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SIGNOR A1t14LL1 of Milan, a ram-
ous OOma)Oset•, is about to make 11iS
first appearance in London. He is to
conduct the first performance of a sym-
phony of his own composition at the
Queen's Hall. The event ,las aroused
very g1'eat interest. The hall is crowd-
ed, and inllhions of listeners .are %vatting
for the performance to come over the
radio,
Parelli mattes his entrance, ana rais-
ing his baton suddenly collapses.
Medical aid is immediately forthcom-
ing, but It is obvious that the man is
people. Lettico audience
are ndry Sto ephen
Garton.
WEST PLANTS
MANY TREES
War on Drought -�•- F iv e
Million More Will Be
Started Next Year
EVERY DAY LIVING
A WEEKLY TONIC
by Dr. M. M: Lappin
1 have a letter before me now, ty-
pical of a good many letters that I
have received from time to time, and
Indian Head, Sask.--Western Cr-araising a matter about which I have
borrowed them must have had some sola is bringing the forest to Its far-
ad always intended to write. It enables
good idea what 110 was going to .d0niers to stabilize its agriculture• me to sound a much needed warning.
took
So, as Pratt's key was still intact,
and as' the second lock of the sate had.
not been forced, the only alternative
was to suppose that copy of it had
been made.
I -low er by whom was a problem
beyond the University authorities; it
was a matter for the police. Tlie lock..
oimith who had been called in to open
the safe had explained how easy it
would be for -a skilled key -cutter to
make a new key, even from a soap
fmpression of the old one.
"Of course," said Budd, as he fin-
ished his story, "there's nothing yet
to connect the disappearance of this
stuff at Oxford with its use in the
Queen's Hall murder affair. But it
certainly does seem a pretty curious
coincidence for such a large quantity
of such. dangerous drug as curare to
get loose in lay hands only such a
comparatively short time before, and
for this very poison to be used in
connection with bumping this fellow
off."
"I'd have thought," said Garton,
"that there'd be some way of getting
on the track of the fellow who had
taken it."
"Sez you," retorted Budd. 'But
how? There's quite a large number of
graduates—and undergraduates—male
and female, attending lectures and de-
monstrations every day every term in
the labs. It might be easier even if
we could shy which term the keys
were got at. But don't forget that
Rowlandson admits that he often
let some fellow or other have his
bunch to collect something for him
from some cupboard or locker, and
that old Pratt admits to being pretty
careless with his own when he's work-
ing in the labs. It might have been
last term—any time in the summer
term—two whole mouths — that the
keys were got at. And a lot of fellows
who were up that term are down now
for good — scattered Heaven knows
where.
"If you ask me it'll mean the deuce
of a long and difficult enquiry to get
at the real truth. It's not very like-
ly either, I. should say, that the fellow
who really wanted to use the keys
on that safe got them from either
Rowlandson or rratt himself. For if
the Queen's 'Hall murder has any con.
neetiov at all with the loss of the
poisons at Oxford, the person who
Fin
ut
From Your Doctor
if the "Pain" Remedy
You Take Is Safe.
Don't Entrust Your
Own or Your Family's
Well - Being to Unknown
Preparations
BEFORE you take any prepara-
tion you don't know all about,
for the relief of headaches; or the
pains of rheumatism, neuritis or
neuralgia, ask your doctor what he
thinks about it — in comparison
with "Aspirin."
We say this because, before the
discovery of "Aspirin," most so-
called "pain" remedies were ad- ,
vised against by physicians as being
bad for the stomach; or, often, for
the heart. And the discovery of
"Aspirin" largely changed medical
practice.
Countless thousands of people
who have taken "Aspirin" year in
and out without ill effect, have
proved that the medical findings
about its safety were correct.
Remember this: "Aspirin" is
rated among the- fastest methods yet
discovered for the relief of headaches
and all common pains ... and safe
for the average person to take
regularly.
