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6 THE WEST VAN NEWS April 22. 1027. "Lesngehasit" PCMXUqWCWXBPOOW&qxPCWKaaw PERSONALS | ptcactimŵ HURRY HERE if you have n prescription you want filled quickly and you'll get it. No lone waiting for it to bo made up. We're always "on the job." Our drugs are always fresh, pure and strong and the physicians of this city know we can be depended on. Try us next time. To the Public: This store will be closed every Thursday night at 7 P. M. instead of 10 P. M. as formerly. Take advantage of these everyday cash prices. Kennedy's Stomach Bit­ ters (a good invalid port) ............. $1.00 Dodd's Kidney Pills 15c Gin Pills .................... 45c Dr. Black's Juniper Kid­ ney Pills 50c Bisurated Magnesia (tab­ let or powder) 65c Baby's strong Rubber pants, 2 pairs 85c Auto Strop Blades 45c & 90c For your convenience POSTAGE STAMPS Two Delivery Boys at at your service LESAGE Drug Store North Side Marine near 14th Phone West 323 Remember "LESAGEHASIT" Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Don­ ald McTavish, 21st and Bellevue, will be glad to hear that their little son Duncan, who under­ went a minor operation in the North Vancouver hospital is pro­ gressing favorably.• • • Miss Winnifred Williams of Vancouver, is spending the East­ er holidays with Mr. and Mrs. H. Atkins, 18th and Marine Drive. • • • Mrs. Walter Gourlay and fam­ ily are visiting relatives in Dewdney, B. C.• • • Mr. William Russell of Holly- burn bought a Chevrolet tour­ ing car from the Marine Motors last Wednesday. * * * Miss Leah Shaw of Kamloops, spent Good Friday with Mrs. Newby. 15th and Marine Drive. * • • Mr. R. Kinloch has sold his house on Haywood and Fourteen­ th Street. * * * Mrs. Maud Dodd and daughter Florence of 22nd Street, leave tonight for an extended trip to Europe. * * * J. C. Popham of New West­ minster, is putting up a summer cottage at Haywood and 14th. * * ♦ The local drug stores will in future close on Thursday even­ ings at 7 o'clock.* * * Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Kirbey of Calgary, are staying with Mr. and Mrs. George Childs, 15th Waterfront. Mrs. Kirbey is a sister of Mrs. Childs and came here to attend the funeral of her mother, the late Mrs. Fanny Woodward. # * * A. C. Peterkin of Hayti, Span­ ish West Indies, will preach on Sunday at 7.30 p. m., at Holly- burn Hall, corner of 14th and Duchess. Mr. Peterkin has spent the greater part of his life a- mong the people of these little known islands, and his addresses are full of interest. KSOTMkKHRBaKKKKK a Pure//).'; fresh thee inffi f in e s t dairy _ tish Columbia . L / JlCfeamo Wagon on every street- eVery morning C. Chapman of Saskatoon, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Newby, 15th and Marine Drive. It is possible that Mr. Chapman may become a permanent resident.• • • At a meeting of local Indies held at the home of Mrs. B. R. Harrison, 26th and Kings, to dis­ cuss the work of the Victorian Order of Nurses in West Vancou­ ver, it was decided to hold a pub­ lic meeting on May 4th to furth­ er help this organisation. Miss Hall, the assistant superintend­ ent. will give an address illus­ trated by lantern slides.• • • A Home Cooking sale will be held by the P. T. A. at a date to be announced later. Mrs. Caslor is the convenor. • * * The British-Israel movement in the Old Country is growing very rapidly. At a meeting held in the Albert Hall, London, Eng­ land, on 1st March, thousands were turned away, and it is esti­ mated that they would have fill­ ed a building twice the size. Overflow meetings were arrang­ ed to accomodate them. The local branch will hold a meeting next Tuesday night in the Am- bleside Hall, when Rev. Mark Jukes will speak on the aim and organization of the movement. * * * A bush fire broke out at 22nd and Palmerston on Wednesday afternoon. About three acres were burnt over and a shack de­ stroyed before the fire brigade were able to put the fire out. A watchman was left in charge all Wednesday night owing to the fact that some large stumps had become ignited and the conse­ quent danger of a further out­ break in the surrounding bush. P. T. A. The regular monthly meeting of the P. T. A. was held in the Pauline Johnson School on April 12th. In the absence of the President, Mrs. Waddingham the chair was taken by Mrs. J. B. Leyland. Miss Cotsworth who was to address the meeting on "Physi­ cal Culture for Girls" was unable to be present owing to sickness and Dr. Knipfel made the ad­ dress of the evening. He gave a very interesting talk on "Food Habits," dealing with the present health standards as shown by school records and hospital and general cases. A vocal solo was given by Mrs. S. Baldwin and a piano solo by Miss Frame. A hearty vote of thanks was given Dr. Knipfel for