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r '~7or the by \. Jlorcnct kuidick Boys Your Grocer Do you know your grocer and do you co-operate with him in trying to save his time and your money? \\'e are familiar with the housewife who com. into the store, not knowing what she wants, and waste* valuable time of the clerk's and keeps other customers waiting while she tries to make up her mind. A shopping list prepared at home would have avoided this. One cannot always know what attractive things will he in the market, but these can be promptly picked up an extras. The lamp bcside'lt. At one side ho wants MASTERPIECE They Stifled an Exclamation as He Threw Back the Cover With a Dramatic Gesture By Georgo Godwin When Carlton Grant was translated his elbow table of magazines, while from the prim scdateness of an Eng- clialr and swept from the little table the world of Spring the world of his boer glass. youth." He paused, and continued: "Come!" he commanded, "we will "Consider the nympths, mark well go at once." And there was a note the dappling upon lithe bodies as of urgency In his deep voice. the y P |a y in tne shade." Julien Croissart shrugged his shoul- The vol ce ceaaed. The lamp ders. "Charmed," he murmured with- swayed in a slow circle, the shadows out enthusiasm; and, linking his arm of tne me " revolved like beams f rom j In that of the Immortal a familiar- . a lam P of darkness. Then again his \ October 12. voice : "Presently, gentlemen, you shall say Sunday School Lesson Ity that scandalized the Englishman he moved towards ^he door. "What I will show you," boomed de the words I know are gathering in his book C.IBC Is within easy reach. A | "sh county town to that gay whirligig ' L'Orme over his shoulder, "ia my your hearts." cabinet with many drawers Is a con- 1 that Is life in the Latlon Quarter of j -Dance of Spring,' my ch jf-d'euvie. It venlence for his belongings. On this, I Paris, it was but natural, perhaps,' Instead of a vase or statuette he pre- fers a ship model to stir his imagina- tion. The draperies of his room he likes full of color and perhaps gaily flowered. that ho should have nought romance. "Romance?" Julien Croissart shrug- ged. "Sometimes, mon ami, life is a romance, but always it is a riddle is finished." Ten minutes later they had climbed the steep "t.iirs of the eyrie of lo Tiiere was nothing about this habitation to suggest fame or Fashions, Fadt, Foibles Hemlines are coming down. the riddle of how to conjure from success; it was, indeed, eloquent of 1 stony hearts the credit necessary for. poverty, failure, and decay. But Grant They now are twelve to thirteen inches from the floor for daytime, shorter woman without a shopping list is like-] for sports; eight inches fo; late after- noon, with a few reaching the ankle; Instep or floor length for evening. Daytime silhouettes are straight with slight flares. Boleros, or short jackets; peplums; deep flouncrs and ruffles are frequent. Sleeves are do- j Ing strange things. They may be plain, have capes from the shoulder, such exr llont bock as this." told himself that this was not Eng- They wore seated in the Cafe des ; land, but Paris, the Latin Quarter, and Cubistes. Julien Croisnart est down a French genius. Did not Verlaine his empty glass on the red-and-white check table cover and sighed. A borrowed tube of gamboge their ateliers faced one another across the top landing of a crazy old building had started this friendship between the young Kuglishman and the happy- go-lucky designer of strange, and sometimes even staggering, posters. In a mout)< they wtra bosom friends. ly to phone to the grocer, after she gets home, and order something she forK',1. requiring an extra delivery. We all M ve to pay the overhead In the u; | [i of the grocery, and many such cu limers demand extra clerk hire n.! delivery service. IF possible do your marketing out- eide of the regular daily rush hours, which are from eleven to one and five to six o'clock. You will get better at- tention and save the grocer rush and It helps If you know the location of the various goods in the tore and make your order according- ly, not expecting the clerk to chase from one end of the store to the other to show you a cheese or a box of prunes. Some customers will pinch every peach and fee of the food carelessly, increasing its tendency to