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Zurich Herald, 1932-10-20, Page 6".Lone E." has had a long vacation, but is now back du the job and this column will continue regularly, week by week, as before. If any Lone Scouts have iutereetiug stories, news or other matter that they would like to have published in this column, please send it to "Lone E," c/o Lone Scout headquarters, and space will be found for it. "On Lone Scout Trails" - We all look forward eagerly to this little monthly paper which is seat out from Lone Scout H,Q., and uo doubt most of you were delighted to notice the changes that were made in the last issue. thiuk that the paper is much more attractive and interesting now than it was previously, and well worth reading. Incidentally, don't forget that your "Counsellor and Friend," and any other friends as well, can receive this paper regularly on payment of an an- nual subscription of only 25 cents. We are sure that your "Counsellor and Friend," who should be most in- terested in your Scout Programme, would like to have this paper sent to him. Don't forget to ask him. Scouts at Economic Conference Boy Scouts played a useful part at the recent Imperial Ecouomic Confer- ence at Ottawa. They acted as special guides and ushers at the Parliament Buildings, and Rideau Hall, as guards of honour for the Governor-General, and in other capacities at the various official functions. .A. number were re- quisitioned as confidential messengers by different delegations, Find Indian Fire -Making Set Parts of an ancient friction fire mak- ing set were recently found by an American Scout in a cave on the Col- umbia River, Washington. The cedar spindle showed marks of a crude flint knife. Canadian Scouts have revived the old Indian are making method of "rubbing sticks," and evening camp fires frequently are lit in this fashion. Fall Fairs and Good Turns Fall Fairs present a wonderful op- portunity for Lone Patrols and individ- ual Lone Scouts to perform useful "Good Turns"'to their communities. Offer your services to the Committee as messengers, ushers, gate attend- ants, etc., and of course, remember that Scouts do not accept renumeration for their "Good Turns." Perhaps you can arrange a similar "stunt" as that or- ganized by the members of the 1st Beamsville Troop (ex-Lonies). They organized a "Model Scout Camp Ex- hibition" for the Beamsville Fair, Your Counsellor and Friend Lone Scout Headquarters has been somewhat concerned of late by the fact that certain boys have enrolled as Lone Scouts, and that t about as far as they have gone. What is wrong with diene? don't they pass the Tenderfoot Test? Maybe it is because their Counsellor and Friend does not take sufficient interest in their Scout- ing. \Vhee you joined the Lone Scouts, your C. and F. signed your ap- plication form and promised to c'o his best to help you in your Scouting, You should keep him up to that promise, and seek his help whenever you error If you find that after all, you made a mistake, and your C. and F. is not the right man to help you (perhaps he is too busy, or not sufficiently interest- ed), do not be discouraged, but go and find yourself a new Counsellor and Friend, but this time make quite sure that you are picking the right man. Remember you have the privilege of choosing the very best man in your community, and if he is a real good roan, he will help you all he can. You should visit him frequently, tell hizn all about the Lone Scouts and their activities. Consult him about your tests. Get him to subscribe to "On Lone Scout Trails," and keep his in- terest in you and your Scout Progra--i really alive. If you do change your Counsellor and Friend, don't forget to tell your Scoutmaster. We feel sure that if each new re- cruit to Lone Scouting was in touch with a real live Counsellor and Friend we should have a great deal more ac- tion in the Lone Scout Department. Perhaps the same remark also applies to some of the older Lonies. Scoutadamps Are Safe Another summer has added a record of safe camping for Boy Scouts. With some 15,000 under canvas for varying periods, not a single serious accident was reported. In carrying out their daily good turn while in. camp Scouts have discovered some novel forms of service. One troop provided an alI night guard for a girls' camp near which. a suspicious character had been seen. Another troop "shaved an 'old gentleman." Numerous cars have been pulled from sand and mud holes, and one car was dragged from a lake. Many farmers have been assisted in various ways. Lone Scouting is open to all boys between 12 and 18 years of age, in- clusive, who are not able to join a regularly organized Troop of Scouts: It is specially intended for boys Dee ing on farms and in small villages. For full particulars write to "The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout De- partment, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.