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Halifax, •N.S.—An. experiment to,
determine the yield and su'r ar contept
�
Of auger baets under --ordinary farm
conditions in Nova Scotia, was con-
ducted in Pjctou county last summerl
on about fifty farms. The average
yield per acre was from 10 to 14 tons, j
while analysis showed sugar content,
of from 18 to over 20 per cent. This
work was undertaken at the instiga-
tion of the Paovincial Dept. of Agri-
culture to determine the feasibility of
establishing a beet sugar industry in,
the': province.
Saint John, N.B.-Already fifty
;gine. inquiries have been received by
the New Brunswick Automobile Asso-
ciation from prospective visitors ask-
ing for canipr- accommodation during
the sumines• mopths. The number of
permits issued to cars at point 'of
entry. during 1925 was _14,166, more
than 4,000 in advance of the previous'
year. It was estimated that 80,0001
tourists had entered the province from
the United States, in addition to those
from other parts of Canada last year.'
Quebec, Que—Quebec's lumber cut'
for the winter of 1925-26 is expected.
to be about'1,500,000,000 feet, it was
stated by G,. A. Piche, Chief Forester
of the Provincial Government.' Lack
el snow throughout the province has
Tilade very little difference in lumber-
ing operations in the 850 camps that
have been opened. The 1925-26 cut is
expected to be' completed somewhere
about the middle of April.
Fort William, Ont—The demand.
for peeled pulpwood by American
paper nulls is increasing to such an
extent that local contractors are pre -
dieting a new summer industry for the
Head of the Lakes and district. It was
stated that a contract has been award-
ed for 10,000 cords of reeled wood and
that the wood will be done by the Fort
UVibilam ,. contractor employing up-
wards of 300 men ,between. May and
the end of July or August. Other con-
tractors are said to be oh the point off
closing negotiations for an equal "ani-
ount of wood for export.
Winnipeg, Man.,—Five thousand
settlers are in sight for Canada this;
year under the Land Settlement J} frp0�� `_<.k• T Ta: /4r "'THUM
Scheme, aceordwg to Major. John Bar hf• l a .
p. P s" err °
nett chairman of the Soldier Settle
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MAP SHOWING
LOCATION Of
RED LAKE
GOLD AREA
THE ' WEEK'S MARKETS
TORONTO. 80c; cooked hams, 42 to 46c; smoked
Man. wheat—No. 1 North., $1.67%;
No. 2 North; $1,63%; No. 3 North.,
$1.60%.
Man. oats—No. 2 CW, nominal;
No, 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 47%e;
No, 2 feed, 46%c; Western grain quo-
tations on c:i.f., bay ports.
Am. corn, track, . Toronto—No. 2,
yellow, 90c; No. 3 yellow, 88c.
Mlefeed—Dei, Montreal freigghs,
' bags included: Bran, per ton, $80.26
Ito $81.25; `shorts, per ton, $82.25 to
$38,25 middlings, $39.25 to $40.25;
good
rolls 22b•"'cottage,` 26 to 27e;` break-
fast bacon 32 to 88c; special brand
breakfast flacon, 38 to 39c; backs,
boneless, 37 to 45c.
Cured meats --Long cleat•'. bacon, 60
to 70 lbs., $22; 70 to 90 lbs; $20.60;
20 lbs. an up, $19.50; lightweight
roils, in barxeis„$43.50; heavyweight
rolls, $39:50 per barrel.
Lard—Pure tierces, 18% to 19e;
tubs, 19 to 194c; pails, 20 to 204c;
prints, 21 to 21%c; shortening tierces,
14 to 141%” tubs, 1:4% to 15e; pails,
161% to 16l/?ic; elocke, 16% to 17c.
fead.fiour, -r bag, $2.30. Heavy eeere, choice, $7.60 to $8:26;
Natural Resources Bulletin.
