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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-2-26, Page 7A Boy's Likes and Dislikes -- Unfairness, A boy has itis Mee and dislikes, and lap hes tom hard, Why; a boy Without his lilces and dislikes would he e. human chameleon, bo would change color every time he aseeelated with u different boy or bunch d boys—what the follows 'were, he; would be. A boy has an instinctive dislike for unfairness, If a boy likes unfairness it is not a natural taste; it has to be learned by troublesome lessons while he is 'having an awful time to 'still his eonseienco as it seems to shout at him, "It isn't fair! It isn't fair!" i It is an acquired taste, like the taste for bitter beer. Every drop of 'blood lin the veins of a boy naturally rebels against trick- �ery, deceit and unfairness. My boy, you can grow up to be tricky, unfair, dishonest, but the Lord knows that you will have a hard time doing it. There is one thing that has more lives than a eat, and that this is the ,conscience of a 'boy, Just as." boy thinks he has a strangle hold on his. conscience it awakes and performs more stunts than a crack aviator. - Fairness appeals to a boy with irreeistiblo power. My good father's fairness never seemed to fell. I was punished unjustly or hastily. On the old farm there were always tasks that seemed to be beckoning to father, and saying, "Me next!" To me they seemed to say, "Watch oat! • I will get you yet!" But father was always fair when lie set me a task, he never expected a boy to do two days' work in one day. This reminds me of 'the story of the .father who - was. accustomed r t -eon' to lay out big stunts of work for his three boys whenever he wasabsent for a day, Thle is the story: One day the old farmer wont to town, Before leaving he laid out a big days work for the, boys. dust -for fun one of the boys Said: "Dad, what shall wa do when that work Is all done? If dad had said; "Do, why go fishing, of course," the boys would have said; "Dad's all rig«t!" No, he Maid: "Weil, boys you can hoe that patch o' corn next to the old pasture." The boys winked 'at each other and Mild: 'cWe1I, what shall we do next, dad?" Dad begun to suspect that his boys' were incipient humorists, Dad could also be humorous when opportunity smiled upon him, He would show these boys a thing or two. So he quickly added a nice bunch of extra tasks, 'and said: "Now, boys, when all those jobs are finished you can saw up the wagon and ,split • the tongue into kindling wood." Dad 'went away, .oltueltling to him- self, but When he returned the tasks were all done and the wagon tongue had been reduced to kindling. The temptation had been too great and the boys had nearly worked themselves to death to get the best of dad. I ex- pect that dad did a lot of thinking while ho was using that expensive kindling. But you do not have that kind of -a dad. He is fair with you; are you fair with film? Shun unfair- ness as you would the smallpox;: it would pit your life as smallpox does your face. Unfairness in work, play, studies—unfairness in anything. Take uo tricky thoughts and unfair plans to bed with :you —rrhy be a bed- warmer for evil? 4ete,gqe,a4E‹<E ,E<d44�e� e,,t-. I If for any' cause the appetite is net i good and a sufficient quantity of food Health tt cannot lte taken at meal times, a light v .JRt7,ae99SS a3ie3ne93•`J'3,3(t3it4n.... Diet for the Anaemic, in entering for children or adults ;suffering from anaemia those foods which are rich in iron are desirable, and each menu, while nourishing in character, shouldalso be of a mature to be easily assimilated, As a rule, women softer more from anaemia than anen, and for systemic reasons they also require -a larger per -1 centage of iron even in a normal diet. Beef juice- (made from fresh beef) is nearly always ordered by a physi- cian for an ana:ntic patient, and as every one does not know just hots to prepare it the following directions are given: Purchase half a pound of •round" steak and 'broil it just enough to sear it lightly on both sides, then remove from the fire, cut in pieces ,and dust lightly with salt (this starts the juices). Place each piece in the meat press and screw down the handle as tightly as possible. Let stand for three or four minutes and turn the handle two or three times more; then' pour off the juice that forms in the cap, and continue with the meat until -all is used, By 'letting it stand in this way considerable more of the juice will be extracted. Set the juice aside and remove the fat that will form in a cake on top. The meat may be scraped and put through- a mean chopper, no heat' being used. When ready to use the juice set the vessel containing it in a larger ves- sel of very hot water. Never heat in saucepan by contact with direct !teat, as the juice will coagulate, turn a dark ;brown and be •prackicaliy ruined. Beets and carrots are also classed among. foods for the anaemic, although not very rich in ,iron, and as they both' lend themselves to a