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clare Forests and Life Migrated ‘ith Climate Growing er and Drier ene id AND ) sicep. The 10 night and When Mike ng but water, .o "Wake un W H dscape there NC o id i 1J ds st 1t at i , and Theie pical ind be M t I could not have been more than six years old when I .aw my first wild rose, growing in a Clay bank. There had been a shower not long before, so that the delicate leaves were coolly pearled; and exhaling from the foliage was the most deliciâ€" ous odor I bad ever smelled. $ I dearly love the wild columbine for at least two reasons: for its swaying delicate beauty; and for its blithe hardihood in growing out of wrocksâ€"like the loveliness of soul springing out of adversity. It reâ€" calls to me a certain meadow trout satream, and a prince of fishermen, Henry Van Dyke. It was tong my privilege to fish this stream with him; or rather, to watch him, the old master, which afforded me more pleasure than angling . myself. _ At a certain point along the stream the bank is high and rocky. _ There are dewberry vines ambling grcenly over the stones; there are hawthorn bushes; there are little white violets like babes in the woods. And there is wild columbine. Out of the rocks it . grows,. There will be a patch of soil not larger than the palm of one‘s handâ€"thin and starved. â€" But in this the columbine grows, sondâ€" ing its roots through cold forbidâ€" ding crevices in the rock. Howâ€" ever fast the fishing, 1 mnever saw Hoenry Van Dyke pass the swaying red chimes of the columbine withâ€" out pausing to worship unfeignedly at their delicate shrine. s Whenever I think of jasmine, I see oaks and holliese _ and sweetâ€"gums canopied with exquisite greenery of this delicately rioting vine, and I see starry saffron showers stayed in air. And the soringtime softly swings her censer in my heart. If you can‘t make love to a maiden With jasmine showers above; ‘Phere‘s no such thing as romance, There‘s no such thing as love! The great rose mallow is perhaps the most alluring of all wildâ€"flowâ€" ersâ€"partly Lecause it persists in growing in inaccessible places! It is the love we never meet; the hope we never realize. A rose mallow has always been to me a vision of beauty _ unattainable, having _ the glamour of sunsets in it, and the lure of sad seaâ€"horizons. The yellow jasmine is a child of the Southern forests; and a rejoicâ€" ing child it is, _ Its beauty and its fragrance are such that one could hardly imagine grace more refined. ty and fragrance. It peeps forth with starry eyes from layers of dead leaves, and is the first bloom of the spring to woo one to the woods. When the great gray spearheads of wild geese stream northward; beâ€" fore the woods are misty with tints of coming green; before there is a single songster heard in the forest, spring‘s darling recluse comes fraâ€" grantly forthâ€"as fair as hope, as sustaining to winterâ€"weary souls as fulfilments of love‘s promises. Ever since that experience â€"I‘ve been far less sure of the originality and the loneliness of my feelings. The arbutus grows closer to the earth than any other flower fo beauâ€" While 1 was admiring the snowy immaculate bloom, sailing idly, and perhaps imagining that the _ other houseâ€"guests, _ whose frivolities I had fled, wou‘id not have thus wanâ€" dered to admire a lily,â€"behing me sounded a step. Turning, I faced the chief reveler. What coult he be doing down here* He spoke for himsebM. "How did you find my lily?" he asked, "This is my fourth visit to hor. ‘oo bad she can‘t just sail Away as she wants to; just â€" like people â€" anchor*d â€" to the _ mud. What ?" 