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Flesherton Advance, 10 Dec 1924, p. 7

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NEW HEALTH FOR SUFFERING WOMEN Obtained Throoflrh Enriching the Blood Supply. Many women endure with silent pa- tience Buffering tbat castd a shadow over b&lf her life. But an aching back, tired limbs, stdeaches, attacks of faint- ness and aplitting headaches need not b« a part of a woman's life. Such trials indicate plainly that her blood Is thin and Impure; that to drive away these troubles her system requires the new, rich blood supplied by Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. These pills are Talued by suffering Wx.men, who have used them, ahjlve all other medicines because they make the rich, red blood that makes women feel well and at ^elr best. Proof of these statements Is given by Mrs. Eugene Deslauriers, Rlcbot, Man., who says: â€" "A few years ago my health completely failed. I was subject to those troubles that afflict so many of my sex. Added to these I suffered from constipation, loss of appetite, dizziness, a ringing in my head and nervous prostration. I consulted several doctors, but their medicines failed to give me i-ellef. After much persuasion I began to take Dr. WilUanvs' Pink Pills, but without much hope as I believed that no medi- cine would help me. To my great joy, however, I found these pills were Just what I Ridded, and I can honestly say they have made me a well woman. I can now do with ease all my own house- work, and I strongly urge other weak, ailing women to give this medicine a fair trial, feeling that what it has done for me It will do for others." You can get these pills from your druggist, or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. tV-illiams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Besides his many other accomplishments, a sailor in the British navy must know how to sew. That's what these boys are learning at a school in Greenwich, where they are being trained for the fleet. The best ^\ rmJ ^ ^^^^ OGDEN'S LIVERPOOL \^t9 1 â-  â- iM\j CUT PLUG Surnames and Their Origin Live in Deeds. Science has succeeded in leugthen- Ing our "expectation of life" by twenty ! years. That is a comforting reflection. I To die young is no longer regarded as a pious act. But it is not years only which make long life. ' We live In defeds, not years ; in ' thoughts, not breaths; j In feeling.^, not in ligTires on a dial. ' There are long lives which, reckon-! oned on this basis, would be tragically ' short; there are. short lives, reckoned by their achievements, which are cen- turies long! We are told to revere grey hairs, but grey hairs are venerable only when they are the sliver cixiwn of ac- complishment. There is many a man who Is old only in yeors. His deede will never grow old, but will renew themselves eternally like spring flow- ers and the eaves of the f<^rest. The best way to live Is to "give every flying minute something to keep In store." Logan berries were produced by crossing blackberries and raspberries. Shocking Manners! In the Fabulous Forties Mr. Meade Minnigerode admits feeling some dis- may when hi.s reading of the manuals of etiquette then popular revealed to him how elementary was the instruc- tion apparently needed by young per- sons oven in the supposedly polite circles of the day. Young ladies were solemnly warned against "balancing themselves upon ,their chairs; cross- ing their legs; extending their feet up- on the andirons; admiring themselves with complacency in a glass; folding their shawls instead of throw^ing them with graceful negligence upon a table; taking a person by the button or col- lar; whirling a chair around on one leg and shaking with their feet the chair of a neighbor." Undesirable awkwardness all, but Mr. Minuigerode's astonishment real- ly begins when he finds what the men- tors regard as necessary to say In res- pect to table manners. "Ladies should never dine with their gloves on un- less their hands are not fit to be seen," aroused in him a painful suspicion that ladies with hands "not fit to be seen" were willing, instead of taking pains to make them flt, to cover all de- ficiencies with gloves; nor. It is to be noted, has their instructress in man- ners any reprehensions to bestow on their doing so. It also appears that ladies at table â€" and that In the very years when female delicacy, fragility