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A Sl'RI1�
FOR WEAK PEOPLE
Or. Williams' Pink Pills Act On
the Blood and Nerves.
Food is as important to the sick Per-
son as medicine, more so in many
oases. A badly chosen diet may re-
tard recovery. In health the natural
appetite is the best guide to follow;
in sickness the appetite is often fickle
and depraved.
Proper food and a good tonic will
keep most people in good health. t Dr.
Williams'P
it was regarded as a phen anteit�al work.
the New En fish Dictiona•�ry con-,
�j But h N g
times" as ManY I
inn ten rm
A STOR4t �USE OF
tains Mere t n t
iisii
Mes Ae h9reR S M rt more words on ech. of btpages. WOR a y r and 1
Take words beginniria; will. A
B. Dr, Johnson disposed of them
127 pages; the late Sir 'a nes Mull.
ray, the first editor of the New ,End
lisp Dietionraz Y required 1,240 pages!
YEARS TO COMPILE
66 .
A DICTIONARY.
Monumental Work of .Philo-
t Contained .in
Philo-
logical Society
Ten Huge Volumes.
As long ago as 1857 the Philological
Society (philology is the science of
Pink Pills are a fine tonic langlt'age) decided to begins the wo'rk
tmedicine, - harmless and certain ie of compiling a great dictionary which
bloodor action, tore is vitalityto :build up the should contain every word in any
and restore to the run~ language, says an. English newspaper.
down system. pale,egrowing girls who - A week or two ago the last word of
are thin and for pale,w tired fail the New English Dictionary was writ -
strength,
and,r. Williams' people who far ten.Nine huge volumes have already
an ideal
tonic. Thousands
Pink Pills are been published;, the tenth and last
an ideal 'Thousands have testi- will be on sale in 1923. -
fled to the' benefit derived from the Sixty-oix years will have passed
use of this medicine. Among them is tween the first approval of the giant
.be-
Mrs.hoWiiam "Beforee, I3began t N.S.,scheme and its' completion. And what
who says; T began the use
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I was so hap been done in this time? More
weals and run down that I could hardly than twelve thousand pages, each of
do my own work. I often suffered which measures about twelve inches
fromheadaches and was very nerv- by nine, densely covered with small
one. I then began the use of Dr. Wil- print—these are the results of the la -
items' Pink Pills and I can truthfully hors' of those who worked upon the
say I have found them the best medi- dictionary.if a million. words are catalogued
cine I have ever taken. You may de- Ha
pend upon it I will advise other suf- and explained in it; and the ways in
ferers to take these pills.' which they are used are shown by
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills means of two million quotations from
through any dealer in medicine or by English writers a ail ages.
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The Last Word•.--Zyxt.
Sir James Murray gave up his whole
life to the work; for thirty-seven
years he labored on his task. Uttiiap 1 potato bug,b the operations
pily'he did pot live to see it completed pest, the y lays nits
for he died six year ago,,, of .:a tiny parasitic fly which
beetle. Gru s
t thestripedbe g
,, o upon
Think f
r
T eggs p
1
was! g
1
And what a task it w g
the problsnts• that had to be decided. hatched from these eggs bore into the
There were several spellings -.of this potato bug's body and eat out his in -
word. Which was the .correct one? side works. that
There were two or even three ways If it were not for parasites prey
of pronouncing the next; the right upon the .,potato , bug, it would . scarce
way must be decided upon Was the be possible to grow any potatoes in
next one slang, or could it be called this' country, despite all the farmer
good English? could do to "poison the insect with
Every word bad to• be ..examined paris green. ori in
carefully; its derivation must he That destructive beetle was g
found, and if it had changed its mean- ally native to mountain districts of
ing, a history of it must be written, Colorado, where :it fed ena wild varie-
ibbu'strated by quotations from ma"nY ty°'of potato plant called the "sand
writers,. bur." It is supposed to have been car-
. The story of the compiling of the ried into Missouri by the cattle traffic,
New English Dictionary is one of theand in 164;„it•. crossed the Mississippi
most romantic in, the history of writ- River. In the early seventies it had
ing. The 'last word=-"zyxt," odd Kent- crossed the Detroit River and Lake
ish for "thou seest”—has just been Erie was literally alive with potato
added to its vast collection; but the bugs, passengers on chips or whatever
compilers cannot lay down their pens. else would keep them afloat. They
They must begin at once uponthe reached the Atlantic coast in 1873, and
supplement. In the years that. have . the beaches were soon swarming with
elapsed sihrce the first volume appear- them. Vessels were boarded by them
ed, hundreds of new words. beginning in such numbers that hatches had to
with A and B have come into the lar- be battened down.
guage, and all must be recorded and At that period and for some time
explained. When the supplement'•is afterward much alarm was felt lest
finished another must be begun, the potato would become an extinct
vegetable in" Canada and the United
B
,Not a Hoot.
