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"half wait for the second table. d itself, the giving Tbe, around 'which od and young are gathered, offers endless op- portunity to the wofhan who wishes Nothing is 50 fatal to the large din- er as serving part of the guests while Even * if the stretched table almost fills the dining room and is a combination of all the house affords, bring everyone "* together at one time. But it is much better to serve all "the children at a table in another room, giving them the freedom they so much enjoy. Be sure that someone serves the _ youngsters who understands yhem and is tolerant-and wise enpugh to be bind 'and quite deaf at times! Let'them feel that this is one day when it is all right to snicker at the table without fear f reprimand from a father who is try-| ing to impress manners. Cause all the snickers you can Ly giving them each a funny hat and] sticking little fat turkeys--cut from advertisements--onto the water glass- es. With small pill-like colored can- dies used for cakes, make funny faces on marshmallows, placing a generous! supply of these on the table where they can be reached by every child. If one table is used for them, honor eyes so she cannot see. "One wishes the -double celebration. them by setting a whole small roasted while snapping--the wish to come true said that she might spend the day fowl onto their board! Thrill their | if the paper is broken. If unsuccess-| with grandfather and grandmother, young hearts by dressing it in some!ful, the snapper must tell her wish. | {and any day spent with them was queer manner--a scariet paper coat with the wings stuck through, or a sweet-potato head with olive eyes. Try as hard to please the little folk as you do the older ones. Since Thanksgiving is a little differ- ent from the usual feast and there are 80 many good things to eat that such a common food as bread is sure to be, neglected; save room at the erowded table by omitting bread-and-butter plates. Keep the centrepiece decoration as low as possible so it can be seen over and make it simple rather than elab- orate. Oranges, with the tops.care- fully. cut off andthe inside removed without hurting thé shape, the edges then notched, and three of these filled ' with the small rusty chrysanthemums at different places along the centre of the table, make odd and yet dainty floral pieces. UNIQUE PLACE CARDS. A black bowl filled with sprays of bittersweet is also colorful Cornu- copias made of corn husks, filled with nuts and ¢andies, supply the table de- coration and might afterward be used as souvenirs. Mike original place cards of wish' bones which have been saved for that purpose and dried. Stretch bright paper across them, pasting the edge to the bones after writing the guest's name in the middle of it. Stick these _ on the water glasses and 'et them be used later in a game. Round ginger cookies with scalloped edges, with the name written in the centre with white icing, make interesting place cards to lay upon the napkin. Very good fun makers in the way "of souvenirs' can be made from €andy corn stuck on both sidse of animal crackers with icing, or of dried yellow corn stuck on both sides of animal permanent little men which keep in- definitely. Any successful dinner depends as much upon the appearance of the food as the way it is put together. The woman who is rushed for time and who must think up three meals a day for a large family has little time for such' things every day, but on this! one day of the year she can indulge her love for them by planning days ahead and preparing as many as pos- sible the day before. Don't forget that molds offer great opportunity for making the meal at- tractive. These need not be scalloped and elaborate--in fact, the more simple they are the more impressive they are apt to be. Use ordinary cus- _tard cups for fig pudding, vegetable "salad or sweet potato custards, turn- ing them out carefully. Mold the uherryiin 'along glass 'of even cir- ference, slicing down in circles or cut in squares. Two tablespoon- fuls of gelatin dissolved before add- ing will thicken salads or puddings. 'Out of colored paper in harmony with the centre decoration cut strips. oR them with scissors and then jo form cuffs for the tur- -| rather than having two servings to LIVELY AFTER-DINNER GAMES. For the care for. Apple pies with hot mince sauce are good. Make the sauce of Pumpkin meringues are the old- fashioned pie covered with a white of egg confection in which drained cher- ries have been folded. Little mince pies without a top crust and served with plain custard or vanilla ice the feast. Little Pilgrim hats made from card- board, the crown filied with nuts and homemade moiasses kisses wrapped in brightly colored papers, make an in- expensive and dainty favor. Or tur- key feathers can be painted or. gilded and made: into quill pens.