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The Seaforth News, 1919-04-10, Page 3'oT E 1E S S f Before at Was TQo. Late She Dissevered 1041, to Tie Dant hter to the Pagan. BY KATHARINIE HENRY. As theday for Helen's vacationme with questions: Did I think Helen eve near her father' talked about. looked as well as usual? Had t any r more and more, and my own idea why she went away again? Could .hougllts -kept pace with his. We' it be that elm was threatened with a dreadful illness and had gone to a sanitarium? were very much in love with this only daughter of ours, and proud of her, too, Wheii she went away to board- ing school "our house had lost its soul" and we were•indeed lonely. We took the teacher to board but no one could make up to us for the' bright face and sweet voice of our daughter. How we counted the weeks and then the days as her vacations drew near, and how we envied every minute of those vacations spent out of our sight! It was then that. she and I formed the habit of working together —baking, cooking, sewing—what- ever happened to be the day's pro- gram. It was a pleasure to work with her aside from companionship. She was so jolly and she had such a capable way of taking hold and dis- posing of a job. Unconsciously, I can see it now, I got into .the habit of depending on her for help in more, and more of the work. I had always counted on having her back in the home when school days were over; but her father agreed with her that she had a right to make her own way in the world and live her own life, just as her brother Charlie did, and I still have only her vacations. So this summer, as the day approached, I planned to make 'her favorite dishes; but each day I also remembered some addi- tional piece of work that I wanted to accomplish while she was at borne to help me. I stocked up well with fruit Jars, jelly glasses, muslin, cambric, and crochet yarns. I brightened and aired her room but the day she came I was so busy putting up pickles that 'I simply hadn't time to go to the. garden for an armful of her fai'orite :flowers. One day when he was in the midst of these 'questionings, a touring ear stepped at our gate and an elderly gentleman and his wife, city friends of Helen's, inquired for her, They were mach surprised that she was away. "Why, she said she was -going home: to do nothing but rest for four whole weeks, and that's just what she ought to have done." "At Mountain View? Well, it's a nice camp but I can't think of a lovelier place to rest than right here," "Site works too hard. The whole office force has come to depend on her. I hope she'll take a thorough rest and get back some of her color." "She speaks so much about you and your home. I should love to see the wild grape vine on the oak tree over the spring, and her maple tree, and the fern woods." These 'are some of the words that came back to me over and over again, after my guests had gone, and each time they stabbed deeper. I was glad her father had not heard some of them. I could not sleep that night, and as I sat by the window looking over the moonlit lawn, I took fierce pleasure in punishing myself. "She was going home to do nothing but rest." No wonder her eyes filled and her lips were eager to protest that first night when I brushed aside her inquiries about friends and rehearsed the list of work to be crowded into her va- cation. For the first time I realized that I had been looking at her va- cation from my point of view, with She looked very stylish and pretty little thought of her wishes or needs. as ohs ran up the walk to meet me, When her brother Charlie comes 'one afternoon this last August, but I home we all realize that he has come to rest; but more and more I hdd allowed Helen's vacation to be filled noticed that she was pale and thin- ner than usual. That evening as we sat on the with hard work. There was little porch looking at patterns for a leisure for the piano, and her dainty crocheted spread I answered her! dresses .hung unused in the closet 'questions about the neighborhood and while she was at home. I scourged her friends, and my mind was on the myself with definite details of the work of the next few weeks. I told work we did during her vacation last her that I was expecting Aunt Liza year, and the year before. No wonder and Mrs. Cooper for a visit, that the she had taken refuge in a camp. How plums and pears evould soon be ready could I be so_.thoughtless with this fdr canning, and that the sewing daughter for whom I would readily give my life? I did not allow myself the Iuxury of tears, but before that night was over I had thought to some purpose. The next morning I told Helen's fa- ther I wanted to go shopping, and that evening I wrote a letter, a part of which I will quote from memory: Dear Helen: Prepare yourself for