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"And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a> quiet man, dwelling in tents." -- He was full of the manliest interests, occupations, and pursuits. He was a very proverb of endurance and suc- cess in the chase. His hand was al- ways full of skill, and strength, and success. He was the pride of all the encampment, as he came home at night with his traps, and his snares, and his bows, and his arrows, and laden to the earth with venison for his father's supper, "Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of "his venison: and Rebekah loved "Jacob." --Persons. of quiet and vetiring disposition 'like ' Isaac are often fascinated by those of more sparkling and energetic temperament such as Esau. Mothers, on the other hand, ar® mostly drawn towards chil- dren that 'are gentle in disposition and home-keeping in habit. We are probably not wrong in discovering in these words an indication that there were some jealousies and prejudices in the home of Isaac and Retekah, "And Jacob boiled pottage: add Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for 1 am faint." Pottage was - a king of thick broth made Ly boiling lentils or- other vegetables "with meat or suet, usually in water, but sometimes in milk. "Therefore was his name called Edom." The word for red is the word "adom," -quite similar to the "word . "adam." The propriety of a particular name may be marked by two or mote total] .ly different circumstances, and its. ap- plication renewed on each of these occasions. It is pretty certain that Esau did receive the secondary name of Edom from the red complexion of - skin even from his birth, but the ex- clamation "that red," uttered on the occasion of a very important crisis in his history, renewed the name, and perhaps' tended to make it take the place of Esau in the history of his race. : "And Jacob said Séll me first thy birthright." --The birthright seems to have included temporal and spirit- ual- blessings. It carried with it a double portion -of paternal inherit- ance (Duet. 21: 17; 1 Chron, 5: 1, 2); --it-gave the Holder precedence as head of the family or tribe. Above all, it constituted the possessor priest and spiritual 'head of his people, -"And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die: and what profit shall the birthright do to me ?"'--Of course he was not about to die. No man would die simply because he had not had food for perhaps 12 or 14 hours; moreover, supper would normally be prepared for Esau within less than an hotr. "He simply exaggerated the importance of the demands of his body. Oblivious of everything but his hunger and his food, so it is al- ways with the man who has fallen under the power of sensual appetite. "And Jacob said, Swear to me first; and he sware unto him: and: he sold kis birthright unto Jacob, And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of len- tils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went away: so Esau despised his birthright."--In Hebrews 12: 16, Esau is spoken of as "a pro- fane, person." Profane {is a Latin word which' means "hefore the temple," and "refers to that plot of ground just in front of the temple which was common to everyone as being outside the sacred enclosure. Gradually the name came to mean _that which .was purely earthly and mmon,as opposed to that which was: sadred, consecrated and dedicat- ed to God." 'Esau's life was entirely earth-bound, He was intent only on presént gratification and set no value on the divine gifts, To him future blessings: were intangible and unreal, Everything about the present was real' to him, while everything about the future was unreal, vague and misty. To him this world was every- thing and God nothing. "And Esau hated Jacob becausé of the "blessing wherewith his father blessed him: 'and EsAtn said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob." Of all the part. ies in this transaction, none is more to blame than u. While he so ng him, it" might surely really he who was supplanting Jacob, Iuconstant as he was, "he. could scarcely have forgot the bargain by which' he had sold to his younger brother all title to his father's bless. ings. Many that care very little for God's love, will seek his favors; and every wicked wretch who has, in his prosperity, spurned God's offers, will, when he sees how he has cheated himself, turn to God's "gifts, though tot to God, with a.cry. Like many another sinner he wanted to eat his cake and have it. "And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her ycunger son and said unto him Behold thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to'kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban, my brother to Haran. And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away. Until thy brother's anger turn away- from thee, and he forget that which thou hast .done to him: then I will_send, and fetch thee "from hence: why should I be bereav- ed of you both in one day?"-- It was from Haran that Rebekah herself had come at the request of Abraham's servant to be married to Isaac. She intended her son to be absent only "a few days," but they proved to be 20 years (see 31: 38). It is not prob- able that Rebekah ever.again beheld her favorite son, which was a sinful chastisement for her ginful ambition for and partiality towards Jacob, -- Rebekah seems not to 'ave been aware that she herself was the cause of much. of the evil and of much of the misery that flowed from it. All the parties of this affair are pursued by a retributive chastisement. "A Good Excuse A Washington mother was very much put out because the teacher in- sisted on a written excuse explaining her son's absénce from school follow- ing a severe snowstorm. Wheraupon the mother sat down and dashed off the following .note: ~ "Dear 'Miss Kitty: Little Eddie's legs are 14 inches long; the snow was 18 inches deep. Very truly yours, Mrs. Johnson." Viétina draws its water, famed for its purity, from a distance of nearly 100 miles. ) The founder of the present Metho-.. dist Church, Rev. 