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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-2-3, Page 7othes and an impress That Ogee, e et, sombre woman win recently' died et tb.a age of ntueteefou —Eugenie, antic empress of tit i•'renalee-had wore her mourning gar- month armenta and betel her ahudowed and Ws appointees lite ter se many years Cha 1t la l ars le remeniher her n being in the days of her power and prospet•1 ty the Most beautiful sovereign In the world and the greatest lady of tis• bion. Bich she undoubtedly wan, neem testees. Her admirable figure, per. Net teulure', auburn hair, britlieet (lark oyes and exquisitely fair e,uo• ploxiun needed no enhancement hew - ever simply attired, Fho wee a radiant creature. Dut she loved dress to; Its 'own sake and loved to employ It spec- tacularly. I3ei• court was nattav/ •:rnt. and ilio led it in extravagance, Some- time:, ome- time realizing thatthe people mur- mured, alio would try to shit( her ro- 'spunslbtUty: Wlteu magulfceet new costuren or elaborate now designs were submitted for her approval, else would sJtaJte her bead and declare: "No. They would say 1 am eetruva- gant; already they tdo say so. No, really I cannot; blit atter some one oleo has (trot displayed such a costume, then I will have one also," Reluctance of this sort was only oe- castonal. It was she that Introduced, the cumbersome crinoline; rhe that popularized the vogue of tulle, gauze, tarintan and other vaporous and flinty fabrics Wet ware often Intricately ens- broidered. At other times such fabe rinse were combined with richer and heavier, ones, us in one of the em- presses evening costumes, whicha fas• hienwriterof the sixties desert/m(1 ns "an apricot silk puffed all round the bottom with apricot tulle. flounced from the waist, tho flounces worked with silver. fuchsia pattern, and trim- mers with Venetian frlugo of white sills. Over tills an imtnense train of white satin, softened by apricot tulle, worked with sliver •fuchsias, and with fringe round the borders." ' i ugueine 41in/tared three or font' dresses In the course of each day, and even the most expensive and superb were never worn more than twice. The tire, fans, ,jewel„ and laces that site accumulated were incredibly num- erous and costly, She received twenty thousand dollars o pen money every month --a sum far more imposing fifty years ago Nan today and of double a the purchasing power; and this she invariably spent to the last sou; and g 1 frequently ,ihe uv.'nl raw het, ,assets r kite teal .t drainage, gift fur playing 0, the Lady Bountiful. The 'bridal' gift Met oho recelve+l trine the ally of IParts, to be toted. for diamond's, she t neceptel only en condition that she might use It to found an instltnticu • for the education of young gide; and • cf title institution 'elle 'retnalued a Ifaithful patritneas. Twruty thousand dollar% of a gift of fifty thunsanrl from `. leer libels nd at the panto time she Nin celerity; and ekdor e made, • ' Mg her ,reign, many other gifts to charity, suenee ani) art, ' 11 le an !route elreunmtance that, 'el.ee, After Settee, 1l had.been ee- '. ':401trd that in order 1e rally the royal. and dlsc0urage revolution slue altoutd numet tier horse end flee through ':the 'Milani of Paris to dissolve the im-! pot+ ut and .unpopular legislature, the , plan fatted for Jackof clothes! it would prebahly have fulled anyhow;: btbut 1t ono last chance which her beauty r•plrit and the appeal et her; sex iii;ht pceaibly have secured was 1' loot for lack of a simple riding habit.. A severe hlaelr habit, with only lire cross of the Legion of Honor upon her t, breast, was what she menet to wear, ' But there was none in her wardrobe; there w:, only the picturesque dress of the royal hunt, a gorgeous garment of sweeping length, of green cloth em- broidered with gold, and a clashing Three -cornered hat to match, Ohvlous- ly that would not do; it was altogether' too theatrical. The next day the mob .stormed the Tulllertes, and the omprese lied Just in time. For the occasion of ber last :4lPearanee before her own court she rlJd pewees rhe proper costume. Sha wished to show hereelf to those faith SEALING INDUSTRY. fol r..ntb-:a of the hauseliald who had ••The door of the white drawing OFDOMINION' °tied by her to the last. I �@ � neons was thrown open," wrote wits e, "and the empress appeared res' a moment on the tln•eahold—an