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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL A Carefully Planned Farm Home By MRS. E. C. WAGAR. MAY 15. Working With Others. 1 Cor. 12: 4-27; St. John 6: 1-14. Golden Text-1 Cor. 12: 27. I family, yet arranged to accommodate 1 any crowd necessary . on a farm for 1 Cor. 12: 4-13. Diversities of Gifts, i own good. It is the law of love. The business or pleasure. The apostle is writing about such | man who is not governed by this law The water supply, hot and cold, for mental and spiritual gifts as were j is a disturbing member of the com- bath-room, kitchen and basement, used in the ordinary services and j munity. He is a source of weakness comes from the cistern and is rain-ministries of the church, but what! and not of strength. He does harm water. As yet we have no well water he says has a wider application to all; and not good. He does not know and piped into the house, but hope to have the work of life in which men share, j does not fulfil his high place and duty some day. We only use it for cook-Paul says first of all that, what-1 as a member of the body of Christ. | w and drinking purposes, ever the gift of work may be, it is| John 6: 1-14. Five Barley Loaves; fye have 1 inspired and directed by the same and Two Small Fishes. The lad might spirit. All gifts are consecrated; all i nave refused to give up his lunch: true work is sacred. So, in the teach- j basket and might have eaten his cakes ing of the Old Testament, the prophet, and fishes, alone, but if he had this the priest, the statesman, the law- great story of the feeding of the mul-giver, the king, the soldier, the skil-j titudes might never have been told, f ul workman--all are recipients of the; He did not refuse. He made his small same spirit of God. In particular it j contribution and the multitudes is said of a certain workman that the| *ed. One of the humblest took on that Lord had called him by name, and has day the place of great honor, because "filled him with the spirit of God, in j he was willing to share with others, wisdom, in understanding, and in1 ^One of the most^ interesting writers knowledge, and in all mannei of workman ship." (Exod. 35: 30-36: 4), We moved the old house and built use at that time. The arch betwee where it stood, as the trees would j living and dining-rooms was made not be moved--and must not be sacri- wide enough for French doors if they ficed. We live on a slight rise of were wanted at anv time. The col-ground--and deemed it best to build J onnade between living-room and den a semi-bungalow, with hip-roof for a j has two book cases, to keep my pre-better appearance. Every room is used j cious books, yet save floor space. The every day--not too big for a small full length glass door opens from the r furnace and find living-room rather than the den, I wanted a place somewhat secluded for my writing, etc., and find more apt to use the living-r( family purposes when the door goes directly to the porch. The telephone is easy to reach from any part of the house, and easy for the men to reach in a hurry from outdoors. The sewing-room and cloak closet is ideal. We wanted a cloak should it be with all who labor, whether with head or hand, for their own common good, and so it will be where life is offered in whole-hearted service to God and man. The gifts of which the prophet speaks are those of wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, insight, speaking with and interpreting tongues. These he compares to the members of the body, working harmoniously together. They who possess and exercise them in the church are members of the body of Christ. 14-27. Not One Member But Many. The apostle's ideal for the Christian community is that of happy and healthful co-operation. It is a community in which each will hold in respect and honor his neighbor's work, in which it will be frankly and fully recognized that all men are not jit not "be" a useful, _ alike, that they are of different sorts, aid to the most perfect and fruitful that their tasks, therefore, must be; co-operation ? May we not believe in different, but that each has need of j the possibility of, and strive to pro-the other, and that all must combine: duce a friendly rivalry in all good harmony to make the perfect whole.! work, freely granting honors and -- will be the prizes to the winner, each and all of the great war (Sapper, in No Man'. Land) says of the disciplined army: "Self no longer rules; self is sunk for the good of the cause--for the good of the community. And the community, realizing that fact, endeavors, by every means in its power, to develop that self to the very maximum of which it is capable, knowing that, in due course, it will reap the benefit. No longer do individual pawns struggle one against the other, but each, developing his own particular gift to the maximum, places it at the disposal of the community who helped him in his development." Must we not preserve that fine spirit and that discipline of hand and head and heart in days of peace? The duty is the same. God calls to a higher and even more strenuous task. Let us learn to live and labor together. It is an interesting question whether or not competition in business or labor incompatible with co-operation. May " necessary ____i health of .... health of all, and