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, i THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932 omen's Interest in the Home after weighing the matter careful- ly. Just relax and God will guide you.' Is not this a refusal to use the intelligence which we have, and a rather insulting return of our intelligence to the source of all in- telligence? Truly nature takes away from us the things we refuse to use ., . . Of the "sharing" feature of the movement, Dr. Stevenson says in part: "Extremes, however, are nearly always dangerous, and when the Oxford group spend so much of their time reviewing every tri- vial divergence from one's best en- deavor, and regarding each such Many Practical Gifts Can be : Chosen at $1.00 Here are just a few suggestions that may help your problems, Women's Meetings HARVEY « HUNT AUXILIARY HOLD DECEMBER MEETING On Thursday evening, Decem- ber 15, Miss Esther Hawley, 110 Mary Street, welcomed the mem- bers of the Harvey-Hunt Auxil- fary to her home for the Decem- ber meeting, this being the last meeting of the year. Miss Esther Linen Lunch Cloths Embroidered Pillow Cases Vanity Sets Card Table Covers Dresser Scarfs Lingerie Sets Pyjamas, Purses Men's Lined Gloves Boys' Lined Gloves Ladies' Silk Nightgowns Children's Vest and Bloomer Sets Ladies' Brassiere and Pantie Sets Men's Initialled Handkerchiefs (3 in a box) Men's Fine Woollen Scarfs Ladies' Silk and Wool Scarfs had weg that clay until now it was was in nn Mundy of the Uni- : Toromis, will J hristmas holidays w. Mr, and Mrs, C. M. Mun- ncoe Street North. . ss & i$ Taylor is spending Libre holidays with blends in Kingston and will re- fn to the gity after Christmas. es = alsh of Kings- 'spend ter, Mrs. Mr. Walsh will arri of the week. * LJ LJ X Mr. Jack Henley of Queen's " University, Kingston, will spend the Christmas holidays with his 'pardnts, Mr. and Mrs. George Henley, Simcoe Street north. LJ * About twenty-five members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Ush- awa branch of the Canadian Le- gion will be the guests of the 'Lambton branch of the Canadian Legion this evening, - 9 Mr, Ernie Marks, of Queen's University, Kingston, will spend the Christmas holidays in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Marks, Simcoe Street North. ° LJ * Miss Elena Stacey, of the Uni- versity of Toronto will spend Christmas holidays with her fa- ther, Mr. J. Stacey, Simcoe Street South. ? LJ] * . The members of two Sunday School classes with Mrs. R. Brown and Miss Gertrude Gomma as teachers, held a delightful Christmas supper meeting last evening in the banquet hall of King. Street United Church. The tables were artistically decorated with the Christmas colors, red and green and a large Christmas tree with bright decorations made the scene of a decided Christmas nature. Following. the \ tasty supper the par- cels were aken from the Christmas tree and each member received a gift. Following the presentation of gifts a Christmas story was told and carols were sung. * * * New Year's Eve will be well observed socially in Oshawa this year. On Friday evening De- cember 30, the annual Firemen's ball will be held in the Arm- ourfes and the Winter Gardens, while the Alpha Club is enter- taining at a dance in the Masonic Temple on Friday evening. On Saturday evening the manage- ment of the Genosha Hotel have arranged an attractive program and the Oshawa Tennis Club New Year's Eve @ance will be held in the Masonic Temple, "Women Are Always Changeable Things' Misg Marjorie Susan Ffenne!l- Ffennell, at Westminster County Court recently defended a clair by Jennings, Limited, of Oxford Street west, for £4 4s., the price of a dress she refused to accept "When passing the shop," said Miss Ffennell-Ffennell, smiling, "and saw a red crepe de chine dress, and I went in to inquire about it. They showed me countless other dresses until J became bewildered and had not the moral courage to go oul of the shop withoul ouying aome- thing. "That I was ower-persuaded is true, and is shown by the fact that I went in for a red -repc de chine dress and came oat hav- ing bought a velvet one or black and orange." When ghe go. home she realized how f5.iish she had been, and wrote cancelling the order and stopped the cheaue. Judge Sturges: You