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POOR MOTHER--? Mothers, mothers. Doesn't nearly half the world consist of mothers? Types and models countless in number pass across the changing scene of earthly life. There is the little old- fashioned mother who still toils and works night and day for her children, And there is the more sophisticated modern mother who sees she has time for the almost daily and much-coveted game of bridge. less mother and the good mother, the universal mother. But it does not matter in what sta- tion of life she walks, there is no one knows better than she herself what it means to raise a family of 2, 3, 4, and occasionally the "daily tea party of eleven or twelve children." The home is a factory and its machinery is made up of exceedingly delicate and compli- cated mechanism, If the work is well done or ill who knows better than the world that it owes all its progress or limitations to the type of home from which its individuals sprung. How time flies! and there are only venty-four hours in a day, What is left undone Monday must be done Tuesday, and, if Tuesday goes. by with its tasks unfinished, the pile just grows higher, and some day there must be a reckoning. The little child so soft and sweet is nevertheless the most exacting and tyrannical of all in his wee commands. He sees neither sickness nor is sympathetic for that sometimes extremely tired mother feeling. No one knows better the rigid demands made upon her for the doing of endless little things which must be done, Yet with every hour filled to over- flowing while the family is growing she finds herself sometimes warned by those with more leisure, or perhaps sees in some newspaper article that it is most necessary for her to broaden out. She is told she should learn about the outside world and its doings or, when the family is grown, alack and alas, her own good husband will not be able to talk to her when they are old and alone again, for she'll wake up suddenly to find herself far behind him, This is indeed disturbing, but the day is only twenty-four hours long and the babies' clothes are all dirty again, company i8 coming to-morrow, and there's not a thing in the house to eat. "What was that you said about Russia yesterday, John, the baby cried and 1 didn't just get it?" Perhaps it is up to John to see that she does know about Russia and about politics and the newest thing in elec tricity, John works hard, but his working hours can be counted from eight to five, or from seven to six, He must have time to read his paper and does read it. What better way can he find to see what he has retained than to put into words what he has read to mother after the baby has stopped crying and there is quiet while the dishes are being washed and put! away. John might even wipe the: dishes, Oh, yes, there are ways and ways, But as years pass and she sees the gradual consummation of her work in her growing family she goes on less dismayed. Well she knows that home langhter, the sunshine of the soul, the ahappiness of the heart and the com- "o nionship of years are ties that bind securely until the time for the great parting arrives. Yes, mother reigns supreme in her Kingdom of the home, and mixed up with her endless doing of little things is the boundless faith she has in me --her child, Mother asks for few things, but what she wants she wants, She says, "If my children want to please me, write to me regularly. If you can't write a long letter write a short one, and even a few words is much better than nothing at all, for it shows that You think of me, Another thing, do not think that you need get me a big present for Mother's Day when the struggle of liv- ing is hard, That is not the idea of MUTT AND JEFF-- There is the care-|- slother's Day, It makes it a burden which is the last thing a true mother wants, but the little kind thought of a loving card of remembrance, or the giving of a carefully raised flower or small gift is immeasurably dear to me, my children," TWILIGHT HOUR STORY "About Chicks and Other Little Friends" Chapter 20. Uncle Will and Aunt Kate were bringing Billy home in their big car after his two weeks' holiday in the big city and he could hardly wait till he got home. He kept thinking about Mamma and Daddy and all his good little animal friends. Of course, all along the way he enjoyed passing the green fields and th& woods and he laughed out loud at so many things he saw on the way. Once he shouted, "Oh, look at that young colt in the field over there. Isn't he fine? I wish I had a colt." Sure enough there was a frisky little horse playing with its mother horse, jumping and kicking up his heels and shaking his head just as though he were laughing. You know Billy might have a colt some day, for who knows perhaps Betty, the other horse in the barn who works out in the field with George all day long might have a little colt next year. Well, after a long nice drive in that big car Billy just couldn't help call- ing out after he kept looking and look- ing for something straight ahead that he expected to see any minute now, "Oh, look Uncle Will, there's our barn away over there and our house. 