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"at 4€ T15 ke: It isn‘t difficult to retain your friends if you do not put them to the gold test. Salecmanâ€"We must be honest, ma dam. â€" It won‘t wash. * Customerâ€"Why do you advertise these goods as "tramp cloth"? they have been erative societies formed to put t many have been past few month more have been Movement is Assuming Large Propor graph, patient to day. and Sir Clifford Al markable instrument In the new hospital, electro cardiograph, paratus whereby ph sides meé 1 pital H t the w die th terror the e: re wh man soldier ob question. _ Di: erased his pers a will of his ow Trussizns, Bavarians, Saxons and Wurtembergers go marching forth to slaughter in the trenches. The Gerâ€" nocent or guilty, pay the penalty. While the voice of a Liebknecht cries in the wilderness against the policy of blood and iron to enforce Kultur, Prussizrns, Bavarians, Saxons and NOTES ANDCoOMMENTsS I The official British estimate of the German casualties to date gives the" total as 2,822,079, including 664.552 killed outright or mortally wounded ..nd 41,325 who died of sicknes». There | is not one of these nearly three milâ€" lion men who could give a valid reaâ€" son for the war apart from his duty to his country and his Emperor. Even these figures do not tell the whole of the story, for the maval and coly niak troops are omitted. ror the crime against civilization committed by German militarism the German people, just and unjust, inâ€" tri MECHANICAL FARMING Who Have f7 obtained"; the orthodi ‘rom the British Red C1 y which the size of the ded, and Mackenzie‘s it which writes the story ‘s heart and arteries fr is the consummate pathos of ‘ar that the huge number sent to hat the Kaiser may spread the c of his name over the face of arth should be able to give no n for the sacrifice to the God the Kaiser patronizes. M Frout OLDIF As Advertised. tions in France th n r obeys his orders without Discipline and drill have personality and denied him is own. N R Which Affects Been in Action pho HP ff are being used r instance, the i piece of apâ€" ographs of the i beating heart orthodiagraph, Red Cross Soâ€" Irv n eil _ known lliam Osler PF us considerâ€" ns with his them udes. he heart ink polyâ€" y of the from day h ph ty During special idelphia material history accusaâ€" h imong alided eart" The ffort. Men Al are n m it 80 It A| | pockets on the coat give it the apâ€" | pearance of a sport garment. A Icharming little cap of net and ribâ€" | bon completes the set most attractiveâ€" ’ ly. Many of these sets are developed [ in plain materials, voile, wash satin, | lawn and the like, and are trimmed with bands, collars, cuff‘s, and pockets | of the charmingly colored cretonne. A cap banded in cretonne is practical I and becoming. Nove!l Ideas in Negligees. Negligees and petticoats for the Breakfast Coat and Petticoat. One of the novelties of the season is the breakfast set consisting of coat, petticoat and boudoir cap. The coat and skirt illustrated here show a particularly good combination; the coat is developed in pongee, and the skirt is of taffeta, banded in the same taffeta, the bands edged with narrow Valenciennes lace. The deep strap The Underbodice. The underbodice, to keep pace with the petticoat must be very dainty inâ€" deed. In a dark blue taffeta petticoat, the skirt portion is attached at the normal waistline to a pale pink moire bodice. The bodice is merely a straight band of moire ribbon held over the shoulders by narrow pink ribbons. The upper edge of the bodice is effecâ€" fles pinked and finished with an inset or edge of white Valenciennes, or similar lace edge. Breakfast Setâ€"Coat and Petticoat. \ _ Paris sends us, of course, the daintiâ€" ‘est possible of linen, handâ€"embroiderâ€" ‘ed, laceâ€"trimmed, ribbonâ€"banded noâ€" velties, many of them so extremely fascinating that one is fempted to wear the sheerest of organdy, chiffon or Georgette frocks in order that their beauty may be shown. Many of these petticoats are boned, corded or wired, in order that the frocks, under which they are worn, may have the ’proper swing. For the dance there are net and taffeta creations, made with petal upon petal, in roseâ€"like forâ€" mation, the edges of the petaled rufâ€" fles pinked or picoted. For the orâ€" gandy afternoon frock, the slip