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my business ig not to remake my self but to make the absolute best of what god made browning a unique summer house the summer house need not be of elaborate design or of great expense indeed the simpler the building the cooler and more enjoyable it will be a boy at homo could easily make the kind described secure posts by thinning out he top3 of willow trees then trim and cut to proper length and set in eight holes three feet apart forming an octagonal shaped upright foundation on which a pyramid top can be built to the top and upper part3 of the sides short strips should bo nailed to form slmplo designs finishing off at the top with some decoration within the summer house at suit able height a seat should be built con sisting of short strips of branches halved quite often the willow posts will 6end out shoots which extend from the top in all directions they continue to grow and by interlacing form a na tural and attractive roof for the sum mer house twilight hour story about chicks and other little friends chapter 9 it was getting pretty cold outside now in fact it was just about time for thanksgiving day that is a nice time in the year isnt it do you re member last thanksgiving when the big juicy grapes were ripe and the apples all rosy and sweet in fact it is the time when everybody gets ready for winter isnt it all the good things to eat which took all sum mer long to grow are ripe then and are brought inside the house or the barn or the cellar somewhere so jack frost cant get a hold of them then all winter long everybody and you and i and little jack horner and dolly dimples will have all we want to eat even though there is ice and snow out side and everything frozen up hard then enough is put away for the ani mals too that is for the animals who live with us let me see what ani mals do live with us well on the farms what kinds are out in the big warm barns of course the barns are not as warm as our houses be- caure you must remember animals havj fur or feathers so they dont want it so warm well in those barns if you look all over youll see great piles and piles of hay and it is lots of fun to play in it too isnt it then there are great big boxe3 of oats and wheat and everything that animals like and the animals are the horses and cows and pigs and chickens oh jl single house full of chickens grow big and fat and lay lots of eggs for mamma lady and daddy and billy of course the little boys and girls who live in the city or town havent got a barn very likely so they just 1 xc a kitty or a dog who like to snooze in front of the warm fireplace but in our story it is nearly thanks giving day and thanksgiving day comes because we have so much to be thankful for dont you think im sure mother can think of many other things too which you will want to be thankful for besides all these good things to eat wont she we only need to think a little and find that the world is just full of wonderful things do you remember what you had for thanksgiving dinner its just awful ly good when we have roast chicken or turkey isnt it i gues3 most peo ple have roast chicken on that day dont they it must take a great many chickens to feed everybody and do you know little girls and boys the chickens dont mind after thoy grow- up if they are used for chicken roast no they dont in fact that is why 0 lot of them wore born so they just have a good tinio while they are hero and they can havo such a good time if we take good care of them feed ing and watering them and keeping thoir little houses clean and giving wi them a nice bed while they are here then they give us their good bodies 1 fat and sleek and puff just as easy as that they are gone leaving be hind them good chicken roasts and then another little chick come3 to take its place well this thanksgiving day billy went to his auutios iu the city for a while he had a good time there too i can tell you she took him to some fiuo picture shows and showed him the store windows all lit up so brilliantly and full of such beautiful things you see billys home was in the country ud this was all new to him so ho enjoyed it immensely but after a while he began to think about rover and fluffy and ho wondered how jlm- mio chick and three little chick3 that looked so much alike were getting along and oh he was getting home sick to see his mamma and daddy so when the two weoks wore over they all got in uncle wills car and off they started to bring billy home so next youll hear about what happened when billy got home agaiu sunday school lesson sweets induce early rising saratoga springs that there is as muoh truth as poetry in the expres sion sweet sleep is shown we are told in a bulletin issued by the col gate university press bureau by the record of an intercolleglate slumber contest recently conducted between men students at that university and girl students at skidmore college in saratoga springs the contest conducted on a scien tific basi3 jointly by dr donald a laird director of colgates depart ment of psychology and dr linus w kllue skidmore psychologist ended iu a walkaway for the girls and indi cated that the most restful and re freshing sleep was the reward of those who went in for diets rich in sweets and other carbohydrates we read furthermore the sweeteating girls were said to be much sweeter aud prompter about rising in the morning than the colgate men and their sister students who went in for more ascetic eating most of the young men at col gate had to be called at least twice before they could be aroused from their slumbers the skidmore girls bounded out of their beds at the first note of the alarm clock each of tho 136 skidmore students and 140 colgate studeuts who partici pated in the experiment reported daily over a period of two weeks on 225 items of data which had to do with their mode of living their emotional states and their reactions to physical exertion a classification of this data showed that the two contestants having per fect sleep scores were girls who con