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The Brussels Post, 1921-12-1, Page 7a. - ..q r-. "'OR , MEINING ,AS tODI? there Welter ilz be vented, and atoms axi;daff, i1t the Piet* St. Mishol he slrtnh e Vermouth da ?thirty trVonnds, because he was Thirsty. On 1110 Boulevard St. Germain he dranic Deo more. with J grenadine, because be, met a book- Jtiitonto osoii'.the�Tlttryy', 1 entered 'binder wltgm.he kazw Atter soother the miaow %hop over which hung the ]talo stop ata Place \filer° he was ac - shabby Sign: "Betels Iiooke T3onght quaintod with the proprietor and and sole:" Books, :in tact, vane .the where he took sane) hitters' lie arrleed place Cron fioaF to,eofltn8. ,at the Rue de Renees. "Good day, uncle," said Julien, An old man emerged. He wee very Julien walled impatiently among tiro tall and were a long white coat, Iiia books and the odors a dried paper snow-white heir matte his red face and moldy hludings which they ex- look xlook even.redder, Iii) !reseible eyes haled. Shrinking and . hesitating 111 !highest, even behind his horn epee- disposition, he marveled that be had tholes, token this capital decision= -to marry, "You abated say good evening at lie thought of f'auiine Il'oelloy, who this time of the day," lie grumbled. had beautiful brown hair, dark eyes "Would you believe that that aminal anti an attractive, lively mariner, They Brevaire has been here threestinies to were aimeady on geed terms and wonid claim a catalogue which X gave him Jind a delightful little home and the yesterday? Bat, hold on --4th was uncle would 'come to dicewith then right. Here he his catalogue—in the en Snnclays. In spite of. his bruagee- drawer. I put it In there inadvertent- uses Julien was very fond of him and ly That's strange, isn't it? But Ws couldn't also help remembering that ne excuse .for has bothering. me like the old man was far frim poor. that. Have you come to, take dinner . But haif past 7 had struck axed the with tire? Go to the cafe at the..cor- good uncle hadn't raturned. Julien tier Lana wait for me. P'l lookupanti. began to fear the worst. Suddenly join you.- Don't be afraid. You won't there; WAS a step. at Die door., The have to drink anything but viehY•" uncle appeared.. Julien blushed, He was a young . He entered, with his cap over his men, frail and blond, with a .gentle .eye, his Saco rathira nd. moaner. "Yes," be cried "It's 'yes: I. told ' No „uncle,If you please, we'II"stay ,you that It wee a sure thing," hero. I .have a favor to ask tae gran;" Cutting short Julien's effusions, he •"!Is sit possible.?. You :have done continued, something fonlieli? You'.ve ;changed, "No thanks are necessary, my boy. :thein." It was certainly a pleasure. The old "It Isn't anything ,o1 trust sent, lhdy was perfect.• She knows that you turtle, 'Bat Youare tke.only ielat1 a aro a. serious and settled person. Arid I have. I want ,to gest mauled. And 1 had my say- The grandchildren have ;yeau .must go and uslc Ser the young .some money and I didn't wish that we llacly;a ;hand:" should seem poor. Yes, yes, my boy; "swhaty" .exclaimed the .uncle: your uncle rd111 stand by you. Your "Tes,; .oho is as .yomng •girL I like marriage Is my work. In short, the iter very ,much, Tier neaae is Pauline grandmother said 'yea, and the little fint11oy.. She 2telnugs to a very good one, too. But that was a matter oS dmmigy., Reseleten; Marie, is a typist course, wasn't it?" do .my .office. Pauline Stas been there Julien tottered under an affectionate seyerai tunes to call for her sister-, slap which rho old man gave him. and I brave also •esen ;her at parties. I . ":Chen you saw her, and talked with have talked with Iter now and then. her?" They lire with their grandmother. "With the little one?.- Why natural. Moir niot'iter is dead and their father sly, But come, get your hat. I'll buy to a travelling larsurance agent. He you a dinner and then you can go and Suis an excellent position. So, Uncle, see her. Yes, I talked to hero Her 3 wish you weld call on them. . I sister was out but she wasn't, and the ' uldn't make up ray mind. But this grandmother called her. morning 1 came to a decision. I want "'Monsieur is M. Julien's uncle, and *0 have a home, a tranquil domestic he has .come . 14fe, with a nice tittle wife like her, "You see how it was. The little one and, now that I have decided, I would appeared to be greatly surprised—it tike to have you go this evening," was all put on, of course—and blush - "Not on your life. I sn0u1d took ed. foolish. And so would you. Go your- "''What, M. Julien? I hadn't the self." slightest idea'— "I wouldrather have you go, uncle. "But she said 'Yes,' and without any I wouidu't dare to. The old grand- lege of reluctance. She hasn't the air prother—1 hardly know her." of detesting you! . Ah! You are a "And I don't know her at all, You lucky Yenisei'. To beloved by a pretty can dare to do it, all right, 'Didn't T girl like that. Her hair—yon might dare when I went to propose to your say It was of liquid