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snierg to the adveetisers. if a
ed dean beautifut it's b.er own
be!' 4014,131 Isn't as the rose., petal,
hands have not .the softness
sao. airgens caress, if 'her eyes don't
.
_nee It's simply because she hasn't
,e'nentt buying the eight lidands of
fer paean ter:welder, 'pecrineee, I:Si:petiole or
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kt answer to this appeal, the wo-
h6.0,' nkellkaf Ameriea put $400,000,000.00
worth of oosmeties on their faces last
year, 'thereby 'ben:cutting their souls
rather more than their skins. They
bought a .staggering tonnage of prom-
, tees few of which could ever be kept
-52,000 tons of cleansing cream, 27,-
000 tons of akin lotion, 20,000 tons
of ,complexion soap.
To find out what the women are
getting for their money, 1 consulted
.0; . promisee ekin specialists, and had
a number of widely used preparations
.subjected to laboratory tests. The
results 'show that the advertisers'
version of skin, 'health bears as much
relation to facts as the green cheese
fable does' to the moon.
The 'dermatologists are not amused
by the cosmetic comedy. They- con-
sider most cosmetics harmless, but
extravagantly overpriced and with
corms exceptions incapable ef the
miracles claimed for thein. They ob-
jeot to the misconceptions created by
the imagination of sales promotion
experts—such as the deliberate fic-
tion tihat the feminine skin is a deli-
cate tissue winch. must' be oiled and
fed if it is to remain attractive. Your
skin, they say, is remarkably water -
5
seer form iii which
tobacco can be smoked"
proof, tough, resietant, and able to
lake an extraoadinary amount of pun-
ishment. But—contrary to t1e ads
it won't take noarislunent. It can b
fed only from within; its appearance
sallow !or glowing, reflects the indi-
viduates tin:ten:sal health. And they
brand as treeless the hundreds of
ereams or lotions which purport to
feed vitamins or other "valuable"
substances into the skin.
Dr. Howard Fox, Emeritus Profes-
sor of Dermatology of the New York
University School of 'Medicine, main-
tains that cosmetic inansufectueers
have erected a fiction worth millions
upon the little ward "pore." Count-
less women have been led to buy
"astringents" in the belief that the
pares "open and shut like the mouth
of a fish." Which of course islet true
—"the pores cannot be closed by any
method." Of "muscle oils" and
"wrinkle removers" Dr. Fax says:
"You are given to understand, that
you can oil up the voluntary muscles
of the skin as if you had a tiny oil
can. No preparatiou applied to the
skin 'has any effect on the mescles
of the skin.. Nor will any crewM do
away with wrinkles, which are caus-
ed by disappearance of the subcutan-
eous fat and a lessening of the ten-
sionof the skin."
si
Thougar millions may be wasted on
some cosmetics, others are undeniab-
ly as essential to the weledeeseed wo-
man as her silly hats and her high -
heeled aloes. She may not get the
health of skin she paid for, but from
the adroit use of rouge, powder a.ndi
lipstick she gets peace of minel, and
a "lift" when she looks in the mir-
ror. So the dermatologists gladly an
cord to woman these adornments.
But they add, she is being overcharg-
ed for some very simple compounds.
This is borne out by the tests
made in my anvestigetion. Cosmetics
in general use were purchased from
five-and-ten, drug and department
stores, as well as from a few beauty
Minns Theee typical, same were
analyzed by a weleknown laboratory
in New York. The findings, snow lit-
tle relation between the quality of
cosmetics and their price
The chief item in a woman's beau-
ty kit is face pawn Good face
powder should be nigisy to spread,
should adhere well, a nate 'should
cover a wide area, and it should not
readily absorb moisture. Tested for
ale:se and other qualiti.es, a medium-
priced brand at 47 cents an Ounce
proved best. The most expensive
was certainly no better, though it
cost 61 cents an ounce. It contained
starch which caused it to abseil)
moisture and become lumpy. Besides,
cereal's are individuals are allergic
to starch. There was little to choose
'between the cheapest brand at 18
cents and the atigbent-priced at 61.
Four well known, brands of lique-
fying cleansing 'cream turned out to
be physicany and cheinisally almost
identical. Yet they ranged in price
'from 15 to 58 cents an ounee. Ex-
cept for the difference in perfume,
they might all have come from the
same hatch. Possibly they man-
ufacturers of paraffin and petrolatum
blends turn the basic -cream out by
the ton, ready for peremning and
packaging under any trade name. The
effect of sawn creams is largely me-
ohsanical anyway;' -•they lubricate the
dirt so it can be wiped off.
