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a a- mair m morgan a the iekfect dlxxklt a famous hostess was interviewed tho other day on the secrets of her success why is it she was asked that your dinner parties seem so eltort- less and to run just like clockwork the lady answered the question by asking another do they she queried well to tell the honest truth i find myself working just as hard planning and preparing in advance and keeping an eagle eye out during the meal as 1 did for the first dinner party 1 ever gave here as a bride correct service it isnt only interesting food and interesting company that makes for a third element which must be pres ent to lift that dinner to the plane of perfection that third element is correct service service of a dinner does not have to be elaborate in order to be correct it can be cor rect with just one to wait or with members of the family and their guests alone perfection is a matter of quality rather than quantity if genius be defined as an in finite capacity for taking pains then the art of serving food correct ly can be defined as earnest thought and close attention to numerous de- tailsbig and little in fact there are at least 57 such details divided up about as follows dining room 3 table 7 silver 7 glasses napkins 2 accessories g service table 5 chairs 1 waitress waiting 14 service 5 without maid 10 if you want to make an interest ing quick checkup take a pencil and a piece of paper and see how many details under each heading you can write down then compare them with what follows 1 the dining room the room in which a meal is served is important its temperature and ventilation are points which must not be overlooked the lights must be studied and so arranged as to avoid a glare be the glare from the lights themselves or their reflec tions on glasses and silverware if candles are employed there should be enough of them to give adequate illumination and their height in cluding the holders and their ar rangement should be in relation to other decorations and the conveni ence of those at table temperature ventilation and illumination all hear directly on the success of a dinner 2 the table the table should bo sufficiently large to permit serving guests com fortably is or 20 inches is a good width for each cover there should bo no crowding a silencecloth should be used under the tablecloth lay the cloth with the centre fold up and in the exact centre of the table which incidentally suggests a hint on proper laundering and ironing so the centre fold will come up correctly the height of tho table decorations must be gauged skillfully for if too high they are awkward and if too low are monotonous avoid over- decoration and do not allow the table to look heavy or crowded bear in mind the color scheme of the room as well as tho colors of the different foods to be served if it is a sea sonal party select flowers place- cards and other littlo decorations appropriately if circumstances sug gest that the bare tablo bo used it should be very carefully polished be- for the doilies or runners are plac ed 3 silver the largest plate to be used should be taken as tho measure for correct placing of tho silver the position of tho silver should not be disturbed during the serving of tho meal uniformity of arrangement of silver glasses napkin and dishes should be worked out and followed carefully righthanded silver is placed at the right such as knives and spoons and efthanded at the left such as forks with the except ion of the oyster fork which goes to the extreme right place silver in order of use working from outside to edge of plate if for a given course the salad or dessert fork is the only piece of silver at the table it may be placed on the right 1 glasses glasses are placed at the right at or near the tip of the knife it other beverages in addition to water are to be served glasses for them are placed at an angle to the water glass angle and arrangement de pending on number and style 5 napkins at a formal meal place napkin on service plate at informal meals place napkin between knife and fork or at extreme left of fork in either event place open end of napkin towards guest 6 accessories place salt and pepper shaker where they may be reached easily the carving knife may be placed on table at right of platter carving fork on left and gravy spoon to right of knife for an informal din ner if a formal meal these will be on serving table if a knife sharpen er is used place to left of serving fork and remove as soon as used rests for these utensils may be plac ed to right or left of platter 7 service table laying of the service table or buffet is important if possible have covered to match the table linen have duplicate of each piece of sil ver used on table on service table in fact several duplicates if possible there should also be an extra glass and napkin or two a napkin and plate for crumbing are also required butter bread etc cream sugar bonbons and nuts may be placed on service table actress bride of famous flier although they had broken their engagement by previous con sent florence desmond british actress and captain t campbell black who won fame in the recent knglandauslralia air race re considered and were married recently in london photo shows the couple after the ceremony unday choolesson cypress tree earths oldest living thing lesson v mal 5 sin repentance and faith luke 15 1124 golden text if we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse m from all unrighteousness i john 1 9 no man gave unto iiim the im perfect active indicates continued refusal of any one to allow him even the food of the hogs but when he came to himself tne suffering of hunger a conscious ness of failure and shame hopeless nes- and