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i bs t 2 Vis very fine and It is true that| he cheats his brother both of his bist bf ul father's blessing, t and his ite i 8: t xaluea very 4 ritual inheritance, | held in such r le and ambitious Jacob sf stands out in the story, with all his faults, in striking contrast to Esau, who, to gr. d ppetite of the moment, sells h gould have made him heir e promise of Abraham. Sk © +4 TAKING. ADVANTAGE OF A BROTHER'S a K . AND A FATHER'S BLIND- 25: 3 27: 1-46. seasoned e taste (Driver's * esis"). The birthright which Esau rts with so lightly, acompanied by 'father's blessin, Chap, 27), would im head t robably have made of the El community and heir to the 'part of his father's posses-| sions. Pressed by his appetite he sells the future for an immediate gratifica- i tion. Jacob takos a mean advantage k of his heedless brother. 'I'» sati.fy a _ far-seeing ambition he is willing to scheme and plot and Tie. But of the two he is clearly the stronger chai- acter and capable of the greater achievements in life. It may that} the character of Esau was reflected in the Edomites who claimed descent from him, as that of Jacob in Israel. II. BARGAINING WITH GOD, chapter 2%. - Jacob, a fugitive from his home ir southern Palestine, fleeing from his brother's wrath, and commanded by a / jealous mother to chods= a wife of her own and his father's kinsfolk, not like Joa of the drugh'ers of the land, hg ted urom 4 crn place where he Qe tarried for th~ ni There in rest - less slumber he droareed a dream of Jngels on a stairway which ascended to heaven and the Lord standing above it There his regeneration began. Tt is true that Jacob's scheming, self- seeking spirit here again asserts itself. His morning vow is conditioned. If 4 will be with me and will keep me + + + then shall the Lord be my G There is nevertheless eonuine piety in this vow, a real desire and seeking after God, even thouch it be still on the lower plane of material advantage and success. III. CONFESSION AND RECONCILIATION, chapters 32 and 33 After many years Jacob returns to Canaan with his family and his serv- ants and his flocks and herds. At the fords of the river Jabbok, east of Jor- _.dan, he hears that Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men, and heis great] afraid. Perhaps not until mow did his conscience really trouble him as regards his treatment of Esau, and now his conscience is awakened by fear of Esau's vengeance. Jacob does things. He divides his followers companies with the hope that if one is attacked the other may escape. He sends forward his servants with rich presents to meet his brother. Then he prays to God for deliverance, chap, 82: 9-12. Night falls and alone by the river he wrestles with an in- be adversary. Was it not that 's Spirit was urging him to a real entance? When at last he answered , What is thy name? and . said, It is Jacob, his confession was made. For the word Jacob really 'méans a supplanter, one who takes the place that rightfully belongs to an- other. The name fitted well Lis char- agter, Now that he has confessed and his guilt he receives the bless- ing 'which he sought, and a new name, Israel, x as a prince he had prevailed with God. ¥ % Sure of His Ground /Straw Hat--""You'll never be as _popular as I am, you big stiff!" highly| t with its great Tr # BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- wished With: Every Pattern % What New York | 'Is Wearing The sleeveless capelet frock of print- ed silk crepe is probably ne of the 'most wearable types of the season. The soft capelet in this chic model falls in soft ripples ovcr the arms, giv- ing the effect of short sleeves. The fitted basque bodice with button trim and snug line through the hips of the circular flaring skirt is impressive of Princess silhouette, Style No. 2607 can be had in sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust, Plain crepe silk in lobster-red or Iris-blue is youthful choice. Printed dimity, printed voile, chiffon, printed batiste and linen are dainty sugges- tions. * "HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. 'Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for h number, and address your order Yo Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. J a LOVE 0 there is nothing holier, ix this life of ours, than the first conclousness of love--the first flutterings of its silken wings--the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to ago have gotten rid of those extra pounds. 