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The Woods
By Gretchen Gibson
"Cigarette?" „Thanks!„ The eider
ftian selects a cigarette aid lights it.
"Great place this!" he remarks, "coma
ttry'e getting pretty well dried up,
ttbough." His -compan'ion nods lazily,
Both men lie on their backs, gazing
contentedly at the slightly swaying
branches of the fine forest about them:
"Well, we'd better be getting along,"
finally says the elder, flinging his
cigarette butt into the nearby brush.
"Must be some three miles to the car."
1And they gather up their fishing rods
and are gone.
* ♦ s s *
Oyer the spot they have left, peace-
fully, beautifully, evening fails. Feath-
ered busybodies of the weeds and
other little gadabouts of the day chir-
rup and drone their more or less
melodious vespers as they settle into
their respective hiding -places for the
brief summer night. Nocturnal crea-
tures awake, eager to partake of the
#hare of the joy and plunder of exist-
ence—and one and all of these crea-
tures—creatures of feather and crea-
tures of fur, creatures of marvellous
skin and flimsy; gauzy loveliness --one
and all of these •creatures, sleeping
and waking are possessed of a cc,m-
mon powerful impulse—to survive--
survive—survive. It extends even to
the plant life of the .Forest, this im-
pulse to achieve complete fulfilment
of suck life as is their birthright.
It may be that in the tiny spark still
glowing in the butt of a cigarette
which lies among the dry midsummer
underbrush, this same impulse exists.
But surely the chances are more than
ten to one • against the spark's sur-
vival. However, the evening breeze
grows stronger and a dried leaf falls
dere and there; in fact, one leaf falls
'directly ever the spark.
Flames, orange, violet, reddish, yel-
low, graceful as a Spanish dancer,
curving, sweeping, darting, crackling,
roaring, licking. _..
Smoke -blinded, frantic creatures,
creatures of feather, creatures of fur,
creatures of marvellous sinand flimsy
gauzy lovelinesay all madly impelled
by their great common impulse to sur-
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wive ---survive, survive, moan and cry
and ` howl and, shriek, and perish,
while the agonized forest surrenders
the wealth of its greenness to the
crackling flame fiends.
.And, oh! oh! a roan, a little fire -
smeared, frenzied pian (not one of the
fishermen) jumps spasmodically up
and down; leaps from side to side;
flings his arms wide, shouts, screech-
es, But the names, . graceful as a
Spanish dancer; orange, violet, red-
dish, yellow -sweeping, circling, roar-
ing, darting—these insatiable flames
—spit their contempt' upon the im-
potent little Jumping -Jack; wrap him
about in iridescent garments and lick
him impatiently from their path.
A few days later our two fishermen
chance to meet. Remarks the young-
er: "See where a forest fire swept
through the country we were fishing
in the other day." Replies the elder:
"Yee, too bad! Quite a bunch. of valu-
able timber destroyed, I believe. Won,
der how it ever got started!"
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
ALWAYS KEPT ON HAND
Mrs. David Gagne, St. Godfroy, Que.,
writes:—"I have used Baby's Own
Tablets for my three little ones and
have found them such an excellent
medicine that I always keep them on
hand and would strongly advise all
other mothers to do the same thing."
The Tablets are a mild but thorough
laxative which quickly relieve consti-
pation and indigestion; break up colds
and simple fevers and promote that
healthful refreshing sleep which
makes the baby thrive. They are sold
by all medicine dealers or by mail at
25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
School Days In Japan.
Our ohildren should not growl about
what they must- do in school. Con-
sider the Japanese student who must
learn forty-seven letters' in the- Japan-
ese, alphabet. He also: takes off his
shoes before entering the school -house
and when the teacher comes in must
bow- his head.' nearly to' the ground
and' draw in his -breath.. 'He site on
the floor and uses his knees as- a writ-
ing -desk. His lead Penc1l or pen is a
brush and he makes his fetters and
figured with this, writing from the top
to the bottom of the page instead of
across the paper as we do. In India
many of the children have a twelve-
hour school -day,
He has the greatest blind side who
thinks he has none.
