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| NS Horne (hats | 3 | . MARJE ANN BEST "A zood heart does a little extra,"--| Did you know that there are some Chinese saying. Wild Flowers Ol, the thrill of Spring! We never tire of welcoming with glad acclaim the tender bursting buds of plant life | or ever cease to wonder at the yearly resurrection which unfolds so surely and marveilously before our eyes. Out in the woods, from a lofty pine tree, the crows send forth their glee song over the meadow and through the | | you | friends. dogs that run after every kitty they see? They don't care how we love our kitty, if they see her they run after her and, oh dear, if they catch her they'll even kill her perhaps. Isn't that awful? Well, Rover looked af- ter Fluffy and Topsy and the little gray kitty. This is how he did it. Of course, know, Rover had lots of dog Yes, he was even friends with the dogs who ran after kittens, aromatic punge nt air, One gould hard-; gy I tel: you, none of those other iy call his song melodious nor is it A dogs could come onto Mama Lady's chant, but nevertheless he is Leraided farm, if they did Mama Lady would as the und enfably aftable and friendly | say, "Now you better go home," 80 announcer o' Spring even though his Fluffy would be sate, and immediately gong may b~ boisterous and occasion- Rover picked up his ears and all at ally raucous in quality, { 3 | once, barking softly, would run at the him through ! Her name "To mother of mankind" a life-size statue was built. was "Segis Pleterje Prospect," and she held world's record as milking cow. At impressive ceremony, recently, at Seattle, Washington, this statue was unveiled. Then dowr far below ! other dog. If the stranger didn't run the appa.ently desistless frozen earth ! away, he'd bite him and make him go, the delicately petalled hypatica shyly | ypan qun after him hard away off over and so quietly pushes up bravely from the lawn until he came to the divid- {ts cool sequesterad spot and wafts its ing fence which belonged to the next fragrant perfume, carce perceptible, farmer, But the funniest part was on the Spring brecze. . | this: After he chased him and was Truly, wild flowers need their wood | gq cross to make him run away, he environment if we are to appreciate was suddenly friends again with the their full beauty. One often wonders,' though, w! ether it is because they are! a free gift that they are, more and more, in great danger of becoming ex-' tinct. Fo: some reason children and, | sad to relate, many grown ups, 100, ! seem to bs possessed with an insati-| able desir to pluck every wild flower they see, rnd worse still, it is not an uncommo thing to see a bunch of| witliere | dog tooth violets or hypatica lying forlovr in a ditch, carelessly | thrown there because the flowers have drooped and faded from the warmth! of the hand that plucked them thought- | lessly, depriving the® woods, in that; one discarded bouquet, of many next | year blooms. The lovely plot from which they were gathered , will be; much smaller or gone altogether the following year. In years gone by it was not too rare a thing to find deep in the woods near by our towns and cities, the showy and much desired pink and white orchid or the yellow lady slipper. To find them now one must go far north where the miles of forest still stretch un- touched hy man. Climbing over logs and through its guard of marsh lands one is suddenly confronted by a show of dozens of these wonderfully beauti- dog 'he was so cross to at first, as soon as the dog got off Lady Mama's land, and then the two would trot off to- gether like too good chums. Pretty soon the dogs knew they could just come so far and then they'd wait for him down the road. Oh, he was a funny, wise old dog. You know, even if he did take such good care of Fluffy, I don't think he | was very fond of her. Not many dogs are real fond of cats, are they? I think he was a little jealous of her at first when Mama Lady brought her home when she was just a little ball of thick furry kitty. She was so cute Mama Lady and Billy wanted to play with her all the time, and, so that made Rover jealous, even though they pet- ted him too. Fluffy was pretty fright- ened of bis Rover, too, at first, and so until she got used to him they put him outside for a while' when they wanted to play with her, which also made him kind of cross at her, too, for a while. But then he was a good Rover and he knew Mama Lady loved her, so that was why he took such good care of her anyway. Next time 'I'll tell you what Rover did to Fluffy one day when she was a kitter. Sunday School Lesson April 19. Lesson III--The Rich Man and Lazarus--Luke 16: 19-31. Gol- den Text--Lay up for yourself treasurers in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.