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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-01-08, Page 3r By , MattANN BEST A New Year's Suggestion Speak a :ihadle more kindly than the year before, Pray a little tftener, love a little more, Cling a little closer to the Father's love; Thus like below shall grow like, teethe life above. —A Subscriber, The Little Town re •is eaid.Go1 plus -t, have loved the. common people for He made so many of then. Likewise He must love that little town for He made'so many of them and its popularity grows since the, automobile makes it more. and more possible to enjoy rural life no natter what the occupation( ' Is is any wonder that many people prefer the little town to the congest .ad citywith its crowded streets filled with strangers, its hurry 'and the deaf- ening noise .of trait, It feels good to return to the quiet and clean fresh air saf the little town where' . everyone kettni s everyone else, It is true Mrs.. Grundy sometimes allows her tongue to be a little sbarp at times; but peo- Pie are mostly kind and considerate. Even Mrs. Grundy, during a crisis, tures in with a .willing desire to help if occasion demands it. The nearby meadow and woodland are quickly reached if desires{ where the plump little gray squirrel with his saucy erect plunge, balances -himself high ou a topmost branch, gently ,swaying With the breeze' and busily eating a nut precariously nipped off 'from the very end of a twig, Oh, tle gray squirrel, you too have your troubles, but who would guess it, see,- Ing you gaily swinging there. The gentle roll of the far off hill slowly .comes to view, as the warm sun's rays quietly dispel the mist, saturated with *the atmosphere o fthe fresh country air. How good it makes oue feel to breath it in and rest the eye on the hill's curtain of green. But if we have a preference ,for the little town and enjoy the privileges which it offers, it is also hp to us to .support it in every possible way. Al- together we are the merchant, farmer, doctor, lawyer, editor, clerk, house- wife, etc. We are one of these, each =earning his or her livelihood. Then to create community happi- ness our support is needed at every turn to keep the wheels going smooth- ly. Sometinies, thoughtlessly per- haps, it is felt a few cents can be saved by going to the city, which, by the ways i5 more than .eatens-+uelle `,aa 0-'il Ile= fi]"'bal'i�j'"''1kS tet.QL ;1s e found to frequently happen tliat tTiiigs can be bought cheaper at home than in the city. At any rate, what does the small saving amount to anyway when we consider that to exist the small town needs our support where - ever it is possible to gave it, The old proverb "Do as you would be done by," still bolds good and Is as true as In. Oleo, days, On starting out in the New Year . of 1931 remember your town. Be loyal. Twilight Hour Story Chapter c What Mamma Hen Did About the Cold Wind The next morning Mamma Henn thought perhaps it *Ovid be wanner outside after the nice warm bright sun would conte ftp, fon' she wanted to give her babies some fresh air and take them out of the barn. So as soon as . they were wakened up and each little baby stretched itself and flut- tered its tiny wings they all started ou to be near the big barn door. They were scratching around .in the straw finding little tiny stones to eat. For Mind you. chickens like stones • to eat with the rest of their breakfast. Their little stomachs are different from ours because they eat them to keep their little stomachs from..a.ching. But if we ate these little' stones we would have a stomach ache, wouldn't we? Just then thb .door opened and the farmer man's boy, Billy, came and opened the door to get George, the horse. This time he saw the chickies, Last time he came in, •don't you`re member? they hurried and hid under Mamma Hen before he saw them. But this time they were not so much afraid. When Billy saw them he laughed like everything because they were so cute; not load though, for he didn't want to frighten them. It's al- ways best not to make much noise when little shy birds or animals are around, isn't it? For they are just as afraid of you if you snake a big noise as you. would be afraid of a big horse if all at once it would jump around and stand on its hied legs. But Billy knew how to act with these little babies, for early in the summer they had a lot of them running around with their Mamma Hens, He said: "Well, Manama hen, you were a foolish chicken to hatch out four poohlittle chicks so near winter time. How are you going to raise them, I'd like to know, for