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Staying At Home
We have all kinds of • speelal days or
weeks for going away from home.
There is this; important ;function: or
that social call until after awhile we,
hardly know what our, own home looks
like after twilight falls. In this way
a habit le often formed and. before we
know it a restlessness takes hold of
one at the mere thought of staying at
home. Eventually; however, . one is
apt to get too much of this continual
call for outside affairs and we look
longingly at the quiet room with its
comfortable chaire and unused books
and magazines. But we find we can-
not stay at home for we have bound
ourselves with'. other obligations. Af-
ter all, we are our own masters, or
should he, and it may take a good
struggle to keep certain specified
times for home, but it is worth it.
Each one in the family needs this
family life at being together in re-
creation. It removes the danger of
drifting apart, All too soon the girls
and boys grow up, establish their own
homes and are gone never to return
in the same relation.
It le too bad things are not balanced
more evenly for on the other hand we
have the shut-ins, those who are tied
down because of sickness or little
children. They long for a change of•
scene. However the old world is of-
ten contrary, for it may be when these
same shuti-ns are free they might
wish for the old days when they were
bound by home ties. It helps if we
remember that these home ties are the
cords which bind us to the spot from
which come great things and in those
hours of enforced quiet the time may
be used as an outlet into the great
stream of knowledge gained by read-
ing or study. Before we know it we
will welcome this seclusion and find
the once irksome ties have become
open roads to future betterment, In
the books we read are revealed a
world of wisdom and of dream people.
21 is said that if we were to spend our
three score years in constant reading
we could not begin to read all. the good
books which harebeen written. It is
well to think about theee things in the
hurry of our every -day lives.
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The Young Son's Wants
A little four-year-old boy expressed
his desire to have whiskers and de-
cided he would like them ou itis upper
lip, On being asked who had whiskers
there, he replied: "Granddaddy, Andy
Gump and a Billy Goat an' I wants one
too."
Good Advice
Dont be what you ain't,
Jes' be what you is.
If you not what you am,
Then you am not what you is.
If you're just a little tad -pole,
Don't try to be a frog.
If you're just the tall,
Don't try to wag the dog.
You cau always pass the plate,
If you can't exhort and preach.
If you're just a little pebble,
Don't try to be the beach.
Don't be what you ain't,
Jes' be what you is,
For the man who plays it square
Is a -going: to get "his."
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Pot Roast and Stews
It is said if the cook can make good
stews and pot roasts it id the proof of
her capabilities and she le crowned
queen of the kitchen. Skill and clever-
ness are required to prepare a delici-
ous stew and lucky is the man who
possesses such a helpmate. Cheap
cuts can be used to advantage and the
finished dish is both appetizing and
nounrishing.
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Devilled Steak
Fry a large onion sliced in two table-
spoons of butter until a light brown.
Remove onion and put a plank steak
which has been cut in pieces. Sear
both sides of meat until brown. Make
a sauce of two tablespoons flour, 1
teaspoon salt, 1.3 teaspoon pepper, 1/2
teaspoon paprika, and one teaspoon
mustard. Mix dry ingredients with a
little water and 'three tablespoons of
cider vinegar. Pour over the meat
and cook slowly for two hours. Cover
closely while cooking. Serve with
baked potatoes and peas.
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Dumplings !Ser Stews
2 cups sifted flour, 3's teaspoon salt,
3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg,
about 1 cup of milk.
Mix and sift dry Ingredients, Data
the egg till light and add milk to it.
Mix with the flour and then drop by
spoonfuls in boiling stew, letting them
rest on the top of the meat if possible.
Cover tight and boil ten minutes, and
don't peak until the ten minutes is up.
If the gravy is good and rich the
egg may be omitted, adding enough
milk to make a batter that will drop.
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Advice to the Deaf
Damp is bad for interior gears. In-
stead of water, use- equal parts of gly-
cerine, ether and alcohol. Apply with
ear sponge anddry out with thin, soft
cloth,
Sonnet to War
"tire ought not to perpetuate the
horrore of war."
