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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1919-6-26, Page 6• el -TAPPER IN,—(Cont'd.) There was plenty to thils about, There were all the Qld interests, and there Was businees, Burke .was giv- ing himself heart and sari to business these daye. In July he won another promotion, and wee given an advance n wages, Often to Berke's infinite goy, his father consulted him :rhea matters and things quite beyond his normal position, and showed in other ways his Approval of his son'a pro- gTess, Helen, the =triage,' and the Dale Street bane life were never Mentioned—foe Which Haiku was thankful, .'He couldn't say anything:I'd want to hear, said Burke to himself, at titles. "And I—I can't "Say anything • he wants to hear. Best forget it— . • 1 we can," To "forget it" seemed, indeed, in these days, to be Burke's aim and effort. Always had Burke tried to •f orget things. From the day his six- * months -old fingers had flung the offending Tattle behind him had Burke endeavored to theist out of sight and mind everything. that an- noyed—and Helen and marriage had become very annoying. Syetematic- ally, therefore, he was trying to for- get them them. is attitude, indeed, was not Alike that of a small • boy who, weary of his •game of marbles, cries, "Oh, come, let's play something else. Pm 'tired of this!"—an • attitude which, netheally, was not conducive to happiness, either for himself or for anyone else—particrslarly as the game he was playing was marriage, not marbles. The seminar passe l rind October came. Life at the Dale Street flat had settled into. a monotony of dis- ' content end dreariaess. Relent dis- couraged, disappointed; and far from well, dragged through the housework day by elay, wishing- each night that it were morning, and each morning that it were night—a state of mirki scarcely oondueiye to happiness On her part. For all that Burke was away so many evenings now, Helen was net so lonely as she had, been in the 'spring; for in Mrs. Jones's place had . come a. new *neighbor, Mrs. Cobb. And Mrs. Cobb was evert brighter and more originalethat Mrs, Jones ever was, and Helen liked her very much. Shewas a mine of information as to housekeeping secrets, and she was teaching Helen how to make the soft and dainty little. garments that would be needed "in November. But she talked even more loudly than..Mrs. . Jones had talked; and her laugh avas nearly always the first sounde-that Burke heard across the hall every morning. Moreover, she possessed a phonograph which, •according to Helen, played "perfectly grand tunes"; and some one of these times was usually the first thing that Burke heard every night when be came home, So he called her coarse and noisy, and declared she was even 'worse than Mrs. Jones; whereat Helen retorted that of, course. he wouldn't like her, if she did --which (while possibly true) did not make him like either her or Mrs. Cobb any better. The -baby came in November. "It was a little girl. Helen wanted to 'call her "Vivian Mabelle." She said she thought that was a swell name. and that it was the name of her fav- orite heroine in a perfectly grand book. • But Burke objected strenuous, ly, He declared very emphatically that no daughter of his should have to go through life tagged like a vaudeville fiy-by-night. Of course Helen cried, and of course Burke felt ashamed of him- self. Helen's tears had always been a potent weapon—though, from over- use, they were fast losing a measure of their power. The first time he saw • her ay, the foundations of the earth sank beneath him, and he dropped into a fathomless abyss from which he thought he would never rise. It was ,he same the next tine, and the next. •The fourth time, as -he felt the now .familiar sensation of sink- ing dawn, down, down, he (tutting desperate -hands and found an unex- pected sill:sport—his temper. After that it was 'always with him. It helped to tinge with. righteous indig- nation his despair, and it kept him tram utterly melting into weak sub- serviency. Still, even yet, he was not used to them—his wife's tears. Sometimes he fled from them; some- times he endured them in dumb des- pair behind set teeth; sometimes he raved and 'ranted in a way lie was always ashamed of afterwards. But still they 'had the pewee, in a meas- ure, to make his .heart like water within him!' . • Sp•now) about the belay's. name, he called himself a brate and a 'beast to bring .teArs to 'the eyes of the, little another—toward whom,- since the baby's' advent, he felt a remorseful tenderness, But he still maintained that he co,uld„have no man. or wanart, call his daughter "Vivian Mabelle." Bet I ,ehoald think you'd let one • name enY own bahy," wailed his wife. Burke ehoked bads a hasty** word and aesurnad.•his pet "I'llebc-patient- if-it-kills-me air."' "And you Oen nano it," he sooth- ed her." "Listenl•Here are pencil and paper. Now, write down a whole lot of names that yOu'd like, and I'll promise to select one of them. Then, you'll be naming' the baby al; right. See?" -Helen did not "see" quite, that she , 'would be naming the baby; hut, know- ihg from past experience of her Miss band's temper that resistance would be unpleasant, she obediently took the papa and spent some time writing down a list of names.' Burke frowned a good deal when he saw the list, and declared that it was pretty poor picluags; and that he ought to have known better 'thu. to have bond himself to a eilly-fool promise like that. But he chose a name (he said ho would keep his word, of course), and he selected "Dorothy Elieabeth" as being less 'impossible than its accompanying "Verne," "Violets," and "Claritea Muricle," Vov the first few months after the baby's advent, Burke spent melt :more time at home; and Seemed very evidently to be trying to pay especial attentien to his Wife comfort Rad Welfare. He was proud of the baby, and sleclaved it Was the cutest little • kid going. Ile stoked, it in its ribs, ' thrust a tentative finger into the vose-leaf of a hand (emitting a tri' ithaPhant chtlekle of delight When the reee-leaf became a tightly elutchh g , little flet), and even allowed the baby ! to be placed once or twice in 11.4 anther 'reluctant and' fearful fume. Bet, for the Most part, he contented himself With merely looking at it, and asking how soon it would walk and talk, and when would it grow its teeth and hair, k uly these days the solemnity and feake was feeling' really Vito • responsibility of fatherhood. He had called Alto being s new soul. A Hale life was in his had to train. By and by Mile tiny pink roll of human- ity would bo a prattling child, a little girl; a young lady. Aad all the way she would be turning, to him for com- panionship and' valence. 