loneliness brings him back by don glasaman condensed from american forest washington for the magazine digest three five or ten thousand year ago the seed of a cypress rooted ia the ground at oaxaca mexico wnera the village of santa maria del tula now stands and grew into a colossus of the floral kingdom all living things have a given the lesson in its setting time and place the events re corded at the beginning of isaiah occurred approximately 760 bc the opening verses of itu second chap- tor of mark record an event oecur- ing in the early summer of ad 2s at capernaum the parables record ed in the fifteenth chapter of luke wore uttered by christ in january ad 30 in peraea the events of iae second chapter of acts occurred in jerusalem ad s0 the epistle to tie tomans was written probab ly from the city of cclnih by the apostle paul ad co to himself as a drunken man com- s of life but k1 tu as th ing back to sobriety a patient com- j tree ca ha3 out every he said fa- out of i anaesthetic how man hired servants ot ray thers have bread enough and to span- and i perish hero wi hun ger he has not sunk so low hut that he can still say my father i span s chairs have chairs in neat rows or if table is oval shape have chairs in harmonious relation to each other far enough from table edge so that one may be seated with little effort when checking over the chair ar rangement is a good time for a last checkup on dishe3 and silver in re lation to the menu to make sure nothing is missing 9 waitress a competent waitress or attendant is essential to the smooth running of a formal meal the perfect waiter of either sex is the one whose presence is not felt in the dining room guests should be conscious of the perfect service rather than of the individual rendering it the wants of the guests should be observed and supplied before they can be made known the waitress should stand where the hostess can easily signal her tho waitress is silent unless asked a question and seemingly deaf to all conversation 10 waiting waiting is regarded by its expert practitioners as a profession and no one is more critical of correct ser vice than tho true waiter some of tho fundamental rules of tho craft that are practical for domestic use are uniform or livery or aprons and cap are selected and provided by employer the housewife rubber heels on comfortablo shoes are ad visable careful attention should be given to hair and hands wash hands before laying tha table and again before handling food use tray for carrying silver glasses and dishes to lay table handle cups by handles and glasses by bottoms handle all silver by handles and avoid finger marks do not let fingers coma over edgo of glasses under any circum stances use a folded napkin when fu manchu dishes are hot or when dishe3 are so small that the hand would be seen never fill water glass more than threefourths and fot a formal dinner at home chill the water with ice cubes in a pitcher or bottle on the service table but do not put cubes in glass after guests are seated never remove glass from table to refill it but pour from bottle slowly and have napkin fold ed around neck of bottle to catch any drops just before the dessert course crumb the table with napkin and plate but going only to those places that need this attention bread and butter plates are not used at strictly formal dinners but if used place butter pats in upper lefthand cor ner of plate just inside the rim hot rolls are placed in folded napkins and corner is turned back as dish is served to each guest and be sure to replenish supply as soon as it begins to diminish on plate as a general rule serve from the left with the left hand except beverages which are served from the right and re move soiled articles from right with right hand 11 service the hostess is sometimes served first as this enables her to give signal to begin as soon as her first guests are served by being served first hostess can also check for correct flavors of foods and she will use the correct utensil for each course it is quite correct for the guests of honor to be served first the rank of the guest the formality of the meal and similar factors help ing to determine this regardless of who is served first the hostess never finishes eating before all her guests are quite through 12 without a maid dinners en famille or family service without a maid can be very attractive provided merely that a few simple directions are observed avoid elaborate menus use a tea table especially if it has two shelves and a drawer for silver for service salad and dessert may be placed on this tea table and later it may be used for soiled dishes from the main course it is located most conven iently at right of hostess in serving meat and vegetables arrangement depends on whether one or more per sons do the serving if host serves the meat place platter directly in front of him with plates at imme diate left if ho is to serve one of the vegetables also place dish at his right if some other member of family serves the vegetables ho3t will pass plate with moat along left side of table to ono serving vege tables and plate is then passed abng to person sitting at hosts right when host serves complete plate the first is passed to right and suc ceeding plates to other ladies and then to man at right of hostess and so on until all are served when tea or coffee is served place container at right of hostess with sufficient room for one cup and sau cer between container and her plate the rest of the cups being placed at left with handles towards hostess and creamer and sugar bowl directly in front of her plate accessories and special accompaniments to var ious courses are placed on table and person nearest them the guests pass them to home hints worn