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Rainbow Gold by E. C. BULEY GOSSIP VIA WIRELESS IS CALLED NEW FACTOR IN EMPIRE BUILDING SYNOPSIS Han I'lfscntt ^11. d Ci'idon Wcstcrby fml fulj 111 llie arid huvh nf Australia. Tiity utaki- tliclr claini and blai t the ioiij; jouriify to the (•(Jasl. Thpy rcstetl for a couple ot days, anil then prepared to resume their journey to rail head. "Wliat are you going to do. now you've made your pile, Dan?" VVeth- erljy a.slied. as (.."ley overlooliod tlie car 0:1 the eve of making another Btaif. "I dunno," Dan said careless. ly. ••We've got to ea.«h in lirst, haven't we'.'" "Thai's simple; taiie my word tor it," Widierhy re[»lie(l conlidently. "i know how to cash in on a mine lil<e ours. And as soon as I've touched tlie mom y, I'm o Uto Kn.!,'land to settle down. There's a f;iatul little girl waitinR tnr me, Dan; heen waiting for years." "KoKland?" Dan repeated. "1 thoUKhl you were a native." D.m himself liad emigrated to Au:,tr..lia from I'^ngland as a boy ot flfteen, hut his mate had never be- fore spoken of Kn(!land. H.e had all the marks of a native-born Austra- li.ir. "I'm an Aussie, all right," Wether. by agreed. "Hut I'm going haek to Kngland to !ettle down now." "Never knew you'd ever heen there." Dan said indifferently. "Vou never said anything about liaving a girl wait:iig for you in Knglami." "I don't tell everybody my busl- nesB," Wttherhy agreed. "Hut you arc different. Dan. I sliouldn t have baen a rit^U man only ftjr you. It wan you who p;it nie on this good thing. I'm writing to Glady'a to tell her how miieli f'he owes to yoti. " Ills voice (|iiavered Willi emotum. Dan felt uneomiorlabli'; he was not used to eliaps wlio l(d t.'iemselves go. \V( therby was all rlgiit as a work, lug mate; he liad done his full share of tlie toil, and taken his halt ot any risk l.'iat was (â- ncoiinlered. But he was indued to l)o what Dan calleil "gabby"; anil to talk too much ir Riven the slglitest encourauenient. From his breast pocket he now <lrew a p!iotoi,'raph. whl(.:i he llin:st Into Dan's hand . It was the picture of a gill in evening dross, with nmoolh round arms; a glil with very big dark eye.s that looked wisttully out of li'ie picture; a girl witli a trem- ulous niiuith. wlii<;h made Welherby's Btoyy of lialient waiting seem very ^•al, nil of a sudden to Dan. "Cripes!" said Dan. devouring the pictu:-e with his gaze. "She's a bon- ier little gli'l, Don. No wonder you are in n hurry to ca.^h in and g< r away (,> lOiiglaml. Good luck to both of yiml" All of a Kildili'il, MiiK.'iow, he felt very lonely, and a little sad. Ho hail never been much in the way of meet- ing nice girls like I he hig-eycd ori- ginal of h' mate's photograp'i. When ho did. on any rare occasion. Dan had noli'i ng to say to them. They made him feel lost and awkward. II had never before occurred lo him to envy anybody, hut now he envied Don Wellierby, whose future was ar- ranged in such a pleasant lashlon. "Hut what are yoii going fo do y<.iir;elf, DanY" Wellierby Insisted. â- '(Ki. I diinno," Dan said. ''I ex- pect I'll have a look around for a bll; Inve t my capital in a station, or fruit farm inaybi". Hut we have to cash In lirsl." "l/eavelhat to me," Wetlierby re. peatid conliilently. " You have done the thinking up to now; but this is where I come In. When wo get to Sydney, Just watch me lash In on that mine of ours.'' "Uyebuck!" yawned Dan. knock- ing the! ashes out of his pipe. "(Jot to mako un early start tomorrow. ./^ WHien they got to Sydney, Dans flrsl care was to register their claim With (he mining department. Then the two mates sold enougOi of (lie Bold they had won to provide for their immediate needs and spent a day or two enjoying themselves In Sydney. They had a day at the races, and an evening at the tiioatre. They browsed a good deal in restaurants on green vegetables and fruit, after I'he custom of all men who have long been away from such vital necessit- ies of life. They had a long allornoon swimming in the surf at Rondi beach; and rode ahiiut a good deal in taxi- cabs. It struck Dan that, for a man who had a beautiful girl patiently waiting for him over in Kngland, his mate waj rather too ready to cilium up with any pretty girl he came across, l^in Wellierby certainly had a way with him; ami barmaids, waitresses, and girls beliind counters seemed to advance halfway to meet him. Dan could never