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One woma * have all the 1 and machinery the has not a 'penurious, bi think. fences, destitution as paste, fine. lies and fane aff . modern. farm implements y require, while she ue 'no anc all ave; . Washi chine, a gasoline iron, a | m or other such tonsils about the house, She says her men are not unselfish or t they do not stop to There is complaint of lack of walks about the house, absence of poultry pot, dip it for an in- | sta water, untiesthe bag and turn it out on dish. Serve with a col t Serenity f { - communion? Al ! civilization brings many ad- tages in its train, it has the great | ault of tending to disrupt family in- | cou 'member has too many Fathers have business or > Heir a mestie " occupations; ' 1 ess, their education, social life. Su id Fa are right and these things | worthy in themselves, but they do not the | tend to weld the family. If members of a family will make it a rule to de- vote themselves for one hour in the week wholly to one anothér, the spirit | of family life will be quickened and strengthened. Often the members of a family pursue parallel courses that do mot intersect. It is mere platitude to point out that great events--travel, marriage, death, and the like--must inevitably cause disintegration. But 80 long as the family is together un-{ der one roof, the spirit:of union and common interests should be fostered. Conatlas Asbecitim, Oyava The Visitor: * What crime brought you here?' in Stripes: *'I burned down a fifty-dollur shed.' » Visitor: "Great Scott! We settlers burned down a million dollars ~ forests last summer and nobody said 'Boo!' "(Newspaper note; ""Bighty-five out of every hundred forest fires in Ontario during 1915 were caused by careless settlers. Unlike British Columbia and Quebec, settlers in this -- province have no supervision of their clearing fires during' the danger season.') worth _of Ontario's THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 13. * | 6. Discussion of this problem verse | of that Name is that it alone can be being impossible, we will simply ex- | brought as a warrant in prayer. An- pound the view that seems most suit- gels and man living and dead whis- able. Since the purpose of this pass-| per his name and are heard. age is to . commend humility by 11. The phrase, combined with that Christ's example, the central thought of verse 10, is taken over from Isa. must be that the earthly life of Jesus 45. 23 (compare Rom. 14. 11). Noth- ------ : was one in which self-assertion had ing could exceed the emphasis with . no part. He counted not his equality | which the prophet reserves this tri- Lesson VIL--Humbled and Exalted. | with God a reason for grasping what! bute to the one God. Paul appropri- Phil, 2. 1:11. Golden Text-- ihe was entitled to. He was always | ates it for Jesus and gives no sign pe surrendering even the elementary! that anyone would find the appropria- 2 Cor. 8.9. rights of a man born in lowly station. | tion startling. It is just this incident- The profoundest theological ex-|And he did this because he was exist- | al allusiveness of New Testament position in Paul's writings gets its {ing in the form of God, and was | writers which makes the - most im- supreme importarice from its = prac- therefore embodying in human life | pressive evidence that they took his tical and casual nature. Paul teaches|&0d's own activities, who uses riot deity for granted as a truth that| us to bring the ' commonest things force, but love, to win his way with needed no proof. Jesus Christ is Lord into the light of the Incarnation. us. was the creed of the first age, suf-| Verse 1. The Greek is a little un- : < ficient and all-inclusive. Compare 7. Emptied himself--"Of all but | Pp certain and is hardly translatable as love," as Wesley adds in his great | Col. 2. 6; 2 Cor. 4. 5; 1 Cor. 12. 3. it stands; the omission of a single let- hymn. To become a real man he must: ~~~ x { ter in one thrice-repeated little word [leave behind all: divine "attributes in- | LUNGS OF A BATTLESHIP. makes all clear and grammatical, and | compatible with humanity--omnipres- sini suits some ancient evidence, Exhort-|ence, omnipotence, omniscience; but| Ventilation of the Boiler and Engine- ation in Christ--The preacher who not love, for God is love. - And since 'Rooms. "cheers" his people is speaking in a man was made in God's image, love pg 4 | divine atmosphere; Christ is all}is the esserice of "the Perfect Man, One of the most difficult problems in : Tound him and withi him, so Hat The "gelf-emptying" is described as building {2 adern battleship is J se- as : rise 3s s words are not his own. Consola- | taking the form of a servant: = the |Cure ACLOTY, -Venid ation, Bhe 13 mustard with vinegar Instead {tion of love--When Love lies bleed-| King of kings becomes the subject of such a complicated creature, made up | emmain » resh ing, it is only Love 'that can heal. |subjects. Likeness--As in Rom. 8.3, of so many steel boxes, large and are in season they | ¥clowship--For we can never enjoy Paul is, thinking of human nature as small, for the accommodation of offi- | ed oD to ¥ | the Spirit alone: the Gift is "forever |it is, which makes him put in the] ¢ers, men, coal, ammunition, and €6) ¥0 81 shared, forever whole,"," as Whittier | word that suggests the immense dif stores; dotted here and there with so os , i says. foi ference between Jesus and other MANY steel ladders, automatic lifts, ! bottle if you | "5" we full. Paul has soy men. The phrase in fashion (verseSteel bulk-heads, and water-tight olives. It will out. 