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In open cou a wet fog may drift across a tract of land and deposit little it any water on the ground. 'When, however, such a fog drifts against trees or bushes the leaves and twigs eatch a large proportion of the fog droplets. These run together into larger drops, which fall to the ground. The process is called "fog- drip" A considerable amount of at- tention has been devoted to it in re- cent years by meteorologists and in certain places measurements have been made of the amount of moisture thus deposited. The classic experiment in measur- ing fog-drip is that of Dr. R. Marloth, who exposed two rain-gauges on Table Mountain, South Africa, one in the ordinary way and the other with a number of upright plant stems attach- ed to it in such a way as to catch water from the mists and clouds float- ing over the mountain. During fifty- six days the first gauge caught only about four inches of water and the other one nearly eighty inches. Measurements made by F. Linke at the Taunus Observatory, Germany, showed that during continuous fog more than twice as much water was deposited on the ground under trees as In the open. T. H. Means has re- cently described similar contrasts on the hills back of Berkeley, Cal, where fogs drift in from the Pacific nearly every day in summer. The water forms puddles under the trees while the ground away from the trees re- mains perfectly dry. The study of frog-drip has bad the interesting result of removing from the realm of fable the story of the "rain tree," described by many early voyagers as growing in the Island of | Ferro, the most westerly of the Ca- maries, where it was sald to provide an ample supply of water for the in- habitants in the absence of rain, Fer- ro is a mountainous island, rising in the interior to a height of nearly 5,000 feet, One of the most plausible accounts of the rain tree--also known as the "garoe" or "holy tree"--is found in a sixteenth century work by the Franciscan friar Juan de Abreu de Galindo. The tree, he says, grew at the top of a steep cliff which termi- mated a narrow valley or ravine fac ing the sea and exposed to the pre- vailing easterly winds, Every morn- ing a cloud or mist from the sea drifted to the upper end of the valley. Here it was stopped by the cliff and its moisture gathered on the thick leaves and wide-spreading branches of the tree, whence it dripped during free is sald to hav, been blown down the remainder of the cay. The famous by a storm in 1612. mai si Little Things 0, glad am 1 for little things, For little feet, and little wings. For mossy enst in hollow root, For footprint of a midget foot. For soaring lark above the corn, For running wagtail on the lawn For lapwing in a windy sky, For curlew's solitary cry. --Robert BE. Key. Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Hlustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern A simple style like today's model is always in good taste for school wear. And if you choose tweed in new light weight, it's doubly chic, particu- larly if it's in that rich mauvy-brown tone. It's so neat and practical. The box- plaits at the front of the skirt crcate a tailored feeling. The neckline is girlish and finished with a bow scarf tie. 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Here ; are ¢ the NE Ww Christies Cream Crackers Ei Christie's Cream Crackers at any meal, or between, meals -- they're delicious. © SON OF THE GODS BY REX BEACH SYNOPSIS. 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese merchant of San Francisco, announces hal a son has arrived at his home, only Officer Dunne besides his wife knows that the child is really a white found- ling. Sam Lee is Y son. He is sent to Tastern Coll Chinese student and finds a soci rier because of his- supposed blood. A college girl, re tends to think a good d of is sent to Paris by Sam's father to pu sue her art studies. Then she refuses to marry Everett Himes, a black "_Strife and misery. Pain! Depri- vation! Discomfort! Danger!" "I'd like to learn the meaning of such. words. Am 1 « beanstalk or an' The matter was not settled that was artful, he did not actually oppose mailer, schemes with Esther 8 and her daughter to blackmail Lee Yi through a supposed affair daughter and Sam Lee. 'Lee Ying foll them, but is unable to avert newspapes publicity, CHAPTER XIV.