in- ORIGINATED IN 1763 IN expreesibiy touching little figure in ° NEWFOUNDLAND. her simple biacis drese and white col- lar, She made a curtsy and waved her fl flirt 4er bead, trying hard to smile, whilemany, not all of them women, sobbed Canada Draws Revenue Fromaloud' So passed the lovely lady of fashion from the throne that she never should have occupied. France, the glorious Tire seal prat1a, the Northern'�pa and great republic, revoked her exile ciao waters is considered to be the nd torgave leer in her saddened age most valuable herd of wild animals in fpr the eglendors aid errors of her the world, its value being placed at $76,000,000 and yearly increasing. Seal Fishery on Both Atlan- tic and Pacific Coasts; Iittering prime. Ijf After a conference in 1911.between Pleasure Essential Some people seem to think that there is a sharp dividing line between "essential" and "nonessential," and that an equally' sharp dividing line separates "pleasure" from all the world activities that are not generally called "pleasure." Nothing could be further from the fact, 'What Is not essential to one person may with equal justice be most essen- tial to another person, And what is pleasurable -to one person might be positively painfnl to some one else. Even Ignoring the difference In peo- ple's tastes and laying down an edict on some arbitary measure alone—as when war boards tried to determine what was essential to winning the war —even then no just •olaesideatlon can. be made. For aoldlers demanded cig- arettes and chewing gum, which are neither food nor clothing, and are cer- tainly not munitions, and officers ro- eulred "pletisure" care in pursuit of duty, These things were real necessi- ties to them. Supposedly a necessity Is something that contributes to the bare preserva- tton ot life. But, on the other hand, it you are merely going to preserve liN, we may well teen, "What for?" A life without pleasure is no life at an, and would not be worth preserving. Our wise men find only two states of human exlsteneo--pleasure and pain. You are always experienaing one or the otber. An effort has been made to show that there is a third state, a sort of sero condition from which both pleasure and pain are ab - sant. But if there is slide a state, you are 111 it only when you are unconsci- ous for to be conscious mean to be experiencing something, and zero is nothing, not something. With only two states to choose from —pleasure and pain—mankind does 1 not hesitate to pursue pleasure. The authors of the Declaration of lade -- penance showed their wisdom when they wrote It down that the pursuit of happiness (pleasure) is a right from u which no human being can be ated. aepar-I f Even Ito hardest working drudge In d the world fs carrying Itis burden be- cause it offers to him a way of escape Into pleasure; itis the purchase price of his happiness. Indeed, it is the+ prospect of pleasure at the day's end,; or the week's end, or the year's end, a or in old age, that keeps us all going, h There is no other motive power un-' der the golden sun. Furthermore, many of ue think that1 the world's pleasure should be limited I to our kind et pleasure. It we like a books, everybody ought to find plea -'0 sure in books. If we like finnan bad- ! h die, everybody ought to° But 11 we , i dislike finnan haddte, the scented fish c should be prohibited by law, 1f we o dislike finnan Meddle, certainly finnan m haddle Is to us a non-essential. If we like it well enough, it is a decided necessity. So, after all, pleasure and pain, es- • 11 seniint and non-easentlal, are divided k for me into what 1 like and what I t don't like. And they are divided for P you Into what you like and what you to don't like. the United States, Russla, Japan and Canada, all of whom' are interested in. sealing in these waters, a close :sea- Ben was established- for fifteen years and pelagic cealing forbidden. Ac- cording to the treaty signed at the same time, Canada received fifteen' per cent. of the catch' of these waters. The Dominion's credit has been M- owed to accumulate, and when a set- tlement is made, which will probably be done at the end of the present year, it is expected that Canada will receive something like $800,000 as her hare of the catch since the opening 1 the season. With the beneficial ef- eet the protection of the herd has had and is still experiencing, it is pre- icted that in a few