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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927 Sunday School Lesson September 4. Wise Cholc Golden Text- Lesson X--Solomon's :--1 Kings 3: 4-15. -Happy is the man that im, and the man that getteth understanding,--Prov. 3: 13. ANALYSIS. I. the wise choice, 4-9. II. the gifts of god, 10-15. Introduction--It is quite possible that Solomon received a better and more careful education and training than the older sons of David. Their early life was spent in the period of David's wars, and their education may have been largely that of the camp and the battlefield. Solomon's youth belonged to the later years of comparative peace and prosperity. His mother was the king's favorite wife, and she received his promise that her son should succeed him upon the throne. The fulfilment of this promise she claimed when two of David's oldest and most faithful friends, Joab and Abiathar, conspired to have anothsr and older son proclaimed king. This other son, Adon-ijah, had indulged his ambition in an r.ffc.:ia'icn of royal state, for which he had not been rebuked by 1' father, 1:5-6. "He was also a ve gr.or-ly man," th3 historian says, a piobably vc.Iy much more of a soldi than w".s Solom-jn. For that reason, It may be, Joab farcied* him. Pavid's last charge to Solomon ti.i::ed r.c::;e wire counsels: Be i strr-np---and show thyself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to wr.lk in his ways. Had Solomon taken tee&a counsels to heart and preserved the high motives and purposes of bis earlier years, the story of his reign might have been very different. I. the wise choice, 4-9. Gibeon was a small town situated on a terraced rocky hill about six miles northwest of Jerusalem, and not far from Gibeah, Saul's early Lome. It was a little to the north of - Mizpeh and west of Ramah, both places famous in early Israelite history. "For that," says the historian, "was the great high place." He has just explained, in vs. 2, that "the people Eocrificed in high places, be-"eause there was no house built unto the name of the Lord until those days." The high places were the ancient sanctuaries, used by the Israelites since the days of Joshua, of which some had been Canaanite places of worship. These had been consecrated to the worship of Jehovah, and the free use cf them was permitted by the oldest laws and customs, see Exod. They were all done away with Jcr'a i the s idth c i Deu C, in accordance with the teronomy (chap. 12), and because of the corruption of many pf them by idolatrous practices. The writer, or editor, of this pert of the history, who lived as late as the tim(f of Josi-»h, finds it necessary, therefore, to aro'ojfk'.e for King Solomon's visit to this important high place, and to show that it was in harmony with the practice of those early days. There at Gibeon, Solomon celebrated his accession to the throne of his father by a great religious ceremony. The* place was to him and to bis people peculiarly sacred because, so the writer of the books of Chronicles tells us. "there was the tent of meet-iper of God. which Moses the servant ef the Lord had made in the wilderness." There also was the altar of brass which had been made for the wilderness sanctuary, see 2 Chron. 1:1-6, and Exod. 27:1-2. God spoke to Solomon in a dreaa». Not infrequently in the Old Testament story did God thus reveal himself, as. for example, to Jacob (Gen. 81:11), and to Pharaoh, through Jo-- seph's interpretation (Gen. 41:28). See alro Num. 12:6; Job 4:12-13 and 83:14-15, The words great should be rendered "great-kindness," as in the latter part of the vers* Compare David's recognition of God' goodness to him in 2 Sam. 22:17-28. See also Psalm 15:2. Solomon's deep sincerity is evident in his acknowledgement of need. "I am but a little child," he says. He feels the responsibility which rests now upon him in the position to which God h£.s called k'm, and he asks, not for wealth, nor for power, but for an understanding heart, or, as in Chronicles, "wisdom end knowledge, that I may eome in before this people. For such a task, the task of ruling and exercising judgment, the highest wisdom is needed, the wisdom to discern between good and bad. The ideal for a'self-governing people is that all should posses this wisdom, should, therefore, be the aim and end of all rightly directed education. II. the gifts of god. 10-15. To the young king who asked for wisdom God promisee in his dream a wise and understanding heart, and also that for which he did not ask, but no doubt greatly desired, both riches and honor. Such gifts, it is true, do