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end to the different pace garb 3IEvi Hh fhliiidine il thd 2isfces {me think of the big red daha that like the weeping-willow tree by the it gh it." "Like a' rainfuw broken to bits, Janie said. "An| each bit looks dif- ferent, somehow, fr.m ¢'] the cthess." Hilda gmrrowed her dnrk eyes and razcd steadily at the dancing lights "Let's make a game ¢f #," she sug- gested "You pick oat a fame " me what it looky like to you; then I'll tell looks ¥ke to me. That will be fun." Janie thought so, too. ed forward, wi her face in her palms, and ga: earnestly into the "I See a tall red flame," she declared after a while. - "It makes She leah- Ea rin our garden by the fence last |" "It makes me think," said the little city girl, "of 4 red balloon in the bunch of toy balloons that the Italian sells on our corner'. "Oh, look, there's a whirly green flame!" exclaimed the little country cousin. She pointed towand the end of a stick of wood. "It's exactly k at home, when the wind swirls * "How funny!" sa'd Hilda, "It looks to me like the green signal light 3 and goes in the subway to J Ade em the sup i Kiger ip pn smiling, "I gE If we stop to look for them; we will find opportunities for education at the door-step of the farm home. The city school must substitute a laboratory, pictures, brief trips and excursions, stuffed and dried speci- mens" of animals as substitutes for real life. The farm child has the whole world of primary education within the limits of the farm. The farm mother has abundant opportunity for starting a child in the three ;R's at home, Every child on enter'ng school finds ning of arithmetic. , He is given a book and must try to make abstract figures stand for concrete facts. The multiplication tele) such problems as how much plastering to buy for this room and how many shingles for that barn, or how much interest a certain amount.of money will earn in a year at 4 certain per cent. are all confusing mental cperations for the chld who is not yet at the stage when reasoning powers are develop- ed. He needs objects and tawzible ex- periences before he tries to express these problems in terms of figures. A few home helps to arithmetic in the farm child's life will smooth his difficuit'es and send h'm to the top and beyond his class when he is in school ) rm pm ------ 0 n BESIDE HOME'S THRESHOLD Farm Mothers Have Eyery Help at Hand for Anticipating the : the First Year at School. By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey one of his difficulties in the begin- | mathematics, Sea, Exoduse 14% 21-15: 2.' Golden Text, Ex. 14:30. _ 14: 1-31. Entries on Dominion lands in the West will not, The Regina Leader says, be cancelled by land agents be- tween December 15, 1918, and April 1,:1919, except in special instances. Proxy entries held by soldiers wi satisfactory evidence of military ser- vice is on file are protected under general instructions until the re- retiirn of the holder of the entry. =8 bi. i £5 if if i Is Measuring milk, vegetables, frut,!| berries, cooking ingredients and learning the names and capacity of al] the geceptacles used for this liquid -and dry measure; measuring and laying out flower and vegetable | beds; counting and measuring the maternal used for building fences, a , and the tide came back { dog house or a bird house; all these' that the Lord "discomfited the host of | ave important home training in arith-| the Egyptians," and overthrew them | matic for the child on the farm. | "in the midst of the sea." : The schools would be glad to dupki-| In verse 25 we should read "ho cate such training' and so give life! 1 ther chariot wheels" (see to the dry bones of their teaching of MaTEIN of Rev. Ver.). The chariots Each experience] Tne , 0 V should be made a permanent lesson Sine Axe get 45 fat back as pos a : tol 3, pole | by having the little student copy his| which passed beneath the flcor was card figures and record the results| fixed into the axle and then was bent of his measuring, counting and com-| upward and attached by a band of paring. . | leat to the font of the chariot. When regular teaching of arith-| The horses were yoked to the pole 2 Sei " {and without traces. Chariots a metic is begun in school there 8 ater age had the wheels armed with 'many home exercises that will help, scythes. The! tw 1 the farm child to make his ZTOWING | three men ur NS en knowledge of numbers a