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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-03-28, Page 7DRESSING FOR EASTER-4NSJDE 13y L. D. t31081'0, I3c:t1h Dillon wits singing eoftly its of her words, "to talk about being Z{11e beat over the billowing witves oil lo;, n1 to' your ehilreh when it's 1':astov, ribbon and silk, and litre: I and you have the prettiest fe0ch int town, with -everything to match," "Ilehi'1d, the Lord is risen1 '!'here well a moment of interim - Send wide the glad refrain; tweeter! silence, 'flue, Beth arose leor lie has burst asunder • The Wadi of death and Pain,,, C41o(1•tllr.'Iti; "hc 11d atitl,,W rote imu dl, d, with iter, di:;uity, down the t CI"'"Y •nil :aceetly her voice grety1 es in velvety mail it floated out into the "I;, ((1 1 the o, r i s risen!" --the night, a ; see ry thread of moody: i y. nlrred the I(wu•, rut+l stnpited. Tl (1(001 • seemed to have left her soul, "I i'Lrow v. -d; 1.11° p01 ttQs of.' your (10111 don't sett what's get into mother," the .'ted let ''rr Saviour in; complainedpetulantly.'Cie ng' to bed ' 1 • who has eonquereed with the birds, end slaying away • rev Reeve a(0(1 death, and sin." from church on Easter, of all days; and when I'm to sing alone, into the •Ii, r mother came wearily up rho I bargain!" and Online' in nt the gate trtirs, and pauecd by the open door- " oot• I nailer abruptly, without raising hoz Then she Stepped ineidc. "dove -ties, site ran plump into her father's yeti tried it en clear!e?" she inquired, I' 0rm0, • &lancing at til, snowy putt on the be f Ile laughed. "Quite . d, g Qt ter an almfttl,» said "11 it all ip•i1r?'' he, looking down into her face. Then: i ee'neto the last dot," She laugh- I "Ih•eaming of the new dres, 0 sal)" ed happily, "It's the clearest love of, I'ose'1,. P a (levee I ever saw. I'll feel like a I •She nodded. "You'll be proud of queen to morrow, I had no wee you, me, father, when you see I have on could coax it out of father. How'd the prettiest frock .in town," 1 you menage?" Then, not waiting for "Maybe." Itis toe was brusque. nl, anawel, "I know, soon's I saw it in "lt tokens quite a deal, though, my Canton's the other day, it would fit to lass, to -make a father really proud of a tee." Ids girl," eta Lifting the billowy mass she shook I Something• • ?„ ntt' to his torso brought d it out, 'Isn't ft sweet. she u. -ked quick )amp into Beth's throat: "And ecstatically,you're not thinking Airs, Dillon looked critically at the lyours?" she faltered.ue'1 be proud of dainty frock,. "It is pretty, that's 13.1 The eyes of father and daughter fact " she agreed, "I'm d0w'nright met. Rocs, questioning—hurt; hie, glad you have it. You'll be young quiet, keen and grave.' "Hardly," Only once, and Easter's the time for, he replied. "1 suppose., as your daintiness and purity, if ever any, mother says, you're young, and it's time is." 1 Easter, and all the other girls are Beth returned to her former query. haying something pretty nice. But "Rowel you manage?" she repeated, your mother's been having that money "Was father very obdurate?" quit, a spell fora new dress and hat, • A second her mother Eeoitated, "To She 4.11. trying to patch her old one toll the truth," site confessed at , up this, afternoon when the baby got length, -"1 only asked him for ten dol- hold of the ink bottle and emptied it Mrs. The rest was seine I had," 1 into her lap. Site's 1vorn that dress I sue." The girlish vuico'was -!tor fix years, s0 I guess it isn't a trifle indifferent. After all, what • great lops. But it's the only thing did it matter how she got it so long as "he has,, so I don't see but she'll have - it t •i, really hers? Then the tele- (0 stay home until I can squeeze out! phone range I11 go,' elle clouted, and money for another. I'm thinking' I'I! danced down the :..airs, stay with her." Opening the gate, he d Over rho hire carne 11. neighbor's' mored Mislay down the street, voice, tie wish you'd ask your tenth- I 'Draggingly Beth went up the Walk er, Beth, to tuck that recipe for- to the ltona0. A t the ;ceps she turnned. sponge cake into her Bible to -morrow, ft was china' aid, she pulled her coat ancd bring it along to church, I want a (title closer. "So far as comfort to get it bright and early ,Monday goes," -she observed morosely, "one morning." wouldn't mind her winter dress.". "All right," responded Beth. "i'1! (Ince inside she went straight to tell her," her room and, lifting the dainty