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Where King and Queen Will Stay While :I» Ottawa'
Early in January steps will be taken to renovate Rideau Hail, Ottawa, official residence of Lord Tweeds-
nruir, Governor-General of Canada, to put it in readiness to receive the King and Queen when they arrive
in Canada next May. The King's birthday celebrati on, proclaimed for May 20 so far as Canaria is con-
cerned, will occur while their majesties are visiting the Dominion's capital.
Modern
Etiquette
BY ROBERTA LEE
1. How can a bachelor repay his
social ebligatIons if he is a man
of limited means?
2. What is the correct way to eat
a small apple at the table, when
a small silver fruit knife is provid-
ed?
3. Should children be permitted
to converse with visitors?
4. What should a bridegroom pro-
vide for his best man and ushers at
a church wedding?
5. When carving a turkey should
a host ask the guest which piece
he prefers?
Answers
1. By making himself useful to
his hostess and agreeable to her
guests, or by sending flowers to his
hostess on special occasions.
2. Cut the apple into quarters and
eat it with the fingers.
3. Not unless the visitors speak
first, and then the child must not.
be permitted to monopolize the con-
versation.
4. The ties, gloves, and bouton-
nieres; and he usually gives a gift
of a small piece of jewelry to each
one.
5. It is better merely to ask if he
prefers light or dark meat. If there
is but one turkey, and six guests
would request a leg, it would be
embarrassing.
Worry Causes
Tooth Decay
Emotions That Depress A Per-
son Are Said to be Responsible
If you would have good, solid,
glistening teeth, fall head -over -
heels in love right away and stay
there.
That is the prescription offered
by Dr. E. F. Briggs, a dental sur-
geon of Bangor, Me.
On the other hand, if you are dis-
appointed in love and start bleeding
your heart out about it, your teeth
are likely to give you all kinds of
Tribulation and pain, Dr. Briggs
ways.
Maintain An Even Keel
"If a young .man is disappointed
In love, his teeth may decay in a
few months," he continued. "If a
young woman is disappointed, her
teeth will decay even more rapidly.
Women neem to be affected more
than men, perhaps because they're
so emotional.
The emotions that cause decay
are those that depress. Those same
emotions depress the action of the
para -thyroid glands which regulate
the calcium metabolism of the body
and establish a balance between
the acidity and alkalinity."
Wants Tail -lights
For Pedestrians
Pedestrians carrying license
plates and tail lights in Ontario
?night not be a bad idea Gor-
don Conant, Attorney General
of Ontario told a traffic safety
conference in Toronto last
month.
Addressing the meeting on
the question of empowering
municipalities to regulate ped-
estrian traffic as a means of
redOeing auto accidents Con-
ant was asked whether it would
be possible to force persons'
"over a certain age" to secure.
licenses to 'walk on the streets
and to carry lights at night.
"The question deserves con-
sideration," Conant said.
Traffic Rules
For Children
Ten Regulations Are Issued By
Director of Safety
Education
Here are 10 rules for children to
observe as their part in "playing
safe." They were issued recently by
Dr. Herbert J. Stack, director of
the new National Centre for Safe-
ty Education at New York Univer-
sity.
1. Start to school early enough
so that you will not have to rush.
2. Plan the safest trip to and
from school, and follow it every
day.
3. Always cross at the crossing,
never in the middle of the block.
4. Cross only with the safe lights.
5, Be alert at all times when cros-
sing the streets.
6. Obey the officer or safety -pat-
rol boy on duty at the crossing.
7.. Don't hitch rides or dart out
onto the street from behind park-
ed cars or hedges..
8. Play in safe places — play-
grounds, play streets, vacant lots —
not on dangerous streets,
9, Ride bicycles on the right side
of roadways, and obey traffic sig-
nals and stop signs.
10. On rural highways always
walk on the left, facing traffic.
What Science
* Is Doing *
FISH ARTIFICIALLY HATCHED
Artificial spawning and hatching
of large -and -small -mouth 'blank bass
— a feat believed impossible by ex-
pert fish culturists, has been devel-
oped by the fisheries ,division of
the Wisconsin .conservation depart-
meut.
