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•nr â- â-  wfmm^ rrr CURRENT COMMENT â- K J GOVERNOR GENERAL 18 OPTIMISTIC. His Bxcpllfiicy the tiovernor Ocmral has betn making speeches, none of which wlU be clte<l as examples of eloquent orator?. None of the Caven- dishes had that Bift, but tliey have a more valuable one of sound common bense. The prosent duko has thown the public spirit and devotion to duty distinctive of his character and the Marquis of Hartlngton, his eldest son, has just b»en eltMted Mayor of Brixton. Ills l")xce!lcncy has been speak- ing on the necessity of supporting the movement for fcclentiflc research In Canada. In conunerclal and manufacturing flekls, In mining and agricul- ture, in forestry and marine, there are vast areas still unexplored, and it will be the mission of researchers to discount the utmost values in all our wealth of produce. His Excellency alsK) spoke of the present outlook in commerce and In affairs as most hopeful, without wider rating, the obvious difficulties of the situation, attending as he did to the bitter dis- appointment over the present conditions in Kurope, where war in Its most aggravatod form still pi^vailed. Ills Excellency also appealed for assist- ance foi the Kcd Cross effort on behaf of the three or four millions of chil- dren in Kurope who depend almost altogether on assLstansce from abrotd. He touched on the coal strike In Britain and expressed the opinion that tho settlemeiit was a triumph for Kritlsh i)eople. by whom the miners and the owners had been compelled to submit. He consideri-d ii might be a bless- ing in disguise in bringing the people together in works of co-operation and 'Ofbea ranee. NEW EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. It is not as well understood as It ought to be, and as experts have de- scribed It, that our education system is deficient in nearly everything in which it ought to be dominant. It teaches but it does not teach thorough- ly, and our chiWrcii leavo school witho'Jt being able to read, spell, write or figure well. Thoee who wish to go into business, must first attend a com- mercial school to learn lo spell and write and keep books. And worse than this, our teaching .system does not develop the braia ,nor, what is mora important, does it teac-ii the pupil to think. .\11 this is partly the result of doing things cheaply. We are afraid to spend an education what is needed, and teachers are expected to flourl.sh on pittances. That we shall suffer for this as a nation and Individuaily goes without saying. Jlut it be- comes more Increasingly difficult to get anything done In the way of re- farm, la Ontaro for years the 'Department of Education, has been reaction- ary or at the best stagnant, it is true salaries have been raised slightly in the last fifteen years, and tho price of school books has been cheapened, but these aroasthe tittingof mint and arise against the weightiest matters <->f (he law. Indictments have been framed against our educational system, but they rarely get a hearing, and the reports get pigeon-holed and sup- pression do»8 Its deadly work. Technical and vocational training have had a rough road and a tough experience. There is a lack of team play among the teachers. High School teachers indicate the possession of a sense of Superiority thai does not pefmlt co-operation with otl>er departments for the benefit of pupils. The boy or girl exists for the teacher. Instead of the ^tate and the teacher existinp for the boy or girl. The defective and tfeeble-mlnded children are r.'-t given the attention ihey require, and this problem is urgent. It Is weli-knov,-n but too little practised in Ontario, that the use of the hands reacts for the development of the brain, and this mutual inter-relation has been widely availed of- elsewhere. An effort ipears to be in progress in Toronto, which Is notoriously reactionary In educational matters, the mayor and other authorities opposing every effort to gel adequate school accommodation, to utilize this principle, and an ap- pointment, the legality of which was immediately and characteristically <luestioned. of .Mr. Tiioma« liengough. a well-known authority on such sub- jects, as a director