1 know it because it's got a white fence all around it." Uncle Will smiled and just kept on driving and 'soon they turned in at the lane. Billy jumped out first, for he was so excited about getting home and he just got out of the door when some- thing knocked him right over so that he fell smack on the ground and then felt a soft, wet tongue licking his cheek and he just couldn't get up, for there was Rover standing over him, holding him down for he was so glad to see him. Billy was awfully glad fo see Rover, too, and he hugged him back, Well, after a while he did let Billy get up, and oh, when he got up, there was Mamma and Daddy looking just .the same as ever and smiling with big smiles that were only for Billy, It's wonderful to be loved like that, isn't it, children? There's noth- ing like a mamma and daddy, After all the noise was over and Billy was telling Mamma about all the fun he had when he was away, he felt something soft and warm rubbing around his feet. Well, well, here was Fluffy come to say "Hello" in her own way, for she 'was purring as hard as she could. You see when so much noise was going on Fluffy hid behind a chair until everything was quiet again, Kittens don't like a noise very much, so she thought she'd wait for a while, Cats and dogs are very dif- ferent, aren't they? Billy picked her up and petted her and she put her paw on his cheek to see if it was really him, Then he said, "But Mamma, how is Topsy and her little kittens?" "You'll be surprised when you see them, dear, they've grown so big." So they went out together to the barn. Here was Molly the cow, wait- ing to be milked. She called Billy when she saw him, "Moo-00" in a low voice and, after he petted her, they walked on to George and Betty, the two big shiny black horses. They stamped their feet and threw up their heads for Billy to remember them. Horses have such nice silky noses to pet. Did you ever know that? All at once here was Topsy and, mind you, she made a big jump and landed right on his shoulder, for she was glad to see him, too, but when he went to her box where the kittens were, not one was to be seen. Do you know where they were? Well, they were afraid of Billy and were all hiding, --By BUD FISHER. What New York BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Hlustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Frery Pattern Scarcely could one find a more simple smart day dress this is so girlish and practical at the same time. Carry it out in rayon printed crepe with picot-edge, done professionally, finishing the capelet collar and bolero. And you have a darling dress, that incidentally one sees in the most ex- clusive French houses for spring. It's tremendously easy to put to- gether and maybe little daughter can make it herself. Style No. 3027 is designed for girls of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. 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Birds Scarce in Europe Constance.--This year's northward migration of birds from Africa to sunny Italy resulted in disaster, as their climatic sense was insufficient to warn them of the unexpected snow- falls and cold waves which swept Cen- tral Europe in mid-March. After negotiating the Alps and find- ing their familiar resting places in the South German Plains and the Black Forest covered deep with snow, the feathered tribes flew restlessly back and forth for days seeking food and resting places. too exhausted conquered the instinct which drove them northward and flew weakened by the hard flight, perished ' of hunger and cold on the plateaus of Wurttemburg, Baden, Bavaria, and the ' Rhineland, Larks and snipe will be especially rare in Northern Europe this year as a result of the late snow- fall, imme imme Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.--John Ruskin, Finally those not | back to sunnier climes, but swarms, | Sunday School Lesson May 10. Lesson VI--The Parabls of the Pounds--Luke 19: 11.26. Gol- den Text--It is required in stew- ards. that a man be found faithful. --1 Corinthians 4: 2. ANALYSIS. I. TWO PARABLES OR ONE? II. FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP, III. GROWTH THROUGH USE. I. TWO PARABLES OR ONE? It has often een noted that there is a very close ccnnection between this parable of the "Pounds" in Luke and the parable of the "Talents" in Matt. 25: 14-30. The 'esemblances are as remarkable as .he differences. This does not, cf itself, create serious diffi. culty for us, for we might have simp- ly two versions of the same parable (the parables must have been