Ttests of lipstick were for melting
point (which should not be too far
above body temperature); fair ease of
removal with dry cloth and with
soap and water, permanency of fa-
bric stail after- boiling in soap and
water, and uniformity of streak un-
der the mdcnoscope. Of the four lip-
sticks tested, brand B, at a little ov-
er 'a dollar an ounce, performed
quite as well as brand C, at oyer $7.
Breed D (from a beauty salon), Per-
foneed as badly as brand A (from
the ave-anceten)., though it cost ten
times, as much.
The astringents or "skin tonics"
tested consisted largely ef plain wa-
ter and alcohol. Their effect on thr
skirt is exhilarating, but temporary
—dermatologists say that the same
bracing effect can be produced by
cold eater from tne bathroom faucet.
AR four brands analyzed had about
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For a few cents yott can get
RUBBER STAMP
that may save you
many minutes every day.
Many type styles
to choose from.
Stamps to suit
all requirements
Paid stamps
Collection stamps
Date stamps
Signature stamps
Prices from 50c up, depending
upon the size of stamp required.
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23 Per 'Pent. of alconeen an were seb-
stantlailly the same except far color
and odor. Nothing shown by the
tests warranted the spread in price
trona 6 to 26 cents .pet- °unto.
Most commence are compounded ac-
cording to more ar :less standeedized
formulae available tie every manufac-
turer. ilVlany prominent cosmaic
Berns do not have erne a single
chemist lat their employ. TnA. surnrin
ing nember of "neenufactuners" do no
manufacturing at all, but have their
products made up by a manufactur-
ing ,chemist. :One manufaoturer was
found to be packaging under one la-
bel to the dime-el:ore trade the iden-
tical creams he was putting ap for a
beauty salon to retail under its own
label in •slightly larger aad more el-
aborate jars, nit $6 a jar!
With simple raw materials from a
column:I source, it is obvious that the
"new .dlecovery" and the "secret in-
gredient" must be set down as strict-
ly ballyhoo.
But cosmetics have one ingredient
w'hice, no tests can analyze. Call it
h•ope. Beauty- is partly a matter of
feeling beautiful. Elegant jars and
high prices can contribute to this
Peeking.
What woman would get a "lift"
from going ten thie corner store and
having her cosmetics dashed mit to
her with a scoop, like lard?
The intelaigent- woman, (however,
will not pay too high a price for hope.
She will realize that the, cosmeticanns
claim's are too lofty to be a reliable
buying guide. Knowing that the best
bargains seldom come in fancy pack-
ages,' sae will have a fair chance of
touching up Nett aanadwork suc-
cessfully and at not too greet a oost.
Need For Health Education
"Organized ihealth education is a
•comParativele new field and the re-
cent inauguration of a financial cam,
paign to raise funds for the carrying
on of health educates by the Health
Leag-ue of Canada has done much to
prove how necessary it is. Workers
in the present movement report that
the main difficulty in obtaining the
support which such an activity de-
serves is an astonishing lack of in-
formation on the part, of almost ev-
eryone both as to the possibilities of
preventive medicine from a scientific
point of view and tbe means for de -
veining a preventive program.
•"Thousands of people do not even
know what pasteurization of milk
means. Even in areas where Toxoid
is extensively- used to prevent. dipn-
theria few know whit Toxoid is. The
amazing figures as to the cost of ill-
ness ante the pitifully small arum
spent on prevention are news to the
average citizen and very few have
any conception as to the health ma-
chinery we have or what we should
have. One could go on indefinitely
and describe the many deficiencies in
the sura total of information in the
ecese.e.sion of most people—a lack
which m aket it di fficul t for them to
i nip To v e either their own 'health or
that of the citizens of our country.
-Many people canvassed enquired
as to why the Government cannot do
this work, forgetting that` even in
the very process of raising funds for
health education by a voluntary so-
ciety succi as tee Health League of
Canada the volunteer enthusiast edu-
cates botIi h i m sel f and his prospects
in a way no government machine
could, And again governmental ac-
tion follows) public opinion. The
Health League of Canada exists to
create public opinion and will always
need and deserve the support of the
public to this end."
