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anecdotes recall naughty nineties delightful stories about famous people of the nineties and after are as thick as autumnal leaves and just as colored in the reminiscences life was worth living of w graham robertson the painter mr robert son he has a genius for making friends and what is more difficult keeping them was for years the close friend of sarah bernhardt and ellen terry and at one and the same time too then he knew intimately whistler sargent rossettl burnc- jones henry irving oscar wilde and well pretty nearly everybody in the artistic world worth knowing one day robertson found the di vine sarah in the highest spirits evi dently raised by some paragraph she had chanced upon in a newspaper there goes the last of them she cried with a flourish of the paper the last of 1 he gaped tinlntclligently tho last of the doctors who gave me only one more year to live when i was a girl there wero any amount of them and now theyre all dead and here i am another time he was dining with bernhardt and old madame guerard who always lived and travelled with her tho conversation fell upon the roles in life which each should choose to play i should like to be a queon said sarah at once my dear child protested madame guerard what peaplo do you think would over stand you you would and yourself with your head off in a week ellen terry had a collection of odd littlo cottages in unlikely places within reach of loudon and was per petually disappearing all by herself into one or another of these burrows one was a tiny publichouso saloon called the audrey arms and she was obliged by her lease to keep the busi ness going but she discouraged cus tom by the quality of the swipes she served and the trade went to an other little pub in the same row of cottages which sold much better beer just think of being served with a pot of art an art by ellen terry what bliss in due course graham robertson was bidden by ellen terry to come down to the audrey arms for a breath of fresh air only ouo customer dropped in dur ing my visit when we wero at lun cheon in the bar parlor he recalls and i stepped out to serve him it was my solo experience as a potman and i trust that i gavo satisfaction and good measure a friend o henry irvtngs wal ter pollock who used to give a wonderfull exact imitation of the famous actor was paralyzed one night when in tho presence of convivial friends irving said suddenly now let us have that imitation of jne that everybody is so fond of oh i couldnt i stammered tho unhappy victim go on go on ald irving here handing him a book read a page of this imitating me pollock meekly took tho book and began in a halfhearted and shame faced way then warming to his work finished in his best manner amidst the usual applause chuckles robertson rt irving waited till tho laughter had ceased and then said slowly and with perfect sincerity my boy i never heard you read so well before in my life it is an old trick with reporters trying to obtain an interview with a celebrity who doesnt appreciate the honor and there aro some who dont to use flattory by asking their vic tim for a messago to tho people a cortain scrlbo onco tried tho dodgo on burnejonos tho famous painter tell them said tho great man that i hopo thoy aro very well and that i am pretty well and off ho went burnejones in his younger day3 asked dauto gabriel rossettl tho poet and painter why he had introduced some inexplicable object into a pic ture to puxzle fools boy to puzzle tools came tho unexpected reply but remarked burnejones re lating the incident to graham robert son i dont altogether recommend the practice whistler had long wished to paint a portratt of disraeli and one day he came upon his longedfor model sitting alone in st jamess park london apparently absorbed in thought plucking up his courage whistler afraid he endeavored to recall himself to tho mystic prime minister and finally made his request disraeli remained silent throughout then after an ley pause murmured go away go away little man whistlor went and with him dls- raeli3 chance of immortality on can vas adds graham robertson ann pavlowa world famous dancer was passionately fond of her beauti ful home at hampstead adjoining good old hampstead heath with its lovely garden and lake the latter built specially for her swans ivy house for so it was named had once been the homo of turner the cele brated painter and pavlowa would say i am glad to bo living in a house that used to belong to an art ist not because turner was tur ner be it noted but because turner was an artist she loved her swans and was quite unafraid of them recalls waltord hay- den who for twenty years was with pavlowa as a music director she would seize them rapturouslyl and play with them by the waters edge for hours and they never injured her in any way despito tho fact that sho had danced tho swan dance in numerable times she never allowed herself to become selfconscious in her love tor the swans themselves m each time pavlowa had to leave ivy house on one of her prolonged world tours she would go into every room and say godbye to her bird3 and flow ers says mr ilayden in his book pavlowa when she would