As Canadians, we enjoy all the cone
venienoes and economy " of electric
power without giving much thought to
the great engineering accomplish -
meets that bring this modern miracle
of service to our doors, says the Na
aural Resources Intelligence 'Service,
Some of the diffien.ties' faced and
achievements attained by the engin
vers working on the great power de-
velopment
e-
ve opment at Isle Malign, Quehec, for
the Duke -Price Power Co., as told by
The Canadian Engineer, graphically
illuetrates the capital, energy and gen-
ius necessary to put to useful service
Merit Board. "The majority will come ' MY A. o, rC ""ar c} 1 ` N t;°. ;,ae�x f, Ont, oats -443 to 42c, f.o,b. shipping do, good, $7,25 to $7.50; butcher what is one of Canada's
re'points': C_ rces s most unique
from Great Bribarn and will be pre p steers choice $7 to $7 b0' do good L' .
d a uab:e'resources—wale • power.
ott the sc i Lod mil.
s ono c ie eat a.tivi.i et La s,.e in wheat—$1.33 to
1 e p s leo .ed tks g .6 t
4 $ 0 6 ?5 h Mora choice
orad tette i is o as $ butcher e
to a e root n r)1 l v ?• $135 f b h points according $This huge
p Caned n s tion of the district of Patricia, Ontar sen rth;of Beeson; on ,the maidevelopment of over,half
whole fMjor will coni., .out toMilker horsepower occurs at the
got -ter;" Major Barnett said the Canadian National' Railways Majors C1: J. A. <Cunningham Dunt p, W B le M 1 in
: T1s above a i ahOnt., an v
•o.
shipping s
, on
8:60
PP g P to 7.26 goo 6.00
n, line of , $ $ , do, & , $
to freights, to $6.50 do, med., $5.50 to $6; clo, a This
Dunlop, who Barley --Malt' y— atm 63 to 65c co
• >' • bac ug m $6r to $6 60, butcher cows 'where the
Saguenay river ohn, 'r
Edmonton, Ata. -Tho leaa'mg, of Just returned Ytom Iced :Lake, calls this the 'biggest gold rush since the Buckwheat -<No. 3; 68cc• choice; 6.60• do tart' to Lod he it leaves
k Lakes •' N th Albe't ' Iiloadfk, $ r , g � where a Lake St John To
Muskeg aces in- or ern r a e ,
Rye -No. 2, 85c. a $4 to $4.60; butcher bulls, a necessa y dams and stem -
foe the purpose of raisin muskrats — _._.._ ��.... _ __.� Man, flour—First at:' , 9,10 To to .5.50• 1 2 I
I p g P $ , $ , ba ognas, $3. 5 to $3.78: tures and to transport the machinery
rentor do, second pat„ $8.60. canners and cutters, $2.25to
for the fur trade, is a new industry �IEIZtr ®F ZEEB3l�lL1GGE' COA1, MdNING STARTS Ont, flour—Toronto 90 per cont apri r c o e' Si to 0 0o I.it was found necessary to build a
that is inlet way. P age n, h is $ $1 0, g d double track railwa eleven relies
a....,-«_.._ Seek. Saskatchewan 1'.�:fi 1''P1JY"6'�.7.Sr2i:/kith ch cows $70 to $80; medium cows y
good $4:60 .build th i
has shown �tremendous strides in the
"eutemobi'e business according to le- Cat F. H. Sandford Com-.
P
cense figures which have been con- ; mantled .Picket Boat Which
peed since 1906. - In that year 22 auto- Rescued' Sub: Crew.
mobile -licenses were issued. In the
following year there were 55 ears in A despatch from London says:
AFTER' 6 MOS. IDLENESS'
Man- Fatally Injured—Labor
Disputes in Some Areas.