of vocational and opportunity work. This experiment is M Importance to the whole iwovince and if the Department of Education would back it up in an intelligent way, much good might be accompished. It must not be forgotten that man is a tool-using animal, and if he does net get the opportunity to use tools, his Intelligence suffers. SWIIZERLANDHOMEOF OUTCASTS OF WORLD OF THESE RUSSIANS WITHOUT HOME ARE BY FAR THE MOST NUMEROUS. Tho man without a country has be- come legion In Switzerland, where 'thousainds of outcasts of the world war have been cut off from national affiliations. In Switzerland, with h"r ceatral «4tuation, it Is easier than el.sewhere to realize the number of those whom the events of the last few years, the war and the peace treaty, have made aliens. I>wellers In Great Jlrltain, in th« i:n!tH(l States or in I'.rtlsh do- minio>ns do not Tcalize, happily for them, how many citizens of no coun- try there are now in Kuroix', how m-.iny enforrced and unwilling out- caets. Some few miy be Indifferent to the fate which has overtaken them, but lo the very grent m:ijority it is the last thing In th«« w )rld th?y would have wished to have no coun- try wliloh tin'Y cm call their own. Among these c-ounlryles« pe-Hons are come who, a few jrears ago, held hgh positions and owned large eKtatcs, and were welcom'^ guests in any land. It is not merely the war which has made so ni'iny homeless. One path- etic ciiKe wan that of an Austrian who was was born in a part of Ausitla now iuindi-d over to lli« Poles, anl who h:i« just b'wn found dead, lyiuK in the grass, literally on the frontiir of his native land. Into whl<h the Au^flrians would not allow him t > »'>nler, saying that he was a P«ile. A IV)le he wouhl not be; an .\u»trlin lie could not be. Ills name w,is Isodor Kiiclis, and for many y 'an* before the war hn was a Paris correspondeni of an Iniportant <;ernian newspaper. When war broke out, he, of coiirse, had t) Uvivi- I'urlH with all his be- longings, and ronie lo (!<>neva, where li<< continued to net as correspondent for his <lcrnian and Austriiin news- pupers. Th«' money he hnil saved he Invested durlni? the war, like the rest of his countrymen. In Austrian war loan stock Me set out for Austria, but wh n hn niched the frontlner and showed his passport, he was told that he could not enter Aus- tria, for he was now a I'ole, where- upon he laid himself down and died â- â€¢ <!!'d at his j-ountry's gales, and was f,:und ly sonio pi'nstintH a few days afterwards lying on the grass by the wayside. Homeiett RuMlant. Iltit 1|omel4>iui Itussians are by far the most num<*rou8 of all political outrisM. Thus H IIushIiiii countess. whose hu.'iliand bofori* the war was very wealthy ..id whoso Jewels wer«' worth Miousands of pounits, 1b now in OeiMva, homo!es<». countryless, and well night ptmnlless. Kieff. which was her hora*. Is now Irf whit Is known as Ukralnla, but no one bt jirenent Knows whether there 1» ^ Ukrainian government; at any rate, there l.s no Ukrainian nor Russian representative here wlio can issue a valid passport. The l:idy can neither remain here, except on the tolerance list, nor go to England, where she hits some influential friends. To take another case, that of a well-known dramatist, who before the war lived partly in New York and partly in I^ondon. Me is an Austrian subject, ibut was born i na part of Austria now handed over to Ilou- manla. During the war he remained in Switzerland, but recently he want- ed to. ret urn to Ijondon and New York to look after his buslnfss inter- ests, lie was told by the British and .4m<;rican consulates that his .\uslrinn passport was Invalid, and that he mu-;i now obtain a passport from the KoumunianH. Hence, al- though very unwillingly, he went lo the Houmanian consulate, only t » be told that the consul would merely givo hitn a pas.sport to return to his birthplace in what was once Austria, and is now Houmania, but woiild not grant him a passport to go lo either Ki.f'and or tho United Slates. In tho Roumanian legation the of- ficials even refused to talk lo him in any langiug.'. except Roumanian, whicli he doFs not know; and It w.is only after much negotiations that they consenlifd lo do so in English. To the credit of the British and .