linoleum watch for any tiny holes in the linoleum and as soon as one appears pour a little hot parafin in it smooth it over evenly with a knife and let it harden this will prevent the hole from enlarging woollen blankets after washing and drying the woollen blankets beat them well be fore storing this will raise the fluff and give them a much better appear ance cocoa it is found that cocoa is not suf ficiently digestible it can be made so by allowing it to cool removing the globules of fat and then reheating it paint if the lid of tho paint can has been thrown away and there some paint left over try pouring melted parafine over the top of the paint this will preserve the paint and keep it soft until ready to use again soap bubbles when the children are blowing soap bubbles place a drop or two of glycerin in the soapy water the bubbles will not break so easily and will have more color scouts sold 134 worth of apples simcoe siincoe troop of boy scouts under scoutmaster jack roxburgh staged a very successful somewhat adverse weather the apple day recently in spite of the public responded generously to the appeal and the tho total proceeds amounted to 134 a substantial sum will be netted to aid in tho purchase of equipment and towards the cost of a summer camp scouts switzer and whiteside won prizes for selling the most apples while cubs tom and alan donnelly led their section martin bros kindly loaned their store as head quarters for the drive 3 and he said a certain man had two sons a simple sentence of fact but assumes at least three things deep love the love ot a pa rent for his children pride in his sons hope for his sons and the younger of them said to his father the one that would as a rule be given liis own way prob ably more than the other children of the family father give me the portion of thy substance that falletii to me each child got according to mosaic law one portion and the eldest got two portions dent 21 17 in this case the youngest got a third and twothirds remained tiie common property of father and eld er son and not many days after lie did not go the moment he had what ho wanted the younger son ga thered all together to a tender soul the things of the liome life would have spoken eloquently of love and care but they had no such voice for him and took ills jour ney into a far country what a pull the far country has for many a young man and many a young wo man an invisible magnetism one can live at home and still be iu a far country away from ood and from the way of honor and upright ness and there tho wasted his substance his assels inoluded the strength of a young man a muni ficent inheritance religious train ing a strong will and no doubt a winsome personality with riotous living the word hero translated riotous means abandoned profligate dissolute with the idea of rushing headlong into wickedness and when he had spent all that is the inevitable issue of waste there arose a mighty famine in that country one of the many ways in which god brings us back to himself is by bringing distress when we as sinners can least boar it and he began to be in want sin ami satan are mans greatest robbers john 10 8 10 yet hhis phrase which speaks of suffering is the first real hopeful indication we have of this wretched mans possible recovery and ihe went he should have gone straight home pride kept him from doing so and joined himself to one of the citizens of that coun try the verb means literally to glue together to cement hence to cleave to lie could iiave been in tho affectionate embrace of his fa ther his wilfulness has driven him to cling desperately to a stranger and he sent him into his fields to feed siwine this was to a hebrew the uttermost depths of degradation and he would fain have filled his belly with the husks tiat the swine did eat the husks wont satisfy they may keep down the gnawing pangs of hunger they may stay the appetite for tho hour but they do not nourish take any pleasure or pursuit that is ungodly and you know that this is all it does and has survived civilizations cou- quests revolutions cataclysms and i is now by every known criterion the oldest living thing on the earth yet nobody knows the precise ago of el tule notwithstanding that on i will arise there wcie many i the average of once a year somebody things this young man could not do announces a new figure even if he wanted to eg ho could i this colossal tree is a museum not by his own will power break his piece among all the flora of tho sinful habits but he could arise earth its health is perfect and if and go to my father he is going j anything is wrong it is nothing nioro back to the place of love back than an extraordinary pituitary where he belonged back to the place gland following the sinuosities of where he took the wrong road and its gigantic trunk one measures its 1 havo ter as 108 feet at a height of perime five feet above the ground so far as is known no organism ever at tained such a vast girth the girth is out of all proportion to its height of 141 feet which is surpassed by trees in more temperate climates wilt say unto him father sinned against heaven and iu thy sight every sin is a sin against god as well as against man be cause it injures the soul which god labors so diligently to preserve i am no more worthy to be call ed thy son make me as one if thy hired servants a broken and a contrite heart a spirit ot true hu- i mility unmistakably indicate the k tul a sa genuineness of his confession of sin i wttlx an area of 7200 square lect when the sun is at its zenith enough and he arose and came to lus i tu father this young man first had for a sm8 an t0 v a change of heart before he turned spreading branches indeed it about and returned home but rumored that none