it is cold outside even now? I guess You are not a very good Mamma to have little chicks this time of year. Why, all the other •chickens were little long ago," Mamma Hen began to think she was foolish too, and wished she had spoken 1 _older Mamma Hens instead of ac like that, she didn't ,now what to do with her babies. Yes, I'm just sure these little chickens really didn't have a very good Mamma. Next Week—"The Cold Kind and the New Mamma." xtD New Air Stamp Very Distinctive Color - of Smaller Denomina- tions Changed to Agree, With. World Postal Requirements Ottawa --.4 new pictorial issue of Canadian stamps, conceded by phila- telists to be of the highest artistic duality, is being .sent to post offices throughout the county by the depart- event. The most distinctive production of the group, according to departmental officials, is the new five -cent air mail stamp, It bears the figure of "the winged n,ercealy against a background of the globe with the North and South American continents delineat- ed. The color is brown. Many ex- pressions o1 admiration have already been reeeired by the department tram stamp collectors, who describe it as the most attractive .air mail .stamp issued by any country. Another Striking example of tate en- graver's art- is the blue 50 -rent stamp which carries a picture_ of the his- unclay School Lesson January 11, Lesson IL—The child hood of leans ---Luke ;^S 40.52. Goff den Texta,: 4 esue advaticed In Wig dom and %lature, and 1.n favour with God and man.—Luke 2i 52, The early Church ,oved to invent and t:e11 stories of the childhood c" Jesus. .$any of these have come down to us in the so callle 1 Apocryphal Gos- pels"; dreary and unedifying reading they snake for the most part, and they bear :heir incredioility on the face -f thele. This story of the boy Jesus, arguing with the doctors iii the Temple is the only narrative of his boyhood preserved for us in the Gospels, and there is nothing improbable about ic,. In the boyhood stories given in the Apocryphal Gospels," the writers are anxious to show that his divinity' manifested itself; everin his 'earliest years, by the amazing, and often gro- tesque, miracles which he is said ro have accomplished. Here, however, the wviter seems to wioh us to under- stand that his divinity showed itself in his being a good son of his parents, and in his wonderful character and spiritual insight. The occasion• of this story seems, to be a special visit to Jerusalem in Jesus' thirteenth year, when hewould': undergo a' ceremony which was some, thing like a combination of coining of age and of confirmation, of 'reception, into full Church membership; he be- came, in the phrase which the Jews still nee, "a son of the Law." It was,. therefore, for him a great and mem- orable occasion in his life. He would partake of the Passover meal with his family. The ceremonies attendant on the Passover lasted a full week, but only on the first two days were worshippers obliged to visit the Temple., On the third day, therefore, most of those who had come from a distance would return home, for there was little to detain them. We may assume, therefore, that out the third day Joseph and Mary took their de-, parture, and supposed; it seems, that! Jesus was somewhere in the caravan!,' There was no synagogue or school building in the Tempe, but fromtime to time lectures wore given there by the rabbis; some of these would deal with technicalities of the Law, and Le intended for those who were making a professional study of it. Others would be of a simpler and practical kind , .e toric chapel at Grand Pre, N.S., and the well of Evangeline. The oue- dollar stamp is dark green and bears a picture of Mount Edith Cavell in British Columbia. A prairie scene is used ill the red 20 -cent stamp. It shows grain being reaped by modern machinery. In the background are grain elevators. The Quebec Citadel is portrayed on the dark grey 12- ceut stamp. The ten -cent stamp, green iu color, bears a picture of the parliamentary library. in the smaller denominations the colors have been changed to agree with internatiotlal postal •conventions, as follows: One -cent, green; two - cent, reel; five -cent, bine, and. eight - emit. orange. • These' all bear a por- trait, et the Ring. Time The dearest friend to we mortals is Time. We can make up for a• great many bereavenieuts, but the loss of Time is irrevocable,—Pauley, Living Words • Of our great 111e11 Pass not from. door to. door and out again, But sit within the house. MUTT AND JEFF— 6bT rA ImiT, Te. 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