Ah! Let the grim War die. We've
learned enough
Of bitterness through which they
fought and died,
Of rats and filthy dug -outs, far and
With?
The land laid traete, deep trenches,
marches rough,
Soule starred. hearts killed, lives end-
ed in a puff,
Their fmrs war -deafened, elm, with
maddened pride
Of sell and country, sought at
len th- their Guide,
When life held not a strength of
sterner stuff!
Let grim War die; still cherish deep
the love
01 those who, loving us, set free the
dove
01 Peace nate our world. Their spirits
still
Rise up front orosees on a foreign
hill!
The canons hushed, their bayonets
grown blunt
Repeat, "Ali quiet on the western
front."
—R. A. Hamilton in the Montreal
Star.
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Amoe Tash says: "You can lead a
calf t0 the milk bucket, but it re-
quires diplomacy to teach it to drink,"
City of the Light
By FELIX. ADLER
Have you heard the golden city
Mentioned in the legends old?
Everlasting light chines o'er it,
Wondrous tales of it are told,
Only righteous men and women
Dwell within its gleaming wall;
Wrong is banished from its borders,
Justice reins supreme o'er all.
We are builders of that city;
All our joys and all our groans
Help to rear its shining ramparts,
All our lives are building -stones.
But a few brief years we labor,
Soon our earthly day is o'er,
Other builders take our places,
And our, place knows us no more.
But the work which we have budded,
Oft with bleeding hands and tears,
And in error and in anguish,
Will not perish with the years
It will last, and shine transfigured
In the final reign of Right;
It will merge into the splendor's
OP the City of the Light.
Hint to Laundress
In laundering silk hose and lingerie,
always place your soap flakes in the
basin before you turn on the water,
as the suds will react much more
quickly.
Economy Corner
Ten -Minute Cranberry Sauce
Cue quart or pound, (4'cups) cran-
berries; 2 cups water; 13„. to 2 cups
.sugar.
Boil sugar and water together 5
minutes; add cranberries and: -boll
without stirring (5 minutes is usually
Sufficient) until a11. - the skins pop
open. Remove from the fire when
the popping stops.
Poi' e, thinner sauce, just bring
water and sugar to a boil—teen add
berries and let them -'cook until they
stop popping. .
Tapioca Pudding
Put 1 pint milk late double boiler,.
when scalded, stir in 2 rounding table.
spoons tapioca. •Cook. 5 minutes,
stir occasionally. Then add yolks of
two eggs, well :beaten, :with ee cup
sugar and pinch of salt. Stir con-
stantly and .cook about 2 'minutes.
Beat whites until stiff and dry and
add to pudding, with a cutting and
folding• motion. -.Flavor with a little
vanilla.
Jellied Cranberry Salad
Two pups chopped cranberries, 1
package lemon gelatine, 3's cup sugar,
cup chopped 'Write, ee cup diced
celery, 1% .cups boiling water.
Dissolve gelatine in; boiling water.
Add sugar to the chopped cranberries;
Cover the bottom of a mold with gels-
tine. When this has stiffened add a'
layer .of cranberries, cover withsome
of the liquid gelatine; when this stiff-
ens add a layer of celery, some gela-
tine, then the chopped nuts, gelatine,
until all is used. Put in ice box to
stiffen. Unmold on lettuceand serve
with mayonnaise.
Spariish Cream
Soak, % package of calves' head gel;
atiu in '1 quart milk 10 minutes, then
put on the stove in a double Moller.:
Beat the yolks of 3 eggs and 1 cup
of sugar; light. and stir it into the
milk when it is good and hot. • Cook
a few minutes,. then remove frJm the
fire and add the whites of 3 eggs bee't-
en stiff and a teaspoon of vanilla.
