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. i : Nature Says It With Flowers ARCHIBALD RUTLEOGE in "America Porests" I once bad a rather memorable ex- perience with a water-lily. I had been at a house-party, and, to be frank, I had tired 01 the company one morning and had gone for a walk alone in the woods. Here I found a tiny pond, and on it a single perfect waterh.y. Little gusty fra- grant airs out of the forest made its gleaming ohaflce slide veeringly on the black water. It seemed yearn- ing for wings. While I was admiring the snowy Immaculate bloom, .sailing idly, and perhaps imagining that the oth-er house-guests, whose frivolities I bail fled, would not have thus wan- dered to admire a lily. behind me sounded a step. Turning. I faced the chief reveler. What could he be doing down h*r--? He spoke for himself. "How did you fln.1 my lily?" he asked. "This is my fourth visit to bar. Too bad she can't jiwt sail away as she wants to: just like tft the mud. people anchor i| What?" Ever since that experience I've been far less sure of the originality the loneliness of my feelings. imagined that the fragranca came from the pink blooms; how sur- prUed I was when my mother er- plalned that the leaves gare the odor. Wildflowers do not an a rule take kindly to civilization. I have tried transplanting and improving arbutus, ladyslipper, chicory, black-eyed Susan, and many others. But they pine for home for the aweet wild- erness of nature. Chicory showg a heavenly blue in the starved upland pasture; but when set in rich soil, fertilized, and otherwise peter, it went to stem and coarse leaves. The blossoms were few and inferior. It could not stand prosperity. Per- haps it comes to perfection as Ion? as it is anybody's flower; if we try to appropriate it. its charm fails. One of the moat startliivg and at the same time beautiful wild-flowers in all nature is the regal cardinalis the bloom that, in damp wood- lands, lifts its gorgeous red spire sunward, seeming to carol a scarlet madrfgal. Where nothing obstructs the view, its crimson spire can eas- ily be seen for a distance of 200 yards. And its presence invests the wood with a princely charm. as if royalty were approaching. There is about the beauty of this flower the of loveliness, a rite of ceremony splendor. One day in late June a friend and . i. were driving up a mountain vale 1; l the lonelmess of my feelings .I . was c , oad but t had T,, arbutus grows closer to the ' . Mi comrade out be _ earth than any other flower to beau- Olympic Romance ty and fragrance It peepg forth %'lih starry eyes from layer.! of dead I-aves. and is the first bloom of the spring to woo one to the woods. When the great gray spearheads of wild geese stream north waid; be- fore the woods are misty with tints of coming green; before there is a single songster heard in the forest, spring's darling recluse comes fra- grantly forth. as fair as hope, as sustaining to winter-weary souls as fulfilments of love's promises. The great rose mallow is perhaps the most alluring of all wild-flow- ers partly because it persists in growing in inaccessible places! It Is the love we never meet; the hope we never realize. A rjse mallow has always beeu to me a vision of b^amy unattainable. having the glamour ot sunsets in it. urn: the lure of sad sea-horizons. Th" yellow jasmin- is a child ot tlie Southern forests; and a rejoic- ing child It is. Its beauty and its fragrance are such '.hat one could lurdly imagine grace more refined. It you can't make love to a maiden. WH!i jasmine showers above; T'aete'g no such thing ad romance. There's no such thln^ as love! Whenever I think of Jasmine, I see oaks and hollies and sweet-gums canopied with exquisite greenery of this delicately rioting vine, and I see gurry saffron showers stayed in air. And the springtime softly swings her censer in my heart. t dearly love the wild columbine for at least two r-a-vins: for its s.vaying delicate beauty; and for its blithe hardihood in growing out of rooks -like the loveliness of soul springing out of adversity. It re- calls to me a certain meadow trout stream, and a prince of flsher.nen, cause he was depressed. and the aspect of the hills and the unstain- ed beauty of the little dells beside the road would, I knew, heal bis heart if anything could. It was in my mind to stop beside some scene of beauty, and let nature's quiet loveliness do its work. And my chance came. The road dipped into a dewy hol- low. On one side was a noble growth of oaks and hickories, under which stood a fairy enhair ferns. On forest of maid- the other side Henry Van Dyke, privilege to Hsh It was long my this stream with was a mountain meadow stretching away under massive scarlet oaks to the distant mountain stream. I saw the crimson turrets of tall cardinalis. Between the ferns and the scarlet