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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-4-16, Page 7• A iicouGH.coLort PICK YOUR:COLOR SCIIEME FROM NATURE IS DANGEROUS — It May Turn To ConsuniptIon'. • Too zxnteh tress cennot be Placed ien the fact that, on the first sign of a cough or cold it must be gotten rid of immediately, as failure to do so may cause years ef suffering from same eerial$ lung trouble. ON THE FIRST SIGN OFA COUGH OR COLD 4 NORWAY PINE SYRUP SHOULD BE TAKEN' •mrs. Ealy, 893 Howe St., Van- couvcr, writes:—"I wish to state that I toek eeeero cold. It, settled on my lungs and my cough "was $o bad, at gm ums, it seemed as if it were tearing my. lungs to piecee. : sent and got a bottle of Dr. Wood's • Norway Pine Syrup and I got relief after having talcon the first dose, and • before I had finished the rest of the bottle I was eompletely relieved of • my cold and cdugh," • This ereparation has been onethe market for the past 35 years. You • don't experiment when you buy it, Put up only by The 'le Milburn Co., Limited Toronto Ont. • • Day -time Frock of Printed Sil• k I Quite in ,keeping with the fashion for simplicitysis the printed silk crepe frock which is so gay and smart that it needs little or no adornment. Frock • No. 1056 is a one-piece model that is - easy to make, yet gives charming re- sults. • It -has a centre -front box -plait, • with closing at under side of plait, and patch -pockets; V-shaped neck opening with -becoming pointed collar; • close-fitteels sleeves with turn -back pothted cuffs, or short sleeves if pre- ferred. Plain crepe in one of the colors of the printed design is used • effectively for contrasting trimming. A row of pearl buttons in matching color adorns the centre of the box - plait. Made in sizes 34 to 44 inches bust, size 88 requires 3% yards of 36 to40-inch material, with ea yard of 36. -inch contrasting material cut on the cross of the goods, or 11/4. yards if cut lengthwise Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson ' Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., 'Toronto. Pattern sent by return mail. • 1-----f/ong Courtships. • In Ku, CentranAfrica, a couple must besengaged two years -Before marriage. The heralders of prOgress are quite as likely to be found in .the advertis- • ing as in the reading columns of the Canadian press. , ARE A BLESSING TO WEAK, TIRED, NERVOUS, WORN-OUT WOMEN We want ovary woman -and young girl who 18 weak, nervous, pale-faeed toed bloodless, troubled with palpita- tion of thes tweet, faint and dizzy wells, or any run-diewn eoudition of the system, to know thee in lvlilburn A. 8s hi% Pills there is a remedy that will give them edict' from their troubles, or+9.1c by all dreggists aud dealers. BY CLEMENTINE PAD D LE FOR D. You have stood in your kitchen doer rooms, ma city woman pay e f,learly after a semnier ehower and watched, for neture'e color, in tile form ot A raiabow fade into the raidst of aJ autonin leaves and berries, wild flow- purple hill Your eisee coueted the esand tall swamp geese You have colore—red, orange, yellow, green, it' for the picking. se blue and violet—how soft they were Every. season offers her color splashed with the gold of sunlight end schemes for Your choosing. Spring the silver of fine rain, There you with her tints of blue and pink Arid saw nature's paint box and your own green are for the restful •bedroom. as vvell. By mixing those six colors From the posy bed a dozen color cores with each other and with light and biations can be copied. You have lookhadow all other hues are made. All ed across the fields in summer, wheat olors of nature which we na a p n e w n —go n y DR. WOOD'S the c i it te esti toe i the wind.—golden ellow eMooth boerde, the envie length and Width. I got four ehelf.braglsets from the hardware stoi'e. The imaeds Ose,re placed parafiel these the required height of the closet. Now we have a preteeteel shelf for hate and other lenge. A wide etrip of board was nailed under the lower ehelf on which to plaee 'hooks. At each end of this strip a clothes -hanger bracket WAS Placed, I-Ialf a dozen coat hangers may be viewed on eaeli of these brackets, So, with the rem of books hi between, plenty of closet space is afforded this bedrooth. The whole wee covered with. n pretty cretonne, like the other cretonne coverings of the bedroom, in our curtains and ru rippling Instead of tacking the cretonne dt- e and pictures leaning against a bleck of come from this one single source --the rainbow. • Just to prove it to myself I bought a box of paints—six colors there*vvere, thoee eof the rainboae But 'I could have- done as well with three—the red, the yellow