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TRAINING TOM By Claude Callan didn't expect to accomplish everything: at once, so she Anally agreed that the ouit was small enough. The following Sunday Tom and May I were aa nie>ly dragged an any couple, at church and most of the people were ' greatly surprised. "Tom must think he Is going to lose her," one sister-in-law said. She is going to ruin that boy, cer- Several weeks before Tom , n debt ,, gf SfJS you are and afraid of anything in the world ex- cept her. winced that he really loved her and do," May'fi mother said to her, "is to that he was at last a grown man, have a talk with him and come to an qualified to take upon himself the understanding." responsibilities of married life. [ This appeared to be sensible advice, i R ea H y Tom and May Y C , This occurred one evening when he but May didn't even consider trying It debt> but Aunt Lucylg th ^ ^^ dropped over to see her just as her She remembered that her mamma used ice c i othes and debts Blway8 went brothers and a number of other boys to have a serious talk with her papajj,^ in hand in the neighborhood were preparing every few weeks in an effort to come. May(g mother wag thfl h iegt WQ _ to go on a hunt The air was frosty to an understanding, but the talks man >t church while ghe ga , d no _ and the dogs were anxious to go to "ver amounted to anything. Rf all y i thing about the new clothes, there was tha creek bottom. Tom was invited to it seemed to May that the result of, a 8mjle Qn her fape whlch made u ^ loin in the hunt, and for a few minutes the talks was that her parents camej dent that ghe feU gure May ha(J fo] _ be apjwared to be undecided, but final- to a misunderstanding, nnd she was j owed her advice and ly he made up his mind to remain at determined not to try the same thing the house with May, and his determ-, " Tom - tnation to do this was unshaken even "All right," the mother said. "Do when he heard the hounds filling the as you please, but don't blame me for ir with a rich-toned announcement the consequences. If you want to be f an early conquest. I a slave to a man all your life I haven't May was happy. She knew that Bother word to say, but if I were In everything Tom had told her was true y ur P la <* I w "l d have my rights and ihe was ready to go with him to or l would bundle up these three chil- the little home his father had given dren and n> v to myself." him on the small farm he was to culti- May's mother frequently announced vate. (that she hadn't another word to say, In less than two months Tom and' but after making this announcement May were in their home, far away in she always thought of something else tha hills and out of sight of other and . 8aid she couldn't keep from say- homes, but this Just suited them. They in K St - "The trouble with you," she con- felt that they would be willing to live right there forever and not see a rela- tinued, "is that you are afraid of Tom. tlve or friend. The cold rain was , You ought to tell him that you are pouring down on their little home,! young and that you are not going to come to an understanding. But the best part of the whole thing was that Tom realized that his chances of accomplishing something in the fu- ture hadn't been destroyed by the ex- pense. He felt that he could pull through in spite of the money he had spent for his wife's clothes and his own, and he found that he had a little more respect for May's opinions. May knew that he was thinking this, but she said nothing about her, _"Jy the vessel - and rescued at victory. She simply made up her mind f; 000 P^P'* from the disaster. that she would not lose any of the' lhe ^ip s linen was used for bandages ground she had gaii.ed, and every and dressings, afternoon for a week when Tom came home he found her wearing one of her pretty house dresses. Address communication* to Agronomist, 73 'Adelalda t West, Toronto Played a Hero's Part Capt. S. Robinson, of the C.P.R. steamship Empress of Australia, who is being highly commended for his splendid seamanship and great cour- age when his ship was In danger dur- ing the Japanese earthquake. He ' The next step was easy. Although Tom had looked upon the house as a Screenings for Sheep Feeding. Beginning with the first of October, >- k w**u vii vncii iibbic .',. r. v jw* * >.w v o . , - , i screenings will be freely offered com-' which was leaking in several places.' lock yourself up in this house and f helter f r them to stay in while work- , mercially along with other min feeds < at fault which did not disturb them in 1 never see anybody. Just tell him that ln * the farm, he began to feel that., and coarse Krains An amendment of the least May had arranged bright'; he is very good company, but that you after all, Jt might^be best to add a few Jagt session to the Feeding Stuffs Act>! new pans to catch the water and she was watching Tom build shelves in the kitchen. It ia true that the shelves might have been considered a pretty rough job by some people, but they were the want to see someone else occasionally." May made no response to this, al- though she felt that Tom really had come to the conclusion that no woman should ask for anything better than to be around him all the time. He didn't only kind that Tom could afford, and' even feel that it was necessary for