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â- â€¢ !• » Your Dog Believes In Ghosts! ! When you see your dog looking kttntly at ^omelliing you cannot •M, h( i* watching a ghost. By ttat 1 do not mean that dogs have Crehic jifts; on the contrary I Hevt It is the ghoitt rather tfuui the dog's who introduce them- mitrt. My only explanation ot the •tiangc txainples which follow ii> ttat, like ourselves, tome departed iplrits love (Itlfes wlii't others caii- »ot bear thrni; and the dog reacts according to instinct writes Lt.-Col. T. A. Lowt. D.S.O. M.C. in "Tit- Mtt." A few weeks ago 1 saw Willie, â- Â»y white bull teriier hitch, swc. \r â- nddenly as though someone had â- Mde a pass at her with a stick. When it happened again 1 stood transfixed, for we were in the mid- 4k of a ten-acre field and there was not a soul in sight. Invisible Enemy I watched the dog, who had •topped to watch something else. She was pux2led but wary, with • furrow of thought between her •ars, and once again she bounced back as if to avoid a blow. Then , ahe barked fiercely and seemed to fccc »n invisible enemy, until I called ner off. Was tliis a ghost? 1 asked myself; if so, v,f must find evidence. I â- larked the spot with a stick, brought a growling, suspicious Willie "home for breakfast; then I took out two of her puppies •ailed Winston and Wendy, and walked them to the same spot. It was a heavenly autumn morn- !â- (. We were very happy, all three «f us, until Winston and Wendy •t full gallop, reached my stick. Then, in their effort to avoid some- thing that I couldn't see, both pups fall over on their backs. When they ncained their feet they sped back to my protective shadow where, like •hildren, they remained until they kad got over their fright. I have been back again since •od yfith different dogs (perhaps Indeed, too often for the ghost's peace of mind), but the phenom- •non has not repeated itself. Look- ing back now, my impression is that our ghost was working with a •cythe in the field, and may have keen a farm labourer in his pre- tIous existence, because the dogs accmcd to be escaping from a semi- •Ircular movement near the ground rather than from a threatening stick. I had a dog called Archie, a Springer, who went with me every- where; and sometimes we stayed at a lovely old country house near Oswestry where my host had «n Alsatian terrier called Tom. One morning we were breakfasting in a big-windowed room filled with winter sunshine, and the dogs were Ijring on the hearthrug at the fire. They made a pretty picture and I happened to be watching them when a door opened and both ani- mals turned their heads to see who had come in. Then it closed again, •• thou^'h a servant had changed his mind and shut the door on the •at side. Haunted Doorway; My glance returned to the dogs, but their eyes were following some- body walking slowly across the room, and their tails were wagging 4*lightedly and tliuti'pinK the (limr. Then another door, at the opposite aide of the room, opened and stayed open long enough for someone to pass througlu When this door closed quietly, both dogs dropped their haads, closed their eyes, and re- •umed an interrupted nap in the warmth of the fire. Had I not seen the large old- fashioned door handle turn as the ••cond door closed, the matter might not have stuck in my mind. lly host was deep in a newspaper, ao I said nothing. What seemed like a manifestation might have been 4ue to s draught of air. Outside there was wind as we walked through a lane, and the dogs •campered merrily. Then my host •aid: "Look at Tom and Archie." They were standing <iuite still •oly a few yards away from us, looking upwards with tongues out and tails wagging; then Archie •losed his eyes with pleasure, as apanlels do when their heads snd velvety ears are caressed. For a moment both dogs stayed thus, greeting soiiieoiir we could â- ot see. Not until thtn had I the courage to tell my hreakfasf-room tale, but my host was not in the least sur- prised. "Oh, yes, we have a ghost •round the place," he said. "I think It is a woman, a very nice ghost who loves doge." Then he added in â-  matter-of-fact sort of way, "Thank foodnffs the dogs love her." "Sorry, I can't ask you to dinner, Maw and Paw I'm only work- ing here." There Was A Little Boyâ€" And He Had A Little Curlâ€" The picture which little Billy Gilbert, 3, stares at is not one of those "art studies" of himself. It's a picture of his old mail when he was at that particular stage of development. Mother and father reluctantly decided that Billy was old enough to have his locks clipped. From the look on the kid's face â€"right â€" one would imagine he wished they had come to the decision long before. In a recent roundup of what might happen in sports this coming year We wrote something to the effect â€""when the real hockey â€" the play- offs â€" begin etc." An indignant read- er â€" all our readers seem to be cither indignant or indifferent- takes us severely to task for what he considers a dirty and uncalled- for crack at his favorite sport. * » » "What do you mean" he writes â€" we take it that the writer is male, although no name was signed to the screed â€" " by insinuating that they don't play real hockey, as you call it, during the regular season? How would you like to go out there and get bruised and battered the way some of the boys do, playoffs or no playoffs?" * • * The answer to the second ques- tion is that we wouldn't want any part of it â€" not even if Old Father Time should start swinging his scythe in reverse and lop off a large proportion of the years that have passed over our hoary head. The lads certainly take their share of bruising and battering â€" far too much of it, a lot of us think â€" and although they are well paid, probably earn every cent they get, in view of the wear and tear they must endure. . . * .. In this connection we can't help thinking of an article we read not not so long ago about the opera- tion of some of these fleets ol big transport trutks. 