--Matthew 6: 20. ANALYSIS, I. THE PURPOSE OF THE PARABLE. II. THE POOR BEGGAR. III, THE RICH MAN. I. THE PURPOSE OF' THE PARABLE The surest way to aisunderstand this parable is to take it as giving us Jesus' teaching about the next world, | It is natural, but unprofitable, to ask! such questions as "Is Jesus teaching! that there is an intermediate state be-| tween death and the Last Judgment?" | or "Is Jesus giving us here a doctrine of hell?" or "Is the fate of men! eternally and irrevocably settled for | gem at death?" We must remember, at this story presents us, not with a map of heaven or hell, nor with a prophecy, nor with theological dogmas, | but with a parable. The first part of the parable, giving the surprising | interchange of fortune between che rich man and the beggar, is not in any way | unique. Similar stories have been Lam's boson, or, as we rhould say, to P.radise. When the rich man diss, and has been properiy buried, he oes to "Hades." This Greek word corres- ponds with the Hebrew "Sheol," the place of the departed. It normally means the place where all departed souls go to await the final Judgment. Here, however, it seems, unusually, to mean "hell" or the place of torment; not a place of waiting, but of doom. Presumably Jesus tells the story as it was usually told and without any thought of harmonizing it with theo- logical ideas. III. THE RICH MAN. The rich man in torment asks Abra- ham that Lazarus may be sent to him with a drop of cooling water. Abra- ham replies that between him and the rich man is "a great gulf fixed," and that the rich man has no cause for complaint, for he has had his good time and now it is Lazarus' turn. Our natural inclination is to say, "how very unchristian!" Can we imagine | that those in Paradise look on with equaninity at tho sufferings of the damned? What had Lazarus done that he had deserved (apparently) endless bliss? And can we really be- lieve that God would condemn the rica man to endless, hopeless, unrelieved torment? Could anything be less like the spirit of Jesus than the answer of Abraham? But these natural objec- tions are really beside the point. The story ic a parable, not an account of the future life. We have, rather, to ask, what is it which the parable illus- trates? Of whom was Jesus thinking when he spoke this parable. It is diffi- cult to be sure, but there seems a close told not infrequently within and with-| .snnection with the often quoted say- out Judaism and Christianity. Indeed,' jnp of Jesus, that the first shall be it is probably right to suppose that in! the first part of the parable Jesus is version of a well-known story. would, therefore, be a great mistake to press the details in order to arrive taking over and repeating a Jewish | ful and rare flowers. A lovely bouquet ANNIE imi 48 discriminately picked and lovingly many are left for next year's propa- gation, only to find the following day a carload of people laughingly come out of your seciuded spot with their | arms full of these rare flowers, many of which were torn up by the roots and every last flower hunted out. "We can never use all these," one can imagin them saying as they sort out the best ones and leave the others, which are carelessly thrown by the side of ths road to wither and die. How much better it would be to al- ways remember the rule when gather- ing wild flowers, "pick one and leave one," a silent thank you for the woodsy gift, How lovely our Canadian woods could become if determined efforts 'were made to multiply and protect our wild flowers in their own environment. What bowers of natural beauty Can- ada migh have. There they grow, their gardcuer the spirit king of the forest who keens the ground moist and black and rom weeds in some myslerious w overs them over carefully in tL vith a thick but light coverlet « vy leaves and in the spring, qu perfect, his gar- | den blooms. With forest preservation and wild flower protection along with education, what wonderful places our Canadian { woods might become, «Whe Twilight Hour Story--About Wee Chicks and Other Little Friends. Chapter 17 Last time, you remember, I told you how well Rover looked after Billy and _ even how he saved Billy one time, but Gabbie Gertie "A kid who knows the ropes can always get a free seat in the cir- cus." CALM OF NATURE It seems as if it were Nature's ain Sabbath, and the verra waters were at rest. Look down upon the vale profound, and the stream is without motion! No doubt, if you were walking along the bank, it would be murmuring with your feet. But here--here up among the hills, we can imagine it asleep, even like the well within reach of my staff.