not always follow the wise choice. The writer of Eccleslastes tells us of a poor wise man who by his wisdom delivered his city from t great danger; "yet no man remembered that same poor man." In Psalir 73 is presented the case of a gooc. man sorely tempted, because, he says, "all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning." Yet this good man discovered that he had a greater possession by far than the rich whom he had envied, vs. 23-26. In the highest and truest sense, God's best gifts come to the man who makes the wise choice. Compare the words cf Jesus in Matthew 6:33. Solomon's ambition, therefore, at the beginning of his reign, was that be might have wisdom to rule his people well. That is the meaning of the words in v. 11, understanding to (discern judgment. The king's chief function in those days was the administration of justice, according to the established laws arid usages. The itory that follows our lesson, in this chapter, shows how, on occasion, he was able to civ* a difficult problem of justice, by the application of shrewd common sense, and a knowledge of human nature. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Summer Schedule Summer housekeeping and cooking should be reduced to a minimum. To save time and effort, plan each week's schedule and stick to it. Invalid's Catch-AII To keep an invalid's belongings, such as handkerchief, glasses, notebook, etc., from getting lost, pin a stiff, chintz envelope bag to the underside of her pillow. Mattress Handles All difficulties in turning mattresses can be overcome if you will sew loop handles on all four corners with heavy thread. Flower Stems Clear crystal vases give double beauty from a bouquet if you arrange the stems under the water as carefully as you do the bloomsuabove. t Chicken Grill Chicken legs and wings can be utilized appetizingly by grilling with small sausages and bacon and serving with fried pineapple slices. Stuffed Tomatces Tomatoes stuffed with fruit and served with boiled cream dressing make an unusually delicious and different tasting luncheon salad. Pcture Prints Old-fashioned tinted prints from books and magazines make charming medallions for smart lamp shades, boxes or even wall d' Cheese Salad Roll small balls of cream cheese, sprinkle with paprika, place three lettuce leaf and grate Roquefort cheese over top. Serve with French dressing. New Dressing For fruit salads a delightful dressing results from whipping two tablespoons of fruit jam into mayonnaise ith a little heavy cream added. Mint Mousse If you make your own ice-cream, a elightful dessert can be made by flavoring your regular recipe of mousse dth mint. Another Reason for Canadian Loyality Summer Treats Bavarian Raspberry 2 tb. gelatin, % cup cold water, 1 pt. crushed red raspberries, % cup boiling sr, 1 cup whipping cream, 1 cup sugar, % tb lemon Juice. Soak gelatin in cold water and dissolve in boiling water. Cool and add crushed fruit mixed with sugar and lemon juice. As soon as the mixture arts to jell, fold in the whipped earn and pour into molds to set. Cooked Salad Dressing 1 tsp. mustard, 1 tsp. salt, Dash cayenne, 1% tb. flour, 2 egg yolks, 1 milk, y2 tb. butter, Vi cup vinegar, 1 tb. sugar. Mix dry ingredients in the top of a double boiler. Gradually add the egg yolks, fat and milk, stirring constantly to keep smooth. Cook over hot water en minutes. Remove from Are, cool, and add the vinegar. Peach Salad 6 large peaches, raw or canned, % cup cream cheese, % cup mayonnaise dressing, % cup celery cut in thin strips about 1 in. long, V2 cup shredded green pepper, lettuce leaves, % cup milk. Pare and cut peaches in halves. Place on a bed of lettuce leaves, chopped celery and pepper. Mash cheese and combine with mayonnaise. Put mixture into a pastry bag and fill the hollows of peaches, leaving a rose on top, or fill carefully with a spoon.' At the table serve plain or with creamy dressing as preferred. Hunter Says That Gorillas Are Left-Handed, Always Attacking With Arm Outstretched London.