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DELPHINIUMS.
I had always loved fussing about
'with flowers, so when I needed some
extra money I decided, to utilize my they are needed; drop -shelves to eup-
gardening experience I invested $2 plement table space; having the sink
in seeds of perennials, including fav- higher than the plumber had •ever
orites, such as hollyhocks, clelphin- seen before; a wire dish drainer; oil -
buns, columbines, and so an, all of cloth on shelves; wire dish -cloth;
Which are easily raised from see& 1 elimination of thresholds; a dustless
ordered the seeds from a first-class dust mop; having sink and stove ad-
small rugs instead of one large one;
using a chamois fax washing windows
and mirrors; a high stool in the kit-
chen. hooks to hang utensils where
louse, for skimping in seed -buying is
,
I sowed them early in shallow box-
es, where I could shade and water
them better than if they were in the
oPen ground. When the seedlings
evpre ready they were transplanted
into rows, and kept weeded and mite,
vated. Early next spring I had a
fitock of vigorous young plants ready
for sa1e.
join each other; having a small kit-
chen; traveling table; having tables
the right height; • oil -stove. • electric
lights; electric iron and electric
washer, What is your pet labor -
saver?
LOVF2S LABOR.
I love the "homey" little things
Her hands of mine have made,
And cherish, too, the joy et brings
In addition to my own stock I had
To know that Love, with folded wings
the chance to buy very cheaply a large Is wlee• us' unafraid'
quantity of gladiolus bulbs of ten dif-
ferent varieties. These I sorted over To fret us if we will,
and put three or four varieties to- But each with each the labor shares
gether, offering them thus assorted by
the dozen. In addition I already pos-
sessed a stocle of violets, chrysanthe- The shelf behind the kitchen door,
mines, arabis, daisies, polyanthus, and •• The cushioned window seat,
the like which I had divided at the The braided Tug upon the floor
proper 'tinie end multiplied into a And linen things embroidered o'er
nuraber of thrifty young plants, with Have made our lives more sweet
tee result that I had a fair variety Because they mark the tender thought,
of reliable garden fliew-ers. And hearts atuned have learned
That season my plants yielded
$25.60, simply through 'selling among
the neighbors in the district. The
gladioli realized about half as much
again over the $10 they cost. In ad-
dition I had rows and rows of them
fer my own pleasure and for stock
for -the following year.
The $2 worth of seed grew into over
$20, the remainder of my $25.60 cora-
-
Ing from plants which, by division, I
had supplied from my own stock. The
outlay in time was small, by fax the eeemeeique men moderately than
larger proportion being spent in sell- most °metals I said that I thought
mg rather than in. growing. The sell- it very natural looking. Her dark
• ing was the part I liked least. A wo-
man with A turn fax business should eyes clouding and tears choking her
voice, she exclaimed, "So I have had
easily make irilleh more than I did. all my trouble fax nothing!"
I found it pays to have the plants Cosmetiques really call for a study
well -grown. It you are near a large of art. To understand the snatching
town you may have to sell a little be- of tones, and to get a clear conception
e low regular prices. I don't expect of the great artists' ideals of beauty,
early ordees. People just naturally I made a long tour through Europe's
won't order early while plants are most famous picture galleries. With -
dormant' 1 anew the plants to re- out this I don't think I should ever
main in the ground until they are have realized how subtle is the matter
wanted. I lift and place them side of coloring, and what a 'variety ie
by side in' a shallow trench and rake needed in all beautifiers—rouges, lip -
earth •over the roots. I mark each tints, eye shadows, powders, and evee
trench as to variety, cdor and name. preparations for the ernas, throat,
It is then easy to take out the plants shoulders and hands. Each complex -
when wanted, and lifting retards ion, from the deepest olive brunette to
growth, so that they are in a better the palest blonde calls for tones that
condition fax late planting. harmonize with its Own color scheine.
