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NOTES AND COMMENTS Every little while there is an an- nouncement concerning the good fortune of some dweller in this land of ours who has fsllen heir to an ‘estate in foreign parts. Usually the estate ig large, not infrequently it is vast. It more than satisfies Fashion Hints Seen in Paris Shops. soon zee silks continue to hold COE. W.-B. ; NORTHRUP, K.C. Would Make It as Easy for Poor to Get a Divorce as for the Rick. on Hi ° » is firmly of the opinion that the pre- _ have an equal the Young Folks The Bea cee Spider. s beautiful as THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON TRCGENLTIDNEL LESSON, MARCH 8. Lesson X. Watchfulness (Temper- CONTINUE IN WELL DOING © But the ‘Eathasane Wanes, the Pace Slackens and the Vision Grows Dim plac sent facilities for severing the mar- famine cor vontelting rioted every-|. ance Lesson)—Luke 12. 35-48. “Thy 1, orks are more than! he 1 the wishes of the reader of the for-) "Tite fete of net make a pretty |riago. tie in the Provinces of On-|where. All the tender green leaves| Golden Text, Luke 12, 97, __ | tay first. eegivelation ni. | doing.” Phe fitter ro art tune item in the newspaper who] sleeve fini io,” Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, | whispered gayly to each other. All 3 SSS sin Gide i tells how he could get along with} Cut feb is “frequently seen among |and Saskatchewan, are only within | the birds sang their sweetest songs.| Verge 35. Girded—The long flow- ere is the and highest. word and shoe buckles All the world was happy excepting ae garents formerly worn by Jews of ‘Praise which is bestowed by the. pote 7 tired en <i ned he lays down his exhau: less. If it is millions he asserts each of the well-to-do, inasmuch Suprasen | : Shaded velvet roses in sprays are|as a special Act of Parliament, ini-|pne little spider: He was not beauti- | i aes reparing SPiTit o on the valiant gm to ith Bammer tey nsec ME ST ca aah, tiated by the Divorce Commitive of ful; nobody was his friend; all his ere traveling ne Ghuroh et: Thyatira. “I know thy Tever have latd aes ete hundred thousand would be enough| “Waite plaited tulle is much used |the C. mate, has to be family had a bad n ris_all| wearer drew th about the | VOTRss the divine message: 5.7 suffering oF deakt for him. He is a modest man with| for sleeve frills. i og hie thibel pn thia beautiful] waist and fastened them with a [i nnd Catiemoe patent mint” Right, here is Sat wentictl : fow wants and is planning to retire | "Narrow fur bands are much used May morning. He was very “7 icles (igh te Ieee 9 of all good men, and by the same on a mere competence, though he|on children’s « ed ii = eq |, bam ning — This suggests o+ks are more than thy Are” token the chief peril to God’s king- 4 Loarauicte wice rece CO Seelve true te spoke ot Tees ugly,” he moaned. “I|the parable ‘of the ten vitgina (eoo! Tie ich ad y ota. Few of us, after all, are: ips joes make conditions. y is x the sbi pa hats; 2{can never do anything noble and | Matt 4 SUNeS continued in well consistent, cowardly, or etieoccue! ago he would have been satisfied eed iene Wid’ oy” okilte \paee wadithair- wrtiomes evs door grand, although all know ~ would on Whey ae cal oNSR from loing—-nay, ‘more, lone). ven But most ¢ of us are Hable to exhaies with twenty-five thousand dollars, | are Saleinith lead. ritime Provinces | like to. a he marriage fea: m my greater and nobler things as time gion’ of flesh, nerve and brain, ile later with’ Alty, shousand:| Tho intereat: in printed Gotsoarts and tu Hestieh COtiiaine thareats| “This snd ligple cosbuutn “alaclys the ‘ueigemee heen aeticae ae : soem - i {divorce courts. ‘Col. Northrup ac-| ing in the dust while he was speak-| tend the marriage of a friend. Ae|,.l! too rare is this virtue of “‘con- = awe ee cee but as his earning pawer has in- creased retirement involves a larger sacrifice, and he feels that in justice to himself his capital must be large enough to assure him something ap- proaching his present standard of living. ‘That he will be fascinated by the latest story of heirship is more than doubtful, for it must be disappoint- ing to one whose appetite has been stimulated by the habit of reading the fortune items. The grose value of the fortune is only $4,950. This is a pitiable sum in the opinion of the student who has feasted on mil- lions. He has calculated that he would need at least half the amount