spoil. If you do this, you should purchase it yourself and not leave It for the | and blue, black and turquoise, and ! "Cher maitre," he greeted him, "you grocer to sell to another. Consider the size of packages. The larger size is cheaper, in proportion to its contents and is economy if you can use it to advantage. Calories and Reducing It IR almost impossible to reduce by i be puffed above the elbow or bell I " But - lny friend," exclaimed Crols- shaped below it. The bell sleeve of- sart . hls (lark ev es sweeping over the ten has a tight inner sleeve. Many motely crowd of students and artists afternoon dresses have short sleeves. at tlle Ilttl0 tables, "there it comes, Be!u are at the normal waist line. Fabrics most used are plain woolens, light weight knit fabrics, monotone tweeds. Scotch plaids, heavy silk vel- vets, laces, satin, broadcloth. Colors yes! On two legs, under a big som- brero, and with many whiskers." "What comes?" asked the puzzled Englishman. "Why, romance, of course," answe r are green, with a yellowy green for j l ' d Crolnart; "but come, we will la" evening; warm browns and maroons wlth llim -" and black, with an off-black, a dark prune, called "Ink." Color combina- tions, new and unusual, feature this season. Wo have pink and red, red live In squalor? "Madame will be enchanted," boom- ed the great voice, as their host waved them, with a royal gesture, towards the open door of his atelier. A light flared up from within as a lamp, borne aloft by a woman, illum- inted the darkness of the e..trance. Carlton Grant saw a slender woman with a pallid face whose beauty was marred by the pittlngs left by small- Pox. "Ah, messieurs," she chirped, "it is not everybody who is permitted to see the 'Dance of Spring.' " She turned to the young french- man. "You know, do you not, monsieur, ' <w much persuasiuu my husband i -uilly needs before he will uncover masterpiece?" Tho young artist roue and went to I Sue i au giied gaily, but something in meet the bearded giant whose mighty t i lal voi( . e Billed the heart of the inane gave him the appearance of some old Wotan of mythology. green and blue. The one-piece, 'light- j wil1 < lri "> 1 notk wlth me and meet stranger. This woman, he told him- self, was playing a part but what part? Her face was a mask of tra- gedy. weight wool dress is very popular, j mv friend" and he shot a significant j Madame de L'Orme, placing her hand on the arm of her husband, moved towards the closed door of the atelier. A moment later they were in Hats are worn astonishingly far K'anco towards his companion "a back on the head; or diagonally, up on one side, down on the other The double brim is new, cut and fol in clever ways, either up or down. The beret-hat, like a skull cap, covers resolving to eat less. In a vague, gen- 1 about that much of the head. It may eral way. The only sure and scien- tific method is to count your calories and know how much you are eating. This Is not as difficult as It seems. Maintenance diet for a man at hard work Is 2600 calories daily; for a wo- man at hard work, L'400; for a woman at light work 2200. IH.T.SOII about 17UO. If you are a short To reduce, you show hair generously all around. There is morn than usual variety In this season's hats. great admirer of yours, cher maitre." These words produced an electrical effect upon tins giant. He lumbered j the Master's studio. It was a bare, slowly and clumsily towards the table whitewashed apartment, canvases Perspiration If the sweat glands of thn underarm and feet are excessively active, they may be made less so by the use of a twenty. five per i.ent. solution of alum- and sank Into the chair. "So monsieur knows my work, and mou.-ifiir admires greatly admires, hein?" "What my good friend admires most," cut in Croissart. "is the 'As- tarte' in the Luxembourg." Carlton firaut was gazing with awe upon one addressed as Master. Maitre! This was indeed luck. This was the ral thing. The Englishman looked at the speaker and from him to the woman. He saw a quiver, very slight, but ac- centuated by the shadows, play about her dolorous mouth. Pain was stamp- ed upsn the pitiful pitted jrow, but in the deep eyes only love looked out, the love of a woman for a little child. Then ho heard himself saying: "It Is marvellous, marvellous. It is not a painting, it is Spring itself. Surely you have