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V/hen Lightning Strikes the Barn y lightning. Apparently ing did not burn as ra , and there was rain h may have helped matters. time for several neighbors to gather and help take a few things from the building, but the story says chief dif culty was in getting the horses out. The old rule is to throw something over the head of a horse in a state of fear and the animal can then be led to safety Four horses were taken out of that burning barn, but two of them re- turned and were lost, and in doing 50 they were acting just the same as a good many other horses have done on similar occasions. And that brings up the old question of why a horse returns to its stall even when the barn is on fire! That they will do it is not open to question because it has been done so frequently, but why it is done is not so clear. The most satisfactory explanation we have encountered is that the horse regards the stall as a home, and when there is a gmeat deal of con- fusion as in the time of a fire the horse wants to go home. The feeling is claimed to be much the same as that possessed by a child when it comes on night or when there is dan- ger--it wants to go home. We recall having seen a blind horse on a farm. It was seven years old 'and had been blind for four years. It went from pasture near the bushland along a path across a bridge and then along the lane toward the barn. En- tering the barn yard the blind horse passed between two buildings and then went to the far side of the main barn, passed five other stalls and en- tered the sixth from the door, and that was where it belonged. The strange thing is the other horses were not coming up from pasture at the time, but the blind horse quite often came in by itself and went without error to its stall. That ani- mal felt it was at home in its own stall. The average farm horse spends a good many hours each and every week in its stall, particularly when the summer season is over. It is part of the daily routine going in there when work is done and having the harness removed. It is fed and cleaned there, and as far as an ani- mal can have feeling, we believe the' "bagpe" feeling would be centered in a ybat is why it wants to AR Work Makes For Vacation Trouble See That Children Are Occupied With Useful Tasks a Few Hours a Day Experience has taught mothers that for the first week or two of vacation there is no trouble. The children are so thrilled over their freedom that they entertain themselves. No plan is needed now, because loafing is in- terest enough. - But reaction sets in inevitably, and after that the quarrels begin. You vis- ion slamming doors, arguments and tears. You see disorder, too, because heat and disorganization upset train- ing. That 'little imp Mischief finds work for idle hands. But why keep hands idle, and let minds become lazy and bored? Work is the answer. Children need some effort and re- sponsibility of one kind or another to keep the mmentally content. Play scon pall, and ceases to be a joy. Let them help with housework and gardening, at stated hours in the mornings, or, if youo prefer, after- noons, If Sam is conditioned in certain studies, don't have him wait for the end of August to begin. The hour of study each day should be started soon. Music lessons might be kept up, or an outside subject in which the child is interested. Furthermore, all children need ideas for play, because, left entirely to their own devices, they lack in- genuity, and there is nothing to work toward. Chatham Man Grows Pecans CHATHAM.--Now it's pecan nuts they're growing in southwestern On- tario. Robert J. Guy, Chatham resi- dent, has three becan trees growing in his backyard. + -- FE ITE = «+ STOPPED IN A MINUTE... Are you tormented with the itching t.iiures of eczema. rashes, athlete's feet, eruptions, or other skin afflictions? For quick and happy relief, use cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Its gentle oils soothe the irris tated skin. Clear, greaseless and stainless-- dries fast. Stops the most intense itching instantly. A 35c trial bottle, at drug stores, proves money back, . 