or an annual income for himself If he had children, their be- and his wife. that would not provide for education. It is only human cause he has no children that he can get along with so little. But it ap- pears that the foreigner who in- herited the fortune has both a wife and seventeen children. And he is going to spend $1,000 of his es- tate to get back to Austria. What, is a selfdenying Canadian who reads the fortune items to with such a case as that? What does it make of his rigid economies, his prudence, his anxious thoughts of the future? Which angle shall we take for a moral essay? Shall woe talk unsympathetically of the sourage of ignorance and improvi- dence or reprove the timidity of the fortune hunter who goes on wishing till he dies and lives mean- while in the dread of a fancied poverty? & g Oe SSS King George has sent an inter- increasing for Blackivelver anita are apt tohave Cherry blossom parasols are al- ready here in quaint design: ns. aed with ig girls’ quently made of astrakhan cloth. White motor bonnets veiled with brilliant colored chiffon scarfs are e latest. Peach colored waistcoats with Bordeaux Ned violet suits are one of the fashionable combinations. Fashion is going a the opposite extreme in tight swathing, new coats and other Ee being posi- n, and this de- sign is often as not in ¢ ue oF n planning a blouse or go be 8 to have soft eae about woman doesn’t live a pretty note of bright- dresses ap- ribbon are ness in the simple dark propriately chosen for schoolgirls, Joats to the new ‘sweater dres- ses” for spring are cut very full, hanging loose from the shoulder and springing ae godets at the hem. One of t radical French oes is Beaae gowns with draped skirts of black satin and bodices of peau de peche in bright colors. Duvetyne is a great disappoint- ment so far as durability is concern- its won- ‘ool velour has esting little message to his subjects in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies.’ “I have to work hard my- self, and I think hard work is good for people,” says the message. Veri- ly, hard work is good for people. As a social moralist has just told us in a book entitled ‘‘What Men Live By,”’ work, love, and play are the essentials of happiness, and work, including as it does discharge of all duties, is the greatest of these. It is not hard work that kills or im- pairs efficiency. It is either worry that does that, or else too hard, too monotonous, too mechanical work, that is not properly relieved by do- mestic life, by wholesome recrea- is tion, by joy derived from nature, art and social intercourse. A world without hard work would be a world of intolerable tedium and boredom. But while we cannot enjoy play and rest unless we have worked for it, it is equally true that | ‘7S: we cannot enjoy hard work unless we return to it refreshed and stim- ulated by elevated pleasure, by glimpses of beauty, by satisfaction of the noblest of our faculties. The overwhelming majority of men work hard—they. have to—but too many of them, alas, have not learned to use work as a means of happiness, have not learned to play, to give themselyes the varied interests that are the spice of life. Society should organize play as well as work better than it does. — GRAINS OF GOLD. There is ‘a ‘one temple in’ the world, and that is the body of man. —Novalis. varice and luxury are pests which have ever been the ruin of} M, every great State.—Livy, fidence in cae “man’s vir- tue is no slight evidence of one’s own.—Montai; The nature of charity is = draw all things to itself, and mi partakers of itself. SS Lancentitis, s ae its virtues without its vices. £8) taffeta lends itself pecu- liarly well to. a and bustle draper- |! ies—which m. reason Ww! we may ex; Seed to see a great deal of thig atteer tor spring. most enchanting em- jnoitexies for household use are be- ing done on coarse natural linen, the pattern siorieiainy of masses of flowers worked close together and in the brightest and most surprising co — QUEEN IS A REAL ECONOMIST. Her Majesty’s Children Taught to | © ya void Extravagance. if Mary takes a great deal more Scola in the servants than 81 se at, Buckingham Bplaeet a —rather to the dismay of Royal cooks and housekeepers, who: eee, when once Queen Mary food in the servants’ hall was to be strictly limited. But- ter at 1s. 8d. a pound was abolish- ed, and when the butter from the me fai proved insufficient it had to be ordered wholesale fr: 8 store. Mi 