him good woman is usually satisfied with almost nothing if she knows that her hushiind is doing his best and really trying to make things comfortable for her. "That top shelf slants backward a Tittle," Tom said in an effort to dis- parage his own work. to look his best. He thought that his wife ought to be proud of him at his worst and he went around looking his worst most of the time. After all the relatives nnd friends had finished giving advice May went! """ ' ^ about training Tom in her own way. 1 althou S h hc fclt conveniences in addition to the kitchen shelves. He could see that such a session a Dominion measure, provides that mill screenings shall be sold as such , and not mixed with shorts, as has been something better than he had supplied, l ^ ^ m Pretty soon Tom was consulting . E , 8creen V gs fed to sheep at May about his plans, and not entirely! Experimental Farm at Ot- to her surprise he once more began tawa returned a value of $70 a ton WHY I BELIEVE IN BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS. I shall nevr forget my first lesson in stock judging, when I was a fresh- man in the college of agriculture. We were handed score cards which gave the names of the various parts of the' animal and the per cent, to be given ' in case the animal in question was perfect I was dumbfounded. I had fed and watched pigs grow, milked cows, and worked horses all my life,' and yet there on the card were words I had never before associated with an animal. It proved a revelation and 1 an incentive for careful study. After "going over" a cow brought into the class-room, with the score card, the cow became more than a frame cover- ed with hide and hair. A machine was revealed with wondrous possi- bilities. The same was true with the horse, the pig, and the sheep. , When I was a youngster and fol- lowed my father around as he slopped the pigs, I would peek through the fence and watch the pigs from day to day make hogs out of themselves. In those dajj^I generally had a pet, some favored one in the bunch, that was: selected because of his curly hair or perhaps the white spots on his side. Some years later part of my family chores Included feeding the pigs. Just us when a lad in knee breeches. I still pick out a pig that "looked good" to me. The selection was determined partly by the pig's degree of friend- liness toward me, and perhaps by some marked color or texture of hair. i c ,, . , . iratwc* i vfcui lieu a v niuc u i I v * IAMI referring to things on the farm as , n ^ gaing made by ^ ^ The First of all, she told him that theyj "flike that." May said, "because itj bo , th ! hould bavo u nlcer cloihe *> and , will hold things better." , W ?" "u ^"t they never saw any- , "W 11 'f I h t h y muc " and tnat nobody ever saw we I, i haven t got the other then) she ,-gpjjgj warm i y: ahelf slanting toward the front!" ^ ',' _ , . , ' grain ration contained two-thirds ; en om bought his next sui a ^reenjngg and one-third consisting of had so much confidence in May's judg- a d * bran and! rr.ent that he allowed her to persuade; ., j ., . . . . ' . j | him to get a suit small enough, and ingg> ^ standa ' d r aU *n uTed ^Tthe | in sucn a suit jn fee(j ielded return of j 45 t l h L 8 ,?,. ^1 1^ !r. ton in gains made. The screenings. 1 announced. "That won't hurt bit," May told "Well, we see each other." If this made any impression on himi'J f ? 2*? " P ^ the nt "'' ' ked 8O nlce she failed to detect it He seemed to like the oats, were fed screenings used consisted of a mix ture of cracked and shrunken wheat, i : u = sra syj s. s -m-s.rt.^r,: e This product as now obtainable is so him. "It makes it easier to clean, and figure that, since they were married, j besides when I get the papers on the it made no diffreence how each one' u j ! i cleaned either at the elevator, or flour m ' . ,. .,' mills as to be practically free from _ , ana ittay come oui. ,^ fi M rf rf f d { halvas nobody will be able to notice appeared to the other, but she had an ' " e kl " d Id ' ady Sald to T m " mother ' that they are not even." entirely different view. She not only I K . . i.j i,;.. .v:_i. .L . i mother said: , ay sa o oms mo. ... .. , ,. . , . , , ,1. ,. screenings until recently. The Feeding Shaking her head the dear old . . _ . , min . . . IM J . ... * The rain was so heavy that soma wanted him to think that she people might have thought that the 1 young and pretty, but she wanted him house was In danger of being washed to dress up occasionally so she could' 'Poor Tom!" away, but May wasn't uneasy. She had Tom there to protect her and she frit that there was no need of her feel proud of him. It really looked s if Tom , came to her, kissed her and led her up i the aisle, Tom following with May'i hava his way and that he and ~May| m ther and the cb j ldr '-"- being afraid of the elements. [would settle down with the one object A vi,, h , nw a Pntrinp that ~H (found, because sheep dislike a floury Not satisfied with the shelves he had of accumulating money and ~ "' '--' E1 u SiiZ^CTt Stuffs Act administered by the Seed Branch of the Department of Agri- culture at Ottawa, requires that It But even she was pleam'd when May . . . ., ^ t!