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HOI)SEHOLD ECONOMICS
CONTRIBUTIONS
ANA DIA N SALMON
MOULD DELICIOUS DISI;
Canadian canned saliiion, and
•there's no better salmon, by the way,
may be prepared fol• the tele` in
many easy ways—simply heated up
for instance, and served with a white
.sauce or made into fish cakes by
mixinga pint of mashed potatoes, a
1loeind tin, of admen, e beaten'egg,.a
`tablespoonful' of melted butter, a
little milk, and salt and pepper to
taste, shaping portions of the mix -
tare into flat cakes and bron*nine
then on a buttered pan in.a hot oven
Macy_ housewives know these alit
other quiet and easy methods of usin g
canned salmon, but, of caul e; there
are other recipes Which, while easy
;enough to carry out, take a little
more time, though not so very much
-Wine, aftera all. •
One of these latter recipes ,taken
from the booklet, "Fish and How to
Cook It," which Canadian women
may obtain without charge by writ-
' ing to the Department of Fisheries,
Ottawa, tells how to prepare Salmon
Mould, and this is how it's done:
Soak a level tablespoon of granulated
gelatin in a quarter of a cup of cold
water; and melt by warming it; mix
the gelatin with a cup of stiff salad
dressing and a pound can of salmon,
first draining off the liquor from the
salmon and picking out any pieces
of bone . and skin found in the carr;
when the mixture has been worked
to a 'smooth paste, season it highly
with pepper and salt,. pack , it in
a suitable mould ,and set it away to
chill. When the dish is servedservedthere
should be used with it a dressing
made by whipping a half a pint of
sour cream and adding to the whip-
ped cream two tablespoons of vinegar,
n half a teaspoon of salt, a quarter
Of a teaspoon of peptides sufficient
mayonnaise to suit the taste, and a
cupful of drained, grated cucumber.
Incidentally, it may be added that a
tin of Canadian canned salmon con-,
tains nothing but salmon and salmon
liquor, phis a•piuch of salt. Contrary,
to the impression of some people, no.
artificial colouring matter is used in
the canning operations. It may also
be pointed out that all the canned sal-
mon put up in British Columbia, the
centre of the, salmon canning industry
of the Dominion, is subject to exam-
ination by a federal board of expert
inspectors before it is marketed, and,
that any can which ,bas not been op..;
by the board as fresh, firm,
well packed, and in good merchant-
able condition will have attached to
it a second cover marked with the
words "Second Quality" in embossed
'letters. Salmon which is below "Se-'
cond Quahityl' is not allowed to bei
, marketed • but is confiscated.
CHEESE AND FRUIT SALAD
.One tablespoon gelatine, r/�, cup
cold water; 1 cup boiling water, 1/.t
teaspoon salt, 1 package (3 ounces)
cream cheese, 1 'ounce Roquefort
cheese (if you like), 1 canned .Minim -
to (clioppecl), Ys green pepper (chop -
Lied), a/z green pepper, (chopped), 1
teaspoon onion (miucei), 1 cup
credit (whipped), 1% cops diced mix-
ed fruit, French dressing; lettuce,
Stile the cold water into the gelatine
Let stand for 5 minutes. Dissolve in
the boiling water. Adel salt and cool.
Mash the cheese with a foi:1... Add
'. the seasonings and.fold in the whip-
ped cream. When the gelatine mix-
' ture is of the consistency of an un-
beaten egg white, fold in the cream
and ,cheese Mould. Marinate the
' diced fruit with the Frenelf dressing
on a bed of lettuce., and garnish. with
and chill, Untnoulcl the 'cfirm salad
on a bed of lettuce and garnish with.
the diced fruit. Mayonnaise may be
passed.
Butter and Cheese
Increase in Output
The quantity of creamery butter
produced ,iri Canada in the first five
months of 1036 was approximately
66,545,000 pounds compared with
60,655,000 pounds In the correspond-
ing period of 1935, This is an in-
crease of 0.4 per cent. Tlie combin-
ed production of cheese in the pro-
vinces of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta,
and British Columbia for the first
five months of 1036 monied to 13,-
664,844 pounds, representing an in-
crease of 30.4 per cent: In the corre-
sponding period of 1935 the amount
was 10,481,529 peptide.