"No, your honor, he didn't give a
or
sating the Potato Bug, hoot whether 1 saw him coming
net,
The Potato Magazine, published . ,.how do yeas know he didn't give a
in the United States, calls attention • hoot?"
to. the fact that certain regions of the i "Well, he didn't blow his horn.
upper. peninsula, of Michigan have
been virtually freed of that notorious Saying Grace.
'rhe minister had said grace, and
the four-year-old daughter of the hos-
tess look up and said: ray
not the kind of grace
papa says."
"No?" asked the minister, sweetly.
"And what kind of grace does your
papa say?"
Why," said the child, "he came
home last night, and when he sat
down at the table be just said 'Good
heavens! What a supper!' "
mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for A Murderer's Valuable Help.
$2,50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine The idea originated with Archbishop
o., Brockville, Ont. Trench, a writer of popular books on.
the fascinating study of words. As
Trophies of 1870 Returned soon as the Philological Society had
decided toadopt it, a committee was
to France. formed to begin the gigantic cellec-
As a balm to French patriotism Ger- tion.
many has finally decided to turn over Voluntary helpers -
in all parts of the
a train load of military trophies cap- world were asked to assist; and from
tured from France in the war of 1870, them came in a ce,as'eless stream of
says a Paris despatch. Included
among them are numerous cannon and
rifles and even the first machine gun
models, The train bearing these tro-
phies. has arrived at Mayence. They
will be displayed for the troops of oc-
cupation there and then brought to
Paris for an exposition at the Inval-
ides.
The French Ministry of War has
not yet teen informed whether the
French campaign banners which the
Germans are compelled under the
terms, of the Treaty of Versailles to
surrender, but some of which were re-
ported to have been destroyed at the
outbreak of the war and the remain-
der in the anti French demonstrations
In Berlin last year, are in the ship-
ment
yl hard's L tnlmer-tfor Dandruff.
words and illustrative quotations, One
-of the most valuable of these volun-
tary
oluntary helpers was Dr.. Minor, ` the mur-
derer, who for twenty-five years was
an itrnlate of Broadmoor Criminal
Lunatic Asylum.
In 1878 the compilers possessed no
fewer than three and a half million
slips of paper, each containing a pass-
age to show how one particular word
was used.
Think for a moment of the labor inn-
volved in sorting these slips and in
eebecting the quotations. If one man
had been employed upon. the work his
task would have occupied him for
more' than twenty years, working
eight hours a day. It took ten years
to get the first volume ready for the
press.
When Dr. Johnson's. Dictionary,
which is stili in use, appeared in 1773,
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SPEAKS HIGHLY OF
Surnames and Their Origin
HAWKINS
Variations—Hawkes, Hawkinson,
Hawes, Hawson.
Racial Origin—English.
Source—A given name.
They don't look much .like Henry,
those family names.; but that is the
given name from which they have
grown.
,The only variation of the given
name of Henry which is frequently
found today is "Harry" In the Mid-
dle Ages there were many, prominent
among which were "Hal" and "Haw."
This last seems to have been due to a
peculiar twist of the Norman tongue,
which tended to substitute a "u" or a
ten-
dency
as thesame
or which changed the denword
' healme" into "heaume" and gave us
the family name of "Homer," though
later the English speech reverted to
the "I" and brought the word back to
"helm" again. It is the same ten-
dency which changed the whole char-
acter of the French language a few
centuries ago.
From this variation "Haw," of
Henry, there developed in turn a di -
minutiae form of the name "Hawkin,"
This "kin" ending is an Anglo-Saxon
element, which hits its counterpart in
the modern German diminutive , end-
ing "clien."
Then came "Hawkinson," at first a
purely descriptive addition - to the
names of many sons whose fathers
were named"Hawkins" but later to
become hereditary and a true family
name. Hawkins and Hawkes are fur-
ther shortened forms, and Hawes
comes from Hawsou.
States. But nature has a way of deal-
ing with such mischiefs, and before
long parasitic enemies of the beetle
BABY'S ®WN TABLETS mmuaklteiplpoiessd ible in its suchcontrol. numbers as .to
The above-mentioned fly, which has
done such good work in Michigan, will
be colonized in other parts of the
country, and may solve the potato bug
problem for good and all.