I think that in every community To learn all this, or rather to begin
there is room for at least one person to, has pleant long years, ot study,
to make considerable pocket money by and now, pexhaps, 1 study more
• getting ready plants that other people earnestly and persistently even than
hike and want, yet never raise fax wean 1 was a girl—the fever fax
themselves, either from not knowing knowledge seized °nee and it grows—
how to do it or from lack of time. It but there is one great compensation
is surprising how many people will, fax the continttous labor, the strain
y p .
they now they can get and responsibility which compose a
them when they want thene—M- Far- beauty specialist's Hee. This is the
est, Victoria, B.C.
And every day its burden beaes
With calm and kindly skill.
The finer lesson that is taught
By "homey" things our hands have
wrought
The joy love's labor earned.
—Charles Iden.
A COMPLEXION SPECIALIST'
TALKS ABOUT COSMETICS.
I remember visiting an Indian prin-
cess and she asked my opinion of her
(make-up" over which she had taken
special pains fax me. As she used
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NeeletAM ADVAX9R1
• BY• PEARL FOL.
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CHAPTER V,—(Conied.) re pleaded to be of greater use.
The Chinaman seated himself where EeReciallY to little ehildren was the
Culver had been, and repeated the gemus of the man devoted. In time,
same finger xnevernents, ni,4 time work and acquired philosophy lighten --
the result Was, a slight ends, end Cul- ed the read with the soft if dim light
Ver's neelstified gaze eaw the top of the of resignation.
table fly back, diecloeing what appear- At Arst Paul, an Atom of the Best,
ed to be the inside of a lerge jewel bad been but small balm for the loss
case. But instead of the delicate tints, of his own child. Ile watched him
on which jewels upeellY rest, the in- • grow and develop as a scientific ex -
side of, this was padded with bleak Perimenter might observe some new
satin, and on, its centre, in rather development in his laboratory. But
singular contrasts rested a box of tile deep, stautich affection of the little
green jade about Ave inches square. Easterner, combineciwith unusual in -
Tung Yung touched another spring telligence, made secret inroads Into
and the square of glees protecting the the hearts which had adopted him,
box slid back like a panel, leaving and Culver and his wife discovered
just enough space for it to be lifted one day that they were bound to the
out. He then took from another hoy with chains of iroe.
d tl s 11 jar' They followed with 'Personal pride
gratitude and the responsiveness' of
the many hundreds of thousands oe
LABOR-SAVERs.
her help is vital—fax
"What is the greatest labor -saver beauty le often the deciding factor in
that you have in your home?" was a woman's happiness—and the intsirt-
asked at a honie improvement meet- sic joy of creating the one thing that
ing. Here are some answers: Using makes the grey, drab world after all
• worth while—beauty!--Helena Rub-
instein.
Anti
I t
y
"rale bit' oil
t.41t*ficla,4
00.00•000.0.0.000,
WHEN TO SALT VEGETABLES.
If fleet is added to the water in
which vegetables are cooked, It will
improve their color and flavor. Much
less mineral matter is dissolved out in
the process of cooking if salt is added
whee the colt -leg begins', eather than
when it ie neatly finished. When
vegetablee are wilted and likely to be
tough, it is soreetimes better to add
tlie salt wben they are done.
eawer in the e a ma glass
with a perforated top, from which, he his amazing progress through col -
dusted his haa•ids with a Ane yellow lege, while his keen grasp of world
peep -lee, problems sometimes made them hold
Culver, impatient at what he con- their breath and wonder if he was not
sidered, unnecessary ceremenY, bent destined to hold up the torch for the
over the green box. He was about to i Old World, the pagan world of China.
reach out a thwer to rill/ over the But their creation. of future ideals
smooth surface of' this strange piece I was clouded when in :the Spring of
of antiquity, when d hoarse cry rang 1915 this youth, who was destined fax
tlirongh the room and he was roughly , great things, stood before them and
brushed aside. • He ,straightened up, calmly announced that his place ,was
looking at the Chinaman in surprised on the soil of France, where he would
e
Tung Yung was livid, and Culver.; do his infiniteeimal paet to stop h
noticed the hand which still grasped , herdes of eVil from engulfing the
his arm trembled.• world.
