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nature says it with flowers archibald rutledge in america forests i once bad a rather memorable ex perience with a waterlily i bad been at a houseparty and to be frank i had tired o tho company on morning and had goue for a walk alone in the woods here i found a tiny pond and on it a single perfect waterlily little gusty fra grant airs out of the forest made its gleaming chalice slide veeringly on the black water it seemed yearn ing for wings while i was admiring the snowy immaculate bloom sailing idly and perhaps imagining that the other iiouscguesu whose frivolities i had fled would not have thus wan dered to admire a lily behind me sounded a step turning i faced the chief reveler wliat could ho he doing down here he spoke for himself how did you find my lily he asked this is my fourth visit to hor too bad she caut just sail away as she wants to just like people anchored to the mud what ever since that experience ive heen far less sure of the originality and th 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 is the first bloom ot the spring to woo one to the woods when the groat gray spearheads ot wild geese stream northwatd be fore the woods are misty with tints ot coming green before there is a single songster heard in the forest springs darling recluse comes fra grantly forth as fair as hope as sustaining to winterweary souls as fulfilments of loves promises the great rose mallow i3 perhaps the most alluring of all wilrt-flow- ers partly because it persists in growing in inaccessible places it is the love we never meet the hope we never realize a rose mallow has always been to me a vision ot beauty unattainable having the glamour of sunsets in it and the lure of sad seahorizons the yellow jasmine is a child ot the southern forests and a rejoic ing child it is its beauty and its fragrance are such that one could hardy imagine grace more refined if you caut make lovo to a maiden with jasmine showers above theres no such thing as romance theres no such thing a3 love whenever i think of jasmine i see oaks and hollie3 and sweetgums 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 i dearly love the wild columbine for at least two reasons for it3 swaying delicate beauty and tor its blithe hardihood in growing out of rocks like the loveliness ot soul springing out of adversity it re calls to me a certain meadow trout stream and a priuce ot fishermen henry van dyke it was long my privilege to fish this stream with him or rather to watch him the old master whicb afforded me more pleasure thau angling myself at a certain point along the stream the bank is high and rocky there are dewberry vinos ambling greenly over tho stones there are hawthorn hushes there are little white violets like babes in the woods and there in wild columbine out ot the rocks it grows there will be a patch ot soil not larger than the palm of ones band thin and starvod but in this the columbine grows send ing its roots through cold forbid ding crevices in the rock- how- over fast the ashing i never saw henry van dyke pass the swaying red ohimes ot tho columbine with out pausing to worship unteignedly at their delicate shrine i could not have been more than si years old when i aw my first wild rose growing in a clay hank thero had been a shower not long heforo so that tha delicate leaves were coolly pearled and exhaling from tho foliage was the most delici ous odor i had ever smelled i imagined that tha fragrance came from tha pink blooms how sur prised i was when my mother ex plained tbat the leaves gave the odor wildflowers do not as a rule take kindly to civilization i have tried transplanting and improving arbutus ladyslipper chicory blackeyed susan and many others but they pine for home for the sweet wild erness of nature chicory shows a heavenly blue in the starved upland pasture but when set in rich soil fertilized and otherwise peter it went to stem and coarse leaves the blossoms were few and inferior it could not stand prosperity per haps it comes to perfection as long as it is anybodys flower if we try to appropriate it its charm fails one ot the most startling and at the same time beautiful wildflowers in all nature is tho regal cardinalis the bloom that in damp wood- lauds lifts us gorgeous red spire sunward seeming to carol a scarlet madrigal where nothing obstructs the view its crimsou spirt can eas ily he seen for a distance of 200 yards and its presence invests the wood with a princely charm a it royalty were approaching there is about the beauty of this flower the ceremony ot loveliness a rite ot splendor 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 i knew heal his heart if anything could it wa3 in my mind to stop beside some scene of beauty and let natures 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 o ana hickories under which stood a fairy forest of maid enhair ferns ou the other side was a mountain meadow stretching away under massive scarlet oaks to the distant mountain stream i saw the crimson turrots ot 