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N What do we plant when we plant a tree? : A thousand things that we daily see; We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag, We plant the shade from the hot sun free, We plant all these when we plant a tree. --Henry Abbey. A Good Spring Appetizer and Spring Tonic--The Lowly Dandelion in Salad Gather the early tender plant of dandelion. It is best when just show- ing on top of the ground. The whiter and more blanched it is the more deli- cate is the flavor. Sometimes it grows up long, blanched and delicious under fallen boards or around and un- der stones. Sometimes you. may find it in a freshly plowed field. And you may be sure the farmer will be only too glad to see you come and gather all you can take away for it is an un- desirable weed to him except when he uses it on his table, if he has also grown to like its slightly bitter taste. Cut. off the roots as you gather it and keep as free from grass as pos- sible as you go along. Put it all in a large dishpan (it takes a lot of dande- lion to make a good sized d!sh full for it goes together a good bit), cover well with warm salty water, wash through a number of waters to remove all the sand, then cut a few slices of bacon into dice and fry brown in large frying pan. Add % to 4 cup white wine vinegar not too strong, 1 thlsp. sugar more or less according to taste, =alt and pepper. When it is boiling add the dandelion, Turn it over and over with a spoon to get it well mixed until it is wilted, but do not boil or cook it. Put it into a salad bowl and cover with sliced hard boiled eges, This tastes very good with a sham and eggs dinner. Many people eat it every day in the spring if they have time to gather it until the dandelion grows too old. An Easy Crumb Cake 2 cups pastry flour, 1% cups brown sugar, % cup butter, 2 teasp. baking powder, dash of cinnamon. Work above ingredients to crumbs, then take out #4 of a cup and add to the remain- der 2 eggs, not beaten, 3 cup sweet i ilk and vanilla if desired.' Beat up well. Put in greased pan and cover with the crumbs. Bake in moderate oven. Cool in the pan and cut pleces out as needed. Twilight Hour Story--Chapter 18 About We2 Chickies and Other Little Friends I told you last week that when they first brought Fluffy, the perdian pussy, hme, Rover didn't care about it very much. Of <surse he wouldn't hurt her because he knew Fluffy belonged to the house just as much as he did, but one day just shortly after Fluffy came she was outside enjoying a sun bath. ILamma and Billy wers up town and Rover thought it would be fun to make Fluffy run and he actually chased lier up a tree. She was so sur- prise' to think he'd run after her, but she found "he could climb a tree al- ost as easily as walking, But even wlien she was high above Rover she was so fi tened that she kept on climbing up and 'up. Then when she was away up there and looked down she was so high up she was afraid to come down. I tell you Fluffy was glad when she saw Mamma Lady and Billy coming home just then, It happened a little neighbor boy saw Rover chase Fluffy, so he came over and said, "Rover chased Fluffy up the tree, I saw him." ! Mamma Lady looked hard at Rover and said, "Rover, did you chase Flufly up there? Shame! I didn't think you'd do that." And Rover hung his head and came over slowly, then when he got tv Mamma Lady he put up his paw to shake hands. That was his way of saying he was sorry. But Mamma Lady had to punish him for doing that 80 he wouldn't do it again, and she MUTT AND JEFF-- | took his head in her hand and slapped the side of his nose a few times. Not very hard, for, did you know, you don't often need to punish animals very hard to make them mind, But then you mustn't let them off altogether, either, for they must know what is right and what is wrong just the same as little boys and girls must be taught, Don't you think so? Well, Fluffy was away up in the tree seeing all this, and when Mamma Lady looked up at her and called her, she was so excited and delighted she couldn't stand still. She called her again, and do you know what Fluffy did? She didn't climb down this time but she jumped down all the way, It may be she lost her balance, for the branch was so little away up there and she wasn't used to climbing yet. Anyway she jumped down all that way, and what do you think? _She landed right on her paws, Kitties always fall on their paws if they slip, did you ever know that? They never fall on their sides where it would hurt like every- thing, the way we would most likely fall. No, they never do. Well, when she plunked down right beside Mamma Lady she didn't run either. No, she knew Rover wouldn't run after her again if Mamma Lady was