gold." stunt?" "It isn't the same thing, uncle.; I shall have to tell ter about myself and about my prospects. I wouldn't he able to do that satisfactorily. While you you could say that I am e serious and settled :young man, And "You didn't see.very well, uncle," slid Julien with a laugh. "Pauline has brown hair and dark eyes." "I see perfectly well with my glass- es;" the uncle interrupted somewhat vexed. "And I had them with me. The little one has blond'hair and' blue 1f she should refuse, 1d prefer" , eyes. And what do you moan by call - "You'd prefer to have me turned ing her Pauline, when her name is down. But, for that matter, I'd like Marie?" • to ase her refuse. The only thing they It was some seconds before Julien: can say against you isthat you aro understood, tee reasonable—and a little too timid. "Mon Dieu!" he groaned. "You But for a good family men that is a didn't ask for the one I wanted." Merit rather than a defect. Sapristit There was a long silence, The I wish you could have seen ma when 1, uncle plucked his beard nervouslbe was your age," , "Myboy," he .said at .Inst, "if you "So, uncle, you'll go, won't you?" didn't explain things to me properly it said Julien plaintively. isn't my fault. Moreover what Is there The old man, shrugged his should- to complain about? The family is the era, " He stopped to the hack of the saute. The situation is the same, shop, where he had a living ream, and Everything' is the same, except that reappeared in a false shirt front, a you get a blonde instead of a brunette. showy necktie and a black wasetyg You aro extraordinary. I have found coat. - On this head was a suiali nap, you a charming wife. She is the bet - which only half covered his lururiant ter of the two, I am sure. And the white hair, - other? You must admit that you don't "1 nm ready to do my duty," he said know whether she cares, for you or sardonically. 'But the idea of getting not," married at your age! I didn't think "I didn't dare to ask her outright. of such a thing till I wee ten years But I love her. Suppose when you Alder thau you are, But every one to wanted to get married they had °f- lits taste. What did you tell me? fared you anothei wife?" Mete. Bouldoy, 27 bis, Rue de la "It isn't a parallel case. In the first Seine? plaog, spur' aunt had no sister. Be - "No, uncle, Mme.-Fonlley, 27 bis, sides, we can't start all over again. Rue de la Rennes." You make a proposal of marriage and "What made me think it was Rue de it is accepted. If you draw out you 1a Seine? Walt here for me. 'If, any act like a scoundrel—a miserable belly comes in say, that I heve,gone scoundrel. Aud this poor child! No, for the day. And don't worry. It is T am good flathead, but'I couldn't"con- ss good es settled in advance. It: will sent to admit that you had led me to be 'Yes,' " make such a mistake. No, I couldn't. "Ws almost 6, uncle. Why, don't So come along to dinner. Cheer up! you take a cab?" Julien suggested. He We are going to celebrate your en thought anxiously of the numerous gngement,".. cafes ea the way. Julien followed him, still in a daze, But the u•ucle said that 0e could get but already almost resigned, reluct- ..- . ALL DRAWING AGAINST H1.8 A00.0UNT ant, as ever, to fight against things as they come. "Atter all, einee she loves me!,'.lee sighed Success Nuggets. To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly; he who empires to nothing and learns nothing is not worthy of liv- ing. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other Blessed- ness, He has a. work, a life -purpose; he has found it and will follow 10— Thorne Carlyle. It is only as a, man puts off from himself all external support and stands• alone that I see him to be strong and to prevall.—Emerson. The more persistently we hold the ,prosperity .thought, the more we strengthen and intensify it, the more we increase its .power to attract pros- perity. Whatever page we turn, Howoi'er much we learn, Let there be something left to dream of still! Set all tbinge in their own peculiar • place, And know that order is the greatest grace. —Dryden. Without Him, Heaven were an arid waste; With Him, a desert Heaven: A grouch and his customers are soon parted. The deeper I drink of the cup of life the sweeter it grows,—Julia Ward Prohibition Unknown in Japan The blessing' (or curse)'. of prohibi- tion has not leached the Flowery King - dem. Yet during nearly two months spent in Japan I did not see an intoxi- eated person. Sake is tho national delete but. the _Mikado's subjects oc- casionally indulge in alcoholic bever- ages of all kinds, and the Government derives a large revenue from the sale and regulation of both home made and imported beverages. Of the foreign beverages the melt popular with the Japanese he bear, which is made by breweries at Tokio, Yokohama. Osaka and Kobe. A famous Bridal): Columbia brewery which was putout of business by the adoption of prohibition in Canada has moved its plant over to Japan and its product is finding favor. Beer sells from 15 to 25 cents a bottle. Other imported alcoholic products, like Scotch and rye whiskey, are sold at the rate of 20 cents a drink. Cham- pagne and light wines, which the more prosperous Jaiianese'drink, are about as cheapas they were here before prohibition came. Sake is made of rice and carries a mild ')tick." It is usually served bot And is not particularly palatable to the Western taste, Sake shops are num.