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â€" i»ili»«i ' « i. f i.|l1W«aiJ> r» < ft ii<fc<lll s wf^^m,. -^ . ..jsMl^:!^ Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Tire Mileage 'Speed Is Expense" Is One Stan- dard Rule You May Be Sure Will Work Against You All Thj Time i Possibly you think because liis sta- tion in life is Uown at the bottom, where there are mud and mire, that the tire is not the ^ristoerat of the auto world. But you may be perfect- ly sure that Sir Serviceable Tire js worthy not only of your respect â€" ^Tf Bot veneration â€" but of your iutimSite companionship. Get acquainted with him at the first opportunity, for he is a friend â€" if you make liim a friend â€" who goes with you through all kinds of weather and does not ' ' blow BY AUNT JUNE Our Boys and Girls Corner Registered According to the Copyright Act. DEDICATEDTO EVERY BOY AND GIRL IN CANADA My dear Boys and Girls: â€" One of the iuterestinjj things which the bird man sjinkc i.*iout, wlimn I told you of ill my Icttcv Inst week, was the manner in wliicli our little bird friends v.'ho migrate â€" that is, move from imo country to another â€" Hy by night. Have you ever wondered where all the little birds you see in ''auada in the summer time go when the wintry snows come? When the first cold dark cveuingH begin to set in, those birds unless you neglect him badlv or \ â- '"'•'y *" """itries in the South, iea of old age overtake where they know the climate is warmer. inhrnutiea up' the him. The modern auto tire consists <if a 9ho6 and a tube â€" the former to resist the hard wear of road service and the tube to give the reciuired intiatiou for cushioning the wheels. These two es- sentials were combined in the single tube tire in the early days of auto- inobiling, but the increasing weights of cars and speed at which they are driven made the single tube impos- sible. The shoe is not elastic to any great degree, except for the thick rub- ber tread. The tube is elastic, confin- ing the air which makes the cushion between bump and driver. It stretches taut the shoe, giving a firm, flexible contact with the roadway for traction, and absorbing the road shocks in large measure. Abuse Shortens Service. Now, tires are really wonderful I pieces of work. It is remarkable that they stand up as well as they do when you consider the car weight, speed and rough roads encountered. Yet the average driver is apt to say that tires make him tired â€" etyecially after he has to invest in one or more. He should realize their good qualities and not think they should stand any amount of abuse and still give maximum serv- ice. Having learned this proper re- spect, the next thing is a proper care through their lengthened career. The rather marvelous development of the tire in the last fifteen years or so, through improved methods of man- ufacture and experience in meeting road conditions, has not been at the expense of the car owner. Tires are cheaper, even with war prices in vogue, than ten years ago. Uf course, a cheap tire is not the sole desrtlerat- um. First cost, plus repairs and actual mileage given, alone will tell the tale of economy of waste â€" the cost per mile, the only safe guide in buying tires. To keep down the cost per mile there are some things the owner must do. The manufacturers of most tires issue a pamphlet telling how the tire is made and how to take care of it. Get it and read carefully and follow the advice given. Some tilings it does not say, however. Perhaps the most impor- tant of these is that you should learn to favor the tires at the time of great strains, such as in turning corners, go- ing over rough roads, new broken stone, railroad crossings and street car tracks and where the surface is rutty or dried or frozen when all cut uj). Go easy. Spend a moment extra and save dollars. Iiook After SmaU Cuts. But, despite your care, there will be cuts in the rubber tread. Go over the tires regularly once a week or often- er and look for these cuts. Small ones should be sealed with cement before they get big. Larger cuts may need the putty-like repair material to De had of the supply dealer or may need vulcanizing. But it should be attended to at once. Water will get into the fabric and it rots in amazingly short time, and then vulcanizing does no good, for the strength of the fabric is gone. Sand works in as well as water and makes "blisters" alongside the tread. Pressure on tires should be kept at the figure given by the manufacturer, not by guessing, but by gauge, and the reserve tire uui>,t be tested the same as those iu use. If you have oodles of gold and ao not care lor expense you may prefer coint'ort li tire iiiilouge, for the pressure demauil- cd by some manufacturers makes tiic c4r ride hard- solid rubber would ]ir no more unyielding. A car systcmati Cally overloaded will wear out tiris faster; procure oversize tires to corrc. i this evil. , Grease softens rubber. Keep the tires free. Fast driving heats the tires, wiili faster wear, besides magnifying the bumps and giving a side swing whicli grinds the tires over the ni.