Spring in your heart that you could paint thus!" "It is enough." As he spoke, Ca- mllle de L'Orrae advanced upon his strange masterpiece and reverently covered It. "it is for the nation," he explained. "It Is for France." Five minutes later the two friends were out In the darkness of the nar- row street again. Overhead the stars climbed up above the high walls of the leaning houses, and from afar, mysterious and alluring, came the throb of the city's heart. Julien Crois- sart lit a Caporal cigarette. "You English say of as that we are logical, but without sentiment," he remarked. "Well, It is not true." "It is certainly true sentiment that j does not mock the mad," said the Englishman, sighing. "The mad, mon ami, are to be pit- led," Croissart shrugged. "And those who love them too." "Ah!" exclaimed Croissart, "now you are thinking of Madame. Yes, fifteen years ago she earned money as a model, for she was Indeed beau- tiful. Doubtless, like you, mon ami, she sought romance and found it in her handsome Louvre attendant." For a while he was silent. Presently he began to talk again, as though to Lesson II Mary, the Mother of Jesus (An Example of Motherhood) Luke 2: 15-19; John 2: 1-6; 19: 25-27. Golden Text Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. Luke 2: 19. ANALYSIS. I. THE HEART OF A MOTHER, Luke 2t 15-19. II. THE CONFIDENCE OF A MOTHER IN A GOOD SON, John 2 : 1-5. III. THE CARE OF A GOOD SON FOB HtS MOTHER, John 19: 25-27. INTRODUCTION Not very much is told us of Mary the "highly -vored" (Luke 1: 28), but what is told is good. In the story of the angel's visit she is represented as the simple, modest, pure-minded virgin, obedient to the heavenly vision and the word of God, though not without fear and question- ing. It io evident that her kinswoman Elizabeth thought highly -f her and received her visit with gladness. In the'Song of praise which is attributed to her (Luke 2: 46-55) there is also evidence of a mind richly stored with the sacred literature- and history of her people. It is true lhat in the most strenuous and activo period of hia ministry Jesus became separated more and more from his mother and his brothers and that they were at times anxious for him. His friends on ona occasion are said to have even doubted his sanity (Mark 3: 21, 31), and his mother may have shared their doubts. stacked against the walls, in tho cen- ; ,..., ,,7, -T I himself. But life plays tricks upon tre a big easel shrouded in a dingy j us," he said; "smallpox ravaged the little beauty." 'And her lover deserted her? linen covering. Le maitre advanced to the centre ot the room, his great body casting a shadow before him. The two young! *""*" -"<"** I at the lean, keen face of his friend, men followed on the heels of the with which they must have regarded his words and deeds and th3 growing excitement and enthusiasm of the peo- ple who gathered in multitudes ,',bout him. Wo have reason to believe that in the end he recovered their confi- dence and that both his mother and his brother were numbered among his disciples. I. TUB HEART OF A MOTHER, Luke 2: 15-19. The stories told us in the first chap- ter of the Gospels of Matthew arid Luke, regarding the birth and infancy of Jesus, the visit cf the wise men, th* vision of the shepherds, the icenes in the temple, and the flight to Egypt, reveal to us something of the wonder, the mystery, and the high hopes which woman with the lamp. "Monsieur." boomed de L'Orme. "you are well acquainted, as you have j yourself told me, with my work. Bien! intut cat less than that regular main- tenance diet; about 1200 calories or | tor ;i bath, daub this on and allow It! mum chloride in distilled water. At- , Cal ' lto " Gra " t ha<l mot ^udents In , Now you shall see the full flower of less a day. Knowing tho caloric value of a few common foods, you ran estimate that of similar foods. The following list wil! help: Slicu of bread or toast, 100; crack- er, I.".; muffin, griddle cake. 150; waf- fll". ( irubreud. 200; piece of pie, cake, pudding, Ice cream, 300 to 500, depend- ing on size and rlcl IICHS; teaspoon Buuar, 100; chocolate cream. 100; al- mupd. 