surprises. Your father went to Burlton on busi- ness this morning,a'fid I went along to see the oil stove he has been talk- ing about. He has just sold the timber on "the knob" for a nice price, so I suppose we felt reckless. At least we made a day of ,it. We bought an oil stove like Mrs. Martin's, oven and all. No more coal fires before September. P ember. Then while your father lawyer's office I wanders a furniture store—with c , to wit: a gem of a sewing, $65. (Now the old-timer as Charlie, goes to Widow porch swing, a hammock, window screens for the "and other articles alto numerous to mention." Clara Lake is with me place and she's a jewel. a picnic, especially as I'v put up very little fruit. good prices in the mark have so much left over year that I hesitate to use Clara told me that Jen is doing plain sewing sin was hurt, and that she h do while the farmers' wives busy; so this evening I g the entire lot piled on room table and father too to her. She was so pleas all that work that my con n't trouble me for buying sew- ing machine and then giving out. I'll use the machine n was in- the d around. 11 lire results machine just as old Cory); a door and living room altogether too in Lucy's I'm having I've decided to It 'brings et and we from last the sugar. Jenny Parsons since her foot as little to are so gathered up the sewing k me down ed to have science did- n't new the 'table was piled high with work, When 1 mentioned that Lucy, the maid, was going away for two weeks while she was at home to help out, a peculiar flush crept into her face and she raised her head to speak, but check- ed herself. All this I recalled after- ward. When she went to her room, though, I knew she was tired, she wrote sev- eral letters and sent them in the early mail with the market pan: Next day while we were cutting corn to dry she said, "Mother, you'll have to get some one else to help while Lucy's away. I'm going to a girls' camp for three weeks. Perhaps you can get Caroline Hull." When I began to put lay "disturbed thoughts into to w g ords she said quietly, "Don't try to talk me out of it, Mother, please; I'm going." I saw that her mouth was strangely set and that her eyes were full of tears. In three days more she was gone, and my plans for sewing and canning and all the rest were somewhat knocked on -the head. She was more quiet than usual those three clays and sometimes I thought she was un- happy. Was ,it possible that the war had laid its cruel hand on some ro- mance of hers and she was trying to hide her sorrow? As the days went by I was more and more disappointed at not having her with me and her father haunted NATIVE SEED CORN Grown in South Eases Selected at husking time. Pegged and crate curedLimited amount. ORDBR BARLY, 'White'WeeCap $ate Dor bus. Bailey 8..26 ' " Golden Glow 4.00 ' " North Dakota..-..-4,00 ,r " Bags Free. Cash with order. Darius Wigle, Kingsville, Ont. work ext winter. Mother P.S.—Aunt Liza and Mrs ; Cooper colors, White Giant Rose sa cross' between Sager Beet ,and Mange,, splendid crop. pers and unequalled for feedingeasily harvested, end keep well, 3,4f lb. SOc,54 lb. Ole, 1 lb. 01,00, 5 lbs. 64,60, postpaid, Bruce'. Metmnnth, White Carrot. 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Simple to operate _Ty and saves work. a/4tDea el�u.._ VEeiy where are not corning to visit until it is cooler,—ltfother. No. 2. Father says if there's any danger from malaria or typhoid near camp you are to come home. He really seems worried. I am not worried, but of course I'd love to hays you home. I am lonely, -Mother. Writing that letter was the hard- est job I had done in many a day, How could I tell her enough to lure her back home, yet avoid giving rise to uncomfortable questions? Sup- pose she found dot that I postponed Aunt Liza's visit? Her father's message, however, was genuine, and she would never know that I had put the idea ,into his head. That evening when I picked tip the farm journal, almost the first words that caught my eye were these:" "There is a swimming hole in the brook for the boys and one for the horses; there is a sheep dip in the meadow—we have no bath room!" How often had Helen coaxed me to have stationary tubs and a bath room! Now that my eyes were open they were open uncomfortably wide, especially at night. The memory of Helen's hot, tired face- as she filled fruit jars over the coal range, took away the pleasure I might have had in my new oil stove. My piles of beautifully sewed linen..were.no longer a source g of happiness. I began to plan another letter when, glory be, I received a post card: • "Home Saturday, 2.45 train. No typhoid, but mosquitoes!!" That left two whole weeks of her vacation. Didn't I fly around to get, the work aside before Saturday! I put her room an perfect order, one rose bud on. her