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Ever hear of the Order of the Good Dime? would you like to be- come a member? Then spend a week or so in Nova Scotia and you'll be eligible for membership. In 1606 Champlain founded the Order which consists of a chain placed around the neck and cer- tain little ceremonies which give the bearer charge of the hunting for one day. About ten years ago. the Order was reborn and today. thousands of Americans and Can- adians hold membership in North America's oldest social club. The certificate itself hears portraits of Champlain. the first Grand Mas- ter and of Canadals Govemor- General. Viscount Alexander, the present Grand Master.

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Mrs. J. Mccuiiy of Truro. N. S. oivns the only chinchiilas to be seen in the Maritime Provinces. These little fur-bearing animals . are worth their weight in gold --

-5600 to 8700 each - as they weigh only one and one quarter ounces at birth. The guard hairs are said to be as fine as the strandsL.of a spider's web. When the great value of the fur got noised about. the governments of the South

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, Q0 IiIe insurance or annuities. without obligation. Zwmncan munmes or which they I I (IHARLOTTETOWN are native. placed a ban on hunt-

3 MRS. ii0R0'rl-IY ROGERS .l. ARTHUR CAMPM-ELI. ing and trapping them. 3- A. MOURE The medieval Ch-rlstians saw in W. PI. YOUNG. SUMMERSIDI-2 childbirth the result of a carnal

in to be expiated in physical pain as defined in Genesis III: 16. In ancient days. many pregnant wo- men were stoned to death by the mediveh or the barber. Purifica- tion after childbirth among the slaniese people consisted of ex- posing the back and abdomen to a fire burning day and night and close enough to the mother to cause reallsuflerlng from the heat.

. . . The Khyber Pass con- necting India with Afighanistan is the only path by which heavy traffic can pass from one country to the other. It has always been a strategic point and the scene of Titanic struggles. The road from Peshawar to Kabul was made by the British. In ancient times, persons caught in the act of stealing were imprisoned in an iron cage suspended from a pole in the lonely pass. The prisoner re- mained in the cage till he starved

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that Caesar's mother lived several years after the birth of her fam- oua son. Hence the error of the statement that Caesar was born of a Caesarean operation. . . In the seventeenth Century when a baby was born it was first bathed and then salted all over and its head tightly bandaged to give it the proper shape. Next it was bound in bandages until it was un- able to move. These bandages us- ually were removed once in twen- ty-four hours. when the infant was allowed a few minutes of ex- errcise. The binding of the body

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lasted for about seven months. Al- most. half of the children so treat- ed died during the first year of life.

In the Middle Ages the Jews were oppressed by both the eccles- iasiicai and civil regulations. They could neither become trades- men nor physicians, although the nobility employed them because of their skill in treating diseases. when epidemics of the plague broke out the Jews were accused of spreading the disease by poison- ing the water or by black magic. Many were put in the flames for their supposed infamy and the n0bIIII.,VvWI10 owed money to the Jews made no effort to prevent their deaths. In the city of Bengal. India. the traveler may see one of the most holy places of

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the huddhist. religion. Why? Be- cause Buddha is believed to have received enlightenment 'at this spot. A huge pagoda marks thc holy spot. One of thci

greatest. architectural wonders of' India is the xu'r3 MINAR. It isi considered the most perfect tow-I er in the world. Five stories high? and over two hundred feet tall The summit is reached by meansi of a flight of steps.

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This is one of the unusual books one finds now and again. a distinct Chlnle in the diet. and very near to grandeur. It was published its written first-hand, without any re- vision by the author. He was dead. He had written his story in note books while on soldiering duties in Italy. and friends had smuggled the script out of the area. Billany did not have a happy life. He knew need and poverty. He tried hard to make a go of life, and his ex- perience with the dole added to his bitterness. His education might be termed an act of charity; it was provided by the govenunent. Yet he won prizes and advancement. was an excellent scholar.

The first chapters are rather wordy and the essence of rancor. He rants about the class distinction of rllmgland. and writes about the working class: ”I was born of work- ers among workers. and therefore I am a native of their ocuntry. I know how they order their lives because my own has always been ordered in the same way. I know what their prime secular ambition is. because it is also mine-not to be compelled to work by the threat. of starvation.' He pours out h.s hatred on class leaders and tilted persons. and does not make a pretty picture of his country. Instead. IIR halts the real beginning of his tale with his flayng of those in high positions.

But when the story begins the reader forgets the first chapter. It is so tense and gripping, so realistic. A working class family is introduc- ed a gentleness and power that few writers of today possm. The time is the beginning of world War 2 and one can see every detail of the rooms, expressions on the faces. hear the family joke and squabble and act politely with their visitors. Blllany tmlirts and cpitests the army and its training. The course- ness and injustice that prr-vails make him moody but there is his love for the daughter of the Fas- coe family to keep him nearly ncr- mal. Little touches tell of his friend- ship with the girl's young brother. and of the bomb shelter hurriedly erected.

The German bombers are owl" and it is a night of death and de- vastation. Billany gets leave and goes to the village to find that both parents are in the hospital. the brother kitted. his sweetheart badly hurt, the home blown to atoms. He has a hard time getting a home for the girl. and the pathos of the predicam-ants of the wtrking class raises a lump in the reader's throat. I do not know of another book dealing with England in ovar- time that carries anything coin- parable to the descriptiive writing of Billany as he tells of his last week in England.

After that comes the long sea voyage, with no one knowing where they are going, and the bad boy of his unit gyped of home leave. 'h-mible dogs Biliany but in the mid he has the boy behaving bettcr. Then comes the campaign in North Africa. in detail and vividly related. The reader discovers how petty lilo can he at the front. how dirty and ivearisome, and how heroic. Tm: climax comes with the German attack and the author being taken prisoner, The confusion of the day is simply told. and the while im- pact of the North American war is terrifying. He concludes his book bl" writing: ”l-Ic-av to draw a moral from all this I do not know. But I know this: that I am very vcrv tired of the talk and the bll.t9i'nr-ss and the life we lead that is no life it. is a long time since my heart has been at rest" This is a book

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who is a queer mixture of cynic anrl sympathizer. The dialogue is clever. and the writing better. as I have said. than the first book. The cli- max may not please some nail- era but on the whole this is a now1

once. The Czech apparently can- not decide whether to go on with the American and the oil enterprise or to give himself to the service of his country. He can do much work in Europe. More IlI'll'IIlS are ad-

Lhe present and should achieve wide popularity. It dca7s with a Czech scientist who has been smug- g:ed across the frontier of his coun- try so that he may work for an American who is prominent in,oil

its aftermath. His first book. developments. (led by the introduction of a Vl'0I'1'I1. having. MY first thought 0" received much acclaim. and da- The smuggled man reaches a hotel Communist who was a former pupil flnlshma It WM thin his WW Wk served it, for it had good atmo- inside the French border. where the of the Czech. rphlsgentleman wants. WI" I39 0"Ir5I-FmdID8- M1 5MP”

has had large experience and ii! had learned how to build S115P"”'- He is definitely a top-notcii writ- er. and know that magic of crcatlnl dramatic incident.

of course. to return the scientist to his home..aown. These characters are well drawn but the best of the lot is the Frenchman who is in charge of the frontier post. a man

American -waits for him. The plot. thickens with the presence of a representative of the World News Service who has been told to get the story. Coniplicntions set in at.

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