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(By FRANCIS DEAR!) (Copyright, 1039, King Future: Syndicate lne.) your birthday come: In. and find who: your outlook ls, according to the non.

For Friday, In: y 5th

MARCH 21 to APRIL 30 (Aries) More nimuiating than yesterday. Responsive day to energetic treat- ment if diplomacy is also used. You can handle more than one dob this peppy day. It is agreeable ifor finishing incompleted work and week-end activities, too.

APRIL 21 to MAY 20 (Taurus) _-May test your patience and re- murcefullriess. Matters of a gen- eral character more favored than private interests. Employment and workday issues also in the lead. Keep temper and other emotions minder control.

MAY 21 to JUNE 21 (Gemini)- Good day for constructive matters. philanthropic and charitable pro- jects, government and state inter- eJs and putting your shoulder t0 the wheel to help a good cause. Cooperate!

JUNE 22 to JULY 23 (Cancer)- Retail businesses; handling food stuffs, wearing apparel, toiletri-ss; restaurant and hotel interests should net sizable profits. Don't lag behind in your Job. Your in- nate cleverness ls knowing how to meet, people can help greatly. Use ltl

JULY 24 to AUGUST 22 (Leo)- Frlciioly vibrations for general in- tcrcsis; sports, travel, dealing with adverilseiu, newspapers, radio managements; prospective clients.

.Don't indulge exaggeration or false

promises, Sincerity ‘will pay best.

and honesty

AUGUST 23 to SEPTEMBER 23 (Virgo) — Make every effort to realize some cherished dream or hopes this encouraging day. Espec- ially favorable for writing, creat- ing. designing, meeting people, soc- ial and political functions, enter- tainment. Gains through these.

SEPTEMBER 24 to OCTOBER 2"- fiyibra) —- Some restrictions. You may have to lorego some of

Pom" own duire: end wishes for general harmony. Day approves attention to necessary items first, pleasures afterwards,

00108132! 24 to NOVEMBER. 22 (Scorpio) - Much good can he ac- complished and difficult problems land situations straightened out by ‘cairn reasoning and avoiding im- pulsiveness and emotional upsets. Familiar marers sponsored over new ventures..Make plans for a pleasant week-end. i

NOVEMBER 23 to DEOEIIVIBER 22 (Sagittarius) -- SpeLIsl lines of endeavor and those fiiatiers that require keen mental astuteness, management and finesse are p11". ticulariy favored. Gains through earnest efforts.

DECEMBER 23 to JANUARY 21 (Capricorn) - Benefzccnt aapects favor your plans and endeavors. A day for steady, if not spectac- ular, accomlisliment in your occu- pation. Sports and other whole- some interests favored.

JANUARY 22 to FEBRUARY 2) (Aquarius) —- Keep tour facult;es

ever your day calls for by keeping usefully busy therefcre out of temptations way, l.)ur.ng free time, improve knouxlsdge.

FEBRUARY 21 to MARCH Z0 Pisces) - Good indications for money galiii, also mneiits and happiness through other Friends, business largely in today's whole" proceedings,

pleasant

A CHILD BORN ON THIS DAY

,sound ability, es-pccniilv for ma- ‘ierial problems and work. should be discreet and pninstnkliig in selection of $061211 friends lest it become gullible with sPlflsh indi- viduals who would abuse its gn- QTOSIIY. Spiritual training a gxeit help in all its undertakings. Aoever -somebodyl

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REVIEW OF HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMEN CANADA IN 1939 RECALLS QUEENS CO‘

IN NQUEST

0F NATION LAST SUMMER.

By MURIEL ADAMS

Canadian Press Staff Writer

Smiling Queen Elizabeth whose graciousness and charm won mil- lions of hearts and left cherished memories in the mountains, plains woodTand-s. cltirs and towns of the Dominion an outstanding place in the achievements of women in Canada in the past year.

In recalling accomplishments of women from coast to coast in 1939 Canada mourns two former chatelaines at Ottawa. Government

“MIDDLE AGE" WDME

Thousands go thru tliI: “trying time" by taking Pinkbnrrs-wellknewu for helping female func- tional troubles. Try ill

LYDIA F. PINIIIIAATS

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House whose personalities left an enduring impression on the wo- men's world. Lady Aberdeen, founder and honorary president of the National Council of Women, whose influence has spread far beyond the Dominions borders, died ADrll 4. with her husband, Lord Aberdeen, she occupied Rideau Hall 1893-98. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyle, who as con- sort of the Governor-General, then Marquess of Lorne, from i878 to 1883, took an active part In the earlier development of women's sphere in Canada. died Dec. 3.