is faâ€" vored, of net and organdy, lace and ribbonâ€"trimmed. The bodice of the slip is usually a straight, wide band of ribbon, lace, or a dainty embroidâ€" ery flouncing, hoeld in place with shoulder straps of ribbon or lace. It is not unusual to see a frilly petticoat of dark blue or red taffeta, the rufâ€" ely trimmed with small silk roseâ€" There is something particularly apâ€" pealing to the dainty, wellâ€"groomed woman, about ribbonâ€"trimmed, beâ€" frilled petticoats; they cannot be banâ€" ished for long from the wardrobe. This season the petticoat has returnâ€" ed in all its oldâ€"time fluffiness to keep our airy, bouffant frocks in countenâ€" ance. \ -r.';-;/‘*"'! 1t Z A 7»'«’_‘:\’:( &‘AT}‘V l p.IF" | U LA t â€" d W/ A‘ l} Awning Stripes in a Morning Dress. Te rasiions _ | The Fluffy Petticoat. 4 /\ f:; a s /' 4 “\‘\.‘A’(j v/’,\\n\‘ f jelg & h | ‘ s c Loft 4 14L [Â¥ 7145â€"7042 _ 28. To the Holy Spiritâ€"This takes up verse 8: the Spirit had shown that he made no distinction between cirâ€" cumcised and uncireumcised. _ The combination and to us seems daring; but they only meant that their deciâ€" sion was a registration of one which they clearly saw to have been al!â€" ready determined by God. Burdenâ€" For such was indeed the keeping of the law, as Peter emphatically declared in“ verse 10. Necessaryâ€"Why? _ The answer seems to be that all four were to the Jew taboos pure and s‘irnple,| due to a longâ€"established belief thati demonic perils attended them all alike. | Sexual impurity was not banned for; moral reasons, but just because it inâ€" volved tke same demonic activity as eating the flesh of an animal improâ€" perly killed. _ The abstinence from} these taboos was a necessary condiâ€" tion to be observed by Gentile Chrisâ€"‘ tians if they were to eat with Jewish Christiansâ€"hey" would otherwise be 24. Troubledâ€"A much stronger word than the English. Thus in John 14. 1; 12. 27, ete., dismay would come nearer the meaning. Your soulsâ€" Unemphatic according to Semitic idiom, and moaning little more than you. _ To whom we gave no commandâ€" mentâ€"The church repudiates thenpas no reprezentatives of the Jerusalcm brethren in any sense. » 05 . > Mavines memuiue Mc escransccioy 25. Having comeâ€"The unanimous vote was a very wonderful thing, for both parties gave up a great deal. Note how they indorse the teaching of Barnabas and Paul with the cmphati testimony as to their devotion. and then appoint actual members of their own number to enforee the same teaching. _ There is no halfâ€"heartedâ€" ness here. 23. With the rendcring in the text, brethren, unto the breatren, we have an attractive collection of like terms; but the margin, the elder brethren, is better. _ Antioch, Syria. Ciliciaâ€"Notâ€" ice how retricted in local range is this Apostolic Decree. _ It was meant for the special conditions of the counâ€" try between Antoich and Tarsus. Paul‘s letters never sugge t that his addresses knew of it. â€" Thus there is no abstinence from "flesh offered to idols" enjoyed upon the Corinthian, unless for the sake of a "weak brothâ€" er‘s" conscience. ‘ The Council At Jerusalem.â€"Acts 15. 1â€"35. _ Golden Text, Gal. 5. 1. Verse 22. _ Eidersâ€"The term was taken over from the Jewish church. It is found as a name of a religious ofâ€" fice in pagan Egypt, as well as for secular officials. But it does not seem to have los* its original connotation of age (compare the name Senate), for in I. Pet. 5. 5 it is contrasted with the "younger." The word presbyter, comâ€" ing into our language through French, took the form priest, which usage atâ€" tached to sacerdotal functions. Some of the most important officers in the Presbyterian Church are known a:s elders. Barâ€"Sabbasâ€"Another â€"unâ€" known prophet (compare Lesson Text Studies for May 7, verse 1). _ Silasâ€"‘ Paul‘s later companion. _ His name is wroungly regarded as a contracted form of Silvanus, by which he is known from 1 Thess. 1. 1 and elseâ€" where. _ The latter is really a simiâ€"‘ larâ€"sounding Roman name chosen like‘ Paul as an alternative to Saul. _ We cannot, however, explain why the Araâ€"! maic form is used in the narrative of: Acts. Chief menâ€"Or leaders. The| word became later on a technical name| for church officers, like leader in‘ Methodism: see Heb. 13. 