--Prof. { Rover looked after 'more than Billy. Wilson. at the mind of Jesus about the future | or at some authorized foundation of | Christian doctrine about heaven and hell. The distinctive element in the story lies in its conclusion. IT. THE POOR BEGGAR. Lazarus, alone of figures mentioned in the parables, is given a name. Lazarus seems to be an abbreviation for Elazar, meaning, "God help!" or, we might say, "God help him!" It nay thus be emblematic of his condi- tion. Apparently Lazarus, who was the victim of some lcathsome disease, could not walk. He was "dropped" or "chucked down" at the rich man's gate and left there to do the best he could for himself, He longed io sati- ate his hunger with the crumbs that dropped from the rich man's table, but even this, it seems, was denied him. To make matters worse, he had to suffer the indignity of having his sores licked by dogs. He could not keap them off. We are apt to contrast the sympathy of the dogs with the cal- lousness of the rich ran, But that is not the meaning here. To the Jews the dog was an unclean animal, a mere scavenger. We are not told that Lazrus was a good man, and we should rot understand Jesus to mean that any man who has been sufficiently poor and miserable 'n this life will be taken to heaven for compensation He is simply repeating the familiar story for the sake of the moral which is to be drawn. The poor man is car- ried at death by the angels to Abra- i last and the last first. The kingdom i of heaven will reverse the judgments of earth; such Pharisees as make long { prayers in public, or fast and pray to | pet a reputation for piety on eartk, | "have received their reward." They sought the regard of men, and it has come to them. That is all they sought. That, therefore, is al they will re- ceive. He who prays in secret, lets not his left hand know what his right hand 'does, will have treasure in heaven. It will not do for the former to declare, "It is not fair)". It will be open to them to claim some of the reward of the latter: it is a matter of spiritual and moral impossibility. mes iee¥ ememmme: Isolated! Eighty persons who live within three and a half miles of Coleford (Gloucestershire, Eng.), are at times cut off entirely from the outside world. They are the inhabitants of Drybrook, a ,hamlet between the spurs of two hills in the Forest of Dean, and they live in conditions that recall the Middle Ages. Drybrook has no public lighting nor drainage, no main water, and, worst of all, no road. The only approach is by a tortuous, treacherous footpath through the woods. Projecting tree roots, deep pits and swamps are a danger to life and limb at night time. Tradesmen are often unable to de- liver essential 'supplies; doctors have sometime been unable to make the perilous journey to visit the sick; and the dead have literally to be hauled up the hillside for burial. MUTT AND JEFF-- THe CLUB MUST SHow! _By BUD FISHER. Ceo TELL Del Cen \ T fo. y FIRMLY BUT LooSCLY~ THe FIRST THREE kkhuckLes OF THG LEFT HAND --- ee Ee : : oo : : is Ls Spring Brings Hope The farm is always an interesting place in the early spring, No mat- ter how serious the drought in sum- mer, how disappointing the harvests in the fall, or how discouraging the outlook through the bleak days of winter, when spring comes with its warm rains and the warmth sun daily increasing, there ig ed hope. All nature has lain dorfment. fee weeks and weeks. The world, in the country has seemed to be at a stand- still. The farmer has been well- nigh in hibernation, he has stuck close to the sheltering roof and the fireside. . Then comes along April, and, in re- sponse to her showers and sunshine, all thing In sight seem to come to life--the sap begins to rise, the grass springs green, tha farmer gets out and sees his shadow and finds the air and sunhine good and deliciou to stay out in. Just a few of these warm days and we see teams of horses tramping too and fro in all the fields about us, and hear the familiar hum of tractors as they pull the tillage tools or plows across the fields. Another season of work and hope is here. = ---- Peace There is a green land hid away Within the hearts of all, A pleasant land of light. and shade Whehe happy voices call. Beneath its wide and azure skies Its cool, clean houses rest, In gardens wide where roses blow Upon the warm soll"s breast, And wide-eyed women sit and spin Beneath the tall trees' shade, And in the flelds the men at work Are strong and upright made. A river flows through that fair land By meadows lush and green, No boat with oar piles thereupon, Nor ship with sail is seen; But cattle lie along its banks Or stand in shallows calm, And woolly sheep with tinkling bells Soothe h=art and ear with balm. And every home is full of song, And every back unbowed, And every nead is lifted high, And every face is proud. There is the hush of eventide 'When purple shadows fall, The shepherds on the hilltops high Across the valleys call. And