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ed of His Commisston, He gain From Private to His Former Rank. NGE CAREER OF LIEUT COL. ENGLAXD. fortanately, the scandiel is red 1"* \n,".y ‘, mAh WHO CAME BA WWR .,.Farm (rop Queries, ill the leading newspapers, d by the whole world. The ement 1 :azett England relinquishes his he King baving no furâ€" his services," was the ‘ave a more vindie. ondon Gazette, the hat cireulates im ade, battalion and tish army and is ading newspapers, : has perfected tural material, enables man swne,jn tht that in a few dition of soli‘- belongs to rock d in the course Man becomes & hat appeared in of December 11, mse! th’n that inâ€" incement can time. At this r the German ‘er Would h" his hand and some see MISTR Y and order the seeds. ced stores ind so also man Indus« apply the mistry to him. H lim] the m log lic he red u!‘igh rom the un won on tb. 10dern mistry n â€" dll= nds of o â€" t n â€"the *r ihen, year, luded Om ire he ‘he it@ uct uid ght 1 it he ve m= AF 1$ ho 10 in h. 13 1@ a 200â€"squareâ€"foot patch. When you have opened the holesy or made the trenches, preparing to plant the poâ€" tatoes, scatter about 20 pounds more fertilizer, distributing lightly along the trenches or in the holes. Scatter a light covering of soil over the fertiâ€" lizer before dropping the potato pieces. Finish planting the potatoes in the normal way and resutts should be highly satisfactory. Answer:â€"On your sandy garden soil you would do well to work in a considerable amount of leaves and strawy material. _ You will get good results from using a moderate amount of fertilizer in addition to manure and this other organic material. © For sandy soil the fertilizer should conâ€" tain from 3 to 4 per cent. ammonia, 8 to 10 per cent. available phosphorie acid and as much potash as you can obtain under present conditions, which would be from 1 to 3 per cent. In applying the fertilizer to the potato patch, you would do well to scatter a light sprinkling of about 20 pounds on The blight disease is very destrucâ€" tive to potatoes. Therefore, you should spray your potatoes five or six times during the growing season, starting when they are just coming out of the ground. The spray maâ€" terial to combat blight diseases is called Bordeaux Mixture. It is made by dissolving 5 pounds of lime in 5 gallons of water, and 5 pounds of copper sulphate in another pail conâ€" taining 5 gallons of water. Then pour the two together and add 40 R. B.;â€"i have always farmed on clay loam. After selling my farm I moved to the city and my lot is sand. Last year the blight struck my potaâ€" toes and they did not do very well. I use manure, _ Would fertilizer be of use to make a quick growth and is there a special kind for sandy soil. Would it be proper to drop it in the hill or sow it broadcast? _ What is the proper time to spray currant bushes? H. S.;â€"1. What is the best variety of spring wheat?"~ Would sod plowed up last fall be good for wheat? 2. How deep should the land be plowed for peas? Should they be sown early or late in the spring? 3. Do you reâ€" cbmmend white blossomed sweet clovâ€" er for pasture? Does it make good pasture for all summer? Address all questions to Professorâ€"Henry G. Beli, in care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toâ€" ronto, and answers will appear in this column in the order in which they are received. As space is limited it is advisable where immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct. are perfectly formulated and mixed (o insure a constant supply of plant food throughout the growing season. All good fertilizers must contain materials that will not only give the plant a quick start but must be compounded and formulated so as to keap it growing throughout the season. S * We have the special grade or analysis for your special crop and woll. Let us send you free bulletin and prices. You can raise greater yielids without additional LAND, LABOR and, SEED, by using commercial fertilizer. 5 # Increase Yields Without More Labor West ONTARIO FERTILIZERS, LIMITED Ha avies Half past eight‘s the meanest time! | When I‘m seated in my chair, | And I see my breakfast there, | Then that little clock will chime! |\Up looks father o‘er his plate: | "Hurry, son, or you‘ll be alte; | It‘s half past eight." After school, though, I do thingsâ€" Fly my kite or play baseballâ€" Till I hear our Hannah call When the supper bell she rings. After tea they light the grate, And I read there while I wait For half past eight. Currant bushes should be sprayed when the leaves are fully out. At this time arsenical sprays, such as lead arsenate or diluted Paris Green hould be sprayed on the foliage so as to control the leafâ€"eating larvae. After 10 or 14 days another applicaâ€" tion of Hellebore spray should be made. _ Repeat these sprays if necesâ€" sary . to stay there 15 to 20 minutes and then take out the bag and allow the! liquid to drain off, _ Empty the oats| onto a dry floor and keep them turnâ€"| ed sufficiently often s¢ that they will’ dry out rapidly. The mixture of | formalin and water contains a very| penetrating gas dissolved im_water.! This gas kills the small seed spores of \ the smut disease. 