A despatch from Scranton, Pa.,
says:—One fatal .accident ewe's re -
the province "and in 1911 the 1,00D- Britain is mourning : the death in ported' at. anthracite coelierie
mark was passed. When the war Switzerland of Captain F. IL Sand -
broke out in 1914, there were 8,027 'ford, .second of the, heroic Sandford throughout the region which resumed
cars in the province. Last year, the brothers who blocked the mole ee zee operations after being ,idle since Sept.
number was over, 70,000 and it is' ex- brugge during the wa.: The younger 1• Tho victim, John. Luzanbak, aged
pelted that another 10,000 will be add- brother, Lieutenant R. D. Sandford, .30, of this city, walked into a pocket
ed this year. commanded the powder -laden aubmar= of black damp Thursday morning in
Vancouver, B.C.—Hop production in ine C8, which he°steered between the the Sloan Colliery of the Glen Alden
Canada w1h be doubled, the Provincial' piles. of the viaduct, where he lighted
Dept. of Agriculture states, when the fuse and abandoned her.
1,000 acres are to be purchased for Captain E. H. Sandford commanded 1
this purpose; on the reclaimed area at the picket boat which followed the sub- en hear. -
Lake Bed at a' cost of $250,000 and;marine to rescue, if possible,the crew Mining was resumed Thursday
brought' under cultivation. of which his brother was leader. The morning after; nearly aix menthe of
Co. a few hours after he had descend-
ed the shaft.- He was removed to a
tosp;tel unponsciou's and died within
AVALANCHE KILLS 57
PERSONS IN UTAH
-Many Miners Still Buried Un-
- der Debris in 'Narrow Canyon
—Fire Adds to Horror.
A despatch from Bingham says:-'
Upward of 57 (rives were snuffed,out
when a snowslide thundering down the
mountainside buried the little High-
land Boy mining settlement at the foot.
of 'Sap Gulch, near here. Iit Was,
feared the toll might mount to 75.
As the mass' of snow accumulated
from the heaviest snow storm of th'a
winter, let loose on the mountainside
above the Gulch, in whicleare located'
the Utah -Delaware and Utah Apex
felines, it swept trees and rocks with
it and filled the narrow canyon. which
Is only, 700. feet long.
Mn.ewomen and children were
caught without warning when the 1
e.valanche struck the McDonald board -
ring house and a smaller one near by •
conducted by a Mee. Rimby. A small '
church, and about twenty miners' cab-
ins, listing both aides of the gulch,'
were buried or swept away. The'
boarding-house ander cabins, heated
lvlth stoves, caught flee, as they were
Gushed in the snowslide. Many of the
victims were terribly burned, and
identification of the bodies was ex-
tremely d'if$cult.
The entire first shift of the Utah
Delawave mine was coming off duty
when the slide swept the gulch sides
dean and .filled it with debris. It was ,
with a sudden,' thundering roar that
the slide bore down the mountainside,
said persons outside its path.'
A later despatch 'from Bingham
says: -Workers continued digging in
the debris resulting from the snow-
' slide in Sap Gulch, near here, despite
the bandonnrent of hope that any„ of
the entombed persons might 'yet be
dive. It was believed that they would
have frozen'to death by this time.
The number of known dead" was
increased late on Thursday to 38, with
the recovery of the bodies of a man
end a boy from the ruins. About 30
remained missing. The exact number
May not be known until spring, when
e snow melts, an official said, ex
plaining that only a small portion of
the devastated area could be cleared
of all -snow, :-.
Sentries patrol the ridges surround-
ing the gulch in fear of •another slide,.
Much snow remains on the mountain
sides, and it could easily bring about
' another disaster as serious as the
presentone, since the lives of hun-
dreds -of miners now digging in the
debris would be. in danger. -
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ricket host nicked nn members right Idleness: The workers came out in
under the nose of .the garrison and droves at all collieries as early as 5
started to Dover. A few seconds Later o'clock waiting to be Ibwered into the
a ton cf explosives on the submarine mines. " The first trains hauling the
`blew lap, blocking' the mole and pre- pi'eClen9 fuel to market wera en route
venting the' Germans using Zeebrugge to distant co nmtmities early le the
any more as a naval base.
