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n Retaili
IN THIS town are many retailers
who could and should have larg-
er businesses.
The right way to get on in business
is to set sales mark for the year—
$5,000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000—
whatever is reasonable and within
one's financial ability.
Thenthe year's objective should
be reduced to weekly and monthly
amounts, in accordance ;with the sea-
sonal. character of one business.
Then the next thing to do is to cal-
culate the number of sales transac-
tions needed each w.eek to produce
the weekly saleobjective. Thus, if
one's average sales transaction is 50
cents, and if one's weekly sales ob-
jective is $100; then, clearly, the re-
tailer must have 200 sales transac-
tions every week. This may mean
200 customers.. 1
So the retailer's job is to get into
his store 200 customers each week—
an average of gzi a day.
These customerst� be secured at
the rate of 200 a week require to be
-(1) invited, publicly and regularly,
by advertisements in this newspaper;
(2) informed about the seller's mer-
chandise, prises and service—again
by advertisements in this newspaper,
and (3) so well served by the retailer
that they will become "repeaters."
The main thing is customer attrac-
tion in required and pre -determined
numbers, and this is achieved by in-
teresting and Rwarm-blooded adver-
tisements in this newspaper.
Our Advertising Department stands ready to help petailers prepare
customer -attracting advertisements.
The First of a Series issued by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association of which The. Huron Expositors is a member.
• Negroes .in Custody
During the last four years I have
known rather intimately some 2,000
or more individuals at edds with the
authorities, of whom about 25 per
cent. have been Negroes. Perhaps
some characteristics of the Negro
were more noticeable to me because
they were not what I expected to find.
For example, I was unprepared to ob-
serve that the poor Negro easily car-
ried himself with personal dignity,
which the poor white achieved only
with an effort. I had been told that
Negroes were servile. I have never
seen a people less so. 'My court ac-
quaintances are field hands, ditch -dig-
gers, stokers and scrub -women, lately
migrated. They have been trained
by nobody. And most of them are un-
acquainted with the ways of elegance
even through the movies. Despite all
this they carry themselves with the
poise iihat evene a court summons fails
to shake. They do not meech or
grovel, or ,seuirm or whimper, or gig-
gle or rant or apologize. They en-
ter the room andd glance about it for
the proper place to sit or stand. Hav-
ing a:hind it, they compose themselves
look me straight in the eye, and wait
for me to • speak. The Prince of
Wales could hardly improve upon their
manners. 'Sometimes it is difficult to
listen to what they .say for wonder-
ing how it is done. And with such
handicaps of costume!
We women of the White race, I
reflect, by contrast are fundamentally
dependent epon our clothes to boost
our. self-assurance. We aye serene if
opr clothes are right, but'humiliated
if they are wrong. The white wo-
man in court with a handkerchief ov-
er .her head is more abashed over
her head than over her sins. Much
more. 1So she, tastes the dregs of
abasement and gazes into her lap.
Not so her colored sister. Draped in
anchaos of fragments, she looks stead -
'ant under a hat she salvaged from
some rubbish -can, with the composure
of Queen Mary in her toque. I have
never seen a colored, woman even
faintly abashed by her costume.
Sometimes all styles are exhibited in
one family. The girl is dressed like
all .girls. Out of nothing she has
somehow managed tosloak like ail the
world. So has her mother. Her grand
mother, perhaps, is swathed in full
black skirts of a Civil War pattern,
with a wide white collar and a gold
breastpin. While Great Grandmother
hobbles in on crutches,.her aarmentg
pinned across her chest with a safety
pin, and her cap tied on with a black
ribbon. But it takes more than
crutches and discarded ribbons to a-
bash a 'colored grandmother. In factn
they are the only grandmothers I
harve ever known to come into their
itZteet,
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AFEW DAYS AWAYFROM HOME
WILL DO YOU GOOD:AND RE-
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A PARTY' SOP NEXT' WEEKEND.
