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THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE. My dear Boys and Girls: â€" I have just returned from a very lovely holiday in the country. The bouse in which I was visiting was in the heart of very pretty scenery, with many lovely trees and a lawn sloping down to a broad river. In the house there were a number of boys and girls, and every one of them had one or more pets. I think you would all have been interested in that garden. The first thing I noticed was the bird boxes on several trees in the gar- den. They were so pretty and quaint looking. Some were round and some were square, but the boys told me that all of them were used by birds. While I was sitting out on the lawn we saw two or three orioles, a very fine red-headed woodpecker, and a kinglet, besides many other pretty birds which flew over, whose names we could not guess, and they did not stay long enough for us ^ co watch them. Among the pets ia the garden were a lot of rabbits, beautiful big fellows with long, silky ears; in a little house I discovered twelve baby rabbits about as big as kittens; then there were baby pigeons. There was also a very nice dog. The boys and girls who live in this house have to feed their pets every day themselves, and they get up early in the morning to mil the food for them. Chickens and geese were running about on a separate piece of grass away at the side of the house. They were such a busy lot of helpers, all helping the little animals by feed- ing the wild birds, giving them houses, etc., that I decided they ought to join our Service League and invited them to do so, so before long we shall have some more new names of Helpers in our corner. HOLIDAYS 1 Who said, Hurrah for the holidays! What a lovely time of year this is to have holidays! How will you spend yours! Letters from boys and girls telling what they expect to do will be very welcome. I know two help- ers who say they will go fishing aU the time. I think they will certainly have a lot of fish if they spend more than three weeks in fishing. Don't forget to be kind to all the little ani- mals and birds, and to look after your gardens during the holidays. Many helpers will welcome the longer time for gardening. TEIili ABOUT TKE HELPING. I want to see every week in this PLEDOE. For Toung Helpers' Leagii« oX Service. "Do a little kindness to some- one every day. Scatter rays of suubine all along the way." I pledge myself in the service of my King and Country to DO MY BEST IN MY DAILY WOSK, wherever it may be, to help others wherever possible, and to endeavor in every way to make myself A GOOD CITIZEN. Date. ^am( Age Address who have written in news of their gar- dens. KIDDLES. Answers to last week's riddles: â€" B. â€" Why should we never sleep on a railroad f A. â€" Because the train mns over sleepers. E.â€" Why is "A" Uke 12 o 'clock f A. â€" Because it ia the middle of day. B. â€" When does a boat resemble snowt A.â€" When it is adrift. corner, letters from service members telling what they have done that week to help others. The very best letters will be printed first. Sparrows are considered by some people to be only mischievous, trouble- some little birds, but I am sure they all agree they can sometimes be very amusing. A poet once wrote two lit- tle verses about them, so I will print them for you today. Sparrows. Pretty little three Sparrows in a tree, Light upon the wing; Though you cannot sing You can chirp of spring: Chirp of spring to me. Sparrows from your tree. Never mind the ihowers, Chirp about the flowers While you build a nest; Straws from east and west, Feathers from your breast. Make the snuggest bowers In a world of flowers. Speaking of sparrows, there are a great many varieties. Three of these are the Foi Sparrow, the Swamp Spar- row, and the Vesper Sparrow. Can any helper describe either of these three birds? I will give you two weeks in which to send in a descrip- tion. The best letter will be printed in our corner. Neit week I shall have to give you a story. Many loving thanks to all helpers THIS WHEH'S RIDDLES. B. â€" What thing is it that is lower with a head than without onei B. â€" What ia that which works when it plays and plays when it works f B. â€" What is the first thing a helper who has a garden sets in it? This last riddle is a funny one, but 1 think you should be able to guess it. Who will be the first to fill my mail bag next week? I shall look out very eagerly for new members, letters and pledges. I hope you are all going to have a very lovely and happy holi- day. Yours lovingly. AUNT JTJXE. The Quiet Observer Resuming Trade With Russia The Round Table and Egypt Mr. Lloyd George has cut the Gord- ian knot of Bussian intercourse