and the blue,- • Those are the primary colors, green, orange and -purple are made ley mixing together any two of the prisnanes. Yellow and blue make green. Yellow • and red make orange. Mix red with blue and you have? purple. Between each of the six • rainbow colors there is another hue made of equal parts of the color on either side. So the six 'colors of the eainbeer are increased to tWelve. • NATURE'S DSE,OF COLOR. Take the primary. and secondary color families and see how nature uses thestt. There is red, that hot, heavy color ,with the power to warm a room and the power to make it shrink. It has a hidden quality too of stimulate ing.action in those who live in it. Too much red is dangerous. Red color is like zed pepper--simportant, but to be used sparingly. Spots of it splen- did—the daring •flash of a redbird, sliaming sumac., along the ridge of e. hill, In a room spots of red bring out other color schemes. Use it in books, bowls, brocades, a lampshade or an occasional 'piece of furniture. Yellow is the color of daffodils and laughter. It is the happiest color -of the lot. You have seee pastures spot- ted with clumps of yellow daisies that seemed laughing in the sun. Used in -touches yellow is an ideal tonic for •dull rooms and rnorbid dispositions. Blue is a cool, calm color, restful and light -absorbing. Green is another cool, light color with a touch of cheer. No other colors but these -two could be used without monotony in the wide stretches of sky and water. But even here there is a combination of tones. Can you imagine water or sky one never -changing hue? $o in our rooms even restful colors cannot be used in solid mass—they must be shaded with light and dark �i' relieved by ,a com- plementary scolor. Orange, made of yellow And red, has warmth, light -aria' gayness all in one. It is the sunrise and the sun - net. Nature uses it for brilliant- eplashes against darker dolor masses. Purple can be both hot and cold, in- spiring or dignified. ,The wood violet has the primness of a spinster, the aster a dignity befitting, kings. It never nods, but bows. Purple if used in too large amounts is over -stately for the little room. When I choose a color scheme, I first consider the purpose of my room. As a general thing the farm livings rocen takes more kindly to dignified colors, restful to the eye. Dining -rooms I like to be cheery spots giving a feel- ing of hospitality. I-Iallsr,need inviting colors, dignified like the living-roorn but cordial with a mellow -warmth of welcome. Bedrooms I find most rest- ful done in the lighter color keys. SELECT THE RIGHT SHADE. Color can • make a ,room warm or cold, dark or fight. Light vralls•maice light rooms. Dark' walls -make dark TOOIUS. For that cold north room or the one overshaded-by trees use colors 'that ha '& warmth to c:give the ffect of. sunehine. It can be done with a backgrotied of warm ivory or tan and with colors like rose or yellow in the hangings. • For the room on the eolith use cooler colors—backgrounels of pale gray, cool {Very or grayish tan. The very little room will broaden with the right shado of color on its walls, Strong dark colors make rooms shrink, while dull light colors give size. If We take a tip from nature we will never do a room in one color, with -walls and floor and 'hangings all the same. It is monotonous. The key color is best when used with restraint. Of course, every color mest be in tone or „oomplement with every color. As nature neutralizes; her- colors with sunshine 'and mist so we cai use the light and dark hues of the paint box. Irt the large stretches a earth, sea and, shy, nature uses restful colors -- brown, green, blue and gray. This is he' background for the smaller mass- es of more brilliant hues. The earth is carpeted with the darkest tones, rut as we 'Should carpet our homes. 'Pesky is the palest shede of all. So should Mir ceiling's be, with a slightly deeper tone for the walls. The birds and the flowers are the brilliant -spots that liven the darker tones."In our rooms the richest, most colorful notes furnish inepiratimis' for the furniture upholstery and drapes. The beilliaot dashes beleng in the small articles euch as a vaee, a bowl Or a picture. It is easy its the country Ib find a color scheme, They are\ on every side —not only 'color ideas but also the color itself. You' can go into our garden ov the roadside and carry away dem:ends of the yellow, the red Mid the blue of otitdeors to decorete your mauve—alfalfa in full bloom. You can buyethose colors in cretonne and chintz. Every flower, 'every " bird, every butterfly is a living color -• scheme. rectly to. the 'upper board, fasten a wire round this board and fasten smallth rings to the upper hem of e cretonne, Thus the curtain can eas- ily be pushed bade and fortis On ,the wire. A shelf for ehoes at the top of the baseboard completed this homemade closet.