--(Cont'd)) One evening Lee Ying heard a stir in the hallway of his house and then a familia. voice. Sam was speaking; he was directing Moy to dispose of his luggage. With beating heart the father rose and when Sam entered he held out his arms. They embraced; each other and for a moment neither spoke: then same announced: "Your unworthy son has returned Lome. His quest of knowledge is at an end." "Flowers of gladness spring up in my heart at your coming," Lee Ying told him, but the boy bowed his head and said wretchedly: "Alas, that I bring disappointment to your heaven-sent old age. I have failed. I am disgraced--" "No, no! Joy enters the door with you, my son. It is not you who are to blame: I am the never-to-be-forgiven cause of this disaster." "My trunks, my books, my every- thing are coming." "Were you--expelled?" Sam nodded, he lifted a fact twist- ed with grief and shame: his father pressed him closer. "The mischief of robbers harms only 'the body. Tell me what happened." "It was for--the good of the insti- tution, they explained. They had the grace tc be apologetic but--many of the university's wealthy friends and patrons were offended. The alumni resented the stain I had put upon--" Lee Ying interrupted with a sound. "It is incredible! You were innocent of all wrong--" "That mattered nothing as compar- ed with the welfare of the college, its reputation and the good 'will of its supporters. Colleges must live. Inno- cently or otherwise I brought mine into disrepute: I am the victim of an economic necessity. . . A Chinese and a white girl. Two white girls, one a student! The very mention of such an abominable association is a scan- dal. Parents are threatening to with- draw their daughters as a protest against a condition which makes it: possible." "It has always existed." "True, But these parents never, drearied that their own immaculate offsprirgs came into actual contact with us dissolute Orientals or were exposed to our contaminating touch. Immaculate!" Sam uttered an Am- erican oath that would have shocked Lee Ying at any other time. "They admitted that I had done no wrong, no very grievous wrong, at least. They even put the blame for the Alice Hart affair where it belonged. But a prin- ciple wag involved. The races must not mix, they must not come in con- tact outside the lecture rooms. It is repugnant to American ideas of social cecency." After a moment Lee Ying inquired: "What do you have in mind?" "I don't know. Travel, perhaps. can't endure any more of what I've been through." "Very well. I had intended it to come later, but it is an education in itself. There is the stery of Tang--- Tang lived more than a thousand years ago: a very clever young man who had taken many prizes. But he resented the orders of a bold and stubborn ruler and refused to live longer in a country governed by such a foolish and unreasonable tyrant." "You are no tyrant." "He went on a long voyage to dis- tant parts of the world where he saw many extraordinary sights. When he returned home he was considered the wisest man in the country and receiv- ed high honors, The world shall be your college: you shall travel like a Mandarin and see it all." The young man smiled, there was a mist in his eyes, but he shook his head gravely. "You do not wholly under- stand me. My indulgent father has. tens to grant this wish, like every other. In his usual benevolent man- ner he arranges to send me in state. | He makes my bed soft and tempers the winds for his son of the clouds. He sends men to fetch and carry for me. But--I must go alone and cn my own feet, if I go at all. I must shoe myself and earn my bread." Lee Ying lifted his head and open- ed his eyes wider. "What? ... Is be a---pilgrimage? _ pro- SE 'the projected plan, he merely revolved 3 dliborately in his mind and delay- ng, is action, trusting that time would effect a change, defeat it somehow. But he became convinced finally that .| Sam was a usapty, inéh by inch; the old : he acquiesced in full at last, but nobody knew the cost of his surrender. ~ Having given his consent, he offered no assistance, no advice; for such was Sam's-desire. The hour of parting came, Sam ap- peared before his father dressed in one of his poorest suits of clothes and with a suitcase in his hand. He car- ried a warm overccat and a cloth cap: nothing more. These he set down, then he kotowed three times to the motionless figure in the 'thronelike chair at the other end of the room. Lee Ying looked regal i in his sombre robe and cap, "Is all in readiness?" the father inquiped. "It is. The ship sails at eleven i o'clock tonight. I must report at six in order that I may be instructed in my so Lumble duties." "Is it a large and seaworthy ship?" "It is not large.but it is venerable and it has weathered many storms." "You say it carries a cargo of cat- tle. Are your duties hard, my son?" "No harder than others which my countrymen perform every day. I am to assist in the peeling of potatoes, the cleaning of dishes, the serving of food to the sailors, and such useful labors." Disapproval flickered over the fa- ther's face. His noble son, his godling at unworthy tasks like these. He man- aged to conquer his repugnance, "The prince fares forth in dis- guise," he said, "but he must remem- ber his birth." "I shall engrave your words upon | the brass tablets of my memory," Sam promised. Lee Ying choked. After a moment he rose and came forward across the polished floor and now he made no effort to conceal his emotion. Taking his son into his embrace