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Charge the Enemy, Fear. waye works in one or two ways, either
"Perhaps the greatest obstacle to, we grow timid and are afraid to van -
success is fear. Maxey a young hue-, ture, or we become perf. etly satisfied
ness girl fears ridicule of her esso-1 'with ourselves and when we are
elates and the criticism of her employ-; thrown with others we fail to grow be-
er. She is overwhelmed by a thousand, cause of the contact.
nameless terrors. Constant apprehen-I If you're a victim of terrorism begin
siou not only destroys her efficiency,; your fight against it to -day. haven't
but creates an atmosphere that reacts • you watched many men and women of
to her detriment. When I find a girl Your acquaintance who "do things,"
of reasonable ability .held back for heagi committees, manage clubs and
some unaccountable reason, ten fairs and granges, and wondered how
chances to one investigation proves they could do it when you, better edu-
that pit has its root in groundless ap-j Bated perhaps, could never do it? It
prehension." i is simply because they have self -con -
This remarkable statement by the fidenee, while you are fearful, Per -
highest salaried woman executive inn haps you have even greater ability,
Ameriea, Miss Henrietta F. H. Reid,1 andr are simply afraid to use it,
assistant to the president of the;. Bush l We had a copy in school, usually
Terminal Company, appeared in a re-; once a month, Whi h may help you: ever issued by the progressive,institu-
cent issue of a woman's magazine, ins "We lose the good we oft might win tion. Total assets for the first .tin,
e
an article addressed to girls. It seemed by failing to attempt." If you have in its career rose over the $500,000p,0
RECORD PROGRESS
BY ROYAL BANK
Institu'i:ions Setilrii Cei k icardal
Repot Best in its History
—Liquid Position Strong -7
Profits For Twelve Months
Sewed Gain of $613,418
at $3,423,264; Assets at
New High.
In further celebration of itsftrti.eth
anniversary, the Royal Bank of Can-
ada, in its statement for the year end-
ed November 29 last, reports a twelve -
monthly period of record progress
t
from the standpoints of financial upward by the sun seems to 1 .sail>r
strength, liquid position and profits, the phenomenon. But when the bright
Recent exhibits of Canadian banking
institutions have indicated .that and dark rays radiate in all directions
al-
though the period through which the around the great cloud, then indeed
banks have passed have been difficult the sun is' a burst of glory and the
ones owing to the Importent readjust=• :name "sunburst" is appropriate.
ments necessary, they have been able Step into a darkene& roon when a
to further strengthen the already ray of sunlight shines through a pin -
strong positions occupied at' the -mid hole in the Clark window curtain. ^ A
of the war. shaft of light. falls through tete air of
• The Royal Bank in its annual state -the room illuminating the tiny par-
ntent, made public yesterday, nera titles of floating dust. If, instead of
that it is no exception to this geeneral
rule, the report being the most notable the darkened room, we have a dark
• place where the shadow of a heavy
mass of cloud is east, and the sunlight
streams through a chink in the clouds,
the dust or particles of moisture in
the air will be illuminated and the
shaft of light will become visible.
The presence of dust or moisture
in higher levels of the • atmosphere come visible. Perspective then causes
produces exceedingly interesting re- these lines to conte to a point near
sults when shadows of clouds are cast the horizon where the sun is hidden,
while exactly opposite the place of the
sun the lines come to another point.
Occasionally a large •cloucl mass will
completely cast a shadow over the
whole sky whenthe sun is setting. A
single chink in the right place in the
cloud will let a single ray of light
shoot straight across the dark sky.