By provinces, the approximate fi-
gures of production of creamery but-
ter for the five months were: Prince
Edward Island, 279,000 pounds,, or 'a-
bout one-half ,of one per of the
total Canadian output for tate Do-
minion; , N e w Brunswick, 671,000
pounds, or 1.0 per cent of total out-
put; Quebec, 14,224,000 pounds, or
2'1,4 per cent of total output; Ontario
27,245,000 pounds (2,000,000 pounds
increase on five months in 1935) or
41 per cent of total Dominion out-
put; Manitoba, 6,300,000 pounds
(1,000,000 pounds increase on five
months of 1935) or 9.5 of Dominion
total; Saskatchewan, 6,377;000: pounds
or 9.5 of Dominion total; Alberta,
6,935,000 pounds, or 10.4 per cent of
Dominion total, but slightly less than
Alberta's production in the corre-
sponding Months of 1935;. and British
Columbia, 2,721,000 pounds, or 4.1 of
the total Canadian output,
ticalth Service
OF TJ1J
(ttttabitttt 1'+� ed r tt,loortritithiti
and Life Insurance Companies in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT FLEIVIING, M.D., Associate Secretary ,
POISON IVY
It is during these summer months,
when city dwellers are wandering
' intothe woods and along streams
• whenever opportunity offers, that
doctors may expect the annual' crop
of "Poison ivy sufferers: The poison
. ivy plant (Rhus Toxicodendron),
sometimes called the "poison oak," is
- a low creeper about a foot or less
in height. It is best recognized by
' its characteristic group of three
pointed leaflets Usually 'hanging
• downwards. Contact with this plant
is very liable' to bring on an attack
-of poison ivy technically. known as
dermatitis vetenata:._In sensitive
;persons one does not even need to
:;have touched the weed.
' The eruption usually appears on
' the hands, arms and legs, or where-
, ever the body has •touchect tlit:
-planit, but the irritant substance may
be carried to other parts of the
' body. The rash varies; sometimes
it is red and blotchy, frequently
'there. are little blisters and some-
times these form large blebs, There
'•is intense itching and sometimes the
eyes` may be closed tightly.
The diagnosis can only be made by
a history of exposure, for many
other plants than poison ivy will
cause' dermatitis Venenata in sensitive
individuals. Tho stinging nettle • has
well known capabilities and the Chi-
nese primrose (primula sbconica) has
hadto be banned from many a liv-
ing room. Such plants as parsnips,
hyacinths, daffodils, larkspur, toma-
toes and the lilac have been found
to be offenders.
Not only plants bat 'many house-
hold substances cause similar der-
matitis. Some people are sensitive
to certain soaps, perfumes, to dyes
in clothing or to substances like tur-
pentine.. Occupational deranatitis is
well known.
If in doubt about a creeping plant
in the woods, remember the saying
of a famous dermatologist "If one
would only remember that three leaf-
lets mean possible danger and that
five mean safety, mistakes would not
Poison ivy dermatitis is not diffh-
colt to treat, although complete ir-
r•adication '
i the to disease'
mai be ex-
asperatingly
Y
e
asperatingly slow. The doctor • will
Probably prescribe soothing applica-
tions to allay the itching and clear
up the inflammation,
• It alcohol be prescribed to dissolve
away the irritant substance from the
ivy there is a little point worth re-
membering. As the irritant is dis-
solved in alcohol don't scrub the area
with the alcohol soaked pledgelet of
S
absorbent cotton. This will -spread
it. Prepare a number of absorbent
wipes. Make one stroke with each
pledgelet and throw its away, thus,
graduallyremoving the poison.
Questions concerning g health; ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As -
I sociation, 184 College 'St., 'Toronto,
swill be answered personally by letter.