•Cheerful, comfortable rooms;
tsar iettele Restful surroundings
• PLENTY'OF CURB PARKING SPACE
GARAGE COE, 'MINUTE WALK
sink $130 to $1.00 •
Raz Pati6le $346 to $6.00
WAVERLEY
own. They are still. persons. They
/levers quail before a stylish grand-
daughter by so much as the fraction
of an inch. If they -.look like scare-
crows, it embarrasses neither the one
nor the other. Let the girl be saucy
and•one look from her grandmother's
dark, heavy -lidded eyes hits its mark.
Accustomed to the spectacle of white
grandnsothers, idealized' according to
Whistler, but relegated in spite of
themselves to shafls. and 'chimney -
corners, these doughty old colored wo-
men, physically infirm but spiritually
undaunted, who have managed some-
how to keep a hold on their progeny,
are impressive creatures. Often • a
white woman loses her head in court
and acts uncommonly silly. • A colored
woman never.
The dignity of the Negro defend-
ant coexists with a fine sense of
comedy. Granted the possible ex-
planation that they always 'nye the
advantage of ;English as a mother
tongue, they are still the only clients
in court on whom I can depend •to
take a joke. Let the joke be ever so
feeble, or, so rapid, yet there is an
answering flicker in a colored prison,
er's eye. Thu a Sara—who told me in
one breath that she would love her
Willie Jay till death, and almost in
the next that the was sick of him—
still had the grace to give me this
information with a snicker. The abil-
ity to laugh at one's self springs
from the same source as poise. It re-
presents detachment from ansituation.
If a white wrangle is brought in-
to court, it is likely to keep the spir-
its of he contestants hot while they
?re there. Bet two colored opponents
who have knifed each other seem able
to discuss the knifing quietly in court
even' though they resume hostilities
as soon, as they leave it. There was
Blanche Who was considerable -of a
rounder, and thereby haled before the
police court judge. The judge, who
happens to be a woman', had heard
of 'Blanche before, and disposed of
her rather shortly with sitc months in
the. Workhouse. At this sentence,
which would have Get most white girls
crying or muttering Blanche merely
studied the judge's person with an
appraising eye, and observed: "Say,
you know the girls down my way,
they call you 'Hard-boiled Mary.' But
you ain't. You is a cute little trick!"
Could impartiality go farther than
that?
• I once asked one of these indomit-
able colored girls how it was that, be-
ing what she was and had 'always
been, she could face an utter change
of life with respectable relatives, and
apparently be neither abashed n o r
humiliated. Her answer wag: "Col-
ored folks* aren't aike white folks.
When we're done with something, we
are done. We don't think about it
•and we don't worry about it! You
white folks go on worrying When it
don't do no good. When it don't do
me no good to worry, I quit!" Facts
are facts. The past is past. Where
the white face shrieks against the in-
evitable, the colored race has learned
that the iaevitable cannot be, avoided
by shrieking.
The colored woman holds an en-
viable position among her sex. As
women go, she comes the nearest to
emancipation. The time -worn jest of
Raetus 'battening on the wages of his
Dinah at the washtub is based, like
many other half-truths, on the o•bser-
vations of those who knew their col,
oied but not their Whites. The poor
colored woman, like the poor White,
works for her family's living. Who
but poor white married women run
the power machines in most of our
factories? Or if they work in their
own 'kitchens, for no money and less
thankS, their 'colored counterpart
woks in other woMeria, kitchens and
does not Mk for thanks 'he -cause she
haeJiei, Wag. The colored wife •han.
dies hfr own money. What her mate,
receives from her is freely bestowed.
The colored man seems never to be
burdened with the white "greatman"
complex, whose masculinity demands,
that he snatch, his woman's earninge
with one hand while he pounds her
with the other. If he pounds, he
pounds but once. Before walking out
of the door with her wages in her
pocket, his wife will have administer-
ed a sound barto the ear of her crest-
fallen lord. Servility before her task -
Master is never written on the faces
of colored women. 'Many is the white
man who shouts to his erring daugh-
ter on wh.asewages he has lived:—
"Get out of my sight forever! You
have disgraced the family!" The typ-
ical answer of the colored father, in
a similar situation is, "Whatever she
did, she is my daughter still." He
seeits never to have. learned that his
daughters deserve less consideration
than his sons. e
China's Lone Wolf
; No Lover of English
Fiery, agile little Eugene Che -n,
losie wolf of Chinese politics is an im-
portant "X" in the new equation
which may blend the Nanking and
Cantonese governments. If he emer-
ges with any considerable degree of
power, it will mean a long swing to
the left for China. He has, been ser-
iously mentioned for foreign. minis-
ter, the job refused by Dr. Alfred Sze.