1 once had a rather memorable ex. perience with a waterâ€"lily. T1 had been at a houseâ€"party, and, to be frank, I had tired oi the company wne morning and had gone for a walk alone in the woods. _ Here I found a tiny pond, and on it a single perfect waterlily, Little gusty fra. Erant airs out of the forest made its gleaming chalice slide veeringly on the black water. It seemeq yearn. ing for wings. Nature Says It With Flowers ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE in "America Porests" . and on it a single Little gusty fra. the forest made its slide veeringly on AND JEFFâ€" By BUD FISHER Doris was right, The way to go wildflowering is not to gather them, but to love them, to leave them, and to bring their beauty home in one‘s heart One day in that delicious season when the rosebays were in bloom, I had gone into a shadowy glen to see the pink and snowy blooms, glimâ€" moring in the fragran; woods above a crystal cascade. On my way back, just at sundown, I met a little mounâ€" tain girl, Doria Boone, whose people I knew well. Though only seven years old, she had her share of work to do, and now was driving a cow ahead of her up the mountain path It was just that deep hour when a huge and thoughtful silence trances the world. ;rolâ€". liké ieavlng them _ where they are? I allug leave thom." "You been lookin‘ at the rhododâ€" endrons, ain‘t you?" she asked, I admitted it. "Which do you like best?" she asked, looking up at me while her bare toes played in the sandâ€""do you like pulling the flowers, or do My friend, as was â€" natural, saw the cool flames of the cardinalis first. _ Then he looked away to the tiny Sherwood _ that the _ maidenâ€" hairs made. _ His eyes were rested, his _ spirit _ calmed. Who _ denies miracles? _ We stayed till sundown; and from that time of communion with natural beauty and peace my friend began what proved to be a complete recovery The road dipped into a dewy hol. low. On one side was a noble growth of oaks and hickories, under which stood a fairy forest of maidâ€" enhair ferns, On the other side was a mountain meadow stretching away under massive scarlet oaks to the distant mountain stream,. I saw the crimson turrets of tall cardinalis. Between the ferns and the scarlet towers I stoppeq the car. I pointed out nothing to him, for the beart rejoices more in making its own discoveries of beauty. ‘ One of the most startling and at the same time beautiful wildâ€"flowers in all nature is the regal cardinalis â€"the bloom that, in damp woodâ€" lands, lifts its gorgeous red spire sunward, seeming to carol a scarlet madrigal. Where nothing obstructs the view, its crimson spire can easâ€" ily be seen for a distance of 200 yards. And its presence invests the wood with a princely charm,â€"as if royalty were approaching. There is about the beauty of this flower the ceremony of loveliness, a rite of splendor. One day in late June a friend and I were driving up a mountain vale The day was cloudy, but I had chosen to bring this comrade out beâ€" cause he was depressed, and the aspect of the hillsy and the unstainâ€" ed beauty of the little dells beside the road would, I knew, heal his heart if anything could. It was in my ming to stop beside some scene of beauty, and let nature‘s . quiet loveliness do its work. And my chance came. Wildfilowers do not as a rule take kindly to civilization. I have tried transplanting and improving arbutus, ladyslipper, _ chicory; _ black.eyed Susan, and many others. But they pine for homeâ€"for the sweet wildâ€" erness of nature. Chicory shows a heavenly blue in the starved upland pasture; but when set in rich soil, fertilized, and otherwise peter, it went to stem ang coarse leaves, The blossoms were few and inferior. It could not stand prosperity. Per. haps it comes to perfection as long as it is anybody‘s flower; Iif we try to appropriate it, its charm fails. "What did the judge do to that young man who stole the dictionâ€" ary ?" "He gave him a long sentence to work out." plained that the loave; gi:é red that the â€"fragrance came the pink blooms; how surâ€" us, alone, they lad cried in Egyptâ€" the language of despair, of contentâ€" ment with the secondâ€"best; let us alone, cried the demon possessed in the synagogue st Capernaum (Mark 1: 24)â€"the ceaseless language of sin. They were indeed in despeiste straits. Before they was the Red Sea, behind t.em the Egyp*ian army. They could go neither forward nor backward. All retreat was cut off. They were faced with nothing but: destructioaâ€"or God! All through the Bible the Egyptians appear to have been a fickle and unâ€" reliable people. Isaiah scornfully re fers to them as "this broken reed," Isaiah 36: 6. _ No sooner had the Israelites left Egypt than the Pha.