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CANADA
PERENNIAL WHEAT.
Perennial wheat perhaps must be
biassed among those things too good
to be true. The Russiana, who are
emulating Luther Burbank on a
mass -production scale, have crossed
a domestice wheat with a grass be-
longing to the same family as our
Western rye grass, crested wheat
grass and couch grass. The Russians
say they will be distributing seed in
quantity to their collective farms
within two years. Resistance of this
cross to winter -killing has not been
established, but since our native
grasses of the wheat family do not
winter -kill it is entirely possible that
a cross may ultimately be obtained
,which will stand severe waters and
produce a hard wheat. Our present
pace of plant -breeding is such that
the answers to these questions lie
far in the future, but this is clearly
a promising line of research.—Win-
nipeg Tribune.
MONEY FOR NOTHING.
United States farmers will get
$420,250,000 this year from the gov-
ernment for not producing crops or
pigs. It is probably a larger sum
than they would get if they produc-
ed these things.—London Advertiser.
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THE WORLD
Al LARGE
eighty trucks, loaded with farming
,machinery from the International
Harvester works, left the city for
points within a hundred miles' rad-
ius of Hamilton, to be delivered to
farmers "who feel that the time has
come to renew equipment." Agricul-
ture being the basis of all real pros-
perity, this increased activity is a
particularly gratifying. develonment
But it is not an isolated instance of
improvement—not by any means. —
Hamilton Spectator.
MORE CIGARETTES.
Cigarette smoking in Canada con-
tinues to increase. In 1934 the
consumption ot factory-m.ade .cige.r-
ettes was close to five billion, an
increase of 12 per cent. ever 1938 —
National Revenue Review.
MAY NOT AGREE.
Back before the Great War a for-
mer German chancellor made quite
a point of the peaceful policy exem-
plified by Germany in not going to
war every time she was given a
;slice of African territory to keep her
quiet. Japan seems to have some-
thing the same idea. But it may be
that 400,000,000 Chinese will not
consent to be door mats forever.—
Sault Star.
A STAGGERING COST.
If anyone doubts that the cost of
social services conducted by gov-
ernments is going to increase stead-
ily, a little study of what has hap-
pened in Great Britain should prove
illuminating. That country &pants
$2,450,0000 on .such services, or, last
'`-'- --a zear,,,per capita expenditure of
ati0.--amirreeeme-
OPENING THE NORTH.
Seven years ago alfter years of
almost heart -breaking effort, the dis-
coverers of the great Flin Flon mine
with their associates finally saw the
commencement of the huge develop-
ment which marked the cracking
open of the pre-cam:brian on the
Manitoba -Saskatchewan boundary. In
the eight years $25,000,000 has been
poured into that development and
from it flows a return reaching near-
ly to $8,000,000 annually, Thirteen
hundred men and a town of the
population of 5,000 people marks
rWhat was eight years ago nothing
but a small shaft, rock, lake and
hush.—Reg,ine, Leader -Post.
THIS MAY BE HERESY
The Right Rev. Dr. Woodworth,
Bishop of Bristol, England, preaches
a new ecclesiastical heresy: I wish
stained glass windows had never
been invented. You gO into a coun-
try church and stand at the mons-
trosity, placed there by the devo-
tions of people in the 18th century
;when you could be looking out into
God's sunshine and a God's green
trees.—St..Catharines Standard..
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WINNIPEG'S PROBLEM,
Winnipeg's property assessment
for taxation purposes fell from
288,000,000 in 1915 to $215,000,000 in
1934 in spite of many millions spent
on new buildings. The assessment
of the city of Toronto increased in
the same period from $565,000,000 to
$1,026,000,000. That is the principal
reason why this city is in a more
difficult position than Toronto, why
civic salaries are slashed so heavily,
why there are so many holes in the
pavements and so few books in the
Public Library, and why motorists
pay for a civic license as well as a
provincial license. In view of a
further reduction of $13,748,000 in
the assessment for this year, the
City Council is looking for increas-
ed revenue from another source. —
Winnipeg Free Press.
"BETTER TIMES" PARADE
Seeing is belleVing. Not for a
long time has there been such vis -
Me evidence of reviving prosperity
as that -which was seen on the
Streets, of Hamilton yesterday, when
ttletrnad...emaleur,
SO FORMAL.
