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A MOierrARYJNAITENnON How Some Accidents Occur. *7rv<«re U nnl/ on« sa(« waor to tiokl h«n4 baiMlac«d. Tb»a ths <iu»«tM>D: • tuiiki2i«r or a tiatcfatK," aald Uva eur- C0oa with a hioinioroUA twlokkk ta bid «<>'«^ a* he prepared som« baodacM. "How's thait, doctor?" 'WlUi both hand*." "How did yt>u t«t youiw T" "In cot; Mrfaeob. I didn't ootlca mj luiud was su ctoee." Aoothcr ca«a ot iaa.btentton. TtMt uext d'iiy a youns nuui wUli bte ThoiigJi »uffcriD« .noma phyaU^al paiu aâ„¢i 1" a illug wim waiting bU turn •tons Willi a great deal of remors*. | for a dTesglag tbe waiting patient, wto had cnwhed ' 'I» yours b€*IouT' U-e vu* p.sIkxI. the tip of a linger Uy tbe teadvea-teiit j "Brok*!! at the wrist and iIm; siunjl- bk)w of a httichat, couW not forbear . <i^" a lauKli ' "How (lilt ir happeur' "I think you're right, doctor." said | "I was on a blcjole going down a he. "biu the way I feel now is that it «"o«(l to go out on tiie highway. I luwl would »>« safer still not to boW one ; to go to the left as scon as I reaclved ^j ^j] â- â€¢ the road. Wlieu I went ottt of th« I ••WelU let'ft have a look a* It." 1 «*'« » ^'^'^ *>' ^Ig horses pu!lln« a * The patient held up the lacenited I <1â„¢>' was coming towards, me. 1 had | index finger of the left hand and the , enough gpaise to cra« lu front of them i 8urg«on aa he went on with ihu appli- j ^^ did »o biit dMn't ae* an aalomo- ; cation ot the Ureawfn? said: j ^^^ ^^^ «'aa racing to paw them on j I the other 6'lde. .Vs fcon as I cLear^Ki : pusl the hci-ses it struck me. I hadn't ' "I E-ie hundreds of accidents like these, some more eerere, some leee. Most cf them are accouated for by momentary inatteuttou. In the hand- ling of a nrachlne o0even such a sim- ple lmplea<enit aa a hammer or a hat- chet, the muscular ac^tlon after a time become:! a mechaoicai habit. It is than that the attention i& apt to stray from the task in hand and while the hamiDer Is swinging almost automotl- ; caL''y through the air, the mind may i swerve to «om«thins else. It Is In that moment of tnauentton that acd- denta occur. I think that mast of the automobile accidenLs occur through ' thougtit ab<>ut the possibility of an- other vehicle being ou the other aid* of the team." H'ft c!>R)?, perhaps, might hardly be claiasilled as momentary inattention. He was alert to an apparent danger but not to the posaibiJity of a second though uitappexent one. His terrlWe experience illustrates how alert the rider or driver of a vehicle on the road must be to all possible situations of danger. A few seconds' pause would bare shown the danger In his case. All accidents are not caused by in- KEEP CLOTHES IN PAWN SHOP momentary mattentica on somebody's „„ â-  i , , .^â€" i„ 1 ,!• â- .• '»^'i"<ju""j' o and simple, unforaeeable and unpre l»aau !n iltaling w n wea.ix)ns, too ?. â-  pn^,u|. uuy.e ImplenK'nts, utensl'.<, machines venCable. But according to the sur- h*«jvv n.r.;.hj= .h„ .„.„ I 1, .J g'eons, who sest the broken bones and neavy wesgnia, the mind &houId never , ».i_j „„ .u j â- _ . ho aii.,^^-,^ t.^ „, .„ . . I °''^ "P "^ wounds that arse out of oe aliened to wander, no matter how akil-ful the man or how accustomed he 'â-  is to the task.'-' I "A day or two a£o," the surgeon went on, "a man came here with a :"r!r;.. ^,TL^Z..r:'tr^'^Jl^ padded garments fa- vored IN COLD SNAPS. accidents, a large proportion ot acci- Small Hot-WatCT Bottles Are dents are caused by altowing the mind Natural Reeourcee QuBotta. Upward* of d4.000 p«c<ons flad •«» ploymant in Canada'a mialac indoatry.' To th««a employees «al«HM and «»(M totaUiuK (8;j,0O0,0O0 ar« paid uiaMt-| !y. Thia ra-mey ia clrculatod In Ca«- ada to pay taxea, purehaa* food, clotb- ing and th« .lutny Canadlaa-mad« Itnturies that our atandardi of livinf demand. But lb« mining vompanle* dpeod much in addition for tb* pur- chase of machinery and aupplies from ( anatiian merchant.