find a thing to say to tihem, and found himself ignored. He was rather glad of that; but he was surprised at Don Wetherby. He found himelf thinking a good deal of the big-eyed, wislful original of the ij.'jotograph. If a grand girl like that were waiting for him in England, he wouldn't be smirking at any blonde he saw behind a bar. After a spell of three or four days, Wetherby set out one morning to re- deem his promise, and dispose ot the gold mine. Hy lunch time im was back at the hotel again, with a bright eyed, sallow individual named Slade, whom he introduced to Dan as a mining engineer, ami a repre- sentative of Kngll.Kh capital, Dan. wfto had the specimens frojn dhe mine under his own key, exhibited the golden .'tone to Slade after lliey had lunched. The white-faced mans eyes glistened even more brightly as -he handled the stuff. "Might be anything." lie said. fing. ering the brittle stone. ".Might be a live million iioiind mine, and might bo just a little jeweller's shoii on the iiillside. What iln yoii say, Mr. I'rescott T' "That'; why we. ani cashing in," Dan said laconically. "It's a gamble, sure enough; hut it lonkeil good to me." Slade nodded, and soiin alter he went off with Wetherby. Dan got a lilegrani (â- '.lat (veiling saying that Wedieiby and Slade were oil to Iho mine by aeroiilane for un iii.'jpection. Ho loafed about Sylney for a few days,, surf bathing, resting up, and visiting cinemji hIuiws, pict- ure galleries and tlieatrcs. Then Ills mat,, turned up again, apiiarently well pleased with himsell. TO BE CONTINUED (From the Glasgow Herald.) Inhabitants of young lands have their hardships, but they are spared many of the ardors of the older world, and jive on privileges they did nothing to acquire. Thus in the Australian hinterland, as it fades toward the dry bush country of the Never-Never, the coming of wiroless has been a blessing that makes our fireside sets at home as commonplace as watertaps. It has just emerged in the report of the Rev. J. A. Barber, of the Australian Inland Mission, to the Presbyterian Assembly at Mel- bourne, that settlers' wives in the back blocks now make a habit of relieving the tedium of their lonely lives by a little gossip over the air. Many homesteads are provided with transmitters with a radius of about .100 miles as well as the ordinary re- ception arrangements permitted to the up-to-date world. In emergency this is a great boon. At a hint of serious illness a doctor may be summoned, and in no time at all he arrives by air. And when there is no emergency it is also a Loon â€" for the women can gossip, their traditional whispers being taken up by the microphone and sent to and fro. It is not very clear from the cables whether or not Mr. Barber is happy about the development. Gos- sip, which actualy passes for con- versation with most of us, has not a very good name. There may be the suspicion that the new facility may be bad for Australian womanhood. It may be felt that instead of busying themselves with good works and looking after the master's socks, the women of the lonely stations are using the fine air of Australian mornings in sending idle twitterings across the wide open spaces just as their sisters in the cities whisper one to the other on the stairhead. However that may be, we are not prepared to be despondent about it. Indeed, we are inclined to see in the news fresh hope for the White Australia policy, with gossip in the role of Empire builder. It has been said that among white peoples suc- cessful colonization is impossible unless women have a hand in it. The colonist must have a home, and it requires a woman to make one, and to support it with her art once it is made. The problem in undeveloped Australia, then, is to persuade wo- men from the south to go north with their men. Hitherto that has meant giving up gossip, and the sacrifico has on the whole proved too great. Now the gossip is, as it were, laid on, the situation has taken a new and hopeful turn. We would not, perhaps, be prepared to die for the theory, but it is plausible. Going on a Holiday? Wc can givo you llio best wliether you want to Rest Play Fish n. .1 .Miitiio Ltnce^'long LodKe, Ardbeg, Ont. (Jnit north of Parry Sonnd.) Advertising Held Aid In Distribution Paris. â€" l,oril Luke, liriti.sh in- du.striasist, *old the International (.'hamber of Cmmerce recently that "advertising is one of the most