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LACK OF SENSE
T would not have your meals on time,
Or dust behind the door;
But I'd have roses in the bowls,
.And firelight on the floor.
I know I'd leave a lumpy place
If I should mend your socks;'
'I'd keep my nose well powdered,
though
And plant some hollyhocks.
Quite probably your toast would burn
Your eggs be overfried,
I'd never wear a pair ce heels
Run over on the side!
Instead of making .budgets work
I'd write another rhyme:
Still—you' Wright bring guests home
with you
roll dinner any time.
But life is made of serious things
Like bills and meals and rents,
So run along and choose a girl
Who shows same common sense.
Helen Wlelshimer.
about the sort of practical person
who always has her work done on
time and who discouraged anything
like slackness and soft sentiment. I
really admire that sort of a woman
very umch, but she frightens me near-
ly out of my wits, for she is bound
in no time at all to catch me up ort
something of which she, in her unbe-
lievable efficiency, does not approve
and I defy anyone who is a bit of a
soft sentimentalist, who believes in
Santa Claus, in fairies, and in having
roses on the breakfast table, to stand
up to such a practical womanandde-
fend herself in such a• way as to
corse out of the :conflict feeling like
anything but a whipped cur. Oh, I
tell you I figkt shy of any such pert
son. I'd go around a block to avoid
her any day.
But, you know, I can't for the life
of me understand why a clever we -
man, and there are millions of there,
cannot be both practical and a be-
liever in fairies. There are some rare
souls who are. Women who can keep
a house just as it ought to be kept
I said something not so long ago and enjoy a poem; worsen who can
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LIFE BEGINS ---
Thanks to an interesting book and
• a popular musical play, the phrase
"life begins" has taken on a new
meaning. A. previous generation
used to refer to those who were dead
but did not know they were.
Despite 'the change in meaning of
phrases and expressirns, the human
body in its development continues to
follow along well-established lines.
No matter at what age you may con-
sider life begins, the development of
your teeth began at least six months
before the day of your birth. '
After all, the importantquestion
is "What happens ?" rather than
"*VVhen did something begin?" It is
no particular value for us to know
that although most babies are born
without any visible signs of teeth, yet
the teeth are well under way even if
they are hidden. This . information,
however, is of no particular value un-
less we snake use of it.
Actually, front the point of view
•• of dental health, this is the most
important idea for us to get hold of.
''The soundness of our teeth depends
upon the food we eat during that
period when the structure of the
teeth is being laid down. The diet of
the expectant mother determines the
kind of teeth baby: will have for his
first set. What baby has to eat and
what he continues to eat during the
early years of Life is the deciding fee -
'Ur as to the kind of teeth he will
have and how long they will last.
Nothing is of more interest to the
family than baby's fust tooth. Few
things should be of as much interest
es the loss of the first permanent
tooth, It is unfortunate that lack oe
reasonable care in eating the right
kinds of food, neglect of cleaning and
delay in securing dental care lead to
so much dental diseases, but this is
so,
It is not suggested that anyone
should have to eat with .his mind fix-
ed on his teeth alone. The teeth are
a part of the body and so they are af-
fected, for good or ill, by those things
which stake or mar the health of the
body. Food that is good for the whole
body is good for the teeth. Milk,
fruits, green leafy vegetables, egg.
yolk and cod-liver oil are the foods
which the growing child needs in a-
bundance.
The teeth should be kept .clean. The
most important thee to brush the
teeth is before going' to bed, and it
is desirable also to brush thein after
each nieaI. Once decay has started,
there is only one way to arrest it
and that is through proper dental
treatment. Better still, do not want
until you know there is decay; have
your teeth eatamined regularly.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College :Street, Toron-
to, will be answered ' personally by
letter. I .
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NO WONDER HE FELT AND
LOOKED SO MUCH BETTER
Ralf in fun and half because he occasionally "felt punk", a
college chap joined 39 other students to form a test class or. clinic.
It was desired to test on this class the recuperative power of a certain
tonic preparation, the formula of which was known to have blood '
building qualifies.
Like the, other 39, this young men's blood was tested and the,
"count" of red eorpuscles and red colouring matter: was found well
below normal. Nowonder he `felt punk" at times. Fie was given
the tonic and returned in thirty days to have Ms blood tested again.
