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(By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich. Ont.)
None other Lamb, none other name.
None other hope in heaven, or earth
or sea;
None other hiding -place from guilt
and shame,
None 'beside Thee!
Lordo.Thoti atit life, though I be dead:
Love' e fire Thou ate, hole/Over cold I
blor heaven have I, nci/r place to -day
. , head,
Nr s home, but Thee.
C. G. Rossetti.
PRAYER
Eternal God, who hast formed us
and designed us for companionship
with Thee, forgive us, we pray Thee,
if craven fear, unworthy thought; or
bidden sin, has prompted us to hide
from Thee. Amen,
Selected.
6, S. LESSON FOR JULY 17, 19,32
Lesson Topic—The Passover.
Lesson Passage—Exodus 12:21-28.
Golden Text -1 Corinthians 5:7.
An old Dutch artist has depicted
"the horror of thick darkness" plague
that fell on the land of Egypt, with
considerable effeee and force. He al-
lows. Us through the darkness which
envelops his engraving, to discern
the shadows of men stumbling along
the way, running against each other,
groping in vain to find their doors.
Itere and there are men with lamps;
ibUt they radiate no light—they are
small white specks and the men hold
themclose down to the ground to
find their " path. Meanwhile, in the
distance, lies the favored land of
Goshen under -s. flood of light. Un-
til we saw this print, we had no idea
that darkness could,be" So pictorially
represented.—(Dr. Kitto).
This visitation again compelled the
king to send for Moses and Aaron..
Nevertheless he is still bent orotbin-
promise. He will now permit'Ithe
children of Israel to go, but the
flocks must be left behind. This
lefesees meets by a plain and blunt
refusal: "Our cattle also shall go
with is; there shall not a hook be
left behind." This roused Pharaoh's
indignation and he said: "Get thee
solemnly observed at a definite time
of the year.
The people received. these instruc
tions with reverence and, ready re
sponse. "They bowed their ani
worshipped. And the children of Is
reel went away, and did as the Lord
had commanded Moses and. Aaron,
so did they."
The Passover was 'a prophetic
symbol of the death and atonement
of the Lord Jesus—it was an earnest
of the great sacrifice a the Lamb of
God in the fullness of time instead of
us and our nest -born; we were ob-
noxious to the sword of the destroy-
ing angel, but Christ our passover
was sacrificed for us, his death was
our life, and thus he was the "Lamb
slain from the foundation of the
world."—(Matthew Henry).
from me, take heed to thyself; see
my face no mere, for in that day
thou seest my face thou shalt die."
Moses left his presence with the
ominous words, "Thou hast spoken
well; I will see thy face again no
more."
The contest is now over, and Moses
is directed to prepare for the last
awful infliction—the crowning stroke
—which shall compel the king to lot
the oppressed go frees. nay, to urge
and command their immediate depar-
ture.
Preparations for leaving Egypt
were begun in accordance with in-
structions from the Lord. The night
of the fourteenth day of the month
—Nisan-that night of grief to the
Egyptians—was a night of earnest
waiting, of solemn preparation for
the israelites. Before that night
came they had received instructions
for obServing it in that form in which
it was to become a yearly festival
commemorative of their deliverance.
The Passover was instituted and ob-
served as indicated in to -day's les-
son. Moses 'bids the elders of Israel
choose "for every family a lamb."
The lamb was. not only killed—that
alone would not have made the an-
gel of the Lord pass by their houses
—the blood had to be sprinkled on
the lintel and the two side posts.
Furthermore .they must not go out
of the doors, lest they should be ab-
sent when the summons came for
them to depart out of the land; they
must stay within "to wait for the
salvation of the Lord."
They were instructed from the very
first to observe two things—it was
to be "an ordinance to thee and to
the, sons for ever"—a memorial of
what great things God had done for
them wHen the destroying angel pass-
ed over the houses of the Israelites,'
and did not destroy their first-born.