COOKING
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HEALTH
CARE OF CHILDREN
inger Vr. duck
By Katherine I-Iarrington
"blind you," said the cook, takin
his ladle out of, the pot and wevin
it, for emphasis; so that • Hookey, tln
sprinkled with hot soup, "I don't sa
that some men mightn't get studs ,'oit
ginger -headed girl -and come out o
itallright. But I didn't; that's all."
"I know a. feller who took a hare's
foot .1:6 sea and he was the only one
saved; when his ship piled up," mur-
mured Hookey, politely, playing Ftp.
"My luck went from the day I se
eyes on that girl," continued the cool
thoughtfully, replacing the ladle i
the pot, "Flaming red, her hair was
and she was called Flossie. It wash'
only that she had all nay' snonev lot'
of ' 'cit that •wasn't ginger-heade
cleaned Inc out different times No
I'm not complaining about that. BuBut—well, the things that happened you
wool Snit believe. No, riot if I was
to tell you, you wouldn't."
"Oh, yes I would," eontradictec
Hookey, his eyes roving round the
galley to see 41 -there was anything
ire-co)ild pinch.
"Green eyes, she had," murmureded
the other, reminiscently, and sighed
as he stirred the soup, '
"Groom eh?"
"Yea, and she was worse than a
hare's foot --worse than a parson on
board, or a corpse—for bringing bad
luck. Look here, my lad, seeing me
here in the galley of this stinking
little banana boat, you wouldn't be-
lieve I'd once been bos'n on a crack
liner, would you?"
' "You don't say!" exclaimed Hookey
dutifully.
"And might have been still," com-
plained the other, "only I picked on
the world's featherweight champion
in a pub and sloshed him .one for
tooking at Flossie."
g being as unlucky to you as Flossie
g was. You don't want to go i•oun
s looking` for trouble, might be sours
y advice, .when his eye fell on the
locker on avhieh had lain two flying
-
f fish that hasp conte aboard that morn-
ing• . and which the Captain himself
had instructed the cools to prepare
for his lady's dinner. There wins -only
one fislr there now..
"Here yeti, Hookey, put that fish
t basil:'' -
c, "I haven't touched your stinking
i fish. Whetclie think I am—a sea-
lion?" retored Hookey.
t Hookey's resentment was obviously
s sincere. The cools remembered the
d tip of a ginger tail.
, "That blighted eat!" "
he groaned.
"Let me -lay my hands.on it just once
—that's all I asps."
"I wouldn't—not if I was you," ad-
t%ised Hookey once more. "It'd be
almost like murder, killing that cat,
it would. It's ginger, isn't it? And
it's got, green• eyes like that hoodoo
girl of yours. Suppose—just suppose
—Plossie'.s eroalted and that cat's her
come back to haunt you."
As it" turned out the cook didn't
hurt the cat, though it was not fol.
want of trying. She seemed to have
a genius for avoiding trouble It was
, not that site kept out of sight. Far
from it. She haunted the galley, and
it was marvellous the things she man-
aged to steal under the shadow- of
death. But, for all that site was so
agile and slinky on occasion, 'she
!could be as clumsy -footed as a dog.
She'd take a stroll along the racks
and there'd, be a shower of pots and
! pans tumbling about the cook's ears.
Yet let him just stoop to pick up one
of those pots with murderous intent,
and there'd be ,a streak of ginger
lightning and he'd find himself with
the pot in his hand swearing at an
invisible cat,
Hookey called the ca;elture "Flos-
sie," and put the crew tip to joshing
the cook about the fancy the cat had
taken to hire. For she was like his
shadow, She'd stand and look up ins
to his face and mew soulfully, and
evert rill) against his legs. But all
the sante she wasn't taking any
chances, and if he made a quick move -
mot, she made a quicker one.
The cools became a ohangecl . man.
His face grew haggard and st'r'ained.
Iie'd Be awake et nights trying to
figne out how he'd do for that eat.
And, as likely as not, when he wrig-
gled his feet, he'd hear a sudden pur-
ring and sweat would pour off him
as he realized that she'd been lying
at the foot of his bunk all the time,
listening to his thoughts. He didn't
try to ]tick her out, because the first
Hine .he'd attempted it, he'd struck
somethmd".
harder than the cat and
dislocated his big toe. But he went
on planning that when they put into
port he'd buy a shot of paison and
mix it in a tin of salmon.
