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Boys
he-Boys and G
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THE LOST
BY E. M,
Richard Boss was going home from
'school one day when he saw a hand-
some penknife lying on the ground.
Now a knife was of all things just
what Richard wanted, and: the sight of
this one made his heart jump for joy.
He caught it up eagerly, pulled open
the bright blade, and feasted his eyes
on the white pearl handle and shining
steel.
"I'm a lucky fellow!" he said to
himself.
And then he started for home at a
full run, to tell his brother and sister,
of his good luck, and show his beau-
tiful knife.
"I wonder who could have lost it?"'
kaid Brother Charles.
"It's more than I know, or care;
either," replied Richard.* "Finding is
keeping."
"Suppose you had lost it?" said
grave Brother Charles.
"Oh, bother!" answered Richard,
With some impatience,
Charles' suggestion had fallen 'like
a wet blanket (as we say sometimes)
en Richard's self-satisfaction.
"Somebody must have lost It," said.
Charles.
"Maybe it was Mr. Ellis," suggest-
ed Sister Marion. "I saw him going
down the road half an hour ago."
"I don't believe it'a his knife,".
epoke out Richard, who was not feel-
ing so coinfortable as when he came
In.
"I would ask him if I were you,"
said Charles.
Richard made no reply to this sug-
gestion.
Suppose he should ask Mr. Ellis if
it was his knife, and he should say
Yes? He would, of course, have to
give it up. The thought was anything
but agreeable.
"Suppose," said Charles, looking up
from his book that evening, as they
sat round a table, studying their les -
eons, "you had lost thatknife, Rich -
and?"
"Why can't you let the knife rest?"
answered Richard, half angrily. "It's
no concern of yours."
"But I can't help feeling sorry for
the person who lost it," said Charles.
"It's such a beauty of a knife, and
maybe was a gift or a keepsake; or
maybe a little boy or girl bought it
with the money saved up for months."
"Oh, bother!" exclaimed Richard,
using his favorite word when things
PENKNIFE
PHILLIPS.
did not - go smoothly with him.
"What's the use of supposing all that?
The knife ismine now. If I had not
picked it up, somebody else would.
When a thing's lost, it's lost—and
there'sthe end of' it, If people are
careless enough to drop their things
hi the public road, they musn't expect
the finders to run all through creation
to look them up. Finding's keeping,
the. world over."
"It isn't' according to the Golden
Rule," answered Charles.
"Oh, never mind about the Golden
Rule! What has that to do with,
finding .a penknife?" returned Rich-
ard.
"If you had lost a penknife and
Tom Link had found it, wouldn't you
be glad if he were to ask all around'
for the owner, instead of keeping the
knife and not saying a word about it?
Of course you would. And you would
say that Toni was a nice fellow—so
unselfish and honorable; and all be-
cause he had. done as he would be
done by—had kept the Golden Rule."
I Richard, looked very sober at this;
for it brought the matter home to him
as he had not seen it before. There
was something about th s pen n e
the Golden Rule, and he was begin
ning to see it. 1
And now a gradual change began
to come over his feelings, as he was
able to put himself in place of the one
who had lost the knife, and to feel
sorry for the loser. He took it out of
his pocket, and turned it over in his
hands.
1 "It is beautiful," he said, "and the
person who lost it must feel very
badly. It isn't my knife, though I
did find it, that's clear.""
"And you never could enjoy it,"
said Sister Neil; "because you'd be al-
ways thinking how sorry the person
who lost it must be."
"Maybe I would. Anyhow, I'm go-
ing straight over to see NIr. Ellis in
the morning and ask him if he lost
And/he did so.
"Why, Richard!" exclaimed Mr,.
Ellis, when he saw ..... •. , i
of surprise and pleasure on his face.,
i "Where did you find it? It" is one
grandma sent to Horace for a birth-
day present, and I lost it on my way
ifs a glow
home. This is his birthday. I have
been so annoyed about the loss.
THE VOTE FOR "THE FLAPPER"
this momentous adventure, according
Are English Maidens of to soma sharply antagonistic Censer -
Twenty -one to Help Control
the Country?
ANOTHER HOME - LAND
"MUDDLE."
