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'vince and an important seapo; 'day it is fast becoming a g ern citye--being lail out acco g to 'plan--with a nee facade to the sca-- and haviug a population cli 'ward the mark. Pa 'red the cevtres of population and - « merce. The work, once cstablished 'there, would spread rapidly to smaller Places. That policy carried Christian- | ty through the empire like a prairie . Paul found in Thessaloniea and in Berea two ve + people. I. A GOOD START, Acts 17: 1-4, Arriving in 'Thessalonica the tray- -elers found 1 with Jason, pos- sibly a fellow Jew. For three weeks they 'reasoned"--carried on argument and discussion--in the :snagoguel "They My " and "alleged," that is, _ quoted ipture passag to prove eir statements regarding Messiah and Jesus of Nazareth, v. 5. Unwel- «come assertions stich as these provok- ed hot discussion and denial, 1 Thess. 1:2. Some of the Jews believed, and a great many of the God-fearing Greeks, including a number of women 'rom the upper social classes. ' They would be freer from superstition and narrow- mindedness. Paul's faithful preaching did what such preaciing always does --it divided his hearers. Some became enthusiastic believers, others bitter enemies. A storm was gathering. II. "BOLSHEVISTS!" Acts 17: 5-9. The Jews, as usual, caused trouole. It is always casy to raise a mob in an eastern city. In Thessalonica the material "was close~at hand--""Lewd fellows of the baser sort (v. 5), ihe . market loafers, with nothing to do and ready for any adventure. They mob- bed Jason's house, but Paul and Silas, probably warned, were not there. The mob nevertheless must have its victim. Jason himself was dragged sut snd brought to the authotfities. He had harbored those who had turned 'he world upside down. It was the first mob crying 'Down with these Bo'rhe- Viste (Rished Boker): that Is, people who u e existing order. Khe mob named them better than they realized for "the followers of Jesus .are in every generation a company of revolutionists who turn their world upside down wherever they do not find it love-gide-up." Any effort to change an .xisting order is dangerous. But Christians must face the risks involv- «ed when they recognize that any con- dition is not in accord with the Spirit of Jesus. The Christianity that can be comfortable in the world as at pres- ent constituted has reason to doubt its own loyalty to its Master. Jason was bouad over to keep the peace, v. £. The only way to do that was to stop the preaching. It was a clever way of attacking Paul through his friends. The. missionaries were sent away that night. Loath to leave his friends at the mercy of enemies, Paul often longed to return to them, but "Satan" (1 Thess. 2: 17, 18), probably the "security" remanded of Jason (v. 9) prevented him. ' Forty miles west of Thessalonica lay Berea. Livy considered it a "noble" town. Paul found in it a noble people, v. 11. They were gentle- men. They listzned to Paul's message with an open mind: Then they exam- ined the Scriptures, to which Ke re- ferred for verification, to see if what he said was true, v. 11. They did not say "That is not what we were taught," and therewith listen to it only to denounce it. They evidently believ- ed, as John Robinson, the "father of the Independents," said to the Pilgrim Fathers as they were about to sail for America, * . . , the Lord hath more truth yet to break forth out of his 'holy word." The Bereans were con- «cerned, not so much to have their own opinions confirmed as to discover more - truth. As a result of their open- mindedns.s, great numbers believed. + IIL THE OPEN MIND, Acts 17: 10-15. To reach Thessaly Paul had to tra- vel to the sea. Paul, apparently Ty different types of | BY ANNERELEE WonrHINGToN) Exticae simplicity 0! siyle makes this a charming model for all-day individuality, It simulates a hip yoke and achieves an unusually slenderizing effect through its moulded long-waisted bo- dice belted at point most becoming to its wearer, ; When it is so easily made--why not have it? It combines plain dark green silk with dark green crepe-silk print- ed in tweed pattern. Style No. 3372 is designed for sizus 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 39-inch material with % yard of 35-inch con- trasting. " Black crepe satin with pinkish- beige crepe satin is very fashionable. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. rel Siem Quiet Sleep? Sleep is far from motionless. The average healthy adult during deep sleep makes some noticeable change in position on an average of once every 'seven or eight minutes, it is shown by experiments made at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Re- search. The observations carried on by Dr. H. M, Johnson show that every sleeper has a repertoise of approximately a dozen different sleeping positions. On a typical night he will use nearly all of them, changing from one to another froni twenty to sixty times according to various sensations and body irrita- tions. The brain is ~ufficiently alert to guard the sleeper's comfort but at the same time the momentary discom- | gle reply would demand a fortune, dia- 'nature. I believe that no sin: s, a'yacht, or a throne. All would be for somg small, easily attainable . And hot only is it the essence of a treat that it should be something ' small; but lavish gifts are not even jesivatiby thine ut us whose chief in-', t lies th 'gratitude for loving | thought. We should hear, in reply to' sean | |the sttences ot ur friends, some very! goueral beliet r3garding the eongental. So much for the general theory of treats and for our own requirements | of a treat. How strange it is that in' seeking to give treats, on the other | hand, we should so often make the mistake of painting the lily' | -For myself, although I find that' many things, from rides in automo-' biles to visits to the 'theatre, are no longer treats, the receipt of an old book is still an inexpressible treat. ! Not a new book, but an old one--al- most any old one, providing it is small and classic. I am given handsome new books, which I do not care for. In olden days my greatest treat was to be taken for a ride, either in Paris or in London, upon the front seat of a horse-omnibus or tramcar. Such rides are my earliest recollection. They re- main in a memory as the epitome of happiness. Nor is this kind of treat altogether removed nowadays. The horses are gone, it ig true, with their rhythmical hoof-beats, and the gentle swaying which they imparted to the vehicle, but even an electric tramcar | or a motor omnibus can raise me at this time to a state of absorbed con- templation such as no smaller and more plastic automobile can achieve. An almost completely windless sum- mer day, with white flannel-clad crick- eters at play upon the common, is a perfect treat to me. So is a day spent upon a sailing yacht. Aboard a yacht one can experience some of the great glories of sensation of which human beings are capable. Tha sight of blue sky and running water, sun glittering upon brasswork and the exquisite lines of the deck; the senzo of easy and un- fettered motion, of remoteness, buoy- ancy and adventure; the complete shedding of all feeling of respohsi- bility for one's courss, one's own safe- ty and the safety of others--these are only a few of the splendours of yacht: | ing. And as, for me, yachting is an | experience enjoyed only once in two or three years, it is a treat still, and will always be a treat. It is a treat to me to hear the sky- lark. It is a treat to be demonstra- tively recognized by a little dog that I have not seen for some time. It is, a treat to walk upon the Sussex or the Wiltshire downs, or to s* nd overlook- | ing tho- Sussex Weald. It is a treat to read a witty book.--Frank Swinner- ton, in "Tokefield Papers." | | Britain Steadfast Vancouver Province (Ind, Cons.): Above all other ¢>nsiderations, as it seems to us, is that of demonstrating ! to the world that the people of Great! Britain are still sufficient to their re- sponsibility and their emergency in; the capacity of self-government, We believe they are. We believe they will | affirm once more their old reputation as honest traders and self-reliant citi- zens. Great Britain, under duress, has temporarily suspended the gold stand- ard. Great Britain, first of self-govern- | ing nations, has not suspended self- government at all, She--""Yes, of coursa I changed my mind. Any woman sas a right to change her mind." He--"If women usel as much time in making up their faces they would th depression or illness, was un- thiough 'travel alone. Some of the MUTT AND JEFF--Sir Sidney is a Very Tasty Dish. SIDNEY THE BOYS AN ne 'S SIR | Shine || GARFUL OF LIES forts are kept out of consciousness. . { not change them so often." T WAS ToUY Welk CA BY THE BLOOMING CANNIBALS-AND THe FIRST THING THe BALLY $ TO & Thay would also illamine 'gress ; ; our question, even it we have doubted gy, confessions as to their most immediate desires. | beetles, 22 grasshoppers, 2 lizards, 1' {ly abuse the