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Bred -Lo --Lay Flocke.
In developing flocks of farm peal -
try the bred -to -lay factor is (Inane
Mg
Ina v-
ing of much emphasis. Several ays-
t.:me for selecting laying hens have
been tried 'with varying success brut
there is no method of eccurMeJ1y de-
tormin'inng which hens aro the best
laayers except the clap -nest. Breeders
who have been making trues -nest rec-
ords for a torte peri'ora of yeses have
been able to produce hens 'which pas-
s•er'.9 a merited <ahLllty to 'lay eggs and
trammel; the. power to their progeny,
Score breeders claim that the !Nigh
normal layers are the best •breeders
and this seams sonxbble. The two -
hundred -egg hen m.ny frequently be a
better breeder •tha.n the phenomenal
layer wvh:cli produces nearly three
hundred eggs. It et the flock averages
that count. Stork front a strain with
eight or ten generations of twoihun-
•dred-egg hens te more reliable than
stock faint two generaLialts of hens
which wild lay two hundred and fifty
eggs per year. The two -hundred -
egg Maxi; bred over the longer period
is more apt to have the characteristic:
fixed to etay,
In selectr..ng bred -to -lay clock the
time that the egg, are produced has
some influence on their market value.
Five birds of a prominent strain
made a record of one hundred and
thirty -faun• eggs during January in et
Mieeouri_laying contest. At a Jan-
uary price of fifty cents per dozen
theee eggs would have been worth
$5.58, cr a.bant $1.12 per hen for the
month. In May --another pen produc-
ed one hundred and thirty-three egg ,
but at that gene eggs were selling
foe about twenty-five vents per dozen,
Their eggs would only breng $2.77, or
about fifty -'six cents per hen for the'
month, Undoubtedly this ability to
lay winter cogs can be dew e&aped , in
scene sLraiays of fowls to such an ex-
tent thee they cep be made much more
prafltaele than the ordinary type of
Term hen. The breeders wife develop
these high-quality wiener iayera eecm
to depend very largely upon the trap -
nest to produce high records, Of
course, they also einplea'size vigor
wh:eh is of :mane iinpantance in de-
veloping a flock of birds with the
vitality to lay winter eggs.
Bu:sy hen:; lay because exercise is
fundamental to health and the bird
that ko not in a healthy, vigorous con-
dition {;s not prepared to produce eggs.
Keeping the hens busy ,tn the winter
niee keeps the poultryman on the
jump, Plenty of clean litter must be
su'pplled for watching, Dust baths
mutt be prepared and filled with clean
garden 'loam so that the hens will
have a change to fight pests and sun
themselves while dusting hi the earth,
It pays to have s!ome+thing for the
hens to peck at: during winter months,
iCloven• ear be wrapped in a small
cylinder of poultry wire and suspenel-
ed from the well of the house, The
I birds will enjoy pecking at ,the loaves
and blas ems and will obtain much
healthful food' by that means. Mangoes
placed on nails will supply green food
end help to keep the birds busy.
Watch the flocks ooeasionally at
; night and note the hens that are al -
1 ways wailing to stop work and go to
I bed •early. They are often the hens
1 that are poor producers and also the
' ones that are' the ,lowest to come from
the roost in the morning and start
1 s'cratehling. The busy leen aeemio
! to have a good dispos,'•tfon; she is apt
! to be the bird that sings where she
hunts for feed in the litter. The lazy
hen which :pends much of her time
' hunept d up in the corner is usually a
poor layer. She may show some
signs of life at feediink time but she
':s more apt to watch for the grain
the other ,hens :wretch out rather than
do her own hunting. The busy !ten
is apt to lay and pay, and during the
winter one of ,the poul•trym'an's big-
gest jobs is to keep the hens busy
71(dike
Slotrics
The Flame Game.
The Little city cousins and the lit-
tle country cousin sat together by the
'bright hearth. They had came to
rielt their aunt, who lived in a emelt
town halfway between their two
homes. le they watched the color-
ed flame, that frisked and frolicked
over the burning driftwood logs they
began to grow very well acquainted,
"1 eee a little green flame," said
Jane, the country cousin.
"I Fee a :!tali/ blue flame," said
Hllrla,'the city mem.
"And I see an orange flame!" cried
Janie,
"Ami I a little violet flame!" Hilda
metier! exaltedly.
They were siient for a while, with
their gaze fixed on the togs. "Oh,
look!" Jenie exclaimed presently.