--That every gorilla, unlike his supposed relative, man, is a left-handed animal, is the theory of Colonel H. F. Fenn, who has just returned to civilization after obtaining fine gorilla specimens for the British Museum in the Kivu district of the Belgian Congo. Whenever the gorilla attacks, says Colonel Fenn, he always runs on his two feet assisted by his right hand with his left hand outstretched. The Kivu bush is intersected by gorilla tunnels three and four feet high. Colonel Fenn had just entered of the tunnels following the sound , bark when a gorilla, mighty left outstretched, rushed at him, mouth open, and he was only seven away. Colonel Fenn fired from the hip and wounded the animal, which dashed away. The explorer found that female gorillas never attack, but disappear when in danger. One old male, who appeared about to attack the party, vas shot in the lung but kept goinf; nore than two hours. He then harged again and despite another bullet in the chest continued his fight for half an hour more before he was finally treed and shot. Measurements showed his chest to be sixty-two inches, his biceps eigh- THE DUCHESS OF YORK AND PRINCESS ELIZABETH Every Canadian mother looks for pictures of this delightful youngest member of the Royal Fa Broadcasts to Frozen North to Continue Through Winter Westinghouse Stations Will Convey Messages and Programs by Radio to Mounted Police and Missionaries The Far North broadcasts to thej^augs. outposts of civilization along the AroTrffeiooa tic Circle in the Hudson Bay district of Canada, which have been transmitted regularly by stations of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company during the last three years, will be resumed during the coming Fall and Winter, according to announcement by Lloyd C. Thomas, commercial manager for the Westinghouse Company. The advance schedule of transmis-ons, which has been dispatched northward on the Canadian mail and supply boats to be in the hands of all outlying posts before the initial broadcasts, follows: KDKA, East Pittsburgh, Pa., on 316 meters, will transmit, beginning at 11 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time, on the Saturday nights of Nov. 19, Dec. 26, Jan. 14 and Feb. 28. WBZ, Springfield, Mass., and WBZA, Boston, Mass., utilizing 333 meters simultaneously, will broad-at 11 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time, on the Saturday nights of Nov. 26, Dec. 17, Jan. 7 and Feb. 4. KYW, Chicago, on 526 meters, will transmit its programs at 10 o'clock, Central Standard Time, or 11 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, nights of Dec. 3, i. 11. Three supply ships bound for the arctic regions," said Mr. Thomas, Bayrupert and tho Nascopic of the Hudson Bay Company, and the Boe-thic of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which departed early in July, are carrying the advance schedule and the yearly mail delivery isolated regions of the North. "The special broadcasts wi taugurated more than four years ago by KDKA to transmit an emergency message. The regularity with which these signals were heard throughout the Canadian Northwest, Labrador, Greenland and the Hudson Bay district, resulted in the adoption of a regular schedule of transmissions from all the Westinghouse stations. At the outset there were four stations, including KFKX, at Hastings, Neb., which was lately discontinued." The programs to the Far North consist principally of personal messages gathered from all over the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Ireland. They are* addressed to members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who patrol the Northwest Territories and Yukon district of Canada; traders and trappers of the two great fur companies--the Hudson Bay Company and Revillon J'reres, and to missions of the Oblate Fathers among inches around, his middle finger the Eskimos. The furthest-north in-four inches around and his height five ' habited post in the world, a station feet eight inches. The gorilla eats j of the Royal Mounted Police at Bache .mboo shoots, wild carrots, a small . Feninsula, Ellesmereland, within lOtfc jellow flower called "senecio's" and i degrees of the North Pole, is one ot the bark of a bush. White Fathers at the regular listening points for the Lubenga declared that several mis-! Westinghouse broadcasts. been killed by ani- j "Often the programs last three or mals which tear the limbs from their four hours," said Mr. Thomas, "some-ictims. times intermingled with music and story of radio in the lives of those who are removed virtually from all contact with civilization. Even more do these letters carry the heartfelt thanks of the men whose long days in the shadow of the Pole are cheered by intimate personal messages from relatives and friends back home." Safe to Move Car Right Off Road In Making Temporary Repairs Prudence Suggests Being Out of Way % One form of road-hogging that is coming in for considerable condemnation at the present time is that of utilizing the highway as a repair shop when something goes wrong with the car. It Is a type o* selfishness which presents a very definite hazard and is one that every motorist should make an especial effort to avoid. With millions