scare Canada's revenue from this source will' -be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 a year. The Hair Seal: All the year round, hair seals, which re great roamers, 'have been in the obit of infesting the Fraser River and the Gulf of ()eagle, inhabiting In- ccessible fiats, and by consuming arge quantities of fish already taken n nets, have constituted themselves general nuisance. Various methods t combating this pest have been ttied nsuecesafully, and experimentation s continuing, in the belief that a sue- esstel method of trapping will not my terminate the mischief these ant - ale are doing but result in the erea- on af- a new and important Industry an the Pacific coast. Tho hair seal• is valued partly for its ide, which is used in making various Inds of Ieather, for oil which is ex - tented from its carcass, and, en the attic coast, for use in the manufac- re of fertilizer. The hair aeal Is a Logle at Worts. Teacher—"Thomas; will you tell me what a ccmiunetton is, and compose a eentenee containing one?" Thomas (after 001150tion)--"A con- junction is a word, connecting any- thtng, such as "The horse is hitched to the tenuo by his halter.' 'halter to a conjunetfot;, haeauso l# connects the horse and the fence." Soot weighing one ton may result intim burning one hundred tons of coal. were built for the pursuit, till lat these were superseded by fast stea ers. At the present tlme, though the er m - re are some sailing vessels stili engaged, the steamer is the big unit in the actlilty andaccounts for five -sixths of the catch. Of late years the seal catch of New- foundland has fallen off somewhat, due to the heavy toll and indisehimin- ate killing, which is now regularized by legislation, The 1908 catch, . for instance, numbered 213,863 seals, and that of the following year 269,320 ani- mals, A singie vessel has been known to bring into St. John's a eateh of 42,- 000, and a total tip nearly 700,000 settle have been taken by the entire New- foundland Beet in a single season. A Novae Trapping Method. A novel method ot hunting sea under the.auepfces'of• the governme of Newfoundland, is to bo _introduo in the spring by two Nova Scott aviators, which, if snecese ul, may valutfonize the entire industry. Th party of three men, with two aero Planes and dirigibles of the type use so successfully during the war t "spot" submarines, will salt fro Montreal early tri January to join th Newfoundland sealers at St. John' the augmented party of thirty-five forty leaving for: the • Labrador i fteids Hitherto the locating of seal herd has been done by men in the rlggin of ships whose range of vision Is na turally limited. This work It is Inten ed to do wth planes, "spotting" bei possible by,•thie means wants a menumenuof fifty miles. The method then is follows. The aeroplane, which ca ries flue men besides the pilot and m chanic, descends to the ice where th animals are despatched by bulls from machine guns. The skins ar then packed In bundles about the base of poles to which a Bag is attached. This kind of hunting continues to th end of the, season when the ice breaks up, the hunters proceeding from place to place, transported by plane as new herds are "spotted." At the close the `season the vessels visit the ice - breaks and pick up the bundles, being materially assisted by the planes in locating and slgnoliing, Close upon the announcement of the projected activities of theca aviators, there arrived in St. John's two ""blimps," or war alrships, a present to Newfoundland from the Imperial government. These it is intended to use in the seal fisheries in the same m Is, at ed a v0- 0 a 0 m e a, or Ce - g d - ng 5 as lest•. J es, A Qv mut for Inane ruleIs all Root 171 Cha British 'seat ladies, aaYa rho correspondent of The 170174on let Jamaica, and, inded4, tllrougllout the'leeltIsit Wast Indies, crown colony novertimeut'ban i)eoome repugnant to all classes, and the interment for re- 11rekentativc iestitutfons by now well nigh il'reslstible, At the legislative electlous last year ie Jamaica every member was return- ed with a mandate to press for a change in the constitution, and now a co1usn1(tee of the Lcglsleth'e Council 15 engaged iu preparing a memorial to the Secreary 01 State for the Colon - les 'aseing that a royal commis-Monshould he sent to Jamaica to, inquire into thepolitical, in addition to other, (-emblems obtaining there. 