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An appeal is being made to wipe loft the debt on Queen Square gard- Pcns. and and surely no more deserv- ing call could be made upon the pockeis of the esthetlc and lovers of ‘lbcauty. Queen Square Gardens have lfor long been the beauty spot of the lefty. the eynosure of all eye; from ‘May till October. and a fltting and loving memorial to the venerable only broaddeaved ‘Mr. Ne-wbery whose hobby the gar- " dens have been for so long.

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Secretary-Linn. Col. D. A. llaelilnnon. D. B. 0.

ldllor lllII Munuger—J. ll. Burnett. Arum-lute Editor-U. K. Currie.

MONDAY, APRIL 29. 1929

a MUSICAL TREf\T Ls perhaps the

evergreen that can resist the rigor 11°V°T5 c’! mghwiam “nus” Wm of our ‘winters and U115 n ‘mes byl Shadows. dreams, and nothing ha“? ‘he PTMWEB mmgm “d 1°" clinsiiig close to the earth_ wlierf more-how many of the thinfit ea!- ‘ lzke modesty it hides its beauty from eriy sought by men, busy and idlers alike, are mere toys. or pleasures ‘that i-eccde, like the walls of untaken Troy, the more we pursue them writes Vernon Rehdall dealing with Florida. U18 T935115 “me iwwerspring flowers- to which we are 811 delights the hearts of nature lovers. looking forward so longingly this and is the objective of their earliest lTflr- There are some familiar things “gs. n5 delicious lmgrance has ‘that last in our memories and per- lpefually renew their fragrance and sweetness. In the long distant past Al)!“ "m! @3113’ May the bwquel‘ of someone found what beauty was and around laurel or trailing arbutu-s. as forgot his tolls for a moment:

nzorrow night, of being entertained by the ivorld-faincd Welsh Illl[)8l"ii1I_ Singers. This talented company of‘. singer, was heard in Cllflflfltcfltflllfll d music.

the common EH29. In this province \\’l'lOle Atlantic seaboard.

along the south to.

and

ahOlli a year v.30 end no doubt those who heard lhvm on that occasion flllfl those also who tuiiiiy". will make it

rzzissed the 0;: Gull

eluded the chemists uvt- bilt in i816

tam en c‘

amigo of Hi5 Hon-

distiiilzulsllcti pa:

W" 53"‘ ' Lmlmnant Cmvemor 3nd it is sometimes called. lakes the Yes- m 531W 01 811- Miza. Item-ca. place n; ll“. mcsl Coslly pelll-unles in Some shape of beauty moves away the The Giro (‘lim- "Wi" ‘*'“°~*"- mm‘ flit? highest and lowliest homes and pa“ . . _ y _ y K _ , ,_‘ W“ _ From our dark spirits, P-LF-r ‘~16 “' “h Im3‘*““‘ $“'~“l“ am ‘rlCll on the office desks of liard- , ~~~ w. ic 3:: dd on , ..:s n ~ r coi.i.ii,. a“ ‘ll ) r llll(‘ll lififldid DJSJLSS m.n. The Mayflower , N“ we’ says Thenflngs, the Mm flaring secured this splendid ad- rscelves we same lwal-gy ‘vclcolne a5 users of b:auty_ we m“ are mop

tals sce not the marrow. But titer all the artists and philosophers jlinve had their say, much beauty re- mains without its meed of due praise and enjoyment. Sad and odd as it

croqaiicn of vocalists to delight the public of Charla tctcwn and if is hop- ed that our people iviil show their rind in

i" extended ‘to the first robin and the fisst swallow‘.

allprceiation- by aileiiciinj.

this way ericoiirasv 511ml“ "m" A Dfiuuwus PRACTICE seems Jane Austen is right‘ there Wi-“C ‘m u" m“ °f 0mm‘ orgammt" are people naturally indifferent about l0,‘ | Many will no doubt remember that mowers‘ The Spring blossoms every l the illness which resulted in the ‘Wm. recall for the wise the earnest

“ ' 1 death of United szates Aliibassador and dérpegb o; pleasures; but; they illicrrick was caused by following ihe Come and H0 $0 quifikllfl Thl-S YER!‘

.. . . . i .