W; d Makes a Soo or t
IVhat h it that in tho West. where • When the sun is high lit the heavens
the rays of light are darting front be- the shadows of clouds are cast allnoet
Wad big clouds? Scene people will vertically downward. Looking at the
tell you it is a "Munburst." Others Hand cape fron> a distance the rays
will say that you are looking at Jacob's sire rutin;; through tate cloud can be
ladder, while some one else may in- seen extending down from cloud, to
form you that the: sun is drawing earth; but wften the sun is low in the
Water, and that it foretlls rain. sky, the cloud shadows are cast far
When the shafts of light stream away toward one side from the sun,
downward from the cloud, the Jacob's Looking at this from a position at
ladder explanation seems .appropriate; right angle.'» to the Hue between clond
and when the same kind of rays seem and sun wo see the rays streaming
to be Coating up from the -sea or a very slantiugly- across the sky. .
river, the idea of water being drawn < If we happen to be at the spot where
the cloud shadow is cast when we look
toward the suit, the marvelens stream-
-ere of light and shadot, seem to radi-
ate around the cloud. In other words,
we are looking at the slanting sun -
rays from a point near the centre of
theta. All around us they fall, touch-
ing the ground far around on all sides.
Shining upon the dust or Water par-
ticles in the air, we see them project-
ed back to the' cloud with the sun as
their centre. The illusion .is due en-
tirely to perspective, a principle which
makes all lines extending away into
the distan.ee appear to 'come t'o' a,
point.
When the cloud is near the horizon,
the rays •of light and shadow may
slant directly across the sky overhead
arta, if sufficient dust is present, be.
too good to confine to young business been losing out through this failure,
• women who are consumed with the l begin your reform to -day.
desire to "make good." In fart, iti
seemed to me that it belonged morel e
to the farm boy and girl than to the! Ail that one needs to make 'good
young woman in business. for it has tea is an earthenware pot, some tea
Brewinu• Tea.
nark, being shown at $533,647,084, a
gain of $1.06,134,102 over the fig i es
of a year ago. To this splendid ag-
gregate liquid assets contributed
$273,908,862, representing an inereaee
in the year of almost 49 Millions and
being the equivalent of slightly • in
been my experience that the people; and water that is boiling at the time excess of 55 per cent. of: the bank's
liabilities to the public. The latter into the air. Ordinarily we can not
most liable to underrate themselves in, it is •poured on the leaves, which compares with 56.6 per cent.' a year sec these shadows, but when the min -
this weed are the boys and girls who! should then be allowed to ,infuse for a ago and 53.2 per cent. in. the 117 ate particles of material in the air
have eaten bred on the farms, kept; few moments, when the liquor must period. are strongly illuminated by the slant-
throtiglz force of circumstances from be poured oft. That sounds easy and i profits for the year were. $3,423,204, ing sunlight the shadows become
rubbing up continually against their it is all there is to it; it is astonishing compared with $2,80 ,846 in 1918Veor strongly visible by contrast, Let us
fellows. how seldom this simple formula is equal to .21.7 per cent. on the a go up into cloudland and see how this
Looking back to school teaching, followed out hi actual practice. The age capital employed during the happens.•
days in the old country school it' housewife's most common mistake ,is twelve months: This .,compares wall
c ay 20.1 per cent. in 1918 and 18 per cent.
seems to me now that the majority of to use water ata temperature below ,
poor marks the boys and girls got the boiling point. No matter how
were given thein, not because they choice the tea, if the water is not at
didn't know the lesson, but because boiling temperature the important
they were afraid to recite. I can recall constituents of the leaf are not dis-
many a student whom I knew must be solved. Now that everybody is talk -
able to answer every question I asked, ing economy it is a good time to call
in the preceding year. The capital
of the bank was increased by $3,000;=
000 during the year, an issue of $2,-
000,000 par value being issued to
shareholders at 150 early in the •cur-
rent calendar year, while a second ad-•
ditional,issue was sold to the London
but who only dumbly shook his head, attention to the waste caused by using County, Westminster & Parr's Bank,
while some more self-confident class- water below the boiling point. To 1 Limited, with which the Royal formed
mate arose and rattled the lesson cff. prove that one can waste in making l lasto t working
t price of $00 arrangement per nshare
There was nothing to do but put down tea get two grades, one a very cheap These increases brought the outstard-
a bad mark, though. , • tea''and the other a tea of the same ing capital of the Canadian institution
Fear of making a mistake, of being kind but double the price: Draw the up to $17,000,000, the premiums on not. sell to advantage. But the have
laughed at, held these children back cheapest tea with boiling water and the new stock amounting to $3,000,000 g y The workman was digging. The
in school. It will probably hold them the better sample with water below were added to reserve, bringing, the a special market of , their own, being wayfarer of the inquisitive turn of
back through Iife unless they make a the boiling point. You may be sur- latter up to a parity with the capital. sold to cheap restaurants and boarding locate stopped for a moment to look on.