\meri- cin governments, bo il sild, in view of the clrcunislances, they have al- Icjwid this man to go to <h<mdou and .New York with n special passport gninted by theniKelves. The attitude cjf Kime of lliefo small ciuii(,ries only jiiHi ruL^fvl to the dignity of indepeiid- enco r •<-a!ls nuthlng so much as the provrrbinl ^aylns: '•Set a bi'gi,'!ir on horseliac 1: and hell ride lo tin- devil." Where the Red Cross Was Born. In fighting for lis liberty is a pn.o: of greatness, (ieiieva, where the next session of thif PeiUii Conference w^lll be held. I'etainly merits being cilled "ihc greatest of the small towns." In 16 '1.'. the tJien Dulje of Savoy made a deterinliii'd iitlemi)! to take Ih" Swiss town. .\ moonless night was chosen lo iHit lii.-i jirojeei Into exe<'uti«n The inleiilion was to iiliack Hie town while the liihabllants slept. Long ladders were erected against the walls of ihe clly and Ihe .Savoyards begun to mount. In a moment, however, Ihe alarm was ghen. iind the Oenevesc lioiired from their beds, and, dressed only In their night clothes, |)r(|pared lo defend llieir Wines. Kour hun- dred Sivny.iids were accounted for, while liio defenders' losses only num- bered f nirteen. Tlie following year r.niev ' «-iilere,I Into an ail;n;ic< with ErlbourK. and liter with Berne. Kin- ally, In ISlu, the town became rec- ognized as part oi; Switzerland. XI X?^" \Vc hear much these days n "^cp^^ uboiil "TE.\M-WORK." Mostly il is used in connec- tion with ulhlclic affairs. We / are told of wonderful vicloric* â€" w!ien everv member of a team PULLS TOGETHERâ€" when someone doesn't go off trying to make a star phiy. at the expense of the others. Trouble is that we limit the word to our recreation â€" gporlâ€" athletics. We should follow through; think, use, live team-work in everything we do. If team-work is a winner in sports, then tenm-work Is good in family affairsâ€" and we all know how the household thrives' wherein every member has a shoulder to the wheel. If team-work is good in the family then it is good in our work â€" the commercial organization or unit where we cam our daily bread. If team-work is aood in our work â€" then team-work Is good for our neighborhood affairs â€" our conn lity â€" our town. And right there, friends. Is where we csn make the rrenloat showing â€" when we ALL practice team-work In the developmeril and growth of OUR town .md county When the merchants of this town -r'end money for advertising space to send you a message of economy â€" s.-winge â€" b:irgalns â€" that message should be read. They've invested thousands of dollars In goods to supply you â€" and without one guarantee '.hat you will buy To earn your money here, then take It to the big city store â€" or send it to th mail order nouse â€" neither of which contrlbules one cent to the upbuilding of this community â€" la not team-wark. Read the advertisements In this paper today, then patronize our home merchants. HOME-SPENT DOLLARS mean leam-.work. . -. •• •;••• ♦♦♦;*<->«;~x«<">*'>«:~><">5»<«<M"> JUST DOING A FEW "CHAPLIN8". Ijondon. Henry .lesson was In court <harged with insulting behavior, reslstluK Ihe poll<:e and smashing a constable's whistle " 'Tisn't fair," complaineil he, "I was only slwwing my little girl nonie Chiirllo Chaplin stunts. nidn'i mean any harm." The magistrate smiled and then he said "forty sbllUn's," ivbicb raeaas abtmt 110. . . I \ A Little ofl I : [Everything 1 1 ••:"X~:'><~:'<^><><*«><>«<~e-4><*<~:'<HM>»4l Useful Wasps. Despite the general Impression, the wasp is not a vexatious, good-for- noUilng Insect, but performs quite a useful office. He is very largely responsible for the reduction" of the enormous numoer of flies which threaten the world every summer with disease and death. The inhabitants of a small wasp nest bring home at least 2,000 of these pests every day to make their meals of. A nest of good size inflicts a death roll of something like 2-4,000 upon the tribe of pesl- bearers between every sunrise and sunset. The hostility we bear the wasp is, therefore. Ill-advised, .seeing that he is sparing us a lot of trouble we should otherwise incur. Wasps also u.ss-ist in Uie fertilization of plants by the