17 (rendered otherwise). | THE SUNDAY LESSON These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer or from The MceCall ('0:._ 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ont. _ Dept colored wash skirts. Pongee is also favored for these outside blouses. Tiny buttons, steel, gilt or gunmetal, and a belt of black or colored ribbon are about the only trimming for these unless it be a second collar of a conâ€" trasting shade. _ For sports and morning wear, the awning â€" striped materials, â€" linens, ducks, and canvas weaves are partiâ€" cularly well liked. _ The stripes may run up and down, or around the figure as shown hore. â€" This skirt is fashionâ€" ed of linen, combining several of the vivid colors now modish, and is worn with a shirt blouse of voile with vest of the linen. The square neck is a becoming feature. Among the simâ€" ple waist models of the summer are many with the outâ€"ide peplum. These are of voile organdy or Georgette, in pink, blue, pale green and similar shades, intended for wear with skirts of black taffeta or with white and colored wash skirts. â€" Pongee is also favored for these outside blouses,. Tiny buttons, steel, gilt or gunmetal, and a belt of black or colored rihhan 'June bride are dainty and fueinatii;g to a degree. The negligees are simâ€" ple and most becoming. â€" Chiffon or crepe Georgette are the materials most favored for these airy garments, destined for the bride or the woman who has time to luxuriate in their 'charm. Pale blue, with touches of |gold or yellow; rose pink, with a touch of orchid at girdle or throat; white, with pale green, and similar combinaâ€" itions selected to harmonize with eyes and hair. It is not unusual to find the negligee of chiffon, belted with a crush girdle of roses, or other artiâ€" ficial flowers; it is an attractive and artistic notion. _ The combining â€" of several tones in the girdle, which is usually of net or chiffon, is another preity way of introducing interesting combinations; for instance, a pale pink negligee is girdled with a wide sash, having long ends of several folds of variâ€"colored net or maline, in pink, blue, orchid and similar French cu]r»rings. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MAY 28. Bayadere Striped Skirt. little more than! Caesar, Napoleon, Bismarck, and zave no commandâ€" Others were not above the superstition epudiates thenpas Of "lucky" and "unlucky" days. Thursâ€" of the Jerusalsm day was the "unlucky" day of Henry se. % iVIII., of his son Edward, and of his â€"The unanimous daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Isn‘t nderful thing, for it strange that they all should have up a great deal. died upon this day? But it is a fact. e Mistressâ€"Bridget, I told you twice to have muffins for breakfast. Have you no intellect? Bridgetâ€"No, mum; there‘s none in the house. "Not much defenseless about him," chimed in the private, heatedly. "He bit pretty freely into my leg, so I ran my bayonet into him." "Nonsense!" answered the owner angrily. _ "He was a docile creature. Why did you not defend yourself with the butt of your rifle?" "Why didn‘t he bite me with his tail?" asked Private Jones, with spirit. Why Not. Private Jones, according +o London Titâ€"Bits, was summoned â€"to appear bofore his captain. "Jones," said the officer, frowning darkly, "this gentleman complains that you have killed hi; dog." "A dastardly trick," interrupted the owner of the dog, "to kill a deâ€" fenseless animal that would harm no one Featherâ€"beds should not be turned on a Sunday. If your teeth grow widely apart you will be traveller. If you have a mole on your back you will have money by the sack. On the other hand, a mole at the base of the neck shows that "you will be hanged." Very lucky it is to find a spider on your clothes; it is called a moneyâ€" spinner in many parts of the world. "Lucky" and "unlucky" have come to be applied to gathering blossoms, to horseshoes, to the coler of hair, to your manner of "saying things‘"â€"in a word, to every possible event in life. It is unlucky to "have a dead blosâ€" som"; it is unlucky to go out with your "shoelaces untied"â€"the latter we raturally believe; it is unlucky to bring "hawthornâ€"blossoms within the house"; it is "lucky to hear the cricket." The latter is, of course, supâ€" posed to bring luck into the house. They Are Applied to Every Possible Event in Life. LUCKY AND UNLUCKY THINGS. 