â€" aoh, true to the unstable character of h‘s race, regretted that he had perâ€" mitted them to go. After all, the Israciites were very useful; they had made excellent slaves. A division of the Egyptian armyâ€"chariotry, cay alry and infantry (v. 9)â€"were disâ€" patched to turn them back to bondage. It is likely thai this army comprised simply the garrison force stationed on the borders of Goshen to observe and control the movements of nomadic tribes. The Israclites, seeing that they were pursuied with a wellâ€"equipâ€" ped foree, lost heart. They began to upbraid Mosesâ€"the first of their many murmurings against his leaderâ€" ship. Was it not a mistake, they askâ€" ed, to make this dash for frsedom? Did not slavery in Egypt, severe though it was, offer relative security? Better a secondâ€"best like slavery than this sure and awful destruction! Let iito the wilderness they went, God himself guiding them with a pillar of cloud by day snd a pillar of fire by right. It is difficult to follow their course with an; degree of certainty: they were not trained in the nice proeâ€" cisions of modern geography. At any rite they reachcd the Red Sea (or Sea 0 Rushes, as the Bible calls it); though at what point they touched the R.4 Seaâ€"whether the Gulf of Akaba, or the Gulf of ©vez, or Lake Timsach â€"it is perhaps impossible t » say. Here they were to see "the arm of the Lord revealed." I. sTRAITENED! vs. 10â€"12. InTronuctionâ€"The passage of the Red Sea was regarded by Israci itseli a. the most important eveat in their history. Men of later genc ~‘ ons, prophets and psalmists, refer:«d to it again and again. It was truly a waterâ€" sked in their history. Before it they were a band of spiritless slaves; after it tuey were CGod‘s triumphant freeâ€" men. Let us est our glance briefly backwards. Under the last awful visiâ€" tation of God, the destruct‘on of the _rstborn, Pharaoh‘s heart at last yielded. The israelites were permitâ€" ted to leave; indeed, the Egyptians were glad to see the last of them. Out I. sTRAITENED! vs, 10â€"12. II. MoSsES‘ CONPIDENCE, vs. 13, 14. III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22 July 24. Lesson IVâ€"The Deliverance at the Red Seaâ€"Exodus 14: 10â€"16, 21, 22. Golden Textâ€"The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation â€"Exodus 15: 2. A plunge into the sea of matrimony will be taken by Mickey Riley and Georgia Coleman, two of America‘s leading divers. _ They‘re going to wait until after the olympic games, though. ANALYSIS Olympic Romance The rod, which Moses was bidden to lift up over the sea, had been given him by God at his call (4: 2); Moses had called it "th rod of God," 4: 29. A man of God, like Moses, was acâ€" credited with having extraordinary power. It was the power of God‘s Spirit dwelling mightily in him. This power was thought to be mediated through his clothes or through his staff. Elisha parted the waters of Jordan with the mantle of Elijah (2 ings 2: 12) ; Gehazi attempted to raise the Shunammite‘s son with the staff of Llisha, 2 Kings 4: 31. When Moses stretched out his rod over the sea, it wheyed its Master. A later Psalmist has clothed the event with pootic imâ€" agery: "The sea saw him and fled," Psalm 114: 3. An explanavion of this even on more . aturalistic grounds is provided in v. 21â€""The Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night." On the basis of, this remark it is thought by some that the neck of the sea at this point was shallow as indeed is true of this Sea of Rushes as a whole, and that a furious wind biowing all right would have the unusual, but not altogether impossible, effect of driving the waters back, leaving the seabed comparativeâ€" 1 dry. It must be remembered that the Hebrews did not distinguish hbeâ€" tween the natural and the supernaturâ€" al. All natural phenomena were to them supernatural, for all were under the sovereign power of God and «‘!] exhibited his power. So the sacred historian recognized a natural causc, "a strong east wind," but, back of: this again, and controlling it for his own redemptive purpose, was God. Whatever the nature or explanation