4 With the World War leaving a 1,-
7,00,000
:700,000 surplus of women In England
!-aa inereas'e of 500,000 over the pre-
war figure—as revealed in the British
census returns, palliation is offered in
some quarters for the rage and ridicule
with which eesttatn Independent and
Conservative English newspapers are
attacking the proposal of Premier
Baldwin's Government to gave the vote
to women on the same terms as the
men. This would mean, we learn
from the press, that the present vot•
ing age of thirty for women would be
theduced to twenty-one, and it is noted
at unless the Government Suffrage
Bill, which Mr. Baldwin promises to
introduce in the latter part of this
year, .1s unexpectedly defeated, 5,000,-
000 voters will be added to the elec-
torate, and in 70 per cent. of the con-
stituencies the women will outnum-
ber the men. According to Landon
press dispatches. women will he en-
franchised on attaining their twenty-
first year, and many women who are
more than thirty,. years old and who
are disfranchised under the existing
system, will also acquire the vote.'
Some estimates Macao that at the'
next general election the women vat -I
ens will out -number the men by 2,000,-
000 The only ques.tlon asked about
1r
vative editors, is the wholly irrelavant
one, namely: "If men have the vote
at twenty-one, why should not wom-
en?" The argument for • simtiarity
of age and sex rests upon two gross as-
sumptions, says' a writer in "Black -
wood's Magazine" (Edinburgh), and
he adds:
•
We do not suppose that at the age of
twenty-one either man or woman de-
sires a vote. But, say the wiseacres, a
man of twenty-one has a vote, so a
woman of twenty-one must have ono
also. Which is absurd, In the second
plaoe, It assumes that a vote la a
right, which it emphatically is not.
Nobody, man on' woman, Is born to
vote. We are not, by nature, voting
entree's, The State may confer the
power of voting as a privilege 'upon
any class in the community which 1t
ehoosee thus to honor or degrade. But
none is entitled to complain if he or
she be debarred from dropping a vot-
ing -paper tnto a ballot -box.
A Political Dodge.
"Though It le wholly irrelevant to
the argument whether the young wo-
men of England desire to vote or not,
it might be pointed out that they them-
selves have not expressed u wish to
possess that doubtful privilege. What-
ever claim that is made for thein is
made by interested politicians, by
spinsters of full age, or by idle mar-
ried women, who would, if they could,
recapture the old wild madness of the
suffragette. Nor can it be said that
the vote of the young women will do
any service to the State. Government
THE FOUNDER OF GUELPH
Photograph of oil portrait by Joshua Smith, R.B.A., of the late John Galt,
founder of the city of Guelph one hundred years ago. The painting was pre-
sented by the descendants of Lir. Gait to the city of Guelph in connection
with the centenary oel'ebration
has long ceased to bean art or a
science; and has become a gamble:
Every thousand of newly enfranchised ,
voters does but increase the gamble•..
The politicians are influenced by one
hope only: that if they give the votes
to the young women, they will be re-
warded at the polls. History should
have taught them that they will not, •
but they are still sanguine, as we are
not, and we fear that before the death
of the present Parliament another load
of several millions of voters will he
laid upon the bent baok of democracy,
already tottering under its unwieldy
load."
Strong Opposition.
It appears from the press that two
members of the Cabinet, Winston
Churchill -and Lord Birkenhead, op-
posed votes for young women, and it
it ventured by some prophets that the
opponents of the .measure, who have
a considerable following in the Con-
servative party, niay yet ieucceed in
amending the measure greatly before
it is passed. The London Daily,Ex-
press (end. Cons.) declares rather
cynically, that as far as the girls of
tweutyone go, they will be "merely
amused" by the measure, the- country
will be astonished, and the greater
part of the Conservative party will
find their loyalty strained to the ut-
termost, wherefore this newspaper
asks:
"Who wants this remarkab_e change?
The girls themselves most certainly
do not. True, they might enjoy th'e
unaccustomed thrill ofan election day,
but surely no one will contend that
they either have or would bother to
obtain serious knowledge of the poll -
cies on which they would be helping to
decide. There has been No popular
demand. Conservative women them-
selves are• hopelessly divided on it.
• Ministers are divided- also, And so are
Conservative M.P.'e.
Fair But Foolish.
"Tho flapper, al a rule, is an ador-
able creature, but not even her most
gallant champions wid'1 claim for her
political pre -science or argue that. she
to willing to substitute for her 'craze
far the Charleston a passion for the
platform. It is all very well for the
moralists to contend that at the age
of twenty-one she should have so
drilled and discip•liued herself as to be
entrusted with the task of looking af-
ter the British Empire, but the plain
truth is that she nil have done noth-
ing of the ,sort. And we see no tea:
son why she should.
