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kita' esa a . ;sees,
television. The day I was there
shirtless George was driving a
tractor, tearing out dead cherry
trees, lie said he was on three
weeks' vacation and seemed to
be enjoying the freedom and ex-
hileretion of working outside
once again. ,Sort of a, busman's
agriettlteral:Progratrils known to
young fellow, speaking On an
holiday, I suppose, When a
have a genuine farm background
one is inclined to have a little
more faith in what be advocates
And certainly George Atkins'
background is genuine enough
right from the time wheb he
was an active leader in the
Junior Farmer's movement, It
is nice to be around long enoueh
to watch these young boys grow
up and develop, marry and raise
families of their own. The Atkins
Orchards have a good reputation
too,`Ia all the time I have bought
cherries there the cherries I have
bad to throw out in any one sea-
son could be counted on one
hand. Very different from the
fruit from some orchards—some-
times: matted together with
mould,
Sea Of Galilee
Jewel Of Israel
I have been told that the Sea
of Galilee is often whipped to a
rage by angry winds and, in-
deed, there is New Testament
evidence for such statements,
but I have never seen this lovely
sea other than calm and silvery
in the sunshine, And nowhere
in Israel have Is experienced so
strongly the feeling of being in
the places made sacred for
Christians by the stories of
Christ's presence there. Other
people have told me that they, •
too, felt when they were there
that He had walked those hills
and on that shore.
Galilee is a lovely name but
the Hebrew name, Kinneret, at-
tracts me, too. It is derived from
a word meaning harp and the
outline of the sea has that shape.
The sea is also sometimes refer-
red to as the Lake Tiberias and
the Lake Gennesaret. .
Travelling down from Safad
to Capernaum on the shore of
Galilee involves quite a drop,
for the sea is six hundred and
eighty-two feet below the Medi--
terranean level and ,the way
goes, sometimes very steeply,
through the mountainous coun-
try that surrounds it. Long be-
fore I reached it, I glimpsed the
sea below, intensely blue, as the
road twisted and turned.. . .
Some distance from the ruins
of Capernaum stands the Church
of the Multiplication of the.
Loaves arid Fishes. It has no
particular merit as a building
except that, erected where it is,
it protects the beautiful mosiac
floor which is all that remains
of a fifth century church.... It
is a, lovely floor. Considering the '
area it covers, little has been
lost through the ages. The all-
over designs of birds, trees and
flowers, little temples and towers
remind me rather to my sur-
prise of a willow pattern plate;
I had been far away from such
everyday things as I made
sketches of herons, flamingoes
and peacocks outlined in tiny
'`'black stones at my feet.
Capernaum, a place of some
importance in those days, is
where Christ was living when
he began the three years of His
ministryby teaching in the syna-
'gogue. Here, too, He healed the
centurion's servant; for the
town was a seat of Roman gov-
ernment and had a garrison.. ..
I moved farther round the
shore of Galilee to Genesaret
where. Christ landed from the
fishing boat after He had walked
NE 411ZST.
avrt„..
on the water, anci Peter, iosln
faith, had to be rescued, s
continued my way southward to
Tiberias, the capital of
What a delightful drive that in
several times I stopped to admire
the sight of snowy IIermen.AWai
to the north or to sit on the,
grassy slopes at the sea's edge
and revel, in the warm air, .the
glitter of the water--and the
silence, particularly the silence.
I drove away from Tiberias
by the road that passes through
the new suburb of Iciryat She-
muel, .Its modern houses and
hotels are beginning to spread
up the side of the hill that
towers above the old, town and
Galillee. When I reached this
notice beard marking the mect-
iterranean sea level I looked
down into the valley, Galilee
-gleamed silvery blue in an .emee
reld setting — undOubtedly the
jewel of Israel.—From 'Land of
Premise," by Lewis Barton,
To restore beauty to a varn-
ished floor, add a small amount
of kerosene to the warm, soapy
wash water, Then rinse it im-
mediately with clear water.
Mothers-in-law, present and
prospective, often find it difficult
or impossible to accept whole-
heartedly the girls their sons
marry or even get engaged to.