There wan no doubt about: improved health. Ile looked it and felt
it. Yfis blood lest showed that red corpuscles and red colouring
matter had strikingly increased. No wonder he felt and looked so
much better,
Would you like to feel better, too? Would you like to be keen
again about study or work or play? Then take this "tested tonic"
which proved suck a benefit to the forty college students. It restores
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Cooking
bake a loaf of bread fit for a king and.
enjoy a lovely sunset; who can man-
age with admirable- efficiency their'
homes, husbands and families and
enjoy a thought-provoking lecture;
Who can do their part in snaking
garments for the pour and enjoy, or
perhaps even paint, a pretty picture.
Why shouldn't all women be like
that? They have the capabilities for
it. It is just necessary to eu2'tivaite
an all around character, not to allow
oneself -to become one-sided.
You know if you leave your plants
always with the same side to the sun
they will grow one-sided, they grow
'toward the sun. So if we just eulti-
vete one side of our nature, such as
the artistic, or the practical, we shall
row
that way..
justgIf wekeep our
lives revolving, taking an interest in
all phases of life, then we shall come
to have n. rounded character. Women
can do a lot for themselves if they
just resolutely turn their eyes in oc-
casionaky and determine to cultt-
vatethemselves along the lines they
wish to dovelope.
—RIEBEKAli.
CORNELIA'S JEWELS
Cornelia was a Ronan lady who
lived ninny, many hundreds of years
ago. She had two sons, who were
very proud of their mother, thinking
she was the most beautiful woman in
the world.
One clay a friend of Cornelia's
came to visit her. She was beauti-
fully attired, and was bedecked with
costly gents and ornaments.
The two boys were walking in the
garden when they passed the ladies.
"Did you ever see so handsome- a
person as our another's friend ?" ask-
ed the younger of his brother. "She
Fortes like a queen."
"Yet not so beautiful as our moth-
er," replied the other. "She has fine
dresses and rich jewelry; but her face
is not good and kind like our moth-
er's. It is she who is queenlike."
"It is true; no one can compare
tvith our ntother in Rome," said the
Younger.
Cornelia turned and addressed her
Sons.
"Boys, you are to dine with us here
in the garden, then our friend will
show us that casket of wonderful
jewels you have heard so much a-
bout.
When the casket was opened the
boys looked wonderingly at the topes
of pearls tr
e and the precious s i tots st nes.
p p o
The friend turned to Cornelia and
said: "Ts it true that you Have no
wealth? They tell pre that you pos-
sess no jewels."
"Wealth I have none," replied Cor-
nelia; "brit I have two very precious
jewels."
"Show them to nye," said the vis-
itor.
Then Cornelia placed an arm lov-
ingly about each of her sons' should-
ers and remarked: "These are my
jewels; more precious to me than the
Basketful, or anything that money
can buy --My boys!"
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* Scalloped Cabbage, Spaghetti
and Cheese
" 1 cup spaghetti, broken in
* pieces
2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
* 1 teaspoon salt
`" 11/2 cups milk
11e cups grated cheese
* 2 cups cabbage (cooked '5
minutes)
et cup buttered bread crumbs
Cook spaghetti in boiling
salted water until tender (a-
bout 20 minutes). ;Drain. Make
a sauce of butter, flour, salt
and milk. Add cheese. Put
cabbage, spaghetti and sauce
en layers in buttered baking
;dish . Cover with buttered
crumbs and bake in a hot oven
•until =Albs are brown (about
10 minutes),
Mexican Rarebit
3 tablespoons better
1 small onion
8 tablespoons flow
* 2 eups canned tomatoes
" 1 teaspoon Worcestershire
Sauce
Salt and pepper
2 cups grated cheese
(2 cups' corn, macaroni or
spaghetti inay be added with
tomatoes)..
Cook the chopped onion slow-
ly in the : butter for 5 minutes.
!Stir in the flour.. Gradually
'' add the tomatoes and cook un-
til mixture thickens,' Add
rated cheese and'seasonings.