Till; PobLlc ..(tOL.\l‘S , funeral pmcesslon of Marshal Foch .lti1eyi witalrie frightened into ‘Ilgngf do;

_ _ ‘, Am.’ cy n eir appearance. e ros

Th“ who an “min” mo {mom iei three houis with head bare iis and Cold kept them back trifles m”

e s l

statement that Kin;

‘wcaumg the gotten by that anonymous Elizabeth- mat a peanut“ Georges illness was supposed to have an who wrote; V ,been brought on by Ills standing‘! It were a most delightful thing lxncheaclcd rit the ccuotaph service | T0 1W6 111 B Perlifllml Spring- , _ on Armistice Dry- foreibly draws at- i iiziixgs up l ztntion to the danger of a very com- l 1mm Prat-MC? It the practice f): fill of them, Primrose; and daffodils, 13mph standmg ‘mm ma“ bare m for instance. are among our earliest the most inclement weather dllrillgxsprlng flowers and bath are long em filnerals. This, especially in the case shrincd in the realm of poesy; in- cl people of advanced years, is scme- ‘deed. R “P055” l8 bili- B "WEEK" TTIQV thing which. we think, common sense 0w“ their "mud place i“ pa“ w the“ beauty of blossom. The general show should not demand. of yellow flowers has no such grac-

P" L‘ m. and pmpgr‘ es. The buttercup and the marigold manifesaticn of mind and heart. to are gold lnd.sed_ but not so cunning- pry respect to the dead, but one may ly coined as these two. The hawk- icc permitted to doubt whether the ‘Weeds and the large family 01' 00m- siiri; of reverence should go to thelposiie m“ brightly yellow hm’ in truth. a little dull to close scrutiny. The enlceolaria is not a little slipper but a yellow blob. and so is the globe

thfilg which not even the inayisty of flower, 11m sun-ffgwgl- l; 10° 0b.

cltath should demand, and about ‘Viflufily (IPQOPBUVG 811d 555- It BiBHdB

which lucopie should decide to be ‘Stark "Bright; the primrose and the

more smslbm daffodil have a graceful fall befitting ‘ . the delicacy of their petals and their scent. Their form is an instance of Nature's lavish bcau.y beyond the needs of fertilizing insecls and the rrsearcltes of Darwin.

Our simple flowers, to which we attach so much importance in their "bvmusl? not jsiate of naiure as well as in our cul- billSllt for reading. is a not uiicom- tivated gardens. are the subjects mon spectacle in this province Y“ poets and nature lovers rave over. the money spent in frivolifies in a The highly diwelopsd and expensive

i'"1'd.‘b."i;.- on ti‘ ijsiiizutrs are

j has been foi-

Jseriz" rind thflt

Soon. however. the annuals and pe- rennials will come and we will get our

the oby i\..s to tJU-Ll

rniiiri‘ t 1n to liiniu: them llltPlllgl~~ for. 'I“ne ans- ‘ r of Public .i""'..icns ask-

bfs- to lli~ llfflil

given by tile Ml.

' iize q of rile ClfllOisl-JUH rc- lgnoraiice ofl

1i information was

and 8 fiTiC

Llic pur- l

' f:r:'y-i)oat. l

point where it endangers another

life. Tllfll, it seems to us_ is some- Hon. J. D.

"n done

The

‘rd bzliriiire- to

yr.» ryilccl that it v-es in ire hniik. "In a spvcizi ac- ll.fi' SL4‘ ..

tiiilli?" a. , to which

yrs rcglfil that it SIilfI Mr. Stewart “you ‘t in the lizznk and therefore that iiitnsy is m‘. there,"

V113 rzzr; now." WITHOUT BOOKS

The brokiess house. or the house

The triitli leaked cut that the imcx-l mm a m‘? bocks

pended balance of thr- money bor-

l rcwi-d for the riyu-livrt Ftirry had

sci ' . ' L ' “r 2v o . l Iiaql‘ lll o trii. al r Gillie‘ smgle War "mum provide every home rpeoJntlls of fioivers which not a few ' l lm w 1F d H‘ l‘ _ _ garden-lovers delight to disport are "Clltlllllf- ‘e n Mm a lbmly M m" w“ no doubt beautiful. rare and costly. . ,, ‘ to ha“. and “tsdmll “f the PEES- ‘but you do not rave over them: b,“ m ll Bruce Simian zmdl Iii some cases ‘the lack of books -i‘. is 1'19 simlfe pansy. the Co‘, ‘ it ‘am Emmi w!’ did may be due to stern necessity for primrose. the daffodil that be.