3. _ Sudan grass, is giving considerable results under | long season conditions in Southem' states. _ It is relatively coarse in quality and is not especially adaphedi cither in season or im quality for growth under Ontario conditions.. You would do much better to stick to’ a good grass mixture of clover amdl timothy, possibly adding a little meaâ€"‘ dow feseue for hay, or if you have a field that you can leave in hay for| three or four years, I would advise‘ you to try alfalfa. | gallons of water. This should be sprayed upon the potatoes immediateâ€" ly after being mixed. Ofâ€"course it is not necessary to mix up all this quantity at once, but keep the stock solutions of lime and copper sulphate in separate wooden barrels or large pails and mix such quantities as you need to spray your patch thoroughly. The various sprayings should be done about 10 days or 2 weeks apart. Add a spoonful of Paris Green to the pail of spray solution once or twice during the season and you will control the inâ€" sect pests also. _ H, H.;â€"1. What is the best mixture for an annual pasture? 2. How do you kill smut in oats? 3. Do you reâ€" commend sudan grass for hay and pasture? Answer:â€"1 . An annual pasture mixture giving good results at the present time is composed of one bushel of oats, one bushel of barley and oneâ€"half bushel of rye. _ You must avoid letting any of this grain come into head. Otherwise the straw will become hard and *woody and the spreading leaves of the plant will dry up, reducing the value of the pasture. 2. Smut in oats can be readily conâ€" trolled by dipping the seed oats in a mixture of one pint of formalin to 21 gallons of water. _ Prepare this mixâ€" ture in a barrel. _ Put the oats in a fairly coarsely woven bag and lower them into this mixture. _ Allow them Seems to me I haven‘t read Half a page, when I hear pa Put his paper down, andâ€""Ma, It‘s time for John to go to bed!" So I have to yield to fate. If there‘s any time I hate, It‘s half past eight! ® Half Past Eight. Canada Henry G. Bell He must have a wide command of language before he can decipher the printed word. 7 e The farm child has a better opportâ€" unity than the city child for acquiring a large vocabulary to help him to read at an early age. _ The whole earth with its products, its various kinds of labor, its changes in color and temperature, its animal and its structural life, lies at his doorstep. Children ought to have home teachâ€" ing at this time. The art will come more easily than it will later and an early grasp of reading "means the ability to gain before school age, inâ€" formation that will shorten the school course by a year or two. ‘The larger his vocabulary, the more Mother Goose rhymes and nursery stori¢s he has heard, the more names of common things and their qualities he has been told, the more‘quickly he will learn to read. He should be able to tek which articles are hard, soft, colored, shiny, dark, light, round, square, old and new. â€" Whatever questions he Asks at this time should be carefully answerâ€" ed and he should be encouraged to speak in sentences, well enunciated, rather than in disconnected phrases. The child is like a stranger in a foreign land, trying to learn its language and he needs the most thoughtful help on the part of those in the home. We thought for a while that chilâ€" dren did not need to learn the alphabet. _ We have found out now that it is not only necessary but that Later come more marked expresâ€" sions of this longing to read. _ He fingers the raised letters on his blocks and mug or plate. â€" He tries to spell the signs on the fences and the large headings in the newspapers and magazines. ® The farm child has unlimited opporâ€" tunity for receiving this first trainâ€" ing in reading.. : :; =â€" 0120 ~ As early as possible he should know the names of the home furnishings, the farm animals, flowers, birds, vegetables, tools and whatever else he sees and contacts in his home life. He is curious and eager to know about all these. Tell him everyâ€" thing that he desires to know about the farm and help him to retell it. This is the foundation of home readâ€" ing. The two next steps in teaching a chi‘d to read are simple memorizing and a fami{liarity with the form ~bf letters. The rhymes or sentences should be very simple and short, and the aim of this step is not at all to bring ibout a parrotâ€"like effect of reading through memorizing but to help him to recognize the word unit on the printed pages as a preliminary to reading the words. Incidentally, though, the bright child will learn unconsciously in this way, to read many words. £ * By Caroline Sherwyn Bailey, / We find the « child, when he is they like to learn their A B C‘s. three or four years old, scribbling | Letters hate a fascination