undoubted fact. We may { may make it the be-all and end-all of 'life, lp ei in making up their minds as they do! Safe driving at a moderate speed ~~ ' u y der, down several times, as though greet- Antruder according to 7 of approved feather-world atigiotte, Although known as a burrowin ToBogsd O mighty soul of England, rise i ur : Out of the wrack and turmoil of the . night, And "as of 31d, Empassionate and ten- Uphold the cause of justice dnd of I g owl, Thine was the consecration and devo- this bird {s in reality unable to dig. ! tion, Instead of excavating their own homes ng in the mids: of a prairie . This is the source of the dust. The world-wide vision and the world- they usurp thé dens of other desert ' wide trust, nals=such as prai.ie dogs and rab- Which made a pathway of the tides of - 'are re often to be ocean 2 And fruitful gardeus of the desert relations of prairie dogs, rattlesnakes Thine was the call to face with daunt- and burrowing owls--a belief, how-! ever, that is purely mythical. A fat-| tlesnake will eat the young of a U prairie dog and owl. An owl will also eat the young of a prairie dog, hence it would be almost an impossibility to| have all three animals get along'in the ing less hearing All high adventure, all adversity, ntil thy sons by their resistless dar- Had girdled earth with realms from sea to soa. same burrow on even the poorest of Now in this agp whan out of cruel op- social -terms,. pression Another element which has given| The hearts of men are yearning for this absurd belief strength is the call | release, of the young owls when angry. In O Soul of England -- England's great studying and excavating several nests possession-- in eastern Colorado, T was always 'sur-| Lead thou mankind into the way of prised at the rattling hiss which would peace. issue forth from the nesting chamber Quebec. when I neared the young. One un-| familiar with burrowing owls would most assuredly believe that a rattler lurked below. The nest would then, | in all probability, be left strictly alone,' and the investigator depart--his er- roneous theory proved to his entire' satisfaction. The food of hirrowing owls shows them to be extremely bene- ficial. A pair of birds which I was ob- serving brought to the young In an I sur and twenty minutes, 17 large frog and 1 proirie jumping mouse. -- "Animsl| Life," ---- Buzzards Protected Buzzards are protected almost everywhere they are found, as they are the best of scavengers. When an animal dies on the westérn prairies these big birds slowly con- gregate to feast. They seem to have someway of signalling the loca- tion of focd to 'their companions miles away. Near Tuscon, Arizona, I saw a dead horse dumped on the desert. When he was left by the truck there was, so far as I could see, only one buzzard in the sky. He circled about and I hid myself amid some greasewood bushes be- fore he dropped down to feed. Five minutes later a buzzard was seen on the horizon to the east, and one on the south. Twenty minutes later there were six of them fight- ing over the carcass, and more were steadily = arriving. Some people claim that buzzards always keep in sight of one another, even at high altitudes and when several miles apart. In this way, when one drops down, he is missed by "his nearby comrades and they fly in his direc- tion. These, in turn, are missed by others that are still farther away --and so forth. Others claim that they locate their food through an acute sense of smell, but I have Kirkwood, seen them approach food "down wind", hence this latter theory can- not always explain their sudden gatherings.--Walker Young in "Ani- mal Life." . - = ' Work "Men ought to work." True and timely the saying is, but we may sad- That is an imminent We overdo work. danger with industrious people, Thi: is a disastrous blunder. Dean Vaughan has a striking sermon on "the idolatry of work." All too readily do some men turn work into an idolatry. "Men ought to work" Yes, but thew~ ~re other duties they must not n° %' We must not lose our real self . We must build up our cha or, -- Dr. Dinsdale Young. i re a CHANCE A man may be great by :harce, but never wise and good without | taking pains for it. me?" requires nothing but self-control and |astrong rear bumper. --Frederick George Scott, Reported Engaged RE ------ Beatrice Powers, former follies star, seen here as she repredent. ed Germany in a beauty parade, is reported to have married James veteran Los Angeles actor, at Las Vagas, Nev. - Plenty of Prospects - The young man had asked the big business man for his daughter's hand. 