Pride does not like to owe, and self
love does not like to pay,
kwfth This
ses Less Fuel
Save money by using SMP Enam-
led Ware cooking vessels. They use
l
ess fuel. To satisfy yourself try this
convincing test in your kitchen. Take
fan SMP Enameled Sauce Par( and one
of equal size' made of aluminum, tin
or other metal. Into each pour two
quarts of cold water. Place each sauce
pan over the fire. The water in the
SAIP Enameled Sauce Pan will be boil.
litg !merrily when the water in the
other is just beginning to simmer.
Save yew- ]!money. Use
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a"A Face of Porcelain and a Heart of Stead„
Throe finishes: Poor Ware, two costs of
beady -trey enaa5e1 imide paad out; Diamond
Woo, three. 'cents, lightlap end white out-
side,
ut
*ide, white linin& Crystal 'W'atn, titree coats,
jjeto whit* fades gid out, with livid !slue
They Come Back Singing.
'They corne back singing, and we knoll
them all,
The bluebird and the robin and th
wren;
Up from the marsh elle redwing flute
a call;
We hear the hermit gametes in 111'
glen;n•
The goldfinch has not donned his sum
mor dress,
And yet we tell him as he lilts alon
Each note attuned to spring and Joy
ousters;
They come back singing, and w
know their song.
Wembley's Neva! BeitIeo.
..i'be Navy, is represented at the Bri-
tish Idnipire Ex.hibitlon, A:, o�peolal
Water t,tage, seventy' feet wfho, hziio
been erected, and ou Ghia indoor ocean
thing take•part in representations of
fadoius battles,
Two of the Most im lortan t Britian
vietorles--the .armada and Trafalgar
—ere depicted with remerkab.l�e detail,
It is jinposslbie to portray the battle
of Jutland in the same way owlets to
the immense area of sea aver which
it was fought. It hoe been .dedided,
however, to iiluetrate the Navy's part
in modern warfare by typical episodes
of a naval action of to -day, and the
storming of Zeebrugge is presented in
full detail,
Spectators survey the whole history
of the evolution of tb.e chip of war and
Of the inerehant whip, shown in a pro-
oession of ves•seis easel of which Is
modelled uponits famous original,
from the Mora, Ala. 1066, to II.M,S,
0 Hood, AD. 1920; and front the high
pooped, square-rigged merchantmen of
o the Normans to the steam -driven steel
cargo boats of to -day.
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THE DELICATE GIRL
You do not have to see his feat!?ere
throat
To name a robin singing in the•rain
Or need to cast a glance at -cap an
ooat
To know the bobolinks are `back
again;
The tiniest of the warblers passing by
Among the tasseled trees may fir
along
And hide his colors from the seekin
eye,
Yet prove his presence with a thread
of song.
For more than this what need of mor
tal care—
That men may know us by the songs
we sing,
Naming us never by the garb we wear
The dun of winter or the .gold o
spring?
I pray I shall not mock another's lay
But keep my own distinct and true
and strong,
That as I fare along some one will say:
"She passed me singing, and I knew
her song."
—Florence Boyce Davis, in Youth's
Companion.
What Mothers Should Do as
o: ' Their Daughters Approach
Womanhood.
cl If growing girls aro to become well-
developed, Healthy women, their
, health must be carefully guarded.
1 Mothers should not ignore their un-
settled moods or the varioi,s troubles
that tell of approaching womanhood.
It is an important time of life. Where
pallor, headache, backache or other
t signs' of anaemia ars evident you must
provide the sufferer with the surest
g means of making new blood.
Remember, pale bloodless girls need
plenty of nourishment, plenty of sleep,
and regular olien-air exercise. But to
save the bloodless sufferer she must
have new blood --acrd nothing meets
tb.e ease so well as Dr. Williams' Pink
.'ills. These Pills increase the supply
of new, red blood; they stimulate the
; appetite and relieve the weary back
f and limbs; thus they restore health
and charm, and bring to anaemic girls
the rosy cheeks and bright eyes of
strong, happy girlhood.
