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. A16Y'S,OWN' TABLIATT . };ward it its claimed that the 'e ciatence
:ARE ' O.Ii' OKRA VALUE of a western coast range , of moun-
tains extending throughout the whole
To An Mothers Having, Young. Alio* of these continents is simply
Children in the/ H.onte the effect of a buckling or crushing. at
---^w-he, forward edge due to 4t'his drift;
t ent rate' of thedrift is esti,-
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Mother's .of young children as is-. , mated to be of the ordeal OE One metre
Baby'sOwm Tablets `-The Tablets are `per'year. "-
the very•, best medicine a mother can -partly with 'a view• to testing this
give her little ones during the .dread- hypaa.thesis, an international arrange -
ed teething time because •they regu- meat was reached by which during
'late' the stomach and bowellls• and thus'. October and November last, some
drive_ out constipation and jndes= fifty, stations distributed among near-
lion;
eartion; prevent colic and diarrhoea and ly thirty countries were united in a
break up colds and simple fevers. , longitude net by astronomical obser-
Concerning Eaby's Own Tablets, vations coupled with radio time -sig -
Mrs. John A. Patterson, Scotch Vil- nals. The relative longitudes of these
lige, N.S., says:—"I have six chil- stations having been once, determined,
dren, and all the medicine they ever it will be possible by a repetition of
get is Baby's Own Tablets. I would the observations at some future date
use nothing else for them and can to definitely settle the question of the
strongly recommend the Tablets to drift of the continents.
all other mothers." _ Canada took her part in this in -
Baby's Own Tablets are sold by vestigatiot;,, by occupying two stations,
medicine dealers or by mail at 25 one at the dominion observatory, Ot-
cents a box from The Dr. Williams' tawa,,, the other at Vancouvet. At
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. the latter place the point selected was
a small field observatory which had
already been occupied by the Ottawa
IS OUR CONTINENT A- CORK? observatory a number of years ago
for latitude and longitude observe -
IS IT DRIFTING WESTWARD? tions made for purely Canadian pur-
poses.
Is America drifting 'westward? Was At each station two telescopes were
it originally one with urope, Africa in constant use, as well as the usual
and Oceania? Was there at one time auxiliary equipment of clocks, chron-
only one vast continent, which sub- ometers, and wireless instruments. At
sequently broke up, the component Vancouver, since the clock equipment
parts gradually drifting apart to was not of the same permanent and
eventually take up the positions they concise character as was possible at
occupy to -day? If so is this gradual Ottawa, use was made of a portable
shift still continuing at a rate which gravity pendulum, swinging entirely
can be measured? These are some free and in a vacuum, to serve as a
of the questions which have been check on the clock. At Ottawa as -
arousing interest in- scientific circle tronomical observations were obtain -
for a number of years. ed on thirty-three nights, and at Van -
This theory, first set forth in con- couver on twenty-five. At each place
trete form by Wegner, an Austrian wireless time -signals from five differ-
geogphysicist, has, in the light of re- ent sending stations were received and
cent knowledge, many points in its measured at all hours of the day and
favor. It is now, for example, practi. night; the total number of distinct
cally an accepted fact that the basal- signals received was over thirteen
tic substratum underlying the sur- hundred. Observations to determine
*ice crust of the earth is not abso- the relative personal equations of the
Iutely-rigid and unyielding, subject four observers engaged were made
only to volcanic or tectonic action, as at Ottawa both before and after the
previously believed. The present idea main series of observations.
is that all rock is susceptible, under
the action of long -continued stresses,
to gradual deformation, so that the
continents may be considered as to all
intents and purposes floating on a
substratum which, when long periods
of time are considered, acts like a
semi -viscous fluid. The flow of ice in
glaciers is a similar phenomenon.
It is only necessary to examine a
map ,or better a terrestrial globe, to
See that the outlines of America on
the one hand, and Europe and Africa
on the other, would fit into each other
with remarkable precision by a sim-
ple displacement. There are also
many geological and paleontological
evidences to show that in early times
-there must have been a much closer
association between the forms of
plant and animal life existing on these
continents. Briefly the theory is that
in the progress of ages the Americas
have been gradually drifting west-
FORD WON'T MAKE NEW CAR—
PLANS TO REMAKE OLD ONES
"If any serious trouble suddenly
should come to Henry Ford and his
business, it is scarcely too much to
say that an industrial panic would
result." With this comment the Re-
view of Reviews presents to its read-
ers, in the February number, an art-
icle designed to set at rest a host
of rumors regarding the Detroit man-
ufacturer who gives employment to a
hundred thousand men in his own city
and to several hundred thousand
others elsewhere.
