The Brussels Post, 1924-5-28, Page 6Ung You
GREEN T.
'you. have not tasted the ]best:
Fresh, f °adrant and pure. Try it,
KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. a treatment. Sometimes the frown
No matter how busy I may be, and or scowl is caused by defective eye -
every mother of four phlldren can sight, and this can be remedied by
always look around and find some-. wearrng properly fitted glasses,
thing to do, I always take time to PLUMBING SYSTEMS.
read the daily papers, .I like to do
this of amorning after the tilleren1 I have
noticed that attention to the
have gone to school or are out playing human plumbing system will correct
and the men are at work, but some- a mean disposition xnueh more etfee-
times it has to be put off until just Lively than either switches or slipper
before bedtime. But I want to know soles. Anyone can wield a slipper,
what is gains" on in the world. I like but it takes the knowledge of a phy-
to keep the cub -webs brushed out of my, sieian, the patentee of a nurse and
brain as well as out of the house. ! the persistence of a Western cactus,
Of course I don't mean that I spend on the part of mothers, to keep ali-
hours on the paper. I don't spend mentary canals in perfect condition.
one hour a day, in fact, for I skim, It sometimes seems to me that when
over the scandals and the crime waves the Divine Being invented this job
and try to pick out the portions of of motherhood, Ile must have said,
news that are really vital for me to'There is a game that will never be
know. I look et the fashion hints of perfectly played." About the best we
course. I have vanity enough that I can do is to fit Carnegie's definition
do not wish to be the odd one in a; of a successful man: "One that is al -
bunch of up-to-date women, and I ways doing things, and gets some of
don't want my girls to be saying in them right"
a few years, "Mother, why don't you! Beginning with our first tiny mid
look like the other women? Your: night warbler, we must decide—right
clothes are so funny and old.' or wrong—to feed or not to feed; to
fashioned." rock or not to rock; to spank or not
Then the foreign news and the in-' to spank; to let or not to let. But even
dustrial news of our own country these problems become much easier,
should be a part of the knowledge of I find, if I have given the necessary
every good citizen. If we women are attention to the growing plumbing
going to vote we might as well know systems.—G. S.
what is going on to vote about. I don't
want to have to ask my husband who A JAUNTY CHIC MODEL.
is the best man to vote for and why.
These women who never have time
for anything but their household du-
ties miss a good deal in life. And
they must be mighty poor companions 4723
for their husbands and children.
—U. W. S.
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LOOK IN YOUR MIRROR.
Beauty is very much a matter of
taking care, of getting acquainted
with oneself, of finding one's good
points and aking
the best of them.
No woman is so handicapped that she
has not some "best" features through
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which to achieve attractiveness,
though most of us are so covetous of
what we have not that we overlook
the possibilities of what we have and
neglect, or overlook, really good
points. Remember that when Nature
appears to have been niggardly in be-
stowing beauty, intelligent thought
and care will work miracles.
Here are a few reminders in the
way of "taking care" that will surely
help any woman to "be as beautiful
as she can be."
First keepcleat. It sounds shock-
ing,
but very few skins are kept really
clean—and soap, a good soap, and
water are the best agents whatever
may have been said to the contrary, 4725. This design is comprised of
A proper carriage of the head and a two-piece skirt and a "peplum"
shoulders will keep the contour of blouse, with the front arranged in
the neck graceful and lessen the tend - "slot" plaits. The dress may be fin
ency to wrinkles in the face. Cished in one or two-piece style. The
SIeeping on a high pillow stretches peplum may be omitted. For slender
the neck and makes the underchin figures this style is very desirable.
muscles flabby. Biting the lips makes The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16,
them thin and colorless, and keeping 18 and 20 years. An 18 -year size
the teeth shut tightly causes the requires 4% yards of 40 -inch material.
mouth to take on a straight line in -1 pattern mailed to any address on
stead of that Cupid's bow that is sol receipt of 150 in silver, by the Wilson
desirable. Sullenness and unhappi- Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide Ste,
nese (if permitted) will cause the Toronto. Allow two weeks for reeeipti
corners of the mouth to turn down,' of pattern.
and no mouth with down -turning cord Send 15e in silver for our up -to -1
hers is beautiful. Twisting the mouth date Spring and Summer 1924 Book
to one side produces a series
of ugly of Fashions,
Wrinkles, while lifting the eyebrows
snakes furrows across the forehead, OUR CORNER SHELVES,
and frequent scowling brings other
furrows.