and ethereally anaemic charm were most admired â€" were frequently apt to stuit their mouths too full or reckless- ly take bites of bone or gristle, which could not be masticated. At any rate, the duty of a gentleman present on such an unfortunate occasion Is made cleai': "If at dinner a lady should raise an unmanageable portion to her mouth, you should cease all conversation with her and look steadfastly into the op- posite part of the room." Possibly the advice carries a sug- gestion of finer manners on the part of our grandfathers than of our grand- mothers. The balance Is soon re- stored. A volume of etiquette for young men brings a masculine error in behavior to book with appalling frankness: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that in polished society It is not quite comme 11 faut for gentle- men to blow their noses with their fin- gers, especially when in the street â€" a practice infinitely more common than refined." In the family, both as a matter of Christian duty and correct deport- ment, the husband was expected to exert an autliority tempered by be- nevolent consideration, and the wife to be always docile, mild and submis- sive. "Sometimes yield your wishes to hers." Jlrs. Emery, a popular writer of the day, persuasively suggests to married men. "Do not find It hard to yield sometimes! Think you it is not difficult for her to give up always?" And in the Token of F'riendship, or Home, the Centre of the Affections, by the Rev. J. N. Danforth. published in Boston In 1844, occurs the perfect pic- ture of the model family of the forties: The father gives his kind command. The mother Joins, approves: And children all attentive stand. Then each, obedient, moves. POTTS Variations â€" Philpott, Phillpot, Phil- lipi. Racial Orl^n â€" Norman French. Source â€" A given name. You'd never imagine, from the mere comparison of the family names of Potts and Phillips that there was any connection between them. But the j fact la that they are virtually the same name, that they have come from the same source, the given name of Philip. As a given name, you must go back to the ancient Greek for the source of Philip. In its original form It was : Philllpos, from the Greek root "phil," , for "love," and "hippos." for "horse." , The name means 'lover of horses." It was taken over by tie old Romans â-  from the Greeks, and became with ' them Philllpus. and first with the ' spread of the Roman conquest through what is now France and Normandy, and later through the spread of Chris- tianity (for it had become a popular ; Christian name) over the same course, ' it became quite common in the north- â-  western section of the Euicjiean main- : land. It was taken over to lin6l;'nd by William and his Xonnan conquer- ors, and throughout the Middle Ages becime quite common there also, â-  though to-day its popularity as a given name has fallen off somewhat in Eng- , land. The name was often shortened : to Phil, though this shortened form ' has not survived in any form of sur- name. With the diminutive ending it became Phillpot (little Philip). j Strangely enough, in numerous cases I practically all of the given name was dropped, leaving only the final "p" with the diminutive ending tor the modern family name of Potts. Phillips Is a contraction of Philipson. cow seldom met with. a form WEBSTER. Variations â€" Weber, Webber, Weaver. Racial Origin â€" English; also German. Source â€" An occupation. Here is another family name which I Classified Advertisements ! AGENTS WANTED * â-  < A ".EN'TS TO MAKE {.'i.OO TO "^ 125.00 a week handling snappy Xmas Quick Sellers for women and children. Don't delay. Write to-day- Buckley's, Box 2(<7, London. RIG CHRISTMAS CATALOGâ€" Household Goods, Chri.stma« Goods. Saves Dollars. Free upon re- in one of Its forms shows the influence que.