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STUDY OWN QUALIFICATIONS IN CONTEMPLATING MARRIAGE

Ask Yourself If You Will Make A Good Hus- band Or Wife And Make The Correction

Judging from the innume rif-catlons on the subject that I Nceive, when the average man and woman contemplate matrimony they

lo not take into consideration their own qualifications for the holy M estate. but are concerned only with those of the s!‘

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'I'hey_do not ask; Will make a good husband or wife? But only: Will Mary or John suit ME and make happy? They entirely ignore what is the most important factor in making marriage a success, and that is the lntiivitluafs fitness for it, for there are many men and women who should never marry simply because marriage 1s not their vocation. You have to have a talent tor mat- rimony as for anything else, to make a go of it, and they make their wives and husbands miser- able even though they were wed to pin-feathered angels. No philanderer, would be dissatisfied and unhappy and foi' instance, should ever marry. because he was born with an irresistible tendency tli t he cannot control to flirt ivitli every pre woman he sees. Every fluttering petticoat will always be a signal to him to_get ‘ ‘ up and follow. Neither age, nor rheumatism, nor m rrlage, nor breach of promise suits, nor alimony, iior a_i1_y other afil iion will halt him in the love chase. ‘ He will always be truthful to the feminine sex as a whole as long as it is under tllll‘l_\', but no one woman can hold hiin for he will always love. not wisely, but too mony.

party of the other part.

No man who has a wandering foot should marryi. There are men who can never be house-broken. They w'1_ll always hear the cull o_f the wild and answer it. No matter ho\v the wife of such a one pcts him _or leads him, or how comfortable she makes hiin, she can neier turn him info a iireside companion. He will always think of his home as a dog house and his wife as his keeper. And as soon as he has gobbled his dinner he will put oii his hat and go downtown to spend the evening with the boys, leaving her to her lonesome, wutli no more exciting diversion than ivatcliing the baby sleep.

TIGHTWADS SHOULD BE SHUNNED

No lightwad should ever marry, for his pocketbook will always be closer to his heart than his family. He will illWfl" figure the cost of inai"ri-.1gt\ in dollars and cents and decide it isn't wot i the price. He will always feel that his wife gypped him by not growing hcr own fine feathers instead of buying them. and that if she was any account at all she would be able to conjure good meals out of the air instead of run- ning up bills with the srocer and the butcher.

He will begrudge his babies their certified milk. and the first oi the month when the bills come in will be as awful as the Day of Judgment to his family. 'I'lie only woman whom the tightwad ever really loves and cherishes and gets any pleasure out. of is the ladv 011 the dollar, and he makes a mistake when he divorces himself from her, as he is bound to do if he marries.

No man who was reared Mama's pet should ever marry, because mar- rlage is bound to be a bitter disappointment and disillusion to‘ him. By no possible chance would he get a wife who has either the desire or abil- ity to cater to his every whim, or who possesses Mama's technique as a spoi er.

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The man who is married to his business commits bigamy when he takes on a flesh and blood wife and is punished for his crime by spend- ing the balance of his life trying to appease a green-eyed woman who is as jealous of his “old office“ as he is of his blonde stenographer. For no wife likes to run second to a law book or a green grocery and know that the first place in her husband's heart is occupied by canned goods and thatknéithing really gives him a. thrill but the rise and fall of the stock mar e .

An egotlst should nevvr marry, because nothing so deflates one's van- ity as matrimony. No man has any idea ‘of what a poor, weak, miserable creature he is until his wife begins to criticise his faults. No matter how much a man may strut abroad, he walks humbly on his own hearthstone.

Nor in there any place in marriage in which the head of the house can indulge himself in selfishness, for even if his wife is willin to sac- rifice herself for him the children are not. and by the time he as paid for having their adenoicis out, and their sport cars, and a college educa- tion, and gotten them out of scrapes. and listened to them tell him how old-fashioned all of his ideas are, he is so humble he is ready to call a worm of the dust Mister when he meets him in the road.

Bo, these things being true, it behooves every man to study his own Qualifications for marriage before he asks a. girl the fatal question.

THREE THVIES MARRIED ENOUGH

Dear Dorothy Dix-I am a woman 52 years old, have been married three times and had no success with any of them. I have a married daughter with a family. Should I go to live with her? 0r should I make another marriage and establish my own home? Or should I still travel and work u I go? I am of an independent nature. I. M.

ANSWER-If you made three bad picks of husbands, it doesn't look as if you were good matrimonial guesser, so I should think you would hesitate to try a fourth venture. However. maybe your luck would turn, but do be careful and look the candidate over well before you decide.

A4 you are of an independent nature, I do not think on would be hapéay lving in your daughter’ shome, for in-laws and gran children are hair to live with and do not take kindly to bossing.