of the event, it was in any case the Lord‘s doing. Before his timid people, wellâ€"nigh paralyzed with fear, stood the lionâ€" hearted leader, Moses. Only the courâ€" ageous can inspire courage; and the cemfidence of Moses, begotten of faith in God, put keart into the people. "Here, as so often in the story," says Professor MacFadyen, "the lonely figure of Moses rises up in splendid contrast to the people about him. He saw more than the foe and the sea; ‘ne endured," as Heb. 11: 27 finely suys, ‘as seeing the Invisitle,‘ he saw one whom the winds and the sea must obey." "Stand firm," he said, "and se . the salvation of the Lord." It was obvious that human power could avail nothing; it was just as obvious that th» glorious passage of the Red Sea was an act of God‘s "strength made perfect in weakness." III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22. "Mr. A.â€""Well, I don‘t blame him." II. moses‘ CONFIDENCE, vs, 13, 14. Mrs. A. â€" "Tom, our physician wants to send me to a summer reâ€" sort for four weeks." died, The folks will say, around your bier: "He made a hit while he was here." Ang when you‘ve cashed your little string, And jay birds o‘er your bosom sing, The stranger pausing there to view The marble works that cover you, Will think upon the uselessness Of human worry and distress, So let the worry business slide, Live while you live, and when you‘ve Forgotien all for evermore. Gone all the sorrow and the woe That lived a hundred years ago. The grief that makes you scream Where are those _ worried beings now ? The bearded goat and festibe cow Eat grass above their moulded bones And jay birds call in strident tones. And where the ills they worried 0%er? today Like other griefs, will pass away, He suggeste sufferers from asthma after each a‘tack should write dowu everything the, did or ate on the preâ€" vious day. After several attacks, he said, it might be found that some food or deed appeared on < ery list and that its elimination would prove beneficial. the floor, And worried over this and that, Anga _ thought their <ares _ would squash them flat. A Quaint morsel of graveyard philosophy written about 1875. A hundred years ago or more Men wrung their hands and walked Asthma, he oxplained, was due in early stages to spasms in the small bronchioles, small tubes running from the two main branches of the windâ€" pipe to the lungs. Later it develops into continual spasms which lead to changes in the small tubes. In a paper read at the annualymeetâ€" ing of the Canadian Medical Associaâ€" tion, Dr. George C. Hale, of London, Ont., said inhalation of polien was one of the major causes of asthma. He named cating of ce«tair foods and the efMuvia and proteins of bacteria as others Polien Declared to be Cause of Dreaded Asthma If you are worn with city streets, Or choked with dusty fret, Ride down the road with Washington Match wits with Lafayette! I catch my breath! Across a field Of windâ€"blown silvery wheat, The wraith of Pocahontas glides On light elusive feet. It winds with many ; curve To cross a singing «iver, Where pale green _ wille Through field and wood and sleepy town, The road winds on its way, White drifting clouds against the trail, And tall marsh grasses quiver â€"By Florence Wilson Roper Dallas Texas Kaleidoscope, Pollenâ€"Pollen, the bugbear of hay fever sufferers, is now accused of causing asthma as well. I pass an orchard that has foamed To clouds of feathery pink; The air is thrilled with mating call Of thrush ang bobâ€"oâ€"link. My motor purrs in warm content, A rabbit scurries by, A drift of crows with lazy wings Climb up a drowsy sky. blue, Frail butterflies at play How still it is along the road, How most divinely stillâ€" The sunlit pattern of the leaves The shadows on the hill! Here gallant beaux in powdered wig And belles in ruffied gown, :1‘0 many a party, ball and rout, °0 many a party, ball and rout, Rode down to old Jamestown. I know a road Smooth surfaced as a floor, Was once the route of cavaliers In stately coach and four. The King‘s An Impassioned Outburst Of Oratory. many a bend and whose â€"ribboned willow _ fringes It requires a very clever tongue to get a foolish one out of trouble, Ottawa, Ont.