▪ y1 wa'' The younger Sandford, died in 1918.
POTATOES FROM P.E.I..
COVER CHAMPAGNE
"They Shall Not Pass." -
Louis Curette, Indian goalkeeper of
the Caughnawaga hockey tenni, Indian
village, near Montreal, who is said to
be one of -the largest "goalies" In the
world. He weighs 400 pounds. He is
manager of the local baseball team.
Keir is Expected ected b
P Y..
Duke and Duchess of York
A despatch from Londonsays:-
The Duchess'ef York is expected to
become a Teethe'.ether• in April, it is now
definitely known. The Duke and
Duchess, after searching for some
time for a permanent London home,
have Leased 40 Belgrave Square. The
house adjoins that occupied by Prince
and Prinoese Arthur of Connaught.
Queen Mary's in Market
for New Palace Cook,
Queen Mary needs a'new,cook. The
ted one is not quitting because'of too
Much company at Buckingham Palace,
too few nights _off- or anything like
that, but is about to retire after
twenty-five y� ars as, "Cook Royal," in
supreme ;celeinand of the palace kit -
Applicants roust be adept at=.both
l,laest and fanny cooking, ,for except
sf the more formal: oce esions the fare
at England's royal board is very
• simple. ' On Sundays, if there are no
;special guests, I{ing George's family:
often lunches on soup, roast beef, ap-
te tart and cream.. But on formal
Octal occasions ..when tire, solid ; gold
;hate plate is shined up and put on
the great dining tab.•e, the palace chef
Must rise to the supreme heights ,of
Queen Mary, good housewife thae.
she is, usually_.chooses the menus, and.
although herself fond' of the simple
dishes. of England, she has fine dis
eriminetton--in •French add other for-
eign
cooking.
Seizure of 138 Cases is Made
in Freight Car at New York. -a dispute about the number of decking
A despatch Froin New York says :— bosses to be employed. The company
One hundi,ed and thirty-eight cases of placed one man on the job, whf'e the
d
high=gre :champagne, estimated, at. union requested two. They refused to
current wholesale bootleg prices, to be work until the dispute was adjusted.
worth between ,$30,000 and .$40,000, •
were found hidden under a consign-
ment of Prince Edward. Island pots- Oranges Imported to Canada
ties on the arrival of a. freight car .
from New Brunswick, and seized by
prohibition enforcement officers.
The 846 sacks of potatoes, which A. despatch from Halifax says:
had not been sold by the consignee, What is credited as being another re -
will be 'sold at auction, but not"the suit of the campaign for the use bf
champagne. the Atlantic ports of Canada for Can -
As shipments of potatoes from adian imports,- is the arrival in St.
Canada wi.4 be on the suspected list John of the Lloyds -Mediterranean
hereafter, the 'bootleggers will have liner Veinegra, with 12,000 cases of
to fled some other article of- food' for oranges direct •from Seville, Spain.
man or beast to disguise the drink- The oranges are consigned to different
ables consigned for this market.
Oranges, lemons, hay, crabs, eels, on-
ions, and. Christmas trees are already
suspected eommmdities.
afternoon. •About' 20• per cent. of
normal daily production, coal company
officials' say, was reached Thursday.
Colliery foremen predict, that maxi-
mum production will be reached by;
M•areh 1.
Two collieries ,were idle Thursday.
At. one, No. 41 shaft of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Co, at Pittston,' there was
lat., per barred in carlots Toronto,
6,96; seaboard, in bulk, $6.85., 46 to $60, feeders, good, $5.75 to
Str — 6.50; do,fair,$5` to 5.50; stockers
aw carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.60... ,$
Screenings—Standard, recleaned, f.� good, $4.5 to $5,50; do, fair, $4,50 to
o.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. 84.75; .calves, choice, $13.50 to 514;
Cheese --New, large 22c; twins, do, good, 512 to 512.25; do, grassers,
221%; triplets, 23c; Stiltons, 24c. Old, 55 to $5.25; good light sheep, 57 to
large, 28 to 80o;. twins, 29 to Mc; $8; heavies and bucks, $5.50 to $5.50;
I,. p ,.
