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Madamo

Worked Under Difficulties

French Engineers Had Hard Job
Building Hotels In Algeria Fame On Belle Isle

As the French penetrate further; Mme, Matelot, heroine of marine
and further southward into the Sa-| tradition, died recently at Lorient,
hara, pacifying the roving Arab! France.
tribes as they go, Hotels are being} It was in 1910 Mme. Matelot (the
erected for the accommodation of|translation of whose name is
Government officials, visiting Army | Sailor") leaped in one agonizing
officers, business men and the occas-) night to world fame, won the admir-
ional venturesome tourist. The hotels| ation of mariners the world over, and
had to be taken south, through the | subsequently the Carnegie Medal for

Matelot Won Overnight

‘There's no guesswork with Magic. It
assures uniformly fine results! That's
why Canada’s leading cookery ex-
perts use and recommend it exclu-
sively. Ask your grocer for a tin!

CONTAINS NO ALUM—This statement on every tla Is
your guarantee that Magic Baking Powder fs free from
ium or any harmful ingredient. MADE IN CANADA

The highways of North America are dotted with thousands of motor |
cars as people travel from city to town and town to city, and as they pro-
ceed on business journeys. Each and every one of these cars is a high-pow-
ered vehicle, capable of doing almost incalculable damage unless handled
with judgment and discretion. Whether you and your friends enjoy the
motor trip you may be making depends not on the speed you travel, but
whether you arrive safely at your destination.

In the United States last year there were almost one million motor
accidents, with 36,000 deaths. The accident and death rate in Canada is al-
most as high, Ontario last year recording 512 deaths and 8,990 accidents
which were not fatal, but many of which meant people scarred and maimed
and intense suffering for hundreds.

In the driving of a car, a man reveals himself. It is the thoughtless,
selfish, reckless driver that is largely responsible for the toll on the high-|
ways. What is gained if a man arrives at his destination a few seconds
ahead of schedule? Why do so many men, when seated behind the wheel of
a car, act like boors and leave behind them every vestige of courtesy and
consideration for others?

The motor is a wonderful invention, but in the hands of a man without
judgment or balance, is a terrible instrument of destruction, leaving death
and maimed lives in its wake.

In the August issue of that popular little magazine “Reader's Digest”
there appeared an article entitled “And Sudden Death” which has attract-
ed continent-wide notice and hundreds of thousands of reprints of which are
being distributed throughout Canada and the United States. The only regret
is that a copy cannot be placed in the hands of every person who drives an
automobile. It is a gruesome recital of what automobile accidents really are,
—a realistic portrayal of scenes witnessed every day on the highways of
this supposedly civilized continent.

The automobile, says the writer of this article, is treacherous, just as
a cat is. It is tragically difficult to realize that it can become the deadliest
missile. As enthusiasts tell you, it makes 65 an hour feel like nothing at all.
But 65 an hour is 100 feet a second, a speed which puts a viciously unjusti-
fied responsibility on brakes and human reflexes, and can instantly turn this
docile luxury into a mad bull elephant.

Collision, turnover or sideswipe, each type of accident produces ether
a shattering dead stop or a crashing change of direction — and, since the
occupant — meaning you — continues in the old direction at the original
speed, every surface and angle of the car’s interior immediately becomes a

desert, in parcels. Each parcel weigh-
ed about 200 Ibs., and was one camel-
load. Caravan after caravan, travel-
ling forty-five days through
brought to Timimoun, in the far
south of Algeria, the many tons of
windows, doors, glass, china, linen,
cutlery, furniture, electrical installa-
tion and other equipment needed for
the local hotel. Neither foremen nor
Puropean laborers would agree to go
there, so the place was built by
French army engineers, who them-
selves had to tracé in the sand the
first outline of the building because
the superstitious wild Arabs of the
region feared The Evil Eye, and
would not have anything to do with
blue-prints. They did consent to make
the mud bricks, however, which
form the walls, and to drag up to
the site the date-palm trunks form-
ing the roof beams and “girder-
work.” The rest had to come in
parcels. Even the ships of the desert
bringing the parcels were tempera-
mental. They would not travel on
even such good roads as were to be
found along their line of route, but
had to be steered over soft sandy
courses. Camels suffer from bad spells
of foot soreness unless allowed soft
tracks.

