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self, but to make the-absolute best of 'what God made."--Browning. * kind described. EEE RE UR "My business is not to remake my- A Unique Summer House The summer house need not he of elaborate design or of great expense. Indeed the simpler the building the cooler and more enjoyable it will be. A boy at home could easily make the | Secure posts by thinning out the tops of willow trees, Then trim and cut to proper length, and set in eight holes, three feet apart, forming an octagonal shaped upright foundation on which a pyramid top can be built. Te the top and upper parts of the sldes short strips should be nailed to form simple designs finishing off at the top with some decoration. Within the summer house, at suit- @ble height, a seat should be built con- sisting of short strips of branches halved. Quite often the willow posts will send out shoots which extend from the top in all directions. They continue to grow and by interlacing form a na- tural and attractive root for the sum- mer house. Twilight Hour Story--About Chicks and Other Little Friends. Chapter 9 "It was getting pretty cold outside now. In fact it was just about time for Thanksgiving Day. That is a nice time in the year, isn't it? Do you re- member last Thanksgiving, when the big juicy grapes were ripe and the apples all rosy and sweet? In fact it is the time when everybody gets ready for winter, isn't it? All the good things to eat which took all sum- mer long to grow are ripe then, and are brought inside the house or the barn or the cellar, somewhere so Jack Frost can't get a hold of them. Then all winter long everybody and you and I and little Jack Horner and Dolly Dimples will have all we want to eat even though there is ice and snow out- slide and everything frozen up hard. Then enough is put away for the ani- mals too. That is for the animals who live with us. Let me see what ani- mals do live with us. Well, on the farms what kinds are out in the big warm barns? Of course the barns are not as warm as our houses be- cal. €, you must remember, animals hav + fur or feathers, so they don't want it so warm. Well, in those barns, if you look all over you'll see great piles and piles of hay, and it is lots of fun to play in it too, isn't it? Then there are great big boxes of oats and wheat and everything that animals like and the animals are the horses and cows and pigs and chickens. Oh, « single house full of chickens grow big and fat and lay lots of eggs for Mamma Lady and Daddy and Billy, Of course, the little boys and girls who live in the city or town haven't got a barn, very likely, so they just I we a kitty or a dog who like to snooze in front of 'the warm fireplace, But in'our story it is nearly Thanks- g:ving Day, and Thanksgiving Day comes becanse we have so much to be thankful for, don't you think? I'm sure mother can think of many other things too, which you will want to be thankful for besides all these good things to eat, won't she? We only need to thipk a little and find that the world is just full of wonderful things. Do you remember what you had for Thanksgiving dinner? It's just awful- ly good when we have roast chicken or turkey, isn't it? I guess most peo- ple have roast chicken on that day, don't they? It must take a great many chickens to feed everybody. And do you know, little girls and boys, the chickens don't mind after they grow up if they are used for chicken roast. No, they don't. In fact, that is why a lot of them were born. So they just have a good time while they are here, and they can have such a good time it we take good care of them, feed- fog and watering them and keeping their little houses clean and giving EE ------------ MUTT AND JEFF-- --By them a nice bed while they are here. Then they give us their good bodies, 1 fat and sleek, and --puff--just as easy as that, they are gone, leaving he- hind them good chicken roasts, and then another little chick comes to take its place. Well, this Thanksgiving Day Billy went to hig auntie's in the city for a while, He had a good time there too, I can tell you. She took him te some ! fine picture shows and showed him the store windows all lit up so brilliantly and full of such beautiful things. You see, Billy's home was in the country .nd this was all new to him. So he enjoyed it immensely. while he began to think about Rover and Fluffy, and he wondered how Jim- mie Chick and three little chicks that But after 'a looked so much alike were getting along and oh, he was getting home- slok to see his Mamma and Daddy, so when the two weeks were over they all got in Uncle Will's car and off they started to bring Billy home. So next you'll hear about what happened when Billy got home again. cir--r---- Sweets Induce Early Rising Saratoga Springs.