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:ladder Troubles
Bother Many Past 40
Seven Out of Ten Are Victims But
Writer Tells How "Uratabs" Bring
Swift, Amazing Relief With
Renewed Vital Force.
"No one knows 'better than I, the
'horror of joyless and sleepless nights.
There have been times when I felt
harmless and helpless -and when my
weakness caused me the most intense
humiliation. Only those who have
gone through such tortures can pos-
sibly realize my great satisfaction
when Dr. 'Southworth's URATABS
brought me quick relief. URATABS
are truly wonderful, and I give them
full praise." Such amazing evidence
serves as convincing proof of the pow-
er of'URATABS to relieve those dis-
tressing ailments so often a handicap
to those in middle life.
Overworked, sluggish Kidneys, and
Bladder Weakness, bring on so many
distressing ailments which so often
lead to serious diseases that( every
sufferer from Lameness, Pains in back
and down through groins, scanty but
scanty urination, "Getting - up -
Nights," • Nervous Irritability and
Lack of Force—should try the amaz-
ing value of Dr. Southworth's URA -
TABS at once!
Any good druggist will supply you
en a guarantee of satisfaction or
money hack.
NATURAL GAS—OUR NEW
BONANZA
On a doleful day in the late spring
•of 1930, when the nation's industrials
were languishing and crying aloud for
resuscitation, there stepped forth a-
mong them a hearty stranger exub-
erant with the joyful spirit of
strength and new growth.
The name of this rotund novice
was Natural Gas, and he was spoken
of descriptively as the wonder fuel
of Nature. He carried up his sleeve
twice the heat units of gas from the
factory, required no stoker at the fur-
nace door, left no ashes. So great
had the infant grown that the single
item of supplying it with pipe through
which to proceed to work was keeping
important branches of the giant steel
industry quite well occupied while
other orders were lacking. Steel is
thankful for this patronage.
Yet steel, in a way, is parent to
the new industry. To carry the wild
gas the steel industry developed pipe
two feet across and a method of so
welding it together that it would
stand 'a high pressure and' never leak.
With such pipe Louisiana has shak-
en hands by means of natural gas
lines with Atlanta and St. Louis ;
Kettleman Hills, in California, has
blessed San Francisco; and Amarillo,
Texas, is groping for Chicago and
Minneapolis. But yesterday natural
gas arrived in Kansas City, New Or-
leans, ,Salt Lake City, Memphis, Bir-
mingham, El Paso and Omaha. To-
morrow it will be knocking at the
door of Indianapolis, Des Moines,
Seattle, Detroit, and Milwaukee. En-
thusiasts are talking of the time when
few communities in the nation will
not tie into a system with stopcocks
to the nether regions where enormous
reserves of gas are pushing hard for
a chance to lick, red -tongued, the bot-
toms of boilers.
The maddest adventure of the pres-
ent generation has been the pursuit
of oil. Men have gone about the land
dropping drills to puncture its crust
on the chance that here and there
they might find one of those inverted
basins which have been set as traps
and reservoirs .for the oil and gas
brewed from the animal and vegetable
growth of ages past. Often they have
found the flowing mineral.
And always it has been natural gas
dissolved in this oil under pressure,
that has pushed it up where man
could capture it in his barrels. Of-
ten little further use has been found
for this gas when it has served its
initial purpose of oil delivery. Im-
measurable quantities of it have come
to the surface where there 'was no de-
mand for it, and have been liberated.
Now that a market for this gas is
being found it may well turn out
that the value of that which got a-
way was as great as the value of the
oil that was recovered.
In the Kettleman Hills oil field the
Discovery well was brought in two
years ago. It blew precious gas out
of control for six months. The West-
ern record was broken when a pipe
line 250 miles long was laid to San
Francisco. This one well has • been
producing enough gas to supply the
northern half of California. It will
supply for an undetermined period all
the gas that is locally needed. Other
wells have been 'brought in at Kettle -
man and :their gas largely is being
wasted. 'California has more gas
than she can use, but now she is hur-
rying pipe lines away in many direc-
tions—notably toward Portland and
Seattle.