5 partmen: SE wee Goumahcld expenses. Bi ing and Queen have realized that it is incumbent upon them to. keep ary has no extra) She buys with discrimination,’ a is teaching her dhusmer to do Ese sae The allowance of the Prin f Wales is a ecialler ted that of several of ba _fellow- students at Oxford, and it is whis- Luckily, Queen | wagant taste | ' ies jnen moved in t ing, but he finally arose and crept Government should take the ques- tion into consideration with a view He did not fe inereas- me the geounde: of divorce, but that there: should either be no divorces or els2 there se dl be divorces for into a ba to be he found little arn. e ave all summer catching Ree and he rene ‘hte a D. med ing + ig Dine in the bedroo; crawlect ars a! Appa cognize di Oot. The chasnpions ape ‘At “Dor sesit of Mr. He was def 1904, 1908 being 1,066. the Roya sae Ottaw a, and Ottawa Golf their first n: was a little ame be party li he held with the eg cas appoi 1. North dn nto University dis erate hed merous hono: eee s of B.A. and M.A allied to the Bar in 1878, and at sae began practice in Belleville, sister of Lieutenant Wm. 1 Northrup is 4 members, and, best pipet okie would not do so to their are the kindergarten | tow-headed girls attracted ‘her at ines Parliamentary reatly legislators are not yet willing to vo 2rUp ‘obtained pa ol W..B. Northrup. @ year he won th: ip cup at the annu: he himself, ue was ore- in 1896 and first elect- ed to the House of 1862, to fill a vacancy caused by 8. B. Bu atthe previous election, 2 ‘ai| what was, perhaps, the record fam- election of 1896 but elected in 1900, | ily with regard to weight, was, in eated ab the gener: ‘and 1911, at the whereas it was only 71 in 1900. Col. Northrup, re is renadiers, wi Jost his life in the charge read Mee Northrup dur- g the session entertain largely at also one Olu! The Teacher Ti Thought. In a town of such size that every one knows every one else it is often customary to speak of people by], one | p, ames, class. boy; he’s Such is Fame. wl young man returned to the As a result of followed along a conference LW we- | stronger. al nu- rs and obtaining the was now fifty-eight ge, has been twice mai ue s 5 Mr. Porter sunny ane and began to weave a web while two languid eyes watch- ill| thread and join it See: watched him 2| fro ceased and she Hage een she | awoke she was refre and, So the little a wove days | noticed his slender web for only by Mary. One day when her mother came 7 came See that e- little spider, mamma? Yes, dear,” her mother answer “put Jet me poke him down. 73 does is so beauti- To not poke The Mae s heart gave a cry of joy when he heard these words. Mary had said that he was peated ful, so he worked harder than ever So Mary’s mother let him stay. iss so much ally was: much better, day the new maid was clean- 5 pag Bpides wath her bigot not dead, but lay quiv intense pain. Mary saw him there and said, “Oh, J killed Doctor Spider.’ of sorrow at his loss crowned his life and he died in joy. ak FREAK One of Them Runs to eee An- other to Weigh There is at the present poe liv- ing at Bilboa, aan a family of seven who between them possess no he al co [fewer than 164 fingers, One of them has 23 fingers, another 21, while of of a peasant with extra fingers on his hand, who married at the be- ginning of last century, all of whom are dowered with from.one to five fingers in excess of the normal number. The last surviving member of r man, weighed ot Ae death i aie js|two stone heavier than win in| brother, whose 30 stone was one leds if not topped, by their two sis- OMbe loftiness of stature the fam- ily of Hassan Ali, wh while ogee the tallest of the fam. d eight feet, eleven inches, |* inches more than his father, eet with a Biodeat eight thet, two inches. The aged erie for longevity s not b in 1757, at oe age of 124. His father lived to celebrate his 109th birth- ay, | his grandfather was 152 at the tim: If aos -lived Hee i Srapi named Stock- ie | wale, sah | in the mere number of years compete with the Parrs, it assuredly holds the record for gold- en weddings, of which: five have “| been celebrated in the Spent with- in comparatively recen One of the most. notable instances of prolifieness is that mentioned in ae. se Reo prov Hate of 62 children, 50 a ached their majority. ane |drunken—This servant was "i ervants we left alone for some time. The pa- |rallel posiage: in Mark © mention | the master’s sojourn in another | country (Mar: 34). | e “gird himself, and | # |make them sit dow ee mai come and s IR Ser Relation. of sa dopa of whabse biomed at the Marriage Supper of the Lam | Rev. . The usual course be- eae easier and servant is given in Li 7-10. 