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 ot beauty my friend as was natural saw the cool names 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 commuuion with natural beauty and peace my friend began what proved to be a complete recovery- one day in that delicious season when the rosebays were in bloom i had gone into a shadowy glen to see the pink and snowy blooms glim mering in the fragrant woods above a crystal cascade ou 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 wa just that deep hour when a huge and thoughtful silence trances the world you been lookin at the rhodod endrons aint you she asked i 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 alius leave them doris was right the way to go wildfloweriug is not to gather them but to love them to leave them and to bring their beauty home in ones heart olympic romance a plunge into the sea of matrimony will be takeu by mickey ltiley and georgia coleman two ot americas leading divers theyre going to wait until after the olympic games though simdajr schoo lesson what did the judge do to that young man who stole the diction ary he gave him a long sentence to work out july 24 lesson iv the deliverance at the red sea exodus 14 1016 21 22 golden text the lord is my strength and my song and he is become my salvation exodus 15 2 analysis i straitened vs 1012 ii moses confidence vs 13 14 iii deliverance vs 15 16 21 22 introduction the passage of the red sea was lvgarded by israel itself a- the most important eveit in their history men of later generations prophets and psalmists referred to it again and again it was truly a water shed in their history before it they were a band of spiritless slaves afcer it tney were gods triumphant free men lot us c st our glance briefly backwards unoer the last awful visi tation of god the destruction of the rstborn pharaohs heart at last yielded the israelites were permit ted to leave indeed the egyptians were glad to see the last of them out ii to the wilderness they went gd himself guiding them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by tight it is difficult to follow then- course with an degree of certainty they were not trained in the nice pre cisions of modern geography at any rte they reached the rod sea or sea o rushes as the bible calls it though at what point they touched the r sea whether the gulf of akaba or the gulf of fiez or lake timsach it is perhaps impossible t say here they were to see the arm of the lord revealed i straitened vs 1012 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 3g 6 no sooner had the israelites left egypt than the pharr aoh true to the unstable character of his race regretted that he had per mitted them to go after all the israelites were very useful they had made excellent slaves a division of tin egyptian army chariotry cav alry and infantry 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 pursied with a wellequip ped force lost heart they began to upbraid moses the first of their many murmurings against his leader ship was it not a mistake they ask ed to make this dash for freedom did not slavery in egypt severe though it was offer relative security better a secondbest like slavery than this sure and awful destruction let ui alone they aaj cried in egypt the language o despair of content ment with the secondbest lot us alone cried the demon possessed in ihe synagogue rt capernaum mark 1 24 the ceaseless language of sin they were indeed in despcirte straits before they was the red sea behind tl em the egypian army they could go neither forward nor backward all retreat was cut off they were faced with nothing but destructioi or god ii moses confidence vs 13 14 before his timid people wellnigh paralyzed with fear stood the lion- hearted leader moses only the cour ageous can inspire courage and the confidence of moses begotten of faith in god put i cart into tho people here as so often in the story says 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 he endured as hcb 11 27 finely suys as seeing the invisible he saw- one whom the winds and the 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 lh glorious pssage of the red sea was an act of gods strength mad perfect in weakness iii deliverance vs 15 16 21 22 the rod whicu 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 godf spirit dwelling mightily in him thi- power was thought to be mediated through his clothes or through his staff elisha parted the waters of jordan with the mantle of elijah ings 2 12 gohazi attempted to raise the shunammites son with the staff of elisha 2 kings 4 31 when moses stretched out his rod over the sea it obeyed its master a later psalmist has clothed tho event with poetic im agery the sea saw him and fled psalm 114 3 an explanation 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 this sea of rushes as a whole and that a furious wind blowing all iight would have the unusual but not altogether impossible effect of driving the waters back leaving the seabed comparativc- 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 all 