This yield of natural gas as an in-
cident to oil production is not, how-
ever, the big item in the new scheme.
To understand the new industry we
should look toward' Amarillo, Texas.
Amarillo, •a short time ago, was a
straggling cow town out in the midst
of those lonesome reaches of the semi-
arid Great Plains stretching from
Mexico to Canada. Inquisitiivie geo-
logists, financed by speculative oilJ
men, began looking for evidences of
domes and anti -clines in this lonesome
area in the second decade of the pres-
ent century; in 1918 one of them tap-
ped gas that pushed 450 pounds a-
gainst every square inch in its eag-
erness to escape its age-old confine-
ment. Time and perseverance devel-
oped the fact that, beginning at the
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ward, there *as a 90' -mile -long anti-
cline that, through the ages, had keen
putting aw'a'y gas much as it is stor-
ed ,in•'these red-+ ainted, circular tanks
that infest most communities. About
the fringes of this area oil was pro-
duced., but the section was primarily
a natural-gas belt.
Amarillo was so far from any area
of large population that its gas was
considered, next to worthless until the
new steel pipe was developed. Then,
in September, 1928, a pipe line twenty
inches in diameter and 382 miles long,
capable of delivering 250,000,000 cub-
ic feet of gas a day, reached Kansas
City from the Panhandle. At the
same time a line to Denver, 340 miles
in length and 22 inches in diameter,
was under construction. It later
branched out to supply such adjacent
cities as Boulder. Then, the Pan-
handle thought about Minneapolis and
set about its annexation. Finally there
came, this spring, what seemed the
climax of hallucinations due to gas
—giving the impression that certain
important people, reputed to be solid
business men, were under its influ-
ence. It was definitely concluded that
two lines, each 24 inches in diameter
and 1,000 miles long, should be laid
from the Panhandle to the Chicago
area. The Natural Gas 'Company, a
new corporation, organized for the
purpose, should finance them.
The undertaking would require
somewhere around $100,000,000, yet
there seemed to be no worry about
the money; for Henry L. Doherty, the
Insull interests of Chicago, the Stan-
dard Oil of New Jersey; the Texas
Company, the Skelly Oil Company,
and others sat in at the christening.
Last summer orders for thousands
of miles of large-sized pipe were re-
ceived by steel companies. Every mill
in America that could make it began
to run night shifts. Reports says,
however, that there is no chance of
catching up with orders before the
end of 1931.
So rapid has been this development
of the use of natural gas that few
people have paused to consider its ul-
timate possibilities. It seems obvious
however, that the heart of the nation
which lies 'between the Appalachians
and the Rockies and boasts a popula-
tion of 57,000,000 will, in another year
have natural gas available to it. The
possibilities of reaching the rest of
the world with the California surplus
or of reaching the New York area
with gas from Louisiana -Texas sourc-
es is to -day no more vague and im-
practicable than reaching Chicago
seemed to most people two years ago.
During recent decades the waste
of natural gas has appalled our con-
servationists. But now that a value
has at last been given to gas no pres-
sure will 'be required to induce own-
ers to cap their wells and keep the
gas underground until a market is
found. The natural gas of the na-
tion will be automatically conserved.
Moreover the production of oil will
be less precipitate. The gas and the
oil it brings up must emerge slowly,
that the former may find its way in-
to distribution lines and harvest its
share of the profits. Thus is a brake
put on this oil game, which has here-
tofore paid altogether too little at-
tention to speed limits.
GUARD THE BABY
AGAINST COLDS
To guard the baby against colds
nothing can equal Baby's Own Tab-
lets. The Tablets are a mild laxative
that will keep the little one's stom-
ach -and bowels working regularly.