told and retold many times before they were written down), or there is no reasun why Jesas himself should not have used two very similar parables or thes same parable with variations. much greater difficulty in the parahle of the Pounds" lies in .his, that ap- p: ~ntlv we have tw» stories mixed together. One s a story of a noble- n.an who goes far away to be made king, as, for instance, nobles of Pales- tine not infrequently wert to Rome to receive their title from the imperial city. Ir. this story the nobleman's fellow-citizens do not want kim to he made Ving, and send a deputation to protest. He, on his return, has to deal with the malcontents. In the second story a man goes away and leaves some of his capital with his servants that chey may trade with, and on his return he deals with them according to their faithfulress "o their trust. The two stories have really very little connection, and he careful reader will notice that vs. 13, 14 do not go to- gether. One is about "sepvants," the other about "citizens." It is not pos: sible to solve this difficulty with cer- tainty, We may either suppose that two separate varables of Jesus have here been rather clumsily combined into one, or we may suppose that the original parable of Jesus, as in the case of the parable of the talents, was concerned with faithful stewardship. II. FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP, In v. 18, there are ten servants, but we learn the fate of only three, as in the parable of the talents. This is not a matter of importance. It is import- ant, hov.ever, that in this parable each servant receives the same sum. Ii is presumably the servants' capa- city that the master wishes to test. The sum entrusted is a remarkabiy small one; the mina or pound was only worth some twenty dollars. V. 16. We should remember that this iz a parable or story taken from ordi- nary everyday life. One cannot argue from the story that Jesus approved of what we today call "Capitalism," or that Christians are justified: in speculating in the stock market. We should have expected v. 17 to say, "because you have been faithful in little, you shall be entrusted with much." It seems strange that a man should be rewarded with ten cities for his faithfulness in respect of twenty dollars. Perhaps the reference to cities is connected with the other story of the nobleman (not the master) who goes away to get a kingdom. V. 21. The servant tells his master that he is well known "or his sharp practices. To "take up what you did not lay down" was a proverbial ex- pression for fraudulently appropriat- ing the fruits of another man's labor, This verse, then, makes it very clear that the parable is not an allegory, und that neither God nor Christ cor- respond with the master. The story illustrates the duty of faithful stew- ardship, not the character of God, toy his attitude to his children. III. GROWTH THROUGH USE, V. 24. Perhaps the speakers here are the crowd who are listening to Jesus. They have been following the story with conviction, for they have known hard-headed, austere business men of this type, and the story rings true to them till Jesus says, "Tale away his pound and give it to the man who has ten." At that point, Jesus' audience protests, "But surely that is | absurd. Why the man has ten pounds | already!" Jesus replies in effect, "No, I meant what I said, for there. is a principle that to him that hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, shall be taken even that which he hath." | This principle in v. 26 is quoted also in Luke 8: 18 and may often have been on the lips of Jesus. In the parable, the principle applies to money, but that was not the sense in which Jesus meant :t. The iilustra- tion is taken from the stewardship of All London--"I look forward with in- térest to the day when a national daily will be edited by a woman, and, I hope, have no political leaders at all," Lord Luke declared at a reception given in his home in Portman Square recently, to mark the appointment of Miss Anne Hepple as the new editor of the Woman's Magazine, published by the Religious Tract Society, "A "generation ago," he continued, "the arrival of the woman journalist was making something of a sensation in Fleet Street, though--perhaps ow- ing to an oversight--the fact was not recorded as such on the evening posters. The male journalist regarded her with a good deal of suspicion. "But she came, ang her influence has been profound. She has brought nto the magazine pages of our news- papers and the lively columns of our magazines an attention to detail and make up aad technique which was badly needed. money, but the application of it is to the use of the talents given us by God. For instance, the voice of conscience is a talent. We may develop it or we may deaden it. In Luke 8: 18, the application seems to be--we have a faculty