The article was prepared at the re-
quest of the magazine, by Samuel
Crowther, w'ho has come to occupy
some sort of privileged relationship
to Mr. Ford. How many others could
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deposited.
You are cordially invited to
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After denying 'the u4norsr Mr.
Crowther.discloses tineas »°,of great
moment: Mr. For'dis to relaaile us-
ed ears on a scale colons .ate with
the ;naking7 of', new ,cars.. used
ears' are sent into Qetroit .and put
through a' t'epa1r process planned on
the same lines' as the ' manufacturing
Lfacturing
4aocess. At the present time; a Ford
can be remade for $60, :and shortly,
it is expected, with the increase m
the business, methods can 'be found
to cut this figure down. This work
wv�l not be extended to the larger
branches. This is a super-serviee
which enlarges the Ford policy of re-
pair service to include rebuilding.
This is .probably the most import-
ant step which Mr. Ford has taken
since he went to a single model. The
thought in the motor industry has
always been to regard the used cars
as a nuisance. Now with Ford they
are going to become an asset.
TELLS HOW CHAPLIN GOT HIS
BIG SHOES AND SMALL HAT
Chester Conklin the screen comed-
ian, who is appearing in "McFadden's
Flats," was sitting the other day in
an automobile waiting to be Galled
for a scene of "Rubber Heels," then
being filmed. He was minus his
walrus mwstalche and his farmliar
spectacles, and it can be truly said
that he does not look himself with-
out these adornments. He was in a
cheery mood. o He recalled the old
days when he was a Keystone cop
and if he worked he received $3.00
a day.
Mr. Conklin acted one year with
Charlie Chaplin, and Conklin says
that Mack Sennett thought he had
been "stung" when he engaged Chap-
lin at $175 a week.
"That was in the days before arti-
ficial lights," said Mr. Conklin, "and
therefore we relied upon the sun and
worked in the open all the time. Chap-
lin's chief work was in portraying a
drunk, and he appeared as a drunk
in one scene of a picture, then went
to another set where be did his stunt,
and then to another for about the
same thing. A picture called "Mab-
el's Strange Predicament" really start-
ed Chaplin going. Before that it was
thought that all he had to do was to
stagger, jump, run and get his feet
tangled up in something. He had por-
trayed a comic English newspaper re-
porter with a long mustache, and he
was terrible. In "Mabel's Strange
Predicament" •the principal players)
were Mabel Normand, Roscoe Ar-
buckle, Chaplin, Ford Sterling and
myself. Sterling was the pattern for
all comedy. He wore huge shoes.
"During a lull in the activities,
while Arbuckle and I were playing
pinochle, Charlie got the idea of using
his world-renowned costume. I wore
baggy trousers and Arbuckle had a
small derby hat, and then there was
Sterling with his enormous shoes.
Charlie, to amuse himself and per-
haps other folk, put on my trousers,
Arbuckle's hat and Sterling's foot-
wear. Then he picked up a piece of
black crepe and held it under his
nose like a small, thick mustache. He
looked so ridicullous that he impress-
ed Sennett as having possibilities.
They fixed the mustache on and Char-
lie played in this make-up. And the
first thing we knew was that he had
stolen the picture from all of us."
AVINGS OFFIcE
AR/06'OVFh'NMENT
15 QUEENS PARK
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MONTH'S TELEPHONING ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC
For more than a month now tele-
phone messagees from many parts of
the United States and Canada have
been crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Most of them, so far as we have noted,
have been of an incredible banality.
"Isn't this wonderful?" has been the
phrase most frequently used. In the
opinion of a writer in the New York
Times the most interesting of all was
from a three-year-old Buffalo young
lady to her father. She said: "Hello,
Daddy. The snow is fine." From
this, one may judge of the quality of
the less interesting. On the whole,
the service has been remarkably good.
There has been no report of a tele-
phone user on this side f the Atlantic
failing to reach the person he desired
to talk to on the other side. The tel-
ephone companies have show' extra-
ordinary efficiency. They hav'e.1eEat-
ed for callers on this side persons on
the other who had no telephones.
They rang up a neighboring phone,
and paid for a messenger to hunt up
the person with whom it was desired
to hold a conversation, produced him
at the phone, and the conversation
took place.
