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'our The dam is being con: ted for irrigation purposes, and if company's eers fall to have ter upon the land by July, 1926, they will have to pay a penalty of. $500,000. Cutting Up a Country. Twenty thousand men are being em- If the Colorado is not: tamed. there is. no hope, of saving from i /| speed of thirty. miles an as, many, trains}. In 1906.1t | ts, banks, out a 4 most half the Palo Verde Valley, hope- lessly submerging. two towns, ruining s of dollars Worth of standing cnéps and rendering thousands of peo- ple homeless, phe 5 Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Bend 1B¢ in silver for our up-to- date Fall and Winter 1924-1926 Book of Fashions. innate TO A BABY, Little Jory ebykin with little rosy A SIMPLE APRON STYLE. an Petal-like -- yet = metal-like with strength of iron pands! Holding me and folding me in love's ecstatic mesh---- Love's ethereal spirit has been al chemized to: flesh! Dimpled little baby with a smile like honey-dew, What has any human done to earn : such wage as you? Search my life of sin and strife how- ever much I may, Nothing half deserving you is found along the way. Still we hold each other with a glad- ness all complete-- Gladness that is heavenly and wonder- fully sweet: 1 can only thank my stars for such a : lovely fate---- Gosh! This makes a dozen lines; the editor told me eight!" ~Strickland Gillilan. Bet a] Power of the Will. : "pig in ourselves "we are thus or 4960. Figured percale with binding' thus, Our bodies are our gardens, to of bias tape was used for this design. the which our wills are gardeners so One could have unbleached muslin, that it we will plant nettles or sow gingham or sateen. lettuce, set hyssop and weed up The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: | thyme, supply il with one gender of Small, Medium, Large and. Extra herbs or distract it with many, either Large. A Medium size requires 2% | to have it sterile with idleness or man- nt in our lterature.:--| o,. js of 27-inch material, ured with industry, why, the power Pattern mailed to any .address on and corrigible authority of this lies in receipt -of -15¢-in- silver, by. the Wilson our. J 5 % ; nothing. If, as he says, summer is also dificult owing to the gp. Walter, | the note came kn into his posses-| extreme heat, te you sion, let him give us the name of the The top of the dam will act as a ! 'tiend 'who 'supplied a 'ragged bridge for the Soudan Railway. The ; tramp with so uch Money od | dam itselt will be two miles long and distinctly. ha ye; let hi tall 1s, © MANY ol] creat a lake fifty miles long and Ing the com hat I oan casil ont de.| two miles wide. From this lake will y " y oor by run a canal seventy miles long, from BY hat name did: sire it," said the tramp, standing up vie phir ame Je ri Boi ¢ od white £ oy "ult ing ighity Behind fie, de- : - . bloom | He hesitated before giving the| ing cheer name. A vision of the piteous face of dl "He did not ans-, ike Srmmour wien 8 bad spoken to the bar and of her husband came upon him, y. ra "I will not tell the name of the said, as if desirous friend from whom I got the money," had gone before, "I he said; "that concerns no one here again, and every except myself alone!" ; house will drin a A great shout of y dieule swe) ub Vim y of tl rom nner to ou parlor " Lprowentey ofits the Red Lion as the men heard his 1%od th ir-' answer. $o ue "A lkely story, friend," sneered f "Miss Barbara" and Walter Mac Walter, "he will not tell. according to whether He: stands upon his honest character. or self-interest ruled Well, listen, I can prove this note to LE Ral a gat down amid the company what is mar a comes printed date-stamp in the left-hand Bs of Bowe EI GC Kirkos- iehiberately er hol pron HA led . spectacles out of their worn the jnner parlor case, and mounted them with circum- rated the epection u her nose. for him.| "There is nted upon the note the a frétoms W. Mac W, 1 VIL 18" she Jang lines are among fis A Ro) ted December, tn a drearnighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any 'Writhed not at passed joy? To know the change and feel it, 'When there fs none to heal it, Nor numbed sense to steal it, 'Was never sald in rhyme. 'mother happiness and well-being. It is strange that so "do not realize this, for. - | men, .even when they have. been {happily married ith he pve: in marriage. They recognize it as wo- an's predestined place in life, the career in which she is most likely: to find peace and contentment. Every: | woman wants her daughters to marry. | | She never feels safe about them until, they are married, and the first breath of relief that a mother draws from the time her baby girl is horn 3 Je When re e sees her walking out o ure! few 'wellsgrown plants door on the arm of her husband. Arter) in the window This being the case, why is getting! som; mass i : her daughter married not a legitimate jiio to have-every plant I grow show ation - for - the mother?" Why jo individual beauty, which it cannot! 2 should not a mother use her wisdom | 4, when-crowded by others. "Then, it; hover forget. Ee secure 8. ye have to divide our attention | ang usband for her ¢ i t e BR on aeretghs to. uss: bas | Touch no plant will get the personally. y influence to 'make her daughter marry | any particular man just because he is a "good catch." But she should use! her. own matrimonial 'experience and| her own knowledge of men to guide her' girl jn making the right cho a husband, v Every woman knows that in affairs of the heart an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is no use in arguing with a girl in love. She is temporarily incapable of seeing | anything in its true light. She is deaf to 21 | season, Girls mary the, men wit m they are thrown in| pass contact. Henee it is the mother's! ould tvs : the Sallgction Buta duty to see that the men with whom | her. daughters associate are the kind; A ppRR : THE LAST BLOW-OUT she would welcome as her son-in-law. | OLD 'INNER: TUBES HAVE The sensible mother does not take] MANY USES. . = *& 3 i er family a e. young : A 4 ALS ee ana Th ug Au old' inner tube has many uses cuting the will and expressin sociation with her daughter, and then | in he household after it has seen its| of the Power that sup] howl with horror when she finds. that. last days on the automobile, df rub.| Moreover, it ig not all pure they have fallen in love with each ds 3 various widths sre Suk A bpd Sa a a 'want arr m. ey. 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