It is a recognized fact that where the
stomach and bowels are in good order
that colds will not exist;.• that the
health of • the little one will be good
and that he will thrive and be happy
and good-natured. The Tablets are
sold 'by medicine dealers or 'by mail
at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine Go., Brockville, Ont.
THE BOOM IN ENGLISH GHOSTS
This season finds Britain experienc-
ing an unparalleled boom in. ghosts.
Innumerable new ones are reported
from all over the country while most
of the established ghosts have again
been on the job. Anne Boleyn has gone
wailing down the corridor at Hampton
Court. The little old lady in black who
rnce frightened a man to death is
haunting Rufford Abbey. In its orna-
mental iron case in ancient Smith -
hills Hall, the martyr's footprint has
been seen to bleed. Bishop Roger of
Salisbury has been stalking the ruins
of Sherborne 'Castle, as has been his
wont lox the last nine centuries. A
domestic has caught sight of the
Duchess of Ma,zarin, who was Charles
II's mistress, shamelessly flitting
through her old apartments in St.
James's Palace, and the fearful tube
ghost (described 'by Swifte, Keeper of
tre Crown Jewels, in 1860) has eddied
across a courtyard of the Tower of
London and nearly scared a sentry
out of his wits.
Rationalists expllain the present ep-
idemic 'by the anxiety neurosis of the
island folk just now. There was a
similar epidemic during the World
War, when all the old ghosts began
to 'walk and a multitude of new ones
(among them the angels of Mons)
sprang up. Spiritualists argue that
when people are worried, restless, ner-
vous, they 'become more sensitive to
occult presences. Myself, I prefer to
echo Madame de Def'and, who, when
asked whether she believed in ghosts,
replied: "No, but I am afraid of
them."
Abandoning conjectures, let me
draw you closer to these spectral cor-
ridors of ancestral mansions. It is
difficult to make a choice among so
many spooks, (but we might do worse
than start at Windsor 'Castle. The
story breaks last November with the
screams of •a housemaid in a corridor
off the Blue. Drawing Room. a foot-
man came running and found the girl
in a faint on the floor. When she re-
covered she asserted that a huge white
figure had suddenly loomed at her
from a recess in the wall as she went
peacefully along with her duster.
Some skepticism is expressed by
authorities on the ground that al-
though the King's huge old 'castle is
notoriously haunted, all the spooks
are wellknown, and there is no record
of an undefined shape more than life
size. King Charles I and Queen Eliza-
beth are the two most regular appari-
eirlaa.b.sa ,ii fir^
itti Ms�tt, hili
tions at Windsor. The later Fampress
Frederick has left it en record the:.t
she was reading in the library and
looked up to see a cavalier standing
by her side. His face, •s'he said, bore
a strong resemblance to pictures of
the 'Stuart King who lost his 'bead.
After standing quite still beside her
for a few moments, he vanished.
Another frequent visitor to the
castle, Princess Beatrice, aunt of the
present king, on several occasions has
seen the spirit of Elizabeth. Once the
princess's black cat also apparently
saw the ghost, for he took sudden
alarm and jumped out of a window
and broke his l'eg.,
Then there is a strong rumor,
which the reporters so far cannot get
con -flamed or denied, that the ghost of
Glamis Castle is appearing night af-
ter night. This particular ghost is in
the nature of a skeleton in the cup-
board of the Duchess of York's fam-
ily. Legend runs that Earl Beardie, a
notorious gambler of the 15th cen-
tury, lost Glamis itself to a guest
at card .play in the crypt, and slew
him to avoid paying. Something there-
upon happened, the exact nature of
which is known, generation after gen-
eration, to only three people: the liv-
ing Earl of Strathmore, his heir, and
the steward of the castle. Legend a-
gain has it that on 'a certain night
each year, these three men visit the
crypt and there witness Earl Beardie
replaying that card game. If there is
anything in the story which excited
the Village of Glamis, the spectral
Earl Beardie has mixed up his dates,
got tired of the crypt and started flit-
ting about other parts of the castle.