7. be 38. In the second watch, and it|? in the third—The Romans divided the night into four Jews into three. Jesus referre to the Jewish division, that }o’ clock | 39. A second a ostreD to show the need of wa In Know this The Beas is s probably indicative and would — therefore mean, “You know this would have watched, and not have left his house dug through. 40. In an hour that ye cise not the Son Bi man cometh—Since the on of mai © unexpected ly, Y baebede all disciples to be. Setahtul It is sometimes well: to ask ourselves at the close of the day if the time has been spent as we would like to have spent it were that day our la: 41. This verse gives another illus- tration of impulsiveness and his acting as spokesman for the twelve. Peter doubtless has in mind an promis given in verse 37, and wishes to know wier, this high pavalge is offeres or reserved for the apooties om Compare Mark 13. 42. As was tia his custom, Jesus answered — Peter’s eir ae of food in due sea- son—The u ste served avers the food apportioned to lower servants. ‘0 dole Bente the others, ° @ not release, is the rewar fulness. Compare the parable the pounds, in which the servant who was found faithful in a very little, was aver authority over much (Luke 19, 45. To eat eee dri nk, and to be prob- what. should ably dissipating on the servants have vege given to under 46, Shall cut him appoint his portion with faithful—Unfaithful servants, and eo un- asunder, tripes for willful neg- feet orang: lew stripes for uncon- scious neglect, since the servant @ measure responsible for not having found out his lord’s will. Luke 10. 12- a, pe suggests Taatees of punishme; 8. To w naeeiae s ae is given, of a shall much be Nearer Tes paineioless is the same as that in. the talents and the ene alsa comment on versé 44, ir. = 2 Bee Reason For Wostility. and Wombat “He asked me to take care of his parrot last. summer.’ “That “He hasn’t-called:for it yet.” ung woman aifacted to nee’ oad London) hospital called upon to pay an urgent an was s, twelve to three and three to six} 5, 1 to “| monologue about the “What’sthe coolness between you ai aie uanlisb untae |is common enough to see = individ- ual start out in life with exalted ideals, and plunge eae into en nae for the ae Eee oe the For a short ti the. Hacine eye, the Stas battle shout, the unepeey hand; the un- T questioning heart. But the Hot festive “ot Youth, we say, in our matter of fact apion, yeaa over into the prudence of mi eo times out. idealism has perished the young warrior has yielded to the vulgar temptations of the flesh ; ompriniee he has surrendered his ideal for er worth! bat dazzling bauble of the world. ut more often than not, I believe, fa-li drink of that “fountain of living water’’ which is His ot and “‘lie down es the green yy the still aiioae abled to fight Mies good Hehe i in ae wise that our ‘‘last works are more than the first Rev, John Haynes Holmes. WHAT sree WE ue WITH OUR GIRLS W. Rober rtson, chairman At-thie Wapal Gomidianion eet Tadd trial ‘Training id Technical Edu- other day before ithe Women’s Can- idian Chub, about girls. He eet be an age ed pe rson, ah: what doesn’t Ea about girls would in 2 book about as big as a barn, he a young gaffer he could When the great Began was dy- ing he gonioesed that he learning t i I be poreeeed io hope hatte se to-day finishing his musical studies in a, School of Masters, and we may some day hear aim at his ver Wh Dr. Robertson get lecturing on wo- man questions it is to laugh. Thi is only one step from the sublime in to eS iciuancne and the Doe. girls he would liner in no time, . Robertson wants thirty mil- be bss We have tried it on with schools. the middle of one of isin the yon oe use the rest to itch its The trouble with gine is they make a function of every- thing. A ladies’ college is a con- ‘tinuous performance function—only this and nothing more. We would spend thirty million dollars estab- lishing some more fu soi and we tae enough of them now, + is would leave school in a min- ute if the right chap came along. Anything, therefore, that will help them out ought to he presented to auithoriti We adver- se giving a girl 160 acres of land, but T would advise giving her one