'J'he owner oi one such fleet took the view that a new Diesel truck has just so many thou- sand, or hundred thousand, miles of effective lite in it. The quicker you get that mileage out of it, the sooner you get a return on your investment â€" then go and shop for a new one. In other words his view- point was quite the opposite of that of a private car-owner, who wants his heap to last a reasonable length of time. *' * » And it seems to us as though the modern type of hockey magnate looks at a player in a manner some- thing similar to the truck operator. There's only so many miles of fast dashes, quick stops, and so forth in the athletes carcase, and whether you get that mileage out in one sea- son or ten â€" well, what's the odds so long as the customers are happy and keep coming back for more. * ♦ * This may be all right for the type of player they seem to be breeding nowadays in wholesale quantitiesâ€" the 180 to 200 pounders with enough natural padding on their bones to withstand countless crashes into the dasher or onti the ice. But it's hard on the less rugged boys â€" the Max Bentley kind, to name one â€" many of whom show signs of wear and tear from .ovei-work .long .before they would have .done .in days when trlckiness and clever stick handling were definite assets * * » Of course we know quite well that such gripes are just a sign that old age is creeping up on us, and that we haven't kept pace with latest developments in the game. Well â€" so be it; At all events we have, on our side, one of Canada's most emin- ent writers, Mr. Morley Callaghan, who just a few days ago gave vent to some words on hockey as she la presenly played. * • ♦ "1 loath the modern hockey rules," quoth Mr. Callaghan, who evidently hasn't heard that voicing such opinions In the fair city ol Toronto Is about the same as calling Joe Stalin a schmoe in the shadow of the Kremlin. "They're playing scramble-ball. We have lost the beautiful pattern passing plays wr knew In the days of the old S' Patricks, he plays were etclieij s.i skilfully by tliose old masters of the art of stickhancUing it was something akin to a great Canadian ballet on ice. If we had those old rules, the kids would definitely go for them." * * * With a tip of the bonnet in the direction of Mr. Callaghan for say- ing it so much better than we could ever hope to do, we pass back to the first query of our anonymous correspondent. "What do we mesn by insinuating that they don't play real hockey during the regular season." » » * Well, just possibly that was stat- ing the matter somewhat harshly. Still â€" this being Monday â€" we pick up a paper and take a loolc at what happened in the National Hockey League over the weekend. There were five games played on the Saturday ahd Sunday evenings. And of those five, just aixty per cent â€" three to be precise â€" ended in a draw. Nor was there any mention of overtime being played. 1. * • That means that the players â€" avidly keen to win and almost breaking their hearts over a defeat, so we are given to understand by the busy press agents â€" were quite satisfied to settle for a draw. And the customers â€" who back a few years ago believed that their ad- mission fee entitled them to a game of hockey â€" were, just as satisfied to settle for sixty minutes of entertain- ment. ♦ • ♦ That, in a nutshell, is what a lot of us old fogies find wrong with hockey â€" and to a minor degree- wrong with many other modern athletic pastimes. They have devel- oped into entertainment rather than sport â€" and it's no wonder that more and more south of the border arc becoming content to view games from a comfortable scat miles away, by feaiis of television instead of be ing there in person to root their heads off for some favorite. Fired from Job May Make Fortune A former French waiter, who lost his job in a Paris restuurant because his dress suit was badly stained, has applied for a patent for a combined cleaning and press- ing iron. The iron, very like the ordinary domestic article in shape, but slightly larger, and, of course, heated by electricity, not only damps the clothing, but sprays the cloth with a cleansing chemical. In the centre of the iron there is a row of powerful brushes which work on the surface of the cloth as the iron is propelled to and fro. Only the rear part of the iron contains the heating element, but the device enables a whole suit or dress to be sponged, brushed, cleaned and pressed in fifteen min- utes. The chemical cleaner dis- solves grease and removes all stains instantaneously. The inventor of the iron has refused a large sum for his dis- covery. 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