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PRINCE PRAISES " The Prince of Wales seixad an op- "portunity the other day to speak some words of commendation of Canadian enterprise and Canadian products. "He was called upon to deliver an address upon forestry in the British Empire to a gathering in London. He noted that large timber resources comprising many varieties of wood were to be found within the British Empire and * that the countries of the Empire were giving attention to forestry problems. He spoke of the reforestration pro- gram being carried out by the British Government through its Forestry Com- mission. Already considerable tracts of land that were formerly forests have been replanted with trees and other land, not in recent times tim- bered, has been planted. South Africa . and the States of Australia, too, were durrylng oUt trée-planting scherifes. As for Canada, His Royal Highness sald the Dominion had "buckled to the task" of surveying its "vast resources and protecting them from fire and reckless exploitation." He added, "Canada produces the finest soft wood lumber in the world, as we saw at Wembley." The Prince directed at- tention to the opportunity for trade In EMPIRE WOODS much as its does on foreign supplies." He pointed out that last year thé peo- ple of the United Kingdom paid more than §230,000,000 for imported timber of which only thirteen per cent. came from Bmpire sources. "I would ap- peal," he sald, "to large users of tim- ber, such as railway companies and bufldéss, .° bear this in mind when placing orders." In that connection, it may be noted that mewspaper des- patches from Great Britain reported some months ago the intention of some British interests to look for certain other The latter {in diri dismdy that he nin make ot tot ver a few bars, told her to try th up his mind what to do with the. h haif he-spent Ni t ee stared in at the . "1 thought you 3 'er row! the ded him, Mr 5 ley ng too pe : ee Bo he kept to his living as a m clan. One must use that Seneral pst because his experience had been gen- eral. ty years he 'had been ah Fania ad 4 wssotia] tutor, 1 nder a glossy sf at. Ten years ly. later he was a suburban music teach- i er, under'a velour. Five years later he was a pianist in a little orchestra under a brave but failing old felt. Now he was a composer, somehow gen- teel under his 10-year-old velour. Somebody in a vivid plaid eap had fact him in the street and explained to m that fortunes awaited the com- posers of really catchy melodies for comies. So. Mr, Barley, who had been on his way to try for a place as a motion-picture theatre pianist, imme- Ar. an Fi afrald'T £ x, "And I've promised Felicia that come in once or twice a teach her. She'll never get out of her bad habite unless she's properly tay, Bat eet os ee i" elishy's mother advanced suspi- ciously, "You won 'get paid for no teaching," she said, "I don't ask it" said Mr. Barley. "I--I'm earning ay ving by 'compos- ing now, Mrs. Wood. But I'll teach Felicia . . .» "What? For nothing? Gahn!" "I cast my bread on the waters," forest products in Canada. Those des- patches spoke of orders to be placed in this country for railway tles and! other timber. It was said that Can-| ada's display of woods and articles made from wood at the British Empire i Exhibition at Wembley had helped to secird orders for Canadian firms. | The Prince of Wales suggests that if British buyers of timber can secure |; their supplies. on satisfactory terms from sources within the Empire they! might well do so instead of going for those supplies to sources outside the | Empire. With that doctrine the people | of the Dominions will agree. They will also be gratified to observe that the Out. He rose and went down the stairs funny, an! diately Brnad pack, bought himself a music manuscript book, and returned to his dismal lodging to write catchy comics. Now, as he sat tapping the blank music paper with his pencil, he be- See | wate of xerudiatin Jioioes rom ano next door, Until thi moment, Mh y Barts had been Bnawa; that any of the families living ed mildly explained Mr. Barley, and look- s pi orn a red b rs. isa inches, Something for nothing is hot believed in the East 2 n her mother was gone Felicia turned her grave eyes on Mr. Barley. "What's composing?" she asked. He ol her. Almost before he had explajned: ~~. "You used to a toff once, didn't you?" asked Felicla. "A real one." "My father was a vicar," mildly boasted Mr. Barley. "I've heard of vicars," said Felicia, carefully. "They wear- all-round-your- loor possessed g piano. He frown mildly, and stuffed some cotton-wool into his ears. The piano next door was still distinct. He set down a note or two of a catchy comic, but wearily recognized it as a fragment of the clattering din which he could not shut b nice. My father tol - - A Window. I like to look from's window Down on the men on the street] Aud some of them have I like to stand near a window And talk to the twittering birds; And whenever they near me 1 know | neck collars.an fin at you an' speak wasn't a vicar. IS YOUR HOME YOUR HOBBY? ___that they héar m 1 ike to be hear a window-- The faraway world seents odd; And when I peep up at the Overturned up, 1 know I am peeping at God, If only I hada window! A little one, two by three-- Oh, whenever 1 went, wherever went The very tall men are very small mes; bh no fo in Chiria. many delicious fruits and vegetables world, mansget. to savive. Namaimp or ele, but was. sven wally drow ots Who have moh tout In He Jor ea jungles