They were to instruct their children,
teaching them the meaning of this
service. When they would inquire,
as children would be sure to do,—
what is the meaneng of all this care
„and exactness about eating this lamb,
and this unleavened bread, more than
bout, corms -ion food?. Why such a
difference between this meal and
other meals? Such questions would
be sure to be asked and Moses said
they were to be ready to explain ful-
ly its significance in the life of the
nation. It was commenorative of
the birth of a nation and was to be
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The occasion of my going to Burma
was to present a matter for consid-
eration to the 'Representative Chris-,
tian Council on behalf of the Nation-
al Christian Council of India, Burma
and Ceylon. . Befote and after coun-
cil meeting I visited sone of the
mission centres. I spent a day in
village medical work with Dr. and
Mrs. •Henderson. The 'doctor finds
the indifference ofthe people to their
own and othets' suffering the great-
est obstacle in his work. He and his
,wife( go and hunt out the sick and
induce them to be treated. The root
of this is probably that no one has
cared for them, and they can't be-
lieve that any one does. At Moel.
mein there is a large well-equipped
mission hospital for Women, where
nurses are also trained. Away up
near the frontier, Dr. Gordon Sea-
grave is doing to'the sick. As I was
returning to India called Waste Bas-
ket 'Surgery, the nucleus of his stock
'of instruments being some discarded
from Johes 'Hopkins Hospital, and
rescued by 'him. There. is a children's
hospital in Mandalay. But there is
great need of an extension of service
to the sick. As I was returning to
India on the boat therej Was a doctor
who is working in Burma in connec-
tion with the Rockefeller Foundation:
He is working in an area of six hun-
dred square Miles near Rangoon, at-
tempting to eliminate preventable
diseases and to teach sanitation. This
is much needed all over Burma. In
some parts there is, for instance, a
ninety per cent. infection with round
worms, due to the pollution of the
soil around the dwellings. There are
no rural sanitary arrangements.
One -Egg Cake
Summer Delicacy
A one -egg cake is offered here, one
of those much sought after and
tempting summertime delicacies. The
use of orange, juice with the ntilk -is
a good way to enhance the color and
flavor of the cake. The orange frost-
ing contributes az added attractive-
ness.
'The dilution of evaporated milk
with orange juice has an effect on
the milk that results in softer tex-
ture in the cake. The acidity, how-
ever, is not increased to the point
that soda is required, 'which is the
case when the milk is soured with
vinegar or lemon juice.
,Orange Cup Cakes.
1 1-3 cups pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
34 cup sugar
1 -egg
1/4 cup ,evaporated milk
14cuporange juice.
Sift 'flour, then measure. Resift
with other dry ingredients into mix-
ing bow. Beat egg. Add soft
butter, milk and orange juice. Pour
into a well in the middle of dry in-
gredients. Fold dry ingredients into
liquid until partially mixed, then
beat 1 minute. "Pour into oiled muf-
fin tins and bake in a moderate oven
(350 deg. F.) 10 to 15 minutes. Frost
with orange frosting. Yield; 20 tiny
cup cakes.
Orange Frosting.
1/4 cup evaporated milk
2 tablespoons orange juice
Grafted, rind of 1 orange
1 M. confectioner's sugar.
Combine milk, orange juice and
rind. Add sugar until of consistency
to spread.
, You will find this cake a wonder-
ful one to have with the various
kinds of berries now so plentiful on
the market. Those who have tasted
nese most appetizing looking little
individual cakes have immediately
demanded another, and then anther
—until the supply actually had to be
gu a rded !
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the bottom layer might have hatter
beans .cooked and cut up placed over
there and then when the crust is
placed on top, grated 'cheese could
be used to add a pleasant flavor
Vegetable pie would suit the slim
purse and you could experiment with
many combinations of vegetables.
Did You Ever Make
A Guessing Cake?
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Vegetable pie will surprise the
family, and you can use left -over
/vegetables to good advantage in this
way Just Just tell us of the wife, or,
mother who doesn't derive a certain
amount of satistact,„ i.on from having
the family ask, 'Whet in the world
is in this?" And that is what they
will ask if you give them a vegetable
pie s'oma evening for dinner. Green
beans cut in inch lengths combined
with carrots cut small and chopped,
cooked .celery will form'the fining for
the pie. A little beef or lamb gravy.
flavored with a drop of tabasco sauce
will add character and then cover the
pie with a short biscuit dough crust
made in the folloping manner:
1/2 cup milk
11/2 cups flour, sifted
'4 tablespoons fat
2 scant teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt.