Far away and long ago, in the is-
land of Trinidad, Mrs. Bernard Ach-
am, Chinese, ran a little shop. Her
son, Eugene, was a prodigy. He
romped through the schools and be-
carrie a lawyer, even then denounc-
ing "British imperialism." On his -
father's side there was a touch of
Latin blood. He married a riegress
and had four chintren. One. girl, beau-
tiful ad a genius, became a dancer
and appeared successfully on the Lon-
don stage. His son became a•lawyer.
Eugene Chen learned four lang-
uages and acqpireel the best library
in the West Indies. Then he went to
China and rap the Peking Gazette. It
was hewho seized the pettish con-ce.s-
sioneat Hankow in 19271, the only seiz-
ure of British propert dared by the
Chinese intransigents.
In the West Indie'snihe was fastid-
iously tailored hi European dress, cul-
tured, facile and assured in western
ways. In China, he. wears an em-
broidered robe and a small thimble
on the little finger of his right hand,
the mark of gentility.
He holds many strands of China's
tangled skein of destiny.
Famed Woodbridge, Fair
Has Honorable Record
As the Canadian National Exhibi-
tion fades from view each succeed-
ing year, a number of annual events
that interest Toronto people appear
on the horizon. Notable among them
is Woodbridge Fair, with its long
history of successes. Reaching back
for its inception beyond the memory
Of most •of us—eighty-four years in
fast—its glory has in no sense dimins
islied with its increasing years. True,
keeping pace with the times, certain
features thisnryear differed arid*
from some of the attractions that
marked this' great annual agritelturs
al ehOw, say a quarter or a half Cen-
tury ago. 'Going beck fifty yedre a
thineworthyl of note about this Air
is that there liven in Woodbridge to-
day a man who, until he resigied last
year, was for all that time a direetor
of the society under .whose auspices
the exhibition was held. That man is
D. C. Longhouse, immediate pastpre
•
IARNVTIYACe 41/Arkek w, 0 were miP4t. •
notice 1104 a puree, i
Three. decades ago the4 . Mon
followed hard upon an erye t ef MO -
merit in the village, , u4.which
tended to aunment the attendance.
Shortly befere there was 4 great
demonstration to welcome home frora
South Africa Hon. N. 'Clarke Wal -
lace's eldest 'son ,who had resigned
his captaincy in a Peel Battalion
and had gone as a private to the war
and had beeinvalided home,
Thomas George Wallace later suc-
ceeded his father as representative
of the constituency in the Haase of
Commons. The fair that year will
also be remembered by the older
residents, as having been the occa-
sion on which the village's un-
licensed hotel imported a bus load of
"slops"' and with two men .skilled in
mixing colors, who had been working
in the vidlage, and other "dispensers,"
looked after the varied demands of
the thirsty. ,A police court case was
the consequence and the concomitant
fine imposed lse Magistrate Peter El-
lis, of what is now West Toronto.
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ident, who has kindly given us much
data regarding the history of the fair.
The president for 1931 is T. B. Weld -
rick, of Maple, who was born on
Woodbridge Fair Day, in the year of
the Fenian Raid, and bears as his
middle name the ancient name of the
muniCipanty—Burwick.
When we acknowledge our indebt-
edness to Mr. Longhouse, an acto-
genarian, we must mention as well
the assistance we received from the
man who perhaps should .bear the
title, covering many years, of Director
of Ceremonies of Woodbridge Fair.
We refer to Dan McKenzie, than
whom among the elders of the village
and, of the Presbyterian Church and
perhaps of York County there is no
one better known or better loved.
From year to year it was one of Mr.