sumed the largest quantities of sweets it also showed that the girl students in general slept about 15 per cent bet ter than men students mrs b are you sure harold is engaged to miss decash mrs c well i hear his tailor has let him have another suit of clothes twelve canadian oaks there are twelve species of oak in canada according to tho forest ser vice department of the interior one tho garry oak is found in british columbia the remaindor in tho east may 3 lesson v jesu in the home of zacchaeus luke 19 110 golden text tho son of man 1 coma to seek and to save that which was lost luke 19 10 analysis i jesus in the home op zacchaeus 19 17 ii- zacchaeus kepent3 and reforms 19 810 i jesus in the home of zacchaeus 19 17 jericho was a very rich and very famous city it had many times beer destroyed and had s often arisen from the dust the site of the city in the time of christ seems to have been some six miles west of the jordan rive and six miles north of the dead sea it was a rich city for two rca sons first because there are but two laces v here the jordan can be crossed one here one further north by the plain of esdraelon a very large amount of merchandise therefore passed inevitably through jericho in the second place the city was situated in a veritable little aradise it was clled the city of palms here too were famous rose gardens and frag rant balsam plantations jericho was therefore known as the sweet smell ing it follows that the chief tax- gatherer of such a place or as we might say the head of the customs and taxes department was a man of great importance o man too who if he were not honest would have unrival led opportunities for feathering his own nest zacchrcus hebrew name would be tchariah ho was a man of small stature we are not told why he wanted so much to sec jesus it may have been idle curiosity to see the ran whose name was on every ones lips and who had quarrelled so pub licly with the pharisees or zac chaeus may have been moved by a more religious motive having heard that this new teacher in israel did not despise nor refuse to consort with men of his class or rumors may have gone round that jesus was planning or expecting some great sign at the coming feast or again zacchoaus may have been interested in jesus only as a miracle worker at any rate the effect of jesus visit on zac- chajus was very different from any thing ho hnd anticipated it seems that this incident of the meeting with zacchaeus took place as jesus was on his way up to jerusalem for the feast where he made his last great appeal to the nation and where he met his doom if jesus had any hope that he would prevail in his great challenge to the pharisees and saddueees in jerusalem it must have seemed important that he should draw all possible popular support to his side and that he should not unneces sarily alienate any who might sym pathize with him we cannot but wonder therefore at the courage which led him at this critical moment to go out of his way to favor with his presence the man who wa3 probably the most hated person in jericho the man who stood for compromise with the roman power and epitomized all that most most obnoxious to the fan atical nationalism of the day ii zacchaeus repents and reforms 19 810 when zacchams says in v 8 tho half of my goods i jive to the poor he is making a declaration of his pur pose not stating his habit in the past in exodus 22 1 the man who has stolen one sheep is required to restore four and fourfold restitution i3 known to roman law in the case of a man caught in the act of robbery it is not plain whether zacchams re pentance and solemn reparation are due to something unreported that jesus had said to him or simply to the fact that jesus came to his house t any event we should compare and contrast the impression made upon notorious rogues by jesus and by christians christians ha as always denounced robbery rapacity and swindling they have not infrequent ly lost their tempers with the wrong doer and have done their best to get him punished by any means in their power no doubt they have often ox- pressed a concern for the wrong- doors soul but they have generally felt that punishment must come first here however we have no reason to think that jcsjs denounced zai- chxus it would seem that already in his heart of hearts zacchams had often denounced himself and his ex cuses were for the public eye only jesus showed no inclination to wt zacchajus punished for he was only concerned to get zacchams changed jesus never for a moment condonou sn or suggested that it did not mat ter indeed in his presence men realised their sinfulness in a way that no scorching denunciations would ever have effected but jesus made it plain that in spite of sin he loved the sinner and believed in him we may assuir that in some dim way zac chaeus realized the nature and char acter of jesus this made zacchaeus realize as never before his own wretched sinfulness but in addition he realized that this spotless person who knew him through and through yet really liked him believed in him called him to be his real self then something broke in zacchaeus and ae was a converted man there can be no real repentance that does not carry with it inevitably the attempt so far as possible to put right the evil we have done no matter how much of publicity and scandal this may involve verse 10 is the unique gospel of christianity lazy england an irish colonial in truth londou audre siegfried wrltlug in the loudon times has accused tho eng lishman of being lazy and refusing to learn foreigu languages it is high time that the relative baselessness of these charges was given some of the publicity to which the charges them selves have been exposed speaking aa an irish colonial who has lived a little in four continents i can say with absolutely no desire to work off a paradox or scoro by cheaply pre tending black to be white that tho english are the finest linguists among the big nations of the world john bull has more faults than ho can af ford in this world but do let us re member