- erous In boat cities and villages and provide "tire poor manes club," to which all classes of people resort to discuss politics and other interesting topics. American soda parlor's appeal to the Japanese palate. Sundaes of various flavors are consumed in vast amounts. One soda ship in the Ginza (main street) of Tokio sells 2,000sun- daes a day 1n hot weather. Government statistics published 1n• August show that drinking 1s increas- ing throughout the empire despite the fact that prices• are double what they were in 1914. The figures for 1919 show that during that year 244,000,000 gallon of sake were sold, 26,680,000 gallons of beer and 2,400,000 gallons of wine and other beverages. The 1914 figures were 172,000,000 gallons of sake, or six gallons to each household. Statistics from Government agonciee show that in 1917 there were 113,348 sake shaps, 38,972 restaurants in the country, employing 52,446 geishas•, 62,- 804 waitresses and 47,810 prostitutes, Ancient Nursery Rhymes. Nursery rhymes are a very old form of literature. "Sing a song of sixpence" was popu- lar as far hack as 1500; "Three blind Howe., mice" is included in a book of music The most valuable "system" is a dated 1609; while"Pussycat, pussycat, good nervous system. where have you been" is supposed to refer to Queen EIizabeth. "Headed for the top" is a very good motto. This is not trying, by hook or crook, to get ahead of others. That is a very un- worthy motive. But head- ing for the top mean's that you are striving for the highest excellence of which you are capable; this is a constant suggestion to you to better your best, to make this day abetter one. than yesterday. — 0. S. Marden, "The frog and the mouse" is another old rhyme, for it was printed le 1580, and both "Girls and boys come out to play" and "Lucy Locket lost her poc- ket" were well known to children in Charles II's time, it's His, Though. "I suppose you get a great deal of pleasure out of your car?" "No, I can't say that I do." "What's the trouble?" "The car's all right, but Monday is mother's day to drive it; on Tuesday the girls want it; Wednesday I prom- ised to let the boy have It, and Friday and Saturday it has to go in for re- pairs. Sunday, if I am very good, they j letme drive myself." WINTER WORRIES Winter brings its own diseases, calling for a change of pills; when the climate ups and freezes, there's a brand new set of ills; so I put away the bottles that the summer saw me bey, for the frigid winter throttles all the ailments of July. And .with jubilant emotions to the pharmacy I scoot, and buy up new pille and potions, hoping they are worth a hoot. Thus the winter time is giving satisfaction manifold; for a change makes life worth living, and it's routine makes us old. Every form of stent en- deavor should be mixed with harmless play; doing one•old •thing forever takes. one's pep sad vine away. I was tired of taking bitters for my sunstroke and my hives, summer dope that human critters must consume or lose their lives; now 1 have my winter ailments, rheumatism, croup end flu, with the usual derailments of a wishbone' or a thew; 'ailinen'ts more or less distressing, foreign and domestic ills; but I count it quite a blessing to con- front new kinds U. pills, • There is always something cheering, In this happy life we lead; always some attraction nearing, if we only give It heed. When -the cold no longer pleases, and the winter seems a grind, spring will usher in diseases of a new and piquant Wind. Novelties are t0 us trooping, always something new and strange, and the aid world gods a -whooping down the ringing grooves of change, REGLAR FEL-,LERS- -•By Gene Byrnes es: ti3k'& Bo`( I:iK `foo a sNaulb BE•' i'3i51ietM -D -r'o ASK 'OR A hilcl�El. University Spirit. "There's no use betting on a uni- versity team. University boys always play to win," said a more or less pro- fessional "sportsman" apropos of the rugby games played at the University of Toronto stadium. This man has an insight into the spirit which is pro- duced by university athletics. Uni- versity boys play hard, are glad to win, are good losers, if they lose, and they do root resort to "shady" tricks. They`are trained to be above that sort of thing. Not 'the winning of the game„ primarily, but good, clean sport is their objective. And what a valu- able asset that spirit is to an indi- vidual! The people of Ontario are proud of their provincial university, of its excellent teaching, of its suc- cess in research, of its widespread extension service, and they do not forget that, at that unit essity, young men and '.omen are being trained to be citizens of the highest order, un- suspicious and above suspicion, honest and upright, and that the training in sports and general athletics is help- ing to produce that type of citizen, World's Cotton Spinners. One of Britain's most important in- dustries is cotton spinning and of the 152,000,000 spindles at present at work in the world, over one-third are in the Mother country, The rawcotton used during the first half of 1921 amounted roughly to 1,- 500,000 tons, or 7,357,212 bales. 