"Whole flocks of yellow flames!"
"And crowds of redones," Hl t
Id s
amid. "I don't believe there's any
end bo the different colors. Red,
orange, yellow, blue, green and vie,
let."
"Like a reinhee broken to bite,"
Janie said. "Ane each bit looks dif-
fertile, somehow, ea em rel the °tthere"
Kilda narrawea her daric eyes and
gazed steadily at the dancing lights
"Less make a game of it," she s'Ig-
gestod suddenly. "You pick oat a
thine and tel me what it looks like
to you; then I'll tell what it boles eke
to mc. That will be fun."
Janie 'thought so, too. She lean-
ed forward, with her face in her
palms, and gazed earnos'bly into 'the
fire. "I see a tallred flame," she
declared after a while. "It makes
me 'think of the big red dahf'ia that
grew in .our gea'den by the fence bast
fall'."
"It snakes nee think," said the little
city girl, "of :a red balloon in the
bunch of toy balloons that the Italian
sells on our corner."
"Oh. look, there's a whitey green
flame!" exclaimed the little country
co1216n1. She painted toward the end
of a utiek of wood. "It's exactly
tike the weeping -willow tree by the
brook at home, when ,the wind swirls
through !it."
"How funny!" sand Mild "
Hilda, It
books to me like the green signal light
that corns and goes in the subway to
guide the cars."
"I've never been in a subway,"
TBE HOG THAT EUROPE WANTS
.��4'a aa�C.•+A•R4a R'�'�W�.O.""•Cl'CO�.,.•�n n ss:Aw�•fsm
Winners of the first prize for Ex-
port Hogs at the Ontario Winter Fair,
Guelph, exhibited by J. E. Brethour
and Nephews, Burford, Ont.
The two Yorkshire pigs which won
first prize as ideal bacon hags at the
Guelph Winter Fair were exhibited
by J. E. Brethoua' and Nephews, Bur-
ford, Ont. They 'weighed !about 200
pounds each, They represent .the
Ideal type of hogs required by the
export bacon trade.
"Thermo nevem was a time when
peoepects for the producer of bacon
hogs was ,so good," ,staid Mr. Bre-
thoua', "We lhavo developed a frig
bacon business diming the war and
we can hold ,et, I am :sure of that,
Most of the farmers bf this country
acro now familiar With the requ;ime-
aneuts of export trade, Fifteen
yam ago we deet al% know do well, but
our exports then were higher tluae
just before tine war. The war had
developed the Industry here, We are
well equipped now. We know the
obese of goods demanded. We have
a (larger nuanbor of geed breeding
Mack than ever before, Even Ire-,
land has not a better typo of baton
lung than Canada teas, Yorlawhdree
pred'onrinatio io Canada. I should
say taint nailer '70% of our bacon hags
are Yorkshire blood."
Mr, Bxdblrour saSn s that ovary though
feed fie high en pelene, tvagta can be
ptrodtaceid: sub 20% profit (4 01 Ar'as
Vs4as1id bee Ws elate aw. mta,
Europe, d'urierg the wee, ate deeply
into her breeding stock, and the
shortage of hog in 'tete llnineip'suj
countries'.-exedudLiia,e Reeeeea, Awsr
tria-liehgary and the Balkans, as
here the shortage is !impassable to
esbined° at the present tiene-,amatunts
to 82,000,000 !hand. During the wane
Canada's experts, o:f bacon increased
by 571%. The opportunity is now
open to hold this trade pernhanenbly
and increase int, :t`,e' Cnnadilan bacon
leas boomers elavorfahly known en
Franco and Italy and Britain, and
our bale quaintly leas always lateen
able to hold beten in a
!OM1trl tin paatli5!Dltl
with elle best produced eat Denmark
or even Ireland --in both of veleta
ealuettelea is beeeer *Magee neve exists.
D ari e . ;I!rl' ti..u; 1ttTuily, "glut ..
th,t t -ping, creeping
It aroyl m-' thick ee tee epiias vee!
10t in our is me
"It uin eels m ra!(1 fit ea,"of
some la,fc'ly purer, re :Oa Abet [ ere ; ,
hanging over the vomiter in the 1.'.4,
acre tabes I go le !-hop with mrith,.1
er."
7aau c s eye"', searched the Alining
fireplace. "'there's a quiet blue flame.",
ehe
am -
ehe said at iength. "It's ju=t like]
the wavy meaadew pool that we ;ail
our, leaf boats on."