-id. It the front wheels are out of aligu- ment it also grinds off the tread. A harsli clutch does the same thing in starting abruptly, and brakes ap- plied too rapidly also slido the whoeis. Brakes unevenly adjusted cause one tire to slide and grind. The bird man who was telling about the.se birds, as I think I told you be- fore, is very foml of the little feathered friends, and has watched them very closely for years, and many suiiiniers he sees the same birds come back again to the fields and gardens. ' • Have you ever wondered.'" he said, "how the birds appear so suddenly in our gard- ens?" "One night when you go to bed the air will be (piite still, not a souuil of a twitter or a chirp, and you have pcrlia])s forgotten for a time what the little birds sound like, when next morning if you arc awake early, you will hear a perfect chorus of whistling and chattering and there, when you look out of your window, are several birds, perhaps numbers of them, whom yesterday were not in sight. Where did they come from so suddenly? They arrived in the night." Then the bird man went on to tell us that numbers of our little bird friends, who travel so many thousands of miles, choose the night time for their .journey, and they do this because it is safer for them to travel iu the dark. Would yon wonder how they find their way at night ? They have good eye- sight for bright shiny objects at night time, and it has been noticed that the birds who always travel in very large rtocks together, generally follow the course of a river, lake or stream, and this guides them over the country to a place they wish to reach. Some time ago, some men who wish- ed to mnlte a study of how the birds fly at night, fixed ii|) a big telescope through wliirh they watched the sky at the time when a big migration of birds was expected, and they found out at this time, that the birds ficw as high as three miles up in the air. Why do yoii think they ili<l this.' In order to prevent dashing into the walls of high buildings. PLEDGE FOR HELPERS. "Do a little kindness to someone evei-y day. Scatter ray.s of .sunshine all along the way." I pledge myself in the ser- vice of my King and Country to DO MY BEST IN MY DAILY WORK, wherever it may be, to help others wherever possible, and to endeavor in every way to make mvself A GOOID CITI- ZEN. Date Name Age Address Don't you think the little birds arc really very, very clever to be able to f.nd their way from one country to an other and back again and to think of all the best ways to travel so as to avoid the dangers that would overtake tliciii if llu'V were not careful? Here are three early spring birds who have already appeared in some parts of Ontario. The horned lark, the white throated s])arrow, and the wood- pecker. Can any Helper describe these birds? Perhaps one of you may he able to draw them or one of them. Would vou like a storv? It is about A CliEVEB SH£EP DOG Robert Louis Stevenson, whose fam- ous books I hope you will all enjay reading some da.v, once told this story about a sheep dog belonging to a friend of his. The friend was a shepherd on the hills in Scotland and he had many dogs who helped him to look after the sheep, but one of them was par- ticularly clever. This shepherd's name' was John. One day John went off to town to buy some sheep, which were to be added to his other flocks on the hillside. On the way home with the sheep, the clever sheep dog walking with .Tolin, in some way or other two of the sheep got lost, and John, who was usually a very careful man, was very much ashamed about it. However, two or three days later, he heard that a neighbouring farmer had found two sheep, so over he wont to claim them. "Well," said the farmer, "I did find two sheep, but how will you prove that they are yours.'" Now John had bought a great many sheep from dif- ferent owners, and they had all kinds of marks on them, so he found he could not tell just what the two lost sheep looked like. However, he said to the man, ' ' I will bring up my clever sheep dog ,wlio was with me when I went to market, and though it is a fact that I cannot tell which aliei^p are mmo, if niy (log can pick them out, will you let me have them .' ' ' The farmer, who j knew in his heart which two sheep were not his, had no fear of this ordeal so he laiighe<l as he said, "' Certainlj', you may try it." The sheep dog was let loose among the largo fiock of sheep, and after a little while without a single pause or mistake, he picked out first one and then another of the two truants. You can well imagine how delighted John, his master, was, and I expect that clever dog was rewarded by a spe- cially nice bone after he had taken the sheep home safely, though we are not told this part in the storv. RIDDLES Answers to Last Week's Biddies R. Why is a shoemaker like a brave soldierf .