* Cook very slowly until cheese '
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YOUR
Care of Children
Household Economics
WORLD AND MINE
by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
(Copyright)
Much wants more. .I wonder if this
is the explanation of the prevalent
discontent. - Is it not true that we
Who are alive today ,have more of the
desirable things of life than any peo-
ple •of a former time .possessed, It
is true that some of us had more
txnoney in the 1920's than we have had
in the 19300s, but when everything is
added up, we find ourselves in posses-
sion of comforts and conveniences
far beyond anything which our fath-
ers and mothers and grandparents
posesssed at our age. Listen to this:
First of all, a mean should al-
ways consider how much more he
has more than- he wants. I am
wonderfully pleased with the
reply which Aristippus made to
gone who condoled him upon the
loss of a farm. "Why," said he,
"I have three farms still, and you
have but one. So that 1 ought
rather to be :af libted for you
than you for Me."
This extract from an essay by
Joseph Addison (born 1672) is illus-
trative of the content of its writer,
and is from- his essay, "Advantages
of Content." And the wise contribu-
tor to "The Spectator" goes on as fol-
lows:
Foolish men are more apt to
consider what they have lost
than what they possess, and to
fix their eyes upon those who are
richer than themselves rather
on those who axe under greater
difficulties. All the real Pleas.-
tires
leas-tires and conveniences of life Iie
in a narrow compass; but it Is
the humour of maeik!nd to be al-
ways looking forward, and to be
straining after one who has got
the start of them in wealth and
honour. Persons of a higher vank
live in a kindof splendid poverty,
and are perpetually wanting, be.
cause, instead of acquiesing in the
solid' pleasures of eife, they en-
deavour to outvie one another Ile
shadows and appearances. Let a
man's estate be what it will, he is
a poor man if he does not live
within it. In short, content is
equivalent to wealtt and luxury
xmw
to poverty. Upon the whole, a
contented mind is the greatest
blessing a man can enjoy in this
world.
All this is sound sense. It was just
such wisdom which made Addison
one of the immortals among British
writers.
Let us see what a man who lived
before Addison has to say about life
--Christopher Mantle, one of the
pioneer printers of the world, who
set up his printing press in Antwerp
in 1549. Here is his conception of.
happiness: '
To have a cheerful, bright, and airoy
dwelling place,
With garden, lawns, and climbing
flowers sweet;
Fresh fruits, good wine, few child-
ren; there to meet
A quiet faithful wife whose love
shines through her face.
To have no debt, no lawyer's feud;
no love but one,
And not too much to do with one's
relations.
Be just, and be content. Not but
vexations
Arise from toadying the great,
when, all is done.
Plantin did not quite say so, but he.
nearly said, "Live in towns, not in
great cities." Unless one is very,
very rich, one is unlikely to have "an
alley dwelling place with garden,
lawns and climbing flowers in the
city. But they .all are possible to
those who dwell in towns.
You see, I am lighting the .big
city—not the small .city-•-asa
place ' of residence ;for those who
Inc not already established there. In-
deed, I 'would be giving good advice
to many who live in big cities if I
bade them get away'.from them
back to the town or farm,
Let pie tell you of Mrs. Eleanor
Risely, author' of "The Abandoned
Orchard"—a captivating book and
one which should be available to you
through your public library. Mrs.
Risely says in her entrancing nar-
rative of her life as a grower and
seller of apples:
Previously inured to idleness
and frivolity in a big icity, sud-
denly I found myself a sorrow-
dazed, impoverished, but.inrpor-
testate woman, who. at once flung
herself desperately into many
fields of human endeavour. But
always Il new that hidden in the
wilds of a mild -western' state a
thoroughly abandoned young or -
chard of more than 100 acres
beckoned .•me with unsprayed .
arms, as yet empty of apples,
Resolutely I turned y dace
away. I had never Tiray
he the
• ,Country and I - was not drawn to
apples. -.. My father-in-law,
who willed me the orchard, de-
lighted: to tell me of how, when
he had gone from the, city to
plant these idle fields In apple
trees,there had been a strike for
higher wages among the planters
and ploughers, and how one of
the fainters' had mounted a bar-
rel, and addressed' the other
fanners, saying, "No damned
,capitalist from llhe city is going
to come down here and run the
country."
It remained for the widow woman,
delicately, roared, to make her aban-
doned orchard produce apples of gold.
Read her beak. See how an untrain-
ed woman frons a great city faced a
most discouraging situation and con-
quered it—without capital and with -
rout experience in apple culture.