Lady Tweedsmulr, wife of Can- ada's present Governor-General, in her turn is ulling the weight of her exceptional abilities leadership of Canadian women in the present stress of war. Among other things the workrooms in Rldeau Hall have been thrown open for Red Cross workers "for the duration."

Veterans in Charge

When war began women were called into time limelight. to assist in the direction of Canada's war effort. Miss Joan Arnoldi of Toronto took charge of the war committee of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. Mrs. Adelaide Phimptre, who is a member of Toronto's city council and chairman of the Clvlc Parks Committee, was appointed to the war board of the Red Cross So- ciety. Both these women brought the valuable experience

vice in the last war to their pre-

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SOLDIERS IN SlGlfl‘

Roger stood up stlffly and gaud at the nearest cliff. It was not. very high, periiflps thirty feet; but. its sumiint ran along wnat appeared lo be a broad facade oi white mas-

onry stood strain-

lsltty rose mo and ing her eyes in the halt-light.

“What on earth i5 that?" she said.

Captain Cullen clunbed laborious- ly to his feet also.

Roger gazed, while every instant the light snowed the curious alllleflf- nnce of the cliff top in clearer oc- t ' . . . Could those iour long things projecting at even intervals from the uark slits in the masonry be the muzzles 9f guns?

They were. Higher up among yhe pine; on the hillside was another lung line oi wh.te: _

"What are they?" cried Kitty.

"(Jun emplacements," said Roger. "The lsland ls fortified."

‘There must be soldiers here."

“Oi. course.”

He looked lower down as he spoke. and camnt sight, oi something they hao failed to nnd in the dark. Drag-

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The Emergence of Woman From Inclusion Into the Gay Business and Social World Gives Her a Chance to Look Around and Become Dissatisfied With What She Has

Agroimof omenworediscueslngthel- indivoroetheother day and one of {hem wound up the conclsve b,v sayinc: “Well it 1;! a. 10!; harder to stay married now than it used to be in our grandmothers time.

"Idiot's true," responded another woman. “B110, I wonder why. an nature is still the some old human nature. Husbands and wives are no mOIB cantankerous and harder to live with now than they have always been, yet a. marrIaEe that has lasted ten or flf een years is getting lo be a mus- eum specimen. Men and women now trade in their 01a husbands and wives for new models withl fresh int and tricky gadgets and streamlined efy-i fects ust as they do their inst years automobllw.

"It ls easy to understand," said a third woman. "Women are the plaintiffs in three-fourths of the divorce cases and they swan husbands for- the same reason that they wear knee-length skirts, or shorifi. or crazy hats—because everybody ls doing it. They ihink it looks positively old-fashioned and lacking in enter ise to stay married to the same old man for twenty-five years. So w en they get tired of look.ng at John and dish-washing gets on their nerv&_ or they

et an aiiack of Spring fever, tiff? trump up some story about their meek Ilttle henpeckcd husbands lnflic m; cruel and inhuman treatment upon thorn 8,110 the next thing you know they are off for Reno.

"Now in the old days. when people married for keeps instead of with

ged up under the shelter of the cliff ,»w'a. a boat, covered with tavpaulin.

“Look, a. boat! We'll be able to ge. to the mainland," cried Kitty.

"Come along," said R0 er.

He strode ofi immediate y. towards the track, which zigzagged up the cliff. Kitty followed rapidly. For ail that they 1nd been out all right and that, he was hungry and thirsty, Roger was desperate with impat- ience. 4 'l‘o judge from Kitty's haste

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Ciflien and Charlie trudged after thcm. "i hope to heaven," said Geoffrey.

1wcarily bringing up the rear. "That

‘we'll be a‘ will have plenty of initiative and ‘ea? ‘ma drmk!"

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‘Gripes?’ said the boy CharIJe. "I could do wiltnli a bile of somethng.

bu‘ 1 I'm starved.

"its a. wonder nobody has seen us before 1111.!" said Cullen. 1

“They have!" said Geoffrey. !

A small group of soldiers had sud- denly csme into sight, coming down the track.

"YOU ARE UNDER ARREST”

There was a lieutenant, a, corporal ‘ and four men. They all wore khaki uniforms and peaked caps. 'lhe men's uniforms were aged and very dirt , but that of the lieutenant, ‘was brig t. and new. The came down the path with their rifles ready; 15 yards from Roger. who was leading, the lieutenant called to his own P100!) 10 halt. and then stood survey- ing the English arty with a look of deepesg sugpic on in his plump, waxen white face.