Unemployment in Great
Once a mother has used Baby's Own
Tablets for her little ones she is al-
ways pleased to speak highly of them
to other mothers.. She knows the
good they have done her children and
realizes that her experience should be
of benefit to others. Concerning the
Tablets Mrs. Fred Murphy, Charlotte-
town, P.E.I., writes: "I have used
Baby's Own Tablets for the past eight
months for my baby. I cannot speak
too highly of them for they have been
of great assistance to me in my first
experience of motherhood." Baby's
Own Tablets are a mild but thorough
laxative which are abs,olutel.y harm-
less and may be given to even the
newborn babe with perfect '.safety.
They are sold by medicine dealers or
direct at 25 cts. a box from The Dr.
,iliums;Medicine Co., Brockville,
NIXON
Variations -Nichols, Nicholas, Nicolas.
Racial Origin -Anglo-Norman.
Source—A given name.
As is indicated in the foregoing list
of variations, the fancily names in this
group are all derived from the given
name of Nicholas,
This name did not appear in Eng
laud before the period of Norni.an-
French occupation and amalgamation.
The Normans brought it with them
from the continents and due to its re-
ligious association with St. Nicholas,
who lived several centuries before and
had become widely known as a patron
saint of children, the name became
quite popular . throughout England
about the time family names were be-
ing formed. That was in the period
centering around the twelfth, thir-
teenth centuries.
The medieval English did not al-
ways pick the same nicknames and
diminutive variations for given names
that we use to -day, but one of their
variations was "Nick," though some–
times it was spelled "Nix" and some-
times "Nyk" or "Nykk." In one old
document, the same individual is re-
ferred to in one place as "John Nykks"
and in another as "John. Al, Nyck"
(that is John "films" Nick, or "the
son of" Nyek).
For the most part "Nyck" was the
variation of the name most popular
with the Anglo-Saxon part of the
population, and hence those who hear
the family palsies derived from it may
assume an original Anglo-Saxon an-
cestry as more likely than Norman-
French.
Britain.
Unemployment in the British Isles
Is rapidly reaching the 2,000,000 mark,
according to Government figures pub-
lished for the week ending April 22.
The report shows a total of 1,774,000
on the unemployment registers, which
13 an increase of 750,000 since the pre-
sent industrial crisis began. During
the coal strike the figures have been
rising weekly to an alarming extent,
.London and the southeastern dis-
tiidt lead with a total of 316,000, which
isian increase of 14,000 in two weeks.
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Prices from 5125,00 upwards, State
amount you expect• to invest and wo
will mail list. H. M. IKipp Co., Limited,
44-7 Tongs St., Toronto,
Typewriters for the Blind.
An ingenious typewriter for the use
of the blind has been invented by Na -
tale Rovedo, a young Milanese artisan..
Its method is modelled on the or-
dinary
rdinary but obsolete German portable
printer Mignon, only a zinc plate is
introduced containing forty-two spaces
within each of which is set in relief
one of the characters of the Braille
alphabet,
The operator places the index finger
of the left hand in the finger guide,
which moves over this zinc plate, and,
having found the required sign, strikes
the stamping lever with his right
hand. The chief merits claimed for
the machine are its economy and ease.
After two days' practice the inventor's
sightless` comrades learned to write
sixty-five letters a minute.
MONEY ORDERS.
When ordering goods by mail send
a Dominion Express Money Order.
Spilling the Beans.
Tommy --"May I stay up a little
longer?"
Ethel—"What do you want to stay
up for?"
Tommy—"I want to see you and Mr.
Green playing cards."
Mr. Green—"But we are not going
to play cards, sonny." for I
Tommy—"Oh, yes, you are;
heard nam saying to Ethel that every-
thing depended on the way in which
she played her cards to -night."
From Personal Experience..
Little Freddy was using his fists on
little Helen.
"Freddy, stop!" commanded his i b th rs an
mother. "Don't you know that gentle-
man never strikes a lady?"
Instantly Helen . stopped crying.
"They do, too," she contradicted.
"Why, Helen," said mother, "when
did you ever see a gentleman strike a
lady?"
With an air of convincing proof the
little maid quickly replied; "Daddy
spanks me."
Prince Henry to Enter Army.