he strained Lim to his heaving breast. He stood thus for a while, then in a broken voice he said: "Go forth on your pilgrimage, I shall await your home-coming, Go now, while I can still see you." Lee Ying listened until the eleva- tor doo. had closed and until he had { heard the last subdued whirr of the machinery that bore Sam down into the world he wished to know. With the going of his Heaven-sent son the vigor ebbed out of the old man. Stiff- ly he moved to the door of his shrine and with palsied hands slid back the panel. With difficulty be lighted the joss sticks, then knelt upon the silken floor cushions. His eyes were stream- ing. Sam, too, was blind as he rode down to the street level. A feeling of guilt oppressed him for he real- ized nov, how old and how lonely his father was. When he stepped out of the ele- vator he would have passed a waiting figure without noticinz it if it had not stirred and if he had not heard his name spoken, He was surprised to recognize Eileen Cassidy. "Are you leaving without a good- bye to your friends?" she inquired. "Eileen! I didn't think anybody knew I was going. I--didn't know 1 had any friends." "Is it true you're working your way across?" "Yes. I'm an understeward, a scul- lery boy." "And how long will you be gone?" "I shan't come back until I've for- gotten a good many things and a good many people, Eileen." "Me?" Eileen asked. "I won't for- get you." ; Almost roughly the boy inquired: "Why not? I'm nothing but a 'Chink.' We don't belong in the same street. We can't even touch fiagers." As if to disprove this Eileen reach- ed forth a cold little hand and laid it upon his. Young a kind of a prince to me." She put her arms around his neck and kissed him full upon the lips. pered. go." : It was a virginal kiss, the first girl's kiss that Sam Lee had ever felt. His head was whirling when he towed it to the wind and Siz sie off towards the elevated station. father's benediction, and a girl's ise) What harm could him "Come back as clean as you "Good-bye, Brian Boru," she whis-| Made by the makeps of Kat Cheese ond Kish Selod Drewing The St. Lawrence If there is a river anywhere haunted by old ships and old adventurers, sure ly it must be the St. Lawrence. 1 am quite sure that there are still summer nights when ears delicately attuned to the things of long ago may hear thd sweep and splash of Viking oars, or late sunsets when they catch the rus- tle of Basque sails, lowering for the night. There i8 no doubt whatever that there are still echoes of the old songs of Normandy and Brittany as they were sung from sea-washed decks, and even lusty tunes that came from Devon with Saunders' sea dongs. Of all Canada, the lands lying on the shores of the St. Lawrence are the most characteristic. Nowhere in the world can these river-born towns and cites be duplicated, for they are the essence of the spirit of this great river. On many counts the St. Lawrence can claim to be 'exceptional. Its very volume is overwhelming, its beauty full of variety and surprises, its tradi- tions romantic and inspiring. Ships may travel a thousand miles eastward and a thousand miles westward and still be upon the tributary waters of the St. Lawrence. Montreal is a sea- port, and one of the greatest in the world, yet it is on an island in the St. Lawrence, far, far beyond even the salty perfume of the sea. The river thrusts itself like a spear head far into the continent, with Montreal upon its tip. Here from the shores of the St. Law- rence went the discoverers of the con- tinent, LaSalle, Du Lhut, Marquerette, LaVerendrye and their kindred spirits. The river has a personality and it has impressed itself upon its people. The valley has been the cradle of the Canadian people, a kind nesting place for those who, in pioneer days, had the courage to cross the sea to new and untried lands, or those who sacrificed everything but their loyalty in the re- volution of the American colonies, and trekked:north to live under the flag to which they had been born. More than a dozen generations have used the broad river as a highway to adventure, and from the metropolis to the tiniest hamlet that clusters in the fold of a hill each and all have taken on some- thing of their character from the river.