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The Herald, 1912-09-13, Page 6Young Folks ' WHAT WOKE LITTLE BEAR. Before Little Bear learned to wsklk and long before Goldilocks ate his porridge, broke his chair or slept in his bed, the Middle-sized Bear used to rock him to sleep. One day when Little Bear was iif cutting a new tooth, his mother rocked and cuddled him half an 1 hour before he fell asleep, Gently she carried him up -stairs and put him in his bed. Suddenly Beg Bear began dancing and prancing about the kitchen. He sang in a bag voice :. "Ta -de duum-dum-durn, Ta -de dura-dum-dum." "Why, father 1" exclaimed Mo- ther Bear. "You'll wake Little Bear !" Immediately Big Bear put a big paw over his big mouth and stop- ped singing. At that moment a flock of ducks waddled past the Three Bears' home. It seemed to Mother Bear as if every duck tried to say "Quack ! louder than every other duck. "0 ducks, please don't 1" begged Mother Bear. "You'll wake Little Bear !" k The ducks hid their heads under their wings. i Soon after that three black crows sat on a tree near Little Bear's 1 window, and began to call, "Caw! caw ! caw!" "Oh, please don't shout so loud!" begged Mother Bear, who I was making apple pie. The pie was baking in the oven l when down the green road came the' forest band; and then Little Bear began to stir in his sleep. for the rabbit was beating his drum with all his might and main : "D'iddy-bum, diddy-bum, Didtly-btl -bum I" Two o bundred cricketsand three hundred grasshoppers were play- ing their fiddles : "Fiddle-de—dee 1 Fiddle-de—dee 1" The frogs were playing their ban- jos "Flunkety-plunk ! „ • Plalu;.etyr-plunk 1" Katydids -'were singing, "Katy- did!" Katy-did!" Beavers were beating time with :their tails : "Ker-splash—bump-bump ! .Ker-splash--bump-bump 1" Little Bear woke up and cried for his mother, and she carried him down -stairs. "Here, take daddy's watch!" of- fered Father Bear ; but the band was. making such a din baby could not hear the watch tick. "See what daddy is going to do !" exclaimed his father, and he waltzed round, singing: '`Ta -de dum-dum-dum, Ta -de dum-dum-dum !" No wonder Little Bear stopped crying and laughed through his tears ! And Mother Bear laughed, too. Little Bear was happy after that; but he did not go to sleep again that day.—Youth's Companion. TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INC SAFE INVESTMENTS INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM THE CAPITAL. OF ONTARIO. After the Exhibition—ltnpsriaiism at the Fair --The" CIty's Cotinsei—The Civic Abbatolr. HOW TO TA.i E A SUN -BATH. Said to Be a Certain Cure for 11any Diseases. The sun -bath is rapidly gaining popularity. It was not unknown to the Romans, who indulged- in sun - baths to cure gout and rheuma- tism, The buildings they erected in their villas for the sunray.treat- nent were styled solariums. A11 that is needed is the sun; but it should not be allowed to beat down upon the head, which should be covered, The prospective sun- bather should get into an ordinary bathing costume, and lie down in a tonvenlent spot on a rug. Care should be taken to secure a position well out of the wind, and, of course, the body must be moved about every ten minutes to avoid undue bixrning of any specific part of the anatomy. Also, a bath should ne- ver by any chance last longer than an hour. Dizziness, extreme ex- citement, even faintness, will be the inevitable result, should this warn- ing be disregarded. The sun -bath is said to be an al- most infallible mire for certain skin diseases, for undue corpulence, and ren -down nerves. Perhaps the eult of the 'su,n-bath is Most popular at a email place near Berlin, where the adherents of the new and simple care have ormed themselves intra an associa- tion. Pretty clothes sometimes make '1 forget the things her mother eeel to tem'', ear, The week following Exhibition finds To- route with something of the "meriting after" feeling. The streets, bereft ut their flags and bunting, and their burnouse throngs of people seem by comp eri dull and deserted. And there isa notice- able reaction in meat linea of trade, both retail and wholesale. The two weeks of Exhibition are probably as active in the retail district as any in the whole year. So profitable is every day that many of the largest stores have given up the idea of obsery ing. Labor Day, vi h+ch comes in the middle of the fortnight as a holiday, but keep their staffs at their Posts to cater to the great numbers who find it a convenient day to shop. Those who mater particularly for an out-of-town trade take care, too, that they offer bar- gains sufficiently valuable to attract fur- ther business during the year. This, of course, doesn't do the out-of-town mer- chant any good, but he has some mea- sure of revenge when •Toronto shoppers in turn go off to Buffalo or New York to make purchases, which generally never meet the eye of the customs ofacials on the border. For the wholesalers the period, too, was one of unprecedented briskness. Many of them kept their offices open day and night. FARMERS DIDN'T TURNOUT. The exhibition authorities have to ad- mit that this year the attendance of far- mers was not up to previous records. For this the phenomenally bad weather and late season is made to bear the blame. But on the whole the attendance was re- markable. Jupiter Pluvius did his worst and failed. The