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ujjijn»L.i.ii.j»«]itrBHffPT,„, iiyi" T^g; Av.\,mr"\fPfr sl ^rmm e-««" Of Interest to Motorists ^ CAREFUL CHECK IS ALL- , WINTER NEED OF AUTO. A proUem of the hanwn being is to •djnat himself to hi0 enTironnent. Dating the winter months tiwao who «wn Automobiles have a few extra do- todla incladed in the adjastmeat prob- ' lam. To get the best results out of J motoring (hiring ^ba frigid term, there ' â- n A few items to consider. Having «idaprt«d the ear to the changed condi- tiona, it performs with an efficiency-; •pproxfmating that of warm climates. Tlw fact that motoring is incrcnsing-; ly becoming an all-year- round affair j is fair proof. It often happens that the motorist â- miR neglect the details of an adjust- ment to cooler weather, and along in November find bimaelf in some sort of trouble. Then he braces up and doesnt j get negligent again until along in March. Or it sometimes happens that he is very careful in the early fsn and gets less cautious In the later days of winter. Some naay think that spring is bo near that precaution can lessen. Wbate%'er may be the reason, It is found that many operators of cars benefit by a second check up on cold ^iwather adjustment. There are a few matters that can well be attended to now. A piece of equipment that adds im- measurably to the safety of winter driving is the windshield cleaner. Dim- mil^ of the motorist's vision through snow, sleet or rain on the windshield is dangerouA both to driver and pedes- trian. An automatic cleaning device, requiring no attention from the driver, . is preferable. I FEXFECT BRAKES NEEDED. | Perfectly functioning brolree are a' requisite to safe driving in any season ol the year, bat this is especially true ^ during the winter months when the brakes are necessarily subjected to un-; usoal demands. The wise driver will test them every day when taking the . dar from the garage and will make any needed adjustments before the ear is xised. j Safe driving when the weather j brings snow or ice deman<fe properly) fitting chains on both rear wheeb. In ; this connection it siiould be noted that one dtain is worse than none at alL â-  The tinae of greatest danger from skidding is just after the first pr»- eiintation, before the grease which is usoally present on roads has been washed away. Tires which have been worn treadleas increase the possibility of skidding, as this is practically cer- tain to occur with worn tires If the brakes are suddenly applied. Extra precaution as to the condition of besdlights, tailligbts, steering gear, tires and horn during the winter aea>- son is desirable in the interests of safety. The beet pian is to have the car liioroughly overhauled at a reli- able service station before the onset of inclement weather. When this is not done March is « gfood time for checking op on diese details. In most eases the motorist will be amply re- paid for the outlay thus incurred. WATCH OICTANCE ClOBELY. When icy pavements invite skidding, especially when a. quidc stop is made. It is imperative to watch one's dis- tance closely. Where city traffic is oomparativ^y tight and a speed of eighteen to twenty miles an hour is the rule, it is a safe idea to allow fifty feet between vehicles. Under congest- ed conditions, of course, this is not possibls. The motorist should keep in mind the fact that unfavorable wea-. tber conditions increase tremendously the importance of traffic signals, and ^K>uld act accordingly. Following car rails is especially foolhardy in wet weather, as the brakes frequently fail to function when a sudden stop is necessary. Furthermore, skidding is very litely to accompany the forcing of the car out of the wet tracks. The best course to follow if caught in this predicament is to bring the car to a gradual stop by shutting off the power and apply- ing the brakes slowly. All gasoline engines gi'v« off carbon monoxide gas. This compound is fatal when present in the proportion of 15 parts to 10,000 parts of air. To start a motor in a closed garage is thus in- viting death. This danger must be kept constantly in mind during the cold season when garages