'It behoov- ed him, indeed', to look well to him- self thaa he should be in all ways a fit pattern, It was'a salemn, thought. No more tempera, tantaunks, and impatience. No more idle millings end useless regrets. What mattered it if he were disillusioned and heartsick? Did he want this child of his, this beautiful daughter, to grow up in such an at- mosphere? Never! At once, there. fore, .11e must begin to cultive fa pa- tience, contentment, tranquility, and calmness of soul. He, the pattern, must be all thing that he would wish her to be. (To be continued.) A RED MAN'S INGENUITY. How a Piegan Indian Deceived His Pursnera. • , Among the many interesting stories told by members of the Canadian monoteri police is one that has to do the cleverness of an Indian, rimming One snowy a band of Cress awoke to find that ,about a dozens.Qf their ponies had been stolen durieg the night. A band to go in pursuit %Ts immediately organized, and in the course of an hour the trail was struck. The band followed it for thirty miles a more till it entered a river, and headed for a little wooded island. Smoke was rising from the trees, and an openiuge apparently the mouth of a cave, was in Plain view. Pr"esent- ly a Piegan Indian showed turnoff in front of the opening..'At his heels was a dog. Pretty soon, the dog scented the Crees, who,Were lying low. and began growling and barking. The Pawn looked up, gleamed ,about him for a moment and then instantly entered the cavo. In about ton seconds, an- other' Piegan eame round the rocks and also went in; then another, arid another and another. The Crees lay silently in the bushes,, counting,.till upward of fifty Piegane had come round the rocks end gam into the aave, and stilt they kept corning, Each carried a rifle. What at last severity men had (Ifs- aPpeared in the cave, the superstitious Cies conclUded that the evil spirit had something do with it. So thoroughly were they filled with this idea that even when re-entorcements came, which was in a few hours, they were reluctant to attack that [stead. That night, however, one Croo, los credulous than the- others, crossed over the ice to levestigate. On ap- proaching the supposed cave, he found that it was no cave at all, but simply an opening leading some ten feet rnto the rock, where It made. a turn and came out on the other side. There was the remnant of a single 00111p fire, the ponies were gone and not an Indian was in sight. The 'in - genions Piegan thief, by makitig the circuit of the passage, and the end ot the island seventy times, had so de- ceived Inc pursuers as to gain the time necessary for his escape. BEE -STINGS FOR HEADACHES. How Mother• Nature Cures the Ail- ments of Her Vast Family, • Nature, Wonderful Nature, is a sweet, motherly person. She provides remedies for all sorts of invalids, whether human, animal, bird, or M- ersa. They all receive the same kind, unfailing consideration. There is no distinction, A. severe headache is a common complaint' with Mr. Bruin. When at- eacked aoutely, he ambie along to the nearest hollow tree and steelt out the bees, who in turn become highly indignant 'and sting the intruder un- mercifally. But Mr, Bruin doese't lianas With a snort and a. shiug he ambles off home again. His headache ia cared. The boar is a staunch believer.in the medicinal qualities a the ivy -leaf, and when feeling out of sorts chooses ivy. leaves as a restorative. • Donkeys are frequent victims to melancholia; but a tonic is close at hand in tire scale -fern. It is 0 sure refresher, end bucks them svonder- fully, The chameleon is a perfectly fratern- ises little creature. It has, however, orm.hereclitary enemy. in the crow, 11 they should happen to meet, a battle - royal rages. But cautious Mr. Crow is aware of his rivet's poisonous quali- ties, and 1)01010 waging war eats. a leaf or two of laurel as A preventive against poisoning, Even the, busy little bee has an eneroy. Sometimes it le attacked by numerous very tiny trisects. When in. tested With these small mites the en- raged one Motto off to the nearest ant -hill and caeses a commotion. The angry ants come • out and ratack,'Imt, Minim tad of the rated, thee destroy or ovary there all o(f, Thebes) thus delivered of its aggres- sors, callnly white Itself away, ,If Cateda. could supply Great rn. Bel- tawith only the eggs which were formerly obtained in Russia, the arospaity of small Dumas Worth' contieee for yoga; according to the amt ian Prate Coinnuestan'e ins d forneatfort itt Londe%of 'a PUNNING NAMES, Gy e the riAhY a Pair Strut in Life With 4 Pair Nellie, • That Mise Beane einnild-merrY Pole was simply a 06111°1de:ice; that the hvin (AM and daegliter Orli of the anion should be minuet reePativelY Bone Mid May was deliberate ubeltY to childrenn , ote ih ikanYheads of tarleting iielleOlieY3 Will poor young Beane Pole have to' mulch in the owes ,of his ,eclootional career, gad how many tears the unhappy MAY Pole 511811110•riecret ere matrimony rescues bey Own ralleule! Stroh behavioe, of papillae thwara helpless rind handeile infants would paaen inr eedfide, were it net for the many instances on effielal rector(' in civil end pariah regletere, 'With very little eithrt, an inquiring reporter moved thereto IV the Beene Pole came: recently -unearthed a considerable Bet Of Manes Of 'cinched eharacta, Boma Of ' them Were jobelari ahm eap- parently were intended to convey a Pleasing or poetic suggestion, In the Waters familY, for example, three daughters were christened Gay, Placid and 'Tranquil, The destination of Westerley Breese, son of Mr, Abra- ham Weston Breese, should assuredly be the nhay; quite as certainly the army offers the one suitable career for the Infant son of Mr, Joseph P. March, aggeoffively named 'Forward: Miss Wanda Faris When she grows ups might perhaps become missionary, although her parents ' are both en gaged in the strictly secular profes- sion of cooking and catering. As for poor little Bette Penney, her tether and mother were net even Penny-wise, and were more than poundsfoolish, when ,they punished her with such a frivolously punning name. It is somewhat eaeler to pardon, al- though no one can really approve, the bestowal of names resulting in such combinations as those borne by the Misses Honey Blossom, Silver Starr, Bonny Darling, pinkie Flower, Birdie Wing and Pet Larab. '111011' mothers, no doubt, thought they sounded cute and cunning for the little dears, -when they were babies.n Unfoietuately, babies do not stay babies. Suppose Misii.Lamb is still a Pet Lamb, either long and lean or fat and wheezy, at the age of forty or fifty? Or suppose she es not Miss Lamb—but has mar- ried Mr. Lyon, Behr or Hogg? Hor- rors! And such things have happened. A good many years ago, but still un - forgotten, there was such a case; the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rose, poetically named. Wild. Little Wild Rose ---how charming! Of ourse, no one would have been expected to -fore- see that she could marry Mr. Bull, When her family had nearly stopped laughing on her betrothal and she her- seff could consider the question with- out hysterics, she decided to reverse the order of her maiden names, and become after Marriage Mrs. Rose W. Bull, instead of the intolerable Wild Bull, to which, otherwiee, fate had doomed her. Puns have their proper place, but,It is not in the town or parish register. It is a prime principle of infants' rights that every baby should have a fair start eash a fair name. • TULIP TIME IN HOLLAND Dutch Flower Farms Present a Wbre a derfPicture in May. A. strip of blazing scarlet, a plot of red that faded into rose, dazzling yel- lows, soft mauves, a heavenly patch of blue, then more bands of beautiful color—buff and mauve blending intopurple, purple, lose, salmon, and virginal white. shalt never forget that day among the tulips of Holland. I would defy anyone to go there in lefayewhen they are in their Splendor, and not come away convinced that the tulip is one of the most beautiful blos- soms in the world. To see tulips in all their bravery one must visit the Dutch flower farms. Patches of radiant bloom carpet the fields on both shies all the way from Haarlem to Leyden—fifteen miles of "fairy cradles," for there is a quaint auperstition that the fairies lay their babies to rock at night in tulip blos- soms while they dance and sing in the m 000irtie l ght, upon a time the Dutch were tulip -mad, fabulous prices were paid aor bulbs, and fortunes were lost and won; to -day tulip -growing is a steads', indotry, and, every acre of land is re- puted to be watt' $2,500. The ground is first fertilized and planted with potaitoes, so that the immured land may not be too ricr sh fo the bulbs,. then tulips are pleated the secant year. Offshoots develop on the parent bulbs, and it is the breaking up