there, so she just. waited until Mamma Lady picked her up and took her into the house. But Fluffy got back at Rover after a few days for running after her like that. She wasn't quite so afraid of him now when he'd come in the house, This is what she did: You see, when Rover is glad he wags his big tail, which is his way of saying he is hap- py. Well, when he came in one day feeling awfully good and wagging his brushy tall like a good fellow, Fluffy was behind him and. she started to play with it. He was so surprised and stopped and looked round at her, But Fluffy knew he couldn't come after hier with Billy around, She just hid until he stopped looking at her and as soon as he wagged it again she grab- bed it again, and the only way he could keep Fluffy from pulling at his long hair was to keep it real still, and such a funny look came into his brown eyes, He didn't like standing still when he was feeling glad and not he able to wag his tail. Do you know, he had to go off in a corner if he wanted tn wag his tail in comfort. Fluffy was pretty smart that time, don't you think? But I wonder what Jimmie Chick and the three little chick sis- ters have been doing all this time. We're going to find out next issue, Mrs. Brown: "You used to call me your turtle dove." Mr, Brown: "Well, I was some- thing of a bird, myself, in those days." mee pre Her Majesty Discovers Quaint Wallpaper London-->Many collecting families which have been long settled in ome house have been known to discover hidden treasure in some neglected at- tie. , it is mow disclosed that Queen Mary, herself an ardent collector, lias made several interesting discoveries of this kind. Not long ago, she found in Buckingham Palace, [ understand to Ler surprise .aad delight, a sayly praiuted Chinese wallpaper, acquired by King George IV, stored away and forgotten. The beautiful, and Incidentally valuable, wallpaper vow adorus one of the sitting rooms in the- palace, known as the Yellow Drawing Room | because the color-scheme fs carried lout in a charming, clear,- jasmine- yvellow.--Collector, --By BUD FISHER. CHILLIEST MAN IN MUTT, You'Re Te COLDEST, ABSOLUTELY DEVOID of HUMAN SYMPATHY =- YOU'RE SS Wh 1S ILtL= AND "JUST To PROVE YOU'RE WRONG- T JUST HEARD THAT SIR SIDNEY ™ A TRANSFUSION! Sunday School Lesson -------------------- -- April 26, -Lesson IV--How to Pray-- Luke 18, 1-14, Golden Text--Lord, teach us to pray.--Luke 11: 1. ANALYSIS, I, THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE, 18: 1-8. IL THE PRARISER AND THE PUBLICAN, 18: I. THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE, 18: 1-8. The point of the parable is (0 show that Christians are to pray "at all times" (that is, even when their pray- |" ers seem not to be answered) and not to faint or give up in despair. The jrdge in the story is perhaps a local magistrate, or ine of the two regular police-cuurt magistrates in Jerusalem, who, because they sat continuously, were paid out of the Temple treasury. There are various references to the "ignorance, arbitrariness and covet- ousness" of such men. Inv. 5 a very strong expressi. n is used, "lest in .he end she come and give me a black eye," but perhaps this is not meant literally. For some reason or other the un- just judge does not want to right the woman's wrong, but in the end be- cause of her importunity he listens to her, thinking it will on the whole be less bother to him to be rid of her. We must not understand by the par- able that God, who otherwise would not trouble to answer our prayers, will in the end answer them if we bother him enough. God does not an- swer our prayers because of our im- portunity, but we are to go on asking him without ever despairing, because we know he will answer our prayers. This is another instance of the "how much more" argument which Jesus so often employed in his teaching about God; if even an unjust judge in the end will listen to prayers, how much more shall God, who loves his children in the end (in his own good time) an- swer their prayers! By "avenging his elect" we are pre- sumably to understand 'he deliver- ance, vindication and justification of those who have been faithful through trial and persecution. The parable, as we have it, seems to deal in pen- eral with the question of prayers that seem to be unansw-ored, and in par- ticular with the sufferings and trials of the Church between the death of Jesus and his eagerly expected ra- turn. Let the versecuted Church take heart: God will speedily "avenge nis elect." It is not clear whether the second part of v. B is a saying of Jesus or a comment by the evangelist. "When the So: of Man comes, will he find" (not "faith" but) "the faith on the earth?" The words "the faith" seem naturally to mean "true Christianity," and it is perhaps right to suppose that the words are the comment of some disheartened Church leader, who does not doubt 'hat soon Christ wi'l come, but who is gravely disauieted about th state of the Church. In any case, the point of the parable seems to be this: your prayers for deliverance seem not to be answered; vou are doubting whether God will do his 'part, but the real question is whether you will do yours; of course God will vindicate his elect, but ars you sure that vou will be found numbered among the elect? II. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN, 18: 9-14. Sélf-righteousness is the subject of this story. The public and official worship of the Temple was almost ex- clusively sacrificial; but the Temple spurts, it would seem, were also used for private prayer. It is difficult to see how far the "prayer" of the Pharisee may properly be called a prayer a" all; he giv:s thanks to God for the blessedness Hf his condition, Lut the impression is left with us that the Pharigee is not so much grateful to God for the gifts of God's grace us Le is boasting before God of his own attainments. He as lone more than tke Law requirbs; he has fasted on Mondays and Thursday (the Chris- tians, to be different, chose Wednes- days and Fridays for their fasts); he has paid tithes, n> only on his pro- duce, as the Law required. but on che whole of his income; he has avoided the open sins of the worldling. A not dissimilar prayer of a rabbi has come down tous: "I thank thee, O Lord my God, that thou hast put my part with those who sit in the Academy, and not with those who (like money-changers and traders) sit at the corners. For I rise early, and they rise early; I zise early to the words cf the Law, and they to vain things; T labor and they Inbor: T labor and receive a reward: they labor and receive no reward; 1 run and they run; I run to the life of the world to come, and they to the pit a GEE, © T'M GONNA SUBMIT WRONG= I DIDR'T THINK HE WAS THAT HUMAN= © musT APOLOGIZE! at New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Hiustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Darling youthful chic for all-day occasions is expressed in this simple frock of printed crepe silk. The cowl drape and flounce trim- med sleeves lend a softened touch to the bodice. The unusually clever shaping of the skirt produces a decidedly slimming effect. The lower part displays a com- fortably full hemline. To copy it exactly takes but 3 yards of 89-inch material for the medium size. 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Moreover the Phari- see in the narable does not seem to be wholly condemned; the publican re- turns to his house with a heart more acceptable to God than the Pharisees because he has a greater sense of moral realities, but the righteousness of the Pharisee is not despised. What is meant by saying that che publican is justified rather than the other? "Justified" is strictly a term taken from the law courts and means "acquitted." It applies here that ull men are sinful in God's eyes, and all must pray, "forgive us our tres- passes," but that "a broken and con- "rite heart" iz more acceptable to God than a proud and self-satisfied right- ecusness. Humility is the right atti- tude of man before God, and the :on- ship to which we are called is not an easy and lighthearted companionship and familiarity. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warnings. --J. R. Lowell. iim men ar. se "When I got home last night," said the struggling author, "I-found that burglars had been in my place" "Really!" exclaimed his friend. "What happened? Did they take anything?" "They searched through every drawer in the flat and then left $2.00 on my desk." JUDGED MUTT OPERATION ik uL Just smell a crocus, and close your eyes-- But you can't shut out the blue of the skies, : The green of the grass and the glint] of the brook, The racing and chasing of mad chinook, ; : You can't shut out the fleecy clouds, Floating and downy--fairy shrouds-- For the crocus has in it the.spirit of Spring, : ! And its gay purple bells the Spring Song ring, moe And its gay yellow heart is the heart of Spring. Just smell a crocus and listen not-- For you'll hear the songs that can't be forgot; | The song of the lark in an airy dell, ! The rustling of fairies at wishing well, The raucous cry of the coal black crow, The honk of the wild geese as over they go; Ee For the crocus has in it the spirit of Spring, : And its gay purple bells the Spring song ring, And its gay yellow heart is the heart of Spring, We know Spring is here when days grow long, When the brain is cleared and the heart beats strong, When ice breaks up and the lakes shine blue, We know spring is