5 s* in| and in: the do repeated pathetic call from our fleshy | sister, "Doctor, how can I reduce?' {visions of good things she likes, plac- " object, we would long pick up the papers] "s column of ques- tions and answers, we gee the oft Frequently These are but a few words but we know they mean a great deal. The reply is generally this, "Reducing ls just a matter of self-control," which legves a sort of feeling of being sus- pended in the air, for still the "how" i8 not answered. Someone whispers "diet," but that very word nearly al- ways makes 'the overweight perfon balky right at the start, for she sees ed tantalizingly before her with big "touch-me-not" signs on them -.and therefore thinks she just won't be- gin. Of course, no one likes to be fat but the question is how to get it off. I was enough overweight to make me view with consternation every ad: ded pound. TI didn't think I overate. It is true often I would go to a tea, have a good time and come home, after having eaten sandwiches, cake, and perhaps ice cream, and then eat some supper just to be soclablds, while cooking I liked to see if things tasted right and often without think- ing would eat a piece of cake, or a cookie, between meals, I felt virtuous because I put a ban on taking second helpings, for I knew they were the cause of more added avoirdupols than anything else; I ate quantities of raw fruit between or after a full meal and thought they only consisted of water and vitamins. But I know better now, and nothing could In- duce me to-raturn to the old way of eating. Nothing worth while can be won in a dfy and to conquer obesity takes time, . But it can be done, an' oh joy, it can be done without suffering hunges pangs and without ycur having to give up all social' functions where tempting viands appear to tempt one's appetite. It is going to be done simply by learning food values In calories so you will know what you are doing and why you are loing it. You will attain a slow, sure knowl edge that will keep you normal after you get there, and the scale Instead of being the ogre it now is, will register 80 nicely the pound or so gained dur- ing the festive season that it becomes but a gentle indicator of the increas- ed pound and your weight can easily be adjusted to normal the following week because you know how. 'When visiting a friend one day I happened to pick up a book entitled "Watch Your Weight." It proved wonderfully helpfu' and a real eye- opener. From then on I delved into doctor's and dietitians' books until I learned what caused my abnormal weight. I found too, I must reduce slowly so as not to ingure what health I' had," and after carefully working out a system of eating which will be met forth in succeeding artl- cles, discovered to my delight and comfort that my health was greatly Improved when I gradually threw overboard the excess baggage I had been carrying 'In the form of super- fluous weight, But you must not be like the pupil who expected her music teacher to teach and also do the work of prac- tice and study, and then expect in some miraculous way to become an accomplished musician, Things do not work out that way. Do not think you are going to grow normal unless you are serious about it. Think over it and plan for it, "for 1t you fol- low closely the advice and knowledge 1 give you, you will reduce around two pounds each, week while using the from soft shell eggs. be eaten and if you follow the instrue- tions here outlined you will emerge feeling fine and becom slender in! on the number of pounds you wish to take off. What I learned I joyfully give to my overweight sisters for found it largely -a matter of diet. It; does not mean, however, doing with- out a fleshy person's favorite foods al | I foods. idn't need to avoid them. ostly a mater of cutting e quantity of certain kinds ds which are your favorites but which it taken in too large quantities add to your weight. Remember, reducing is a slow pro- cess because If done too quickly health is impaired. Beauty only comes with too strenuous reducing methods Jow- er the vitality. But if superfluous fat is gradually dispensed with, in its place will come health, comfort, ease of motion, not to mention improved good looks. Have a note book and a pot of li- quid paste ready next week, and keep these articles for reference as they appeat each week in your home paper. Next week--"Why Should I Re- duce?" pF el 1 . Little Ethel--"Don't you like to play with paper dolls any more?" Little Willie--""No. I cut them out long ago." ee Ap en The Wayside Pool There is hardly a roadside pond or pool which has not as much landscape in it as about it. It is not the brown muddy dull thing we suppose it to be; it has a heart like ourselves, in the bottom of that there are the boughs of the tall trees, and the blades of the shaking grasses, and all manner and kinds of variable pleasant lights out of the sky. Nay, the ugly gut ter that stagnates over the drain of the frail city is not altogether so. Down in that, if you look deep enough you may see the dark serious blue of far-off sky and the passing pure clouds. It is at your will thén you gee in that despised stream, either the refuse of the street or the image of the sky. So it is with almost all other things that we despise.--John Ruskin, : ---- ea I like the advice of Josh Billings: "Don't take the bull by the horns; grab him by the tall; it is easier to Derby--*"Possibly not, yet my #u- purity or te destroy. : ordinary daily menus. All foods can let go."