1
"My eye, that was tough."
"When I came out of hospital, my
boat had sailed and I was glad enough
to sign on a tramp bound for the
Argentine. Storms! You haven't
ever seen anything like we had in
that packet, Five men drowned one
watch and I.had a leg broken—which
is why I walk with a limp now. How's
that for luck? And all because of a
girl with green eyes like a cat and
flaming red hair." •
"Oh, come now," said Hookey, "we
haven't had any of these storms of
yours th!s trip."
"We will," asserted the cook omin-
ously. "This isn'tgoing to be a
Pleasure' cruise for me, you betcha.
1 see the signs all right, Didn't the
01d Man bring his ntissus aboard at
Liverpool? And isn't she still here?
There's some say a woman aboard a
cargo boat is as bad as a. corpse."
He turned to his cooking 'pot anti
drank soup noisily out of the ladle.
Hookey, stooped and stroked a ginger
cat that had just come ihto the gal-
ley ,
"Nice little puss," said Hookey.
"When did you come aboard?"
The cook clipped his ladle into the
soup again and 'turned. In the act
of raising the ladle to ` his lips he
paused, open-mouthed, staring at the
sat.
"Strath!" he exclaimed in a hushed
voice. '
The next instant he had aimed a
Icicle at the gat. .The intelligent crea-
ture avoided it easily, and he over-
balanced and landed on his back on.
the deck with the contents of the'
ladle in his face.
"My eye, doe.. where did yota learn
all that?" queried Hookey, admir-
ingly.
,
The other; still dabbing at his eyes,'
g
seized a frying pan and looked round
for the cat. But all that he was in
time to see was the tip of a ginger
tail disappearing round the< edge of
the spoor.. He let fly with the frying'
Pan :. and there was -a squeal on the
deck. A beautiful smile dverspreadi
his face, to be succeeded a moment c
later by a look of utter dismay as he
realized that no cat ever squealed
like that.
"What the heck do you think you're'
doing, you there in •the galley? I'll I
log youshouted the Captain's. voice,
and there' was the Ohl Man standing
in the doorway in a towering rage. y
And there was the ,Old Man's wife
and site was in a rage, too, 'because c
she'd' stopped that frying -pan.
The cook sweated and tried to ex-
plain, but that only made matters
worse The skipper's wife, it appear- '
ed, was hot on cruelty to animals and
she'd taken a special fancy to that b
ginger cat, By the time she'd fin- I
ished ail she had to say and they had
gone, the ,cools was jumping shad. s
"If I see that blighted cat.again, b
1'!1' cut oust its stripes," he choked , b
"I wouldn't—not if I was you," and ioo
;Hkey., ".Seems as if it's started
One day the Captain made a row
about the cook serving rice -pudding
and plum duff turn and turn about
ever since' 'the ship left Georgetown.
The cools swore a. bit and 'scratched
his head and wondered what he was
going to do because all the tinned
fruit was finished. Hookey looked in
and saw him there, still thinking
hard, while the ginger cat sat on the
locker and washed behind her eau's.'
"Skipper's= been letting By because
leis misses wants a new kind of Pud-
ding," growled the cook,
"That's easy," said Hookey, "Isn't
this a banana boat?"
"Bananas. ;aren't, pudding," groaned
the cook, and then, noticing the cat,
and laying this trouble with the Cap-
tain at her door, reached for the
poker.
"No," said Hookey, "bananas aren't
pudding -but banana fritters afire."
."You've said it! exclaimed the
oo1c, joyfully, laying Chown the pok-
er. Just go and ask the mate, to let
the have a bunch of bananas out of
the holo. Say it's Captain's orders."
Hookey 'hastened to obey,' and. a
ittle later staggered into the galley
tvitS about half a hundredweight. •
"Here you are," he said "Where'll
on have it?"