Domestics met in New York and
protested that they were being call-
ed by their first names. They want-
ed to be known as "Mias Smith" and
"Miss Jones." Their• action reflects
curiously on a country where democ-
racy has been the slogan and watch-
word for 200 years, and where a
man feels hurt if you don't call him
by his Christian name. Perhaps
New York is getting over-civilized.—
Hamilton Herald.
idi Papez and Karl Zwack, of Austria, go into action at Skating Carnival held in Madison
Square Garden, New York, or benefit of hospital social service. Stars from several nations held
spectators spellbound by their performances.
fuller.---I3rockville Recorder.
SPRING BATHS FOR TREES
March is a good time to give trees
and shrubs a good thorough -going
bath, with soap and water; advises
L. B. Sisson, industrial fellow at the
Mellon Institute of industrial 'Re-
search; a tip that we pass on' to
readers who may be intetrested. This
is especially recommended in tbe
case of evergreens, to rid their
leaves of their heavy overcoats of
soot acquired during the winter.
"It seems not to be generally un-
derstood," states Mr. Sisson, "that
this coating is impervious to sun-
light and that rain will not remove
it. Therefore, unwashed plants may
starve regardless of the amount of
sunlght available to them.
"At the start of the growing sea-
son, evergreens depend on their old-
er leaves to function as food fac-
tories. Sunlight being one at the
necessary elements in the making of
food, it is obvious that -when these
older leaves are sealed against sun-
light they cannot and do not oper-
ate as they should."
For small trees and shrubs, Mr.
Sisson recommends a thorough open -
ging by hand, using a suds of pure
soap and water, with the addition of
a little sodium metaphosPhate as a
-water softener. Larger trees, of
course, require the use of e.• power
spray pump with a good hosing off Heads List of Athletic Ac-
aftetiwards.—Quebec Chronicle -Tele- tivrties Which Girls
graph.
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Looking through an old directory
one is immediately struck by the
number of small craftsmen who lab-
ored in Ilaatern Ontario villages 60
or 70 years ago, and by their virtual
•disappearance during the intervening
period.
Consider Eaton's Corners, a typi-
cal Eastern Ontario rural commun-
ity, as it was in the year of Confed-
ation. It then possessed three
blacksmiths, two boot and shoe mak-
ers, two potash manufacturers, a
tailor, a carriage -maker, a saddler
and harness maker, a carpenter, a
tanner, and currier and a brick
manufacturer. How many of these
trades still flourish in that village?
Lyn at the same time, in addition
to its mills and factories (nearly all
of which are now closed) had its
,blacksmiths and horseshoers, ite
joiner and cabinet-maker, its saddler
and harness -maker, its cooper, boot
and shoe maker, carriage -maker and
wagon -maker.
Newboro was equally well supplied
'with small craftsmen. It had bleola
smithe and horeeshoers, a baker,
boot and shoe makers, tinsmith,
watchmaker, tailor, ce.binet-makers,
saddlers and. harnessanakers, photo-
grapher and wagon -maker.
And Parmersville (Athens) was
not without its saddlers and harneas
maker% tailor, wagotamaker, tin-
smith, tanner and currier, cooper,
carriage painter, boot and shoe
makers, blacksmiths, carder and
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Muscles of the hands and wrists. (2)
They. like gloves that will slip on
qiiickly without fear of bursting. —
London Express.
OLD-FASHIONED TEAPOTS
Teapots have grown considerably
in size since 1720,and you will be
surprised to learn that at this time
they were only just large enough to
hold sufficient water for one small
cup of tea. I actually handled one
of these little pots the other day and
it was well over 20 years old. It
seemed no larger than a toy teapot,
the spout being about the size of a
rather large doll's pot. Of course, tea
in those days was very expensive. It
came from China and formed one of
the luxury drinks which onla • the
rich could afford. In the days of
Good Queen Bess they drank beer
.for breakfast, and the queea ,had her
pet .of beer- the same as everyone
else. These early teapots are, of
course, very rare, and so are the
accompanying cups, which, by the
way, were made in Chinese fashion
without any handles. --Our Erapire.
SWIMMING LEADS.
U.S. SPORTS SURVEY
' - THE EMPIRE,a
DOWNWARD TREND.