variety of dishes,l use them whenever passible. To prepare the puree of spinach with eggs cook the spinach in as tit- tle water as possible. -. When tender chop and press through a coarse -sieve. Add salt, paprika and a.little bacon dripping, reheat andto each quart of the uncooked vegetable add a finely chopped hard boiled egg. Mix' well before serving. Salads made from 'left -over spinach are delicious. One variety is made from the cooked vegetable, seasoned with a French dressing and molded in small cups, with slices of hard boiled eggs; or a bed of the spinach:, can :be laid on i;he salad platter, Large tips of canned asparagus laid over; the top 'and the whole moistened with le vinaigrette dressing. lunch at 11 a.m. and another Before retiring may be necessary. A glass of whole milk with a beaten egg yolk, a capful of hot broth with the same addition, or half a coffee eup of beef juice with a slice of toasted whole wheat bread are all excellent for these "'between meal lunches," which help to liner ease the quantity and quality ed the blood supply. Laundry Tickets Based on Names of Gods. It appears that Chinese laundrymen have a system of ticketing a bundle of soiled clothes based on the many gods and goddesses of China. Though it is complicated, the washerinan seldom delivers a bundle of washed clothes to the wrong person. ' Moreover, if the.: ticket is lost the chances are that one•Will•not'get his. linen unless he is a'rZ>articular friend: of •the'proprietor. ^•'Instanees• are -en record where an American has gone to court to force the Chinaman to yield up the linen, but the judge was not convinced that the case of the white man was a good one. The Chinese laundryman at the be- ginning of each week makes out a batch of checks in duplicate to be used as wash tickets., He selects the name of some god or goddess Or of some object as the sun, the moon or the stars. To this name he prefixes a number, as "Moon No, 1," "Moon No. 2," ant so on: in. the„spacer between,. the two legends—for the -signs are re-' peated twice—he .hastt his own- name; es, for instance, Kong:Loo. When a customer takes a bundle of washing to the laundry.theChfnarnan; .111-st:tearing a ticket in two in. a ragged fashion, puts one-half on the packet for reference, the other half he gives as a receipt, Rebuilding Belgian Roads. In its reconstruction program, Bel- gium is preparing extensive road im- provements, the announcement com- ing from the Minister of Public Works that it is intended to make the new 13elgian' roads the 'finest, elf- possible, in the world. The present' program includes the remelting of a network of roads which will connect Brussels with all important towns -and centres, and will afford communication by means of good cross-country roads be- tween Various tourist resorts, the principal devastated districts, and the battlefields of Flanders: The cost is estimated at 60,000,000 francs, an indication that good roads are regarded as a valuable national asset. The Face -i n the Mass Wo ought to know our own faces, every line and feature, every light and -"Shadow,' We see them, often enough in the mirror and sorely have every opportunity to study then; carefully. If we mot ourselves in the street, we should probably know ourselves, al- though no, dotiibt the meeting would bring us a good deal of puzzle and' shock, Yet, in spite of the mirror, it may be eon ` said that In dense we never really see ourselves, at any rate as others Pee us. How -close and intimate is our hnowlgdge of the faces of those we Mite! How we follow and study every little change of expression, treasitre it and meditate on It, carry it about • with us in faience and darkness and absence! What strange gleams of Joy 'light •those faces, what, sudden gusts OP passion and grief pass over them, what suggestions of mystery and anxiety and (Motion, all reflected ill them with absolute unconsctous- ness, watts -complete and utter indif- ference ndiEference on the part of the owners to what they are expressing or how they entrees it, ant we pass through wave after wave a the flutteringa etorany current of evotiyday life just such changes take place in our own features. What do we know about theta? *We see the face in the glass, the set face, the face that is seeing itself .and is preoccupied for the moment with that seeing, with no room for all those other bewilder• ing emotions and expressions that do not come at alt when tiny are sought for and thought about. The face an the glass is a meek, something un- cohaeious, something artificial, never the face -that our friends study and love as we loVe and study theirs. So if, with the aid of On glass, wo try to cultivate the amiable, all we get is a photographer's smile, and every- one knows What that is. Yet there are people who apparently make a buslntiss of it, They study not only their teatime but their expressions, endeavor to produce fu thomselvhs what charms them in °there, seek by practice to veneer an anxious or sneer- ing or unkindly