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Sad Days For Teachers
These are sad days for school tea-
chers, Over in New York state one
of them was recently refused employ-
ment because she weighed too much,
and now a Philadelphia educationist
contends that there is no reason wiry
a school teacher should not be good
to look at -- Brockville Recorder and
Times.
Ungrateful Diormes
Looking after the quintuplets ' is
becoming less of a problem than the
dealing with the parents. Elzire, like
Father Adana, blames it all on his
Fife. But Mule. Dionne gives no sign
of breaking down under her matern-
al woes. Of the two parents we should
say she is the more philosophical and
level-headed. We do not think it is
she who is importuning Hollywood to
supply the answer to the question
"Where Are My Children?" She
knows well enough where they are.
as does her husband and the whole
world. They are being royally taken
care of by a staff of skilled attend-
ants, under the personal direction of
the famous "country doctor," to
whom they owe their lives. Their
material and spiritual needs are be-
ing handsomely provided for and the
parents and other members will not
be neglected, either. If, in addition to
all these benefits, 1I. et Mane. Dionne
feel like making a few extra dollars
on the side by touring the country
and going into the pictures, that is
perfectly all right with. the guardians
too. But the latter, the King and a
long-suffering public might resaonab-
ly be spared these hypocritical com-
plainings. That's about the least a
very fortunate daddy can do as a
mark of gratitude, for all that has
been, is being and will be done for
him and his family. — Hamilton
Spectator.
When The Doctor Says. So
The people of Ontario generally feel
that the Dionnes, pere and mere, are
fortunate in having their quintuplets
taken off their hands and cared for
under ideal condition. Pape Dionne
himself thanks the Ontario govern-
ment for the help it has given and.
says that all he wants is the return
of his children. ]h'. Defoe himself has
said that they will he returned at the
proper time.
The proper time should be when
Dr. Defoe, who has made medical his-
tory in this case, decides that the
rules which have governed the lives
of the children and probably saved
the lives, in the hospital built for
there, may safely bo relaxed, and also
when they have passed the period
during which all infants and adoles-
cents run special risks from certain
maladies.
tinier Dr. Dafoe's regime and with
the .scientific precautions with which
the little ones have been surrounded,
They are the only quintuplets known
to have survived in all the records
that have been preserved. The judge -
=but of the physician who is respon-
sible for such a system should be the
gride in the future. — London Ad-
vertiser.
.Roundabout
The Dionne's letter to the King was
sent by the King's secretary to the
Governor-General, who sent it to the
Secretary of State, who sent it to the
Provincial Secretary of Ontario, who
sent it to the Minister of Public Wel-
fare — who is the quintuplet's chief
guardian. Mr. Dionne would have sav-
ed much circumlocution bad he writ-
ten to Mr. Croll in the first place
about his troubles; but his foreign
advisers didn't know that. -- Ottawa
Journal.
Winning A V. C.
Private Peat, well-known in Edmon-
ton as a war-timo recruiting orator,
recently told a Detroit audience that
"the Victoria Cross is the highest ho-
nour that can be given to an English-
man for services to his Empire." Now
private Peat ought to know better than
that. The Victoria Cross is awarded
only "for valor" en the field of battle
in the pretence of the enemy. The Or-
der of the British Empire was instit-
uted especially to reward outstanding
services to the Empire, -- Edmonton
journal.
Life For A Life
Many honest "caauatanitarians, per-
haps an increasing number, appear
to be lender -hearted toward the de-
liberate murderer who takes the life
Of his victim, in order to procure a
few dollar's;
Some of. the .remarks made in dis-
cua.sions on capital punishment would
appear unintelligible to rnhay people
who aro far from being either morbid-
ly cruel, or even unphllosophicel,
their reline en ee to abolish the death
pi6atali,y for drdibereto murder vein -
milted to either gratify ,revengo or
acquire property to which they have
no claim.
Many good .people seen to forget
that the motive behind the dictum "a
life for a life," is not revenge, but
precaution and prevention.
The murderer is deprived of his
life, but not in a spirit of vengeance,
but as a means of saving other peo-
ple from being murdered,
The execution of the deliberate
murderer is justified era the ground
that others who are contemplating
murder may shrink from perpetrating
the crime because of the punisbmett
that awaits them if they aro found to
be guilty. — Guelph Mercury.
•
A New Worry
Kirkland Lake barber endorses the
statement of North Bay's veteran
tonsorial artist that men are losing
a lot of masculinity,' a. softening of
beards being the evidence against
them.—North Bay Nugget.
Chinese Merit Praise
A simile that might well be coined
in these days of increasing paternal -
em is "As scarce as the number of
Chinese on relief.