"Aspirin" Tablets are made in
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trade -mark of the Bayer Company,
Limited. Look for the name Bayer
in the form of a cross on every tablet.
Demand and Get
SPIRIN"
with them at the time that he
them. ii This letter Unless of course he's a lunatic Providing shade in summer, shield gives me an opportunity
—which 1s Possible—and — c
h 1 ible and that's going in winter and aiding agrarians in to do so now.
to make. It harder still. If We ordinary their war on drought and soil drift- l The letter is (tofu a young woman
normal erintinals you're dealing with, ing, 145,000,000 trees have been a spinster of thirty-five. She writes
you're pretty certain to stumble ou planted as shelter belts on 55,0041' ul.ns
some kind of motive some time or farms inManitoba,Saskatchewan
other. But if it's some mad fellow,
you never know where'yau are. Any-
way, sane or mad, it not very likely
that he's going, to ask Pratt or Row-
landson for them himself and give a
clue that's going to be useful against
him, afterwards when he's done the
trick."
"You think, then," said Garton,
"that the fellow who really wanted the
stuff was a third party? He'd get the
keys from someone who had in his
turn borrowed from the .owners?"
"What a brain, my dear Watson,"
exclaimed Budd. "Yes — that's exact-
ly what I do mean."
Stephen Garton got up abruptly, He
stretched his legs .ancl looked at the
clock, now only just visible across
the fog -filled root].
"By Jove! Half past three! The
fog's got to be responsible for a lot!"
"You'll just about reach the F.O.
in time for tea. I don't suppose there's
ever much to do after that, except
to feed the office cat."
"That's right --cheap sneers at the
world's real workers. I suppose
you've got nothing to do till dinner
time? If you'd really been so keen on
your own work up at Oxford you
needn't have come up till hours after
this."
They walked towards the lobby so
that Garton could get bis hat and
coat.
''That's owing to my foresight. I
saw in the forecast this morning that
the weather was going to be foggy,
I guessed it would get thicker and
thicker as the day wore on, and if I
didn't come up in the morning I might
never reach the Middle Temple at
all."
"And—talking of fogs," said Gar-
ton as he picked up his stick and
buttoned Itis overcoat up tightly
round his throat, "I think I'm begin-
ning to see light through this figura-
tive one."
They had reached the entrance. The
page -boy had pushed open the swing
door and Stephen Garton prepared to
descend the steps:
"Suppose," said he, "that there
wasn't any student at all in the case."
"What the devil do you mean?" Ar-
chie Budd came halfway down the
steps with his friend.
"What I say," said Garton choking
as the thick fog caught hip] in the
throat. "Didn't you say that old Pratt
was musical himself — a rotten play-
er; but thought himself no end of a
nut? My theory is that he was roused
to insane fury by Parelii's musical
prominence, and arranged a little plot
to get him out of the way. How's that
for an idea? Get's rid of your neces-
sity for a third party anyway."
Laughing as heartily as the fog
would permit, he vanished into the
gloomy murk that was Saint James's.
TO BE CONTINUED•
British Tonnage
In Sharp Decline
LONDON.—The total tonnage of
merchant ships registered under the
British flag declined 2,668,492 tons
between 1930 and 1934, the Board
of Trade Jdurnal revealed today. On
December 31, 1934, there were 8,-
662 steamships registered with a
total of 12,878,412 tons; 4,168 ino-
torships of 2,826,160 tons, and 4,435
sailing vessels totaling 359,409 tons,
according to the Journal's statistics.
Things To Remember
What shall we keep from out the
misty past?
What keep in mind through all the
passing years?
Pictures of joys whose memories e'er
shall last?
Or sorrow's days with all their sighs
and tears?
Better to keep in mind the happy
scenes,
Days that were bright, undimmed by
cloud or rain.
One -Pupil School: Three pupils at-
tended a school near Tweedsmuir,
Peebleshire. Two left when their
fathers moved from the distrIet. Now
there is one. The education authori-
ties
r1 a s small-
est
that B t
have d
est school shall remain open. More
farm workers are expected.