men let go their pleasant tasks, And children cease from play, And bleating kids run to their dams, And homeward all things stray. Then, when the silver moon is flower- ed, And fireflies gem the breeze, The silver-throated nightingales Give tongue in all the trees. In praise of Him who loveth all, The flower, the man, the beast, And guardeth all, apd guideth all, The greatest and the least. --Charles Grenville Wilson in "The Christian Science Monitor." re eA es BAD TEMPER A man's most constant companion is himself--a companion never to be shaken off from birth to death. Yet he who is careful to choose desirable companions often forgets to train himself In the essential of happy living. To live in the same house with a bad temper is disagreeable en- ough; but some men and women con- demn themselves to live in the same body with a bad temper---which Is one of the worst discomforts imagin- able. ao re dm -- DISCONTENT Much of our.-discontent dn life is due less to any lack of our own lot the | condition, but that part of it which i Springtime Touches For the Home New. Paint for the Front Door In driving through the country what is more pleasing to the eye than a lovely freshly painted fromt door at some farmhouse? One house owner re-enameled his door in white. The surface was in fair was exposed to the weather was bad- Jy blistered. First of all the door was thorqughly scrubbed with a solution of sugar soap and hot water. Sugar soap can be purchased at a drug shop. About halt a pound in half a gallon of water is sufficient, When the paint was thoroughly scrubbed the door was washed off in clean water. This removed every trace of the strong alkali which was used in the scrubbing process. After the washing down had been completed the door was wiped with clean rags. The next process was in scraping the surface. This was done with an old knife, care being taken that no cut was made into the wood itself. The surface was a bit uneven and it was rubbed down with a piece of pum- ice stone and ths door was given a coat of filling. This coat is not es- sential, though it is useful where the door is exposed to bad weather, as it makes a good foundation for the coats that follow. Filling is made up of red lead, white lead and boiled oil. It can be purchased ready for use. For white enameling nothing is bet- ter than white lead flatting for an un- dercoat, *This may be bought already prepared. It will dry very quickly, and so must be applied fairly rapidly. Under coat- ing does not spread well and it shows the brush marks, but this is all to the good, as it gives one excellent prac- tice for the actual enameling. If you can get a good surface with the un- dercoating there is no fear of failing with the enamel. The number of coats required will depend on circumstances. Generally speaking, three coats will be sufficient, though if you have to paint on a dark surface, four may be necessary to cover it. tI is a good rule to continue giving coats until none of the original color shows through. Prepares to Study Sun Eclipse in "32 Path Sweeps Across Canada and New England--Visi- tors Plan to View Pheno- "menon Scheduled for 'August 31 New York.--"Plans are already be- ing made in connection with the total eclipse of the sun which occurs om Aug. 31, 1932, and will be visible in Canada and Maine," declares Mary Proctor in the N.Y. Times. The eclipse begins at sunrise north of Siberia, passes within about five degrees of the North Pole, sweeps down across Hud- son Bay, the Province ef Quebec, Northern Vermont, New Hampshire, Southwestern Maine, the eastern pro- jection of Massachusetts, and ends at sunset in the Atlantic Ocean. A party of astronomers of the Royal Astronomical Society and their friends are coming to America about July 22, 1932, in what might be suitably term- ed the "Eclipse Ship," which will land them in Montreal, announces this writer. As the eclipse is not due until the latter part of August, this affords an opportunity for those members of the Royal Astronomical Soclety and ~ their friends who may be desirous of ¥isiting the great American observa- tories to spend the interval to advant- age. Consequently, arrangements are" being made for a visit to the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B.C., and an opportunity will be given for enabling the members of the party to enjoy a view of Banft and Lake Louise en route. Thence the journey will be continued via Seattle to San Francisco, where entertainment will be offered at Berkeley University and at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California. After proceed- ing from San Francisco to Los Angeles a visit will be made to the Mount Wil- son Observatory, noted for its marvel: ous collection of telescopes, including the giant 100-inch of world-wide re- nown. Truly