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(EEP P "It‘s strange, isn‘t it, how thingsiany. Wa had a picnic instead, m'ndo' turn out sometimes?" remarked my ; toast sandwiches with bits of hot frizâ€"; young neighbor as ®he sank into a‘zed bacon between them, gathered a‘ comfortable chair in mylivingâ€"room few late tomatoes off the vines, and | the other evening, ran her fingers opened a jar of my spiced pears. 1| through her short locks and settled, brought out some cold milk and we down for a chat. | spread our picnic under the pear tree.‘ "Take Aunt Hannah, for instance.;fAunt Hannah thought it was great 1 used to think her just a tiresome 0d | fun. Then I coaxed her to take a nap relative, but I‘ve discovered that she‘and while she slept I made her a birthâ€" ba really one of the world‘s great |day cake with one candle I happened philosoph<rs, though she isn‘t awanzu) have. I put that on just for luck, of the fact." ‘and you shou‘d have seen the poor old "Tell moe all about it," I begged, for| dear‘s smiles. When the children came I like my young neighbor‘s naive way home I let them serve afternoon tea of teling a story. o "m the living room, and that was a real "We"‘. I had panned a sort of oddâ€"| event for all of us. "Take Aunt Hannah, for instance. 1 used to think her just a tiresome 0d relative, but I‘ve discovered that she ie really one of the world‘s great philosoph<rs, though she isn‘t aware of the fact." "We, I had panned a sort of oddâ€" job time for myself toâ€"day, and had just gotten fairly started on some of the hundred and one things I wanted to do, when along came Aunt Hannah. I knew the moment I saw her turning in at the gate that she‘d come to spend the day, for she had that funny shabâ€" by old biack basket on "her arm that always means a real visit. "‘It‘s my birthday, child," she said as I kissed her, rather lukewarmâ€" ly 1 fear, ‘and 1 couldn‘t think of a thing I‘d ratber do than come and spend it with you.‘ Of course I thought at once of my ruined day, and al the time 1 was helping her off with her wraps I was wondering what on earth there was in the house to eat, for, you see, now that the children have a hot lunch at school we have evening dinâ€" ner, and my noon meal is apt to be rather saketchy. "But Aunt Hannah didn‘t seem to . notico my manner, I imagine. She | took a fresh cap from the basket nndl out it on and then turned to me and said, ‘I a}ways think no matter wh&tl happens there‘s bound to be a laugh in it somehow.‘ Just then I chanced to spy my face in the glass and, do you know, I looked as though I had nover imnughed in all my life. _ But "‘It‘s kind of a game to find the|; ‘augh somctimes, and now and then it scoms as"though you just couldn‘t. I know a woman once who was set on having her house ail fufnished with old antiques. She had it, too, all but | her husband‘s bed; that was a little iron thing, but he liked it. No just loved bis litt‘e iron cot and his army Manket, but on Christmas she gave him a great map‘s fourâ€"poster, and now he has to s‘eep on it whether or > because the little iron cot has been put down the cel‘ar. Ho says he has had dreams every night since sho gave hm the bed. It was hard*for him to find a laugh in the fourâ€"postér, but ho managed it when he heard her say sho‘d first thought of giving him a Colonial sowing table. "‘Semetimes,‘ she went on, after we Lad laughed a little ourselves, ‘someâ€" tim~s T think we women folks are real ««‘fish with our homes; we think of them as just ours. We‘re even selfish ~ith our housekeeping, and we spend. «o much time doing it up right that we juat lose sight altogether of the idea â€"f home that‘s back of it all, Someway [ don‘t think we are fair to our home ~ks if we spend so much time and cnorgy polishing and shining that wo‘re ail out of smiles and peasant words when we‘re through. Do you*‘ "‘And it isn‘t worth while either,‘ ho went on before I could answer. ‘Take me for example, when ,I was young I used tqo scour my kitchen floor with soap and sand neariy every day, and, what‘s more, I used to