'louble peanut, 10; half walnut, 15; cup unsweetened ;;ulatlu, 50; pat of butter, 100; tablespoon cream, 40; cup skimmed milk or buttermilk, 80; cup whole nulk, 160; cube, 100; meat, small helping lean, 100; fat, 300; one egg, 75. Fruits ajiplp, pearh, llg, slice pine to dry. Do not put on your clethlng! until it is dry. Do this twice a week, I twenty-four hours apart, during the I llrst week. After that once a week i will be enough. plenty, and artists, too. But chiefly i of that sort whose masterpieces are to bo painted upon a to-morrow which never arrives. "That is the misfortune, tha penal my ganlus!" The great figure lumbered towards the canvas, hands outstretched to re- move the coverings that hid the great work of art. With a dramatic gesture Julien Croissart stopped and gazed gathered about the new-born child. ' Another story of his cany boyhood and first visit to Jerusalem with his narents (Luke 2: 41-51) makes a sim- "fiut, no!" he exclaimed. "You do not understand? Did way she looked at him was after they were married that his I child ever is? Mary might have been you not see the jj ar impression. This wi.s no ordinary m to-night? It child to a true mother what little mind went after the smallpox through which she nursed him." "Rut the name?" put in the other, name?" Croissart laughed. pardoned if she had magnificxl in mem- ory some of the things which had be?n snid nnd done regaiding him. She "kept all these sayings of the Prefecture there is the dossier > Even the commonplaces of child Morning Prayer "Now I get me up to work. I pray Thee, Lord. I may not shirk If I should die before night. I pray Thee, Lord, the work'* all right." Selected. apple, dish berries, 50; one banana, large orange, pear, 100. Vegetables Largo helping raw, 15; half cup cooked watt!/ vegetables, 25; starchy vegetables. 50; lima brans, baked beans, dried peas, hal. cup, 400. 'i- il Half cup eookud to mush J50. Prepared all-bran, hal. cup, 25. In estimating fried or sweetened foods, the fat and sugar added must be counted. In reduriiiK. e..t a variety, but Count Your Calories and keep as near 1000 or 1200 a day as possible. It will make you more comfortable if you eat gen- erously of vegetable" and fruits and filling foods of low taloric value. Love of Life cheese. Inch f Love you not tho tall trees spreading wide tliftlr branches, Cooling with their shade the sunny days of June? Beautiful Hands tho hands fre(|iienily or having (In m much In hot water dries the natural oils of the .skin and makes the hands wrinkled. Do not put your hiuiil.4 In hot water more Hum Is ab- solutely necessary, tso tepid water iiiHtnad. Wash tha hands with roft water and a mild soap and rub them with a cut lemon to counteract the alkali of the xoap Hub in the lemon b'-furo the hands are dried. A hand lotion massagud into the hands every night, oftener if the hands are rough, will replenish the natural oils. If tho lotion Is not ab- sorbed, and threatens to sol) the sheet* when you retire wear a pair of clean cotton gloves at night. To wear glove* as much as possible will help to retain the benuty of the hands rubber gloves wuen scrubbing about tho house, canvas gloves when doing rough worf In the basement or garden, kid and fabric when on thu streets or travelling, to keep the hands clean and to protect them from the drying effects of Hun mid wind and from he- coming chapped. Love you not the little bird lost among I ho leatlots. ty of fame." boomed the bearded ' h e drew the covering aside " 'The ! ' one Andro Dubois - formerly of the , life ndd to h ,> r eol( u n st or-. .trd each maitre. "My 'Astarto,' what I.- it? A ; Dance of Spring!' " he announced. sla " the Louvre - and now a ad- , new wakening faculty of body or miml mere trifle, an indiscretion of my "The masterpiece of Camlll* de L'- youth In the very early manner." | Ornie!" Carlton Grant now realized that, If Grant stifled an exclamation as,, ho was to avoid a blunder, ho must Croissart. seeing the amazement on ! ^ ton -rant was seeing the tragedy /-,* I* n on nlntit>ltt **Dj\m> t rt I Innr man calling himself Camille de L'- Orme." he explained. They walked in silence for a space. talk with care. Yet. for the life of him, keen student of Modernism lhat ho was, he could not recall a great j silence. his face, gripped his arm and signal- led with tense fingers. The two young There was men were of it all so clearly. "Poor fellow. has for her a beauty beyond compare. II. THE CONFIDENCE OF A MOTHER IN A GOOD SON, John 2 : 1-5. The writer of the Gospel saw in the incident related here