20 - Issue No. 31--'37 c--1 MERE esa 5 by Sir Oswald, Police struggled to restrain lar ge crowds and made many arrests held a meeting at Kentish Town, and marched through north-east This picture shows the procession leaving Islip street, when 4,000 Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mosley (indicated by ERO) London to Trafalgar Square, where a second meeting was addresse Kentish Town, where the first meeting was held. Pat wanted to borrow some money from Michael, who happened to have a small boy with him at the moment. Pat -- "Tis a fine boy you have there with you, Mike. A: magnificent Yicad and noble features. Could you y oan me ten?" ; ' a Z -- P- il [~ ala = CUR UGilu, Read it or not -- "Angels do not have wings." Hairy Customer -- "Hair cut, singe, shampoo, mustache clipped and the beard trimmed, and -- er -- where can I put this cigar?" Barber -- "Would you mind keep- ing it in your mouth, sir. "It'll be sort of a landmark." Visitor -- "I can't tell you how de- lighted I am, Mrs. Giles. My son Reg- gie has- won a scholarship." Farmer's Wife -- "I can understand your feelings, ma'am. I felt just the same when our pig won a blue ribbon at the County Fair. We don't believe times are as good they say. There doesn't seem to enough insurance agents bothering us. : . as be Clothier -- "Were you pleased with the overcoat I sold you?" Customer -- "Oh, yes. All my boys have worn it." Clothier -- "Well! Well!" Customer -- --"Yes, each time it has been worn in the rain the next smallest one has {. take it." Go-getters are not always keepers. Some unhappy marriages might be prevented if the method suggested by the following from the Pathfinder were adopted. Young Man -- "Sir, your charming daughter has invited me to dinner." Her Father -- "I'll do better than that. I'll invite you to breakfast. And then you can see how she looks in the morning without her makeup." To tell a funny story, tell the point and omit the story, Mrs. Smith rushed into her living room. Mrs. Smith -- "Oh, John, I dropped my diamond ring off my finger and 1 can't find it anywhere." John (calmly) -- "It's all right dear. I came across it in my trousers pocket." THE OPTIMIST I sing a song to the Optimist, To the man that is brave and strong, Who. keeps his head when things go right, And smiles when things go wrong. I am proud of the genial Optimist, His radiant voice an dspeech; He helps smooth the rugged path Of "all within his reach. I like the way of the Optimist Who looks for the bright an dthe best He scatters sunshine as he goes And leaves his fellows blest. I am glad to meet the Optimist, With his message of good cheer; He carries hope and confidence To those assailed by fear. So here's a song to the Optimist Who joyously works and sings And daily shows this weary world The way to better things. -- --~Grenville Kleiser Clipped -- "Where there is a will there is a way, and where there 0 will there are a lot of fighting a- tives." ) He wag jryiin dd vere fabcand ste FAN he, ey 0 get 11a Show She -- Stop pushing, can't you?" He -- "Excuse me, madame. I did not push. I only sighed." Good definition of Salesmanship "The art of selling products that will The Kitten That Was Brought Back J. D. Featherstonhaugh, in Our Dumb Animals, writes: -- "Patricia" has learned that even a burly truck- driver may have a kind heart. Patricia, a stray cat who was adopted by the writer, recently gave birth to three kittens in the back com- partment of a moving van that had been laid up for repairs in the back yard. The following day she decided that March weather in Schenectady was a bit too cold for her youngsters and one by one she started moving them to an empty carton she had found in the cellar of the house. The first two were moved without diffi- culty, but when the cat returned for the third the truck was gone, driver having completed his repairs and driven away. Patricia was puzzled. She searched every 200k and cranny of the yard for her lost kitten and then with plaintive meows extended her search over the entire neighborhood. Only when night fell did she return home; without her kitten. The next day Hank Bartlett, driver, returned to the house. "Is there a cat in. here that has just had kittens?" he asked. "Why yes," I replied. "Our cat has just had two of them." "I think she must have had three," he added. "How is that?" I asked, puzzled. Then lhe explained that the preced- ing day after he had driven the truck home he had heard whimpering cries. Looking into the back of the truck he had found the little animal, shiver- ing and hungry. "I took it into my house," he said, "and fed it a little warm milk with a medicine dropper. We couldn't fig- ure out where it came from, but then I remembered seeing a cat jump in the truck while it was over at your place. So after putting it in a warm place for the night I brought it back." He then produced the kitten from a little basket he carried in his hand. Together we took it to the little box in the cellar where a worried mother guarded her remaining two. Patricia heard our footsteps, looked out of the box to see her lost Kitten. Re- joicing at its return, she gave her most welcoming meow and when the kitten was placed in the box started licking it affectionately. the not come back to customers who will"? the - "Rust damage, begun in Kansas Wheat Is $140,000,000 Crop This Is the Most Profitable Har- vest Since 1928 KANSAS CITY, Kan.