A year ago Mrs. Risley wrote me a
letter in which she said: '
I paid a high price for my nine
years' orchard experience — per-
haps. Now for reasons of health
I live in the Ouchita Mountains
of Arkansas, hugged up against
a forest reservation, nine miles
from a town and two miles and
more from a village where we
get the mail• --when the "crick" is
not too high, But in my solitude
at the orchard I seem to have
found a clue to the secret of
happiness, and I do not miss the
world.
I go back to Addison for the con-
clusion of this contribution to The
)clews -Record. Says Joseph: "This
virtue (of content), if it does not
bring riches, does the sane thing --
by banishing the desire of then. If
it cannot remove the disquietudes
arising out of a man's mind, body or
fortune it makes arc , him easy under
ndor
then. It extinguishes all murmur,
repining and ingratitude. It de-
stroys all inaordinate ambition, and
every tendency to eo1.'rup tion with
regard to the community •wherein he
is placed. It gives sweetness to his
conversation and a perpetual seren-
ity to all his thoughts."
WITHOUT WAITING TO BE TOLD
"Miss Brown, put back those laces.
Miss Williams, see to those ribbons.
Get this counter in shape." The floor-
walker's voice was sharp, and the
Rids evho set about obeying les
orders looked reseutfuIIy after its
retreating figure, .and made remarks
regarding his temper as soon as he
was well out of hearing.
Yet the floor -walker had some ex -
auto. The clay had been a busy one.
Customers had thronged about the
bargains, goods had been pulled over
till the counter presentee) a most dis-
orderly and unattractive appearance,
Bet when the lull came, the clerks
had stood back and chatted instead
of improving the opportunity to get
things to rights. They were waiting
to be told to do a thing they should
have done without the telling.
In the Industrial world there are
a few who give orders, and many who
take them, and the first class is re-
cruited front the . second.. But no
worker is advanced from a subordin.
ate position to a higher till he has
proved his ability to put himself to
work without being :told. The girl
who waits to do the obvious duty till
someone points it out to her, bas put
an impassable barrier in the way of
her own success.
GODERIOH, After numerous at.
tempts to replace the broken halyard
on the flagpole in Court House. Park.
Jake MiacD'ougail' succeeded in put-
ting it in place on Saturday with a
new coat of paint. The halyard had
been disjointed at the half way mare
and lowered to the ground. -
Rel l eyed/
"Baby's Own ;Tablets have been
the only medicine my four children
haveeverhad. In nosingleinstapee
has it bean necessary to consult
our doctor," So writes Mrs. Barry
Pilmer, Cumberland Bay, . N.B.
When the baby or young child
loses appetite; is sleepless or rest-
loss,- has coated tongue colic,
indigestion, cold or diarrhoea or.
is teething .. give Ba'by's Own
Tablets for sate, quick relief.
Price 25e at all drag Stores. 20G
'Dr..W )urns'
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs --Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful
and Ins piring-
A GOOD SPORT•
De Good Lawd sends enc troubles,
And I got to wuk 'em out;
But I look aroun' and see.
There's trouble all about,
And when I see my troubles
I
jes lookup'
d grin,
To think of all de troubles
Dat I ain't in.
"Sparks;" Louisville, •Ky.
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SUNSHINE AND MUSIC
A laugh is just like sunshine,
It freshens all the day,
It tips the peak of life with light,
And drives the clouds away;
The soul grows glad that hears it,
And feels its courage strong;
A laugh is just like sunshine
For cheering folks along.
A laugh is just like music,
It mingles in the heart,
And where its melody Is heard,
The ills of life depart;
And happy thoughts come crowding
Its joyful notes to greet;
A laugh is just like music
For making living sweet.
COLOR 'MID TRE GREY
Grey skies, grey fields, grey woods•
upon the hill,
Dim distances of grey!
Yet there is color in the garden still,
E'en on bhe dullest day.
.)+Tilled cabbages and the fresh prim-
rose leaves,
And crocus blades are seen
Like emerald, and the bare orchard
grieves
Over such wet, pure green.
And jade and olive mosses on the
stones
Show where the fairies rest.