table, but I thought best not to go to the train. I needed to move carefully. May I be forgiven for all the white lies I told during the next two weeks! I told Helen that Clara and I could Work better if she stayed out of the way in the morning; there was little work done in the afternoons. We went to the, fern woods "to gather roots for a wild garden that I want to start under your maple tree;" we chatted for hours on the porch pre- tending to sew; we went in the car with father when he had errands in town "so that Helen might learn to drive;" we spent one rainy afternoon among our attic treasures. Helen watched me in amazement more 'than once. The afternoon that we took snap, shots she suddenly sat downs on' ea log and said,. "Mother, I can't understand you this summer. You seem perfectly well and yet I never saw you so deliciously lazy in all my life." 'Perhaps I am perfectly well be- cause I am so `deliciously lazy,' " was all the reply I could venture. Now that Helen has gone and the weather is cooler I have plenty of time to boil into jellies.the fruit juices that Clara canned; and if L have a few jars:less than usual what of it? I have more now than we can use, and the fruit was given away. Besides, it is .a question of values, a few jars more or leas, over against my daughter's health and companionship. I would not exchange the memory of those two weeks :for all the rows of jellies and the crocheted counter- panes we could do in a year, Daugh- ters outvaloe 'things. I The total number o, f~officers and men of the British Navy and Army pensioned for disability from the be- ginning of the war until March 81st, 1918, was 326,948, An Easter Tea. This is to be a jolly informal af- fair on Easter Monday, given for a bunch of high school lads and lassies. The invitations will be on egg-shaped cards and just a big letter "T" used. When all have arrived the hostess will start this game: T before a girl's name forms a cat. Tabby. •� T before a beverage forms a story:- Tale. toryTale. T before a craft forms a small pie, Tart. T before a shower forms a line of cars. Train, T before foolhardy forms rubbish. Trash. T before a request forms labor. Task. T before a gun forms something trivial. Trifle. T before regret forms sincerity. True. T before everything forms height, Tall, T before rest forms to plague, Tease. T before a mistake forlps fright, Terror. T before humor forms to blame, Twit. T before finish forms watchfulness. Tend. T before competent forms a piece of furniture. Table. T before embrace forms a crimi- nal. Thug. T before a useful plant forms a river of Scotland. Tweed. Easter. Dull and clark was the day When the Lord was crucified, And weary and long was the way That led to his bleeding side; But he rose again For the world of men Who had crucified Him in their folly and pride. d And Easter Morn shone bright In the glow of a sun -lit sky, When the dullness of yesternight Was lost in the gleam from on high, And the tomb where he lay But yesterday, Was filled with the light that never can die. Oh, Christ, who has suffered for me, Who has lived for my sake, among men, Who has died for my Iove, on the 'Tree And has risen in Glory again, Teach me, I pray, On this wonderful day, The rapture of living for Thee, And of doing"Phy will among men, MUSKRAT 1 IS HERE We are MUSKRAT Specialists. The largest handlers of this article in Canada, Consequently we pay more. Write for our special price list and tags. L®riisr Williamson & Company "The House of the Brown Tag" 876 St. Paul St. W., Montreal Western Branch: 283 Princess St. - Winnipeg a BARBARA'S F (EY id Pt iit ;. • The Easter ,chicken, did not 1kr what it was to have 'a mother. was hatched out in an incubator w a family of eighty little downy yell chicles. • He was dried out by chinery and was placed under a lar 'brooder which was alivays the ale temperature, and he was fed aceol ing to rule, so, of course, he ths-iv Then, with about twenty at his kin he was shipped to a bird ate awaiting the Laster sales, It was fun .strutting` up and do in the window, screened in by w ' netting, picking up corn. meal a grovel, and the little chick so learned to chirp out .hia oontentme but it was not i cozy as where had slept before under the big war c er, and so at eight all the little chicl huddled closely together to ke war's, In the other large window so rabbits were hopping about, but t chickens could not even get 'a ahemof the bunnies, although both rabb • OF ,FESTiV'ALS; so he hopped boldly over and begs He to sniff at the carrot and he tried t ith kibble it, but he found it was not real OW In di gust he jumped up and brushe rea- against the white rabbit, ,ind'as he ge did no lie stepped on the tail of the ht toy, and instantly the toy rabbit d ' rained his ears and lifted' the, carrot ed. This