There are people who have unfor-
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to ate] gotten into the frowning
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habit, and who have found,. after a
'fa
f �' at their foreheads
.nV. oars 4 ,. that fo e
Y
are badly a 1 lined with wrinkles, This
is especially true of the nervous type.
Frequently very young girls, not yet
twenty, find their 'foreheads are deep -
t'' creased as though they were mid-
dle aged. These wrinkles are not so Another room will look all the pref.-
hard to get rid of as the linos of age. tier if it has a well-designed corner
The youthful skin reeponcla mare shelf on which a few favorite orna-
readily to treatment:, but it is not an merits can rest; and with such n shelf
easy task. as this even the absence of a mantel
The most important thing to do is will not be noticed. But the day is
to stop the frowning habit. Then past when a shelf is just any old
treat the elan with creams and with
ice. Use a fine cold cream. A gen-
erous amount should hemassaged into
the skin, after the pores have been
opened by holding hot, wet clothes
vel head. 11 you want to
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tho forehead.
batten the process, leave quite a bit of
cream on the skin and put over it a
piece of oiled paper as protection, and
},incl up the forehead Leave it this
Theadvantage iA hat
r. 1 ni ht, h t
way1
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for eight or nine hours the skin is
being fed with pure oils which will
help rebuild it, An ice rub in the
owning is; an excellent finish for such
A
U.+QSRSQUEtkK
8Y TIIE HIRED MAN,
PART I.
I Wasn't supposed to know a thing
about it. A hired nun is supposed to
let all the family affairs of his Boss
slide in one ear and out the other;
but sometimes things stick before they
get through and then it snakes a reel
uncomfortable like feeling,, espeolally
AS the right kind of a hired man never
discusses these things with ,othereo-
ple, any more than the right kind of
a doctor discusses his patients' afters
with other people, I'm going to see if
some of that uncomfortable feeling
can some out through my fingers and
then when I've written it all down,
Pll just burn it up and nobody will
be the wiser.
To begin with, I've loved the little
Missus ever since I first set eyes on
her—but Lord bless you! she has
never suspected it and never shall; a
grasshopper does not presume to chirp
its love to a star but I suppose there's
no law to hinder it from adoring at
its own respectful distance oe from
o kill myself fare4sr. yi Ing whe wat 1 haou
ve
but 1 was espiellluhen y
hatppened ¢tlotigg. 'grget bltV'
can
'No1, finnyforgive Ithe---bcan't foreastget•neeWither
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good-bye . , and he was (;one,
1 waited till the coast was clear
then slipped out to the barn and on,
to the field.
"'Been making a sickle?" culled the
Bose.
"Not exactly, There's a male on this
farm that is headed straight for
dont knowniyestsiakihawasnait hlipad, so appenedI but Trouble—with A capital T.'"
anyway, ? :this
eh?"
barn
ld Jack jumped the fence again,
nc
the mules to the fee, and went to the eh?
barn for an extra. There was a little I wastake the drys toilathe telaest and amino
pump -room opening off' the back porch
where the Misses kept her ice -box andi
t was..
in that ice -hoe was always a pitcher The next morning the. Boss told me
of fresh buttermilk with a glass I'd better crank up the g0 -bill and take
handy. There's nothing so good on a the sickle to town and have it fixed,
hot day as a swig of ice-cold butter- for no telling when we'd need it. I
milk—and she always said that was went several blocks out of my way to
my wages .fox churning, I took my go: by, the Oxford, hoping I night get
time to it the buttextnilk was good a squint at the doctor man. I felt it,
and 1 was;tired. I had just finihed in my bones that he wouldn't go on to
the second glass and was sitting there Denver just yet.