1laely Shts Aar three members of the •I,egfela- ture will proceed to L.iJtdoet to present the case of Jamaica to the Secretary of State to rthe colo7Jea. The leteter• Antilles 'have already prepared plans for a like deputation 'With the same end' 171 view, Desire for change tram an anti- quaed system of government finds ex- preselon in eliritish Guiana, the Lee- ward anis Windward islands, Trinidad and Jamaica, and friends of coustttn- ttonal government are everywhere hopeful that the tmperiel government will consider and formulate a scheme by which this can be brought about, T2te present system is czitielzed as stifling the voice of the people; crown government, It is declared, is auto- onie Rule crane and Use gove'rntneut may flout the wlshes of the poolile even though the peogle'e representatives press thein ever go ardently, BeforeMOJ4uuaica had a comets• tuljon, granted by Cliarlea II., which was a repreaeutative ane. It Conine!, ed of a governor, a privy commit, a legislat:1N council and an assembly ot 'forty-seven members. be that year this eenatltutlon was surrendered and a Leglsiative Council es•teblett ed (mu- tilates of an equal number of ,otiieal wad enoficlal lamberts. In 189$ a change .was inetttutart whereby the council 0ouelstee of the Governor, five ex-omofo members, and other pez'eous not exceeding ten, and fourteen per- sons to he elected, with a Privy Coun- cil wieleb is the Executive Council. This experiment in 01'022'11 e010119 hart proven expensive, Nor 011(the eniargemont of 1896 be considered dry 'Itaproveznent. The Privy Council is en added burden, It Is made up of °Metall, the commander of the forces, and a couple of planters. There is no representative of the peo- ple at its sittings, 110 one to advise on matters deeply 'affecting the tax- payer or cheese extravagance. In the hands of the Privy Counen lite Gover- nor himself ie more or less a puppet. However well disposed or otherwise he may be to pet/Acta of legislation, be must act clearly on the advice of the council, though, as it is continually urged in the colony, this body does not repiesent the people of Jamaica as a whole. Lights .of Hoarse. The lights gf home, the lights of home, That glimmer through the orchard trees, Of all the lights of all the world, There are no other lights like these. The epee -why lights of city streets, Flaw they bewitch; enchant, enthrall, Yet, measured for their truest worts!, 'What very shallow lights withal! The starry fights that shine afar Majestically burn and gleam:But, through the migh?earn ty reof 5-07108, How east and tar deny they seem. The amaJight ,laming on es, the warm The mconbearnt'e, mellow, mystic light, The beacon Light upon the shore, The camp fire glowing in the night; The fairy light the dewdrop holds, The dazzling brilliance of the snow, Phe soft, luxuriate sheen of silk, The ra,ilance that jewels show; I love them all, and yet to me There Is a falter light than. these; It is the golden, welcoming stream That glimmers through the Orchard trees. For everything I hoed most dear Is there, behind that streaming light; "Rome, and the folks you love the best," This is the greeting through the night. The lights of home, dear lights of home, That glimmer through the orehard trees, 01 all the lights of all the world, There are no other lights like these. Both Good. e Once Day and Night in converse met, And argued long— Said Day: "I bring the world its Light Its Bower and song; of All life and warmth are my hours' claim; My share is beat." Said Night: "You bring the world eta work; I bring it rest!" i T particularly valuable animal at the nl present time, his hide calling for as 11 Slew Up German Monument. hl in The second anniversary of the sign. Ing o! the armistice was celebrated in Belgum by blowing up with dynamite un a monument eructed by the Germans as at Couplet in commemoration of the e' battle of Charleroi, The average ;man has therty seven buttons to button and unbutton every p day, Fame greater than, that which p exalts Edison awaits the'biventor who to can reduce the number to one. , on gb as $176, A recent development t the seal industry is the utilization s t the skins of old males, a hitherto profitable section, which consider- i bey atheism the value of the seal 11 tch to any country. Canada draws avenue from seal fishery on both the ' th Rambo and Pacific coasts, and the a amounts accruing from these