practical! drove, one was an archer with bow part of his everyday living. Some| and arrows, and one the bearer of a of these are; keeping an account of shield. The "tank" is the adaptation his own small weekly allowance,| of the same kind of machine to raisng and selling truck, dairy or- GED warfare--but how great. the fowl] produce and keeping a record of ifferenics} The : all' expense and income, having his : 1-21. Song of Victory. own bank account no matter how in BFS rere ax Poets and ninsfrels ema], learning some interesting num- Songs was ta ny he Ben of erical games that need quick wits. | the Wans of Jehovah" (Num. 21: 14), Geography fis another study that' and it és possible that this song may has been brought home from unknown have been preserved in that same col- Arithmetic begins usually with ab- | stract exercises that aim to have chil- | dreti ater the' question, "How many?" The ability to count and to traction, multiplication * and division | may all be taught to the country child as a natural part of his daily Eving. Counting comes first with the lit-| tle child. At the age of four'and five and if parents will take advantage of this natural interest they will 'be able] to turn, at home, the child's finst pages of arithmetic. This can be done by encouraging the youngest child to count ag much, and ad far as he likes; the buttons on. his clothing, his blocks, the, eggs in | the barn, rows of flowers in the gar- row, 'the pebbles, nuts, Twigs * | birds he sees during a day, the teams. that pass by on the road, the apples, that drop in the orchard and. afl the. other unlimited series of interesting | objects that lie «within the daily reach of the country child, It will el#o. be a good plan to pro-| cure a box Of large figures, either out from cardboard or printed on cards, from a school supply shop., If| these are mot obtainable the figures may be cut from a large calendar and mounted on cards. * { With these: figure .cands, - which, places and taught in the schools from lection. It breathes the exultant fire gal [R= 1S knowledge gained at the child's home threshold. « The home teaching of geography deeply interests every standingly. Nowadays we teach children to do less bounding of provinces and mote | studying ®f what the province needs. We say less about the Dead Sea and mere about the wharves and shipping coast. . This new method of teaching geo- gra opens up an unlimited number of me experiences that will give a child a general viewpoint on the subject before he opel' i's pages in school ip . " The world in minjatove lies at the farm gate and from this familiar den and the number of plants in each pcint the boy and girl may discover latter verses of and' the points of the compass, the num- date, and were written after: the con- other nature material he gathers, $ha. ber of and directions of the roads and quect of Palestine. See; for example, the prevailing winds; 'the forms of the water courses, hills . or - moun- tains, the character of. the soil. In the sand pig. by -the barn he can model river courses, roads, fields, lay out townships, In the home brook he can build 'toy docks and dams 'and learn outside of books, the simplé 'laws of laid and air and wa- ter, . | Neighboring 'bows, their direction, their industries, their" rdilroads and where the railroads run, together with what k'nd of freight they carry, why soem like a game, the child can be and where, may be studied next. All taught to record the results. of his' children love: a railroad time-tdble counting. Beneath a fiumber of seeds,' and from one of these folders there small objects and | nuts, : taught to place the figure or figures c to the number. The divisions into tens and hvn-, ds may bs sight by" i ing together the their number. | s, twigs or other objects he is isa vasi amount of home teaching in geography to be had. In it he finds tite names 'of towns and 'their dis- tances from each other. The ac- companying map is more valuable than any in a because it js a chart of the child's own neighbor- Any railroad "company will application a collection of and they will 'be found valuable in this home teaching : THEE I | for this purp and passion of that first great victory and the new confidence in God which it inspired. do simple problems in addition, sub-| child if he or "she is taught under-| «1 wil] sing unto Jehovah, for he hath tniumphed gloriously: The horse and his r'der thrown into the