towers I stopped the car. I pointed out nothing to him. for the heart rejoices more In making its own discoveries of beauty. My friend, as was natural, saw the oool flames of the cardinalis nrst. Then he looked away to the tiny Sherwood that the maiden- hairs made. His eyes were rested, his spirit calmed. Who denies miracles? We stayed till sundown; and from that time of communion wi t h natural beauty and peace my friend began what proved to be a complete recovery One day in H\at delicious .season when the rosebays were in bloom, I had gone into a shadowy glen to see the pink and snowy blooms, glim- mering in the fragrant woods above a crystal cascade. On my way back, just at sundown, I m^t a little moun- lain girl. Doria Booue. whose people 1 knew well. Though only seven years old. she bad her share of work io do. and now was driving a cow ahead of her up the mountain path was just that deep hour when a huge and thoughtful silence trances the world. "You been lookiu' at the rhodod- endrons, aiu't you?" she asked. him: or rather, to watch him. the old master, which afforded me more pleasure than angling myself. At a certain point along the stream the batik is high and rocky. There are dewberry vines ambling grrenly over the stones; there are hawthorn bushes; there are little white violets lik-> babes in the woods. And there I, aild columbine. Out of the rocks it grows. There will be a patch of soil not larger than the palm of one's hand thin and starved. But la this the columbine grows, send- ing Its roots through cold forbld- dins crevices in the rock. How- ev-r fast the fishing. 1 never saw H'nry Van Dyke pass the swaying red chimes of the columbine with- out pausing to worship unfeignedly at their delicate shrine. I could not have bean more than sU years old when I ^aw my first wild rose, growing in a clay bank There had been a shower not '-ong before so that the delicate leaves wr* coolly pearled; and exhaling from the foliage was the most delici- ous odor I had ever smelled. A [>luug>; into the sea of matrimony will be taken by Mickey Riley and Georgia Coleman, two of America's leading divers. They're going to wait until after the Olympic games, though. Sunday Schoo 1 Lesson 1 admitted It. Which do you like best?" she asked, looking up at me while- her bare toes played in the sand 'do you like Pl" th<? H wtjrs - or ' you lhem wl! " re are- I allus leave the.m." Doris was right. The way to go ildnowering U not to gather them. but to love them, to leave them, and to bring their beauty home in one heart. -What did Uie judge do li> that young man who stole the diction- ary?" "He gave him a long sentence to work out." July 24. Lesson IV The Deliverance at the Red Sea Exodus 14: 10-16, 21. 22. Golden Text The Lord is my strength and my Song, and he is became my salvation_ Exodus 15: 2. ANALYSIS. I. STRAITENED! vs. 10-12. II. MOSES' CONFIDENCE, VS. 13, 14. III. DELIVERANCE. VS. 15, 16, 21, 22. INTRODUCTION The passage of the Red Sea was regarded by Israel itself a., the most important eve it in their history. Men of later generations, prophets and psalmists, referred to it strain and again. It was truly a water shed in their history. Before it they were a band of spiritless slaves; after it tney were God's triumphant free- men. Let us c- st our glance briefly backwards. Utver the last awful visi- tation of God, the destruction of the /.rstborn, Pharaoh's heart at las: yielded. The Israelites were permit ted to leave; indeed, the Egyptians were glad to .see the last of them. Out ir to the wilderness they went, G.xl hinrself guiding them with a pillar of cloud by tUy -ind a pillar of tire bv .ight. It is difficult to follow their course with an; degree of certainty; they were not trained in the nice pre- cisions of modern geography. At any r. te they reached the Red Sea (or Sea o' Rushes, as the Bible calls it) ; though at what point they touched the R ,f Sea whether the Culf of Akaba. or the Gulf of 'i-ez, or Lake Timsach it is perhaps impossible t > say. Here they were to sec "the arm of the Lovd revealed." I. STRAITENED! vs. 10-12. All through the Bible the Egyptians appear to have been a tickle and un- reliable people. Isaiah scornfully iv fers to them as "this broken ret-d," Isaiah :!(>: ti. No sooner had the Israelites left Egypt than the Phar- aoh, true to the unstable character of his race, regretted that he had p.-i'- r.iitted them to 50. After all, the Israelites were very useful; th-.