—A. M. HOUSE-CLEANING HINTS FOR YOU TEAT OTHER FARM WO- - MEN IlAVEs TESTED.. ,My hest botise-eleaeing short cut is a meal tray—the one I use for serv- ing. It is 20 ec 16 hi -chess big enough to hold a pate of water, amp, clothes, cleaning fluid, tacks :and a hammer, and catch allsthe drops of water and crumbs from scouring cakes. It is a convenient • size for carrying from place to place and is a catch-all for trash I gather in the course of my cleaning.—Mrs. J. S. - Matching fresh laundered curtains is usually a time waster. But I have found a remedy. • As I take down each pair of curtains I mark them with thread and needle—one pair with an X the next with an 0, and so on to the last window. If there is no up or. down to the curtains the markings go at the down end. When they are rehung I turn them upside down, giv- ing the sun a chance to wear them the same all over.—Mrs. M. F. • Left -over ends of scouring cakes dis- solved in Water make excellent clean- ing liquids. .I save up the odd pieces and dissolve them at house-cleaning time. , The sairture is quicker e and easier to use than the cake itself.— Mrs. B. M. a During house-cleaning season I save time by preparing a peck of potatoes, enough to last a week, ateone peeling. After rinsing well I put them in a covered jar of cold fresh water to uie as 4 -seeded: The soaking makes them cook and look like new ones. I also kettleful of the smaller potatoes with . their ,jackets on, to -have for creaming and salad.—Mrs. H. E. Kee At last I have found an inexpensive furniture polish. -Melt one-half pound of sealing wax and slowly pour into this one gallon of kerosene, stirring constantly until the mixture is cool or begins to whiten. This is enough polish for furniture, woodwork and • floors,. to last six months in the medium-sized home. To apply, use a dry rag, poliphing after it has been on two or three minutes. Keep the mixture covered when not in use, as kerosene readily evaporates. The kerosene removes the gime, dust while the wax leaves a beautiful lustre and preserves the varnish.—Mrs. M. 0. • GOOD FROSTING FOR' CAKES. An easily -made frosting for coffee cakeserusk, buns -or other cakes raised with east, consists of granulateal sugar mixed with enough cinnamon -to pro- duce a light -brown color. A grating or two of nutmeg may be added, but is not essential. '3uSt before putting the cake, in the oven, spread the top lightly with, heavy cream' and over this sprinkle the sugar and spice. When baked, the cake will he covered with a delicious brown, sugary glaze. For Graham Feasting mix one tea- spoonful of graham flour with two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and then mix with senou-gh cream to make a paste which willespread, but not run. Spread this ev.er the freshly -baked cake and •return to the oven for two or three minutes. Me frosting should bubble all over the surface but not burn. If made with brown sugar a delicious caramel frosting will result, while the graham flour lends a nut -like flavor. Cakes which have the" top' moistened with cream alone have the fine, brown glaze which Is so desirable for Duteh cake. . A cake frosting which is always a success is made by boiling together one cupful ofesugar, lour tablespoon- fuls of water, one level teaspoonful of cornstarch and one-quarter teaspoon - Ltd of cream -of -tartar. Boil to the soft -ball stage (When tested re, cold water), then beat slowly into the stiffly -beaten white of one egg. Flavor to taste. TO veg, this frosting add, while the mixture• is boiling, four tea- spoonfuls' of sugar that has been caramelized by browning, This will produce a caramel froeting. For var- iety add chopped nuts, raisins or shredded cocoanut to the white frost- ing, or make the frosting with brown instead of white sugar. To make a chocalate frosting add three teaspoon- fuls of coeoa to the boiling mixture. ' 'CLOSETS I MADE. Unfortunately there are but two real closets iii out house, so necessity drove me to invent my own brand. I have a high wooden bed in the gnest rosins. Ab the head of the bed I drove a nail into each post and stretched, a wire from nail to nail. A dozen 'coat hangers can he comfort- ably hung on the 'wire, SO the guest had plenty of room for hanging clothes', In daUghter's bedroom I wished mete closet room, so I purchaeed two • TOOK THP,E117, ORPHANS. "There's Mrs, Smith—she has adopted theee children and she is not very well off either. Isn't it Adieu- lous her taking other people's