are made as airtight as possible. In connection with the use of cloeed cars this factor must also be consklered, as a defective exhaust may permit the escape of this gna in sufficient quantities to en- danger the lives of the occupants. ADAMSON'S AD VENTURESâ€" By O. BRITISH PRESTIGE I London Spectatcr: 11 is perhaps not Town V. Countryside. By C. W. Peterson. The evidence of the apparent attrac- waste of time to l:_rorm those foreign- 1 tions of urban as con>pare<i with rural era who have had no means of keep- , life Ilea in the final result of Che cen- Ing in touch with British thought that ' tury k>ng race the world over between the oid British Imperialism which was town and countryside as rival claim- synonymous wkh taking for the sake ; ante for popularity. Decade after de- of takfng and painting the map red : cade the city has won o\it. We all te as dead as the dodo. The tendency | know the reason. But perfaape this nowadiays Is rather to repudiate all re- ; movemeiit is essential to nat'.oniU pre- sponsibHity which Is expensive or ^ servation. The Infusion of the vlgor- trouWesomei. . . Shanghai is • ; ous blood of Qod's open country ar- great and rich city which was built on â-  rests human decay in the crowded an oupty marsh by British money and ; centres of population. The cities ob- enterprise. It Is an elementary duty ; tain from the terms not only their to protect the Brltteh and oth*«r for- ' food and the raw materials for half of eign ros-tdpnts In that crowded and their industries, but the human ma- hlghly civilized plasce. If Mr. Ramsay . terlad itself, and wens thJa movement MacDonald, or some other Labor lead- ; from country to city to cease, in four er, were Prime Minister, he would not geoeratioss the cities would perish, take the risk of having it said, tf there More than two thirds of the inhabU- were a mnssacre~-tn Shanghai, that he ants of our cities were born on the lukt not taken every precaution to farm, or are the children of firm-born arert the disaster. ~~ An Aviator Took Her Up. •'3he was always a high tlyer. Whom dd »he get to marry her?'" 'Oh, an aviator took her up." Another 4ert of Caa«. "I am not eipecting any package," said the lady of the house. "This Is the numb»r," persisted flis tfrtver, loofclug at his book again. "Name's Hlggins. ain't It?" "Tfes.* "No 7i?" "Thai's our number." "Then It's tor you." "I think not. It must be a case of mlslHken IJ<>aUty." "No, wum. It's a case of gtagcr- fodk. The remaining one-third almost Invariably traces to the farm In two more generationv They have learned in older clviUzattons, that the land Is the "healing and the saving" of the nation. That, as a matter of present commercial self-interest, and for the I protection o( genera t loos to corner or- gantxed society can weiU afford to make great sacriflces to tOster and en- courage its agriculture^ We, in Can- ada, have as yet almost everything to learn en that e^bject. The late Luther Burbank. oompar- ; Ing our densely populated cities with ; the batlly tended garden, says tha/t the crowding of our cities Is like the orondiug of a neglected garden, and there is where spindling, weak, atten- uated growths occur, and where the average of stroogth, bcdity and meo> , tal. Is lowered by the stritggle and th« . pressing In of a muMltnde of weeds. . The grtiwth of cities is uuiiea'.thful for a cation, but there now seems to be a tendency to spread out into suburl^ and outlying disiricta that may solve a problem that has cau!»ed . disaster 2u past history. Our task is to go Into th.tt neglected garden, aud i by pruning, weeding, opening up ' bresiUtUiK spaces sucli as parks and I playgrounds, and givit>g the human \ plants such envii-onmental advantages ' as education and training, enable them to m«tH the comi>etltioa of the crowd . an dripoh a fuller slatiu^, mentally and ph.vs;cally. Happily our country The English Cottage. O sweet small house in the valley woodland planted. Native as acorn cupped, thatched gray as mcmse. Snowdrop and robin hannted â€" There Is none Uke you, little English house! Old as the oak you are. in oak dark limbered. Old and how friendly with years your