by iiegotiating with Krassin, a minister of the Soviet government and a trade commissioner authorized to negotiate for resumption of relations. Belease of prisoners and payment of Bussian obligations were the sine qua non of Mr. Lloyd George's conditions. The Bound Table admits that the Soviet government is the only authority of any kind that exists in Bussia. Beyond its fiat there is mere anarachy. It is at least recognized that the Bussians must be left to mind their own domes- tic business. On the basis of physical life trade ia the prime organizer of civilization and Mr. Lloyd George may have faith that when trade influences begin to permeate Bussia once more tne old national impulses may be rekind- led and the nation may consolidate it- self into a more organic life. It is certain that a trading Russia will be a more peaceful Bussia, and the advan- tage to Europe as well as to England to have relations once more established en a civilized basis would be very great. It is no more possible to say what will develop from the Soviet venture than it would have been possible in 1794 to foreease the future of France. The Bound Table is about the only medium through which broad and re- liable surveys of British affairs and interests throughout the world may he obtained. It has been thought by some to be over-imperialistic in tone, but the explanation of Mr. Amery that he did not believe in binding the Empire to the Mother Country but the whole Empire to each of its parts, might be accurately applied to the Hound Table. The quarterly issue for June presents the usual varied and attractive fare. The review of the Turkish treaty will not please those who wish to make concessions to the Turkish rule. An account of affairs in Egypt will sur- prise those who regarded Theodore Roosevelt's strictures on our authority there as uncalled for and untimely. He appears to have sp«ken as a wise friend in necessary warning. Since Lor! Cromer there have been four High Commissioners before General Allenby, whose ' ' firm and temperate control'' is appreciated. There was no continuous policy under his four predecessors, and the average British offii'ial in Egypt is not an incipient Cromer or Allenby. The growing self- consciousness of the Egyptian edu- cated e!a.s3e3 has led to an organized demand for a greater share in the government and particularly of the of- fices now largely filled by Englishmen, NOTICE FOB NEW MEMBEBS. Boys and Girls who wish to join the Service League, must note the follow- ing rules: â€" Fill in pledge and send to Aunt .June, 515 Manning Chambers, Toron- to. Only those who send in an ac- count of an act of service every day for a week are eligible for a badge. This means to receivj a helper's serv- ice badge you must prove your service by helping some one every day for a tuU week, then write a letter to Aunt June telling her about it, enclose the pledge and a three-cent stamp, post- age of badge. WHEN YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE BADGE I want every helper to I wear it and to remember that he has i pledged himself, or she has pledged I herself, by joining the Service League, to lose no opportunity of helping oth- 1 ers. Boy Scouts and Girl Guides have only to send in the pledge and stamps for a badge, as all Guides and Scouts are already pledged to serviL'e to their countrv. POEMS YOU SHOULD KNOW. FranL'ij A. Diirivage was bora in Boston in 1814 and engaged early ia journalistic work, writing for the magazines as well. He won consider- able reputation with a series of arti- cles signed "Old L'n. " He wrote a great many poems of serious as well as light character and several plays. He died in New York in 1881. Of this poem, Bayard Taylor said: "I know of no finer poem of its length." "ALT." There hangs a sabre, and there a rein, With a rusty buckle and green curb- chain; A pair of spurs on the old gray wall. And a moldy saddle â€" well, that is all. Come out to the stable â€" it is not far; The moss-grown door is hanging ajar. Loos within! There's an empty •la.'