--With cut- ters at work in the northernmost tier of counties, Kansas farmers are near- ing completion of their most profit- able wheat harvest since 1928. atest estimates place the 1937 at 14§,000,000 bushels. an 3, [gy es h wheat at fisnsas Ciky was $1.22 10r No. zequanfty. At Wikchita, in the heart of the great- est' wheat producing section, $1.10 was being paid and the return was above $1 at country shipping points throughout the State. A dollar a bushel to the producer is an actual- ity for the first time since 1929. A rapid upward movement in the Chicago market indicates even high- er prices in Kansas. A factor in that rise has been considerable last-min- ute rust damage to the Kansas crop, not calculated in the latest official estimates. That damage may cut the yield below 140,000,000 bushels, but the upturn in prices leaves a $140,- 000,000 return still in prospect for the formers. "That exceeds the en- tire value of all Kansas crops in 1932 or 1933. Last year the wheat income was $131,000,000. The State's largest crop, 239,907,708 bushels in 1981, brought only $81,- 416,717 to the producers. Got a Belated Start The harvest, after a belated start, has swept acros the State in three weeks of ideal cutting weather. Up to the middle of June, heavy rains fell through the main dis- wheat tricts in the central part of the State. Producers who usually cut their crop with the efficient harvester-thresher, combine finally moved into the s0g- gy fields with the lighter binders. Then the weather turned dry. In a few days the wheat lands were ready for the heaviest machinery. From as early in the morning as the dew was off, until late at night, com- bines moved across the golden acres. the wet weather, was checked, especially through the uplands of the central part of the State. The south central section again has proved itself the State's most re- liable "bread basket". In 12 coun- tries, approximately 80 per cent. of the total Kansas crop has been cut. Reno county, whose seat is Hutchin- son, has an estimated 8,000,000 bush- els to lead them all. Reperts indicate most of the crop is of good quality. Weight is rang- ing from 60 to 65 pounds to the bushel, and protein content is good. The 1937 harvest, profitable though it is, serves to illustrate the difficulties in the way of production control. Far from the largest crop in the State's history, it nevertheless comes from the biggest acreage ever planted in Kansas, 16,523,000 acres seeded in the fall of 1936. From 13, 603,000 acres, Kansas in 1931 cut a crop more than 50 per cent larger. Diversi"ication Is Urged In the western third of the state this year, m'llions of acres were abandoned when spring rains failed to come. Farmers hastened to plow up unpromising fields, to qualify for soil conservation payments. Herbert Clutter, Finney County agent at Gar- den City, urged western Xansas growers to stop their wheat gambling and to plant for dry years, instead of wet ones. Man's Ego Blamed For Keeping Women In The Home ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.--That woman's-place-is-in-the-home idea is just a gak men have {been putting over all this time. bi Dr. Robert Hoppock, assistant di- rector of the National Occupational Conference, told the National Feder- ation of Business and Professional Women that hubbies probably won't get away with it much longer. Now, he said, a definite shortage of competent women has begun to show up in the work-a-day world, and soon the girls will be flying the coop. "Marriage no longer means per- manent removal from the employ- ment market," he said. "There 1s no sound psychological reason why women should cook meals, wash dishes, launder clothes and clean houses." Long-established tradition and the deep seated desire of men to perpetu- ate ther own special privileges is about the only thing that keeps wo- man in the home, said Dr. Hoppock. Housework belong more logically to men, he said, since it frequently involves physical strain which men are better able to endure. Mrs. George Loucks Elliott, a writer on psychological subjects, likewise tut-tutted the idea that mar- ried women shouldn't find jobs out- side the home. "The theory that a man's ego can not stand the effect of his wife work- ing outside the home is at once sus- picious," said she. "Has he never been aware of her working in the home, or is he unwilling to have his control of her activity thus diminish- ed? The apparent magnanimity of men in insisting on supporting their wives or families has too frequently been overshadowed by accompanying subjection and domination! "The object on to women's working outside the home, made