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VOICE CANADA^ THE EMPIRE THE WORLD AT LARGE of the PRESS CANADA Knew How Bc-sputchc'S told of a Toronto iiiag- ish«te letting u inun off Ik'Chusc the prliivner always read thu niagistt'i'o'a artclcs on trees and wild flowers. Aattiier Toronto magistrate, the late ۥ1. George T. Donniiion, could al- yraya be moved by any old soldier 1»k», excusing too exuberant a cele- brniton, pleaded a battlo anniversary or i\ rpunion el old ootnra'k";. â€" Kd- uiODton Journal. The Elditorial Page for a time, in some quarter.^, there rotit H feeling that what the people desired most in thcr newspapers was HOWS, and the editorial p.ige was a thiBK of minor importance. George F^rt Newton, distinguished histotian aad cd'tor, told the .\mcrJcan I'uli- tioal Science A.sso^-iation recently, that this philosophy was passing and the editorial pi.go was coming back into its cvi:. "Today's cili- t«rials," he .said, 'explain, ni'.her coerce. The editor uiuierlakes U re- late rn item to its general frame of rcfurcnce. He intioduces an explan- ation and background, so that the rca4er, having informed himself, can mako up his own mind as to what it Is •'.' nb< ut." â€" Halifax Chronicle. Motoring in Australia The cost of motoring in Australia i« very much higher than in many otb'U' parts of the world. .\ car cost- in)? approximately £170 in Canutia, Wiiijld 1/0 sold in .Australia at about f40li. The difference in cost is ac- counted for by customs dutf, prim- ag", freight, exclianjje, ami other charges. In ..ddilion. the prico of petrol is nuich higher, being Is Id per imperial gallon. In 1'J14 tlie duty v^^d one halfpenny per gallon for Brili-'h and three-quarters of a pen- ny for foreign. Gradually this has hc<-i. :ncrease<i until now the duty \i V'.^ I per gallon- â€"Brandon .S'.ni. Pullman Porters il'iw tilt railroaiis bcgtut to cm- ploy colored gontlomen as porters 8eem.s "wrapt in inystcry." There is no foundation for the belief that I'nwident Lincoln suggested it to George rullmnn, mention of whose name may be the reason why port- erH are called "George." .\t any rale c«(orid porteis were first employed in ll:<.' late seventies or early eight- icH, Six or seven years ago when the railroads \v,-ie really prosperous the I'utliniin Cotnpaiiy gave employ- l»rj*l to 11,000 porters, chefs and waters, but at the jnesent time Ihoro are only about 7,000. The pay varies according to the job on the traid.s, but the average is J'JO a iii'ihtli . - St . Thomas Times Journal. did well on the diet, so until we have something stronger in the way of argument than we now posses we must conclude that it is possible to keep body and aoul hitched together at u very modest outlayâ€" 9.85 cents per day .â€"Peterborough Kxaminor. Germany Arms I'- has been opin y stated in France that tho (iernian military strength i.H now three times that of France herKetf. TJial i)ropc)rtion is rapidly increasing in favor of (Jei many. 3he jKMmcssc.s an air army not only the fin-st of its kind technicaliy, but an air force un<ler control of men more thoroughly air-m nded than any in the worlil. Like In r opposite numlier in the Far Kast, .lapaii, (iei many li.m oxiw/isioiiisl aspirations; she has the moans to fulfil ibein, and she has the will to apply those means.- I.on- <lo) ."^iinday Dispatch. Tradition of Service King 'Mwaid is certainly not a slaye to tradition, but he adheres to the trailition of service that his fore- bears liavn handed down. The world â- wiiihei him well. Snult Star. 9.85 Cents Per Day Major Tielbewy who govern- the jail of I'erth County reports that (luring the last quarter of ID.'to it cost 'J.fih rents per day to feed a pris- oner. That would bo about <i9 cents a week. So if you have a family of fico yo.i Hoe the weekly bill for food slio'.iM be ulxiut $.'t.ll. The report from Perth says the inmates of the jaii did well on liie diet; in fact wo Itelieve it was staled tlic<- tbriveil on it. ICicad appears to be one of the large items, and 'J<it; pounds f meat WB« purchased. Other articles used Wore wheat products, beans, barley, rice, Bugar, potatoes, onions, rice, lugar, iiotatoei, onions, raisins