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ON S O .,
The value of Scout training and its
application in times of emergency by
boys who might otherwise have been
at a loss to know the correct tiling to
do, is shown by the two following para-
graphs which appeared in the press re-
cently:
Scouts' Trainirrg Saves Their Mother
Two Scouts of Westfield, N.J., re-
turned from school at noon to find
their mother unconscious on the floor
of the gas-filled kitchen. One threw
Open doors• and windows and 'phoned
the doctor; the other immediately be-
gan artificial respiration. The doctor,
on another case, arrived twenty min-
utes later to find the mother partially
recovered. He declared the boys'
promptness had saved her
Scouts Again Avert Panic
Cool and prompt action by Boy
Scouts in directing a large crowd to
safety probably averted a panic at the
City Auditorium. Atlanta, Ga., when
Are broke out during a benefit per-
formance in which a large number of
children were taking part. The eland -
ren were marshalled out the stage
exits and the audience directed
through the main doors.
Lone Scouts should prepare them-
selves so that they too, in. times of
emergency, will know exactly the right
thing to do, and bo able to do it
promptly and efficiently.
Mr. Beatty Again Scouts' President
Upon the nomination of His Excell-
ency the Governor General, Mr. E. W.
Beatty, K.C., of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, was re-elected President of
the Canadian Boy Scouts Association
at the recent annual meeting, held at
Ottawa.
How Many Scouts in Australia?
New South Wales, 16,633; Victoria,
16,279; South .Australia, 7,874; Queens-
land, 3,767; Tasmania, 1,866; West
Australia, 4,429. In New Zealand
there are 12,900,
A World Target For Gifts
Probably few crowned heads or other
national figures are in receipt of suck
a constant stream of honours and g fts
as oome to Pax Hill, the home of Lord
Batten -Powell. One of the latest was
a silk scarf and an Ikon represent-
ing St. George, presented on behalf of
Russian Scouts in Foreign Countries
by Dr. B. A. Perott, their International
Commissioner.
A New Honour For B. -P.
The latest honour conferred upon
Lord Baden-Powell is the Grand Cross
of the Order of the Grand Duke Gedim-
inane of Lithuania, The decoration
was presented by the Lithuanian Min-
ister to Great Britain on behalf of the
President of the Republic, the Honor-
ary Chief Scout of Lithuania, "in re-
cognition of his services to Lithuania
in the cause of international good will
through the Boy Scout Movement"
The Lone Scout Summer. Camp Site
The Lona Scout Commissioner and
a party of Lone Scouts and Rovers re-
cently visited Ebor Park, which is the
beautiful spot at which our summer
camp is to be held. in July. The Park
is looking very nice indeed, in spite of
the fact that the ice storms during the
past winter have damaged some of
the branches of the fine old trees.
The Scouts cleaned up the Lone
Scout Camp Site, and put it in shape
for the summer, and helped to prepare
the swimming pool for its activities.
There will be many Lone Scouts who
will be anxious to take part in all the
fun which will take place in this Camp.
Remember the dates—July 4th to 16th
inclusive—and send in your reserva-
tion as soon as possible. For fuller
particulars see the May issue of "On
Lone Scout Trails."
There must be many boys -living on
farms or in villages or on. rural routes
who have often wished that they could
be Boy Scouts.
Here is your opportunity. Although
it is impossible for you to attend the
meetings of an ordinary Scout Troop,
you can be a. Lone Scout, and follow
the Scout Programme at home.
Write for particulars to The Lone
Scout Dept., Boy Scouts Association,
330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.—"Lone E."
In the Good Old Days
Ladies wore bustles.
Monday was washday.
Nobody swatted the fly.
There were no flappers.
Nobody had appendictis.
There was no traffic cop.
Everybody played croquet,
There, ei..._..6,..."' I
IifVirtlY
Nobody worked but Fa her:
Cream was five cents a pint.
Ice cream was "iced" cream.
Nobody was ashamed to walk.
I3oys' shoes were copper toed.
Saturday night was bath night.
No one was fined for speeding.
Vitamin gauges were unknown.
Milk shake was a popular drink.
It took a girl two days to get ready
for a party; now she's ready any
kime. •
The hired man got a dollar a day
for 'steen hours—and earned it, too.
Ladies' Clubs were the Ladies' Aid,
Sewing Circle and the rolling pin.
