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GOOSE sous wauvan son sar- ting. Price. quantity. S. Watson. Murray River. 4838-4-18-31.

1m ALFRED McDONALD, PRO- vinclal Laud Surveyor, Herman. vmg 8760-8-t-lmouth.

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‘k shop Charlottetown WANTED - SMALL APARTMENT. B C I l

Write E. care Guardian. 4B6fi-4-20-3i.

WANTED-SECOND HAND BAR-

4847-44041.

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Stone for concrete work by cor- ber chair in good repair. Write load. WriW l7°hll A- Mclielll. Tyllfi "L", care of Guardian. valley P. E. I. 41B94-15-5l. 4792_4_13_2\

ELI. PUBLIC SERVICE GUAR- anteed shirts, ties. underwear, hos- m-y, Largest assortment, wonderful ‘value. Liberal commission. Com- plete self-selling kit free. Write mdgy, Dept. 475, Public Service Mills of Canada, London, Ont.

4-20-11.

- Help Wanted *

_____ _.__. ..- lAItN 5'10 AND UPWARDS, GROW- mg nlllhhroohlb for us, in cellars‘ and sheds. Illustrated booklet free. Canadian Mushroom, Tor- onw, H. W. 4-18-80.

Male Help Wanted '

To ‘ Let

T0 RENT-FURNISHED HOUSE about.l0 miles from City. Also a few acres of land. Apply to Guard- ian Office. 4B02-4-l7-3l.

‘r0 LET-SINGLE on notions shop in the King Edward Hotel. Phone 2s. 4s4s-4-1s-2l

Western Guardian

-TIIE REMAINS of the late Mrs. John Francis (nee) Annie Best, will arrive Monday night from Halifax. The funeral will be held on Tuesday, 21st at 2 o'clock, from the home of her nephew, Mr. J. B. Hayes, Searletown, to the Baptist Cemetery, Central Bedeque.

ANTED-MAN TO WORK ON farm. Apply C. W. Mellett, Char- lotietcwn, R. R. 8. 4843-4-18-21

ANTED-A SINGLE MAN FOR. fann work. 3 miles from city. Wen- dell liutch, Bunbury. 482li-4-l8-2l.

Female Help Wanted

WANTED-A GIRL OR MIDDLE aged woman for general house- work. Apply at Guardian Ofllce.

486i-4-20-3i

-I. 0. D. E. HOLD BRIDGE-The members of the Daughters of the Empire at Summerside, held a very ‘ul bridge party on Friday af- ternoon in aid of the Public Library. This enjoyable affair took place in the Library Rooms. There were ten

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I03 SALE - 1 DRAFT HORSE. sound and reliable. Apply to Irving 01100., Ltcl., successor to Aitken Oil Co. 48ll-4-l7-3i.

IOII SALE — NEW WHEELBAR- rows and cedar chests. W. J. Scott, H. ll. 3. Marshfleld.

IIID WHEAT I-‘Olt SALE. WHITE life, Apply to Mrs. Percy Mulch, lit. Herbert.

4867-4-20-31-Mom-Wed-Bat

bundle. Guardian Ofllce.

I03 SALE - GOOD JERSEY trade cow, newly freshencd. Mur- dock Nichclson, Milton.

4B26-4-18-di.

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FOB SALE-OLD PAPERS. 5 CENTS 2-4-11

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tables of bridge. The prize winners were: Firs’, Mrs. (Dr.) Tanton; sec- ond, Mrs. Davlson; third, Mrs. J. J. Morris. A number of ladies came in for tea, which was served by the en- tertainment committee. The Library, which is the special work of the l. O. D. E. has progressed wonderfully since it has been moved into the Civic Building. More books are add- ed to its shelves each year and citiz- ens and people from out of town can enjoy a quiet hour in the reading room with the very best of litera- ture. In connection with the library, Miss Mary Hunt, Regent of the Chapter, is to speak on the West Indies ,at an afternoon tea to be given this week at the lovely home of Miss McKelvin, on Central St.-S.

MRS. DANIEL CHIPMAN

Nellie Rogers, aged 40 years, dear-

Nlllil ANNUAL B A N ll ll ET

The cnnuel S. C. M. bouquet of the Prince of Wales College stu- dents was held semi-say ‘evening and was attended by more than 1B0 students and invited friends. Au excellent repast was served by the Willing Circle of King's Daughters. an enjoyable programme was prc- ach‘ ‘, and u. number cf interesting speeches mode in proposing and re- sponding to toasts. Mr. W. L. Out- house, pastor o! Central Christian Church said grace. Mr. Walter Milt-ch, president o! the S. C. M., was tosstmastcr.