frock 1 -banging up the receiver, h,• ran once more, 1h,pok 't out, passing her .be -stairs and, entering her mother's halicis eareeeingly over its soft folds, "Id's mice, sho said slowly; "mine!" "Throw wide the portals of your soul, And let the Saviour in—" Mechanically the words flitted through her -brain, "But," she said sharply, ".I've got to go to church to-' morrow*, for I've got to sing. And We for my church." Vera' softly her mother's words ap- peared to float back to her: "It's God the church stands for, you know." Crossing to - the window, site stood looking into the peaceful April sky, Little billows of cloud were piled here and there. As she 'watched, the moon sailed slowly out of sight be- hind one, then, a moment later, emerged on the other side. And to the watching girl the word GOD seem- ed blazoned in gleaming letters over "Yes, daughter," Her motherta sky, and moon, and cloud,,. voice was patiently sweet; her eyes Turning slowly, she crossed to her had a far away, wistful light that did closet and, taking down the simple brown she heed worn all winter, car- ried it to the dresser and turned on the light. 'With grave, undecided eyes she scanned it. Then it drop- ped to the floor, and a second later site was kneeling, head on Molded arms, beside it. "God!" she whispered. "Gott!". Croom, found her beginning to undress. She delivered her message, Airs. Dillon slipped into her bath- robe. "I'll give it to her over the 'phone," she said. "I'm not going to church to -morrow." "Why, Mother Dillon!" Beth's eyes were wide; her face showed Incredul- ous bewilderment. "You always go! And to -morrow's going to be grand— the best music anct'the best decora- tions we've ever had!" "I know," quietly, "Nevertitcaess, 1 am going to st113' donne and put in 1 - day of rest." The pretty brows of the girl stand- ing by the door were -drawn into a little frown. "ilamsie," she an- nounced, pointing un • accusing finger in her mother's direction, "you've al- ways taught me it meant a lot to be loyal to one's church," not escape the sharp young eyes of her daughter. ''.'So it does. But it is God, you know, the Church stands for; and there might, perhaps, be circumstances that would necessitate going to church in the 'holy place call- ed life,' which one can always find in her own heart and hone," and, gently putting her on one side, Mrs, Dillon went down the stairs. "Throw ;wide the portals of your soul, Beth returned to her room, "I And let the Saviour in--" wonder," she unused, "just what moth- er meant by all that!" Then, for- Clear and sweet the words echoed getting lesser things, she returned to and re-echoedd through the house as, the inspection of the new gown. A. with shining eyes, she folded the ea moment later elle was hurrying across dainty gown and packed it in its box, the street. "I'll just rule in," she Ae she tied it site heard her father's exulted, "and tell Gladys I have it," step in the hall >, below, arid flying Pushing back the door of the oppo- down, hos (11 haled, ran, for the sec - site house she stepped into the ball. and time, plump into his arms. "Gladys!" sho trilled. "Gladys!" "Father," cried she breathlessly, "That you, Beth? Come on up," "somehow this. dress doesn't seem to A girl's head appeared over theup-fit. That is, not on the inside. Won't per stair rail, and Beth bounded up you come with me and take it back? the stairs. Seizing her chum about And father" -how clear her voice, the waist, she gave her a hug. "I've how glad, and sweet, and steady her got the dearest gown!" she cried.' eye --"I've been looking over my Girl -fashion, she gave a little spin brown, It will do perfectly 'well. Do and dropped dizzily a laughing, rosy, you suppose we could pick out some - heap, in the centre, of the room, "Oh. thing mother'd lilto? She's gone to Gladys! it's a perfect dear! What'tl bed." Jou decide on?" 1 "I know what she selected" earns A slo'ty, dull red -rept into Cxladys' 1 the quiet ariewer. But on her cheeks. r "): don't believe," she said father's face shone a sudden 119111, "1 slowly, I'll go. Father says he can't was with her when she died it on, afford an unnecessary dollar, tines You see, we were planning on a rah, are so hard with him just now. a I! er simple one for ,yeti. Weill get can't wear my old suit, when everyone that, too, if you like, so you'll both be else will be, having something new decked out new," and sweet, so I'm just going t:oestay .Beth