soul, with a charming countenance and an engaging` smile, They 1514 alta the result is artifice, pretense, convention, a vague sense in the beholder that the mete la not b.oneeet and the countonance not real, Theta le batt one Miro Way to look pleasant, and that Is to foot tlteasant, We Raise Our Hata. Do yea know how It Dame about that a mall takes off his hat when he Meseta a lady he kacrwet • Is the olden days, when a knight strived at a neighboring oaetle, he took oft We helmet to show hie host and friettde that Inc did not suspect them of, ulterior mo�tves, and did not anticipate a bang on the head with a sword or'L tna4e! To cuter helmeted amounted to saying that he preferred to run no risks, From title -has come the custom of a man baring his head us greeting, That a man should take orf pts right g1OGe before glancing hands With a woman comes from the same period, when , travellers wore iron gauntlete, which were removed to avoid injuring en uncovered hand. The custom of tiring artillery sa- lutes comes to us from the time- when gune were first used( It was then coa- eidered polite and courteous to any great posse:nage who happened to an rive at your castle tp load all your guts with $hotted rounds—not blank —and to Are theta off as he arrived at your threshold, The reason fordoing this was 10 show,how you trusted your guest by emptying all the 'guns just before he came into their range. This practice was not kept up very long. Blank rounds were soon fired instead of real onee, They were not so dangerous! The origin of saluting the quarter- decif when one •boards a man-of-war is that in days gone by, when a cruel - fix was always placed' at the stern of the vessel, it was, of course, saluted by all who came on board. Though the crucifix has disappeared, the cue - tom remains, and men still salute the place where it used to be. The custom of offering the right hand is the same practically as that of baring the head or of firing salutes. When one man met another in (eng- age times, he held out his unarmed sword -hand to allow, that hie inten- tions were not evil, The habit of mounting a horse on the near side came about because as a man wore hie sword on the left he could not .very.well 'mount his horse -on that side. -.Th is, must be a cont- paratively. recent-customnlor swords were: worn'. .quite short and on the' right side,even-in the first years of thte:Christian era. ,+ 'The wearingof trousers, is also a recent custom:-- .Even. to this day the greater part of the human race—when it is not unclothed—wears. shirts or draperies of some sort. The cassock, or soutane, as worn by Roman Catho- lic priests, was the dress usually worn by gentlemen up to more or less re- cent times. Man's Age on Earth. A geologist, welting to the Scientific Americas, describes by means of a graphic chart the comparative lengths of the different periods of the age of the earth. The writer's object is, ap- parently, to convey an idea of the in- significance of human affairs viewed from the standpoint of time. To this end he places the age of the earth ar- bitrarily at seventy-two million years, represented by a clock dial of twenty- four hours—three million years to each hour. On- the - aboye basis the first six hdire of the clock represents Aztec time, the earliest conjectural period '01 the - earth's formation—eighteen million years; the next six ]fours Eozoic and the next eight Patezot° tura—eighteen million and twenty- four niillioat years, a respectively— periods of mineral and vegetable for- mations. In the next three hours -ani- mal life ' developed—Mesozoic time, nine million, years, that is from the twentieth to the twenty-third hour. Thus, the last hour of the twenty- efou-three million years of geologic ;time—represents Neozotc time, which includes the appearance of humttlt life •15 the quarternary period. , It then appears that this last divi- ston• of the tweuty-four hours, the 'gltarternary period, as shown in only ten minutes—in-other words, one-half million years-. The existence of human life on the earth, therefore, bears the same relation to the age of the earth as ten minutes does td twenty-four hours. But since the period el' writ- ten history is estimated roughly at only six thousand years, this last di- vision would hardly show on our chart, since it would only be twelve seconds in duration, Making Daylight. An apparatus which is said to pro- duce artificial daylight was recently exhibited at a meeting of the Illumi- nating Engineering Society in London, England, The apparatus which is said to Inn- - The apparatus is surprisingly sim- ple, and it is possible to obtain re- sults With an electric bump of 300 candle power. Below the bulb an opaque reflector i5 fitted in such a way that the rays are projected up- wards against a screen of various colors arranged in small patches. The light which falls from the screen pre- sents colored material in its daylight hue, TWO PARTS OF HUMAN -MIND THE CONSCIOUS.. A.ND THE SUBCONSCIOUS. Pomer