“Buenos dlnsl" said Roger in his best Castilian.

"Buenos dlas!" replied the lieuten- flfltigwhllib do you do lliére?"

“ ’s a _ong story—" gen Roger.

The officer didn't want to hear it.

‘You are under arrest." he said.

‘But why? I must explain?"

“Fortifications,” said the officer, waving his hand. “It is a. military Offence to land on the island."

“YES. but let me ex lain. We were. in the bay lln a y t, which was boarded by thieves last night, and stolen from us. They brought us here in a launch and stranded us. All we want to do is to t away. We wish to recover the yacgiet."

“A yacht?”

“Yes: it was stolen from us."

“I do not understand." said the ___ cued when the flying boat Cavalier fell into the sea en routg from New York to Bermuda. in Janu- My

Two Toronto women upheld the feminine place in literary fields. Gwethalyn Graham was awarded one of the Governor-Generals Prizes for her novel "Swiss sonata." Joyce Marshall won the Canadian Women's Press Club award for her short story “And the Hilltop Was Elizabeth."

Two Canadians well known welfare and nursing circles, Charlotte Whitton, O.B.E., and Miss Edith Kathleen Russell, were called to King's College, Halifax. to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Law.

Women were accepted in many. roles heretofore confined to men.t From the li/larltlmes Mollv K00] of

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Alma, N.B., became Cilliudifs first woman master mariner. Dr. Jessie Gray of Toronto was the flrstl woman to receive the de

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one eve on the altar and the other on the divorce court, when a, woman said ‘I do’ she settled down to make the best of what she had not. she knew she wasn't going to have any more digs the grab bag and so didn't let her eyes and her fancy go roaming around after other men. mid, belleveume, there is a lot of restraining power in just knowing s. ing is fin .

"Then divorce wasn't the faihlon in Grandma's time. grace. No matter what a brute a. man was, nor how badly he treated Ills wife, nor what a saint. she was, there was always 4. little shadow over her if she left her husband. Everybody 'pooi- Maryed’ her and spoke abou her as ‘unfortunate.’ And so women lived through me martyrdom of fies rather than endure public pltv and the frosty wel-

en they went back home to Mother.

It was a. dis-

ey got w

"And still another reason why women are the best clients in the divorce shop is because most of them nowadays are on their own. They have some trade or rofession by which they have supoorted themselves before marriage. Tils makes it and walk out on a husband who oesn't come up to all of their girlish dreams of the Fairy Prince they expected to get in marriage.

“Nothing has boosted the divorce business so much as the financial independence of women. For naturally the woman who doesn't know how to earn a dollar herself has to stick to her meal ticket whether she likes it or not. whereas the woman who can make her own bread and butter and cake can be choosy about husbands and matrimony in gen- eral. And then, of course, the mere fact that men and women are thrown so much more together in work and play now than they used to be makes it harder for them to slay satlfied with their choice of life partners. In Grandma's day a. married woman was virtually segregated from men, Bull/ed at home and had babies and kept house and had no u por- ty of instituting invidious comparisons between Qrgndpg, an ‘he; handsome bcss. Nor did Grandpa discover how much better his pretty blond secretary understood him than Grandma. did. All of that made for family solidarity and kept husbands cour ."

and wives out of the divorce

"It, oer-tail ei to ta i th t.h itls ," d the first womgnywvlvsaaullgyier‘ s y “rm-red en, an now m

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Can You Break e. Mun of Bragging f

_ Dear Mlss Dix—ls there way to break a man of i and - 8111s? I know a man who "big man w n8 bras cessiul if it wasn't for these faults. If tell you what a. rent job he did and th one else ever d1 , and that he did it so much quicker. and does is superior to anything that others have or do. People make éieifinfiélfiigi.“fnl‘éi “Ml. ‘llfiryéi. B“ bill“? “k” ‘l. “if bf?”