_ ,.,___ j L K . j, JL 'shall contain not more than one per _ cent, of fine weed seeds and that per- centage of tough fibre shall be low. In sheep feeding it is better fed un- the children raised, so the children in valvps d at , east twiee turn pniim tno^^.r cAffln ^1...... I j_ have a year; to make May happy, and every time turn could marry, settle down and de- they went to town together he wanted vote their lives 'to raising their chil- to buy something nice for her or for dren, but May didn't give up. She the house, but she knew that he decided to begin her campaign by im-' y68 couldn't afford to spend so much nnd proving herself, and knowing that " Have aho told him that they must be satis- Toin would be mad if she spent a lot a " ked tne y un S bride - " Yes - "> a>a m." fied with what they had until he made) of money for a fine dress to "" <<l * k m """ li/>1 " /l "'- " w -' * to be finely ground in order j better"" A'Vlow-8pd !to d f stroy . wecd "^ *"* * incre&se engine, at least once, better twice a you any fresh vitamines?" wear in said the veracious dealer. "We've got good start in the world, a thir.g that public, she spent all her savings for Bome that WBS cau & ht this ver y morn - H.tta B..VU n m... ' I . ' ,..';*.. _! t-_ illlf " ^lll. 1'nt . I V f < r C one nice house dress. One afternoon when Tom came from work he found his wife wearing this! she was sure a mar. of Tom's ability could not fail to do. When young Robert arrived in the home the house was filled with rela-l bright dress instead of the dingy one lives for several days, but finally Tom, he had expected to see. When she and May had the little fellow to them- j asked him how she looked hc had to elves, and they were prouder of him confess that she looked nice, but he than they had been of the kitchen | said he couldn't see but what she helves. j looked just as well in the old one. It Tom suddenly became a grave old, wasn't entirely worn out. man, and. although he thought ho re-j In a few weeks May had another ing." She got oysters. feeding value. The most powerful lifeboat in the world is being built for use in the' Mersey; she is sixty feet long, driven by motors, and has cabin accommoda- tion for fifty people. Home Education T he Child's Flrt School ! the Family" Froebel.' Children's Prayers By Bertha Hay ward Higgins 'Mother, I think I'm going to make membered everything the grandmother } nice house dress. It looked as if she a collection of prayers," said my small had told him, he kept one of his work was thinking more of herself than! boy one evening. Torn' "Very well," said I, "I think that when his baseball nine is going to play a game. "But," said he, when we were dis- cussing it, "what if one of the fellows horses at the gate so he could ride to 8 he was of the children, but n,,,, .-., . May's mother's in case the baby should didn't complain. He said very little, | will be fine. Art- you going to paste on the other side prays as much as I cry in some peculiar manner that he^ but he wished that some of the neigh- ! them in a scrap book?" ' couldn't understand. Two or three bo rs would happen over and nee May "Yes, but I'm going to learn them times during the night he was on the in her new dress. In spite of all he flrst. But when can I say them? NOTHING LEARNED. I had never paid any attention to the judging at the fall festival or the county fair because in those days these festivities, as far as I was concerned, were picnics where red lemonade flow- ed freely, the sports bet on horse races, and every one stayed till sundown to see the balloon go up. Any demonstra- tion in judging livestock was carefully hidden at the far end of the track, so that very few knew anything about it. And even if you knew about it, and were fortunate enough to see the judge in action, his manner made the work more mysterious and meaning- less. There was never an explanation or a reason given for any placing. On my first Thanksgiving vacation from college I was out in the cow lot and the pig pen at home every day making comparisons and scoring indi- viduals. I was actually getting ac- quainted with them. Though I had known them all my life, they were strangers until the score card made 1 the introduction. Those elementary lessons in judg- ing, and later the participation in! judging contests with other colleges! at the big livestock shows and thttj judging at fairs, are among the most pleasant of my experiences. In contrast to my early boyhood days on the farm, the boys and girls | of to-day have an opportunity to take advantage of specific training in prac- j tically all branches of farm work right' at home. When I was a boy (that was not very many years ago) the boys' and girls' club idea wasn't born yet. With these institutions the boys and girls on the farm have every oppor- tunity to acquaint themselves with tha best information along practically every line of farm production. I worked with a group of boys and girls this year in the pig clubs. These young people are just like I was when I was their age. They milked cows, fed pigs, drove horses, and plowed corn. There was nothing special for them to think about except getting up at 5 a.m., work all day, and milk tha cows after sundown. A NEW DEPARTURE. Forty boys in this community thl year changed this old program. Each assumed the ownership and responsi- bility of feeding and caring for * purebred pig. Four distinct business organizations or clubs were formed, each