for the with a pencil wherever he can make| small learner. a mark, and even tearing books and| The child who is learning to read at papers. This is not due to a destrucâ€" home needs to touch and handle letâ€" tive instinct but to an unexpressed|ters, in this way using the sense of desire to solve the riddle of script and touch in conjunction with the sense printed words. Iof sight in his teaching. Large Later come more marked expresâ€" wooden letters in sets are most valuâ€" sions of this longing to read. He| able playthings for children. The little child should have a good age the child to name them too. book of illustrated Mother Goose rhyâ€"‘. This exercise will be a most deâ€" mes and some picture books in which lightful game for a child of only four the rhymes or afew lines of text are years. _ With astonishing rapidity vprinted in large text â€"on each pgge he will be able to group more and underneath the pictures they describe.‘ more words and recognize and name Such books are very inexpensive. §them. Read these to the child until he is able to repeat them and find the picâ€" tures to which they belong. <Then enâ€" courage him to point to each word on the page as he repeats the jingle. At Home the«Farm Child Has the Best of Opportunifiee to Master His First Reading Lesson. OURMVERY back yard should be used for the cultivation of fruits and 3 vegetables‘‘â€"says the Food Controller‘s Bulletin. Market Gardens t must be workecf to cupac:tg. But all this effort is wasted unless the seeds sown are capable of producing sturdy, vifotous plants. Plant Repuie‘s War Garden Seeds and insure a full crop s "Cabbage pkt. yoz, Woz oz] K lb Danish Summer Roundhéad .10 ....,...._0.90 2.75 Caulifiower F‘].,m‘ Resietng .. n old a.2s 1.00 1.95 3.5010.00 i esisting ..............1 ® ® ® * â€" P Celery 4 ' Mar.Ast Paris Goiden Yellow (Extra f ta SEIECtY ... ...2...1...â€"iâ€" i8 180 LUâ€" 2.00 to Apr.15t OrP;er NOW ! BEFORE HE GOES TO SCHOOL Onion pkt. Rennie‘s Extra Early Red .05 Radishâ€"Cooper‘s Sparkler .05 Tomatoâ€"Market King.... .10 Rennie‘sImproved Beefsteak.10 .15 _ 2.50 Pansyâ€"Rennie‘s XXX Exhibition Mixture........ Sweet Peasâ€"Rennie‘s XXX Spencer Misture. ... Nasturtiumâ€"Rennie‘s XXX Chameleon Mixture. ‘t;‘l&lt(.â€"Rennie‘a XXX Large Flowering Globe NEG. ... ...enrarrrcrer FaÂ¥rrirÂ¥sieeÂ¥errekirtre A short lesson in reading each day may begin with the child‘s looking at one picture in his book and repeatâ€" ing its jingle, pointing, as he has been taught, to=each word as he speaks it. _ Then open the envelope containing the duplicate of this and, laying the picture in front of the child, help to group the words under it as he sefi them in the book,. Name each word as it is placed and encourâ€" age the child to name them too. * The oldâ€"fashioned game of anaâ€" grams is a wonderful help to home reading. _ Children may sort the Special teaching of words..should follow that of teaching the letters. Tell the child the name of the word. Ask him to repeat the name. Then encourage him to find the word among several others. This method is helpâ€" ful in teaching verbs, pronouns and prepositjons. ue rorRsite. 2. As soon as possible teach the child toâ€" pick out the separate letters in each word and then sound them in their phonetic combinationâ€"that is, according to the sounds of the letters. This begins spelling and gives the child a foundation for reading, phoneâ€" tically, new words with which he is not familiar. p Let the child handle and play with these letters first, without suggesting any exercises with them.â€" This helps him to become familiar with the form of each. _ Sorting the letters is the next step. To teach the names of the letters show the child one letter and say, "This is A" or "D" or whatever letâ€" ter has been selected for the lesson. Then ask him to tell you its name. Next, show him two or three letters including the one you are teaching and ask him to find it for you, again naming it. * Reading a few simple words follows the memorizing of jingles and playâ€" ing with the alphabet. This, too, may partake of the guise of play alâ€" though it follows important â€" educaâ€" tional principles. The mother should have duplicates of the picture books with large prift» ed text from which she has read to the child and whose rhymes and short sentences he has~learned. | Cut up these books, mounting the pictures on heavy cardboard and backâ€" ing each word, also, with cardboard. If possible have a large, heavy ¢nvelope for holding each picture and the words that make up its story text. Another help is to cut letters from a good pattern in very heavy cardâ€" board and put these in a box that has a compartment for each letter. _ Cut a number of each letter to allow for the child‘s sorting them. _ It will be helpful to paste one letter in the Zot- tom of each compartment of the box to aid in this sorting. This simple method carried out with all the letters will soon teach even a very young child to recognize and name the entire alphabet and, from touching and feeling the form of the letters, he will begin to write them spontaneously on his blackâ€" board or a large pad. .60 1.10 2.00 O%. x Ib. 1.15 3.15 1§ .1° | _ Verse 7. He calleth unto him the | twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two4â€"His work in Nazarâ€" | eth beingâ€"defeated, he leaves the town and begins a teachinf tour among the | villages. The Twelve have â€"an ofâ€" ficial position. _ He has been preparâ€" \ing them for missionary service and now sends them forth. Matthew | gives the fulle‘f account (Matt, 9. 