--That there is as much truth as poetry in the expres- sion "sweet sleep" is shown, we are told in a bulletin issued by the Col- gate University Press Bureau, by the record of an inter-collegiate slumber contest recently conducted between men students at that University -and girl students at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The contest, conducted on a scien- tific basis jointly by Dr. Donald A. Laird, director of Colgate's depart- ment of psychology, and Dr, Linus W, Kline, Skidmore psychologist, ended in a walkaway for the girls, and indi- cated that the most restful and re- freshing sleep was the reward of those who went in for diets rich in sweets and other carbohydrates. We read: Furthermore, the sweet-eating girls were said to be much sweeter and prompter about rising in the morning than the Colgate men and their sister students who went in for more ascetic eating. Most of the young men at Col- gate had to be called at least twice before they could he aroused from their slumbers. The Skidmore girls bounded out of their beds at the first note of the alarm clock. Each of the 136 Skidmore students and 140 Colgate students who partici- pated in the experiment reported daily over a period of two weeks on 225 items of data which had to do with their mode of living, their emotional states, and their reactions to physical exertion, A classification of this data showed that the two contestants having per- fect sleep scores were girls who con- sumed the largest quantities of sweets, It also showed that the girl students in general slept about 15 per cent, bet- ter than men students. Mrs, B.--"Are you sure Harold is engaged to Miss DeCash?" Mrs. C.--"Well, I hear his tailor «has let him have another suit of cloths." FREI | Any Twelve Canadian Oaks There are twelve species of oak In Canada according to the Forest Ser- vice, Department of the Interior; one (the Garry oak) is found in British Columbia, the remainder in the Hast, Rn Sunday School Lesson Sit, or Suggested that it did not mat- r, Loin 'presence, men realized their sinfulness in a way that no scorching denunciations would ever have effected. But Jesus made it plain that, in spite of sin, he loved the sinner and believed in him. We may May 3. Lesson V.--Jesus In The Home of Zacchaeus--Luke 19: 1-10, Golden Text--The 8on of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.--Luke 19: 10. ANALYSIS. I. JBSUS IN THE HOME OF ZACCHAEUS, 19: 1.7. II. ZACCHAEUS REPENTS AND REFORMS, 19: 8-10. I. JESUS IN THE HOME OF ZACCHAEUS, 19: 1-7, Jericho was a very rich and very famous city, It had many times been destroyed 'and had as often arisen from the dust. The site of the city in the time of Christ seems to have been some six miles west of the Jordan Rive and six miles north of the Dead Sea. It was a rich city for two rea: sons, first because there are but two laces v'here the Jordan can be crossed, one here, one further north by the plain of Esdraelon. A very large amount of merchandise, therefore, passed inevitably through Jericho. In the second place, the city was situated in*a veritable little Laradise. It was c lled the city of palms. Here, too, were famous rose gardens and frag- rant balsam plantations, Jericho was therefore known as "the sweet smell. ing." It follows that the chief tax- gutherer of such a Jlace, or, as we might say, the head of the customs and taxes department, was a man of great importance, a man, too, who, if he were not honest, would have unrival- led opportunities for "feathering his own nest." Zacchzus' Hebrew name would be T~chariah. He was a man-of small stature. We are not told why he wanted so much to see Jesus. It may have been idle curiosity to see the wan whose*name was on every one's lips and who had quarrelled so pub- licly with the Pharisees. Or Zaec- cheus may have been moved by a more religious motive, having heard that this new teacher in Israel did not despise nor refuse to consort with men of his class. Or rumors may have gone round that Jesus was planninz or expecting some great "sign" at the comine Feast. Or, again, Zacchaus may have been interested in Jesus only as a miracle worker. At any rate, the effect of Jesus' visit on Zac- cheus was very different from any- thing he had anticipated. It seems that this incident of the meeting with Zacchaeus took place as Jesus was on his way ap to Jerusalem for the Feast, wher he made his last, great appeal to the nation, and where he met his doom. If Jesus had any hope that he would prevail in his great challenge to the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jerusalem, it must have seemed important that he should draw all possible popular support to his side, and that he should not unneces- sarily alienate any who might sym- pathize with him. We cannot but wonder, therefore, at the courage which led him, at this critical moment, to go out of his way to favor with his presence the man who was probably the most hated person in Jericho, the man who stood for compromise with the Roman power and epitomized all that most most obnoxious to the fan- tical nationalism of the day. II. ZACCHAEUS REPENTS AND REFORMS, 19: 8- When Zacchaus says in v. 8, "the half of my goods I give to the poor," he is making a deciaration of his pur- pose, not stating his habit in the past. In Exodus 22: 1 the man who has stolen one sheep is required to restore four, and fourfold restitution is known to Roman law in the case of a man caught in the act of robbery. I: is not plain whether Zacchsus' re- pentance and solemn reparation are due to something (unreported) that Jesus had said to him, or simply to the fact that Jesus came to his house. 