of attention to the teaching of Jesus. If we exercise that faculty, we grow in grace; if we do not, we lose the faculty. "Take heed, there- fc re, how ye listen." "Isn't spring glorious? Don't you think it is the best time in the' year?" - "I should zay nod." r-------------- Spring Pools These pools, that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone, And yet not out by any brook or river, But up by roots to bring dark foliage on, The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and woods-- Let them think twice before use their powers To blot out and drink up and sweep away These flowery waters and these watery flowers From snow that only melted yester- day. --Robert Frost, Brook." -- aes See Six Types of Nebulae Mount Wilson, Calif.--Six different forms of spiral nebulae are seen at immense distances by the 100-inch telescope here. Their shapes range from a flattened spinning top to a circle with a bar across its center. They are described by Dr. Edwin Hubble, the foremost astronomer in the world actually studying very dis- tant space. be summer they in "West-Running prreeee THE HUMAN SOUL God's. greatest temple on this globe is the human soul; it was His first temple in Paradize, and it will be His last temple on earth--and to see it in rufns might well prevail to make the angels weep. Women Journalists Have Benefited Papers and Magazines Lork Lake Hopes for Daily Edited by Woman and Without tical Leaders--Tract Society Publishing Books in 200 Tongues "During the last 35 years, I have come in contact with the question of advertising from, many points of view and I have of recent years been struck by the growth of feminine interest in newspapers and magazines. Miss Hepple said that until recently she had shared in the popular miscon- ception that the Religious Tract So- clety's only function was the publica- tion of its world-famous tracts. Actu- ally, she added, it is publishing some of the finest books in English and 200 other languages, Miss Hepple deplored the appeal made by some of the cheap literature and films offered to the young people to-day. 'She considered that one way of combating this was to divert the public mind to more agreeable topics. This is the self-imposed duty of the Religious Tract Society, she . said, which is carrying out its purpose in this and every other country except Russia.--Special from The Christian Science Monitor Bureau. Vast Stone Tapestry Ready r Exposition in Paris The most gigantic sculptural under taking in history, the stone tapestry of the Permanent Colonial Museum at the International Colonial and Over- seas Exposition in Paris, is now being completed for the opening. This vast work, covering the walls of the great museum to a height of forty-two feet and a length of 325 feet, has occupied the time of twenty artists under A, Janniot, noted French sculptor, for the last two years. Its theme is the "running story" of France's growth as an empire. In technical conception the work closely parallels the authentic Flemish and French cloth tapesteries of the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries. meee fesse Relics of Primitive Man .Discovered n Florida Washington.--Scientific search is underway for the first citizen of Florida. Representatives of the Na- tional Museum believe they are on the ancient fellow's track, but have not encountered him in picking through the fossil remains discovered so far. But James W. Gidley, who conducted the 1930 expedition into Florida, has just reported a find of so-called arti- facts, Gidley believes his find consti- tutes additional evidence of early man in Florida. "The first of these," he says, "is a crudely formed arrow or spear point. It was lying directly under one of the large bones of a poorly preserved skeleton of a mastadon. The other artifact is a small bone awl." These artifactsETAOINNUNNUNU These articles were found beneath stratified swamp deposits. ee Rural Health Training Toronto.--Training doctors to take charge of County Health Units is now being undertaken at the Uni- versity of Toronto. Dr. G.' M. Little and Dr. W. G. Saunders are taking the post-graduate work fn public health prior to taking charge of the newly-formed units at Red Deer and High River, Alberta. County Health Units are small full-time medical de- partments of health, serving rural areas in the same way that a medical department of Health protects a city from disease. Rural Quebec is now about '50 per cent. covered by these uew units. eet es wen Gold Bullion Value Rises The total value of crude gold bul- lion for the first two months of 1931 amounted to $6,517,254, as compared with $5,352,395 for the same period of 1930, or an increase of almost 22 per cent. Ontario's gold mills produced crude bullion to the value of $35,518, 862 in 1930 and handled 3,946,623 tong of ore in the process.