coming, then, we do! But we greet the crocus with roll of drums For Spring is here when the crocus comes; For the crocus has in it the spirit of Spring, And its gay purple bells the Spring Song ring, And its gay yellow heart is the heart of Spring, -- (Original), "One of the Race That Knows Joseph." ef} eee. Short Hours and One Job Offered As Solution Berlin--The commission appointed by the Chancellor, Dr. Heinrich Bruening, to study Germany's unem- ployment problem, suggested two A partial solutions--general shortening | of working hours and prohibition of! civil servants engaging In side jobs. The commission headed by the, former Minister of Labor, Heinrich | Brauns, believed that shortening of | working hours would afford an op-| portunity for at least part time work to many who now are without jobs. The commission recommended that where industries proved recalcitrant | to the plan the Government be om- powered to fix the hours of work. | The commission urged also that all civil servants be prohibited from accepting remunerative jobs outside their regular civil service. fe memes Waiter: "And how did you find the beef, sir?" - Customer: "Oh, I moved a potato and there it was." verte ent Drying Rods A kitchen stool which ylelds 16 26-inch galvanized rods for drying small articles helps to solvag the problem of lack of drying epace in the tiny apartment. When the rods are not in use they fit in a cone be- neath the stool, which may then serve as a useful piece of kitchen furniture, -- An Observer | He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. --Lavater. person -------- This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.---Oliver Goldsmith, | tains are washed, starched and damp- This Good Samaritan is an Ee: 5. FIER IT WAS OVER= THE I~ DOCTORS DISCOVERED THAT SIDNEY HAD BoTH EARS FROZEN, CHILBLAINS, AND WIS FINGERS AND TOES FROST BITTEN! New coiffure by Emile, with cor- rect size veil and plumes, and ornament worn off forehead. Lon- don fashion's decree for this year's debutantes. a British Author Gives List of Favorite Works Philadelphia.--John Galsworthy dis- cussed English and American litera- ture of the past century, at the Phila- delphia Forum here: He discussed the so-called "realists" with frankness, saying that their phil- osophy would not live, though their style was arresting. The novelists Mr, Galsworthy himself finds perennially interesting, were Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katharine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, W. H, Hud- son and Mark Twain. "Dickens was the greatest of Eng- lish novelists," Mr. Galsworthy said. "The quest for truth and beauty is a hard one, but what else is there worth seeking," he added, in discussing the use of satire, which, he said, was to forcibly point out' truths. "Stevenson," Mr. Galsworthy re- marked, "gave us the unexpected in diction more frequently than any other English writer, excepting Shake- speare," . The outstanding literature produced by writers of the United States were listed by Mr. Galsworthy as Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer," Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," and Frank Norris's McTeague." Mending Curtains Springtime and house-cleaning time approach. Those muslin curtains need laundering and yet they are | rather old and delicate to withstand another washing. Try this and see how well it succeeds: After the cur- 'Harris, ened, put a plece of thin white net under the worn parts and press the | two together while ironing them. The damp starch will cause the net | to etick to the curtains and the net backing will make them look like new. It will save hours of mending and when the curtains are hung the | net will not be noticed in the full- ness. Curtains mended in this way have. been in use for two years or more and the results are very satis- factory. FERSCRIRY IRC Fire Halts Wolf-Pack North Bay, Ont.--Iake a tale from Siberia came the story of the all- night vigil of a trapver and two young | boys who, forced to camp near a lonely northern lake, burned pine- boughs until dawn to keep a wolf pack a: bay. The trapper, an experienced man, | and his companions had started on a! fitty-mile trip to a northern. settle- | ment. ieavy snow slowed their | progress and forced them to spend a | night on the trail, Startled near midnight by the howls of wolves, they | heaped boughs upon thelr fire until flames shot high into the night. The! wolves could be dimly seen in the surrounding woods, but they kept away, and at the first streak of dawn they disappeared into the brush. o eo Flowers of many forest important sources of pollen bees. trees are for honey SIR | canning Inside the house, in the room that Mary shared with