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V • T « Wti^h'li?H°r ^"^- 'â- ^^'^•'^'J ^a transatlantic clipper a nd pa...a by liie liniish cu.iso.s shows a irrouD of How Can I? i BY ANNE ASHLEY 1 Q. How can I remove the odor «f onions from the breath? A, Chew a whole coffee bean or sprig of parsley which has ly««n dipped in vinegar. If a lump «f sugar saturated with vinegar ia eaten, it will also remove onion odor from the breath. Q. How can I rid the house of ants? A. A mwture of half borax and lialf sugar will poison every ant ftat finds it. Sprinkle it on •helves and around all haunts. Q. How can I remove spots and Vtaios from silk without injuring the color? A. Take five parts of water and six parts of alum, well pound- ed. Boil a short time, and then poor into a vessel to cool. Prev- ious to using, the mixture must bo made warm. Then wash the '^_ stained parts and allow to dry. A. Sprinkle a little salt on the , gilte. If this turns them yellow, they are poisonous; if it turns them black, they are safe to eat. <J. How can I sharpen a dull vazoT blade? I A. Insert the blade into a glass filled with water and rub against the side of the If Peonies Don't Bloom, Move 'Em Sometimes Shallower Plant- ing Helps Peoniea that have failed to Woom may be benefitted by a shift to an- • oth«r location, or by shallower planting â€" not deeiper than two or three Inches. The present is a good tinM to move them. Last caU for sowing pansy seed ii . eairly spring bloom is desired; sol- ' kt ooloâ„¢, such as Swiss Blue, Black " • Kln«. Snow Queen and the All- â-º America winner, Coronation Gold, are much more effective in bordeirs titan the usual mixtures. PRUNING SEASON There's plenty of work In the gardeti now for the pruning shears ; many shrubs can be thinned out, to give more room for vigorous now Srowth; tho same applies to cane and bush fruits, such as raspberries and ctti-rants; weedy tops of per- ennials tbat have completed tbeir Crowth should be removed. GETS NEW POST Commander W D. Cieery, R.C.N., officer commanding H.M.C.S. Fraser from the first day of the war until it was sunk daring rescue operations off Bor- deaux, France, ha.s been appoint- *d senior naval officer at Ga.'»pe and commanding officer of all auxiliary' vessels ba.^ed there. Choosing A Site To Build Home? Many Factors Bear On The Choice of Lot for Residence With real estate becoming rec- ognized as one of the foremost investment media unaffecte<l by market fluctuations due to varia- tions in wai' conditions, home- ownership is quoted today by arch- itectural autlioritlea as "not only insurance against rei.tal Increases but an investment for the future with the Icnowledge that funds paid Into the home will not depreciate with the years but should increase materiaJly. Important factors to be Iwrne in mind when investing in real estate are quoted as follows: 1. Secure a dependable opinion on the location and value of house or land. The services of a depend- able real estate agent should be secured in respect to trends and land values. 2. Steps should be taken to ob- tain an absolutely clear title to any parcel of land or improved property It is essential that one should re- quire the owner of a property to establish his title to it before it Is purchased. 3. Make sure that the air is free and clean in the locality In which the proposed land or home lies. It is manifestly more pleasant to have a house located in a community re- latively free from smoke and dust. 4. Purchase enough land. It is generally considered that a front- age of 50 feet is not too much. Nar- row lots limit space, distort the architecture and limit privacy. The wider the lot the more desirable it will be to others with consequent greater resale value. Midlands: British Industrial Core As well As Being The Geo- graphic Heart of England â€" So Offer Valuable Target For Enemy Bombers The Midlands, which German bomjbers have added to their aerial blitzkrieg program, may be defin- ed as the dozen centi-al counties of England, says a bulletin from the National Geogra.phic Society: "Little idea of their importance is conveyed by saying that they ex- tend from Staffordshire east to Huntingdonshire, from Derbyshire south to Bucks. For the Midlands are bounded on the north by Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest, on the southwest by Stratford-on-Avon and the other native haunts of William Shake.speare; on the south by an- cient Oxford on the Thajiies, on the east by Cambridge and the picturesque Fen Country. "The geographic heart of Eng- land, the plains