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 god whatever the nature or explanation of the event it was in any case the lords doing the kings highway i know a road whoso ribboned length smooth surfaced as a floor was once the route ot cavaliera in stately coach aud four here gallant beaux in powdered wig and belles in ruffled gown to many a party ball and rout ltode down to old jamestown how still it is along the road how most divinely still the sunlit pattern ot tho leaves tho shadows on the hill my motor purrs in warm content a rabbit scurries by a drift ot 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 ot thrush and bobollnk i catch my breath across a field ot windblown silvery wheat the wraith ot pocahontas glides on light elusive feet through field aud wood and sleepy town the road winds on its way while drifting clouds against the blue frail butterflies at play it winds with many a bend and curve to cross a singing river where pale green willow fringes trail and tall marsh grasses quivor it 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 pollen declared to be 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 r medical associa tion dr george c hale ot london out said inhalation of pollon was one ot the major causes of asthma he named gating of celaii foods and the effluvia aud proteins ot bacteria as others asthma he explained was duo in early stages fo spasms in the small bronchioles small tubes running from tho 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 suggest sufferers from asthma after each attack should writo dowu everything the did or ale on the pro- 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 americas oldest mrs a tom our physician wants to send me to a summer re sort for four weeks mr a well i dont blame him why worry a quaint morsel of graveyard philosophy written about 1875 a hundred years ago or more meu wrung their hands and walked the floor and worried over bhis and that and thought their cares would squash them flat where are those worried beings now the bearded goat and festibe cow eat grass abov their moulded bones and jay birds call in strident tones and where the ills they worried oer forgotten all for evermore cono all tho sorrow and the woe that lived a hundred years ago the grief that makes you scream today like other griefs will pass away and when youve cashed your little string and jay birds oer your bosom sing the stranger pausing thero to view tho marble works that cover you will think upon tho uselessness of human worry and distress so let the worry business slide live while you live and when youve died the folks will say around your bior ho made a hit whllo ho was hero br hi el vkli vfirhjera because she is said to bo americas oldest mother mrs nahtbletle 109yearold apache indian of oklahoma received a gold medal from tho federated womens clubs a grave world issue drought causes distress in persia drinking water lacking and and crops ruined owing to lack of rain bushlre persia at this port and along tho persian littoral ot the gulf no winter or spring rains tell and la consequence there has been not only a total crop failure but famine act ac tual lack of drinking water almost the whole population is dependent on agriculture and thus suddenly finds itself penniless aud deprived ot every means of support an effort is being made by the authorities aud by a few private persons to provide subsistence rations but there 13 great privation for every one accompanied by an out break of thievery and highway rob bery villages on the coastal plain have been completely abandoned aud trav elers report that over this wide aroa not a living thing is to be seen aa long as two months ago the unfor tunate villagers were forced to collect their chattels aud drive their flocks over the mountains to the less parch ed plateau of central persia where their black tents now dot the coun tryside even so many are ou tho by stanley baldwin lord president of the council in a house ot commons speech the great importance ot this junc ture of the ottawa conference is that it comes at a time when we are defi nitely at the parting of tho ways it will bo impossible for things to drift j vergo of starvation and they have l03t any longer we havo got to advance halt or more ot the aulmais in the direction of closer fiscal rela- at liushire the authorities are mak- tionship or we have got to drift apart iijg desperate efforts to cope with tha there is no question about it situation steamers bring 200 tons of tho whole evolution of the oco- drinking water each week from mo- nomlc pull of the world is gradually hammerah and basra the poor hava to increase the larger units and i been lucky to obtain small quantities hope we may see in europe a great ot brackish water remaining in a few change in the future or it will be all deep wells or else the slopwater of up with european trade and it tho rich households the municipality dominions do not get into this closer however is now endeavoring to dlstril economic union with us i need not bute free drinking water in this house and with