And a last leaf upon the bramble
tones
With the robin's scarlet vest
Then see the loveliest tints that
Winter shows
Pull the dark leaves apart --
The carmine flesh upon the Christ-
mas rose,
And its pale gold heart,
—Doris Canham.
AGE
The need of having clear familiar
things,
Things loved in childhood; which,
perchance, oft brings
A sense of sweet security. Away
From all the burry of life's every -day.
A place of peace where We may view
the shore;
The brink of great transition. More
and mere
The small and fretting things of daily,
life
Fade in a rosy mist. One leaves the
strife
For this sure haven. Age has now
the time
To savor life. Almost it is sublime --
The true appreciation years can give.
The knowledge that we know just
how to live.
And so we keep the dear familiar
things
A link from youth to age each mem-
ory brings.
—M.G.W. in The Globe.
A SONG OF THE UNATTAINABLE
For the few -and -far -between,
For the very -seldom -seen,
Far the cm-catch-)told-nponabie I
sigh!
The unclutehable I'd clutch,
The untouchable I'd touch,
For the ungrabbed and ungrabbable
I'd 'diel
Oh, I burn and sigh and gasp
For the just -beyond -the -grasp,
For the far-unovertakable I yearn;
And the vulgar here -and -now
I ignore and disavow,
And the good -enough -for -others, hew
I spurn!
011, I moan and cry and screech
For the just-beyoiea-the-reach.
The too -far -away -to -grab I would en-
stare;
The ungainable ];'d gain,
The unattainable attain,
And chase the un-caitelt-on to his lair.
GLAD
MY darling went
Unto Iles seaside long ago. Content
I stayed at home, for oh, I was so
glad
Of all the little outings that she had,
I knew she needed rest. I loved to.
stay
At home awhile that - . she might go
away. -
"How beautiful the seal How she
enjoys
The . music of the waves! No care
annoys
Her pleasures," thought I. "Oh, it is
so good
That she can rest awhile. I wish she
could
Stay till the autumn leaves are turn-
ing red."
"Stay longer, sister," all my letters
said.
"If you are growing stronger every
day,
I am so very glad to have you stay."
My darling went
To Heaven long ago. Am I content
To stay at home? Why can I not be
glad
Of 'all the glories that she there bas
had?
She needed change. Why am 1 lath
to stay
And do her work, and let her go a.
way?
The land is lively where her feet
have been;
Why do I not rejoice that she has
seen
Its beauties first? That she will show
to me
The City Beautiful, Is it so hard to
be
Happy that she is happy? Hard to
know
She learns so much each day that
helps her so?
Why can I not each night and morn.
ing say, '
"1 ant so glad that she is glad to-
day"?
o.day"? ' —Anon.
SERMON IN A STOCKING
The supper
is over, the hearth ia
swept,
And in the wood fire's glow,
The childrent luster tear c o i ea a tale
Of the time so long ago.
When grandmother's hair was golden
brown,
And the warns blood same and went
O'er the face that Could scarce have
been sweeter then
Than now, in its rich content.
The face is wrinkled and careworn
now,
And: the golden hair is gray,
But the light that shone in the young
girl's eyes
Has never gone away.
And her needles catch the fire -light,
And in and out they go,
With the clicking music that grand.
uta loves,
Shaping the stocking toe,
And the waking children love it, too,
For they know the stocking song
Brings many a tale to grandma's mina
Which they shall hear ere long.
But it brings no stety of olden times
To grandma's heart tonight,
Only a ditty, quaint and short,
Is sung by the needles bright.
"Life is a stocking," grandma says,
"And yours is just begun;
And I am knitting the toe of mine
And my work is almost done. '
"With merry hearts we begin to knie
And the ribbing is almost play,
Some are gay colors and some are
white,
And some are ashen gray.
"But most are made of many a hue,
With many a stitcu set wrong,
And many a row is sadly ripped
Ere the whole is fair and'strcng.
"There are long, plain spaces, with.,
out a break
And in youth nee hard to bear,
And many a weary tear is 'dropped
As we fashion, the heel with care.
"But the saddest, happiest time is
that
We court and yet we shun;
When our Heavenly Father breaks
the thread
And says that our work is done."
The children came to say good -night,
With tears in their bright young
eyes,
While, in grandma's lap, with
broken thread,
The finished stocking lies.
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