Kitchener and Waterloo haven't
any celestials depending on public aid
and there are very few cities and
towns, if any, in Eastern Canada that
have Chinese on their relief lists. And
yet the Chinese are the most num-
erous of the races of Asiatic origin
now residents of Canada. Census re-
ports issued by the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics show that more than half
of the latter are Chinese. There are
over 43,000 males and about 3,500 fe-
males. Of these 1,900 are boys and
1,800 are girls under the age of 15.
More than half, or over 27,000 of
the Chinese reside In British Colum-
bia. Most of the Chinese children are
in the Pacific Coast province.
There are about 6,400 Chinese
cooks and about the same number en-
gaged in laundry work, 3,500 cafe and
tavern keepers, 125 hairdressers, 15
musicians, 14 clergymen, eight jour-
nalists, seven actors and four police
as well as nnany in other varied oc-
cupations,
•The fact. that the Chinese look pret-
ty well after their own countrymen
when they become unemployed is
indeed soinething for which they
should be given great credit. Kit-
ehentr News -Record.
A New Novelty
The craze for novelty continues un-
abated. Observers report that people
are going in again for home life —
The Toronto Saturday Night,
THE EMPIRE
Through Empire Eyes
The rest of the Empire regard Eur-
ope as a continent gone crazy, a world
of madmen bent upon mutual slaugh-
ter and self-destruction. And they
marvel that we in this country can-
not grasp the fact that the sooner wo
leave Europe to settle Europe the
"The Bee" on Signal
Honeyed words weren't in the vocabularies of drivers stopped
at busy intersection in Los Angeles when traffic signal was put out of
commission by swarm of bees attempting to build a hive in it. William
Fox, who handles unruly bees, placing a swarm in a special box.
inhumane way out of an awkward si-
tuation. It has been practised solely
because in the circumstances there
seemed to be nothing else we could
do, short of permitting the establish-
ment in this island of a community of
alien undesirables. The Government
here should Sow get in touch with
the authorities in Haiti and 'ascer-
tain whether and on what terms they
are prepared to permit the entry of
fugitives, — Trinidad Guardian.
They Kept Secre!
Of The sa ks
(By W. Orton Tewson, Author of
"An Attic Salt Shaker")
The manner in which the secret
of the Tanks was kept during their
building was "one of the most re-
markable exhibitions of patriotic
restraint during the whole course of
the war," says the man who invent-
ed them—Major-General Eir Ernest a session of Annabelle, Mary, cham-
D. Swinton (in "Eyewitness: And „lent -like, became infantile and fool -
the Origin of the Tanks.") Alth`
thousands of men knew about t
only two cases of a breach of
fidence ,came to his personal k
ledge. Both implicated women.
swifter we shall be able to strength- "0n one occasion a charming
en Britain and the Empire by develop- 1 any neighbor at a luneheon pa
reminisccs General Swinton,
hearing my name began artless
ply me with questions, which sh
that some one had been talkint
wisely. I remembered that a dei
dam
Said
Existell
e
On one side of Mary lived Joan, on
the other, Annabelle. All were ap-
proximately the same age but entire-
ly; different in temperament.
Annabelle was gentle and very
babyish for her five years. Joan was
mentally and characteristically older.
'Mary was in between, and although
not an "inferior" she had a way of
putting her own wishes and personal-
ity behind that of her playmate. The
three children were not playmates,
because Joan did not like Annabelle
and wouldn't play with her. Mary
played with both, but not at the same
time.
Mary's mother preferred the more
forceful child. She thought it was
better for her child to absorb a bit
of Joan's force. Beside, Joan was very
siiiart and Mary learned from her. On
the other hand, when there had been
Ing our own resources. -- London
Daily Express.
That English Climate
We may be thankful for our wet- young office. in the Heavy Section
Hier contrasts without forfeiting our (Tank) bore her Hanle, and made a
birthright to grumble about them. It shrewd guess as to their relation -
is not a very far-fetched idea that to ship.
them we owe a good deal of our na- "Very seriously, and in a low tone,
tional cheracterist.o of refusing to I told her that there ruts only one
get into a fuss about things before person from whom she could have
they happen, and, when. happen theylearned what she knew; that if it
do, of dealing with therm in a bluff, got out it would not only mean his
practical way which may not owe death, but the death of many others,
much to logic or theory but yet die -and possibly the loss of the War;
poses of the difficulty with fair sue -
that unless she promised to maintain
cess. It is a useful quality in more silence, except to contradict anything
than meteorological emergencies, in ,
far more important things even tile'
she bad already divulged, I would
wisest and most clear-sighted of men order that individual's arrest by
cannot tell what is waiting for him' telephone and have him tried by
round the next corner. In such al courtmartial for treachery—the pen-
world there is much value in being! ity fol which was death. Greatly
compelled to develop and exercise el upset, the lady vowed that she would
faculty of improvisation and in being carry out my instructions. She had
trained to keep an equal mind under, not thought of doing any harm, but
severe and sudden changes of condi- likeauany others, did not realize the
tion, Whatever else we may say ab-! danger of chattering.