--Ambassador Dawes. Terrapin, or baby tortoise emerging from shell. tolse is born from hard shelled egg, while most of the turtle family come It you know the values of If nowhere else, | nghitn and | This species of tor- The Merry Hoar Goes All the Way the road, | Where the stones are thick and the pectedly you 2an do likewise before of the I'ederal Home and School Clubs rn | you climb up on its rear bumper.' held in Toronto last Easter, the follow= ave And the back is bowed with the heft And if you are doing the towing warn' ing was given as the purpose of this path is steep, of the load, ' As the narrowing way is hard to keep. 1 sigh, 1] But challenge the worst with stead- fast cheer; | there 1s help on high-- God's angel will - hasten, your pioneer, When you reach a lonesome bit of the road, Curtained about with mist and murk, x And you hear faint scunds from the dread above, Where shivering, grim hobgobling lurk, 3 Just laugh to scorn their doleful cries-- | This is the place to whistle and sing; Brush the fog from your fearless eyes, And close to the faith of your fath-| ers cling. L When you stand at a sorrowful bit of the road, And a hand you loved has loosed | its clasp; 'When streams are dry that in sweet; ness flowed, ! And flowers drop from your listless grasp, Even now take heart, for, farther on, Thera are hope and joy and the! dawn of day; You shall find again what you thought was gone; "Tis the merry heart goes all the way. | i | --Margaret BE. Sangster, Abe te London Birds Like Roar of Traffic London birds seem thoroughly to enjoy themselves mid the roar and rush of trafic, and some of them adopt the most unusual places for | their dwellings. Not long ago, the golden statue of Peter, Earl of Savoy, which stands in the busy Strand, was being cleaned | by workmen. These workmen found that under the shelter of the Earl's | shield, Mr. and Mrs, Swallow had , actually made their home, and were bringing up a family! Another strange nest In London , was built by a pigeon, For some Hime, it had brought string.and halr- pins to a bathroom window, entirely ,unheeding the fact that these were , promptly thrown away again. But at {last it had its chance, and was left ,dn peace for a short time. When | Mrs. Pigeon wag next seen she was i sitting® in triumph on the completed nect, which rested on a shelf Inside the room. It had two eggs inside, and was built of hairpins! me emia Nurse: "Jimmy, an angel has just brought you a baby brother. Would you like to see him?' Jimmy: AN By ACCELERATOR _ There are only @ few things about an automobile that need routine atten: tien--engine and chassis lubrication,' batteries radiator and tires. The en-' In al the efforts that are being chassis and radiator should be attended to according to the particul- tion in Ontarfo, the Home and School ar needs of your car, but batteries should be watered at least once every two weeks and your tira should be checked at least once a week, When changing a wheel or rim after a puncture take the apare off the rack at the rear, or out of the' fender well, befora sou jack up the' car and remove 'Le fl. t. Otherwise, fn getting the spare loose you may' joggle the car just enough to cause it to slip off the jack. The garages for the old high-pres- sure tires were marke? to measure each five pounds of air, but the gauges for balloons are marked to re-| gister each pound. This shows how much more important it is to have exact pressure in balloons, | It's a good idea '0 have your speed- ometer checked once in a while, If it registers much too low you may be' going a great dea. faster than you | think and become involved in an accl-' school possible. It is surprising the dent or an altercation with a trafic officer. | If you should ever have to be towed be careful to keep your foot lightly three or four months time depending When you come to a wearisome bit 0f on the brake pedal so that if the tow-| that firésent themselves. ing-car stops or slows x down unex-| the other driver to watch out, Scraping a tire against the curb when parking, or hitting the edge of together. I found I could enjoy all Don't stop just then for a wasteful the curb, is one of tha best ways in the world to shorten the life of your rubber, Such carelessness is expen: sive. | saint pm Look Wide! A little gipsy boy lay on his back in a meadow where the dew still sparkled on the grass, A few yards away a lark suddenly rose from her ! nest and flying up and up until she was almost out of sight, sang the joy of the morning, then swiftly and sure. ly dropped to the green "Why do you fly so high to sing your song?" asked the gipsy boy, won, dering, "Oh, when I'm above everything 1 can look wide at all the beauty of th» country," whispered the lark, "and it just makes me sing." Presently the hoy rested again be neath a great tree, and looking up through the spreading brinches, he murmured. "I wonder why, the free grows so high, and throws. out its branches so 3 "To look wide" rustled the leaves, "and to see as much of the sky as we can." He saw bluebells hanging from