on a box trying to decide whether 1 While I wee waiting for the sickle,
wanted a third, when somebody knock- I took the flivvei" over to the garage,
ed on the kitchen door, It was rather as it had developed ah bad case of the
an apologetic knock and I thought, thumps. I had my head stuck inside
I'd better keep still, it might be the the hood, alongside of the mechanic's,
preacher from town," But the next trying to locate the trouble, when I
tune it was sharp and quick, as if to heard a deep voice in the office asking
say, "You might as well let me in— about a car. I decidetl all at once that
if •you don't I'll come again 14-' 1. was mighty dry and went to the
morrow." �copler !n the office for a drink. I'll
Before I could get to my feet after have 'to acbnit that
for looks—if, ad was
'the second knock, the Missus was at ..-•, _, •-,,, _,, ,,_•„,• ,n-.. i...
moon very conveniently forgets.
I'll never forget the day the Boss
brought her home. Raised in the East
she was, and knew exactly as much
about life on a big wheat ranch in.
Kansas as one of our fat Berkshires
knows about a fox-trot. But she was
that pretty and full of life it made
you feel good just to watch her, and
the way her eyes followed the Boss;
with that I'd -die -for -you look, made
you feel that he had won things while
in college, far more important than
football.
She brought her piano with her and
the way her fingers flew over the keys
was wonderful. She used to sing even-+
ings, too, happy little melodies that
kept ringing in your ears long after
the Boss had gone to bed and her
curly head was buried in a magazine.
We had always had Old Nancy in
the kitchen but the Boss allowed there
wasn't any use to keep her any longer.
It seemed to be that way about 'most
everything—the Boss presented the
pros but the cons were not presented.
The little Missus she just took things
in her meek way that made me wonder
why on earth the Boss couldn't have
shined up to Dutch Sally down the
road, or anybody that was capable of
sitting down on him, occasionally.
She came to the ranch in the
spring; at the end of the year her
subscriptions expired to the maga-
zines she had brought with her. The
Boss decided it wasn't necessary to
renew them—with all the housework
she wouldn't have much time to read
anyway. She didn't seem to mind so
much for she was always busy then,
crochetingfilm la ewin on
some litle whitea or s
e things that were
tucked into her workbasket whenever
I came around. I've always wondered
if the Boss would have been different
if the babyyhad liv Anyway it look-
ed to me d. An likeshe needed it for.com-
pany, more than the angels did. .
After it was all over, that
t
ired
sorry look in her eyes was enough to
make you hunt for your bandana ---
that is, anybody but the Boss. He
never seemed to notice it at all and,
as the months went by and he ex-
pected more and more of her, the
sorry look went away and a glinty,
sort -of -defiant look came in its place.
And how she did work! I would never
have believed such a little mite could
have accomplished so much --cooking
for all the Help, raising chickens and
making butter. I used to churn for
her, evenings, after my day's work
outside was done; she grew to expect
it of me and the Boss didn't object
In fact, the Boss seemed to have for-
gotten everything except that the Al-
mighty Dollar was around the .next
corner and he might not get there in
time to catch it. Some men are Iike
that,
Things drifted along this way for
a few years. When you're raising
wheat in western Kansas, it's a sort
of gamble like any other business;
sometimes you lose entirely, some-
times you win. The Boss struck two
lucky harvests, which with hisbig
acreage meant that he was a rich
man but he never seemed to know it;
he worked harder than ever, and ex-
pected his help—and the little Missus
—to do the same. Ile worked his men
like dogs; never was able to keep
them more htan one season only one
reason in the world was big enough
to keep me there—the fact 1 stated
in the beginning concerning the grass-
hopper and the star. It was a rather,
pale little star these days. We didn't:
have any more music; she was always
too tired. There wasn't any women'
close by for her to neighbor with and
the Boss thought a woman didn't. need
to know how to run a car—what was
the use, when he always did the going
to town.
One boiling July day we were cut-
ting alfalfa in the east field. Even if
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we were wheat growers, we always ,
raised the alfalfa to feed the mice.'