From eight o'clock in the morning
to one o'clock in the afternoon in New
York, and from one o'clock in the
afternoon to six in London these,con-
versations have been going forward
and the telephone ,company has had
about as much business as it could
handle. So far there are only two
obstacles to be encountered. One is
static, which is about the same as one
encounters in a cheap radio set tuning
in on a concert, and the other is the
lack of secrecy. It is an easy matter
for anyone on this side of the Atlantic
to tune in on the conversation in New
York, but much more difficult to get
the London end of it. Ships in the
Middle of the ocean, however, are in a
much better position for eavesdrop-
ping. Later on this last difficulty
Will be removed, but the problem of
Stale may continue much monger, It
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teen able #i0, ifs ::ts the newspape$
the • 0019:9#,. ice of what rev.;
oral eelebt't'le's•;` ave said to him by
radio, telepl ep . The British Florist
Telegraph„pottery:Associatign made
a hit whm.; 'Ver,;; to telephone it
asked ce'lleagn00aon this side to send.'
a nosegay to , President Coolidge
with the coat:ipliments of the • B. F.
T D A iSir 'Ilamnas Lipton, n ovdi
the phone made an appointment to
dine with a friend in Yonkers next'
month, awl heard the name of a
second friend vwho would be present.
For the first flew days people talked
from New York, to London and from
London to New York exchanging po-
lite greetings, but since then people
with plenty of money have used this
method- instead of cabling, since it is
faster, and introduces the element
of the familiar -voice.
Salesmen of various kinds regard
it as no fad but an important adjunct
to business. It is much more diffi-
cult to refuse to place an order when
a seller has taken the trouble and
gone to the expenise to itel4hone
3,000 miles, than if he had merely
sent a letter. Here is a conversa-
tion of that kind:—
"Hello. This is London. About
those woollens. You should buy
them now. Latest Australian re-
ports point to a shortage this Fall
of the best wool. Quality goods will
be high. Can we put you down for
ten thousand yards, as per those
samples? Did you get them all
right?”
"Oh, yes, we got the samples,"
came the reply, "but your price is
too high. I don't believe those re-
ports about a shortage. Anyway we
will take the risk. What's that, A
shilling cheaper? Well, that's bet-
ter. Yes, book us for ten thousand
yards."
Messages of happiness, of love, of
achievement and of trouble have
flown across the ocean just as they
new have been flying fur so many
years over the cable. After the nov-
elty wears off, human nature and
human needs assert themselves.
We think the most curious mes-
sage to cross the Atlantic by the new
medium concerned "Black Bottom,"
a new dance. The conversation took
place between two dancing masters.
The master in London had heard
of the dance, but did not know much
more than its name. So the New
York expert placed a talking machine
close to the instrument, and while
it played the dance, he counted the
time. A dancer stood on an empty
box near by and stamped her feet
to the rhythm. It took fifteen min-
utes to complete the lesson and the
cost to the Londoner was $375, with
$50 added for the lesson. The Times
says that there is always something
of drama about the trans-Ablantic
call. "Long Distance," sitting at.
her instrument, can pick out the
voice that wants London in a hurry.
It is quick -spoken and nervous;
there is tension at the other end of
the telephone wires. So far, business
calls have exceeded bhe personal
kind by two to one. They usually
begin the moment service is avail-
able in the morning here, and last
most of the period.
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WALKS NEEDED ALONG
HIGHWAYS
That there is a crying need for
sidewalks or footpaths along some of
our most intensively trafficked high-
ways is apparent to those who as
drivers or pedestrians use them.
Sidewalk and footpath construction
along rural roads has been ,left, here-
tofore, entirely to the minor munici-
palities, and, as a result, such side-
walks and footpaths are conspicuous
by their absence for the most part.
With a view to stimulating the con-
struction of such roadside sidewalks
and footpaths, the department of pub-
lic highways has decided to contribute
thirty per cent. towards their cost, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Hon. George S. henry at the annual
meeting of the St. Catharines and
Lincoln county branch of the motor
league.
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Since it is reason which shapes and
regulates all other things, it ought not
itself to he leftin disorder.—Epicte-
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Some people seem to go nn the
theory that their ancestors did all
the hard work thatwas necessary in
the family.- Kitchener Record.
The law of worthy life is fundamen-
tally the law of strife. It is only
through labor and painful effort, by
grim energy and resolute courage that
we move on to hatter things.--Then-
dore Roosevelt.
An authority remarks that there is
not much change in men's clothes this
winter. Aren't those married men
bitter ?—Montreal Star.
English women are said to be taking
to the driving of ears, but whether
from the back seat or not is not clear-
ly stated.—Kingston Whig -Standard.
Two Aylmer bogs lighted'a match
to look for a dime under an automobile
gas tank. Yes! -'Ottawa Journal.
What some men say should not be
charged against them, but credited to
some one else. --Chicago News.
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carpeted and decorated it. We have start
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this the banner year in Women's and Misses'
COATS AND DRESSES
Advance shipments are already arriving. Every
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