PIGEONSCARRY MALADY
Discovery of sleeping sickness
among pigeons is announced by
two scientists df Harvard Medical
SchoL
The pigeon sickness Is the same
thing as human encephalitis, the
highly fatal disease which frequent-
ly leaves minds crippled for life
when it does not kill. Horses, phea-
sants and pigeons can give the dis-
ease to humans.
STOPS PAM FOR TWO WEEKS
A local anaesthetic, one "shot"
of which stops pain for two or
three weeks, has been developed at
the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons.
While the wounds of operations
are healing most of the patients
were able to walk around with-
out pain. They have not had to stay.
in hospitals, and economic losses
have been further reduced by re-
turning them to work earlier.
PREVENTS CLOT FORMATiON
Heparin, a powerful coagulant,
has been definitely established as
of gerat value in all opeartions on
blood vessels and the heart in pre-
venting the formation of clots, Dr.
W. E. Gallie, dean of the faculty' of
medicine and head of the depart-
ment of surgery at Toronto Univer-
sity announced last week,
SEARCH "EMBEDDED" STAR
Search for an "embedded" star, a
sun believed to be hidden behind
clouds of dust, is being pursued at
Harvard Observatory, Cambridge,
Mass,
This lost star lies in the coal
Utak, acording to telescopic clues
explained by )1r. Bart J, Iivk. The
coal sack Is the most conspicuous
black patch In the Milky Way. The
sack is located next to the South-
ern Cross, where It stands out as
an intensely dark field in a very
bright portion of the Milky Way,
The
BOOK SHELF
By ELIZABETH EEDY
"OUR BATTLE"
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
At last someone has taken up the
cudgels for democracy in a big way,
Hendrick Willem van Loon, Dutch -
American historian of note who is
nothing if not liberal -minded,
makes a brilliant attack on the
principles of dictatorship, sounds
.the call for democratic action ag-
ainst the menace of Adolf Hitler
and all he signifies.
Adolf Hitler in the book which he
called "My Battle" (Mein Kampf),
told the world what he intended to
do with his talents. Encouraged by
success in Central Europe, the
Fuehrer now turns his eyes toward
world domination. Dr. van Loon
shows there is no eseace for us on
this continent from the strangle-
hold of fascism unless we care
enough, do enough to take up the
struggle against Hitler's growing
power. And MussoIini's, too .•
As this "year of our disgrace"
1938 draws to its close, there is
still time for action, Dr. van Loon
says.
"Our Battle" by Hendrik Willem
van Loon . . Toronto, 1938: Mus-
son Book Company, Ltd. , . $1.25.
Latvia's Gone In
For Penal Reform
Jails are Being Closed There
As Crime Decreases --- No
Unemployment Reported
Latvia has been going in for pen-
al
enal reform during the past five years
and the results already are being
seen in reduction in -the number of
offenders and Ike closing of some
prisons, says the Niagara Fails Re-
view. In that country there is prac-
tically no unemployment and it ac-
tually was necessary to import 60,-
000 farm laborers from Poland and
Lithuania to work in the fields dur-
ing the past summer.
Commenced in 1934
Prison reform was started in the
year 1934 and it has had a benefic-
ial effect. Criminals who have serv-
ed their terms in prison without
showing unmistakable signs of be-
coming useful citizens are kept in
protective custody for from five to
ten years after their sentences
have expired. Vagabonds and beg-
gars who are "work -shy" are kept
in workhouses after their release
and in that way the country is kept
free of undesirable elements.
Much more is being done in the.
Oar of after -prison care than here,
for a semi-official home has been
opened for released prisoners
where probation officers endeavour
to find for them suitable work and
Latvian employers are showing a
much greater disposition to employ
men who have been in prison,
Dead Minnows
Cause Mystery
Thousands of dead minnows, cov-
ering the waters of Kincardine,
(Ont.) harbor, are a puzzle to fish-
ermen of the locality.
