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A Hint fair Young Bird4 ov ers About Winter -Feeding,.
"Ole, Jack, look here! Come quick, ways one at a time, climbing down
c 1the
but don't make a'nein." tree trunk head flat, oa flying d y
Evan, at the kitchen window, had to the meat, They never stayed long,
just discovered a handsome old blue- but they came often and the boys
jay, }Waking a -seal of the piece of found them very friendly little fel-
suet the two brother had tied to a lows, It was difficult at first to dis-
hing) of the apple tree, in the gardens tingtiish the nuthatches from the
a few days before. ; ehleadees, hut Helen soon discovered
Excitedly the two boys watched that the chickadees had black throats,
that skillful beak chisel its way into while the nuthatches were white or
the meat as it plunged, first from one reddish on both throat and breast:
angle, then from another. Once in a . One Saturday morning, early in
while the wary jay would pause, look February, Jack ran into the house
very much excited. "Oh, mother, a
around, and reassured' would continue chicadee lit on my hand," he shouted!.
bis meal. "Well, I ',;declare," said mother;
Well might the boys feel elated, be-' "brow did you ever bring it so close
cause this was their first attempt to to you?"
attract these feathered friends to a " it was just this way. I went out to
festive board near the house, and now otie up the new piece of suet to the
their efforts were crowned with sus- , tree, and a chicadee came down. There
cess, was no meat left there and the first
"We must tell mother and Helen thing I knew he was on my hand peck
about this," said Jack. So off he ran ing the suet. I got such a surprise
tobring them to the window, too, and I guess I scared him. But, gee! I
seen all four were enjoying the sight. wish he'd come again. He's as light
"It was very thoughtful of you, as a feather."
boys, to put your feeding stations up Evan thought he would play a joke
-where I can enjoy your birds while I : on a pair of chicadees, one day, when
em baking the pies and biscuits for he tried to imitate their plaintive
.,dinner," was mother's first remark. I whistle "phe-be-be." To his amaze -
Not many days later, a pair of ' anent, one of the birds came to a
chicadees came along, singing their branch beside him and repeated the
merry "chic -a -dee, chic -a -dee,. chic -a- call. Evan had solved the problem of
dee-dee-dee." The first winter snow calling the chicadees.
covered the ground, and the weed The birds continued to come as long
seeds were not so easy to find as they'as the snow covered the ground.
were in September, So the chicadees , Every morning, about eight o'clock,
were very glad when they found that one old, hairy woodpecker paid a shy
:somebody was providing a convenient breakfast call. And usually, about
meal for them. One at a time they eleven o'clock, a pair of downy wood -
would hop down to the piece of suet peckers came. Whenever anybody
and help themselves, standing now would go out to see them at closer
head up, now head down, but always range, "Downie" would simply turn
active,. always cheerful. The suet around, although shyly keeping an eye
course over, off would go the chicka- on mole,
or would move a few
does to the apple tree to vary their hops. higher up to tree, if the intruder
diet with a few codling•.moth larvae, came too close for comfort.
hidden under the scales of bark, I Everybody was agreed that it was
Soon the nuthatches found the the best winter •sport imaginable.
festive board. With their trumpetlike j "We are going to feed the birds
nasal- "Yank! Yank!" they came, al-' again next year,". said Evan.
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Happy Howgli.
It was a perfectly white night, as
they call it. All green things seemed
to have made a month's growth since
the morning. The branch that was
yellow -leafed the day before dripped
snap when Mow,gli broke it..The mosses
curled deep and warm over his feet,
the young grass had no cutting edges,
and all tho voices of the Jungle boom-
ed like one deep harp -string touched
by the, moon—the Moon of New Talk,
who splashed her light full on rock
and pool, slipped it betweert trunk and
creeper, and sifted it through a mil-
lion leaves. Forgetting his unhappi-
nees, Mowgli sang aloud with pure de -
Three Great Desires. -
TMan is swayed by a thousand dreams
Of pleasure and pomp and pride,
An honored name, that is known to
fame,
• But many a clream?:s denied.
And there is the lure- of a w,voman's
snniSs
And the lure of a merry hour,
He is urged to rise, with the great and
wise,
He is eager to ,coarse to ,Power.