35 to 10. 40). hey go forth two by two because each can help the other. Thus they cover six districts, _ Authâ€" , ority over the unclean spiritsâ€"Mattâ€" \ hew and Luke state that their mission also included healing and preaching. lwords, name them and group them | into sentences. Small pictures .can be cut out and mounted and the nouns naming each can be picked out from the game of anagrams and laid , underneath the pictures. | _ In a surprisingly short time, a child iwill be constructing sentences, readâ€" \ing them and spelling the words. | The main trouble with our attempts |at teaching a child to read at home in the past has been that we started with an entire, confusing page full of text. © To begin with letters and words simplifies reading and acâ€" }mplhhel quick results. Te\ rovr BE (Bp Hendie Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially invited to write to this department. Initials only will be published with each question and its answer as a means of identification, but full name and address must be given in each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct it stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. PÂ¥ ie A Wheat Saver:â€"You‘re a very upâ€" toâ€"date and prudent person, Miss Wheat Saver, and it‘s a pity there aren‘t a few more women who look at things in the same light, Your reâ€" quest for catmeal recipes is very timely. â€" We‘re getting right back to that good old standâ€"by these days, aren‘t we? Oatmeal and onion soup really tastes much better than the name would lead you to believe. Fry two large slices onions. Add a quart of water, half a cupful of chopped celery leaves, salt and pepper to taste, and one cupful of oatmeal. â€" Bring to the boiling point, cover and allow to simmer for two hours.. Strain, add two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup and serve very hot. Oatmeal pudâ€" ding is particularly rich in protein. It is made in much the same manner as plain rice pudding. _ Bring to a boil one quart of milk and add half a teaâ€" spoonful of salt and oneâ€"quarter of a cupful of oatmeal and one quarâ€" ter of a cupful of brown sugar, Stir until it reaches boiling point. Put into greased pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for two hours. As it begins to crust flavor with vanilla extract. _ Remgove from the fire and spread with a tart jelly. Both these recipes are rather out of the ordinary and serve as excellent dinner dishes. _ Address ;fi-é;rr;;p;;a;;{s'f;rvifil;];fianment to Mrs. Helen Law, Woodbine Ave., Toronto. * Thus they cover six districts, Authâ€"| 14. They cast out many demons, ority over the unclean spiritsâ€"Mattâ€"‘ and anointed with oil many that were hew and Luke state that their mission sickâ€"They closely ,follow all that also included healing and preaching. | Jesus did. But we have no record 8. Nothing . . . save a staff that Jesus anointed with oil. _ All his onlyâ€"This was an emergency call,| cures, with rare exceptions, were imâ€" and they were to be content with the| mediate. _ The only other place in simplest outfit. Usually journeys the New Ttestment where oil is used in the East were most carefully preâ€" in healing the sick is in James 5. 14. pared for. ~But these men were to The use of oil was common as a mediâ€" subsist off the people. No brendâ€"f cal specific. _ Its use was symbolic of This they could obtain wherever they supernatural healing. :?e%p::c nrr;‘:;r:v.iilieotn-nror l;?verlac\k,! In verses 14â€"29 there is given an 7 o moneéy | Ldtersiiy, Ahrasy of â€"copper. Tor ei{ account of the murder of John the would : be unnecessary. In their Bup:iutfb{ Herad. 'l;heJ"po" of ths parse â€"the ‘gindie worn . apou the pondertul works , of, Jesus coused waist, in the loose folds of which: B:;tist whom l:?:nd slain, l‘!,u'rll risen money was placed. I on c ane an% ho mnoonmied hiie Rural Teacher:â€"Judging from your | This letter there is nothing to prevent you at t from starting a school garden this her. year and you will be doing some-asure thing very much worth while if you | pig. 9. Shod with sandalsâ€"The simplest protection for the feet. Shoes also were worn by Jewsâ€"costly shoes, such as were in use among the Babylonions, furnished with upper leather. Put not on two coatsâ€"Perâ€" sons of distinction sometimes wore two tunics. â€" They were to encumber themselves with nothing that would be unsuitable *for plain men going about among ordinary folk. In the case of the poor the tunic was the only garment. _ _ â€" 10. Abide till ye depart thenceâ€"inâ€" stead of restlessly changing from house to house they were to be satisâ€" fied with the hospitality afforded Six months of this home teaching should give him a grasp of print and phoniecs _ (the science of _ speech sounds) that will enable him to do Two copies of a good primer or simple first reader should be used, one eut up and the pictures and words mounted for constructing the stories as in the case of the nursery book. Soon the child will be able to read a printed page without the help of the duplicate words. Lesson XI.