somo "xpectation modern painter named so picturesque-! dose together, the woman with the ly, Camille de L'Orme. i lamp, tho bearded figure beside lift had iminatfed to stammer out a what? few fulsome compliments when ho was N o masterpiece, this, but a frightful imagining himself the creator of such ; r anticipation on the part of his masterpieces as those among which i "' ther o{ the exercise of Jesus mar- he had spent his working life." velous P wers -- U may . bo ' **** At length he said: "I suppose In his mad eyes that ghastly daub Is a beau- t'. at in callin his attention to the of sufficient wine for the festive occa- sion she was simply doing what sho tiful picture in which the splendours \\-as accustomed to do at home, roly- V1U UMkVM I'ldC;, llllnp If 11L 4 1 1 1K11 LI Ui , . , I . . -11* ^ 1 saved hy the source of danger him- j Jumble of colour, a riot without de- ^| < * | &* ft iSSBESft'S "Ah, monsieur, as your - sign, coherence, meaning, a ghastly Eimlish botch. friend so greatly admiral my work, ho Dreamily repeating a Quaint, brief!" 11181 /'', my masterpiece for my ,..-, dear Julien, it is now finished!" tune? Is there not a Joy In the waste windy places; Is there not a song by the long ilusty way? Is l here not a glory In the sudden hour of struggle? Is there not a peae In the long quiet quiet day? Love on not the meadows with the deep lush grasses; Love ou not the cloud-flocks noise- less In their flight? Love you not thn cool wind that stirs to meet the minrise; Love yo not tho stillness of the warm .summer nlg'it? Have you never wept with a grief that slowly passes; Have you never liiughril when a Joy goes running by? Know you not the peace of rest that follows labor? You have not lenrnt to live then; how can ou dare to die? Tertlus Van Dke. Thoughts on Books Km ploy your tlmo In Improving yourself by other meu'g writings. Socrates. The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. l/niidor. It Is chiefly through books that wo "1 shall deem It a great honour, rher mailre" spluttered Cnrltoii Grant, "You say nothing?" camo the deep voice, now vibrant with excitement tlve?" i help and his resourccfulnefs in timos Croissart swung about, sending Ills , of nd. She was solicitous for the?e . like a little red comet, fricn(Is of herr - who were celebrating spent cigarette, like a little reu comet, i "TR, "3 > . ., . . a welding according to the custom of into the night >or a moment he : the time ^ hat th( , y - shou | d not b o put .. ... .. ,_._. , , 11 , The speaker shrugged his massive ! f" ed ttt h ' 3 friend with ^tonlshment ^ shame shoulders. I in hls soft cye *' Tben he exclalm - appealed to shoulders. "It Is easily understood. Take your enchanted at such condescension. Ho j time, my young friends, take your was rewarded with a vivid smilo and ! ti m ,.. 'The Dance of Spring!' Look) a long and mysterious gaze from the j well, for horo have I captured as j great man's turango. secret eyes. | never before all the beauty of the ' "Then, at once now!" The giant j world, tho great world of sun nnd i was already on his feet, and so quick i flowers, the world of the pink and 1 of movement that ho overturned tho] white blossoms. Yes, here you see: their guests, and sho appealed to this strong, capable, kirnl- ! ed: ] y S0 n with the hope that he might "Is It possiblj that you have not! be able to do something. understood that you do not see? It I The answer of Jesus (v. 4) sounds was tho smallpox which made him ~ bu nrs ll him blind." President Elect C. W. N. A. enjoy minds. Intercourse ('banning. with Hiiperloi A Man' Room Men and women have different 1.1 ".. In room decoration as well as in most other matters. The woman's room will be dainty, ornamental, per- haps fussy. A man prefers his room, Sturdy, simple, comfortable, with fci-' in i of color. A man llkex a large able or dusk In lii room. Ho will spread out his be- longings or work on this. Ho likes a largo comfy chair, leather covered, With a footstool near and a reading The value of a book consists, not In what It will do for our amusement, but In what It will communicate (irindon. Tho novel, In Its best form, I ro- gard as on* of tho most powerful on- glues of civilization ever Invented. - Heracbel. Would you know whether the tend- ency of a hook Is good or evil? Kx- amlne In what stain of mind you lay It