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THURS., MARCH 29, 1934
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Health, Cooking,
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REQUIREMENT
We live by Faith; but Faith is not
the slave •
Of text and legend. Reason's voice
and God's,
Nature's and Duty's, never are at
odds.
What asks our Father of His child-
van, save
Justice and mercy and humility.
A reasonable service to good deeds.
Pure living, tenderness to human
needs
Reverence and trust, and prayer for
light to see •
The Master's footprints in our daily
ways?
No knotted scourge norsacrificial
knife,
But the calm beauty of an ordered
life
' Whose very breathing is unworded
praise!—
A life that stands as all true lives
have stood,
Finn -rooted in the faith that God is
Good.
—John Greenleaf Whittier.
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I have often wondered as I watch -
said to himself. A twinkle stole
into his eyes as he examined the
pitiful pup. "Did someone leave you
here? That's a shame." He had
been so preoccupied he hadn't notic-
ed the pup before. He found his keys
and opened the inner door, The dog
watched him, mournfully. He held
the door open an instant, then whis-
tled. The dog leaped joyfully up the
carpeted stairs.
Upstairs Richard examined' the
foundling more carefully. Its paw
was not injured, but it was thor,
oughly chilled. It trembled 'fright-
fully, so, that Richard had to wrap it
in a blanket. He laid it by .the rad-
iator with an encouraging word, then
removed his overcoat and went into
the kitchenette.
Richard kept this small apartment
been
One time he had
m
for himself. On
married and it had been his honey-
moon nook. It was full of memories,
sad memories, but Richard couldn't
give it up after his bride left him.
Dorothy's father had taken her a-
broad. He was a gruff, hardboiled,
self-made man, Conceited over his
dhad never approved of
ed or took part in orma , a
rmonious religious •services where
people got the idea of such format-
ity in worship of the simple Man
of 'Galilee;
There was nothing in His life
to suggest anything as being
acceptable in worship but simplicity,
sincerity and reverence. Tho multi-
plication of forms and ceremonies
constitute the •dangeia, at least, that
the human heart may depend upon
these forms and ceremonies rather
than on a vital union with the Divine
Redeemer.
At the Easter season would it not
be a good time to search the heart
and find if we are really depending
upon the outward keeping of Lent,
the attendance upon religious ser-
vices, the observance of forms and
ceremonies, rather than upon union
with the Divine, which changes the
heart and renews the life? The
simpler our faith, like that of a child,
the nearer we are likely to 'come to
the. Heart of the Father and His dear
Son, in whose honour we keep. Lent
and rejoice in the coning Easter
Day.
-REBEKAH,.
The Good Patron
A blizzard was raging that night,
Richard had worked late at the office
and he had several blocks to walk
from the car line. The street was
deserted. The house lights were ob-
scured by whirling snow. Richard
bowed his chin in his coat collar. He
was in a state of drowsiness and
• didn't notice a little black pup tag-
ging timidly after him.
The pup held its head low and its
- ears flapped in the wind. Its ' tail
dragged in the snow. It was a ter-
•• trier of some sort, It hesitated a mo•'
ment as Richard plowed through a
snowdrift and headed toward the
lighted doorway of his apartment
building: Then it galloped after him
and swept into the hallway with a
gust of wind and snow as Richard
opened the door. Richard stamped
his shoes and shook the snow out of
his collar and off his hat. He rum-
maged around for his keys. Then he
noticed the small dog shivering In a
corner. Its front paw was lifted, as
though it was cold or injured.
"For the love of Mike," Richard
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NO LONGER YOUNG
"Man does not •die. he kills himt
self," said Seneca, the Roman phil-
•usopher, who apparently had observ-
ed' that life is frequently cut short by
faulty habits of living. • Age is not.
a simple counting of brithdays pas-
sed. Some are physically old at for-
ty; others are comparatively young
at sixty. We have the records of
many men and women who, have
been at their best, physically and
mentally, after they had passed into
-the period of life which is commonly
regarded as .old.
Heredity plays a definite part it
length of life, Most of those who
• attain to long lives can boast of a
list of ancestors who attained to a
good age. Nevertheless, ancestry is
not enough, for the heredity factor
Can be offset. by ..bad habits, and
• length of days can,; be attained by
many through good habits in spite
•of- a poor ancestry as regards long
' living.
