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A boundless array of sizes and weights to choose from all specially priced for this week only Our 100 Ex change Value Guarantee goes with every diamond sold miss this wonderful oppottunity to save on a tlawless stone M500 Becomes Unseemly Mirthful at Questionable Eulogy for Luxury Levy special to Th to liw Toronto Dec 1 2 Unmourned unhonored and unjsung Canada's experiment In luxury taxes came to an ignominious end through sud den assassination by its govern mental parent It had lived only seven months in that period it had brought some six or seven mil lion dollarl in revenue to the treasury That ought to be to its credit at the par of Judgment it there Is Day of Judgment for legislation that dies but on the other side will rest a serious charge The accusa tion Is that the luxury'5 tax has caused a business depression which we are in the midst of at this mo rut nt '1' And It Certainly Worked When Sir Henry Drayton last spring rather proudly Introduced the infant he boldly asserted one of its objects was to check the wave of extravagant spending which al that date showed no sign of reced ing Extravagant spending has been checked all right The check began almost Immediately upon the impo sition of the tax Its first manifestations were ob served in the motor car Industry and similar trades and gradually spread to other departments or two months there has been a gen eral wail from merchants and trad ers generally to'cthe effect that there Is a on amotg buyers They claim the public has plenty of money the farmers government of Ontario tentatively ottered a six million bond issue the other day and It was oversubscribed two and a half times but won't buy because first it thinks prices are going low er and second because it won't pay the luxury tax' Hut Even Thia Mopped The minister of finance has just completed a tour of the country conducting a tariff Inquiry At near ly every center he had to adjourn his tariff commission to receive a deputation protesting against ini quities of luxury taxes Thousands of instances were quoted of mi and women agreeing to purchase un til informed of the amount of the luxury tax Then the sales were hit Merchants lost their sales and the government got no revenue A de pression in business became more wide spread and It was inevitable agitation against the obnoxious levy should Increase The announcement of the repeal came five days before Christmas and was intended to give a fillip to the end of a shopping season which has been the dullest in many years The luxury tax has had a stormy career As first promulgated it was very drastic and applied to tho full sales price of a great range of ar ticles men inn minister weaaeneu and made it apply only to excess prices over a reasonably high mini mum Machinery ivae Awkward The machinery for enforcing it always has been cumbersome has too met with resentmentevvry where Merchants and clerks who were its agents they became tho nation's tax gatherers under thn always hated ft and In evitably were undiplomatic In intro ducing it to the public rom first to last the poor thing didn't know when it was to receive a kind word it therefore is doubtful if It got a lair chance To lay up against it entire respon sibility lor the wave of depression that has coms seems scarcely just for there must be a great body of unexecuted purchasing that lias not been connected with any tax But coincidences have been against it Developments now that it lias been removed will bu watched with in terest ft net nt emigration tn the history of America" ounded Own School This short history of the founding of Holland proves why Hope college Is a rellgiuos sellout' In 1X51 a School Was started and because or the mixture ot English that wiu creepleg into the language of The colony hy the few who 1'vcd here ft was to start Holland department tn order to keep the mother tongue' of tn Netherlands the language of the colony Dr Van Unalto gave five acres of land tor the school and several hundred colonists came from miles and pleated tho land To establish the school for there was no money in those Cays each man gave thousand staves or cord of bark and a farmer gave ten bushels of corn or potatoes or a little pork or butter and a laborer gave a couple of days'? 'jhese contributions started Hope college and by 1857 12000 wns raised by Rev' Van Vleck for the erection of the first permanent building of the college win Vleck hall Hope first graduation class consisted of eight members There Is an enrollment of more than 5(10 In the preparatory and college departments today and the grad uating class this year will consist of 53 members Dr Edward Dlirnent Is president Van Vleck hall still stands and lis used as a men's dormitory Holland Mich Dec Van Vleck hall at Hope Hol land la one of the oldest college buildings in the state having been erectet in 1857 10 years after Rev A Van Raalte reached the shores of Black lake anti started the colony of T(ie history wfiich preceds thu founding of Hope college began Cctober 2 1846 when Rev Van Raalte with a band of Hollanders sail from Rotterdam: for New York city on the ship ''Southerner" reselling their destination December 17 It had been tho the leader to locate his settlement of religious followers in Wisconsin but December 16 found them in Detroit Hand Grew I'ast '1 Because of the hard winter the band was forced to remain in that city until spring but Rev Van Raalte went on in midwinter to study the western shoreof the state When he came to Black lake he saw harbor posslbiltles and as many of his followers were sailors he began the city Tn 1848 the band of pilgrims totaled 4000 Of his pilgrimage to America to gain religious liberty a prominent Hollander Janies 5 Romeyn said: movement will not lose on the score of Its moral grandeur by comparison with any associated CORNER ERSKINE CORNER RUSSELL RUSSELL CORNER LYMAN GRATIOT CORNER R1OPLLE