shook her head. "I guess," home. she said brightly, "I'll wear, the Dismay and quick sympathe touched brown," Beth's face. "0h, but," site wailed Creasing to the telephone, sho geve "ivhatever'li eve do? We need you0 a number, attd a second later her voice voice, Gladys, 'You must come! I don't believe I'd have had mite ex- ,pting that I'n1 to sing that selection aione, you know. And anyhow, dear, caress or 110 (tress, you've got to be loyal to your church, you know." Gladys gave a' short laugh; but there was as semblance to nth•th in it, "It's easy," site announced, a - thin edge of semen] biting along the edge went over the wive. "Whatever do you think!" cried site; "that beauty dress and I don't sem to fit. I'tn going to weer mer old brown, even if 'tis Easter, so we'll be a pair o' sixes, D What's that? , Yes," a N touch of almost awe creeping into her voice, "we'll dress for Easter, in- side, Gladys." Rising, she joined her father at the s I s; I-IERE must be no "slackers" this year, either among the' seeds or 0110 growers. Every man and woman with garden 1 ' space, must produce to the limit of his or her ability. And that is whyRonne s I seeds are a0 essential—live, ' 0 S Irtral—' 1 rV vigorous 1 4 seeds from tested stock, to ensure record craps, � gorses 63RUSSELS SPROUTS --- Amager 1'111. '/s 00, Os. ley ne Market .10 .90 2.76 GASDAc,E—Renllie's First Crop., .10 .75 2,26 CA8OAGE—Early iersey Wake', field (Improved) .05 .60 1.76! ,CAULIFLOWEri—Rennie's Danish Droutll-Resisting 16 da .26. 1.00 3,60 10.00 CELERY—Paris Golden Yellow, Extra Select ,15 - .60 2.00 TOMATO—Bonny Best (Original), .10 .60 1,75 Rennie's unproved Beefsteak.10 .76 2.50 FLOWER SEEDS New Giant Asterrnum—Mixed Colors .16 . Rennie's XXX Giant Comet Asters—Mined 16 15 Dreer's Peerless Pink Aster Early Blooming Cosmos—Mixed 10 Reitnie's XXX Exhibition Mixture Pansy 26 Rennie's XXX Prize Ruffled Giant Single Petunia— Mrxture 26 Rennie's XXX Large(Fiowering Globe Stocks—Mixture.20 Rennie's XXXManimotlo Verbena—Mixture 10 Giant Zinnia --Mixed 15 Moil YourOrder 1 * LOOK FOR THE* TODAY a�A14S �' Planting � �,�'I: Turn the PAM of your Donnie cat. atom. You will notice a great many Fo paragraphs with stare at the corners, ViThese are extra s ectal velure that Up g defy competition. When buying from April hi Om -tiers insist on RENNI> 'S. FEED THE CROP, NOT THE SOIL Some farmers believe In feeding the soil. This practice may be good, In these days of 'high prices for all farm crops we believe that It Is much more profitable to feed the Drop the necessary plant food (fertilizer) to produce maximum yields, and to resist disease. Years of experimentation have shown Just how much Ammonia (Nitrogen) Phosphoric Acid and Potash are required by all crops. With this Information we have prepared a bulletin showing just what grade or analysis of fertilizer you should use In the raising of your particular crop on your type of soil. This bulletin free for the asking, If you have never used fertilizer you will find its use this year more profitable than ever before. Ivies FERTILIZERS Ontario Fertilizers Limited West Toronto Canada FOR GREATER PRODUCTION oft 8;1,ti4. ..e Making, TWO Blades Crow pp���1l1t,�,,r ���t HR'.4,'t�•,q?;, ,g. i... Ya e, -W- . �paWhere Only One Grew Before GSHUR-GAIN 4,� U NI 1'10 FERTILIZERS WEST —TORONTO door, and as they went down the wal she hummed softly once more— "Throw wide the,portals of your soul, and her father's voice, rich and fel tools up the tune— "And let the Saviour• in— The Saviour, who has' conquered The grave, and death, and sin," Just as of Old. He stood on the beach at the break o day, k The Pnitn Tree's Song. r With eager hands they broke my boughs, And o'er his pathway scattered 1, them, Crying, "hosanna i David's Son leideth to thee, Jerusalem!" Under the feet of his lowly ass, Gray with the dust of Palestine, Did I not serve the Master then, Even as olive and fruitful vine? ,rend He beckoned to tailing then; Famished and spent, they heard Him say, In the old kind voice, in the kind old way, a (That voice to be heard again!) "Boa's, have ye aught to eat?" " Ile!" Cried the weary helms of Galilee, T0-t11yy'' and forever the One who cared! Sltlll, as of old, the same; Questioning kindly how they fared '!'hough their souls to His loving gaze were bared), Calling them each by name, ead? Their Master? The Crucified? ayl though a thousand deaths Ile died! _ • ^� Bonet .fowl bones make excellent ,...w,. k - .. , ,...........