- -LONE E." Old Waverley Quilts and Cupboards May a quilt be properly listed under the head of furniture? It takes up room; it fills a space; it is made by human hands, a personal, Iasting product. Seven counties—to use a time -ragged expression—were scoured to produce material for a leVaverly quilt. It became a sort of brag to possess a liberal number of them. Neither Solomon in his glory :nor the Contrary Mary or Mother Goose, with her "cowslips all in a row," could ever have surpassed the average York Road quilt in the va- riety and the brightness of its colors. It was ubiquitous, for it appeared that one was always just completed, and another just begun. A quilt was a village •chronicle. It was heavy 'with gossip. Griefs and laughters swept over it. A hundred memories, small and great, came up at the sight of it. Down in one cor- ner was a bit of chintz, full of frail - tinted flowers, out of a frock once worn to church; in another a scrap of dark calico which was perhaps associated with a lover, and a road, a road with the glow of falling leaves above and around it, When the patches were all sewed, and the cotton batting provided, the quilt was ready for the frame; this, as often as not an heirloom, and miss- ing in many a family, was generally borrowed. . There was something very domestic and also very univer- sal In the making of a quilt; it brought about a good deal of social intercourse to an extent unknown amongst our modern bridge players. It was handiwork, both a pastime and a necessity. , . And cupboards? Enchanting cup- boards were there in Old -Waverly, dim places, built into corners, some- times with curtained glass doors, sometimes with painted wooden ones, From Pandora down to Ann Elizabeth the kitchenmaid, a closed box or a cupboard has always been and forever will be the most de- lightful and the most tantalizing object.. . What pomp and circum- stance may it not disclose, what traffics in wares, fit only for visions and dreams! A decaying, tree -en- circled house on the Yori. Road held suck a one. When opened, there, hack on the shelves, lifted a row of the finest and most exquisite china, as thin as eggshells, of a dull white. . A hidden, lingering odor, perhaps of lost spices, or other pungencies, hung around this cupboard. You turned the knobs and closed the green -gray door and felt that you had shut away some mist, of a thing, some phantom secrecy which had been yours for an instant, and then was yours no mora.—Lizette Wood- worth Reese, in "The York Road." MERIT The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. —St. Augustine. ee It very seldom happens to a man that his busnesa Is his pleasure.—Dr. Johnson. MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER tot*: .Z FOUND NJ ot.O WOO Noel 6 els. GAT OU'CZ Mee— pAE.At. SINCE a.AST UJeeK: Foov1 oousAii- Europe's Performer Europe's youngest actor makes 100th appearance. Gerard Cony of Paris, France, is only six months old, but has already toddled up the ladder of fame. Sunday School Lesson October 23. Lesson IV --Problems of the Mordern Home—Joshua 24: 14, 15; Ephesians 6: 1-9. Golden Text —As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.—Joshua 24: 15. ANALYSIS. I. A FORCED DECISION, Josh. 24: 14, 15. II. PARENT AND CHILD, Ephesians 6: 1-4. III, MASTER AND SERVANT, Ephesians. 6: 5-9. 1. A FORCED DECISION, Josh. 24: 14, 15. Joshua, about to die, reminds his people of J'ehovah's beneficent guid- ance and calls on them to renew thea covenant with hien. If they refuse, tl-en let them decide between the gods their fathers had renounced in Baby- lonia and the gods they had worship- l.ed in the land of the Amorites. They must worship some god. Joshua states t truth, that we are all the servants of some master. We are free to %e- lect any master, but decide on some one we must. Joshua is resolved that he will serve Jehovah r.nd bring his fancily in a religious atmosphere, v. 15. II. rARENT AND CHILD, Ephesians 6: 1-4. Paul, in common with the great leaders of the past, recognized that a Christian society has its roots in a well -disciplined hone. There the les- sons are learned which make good citi- zens. By deferring to the wisdom of the past, children become familiar with the danger signets and the guid- ing posts of life's road. Paul insists that mother as well as father be obey- ed, he says, "parents." "In the Lord," ans in his spirit of willing helpful- n.ess, not grudgingly. Modern life makes the command of N. 2 even more difficult to observe. In- creasing cultural advantages, educa- tion, money—place children in a world _ ideas and ideals far removed from that in which their parents move. Some of them consieer their parents "or.t-of-date," are even ashamed of therm. The love and sacrifice lavished on children, .the knov ledge of life as yet unlearned by youth demand for pwrents the most considerate affection anal utmost deference. Verse 3 is the Bible way of saying that children who defer to the maturer judgment of their elders avoid the life - shortening follies of youth. "It is a common-sense statement which is borne out by the experience of the race in every generation." Says Paul in effect, do not alienate your children by un.reasonablo harsh- ness unjust or unexplained punish- ment. How many children carry away the impression that they have L en whipped simply because the par- ent was stronger .a n the little vic- tim? Much childish "perversity" is due to the uninformed and unwise .ethods of the pare"its, nagging, giv- ing orders without nnear"ing them, per- mitting today what brought