"I don't know just what it looks
like," Hilda observed, "but it is exact-
• ly the color of the little blue tea set
In the china store downtown that per-
haps I shall have for my l:irthday."
Janie was so 'interested in thitt piece
of none that she forgot to lake her
turn,
"See that yellow flame!" Hilda
cried, forgetting, too. "It's for all the
world like the sparkly -Muerte letters
on the big hdtel sign two blocks be-
low our house."
"'.Che ideal" said ,Janie, smiting, "It
makes me think of nothing at all but
the way the morning sunlight flashes
till I . i s""`'^"'
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!MgI th.,'r .
` 1 ',I It. c . rr lir { : (, Il ` Y
frim eoithtry'' 1 ant eked 111`
,.,Mt try (rt.,' -le rtft.t.'r a. "idr
1r
t•y. we>lil:dill,
,.1..s, and 0{ [:•Y; ! ,r: .
ditforent frim t a, , v,'iy
b-rlul, too," the 1' u. tete r e •,iia
agreed.
Thcu they made .h anao remark
at the eamc Instant. "1 w:=it you'
would come to see me,' each one 4o irl.
After that they played the flame game
very often, zometimes in the city rind
sometimes in the country.
Entries on Dominion lands in the
West will not, The Regina Leader
says, he cancelled by land agents be-
tween December 15, 1018, and April
1, 1919, except in special instances.
Proxy entries held by soldiers where
satisfactory evidence of military ser-
vice is on file are protected under
general instructions until the re -
return of the holder of' the entry.
BESIDE HOME'S THRESHOLD
Farm Mothers Have Every Help at Hand for Anticipating the
the First Year at School.
By Carolyn
If we stop to look for them, w
will find opportunities for ed!ueati
at the door -step of the farm home
The city school must substitute
laboratory, pictures, brief trips an
excursions, ,stuffed 'and dried sped.
mens of animals as substitutes fo
real life.
The farm child has the whole weal
of primary educatton within the bio'
of the farm. The farm mother has
abundant opportunity for starting a
in the three lolledhoe R s at home.
Every child on et/teeingschool finds
one of his difficulties in the begin-
ning of areflemet:ic. He is given a
book and must try. to make 'abstract
figures stand for concrete facts. The
mubtieeication table, Guth problems
as 'how much pl'asber:ng to buy for
this room and how many shingles for
that barn, or how anuch interest a
cerbain amount of money will earn
in a year .at a certain per cent., are
all confusing mental operations for
the abed who is not yet at the stage
when reasoning powers are develop-
ed.
He needs objects and tangible ex-
periences before he tries to express
• thine problems In terms of figures.
A few home help, to arithmetic in
the farm chi'll's life will smooth :his
difficubtise. and send h;im to the top
and beyond his class when he is in
school.
Arithmetic begins usually with ab
stract exercises that aim to 'ave ohil-
dren answer the question, "How
many?" The abillilty to count and to
ci'o simple problems' in addition, sub-
traction, multiplication and division
may ail he taught to the country
child as a nebural part of his daily
laving,
Counting comes first with the lit-
tle ciliate At the age of four and five
he has an.instinct to number objects
and if 'parents well take advantage of
this natural interest they will be able
to turn, at hone, the chid'e's first
pagesa ofarithmetic.
ens
This can be •done byencouraging
'the youngest child to count as much
and as far as he likes; the buttons on
his olothing, his harecs, the eggs 'in
the barn, rows of flowers .in the gar-
den and the number of plants in each
now, the pebbles, nuts, twigs and
other nature material he gathers, the
birds ;he sees during a day, the teams
that pass by on the road, 'the ,apples
that drop in the orchard and alt! the
other uelim;ibed series of interesting
objects that 'lie within the deity
reach of the country ceded.
It wile also be a good plan to pro-
euro .a box of large figures, either
out from oarrtboard or printed on
earths, from a school supply strop. If.
these are not obtainable the figures
may be cut from a !targe calendar
and mounted on cards,
Wth bhese figure eamds, which
seem like a game, the child can be
taught eo record the results of his
counting. Beneath a number of seeds,
nuts, twigs or other objects he is
taught to place the figure or figures
cosrespomdhm to the number.