of one root into many, and developina the ;shoots, that makes -most of the business oa the Dan newer farms. Yet, driving through these fields of blossom, rich and wonderful in color, it is difficult to think of material. things, "Mona and marketing seem fat" away—except from the mind of the staid Dutchman, who looks at`hie acres of bloom and counts up cost and Profit. "Oh," I cried to my guide, "this is fairyland!" • He looked mystified. ' The manure for this tori east more than $1,500, he said. I sighed. Fairyland was far away. Yet, turning to go back to Haarlem, a breeze swept areas those fields of radiant color, tuni mysterious 101000 seemed to call in a pleasing tinkle, remembered the old,superstition, Surely the fairies were Putting their babies to bed! A Valuabile Gem. Sam, the (Mere man, returned ,froui the city with a scarfpla that .00M/tined a diamond of no usual size. it was the 1)11110a his heart, and the 011-1)' 01 his village companions. He hatted all itqutries from than 105 to its vane anti its authenticity with high scorn. His employer, after a week of bask, ing la its 11(1115)0(0, netted Sam abeut its history,- "Sam," lie said, -"is it a real din - mond?" "tVal," geld Stan, with oftim coati - once, "it. it ain't, ,been }skim out , a half dollar," lbctraefed Heney. The production of honey by the general farmer is ogling into fewer, loi the keeping of two or three ;nitride ef beef; Will Provide sufficient trolley for the aVeragabome, ,Many women And farm girls have taken over this Work to their Pleasure arel profit. The production ef comb honey seems to be considered the Most favorable plan but A larger flew of honey can be secured by extracting. Wo have followed both plans, usu- ally utilizing One hive for comb honey and the other's for extracted honey, One advantage of having the extracted honey is that it can be used in baking where the comb honey cannot; it makes delicious rookies and cakes and candies. If one de- sires to use the comb honey for this purpose the comb must be mashed, the honey squeezed out and strained, The extracted honey scan be kept for Years"and is easily stored in tan buckets; if it granulate's and it is delicious in this sugary confection, it may he melted 111 an hour by immers- ing the can in moderately hot water. It shoold never be heated over a di - tea fire or on a hot stove, A larger flow.of honey/will be se- cured by extracting, because the bees de not have to spend a lot of effort in building up a new tomb each time. When the honey is extracted and the frames put back in the hive the emp- ty cells are there all ready to be filled with new hoziey and capped by the bees. This is a great advantage in a summer when the honey flow is light: With the comb waiting to be filled the bees have only to gather the nectar and feed the brood. The hone,y chn be extracted at any time of the season, though it is well to wait until Most of the comb is filled and cap- ped. If the flow is darker or less de- sirable at olio time than at another, the different grades may be extracted separately and stored in separate receptacles. The cost of an extractor may de- ter some from using this plan, but for a good many years we have owned a part share in one and did not find this a disadvantage. Where two or three own on :t cuts the cost to a few dollars and it will last for twenty years if properly cared for; one that will accommodate four frames is lane" enough for use with from two to five or six hives. In using the extractor the caps are removed from the comb with a wide:. bladed knife and the frames put into the baskets of the extractor. The baskets are then revolved and the honey is thrown out of the comb on the outer side, after which the frames are reversed and whirled in the same manner. The extracted honey is drawn from a spout at the base of the extractor. If extracting, is done .at the end of the season The combs are . not returned to the hive but stored until needed again the follow- ing spring. Frames for producing extracted honey are similar to those used for brood. The bees are given a little foundation material to build the comb first. The frames are put in a super which fits on the top of the brood chamber. If the supers are added early in the season it will help to prevent swarming. If the day is pleasant extracting may be done in the open, though the bees will be more or less bothersome; the best place to do it is in a room where the windows and doors are covered with mosquito netting or wire screen. Extracted honey should not be stored right away, but allowed to stand a few days and strained through a fine honey screen. Care should be taken that all vessels used are clean and dry as water in honey causes it to sour readily. We store most of the honey in three and five -pound friction ten tin erinel these tire ertelly !handled, and wheos there ie a surplus Ito sell 11 15 sold more readily In small bulk. ' • How To Hang -Pictures), Hang largo pictures with two wires and -two hooks. Small sizes need a single wire Tun from centre of picture to hook at moulding, or may be fastened with push take. Lot picture seat flat against wall, by attaching wire neer 'top of frame instead of one-third the Way. dowu. Hang about on eye level, wittily with lower edge on a line. Don't bang too many. One medium sized picture to a wall space is enouale Large Pictures in heavy frames* should not be hong in the Imo Of ordinary Size; Don't hang on .figurecl wall paper, it detracts from effect of picture, • Hang similar pictures together, for example, a water color doesirt look well next to a photographic print. Dark Pictures are batter hung in dark' pats of the room. Regarding the Egg. Eggs are a valuable food product; they contain the purest form of albumen, which digests very. easily. .Eggs are body builders and flesh - forming food, and they scan very readily take the place of meat. The similarity in the proportion of the shell, yolk and white of eggs in the chicken eggs is that the shell averages about one-tenth, the yolk about three -tenths and the white about four -tenths. The shell alone is counted as waste. The white con- tains about Six -eighths water, the solids of the white are virtually all nitrogenous matter or protein. The yolk contains about one-half water and one-third fat, and the balance is of nitrogenous matter or protein. Newly laid or fresh eggs have a semitransparent uniform, pale pink-, ish tint; the shell contains a very small air chamber, which separates the skin and shell of the egg and is filled with air. This chamber in- creases with the age of the egg. Eggs when/ coolced at a low tem- perature are delicate and easy to digest, and they can be used for in- valids, children and persons with a delicate digestion. How to Cook Egge—Eggs boiled are eggs spoiled; the physicians tell 'usthat hard-boiled eggs require three and a half hours to digest. Keep this in mind when cooking eggs. Water boils at'a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit., Eggs should be cooked at a:temperature betWeen 165 and 185 degrees Fahrenheit, 'Place water in a saucepan and bring to a boil; boil for three min- utes and atren add the eggs. Place on the back of the stove and let the eggs stand for eight minutes for very soft boil and ten minutes for ti medium soft boil and twenty-five minutes for hard boiled. The water should be kePt" hot—that is, just be- low the boiling point. Fried Eggs.