^ and manufactur- ers; the sum of 20 milliona ia spent each year for fuel and electricity alone. Incidenlaliy the proAta of the suc- cessful companies go to increase the liquid capita! a;34eta of Canadian i-rtl- lens who have invested in the indus- try. Unfortunately many of these profits go outside the country, since British, .American and other investors have been shrewd enough to buy in many valuable properties, and the ra- warda of development ara naturally theirs ii'.s.)far as actual cash dividends are concerned. Many of the stronger interests operatin;? Canadian minea are far-sighted enough to re-invest part of their profits in the acquisition and development of additional pro- perties so that pa.-t of surpluses never leave the country. Fortunately, also, for Canada. wajfe« and other operat- gardlng clothee. It is all a question of and nothing like aa warm,aa Chinese' ing expenditures have to be made in layers, governed by the season. Two clothes, which are padded and perfect- i Canada, although in some instances layers in summer and six in winter la !y coldproof." be says. 'I learned a 'the ores are shipped to plants in the about the average, to be increased or lot from my residence in Western United States or Europe for treat- decreased according to the degree of countries, but I was never won over ^ ment, and other countries^ receive even heat. A m.an's bulk in winter is just to your ideas on clothe*. You wear i grreater benefits in employment and about twice as much a-j it Is in sum- thin and Impractical clothea, alt la a ! investment than dass the country mer and this is the change which most hot room aJU day and then go out Into ' which ha.i furnished the raw material, foreigners always regard carefully. It the cold streets and catch a cold. For- It behooves us. therefore, as good id no disgrace for a Chinese lady of eign clothes are just death traps." fashion to apjiear In the street.3 wea*<- * ing clothes which give her the appear-j jj^^ f^^^ j^ ^j^^ j^^ COMING TO LEARN CANADIAN FARMING. A party of young men from public and secondary schools In England leaving Liveiixx)! to take up an agri- cultural course at Maodouaid College. MvGiU University. Moi»treal. .Vfter a short tuition period they wUl work on selected fann.s before retumir.* to the college In November. Afterwards they wlH set up for themselves. to wander while handling dangerous , wea^ns. Implements or powerful and -_,,h^, , , Tr u J , swiftly moving machines And it ia ' ^^^«nf V ,^ ^"^ ^^/- P'-'^'^"«> Often the highly skilled as the Ig ' pressman tor tarty years and never be- â-  ^orant who ai^ hurt, fore had a ' - Used, But Western Ideas of Heating Spread. The first oo'.d snap ot winter in China is not the signal for a rush to ino. Ki -'^ 'ou^ ^i<l€n'- By keep- jng ^ certain muscular action over and department stores to lay in a stock of mg ht> atieatiou on "^^ja^k be coiUd â-  over again the action becomes m«- i warm clothes. Not that the Chinese jni of wiu'ter. „., .- -r- J -.«A .v^cro ju, appreheu- 1 •'^s a matter ot fact, they prefer thick int»,-r«w ^ accident was readily ' ^ion of danger. The most skiUed 1 "-lothes and a cold room to living in a nT^f^V^ !f °'^. . "<""«°'ary In- therefore should be the most watch- ! warm room with a minimum of clothes, me^y It tak^ *"" thr^^ ^ °° '""^ watchful not only of Implements j When the. first chill blaet^ of winter es a terrible grii and or machines they are handJing but also : -iweep down from tbe north they give ? nlJ -^ l^'s P'^ safely in the dark, chanlcal and it is then that the mtad are Impervious to the rl«o Lll^L' ^°JT ^f/l'^'* of 1-OT tt , Is apt to stray and lose it^ appr^e^ I -^s a matter ot fact, i^ ance of a barrel, or the fat lady at the show. Her progress may be slow, but There's music In the upper air, she knows she la fortified against the I just when morn is nl^i. piercing