determined fight to overcome it. Those prised at the result, but the taste will P. & L. Balance -Over Million. houses: • "My. man,'' said the wayfarer 'at
"thousand nameless terrors," how well cone -ince you that boiling water drawn After all deductions, which.incit d- «•cracked eggs (technically known as length, "what are you digging for?"
the sensitive person knows them. And off cheap tea makes a better drink ed disbursements among shareholders checks) go the same way largely; The workman looked up, ' "Money," ,
no one but the sensitive person knows than is possible to brew with water during the year in the way of • dives but if they are "1eakers" they pass he replied. t,
what untold bravery it takes to over-' which is not boiling even when the dends and the 'anniversarye.,. wtth rot cap." _ i'ioney! " exclaimed the amazed
eomo thorn. Cerin over the top re- tea itself is of good quality. ' aixtoulltrng to $2;205,196, tli ri 1� , • Thesare mat ors of •great eoanner wayfarer. ":end Wen do you exiiect
Coins- mauled a balance • lit the credit 'of to strike it?" .
"On Saturday," replied the work-
man, as he resumed operation'. .
When is Egg Bad? i vacuum, they are ground to a meal
1 resembling sawdust in appearance.
There is no such thing as a bad egg,1 Their market is the salve as that far
though some eggs are better than frozen egg-fluia. drinking glass if a common glass is
others. The rotten eggs are strained and used by both patient and baby; and
This, of coarse, does riot represent, sold to leather m.anufa,cturers, who use you won't miss it if you wager, on
the housewife's point of view. It is the, them for finishing their product, the baby's catching cold. The common
commercial idea. Nothing is bad that i oil contained in the yolks giving a drinking ..cup is responsible for much
can be sold for money, and no egg is most desirable polish. of the widespread, ravages of many
so rotten that it will not feteh a price. diseases to -day.
Dirty eggs are in a class by then-
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k.
Protecting' Baby From Colds.
Next to digestive disturbances,
babies suffer Moro from colds, bron-
chitis and pneumonia than from any
other disorders, In fact, during early
infancy pneumonitt heads the list' of
infant deaths, only to be displaced a,
few months late by that Most dread,•
ed summer disease ---diarrhoea, '
Little tiny babies are so helpless,
so dependent upon their ..seniors for
life ;itself that our a'esponsibility is
indeed great. ..We should put forth
our best endeavor to avoid and pre --
vent common colds, for they so often.
go into coughs,. croup,, :bronchitis and
even pneumonia.
And now as we eini'merate a few
of the common causes 'for baby's cold —
we hope the reader wi•11 put forth a
big effort to prevent such thoughtlestt
occurrences.
1. Some one brought the infection
to the baby, Children coming in from
school and father from the office
'should bear in mind baby's suseep-
,tibility. to, "cold catching."
- 2. Somebody coughed in hie face.
A cough spasm may be difficult to
control; but to cough in baby's face
is nothing short of criminal care-
lessness.
8. Germ -laden hands have handled..
the baby. If the mother or caretaker.
is compelled to share hei' attentions
with another member of the fancily
suffering from this grippe or from a .
,cold, baby should always be approach-
ed with hands that' have been scrub-
bed with a brush -dipped in either
alcohol or a weak solution (one level
teaspoon to the quart of \vater). A.
clean, large apron' that covers well
should be worn when baby needs care.
4. He has drunk. from an infected
glass. Countless germs cling to a
selves.. No matter how fresh, they do The Pay Bnvelope, 5. Thera is not enough moisture. in
the air baby baeathes. The ordinary
home is deficient, in the amount of
moisture necessary for health.