lrng to the poets. Daffodils in that world are claimed by Herrick and Wordsworth and Shakespeare. Keats duclls cn the beauty of theirset- “"57 Ii is 113i i‘- EHWSUOH 0f POKYYIY- tzng. "the green world they live in." and“ "light “VOW Esme “gm on 1M5‘ but of ialucs, Pcupie who would feel -

mauerl w which L“ Macmtym rb‘ themselves discredhed if they had‘ 7711i the llrlmfllfie l5 s|lilkeilwlf€fi plied, “I suppose it ivould.‘ The iviiole N)‘ grmnophonc‘ m‘ car‘ are ylllzginltrfllllgggglfbfgle ‘El-jiggle report of the debate mrikzs a vvond- primrose way l9 me QVQfIQQtZnL/z bon- erful lli.<f.£7i‘_\'.

fire.‘ ‘and “the primrose path of dal- [Ilygugjl several sgsfflsltsv Cmdll-‘Qll 97 mfllll’ fiance." Tvnnyscns "Prattllng the W88 tliroun on many Lems ofihcuses 1s partly

explained by the primrose fancies of the boy" large expenditure. and little infer-l

Fwiwmy. but in others it is ascom- llfllllCd by lnvisl]

not appear in .lie public accounts Mr. Ifflrliifvre emu-tilted that, these amounts mdlzt 51.21 be outstanding.

expenditures on @1191‘ 515385 which are not neces-

Then. said Mr, Sicwiirf. an external

l no l:

quite indifferent m the they have no library. The bocklcss

fact that Although continued] little, light.‘

publlg ljbraplgg, whlcl, serve a us? ,is elegant. but seems nothing after lul Pullman but do no; like [he place ‘the great master. Modern versi-

nmiion uivrn ilpoli matters “IIIChl n"... 5h.“ ll ll

- , ler a i-ivittc oil ti t n ks ' °' ‘ “g "g “ “r new n“? Piibm m“? a film l0 Know- Tni‘! I r pm {C1 8c on o o? any .'vlsion- have called the primrose fnrgetfuliics: o! tlie Premier rcgarrl- n00 an rends or “mum mm“ "'él'fil<l"ll»" Shakespeare might hill/Q

111B the work of the laws‘. Near was l can take me ma” or a mnmy‘ “tamed mun m“ 1' w” "Paw mo‘ Mmply aylqumnpvg‘ but ‘vhmhpr it The eagerness of people to catch fgoideh" so pale that by a freak of ‘M folgelfulnlts or evuslvcnrss ls glmpses o.’ famous authors iviiile ilISSIICgIILQQrllEZ finjafsuoiiiletgifatgialllzgz- , l " ports will figure out for themselves. JG“ of much humorous commcnt’ ‘Zihtasrzifitififotd tlhyatbilgiitdktiiithdietz: The session Just closed has no paral- ' 9"‘ “s “ M” ‘m’ “mm” w“ "m" fithich is pretty enough. But Milton. lel in the history of the Province. I. l!“ 3W“ m m5 audiences f“ ‘e55 “L like 8mm"- w“ * b°°k'p°et °f l; n record m. ‘vmch me Government} noble thought than could be obtain- lflowers. I-‘fe had not. like Catherine ~- e Whlfil the tHXl-‘ayers/ of the provincel [mm h“ books’ The book l‘ by t" Zself "the crimson drops i' the bot- may well be alnmml In any ca“ the l the best medium for adequate treat- 1m“ of a Gown“)... “Nah 8mm” people would do we“ w read the re_ l merit of a subject and for distinction I-peare n“, ‘ ' pcrts for themselves and think them I of style‘ And n may be enjoyed m! oven the comfort of cne's home. When the l In cultivating our gardens we mind grow, “red and hmmlon lshould give preference to the simple weaknmflls l, one" do“ duflng the lflowers, the abundance of nature. ._ best of lectures-the book may bathe thmg“ which the pump!” u The earliest of the floral hir-bing- lnid down and the study msumedlmm M we ourselves 8'" mo“ enjoy. ‘ l l lment from, the flowers that please ers of Spring. the first darling of the] when mental vigor is renewed by rest. the poets and instinctively delight

year is the pink and white Mayflow- or change. ' the botanist.