winds. A slim and ilender , But when the twilight s'iiadowB come figure ia fashionable in summer be- J to veil the evening-sky. cause it is practical; in winter the! So when the choree at last are done, stout figure is fashionable for precise-; PuH uP au easy chair, ly the same reason. Except for ihe -^nJ <"ne the radio to catch the muslo occurred ultra-modern women who have adopt- ed the principles of Western fashion in their clothes. Chlnass women do in the air! Canadian citizens, to see that Can- adian ores are treated, so far as ia practicable, in Canadian mills and re- fineries, using Canadian power, em- not j ploying Canadian workmen and buy- ing Canadian machinery and supplies. It must not be forgotten that, min- eral resources, unlike water powers or forests or ajjricultural products, once used, can never be replaced. There is only the one crop. It is not difficult to understand why that singia crop should be developed only under dear I such circumstances as will bring the there's no saving a hand onc« it goes of themselves, under a roller. i "There now," said the doctor as ho oLamped a piece of adhesive on tbe gauzey "you've :os>t the nail, but you'M have another In six months. The fin- ger won't be th-e same but you'll be surprised how much It will be restored. Come and have it dreeeed every day i for at least a week." j As the patient left the office two ' words kept sounding in his brainâ€" j "Momentary Inattention." j And when he recaJled his state ot | mind at the tlm<? he banged the head ! ot a hatchet on the tip of his own fin- ger he felt Inclined to confes® to him- self that they applied also to bis ca^e. Next day in tlio surgeon's waiting room he saw another man with a band- aged hand. Felio-w suffering was sut- 'ficlent introductiou. so he asked: "How did you get yours?" "In a stencil-cutting machine." "How did It happen?" "I was working at the same machine as I have had for eight years. I was plugging alon^ as usual and for a mo- ment didn't notice where my hand The only safe way is to think safety all the time. â€" F.D. the signal for a rush tu the pawnshops which are the wardrobes of niilliona of people. Pawnshops in Chine do not hide their llKht under a bushel, as in the West. I Neither are they mere havens of rest for the financially weary. Pawnbrok- ins: Is an oUI and dignified profe«5sion, drawing a clientele from the rich as ; wpU as the poor, and perforai.s a very , accessary fuuctioii lu Chlne.se social I .If". Especially in the Yangtze Valley jawnshops play an important role. They are the farmers' trust and credit janks. They finance his crops ^nd jarry him over the poor seasons, and io extensive are they that many towus ' measure their prosperity by the num- 'The hours I spent with thee not allow questions of figure to die- 1 heart, are like a string of pearls. ' greatest prosperity and benefits to tate to their bodily comfort in winter.)'^ take me back, O take me back to the country. And so the pawnshops continue to ren-i 'Gin, 'Gin ^Ginny girls, der their service. The sign •â- tong." : The price ot eggs Is 30 cents, and by which all pawnshops rendering thia ' cauUltower's high, service are knowu, is to be seen in ^°- all the lads they smile on me while . nearly every Shanghai street atid in! coming through the Rye What Is He Worth? some cases the big, black character Talking with a group of friends on the subject of children, a mother made the proud boast that she would not covers the whole -side or front of the ' '^ honey, honey doan you know. I'se I p^^t with her boy for a million dol- pawnshop. | 8"'^ "^^ home-brew blue*? \ iaj.g. a bachelor who was standing Interesting ideas ou beat prevail in,^"""" w'"t'?'" •>»* '"^J" ^^ broad-brim- nearby, knowing something of the China. In the interior the "kang," a I â„¢^'* or turban as you choose, whey's mischievous nature, remarked sort ot big stone couch with a fire'un-! " ^^"^ sublime sweet evening star, !