Neither Neil Culver nor Irma mur-
"You touch, that box, you die!"
mured against his decision, but the
The man's shuddering tone made mother hunger in Irma's eyes could
clear he was stating an undoubted not be conceaTed. As she looked at
fact rather than a threat, but Culver the slim, clear-eyed youth, and saw
jestingly interpreted the latter. high resolve and duty to the death
"I see •you prize the jewel box written on his face, teeror of the
highly, Mr. Tung Yung," he replied
lightly, inevitable gripped her, and turning
"but 1 assure You me' desire bewildered to her husband she cried:
fax it isn't out of legitimate propor-
tions." •
"Neil, Neil, why does God covet 'our
very best? It is cruel, crud!" ,
But the Oriental didn't smile. In- • For the next few weeks, artificial -
stead, it was in awed and impressive it -y, that faunae mask, hated above
tones he explained: "You not under- all things by the Culvers, reigned se -
stand me,. De. Culver—you would preme in their household. • Sometimes
laugh at me. That jewel protector they even succeeded inedec4iving each
deadly. • A man touch it and he die, other with it. Paul's gaiety appeared
unceasingly. No, that not the word.
You scare my English away. What so spontaneous, his Western wit so
ready, that his foster -parents 'on -
1 want to say is, he die fax sure. It gratulated themselves that the an -
was meant to be that wale- It thou- guish their souls -were undergoing
sands years old—and killed hundreds was known -only to themselves.
people." • _ Irma watched over the boy those
Culver listened in amazement to the lase days as though he were her baby
man's statement. The old weird, nays -
tic influence of the East seenied all ed his resolve it seemed the second
of three again. When Paul had voic-
at once to fill the room, and his eyes death knell to her hdpes had been
rested on. the piece of jade as though ,sounded. The uselesSness, the inanity
they were watehing a sleeping reptile. of trying to live to oneself cerne
"This box," continued Tung Yung, stronger upon her as she looked into
"once belonged to the Empress Woo •
Wang, My family its custodian fax
thousand years."
• "Rather a disturbing article to have
lying about. How do you hypnotize
its deadly influence, Mr. Tung Yung,
if I may ask?"
"This gold powder is the antidote.
So •hong as 1 have this on my hands
I can handle it ae_anuch as I please."
As he spoke, the Chinaman lifted the
case and turned it about fax Culver's
inspection. Suddenly both hands dos-
ed over the box and he leaned towercls France had Invested him with her
his interested spectator and whispered highest honor and Britain's King' had
impressively in his ear: "What I just pinned the Victoria Cross on his
tell you, Dr. Culver, is g.reat secret. breast China herself had thrilled at
Only possessors of the two sacred the news, while her old regime tossed
rubies must ever know. You soon to its most precious heirloom at his feet
be custodian of my country's great —the sacred ruby'of the East. '
relic so,I tell you see?"
' - ' Irma began to hope again. Like the
Tung Yung, apparently satisfied majority of frail humans, who believe
with Culver's murmur of appreciation, their possessions have in some mys-
once again turned his attention to the terious way the special guardianship
box. Culver watched interestedly as of Providence, she let reasoning and
the Chinaman touched a concealed philosophy slip away and placed her
spring, at which the top of the box: 'Step daringly into the misty,- uncerz
flew back, disclosing softly tinted tain future, forgetting that hollowness
green satin on which the dragon with
a thousand eyes was embroidered in
pure gOld..
"It's a 'wonderful piece of work,
Mr. Tung Yung," conceded Culver,
"but in this ease it is true that beauty
is only skin deep. It is almost too
gruesome a thing to live with.
"You not care to have it?" question-
ed the Oriental.