â€"Imports of. anthraâ€" cite into Canada from Great Britain exceeded those from the United States in May, the first time in hisâ€" tory that this bappened in any one month, In May the imports from Britain were 170,967 tons ang from the United States 150,802 tons. In May, 1931, they were from Britain, 141,911 tons, and from the United States, 208,894. The summary of trade for May issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows that the balance with Great Britain was favorable to Canada by $3,743,681, and with the United States unfavorable by $10,â€" 888,007. For the _ twelve _ months ended in may the favorable balance was $32,891,398, contrasted with an unfavorable ‘balance _ of $77,737,551 for the previous period. The unfavâ€" orable balance with _ the United States was cut from $213,859,398 to $87,7 Faces are made beautiful by kind ness. It is a divine sculptor. A True Test A true tost of friendship: to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perâ€" fect silence without wearying of one another‘s company. Duty The thing which must be, must be for the best; God helps us to do our duty and not shrink, And trust Hs mercy humbly for the rest. Owen Meredith, Britain Heads List As Buyer of Anthracite The whole evolution of the ecoâ€" nomic pull of the world is gradually to increase the larger units, and 1 hope we may see in Europe a great change in the future, or it will be all up with European trade,. And if the dominions do not get into this closer economic union with us, I need not in this House and with this audience point out the economic dangers which, for those who value the emâ€" pire and the traditions of our race, lie between each different component part of the empire. . . . We have to remember there is no such thing as isolating yourself from world _ depression. Countries _ have tried _ itâ€"particularly _ the â€" United States. They tried to keep out other people‘s goods, and did infuence world conditions for a time, but ev on they cannot do it. Their distress toâ€" day and the disasters which huvo| overtaken themâ€"well, there is no country in the world which is sufferâ€" ing more. It may be beneficial from the standpoint of a single country to take measures to isolate itsel. 1t cannot be done by all of them. We must do all we can to break it down By Stanley Baldwin l (Lord President of the Council, in a House of Commons Speech.) | The great importance of this juncâ€" ture of the Ottawa conference is that‘ it comes at a time when we are defiâ€" nitely at the parting of the ways. It will be impossible for things to drift any longer. We have got to advance‘ in the direction of closer fiscal relaâ€"] tionship, or we have got to drift apart. There is no question about it. | LTBLYT8 Because she is said to be America‘s â€" oldest _ mother, Mrs. Nahâ€"Thleâ€"Tie, 109â€"yearâ€"old Apache Indian of Oklaboma, received a gold medal from the Federated Women‘s clubs. A Grave World Issue America‘s Oldest ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO | __"Not especially; we must admit it, leven at the cost of disâ€"belicving in [hyglene. And even in the most | unfavorable _ weather this â€" absurd |flshion does not congest the waiting rooms _ of the doctors. Must we doubt the future of the profession? ‘ "These silk stockings, these tow ‘shoes that the girlsâ€"not to mention | their eldersâ€"insist _ on wearing in llll weathersâ€"what an absurd fashâ€" | ion! ‘This is what the ladies with | the green hats say, and for once the | hygienists are forced to agree with ‘lhem. The hygienist foresees rhino. 