â€"Jesus Sending Forth the Twelveâ€"Mark 6. 7â€"13, 30 Golden Text, Matt. 10. 8. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 17. TORONTO i A short period of teaching readâ€" ‘ing each day will send the child to :lchool, when his school days come, imsny leagues ahead of the others. | One reason for a child‘s difficulties in ’ his first school reading is the fact that he must have group teaching. One fof a class, he struggles along without individual instruction. _ Why not |give him this personal help at home? \He will never learn more easily or from a more beloved teacher than at home from the one who should underâ€" | stand him better than anyone else. follow out your present‘ idea. The children will like it, especially if you impress upon them that they are doâ€" ing it for the sake of the children of invaded countries, _ In connection with one Ontario school two and a half acres were cultivated last year. The total expenses amounted to $74. The sale of potatoes netted $252.40 and of the beans, $144, so that after everything was paid the boys were $322.40 to the good. The total amount of work done was 1,288 hours, so that each boy received 25 cents an hour for the time he put in on the work. _ Everyone who possibly can should grow something this year and the country school is in a ideal posiâ€" tion to have a small garden. Mrs. R. A. S.:â€"Surely you are a little mistaken when you say that it is "out of the question" for women to keep pigs and that it is unreasonable to ask them. _ Listen to one woman‘s record. _ Last summer she kept beâ€" tween two and three hundred pigs just beyond the city limits of Toronto. She has ten acres of waste ground and buys garbage from the city in summer for feeding purposes. _ Last fall she sold seventyâ€"nine . hogs weighing about 9,600 pounds at an average price of $18 each,. During the year she made $1,000 in this way. This patriotie woman has five boys at the front and one at home helping her. If one woman can do all this surely others could keep at least one 30. Told him all things, whatsoâ€" ever they had done, and whatsoever they had uuzhf,â€"JI"le place to which the Twelve returned is not stated. It wan-prolnbl%hCIpernlum or its neighâ€" borhood . ey gave a full ro&ort both of their teaching and efr works. _ Nothing is said of their sucâ€" cess or of the Master‘s estimate of their labors. _ It was no doubt a tour of profound importance to his work, They no doubt recounted their varied experiences amd received from him the necessary counsel or approval which their report required. _ We may conjecture that their work was not without its mistakes and blunders, but not without the accompaniment of the power of God. _ Details of this first evangelizing tour by a group of Christianapreachers would be of priceâ€" less value to us toâ€"day . 4 In verses 14â€"29 there is given an| account of the murder of John the| Baptist by Herod. The report of the | wanderfu{ works of Jesus caused, Herod to believe that John the: Baptist, whom he had slain, had risen| from the dead and had resumed his‘ preaching. _ Mark gives the fullest, account of what led to John‘s impriâ€"| sonment and his execution. | them.â€" They were not to gad about. "In that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give" (Luke 10. 7). They were not to indulge in the usual custom of nccegt- ing invitations from the villagers, for it was etiquette for the people to inâ€" vite a stranger to eat with them, one after another. The heralds of the Master had no time for such palaver, 12. Went out, and preached that men should repentâ€"The burden of their preaching is identical with that of John the Baptist and Jesus. Their chief mission was to reach the inner life to produce change of mind, change of purpose, change of attitude toward life, the forsaking of sin, and turnâ€" ing unto God. 11. Shake off the dust . . . for a testimony unto themâ€"This is illustratâ€" ed in the account of Paul and Barnaâ€" bas at Pisidian Antioch (Acts 18. 