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Bir ,Charles Gordon, President, Stresses inherent Vigor end . Roundness of
•,' General . Economia Stet/Otero' Ln ,(an adar.=•Reactton in:.,General Business
Due,Princlpaliy to. ;Depressed Grain and, Other Commodity Prices,
W. A. Bog and' Jackson Dodds, the, .Genefal Managers,'^Draw- Attention to
Maintenance by Bank of 'Traditionally ;Strong ;L( uid' position:
,traffic, the dimift!shed-earnings d
carrion 'by land an'dzsvater,. uneme
ployinent or. labor .'and; above all,
diminished' purchasing power of
the"° agricultural class;
' In oumming up his eenciuslens,
Sir :.Charles stated .that !'in this.
virile country of Canada with'• -rte
abounding .resources- there,Cau,'be:,
no permanent depression. 'Myawn
view 'is that when the turn. conies
Canada, Will be td leading f
ni:the,
o
procession in the return to pros.
perity,e •
General' Managers' Address
The address of W. A. Bog and
'Jackson Dodds, the, General 'Man.
agers, dealt more .particularly with
the report of the Bank. for the past
fiscal year.Thereport said le
part:
"lit times like the present .it is,
inevitable that losses suffered
through the .heavy fall in prices
must affect Banks at least indirect.
ly. It. is a satisfaction' to be able
to assure• you that we -llave made
ample provision for all losses and
doubtful debts.
"You Will note that the tradition-
ally strong liquid position of your
Bank•lias been maintained. This
was accomplished without curtail-
ing the credit requirements of,qur-
custotilers.
"A notable increase during the
year inthe number of .small ac-
counts in 'specially' gratifying, as
we have ` consistently emphasized
the fact that the Bank of Montreal
:welcomes small accnants."
•
The annual 'general Meeting 'of •
the Bank of Montreal `wee marked
by .a distinct feeling oE' confidence'
hi the general outlook In Canada.
Sir, Chalaos.Gordon, .the Press•
` dent, In reviewing the principal de-
velopments of the "year, said in
part:—
"I am sure it wilt 'U'e very gratify
lug to . the shareholders' to learn
that we have dot suffered any losses
from depreciation in the•securittes
-which •the Bank holds as part of
Its assets. From this you • will un-
derstand that great care has been
exercised in our investments.
• "The year under review has been.
a most difficult one not only for
banks but for practically all classes
• of business, and this has been re.
fleeted In our profits, but neverthe.
less' ample provision has been made
for all losses and prospective losses.
"Examination of the figures of
the foreign trade of Canada shows
how large a part the item of wheat
plays. No other single commodity
approaches this cereal in volume
and value: as a consequence, when
crop failure occurs or prices fall
below the line of profitable .praduc-
tion, the whole business-ot the coun
try is adversely affected, That has
happened. The wheat crop of 1929
was shert in quantity;• the crop of
1930 faced low prices and a glutted,
market; and the foreign trade re.
- turns disclose the -results•of, -these
unfavorable tactors, To short crops
and congested markets can•be trac-
ed mush of the reaction in' general
business, the decline in railway
New Air Service Secret of Life
Over Continent Hidden. i Tube
Passenger Routes Include Mysterious "Thing Evolved
Flight Between Montreal
and Miami
Nets York.—Co-ordination of an ex-
tensive network of airways, including
passenger services frbnt Montreal to
Mama and across the continent to
Los •Angeles, with. stops at Dallas,
Fort. Worth and El Paso, will be ef-
•feeted under an agreement between
the Eastern Air Transport and two
divisions of American•Atrways, opera-
tion unit of Aviation Corporation, it
became known here on Dec. 3. It pro-
vides
rovides for co-ordination et schedules at
Atlanta and Newark,
These now schedules will make it
Possible Mr passengers to travel by air
port starts its daily passenger service
from Atlanta to New York in eight and
a halt hours when Eastern Air Trans -
over that route. Passenger's may then
continue north to Boston by airplane,
or after an overnight stop, to Albany
or Montreal.
When the Eastern Air Transport
opens its Miami extension on Jan. 1,
air traffic from Boston,and Montreal,
as well as from Atlanta and the south•
west, will be co-ordinated with `.Pan-
American Airways' 22,000 -mile all air
system through the 'West Indies and
Central and South America.
Simultaneously reports from Miami
told 01 the inauguration of a new mall
and passenger air route from Cuba to
Cristobal by way of Kingston, Jamaica
by the Pan-American Airways. The
new service, which was said to In-
volve the longest regularly scheduled
overwater flight in the history of
aviation, was inaugurated by a 22 -pati -
Imager flying boat which covered the
647 Alio distance front Kingston to
Cristobal, entirely out of sight of land,
in 6 hours and 50 minutes. The entire
trip was without difficulty, the reports
said, and there were only slight
varlittlons fromescitedule at any point.
Grass Plays Important
Part in Earth Building
Grasses play an important part in
building up the very earth we live on,
says Dr. A. O. Hitchcock, of the De•
partmeat of Agriculture, an example
of which is the ease of beachgrass
(Ammophilla arenaria) building bar-
rier dunes along the north Atlantic
Coast of the North American conti-
nent, Beachgrass is found as far south
as Maryland.
Extensive mud !tats and tidal estu-
aries on the Atlantic Coast are mu -
"pied by species of grass named Spar -
dna, whicle*rive in the soft mud sub-
merged at high tide, Their stout un-
dergrottnel stems form a dense lateral
!network,' evernirtitluing outward, • as-
esstiug in' the formation of good dry
eland, -
Large-scale land building bas been
brought about recently in England,
France and ]Tolland, too, by a Spar-
tina, the only plant found eaptibl° of
gaining a foothold on those bottomless
'muds. Spartina has been planted out-
'Ode the dikes of Holland and is build -
Ing up land at a rapid rate,
by Cleveland. Scientist Re-
ported to -Feed, Live and
Respond to Action of
Drugs
Chicago,—The secret of lite, for
which science Stas been searching for
years, map lit; in a test tubeeht the
biological laboratory of the Cleveland
Clinic .Foundation, over which the
noted scientist, Dr. G. W. Crile, is the
guiding genius, according to recent
dispatches.
This promise, might be fuifiIled, if
the creature that is said to live and
breathe in, the biologist's test tithe, a
thing without parents and reputably
bornindefiance of all accepted and
recognized processes of procreation,
does not disappoint itshuman creat-
ors,
According to the dispatch it is said
that one unnamed' person connected
with the experiment admitted roluct•
antsy that "something approximating
life" has been produced and '"that
something amazing and revolutionary
has taken place there."
The cepa; invent was described as
fol lows t
"Brats t1ssues taken from a freshly
killed animal were reduced to 'ashes
electrically. irrom the, resulting sub-
stances certain salts and other ele-
ments were obtaihed. To this sub-
stance was added protein • cud, per-
haps, some outer elements and chemi-
cals. The whole. was treated electri-
cally, —
"Before the eyes of the astonished
scientists there appeared a 'thing'
with characteristics of a living colt or
protozoa. The 'thing' possessed the
power of locomotion. It also possess.
ed and utilized the Power of'procrea-
tion by fission or cell division. It fed
on the protein itt the test tube, con-
suming It as other unicellular animals
do their nourishment,
"Int addition it was found that the
'thing' was susceptible to !narcotics,
becoming dormant when sebjected to
certain drugs and later recovering.
"It wag declared that owing to the
care taken in the experiment no liv-
ing thing Could possibly have entered
the ingredients of the concoction."
Dr. William E. Lower, au associate
of Dr, Crile, was quoted as expressing
the opinion that the latterwould lay
his facts before the meeting of the
American Society for• the advance-
ment of Science, which meets in
Cleveland shortly.
(Arctic's Prize Beauty
Rewarded With Mirror
Wino.ipeg, — Enoosiak, 24 -year-old
brunette, is the reigning beauty of the
i(irettc. Andrew Brown, tate big face,
and figure mea of the- north, Selected
this brown -eyed, brown•skinned I+tskl•.
!me girt from an entry of .two dozen
n the first beauty contest ever held
• nside the Arctic Circle.
From Baker Lake, little trading
'post on Chesterfield Inlet, just ie thous -
',and miles north of Winnipeg, came
'word of Enooalak's triumph. "Shining
Star.' her name, means, and proudly,
for the first time .in hor life, she caa.
survey her prize•Winning features. A
imirror',woas her reward, the first she
}tad ever owned;
Giant Peas '
The delightful ' flavor and tender -
Mess of email peas, together with the
eatistying meatiness found in peas of
Marge size, are the unusual qualities'.
of giant pots now on the canned food
niarket. At the time they are picked
for banning they aro note fully matur-.
1.ed but are actually baby giants, being
thus unusually SWoet in flavor. •
Canada's Increasing importance '
'In the Gold Mart of the, World
OUNCES
23,000,000
20,000,0d Q,,
15,000,000
10,000,000
,000;000
TIZ:LND OF WO ` LD,
GOLD PRODUCTION
1905-1929
:ALL OTHER COUNTRIES:'
• iIlI,illi
I
•`t�ii, il11Ill
1
ffff
SOUTH .AFRiCAi
,4905
1910
1915
19,20
1925 19
'WORLD OUTPUT (VALUE) 1905,,1382,182,624•1929•.$4'7,394,8$81
$QUTH, AFRICA ( >+ ) n .:;101,489.216. +, .$2i5,241,874
CANADA ( a ) ++ ..$ 14,159;193. » ..5 39,861,663
• ' CONVERTED AT $20'671834 PER OUNCE •
Few economic questions are being
More keenly discussed throughout -the
world today than. that of the supply
of
-geld for monetary use. Iu this nub-
,je
o"te Canada: has a double interest—
.h
er"interest as agolf-producing coun-
tr
y'aud 'also as a trading nation vital -
le'
concerned with anything and'every-
thing hing that is fundamental to world
prosperity.
:.
while most 01 the discussion has
c
centered upon the need for. better ills.
tr
Ibutiou and use of the existing
et
ocks of gold, there has been also a
note of real anxiety 'over the possi-
bility of an_ actual: shortage of gold
,s
upPlies, This anxietq•arises from an
anticipated early drop in south APt'i-
c
a's output. As the accompanying dia-
gram indicates, the burden of main-
taining the level of wos'ld gold produc-
tion during the last twenty-five years
has been borne in ever-increasing de-
gree by South Africa. The total gold
output of the world grail fallen by ' ear-
ly 30 per cent, in 1929 as contrasted
with 1905.
Ono point of 'special interest from,
the elapadian standpoint is the fact
that, in the writings of: almost all stn-
dents of the gold situation, little or no
importance has been attached to' Can-
ada's
anada's rising output. It 18 true that the
Dominion's production has never
bulked largely in the world's total• out-
put, but it has grown, and 3s coatlnu-
Ing to grow, substantially. With gold
being produced in larger quantities
either from gold properties or from
huge ore bodies, in which gold is as-
sociated with other metals, it may
well be that'Canadian resources, are
destined to Play, a much mere pro-
minent part than bas 'yet been. -fore-
seen, in offsetting tate expected de.
pletion of the South African gold-
fields and the threatened embarrass-
ment of the world's monetary systems,
Cash-Dtizvn Ancestors -
Mr. Surielt
ncestorsMr..Turilih was showing a friend
over his new mansion. The walls of
the reception rooms were cbvered with
paintings in heavily gilded frames.
"This," said Mr. Nurich, stopping
before a portrait ,of'a knight of old ill
armor, "is one of my ancestors."
His friend looked hard at the por-
trait.
"Yes, he was very nearly one of
mine," he replied.
"What do you mean?" asked the
owner of the mansion.
"1 bid up to $10,000 for that por-
trait, butt didn't think it was, worth
any more."
To Preserve Lennon Peel
Ciit tilo peel into thin slices. Pre-
pare a thick syrup, consisting of one.
pound of granulated sugar to one pint
of water and allow the peel to simmer
in -the syrup for 20- minutes, Platte
in small jars and tie down tightly,
The peel, Will be found very useful for
garnishing dishes, tor It has 'a fine
flavor and an attractive appearance.
Snake in Soup Causes
Death of 40 Students
Bombay India.—Death of forty sta-
dents of the London Mission School at
Erode, Madras, on December' 8th, an-
cerding to despatjires, is attributed to
snakes poison in their food.
The students had just finished their
raid -day meal -"hen 40 collapsed and
died in quick succession.
It was stated afterward that a
snake was found in the utensil in
ethic:' the scup for the meal had been
prepared, 'the scup as a consequence
icing highly po sonous, The cook was
one of the victims.
Minard's Liniment aids• Sore Feet.
Watch For Early Symptoms
Of Cancer -- Then Act at Once
This is One of a Weekly Series of Health Articles Prepared
By the • Canadian Social Hygiene Council
Our ldst'articie told you something
about cancer, Today I propose to tell
you how this disease can be fought.
I1 every individual in Canada could
receive and follow the simple advice
which fe contained la this article the
number of cancer deaths would be re-
duced by many thousands. In the
first place let us frankly admit that
doctors have not yet learned how to
prevent cancer it. the way they have
learned how t0 prevent smallpox and
typhoid and diphtheria. That, how-
ever, should not be too discouraging
for they 11a4 learned how to treat
early cases of cancer and how to treat
conditions • that : look like Cancer so
that the former are cured and the can -
001051s condition prevented. Thera:
fore the moral connected with this lir-
'Oct& 1s this: Watoh for .early symp-
toms of dancer and act at onere upon
the slightest suspicion of having found
any.•
First, in external cancer dere is al-
ways
lways a warning to be seen with the
eye or felt with the finger. Those
first eigne are melee or warts, little
areas covered with a Scab, a little
lump or nodule beneath the shin 01
deeper, an unheated wound. As a rule
these thinge'do not hurt, but that does
net make it less dangerous, only a
physician can state whether a wart or
little lump is cancerous,
In connection with cancel' of the lip
and tongue there is' always first on the
lower lip or tongue some abnormal de-
tect, • If this warning is headed and
'Origin of
` Pipe
• Unchanging..
Ina' a. New' Year greeting,
With a song.of-cheer."
It' *ill • seem, on meeting,
Like the same Old year.:.
'Mongst•the changes fleeting
And the speech unfurled,.
WS a New Year gre, 'ing—
To the same old world:
No, 1931' is not.'ieap year But we•
expect the mortality' among' bachelors.
to be just asheavy asit usually is in
leap year. If leve won't find away,
the girls• will,
Another ,little :thodght; for 1831:
Let's quit condemning in others what
we praetice•oursel-ves. • '
• Little Thomas watched a telephone:
repairman climb a pole, connecta test
set' and try to obtain . 'a connection
with the ywitchSoard. ` There ensued
some difficulty. The youngster listen-
ed a few -minutes, and then rushed into
the house, exclaiming:.
Little Thomas'--"Mamma,come here
quick. There's'a man up on a. tele
Phone pole talking -to -Heaven." '
ilia 'Mother - "What, makes you
think he's talking to Heaven?'
Little Thomas—"'Cause` he hollered
'Hellot Hello; Bello! Good Lord,
what's the matter up there, can't any-
one •hear'?"
ny-one•hear'?" e
Diary of a College Graduate
June 23; 1930—Graduated to -day.
June 28, 1930—Looked for a $10.000
,job,
Silly 20, 1930—Looked for a job at
$100 a week. _.
Aug: 9, 1930 -Looked for any kind
,of a job.
September 2, 1930—Still looking,
• September 23, 1930 Went to work
for my uncle for 376.00 a month.
treatment given within a month or
two the probabilities of a cure are al•
most perfect. In this connection rag-
ged teeth and unclean mouths aro
known to frequently produce cancer.
Keep your mouth clean and go to the
dentist frequently, -
It has been said that beautiful wo-
men rarely have cancer of the skin
because they keep their skins clean.
Cancer of the uterus kills many wo-
men. It -would hill fewer if women
would learn to visit their physicians
immediately upon noticing any femin-
ine irregularities. Cancer ofthe
breast is not terribly dangerous if it
is treated early. As soon as a little
lump is noticed the physician should
be made aware of it. If this is done
early enough the possibilities of a
cure aro almost nine out of ten even
should the lump prove to be a malig-
nant form of cancer. In cancer of the
breast every week's delay reduces the
chance of recovery.
After one receives an injury to a
bone It should be x-rayed if the swell -
dug and discomfort do not disappear in
a few weeks. It is lost difficult to
recognize the signs of internal can-
cer but persistent indigestion or a.
feeling of discomfort or a "new" feel-
ing inside should be viewed with sus-
picion anis the doctor consulted; One
of the best ways of protecting your-
self against cancer and the fear of
cancer is to vlsit,the family physician
once a year for a thorough physical
oxamtnation, whether one is sick or
well.
Cheese Port
You have probably noticed in paying Odd-looking sleets piled high with balls
ee taiu bilis that all > obb'ere )lo not, . allparte of world. Twenty million pounds
;hear masks, i, Margrete for ipheese to world„
02 Dutch cheese ready for shipment at Alkmaar, Rolland, to
of cheese are epee ,each year at Allltmaar, one of most Volume
is
Tlie custoiner was busy sawing on
the steak he bad ordered, and he was
having a difficult time.
Walter (solicitously)—"Is it tough?"
The customer was exhausted. Iie
turned to the waiter with defeat in
iris eyes and said: •
Customer -"When I order beef and
get horse, I don't care. But next time,
take the harnessy off before you start
serving."
No matter how brave a man is,
there's a woman somewhere he's
afraid of. Those who have had experi-
ence will testily that a woman may
smile, and smile, and be unwilling
still, "She didut' act that way the last
time elle was engaged.'—Overheard
remark. Most any wife gets suspici-
ous If site sees her husband nail his
mother talking together in whispers.
Site suspects they are talking about
her. Some women can make 25 -cont
coffee taste like 50 -cent coffee and
some women 'can make 50.cent coffee
taste like 25 -cent coffee. You have to
do your own climbing. Opportunity is
a ladder, not an elevator.
I met liar in the garden,
The night was still as death,
I knew she knew her onions,
I could smell theta on her breath.
First Salesman—"I'm broke. Can't
sell my book."
Second Salesman — "What's It
called?"
First Salesman—"Tho Art of Sales.
manship."
Infamous Infinities of Today
"Painless Dentists:" "Easy Pay
nmeats:
Cuetbmer — "But you guaranteed
that skis watch would last me a life-
time."
"Jeweler—"I know—but you didu't
Iook very healthy the day that you
bought it."
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First' Instrument Used $. d American , vublicatie , at i t
prices
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Chinese Resembled lVtodd:. LReq dig• .251 Queen St, West, ;roroi,s0.
ern Saxophone'
The hugemodern pipe a gans.used
in churches and theatres profably owe
their,origin to small Chinese mouth
instrument in which bamboo tubes
were used for pipes, and, which some-
what reseinbled' in appearance the
The Measuring"
Stick
George and 'Elsie live next' doom to
each other. They are ,In the earns
modern ,saxophone; in the (neaten of class' et school, and in, the' apolling•:
Dr. Berthold Laufer, .curator of an- 'test they eaolr missed two words out
thropology at Field M'iseutn' of Na- of ten. •
tura!, History.
Exaniples•' of these instrumento
which first appeared in very ancient
times, but are still used to a Iiinited
extent Sri China,.were cdileeted by Dr.
Laufer ' while , on aft expedition, in
China,and are' now on 'exhibition at
the museum. They are rarely heard
nowadays,'however, because of a.curi-
ous superstition•that a skilful per-
former beeomes.se wedded to his music
that he is forever playing, to the•ex-
clusion of all other activities.- This,
the Chinese apparently fear, ,wound
proveinconvenient fir the player and
.might become annoying to his neigh -
hers.
' Another thing that_hascaused the
popularity of the instrument to wane
in latsyears'is the fact that because
it is played hugely by sucking the
breath in, as yell as by blowing, it
causes inflammation of the bronchial
tubes and .diseases of the ,ungs, and
it is said that no habitual player ever
lives longer than forty years, Dr.
Laufer states, This is a serious mat-
ter to the Chinese,'to who Iongevity
is one of the fundamental ideals.
The mouth pipe or° -an, or "sheng"
as the . Chinese call it, consists of a
bowl -shaped body of lacquered wood
at the end of a tube with a mouth-
piece, which gives sl a ,resemblance to
a'. large t)teerschaum pipe as well 'ss
to a saxophone. Seve .teen bamboo
tulles of varying lengths are trzerted
in the top of the. body, which provides
the wind 'reseevoir. Thirteen of the
tubes are fitted with tree reeds similar
to those used in•grand organs today:
^acct of the tubes hos a small hole
jt,st above the roint where it enter
the reservoir,
The harmonium, or small organ
with free reeds but without pipes, was
the first occidental develonment from
this instrument, says Dr. Laufer. The
principle of the free reed became wide-
ly known in Europe through -he in-
troduction of the Chinese reed organ
at the end of the eighteenth century,
Prof. C. G. Kratzenstein invented the
harmonium after examining a eheng
.1 to his native city. The first in-
strument of this type was the Fan's
'pipes of the ancient' Greeks, which
consisted of a set of pipes of different
length bound together and made to
Sound by the player's breath. About.
two centuries B.C. a device, was in-
vented for forcing air into the pipes
by water power, and keys were added
to open and close the pipes. the hy-
diau:ic orgdn was common among the
Greeks and Romano. Centuries later
the bellows came into use, instead of
water power, to furnish ale. An organ
built in the tenth century for Win-
chester Cathedral in England had a
bellows so powerful that 70 tnen were
needed to pump it. In the organs of
today the power that pumps the beI-
lcws 'would be equal to 50 or even 100
horsepower. Yet so improved is the
mechanism of the keyboard that the
t uch of a finger is all that le re-
quired to open the pipe -valves. The
greatest changes are duo to the use
of electricity. So much of the machin-
ery is now operated by electricity that
the inside of the organ looks like a
telephone exchange.—The American
Weekly.
Billion Birthdays
Flightless Planes
To Usurp Small Golf
If the average life of a human being
be taken as one second of a new time
scale the earth is just passing its first
birthday and the'human race,has been
in existence only a part tf one day,
but the universe of strsa has been
going on about as now for at least
five thousand years, So Professor
George von Hevesy of the' University
of Freiburg, Germany, concluded in
his review of present, knowledge of the
age of the earth in' the' opening Yec-
ture of the George fisher Baiter Lec-
tures in Chemistry at Cornell Uriver-
sity, recently published by the New
York City scientific periodicakucience.
Following many previous students of
earth age, Professor ITeresy' has cal-
culated from the slow disintegration
of radioactive chemical elements the
trate elapsed since individual speci-
mens of minerals r entaining these
elements, were far :l. Some such
mineral specimens tc •.n out to be well
over a hellion years c:-1 but the earth
as a whole must be r :der still, sine
tho'filanet's crust nm,t have been in
place and said bei. ea' these irne-
aecording minerals could have been
deposited in it.. Accordingly, Proles
101 Hevesy has extended these radio-
active
adiaactive calculations to the whole ma-
terial of the earth, obtaining a figure
'of about three -billion years ;for the
time since the planet existed as a ball
of white-hot gas drawn out of the sun.
Enormous as is this time by human
standards, itis but a moment, he finds,
in the age of thc known universe, for
astronomical calculations indicate tltgt
the nvertfge star has been in existence
for between fivethousand billion and
ten thousand billion! years,
Inhale-Minard's Liniment for. Asthma,
Roasting in a Skillet
An iron skillet, even if it " has a
handle, makes 'a fine roasting pan.
But if you . use one with a handle be
medal. In order to snake sure that,
you will not be tempted to grasp the
hot handles, them the handle toward
the back whenever you punt the pan
into the oven.
ISSUE `No, 51—.3o
When George gave his spelling pa
par 10.,his-mother, she. exclaimed,..
"Avenel' you ashamed of yourself! I
supposeyou•let An .Martin go to the
hendof the clans again.. 11 you would
study as Jim does Mother Wouldn't
have to feel bad about your spelling
paper,"
"Spelling's easy for Jim, George
protested, "he can., remember' any. -
thhg. 1 brought .. mine !tome last
night and studied half an hour, but
1 .was "afraid I'd miss and so 1 did." .
George's mother thought site was
using'tlie bast :method to make her
son' study. Even since George had
atartedeto school she had tried to get '
him to do better. This comparative'
idea was good, but she had always
used the 'wrong measuring stick She
had held him up against another In-
stead ofagainst himself. The truth
was that her own pride was hurt. She
didn't want Jim to succeed above her
own son. The inference to be drawn,
then, by George or anyone else is
that if Jin'ltad missed two words out
of ten, then George's misspelled words
would' not have mattered.
But what did Elsie's . mother do
about the spelling record? Since both
mothers, -afterwards, told the teacher.
all that was said about it, another
method of dealing with unsatisfactory
school work is available. ,
"When do you have the next'Beet.
ling test?" Elsie's mother asked and
widen told that It was in two weeks,
she said, "Well, we'll just forget this
paper and think about the fine one
you'll have next time. What can yon
.do that you didn't do this week, so
as to win in a contest with your best
record?"
"I'll review my words for five min
utes every tray," volunteered Elsie;
"title time I let nay reviewing go utt-
til the last day,"
There was not a word from Elsie's
mother about what anyone else in the
eiaas had done. Her little daughter
was encouraged to do her own best,
not the best of some other pupil.
Elsie was held responsible. She was
made her own disclplluarlau. She was
ltot crushed by the recollection of her
own lapse in spelling and by the vic-
tory of a classmate. Rather was site
inspired to press forward towards her
own shining ldeai.
Not alt children can be at the head
of the class or leader to the game
or winner of a trophy. But .every
child should covet advancement and
enjoy mastery of itis indlviihual prob-
lems,
It id discouraging to hold up an ex-
ample of excellence before a child
which he can never hope t0 attain.
He may not be either physically or
mentally equipped to reach such a
standard, But every child can stop
ahead of his own past record 11 ho
hart any intelligent guidance at all.
And the thrill of knowing that he is
better this week than last will bob
ater up his spirit and make hint sur-
prise bimaolf,—Issued by the Nation-
al Kindergarten Asaociatlou, 0 West
40th Street, Now Yoric City. These
articles are appeadiug weekly in our
columns.
Chicago.—In the States, amusement
Dark owners, now that miniature golf
is launched, aro now planning to fea-
ture flightless airplanes.
When summer cornea again tate
would-be aviator may be,able to taste
the thrills of taking tate stick and put-
ting himself through a few barrel rolls
and nose dives, all without leaving the
ground.
One of the models looks for all the
world exactly like a real airplane,
with propeller, wings, rudder, landing
gear, and evidently the only thing that
keeps it fro,cu soaring into the sky is
the pneumatic pedestal on which it is
Supported.
"But get into the oockpst; an at-
tendant urges. "Fijp a quarter into
the cola release box. Get the rush of
ale from the whirling prdpeller, elec-
trically driven. Grasp the stick. In-
stantly the plane zooms, banks, turns
or dives, all as you handle the stick."
Chief among them, however, is the
Plight Tutor, which looks less like an
airplane, but acts more like one, as it
has more freedom of movement, actua-
ly allowing a barrel toll. According
to its makers, the Flight Tutor has
been tested and adopted by the
United States Army Air Corps as
staftdard equipment for student pilots,,
and has been Metalled at government
training fields and at Curtiss airports.
Snow Scene
Now liglit the chandelier,
.'.Pura on the music box,
The snow is here!
Feathers from fairy-tale flocks
Of plump geese fall and float
Across We window pane,.
Time strikes a note •
That chimed in Victoria's reign,
Forget the world of. everyday
While crystals wink and candles glow,
Lettinklingsilver music play,
And watch the timeless snow
Drift as it drifted years and'years ago.
Freda CI, Bond, in Country Life,
Hands of invisible splrlte touoix' the
Adage of that mysterious instrument,
the soul, and play the prelude of Our.
Fate,—Henry W. Longfellow.
Minard'c Liniment for' alt Pallr. • .
An Even Break
"Now that we are married perhaps
I Wright venture to point out a few
of your little defects."
"Don't bother, dear. I'm quite
aware of them. Those little defects
prevented me from getting a much
better man than you are."
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I ', Winter
Outdoor work and play otos give
rise to sprains and frost bite,
Keep a bottle of Minard's by you
to rub on the affected parts.
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LIKE HERO I
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nervous and dia.
cottre:pd. I saw
an advertisemintt
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a woman who had
been like me so 1
bought it bottle of
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Compound. I took
truce bottles and
it oarrictl mo safe-
ly through the
oritteal tune. 3
have three-oIlildlen to ,care for and
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