"On the locker there, •Turn that
at off," answered the cook, who was
beating up batter for the fritters.
Hookey lowered his burden on -to
the locker, forcing the cat, which re-
fused to be dislodged, up against the
bulkhead. The cook laid down his
asin of •batter and tools up a knife.
f he hadn't been in such a hurry to
g•et on with the fritters, he would
urely have noticed Flossie's strange
ehaviour. She sat behind the great
unch of fruit staring at it and way-
ng her tail wildly.
The cook slashed away, at a seg -
rent of the great bunch and the cat
began toswear in the way cats do'
when angry. Her tail waved. •lnor'e
wildly still,
"Hey, what's wrong with Flossie?"
In that instant the cook went stiff:
fie ,had beard a sharp .,friss almost
ander iris hand.. Simultaneously he
saw, among those bananas, something
that looked like a'piei:dd. stream of
oil trickling ;faster than oil ever diel
trickle, tIn a split second a small,
wicked -looking headreareditself and
struck at the_eook's hand—struck and
missed, Swift as ithad been, the
ginger cat had been swifto'. in her
leap.
Hooke and the cook
y,•, bolted out of
the galley, •ahnoaat falling over each
other .in their. panic. Ata safe dis-
tatce they paused. In the galley they
heard sounds of spitting and swear-
ing as the ginger cat proceeded with
her good work, ,
"Gosh! She saved my life. And
me thinking she was unlucky and
waiting to .poison het."
"One. of those banana snakes can
put out your light hi a matter of
minutes," said Hookey.
In a moment or two, the spitting
and swearing ceased. The melt lin-
gered afraid to return to the galley
now that it was so silent in there.
"I wouldn't have anything Happen
to that little cat for the world," said
the cook, huskily.
"Well, it sure has," asserted
Hookey. "She'd never have a chance
against a snake like that. Gave hes
life for you, Flossie did. And you
wanting to poison her, I don't envy
you your feelings now."
It was some five minutes later that,
armed with beleyi : ; t•in, the ter,
toll st:'•l:hi',y app: a ; : 1 the gamy
Loon. ,fi.ir es they rev.rrw rt, lye
ginger Gtr Cast 0.,1 and 'ireal;sd
past then* disaitvgintg l',,idid the
earner -of a Ate Love.
"Cripe11! Shea nil'right After a,h"
xulted the soak.
Peering !i', he saw he snaps lobus
lead wily 0 1'ic e ,: i•'1 0.1 behind
Ls trian.gh: r Bund,
"Saved Ir 111', !lint little eat did,
at the res', .1 iter rem," he sale sol
evenly as lc lift,•, up the dead shake
on the ,t+ c sod trop; ed it into the
stove. IIS odea e'•,t.ido to hide his
^.motion nal •i• ii tot the basin,
Hookey ren:I him give a 13a:T
"Not cr r n;. are yeti, des 7" gest
iecl HOW :I.
"Crying? i'!) say so!" exploded
the cook. "Lapped 'up all the batter
for those fritters, she has. Wait till
I get hold of her. That blighted cat!"
-eLondon. Tid-Bits:
King Edward VIII
Is Royal ya Patron
Accepts Invitation of
National Sanitarium
Association
A 'letter received yesterday. from
Buckingham Palace, London, address-
ed to Mr. E. L, Ruddy, Pretdent of
the
National SanitariumAssociation
statesthat tl His Majesty •ss Xing Edward
M
VUI, has aeoepted the invitation to
be royal patron of the Association.
"I am commanded by the Sling."
reads the letter which is on .fficial
black -bordered Buckingham Palace
stationery, "to inform you that Els'
Majesty has been graciously pleased
to 'grant his Patronage to the Na-
tional Sanitarium Association, To-
ronto. (Signed) WSgram, ISeeper of
the Privy Purse:" This letter . came
to Mr. Ruddy by way of Government
House in Ottawa, along with a kindly
message from the Governor General
In 190'1 the then King Edward VII.
and Queen Alexandra became' the
first Royal Patrons, of the Muskoka
Hospital. Ever since, members of
the Royal Faintly have taken a deep
interest hi the work.
