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"I am writing you (Wain to express my
,sinter gratitude for the continued &ecce�g I
leave maintained through ray daily doer of
.8ruschen. Only last week a man met me (who.
,caw me a Delo months ago when 1 waa crippled
•toith rheumatism). His prat remark was how
well I looked. I replied, ' Yea, I have only
Hruechen Salts to thank.' Re said he was
feeling 'o(/ colour' and would start the Krus-
chen habzt next day. I always recommend
Kruschen Salta." Jes. F. WOOLNErt.
Original latter on Me for nictitation.
Kraschenalts Is obtainable at drug and
department a res in Canada at 75c. a bottle.
.4 bottle contains enough to last for 4 or 5
.4uonths--good health for half -a -cent a day.
MODER1y SPELLING BEE FINDS
EASY VICTIMS
Spelling is an art which to -day can
show comparatively few experts. We
hear little of spelling bees which were
once the favorite indoor sport of the
intelligentsia in the rural precincts.
Now and then as a novelty, such for
instance as dressing up in crinolines,
a spelling bee is held and the pitiful
results given to the world. Recently
there was guch a bee, probably the
first ever to be broadcast. The com-
petitors were representatives of the
United States Senate, the House of
R.e.presentativee and the Washington
newspaper correspondents, s e v en
champions of each. They proclaimed
their incompetence before an immedie
ate audience sof 50g at the National
Press Club and an .invisible audience
perhaps of millions. The words to be
spelled were given by Senator Fess
and within an hour all these competi-
tors with the exception of one had
fallen, and on words that would hard-
ly have troubled the advanced school
children some 50 years ago. The
winner was Ray Tucker, a newspaper-
man. The word that made him cham-
pion was kimono which was misspelt
as "kimona" by Representative Robert
Luce of Massachusetts, and also, or-
iginally, by the present writer in
whom, however, ignorance seems to
have become such a habit as to be
hardly worth mentioning.
Nearly all the words that mowed
down the spellers are those in com-
mon use. There we're hardly three
that one might not expect to come
across in the course of an ordinary
day's reading, and it is by reading
words that most people who do not
write anything but letters get their
ideas of spelling. The point is. we
suspect, that most of us read too fast
and do not conscientiously fix the im-
age of a word upon the mind. The
first word to claim a victim was "sal-
able" which was spelled "saleable," a
natural enough error. The second
mistake was committed in "tranquil-
ity" by omitting one of the "l's," also
a mistake due to a false analogy,
•"tranquil," of curse, having but one.
In this case the victim protested that
it was spelled "tranquility" in the
original draft of the American Can•
stitution. "Achievement" was spelled
with the omission of one of the "e's,"
which it seems to us required some
little engenuity, and recalls a sign in
the Central Y.M.C.A. which announc-
ed a certain day of the week as "Teus-
day,"
To spell "sacrilegious" as one of
the contestants did as "sacreligious"
seems to us an altogether natural and
plausible thing to do, for here the
two words "sacred" and "religious"
are fatally suggested. Something a-
kin to genius, we contend, is required
for the spelling of this word on the
part of the citizen who has to guess
at it. To spell "mortise" as "mortice''
seems excusable enough, especially as
Webster gives both forms), though
preferring the more conventional
"mortise." But the man who master
ed this word fell down on the much
commoner "initial" which he weirdly
presented as "iniatial." The next
word to claim a victim was "abacus,"
which was spelled "abicus." This was
perhaps the most unusual word used
in the contest and, failure to spell it
correctly is no disgrace. Much cdnr-
moner was "anaesthetic" which was
spelled "anesthetic," a form which
spelling reformers would prefer, and
which is likely yet to become stand•
ardized. Most people know how -'to
spell "bivouac" but not so many know
that when the past tense is required
a- "k" is necessary so that the word
may becomle "bivouacked."
Another word that most boys would
not mistake is "buccaneer" which was
spelled with two "n's" by a man sup•
posedly fit to make the laws for his
country. "Carbureteur" is not an
English word though one of the Wash:
ington champions thought it was and
in consequence bowed in humiliation.
"Daguerreotype" another word of
foreign extraction emptied another
saddle when the second "e" was omit-
ted. To spell "indigenous" as "in-
digneous" required a bit of doing hut
there was somebody ready to do it
as he too retired from the contest.