\. Because he is faithful to the last. JOHN BowtBs eouuvYN afPfUToar PLAren To be seen soon in ' ' Itoads of Des tiny," a Goldwyn Picture, bv Clian- ning Pollock from t he O. Ilenry story, starring Pauline Frederick. DELIVEE i R. What men may w il h a will f A. Lawyers. be said to work R. What animal would you like to bo on a cold day? A. (This is not very grammatical, but (|uite a funnv one.) A little otter (hotter). THIS WEEK'S RIDDLES R. What is the difference between a ship and a sailor at the top of the mast .' R. Why is your face like two lilies.' R. When is a banknote like a bar of irou .' Names of Helpers who guess thcs? riddles will be jiut in our corner, so put on your thinking caps, and send in some answers before next week. .\ot another line must I write you to-day. There are two little birds to be fed, and I must hurry away. Yours lovingly, AUNT JUNE. Whirling around corners sometimes makes all four tires sli<le, even when there is no bad skid. Here Is a Good Tip. On a wet day avoid roads where crushed stone has been iicwiy applied. Rubber workers wet the knives with which they cut the rubber. Wet stones 'with sharp corners slice a tire like a knife. Inner tubes puncture, but may be patched easily with the handy kits sold in tire stores, and there are handy vulcanizing outfits for larger cuts which may be carried in the car. Blow-outs should be taken to the vul- canizer. New methods enable the ex- pert to do wonders with tubes we used to throw away. I do not want to recommend anything which will take the joy out of life, but the owner who keeps a record of what his tires do and know to a mile and to a penny their story will tiuy •more intelligently than the liit-or-niiss fellow. Because the tires during the life of the car cost about as much as the original price of the car, certainly one ought to be as particular about the tires as the about the car. The man- ufacturer tries to show you how to save tire cost, and along with this the fellow who follows his advice gener- ally has less road troubles with tires than he who neglects tliem persistently. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiui Sugges'Toiis rrom housewives who have found some way of lightening their housework, new recipies for cooking, or any household ideas, will be welcom- ed by this newspaper, and will be published in this column. Send your ideas to the House- wives' Department of this paper and they will be published each week under this heading. CARE OP BROOMS Even brooms have gone up in price, so that a new broom is quite an item. It is a mistake to buy a cheap broom; it will not last and it means that an- other one must be bought â€" where one gooil one would have cost less in the louij run. Few people realize that a broom needs proper care and when not il' use should never be allowed to .stand o'l its bristles. It takes all the strength out of them and gives an inclination to sag to one side, thus making an uiK'veu sweeper. A broom-stand should be made by putting two nails into a wooden wall, for iiri'fcreuce. just wide enough apart to hold the handle, below the brush part. 80011 to a|j|)c,i.< ; .1 ' â-  ; a Goldwvn toicmw MCTu/tat. .'.:• -^''.Mi I'niKCSS,' TO CLEAN" PAINTED WOOD \ I nrrcs|ioui|cril si'iids I lie following: Painted wooil which is marked and stained may bo renovated with ten- lea\'cs. .\fter the tea has been made auil nsccl, take the leaves from the pot i and place in a basin. Pour boiling I water over them, and let them remain j in this for ten minutes. Take w clean I piece of flannel, dip in the liquid, and ) Mil) over the staiiicil ])laces. When the i marks have disappeared, the surface t >;i..u!.l lie niMiril with :i dry .