Life As high Adventure
IT'S YOUR. HEADACHE,
(Condensed from Hygetiahi Reader's Digest) "
r Over half the pecense num enter
doctorsoffices desoribe beadaehe as.
one of their symptoms; •personnel di-
rectors in industry last It as the'
cause of 20 to 25 per cent of em-
plonee absences; in thousands of
houses it is the en.emy of efficiency
and bappiness.
Our most common 'neer in dealing
with it is that we try entreat the
headache itself instead of the condi-
tion that produces it The result?
Our family medicine 'cabinets are full
of pills and powdeirs, some of them
harmless painkillees, :others •danger-
ous drugs which 'elletuldibe used only
with a doctor's approval. All of them
bave this in 'remnant: they do not
cume; they merely suppress a symp-
tom tihat may be an importrata warn-
ing of trouble. For the cause of a
headache may be anywhere but in
the heed. -
It is a quirk of physiology that
mane of, the vane organs of the body
ane not ,sensitive to paiiini , The stom-
ach, liver-, lungs, even the heart, can
be incised without local sensation.
These .orgatue however, relay their
complaint to the very center of the
nervous system—the ileac"
Some medical books list as many
as• 203 causes of headache. They
may be divided inte three broad class-
ifications: mechanical, toxic a n, d
functionet. Manay headlaches must be
placed in two OT all of the groups.
Mechanical headaches are produc-
ed by diseases of, or damage to, the
bead itself. The headache whrich ac-
conipanies your cold, for example, is
tprobably due to a swelling of the
mucous membrane lining the nasal
chamber, which closes the narrow
passageways to the sinuses — those
bony cavities in the front of the ekull.
A partial vacuum results which sucks
on the mucous1enaboane of the sin-
uses, stretching ,13, e nerves and caus-
ing a .dull pain. Physicians relieve
this condition. with solutions wbich
shrink the membranes and permitair
to enter. Also classified as mechan-
ical are eye headaches, which may
be caused by even a slight ' error of
refraction. Close - work and reading
in bad Light are contributing factors.
A suitable pair of glasses is of course
the remedy.
Major headaches of the mechanical,
type are so painful that they may
rouse the sufferer from sound slum-
ber. Such headaches may indicate
concussion, tumor ar abscess of the
brain, diseases of the cranial blood
vessels, or Meningitis.'
To understand the anatomy of
headache, some knowledge of the
cranium is necessary. The skull is
filled so compactly with brain and
cerebrospinal fluid that even a slight
rise or fall in pressure of this fluid
can produce pain. The outer eover-
ing of the brain, known a.s the dura,
Is a tounh, white membrane interlac-
ed with nerves, The dura can be
cut with a surgeon's knife without
pain, but is extremely sensitive to
stretching. This stretching process
is important in the second classifica-
tion of headachesn-those due to toxic
What is an adventure Not neces-
sarily a thrilling escape from (teeth,
a holdup on a dark road at midnight
There are others.
The newsbady, for instance, who
runs after you when you have over-
paid him a penny; the lark by the
roadside of a spring 'morning; the
hilltop where life seems seddenly
fresh and worth while again; the fire -
vide and a good friend -when the bliz-
zard howls witthout; tee limping
dog, the sobbing child, the merry
quire the chance acquaintance. These
and a thousand other bitsof living
ane all ad -ventures, and those who
meet them with the ad'venturer's
heart will catch the extra pungency
of their flavor till the day of their
death.
* * *
I know a fisherman in a small vil-
lage on the Meese coast whose habit
of going places close to home makes
his life a constant excitement. What-
ever he reads about in the local news-
paper, he goes' and looks at. 'West-
ern cattle are brought to Maine' pas-
tures The fisherman is down at the
station to sea them land. A Whale
is bnought end Bengor. He .blas' nev-
er seen one, and now is his ch'aince.
So up lee goes to Bangor and when
he comes home the reads' everything
in the library about whaling. He
reads that a new Federal Bureau has
been set up locally. He promptly
fakes some ,business with it, and goes
to see the bureau, just to know What
dt is like. Tins is what reading is
good for—to make life exciting and
romantic and to give cdhesiont to dis-
jointed omens of experience.
* *
Imagination and ,knowledge I think
are the prerequisites of adventure. I
bxsow of a mlan Who put a jar of dis-
tilled water in his back yard and be-
gan to make observations upon it ev-
ery morning 'and every evening. Gra-
dually it beoame cloudied with plant
arid animal ,life, blown in upon. the
Winds. He bought a mderoseepe and
nooks on botanyand biology. His
life expandedi in that jar of water.
