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Show QUEEN FORECAST my crystal, stir the magic broth, and begin. Ah I what is this I see in ray trustworthy crystal? It is quite dim, but as it clears, I see a huge pedestal. Upon this pedestal is seated a lovely girl. She is small and verv pretty, and has "black hair and dark eyes, she is an ideal girl, according to the list of ten characteristics of the ideal girl. Yes, she is sure to be your Wait. What is this? There is another girl mounting the pedestal, She is bright and sweet. She is also pretty and some of the assests of the first. She, too, is dark hair-ed, but she is taller. Can it be that she is a competitor? And what is this? Another girl is mounting the pedestal. She is definitely a "personality" girl, and has a smile for every one. Hm-m-m. Things are getting complicated. I see many things going on about these girls papers pasted on blackboards, ballats thrown about, prepara¬tion for a great occa-sion. But the crytal still has not told us the name of the queer. The crystal is dimming but I see a great ball room. Pretty girls move about in what seems to be a b e auti fu1 page an t. They seem to form arour3 a throne. I see a girl upon the throne. The crowd cheers her as queen. It is- alas the image has faded, there is nothing more revealed. Take my word and watch these girls, because one of them is sure to be your future queen. Ida Rose Langford DO YOU KNOW That elephants have a keen sense of smell and many authorities ulaim that the animals rank next in intelligence to man? That there are some 37,000,000 telephones in service throughout the world? The United States has about one-half of them. The countries of "Russia, China, and British India, representing approx¬imately one-half of the earth's population, have only three-fourths of the New York City total of nearly 2,000,000 telephones? That Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles, California? That the siIkrorm isn't a worm, but a caterpillar? He has eyes and legs, which no true worm possesses . That on the average , there are 645 babies born in Canada every day--one in every, two minutes and 14 seconds . The average death rate in the Dominion is 288 each day, or one every five minutes. Colored lights flash on and off to foretell unusual happenings in Canadian cities. An orange light is the beacon of birth. A red light glows when someone dies. Green indicates that a person has left the country, yellow that another has taken his place? That students of Farrow School near London, one of the most exclusive public schools in England , wear odd headgear as prescribed by college rules? Young Harrovians usually wear a flat, wide-brimmed straw hat, called "boaters", all the year around. The students of Harrow School come mainly from the wealthy class, are admitted at the age of 12-14, |