--Blodwen Davies, in "Sague- nay." ---- "There are two ways of meeting difficulties; you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." --Phyllis Bottome. Hills The hills I love are ordinary hills, With common lanes where common cattle pass; But sunlight like the April daffodils Lies on their slopes and gilds the pasture grass. And when at dusk the weary horses climb Out of the valley, with the scent of loam Heavy upon them, neither song nor rhyme : Can catch the joy of hoofbeats heading home. The hills I love hold barns and sheds and houses, 01d orchards wiht gnarled Seek-uo- further trees, A stony field wherein a cross ram browses, Yet 1 am happier--happler far-- with _thesa Than any Wealthier and wiser 1 Covld be with mountains reaching to the sky. --M. H. Moody, in the New York Times. ee Peace Perched upon the muzzle of a cannon A yellow butterfly is slowly opening and shutting its wings. --Amy Lowell, in "Selected Poems." rt fp sn Itgt wasn't for love, hate would be an unknown quantity. Make It Your Home When In Montreal BREAKFASTS Table d Hote 50c, 76¢c, $1.00 "DINNER Table d Hote $1.50 V. G. CARDY, Managing Director "I'm HE modern Miss needs no "time out" for the time of month. I you've ever taken Aspirin for a i bide 11 know how soon the pains 8 is just as effective Yd pains peculiar 73 The relet Don't dedicate fashioned. It's unnecessary. Aspirin will always enable you to carry-on in comfort. Take enough to assure your, complete a iit is depress Asin They do not up- but stop the pain. Headaches come a es So So, i But save the throats Bruton Hhiat yowens going, anyway" certain LILLE RE geayine Aspir Aspirin } it t cagnot Possibly set the stomach. They do Acthing, i inconvniat "| are perfect. Halifax, and that in such a In examining welds to see if 'Amd by abies J rays from slightly different angles a stereoscopic effect is obtained, ; abling the analyst to examine thi structural details of -the Subject their proper relative positions. % * * 2% ; New Fog Device Tested : Tests of the frequencies of fog signals were made last week in New York Harbor with a view toward enabling the captain of a fog-bound vessel to locate his position with precision. Ordinarily there is such a medley of noise that the sound of government -forghorns is partly lost. Measurements of the frequencies of the foghorns through a noise meter are designed to pick out of this cons fusion only the waves emitted by the horns and thus notify the captain of his position, which will be determin ed by the precise volume of sound. The results of the experiment have not yet been published." a _% % Colored Glass and Insects A series of experiments to deter mine whether rooms glazed with a colored glass are likely, by virtue of the special properties of the glass, Pto be freer from insects than are rooms with ordinary glass have been carried out at the Imperial College of Science and Technology oi Great Britain. The glass used was of a pale greenish-blue tint, designed to afford protection from excessive solar radiation by strongly absorbing ine fra-red radiation while transmiiting in a useful degree the radiation with- in the visible spectrum, House flies, bees and wasps, ox posed to sunlight in a box, one-half of which was glazed with the special glass and the other half with ordi nary glass, showed a marked Prete ence for the latter. That an effect can definitely be as- cribed to the color fo the light pass ing through the special glass was: shown by an experiment in .which bees were enclosed in a glass cyline der, with this special glass and the other with ordinary glass. By interchange ing the glasses an immediate reac- tion was obtained. re A ne A Tree in Winter Garb We have a large sugar maple im our yard which aolls its masc of golden foliage almost iatact till the end of October, and ther yields it all to the. Autumn rains and gales. Suddenly it rises in gray) rudity against a gray sky, and what was a few days before the simple beauty of a great splash of color is now the complex and delicate beauty of & complicated structure, infinite in ite ramifications yet splendid in its strength and grace. Long befire the crown of the tree is reached, thé trunk has almost disappeared in & maze of branches, reacaing upward and outward like the jets of a foun- tain, and when the eye finally foliows them up to the very top, ilhey im turn have almost vanished in a deli cate lace work of twiggery, which actually dissolves against the gray, sky, so you cannot be sure wheie the topmost twigs do end. Later in the year, this fountaim spray pattern of springing and dis. solving lines will he etched more clearly on the winter sky, and above the white snow. Also, we shall for get to look at it, perhaps. But just now, in November, as we go about the garden planting tulip bulbs, wé look up every few minutes to see if traced, in delicate silver point, upon. a pale background, and think th at no other season is the tree qui 80 beautiful.--Walter Prichard Ea= ton, in "New England Vista." . i epee. Conditions in the West . Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: The mis "| conception of conditions in the prai provinces is largely due to lack knowledge of the country. Residen of Ontario do not realize, in m instances, that the west is an en mous area, that it is as far from th Manitoba boundary to the Peace Riv country as it is from Windsor there must be a wide variance of 'in one section while comparative Thus there may be intense hardship in one section while cmoparative good times prevail elsewhere. This is something which shoula be m thoroughly Sndersiood thro one end of which was closed