"Theo world of the future win wear
outer garments that last only a week
and Lire done with, There will be no
more laundries."—H, Go Wells.
and Alberta in 85 years of system- I "I live all alone in a smalI apart-
atie planting, Five million more ment and go out to business each
will be planted in 1936. I day. I have always been backward
Norman M. Ross, chief of the tree and slow to make friends and, eon -
planting division of the federal for-'.SeuentlY, I have very few friends.
est nursery station here, and his as -1 None that I call intimate friends.
sistant, C. A. Edwards, dipped into a Lately I have been feeling loneliness
facts and figures and found the love' Lather keenly. I noticed an advertise-
ment in the inserted by a
"gentleman" who would like to meet
a companionable woman of my age to
accompany him to parties and break
the loneliness of life for him. At first
of trees brought by farmers from
older settled areas provides the lev-
eler for western agriculture.
Folk who pulled up stakes in the
Maritimes and Ontario and moved I hesitated, then 2 pictured a young
westward at the turn of the century
or came from the Old Country i man in a similar position to myself,
brought their love of home beauty so I replied. It has turner, out very
with them. And in that was born much differently front what I expect -
the tree planting. program which is ed. This man was evidently looking
proving its value in dollars and for something other than companion -
cents today to modern farmers. ship and 2 have had the greatest
.difficulty getting rid of him. The ex -
To the credit of 'the tree planting
peri
To has greatly upset me and I
program was placed better farm am in constant dread of him turn -
gardens, adequate protection against license, however, if Miss Freistater
windstorms, improved appearance_ `
b 1.1gup.'' could reduce her weight to 150 pounds
and added home comfort, retention ' There it is. A very old game and within the next six months.
one that is being played daily. Hun- In her application to Commissioner
Graves for a review of the case Miss
Freistater said that she had not been
able to get down to 150 pounds in six
months. The trouble was, she said,
that her mother had not been well
during the six-month period and she
had to devote so much time to her
that she had been unable to diet
whole-heartedly and had got down
only to 160 pounds. She had asked the
board, she said, for an extension of
another month to get rid of the ten
pounds.
This request had been refused,
said Miss Freistater, an action on the
part of the board of examiners which
she characterized as "arbitrary and
unreasonable".
The board of examiners said in
its answer that its requirements as
to weight and other physical char-
acteristics were those adopted by in-
surace companies for standard risks.
The board held that such require-
ments were reasonable, in view of
the insurance aspects of the teachers'
retirement system.
"Teachers should, moreover," said
the board, "be acceptable hygenic
models for their pupils in the mat-
ter of weight"
As to this, the board of examiners
added that Miss Freistater was now
back at 181 pounds, which substan-
tiated the original opinion of the ex-
amining physician that any reduction
in weight would be merely temporary
and the condition in the middle years
of her life might become a handicap.
Not only, said the board, was there
no record of application for recon-
sideration of her case but there was
"no confirmation or official evidence"
that she had even reduced her weight
at one time to 180 pounds, — New
York Herald -Tribune.
soa
is
Teacher's License is Ref sed
Because' She Weighs 182
The board of examiners of the
Board of Educotion of New York has
filed an answer with Dr. Frank P.
Board of Education of New York has
cation to an appeal made by Miss
Rose Freistater, of 1995 Davidson
avenue, the Bronx, for a review of the
board's refusal of a teacher's license
on the ground that she was over-
weight.
Miss Freistater applied for the
license in Mat•eh, 1931. The board of
examiners denied the application be-
cause she wieghed 182 pounds. Miss
Freistater, being five feet two inches
tall, should, in the opinion of the
the board, weigh 120 pounds if she
was to be licensed to teach in New
York.
The board agreed to issue the
of snow moisture, an avid in growing
fruit successfully, protection for
stock and poultry, attraction for
bird life, protection against drought
and provision of small fuel.