chile dren to raise?" This was the remark made by a lady, the Other day, and she seemed to be quite in earnest. Perhaps the fact that she had, no children herself 'influenced her judg- ment to some eXtent. Had she known anything about the inner home life of Mrs. Smith she would have envied instead of pitied her, for, in washing, sewing .And cooking for these little orphans, Mrs, Smith found the great- est possible satisfaction, Others have had. the esame experience end if the lonely, enepty and cheerless teethes of the country could- only realize it they might find ea 'World of happiness by undertaking the care of two or three homeless children. It's Your Ovim Fault If Yoti Become, CONSTIPATED • thmstipetion 1$ ene of the greatelit Ills of (site's life, and Is caused by the negleet of not. paying proper aitteetion, to Natute'e Call.'' You can keep your bowels regular by the U50 of MILBMI'S Mrs. James °Weill, Baneroft, Ont., writes:—"1 was very meeh troubled with constipation and, bad headaches, and my skin beanie yellow looking. " Since taking Milburn $ La:ea-Liver Pills the conetipetion and headaches have disappeared and say ekin has become clear again. I would advise all theme troubled with. their liver to use Laxa-Li. vor For sale at all druggists and dealers. Woody Chmker_s. • There are many homes which could be made much more attractive by the judicious use of a few good vines. A very plain dwelling can be relieved of much 'of it 'stifrness by the plant- ing of a Vine, which in a few years • will break the monotony isf a Straight wall or harsh corner, Verandahs, eurnmer house, fences, rocks ad old stumps of trees covered With vines will seachange the appearance of a place that it will hardly be recognized by, one Who has known it before. There are many varieties of vines erom which the Canadian resident may choose. Climbers make rapid growth when once established. The best results will be obtained, however, by preparing the ground beforehand. The Dominion Horticulturist has RAISIN COOKIES. recommended the following varieties: , The Virginian Creeper, ,Tapanese vy, 'Cream one-half 'cup shortening and Dutchman's Pipe e Climbing Bitter - add gradually one cup sugar, beating , . . . . . .t‘ sweet, Clematis of several varieties, the mixture until it is light. Add two beaten eggs and sift together two cups flour, one-eighth teaspoon salt and two teaspoons baking powder. Alternately add this mixture and one tablespoon milk to the sugar and shortening. Work in one teaspoon vanilla and one cup chopped raisins. If the, dough is not thick eeough to roll, add mere flour. Turn on a flour- ed board and Toll thin. Cut, and bake i. n a het oven about twelve mu -lutes. and English Honeysuckle. The Virginian Creepereirmpelop- sis Quinquefolia) when once estab- lished is a rapid. grower. It is very hardy and will soon cover the wall of a houses This plant is beautiful, eartitularly in the autumn when the leaves take on a glowing red shade. The Japanese Ivy (Amelopsis Veit- chii) is not so hardy as the Virginian Creeper. In Ottawa it often kills back more Or less each year, but usually recovers reclothing the wall each sue - The Tuberous Begonia • ceedin season It is a beautiful vine • and cfin'is very closely- to the wall, - The shady spot is often a worry to presenting asfine effect in many homes the gardener as it will not produce a in the cities and towns in the central and southern parts sereOntario. It is recommended to. protect the roots of title vine for ehe first year or two with -dry leaves or straw packed closely about the plant for a loot or more at the base. _ The Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia Sipho) is rather slow to become estab- lished, belt makes a wonderful effect in the course of two or three years. its leaves are large, heart-shaPed and deep green. Although very attractive, it is heavier looking than some others, and is more in keeping with the mas- sive building than with one of a light- er style. It does not cling RS do other vines but twines about whatever ob- ieetheeJomeaa spwilsheBitter-' Tsweet (Celas- trus articulatus) bears a crop of at- tractive berries. Its habit of growth is somewhat like the Dutchman's Pipe, inasmuch as it does not cling to smooth waiihe s. Tvarious varieties of the Cle- matis are beautiful. because of the abundance of flowers that come in different colors. This vine requires a trellis or other support of similar. chu Tuberous begomas can be raised from aeh:ecety Trohnaeuck rdsyelleimb(e14r, nipeee.ordaLis seed but it is rather a delicate opera- scarlet, trumpet -shaped blooms fine velvety lawn nor are there many flowers that will succeed in 'it. The