• The dough' should be rolled out or
patted to a thickness of about one-
half inch and in the proper' shape for
the baking dish, and should be bake•1
in a moderately hot oven. The crust
will bake better if • the filling is hot
at the start.
Many combinations of vegetables
may he used, according to what is
left from ditnner the evening before,
Potatoes are not advised, as the
crust of the pie will supply enough
starch, and the filling- sheuld pro-
vide •contrast. Torriatoee Aided for
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'It is said 'that ' the . kletitemanias
wife of , a prominent citizen who
stole with impity frowerrost Fifth
Avenue stoma, 'the victims merely
sending billto her husband which
he aid, was finally landed in. jail
when he tried to lift something
from S. Klein. This thievery makes
S. Klein a fair target for suits for
,damage actions. He has fought sev-
eral of them 'in his tie. One of
these cases had a great deal to do
with the djenvissal from the bench
a former Magistrate Silberman, who
refused to convict a shop walker,
and thus paved the way for her to
enter into a conspiracy to sue S.
Klein for false arrest. Klein buys in
tremendous lots., sornetiimes 15,000
garments in a single order and shaves
profit to such,an extent that he has
driVen. ,out of buSiness hundeeds of
cheap New York clothing dealers
Union 'Square and Fourteenth Street
has 'become the world's headquarters
for this business and not Jong ago
Gordon Selfridge is said to have
made a special trip from London to
examine it.
'Another secret of his •priee-cutting
ability is that his overhead is small.
Fifth Avenue stores sometimes pay
one-tenth of their gross income for
rent. Klein pays three-quarters
one per cent. Moreover he turns over
his stock from thirty-five to forty-
five times a year. He has adopted
the sound principle of cutting the
price of an article -until it is disposed
of. It stands for two weeks at its
original price. Then it is reduced.
And the process is repeated every
two Weeks until the garment i3
bought. Space in Klein's is worth
too much_ money to t b oecupied by
slow selling lines. Klein himself is
a common place chapwithout social
ambitions, and with no cultural
tastes, no hobbies. He closes his
store on Jewish holidays at a loss of
perhaps $75,000 a day. He explains
this 'sentimentality by saying, "It
pleases Momana,"
Holds World's Record
ForSellingCheaply
This S. Klein, New York, of whom
we read in the New Yorker must be
about the most interesting Klein in
the United States, Rot excluding
Chuck, the demon batter. Starting
with few advantages, he has climbed,
in the past quarter century, from. be-
ing a half-starved Jewish tailor to a
well-fed Jewieh clothing dealer whose
personal income is about a million
dollars, a year. S. Klein's great
money -making innovation was to in-
troduce into the ready-to-wear wo-
men's garment trade the so-called
cafeteria system, in other words the
selfsserve system, or, as we should
prefer to call it,. the help -yourself
system.. At one sweep this does a-
way wit- an army- of clerks. At an
other, u happily, it makes necessary
the employment of a small army of
spotters. We do not imagine we
should enjoy shopping at S. Klein's
although we have to admit that the
joy of shipping anywhere is some-
thing that just seems to have been
i
left out of our natureBut the store
is plastered with sins in English,
Italian and Yiddish bearing the
words, "Don't Disgrace Yourself," and
"The Punishment for Dishonesty is
Jail." Girls on high platforms main-
tain a constant surveillance of
customers, store police are scattered
through the premises and in the
dressing rooms there is the somewhat
embarrassing warning, "Detectives
Are Always Watching You."
But implicit in all these signs is
the fact that .there is a 'tremendous
lot of customers. The store is jam-
med from the time it opens until
it closes. S. Mein publishes news-
paper advertisements only when he
warns people to stay asway because
the store is closed. The'people flock
to S. Klein's because he sells women's
and children's wear at extremely low
prices. He has on hand a constant
stock of between 2013;,000 and 3013,000
garments and the average price for
a frock is less than five dollars.
Klein, of course, used to he an ad-
vertiser. That is how he got his
start, but he found that whenever
be advertised a special sale there was
a riot in Union Square, . where his
shop ' is slocated, traffic was blocked
and the police were called out. That
is '•-w'hy he does not dare advertise
any more. The store itself, though
it provides him 'with 400,000 square
feet of floor space, is pretty dingy.