The general tendency of popula-
tion in all western civilized states is
to reproduce itself mach more slow-
ly, and almost everywhere birth
rates are declining. According to
statisticians, the Baitisa populatioll
will begin to fall in 1942, that of
France in 1937, that of Germany in
1946, and that of the United States
about 1960. This tendency should be
kept steadily in view in planning so-
cial legislation. It has an important
bearing in such directions as hous-
ing policy—for 25 years hence the
number of children will be halt wbat
it is today.—London. Daily Mail,
HANDS LARGER.
Why have women's hands growa
larger?
have been in the glove trade for
nearly 60 years.
Before 1914 the most popular size
's gloves was 6 3-4. Today
Enjoy.
"trk—A national survey of
girls' interest in sports has recently
beeu made which brings out some
interesting points on the matter of
what sports have the strongest ap-
peal. This survey was made by the
national board of the Young Wom-
en's Christian Association,
From thousands of business girls
in all sections of the country ans-
wers that showed that 77 per cent.
are actively interested in swiniming,
70 per cent. in riding and similar
higa percentage in tennis, hiking
and other sports.
The fact that there is not, today,
opportunity for all girls interested in
sports to take part In them, is one
of the most -impressive things the
survey brought to light, Of the 77
per cent. of girls who wanted to in-
clude swimming in their program of
living, only one-third were able to
do ate much withat as they wanted
because pools were not available to
the oth.ers' regular use, or within
easy access. The number of girls
war group. The main reason for this
preference' is obvious. It is much
easier to find one friend to play with
you, or to go out by yourself than
to assemble a group for a game. No
matter how hard it is to make up
yoiir own mind when you want to be
doing what, it is a simpler problem
to get together with one friend than
with ten other persons.
L ' New
scarcely any of that size arelt,ararn. who rode frequently, among those
demand is or.fsizes
Now the main
6 1-2 and 6 3-4.
There is also
sizes up to 7%,
20 years ago.
a steady call for
a thing unheard of
JOHN B. FOX.
Worcester,
There are two explanations of the
popularity of larger glovea. (1) Wo-
men are taking a more prominent
'part in sports Which increase the
"NAUGHTY MARIE iTA"1
swiftness a internal air transport
development, is provided by the
London, Liverpoel, Belfast, Glasgow,
line, on which there has been rol
cantly an eatraordinarilly rapid rise
in the weight of first-elass mail earl
ried.
Shorter Skirts
And Lower Heels
Says Dame Fashion
in women
When the service . first started ju
August last, the daily load of mall:
WEL% 40 pounds. In December the
load had risen to 400 peunds, and
now 800 pounds are carried every
day an this • one route.
.A.dvances no less remarkable have
been made. on many of the other air
mail lines, including that between
Inverness and the Orkneys, which
pioneered the carriage of internal
mails without =charge. Concur-
rently with the advance in air mails,
there has been a growing demand
for passenger accommodation, and
the service that runs between Lon-
don and the Channel Islands has
now been extended to Rennes, in
Brittany. England and France are
now linked together, therefore, by
three separate British air transport
companies.
These outstanding successes of
the independent British air -trans-
port companies, especially in the
internal lines, have confounded the
critics who, before the services were
started, argued that they would
never become popular or offer suffi-
cient advantages over railway
travel to attract either passengers or
mails.
It was argued, too, that English
fields were too small to allow .S114.1
forced landings to be made anetilat
the weather over England and Scht-
land was unsuitable fax air line
operation and would necessitate the
closing down of all internal lines
during the winter months. The
trouble with the small fields ,alias
been overcome by eliminating - the
risks of forced lanclangs with public
air transport machines. The English
railways do provide extensive and
fast transport services and some of
the fastest railway runs in the world
are made by them. But the latest'
British air liners are able to cruise
at more than twice the speed of the
crack express trains.
Moreover, and this has counted
with the British travelling public,
the machines are comfortable and
safe. They are able, with the aid of
the latest instrumentation, to pierce
bad weather and to operate with a
schedule regularity comparing fa-
vorably with that of any other form
of transport. But it remains true
that the running of an internal air
line in Great Britain is the most
difficult task that can be set an air
liner. The successes of the British
.lines, therefore, form a striking trib-
sate to the machines with which
they are operated.
Paris.—Fashion will not prevent
the smart Parisienne indulging her
habit of taking long spring -time
walks about the capital. Short skirts
and low-heeled shoes seem to be the
program of styles for 1935.
It is already known that dresses
are definitely shorter than last sea-
son, and now there is a strong ten-
dency to renounce more and more
the uncomfortable and often -awk-
ward high heels to which we have
been so long accustomed. Of course,
this is partly due to sports, and part-
ly to the influence of the campaign
undertaken by the hygienists.