The Bass never cared for tractors—
said a team of good, old-fashioned,
ld-fas
htoned,
stubborn, spunky, ornery mules heat
'em alt We had been having plenty
of rain and the growth was rank, I,
When furnishings are scarce and
pocketbooks are not any too full, don't
despair; that empty corner can be
nicely filled with painted shelves'
which will help to furnish the room
wonderfully. .A set of several will
take the place of the longed -for book-
case, and when filled will, the fancily
books It will make a cozy corner in
which to sit and turn over a few
leaves in idle minutes.
board supported by a pair pf ugly
iron brackets; it is a real part or the
furnishings of the 'room and it can
be as lovely as our artistic sense and
skill can make it. Wooden brackets,
ich cut wcan bo fr m a smooth fi i a moot piece
of lumber, are ever so much more
interesting than the old iron ,ones, and
they ere so easily made that there is
no reason whyeach shelf should not
be • 9 work c f. r.
a i a wa 1, art. Whynot ask
brother to try his hand at malting
some wee time a shelf is to be put up?
yllnatrd's Ho* Cuts.
the door. They couldn't see me but I tor. But such a est He ave me one
heard a stifled sort of gasp and just Yg
one Word, "Pouf" A deep voice ons- casual -like look as I want in but that
wered, "I'm not a ghost! You don't one mAde promthat he knew all
need to look like that! Aren't you go-' about me, from my old straw hat to
ing to ask me in!" i the hole in my sock! The little Missus
""Do excuse me! I'in so surprised needn't have told him she wasn't
I've forgotten my manners—but--this hoPPY-ho would have known all about
porch is the only cool spot to -day; it the minute he looked at her. When
let's just sit here in these rockers." j he drove off, I thought, "You're not
Now if I'd had a lick of sense I'd:the only guy that knows things with -
have got out '; out being told—I'll bet I know where
right then and there.
But I was so flabbergasted over the you are going and you didn't tell me
Missus being' so upset, and'anyway, either!"
wasn't but a minute till 7 couldn't get g
out.
"And how's Pinny?"
Seemed like that was an old nick-
name. She didn't answer right off, so
he went on, "Still pinning things up,
,Nell?" His voice was laughing and
kind like,.
"No, Tom, I quit pinning things up
long ago—see the roof?" and I knew
she was showing him the patch on the
sleeve of her faded housedress. Her
shaky little laugh was a decided fail-
ure, ""We've been hearing wonderful
things about Dr. Thomas Wilson;
please tell me morel" she went on,
clearing her throat a bit,
"Nothing to tell," in a quiet, matter -
'of -fact way. "Been knocking around
1 the world a bit since the war; just
now I'm on my way to Denver ±0 COfl-
sider an opening there. And how has
the world treated you? Forgive me for
asking but -are you happy, Nell?"
A cold, scornful little voice answer-
ed, "Happy! I've forgotten the mean-
ing of the word!"
"Pinny! Is it so bad as that?"
"It is so bad," came the deliberate
answer, "that 1 have no dread what-
ever of the next world—if there is a
hell, I'll be excused; I've had mine
here!"
Doctor Toni jumped up and began
to pace up and down that porch like
be was walking on a wager. And
there I sat on that box, feeling like
the fool I was and hopingI wouldn't
sneeze.
After a bit he asked, "Doesn't your
piano help any?"
She answered in a hard tone,
"Jerry" (that's the Boss) "thought I
might put in my time to better advan-
tage, so I raise chickens instead."
After he'd walked a mile or so fur-
ther, "No children, Nell?"
""We had one but the Lord didn't let
me keep her," and here all the steel
went out of her voice -it was just
plain misery. "Oh, Tom, why couldn't
I have kept my baby? Jerry thinks isn't sn t time for children. but I
want thein! I even get out my big
doll sometimes when I'm all alone—
you remember Arabella? I couldn't
,tell this to another soul in the world
but I've told you things ever since
mud -pie days. You used to--care!"
The heavy footsteps stopped
abruptly. "Yes, I used to care, Neill
And I've Jived long enough since then
to have learned pretty thoroughly
that the world is too small and life
too short, for some things ever to be
forgotten." A long honk . from the
driveway reminded the man that he
only had a limited time between
trains. Evidently he had told the
chauffeur to remind him if he stayed
too lotag-
"I may go to -night," he said hur-
riedly, ""and 1 may—stay over a few
says. If you—if there's anything on
earth I can do for you, call the Ox -
.-.a.''