firellt beams. O well, O well remembered Homestead of sailors' and of exiles' dreams! To you in the spring bright swaJIows first come flying. Rosy and azure-winged thro' ihe April rain. With low crooning and crying. Under your silvered brows to nest again. In your honey'd garden of Juim, what bat-winged fancies Flit In the twilijtht dim where frag- rance dwells With dark red peonlee, pansies, Aad nodding phlox and Canterbury bells. Let leaves In the high wind whirl by your door and dormer. Red apple dropped long since, and fall- en the flowers : Still Irlsed dcves low murmur And Jasmine stars your walls In dark- est hours. O sweet small house! 1 w ouki find you yet, eocfaanted. Par In the wooded hills of England's heart, 'Twlit road and river planted, .\nd buiWed strong by one who loved his art. â€" Hamish Maclarsn. The word democracy has been a rallying cry throughout the ages from the day of Per- : ides to that of the Chaurtists, a cry with a great tradition that i one would not treat lightly. , Where the borders of freedom have been most enlarged, the : cry for freedom and justice has ' been most insistent. But even jwith the establishment of I political democracy, freedom 'and justice have often seemed 'far off in the modern preval- ence of squalor and luxury, j great inequalities of wealth and opportunity. â€" London Quarterly Review. « A tree gets homesick wivea you move It. That is a fact, and I can provo it. I watched one all last year, and know The struggle which it made to grow, I saw its last expiring breath; That maple grieved itself to death. The nursery man had guaranteed It. I have the contract. You may read it A tree is easy to tracspiint Unless viju'tb chosen one you can't. .\n-l this one wliich he brougiit to me Was such a semi meat a; tresu Despite the tender care I gans It I knew ihat I stiottld never save It. 1 fancied I couM hear It sigh. Heedless ot summer sun and sky, .\ad I have â- Â»-aked, 'tis truth I write, To hear it sobbing through the night. And then at last that tree departed. Withered and gaunt and broken- heart e<l. But were I snatched from aB I'v« known. Loved and learned to call my own To live my life «lsewhersv so I Should languish, wither, ^clcen, (He. â€" EJdgar .\. GueaC Upbuikhng begins with "U". Drunk With Success. 'â- rm-h!c!-druak with success." 'You're Just drunk." â- "Xot so. I had great sucvese-hic! In getting something to get drunk on." -> I "The day may come when we shall ' be able neither to walk rwr write," said Dean Inge, in a recent lecture. ; "We shall use the ruotor-csr for the. first and the typewriter .'or ihe sec- ond." Three British Envoys Meet in Washington. With the arriv.T; of Vinot^nt Massey. the new Can-idian Minister to the United States, t-hree r<ermaaent en- voys of the British Commonwealth mat in Wa^Iiiugtoa for the lirst Urns In historj-. Sir Esme Howard, the BrirUih .•Un- ba.<saJor. .iii-i Prof. Timothy SmMdy, Minister of the Irish t>ee State, greeted Mr, .\Iass<?y at the station up- on his arrival from Ottawa. Staffs of both the Br!t!*h Embassy and the Free State Lepition comprised tie welcom- ing de!««ation. Now Shs Knows. A young officer was ahowlng his «ld- wly aunt round ihe camp, when sud- dsoly a bugle blared out. "What's that torT" she asked, ap- prshenslvsly. "Oh, that's tattoo," said her nephsw. nMsurlsgly. "Oh. is It reaUyr she said. "How U^srestlngl Tvs often seen It oa •oldtsrs' anna, but I didn't kitow thty 6u a spsclal Un* tor dotog It" « Why are tba buttons on a man's eost ahmys on tbs right and thoss oa s Tiomsn's always on the WtT Ot kftdn't yoa nottetii. tkst tlMV u«t I population stands in no need of the I osre whkh is essential to the well-be- : Ing of the mors tender urban plants. â-  The conntry has Its ooutpensat Ions. I Canada's iH>licy shouM centre arouitd tbs bulKling up ot her er.ormouss un- dsvek>i>ed i-ural area. This course wcnld ensure a sound fcnindalon for nat tonal greatoessi <» Where Charity Begins. "We are going to sweep tho coun- try," declared the active club woman on her return from an enthusiastic poltticsl meeting. "Bat. d«ar," said her husband. "woohlnX II bs wte«^ to begin at hoowr Lrain't