«t. Martin Company, Station E8, of the medieval English method of , forming the feminine from a mascu- line noun, but which is now obsolete. I It is most interesting, too, as showing , in certain of its variations an abso- Toronto. MALE HELP WANTED. JAO.MIXIOX WIDE OR6aNIZA- â- â- -^ tion wants reliable men to- dis- luielv parallel development in English tribute samples in small cities and towns. Splendid pay. Canadian Dis- tributors' Association, Sevenoaks, Vic- und German. Webster and Weaver are exclusively English forms of the name. Weber and Webber are both English and Ger- man, and apparently about as wide- spread in one language as the other. All of these names, descriptive of toria, B.C. A Camera Pioneer. The Royal Photographic Society has erected a tablet to the memory of the occupations of the first bearers of Henry Pox Talbot, "the father of mod- them. come from the same root in the ern phoicgraphy." old Teutonic tongue, which is parent ; Before this tablet came as a remind- both to modern German and to m^die- er. it is to be feared that few knighta val English through the Anglo-Saxon. It is the same root from which we de- rive the modern English words "weft" and "web" as well as weave. Indeed the church and court records of medit'.'al Engl.Tjid show that the peo- of the camera haxl ever heard of Henry Fox Talbot, though his experiments in photography are not vet a century old. In 1S35 Fox Talbot, a Cambridge mathematician of distinction, made a pie of tuose days spoke of "JSoger le simple box camera, with which ha Weber" rather than "the Weaver:*^slook_v|ewsof his house on sensitized The softening of the "b" into an "f" paper Theur"3»«y:the invention of or a "V" has occurred only In com- 1 the daguerreotype. be-;af e ilt 6j â€" fete* paratively modern times in English. | calotype process. This was in 1S41. and not at all in German. j He brushed a solution of silver ni- "Webster" is simply the medieval 1 1 rate over selected paper, which I, was NOTHING TO EQUAL BABY'S OWN TABLETS English feminine for "weber." Under 1 then dried at the fire and dipped into Norman-French influence its ending ^ a solution of potassium iodide. "Gallo- often was spelled "stre" instead of j nitrate of silver" was next bruflhoii "sler," and it is from this spelling, over the paper; then it was exposed with the addition of a "ss" that the : in the camera, and developed. Wax modern feminine ending "ess" or j was now applied, and the result was "tress" has been developed. COUNTING THE STARS When the discovery of a new star Is announced the layman Is apt to Infer that an almost exhaustive list of stars, to which the latest recruit Is trium- phantly added, ha^s been compiled. Yet astronomers' estimates of the total number of stars in eoclstence vary to the extent of several millions, 1200 millions being a rough approxi- mation. Among others. Sir John Herchel, Otto Stnive and Professor E. C. Pick- ering have attempted to estimate the number of fitars. Herchel's computa- tion gave five and a half million stars from the first to the fourteenth magni- tude, but Struve improved on this figure with twenty millions, while Pickering, with the added advantage of including stars of the fifteenth magnitude, fell short of Struve by two milllon«. But densely and sparsely star-span- gled areas occur, clusters being fre- quent, with the Qala.xy, or .Milky Way, as the main concentration. And as the astronomies struck an average from counts in various sections, one Is not I surprised at the divergent results. I Stars are brought to count by the I use of a powerful telescope, combined I with a camera, and exposure of three ! or four hours. The Lick refractor, one of the world's most famous telescopes. makes visible stars of the seventeenth magnitude, and the 100-inch reflector : recently erected on Mount Wilson, i California, shows stars of the twen- j tieth magnitude. i To the naked eye at any one time only about 2000 stars are visible. But if the observer goes to different parts I of the earth at the most propitious seasoas of the year 60O0 stars may be brought v,-ithin range of the human eye unaided. Before the stars are definitely num- bered the stellar system must have Its borders explored by giant telescopes. And this appears to be nearing com- pletion, as the most modern instru- ments are not disclosing the number of new stars anticipated. Meanwhile, "the skies are painted with unnumber- ed sparks." The Horthartt '^ E/ecfric The Aristocrat of Radio. Ttis Super-heterodyne set is the highest development of radio scjeawe to^ay â€" a product of the "People who maide your Phone." It i» th« set which was in»talled on fi.R.H. the Prince of Wales' ranch at High River. wonderful tone and volume. The refinement of mechanism and appearance mal^e It an iDfltniment It le a d^tinctton to poM«se. A highly Mntitlve clrottlt. With all p««ant tube*. H workn with an Indoor loop â- Mtel (M llluctrated) or with Ml ouMoor aerial, and brings In dtMaat