"Intireus" is ta,p4Mnen enough worst
but not when spelled with ain'"`1" in
stead of an 0011, • Olt'the, n i'an . wwho
spelled '"lagargith?n'i "w+ith,two,. NYtly
evidenthought . let had sorn:othiing'
to. do with the lunttbering industry..
"I3,hythm" is net an easy word td.!
spell, far few people ever have tic;
casion to write it, and! there was no
surprise when it was presented as:
"rythm" and sank another contestant.,
•Spelling like , niany .other accom-
plishments which were, once- general.
is now falling into the hands of the
experts and the, average man does not
need 'to be an authority. tSteno.gra-
phers are supposed to do the spelling
for the tired business man and if
they make mistakes the letter will be
read .by another, tired 'business man
anywwagr .and they are not likely to
notice +anything amiss. 'Even people
who make their living by writing are
not disqualified even if their spelling
is shaky. Proof readers are experts,
and in addil ori they have dictionaries
beside them if they are in doubt. Elo-
quence has notching to de with spell-
rng, of course, and what does it Mat-
ter over the radio whether either the
broadcasters or the members of the
audience know how to spell "cat" or
could be trusted to write "father"
without an error? To plume oneself
on spelling nowadays is akin to boast-.
Mg of the ability to write the Lord's
Prayer on the five -cent piece which
Premier King has said he will never
contribute to any Tory government
on earth. °
OWES HER HEALTH
TO PINK PILLS
This Weak Anaemic Woman Now
Rejoices in Health. and Strength.
It is a scientific fact that nearly
ell the ills that afflict women are due
to poor, thin blood. This anaemia is
the one cause of low spirits and
'anguidness, the 'poor appetite, breath-
lessness and aching backs that make
'ife a burden for so many women. But
suffering women could banish all these
•miseries .by taking Dr. Williams' Pink
Fills, for it is •a,known fact that these
?ills create an abundance of new rich
blood—their wonderful reputation is
>ased on that. Proof of these state •
merits is given by Mrs. L. Deschenes,
Tuque, Quebec, who says: "Be -
'ore I began using Dr. Williams' Pink
ills I was in a badly run down con-
iitiom I appeared to be almost blood-
less, had frequent headaches, and the
'east exertion would leave me breath-
ess and worn out. My 'husband ad-
•ised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink
'ills and got for me six boxes. Al-
most from the fir
rnI noticed an im-
iroveeht in my dondition, and as I
"ontinued• taking the pills my blood
('scare better and I steadily grew
;tronger, till to -day I a menjoying
,he belt of health. I am now able
o do all my housework without feel -
ng the least fatigue; my appetite is
,etter and I sleep more soundly at
light. All this I owe to Dr. Williams'
?ink Pills, and 1 unhesitatingly re-
-ommencl them to all ,who are run-
down in health."
You can get Dr. Williams' Fink
Pills at all drug • stores or they will
be sent by mail at 50 cents a box
'ry writing the Dr. Williams' Medicine
:1o., Brockville, Ont.
CHILI MARRIAGE LAW IS
EXCITING INDIA
One of the many curses which seem
to infest India as thickly as the
plagues fell upon ancient Egypt is
that of child marriage. April ist•saN
the coming into effect of the law which
forbids marriage of boys and girls.
who are not 14 years old. It is be-
lieved that strong opposition will be
met within Brahman communities
which have been accustomed to see-
ing marriages in which one of the
parties was anywhere from three
years old to 11. Indeed opposition to
the law has come from both Hindus
and Mohammedans, though the, re-
ligion of the latter does not prescribe
;h:e wedding of immature infants.
With the Hindus the marriage of
:hese babes is somehow or other in-
nvolved in their religious supersti-
tions and on this account their hos-
tility will be all the stronger. Child
marriage has been from time imme-
morial one of the horrors of India,
described by Katherine Mayo in her
sensational "Mother •lndia," %vhich hes
the happy literary quality of causing
the hair to stand on the head of the
reader and the flesh of his spine to
!'orm intricate designs of goose -flesh.
in recent years the institution has
been opposed by the more intelligent
of Indian leaders and they are highly,
gratified that their long labors have
et last been embodied in a statute.
The Indian census of 1921, accord-.
;ng to figures published in the New
York Times, showed that there were
250,000 wives and widows in the coun-
try less than five years old; and 2,-
000,000
;000,00.0 less than 10. Forty per cent
of Indian girls' between 10 and 15
years were married. Before the Brit-
lsh began to impose their ideas upon
the Indians there was no limit at all.