Sarah, was another link with the past, a past that In this case reached back beyond every- thing her babyhood had experienced. The little bureau from Wales where the sisters kept their clothes in or- derly piles was a constant spur to the child's imagination. She had been told that her grandmother, Sarah Price, from whom her sister Sarah was named, had brought 'from Radior to Pembroke whan sh came there as the bride of Jam Mary's grandfather. That was the bureau's first journey, from Radnor to Rembroke in Wales, and Mary rolled the names on her tongue . and tried to picture the towas, the country for which they stood. Bul when she questioned her mother she found little satisfaction, for Eliza beth's memories of Wales were fragmentary, Of the house where she was born she had little to say save that James. Harris, a clergymar who had received his training at one of the English universities, ha¢ many books, She remembered these books and an atmosphere of beauty, but the details of the picture were gone.. There were memories of the high hedges that bordered the road the men who doffed their caps, the women with high-crowned hats worn over showy kerchiefs who curtsied as Grandmother Harris passed by. This grandmother was a woman of in fluence with property enough to qualify under the Welsh law as ¢ freeholder; so much Elizabeth knew, for most vivid memory was of a rainy afternoon when g candidate for Parliament called to request her grandmother's vote. A dash of rain against the window always brought back the picture in after life, and for her little daughter, Elizabeth re constructed the scene. She described herself sitting on the windowseat, struggling with fom sticky and refractory needles with which she must knit ten rounds on her stocking. The long room with the dark paneling on its walls, the fireplace where the rain falling down the chimney throat softly spat on the glowing coals, the three windows with the rain-blurred panes, were the background for her grandmother's figure in the arm-chair, a tall woman, made taller still by her towering cap. Mrs. Harris, Elizabeth ex- plained to the child, looked with dis- favor on the changing fashions of the Regency, holding that their sugges: tions of the actual female figure were signs of that unrestraint which had brought France to ruin, and she not only wore full skirts and cross. ed kerchief herself, but she dressed her granddaughters in voluminous defiance eof a licentious age. Even the baby Phoebe, staggering from chair to chair that rainy afternoon, struggled with a multiplicity of skirts that made her little figure as wide as it was long. Then a servant had opened the door to announce (the caller, and, little as she was, Elizabeth said she had noticed with pride the look of respect in the would-be member's eye as he bowed to her grandmother. That was all the picture, but it was enough for Mary. As she drew the Smooth drawers of the little Welsh bureau in and out to find or replace her clothes she would sometimes stand dreaming, thinking she could see the tall old woman in the arm- chair across the sea.--From "Wagons West," by Elizabeth Page. meet Father of Canning "Father of the Canning Indusiry" is the- name Nicholas Appert, 8 Frenchman, unknowingly made for himself. It was in 1809, after 15 years of constant experimenting, that Appert received from Napoleon I the prize offered by the French Govern: ment to anyone who discovered a way to supply suitable and well-preserved provisions to its military forces and described the process in a book that France could give to thi world. This book was published in: 1810 but not translated into English until 1820 The cash prize received by Appert for his discovery wa: the equivalent of $5000 and with it he started a business, outgrowths of which under the same name are still operated in France, Appert called his products "Her metically Sealed Foods," his *'cans' being wide-mouth glass bottles, each with a cork carefully cut by hand, this being the only known method of preventing leaks and consequent spoilage of the food. The preserv- ing and sealing of food in a "can. ister" of tin or other metal was the next development of the industry and explains the origin of the familiar "tin can" of today. In listing pr ucts on hand and in making out voices, the early canners abbrevia the word "canister" to read 'can. In 'consequence a "tin canister" soon out any visible sigh of the abbrevia. tion." Sy ------ HONOR z Honor is but the reflection of a man's own actions shining bright In the face of all about him, and from Wise Sayings. AG en. "The wise sould somehow wanages to turn every adversity to yrofit.""-- : Rupert Hughes. » became known as a "tin can," with. ° thence rebounding upon himself.--