The ddn:sions into tens and hun-
dreds may be taught by grouping
small objects and putting together the
flguees .that represent their number,
In :a surprisingly short time the dif-
ficult bridge between the concrete
and the abstract in arithmetical cal-
Sherwin Bailey
o Measuring milk, vegetables,
ron berries, coaking ingredients and
learning the names and capacity of
a all 'the receptacles used for thle
d liquid and dry measure; measuring
and laying out flower and vegetable
✓ beds; couniting and measuring the
material used for building fences, a
d dog house or a bird house; all these
,.es are important hone tra,tning in artth-
.matic for the child on the farm.
The schools would be glad to dupli-
cate •suoli training and so give life
to the dry bones of their teaching of
mathematics. Each experience
should be made a permanent lesson
by having the little student copy his
card figures and record the results
of iiMis measuring, oounbing and com-
paring.
When regular teaching of sribh-
mettc is begun in school' there are
many home exercises that will help
the farm child to melee his growhug
knowledge 'o£ numbers a practical
pert of hes everyday living. Some
of these are; lceeping an account of
his own small weekly allowance,
ra,ist:n;g and Baling .truck, dairy or
fowl produce and keeping a record of
all expense and income, having his
own bank account no matter how
m• aul, l'ear'ning some interesting num-
erical games that need quick wits.
Geography ;is another study that
has been brought home from nnknowlt!
places and taught in the schools from;,
knowledge gained at the chilli home
threshold. The !tone teaching of
geography deeply interests every
child if he or she is taught under-
standingly.
Nowadays we Leach ohiidren to do
lees bounding of provinces and more
studying of what the province needs.
We say leas about the Dead Sea and
more about .the wharves and shipjting
of the child's home river or sea
coast.
This new method of 'teaching geo-
graphy opens up an unlimited number
of :homy experiences that ill give
w v
exp g
a child •a. general viewpoint on the
subject before Inc opens els pages in
echoed.
The World ,in miniature lies at the
farm gate and fronn this familiar
paint the boy and girl may discover
the points 'of the compass, the num-
her of and directions of the :roads and
the prevailing winds, the forms of
the water courses, !tills or moun-
tain, the character of the soil.
In the and Vide by the barn Ave ,p
can tnade'e river courses, evade, fields, f
lay out townships, In the home
brook he can build toy docks and
dams and learn outside of books, the
simple laws of land and air and wa-
ter, ll
Neighboring towns, their diseotion,
their industries, their railroads and
where the railroads run, together with
what kind of freight they Garay, .Why
and where, may be studied neat. All
children love a railroad binge -table
and from one of these folders there
cu;ilations wile be eress!ed.
a`he next step in this home teach-
ing et aritlumetic is le give the child
ee many numerical experiences as
passable. Let him place an equal
number of soeces, pebbles or nuts in
•sinotii oxes or dnsAves. By comlbin'ing
soave of these and separating 'thein,
Ile makes a beginning in concrete aide
d'ubbon, innit,ipilication and ,subsbrac-
lion.
In each. instance he should reoord
his atesuhbs wylth4,is ceadhoacct figuares.
To pub three chestnuts in cadh of
thxee Ismael tins, to put all nine in
one and then to put them' back an
their oelgrirtee places Ess to "work met"
three funclanuental "peel/tem? eelxleme4' in ad.
Mon, mtulttplicatiion and subtraction,
`huts a hit/saetio loses ail Abs °lard!-
chip because it tomes lin the guise
of play.
p ay
Tim day's work of ,Nto faxen '&Nada
'bo other as eine* and Valuable num-
:hex exp'etientdes for the iliome elate,
ee
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14:1-11 The Prose Narratat
"Lneamp by the sea." .linea, nt+.
have expected to find. 0 prayage he
per illy by .a ford or at low tid
Th -re was in I.gyptien fel tree.; net•
(the name Migdol paeans fortress
tam( an n"rly was already .in pursut
The tide was Ude in when they a,p'pruarhe
the sea, aria the people in alai
found the*mvelvets hemmed in 00 ever
side They were "entangled in th
land," and there seemed no neap
Paniestrieken, the people turned
Motive with fierce reproaches, "Is
because there were no graves 1
Egypt that you have brought us hie
to die?" Benet by perils, and assaile
by the reproaches of cowards an
weaklings, th faith of the grey
leader share out re.epicnd'ent. "Fro
ye not, stand t e, and see the salve
tion of the Lord," "The Lord ah
fight for you," .he seed. Night earn
on, the wind changed to the east, t
tide went out, and a way was opened
through the sea. 0n the right and
on the left the sea farmed a barrier,
protect'i'ng them against 'a flank at -
back. Behind wee the paler of
cloud, perhaps a heavy fog driven by
the wind in the face of the enemy.