carrying of pollen from flower tj flower. Keep Thin in Middle-Age. Aduing to the btilk of the body In middle age is risky. This does not mean that the diet should be Spartan. It must bo simple and moderate. Tasty dishes t^mpt stout people to eat too freely. Corpulence may be reduced by abstaining from fat meats, sugar, soups and pastry. Bread and potatoes should be eaten rather spar- ingly. Presh fruit and green vege- tables may be taken regularly In mod- eration. No sedentary middle-aged person can eat hearty meals habitual- ly wllhout impairing health and cur- tailing the span of years. The diet must bo plain and digestible, and the quantity eaten limited strictly to the repair of tlssne expended in work. Mute Who Uttered One Word. An extraordinary siory of how a dumb man, a peer of the realm, was given the power to utter one word, thereby saving many lives, was told bv Ihe bishop of Bath and WTells, at the dedication of a new home for deaf mutes In Bath, Rngland. Tho peer was a former Ixtrd ("arberry and a friend of Ihe bishop's, "Lord Car- berry," said the bishop, "was aboard a steamer sailing from Cork to Bris- tol. A dense fog came on and pas- sengers cou'd see nothing. Kven the lo;)Uout luiin was unawar? of dan- ger, when Uird Carbery, who was sit- ting In the how, Hiiouted loudly, 'Land!' It often h.ippeiis when God has deprvled n man of (me sense he Increases Ihe power of another. Lord Carhoiy was able to see what others could not. and realizing the ship was Jiiakiiig siralglii for the black mass, his excllemenl forced that ona word from hl.< lips. The captain put the helm round and the vessel Jii.il skim- med past the souiherniiKisl rock of Lundy Island, We all had a most narrow escape, and many lives were saved by L-ird Carbery's warning" That word "land' was the only one lyird <'arl)ery ever uttered. Stock Exchanee In Toklo. For pIcUiresqueness the Toklo Stock hJxchange has no rival. In ad- dition to the exchange hall and the huge blackboards covered with .Iai>nn- ese clmracti-rs, all of the brokers, without exception, wear kimonos, cany fans, and Ihe only persons dress- in-; in Kurop;-aii garh nre tlie record- ers (f pices. ..\S a noise nmki r, too, this exdiange Is undoubtedly cham- pion of the world. The .lapnnese brokers do almost everything hut gIvo college cheers; they shout and yell and whistle, and vary tluir saw- Ings of Ihe air with their hands and arms by occasional bursts of hand- claplng. In making traces the Toklo brokers used their fingers to indicate prl<-es and qunntliles ninch as is done In Ihe exchange of this country. J'rlces are also recorded on boards as with our exchanges, bnl Instead of being Dimply blackboards on which the figures ar«» written with chalk, there «ra board* of red, white and blue. each color representing quotations of different days. French Army Gives Up Kepi. The kepi is to go. The French army is to wear either trench helmets or glengarries. For a hundred years the kepi has in various forms seen the French soldier through his few defeats and his many glories. There are some sentiments wiiich the most hard- hLadcd can hardly deny. All the rest of the old uniform has gone â€" the dark-blue overcoat buttoned back, the baggy red trousers, and now the cap. The great point of honor about the cap, cf course, was that it had to be as broken and squasiied as was con- sistent with a passing on parade. The little shiny peak had to be cracked, and the red crown shapeless and faded. A new-looking kepi could only be worn without ridicule by some glorious veteran. The younger the soldier the more thought he gave lo rendering his headgear disreputable. No youth ever colored a meerschaum moi« carefully than the eiBliteen-year- o:d French conscript discolored his cap. Living Cheap in India, India has suffered less from the high cost of living than most coun- tries, because she is now withholding instead of, as in former years, ex- porting a large part of her grain. The export of foodstuffs is prohibited, so that in spite of the depletion of stocks there should soon be as much grain in the country as before Ibe war. Less than 9,000 tons of wheal were allowed to bo exported during the last finan- cial year, whereas exports -ordinartiy amount to anything from 700,000 to 1,500,00 tons. Itlce exports from India proper ordinarily amount lo 500,000 to 600,000 tone, whereas this year only ♦9,916 tons have been exported up to date. U. S. Not a Church-Going Nation. Facts about the interest of the peo- ple of the U. S. In the church are in- teresting and enlightening. The Protestant church numbers 201 differ- ent denominations; it includes all buf tho Jewish and Roman <"atholic con- gregations of America. In these 201 denominations It would .seem that every American would find some shade of religious opinion to which he might attach himself. But of the 106 million of them, leaving out 25 iniliion children under 10 years of age, only 26 million are members of Protestant churches, and only 44,788,- 00 Oare members of any church at all â€"Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Jew- ish. Incidentally, there are 218,000 Protestant churches and 15,194 Jewish and Komanliil churches in liio tl. S. Pictures By Wirelett. Recently n young Dane, Th. Ander- son, a watchmaker, invented a method by which lie Is able to transmit pic- tures by wire or wireless for any dis- tance. Mr. Anderson askiMl the D.tn- ish telegraph department for permis- sion to dfinonslraie tho invention by using two of the government's wire- less stations. Ills request was grant- ed, and the picture of a young woman was transmitted f-oiu Ihe wireless station at Bloavitndshuk (on the west coast of Jutland) to the wireless sta- tion at l.inghy. near Copenhagen. Mr. Anderson declares tho transmission I of the picture rtMiulred Ihe same time las Ihe Iratismlssion of an ordinary message of one hundred words, and that It is the first picture transmitted by wireless. Paradoxical Duckbill. Tho Duckbill, or platypus. Is one of the siransest and most paradoxical of all the animals of nature. It Is sometimes called nature's joke. It has a bill a;id webbed feel like a duck and can swim and dive like a fish. The most unexpected t«all of the anl- mil is that it actually lays eggs. He makes long tunnels in the banks of streams in his native home In Aus- tralia. These nre made barely large enough for his body to pass through; so that If he desires lo return ul auy lime ho simply backs out, which he Is enabled to do, since his fur Is like that of the common mole, set In such a way that, no matter what direction he moves, his fur neither hinders htm nor gets full of dirt. The duckbill Is all that is left of a once large fam- ily. ' ..â- Â»V;'l'."jf|.^ ,,. Jf.i' / llMiiiiiionamnwtimMiiufliMuwi BREAICFAST MAN.NERS. Don't bury yotirself In a newspaper at the breakfast table unless you breakfast above or with others who lake their breakfast in the Same un- sociable manner. Don't fall to say "Good morning'' to those who are already at breakfast when yon arrlvs. Never fail to say "tiood morning " to your maid in your own home or to the waiter or waitress if you have frequented the hotel or restaurant where they are employed. If you take oranges or grapefruit for breakfast be content with what you can get wHh a spoon and don't squeeze the last drop out by taking the skin up In the fingers. If you have boiled eggs for break- fast remember that they should be eaten from the shell in the Bnglisn fashion or broken in a cup, preferab'y an egg cup. Never break an egj on your plate or on a slice of broad. At a restaurant, if the waiter asks ycu whether he shall break your eggs for you, it Is not actually bad form for you t-D permit him to do this for you. However, those who pride themselves on their strict table manners prefer lo open their own eggs. Ereakfast is not a meal at which good form demands that we should all sit down together and await each other in rising. If you have duties that make it necessary for you to leave be- fore the rest, all that is necessary to say as you riS3 is a_ simple "pardon me," addressed to the" hostess or fem- inine head of the house. There is no reason why you should eat more breakfast than you are ac- customed lo or wish to simply because it is provided. At a dinner one feels that courtesy demands Uiat if we are in good health, we should eat some of the soup, and various courses pre- sented, but there is no