Every morning brought a new adven-
ture. •
*
I know of no greater halm or one
'Metre Winne believed than the state -
lined 'tint void!, tia- taa, boldest Unit -
n life. .As Wei isdercalneein',este 'We
gr tf.We 1Iint&
Ifixotur, Tit* Unineran 1 eneetsindlland
causes.
Toxis headaches are produced by
poisons from outside the body—alco-
hol, gases, drugs, tobacco—or by
;poisons manufactured within the bo-
dy. In kidney ailments, constipation
and all diseases accompanied by fev-
er, poisons are generated which may
alter the circulation in the biped ves-
sels of the brain, or affect the nutri-
tion of cranial nerves. The webwork
of blood vessels in the brain cover-
ing may expand, the dura is stretch-
ed, and pain results. Sometimes the
headache is caused by contraction of
the small blood vessels' in the dura,
as in the morning headaohe of the
man who Ins smoked too much the
night before. An obscure poison in
tobacco impoverishes the tiny blood
vessels Of the brain. But the caffein
in a cup Of breakfast coffee dilates
the collapsed, bloods vessels and clears
away the headache.
The functionail headache, to Which
no organic cause can be assigned, is
a catchall for many of the puzzling
debilities which the' medical profes-
sion cannot yet eintirely explain.
Headaches produced by higib or low
blood pressure, unemia, ,excessive
mental strain and menstruation ;be-
long in this class. Also included is
migraine, a mysterious periodic oom-
and it is a free 'show. Increase of
diffi c u 1 ties as d responsibilities
streegthens arid enriches the mind,
and adds to the variety of life. To
live abundantly is like climbing a
mountain or a tower. .f To say that
youth is happier than maturity is
like saying that the view from the
bottom of the tower is better than
the view fram the top. As we ascend
the range of our view widens im-
mensely; the horizoe is pushed far-
ther away. Finally as we reach the
sumulit it 4e as if we had the world
at our feet.
• * •
One frequently bears a person say,
"I couldtra stand it, if 4t weren't for
my sense of humor." But these peo-
ple don't Metes that they see tihem
selves es comical, still less that they
see their perseoutcrrs or persecutions
as something funny. What I think
they mean le that they "Couldn't
stand it" if they •haann the power of
dentehing thembelves front a painful
situation, :and ,centenenating it as
drama. It Is the Mysteriotte eeenfOrt
we get from seeing ourselVes, ansi
thieve wtho Make' us stiffer, from the
ventagegretted of a bah** seat,
that enable?' tis to endure. As king
as we 'don't Itinoto What Is' going tn
happen neat, arl Inig OA the :play of
(out Hile roaming" a pity', weettna Se&
it Min
Plaint that often begins witlh distor-
tions of eines, flashes of light before
tbe eyes, and sometimes produces
loss of memory, or, stranger still,
psychic visions as convincing as de-
sert mirages. The victims suffer
nausea and excructiatiegepitin.
Migraine is attributed to a variety
of causes; allerete reaction to cer-
tain footle endocrine , distmehances,
heredity' and; (psychic teeters have all
been blamed. Until recently, little
help could be given the sufferer; late-
ly however, medical research has pro-
duced a substanoe called gynergen, a
derivative of ergot, Which, when in-
jected into the muscle, offers relief
to approximately 50 per cent of mi-
graime victims. The drug is not a
cure, thoweven e •
Another ailment which bewilders
the expert e is the "psychogenic bead -
acne," which seems to be a by-pro-
duct of the emotions. It is literally
true that you may have a headache
because you 'have unconsciously hat-
ed your Unctle Elmer for 20 years.
No one knows the basic mechanical
explanation; the most careful exam-
ination equally discloses no physiolo-
gical abnormality. Such a hea,dacthe
sometimes encompasses the cranium
in a tight band, or fits like a helmet
over the front of the head. Depres-
sion, werrry, unbappiness, repressed
and IIIINkl"rttly impulses can also ex-
press themselves in headaches. The
therapy? Hobby, a captivating inter-
est, or, best of all, an acceptable out-
let for therepressed impulses.
Fortunately the least dangerous
headaches are the commonest. One
large hospital Intel causes in this
order of frequency: fatigue, hunger
(both of whet affect the 'nutrition of
the cranial nerves), constipation, in-
t:lig:est:km alcohol., e-yestrain., infec-
tious disease (with their attentdant
fevers), men:sensation, nervous disor-
ders, kidney disease, nose abnormali-
ties, sinus infection, neuralgia and mi-
graine.