sea. | Jehovah is my strength and song, | And he is become my salvation." hath he For "Jehovah is a man of war." He he has an instinct to number objects' of the child's home river or sea j., fought the battle of His people {and won, Henceforth they know His | power, In every subsequent peril of their national life they, remember- ed this deliverance at the Red Sea. It became the symbgl ans , ssisurance of salvation, ag Jd as swith us to this day. * For gees mot Gadistill save {those who txust in Him and dlscom- fit their fogs? | It seems.prokable that some of tha the sang.ane of later verses 13-18, where: God is said a'- ready to have led His people to His "holy habitation," that is, the Holy | Land, end to have stricken the peo- ple of Edom, Mcab and Canaan wth fear. . | Keeping Dairy Herd Reéords. | The Dairy and Cold Stoppge | Branch of the Ottawa Department of Agriculture has issued an eight-page circular giving exact instructiens rve- lative to-the keaping of dairy herd records«+ The circular states that | the Depabtment will pay to any | qualificdibester 10 comts for each | Babcock test made from the com- | posits "samples | of any herd. The party who does ' the testing must provide the Babcock tester and the recesSATy glassware and equipment for the test. The Department, will provide (free of charge the sulphuric acid preservative tablets, LN : iii : i 53 8 g 8 Fr : : on the trap. should be set i is, most likely to come out. In working around the traps, gloves , | and shoes should be scented with the - {can be discovered, and the animals found invide, a good smoker will drive them cut so that they may be easily caught. In preparing mink for the market, they should be stretched pelt side out and all superflucus flesh and fat scraped off. Skins should be dried in a cocl, dry place, not near the fire cr in the sun. After beng stretch. ed enough to hold their shape, the | skins are ready for shipment, iy Reading Geod Books. The reading of books, if thoy be in any sence worthy, can scarcely fail to be a most fru'tful and worth- while exercise. If a book only suc- cecds (n taking a man out of himself for a time, it at loast does that much good. But if in doing that, it takes him into a place of clearer thought or truer faelrg or higher impulse, then it sur:ly paiforms a service past all estimatirz. And it will do some one or all of {lzse things if it is a good beok. Now if good books were with 1s more than 1fey are we would be better men and women than we are. And good books are all about us, stretching out ther hands to us and asking that we know and use them. And we have time to give them, for we could easily spage it from gome of the things that keep us busy hour after hour. We could all give enough time that we might read at least one good book every month and if we would all do it the sum of our intel'gence and hanpiness and usefulness would be very' very greatly increased, . - ord mg Patriotic Fund. The total receipts of the Canadian Patrioti¢ "Fund, - including . interest amounting to about $850,000; reached $48,785,958.74 on December 17 1918. The total contributions to the fund to date .have., amounted .to a little under $42,000,000.. eis HIRAM JOHNSON, LTD. ---- fh The oldest established . " Raw Fur Dealers in Montreal HIGHEST MARKET PRICES, PAID Satisfaction guaranteed to shippers 410 St.Paul St. West, Mongrel The Highest Price J 2% RAW FURS to us, no matter what quantity. We pay the highest prioe, also expreds charges. ; Ce Try once and yQu are assured. of satisfaction. : ABBEY FUR COMPANY 310 St. Paul W, Montreal, P.Q. Reference: Bank of Hdchelage, St. Henry, ' 5 A retur'¥ @nvelopes, ¢redit slips, labels for Cals spe ttles, anf "Ao fort: y Jing the weights of milk at the farm, The ditties of the testers will belto test the compdsite samples each month, en- ter thé'tests on the record sheets and {peer the same to, Ottawa. = With circular," a Bample is given &f the record and the manner in which it chould be kept and blank applica- tion forms, first, for assiziance in herd record work and, 2nd, for employ- ne 1 y It should be is required Storage 'Commisdicner, Oitawa, ani -| also that ths circular here referred 'to can be had free from the Publica- + tions Branch at Ottawa: . ke 3 - Finance Cannda With W.S.8. Savings Stamps are. a "splendid 1 y tl 'conserving of the sur- plus money of the mass of Seu OR Tn business for 30 yeara he viopi CS ISN RPS, a Fuk os i