bought the dress? -- I was over-persuasded. My advice. as an ol? ra. io you is, don't be over-persuaded. t was tnas the dress had been altered. Judge Sturges, in orde-ing Miss Ffennell-Ffennell to pay 18s., the difference hetween the value of the altered dress and what it was worth when she bought it, said: "W men are al- ways very changeable things-- very rude of me, perhaps, to cul: them things--but they do change their minds and she changed hers very quickly." tin oo. Here's coraforting relief without "dosing." Just rub on VIEKS Hawley, the president, charge of the business part of the meeting, and Miss Maud Power took charge of the program, An important item of the meet- ing was the election of officers: Mrs. T. Adair of the Women's Missionary Society read the ve- port brought in by the nominating committee, which was as follows: President, Miss E. Gay; First Vice-President, Miss E. Hawley: Second Vice-President, Miss R. Lander; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Anne Cardiff; Recording Sec- retary, Miss A. Warne; Treasur- er, Miss Eva Gordon; Press Rep- resentative, Miss A. Kemp; Sup- ply Secretary, Mrs. R. Heran- court and Miss H. Waring; Stran- gers' Secretary, Mrs. A. Mackie and Mrs. E. Harston; Christian Stewardship, Miss H. Power; Mite Box Secretary, Mrs. Souch: Planist, Miss Allen; Assistant Pianist, Miss E. Boddy. Miss Cora Harvey read the Scripture lesson, and in keeping with the festive season, Mrs. R Henderson gave a very enjoyable Christmas reading. Miss Mildred Johnston favored the gathering with two delightful plano solos. At the close of the meeting all present enjoyed lunch served by the hostess and her committee. PYTHIAN SISTERS OELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Ontario Temple No. 1 Pythian Sisters held their regular meet- ing on Monday evening with Sis- ter Ethel Northey M.E.C., presid- ing, and celebrated their thir- teenth anniversary. The follow- ing officers were elected: M.E.C., Sister Mabel Curning- ham; E.S., Sister Jessie Govne; E.J. Sister Pearl Wallace; Man- ager, Sister Marie Lavender; M. of R. and C., Sister Sybil Gillard; M. of F., Sister Eva McCabe; Protector, Sister Emma Larke; Guard, Sister Ada Gillard; Pian- ist, Sister Badgley; Installing Of- ficer, Sister Ethel Northey; Trus- tee, Sister Emma Larke; Press Reporter, Sister Marie Schwartz, auditors, Sisters Cillard, Larke, and Cunningham, After the meeting a very plea- sant social time was spent, The social committee, Sister; Nor they, Wallace, Cliff and Cunning- ham, served dainty refresliments including delicious birthday cake, The charter members present at the meeting were Ada Gillard, Marie Schwartz and Emma Larke. Installation of officers will take place the first meeting in January, 1933. The evening came to a close by wishing one anoth- er the compliments of the season At this time the Pythiau Sis- ters wish to extend their thanks to the editor of The Oshawa 1° ¢! Times for the news columns al- lowed them during the year. Wishes for a Merry Xmas accom- pany their thanks. Young People's Societies KING YOUNG PEOPLE KING ST. Y.I'.8, The Christmas .nezticgz of King St. Young People's 1x € was held Monday evening and opened with the business ion, The {installation of office: {or the coming year was couducted by Dr. McTavish . after which Bert Wood the Past DIresident for 1931-1932, thanked the ILca- gue for its co-operation during his term of office and spoke of his happy associations while President, with the executive and society as a whole, The new president, Velma Har- ris, then appealed to the League for the same assistance as nad been received by the former Presidents, and assured the Lea- gue of her willingness to do her share, Miss Jennie Pringle intro- duced the remainder of the ev- ening's program, After a praver by Doris Warburton, Donald All- man in a most capable manner presented the prophecy, of the birth of Jesus, followed by an in- terpretation of the lovely carol, "Silent Night," by Mary Davy, and sung by Doris Salter. The story of the Shepherds was told by Norma Glaspell whilst the story of the Wiso Men was given by Stanley Gomme, at which time Mr. W. Harmer sang "We Three Kings of the Orient Are." Greta Burrows in a pleasing way, told the story of Mary and Joseph, after