The spirit is willing enough, but
they are concerned chiefly with
their bays' lifelong happiness,
and too often they have lsgiti-
mate complaints. One aggravated
mother writes:
"I wonder how many Other
mothers are astounded by the
Modern girl's attitude toward
marriage, The girl my son is
engaged to is a nice child and
well-mannered, but never in her
life has she so much as made a
pot of coffee, She knows nothing
about cooking or marketing, and
seems to think that some miracle
will descend upon ner the day
they come home from the honeys
moon.. My son makes an ade-
quate income, but it is practi-
cally impossible to hire a cook
these days at almost any price!"
OTHER COMPLAINTS
This mother explains that the
girl is from a well-to-do family,
but is completely untrained for
her job as a. wife. She has never
made her own clothes, nor learn-
ed to keep house, nor even cared
for her own room, She has al-
ways had an allowance, aug-
mented as she desires. Her pros-
pective mother-in-law is espec-
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Up And Down. Hill
Jagged ice peaks streaming
with snow-spume encircled the
camp when I looked out in the
grey of the morning and a wan
and, wintry world spattered with
new selow. There was no warm
glow of sunrise on the hightops
as I had hoped, but minute by
minute the pale shapes of sum-
mits were being hung like silken
garments in folds and flutings,.
with erinoline bulges where the
bottle-green of•glaciers was sus-
pended, over bare rock.
It was a long time before
the' sun climbed high enough.
over the gorge to warm the
camp, and we watched with
eagerness a searchlight advanc-
ing on us like a transforming
ray, picking up grey rocks and
autumn tints in a wave of color
that overspread us and changed
the 'frosted grasses in en instant
to diamonds, Red-billed choughs
cackled like a tribe of merry
jackdaws at the arrival of suds
den warmth, and from the stream
came a torrent of song in the
wild notes of the whistling
thrush, Like whirling snow-
flakes, the sun on their white
wings, a flock of snow pigeons.
twisted and turned against the
crags, hundreds of them in .a
joyful unison of motion . . .
At this height of approximate-
ly 13,000 feet the bird life was
of outstanding interest. Most
birds of the Himalaya tend to
have a vertical migration, in
contrast to the more normal
horizontal migration - we are
familiar with at home. By mere-
ly going up-hill or downhill a
Himalayan bird can change its
season in an hour or two, mak-
ing in that short time a change
of food ' supply, habitat and.
temperature' that in other lands
can be normally achieved only
ford it—but why must they do
little chores when Tommy and
Dick didn't have to? For us that
was a much harder qUestion to
answer. Of course our children
never had too much to do—they
had plenty of time to play—at
simple pleasures, which, ,to my
way of thinking always were,
and still are, far better for grow-
ing children than - trips to con-
gested areas. That. is, for child-
ren living on a farm. Those who
live in thickly populated areas
naturally want to get away from
it all.
Well; I imagine many farmers
will be rejoicing after having
had 'a whole week without rain.
There shouldn't be much baled
hay out in the fields now. And
the 'hot sun has been good for
the cherries and tomatoes—also
the weeds. I managed,to get my
usual quota of cherries put down
—with David's help! They were
of excellent quality. The orchard
where I ,get my cherries seems
to have rather an unusual
marketing policy—whatever the
crop, good or bad, and whatever
the market price, their price at
the orchard is always the same—
one dollar a six quart basket
either with or without the stems
—whichever way you order them.
The orchards belong to the At-
kins family—George Atkins, as
you may know, is well known
and very popular on radio and
SIZES
4712, 141/2 -24%
Well, it is very quiet but very
peaceful around here today —
after a week of noise and ac-
tivity. Grandson David was here
—and so were most of the small
children in our immediate vi-
cinity. We didn't mind, on an
acre of ground they had plenty
of room to run and they amused
each other. Beyond turning on
the outside water-tap a few
times they got into very little
mischief, although there were a
few scraps, The weather was
ideal and that helped a lot—most
of the shouting and laughter
being outside and not in. As
long as his playmates were
around. David was well content
to play outside. But one night
when he was alone he came to
the house and was talking to
his Dad on the telephone —
generally considered a great
privilege. However, this time,
when voices were heard outside
the conversation came to an
abrupt end as David said ex-
citedly—"I gotta go, Daddy ...
the girls are calling . . . good-
bye, Daddy, goodbye!" and away
he went. Poor father, neglected
so early in life in favor of his
son's girl friends!
Late yesterday afternoon was
pretty hectic for awhile when
David's family came to pick him
up on their way to Midland for
a two-week holiday. As far as
I can see' no cartoonist has ever
exaggerated the situation that
.exists when a family with small
childrn starts out on vacation.