Young people turned in at 9 p.m.,
show they tune in, and don't turn in
nail the next morning.
There were no crooners, except
Mother when she .rocked leer rest-
less baby to sleep.
Beer was 5 cents a glass, includ-
ing lunch.
Mother could roll her own pie crust,
cookies or gingersnaps now she
can also roll her own socks or cigar-
ettes.
The Seven Sutherland Sisters with
their seven -foot long hair were the
envy of womankind the world over.
Most people were usually prepared
for "rainy days;" now they're most-
ty ready any time for "wet" nights.
You often heard of "The boy stood
bin the bridge" but that's where you'll
Usually find mother nowadays,
The Greatest Joy
Our greatest joy is not in. never fall-
ing, but in rising every time we fall,--
iboldsmith.
MUTT AND
A Desert Day
The summer's night at end, the
sun stands up as a crown of hostile
flames from that huge covert of in-
hospitable sandstone bergs; the des-
ert day dawns not little and little,
but it is noontide in an hour. . The
sun, entering as a tyrant upon the
. waste landscape, darts upon, us a tore
meat .of fiery beams; not to be re-
mitted till the far-off evening. No
matins here of birds; not a rook -
partridge cock ealiing with blithe-
some ohuckle over the extreme wa-
terless desolation. Grave is that giddy
heat upon the crown of the head;
the ears tingle with a flickering shrill-
ness a :subtle trepitation, it seeing,
in the glassiness of this sun -stricken
nature; the hot sand -blink is in the
eyes, and there is little refreshment
to find in the tent's shelter; the
worsted booths lead to this fiery
rain of sunny Iight
The silent air burning about us,
we endure breathless till the assr:
when the dozing Arabs in the tents
revive after their heavy hours. The
Iiugering day draws down to the sun -
setting; the Herdsmen, weary of the
sun, come again with the cattle, to
taste in their menzils the first sweet-
ness of mirth and repose. The day
is done, and there rises the nightly
freshness of this purest mountain air:
and then to the 'cheerful song and
the cup of the common fire.—Froin
"Travels in Arabia Deserta," by C.
11T, Doughty.
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Obedience
Obedience its the secret of freedom.
A. little girl once said to her mother:
"Grown-ups are very fortunate; they
no longer have to obey."
Wait till you grow up, little girl, and
you will see that obedience will de-
mand a the core front you as you be-
come more conscious of life, for obedi-
ence is not only a family virtue, but a
social, scientific, and religious duty.
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Irish Free State Winne
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This prize winner dairy heifer was one of the Irish Free State's
ex -president Cosgrave's entry. Master William Cosgrave is shown
here with the entry just after capturing the award at the Royal
Dublin Society"s spring show.
Sunday School
Lesson
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June 5. Lesson K—Joseph the
Worker—Genesis 41: 46-57. ('ol-
den Text—Seest thou a man dili-
gent in his business? he shall
stand before kings.—Proverbs 22:
29.
ANALYSIS.
I. A POLICY OF THRIFT, vs. 46-49.
II. DOMESTIC FELICITY, ve, 50-52.
III. FAMINE, YET PLENTY, Vs. 53-57.
INTRODUCTION This chapter relates
the dramatic reversal of Joseph's for-
tunes. At the opening of the chapter,
he is a slave in an Egyptian prison;
at the close, after skilfully interpret-
ing Pharaoh's dreams, he is installed
the the Grand Vizier or Governor of
Egypt. In ancient history it happen-
ed, not infrequently, that one who
cane as a slave into, a country was
ultimately elevated to a position of
great power. Pharaoh was doubtless
aware of a singular quality in the
man, and judged him worthy to shame
with him in the responsibility of gov- ei frock.
ernmet:t. Egypt derived its fertility from the And as a motto for all 'perpetrators
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A POLICY OF THRID V N ,
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rise it had no such great river.: Tho
Nile annually overflowed its banks;
this inundation caused the Egyptian
harvests to be relatively sure and very
,harvests
Sometimes, howeve{, the waters
,,t f the Nile were diminished through
lack of rainfall in the interior of
Africa, and failed to overflow i.s
banks. This, of course, occasioned
famine with all its miseries. Two pro-
longed periods of drought in Egypt
are a matter of historical knowledge.