come back into the drawing room she would be weeping she would sit on a chair and pray blessing her homo in the russian manner before leaving it daughter of dominions secretary weds miss doris thomas daughter of tho rt hon j h thomas secretary for the british dominions was married to mr robert feamloywhittingstall at st martiusinthefields church in london england here are the bride and groom leaving the church after the ceremony she never failed to observe this rit ual except onco this was on tho last occasion when she left ivy house on her departure for the continental tour during which she died when leaving the house this time pavlowa astonished everybody by her hurry she seemed to bo running blindly away from the home sho was never to see again applied genesis littlo wilfred had been absent from suuday school aud the teacher called to inquire why the real reason said the boys mother is because i tear he is learn ing things that only tend to make him mischievous mischievous exclaimod tho aston ished teacher really i dont under stand how sunday school could have that effect on him you see explained the parent its like this tho last time wilfred went to sunday school ho came home convinced that people are made of dust and i found him trying to draw hl3 little sister into tho vacuum cleaner country gentleman ttiittmrmtmimiii ii n 1 1 tttjt in iiiiy w- ill nl rs why do you always attend the opening performance at tho theatre so i can enjoy tho show without thinking what tho critics havo said a man with a poor memory has no business to become a liar 5 nearly ovory girl bollovos a lot of othor girls aro jealous of hor tilling by electricity favored in far east rural electrification in algeria is be ing assiduously developed by the authorities the country depends largely on its vines and its agricul ture especially cereals and olives and electricity is u3ed for much of the work in this connection electric power is also being extended to such operations as sawing cream separat ing dough kneading and so forth be sides its growing use generated by largo tractors for harvesting and threshing one of its most important uses i3 for deep plowing so important for vineyards where the rainfall is ir regular and insufficient formerly the natlvo used to turn only tho surface of the boil with hand implements and wa3 satisfied with very low yields but now with electric power available tho soil is turned to a depth from 40 to so centimeters algeria 13 being forced to turn to machinery owlug to lack of suitable labor o only turkishmade clothes to be worn in turkey istanbul turk turkish officials from president kemal down and their families mu3t wear clothes of turkish manufacture tho turkish cabinet decided in a meeting at angora president kemal is required to forgo his london tailors and an gora women their paris gowns as a part of tho turkish governments new economy measure salaries of officials wil be reduc- od as ono effect ot the 10000000 cut in tho 1933 budget and duties on imported luxuries will bo greatly in creased o iiiiiiii sunday school lesson ilmmi youth can teach much to grownups new york grown people have to keep on learning in order to ba ot any use to young people with whom they come in contact declared mrs franklin d roosevelt in an infor mal address at the fifth anniversary meeting of the parents magazine the things wo teach young peo ple aro not nearly so important a3 what we learn from them mrs roosevelt said we must always be prepared to meet each new age as we come to it that is what helps us to pass on an atmosphere of ex perience and of a life lived with understanding which i believe is probably the best thing we can do for children mrs roosevelt said that her con- tacts with young people in her own organization and he instructed tbu family now range from one ot 24 tho continue the appointment of over years to a grandchild ot one year seers elders bishops all of which which provide her with plenty opportunities tor diversification december 8 lesson x rome nd beyond 2 timothy 4 818 golden text i have fought a good fight 1 have finished my course i have kept the faith 2 timothy 4 7 analysis i called of cod rom 15 2229 ii safeguard the faith titus 1 iii farewell 2 tim 4 c18 i called of god rom 15 2229 paul at corinth was preparing for that jerusalem journey destined to be so eventful a friend of his rom 1g 1 2 was going to rome and he seized the opportunity to send a let ter to the roman chrstians the christian group in rome originated bably among the pilgrims who had been at jerusalem during pentecost paul always believed that every mans life is a separate thought of god god had a work for each one to do having daced himself at his fathers disposal his own sphere in k te had been made abundantly cleit to him rom 1 1 the man who offers his life wholeheartedly to 3jd will soon come to know where his work lies having completed his mission ary activity in the eastern part of the empire paul now turned definitc- y to rome his pioneering soul however did ot take of the empire capital the terminus of his ambition paul was always pressing forward a mans reach must exceed his grasp or whats a heaven for said browning or whats an earth for