—Place the fat in the pan and heat until very hot and then place where the pan will maintain this heat without getting any hotter; if you, use the gas turn down the burner. Add the eggs. Let there cook very slowly until set and then' tan if desived. Eggs cooked in this way will not absorb the fat and will be tender and delicate, and not have o crust of crisp egg around the edge. Plain Omelet—Place three table- spoonfuls of shortening in a frying pan and then, while heating, place three eggs in a bowl and add one tablespoonful of milk, one table. spoonful of water, Beat with a fork to thoroughly mix and then, when the pan is smoking hot, turn in the mes- tere. Then place where the omelet will cook very slowly. Season and then turn and fold and roll, turning On a hot platter. The suicide rate of Germany was before the war the highest in the world—twenty-one in 100,000 yearly. A far greater trade in Canadian farm stuffs is done in our own cities and towns than 14 done abroad. This fact is mentioned by the Canactiau Trade Commission, not to minimize exports but to show the unrecognized importance of our home markets. After fowl of any kind is cleaned the inside should be rubbed thorough- ly with a piece of lemon before the dressing is put in, , "True humor is one of the original qualities which gave great minds vision, poise, insight and sympathy. The joke, as a rule, is the diversion of the small mind seeking a refuge frbm its own barrenness." HAVE YOU A LUCKY NAME? Curious Fancies That Have Grown Up Around Certain Figures. "Of course, I am trot superstitious; It ts all nonsense Stay a moment! Are you Mate sure that yeti. woad willingly be one of the Intel thirteen to sit davit to dinner? Would you choose to Ilve at No. 18? Would you walk under a ladder? Would you 'break a mirror without an involuntary saudder at the Meg, of seven years' bad luck? So many people say they are not superstitious, but by many little every- day actions they ProVe that they most aealdedly are. Whether unlucky or not, number 18 is thoroughly unpopulor. If thirteen sit down to a meal, the first to rise will die within n Year, says amperstition, The person born on the thirteenth of the month will be unlucky throughout life; Ito Cate should embark on a lair; ney or start an atterprise on the thir- teenth of the month; while the thir- teenth house in, a row . or street is nearly always tenantless, or renumber- ed 12a Or 15, • ' Three Is a lucky number, Pantie bora on the third day of the week '(Tuesday) are nnder the special pro- teetion oi Providenee; while those bothemi the third 011110 month are de- clarod to he forever sate from fire, droweing, prison, and robbery, Fake With three initials an Mdre lucky than folks with less or more, and marriages contrected 011 no third day, ot the week will always turn out lucky. The mystic number is seven, neither pattIcularly lucky or uulucky; but it le supposed to have close association -with the unknown World. The seventh child of a seventh child Is endowed with clairvoyant power and second sight; anti people born on the seventh day of the month will come into touch with the spirit world, and will dream dreams and see visioug. Life's critical periods are every seven years, Twenty-one and forty- two 'three times seven, and six times seven are recognized as the periods of oneaf lite when great care should be' talcum The most lucky number oE all is Mee, became it is composed of throe three's, People with nine letters in their names will always be lucky. A. tattle composed of three lettere is a lucky name, unless the number of let - tors that completes the name makes thirteen, For example, Ada is a lucky name having throe letters, but, supposing the other names are Mary Dobson, ell three names aro unlucky, bemuse the sam total of the letters of the three names is thirteen. • There Is no signIfloance about four; Init• supposing Your name is Meal or Jane, and the surname is eae having nee letters, as 13rown or Sates, both nolo are, luck Used' in, Minions o Irea,p,,Pots Its Intriusic goodness in Tea quality 'makes it the most Ecortemie4 in Use - , Cruel Offspring Do you know 111101 111 your own body tele are thousands of clotlutg, mute • fiat parents who are being slowly done to death by the callous greediness of their offspring? Thousands perish daily, yet even during their death agonies they do not forget their duty to your body, The outer skin ot a human being is composed of frail twelveato twenty layers of living cells which are packed site by side. and layer on layer, like bricks in a wall. Each of these cells is a sesparate being, and breathes, grows, breeds, ages, and dies, just like anybody else in the worlld. They arediorn by being squeezed off from the body of the parent, who places them in the most sheltered position possible—furthest. from the skin surface. This is also a highly strategical position, for they are now next the blood -vessel whence comes the necessities of life. Gradually the little cells grow and mature, and finally become parents themselves. lanaellishly they place their offspring nearest the blood -ves- sel, and move tip oee rote nearer tho surface. They now have to depend for their, daily bread upon svbat their children will pass on from the ,blota- stream, At first they are fairly well fad, but alter they become grandparents, then great-grandparents, and naturally the food which reecho them becomes less and less. The younger generation are so busy with their own domestic at - fairs, and have such growing families that they forget all about their poor, starving great-grandme, who has been pushed right out into the cold world. Eventually, the old folk reach the outside layer of the skin, and prepare to die of starvation; but before doing this they have work to perform for the good of the community. . Partly from their own bodies they manufacture hard, horny substance, anil place this in a position to give firmnees to the outside of the skin. They then pass peacefully aways Haa man more unselfish servants than these insignificant little cells? Where He Won the Name. ' Tourist (at the ancient rural hos- telry, coming down to breakfast with a haggard, unrested appearance)— Last night, uutdam. you informed me that the great Dram of Wellington once stayed af this hotel, It is a fact? Landlady—It Is, sir, a solemn fact. He slept in the worry room you occu- pied last night. Tourist—Was it just the same then as 11 18 now? Landlady—Juet the worry same. Tourist—Same bed in it? Landlady—The werry identical bed. Tourist—And the Duke of Welling- ton slept in it? He actually slept In it? Landlady—Ain't that what I'm a- tellin' yer? The Book of Wellin'tou actaly slept in the wary bed what you had last night. Tourist—Great Caesar! No 'wonder they called him the Iron Duke. Do It Now. "If with pleasure you are viewing any Work a Men is doing, If you like him or you love him tell him now; Don't withhold your approbation till the pardon makes oration As he lies with snow iiliea on his brow. For no matter how you shout it, he don't really care about it, He won't know how many tear drope you have shed. If you think some praise is due him now's the time to slip it to him, For he cannot read the tombstone when he's dead. "More then fame and mors than money is the comment kind, and sunny, And.the hearty, warm approval of a• friend; For it gives to life a saver, and it makes you strdnger, beavers And it gives you heart and spirit to - the end. If he earns your praise, bestow it; if you like him let hint know it, Let the words of true encouragement be said; Do not wait till fife is over and he'e underneath the clover, For he cannot read the tombetone. when he's dead."' f5CT• 24 To.41\--49 SEE tin! IT'S Otkl E 118 AM IS A GOVERNMENT CURARE OF PTY W. CLAKLIMITeoMONillui. katIV.I:71 linliErnallarBEMIENSSEEMESil ,eeesrea.BItaP VJhov-- .4 bri gs City Sty,es to Ctuntry e 1-.)FIr Shoes enable women and girls on, the farms to wear the same smart summer footwear as their sisters are wearing in the cities, Trr-2,-Grar Shoes are restful, comfortable, and carefully made for sturdy wear—and their low price •enables you to have several pairs for theprice of one pair of leather shoes. There are also Var'Pr Shoes for men and boys, for work and play, for every member of the family. 