Culver shook his head. "Too deadly
a weapon fax the worst thief."
you_ ne understand. You take
this box to Cluna—news speead.—rob-
bers keep away from sacred ruby,
he e brown eyes, in whose depths
glimmered the beacon light of aleeady
thousands of the world'e youth, and
the barrier of inevitable sacrifice
stretched before her.
But the months passed and Paul's
young life had not been laid on the
altar of ,sacrifice. Instead, the news
had now come that he had gone smil-
ing and with head erect into the very
jaws of death, which had not closed
on hine—had covered the retreat and
saved the hive § of his comrades.
-and disillusion lay under the soft
white covering.
As Culver stepped into the hall, his
wife's laugh floated out to him from
the library. A smile passed over his
recce laughtee had been very ,rare of
Tate. Upon entering the room, a tall
form rose from. the depths of an easy
chair and advanced to meet him. His
hands were taken in a vice -like grip
arid a familiar yoke cried,, "Here I
am again, Old chap, bobbing up after
ten years of India." ,
Culver returned the grip, genuine
welcome glowing, on his face, as he
see? They say •thousand devils in exclaimed: "Just the way 1 theught
this box. They scared—not one dhi'e , you'd be cropping up, Chess Reynolds,
come near. But I see you not like, Turning native fax ten years and then
Dr. Culver." So saying, the China- walking in as clisnally as though you
man placed the green jade box back were our next-door neifehbor 1"
in its black and gold bed, wiped the . "Weil, the fact is, Neil, where you
gold dust from his hands and covered are concerned I think I've overcome
the weird weapon out of sight with my abhorrence fax the pen, but Stith -
the teakwood table top, "Maybe in erlancl, whom 1 tan across out there
China," he continued, "the foreign told me you and Mrs. Culver had gone
healer change his mind. Then come 'off on another globe jaunt."
to Tung Yung, eh? Who know? All i•"He was misinformed. We haven't
future dark mystery.". put a foot off Anieriea sell for Culver looked in surprise at the teen years, not promising the spell will
serious face of the usually urbane last," he added, glancing, at his wife.
dealer. Tung Yung's smile had slip- "Jupiter! bow time flies, end youth
per off, Standing there with his long, too but in the opposite direction,e
slim fingers groping nervously over (To be cottinuecl.)
the mysterious, centuries old h'eirloorn, eo •
he seemed to embody all the dark sup-
erstitions and Pagarnsm of the East Forest Research imperative.
As Culver walked home from Tung! The farmer is already finding that
Yung's store, the spell of China was
• still on hire. He could no longer blind -a.grioulteral h•eseareh• Iles at 'the Yer'Y
himself to the fact that •the East was founclation of the maintenance of soil
where the real yeets of his life, short' ferbility' and crop production. TiliS sp.
as they were, had been )ived. Reso-e preciation On -the part of the farmers
lutely he had kept his eyes on the road in Catania laud the United Statse Is
ahead. Fear a Weakening had kept foecilig the employment of literally
him from even glimpsing thepast• that
„.
ousands men trained Ix) agricul-
But now, in spite of. all his earnest* , „al
. onto 0± Our landoie
striving, in spite of the faille that had -Meal teseerei
, useful only fax the productien time
crept on him unawares, he '<neve these
years were bet braeketed mileetonee, , bar, It is $nst as oseentlal fat' aur even -
Destiny 'wee bidding him dose the, being, for our influstelal and economic
bracket and beciconieg hini earwatd to lif e that this land be .Orgailized an.d
eontintie the past beeete the periCele Managed tor end
iuriag thnber produc-
was put nto lue sentence, of tion. aa Is that our agricultural latid
Sixteen years before, With eter- be, organized aed managed ter endoi,
mined purpose, he and his wife had , leg egeieeithee....4to2, T r, ,r(yonoy,
taken up new duties and aims in life. {
l\le*Plus Ultea, • ?M. 8w'at'Y's 4'k° thsj, l'nad6 their
"It has been discovered that seMa, t
at -.-act vi Present
members of they prohibition ctforc* /id t w.fhtt, cod ble,rhood iY,
Snout seeviee have jail records." Culver had pluilginto.' the var7
110 tho: Ito)* lietat of hospital work.reptita,....,
of themhavo served toms, in the State tion gxetr ntdSurgical fonie. gwept.