31. Consolation (margin, exhortaâ€" tion), or better, encouragement. The verb in verse 32 is the same. 32. Confirmedâ€"We can hardly exâ€" aggerate the effect of such enlightenâ€" ed instruction on tht minds of men who had been haunted by a great unâ€" easiness since Jews had told them of a Godâ€"given Law without which they could not be saved. Even Paul could not altogether allay it. But Judus‘ and Silas, coming officially from Jeruâ€" salem with the judgment of the perâ€" sonal disciples of Jeâ€"us, could set all their doubts at rest and so "strengthâ€"| en" their faith. | _ 29. Things sacrificedâ€"1 Cor. 10.| In ordinary cases, if you begin with 25, shows us that meat from a a complete rest cure, in which the sacrificed animal was likely to be of-‘ patient cees no callers and does not fered to anybody who went to market even read or write, you can gradually or a dinner. Paul treats this Wifl‘:modify the rules as improvement apâ€" indifference: he fears no demons, and pears, until the patient may see ocâ€" only cares about not hurting tim !| casional visitors, and enjoy books and consciences. But Jewish Christians music in moderation. like the author of Rev. 2. 14, 15 clear-l A real rest cure should always inâ€" ly retained the old horror, though they clude some form of masâ€"age, because would not give the same reason for it. that takes the place of exercise, Bloodâ€"The Jews still adopt special breaks the long hours of inactivity methods of slaughtering for food, to and keeps the blood in circulation. If drain all the blood away. _ Things professional massage is out of the strangledâ€"The idea was that the question on account of the expense, stopping of the breath retained withâ€" an occasional amateur rubbing is betâ€" in the body all kinds of perilovus influâ€" ter than none.â€"Youth‘s Companion. ences. _ It was, moreover, a method: mmonsmmsome mm of killing which retained the mm,x| A Bad Breath. Fornicationâ€"It is a good illustration! Unless there is & catarrhal affecâ€" of the way in which nonmoral taboo: !li, i wikhin the nose, or the teeth are worked out moral reforms. There decayed, there is no reason for a bad are many examples of this working of breath, except from indigestion and primitive religton ‘in J. G. Fraze‘s constipation _ Gas in the stomach lectures, "Psyche‘s Tack." 1 s ce m n on n og o e im ravn on nb insl 16 nrece infected, as it were. â€" It surprises u that Jews who had received Christ should not have outgrown such taboos; but they were in the Law, and we must not expect from men whose spiritual growth had been quiet and normal the complete emancipation which a cataclysm had produced in Paul. _ Finally note that the Decree concerns those regions only through which communication with Judzea wnsl regular and free. Anyhow, what is luck who attacked a Zeppelin at a height of 9,000 feet. Photo was taken imâ€" mediately after he landed from the attack. 199 ONTA Accidentally Sarcastic. Lieut. Brandon, RF.C TORONTO If the phoenix of common szense rises from the ashes of a fool‘s money the conflagration has not been in vain, "Ma was terribly disappointed." Uwhy?Q' "Pa found $2 in an old vest, and she‘ll never forgive herself for overâ€" looking it." Two City Kids. Tommyâ€"My uncle hatches chickens in an indicator. Willieâ€"I guess you mean an incuâ€" bus. Jack Impecuneâ€"He didn‘t happen to say anything about his own, did he? Didn‘t Want it. "My boy, remember a rolling stone gathers no moss." "That‘s so, dad, but then I‘ve no use for moss anyhow." Nothing Deepâ€"Seated. Customerâ€"Confound you! You‘ve cut my ear. Precedence. Ethe!â€"Jack, papa asked me la: evening what your intentions were Opposed to Home Work. Public school teachers in New South Wales are asking that written home work be abolished in all primary schools. They also ask that no school be built on or close to main traffic arâ€" teries; that a domostic sclence college bo established ard that all reports conâ€" coerning any teachers be opened for inspection by the teacher concerned. Barberâ€"Don‘t worry. It won‘t af fect your hearing. About the rarest work of Nature is a really honest man. If you do not believe, get hold of the most honest you know, and give him a chance of "doing" a railway company. A pessimist thinks of the cost of the shell he is making; an