6. Somebody wiped baby's face with
an infected towel. Like the drinking
cup, a common carrier of cold germs
is. found• in the family.towel. It doesn't '
need to be a regular towel—for it
may be any old, clean, soft cloth.
cheesecloth, a piece of old soft and:.•
wear --but whatever it is, let it be
baby's personal" property. There is
comfort in knowledge that no one else
uses your towel. Children should be
Belgium Will Electrify Railways. trained to help keep the order in
the bathroom, and if the little fellow
The Belgium Government will elec-is given "his towel" to place on a
trify its railways,.. beginning with the particular hook or..in a definite poli -
lines from Brussels -to Antwerp, Lux- tion on a rack or towel rod two birds -
quires no greater courage than charg- Tea is often served in a china tea- profit and loss account of $1,096,418,.
ing the enemy—fear. Fear of ridicule, pot containing the tea leaves and a or overtwice the amount carried into
fear of failure; fear of making a mis- Iarger pot supposedly filled with boil -
take, as Miss Reid puts it, keeps more: ing water. Tea made by pouring the
people back than any other thing. I water into the small pot through the
And the country -bred person, I be- i tea is often unsatisfactory •because of
lieve, is more liable to those fears than the difficulty of keeping the water up
the city -bred. The boy in the city is to the boiling point. It may have been
early accustomed to measuring him- boiling when poured, but the Old pot
self by his fellows. The street is his' chilled it just enough to make it too
playground, and while it may be un- l cold to draw a good cup of tea.
desirable from many points of view,! Wasted tea leaves are just as real
at least it affords hint an opportunity i waste as uneaten bread, or fat thrown
to find himself. He ,is inspired by the into the garbage can. It is not nec-
daring of his braver fellows to try essnry to economize to the extent of
each fear -producing stunt, and learns., cutting out your cup of tea, but when
in time that one failure isn't going to you draw it see that you get all the
wreck his life. ,..1 virtue there .is in the leaves. Use
The farm child hasn't this oppor-i boiling water., and practice real
tunity. He has only the short recess' eefliomy, •�
and nooft hour at 'school to meet his
play -mates, and their hurries home, As ( Will Human Race Die Out?
a result he ,is apt to grow shy • and:From the recorded facts extending
distrustful of his own ability, to be -I
come a victim of apprehensions.which that nearly
flee e averagventures, it is ofna
keep him back from success. The best i
Dura for this is to keep him as Much; man in Europe was 1.75 metres, or,
with other children as is possible, say, five feat nine inches, while in
1790 ;it was only five feet six inches.
In 1820 it was five feet five inches
and a fraction. At the present time
it is five feet three inches and three-
quarters. It is easy to deduce from
these figures a rate of regular decline
in human stature, and to apply this,
working backwards and forwards, 5o
the past and to the future.
By this calculation it is determined
that the stature of the first man at -
Interest payable half yearly. tained the surprising average of six -
Paid up Capital $2,412,57t. teen feet nine inches. Truly, there
leseeeeseeesesemelesasusleassesteemeatm were giants on the earth in those
---- -- clays. The race had already deter -
Isolation is bad for everyone. It al -
'fife Great West Permanent
Loan Company.
Toronto Office 20 King St, Weat
4% allowed on Savings.
Interest computed quarterly.
Withdrawable by Cheque.
5 4% on Debentures,
""""'"`°'es'o° ° iorated in the days of Og, and Goliath
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Poultry, New Laid Eggs
Dairy Butter, Beano,
Soiling Peas, etc.
Write for our Weekly Pries List
and advise what you have to offer.
$peoiai Prices for f=ancy Quality
(Gunn, Langlois, & Co., Ltd.
(Dent, W.)
Montreatl, - - One.
JOHNSON
The oiliest established LTD.
RAW FUR DEALERS
in Montreal
1#ighest Market Prices Paid.
Satisfaction Guaranteed to Shipx.rs.
08 n4 for Owe' Price List.
410 St. Paul St. bleat • Montreal
was quite a degenerate ogspring of
the giants. Coming down to later
times, we find that, at the beginning
of our era, the average height of roan
was nine feet; and, in the time of
Charlemagne, it was eight feet eight
inches.
But the most astonishing result of
this scientific study comes from tho
a.ppi.cation of the same inexorable
law of diminution to the future. The
calculation shows that by the year
4000 A.D. the stature of the average
man will be reduced to flfteeneinehes.
At that epoch there will be only
Lilliputians on the earth.