Babies could he betrothed at birth
'rnd the girl obliged to consummate
the union at the pleasure'ef her hus-
band or perhaps at the pleasure of
her husband's mother: The general
idea was, and it is still the general
idea among the more orthodox, that
the Indian female is merely the pro-
perty of the male. She is supposed
to have any rights of her own, and
she is not expected to have any ideas
o.r 'ambitions apart from serving her
husband and producing for him a
man child at the earliest passible mo-
ment. Indeed it is only after the In-
d•ian girl has become the mother of a
son that she acquires any social sta-
tus. The only dignity ever accorded
her is that of dragon over her son's
wife. •
The first British law on the subject
apt the minimum age at 10. In 1892
this was raised to 12 and in 1924 to
13. ,Orthodox Brahmans have ignar-
ed these Imes and may continue. to ig-
r zine. them if, they are not prosecuted.'1 month'('' imprisonment or a fine of
1,006 'rupees is the, penalty for d.isobe-
-Meister ' 911te a,ift"rcu4ti in enfort<'tng
the law tlNi,fl be inc-reaserl by the diffi-
culty of knowing the precise age ref
the children and the strong tende'ncr
of theirs parents to lie about it. But
the feet that there has been far some.
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ykte a iaioine of. the hew',' et, e;+' 4
ugge°tioxn that some; at least, of• file'
1 indus are taking it. •sernprusly. But
t)xie motesthat among these who have
fieqently married so 'that they would
not he -subject to prpsee ttion are a girl
of three and a boyf of seven, and b'un-
')reds between the ages' of nine and
thirteen, de'pite the fact that all wadi
'marriages are violations of the exist-
ing law. 'But in India the patient leg-
l.elators are greatly heartened if they
can convince themselves That perhaps
even 20 per cent. of the people are
law albi'dinag.
•Back of the agitation to abolish
child •marriage is the larger purpose
of improving the condition of the wo-
men sof India and eventually winning
for them the same rights as women
in • Oeeidental countries. Those who
have been carrying oil the campaign
hope, in the end, to abolish purdah,
or .the unwritten 'law which forbids
Indian women to be seen by an other
men than members of their own fam-
ilies; Leaders in this movement are
the Begum of Bhopal, Lady Tata, wife
of Sor Doralbji Jamsetji Tata of
Bombay, and Lady 'Sykes; wife of Sir
Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bom-
bay. It is only 100 years ago since
the British, with great.. difficulty, a-
bolished suttee, which was the burn-
ing of wives •on the funeral pyres
of their husbands. There were two
theories behind this horrible practice.
One was that the bereaved woman
had no desire to live after her bus -
band had removed. The other, some-
what nullifying it, was that women
would refrains from .poisoning their
husbands if they knew that they
would perish with them.
The women leaders of India, cheer-
ed by their latest victory, will now
proceed with other articles of their
program. They will try to have poly-
gamy a:b•olished. They will seek to
have the inheritance laws amended so
that a• widow miry have a share of her
husband's property, and to remove the
other grave legal disabilities which
women of India are subject to. They
even hope to see the day when wo-
men will be elected to the Assembly,
the better to carry on the crusade for
liberating their sisters from their
ancient slavery. To an extent which
people of another civilization findit
difficult to understand the people of
India appear to be enslimed in 'sex.
It is as instruments to this end that
women are universally regarded.
This is one of the reasons for the
nuny Hindu physique as picturesque-
ly represented in the person of Ma-
hatma Gandhi. From the marriage
of immature children one should look
for no other issue than debilitated,
diseased and degenerate offspring.
Mentally and physically the average
Hindu seems to be heading downward
and the chief reason is his perpetual,
and one might almost say ritual, pre-
occupation with sex which has debas-
ed the women of India and debilitated
the men.
CRIME LABORATORY NEEDED
IN TORONTO
On the: recommendation of Coroner
Crawford, a laboratory for the study
of crime may be established in To-
ronto and the general opinion is that
this city would provide an admirable
clinic. It was noted that when To-
ronto detectives wished to learn whe-
ther a certain bullet had been fired by
a certain pistol they had to journey
to Montreal to make the discovery. I£
it had happened that the person sus-
pected of having used this pistol
wanted to flee he would have had an
opportunity while the police were
visiting Quebec. So far as the gen-
eral public is aware there is no body
of experts in the service of the police
department with the exception of the
men in charge of the finer prints and
the man who makes the Bertillon
measurements, both of which posi-
tions demand clerical rather than psy-
chological qualities. There are, of
course, specialists. There are men
who have a special knowledge of pick -
'pockets and their methods. There
are others who from long pursuit of
dope traffickers know their devious
ways and can spot an addict as far
as they can see one. But apart from
the machinery by means of which
messages to and from the men on
the beat can be flashed with the swift-
ness of electricity the police of To-
ronto appear to be without those aids
to their work which are required in
large cities.