Pour into a mold or bowl, first wet in
cold watet', Make the day before
serving. Serve cake with it,
Amber Pudding•
Into a quart of boiling milk stir 1
cup of cornmeal and a quart of sliced
sweet apples; add 1•teaspoou salt and
1 cup molasses, Mir well, add 2
quarts of Bilk, pour into buttered
dish and bake in slow oven for hours.
When cold a clear amber -colored jelly
will have formed throughout the pud-
ding and apples will be a rich Clark
Sunshine Relish
Two quarts ripe cucumbers diced•;
cut up 3 red peppers and 4 email on-
ions. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of salt
over this mixture, then cover with
cold water; let stand 5 or 6 hours.
Scald for five minutes. • Draw off all
salt water. Then add vinegar en-
ough to cook pickles in. Mix % tea-
spoon of tumerlc powder with 1%
cups white sugar. Cook until soft.
Then can in fruit jars,
This. makes about one quart.
Prune Pudding With Prune Sauce
Two cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking
powder, '%a teaspoon salt, 2 tables -
spoons sugar, 2 tablespoons shorten-
ing, 1 cup milk and 2 cups Cooked
prunes. Sift flour before measuring.
Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and
salt together. Cut in shortening with
2 knives. Add the milk to make a
soft dough. Place thin layer of dough
in a greased pudding mold, then a
layer of prunes, then a layer of dough
and another layer of prunes, with thin
layer of dough on top. Steam 4
minutes, turn out on a serving platter
and serve Trot with the prune sauce.
Gingerbread Cake
One egg beaten light, add 4 cup
sugar and % cup molasses and beat,
Sift together 1% cups flour, 1 level tea-
spoon soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, a/s tea-
spoon nutmeg, l4 teaspoon cinnamon
and % teaspoon salt, Add to first
mixtuae alternately with 2 table-
spoons butter melted in % cup hot
water,
Cocoanut Cream Pie
Mix 4 tablespoons cornstarch with
i cup sugar; add 14 cup cold milk
and pour the blended mixture into
1% cups hot milk. Gook 15 minutes,
add 2 beaten egg yolks, Sty teaspoon
salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook 5
minutes, Add % cup shredded cocoa-
nut and allow sluing to cool. Fill
cooked pie shell, spread with merin-
gue made with the 2 egg whites and
39, Cup sugar. Bake in moderate oven
about 20 minutes, Temperature, 325
degrees,
What New York
Is Wearing
Illus rated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
nished T3'2th .t11oerv. Pattern
BY ANNABELLE WORTIIINGTON
The princess slip is- indispensable
in smart woman's wardrobe to wear
with the new slim silhouette frocks.
Its moulded line hugs the figure to
well below the hips where it starts to
widen so as to have a comfortably
fnil flaring hemline.
Its unbroken line shoat shoulder to
hem does away with any conflicting
lines to the outer garment, that en-
tirely ruins an otherwise• perfectly
charming appearance.
Its easily made! A. few seams to
join. The hem may be finished with
pilot -edge or binding.
Style. No. 2668 may be had in sizes
16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42. inches
bust. Size 36 requires 2s yards of
35 -inch material with 2:yards of bind-.
ing.
It's very. French in flesh colored
crepe de chine with pale blue binding
at neck, armholes and hens. -
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as• you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or, coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
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A Prayer
How short the time! How swift the
moments fly,
Our little day on earth seems scarce
begun
When tolls its solemn midnight bell,
and, done
Or not our work, we lay us down to
die!
How short the time! So many things
to try
To do in life's short span! ,We berry-
ing ran
From this task to the next, and pray
for one
More hour's brief space to put it
iiniehed by. e
How short the time! Dear Lord,
vouchsafe to me
The grace to know that Love is more
than all.
Help me my every moment, Lord, to
fill
With loving thought and deed, and
tenderly
To cherish those whose hearts' clear
answering call
Responds to my heart's cry in good or
ill!
Wilson Willard Stayer,
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A. oat never cries over spilt milk.
MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER
Food Tests on Infanfi Mice Point Iceland' Settled
To Wiser Control of Human Diet By Irish Monks
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.—New in- only for two weeks. After teat the Before Vikings
formation on right and wrong times rate of increase on -milk felraway un-
ibr .eating: certain Foods is 'Forecast in til it was revived by changing to
experiments on diets of mice by Dr. soSd food.
Some mice he sayq, have "especial-
Il.: C. MacDoweli and C. G. MacDowell ly good mothetd," which continue to
at the Carnegie Institution here. //nurse their young and delay the shift
Dr, MaoDowell found that moat to solid food. Even for these baby
baby mice do not increase in weight price the milk loses its effectiveness
during their firtt two weeks as rapid- after the second week, and the extra
ly as in the period preceding birth. maternal care only shelve growth tin -
He thought this discrepancy strange til after weaning.
and discovered that it was due to "There can'be no question," Dr. Mac
the fact that the average mouse has Dowell says, "but that a new phase of
too many brothers and Sisters, life is inaugurated .at the end of. the
By giving the young mice more second week by the eating of the first
mother's milk he induced them to solid food, Further experiments will
grow nearly as rapidly after birth as be required before attempting to say
before and double their weight at what is the primary factor that leads
fourteen days. to this break; what initiates this nat-
But the added milk was effective ural prooese of weaning."
Sunday School
Lesson
November 9. Lesson VI—Thomas
(The Honest Doubter)—John 11:
14.16; 14: 5.8; 20: 24291. 21: 1, 2.
Golden Text — Thomas answered
and said unto him, My Lord and my
God. -John 20: 28.
ANALYSIS
I. THE LOYAL PESSIMIST, 11: 14-16.
IL. THE QUESTIONER, 14: 6-8.
III. THE DOUBTER, 20: 24-29; 21: 1, 2.
INTRODucTioN—There areseveral
examples in the Old and New Testa-
ments of men who passed through per-
iods of doubt and questioning. The
most familiar of these is Job, who,
though a man, "Perfect and apright,
one that feared God and eschewed
evil,". yet .found .,himself bereaved,
sorely afflicted and outcast, as it
seemed by the hand of the God whom
he had faithfully served. His insistent
and perplexed complaint and question-
ing is answered only by the unsatisfy-
ing dogmatism of his friends, until
there breaks upon his sight a vi-
sion of God in creation and providence,
inaking the world and governing it
in his infinite power, wisdom end good-
ness, and by this vision his faith is
restored and his c:istress of mind re-
lie'ed. Similar doubts and cuestion
ing appeal in the experiences ;,o frank-
ly revealed in Psalms 73, 77, 89, and
in Jeremiah 12: 1-2; 15: 15-18; 20:
7-lv. That the way of faith was not
always easy for the disciples of Jesus
appears again and again in the gos-
pel narrative. Thomas seems to have
found the way of understanding and
of faith particularly hard. His story
recalls to us Tennyson's answer to the
statement that "doubt is devil -born"
(In Memoriam, xcvi). He tells of one
whom he knew,
"Who touch'd a jar-:ing lyre at first,
But eve: strove to make it true;
Perplext in f aith, but pure in deeds,
At length he beat his music out.
And, he. adds,
"He fought his doubts and gather'd
strength, and ... thus he came at
length
To find a stronger faith his cwn."
So we may believe it was with
Thomas, of whom an early Christian
story relates that he carried the gospel
message to India, founding there a
Christianthisday. church which continues to
I. THE LOYAL PESSIMIST, 11: 14-16.
It was some time during the last
months of Jesus' ministry, in the per-
iod of his Perean ministry, that Jesus
proposed to his disciples a visit to Jer-
usalem. He had received a message
from Bethany telling him of the sick-
ness of his beloved friend Lazarus.