er Receives Impressions and Latter Puts Them Into Cold ,Storage, To the ma erity)of people the mind 10 simply P sim l that art of themselyos that thinks about and remembers things, But as a matter of fact the greater Pert of the mind's work cone -lets in enabling us to forget, for the time be- ing, all that we have ever .known. Fortunately for our peace of mind we can remember oily one thing at one and the same moment, At that moment;• all that we have learned,, .ex, perieneed, and done in our past life is apparently obliterated. Where has 1t gone? It is simply ytored'for use, immedi- ate or future, in a separate part of our mind—fn what is called the unconsct 005 or subconscious. entad. The con- scious part of the mind 15' that portion which receives impressions from the outside world, feels, acts, and recol• leets from moment to moment, avid then forgets by passing all these ex- periences "into store" in the suboon• ecbous—where they wait till called for. r An illustration of the relative pro- portions' of the conscious and subcon- scious parts of the mind is provided by an iceberg,,, only one-eighth "of which is visible„ seven -eighths being submerged. It is said that thls"relatively vast subconsciousness. of ours remembers everything that has happened to us since the day we were born, and' af- fects our lives accordingly. We do not at anytime consciously remember, perhaps, more than a fraction of these experiences; but our sleepless sub- consciousness does. They are all there in cold storage. • These experiences which our con serous memory -has forgotten, but our -subconscious uses sometimes to our advantage and occasionally to our un- doing, account for much in our con- duct—our desires, our fears, our suc- cesses, our failures, and our ailments which would otherwise be inexplic- able. Are You a Day -Dreamer? Take, for example, one of those curious cases of shell -shock. A soldier suffering from this partly nervous and partly mental` disorder cannot sleep and develops suicidal tendencies,. On being questioned it turns out that he always sees eyes watching hint in the -dark. By a process of mind analysis, this peculiar phobia, or fear, is Crated back to the clreumstanees connected .with the death of one of his -friends. Both he and his friend were blown up by a shell. When the sick man came to himself he stumbled over his friend lying face downwards. He turned him over. The man was dead, but his eyes were wide open, This gave the sick man a terrible Shock, but while hie conscious mind had forgotten the incident, his sub- conscious had not, and kept the terri- fying apparition of the staring eyes ever before him. When this was ex- plained to the soldier, Inc was able to reason out the cause of his fear in a sensible way, and was speedily cured of his dread. The subtonacious mind, however, often does cls a good turn. The bril- liant ideas that _strike us, the sudden jog to .the memory, the overnight solution of a problem.or difficulty that perplexed us . the previous day—all these are the work ot.the subconscious mind. It might be likened to a secret, sileat-working dynttpio, operating as- siduously day and night, and storing up electricity which, unklyown, at ap- plies to allsorts of purpobes. "Such stuff as dreams are made of” is also provided- by the unconscious mind, which rises and takes frill con- trol when the conscious self sinks in- to :slumber. Day -dreaming, reverie, and uncontrollable mind -wandering are phases of subconscious activity which, if allowed to develop unduly, are likely to' result in mental break- down. Stumped! "It's no use," sighed tate nature ,)riz- ard, "1 may as'wallgive tip-" "What is bothering you?" asked his companion, sympathically. "I started a few years ago on a whim 0f mine. I took a head of cab- bage and crossed,11 with a white po- tato, and grew eyes on it; then I crossed them with a cornstalk and grew ears on it; then I crossed that with a celery and grew a neck on it; then I crossed that with a coed -nut and grew hair on It, but hanged it I can figure out what to do for a nose and mouth!" . Chilled fish from Newfoundland is prepared int cold storage plant, which can deal tenth 200,000 lbs. of fish a day, Here's a Perfect rood, ai fence -holds that milk is a perfect htnnaa food, and some idea oR its (m• portauce may bo gained from the fact that about,otte'sixth of Hie total tope of an average family' as fur lege by Its produo1.a i 0 the manrmals whose intik !sued forvarious food In different pari: oR tate world may by tnoiittone ripe goat, the initiate in India, the llama In South Ameltiea, the camel In desert coun- tries and the mare.on the steppes of Russia and Central Asia. Sheep's milk is used in some countrboe for making cheese and tate tnilk of relit• deers is commonly used in Arctic re- gioae. In America and most of Eu- rope, however, the mills of °owe so far surpasses all other kinds la a Ma portanco that wheh the word milk is used it is understood to refer to cow's milk, Good, -unadulterated, milk