Henry, the third son of the
King and Queen, who attained his ma-
jority on March 31, is destined for a
military career. Although thrust
somewhat in the background by his
older brothers, the Prince of Wales
and, the Duke of York, Prince Henry
is immensely popular with the public.
In
Wonderful Timekeepers:
As far back as 300 B.C. the Egyp
tians used a clock which was worked
by water. The passing of water
through various pipes moved a cog-
wheel with a hand attached, and this
hand indicated the different hours of
the day while the wheel performed its
revolutions.
Hour glasses, or sand glasses, were
invented about 330 A.D. They were
made of two .bulbs of glass with an
intervening neck. Dry sand placed in
the upper bulb ran trough the neck
into the lower bulb in exactly one
hour.
Clocks worked by weights were in
use in 1125, but watches were not in-
vented until 1500.
here's a Reason\VhY.
GrapeNutS
makes a helpful breakfast and a
profitable lunch For the workerwho
must be awake and alert during the day
GrapeasTuts is the perFected.
_ ocwheat and malted bailer,
goodness ............_.-
and is ptlorially rich in nourishment
•
Yt i�ed,S body, and brain
tax upon the d>.gestian.
There's a Reasonf!
Skins of uncommon 'andnials, includ-
ing four kinds of pythons, lizards,
walruises, apes, and many kinds oaf
Mg used for making laadies' footavear. Illtiard's Liniment Relieves DiateMpet
stature he excels h s roe '
Is fond of sports and outdoor life.
pursuance of his inclination to be a
soldier he went through the army
class at Eton and afterward studied
at Sandhurst, the English West Point.
Last August the Prince was gazetted
a second lieutenant of the King's
Royal Rifles and at present is attached
to the Thirteenth Hussars at Alder-
shot.
'l,he iia t dSetnirt
�,`w 218 in-' the . -
lands there are 239,000 unemployed.
In Scotland• there are 179,000, Ireland
177,000 ,and Wales 100,00(.
In the London County Council area
there are 192,000 unemployed regis-
tered, exclusive of short time workers.
The figures include 53,000 women,
Shut Him Up.
Scottish humor—recently remarked
Sir Harry Lauder—is generally dry
and crisp, but I as told a story over in
the Unrated States which I.think will
beat many Scottish ones. A stranger
arrived at a Par West village, and dur-
ing his first walk up the one street he
encountered a young nian leaning
against the door of a saloon, lazily
chewing gum.
"Pretty quiet place this," said the
stranger.
"There's a quieter over there," re-
plied the villager, still busy with his
gum and jerking his thumb in the
direction of the cemetery.
A broken heart is a physiological
possibility; excess of emotion, especi-
ally joy, may rupture that organ,.
�r v tea here all your life?"
a'sket'1�tiie�s�ier=�'b!'�°n ,....•._.._ .,._,_.
the conversation,
"Not yet," came the dry reply.
After that the stranger gave up.
His Hearing Restored'.
The invisible ear drum invented by
A. O. Leonard, which is a miniature
megaphone, fitting inside
tthe
ring the'
tirely out of sight, is
hearing of hundreds of people in New
York City. Mr. Leonard invented this
drum to relieve himself of deafness
and head noises, and it does this so
successfully that no one could tell he
is a deaf man. It is, effective when
deafness is caused by catarrh or by
perforated, or wholly destroyed natur-
al drums. A request for information
to A. 0, Leonard, Suite 437, 70 Fifth
Avenue, New York City, will be given
a prompt reply. advt
Changed His Mind.
Jack—Jack—"Then you didn't ask for her
hand?"
Tom—"Na, when I went to inter-
view her father he wee busy with the
furnace. He called out tome to winedown, and after watching his struggles
for • half an hour and hearing what. he
said about coal, I decided not to get
married."
St: Thomas, Ont., Horticultural So-
ciety, in its annual report says "War
is being waged upon the billboard
nuisance and the tacking of 'cards and
signs upon fences and other places
without ,permission of the owner."
alligators 'ar crocodiles
„d are now be
Invento
rs of Trifles Have Won Fortunes
There may be more money in a
trilling invention that) in a big one.
All about us are new ideas just wait-
ing
aiting to be grabbed, it we could only see
them.
Consider the familiar mousetrap. It
is a simple yet ingenious device, fa-
miliar to every household. Mr. Mouse
pokes his head through a round hole
to get at a scrap of cheese that smells
intuiting; his first nibble releases a
Antrigger, and he is garroted. That
'little contrivance was the invention of
a New England Yankee, Anthony G.
Davis, of Watertown, donne, who pat-
ented it in 1869. He made a large for-
tune by it.