. - v way can ma m er- SIBIKIJIDW ridiculous he makes himself? ,

e B E. L. T. There is no cure for the liar or the braggari: because both fault; an 9V1? ‘in? ’§‘é‘l"£§.“‘.'.‘“.‘. “iffiffeilis?! §“€‘l.’§f."§."=....“°b"° 1"“ "°"‘ iii’? statlélhfi (fir the Cotloli; of flla-teyes} is es B-n you can e e or mus now no one med 1 big talas. He must know that he ruins hlsu ous Egwstfwlglefi s: worlid by lying because no one wants to have dealings with a, 1115,11 who” l?“ frail"? be tfllswd- And the bmzitart must know that he makes thglfm B» 87"" 01' fill’! by his boasting. But such is the e tisrn of bofh ey cannot help indulging in their vices. Both of em are good people to let alone. DQRQfHY Du;

iiéutééuF-EIT“ n t "I ' You EHIQCnIIOI peerfitlfifi Ilgrsleiqthlgrxrlif Egfrahzemtéxffieyazlleheullfivlfltllfi You are under arrest." living thing in sight. Evidently the Bu‘ We “e he“? Ilka-Inst our will. Majorcans began the day late. wfi °111Y ‘V1511 i0 8° away." A number of yellow fowls ran out It is quite impossible! You must of the ard room as the prisoners EXPIaln to the Captain. You are were drven in. The floor wag bare "m1" Brresl!" The Dale face of the The whltewazhed walls were pen- lieutenant twitched with nervous cllled with inscriptions written. per- IEDS fortunately, in the language of e coun

determination. {b20838 explained the situation to _ ° r5‘ The door clanged shut u th They looked at one another. Kitty arrested pufy, and me uefgmn"; and his men marched away down the passage. An armed soldier took

was pale with suppressed irn t-

191100- Rflker said nothing. Geo gay up his post oiitside with his back to n .

groaned:

“What next?"

The soldiers stood aside for them 1-0 D055. 011d they marched on up the _ ack to the top of the cllfl, the lieutenant in front and the corporal and the soldiers bringing up me rear.

The mornl rew and br hm behind themflgilige sky abcgge Wig flooded with the rays of the unseen sun. Roger looked back at the azure bay of Manreal, vainly searching for any sight of the "Glorious Kate."

PRISONERS IN WAITING

On the top of the cliff the track

the grating betrayed the presence of another guard outside the door.

“Th ls frightful," Kitty burst out

“If you want to sit. down there's a bench in the corner," said Roger.

“I don't. mean the place is fright- ful—I mean this delay." “How long will they keep us here?"

“A week or two, perhaps," said R0 r drily. "Or possibly un the en of the civil war."

But underneath his levity was a bitterness deeper than she could

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blue uniforms and became steward-

sent p0sts. , $100 01 From coast to coast more than v Master of‘ Surgery Elsie Gregory 200,000 women rallied to the call MacGill, first woman in Canada to for service through the channelslreceive a m-asterfly degree 1n of the Voluntary Registration of; aeronautical engineering. has b9- Canadlan Wom-cn under the chair- fifime T1119 first “T111011 10 £19515“ manship of M1,“ Margaret, Hynd- . build and inst her own airplane. man, KC, of Toronto. Bringing women to the fore also were In Larfifi “@1115 th d f home knitters who ,,,§,‘,'fi‘l§ swoihem m, m, “m... 4., administrative head u 2o large grain, elevator and other

forces and others who trained in home nursing and first aid to be companies. mvolvinz 820000000 in ady for the can Hundred; of lcapltal, Mrs. James Richardson of graduate nurses volunteered foflwinfllpek. bmuzht 010mm into i110 overseas duty. top brackets of the financial and business florid. m added Mrs. Perre F. Casgra l“ Mr and Books ‘anoltilsifirdachlevement to hgrces- tab e record of one o an- ...°:".::‘*u."°w..r;*.i°m'“§.§i* were‘ Elect“ ' the frst woman appon a over-flveifoot girls donned navy director of a chain swm organmk tloti.

Maxine Macleay of High River, Alta, was appointed to a. commit- ltee of five of the Society of Agri- icultural Economists to conduct a survey of ranches in Western Canada.

Dr. Mary Wong. daughinr 0f l1 Chinese restaurateur of Inndon. 0nt., was appointed to the staff of the department of Medical Re- search. Bantlng Institute, Unl- versity of Toronto.

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the Dominion badminton cham- pionships, and with her sister. Iiouise, the doubles title also. Mrs. William Everhart of Philadelphia bagged the first moose shot in Manitoba in 22 years Mary Bosanquet. e. rheery ~118Mb "1- commanded front- age atten ion on her horseback rde across Can- ada frogn Vancoiivée}. ed Dionne Oanii as wor - am qulngupms, mm 18th

19d $110111 Past the gun emplacements (10 B" 090m drill ground at the back. round which was built a one-storey concrete barracks. There were antl- laircraft batteries on its roof. y o" 1110 flkht was an ancient gTOVo cf gnarled and twl led olives, and through them a glimpse of white- washed peasant dwellings. A large black sow an seven little