was too much for Pink Eyes id, and with trembling whiskers h re, sprang to the far corner o'.f the box and laid down as still as though he wn: were suddenly frozen into' marble, ire "That is a strange fellow.' I della • like him much," he mumbled to Mari- on i self. nt, In the chicken yard next door Lit- he tie Chick was brushing close to the zm-' downy duck, for Little Chick missed s his av:.rnr friends, but the downy duck ep was cold, and poor Little Chick hop- ped over by the toy chicken in such me' haste that toy chicken toppled over Ise! oil his unsteady legs and his head se, rolled off and out dropped some tiny its dandies. Little Chick was so sur- prised that he scolded sharply, "Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" but after a time he picked up the candy and swallowed it like gravel. The next day Barbara could not understand why her rabbit kept away from the toy rabbit, nor did she know why the toy chicken had lost its head � Ow n.ti. ,_ 0 Easter, reminds us of the :greatest d: tragedy that the world has eve?' witnessed. One sad day nineteen hundred years ago, there was led through 'the streets of Jerusalem, like a common criminal en his way to execution, Jesus Christ, God manifest. in the flesh. Roman soldiery were the executioners, bet the Jeittish poploia tion were behind tide deed of horror, The Hill Calvary was the scene of the apparent collapse of God's plan for th'e salvation of lost leen. The cause of evil seemed to have triumph- ed, the forces of righteousness to have been overti'zrown, God Himself to have been'dethi'oned. No darlcbr hour ever dawned than that When the Divine Sufferer cried: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" If we should leave the story at' this point we should despair of goodness ever triumphing, or justice ever ruling.' in the universe,'. of God ever conquering the forces of escl, We need to pass that day of clerk nese, traverse the neat one with its goesbionings and sorrow, and doubts, and reach the morning of the third day, where once more we meet with Jesus—the Jesus who has burst the bands of death, the 'Jesus who is triumphant over the grave, the One to Whom all power is given. It is then that we realize that evil may triumph for a time, but, it cannot triumph forever. God is on the throne, and righteousness will event- ually obtain the victory. Easter, the Queen of Festivals, the day of heart -healing. We lift our eyes from far away graves- where sleep the beloved dead to the hills whence cometh our help. They, the life, the lovingness that constituted them, are not there. He who died for others will not leave in the chill earth these who, taking up their cross followed bravely, boldly, freely after Him, giving the last drop of blood from their gallant hearts that men might have life, ay, and have it more abundantly. Resurrection. And I saw a new heaven and e new earth; for the first heaven and fihnt earth were passed away.—Rev- elation way: Rev- elation xxi., 1. The Lord God said to His angel: "i,et the old things pass away. They have helped the earth with slaughter; their sin obscures the day. Roll up the night as a curtain; let the stars fade one by one: Out of the face of the heavens My anger shall blot the sun. For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath, Hath sown' the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death. The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds My face; A welter of woe lie leaves it—the dream of My love and grace. and chickens attracted :a big oro to the windows each day. The day before Easter a big m stopped in front of the bird sto He gazed longingly' in at the rabb for some time and then he watch the chickens. "That little fluffy chi is so cute," he said half aloud, "I'a sure that my little Barbara woo love him for an Easter gift, but ma be she would rather have a bunn When I was a boy I loved rabbit but then I was on a farm, and we h plenty of chickens, too. I guess will buy her a little white rabbit a that tiny fluffy ball of a chicken, too Soon the big man was onhis wa home with the downy chick in a litt box with slats across the front a with a white rabbit in a basket o his arm: He was as happy as a bo with his. Easter presents for his li tie girl, but when he reached horn his wife said: "Why, what shall do with a live chicken and a rabb in a nursery? They will be such nuisance! Now, see these Easter to I bought for Barbara, •She will. lik them just as well," And then the mother showed som bright cantly eggs and an Haste rabbit which looked like a real rab bit, for he was covered with whit fur and he stood on his hind legs, an if you pushed his little ball of a to he would raise his front paws to hi mouth, and he seemed to nibble toy carrot, She also had a ams duckling, all soft and fluffy, while