- + Thanksgiving offers an unusual op- portunity to entertain entirely around the table, and if sufficient games are provided, the meal con be prolonged for several hours. A few of these will be enough and then the old-fashioned evening may wel be ended with round- the-piano singing of those old songs which never grow old. The Wishing Ring is a happy way to begin, using the place cards." Each guest in turn holds up her wishbone for the one at her left to snap, 'A! [bandage is tied over the snapper's If successful there should be a prize. each one writing one word on a sip of paper--for what he is most thank-| ful, making it purposely funny. Then | these are gathered.in and read aloud, overyone trying to guess from the word who wrote it.. There should be' some funny homemade prize. Turkey Tales is played by drawing a word from a basket and instantly making a speech of one minute about it. Just try to talk a minute about gizzards or pin-feathers! Have all the words pertain to Thanksgiving and tie the little pieces of paper to the ends of feathers. SG OUR DAY OF GRATITUDE SeETE------------ Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of a fact that we are always in danger of forgetting--that what we have and enjoy has come to us not because we have toiled for it and earned it, but mainly as a free gift, "However much credit we giverto the discoveries of scientific agriculture, no matter how hard we have toiled on the farm, it remains true that we are not so much producers as receivers. The sunshine, the showers and the fertility of Mother Earth are ours without money and without price, and they are the chief factors in any harvest. sie When a man begine to pat himself | on the back for his achievements-as a farmer there are a few questions he ough.to. face: RE er) Did he clear from the forest prim- eval the acres which he tills? Did he invent or manufacture the plow, the reaper, the milking machine and the jitney upon which he depends $0 much? Did he build up the grok cities where the products of his farm are sold, or did he construct the railways which bring distant markets near? Is it not profoundly true that other. men have labored and that we haye entered into their labors?=.- «.u Just -as certainly, civil liberty, a stable government, the right of suf- frage, the public-school system and freedom to worship God according to the dictetes of our own consciences are ours not as the result of personal prowess, but as an inheritance, It is well on Thanksgiving Day to bring to grateful remembrance the! explorers, the pioneers, the inventors, | the statesmen, the educators, the pro- phets, the men of far vision, the mar-| tyrs who, at the cost of hardship, obloquy, suffering," and even 'death! itself, have purchased and wrought out the common blessings of life which are ours. nd yet thanksgiving in its largest and oat sense must always be thanksgiving to God. A careful stirdy-of liberty and of the progress of chief factor is Pa not ourselves 'that works for | "Thete 8 4" 1 tar onto, the table after the "first coures] 1 removed. mincemeat, thinned enough to run.| cream make an interesting finish to Thanks is a pen-and-paper game, | | fore Thanksgiving. y za tion awakens the conviction that the <h q TE "There woh "Till the air with mir . They know that the Harvest: It waits the snow that shall fold it low, Till it wakes from sleep once more, The daisies will whiten the fields again And the robins build, next May; - So gratefully sing, little children, sing, A song for the cheer of the happy year And the glad Thanksgiving ay 1 amered in With its ripe and golden store And patient still the brown earth waits, For the time of its toil is o'er; ds'gay, hina W. Wray. The "oth of November was Mary Lou's birthday. This year it happen- ed to bé Thanksgiving Day too. Mary Lou's big brown eyes sparkled with anticipation whenever she thought of Mother had sure to be a happy ne for Mary Lou. Father and mother could not: go with her because two of their long-ago schoolmates were coming to visit | them during 'the Thanksgiving -hoii- ».days; but Mrs. Stone, a near neighbor, had offered to take Mary Lou to grandfather's house the Saturday be- 2 Mary Lou was much excited over the prospect and eager to tell her friend, the mail carrier, all about it. "Hello, Skeezics!" he boomed in his | jovial way as he turned the bend in the road. "Mail's heavy this morn- ing. Let's see, ~Here are two papers and a letter for Mr, N. A. Moore; and an apple and a stick of peppermint candy for Miss Mary Lou Moore." "Oh, thank you ever so much, Mr. Sims!" Mary Lou said. are so many things to enjoy all at once that I'm afraid my enjoyer wiil wear out. I am going to have such a good time Monday!" And she told him all about her plans for the double | holiday. Mary Lou was awake early Satur- day morning and pattered across her room to look happily out of the win- dow 'at the bright fall sunshine. After breakfast she helped mother pack into the old-fashioned 'aliigator bag the | things that she would need. She was i 80 eager to be off that she had her hat on her smooth-brushed curls and her coat over her fresh gingham dress fully an hour before it was time for Mrs. Stone to come, Mary Lou was swinging on'the gate and feeling most impatient when mother opened the