There was Art's car, loaded to
the limit—toys, clothes, pro-
visions, baby's car-seat, commode
chair and the crib and mattress
on top of the car—plus two ex-
cited little boy passengers and
an over-sized cocker spaniel in-
side. Well, everyone to his taste
but it definitely wouldn't. be
my idea of a holiday—nor has
it been at any time. When our
children were small we couldn't
have done it anyway—not with
the farm and livestock on our
hands. You know how it is, the
farm families' busiest time al-
ways comes when other folks
are vacationing, But I don't
think our children suffered too
much as a result, They had
plenty of fun with neighbour-,
children, and with their dogs,
eats and kittent, to s say nothing
of an occasional ride, to 'and
from the' field on Prince, their
favorite horse. No doubt there
were times when one children
were envious Of their holidays;
bound playmates at school but
we heard little about it. What
did upset them a bit was the
fact that the 'children on the
next farm could play all the
titne—they never had any little
chores to do at the house or the
barn, Naturally we often used
to hear "Why do we have td fill
the woodbox—why must'we feed
the chickeris-s-Tornity and Dick
don't have to!'
They could understand not
being able to go 'away-we
hadn't time' or We couldn't at.=
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"PERSONALITY" — "Sheer per-
sonality" and nothing else is
what made Francis X. Bushman
the "first movie, star" and past-
generation "pin-up boy" of
thousands of today's grandmas,
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ially indignant because, ps she
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knows the meaning of marriage,
lie is as thoughtful of my com-
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is kind. He can clean up his own
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* It does sometimes seem that
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BROKEN ENGAGEMENT
"Dear Anne Hirst: For almost
a year I dated a young man,
and was so in love that I prom-
ised to marry him, and that
would have been. next month.
But one night he didn't behave
himself, and I sent him away
without telling him why.
"Should I have explained?
Shall I now? We had never had
any quarrels about anything be-
fore .. . I am so mixed up (and
so lonesome) that I don't know
the right thing to do, Please
tell me. TERRY."
* The young man knows why
* he was dismissed. If he had
* really loved you he would
* have asked your forgiveness,
* and given his word that you
* could trust him completely.
* Certainly he would not have
* permitted even one month to
* pass without trying to make
* amends. A man in love can
* make a mistake once, but if
* he is sincerely sorry he never
* offends again.
* You will not want to believe
* it, but I am afraid he would
* have found some excuse to
* avoid marrying you at all . .
* I am sorry, It is a devastating
* shock to realize he did not
* deserve your love.
* *
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by an immense flight across
oceans or large land masses. One
would naturally expect to find
the high regions of the Himalaya
almost denuded of bird life in
the hard frosts of winter, but
either the rhythm of migration
is less definite among vertical
migrants than among horizontal
ones, or we saw a great many
contradictions.
Here, for example, at an alti-
tude of over 10,000 feet were
three kinds of red-starts—white
capped, blue-fronted and plumb-
ous—in October still occupying
their normal summer terrain,
Amongst the scrub there were
still plenty of tits and warblers,
and a beautiful little• orange-
breasted hedge sparrow with red
legs that sang with hurried song
like our own British bird. There
were .babblers and thrushes, and
quite a number of birds I could
not identify, including some
plain-looking mountain finches
of a meetly Color, ,
Tibetan ravens barked round
the houses and larnmergeier
soarer overhead. The latter is
one of the biggest bieds in ,the
Himalaya, capable of adaptations
to its structure that enable it to
live at heights of over 27,000 feet
above sea level . . To watch
the lammergeier seer on pointed
wings, banking and gliding, each
twist directed by the long and
distinctively wedge-shaped tail,
is to see on absolute mastery
of the air of the great mountains.
—1"rorri 'Bast of Xatmandu.
by Tom Weir. A PRAYER AND AN ANGEL — Mrs, E. C. Lam prayed that her
son Mon, who died at 26 in an auto accident, hod ,reached'
heaven, She looked for a sign that her prayer was answered.
She believes if was in the Outline of an angel's face, with
halo and outstretched arms, that has appeared on his tomb-
stone. Her son's face was etched on the stone and the face
that has appeared is seen beside it on the right, The outline
began to appear In the sMooth, white marble stone shortly
after Mother's Day this year. It has been growing clearer
ever since. Mrs. Lane feels her prayer is answered. A fence
has been erected around the tomb to keep the hundreds Of
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