of the Midlands lie »ast of the Severn, north of the Thames, south of the Trent and west of the heights of East Ang- lia. The approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants of these plains form a.bout a tenth of England's popula- tion. •â- l>>mlnaling the Western .Mil- lands. Birmingham has grown on Its varied metal industries to be- come England's second largrsl city, in the midst of a whole constella- tion of manufacturing suburbs. "Staffordshire is one of the most important counties in England for its industrial productivity. Its north- ern section is notable for the clus- ter of towns known as the Pot- teries, possibly the most concen- trated and busiest ceramics centre iu the world. "South Staffordshire is the site of the Blaclt Country, darkened with tJie smoke of a thousand spe- cialized metal industrie.i. Leicester- shire, now hno'vn for its industrial city of Leicester, England's 'stooit- in!! capital.' still preserves the moated castle of Kenilworlh fm :) the days of Queen BUzabetb, HEALTH TOPICS ^•» •»♦♦ ♦ ^ .-â- .*â- Â« Prevention Of Whooping Cough Fi'om studies made at the Con- naught Laboratories and School of Hygiene, Toronto one gains the view that whooping coug'h may be prevented by the timely use of a fresh strain vaedne pro- duced for this purpose, writes Dr. John W. S. McCullough of the Health League of Canada. The study referred to was caiTied on six years among groups of con- trol and vaccinated children. Up to the present time 288 control and 1,007 vaccinated children have been followed. Of the for- mer, 52 and of the latter 97, were in contact wth cases of whoopin^j cough. The number of cases in the first group were 43 and in the latter group 10, so that the respective percentages were 82 and 10. Protective Vaccine Of the 97 contacts in tlie vac- cinated group there were 28 di- rect exposures to brothers and sisters with whooping cough. In the 23 instances the nature of the contact was intimate and continu- ous (often kissing, drinking from the same cup or sleeping in tba same bed). None of the 23 de- veloped the disease from their brothers and sisters. This is very strong evidence of the protective value of the vaccine since one would not expect all of the 23 children continuously exposed to whoping cough to escape the dis- ease. It will be noted that there were 82 cases of whooping cough in the control group and but ten in the vaccinated children. This is another strong suggestion that the vaccine protects. Another fact, already referred to, is that while 52 control child- ren coming in contact with whoop- ing cough, 43 contracted the diV ease giving a morbidity of 82 per (-â- ent., but 10 of 97 vaccinated children were infected, giving a morbidity of but 10 per cent, in this group. The foregoing, added to one's own experience is the use of whooping cough vaccine, indi- cates that this preventive remedy should be used in all cases where there is a threat of this disease. Exports of Canadian wheat flour during the first seven months of 1940 totalled 4,065,- 870 barrels valued at $1(1,173,9.35 compared with 2,626,675 barrels worth $7,849,129 in the corres- ponding period of 1930. "Wool" made from millt is being produced in an .American factory. The inventors claim it is cheaper and harder, wears longer, and dyes better than the real thing. CAa/nteeWi' [ S(ow 6Mtn\ng CIGARETTt PAPERS NONE, f (NfR MADf 00[}^ll ^il%1it^i' 38 to 52 years old. Women who nrc restless, moody, NERVOUSâ€" who fear tiot flashes, dlmy spellsâ€" to take Lydin E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com- pound. Pinkham's Is famous for helping women during these 'trying times" duo to fuactlonnl Irregulsrl- ties. Oet a buttlo today from yovir druggist! WOR'ni TRYING! What Science Is Doing SMALLER IRON LUNG A nt-w "iron lung," weighing but 40 pounds compared with over 600 poiindB for the old "boiler-type" res- pirator, is being used in Tacoma, Wash., during the current siege of latanlile paralysis. Paralysis spcclali-.ts ball the pee- wee respirator, invented by Dr. F. H. Tehbaar of Los Angeles as a "trodsend," particularly for cases where the more unwloldy and larg- er lung presents transportation problems and beuce loss of life. SILVER AS GERMICIDE Dr. Alexander Hoetz of California Institute of Technology predicts that silver evtMitually may replace rlilorine and other germicides in purifying the world's drinking wat- er. "The metal leaves the water Bparkling and with a taste of fresh- nees," said the physicist in describ- ing axperlments made by him and his scientist-wile. "Neitlier is there any disagieea'ulo odor." WEIGHS FORCE OF FEATHER The University of Washington has a new airplane scales which weighs with tiie speed of light. It was inventCKl to weigh the forces which strike an airplane iu flight. It can record anything from the slap of a feather to a ton and a quarter yank. This scales records accurately a pull which lasts only one-hundredth frf a second. The name of these momentary atreeses on the parts of a plane is "force transients." Modern Etiquette BY ROBERTA LEE 1. What is the best time for a man to ask his employer for an iniTease in salary? 