down. Soiithey. Ho Half an hour later they were once more In the Cafe des Cubistes. Be- fore them stood a waiter, white-faced, weary-eyed. Julien Croissart was searching his harsh to us in the English translation. It is not rooesynrily so in thi Aramaic language in which it was spoken. III. THE CARE OF A GOOO SON FOR H!3 MOTHER, John 19: 25-27. It was the last dread scene on Cal- vary. "Standing by the cress" were four sorrowing women, the mother of, Jesus, her sister, who was Salome, pockets with diligence. Presently he : mother of John ami James the sons >f abandoned the search and turned to i Zcbedee; Mary the wife of Clopas who his friend. "I have found the romance for this evening," he smiled, "Is it not so? Very well, It Is for you to find the was probably "the other Mary" spok?n of in Matthew 27: 56, 61, and 28: I, nnd Mary Magdalene. John his be- loved disciple and friond was with j them and to him Jesus commended tho J solution of my eternal riddle; at this I earc of his mother ^hat tho circum- inoment. how to pay for thcso two s t ar ,ces were we do not know. It must drinks." | have been that at that time none of her own sons was in p position to as- sume that responsibility. It was na- tural, therefore, that his nephew, her sister's son, should care for her. Jesus would, in his last thought for her, place them in the relation of mother How Can You Tell Which Way a Rabbit Has Run? The triangle formed by the tracks of a rabbit in the snow points In the ' " ntl son - opposite direction from which the ani Malcolm MacReath. of "Tho Sun." Mllverton, Ont., (left) newly elected President of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, photographed in who writes for fools tinds an front of the Nova Scotlnn Hotel at Halifax after his election at the closing enormous Riidlemo. Of bad books session of tho annual convention held In the Nova Scotlan, August 8, 9, 10, we cnn never rend too little; of thn with Hugh Savage, of "The Cowichan Leader." Duncan. B.C., (centre) retlr- good ncvrrjoo m^-~Schopenhnu(M'. |ng Pm , Uent am , E Rov Sayleg , ,, The Utmfrew Me rcury." Renfrew. Ont., Teacher: "\Vhnf are the constltu General Manager of the Association. (Canadian National Railway's Photo- euts of quarlT?" HrlRht Hoy: "Pints." mal was running. When a rabbit runs it touches the ground with both small front feet close together and then strikes with the two large hind feet apart and ahead of the front feet, forming the base of the triangle with the hind feet and the apex with the front ones. In other words, the hind feet strike the ground last and leave it last with each leap, but they strike far ahead of tho front feet, conse- quently the two foremost and most widely separated tracks are made by the hind feet, not by the front feet as so often supposed, understands the relative Unless one position of the feet while tho rabbit Is in motion it Is sometimes hard to tell by its tracks which way it has run, because the feet are so covered with hair that often the toes do not show in tho track. GRIEF AND MIRTH He measures ma of little worth, Who only lets me share his mirth, But he who lets me sha.'e his grief, Has love for me beyond belief. Edgar Daniel Kramer. In the midst of tho hours on, the cross he had thought for his moth- er and gave her another son, who "to.>k her unto his own home." Only once again is Mary mentioned in the New Testament, and that is as tne t.f the company gathered in the upper chainb?r in Jerusalem after the risen Christ had parted fron them, where they "with one accord continued steadfastly in praye-." until the great day of Pentecost came. We may im- agine her growing old in the 1 ome of John Uie apostle, who best interpreted the teaching of Jesus as a gospel of love, and who, we may well believe, exemplified that teaching in his life, We may think of her as still "preserv- ing her rich treasures of memory and often speaking of the words and deed* of her _ great ?pn to hose who had in known him in the days of his flesh i Jerusalem and Galilee. Wo can pay her no higher honor than to remembaf her as a good mother, cJxwn of Goi to give a mother's care to Jesus our Saviour and Ix>rd. Customer: "Haven't you anything you could guarantee to waken m early In the morning?" Assistant!' "Yes, but I don't think his mother would like parting with him." Pass- ing Show. f \ 9 i \ V * 4 I * 4