had once been alive, but now wa stuffed for an Easter gift, and sh d 11 y. en s wd an re, its ed ck m Id off and her Little Chick stood so far y- from it. y, Not very long after that a very s, happy•little girl and her pets were ad, moved out to the father's old homeI! in the country for the summer. nd i An old rabbit hutch was built over and Bunny Pink Eyes had a mate, y, and by and by he became the father le' of a large and happy family, and ii' each baby bunny was a delight to n Barbara. y Llittle Chick was put out in the t- chicken yard, only now he had grown el so large that he was not a little chick wa, .any more. He found a mother hen it who at once adopted him into her a' family of chickens, who were all toy • about his size and age. He became e one of the best chickens in the barn- yard, and even when he was quite e large he liked to roost close to his ✓ mother at night and keep warm near her warm feathers. e Barbara was very proud of her, d Easter pets, and could always point' it out her Little Chick, although he ' t s looked exactly like many of the other a young roosters, and she always knew II her own pet Bunny Pink Eyes, al - eh though many of his young family s grew to look just like him. e 0-- had a little yellow chicken whose hea came off and inside were many ams candies, I The father looked at all the cand store toys and then he said: "Wh I was a boy on the farm I array had rabbits and chickens and othe and I am sure that Barbar will like these." "Yes, she will surely like them," said the mother. "But pets in a city home and pets in the country are Very different." However, the next morning the fa- ther was rewarded by a joyous cry: "Oh, father! Oh, mother, come here quick! The Easter, bunny has come. right into my room and has brought me my eggs and all of these toys, but he is real! See how white his fur and his ears are lined with pink and his eyes.look like pink marbles. I shall name him Bunny Pink Eyes. I wonder how lie got in here!" "Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" chirped the yellow chick in the corner, as much as to say, "Why don't"you look at me?" The little girl rushed across the room and found the fluffy chicle peer- ing out through the slats. "Oh, you darling Iittle thick you! Did the Easter bunny bring you, too? How did they get an here? Oh, mo- ther, may I keep them?" "Yes, dear, if father will take care of them for you. He !'brought them here for you, and now he must fix a. home for them, until we all go to the country, and then we will ;take them back where they belong." The little girl hugged her father and said: "You knew just what I wanted, for you have told me about your pets on the farm, and now I have some real pets of my own." Soon the father was busy building over a packing box Into a rabbit house, and he screened in a part of it for a small chicken yard, and Bar- bara brought some water and some carrots and lettuce and celery to Bunny Pink Eyes and some corn for Little Chick, as Barbara named the chicken, andshewas so busy all day with her pets that she hardly took' time to notice her new Easter toys. But that night when she was going to bed she petted the toy rabbit and, pulled his'tail and laughed when his ears sprang up, and she played WithI her toy chicken and duck. "I like my new toys, mother, but after all they are only pretend, and real pets are the best." When she was ready for bed she went back once more to Iook at her pets. "I am afraid poor Little Chick will be lonely," site said. 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They have laid on the weak sore bur- dens, on the just their whips and the ban: For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man. Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb o,f birth, Conte forth new heavens untainted; copse forth, renewed, the earth!" The Message of Easter. This is the meaning of Easter— that though my body change and pass away Iike tine bulb of the growing lily, there is a Life Beautiful within, that, like the lily's blossom, shall one day "appear" but, unlike that earth - born blossom,' has a life that passeth ttot away. The bulb must be planted, inust be watered, the soil must feed it, the gardener must cherish the tender thing or from its heart no stately blossom can appear. So must we nourish and cherish that which is' to our earthly bodies as the lily chal- ice is to the bulb. If we would know Life, we must encourage and develop that within us which lives—the Life Beautiful! Easter. I 'got me flowers to straw Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree; But Thou wast up 'by break of day, And brougltt'st Thy sweets along wi, Yet thoughth Theemy flowers be lost, they say A heart can never come too late; Teach it to sing Thy praise this day, , And this day my life shall date.