Writing in the New York Times
magazine, F. Raymond Daniell speaks
of some of the departments of experts
which have been .developed in that
city. There seems to be so much
crime in New York that so much
periodic dissatisfaction with the
work accomplished by the police that
we Should not cite that city as an
example to he copied if the data fol
any other city were available. But
in any event there is in New York
what Mr. Daniell calls "an organized
system of crime detection, the func-
tion of which is dependent upon a
few experts and a large number of
trustworthy individuals doing routine
tasks." The science of ballistics is a
new one, but there seemsto be no
good reason why the police force of
any large city could not afford a
medico -legal expert like Dr. Deromes
of Montreal who can tell by a micro-
scopic examination of a bullet and a
revolver whether the one was dis-
charged from the other. We presume
that Dr. Derame's opinions are no
more the result of guesswork than
are the opinions of an analyst as to
whether he found in the organs of 'a
dead man sufficient strychnine to have
killed flim.
There is on the New York force a
man who by taking a glance inside
the ease of any watch, can eliminate
all but half a dozen firms in the city
which might have sold i•t. He can also
tell the value of a watch or piece of
jewelry at a glance. He has made a
special study of these things. He
knows the secret mark of all the man-
ufacturers,,, indistinguishable to the
uneducated eye. Similarly, another
man has become a motor expert. He
,knows just Where each manufacturer
places each of the .plates. bearing the
car's serial number. The average
thief is wily enough to change four
or five plates to correspond with a
faked 'bill of sale, but he generally
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overlooks one of them; and this ex-
pert can find it instantly and expose
the fraud. Obviously one could not
expect all the detectives on the force
to equip themselves with this special
knowledge, but in New York it has
been found extremely useful to have
one man with it as his finger tips.
Still another detective has studied the
Chinese tongs and tongnren, and can
give information resulting in swift
arrests when trouble breaks out.
Another is a specialist on blackhand
threats, Because of its large cosmo-
politan population it was long ago
found advisable in New York to have
detectives of • various nationalities. It
might be the police idea of a delicate
compliment to appoint a couple of
Jews to the force in this city, and
perhaps an Irishman or so. Safe-
cracking is a specialized crime that
has its detecting specialists. Prac-
tically no amateur ever blows up a
safe. He does not know how. The
men who do force their halve their
own special avenues of attack. No
yeggman is versatile enough to have
mastered more than hi- own. There-
fore if a safe is opened in a certain
way the expert at headquarters can
give a shrewd guess as to the author
of the crime. This information is
communicated to the force at large
and then the routine w''rk of hunting
down the suspected persons proceeds.
414�Avfa uj it
ti!
with modern crime. Criminals, weThose who prosper do so by their wits I generally forbidding manners
note, come in' all weights and heights. I not because) of their harsh voices,) heavy fists.
There is one obstacle to the develop-
ment of high and sp ,•ialized intelli-
gence inathe police fore(' of practically
all cities, and that is the necessity for
a detective to work his way un from
the police force. Policemen are prim-
arily engaged for physical quali•tie;.
A very modest quality of intellect in-
deed is required of them. The average
policeman who becomes a detective is
usually promoted because on occasion
he displays the physical qualities of
courage and determination. Former
Chief Constable Dickiml set his foot
on the ladder which reached to the
top of the force when he shot a
burglar and arrested a murderer. It
is not, as a ruI6, until after an of-
ficer has become a detective that his
mental powers are thoroughly exam-
ined or tested. If they prove suffici-
ent he will advance. If they remain
average he will stay on his job until
somebody dies creating a vacancy in-
to which he .automatically moves. It
is true that from the various police
forces detectives of high mental pow-
ers from time to time emerge, but
they do so in defiance of- the laws of
probability.. It seems that if Certain
experts whose work might 'be. invalu-
able to . a .police force were to be en-
listed, itre'speetive of 'their height,
weight and muscular developntdnt the
force would be better qualified to deal
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