MacKenzie's pleasant duties on Fair
Days to meet the special C.P:R. train
from Toronto and Owen Sound'
which brought hundreds of people
to the village for the occasion, re-
ceive them and place the more prom-
inent in private carriages, to be es-
corted by the ,bancinclown town prior to
visiting the fair grounds.' Twenty-
five or thirty years ago the notables
were driven to the Dominion Ex-
change., the general store, of Wallace
Brothers—the Hon. N. Clarke Wal-
lace, IVI.P., once Comptroller of Cus-
toms for Canada, and his brother,
Thomas Frazer Wallace—by whom
they were accompanied to the show
and given every possible personal at-
tention.
Among other prominent men so
entertained at different times were
Sin Charles Tupper and Hon. J. Isreal
Tarte, who in their turn officiated
at the opening of the Fair. Every
year. scene leading man 'in• the pubes
lice life of this country has performed
this pleasant duty. , Memory goes
back to thirty years ago, when Rich-
ard Willis was president and T. F.
Wallace was, as he had been since
1878, the efficient secretary of the
society. Mr. Wallace was also reeve,
chairmen of the schoolboard and
rector's warden of Christ's Churn.
A most kindly than, and as well as
keen in business, he on one occas
so flatly refused to place thousands
ot dollars' debts on the firm's book
in the hands of a collecting agency
because the people 'owing him were,
he said, his neighbors and would pay
as soon as they were able. Many, as
has been staid, came to the Fair On'
special CJP.R. trains. Others means
were, however. found to reach this
mid-October Mecca of people from
various sections of the prvoince. In
that day automobiles were as rare as
they are now common. Driving hors-
es and buggies, in democrat and lum-
ber wagons, in ones and twos, threes
and larger groups, they came, all out
for a day's enjoannent.
The second clay; of course, attract-
ed the crowds', ,the speed and other
events of, a special nature being a
powerful magnet. A scene never to
be forgotten was. the arrival of the
business inert and city fathers from
Toronto, as they entered the village
in various types of conveyance, and
proceeded along Wallace Street, past
the residence of Eton. N. Clarke Wal-
lace. 'A picturesque feature in con-
mection with the Queen City's dele-
gation were the tally -hos, driven by
John Macdonald and ether promi-
nent citizens, attired in white toppers
who thus evinced as much personal as
they had already showed a financial
interest in the fair.ba their generous
contributions to the prize Hat. In-
cluded in the Toronto parties were al-
ways the mayor and his wife, the
tnembers of the Board of Control and
City Council, the Oity and ,Connty of-
ficitils, the weathers of parliament in
both Federal, and Provincial houses,
wholesale and retail merchants, in-
cludiug the wholesale dealers at St.
Good Pastures Supply
Both Feed and Exercise
Ake of tabo'u nneehalf baaket at oein
tinae.
WiPe apples, remove stem and bos.;
sda and Ilinsquartera.
be preserving kettle and ad'd cold'
wae t� teOlne nearly to the top of
the apnlpe., tOOVer and cook slowly
until the apples are soft; mash, and
drain InliVnligh a eoarse sieve. Avoid
squeezing the apples, which makes
jelly closidy.. Re -heat the pulp, and
turn into jelly bag. Allow the juice
to drip :through a double thickness of
cheese -cloth or a. flannel bag. Meas-
ure the juice, and place it ever the
heat. Boil for 20 minutes. In the
meantime measure out the sugar,
allowing one-quarter.up of ,sugar for
each cup of the juke. 'Spread the
sugar in a shallow pan and allow it
to heat in the ovenn-with the deer op-
en—while the juice, is boiling. When
the juice has boiled for 20 minutes,
empty in the sugar; boil five minutes,
skim, and turn in glasses. Put in a
sunny windonn and let stand 24 hours.
Cover and keep in a cool, dry place.
The apples ,should be firm and juicy,
and not etver4ipe.
Crab Apple Jelly.
Follow the recipe for ,ep,ple jelly,
leaving the apples whole instead of
cutting in quarters.
Apple Butterr Fronis Pulp.
• After the apple jelly is made, tern
the pulp out of the bag and add to it
half its measure of sugar, the juice
of •one lemon for eyery five cupfuls
of pulp and, if desired, a little spice.
Cook until quite thick, care being tak-
en that the butter does not burn.