.l Where once stood a charger, and that Is all. The good black horse came riderless home, Flecked with blood-drops as well as foam; See vonder hillock where dead leaves " fall; The good black horse pined to death â€" that's all. All? O God! it is all I can speak; Question me not â€" I am old and weak; His sabre and his saddle hang on the wall, And his horse pined to death â€" I have told you all. â€" Francis A. Durivage. instances of which are on record. The Egyptian national movement is com- plex, like the Irish one, and is made up of "medieval reactionaries and ultra-modern radicals, orthodox Mos- lems and complete free-thinkers, the princes of the Khedivial family and the mob of the great towns." They have not discussed a constitution for on that rock they would split to pieces. Unrecognized ReTohition It is not generally recognized that s social revolution is going on, but such is the case. The outward and visible signs may not b« so marked or start- ling in Great Britain and America as in some other parts of the world (Lenin's Bussia, for example;, but the interior change is unmistakable to those who will but see. There are still many, and unfortunately a ma- jority of them in the high places, who think that all things may be restored to the pre-war conditions. Such a re- storation is no more possible than it would have been possible for the Eur- ope of the 'thirties to go back to the Europe of the previous 'sixties. The French Eevolution marked an epoch and scholars are taking note of the parallels presented by the revolutions : that have accompanied the Great War and its close. W^e can never go back. The revolution of four generations ago I was a political one. The present is a ' social one â€" that is the difference. Even [ m Canada the signs are marked. The I strikes that have occurred in spite of j arbitration, as with Toronto street car ; strike, where 1,300 returned men sway- ed the whole body of employees to ask for So cents an hour and rejected i the arbitration award, and at Chip- , pewa, where even the Socialistic Hydro- Electric scheme is imperilled by" the individualistic demands of the ' men, indicate what is going on. The most signal instance is to he found in the revelations of James Murdock in re- signing from the Board of Commerce in his letter to Premier Borden. The moral of this is crystallized in one sentence: The public, unorganized as the sands by the sea, requires some pro- tection against the practices of super- modern business." If this protection is not furnished by the government then the result is as certain as it al- ways has been in history. It may be delayed, but it is ine%-itable. PAIN OFTEN CAUSE OF INFANT'S SMILE BABY HAS NOT LEARN- ED RIGHT EXPRESSION OF JOY Child Entirely Lacks Sense of Direction of Hurt, Hunger or Dis- comfort The first sensation of the newborn infant is hunger. It cries because of a feeling of discomfort, not knowing of course, what causes the pain, but finds quiet as food flows into its stom- ach. The child does not know wnat hurts it, for it has not yet found ths way around its own body, or, as the doctors say, it has not gained the pow- er of localization. Hunger is merely a feeling of discomfort, just as cold i.<. If it happens to be exposed to se- vere temperature, or that which is be- y, low the heat required for comfort, it cries, and the nurse tries to see "what is the matter." If a pin is awkwardly inserted in the clothing and sticks in the baby's body, the infant cries again, but does not know what hurts it, only that it suf- fers pain. Feels Pain ' ' Somewhere. ' * It is quite a question how long a time is required for the child really to learn the geography of its own body. If an operation upon a very young infant is necessary, the surgeons do not have to hold down the limbs, save to avoid general squirming, for the babe does not know whether the foot or hand is being cut; it simply feels a pain "somewhere." Litle by little the baby finds its way about itself, so that when stuck by a pin on the leg it will kick that leg more than the other, but this Is only after weeks of existence. Smiles Are Deceiving. The ' ' smiles ' ' of young infants are merely the drawing back of certain muscles around the mouth and often are caused by a feeling of pain or dis- comfort. The babe has not yet learned how to contract his muscles to indi- cate joy or pain, and the smile is often an indication of discomfort. Only later comes the distinction in the use of the facial muscles by which we smile or cry. No one has yet been able to explain why we should not smile in pain and cry in pleasure. In fact, when joy is too greatly exaggerated we do "cry for joy," thus proving how closely al- lied are smiling and weeping. The drama of the internal life of the infant is the most interesting in the world, if it could be written out in full. But no one can remember that far back, and so psychologists have to trace the early steps, from hunger to general sensibility and then to location of pain. Facts About Canada AN F.MT.RALD SET IK liAYA. Before the opening of the Suez Canal, says the London Times, St. Helena was a very important posses- sion of the British Crown, as it was a station on the outward and home- ward long sea route between England and India. But from 1S70 to the time of the Boer war the population dwin- dled; its industries and usefulness to the empire decreased. Since the beginning of this century, however, it has been regaining value. Its climate is admirable, its rainfall sufficient, its 200 springs of pure wa- ter lend themselves to irrigation and make the interior, away from the pre- cipitous cliffs that face the sea, "an emerald set in gray lava. ' ' The spring of IS'Jl saw the Canadian Pacific Railway launch into another sphere of activity. Then it was that three great ocean liners â€" big for the day â€" were set upon their initial voy- ages. They were the Empress of In- dia, the Empress of China, and the Empress of Japan. They cost about one million dollars each, with a prom- enade deck about 250 feet in length. The first boat, the Empress of In- dia, with 141 saloon passengers left Hong Kong on .