And so, upon firm ground, the people
passed over to freedom and safety,
The Egyptians sought to follow but
thele chariot wheels dragged heavily
lin the sand and mud, the wind
changed, and the tide cavae back, so
that the Lord "diseomfrted the host of
tete Egyptians," and overthrew them
"in the midst of the Asea."
Int venae 25 we 'should read "he
bound their chariot wheels" (see
margin of Rev, Ver.), The chariots
were made with a light wooden body,
a :stow axle set .as far back as pos-
sible on the two wheels, and a pole
which passed beneath the floor was
fixed ,irate the axle and then wes bent
upend and atbached by a baud of
leather bo the font of the chariot.
The horses were yoked to the pole
and melehout traces. Chariots of a
later age had the wheels armed with
scythes. There were 'two, or often
three, men in each, of whom one
drove, one was an archer with bow
and arrows, and one the bearer of a
shield. The ":tank" is the adaptation
of the same kind of machine to
modem warfare—but hew great the
difference!
15: 1-21. The Song of Victory.
There were war poets and minstrels
in Isaael. An early collection of
;songs was known as "The Book of
the Wars of Jehovah" (Num. 21: 14),
and' it is pos=f!ble that this song may
have been preserved in .that same col-
lection. It breathes the exultant fire
and paus!nion of that first great victory
and the new confidence .in God which
it inspired.
"I will sing unto Jehovah, for Inc hath
tnuum'phed gloriously:
The horse and hes rider hath he
thrown into ,the sea.
Jeihovah is my strength and song,
And he ifs become nay salvation."
5i
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THE �!1 RAPPf,R,
. 3firk are mcst easily :trap.Ded along
e, .mall streams, where the logging of
ar the driftwood in the creaks and win•d-
1 'nese cf the here affords fine hieing
t,' paces for the animal'; and co naqu-
d dilly free effete for tett ng traps
m Melte in or.aut of water. But wh:re.
eCc Bible the seta ,h'ou^id be made in
miter and on the lower haul: of eh^.
tt stream. A g!�:d"way is made of
ee two Incs, the traps =et in between and
n en the far aide 'placed a half a dozen
re' drops of the best mink halt, Again,
di the traps may be set in the water
d j near some weeds Or tali gran:•', and a
few drops of goad mink halt peeved
ar•i on the weed; or gran.
all Other good places co set traps for
e ! mink are !ntide old hollow logs or in
bei the hollow of an old tree clone to t'he
stream. The bait should be pieced
near the trap but not on the trap. In
winter the traps should be est near
the ripples or thin ice where the mink
is moat likely to cane out.
In working around the traps, glowse
and shoes should be'seented with the
bent trail scent in order to remove the
effects of the hmnan odor of which the
mink are very wary. If a meek den
can be discovered, and the animals
found inside. a goad ,smoker will drive
them out so that they may be easily
caught.
fin prepaaiing mink for the market,
t'h'e should U stretched ch•-
e .1 pelt side out
y
and all superfluous flesh and fat
scraped off. Skins oihould be dried
in a coal, dry peace, not near the fire
or in the sun. After be'ng stretch-
ed enough bo hold their shape, the
skins are ready for shipment.
Reading Good Book .
The reading of books, if they be in
any sense worthy, can scarcely fail
to be a pest f e tft}I ,and' evorCh-
while exerease. If a book only suc-
ceeds en taking a man out of himself
for a time, it at least does that much
good, But if in doing that, it takes
him into a place of 'clearer thought
er truer feeling or higher impulse,
then et surely perforins a service past
all estimating. And tit will do .some
one or all of bhse+se things if it is a
good •bc'ok. Now if good kooks were
with us more than they are we would
be better men and women than we
are.' And good books are all about
us, stretohing out their hand's to us
annd asking that we know and use+
them. And we have time to give
them, for we could easily spare it
-from some of the thr"ngs that keep us
busy hour after hour. We could 1
all give enough time that we might,
read .at least one good book every
month and if we would all do it thei
'sum of our intelligence and happiness
and usefulness would be very very
greatly increased,
Patriotic Fund.