--Canada Week by Week. -- ee GOOD LUCK Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character and ope observance of duty, CHINESE. I GOT THE CENSUS ALL TAKEN-- EXCEPT FoR THe MARCHING "IE ALL THE CHIN motion: " MARCHED FOUR ABREAST AROUND THe WORLD IT WOULD Be PERPETUAL ESE = 5 BUT WHY SHoulD THe CHINESE MARCH-~AND WHY SHOULD THEY [4 MARCH FouR _ ABREAST? c ) AS A MATTER OF EAGT THEY DON'T MARCH | - of our thoughts.--A. J. Baltous, Springs Here Bare windows eartaliis on clothes. i lines waving in the brisk u1soze--the, colors brazenly. proclaiming that they have been dyed. Huge covered vans backed up te houses, unloading or loading, in the process of moving. Furniture in mixed piles on plaaas and porches--sometimes out in the yard, for the purpose of house clean ing. i The smell of paint and varnish. Carpets and rugs draped across lines and fences, while the. peculiar thud, thud, thud of the carpet-| beater sounds regularly. Bright display of pillows, blankets and cushions pinned to lines in the yard, while airing. The smell of burning grass from wayside bonfires. Numerous "Detour" signs at unex: pected places, to avoid stretches of roads under repair. The music of frogs singing after sunset, Willows swaying above mirrors thal reflect them for the first time sipeq, the ice came last fall, Black crows scouting above tree tops for a place to build. Dark-faced men carrying long: stemmed bunches of bright balloons on side streets--the red, yellow and blue globes bobbing up and down-- with groups of wishful children follow: ing. Children playing marbles on the sidewalks, as they squat on heels or kneel on one knee--all eyes watching the shot intently, and listening for the click of sharp contact, Strutting hens with ruffled import. ance, clucking as they proclaim their intentions, The sound of hand-organ music. Dusky sparrows flitting furtively here and there carrying straws in their beaks. The sound of shouting in back lots and the rap of bat against ball. The. first snowdrops and crocuses that brighten sunny, sheltered cor- ners--The Christian Science Monitor. tr et tess A Creed for Gentle-Men and Gentle-Women 1 believe that the end does not justify the means. I believe that animals have rights which human beings should respect. 1 believe that Cruelty is never justified in the pursuit of Knowledge, Food, Raiment or Sport. I believe in the extension of the Golden Rule to cover our poor rela- tions,--the animals. I believe in Noblesse Oblige, be- cause a man who wishes to be con- sidered a gentleman should consider the weak and defenceless, I believe that Knowledge gained by Cruelty can never make men Wise. I believe in Christ's words, "Bless. ed are the Merciful for they shall obtaln Mercy." ~--Charles Benedict. tle Evolution of a Store The evolution of a city delicatessen store follows a set path, It starts out with - a regular stock of packaged goods, salads and meats on shelves and in glass-covered counters. Soon a demand comes for sandwiches; then customers want a place to sit while eating them. This brings the tall stools anda counter on which to lean elbows. Perhaps a soda fountain is next. Customers increase; the stools are not enough. Then come chairs imbedded in the tile floor and a table for each four chairs, The whole room--it generally starts out as one room--is brightened up by adding more lights. Waiters are needed, and with their arrival the delicatessen store becomes a restaurant. Then, if a sufficient degree of success is at tained, a chain of restaurants develop, --The N. Y. Times. mre e---- Fighting Heart Disease New York--Heart Disease occupies first place in the causes of death in this state, the Department of Fed. eral Statistics in the New York De. partment of Health states. , The De- partment has arranged for a co-oper- ative study of the morbidity from diseases of the heart. Approxim ately 1,000 physicians have joined in this effort to obtain definite informa: tion on this important subject, the Canadian Public Health , Journal states. In New York State in 1929 one oul of every four deaths was ascribed te heart disease. -------- Preventing Silicosis The most striking stép taken it the prevention of silicosis--a miner's lung disease caused by dust, has been the adoption of the Bulmer air mask by the Government of Ontario atcording to Dr, Patrick Heffermat in a current issue of a health publi cation. "Workmen use it readily and declare that they feel fresher al . the end of a work shift than withou! it." Thus, some consider, one of the greatest health menaces in the min ing industry has been subdued. Paper Made From Seaweed Seaweed is being used for the manu facture of several grades of paper by 1 process evolved by a Russian engineer --Popular Mechanics Magazine. "ideals # Our ideals are framed, not acon ing to the measure of our perform ances, but according to the measur