B tie
48e; No, 1 creamery, 46 to 47e; No. 2,
45 to 46c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42c.
Eggs—Fresh extras, in.cartons,
42 to 48c; fresh extras, loose,' 41 to
•42c; fresh firsts, 37 to_,38c; storage
extras, 28c; storage firsts, 25c; stor-
age seconds, 21 to 22c.
ri ]eta 80, to 132c. good lambs, $18 to'$13.60; do med,,
$12 to $12.50; do, bucks, 59 to $10.50;
do, culls, $10 to • $11; hogs, thick
smooths, fed and watered, 514.10 to
514.35; do. f.o.b.,-$18.60 to 513.76; do,
country points, $13.25 to $18.60; do,
off ears, 514.50 to $14,75; select pre-
mium, 82.77 to $2.82.
• MONTREAL.
u r—Fine:t creamery ' prints,
Direct from Spain
--a�—
Aquitania is Damaged
by Huge Ocean Wave
, A despatch from New York says:—
The liner Aqui.tania, which pealed
through the great storms of Jan. 24
and 25 without a scratch, docked on
Wednesday, 18 hours late, with dam-
ages resulting from :a huge wave which
touched her 60 feet above the water-
line, afber coniirig from an otherwise
ordinary sea. The wave knocked the
"Q from hername inscription on the
port side, broike a: 60 -foot cargo boom
into three pieces, smashed windows in
portholes in the chart house and flood -
marmalade manufacturers whose
plants are in Hamilton, Toronto, St.
Oatherines and Winona, Ont. This is
the first time that manufacturers of
marmalade in Canada have imported
their rawproduce through Canadian
ports; hitherto all such imports going
to Ontario by way of New York and.
the Suspension Bridge, Niagara.
e The fruit branch, of the Agricul-
tural Dept. at Ottawa' was so inter-
ested in the experiment of using Can-
adian ports for these shipments, that
they sent, a fruit transportation ex-
pert to meet•the ship and to make a
very exhaustive study of the . condi-
tions under which the fruit is landed
and cared for at St.`John, It was
estimated that the total movement
would require two traine and would
be in the hands `of the manufacturer
within 60 hours from landing in St.
ed some of the officers' cabins. John.
Dressed poultry—Chickens, spring,
lb., 32c; hens, over 4 to 5 lbs., 24 to
26e; do, 3 t 4.lbs., 22e; roosters, 2 c;
ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 30 to 32c;
turkeys, 35c.
Beans—Can, hand-picked. ib., 6c;
primes, 5 to 51/4c.
Maple produce—Syrup, . per imp.
gal., $2.40; per 5 -gal. tin, 52.30 per
gal.; maple sugar, lb„ 26 to 26c.
Honey -50 -Ib. tins, 111/ to 12c per
ib.; 10-1b. tins, 111,¢ to 120; 5-1b, tins,
12 to 121%; 21,4 -lb. tins, 14 to 141,hc.
Smoked meats—Hams, nied:. 28 to
sesesseeesse
Sir E. F. G. Ponsonby
as keeper of the klug's privy purse,
1s the man who tele his majesty how
much he can spend. Sir Edward was
recently' honored again with the grand
cross of the order of the bath.
M.P. Dons at Woman's Hat
to Gain Point in Commons
Among many of the old rules gov-
erning procedure in the House of
Commons, London, England, is one
that if a member wishes 'to raise a
point of order after a division has
been called he must don his hat.
The Laborite member, G. l;'uchanan,
desired to raise a point, but he hady
not brought his hat with bine He
solved the dilemma, however, by bore
rowing the velvet toque of Miss Ellen,
C. Wilkinson, also a Laborite member,
which he clapped upon his head of red,
hair. Thus he addressed the speaker;
amid noisy Iaughter from the mem-
bers.