' Moderation is apparently the ;most
' important aspect to be considered.
Plenty of rest, ' moderation in food
and drink, reasonable physical and
mental activity, together with a fair
share of time spent' in the open ale
—this is the prescription which would
''be written for those who wish to live
long and enjoy goodhealth while
they live.
indiscretions in diet which formerly
caused no inconvenience. It was
Sam. Weller's father who remarked
that "vidth and visdom go together."
Tho wisdom which he credited to old-
er persons is not displayed by their'
increasing girth; this indicates ratht
er a lack of wisdom in choice of diet,
The older person requiioes a balanc-
ed diet just as much as, does the
growing child or the young adult.' It
is well to make up this diet from the
simpler and more easily digested
foods, and to eat smaller amounts of
all foods. Sweets should be cut down
as they are often not readily digest-
ed and are then responsible for the
formation of gas.
It is not intended to suggest that
the older person should become a food
crank and start to think that this or
that food disagrees with him. How-
ever, personal experience is not to•be
disregarded, and when such exper-
ience 'shows' that some .foods are not
readilycligested, it well to try if
leaving them out of the diet will pre-
vent the trouble.
remembered that all
It; should be
foods require- a thorough chewing be-
fore swallowing. This applies even
to the well -cooked, easily swallowed
cereal. Another important point is
that fresh vegetables are essential in
the diet. - In later years, fruits are
usually best taken when baked or
stewed.•
t concerning
As we grow older, there is a de- 'Questions Health, ad-
crease in physical activity. Less .dressed to the Canadian Medica lAs,
food is required, •and, as the body be- 'sedation, 184 College Stret, Toron•o
gins to lose some of its vigour, It to, will be answered personally by
has not the 'old reserve to deal with letter,
success an
his .daughter's marriage to a strugg,
ling young office clerk. He had fin-
ally succeeded in winning her his way.
Dorothy had never written, but Rich-
ard felt that some day she would re-
turn. IIe•]oved her with all his heart
and he knew she loved him. She
didn't know that during the eighteen
months of their separation he had
worked himself up to the general
managership of his firm. Fdr two
months after she was gone he had
leen lost, but then he convinced
himself that he must show his father-
in-law he had grit. ,
TO
OMEN
?AGE 7
IIHousehold
11Economics
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A FRUIT SALAD TREE
Imagine walking out into the back
garden and plucking the ingredients
for a fruit salad—twelve of them—
off the one tree. This is no extract
from a housewives' Utopia, but a
gardening feat actually performed by
a'youtg. Scotsman in Gisborne, Vic-
toria, Australia. It is said that this
young man grafted eleven different
kinds of,fruit on to a pear tree and
each of them matured.
Richard found some milk in the kit-
chen which he warmed. Then he
chopped up some steak and sausage
and fed his foundling. He had dined
in town himself, and was ready for
bed immediately, as the next day,
Saturday, was a hard grind for him.
His landlady looked after the pup
the next day, and when Richard carne
home the pup was quite well and
greeted its good patron with a great
display of aifeetion. Richard spread
Out the evening paper and looked
for an ad. • his secretary had placed
for him. Alt, there it was:
"Found, a small black dog of ter,
tier type, in vicinity of Ash and Map,
le Street, last night. Owner may ob-
tain sane by calling Circle 10."
• And a little further down in the
same column he read:
"Strayed or stolen, a small black
terrier answering to the name of
Diokie. Disappeared upon its mis-
tress' arrival in the city yesterday.
Will finder please phone Juniper 8 "
"Juniper 8? Well, Dickie, that's
the Alonna hotel. We'll locate your
lady et once, though I hate giving
you up now." The pup wagged its
long tail.
A woman's : voice answered the
cell.
"I have your dog," Richard said.
"Found him last night in the bliz-
zard." •
"Oh, how wonderful! Thank you
so much," the voice came. "May I
call for him?"
"Couldn't I deliver him?"
"You may, but it wouldn't in-
convenience you ?"
"Not in the least. I should con-
sider it a privilege,"
"Well,, I just arrived in the city
yesterday with 'my parents. We're
staying at the Aloma. .But you must
come night up to our rooms. My
name is Dorothy Burns."