+,..:u,:uavt,,,srhY.;k�;.w,Gb+...ceJ i" 1rra.:..A�M--- -•` .. The grape's blood filled the holy clip 'Wherewith his covenant was made; The pitying olives sheltered Hiro In the dark garden where He pray- ed. My branches, bruised underfoot, Where eager hands had wettered. them, Ivlade green the stony way He fared In triumph to Teiusalem, Must Hare help, Sir William Goode, Secretary of the British Ministry of Food, says: "Pew people havo yet grasped the fundamental :feet that Great Britain still relies on the United States and Can da'•fer sixty-five per dent. of her essential foodstuffs. Unless eve can get this four, or nearly all of it, eve shall peter, out." AN EASTER SERMON "Ile Is not here, but. In risen!" --.14t. hewn tom/ shall forever smother a 1 Ike xxiv 0, Lake, mock the principles which on tit Ifo Eitater .pity! Nature lifts her i day lloavon hoe iuul0rcd! 'bond (n 11i Z11'tvness or m.o. The mufti, of ' hate' Day 1 toa(i11nuf the as sura tc cleat nates of cathedral chimes mingle 3 p t a s ;s 1 vs (a1 ale lel tom', ALL FOOLS 14b c8;e:'etWe Rossi^atra!eeNtC;fiv'cs tavd;P, Mels scc'£,j As "A11 Fools' Day," the First of o April is certainly more honored 111. L the breach than in the observance, e Nobody will regret this, either,ltay.. -. o Ing regard to the results which have g' in more than one or two instances at - la tended these F'ir'st of April Pranks. o I A few year's ego an All h'ools' Day. - joke courted a run 0n a sound and sub-- stantiel Chicago bank, A man, 1 whose identity could not be establish- ed declared , m a neighboring saloon sweetly on the crisp morning air with "11 Christ 1 not risen from the dear: the deep -toned bells of feu• -away spires 1 If death 15 the end of the t oa,1; if tit In crowded city, in secluded hamlet, j s"lt' discipline, enel9fiee and eufferin Hieep_seefelt 03'es open upon worldi that have entered as indispensab Hutt bus been toitcited as if by 00(00 eicment.s !oto tlie. development 01' 111 mash' Wanrh Tho ,' useless putter 11101.4 n1 outer purpose 1hmt furnish if innumerable feet, expreeeive of ing thought 1'or Leclut!1'ul e.(t(trphse the buoyant hearts they beat, sounds Bul, they have; they male? eh/trader, in andtelemeter strange contrast hi laevo• is the g haat with the slow, dress of the: soul weary t0e5d of bygone days, from ! and the soul 15 the immortal life from our hearts,, as if touched by some i C'od' mystic charm, wises a matin song! A Glorious Immortality Easter Day is here! The fast - is "Easter Day," some one ceche, "114 r• broken! lite passion ]vas ended in t something more than a more festival praise! The memory of Getheeniene and Calvary are forgotten in the vision of an open tomb. Dumfound.. ed, yet gladly credulous, we listen to the story of the first Easter Sxongel: ----"lie is not here, but. in risen!" of immortality. If it were not, if it coined/led nothing more than the promise of life's eontiluanee after death, thorn there are thousands that are not interested in it," Fleeter Day proclaims not only im- Easter Day is the clay of the l empty' mortality, but a glorious immortality; mh; it proclaims tit vi� not only a life of eudlec.,� • over " ung, of truth aver• falsehood,, ! endless year.•! fraught with endless to e victory of right, Gears, but of justice over injustice. growth, endless good, endless joy, Plaster Day assures us of the final perfection of life through the risen' Christ, "the first fruits of theta thio Victory Over Wrong If ever the principles for which man suffered were worthy of vindiea- are asleep," Hon, sorely the prineiplos fur which: A little lad, tired and wenn at the Jesus suffered and (lied were worthy' close of the day, after a Jong strug-' of that v'indicatiin, Ii Jesus Christ;gle with the solution of a problem,; had gone down to permanent, ignom-cried himself to sleep. While he slept' inions defeat, then were there little: the father with rapid strokes of the hope for the noblest principles for; pen rewrote the problem, with Its (01, which men's lives are spent. That rect sulption, on 0 clean tablet, Opening Jesus rose from the tomb speaks in 1 his eyes, a loop of gladness brighten - no uncertain terms of the victory of I ed the little f'ellow's face as Ire caw right over wrong, of justice over in-, the neatly i'orlccd out problem in justice, Easter Day brings timely! the place of the dirty, tear stained reassurance to the champions of:paper over which he had fallen to