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Brantford Roofing Co., Limited Head Office and Factory, Brantford, Canada nronehee at Toronto, Montt -sot, Winnipeg, Hautes For Sale by Henry Edge and N: Cluff & Sons. >philadelphia's, only woman cog,,,re- ••'eeives no astiary. If the husband calls the wife I, "Mother" their domestic affairs will never snake headlines on the first '0page. Kingston Whig. When a, woman sees a man with oliar discussing her clothes she it ihtighs tip where her sleeve used Awn Arbor 19mes- eWa. — CA lYle Infants aSTnOd Children.R iA' T Med Yon Ilan Always Bought Wan the a hundred and fif$y Pais ago Wa r Scott was born, and one kpn- dred years ergo "ltenEtvoit'th" !apt peered. , It was the thirteenth . of . the Waverly series, and up to that time only a handful of people ,knew def- initely that Scott was the author. The novels were published anony- mously, and it was not until Scott had become involved ,in financial diffi- culties that he publicly acknowledged the works, though at that time the secret was generally known. It seems probable that Scott refrained from admitting hie stories because in those days authorship was con- sidered rather an disreputable pro- fession, and Scott valued his posi- tion as country gentleman more greatly than he did his reputation as a writer, just as Browning used to prefer to be rated asa man - about -town rather than as a poet. To write poetry, of course, was con- sidered more respectable than to write stories, and Scott was famous as a poet before he achieved fame as a novelist,. It is related that he ceased ,writting poetry when Byron appeared, recognizing in him a master. This modest verdict has been confirmed by posterity, and it is through his novels rather than through his poems that Scott ap- peals to the present generation, and will continue to aszpeai to genera- tions yet unborn. It was with some pride that Scott wrote, "According to the prejudices of my country, my birth was es- teemed gentle, as .I was connected, though remotely, with ancient fam- ilies both by my father's and my mother's side." Despite his gentle birth, we fear that if the state had been operated on sound eugenic principles, as is sometimes advo- cated by people who urge that at least as much care should be taken in breeding the human race as in breeding domestic animals, Scott would not have been permitted to survive. He was the ninth of a family of whom six had died in early youth. His own head was misshapen, being peculiarly narrow and deep, the result of some con- genital error of bone -making. He was also lame, owing to the ar- rested growth of one leg, and as a boy his health was uncertain. These deficiencies, however, were turned to good account, for he found solace in reading and steep- ing himself in the lore of 'the countryside. The ballads and legends of the Scottish border fascinated him, and he sought the company of those who had treasured them. His mother was a very well of infor- mation, and the women around his grandfather's farm, old Dr. Black - lock, the blind poet, and a military veteran, were all saturated in the romance of the country and the youth steeped himself in their lore. It is said that in one of his periods of illness he dictated "The Bride of Lammermuir," and that when he re -read it later he was unable to find anything of his own workmanship. What he had written was exactly what had been told him in his boy- hood by his mother. It was these treasures that made toilful research unnecessary when h e came t o writing his historical novels. His remarkable memory enabled him to shirk the task, though sometimes his dependence on it led him into chronological slips, as Robert Louis Stevenson rather ungraciously point- ed out on one occasion. In Scott's hand the historical novel reached heights never before or since attained, though there are some who contend that "The Clois- ter and the Hearth" surpasses Scott at his best. We note, how- ever, that a tendency to disparage Scott, which existed some years ago id now giving place to a tendency to place him among the very great- est novelists in our literature. Even the perverse George Bernard Shaw ranks him with Dickens as a cre- ator of characters, and it must be admitted by the most carping that no other novelist was able to get into a novel such a background of scenery, because no one before him had studied nature so diligently. But even those who do not willingly grant Scott a place with the kings of literature must admit that as a human being he was an ornament to literature. Scott was more than a great author. He was a great man. He was the soul of honor, and when a publish- ing house with which he was con- nected failed, through no fault of his own, Scott was not content to rest under the stigma of bank- ruptcy. He asked no consideration from his creditors, but tdrned in and, as the result of two years' writing, he reduced his indebted- ness by nearly $200,000. Indeed, his death was hastened by over- work, which resulted from 'his determination to pay off this debt. His last words to Lockhart, his son-in-law and biographer, were: "I have but a minute. My dear, be a good man be virtuous, be re- ligious, be good. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here." Well did he deserve Taine'a tribute as the "Homer of modern citizen life?" DREADED GUESTS ON A MOTOR RIDE This is the season of the year when when one person in every ten climbs into his or her automobile and says to some of the less lucky other nine, "Come for a ride with me!" But does the auto owner say it to all nine with equal eagerness? Not a bit of it. To the experienced car owner, the- habits of the guests in his car are a marvellous index of diameter. . I know one woman whom I avoid like the plague, because she is in- dexed in my mind as "the grafter." I never invite her to accompany us anywhere that she does not ring in some inconvenient errand of her own to 'be done in a place quite off our intended route, or some long call on a friend, while we wait far her Ala,,i74.,aa.Stfausi - ek tt' ej3`i44,,:,d TROUBif "FRUIT,* Years of Suffering. VES" Btuught Relief 7a`;•aks .. MADAME 11ORMIOAS FOIBY 624 Champlain St., Montreal. "For three years, I was ill and exhausted and I suffered constantly from Sidney Trouble and Liver Disease. My health was miserable and nothing in the way of medicine did me any good. 'Then I started to use 'Fruit-a-tives' and the effect was remarkable, I began to Improve Immediately and this wonderful fruit medicine entirely restored me to health All the old pains, headaches, indigestion and con- stipation were relieved and once more I was well. To all who suffer from Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatic Pains or great Fatigue, I advise the use of 'Fruit-$-tives'. " . Madame HOlt\IIDAS FOISY. S0c.a box,6 for $2.50, trial size 23'0. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont outside. To her mind "Come for a ride with me," is merely the equivalent fbr saying, "I 'put my car and myself at your' service until you choose to release us," Bim is the person of whom another auto owner said that she was intense:y grateful for the first ride, took the second as a mat- ter of course, and with the third be- lieved she owned the car. Another car post is the person who "takes the liberty of inviting one or two friends to go along, because they don't mind how tight they have to pack in." But perhaps your car is of the cheap and useful sort which will have a long life if not overbur- dened, but can very quickly be done to death with heavy loads. I personally feel an equal distaste for the guest who is afraid at more than fifteen mil,•s an hour, and says so; and the guest who the other day rode at fifty miles an hour with his cousin Tom, and tells you how much he liked it. Incidentally, another guest whom I avoid is the woman who, after she has accepted and I have made up my party for a long afternoon's ride, always at the last moment decides that she will have to be back early, and does not announce the fact till we are well outward bound, with pleasant anticipations. And, oh, the where -are -we -now guests! They punch you in the back every few minutes as you drive through the midst of the most unin- habited woodland and marshland stretches to ask, "What town are we in now?" I am sorry to confess it, but I have learned that the elasieit relief from these is to say the first name that comes into my mind. Another of my dread guests is al- ways demanding to stop here to pick this or that, "here" being usually on a steep up -grade. She is apt to drop my robes and raincoats in the bot- tom of the car, and when she climbs in again to wipe her muddy or dusty shoes on them, Her sister, by the way, is the sort that is always afraid she will catch cold, but means to be brave about it. Then there is the guest who says, THIS WOMAN'S MISERY Ended by Lydia E. Pinkham's .Vegetable Compound. Re- markable Recovery of Mrs. Church. Smiths Falls, Ont.—"I suffered with falling of my organs, pains around toy heart and in bowels and down my legs, neuralgia in my face and head, and that terrible sinking feeling. I felt that I could not live and would fix my house in order every night so there would be no trouble if I dropped off in the night. My husband went to the druggist to get the best remedy he had and be gave him Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound. I took six bottles and fejt a lot better. I will always recommend the Vegetable Compound, and you can use these facts as a testimonial." — Mrs. J. ' O. CHURCH, Box 846, Smiths Falls, Ont. The success of Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound made from roots and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from nervous prostration, displacements, inflammation, ulcers• tion, irregularities, periodic pains, bank - ache, bearing -down feeling, iiataann0g� indigestion and dizziness. Lydia 731. Phnicham's Vegetable Compound is thi standard remedy for female ills. If there are any complication{ about which you need advice write In ccqqnn fidence to Lydia B. Pinkham Ts= Co.. Lynn. Mass. i.z.E:;e,,r t ert4' ;S. , 3t.., WO s SO. 