'Charles Wesley, first used the phrase, "Cleanliness is next to godliness," in a sermon, For Mrs. Simpson ----ee = - This afternoon dress Is among the clothes created by Schiapar- "elli for the wardrobe of Mrs. 'Wallis Simpson. Elegant in its simplicity, this dress of 5 black ribbed crepe molds the figure, It is worn with a novel black suede belt and Ascot of suede cloth. tterly 'blamed Jacob - irred to him - that it was' | Radio Even bettér than having the circus come to tqwn i8 to find "Elephant Boy" playing at your local motion pic ture theatre one 'of these spring days. It 1s a picture that. defies description for volumes would be necessary to describe the thrilling scenes of vast herds of elephants, the gruesome ter- ror of discontent brewing among the natives of India, the sturdy charm of little Sabu, the twelve-year-old Indian boy who shares stardom with the king of the elephants, the magnifi- cent blending of music with the haunting shrieks of wild animals. + But with all of its other merits, it is the heart-warming friendship of the boy and his elephant that makes one want to go back to-see this pic- ture again and again. Robert Flah. erty, the explorer-director who has not had a picture on our screens since the 'unforgettable "Man of Aran" made off the coast of Ireland, went to India two years ago and is respon- sible for "Elephant Boy." Back to roles that are hot and low down go Bette Davis and (ieorge Ban- croft -in, their new films. When War- ner Brothers and Bette Davis ended their long court wrangle, they told . her all was forgiven and certainly they must have meant ft, for they have given her the best role: of her career in "The . Marked Woman," Bette Davis George Bancroft also comes back in a Columbia picture called ¢Racka- teers in Exile," which 1s a powerful answer to those reformers who sald that they just wouldn't have any more gangster pictures. - For 'months Sol Lesser has beon conducting a search for a ' Tarzan, and at last he found one. Glenn Mor- ris, Olympic champion, will play the role that Johnny Welsmuller made famous. Johnny will stay with Metro- 'Goldwyn-Mayet, hoping for more civi- lized parts, - "Busy" beavers have to keep busy. If not kept short by gnawing, the teeth would grow so long that the animals could not close their mouths. \_ By VIRGINIA DALE 3g | Longest Shadow Maker Taking a Noon Rest U.S. Rebuilds Herds| «jn tuition" gr NE = | | From Ontario Stock| Anstinch Livestock shipments from Canada For Stock Sucve The Empire State Building never can quite get away from the job - of making shadows.+ This picture from the tower top, made at noon when shadows are shortest, shows the two-block area darkened by the building. The street to the right is Fifth Avenue. The Ice Water Influence A London despatch describes the Rt. Hon." Neville Chamberlain, as hawk-nosed, dark-eyed, saber-toothed, straggle-moustached. Of him also, it is said that there is considerable ice water in his veins and that he smiles as if he féared he would crack his face. All this may not sound very com- plimentary, but Mr. Chaniberlain will probably care little. At 68 he is about to achieve his ambition--the prime ministership of Great Britain, succeeding Mr. Baldwin when the latter retires. Incidentally, it may not be a bad idea to have government carried on by a man _with "considerable ice water in his veins." In these days of political extremes, the ice water In- fluence has its points. It sometimes keeps governments from making too many mistakes.--The Windsor Daily Star, The Elimination of Epilepsy Visioned PITTSBURG -- The "tantalizing thought" a bit of chemical no larger than a mustard seed, if it could be rightly divided among the brains of all persons now living, might rid the human race of epilepsy was present- ed in a report to the American Psychiatric Association here. This dazzling preview of possibili- ties scientists are beginning to see for some day remaking sick minds, and of understanding the nature of mentality, was given in.a paper to be read by William G. Lennox, M.D., of Harvard Medical School. All epileptics, he said, are "predis- posed." The predisposition, he said, is "an inherent, recessive quality." It is probably a "gene," a single mole- cule appearing once amon_ each of the millions of molecules in each liv- ing cell, } Two roads of attack, he said, are to United States indicate that farm- ers in the latter country are begin- ning to rebuild thelr herds after, the devastating droughts of the last two years. So far this year exports of mature cattle have been fumning somewhat Heavier than a year ago. . The most significant gain however, is in export of calves from 7,000 a year ago to 22,000 this season. This indi- cates unmistakably, says the Finan- cial Post, that either American farm- ers are buying Canadian calves to build up their own herds 'again or they are withholding their own stock from market for the same purpose and American packers are turning to -Canadian stocks for current supplies of veal. The bulk of the calves sh'p- ped to date have come from Ontario where there is a large annual sur- plus. Unless United States revises the trade treaty inaugurated a little over a year ago, however, it is possible that this trade may cease suddenly as the annual quota under the agree- ment for calves only amounts to slightly over 62,000. In mature cat- tle, however, there is a quota of well over 160,000 and exports so far only amount to 57,000. Short of Typists Cape Town is suffering from a serious shortage of typists, and jun. iors nre offered $50 per month and seniors $76 a month. "We cannot meet the demand for trained office. workers," an official of a business college said in an in- 'erview. "Not only are our South- African taught girls snapped up as 80én as they achieve a fair speed at shorthand and typing, but girls arriving from Britain secure jobs al- most instantly, "Some senior typists in Cape Town are receiving up to $125 a month now. Naturally they are as much secretaries to their employers as they are so-called typists -- but .any girl who cannot act £8 a capable private ecretary naturally'is no more than a junior typist." open. One is to breed out these epilepsy genes, which would require thousands of years. The other is to alter the molecule directly by chemi-- cal means, "This," Dr. Lennox said, "is =a knowledge we do not possess, "It is a tantalizing thought that the replacement, say, of a potassium for a sodium ion, on a certain mole- cule, the total bulk of which for all persons living would not be larger -than a mustard seed would eliminate epilepsy from the race." His Majesty's First Journey on the Thames as King lower picture King George is shown in the upper is Majesty salutes as the time since His Majosty assumed the Throne, is seen at the arge leaves Westminster pier for Greenwich. bow of the craft, Picture as the Admiral's Barge carrying the Royal Party passed the Tower of London. In the The red and gold Standard, afloat for the first WASHINGTON, «-- The United States Securities Commission learmed Shout women's intuition from #Mrs. = v elyn Mendelssohn, wealahy De- troit widow. . Appearing as a witness in the Com- mission's hearing of manipulatiéh charges against the W. &. Huttom and Company brokerage firm, Mra Mendelssohn told" how she - 'three blocks of Atlas Tack stock, to- talling 38,000 shares, ""IWhy did you buy the second thousand," she was. asked. "I though the stock was doing se well it would be a geod idea to buy another thousund." she replied. "How did you know the stock was doing so well?' "I suppose 1 acted on intuition." After she said "intuition" prompt- ed her to make the third purchase, she was asked: "You do a lot by in- tuition, don't you?" '"TI'do all my business by intuition," she answered. " The Commission charge fs that the Hutton firm manipulated Atlas Tack stock. Money In Chickens Some time ago a paragraph went the round of the press about the great profits made in the States by a poultry farmer, and Mr. J. B. MacFadyen, Carleton Siding, wrote to the College of Agriculture, Ken- tucky, 'on the subject with the re- sult he got the following official reply from Mr. C. A. Lewis, [Ix- tension Editor--writes the Charlotte- town Guardian. *A cash gain of $1,011 fron his poultry for the period of Qctober 1 1 to February 1 ani a net profit of $1,099.96 for last year, are reported by Grant Maddox, a Boone county farmer. : "Maddodx gathered 44,885 eggs in the four months from October 1 to February 1. He began the lay- ing years on October 1 with 1,005 ° hens, but on February 1 had culled the flock to 800. Production for the four months averaged 45 eggs, or more than half of the average year- ling production for Kentucky hens. "His flock last year contained 600 Rhode Island Reds, which averaged 178 eggs for the year." How Many of These Can You Spell? At the Stratford Beacon-Herald family party held recently, Mr. C. A. Mayberry, former principal of the Stratford Collegiate Institute, con- ducted a spelling match. The winner oe) was. Mr. John D. Cookson, linotype machinist, who was still standing af- ter editors past and present had been spelled down. : Mr. Mayberry inflicted heavy casu- altles with the word "phenolphtha- lein" and The Beacon-Herald felt that a man who could produce such a tongue-twister should be able to com- pile a fairly formidable list of words. Accordingly Mr. Mayberry was invit- ed to submit to the newspaper the full list of words prepared by him fcr the match. The list follows: Phenolphthalein, occasion, c¢pher, (or cypher), Studebaker, Buick, bene- fit, Samson, eczema, hemorrhage. (or haemorrhage), lettuce, onigns, re- cede, proceed, supercede, insurgent, cellar, benefited, economists, vol- canoes, valleys, liquefy, picnic, pc- nicking, physician, receives, seize, siege, parallel, synonym, cucumber, spherical, catechism, sensitive, ninth, ninety, lounge, hiccough, forty-five, jewellery, theatre, paragraph, parce', column, volume, foreigner, library, neighborhood (bour), design, ocouc- -red, mystery, engineer, maganine omitted, communicate, Connecticu®, separate, similar, lieutenant, colon', indebted, disappear, misspell, / h- hold, assigned, urgent, growth, ju ment, abridgment, believe, succo s- ive, succeed, parliamentary, fee git, mischicf, sensible, dissever, genuine, stigmatized, lexicography, obsolete, predominantly, theories, cyclometer, bicycle, inoculate, impede, embarrass, harass, emulate, enthusiasm, cclipse, grammar, accommodation, missile, murmur, partisan, partridge, quad- ruplet, sceptre, cemetery, sccretary, syllable, preceded, consonant, coarse (rough), quarrel, supplementary,' different, residence, mischievous, hyphen, independent, homely, emin- ent, Czechoslovakia (or Czecho-Slo- vakia), comparison, bulletin, cor- respondence, delegate, campaign, questionnaire, interfere, referred, procedure, significance, competition, excitement, cement, abbatoir, Brief Comment fiwing music is the noise made by the cat when someone is trying to see if a room is big enough.--London Sunday Pictorial, When radio performers get too lazy to work up a new number they repaat an old one say it is by re- quest,-- Guelph Mereury, - When some chaps can no longer afford to take their girls around and give them a good time, they marry them,--Brandon Sun. / 5 -- a a ria Sag pg i A Re " LI in mth a Wee i DE PLL eC Ds Fogn es