punish- ment yesterday, bribing for good be- havior, giving commands which it is against nature to obey, putting in the child's way temptations too hard to resist at his age. "Oh, pious mother," exclaimed Car- lyle, "kind, good, br: ve and truthful soul as : have ever found in this world, yuur poor Tom has f .len very lonely, very lame and broken in this pilgrim- age of his; and you cannot help by a kill word any more. But from your grave in Ecclefechae Kirkyard yon- der, you bid him trust in God; and that also he will try to do." Robert ' suis Stevenson writes to his father, "I wish that I might become a man wm e talking of, if it were or_ly that you should not have thrown •way your pains" Many of us 'an thank Cod for such wise and goud parents. "The nurture and admonition of the Lord," means education in all that is good, correction in all that is hermful. M. MASTER AND SERVANT, Ephesians 6: 5-9. Slavery in Paul's tirna was still a rer.,gnized part of the social order. A slave was not considered to be a man, but a thing to be bought, sold, treated according to the whims and wishes of his masters. Paul ft and in he reli- gion of Jesus the idea of man's equal- ity before God. His belief with re- gard to the institution of slavery evi- dently was "change the spirit of man, and the new spirit will change the in- stitution, or abolish it." But neither slave nor master was ready yet for the new freedom. Hence Paul advises the slaves not to think so much of ,heir rights as of their privilege—that frendering a useful service to a fel- low -man. In doing that, they are serving Christ himself. His rewards disregard social distiuctiens, v. S. That reward would bo, in part, the finer and nobler character which such ar. attitude creates. On the other hand, a surly and re- sentful service degrades the workman, makes more difficult the accomplish- ment the new order for which he longs. If the slave is to think of his privi- lege, the master is to think of the slave's right. Paul singles rut the most common vice of master, abusive harshness. He says in effect, "These men are your brothers. You are both under one Master who thinks as high- ly of one as of the other." This is an unwelcome truth to the man who looks upon his employees merely as instru- ments of profit. If accepted by Labor and Capital a new and more Christian social order would soon emerge. Mrs. Y,—"Why did Mrs. Swift leave her husband?" Mr. Y.—He lost all his money." Mrs. Y.—"How?" Mr. Y.—She spent it," The best man is he who tries most resolutely to perfect himself, ar.d the happiest man is he who feels moat assured that he is perfecting himself -Socrates. , MUT i, X. CAN'T flen.P WEL-pING. t NEVEAZ THOUGHT THAT We WOUIU SCe. TthE DAY wHw WC'U Be. GATING 13OILele docs sTeeo (sabre) su wales: amoite ANb cure deepir I5 N.G. GGT TWO '8owLs ANb ) r• I'!_t. sati ia. �) (e®TTR* STEW: The Bakhtiari IVI unta n I observe in some dismay, look- ing back over these pages, that I have given an entirely wrong impres- sion of the Bakhtiari mountains. I have, unintentionally, represented them as over -built and populous; I have mentioned villages; I have mentioned a merchant on his horse, a man ploughing, the son of Il-Khanl, the keepers of a charkliener. A.11 this, in the aggregate, must I fear have given the impression of a walk- ing -tour through some part of Eur- ope. with never more than a few niggardly miles intervening between one reminder of civilization and the vext, . . I have probably evoked a picture of something much larger, more orderly, and more definite than is justified by the few poor hovels of Naghan or Do-Pulan. For the rest, aur path lay along miles of country where not so much as a mud hut was visible. The merchant, the man ploughing, were figures so isolated and so exceptional that I have re- corded them as it were greedily, for the sake of having something hu- man to record. They were --let me emphasize it—isolated instances; and as such they made an impression on us which in the swarming countries to which eve Europeans are accus- tomed would not have been made. No, the dominant impression was one of Isolation. True, we were on the road; we met an occasional traveller; we met the migrating tribes; but we knew that to the left or to the right lay utter solitude; the solitude of nature Which draws us and holds us with a primitive, an indefensible attractive, all of (uta, however sophisticated we may M.'', And it was a double impression. inti isolation and aziachronism got, only had we gone far away in die. taneo; we had also gone far back 141 time. ire had returned, in fact, to antiquity. We were traveling as ouei ancestors had travelled; not those immediate ancestors who rolled their coaches between London and Bath, or between Genoa and Roma; but as Marco Polo had travelled, o>< Ovid going into exile, or the Ton Thousand hoping for the sea. Wo learnt what the past had been like and what the world had been like when it was still empty. Time was held up and values altered; a luxury which may be indulged today by any. - one who travels into the requisite parts of Asia. More, we knew that had we not elected to travel the I3akhtiari Road at that particular time of the year we should not have met even the tribes, but should , have had the mountains all to ourselves, eccentric invaders of majestic desolation. No merchant would have overtaken us beneath the oaks, no peasant groan; ed behind the plough.' We should have topped the pass above Deli Dis and seen not only the lonely range of the Kuh-i-Mangasht, but known that in the whole of the valley no hu- man being drew breath. Those whom we did meet were as transient as ourselves; the only permanence was in the hills and in the rivers that coiled about their base.