01 this Great Britain used 030,230 bales; the United States, 2,540,000; Japan, 971,654: India, 904,131; Germany, 457,- 257; and France, 251,935, A bale varies from 400 lb, to 500 ib. in weight. Maybe Mother Was. Lucy heard her mother and some callers discussing a neighbor's rug. She quietly slipped out of the room, sang the neighbor's door -bell, and asked to see tbo new rug. After looking at it for some time, she solemnly said, "Well, it doesn't make ere sick." ANIMALS THAT KNOW HOW TO ADVERTISE TRICKS FOR WOOING OR TO WARD OFF. DANGER. Birds `Especially Make Strong Bid for Favor by Songs and Feather Display. Everywhere one goes in the country signs may he seen which indicate that creatures of the wild know the value oP advertising juee as march as die hu- man beings. Often this adeventising' may be just a dodge on the part of the insect or aelma1 to avoid the attention of am-: other areatere who has designs upon him ea a delectable dimmer morsel, • This'peouliarlty of Nature ie notice- able in regard to the butterfly, whieh is an ingenious t:ttle publicity mer- ehant, Certain kinde of butterflies Have noxious eesallities which are not to the liking of birds•, but there are other species which are just the re. verse. The latter 005eaquentry as- sirme the colorings of the Sooner, and so, by advertising heir undesirability se food, nranege to preserve their lives. The same tactics are adopted by beetles, but it ie from bird and animal life that we get the best examples. Certain kinds of snipe, for instance, set up a peculiar ehrlek as soon as ,they catch sight of a shooting -party, and this, is kept up until they have ad- vertised fear and wide that tee gunners are on the lookout, Sheep's Secret Signals. Wild sheep, also, are clever in this respect. They need only to see one of their number at attention, with head up and sane pricked forward, to become suspicious and ready for flight, Again, when deer register the Pres• ence of a foe, they aced a signal to every member of the hand to be cau- tious. The wild bellow of the lion is often uttered, not because he is angered and ready for fight. He knows that to keep away his foes he has but to remind them of his power, and he does so by proclaiming his strength far and wide. With just the same object does the rattlesnake shake his castanets. The sound of them reaches the ears of bis foes and awed with the dreadful warn- ing of the snake's latent power, they rapidly disappear. But it is at the mating maven in the wild that the full power of publici- ty is brought to bear. There is a general flaunting of color and parade of strength, with the object of proving to a possible mate how much more de- sirable than his rival each one is, Competition Among Birds. This competition for favor is par- ticularly cutsta.nding in bird 111e, and the display of colors and ornaments to catch time female eye is carried to per- fection. The great peacock, while conscious of his beauty, at the same time is aware that his rival may be just as beautiful, and to oust him from favor be tidies himself up and, as it were, puts, on his Sunday best. Birds of Paradise wave their won- derful silky pinnies, and the humming- bird with great skill flashes his gems among the flower's, making a perfect color-scltenie, Other birds, less fortunate in the matter of color, find the power of song a great factor in gaining favor; so these songsters chant their sweetest melodies or chirrup and whistle as best they can. Even the lumbering alligator knows how to advertise, and, in searching tor a bride, does his best tostage a fight so that the lady of his choice m3Y see himcome forth the victor! The same applies to lions and tigers, and even the monkey, so if you see any of those fellows vainly strutting. about at the Zoo, don't laugh. They know what they are doing! Ihied figs are, weight for weight, more nourish-ing than bread. Living in Austria is now 93 times as costly as in 1914 The 1911 census gives the Province of Alberta a population of 581,995, as compared with 374,663 in 1911, an increase of 207,332, or 55,34 per cent. se A failure doesn't want to smile — he can't. Smile when you reach your hone or office. Smile when you read your letters and smile when you answer them. Senile when you don't feel like it. Smile when, you come and senile when you ga. Smiles keep the day balanced. Smiles are the visible banners of success. Citizenship, Citizenshili is a much more cone siderable artily than