Handsome shoes for walking are
being made of thick, supple leather
such as reindeer, buckskin, antelope
and pigskin. With thick, -wide soles,
they often are square -toed and. mod -
mately decorated with stitchingor
perfprations. The heels. is not more
than an inch high.
Fax the afternoon, besides all the
reptile skins which are becoming
coremonplace, navy blue, black and
very dark brown patent leather has
made a triumphal comeback. The fa-
vorite styles are pumps with little
inch and a half heels, slippers vrfth
one or' several straps, • sometimes
straight, often criss-crossed, and very
low-cut oxfords laced with ribbon
which ties in a large butterfly knot
on the instep.
For the evening, to harmonize the
shoe with the ensemble, a simple so-
lution consists of having open san-
dals made, in aae same cloth as the
dress, in gold or silver lame, or in
a spangled cloth ot the same or a
contrasting color.
keenly Interested in it, was still low-
er. The inaccessibility of courts and
courses similarly cut down the ac-
tivity ef girls interested in tennis
and golf.
The activities that the largest
number of girls expressed interest in
were individual or dual sports. Team
sports 'ranked way down the list in
popularity. Swimming, tennis, hik-
ing, riding topped the lists from ev-
Great Activity In
British Air Lines
(By the British Aircraft Society)
Great Britain is preparing for
a season of unprecedented air line
activity. Post office statistics just
issued show a rapidly increasing de-
mand for internal air mail services
all over the country and Heston
Airport one of London's chief air
stations, has undertaken a big ex-
pansion program, including the
building of new sheds and the ac
quisition of more land, in order to
prepare itself fax the many air ser-
vices that will be operating from
there during the summer.
An interesting example of the
Spring Journey
A11 the hills were clean and high
When I passed a farmhouse by
'nor a reaching curve of sky.
When the birch are sunlit gleams,
Dampened by the foam of streams,
Lay my path of winter dreams.
Long I tramped through crumpled
snow,
While the mosses gurgled low,
Sounding forth a muffled flow.
Down a slouch of leafless ways
I could largely rest my gaze
Over slopes of budding haze.
Deep I felt the marshes wake—
Felt the rising summer break
Through a wasted, frozen lake.
Deep I felt each ripple start
For I knew 'myself a part,
Buoyant with that welling heart!
—Alan Creighton.
In "Wings, a Quarterly of Verse.
- aa,
James, one of Dody's Iittleboy
friends, went to a home the.aother
day -where Bob, another Uttle boy,
had a bad cold.
The boy's mother said: "James,
you mus tnot come in. because Bob
will give you his cold."
"Oh, that's all right," Jimmie said,
"/ brought mine with me."
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Rased on Muskat Adventure Romance by I
VICTOR HERBERT
the Sprieg of 1755, the beautiful Princess Marie'
'du blamoura do Is Bonfain is stepping into bel'
Iceath, 7e la, the Bohemian quarter of Paris, where',
"she has been buying some of her pet birds. A nurti.
her Of the students crowd around, adn*Ing her with
leud-voiced approval, for she le democratic in her.
Iwo% and much beloved by the Now oho
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'Elves thana m friendly greetine -
Maxie arrives at the studio. of her singing teacher*
Schurriy. Ali the other pupils enter and fain a
small orchestra, accompanying her with great gusto,
Statiding in the midst of them, her golden voice
soars high, even, reaching the ears of those inatho
street. But her heart is heavy for she mug inaarY
the rich, aged Spanish Prince, Don Carlos, by de.
lore. of e King -
tut at home an unpleasant surprise confronts her.
Don Carlos has already arrived with his ugly sisters.
Bending creakily at the knees he presses his lips
fervently to Marie's hand. She draws away shiver.
ing with disgust. tter cruel uncle, the Pailiee, Stan&
aside, looking on with satisfaction. Then he tale her
she is to be married within the week, whether she
agrees or not. a- • "
While the Princess weeps, her maid, Marietta, ger.:
rewfully bids her farewell for neat day she sails with
the Casquette girls who ate to marry the Vreneh
colonists ht Louisiana by order of the King. Marie
suddenly looks at her in triumpht She has a plan;
which she repdlyainfoldea itwork? Can sho!
escape her fate. Don't miss next Weeleb
_thrilling installment of "Naughty Marietta."
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