7 any event, we should compare and contrast the impression made upon notorious rogues by Jesus and hy Christians, Christians haze always denounced robbery, capacity and swindling. They have not infrequent- ly lost their tempers with the wrong- doer and have done their best to get him punished by any means in their power. No doubt they have often ox- pressed a concern for the wrong- doer's soul, but they have general'y felt that punishment must come first. Here, however, we have no réason to think that Jesus denounced Zac- chzus. It would seem that already "in his heart of hearts" Zacchaeus had often denounced himself, and his ex- cuses were for the public eye only. Jesus showed no inclination to "get Zacchmus punished," for he was only concerned to get Zacchmus changed. Jesus never for a moment condoneu BUD FISHER. that in some dim way Zac- cheus realized the nature and char- acter of Jesus. This made Zacchzus realize, as never before, own wretched sinfulness. But, in addition, he realized that this spotless person, Who knew him through and through, yet really liked him, believed in him, called him to be his real self. Then something broke in Zacchwmus and ac was a ecnverted man. There can be no real repentance, that does not carry with it inevitably' the attempt, so far as possible, to put right the evil we have done, no matter how much of publicity and scandal this may involve. Verse 10, is the unique gospel of "Christianity. A Lazy England! An Irish Colonial In Truth (London) --(Andre Siegfried, writing in the London Times, has accused the Eng- lishman of being lazy, and refusing to learn foreign languages.) It is high time that the relative baselessness of these charges was given some of the publicity to which the charges them- selves have been exposed, Speaking as an Irish Colonial who has lived a little in four continents, I can say with absolutely no desire to work oft a paradox or score by cheaply pre- tending black to be white, that the English are the finest linguists among the big nations of the world. .., John Bull has more faults than he can af- ford in this world; but do let us re- member his job of moving from his nineteenth-century pre-eminence to a new stability is more awkward than that of any other struggling nation. When he was making war, America, North and South, was making eco- nomic whoopee. When, afterwards, he was paying his debts, France was mak- ing economic whoopee. Poor old J,B.! The strain upon him has been ter- rific, and the only reason that he hasn't crocked is because he is the sturdiest and most resourceful fellow in the world. ap Canada's Future Sir Henry Thornton in' the English Review (London): There is no rea- son for alarm concerning Canada. It has not been necessary to disrupt or- ganizations in this country because of the slump, and when the recovery, which is certain to come, does get under way, Cdhada will be in a posi- tion to make the best of her oppor- tunities. Her people have been for- tunate in that they have suffered prob- ably less than those of any other coun- try during the recent depression; her resources are still awaiting develop- ment to a very large extent, and her sources of wealth are unimpaired. When the demand comes with re- covery of the countries to which Can- ada looks for her markets that demand is likely to be on a larger scale, even, than that to which we have been ac: customed, means re tl mimics Canadian Bird Sanctuaries The total seabird population of the ten sanctuaries along the north shore ot the gulf of St. Lawrence in 1930, according to the National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, not including young birds hatched in that year, was 100,836. The birds were of sixteen different species, mostly geabirds. Altogether Canada has now more than forty bird sanctuaries spe- cially reserved for bird protection pur- poses. | A} ene A small and pugnacious man was arguing with a parson about certain | incidents in the Bible. "Take the | story of Daniel in the lions' den," he | sald. "I can explain that for you. 1t| wasn't a miracle, What happened was | that when Daniel's friends heard he ' was to be cast into the lions' den | they had the lions gorged with food ' 50 that they had no appetite when | Daniel was put beside them." "That's ' interesting," said the parson; "and now tell me this. Would you go into a den of lions even if you knew they | had dined well?" "Well ...er. . .| yes, I would," said the man, a little uncomfortably. "And if you did," said the parson, measuring the little man, "I feel sure the lions would have | one look at you and say fo each other, right jf everybody is equally wrong." 