is, at the s resent time, naturally of gratifying b roportions and will be more so in the tura. It has been computed roughly that e million seal skins are Inaxketted every year, and to this aggregate the largest elegise collection is contributed by the sealers of Newfoundland apart ating on their own coast and off the shores of Labrador. In the year 1919, Newfoundland's share of the seal fsh• ery accounted for 81,293 seals with a market value of $278,000. The Indus- try on the island accounts ter the em- ployment of 1,686 men, and numerous vessels take part in the often hazard' ous undertaking, Newfoundland, the Ploheer. The seal industry originated in Now- ndland in 1743, and for some years Or that the annual catch did not ex- cel throe or tour' thousand skins par a son, With the increastng demand oil and Sicite, however, the indite - grew. and more men and vessola a me' to engage exclusleelY in It, By the beginning of the nineteenth eon- ce tory, the annual catch exceeded 60,000 th skins, and larger and larger vessels no anner, the cost of operation, esti ated at 360,000, being borne jointly y. the Newfoundland government and be owners of the sealing vessels as- isted in their catch. The cooperation of the government n this new venture would augur a be- ef in the practicabilltY and success of the novel enterprise, and doubtless err success, which is highly prob- bio, will have a marked effect upon ealing 'on both coasts and tend to ring about a revolution in hunting methodb. A Bird's Barbed Wire Fence I e Central America are many strange birds with stranger habits, but probably none Is more Interesting tins a little brown wren whlcb may be soon along the roadsides or on the fences. This little bird, about the size of a canary, builds a nest out of all proportion to Its apparent needs. Ile selects a small tree with horizental branches glee Ins close together. Aeroes two of le branches he lays soaks tastene. tegether teeth tough fibre until a p (form abou" aix test long by two teat wide is constructed. On the end of this platform nearest the tree trunk he then betide a huge dome shaped tlost a foot or ao high, with thick Stirs of interwoven thane. A covered passageway is then trade treat the nest to the olid of the plat' form in as drooped a manner as pee- sibio, Acrees the outer and as well es at short intervals along the Weide of,thls Natal are placed 6itrieing little , fences of thorns, with inat enough space for the owners to pass through. On going out thle opening fa closed by ; the owner by placing thorn aerate the gateway, and ,thus the safety of 'eggs or young is assured. o . fou It has been estlmated that 80 peat eft cent. of the total annual produce of ae Oanadtazt firms is consumed In Gan- f0a• ads. Over eeven hundred gardeners are ca. already employed in tending Britisb soldiers' graves be France and nel- alunr. A Gentle Dentist. Two dentists were talking "shop," One remarked: "lity treatment Is se painless that it often happens that my patients fall asleep while I am attending to their teeth." The other dentist gave a depreciate Ing; shrug of his shoulders. "Pooh, pooh, my dear maul That be nothing!" he cried. "You should see sty place, with all the latest improve- ments. Why, my patients nearly ai -ways ask me to send a messenger to fetch a photographer so that they can be photographed with the expreision of gladness which my patent dental treatment alone can glue then(. Chinese In London. The Chinese population of London is increasing rapidly and the dietrlot which has been pproprated by the lestfalis 10 beeoming overcrowded so at they are eneroaebing on the ighbering districts, Aerial. Force to Guard French Frontiers. France is to be the first country 10 have an aerial police force guarding her,frontler., against smugglers or persone attempting to land without passports for propaganda purposes. The Ministry of Aviation has decided - to organize the new service as quickly as possible arranging for definite points along the frontiers over which all airplanes must pass mad for air- dromes where customs inspection, will be made, Airplanes which cross the treader 1 elsewhere will be signalled to Come down, and will then be followed to the nearest din es lan g111ace by the aeries police unless these airplanes belong to special aerial transportation nom-. panies owning their awn airdromes, i where customs' oificlals will be sta- tioned permanently, 1 The roguiations provide that a flier guilty of infraction of the civilian passport regulations be subject to the penalty which calls for immediate en.