such obligation regarding the various courses of breakfast. SPANISH RICE. Three small onions, one cupful of rice. Fry onion and rice in one tablesponfnl of butter and lard, sea- son with salt and pepper to taste. Add boiling water three times until rice is well done. Just before serving add four tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup. pineapple juice to boiling point. .Add lugar. AMEatlCAN CHOP SUEY. Half package spighetti, cooked; four small white onions, two teaspoons salt, two tablespoons butter, one pound Hamburg steak, one can tomato soup. Cut up oDloos. salt, and cook in but- ter until tender, but do not brown. To the onions add the steak and cook un- til partly done. Then mix meat and onions with spaghetti, and taste for proper seasoning. Over mixture pour one can tomato soup and mix. Bake in moderate oven half an hour. Eight generous servings. FRUIT RICE PUrnXNG. Two cups cooked rice, iw.5 e??s, hat teaspoon grated orange or lemon peel, half cup sugar, two cups milk, one cup dried peaches or apricots, two table- spoons butter. To the steamed rice add sugar, eggs, slightly beaten, with grated peel or fruit that has been well soaked. Pour into a baking dish. Dot with bits of butter and bake in a mod- erate oven until custard-like and f.rm. Ten generous servings. CARROT MARMALADE. One pound car.-ot, two lemons, Uiree cups sugar, one-half teaspoon ginger. Wash and scrape carrots and put through the food chopper. S<jueeze juice from lemons and put and through food chopper. Barely cover each with water and,><:ook until tender. Combine and add sugar, lem- on juice and ginger and cook a few minutes longer, but not long enough to give a strong taste. TO B.AKE A HAM. If you have not a pan large enough lo ti'.ke the ham. cook it like this. The result is excellent: Soak the ham in cold water for twelve hours unless ve.y salty and bird, when twenty-four hours soaking will be necessary. Trim and scrape off all rusty parts. Make a paste of flour and water and cover the ham completely with this about quarter of an inch thick. Put it in a baking tin in a moderate oven and bake. As regards time, the rule is lo allow twenty-five minutes to the pound up to twelve pounds, and be- yond that fifteen minutes to each pound. AVhen cooked, remove the paste and skin and cox'er the ham with fine brown breadcrumbs. Serve hot or cold. ASPARAGUS I.\ SEASON. Choose fresh asparagus, wash, scrape off the white skin from the lower end and cut th? stalks even. Put them Into cold water for ten or fifteen minutes. Have ready a sauce- pan of boiling water; add two tea- spoonfuls of salt. Tie the asparagus into bundles; put them into the boil- ing water and boil gently, with the lid off the p.an, from twenty-five to thirty minutes, or until the soft parts are lender. It is best to use a pan with a drainer, on whch the aspara- gus 1b placed aivd easily lifted out when cooked. Kailin« this, wrap the bundles in a piece of muslin to pre- vent the dan»eT.of breaking off the tins. Drain, untie the bundles and dish on %piece of toast. Send oU<sd margarine or the following dressing lo tab'.e with them: Dissolve a salt- spoonful of sail in two table.spoonfuls of vinegar; add one teaspo<mful of French mustard, a pinch of pepper and two tablespoonfuls of olive oil. Mix all well together and serve in a sauce boat. TAPIOCA FRUIT SAL.\D. Three tablespoons minute tapioca, half pint b:)Uing water and pineapple juice, pinch salt, half julc? of lemon, two bauauas. miirshmalUnv or whipped cresm. itrree-qnariers cup sugar, one can pineapple (small), one egg while, tme orange, nuts. Bring water and PL.