The total receipts an di
to a of the Canadian
an
Patriotic Fund, including interest
amounting to about $850,000, reached
$43,785,953,74 on December 17, 1918.1
The total contributions to the fund
to date have amounted to a little
under $42,000,000.
For "Jehovo;h is a man of war." He
has fought the battle of His people
and won. Henoefoxiht they know Edo
power. In every subsequent peril
of their national' life they remember -
e thisdeliverance d de Ivenan,
ce at the Red Sea. It
became :the symbol .and ,the asinuranee
of salvation, as tet is with us to this
day. For does not Gad still save
those who 'rust in Hien and discom-
fit their foes?
It seems probable that some of the
latter verses of the song are of eater
date, and were written after the con
quest of Palestine. See,for example,
verses 18-18, where Gad is said al-
ready to 'have led His ,people to Hie
"holy habitation;" that i's, the Holy
Land, and to have sitrl:•eken the peo-
le of Wean., Moab and Canaan with
sear.
is a vast amount of 'home teaching ut
geography to be 'Nati, In it he finds p
the names of towns pend their dies- p
tames from each other, The ac-
companying map le more valuable f
than any in a geography because it
is a chart of the child's own neighbor- s
hoed. Any railroad company will r
send upon application a collection of f
time -tables and they will las found
t
Keeping Dairy Herd Records.
The Dairy and Cold Storage
Branch of the Ottawa Department of
Agriculture has issued an eight -page
circular giving exact instructions re-
lative to the keeping of dairy herd
record's. The circular :states that
the Department will pay to any
qualified tester 10 cents for each
Babcock test made from the com-
posite samples of any herd. The
arty who does the testing mist
rovide the Babcock tester and the
necessary glassware and equipment
or making the test, The Department,
will provide free of charge the
ulphuric acid' preservative tablets,
°turn envelopes, credit slips, labels
or the eompo'site sample bottles, and
blank forms for recording the
veigltte of milk at •the farm, The
duties of the testers will be to test
he composite samples each month, en-
ter the tests on the record sheet's and
forward the eeme to Ottawa. With
the circular, a sample is given of
the record' tared the manner in which
it should be kept and blank applica-
tion forma, first, for assts+tance in
herd record work and, 2nd, for employ-
ment no a intik tester. It should be
abated that no postage is required
when writing to the Dairy and Cold
Storage Oomrni<sioner, Ottawa, and
Mee that the circular herd referred
to ossa be had free from the Publica-
tNons Breach at Ottawa,
Finance Canaan With W.S.S.
Canada must finance herself, and
A Savings War S tin s Stam s are a splendid
d
g p i
meatus for the conserving of the sur-
plus money of the mass of the people
fot this purpose,
most valuable in this home teaching
of geography.
A study of the physical characteris-
tics of lend, tage+blier with their rela-
tion to lite and especially the life of
the tommmnnty, :forms An dmporba.nt
part of geography iu +the schools of
today. This ,may be learned first
hand on the farm. The reentry
child has an opportunity 'bo feel,
know and work in various 'sons and
beaten fa.ntclies with the emetics And
crops of each, The ferns. furnishes
oppoituniby ;for a liberal education
along Albs line, Gement/welt hullo -
ties on ioa:i!s, markets, roads and road
buildings, choice of crepe, drainage,
boy's' and girl's' poultry' clubs, corn
and pig clubs, •the ebiikation of
waste band, tore exeellent 'textbooks,
The foreign news Ln !Can ddalilr pap -
ere met be read to him and ampleinued.
A good encyclope'dta should fon e
past of Nye home 1ubraoy, within easy
It,ece!ss of the bays and girl's,
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4
LJV it i) GROW YOI'NG
1, To bit ,o many compensakd�atua
?'nr growing old that when you ;stop
co mount them it .reins almost a pi'6y
that, you .anetiet be born old', Yerath
has a glory of itis own, but It is as
the g:'cry of the mane compared to
the glory of the in of mid-life tee
the river light et the moon of old
age. Fur what is physleai beauty,
feeler .and form and action, compared
to the beauty of mind and spirit which
only 1'fe can bring? $,
What is youth anyway? Is a the
eon,',itin❑ id having a new body or is
e1 a state: of mind and ,='ou1 which holds
Perennial spring? Wh:ch is older,
Aho stripling who delivers hie high
1.715:;!.•1 orat:oa and .Nettle, all the
qi '.nr,: of the center:? or ll`r
father who sits grinning in the auc4,-
ence? Which is younger, the lied
who ..pinks he knows, or the man who
1...- found out that he doesn't know
mu. h of anything, and so m;gest as
ue:1 enjoy1 f
The a +, t :.f•- ht in life to nee is a
young folks .. rcicty where the nrem-
he.re get together to reform the world.