Drama Festival Finals

Dates Are Set For 1936 Contests In
Western Canada

Regulations covering the 1936 Do-
minion drama festival provide for
contests in 11 regions into which
Canada is divided for competition,
with a final week in Ottawa begin-
ning Monday, April 20.

Issued by J. A. Aylen, honorary
secretary-general of the festival, the
regulations set the following dates
for English play regional festivals in
western Canada: British Columbia
(Vancouver), Jan. 27 to Feb. 1;
berta (Calgary), Feb. 6, 7, 8; Sask-
atchewan (Saskatoon), Feb. 13, 14,
15; Manitoba (Winnipeg), Feb. 20,
21, 22.

battering, tearing projectile, aimed sq at you — ble. There
is no bracing yourself against these imperative laws of momentum.

It’s like going over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel full of railroad spikes.
The best thing that can happen to you — and one of the rarer things — is
to be thrown out as the doors spring open, so you have only the ground to
reckon with. True, you strike with as much force as if you had been thrown
from the Twentieth Century at top speed. But at least you are spared the
lethal array of gleaming metal knobs and edges and glass inside the car.

Anything can happen in that split second of a crash, even those lucky
escapes you hear about. People have dived through windshields and come
out with only superficial scratches. They have run cars together head on,
reducing both to twisted junk, and been found unburt and arguing bitterly
two minutes afterward. But death was there just the same — he was only
exercising his privilege of being erratic.

And every time you pass on a blind curve, every time you hit it up on
a slippery road, every time you step on it harder than your reflexes will
safely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a
drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too closely, you're
gambling a few seconds against agony and sudden death. _

There is an old legal phrase that “time is of the essence of the con-
tract.” This is not true on the highway; the reverse is true. Your duty
as a driver is to bring safely home not only yourself, but your family and
friends who may be travelling with you. Equally, it is your duty to so drive
your car as to in no way endanger others but to allow them to likewise
reach their homes in safety.

festivals for French plays
will be held in Quebec City, Montreal
and Ottawa on dates to be arranged
and announced later.

No play performed in the finals at
Ottawa in 1934 or 1935 will be elig-
ible for presentation in 1936, the

regulations set forth. As in the past)

the festival will be restricted to one-
act plays or single self-contained
scenes from longer plays which oc-
cupy not less than 20 and not more
than 45 minutes. 2

Direction of the festival again will
be in the hands of Col. H. C. Osborne,
honorary director, and an executive
committee. In each region a regional
committee will have charge.

A government laboratory in Texas
has succeeded in producing helium
99.96 per cent. pure.

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heroism and the Legion of Honor.

Her husband was the lighthouse
keeper at Kerdonis Light on Bello
Isle. As he was about to set the light
| in motion one twilight it would not

throw its warning rays across treach-
erous shoals,

The woman called her children and
made them turn the heavy light all
night while she tried to aid her us-
band start the machinery.

When the children no longer could
continue the endless grind, the AW
mother took up the task and kept the * Wessane
Paes turning until dawn, when she

collapsed as help arrived.

Sir Herbert Robson

Prominent Grain Merchant Dies Sud-
denly In England

Sir Herbert Robson, prominent
grain merchant and chairman of the
| Baltic exchange, died suddenly in
London. He was 61 years of age.

Sir Herbert was a foremost oppon-
‘ent of governmental measures for re-

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!striction of wheat production and
| control of world wheat trade.
| Sir Herbert died at Maldon, Essex.
He was born in Northampton in 1874.
He was a director of a number of
important companies. Twenty years
ago he was chairman of the chamber
of commerce of Karachi, India, and a
member of the Bombay legislative
council.