Both men and women need to be
good mixer,; ---a men in his business
and a woman in her kitchen.
London tube railways which were
tacit fifteen years ago for an average.
vest cf .C600,000 per mile, would now
cool, at least £1,000,(000 per mile, "
sial importance, for checks and dirties
constitute 5 per cent. of the entire egg
creep. Mostly they are "broken out,"
together with hopelessly stale eggs,
.into large cans, being thereupon
frozen and held in that condition until
the season of egg scarcity, when they
are sold to bakers and restaurants of
the 1919 accounts from the previous
year. Comparative figures of the po-
sition of the profit and loss accounts
of the past three years are given in
the following table:
19191 1918 1917
Profits .$3,423,264$2,309,846
Prev, bal.. 935,757 664,264
Total ....$3,059,021 $3,374,110
Less;—
Dividends $1,366.106'81.614,702
Bonus ... .340,000'
Pension F. 100:000• 100,000
Premises.,• 400.000 400,000
Govt. t'x's 156,406 133,001
Patriotic 40,000
Halifax F. 50.000
Reserve . 500.000
Tot. ded $2,362,001 $2,036,353
'Balance $1 006.41 S $535,757
Th..balance sheets of tete
fears compare as follows:
AssnTs.
1919
Coin and notes.. $f;5.0:.1,547
Cent. Gold 'Res... 21,500,000
Notes oth. banks 3,464,200
Cheques; dn. 23,757,240
Due by Can. -bits. 17,103
Do. outside ....-13,101,373
Govt. securilies..45,323,598
Other securities. 52,815,433
Call loans, Can. 16.435,614
Call loans, out. . 33,312,751
Tot liq. assets.$273,903,862
Curr. loans, Can. 143,259,518
Curr, loans out. 90,210,271
Overdue debts.. 3655,089
Real estate ... 1,495,271
]:lank premises.. 7,016,444
Letters credit . 16,467,975
Cir. deposit .. 750.000
Other assets „x 173,645
Totals „ $533,647,084
Li A1.IL1TTES,
1010
Deposits, dem... $159,050 229
Do. notice ... 259.465,169
Circulation .. , . 39.337,265
Due Gott 14,000,000
Due ether batiks 7,463,323
Bills pay.806,770
Letters credit ,. 10.467,578
32,327,979.
552,346 inferior class. .,
$3;130,826 How can the very poor get eggs -'in eriburg and Ostend.
these days, when the price is so high? - le -a -•- •
81,549,::4 The answer is that they buy them.l>'y 1 o Harness Ocean Tides.
100,000 the pint, cracked or othnrw•ise inferi',or.
360,000:eggs being commonly sold by push- cathect experiments- to determine
128,357 thee possibility or harnessing oe can
60,0001 cart peddlers iii city slums.
Checks, dirties and. stale eggs are tides for 'theconduction of electric
528'300 largely used also for evaporating',
power will be conconducted by the
82.616,061 Rendered water -free by heat in: a blench Government..
8564,284
Last two
1913
$42,124,658 •
26,000,000
10.78,020:
20,��4,890
6,042
10,391,516
36.599,976
44,705,300
10.067,431
24,374,101
8224,982,098
115,154, 715
64,175,163
358,513
1,171,131
6.492.011
10,162,629
742,818
213,810
8427,512,932
101s
$135,248,278
197,343,439
39.380,915
9,000.000
6,005.721
10 162, 039
Public liab. ....$497.607.243 $397,547,1.),3
Capital 17,800,000 14,000,01)0
Reserve 17,000,000 11,000,000
Acer. divs., etc., 953.422 480.122
T'. 3c L. balance 1.096.418 t 535,757
Totals $532,047,084 9427,512,932
World's Simplest Pest Office,
The world's simplest post office is
in South America. From a ,high,
rocky cliff overlooking the Strait of
Magellan is suspended by a long chain
a barrel which receives email, It has
no postmaster, nor is there any regu-
lar letter carrier or collector. Every
ship that goes through the Strait
stops and sends a boat to this curious
little post office, looks over the letters
that are in it to see if there are any
for the men on board that particular
ship, .and places therein letters for
seamen on board ships that axe known
to he heading for the Strait.
cin ordinary snail travels at r.ti
average speed of one mile in ::dour-.
teen days.