tuberous begepia may be used to save the'situathen With great 'effect. This plant cannot be successfully grown in the bell sun because the leaves bunt and the plant assumes a very unpre- sentable fapperaance. A bed of the tulfe'rous begonia. beneath the spread- ing branches of old elms at the corner of "the lawn is an impressive sight. City residents living on the 'south side of the street find the tubercles begonia a wonderful helpg in making their grounds attractive There is also the space that mayebe- called a laneway between houses that are but a few fe,et apart, that' -needs embellishment for the summer season. Here also the tuberous begonia is strikingly at home so long as it gets an hour of sunshine during the day.. , Of the tuberous begonia there are many varieties, both single and double, and in many shades of clear cha-rming colors. Grown in rich soil, the blooms more particularly the single varieties are not infrequently from five to six inches across, while the double var- ieties seen at a little distance away resemble the most luxuriant roses. tion requiring expert skill and special facilities. The ordinary amateur would be better advised to procure the tubers either dormant or sprouted In the spring. Having once acquired a stock, he is supplied for years to throughout the season. Although hardy, it is well to take it front the trellis and lay it on the. ground dur- ing the wieter month'.—Can. Hort- Council. come with his plants, 'provided he will take them up carefully in the fall How She Knew. ' and store them in a cool cellar in dry Mr. hieweved—"My dear girl, I must sandedurginagrdteheeerareiwinter heehers very motnthstvsaeytInialetet,l,ie pudding does not taste sme directly into the garden as soon as Mrs. Newwed---"It most be your heplettuertintge startweathe tthere arrives, ines, tbhuethietesies. imagination, dear. It says in the cook - every book that, it testae excellent," commencing about the middle of ------- IF HEADACHES , March. The tubers rney be planted in, boxes iee in flower pots. One plant' to a five -inch pot in a very euitable way to start the plants, because the,, YOU SHOULD USE MAKE LIFE MISERABLE soil has then not to be disturbed when the plants are set, out 'n tile garden. Good pot drainage and soil of a light character should be used. Furth' - more, the tubers should not be marc than just covered in the pots. A shelf placed above a radiator lathe house' is a suitable place to start -the tuber. In this situation they will require watering frequently. Given attention in this way until *ell up, the plant may be given a cooler Iodation with good light but without direct sunshine until the planting time arrives about the end of May. Plants set fifteen inches apart in a well prepared bed Will make a weinderful show from the time they commence to bloom until froet closes the season—Can, Hort. e Paste an envelope to the inner back page of your cook book. It Makes a fine receptabl0 for th redipes you clip1 from papers and magaziees and,wish to keep for reference, ' Mrs. .M]. Saunders, Vancouver, B.O., veritese-e"]?or over two years 1 suf. fered from headaches. 'They made me unable foe work, as well as cross arid ittetable to my friends and family. Finally- a fried reemeniended to me, and after the filet bottle I received relief, It is towtwo months Mime I started. taking it, and I seldom have any headaehos, and all ley friends aotice the improvement i» my dispoeition.” „ :13.11,B. is manufahtured only by The Milbutzt Co., LimitedTerouto Ont. The Stinday School APRIL. 19 Lesson ,4 N , Llf 0 Illa the Early Church, Acta 4: I to 5: 11. Golden Text---, ' 4 • The multitude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul. --Acta 4: 32. ANALYSIS. (Matt. 11;28-30). (2) Many of Jesus' e. A saikuNa 4.x.4,Apa or gAisty cm's. followers had left their trades and TIAN DROTHERT/INESA, 402-37. °e11Patis to Toilets': him to Jen-- taneous generosity with which the 1111e, a 41: d: 1P-iA 115;1 ic''Ohli'lapc .11)2°1:4'4, 44:: oAf Wt the Ns pl No n°0%45}p3Vtar:101.171:1;:hiha, 04nuVd:‘:3b:bir:eeetMnillilha.seeneely.laivistauwyephopiofnoeit'phtolotIrlhigese•drmIxivirl;lars)Yee !Meuse sionoes—We nave already', ebAive been ee of their faith in Jesus. On the n boycotted by the JOIX,TS bee early Christians dealt with poverty T2, the example, and precepts oh Jesus and economic distress within the come, 8(10)rabywetrhee nseartiseanhbeenha ell., tthhiey.m.psoesiTsese 37, Inanity. The world saw a remarkable e. wily a means of (1011,3, good (a) by eoahaumr ephl e, 15 yoftheCirh.roiwstnianfre"e-brwoitliil,errahaoodde but(1 by the sense that the preent when the richer members of the pure Question kindness, and