The tales that came into London
newspaper offices over the wires from
Scotland were followed by news which
took reporters and a couple of psychic
experts up to the Elizabethan man-
sion of the old Boynton family in
Yorkshire, where there is kept in a
glass case in the entrance hall a skull
supposed to be that of a former fe-
male member of the family. The lady
suffered a terrible wrong some 300
years ago, and insisted that until she
was avenged her skull should adorn
the entrance hall. Later a skeptical
Boynton had the skull buried in the
garden. That night, screams from the
hall! The household rushed down.
There lay the skull in the middle of
the floor. The frightened head of the
house humored it by restoring it to
its proper place. The present story is
that the skull has 'been screaming a-
gain, but why, no one seems to know.
Two of Henry VIiI's wives. Cath-
erine :Toward and Jane Sey.n• ur, reg-
ularly haunt Hampton Court. Both
have appeared this month, while Anne
Boleyn, who was beheaded, has been
seen no less than four times. The last
person who claims to have seen her
was discovered in the Haunted Gal-
lery at ten o'clock and turned over to
the police. He said he was a spiritual-
ist who had secreted himself in the
palace, and that he had seen Anne
and was interrupted just as he was
going to talk to her.
Among some dozen other new ap-
paritions is that of the Rev. Norbert
Wylie, Who died two years •ago.A host
of witnesses testify to having seen his
ghost in the Holy Cross Priory in Lei-
cester, and Father Fabian Dix, the
present prior, saw the apparition him-
self and heard it speak.
From the fox-hunting districts come
several new ghosts, among them a
phantom horse, an Eye of Doom in a
vague vast shape hovering over tomb-
stones in an old churchyard, and a
glimmering white hand which has tak-
en to drifting about a squire's house
and has sent a well known hunting
woman into hysterics.
An instance of the aimlessness of
this season's ghosts is the brown
monk of the Seaforth elan of Scot-
land. He was definitely reported in
December as seen by villagers near
the stream which turns muddy when
a Seaforth is about to die. According
to family legend, one of the Seaforths
(then the M'ackensies; the Seaforth
tile came later) fell afoul of the
Church and got cursed. The brown
nionk who laid the curse said that
there should come a deaf head of the
clan, and, contemporary with him,
four great lairds with marked physi-
cal defects—'and that when this hap-
pened the family's land would be lost
and the line become extinct.
Centuries passed. Then the (List
chief of the Mackensies, who had
been created Lord Seaforth, lost his
four sons and, owing to speculation,
got his estate hopelessly involved. It
was then realized that the curse was
coming literally true. For Lord Sea -
forth was deaf, and four of his con-
temporaries 'bore marked physical de-
fects. One stammered, one was buck-
toothed, one hair -lipped and one half-
witted. Sir Walter Scott dug up the
curse and authenticated it at the time.
It is a question what the recent ap-
parition of the 'brown monk portends,
since the last Lord Seaforth died in
1923. One can only surmise that the
brown monk has been hunting so long
that he has fallen a victim to a hab-
it, or else that the news service of
the spirit world is defective.
TAt,K OF THE TOWN
Somewhere in the past we have met
radio announcers before—somewhere
radio announcers came into our life,
long before the radio. The sound, of
their voices touches a familiar chord
in memory. We know what chord it
is, too; radio announcers are the lit-
tle boys of twenty years ago who us-
ed to delight their grammar -school
teacher by reading "with expression."
That's it. How well we remember
them, the little sissies. Half the time
they didn't know the words, but they
read then with expression anyway.
They are still doing it, still raising
their voices on the last word of the
sentence in the ecstasy of putting
their personalities over with the teach-
er. We could have knocked their lit-
tle blocks off in those days. We still
can, damnit. Gine us that rock.