You can get these pills through any
dealer- in medicine, or by mail at 5.0
cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., 33rockville, Ont.
The New House.
Nothing dark or sorrowful
Haunts the new house,
And not a shiny cricket
Or a. quick -eyed mouse.
They. are long;Jsunny windows'
A wide fireplace,
r'Ad:sem*eet•smelling woodwork,
Yellow like lace,
We will briar, the little house
Talk beside the fire, •
Laughter on the stairway—
AIl its heart's desire.
Something eager calls to us
In every room,
And it's all like a garden,
We are living into bloom.
-Rose Henderson.
Gave Wife -as Royal Token.
In the early days of Virginia the
head of all the allied tribes of Indians
was. Powhatan, father of Pocahontas
In Powhatan was centred •' all govern
mental powers. He had a royal ret-
inue as bodyguard, composed of 60 0
70 of the most stalwart and fearless
Indian' warriors. His subjects planted
all his corn and gathered it for hint
when it was ripe. He had a large trea-
sure house of many valuable posses
: -
alone, such as skins, copper, paint and
beads and arms of all , kinds, and he
had to himself the responsibility of
many wives.
Most of the wives he left at home
when he made excursions, but always
carried with him two or more where-
ever he went. He is said to have had
20 sons and 12 daughters. When for
any reason he became tired of a. wife
he gave her away to some of his.
friends as a token of his royal favor.
Powhatan had little relish for the
coronation ceremonies that were in-
flicted upon him, and it is said that
he accepted the gifts sent by the king
of England with some apprehension,
believing that in some way or other
hewould be obliged to give an ac-
count of them,
An Unknown Ivory Mine.
Why are ivory billiard balls so ex-
pensive? The answer is that the sup-
ply of ivory, a natural growth depend-
ing mainly upon the tusks of ele-
phants, is exceedingly limited. Never-
theless, if some wanderer through the
illimitable forests of Central Africa,
probably in the vicinity of that inland
sea of fresh water called Lake Vie -
torte Nyanza, could stumble upon a
certain "pit" and communicate his
discovery to the world, the value• of
this aomnaodity would drop to the
merest fraction of its present worth.
Seeing that in Africa there are tens
of thousands' of wild elephants, one.
would imagine that travellers like
Stanley and Cameron would have ea -
corded coming upon the carcass of a
dead •beast. Yet they never• did, nor.
has any other African explorer conte
upon an elephant Which has died in
The Master's Message.
A general who had returned home
from 'India visited a well-known pub-
lic school, where he called an the
house -master of a young Indian
prince, the eon of a Rajah.
The General stated that before leav-
ing India he had promised the Rajah
Ito deliver a message to the bay's
tutor. It' was that the Rajah desired
that his son should receive no excep-
tional treatment in the school on ac-
count of his exalted birth.
The house -master hastened to reas-
sure the :General,
"Pray tell the Rajah," he said, "that
there is no .need to be alarmed. In
this school his son answers to the
name of 'Nigger,' and among his inti-
mates he Is commonly called 'Coal -
Scuttle!' "
Better give the grass a good start
before turning out to pasture. Early
grass has little • strength, and early
pestering- kills it.
Chapped Hands or Face
Cared by one application of MEDORA
CREAM. Leaves skin smooth and vel-
vety. Used exclusively in Toronto
General Hospital for ten years. Ask
your druggist for 50o bottle and pre-
serve your youthful complexion, or
sent postpaid on receipt of 50a.i
J, A. MacDonald, Phm.B,, 34 Hogarth
ve., i oronto.
its tracks from natural causes.
YOdsf-se
e
What becomes of all the elephants
that die? It is said that somewhere
in the million square miles that con-
stitute the African continent is a
mighty pit, with precipitous sides,
which contains the bones, and there-
fore the tusks, of countless thousands
of elephants,
How did they come there? It Is
said, further, that wherever an African
elephant may be, when it feels the ap-
proach Of dearth It leaves the herd
and "treks" unerringly for the death -
pit. It may travel for days and even
Weeks, and when it arrives at the edge
of the pit it leaps to its death. How
much ivory lies there? Who will dis-
cover it?
