise Valley, where the opalescent w-
tem:g conte thundering down from the
sublime heights above, forcing their
way through the mountains to the dis-
tant va1103'•
Moraine Lake is soon reached, and
the tourist is allowed half an ]tour to
rest before the return journey, en-
abling him to enjoy the magnificent
scenery, Moraine Lake lies at the
baso of the Ten Peaks, a chain of
mountains all over 10,000 feet high,
covered with snow,
LEMON JUICE IS
FRECKLE REMOVER
Girls] Make this cheap beauty lotion
to clear and whiten your skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle
and tan lotion, and complexion beauti-
fier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup-
ply three ounces of orchard white for
a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see how
freckles and bl'em'ishes disappear and
how clear, soft and white the skin
becomes. Yes! It is harmless.
GREATER PARIS SEEN.
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Statistician Expects City to Have
8,000,000 Inhabitants by 1970.
A statistician who has made a study
of the growth of the population of
Paris estimates that the city, within
i present mi
is p sa t li i ts , will 81388 6,000,000
lnhabitauts in another• half century,
and that the population of the Depart -
(11011t of the Seine, which he thinks
will then be a part of the capital, will
have increased to 14,300,000, says a
Paris despatch.
Ho bases his figures on the actual
development of the city since 1800 and
on tihe progressive density, of the point-
latlon which went from eighty-five to
the acre in 1361 to 140 to the acre 111
1911. In 1961 he anticipates Paris will
cover 432,000 acres, virtually the en-
tire territory of the Department of the
Seine and some communes of the Do.
paetulent O2 Seine to Oise.
'.Cite greatest fortune a duan can
leave his children is not a big bank
amount, nor 'a fine residence, 1101' a
1)11320 among thio 'aristocracy, but the
legacy of an upright, gentle and utso-
ful lifo,
Ntinard's rduiment 010108 Distemu e.
1. at:try wnIli:' Sai11 lhc' college
ter, i- to 1(31(11 the multi!
tun, '
"le tQ:;"r words." hutted in .the
matt ta'le'nt, ''1110 ono z One sitz, the
1e80 enc 1.1.21 stand,,,
"P:xactly," retorted the lecturer'
"end if nue lies a great deal, one's
standing: 13 lost Co1np11.4LJy."
Not What He Meant.
A tinivr•roity lceturer 1(031111 an ad-
dress to the students the otlinr morn-
ing in this w:ty: "Now I'm not going
to talk very long. but if you get what
I'm going to 5133' (11 yvtlr heads you 11
have the whole thing in a nut -shell,"
And he looked surprised when a
roar of laughter followed itis ualnten•
tioind 11(101.
A Wonderful World.
";Don't talk to me about the wonders ANCFit TUSIORS. LU hi's, ETG�
of past ages," said Uncle Joe Cannon. �.J internal and external, cured with-
"Tlle world to -day is far more wonder. out pain by our home treatment writs
ful than ever before. Just think. Tt Co,.s beLfmettteodo (jolel.in.oBdo, llmtn Medical
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children's (tome. must he of geed ('1078-.
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!" Live Poultry, Fancy Ilene. I'i(;enns.
Erma. etc,? Write 1. Weitabu,h 4, Son.
10.10 At. Jean L•aptista bbtrket. Mont-
real. Que.
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