•loth, and an application of liquid vaseline ap- I plied. Bub this in so that the final ; elVcel is not ^reasv. the light brownish tones, and though it isn't very different from other light \ighi browns of other seasons, it goes by a new name, at least as applied to the color. TlicM there is pumpkin color, which is seen in some of the new cotton mater- ials, and seems to be much admired. It combines very well with some of the dull lighter greens, as well as with blues. Ruby and brick are shades of red that are much in demand and, strange as it may seem, there are reds seen in the smartest of the now spring suits. Tangerine, which isn't very dilTereut DEBORAH Airo BABAE ISRAEL Lesson â€" Judg. i: 4-5: 31. Printed Text â€" Judg. 4: 4-16 Golden Text â€" ' ' God is our refuge ^nd strength, A very present help in trouble. â€" Ps. 40 Historical Setting Time.â€" About 1351 B. C. Northern Isreal; later Galilet Daily Readings Monday, .\pril .â- >. â€" Israel's I'ry Heard (Judg. 4": 1-9). Tuesday, -Vpril (I.â€" Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel (Judg. 4: Ul-lti). Wcilncsday, April 7. â€" A Song of Victory (Judg. 5: 1-20). Thursday, .Vpril 8.â€" God Our Refuge (Ps. 4t): 11 1). Friday, April !».â€" Faith and Victory (Heb. 11: :!24n>. Satur- day, .Vpril 10. More than ("oii(|uerors (Uom. 8: :il:i9). Sunday, -Vpril 11.â€" Kternal Deliverance (Rev. 7: 9-17). .The Lesson Text 4. Now Deborah, a prcqihetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judge<l Israel at that time. 5. And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Raiuali and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6. And she sent and called Barak the son of .Vbincuim (uit of Kedesh- naphtali, and said unto him. Hath not .lehovah, the God of Israel, commanded, saying Go and draw unto mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun ? 7. .Vnd I will draw unto thee, to the rivor Kishon, Sisera, the captain <d' 1 Jabin's army, with his chariots and his j multitude; and I will deliver him Into 1 thy hand. 8. And Barak said nnto her. If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but 1 if thou wilt not go with me, I will | not go ern tribes, and hencu from the power of the religious life centered about .lerusulem. They p.irmitted idolatry ; to win them from tho worship of Jo- I hovah. Deborah wa;» n prophetess and I fourth in the order of tho judges. Vcr.sc .'). If is an Oriental custom to administer justice in the open air and in palm groves. Hamali was near Jeru- salem, and Hethcl a town in the hill country of Ephraim. Verse 0. Y'our map will show yon that Zi'buliin .uiil .Vaphtali were separated from Benjamin and Ephraim. Ephraim j and licnjamin were soTitli, close to the beloved .leriLsalem. Probably Deborah's purpose was to effect a closer unity between the northern and southern tribes. In between were the pagan king .Tabin and his army under Sisera. Verse 7. The Kishon was a winter stream or torrent in central Palestine. I Here .Tehovah promised victory over the pagan princes. Verse 8. Barak knew that Deborah was a prophetess, but was convinced that her visible presence would make ' victory more sure. Verse 9. Deobrah assured him that, if she went, the victory would be ac- creilited to lier. Barak seems to have been willing to sacrifice fame in the interest of the success of a righteous cause. Not every man is big enough to do this. Verse 10. It is more probable that tho rendering should he "on foot" instead of "at his feet." Verso 11. On Mt. Tabor, Barak and his army had an excellent 'view of tho enemy in the valley of .Tpzreel, and also bad a good camping ground. Verse 12. The Kenites mentioned in i verse 11 seem to have acted as inform- ers. They had always had more or less to do with Israel. Verse 13. Sisera 's chariots were gath- ered together in the plain which open- ed to the sea and over which plain they could he driven. Verso 14. .Jabin 's chariots, according -, to .Tosephiis, undertook to surround the mountain on which Barak was estab- lished. Barak 's army, at the command Place.^ j of Deborah, descended overwhelmingly upon I-iisera. I Verse 15. The victory is attributed to Jehovah. Sisera and his hosts were utterly routed. "This was the last stand made by the Kenites against Israelite supremacy. ' ' Verse 1<>. V.arious attempts have been made to attribute the defeat of Sisera to a sudden storm breaking from the northâ€" a terrible tempest, accompanied by thunder an<l lightning, and swelling floods â€" but no such explanation is given by the Scrijitures. Topics for Bes^rch and Discussion I. Deborah's Plan (vs. 4-7). 1. Who was Deborah ? 2. How were Zebulun and Naphtali separated from .Teruaa- lom? :'.. What was the effect of this separation.' 4. What was the Oriental custom in administering justice? 5. What was Deborah 'a purpose in tho action described hero? 6. Who occu- pied the territory between the northern and southern tribes? II. Barak's Co-operation (vs. 8-11). 