atationa wita Write for informaition describing this aet to David A« McCowan DiBtribator 83-86 MAIN ST. TORONTO, ONT. OMil*r»~W« aolMt your •n^ulrln for catalogue ami diaeounto. Mrs. Georges Letebvre. St. Zenon, Que., writes: "I do not think there is any other medicine to equal Baby's Own Tablets for little ones. I have used them for my baby and would use nothing else." What Mrs. Lefebvre I says thousands of other mothers say. j They have found by trial that the Tab- I lets always do just what is claimed j for them. The Tablets are a mild but I thorough laxative which regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach and ; thus banish indigestion, constipation, i colds, colic, etc. They are sold by i medicine dealers or by mail at 25 I cents a box from The Dr. Williams' : Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. i Many-Eyed Insects. I Some insects are liberally provided : with eyes. In general they have two I kinds -simple and compound. Simple ! eyes are like our own. though lese I efficient, while compound eyes are ; composed of numerous facets and lenses. Most people know how difficult it is to catch the common house-fly. This is uot surprising when one realizes that fly's eye has 12.000 facets, and the Mor- sequently there is not much that Is out of its line of vision. The dragon- y's eye has 12.000 facets, and the Mor- della beetle's eye is made up of no fewer Uian 25.000. While the compound eyes never ex- ceed two. the single eyes vary in num- ber from eighteen to twenty. They are situated In groups on each side of the head. Spiders and scorpions have both single and compound eyes, though they appear to derive little benefit from them. The Lucky Sons. Lucky the one who can look at Fate With a laugh, and say â€" "Block the highway and bar the gate, Send me down where the bea'.c.i v.. lit. But I won't stay. I'm on my way and I'll take the load Through hell or what to the end of the road." Lucky the one who can understand That It's all a fright; Driving on through a broken laud Where it's hilt to hilt and it's hand to hand, With its share of night; Who knows in advance that the old dream's gone And it's mainly a matter of slogging on. Fate flniis a joy in breaking men Who shrink from the flame; But out of the straggle now and then The valiant rise from the shadowed glen To play out the game; â- j Taking the breaks as they comeâ€" or goâ€" j But slogging on to the end of the show. â€" Brantland Rice. His Hearing Restored. The invisible ear drum Invented by j A. 0. Leonard, which is a miniature megaplione, fitting inside tlie ear en- tirely out of sight, is restoring the bearing of hundreds of people In New York city. Mr. Leonard invented this drum to relieve himself of deafness and head noijjes, and it does this so successfully that no one could tell he is a deaf man. It is effective when â-  deafness Is caused by catarrh or by perforated or wholly destroyeil natural â-  drums. .\ request for information to A. 0. Leonard, Suite 437. 70 Fifth ayenue, New York city, will be given I a prompt reply. advt Fans for Fighters. \ Waiting Both. I .\ .star loobs down at me. And says: "Here I and you Stand, each in our degree: What do you mean to do â€" Mean to do?" 1 say: "For all I know. Wait, and let Time go by. Till my change come. "- "Just so," The star says: "So mean I â€" So mean I." â€"Thomas Hardy. The Tree Planting Division of the Forestry Branch of the Dept. of the Interior in 1923 distributed some five and a quarter million trees to farmers in Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Al- berta, and .«ince this work began, has supplied, free, some seventy-five mil- lion trees for .shelter belts about prairie homesteads. Minard'a LInlmont Rarilavea Pain. ' I An Italian new.spaper correspondent In China gives some amusing impres- sions of the civil war now "raging" in that country. He poluts otit that blood is rarely drawn in battles. When General Tschan-Hlun had been thirteen days in Pekin, the Republican generals. Taso-Kun and Tuan. marched against him. Each side was equipped with machine guns and areoplanes. and a "battle" ensued. .