economical as wdl as one of the mo.st effcL.ive means of obtaining ade(|uate distribution." He declared Great nritain spends 1:70,000,000 annually on advertis- ing, a sum which he estimated to be three per cent of the total retail trade and considerably less than 10 per cent of the total cost of distri- bution. Th delegate tleliated the co- ordination of road and rail distribu- tion to make a closer link of mass production with distribution. Boston In Halifax Kot many Mostoniniis know it, but there is a large portion of the city of liostoii located in Halifax. When tourists from the United States make their tenipoi-ary head- ([Uarlcrs at the Nova Scotinn Hotel ill Huji/'ax they uro still on Ameri- can soil. ^^;«'L. wW"«Vi •'v It all dales back lo the days when oil sailing vesself came "down" to Halifax from Hoston in ballast. The ballast, of course, was .soil obtained in Uoston. Many tied up ut the pier, close to the iiresent nU\ of the hotel. The ballast was unshipped and was used by the llaligonians in levelling grounj in that Dcction of the city. Find Golden Voice For Talking Clock (Manchester Guardian) After a search that has been go- ing on for months through the tele- phone exchanges of this country to discover a golden voice beautiful in auality, free from accent, with full- ness of tone and nothing niggardly a'jout it, the perfect golden voice has been found among the nine candi- dates selected for the final test. It was selected by a committee of such high authority that it includ- ed Mr. Masefield and Miss Sybil Thorndike, who sat in a room at the General Post Office and began at eleven o'clock to listen to the un- seen candidates speaking from a lit- tle distance. Two hours later they awarded the first prize to Miss Ethel (;ain, u West (Croydon girl who works at the Victoria Exchange. The second pr.ze went to Miss I. II. Dunn, who is at the Trunk Ex- change. All the other finalists re- ceived a prize in addition to the honor an", glory of having come successfully through the three pre- liminary tests. The golden voice will be worked pretty hard before it has completed its task of making records on sounJ films to be used on the "talkiiu; clocks" that are to be installed in cr-!<res oi'tside London, and when .'^he lias finished Miss Cain will be glad to know that she herself will not have to tell anxious subscribers the exact time, but that they will be satisfied with a tinned voice. The price of Miss Cain's victory was the ordeal of being confronted by a room full of journalists, press photographers, and men making talking films in the presence of the judges, who included Mrs. Atkinson, of Uurley-iii-Wharfedalc, henceforth to be known, because of her unfail- ing courtesy at the telejihone, as the perfect telephone subscriber. It was curious to see all the blaze and dazzle directed on a girl who spends her working hours in the obscurity of a telephone exchange, and who is only known to her busi- ness world by her voice. In her free times she often takes part in private theatricals, a leading part one imagines, but in spite of that her voice fulfilled the requirement | of being "without any trace of the theatrical." The lest passage she read from "L'Allegro" gave every opportunity to show the fullness of her vowels, and Mr. Masefield said afterwards that she was right in reading as she did without emphasis, knowing that the words themselves were enough. He said that Miss Cain had a sense of beauty, rhythm, anil justice. Miss Thorndike expressed her ad- miration, but admitted that, unlike the telephone authorities she liked to hear a voice with the rich ac- cents of the North, and said she would love to hear a Scottish voice tell her the time. Predict Wheat Yield Before Seed Sown Serve the B>est Tea TEA You If Past Thirty Should Use Rich Crean Around Eyes Every Night Minneapolis. â€" A method of pre- dicting the yield of wheat months before the seed is sown, was de- scribed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science re- cently by Homer J. Henney of Kan- sas State College. The forecast is like reading the future from a deck of cards. For wheat, the cards are the weather report on the rain of the previous year. They show the rains from July to December. The aces and kings are the amount of rain and when the showers fell. With them the forecaster can in- form the farmer in January how much yield to expect from the seed