registering and voting, It goes fat' beyond the teloiitg out of naturalization papsra to qualify ae one of the body politic in the land of the brave and the free. Qitzeita1119 lugs a duty for every citizen, net,eim' ply on l,leetion Day, but the whole year round, and It is a duty that is social end not merely politieal. To be a good citizen is to be a good fiend and neighbor. It is to manifest loyalty and integrity in business re- lations, Goad citizenship acre to build up not alone the prosperity of a pri- vate concern, but the welfare of tom* coerce and trade in general, . The good citizen, singly or canpor' ately, pays his debts, Ile does tial keep others waiting for the money they have earned and therefore own. He has an instinctive horror of bor- rowing without a definite and under- stood prospect of repayznont, He keeps Itis aiapointments, He re- apects the right of other 'men to the same consideration from him that he wants from them. He feels that as each man does hie part, is trite to his own 'trust, sands his ower business; is responsible and reliable in his own person, the average level of credit and prestige for the whole community will rise. Citizenship means a realization on the part of one man that all men are helped or hindered by itis individual performance. The mean and discreditable things we do that count a,gain•st us react on the rest as well. As an army is judg- ed by its soldiers, a club by its mem- bers, a college by its undergraduates, a community is judged by its citizens. The patriot brings distinction on his home town. That is why we do honor to a man who fought in France or prepared to go. Slackers are a re- proach to the public opinion that tol- erate the breed. That is why we das- countetranuce them and would have them justly penalized. Citizenship, in the full round of its all-encompassing circle, takes in even the domestic demeanor and tete pri- vate rivate life. You cannot call a man a good citizen who is unfaithful -or even unfeeling—hs those intimate ob- ligations of the home and the family that are the test and the revelation of character. He is not to be praised if at the banquet booed or in the crowded auditorium or a church as- semblage he has much to say about the virtues, while at home, behind the doors, where the curious world does not obtrude, his practices are mesa and despicable, The good citizen, wherever he may be and whatever he is doing, has no reason to fear the lights _ _—_.., Trainieeg Farmers. Out in British Columbia, in the Big Bar Creek region there lea project under way with the backing of the Government that poiezte to the solu- tion of a big part of the problem of the ex -soldier. Nearly a million dollars,re to be spent in creating a farming training colony on a tract of 10,000 acres, Be- fore the 500 "first families" are ad- mitted, houses and schools will be provided, free, with fuel, light and water. The necessary equipment will be brought to the scene, from portab`.J sawruills, trucks and tractors to live- stock. Each settler will be given six acres, a cow, thirty ehickens and two pigs. He will have a minimum salary of $60 a month and a commission on the community sale of his produce. When a man has become a full- fledged, qualified farmer, as examine- ' tions determine, he will be assigned an arabe tract, independent of com- munity central, on the route of the Grand Trunk Pacific, It sounds too good to be true. The intending soldier -settler looks for the hitch in the plan. The hitch is that he must have a thousand dollars. That is a good deal of money for an ex - soldier. If he is able to scrape to- gether the sum, the plan seems to present large possibilities. There will be general curiosity as to the out- come, andsuccess in British Columbia is likely to mean a multiplicity of similar ventures in other pl.'nces, The agriculturml settlement of Western Canada has resultesi in an amazing development of the wheat belt. To the middle of September, 1921, 90,- 000;000 bushels, of winch 85,000,000 have been shipped abroad, had come to Montreal. By this time certain commercial superstitions about "Our Lady of the Snows" deserve extir- pation, How Long Do You Sleep? Many notable instances are an 're- cord of early rising among great men, although, strangely enough, this ex. eminent habit seems to be going smut of favor. M. Clemenceau is at leia dealt every morning while most ref his fellovecoun- trymen aro still in the land of Nod, and the same may he said of Edition, 'ivho, when In the throes of a mechaht' cal problem, fleas two or three hours' sleep sufllclent for his needs. Napoleon could stay up late and get. up early, a gift'poesessed by Mr. Lloyd George, ivho is Said to be able t0 go to sleep almost at once. Load Reaellug, when at the Bar, was never iii bed after 4 a.m., while at one time Lord Haldane allowed hthrself only four hours' sleep, She Had Good References. "Nene, did you kill all the genie in baby's intik?" "Yes, imam; I run It through the meat chopper twice:'