optimist thinks of the good it will do the Kaiser. When a man has been in Parliament a little while he finds it difficult to get over the feeling that the country is really in need of his services. Curiously' enough, the simple life is not appreciated by people who have to live like that. If you must borrow trouble, borrow from the man whose trouble is too much money. Some people really do make but most of us merely earn it A Bad Breath. | Unless there is a catarrhal aflec-\ tion within the nose, or the teeth are } decayed, there is no reason for a bad | breath, except from indigestion and . constipation. _ Gas in the stomach and a sour taste in the mouth arej sure indications that one needs a laxâ€" | ative. For this purpoâ€"e, an inexpenâ€" | sive and sufficient preparation is the | phosphate of sodium. _ The correct | dosage is a heaping teasponful in a tumberful of hot water half an hour before breakfast. _ In severe bilious| attacks, where there is headache and | vomiting, a half teaspoonful in ahalfi teacup of hot water may be taken | every half hour until four doses are taken. _ There is no better household remedy for,indigestion, headache and | constipation than the plain phosphate | of sodium. 1 ’ It is amistake to think that they . | get it only in a sanatorium, under exâ€" | pensive â€" conditions. Two sensible | ‘members of the same household are |all that is needed, one to take the treatment and one to superintend it ‘and keep the patient quiet and undisâ€" | turbed. _ The patient should have the | most cheerful and bestâ€"ventilated ‘ I‘ room in the house. A very simple but | palatable diet list must be decided on, | and friends must be warned to stay ; away. l In ordinary cases, if you begin with a complete rest cure, in which the patient csees no callers and does not even read or write, you can gradually modify the rules as improvement apâ€" First of all, in presenting the rest treatment, the physician must underâ€" Istand his patient‘s disposition ‘and character as well as his physical ':ymptoms. If the patient is a lazy ’and sluggish person, most of whose symptoms can be traced to a slothful 'body and an inactive brain, the best prescription is a fiveâ€"mile walk every | day, with less food and more fresh air. A rect cure has often resulted in turning such a patient into a bedâ€" ridden or a houseâ€"bound invalid. There are persons who are constantâ€" ly talking of their need of a rest cure. As a rule, they are not the ones who do need it; the poor creatures who really ought to take a rest cure are too hard at work to talk or even to think much about it. _ Some people there are who work altogether too hard, and some there are who do not work hard enough to keep well. It is the first class who benefit by a proâ€" perly conducted rest cure. to prescribe rest, and so, when a case shows itself obstinate to other methods of treatment, the physician is tempted to try the rest cureâ€"and sometimes to let it go on too longâ€"without givâ€" ing sufficient thought to the subtle psychological effects that may be inâ€" volved. When Dr. Weir Mitchell introduced his "restâ€"cure" treatment, he used to say that he feared lest it should be overâ€"used or wrongly uped rather than not used enough. It is very easy Ma‘s Loss. LAUGHS. money, No man can be so optimistic that he will truthfully state the contrary. If fortune has favored him and he has been spared many trials, and circumâ€" stances have placed him where he is not compelled to fight hard for his soul, he is even then confronted by a road that has stretches of rough way if he tries to do his duty and work hard for a better world. _ The field of all service is like the land of Asher, filled with flinty rocks. _ If you travel over its stony ground you must have iron shoes. And here is the promise, "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass." _ True optimirm, the opâ€" timism that is not foolishly blind to "IRON SHOES FOR ROUGH WAYS" Now, speaking figuratively of shoes and disentangling ourselves from the local allusions of the text, what is th> promise that God makes, that every one of His children may claim ? It is the preparation that He ha~ proâ€" vided for all of life‘s experiences. He has given us iron shoes for rough ways. mu t have shoes of a material that will stand the wear and tear of such an