pick out the dirt from the cracks with a hairâ€" vin. Took a good while to d? all that, Auntie was going right on ‘Take me for example, when .1 was young I used tq scour my kitchen floor with soap and sand neariy every day, and, what‘s more, I used to pick out the dirt from the cracks with a hairâ€" pin. Took a good while to do all that, but I was just set on it. Then along ‘omes my son‘s wife to keep house in the old homestcad, and what does she do but put !inc:eum over the whole floor. I must say I admire it, bue and gray and shiny, and so clean it never Fas to be scrubbed at al}. And Marâ€" cia has time to be gay and happy with has to be scrubbed cia has time to be & her fo.ks. * â€""‘I thirk if I again I‘d look ev before I began it, CR o EPmew oo mds again I‘d look every job in the face before I began it, and ask myself if it was a job that really nesded to be done, if it was actually worth doing. Then if it was I‘d find the quickest und easiest way to keep the kitchen fAcor c.ean. 7 ow " Bme T week in Octots and a.l the R and engincers optimists are n A NEIGHBORLY CHAT BY CAROLILNE B. KING. housekeeping "Before Aunt Hannah left we packâ€" ed the remains of the birthday cake with a jar of the spiced pears in her basket glong with the cap, and then the children gathered her a bouquet of late flowers. "‘It‘s been the best birthday I‘ve had in years,‘ she said as we put her on the trolley car, but she didn‘t know that her birthday had been a better day for me than for her." "And so toâ€"morrow you will have your oddâ€"job day, I suppose," I asked after we had both sat silent for a moment thinking of Aunt Hannah. "Oh, no, indeed, I won‘t," reptied my neighbor brightly. . "No, for you see al! the time Aunt Hannah was talking, she was working away, he‘ping me with some of the things I had plarined to do, so most of them are finished, and the rest I have looked fairly in the face and decided that they were not jobs that needed doing after all." "A few more comfortable old philâ€" osophers carrying fresh caps in shabâ€" by baskets and homely wisdom in dear exparienced old heads would help a Not all abortion is contagious, but to be on the safe side one had better proceed as if it were. The most danâ€" gerous time for spreading contagious sbortion is when the cow calves. As many calves come in the fal, care is needed now. Some dairymen sell their aborters to the butcher. If the cow is a good producer this is the most expensive method. °â€" Fortunatey only a féw, maybe 5 per cent., abort more than once. Of these, unfortunately, quite a few are sterile thereafter. This, with the loss of the calf and the lessâ€" ened milk flow causes a big loss. _Abortion usually appears suddenily and without warning. For this reagon every cow that ca‘ves â€"should be put in a box sta‘l out of contact with the rest of the herd for at least ten days before she caives. The afterbirth and a‘l the soiled bedding should be careâ€" fully carried out and burned. She should remain entirely away from the herd and should not be bred until all ‘d"iseharges have ceased, whether this is a few weeks or several months. It is the discharge that is dangerous. If the afterbirth does not come within a few hours, or if the discharge continue as long as ten days, a veterinarian | should be calied. | In buying new cows, see if there isl a good crop of calves and young stock‘ on the farm from where your new cows came. If not, beware! Give all your herd the abortion test once a year and treat all reactors the same as aborters. If these methods are folâ€" lowed, contagious abortion will now have no terrors for you. Why Hens Have Combs. ky s PS s M C MCY ‘_ Some folks obâ€"| _‘ is eruel, but it isA 8 inful than a fro namo dubbed" comb is pital htly. ihe o November 28. Gideon and the Three MHundred, Judges 7: 1â€"25. Golden Textâ€"Bo strong in the Lord, and in the power of hls might.