'On , stili �,,. rr: Sit gUiet ail a` U e , nt iigel' h ii site ,talks steadily the, ►t'eat'o! •Oke woy. And no words can express any wrath of the moment for the Wo- man who, leaning forward to a trect' my ,attention, runs her finger down my smile and calla ,her by my moat idiotic, outgrown, girlhood nick- name! So far, I seem to have vented my feelings entirely on Only awn sex, which is not quite fair, for occasion- ally a married man does condescend to swell our numbers. I have one husband in mind, particularly. "Yes, of course he likes motoring. --is eery fond of it. Where did I. get the no- tion he wasn't?" Where, indeed! He sits bolt upright on' the edge of the seat, his eyes glued to the road. "Careful," he warns, "oar coming" Or, "Better get over ,to the right— car in back of you wants to pass. Pretty close save!" And then. he - draws in his breath with. a sort of gasping sound, and sinks back into an all -in -attitude that makes me speed up to the limit. • In spite of all my criticisms, how- ever, I do not for one moment wish to discredit the genuine joy of guest - taking for the lucky one in ten. The guest with good manners and the eye that sees can double the pleasure of a drive—Woman's Home Compan- ion. WHY DO WE `SAY "AMEN" AT THE END OF PRAYERS?. A wealth of significance is stored up in a word of, such antiquity as "Amen," particularly when we re- member that it is bound up in the highest and best aspirations—in fact in the very religion—of an ancient people who, thousands of years ago, had attained a culture and civiliza- tion by no means inferior to our own. Amen—otherwise known as Amen or Ammon—Iwas one of the oldest deities of the ancient' Egyptians and one of their chief gods. His emblem was a man wearing a red crown, sur- mounted by the disc of the sun, in token of his dominion over both the earth and the heavens. His name meant "hidden" or "concealed," While one of his titles was Amen-ka-mut-f, the husband of his mother, thus sig- nifying that the deity in question, was at the same time the oldest and the youngest of created beings. In the Hebrew language, from which the word comes to us, "Amen" signi- fies strong or trustworthy—the "God of Truth" referred to in Isaiath be- ing literally the "God of Amen." In using the word at the end of our creeds and prayers, therefore, we not only exclaim "So be itl"—which is the generally accepted meaning of the term but solemnly affirm the truth of what has been recited. NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE For bridge players an Englishman has invented a table with a trapdoor in the center through which the cards are dropped into a tray that collects them when each hand has been play- ed. Scientist have found that the color of birds in three or four generations can be changed to white by keeping them in a white room with white sur- roundings and attended by persons wearing white. French and British inventors com- bined their ideas in perfecting bags, to be quickly inflated with compress- ed air carried in bottles attached to them, to keep afloat airplanes that happen to fall upon water. Apparatus that even inexperienced persons can use has been invented to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in flue gases to check the waste of coal in household heaters as well as high pressure steam boilers. Four electric room heaters of the radiant type have been mounted by an English inventor on arms extend- ing from a base, each separately ad- justable as to angle, it being possible to turn two so choking can be done on them. A new lawn swing can be operated by hand levers as well as'. the feet of occupants. British interests are planning to develop recently discovered petroleum deposits in Chile. With a new electric hot plate for table use the heat can be regulated to any part of the surface. Enough natural gas has been dis- covered in Holland to supply a small commune. A clamp that can be locked on their cables has been invented to pre- vent unauthorized persons moving elevators. A new extension table is 'enlarged by placing three-legged sections at the ends. Iceland by its last census was given a population of 94,690, a gain of 9,- 507 in ten years. A diminutive hand loom has been invented to enable women to weave their own ribbons at home. Au Italian in the inventor of ap- paratus to measure the depth of soundness of a person's sleep. A combined electric and sand bath for treating certain ills is the idea of a New York inventor. Invented in Paris, a flute that is played with the nose is said to pro- duce music liy�ce an ocarina. An Ohioan is the inventor of a machine with which any span can make his own rope from binder twine. Paraguay has established a factory for the manufacture of twine and bagging from native plant fibers. A machine has been invented to restore bent and twisted railroad spikes to original form and useful- ness. Portugal mines less coal than any other European country, its annual production being about 22,000 tons. A Tennessean is the inventor of a ring shaped vessel in which water can be boiled on conical camp stoves. The government of China has con- tracted for $1,500,000 worth of radio telephone apparatus of 46 mile range. To form a trailer for velocipedes an inventor has patented an affair with two wheels, saddle and handle bars. The production of an oil resembling linseed oil from rubber seeds has reached the commercial stage in Malaya. 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