which Mrs, D. H. Lander sang, "There's a Song in the Air." Dr. McTavish closed the mecet- ing with prayer. CEYLON'S 3COUT DRY FARMING SCHOOL A venture in combined school ed- ucation and dry land farming, run along Scout camp lines under the auspices of the Ceylon Boy &-auts As ation, has been given the ino of the Ceylon government The success of the project has ate tracted the attention of cducation- ists, Policaman (to intoxicated man who is trying to fit his key to a lamp post): "I'm afraid there's nobody home there to-night." Stude--'"Mus' me, mus' thersh u light upstaish." be-- ELECY OFFICERS THE DISGUST OF JERRY MUSKRAT Who spend their time in foolish play Will live to rue the wasted day. -- Jerry Muskrat. There are many people who agree with Jerry Muskrat on this matter and never do learn how much of the joy of living they have missed, When Little Joe Otter and his family ar- rived at the Smfiiling Pool they brought no joy to Jerry Muskrat. In other words, they were not wel- come, It was late, and Jerry was busy getting ready for the winter. He didn't want to be interrupted. Now he would be. He knew it. Furthermore, he likes quiet and peace, and he Lnew that there would be little of either with that lively family about. "I don't see what they had to come just now for," he grumbled to Mrs, Muskrat, "One would have been bad enough, but here are four They'll just upset everything. Al- ready they're scared all the fish out of the Smiling Pool, The seem to think of nothin" Lut having a good time, It is all right for children to play, but grown-ups should have something more important to do. It is ridiculous for people as old as Little Joe Otter and Mrs. Otter to aet as if they were half«grown. They appear to take no more thought for the coming winter than does Peter Rabbit, Look at the silly things going down that foolish slippery slide!" "They seem to be getting a lot f fun out of it," ventured Mrs. Muskrat a bit wistfully, "Fun!" snorted Jerry. think about is run." Little Joe and his family were having fun and a lot of it. There was no doubt about that. At first the slide they had made down the teepesy part of the bank had not been slippery enough for good slid- ing. For one thing, there had been too much grass. But now the grass had bee¢n largely worn away down to the clay, of which that bank was largely composed. It had been worn awav by constant sliding. Now clay is slippery when wey and the water irom their coats as one after an- other of those Otters climbed out of the Smiling Pool, hurried to the top of the slide and slid down again, "All they a splendid slide, ' "Whee!" cried Little Joe Otter as with his hind legs straight out behind him and his arms back at his sides he shot down flat on his stomach to plop into the water, followed, her nose almost at the tip of his tail. "Whee!" cried a young Otter, shooting down behind his mother. "Whee!" cried the other young Otter, plopping into the water right after her brother. "Come on_ and try the slippery slide, Jerry Muskrat!" called Little Joe as he swam back to climb the bank again, "No thanks," replied Jerry. "I've something else to do. I've no time to waste in play." 7 : "Neither have I", replied Little oe. 308 en what are you doing it for?" demanded Jerry crossly. "I'm not," replied Little Joe good- naturedly, "Time spent in good healthful play when there is no- thing more ifportant to do is never wasted, Who plays a little every day will get more work dotie than he who works all the time and nev- er plays." Up The bank he scrambled and after him scrambled Mrs, Otter and the two children. Then down the slide they shot again, one after an- other. Plop, plop, plop, plop they hit the water, disappeared for a mo- me.t, and then popped their heads out, their eyes shining with excite- ment and plasure. "It is oreay fun" called Mrs, Ot- ter to Mrs. Muskrat, ouzht to try it." > "Fun!" snorted Jerry again in a disgusted tone "Fun! IT hope I have a little sense of dignity. Cer- tainly those two grown Otters haven't. . It is ridiculous, if you ask me." "I didn't ask von," snapped Mrs. Muskrat who, truth to tell, was a 1it envious of the Otter family be- cause of the good time they were having. "Whee!" cried Little Toe. "Whee!" cried Mrs. Otter. "Whee!" cried each of the