Confessions of a Sun' what strange and primitive juices, what fantastic combination of elect Worshiper rons, the true sun-worshiper is made? L Street, I have not trod your sacr ed portals for many years, but your Stuart Chase Some people collect postage stamps, lessons have never been forgotten. I others, old masters. I collect ultra have bowed my body to the sun half violet rays, perferably non-synthetim. way around the world, in season and Ia the city where I was reared, the In out, legally and illegally, whenever o p And in what stitution I regard more sentimental portunity offered. ly than any other is the L Street strange corners have I not met my Bathhouse in South Boston. Here on brothers, practicing their devotions a I warm spring day nearly a score of before scientific sanction was ever years ago, Imade my debut into the heard of. We are an old battalion. society o f sun-worshipers. Passing We have stripped in the teeth o f all through the old warren of a bath the mores and all the constables. W e house with its tier on tier o f lock have kept On dune and ledge, and ers, one emerged upon a strip o f trafficked not with hospital and clinic. Once I saw a million brothers, yea, sandy beach, perhaps a hundred yards wide, flanked by high board fences and sisters, too. I witnessed the iuthat ran into the water. Along the credible spectacle of fifty thousand east fence, for the sun was in the brown bodies in one work-day noon on west, lay an squatted and dozed a the M owcow River -- some in bath hundred naked men, nine out of ten of ing suits, some in trunks, perhaps the them colored like South Sea islanders majority as God made them. What -- and it was only early May. Naked were systems o f government in the they did not seem, but clothed in the face of this fact? These people were *nost just and timeless covering of my people, and I cared not how de bom o sapiens. But how naked I felt, plorable their civil institutions. A whole city throwing its clothes creeping out to lie among them, a pale white wraith in a field of bronz into the air! Am erica, we shall un es. Thereupon I resolved to clothe dress and bronze you yet! Shall we? m yself aright, and from that day to The prescriptions are going out by the thousands from the highest med this the resolution has been kept. I came again and again to L Street. ical authorities, but if it is the nat Slow ly the stark white gave way to ural sunlight you desire, in quantities ever-deepening shades of brown. Slow greater than that provided by a bath ly I learned the laws and dogmas of ing suit, try and secure it. It has m y cult. The high priest was a man taken me a dozen years of skilled named Richards. H e w ore a circular investigation to learn how to secure hat fashioned out of newspaper and my share, nor am I always success nothing else. He was a teacher of ful. I have been associated with many music and would spend long hours enlarging o nthe m onopolies, cabals, reform movements in my life, and it and high crim es of the House of Ri- is with considerable astonishment cordi. He spoke with circumstantial that I find one actually gaining Two years ago a man ' was precision, but without bitterness -- ground. for who lying in the sun can be bit arreste dat a Florida beach for ap ter? -- and about him sprawled a pro pearing in trunks. T hasty signal fessor o f England at Harvard, a pol from a brother was all that kept me This year, if icem an from Dorchester, a banker, a from sharing his cell. night-worker in a powerhouse, a fam you please, the municipality has pro ous crim inal lawyer, an advertising vided two solariums, male and fem man, a locom otive engineer, and a no ale, where one may spend the day without a stitch. torious gunman. Most of this sun-worship I believe is Interminable, drowsy conversations ' w ere always in process. We talked profoundly good. Is it only a tem o f law, science, government, women, porary craze? Will Am erica strip by crim e, sports history, races -- with the million in the next few years, only out passion, with a detached philoso- to be back in its shroud in a decade? pyh which held, I am convinced, an 1 neither know nor greatly care. It authentic wisdom. The sun nourish the republic wants to go native and ed that wisdom, that all-pervading can hold to it with any fidelity, it will tolerance. Beating down upon us, it probably do more than any other con Ironed out the taut impetuosities, the ceivable action to balance the inr nervous, hasty judgments, the bile hibitions and pathological cripplings and' the bitterness of men who walk induced by the machine age and the th e 'stre e ts of modern cities in "their mon3trou3 cities in whlcu we live. It it but wants a new fad to play with clothes. Our rules were few but strict. One and presently to toss aside, I know never stood in a brother's sunlight. where to find sheltered spots where One never yelled threw sand, or broke comes the sun and the wind and men Into conversation violently. It was come not.