'phlryngltls, sinus â€" trouble, bronchiat | catarrh, entoritis. Mercy! _ Don‘t 'you shiver with fear, No; nor with | cold either, _ Are these _ maladies ’mlly more common among women | than . mon? _ They are oftener a result Of dis case or temperament â€" than of ex posure, says a writer in the hygionic _page â€" of (Gringoire (Paris), signing \ himself "Doctor Gamma." _ 1Look at the modern woman, . with her silk stockings and low shoes!t Her grandmother wore woolens and furâ€"lined footâ€"wear. Keeping one‘s feet warm is largely an affair of ox. ercise and goog circulation , | _ Poor circulation and tight uniforms | froze many fee; in the trenches dur. i dng the war, he Asserts. We rona» "So low shoes are acquitted. How, then, is it that some people always complain of cold feet, no matter how warmly clad%* These persons alâ€" most always have blue hands and feet, cold and moist,. This may be due to disease of the heart or nerves, but it is oftener a symptom of & lymphatic temperament. _ Such perâ€" sons, despite their woolen stockings and their rubbers, _ can not avold cold extremities _ in winter, Nor colds, nor bowel troublesâ€"for their feet are bathed constantly in porâ€" spiration, and their lot is as sad as that of Pasteur‘s chickens. "Custom works â€" miracles Such the dictum of the good abbe, whe used to take walks barefoot in the dewy grass,. _ Me died of itâ€"on the day appointed by Providence. Exerâ€" clse and a good circulation protect one from cold. _ And it was noticed during the war that frozen feetâ€" often a serious matterâ€"were due to bad circulation, tight clothes, shoes warped by the wet, quite as often as the frozey mud of the trenches, "What shall we do if we have come into the world with this little infirmity* _ Stamp our feet rathor than hold them to the fire. . Change our #tockingsâ€" often. (%> barefoot in the bouse, or wear only lignt slip» pers. _ Replace warm baths by rub, bing. _ Aud take codâ€"liver ol in the "Let us consider the evidence. Colg feet favor infections and congestions True. Remember the experiment of Pasteur, who brought on cholora with chickens (they did not wear silk stockings) by keeping their feet in water. It has even been allegâ€" ed that cold footbaths may cause nosebleed, But _ despite our dow shoes, we have cold feet less than our grandmothers with their thick stockings, their fur.lined boots, and their hot soapstones when they woent to bed. winter." The food situ ous as the wat stuifls have to h soar. Some of | impelled by gen warding off dis free meals to has not been q distress adequa are in such stra ing their childr Cold Feet Caused By Diseass Not Climate At Bushire the authorities are makâ€" ing desperate efforts to cope with the gituation. Steamers bring 200 tons of drinking water each week from Moâ€" hammerah and Basra. The poor have been lucky to obtain small quantities of brackish water remaining in a fow deep wells or else the slopâ€"water of rich households. The municipality, however, is now endeavoring to distriâ€" bute free drinking water . Villages on the coastal plain have been completely abandoned and trav» elers report that over this wide anea not a living thing is to be seen. As long as two months ago the unfor» tunate villagers were forced to collect their chattels and drive their Aocks over the mountains to the loss parch» ed plateau of Central Persia, where their black tents now dot the counâ€" tryside. Even so, many are on the verge of starvation and they have lost half or more of the animals. the whole population is dependent on agriculture and thus suddenly finds itself penniless and deprived of every means of support, An effort is being made by the authorities and by a fow private persons to provide subsistence rations, but there is great privation for every one accompanied by an outâ€" break of thievery and highway robâ€" bery. Drought Causes Distress In Persia Drinking Water Lacking and and Crops Ruined Owing to Lack of Rain Bushire, Persiaâ€"At this port and along the Persian littoral of the gulf no Winter or Spring rains fell and in consequence there has been not only a total crop failure but famine and acâ€" tual lack of drinking water. Almost 0Cs not congest the waiting.â€" of the doctors. Must we e future of the profession? s consider the evidence. Colg r infeclions and congestions Remember the experiment situation is nearly as sori water shortage. All foodâ€" to be imported and prices of the leading merchants, gencrosity or the hope of â€"disturbances, are giving to the needy, As yel it m possible to relieve the quately and some paronts ldren he asserts. _ We read: _ stockings, these low and m that th he evidence, Colg and congestions the experiment ught on cholora Â¥ did not wear