Do not be like the bell that answers
every pull and has but one note.
Keep M1need'a Llnitnent`iit the norm.
•
USE YOU -R
SPARE TIME OR
ALL YOUR TiME
ANIS PUT
Money in Your Stocking!
Money in Your Purse
Money in the Bank !
Act as our Jlstat, Sell our E. 1:, Superfine
Hosiery to yotir friends, neighbours and
acquaintances,
The work Is easy, The goods sell themselves.
Any woman will at once recognize the high
quality+ of 13.& i^ hosiery. This olassof hosiery
Is not generally obiaitlable locally, Therefore,
people are anxious to buy from our agents.
Houaewvives who teed more ready cash,
schoolgirls with books and drosses to bay
teachers, men or women, any one can sell
ii k li Resiery and make money. At the same
time they don real favor to their customers.
Write TO -day,
O. fir E. MANUFACTURING CO, (Dept, ft )
Londotl Ontario
THERE
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NKER GIVES
TANILAC0FULL COEDIT
cc ° . tortured me and 1 was a]zxlt)1t frantic
�.� a Stomach Medicine arid (rain mervortsnes,c, .
Tonic--Tanlac tic- -.Tania c is Certainly' "14 liusbaud, wlzo hart used 7l'a.xtiae
Wonderful " Says Brock- with line results, persuaded me to try
vale Lady. it, too, end it proved to be just what
„•,., . 1 needed, Six betties helped me back
Adding leer voice to the thousands to heelth and .strength and 1 also Mill-
who axe praising 'i'anlac for the re- ed 12 pounds, That was two years
age and X have felt fine ever sinee, As
a stomach medicine and tonin Tanlac
is certainly wonderful,"
Taelac is for Sale by all good drug-
gists. Accept eo substitute, Over 40
million bottles sold.
covert' of their healtis and strength,
Mrs. Margaret °ranker, $4 Louis St.,
Brockville, Ont„ says:
"Tanlac is suck a grand, good meal -
eine and has done so much for me that
I will praise it, Following a spell of
typhoid fever, two years ago, T was
just a shadow of myself and remained
so weak 1 couldn't walk across the
floor. Stomach pains and backache
Tanlac Vegetable Pills, for oonstipa-
tion, made and recoinipended by the
manufacturers of TANLAC, '
Wharf.
Long and lank and lean and gray
Winds the river on its way.
Lean .and long and lank and brown
a
All along it lies the town.
Ml along it lie the, houses,
Shantyboats where faint carouses
Echo up the cinder banks
Where the dead walk, rank on ranks,
Where the tattered living tread
More desolate than all the dead.
Their hands are warm, tbeir cheeks
are red,
Their breasts are gaunt beneath their
blouses.
This is, what the living say,
Perched on wharf piles day by day,
"Neither live nor dead are we,
There are not two states, but three;
Living, dead, and neither way."
I sometimes think the Jordan rolls,
Not in Palestine, but here,
And all the damned and wistful souls
Sit along the First Street pier.
--Grace Hutchinson Ruthenhurg.
A Woman's Postscript.
Do all wives open their husband's
letters? Was Harry's mother only
taking precautions tbat any woman
should take, or was her daughter-in-
law a special offender and as such es-
pecially sensitive on the subject? We
leave that • to , our • readers• to settle.
This is the story as the Argonaut re-
ports it: . -
"Harry, dear!" exclaimed little Mrs.
Simpson to 'lief husband. "I have
b -been d -dreadfully insulted!"
"Insulted! By whom?"
"B -by your mother," answered the
young wife, bursting into tears.
"My mother, Flora? Nonsense!
Bloc's miles away!"
Flora dried her tears. "I'll tell you
all about it," she said. "A. letter
came -for you this morning addressed
in your mother's writing, se I—I open-
ed it!'
• "Or course," said Harry,
"It ---it was written to you all
through. Do you understand?"