* * *
The nerves of a sensitive lady visi-
tor from England were shaken the
other day when she approached a po-
liceman to ask him the way to the
nearest subway station. She hasn't
got on to American usage yet, unfor-
tunately, and told him she wanted to
get to the "Underworld." The cop, ap-
parently thinking it was another prac-
tical' joke, grinned at her and said:
A li I" +y2i1,44114ilt
"'NTT dea4, 4adki*P oR,40:d."
The best atory,pf ilat hundreds, nab'
thousands, (being ".tssld• Pay actors as
writers returning jroin 1lip11Yarced
has to de with one of those authar8,
who, at the advent of the tal'itess.
when everything was being done an•
a big, panicky way, were hired to go
out and add to the confusion. He be;
came one of a 'number of high -salar-
ied re -enforcements for whom no
work could be found. He had a eon -
tract, however, and showed no dis-
position to tear,it up, even when, for
weeks, they let him sit around doing
nothing. The movie people thoughtshe
would get discouraged and release
but those two new buildings over
there are to be used for the same pur-
pose." "Why," exclaimed one of the
visitors nervously, "that must repre-
sent a loss ,pf hundreds of thousands
of dollars!" "Hell," said Jones, "mil-
lions! But this film company doesn't
them, (but' he didn't. Has sat quietly in
a room, picking up things and putting
them down again, and drawing $600
a week. Finally they began to de-
mand humiliating things of him; once
Mr. Kleimbaum sent fpr him and ask-
ed him to conduct some people around
the studios. The author indignantly
refused. When told that his refusal
was trantamount to breaking his con-
tract, he gave in and said he would
show the visitors about. They were,
it came out, stockholders in the movie
concern. Our author was merely pres-
ented as "Mr. (we will say) Jones."
Mr. Jones set his teeth and started
out. Everything went all right till
someone asked Mr. Jones what a cer-
tain big building was for. "Oh, that,"
said the author, "that is where the
company stores the films it makes
which are no good." "You mean that
whole building is filled with wasted
film?" demanded one of the appre-
hensive stockholders. "Yes, indeed,"
said Jones, "and not only that one,
care about money. It does everything
on a big scale. Why, take me. I'm' the
highest-paid guide in the world. I
get $600 a week just to show visitors
around."
* *
It startles us to realize how old
Modernism is getting to be. Why, we
remember when Modernism was just
a little boy in short pants. Do you re-
member when those modern chairs
were cutting their first steel legs, and
when those modern lampshades were
in short creases? How grown up they
are now—and how quaint they all
seem, so full of the pathos of the past!
And what, if you please, has brought
the gray into Modernism's hair? --
what else but the new Paris gowns,
with their frills and ruffles and lanc-
es: the new Paris gowns, just like
Grandma used to wear!
* * *
There is no one in all New York
we envy more than the garbagema:i,
Not even a fireman gets so much fun
out of life. The jolly, jolly garbage -
man does banging down the street
without a thought for anyone, He
clatters his cans as he listeth; he
scatters ashes on the winds with nev-
er a thought that the wind-blown ash
problem was settled in 1899 when
the little one-horse dumb carts had
covers put on them. He is shrewd in
measuring his pace, and goes down
the block bit by bit, innocently keep-
ing just to windward of you. He
drives like a ward boss through red
lights and green, and backs his truck
over the crossing with more privilege
than a baby carriage in Fifth Avenue.
He is as masterful as a pirate and
chock full of gusto. As we watch a
garbage crew at work, we momentar-
ily expect to see them burst into song
and clink, property beakers. Why
shouldn't they? They have the town
by the tail and they know it.
HEALTH SERVICE OF THE
CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION
The Stitch in Time.
Although remarkable progress has
been made in the campaign against
tuberculosis, this disease still remains
one of the most powerful foes with
which the human family has to con-
tend.
