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"be He oe here? himgel, "How did you find' my lily?" he asked. "This is my visit to away as she . vo bi | people -- anchorsd to the mud tr oy & 4 £ : # Ever since that experience *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 beau- ty and fragrance. It peeps forth with starry eyes from layers of dead leaves, and ig the first bloom of the spring to woo ome to the woods, When the great gray spearheads of wild geese stream northward; be- fore the woods are misty with tints of coming green; before there is a 'single songster heard in the forest, epring'a darling. recluse comes fra- grantly forth,--as fair as hope, as sustaining to winter-weary souls as fulfilmentg of love's promises, The great rose mallow is perhaps phe most alluring of all wild-flow- ers--partly because {it persists in growing in inaccessible places! It ig the love we never meet; the hope we never realize. A rose. mallow has always heen to me ga vision of beauty unattainable, = having the lamour of sunsets in it, and the lure- of sad sea-horizons. . The yellow jasmine is a child of the Southern forests; and a rejoic- ing child it is, Its beauty and its fragrance are such that' one could hardly imagine grace more refined. If you can't make love to a maiden, With jasmine showers above; There's no such thing as romance, There's no: such. thing as love! Whenever I think of jasmine, I see oaks and hollies «and sweet-gums canopied with exquisite greenery. of this delicately rioting vine, and I see starry saffron showers stayed in air. And the springtime softly swings her censer in my heart, 1 dearly love the wild 'columbine for at least two reasons: for its swaying delicate beauty; and for its blithe hardihood in growing out of rooks--Ilike the loveliness of soul springing out of adversity. It re- calls to me a certain meadow trout stream, and a prince of fishermen, Henry Van Dyke. B It was long my 'privilege to fish - this stream with him; or rather, to watoh him, the which. afforded me more bank is high and rocky. There are dewberry vineg ambling grcenly over dhe 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 soll not larger than the palm of one's hand--thin and starved, But in this the columbine grows, sond- ing its roots through cold forbld- ding crevices in the rock. - How- ever fast the fishing, I never saw Henry Van Dyke pass the swaying red ohjmes of the columbine with- out pausing to worship unfelgnedly |. at their delicate shrine. 1 could not lave besn more than six years old when I .aw my first wild rose, growing in a clay bank, been a shower not long » delicate leaves in ant 1 ary? the sa m that, in damp lifts its" gorgeous red spire | au ward, 1, seeming to carol a soarlet |' - madrig 1 Where, nothing obstructs | the view, its crimson spire can eas- ily be seen for a distance of 200 yards. And its presence invests the 'wood with a princely charm,--ag if yalty weére approaching. There fs about the beauty of this' flower the m ot loveliness, a rite of plendor. | 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 be. cause he was depressed, and the aspect of the hills and the unstain- ed beauty of the little dells beside the road would, T knew, heal his heart if anything could. It was in my ming to stop beside some acene of beauty, and let nature's quiet loveliness do its work. And my chance, came. 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 maid- enhair ferns, On the other side was a mountain meadow stretohing 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 stopped the car, I pointed out nothing to him, for the heart rejoices more in making its own discoveries of beauty. My friend, as was natural, saw the cool flames of the cardinalis first. 'Then he looked away to the tiny Sherwood that the maiden- 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 triend began what proved to be a complete recovery One day in that delicious season when the rosebays were in bloom, 1 had gone into a shadowy glen to see the pink and snowy blooms, glim- mering in the fragrant woods above a crystal cascade. On my way back, just at sundown, I met a little moun- 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 thoughttul silence trances 'the world. ; "You been, lookin' at the rhodod- endrons, ain't you?' she asked. 1 admitted it. - "Which do you like best?" she asked, looking up at me while her bare toes played In the sand--"do you like pulling the flowers, or do you like leaving them where they are? I allug leave them." Doris was right, The way to g0 'wildflowering is not to 'gather them, but to love them, to leave them, and to bring their beauty home in one's heart. ""what did the judge do to' that young man who stole the diction- "He gave him a long sentence to work out." . MY OWN = YOUR EVER-LOVING AUGUSTUS CANNOT" EX\ST ALONE, eZ One of the most startling and at| ne time BOR ating, ang ot natare i the regal cardinalis | : 100 d- A plunge into the sea of matrimony will be taken by Mickey Riley and Georgia Coleman, two of America's leading divers. going to wait until after the olympic games, though. 