Celebrities Who Pied in Prison
What would thd'world say to -da Y if
on arriving in Ireland after their ing-
nifleent flight across the Atlantic, the
heroic. Alcock and Brown, instead of
being received with the enthusjasm
they so richly merited, had been seized
by the, authorities and thrown into
the Detention Barracks in Dublin?
And yet it was into a gloomy dun -
goon that Christopher Columbus was
hurled for an exploit no less daring.
All the gratitude that he received was
the displeasure of his so-called pat-
rons, the abuse of the populace,
threats, imprecations, and then; as if
that were not sufficient, the luckless
discoverer was clapped into irons. •.
All that Galileo, got for his services
to science was public ridicule and a
prison cell. It was Galileo who de-
clared that the earth went round the
sun; for which preposterous •section
his judges had only one sentence.
"We'll let you go free if yen admit
this statement to be a tissue of lies,"
he Was told after lie lxad languished ill
prison for months. "Very well, the
earth does not go round the sun," re-
marked the great astronomer. "It
does, for all that!" said he to himself
as soon as he had quit the judges'
presence.
1
are killed with one stone.
7. Baby was allowed to play on the
floor. A friend wrote me of a pen
he had arranged by building a fence
around a sanitary' cot. He reports a •
royal good time that his baby had
and of its freedom from colds. Floors
aro cold and drafty and if baby is
compelled to play on the floor extra
clothing is necessary, such as leggins,
sweaters, comforts, etc.
ChildMirth.
Sir 'C+7alter Raleigh spent ov i, ten Mirth seems to be a result of goad
years of his life in prison, and' the
feeding. The underfed. cannot play,
beautiful Mary Queen of Scots a_.much • They have net the power of spontaite-
longer period. So absolutely bored ous expressigii of happiness.
was the first. named .with prison life ' Recent studies of children in Ger-
that he 'attempted to destroy himself.
As for Queen Mary, she, too, became
terribly depressed .owing to ber,
monotonous existeuce. It was from
one of the niany prisons in which she
Many and Apstria by physicians and,
teachers in their Public schools inform
us that as early as the severe Winter
of 1916 children were apt to sit Indoe
lentiy gazing in front of them, to be
was confined from time to time that roused only.by some strong stimulus
she escaped just prior to the Battle of and soon relapsing into inattention.
Langside, „effect which. disaster to her D? -Hilda Clark wrote last .lune that
cause she was once more promptly' she had been in Vienna four days be -
placed in custody! fore she saw a child play.
It was as a prisoIler that Cervantes
wrote "Don Quixote" and Bunyan the
'+Pilgrim's Progress." Leigh. Hunt
wrote some of his finest essays in
prison, and the late W. T. Stead used
to refer to the months he spent in Hol-
loway as one of the Happiest periods
of his life.
Barnum, the famous showman, once
found himself in jail, though when he
Dr. A. Thiele, of Dortmund, say's
that thougli-tete nervous system re-
sists deprivation of food well, the lack
of certain ;,important universal salts
soon prodted in the children a ten-
dency to rapid mental fatigue, associ-
ated with excitability. Loss of energy
and initialdve speedily followed; final-
ly .all desire for mirth and sport died
away, and cdhrse, primitive ,instincts
left it it was in a coach and our, sur- began to assert themselves, ,
rounded by crowds of admirers!.
Of a total population elf. 300,000 in
Napoleon III. spent a number of Dortmund, Prof. Engel found 5,000
years behind bars, as did also that children between two and seven -years
mightygeniusMirabeau, one of the of aThe Lancet (London) ge who were unable.to
'to walk.
greatest -statesmen Prance ever lire- the majority of children in Vienna will
doted, grow up with stunted bodies and ques-
tions
whether their mental life will
ever again overflow into mirth and
the exuberance of animal spirits.
,6
In cold temperatures rats are found
to develop a sort of "overcoat" or
additional outer covering, which grows
very quickly.
Thanks to the automobile, the cub»
urbs of every country town now talo
in all the surrounding country for ten .
utiles or more