Following was the toast list:

The King.

Canada, proposed by Homer Nich- olson, responded to by singing O Canada. ~

The Church and Sunday-School, proposed by Roy Vessey, responded to by Rev. C. N. Brown.

The Y. M. C: A., proposed by Jack Baker, responded to by Dr. J. A. Clark.

The Faculty, proposed by Norman McLean. responded to by Prof. G. D. Steele. .

The Ladies, proposed by Stanhope McLeod, responded to by Miss Fkeda McMillan.

The Gentlemen, proposed by Miss Lsabel Brown, responded to by Em- cst Rcid.

Willing Circle of King's Daughters, proposed by Elwood McPherson, re- sponded to by Miss Edith Hugh.

Following was the programme:

Orchestra selection, Miss Eleanor Hornby, violin, Miss Kathleen Hom- by, ‘cello, Miss ‘Thelma Burns, piano.

Reading, Norman McLean.

Solo. Ernest Dunning.

Reading. Marion McLennan.

Piano solo. I-Icracc McBwcn.

Rcaxiing. Mildred Allcn.

Solo, Freda McMillan.

Auld Lang Sync.

The King.

ENGLISH TOURISTS T0 VISllI! CANADA

LONDON, England, April 18.-—_(By ‘The Canadian Prcssl-Three hund- red and fifty tourists from Great Britain are expected to visit Canada this summer as bers of six tours which have been organized by the

numbering about forty, Montreal in June on the Doric. 'l'he visitors will see Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara Falls, sailing for home from New York.

DETECTIVES HUNT RABBIT

NEW BRITAIN, Coma, April 17- (UPJ-‘Fhe Wickersham Commis- sion might find encouraging signs of law enforcement here. Two detect- ives were assigned to track down a stolen rabbit of Steve Bellnski.

BILLY SUNDAY SLAMS AL

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 19- Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob and Dwight W. Morrow were likened to the leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion

in Western Pennsylvania and the Southern seccession by the Rev. Billy Sunday in an address here.

BIRTHS

__________-~_.--—~--—- WOOD-At Alexandra, April 8, 193i, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilbur Wood, a

gm“ a ly beloved wife of Mr. Daniel Chip-

' ' man, of this city. She leaves to mourn one son John A. of this city, also three brothers, William, Ans- lem, Bcrteley of Heatherton, N. S. May her soul rest in peace.

._i_§______?____ PABDBOARD SHEETS FOR SALE. l ceni each, suitable for lining hon llllllfills. etc. Guardian Omce. 302l-tf .‘_____________

FOR SALE-FIFTEEN 1|. P. MAR-

llle Engine. brass fittings. wedding Record

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PowriaLnr S“ a .;;x;9€4-1g?1y1_ Ill K fl I1 S a S 4819-4-18-11.

"OR SALE -— BABY CARRIAGE IN Perfect condition at the lowest llfloe. Apply l9 I-‘lillsboro Street.

4832-4-18-21.

%________________ '0]! SALE-I. PAIR. HEAVY HORS- li. weight 2900 lbs. Have been Working all winter, Price right. Terms is desired. Apply H. F. Pllllllns. as Grafton Street.

» 4856-4-20-31. ____.- ‘OR SALE-USED CASH REGIS- ltl‘. three safes, two McCaskey count registers, two show cases. Keven and nine feet lonE. Bill‘- "llllhs adding machine. large cap- "lly. wide carriage with stand. 14M than half price. Write “M". ‘"6 of Guardian. 48654-2041

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Situations Wanted

my" - cosmos: As NIIFSE - “only Guardian. 4834-4-18-21

M? n -—-— mwll-Posmou AS narro- ym"? or other office work. 5 ° "lllcricnoe. Apply to Box us. GIN-Glidi-

OI..A'I‘HE. Kan, April i9. (U- P.) Just why they come to Olathe to get married nobody sems to know; but they do, and in numbers far beyond the population, or apparent vantage point of this east Kansas town of some 5,000 population.

In 1930, 1,264 marriage licenses, were issued at the Probate Judge's office. Of that number. 1.144 were issued to persons living in Canada and 23 states; only 120 were for res- idents of this country.

And the work goes merrily on in i931. For the first three months, the records show issuance of 291 licens-

daughter.

DEATHS

______-_____.%___--____ McCARVILLE-wfl. Maple Plains. Ap- ril l9. Mrs. Owen G. McCarville. Fu- neral Tuesday morning at 8.30 from her late residence to St. Malachfs Church, Kinkora. FRANCIS-At Halifax, on Saturday. April 18th, Mrs. Annie lib-uncle, wi- dow of the late John Francis, for- merly of Searletown, P.E.I., in her 81st year.