A0411113.11r,,' fOVer Still he :not •P$.1.use.;•
ritistearitel hunianity,•Lrettehing out, its ••
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104 klifitt 4'4 WI' *I" olltoo
•
tilt _1' •
just to wash your face -and
hands in Lifebuoy is to be
refreshed.
The- big creamy lather of
Lifebuoy thoroughly cleans
your s.km.
The daily use of Lifebuoy is
the simple sure way to skin
health.
LBW
Where Earth'S`Wa'vs Are
Laughter.
Ola, lam going back "to.bide wheee, all
earth's ways are laughter, ,
• Laughter of sunlight on tne hills, of
• valley and of stream,
Of •cool green winds,- that fleet across
the smiling meadows after
' The pirouetting butterflies: that dart
and. soar and. gleam,
Oh, I am going baek to stray whete.all
eartbes• ways are glatlee,see-
Gladness of little leaves that dance
upon the .maple boughs
Of feathered folk whose meledies are
• - never totiched ev1th, sadness, ,
Of ringing song that -tollows down,
the. field behind. the plow..
Oh, I am going back to be where all
earth's ways are glowing
-With happiness, where -one keeps
step with joy the whole day
through,
What wonder'thet my heart's a -thrill
with a high hope in knowing
That I ain going back to walk May's
shining pa,the with you?
• —Elizabeth Scollard.
Transfer of the Seven Oaks
Monument, Winnipeg.
, The 1_.,o7:d ..p'elk4rk 4.ssediation of
- _
Winnipeg Ilea agreed td transfer -the
site and neonumett o eSeven
memorial .at Winnipeg to the DePart-
ment, of the ,Interior fax historical
naemorial purposes. The site is about
two miles from the city hall, yiTinni-
peg,' directly north, on Main street,
- mile south from Kildonan
Park. The Monument was erected .in
1891 by the Manetoba Historical
Soeiety through the generositY of the
Couneees, -of Selkirk, on the site of the
eneountet at Seyen,e)aks in 1816 be-
tvieen. the men of the Northwest Fur,
Company and the Selkirk settlers
*hen Governor Robert Semple and
twenty ot his offieers and men -were
lrilled. The Selkirk settlers tame out
tram goo -nand -in -11312-14-15. They
were net welcomed. in the northwest
by the Northwest Fax Company, who
regarded. that territory as belonging
to the henter and the fur traolee. The
fur company peesuaded about twa.
theeds of the colony to return to East -
ten Canada and in order to prevent
their return - destroyed their hearses,
one. property, In the same year Lord
Selkirk gent out -a third party in
•eharge of Governor Semple, who took
Poeseeslon of Port Douglas,' ,The set -
tiers expected to find friends and Neel -
Come but found only a few huts. and
f th ies that
had been built ror their predecessors
and in the fade of winter sufeered great
distress. • They lecated at Pembina
and built beteg for' the winter, hoping
to make a home, on, the 1.ted 'Myer in
the', following; -spring. Tratthlei. hew -
ever, arose with the Northwest 'Con-
tently Which ended he the nuforttinate
battle of Seven.' Oaks, In 1811, 'Lord.
Selkirk, with a company 'of disband,ed.
soldiers, recapettred Port rjouglas. and
established hie settlers on the Red
River. Thie Celebrated .enoounter. led
to the fesion. of the two great riivai fax
Oerripaniee:.
TC1-17.'S
, The leading &Ws; eft/As'
restd0m0,raliroa4's
arid sti,Arns41*.iivegODY
edeeocy
Ifaicii94.40.a*OW:t&
ALWAYS ASK FO'R THETA BY 14',A155
Only a Thought."