Life dazzles his eyes • with endless
charms
And never his longingscease,
But his great desires, till his body light as he settled into his stride. 1t
tires, was more like flying than anything
else, for he had chosen the long, down-
ward slope that leads to the northern
marshes through the heart of the main
Jungle, where the springy ground
deadened the fall of his feet. A man -
taught man would have picked his
way with many stumbles through the
cheating moonlight, but-IVIowgli's mus-
cles, trained by years of experience,
bore him up as though be were a
feather. When a roten log or a hid -
Or his fortune be worth its. cost den stone turned under his foot, he
If he throws to the wind his peaoe of saved himself, never checking his
pace, without effort and without
thought.,, When he tired of ground -
going, he threw up his hands monkey -
fashion to the nearest creeper, end
seemed to float rather than to climb
Are laughter and love and peace.
For his own must shame in the joy he
wins,
And their laughter must urge him
an,
And their love increase, or his dream
of peaoe
his reason to fight are gene.
For never can victory thrill his soul
mind
And daughter and love are lost.
—Edgar A. Guest.
Politeness.
Bial Collector—"I suppose I'm not up into the thin branches, whence he this trick I want the services• of a boy..
so very welcome," • .would follow a tree -road till his snood 'rust any boy in the audience—Yes, you.
Tenant—"On the contrary? I want changed and he 'shot downward in a will do, My little man. •Come along.
long -leafy curve to the levels again. Now, you've never seen me before.
There were still, hot hollows surround- have you?"
ed by wet rocks where he could hardly Boy—"No, father.
Hosts to Duke and Duchess of York 'in Australia,
LORD AND LADY STONEHAVEN
Lord Stonehaven is the governor-general of Australia. The Duke an 1 Duchess of
land on January 6 for their Australian trip. They will inaugurate the new capita:l of the
session of the Australian parliament is .expected to be held at Canberra next; May.
COAST TO COAST
Welton, B,C,•-- b Kelowna Fruit
Growers' convention unanimously
adopted the Hoard plan for handling
the 1927 mei. The Board will eon-
eist of three members, one represent-
img the Associated Growers, one the
Independents and one the ,lc'rovipcial
Governtnent. The Board will have
absolute control over the fruit move-
ment with leadelative authority to
regulate ahipinents to the different
markets, to fix prices and exercise an
all-round. supervision.
Edmonton, Alta. ---fifteen hundred
homesteaus were filed at the l;dmonn-
ton Land Office last year, the largest
number sines before the war. The
applicants represent 2.57,760 acres of
potential cultivation,
Moose Jaw, Sask.—The Harris
Abattoir (Saskatehewan) Limited has
been incorporated, according to the
Gazette, and registered under the
company's Act, its present capital is
$100,000 and its headquarters in,
Moose Jaw.
Winnipeg, .Man.—During. 7,926 the.
Canada- Colonization Association set-
tled 734 families on 168,094 acres in
Western Canada, 59,678 acres of
Which were in the Province of Mani-
toba, according to T. 0. F. Heizer,
Manager of the Association. Since
the Canadian Pacific Railway took
over the Canada Colonization Associa-
tion on January 1, 1925, a total of
1,661 families have been settled, tak-
ing up 402,566 acres of land, worth,
with equipment, between $13,400,000
and $19,000,000. Forty-five per cent.
of this land is in Manitoba, 30 per
cent. in Saskatchewan and 25 per cent.
in Alberta:
Toronto, Ont.—Tourists left $50,-
906,816 in Ontario last season accord-
ing to Provincial calculation; of which
auto parties contributed .$3.0,779,566.
York sailed from Eng- Approximately 75 per cent. of the
dominion., Canberra. A tourists coming to Canada in 1926
visited Ontario.
Quebec, Que.—Under the jurisdic-.
•
Tranquillity.
The moonbeams draw me
To my window:
Gan it be frost
Upon. the ground?
.
Lifting my head, 1 gaze
On the moon;
And bending low
Think of my Fatherland.•
Sneeze, But Don't Sniff,
Advice
English Doctor's
London. — Sneezing one's way to
health is the latest fad as advocated
by Dr. Octavio Lewin and other physi-
cians. "Never stifle a sneeze," she ad-
vised health visitors and school nurses
at Bedford College.
"Remember, the fundamental fact
of health. is sound, healthy breathing
—Gonnoske Kornai. through the nose," cauttone.d Dr. Le-
win, who .continued: "Never sniff, adapted to fit any make of !piano, and.
eliminates all harsh and indistinct
notes both in •speech and music.
"Low frequencies," which haveeen
_ tion of the Lands and Forests Dept. a
Piano as Loud -Speaker. Forestry Research Bureau will start
There appears to be. no end to the to operate from the first of February,
ingenuity of t e radio •enthusiasts, and with its headquarters here, under, the
bt direct control of the Forest Protection
it is truly amazing how many remark Service which is headed by Gustave
•
able inventions in connection with Piee, Chief Forestry Engineer.
wireless have been produced by ama-
teure.