Labor Day attendance, breaking all records on a day which did not have a glint of sunshine, and with the rain sometimes corning down in tor- rents, was particularly astounding. Of course it has to be borne in mind that Toronto, according to the figures of the Assessment Department now coming in, has 35,000 more people of its own than it had this time last year. It is difficult to realize how fast the place is growing. The increase of a single year is greater than the whole population of moat of the other cities of the Province, and as great as the population of a, good sized coun- ty. Whether this rapid concentration of population is an altogether unmixed blessing for the rest of the Province is a quoetion which will bear serious conefd- eration. But Torontonians are whole-heartedly proud of their Fair. There used to be a disposition in some circles to regard it rather disdainfully. All that has passed now. And with rigid adherence to the truth It can be said that the• Exhibition. of 1912 surpassed all previous efforts. In nearly every department there was a noticeable sprucing up, and there were several new feautres. STRONG ON IMPERIALISM. The distinctive note was probably the tinge of 'Imperialism that was injected. There were cadets front all parts of the 3'Smpire, Newfoundland, -New Zealand, Au- stralia, England and Ireland giving,daily exhibitions and nightly forming into a living flag. There was the Kings uncle, There were the bands from .the mother land. And the siege of Delhi from India as anightly spectacle. All thio wag deliberately planned, for those in charge of the Exhibition's for= tunes are ardent Imperialists. It cost $40,000 to bring the cadets. The bands cost $12,000 more. And it was probably not by accident that many of the speeches at the directors' luncheons echoed the alarms of war. Those who are not in active sympathy with the propaganda wore inclined to ask what was the connection between these sentiments and a purely industrial and agricultural exhibition, which might he supposed to glorify, if anything would, the blessings of peace. A $15,000 JOB A -BEGGING. The resumption of activity in munici- pal politics after the summer Holidays found the most pressing issue to be the question of the city counsel appointment. The refusal of Mr. T. G. Meredith to ac- cept the position hastily offered him left just a little shamefacedness. To have a $15,000 Toronto job turned down cold was just a trifle humiliating. But no doubt the receiving of the offer did not hurt Mr. Meredith. He has a comfortable home in London, and at sixty a man does not lightly sever the connections of a lifetime. With the ground cleared for a local man, the question on everyone's lips was, "Shill Mayor Geary get it?" He .himself said no word, but, of course, at the sal- ary, or even half the salary, it is a posi- tion that would attract any young law- yer. The criticism of Mayor Geary's chances arose partly from the fact that he has not devoted much time to law. Politics has been his forte. On the other hand he had to recommend him an ex- ceptional knowledge of current municipal problems. An arrangement by which Mayor Geary would succeed Mr. Drayton as City Coun- sel, Controller Church. as member of the Hydro Electric Commission, leaving the field comparatively clear for Controller Hocken as the next Mayor, was spoken of as the. "deal" that was under way. And pboeoplet "dare eals; not generally enthusiastic TO HEAD OFF OIVIO ABBATOIR. . Ire the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, end BEST HOME. DYE, one can buy --Why you don't even have to:: know what KIND of Cloth your Goods are mads of. -.Se Mistakes are Impossible. Send for Tree Color Card, Story Booklet, and Booklet giving results of Dyeing over other colors. The JIOHNSON-RICIIARDSON CO„ Limited Monts cal. Canada. UI.ATION VERSUS OAIYIBLiNQ. Non In the True Meaning of the Takes Time—Buying on Tips roue—Fele $peclgatOrS—Soma 'Es• Points of Difference. titles contributed' by "Investor" the sole purpose of guiding pros• investors, and, if possible. of say. em from losing money through g it In 'wild -oat" enterprises, The tial and reliable character cf' the Own may be relied upon. The of these articles and the publisher is paper have no interests to serve nneetien with this matter other tbao of the reader. in getting help, so that often he had as } many as fifteen men, women and chil-;x dren in his fields in the busy season. The wet weather this year has just suited his sandy soil, and he has never had such a successful season, At the mo- ment he is busy marketing his green corn. He has been selling •it since the. first of August, but just now it is at its best. On one day he sent to Toronto 1,200 dozen -14,400 ears. For the last week his receipts from corn alone were $700. And corn is but one of his products. He has refused $40,000 for his 100 acres, a figure, no doubt, fixed by speculation, and by the desire of wealthy citizens to se- cure country homes. but he calculates that the farm is still worth more than that to him as a going concern, A fair return he has for ten years work, even if it has been hard work. Many men in gold mining cannot show anything like the record. It's a pity that all the farm- ers of Ontario have not shared in tbis man's prosperity. THE BALL TEAM'S GLORY. With the Toronto baseball team holding on to the leadership in the International League