out the vagaries of our weather, We "The other rase was similar.. 'e
have at least to thank them for the! heard that a certain actress at one
countless opportunities for suchpain- of the London theatres had got wind
ful practice. London Times. I of something from an officer and
:1.
was talking indiscreetly. ( According-
ly I visited her a •.
in her ch.cs.mgr •oau o
The Unwanted one night after thela • with much
It has been reported that, unlike ` p y'
the same result as I have just. . des -
Trinidad, Haiti Inas no objection to cxibed. In this case I am afraid I
French convicts (escaped from penal bluffed in threatening her informant
settlements) settling there, and this f With death, for we had no idea of
no doubt was the motive behind the i his identity, but she was sufficiently
recent: abortive move by private in-! frighteners to promise to do all that
terests to have soanc of those fugi-; I demanded,"
tives sent to the inland republic from ,
this Colony. If Haiti's attitude hash „In addition to the ordeal of the
been correctly reported, it should war itself, the war generation has had
certainly provide a inenaas whereby : thrown upon it the task of providing
Trinidad could get rid of unwenl0cl, sufficient wisdom to prevent an oc,-
visilurs without opamng herself to Presque Isle Harbor, .5575,000; Grays
any srspicioai of inhumanity. It must
the suffer in; wvhich it endured," --
be admitted that sending refugees to, Anthony Eden.sea in a. boat, no matter how well eq-
uipped or heavily provisioned, is an 121
fa -
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lay
too
ose
nd
more v ,filly
not in it at all. Then one day Mary's
mother became aware of the fact that
her child was not as good as she had
been. Every few minutes there was
friction about something. Never had
she seen her so contrary. The simp-
lest command met with almost in-
stant rebellion where before Mary had
been the most tractable child imag-
inablc, Moreover she would not eat
as she should and by nightfall was ; ro�
to
Pithy Aecdotes
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Of . t ke Faous
Danger of Slang
The danger of using slang when
coanmurticating with a foreigner is
amusingly 'illustrated by an anecdote
related by Mrs. Fremont Older in the
biography of William Randolph
Hearst. Sonde years ago Mr, Hearst
instructed a French :agent, by letter,
to bid for some choice pieces of Tan-
a.gra which were 'about to be sold at
auction in Paris. In his letter, the
publisher said:
"01 course 1 don't want any of the
darned old things which will run up
to fabulous prices."
And he set a limit to the price to
which the agent could go.
The sale took place, and the Tana -
gess were sold under the limit that
Mr. Hearst set. He was in dismay and
cabled his representative.
"Why did you not buy the Tana-
gras?"
Back cane the explanation of the
French commissionaire. It read:
"In your letter of instructions you
said, 'I don't want any of the darned
old things which will run up to fab-
ulous prices'. I did not comprehend
the meaning of 'darned', but I looked
up the meaning in the dictionary and
found that it meant 'repaired" All of
the Tanagras had been repaired or
restorers. They date from the third
century, B.C."
Not long after Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, William
Randolph Hearst wishing to de some-
thing substantial for him, arranged
for a motion picture story of Lindy's
life.
"The heroic aviator was to receive
one -halt' million dollars and a percen-
tage of the profits," says Mrs. Older.
"In his New York apartment Hearst
amusingly illustrated by an anecdote
signed and sealed, ready to deliver.
Only Lindbergh's signature was want-
ing.
"The aviator read the paper, smil-
ed and shook his head and said, '1
wish I could if it would please you.
1 can't. I said 1 wouldn't go into the
motion pictures.'
" 'All right,' answered Hearst, but
tear up the contract. I haven't
the heart to do it.'
`•Hearst watched Lindbergh tear
up the half million dollar contract
presented Lindbergh with a contract,
great admiration for the aviator's
magnificent disregard for money."
A very refined but sad -looking doc-
tor at one of the jails where the Rev.
Eustace Jarvis — well known prison
Chaplin — was serving, had under his
care a man under his care a man un-
der sentence of death, and almost on
the eve of execution.. The prisoner
complained of toothache. relates Mr.
Jervis (in "Twenty-five Years in Six
Prisons''), and asked the doctor if he
ould take the tooth out for him. The
doctor looked at him sadly a moment
or two and said:
"Do you really think it is worth the
while?"
Which recalls a story told by Ser-
geant A. M. Sullivan, noted Irish bar-
rister — he defended Sir Roger Case-
ment — about a young Irish advocate,
who was assigned by the court to de-
fend a prisoner charged with murder.
The lawyer wrote out a most eloquent
speech which he proposed to deliver
to the jury on his client's behalf, and
to make sure that no point was omit-
ted, lie brought it clown to rehearse to
the accused man in the cell.