4 Sunday Schoo! Lesson July 24. Lesson IV--The Deliverancé at the Red Sea--Exodus 14: 10-16, 21, 22. Golden Text--The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation --Exodus 15: 2, e ANALYSIS. ° I. STRAITENED! vs. 10-12, 11. MOSES' CONFIDENCE, vs. 13, 14. 111. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22, INTRODUCTION--The passage of the Red Sea was regarded by Israel itself a. the most irnportant event in their history. Men of later gener "ns, prophets and psalmists, referr.d to it again and again. It was truly a water- shed in their history. Before it they were a band of spiritless slaves; afler it tuey were God's triumphant free- men. us ¢*st our glance briefly backwards. Under the last awful visi- tation of God, the destruction of the Zrstborn, Pharaoh's heart at last yielded. The 'Israelites were permit- ted to leave; indeed, the Egyptians were glad to see the last of them. Out it to the wilderness they went, God himself guiding them with a pillar of cloud by day and 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 pre- cisions of modern geography. At any rite they reached the Red Sea for Sea 0% Rushes, as the Bible calls it); though at what point they touched the R:4 Sea--whether the Gulf of Akaba, or the Gulf of Svez, or Lake Timsach . +t is perhaps impossible t» say. Here they were to see "the arm of the Lord reveled." I. STRAITENED! vs. 10-12. All through the Bible the Egyptians appear to have been a fickle and un- reliable people. Isaiah scornfully re: fers to them as "this broken reed," Isaiah 86: 6. No sooner had the Israelites left Egypt than the Phac- aoh, true to the unstable character of his race, regretted that he had pue- mitted them to go. After all, the Israeiites were very useful; they had made excellent slaves. A division of the Egyptian army--chariotry, cav alry and-infaniry (v. 9)--were dis- patched to turn them back to bondage. It is likely that. this army comprised simply the garrison force stationed on the borders of Goshen to observe and control the movements of nomadic tribes. The Israelites, seeing that they were pursted with a well-equjp- ped force, lost heart. They began to upbraid Moses--the first of their meny murmurings against his leader- ship. Was it not a mistake, they ask- ed, to make this. dash for freedom? Did not slav in Egypt, severe though it was, offer relative security? Better a second-best like slavery than this sure and awful destruction! Let us alone, they ad cried ig Egypt-- the language of despair, of content- ment with the second-best; let us alone, cried the demon possessed in the synagogue at Capernaum (Mark 1: 24) --the ceaseless language of sin. They were indeed in desperr.te straits. Before they was the Red Sea, behind ti em the Egyp'ian.army. They could go neither forward nor backward. All with nothing but destructioa--or God! retreat was cut off, They were faced I NEED YOUR HELPING HAND TO GUIDE MY SCHEMGS= T REQUIRE YOUR INTELLIGENT BRAIN To ADVISE MG IN MY PROJECTS = XT ABSOLLTELY AM LOST WITHOUT YOUR SUPERB BUSINGSS ACUMEN TO FURTHER MY MANY PROFITABLE: PLANS | They're II. MOSES' CONFIDENCE, vs, 13, 14, Before his timid people, well-nigh paralyzed with fear, stood the lion- hearted Jeader, Moses. Only the cour- ageous can inspire courage; and the confidence of Moses, begotten of faith in God, put heart into the people. "Here, as so often in the story," sage 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 sLys, 'as seeing the Invisille,' he saw one whom the winds and tho 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 the glorious passage of the Red Sea was an act of God's '"'strength made perfect in weakness." III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22, 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: 20. A man of God, like Moses, was ac- credited with having extraordinary power, It was the power of God's Spirit dwelling mightily in him. This power was thought to be media 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 Elisha, 2 Kings 4: 81. When Moses stretched out his rod over the sea, it cbeyed its Master. A later Psalmist has clothed the event with poetic im- agery: "The sea saw him and fled," Psalm 114: 3. An explanasion of this even on more : aturalistic grounds is provided in v. 21--"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 lthis Sea of Rushes as a whole, and that a furious wind biowing all Light would have the unusual, but not altogether impossible, effect of driving the waters back, leaving the seabed comparative- 1 dry. It must be remembered that the Hebrews did not distinguish be- tween the natural and the supernatur- al. All natural phenomena were to them supernatural, for all were under the sovereign power of God and al exhibited his power. So the sacred historian recognized a natural cause, "a strong east wind," but, back of this again, and controlling it for his own redemptive purpose, was Whatever the nature or explanation of the event, it was in any case the Lord's doing. ne To. many Rode down to old Jamestown. d as a floor, route of cavaliers and four. . 