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your shoes," mother didn't seem to be as glad as I was. But then we are, getting away from the chickens. It is a good thing they don't wear shoes like the horses do or a pair of shoes would need to ve 1 "I" Couldn't Hear? on "I" might sometiin» be Le. It might be the lady across the room or that gentleman just com- ing in the door. Anyone might seme changed every few days, because their .. time be deaf and the hn ears | little feet grow so fast. You see we couldn't tell you about the chickens because the cats did such funny things all at once, and it took a long time to tell the story. But now we've found the kittens and they are all stowed away in a dark closet where they will grow fast and be just fine in & place where Mamma Lady Pilly can see them when they want to, and nind you they were so cuts that even Daddy liked to look at them once in a while. I didn't tell you there's a reason for putting them into a closet that is dark. I'll tell you about that another day. Tight some day become dull. In fact 80 delicate is the make up of the ear '80 numerous its diseases that Lhe 'wonder is there is not more deafness. It is one of the many common ail- ments which comes in the act of Living and humanity finds it must accept it whether it would like it or not. In each generation as people grow older more become halt or lame or blind as the . years go by until everyone has some thing with which to contend in time The, very strongest and best human * beings become embarrassed with a weakness of some kind unless like of x \Loush "the one hoss shay," all its parts h Fonrse you How even thong. We manipulate wonderfully for its full | aven t heard a thing about the chicks for so long Mamma Lady and Billy never once forgot to feed them and water them so now it was astonishing to see how big and fine they had grown. They were beautiful with white, white feather which made them warm and twice a. big as they were before. I am sure if you had' seen them. you wouldn't believe they were the same chicks. But they were the very same and if you looked closer you could sure enough tell that one «f them was Squatty for she was getting fatter all the time und was always looking for something more to eat Bridget was there too. You would know her because her neck was still long and thin and she was al- ways looking cross and scolding somebody. 1 wonder what makes some chickens act .ike that. Lily,the beautiful one, certainly wasn't cross. She was tame as could be besides 30 pretty, so of course everybody likad her. 1 am quite sure Billy will be able to take her to the show. But we haven't said anything about Jimmie Chick. "I guess that is be- cause cdies come first. Anyway that's what Jimmie thought for since he has grown to be a young rooster he began to think he must take care «f his smaller lady sisters and another thing he was always ready to fight for them if he thought anything was going to hurt them. Squatty and Bridget and Lily liked to know he would take care of them tvo just as ' Billy used to think it pretty nice, especially when ae wus very small, to know he could run and get behind Dadd's big leg if he grew frightened about something. Then he could peer out from his safe hiding place to see {what i, was. Mamma Lady felt safe | too when Daddy was around and do you know Daddy liked her to feel that way. span of years and then give out, all at once, resulting in a complete col- lapse. Isn't it a good thing we are not dis- abled at the same time, and net all oppressed with the same disabjlity. The young and the strong in their tem- porary power are here also to help the weak and through it we all stumble along learning 'this life lesson, 1f we help each other it makes it all 'so much easier. If I were deaf and should enter a roomful of people and should see no one there among the many faces who would care to make the little special effort to "bother with me," 1 would know that for me many things of in- terest would be missed and 1 would need to use all my ability to observe, feel, watch and catch on as best as 1 'could to whatever was going om to just get along. Should someone ask: me a question so easy to answer if] only knew the subject under discus- sion I would have to either make a guess at what was being said and risk ' giving a foolish answer because it wag foreign to the question discussed, or I would need to keep silent and ap-' pear stupid. But if when I came I should see among the many familiar faces, one to, whom 1 could go knowing she wonld' help me by a smile or a nod or a word of explanation, which can so easily and unobtrusively be given for deaf people are very quick to catch