paul would say from rome he would carry the gospel to spain and the western parts of the empire v 21 his vision of world evangelization did not make him a visionary men believing themselves called to some great enterprise have sometimes given up all interest in practical affairs pauls enthusiasm was never divorced from common sense he gave careful attention to details the relations be tween the jewish churches of pales tine and the gentile churches of aria minor and greece were none too satis factory the poverty in jerusalem provided an opportunity of binding the two together paul seeing that took much pains to arrange a gener ous collection for the younger churches for the noor saints which are at jerusalem v 26 the belated folk who still maintain hat the minister ought not to talk bout money in the pulpit have not so learned of paul missions and finances are inseparably bound together ii safeguard the faith titus 1 pauls anxiety concerning his jeru salem visit rom 15 31 was ony too well justified when he came to rome he came in chains freed after his first trial he evidently undertook another missionary tour during which he visited crete the new faith had evidently come to crete long before pauls arrival for its adherents were found in many cities v 5 he had been unable to complete the work of what new york is wearing by annebelle wobthwgton illustrated dressmaking lesson fur nished with every pattern in becoming adjusted to them the human touch sir alexander ciegg in tho con gregational quarterly london in dustry can never la shorn of its hu man touoh except at tho loss ot ef- bird song and weather the song of birds is affected by weather changes according to an english naturalist h o alexander who ha3 been making a study ot the effects ot atmospheric conditions on our feathered friends says charles fltzhugh talman in his scienco ser vice feature why tho weather washington changes in weather especially the onset ot severe cold or snow have an influenco upon tho amount ot bird song but the effects aro different for different species freezing weather reduces the amount of song of the groundfeed ing species such as skylarks and thrushes while cold winds havo tho samo effect upon moro arboreal teed- ers i some species including tho coal- tit respond vocally to suushine ami some such a3 tho blackbird aro en- thoybocomo to 8omoextcnv cogs in couraged by rain tho investigator a machine but tho hotter tho men uresis that sunshine or rain may and tho women tho more silently andffect tho food supply of these bird smoothly run tho cogs and it is thovd s induco song but rain s tlmu- duty of tho directors to oncourago i latea blackbirds more than el her and contribute to all that promotes thrushes or robins though the food lult0 is with him a friend in need f j irnnti s- ini tint t n 4n tvnn ta a 1 inmli tlmfttli 1 elders 0 terms refer to the same office with out an organized ministry everything would soon fall into confusion and cay surrounded a3 the christians were with false doctrine and the pro verbial dishonesty and immorality of the cretans t iii farewell 2 tim 4 618 facing h3 second trial and from his cold damp dungeon in the mamnr- tine prison if tradition is to be trust ed paul writes his second letter to his friend timothy the time of my departure 3 at hand v 6- de- ture means unmooring the brave mariner is slipping the cables whih bind his ship to the shore and there is no moaning of the bar as he put- out to sea memories of the old days in tarsus como to him memories of games aid contests in lifes great arena he too has played the gam i have con tested earnestly in the good contest v 7 i have not swerved from my appointed course in everything i have acted upon what i believed to have been the promptings of gods spirit i have kept the faith that is christs faith in me i have not be trayed the trust he placed in me i havo been true to the larger vision which emancipated me from the cold and narrow legalism of my fathers his last days are saddened by lone liness ono friend has gone here an other there some have even deserted lim in his hour of danger only dame fashion invades russia here are lovely slenderizing lines for the matronly figure youll love the new skirt cut with it3 clever diagonal line3 to reduce hip bulk the crossover bodice has ap plied band trim that is very effective and becoming besides producing a flat line much appreciated by the larger figure a patterned crepe silk is an excel lent medium for this model plain blending shade crepe is used for bands and bow lace is used for the tiny vestee style no 3173 is designed for sizes 30 38 40 42 44 40 and 48 inches bust size 30 requires 4 yards of 39- inch material with yard of 39inch contrasting and yard of 3inch lace fashioned of black crepe satin its stunning with white vest dark green pattoraei sheer woolen is lovely with eggshell crepe used for the tiny vest 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 soviet women now able to buy silk stockings at high price moscow women of soviet russia no longer may be said to be without silk stockings although they still are difficult to obtain and continue to be the most sought after article of clothing silk stockings