'Boys, we've forgetten the savoury.'" , Gg. K. Chesterton. EE -- breadth. BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur nished With Every Pattern Here's slimming lines for the wo- man of heavier figure, And a sma many needs for the lovely spring days that are not so far away. The bodice has a deep cross-over vest, one of the best means to conceal The softly falling jabots lend a pretty effect and contribute much toward its slenderness, The yoke of the skirt is cut to the smartest depth to narrow the hipline. The seaming, tapering as it does to a deep point, is decidedly length giving. Printed crepe silk in midnight blue combines with plain matching blue crepe, with white embroidered mous- seline in this lovely model. Style No. 3038 is designed for sizes 36, 88, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust, Size 36 requires 3% yards 39-inch, with % yard 39-inch contrasting and % yard 39-inch all-over lace. HOW TO Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and sizé of such patterns as you want. stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. rt dress that will answer ORDER PATTERNS. Enclose 20¢ in "Tom sent me a brick by parcel post, but I got even with him." "What did you do?" "Passed the word along to a num- ber of agents that he was figuring on taking out more life {asuranve." ee Ap an. Fiction by be a falsehood just the same, "Nobody any other name would can ever set anything | reat expansion in Canada last year, ccording to a recent report the pack of vegetables in Canada showed an fncrease of over 60 per cent, in 1930, while there was a decline of about 11 per cent. if the pack of fruit" These comparisons are based upon officially {ssued figures, which relate to 'quantities not to values. Other figures for an earlier year show that the Canadian industry supplied 80 per cent of the home market for these products. This comparison, which is for the year 1928, is for val- 'ues, which provide the only common denominator between production and extended trade. The outstanding feature of the re- port on the pack of fruits and vege- tables in Canada is the large increase shown in the production of t t New York--For many ce 8 prediction of weather for any of time in the future has been a ques- tlon which has interested some of the best minds of these ages. The thick- ness of Brother Chipmunk's fur coat and the amount of food stored by squirrels and other animals have all had their day, together with the com- mon patent medicine almanac. The old adage, "Perhaps rain, perhaps no," has in the main been the ordinary result. Recent tests have included the de- termination of the frequency of sun spots and the variation of solar radia- tion, and now comes a further scien- tific lusion based on the study of peas and corn, The pack of tomatoes increased over 1929 by nearly 104 per cent, peas by almost 165 per cent. and corn by 19.5 per cent. The in- crease in the total pack of canned vegetables was 3,646,382 cases, or 64.8 per cent. The total pack of canned vegetables, exclusive of canned soups, amounted to 9,272,480 cases, the fig- ures being based on 24 No. 2 cans to a case. In 1929 the pack on the same basis was 5,626,098 cases. Tomatoes with 4,025,283 cases comprised the bulk of the 1930 pack. Peas were next in order with 2,563,983 cases, followed by baked beans with 1,096,042 cases and corn with 1,066,830 cases. While vegetable canning showed the pack of canned fruits in 1930 fell considerably below that of 1929, drop- ping from 1,101,188 cases that year to 978,570 cases in 1930, or slightly more than 11 per cent. This is accounted for by the large decrease in the apple pack, which fell from 331,691 cases in 1929 to 20,957 cases last year. Sub- stantial increases, however, were' noted in the pack of pears, peaches and cherries, pears being up by 101,722 cases to a total of 339, 106 cases, peaches an increase of 64,973 to 155, 728 cases and cherries up by 51,131 cases to 146,286 cases canned last year. In 1928, when Canadian canners supplied 84 per cent. of the home market, the total pack of canned fruits and vegetables was valued at $14,823, 295. The imports were $4,463,097 and the exports $1,687,268. In 1930 the imports of canned vegetables into Can- ada were valued at $1,461,185 and the imports of canned fruits at $2,954,415. Exports of canned vegetables in 1930 were valued at 5631,015 and of canned fruits at $250,271, -- Skyscrapers Philadelphia Ledger: The skyscrapers were novelties, They were limited because they offered an opportunity to make small plots of ground pay large dividends in first congested areas. But times are changing. Now the tendency in municipal planning -- and in the larger architecture of designing cities : for health, light and convenience-- is away from the spire of offices grouped on top of each other around an elevator shaft. And despite the fact that the Chrysler Building, the Empire ~ State Building and similar inhabited obelisks continue to rear their young heads high above Amerl- ca's streets, the time is coming when American architectural achievement will he devoted less to height and. more to mass, line and stability. Proof Against Bullets * Glass used for the "hull panes"--not portholes now--of a new liner is of a spacial kind that has withstood a pres- sure of twenty tons. In one test of this glass, a piece of it weighing fifty-six pounds was drop- ped eighteen feet onto a steel plate, It came through this ordeal without showing even a crack. But glass nowadays can be wonder- fully resistant. In certain tests of a bullet-proof glass recently a .303 bul- let was fired at it at a range of five vards. The glass plate under test was about an inch and a half thick and was made up of three layers. The bul: let starred the first layer, but made no impression on the second.