\ bomb struck a house and killed a civilian and Tschan- Hiun's army thereupon scattered. The Chinese soldier of to-day is splendidly drilled In the European way. but If it begins to rain he sloiia fighting and opens his paper umbrella, which, with a fan. forms part of his 1 equipment. There is rarely any flght- ' Ing In China when the weather Is bad. Sing a Song of Sixpence. "Sixpenny wortii of miracle." is a striking expression from George Gis- sing, the novelist. Mr. Kennedy Wil- liamson writes a summary of a story that Gissiug himself told. In a lonely spot by a woodland the novelist found a small boy leaning against a tree; ^lis head was buried in his hands, and he was sobbing out his heart. The lad had been sent to pay a debt with six- pence and had lost the money. He was not su much afraid of facing his parents as he was sorrowful at tie losfi they sustained. "Sixpence (twelve cents) dropped , by the wayside and a whole family j made wretched! 1 put my hand in my I pocke: and wrought .sixpenny worth of .' miracle," sai-i (lUsiBe. •» HoA litre it .sometimes takes to j makt' a heart li"j:ry 1 I The significanie of the story be- ! comes more apiiHrr-;: ns Mr. William- ' son take? a Iocs bfhind the scenes of j Gissing's private liTe as related in the 1 Private Papers of H-.^nry Ryecroft. Once in his days of struggle the novel- i 1st lived :i; a back l.edroom on the top I floor, but ho changed to the front cel- , lar of the same building: the cellar '. had a stone fioor and contained a bed. a table, a chair and a washstand. He made the change because it saved him sixpence a week ; with sixpence he could buy two meals Once he bought at an old bookshop a greatly coveted book and then lived on bread and butter for twenty-four hour.s in order that he might save the priceâ€" sixpence. Writing his book. New Grub Street, in six weeks by toiling ten houis a day. he sometimes had to sell some of his own books to obtain the simp- lest food. One day. however, he found sixpense In the street. Long after- wards he wrote concerning it. "I had an exaltiition which is vivid to me at this moment." ; Gissing was able to sympathize w.th the impoverished boy because of his ' own grim knowledge of poverty a "negative" â€" first called by tliis name by Fox Talbot. How many amateur photographers of to-day would be willing to go to all this trouble before they eould even start to take pictures? A whim of the Empress Eugenia saved the roadside trees of Franca from destruction when they were be- ing cut to make room for telegraph poles. Keeps EYES Clean Bright and Beautihd I WrlteMurineCo.,C3jic»go,forEycCattBook RHEUMATISM Why i after torture from rheumatism, sciatica or lumbago? sriliiT OK moN elviv ocrmanent n-Jii-;. i:*0 tu ii.«eâ€" 4h90rlf«l fhnniKh the feelâ€" iure ]D iu rv&uits. KuU iwrUculara fr««. CHAS, W. TEET2EL CO., Otnt. J, 1200 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont. Be Prepared r« for colds. Check them at the start witli [g||^^^rijp| K^oFjgl 1^ ^^H H ^ H ^r^M^TO^^^j '^ â- â-  ^Ul The safe way to send money by inaii is by Dominion Express Money Order. Poultry manure is a -valjable aid to the gardener. Before using, it should be broken up quite fine. It must be u.--ed carefully and never in large rjuantity at one tiuio. Minard's Liniment for Rneumatlsm. I ^ EREO WIT P IROOBLE Edi,soii, with ai! his inventions, w.i.s a piker compared to the ambitiou." young photographer who advertised; "Your baby, if you have one, ca'i bo' enlarfted, tinted, .ind framed for $8.79." In the Province of Alberta there are eight forest reserves, the total area of which is about 18,6'iO square miief . These have been ."iet a.Mde with the idea of maintaining a timber supply, and conserving the flow of the rivers. EECHAMS J PILtl Sick HeadacKes Itched All the Time. Caused Blisters. Ciitic ura Healed. "1 was bothe: ed v.ith scalp trouble for » year. My s^ca'.p itched all the time cau.sing r.ic to scratch. This caused blisters, and my Head w«« so sore that I coijid hardly cotrb my hair. My hair fell c-jt in hitndfuls artd I was nearly bald. "I r>edan advertiserrientforCmi- cura Soop and Ointment and pur chased some. I was completely heaicd after uring three cakes of Cuticuia Soap and thiee boxes of CuiicuiaOintn.ent." 'Signedi Mias Dcnha Hclderby, Mold, Wash.. June 9, 1923. Cuticura Soap to cleanse and pa- tify, Cuticurm Ointment to soothe and hral and Cutie.iia Talcvira to powder and sweeten aie ideal for daily toilet purposes. IV:.t.:: â-  0»ar«r», P i> Bu ••». Xuttml.' '- fr, S c.pSc Oir.:n« I A»txl:,V rili-nmiac Tryour new ^havina Stick. issue No. 49â€" '84. â- "^JiWii^.,

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