of motorists on the the Saturday road this summer, it is obvious that 1 and 28 and converting the highway into a temporary repair shop in case any minor trouble develops in the car is a hazardous practice. The greater volume of traffic, with the fact that Ontario has raised the speed limit for automobiles, makes this danger even greater than in the past. Many motorists, however, apparently are oblivious of this danger. When a tire goes flat, instead of pulling off the road they are content to stop on the highway and make the change. In the case of a carburetor adjustment or other minor repair to the engine this is dangerous enough, but when a tire is to be changed it is doubly hazardous because the operation requires considerable moving around and the use of several extra devices such as a jack and lug wrench. Fven if the car itself is over on the edge of the road, if the punctured tire is on the left side it means that the motorist will be working out in the line ot travel, With traffic bearing down upon him from both directions, naturally his position is dangerous to himself and to other motorists. Many accidents caused by this practice have been reported and these reports are responsible for the terse issued by the A.A.A. and with which the O.M.L. concurrs reads: -- "Drive the car entirely off the road before attempting to make any re- Canada's Sixty Years of Confederation "In population Canada continues at the number and to increase at about the rate in the United States of a hundred years earlier," writes Professor George M. Wrong of the University of Toronto, in August Current History. "Sixty-years ago* Canada had about 3,500,000 people; it has now about 10,000,000. The rate of growtib has been slow, but in recent years the acceleration has geen more rapid. Fifty-five per cert, of the present population is of British origin, 28 of French, and the remaining 17 per cent, is chiefly from Continental Europe. There has been no immigration from France, but that from Great Britain is likely to increase more rapidly owing to restrictions on Continental immigration. Although for a long time Canada was length without breadth, settlement is now taking place 800 miles north of the frontier of the United States. This is due partly to scientific experiments in Canada making possible a type of wheat--the Marquis--which will ripen in the Far North during the short Summer; partly to the amazing development of mineral wealth which is creating populous centres not far from Hudson Bay. In spite of the growth of the agricultural West, half the population of Canada now lives in cities and towns, whereas fifty vears ago the proportion was only 18 per cent. Montreal and Toronto have increased six-fold and the next twenty yeara may find both of them reaching the million mark, while botfti Winnipeg and Vancouver, v'Mages sixty years ago, now have some two hundred thousand people. "Canada's foreign trade, which sixty years ago amounted to $120,000,000, now reaches the annual colossrJ total . of $2,300,000,000, not an entirely wholesome sign, for it indicates a weak home market, due to the small growth of population. A rather ominous export is tfcie vast quantity of paper and pulp from the exhausting asset of the forest. Food, on the other hand, reproduced annually, is a safe export. The enormous supplies of food grown in Canada are indicated by the capacity of a single Canadian flour mill to produce 14,000 barrels of flour a day." pain- D it." Raspberry Syrup--Boll raspberries and strain. To one pint of juice add itand overnight. In the morning boil me pound of grandulated sugar. Let .gain and bottle. When serving, put wo tablespconfuls in a glass of cold ; juii Summer Drinks I think our husbands and families and the he>lp, too, enjoy in the heat of the summer a change from tea, coffee or milk. There are a few cold drinks that are especially good and thirst quenching which I use often when the weather is hot. Orangeade--Pare a thin rind from four oranges and put Into a pitcher. Add an ounce of sugar to the peelings and pour over them c quart of boiling water. Let stand until cold. Then add the juice of the oranges and the juice of one lemon; then chill. These portions may be doubled if desired. Temperance Tea--One cupful cf strong tea, half a cupful of ginger tea, one cupful cf sugar, one cupful of orange juice half a cupful of lemon cupful of cold water. i Mix and chill. Camping Styles Are Elaborate What the Hardy Citizen Should Take With Him When He Goes Into Woods for a Holiday --His New Devices Gone are the days when gettinr ready for camping meant digging out one's