-- The Nation. mandatory to " take the water" at least once, whatever the time of year. Sea Nocturne Practical jokes o f all kinds excluded Lights on the sea-line go. one from the fellowship. As why Vibrating to and fro. should they not? An utterl yrelaxed Errant, mysterious, low. body is in no psychological condition Seen bright, seen twinkled; for practical jokes. But that one steadfast spark A ll winter long we came when the That cleaves the drooping dark, days were bright. If thesky was clear For what all fortunate barque the wind not too sharp, it was amaz Is it enkindled? ing how warm one could keep in a sheltered corner. Our color ebbed a With far flung beam it stands, little, but never really left us. Red On rough and perilous lands, copper gave way to pale mahogany. Warning with upraised hands On Christmas day the hardiest of us The gray shipmasters; had a swimming race, with shivering W hy did no beacon free reporters In attendance, who served it Flare out on life's read sea, up with all the regularity o f the an To warn and presage me nual groundhoy story. W e were the Of Love's disasters? L Street Brownies, half man, half wal --James Grant in the London rus. Spectator. Nobody had ever heard of ultra v iolet in those .days.Few of us ar Conservatives in Quebec rived because o f a doctor's orders -- Chicoutimi Progres du Saguenay though there were doctors among us. (The Increased activity of But by and large we knew, with pro (In d.): fo u n d ly which m ocks science, that the Conservatives in the province is We rejoice for two what we w ere doing was good for our a gcod thing.) reasons: First, because the province bodies and good for our souls. I culd not explain it then, and I needs a good Opposition to watch cannot explain It now. I have women over a good Government. Secondly, who have loved to bathe, to lie on because it is desirable that the peo ple, instead of having to accept one summer sands, to feel the sun strik program, should be able to oht ose be ing into their marrows, but who have tween two programs which are each been utterly untouched by that deep one the result of study and the work er call which binds them eternally to of a group composed of intelligent H elios. In a way it is like a drug; a j men, eager to serve their country, in sunless month, and the world goes fact real econom ists. Whether Conaskew. But contrary to the laws of j servatives or Liberals are in power drugs the after-effects are never pain ; is of little importance, provided the ful. (N o accredited sun-worshiper is |policy of the province is progressive silly enough to burn his skin; he |and aims at increasing the happiness knows to the minute when he has of all of us. had enough.) No, the after-effetfts are a sense o f well-being, of calmed Imagination nerves, o f inner vitality. It Is a wonder how people who lack It takes time, patience, understand the imaginative faaulty escape from in g, and perhaps above all, personal the prison house of the trivial round freedom to becom e a regular comof live. They must get dreadfully imunicant. How shall a shop or office bored with their own dullness .and oc jworker join when his nine-to-five casionally long l e t the glorious fa .schedule imprisons his body while the culty for building castles in the air, Jsun is at its best? W e L streeters those insubstantial fortresses to which were, relatively speaking, free men. the spirit of man retreats when the (Some o f us shifted our jobs, or indeed world is too much for its peace and Save them up altogether, if they in quietude. terfered with our devotions. Free riiaginatio:. a priceless d<w of dom, a head not veadily ovsrheateo, a escape. I cannot conceive of anypagan *agard for ilie comeliness and cne deliberately closing and locking ^well-being