-; pulsion, with a caution not to repeat the offence, but the inlets of such dna-: Chines will be watched much more closely thereafter. The question of 7' duty on petrol supplies has. been set-' tied by establishing a special route card, each machine to be allowed enough gasolene to reach a declared+ destination. Apart from the supervision of i frontiers to prevent commercial in- fractions of the laws the aerial police will be expected to give the earliest warning of the approach of enemy air- i craft, thus providing a valuable sup-! plementary three In the event that Germany, as. many military leaders be- - I sieve, decided to construct semi -velli- 1 tars airplanes, ostensibly for coenmer-; dial purposes. th st ie Io h ;to "fa el ;J ,'t Food 182 Per Cent Higher. To -day the siteation hu ,•eta+ •1. The cost of tieing: curve bee rises to 160 per cert_ ever ceste in Jul;; • 1914, Food alone Is 139 per ,.r..:, hitter, Land taxes ate income taxes have been piled upon the man of moderate means and, in addition, he feels Cha burden of tits excess profit taxes, supertaxes and verperal on taxes that big business is bearing. The tulnual interest en the national debt has risen from a per teepee curl err 311.14 in 1914 to $38.80 to -day, The u Igen a£ the middle class hats not kept pt pace with these advance, They have risco. to some extent --•t0 a very Liege «Meat in the unionized labor amine- -but the tusine„s man •end .he t• ee ::mint Haan find their 1nea,,tee ' n;v ,1. few 43;:1171415 more than in 1914. 'their exp,'nsea tune doubled. In other war,',%, their wing has been cut fn half. It Is ohvleesly inoas vera under e0e cun.litiur:7 to maintain the 0241, undard, Sacrifice, nave be made on very stand. The younger sets sun no ager plan to go to the a r+v !-ratty-- e must eater trade 1t 1t junior clerk contribute his share toward the rally income. The daughter also must go to business in the ray, 010 other must be wore a Itt'e while ;le, t.L. CRUSHES MIDDLE CLASS LANARK OF THE a TI$$B NATION. Soaring Prices Force People pa to Lowe4'Standard of Living and Liquidate Assets. Crushed between the tipper and nether miilstouea of high living costs and lose salaries, England's groat mid- dle clue. Is to -day strugglh:g for eou- tinued existence, They urn being ('arced too tower their stando.rds et lit/ ;Ing, to liquidate the assets ucqutrod in better years and to eurren1er ane be' ono the phases of intelloetnal arid eaelal lite that made the middle Mese the bulwark of the nation and the em- pire. It has heed said that Bogl1,s'17 soelete' was lite English beer --froth at the top, dregs at the bottom, but good sated brew in the middle stratum. Eng- land has always depended on Tier mid- file class, Tbey gave bto the business men, the. scientists, writers and the. artists, Their noes entered the army and the navy, founded and built up the colonies overseas, 8VIio were those people of the mid- dle class? Before the war thee, hmuos wore found in the suburbs, on small country estates and in previnciai towns. The father way p1'rl Ips n' pro- f'ee'lonal man or in haeme e. The fancily incomes ranged from $3,000 to 37,500 a year. This sant enitb'.e.I theta to live in e0ntpurativc luxury and even to save and invest.. Their bud:eats w0ft carefully arranged, their funds unnst needs be well mat /gild, but by slsflltul nee of the tante fiery wero utile to allord many little luxuri06 cf life, The sans went to the great publle scltoote,- Rugby, Eton and Harrow. Later there would be, a son in the ser- vice, perhaps an officer !n India. The daughters married prosperous men of their class. litany Of the families owned their own homes, perhaps even owned a email farm in the eonitirY- side. They could travel a bit. --a holi- day at the eoast or even.a week In Switzerland, Thus, cultured, balanced and consertative, they fennel the strongest part of England's stela] fab- ric, Tarry Not. The road to yesterday 'Sims travel it? A tangled skein, so why Unravel it? Tile future calls you on. The past Is dead, And all you hope to do Lies Pet ahead, Grease turned into sewers by wool - washing plants is recovered by the English city of Birmingham at its. sewage plant and converted into a profitable byproduct. cleaned