Good pasturage is essential to econ-
omy in hog raising, according td the
report of the federal Experimental
Station at Lacombe, Alta: ' Not only
is it a valuable source of feed, but it
also provides eseercise essential to the
proper assimilatlea of grain and other
feeds. • a
Among the pasture crops at La-
combe are oats, rye, rape, alfalfa,
sweet clover, bairley, wheat, peas,
breme and various, mixtures. These
tests show that for Central Alberta at
least the rye and oat pasture proves
the most reliable year in and year
out. Two bushels of oats mixed with
one bushel of fall rye per acre, spring
seeded, has proven most satisfactory.
Fall rye and oats can be seeded as
Soon as the ground is ready and will
give a good healthy growth early en-
ough for spring pigs. Oats make a
very rapid growth and are pastured
off before the rye is ready. Coming
on later the rye will carry the, pigs
through the rest of the season.
Rape takes Second place to rye
and oats and is a very satisfactory
pasturage for late summer and fall.
It may be seeded broadcast at the
•rate of 8 to 10 pounds per acre, or
seeded in •drills 30 inches apart and
cultivated between the rows to keep
down weed growth. A good stand of
rape will carry from 25 to 30, pigs
per acre.
Where it can he grown alfalfa out-
ranks all other fee -ds as a pasture for
hogs. It has a maximum of feed val-
ue and hogs likent. It is sometimes
rather difficult to establish and too
close cropping is likely to kill it out.
Sweet clover, on the other hand, is
unpalatable, and not relished by hogs.
When it gets beyond a foot high they
do riot care for it and dig up the roots
rather than eat sweet clover.
•
Crab Apple Jelly and
Other Apple Recipes
Crab Apple and Orange Conserve.
It is a ,good idea to make crab ap-
ple and orange conserve at the same
time as crab apple jellY, for the pulp
that remains after thce juice is ex-
tracted for the jelly may be utilized
for making the conserve. However
if it is desired to make it at some
other time fresh pulp can•be prepar-
ed for the parpose.
Use one quart crab apple pulp, 8
oranges, 3 pounds sugar.Tothe crab
'apple pulp add the 'suger and place.
over the fire to boil. Peel the or-
,.
anges, scoop out the white portion
from the peelings—discarding it, then
cut the peelings into thin strips and
add to the crab apple pulp.
• A few minutes before the cooking
mixture is removed from the fire
(when it has cooked until quit thick)
adcl orange sections, carefully 'cut
from the pulp, using a sharp knife
and cutting between each section of
white skin. Squeeze out all the juice
from the white'skin; discard the skin
and add the juice to the boiling mix-
ture. Bcil for ten minutes longer,
then 'bottle in hot sterilized glasses.
Glaced Crab Apples.
Select a hard, red satiety of crab
apples. Use only perfect fruit. For
a peck of apples take five pounds! of
granulated sugar. Wash and wipe
the fruit, leaving on the stems if de-
sired; put the fruit and sugar, ,Ain
stone jars or casseroles in layers,
adding cinnamon and cassia buds to
taste. Cover the jars with 'buttered
paper. Bake in a slow o5en two and
ane -half hours. These n y be stored
as canned fruit, but 1l keep in
earthen jars' some time.
Crab Apple Conse ve.
Wash, ^quarter and core (but do
not peel) as many crab apples as de-
sird. in a preserving kettle
with three cupfuls of sugar to every
quart of fruit. Put a stick of cinna-
mon in the centre, add a few cloves
and enough water to moisten, or
about 1 cupful to the ordinary mel-
iurmasized kettle. Place in a slow
oven and cook for about two hours.
Keep covered until the sugar is dis-
solved; do not stir, but baste care-
fully to keep moist. This conserve
will turn dark and transparent the
Ink half hour of cooking, and must
be seen and tasted to be appreciated.
Apple Jelly.
The following recipe is a favorite
one for apple jelly, and, has been Us-
ed' for more than twenty years --
without a failure.
We hatre received a number of re -
questa for assistance in cases where
the apple jelly mixture has refused to
"jell." In practically all of the cases
the trouble has been caused, by the
Cook's endeavor to make too large a
quantity of jelly at one lame. When
a very large quantity of juice is made
up at 'one time; longer co -eking is re-
• attired, both before and after the sug-
ar is added. Frequently, the flavor
of the jelly Will not be -se fine—tlue
to long cooking of juice, and sugar.