UNION JACK HISSED.
1 issir..g the obher: day when the Union Jack was -hauled down'from the flagstaff above the British headquarters at the office] evacua
'trccrr„ The a'beve photo shows the flag being ,lowered as the "Tonimiesi` left for Wiesbaden.
Long, to lay out and construct a model
town with its own bank,, stores, post
office arid hospital, and to 'house 1,600
men engaged in the work. Over $1,-
500,000 was spent on the equipment
alone, used in the construction of the
dams and power house.
In order to raise the waters of the
lake 17 'feet and impound 30,000
square miles (an area, twice the size
of Switzerland) of water, two thou-
sand farms had to be purchased out-
right, which, in addition to lake St.
John, furnished the requisite area for
Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 61c; CW, flooding.
No. 8, 57c; extra No. 1 feed, 54c, The entire' river bed had to be
Flour, Man. spring wbeat pats., firsts,' changed and a new channel created,
59.10; seconds, 38.60; strong bakers, the construction of which required
58.20 to 58.40. Bran, 530.25. Shorts, 200,000 lbs. of explosives, In another
$32.26. Middlings, $39.26. Hay, No, 2, spot a channel 125' feet wide and `60
per ton, car Iota, $18 to $13.60. feet deephad to be blocked by
Cheese—Finest vests, 21 to 211/sc; : huge
Butter, No. 1, pasteurized, 44 to masses of concrete chained together.
44%c; No. 1 ,creamery, 48 to 431/4c.1 The large gates which are to control
Eggs, storage extras, 82c; do, fiesta, ; the flow of water to the turbines
27c; do, seconds, 22c• fresh. extras,: weigh 54 tons each. It is interesting
48c; fresh firsts, 89e. 'Potatoes, Queb-! to note that only eixtoen' earson the
bee, per bag, car lots, $2.80. ' entire Canadian •.National Railway
system were strong enough to carry
the blocks et steel.
These are but a few of the inter -
1 esting items faced by the engineers in
charge of this Line project. Every
other development has its own pecu-
liar problems. In the mountains, tun
nets and conduits have to be provided.
Elsewhere embankments ,often, have
to be created. Surveys and extended
periods- of investigation_ of the run -oft
properties of the water shed under
both summer and winter conditions
should precede the actual construction.
Long and expensive transmission lines
to those centres where the power is
to be utilized must be built and main-
tained. In many cases industrial
plants, involving tremendous outlays,
have to be built to absorb the power
that is surplua after the ordinary
needs of the district have been satis-
fied. Thus, while the power plant at
Isle Malign is costing thirty million
dollars, the great industrial plants
for the manufacture of pulp and pa-
per and aluminum, which are being
literally created to utilize the energy,
will probably represent an outlay of
more than one hundred million dollars.
Nowhere in the world have granter
engineering victories been more con-
sistently accomplished in adding to
the wealth of the country and`1re con-
venience of its citizens than has been
the case in Canada.
TORONTO YOUTH MEETS
DEATH ICE BOATING
Car Plunges Into Open Water
of Bay -Three Friends
Escape.
A despatch from Toxonto says:—A�
20 -year-old boy was drowned and two;
'.teen-age girls and a 19 -year-old boy'
had a miraculous escape from a simi-',
lar fate when an ice -boat in which
they were riding swept off solid ice
and plunged through floating .blocks i
into the water of the Bay near the
Eastern Gap.
The dead lad is Reginald Helston,
aged 20, of 96 Dixon Ave.
The rescued are: Carl Crockett,
aged 19, 20 Norway Ave.; Mabel Hes-
cott, 681 Bathurst St., and Belvie Mee-
han, aged 17, of 9 Norway Ave.
Helston's body was found at 1.20
this (Thursday) morning, four hours
after the accident, in 30 feet of water,
a short distance from where the boat
went off the ice.