by its eyebrows the Toronto fan —the real dyed-in-the-wool kind—was in a querulous mood. Convinced that the 1912 aggregation was the finest baseball team that ever appeared • in this league, he thought that their place was far out in front of the race. So, whenever the team Inst a game, and particularly on the ,•gay it lost both ends of a double header o Rochester, he was not particularly pleased if told, that the team that played the best ball won. The great rally of the team in tha latter half of the season in which they came from sixth place to the top was a splen- did piece of work, and raised a load from the tans' heart, because he had just about given up hope. It is said that previous to the rally the owners and management talked to the players in pretty plain terms. This talk, assisted by the acquisi- tion of two or three big league pitchers, Kent, Drucke and Maxwell, seemed to have a marvellous effect, and the team immediately started on its winning streak. But there is not 'mush left of the pitch- ing staff that began the season, and in this respect the early criticisms were all justified. Nor is the play in the field al- ways of the gilt-edged variety. . Nor is The proposal of the city to spend a third of a million dollars on a civic ab- batoir and cattle market extension drew a skilful open letter from the Harris Ab- batoir Company, which offers the city a free site and a seat on the Board of Directors if it would abandon its old base of operations and move out to the Union Stock Yards at West Toronto" The supporters of the civic scheme were in- clined to regard this offer as simply an indication that the private packing, inter- ests feared the effect of the city's plan, and wanted to head it off, and it was promptly turned down. Despite the frank statement of low profits on the part of the packing companies it is proba4ly stating the situation fairly to say that in this vital line of fond supply' the pub- lic regards the private interests with some suspicion. Consequently, it is likely that for we'el or for woe the eity will go ahead with its ambitious plan for the sake of ensuring competition as fax as possible in tha meat trade. BIG MONEY IN si773•(1R13AN FARMS. The prosperity of Toronto is at all events extending some distance out into the surrounding country. A conerete ex• ample will illustrate. Ten years ago a farmer without means rented 100 acres about 20 miles from Toronto. .Ile took a long lease, but at the end of four years had made sufficient progress to buy. Ete paid $9,000, which seemed a big price in those days. IIs devoted himself to mar- ket gardening and small fruits. The la. bor problem was an obstacle, but }1e had a fairly lar'i;e family that he was able to keep at home, and he was resourceful the team exceptionaller s> r.e y o__ bases. The one department 'it�liAu s "Shen in has been batting. ' Nearly every man,, has developed into an oldfasiiloned slug- ger, and most of their victories have been won, not by keeping the other fel- lows score down, but by running up . a score on their own account, Probably the player who has acquired the most popularity during the season is Benny Meyer. For several seasons he has been used as a spare man by various teams, and came to Toronto in that ca- pacity. But be has hit like a fiend, min wild on the bases and developed fairly well in the field, so that he has made a place for himself among the regulars. A FOOD CONVERT. Good Food the True Roast to Health. The pernicious habit some per- sons still have of relying on nause- ous drugs to relieve stomach trou- ble, keeps up the patent medicine business and helps keep up the army of dyspeptics. Indigestion—dyspepsia—is caused by what is put into the stomach in the way of improper food, the kind that so taxes the strength of the digestive organs they are actually crippled. When this state is reached, to re- sort to tonics is liking whipping 'a tired horse with a big load. Every. additional effort he makes under the lash diminishes his power to move the load. Try helping the stomach by leav- ing off heavy, greasy, indigestlll food and take on Grape -Nuts - light, easily digested, full Of, strength for nerves and brain, in every grain of it. There's no waste of time nor energy when Grape Nuts is the food. "I am an enthusiastic user Grape -Nuts and consider it an id° food," writes a Maine man : "I had nervous dyspepsia ,a was all run down and my fci seemed to do me but little g From reading an advertisemerr tried Grape -Nuts food, and, a a few weeks' steady use of it, . greatly improved. "Ana inuch" stronger, not ` ti ous now, and can do more without feeling so tired, and better every way. "I relish Grape -Nuts best cream and use four -heaping, spoonfuls as the cereal part: meal. I ami sure there are .,ti sands of persons with stn` trouble who wotiid be benefite using Grape -Nuts. Name give Canadian :Possum Co., Winds Ont., Reed the little book, Road to Wellville," in Ii "There's a reason." Ever read the above letter's A neva appears from time th time, They, genuine, true, and full of hunlan Int (By "Investor.") ie" other day a man •said to me, "It's.. very well for you to talk about the gers of speculation. Just because a v men lose money you condemn the s Mae game. It's just as reasonable to s ggest closing all drug stores because a fotr men buy poison and kill themselves, or to condemn apple pie because some