selecting officers from their own number and adopting a regular con- stitution and by-laws. Meetings were held regularly each month. Anyona doubting the ability of a bunch of youngsters from eleven to eijrhU'en to conduct a meeting in true parliament- ary style, with a little coaching, should make an effort to visit a boys' and girls' club in most any agricultural community. These youngsters grab at the chance to run their own meat- ings, and they do It right, too. I hava actually seen a bunch of ten boys con- duct a meeting themselves in a mora businesslike manner than do many adults. Meeting with their own group gives these lads confidence in them- selves, and they get information In parliamentary law which they will never forget. But there are other factors that are Just as important, perhaps more so. In the club activities. Feeding and caring for their pigs, each attempting to raise the best in the county, molds our future hog breeders. When the judging lessons are given, and the try-outs for the county judg- ing team are staged, no more earnest and sincere group can be found. A baseball game or a football contest has no advantage over a contest of this kind for intense and concentrated interest on the part of the players. It ia a gruelling contest. These forty lads started at seven o'clock in the morning and worked till six at night, judging twenty-five class- es of stock, which included horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. And at the end of the day each contestant was asked to give his reasons on four classes of stock judged during the day. IMPRESSIVE SIGHT. It is no small task to keep in mind the details of a particular class of stock, singling them out of ten or mor* bunches judged, and give reason on placings several hours after seeing them. Yet these youngsters stood up individually before a group of sixty men and women who made the trip, and told in detail why they made tlieir plccings. It was an impressive sight to see these boys work and hear them irlva their oral reasons and explanations. Following the boys' and frirls' club work in -its' Various activities is amply convincing that it is one o* the great- est of forces for agricultural pro- gress. B. R. HOW TO PREPARE AN ADDRESS . point of going for the grandmother,} had said to the contrary, he felt proud can't say them all every night, can I?" but each time May managed to get of his wife in her finery, and after the baby to sleep, and the next a few weeks he ' not if you have a * Then I recalled to him the fact that "God help, those who help them- selves," and together we summed up the conclusions, that regular system- having taken such good care of the litt'e fellow. As a matter of fact, he had done nothing except fill the lamp, but May. had bragged on him and tie felt that he was almost the equal of the best old women in the neighbor- hood. For almost a year after this time Tom continued referring to everything on the place as "ours." He not only ft-Il that May was h-s partner, but he took the baby into th< firm. So long 8B he owned nothing he appeared to he perfectly willing for May to enjoy the pride and chare the responsibility of heinK a partner, but afler the first unusually Rood crop year Tom bejran to fed that everything was his. He still loved May, but he realized that, after all, she WBS only B, woman end that she wasn't to be considered when he was weighing the more im- portant matters that a husband and father must dfcide. It was at this point that May's pv>p!e began talking. They said that Tom was just, like the. re.n of his P'ojile, and it was a notorious fact that Tom's older brothers were mean to their \vivcf. "P.ior May!" =nid the grand mo :.her. "She had p'.tnty of warning." raid a M?ter who wss not inclined to be v>- .', ipV.hi'tiiv 'f ; II .;;!! from her hftiiiR too p- -i ;o hrr lii.shi-.nd," was the opinion r '' \ .-it .lu!in, whose husband served UiW' 1 ];'! two wcr.T and who wasn't church. May remembered that every time her papa had told her mamma to buy n new dress her mamma had been satisfied with learning that he was willing for her to look nice. Instead ler mamma would Tom at his word HI d in a short lime she had the dres made, but she re- fused to wp.-ir il unlpBs Tom would buy u nrw suit for himself. "Von look so nice when you are dressed up," she said to her husband, nnd, though Tom wss not more vain than the ordinary man. he decided that she was right. Although he said no- thing, he agreed wi.Ji her that he did look nice when lu> wns drensed up. "f just thought this morning," he continued, "when I saw those men at the lot that yon were the nicest-look- ing one in thp crowd mid I wished then that you had a new suit. Tf>m pretended thnt he didn't think hc was the nicest-looking man in the crowd, hut he felt that his wife had remBrkablv pnod judgment aliout such things and lv decided to let her "drivn" him to town to buy a new suit of clothes for himself. The entire family went along, and, while Tom allowed his wife to select the pattern, he wouldn't listen to her about the size. He had always bought clothes too large arid he wasn't going to make himself lock ridiculous by buying a suil that would fit, but May others ready for special occasions. There are so many times when you want to ask God for something, or thank Him for that which He has al- ready given you. It would be very nice to have all ready for use, a col- nomeone has nd expressed in more beauniui language than you svould lie likely to use if you made them hastily." Now whenever he finds a prayer which he wants to add to his collec- tion, we read it through and discuss it, then we decide on what occasions it would he likely eo have the most meaning for him. Some, of course, have to be adapted to mec't his needs. 