"Petticoat government has been the
subject of many music -halt jokes, and
quite possibly the salvation of many
homes,—but—without going into the
delicate subject of the tnoileru flap-
per's economy in the matter of petti-
coats—we take leave to doubt whether
she is or wants to be an arbiter of the
political fortunes of Great Britain:'
To speak of admitting women of
twenty-one to the suffrage as "votes
for flappers," says the London Sunday
PLANES WILL ASSIST ENGINEERS , The
.How assort is able to keep. up its
IN B HIDING HUDSON BAY RAILWAY steady beat with apparently rest;
the
, snoopy because 1t really loos rest; the
. pause between beats being ,nice cal.
p, Quieted to allow time for recovery. A
writer in the Illustrated Zeitung (Leip-
Seven R41x3d Trips in Making Comparative Tests ' Sig) makes the- statement that ail
healthy muscles are practically untir
able, provided the work done by them
is adjusted: to the -proper •tempo. Other
neoessary conditions aro proper blood
Ho s
esoplyays'd an abundance of oxygen.
an
"When a group of muscles is per-
mitted to work continuously, It reaches
a state of di ninis'hed yield, It Is
'tired, and this fatigue is associated
with a peculiar sensation In the
"There are two causes for this. The
first is the accumulation of waste pro-
ducts, known as fatigue stuffs, pro-
duced by the activity of the muscle and
stored 'inits tissue, the chief of which
are lactic and phosphoric acids and
oarbon •dioxid, with shall amounts of
ereatin and other extractive materials.
If these products be removed, as by
'conducting a e i4eam of salt ;solution"
through the muscle, 1/1 -ie latter is again
able to do work.
"But in a healthy organism these
fatigue products are more or less com-
pletely removed by properly timed
Test pauses."
The writer then explains that during
the rest_ pause the fatigue stuffs are
either carded away by the blood
stream, or are neutralized within the
muscle itself,, by means of oxygen,
which either buirns them up, or else re -
transforms the lactic acid into carbo-
hydrates. Ole goes on: -
"That a part of the fatigue stuffs le
really carried away by the blood was
demonstrated by Mosso, when he pro-
dluoed' fatigue in an animal by intro-
ducing fatigue stuffs from a wearieid
animal into the blood.
"A .second cause of fatigue is the ex-
haustion of the oxygen content in the
blood supply of the muscle. The lactic
sold, farmed when. oxygen is lacking,
disapgear's in its presence. The less
oxygen in themusole, the more readily
does it become fatigued, while restora-
tion to the normal is hastened by a
supply of blood rich in oxygen."
But the blood brings not only oxy-
gen, ' but nutritive materials in the
form of carbohydrates, and these are
necessary for complete recovery from
fatigue. ' To quote again:
'If an amputated muscle, for ex -
1 ample, one taken from a frog, the ani-
mal generally •emp1 for the stud
of muscles and nerves, is supplied with
atmospheric oxygen alone, it will be.
come 'rested, but more slowly than
"City of Winnipeg' and "City of Toronto" to Make Twenty -
of Fort Churchill and Fort Nelson. f
JOINED SAME TRAIN AFTER GOLDFIELDS TRIP.
"Our 'expedition has• demonstrated terations In the plans, but everything
conclusively, I think, the praotic,abtldty was transported without mishap.
and essentially the safety of the plane The two planes operating on the job
as a medium of transport' Lor both pas- were manned by Captain J. R. Rose,
sengers and freight,; said F. J. Steven- who was In charge of ,the party, and
son,pilot of the "City of Winnipeg," Pilot F .J. Stevenson, who handled the
whicih with the 'City ,of Toronto" has "City of Winnipeg," and Pilot Bart.
just completed a contract for the Do- Bslchem and S. H. Cheesman, a test
minion Government :.department of ing mechanic, of the Fokker factory,
railways and canals in transpdrting who handled the "City of Toronto."
16,000 .pounds of equipment and sup-I,llyin'g oond'itions throughout were re-
lies, and twelve passengers from Hud- 1 ported to be'`good,' ' and there were
eon to Fort Churchill on Hudson's Bay,' plenty of places to land. The water
involving twenty-seven round trips route would be slightly longer than
over a route of some 950 miles each
way.