tall stems. "I suppose they are lpoking wide too," he said. "Yes, yes, there's so mygch beauty to see," rang a hundred (fny bells, He saw forest ponies that threw up their heads to look all round before they cantered off over the heath, and he saw cows that lifted their great, stupid faces to the sun before they sought a patch of shade in which to lie. He felt the touch of breezes that' brought the scent of the sea frm the coast miles away, and shaded his eyes to look at the sun, which could see half the wprld at once. After this.day the friends of the gipsy boy noticed that he was always| happy. If a baby cried in-one of the caravans it was he who offered to sing| it to sleep, If water ran out, he made! no bother of going to the brook for | more; and always he laughed. | At last his mother asked him: "Why is it,. lad, you're always so happy?" { "I just look wide," grinned the gipsy boy, "an' you know, mother,| it you look far enough there's always something to be glad about."--Grace Holmes, 3rd Hants Lone Company. ps Farmers along the border of Eng- land and Scotland recently met and demanded of the British Government fair play for agriculture by controll ing imports and securing an economic price for farmers for home produce. amem----p---- We speak the most involved lan- guage the world has ever known, It is drawn from thirty-five or more other languages and we misspell for the simple reason that twenty-two of the twenty-six letters are silent In certaln combinations of words.-- ' "ra ike to see the angell" Frank H. Vizetelly. SAGE AS FoR 6 FORI wr ) BACK RENT! mY INTERESTING (F TRua! How CAN WE DoT? | and there is no doubt as ta the value By Samuel Farmer, Pres. of School Trustees' Ass'n. made for the improvement of Educa- Clubs have taken a leading and help © ful part. They have been very prac. tical and sympathetic in their attitude of such an organization in connection with any school, Unfortunately for rural Ontario these Home and School Clubs are not as plentiful as they might be. There is, however, a kind- red organization--Women"s Institutes --which frequently de muck the same work. There is one drawback about the latter organization--the men have no part in it, and a school should have the support and counsel of both father and mother. Home and School Club The name is suflicient to give an idea of how it is constituted and what its work will be. Parents, teachers and scholars are united in an effort to make the local school the best wide range of subjects which come up for consideration at the meetings of these clubs; and the practical manner the members deal with the problems At the eleventh annual convention organization: "The Federation aims to awaken public interest in all edu- cational matters by means of Home and School work. It is not enough that clubs should be organized in large centres or scattered here and there through the country. Every school should have its group of parents ac- tively co-operating with the teachers for the good of the children." These alms are further expressed in the Home and School Creed, which we give horewith: We believe: That a Home and School Associa tion should be concerned with all problems that relate to the welfare of the child in home, school and com- muniy. 'hat its great object should be to interest all people in all children and to link in common purpose the home, the school, and other educative forces in the life of the child, to work for his highest good. : That it should learn first-hand all school conditions and all community conditions affecting the child. That it should encourage all in- fluences and conditions which make for the growth and safety of the child. That it should work actively to sup- ply the school and community needs by creating a public sentiment which shall favor and provide good teachers, good school equipment and educative recreation for leisure time. That it should give service to the home by training for parenthood and homemaking; and to the school, by adding parent power to school power. That it should not bs a means of en- tertainment, or charity, or criticism of school authority, but a co-operative, non-political," non-sect 1,0 non-eom- mercial effort to produge Canadian citizens who shall be capable of per- pe ting the best which has been de- veloped in our na foral life. We believe: That the principles which guide the Home and Sshool Association are the embodiment of social servies, civie virtue, and patriotism. Any gchool can form a Home and School Club and the pupils, school nud district will be (ave to benefit by the sympathetic and 1p ical work of such a cuub. "A monthly magazine may still bg the popular book of the .eak." re freer Father: "History repeats Itself® Son: "My teacher would rather heed me do it." | ttre eat "When wearing green, the nose, if | tpo pale, may be touched up with 8 ral pencil of the rather \ Wd) and | nob elible variety." A simple, * expensive would be » let the nose wea groan. Liversos ost. etre fp ites "The pendulum hag swung with & geance, an