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| & "When all wisa men have failed why not try an honest fool?"â€"Hondrik Van Should the lantern be upset by a sudden blow, the sand will often put out the flame before any harm is done. The first carols werse religious but gradually became debased into drinkâ€" ing songs. ‘The chorus of one of the most popular ran, "Hail, good wassail, hail to thee, honored ever shalt thou be." This not only keeps the lantern steady, but, in case of fire, causes the bottom to separate from the paper, and so make less blaze in the air, For safety‘s sake, a handful of sand or earth should be placed in them, around the little tin candleâ€"socket at the bottom. Chinese Lanterns Chinese lanterns are very effective for illumination purposes, but they are liable to catch fire, especially it used where any current of air can sway them. If you‘re good, With a windâ€"up bird that sings And a puzzle made ot rings, He will bring you many things If you‘re good. Santa Claus will come toâ€"night If you‘re good And do what you know is right Tarough But he‘ll c If you‘re As you should. Down the chimney he will creep Bring for you a woolly sheep, And a doll that goes to sleep, It you‘re good. Three cards, apples or other objects are placed in a row on the table. The spectators are asked to choose one of the three while the porformer is out of the room. Upon his return no one appears to make a sign, but the perâ€" former instantly names the chosen article. The trick is accomplished with the aid of a confederate who is smoking a cigar or cigarette. The confederate places his cigar in his mouth so that it designates the chosen Sainta Clau It is possible to lift a man from the ground with five fingers. Two perâ€" sous put their index fingers under the instops of the person to be lifted, two others place a finger under each elbow, and a fifth puts his forefinger under the man‘s chin. At a given signal each person lifts his hand and the subject is raised from the ground. This sounds impossible, but it is easily performed as follows: Lay a needle on a cigaretto paper and place It in a glass bow! of water. Carefully cause the paper to sink and the needlo will remain floating. ‘The performer of this trick takes a match in each hand and rests the hands palim upward, on the table. Then he closes the hands and asks someone to place a match upon the closed fists. The performer then announces that he is able to pass the match from one hand to the other without opening his hands. _ He makes a rapid upâ€"andâ€" down movement of both hands. This causes the two visible matches to fall on the table, and he asks for them to be replaced on top of his knuckles. This is done, and another quick moveâ€" ment is made so as to cause the two exposed matches to fall into the hands. The performer then opens his hands and one hand is found to contain three matches and the other only one match. The secret of this trick is that when he let the two matches fall on the table they were not the two from top of the knuckles of each hand, but one from the knuckles and one from the palm of the same hand. The next movement caused one knuckle match ‘ to fall into the palm of the hand, so | that, unseen by the audience, one palm ' contained two matches and the other| was empty. | _ Tricks For the Christmas Party Naming a Choson Object If You Ars To Make a Needle Float » A Clever Match Trick To Lift a Man AND JEFFâ€" By BUD FISHER und this way ve his sleigh, Christmas bells aro ringing evoryâ€" where toâ€"night, And the snow is falling, pure flakes of white. Hang your stocking up, dear, Christmas time is here, Then drift away to sleep Before St. Nicholas doth appear. â€"(By Member No. 1 of the Boys‘ and Girls‘ League), Candles are more decorative than lamps, although they cannot be said to produce the same excellence of illumâ€" ination. But both lamps and candles have thoir different tasks to perform. Speaking of glitter, frosted messages on mirrors are extraordinarily effecâ€" tive, Whitening mixed with saits proâ€" vides a reliable paint with which to work the oracle. Lamps are also suited to similar treatment, which results in the proâ€" duction of a lovely seasonable glitter. It is never too early to begin devisâ€" ing plans for the Yuletide decorations of our homes. Color and comfort are the first essentials for success. Holly and mistletoe, of course, are preâ€"eminâ€" eut in the scheme. Hollyred is a fine provoker of exâ€" citement,. Mistletoegreen is restful and adds to our stores of energy. Make sure of buying both holly and mistleâ€" tos during the early days of December. Never leave the buying later, as they certainly loso freshness. Tinselâ€"twine adds a distinctive charm it it is lightly hung around holly. One thing should be kept in our minds. Place these evergreens so that they will be well out of the way of uaked