Used Like A Pencil

No Pressure Required With New Tool
For Engraving

For engraving on gold, silver,
brass, copper, aluminum and other
metals as well as bakelite, catalin,
\ivory and hardwoods, a plug-in tool
\that is used like a pencil is avail-
|able. No pressure is required, the
| operator writing or printing as with
a pencil. The tool cuts rapidly with
a chisel-like stroke. The powerful
little motor operates on 110-volt, a.c.
circuits, the standard lighting cur-
rent used in homes. The engraver
fits the hand—Popular Mechanics.

Times Have Changed

Back in the good old days a boy
could go to a picnic and have a dandy
good time on two bits. He would ride
the merry-go-round a couple of times,
drink a glass of red lemonade and
spend the other dime for a ticket to
a minstrel show. But how things have
changed. A boy of the same age in
these fast-stepping times will spend
at least $2 or $3, and blamed if we
believe he has as good a time as the
boy who took a quarter with him for
his day’s expenditures at a picnic.

There are 15 per cent. more earth-
| quakes when the moon is nearest the
jearth than there are when it is
farthest away.

“WRAP ME UP” HOME FROCK
OR “COVER ALL” BECOMING
TO SLENDER AND MATURE
FIGURES

AS ETHIOPIA RALLIES TO ARMS

By Ellen Worth
Here's a new type of wrap-around

Rebuilt By New Method Jubilee Week Was Busy

Worn Machine Parts Made As Good
As New

King’s Secretaries Replied To Over
Ten Thousand Messages

Fired at the speed of a rifle bullet, Statistics just available give some
particles of hot metal rebuild worn) indication of the work performed by
machine parts by a new method. | His Majesty's secretaries during Ju-
Screw heads are cut into the sur-|bilee week. During the period May 3
faces to be repaired and then the|to 9 the King received 10,264 tele-
metal is sprayed on the grooves and| grams from every conceivable: part
ridges in such a way as to “freeze’’| of the world. Every sender of a tele-
and become part of the metal under| gram within the British Isles, no
treatment. The spraying is done with| matter what his rank or station in
an electrically operated gun that) life, had a reply sent him by His Ma-
“shoots” the metal particles through} jesty or by one of the private secre-
a tiny hole in the nozzle at 2,700 feet| taries. Overseas messages were sim-
per second. The rebuilt parts are) ilarly answered, the more important
smoothed and polished with ab-| by cable, but many by a personal let-
rasives, giving long wear. Piston| ter from the King’s secretaries or His
rods, cylinder walls, shafts, bearings | Majesty's representative in the Do-
and turbines are among the parts! minions or Colonies.
treated successfully—Popular Mech-
anics. *

A new metal, invented by a British
|} firm, is lighter than aluminum, as
There are 23 different kinds of al-| strong as cast-iron, cheaper than
cohol commercially produced. s, impervious to sea-water, and
=| can be bent when cold. It is in use by
the admiralty.

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Rub on—pain gone
Get the new large econ-
omy size—Also avail-
able in smaller, regular

size. "

The hydrax is the nearest living
relative of the elephant. It is a little
| animal no larger than a rabbit and is
| erroneously designated in the King
James Bible as a coney.

|
| All houses on the main street of

|Istanbul, Turkey, are red, by decree]
of the municipal council. On~ feast
days they are draped in the Turkish

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LINIMENT

olors.
| color

apron home frock, that is quite
smart.

It has a paneled bodice that car-
ries down into the skirt, that would
flatter any figure. The flared sleeves
are pretty. -

Calico or percale print is especially
nice for its development.

As a “Cover-All” to wear over
one’s “best” frock to prepare dinner,
it is nice made of a dimity print.

It's unbelievably simple and inex-
pensive to make it.