'of 'the Philippian Aly ha 8) similarly hints that while the re.|d00rs, varied here and there by miles : from any other. But their very ear- | semblance was deep and real it was of Slewtis Wires belonging to lights, Eo 8 had induced ag of ¢ of temporary. . : te e) one, be 1s, sud Motors, to say, and Paul deals with this one 8. Humbled--The keynote again, _ po 'a od Te TE J 1d ; im} " pes for flooding, draining, pumping, ~ Of the same mind---Like the for "lowliness" in verse 3 is the same fresh water, fresh air or compressed stronger phrase at the 'end of the ; Greek word. - It had "an undiluted air. and speaking-tubes, P | verse, was never meant to for- flavor of meanness in non-Christian First in importance comes the ven-| f mees of opinion. | Greek, which used it only for grovel-itilating of the boiler and engine- ot include mental ling, but in the life and death of the rooms: When you begin to think of ers to the heart, and | Nazarene men found . that uncondi-|gangs of coal-black demons working | : ional self-effacement was the path|away in the bowels of a ship at a, empire such as the world never temperature of 120 degrees; - when, Obediént--To the Father, as in too, you commence to realize that un- It is in this perfect human |less the furnaces receive their re- ence offered to God for the first | quired draught the speed of the battle: history, and crowned _by|ship drops to below that of her sis- | accepted _be- squadron, you appreciate ma r to handy helps, Useful Hints. 1 Run a thread around the hole in the: stocking before you darn it. Insects dislike both salt and alum. Always boil new ironware before using it. i Don't put simple milk puddings in {a very hot. oven or the milk will abn: ise ornaments should never can be wet, but cleaned with a dry from her chamois. =~ : RE : Hy a turkey is very young it ed for an hour before trunks which are up to, the weather-| s being provided. +1 tection is that. od tree. | "The chief Saw fn opr system ¢ 8 hats may 'be removed without the owner of the property in which the tree stands. The municipality shall not be for damage for the trimming of in parks or whose branches been exercised in the operation. ; Any person destroying or injuring (even tieing a horse to) a street free is- liable to a fine not to exceed $25 and costs or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, half of the fine to go to the informant. of The "rights" of telegraph and tele« phone linemen to 'butcher trees is & fiction. They have no rights whatever over any tree on public or private pro= perty. This Association submitted several questions to the Attorney- General who replied: "I think it is quite clear that the owher would have the right to prevent a telephone com- pany from stringing its wires in a tree planted by him in the street, because under Section 2, of the Ontario Tree Planting Act such a tree is deemed to be his property. : aly "It is also an offense undet Section 510-b of the Criminal Code to destroy or damage a tree in park, pleasure ground, or garden or in any land ad- jacent to or belonging to a dwelling house, injuring it to an extent exceed- ing five dollars, "It was expressly enacted by 4 Edw, VII, Clause 10, Section 74, that a tele graph or telephone company should not acquire any easement by pri i tion or otherwise as to wires attached to private property or passing through or carried over such property, so thtt no matter how long telegraph or tele- phone wires have been attached to a tree, the municipality or owner, if he has property in the tree, could compel the removal of the wire." Since the law gives considerable lat- itude to any amateur municipal officer, it is our plain duty as citizens to. obs * lige our city and town coungils to en: trust shade tree supervision pn | ed person, and in the case of larger municipalities to appoint a technically- trained inspector or "city forester" as he is called in the United States. Mus nicipal initiative is the weak point in shade tree inspection; the Ontario law is quite sufficient--Robson Black, Secretary The Canadian Forestry As- sociation, Ottawa. SEGRE STRANGLING ON LAND AND SEA. -------- The Allies Are Strengthening Their Grip on Germany. Germany is starving in consequence of the cordon of battleships, ctuisers, destroyers and submarines which is keeping her commerce from the seas, says the New York Herald. The situ- atien of her armies may be likened to a blockade by land--tp a great siege. Within a circle of many thousand miles the Teutonic and Turkish forces are hemmed. They have overrun Serbia, but they have put themselves in a pocket. They may overrun Ara- bia, but they will do the same thing, always extending their fighting line but never getting any nearer the much desired peace. They 'cannot' move south to Paris, they cannot' move west to Calais, they cannot move. north or east into Russia, they cannot move south against the Italians, they cin- not advance against the intrenth- ments which have made the Allies masters of the situation in Macedonia i and able to choose their' own time for - 8 : ig being applied and will continue untilall the fight is squeeded a of the ; . ! - Torres-Vedres gave eon his first smakhing. yf which was fol expulsion from the + Penin- the retreat from Moscow, the