1 feel that in changing them I have been able to avoid dampening the re- ligious feeling that is being siwakcned in the child, and I hopp thus to avert the danger that arises wherever form- al prayers are used- -that they shall become a me:'e mechanical repetition of words. I have always believed that a child's prayers should be spontaneous and natural, and that if formal prayers are used, they should be explained and made to have some real significance. I believe too that the child should understand that he must do his part in having his prayer answered. One of the prayers which l.addie had in his "collection" and which he has adapted to his needs, is for use ways play fair. I tried to make him see that while may not always be ans- in just the way we either that for which we ask, or some- thing better. In proof of this I re- called his disappointment last summer at the postponement of the Sunday School picnic, because of a rainy day when be had prayed for a sunny day. We hnd the picnic later on, and we also had a large quantity of black- berries, which we would not have had if the drought had continued, and we are still hnving blackberry jam. Just as I have tried always to re- tain my child's confidence, to make him evor ready to have a "good talk over" as he calls it, so I have tried to make him feel that nothing which in- terests him is too small or too insi-rni- ftcant to be taken to God in prayer. And just as he had learned to feel that Mother and Dad are "good sports" and can understand and for- give his little boyish mistakes, so '.:e is coming to realize th. master under- standing and ever ready forgiveness of the "All-Father." Just as the Indian lad when he went alone into the mountains to fast and pray ("mine a vision") was uncon- j sciously setting up in his own mind the ideal into which his charcter would j develop, so is the child who forms the habit of prayer. early Many a person dodges a gathering simply because he knows that as a member of a responsible organization he will be called upon and expected to make an address. To dodge anything is to acknowledge defeat, whereas to meet a situation is an important step toward success. The person who "gets out of making a speech" lessens his own self-respect and self-confidence; but if he makes a determined effort to be ready for the occasion when he may be called upon to give "a brief address," hc not only educates himself in poise and general information but in time gains recog- nition as the "ready speaker" that will make him known either in the business or in the social world. To prepare for an address is simple if it is done systematically. Here are some suggestions from i\ person who, by following them, won a leading place in n contest over seventy others who tried for the honor of making an address: 1. Jot down at random your per- sonal opinion on the subject, for it prevents your talk from being .stereo- typed and gives it personality. There fore, be sure to do that before you get impressions either from persons or from reading matter. 2. Determine how long the address should he. 3. Decide upon the general way in which you will express yourself whether you will be formal (in which case, you must omit slnng), semi- humorous or brief and businesslike. Whatever style you choose, try to pre- sent the most hopeful and constructive fact*. 4. If you lack ideas or information, read enough "to set you going" by con- sulting at the public library such of the following books as you think are likely to help you, encyclopaedias, some yearbook or almanac, govern- ment bulletins, the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (which gives references, both under the name of the subject and under the names of auth- ors of magazine articles in leading publications, both current and past) and such special books on the subject as either the card catalogue or the librarian may suggest. 5. After you have got ail the ideas on the subject that you can, outlina your speech simply in this form: Introduction One sentence la enough for that. Body Under that heading should come a paragraph for each phase of the subject. A single word to suggest the logical order of treatment it enough. Conclusion In some cases a singl* sentence is sufficient; other cases need a brief summing up in a few forceful Yvords. 6. Study the address and then copy the outline of it in large legible writ- ing or in typewriting upon a card small enough to hold in the piilm of the hand. If your speech is not per- fect.ly memorized, or if stag; fright makes you forgetful, the card will keep your remarks in the logical order that makes them most interesting; and, although you may i,ot say them exactlj as you wrote them, you will be more likely to just because you huva carefully prepared them and hava notes that remind you. "Jack is selling oi! stock " "Maybe that's wtj he'? so s.'ooth.'