1 ruffled gown, & party, ball and rout, » How still it is along the road, How most divinely still-- The sunlit pattern of the leaves, The shadows on the hill! . My motor purrs in warm content, A rabbit scurries by, A drift of crows with lazy wings Climb up a drowsy sky. I pass an orchard that has foamed To clouds of feathery pink; The air is thrilled with mating call Of thrush and bob-o-link. I catch my breath! Across a field dt wind-blown silvery wheat, The wraith of Pocahontas glides On light elusive feet. Through field and wood and sleepy town, The road winds on its way, White drifting clouds against the blue, Frail butterfije§ at play. It winds with clrve To cross a singing viver, Where pale green willow trail, And tall marsh grasses quiver. many a bend and fringes If you are worn with city streets, Or choked with dusty fret, Ride down the road with Washington, Match wits with Lafayette! --By Florence Wilson Roper, in Dallas Texas Kaleidoscope, lp Pollen Declared to Cause of Dreaded Asthma Pollen--Pollon, the bugbear of hay fever sufferers, is now accused of causing asthma as well. In a paper read at the annual meet- ing of the canadian Medical Associa- tion, Dr. George C. Hale, of London, Ont., said inhalation of pollen was one of the major causes of asthma. He named cating of cectair foods and the eMuvia and proteins of bacteria as others Asthma, he cxplained, was due in early stages to spasms in the small bronchioles, small tubes running from the two main branches of the wind- pipe to the lungs. Later it develops into continual spasms which lead to changes in the small tubes. He suggeste sufferers from asthma after each a'tack should write down everything the, did or ate on the pre- 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. rested} etn mitts: Why Worry? A Quaint morsel of graveyard philosophy written about 1876. A hundred years ago or more Men wrung their hands and walked the floor, And worried over this and that, And thought their cares would squash them flat. 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 o'er? Forgotten all for evermore. beaux in powdered wig, |" Because she is said to be America's ' oldest mother, Mra. Nah-Thle-Tle, 109-year-old Apache Indian of Oklahoma, received a gold medal from the Federated Women's clubs. Vr A ns. A Grave World Issue By Stanley Baldwin (Lord President of the Council, in a House of Commons Speech.) . The great importance of this junc- ture of the Ottawa conference is that Drinking Water Lacking and and Crops Ruined Owing: to Lack of Rain: _Bushire, Persia --At this port and along the Persian littoral of the gif no Winter or Spring rains fell and ia consequence there has been not only a total crop failure but famine and ao tual lack of drinking water. Almost the whole population is dependent on agriculture and thus suddenly finds itself penniless and deprived of every means of support, An effért is being made by the authorities and by a few private persons to provide subsistence rations, but there is great privatiom for every one accompanied by an out- break of thievery and highway rob- bery. 4 Villages on the coastal plain have been completely abandoned aod trav- elers report that over this wide area 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 flocks over the mountains to the less parch- it comes at a time when we are defl-} 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 rela- tionship, or we have got to drift apart. There is no question about it. The whole evolution of the eco- nomic pull of the world is gradually to increase the larger units, and I hope we may see in Europe a great! change in the future, or it will be all' up with European trade. And it the dominions do not get into this closer | economic union with us, T need not in this House and with this audience! point out the economic dangers which, for those who value the em- pire and the traditions of our race, lid 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 it---particularly © the United States. They tried to keep out other people's goods, and did influence world conditions for a time, bul even they cannot do it. Their distress to- day and the disasters which have overtaken them--well, there is no country in the world which is suffer- ing more. It may be beneficial from the standpoint of a single country to' take measures to isolate itself. It, cannot be done by all of them. we! must do all we can to break it down. | | Britain Heads List As Buyer of Anthracite Ottawa, Ont.