and Jain. A diotilian would say this was not a balancc<l diet; it leans toward atai'ches and its carlHihydratcs con- tent would be hi^h. A per.son work- ing ot something where physical cx- «rtion was needed could probably burn up all the fuel provided, btit one Htaying in jail would lie apt to put on a coating of soft fat. One with a tendency toward diabetes would go down (|uiekly under such food. But against nil Fiich argument is (he fact that the prisoners lived and Exemplary Act A Port Colborii'? man iias; paid back ti his municipal. ty all he receiv- ed in relief. Having "got on his feet" again, he shows his apprecia- tion ill this way. It is such cases which makes it easier to pay taxes for relief purposes. â€" Chatham Ntws. Canadian Olympic Members Pass In Review â- â- â- â- â-  A" ' â- ' ' "" "^J^^^^AiXQK. Sensible! There is good sense in the ruling of a Prince Edward Island county judge that a minor of nineteen is botind by a contract he signed to buy a fox â€" a contract he aUtcmpted to evade liy pleading iiis legal infancy. "I am asked," said Judge Duff..-, "to assist the defendant on the techn'cal plea of infancy. If 1 did so I would consider that 1 was he'ftng him to steal tho fox from the plaintiff. This I refuse to do." Tliis is sensible. On tiip pre.edent set by Judge L'uffy Iierhaps the custom will be establish- ed of deciiling overy such ca;e rn its merits.- Ottawa Journal. Save The Surface "Save the surface and you save all," they tell us. So when we read that the co-cds of the University of; \Viscon.)in use enough lipstick each , year to p-rnt four barns, all .ve can ' say is that perhaps it is the more important surface that is receiving attention. I Barns may In- important to house horses and cattle and machinery and potatoes. But just think of ojl the | romance there is wrappe<i up in a pair of girl's lips. And without that romance there probably wouldn't be any use for the cattle and the potatoes beforo long. 'â-  Perhapf even the farmers v.ill agree to that. ! By all means save both surfaces! ' â€" Saul! .Stc. Marie Star. €k Membeis of the Cana<lian Winter Olympic team return a Nazi .'alute a.s they pass the reviewing stand in tho parade opening the lib'56 Winter Olympic (iames at Garniisch Partenkirschen. Delayed News i The siieed of coninuinicat ons be- tween ail parts of the world is one of the proud boa.sts of tho present era. Hut there are si^rne regions without direct contact with the rest of tho world. For instance, the news of the earthquake in China riported to have brought <leatli to Ihousaiuls in .Sxochuan province, did not reach the world until a week after it oc- cuired. - Kingston Whig-.Standard. Canada's Smoke Witli wome:; taking to the weed ill more recent years, cigarette con- sumption has gone up materially. Last year nearly four and one-half billion cigarettes wero .smoked in Canada. This works out to an aver- age of 1,'_'.50 for eeery man and wo- man of smoking age. Since there are still many of either sex who cannot bear the taste of tobacco or haven't formed tho habit of puffing away at a "fag," some cigarette smokers must liave greatly excelled the 1,'jriO av- erage. Kitchener Kecord. Chronic Disease Injured Midiigan couple wants to sue reckless driver whoso mind, lis lawyer claims, ha.s been a blank since the accident. Only since the acci- dent ".' â€" Guelph Mercury . One can only learn that purple has always been a "Koyal" color. King Edward VII, it is stated, pointed out to the authorities that all draping should be carried out in purple rather than black at Queen Victoria's funeral. All shades of purple are being widely worn at the moment, and will continue to be much seen. Amethyst, plum, and egg plant are three tones suggested by the British Color Coun- cil. â€" Edinburgh Scotsman. World's Best Seller I predict that Kipling's fortune will prove the grentest ever left by an author. - More than any inyji he had what Arnold Beiuutt called an estate in his Ixioks. They sold steadily all over the world for 45 years, and he never allowed his work to at>P'i>>' '» cheap cdit'ons. In li)-'ll !