My guess ll that of the three choices you will find more happiness In traveling and working as you go. That will give you independence, your own money and variety. And none of these are to be despised at You!‘ l6!- DOROTHY

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Bond. a quarter of an hour be- fore his time to see Gregorescu, oc- cupied on iiiobtrusivc scat iii a cor- ner of the immense lounge. But the scat. he had chosen was in such a position that he could slip up the broad. carpeted stairwav ivitliout being noticed. Which was one rea- son why he had arrived so early. He was making sure that he had not been followed.

Watching the scethe of hotel guests and visitors wit-ii a practised eye, he was convinced that no such idea need worry him. Everything, in fact. seemed to be working his way, he told himself. Looking back on recent. months indeed. matters had moved easily for him. almost as if the mechanism of life had been well oiled to his advantage.

This meeting with Gregorescu to- day was a case in point. he hadn't run across Delma Vivian, and been taken at her suggestion to the Toreador Restaurant, he might not have known Gregordescu was in London. It was helpful that. he had known at this particular moment.

Gregorescu was able to give him certain information he badly want- ed. and which nobody else could

ive in time for his needs. Bond

ad indeed only known that fact within the last day or so. so the fact of meeting him this unexpeccd way was an almost miraculous gift.

Bond. with the thrum of orch- estral music and the talk of the crowd disturbing his thoughts. glanced once again impatiently at the face of the clock which he could see up the centre of the fan-shaped hotel-bureau.

He was surprised to find that the hands of it. still inted to a quar- ter to eight o‘cloc , just as thev had pointed when he had entered the vast sweep of the palm-foyer. It needed nothing to tell him that, while he was sitting here waiting, the clock must have stopped,

He glanced at the wrist-watch he was tvcaring. The hands of this in- dicated precisely eleven minutes past eight. That brou ht Bond to his feet. with an lnvo untary little exclamation of annoyance.

He wasted not an instant in as- cending the broad stairway with its crimson carpeting and magnificent sweep round the gilt-caged lifts. He came. in the curve of a corridor. outside Suite No. 5. He moved on. finding Suite No. 7, and proceeded that way-so it seemed--for miles.

He ltd met no one at all when at last he stood outside the cream-en- ammelled door on which were the metal figures 1'1. He was about to press the bell-push. when he was I11!‘ lsed to find the door ajar.

ill. he pressed the electric but- b011, and the bell jnngled noisily within. Then. after long waiting, he could hear no signs of anyone ans- wering the ring. He pushed the door still further open. He could see that the lights were on at full in the little entrance-foyer, with door: open from this straight ahead and to the right of him.

He began to wonder if by chance he had misunderstood the number Gregoresou had given him. for this cult/e seemed — so far as he could see-unoccupied. However. to make lure, he thrust into the foyer and on into the room on tho right. ‘The Illrlltdflwll still occupied But-with W a

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The electric light was burning brillisntg as Bond ate ped into the room. o the right sl e of the on- trance-foyei- of the suite. u seen from the door. The room was spar- sely furnished, in the modem way. for the reception of guests. with div- ans. chairs and an odd small table or two.

'I‘hei-c Ill n ndio t on one of the tablel. and-as n stepped over the threshold-the voice of an announcer said:-

"We re ret that. owing to some slight tec nlcal fault, transmission has been impossible on this wave- length for ten minutes."

Passln round towards the other side of t e table, he bent over what he had seen.

Gregnresmu was quite dead.

The back of his head had been struck violently.

Bond was as quick to decide his course of action. for [his w“ not the first time in his life he had tumbizirl on a .<'milnr sltiwion '9 fzlerwd rrund tn:- rarin rrgisferirll Wftlv fir" T°l"“1‘i“""v m his mind i1“ llePils "i rt~ "m1 n» "Orv- thing ht- P"l‘lfl i» '1"... mid hart-s hi!!! around The '~ll"f‘ll garment which lomeono hut rnvlmllv in”;

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Men filing to Superstitions of Diamonds Strange Power

The ancients believed that neith- er the forces of nature nor dis- ease had the power to thwart the wearer of n diamond.

‘I110 Evil Eye shall have no power to harm

Him that shall wear the diamond as a charm,

No monarch shall

thwart his will,

And e'en the Gods his wishes shall

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According to a wide supersti- tion. the tallsmanic power of a dia- mond was lost if the stone were acquired by purchase; only when received as a gift. could its virtues be depended on. The same belief is noted regarding the turquoise.

Many tales of the diamond an fantastic and wildly improbable. but all magic lore seems to boi down to belief in tite wonderful magic virtues of the diamond.

The most brilliant and hardest of all stones, it is evolved in one of nature's crucibles and subjected to intense heat and pressure. It fin- ally crystnlizes and becomes a stone of incredible brilliance. in- credible hardness and incredible beauty. _

The ancient Hindu gem-treatise 0i’ Buddabatta asserts that the diamond of the Brahmin thighest cult.) should have the ‘vvhiteuefis of a shell or of rock-crystal; that of the Kshatriya. the brown color of the eye of hare; that of the Vaisy, a lovely shade of a Petal of the kudall flower: that of the Sudra, the sheen of a polished blade. To kings alone the sages as- signed two ckasses of colored dia- monds-nainely. those red as cor- al and those yellow as saffron. but diamonds of all other shades could be set in royal Jewels.