"When you're gone, Tom, I'll want
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THINGS NEW AGAIN
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by Garment or Drapery.
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esemeaat seT,
When I of home, I noticed a track
in the drive-way—a tire with a tread
like the ones on the car the doctor
drove out of the garage.
(To be concluded.)
Minard'a Liniment for Dandruff.
C.G.S. "Arc. "Arc cti ".W" Will Go
North This Summer.
The C,G.S, Arctic will again be em-
ployed, under -the direction of the
North West Territories and Yukon
Branch of, the Department of the In-
terior, in connection with the estab-
lishment of post offices, custom houses
and Royal Canadian Mounted Police
posts in Franklin district.
It is expected that the ship will sail
from Quebec about the end of June
and in addition to calling at and re-
supplying the posts at Craig Harbour,
Ponds Inlet and Pangnirtung will
again visit Godhavn, Greenland, and
will also e' make another attempt to
roach Cape Sabine on Ellesmere 15-
land,o
pP rte Htah Greenland. If
o s
ice conditions there show no Improve-
ment over last season, it is probais1e'
that the new post will be established
at some point to the westward, pos-
sibly
sibly on Cornwallis islan d, or at some
point on Melville sound.
The Government's new ship, the
C,G.SFmnkiln !s now being repaired
ed n to
and strengthen in England en-
able her to stand the strains of an
Arctic voyage, but she will not be
sent north this year, although she
may be brought to Canada when the
alterations .have been completed.
ATTRACTIVED PRA ERIES.
Our draperies are very attractive.
They are made from unbleached mus-
lin finished at the bottom with fringe.
A. figured cretonne is used across the
top, The material is the same in
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both living room„and dining room.
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The average horse has strength
equal to five men.
SaUE No. 21—'24.
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Play Safe With Explosives.
"Proles up detonators—one explodes
-boy Loses hand."
The above newspaper heading em-
phasizes the -need of greater know-
ledge in the uses and handling of ex-
plosives. Familiarity breeds con-
tempt is unfortunately too truewith
many users of explosives, and numer-
ous accidents to Innocent victims re,,
suit. Notwithstanding the great care
with which manufacturers place their
Products in the hands of consumers,
the repeated warning issued regarding
the hazardous nature of the material,
and the strict regulations covering the
manufacture, transportation and stor-
age of explosives, there is a continu-
ous record of accidents due to care-
lessness and lgnorauee.
The explosives division of the Fed-
eral Department of Mines has recently
issued a small pamphlet on "The
Handling of.:Explosives," which is de•
signed, to quote from the pamphlet,
"to call attention to the cardinal prin-
ciplee which should he observed In
the handling of explosives and shot
firing, from the point of view of safe-
ty." While the general public may
rarely come in contact with explosives
a. knowledge of the fundamentals is
their handling, transportation and
storage and of their employment, efth-
er on the farm for land clearing or in
construction work, will in many eases
allay a curiosity that may result in
serious accident or loss of life. Copies
of the pamphlet may be obtained from
the Explosives Division of the Depart-
ment of Mines Ottawa.
t wa.
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"I hear the tenants of your new
two-family house do' not get on well
together."
"No, they don't. The fellow who
has the lower part 'wants to build a
aerial on the roof, an chap
erre d the c a
P
in the upper part wants to raise
mush-
rooms in the cellar."
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MID OF HONOR
ST,."'RE DISCREET
RULE AGAINST KEEPING
A DIARY.
Close Companion of ler Ma,
jesty Muat be Good Linquiat
and. Musician,
Her Majesty Queen Mary has been
nuking additions to her household
this year, but she has not yet appolut
cd another maid of honor. At the pre-
sent time the queen has only one
mold of honor, Miss Ursula Lawley,
but the prescribed number is four, and
additional appotntmenits to this ofne
are expected to be made in the hear
future,
Fifteen women are in attendance on
queen Mary in addition to her maid
of honor, including a mistress of the
robes (the pucbess of Devonshire.
holds this post), tour ladles of the
bedchamber and six bedcliarebcr wo-
men. Some of these positions, 01
DOWSE, merely are nominal, while
Where involve nothing more strenuous
than accompanying the Queen en a
shopping expedition, perhaps, or at-
tending 'tomo public functionwith her.