his job of moving from his nineteenthcentury preeminence to a new stability is more awkward than that of any other struggling nation when he was making war america north and south wa3 making eco nomic whoopee when afterwards he was paying his debts france was mak ing economic whoopoe poor old jb the strain upon him has been ter rific and the only reason that he hasnt crocked 13 because he is the sturdiest and most resourceful fellow in the world what new york is wearing by anhtabeiile worthington illustrated ztrcitmaking lesson fur nished with every pattern canadas future sir henry thornton in the english review london there is no rea son for alarm concerning canada it- has not been necessary to disrupt or ganizations in this country because of the slump and when the recovery which is certain to come does get under way canada will be in a posi tion to make tho best of her oppor tunities her people have been for tunate in that they havo suffered prob ably less than those of any other coun try during the recent depression her resources are still awaiting develop ment to a very large extent and her sources of wealth are unimpaired when the demand comes with re covery of the countries to which can ada looks for her markets that demand is likely to be on a larger scale even than that to which we have been ac customed canning industry future weather shows increase linked with oceans heat canadian bird sanctuaries the total aeablrd population of the ten sanctuarlos along the north shore of the gulf of st lawrence in 1930 according to the national parks of canada department of tho interior not including young birds hatched in that year was 100836 the birds were of sixteen different species mostly seablrds altogether canada has now more than forty bird sanctuaries spe cially reserved for bird protection pur poses a small and pugnacious man was arguing with a parson about certain incidents in the bible take the story of daniel in the lions den he said i can explain that for you it wasnt a miracle what happened was that when daniels friends heard he was to be cast into the lions don they had the ii0113 gorged with food so that they had no appetite when daniel was put beside them thats interesting said tho parson and now tell me this would you go into a don of lions even if you knew they had dined well well er yes i would said the man a little uncomfortably and it you did said the parson measuring the llttlo man i feel sure the lions would havo one look at you and say to each other heres slimming lines for the wo man of heavier figure and a smart dress that will answer many needs for the lovely spring days that are not so far away the bodice has a deep crossover vest one of the best means to conceal breadth the softly falling jabots lend a pretty effect and contribute much toward its slenderness the yoke of the skirt is cut to the smartest depth to narrow the hipline the seaming tapering as it does to a deep point 13 decidedly length giving printed crepe silk in midnight blue combines with plain matching blue crepe with white embroidered mous- seline in this lovely model style no 3038 is designed for sizes 36 38 40 42 44 4g and 48 inches bust size 36 requires 3 yards 39inch with yard 39inch contrasting and yi yard 39inch allover lace 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 each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto according to a recent report tha pack of vegetables in canada showed an increase of over co per cent la 1930 while there was a decline of about 11 per cent la the pack ot fruit- these comparisons are based upon officially issued figures which relate to quantities not to values other figures for an earlier year show- that the canadian industry supplied over 80 per cent of the home market for these products this comparison which la for tho year 1928 is for val ues which provide the only common denominator between production and extended trade the outstanding feature- of tho re port on the pack of fruits and vege tables in canada is tho large increase shown in the production of tomatoes peas aud corn the pack of tomatoes increased over 1929 by nearly 101 per cent peas by almost 105 per cent n by 193 per ceut tha in crease in the total pack of canned vegetables was 3646382 cases or 648 per cent tho total pack of canned vegetables exclusive of canned soups amounted to 5272480 cases tho fig ures being based on 24 no 2 can3 to a case in 1929 the pack on the same basis was 5c2g09s case3 tomatoes with 4025283 cases comprised the bulk of tho 1930 pack peas were ueu in order with 2553983 cases followed by baked beans with 1096042 cases and corn with 10g6s30 cases while vegetable canning showed great expansion in canada last year the pack ot canned fruits in 1930 fell considerably below that of 1929 drop ping from 1101188 cases that year to 978570 cases in 1930 or slightly more than 11 per ceut this 13 accounted for by the largo decrease in the apple pack which fell from 331691 case3 in 1929 to 20957 case3 last year sub- 1 new york for many centuries the prediction of weather for any leas ot time 4a the future has beea a ques tion which has interested some ot the best minds of these ages the thick ness ot brother chipmunks fur coat and the amount ot food stored by squirrels and other animals have alt had their day together with the com mon patent medicine almanac the old adage perhaps rain perhaps no has in the main been the ordinary result recent tests have included the de termination ot the frequency of sun spots aud the variation ot solar radia tion and now comes a further scien tific conclusion based on the study ot a large amount of data collected over a period of years tho revelations ceuler in the announcement by dr mceweu and dr a f gro- ton at the university ot california that it is now possible to predict with a fair degree ot accuracy just what atmospheric temperatures will be iu a given vicinity for three mouths iu advauce for more thau twelve years tha efforts ot these men have been occu pied ohiefly in investigating