The planes used on the trip, the
Fakker 'monoplane type, were flown
that possible under winter °auditions
using skiie'. Mr. ,Steveneon pointed out
that each plane, with a capacity of
1,500 pounds had. to carry adequate,
up from New York, arriving at. Hudson emergency supplies in the.. form of.
on 21sit of March. The first trip was rations, snow shoes, sleeping bags, etc.,
made on the 23rd of March and the to guard against eventualities.
contract completed. on the 17th of As a commercial venture it was a
April. On some d'ay's two round .trips pioneer effort, it, was something which
were made. •, had not been done before on so large
The eourse Down was from Hudson a scale. In the light of the expert -
to Norway House, 480 miles airline, once gained through this contract fur -
frequently without a stop even when ther undertakings of a similarnature
loaded; from Norway House to Cache will be much simplified.
I!ake, 280 miles, and from Cache Lake Weather conditions were decidedly
to Fort Churchill, 190 miles- Absolute- favorable throughout the period, and
Times acridly, is not funny, nor accu-
rate, but "sheer ilapdpedla." There
may be a doyen reasons of -various de-
grees of illogicality for not allowing
men and women to vote at the same
age, but this is not one of them, ac-
cording to this newspaper, which
argues:
"To begin with, a woman of twenty-
one le not a -flapper. The term, as eve
understand its history and signific-
ance, derives from that dim past when
girls wore their hair long and down
their backs and had enough of°it to
flap: It served as a convenient desig.
nation for that noisy, indeterminate,
hoydenish •period between childhood
and womanhood, when any sensible
girl would' far sooner have a box of
chocolates than a vote.
"But at twenty-one the aching joys
and dizzy raptures of this phase of
adolescence have, been outgrown and
left behind. - ltlaturity has descended
in a stood, and: the girl at that age has
a poise and a knowledge of herself
and others,. and a protective, and at
the same time an independent; attitude i
toward life that the man of,forty-five
'
is just about to acquire. The habit of
feeling ever so much alder than boys
of lien own age, and than most other
men, is already formed, and to ex-
plain to her that she is too young and
undeveloped to vote, and that the suf-
frage is a man's work for which only
her masculine contemporaries are
qualified, is not altogether easy."
,i
She --"Why dud you ask the barber
not to cut your halm too short?"
He -"1 didn't want to look elflmin-
ate."
i The Oldest Gpysies.
i Over the edty's dark resile•
The caravan moon moves slow,
And all the hosts of stars
Forever restless go; •
Unwearied gypsy companies
Travelling the centuries.
—Rachel Field.
•
The idea that women have got to
be protected and are the weaker sex
permeates the whole question of in-
equality. You have got to get over
that prejudice, which is held by nice
people—Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
ly no d'uiicult.ies were experienced, ex-
cept that the shifting ice formations
in the harbor at Fort Churchill some:
times made it necessary to land on a
small lake just inland from Churchill.
Skits were used on the planes, and
taking off and landing they proved
eminently. effective. 'for summer fly-
ing purposes these will be replaced
with pontoons and every use made of
the multitude of lakes, rivers and
waterways which abound in the die'
trice
Seine idea of the nature of the un -
dertaking may be had from consider-
ing the nature and size of tiie com-
modities transported. The federal gov-1
ernment wanted to get work started
with respect to determining the rads
live suitability of Port Nelson and Fort
Ohurclull as prospective terminals for
the Hudson's Bay Rahway, new rapid-
ly nearing completion. For this pur-
pose they decided to get staff and
equipment on the ground with the
least possible delay and Western Can-
ada Airways Limited got the contract'
to 'move them in. The equipment was
largely drilling and boring machinery.
The largest single item weighed ap-
proximately 800 pounds and the long-
est piece of timber handled was twenty
feet. To handle this piece of timber
it was necessary to make minor al-
•
snow conditions average. The planes
handled perfectly and it cannot be
denied that mach time and consider-
able expense was saved in the use of
this means of transport.