â€"Ephesians 6: 10. w lt was, probably, not less than one 'hundmd and fifty years. Joshua himâ€" self may very properly be regarded as | one of the judges, differing from those lwh.o followed him on‘ly in the fact that \he exercised authority over all the |\ tribes of Israel, while they ruled only |over individual tribes or groups of InTrRropuctionâ€"The period o( thel Judges, following that of the rule ofl Joshus, and preceding the estab.ishâ€"} ment of the monarchy under Saul and | David, is not easy to describe, a'nd" the length of the period is ur_xcertain.l ‘ ANALYSIS. F I. CHOOSTNG THE THREE HUNDRED, 1â€"8. II. SPYING ON THZ MIDIANITE CAMP, 9â€"14. IIl.‘cipron‘s stRATRGY, 15â€"25. tribes. _ The p.e were'gov'e‘rsd locally by the g:ds of families of of family groups, and by the chosen princes of the tribes. Each tribe was ingependent and the tribesmen guardâ€" ed jealously their independenco.“'l‘.hey ed jnhmfl their independenco. 1N6y were united only by a common re‘ligious faith and the tradition of a common ancestry. Moses had given them a law and the beginning of a constituâ€" tion as a mation, but disunited as they were and scattered widely through Palestine, there was danger of that law being forgotten or disregarded. The influence, too, of the Canaanite customs and religious worship was strong, and affected serious.y the minds of many of the people, loosening ?hei; attachment to their own ancient aith. When common danger threatened or when oppressed by a foreign enemy, the people united under a vigorous and capable leader, who, after the victory was won, held during his life a place of recognized authority over those whose armies he had led, but no #uch leader, or judge, after Joshua held swaKeover more than a limitpd part of the country. "Jerubbaal, who is Gideon," was a native of the smal. community of Ophâ€" rah, of the clan Abinezer, in the tribe of Manasseh. The central and northâ€" "The people that are with thee are too many." Trusting to that inward divine voiee which constantly guided him, and which Qarmonized with his own better judgment, he decided to reâ€" duce the number of his army, and to try to obtain by strategy the viectory which he cou‘d not hope to win over the vast host of the enemy with his undiscip‘ined ~and poorly â€" equipped force. "Yet too rany.” Even the ten thouâ€"| sand men of courage who are Seft are too many for his immediate purpoae., By a simple test he chooses the men who drink from the cupâ€"shaped hol'low‘ of one hand, with which they lift the: water to the mouth, without relaxing their soldierâ€"like vigilance or lafi)ng aside their weapons, and rejects those who sprawl upon all fours and put their mouths down to the water. “Bx the three hundred men that lapped he had now faith to believe the Lord wow d give him victory. The rest of the army he held in reserve. III. SPYING ON THE MIDIANITE CAMP, 9â€"14. f $.S. LESSON Wwiison PUDHSEIEE VT CC C 1 l + laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by| Her other shoes rest in a neat row | return>mail. 4 dh two curtains rods on the bottom of o o e ;hi c;oaeg do%:t iShe géug:t a dou_tl!h'; > p at brass curtain rod and an extra} lFeed M’ SOW_‘ Oats. : '{pqir of ends. The smaller rod she | I get better than market prices f0f | fastened to the door about a foot fromyt my oats by feeding them ‘to bro04 | the bottom, the larger ong about four , sows before and after. f@rroWing: jnches below. . The heels of the shoes Ordinarily it is necessary to buy br&U | hang upon the upper rod and the sotes { or some other commercial feed to hdgg irest on the lower one. | make good pigs and to provide enough | ¢ i1 miik after they are born: =Oats, I find,| o{"‘;‘b:;i zz’“c‘o‘.’t “fa;*;:‘:;"’c‘;;‘i‘?:! .wm do the Job, flms sAE m'{lsm- ‘over a bar through the midd&e, she: ing money for hxg‘h-prlcvfl_fll "@ " has had two pieces of broomstick sai-, Oats are not quite so expensive as corn and they do not fatten the sow. Of course I feed an ear or twb along with the oats. A litt‘e tankage helps, Big Boyâ€"â€"‘What APO JOH _ about *‘ Littleâ€""I traded by dog for Of Course. "What caused the delay at your triend the plumber‘s wedding 7" "He had to go back and fetch his best man." jeots." "That‘s mighty fine, son. . What were they ?" Big Boyâ€""Can‘t you trade 1 Littlzsâ€""I ate tho peanits." T e se % _ @ First Lesson in Finance. i RBovyâ€""What are you cryinc( Lad People ar: just as likey to get lneo’ a rut with thgir party refreshments as with thcir everyday menus, And, when, as is so often the case, you urnl that "same old thing" over and over,| your refreshments lose their zest, no matter how nice they may be. But it is different when something new is girl remarked to another as they rode home from Sue Elkin‘s bridge party. "What was it?" bucgreese I happened to have been the one Sue asked to he‘p her pass the things that afternoon and I know just what it was. She used her tall parfait glassâ€" es, and in the bottom of each was a spoonful of orarge ice. Then on top was finey cut fruit salad, the assortâ€" ed fruit that comes in cans. With this she served very sa.ty wafers, cream rheese and coffee. The combination Hot nut gingerbread with whipped cream would be very popular served instead of ice cream and cake at an afternoon orâ€"an evening partys Mix a bow? of your favorite gingerbread and put it in a cool place until you are ready to serve refreshments. Then, spread it in a large shallow baking pan, sprinkle a cup of coarsely chopâ€" ped nut meats over it and bake. Cut in squares, heap with whipped cream with a dash of ground cinnamon on it and serve with coffee. Mary Lukins, who really loves to Invent new dishes, served an iceâ€" cream sandwich to her ciub one afterâ€" noon last winter which "brought down the houge." She called it an Orientai Melange and served it on her red Japanese plates The cake part was "Wasn‘t that the best stuff?" one | The top shef is covered with |creamy oileloth with a cute little scal !loped edge hanging over the shelf. In ‘each scallop a motif from her wa‘!l | paper has been pasted for decoration. | There is a row of hat boxes clong this ‘lwâ€"l-* covered . with the wall lpl]gcr."_ Thm lidless, however, a‘nhg are. just . upside down. on {Mign‘kr hats. Such a comfortâ€" ‘IMG and convenient way to keep the ‘hats from dust. . Several shoe boxes, |\ covered with the rosy paper, one on !top of the other, hold shoes she does ! not wear often. Not many gir‘s I know dare to fiing open their closet doors with the freeâ€" dom that Molly does. Most of the closets I have seen would not stand inspection. But Mo‘lly‘s is just as neat and pretty as her littia pink room. She toi‘s me she has specialized on that closet untit it holds every single bit of her wardrobe in the most atâ€" tractive way. REFRESHMENTS THAT ARE DIFFERENT That sounds strange, for the birds gt:gxmg 0 54 d 2354 .. d cocniii ind are gone in some sections and going , inches. j : in others. But now is the time to| If you have a‘camera you C study them. Here‘s a starter, When | the birds into taking '»!\8‘!‘ ow winter clamps down, secure a piece of graphs. .m‘ Cl‘; be Cone “’Y_ suet and p.ace this in the forks of a [ p e that some lit tree, or around the outside of the| "!* light on it, or on a padd!: house, shed or barn, and wire or tie it}“,l triggemike to the string firmly. Then watch it! Suet is ..‘:'mlr! Yoz h:vu a phorograj rewwe 4 ‘truly proud of. . â€" great institution to make bm‘_l frlgnfa.‘ 7 the Hifes Abamndw is A CLOSET CLOSEâ€"UP You‘ll have lots of sport. Count the birds that wi‘l come for ‘that suetâ€"the different kinds. And if you are gente, before spring you can have a picture of© yourse‘i and some bird, so close together that it will be a lifetime joy If you want more sport, build a window box with a sa‘fâ€"sash aloping top and solid bottom which sticks out about eighteen inches, and solid slopâ€" ing sides. Leave front and back open. Screw the box to a window sil} away from prevailing winds. Open a winâ€" dow, throw on the bottom of the box crumbs, scraps of meat and green vegetables Cose the window and stand back in the room and watch what happens. The g‘lass top will expose every bird. j same birds and the; You‘ll make rousing good pale in a that they know you. few weeks. | curious than humana. Botter allow a landing place for the; time to study birds, little fiyers; this can be done by a winrter.