7. Who was Barak, and what his task? III. Sisera 's Defeat (vs. 121ti). 8. Who was Sisera ? 0. Where was Sisera 's army? 10. How did Barak's army succeed? Giants in Those Days. Another archaic animal has been dug up in Kansas, an (dder type than the brontosaurus that was supposed to be still roaming around Central .Vfrica. The story is not entirely dead yet thac specimens of the mammoth or the mas- „ , , , -J T n , •.. I todan, or a little herd of either, are to 9. And she said, I w. surely go with I ^^ fo„nd in one of the .,uiet vallevs of hee: ntow-ithstanding, the journey that _\|^,ka or the Yukon. The new Kansas thou takest shall not be lor thine honor: ,.„,,ibit ;, ,„, amphibian lizard, and has sell bisera into the ! i,p^„ .^n^,,, „,^. piatecarpus or broad- It lived five million ,A » 1 n 1 11 1 r/ , , , ! years ago in the ocean that covered tho 10. And Barak called /ebul.in and ;.,,^„ ^^^^ k„„^„ ,^ Kansas and Mis- for .Tehovah will hand of a woman. A..(( Deborah arose, j |"","i„.T"i,","!.,.!)" and went with Barak to Kedesh Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet; an<l Deborah went uji with him. coming in for eousiilerahle popularity. t'anard is what yo.. will call a blue green; that explains itself when you recall that canard moans duck in French. You know the blue greon fea- thers on a wild duck 's back. FASHIONABLE COLORS Toast is by all iiieaus tlie newe !t of FOB A HEADACHE .V correspondent re. ommends tho fol- lowing simple remedy for headache â€" sick headache particularly. Cut a lemon iu half and si|iieeze the juice into a tumbler. Add a few â€" a very few grains of sugar, and fill tho glass near- ly three-(|uarters full of cold water. Now stir in half an (!ggspoonful of or- dinary baking soda. This will fizz up, of course, and the draught must be swallowed during effervescence. If ones dose fails to relievo headache, repeat it three hiuirs after. Taken fast- ing, the first thing iu the morning, it will do much to settle the stomach after the sick headache, and jirobably jire- vent its recurrence for some time to oi-iiilaw of Moses, and hod pitched his from what we usually call orange, is ! tent as far as the oak in Zaanannini, whicli is by Kedesh. 12. And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Vbiiioaiii was gone up to mount Tabor. Pi. -Vnd Sisera gathered together all his cbariols, even nine hnndied chariots of iron, and all the jicople that were with him, fnuu Ihimsheth of the (icn- tilps, unto the river Kiskon. 14. .Vnd Debor:ili said unto Parak, Up: for this is tin- day in whi(di Je- hovah hath delivor(Ml Sisera into thy hand; is not Jidiovah gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. 15. And Jehovah discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet. lii. Hut Barak pursued after the char- iots, .and after the host, unto Horosheth of the Gentiles: ami all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not ,1 man left. Comments Verse t. The lsr;u'litcs composing the come. This kitchen physic has pre- j tribes of Zebulun anil Naphtali, occupy- vailed w'hon ])henacetin and other nerve- ing tho territory corresponding later to souri. whi cli were part of the bed of the great sea that stretched north-enst- , , ., ,, , 4, 1. â- â-  , , , onlv towards Greenland. Geologists 1. Now Heber the Kcnite had separ.jk„„^ „„ ,,b«„t and identifv the lakes ated '""â- â- ''â- If ^r<>n, the Keni OS. eveni_.^„,, „^^.„„^ j,,^j ;- , ^ from the children ot llobah the broth- , ,i,^ ,„„,, „„,,. ^^^ ,^ continents that once existed whore now there are oceans. The face of the globe is constantly changing, dry land sinking below the waves, ocean beds rising to he the home of new races of flora and fauna, and men o fa better breed. This twenty-foot Kansas lizard is but a small creature comjiared with some of the giant fanua of times even as late as the pleistaceuestrata. Man himself was of gigantic stature. "There were giants in those days'' is the Bible reloril. In the northern Afghan coun- try there is a gr(uip of statues said to be life size, representing the earlier races, the smallest 27 foct high, the largest four times as tall. Director Harry Beaumont, now di- recting Madpe Kennedy in "Two Cents' Worth of Humaneness," began his stage cxpei'ience at the age of fouiteen, when he played in a vaude- ville sketch. quii'fers have signally failed to do so. ! Galilee, were separated from the south- I fix>m the screen. Louise Huff, who appeared as co- star with Jafk Pickford in many films, has become the wife of Edwin i Stillman, a Now York manufacturer, nd has announced her retirement JOE MARTIN - Joe Talks Entirely Too Much