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May 15, 1936

May 15, 1936

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FICTION

Baby Needs Shoes

By LESLIE McFARLANE60 min

London Letter

Germany’s Diplomats

By Beverley Baxter9 min

Shots and Angles

Shots and Angles

By ANN ROSS6 min

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FICTION

Baby Needs Shoes

A dramatic story of the prize ring

By LESLIE McFARLANE60 min

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London Letter

Germany’s Diplomats

I AM WRITING this during the European crisis. When you read it the European crisis will still be on. That particular crisis, like the poor, is always with us. Back home in Canada you have great blizzards of smw in the winter that block the streets and bury your motor cars until they look like frosted Christmas cakes.

By Beverley Baxter9 min

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Shots and Angles

Shots and Angles

FORTY YEARS ago nobody saw anything amiss in naming a little boy Cedric Fauntleroy and dressing him up in a plush suit, lace collar and long golden curls; nobody, that is, except the little boys of the period who had to bear the brunt of the fashion.

By ANN ROSS6 min

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FICTION

Lawyers Can't Advertise

They can possess alluring secretaries, how ever-and sometimes that's no small asset

By HARRY M. KLINGSBERG29 min

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Parade

UP which AT Goldfields, straddles the booming boundaries Canadian of Alberta. mining field Saskatchewan ard the North West Territories, everything, including domestic help at fancy figures, is freighted around by air. Monday may be Blue to housewives of Canada’s urban and rural areas, but in the northland’s new mining camps the day is Black.
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FICTION

CompanionHelp

Revelation comes to a recently married woman who preferred her old job to home-making

By VELIA ERCOLE25 min

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Artisans and Models

WARREN in bed. He CALDERWOOD was too busy. Days was not were a man too short. to lie He rolled out in summer as the first red sun ray touched the window ; he peered with screwed-up eyes across the harbor to see which way the boats were tailing and how the idle smoke from the sardine factory was blowing.

By GERALD WARNER BRACE21 min

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Brickbats BouQuets

The enclosed resolution is self-explanatory and was adopted by Branch 34, Canadian Legion of New Glasgow, N.S. “Will Canada Support Britain?” is, in my opinion, one of the finest articles ever to appear in any of our Canadian magazines, in that it is not only convincingly true in every detail but also so plain and simple in composition that the average school child can absorb it.
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GENERAL ARTICLES

Our Bow-and-Arrow Army

"Canadian land forces have not a single piece of post-war fighting equipment"

By LIEUT.-COL. GEORGE A. DREW21 min

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Maclean's Editorial

Unemployment -A Permanent Problem

AT THIS writing, the personnel of the National Employment Commission has not been announced. Let us pray that the appointments will have been made on the basis of ability and not party service. Upon the character, independence and judgment of this commission may well depend the future stability or collapse of our whole social structure.
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In the Editor's Confidence

In the Editor's Confidence

THE MEMBERS of the editorial staff of this magazine have been feeling very low. With their hat brims turned down and their collars turned up, they have been slinking into their offices via back staircases and passages. They have been unable to enjoy their meals. They have shunned their children.
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GENERAL ARTICLES

Dodging Death

This year 1,000 people will die in motor-car accidents. If you don*t want to be one of them read this startling article

By R. E. KNOWLES. JR.20 min

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Canadian Air Transport

A Department of Transport in Canada Should, it is Argued, Include Aviation.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

The Versatile Vegetable

Useful in hundreds of ways, the amazing Soya bean can be profitably grown in Canada

By STUART BROWNLEE13 min

2223

GENERAL ARTICLES

Got 'im !

Goin'fishing? Let an expert tell how to stalk the big ones

By REDVERS11 min

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REVIEW of REVIEWS

No Age Limit

In Literature and Music and Finance, Men Well Beyond Sixty Have Done Big Things

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Matter of Fact

Matter of Fact

THE ORDINARY coffee plant is a native of Abyssinia, whence it was carried to Arabia at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Here it did so well that Mocha came to be considered its real home. Its fame spread slowly to the West. It was not until 1652 that the first coffee house was opened in London, and it was seven years later before the drink became fashionable in Paris.

By HENRY ASHBERY3 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

A Trader Views the West Indies

Canadian business has still much to learn about opportun ties in the Caribbean, says

By NORMAN HOLLAND11 min

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REVIEW of REVIEWS

Monoxide Gas

A Small Quantity of These Deadly Fumes Leaking Into Car Will Incapacitate Driver

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The Picnic Season

THERE'S a great day coming and it won't he long now. May 24, as everybody knows, officially opens the picnic season. East of the Rockies anyway. Of course, the folks in British Columbia are well into summer by then, and eating outdoors is already a well~ established habit.

By M. FRANCES HUCKS of Chatelaine Institute9 min

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