er.’ It may‘ be COW! to the’ non-bot- boll‘: of a fair collection of For comm" of “dam ‘ "W's"- ln cal reu er t at it belongs to the nsignificant when com- be“ mvenz" h" “d” m um %_ lame family s; the heather. and pared with that of for loll endurlnglm‘ Imp w - "u “f. ‘mam’ Ion h much the some habitat. It pleuuree. m“.

a matter which readers of the re-iquite Jusufiable has been the sub‘

THE MAIFLOWI-Ift

4

_ alone‘: W (tuna. ID

THE GREIYIEST ADVANCE IN

SURGERY

If you were asked what was the most important advance in medicine in the last few years. you would probably say that it was Bantlngs discovery of insulin. which not only cures diabetes in young folks. but preserves the lives of older folks and enables them to live a normal life.

was the most important advance in surgery you might be at a loss to give an opinion.

That our ancestors were observant is proven time after time if we coré to investigate the matter.

One of the things they noted was that folks that ate plentyof fish ap- pealed to be free from enlargement of the thyroid gland of the neck- goitre, as it is called.

They noted also that the use of medicines made with seaweed ap- peared to reduce the size of the goitre.

From that came iodine and we know now what an important factor i_t is in preventing goltre in communi- ties that formerly hacl very many cases. -

But perhaps oi-i-e of the greatest blessings has been its effect on ad- vanced cases of goitre where there is the extmme nervousness, tremor of the body. very rapid heart. and bulg- ing eyes.

That an operation for removal of part cf the thyroid gland would cor- rect these symptoms to a large ex- tant was proven years ago, but. the operation was for many years quite

' dangerous.

However, Dr. Walter E. Sistrunk. Rochester. Minn, tells us that the use of iodine in preparing patients to undergo the operation has decreas- ed the death rate, lessened the symptoms. lessened also the expense to patients and made the operation easier to perform. It permits patients to resume their duties many months earlier than was possible before this method 01' preparation was used.

These pleasing results have taken away the dread of operations that formerly existed in the minds of cer- tain patiznts and have caused ‘them to present themselves for operation much sooner. '

Dr. Sistruiiit says further “I fcel that the use of iodine for some time previous to operation» may be looked 0n as being the _most important ad- vance that has been made in any branch of surgery since its introduc- tion ln 1922."

The lesson for Us is clear.

While iodine may not be indic- ated ln every case. nevertheless if your doctor wants you iu use iodine as a preventive of goitre, or to lesson the symptoms before operation, you can now see his reason therefor.

He will tell you that many severe cases have been so improved that an operation became unnecessary.

THE

SILENT L UH)

Waking cue morning In a pleasant land. Ey a river flowing Over golden sand:-

From the Silent Land.

Whither flow ye, waters. O'er your golden sand? We go flowing

To the Silent Land.

And Whatis this mi realm‘! A groin of golden sand In the great darkness or the Silent Land. -.lames Thomson.

._...._.._.._...________ THE LAND WE LOVE

BY FRANK YEIUB

KBEDEIQICK GEORGE SCOTT Q. Who is Freueizsk George Scott? A. Frederick George Scott, C.M.G.;

D. S. 0.. better known as Canon

Scott. is one of Canada's most dis-

tinguished poets. Rector of St. Mat-

thews (Church of England) Quebec

City, since mo. Cunon- of Quebec's

Cathedral; A. ‘deacon - of Quebec.

Born Montreal (Que) 1861, of Eng-

lish parentage. Late Senior Chaplain

1st Canadian Division. B. iii. P.

(wounded delpetcl-ies four times, C.

M. 0.. D. B. 0.‘) Canon Scott stands

'1'- P'" "' '1'r1‘u'r0\'"'T‘ cU-‘ZQlC-‘Y

i-u-u-in-l _

However. if-you were asked whatl

7711's Hard

Condensed from Harper's Magazine Katherine Fullerton Gerbil!“

Boiled Era

The cultural trend of the day is towards a fondness for life'in the raw. As proofs consider the vogue of prize fighting. cvcn among gentle- foik if have been told that recently .1 certain clerBYman Thad to adjourn a church ‘meeting to give the men a chance to hear a fight over the radio"); the vogue of plays about gangsters prostitutes, pugilists. etc. and of profanity and ‘frankness’ on {the stage; the fluent biographies of bandits. crooks, and other hard characters: the wide demand for "robust" literature. In short, all the “faz-ts" that the public delights in "facing " We sit at the feet of the hobo, the brutser, the criminal. and learn. not because of their superior intelligence, but because the nastier dctziil of their lives is something ncw to us. How about it? What makes us hard-boiled. and are we going to keep it up?