oldest clothes and blankets, borrowing the most battered cf the kitchen utensils and investing in a piece of mosquito netting Such simple preparations are thought inadequate to-Since camping evolved from iport of hardy spirits into a fashion for all, camp styles have come the fore. They speak in such a tone of authority that only the hardi-iieed them not, and these, too, are likely to come evntually to convent-ices of the standardized type. Camp fashion shows are features cf Summer sales evnts, and he who-attends them learns once for all that ampins is no longer a Sstrictly rustic ffair. Take the item of clothing lone. What the well-dressed man r woman needs for camp, in the pinion cf dictators of such styles, light cause the old flannel shirt to blush with shame.. There must be shirts and knickers and blouses for r, afternoon and night, with kerchiefs and hose and sweaters to match, slickers and jackets- and coats, boots and shoes and gloves. Campers, said, take these dictates seriously, 'he camping class on the whole has changed a great deal in the last few years," one salesman explained. 'Many persons who used to spend their vacations ^at Summer resorts-go to camp instead. The same Interest they used to devote in getting together a lot of fancy clothe*, for the resorts they now put on camping equipment. It makes a great deap of difference to them how they look. Besides, they're not really roughing it. They're as comfortable in camp as: ey would be in a hotel, and they vo the same urge to dress up, ough fashion calls for a different rt of dress." "Roughing It" Is Ended Roughing it, in any real sense, is experience modem ingenuity is doing its best to rule out, even among ho pitch their tent in a different place each night. Where is th« camper now who splits his own wood and blows his own fire? Not many his kind are left. The camper usually has a stove with oven and steamer and hinged wire grate, which p into a suitcase' His fuel he borrows from the automobile gasoline tank. Electric lights are plugged Into outlets in the car. Even a hot hath may be had comfortably in the heart virgin forest, since the portable folding bathtub of rubber-coated duck appeared. The market is flooded with port-ble ice boxes and iceless refrigerators, kept cool by wr.ter evaporating through a covering of duck, and thermal food containers come in all sizes, e is the portable tireless cooker, with its promise of hot lunches served up without delay, the lunch having been started on the stove during breakfast and finished in the cook-while the party was taking its ride. For the camper of to-day the solitude of the wilderness is banished by the portable radio set and the silence is dispelled by the voice of the portable phonograph. Tents Like Bungalows Tents, guaranteed mosquito-proof, •e made like little bungalows, with windows and doors and maybe a front porch. Or if one prefers a cabin on? ve it in an automobile bed;/ that claims to provide all the comforts without the ungainly lines of (ho house car," and to offer the appoint-nents of a small apartment without he earmarks of housekeeping on tho oad. At stops the driver's cab be-omes a kitchen, with, stove, ice box nd sink; and when the meal has been irepared a table in the stateroom is dropped from a partition panel. The in the stateroom becomes a fulled at night, the bedclotnes coming from an attic in the roof, and a third passenger i3 accommodated on couch in the front compartment. Everything Folds Automobile camping has brought in folding gear. The steel frame of canvas wash basins f.nd water buckets have joints that enable them, flattened out, to be carried under the cushion of the automobile seat. There are folding baskets, folding lanterns with mica sides, folding hatches and knives, and a spade that comes in two, There is a folding toas'er that mashe« flat and a frying pan with a handle that tucks under its bottom, a folding cupboard with wire cables and metal shelves and a fork with a telescoping handle. There are folding tables and chairs; and beds fold, of course, to the size of a small golf bag, whether I it be an ordinary camp cot, an adjust-' able frame made to fit over the seat rms of ny touring car or merely a mattress inflated with air. The last word in folding conveniences is spoken by the campers' kitchenette, with "a p'ace for everything and everything kept in its place." It is a cabinet of steel with a table folding out from the front ani compartments for ice and all kitchen supplies. Inside its dishpan fits a nest of dishes and cooking utensils, and the whole fits snugly on the run-, ningboard of the car.