experience. _ Therefore, the reâ€" markable blessing promised to Asher, "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass." God will give His children just what they need for their peculiar condition and individual cireumstances. If they have rough roads HMe will prepare them with ifton shoes. These words were spoken to the triba of Asher. Their land was the northernmost portion aâ€"cribed to the tribes. It was along the seacoast and at the foot of the Lebanon mountains. A large part of it was hilly and rugâ€" ged. _ Common sandals made of wood or leather would soon be torn by the points of the sharp, flinty rocks. If they are to endure any sort of travel over their rough, hard ways they "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass." â€"Deuteronomy, 38, xxv. Soon back came Mother Bear, walkâ€" ing fast; and when Little Bear saw the eggs in her green basket, he was so much pleased that he forgot to be cross, although he did not forget his wish. _ While Father Bear untied right!" "Noon is the time for dinner," Litâ€" tle Bear said in grumbling tones, "and roasted eggs are not so good as scrambled." "Son Bear," answered Father Bear s_teyn!y. "Mother Bear is always l Little Bear hastened to obey; but iwhen he returned with his arms full |of catâ€"tail leaves, he said, "Mother Bear, I have made a wish. _ Please 'let us have the eggs for dinner, and |let us have them scrambled. _ Father \Bear and I like scrambled eggs betâ€" |ter," and Little Bear winked at Fathâ€" er Bear and Father Bear winked back. . So after Little Bear had filled one | Footing the Bill. green baket with delicious wild _ Mr. Newman had just recover« strawberries, he stayed with his fathâ€" from an operation and was talking er while Mother Bear went for the a friend. eggs. i "The surgeon." he remarked. "sai "You will stay with your father while I go for the eggs." answored his mother. "I‘ll gladly pick the berries, said Little Bear, "and I‘ll go with you to find a hen‘s nest that has eggs in it to scramble." Little Bear obeyed his mother, but he neither danced nor sang as he gathered the grasses. "Noon is the time for dinner," he told a big green frog, "and I wish for scrambled eggs at noon," "Kerâ€"plunk!" said the frog. Quickly Mother Bear made two pretty green baskets. _ "One is for wild _ strawberries," she explained. "We will fill it to the brim and leave it for the farmer‘s wife, instead of money. _ She will find it in a nest when she goes to gather the eggs." "We shall not make camp at noon so.near a _ farmhouse," answered Mother Bear, "and the eggs shall be roasted. _ Now along after some long grasses, Honey Cub, for me to weave into the baskets with the ca+â€"tails." "Now, then," is what I say, too," added Mother Bear, laughing. "Honey Cub,‘ she said to Little Bear, who was wondering what would happen next, "jump off the raft and bring me many long, slim leaves of the catâ€" tails growing over there, and I will weave two basket~, one for the money, one for the eggs." Father Bear made no answer, but pushed the raft against the bank and tied it to the willows with a rope of wild grapevine. He knew that Mother Bear would have her way, so he wasted no time trying to argue about the matter. _ "Now, then!" was all Father Bear said after that, as he sat in his huge chair and folded his arms to watch the fur. "Do be sensible!" exclaimed Father Bear. â€" "Remember that we have no money and that farmers do not love bears," "That does not matter," said Mothâ€" er Bear gently. "Toâ€"night, when we build our camp fire for the evening, we must have hens‘ eggs to roa:t for supper, and how can we have hens‘ eggs unless we buy them at the farmâ€" house ?" * L « ‘%‘I’ /fre [ E_QQ‘?:@@ GIHl "Perhaps we shall never be so near a farmhouse again," saaid Mother Bear to Father Bear, ‘so I think we should buy some eggs off the farmâ€" er‘s wife." One morning, when the three bears were floating downstream on their raft, they saw a farmhouse in the disâ€" tance. 