each will be happy and honored in the well-being of every other. Moreover, each man will recognize for himself his proper part and place and gift in the common life, and will hold his own task in respect and honor. It is the co-operation of all which makes the community possible. The humblest and most obscure is not less necessary than the proudest and most conspicuous. There should, therefore, be no schism in the body, but the members should have the same care one for another. If one suffers all suffer, if one is honored all rejoice with it. The Christian community is the body of Christ. The apostle sets forth in this way the great law of co-operation, which has as its organizing and guiding principle the desire of each for the good of all, and not simply for his rejoicing in and profiting by his s Application. A gardener was explaining to us recently the process of grafting. This has become quite a growers of flowers. It is done to secure, as far as possible, a combination of excellent qualities. One flower has a delightful appearance, but no frag-Another type has a sweet frag-_., but is distinctly lacking in beauty. Others, which possess much beauty and fragrance, are so fragile that they are of little value. Then the gardener seeks to secure by the process of grafting a combination of these qualities. He unites beauty and fragrance with strength. No man in himself has all the qualities essential for a strong church, but by being himself he can contribute his best to the "Household of Faith." Eight-foot Basement Extends Under Whole House. n ever/ m f „f 2' h,fVe 3 ^'sier! closet on the flrst noor- yet ^grudged stoeroL^tTv,^ 6 *h&usi h?i the,any of the front of the house for that ThltZTJ^l 6ar-0f the firs,t floor-! purP°se as Jt always leaves a dark tifp J?Zt\r^ILrunnmg.uP and down corner and we wanted all the light and the stairs to the cellar m the winter, i air we could get-- ™» --k*„,i box i the two. It i i necessary e combined the ) build this THE COMING CITIZEN of to-day is almos lothing ab( All of the older w< can remember when Uhe universal boast of oral that they knew business; business was the neces evil which took husbands and s>w hearts away from the fireside and something about which the feminii wcrld not only need not but shouj no. bother its "pretty head.' In the tremendous change which hi come to woman's world in this respec the farm woman has had something an advantage. While the city huj bands and sweethearts kept their bus ness affairs in that vague pi; "down town," farm men an lived with the world of their affaij right in the home, and whether it ws fashionable or not, girls and bo; grew up within sight and soun touch of the economic mill ground out their support, and whi it was Johnny who most often to town when the pigs were Mary knew as much as Johnny of tl history of the pigs and made business to know as much as h cerning the cash returns. When the great turn-over can women entered upon the dut; citizens even to the extent of voting equally with their husbands, again the farm woman was ready, for she long had had a sturdy participation, at least by interest, in rural affairs that had close bearing upon the management of the farm business in which her hand bore so great a share. This sprang season of 1921 finds the farm woman far along the road of business adventure and ability for economic independence. More and more she is proving her ability to think things out and see things through. She is managing large poultry businesses, dairy interests, garden Bind canning projects; her provincial and county fair exhibits grow value; in increasing numbers, she handling the entire farm project; the multiplying community-betterment movements are calling her out into places of responsibility, and, to our way of thinking, she is in every respect The Coming Citizen and. upon her we may count for the active support of the best ideals of country Jiving. A small flock of geese on the farm can be made a profit-maker if there is plenty of range and some member of the family is sufficiently interested in the birds to help the goslings to make a good start. Farmers that wish to enlarge their business th-«e„„m0dtnl »ffh**«!rooin and the store-room next to it as ifel™,!™^.* cover the. cistern and among the been in use nearly five'years, with no could not" have so trouble at all. It serves the double j basement otherwise, purpose of lighting house and barn, i xii. <w ,<= i„ fi,„ ,, Tie men use the grade door ex-1 lhe cot 13 m the sewinS' stment ai little extra care. This was proved by experiments made in a poor dairy barn, to determine the expense of producing milk with a low bacterial count. The only changes made 1. A simple sterilizer for utensils. 2. Clean cows--especially clean ud- 3. Small top. pails for milking. 