front door and called to her. "I have Some disappointing news for you, adear," said mother. "Mrs. Stone just telephoned that one of the chil- dren, Bobby, is sick, and she won't be able to go to town to-day. I am as sorry as I can be." For one unbelieving moment Mary Lou stared stupidly at her mother. "Do you mean that-I can't go at all?" "I'm afraid you can't this time, dear." Oh, mother!" was all Mary Lou down her cheeks as she turned and walked back to the gate. 7 "Chug-chug-chug," sputtered some- one's car. "Well-well-well," boomed somebody's cheery ' voice. "If there isn't little Miss Rain-in-the-face instead of little Miss' Sun-on-the-brow who usually swings on the gate." : Mary Lou looked up at her oid | friend, the mail carrier, and tried to smile through her tears, +"Oh, Mr. Sims! I can't go to grand- father's after all," Mary Lou burst forth. "Bobby Stone is sick, so. Mrs. Stone can't take: me. And now Thanksgiving and my birthday are both spoiled." "Well, now thats foo bid, Mary bes o Snoaghtiad and | y Lou, f = the feed bin. J. = THANKS T0 JACK CANUCK BY ROSALEE SALEE HAWTHORNE. "[of-fact reply. ""You can send chickens | other things by parcel post, so I don't] said, but the tears were blurring her |: | eyes and making jiggly little paths soon find out," was Mr, Sim's myster: ious reply #8 he climbed down from his automobile. The puzzled little girl followed him round the house and back to the shed. "Get up on the scales, Mary Lou," he said, and when she had stepped up on the patform he adjusted - weights. "You weigh exactly forty-three pounds, young' Tady," he announced, peering through his silver-rimmed spectacles at the scale. "But why do you want to know how much I weigh?"-asked Mary Lou. "So I can tell how much postage to putron you," was Mr. Sims's matter- and dogs and cats and all sorts of see any reason why a little girl can't be sent to her grandparénts in Fae same way. Call your mogher and we'll have you ready to mail in a jifty.. , . What an "exciting plan! Mary Lou ran for her mother and the alligator bag. It took only a few moments for the. mail carrier to explain the ar- rangement. Ror twenty-six cents pos- tage he would deliver Mary Lou to her grandparents, who lived ten miles farther along on his route. . The day after Thanksgiving he would stop for the little girl on his Teturn trip and bring her back home again. With mother's pleased consent he cancelled "the stamps for "postage, bundled Mary Lou.and the alligator | = bag into his car, and they were off. That Thanksgiving-and-birthday all-in-one was never to be forgotten by, Mary Lou, "On, I've had the most wonderful time, Mr. Sims!" she assured the mail carrier when she scrambled into' his car, to be mailed home. "This has giving I ever had--thanks to Jack Canuck," she added ho adie) statuny. - Thanlkegiving." trees And no more harvesting for bees Does any field afford hy We shall be thankful still to Thee For delicate, fine tracery Of twig and branch, O Lord. We marvel when, in sunset's flame Uplifted branches.write Thy name Across the blazing sky When 'Beauty marshals to their aid Her hosts of color, rose and jade, In fiery array + How mellow in the: afterglow The brown fields lie, before the SNOW | Transfigures bush' and tree; For Beauty in dll seasons lives, Unstintingly herself she gives To each' distivietively; So thanks from darth and. sky and sea "By Thee ma In wakening : Leis districts in i ew | reports gi York, Ohio and Michigan in which the. effective. Ohio' been the very thankfullest Thanks-| When leaves have gone from all the| Te ar a, borers have been found, 'throughout - the country. This. was true in spite of a season not' the insect. It is predicted by entomol- ogists that a favorable season will carry, the pest over large areas of corn-growing territory. REGULATORY WORK EFFECTIVE. Federal and provincial officials have two duties: Sending out scouts in the border territory to locate newly -in- fested townships, and posting officials on roads leading out of infested dis- tricts to prevent carrying 'corn with borers to new areas. While the insect naturally spreads by the moths flying to uninfested territory and depositing speeded up by automobilists carrying corn containing larvae . hundreds of miles and there starting isolated breeding areas. To prevent this as far as possible, quarantines were established by the federal government in co-operation with the state depart- ments of agricuiture. . Last year, over. two and a half million cars were stop- ped and from them, 171,000 ears of corn, containing 2,000 corn borer lar- vae, were taken. In doing this, there has been some friction; but usually the, difficulties. have been ironed.out satisfactorily. The "steamship: panies, operating on the lakes have faithfully burned all refuse from the dining departments of 'the boats. Railroad officials have also co-operated to the fullest in the proper disposal adapted to the rapid multiplication of eggs, the rate of spread can easily be number of larvae in the field. The tention was made "syivania and New York delegates that i The