The accident happened shortly after
9 o'clock in the evening. It was mark-
ed_ by a tragedy, by a display of cour-
age, by a thrilling rescue.
Under gloomy skies the ice boat
went skimming across the Bay. In
the pit were the two girls and Helston.
Crockett was at the rudder. The boat
circled - and headed for what seemed
to be sheer tee. Then the ice sleet into
blocks. What had' appeared to be the
glazed ice surface was open water. •
The boat shot off into this;.turned
half over and submerged.
The four young persons disappeared
into the'water•. 'Crockett grabbed.the
boat. The girls bobbed up from the
water. Belvie Meehan also was able
to seize the boat. Crockett threw his
arm about Mabel Hescott and pulled
her to the boat. Ralston disappeared.
The trio oared for help, but in vain.
Then Crockett, leaving the girls cling-
ing to the boat, ewam to a floating
block of ice. After a struggle he was
able to pull himself out of the water.
Then he abarte,d off across 'the ice floes
to a more solid surface and on to the
shore, a mile and a half away.
Almost onthe verge of collapse he
reached an office on the docks at the
foot of Bay Street. Here a call was
put in to the police and life-savers.
English Language Popular
'", on the Riviera
English has become the universal
language of the Riviera. One hears
it in the Casinos, palaces and prom-
enades, on the street, in ,.theatres,
everywhere. It is spoken with the
twang of the Yankee, the drawl of the
Southern States, the sharp accent of
London and here and there the gut-
Meal tones of Scotland.
The residents of the Riviera have
become accustomed to the sound of
English, but now and then late
arrivals from Paris express surprtse,
and wonder whether this is France or
some seaboard aeries of resorts on the
North Sea or the coast of New Jersey.
Squelched.
He wanted to,roa1i, but the man in
the seat.oppoelie him would persist in
trying to talk: as the train moved smite
le along. After several brief replies
the etudent began to grow timed.
"The grass 18 very green, isn't it?"
asked -•life, would-be convematienallst,
pl�easantl3'•
"Yee," said the atudent, "such a
change from the blee and red' grass we
hams been having lately,"
no rest was silence.
Plan for Better Babies and
Healthier Mothers.
A. comprehensive pian of co-oper-
ative effort in the*publication and dis-
tribution of a series of fres prenatal
letters has been arranged' 'with the
consent of the Provincial Health De-
partment of this province by the Can-
adian Council on Child Welfare at
Ottawa. The purpose of the ,under-
taking is to assure that every expect-
ant mother is pieced iu touch with her
family physician and her provincial
Department of Health as early in
pregnancy as possible. To this end, a
committee of physicians working with
the Child Hygienic Division of the
Council has prepared a series of ex-
pert letters on prenatal advice and
instructions. These will he issued .free
upon application, and will be sent
monthly until the baby's birth.
The letters are designed to give gen-
eral practical information and advice,
and to urge early and regular con-
sultation with the physician. It is
hoped also that by such a Means wo-
men In the outlying districts will bo
brought in contact with their provin-
cial health services and sono further
progress effected in the reduction of
the' heavy maternal and infant mortal-
ity rate in our outpost settlements.
A letter or postcard to the Canadian
Council :on Child Welfare, Ottawa, or
to your health authorities wi iI bring
the letter service to any o',oniau re-
questing it. •
Stout Englishmen Are
Dieting .for Styles
The increasing vogue of the, double-
breasted coat
oublebreastedcoat has caused men of fa -
vision in 'London to resort to- dieting
to remove fat. No fat man looks his
best in a double-breasted suit; hence
the "balding" denied of favorite dishes
and painful hours' of massage in the
Turkish baths. of Piccadilt7 and St,
James:
Those undergoing the martyrdom of
fashion find physical consolation, how-
ever, in tate advice' of doctors that the
fa'btor the neer the higher the blood
"stare, and that the thin, wiry men
live ^longest,