--Imports of anthra- cite into Canada from Great Britain exceeded those from the United | States in May, the first time in his. tory that this happened in any one month. In May the imports from Britain were 170,967 tons and trom} the United States 160,802 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, 388,007. For the twelve months ended in may the favorable balance was $32,891,398, contrasted with an unfavorable balance of $77,737,661 for the previous period. The wnfav- orable balance with the United States was cut from $213,859,398 to $87,737,978. mish ed plateau of Central Persia, where their black tents now dot the counm- tryside. Even so, many are on the verge of starvation and they have lost half or more of the animals, At Bushire the authorities are mak- ing desperate efforts to cope with the situation. Steamers bring 200 tons of drinking water each week from Mo- hammerah and Basra. The poor have been lucky to obtain small quantities of brackish water remaining in a few deep wells or else the s'op-water of rich households. The municipality, however, is now endeavoring to distri- bute free drinking water. The food situation is nearly as serl- ous as the water shortage. All food- stuffs have to_be imported and prices soar, Some of the leading merchants, impelled by generosity or the hope of warding off disturbances, are giving free meals to the needy, As yet it has not been possible to relieve the distress adequately and some parents are in such straits that they are offer- ing their children for sale. Cold Feet Caused By Disease Not Climate They are oftener a result of dis- ease or temperament than of ex- posure, says a writer in the hygienie page of (ringoire (Paris), signing himself "Doctor Gamma." Look at the modern woman, with her silk stockings and low shoes! Her grandmother wore woolens and fur-lined foot-wear. Keeping one's feet warm ig largely an affair of ex. ercise and goog circulation Poor circulation and tight uniforms froze many feet in the trenches dur- ing the war, he asserts, We read: "These silk stockings, these low shoes that the girls--not to mention their elders--insist on wearing ia all weathers--what an absurd fash- fon! This is what the ladies with the green hats say, and for once the hygienists are forced to agree with them, The hygienist foresees rhine- pharyngitis, sinus trouble, bronchial catarrh, enteritis. Mercy! Don't you shiver with fear, No; nor with cold either, Are these maladies really more common than men? "Not especially; we must admit it, even at the cost of dis-believing im hygiene. And even in the most unfavorable. weather this absurd fashion does not congest the waiting rooms of the doctors. Must we doubt the future of the profession? "Let us consider the evidence. Colq feet favor infections and congestions, among women Gone all the sorrow and the woe That lived a hundred years ago. The #rief that makes you scream today Like other griefs, will pass away, And when you've cashed your little string, A True Test True, Remember the experiment A true test of friendship: to sit or of Pasteur, who brought on cholera walk with a friend for an hour in per-, with chickens (they did not wear fect silence without wearying of one silk stockings) by keeping their feet another's company. in water. It has even been alleg- EE -- ed that cold footbaths may cause Duty nosebleed. But despite our low The thing which must be, must be shoes, we have cold feet less tham for the best; Mrs. A. -- "Tom, our physician wants to send me to 4 summer re- sort for four weeks." "Mr. A--""Well, I don't blame him." T. FORGIVE YoU, MUTTSYe BY THE WAY- WHAT PLANS HAVE You? 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 died, The folks will say, around your hier: "He made a hit while he was here" a An Ybussioned Oulbrarst : of Oratory. GREAT SPcecH. God helps us to do our duty and not shrink, And trust Hs mercy humbly for the rest. Owen Meredith, -- A Faces are made beautiful by kind- ness, It is a divine sculptor. eres tmetemtn It requires a very clever tongue to get a foolish one out of trouble. ------ T STILL CLAIM TU WAS A our grandmothers with their thick stockings, their fur.lined boots, and their hot soapstones when they went to bed, "Custom works miracles. Such the dictum of the good abbe, who used to take walks barefoot in the dewy grass. He died of it--on the day appointed by Providence. Exer- cise and a good circulation protect one from cold. And it was noticed during the war that frozen feet-- often a serious matter--were due to bad circulation, tight clothes, shoes warped by the wet, quite as often as the frozen mud of the trenches. "So low shoes are acquitted. How, then, 1g it that some people always complain of cold feet, no matter how warmly clad? These persons al most always have blue hands and foot, cold and moist. This may be due to disease of the heart or nerves, but it is oftener a symptom of & lymphatic temperament. Such per- sons, despite their woolen stockings and their rubbers, can not avold cold extremities in winter, Nor colds, nor bowel troubles--for thelr feet are bathed constantly in per- spiration, and their lot is as sad as that of Pasteur's chickens. "What shall we do if we have come into the world with this little infirmity? © than Changs Stamp our feet rathef