should contain about 7'per eeut, water and 18 per,oent, solids: Milk contains bacteria of many kinds and in varying numbers. They cause the sowing of milk as well as the ripening of cream and cheese, and produce many other changes in the appearance and flavor. The number present in freshly drawn milk varies enormously with the con- ditions of milking, and, as they aro greatly inerel4sed with dirty and care- less handling, cleanliness in all mat- ters pertaining to milk, whether in the barnyard, In marketing or In the home, cannot be too strongly insisted upon. Disease germs) spelt as those of typhoid, diphtheria; scarlet fever and tuberculosis., may be carried in milk, so that the purity -of the milk supply is of Vital, importance, The problem of peeping milk sweet is pne.of checking the growth of the bacteria, and as they are inactive at a temperature below 50 Fahr„ • milk shotild be kept in a cool place. Two common methods for preserving milk are . pasteurisation and sterilization. In the former the aim is to apply heat in such a way as to kill most of the bacterid without producing undesfr- able changes, in the milk; in the lat- ter to apply enough heat to kill all the bacteria, 'but with the 'least pos. slbie undesirable change, What is commonly called the riolt- atess of milk depends upon the amount of butter fat it contains. The value' of milk Tor adults' is is combination with other foods, not as a beverage merely; but to supply in part the materials needed for the body. Unless exceedingly high prices, are paid for it, milk 1s fully as economical a source of nutriment as other animal foods, but more costly than most staple vegetable products. Milk, how- ever, towever, requires no pi'eparation, has no waste and is more thoroughly digest- ed than most vegetable foods, Butter Churns Made in British Arsenal. Even the great Woolwich 'arsenal has turned from the manufacture of war material to the peaceful pursuits of trade, says a London despatch, Tett thousand butter churns. have been manufactured In the great building which during the war sent out vast quantities of munitions for use against the Germans. The nickel purchased to manufac- ture bullets is being' Lysed in the ar- • renal to make flvecent pietee for Bri- tish Honduras currency, There is a' world shortage or locomotives and railway cars. To meet this it has been :decided to manufacture these articues in the arsenal and work already is un- der way there on oraers for 2,500 care, 1,000 .logomotives and tor repair work on 700 care, This serves a double purpose. Thir- ty thousand persons now are employ- ed in the arsenal where 110,000 were at work in wartime. ' Thousands of these men are Allied munition wont. ers. By.keepirlg these busy making Ibcomotives and other peaceful pro- ducta the government not only gives them work, but retains their services. In event of another war they could return immediately to the munition works in which they are skilled. One, of the side -line products of the arsenal since the armistice has been the striking of 6,000,000 medals. List of -War Criminals Makes 200 -Page Book. The official list of those Germans whose extradition is demanded by the Allies was recently issued by the Foreign Office at London. The text of the original covering note and of the new note referring to Baron von Lersner's refusal to accept the list was not made public. A paper bound book of more than 200 pages contains the names of the 800 persons or groups, with their rank and the accusations against them. In ntauy cases where names are not known a general description of the duties of the accused is given. Four pages are devoted to Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg and Gen. Laden. duff, the same aeeusatibns serving for boot of them. One ton of metal will furnish 10,- 000 .gross of pen -nibs. QUEBEC HAIRDOR IN WINTER. Fishing sauadts, trawlers, woo doe freighters, and oven a few of Iluele Sani's "Engle" boats the ice of Quebec harbor Basin for the winter, 0,1 up in fringing People' to Jesus And they come unto hini, bring. Ing one sick of the pfuley, whteh wee borne of four,.. -Mit, l.11brit, 2, 8, ` Weiet movement there' is hi this narrative, ay these men 'bring their needy friend to the Great i'hynteiunl 81. is a March to victory. We witness a palsied man borne of four to web being and blessedryess. Here we.have the evangel of Ohnist energized, It was in time of Christ's power and popularity. He had pity and •One- passion on tip multitude. The, unled, purposeless crowd is a pathetic sight: They aye sheep without a shepherd, outside the fold, walking up and down the streets. Look at their fakes, What are they seeking'? They know not What—getting and spending. This great mass movement with its inde- finite hunger, its inarticulate longing, moves but does not get anywhero. The power of Ged9s present In this incident. There is business to be dote in one house, one life to be saved. How many we know, tin the flood tide of life, wounded and laid