et may be s -debatteng c ociety cr a
c ha:rch league, but which ever it le of
the members are imbued with the
hlea that they have a mission and a
message different from ethere they
are pathetic, aged figures I speak
from the depths of exper ere. I
once :was one of them. For some
year:, I 1 eov I had a sp- el inte-
r:age to 10101en mankind•
It was a geed mini -tier with a eepee
of humor who took the idea our. of ate.
There 'was quite a group of u, young-
men
oung
men and young woman, all : o worried
above the world and the othets in the
group, that we o:cabin% sec we needed
any p-ersonal charges, I suspect we
tried that poor preacher sadly, At any
rate after an unix:mate etrenuous
evening meeting where we tackled
every iocial problem and very per-
son not p.esent, but r_eg'eoted to ask
the Almighty to give us personal aide,
our good minister arar'e, reed the
verse about the mote in our brother's
eye and the beam ,ln our own, and
then in gentle tones told us to recall
that the Great Jehovah had been
sitsuggbing for several odd thousands
of years i m Jeform the world aglr,Zi
#ar hail, not made a perfect eel). There-
fore, did it not seem hopeless for a
band of young men and women, how-
ever earnest, to expect to do the job
in a decade. And hadn't we be -tear
give et up and tackle something easier,
like getting the Sunday dinner every
other week so mother could get out
to church, and paying a little more
for our board et hones so father could
discard the overeat he had worn for
the past generation?
Meetly we followed !ria advice and
we ail began to grew younger from
that day on. We began to see what
a futile there worry is, and little by
little wisdom came to us, and with it
youth.
For youth comes only with years.
If you donit believe it, watch the gen-
eraet'ons. Who enjoys the children
more., the parents or the grand-
parenbs. Father and mc'ther are too
4l -?lad with the :terrible res'pon ability
of bending the twig aright really bo
enjoy the boys and ghats. Nemeth -
hood is real and earnest to them and
1 are constantly on the allot fear
thee r
nipin the bud. Grand -
bad habits bo
father and grandmother 'have learned
from briag:ng up their own that we
al go through the same sets of ex-
periences and thee everything rights
itself in time. So they laugh with
the children. Probaldy father and
mother complain that the 'alcl folks
are getting childish. But they acro
gutting wise.
The properly developed' human
grows younger as the days stip by.
Those Who don't, have been'bhwartied
of flee and free devolopanent,-D.H.
Bullis In Fibre.
Bulbs grown in bowls of prepared
fibre generally give satisfactory re-
sults, The fibre holds the moi:sturc
for a long time and needs water only
ence in every two or three donys, Not
oney hyacinth:., paper white nerei's�ere
fo•rciaug Ware, crocuses, srrowcirops,
Raman hyadiths, but also oily of the
v'a'lley, freacias, c ,;a Nees., nil -seas,
leiums of all :orbs, feriae, wat.eones,
asparagus, cyperus, Eiereleh ivy and
ether planes do well is bowel's of mime
fibre, aril! many succeed with fibre
for bailee plants -that fail with earth
in pats. The reason is that the fibro
holds the mct sture for a long time,
end 'if neglected for a day the plaints
do not suff+ar as they do when in pots.
To negl'et tulip's growing in (thee
will be fatal. Once the long hairlike
roots of tulips become dry the pares
close up and the bulbs "go blind:" that
is they produce no flowers,
When the plants are growing vigor -
only and flowers appearing be care-
ful not to allow else 'fibre to become
dry. ICe'ep it rncl'�st if necessary to '
water twice/ a day. Then the pianoe
will flourish •and remain a eon tittle in
fl'o'wcrc.
The Maltarajab of Mysore has a
throne made of solid gold, beautiful..
ly chased and set with precious stones,
and resting on four huge bons, also
of solid gold, Above the 'throne
which ,is coveted with a thick cushion
of cloth of gold with pearl tassels is .
a gold umbrella shinneeriug winh.
pearls and precious stones, on top ol;
which is a goldeneacock encrusted
with diamonds aridennenalds, 1tolr1inpl`
in its beak a largo emerald pendant,
Silver steps lead up to bl'is seat