he is yet to sow two or more months later. An unusual form of cannibalism among Indians in North America was described recently by L. A. Wil- ford of the University ot Minneso- ta. Bones excavated from Northern Minnesota Indian mounds, Wilford told the anthropology meeting, showed that while the early Indians may not have eaten the flesh of their dead, they drained the marrow from the bones and the brains from the head for food and for industries such as tannin.ir. Woman Makes Garters For Bow-legged Men Too Close Driving Writes the Chatham Ni'wsâ€" ''Four cars figureij j^ii an autonjobile crash near Stratford. At least two of ihe cars became involved because the drivers were following too closely behind other cars. This is a poim which it is well to remember. It pays to be a reasonable distance be- hind the fellow ill front." " 'Honor' demands that a nation shall achieve its ends regardless of I cost."â€" A. A. Milne. Seattle--.\ woman's success as a manufacturer of garters for bow- legged men was held up recently as a shining example of feminine in- itiative. The story was told a preconven tion meeting of the national federa- tion of business and professional wo- men's clubs by Mrs. E. Pearl War- wick of Champaign, 111. Mrs. War- wick is department manager for a household loan company. Without naming the woman, Mrs. Warwick said: "She knew from her husband, who is a tailor, the diftlcully of making trousers hang properly on men with bow legs so she decided to create a corrective garter. The price range is $.'^..50 to $15. Customers are world wide. "Since it is impossible to pet a mailing list of bowleggcd men, she advertises in magazines and news- IKipers. You will be interested to know she employs only women in her factory. "These women did not look for opportunity to come to them; they had the idea, and the courage to sell the idea. They took the lead." "In summertime, I get wrinkles between my eyes and lines across my forehead," writes a correspond- ent. "So far, they've disappeared every winter, but, before long, I'm afraid they won't. What can I do to prevent them?" Well, first of all, you can wear colored glasses whenever you are riding in a car or sitting on the beach. These, of course, protect your eyes from the sun's glare and keep you from squinting. Choose a pair that really fit the shape oi our eyes. If you expect to wear them while reading, you ought tj consult an eye specialist before you make a selection. In addition, better wear wide- brimmed hats as much as possible. They're smart this year anj'way, and the certainly do prevent lines across the forehead. If you already have a few stub- born furrows, learn to smooth them out each night before you go to bed. When you have cleaned your face, apply tissue cream, especially across our brow, around eyes and on the' expression lines upward from corners of the mouth. Using fiiiger- tips on both hands, flatten the lines until they begin to disappear. Keep on with the gentle ma.vage until you notice a definite improvement. Repeat each night. Every woman over 30 should leave a bit of rich cream around her eyes while she sleeps. As a matter of fact allowing a little to remain on the space between eyebrows will keep the skin soft and tend to pre- vent lines. ELEVEN CHILDREN AND A CAREER Population 170,496 In Greater Ottawa Ottawaâ€" The population of Great- er Ottawa is 170,496, according to the new city directory. There are 153,9'20 residents of the city proper, an increase of 12,839 over 1934, and Ui,57G in the suburbs, an increase of 702. Wife Of Australian Prime Minister Makes Speeches, Writes And Is In Politics, Washington â€" Mrs. J. A. Lyons, whose speeehmaking, article-writing life as wife of the Australian Prime Minister closely parallels Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt's, recently celebrated her 38th birthday at the White House. Beamingly she chose the occasion to talk about her 11 children â€" Desmond, Sheila, Enid, Kathleen, Moira, Kevin, Brendan, Barry, Rose- mary, Peter and Janice. Their ages range from 18 years to "about 20 months. How could she keep a career going and keep 11 children going at the same time? The plump and blond Mrs. Lyons just considers such things as sewing â€" making all the little children's things herself â€" "A' real delight and relaxation." "Doing anything with the hands is a spiritual refreshment," she said.' "Though, to