â- 'â-  fiirtune was estimateil by those who should be in a posi- tion to know at about i:7.'>0,000. His "Jungle Hook" alone brought him in over £10,000 a year. Nothing can be move erroneous than tho idea that his poetry is no longer read. In the United Stales alone the sale of his various volumes of verse has averaged from 100,000 to 150,000 copies iinnually during the last (luarter of a century. -Lon- don EviMiing Standard. Farm Problems Conducted by Profestor Henry C. Bell wilb tho co-oper.ilinn of the variouj departments of Ontario Agricultural College. Women Not Lazy Preparing Food Mi.ss Agues Macphail Takes I:.Kception to Remarks of Dr. Currelly Miss Agnes Macphail, the woman member of Parliament from Grey- Bruce, i.s irate at the statement of Dr. C. T. Currelly that "women are growing so lazy they won't make the cffoi-t to ccok the family meal." The statement of the distinguish- ed Toronto archaeologist was sweep-' ing. "There is a tendency to neglect the cooking of vegetables because of sheer laziness, Dr. Currelly said, add- ing women go to the corner store to buy i)repared food and that tho eat- ing of the "lazy" forms of foods in- creased the danger of universal dyspepsia. "Dr Currelly sounds as if ho was suffering from a bad attack of in- digestion himself," Miss Macphail responded. "Out our way most women cook two, three and even four vari- eties of vegetables for the midday mtal in the summertime. A large salad is almost regulation menu for supper. In the winter vegetables are not so numerous and come from the vegetablo pit. As for women being lazy cooks! Well, I think perhaps what we had, better do is to invite Dr. Currelly â€" who, I believe, is an archa- eologist â€" out to our part of the country for a meal." (Dr. Currelly made his accusation of laziness at a meeting last week of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation in Toronto. However, he coirecte<l the statement by saying women worke<l just as hard now as they did in bygone days because they had less help in modern times). Mennonites Wish to Come Back to Canada Pictures Life Bit Fantastic WoiiLin's SpcMkcM' in Wiiini- peo; .\sk.s tor MnJeiii Ciilbeil A Job for Leacock Jf Stei)lien Leacock is serious (and we scarcely think he is) â€" about de- voting his remaining years to tho presidency of the Anti-Mosipiito As- .socialion of F.ast Sinicoe, now that ho has been chucked out of his job at Mcfiill by its octogenarian govcr- nois because he has reached the age of (i">, we think that, in the national interest, ho might do much worse than become tho head of a Domin- ion-wide anli-mosiiuito organization or, speaking more locally, the head of an Upper St. Lawrence Valley .\nti-Shad Fly Assocation. Wo understand that the mosi|uito control efforts undertaken in the vi- cinity of Orillin, a coinmiinity im- mortalized by Leacock, have been uniformly successful. He would con- fer benefit upon many another Sum- mer resort region, not excluding the Uideaii lakes, if he would nndcrtaku a nation-wido tour in the interest of niosipiilo contr I' . - HiockvVIl Kecord- er. THE EMPIRE Reason for Royal Purple Many people have been asking themselves during these recent days, when so much purple has been min- gled with the black, why purple, a color in itself .so bright is a mourn- ing color. One has failed to find the origin of a custom bo wide-spread. 4S WLNN'll'Kt; -A mo.i, in life as fantastic as a comic opira and nearly as hilarious was pictured by Mrs. Valance Patriarche in an address I ere. Speaking on "This Gilbert and Sullivan World of Ours," she slated, "W'e sailly neeil a reincarnation of Gilbert and Sullivan â€"a genius who would make this somewhat criminal world a source of inno.ent merri- ment." Aftei dealing with the fact that Gilbert and Sullivan opera was modelled on tho pure Greek comedy written live centuries ago, and was equally pungent and ilemocratic, she outlined some phases ot modern life. F.xtraordinary changes have taken place it\ domestic life -companioiuvtc marriage, alimony for men, children taken on visits to see what the r mothers and fathers are like; three- (|uarters of the people being support- ed, submitting, and