â€"E. Roy. =,_ BY ANNE KIURORN COLE is the tims to study birds! jsh.ort piece WINTER FUN WITHOUT A GUN BY JANE HE MMINXGWAY. hho,lw fluflywl‘ocnb‘tht,go‘.bn 1 s as ya.low nm.udmfioth!n And slices of this was a siice of venilla ice mlm On top â€"was a spoonful of ver, | whipped cream, a whole preserved figl :.m‘mdncpoonldofthosywplnwhioh; ut it the figs were preserved. Iced tu,{ w is| sweetened with raspborry jam while | hot and fAavored with whole cloves, "one| made just the right accompaniment. rode A nut bread sandwich made of .,-gy,|cmmdnusndph-vph.mwdfikoa |; club sandwich, is another excelent :â€"s-u'mp“t, din.h. Serve with hot tea. that! A fruit saled is a very popular * : salad for a party. To make one that at it | i; different, use a ripe or canned pear !@#®â€" | for each guest. Peel, core and marinâ€" *® ®: ate in French dressing. Then lay :::tp them in a shallow plate in a littie hthh.‘w"y or strawberry syrup until *‘ one side is colored red. This can be Ihook on the closet door. Afso on the ta 1\4 tm cesnnd t, | _ If you have a camera you can trick n | the birds into taking their own photoâ€" . ; graphs. This can be con» by rigging I o rad e m on oC ily ts ~ cdnaid upper half of the door is a handy little device that she has made herse‘f. It is a hinged strip of wood sixteen inch es long with a row of smal} brass screw eyes along the bottom. The hooks of coat hangers go through the eyes, each hoiding a blouse, sweater or other short garment. I‘ll Your ~easyâ€"going, pleggantâ€" fellow isn‘t going to get thereeas fast as the man who grits his teeth, knits his brows and holds,his muscles tense, A series of psychologleal tests recently was tried on persons while they were gripping a dynamometer, a pair of hand grips with meter attuched, lt:d sitting In relaxed positions, The re sults showd that persons can think much better and faster when their muscles are under tension, A considerable epidemic of influenza in Sootland during the three months ending June 30 had an influence on the death rate, as it indicated in the quarterly report of the births, deaths and marriages in Scotland. Deaths l e COigiae. # 1 o ‘up a string so that soms litte chap \will light on it, or on a padd!s attachâ€" led triggzrike to the string. Then bing! You have & phoiograrh to be ‘truly proud of. .« _ By the time the snow is off the| ground and the bluebirds are arriving ; and the robins are gradually working| their way north, you wiX be bird hur.-‘ gry and you‘" be wanting to build bird | houses and bird baths, and will take a | | great joy in noting the habits of these| litt‘e feathery tourists. | |_ Then you"l see what I‘m driving at.| _ And that is to get you to keep your | . ears and eyes open, your mouth closed,| ard learn what the birds do and how \they do it If you will sit down at | the foot of a tree, of in the brush, and {be vory étiilâ€"and by that I mean ‘sti‘â€"\â€"ths birdg will wonder what | you‘re “pu'.-’.i: o&" and they‘l start ‘} all manner of antics to make you | move. And if you folow this several |times in the same spot you"!l see the short piece of lath or other material sticking out from the floor a few inches. {:&; bâ€"l‘!dl&d they‘l} convince you that they know you. Birds are more | curious than humana. ~rove it! The e UnAE AKE EL Face An Au â€"thk Is That All? £ "Give me just one kiss and that‘s all Men Think Better Under Strain Well then nothing doing." © This is a problem which every mothâ€" er h&s to deak with at one time or anâ€" otherâ€"other peop.a‘s children. Your own boys and girls are within your knowledge, amenable to the rules of your making, their actions, in a measâ€" ure predictable, but those other chilâ€" dren who come to the house after school or on Saturdays, going from room to room with wide, inquisitive eyes, using strange sang, sugpgesting wild, unaccustomed gamosâ€"4t is eviâ€" dent that they have been trained by an entinely different set of rules or by none at all. It was when the chi‘dren started school and began picking up a wider acquaintance that this problem of other people‘s children first came to vex me. Then I gave the matter a good dea} of serious consideration. To solve it in a tactful, goodâ€"natured way â€"that was what I wanted to do. TORONTO It was a.