0,0A1E0 Dam, Ask your dealer forsrnif Shoes, RUBBER „ The nano is stamped on each pair. 01 • fe .oflJUU • ulidcrstanduag aseesaasese i a •, t • --BY— ' gleonor II, Porter . DepTrialit---- Houghton Millie O. , p4.4,,,,hgvoz.wftie Toro.to .. . ......_....../W ,L,.......,_•_..,........._. -N, ,r......... / el -TAPPER IN,—(Cont'd.) There was plenty to thils about, There were all the Qld interests, and there Was businees, Burke .was giv- ing himself heart and sari to business these daye. In July he won another promotion, and wee given an advance n wages, Often to Berke's infinite goy, his father consulted him :rhea matters and things quite beyond his normal position, and showed in other ways his Approval of his son'a pro- gTess, Helen, the =triage,' and the Dale Street bane life were never Mentioned—foe Which Haiku was thankful, .'He couldn't say anything:I'd want to hear, said Burke to himself, at titles. "And I—I can't "Say anything • he wants to hear. Best forget it— . • 1 we can," To "forget it" seemed, indeed, in these days, to be Burke's aim and effort. Always had Burke tried to •f orget things. From the day his six- * months -old fingers had flung the offending Tattle behind him had Burke endeavored to theist out of sight and mind everything. that an- noyed—and Helen and marriage had become very annoying. Syetematic- ally, therefore, he was trying to for- get them them. is attitude, indeed, was not Alike that of a small • boy who, weary of his •game of marbles, cries, "Oh, come, let's play something else. Pm 'tired of this!"—an • attitude which, netheally, was not conducive to happiness, either for himself or for anyone else—particrslarly as the game he was playing was marriage, not marbles. The seminar passe l rind October came. Life at the Dale Street flat had settled into. a monotony of dis- ' content end dreariaess. Relent dis- couraged, disappointed; and far from well, dragged through the housework day by elay, wishing- each night that it were morning, and each morning that it were night—a state of mirki scarcely oondueiye to happiness On her part. For all that Burke was away so many evenings now, Helen was net so lonely as she had, been in the 'spring; for in Mrs. Jones's place had . come a. new *neighbor, Mrs. Cobb. And Mrs. Cobb was evert brighter and more originalethat Mrs, Jones ever was, and Helen liked her very much. Shewas a mine of information as to housekeeping secrets, and she was teaching Helen how to make the soft and dainty little. garments that would be needed "in November. But she talked even more loudly than..Mrs. . Jones had talked; and her laugh avas nearly always the first sounde-that Burke heard across the hall every morning. Moreover, she possessed a phonograph which, •according to Helen, played "perfectly grand tunes"; and some one of these times was usually the first thing that Burke heard every night when be came home, So he called her coarse and noisy, and declared she was even 'worse than Mrs. Jones; whereat Helen retorted that of, course. he wouldn't like her, if she did --which (while possibly true) did not make him like either her or Mrs. Cobb any better. The -baby came in November. "It was a little girl. Helen wanted to 'call her "Vivian Mabelle." She said she thought that was a swell name. and that it was the name of her fav- orite heroine in a perfectly grand book. • But Burke objected strenuous, ly, He declared very emphatically that no daughter of his should have to go through life tagged like a vaudeville fiy-by-night. Of course Helen cried, and of course Burke felt ashamed of him- self. Helen's tears had always been a potent weapon—though, from over- use, they were fast losing a measure of their power. The first time he saw • her ay, the foundations of the earth sank beneath him, and he dropped into a fathomless abyss from which he thought he would never rise. It was ,he same the next tine, and the next. •The fourth time, as -he felt the now .familiar sensation of sink- ing dawn, down, down, he (tutting desperate -hands and found an unex- pected sill:sport—his temper. After that it was 'always with him. It helped to tinge with. righteous indig- nation his despair, and it kept him tram utterly melting into weak sub- serviency. Still, even yet, he was not used to them—his wife's tears. Sometimes he fled from them; some- times he endured them in dumb des- pair behind set teeth; sometimes he raved and 'ranted in a way lie was always ashamed of afterwards. But still they 'had the pewee, in a meas- ure, to make his .heart like water within him!' . • Sp•now) about the belay's. name, he called himself a brate and a 'beast to bring .teArs to 'the eyes of the, little another—toward whom,- since the baby's' advent, he felt a remorseful tenderness, But he still maintained that he co,uld„have no man. or wanart, call his daughter "Vivian Mabelle." Bet I ,ehoald think you'd let one • name enY own bahy," wailed his wife. Burke ehoked bads a hasty** word and aesurnad.•his pet "I'llebc-patient- if-it-kills-me air."' "And you Oen nano it," he sooth- ed her." "Listenl•Here are pencil and paper. Now, write down a whole lot of names that yOu'd like, and I'll promise to select one of them. Then, you'll be naming' the baby al; right. See?" -Helen did not "see" quite, that she , 'would be naming the baby; hut, know- ihg from past experience of her Miss band's temper that resistance would be unpleasant, she obediently took the papa and spent some time writing down a list of names.' Burke frowned a good deal when he saw the list, and declared that it was pretty poor picluags; and that he ought to have known better 'thu. to have bond himself to a eilly-fool promise like that. But he chose a name (he said ho would keep his word, of course), and he selected "Dorothy Elieabeth" as being less 'impossible than its accompanying "Verne," "Violets," and "Claritea Muricle," Vov the first few months after the baby's advent, Burke spent melt :more time at home; and Seemed very evidently to be trying to pay especial attentien to his Wife comfort Rad Welfare. He was proud of the baby, and sleclaved it Was the cutest little • kid going. Ile stoked, it in its ribs, ' thrust a tentative finger into the vose-leaf of a hand (emitting a tri' ithaPhant chtlekle of delight When the reee-leaf became a tightly elutchh g , little flet), and even allowed the baby ! to be placed once or twice in 11.4 anther 'reluctant and' fearful fume. Bet, for the Most part, he contented himself With merely looking at it, and asking how soon it would walk and talk, and when would it grow its teeth and hair, k uly these days the solemnity and feake was feeling' really Vito • responsibility of fatherhood. He had called Alto being s new soul. A Hale life was in his had to train. By and by Mile tiny pink roll of human- ity would bo a prattling child, a little girl; a young lady. Aad all the way she would be turning, to him for com- panionship and' valence. 