--Ans- wers, The biggest thing on earth is a tiny cinder when it's in your eye. A A nt EN MUTT, WE'VE 607 ouR LAST DIME RIDING OR LAUGHING PRANKFURTER »| WHAT'S ie THe JOCKEY! HE'S AT THE POST! He's LEANING ON (T - HE'S OFF. I DoN'T mean THE HoSS- IT MEAN HE'S oy HIS BACK AGAIN= T DON'T MEAN THE JoCkEY - = MGAN THE HOS! oY | - © =o 2 EI TER ~ £5 . o b \ } AY =, --. D > A ST [08 S OUR JOCKEY MusT Be CROSS-EYED --~ He's WHIPPING ™e WRONG NAG- LAUGHING ERANKFURTER IS THe BRAVEST ! PoNY IN THE WORLD- HE'S CHASING ALL THE OTHER WOSSES | [RS AROUND THE A Giraffe Would Have Won by a Nock. : =D, we LosT BY A NOSE. : i¢ X HAD THAT HosSS -WE would HAVE won: BEEN RIDING a large amount of data collected over a period of years. The revelations center in the announcement by Dr. George F. McEwen and Dr. A, F, Gro- ton, at the University 3¢ California, that it is now possible to predict with a fair degree of accuracy just what atmospheric temperatures will be, in a given vicinity, for three months in advance. For more than twelve years the efforts of these men have been occu- pied ohiefly in investigating phenom- ena upon which could be based sea- sonal predictions for . rainfall and precipitation, particularly during the winter months, over California and the Western states. They have been singularly success- ful in their predictions, and in con- nection with this problem they found that the phenomena upon which they based these conclusions affected areas far greater than the West alone, and the question of world-wide seasonal forecasts was presented. So pretentious a program could not be undertaken until further investiga- tion of new effects was given addi- tional attention. In the course of these latter considerations it was dis- covered that there was a startling re- lation between the surface water temperature off La Jolia, Calif, and the "atmospheric temperatures in Southern California. Through a thorough knowledge of the surface temperature of ocean water during the summer months, the mean,' or average, temperature over Southern California during the com- ing winter could be forecast. lrg Glue Mixture Proves Effective In Checking Red Spiders Red spider is one of the most trou- blesome pests that the gardener or florist has to combat, especially dur- ing the hot summer months, says the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Gar- den (St. Louis). Forcible spraying is one of the best means of control, using a special hose nozzle which directs the spray upward and cleans the under sides of the leaves. The writer goes on: This method is effective when the plants are grown in open benches, be- cause then all sides of the plants are accessible for spraying, but when this is not the case dusting sulfur and similar insecticides must be relied up- on, A very cheap and successful control has been used in the greenhouses at the garden this last summer--one pound of powdered glue in four or five gallon of water. Sufficient water p Added to the glug to cause disin- egration by heating, after which it is poured into cold water and agitaied until thoroughly mixed. It is then ready for use in the spraying ma- chine. With perfect coverage, tests have shown that after two or fhree days the film of glue will naturally dry and roll off from the leaf, bringing with it both the agglutinated adult spiders and eggs, or, if the plant is sprayed with water, the glue will be washed off without injury to the leaf. The citrus house was used for the conclusive tests. The upper surfaces of the leaves were well coated with an oily soot deposit of several winters, and the under sides were infested with red spiders, All the plants were well sprayed with the glue mixture,"and two days later 'were sprayed again to insure a perfect coverage of the leaves. After six.days the glue was observed peel: ing off in sheets. A film from one of the leaves was carefully removed and photographed with the aid of a microscope. The photograph showed spid.r and eggs aad soot deposit securely fastened in the film of glue. The plants could not have presented a cleaner appearance had they been cleaned by hand. This spray may be used upon evergreens, especially spruce and hemlocks, or any plants which possess "shiny" leaves, but wiil not be successful upon plant with "hairy" leaves. 2 SER al Capital Investment in Water Power The capital invested in water power development in Canada was estimated by the Dominion Water Power and Hydrometric Bureau, Department of the Interior, to amount to over 1,390 million dollars on January 1, 1931. The" last year for which official figures are, complete for all industries is 1928 and these show that the amount of capital invested in water power was exceeded ouly by that in agriculture and iv Steam railways. as ; * 4a