There' is 'nothing gorgeous or digre-
fied in the surroundings, but you
can get a sports dress for a dollar,
a silk suit for five dollars and an
evening gown for seven dollars and
,seventyefive cents. That is the ex-
planation of why Klein's is the larg-
est women's ,wear shop in the world.
,There are no showcases or folder;
in the store. All the goods are dis-
played on racks. The customer
seizes what she wants and makes for
the dressing room where she tries it
on. On busy days, according to
Milton MacKaye, who contributes the
article to the New Yorker, girls have
been known to do their trying on
right in the middle a the store. If
it fits or can be made, to fit the
customer carries the garment to a
clerk who wraps it up and takes the
money. All transactions are for cash
except those which the shoplifters
ery to put through. Despite the,
',watchfulness. of S. Klein's myrnu-
dons there are plenty of these. He
estimates that he loses a hundred
tho-ueand dollars per year in thisway
but Mr. MacKaye suggests that thz
amount is more. In any event S.
Klein is always pretty mad about it,
and if he is convinced that his spot-
ters have caught a real shopliftee
fhe will hound her to the U. S. Su-
preme Court before he will let her
escape. !He is tolerant of the poverty
stricken youngstets who often try to.
outfit themselves at his expensee but
with the professionals he is implac-
able.
Acids in Stomach
Cause Indigestion
Create Sourness, Gas and Pain.
How to Treat.
Medical authorities state that nearly
nine -tenths of the cases of stomach
trouble, indigestion, sourness, burning,
gas, bloating, nausea, etc., are due to
an excess of hydrochloric aid in the
stomach. The 'delicate stomach lining
is irritated, digestion is delayed and
food sours, causing the di'sagreeable symo-
tornrewhich every stomach sufferer knows
so well.
Artificial digestants are" not needed
in such cases and may do real harm.
Try laying aside all digestive aids and
instead get from any druggist some
Risurated Magnesia and take a teaspoon-
ful in water right after eating. This
sweetens the stomach, prevents the for-
mation of excess acid and there is no
sourness, gas or nainillisurated Magnesia
' (in powder form—never liquid or-ne
is harmless to the sterrach, 1nexnens1 e
to talab and is the Most efficient form of
magnesia for stomach purtioses. It is
Used by 'thousands of people who enjoy
their meals with $o more fear of in-
digestion.
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All the comforts of home are buih,
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Through the day the passenger
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"One can sleep with no sound to
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'No.matter if travelling at. 10 or 75
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whieh, with me at least, are cis-
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Strearnaining has been carried to
a high point in ..Mr. Batt's travel
car. . Safety features built into the
car include two fixed spotlights with
special amber lens which throw fog -
piercing beams of light on the road
ahead. Glaring head lamps of other
beams' from its own lamps do not
bother occupants •of other cars.
Mr. Batts tows a, small service car
behind the travel car which serves.
for 'shopping •trips .and does duty al-
so as quarters for the chauffeuc
when not driving.
HE USED IT.
Teacher: "Johnny, use the word
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Johnnl: "Is Minnie a chewer of
gum?"
Where France Hoards Gold
The most technically modern, the
most significant and up-to-date
structure in Paris looks extraordin-
arily commonplace from the outside.
Thousands of people pass it every
day without a glance, realizing only
that next to the Bank of France lies
a broad, 'square open lot surrounded
by a wooden fence, apparently await-
ing the arrival of builders. But in
reality the job was finished long ago.
For this extraordinary structure, this
palace, this armored vault, this
fortress, does not rise above the
ground with steep, imposing walls,
but is sunk seven. stories undergro nd
,
deep and invisiBeneath his
ble:
emptylies
lot in the middle of 'Paris
the biggest gold mine in the modern
world, protected by steel and cement,
unfknown and mysterious, the re-
newned cellar vaults of the Bank Of
France'. It contains 70 'billion francs
in coined and uncoined gold, a sum
too vast to be imagined and such a
treasure as neither Caesar, Craesus,
Cortez, Napoleon, nor any mortal
man- has ever seen gathered together
in one place since the world began.
This mysterious spot is the georn-
ertical center around which the whole
economic universe revolves in its agi-
tated orbit. Here lies, in a danger-
ously rigid, yet magnetic sleep, the
magic metal from which all the un-
rest in the world radiates.