thousand lars. Let the Government insure every girl Baby for $1,000 when she is born. soon as her birth is Re at the City Hall or with the Town Clerk she is automatical- tated | ly insured for $1,000, to be paid her of when she comes of age. érnment pays the premium. nt | to Luey says, ‘Pay it.to her when she ets married,’ but she is eighteen, say, and let her get married or not, just as she chooses. had 81,000, the problem would dit solve. » Governments have loaned money to|new beginaers, have Welp- & hen middle- Petey ‘gentlemen like After you devour } offic: dal- | a a int enza. 19 ip |is little danger of taking. CBee y | average concert. hall HEALTH How to Avoid Influenza. so far we have taken but lttle note There is no doubt that it caused by ‘m flourishes, and it here hae a few whose vit ction goes steadily on firolieh the household, the school, MES CO: sometimes the case, when the symp- toms take the form of langor, head- ache, cu Hatha and general pains about the body. Catania rest in_bed In a_ well- ventilated ‘room, with or without a. re as required, gives the patient. the best chance of recovery in the shortest time. He should be kept warm, and when wk is ac- companied by intense aching hot fomentations will lief. The diet’ must be light and nourishing; cereals, eggs, i juices, baked apples; oranges, | milk puddings are all suitable, pa the patient may drink freely of wa- lemonade. often said that this disease is men than women: this is because the former are more rash if as proper ah To are muna ube a in the matter the infec- eee while out for ‘a, food eS in tl ie dee “The eer mosphere of the Abiaglrs or ox scat HES be. th e similar place: where laily. is a ae _ source of ti of oe ed Tactful Remark, Mrs. Fatleigh,a lady” ‘who did not belie her name, go! ri pered that a sctaller 7 Prineeling has doaiel times ayail of proher? loans during Gis: Sree rm at school. night visit at a certain house vail Jet us say, the Mile End road. Ww thetn start, have broken land for Tels ic enMaNeC Rhemircaatls aGah built them houses; but they have country village where he was born, after having ~ successfully worked his way up to.a-desirable Govern- In the love of a brave and faith- ful man there is always a mas of maternal tenderness.—George El- bats Think of ‘living’?! "Thy ife, “eo aoe a he pitifullest of all the so “is no id. hen but a so- eat reel eality.—Cai If you wish to she ve any good | i: work well done go to the busy, wee ine idle, man. former can find time for ‘everything ; the latter for nothing. Smiles. ard the Bible as the. nities 8 se impulse and, feeling in -po he race.—Professor in oD on One extra; r Ma- jesty is particularly fare tie ex- Tt is a lesson that Queen Mary considers nn important one, and-is not com- pan. to the Tecks, so she has ‘made | *% integral part of the education a der ‘children. we he fellow who is afraid to take pone fri pends, = '¢ the Seat aid hardly ever a chance has no business at sire fair, s | Pix say, that the Can't Spare They say at women are mene office, “I suppose be people here, Thomas, have heard of r that has s el yy anything, hey replied Biomass, “he just en "he a Times ammer the been Slee on er he Tae a one of his old es. hey have so much to ey can’t stop for it.” as fame pales Hees that of a Russian, one Ivan Wassilif, who was the proud possessor of 87: He was mar- ried twice, By his first wife he had 69 children in the following Sp times twins. had twice triplets and tix fines twins: Sk Uplifting Drama. = ae, an to be very diffi 0 de has wings) sure, she suddenly received a heavy blow on the shoulder from what seemed a club. She staggered back like S| inns the ee preparing to sell) ife as dearly as possible. No hier niece was made, however. ee t, elderly waman ap- meer ae a thing for women. ccaeern comment of the y had c | 81 on cast halt of en would eet married to-morrow, and the chiheoober baleoulebe double. his shonld. answer: the What isl care oi The ha in Toronto Daily Star, So Why vot That ‘One, She—‘‘I’m afin id oe couldn't a the “door ar carrying a Beste 1) “ ide id, Gore a was ine ‘usband. vle to which always | = styles iy? are 5 young men gene near her chair. > ‘There was a rusl yas and the you her first with » glass of w: isk she complimented on his oes ne: “Oh, ae s spon es ee lightly: used into many a oto as and ert aac when I was a boy by carrying water the elephant. The fellow who lacks ec can’t hope to attract meh interest