on, just the fact of being near her would make it possible for me to enjoy all the enter- tainment and lake part in proceed- i I could laugh and talk frecly for I know my friend would give me, the key to what was being said when necessary. It is just another little way of "do- ing as you would be done by." There are times when every one of us can Son 4 give this little assistance which' Well that's just the way Jimmy means so little on our part but is so Chick was. He look>d different too acceptable tothe sensitive hard of besides being bigger, for he was get- hearing person. ting such a fine red comb on the top of his head and a nice fan-like tail was showing, of which he was very i proud. Some of the longest feathers ' which were in it were starting to bend over as though they might ~url. i Did you ever notice a rooster's tail? . It was beginning to get rather crowd- | ed in tk_ir box an hot, too, since iney + had so many feathers, but Mamma Lady and Billy soon fixed that up. Twilight Hour Story . Chicks and Other Little Friends Don't you wonder how the 'ittle chicks are getting along? Welll can tell you they are not little chicks any more after all this time. Three or four weeks makes a big difference to growing chicks. They even grow faster than girls and boys and that is pretty fast, isn't it? 1 guess mother | rr lp thinks you grow fast when shoes and . oe other clothes get too small so very A Highly Sensitive quickly. But it's great fun, isn't it, to Instrument have a pair of new shoes every little! Tne eye, extraordinarily sensitive while all shiny and smelling new. I though it otherwise can be, experi- used to just love fo hear mother say, ences 4 great difficulty in dsorimingie guess Marie will need a new pair jp tween white and nearly white of shoes. She has actually outgrown ps Bg To this end, an instru- those black slippers 1 got for her only ment has been designed wherein the a month ago." : eye of the observer has been replaced Thep 1 would say, feeling very glad, by a photo-electric cell, which enables "Oh yes mother, they hurt all over, and the instrument to measure accurately I would see a nice store windowful the extremely small differences be- of pretty shoes in my mind and say, tween "white" surfaces. By this "May I have the pair I saw in 'the means differences inappreciable to the shoe store with .he silver buckles?" eye of even a trained observer can It was wonderful when she uaid, be detected. "Well we'll see but you are so hard on}: 'Wha is Ww. 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Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order.to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. ARERR Te Precedents We are surrounded by instructors; we are in a great school house! it is full of letters, lessons, illustrations and appeals. If, then, we be found fools after all, how bitter, how ter- rible, must be our condemnation! Blame not the savage in the lonely forest for his ignorance of letters; but the man who has had every oppor- tunity of attaining scholarship, and after all remains in ignorance, rightly deserves the concentrated bitterness of human contempt. But beware of setting up precedents and inaugurat- ing analogies, and instituting seats of judgment; because God will gather them all together one day, and His great white throne will be the more terrible for the precedents we our selves have perpetrated. -- Christianity Don't say, "There is very little Christianity in the world"; say, rath er "There is very little in me." When you say the former the latter is true. -- N. B. Remick. MUTT AND JEFF-- The Next Speaker To Get Up Was. . . YOU INFIRITESIM}HL SPECIMEN . OF = S51 BACTERIA; DON'T You Know §1T. NOT ONLY | IMPGR 3 f : & ALL RIGHT, BUT. |, = -[ WHY 6eT so GRCITED ABOUT [= YoujFooL, New York : h August 23. Lesson Vill--A Gospel For All Men--Acts 11: den Text--There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call unto him-- Romans 10: 12. F i . ANALYSIS La SENTNES PRAYER ANSWERED, Acts II. A JEW'S OUTLOOK J ROADENED, Acts 10: 9-28a. III. A GENTILE PENTECOST, Acts 10: 23b-48. IV. THE GOSPEL FOR ALL MEN, Acs 11: 1-18, INTRODUCTION -- For a time the church had to, deal only with Samar- itans, prosel , or a "stranger" in the exceptional ition of the Ethi- opian eunuch. It now took the great stride which carried it over into the purely Gentile world. Not until the Jerusalem Council of A.D. 48 did the 5-18. Gol-, cision party. Yet, here was Peter, an apostle; ly with the un- ean pagans--admin'stering the rites of the church to them! They did not understand" yet tha a fi er of Jesus cannot be a respecter of per- sons, that ecclesiastical narrowness -| and racial snobbery lave