'I‘hese were exclusively royal gems.

The effect exercised by Hindu superstition on even the most en- lightened Europeans of our day

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TREATMENT PREVENTS WASTE OF VICTORY GARDEN SEED

_A point which defense authori- ties are stressing in the Victory Garden campaign, ls that seed. especially vegetable seed, must not be westcd. One of the mcst im- portant measures to prevent this is the treatment of seed by disinfect- ants which destroy the bacteria and fungi which often kill man) seedling plants.

Because of these pests aimateui and even professional florsts ant. market gardeners have many fall- ures with flowers and vcgeiabies. They cause seeds to decay in the giant bed and young seedlings to

le n. few days after emergence.

Science has (proved that many forms of see decay. . seedling damping-off, and other plant all- merits are due to infections by fungi (nioldsi and bacteria (germs) ‘Itiese microscopic organisms liv- mg on the seed and in the soil at- tack the germinating seeds and seedlings; the result is a poor stand of weak plants. which is often 1:1- oorrect-ly attribuuted to poor seed Investigations reveal that over 500 different kinds of disease organ- isms or germs are ccmmonly car- ried by flower, vegetable and faitn 0WD Seeds.

Seed treatment is the only suc- oessfuul method of combating most

-b0me diseases. After infec- tion of the seedling plants has occurred, there is little that can be done to check the disease. As these parasitic oiganisms are car- ried on nearly all seeds and bulbs, disinfection provides an econom- ioal and effective means of pvt-e- "11111118 mlliiy 01f the diseases caus- ed by them.

m itwd thread in it. loosely hung on Billie edgie of I. divan. The decanter con- ta in: brandy. the untouched siphon tmd two unused glass goblets on a tray.

A partly-o n door from one end of the room ed. 30nd discovered. to a bedroom. 1t was empty. There was another door leading from this 100m. ‘but thdlbgnwarglclosled. 1

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round t... bedrogm hifiill. stiff}. the body. He walked but it. and out into the carpeted corridor beyond the front door. I-Ie left this. as he had found it. just all htly ajar. and began walking rapid towards the staircase,

Atthohoadoftholtolrlluccl- lidec with o zed-haired , wear- lns he smart truce-colour uniform of the hotel. The boy. doubtless Kink himself to blame, apologiz- ed. Bond forced a laugh. and-so u to ex lain his presence on this 1100f d he had lost his way. He

as looki for Suite No. 0i

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may be recognized in the fact that the Slfied prima donna. Mme. Maeterllnck, the wife of the fore- most living European poet. con- fessed that sue wore a dlmond sus- pended on her forehead because her husband believes that this 5111180 good fortune to the wearer. This forehead jewel is character- istically Hindu ancl enjoys in In- dia the reputation of being espe- cially auspicious.

It is said that the first large diamonds discovered by Europeans in South Africa were found in tl.ie leather bag of a sorcerer. Although large stones or fragments of rock are usually the objects of adoration as fetiches in Africa, any small stone that is wrapped in colored rags and worn on the neck.

A curious fancy. prevalent in re- gard to many stories. attributed sex to the diamond, and it is there- fore notsurprisirig that these stones were also supposed to possess re-

productive powers. In this con- nection Sir Jolin Manderville wrote:

They grow together, male and female, and are nourished by the dew of Heaven; and they engender commonly. and bring forfh small children that multiply and grow all the your. I have oftentimes tried the experiment that if a man keep them with a little of the rock, and water them with May dew often. they shall grow every year and the small will grow great.

Because of the tradition that dia- monds offered as a P191189 01 19W

or friendship preserved the spirit be

within the stone. which might be outraged by its sale, the diamond became the engagement ring and so continues to this day. _ With its quality of 618ml’. bril- liance and great endurance, it was thought to be of talismanic and symbolic nnportance above all ouier stones, and so it symbolizes to us today as to the ancient peo- ples of the earth who gave us all our magic lore the qualities of love and an enduring marriage.

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Iihere are o number of effective seed disinfectants for controlling surface seed-carried plant diseases some of these products are applied as a. dust to" the seed. Others ore made Into solutions and the seeds are soaked in them.

There is no danger to the seed 1T1 8114118 this treatment, provided

SEED DISINFECTANTS MAY BE APPLIED AS A DUST TO THE SEED

0Q MADE INTO SOLUTIONS AND THE SEED SOAKED IN THEM.

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the simple directions are 101,... No amateur need have any fear of undertaking it. Infozmation about the best disinfectans may be oil- tained from seedsinen, from state experiment stations, from the Buieau of Information of the De- partment. of Agriculture in Wash- mkton or from the many garden centers and information bureaus W111Ch W111 he established to pro- mote the lctory Garden cam. paign.

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