„ an undertone, "And I -wouldn't derneath it. is the family steeping place and keeps the hou^e cozy. In [ Shankhal, however, despite the many j Western contacts. Chinese ideas of! heating do not coincide with Western â- â€¢ ideas. .Many Chinese who live in big. ' semiforelgn houfiei do not rely on s'eam h."at. Some" have small fire- rest on my spirit's dream. ; give ten ce-its for him." Moth- Red Riding Hood she saw the wolf. e„ usually incline to the higher and then let out a scream' j valuation, and they are right: The po- tential value of a boy is beyond com- 'Some vegetables require, of course, putation. He may become an illus- a light and sandy leam. trioua leader and benefactor and make Tis just a love nes^t (tum te rumi that the whole world his debtor. In help- we can call our home. \ [^g ^ child we can never tell how great rbe price of chicken feet Is high, but the service we mav be rendering to less iu iiuantity> {the nation. 'emâ€" my Swiss Liking Nat\u*. Like a Woman. "Well, at least 1 can say I'm a self- made actress." "Don't bother to apologize, dear. I'd Jost make the best of It." places, but there are manv bouses i ;i)p.r ot pawnships. Nor U pawnbrok- where a foreigner will call aiid be re-' j ln< an undignified profe.ision. ceived in a room without any heat and ! ^" â„¢" ''^â„¢' ^''â- '*' â- "**",.. In the old days many wealthy people must sit and shiver in his overcoat.] "''^ misses me I" j tjvested their money in pawnshops. Most likely lUe^ Chinese host, well sur- ' '^''*'"^''' '""^J'^" .'" '"•? evening air and i China's great statesman, Li Hung rounded by thick, padded clothing. Is *_ ^''^""^ " *'^ speech, ! chang. who left marks of his industrial sitting In a chair with his fingers ; i genius In sevei-al enterprises he or- grasping a small hot-water bottle of a ' u . t. ganized in the Kmpress Dowager's type which sells by the thousand in ; ^"' »"' r'"""" ^"^â- '' "'^ ^^PP*"^ °°- "»<' H**^'^"* '" a '^w biue e^^e*. or whether reign, was enough of a Chinese to put Shanghai. The hot-water bottle idea j P'^'' '"^ '^"^- *^''"''"- a lot of his mono*' into Peking pawn- is very common and no lady of fa.shion There appears to be no eni to my ; To entertain or edify, to kill the time Hklng tor Nature; whether a tree is or teach. ; so leafy that it reduces th<a whole was. I was too sure of nvyself. My ! . ... hand was just under the cutter when I Qr.i^r.« af tk P« a woman at the next machine shout- ' -^Prms ai ine rane. ed 'look out for your hand.' At the When Spring peeped in the window in&tant she spoke I had tripped the' ^ P"' '"y """^'^^^ aside, machine and though I puUed m,y hand . The tasks could wait, I must away, away I didn't pirll It aw~ay fast enough \ ^°^ '^^< '^e fields stretched wide. end the cutter caught this fiag^sr. If It hadn't been for the warning I'd have tost my whole hand." "For a momeitt I didn't notice where my hand was." That was how he des- cribed K. That day in the surgery the doctor told of a patient he had attended that morning. A woon&n was Ironing. She was standing close to the stove, which was on her right. Holding the heavy Iron In her hand she drew It back rigorously for the next stroke. Her tibow hit the sharp comer of the stove Her smile, or was it sunsliine? Turned rug and chair to gold. And sudden joy possessed me And more than I could hold. In garden ways I found her. I The Spring, so young and fair, I And all the op'ning blossoms Were tani^led in her hair. â€" Aiix Thorn. « I, Sister in Doubt. "You are the .