} wrong, I knew, for my house to be so rudely overrun, upset and demoralized by such unrestrained, and often destructive hilarity. Not abways cou‘d I be at home to check its progress. Nor was it right th a guardian should be necersary When people sojourn in a foreign country, I reasoned, they come under the jurisdiction of that country. And, surely, it should be the same with boun'hold- and rules of houschokis The children who came into my home to enjoy its privileges, its attractive games and books, should be amenable, while there, to the same rules that governed my own children. _â€""And that," thought I, "is a ruls that works both ways." So, in the first place, I told my chilâ€" dren that when they went into other homes they should propose nothing that was contrary to the rules of the "And," I added with some foresight, "if thero soem to be no rules, act a~ cording to the ones we have here at home and you won‘t be very far from Then, #o as to bave everything perâ€" fect‘y clear and wellâ€"defined in my own litt‘e democracy, the children and I made a list of rwles which I typed in capita‘s and placed consplenously on the kitchen wall. Here are some of them : _ ‘""When not at the diningâ€"room tab‘e, a‘l eating mugt be done in the kitâ€" l *"(‘éan hands for cloan books." "Fecet must be kept off upho‘stered chair seats." * "Rough games to be played outâ€"ofâ€" Of course &here were others, but all partaining to those litte niceties of behavior that make our children more comfortable to live with and require from ‘thim on‘y & little ordinary thoughtfuiness. ‘ I was rather doubtful as to how th« children of the nsighborhood mich jlook upon my bulletin of rules, but th idea appealed to them immense‘y. | reemed as if they actualy liked i betterâ€"this knowing jusi,. ecxact what was expected of them. They wor not driven away, but cam> as the would to a wel <conducted c‘ub, h: haved decorously, and even sug@gest other rules now and then as occasio . My experience is that children, ge: brally, would rather be decont thas othe rwise :nd will behavd wel if the way is n clear and reasonab‘e. sedmed to demand. _ ~ Salt Production. * In 1925 the produwction of salt in (Con ada exceeded all previous records : cording to final figures isened by (h= Dominion Bureau of Statisties,. Sh); ments during the year totalled 233.750 tons as comparned with 207,979 tons produced in 1924 The production Ontario amounted to 226,315 ton> . 97 per cent, of the total; Nova Scot‘s and Alberta contributed the roma der. The year‘s shipment of 833 (tons from Alberta came from Fort McM=: ray district,. where development we in M infustry has been carriod ‘On mw‘m..”fllr Nova Bootia‘s pt on gonuiu'M f sab mined at Malagash, OTHER PEOPLE‘S Cloth From Grasses. The secret of turning tropical gr«s s as and other Abrous substances inio elothes to wear is belicved to have been so‘ved by Dr. Dinshaw Nanji, of Birmingham _ University, _ England (Chemicd1 probesses are sald to have \been porfected for separating the !flbqrs from the raw imateriale and pre | pering them for spinnivg. The fah:stcs, ‘if commerctally suscessiul, may take itbo place of cotton in the regions "hou large supplies of grasses ar» |available. it is thought that new and | interssting materials may be develop _ ed for wearing spparel and for other Harvesting operations were slopp« by a swarm of bees in a fleld on t1 farm of Mudball, Dyke, near Fores Scotland. Men and horses were sove: ly stung. The animale reared a: plunged, and great difficulty was « perienced in releasing them from t shafts. The condition of the hors hbecame so serious that a veterina surgeon had to be summoned. (;n:ud every four we@ih. â€"_ 1608 Madrid Shaves its Dâ€"undards. Madrtd has a law by which habitmal BY ALICE A. KEEN, S aft Bess Stop Harvest right that such V® opped n thie the