We never make up more than the
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the foolishness or 'vulgarity of the
dramatic material itself. It was like ;
seeing a battleship, go into action a-
gainst a few Mackerel.Nevertheleaes
there is continuous improvement, and
the author is gradually Gamin into
his own.
American business men hare it
passion for numbers and committeeta
and conferences', and the men who
run the Hollywood studios are noth-
ing if not American business men.
Naturally the studios have been
worked on ,the committee and con-
ference plan. Thus, I was told, one
studio had sixty-five writers. This
system, of course, discourages art
and encourages hatch -patch stuff..
No matter how many Maas you pro-
dute. you de not want sixty-five
writers, even' if they are ell good.
writers. This ridiculous syatem ex-
plains a lot of the idiocies of Holly-
wood production.
However, at least one studio, the
United Artists, is dropping this con-
ference system and depending upon
one author for the literary side of a
will fella* its example.
The reason why so many Holly-
wood pictures are not intelligent is^
not because the people in Hollywood
do not know what a good film should
be. Most of them are very anxious
to., produce the very best of films.
The trouble is that HollyWood is the:
centre of the motion picture industry,
with millions of capital invested in
it. Its pictures cost so 'much that
they have to make vast sums which
can only be .made by appealing to the
thousand Main Streets. Mr. and Mrs.
Babbitt must approve of a film te
make it a paying success. For this
reason everybody in Hollywood wears
a worried look,, for it is a tremendous
task to make a talkie which will make
a fortune.
Taxes Force the Sale
.Of Montbatten Home
Brookfflouse, the famous Park -lane
home of Lady Louis Mountbatten, is
for sale. This means that 'yet an-
other of the great London mansions
will -probably disappear to make way
for a hotel'ior flats.
The reason for Lady Louis's decis-
ion to sell is the high taxation. -The
wish was expressed in the will of the
late Sir Ernest ,Cassel, Lady Louis's
millionaire grandfather, that -Brook
•House and its contents should never
be ,sold.
It is clear, however, that Sir
Eyi-
,est did not anticipate such a si
tion as exists at present, and the will
stated expressly hat he was not mak-
ing a binding condition on any of his
successors.
Brook House, in Lord Tweedmoirth's
time, was the rallying place of the
Liberal party after its defeat in 1895.
It is filled with art treasures, coln
lected by Sir Ernest, and among the
most interesting of its rooms is Lord
'Louis's ,bedreom, which is built .in im-
itation of a naval officer's cabin, even
to the extent of painting a seascape
outsid'e its porthole windows.
Hundreds of thousands of poutd,s
were s,pe4, on Brook House after Sir
Ernest eiVnight it. Several hundred
tons of marble were. used to make
the grand hall and staircases.
Lady Louis is shortly to join her
husband, Lord Louis 'Mountbatten,
who has recently been appointed fleet
signal officer with the Queen Eliza-
beth at Malta. He will be stationed
there for two years, and upon her re-
turn Lady Louis .may live in a Lon•
don flat.
As An Outsider
Sees Hollywood
• We spent less than a week fin
Hollywood, but we used every walk-
ing moment of Our time there. We
came to the conclusion that Holly-
wood, in spite of its size (and it
stretches for miles) and its wealth,
and its fame and its cosmopolitan in-
dustry, is at heart an American small
town. There is no 'suggestion of a
metropolis about it. Though it has
fairly largeashaes, hotels, and the-
atres, it is definitely small town in
atmosphere. There is surprisingly,„
little show or glitter, and the social.
customs of the place are nearer those
of Peoria than New York. Most of
the More important film people live
outside of Hollywood, in one of its
pleasant suburbs or at the beach. But
Hollywood itself remains a small
town, because most of the films made
there are not made for New, York,
Lonclaa and Paris, but for the Ameri-
can small town, .for the solitary pic-
ture theatre in a thousand Main
Streets.