where disease 1s always a serious . The more. - a rate raven explorer, for ten s reveal un- You will find 'it very difficult to business witha life Insurance com- pany if you announce that you intend to adopt the career of orchid hunter in Madagascar, that great, mysterious is- 'land 'off southeast Africa; snakes, wild cling to the steamy, = = e was a policeman. What d'you cast bread on water for?" = * minded to go bareheaded. But sudden-| Mr. Barley did not explain. "His ly remembering that a bareheaded handsome, age-pinched face suddenly man hag no hat to raise in courtesy, he | looked bitter and hard. to the street door. ' Being separated by only a doorstep from his destination, he was at first beasts, hostile natives and disease have accounted for too many of your 'predecessors in that calling. The blacks soaked a German collector in oil and set fire to him. Bight collectors who I'd take it along with me! lumber within the Empire. "Consider-| Prince is anxious to promote Great --Robln Christopher, ing what excellent timber of every Britain's purchases as well as Great! kind the Empire produces," he sald, | Britain's sales within the Empire and "4t appears rather unfortunate that the | so foster a trade that will be beneficial Only 'e died. If you are one of the women who have daily household duties to Pept ' form, you will delight in the simple ei ------ design of 'this trim apron and cap. Minard's Linimént for Dandruff. Cut al} in one piece, it is unusually to all parts of the Empire. Longer United Kingdom should expend so! Finding the Picture. I squeezed a bit more blue into the pool of color and found only hard, metallic gray when I would have made moonlight silver. My purple resemb- led the sunburned jacket of an Italian street vender instead of the royal hue that I wished to make. I had tried to tone my background into old, dull gold and I had only cold yellow. My blue-- but what was the use! The picture was a spectrum 'of the thing I hoped to make. Then 1 bewailed my fate and longed with the random of self-pity, for some new tool with which to work. I was bound by age-old colors that people had looked upon since time began. No wonder my picture was an unkindled thing. My purpose was an exalted one --I longed with all the ardor of an artist to give the world a truly beauti- ful thing, but I was bound--bound by the over-worked colors of the ages. If only I couid make some new shade, dis- cover some new channel through which to give my Inner vision to the world! 1 could stand the narrow limits of my room no longer. I passed through my moon gate into the hutung beyond. An winter's day was closing in about me. AH around there hovered a drab mist. The high, gray stones of the walled alley seemed to go endlessly on like the centuries they represented. Each stone wedged itself fantastically into the soft, gray light. The sky gave no color, but fell over the world like a silver benedic- tion. I closed my eyes a moment to feel > Laundered. Lingerie Lasts Care in the method of wash. Eon dainty lingerie will "you in much lo; servic. ld, ute, bubbliog UX suds will riot hare single delicate thread--will not dull the most delicate colour. ' ubstitutes are more the peace about me. I opened | them and there against the dull, gray | wall stood a tiny lad looking at me, with his black, almond eyes alight! with the joy of possession. In his, hands he held a wealth of gold--there, hugged against the dull blue of his padded school jacket, were two luscl- ous golden persimmons. Dulled gray, dingy blue and brilliant orange--yet | I see the picture to-day as vividly as I did a year ago. Dull blue, drab gray | and orange--I went back to my palette subdued and gratitude filled my heart. Illuminating Remarks. He--"Let's go out on the porch and | talk, if you don't dislike the dark." She--"Not at all, and, besides, your! remarks are always illuminating, Mr. Sparks." ----scctmmrese Minard's Liniment for insect bites. A AT August. The cows stood in a thunder cloud of flies As lagging through the fleld with trailing feet I kicked up scores of skipper butter flies That hopped a little way, lazy with heat, The wood I sought was in deep shelter sunk, . Though clematis leaves shone with a glossy sweat And creeping over ground and up tree- trunk The ivy in the sun gleamed bright and wet. 2 . Bongs brief as Chinese poeins the birds sung ; And insects of all sheens, blue, brown and yellow, Darted and twisted in their flight and hung On air that groaned like hoarse sweet violoncello. : From that" small sun patching the wood with light-- . O strange to think--hung all things that have breath, ' i Trees, insects, cows, even moths that fly by night ; And man, and life in every form-- and death, - bi i , =A. J, Young. ee, Hog Strength. The mountains quility; In covenant with stars and whirling = ud: ; 8 ; ; | Fold upon fold, their ledges rim ithe ; sky. : 'Winds sigh upon. their breasts Iltke : phantom rivers, = - valleys © |Lithe tumbling waters cut the narrow. 