other that while he was vet afar off his father hernan cortes and his army camp- saw him this shows that the ed there on the march to hondur- father had been looking for him to come back and was even looking at this very moment as he came in sight and was moved with com passion literally compassion means to suffer with another and ran and fell on his neck and kiss ed him he did not win his fa thers love that love jiad always been there god loves us long be fore we love and obey him i john 1 19 and the son said unto him fa ther i have sinned against heaven and in thy sight i am no more worthy to be called thy sou he went back to that hour and said what 1 tfhought right was wrong and what i thought would be liberty lias proved to be slavery but the father said to his serv ants bring forth quickly the best robe and put it on him obliterate the traces of a wretched past as soon as possible and put a ring on his hand it was not only a token that his love for him had nev er died hut it was a pledge that it iould never die and shoes on hii feet the slaves wore no shoes and bring the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and make mer ry many believe that the slaying of this animal was a sacrifice and that here we have hinted that atone ment was made for the sin of tha son for this my son was dead his abandonment to sin losing himself to his family his home his better self was death indeed romans g 13 epi 2 15 5 11 rev 3 1 and is alivo again it is gods great work through christ to give eternal life to those who wera dead in trespasses and sins romans g 4 sll eph 2 5 col 2 13 he was lost for the lost christ came matthew is 11 luke 19 10 and is found toie entire chapter is devoted to illustrating how god through christ seeks out and finds the lost and they bogan to bo merry nothing brings such joy as returning to god to obedience to gods law to accepting as saviour gods only begotten son see mat thew 2 10 luke 15 7 acts 8 8 to this very day kl tule is an object of profound veneration among the indians twice a year they make pilgrimages to the site where they hold a fiesta with ap propriate music and dancing sev eral centuries ago the catholic priests realized the power of this veneration and declared kl tule tha property of their faith they found ed an outpost of christianity erect ed a church in the shadow of ei tule and sanctified the ground with holy devotions but kl tule was venerated and worshipped long before the advent of catholic missionaries and it was this extreme devotion which pre vented vandals from destroying tha tree and using it for firewood it is dangerous for anybody even to cut his initials into the bark that would be tantamount to carving them on the statue of a god among the indian tribes of oax aca as with many primitive people tree worship is one of the bases of of religion such worship has per sisted in mexico down to this very day despite the fact that most of the sacred trees stand besida churches of the catholic faith the proximity of kl tule to such remarkable ruins as mitla and mount alban argues that the giant tree did not go unnoticed anionic those ancient people it was on tha general line of transit between monte alban and mitla the for mer is the king tuts tomb of tha new world having yielded a collec tion of gold masks and jewellery which vie with similar collection from other prehistoric tombs tha latter is the site of magnificent fres coes and sculptures and the grnva of the zapotecan kings affection is something over which we have no control it is something you have or havent ilko red hair clarence buddingtou kelland by sax rohmer the zyat kiss strange suspicion joujjhhhad never t ja aco svifcjifctivery lovely nor ono ofto un- v usual a type wrrh the slm of a perfect blonde she had cyos and lashct blacv ot a creolos ai i tooled into her bigquet honing eyes a forth uiipjcion soiled mo a cotoquo idea wcra tha bloom of hr ripi due to art their lit would iav just such a marl at i nsd seai upon tho dead m jn hadl but i dismissed tha fantastic notion about tho beautiful stranger ai a fancy brad of the nights horrors no doubt tha was soma friend or acquaintance of sir crlcmon davoys acting on that idea i sought to tell her what she aikfld at gently as i could i cannot say he has been murdered i told her ftit he is i dead iho exclaimed husmly i nodded the giil cloiod her eye end uttered a low moan iwaylng dinily at first thought one might im agine that el tules age would be a simplo matter for modern science since it is comparatively easy to de termine tho age of our giant red woods and douglas firs by counting tho annual rings but tho ring count on a tropical tree is another matter in a warm humid region trees grow with such vigor that they have been known to complete a ring cycle within one month so if a horizon tal core of the tree were extracted for tho purpose of counting rings the record would be most misleading because in calculating the age of kl tule one deals with a period of time that is almost geological in ex tent there are no records to sus tain an assumption that two thous and years ago this region had tha same weather that it has now it would not be impossible to havo two rings for one year and a dozen for another moreover the rings grow progres sively finer with advancing age in the case of tule the rings of tha last few centuries would probably be microscopic tho secret of kl tules lush and youthful green even in the midst of a long dry spell was bared recent ly when it was established that tha subsoil of santa maria del title ii saturated with ground water whosa source is the rio grando del tula and iu tributaries the soil into which kl tulo has pushed its roots was deposited by tho mtnruli bring ot these streamlets