"Onlyth ht, but the work it
wrought,
'Could' never by pen- or tengue be
tau_ght; ,
But it ran through a Life, like a. thread
of geld, - -
And the Life. bore fruit one lfundred-
fold."
—Ella, Wheeler Wilcox.
I• . Who's Safe
Old 'Mother Hubbard weet te, the. Mile.
1 • board, .
Pc take -just the tineesi; iwig;
She heard n lend 'noise,'
Thought it only some ,boes—.
But. found "twee, a eaid by the Leagn.e.
I • —
Minerws uninientfer'CornS and Warts
• a-eee •
USe Eveti 'for Mutical, Doc,
A. certain. organist was- so "ivied ,of,
his tlegree -that he Wrote "Mits. Do.c,"
afterhis name on every possible oc-•
v.e.orynes, Lindaall ,aas p
easion,.
boy,, wlio
aren't you a ,doctoe.of
• "Yes,.•.my 'boy.'Y'. •
"We11 13111y 'eeeea.§ lient ble trim -
Pet. Can you pat it straight, pleaSe?'
The parish priest' of a furian,village
near the Pacifie Coast of mexieo has
flock of pure=hred Chielteris that lit-
erally fell out of the skies,: The' hens ;:
were op. their' way from Zan Vraat,
ciao° to Lima, Peru.. otr the, Mxlcxa
'coast '0,'Waterk1Peill '0101A..t2i4946
the ,vpaset thot, was,. eArr,Yint;,' the14.
that it ;sueked the chiekens aleft, crate
41014' 414 ai4ear:tied:them .to Shore, ,
„
.an d , SeOrative
BexweedS gvei
.ratesi etc,
An. imported' otock.
Write tor CatelOguo,
• AR
T rsday, May 8I,
• A STRING 0
IRISH MEMORIES
Mani stories of Irish life are tole. by
Sir Emery Robineon, Bart,, "Mem-
°Mee, Wise ancl Otherwise," a record
of forty years' oeacial work in Ireland, ,
Men the author first arrived in Ire-
land, he heti a long train Jou:111,0 04t
night aheed, tdia. wae, go
tippidU the guard to lock him In a
• ,
c'axTrhi:e5:11..ard proneeee to -aleole PP One
to disturb him, but at every statiore '
opened the carriage door te gere
formation of their whereabouts.
"This le Knoclecroghersee he waited
bellow; waking the traveller out of a
heavy -op. "No change. Teem right
where y'are!"
DttkeThoef Soup Cure.
once went
round the ooast of ereland in H.1VI.S.
Iiveay, and, finding in. 011e place that
the people were euffering from rheamatissia and neuralgia, which the eileip's
doctor toed him was, the result of low
feeding and poverty of the, blood, he a
distributed' a quantity of -tinned eeups
and other delicacies..
Not knowing that' -the .things, were
meant to be eaten, the people -need
them to rub into their eleouldere. One
man in whose house the author -found,
an empty meat -extract tin spoke with
bated breath oe the marvellous proper-,
ties • of thes, myeteelaue PreParatien
Tviblen. applied: in the form of a poultice •
for neuealgia,„
The ship's doctor found one man
with his shirt off und.ergoing a vigor-
ous a.pplication of tinned soup to hie
'tack for lumbago.
'Once, in a coantry hotel, Sir Henry
ieltecl the boots to waken him ate 8.30.
He was aroused at seven. o'cleck
the man't Shouting,: "Would , your ,
honor like to be ca,lled. now." Learn,
ing the time, 'Ser Henry alnized the
roendly, and told him to lee'stff
and wake him at 8.30. • ,
When next he awoke it was 9.30, and
when the man was asked wley.he did
not knock at 8;20, lie replied: "I did;
but you b.eirg that tired., I knocked •
aisTY,hefalla. nf7141orrId'clofwaakeeertyaeinalgtaorelt,"when'
making out a gues't's hill, Would say: '
"1•Iow ranch whisky aid ye drink sines_
Tburs,clay last? Will I put ye down fax
a bottle, -or maybe a bottle and a half1"' •
• "Certainly not," the guest 'would say.,
"I never had any at _all."' ',
"Then' Pll put ye down for a bottle
of clar't, I?"