-y had m:ide excellent slaves. A division of thi Egyptian army chariotry, cav- alry and infantry (v. 9t w.'re dis- patched to turn them back to bondage. It is likely th;u this army comprise.! simply the garrison force stationed on the borders of Goshen to observe and control the movement! of nomodk tribes. The Israelites, seeing that they were pursi ed with a well-equi|i pad force, lost heart. Tht;- began f o upbraid Moses thj first of their meny munuurintrs against his leader ship. Was it not a mistake, they ask- ed, to make this dash for freedom? Did not slavery in Egypt, severe though it was, offer relative security '.' Better a second-best like slavery than this sure and awful destruction! Let u^. alone, they '.'aj cried in Egypt the language oi despair, of content inent with the second-beut; let us slone. criwl tl-? demon p'>si-essed in 'he synagogue r<t Capernaum (Mark 1 : 24) the ceaseless language of sin. They were indeed in despei-to straits. Before they was the Red Sea. behind t'. em the Egyp'ian army. They could g<> neither forward nor backward. All retreat was cut off. They were faceti with nothing bul. destructio i or God! II. MOSES* CONFIDENCE, vs. 13, 14. Before his timid people, well-nigh paralyzed with fear, stood the lion- hearted leader, Moses. Only the cour- ageous can inspire courage; and the confidence of Moses, begotten of faith in God, put reart into the people "Here, as so often in the story," says- Professor MacFadyen, ''the lonely figure of Moses rises up In splendic contrast to the people about him. Hc saw more than the foe and the sea 'tie endured,' as, Heb. 11: 27 finelj s.t.ys, 'as seeing the Invisil-le,' he saw one whom the winds and the sea musl obey." "Stand firm." he said, "ant se the salvation of the Lord." It was obvious that human power could avai nothing; it was just as obvious that th-- glorious p.'ssage of the Red Sea was an act of God's "strength mad; perfect in weakness." III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 1<3, 21. 2~1. The rod, which Moses was biiden f lift up over the sea, had been nivei him by God at his call (4: 2); Moses had called it "tlr rod of God." 4: 20 A man of God. like Moses, was ac credited with having extraordinary pi.wer. It was the power of GodS Spirit dwelling mightily in him. This power was thouzht to be mediate* through his clothes or through hia staff. Elisha parted the waters o Jordan with tr.e mantle of Elijah (' ings 2: 12) ; Gehazi attempted to raisi the Shunammite's son with the staff o Elisha, 2 King* 4: 31. When Mosc stretched out his rod over the sea, i obeyed its Master. A later Psalmis has clothed th.- event with poetic im agery: "The sea saw him and fled,' Psalin 114: 3. An explanation of thi even on more . aturalistic grounds i provided in v. 21 "The Lord causei the sea to go back by a strong eas wind all that night." On the basis o this remark it is thought by some tha the neck of the sea at this point wa shallow as indeed is true of '.his Sei of Rushes as a whole, and that a furious wind blowing all i.ight would have the unusual, but not altogether impossible, effect of driving the water* back, leaving the seabed comparativo- 1 dry. It must be remembered that the Hebrews did not distinguish ')- tween the natural and the supernatur- al. All natural phenomena were to them supernatural, for all were under the sovereign power of G-H! and :'.! exhibited his power. So the sacred historian recognized a natural cause, "a strong east wind." but, back of this again, and controlling it for his own redemptive purpose, was GoH. Whatever the nature or explanation of the event, it was in any case th-? Lord's doing. The King's Highway know a road whose ribboned length, imootU surfaced as a floor, f*a once the route of cavalier* n stately coach and four. rlere gallant beaux in powdered wig, \nd belles in ruffled gown. To many a party, ball and rout. Rode down to old Jamestown. How still it is along the road, iow most divinely still The sunlit pattern of the leaves, The shadow s on the hill! My motor purrs in warm content, A rabbit scurries by, A drift of crows with lazy wings Mimb up a drowsy sky. I pass an orchard Uiat has foamed To clouds of feathery pink; The air U thrilled with mating call Ot thrush and bob-o-llnk. [ catcu my breath! Across a field Of wind-blown silvery wheat. The wraith of Pocahontas glide* On light elusive feet. Through field and wood and sleepy town. The road winds on iw way. \Vhite drifting clouds against tlie blue, Frail butterflies at play It winds with :n:uiy i bend and curve To cross a singing /iver, Where pale jreen willow fringes trail. And tall marsh grasses quiver. tf you are worn with city streets. Or choked with dusty fret, Ride down Ohe road with Washington. Match wiis with Lafayette! By Florence Wilson Roper, in Dallas America's Oldest Mrs. A. "Tom, our physician wants to send me to a summer re- sort for four weeks." "Mr. A. "Well, 1 don't blame him." Pollen Declared to be Cause of Dreaded Asthma Pollen Polln. the bugbear of li-iy fever sufferers, is now accused of causing asthma as well. In i paper read at the annual meet- ing of the Canadian Medical A - i lion. Dr. George C. Hale, of London, Ont., said inhalation of pollen wa^ one of the major causes of astiim.i. He named .