For 85 feet, the height of a seven .
story building, the elevator drops
straight down into the earth through
a rounded cement shaft in which it
fits closely. At the bottom of the
elevator shaft, we find ourselves at
the entrance to the artificiale gold
mine. No sound penetrates from
above. A sense of peace descends
that is at first frightening, but later
this lutminous 'silence induces happie
ness. And it is a luminous silence,
for eternal day reigns in this modern
catacomb. The white cement pas-
sageways are evenly illuminated by
countless electric lights, and the air
is filtered and clean, heated and
moistened:
There is one entrance door, broad
and thick, and as I walk past it a
shudder runs down my spine, for if
it should swing shut I should be
buried alive. But did I imagine that
just this one door served to protect
the interior labyrinth? By no
means, I have only passed through
the vestibule and hardly got beyond
the first palisade. This armored deer
is nothing but a fragile little garden
gate. , e moat1 go farther down.
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A TRIAL Wflj. CONVINCE.
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Dante's Paradise and Hell had seven
eircles, and the cellar of the Bank
of France has perhaps even more.
Suddenly, as I stand surrounded by
bright electric light, 1 am reminded
of -The Arabian Nights. For we are
ogle to go no further, We have
reached the end of our journey. A-
cross our path stands a rigid, glitter-
ing wall of steel:
We then step aside, for on tracks
that we had not noticed an electric
locomotive appears and goes u‘p to
the rigid wall. A signal is given
and the locomotive starts badk, pull-
ing a solid piece of wall with it, a
square, smooth block of steel taller
than a man arid as thick as six or
seven 'men. We investigate this gig-
antic protective sdoor of splendi3,
bare, smooth, cold, pure, water-eel-
ored steel that feels like agate but
that is a huildred times harder
From' it we can measure the thick.,
ness of the wall, off which the shells
of dreadnaughts would bounce like
rose 'petals. And new we get our
first real conception of the strength
of this ringed fortress that defies any
attack. No bomb coule make the
least intression on its smooth sur-
face, no power could penetrate to its
inmost recesses, to its heart of gold.
Aibandon hope, all ye-whaedream of
entering here. The techniques of
war and peace have worked together
to create this wall. Here'human in-
tethgence has concentrated on de-
fending gold.
We pass through the square tun-
nel of the magically opened steel wall
and make our way through a laby-
rinth. At length ,,we enter • a tre-
mendous room as..big as a church 'or
a theater. Who uses this enormous
room? No divine service is held
here, no theatrical performances are
given and no meetings. No furnish-
ings, no inscription, no word tells its
purpose. The pillars stand bare and
ehalklike in the empty, even light.
In the corner are some wooden chairs
and tables scattered about as if they
had been left by mistake. But no
one sits here. eEverything looks un-
used, 'pointless and meaningless.
But actually this hall has its sig-
nificance. It is being reserved for
the most terrible hour in human des-
tiny „for the apocalypse, for war and
upheaval, for the moment when the
city and its financial 'citadel are in
danger. Just as a submarine dives
beneath the surface to protect itself
when it sees an attack coining„ so
the Bank of France will sink 85 feet
underground out' 6f the disturbed
zone down to this inaccessible hall
of security,- where it will keep on
working undisturbed. The neighbor-
ing rooms contain enough provisions
for 80 days. , There are electric
stoves, dormitories, beds, everything
that human beings can possibly need.
The water comes from a special
source and cannot be cut off. Zhe
electricity is not connected with the
,city's' "electriCal supply.
One recognizes with horror all the
gruesome genius that has provided
for every eventuality. The .drunken
god of war may rage front one end
of the world, to the other, bit though
the earth drinks the blood., of thou-
sands, not One drop will penetrate
this hermetically sealed steel cof-
fin. Typewritera will keep on tap-
ping, ledgers will be filled. Checks
will be written, and the 'gold- will
sleep unharmed, undisturbed, unat-
tainable.
We pass through passage after
passage and finally come to a room
whose walls are honey -combed with
safes that contain the • g6Iden honey
of innumerable working bees. These
safes are not nere safe-deposit box-
es, but whole room i that look like
the bare, white eells of some profane
kind of monastery, with a table and
a chair in each. We enter one and
are amazed at the steely silence. No
sound penetrates this cell where stock
certificates are sleeping.