The, veiny latest is an attachment
A Field of Plovers.
for converting an ordinary piano into A fink of plovers in an English
a loud speaker, which is said to De un -
0 field in January is a sign of hope.
equalled for purity of tone. It can be They may be making no music, just
quietly working in the field. The field
;nay be but a port of call, but to see
them is to know that spring happen -
What They Art Saying.
There are no two words 'a all the
English language more wretchedly
misrepresented in current debate than
income and capital, none more widely
misunderstood. — William Graham,
M.P.pr
In my view, the whole ogress of
civilization in this world is bound up
with the capacity that the white races
have and will have to help the races of
the world to advance. --Stanley Bald-
win.
Character is power, and - do not for-
get that character is capital.•—Siflehn
Ferguson.
Deflation robs all those who awe
money; inflation robs •those to whom
money is due.—H. G. Williams, M.P.
The worst cricketer is generally the
most enthusiastic player.—Sir Roland
Blades.
If all manufacturers would treat
their workers well, they would not
have happiness, but they would
make more money.—Bernhard Baron.
Many a bachelorship hes been
wrecked on a permanent wave,—Lord
Dewar.
Here is a verse to keep in mind:
`Sniiiingys bad dor brain and head b
Sniff not—blow your nose instead.' ings are once again on the wing. The
"Lack of nasal hygiene is very large-. liable to ,distortion in the ordinary
I last flock seen may have been in
I methods of reproduction, ase no�v November. That was the end of a
ly responsible for defects of the eyes. season. This is the beginning
It will be found that nearly all the 1 made as clear as crystal by the wide a. At
children in our schools who wear spec- I register •of the piano and the immedi-1 the turn of the year, with the shortest
ate 'expansion of the sound. over its day left behind, there is a movement
toward those places where presently
they will nest. That time is not yet.
They are still in flocks, and flocks are
a sign .of winter. That is how birds
spend the winter. They club together,`
and forage together. A little later.
the flock will break up and here and
there over the hillside, fields and up-
lands, pairs of birds will be seen and
heard, much noisier than they are on,
a January day.
In. flight a flock of plovers is a lovely .
vision, their white underbodies gleam
in the 'sunlight, then they wheel and,
show pairs of dark wings strongly
beating. The heart leaps up to see
tael•es have clogged heads.
"Humans should take a lesson from
the animals,. Take the elephant. If
he, with a yard and a half of nose, can It Is always beter to make the cur-
kee�p his head clear, surel•Y we ought tains td hang to the floor where the
to be able to do ,something with our
children. Even the little mouse and
the canary know how to sneeze."
full compass.
How Long to Hang Curtains.
"Silver Ship on Silver Sea"
For Duchess of York's Table
London.—A feature of the Duchess
of York's, dining table decoration in
the battle .cruiser Renown is a "silver
lisr Renown
the'besides,prevents'
o
beautiful wrought ship is a model of Teacher—"Can any of you 'tell the them in January dawn. One feels bet -
I
H. M. S. Endeavour, in which Captain how stove pipe is made?"ter for a sight of them, especially in.
Cook first visited Australia. Johnnie—"Wall, Teacher, you lust ; view of the fact that they are a dins-,
The plate was the property of the take a big long hole and plat tin ! inishing race. The trouble is that the
battleship Commonwealth, and since around 1t." plover's egg is supposed to be a deli-
cacy. The writer once had two, his
farmer landlady- reminding him that
gentlemen in the west end of London.
would pay anything from half a crown
to seven and six for such delicacies.1
Perhaps plovers' eggs are an acquired
taste. Possibly the price paid consti-
tutes then a delicacy. Were the dom-,
estic fowl's eggs as rare and as high
priced, doubtless they would receive
the gourmet's attention.
Hardly any bird takes so little
trouble with its nest. Often it is but
the frost -hardened delve of a cow's,
hoof, a tangle of bent, or the hollow,
of a misplaced stone. It prefers a
small ridge, so that the water can
drain off on all sides, The nests and
the eggs and the fledglings are so
completely in keeping with their sures
roundings that only the practiced
seeker discovers them.
The eggs are usually four in nume
ber, placed in the nest point to point,
so that the bird covers them : more,
completely and hatching is thus made
the more -sure. As soon as hatched.
the young, being clothed at birth, run
off in all directions and cause much
trouble to the anxious parents who
have to keep constant watch over;
them. Fortunately they are obedient,
to their parents' call. After hatching
the nest is not used, as is the case with
many other birds. That is doubtless
one reason why a more elaborate nest
is not made.