Muskolea Hospital for consumptives,
the Toronto Hospital for Consump-
tives and the Queen Mary :Hospital
for Consumptive Children at Weston,
formerly had ea Royal Patron the late
Ring Geor;e V.
Ills Royal Highness the Duke of
Connaught, gnat -uncle ofthe present
sovereign, laid the corner -stone of the
Queen ivOary Hospital for consumptive
Children. It was the first hospital
the world devoted to the treatment
of children's suffering from pulmon-
ary tuberculosis, on May 12, 1913,
Queen Mary in Buokhsghaui Palace.
pressed a button by which the doors
of rite hospital were electrically .
opened.
When fire 'destroyed the original
aeetion of the Toronto Hospital for'
Consumptives, . the Ring Edtvard
Memorial Fund was inaugurated by
which over six hundred thousand' dol.
lam was raised. In this work the
Duke' of Connaught took an active
Dart.
Upon learning recently' flops'. the
Earl of Bstssborough that the rimy
patients .at the Queen Mary Hospital
for Consumptive Children haci taken
from a London.illustrated paper and
framed a picture of Queen 'vary and
the Princess Elizabeth, Her Majesty
voluntarily sent the children a signed
portrait of herself and the little
Prinoess•
);very Governor-General of Canada,
from Earl Grey on. has been Hon-
orary President of the National Sani-
tarium Association. The three hos.
pitals -maintained by the Association
have a total of over 1,000 patients.
Canada .again pioneered medical
achievement when the new .Surgical
Building, one of the first struotures
erected on this continent for the
surgical treatment of tuberculosis, was
opened abont. three years ago at
Weston. It has already justtfled' it-
self, said Mr.. Ruddy,
e+ra.vaacrov,
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
it
Here They Will, Sing You Their Songs—Sonnetimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- Hut Always Helpful
and Ins piling.
MOr�MNMANpM1.y
CHERRY RIPE
There is a garden in her fade
Where roses and white lilies blow;
4 heavenly paradise in that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do glow
There cherries grow which Bone :may
'buy '
Till "Cherry -ripe" themselves clo cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of. Oriental "pearlt a double row,
'Which when het' lovely laughter shows,
They look likq,ptrsebuds filled with
snow; - •
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy
Till "Cherry -ripe" themselves do cry.
Her eyes, like angels, watch thein
still;•
Her brows like bended bows do
stand, -
T'hreat'ning with piereiiig frowns 10
kill:
A11 that attempt with eye or hand
Those, sacred cherries to come nigh
1111 "Cherry -ripe" themselves do ery.
—Thomas Champion.
PILGRIM CHEER'
Leave by the road a rose,
A goblet by the spring,
For every pilgritu knows,
That every path he gods
Will other pilgrims bring --
Ami some, perhaps, a rose will need,
A cooling cup, a kindly deed.
Leave by the spring a glass,
A rose beside the road,
Foie other pilgrims pass,
Yes many a lad and lass,
Grown weary with life's load,
Who treed the roses still to find,
A cup to tell then mon are kind
Leave by the road of years
Your rases all along,
Some memory that cheers
to some one's time of tears,
For times when things go wrong --
Yes, in your happier moments leav
A cup, a rose; for those who grieve,
Leave something day by day
13y every road you tread,
That other souls may say,
"A friend has passed this tvay,
Yes, some one walks ahead.
Who on the purple heights will sten
And give us hail, and give us hand"
—Douglas Malloch
A Harvester whose brews are twined
WhIs war Fere
e ss and meadow flow:
ere.
Neither in envy nor in wrath
Has he retaken this domain,'
Jealous, of holy the scythe's de
the's i
w
swath
Proclaims a season's golden gain, •
I have seen wilderness grow
Where streets are thronged and
windows burn,
Where shuttles weave and .whistles
blow,
Speeding whatever wheel will turn.
Some tlirif
tier husbandry may lurk
Where no one comes to guide the
plow,
And I would trust its handiwork
A huticlred years from now!