no place on the Christian program. i AA The Best It we were for a single day to seek to find good points in the acts of those around us, to let their little weakness- es and failings fade into nothingness church frankly and fully rs the equality of Gentiles, but the bap- tism of Cornelius and its ratification by the church was the first step to- ward a world brotherhood. It was a great achievement for Jewish Chris- tians to welcome Gentiles. The gospel is for the whole world. I. A GENTILE'S PRAYER ANSWERED, Acts 10: 1-8. After the persecution, thé church in Jerusalem enjoyed peace. It was a period of quiet .and steady growth. The "scattering abroad" of the believ- ers resulted in the growth, in various centres, of the new faith. The need of superintendence was apparent. At the time when Peter was on one of these tours, there was stationed in Cwmsarea a Roman military officer named Cornelius. Dissatisfied with the pagan religions, he had been at- "| tracted to the purer worship of the Jews. He acknowledged Jehovah as the true God, and was widely known (v. 22) for his honorable character and philanthropy. Still, he was the seeking soul "feeling after God, if haply he might find him." He had gathered around him a group of simi- larly seeking souls, v. 2. Had Philip, probably by the time settled in Caes- area, influenced them? In a dream he saw an angel who told him that his "prayers and charity had risen before God jas a'sacrifice to be remembere v. 4. Obedience to the light he tad, brought Cornelius to fuller knowledge. II. A JEW'S OUTLOOK BROADENED, Acts 10: 9-23a, ~ Some delay in the tanner's kitchen, the hunger of a lodger whose soul was troubled, occasioned a dream which changed the course of early church history, v. 10. The question of the relation between Jew and Gentile had forced itself upon Peter. The Jews were a "peculiar" people--God's own. Gentiles were "common." As they did not conform to Jewish food regula- tions, they were "unclean." Therefore, all social intercourse was practically prohibited. What was a Christian Jew to do? Peter should have known the arswer, for Jesus gave it to him long ago (Mark 7: 19), but he had for- gotten. g He was slow to grasp the implications of the Jesus Way. Joppa, with its shipping, its busy Gentile traders, would raise the question. kK would also raise the question, did the Lord's commission extend to these foreigners? His troubled waking thoughts wove themselves into the fabric of his dream. Did it mean that for Christians the old regulations ro L.nger held? that no man was "com- mon" in the sight of the All-Father? When the Gentile messengers arrived, Peter welcomed them as equals, nd he went with them *o Cmsarea. III. A GENTILE PENTECOST, Acts 10: 23b-48. 4 Peter, conscious that a crisis was at hand, took with him six brethren from Joppa, 11: 12. Cornelius, real- izing the importance of this visit, arranged a gathering to meet him. When Peter arrived, the centurion "met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshiped him" (v. 25) that is, prostrated himself at his feet. This mark of respect toward royalty and superior per is still ¢ in the east. prostrating himself before a Jew! The humility of the Roman was matched by the humility of the Jew, v. 26. Peter, very self-conscious in doing something so unusual, explained why he was doing it, v. 28. He then told the assembled people about Jesus Christ, and the equal worth of all men in the sight of God. The ex- pectant hearers, like all earnest men, were as good soil for good seed. To R own LIFE BUT cles or: oJ) TAND PIN / Imagine a Roman ficer in the shadow of our charity, to em- | International Telephone and Tele | graphic Company's manager of pub Executive to Have Full A device for recording telephone conversations, local, long distance, and transoceanic, has been perfect- | ed in Germany. H. H. Kohlhaas, the ilcations announces. as follows: = . "We believe there is a large field for this sort of device. ; © "Suppose a. representative of a some rapid negotiations on am im- portant "matter with a bank in, let us say, Buenos Aires. The' deal is completed after a long and detailed conversation. He then has 10..ex- Resume of P 2 het The New York Times quotes him | Gt. Britain imports flowers, includ- + ing Dutch bulbs, worth $3,076,000 Telephone "faults" in England have been reduced to only one in every 20, 000 calls. x ~e Onions, potatoes, and toma worth $60,000,000 were sent to Eng- land from Spain, France and the Channel Islands last year. Although he did not take up dane- large banking-house has lo make jo uni his forty-second year, a Mr. Heath, of Putney, England, has just won his ty-fi intern championship. Capable of