Plovers are erratic and loose joint.
ed in flight, bossing and tumbling in
the air and excitedly crying "pee -
est," Light:of body it has difficulty
in flying against the wind. The mean,;
ing of its name Lapwing is "one. who
tarns about in running or flight."
She Appeared Stupid.
Horace waa sent to his room for tale
ing forbidden cake from the cupboard.
His mother, thinking to make his pun-
ishment more impressive, went to his
room and, after all was forgiven, said:
"Now Horace, what did I punish you
PDS Te'
"Well, ma, I like that! I've bees:
kept in bred al tho afternoon, and no
you don't know what you, did it fora
the letter was scrapped bas been in
•QIGore. The plate bas been loaned to
the Renown for the world voyage of
When Thi'hgs Went Wrong. the Duke and Duches, who will return
Conjurer—"Now, to help me with. home in June.
you to call again.'
What Are Charades?
One of the mast popular pastimes at breathe for the heavy scents of the
social gathering's is acting charades. night flowers and the bloom along the
A. member of young people "dress up' oreeeer buds; dark avenues where the
moonlight lay in, belts as regular as
and act various scenes, in each of I checkered marbles in a church aisle;
which a certain word is introduced. thickets where the wet young growth
bThe ate scene, perhaps, res, shows verse
stood breast -high about him and threw
ofpoetry seated aloud. ata table, reading averse its arms round his waist; the hilltops
or eThey repeat it onIe crowned with broken rock, where he
or twice untildthey get it by heart. herIn leaped from stone to stone.
the second a young lady tells So he rang" sometimes shouting,
fiance that her father has been ruined I sometimes singing to himself, the
as the result of unlucky speculations. ! happiest thing in all the himself,
Jungle that
and releases him
from ills eu,gage night, till the smell of the flowers
meat, He replies that money does warned him that he was near the
not matter and, refuses' to accept hiss marshes, and those lay far beyond his
freedom, She then confesses that the . furthest hunting -grounds. grounds. — From
story of hem merely
ruin was a Pr"e. 1 "Tho Spring Running," by Rudyard
tenco; she merely- wanted to teat him.
Finally, the compound word, made
up by tho two hidden in the scenes al-
ready given, is represented. A num-
ber of young people are shown shoot -
lug at a target with bows and arrows.
The winner is acclaimed. 13y this time
those accustomed to charades have 0
g ;essecl Scene 1 means. „con"; Scene
2, "test"; and the whole, "contest."
These words have actually been
spoken in the appropriate scenes.
Trout !-lave Scales.
This• spring when you whip your
favorite stream and land your first 1
crackled beauty, we want. you to make
a close examination of your catch to
dissoover whether or not a brook trout
,ba,e,�cales. We venture to say there
are 'thousands of anglers who have
fished for trout for years, yet leave
never taken the trouble to settle this
qi estleTh for themselves,. So we will
Settle it here and now.
A trout ivas scaler. They are micro-
aermioally fine, and yo'ti will have to
look hard to see them. lit a fresh' fish
they are scarcely visible, but in one
tleat has been In alcohol, where the
Skin shrinks the .scales are more easily
observed.
lUpltng. -
It is Slow Work-
-Training a •child to use good judg-
ment.
—Changing, the mind of a majority
t the people.
—Living down a bad reputation.
---Building a character that will last
through eternity. ,
--Redding the'world
mind.
—Saving •tile first thousand dollars.
—Creating respect for law while
aw-breaking is profitable.
Good Laws-
-:--Have seldom made good men, but
they often restrain bad mean
—Need 'the support of gond citizens
to be good, law•de
-Gan never be written by de-
graded citizenship.
—Wilt only work their hest among
a free people.
—Always work some injustices upon
a few.
—Cannot succeed Without faithful
administrators.
,.
Are the uoblesat work of any r -
ernnleat..
of the war
Contained Starch.
Chemistry Professor—"Name three
articles containing starch.'
Student "Two cuffs and .a toiler."
• Yes, Send it!
neater—"Shall I ,send the clothes-
horse you ordered?"
Custanver-="Send It! Did you think
I intended to. ride it home?"
Parrot Jail Breaker.
An Australian parrot in the London
Zoo has .gnawed his way out of eigh-
teen •cages+ in three years.
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES --By 0. Jacobsson.'
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Oak trees take so long in attainini(
any profitable site that it is not (
business proposition to grow thein,