people eat too much and suffer as a con- sequence. You're partly right, and in your enthusiasm you condemn whole- sele." In the first place, I do not condemn speculation. Speculation and gambling ate two entirely different things, yet the word speculation has come to have a meaning with the public which is syno- litmus with gambling in stocks, In specu- lation one studies the situation, and hav- ing taken the pros and cons into consid- eration, buys some security which should Advance in value over a course of a few ars. A gambler buys a stock because 'the market is strong, and it should ad- vance a few points in a few days. The former takes an intelligent business chance; the latter—well he just gambles. Most people who dabble in the stock market are gamblers, because they merely follow the "dope sheets" and jump in and out, scalping a point here and losing a point there. Such men, in about 95 cases out of 100, eventually lose all they have put up, and sometimes all they have. The average man in a commercial busi- ness is a speculator. He buys sonfething people want and figures to sell it to them at a price greater than he paid for it. But if he were to go along a street and see a oar load of lumber and buy it -Without first examining it to see if it were sound and not all culls; without first figuring on whether he wasn't paying more than the lumber was worth, and without enquiring whether there was any demand for lumber, he would• be gamb. ling. And that is just exactly what most so-called speculators do in the stock market. A man looked' at the quotations in the paper last year and saw Black Lake As- bestos preferred stock selling around sixty,: let us say. He sees it is a seven per cent. dividend payer. It looks cheap; ther seven per cnt, shares are selling et about par. Wby it's a great oppor- tunity. He buys, and in a few months can't gave it away. Had he been a specu- lator hie would have studied the situation surrounding that special security, and so would have known that the market for asbestes'had all' "gone to pot." That the company wait. doing business at a loss ed the prospects for its earning enough e,.;interest on its - bondswere y slim, 'But," you say, "to do that takes too much time, and 1 oan't afford to ' spend much time in that sort of thing." Quite so. Speculation takes so much of a man's time that very few people are in a position to speculate. Sometimes a man comes in contact with some large corporation in the way of business, and gets to know all about its business and prospects. He- may, from his observa- tions, have reason to believe that the Company is growing rapidly in prosper- Ity and prestige. He buys the stock, puts it away and wakes up some morning a year or two later to find that he has made a nice profit. He has speculated, butifhe had not taken advantage of his opportunities he would certainly never have found the time necessary for get- ting together all the information es- sential tat intelligent speculation in the stook of that particular company, or of any other. It isn't the scanty information one gleans from the financial pages of the daily press that enables one to speculate intelligently. That amounts to little More than scraps of news to egg on the stook gambler. First hand study and hard work are the prime essentials for the successful speculator. Few people °cangive enough of their time to this sort of thing, yet, unless they do, they .are foredoomed lei failure. "Speculation is dangerous," as the Irish- `Man said, "because people don't space - Mate." They gamble, and that is the }height of folly. URN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY • There is a firm in Toronto who give bun- %^rods of men and women an opportunity earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year 'ill but little effort. This firm menufac- ares reliable family remedies, beautiful flet preparations and many necessary ouselteld geode, such as baiting powder, .selling compounds, stove; furniture and Dial polishes. in all over one hundred operations that every home uses every ay. rust one person in each locality can ecure exclusive right to distribute these operations to their neighbors. They ay 100 per cent. commission to their gents. Write and secure sole agency be - re it is too late'. Address The Home eiply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To. oto, Ont., for full particulars. 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During the past six months the system has been so effectively ap- plied that most of the 800,000 chil- dren now attending school in Aus- tralia are each day engaged for at least. 15 minutes in physical ,drill.. In each Australian State a num- ber of instructors have been sup- plied by the Defence Department. In the smaller school's the boys and girls go through drill together, but in the larger institutions they are drilled separately. Drill books are issued showing the course of exercises, and these are classified into trunk, arm, balance, shoulder - blade, marching, running, and jumping movements, arranged in groups extending over eeven years, and leading up to the more serious drills of the junior cadets. The physical drill is not confined, however, to a strict course of exer- cises, but a portion of the 120 hours which must be 'spent ..annually in this way maybe devoted to sports. 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