two voung otters as 'one after another thev plopped into the water. The Next Story: "Peter Rabbit Gets a Bath" What New York is Wearing By HELEN WILLIAMS MMustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished with Every Pattern Make it for Xmas gift! Here's a fascinating apron and cap to wear and to make. Clear sky blue dainty dimity, so young and flattering, as sketched, you'll find very practi- cal. The binds are in deeper blue shade. The apron cuts all in one piece! It is slashed in from sides. The lower edge of the slashed opening is gathered and joined to the opposite edge. The back straps are attached to the ghoul- ders. The attached narrow sash tied in bow at back, holds the apron snugly to the figure. The cap is in one-piece. Style No, 3198 is designed in | sizes small, medium and large. "Street CERT "City The medium size requires 1 5-8 yards of 85-inch material with 9 3-4 yards of binding. Price of Pattern 13 Cents Our large Winter F ash- ion Magazine contains the most attrac- tive selection of new - pat- terns for wo- men and chil- dren; a three- lesson Beauty Course, fash- fon hints and also Xmas gift s ugegestions that you can make and stretch your Xmas budget, Price 10 cents Address DR. G. STEVENSON 5 CRITICAL OF OXFORD GROUP (Continued from page 1) health and to discourage those which appear to have an opposite effect. Moreover, the psychiatrist sees s0 many mentally-ill patients where at least one of the import- ant causes of the trouble may have been religious difficulties, and still other patients with bizarre reli- gious delusians, that it, is neces- sary for him to have made a fairly comprehensive study of the history of religion, comparative religions, the religious needs of the individu- al, and the psychological mechan- isms by which certain religious be- havior is produced." The Group's practice of seeking guidance is discussed at length in the several articles. "It is the nore mystical aspect of its message, 'guidance,' as well as full confes- soin of sin under the term 'shar- in," which accounts for its interest to the world at large.' Dr. Steven- son states. "Both of these are well- known psychological mechanisms, which are opera.ive without refer- ence to a supernatural power." "Guidance" Analyzed r, Stevenson continues: " 'Guid- ance' they claim to be direct mes- sages from God during their 'quiet times," periods of complete relaxa- tion in which the mind is divested of all intellectual activity, and when distracting influences are not permitted to distract. That the messages received during these quiet times comes from God is pure activity is continuous, consciously or subconsciously, even when we endeavor to think about nothing, as in these periods of abstraction and, more important still, the emo- tional cravings are also continu- ous and exert a certain energy. It is only to be expected, therefore, that in a state of enforced relaxa- tion those desires which are upper- most in our lives, which seek ex- pression, should dominate con- sciousness. To say that certain ideas which dominate conscious- ness are the direct expression of a messag from God is a conclusion quite unjustified, and impresses me as a return to very primitive re- ligious ideas, when our remote an- cestors believed that various spirits influenced them for good or ill. "When one sees, as I see, so many mentally ill patients who be- lieve they receive messages from God, from the Prince of Wales, from persons in distant places, from their own dead, from friends, from enemies; and when one un- derstands these, not as actually re- ceived messages, of course, but as the expression of disordered hopes and fears and desires, one realizes the very narrow gap between this phase of the Oxford movement and actual mental disorder . . The hal- lucinatory 'voices' of the mentally ill, the spirit voices of our spirit- ualist friends, the 'guidance' of the Oxford Group, are as closely re- lated as children of the same par- ents, and the parents of these three unusual children are .a sensitive, emotionally unstable personality in union with the longing for happi- ness in some other world than the one God has given us. God Given Intelligence "Surely God, having given us in- telligence, expects us to use it. The Oxford Group say in