NIGHTINGALE LANE
Down through the thicket, out of the
hedges,
A ripple amusic singetlt a tune--
Like water that falls .
From mossy ledges
With. a soft low croon:
Soon ' r -
It will cease!
No, it falls but to rise—but to rise—
but to rise!
It is over the thickets, it leaps in the
trees,
It swims like a star in the purple -
black skies!
Ah, once again,
With its rapture and pain,
The nightingale siugetli under the
noon!
William Sharp,
WISHES
Give me the sunshine, give me the
rain;
e . Give me the winds in my face;
Give me the shades of a country lane
Where the rabbits romp and race.
Give me the song of a waterfall;
Give me the river's croon;
Give me the roads of old Donegal,
And joy will find its noose.
cl Give me the quiv'ring bleat of the
snipe;
Give me the tautg of the moor;
• Give me the clear where the wild
larks pipe
Their throbbing notes—and pure.
Give me the moon and the star's o'er
all;
Give me the fairy night;
The songs in the winds of old Doge -
gal,
And life will be delight.
Give me the freedom dor from worldly
thrall;
Witt no excuse to weep,
Thein on the hills of olcl Donegal --
Let mists around me creep.
—Walter Mol'helimy, in Irish Week-
ly Independent.
THE PASSAGE
0 soul on God's high seas! the way is
strange and long',
Yet fling year pennons out and spread
your canvas strong;
For though to mortal eyes so small a.
• craft you seen,
The highest star in heaven doth send
you guiding gleam,
0 soul on God's high seas! look to
your course with care,
Far most when winds are kind and
skies are blue and fair,
Your helm must sway to touch of no
hand save your own-
The. soul . that sails on God's high seas
Must sail alone.
0 soul on Goal's high seas! sail on
with Wady aim,
Ilnntoved by wind of praise, untouch-
ed by seas of blame,
Beyond the, lonely ways, beyond the
guiding stay
There stretches out the strand and
'golden harbor bar.
•—jean Blewett.
LIFE
Life is one, and in its warp and woof
There runs a thread of gold that glit-
ters fair
And . sometimes in the pattern shows
most sweet
Where there are sombre colors. It is
true
That we have wept. Bat oh, this
thread of gold,
We would not have it tarnish! Let
us tura
Oft and look back upon the wondrous
THE LITTLE COUNTRY TOWN
'there are people in the cities
Who look on us askance,
And thunk that folies in small towns
Are missing' some great chance.
Tlsey have theatres and night clubs
To pass the hours away,
But they dont know that a kindly
deed
Can brighten up a day;
And when trouble comes, or sorrow.
When a loved one is no more—
It's the friendly, small town folks
Who beat a pathway to your door.
So we'll let the city dwellers
Go on their restless way,
For we'd rattier have a neighbor
Than a night club, any day.
—Eva L. Hauiter.
The scarlet fruit of the silver buf-
falo -berry tree imparts a gay touch
to the prairie farms where the trees
ees
aro used in the sn,''nn tding shritliber-
web, I les. It a native of the prairies and
And when it' shinetli sometimes
shall know
That memory is possession.
we
—Jean Ingelow.
WILDERNESS
I have seen wilderness made,
Trees close the gap 'twixt house,
and wood;
The grass triumphantly invade
Acres where once the cornstalk
stood,
Apples fromhillside orchards drop
Ungathered where the nettle
thrives;
Bees carry from the clovertop
No spicy honey'for the hives.
Yet in such places onemay find
An older industry than ours,'
is found in hills and along streams
from the Pembina mountains in
Manitoba to the Bow rigor in the
Rocky mountains. In the Manitoba
hills the tree gxows to a height of
18 feet. It is generally armed with
thorns.
Speaking in the house of Commons,
Miss Agrees ,MacPhail, M.P., said
People think that any fool can farms
They think that all a farmer has to
do is to scratch the earth and sow
some seed. Actually a successful far-
mer must be a good administrator. He
has to know everything. He must be
a good horticulturist, a cerealist, an&.
a stock breeder. .Running a farm bit
no job for an amateur.