of one's body, a ruminative it. Yet, as people grow up. they do. (tura o f mind, a sound belief in the They " put away childish things" with im portant function of laziness iu life, listressing literalness. Among these p hatred o f the round, silly face of a is the delightful recreation of building clock, an understanding o f the irrele castles iu the ai». vancy of clothes -- who shall say o f one pound box o f Assorted Biscuits is always In order for the picnic or informal gathering. A handy package of Christie's choicest Biscuits in sur prising variety-- crisp, delicious and temptingly fresh. Christies In (he store or on (he ' phone, always askfir C h r i s t i e 's B i s c u i t s < &he xkanclarcl egSm xlitij*firice /P53 4 oz. o f best flour, 4 oz. of castor su gar, 4 oz. of butter, Vi pint of milk, 3 eggs, 2 inches of vanillapod, angelica. Method.-- BrLig the milk and vanilla pod to boiling-point, then draw the stewpan aside for about V j an hour for the contents to infuse. Mean while heat the butter in another stewpan, stir in the flour, cook over the fire for a few minutes, then add the strained milk, and stir and boil well. Let it cool slightly, then beat in the yolks o f eggs, add the sugar, 2 good tablespoonfuls of pineapple cut into small dice, and very lightly stir in the stiffy-whished whites of eggs. Have ready a well-greased soufflemould with the bottom decorated with strips or circles o f angelica and pineapple, pour in the mixture, cover with a greased paper, and steam very gently from 45 to 60 minutes. Unmould, and serve with pineapple or other sweet sauce. Time.--From 1 to l * i hours. Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons. Tasty Recipes M IX E 3 P IC K L E S Ingredients.-- An equal weight of small mild onions, sour apples and cucumbers, vinegar to cover. To each pint of vinegar add 2 tablespoonfuls of salt, a teaspoonful of pepper, a good pinch of cayenne. Method.-- Peel and slice the onions, apples and cucumbers thinly, put them into wide necked bottles, add the seasoning and sherry, cover with vinegar, and cork closely. This pickle may be used the following day, ajid should not be kept for any length of time. R h u b a r b Jam. Ingredients.--'To each lb. of rhu barb, allow 1 lb. of preserving sugar Vs a teaspoonful o f ground ginger, and the finely-grated rind of Vi alemon. Method.-- Remove the outer stringy part of the rhubarb, cut it into short lengths, and weigh it. Put it into a preserving-pan with sugar, ginger, TO C U RE HAM and lemon-rind in the above propor Ingredients.-- For 2 hams, weighing tions, place the-pan by the side of the each about 16 or IS lb., allow 1 lb. of fire, and let the contents come very : moist sugar. 1 lb. of common salt, 2 slowly to boiling point, stirring occa oz. of saltpetre, 1 quart o f good vinsionally meanwhile. Boil until the jam ] egar. Method.--As soon as the pig is sets quickly when tested on a cold j cold enough to be cut up. take the 2 plate. Pour it into pots, cover closely, hams, rub them .veil with common and store in a cool place. Time-- . salt, and leave them in a large pan for Prom 1 to l'A hours. i 3 days. When the salt has drawn out RHUBARB JAM COTTON EN SE M B LE . jail the blood, drain the hams and Mix sugar, Ingredients.-- r',i pint o f double throw the brine away. cram, % oz. of castor sugar, or to salt, and saltbetre together in the taste, 1 teasp j'nful o fs h e r r y , 1 tea ! above proportion, rub the hams well spoon and with these, and put them into a vessel brandy may be om itted), the juice and large enough to hold them, always finely-grated rind of Vi a small lemon. j keeping the salt over them. Let them Method.--Put the sherry, brandy, su |remain for 3 days, then pour over gar, lemon-juice and rind into a them 1 quart of good vinegar. Turn basin, and stir until the sugar is dis them in the brine every day for a solved. Add the cream, and whip month, then drain them well, and Have them slowly at first and afterwards more rub them with bran. quickly until firm Serve as required. smoked over a wood fire, and be par Raisin or other sweet wine may re ticular that the hams are hung as place the sherry and brandy, or an high as possible from the fire; other equal quantity of raspberry or straw wise the fat will melt and they will berry syrup. Time.--About 15 min become dry and hard. Tim e.--To be pickled, 1 month; to be smoked, 1 utes. Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons. month. Sufficient for 2 hams of 18 P IN E A P P L E S O U F F L E lb. each. Ingredients.-- Preserved pineapple. Y ou can't make a better choice foe the im portant age o f 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years than an ensemble o f printed and plain cotton pique. It is ju st the outfit fo r school, country, beajch, travel or motoring. Style No. 577 is easily made at a small outlay. Trie straight line coat is in cool shades o f red on white ground. The little sports dress is white pique trimmed with the red print. The neckline scarf tie is slip ped through bound openings. The skirt has inverted plaits each side o f centre. Yellow and white print in rajah with plain w hite rajah dress is smart. Peach shantung coat with white dress is new and extremely fashionable. Pale blue sportsweikht linen with sPr>gf?ed dimity dress in blue and pink tones, nile green gingham wjth green and white gingham check dress and pink flannel coat with striped percale MUTTON COLLOPS dress are only a few o f many charm Ingredients.-- 6 or 8 slices of cook in g combinations. Pattern 20c ia ed mutton, 2 shallots or 1 small onion stamps or coin (coin is p referred ), finely chopped, Vi a teaspoonful of rap coin carefully. powdered mixed herbs, V2 a saltspoonHOW TO ORD.jSR P A T T E R N S t ful of flour, fat for frying, Vi pint of W rite your name and address plain gravy or stock, lemon-juice or vine ly. giving number and size o f such gar, salt, pepper. Method.-- Cut the patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in meat into round slices about 2 Vi in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap ches in diameter. Mix together the it carefully) fo r each number, and shallot, herbs, mace, and a little pep address your order to Wilson Pattern per and salt, and spread this mixture Service, 73 W est Adelaide St., Toronto'. on one side o f the meat. Let it remain Patte ns sent by an early mail. for about one hour, then fry quickly in hot fat, taking care to cook the side covered with the mixture first. Usefulness Remove and keep hot, sprinkle the The duty which no one can dis flour on the bottom of the pan, which should contain no more fat than the claim, the test which no one may flour will absorb, let it brown, then evade, and the prize which no one add the gravy or stock. Season to will despise are all inclined in tli« taste, boil gently for about 15 min homely word of usefulness.-- BisUop utes, add a little lemon-juice or vinegar Thorold. to flavour, and pour the sauce round the meat. T im e -- About V 2 hours. Sufficient, 1 lb. for 3 or 4 persons. * -------- A Fervent Heart W o n Rose Trophy Judged among thousands of blooms at the Rcse Society of Ontario show, held recently at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, the above " Gloire de Ch. Guinoisette' was awarded the Chal lenge Trophy as best rose exhibited. It was raised by Mrs. R. W. Dixon, of Toronto, in an rutdoor garden. The roses on exntbit ranged from pure white o f large and small dimen sions to the vivid red of American Beauties, making the ballri om at the Royal York a blaze of perfumed color. There was a record number of en tries this year. O! What a glory doth this world --------put on for him who, with fervent The Empire Crusade heart, gi es forth under the bright Saturday Review (L o n d in ): Lord and glorious sky, and looks on duties Beaverbrook and the supporters of well perform ed and days well spent. his interesting Empire scheme are --Longfellow. proceeding on the assumption that all units overseas would frt m senti ment and econom ic motive approve of free trade within the Empire. There is one unit which would neither feel the urge of sentiment nrr admit the econom ic argument -- India. Now India takes from this country about £S5,000,000 worth of go. ds. As even Australia takes only about £60,000,000 and Canada only about £30.000,000, the attitude of India cannot be deemed unimportant. Even now it Is impossible to impose on India any fiscal system of which her few thous and active Home Rulers disapprove; in the near future it will be im pos sible to prevent the erection o f a lofty barrier against any kinds of British goods. "Jack kissed me last night." There is a best way to live, and It " Bet he got painter's colic, Yon is best to live the best way. do put It ou thick."