• The declamation of the first few
pages was somewhat mournfully lis-
tened to, but the orator was cheered
by some semblance of interest on the
part of the person most concerned,
who eventually interrupted by asking:
"Could you tell me, Mister Mac, is
hanging a painful death?"
o nervous to sleep.
It puzzled iter another because Joan I
was an obedient child in her way and
contrariness seldom showed itself.
Maybe it was not Joan at all but just
some of those things developing in,
•
berht
Mary herself that might be accounted , Report Shows Most of
for by the evolution of character. I Was Needed to Cover
But one day she. happened to bel
sewing in the next room and had op- Federal Tax '
portunity to follow a little drama.
It
';'hat Mary did, it seemed, was al LETHBRIDGE, Olta„ — Sugar
ways wrong. What she suggested in beet growers of Southern Alberta
the way of new amusement was in- from the 1935 crop had an average
stantly voted down. When she want- net profit of 340.79, while the govern-
ed to stop Joan insisted that she was ment tax paid by each grower aver-
selfish; in fact, this was the stick the aged 3558,48, according to a state -
other child .chose to wield. Any idea ment issued by the Alberta Co -opera -
that crossed her own mind quickly tive: Beet Growers Association.
Duet with this verdict of selfishness. The association co-operating with
0eCnsionally she said "babyish," ! Eastern Canada growers, is seeking a
!i rebate on tate federal tax,
Cowed by Playxa ate I In 1935 there were 797 growers in.
Then many things recurred to this Southern Alberta; 14,109 acres in the
mother. Sho saw a complete picture : crop, and 133,809 toile of beets liar -
of the past few months and she r•ea- vested. There were 44,450,900 pounds
sized that Mary's trouble was thwart- . of sugar produced on wlliclt the, fed -
ed will, which can happen through;
; eras government collected a cent -a-
playmates as well as parents. Mary pound tax, with an additional 3600 for
was unhappy. Joan had cowed her, ' collection costs, according to the as -
and brow•bcaten her and et the sante sedation's statement.
limo shamed her. All in a way that
few would notice but quietly and per- Approxiinntely 10,0011,000 theeeer-
sistently in the way known only to storms take place nnnu.nlly, c,r 441,000
entirely self-centred children, daily.
Ancient TInes
Rate of Violent Deaths Was
High Among Greeks and
Romans •
What with automobiles to run us
down and airplanes to fail in mid-
air <and explosions to blow us up, we
might call this not the machine age
but the dangerous age. But the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Corn
pany has made a study which shows
that the lives of the ancients were
scarcely less precarious.
Out of a representative sample of
275 celebrated Greeks and Romans
136 came to violent ends —nearly
half. The -skeptical vital statistician
approaches the figures cau-
tiously. It is natural that
violent deaths should attract
more attention than deaths front
prosiac disease. So he casts about
and finds a supplementary grouping
of 126 the causes of whose ends
were not'recorded. By adding these
to the original 275 he obtains a total
of 401. But the violent deaths stili
amount to 34 per cent. •
Perhaps those who died with their
boots on were soldiers and adven-
turers. If so, the statistics are not
to be wondered at. So the statist-
ician classifies the 401 names into
callings—statesmen, soldiers, philo-
sophers, authors. It turns out that
of 180 statesmen 115 came to violent
ends -64 per cent. Including those
who died from unknown causes the
total amounts to 222 and the per-
centage to 52.
Life is today no more perilous
than it was in ancient times. In spite
of all our homicides, suicides and
accidents only 9.5 per cent. of the
general population dies violently.
"These figures are not so widely dif-
ferent from the 12 per cent. which
we have noted as characteristie of
persons following peaceful pursuits
in antiquity".
Warfare today is not Hutch more
terrible than it was in ancient times..
Among the French the proportion of
deaths in battle and from wounds in
the World War was 41.8 per cent.
in the entire male population of
military age over the period of the
war; among the Germans, 42,4 per
cent.; among the British, 33,8 per
cent., and among the Italians, 22.1
per cent. The figures are a little
lower, though not much, for the
soldiers and statesmen of antiquity
used as a sample for comparison.
We must not forget that the World
War was a transitory condition. The
figures for the ancients cover the
general records of history. "Surely
the ancients did live dangerously."
Easy and Quick
Here's a smart little washing
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And not a lot of pleats to kcap
in order and repress after-tuhbingl
. Cotton is a favored medium, and
there are many. fascinating new
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en -like weave cotton was individ-
ualized by brief sleeves of plain
purple. The buttons repeat the
purple,
Again linens, tuh silks, cues are
elide mediums. You'll want to
maize several for next summer,
it's so smart, inexpensive and
quickly made.
Style No. 2938 is designed for
sizes 10, 18 years, 30, 38, 40 and
42 -inches bust. Size 36 requi.•es 3
yards of "5 -incl- material with %
yawl of 15 -inch contrasting.
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