fact shat. this ork is ty's job. al Eo or wi "already infested, seems to confirm]. this position. If this position is taken, | then some methogly of financing the clean-up is necessary. There .are certain definite things with re er to 1 He should cut His. dorn Stubble as short as possible, to leave the fewest 2. The corn should be put into the si'o where the action of the jufces de- stroys the pest; or, it should be fed out and, in the spring, all the corn- stalk butts and cobs should be piled and burned. Shredding the fodder and he careful working of the refuse into.the manure pile, also destroys a. high per cent. of the larvae. = 8. Late plowing of the corn field is effective in disturbing the life cycle of the insect. This measure has proven effective in several districts, as. reported at -this-conference, ... | ud: Where the ground is not- plowed, the breaking down 'of the stubble by dragging 'a log or steel rail over them when they are'frozén-and, if possible, the collecting and burning of the stubs furnish further means of control. 5. corn that matures in a, ha of garbage from. their dining cars. From the conference it was evident, that the burden of the control meas- | ures' must. fall upon 'the farmers themselves. It is not improbable that, to keep the pest within reason- able control, drastic changes in farm' * §.5. LESSON - November 8. Paul's i Mile- tus, Acts 20: 1-38. Golden Text--Ye ought to support the weak; and to remember the words of the Lord Jegus, how "he 'said, It Is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20: 86.- Se 'ANALYSIS. i PAUL ADDRESSING A PASTORAL chatcy ..T0 THE PRESBYTERS OF EPHESUS. I. WARNS oF SERIOUS TIMES come, 26-30. II. COUNSELS TO SELF-SACRIFICING op VICE, 81-88. 1 LNTRODUCTION---- After he riot riot at tem Ephesus, occasioned. by Paul left the city and pricesiod face a to Greece. Having th od the farthest point 'of his. Third Se Tour he planned to re-! tum i afain: i: Macedonia and Asia to he zo anting corn short period of time.at the fatest | yoo sible date reduces the perosntage of borers, Farmers living in infested avens { ought voluntarily is practice these measures religio re exhorts the ok to.a serious of Sher Pastoral duties, called isc! The Holy S them to be "shepherds" or guardians of the souls of Christ's people. They are therefore responsible to "for these souls, and must never forget that Christ gave his life for the sheep, even the humblest of thefn. - Vs: x 80 hat ales Paul so the homie dem is that she'll sees a double danger shiestes Spiritual life of the phetus A danger pe propr Ives" gett the clean-up work was the commun- pect to this pest for His farm} ~ I'tine' crackers Tightly" With these. duties oni 'which are made the. sha of tiny apples, with a clove for ths blossom 'end. Roll in paprika to make the upples "rosy." > ww FRUIT cup, HAM, PUDDY Another menu consists of £ it cup, baked slice of ham, fried hominy, mashed potal bage salad, cheese crackers, steam pudding, hard sauce and coffee. For fruit cup, peet"and remove skin and seeds from oranges and grape- fruit, cut fruit in emall sections. Pare and dice apples, iit bananas in small pieces.. Mix the fruit, add sugar and 'atlow to stand in a cold place for one hour Serve in glass lemonade cups or sherbet glasses, plate on small. sized plates and top each serving with a preserved: cherry or strawberry, © 'Cheese crackérs can be bought, or prepared at home, thus: Sprinkle --_ '¢heess, 'dust' with paprika and place ~~ in the oven long enough. to. thelt- the cheese. GRAPEFRUIT, ROAST DUCK, MINCE' PL Still another menu suggests gra fruit with _roast, duck ith sage. filling, ap sauce, rice eroque , stewed oe 'molded vegetable saad with crackers o| 50 Shsess, mince Pie, coffes 'and " Lai fruit as for fruit cup, sprinkle - raisins; - A. 2 Be re p- mbs, onié-haif cupful Lof dry sausage cut into smal pieces, one-half cupful of saising, salt, pep- per, and the Hud, in which giblets were cooked. Mix crumbs, dry sau- sage, raisins and ceason¥nfk with enough of the Hauid sired in and dé table, p 8f Toying Sho hy Here reference probably is to Jewish an din who a 4 the Saarchwi 3 Te- ac! onary ngs, an: vib Shen T= against the Christians, Es 3gain Weak to fall away from A danger JSroui within; oe rising within the Chris ee community. itself, re the ref. erence Is probably to those who will {argue that Christians do not need to keep aloof from idolatry or from the Bized 'heathen thus men- 0 'guilds, large green peppers, Scoop out the seeds and fil} the cavi- 'ties with wet moss. Into the moss = s| thrust the stems of the yellow button variety of chrysanthemums. The dark return journey was | 1 one'; First, Pauls . Bi was deéply. im-! ressed- by the conviction that had now a special purpose for him in God ! to Jerusalem. Secondly, he Sh g the | glance at a letter written to Ephesus some years later (Rev. 2:1-7 show that smi 'wero unn us 3 life. -A| " i Ag 'sure that suffering and trial waited him ) , 7 ' But where'the 'bright welkin in sei: "tures f glory. oRdatio's mi miracul Ba nan itl ns vp inl cae | La SANTO