•Occ.asional headaches of low intens-
ity may be of no important at all, but
chronic headache is something else
again. The indiividualto habitually
doses his headache with self -prescrib-
ed remedies is downright stupid.
ConstipatIon is an'.acc om p any i ng
symptom) of many Maladies; a purge
may relieve the constipation and not
cure the headache. It 'is unwise, in
any case, to rely entirely on laxa-
tives. Painkillers effectively relieve
discomfort, but not all of them are
harmless. Acetanilid, a common ne-
gredient of headache remedies, de-
presses the heart and is a poison if
taken in sufficient quantities. The
phenobarbitals should be used only
under medical, supery sio n. Rather
than seek relief with commercial pre-
paraticms, try one of the following
remedies first:
For that en no at lee -day dull th,rob,
wth•ich may be caused by a combina-
tion of fatigue, aungerf and over-
stress, take a small quantity of light
food, loosen your clothing and lie
down in a darkened room for half an
hour. A cold come:dem over the
eyes and forehead is often effective.
A brisk walk, an' invigorating shower
may speed up your circulation euffici-
eautly to relieve the headache. If the
areadaohe is due mainly to congestion
of circulation in the head, a hot foot
bans may draw the blood away from
the congested regime and relieve the
heapclaiche without •drugs.
Happily, the outlook for relief from
chronic headaches le growing more
hopeful. In such grave maladies as
brain tumor and meningitis there has
been a great advance in eureical, teen-
ue. Medicine has devised means
for reducing intracranial preseure,,
for dealing with germ infection and
far quieting pain while the source is
hunted. Relief of Lheadache caused by
allergy runs as thigh as 70 per cent.
In any event, if your headache per -
Sista, the wisest course is to le tyour
doctor look you over. •
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- drUggillh Navy U.. IMO, back
steam. Three things must be engine
eered In the process: water, fuel and
air. For everynon of coal that burner
in the furnace, 10 tons of water must
be supplied in the boiler, and 12 tone
of air must be sucked into the come
bus•trian chamber. Incidentally, thir-
teen tons of combustion gases go up
the stack. In a big steam plainathese
items assume nage proportions. That
Hudson Avenue Station in Brooklyn
oonstmues an. average of 3,750 tons of
coal !daily. To cool its steam at tire
end of the cycle, this station pumps)
3,600,000 tons of East River water
through ler condensers, a daily pump -
age wen in excess of the daily water
supply of New York City. There are
now 10 steam power plants along this
short stream, an using its water te
cool their condensers, and in cense:-
quence the average temperature of
the East River has been „raised 16 de-
grees in the last 36 years. In even
the coldest winter it does not freeze
over.
The fuel is mostly pulverized coal,
blown into the furnace through spe-
cial burners designed to promote
quick- combustion. Some burners
spray their powdered coal downward
and the Week mist catolies fire in
raid -air, generating temperatures as
high as 3,000 degrees.
The heat generated: depend' not
only on the state of the coalnbut al-
so on tbe temperature of , tbe air
which 'supplies bhp necessary oxygen.
If the entering air is cold, some of
the heat will be absorbed to bring
it to the kindling temperature. Here
is where those 13 tons of hot gases
become useful. As the gases
out
of the furnace into blue flue, t see
surrounded by pipes and hohlF
Full Steam Ahead
(Condensed from The Atlantic Month-
ly iai Reader's Digest)
Years ago someone called steam
"that great clvilizer." Never has it
been more •sof—more useful in the
service of tuan—ehan, in this fourth
decade of the 20tb, century. By over-
waelmaing odds, not water power but
steam is shills the prime mover of in-
dustry. In the United States, more
than 60 per, cent of the central, elec-
tric power stations are actuated by
steam, and 90 per cent of the indi-
vidual industrial power plants. The
largest single -shaft units for the pro-
duction « kilowatts) are not the
mighty water Wheels designed for
BouIdter Dam, but the yet morepow-
erful Meath 'turbines' recently install-
ed di ne Philadelphia, 'and •New York.
The puevner Plant With,,the largest ac -
teal output is steam -propelled, and lo-
cated are the East Hirer front in
Brookiren
At Niagara Valls and other places,
where dame populations and large
industriea 4114 near, water power has
denzonetrated Ite ecencimic superior-
ity. Bet New 'Stork Citye for-instsnce,
cannot affond to buy nTiagara Fall's
Water Veneer. So great le the resist -
awe Of copper wire to lereg-distance
transminnere' of electricity that ;n
general Id Id eheaner to bey the coal
to nrodece a Inlowatt than to trans,.
mit that knoesint Over 300 miles of
Wire.