CHIrMIAN-In this city, April 18th, 193i, beloved wife of Daniel Chip- man. aged 40 years. Funeral this moming at 8.46 from her late res- idence, 59 King Street to St. Duns- tan's Basilica, thence to the Roman Catholic Cemetery.

Card of Thanks

es an increase over l9 over the cor- responding period of last year.

Vernon K. Campbell, the bachelor-l Judge, ofliciates at most of the "Id dings. Ills ollice is known as “Cup- id's Parlor." He lives al; Meram end obliges the late comers by asking i them into his parlor-

He has one lnvollable rule: Don't get out of bed to tie the knot. Judge Campbell said if he had married all the couples who had POI-ind"! It his, door in the midnight hours his rec- n

0rd would be something to really boast about. But if he has retired‘ ‘they wait until the next do? 0!‘ 8°

elsewhere.

Mr. Alexander Matthews and fam- ily wish to express their heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who in every way showed so much kindness and sympathy during their recent sad bereavement. 4858-4-20-li.

N. D. MacLean

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Interesting Address to Young People In St. James Church Last Evening.

‘rho special monthly address to young people in 8t. James Church lest evening by the Rev. R. Moor- head Legato dealt with "Reading Books: What to read, how to read. why to read." "lhere was e. large at- tendance of young people who fol- lowed very closely the iznpressive address by the ministcr which’ dealt fully and fnfomtatively with this important subject. Taking for his text 1 Timothy, r4, 1s: "Qlive heed to reading," the Minister said in part:

The Christian pulpiils scope is not only wide enough to take in every subject that affects life and charac- ter, but. also it must do s0 if it is preaching a full gospel. And there is nothing more obvious than the in- fluence which reading has upon life and character. My subject is not chosen for want of a. better, but be- cause of its ownintrinsic importance; it ls chosen not to merely interest us, but, under God's blessing to be a help to us in our everyday life. 'I'he.spread of education, the facil- ities for obtaining every kind of m; erature in accessible forms, the need of our times that men and women should be as well-informed as pos- sible, these considerations make it necessary for us to recognise reading as one of the most important and formative influences on our lives. Times are vastly changed in these respects even in the mmnory of mfilly here present. It is .a.fter all, not so very long ago that we could not speak of the world as a leading world. But the world of today is a reading world, and we are becoming more and more dependent upon and more and more moulded by what we read.

Reading Defined 1n discussing this subject,‘ let us

begin at the begrninlng and ask our- selves the question, what is reading?

Allied Newspapers. The first party,“ mums ha‘ always appealed to me “m ‘mil under two similltudes. And. the first

is this-books are living things. The author of a good book. and the char- acters whom he draws in it are zeal company in which I mingle as l’. read. The great thinker and writer Emerson puts this view of the case so vividly when he says in one of his essays-"Consider for a moment what you possess in even the small- est library of books. You have a com- pany of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all coun- tries in a thousand years, and who have set before you, 1n their books, in the best possible order, the re- sults of their wit and of their wls» dom. lf you had met those writers face to face you would probably find them to be reticent andhldden and lnaccesible, impatient of interrup- tion. and fenced in by the forms of etiquette. But the very thoughts they would not utter with their lips to their most timate friends, they have set down for you in the books they have written, and that stand on that shelf of yours." And that is just the state of the case. When you read a book you are really and truly in the writer's ccvmpany. You are listening to his words; you are be- ing entertained by his conversation; you are being amused by his wit, and instructed by his wisdom.

Keep! _ Good Company

And, it seems to me. it would be an unspeaksbly great thing if we would bear in mind this very true slmilltude in our reading. 1t would both help us in many ways and in- crease the pleasure our books give us. For one thing it would make us particular about the literary com- pany we keep. Books, like friends. should.be few and well chosen. We have sufficient Judgment and dis- crimination to lead us w be careful in the choice of friends; if books are friends we should be equally careful in the choice of books. A bad book or e worthless book is just as much tobeavoidedeeabadoraworth- less acquaintance-more so really. for it can do us more hann. And then the second comparison in read- ing which always suggests itself to me is this-Reading is the supply- ing of food to the mind, and even more than to the mind, to the soul. When we eat and drink we have be- -,fors us the main object of nourish- ‘ing the body. 1n the act of reading ‘we are treating the mind as in cat- ing we treat the body. Fruncis Bac- on has said that some books are to be tasted, others tobe swallowed, and some few to be chewed and di-

Ygsms. This u e simple and home-

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ly true one. Careful Choice Necessary