Duties of Maid. of, Honor,
A maid of honor, however, really
does have some duties, though' she
does not, like others of the household,
live at Buckingbam Palace, but in her
owa town place, only Inhabiting the
same place as her royal mistress when
the court Is at Windsor Castle or Bats
Moral. A maid's duties begin just be-
fore luncheon, when ane of the royal
carriages, or autos, fetches her to
Buckingham Palace, where she re-
mains probably for the rest of the day.
In any case she does not leave the
palace until the Queen has gone out.
While she is in attendance on the
Queen, Miss Lawley wears a badge, a
miniature of the Queen set round with
brilliants, which Is tied or pinned to
her left shoulder, and she id expected
to dross quietly and not to: wear bright
colors.
In Queen Victoria's time a maid of
honor was obliged to be clever with
her needle, as the Queen always ex.-
'meted
x.petted her attendants to help her
make clothes for various charities, but
Queen Mary does not ask for this
training. The principal qualifications
for the post to -day are that she bo the
granddaughter of a peer, a good lin•
quiet, a good musician—and discreet.
In fact, with reference to ..tbs last
quality, there is a rule that no 'maid
of honor keep a diary.
Queen Alexandra also has one maid
-of honor, in addition to other attend-
ants, but ;the Duchess of York, Prin-
cess Louise, and other feminine mem.
,hers of theroyal family are attended
by a lady-in-waiting only.
Walking on Fire.
The rite of fire -walking, lcnowa
among the natives. of Tahiti as umuti
isdescribed and explained in a pamph-
let
-
let
issued by tate American. Museum
of Natural History.
Tho ceremony is performed by a
priest for the purpose of insuring good
crops, and consists of walking several
times with naked feet over a bed of
stones which have been heated until
red by a ere from beneath. A shallow
pit, two feet deep, is dug. Wood is
placed in the bottom of the pit and on
It are arranged about 'two hundred
round stones in two or three layers.
Wood is lighted and burned .about
four turas beneath the stones until
they are glowing.
Six natives appear bearing poles
nearly fifteen feet in length. These
are used to thrust aside the top layer
of stens. The performers at times
thrust the polos through to the fire,
where they burst iuto flame, convey-
ing the Idea that the heat of the
stones removed caused the Are,
The, priest appears bearing it large
spray of ti leaves in his hands. He
passes about the fixe, uttering a sort
of incantation for protection; then,
beating the nearest stones three timed
with the t1 leaves, proceeds with due
dignity, but, it maat.be admitted, rah.
er hurriedly, over the centre of the
pile. As he walks hods followed by
di i h
thoseles sc p who have courage to
mketheattempto der
an his directions,.
The spectacle ot the lire -walker Is
a vary interesting one, inasmuch as ah
apparent impossibility is performed
with such evident lack ot injury.
A close examination, however, allow-
ed that the stones used were basalt
of vocame origin, the most noticeable
feature of which is its non-conduoti•
witty. It was found that a
stout) .could
heated red-hot at on
be to d s cad while
the other enil,remalned comparatively
cool. however, thls feature does not
trouble the native, appear Co u who re-
gards
o-garde the ceremony with the greatest'
; re /crone°,
-
seelekcin Not Faohlonable,
Tho united States, because it owns
the Alaskan islands where the settle
have their rookeries,has a virtual
nnonopoly of the trade In the skins of
tin fur seal, though It shares the
profile with the British, the Japanese
anti the Russian government under
treaties by whleh those three flatland
refrain from killing seals In the open
sea. In 1eGent years the government
has taken as many as twenty -live
thousand sealskins, but last year it
cut the number in hair and hoe sold
shins 01 no apiece, Of the tweivo
r, ,, t r t
lieu 1two tt o
i usn
only fid
surra:mid; ".",,, was no demand, and
0o ti,c g" ir,rnlatut is storing the rest
uu111 the rnshluuc changes.