The progress which has been made
is encouraging, particularly because
it has -been realized in spite of the
fact that no specific means of either
preventing or curing tuberculosis has
as yet been discovered.
The majority of persons take into
their bedies, fairly early in life, the
germs which cause tuberculosis. In
most persons, the germs lie dormant
because the power of resistance of the
human body are kept at a sufficiently
high level to hold the germs in check.
It is when the body resistance is
lowered that the dormant germs have
their chance, and they then become
active, causing the disease which we
know as tuberculosis.
Body resistance may be lowered by
many causes, among which are worry,
over -fatigue, bad working or living
conditions, poor diet, or the occurrence
of some debilitating disease. These
conditions are not the direct cause of
tuberculosis, but they act as contribu-
tory causes by lowering body resist-
ance and giving the germs which
cause the disease an opportunity to
become active.
If tuberculosis does occur, the ques-
tion of cure and the time required
for cure 'become most important con-
siderations.
We should never lose sight of the
fact when the disease is diagnosed
early, there is every chance of cure,
prolviding that proper treatment is
started -ithout delay and continued
for as long as it is necessary. The
chance for cure decreases proportion-
ately with the delay in beginning
treatment. The longer treatment is
postponed the more time will be re-
quired to obtain results.
Any person who has been exposed
to tuberculosis—and this generally
means anyone who has lived in a home
where there has been an active case
—should be regularly examined by a
physician. The reason why such ex-
aminations are recommended• is that
if disease does occur, it will be detect-
ed in its earliest stages and treat-
ment secured without delay. The
person who, for any reason, suspects
that he may have tuberculosis, should
go immediately to his doctor for an
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HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES
For a year 'before I was married I
kept a scrap book divided into rooms
of the house—also a section for "cel-
lar" and for "sewing." After house-
keeping for over seven years, I still
find my little book of great use. For
instance, when I saw an article on
how to treat leather seats in chairs,
It was pasted in the "dining room"
section; anything pertaining to clean-
ing of paint, etc., is placed under
"kitchen"; sewing hints and ideas for
dressmaking were put in their place.
Then I found many articles on kit-
chen utensils, methods of curtaining,
wallpaper best'suited to certain rooms,
etc. Under "cellar" went any art-
icles on the removal of stain, laun-
dering, etc. Also, articles which dealt
with the fruit cupboard or furnace.
One cannot possibly remember all the
useful things one reads, and if the
clippings are kept in an envelope in
one's desk they can be pasted in from
time to time when a few are col-
lected. Having the scrap book divid-
ed into rooms makes the work of
keeping the book up to date a fas-
cinating occupation for the home-
maker.
Our own "household" file is divided
as follows:
1. Living room hints.
2. Dining room hints which deal
with table setting, serving, carving,
care of table linens and care of sil-
ver; also arrangements of flowers.
3. Kitchen, dealing with kitchen
utensils, furnishing, cleaning, etc.
4. Cooking, general cookery hints
and cookery utensils, as roasting pans,
cake tins, etc.
5. Food, hints on marketing, care
of food, selection of food, etc.
6. Bedrooms.
7. Clothing and laundry (spots,
washing, ironing, etc.).
8. Cleaning and caring for floors.
9. Cleaning and caring for furni-
ture (including furniture polishes, re-
moving marks from furniture, etc.).
10. House hints, dealing with 'win-
dows, window blinds, lamps, lights
and other matters not covered by other
sections.
11. The sewing room (hints on
sewing, darning, re -making old gar-
inents, knitting, crocheting, etc.).
12. Heating (hints regarding the
furnace and other matters pertaining
to the cellar).
This file is invaluable and has sav-
h'
ed many dollars.