Grandall, of "building block" fame,
"was engaged in the manufacture of
croquet sets. 'It was half a century
ago, when croquet was a popular out. -
door sport. He hit upon the notion of
economizing cost by patting the boxes
together with wooden teeth that would
fit into corresponding openings along
each opposite edge. Thus their parts
Wild be assembled easily, without
nails or glue.
It so chanced that at this very time
Crandall's shall daughter was sick
With measles, To amuse her he show-
ed her sortie pieces of his croquet
boxes, and she found such delight
parting thein together that he was per-
suaded to adopt the idea for new
kind of building blocks.
Crandall was a born inventor. It
was he who originated the "pigs in
1 hicb became so great.
KEEP YOUR HEALTH
USE
THE OLD RELIABLE. TRY IT!
_NInnard's Liniment Co., Ltd.
from -realizing its commercial value
that he failed to patent it.
Nobody really knows who invented
the famous "'fifteen• puzzle." There
have been many claimants. All that
can be said is that it was' never pat-
, anted and that fortunes were' made
but of it,
Rather exasperating is�.the obvious-
ness of many patented ideas that have
brought fortunes to their originators.
Take, for instance, the Dennison ship-
ping tag. The trouble with such tags
used to be that they would tear out at
the tie -hole. How easy to surround
the tie -hole _ with •a cardboard re -en
morcement! . Just that was the whole
of Dennison's invention, and it netted
him a tidy fortune
The metal ball-and-socket clasp for
street gloves, handbags and pocket-
books is so fatniliar nowadays that we
never think of it as an ingenious in-
vention, Nevertheless, it would bother
us very much if we were obliged to go
back to the old-fashioned buttons and
button. -holes for our gloves.
This ball-and-socket device is the
idea of a clever Frenchman. An. im-
portant point about it isonce
that no
ordinary person would ever think of,
Viz., the '"cl�iek." To be popular, a
clasp of any kind must make a sharp
noise when closed.
What could be more obvious than
the wooden shoepeg? Yet, quite pos-
sibly, it might never have been
thought of but for the ges.ius of a; Bos-
tonian named 13. P. Sturtevant. It
brought him a fortune; but he went
crazy, and so for filar the achievement
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Storms of the Film.
Maybe when you have seen on the
screen the deck of a ship during a
storm at sea you have wondered just
how it is done.
Anyone who stops to think has real-
ized, of course, that it is not possible
to take such a scene on a real ship
during a genuine storm, for reasons of
light amongst other things.
Concluding, therefore, that it is all
done in the studio, you probably
imagine a ship's deck built on huge
rockers with the players staggering
all over We place while the whole set
pitches and tosses.
But it doens't. Only as much as
necessary is built. It is kept wet with
a hosepipe. The waves dashing over
the sides come out of buckets, and the
rocking takes place only in the cam-
era.
With an attachment between the ,
camera and the tripod, the motion of
a ship at sea can be imparted to a sta-
tionary "set" merely "bey the camera-
man's assistant turning a handle,
ASPIRIN
"Bayer" is only Genuine
1
Warning! Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin at all.
In every Bayer package are directions
for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheu-
matism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago
and tor Pain. Handy tin boxes of
twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug-
gists also sell larger packages. Made
in Canada. Aspirin is the trade mark
(registered in Canada), of Bayer
Manufacture of M'onoaceticacidester
of Salicylicacid.
clover" puzz e, w
a. rage, Unfortunately, he WAS 80 far was frttitlem
Never shrink front doing anything
which your -business calls you to do.
The
man who i5 above his 'bausriness
may one -defy find his business above
him.—Drew,
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FREEZONE
Corns Lift Off
with Fingers
r
s
U
Drop a little "'k`reezone" on an ach•
ing corn, instantly that corn stops
blurting, then shortly you lift it right
off with fingers. It doesn't hurt a bit.
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
"Freetone" for a few cent., sufficient
to remov'o every hard' corn, soft corn,
or corn between the toes, and the cal -
* without a particle of pain.
Beauty of Skin
EnhaucedbyCuticura
When used for every -day toilet pur-
poses Cuticura keeps the complex-
ion fresh and clear, hands softand
white and hair live and glossy. The
Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint-
Metit to soothe and heal and the
Talcum to powder and perfume.
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thfoug utheDra'CaiinAeoefts uteri, d, ,44 St. 1'a*tSt , W. Nlmatreel.
ipw-Cuticurs Soep shaves without m