All this. of course. is the sign of a jaded palate. The fact is that lux- ; iii-y like Rome's and ours always‘ brings people back to the eternal t-rutlities. The simple homespun creature wants chiefly softnesses that are outside his experience. But when your comforts are all guaran- teed, your curiosities all satisfied. where are you going to get a "kick" except from the primatfve? When has the average man been so lux- uriously served as now? Most of U5. as far as material comfort goes, are in a patrician position.

Now luxury can do two things. It can release us from the care of the body to thecarie of the spirit, and pleasure can be applied to the eivll- izlng of‘ the individual. Or, it can tempt the individual, to seek ever farther and more furiously for the kind of thrill he is already familiar wiih. In a materialistic civilization like ourshlit is the latter which more frequently happens; men take to opium rather than to scholastic phil- osophy. Softened by luxury, the ov- erage citizen docs not care to cleanse and strengthen his own body by the practice of some difficult sports; he likes to watch other people doing it for him.

"The art toicl, some

of boxing is dead," I was

years ago. in Nevada; “iviiat the people want is knock- outs." The some dictum applies to fiction. poetry. drama. criticism, ser- mons, political speeches, cartoons. and jokes. ft takesextreme violence to make us sit up. No play, no book, no sporting spectacle is going to thrill us unless it can compete with the front page of the newspaper. Our emotions are roused by nothing less than knockouts. We are tired of del- icate pleasures. because they no longer excite us: we need heavier sedatives and more powerful stim- ulnnts. The gentle contests, the sim- ple pleasures fail to quicken us.

In bIOETBDhy. Mr. Lytton Strachey docs his best to chcapen Cardinal ‘Manning and Florence Nightingale and General Gordon. while other

gentlemen have been publishing the

Now. it has been pointed out that material comfort gives a nation an opportunity either to purify or to drug itself. If our nation is choos- ing to do the latter, it is but natural. considering that our present wealth is parvenu wealth. Only arlstrocrats can make a spiritual us: of leisure. The dream of a poor man is almost necessarily a materialistic dream. The man who has fought all his life for enough bread to keep himself and his family alive will always give un- due emphasis to bread. Only in the next generation probably, will he turn to the things of the mind: knowledge, taste. delicate experience. With the quick turnover of Ameri- can fortunes the majority of the rich are always people unequlpped for the proper evaluation of wealth. The people who know‘ what money is good for are those who have had it long enough to learn-and who, in most cases. have lost it. When wealth is worshipped for its imtranslated self. as it is increasingly, they may never learn.

So that luxury and ignorance may perhaps be blamed for our, hard- boiled attitude. We are smothered in material comfort. and do not know enough to look {or comfort of a dif- ferent kind. We are, by and large. the mob enriched. inevitably we seek the thrills that can most easily be felt and assessed. These have al- ways been physical and nervous thrills; and we are still at the phys- lcal-and-nervous-thrill stage. Thanks to our herding in towns, to the mul- tiplied contacts via how's-sheets. radio, telephone, motor car. which the rural citizen now enjoys. we have a superficial sophistication that we did. not have. as a nation. 25 ‘years ago. The first stage of sophistication is unshoekabl-eness. The truly soph- isticated person may be shocked at a. hundred things that’ the boor never heard of and would be incap-' able of appraising. But the hard- boiizd person is the one ivho is at the stage of thinking that iiiabllity to be shocked is the whole story of sophistication. The truly sophistic- ated man is perhaps not so very hard-boiled. Enough said. The fact accounts for the kind of physical and nervous titillation we seek. We are jaded on the threshold of ex- perlence because our emiiclpatlon is. after all. mainly physical. Our im- aginations are pretty well cabined n the physical; therefore. they re- spond most easily to physical stim- uli and, in nrt and litertaurc. to physical implications-homicide and sex. chiefly.