A few years ago a like occur-
rence caused considerable conster'
nation as no cause for the death of
the minnows could be •found. The
samples of the fish and of the wa-
ter were sent away for analysis,
as it was thought factory refuse
• in the river, which enters Lake
Huron at the harbor mouth, might
have caused the minnows to die by
thousands, but this was not borne
out.
Gulfs, usually avid seekers of the
minnows are leaving the dead fish
alone,
World Livestock
'Total Unknown
Says Imperial Economic Con-
ference --- Figure. Impossible
to Estimate
it is impose -tele to estimate with
any degree of accuracy the number
of cattle, sheep, :and pigs in the
world, states the Imperial 10conom-
le Conference, for in many areas
the figures are either incomplete or
entirely lacking, At a rough .esti-
mate, the number of cattle may be
in the region of 600 millions, of
which about two-fifths are in the
British Empire, $heep may num-
ber about 750 millions, with be-
tween one-third and two-fifths in
the Empire, and pigs perhaps total
about 250 millions, of which about
5 per cent, are in the Empire coun-
tries,
British Empire Owns Two -Fifths
In countries engaged fn interna-
tional trade for meat products and
furnishing reliable data, it appears
that cattle numbers tended to de-
cline from 1925 to about 1931-32,
but that the numbers of sheep and
pigs in these countries expanded,
during the same period. Cattle
and sheep seem to have increased
in number in the past few years,
but the number of pigs in several
of the more important pig -produc-
ing countries, especially the United
States, has been reduced. In 1938
In Canada, bogs, cattle, and horses
on farms showed ddcreases compar-
ed with 1937. Sheep increased by
75,100. The decreases were, horses,
62,290; cattle, 329,300; hogs, 476,-
400.
Light Switches
Near Ent? ances
Location Should Be One That
Is Most Convenient
Lighting switches in rooms that
have more than one entrance
should be placed near the entrance
most used after dark.
In living rooms, switches are fre-
quently Iocated near the outside
door, whereas they should be plac-
ed next to the living -room entrance.
The vestibule light or street illum-
ination will provide sufficient light
for the living room to prevent den--
ger
on=ger from injury when entering from
outside.
In kitchens the switch should be
placed near the entrance into the
apace used for dining. In almost
every case where rooms have an
outside and inside entrance, the
most convenient location tor the
room light switch is near the in-
side entrance.
How Can I?
BY ANNE ASHLEY
Q. How can I prevent colored
handkerchiefs from fading?
A. Soak the colored handker-
chiefs in cold Rater containing a
little salt before they are washed.
Q. How can I remove obstinate
stains from linoleum?
A. When washing linoleum that
is stained, try adding a tablespoonn
of paraffin to the water. This will
also preserve the surface of the
linoleum,
Q. How can I treat garden tools
when putting them away for the
winter?
A. Clean each one thoroughly;
then rub with kerosene or with
grease, and store in a dry place.
Q. How can I keep green peppers
from turning brown when baking
them?
A. Oil the green
baking and they will not turn
brown in the oven.
Q. How should lace be sewed on
linen?
A. Wben sewing lace on linens or
underwear, turn the hem up on the
right side and sew the Lace over
the stitching. Both sides of the
material will be neatly finished.
Q. How can I test mushrooms?
A. The healthful parts of the
mushrooms can be tested by stir-
ring while cooking with a silver
apopn. If there is any foreign sub-
stance in the mushrooms, the sil-
ver will turn color.
peppers before
The value of building represent-
ed by permits' taken out in fifty-
eight Canadian cities during the
first ten months of the present
year was $52,696,759 compared
with $47,862,820 in the corres-
ponding period of 1937.
REMEMBER .. .
to got your copy
of this w4.k's
Toronto Star
W..1sly while in
town.
Issue No« 53—'38
Pigmy Race Once
Lived in Europe
Their Existence at One Time :is
the Origin of Our Belief in
Fairies, Scientists Say
Scientists tell us that many
years ago a pigmy race spread all
over Europe. They were credited
with supernatural powers, and it is
from thein that we get our belief
In fairies.