and Dabbed ani •'made do:' Clubs and sport -the+ meter- FcIe or sailboat met 1 h ;;lv,'a 'w- lteatrea 1md t011'O t( at,, r) 3,ntger possible,. The bleeds .alto drop lir ltn- pectedly for dinner be'otne a eeri- e economic problem. v in l.relish urnalist recently said, .rhe middle ass .is being forced 1.t elimin: ite all e decorative margin of life. Limit for Feeding, ; ex The limIt of the earth's capacity is ; ou 6,294,000,900 human beings. The world 50 could feed no more. At the present ci rate of increase this limit will be to reached by A.D, 2100. Insurance for Canada's Soldiers ' Situation Becomes Acute. j This transition period ha, been pro- gressing slowly, but the situation has i now become acule. During the war eacr]Ilce was unIYet-aaI and wen made on the grounds of national neces- sity. To meet the high prices the family savings were cut into rind dis- appeared. The family investments were liquidated, Perhapsthe cottage in the country was sold. And sudden- ly, with the coming of peace, t:he pros- perous midel2e class num found that he 1 was lust where ho had started life. Peace did not solve the problem, how- ever. Prices continued high, but his salary was Nearly the same. Now, al- ter six years of high prices the situs - tion of the middle class Is becoming desperate. Many are dropping back o absolute poverty; all feel the ch of the times. There are certain well defined cups the(, from a variety of causes; or more than others. Those are; Professional people. Retired business men and athete' xed pre-war Incomes, Pensioned ex-offl4er5 and nivel servants, 4. The clerks and "white collar” men. These people comatitute the "New Poor," Ail alike facto the same hard- ships, deprivations and the lowering of their standards of riving, the Canada's geuercus treatment of her returned soldiers; which included aa - bonus on discharge, a system of voc dental training, and a universally ap- proved land settlement policy, has been followed up by a scheme 01 gov- ernment Iife insurance which has so ninny benefits for the ex -warrior that 7r eras: instantaneously popular and within a short time of inauguration had been extensively taken up by mtlltary men all over the Dominion, Within throe months of the Act hat/- • Ing become effective, or up to Decem- ber let, 1920, insurance to the amount of 33,282,000 was Issued by the Do- minion government, and 326,711 re- ceived in premiums, representing ap- plications from 1,013 Gonadial meet - diem, Shoals of inquiries continue to pour in, The Act applies to all ox -soldiers and nurses and to widower of returned soldiers who died in Canada after dis- charge from the services Policies are Issued for a minimum of 3600 and R. maximum of 36,600, Insurance being payable Only in the event of death or the total and permanent disability of the insured. One-fifth of the maximum may be paid at death and the balaeoe, aen annuity, over a period of 6, 10,. ti; or twenty years, PromulnIS 11.18 110.Y11111 monthly, Quarterly, half•yearly or yearly. An additional advantage of the sebeme is that grace of one month is allowed , for the payment of any premium, i other than the first, without interest, and should claim occur during the days of grace, I•t is paid minus the amount of the premium. The salterne, as evolved, wee mainly ; intended 'for disabled or partially dies abled men whom existing companies , would only take at very high pre- ; miums or not at ail. The government Scheme places all men on an equality, and no medical examination is neces- sary in order to take out a policy whit% is merely based on the age et; int the insured at the time of insuring, 'Pin A great number of tit men are, how- ever, taking advantage of the favor gr able term and rates, and the admit- cuff ages it oftere in the payment of pre- I- miums. 2. The majority of the policies issued 01 2 so tar have been for 31,000, the maxi- 8- mnttlamount to be obtained under the Act by the individual, lax -soldiers in every wails of civil life have already Insured under the scheme, many be- ing, It est stated, insurance agents, in- cluding r.11I f .caLls exist - ng Insuranceseveral companiesoi.iLargoof purr• bars of physicians have also taken out policies. The period during which exotica - Mons for insurance will be received Is open until September Ist. 1922. Dusk Sounds Curfew to Noeway. Y C!bildren are not allowed out 101 the t , r;=; of Norway ar'er dark.