Style No. 310 is designed for sizes
14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42-
inches bust. Size 36 requires 4%
yards of 35-inch material.

Patterns 15c each. Address mail
orders to: Pattern Department, Win-
nipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDer-
mot Ave. E., Winnipeg.

Autumn Fashion Book contains
ny, She ae cool vacation

lothes. Send for your copy to-'
the price is 15 cenvs, BY See

Polar Hop Postponed

The attempt of a Soviet aeroplane
to fly non-stop to San Francisco, by
way of the north pole, has been post-
poned until the summer of 1936, it
has been officially announced. The
setting in of the polar night was
given as the reason for the postpone-
ment,

Were Pald Union Rates
Trade union rates of a penny per
rivet were paid to Lady Kelly, wife
of Admiral Sir John Kelly, and other

Men, women and even children in Ethiopia have rallied to defend their
country from threat of war by Italy.

busy making uniforms for the rapidl;

Imperial Guard (below), carry bayonets on their guns and are products of
2114\ training by imported military experts.

officers’ wives when they drove the
first rivets into the plates of the new
cruiser Aurora at Portsmouth. —

In the upper photo, two women are
y mobilizing army. Members of the

A $5,000,000 steel plant will
built at South Durham, England,

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Predicts Horseless London
Ministry Of Transport Working To-
ward Mechanizing System

Within five years, it is predicted,
the London dray horse will be £o rare
in London as to be regarded as a
curiosity, the streets of 1940 being
practically entirely free of horses.
The Ministry of Transport is hasten-
ing this condition by plans to sub-
stitute horse-drawn traffic by a com-
pletely mechanized system, and some
of these plans will be carried into
effect shortly.

The busiest streets in London will
be closed to horse-drawn traffic in
the near future by regulations soon
to be issued by the department. Al-
ready there is a device operating in
Oxford street between certain hours.
Later an edict will be issued that
horse-drawn vehicles will not be al-
lowed in London at all after a period
of from three to five years.

Under existing traffic legislation,
the Minister of Transport, L. Hore-
Belisha, has power to put an end to
traffic by horse -in London's streets.
His department, however, has no in-
tention of driving horses from the
streets until their owners have had
fair warning. 7 .

Eastern Excursions

Bargain Fares Offered By C.P.R. and
C.N.R. For Early Autumn Trip

Popularity of early autumn bargain
fares to eastern Canada last year has
induced the Canadian Pacific and
Canadian National railways offer
similar travel privileges in September
of this year, according to an an-
nouncement by Joseph B. Parker,
western secretary, Canadian Pass-
enger Association. Ne?

‘This fall weather rate, attractive
after the heat of summer, begins with
a ticket sale from September 21 to
October 4 and bears a final return
limit of 45 days in addition to the
date of sale. Stop-over privileges go
with the tickets within a limit at the
stations of Port Arthur, Armstrong
and east.

Tickets will be honored in coaches,
tourist or standard sleepers on Pp&y-
ment of fare according to the accom-
modation desired. They will be on
sale from all stations from Port Ar-
thur, Armstrong and west, including
Pacific Coast points to all stations in-
cluding Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury,
Cochrane and east.

Not Empty Handed

An Italo-Abyssinian dispute has
arisen in Amsterdam—the Abyssin-
ian, a commissionaire at an Italian
restaurant, gave notice that he was
returning home to join the army. As
he was leaving the building, the
Italian proprietor noticed he was Car
rying a large bundle. Asked what it
contained, the man replied “Re-
volvers.” But police summoned to the
scene discovered it was a quantity of
the restaurant's silverware.

Cleaning Railway Coaches

‘The latest method of cleaning rail-
way carriages is that used by the
German Federal Railways. The c&l
riage is run into a huge airtight cyl
inder into which is pumped a strong
disinfectant gas. The carriage Te
mains in the gas long enough to al
low it to penetrate every chink anc
corner, so that all harmful bacters
are Willed