justice and tight. however long l sleep. the conflict, however discouraging the Easter Day eonta!os the promise, odds, the principles of right, of truth , for us of the Master's perfect life, to and of justice must ultimately rise tvh!eh the shall awaken after we have a glorious from the dust into which' closeri our eyes to the 1111111011, im they have been trodden. No bastion !perfect, tear stained product of our - e walls, no armament of steel, no mur- own endeavors, Rev, Stillman 11, • v derous curtain of fire, not even a rock I Leles. Ir 1 that the bank In question would have • 1 a sensational April -fool joke for its customers, - This cleated tido Impressicnj that the ebank was in i. lead way, and sinister 1 rumors spread like lightning. -The • (oesequenc0 was that before noun half the customers End withdriawn !their moneys, anwunting to hundrede of thousands of -dollars. Luckily, the bank was able • to weather the storm without the least • difficulty, but a weaker concern might -• halm been Irretritrably ruined, A Bunt peasant, residing about ane hundred miles frond Berlin, went al • - most frantic with ,joy on receiving on a first of April meriting a letter, pur- purling to come from a firm of law- yers. announcing. that 0 (Natant reale tive had left him a sum equal to about 1100,000, - Ont the strength of this unexpeet- o(1 announcement he borrowed money, bought himself a new outfit, and at once set out for the capital to take posse,;sion of his newly -acquit• d fortune. But, alas; on arising at the lawyer's place -of bu:,m_.es, he speedily discovered that they knew nothing at all -about it. The letter was nothing' but a First lf April hoax, And the fact proved shah a shucl, to the victim that he 'ollap;ed on the floor and expired in few minutes. On another April Feels' Day a Live rpood young lady was the recipient IS a letter, containing a proposal of - marriage, It purported to c01110 from very eligible young man, who, how - ver, had never 113 all his •life breathed word of rove to her. It never struck her that the li i ive ad arrived on the First of April, and tat it might be one of the hoaxes eculiar to that day. While sur- e prised, she accepted the offer in good with, and wrote the supposed sender ecordingle. On receiving her epistle, he was 11 -'.her-puzzled young- man, but he on tumbled to the situation. Averse the young lady being humiliated by er acceptance of the bogus offer of arriage, he forthwith took up the le of future husband, and in due arse the couple were married, Neither has bail the least cause - regret it. But what the perpetra- 0 of this ie!rst of April joke thought its oUteolie has never yet tr•anspir- April-footing -was responsible fur Icing the fortune of a certain sell - ban London doctor. A new -comer, h'iri a eery uphill experience until. e i le st of April morning ,when he s Called up 011 the telephone to visit Ick person in an adjacent street. • in arriving et the house, he found it his sennas were not required, i that some mi.e hievoue pereol I made n fool of him, Be was • cedingly angry, not only et this, alis,, at the loss of an unexpected 1.(.11(1, n the way home, however, .hc was re than compensated for nil his appointment, As he w•as passing elderly lady, Ile happened to fall n in a faint. e, naturally, went to her assist - e. and carried her into 0 neighbor - shop, where she was al once r•e- lined as the wealthiest of alt the 1 residcuto. As soon as nate w•a0 Heinle- recovered, the medico 101t- ed- h•er 11ome, 1e proved exeeeciingly grateful, Eastertide, 1918. For pagan or Christian the great spring festival stands for confidence in life in spite of death, 111 brings !anew the eternal message annually reiterated, It says that: -- 11 -manhood o is d the one immortal thing, Beneath Time's changeful sky -- I That length of days is knowing when ! to die, Without confidence in that principle, how can people get along with war that gathers the young to its untime- ly reaping; with this war especially, ' which gathers all the ages with a piti- less voracity that shone, as yet, no sign of satiation? It must go hard indeed with anyone who does not feel that life is something to be spent; not I hoarded, but given in purchase when! the treasure that is worth the price! of it comes to market, I In a day that cannot now be very I tar distant, this heroic period we live; in will reach its further limit, and there will be peace again. But what' kind of a world