'It behoov- ed him, indeed', to look well to him- self thaa he should be in all ways a fit pattern, It was'a salemn, thought. No more tempera, tantaunks, and impatience. No more idle millings end useless regrets. What mattered it if he were disillusioned and heartsick? Did he want this child of his, this beautiful daughter, to grow up in such an at- mosphere? Never! At once, there. fore, .11e must begin to cultive fa pa- tience, contentment, tranquility, and calmness of soul. He, the pattern, must be all thing that he would wish her to be. (To be continued.) A RED MAN'S INGENUITY. How a Piegan Indian Deceived His Pursnera. • , Among the many interesting stories told by members of the Canadian monoteri police is one that has to do the cleverness of an Indian, rimming One snowy a band of Cress awoke to find that ,about a dozens.Qf their ponies had been stolen durieg the night. A band to go in pursuit %Ts immediately organized, and in the course of an hour the trail was struck. The band followed it for thirty miles a more till it entered a river, and headed for a little wooded island. Smoke was rising from the trees, and an openiuge apparently the mouth of a cave, was in Plain view. Pr"esent- ly a Piegan Indian showed turnoff in front of the opening..'At his heels was a dog. Pretty soon, the dog scented the Crees, who,Were lying low. and began growling and barking. The Pawn looked up, gleamed ,about him for a moment and then instantly entered the cavo. In about ton seconds, an- other' Piegan eame round the rocks and also went in; then another, arid another and another. The Crees lay silently in the bushes,, counting,.till upward of fifty Piegane had come round the rocks end gam into the aave, and stilt they kept corning, Each carried a rifle. What at last severity men had (Ifs- aPpeared in the cave, the superstitious Cies conclUded that the evil spirit had something do with it. So thoroughly were they filled with this idea that even when re-entorcements came, which was in a few hours, they were reluctant to attack that [stead. That night, however, one Croo, los credulous than the- others, crossed over the ice to levestigate. On ap- proaching the supposed cave, he found that it was no cave at all, but simply an opening leading some ten feet rnto the rock, where It made. a turn and came out on the other side. There was the remnant of a single 00111p fire, the ponies were gone and not an Indian was in sight. The 'in - genions Piegan thief, by makitig the circuit of the passage, and the end ot the island seventy times, had so de- ceived Inc pursuers as to gain the time necessary for his escape. BEE -STINGS FOR HEADACHES. How Mother• Nature Cures the Ail- ments of Her Vast Family, • Nature, Wonderful Nature, is a sweet, motherly person. She provides remedies for all sorts of invalids, whether human, animal, bird, or M- ersa. They all receive the same kind, unfailing consideration. There is no distinction, A. severe headache is a common complaint' with Mr. Bruin. When at- eacked aoutely, he ambie along to the nearest hollow tree and steelt out the bees, who in turn become highly indignant 'and sting the intruder un- mercifally. But Mr, Bruin doese't lianas With a snort and a. shiug he ambles off home again. His headache ia cared. The boar is a staunch believer.in the medicinal qualities a the ivy -leaf, and when feeling out of sorts chooses ivy. leaves as a restorative. • Donkeys are frequent victims to melancholia; but a tonic is close at hand in tire scale -fern. It is 0 sure refresher, end bucks them svonder- fully, The chameleon is a perfectly fratern- ises little creature. It has, however, orm.hereclitary enemy. in the crow, 11 they should happen to meet, a battle - royal rages. But cautious Mr. Crow is aware of his rivet's poisonous quali- ties, and 1)01010 waging war eats. a leaf or two of laurel as A preventive against poisoning, Even the, busy little bee has an eneroy. Sometimes it le attacked by numerous very tiny trisects. When in. tested With these small mites the en- raged one Motto off to the nearest ant -hill and caeses a commotion. The angry ants come • out and ratack,'Imt, Minim tad of the rated, thee destroy or ovary there all o(f, Thebes) thus delivered of its aggres- sors, callnly white Itself away, ,If Cateda. could supply Great rn. Bel- tawith only the eggs which were formerly obtained in Russia, the arospaity of small Dumas Worth' contieee for yoga; according to the amt ian Prate Coinnuestan'e ins d forneatfort itt Londe%of 'a PUNNING NAMES, Gy e the riAhY a Pair Strut in Life With 4 Pair Nellie, • That Mise Beane einnild-merrY Pole was simply a 06111°1de:ice; that the hvin (AM and daegliter Orli of the anion should be minuet reePativelY Bone Mid May was deliberate ubeltY to childrenn , ote ih ikanYheads of tarleting iielleOlieY3 Will poor young Beane Pole have to' mulch in the owes ,of his ,eclootional career, gad how many tears the unhappy MAY Pole 511811110•riecret ere matrimony rescues bey Own ralleule! Stroh behavioe, of papillae thwara helpless rind handeile infants would paaen inr eedfide, were it net for the many instances on effielal rector(' in civil end pariah regletere, 'With very little eithrt, an inquiring reporter moved thereto IV the Beene Pole came: recently -unearthed a considerable Bet Of Manes Of 'cinched eharacta, Boma Of ' them Were jobelari ahm eap- parently were intended to convey a Pleasing or poetic suggestion, In the Waters familY, for example, three daughters were christened Gay, Placid and 'Tranquil, The destination of Westerley Breese, son of Mr, Abra- ham Weston Breese, should assuredly be the nhay; quite as certainly the army offers the one suitable career for the Infant son of Mr, Joseph P. March, aggeoffively named 'Forward: Miss Wanda Faris When she grows ups might perhaps become missionary, although her parents ' are both en gaged in the strictly secular profes- sion of cooking and catering. As for poor little Bette Penney, her tether and mother were net even Penny-wise, and were more than poundsfoolish, when ,they punished her with such a frivolously punning name. It is somewhat eaeler to pardon, al- though no one can really approve, the bestowal of names resulting in such combinations as those borne by the Misses Honey Blossom, Silver Starr, Bonny Darling, pinkie Flower, Birdie Wing and Pet Larab. '111011' mothers, no doubt, thought they sounded cute and cunning for the little dears, -when they were babies.n Unfoietuately, babies do not stay babies. Suppose Misii.Lamb is still a Pet Lamb, either long and lean or fat and wheezy, at the age of forty or fifty? Or suppose she es not Miss Lamb—but has mar- ried Mr. Lyon, Behr or Hogg? Hor- rors! And such things have happened. A good many years ago, but still un - forgotten, there was such a case; the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rose, poetically named. Wild. Little Wild Rose ---how charming! Of ourse, no one would have been expected to -fore- see that she could marry Mr. Bull, When her family had nearly stopped laughing on her betrothal and she her- seff could consider the question with- out hysterics, she decided to reverse the order of her maiden names, and become after Marriage Mrs. Rose W. Bull, instead of the intolerable Wild Bull, to which, otherwiee, fate had doomed her. Puns have their proper place, but,It is not in the town or parish register. It is a prime principle of infants' rights that every baby should have a fair start eash a fair name. • TULIP TIME IN HOLLAND Dutch Flower Farms Present a Wbre a derfPicture in May. A. strip of blazing scarlet, a plot of red that faded into rose, dazzling yel- lows, soft mauves, a heavenly patch of blue, then more bands of beautiful color—buff and mauve blending intopurple, purple, lose, salmon, and virginal white. shalt never forget that day among the tulips of Holland. I would defy anyone to go there in lefayewhen they are in their Splendor, and not come away convinced that the tulip is one of the most beautiful blos- soms in the world. To see tulips in all their bravery one must visit the Dutch flower farms. Patches of radiant bloom carpet the fields on both shies all the way from Haarlem to Leyden—fifteen miles of "fairy cradles," for there is a quaint auperstition that the fairies lay their babies to rock at night in tulip blos- soms while they dance and sing in the m 000irtie l ght, upon a time the Dutch were tulip -mad, fabulous prices were paid aor bulbs, and fortunes were lost and won; to -day tulip -growing is a steads', indotry, and, every acre of land is re- puted to be watt' $2,500. The ground is first fertilized and planted with potaitoes, so that the immured land may not be too ricr sh fo the bulbs,. then tulips are pleated the secant year. Offshoots develop on the parent bulbs, and it is the breaking up of one root into many, and developina the ;shoots, that makes -most of the business oa the Dan newer farms. Yet, driving through these fields of blossom, rich and wonderful in color, it is difficult to think of material. things, "Mona and marketing seem fat" away—except from the mind of the staid Dutchman, who looks at`hie acres of bloom and counts up cost and Profit. "Oh," I cried to my guide, "this is fairyland!" • He looked mystified. ' The manure for this tori east more than $1,500, he said. I sighed. Fairyland was far away. Yet, turning to go back to Haarlem, a breeze swept areas those fields of radiant color, tuni mysterious 101000 seemed to call in a pleasing tinkle, remembered the old,superstition, Surely the fairies were Putting their babies to bed! A Valuabile Gem. Sam, the (Mere man, returned ,froui the city with a scarfpla that .00M/tined a diamond of no usual size. it was the 1)11110a his heart, and the 011-1)' 01 his village companions. He hatted all itqutries from than 105 to its vane anti its authenticity with high scorn. His employer, after a week of bask, ing la its 11(1115)0(0, netted Sam abeut its history,- "Sam," lie said, -"is it a real din - mond?" "tVal," geld Stan, with oftim coati - once, "it. it ain't, ,been }skim out , a half dollar," lbctraefed Heney. The production of honey by the general farmer is ogling into fewer, loi the keeping of two or three ;nitride ef beef; Will Provide sufficient trolley for the aVeragabome, ,Many women And farm girls have taken over this Work to their Pleasure arel profit. The production ef comb honey seems to be considered the Most favorable plan but A larger flew of honey can be secured by extracting. Wo have followed both plans, usu- ally utilizing One hive for comb honey and the other's for extracted honey, One advantage of having the extracted honey is that it can be used in baking where the comb honey cannot; it makes delicious rookies and cakes and candies. If one de- sires to use the comb honey for this purpose the comb must be mashed, the honey squeezed out and strained, The extracted honey scan be kept for Years"and is easily stored in tan buckets; if it granulate's and it is delicious in this sugary confection, it may he melted 111 an hour by immers- ing the can in moderately hot water. It shoold never be heated over a di - tea fire or on a hot stove, A larger flow.of honey/will be se- cured by extracting, because the bees de not have to spend a lot of effort in building up a new tomb each time. When the honey is extracted and the frames put back in the hive the emp- ty cells are there all ready to be filled with new hoziey and capped by the bees. This is a great advantage in a summer when the honey flow is light: With the comb waiting to be filled the bees have only to gather the nectar and feed the brood. The hone,y chn be extracted at any time of the season, though it is well to wait until Most of the comb is filled and cap- ped. If the flow is darker or less de- sirable at olio time than at another, the different grades may be extracted separately and stored in separate receptacles. The cost of an extractor may de- ter some from using this plan, but for a good many years we have owned a part share in one and did not find this a disadvantage. Where two or three own on :t cuts the cost to a few dollars and it will last for twenty years if properly cared for; one that will accommodate four frames is lane" enough for use with from two to five or six hives. In using the extractor the caps are removed from the comb with a wide:. bladed knife and the frames put into the baskets of the extractor. The baskets are then revolved and the honey is thrown out of the comb on the outer side, after which the frames are reversed and whirled in the same manner. The extracted honey is drawn from a spout at the base of the extractor. If extracting, is done .at the end of the season The combs are . not returned to the hive but stored until needed again the follow- ing spring. Frames for producing extracted honey are similar to those used for brood. The bees are given a little foundation material to build the comb first. The frames are put in a super which fits on the top of the brood chamber. If the supers are added early in the season it will help to prevent swarming. If the day is pleasant extracting may be done in the open, though the bees will be more or less bothersome; the best place to do it is in a room where the windows and doors are covered with mosquito netting or wire screen. Extracted honey should not be stored right away, but allowed to stand a few days and strained through a fine honey screen. Care should be taken that all vessels used are clean and dry as water in honey causes it to sour readily. We store most of the honey in three and five -pound friction ten tin erinel these tire ertelly !handled, and wheos there ie a surplus Ito sell 11 15 sold more readily In small bulk. ' • How To Hang -Pictures), Hang largo pictures with two wires and -two hooks. Small sizes need a single wire Tun from centre of picture to hook at moulding, or may be fastened with push take. Lot picture seat flat against wall, by attaching wire neer 'top of frame instead of one-third the Way. dowu. Hang about on eye level, wittily with lower edge on a line. Don't bang too many. One medium sized picture to a wall space is enouale Large Pictures in heavy frames* should not be hong in the Imo Of ordinary Size; Don't hang on .figurecl wall paper, it detracts from effect of picture, • Hang similar pictures together, for example, a water color doesirt look well next to a photographic print. Dark Pictures are batter hung in dark' pats of the room. Regarding the Egg. Eggs are a valuable food product; they contain the purest form of albumen, which digests very. easily. .Eggs are body builders and flesh - forming food, and they scan very readily take the place of meat. The similarity in the proportion of the shell, yolk and white of eggs in the chicken eggs is that the shell averages about one-tenth, the yolk about three -tenths and the white about four -tenths. The shell alone is counted as waste. The white con- tains about Six -eighths water, the solids of the white are virtually all nitrogenous matter or protein. The yolk contains about one-half water and one-third fat, and the balance is of nitrogenous matter or protein. Newly laid or fresh eggs have a semitransparent uniform, pale pink-, ish tint; the shell contains a very small air chamber, which separates the skin and shell of the egg and is filled with air. This chamber in- creases with the age of the egg. Eggs when/ coolced at a low tem- perature are delicate and easy to digest, and they can be used for in- valids, children and persons with a delicate digestion. How to Cook Egge—Eggs boiled are eggs spoiled; the physicians tell 'usthat hard-boiled eggs require three and a half hours to digest. Keep this in mind when cooking eggs. Water boils at'a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit., Eggs should be cooked at a:temperature betWeen 165 and 185 degrees Fahrenheit, 'Place water in a saucepan and bring to a boil; boil for three min- utes and atren add the eggs. Place on the back of the stove and let the eggs stand for eight minutes for very soft boil and ten minutes for ti medium soft boil and twenty-five minutes for hard boiled. The water should be kePt" hot—that is, just be- low the boiling point. Fried Eggs.