Knowing how bitter was the enmity
of the ruling class in Jerusalem
against him (see 11: 47-48), the dis-
ciples sought to persuade him not to
go. They feared that lie would go to
his death. To Jesus, however, the way
of duty seemed clear. He walked, as
he ever did, in the light of his Fath-
er's will— in such a light there was,
he said, for himself and them no
stumbling.
The disciples doubted and hesitated.
There may have been a disposition
among them to refuse to g with him.
It was Thomas who spoke the decisive
word, "Let us also go that we may die
with him." A pessimist, he takes a
dark view of what lies before, but he
is no coward.
II. THE QUESTIONER, 14: 5-8.
There must have been much in the
sayings of Jesus which these men who
were so loyally attached to him found
difficult to understand, Theyecould
not easily put aside their expectation of
a glorious Messianic kingdom in which
they drould have a part. But Jesus
now spoke of going away from them
and coming again. Where was that
place to which he was going and
where, he said, he would prepare a
place for them? Jesus said, "Whither
I go ye know, and the way ye know.'
Thomas replied, "Lord, we know not
whither thou goes' and how can we
know the way?" Of the answer of
Jesus to this question Professor Man-
son writes, "Jesus answers that the
way is himself. Thomas eL et surely
have been conscious, while he walked
with Christ, of: being led in a certain
direction, nee can he really have
doubted that that was the direction to
God. Can he not, therefore, now that
Jesus is leaving his side, continue on
in that direction, and believe that it
will lead to the goal? . . The Father
it the Goal of Life, in whom our rest
is won, and Christ is the true and Iiy-
ing Way to his presence." Fcllowing
in his footsteps, endeavoring to live as
he lived, obedient to his teaching, we
find the way. Instructed by him, by
his deedsas well as by his words we
learn the truth. In him, through faith,
we see the power of an endless life,
and from hini we receive not only ex-
ample and teachings, but life itself, the
eternal life which both here and here-
after we live with God.
III. THE DOUBTER, 20: 24-29; 21: 1, 2.
There is no doubt that to those who
have yielded obedience to Jesus Christ
and have put their rust in him, there
does come the higher and mgrs satis-
fying evidence of his living and abid-
ing presence in the Spirit. What be-
came of his'body we do not know. It
may have been transformed into some
spiritual essense which stilbore the
marks of his passi All that is mys-
tery. But the reality of his life with
us who believe, and in us, we do not,
and cannot doubt. Like Thomas we
say, "My Lord and my God!"
Autumn
By Ann -Sherburne
The lady Autumn is in town,
You'll know her by her tawny gown,
The berries in her hair;
Her same are filled with goldenrod,
And everywhere that she has trod,
There's incense in the air,
The pungent smell of brown leaves
burning
(Only a few are still left turning ,
Upon the naked trees);
The last ripe apples on the ground,
Mingle their scent with asters, found
By drowsy golden bees.
The birds no longer sing the gay
Unceasing songs of Summer's day,
Butjegather for their flight;
Fat sparrows gossip: in the eavee,
A cricket chirps midst fallen leaves,
Mist veils the night.
He was new to the yachting genie—
in fact, he was just helping a friend
handle his boat during the regatta.
So it was no wonder that his face .as-
sumed a mystified expression at the
skipper's command. He turned to a
sailor near him. "Tell me," begged
he. "What is this thing called lull?"
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Law Code Adopted by Nurse
and Court Established
Exactly 1,000 Years
Ago
• Irish monke, searching for the "des- ,
ert in the sea," that they might woe,
ship in loneliness, stepped from boats
Made of skin one morning in the sixth
century and took possession of a
strange far island rising up in the
north Atlantic They found a land of
wonders; a land where mountains
spouted fire and fountains sent up;tor-
rents of boiling water; where the
flaming sword's of the aurora` flashed
across the sky and fields of snow and
ice built slight'• rounded domes oger
high planes, They gave it the name
of Icelandc
In this manner man cine first to
Iceland, the country which now cele-
brates the'one thousandth anniversary
of her -parliament, the first in the
world • to continue to this day, says
"The Milwaulcee Journal."