CHENE CORNER MILWAUKEE CANTON CORNER GRATIOT ISCHER CORNER GRATIOT MACKCORNERjJALbWW JEERSON CORNER BEtjlTEAU LINWOOD AND CLAIRMOUNT KERCHEVAL AND LAKEVIEW Dawson T'5 Dec Hoyal Canad'an mounted police are preparing jo send an expedition for about a year" to Herschel Is land the Arctic whaling and ex I ploratlon base Several po'lcrinen will make the trio from Dawswrl with dog teams the parly taking mall arriving from the coast andother points NewYears Gifts On Easy Credit Terms IXfHETHER you seek a of the irst to place on the hand of your Lady air for the New Year or a finely adjusted accurate watch to bring you to her promptly at the appointed hour find it in our busy Main loor Jewelry Section priced down to the lowest attainable mark No need to pay more than a little cash either! I he balance can be taken care of next year as convenient Servants at Wellesley Study Science and Art When Not Cleaning Dishes Wellesley Mass Dec 25 House maids of Wellesley collegia have a curriculum uf their own that makes for a college the eollcgo The servants haveibee found to rival their Hlster students of the under graduate byriy in their thirst for knowledge anil 35 arc enrolled in I courses that 'ary irum I instruction to commercial I Ono waitress who lias a high school geometry1 few months Is orenurlng pendent study for admission to the 1 college itself bent on obtaining a degree Her Instructors say she Is well advanced toward her ambition of exchanging the cap of service for the academic gown Taking nurses The college within the enllege Is administered by Miss Dorothy Stevens of West Hartford Conn an undergraduate ns president and has as its faculty 36 other upper class students of the college Music Is tho most popular course of the 'curriculum which Includes Instruction in several instruments Typewriting and shorthand classes have many members! and several maids have graduated from service at the dormitory rooms and dining tables to a professional secretarial pehool where they are finishing tlxjir preparation for commercial careersThero are classes also English and in sewing and In tho latter tho maids have been able to shew their instructors both 'new stitches and old sowing ideas Dancing c'asses are conducted ns extra curriculum activities and have a largo attend ance Huvc Own Dormitory The auxiliary college Idea is sup ported not the separate fac ulty and courses but also by estab lished tuition fees and a regulated dormitory life Tho servant students live at Lake House on the shore of (uike Waban I formerly a student dormitory wljere they have study rooms and reception hall in which from time to time they act as host esses to members of their faculty while the college students return the courtesy as hostesses to the maids in socials at the Barn Sr i Pm i iv 17 Government Asks Organization to Give Series of Song Concerts SjvCla! to The ree Pfcbsl Cambridge Mass Dec 25 The rench government has invited tho Harvard Glee club to visit rance next summer an give concerts in Paris and other cities and the club has provisionally accepted the in vitation If the expenses can be met the trip will be made The invitation came from the de partment of public instruction as result of the distinction attained by' the glee club as a choral organize i tion under the leadership of Dr Archibald Davison '06 The de partment hag offered to contribute 30000 francs toward the trip and to secure certain reductions In transportation rates Whether its otter can be finally accepted depends on whether the club can meet the remainder of th cost which will be approximately 50000 I Approved By College Tho college authorities have' ap 1 proved the project since the club will not set out until' after the close of the college year and so will not have to take any time oft from academic wora In expectation of the coming of the glee club two of lh leading rench composers Maurice Jtavel and Eric Satie are now writing special music to be sung hy it dur iiitp Bb tftnr The tentative itinerary Includes a concert at the Trocadero In July 4 a concert at Strasbourg on Bastite Day July 14 and perforin lances at Deanvlile Nancy Colmar and Mulhouse It is hoped that the i club may also be able to sing at 'Geneva and visit cities in Italy Belgium and England Attracts Special Attention The Harvard glee club first at Itrscted special attention among musicians somewhat more than a year ogo when under the leader 1 ship of Dr Davison it became a1 regular choral organization forsak ing conventional college songs the best compositions of American land European composers classical and modirn Last winter it tang 1 1 with the Boston symphony oreheXtr i I fn murti irHui uuv vixushhi iru I joint concert with ritz Krelsler anil received high praise from the Ci 1 1 i I i ft vritd Philadelphia Cincinnati 1 I Cleveland and other cities last I 1 Thia iirinta la lidu nlrf'nlv I IWIIIIVI IHin sung in New and during the I Christmas holidays la to give con 1 I certs at Cleveland Chicago St Louis Kansas City Pittsburgh and I possibly one or two other cltlts I The Invitation extended to it bv the rench government is believed Ito be without precedent In the history of American college musical I organizations i Wil I TO HERSCHEL ISLAND 41 L'SC of 'HP: wnaaamm 1 Ik i I i 141A 1 i 1 1 j1 I I i i 1 fl I I I fl it I i 1 1 I "I 4 I' I fco 1' i fl A I 15 4 3 I I I rl ii 'Li ''aR 'll 10 I laws 1 1 1 1 I I I I I I 9 imVs ATLLi It rlfl I i I I i h'T i i 1 1 A 1 a Hlr '1 1 fl 1 23 1 i I 4 "E3 ouln Bend hh i 4 fl til i' to Men I i i 'J I a Timekeepers in 6 All Styles j' I jraBWk 1H I f8 I I la ii inely Adjusted I 'ffVlWWi I i I I I I 1 I 1 1 Easy to Tay the Tec hx I i i i i a 1 1 Jeople's OumHine Co I Michigan JWen ue at ill i III I III 3 4n 1 ft t' hi 4 1 I Al 1 I I I Kik Bilk to thr'oww j' ri i i i BV tJ1 I III LSS rr 'u'rT Vt A br i' p'i th ir if 1 'i 'Audk vr V'rfhJH in ma KLVift A brand Maaak oftwM A A Li Er hbbU (y 1 3 3S I HS TA I I Ml sx 1 I.