This condition now prevailed. during
Joseph's administration. The drought
was international in its scope and,
therefore, very serious. Thanks to
Joseph's policy, however, Egypt had
enough and to spare. Joseph, as vir-
tual dictator, was himself in supreme
control of the state granaries. He was
thus in a position to supply his bro-
thers with corn when they carne from
Canaan.
high wall. Grain was poured into a
window at the top of the granary and
was removed through a vent at the
bottom. The policy of storing grain
in this way became an established in-
stitution in Egypt.
II. DOMESTIC FELICITY, vs. 50-52.
In the midst of his busy public du-
ties, Joseph took occasion to establish
a home of his own. He married a
daughter of one of the priests of On,
or Heliopolis, north of Cairo, where an
obelisk of the old sun -temple still
stands. From very early tines On
was the seat of a mighty and wealthy
priesthood. Their religion was a mix-
ture of the worship of Re, the sun-
god, with the worship of a local god,
Atum. The high priest of On was
one of the most influential persons in
the kingdom. This alliance thus link-
ed Joseph with the most powerful in-
terests of Egypt. Without abandon-
ing, in any way, his faith in the God
of his fathers, Joseph thoroughly
identified himself with the life of his
adopted country. The sons of this
union were given names which me-
morialized the goodness of God to Jo-
seph. In ancient times names were
not merely names. They served to
indicate character or the eircuna-
.etances under which one was born or
Ted.
1. FAMIINE,` YET PLENTY, vs. 53-57.
Howlers
"What king calve after Queen
Elizabeth?" "Philip of Spain, but she
wasn't having any," Did we think of
such answers when we were at school,
or is the race of schoolboys growing
more intelligent? At any rate, Mr.
Cecil Hunt's colleetio::s of "Howlers"
seem to get funnier and funnier.
History was every a happy hunting
ground for the howler -maker. How
easy it is to fall into little errors such
as "Napoleon defeated the Marina -
dukes at the Battle of the Pyramids,"
or that "When the garrison. of Luck -
now ran out of provisions, a Scottish
maiden put her ear to the ground and
said, `Dinner, ye hear it.'"
THE YELLOW PERIL.
Here are some more:
From what state did Frederick the
Great invade Silesia? From a state
of collapse.
Mary Queen of Scots sewed well.
History says she was fond of darning.
Who was the father of James the
First's son? He hadn't got one. (Not
a fair question, this,)
Napoleon dispersed the rioters with
a whiff of grape fruit.
The Yellow Peril means a banana
skin left on the pavement.
Bannock Burn is so called because
Alfred burnt the cakes there.
In the reign of Elizabeth the Corn -
mons were always petitioning the
Sovereign to marry, a thing they
would never have dreamed of doing in
the time of Henry VIII.
Henry the Eighth was called Bluff
King Hal because first he bluffed his
wives and then he killed them.
Who was the famo,:s maid who sav-
ed France? Mademoiselle from Ar-
mentiers.
Extravagance is wearing a tie when
you have a beard.
Too much indulgence is sports gives
us barrackers veins.
A croupier is someone who has the
croup.
A sculptor is a man who -nakes
faces and busts.
Muses were often seen
ir. olden days.
Mrs. Grundy was:
A famous tennis lady.
The lady who carries away raft.
The future of "He drinks" is "He
is drunk."
When Hercules was very young he
heard a kissing sound, and put out his
hand and strangled two servants.
Sinister means a woman who, hasn't
married. (This has a sinister sound
in a Leap Year.)
Equilateral was a horse robber.
A cataract is a cat that catchea
rats.
.A. fissure is a man who sells fish.
The Decalogue is a low-necked
at f unerals
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Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur.
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Such power as Joseph ,now attanie
brought with it its own temptations.
There was the temptation, always
keenly felt by an Oriental ruler, to
fleece the populace and to promote his
own interests; the temptation to bask
in the royal favor and the plaudits of
the multitude, and to neglect -the res-
ponsibilities attached to great office;
the temptation also to turn cynical
from the bitter experiences of the
years that had gone and, now in office,
to stake others suffer as he once suf-
fered. Joseph, however, was as noble
in power as he had been in privation.
He had been made the administrator
of the whole land of Egypt. Usually
there was an administrator for Lower
Egypt, and. another for Upper Egypt.