possibly over their lands and possessions 'or ; world' was peasing away, and that the the common good. To this subjeet, St. r nee would soon return. Luke returns in the present lesson, I --- He cannot sufficiently extol the loving' Vie 36, 37. One conspicuous instance of Christian liberality is month:mod, 'practical wisdom and chivalrous pub - the case of Joseph Barnabas, a leevite olve that none of its members should he spirit Which. made the Church re- born ia Cyprus. The apostles gave s Joseph the surname Barnabes, which suffer want for causes lying beyond mealle "son of exhortation," They did their own control. Generous men came forward and placed what they had at gOiiofencouragingnree°gnitilof 15eetlernhy2lebealy,ae ' blessed e essecie the disposal of the brotherhodd. With - if out being required to make the eacri- bringing °lit the best in everybody. ifircitel h, was of toshxhaoGtwotedhdeayan ddhi had dor sahistiistitihsi eetilor.v eieooewnii.lit, { hi.; viel I u(st1r) a ton o ris opfr 4st lefinst hgesepnpeyr ogs ii ft yt we 1 selling his estate (2) his cordial rec- =pies of this benevolence was the at a tisne when the Church at Jena - later, on of the convert Saul One of the most distinguished ex -i °gIlitiim sacrifice was long remembered. His min heTlezn was almost too afraid to admit sacrifice Barnabas, whose self - the brighter a light because sympathy with the work of evangelism. disinterested goodness was seen in all (9;26-27) (3) his broad-minded counterfeit case of Ananias and Sap- ' II. of the among the Greeks at Antioch (11: A. DARK: INCIDENT, AND A WARNING, dark counterfoil supplied by 22-26). phira. The latter was actuated, not 5:1-5. - • - by unselfish motives, but by a calculat- Vs. 1, 2. It is not toebe expected ing policy, and their sudden deaths, that the outleuret of Christian liberal - were interpreted as a mark of God's i ity in the early Church should not tdhisepyhadni displeasure at theconspiracyin which' have inspired counterfeit examples, 1. A SHININGEXAMPLE OF EARLY CHAP - no; 3R0TIERRLINE$5, 4;82,37. V. 32. Tim love inspirieg all th 'actions of the early Christians founde and an instance is recalled which had burnt itself deeply into Christian memory. Ananias and his wife Sap- phire plotted to obtain a name for expression in many ways in the con- doing what Barnabas and others. had done, stant maintenancewhich of a true unity of this profession of unselfishness but withoul "paying the price" spirit, and in a steadserefusal to coun- tenance anything like class distinc- thivolved. They deceived the Church by saying that they had surrendered tions. But the most notable markewas their property, when ie, reality they had reserved part of the value. Vs. 3, 4. This deception brought upon thenaethe stern denunciation of Peter who exposed the act as done the willingness of all property4evning members to regard, their possessions as a trust to be administered for the common good. Such men parted with all that they had in order to relieve with intent to deceive the Holy Spirit, cases of destitution or distress. And in other words, as a he against the their actions were all the finer because no law or regulation of the commun- ity imposed this course imen them. Pure love to Christ and -to their fellow Church, which in actions such as this ought to be guided always by the pure inspirations of the Holy Spirit.It was a 'sin against that pure 'sincerity behevers was the one motive, which the Holy Spirit Inspired,' and , V. 33. Consequently, with this fine example of practical Christianity to support them, the disciples had no a dark blot on the fair fame of the Christian community. Peter made it abundantly clear that Christians were difficulty in preaching the Christian ,not compelled to surrender possessions, doctrine of a living and risen Christ. but Were at liberty to give or not to Men saw that they practiced what grive .as they thought best. But, as they preached, and they could believe in the resurrection of Christ, when it inspired such unlimited acts of char- ity and humanity._ 'Vs. 34, 35. Poverty and distress; which would otherwise have been grievous, were in this manner prac- tically eliminated. A clear proof was delivered that, where there is a will to do these things, there aIso is a way. he pointed out, they were expected to be sincere. Self -regarding motives in a Christian profession were unpardon- able. • V. 5. The sudden demiteof eknareas under the shadow of this exposure was seen as a divine judgznent on an un- worthy member of the Church. It made a deep impreasion on a religious society which lived by simple sincere The poverty was due to many causes: ity, and feat the need