-ating of ce.Uir foods and the effluvia ;uid proteins of bacteria a.s others Asthma, b.- explained, was due in early stages to spasms in the small bronchioles, small tubes running from th two main branches ot the wiud- plpe to the lung.s. Later it develops into continual spasms which lead to changes in the .small tubes. He suggeste sufferers from ,u"tiima after each a-taclt should write dowu everything the. did or ate on the pre- vious day. After several attacks, he said, it might be found that some food or deed appeared on ery list and that its limiuatioii would prove beneficial. Why Worry? A Quaint morsel of graveyard philosophy written aboui 1X73. A li'iudred years ago or morn Men wrung their hands and i - ! the floor. And worried over olii* >md tliat. And thought their car* wir.ild squash t:i-Mii flat Where are those worried beings now" The bearded goat and fe-uibe cow Eat grass al'ov e cheir moulded bones Ami jay birds call in strident tones. And where the ills they worried o>r" Forgotten all for evermore. Gone all the sorrow and the wo* That lived a hundred years agi>. Til- urief that makes you > r-i:n today I.iUo oili.-r uri.'fs. A ill pa-ss away. And when you've , ashed your little string. And jay birds o'er your bo,som sing. Tlie stranger pausing there to view The marble works that cover you, Will think upon the iiselessness Of human worry and distress So let the worry business slide. Liva while you live, and when you'vs died. The folks will say. around your bier: "He made hit while he was here." Because .she is said to America's oldest mother, Mrs. Xah-Thle-Tle, 109-year-old Apache Indian of Oklahoma, received gold medal from the Federated Women's dubs. A Grave World Issue By Stanley Baldwin (Lord President of the Council, in * House of Commons Speech.* The great importance of this junc- ture of the Ottawa conference is that it comes at a time when we are defi- nitely at the parting of the ways. It will be impossible for things to drift any longer. We have got to advanca in the direction of closer fiscal rela- tionship, or we have got t ) drift apart. There is no question about it. Tlie whole evolution of the eco- nomic pull of the world is gradually to increase the larger units, and 1 hope we may see in Europe a great change in the future, or it will be all up with European trade. And if the dominions do not get into this closer economic union with 'is. 1 n-ed not in this House and with tins audienca point out the economic ilan^r* which, f.>r those who value the em- pire and the traditions >f our race, lie between each different component ;>.u" if tiie "inpire. . . . Wa have to remember 'her* is -ai> such tiling as i->olutiii<; yourself from world depression. Countries have tried it particularly the L'uited States. They tried to ke*- p out jther people's goods, and H<1 influence world conditions f >r .1 :im'. but evn they cannot ,(o it. Their distress to- day and ill.- i.-a-r-rs which haro overtaken Hiem well. tuere is n. country in til" w >r!d which is suffer- ing more. It may be benelicial from the standpoint of a single country to take measures to isolate itself. It cannot lie ioii^- by all of them. Wa must Jo all w-> can to ''>nak it |.I*TI Britain Heads Last As Buyer of Anthracite Ottawa. (>nt. Impor:s it" anthra- cite into Canada from Great Britain exceeded those from the United States in May. the first time in his- tory that this happened in any one month. In May the imports from Britain \v-re I? 1 *.:'*)? tons and from the l'iii'-"i Si.i'-s l~>i).Si2 ton*, la May. 1931. they were from Britain, 141,911 tons, and from the United States. 20S.S94. Tlie s iiuinarv of trade t'>r May issued by the Dominion Bmvau .( Statistics -i.i.vs that tlie halanca with Great Britain was favorable tt Canada by $:!.74:i.Xl. i:id with tha United State* imfavorable by $18.- 188,007. For the twelve moiithi ended in may tlie favorable balance was $32.891.398. contrast c-d with an unfavorable balance of $77.7:!7.">5l tor Hie previous period. Tlie tinfar- orable balance with th* United State* A;IS cul ,'r mi $2r..x;,9.J9S t> J87.737.978 A True Test A true tost of friendship: to sit ot walk with a friend for an hour in per- fuel silence without wMryiM* of >na another's company. ^ o Duty The thiiu which must bt. must b< for the be<*t : V God helps us to io .nil- liu-y ind not shrink. And trust Us mercy humbly for th rest. Owen Meredith. Faces are made beautiful by kind- ness. It is a divine sculptor. It r(| Hires a very i-lev?r tongue to get a foolish one out >>f troubla. MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER An Impassioned Outburst Of Oratory. -x r*t OUIM-YOOfc. CAN WOT ACON4. VUOTHOUT YOU ^ i floaters- x ABSOLVJPEXV Hour >><JR -H> roRTHfeR .>, se'^w %-> .^-vjgrr. .* ijwCr fcE?****?i , ^^^y^-* roff* [', ^ ,