• "Do nothing of the kind. • I've had
ne:stbioinnagn-ylseht ginger 'ale and stout oc-
"Well, we'll ina,ke it a dozen, of' each., •
eh?„
- A Marvellous MernerYi
During his Chief Secretaryship, Mr.
Derrell, who had by no rileane a retell,-
tive memory fax faces 'and names,
stayed ,at an hotel in Killarney. Het r,
...eione,es 0,f fnerihoeduLeoecad itoGoav. eFtlittziLactarrieal4 •
•
inspeetore, _ Mr. Birrell was as pleas-
ant to him as he, invariably_ was to,
eieryosie. '
haNdena,"tetinM°rur.11133girr; aelliCrh.eBy'eenatrie•Yb'efWorh,:e"
was anxions -to know if be wt.:elle:IL:else"
member him. When Mr. Yelis.§11,-Conie
ing down, the stairs, saw -Mr. 13-entle,
he -walked. over and began talking te .
ha_ era, . •
Mr. Bentley,wa,s more than_ surPrise
that Mr. Birrell eleould, have recog-
nized him an the Spot, but when some.,
one remarked to 'the Cbief •Secretaree
abdirt his meeting Mr. Bentley, Mr.
Birrell replied: "Bentley; who is Bente
' _
add -shoak baatn'dheapwilthQ1L-hiriltshbeecihall1P1,"ta
"Good heavens!" said Mr. Birrell;
'TtEdught: was'. Fitz]) aiFiaX the in
speotor." • •
yearaftemrds, Mr. Bentley was
heard holding forth in a train en ihe
S9.1.6jeCt',of Mr. 13,irrell. "P haVen't .
word to Slay for his policy and
that," he s.aid, "but there is one' re-
markalsie characteeist1c Ab011t
Birrell never forgets a face!"
'Tre:es With Ilan s
One of the. moat 'curious, treas. in. the •••
World is found'in ivfoxico. The
call it, the .hantlflower-tree;
kiem -.the, centre of,. eaos, floOep
springs...a; stem Shaped 111ceLa hunlan
•hautt xlxid srm, The points. are,.
like lingentipe With' • ov ergrown •
- Each. tree • PostesSeeethousandS, ,, of ,
theSe curione blooms, aucl• at.a distinee.,
they; resenible blood -red haride
in ...theealr, At one.time tne MeXiCane
wai7a -8P itPiessed that
doWn and. WoeshiPped:it.., Am!zi,
was, permitted
d,crfid' • '
rival ±0 the fivoingered
Which grows- in Japan,' TADS, #.0411:
*tiloh seldom i7.:ea.41.0.4.'gre5t,er
.than, dye feet,! grewi-its;,'frnit
shane"Ofea :litonarthend
fingere aridthurnb, '
,
c
;'i landP,NewZeitatitt,
:The.0±ty iif;.4..uckland? ,X0w.4e4plOd.
has '.Set"aside:11,6.:a±sd of land to,
loiical'gardens..-ad the Mayor:* :!tlia;19::
;city. heat Writtetr: to. the 1).epartMen•(•of,:,
the, intert01::ptt,syza,, g.sx
,gift, of ,three'biiffaio tO•add
1ous, of a,tolleetitkit the•wild•,anitan)iff
otto:1•1(16,07.tPtir .P,of,"11.40014.141
ni en ta.. are: being. made for the 4,44
ithree buffalo,: 'One innie
',4iatt,i0; 6: 4r.h0,-, ,sitz c,)040.1t10,j.ct,-