-April 17, and although she eecountered very heavy winds, she reached Victoria, B.C.. on the 2!*th of the month at an average speed of 17 knots per hour. A special train car- ried the mails and passengers from Victoria to Montreal, arriving there in three days, 17 hours and 35 minutes. But on the August trip of the Em- press of Japan she made such speed at sea that with careful arrangement of railway scheilules mail was landed in London in 20 days and nine hours from Yokahoma, thus establishing a new record, for the official time via the Suez canal then was 43 days. The British papers gave the event great space and lauded the achieve- ment as indicating a new era in trade and travel. Since that time the C. P. R. has added many ships to its fleet in the Atlantic and the Pacific and some of the 'inest vessels flying the British flag now 1y the house flag of the com- pany. During the war its vessels were at the disposal of the govern- ment and sailed thousands of miles with troops or as merchant cruisers protecting the commerce of the Allies from enemv raiders. MACHINE WnnJS PAPEE. A Buffalo inventor has patented a machine to wind narrow rolls of paper for the backs of barbers' chairs from wider and cheaper rolls. OLLY, my sister, and I fell out, I don't know what she's mad about 1 took her doll, her reins and ball, But there's no need to fuss at all; She ought to know they'd be returned, She couldn't act worse if they'd all been burned Find Molly and another person. Lower right comer down.on hair bow; upper nght comer down, along doll. Lord French's Failure Lord French does not come very well out of the controversy which he in- augurated by his book, "1914," many statements in which have been shown to be garbled, and the main conten- tions of which have been shown to be erroreous by the publi<ration of documents ia Sir George Arthur's life of Lord Kitchener. Kitchener cer- tainly saved the situation at the end of August, and Lord French wrote him, "Thank God you are there, and I mean it." Hon. J. 'W. Fortiscue, his;orian of the British Army, declares: Lord French is, it is true, still the reeLpient of honors and rewards: but no accum- ulation of titles, batons, grants, orders, or decorations can ever fit him ' to stand in the company of such men as Balph Abercromby. John Moore, Bow- land Hill and Thomas Graham. Let these, and not Lord French, stand be- fore the youth of Britain as the models upon which to train themselves to be officers and gentlemen." Some mur- murs of protest are heard that Lord French should be continued a£ Vice- rov of Ireland. Agriculture in England The principle of the Ulster tenant right has been largely adopted in the new act passed at the instance o.' Lord Lee, presi.ient of the Board of Agri- culture in Enland. The farmer is given security by a guarantee' of prices for his wheat and oats. The laborer is given security by the establishment of the Agricultural 'Wages Board, which guarantees him a minimum wage. The State is given the right to insist on proper cultivation and power to vary cultivation. The landlord gets fair rents, regulated against improvements made, and the tenant is compensated for disturbance, and fully for improve- ments and against frivolous eviction. The aim iu this respect is to establish on the land the man who works it. .\ good deal of philosophy has been imparted into the domestic legislation cf England in the last twenty years, and the necessity of providing for the rural population, its increase and sta- bility, is largely the object of the Act. No country can flourish without a strong and thriving rural population. The gravest fact that .\merica has to face is that while some years ago two- thirds of the people lived in the ei^untry and produced food, to-day only one- third are food producers, and the other two-thirds are trying to live on them. England has faced this fact, and >h« sooner we do it in Canada the sooner will the cost of living problem be solved. JOE MARTIN- An intoxicating dlondc well: here YOU ARE •I I n ®1 V