• * *
When the coal oil stove wick burns
too low to light again, take it out of
the burner of the stove and with a
screw driver or knife press out the
little clips at the bottom of the hold-
er. Now take the wick out and cut
three-fourths of an inch off another
old wick, keeping it even. Now place
the piece at the bottom of the one you
have just taken out and sew in one
and out the other. Your stitches do
not have to be very fine ones, but do
not pull too tight. Just have the
edges of the two pieces of wick touch-
ing not lapping, as lapping them
would make a ridge. Now put back
in the holder, press down tfie clips
with pinchers, and put' back in stove
again. It only takes a little time to
do this, and sometimes the pieced
wicks last as long as a new one,
which costs forty cents. I have done
this a number of times.
* * *
Add a pinch of soda to sour cream
and serve it with raw fruits or sal-
ads. It is delicious.
* * *
I find that by keeping a clay marble
in the tea kettle the limes does not
form in the kettle.
* * *
Unbleached cotton sugar bags come
in very useful. They are of good
quality cotton. I pay the grocer five
cents each for them, and make many
articles from them, such as apron*,
clothes -pin 'bags, pillow cases, etc.,
and the thin kind which come inside
the jute sugar bags can be used for
dusters, dish towels, etc. The heavy
ones, of course, have colored writing
on them, but the laundry bleaches
them white for a few cents. They are
indeed worth it.
* * *
I use the backs
which are worn out
ing useful aprons.
desired pattern.
* *
of house dresses
in front for mak-
Cut them on any
*
Our favorite recipe for maple
cream: Two cupfuls 'brown sugar, 2
cupfuls white sugar, 1 cup milk, one-
half cup corn syrup, one-half cup but-
ter.
Mix together. When boiling, time
it and cook for fourteen minutes. Just
before taking it from the fire add one
cup walnuts and two teaspoonfuls
vanilla. Beat it until thick, then
knead it until smooth.
* * *
I find that the sprinkler from a
watering can, if fastened to the cold
water tap in the kitchen, saves a lot
of time when one wishes to wash cur-
rants, raisins, spinach, or any other
leafy vegetables, as it sprays all over
them and you can go on attending to
some other task.
* * *
I store tacks, buttons, small nails,
etc., in small glass jars with screw
tops, and keep them in the kitchen
cupboard. Then I can soon see the
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kind of 'button or nail I want, with-
out having to hunt for them. This
is a time saver where there are chil-
dren, as one often wishes to sew a
button on the children's clothing. I
also keep cotton and a needle handy
in the same place.
* * *
As many laundries do not replace
lost handkerchiefs, I baste all hand-
kerchiefs together at one corner when
sending out laundry to be "rough
dried." Then I can be sure that all
of the handkerchiefs come back with
the laundry.
WIT AND WISDOM
There are two determining factors
in the life of a species—nature and
nurture, character and environment.
—Dean Inge.
Issues have a way of disappearing
after election and never coming up
for decision.—Calvin Coolidge.
Not the eye 'but the spirit furnishes
the best proof of theories.—Albert
Einstein.
Heading in Toronto Globe: "More
Wild Life in City Parks Wanted."
Why not let the "Reds" meet there?
—Meaford Mirror.
The figure a mannequin gets de-
pends upon the one she has.—Montreal
Star.
Some folks want to know your
views only that they may oppose
them.—Guelph Mercury.
A British motor boat has done 100
miles an hour "with the throttle half
open." Oh, those slow Britishers!—
Ottawa Journal.
Competition in armament building
is the chief cause of war. --- Carrie
Chapman Catt.
It is foolish for us to lock up the.
debtor in a debtor's prison and expect
him to pay his debt.—Henry Morgen-
thau.
A wise eriomy is better than a fool-
ish friend.—Sir Dennison Ross.
Mr. Raskob, having denied that he
elver was a Republican, has not yet
explained how Who's Wlho in America
happened to list him as one.—Detroit
Free Press.
The general strik merely seeks fits
apply to the community at large the
methods of the highwayman of old
and the gangster of to -day. — Lord
Hailsham.
As long as my generale don't atrlika
general strikers don't imrpressme li1ti ,
king Alfonso,
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