taking photographs of bjects invisible to the human eye, plain it to his iat of resorting to hasty and, perhaps, illegible notes, he turng on the re- corder and the entire conversa'ion is phasize their best, to I ize it, to rep d; or, perhaps, a stenograph- appeal to it, to call it forth and to de- velop it, life would seem very differ- ent indeed to ourselves and to them. A smile, a word of sympathy, a touch of human kindness, a hand clasp of fellowship, an unexpected bit of ten-| er makes a transcript of It for fur- ther study. "It should constitute almost the equivalent of a signed ageement, and it is my personal opinion that such a record would be unimpeaachable 1a derness, courtesy or tion will accomplish wonders. It is syndicating sunlight and that is what real optim- ism is. It has a cheering, transform- ing power that no amount of criticism or reproof could accomplish in chang- ing others. The best way to take the sting from one's own sorrow is by for- getting it in ministering to another; lightening the burden of some one else makes our own rest more lightly on our shoulders. Er * RR An Up-Lool Most persons who have failed know that they have failed. Therefore our condemnation of thelr failure does not help them to future victory nearly as much as does our expressed belief that they are going to have such victory. What they need is not fresh reminder of the seeming hopelessness of their case, but an assurance that others see hope where they see none. A certain man who has peculiar power in help- ing his fellow-men to do better than they ever thought they could, works by this simple recipe. He never talks much about their failures; he talks enthusiastically, with a confidence that fairly radiates from him, about what he knows they are going to ac- complish, "I really believe I can do it, after all," is the hopeful spirit in' which men leave his side; and then they go and do it, just because he be- lieved they would. Looking up is al- ways better than looking down, both for ourselves and for others. Doe a The Only Way I must have someone by me who most cases a permanent record would sinks his own will utterly in mine, who believes in me unflinchingly, who will cling to me in good hap and ill, who lives only to shed light and warmth over my life and must die if I fail. Buy yourself a dog, my lord! --Hen- rik Ibsen. ein Events Considering the unforeseen events of this werld, we should be taught that| no' human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.--Fielding. ------ He--"Pardon me, I didn't catch your last name." : She--"I haven't caught it myself yet." - By BUD FISHER ev be any call for it. Of course, the new device will have various other applications." The device occupies a spice about equal to that of a radio-rezeiver. It is based up>n ihe telegraphone, in- vented over thirty years ago by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danlsh engi- neer. It can record a conversation of fifteen minutes. The Times goes on to say: i "Its operation is based upon the, principle that a steel wire can be made to retain degrees of magnetism varying throughout its length, The telegraphone was invented before the modern three-element vaccum- tube, and it is understood to have been through the use of the latter that the recording device was perfected by Dr. Curt Stille of Berlin. "The fluctuating currents in the telephone circuit are amplified in the device and passed through the' coils of an eleotro-magnet. The steel wire is drawn across the poles of the latter by an electric motor. The fluctuations, corresponding with the voice vibrations, thus are recorded | in the steel in minute and invisible variations of magnetism. } "When the conversation is ended the wire again is drawn through a } tiem acting upon , the latter's coils so as to produce a ; minute current in them). . turn, is amplified, and the result is the reproduction of the conversation. "According to Mr, Kohlhaas, the record may be kept 'virtually inde- finitely,' but it is thought that in not be needed. To permit repeated use of the same piece of wire, the ! device. incorporates a means for de- ! magnetizing the wire by subjecting it to alternating current, after which it can be used over again. The in- strument is attachable to any mod- ern telephone." REE fA Love ~ Untrained love can make disas- trous mistakes, as can ignorance in any other sphere. Yet we are prone to believe that true love is a sort of guarantee against error; that whatever we do in love for others is sure to work out for their good. It is a dangerous motion, from which some have had rude or tragic awak- ening. Many (a mother why has been lovingly indnlgent to her boy nas l'ved to