0d Has Promised the Thing That We Need for the Cir stances In Which We Live. Life‘s Ways are not Easy. BOYSS GIRLS | c of f 8 ;MEjp T "Hâ€" 9 M Little Bear Gets His Wish. |the facts, recognizes the need of {ron sho:s and believes that they have been , provided. _ The difference between _ pessimism and Christian optimism i _ this:â€"Pessimism confesses that there are no resources, but optimism beâ€" lieve= in the sources from which all blessings flow, and expects iron shoes for rough ways. Both our lives and God‘s provision are His ordering. Asher‘s portion was not given by accident. It was the intention of the Lord that into this rug ged, rocky, rough road Ashor should go, but he would go with a provision prepared for his blessing. _ He would ‘find there the iron for the shoes he was to wear. God Helps You to Help Yourself. In a similar way. your life and mine are disposed at the hands of God, iwho plans our portion, but promises our provision accordingly. The comâ€" :pensation for Asher‘s lot among the rugged hills was the iron in them. |Out of the very cireumstances that | would make his life hard would come | the very thing he would need to make ihl'ln .l-ife. amid the hardship, happy. But, mark you, this must be rememâ€" bered:â€"We don‘t get the shoes until we need them. _ Asher found the iron only when he got into the rough land. The gift of the iron shoes is simulâ€" taneous with the approach of the rough way. You get them when you get there. _ Trurt God to provide the thing needed when you reach the rocky path.â€"Rev, Charles Lee Roy. nolds, D.D. Where will you get your iron shoes for the rough way? Why, out of the very experience that makes life difâ€" ficult. _ You dig it out of the day in which your lot is cast. This gives meaning to trials. God blesses you with the ability to get from your own life the preparation which he has put there. _ He helps you to help yourâ€" self. "Well, he did it, didn‘t he?" aske the friend. "He did, indeed." responded _ M Newman. "I had to sell my moto car to pay his bill." No Efiiciency. Wounded Soldierâ€"Yes, th twentyâ€"four bullets out of me ought to have sent me to th tion depotâ€"not to a ‘ospital! "The surgeon," he remarked. "said he‘d have me on my feet again in three weeks." But after dinner Little Bsar laughâ€" ed and sang: I had my wish! Because Daddy lost his fishl Taâ€"deâ€"dum, Taâ€"deâ€"dum, Taâ€"deâ€"dumâ€"dumâ€"dum! until at last the three bears join~d hands and danced round the camp fire singing together: Little Bear had his wish When Father Bear lost his fish! Taâ€"deâ€"dum, Taâ€"deâ€"dum, Taâ€"deâ€"dumâ€"dumâ€"dum! â€"â€"Youth‘s Companion. That is how it came about that the three bears built a camp fire at noon and dined on scrambled eggs. They had a jolly time eating dinner in the woods and talking about what a huge fish it was that Father Bear had alâ€" most pulled out of the stream in the morning. "Father Bear is always righ*", said Mother Bear, a~ she emptied the broken eggs into the frying pan and began picking out pieces of the shells and tossing them into the wator. "Roasted eggs are not so good as scrambled, and noon is the time for dinner. Mother Bear, let us go ashore and make camp. _ We have come a long way from the farmâ€" house." "Something has happened to t} eggs!" exclaimed Little Bear. "I a afraid they are all squashed." Sure enough! When Mother Bear took the leaves off the basket of eggs, what a sight she beheld! _ Every shell was broken. Then said Father Bear, laughing: The three bears fished all the mornâ€" ing and caught nothing. At noon, without warning, there was a great splashing in the river, and Father Bear exclaimed, "I have a bite" Well, he pulled, and pulled, and pulâ€" led, and pulled, and could not land his fish. _ There was great excitemont on the raft, until suddenly Father Bear almost caught the fish. _ Up came the line, up bobbed the fishâ€"a huge fish, almost the biggest Fathor Bear had ever caught! but back fell Father Bear, and bumped into Mother Bear, and he bumped into Little Bear, and he sat down in the basket of eggs, because the three were standing one behind another. _ Then the fish flopâ€" ped back, splash! into the waterâ€" and the three bears were hungry! _ "And now we are off for a mornâ€" ing‘s fishingâ€"" exclaimed Father Bear, as he pushed passed a wee fish pole to Little Bear, a middleâ€"sized fish pole to Mother Bear, and straightway beâ€" gan fishing himself with his own huge pole and line. the grapevine rope, Little Bcar heiped Mother Bear to cover the oggs with big green leave~, to keep them eool; he danced and sang as he workâ€" ed. reaxnâ€" They muniâ€" to SON From Premlor Asqui W ENDRELY H s (¥¥ \$ Scot O A N PR