lights, Such procedure mitiâ€" gates any dangers of fire. A Trick With Coins Lay a dime between two quarters on a tablecioth, then placea tumbler on the two larger coins. Ask your friends it they can remove the dime without touching in any way either the glass or the coins. They will probably give up the attempt before long, but it is really very easy to do when you know ‘how. All you need to do is to scratch the tablecloth with your forefinger, and the dime will move in the direcâ€" ‘tlon of the scratching. ; Nothing more is needed to accomp lish this trick successfully than a lens to focus the rays of the sun, which pass through the glass without heatâ€" ing it and burn the thread. The Button in the Bottle For this trick you will require a clear glass bottic, a button, a piece of thread, and a cork. Tie the button securely to the thread, place it in the bottle so that it hangs haliâ€"way down, attach the other end of the thread to the cork, and cork the bottle tightiy, Now how can you sever the throead <o that the button falls to ths bottom of the bottle* The bottle must not be uncorked or broken. ’ Cut String Restored A loop of string is held between the thumb and fingers, and a member of the audience is allowed to cut it with a knifo. The performer chews the cut ends of the string and they are reâ€" stored. The trick is done with a short bit of extra string. The extra piece is hbld protruding from the thumb and fingers while the actual loop itself reâ€" poses safely in the hand. When the false loop is cut the performer thrusts the loop and two loose ends into his mouth,. !He retains the two bits of atring 1 hrings out the loop comâ€" pletely rostored. ‘ Catch the Coins Two coins are placed on the back of the performer‘s right hand. ‘The trick is to toss the coins in the air and to catch one at a time as they come down. If the coins are tossed straight up it will be almost impossible to catch them singly, The coins are tossed with an upward tilt of the hand, This causes the coin at the fingerâ€"tips to travel much higher than the other, and it will prove quite easy to grab them one at a time as they fall. With more practice the trick can be done with three coins. article, being cither at the left side, right side or centre of his mouth. Christmas Color Schemes When the electric bulbs on the tree are lighted, it will be a pretty sight. But when the two large electric fans which have been placed on each side of the tree are turned on full force, the effect will be mazical, for the whole treae will be alive with flickerâ€" ing glint and fairy flutter, "I‘ll accept jazz it it‘s honest, not a steal from a classic.‘â€"John Philip Also string all the bright glass butâ€" tons and beads you can find, and decorâ€" ate the tree with theso fringes also. Begin some time before Christmas to collect all the white and silver paper possible, and cut it in fringes. These may be (in fact, should be) of varied lengths from a few inches to two feet, and they need not be very even. Gather these into small bunches with thread and tio them in the tree in great profusion. For Your Tree You will like to make these trimâ€" mings for the tree and they will be very inexpensive, because practically none of the materials used need be now, It‘s interesting in wineâ€"red canton crepe or in black crepe satin. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write yuur nam» and address piainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. It‘s snappy developed in woolen with the skirt of plain brown and the jacket bodice of brown and red plaided woolen, The crossover bodice closure miniâ€" mizes breadth, which makes this charming model equally suited to miss or matron. The original used black diagonal woolen for the skirt with vivid green plain woolen for the bodice. It‘s a combination especially popular for college wear. Style No. 3203 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Size 16 requires 2% yards of 39â€"inch material for blouse and 2 yards of 39â€"inch material for skirt. An interesting peplum jacket dross that may be developed as a skirt and blouse or as a complete dress, by choosing one material, Ilustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furâ€" nished With Every Pattern Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINCGTON What New York What is it to be "spiritâ€"filled"? It is to have a thoroughâ€"going belief in a holy and loving God who is alive and active in our everyâ€"day world, and who works out his purposes through us. Once a man discovers that he is a partner with God in an ultimately victorious enterprise, religion ceases to be just keeping from doing bad things. He throbs with an overflowâ€" ing optimism and joy which we, in this day, call "enthusiasm." The Spiritâ€" _ If that is his attitude toward us, then we must have a similar attitude toward his othsr childrenâ€"who are our Srethren, v. 