Fifty thousand trees were planted
in 1901,the first year the federal
government •directed the work. Since
then, Manitoba has planted 18,700,-
230 broad -leaf and 344,693 ever-
greens on 32,705 farms and Alberta
records showed 37,879,855 broadleaf
and 661,370 evergreens on 11,126
farms.
Oddities r f
Playing Cards
It has been left for a correspon-
dent of The Times to point out that
the club suit of cards "is the only
one ‘in which the royalties together
possess six eyes" (the knave being
counted, for this purpose, as a roy-
alty) . All the others have no more
than . five. It is perhaps a matter.
6f gallantry that tile Queens are the
only figures who always get their
full set of eyes: the Kings have only
seven among them, and the Knaves
six. The Knaves, on the other hand,
have a monopoly of symmetry, for
two look to the right and two to
the left, whereas both Kings and
Queens are "eyes left" in the pro-
portions of three to one.
Little' matters like these empha-
size the fact of the invisibility of
the familiar. How many people play
bridge regularly, and would yet be
puzzled to answer this examination
paper, "unseen"2— •
(1) Which King shows only half
his face?
(2) How many jewels are there in
the royal crown?
(3) What do the Queens carry in
their hands?
(3) Which King" has two hands?
(4) Which King carries the orb?
(6) Which Knave is threatened
with an axe ?
(7) Which Xing has a moustache
that does not curl?
(8) Which King wears ermine?
(9) Which Knave has a W on his
shoulder ?
The style of all the cards is em-
phatically Tudor. The King of
Hearts is said to show Henry VIII.
in his proper robes, and the Queen
is a picture of Elizabeth of York,
wife of Henry VII, But the ladies,
as a whole, are an insipid lot. The
kingly attitude is one of authority
rather than bonhomie, The Knaves
offer more variety of type, but they
are uniformly poor creatures—as
knaves should be, The practice of
duplicating the figures, so as to be
equally intelligible from either side,
is comparatively modern: it would
be interesting to know whether the
earlier pictures gave fuller details of
costume.—London Observer.
Beaver
In nothing is human nature so un-
fair as 1n its liking for somes
and its dislike of others; and the,
beaver has always been lucky. To
have stood on a clam and see a lodge
in some far spot of Canada or New-;
foundland, and even to have looked
for, without seeing, the bubbles or
the nose -tip that mark the passage
of a beaver, is to feel a special, al-
most proprietary, interest in the
creature, But even so little as that
is not necesary. To have read of
beavers is to love them. They have
the quality of dearness, shared with
the squirrel (the beaver is by fanc-
ily an aquatic squirrel), the pen.
gut, and the kinkajou. ---London
Til es.
animal
dreds of innocent women and girls
have been caught in the mesh of
such rogues and have learned by bit-
ter experience that it is not always
safe to answer such advertisements.
My correspondent is fortunate indeed
if she has been able to free herself
before becoming wholly ensnared. To
say the least, it is always risky to
answer such advertisements.
My correspondent seems to have a
grudge at the paper in which she saw
the advertisement, but that is foolish.
In all fairness it ought to be said
that the greatest care is generally
taken to see that advertisements ac-
cepted for the papers are bona fide.
But even with the greatest of care ad-
vertisements will sometimes appear
that not what they appear to be on
the surface. Such advertisements are
usually inserted by very crafty people
and are cunningly worded. If they
were not so, no advertising manager
would accept them. Every reputable
paper wants to build up circulation,
eel 'atl:cli adrernlsl/1g' would only pull
down the circulation figures. Clean,
straightforward advertising is the de..
mand of our press today.
To me, it is somewhat surprising
that anyone will seek companionship
through press advertisements. There
are so many legitimate channels
through which one can make friends.
Lonely girls can always find compan-
ionship through the medium of one
or other of the girls' clubs that are
in vogue today, or through the Y.W.