2. If a girl is introduced to a man twice, at some social affair, what should she do? 3. Who is responsible if a guest drinks too much? 4. When the glass of iced tea it sex'ved on a small coaster, what should one do with the spoon after stirring the tea? 6. Is it proper to have an ash tray for each guest, in the living room? 6. Is it all right to begin a let- ter with an apology for not hav- ing written earlier? Answers 1. Perhaps the best time would be when he is marrying or ex- pecting to become a father. How- ever, many employers resent this at any time, and it is well to weigh the matter carefully before asking it. 2. Merely smile and say that she has already met "Mr. Williams." 3. This is the host's responsibility. It is his duty V) maneuver in some way to prevent it 4. If there is a table cloth, the only place to leave the spoon is in the glass. On a bare table one may place the spoon on the table, the same as when at a soda foun- tain. 6. Yes. Guests should not be forced to share trays. 6. This is often done, but it is not good form. THAT'S EASY -BIG BEN! BIGSEN rhei^FECri/i^lng Tobacco HAVE • I ,YOU HEARD?! • t • â-  â-  â-  I i<«»p»»>»i Bill the sailor had broken with his girl. .'Vfter ignoring several letters, requesting the return of her photograph, he received one threatening to complain to the captain. Deciding to silence her for all time, he borrowed all the pictures of girls available on the ship, sending them to her in a large bundle, with the following note: "Pick yours out. I've forgotten what you look like," "How did you learn to walk a tight rope. Just pick it up yourself?" "No, it has to be taut." â€" O â€" At a recvption, Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered a little girl looking hungrily at the cakes and sandwiches on the tea table. "Are you hungry, little girl?" asked Dr. Holmes. "Yes, sir," the child replied. "Then why don't you take some food ?" "Because I haven't a fork." "Fingers were made before forks," Holmes observed, smil- ingly. "Not mine," the little girl re- plied. "I hear your boy friend wants to settle down and own a house." "Well, be'* got a good •tart. I gave him the gate today." â€" â€" Police judge â€" What is your ex- cuse for speeding through the town at <)0 miles an hour'.' Defendant â€" Well, your honor, 1 had just lieard the women of my wife's church were having a rummage sale, and 1 was rushing heme to save my other pair of pants. Police judge â€" Actjuitted. Next case. Client: Do you guarantee this hair-rettorer? Hairdresser: Better than that, sir. We give a comb with every bottle. The strong man at the fair had just finished squeezing the juice out of a lemon. Holding it up befoi'e the crowd he shouted: "I'll give $5 to any- onj who can squeeze another drop of juice out of this lemon!" Up stepped a little man. He gripped the lemon and, to the surprise of the crowd, squeezed several more drops from it. "It's easy," he musmured. "I'm an income tax oollector !" Long-term Honesty The cashier of an old-estab- lished grocerj- firm at Auckland, Xew Zealand, got the surprise of his life when a man walked up to his desk and paid a debt of S5.00 contracted with the firm 48 years ago. The debt was so old that the firm had no record of it. ...CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.. A.GIJ.NT!* \VA>'Ti:iJ If .viiu are intfiisteii in STKAI:>V CASH rnOFlTS â€" if .vou would like interestint^. profitable worii aellingr the niofit pupular line of oblieatioii: FAMILEX, 570 .St. everyday necessities at present on the market. Inquire today without Clement. Montronl. HAIIV (HK.KS ST.VHTi;0 )' HK.KS WE'VE STILL .SOiMK 7-8 WIOKK Briiy Pullets, inunodinte shipnu-nr. Order lattT delivery chieI<H now. Be sure you're on the list for Bray Kail Scrvi,'e IJiiIletln â€" ready soon. IJrny Hiiti'hor.v. 130 John N.. Hamilton. Out. THK laiiC.K.-^T ]!AH<;.\1.M ON WEI^L flt.irtod Lrf-jrhorn pullets ever of- fered by us. 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