There was a long pause. Then
Richard spoke.
"Dorothy!" brokenly.
There was another pause, Then
Dorothy spoke.
"Richard!"
The little black pup wagged its
long tail as its good patron and right,
ful mistress came together, for the
two embraced each other for a long
moment.
Father-in-law Burns was gruff
and conceited as ever, but maybe it
was .the title ofgeneral manager
that awakened his interest. At any
rate, he listened to Richard's story:
And when Richard ' took his wife
hem.e again there was a softness in
the eyes of Father -hi -law 'Burns.
"You know, Alice," he said to his
wife, < "a man who ,takes- in a pup
on a stormy night can't be such a
bad tort" •
CANADIAN NATIONAL
RAILWAYS EARNINGS
The gross revenues of the all-in-
clusive Canadian National Railways
System for the week ending March
14th, 1934, were $3,234,728, as com-
pared with $2,415,539, for the corre-
sponding period of .1983,an increase
of $319,1.84.
Father--I"So you want to marry my
daughter? Have you considered her
g
family in .this matter?"
Suitor—"I have, sir. I love that
girl so much I'dibe willing to put up
with anything."
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- THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Somietimes Sad— But Always Helpful
and Ins piring-
Qnly melted gold is minted;
Only moistened clay is moulded;
Only softened wax receives the seal.
Only broken, contrite hearts—;
Only these receive the marls,
Of the Potter as He spins us on His
wheel --
Shaped and burned to take the mould
The heavenly mark --the stamp of
God's puregold.
ld.
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GIVE ME BUT EYES
A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS
"Not too good a memory, unless it
be for past kindnesses. Much work
and some play. .Much love given and
grace to leave unmeasured the love
that is repaid. A firm hold on simple
pleasures! a habit .of hopefulness; a
steady refusal to cry over spilt milk;
a 'saving instinct for the comedy of
life. A wide tolerance for errors and
weaknesses. Health and a reason-
able share of brains and beauty. Who
has these can hardly miss happiness,.
but the darling of the gods may be
happy wanting any or all of tlteni"
-,-London Sunday Times.
THE UGLY DUCKLING
WHO BECAME A SWAN
The Young Railroaders' Club of
the Canadian National Railways Ma-
gazine celebrates the birth of Hans
Christian Anderson, the writer of
fairy tales beloved by children and
grownups the world 'over, who was
born in Denmark on April 2, 1805,
"Hans Christian Anderson was him-
self the Ugly Duckling, the long
necked dreamer, who was so contemp-
tuously treated until the world saw
that he was a swan among the ducks,"
says the article, which goes on to de-
scribe the humiliations of his gawky,
poverty -,stricken childhood and youth,
and the immortality that carte to him
in his old age,
WORD "JAZZ" FROM
CARIBBEAN ISLAND
Martinique, A Canadian National
Steamships place of call in the West
Indies, 15 said to have given to the
world the word "jazz." One author-
ity, Lafeadio Hearn, says that years
ago in Martinique, where the famous
Empress Josephine was .born, he not-
ed the word "jazz" in the creole pat,
ois vocabulary. (Martinique is a
French.possessionwhere languages
are abundantly mixed.)
Hearn says that "Jazz" then
meant "to speed things up." He be-
lieves it is derived from the pure
French verb "jaser", which means
"to battle or prattle in conversation"
A DAUGHTER'S CRUEL JOKE
A young lady in Melancthon town-
ship recently player{ a cruel joke on
her mother and this is how it happen-
ed: She had found a. love letter that
her father had written to her mother
in their halycondays' of courtship.
She read the letter to her mother,
substituting her own name and that
of her lover; who lives on the 'Bach
Liite. The mother was very angry,
and stamped foot . in disgust, forbid-
ding her daughter to have anything
to do with a man who could'write
such foolish stuff to a girl The girl
then gave the letter to her mother
to read, and the (tome suddenly be-
came
came so quiet that she could hear the
snowflakes falling in the back yard.
/Shelburne Free Press,
Give hie but eyes
To know the joy that lies
In common things:
A pale moth's velvet wings,
A fern -fringed pool,
Green mosses dripping cool,
The voice of rain,
The ,clouds in silver train,
Friendship of trees,
A meadow loud with. bees.