Paper symbols whose value runs
into the millions lie behind silent
walls, debts of foreign nations, whole
railway lines, steamship companies,
tea plantations, and industries — all
represented( in certificates. • One re -
fleets with a smile that a whole fac-
tory with 40 smokestacks and 1000
'machines may repose in one drawer
and that another drawer may contain.
a whole Japanese or Manchurian,rail-
way train with locomotives, tenders,.
cars, stations, shops and offices. For
thanks to the symbolic concentration
of property in the form Of stocks and
bonds a whole archipelago can be
fitted into a single Steel drawer that
a little key locks and unloeks. A lit-
tle room like this is capable of eon-
taining allsthe •Wealth in the world,
just ae the small skull.,of a man ise ,
filled with , boundless ideas.
But happily these calls have a high-
er, alinost divine purpose. ' For with-
in a few hours all the treasures of
the • Louvre, all the manuscripts ire
the National Library can find secur-
ity here, if the world ever undergoess
another attack of its old madness and:
a great wave of destruction inundates,
cities and fields.: Down here Mona.
Lisa can smile as she has done for
the past 400 years while men fall ups -
on each other madly. ,The most div-
ine possessions we have, those works
of art whose inner value is everlast-
ing, will at last be fully protected in
their earthly form. And one thinks
more kindly of the technical spirt......
for being able to provide this arm-
ored retreat for the-Vvorks of lis en - -
lightened brother, creative genius,
and for being able to preserve ft -Ma
the madness of mankind the perish-
able part of what is immortal.
Then still more corridors and we..
come upon the very heart of the,
building, the vaults where the actuar
bars are lying. No intruding foot
may enter this imenenee sanctuary of
gold.
Perhaps this was just as well. They
strange power that gold exercises in
the modern world is due chiefly toe
the fact that it is invisible. 'As long
as we could lay hold of it we had:
hardly any reverence for it at all,.
but since it has fled it has become
sought after. Formerly it never oe-
curred to anyone to think and talk -
about ,the gold of France, for in the -
old days its ringing .musie,would be
heard on the tables of cafes and ort
the zinc counters of tobacco stofes.
Coined gold passed through the hand%
of thousands upon thousands of peo--
ple, and by wandering freely &sone
acquired an almost human warmth..
But now that it is lying still in coil
and mysterious hoards it. is agitating'
the whole world.
Now we are sthnding at the thresh -
hold of its inaccessible resting place._
Behind this wall of steel and cement:,
we know that there reposes a hoard: .
of gold that has become legendary, -
and wben one tenches, this cold metal
wall one has touched the earth's sixiet
at the present time. Yet if gray an,
sand or some worthless waste ma-
terial lay here, if some . valueless
mineral were 'behind the artificer&
barriers of concrete, the stillness:
could not be any different. it is, not:
what actually lies behind tile' cold!
bare wall but what we . believe Iies:
behind it, for only so lbng as was
give this...yellow metal' vaine will it
be worth more than any other subs, -
stance. Matter itself has no creative.
power; only our'belief in it can give
it that.
If this scene were viewed front..
some other star, from Sirius or Alde-
baran, would not the inhabitants of •
'that distant world smile at -Me-
strange two -legged race that inhab-
'itee this earth of ours? In spite of •
,the sovereign power of the intellects.
mihez are earefully constructed int.
South Africa where the dullest of all -
metals is ug out of the earth and'
then shipped thousands of miles to'
be deposited in an even more care-
fully constructed° mine. Even tha
cleverest of us cannot detect any real;
purpose in this expense of energy.
Yet this gold has become almost a
religion. It is the oldest form of
madness there is, dating back thou-.
sands of years. But the gods them-
selves change and alter as genera- •
tions pass, and a future race of mems
will perhaps pass by this structure •
and all its technical wonder i and im-
provements with indifference.
SERVE Kellogg's often, For lunch, chil-
dren's suppers, and late snacks, as welt
as breakfast. Costing only a few cents
a packdge, it is a most economical food:
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Ready prepared. Delicious with milk
or cream, fruits or honey. Quality
guaranteed.
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