11. III. TH® PROOF OF THE SPIRIT‘S PRESâ€" ENEE, 1 John 4; 12â€"16. Spiritâ€"{lled peogle are the arguâ€" ment that proves God‘s existence. _ Why was this vicarious suffering necessary? Life is full of it, yet we do not understand it. This, however, we know, as Henry Sloane Coffin says, "Men of religious insight in various faiths had discovered this strange principle in life, that the innocent suffer with and for the guilty, and that the voluntary selfâ€"offering of the good for the evil reconciles the comâ€" munity with God and works righteousâ€" ness." Calvary is the overwhelming proo. that God is Fatherâ€"love. _ "God proves his love for us by this," says Paul, "that Christ died for us while we were yet simuers," Rom. 5: 8. Jesus took on his own conscience the sins of countless others and off >râ€" ed himself in sacrifics, v. 10. _ _ Du.‘ng his life on earth, Jesus taught men to think of himself and God as similar in kind. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," John 14: 9. Then, in his death he demonâ€" strated that love wis willing to forâ€" give to the uttermost and was so Aer .ined to redeem that it persisted «ven to the ultimate sacrifice. That was the crowning proof of God‘s love for men, Those who came in contact with Jesus found their lives immeasurably enriched and ennobled. So different were they from their old selves that the ong way in which they could deâ€" scribe the change was to say that they were "born again." This new life which they saw in him, and some of the quality of which they gained themselves, they never thought of as a mere human achievement, but as something which they had received. The coming of Jesus "was not merely the gathering tugether in one personâ€" ality of possibilities that had lain dormant in the history of his race, but "a direct enterprise of God" for the enlightenment and salvation of ‘he world."â€"John Baillie. It gave rise to the sentiment in the hearts of Chrisâ€" tians everywhere "not of pride and selfâ€"congratulation at something our race has produced, but rather gratiâ€" tude at something it has received. We are moved, all of us, not te appla1d, but to kneel; not to clap our hands in admiration, but to fold them in worship, Jesus was God‘s gift to men. "In this was manifested the love of j God toward us," v. 9. I What are the mark« of a Christian? Among many others, one answer has usually been prominentâ€"and freâ€" 3uently the first in importance, orthoâ€" oxy. Not so does the New Testaâ€" ment teach us. ‘Love is the true orthoâ€" doxy. It is the central and determinâ€" ing guality in the character of God. Only the man with love in his heart is a child of God. II. THE PROOF OF FATHERHOOD, John 4: 9â€"11. Love as the mark of a child of God follows from the fact that God himâ€" self is love. That quality of God was demonstrated to us by the coming into this life of his son, Jesus of Nazarceth. “Igmnuc'nouâ€"This letter _ was probably written by the apostle John about A.D. 9). Its main object was to ufefua.rd its readers lflinst cerâ€" tain false teachers. It tells of the revelation of God which came in Jesus of Nazareth, and what it meant for those who follow him. I. THE PROOF OF SONSHIP, 1 John 4:7â€"8. ANALYSIS. I. THE PROOF OF SONSHIP, 1 John 4:7â€"8. II. THE PROOF OF FATHERHOOD, John 4: 9â€"11. III. THE PRoOF OF THE SPIRIT‘S PrESâ€" ENCE, 1 John 4; 12â€"16. IV. 'miz'rv{.;mAm SECURITY, 1 John 4: SUNDAY SCHoolâ€"Dec. 4.â€"Graham December 20. Lesson Xiiâ€"The Suâ€" preme Gift of Love (Christmas Lesson)â€"1 John 4: 7â€"19. Golden Textâ€"Beloved, if God so luved us, we ought also to luve one another. â€"â€"1 John 4: 11. ONTARIO ARCHIVES ' TOROoNTO "My reputation, such as it is, is based on the fact that I never talk unâ€" less I havo something to say."â€"George Bernard Shaw., stem, T But every cottage shall a manger be, And every English village Bethichem. â€"Phyllis Hartuoll, But, bright upon our darkness, heraldâ€" ing. The eternal Incarnation, burns a star. For not in time alone the mystery Of heavenly blossom on an earthly The village sleeps toâ€"night; no angels sing, No wiso men, bearing &ifts, come from Came, with a star to guide their stumbâ€" ling feet, To where His Mother worshipped with a kigs. And hurrying from the fields and dowa the street, A villago street as rough and steep as Surely on such a night, when skies were clear, The clarion trumpet called: Be not afraid! And shepherds, crouching to the ground in fear, Ffeard that their Lord was in a manger laid. Riding above the hill‘s dark height, the moon Touches the earth with her white wizardry, And alt the Milky Way is tinselâ€"strewn With stars like candies on a Christmas tree, The swinging bells have settled now to silence, And from the byre there comes the muflied sound Of restless beasts that, weary, shift their balance, Kneeâ€"deep in rustling straw on trodâ€" den ground. Only