nevertheless aro available at a price that this is true is tri dent of tho fact that russian women slowly but surely are dressing better a year ago tho welldressed woman encountered in the street or at the theatre either was a foreigner or ono ot the few fortunate natives who had friends to bring her clothing from abroad now ouc frequently meets welltailored russian women al though they are far in tho miuority officially fashions as they ara known to their sisters abroad havo- no place in the lives ot presentdar russians since the revolution ma terials and money have been too- scarce besides tho good commu nist scorns such bourgeois mani festations holding that the women ot new russia have no time for such frills there are no fashion maga zines no newspaper advertisements depicting the latest modes but the feminine thirst for bettor clothiug is indicated in tho crowds which storm the stores devoted to such articles and await their turn to buy stockings called silk but moat ot which in reality are the artificial variety can be bought when they aro available for 18 rubles about 9 up ward tho coarser kind sell for ouo ruble 20 copecks up to 45 rubles hats bring from 10 rubles for tho poorest to go for the best shoes 1340 to 5s gloves 1250 to 30 dresses 775 to 200 and coats from 30 to 250 white mans progress sydney bulletin the oriental is not a conservative contrary to popu lar opinion ho took to european machinery like a crocodile to water factories arose in all the treaty ports and spread outside them joint stock companies without a body to kick or a soul to savei west ern banking and credit systems mass production and all tho result of it wero unloaded on the unsuspect- inf yellow man the first thing that happened was that the village industries collapsed the guilds tho societies miscalled secret which represented the asiatic idea of trades unions and other natural features of the social landscape were blown to perdition the family system which had endured for thousands of years tho shock if civil war tho fall ot dynasties flood famine and pesti lence disintegrated as sons and daughters left the household hearth to earn the not excessive wages of fered by the foreigner again who is far away asia minor ho writes and urges him to come to him and if possible before winter v 21 he does not know that before the leaves fall from the trees in tre fon- tanohe will have gone to his reward although no one stood by him at his trial he tell3 timothy he was not alone his master was with him he will continue to be with him to him be glory for ever and ever with full sail and a flowing tide the brave old mariner put3 out to sea tho wollbolng ot their workpeople j is vcr similar i longing to seo his disciple timothy home the souls dark cottage battered and decayed lets in new light through chiuks that time has made stronger by weakness wiser men be came as they draw near to their eternal home e waller roman finds made in britain surprising roman finds hava been located near st albans england curved city streets and elaborate buildings havo been uncovered fashion gems evening drcssc3 show much elab oration in their back treatment cas cades flounces and a variety of drapes are cut in ono with the gown adding grace and still carrying out the slim silhouette in frtmt the fur scarf in lei fashion has a rival in the figureeight scarf this is slipped over tho head in such a way as to form a cross in front at the same enveloping the neck and waist the shorterhaired fur is cor rect for this type such as sable and baum marten sleeves and neck line3 aro ot ma jor importance this season tho high puffs are giving way to lower full ness which holds in tight at tho waist diagonal and soft drapr neck lines are favored for both tail ored and dressy wear if a man 13 a loafer ho probably la bors under a delusion mutt and jeff- fisher maybe you can figure it out i tiov fansclf ijto a fins taioguc- r bcep5i rro pav jeffs well xta gstabu srin3 old piano returns to favor brussels pianos of the old brand played by hand aro coming into fas hion again after a had slump mer chants say they aro selling them easi ly at good prices in spite ot tho com petition ot the mechanical piano radio aud phonograph musicians thrown out ot work by tho new inventions aro taking heart again as this winters modo 13 oldfashioned music whether for dancing concerts in cafes or othor kinds of entertainment tho slump in tho demand for plano- fort03 a leading planomaker says was roally duo to bad teaching instead ot learning to interpret tho sentiments ot tho composers begiuuors simply re garded pianoplaylng as a mechanical 0x somethlug liko writing on typewriter nnd they were oncourosw in feat3 ot endurance by their teachers hard times havo induced teachers and pupils to talto more pains trifles could wo bestow dn tho improve ment of our souls tho hours that wo so vainly spend on trifles our day would bo short ouough not to secin tedious and long enough for us to finish our appointed task wablc 40000 get 3month room there aro 100000 tenants umw ono root in old vienna a rental ot i a room a month is tho limit tho law forbidding ar lncreaso a flali in tho hand is worth a dozen in tho anglers story