aside! Shut-ins. Perhaps it is your sboiy. Possibly some friend of yours, out off in his prime just when life was becom- ing interesting. It is mysterious, but wo must believe that, viewed in the light of the far reaeleing end, "all things work together for good to totem that love 'God." This man is with friends, They kept him 4n touch with life. How grate- ful we should be for the amenities of friendship! These friends in the Bible story had seen Jesus touch peo- ple and restore .them. They were re- solved that their friend should hovel bis chance. Such friendships help sweeten human Life. The touch on the shoulder, the look of kindness, the word of encouragement, means con- - tinents of heavenly grace. Think what it meant to that man to have four mon mold out to him the hope of re- covery. It was the opening of a win- dow into visions of larger usefulness. It was a gateway unto 'heaven, Corning to the Master, Thitilr; •too, what must have been in that, j 'gi• mind when w he first -saw the' -Master's wonderful -face; His friends were hound to get him to'the greatSpeoialist—Choist—for what He might --do for hint, The crowd must give way. Here were fair determined Andrews. Think, -also, of the diffi- culty of introducing their friend 'to aesus. The Mali had a paralyzed botly, Ha leas impotent, The blind can walk, the lame can lean, but the paralyzed moat wait, To him rho day had lost its joy, 1110 night its rest. There is ;tumor alon,gnide of the :lot the , They had to onlay, anpathos Oriental icedatonythrough 'the streets. Tt may seem -incongruous to solace, hut de not be afraid of humor in the sick roorn. There is room for the snails in religion, While we must admire their persisteney, we are amused at the situation. They broke through. -the roof, Everything had to give way. Vero was a soul in desperate need. The of r• rienwm valuelife than the profpertyd,as ',They0fe unere- fastened the conventions and let them go• The Greater Need. At last they stand In the place of victory—Hie presence, Christ spoke the first word, "Son." Like the pro- digal's father, dt revealed an illumined rclationsidp. Ileiclid not wait to hear the story, for He knew what was in man. "Thy sins be forgiven thee" That was net what he came for. It was not what his friends expected to hear. Jesus read his need. Ms emphasis is first upon soul health. As he was cleansed by the blessed touch the ddseaae passed away. After the greater need was met, the lesser was pronicled for. The seine path is trodden to -day - Men with a lack of correspondence in their lives need to speak face to face with the Christ about their problem, whatever it may be, Soul -sick people imagine that they need everything but the Great Physician. To reach Hirn 'the same obstacles may have to be overcome to -day. Dis- miss the Customs if necessary. There must be the personal approach. Read in Stone's "Recruiting for Christ," how Turnbull, Kem'berly, Moody, Mott and Grenfell were 'brought by friends to the Lord Jesus Christ, Every read- er of this paragraph may be a like influence. Do you appreciate a man's utter helplessness without Christ? • Work -your way' through prejudice wand faultfinding, 'break through the conventions. Get men in through the 'outskirts of the crowd. Sen that they come face be face with the • Master, that -they may hear from His lips words greater than any spoken by the wor'ld's foremost orators—the biggest word that God ever spoke—"Son, thy, sins be forgiven thee."—Rev. J,! Woodman Babbitt. Perfume Manufactthe a Most Poetic Industry. The history of perfumes is a part of the history of civilization itself. From the perfumed sails that wafted Cleopatra down the Nile to the scent- ed bath of milk that was the dally en- joyment of the Empress Josephine, or the sweet smelling fountains in the royal palace of St, Petersburg, in the days of the Czars, the essence of flowers has been indispensable to the luxurious existeuce. The perfume centre at the present time is the quaint old French town of Grasse, in the Maritime Alps, the poet- ic industry of which is the basis of its prosperity. • in ascending to the town of Grasse from the picturesque little station,sthe visitor finds his path (yang through beautiful terraoed plantations of jas- mine and the lovely Provence rose, and- past orchards of olive trees, be- neath the shade of which are cu(ti-1 vated violets, The area -devoted to flower culture covers 145,000 acres. During the months of April, May, June and July the fields are literally alive with sonny -faced Hien, women, and children gathering the fragrant `harvests. They pick the blossoms by hand into baskets and then carry them to the factories, where they. are di- vided and sorted. Asthe women come In from the ad- joining fields they empty theirloaded baskets out on the floor, until it is kneedeep lu flowera, and to walk across it would mean the crashing of thousands of roses. in one season a single establishment uses 1,300 tons of orange blossoms, 330 tons of roses, 147 tons of