as God‘s love is expressed through human lives does it come to its completion, v. 12. The Word must be made flesh in order *3 come to ts finished work in the salvation of men. IV. THE ULTIMATE SECURITY, 1 John 4: 17â€"19. The experience of God‘s forgiving love kills within the sinner the desivre for the old, bad way of living. He turns with enthusiasm to God‘s way of living. Instead of being against God and therefore afraid of judgment, he is now with God, and therefore looks to the future with glad expectaâ€" tion. Perfect love has cast out fear by swallowing up the cause of it, filled Christian is the "enthusiastic‘ Christian. "Enthusiastic" _ means s.mply "God in one." _ f Chas. Lindbergh declined John D. Rockefeller‘s invitation to go to church, when fog caused him to land at Flagler Beach, Florida. Instead he spent Sunday overâ€" hauling his plane, Christmas Eve Maybe It‘s a Bag of Peanuts, Old decays but foster new creations, Those who can suffer, can dare. Pain is no evil unless it conquers us, God doth not own unwilling service, Lift is too short for mean anxieties, Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work. Santa Claus is another name for Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children. His day is December 6th. His association with Christmas began when Christmas presentâ€"giving came into fashion. Christmas cards were about one hundred years The French Santa Claus is dressed like a Harlequin lnithe old pantomime, Instead of stockings, Belgian childâ€" ren put out their shoes for Santa Claus to fill, There are two Christm; one in the Pacific and one dian Ocean, Currants are m variety of small grapes, dried. The name is our corâ€" ruption of "Corinth"â€"where they grow most abundantly.â€"Titâ€"Bits (Lonâ€" don), via." They grow in a hard sieii Mt the size and shape of a child‘s head, and each shell contains about fifty nuts. Dates, from Arabia and Persia, grow on the dateâ€"palim. The name is deâ€" rived from the Greek word "dactylos," meaning finger, Dates, before being pressed, look exactly like human finâ€" gers, and the resemblance still reâ€" mains in those you buy. "Brazils" are from Brazil, They are the produce of a tree called the "juâ€" When you buy your Christmas supâ€" plies of currants, raisins, figs, Brazils, or dates, do you ever wonder where they come from light And sleep like top! Good night! Good night! â€"A. B. Cooper in "Titâ€"Bits", London. hitch, â€" For you can be quite sure that I Will pass no decent kiddie by. Now, off you go at once upstairs, And don‘t forget to say your prayers, And, when they‘re said, switch off the clothes, Or start too soon to dust your nose, And don‘t tell tales or be a sneak, Or I‘ll not call on you next week! But, there! I‘m only warning you What to avoid and what to do, But, if you rise to concertâ€"pitch, On Christmas Day there‘ll be no And do the things you ought and should, And help your mothers all you can To scrub the floor and fryingâ€"pan, And stir the pudding good and hard, And don‘t forget the spice and lard, And see that you don‘t soil your raing, Avd make his clothes one mase of stains, Or be a greedy little pig, Or thump a schoolmate not so big, Or stick a pin into the chair Of Auntie Jane when she‘s not there, Or fail to love his dog and cat, And wipe his shoes upon the matâ€" For if he does these things I‘ll not Come down his silly chimneyâ€"pot! And you, dear girls, take care you‘re And, what with age and a nasty cold, My voice has not that robust tone Best suited for the microphone. Yet, it you‘ve paid your wireless dues I‘ll try to state my candid views, Of Christmas Norch Pole Vocal News! Well, firstly, I must tell you that, I know you allâ€"Joan, Jane, and Pat, ‘Tom, Bob, Matilda, Betty, Dick, Maria, Bertie, Mary, Mickâ€" And, secondly, your faults as well Upon my fingers I can tell; And go, for one short week at least, No boy must be a little beast, And pinch his sister‘s lollipops 3 And fail to share his acidâ€"drops, ‘ Or tell a cramme» to papa, Or say "I shan‘t‘ ‘to dear mamma, Or splash through puddles when it Santa Claus Calling! Britain‘s Least Hallo! Hallo! all children dear I‘m Santa Claus; hark! can you hear? I‘ve not yet started from the Pole To give each child my yearly dole, And so my voice has far to go O‘er seas and lands of ice and snow; Besides, I‘m getting pretty old, THOUGHTS FRoM KingsLey Christmas Fruits two Chylutmu Islands, Li first seen in the Inâ€" Wfiu ~-‘ ;t“l r Cannot conceive qu + al..' Of more unassuming, They are the ‘exg and perfect emblems of uisite and hml’ ID Ilas. ca 1. nees Memitie, ,;_ _ Bs of lor and beumility in high station, of 'hitc r’uhll * .w., ht h“ the P WVEAP Sn w ar_ 20 3 .. CCC " HaAnCLe _ The Indians of Canada engaged in farming produced in 1929, according to the Department of Indian Affairs, the following quantities of graing, roots, and fodder: wheat, 463,408 bushels; oats, 589,620 bushels; other graing, 166,772 bushels; peag and beans, 24,. 