—Place the fat in the pan and heat until very hot and then place where the pan will maintain this heat without getting any hotter; if you, use the gas turn down the burner. Add the eggs. Let there cook very slowly until set and then' tan if desived. Eggs cooked in this way will not absorb the fat and will be tender and delicate, and not have o crust of crisp egg around the edge. Plain Omelet—Place three table- spoonfuls of shortening in a frying pan and then, while heating, place three eggs in a bowl and add one tablespoonful of milk, one table. spoonful of water, Beat with a fork to thoroughly mix and then, when the pan is smoking hot, turn in the mes- tere. Then place where the omelet will cook very slowly. Season and then turn and fold and roll, turning On a hot platter. The suicide rate of Germany was before the war the highest in the world—twenty-one in 100,000 yearly. A far greater trade in Canadian farm stuffs is done in our own cities and towns than 14 done abroad. This fact is mentioned by the Canactiau Trade Commission, not to minimize exports but to show the unrecognized importance of our home markets. After fowl of any kind is cleaned the inside should be rubbed thorough- ly with a piece of lemon before the dressing is put in, , "True humor is one of the original qualities which gave great minds vision, poise, insight and sympathy. The joke, as a rule, is the diversion of the small mind seeking a refuge frbm its own barrenness." HAVE YOU A LUCKY NAME? Curious Fancies That Have Grown Up Around Certain Figures. "Of course, I am trot superstitious; It ts all nonsense Stay a moment! Are you Mate sure that yeti. woad willingly be one of the Intel thirteen to sit davit to dinner? Would you choose to Ilve at No. 18? Would you walk under a ladder? Would you 'break a mirror without an involuntary saudder at the Meg, of seven years' bad luck? So many people say they are not superstitious, but by many little every- day actions they ProVe that they most aealdedly are. Whether unlucky or not, number 18 is thoroughly unpopulor. If thirteen sit down to a meal, the first to rise will die within n Year, says amperstition, The person born on the thirteenth of the month will be unlucky throughout life; Ito Cate should embark on a lair; ney or start an atterprise on the thir- teenth of the month; while the thir- teenth house in, a row . or street is nearly always tenantless, or renumber- ed 12a Or 15, • ' Three Is a lucky number, Pantie bora on the third day of the week '(Tuesday) are nnder the special pro- teetion oi Providenee; while those bothemi the third 011110 month are de- clarod to he forever sate from fire, droweing, prison, and robbery, Fake With three initials an Mdre lucky than folks with less or more, and marriages contrected 011 no third day, ot the week will always turn out lucky. The mystic number is seven, neither pattIcularly lucky or uulucky; but it le supposed to have close association -with the unknown World. The seventh child of a seventh child Is endowed with clairvoyant power and second sight; anti people born on the seventh day of the month will come into touch with the spirit world, and will dream dreams and see visioug. Life's critical periods are every seven years, Twenty-one and forty- two 'three times seven, and six times seven are recognized as the periods of oneaf lite when great care should be' talcum The most lucky number oE all is Mee, became it is composed of throe three's, People with nine letters in their names will always be lucky. A. tattle composed of three lettere is a lucky name, unless the number of let - tors that completes the name makes thirteen, For example, Ada is a lucky name having throe letters, but, supposing the other names are Mary Dobson, ell three names aro unlucky, bemuse the sam total of the letters of the three names is thirteen. • There Is no signIfloance about four; Init• supposing Your name is Meal or Jane, and the surname is eae having nee letters, as 13rown or Sates, both nolo are, luck Used' in, Minions o Irea,p,,Pots Its Intriusic goodness in Tea quality 'makes it the most Ecortemie4 in Use - , Cruel Offspring Do you know 111101 111 your own body tele are thousands of clotlutg, mute • fiat parents who are being slowly done to death by the callous greediness of their offspring? Thousands perish daily, yet even during their death agonies they do not forget their duty to your body, The outer skin ot a human being is composed of frail twelveato twenty layers of living cells which are packed site by side. and layer on layer, like bricks in a wall. Each of these cells is a sesparate being, and breathes, grows, breeds, ages, and dies, just like anybody else in the worlld. They arediorn by being squeezed off from the body of the parent, who places them in the most sheltered position possible—furthest. from the skin surface. This is also a highly strategical position, for they are now next the blood -vessel whence comes the necessities of life. Gradually the little cells grow and mature, and finally become parents themselves. lanaellishly they place their offspring nearest the blood -ves- sel, and move tip oee rote nearer tho surface. They now have to depend for their, daily bread upon svbat their children will pass on from the ,blota- stream, At first they are fairly well fad, but alter they become grandparents, then great-grandparents, and naturally the food which reecho them becomes less and less. The younger generation are so busy with their own domestic at - fairs, and have such growing families that they forget all about their poor, starving great-grandme, who has been pushed right out into the cold world. Eventually, the old folk reach the outside layer of the skin, and prepare to die of starvation; but before doing this they have work to perform for the good of the community. . Partly from their own bodies they manufacture hard, horny substance, anil place this in a position to give firmnees to the outside of the skin. They then pass peacefully aways Haa man more unselfish servants than these insignificant little cells? Where He Won the Name. ' Tourist (at the ancient rural hos- telry, coming down to breakfast with a haggard, unrested appearance)— Last night, uutdam. you informed me that the great Dram of Wellington once stayed af this hotel, It is a fact? Landlady—It Is, sir, a solemn fact. He slept in the worry room you occu- pied last night. Tourist—Was it just the same then as 11 18 now? Landlady—Juet the worry same. Tourist—Same bed in it? Landlady—The werry identical bed. Tourist—And the Duke of Welling- ton slept in it? He actually slept In it? Landlady—Ain't that what I'm a- tellin' yer? The Book of Wellin'tou actaly slept in the wary bed what you had last night. Tourist—Great Caesar! No 'wonder they called him the Iron Duke. Do It Now. "If with pleasure you are viewing any Work a Men is doing, If you like him or you love him tell him now; Don't withhold your approbation till the pardon makes oration As he lies with snow iiliea on his brow. For no matter how you shout it, he don't really care about it, He won't know how many tear drope you have shed. If you think some praise is due him now's the time to slip it to him, For he cannot read the tombstone when he's dead. "More then fame and mors than money is the comment kind, and sunny, And.the hearty, warm approval of a• friend; For it gives to life a saver, and it makes you strdnger, beavers And it gives you heart and spirit to - the end. If he earns your praise, bestow it; if you like him let hint know it, Let the words of true encouragement be said; Do not wait till fife is over and he'e underneath the clover, For he cannot read the tombetone. when he's dead."' f5CT• 24 To.41\--49 SEE tin! IT'S Otkl E 118 AM IS A GOVERNMENT CURARE OF PTY W. 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