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errr All Grocers Stock JT MiXlb If y-ou M^ant sotnetKIn^ bettei 138 -try it. U Say It With Flowers >f BY SOPHIE KEljR. ^ THE DOOR OF THE LIPS There Is a story of an Btho:>lan who wpDt to Socrates the t'hrfstinn and ik>- bIpmI liislructlon. The old man opon- fd the book of I'nalnis at the 39th, which br^iiM, "I eald. I will take hoed to my ways, that I Rin not with my tonjnic; I will keep my mouth wltli a brliUi". Willi'* til© •wiclted is beforeiriP." I^ooklng up from the iKige. Sorr-tit'S found that the Ethiopian had gone. Year»" i)iiHf<e<I. One <iay the old Mint, In the city of Alexandria, wiw _ a man who»e fac« he recalled. '•\Vhy did you nisb from my preKence when { 1 liad Jiii-'t buRiin my etliortallon?" ho iisked. To which the <;1her answered, "MaHter. foridve me/ but that one vtrse concernInK the tons'ie, i per- ceived, would be enough to ke^p me occupied iUl my life." M<xit of us fail more frequently with our tongue* than in any olhrr rantler. A word eHp» out in hu unguurdcd mo- ment; a phrase is dropped having re- ference to another's repulatlon, and *e have, perhaps, damaged the life of the on'"- about whom we xpoke. Broken friendship and lost Ideals may often b(< traced to the gllbncss «.f the toninje. Speech Is cheap. We have it ready to hiiiid and wc ge! Into the haliit of getting over difnculUea and out of light corners by u-sing our mo.st ready weapon without always asking it.s value. A word may ruin a life; iin expros- HioM wouu'l. .Siifllc.ienl care can never b(> taken ai>out the things utterod. We are lo be swift to heiir and s'low (o i*eal(. „ How aio we to guard against our words becoming our pitfall? