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ARTHUR R,
CHAPTER VI: went tip on the roof and erected the
Carefully and
deftlyhe began' to
"Your wireless dictagreph? Bully!" tune up, now that this second instal-
•
exclaimed Garrick. "We could use lation was complete, He finally look
that little mechanical eavesdropper. ed up at Garrick, smiled, and took -the
Where is it?" headgear off, handing it to hint. "Get
"In my laboratory" that?"
Garrick's face fell. He glanced at Garrick adjusted it, listened for a
his watch and then at the sun. "Yee, moment in some perplexity, then ex -
I think we can make it. . We claimed,"Why, can hear the whirr of
must•" a vacuum cleaner in, the room!" They
Two hours later found them ju listened for several minutes but there
Dick's own wireless workshop., It was as nothing more. Whoever as clean -
the boathouse on his estate where he ing the room finished and left.
had done some remarkable things with The •.uzzer on Garrick's door sound
'wireless. Outside he hada -big aerial ed. He opened it a crack.' It as Mc -
from two steel towers. Kay. "I just saw that Rae Larne, with
Interested though he would have a man, at the Park Garage on Sixtieth
been at any other time, Garrick urged Street, where "I put the car up."
haste, Dick led him proudly to' a "What sort of looking man?"
table on which Has his apparatus. "I didn't know him, sir. Sort f
"So this is the Defoe Wireless Die- shaggy hair-"
tagraph," corn.limented Garrick, pick- "Brackl" exclaimed Dick,
ing up the familiar little round trans- "Then Jack Curtis carte in a car,
mittcr like' that which he had used so He didn't stay long; went downtown,
many tines on the wired machine. I think."
As he packed the p:.rts Dick hastily Rae had been waiting in a car in
enumerated them, his sending set, bat- the long line in the garage, Suddenly
teries, coils of wire, small portable a rakish roadster drew up and Hee
artennae, and the receiving set. saw Glenn Buckley in it. She jumped
They at last had everything strap- out to meet him.
ped !n on the rear of Garrick's car Glenn greeted her with a sickly
and as they swung up toward the turn- smile, fish!" exclaimed
pike they stopped for a moment at `Well, you poor
the Nonowantuc Club . Rae. "What are you doing here?"i
p
As Dick hopped out, followed by "Just looking to see if there's any -
Guy, there was a suspicious silence one about."
on the club .porch, as often happens "Gee, Glenn, I'm thirsty. Let's go
when the friends of an interesting down to the Inner Circle. Will you
factor of the preceding conversation take me?"
draw nigh. Silence 5. Freudian. Dick "Surely, Rae. Always glad to re -
winked at Garrick. lieve a drought and be charitable to
A group of flappers, Ruth's friends, my own at the same time."
cane up. "Hey, Dick, where's Ruth? Rae grabbed his arm and swung up
. Guy, have you leard how badly behind the wheel. They were off.
she was hurt? , . . For heaven's sake To himself Glenn had to admit that
get her back bore, The place is dead no one could be bored in Rae's society.
without Ruth." No wonder Vira was jealous, But he
With a smile on his face, Professor wouldn't have taken a dozen Raes for
Vario of the Radio Central at Rock one Vira. He didn't like coarseness
Ledge crossed over to them to make` and sometimes Rae did not suit his
friendly inquiries, fastidious nature, 'Virg with all her
"Going to town?" inquired Vario modernity, vivacity and recklessness
when Garrick returned with a small never was coarse.
handbag from his rooms, "Say, Dick, I'm going to leave you
"Yes," observing how Vario was
dressed—"are you?"
"I was waiting for the club bus to
take me to the station. Yea, to the
Radio Show at the Seventy --first Regi-
ment Armory. I'm to give a lecture
and demonstration to -night of my new
wave meter."
"Well, jump in."
In town Garrick called up Nita Wal-
den at her apartments on Park Ave.
She had got ahead of anyone else and
had had Ruth's car totted to a garage.
They stopped there a moment and
Professor Vario's solicitude far Mrs.
Walden seemed to offer Garrick the t
opportunity ' get rid of him, for they
certainly did not want any strangers
about in what they were going to do.
"But the show," remonstrated Mrs.
Walden as Vario ofLired to stay and
do anything he could to relieve her
anxiety,
"I'll telephone them that I'm delay-
ed. They can postpone my stunt till
later in the evening," he insisted.
"I really appreciate your kindness
deeply—but—of course, I want my
little girl I can't think of anything
else. I can't talk ov-r the telephone,
right; I can't read; I ant just inea-
pacitated until Ruth gets back to me."Garrick leaned over to Nita Wal-
den, "We'll have some word to -night
—sure, By to -morrow you'll have her
back—safe."
Garrick had been thinking out a
plan for installing the dictagraph.
1.fp the street from the Inner Circle
were two houses turned into studio
apartments. He found the caretaker
and the conversation was lucrative to
her.
Dick selected and carried up to the
roof the apparatus and they went as
silently as possible across the inter-
vening reefs until they came to the
roof of the Ier Circle.
It was a curious moef wIRELE$SDIGTAGRAPIT.
portable aerial
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AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
Sokoinikoff, former Soviet finance
minister, has been appointed fleet
Soviet ambassador to Great 'Britain
Good Arable Land
Found in Labrador
Rapid Growth of Vegetation
in Short Season Feature
of Country
Amherst, Mass: Professor Fred C_
Sears of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College 'here has just returned
after a summer spent in the interest
of agricultural' development in. Labra-
dor. He expressed himself as opti-
mistic over the agricultural prospects
of the region. His worlc was la connec-
tion with the Grenfell Mission.
Prof. Sears described a ten -acre
field which has been cleared of fir,
spruce and hackmatack at Northwest
River. The soil, he said, is sandy and
success is anticipated in the growing
of asparagus, strawberries and rasp-
berries and potatoes. The rapid
growth of vegetation during the few
weeks of Warm -weather is almost un-
believable, lie said. Potatoes planted
on July 28 were sufficiently grown to
use on Oct. 1. He witnessed cab-
bages grow in fourweeks from spind-
ling transplants to fully developed
heads.
Following his investigations of the
summer of 1928, the professor shipped
to St. Anthony, apple, cherry, crab-
apple and plum trees. He found them
making excellent growth on his visit
this year.
Prof. Sears' research was directed
to promotion of agriculture in a re-,
here with that wireless clictagraph. , glop- where winter holds sway approx-
You can work it best anyhow. I must
get a line on that garage and do it
right away," said Garrick.
Down the street in a lunchroom
Garrick caught sight of MclCay again
and beckoned him quietly out.
"I was thinking about calling you
up, sir, soon," informed McKay. "I
was just talking to one of the polish-
ers in there. He tells the that Jack
Curtis gave orders to some driver
about the place, a straager,to go after
something at eleven o'clock. He didn't
know what it was or where it was, but
he give hint a key, sir."
McKay pointed the fellow, a stran-
ger out. Alone Garrick waited. It
was now half past nine. He had an
hour and a half to watch. As he did
so he revolved the two robberies over
and otar in his mind. Each time his
thought led him to the same path.
Who was the "man higher up"? Was
it Jack Curtis? Or Brock? Might it
not be Georges? What, after all, did
he know about Georges, since before
the war and during the easy violation
of selling service sten that Which is
wet?
It was nearly midnight when Gar-
rick in what scented like a reliable taxi-
cab, concluded the trailing of the man
who had received instructions from'I
Curtis.
Garrick dismissed his taxi at the
corner and began to reconnoitre. To
his amazement he saw that he was on
the block where was the town house
of Vira Gerard's family.
It was an added shock when he
saw that the car had stopped just in
front of the Gerard house and that
the driver had entered the gate and
was fumbling with a key at the door.
Garrick quickened his steps. It was
now or never to get let in on this
mystery.
Last Elizabethan
By BEVERLY SMITH
The old ,man and his wife were
sitting in the third class compartment
when we boarded the train at Cam-
bridge for Loudon. It was evening.
The woman was in her fifties, ami-
able and pretty, dressed in worn black.
and wearing , one ,of those towering
hats poptilarized by the late Queeu
Alekandra...,.-
But it was the man that drew our'.
attention, A powerful old man, crag-
gily ,built. • He looked like a storm
-
beaten oak tree, A fine hemi. Un-
combed non -grey hair. Eyebrows like
mustaches, piercing grey eyes, a huge
Roinau• nose. The face deeply furrow-
ed and seemed. He sipped reflective-
ly from a quart battle of Br'own's rounds bare -fisted. Quite a crowd
Ordinary ale as he looked us over. rounds
cted.
"You are: Americans, aren't yim4 ire held our breath, and I beat him
voic he like Americans,
sn a rumblingyour
two minutes. We tried grips, and he
voice. "I like Americans, Llike' Your
country, 1..helped to dig those tun-
nels of yours ander the Hudson."..
His voice was not that of the edu-
cated man nor of the cockney nor of
the ordinary laboring man. He spoke
a good English, without any of the
usual mannerisms. We asked bim
what he did on the tunnels.
"High pressure work," he explain-
ed, "I am -a diver—thea oldest diver
in the world, I ss suppose. . I've had
more water outside of me and less
inside of me than any man living."
He roared, with laughter that shook
the train, and took a deep draught
of ale.
"You will excuse me boasting, sir,
I$ut'this is my day off, and we're en-
joying ourselves. eh, Mary? I'm sixty-
six years old. Find me another diver
of that age who still works at eighty-
five feet under. But •I'm slipping.
Every careful housewife
knows it is the bst.
Wresh
the gad; <e; :s
nearly 'broke my hand. We- climbed
poles and I beat him. He out -spit me.
I lifted :the`blggest"rock. So it went,
first me, then him. We couldn't either
put the other down. A fine man.
"Finally he said to me, 'Bet you all
you have that In half an hour I can
run half a mile, drink half a dozen
pints of beer and make half a Pair
of boots.' I had three quid with me.
I took him on.
"He set out hell-bent, with me and
the whole pub -after him. In about
four minutes -he ran in a cobbler's
drop. It was his , own. He was a
cobbler. He started on the leather
like a wild man. 'Bring beer, he
yelled, and we brought him half a
dozen half pinta. Hard to believe,
but, sure as X'n sitting here,` in half
an hour he'd finished a boot pretty as
you please. The beer was easy for,
When I was in my prime I was a pier. A fine man,
tough one, wasn't I Mary?" But my three quid was gone, and
She, nodded assent, gazing at him the laugh was on me. I scratched my
head a while. 'Wait a minute,' X said.
'You've won, but you're so tired -out
now that you couldn't even run half
a mile in a half hour. One condition.
You will have to wear my boots.
Three quid on it'
"He laughed and laughed. He was
a good runner- He thought I'd had
imately eight months of the year, and
where the frost never leaves the sub-
stratum of the soli. Several substa-
tions have been established .in Lab-
rador and tests are being made on
growth of both ornamental and com-
mercial plants, as well as fertilizer
and acidity, tests, the raising of alfal-
fa, drainage and improvement of gar-
den vegetables.
Prof, Sears has had 30 years ex-
perience in investigational work, ten
of which were spent in Nova Scotia,
His investigations have carried him
into Canada and eastern and western
United States,
One of the most interesting phases
of Prof. Sears' work in Labrador is
that relating to the introduction of
flowering plants. Red Rowers are vis-
tually non-existent in Laradcr—why
it has not been explained. Blue flow-
ers thrive and Prof. Sears hopes that
red ones will be made to blossom as
well
As he turned in at the gate the
tre had been built a great concrete man at the door heard him, looking
box as big as a room. There was no quickly as if expecting him, then,
time to investigate that, however. catching a better lock, uttered an oath
Garrick fished with a line down and swung on him.
the chimney until he located the flue Garrick parried and countered. The
' to the Pink Room, Then,- dangling than went sprawling backward on the
down, he lowered the dictagraph bit of turf of the little front yard,
transmitter until it must have hung At that moment Garrick heard the',
a foot from the floor of the hearth clatter of feet from across the street,
back of the iron grill work under the and around the motor. But before he
mantel below in the Pink Room, could turn, the other ntan was on him,
Meanwhile, on the roof, Dick had bearing him down with the momentum
beenbusy placing his sending set and of the rush. He was a husky. but Gar -
Garrick helnocl him complete the rick felt he could outwrestie hhn-
set-up. The fellow sprawling on the turf
As they left the studio house, two swore again as he crouched up on
men were passing. One of thorn brush- his hands and knees, waiting to get a
ed suspiciously against Dick with hold.
enough force to knock the bag he was Two were more than Garrick could
marrying out of his hand. Garrick handle as legs and arms and heads cut
controlled his temper. Here were the the turf, getting ever nearer the sharp
znystrious shadowers again, Were pickets of the fence.
they emissaries of the gang? (To be continued,)
Garrick picked up the bag himself, SYMPATHY
looking significantly at the man, and
remarked, "Well, see? Nothing drip-
ping.
As they had been at work on the proved in every man. It prepares the
roof, they had determined on placing• mind for receiving the impressions of
the receiving end up at Garrlck's virtue; and without it there can bo
apartment, which was only several
proudly.
He went on talking. Stories of dic-
ing in France and India. Stories of
drinking' bouts, endurance feats. The
great war? The old diver was in it
for four years, and dismissed it with
a laugh. Wounded? Certainly. He
opened his shirt, to show where the mtich beer. The people from the
bullet had missed his heart; He told ptooub laughed too.
of how, when the canal was stopped "'Some along,' X said. I'll get you
in Flanders, he went down without
diving equipment and removed the
obstruction in the locks.
"That was just duck diving," he
the boots' We went to my quarters,
all the crowd along. Nobody knew I
was a sliver. I brought out my div -
said. "And what do you think the lug boots, extra heavy, forty pounds
obstruction was? A Ilve-gallon tin' of lead in each of them, He looked
kind of pale, but
of rum. Yes sir, rum. We took it he was a man. He
over after nightfall to an old Belgian
woman that brought us coffee, and
after that, our coffee was half rum
for a month.
"One day the sergeant locked me before I carried him to' a pub."
up, Said I was drunk I tools thirty The old direr leaned back again,
winks, and there the sergeant was
and his laugh rattled the windows.
at the door. .'The locks are jammed,
He took a deep draught of the ale,
and offered it to his wife. She sip-
ped it modestly, and hancled 1t back.
He was, unlike any Englishman I
have ever met He seemed to belong
to a lordlier day. The last of the
Elizabethans, happy with his ale in
a third-class compartment. --Montreal
Standard. •
700
The Secret of
rried Ha pines
IDLENESS
The idle mau is an annoyance, a
nuisaaee; he is of no benefit to any-
body; he is an intruder in the busy
thoroughfare of every -day life; he
stands in our path, and we push hire
contemptuously aside; he is of no ad-
vantage to anybody; he annoys busy
men, he makes them unhappy; he is a
unit in. society. Therefore, young man,
do something in this busy, bustling,
wide-awake world! Move about for
the benefits of mankind, if not for
yourself, Do not be idle; God's law
is that by the sweat of our brow we
shall earn our bread. Da not be idle;
every man and every woman, however
exalted or however humble, can do
good in this short life; therefore, do
not be idle,—G, A. Sala.
Let us cherish sympathy. By at-
tention and exercise it may be im'
-blocks uptown.
At Bachelors' Hall Dick worked
rapidly, for it was now getting dark.
He unpacked the receiving end of his
wireless dietagraph in the room, then
ISSUE No. 52—'i9
no true ,politeness, Nothing is more
odious than that insensibility which
wraps a Mall up in himself and hie
own concerns, and prevents his being
moved with either the joys or the sor-
rows
oprows of another,—Beattie;
Mlnard'e Liniment for Chapped Hands
strapped those boots on and set out.
He went about two hundred yards in
the first ten minutes, and he fell over,
dead beat.
"I had to take the boots off him
Holly,' he said. 'You've got to go
down. Hurry.' I said 'According to
you, I'm drunk, I won't go down until
the captaia comes, and certifies me
sober:' They brought the captain,
they certified Hie sober, and I went
down, The sergeant got the black
marks for the delay, tis., inarks I
should have had. They don't lightly
say Holly's had too much."
Ott and on he went 'He guoted . - A Fudge Secret
Ingersoll with approval and with ex- This is a fudge recipe aliparent'ly
traorclinary accuracy on the question infallible, resulting iii the delicious,
of deity; he praised Ifing George as creamy candy which is ;the despair of
a good old chap, and ridiculed mon- those who can make only the hard,
arcby; he.bitterly attacked the union grainy kind. The recipe itself is an
ordinary one.
Two cupfuls of granulated sugar,
mixed thoroughly with as much cocoa.
as one likes, usually two tablespoon-
fuls, One cupful of milk added and
the mixture slowly boiled, until when
tested in cold water, it forms a soft
ball. A piece of butter the size of a
walnut and vanilla.
The secret is not beating or stir-
ring the ingredients until the fudge
ing a walk in the park, and I met up has cooled.
with a tow headed chap, big and
broad. We got to talking and drink WISDOM
By An Old Lady of'.
Wainfleet (Lincolnshire. — An old
lady of ninety-one in a lacecaptrim-
med with heliotrope ribbons and a
black satin bodice fastened at her
throat with an old gold brooch, told
me in one sentence the secret of mar -
An Amazing 4, aby
Secrets of the world's wonder baby,
were revealed by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. hist, at a London
West ,,End hotel. ,
It is claimed for their twgyear-old
daughter Marjorie, one of the most
photographed and discussed children
of to -day, that; She
Can swim farther than any child in
the world;
Is afraid of nothing, living or dead;'
Dlyed,Afteen feetwhen eleven
months old;
Has never been smacked;
Has been petted and admired in
two Continents;
- Is training ; to swim in English
Channel,
That is quite enough to be going
on with,, but nothing new or wonder-
ful that develops in Marjorie surprises
her parents.
Dropped in at Eleven Months
Marjorie began her public ' career
when 11 months old. At that tender
age she was taken to the end of a
diving board and dropped fifteen -
feet into nine feet of water!
To -day she can already do the side.
stroke and swim 45 feet with ease.
'Yes," said Mr. Best, "we have
`made a world-beater of Marjorie, Her
mother and I worked to a plan, and
now you see the result"
Here Mrs, Best broke in with the,-
information that Marjorie's training
began with her bath after birth.
"I noticed," she said, "that my'baby
did not cry in the water. She seem•
MI to like it! As the days and the
wreaks passed she seemed to like 11
even- more.,
"'When she was about five months
old she used to delight 10 putting her
head t.nder water, and I was struck
by the fact that she was not at all
afraid.
She Does Not Know Fear
"Later on . I held ', my hand under
her chin and allowed her to float. I
believe to this day' chat if it had been
a biggerbath she would have -float,.
ed alone."
Marjorie, both parents asserted,
does not know the 'meaning of fear.
She has never been frightened of any -
vied happiness.
She is Mrs. Walker, the wife of Mr.
William Walker, who recently cele-
brated'the seventy-second anniversary
of itis wedding.
She said: "Let a man do as he likes
and keep him well fed."
Having said that she lapsed into.
silence for ten minutes.
Then she said: "Never argue with a
man, because he 10 always wrong;
never let a man have to 'look for a
stud or a pair of clean socks, because
it will put him in -a bad temper for the
rest ofthe day"
Mr, and Mrs. Walker were celebrat-
ing when I called at their- 'house.
Telegrams and great-grandchildren.
were arriving every few minutes.
Mr. Walker was dressed in his best
pea -jacket, and Mrs. Walker's sequins
shone in the light of a bright lire.
The Toby dug
Her little house, which is full of
treasures, including a Toby jug more thing in her life.
than three hundred years old, shone, She is not even afraid of the dark-
ness, and merely laughs when she is
wage system which makes the strong,
man take the wage of the average
man; he praised America for its. in-
dividualism. With each point his
overwhelming laugh rang out.
"I was a tough one," he repeated.
Then he said:
"But one man almost out me down.
It was when we were working oft
the docks in 'Southampton, in 1897.
That was my day off, too. I was tak-
too.
When I asked Mr. Walker if they
had quarrelled during their seventy-
two years of married life, he shouted
with laughter, and Mrs. Walker; look-
ing at him severely through her spec-
tacles, said: "Be quiet, Willie. It is
nothing to laugh at. Of course, we with threats of'bogey.meu, and that
have quarrelled, but only about littlesort of thing. They do not realize
things. ' that they would never be frightened
"How could two people live happily of anything unless they were taught
together for seventy-two yeare with- I r t „
out quarrelling? It's against nature."
Mrs. Walker was full of -such epi-
grams. Bir. Walker .poured out wed-
ding anniversary port,and bars. alalic-
er moved closer to the fire.
"I was nearly twenty when we mar-
ried," said Mr. Walker, and she „ras
eighteen and a bit.
"We had a pound each of our own
when we married, and practically no
furniture except a bed and a few
tables and chairs.".
"Anel new linen," said Mrs. Walker,
giving him another severe look. "You
can't start harried life without new
linen."
"I was earning two slsilings a clay
on a farm," . 'continued Mr Walker,
"and etre saved money on it. We had
two children, There's one of them
running about in the garden now."
He rose from his hair and called:
"Paul, come here a minute," and Paul,
aged ' sixty-nine , came in smiling.
"IIe's a wonderful lad," said Mr. Walk-
er,'beaming at Paul, "and he loves his
gardening—don't you, Paul?"
"Ay," said Paul, and helped himself
to a glass of port.