effect, 'Don't use your judgment, don't speculation, and due to lack of knowledge of the fact that mental reason, don't endeavor to follow any course of your own choosing, "Whee!" cried Mrs, Otter as she | ¢ "You really divergence as sin, and insist on 'sharing' it with other members of the oup, a psychiatrist would feel, that a pathological degree of introspection has been reached which might have very harmful ef- ects on the personality. "One of the speakers I heard on Sunday evening referred to her sin of having refused to tell her room- mate, who had hidden a magazine under her pillow, so she might be able to read it first. They had 'shared' these sins with each other the next morning. Such petty meanness does not indicate even after 16 months with the move- ment that the changing process had been complete, nor is there any proof that God is specially inter- ested in such immature behaviour. Depressive Delusions "One sees so many people ad- mitted to our mental hospitals with depressive delusions, accusing them selves of all evil . . that one be- lieves that religious training must be in some degree responsible for | the development of such delusions. | Surely the time has come when we can develop a higher conception of God than as one who follows every misdemeanour we may fall into. Such concepts were the beliefs of | primitive man, and are the beliefs of primitive fribees even now. Surely the evolution of religious thought through the centuries is not to be forced back into the dim recesses of time with its inevitable accompaniment of intolerance, sor- cery, witchcraft and fanatacism. "I have indicated in several ways how the Oxford movement violates these laws of health, and, the four 'absolutes' notwithstanding, I can- not see how any movement which has so many harmful features can be regarded as a movement which should be supported or encouraged by an intelligent and well-inform- ed Christian Church. 3 "Another eriticism which might be made in the group's disparage- ment by implication of the entire Christian ministry: Unless a man, clergyman or layman, accepts their peculiar positions, especially 'shar- ing' andn 'guidance,' he js not a true Christian. What becomes of the past development of our Church through a process of evo- lution and intelligent leadership? . « « +» Have they all become hollow and valueless simply be- cause this group of enthusiastic, and self-confident (but not other- wise qualified) people tell us so? SEES JINKIN HER GREEN DRESS Engagement Broken, Paris- ienne Refuses to Pay for Gown Paris. -- It seems to he tho general concensus of opinion that the women of Paris know how to dress. Even the humblest midinette came make something out of nothing and it is usually sufficiently attractive to catch the discriminating male eye. American women will certain- ly feel some sympathy with that Parisienne, young and pretty and chic, who recently, like Phryne, found herselr the accused before the French courts, in a suit brought by a prominent Parisian tailor. The reason she refused to pay for the goods delivered, betrayed irrefutable feminine lo- gic: "Why should I pay for this horrible green dress which has brought me nothing but bad luck?" ghe cried pathetically. "I ordered the tailor to make me 2a becoming dress of some hand- some and tasteful material, The next thing I knéw he had talked me into this gashtly green thing and hypnotized me into believ- ing that I looked simply fascinat- ing in fit. In blind confidence I bought the stuff and ordered him to make me the dress. "What was my disappointment to find that, when my fiance first saw me in this dress, he said I looked like hell in it, One word led to another, we quarreled and finally, on account of this abom- fnable rag, my engagement was broken. And now you expect me to pay for a concoction which has cost me my happiness? The tailor should be thankful that I don't sue him for damages." Judges notoriously lave a blind side, and this judge was very male and consequently very blind. For the refinements of feminine logic he had' absolutely no feeling. Furthermore, his philosophy was all wrong: "Mad- emoiselle," said he, "there is ab- solutely no connection between clothes and feelings, (!) 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