in the inter- ests of children, likewise needs exam- ination. If there are on an average two and a half children to a family, the question must be faced for how long and at what hours are those children at home." And Quick Cash The auction is a distinctly rural institution. The city has adopted it for the disposal of bankrupt stocks and values art works, but the true auct'on is still only-to be found on the farm and in the village, observes the Kingston Whig-Standard. "Flittings are aften the occasion for auctions, for the disposal of the surplus household goods and farm stocks and implements. It is one sure way country folis have of raising quick cash. Then there is the auction that is a second funeral; they bury all that is left of one branch of the fam'ly A COAST.-TO-COAST "SMOKE-UP" I Co GD. Wise roll-your-owners will fell you Ogden"s is the feature of the smoke- enjoyment programme. They know that finer flavour and cooler, smoother smoking are assured--every time-- with Ogden's Fine Cut and "Vogue" or 'Chantecler" papers. And thete's a bigger 15¢. package of Ogden's, now what they want. ship removed everybody through the house prying into closets ing over the ornamental treasures. And when the hammer falls on the kitchen table, auction block, the auctioneer is burst- ing with-humor and everyone's fun- nybone is unusually sensitive. Unless the household boasts of some "genuine antiques," which will be gobbled up at fancy prices by dealers or city collectors, the salt of and crocks and curios will not bring enough money to start a modern bri- dal couple to housekeeping in parlor, bedroom and bath. But relatives have been back on the friends have severed old friendships families have been distributed. Don't Want War, But. It is all very well to tell a visitor from this continent that Germany doesn't want war. But actions speak louder than words. Moreover, in his book Mein Kampf, Hitler suggested that Nazi-ism should deceive. the launching its thunder-bolts upon it. Before the Great War, Lord Hal- dane went to Germany, tain assurances there. lieve that Germany meant war. Yet while Haldane was being assunred of war, It may be that Hitler is more trust- worthy than the Kaiser. But we doubt it. Certainly his record of violated promises and treaties is not wa Journal. Classified Advertising A GENTS WANTED (, MAN OR WOMAN, , selling new patented /. Ten cents a dozen, twenty dozen trial, St. East, Toronto, Jo¥cLusive AC Make money ez Clothes Pins. Sells qui Mail one dollar, special Fox Agencies, 21 King WANTED Z FOR CATA- money making Toronto 2. price ne Ss -- tion. United Art, PHOTOGRAPHY FREE WITH EVERY Roll films developed and eight prints 25 cents, reprints 3 cents each. Brightling, 29°Richmond Street East, Toronto. COLLECTION SERVICE ¢) NTARIO COL perienced Co Star Bldg., Toronto. TION AGENCIES, EX- ion Service. -Bailiffs, -- Di GGS WAN premium erences A. HIGHEST bank ref- Toronto. WHITE; 1 grades; sane Ave., week old pullets, horns, $33.45. sorted breeds, $26.45. All stock from Government Approved Blood Tested Breeders. Shipped C.0.D. anywhere, Write for prices on six weeks to 20 week old pullets. TWEDDLE CHICK HATCHERY FERGUS, Ont. Barred Rocks, $29.95; Leg- LIMITED, and Cockerels All from Government Approved Bloud Tested Males. * week old Cockerels, $8.45; pullets Barred Rocks, horns, $17.95. Barred Roeks, $23.40; Two Barred, $14.40; Three week old Cockerels, $12.45; pullets Barred Rocks, Leghorns, $21.95. Four week old pullets Barred Rocks, $23.40; $26.95. Assorted pullets four-six weeks old, * $25.40. Shipped C.0.D. anywhere. Write for prices oh 'older pullets 6 weeks to 20 weeks old. .- Rocks, "BADEN ELECTRIC CHICK HATCHERY, BADEN, ont, which is serving as Started Chicks, Pullets, Cockerels Tw k old pullets, Barred Rocks. $15.95; 1 ino 819.45; 3 Barred Rocks, $8.95." Three week cld pullets, Barred Rocks, $19.95; Leghorns, $23.45; Cockerels Barred Rocks, $12.95. Four week old pullets, Bar- red Rocks, $24.95; Leghorns, $28.45. Five Four-six week old pullets, as- _ Baden Started Chicks, Pullets, Breeders, sired by Big Government Approved - Leg- - «Leghorns, 2 and then auction the possessions of ~ a lifetime, or what is left of them after the nearest of kin have taken - If the day is bright and the aue- : tioneer merry the sale is a social | event. With the restraint of owner- tramps - and cupboards, peering into broken : jars for forgotten linens and snicker - Aunt Sophia's parlor suite, which was , her first and last, and feather beds | old farm, : and the possessions of one of the old world with false assurances before , - He got cer- He didn't be- - Germany's peaceful intentions, Ger- many's War Lords were preparing for ' such as to inspire confidence.--Otta- .