"We've another child, a daughter,
who's married. I'm glad she's mar-
ried. Women are best married. It
serves them right,"
Mr. Walker is extremely active for
his age, and I asked him i8 he could
give any advice to some of the modern
old men of thirty. `
Eat Bacon and Onions
ing together and boasting. We had Wisdom does not show itself so
money in our pockets, and got to much in precept as la life—in a firm -
betting. ness 0f mind and a mastery Of apps-
" We ran races, we wrestled, we fife. It teaches us to . do, as well as
long -jumped, we high jumped, we bet to talk; and to make our works and
on drinking speed, we fought two actions all of a colon—Seneca.
Canada's La
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gest City Bids Fair to he Canada's Most Progressive Metropolis
AN AIR view 41; bAB'1I'BRVILLE AIRPORT IN MONTREAL
With St Hubert and the airport above Montreal :Is progressively supptytug herself with
ern transportation,
rue
unable to -find her way about in the
pitch blackness.
"My wife," said Mr. Best, "is a bit
of a Christian Scientist, but I also be;
Neve that fear is, a thing that ought
to be foreign to children.
"Too many parents frighten them
no to fnrthei' mqd
The story of how little Marjorie
received her first baptism of 'water'
was related by the proud parents.
"I knew that she was a born swim-
mer," said Mr. Best, "and I had not
the slightest hesitation in arranging
for her to take her plunge. She was.
fit, willing, and, in fact, just as much
at home in the water as out of it,"
"And I," said Mrs, Best, "took her
to the end of a diving -board and drop-
ped her in.'
Swam Forty-five Feet
"And I," said Mr. Best, "was in the
water waiting for her, When she
came to the surface she was smiling
and clapping her hands with glee."
The distance from the diving -board
to the water was 11 feet, and the
depth of the water was 9 feat.
"Did she really like it?"
"Like it?" said Mr. Best, "Site
loved it, and everybody who was
there applauded her. Sha had her
picture and all about her hi the
papers right away.
During a recent trip in the Bereu
garia the little mermaid was the hero-
ine of the swimming poolinthe ship.
Her antics both above 'and under wa-
ter earned her unstinted applause.
She swam the length of the bath -45
feet—calmly and comfortably and was
still fresh enough afterwards to frolic
in the water.armed with water -wings.
Once during the voyage her balloon
was blown overboard and sailed away
over the Atlantic.
"Tell them to eat fat bacon and
raw onions for breakfast," said Mr.
Walker.
"If they can eat that," said Mrs.
Walker, who hates onions,' "'It will
serve them right if they live to be a
hundred."
I asked Mrs. Walker it she had a
hearty appetite,
"I can eat anything except raw
onions," she answered.
"Do you like the wireless, young
matt?" I was obliged to confess that
I hated it.
"So do I," said Mrs. Walker. "Es-
pecially when they start talking. I've
never heard such rubbish."
Mr. Walker moved towards the loud
speaker.
Leave it alone," said Mrs. Walker.
"You don't want music; you just want
to fiddle about with 11."
Mr. Walker fingered a switch.
"Men are all like that," said Mrs.
Walker. "They must have a toy.
Young Paul can't leave the wireless
alone. But that'd the way to keep
them happy'. Let them do as they
like, All right, Willie, if you roust,"
HABITS
That which the easiest becomes a
habit in no 10 the will. Learn, then,'
to will once, to .will strongly and de-
cisively. Thus fix your floating life,
and leave it longer to be drifted'
hither and thither, like a withered
leaf,; by every wind that brows.
Per Toothache-+•Minard's 'Liniment.
Baby Brother Her Rival
"Marjorie," said Mrs. Best, "rushed
for her little swimming suit and grave-
ly inquired whether she could go over
the side alter 1(1
"Alt tiro passengers who heard her
were amazed, and I really believe that
if we had allowed her she would; have
dived then and' there into the ocean
and gone to the rescue of her toy!"
How Not To Catch a Cold
Robert Lynd in the London Daily
News (Lib.) : There are as many ways
of avoiding a cold as of catching one.
One doctor recommends singing as a
preventive, another the eating of raw
onions. "An apple a day," says one;
"reformed dress," says another. Cin-
namon, breathing through the nose,,'
wielding stuffy rooms, never going to
a party, never going to a theatre,
never travelling iu a bus tram, or rail-
way train are other preventives that
have their fervent advocates. All these
suggestions. nee excellent, if one has
the time to follow them, But we can-
not spend all oar time avoiding colds.
There are other things to do in life
besides this.. If one must :risk a cold"
by going to the theatre, one prefers
to go to the theatre and risk it,
The British bishop of Manchester
sage he -Years a struggle for, masted
between Men and women. Where' hag
His Reverence been that he doesn't
know that was settled quite a while
ago t•