'You work, I believe, for Blank & Co.," said the parent. prospects of promotion?" The young man smiled. "The very best in the whole office, sir," he replied. one we've got." "What are your "My job is the lowest Lady Bug--"Isn't this thiilling, two admirers fightifig a duel over little prove rather confining. si ry Low 'Forin 0 Mentality "For long centuries the world has 'been whistling wherover and when- [over it felt like doing so," declares the Cheistian Science Monitor In this editorial. "Man has puckered up his lips and emitted more or less tuneful sounds to express various emotions. The youth whistles for sheer joie de vivre. The farmer's boy whistles, supposedly, to prevent himself from getting too lone.y. The business man whistles when 'the price of goods goes up, and his cus- tomers whistle when they feel the result of the incréase. Man whistles to bring his dog back; whistles for a taxi; whistles--in some countries --to attract the attention of some dreaming wai'er; and occasionally employs whistling as a method of expressing either approval or disap- proval, according to the nature of the whistle. "But all this has been quite wrong --according to Professor Charles Gray Shaw, of New York. In future, Shaw--think about you, you will do anything except whistle. Because the Professor asseverates that to whistle is to reveal a low mentality. If you whistle--so he declares--you are a moron, devoid of moral stamina and possessed of an inferiority com- plex. 'No great or successful man ever whistles,' declares this oracle. Well, we can recall quite a few who did, including Lord Tennyson, Lord Balfour, Disraeli, and Sir Arthur Sullivan, to say nothing of W O'Connor. But perhaps they all were morons and possessed of a low mentally--as Professor Staw assays such things. The world is full of people who seem bent upon extracting all that is left of the joy of living out of life. © They would impose every pos- sible sort of negation upon us, and its worst it is not half as bad as an auto syren, and at its best it may be quite diverting. In any eveot, it does nobody any harm, it costs no- ing of noises, and we should miss it if it were prohibited. Did yon ever hear a woodbird whistle t¢ its mate, Professor Shaw?" let. Shamming Death The so-called habit of shamming death in a moment of danger or sur- prise {8s common among wild animals of almost every species. amateur naturalist need go ther than the nearest strip shore to find an example. Turn over any flat &tone reason- ably "distant from high water mark; a hundred to one there will he a shore-crab under it; also there may be some weed. If there is weed, and the crab happens to be among it, he will not 'stir a fraction of an inch. Poke at him gently with a no far of sea- stick; he will make no effort to de- fend himself. His big claws, his legs, .eem nerveless. To all out- ward appearances he is dead, and he will remain thus indefinitely un- less he is poked away from the weed on to the bare rock. daily mss Early Dusk The moon is as frail as a disk of cobwebs, The willows ard scarcely green among the meadows Where a thousand paper pennons wave above the crops And the black oxen «walk slowly homeward beside the still ca- nals. In the distant sky a kite is tugging at its string, The rooks caw among Lheir nests in the treetops, Above the doors set deep in russet walls Droop broken branches green willow, And the men and girls come from their work in the fields of faint Carrying sprays of flowering al- ree Ap ren mond in their hands. Burglary as a profession is likely to -- Elizabeth J. Coatsworth, in "Fox Footprints." crit mins m-- By BUD FISHER S PNEY= THAT'S THE BUNK=- WHY SHOULD THE CANNIBAL CHIEF PUT You ON THe SCALES AND WEIGH You? 'e_SHouLD Sl A & WANTED TO FIND out ow MANY OF HIS FRIENDS DINNER - it you care what people--and Prot. | Gilbert, Sir Herbert Tree, and T, P.! leave us with nothing permitted | Paper fulfilled just these require- save to r2ad what they write. But ments. It gave an appearance of the world, will in all probability con- decorative finish and comfort to a Unue to whistle, despite Professor ,,qm 'and still was relativel chea Shaw. Whistling is-an outlet for | 1 $ " ly ap ! N Ai OULG | Once introduced, ~its vogue spread all sorts of emotional reactions. At rapitlly Painted papers block. 