SWIM engineers today extract front
Eraeh' telt Of lel More tbiaa idouble the
entlate a -Aattitleity they obtained In
19261d: Tiinekeir teethe* genre Is get-
t1nMeadsmarcal ,heat into steam: ?or,
itilbfgliteil thebentjaiVitare,the gresiz
er le did the etpandint atcaho,
are
walls
through which the air passes. By thin
means, heat which ordinarily would
escape is used to raise the tempera-
ture of the air to 400 or 500 degree
that when it pastes on to the
furnace, it leaps to its union with
the falling partioles of coal in the
thousandth &I' -a second. .
Also surrounding the flues are other
hollow wane and pipes for the Pre-
heating of the water before its ad-
mission to the boiler.' The hotter the
water and air, and the finer the part-
icleof coal, the more rapid is the
generation of steam.
Since turbines turn steam into pow-
er at high velocities and in enormous
quantities with the minimum demand
upon supervision, they have almost
supplanted the familiar reciprocating
engine (with its back -and -forth mo-
tion) in plants Where mass produce
non of power is eseential. The tur-
bine is edging a way even into small
plants.
The layman's thought of steam ie
associated with water, but engineers'
are experimenting with other liquids
which boil nt other temperatures. For
example, in boilers at Lhe General El-
ectric plant in Sottenectady, these are
155 tons of mercury, costing about
$200,000. This fluid metal is used ov-
er and over again in tbe hermetically:
nealed system completing its cycle.
from boiler to condenser and back
again hundreds -of times each min-
ute. To heat it to 677 degrees (wae
ter boils at 212 deerees), The vapor
from the boiling mercury is first us-
ed to turn a turbine, then conducted
to a second boiler where its heat ev-
aporates water to steam, ,and the
steam delves another turbine. Thus
one heating of the mercury causes
two turbines to turn.
But tbe story of steam power's re-
cent advance is primarily a story of
steam from water, achieved by ine
creasing temperentrees and mounting
pressures. Few of the present attairn
ments were feasible fifteen years ago.
Ircin. glows red at 750 degrees and In
1921 a nailer that delivered steam at
this temperature waserated a super-
power plant. Today 900 degrees and
above is established practice, due to
the introduction of new alloys. The
tough metals lately born of the meet-
ing of steel with chromium, molybde-
num, nickel and tungsten will endure
the high temperatures and 'resist the
high pressures.
And yet, with all the brilliant ad-
vances in fuel' eoonomy, the wastes,
are still colaseal. Moat of the energy
of burning coal is wasted: beat effici-
enty in the most capable plants to-
day i Bony 25 to 35 per cent, where-
as the water Wheels in the hydro-
electric plants are 90 per -cent effici-
ent., Since steam even with its mese
ent low 'efficiency, can compete Suc-
cessfully with water power, and since
it contains so many more wild horses
of ,potential power, is it strange that
it continues to dazzle the imagime-
rtion of inventors and industrialists?
As a result, steam ts on the menthe
continually occupying new frontidese
and today It is advancing mare rap-
idly than almost anything else in the
field of mechanical engineering.
Every Canadian, community: has iter
horse-shoe pitching enthusiasts, and
to them it will be good news that
there will be a great Horsesehoe
Pitohing Tournament this year held
as part ef the sports program at the
Canadian Notional Exhibition.
In spite of troubled times mann •
European nations. are soliciting larg-
er shares of Canadian busbies(' Well
France, Italy, Switzerland, Finland!
and the Netherland:a are ameng tip
most aggressive in this friendly bat-
tle for Canadian trade All of thaw
countries and others have large awl
interesting displays In the Interne-
tianal Pavilion tif the Canadian Na-
tional Exhibition this year.
Hoehum! How time flies—and on
wings of song, too! Daybefore-yea.
terday no house was complete with-
out a piano, yesterday it seemed that
the Canadian National Extibiticat cat
alogrie was nothing but ads. for talk-
ing machines, today It Is rani°, and
no* win Wog
televition for you and' ine..iitt hist
ft le nt the *Inge ,now ,when,Iteloothei
igeltig ±0 bo publicly demonst*eall
an,4NatiOnat,'Ethibitfnt.
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