4. Proper manure removal and good bedding. The bacteria! count fell " ,200,000 deep--so there is chance for plenty of light, and room for furnace pipes. And now the kitchen. How we planned and planned. The range and hot water tank just fit in their space--we measured and re-measured to get that chimney in the right place. Across the south side under the two short windows is the sink, at the proper height, and on either side is a cupboard below and a drawer above, with work table at the same height as the sink top above each. The cupboard on the left holds griddle, spiders, toaster, cooky pans, etc., and bread can. The drawer above has mixing spoons, paring knives, forks, etc. The cupboard on the right has two shelves --for all the tinware and kettles. The drawer above holds hammer, cookbooks and all kinds of miscellaneous things needed around the kitchen. The large cupboard on the side, flour bin, and a cupboard with two shelves hold all of our groceries at the bottom, and two drawers above, one for towels and one for aprons and handkerchiefs. Above that is a space about a foot high that gives ample serving room. Above that is the cupboard proper, with four shelves--the doors are broken, two above and two below that the entire space is not exposed when a door is opened. We keep our large roaster, extra kettles, etc., on the top shelves. This built-in pantry runs to the ceiling. The kitchen floor is covered with linoleum, also the floor of the storeroom. Rugs are used on all other . I must speak of the water faucet: outside--that saves many a trip after water when doing little jobs outdoors.1 The sewage from the bathroom and sink goes into a septic tank near the barn, from which it is connected with a tile drain to the large drain of the farm. This septic tank is in two com-: partments, made of cement, air-tight,; and has been very successful in every j way. In fact, it has never been open- i 1 since made. The linen closet in bathroom con-1 sists of three large drawers below and! three shelves above, with two doors.! The closet in bedroom No. 2 has a chest of three large drawers in the! with shelf above. The small1 closet from hall has five shelves on \ The broom closet from bath I holds broom, dustless mop, extra toilet | paper, stool brush, plunger, etc., also] the clothes chute. Each bedroom has i two windows, each closet a light. This house has a hip-roof, hence the closets along the sides. A medicine cabinet 'er the wash basin, io not wish to leave the impres-that we have an expensive house with expensive furnishings. We cut corners in every way we could. As yet. after four years we have not decorated any of the walls. The plaster was clean, and not ugly to look on, so what it would cost to decorate we put into some permanent feature of usefulness. We chose fixtures with an eye to substantial worth, rather than to appearance alone. Agricultural Instruction in Ontario. From the grant of $1,100,000 made annually by the Dominion for agricultural instruction, the Province of Ontario receives $336,303 for the purposes contemplated. Of the latter amount, $115,000 was devoted in 1919-20 to the agricultural college and to- HIBES-WOOL-FUES MUSKBATS ney can still be made e skinn. Ship your lot WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED WOODSTOCK. ONTARIO ESTABLISHED I87Q the agricultural school and farm ai Kemptville, $126,000 to the agricul' tural representatives, and $40,000 ta i elementary agricultural education, including household science ana manual i training as applied to work on the : farm. The remaining $55,303 is used in various ways, such as demonstrations and instruction in vegetable growing, the encouragement of cooperation and instruction in marketing, the development of women's institute work, the extension of short courses, demonstrations with vegetables and hardy fruits in New Ontario, and in other ways, all tending to the advancement of agriculture and inprovements in rural life. How the progressive work coming within the province of the Act has been fostered is illustrated by the fact that while five years ago there were no live stock shipping clubs in the province, there are now three or four hundred; by the creation of egg circles and the, extensions of co-operation in the marketing, not only of eggs and poultry, but of many other farm products; by the extension of the agricultural representative system to practically every county in the province; by the increase of agricultural co-operative associations, from 102 with a membership of 2,850 and a business turnover of $281,355 in 1914, to 329 associations with a membership of 15,123 and a business turnover of $5,278,106 in 1918; by the expenditure in five years from the grant of $691,313 on the Ontario Agricultural College and the Agricultural School at Kemptville; by the extension of short course teaching; by the development of school and home gardening; and by the greatly increased number of school fairs. In 1914, only 264 schools with 208 school and 56 home gardens qualified for grants, but five years later, 1,020 schools with 588 school and 432 heme gardens qualified, while 1,500 public and separate schools conducted classes in agriculture and qualified for grants. Also in 1919, 33 high schools had adopted agriculture as an optional subject as against only 11 in 1914. In 1914, the number of schools in the province engaged in garden work was but 208. In 1918 it was 588, and in 1919, close upon 700. In 1909 there were only three school fairs held in the province; in 1919 there were 357, with 11,823 entries. It is estimated that only 250 people saw the first school fair, with 58 children taking part, whereas in 1919, no fewer than 92,600 children and 107,590 adults attended the fairs. I Made by The Canadian Steel and Wire Co., Limited HAMILTON, ONT. 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