1 | her life. | "Listen to me, my dear. I'm trying to [I told him I was casting my bread on 4 reat fn strong tren-| | went back for his deathless velour.! "Once before in my life I cast bread When the front door of the next house on the waters, but it never returned | was opened in answer to his tapping, |to me," he said. e grave.y raised his hat and Po | to the slatternly woman who peered helpfully. "It was a silly sort of thing out at him. to do." "Madam," said the old gentleman, "may I beg that the piano upstairs. >! "If you can stop 'er, it's more than | Mr. Barley Spiained the phrage. Then, responding to the interest in bo child's eyes, he went on talking o brisgk- himself. | "It happened when I was a younger st time in man, Felicia," he told her. "I was an "That's our Felishy, tin- {organist in anning on the piano that my second- ! good or or-front left - behind him for six me to get the post. They paid me sixty months' rent 'e couldn't pay. Go up to| pounds a ry 'er yourself and gee if she'll listen to Jrpis in Ree days I was nearly rich. you. She's beyond me." used to say that I'd be comfortable: Mr. Barley assented. During the for the rest of my days wo Tong as 1 I tose) I can," anticipated the woman ly, flattered into civility by being ad-| sed as Madam for the T silk-hat epoch, he would Hive marveled never lost my organ. But at the commission, But: seven years it." in a mean street teaches one things.| "Did some one wheel it orff when He went up the uncovered stairs,|you was having one?" asked Felicia | maintaining the moment. Price of the book 10¢ the copy, guided by the clamor, and pushed open | pityingly. She had heard of that kind the door of the second-floor front. of thing happening to peop! . A pig-tailed little girl of 12 glanced |* Again he explained. "It hadnt any round at him over her shoulder as he! wheels, It was a church organ, entered. Then she went on playing.|cia, And one day a very talented | Mr. Barley crossed the floor and touch- | young man, quite rich, came to listen ed her on the shoulder. Still she play- to me at practice. He asked me to ed, with an indignant wriggle of Wer hear him play. And when he played shoulder which made the treble notes I could tell he had no soul for music, wobble. "My dear little Felicia," be- although he coud play better than I gan Mr. Barley urgently. | | could myself. So I trained him afresh. Felishy," corrected the girl, and I discovered his dormant soul and went on playing, turning over the leaf awakened it. His soul began to play of her music with a lightning expert- instead of his fingers. He offered me ness that made the od man blink. { money, but I told him it was a labor "Felicia," persisted Mr, Barley. of love, not ordinary teaching. I think make a living by composing music. the waters, as I could afford to do in And if you would be so kind as to Play those days. I'said there would always more softly, and keep the door shut, he something of me left alive as long I should be grateful to you. And... as he was playing. And then one day. and don't jump your hands about 50! they told me that the rich' ung man Can't you see that the Tight hand had offered to become the unpaid should ave, Sioned over the left to organist to save the church money. He get that n ' 'wanted the very Felishy glanced up at him, then at a he ho £ od It ov > her music, then at her hands. She: "'E was a blackleg!" flashed Fe- went back a few bars and crossed one licia, with the first sign of real inter- hand over the other to get the lonely est she had betrayed. bass note. Without thanks, she ac-| «No. "He was a . He the instruction, and played on.' offered me money when he heard I was he o.d gentleman, standing over r and couldn't another organ her in characteristic forgetfulness of But my pride forbade." : his own busivess, watched the deft ,/ "pn... sighed. and left her. In lay of her fingers with astonishment. 'yt (TAT OF HEH f dud his vitgin t But suddeniy. he Teached forward and sheet of music-ruled useript paper | "You're playing crochets and quav- i S ie ers alike; you've no idea of rhythm," musie. Feliels as he said. "You've no sense of the beat. | VF the Hash Pres That's why it sounds such a hotch-' Tub the next day, w potch.- Go back these two bars. Listen 5 ging at the! a theme half written, he met another man who tol him there was nothing in song writing | be Wise to. get that | at engaged toy : | until ten-thirty every for y weelCy at the Empire Blectri atre.' 32 ve OE Yury poi igs Bi fiime ailing happoried. u 'his ech. And tics' eve ; week, he | calied "to teach. oo m that his "another ix months this work, ofc. | ork . "suing. righ Feli-| 'and resumed his search for catchy 8S ban To secure ord 'homes for Men' {ren's Hoslery. ! | Year round work, commissions. - Send Porter-Hoslery, One attractive when made from ellover patterned percale or print, having ail "Must 'ave sunk," offered Felicia, edges trimmed with rickrack or fancy braid The apron has two "large pockets and the shoulder straps cross over, buttoning onto. the back. cap may be either plaited or gathered to the shaped brim. No. 1300 is in one size only and the apron requires 17% yards 27-inch, or 1% yards 36-inch ose days. Not a--a very, material, 'and the cap % yard. Price nist, but my father heiped|20 cents, 3 - The secret of distinctive dress lies and with that and my | in good taste rather than a 'lavish exs penditure. of money. should 3 and the home dresémaker will find the Every woman nt to make her owniciothes, igns illustagtedsin our new Fashion k to be practical and simple, yet a spirit of the mode of HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps it carefully) for r ¢ address your order to Pattern Dept. Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail, or coin (coin preferred; wrap each mumber and pm) Cloud Swans. Great cloud swans Salil the blue lake Of the sky. .At times they shade The water From their wings; ° Again they shed Thelr feathers, Soft and white. --Rosalie 8. Jacoby, in "Poems." 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