his address. V GOOD BOOK FOR THE HOLIDAYS Lockhart's "Life of Sir Walter Scott" has held its place among our greatest biographies for ninety years. It can be read time after time with ever-in- creasing appreciation, and each reading of the book will be the starting-point for a new depart­ ure in the reader's thought. Many a college course has con­ tributed less to the education of its recipient than n careful read­ ing of Lockhart can do. Nor is the book for the trained student alone. I first rend it when living in a small town in Ireland. I liked it so well that 1 recommended it to aneighbor, who was a small farmer. He took to it at once, and read every word of it. He was four months in going through the book; But it seemed to give him a new lease of mental life. His circumstanc­ es and his outlook had always been narrow. Scott's nationality meant nothing to him. He had rend none of Scott's novels, and few of his poems. But the feel­ ing of contact with exceptional greatness which was induced by the reading of Lockhart's ample pages was something altogether new to his starved mind. My original copy of Lockhart was in five paper-backed parts. I bought it and Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay to Canada in my valise. I had read both books before; but they were mighty good company from Queenstown to Calgary, and I felt no need of anything else. I have read the book once in the intervening twenty-one years; but if I were going for a fortnight of quiet holidays, with severe restric­ tions as to weight of luggage, I should choose Lockhart without a moment's hesitation in prefer­ ence to any other book. The best edition of Lockhart runs to eight or ten volumes of good print. I should not advise any reader, however, to waste his time on the abridgments which have been made. The complete work is worth all the perseverance it calls for. No abridgement can give us the same idea of being brought into contact with a supremely great mind. Sir Walter Scott had his faults, some of them of a kind rather repugnant to us in these days. But we forget them all and think only of the grand orig­ inal when we give ourselves up to the reading of I4ockhart. Great books are not always difficult reading. It is the smaller books that are hard to follow, especially when they are on great subjects. Many books have been written on Scott by good authors and sound critics; but I have always finished such books with the feeling that Lock­ hart was far more interesting and infinitely more satisfying than any of them. P. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Separate SEALED TENDERS, marked "TENDER FOR SCHOOL BUILDING" and "TENDER FOR HEATING & VENTILATING" re­ spectively will be received by the Architect up to 6 P. M. of Monday the 2nd day of May, 1D27, for n FRAME & STUCCO EIGHT ROOM SCHOOL BUILDING, Etc., West Vancouver, B. C. Plans and Specifications mny he ob- . tained at the office of Hodgson & dT Simmonds, Architects, 320 Province* Building, Vancouver, B. C., after 12 P. M., Friday, April 22nd for Build­ ing, and after 12 P. M., Monday, April 25th for Heating, on deposit of u cheque for $10.00 which will be re­ turned to Contractor on receipt of n Bona-Fide tender and return of plans and specification. A certified cheque, payable to the West Vancouver School Board, for the amount of Five Hundred $500.00) dollars, must accompany each tender, which will be returned when contract is signed. The lowest or any tender not nec­ essarily accepted. H.B. GARLAND, Secretary. OLD TIME ENTER­ TAINMENT BY W. A. OF UNITED CHURCH Under the auspices of the Women's Auxiliary of the Unit­ ed Church an entertainment will be given next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. "Ye Okie Tyme Af- fyre" is the title given to the entertainment, and old time songs and an old time sketch by members of the Association will be features of the evening. The tickets being only 35 cents, it is expected that the hall will be fill­ ed to capacity. N ine Q u arts $ 1 .0 0 Phone North 122 OPTICIAN LOCATES HERE West Vancouver now has an optometrist and optician in the person of Dr. H. Perrin, who has taken an office in the Royal Bank building, where he will re­ ceive patients in the evenings and on Wednesday afternoons. Dr. Perris has practised in Van­ couver for some years, his office being in the Orpheum Building, where he may be found during the day. He recently moved from the city, having taken a house at 19th and Waterfront. First the Boy -- then the Man 'W 'O U R boy can start life with a balance in the Bank. ^ Many a boy has $100 or more--saved from his pocket money--and is proud of his bank book. A thousand dollars saved at 18 may mean a college education or a good start in business. The Royal Bank of Canada West Vancouver Branch A. Chilton, Manager