C.A. If a girl is living at some dist-
ance from such organizations, a let-
ter to the secretary will, I am sure,
always be sympathetically treated.
And apart from these organizations,
there is always the church. All
churohes have youth organizations in
which amiable companionship can
usually be found.
The best thing to do is never an-
swer an advertisement of the nature
that has caught my correspondent
napping. I have known cases where
it has led to the ruin of a splendid
type of girl. To nay correspondent I
want to say, if this man turns up
and begins to pester you threaten
him with the police. If he persists,
communicate with no police. If he
does not turn up again, you may count
yourself extremely lucky, but be sure
that you have profited from your ex-
perience. Don't het it worry you. Put
the whole thing completely out of
your mind. Join some church society
or the Y.W.C.A. and find companion-
ship that will enable you to forget
about this nasty jar which you have
received.
a * •
NOTE: The writer of this column
Is a trained psychologist and an au.
thor of several works. He is willing
to deal with you problems and give
you the benefit of hi's wide expert.
ence, Questions regarding problems
of EVERYDAY LIVING should be ad.
dressed to: Dr. M. M. Lappin, Room
421, 73 Adelaide Street, West, Toron.
to, Ontario. Enclose a (3c) stamped,
addressed envelope for reply.
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Issue No. 2 ---- '36
9.
Worsen Haters
Getting Anywhere
In Alberta College
EDMONTON.—Ted Bishop, found-
er of the University of Alberta Wo-
men Haters' Club, is going to the
National Federation of Canadian
University Students' Conference at
Kingston, Ont., next week.
And Ted admits he may seek
formation of women haters' clubs in
every university in Canada. He or-
ganized the women haters' organiza-
tion here a few years ago and it has
a membership of five.
So if other varsity clubs do spring
up, co-eds won't have to worry un-
less the membership goes over big-
ger than at the University of Al-
berta,
nds
Thrift Workshop
Has Number of
Interesting Exhibits
The triumph of creative handicraft
in an age of machinery was illustra-
ted by an exhibition in London to
which women in villages throughout,
England and Wales sent work. Tlta:
exhibits were shown by the National!
Federation of Women's Istitutes, and"
they combined beauty with economy.
The Duchess of York, offered her.
choice of a gift, bought five velvet
pigs.
Economy was especially apparent,
in the Thrift Workshop. There'
banana crates made baby cradles.
Bits of linoleum made soles of bed-
room slippers, of which the uppers
were made from last year's discarded
feit hats. Hen's feathers and sheep's
wool which had been picked up from
the hedges, were used as fillings for
dainty quilts.
One of the exhibits, contributed by
a Cambridge shire woman, Mrs. Ber-
nard Jackson, was a beautiful, rug
made entirely of old sill: stockings
on a foundation of coarse sacking.
"The clay has gone by when any
physicist thinks that he understands;
the foundations of the physical uni ;
verse as we thought we understood
them in the nineteenth century."—'
Robert A. Milliken.
ASK YOUR DOCTOR
FIRST, IVIOTHER
Before You Give Your Child
an Unknown Remedy to Take
Every day. unthinkingly, mothers
take the advice of unqualified persons
— instead of their doctors' --- on
remedies for their children.
If they knew what the scientists
know, they would never take this
chance.
Doctors Say PHILLIPS'
For Your Child
When it comes to the frequently -used
"milk of magnesia,' doctors. for over
50 years, have said "PHILLIPS'
Milk of Magnesia -- the safe remedy
for your child."
Remember this -- And Always Say
"Phillips" 'When You Buy. Your
child deserves it;;for your own peace
of mind. see that you get it — Gen-
uine Phillips' Milk of Magnesia.
Also in Tablet Form;
Philips' Milk of Magnesia Tab-
lets are now on sale at all drug
stores everywhere. Each tiny tab-
let is the equivalent of
a teaspoonful of Gen-
uine Phillips' Mill< of
Magnesia.
PHILLIPS'
MADE IN CANADA