will follow, and who will make it, the living oe the dead? ' I Be sure the deo who I d o have died for 1 1t will make it in greet measure for al generation to come. The coming world will come pledged to them; 1 S pledged to be worth the price they' 11 paid to save it, pledged to realize - 2 their costly hopes for it. . It cannot o be the world it W55. They have paid' d to change it, and change it must. Peo- ple who reckon that the future will be another instalment of the past reckon Without the dead who have died to make it different. Human life is receiving an enormous new consecration. Not in the time of anyone alive four years ago will this world be again what it was then. The living are trying, and with mighty efforts, to shape its eovtrse, but every day and week and month they deal more and more with a world held in mortmain, that proceeds not as they will, but as the dead decree. The world that. is coming will be- long• to those who paid the price of (1 it, This is their Easter; theirs who p Easter Eggs, The "new clothes for Easter" cos-, tom is based upon a centuries-old• t superstition that if new clothes were tie not worn thea, for that year good- to fortune would depart. "At- Easter h let your clothes be new, Or else be; sure you will it rue." But that wasro not written in tear -time. Another Easter belief, of which the co Food Controller night take nate, is 00 that if anyone would abstain from 00 meat on Easter Sunday they would be, of free of paver for a year. Another ed belief was that by eating radishes as the Prst food o1 Easter Day the qua ma tan ague. would 11e ]sept away for x' ur year. he The Easter holiday is eeclesias'ical 0n 111 origin and very ancient, R -joie-; w'a 1 Ings and festivities were held in every u s parish, Evan archbishops x11(1 bishops; ( I a have emulated the sacritire whereof 0 at this time Christians celebrate the a glory. Not them shall we see cense' hack to earth, but eve -shall see a li resurrected world, and it 10111 he tI theirs:—E.S,iol. ; p If a their dignity and played the naildball with the inferior clergy, The moon settles the date of Easter, the rule being that it shall be the first • exc. unday after the full 111(1011, which' mlit appens upon or next after ,March; pat let. And if the full mobil happens 0 n a Stutday, Easter is to be the Son - ay after. Easter eggs are not Christian in 1111 origin, having beep used religiously; (1044• by pagans before Christianity, The; II symbolism of the :(;aster egg is that, arty as it holds the germ of a future life,: ing, it is an emblem of restirreetini end' cop immortality. :lace stiff It is always Easter tm Gud's side vey of the grave, • 81 The Christian religion is pitched on • an ascending scale. It begins with an emancipation, and it ends with an ascension , TI path of the just shines more and more to the perfect day: the (:IOOGIIAPi-1C'AL OD.1Di'1'IES, ay that is refulgent with the seen resence of the Son of R(h and rewarded hint,handsonely for his trouble, besides making him her per- manent medical attendant. He has not looked buck .1. tie. g teoneness, Streuge Names To . Be hawed the World Over, i a It .is remarkable how soon the world gets ac('ustonted to a, strange name. Think, for instance; -ot' anyone calling' , a Cape "Good Hope," yet nobody won- ders, although it is perhaps the best known headland on the globe. '!`hen there is "New Found Land," the name which old Sebastian Cabot gave to the land he first struck in North America, and which has sent so many brave lards to fight for their old Mother Land, Often, of course, an odd name le dis- guised by being in a foreign tongue. Take the Ladrones, for instance; a well-known group of Pacific Islands. Magellan gave theme this name be- cause the natives were Sttch inveterate purloiners, and "Thieves' Island" they have remained eves• since. The Spaniards are responsible for s01110 remarkable geographical "chris- tenings," for they had a habit of call= fug every place they found by same memo connected with religion, Los Angeles sounds all tight in Spanish, but if it were anglicised to The Angels it would be a queer name for a town, "Frisco" sounds frivolous, but "Saint Francisco is quite proper( Santa Cruz is all right, but The Holy Cl•oss sounds strange to English ears, just as Saint ' James would, instead of Santiago, - Savory stews and meat pies help meat to go a Tong way., .y' -1 "The clay breaketh; the morning cometh; the shadows flee away."