thinking the 'Jr> per cent, should be ashamed to have enough money to do the supporting. "We mak.' it easy for young cou- ples to marry and have a family, on relief, but very hard for the young people on small salaries; we build large sewers and large hospi- tals, but have no money to bu'ld homes; we live in a world where everyone sings, that, too, making it more operatic," said the speaker. She suggested scenes and lyrics for an i pera dealing with tendencies of today, and finished by explaining that a writer of pure nonsense and gatric comedy would have a more ditlicult task now than in the time of Gilbert and Sullivan. Those writ- era made sober realities appear fan- tastic and absurd; a modern satirist must make fantastic and absurd realities appear serious and matter of fact in order to show what they really are worth. "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tig- er wants to murder him he calls it fwocity." â€" George Bernard Shaw. The business of farming is yearly becoming more and more dependent upon facts that have been gathered regarding liwstock and livestock manauemenl, crop production, soil management, dsea.se and insect con- trol and l)usiness organ zation of the farming indu>try. Individual prob- lems in\olving one or mi>re of these, and many otlier phases of agricul- ture, engaije the attention of Ontario farmers from day to day. During the winter months there is a little more time for study of the most acute problems. I'hrough this column farmers may secure the latest information pertain- ing to their difficulties. To intro- duce this sir\ ce I'rofessor Hell has prepared the fcdiowing typical prob- lems to indicite the informafon which should be given in order that a satisfactory answer can be made. If answer is desred by letter en- close stamped and addressed envelope for rcpl\. .Vddrcss all inquiries to I'rofessor Henry G. 15ell. KiM>m 1-1, 7.1 .\delaide St. W.. Toronto. t)ntario. .1. II., Cli.'itlKiin, (1) Question: -We hear a good deal about Fcrtilzer containing txtia plant food materials suih as mag- nesia, lime, sulphur, etc., besides the usual nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash and I wouUI like to know just bow important these other plant food elements are in a ('ommercial Fertilizer. Answer:â€" On certain soils, the extra or rarer plant nutrients may be of very great service, e.g., where sand-brown or premature yellow- ing of tobacco occurs, nuignesium salts have been found to effect a cure. Magnesium is supplied in cal- cium-magMcsium limestone (dolo- mite or in the form of sulphate of magnesium. Sand-brown occurs on very sandy soils. Sulphur has been found to be of great sorv ce in addition to suitable fertilizers, on onions grown on muck soils. It has also enabled celery crops to" withstand disease and make goo<l growth. Borax on turnipsâ€" in ad- diton to maiuiro or fertilizers has |)roduceil crops free of water core under certain conditions, while its use has not been effective in all cases . (•J) Question:â€" Some fertilizer sales- men tell us they have a lime filler in their fertil'zer instead of a sand filler anil for this reason their fertilizer is worth more mon- ey. Please let me know what you think about this. .\nswer:-- Dolomite limestone used as a filler 'n fertilizer, will correct acidity of soil if tisetl in sufficient quantity and if the soils tiro not acid. Sand will not correct acidity. (;!) Question:â€" Docs fertilizer kept over from one year to another lose any of its strength?^ Answer: â€" If fertilizers are stored in a dry place, they shoulil not suf- fer any loss of plantfood if stored for a year. There may be some tendency for the fertilizers to get hard or set. Before attempting to sow fertilizers that have been stored over winter, they should he thoroughly sifted before they are taken to the field, so that they may drill evenly. (4) Question:â€" Which do you think would pay best on oats and bar- ley nixed, one bag per acre ot fertilizer or two l>ags per acre? -Vnswer: -Rates of fertilizers (2-12- C) were tried on three farms in ly;;.') by the Ontario .Agricultural College with tlie following results: Treatment Yield per acre Xo fertilizer 32.1 bus. IJ.j lbs. per acre ... 