2 . d 9, .. thing, it is one of the least annoy-! The ~ Wallpaper was a product of (sity. Some sort of covering walls of the early Europein ; was obsolutely essential to rooms livable. The Greeks and Romans of the Imperial period been lavish in the use of ela ly woven and embroidered of wool and linen, in both their publ buildings and their homes in spite of the fact that their walls wers of beautifully polished marble or care fully finished stone or plaster. It was even more ossential for the early Europeans, the Franks and Burgundians an other succes- sors to the -- Roman Em- pire, to have some kind of wall hangings, because their climate was colder and their rougher, cruder walls more emphatically called ror some mitigating covering. Woven materials, of course, were the obvi- ous solution of the problem and so the magnificent tapestries of the , Gothic period were gradually devel- oped. Rich silks, too, were import- | ed from the East for the purpose and later were manufactured in Europe. Wood paneling, also, came to be | utilized, especially oak paneling rich- ly carved and painted. And all of these devices, tapestries and silks and panels, were successful in cre ating an atmosphere of comfort im those rather rigorous rooms. But all of these took time, and skill, and expansive materials, and | so their price was high and they | were beyond the reach of all but the most wealthy, For the householders -of more modest rejuirements, there were simpler woolen weaves, known . in general as serges, but even these, | b scause of the price of wool and | the long labor of weaving them by {| hand, were costly. There was great nead for some kind of wall covering | that would make the walls look finished and warm and livable and still not have to cost a forbidding lL amount, printed papers, flock papers and final ly rolled-printed papers, came into the market in ever increasing quant. ities, At first only a makeshift for i the poorer classes, paper was soom ' seen to be so interesting and to have such decorative possibilities that it supplanted all other wall decorations, | Through {its own intrinsic merit it rose from its humble beginnings as | the economical substitute for wovem wall coverings, and the more or less successful imitations of them, to a | lavel of artistic importance, where it commanded the services of painters and engravers of note.--Phyllis Ack- erman, in "Wallpaper: Its History, | Design and Use." Thick Cream No Criterion of Quality |* The thick layer of cream on top of a milk bottle by which many house- | wives judge whether or not the milk | is rich and good has no real signific- |ance, Milk with no visible cream may | he just ag good or better. So reported | Dr. A, C. Dahlberg, of the New York | State Agricultural Experiment Sta- | tion, at Geneva, New York, before the recent meeting of the International | Association of Dairy and Milk Inspects ors at Montreal. The thing that a layer of cream is supposed to show, | Dr. Dahlberg said, is an ample percents [age of butter fat in the milk, This | butter fat constitutes a large part of | the nutritive velue of the milk and ! contains the important Vitamine A. Methods used in milk inspection la- boratories do test the percentage of | this butter fat and do indicate the real (richness. The difficulty with the sim- ple cream-layer test is that many sam- ples of milk which really are rich in | butter fat do not shc» a pronounced cream layer, even if left to stand for | several hours. The cream is there, (but it does not rise. One reason is ! that the tiny globules of butter fat are smaller in some samples of milk than [in others. The larger fat globules rise | faster and produce a thick cream {layer while othe mil'- containing even more fat in the form of small globules far show none, Still other principles of what scientists call colloidal chem- istry affect the rise of the fat globules to make a cream layer, although these may have nothi.g to do with real milk quality. The only just criterion, Dr. Dahlberg explained, is careful test of the fat percentage by laboratory methods. en Fall Fashion Note Whether frocks are formal or tailor ed, ono of (he distinctive seasonable notes is seen in the banks of simu- lated leopard or other furs which trim them. On street dresses revers, cu 9oMars, buttons and belts either singly ' or collectively are fashioned of fur, Other versions of fur trimming ne ; presented in bands of fur on sleev: trimming is also utilized to color contrast as, for example, | leopard is used on bright red green cloth suits, or white | trasts sharply with wool frocks black or bright blue. : 5 4 en Se Father (awaiting the news): 1 | nurse, will it use a mzor or a