"I understand. But where is the in-
sult?"
"In the p -p -postscript," cried the
wife, bursting, in to fresh floods of
tears. "It s -said, 'D -dear Flora, d -don't
fail to give this 1 -Letter to Harry. I
want him to have it"
Buy your out-of-town supplies with
Dominion Express Money Orders.
Correct.
"When is longhand quicker than
shorthand?"
"When it is on a clock,"
When washing glassware, add a few
drops of blueing to the water, and the
glass will be sparkling and clear.
A man of sense may love like a
madman, but never like a fool.
If you divorce capital and labor,
capital is hoarded and labor starves,
Say `bBayer99- Insist!
?or Pain Headache
Neuralgia Rheumatism
Lumbago Colds
Accept only !
Bayer package
which contains proven directions
Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 'tablets
.Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists
Aspirin is the trade mark (registered is
Canada) of Baser Manufacture of Mono-
' aceticeeidester of Saiieilicacid
CORNS
For sura relief apply Minard's
daily. Excellent for bunions.
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a hundred, Safe arrival. guaranteed.
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Following Orders.
"Now, children," said the teacher,
"write down all you have learned
about King Alfred, but don't say any-
thing about the burning of the cakes;
I want to find out what else you
know."
' Half an hour later Jeanie handed in
ber effort;
"King Alfred visited a lady at a cot-
tage, but the less said about it the
better."
Ask for Mlnard'a and taxa no other,
Signboards Needed.
"Well, here you are," said the doc-
tor, "a pill for the kidneys, a tablet
for the indigestion, and another p111
for the nerves."
"But, look here, doctor," said the
patient, "how will the little beggars
know where to go when they're in-
side?"
U iN
Keeps EYES
CIear, Bright and Beautiful
writeMurineCo„Chicago, lorEyeCareHook
CUT1CURA FIE IS
SKIN TRK 'LE
Face Broke Out in Pim-
ples, Were Disfiguring.
Extremely Sore,
"My face broke out in a masS of
pimples that were very anno in
as web as disfiguring. 'Me pi:.
pies were small, hard, red limps a
Brat, but incrira4ed in size and
carne -to a lipgd. The pimples watt
extreiiuely sore and tender, and I
was very much discouraged,
” I read an advc-tiseznent for Cu-
ticura Soap apd Ointment and sent
for a free sample. I purchased
more, and after using two. &kgs of
Cuticura Soap, together with the
Cuticura Ointrneni, I was healed,"
('Signed) Miss Alberta Moore, Balt
Springs Sta., Nova Scotia.
For every purpose of the toilet
and bath, Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Talcum are excellent.
eampie Saab Prep by sea. AddressCqanadian
Depot; "eutioura, P. 0•. Sox 561.1, atouts,al.'
Price. Son 25e. Ointment 26 and 60e. Talcue.ne,
i Try our new Shaving Stick.
RS DAVI
ERVOU at
TellsWomenlowShe Was Restored
1 to Perfect Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Winnipeg, Man.--" I cannot speak
too highly of what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com-
pound has done for
me, I was a nervous
wreck and I just had
to force myself to do
my work. Even the
sound of my own chil-
dren playing made
me feel as if I must
scream if they did
not get away from
me. I could not even
speak right to iny
husband, The doctor
said he could do nothing for me. My hus-
band's mother advised me to take the
Vegetable Compound and I started itat
once, I was able to do my work once
more and it was a pleasure, not a bur-
den. Now I have a fine bouncing baby
and ant able to nurse her and enjoy do-
ing my work. S cannot helprecom-
mending such a rnedieine and any one
seeing me before I took it, and seein
rte now, can see what it does for me,
am only too pleased for you to use my
testimonial.' ---Mrs. EMILY t A.vls, 121
McGee Street, Winnipeg, Man.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text.
Soakupon "Ailments Peculiar to
Women will be sent you free upon.
Mequest. Write to the Lydia E. Pinkha
m
Medicine Co., Cobourg, Ont. This book
contains valuable information. ti
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