violets and 12? tons of las= mine, to say nothing of- great quanti- ties of scented woods. Afterithe sorting, which is done at long benches by scores of Wlufte cap- ped girls, the flowers go to the'dlstil- lery. Some yield their perfume after distillation with water or steam; others undergo what is called macera- tion. In this process the flowers are steeped in heated fat, where they are left -until all their fragrance is ex- tracted. Next they are drained off In wooden trays and fresh flowers aro added to the fat. The fat that has ab- sorbed the essence of the flowers is called pomade, and is sent In this form to performers all over the world, who by means of alcohol extract its sweet- ness. The jasmine, tuberose and violet are so delicate that they scarcely give out any essence by distillation and must be subjected to enileurage. The most expensive perfume is of course attar of roses, for it requires no lees than forty-eight pounds of rose leaves to make one gram of oil. Stones Natural Magnets. In Nevada are found curious miner- al specimens known as "sociable stones." No better name could be given them, since when a few are din ti'lbuted over a level floor two or three feet apart they will begin to move tc- ward each 'other t0 a common centre with an enmity that Is ludicrous, Campers first noticed these stones. They had used wrapping paper for a table cloth and weighted the corners with some of the stones spread over the level top of a boulder. A few mo- ments later one of the men noticed that the paper was flapping in the breeze and that the four or five stones were huddled in a group in the middle of the`paper like a nest of eggs. Ile thought the wind was responsible, straightened them and added more stones. The next time he looked around the stenos were back in the heap again. Once more he replaced'the stones and sat dowu to watch them. They began to roll and hitch along toward one an- other again until they were to a pile. Carries Speedy Train, A Swedish railroad has built a re- inforced concrete bridge with an arched span nearly 300 feet long, de- signed to cafry trains at a speed of 60 miles an hour. Nearly 70,000,000 wild animals are killed yearly for their fur. The Eternal Guest All men are seekers, all traverse the wide world with hungry eyes, reach- ing out dumbly, vaguely, for some- thing, often they cannot tell what, but always something. With some it is p"raotical success, fortune, reputation, useful achievement; with some it is the mad, long desire to create what is beautiful, to leave work behind them for the delight of then and the per- petuation of glory; and some seep love—the affection, esteem and ad- ruh'atiou of their fellows, the devoted tenderness of a few Who may be near them and cherisit them. But of all the wide searches et life the most Im- portant, the most deeply ftentful is the search for God. Yet hoyv we neglect (L In the hurry and bustle of mere trivet things! Most of ua would readily admit that without God all our minor ends are nothing. Yet we think of them pas. stonately, and of God, alas! too set. dont, And sometimes we urge tint it is reverence that keeps God out of the toe degrading rattle og out daily life. Yet there have been ages when men treated 'Him like a familiar friend, took tiletr little troubles to Him as to cue who would aitd-ootild and did help them, I1, Is a poor plea of reverenOe that simply reveres God out of our lives. To be sure, no one urges that the search for God should interfere witfi useful action. The Orient drowned It. self 111 coutenij ttttiott end perished. The dreaming monk o1 the Middle Ages let the rapture of God divert hhtn front all the busy variety of human care. If God put us here, He gurely put us here to work, not to dream. But dreaming, at any rate of God, would not seem to be the pressing danger of Canada to -duty. It is trite also that the restless ac- tivity of the search for God sometimes dofeals itself, if we inquire too much, if we analyze ton much, we are liicoly. to l0so ourselves in a wilderness of sin speculation turd to roll up clouds tout put God farther on frau: us than; ever. A very wise man has lately. written tho story of his own education in which he shows bow he educated himself into absolute ignore,nce non only of God but of everything else. Yet' tt,g are toll; that we should become as little 01+116ren, if we would onion the Kingdom of heaven, But, uo matter in what spirit We nnq dertako the search for God, it ra melee the one great thing of life. All other problems and struggles pale be. aide it. It altars, ennobles, trans.; fonts, transfigures common thoughts, common sufferings, common hopes, common souls. It is likq a sudden light thrust into a great vise et ale. baster, which turtle cold nothingness into a wide radiance of transfusing glory. What the world 1>ee:`$ to -day even more than peace, even more than leagues of nations, is -to acquire en .overwhelming consciousness of the all -absorbing, the alt-enfold111g, the eternal quest of God,