realize tlat those indul- gences, born of her devoted andouu- ! selfish love, have helped tu pave his way to ruin. Love must know, as well as feel. If we really love we should be willing to study how to direct that love helpfully, instead of letting it take its own way harm- fully. What is best for those whom we love, rather than what we would like to do for them. is the question that trained love. asks, as over against thoughtless, ignorant: love. "And this I pray," wrote Paul to those whom he loved, "that your love may abound yet more and more J ir fon Second THOUGHT, KID, T THINK i You'Re RIGHT. +| strength of 80,080 officers and 189 even with strong field-glasses, a new film for aerial cameras is being tested in America. i . Sprayed steam, sand blasts, acids, and steel brushes on rotating steel | shafts are among the most usual meth- ods of cleaning the grimy buildings in New York City. ) Blindress, due to tha infection of an g | insect, is general in Tiltepec, a small in court if there should: Mexican mountain village. The chil dren are not born blind, but soon sue- cumb to the disease. Special tank wagons for tr t- ing milk by rail are constructed of steel, glass-lined, with an insulating layer of cork four inches thick. Each tank will hold 8,000 gallons of milk. England has more chan doubled her annual egg production since 1918. + Although she imports eggs worth $95,000,000 from some twenty coun- tries, she also produces $35,000,000 worth of eggs every year. J Canada claims the record for build- ing the first railway sleeping car, orig- inating electric heating and the idea of making paper out of wood, building 'the first compound steam-engine, and discovering insulin, Believed to be the sidest ship afloat, the Success, the sole survivor of the old-time convict fleet which journeyed between England and Australia, re- mains in her original state and sails sound the world as a "side-show." Large enough to supply 8,000 por- tions, the world's biggést apple pie, recently made at Birmingham, 'was twelve feet long, ten feet wide, and two feet deep. It contained 4% cwt. apples, 1% cwt. flour, % cwt. lard, and 28 lbs. sugar, all British produce. Orange carpets, green pews, and gaily painted walls have been intro- duced, at a cost of nearly $35,000, into St. John's Church, Newington, the vicar believing that such brightness will attract young people. Animal pests cause ug a big an- nual loss. Rats and mice are re- sponsible for a wastage of over $376,000,000, while flies cost us $260,000,000, mainly through infantile ailments, and grey squirrels do dam- age amounting to $50,000 a year. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Lon- don store executive who estimates that the average woman spends omne- sixth of her life shopping might have added that it would take all a man's time to do the same amount of work. Detroit News: It Mr. Edison wilt drop in at a local eating house late in the evening and order potato pan- cakes he will learn something to his advantage in connection with the rub- ber experiment, Artificial respiration, in cases of gas-poisoning, drowning, etc, can now be done by machinery. The patient lies in an airtight tank, with only his head protruding; the air is. withdrawn and returned to the tank at regular intervals, thus including breathing. Six engines, each of 1,000 h.p, are embodied in the new giant plane: now. being built in England, This huge air«vessel will have accommo- dation for forty passengers and a crew of seven, and is being 'cone structed almost' entirely of stainless steel. Early rising, or rather waking, is. the custom in most hospitals. They London institutions rouse their "pati- ents between 4 and 4.30; forty be- tween 5 and 6.16; twenty-two bhe- tween 5.30 and 5.45; eight between 6.30 and 6.45; and only six at 7 am. The world's largest telephone ex- -change--really the home of three {automatic exchangos--is to be hous- 'ed in Farm Street, London, W. There | will: be 40,000 telephone lines, and | the electrical power necessary for -| the upkeep of this colossal exch would light a town of 20,000 people, _ The United States has an army men, a naval strength of 10,420 offi-' cers and 109,886 men, and 1,762 aero- planes, with 27,324 men. The British Forces, including India, stand at: Army, 673,298; Navy, 93,650; and Royal Air Force, 34,176. Fi Oxfo: d's famous library, the Bod- leian, was founded Bodley in 1598, It now possesses over - a and 50,000 manu- a million volumes scripts. ~ Although the library is en- titled to a copy of every tables, sheet music, they now bar, for lack of state, liter, fiction magazines, very juvenile books, 'and temperance Tote fiat i by Sir Thomas = publication,