phenom ena upon which could bo based sea sonal predictions for 7aiufall aud precipitation particularly during tho winter months over california and the western states they have been singularly success ful iu their predictions and in con nection with this problem they found that the phenomena upon which they based these conclusions affected areas far greater than the west alone and tho question of worldwide seasonal forecasts was presented so pretentious a program could not stautial iucreases however were j bo undertaken until further lnvestiga- noted in the pack of pears peaches tion ot new effects was given addi- and cherries pears being up by 101722 cases to a total of 339 106 cases peaches an increase of 64973 to 155- 728 cases and cherries up by 51131 case3 to 146286 cases canned last year iu 1923 when canadian canuers supplied 84 per cent of the home market the total pack of canned fruits aud vegetables was valued at 14823- 295 the imports were 4163097 and the exports 1687258 in 1930 the imports ot canned vegetables into can ada were valued at 1461185 and the imports of canned fruits at 2954415 exports of canned vegetables in 1930 were valued at 5631015 and of canned fruits at 250271 tom sent mo a brick by parcel post but i got oven with him what did you do passed the word along to a num ber of agents that ho was figuring on taking out more life insurance skyscrapers philadelphia ledger the first skyscrapers were novelties they were limited because they offered an opportunity to make small plots of ground pay large dividends in congested areas but times are changing now the tendency in municipal planning and in the larger architecture of designing cities for health light and couvenience is away from the spire ot offices grouped on top of each other around an elevator shaft and despite the fact that the chrysler building the empire state building and similar inhabited obelisks continue to rear their young heads high above ameri cas streets the time is coming when american architectural achievement will be devoted less to height and more to mass line and stability tional attention in the course ot these latter considerations it was dis covered that there was a startling re lation between the surface water temperature off la jolia calif and the atmospheric temperatures iu southern california through a thorough kuowledge ot the surface temperature ot ocean water during the summer months the mean or average temperature over southern california during the com ing wiuter could be forecast proof against bullets glass used for the hull panes not portholes now ot a new liner is of a special kind that has withstood a pres sure ot twenty tons iu one test of this glass a piece ot it weighing fiftysix pounds was drop ped eighteen feet onto a steel plate it came through thi3 ordeal without showing even a crack hut glass nowadays can be wonder fully resistant in certain to3ts ot a bulletproof glass recently a 303 bul let was fired at it at a range ot five yards tho glass plate uuder test was about an inch and a half thick and fiction by any other name would as made up of three layers tho bul bs a falsehood just tbo same nobody can ever sot anything right if everybody ia equally wrong boys weve forgotten the savoury q jj chesterton let starred the first layer but made no impression on the second aus wors the biggest tiling on earth is o liny cinder when its in your eye mutt and jeff by bud fisher a giraffe would have won by a nsck t glue mixture proves effective in checking red spiders red spider is one ot the most trou blesome pests that the gardener or fiorlst has to combat especially dur ing the hot summer months says the bulletin of the missouri botanical gar den st louts forcible spraying is one of the best means of control using a special hose nozzle which directs tho spray upward and cleans the under sides of the leaves the writer goes on this method is effective when the plants aro grown iu open benches be cause then all sides of the plants are accessible for spraying but when this is not the case dusting sulfur and similar insecticides must be relied up on a very cheap and successful control has been used in the greenhouses at the garden this last summer one pound ot powdered glue in four or five gallon of water sufficient water is added to the glue to cause disin tegration by heating after which it is poured into cold water and agitated until thoroughly mixed it is then ready for use iu the spraying ma chine with perfect coverage tests have shown that after two or three days the film of glue will naturally dry and roll off from the leaf bringing with it both the agglutinated ndult spiders aud eggs or if the plant is sprayed with wator the glue will be washed off without injury to the leaf the citrus house was used for the conclusive tests tho upper surfaces of the leaves were well coated with an oily soot deposit of several winters and the uuder sides were infested with red spiders all the plants were well sprayed with the glue mixture and two days later were sprayed again to insure a perfect coverage of the leaves after six days the glue was observed peel ing off in sheets a film from one of the leaves was carefully removed and photographed with tho aid ot a microscope the photograph showed spider and eggs and soot deposit securely fastened in tho film of glue the plants could not have presented a cloanor appearance had they been cleaned by hand this spray may bo used upon evcrgrcons especially spruco and hemlocks or any plants which possess shiny leaves but will not be successful upon plant with hairy leaves capital investment in water power the capital invested in water power development in canada was estimated by the dominion water power and hydrometrlc bureau department of the interior to amount to over 1390 million dollars on january 1 1931 the last year for which official figures aro complete for all industries is 192s and theso show that tho amount of capital invested in water power was exceeded only by that in agriculture and it stoam railways