But a critical emergency was fore-
seen; Joseph had been granted pow-
ers extraordinary for coping with
The reign of Amenophis IV., in the
New Kingdom has been suggested es
the most likely background for Jo-
seph's administration. At that time
Egypt was under an official bureau-
c.acy with a highly centralized gov-
ernment. Joseph's agrarian policy
would be possible at that time, for
Pharaoh was then regarded as the
land owner of the whole of Egypt. In
order to carry out his policy Joseph
traversed the land, visiting all the
pontes (or districts), together with
their leading cities. He had recom-
mended to the Pharaoh that in the
seven years of plenty, twenty per
cent. of the crop should be stored as
a provision for the lean years, The
Egyptians were thus taught the home-
ly virtue of thrift. ' The grain was
stored in state granaries in the capi-
tal towns of the various districts.
From numerous paintings on Egyp-
tian ruins, it is possible to forst an
idea of these granaries. They were
cunically-shaped, clay buildings. A
series of them w.:s enclosed within a
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A SLIGHT MISTAKE,
All sorts of good and bad golfers
visited the seaside golf links for the
Easter holidays. Among them was a
red-faced colonel who was a very bad
golfer. `-e:.
Durling the round he got into a
lot of bunkers and succeeded in cut-
ting up a lot of turf.
After a specially desperate effort
the got his ball out of a patch of
touch grass, he turned to his caddie.
"Jove," he exclaimed Heartily, "it's
a great game?"
"What is'?" asked the puzzled cad-
die.
"Why, golf, you fool!' snapped the
colonel.
"Oh," murmured the caddie, with
a show of surprise, "I thought you
were referring to gardening."
ware of the cane."
The "Howlers" Prize Competition,
run by the "University Correspon-
dent," elicited some good examples.
Edgar Wallace may be surprised to
know that he "was chosen King of
Scotland by Edward I." but it is cer-
tain that "Old King Cole" was a
"Merry Monarch" if not "the Merry
Monarch." And, after all, a sensible
answer to "Of whom was it said that
he never smiled again?" is "of Charles
L after his execution." And who can
deny that the Milky Way is "the way
you feed infants"?
Ambitious
Bobby was one of the few boys who
said they didnt waut to be an engine -
driver, a pirate, a fireman, or a dirt -
cart rider.
"What are you going to be, then?"
inquired his aunt.
"Wont' tell," said Bobby.
"Oh, come on, Bobby. You're going
to be a policeman."
"No, I'm not."
"Well, will you tell me if I give you
more pudding?"
Bobby gave in and announced that
he was going to be an after-dinner
speaker
" Whatever for?"
Bobby grinned.
"Think of the dinners," he said.
Australia Gets Tung Seeds
Brisbane.—Two tons of seed, suf-
ficient to plant 50,000 acres of tung
oil trees, have arrived here from
Florida.
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A striking result in a printed and
plain crepe silk that is youthfully
lovely.
The print is marine blue. The
bodice is plain lemon crepe and favors
the wrapped closure.
The skirt gives graceful height to
its wearer, cut in panel effect at the'
front and at the back.
It's very easily fashioned. It will
cost you next to nothing to copy it.
Style No. 2793 niay be had in sizes
12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38
inches bust.
Crinkle crepe silk in new green
shade is equally smart.
Rayon crepes and novelty cottons
that have a woolen aspect make up
splendidly in this model.
Size 16 requires 11/s yards 35 inch
f,ex• blouse, with 214 yards 39 inch
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Unique Service Record
Held By Winnipeg T.:acheE
Winnipeg.—Miss A. B. Stewart,
former school teacher on. the Winni-
peg staff, has just celebrated her 89th
birthday. Miss Stewart was born
in Brantford, in 1843, and has been
a resident of Winnipeg since 1883.
For 57 years she served as a public
school teacher in Ontario and Mani-
toba, and for 33 years was in
toria school. She retired on pen-
sion in 1921. She has a record uni-
que in Canada as a school teacher.
Some of her former pupils are among
the most eminent men and women
in Canada today,
Building Increase
Shown in Canada
Ottawa --An increase of 27.5 per
cent was shown in building permits
in 61 Canadian cities in April over
the previous month. Their value
aggregated $4,237,160.
In April, 1931, permits were valu-
ed at $13,495,165.
Misery
Misery may love company, but com-
pany' does not cure misery. — David
Grayson,
It's Reached The Advanced Stage Now.
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