—V. Sack- ville -West, in "Twelve Days." Hallowe'en Games TRUE -LO VEi.?, TEST. Two hazel nuts are thrown into hot coals by maiden, who secretly gives a lover's name to each. If one nut bursts, then that lover is unfaithful: but if it burns with steady glow until it becomes ashes, she knows that her lover is true. Sometimes it happens, but not often, that both nuts burn steadily, and then the maiden's heart in sore perplexed. LOVER'S TEST. A maid and youth each places a chestnut to roast on fire, side by side. If one hisses and steams, it indicates a fretful temper in owner of chestnut; if both chestnuts equally misbehave it augurs strife. If one or both pop away, it means separation; but if both burn to ashes tranquilly side by cid-e, a long life of undisturbed happi- ness will be the lot of owners. CANDLE AND APPLE. At one end of stick 18 inches long fasten an apple; at the other end a short piece of lighted candle. Suspend stick front. ceiling by,. stout cord fas- tened in its Middle so that stick will balance horizontally; while stick re- volves players try to catch apple with their teeth. A prize may be in centre of apple. HALLOWE'EN SOUVENIR GAME. Suspend apples by means of strings in doorway or from ceiling at proper height to be caught between the -teeth. First successful player receives prize. These prizes should be Hallowe'en souvenirs, such as emery cushions of silk representing tomatoes, radishes, apples, pears, pickles; or pen -wipers representing brooms, bats, eats, witches, etc. PUMPKIN ALPHABET. Carve all the letters of the alphabet on a medium sized pumpkin. Put it on a dish and sot on a stand or table. Each guest in. turn is blindfolded and given a hatpin, then led to pumpkin, ~,here he (she) is expected to stick pin into ono of the letters on the pumpkin, thus indicading the initial of future life -partner. THE LOAF CAKE. A Ioaf cake is often made, and !n it are placed a ring 'und a key. The former signifies . marriage, and the atter a journey, and the person who sets the slice eointai :.-ng either must accept the inevitable. Newspaper "Mats" Protect Trees Discarded newspaper "mats" from which printing plates are cast are being used by filbert growers of Oregon to provide protection to the trees from jack rabbit raids. DISAPPOINTMENTS Those who never philosophized un- til they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.—Sir Orthur Helps. According to 4CFF, WAAS'S THAT es, ueYour lin'-pbct.e ? eleAs5 A FGW FROGSkWNS x WAS SAUIIJG Ford A RAnal Deee, MUTT - e% .In Humorous Vein Mr. Richards was persuaded to buy a parrot that could jabber in sev.. eral languages. He ordered it sent home. The same day his wife ordered a. chicken, for dinner. On leaving she said to the cook, "Mary, there's a bird coming for dinner. Have it cook- ed for Mr. Richards when he gets home." The parrot arrived first, and Mary followed . instructions. Dinner was served. "What's this?" Richards. Mary told him. "But, for goodness'. sake, Mary," he said, "this is awful! That bird could speak in three languages" "Then why the dickens didn't his say something?" •asked Mary. exclaimed Mr. He had been dining too well, and, hailing a taxi, he crawled gingerly inside, after falteringly giving tho driver his destination. It happened that the opposite door had been left unlatched by the previous fare, and, 'stumbling against .it, the inebriated one fell outside again. He picked himself up with great difficulty, and accosted the highly amused driver. "That's pretty quick work," he said, "how much do I owe you?" "What happens to people who are so foolish as to allow themselves to became run down?" asks a doctor. They wind up in hospital. The wife had been up on the bud- get plan. At the end of each month she and her husband would go over tic, accounts together. Every once 1a a while he would find an item, "K 0. K., $1.50," and a little farther on, "H. 0. N., $3." Finally he asked. "My dear, what is this—'H. 0. K.'?" "Heaven only knows," she replied. Mike: "So you're a salesman, ate you? What do you sell?" Ike: "Salt." alike: "I'm a salt seller, too." Ike: "Shake!" An English bishop received the fol- lowing note from the vicar of a vil- lage in his diocese: "My Lord: I regret to inform you of the death of my wife. Can you Possibly send me a substitute for the week -end?" Neighbor: ""Why is your car paint - blue on one side and red on tire other?" Speedy: "Oh, it's a fine idea. should just hear the witnesses traclicting one another!" DECISION You con - Never make a decision when you are downhearted. Never let the wean side of your nature take control. Mutt --A. Cloudburst Had Arrived HCWRY, BRING Me cueRv-lin,* ON THE MC.NU ERoM SOUP To Nurs /���f/i c �,�i///2 eg ' Fe. cm .Jr rrrMt