\CE FOR BROOMS. Never plan a house without ar- ranging for a convenient broom clos- et, is the advice of one housewife who- didn't. She planned clothes chutes and a winter coal box and a nice place for the ice box in summer, but when she moved into her house she found that there was no place for the brooms and carpet sweeper, the dusters and dust mops. There was no landing at the top of the c«Ilar stairs, a place- where many housewives keep these devices, and there seemed to be no corner or cranny in the kitchen where- they could be hung. The average flat or apartment has no closet especially planned' for tblgj purpose. If you are planning your own home remember that it you; have- only one set of brooms and dust mcps it is a good plan to have them placed conveniently to the first floor and the upstairs floor or floors. One new house has a rather shallow closet on the landing of the stairway from the first to the second floor and in here the housewife who is just set- tlijig in this new house keeps- all clean, ing devices, including the newiy ac- quired vacuum cleaner. Of course you can have a. board placed on the wall somewhere where you can have hooks from which to hand brooms and cleaning mops, but this does not take care of the carpet sweeper and various duster palls, etc. •erhaps the best thing to do if there simply is no cl&set at the furniture store. They set against the wall like a small wardrobe and of cour-se may be moved v.-lth you whenever you change your residence. The carpen- ter may help you out and make a closet at a lower cost than this ready- made broom closet, but of course you: would probably not be able to take this closet with you. Sometimes h« can make a little three-cornered closet in the kitchen, where th?se things can be stowed, with a low shelf for pails and a place above for dusters and; varous small brushes. Nl'T BRiEAD. Two cups graham flour, half tea-- spoon salt, half cup broken walnut meat, one teaspoon soda, one and a half cup sour milk, one and a half cup- white flour, one tablespoon brown su-- Sar, half cup raisins, two tablespoons- molasses. Mix well flour, graham and while, salt, sugar, nuts, raisins.. Add soda to sour milk and combioe with molasses. Add liquid to dry In- gredients. ®eat well. Bake for farty-flve minutes to one hour in a slow oven. One toread tin full. rUTTON-HOLE STITCH >L\KES PTLAT FINISH. Ends of bands on baby garmejits may be ffiven a flat finish much easier lo launder, by leaving the ends raw and finishing them with a button-hole stitch. The old method of folding In the ends often malces a clumsy fin- ish. HIGH COLLAR POPULAR. One of the most striking details In I fall stvles appears to be the popular- ] ily of the high collar, which is used i regardless of whetlier the sleeves f«re I long or short. FOR GUESTROOM DOOR. I .\ ihoushtful touch in the furnisliing I and decorating of the guestroom is the I addition of a knocker on the door. There are many quaint flowered Ques designed, which are as dainty as they arc practical. BOX FOR OVERSHOES. A handy place f'>r overshoes is a box underneath tho back doorstep. The boards from the step may be tak- en up, dealed and hinged, and a box to fit, placed beneath the step. NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF. There Is a big demand in Italy for Canadian agriculture machinery, .^ac- c-jrdlng lo the <\anadian Trade Coni- nilssioner for Italy. A recent esti- m.ue of Italian requirements m:ide by Ihe ministry of agriculture Includes 30,000 plows, 2(1,000 seeders, 9,000 mowers and L.'iOO threshers. The r.rllish caplUiUsls who have re- cently been Investlgnting conditions In the t^olumbia Valley have purchased uG.OOO acres of land there for ranch- ing purposes, and have taken an op- tion on an additional 800 acres. The land will be heavily stocked with horses and ^^attle next spring. I'tilp resources In w>rthnast«rn Manitoba wll constitute a large source of future supply, according to the In- spector of D.imlnion forest reserves ports that a good quality of spruce i» who recently made a survey. He re- I found which would make exoelle-nt pulp, but there is no «utlet at the present time for the finished article. I DESCHANEL CANT RNO A HOUSE. I Paris â€" M. Deschanel, the resigned French president, hasn't a house. He I moved from the presidential home to j a hotel and he can't find a place to I live now. The new prosideni, Miller- , and, has two flats as well as a h(une dn the country and the use of the Ely- see, the French "White House." ORGANDIE FLOWERS AS CHRIST. MAS GIFTS. t>rgaadle corsage bouquets are very much in vogue and make very dainty Christmas gifts. They are easily made from short lengths of organdie in all the shades. DeTon's liott«y taarrest Is stated to be the worst kuowu for thirty years, owing to tbe vvet July and August