To glimpse each great surprise,
Give me but eyes!
INSIDE STORY
"What's happened to old Jones? I
haven't seen him foe same time."
"Oh! He went- on a Government
mission to get inside information of
cannibal life in the Pacific, and 1
think he must have Fot it."
To these green pastures and this
frail sweet song!
—Catherine Parmenter, in 'Christian
Science Monitor.
APRIL
Skipping in with merry feet,
Flying hair and dimples sweet; •
'Aril
April snatches Nature s broom,
Sweeps away collected gloom,
Sends her dryads out with flowers,
Decorates her syldan bowers;
Sets the robins all an -singing,
And the'slumb'ring echoes ringing.
Paints and tints the forest glades
With the daintiest of shades;
Calls the sleepers wrapped in fur,
Shakes them till they start to stir.
Turns to green the dried up rushes,
And the pricky bramble bushes;
Not one thing takes time for thinking,
Freshly opened buds are blinking.
Little breezes softly shiver,
Bluebird'sthroats begin to quiver;
All the streannlets start a -flowing,
And the sleepy south wind blowing.
In the swamps the frogs are calling,
April's drums are loudly beating;
In the swamps the frogs are calling,
Fireflies' lamps are soaring ,falling.
Everything is enterprising.
To the clouds the kites are rising,
Children shout at boist'rous play.
Plan new antics every day.
Even grown-ups, stern and wise,
Have a twinkle in their eyes,
Drunk with April's magic potion,
Everything is set in motion,
Annapolly.
—(Gertrude E. Forth,
estssarseser
LET ME KEEP LENT
Let •me keep Lent;
Let the kneel and pray,
Forego some trifle everyday,
Fast .. - and take Sacrament . •
And then
Lend tongue to slander, hold ancient
grudge, deny
The very Lord whom I would gratify.
Let no keep Lent; •
Let my heart grow in grace,
Let Thy light shine till my illumined
face
Shall be a testament
Read by all men
That Hate is buried, Self crucified—
new-horn
That spirit that shall rise on Easter
morn.
—Elizabeth Badoly Read,
exiettnesee
THE MARCH WIND
The March wind, like the house -wife's
broom,
Sends pecks of dust a -flying;
Loud -voiced ito battens all day long'
While leafless trees are sighing,
The March wind whips through
woodlands wild
Where Spring's sweet flowers are
hiding
Secure beneath the withered leaves
That flutter at his chiding,
The March wind whistles in the
Sedge
Wihere willows stand and shiver,
Then sweeps afar with jocund roar
That makes the kray grass quiver.
—Jean Seivwright in "Errant Heart"
Oessismes
EASTER TRIUMPHANT
Where once the wailing winds
Bred dark despair,
Now dawns the Eastertide:
And gardens fair
Shall soon, in green and gold,
Spring everywhere,
Though sorrows to all hearts
Late brought their sting,
In vain their bitterness-
,April shall bring
To every ,burdened soul
New songs to sing.
Triumphant from the tomb
Of winter snows
Awakes the springtime joy;
The south wind blows
Across the fields of life
Breath of the rosel
--Thomas Curtis Clark in New Out-
look.
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POSSESSION
Beauty abides in the small quiet
places—
Not always on a mountain's distant
snow.
Facing the stars, and the swift
storms that blow-
Not always in the unforgotten spaces
Where blue meets blue, and the sea's
voice is heard
Restlessly lifting with the immortal
tides--
es-
But in small, quiet Places beauty
abides:
Hereis the frail song of a nesting
bird --
Here the low, friendly hills kneel
silently-
And here green pastures and still
waters lie.
Beauty ay gown a storm inchanted
sky—
They
The mountain—stars :the incompar-
able sea--
But
ea—But ever does the heart of her belong
Within my heart some old, forgot,
ten pain
Half wakes and murmurs, then is
still again.
—1ldargaret Wade, in Toronto Sat-
urday Night,
eestietsmi
THE EASTER DAWN
ORIOLE
0 Oriole, your blithesome song I hear,
Atpong the fruit trees in this gar-
den bower;
I love to watch the flash of orange
and blaclt
From tree to shrub, and back again
to flower.
Now yon are poised upon my garden.
chair:
Like belted Knight in brilliantar-
moi•, .clad
With jet-black wings outspreadyou
eaten there,
Asking me: "Has the springtime
made you glad?"