39.4 bus. 2 JO lbs. per acre . . . i)oA> bus. Henry G. B.", Dept. of Chemistry, O..A..C. Mme. Stavisky, or Mine. Simone, as she prefers to be called, is a Cin- lierella in reverse. At one time the most envied woman in Paris she turns today to the chorusâ€" appear- ing in the Frenc/ C./> no's revue in Xcw York. Mnie. Stavisky speaks English haltingly despite the fact tliat her early years were spent in an English school. Easy To Make! WIX.NIPEG â€" Western Canadans sought a clue last week as to where 7,000 Mernonites from Mexico would seek new homes if they retunt to the Can:ulian west thev abandoned in 1922. So fiir as could be 'earned, no con- tact has been made with Mennonite colonics in Manitoba and Sask- atchewan although some communic- ation may have been made with th» Canadian Mennonite colonizatioi board at Rosthcrn, Sask. Disputes over education and mili- tary service led to o,000 Mennonites selling their Canadian holdings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and go- ing to the Durango Valley in Mexico and another 1,500 going to Paraguay in South America. They quit Canada to escape the obstacles to their religion. Reports fr.im El Paso, Tex., said they now wtint to leave Mexico and return to tho Dominion because they were op- posed to the socialistic educational pr.giani of the Mexican government. Could you possibly choose a smarter or a prettier blouse? Slip it over your head in a jiffy. Its soft collarless draiied neck so completely comfortable under your suit, lends itself to inspira- tions with handkerchief scarfs or modern clips. Easy to make! Inexpensive! One glance at illustrated diagram reveals the secret. Silk or satin crepe, cottons, linen, etc., are suittiblc smart mediums. Style No. 2,">.'.2 is designed for sizes 14, 17, 18 years, SC, ;}8 and lO-inches bust. Size 16 requires I 'i: yards of ;!r>-inch material. Welcomes Return Of Soelling Bee Comiiienting on the revival of the Old Fashioned Spelling Bee, Stephen Leacock, Professor of Economics at McGill irniversity in a letter to The Montreal Star: "I am glad that we are to have the Old Spelling- Bee back with us. Tt used to play a great part m the lives of the plain people of Canada and the United States. Be- fore radio was and before moving picturos were, in the days of the 'LittI,. .Old Schoollii>u.so.' the Spelling Bee had its lionored place. It repre- sented that combination of amuse- ment and intellectuality dear to a piogiessive people. The people on this continent could tilways read and were proud of it! They carried their tattered Spelling Books to the Fron- tier cabins. The book moved west first, and the teacher afterwards. 'True progiess', as my epigramatic friend. Sir Andrew Macphail, would say, 'is best achieved by putting the cart before the horse.' "-â- Ml our great men on this con- tinent, our .Abraham Lincolns and our John A. Mardoiialds, achieved their first triumphs in a ^pt>lling Bee. .\s a matter of fact, 1 was pretty good at it myself, my supronie feat of spelling "harass," "arras" land '.embarrass'' at School (Section j No. ;t. Township of Georgia, .\.D. I 1878) put a laurel wreath on my head which I am .still prepared to defend. 1 congratulate The Star on reviving this good old insstitution." 'Oo*s Ickie Mousie MousieAre You** Injures Infants now TO OUDKK I' VI IliUNS Write your name and address plainly, giving nuiubtr and sizi of pattern wanted. Endo.se 15c in stamp.s or coin (coin preferred); wrap it carefully and address yoiii order to Wilaon Pattern Service 73 Weat Adda de Street, Toronto. CllKAGO Baby talk came in for some hard words recently. Parents who indulge in it, when talking to baby, drew .. frown from Dr. Erederick W. Brown of Floral Park, N.\'., who told the American speech correction's annual convention that this means trouble. ''Poor compre'iension in ch'ldren of tho seventh and e'ghth grades has l>een traced to the fact that they were baby t'llkers in infancv, -;aid. "To 1 1 coiu" ' • it, or 'tii!u'gi' dren in it, will retard and may im pa r his general learning." he chil- ,^f-