For the most part it seems to be a
plaee of continuous hard 'weirk, and
early hours hp bed. It does not
make much "whoopee." It is a much
more saber, industrious, and intelli-
gent town than it used to be, and is
probably less amusing. The scenario
writing, the casting, the directing
and the acting are far -more intelli-
gent than they used to be. Dialogue
has practically killed the silliest sort
of film production.
Good stories and dramas are still
foolishly 'mutilated, but not as often
as they used to be. I 'found nearly
everybody—directors, actors aind ac-
tresses, technical men—very keen on
their work. There aeems to be a sur
prising • amount of patience and team
irit about the:place. , The technical,
side of Hollywood -studio work ia al-
naost miraculous in its accuracy, finish
and organization, , Even the better
studios may turn .out a lot of silly
films, bat they set to work 'producing
therm as if the Mama were all going
to he • masterpieces. As 1 watched
them .1Milding their extraordinary
life -like rid 'sometimes beautiful sets
or listened to an account of the tea. -
nidal work involved, I could not help
thinking of the ironical .ccintraat be-
tween thie intelligence- and laical and
No Seat Was Reserved
• For the HoruSred Guest
How would you like to be the guest
of honor at a big dinner party and
discover that no place had been re-
served for you?
Capt. Bob Bartlett, the Arctic ex-
plorer, found himself in 'that embar-
rassing position the other evening._
Capt. Bob had been invited to be
the guest of honor at a large dinner
at the Explorer$' Club. A hundred or
more members -Of the club and their
guests, inafilding many other famous
explorers, gathered there to do him.
honor: Wit when the yi sat dearn'for
dinner they noticed the guest of the
evening wandering 'around the tables
looking for his place.
• The dinner committee, not having
received an acceptance from' Captain
Bartlett, who is a member of the club
had neglected to provide a seat for
him, although the affair was given in
his honor.
"Gosh!" exclaimed the old sea dog
when he heard the explanation and
received the apologies that were due
him. "I didn't know you had to write-
in and say you were coming to your
own dinner."
Titled British Girl
•
Buys Valuable Colt
The Hen. Dorothy Paget, a daugh-
ter of Lord Queenborough, created the
greatest surptise of -the famous Don-
caster yearling sales recently, when a
half-brother of the St. Leger winner
was bought on her behalf for 6,60f)
guineas.
• The purchase was made on her be-
half by another young enthusiast, Mr.
Basil Briscoe, who. has -Made such
rapid:progress as a trainer near Near -
,market since he gave up riding as an
amateur.
• Miss Paget probably prevented
Sandwich's compact young relative ,
from going to France, fog Mr. Frank
Carter, the noted Anglo-French train-
er, was the underbidder for this colt
by Spion Kop out of Waffles. Mr. Car-
ter had previously this week paid a
high price on • laehalf of Mr. Ernest
Esmond.
Mies Paget, who is only twenty-six*
blossomed forth in the sporting world
a year or two back by running her
own fleet of superfast ears and re-
taining some of the best riders at
Brooklands.
It was said at the time that the ven-
ture cost her 240,000.
Then she gave it up as suddenly as
She had started, and burst into horse
racing ba buying last December the
costly Breadcrumb from Lord Astor.
He has, so far, been able to run only
once on the flat in Miss Paget % col-
ors.
The government of England is at
limited miockery.
The letters M.D.Isignify "mentally
d e fiAi em
e t.
-
"editerranean and the Red
Sea are connected by the sewage can-
al.
Climate lasts all the time, but wea-
ther only, for a few days.
phinalry is the attitude of a man.
toward .a strange woman.
' Appendicitis is caused by informa-
tion in the appendix.
In 1470 Elizabeth had an indisposi-
tion from the Pape.
A mloriarlogue i conversation ber-
tween two people, such as husband
and wife. •
Vesuvius is a volcano and if yam
will climb up to the top you. will see
the creator smoking.
Scienee is material. iTj1 igion ia
immaterial.
Gravity, was discovered by Isaacs
Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the
autumn when the apples are falling
off the trees.
What part did the U. 'S. navy play
in the war? It played the Star
Spangled Banner.
Alfonso" might come to .America:
Any old ourbon gets. a royal welcomszt
here.— ilwaukee. Leakier. ,J