If we are careful, and we mostly are, regarding the food we eat. so we have as much reason to be care- ful in the choice of what we read. and the manner in which we read it. I have mentioned these twc sim- ple comparisons, because we shall make use of them as we go along. Now, to get at the heart of our sub- Ject “The Relation of Reading to Character." I want you to ask your- selves and try to answer three sim- ple questions. And the questions are these: First "What am I reading?” the second, "How am I reading?" and the third "Why am treading?" 1f we can deal with these questions in such a way as to increase our sense of the great privilege we pos- sess in the books we have, and the faculties which are ours for their en- Joymeflt, we will have helped our- selvs very much. First then "What do we read?" That is to say have we any tendency toward a particular class of literature, and what is it? Bacon the philosopher has said, “Reading maketh a full man." What are we readers filling ourselves with? One can get a broad and general answer to that question by consult- ing the lists of the booksellers and the records of the public librarian. And the tale they have to tell is that about three-fourths of the reading that is sold and circulated comes under the title which we call fiction. This is the day of the novel. In the memory of some of us there were days, not so very far distant either, when novel-reading was al- most consldered one of the deadly sins.

Light Literature‘

We are less sweeping in our con- demnations nowadays. Still’ there is a great deal of room for regret that the reading of light literature is car- ried to an excess which shuts- out what is more wholesome and ben- eficial in the way of books. There are many men and women today whose advantages of education ought to lift them higher but whose only form .of reading is the novel. No one can deny that there ls really super- ior literature offered in some novels. But novels are not now sought on account of their literary merits. There is a place for light reading, an important place. It is a capital and anecessa y offset to more ser- ious reading or to some definite line of study. But the danger is that we forget that entertainment is only one of the ends of reading, and merely s. by-end at that. A bill of fare consisting merely of sweets and pastry would soon ruin the stoutest physical digestion, and a literary bill of fare consisting solely of light and entertaining reading will as surely bring on mental dyspepsia with its melancholy results. It is an accepted and lndubitable fact that a. confirm- ed habit of light reading brings about allots-etc for what is more solid and lasting. It becomes a men- tal weakness, and has much of‘ the effect on the mind that the drug habit has on the body-it twists the perspective of life. it unduly exer- cises the imagination to the hurt of other faculties, its effect is to lower mental vitality, and to vltlatc liter- ary taste. For a healthy body you need certain elements in your food to make it strong and keep it fit- and for the health and growth of the mind you need a little history, a lit- tle biography, a little travel, o. little poetry, a little philosophy, and if you like, taken as a dessert, a little novel reading. With the best in lit- erature as cheap and as available as the trashy and frothy varieties are. that reader who neglects the former in a. preference for the latter is really sinning against his own best interests and opportunities.

Books of the Ages

Thai. great scholar and good roan Professor Henry Drummond once said “pass by the books of the day, and read the books of the ages." We owe it to our better selves to relegate light reading to a subordinate place and give the greater books a place in our programme of life. Our na- tional character, our social stand- ards, our personal standing and en- joyment claim that in our reading we should discriminate. choosing the best and passing the worthless by. Then "How do we read?" The man- ner ol our reading is almost as im- portant as the matter which we read. Reading, like everything else, if it is to accomplish good’ results. entails serious effort on the part of the reader. 1n reading "there are no gains without pains." A good book compels you to think-really the value of a book is to be judged by the mental exercise it gives. And so it is always worth while to read a worth while book with care. slowly it may be. again Nnd again it may be. How much reading is done that is really not real reading at all! How many people cantor through a book, taking at s. flying leap the fences lusions, the descriptive matter, end

arrive at the end of the adventure es little bchefltted as though they

ly comparison. but it h on essential-bed never done the tourney.

One might not be far wrong in saying that, roughly speaking, the amount of good you get from a book I depends on the time you spent in. reading it. How few follow that ex/ , cellent plan of reading with a penclli and a slip of paper handy, for not-i ing down ideas that the book pro-i ' mote-s. And, mark you, a really good novel will stand that kind of read- ing as well as a. scientific treatises, How few pay attention to an auth-l or’s style and diction. Suppose I read aloud to you a. passage from your favourite author could you re- icognize it as his from some tum of a. phrase, or trick of style?

How fcw read the same bcok twice over, or re-read passages that im- pressed them on the first reading. How fc-w would care to write a short summary or criticism oi a book they had read, or put their own views alongside the author's on striking points. And yet these arc the things that make reading at once a pleas- ure and. a. formative influence on mind and character. and the omis- sion of these makes reading so much a waste of time and opportunity of betterment. M