But apart from scientists pure
an simple, there are others who
believe that fairies still exist, And
years ago the Iate Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle submitted to the world pho-
tographs and facts about fairies, In
spite of this, most people are still
sceptical.
The "Little People"
It is not only in places like the
wiids of Eire, the mountains of
Wales and on the Corniah coasts
that people still believe in the exist-
ence of these little people. There is
in Kent a Fairy Investigation Soc-
iety, to which belong scores of ra-
tional members, all sure that the
"Little People" are still to be
found,
Ontario Farms
Lack Moisture
Serious Shortage of Water Sup-
ply for Livestock Reported
From Many Districts
Many counties in Western, Cen-
tral and Eastern Ontario are ex-
periencing a serious shortage of
water supply for livestock, the On-
tario Department of Agriculture
said in a recent crop report.
"A light covering of snow fell
last week but soon melted and al-
though this aided the flow of water
into wells, the quantity was not
enough to reduce the shortage of
water any appreciable amount."
Plowing was under way in almost
every part of the province, Decem-
ber 15, the ground was said to be
free of frost, enabling farmers to
make good progress with the work.
Canadi..:: n Fishery
Exports Increase
Sharp Rise of Nearly $3,500,-
000 Over the Previous Year
Canada's exports of fish showed
a sharp increase this year, Fisher-
ies Minister Michaud said at Ot-
tawa last week,
The general fisheries situation in
Canada has shown steady improve-
ment during the last mouth, Mr.
Michaud stated. "Last year Can-
ada's fishermen received more mon-
ey for their total catch than in any
other year since 1930," the Minis-
ter said.
Larger Market Needed
"Fisheries export trade in 1937
increased by nearly $3,500,000 over
the total for the year before." The
basic problems of the industry he
believed, lay in larger markets.
Other problems would soon solve
themselves if larger markets were
available,
"Why .on earth did you buy me
pyjamas this size?"
"Because the salesman was
rather nice ---•-and I• didn't want
him to know I'd married such a
little whipper -snapper."
At a recent sports meeting
a well known athlete ran in
the wrong heat of the hun-
dred yards. Just another
sprinter's error.
A Scotsman rushed into hospi-
tal bleeding from a cut in the
cheek.
"Done while shaving, I sup-
pose?" said the doctor, "You want
me to stop that for you?"
"Not necessarily," replied the
Scot. "I was just wonderin' how
much you paid for blood trans-
• fusions;"
' Said the visitor to his host's
little girl: "How do you know .
that it's the first of the
month?"
" 'Cause all daddy's letters
have got front windows in
them," replied the child.
"Mary, how is it the eggs are
sometimes boiled soft and some-
times quite hard?"
"Well, mum, I'm sure I don't
know. I puts theca in regular as
the clock strikes eight, and I takes
then out without fail when T
hears the down train go by."
The old vagrant stood be-
fore the magistrate, who
boomed:
"What's the matter with
you? Can't you behave your-
self for one wee'c? You've
been befor- this court at Ieast
30 times. You've been charg-
ed with drunkenness, shop-
lifting, burglary, assault and
now you are accused of beat-
ing your wife. What have you
to say for yourself?"
"Your Honor," declared the
prisoner, "nobody's perfect."
Aimed at Rabbit,
Brings Down Deer
Hunter Clifford Ashton, of
Morpeth, Ont., shot at a rabbit
and killed a deer. The Morpeth
youth stuck to his story and re-
lated it in court at St. Thomas,
Nov. 30th, when he appeared
on a charge under the game
and fisheries act. Ashton's
story, doubted by Game Over-
seer Sir Dor/and, of Rodney,
was that he took aim at a rab-
bit in an Elgin woodland, near
No. 3 highway and just as he
fired a deer intercepted the shot
and was brought down.
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POTATO BAGS
i'(]TAT() BAU.ti VOR SALE 24c
each. Vi'e also pay highest prices
for junk. (`nusnlidated iron and
Afetal, 55 Niagara Street, Tarot, I0.
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