--unshine of my life. Your smile falls like lightning into my soul. With you by my s-ide I would defy all the storms of life." "Is this a proposal or a weather re- port?" Cotton In China. Cotton Is cultivated In virtually with the weight of the Iron behind the every province In China, from Man- blow and cat:t^«d a serious laceratton. ' churla iu the north to (.'anion In the She said ,;he forgot about the stove extreme south. In totai annual pro- being so civs?. j tluotlon the country ranks next to the ThB<. too. was inattention In a de- ] United Statui and India. gree, but inattection nevertheless. j » â€" The ne:tt day auoih<>r npan was lu â-  The "human form divine" was prob- the waiting room, lie had bis whoh- ably dls.ovcred by ;i chiropractor. Bhopn. â-  would go out In her sumptuous rick- The thrifty Chinese have developed '^'^**' ^'''> ''» four electri*.' lights with- the pawnshop to a more useful de- ""' taking her l5ottle with her to keep groe. Pawnshops are now the people's '""" ''^nds warm. wardrobes. Most peoplt?"s wealth i« Three Kinds of Heating. tied up In warm wiuter clothing, such | Three different kinds of heating as fur-linod gowns and coats and pad- ideas may be cited. At the house of a â- led garments. In the summer these retired Chinese politician, once Pre- dotlies are stored away at the nearest niier ot China, you can alwavs find pawnshop, not for financial rea.sons. a crackling log fire burning in "winter. but because a service has developed . -That is one thing I learned in Eng- whereby such clothing can be better lad," he says. -There Is nothing to [preserved In pawnshops than if it were beat a log fire tor heat and cheerful- ' kept at home stuffed away iu some ness combined." chest. Rich and poor use this useful | Another political leader, who was pawnshop valet service and keep their . educated in the United States, favors clothes year after year free from rail-' steam heat. The heat strikes the visit- dew cr moths at a slight charge. More-' or as soon as he opens his front door. over, their belongings are iu good A third man. also a political leader . hands, .safe from burglary or fire. And who has traveled in the United States ! """'*-">' so. as soon as winter comes, the pawn- ' and Europe, has adopted neither meth- j shop rush to redeem their clothing be- ^ oU of heating. He still adheres to his ElectricLights Help Fish. gius. In tact, this rush ij« a more de-|'kang' for his bedroom, but the rest Klectric lights over tbe water In fish finite herald ot wiuter than the reck-, of his house is like a refrigerator, ile : hatcheries have been found to attract ^^ Usly Inaccurattf Chinese calendar, with I receives callers in a freezing annos- : insects and thus aid in feeding the ^Its fixed and arbitniry days cf "Big phere, but stk-ks to the hot-water hot fieh. : Cold" und "Small Cold." | de. j v - â€" Layers of Clothing. J "The trouble with \our foreign ' .\ faithful friend Is a fine image ot the twigs are as thin ami bare as the Tune up the radio and catch the muslo birds-' legs tiat use themâ€" it ia all the in the air! • same to me.â€" W. H. Davtee. In "Lafer â€" Eteie Duncan Yale. ; ^'^s." Ck Mexican Children. Mexico has no courts for juvetiLe^v but the Society for Protection of Child- ' ren has appealed to President Calles to foumi such courts. I c^ I Get Light From a Tree. The oil drawn from the shea butter j tree of Interior Africa provides fue4 ~* and light for the natives. Had His Nerve. ^i â€" A customer went into a store and ' Demand for Clatay Pigs. picked up an article, walked out with ' More chaji 250 pedigree pigs wer» It and told the clerk to charge It. j bought in Great Britain by the Russian "On what account ?" called the clerk. ' government alone last year, and the "On account of not" having any export trade generaiiy In British pigs with me." _ durftig the year enjoyed a boom. j A New Animal. Thf huarize Is a rec«nt.Iy developed 'animal, a cn-.-s hetweeoi^e llamo and the alpaca ot Peru. -*~ j The Chinese have a .-iinipie idea re- -I :' ' clot he.< is that they are no', pra.rlcal ihe DeHy. -Napoleon. Two Long Lakes. Liak» IJaigal. Sib?ri.i is nearly long a.-* l.ak!» i^tircil r. a« MUTT A ND JEFFâ€" By Bud Fisher. That's Carrying a Jcke a Bit Tco Far. '^j >