tell the truth I oncej thought making little boys' trousers a terrible job. And it actually has, been pretty difficult at times. "Still, I could get someone to stayi with the babies once in a while^ while I went out and made speeches. My husband is a great believer in_ the civic equality of the sexes, he i» very keen on it. "To please him I took up politics. I wasn't 18 when he married me â€" he was then Minister of Education. "When I was a candidate for Par- liament â€" I had seven children then â€" women were asking why wasn't this, woman at home taking care of her children? My answer was that if I had spent my time playing bridge, I would have been a huge success scci.illy. "Women's â- .•r.iicism seemed to ma^ prejudice without reason behind them. Men's was more clear-cut and of two types â€" the first group con- tending women's place was in the home, by which they meant ground down by h^n.ehold ties. "The other was that women were too fine for c'u sordid political at-' mospherc. I said if it was too sordid if was time some cleaning infiuence gut tc work. TIRED and IRRITABLE D^ \Q you feel weak and nervou.s.' Is your I hou.sework a bur- I ilen.> Take Lydiii i: . P i n k h a m • » Vegetable Com- puund. Mrs. M. A . K e 1 I y o f Woodstock, New , Hrunswick, says, •1 was weak and rundown. A neighbor brouKhc me your â- Vege- table Compound. It helped me so much that 1 am taking il now at the i;hunge." Cel a bottle NOW. Itmaybeju-St the medicine YOU need. VEGETABLE COMPOUND Issue No. 30 â€" '35 At Last U.S. May Bow To Albion By Adopting The Solar Topee (From the New York IleraUl Tribune.) I When the Briton rides the natives hide in glee, Because the simple creatures hope He will impale in his solar top- Ee on a tree. . . . Thus has Mr. Noel Coward but recently immortalized one of the great institutions of imperial Bri- tain. The pith sun helmet (and only the British genius for unbelievable nomenclature could have thought of calling it a "solar topee") has been an object of awe and romantic im- pulses ever since Kipling, if not be- fore. It has probably sold even more tourist tickets to the British tropics than the cane chairs, the long drinks, the punkahs and the fragrance of oleander blossoms with which it is indissolubly associated. It has pre- served generations of strong, in- articulate and just young men from the sun which, as every one knows, never sets upon their dominions; and it is doubtful whether the pro- ducers of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" could have gro.iscd aa many millions as they did were the British Army in India equipped with any less pictur- esque form of headgear. The pith helmet has exercised a peculiar appeal over the imagination; and at the same time has always been peculiarly British. For both reasons one cannot read unmoved the news of its tentative introduct- ion into the American army. Will it displace the campaign hat? By comparison the campaign hat is cii object as unlovely as it is un- comfortable. It is airless in the sun •ind it blows < ff in the wind, and (Uiring the war was one of the rea- sons vhy our citizen soldiery yearn- ed to get to France, where it was not used. But it. also, has a tradition behind it. It ia legitimately descend- ed from the slouch hats of the Civil War and the Stetsons beneath which the western plains were conquered; and there is reason in the contention that even the sun in India is no hotter than the climates from which it has sheltered the .American sol- dier and cow-hand. In some -f our insular possessions, in fact, the pith helmet was until re- cently regarded with disdain as an affectation of effete Englishmen and tourists. But the helmet s been making inroads. In the southwest (and one suspects the Hollywood influence) and extraordinary con> traption pressed out of papier-machs into the form of a pith helmet com- plete with an imitation pugree, ij now being widely adopted by trucl\ drivers, campers, hitch hikers and the other adventurous souls whc have replaced the cowboy and th« cavalryman. The trouble is that the wretched article really is cool and comfortabU and keeps the sun out of the eyes. Will free-born .America bow to Al- bion at last. It is possible; but. if so we certainly won't call the thing j solar topee. Enjoy a really -fine hand'rnade ciqarctta by roUinq your ou>n u)itn GOLDEN VIRjGINIA ALSO MADE Up. IN PIPE TOBACCO. : f : I. : I