Other Irish presumably ,followed the
hermit monks, for when the. Seandie
navians came in the' ninth century the
island had long been inhabited ' by a
colony of these Irish. Culdees. The
Northmen came over; into Iceland• lin
•;three streams. In ,Norway Harold
1!'airhair had refusedto out his hair,
-and beard until he could bring all the
0000117 under -his heavy handfor tho
pleasing of a proud maiden who re-
fused to wed him•untii.lie had so done,,•
VikingsConquer Iceland
Therefore, led by Ingoif, out of Nor-
way. hastened Vikings proud and• free,:,
irked bythis hand of Harold Fafrhair,
and found their way to western Ice-
land. So, too, arrived four great noble-
men from Norway to take land in the
southwest of the island. A little later
came Queen Aud the Deep Minded,
widow of the Norse Kink Olaf the
White of Dublin, with kinsmen teed
noblemen and servitors,' to take pos-
session of land in the north and west-
ward,
estward, And these last brought Chris-
tianitywith them anew into the is-
land. So there was in Iceland the
blood of the Norse and the blood of
the Irish.
Tbey lived a stern and simple fife
in a pastoral land that was also a land
of the sea. Close to its shores Row
the warm current of the gulf stream
and thus warm airs drive away the
rigorous cold from part of the land.
Hay grew wild and sweet for their cat-
tle; there were meadows tor their
sheep; in the sea were great stores or
fish; on the breasts of the older duck
grew a marvelous down for many uses.
Code of Laws Framed
But as the nation grew, a wider
government was needed, and a mai
named Ulfijot, from Norway, was call-
ed up to frame a code of laws. The
result of three years' work was Ulfl-
jot's law, and Iceland adopted it in
930. By this code was the Althing es-
tablished to meet each summertime.
It is said that a man named .Grim
Goatshoe traveled all over the island
to find the best place for the Althing
and finally he found the Thingvallir,.
"4 strange, volcanic, noon -like re-
gion," the road lined with immense
tall stones A. sight for solemn
thoughts and stern measures, this Al -
thing plain.
The Althing .was,like a sanctuary,
but there were times when 11 was
violated, as rival chieftains came with
armed followers and fought on the
sacred soil of the Tliiugvaliir. To pre-
vent these abuses the court of the Al -
thing was established. That all might
know the law it was publicly recited
there each year. None the less, the
land was filled with blood feuds,
Social Affairs Settled
Aside from the feuds and the law
making, the Althing was a high occa-
sion for the people in their social life.
Men brought their wives and Baugh-
tars, and many matters beside those
of law and order—or disorder—were
settled there—betrothals, marriages,
feasts, plans for travel. Great fairs
were held and the descendants of the
'Vikings shrove in nighty wrestling,.
In the farmsteads there was rude
comfort and plenty; even some taste
of splendor. Not one building, but
several, housed the family—the store
for living and dining, another- edifice
for sleeping, another for the bath, Ia
families of wealth the state's hall was
large enough to feast hundreds of
guests. The master sat on the high
seat and the others were ranged bo -
low him on beaches, according to
rank, Each person had his small
table, covered with a white cloth,
Spoons there were,. and plates, and a
knife carried in a scabbard at the
waist, but noeforks. Towels and fin
gerbowls were passed at the begin-
ning
eginning and end of the feast,
Suananer Dawn
Bird of the pearl-gray twilight whose
cadence rising and falling,
Shakes and varies, melodious as a
rook -bedded momttain stream,
Mix me a draught of your song, your
Calling, Answering, Calling,
With the light of a dawn -pale moon,
and the speed of a dream.
Wash nie my harsh -grained throat,
bathe me my 'wildered vision,
Lend me your white -lined wing, light-
en
ighten my leaden heart,
Let me go forth on your darting, -.
enrolling mission:
The rousing of wingless, 'songless
earth to play its part9