Drcua. Widdum Steed in the Loi^ don Review of Reviews: A main purpose of Soviet polky is to destroy the chief "strong- hold of capitalism" which thqf believe to be sittiated in Great Britain. This purpose ex- plains, in part, their intrigues in China. The other part of ihe explanation may w^ell lie in their desire to organize "the Eaist" against "the West" so as to bring on the universal re- volution of which Lenin dreamed. . . ^X'e, as a peo- ple, cannot afford to ignore what is being done to hurt us and the type of civilization for which w^e stand. Tonpering Justice With Mercy. The dUtingur&faed British judges Sir Henry Hawkins, later Lord Brampton, was noted rather for serverity thaa gentleness. But on one occasion, and that a difflcuJt one. be managed very neatly to secure mercy for a prisoner, whom it seemed impossible to rescue from punishment. The man. already suffering imprteon- meat for some eariier offence, had tamed a mouse which visited his ceU, and made a pet of It. .\ brutal warder, entering whUe he was playing with his httle friend, deliberately stepped up- on the ikrle creature and killed it. Frantic with «trief and at the cruel cut- rage, the prisoner caught up his din- ner knife, and dashed at the warden, who only Just escaped, the knife stab- bing the door as it closed behind him. I Sir Henry Hawkins, as judge, want- ad to get the unhappy man off: but the ; attempt at miinler was obvious, and ; the law e<iuai!y clear. Nevertheless. I he was not nonplused, la his chargs ] to the Jury he said : I "If a man tries to kt'.l another la a way which Is atk?urd, it becomes a fool- ish rather than a crinilna! act. If, for esampie. a man in Lonion •iischarged a pistol to hart a man in E.iinburgh. we o^'uid only laugh at such an of- fence. So iiiso when a man stabs an Iroa-plated door whKe another man :s at the other side of it, we cannot taks It serlousiy.- Tha Jury were only ti>o glad to fol- low such a lead, and promptly brought in a verdict of 'Not gjiity." Doubt- less the judge's legal â€" or Illegal quib- ble â€" was bad law; Imt it maJe possible a mercy more just than a sentence more legally correct would have been. The Bee's Dance. .\ hive bee. finding flowers with abviudant neotar. takes a full load and fines straight home. \'!^ry shortly there are more bees on the Howers. How do they know the ne»:tar Is ther« and how do they and It? Professor J. .\rtUur Thomson. In th« "Scottish Journal of .\grktilture."' quotes exporlmjnts by Trofeissor Kari von Frisch. to explain this problem. It has bee nfoand that when a be« which has saok'S't to tba full returns to !!» hive U starts a "round dance* j on the comb. This e-tdtes the work- j ers close by and they hurry out to find j the nectar themselves. But befors they leave the hive tfcey nose at the j discoverer, and thus obtain a clue by scent of the kind ot flower to seek. They go off aloce. the discoverer te- â-  malning In the hive. If the floweis with the nectar have no scent the dis- cover can give no clue. The Professi>r"8 answer to this It the astonishing one that a hive bee, excited by a discovery of nectar, at once sprays the blossoms with a char- acteristic scent formed in a glandular poc'ivet near the hind oad of her body. This scent serves as a tell-tale clue to the searching b^fs. It has been found that when a bes patch of (towers begins to be exhaust- f^l the visits of new bees decline. Soon they stop. This Is regulated by the faoi that -.vhen a bee rt>tunis with lit- tle nectar she does not dance, and so no more seekers go forOi. Out to Stay. Wlf<»'s lYlend â€" "Hai your wife ta'itea aijy r^>oipca cut of that cook book I gave horT" Hubby (rather shortly) "Yes. rjid I'm going to see they stay out as long as she cooks Aor me!" NIAGARA'S BRIDGE OF PEACE .An excellent view of the mighty bridge of steel that is bcins tiding u rv^ lit-.- Nmjv.i:- Mo, New York state, to ccatmemorsts a oeutury of peace and good will bs vveca the two ,1 I'rcni Oiuarlo to Bnf- c<;u:i tries. 0ns Way. Teache*' "How would you practics economy, Johnny T" Johnny â€" "Well, for instauoe, by i»ot letting our mothers wash our hands, J and ueclcs we could save soap."