51), when the inbhabitants had cast them out of the city: "They shook off the dust of their feet against them." This was a symbolical action indicating that they would have no further interâ€" course with them. simple reading directly from a page of a primer. ArR Helps to home reading ean be obâ€" tained from the school supply shops in the larger cities. _ There are large cardboard letters, small pictures with descriptive words in \)ig print on cards to accompany them, sets of words in script and print, and large script copies for a child to trace in learning to write. â€" The new primers and first readgrs are full of bright pictures and are as attractive as a picture book for a child. I have been in the countries now struggling in terrible war. _ Looking into the faces of the common soldiers in France, in England and in Gerâ€" | many, as they went back and forth to and from the trenches, and into the faces of those splendid women who are bearing so gloriously the heavy | burdens of war, _ I saw the same look | of the farmwife who glowed with ‘pride over the perfection of her vilâ€" \lage hotel. _ Only it is for love of | country instead of a tiny village *communit.y that these soldiers and these women are aroused. We are in too complex a period of : the world‘s development for any one : to be able to sit entirely apart and \ settle only his or her own problem. ‘We need constant sharing and comâ€" 'purhon. We need to get out in the â€" open and look around us with the eyes of someone else. 5 By Katherine Glover The farmwife and I fell to talking of neighborhood things. 1 told her I had been staying at the hotel in the nearâ€"by town and she said with genuâ€" ine concern, "Well, isn‘t that too bad when you might as well have come to our hotel! Travelling men who have been all over the country say it is the best in the whole of Canada." From her window I could see the hotel, a mere shack. One could imagine there being a friendly host who would make one feel much more welcome there than at a big, glittering hotel but one could hardly call it "the best in the whole of: Canada." _ But there was something so warm ~amd genuine in the farm woman‘s recomâ€" mendation, it made me feel sorry I had not put her famous hostelry to the test. That glow of local pride shining in the eyes of my hostess, the faith in the thing that is a part of one‘s surâ€" roundings and the willingness to deâ€" fend it, is one of the great world forces for good or evil. _ It can stir us to splendid, impersonal deeds for our own community or it can drug us to sleep in the face of crying needs for change through our very acceptâ€" ance of the ways to which we are acâ€" customed. "This life were brutish, did we not sometimes have Intimation clear, of wider scope. Hints of occasion, infinite, to keep The soul alert with noble discontent, And unul"yunhp c* unstilled Home is in a forest or far in foreign lands, Home is where the pines are or the busy clanging street; Home is where a friendly hand touches + other hands, Home is where there‘s laughter and where glad hearts beat. Maybe home‘s a palace, where wide halls are, A palace fair and beautiful ‘neath Home is Tlanked by other homes or lone in wind and sun, Home is stately beeutiful or very Yesterday they were just folk like you and me doing their village tasks as best they could contributing to the upkeep of their communities because of the love they bore them. _ Then almost over night their local pride beâ€" came that tremendously larger force, patriotism, which, roused to action, can weld© peoples together in world wars, can topple kings from their thrones and set up new republics and fresh ideats of democraey. We should keep ourselves alive to the new ideas that pour in with every newspaper and journal and come to us by every wayfarer who stops at our door. We should keep our local pride out in the sunlight, an active, stimâ€" ulating urge to development rather than shelter and pamper it until it grows narrow and resentful of any change . Home‘s where some one‘s '@l‘ with a smile when work is ‘done, Home is where there isn‘t room for loneliness or fear. _ skies of I{Iflnm( blue; Maybe just a little house set beneath It is amazing how easily fired is that flame of local pride which smoldâ€" er within us all. _ It takes just a spark sometimes to set it going. The spark may â€" be lighted by nothing greater than a "getâ€"together" effort among the women to bring some sort of wholesome amusement into the community to handle the problems of two or three povertyâ€"stricken families. It is such a pulsing, changing, vital hour in which we live that there is not one of us whose efforts are not needâ€" ed to mold and shape our communities to the new developments of the times. If you will look carefully at any community that has forged ahead, usually you can put your finger on a few wideâ€"awake, active men or woâ€" men, sometimes it may be only one, who with their own ideas and energy have started the van of improvement. We need to watch the achievements of other people and other communities than our own, to be wakeful to our shortcomings and ready to s«tand shoulderâ€"toâ€"shoulder to put our neighâ€" borhood in rank with the most proâ€" gressive . â€" a starâ€" Home is where there‘s laughter and * m kiss for you: True Patriotism small and dear.