022 bushels; potatoes, 295,626 bushels; other roots, 80,322 bushels ; cultivated hay, 37,010 tons; wild hay, 80,394 tons; other fodder, 24 570 +. ltwelook.gth ,Mhu of white robed u...._!"", _ ~e@ualizes +1, _"_ °O Satisfied. Night equalizes the condition of the Nsnr_gnd the monaren< 1.3 j . 0_ ""C YE of th 1 20 ET OR the _ imagina Rightly sky, Anytpis s C NatiOh cannot ~ conceleZ "O Do L "nPcauct To be comfortable, nothing ig necessary but our beds, ang when sleep Closas our eyeâ€"lids our wants are satisfied. Night equalizae «1. _" "*® _ 3/‘ **0 tons; wild hay, 80,394 tons; other fodder, 24,579 tons, NigHtT Night appears, ang anxiety â€" ang wretchednoss are suspended. To be comfortable, nothing ig necessary but Our. beds. ana _i. °4 "Answers" White society in Belize is pleasant and interesting, nor is the colour bar at all rigorously enforced against the native or mixed residents, among whom are many of the most influential and respected citizens, ‘There is plenty of work to be done, and plenty of play available, including hunting, fishing, trips to the pretty little bays (coral islands), visits to the talkies, card parties, dances, and so on. Never Known Before It is terrible to think of this quiet and charming little town being swept by hurricanes and tidal waves. Such things have hitherto been unknown in [tho memory of living man, and the place was utterly unprepared for such a disaster, The houses of the chief citizens are lightly built of wood on the very edge of the bay, and not more than a few feet above highwater mark. _ Inland thenunommtor-flu,ur is there any way of reaching the h er land save by boats, most of ':: Arouldtohuoboul-nhodby'h. tidal wave, But somehow even this shattering blovwmhfltobmktlol.lrlto(gd. lant little British Honduras, though it is disconcerting to learn that, almost onfluhoehottholdludhuuc.; great storm has wiped out the whole town of Lamasica, in Honduras "__ The interior is notorious for its poisonous snakes and an infinite variety of noxious fliles and ticks, There are also plenty of alligators and "tigers" (jaguars), but these are inâ€" finitely less troublesome than the "fies." In the large towns these nuisâ€" ances are seldom encountered. Worse Than Alligators The colony is still largely undevelopâ€" ed. It boasts neither roads mor railâ€" ways, transport being entirely by water, either along the coast (usually as calm as a lake within the protection of the bays and coral reefs) or up the numerous rivers which penetrate inâ€" land as far as the Guatemaian fronâ€" tier. There are many villages along these rivers, and several ports on the coast suitable for light craft; but apart from this the country is mostly jungle or open pasture land known as the "Pine Ridge." It is, indeed, a pleasant and interestâ€" ing town to live in. The natives, all Englishâ€"speaking, are descendants of West African slaves imported from Jamaica by the buccaneers who foundâ€" ed the colony 300 years ago. But they are amongst the most likeable, intelliâ€" gent, and industrious negroes in the world. Crops By Indian F The us ® n.-.‘.F.'_';.‘,"." Once decidedly a "White Man‘s Grave," Belize has long been immune from yéllow fevr, stringent sanitary regulations and a fine medical service having eliminated to a large extent the mosquitoes and land crabs which spread the infection. Nor is the cliâ€" mate particularly unpleasant, though it is hot and rather given to "wet seaâ€" sons." Keeping its End Up Nevertheless, the colony has some how managed to keep its end up very pluckily, The streets of the capital, Belize, were always, until the hburri« cane, bright, well built, and busy. The Government buildings were imposing; the place, is now AimoSL O"M"* * hogany, hewn inland and floated in rafts down the numerous rivers, is out of fashion. Tortoise shell,. sponges, and cane sugar have been largely superceded. Bananas have suffered from the "Pan ama Disease," and it is difficult to see what remains for this stricken colony beyond chicle (for chewing gum) from the sapodillia tree, and the numerous and excellent. tropical fruits which grow there in profusion. the police, judicature and Civil Serâ€" vice generally were very efficiently British Honduras, where the recent hurricane and tidal wave has caused such untold disaster, is one of the least known of Britain‘s Crown Colonies. Yet it has a position on the Central American isthmus, between Mexico and the Panama Canal, of potential strategic and commercial importance. At present, however, it has fallen on evil days. The logwood dye industry, which was the original staple trade of F . uit tif a . "lla l _ "_SSo > HOLp blessing which no o ®. mone (London), a Former in Honduras."â€" hok e is good #ri &ArC fa nsCT1 tr it Y hg b 1¢ €x J np #a lis thi con se« the the 42« of