Some idea of the practicability of
the use of planes in such a field can
be had from the interesting experience
on a recent occasion of a mining ex-
pert who en route from Winnipeg to
Toronto wee picked up by a plane at
Minaki, flown in to the gold fields.,
spent four hours examining prospects
and was flown out again rejoining the
game train Sioux Lookout. To have
mads the same trip by any other avail-
able means, even the fastest dog team
would: have involved a delay. of from
three to five days, In other words, a
plane covers the same grbund in an
hour and a half that it takes three
days or more to cover by any other
means of transport available in the
north country. Air service is proving
economical to a degree and essentially
safe.
Reading 'left to right in the accom-
panying picture are: Capt. J. R. Ross,
who was in charge of the party; Pilot
F. 1. Stevenson, Pilot Bart Balchem,
and Chief. Mechanic S. H. Cheesntan,
Timbers 18 to 20 feet to length and
equipment weighing 800 pounds was
successfully handled.
Purpose.
Down the row, down the row,
Grimly tearingearth apart,
Comes the steely .jaw of p'ionghehare
Gnashing at each blade and .flower—'
Devastating ruthlessly.
But does it break
That, which seemingly it ends,
Since the soli, hereunto sealed,
Wafts a breath of earth itself?
And all the stately, nodding mustard
That made fields golden, fragrant,
Look—it is gone!
But, gond to malts more fragrant still
The purple grape for .which this hill
Is planted.
—Edra Inez Raymond.
Comfort In the Clouds.
Electric fires are fitted in a new
French monoplane which le to attempt
a flight to New York,
The roadside stand has turned the
highways into "buy -ways."
REG'LAR FF.I.i ERS—By Gene Byrnes.
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a longer time for oxygen to become
diffused. Furthermore, the restoration
is incomplete and' soon gives way to
new fatigue, since no fresh nutritive
material has been supplied.
I "When a normal muscle with a full
blood supply and abundance of oxygen:
and nutrition is stimulated at regular
intervals., it us pa ay un e,
provided the rest pauses are snfliclent- •
ly long. The practical conclusion de-
rived from this :is that each person
should learn by self-observation the
proper work tempo for himself—not
too fast not yet too slow, but the
tempo which produces the greatest of
flciency with the least fatigue, and
should accustom himself to this, re'
miembering that the rest pauses should
be taken in fresh air."
Mr. Hog -"A cat •has nine lives?
How many lune a dog?"
Mr. Pup—"Ca-nine."
The En 'dish language is without
g
question the most perfect and noblest
instrument given to mankind for the
communication of human thought.—
Sir James Parr.
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Fabric Names.
Some of our ordinary fabrics and
garments have inter'es'ting faots'In,con
naction with the origin of their names.
Often these words have geographical •
significance as they awe'.derived 01'om
Nue name of the. town in which a cer-
tain fabric was first made,' the coun-;
try in which the town was located or .
some adjacent river. Take the familiar
word cambric, for instance, It was
first made in the town of Gambrel,
France. Its name perpetuates this
&tot. Then there i5 the Lighter -weight
cotton known es lawn: This was first
woven in Loon, another small French
town. Gingham is supposed to, have
taken its name from a Little town in
Brittany called Guingdmp, where this
fabric of cotton colored in this thread
is said to have bees first manufactured.
The rather inelueive word "worsted"
comes from the name of a town, Wor-
stead, la Norfolk. The pernuliarly'
woven material known as "jersey"
land of that name. Even a eeah s.crvu
lead of that na.m.e. - Even -such an
everyday word as "miilluery is a
varletkcm of the name of the 'talion ;J}•,
city, Milan, which has long been noted
for beautifully woven straws: and other
mummery material's.
When it ,comes to associating the
names of garments with the persons
who invented them, one loan the con-
venient raincoat, still sometimes
ell a "mackintosh" because Charles
Mackintosh, so far as known, was the
first 13e1'so11to perfect a waterproof
cloth suitable for, a woman's garment.
The knickers now so nnuch wornand
eoniebimes called "bloomers" derived
their name ` from the name of the
American woman who fleet designed
a divided saint end had the courage to
wear her own invention. Her name
was Mrs, Amelia Jenks Bloomer,
The loose "dolman" sleeves arere.'
minis'cent of the Tsrltdeh dolama, 'a
lung, loose robe with :ftila sleeves. The
tieculdanly shaped "raglen" garment
was named after Lord Raglan, an Eng-
lish general who 'mato popular ths
wearing of a long eeLt with large arm-
hole and ample sleeve.
If. the brain doesn't entirely fill the
skull all available parking space is
taken up, by our prejudices.,