How fee you've travelled to this
green retreat!
From tropic jungles of a southern
land,
Where birds of brilliant plumage
flaunt their dress,
The' none can boast a habitation
grand.
O Oriole, you bring rare joy to earth!
1 thank God that from out His
treasury
Of wondrous kindness He has granted
this:
Your summer home within my
sanctuary.
•—Ethel May Hall.
Ere dusky night had paled to amber
dawn,
And one by one the twinkling stars
were dimmed;
Softly, yet swiftly, from Jehovah's
throne, •
To earth the flaming heralds came;
Eager to consummate divine com-
mand—
"Roll ye away the stone."
Men guarding, felt their heavy eye-
lids close,
O'er the dim scene a sudden glory
fell;
Revealing by itsclazzling light, the
white sealed tomb.
Nearer, still nearer, the 'chosen her-
alds came;
Invisible to soldiers locked in sleep,
Nov seen by any eye in all the world,
Save
God's alone.
Deeper grew the rosy hue of morning,
And deeper grew the hush, as Tenth,
ered birds,
Within the garden, stilled their lilting
notes,
Nor were they heard again, till from
the open tomb
Our Saviour rose victorious that first
glad Easter morn.
--E. M. Southcott:
MARCH MORNING
Upon the lawns, the night's torvential
Tains
Lie in wide pools wherein each
shrub and tree
Its owe stark leafless loveliness
may see:
Thin mist, that brushes out the dis-
tant plains,
Films nearer shaggy fields till each
retains
But shadow of its furrowed self.
Set free
Of growth, decay, or tempests'
horrid glee,. .
This hour earth rests, and only peace
remains.
In this quiescent, gray, old -Winter
scene
Show ravages of tears, the line
griefs trace,
As on an aged and once lovely face
No longer beautiful,' grown Moat ser-
ene.
A TEN CENT CHEQUE
Ed English, veteran railway con-
ductor with headquarters at Winni-
peg, holds what he terns "the most
interesting pay cheque ever issued."
It was issued on February 15th, 1913,
and is made out for "ten cents only."
"I was working for the old Cana-
dian Northern Railway in those
days," explains Mr. English in the
April Canadian National Railways
Magazine, In January I took over
the work of conductor and was tvn-
ning on the Oak Point branch. I had
to have a uniform, of course, •anei
this was supplied by the Company,
the arrangement in those days being
that the cost would conte out of the
first pay cheque.
"On February 15th, we went teethe
pay office for our cheques and nine
carte out for ten cents. This dime
was left after the cost of the uniform
was deducted. The cheque was quite
regular and was number 12,640, sign-
ed by the Assistant Paymaster and
the Treasurer, 'inn full for services
rendered during the month of Jan-
uary:
"It is the smallest pay cheque I
ever heard of and I never• did cash it,
preferring to retain it as a souvenir.
I wouldn't part with it for anything,"
declared the veteran conductor.
THOUSANDS OF PIECES MAKE
UP THIS TABLE
Five hundred hours of patient, skil-
ful work went into the making of an
inlaid table recently completed by
George Ridgway, Hamilton, Ont„
crossing watchman, according to an
article in the current issue of the
Canadian National Railways Maga-
zine. Ridgway used no less than
4.810 separate pieces of wood, more
than 3,000 in the top alone, the sur-
face of which is two feet square, A-
mong the woods, all used in their
natural color's and beautifully and in-
tricately matched, are: apple, ash,
beech, birch, baywood, basswood,
cherry, plum, cedar, elm, fir, gum,
wood, ironwood, mahogany, mulber-
ry, maple, light oak, brown oak, pine,
black walnut, light walnut and satin
walnut.
NATIVE ENGLISH
We were walking along the shaded
street of an eastern Pennsylvania vil-
lage when a girl came to the door of
a nearby house and galled to a small
boy playing on the walls:
"Gusty, ,Gusty, cane and eat your-
self once. Ma's on der table now and
Pa's half et already!"
Blessed is the man who can disa-
gree with hie without getting mad a-
bout it,
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,°'i111
liars lotto
v,. pure, Wholesome,
table
Syrup. Children lova
its delicious flavor.
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