this observatory has been termed the Mecca of astrono- mers, . ,To Visit Lowell Observatory Returning eastward a brief stay will be made at Williams £0 as to enable Nothing remains now but to apply the finishing coat of enamel; but here let it be emphasized that you win | never be able to make a fine job of it] unless you use the best enamel, X Experts always say nce fresh brush. | es for enameling; but it is our opinion that nothing is better than the ordin- ary brushes that have heen used be- fore for paint work. Apply the enamel quickly and freely. Keep the brush well down, else the enamel will tend to run down to the stock, and so slop about--Julia W, Wolfe. "Is it true you have been arrest: ed so often?" "Yes, mum. I couldn't have been arrested any oftener if I owned an automobile." Start Spring Chicks Right (From the Southern Agriculturist) By far the greatest mortality and loss encountered in chick raising oec- curs during the first four weeks of brooding. One of the most important factors in keeping the chicks in good health and vigorous condition, and keeping them growing properly, is the feed which they are consuming. A good all'mash-ration is as follows: 80 lbs. ground yellow corn, 20 lbs. gbandard. wheat middlings, 6 Ibs. ground raw bone, 5 ibs. ground lime- than to the seeming overabundance in that of our neighbor, If he had not so much we should discover few-| er deficiencies for- ourselves. e; are not so greatly dissatisfied with what we miss as with what he has. | | eateium carbonate}, 1 Ib, common salt, | stone (any commercial grit high in Skim milk used freely--no water first! two or taree weeks. Cod liver oil, 2! pints to 100 pounds mash, when chicks do not get direct suniight, | -------------- A ES stn ee A A inutriy a Sh CH Golf Is a Memory Curse. TE a | a me Per cso Bo Sn ra | et IL an a TEL ELBOW PRESSED AGAINST THE WA' a those interested to visit tha Grand Canyon, .fter which the party will proceed to Flagstaff Ariz, to see the Lowell Observatory. which contains some of the finest photographs of Mars and other planets. Thence the jour- ney will be made to Chicago, which offers the double attraction of the Ad- ler Planetarium recently erected and the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. The object of special in- terest here will be the great forty-inch refractor, the largest in the world. From Chicago the party will entrain to Boston, after which there will be a general stampede for the purpose of securing the best position for obtain- ing a view of the solar corora at the total eclipse of the sun on Aug. 31. As the width of the track is about ninety miles, thers need be no overcrowding, and there will doubtless be -convey- ances of all kinds from automobiles to airplanes in readiness to convey all those intent on observing the awe-in- spiring spectacle, wherever they have planned to station themselves. The duration of totality ranges from 105 seconds o1 the southern edge of Hud- son Bay to ninety-eight 'seconds on the coast of Maine. Totality at Good Time Totality occurs at a convenient time in the afternoon. The central line of totality reaches from Pierreville, Que., to Biddeford, Me., and passes over the White Mountains. -The northern limit reaches from St. Jean de Chaillons, Que., to Richmond, Me., while the southern limit extends from Montreal to Salem, Mass. Suitable stations are Three Rivers and Sherbrooke in Que- bec; Portland, Me., and Portsmouth, N.H. Montreal is too near the track except for investigations of a special character. On the other hand, Boston is very close to the track but ouiside + t. 2 In Planting Grass The fine seeds of grasses and legu- mes require a firm soil that is fine in tilth, and moist. They are very small in size and if seeded .too deep- ly will produce plants which either lack in vigeur when liey emerge above the ground, or are completely smothered. The soil should be firm so that the seed will not he buried too deeply and so thal meisture will . be near the surface to 'acilitate the germination of the small seeds be- fore the nurse crop becomes sutlicis ently well established to ~mother the small seedlings.-- Experimental Faring Note...' ely Cheshire Tales Once upon a time, it is said, Ches- hire Checscs were made in the shape of a cat, bristles being inserted to: represent the whiskers. But peoples have queried whether it was a 'cat. It is sald that it realiy was a wo!l's head, as the armour of Hugh Eupus, one of the earis of Chester had a wolf's head on tiie coat. A cat's faca is seen on ihe arms of the city of Chester, but the oid deawivg of a wolf, or, as some say a leopard, In the cily arms, might easily linve hoen taken for a grinning ca', heace tha , saying, "frinning ike a Cheslirs cat." ? Sn mem STD essen. Bian! peopie have shun Mo Hh ----