this audience i the food situation is nearly as serl- point out the economic dangers ous as tho water shortage all food- which for those who valuo the em- stuffs have to be imported and prices plre and the traditions of our race j soar some of the leading merchants lie between each different component impelled by generosity or tho hope of part of the empire warding off disturbances are giving we havo to remember thero is no free meals to the needy as yet it such thing as isolating yourself from has not been possible to relieve the world depression countries have distress adequately and some parents tried it particularly the united aro in such straits that they are offer- states they tried to keep out other ing their children for sale peoples goods and did influence world conditions for a time but evn cold feet causer they cannot do it their distress to- p pj- m day and the disasters which have ulsease inot climate overtaken them well there is 110 tlle are oftener a result ot dis- eountry in the world which is suffer- case r temperament than of ox- ing more it may be beneficial from psure says a writer in the hygionlo the standpoint of a single country to of oiingoiro paris signing take measures to isolate itself it cannot be done by all of them we must do all we can to break it down himself doctor gamma look at the modern woman with her silk stockings and low shoes her grandmother wore woolens and r s j furlined footwear keeping ones isritam rteads list feet warm is largely an affair ot ex- as buyer of anthracite ercise and good circulation ottawa ont imports of anthra- poor circulation and tight uniforms cito into canada from great britain j troze ma ree the trenches dur- exceeded those from the united n tle war e asserts we read states in may the first time in his- silk stockings these low tory that this happened in any one sll0e3 that tie sirls not to mention month in may the imports from uleir elders insist ou wearing in britain were 170907 tons and from j au weathers what an absurd fash- tbe united states 150802 tons in on tllis what the ladies with may 1931 they wore from britain j the ereen hats say and for once tho 141911 tons and from the united h are forced to agree with states 208894 them the hygienist foresees rhino- the summary of trade for may pharyngitis sinus trouble bronchial issued by the dominion bureau cpttt statistics shows that the balance with groat britain was favorable to canada by 3743081 and with the united states unfavorable by 10- 33s007 for tho twelve months ended in may the favorable balance was 32891398 contrasted with an 0 j catarrh enteritis mercy you shiver with fear no nor with j cold either are those maladies really more common among women than mou not especially we must admit it even at the cost of disbelieving in hygiene and even in the most unfavorable balance of 77737551 j unfavorable weather this absurd for the previous period the nnfav- fashion doe not congest the waittng- orable balance with the united rooms of the doctors must wa stales was cut from 213s59398 to doubt tile future of the profession 87737978 itet us consider the evidence cold feet favor infections and congestions true remember the experiment a true tost ot friendship to sit or of pasteur who brought on cholera walk with a friend tor an hour in per- with chickens they did not wear feet silence without wearying ot one silk stockings by keeping their feot a true test anothers company duty in water it has even been alleg ed that cold footbatlis may causa nosebleed but despite our low faces aro made beautiful by kind noss it is a divine sculptor it requires a very clever tongue to get a foolish 0110 out ot trouble mutt and jeff by bud fisher t is bw hi bgntet kms puadroft with mrs mutt to f0rgw6 ttlra jjc wrnmts to 86 a 6oot h0m6 w omtiv vfcmryfer an impassioned outburst of oratory 5 the thing which must be must bo s we have cold feet less than for the best our grandmothers with their thick god helps us to do our duty and not stockings their furlined hoots and shrink j their hot soapstones when they went and trust its mercy humbly for tho to bed rest owen meredith custom works miracles such tho dictum of the good abbe who used to take walks barefoot in tho dewy grass he- died of it on tine 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 shoos warpod by the wet quite as often as the frozen mud of the trenches so low shoes are acquitted how then is it that some people always complain of cold feet no matter how warmly clad these persons al most always have blue hands and feet cold and moist this may ho 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 avoid cold extremities in winter nor colds nor bowel troubles for their feet aro bathed constantly in per spiration and their lot is as sad a that of pasteurs chickens what shall wo do if we hava come into tho world with this little infirmity stamp our feet rathor than hold them lo the fire change our stockings often f barefoot in the house or wear only light slip pers roplaco warm hatlu by rub bing and take codliver oil in tha winter