of diempline upon 1 (1) Jesus had drawn many of his be- all who showed any disposition to lieving,followers from among the poor, trifle with the springs of Christian the disinherited, and the outcast motive. • The Delphinium. The modern delphinium, popularly known as the hardy larkspur, is one of the finest and most desirable of tall garden flowers. In a favorable loca- tion. and with reasonable care theenod- ern varieties reach a height of from five to six feet, presenting a charming • effect particularly in the hardy border. The colors of the delphinium run from white through the blues and into the purple shades with many variations of amethyst tints. The individual flower spikes of many of the varieties aro a foot and a half in length and have many side shoots that extend the flowering season for several weeks. When well grown it blooms freely in July, and if cut down ithmediately after blooming and given a little fer- tilizer and well watered, a second orop of bloom will appear in. the autumn. In cultivation it should be given al deep and moderately enriched soil, anl open sunny situation and sufficient' space in which to properly develop, itself. The plants, like many other' perennials, should not be allowed toi remain longer than three years in one; place, but after that time it should: be taken up, separated and replanted.' This may be done either in spring, just as the plants are starting into I • growth, or during the fall months. The delphinium suffers from the at- tacks of slugs. , Protection agametr damage(ofthis kind is secured by placing 'a few handfuls of ceal ashes, over the plant just as winter is corn- ing on. In very exposed positions it! is well also to lay a few evergreen branches or other refuse over the; plants on the arrival of winter. I There are many species of the delel phiniunt, including the delphinium, grandiflora, a low growing sort with r good foliage throughout the season I . and typical blue flower; delphinium' exeltetura, it native of the Central States, grows about four feet high; delphinium fission is still a taller vale' tett bearing blue flowers with it white; bested on the lower petals; delphinium' formosum, growing not more thau four tot high, is very satisfactory for per- manent planting and naturalizing be- cause of its hardiness. The differences in these,, however, ate more botanieal than horticultural, the choice being merely a matter of personal prefer- „ence ett is en interesting plant for the gardenetisto explore with full as- surance of obtaining something worth while irrespective of tha variety se- lected. This herbaceous flower has, in recent years, been greatly improved by cross breeding and selection. Sonic of the newer varieties of wonderful beauty include Morheirni, white; Harry Smeetham, pale blue; Statuary Rude, blue with amethyst shading; Rev. E. Lascelles, blue of a darker shade and seini-double.—Can. Hort. • • Confidence in Canadian, Eggs. The thirty odd millions of Canadian hens producing upwards of two hun- dred million dozens of eggs in a year will have to increase and work harder in the future than they have in the past to meet the increasing demand for good eggs. The consumption of eggs in Canada has rapidly increased in recent years, due to the adoption e of the grading system. Twenty-five years ago Canada's consumption of eggs per capita was about fifteen doz- ens in the year. Four years ago it had risen' to twenty-one dozens and last year to twenty-six dozen eggs per head. This increase will surely con- tinue as housevvives become familiar with the standard grades, and the as- surance that grading gives to those who do the purchasing for the family table, Nor will the increased demand for Canadian eggs, as their merits be- come known through systematic grad- ing, besehnfined to Canada, because as was shown before the Agricultural Committee of the Heine 0.f Commons, Great Britain is learning of the ex- cellence of Canadian egge and taking more and more of them_ for their best trade. The United States, it was stated, is adopting the Canadian standard of classification which it is believed will have the same effeet hi that great tepublic as it has in Canada of increasing the annual consumption of some sixteen or seventeen dozens per capita, to a higher consumption year by year. This, in the opinion of Me. W. A. Brown, Chief of the Poul. try Division of the Live Stock 13ranch, will lead to a great demand fax Cans adian eggs in the United States. The mali who plowan acre walice eight ranee. The:fernier 'sliottld ietereeted greater profite per adre instead a greater yields pet acre. In either case idee ,fertility of the oi1 hottiii. ha maintathad,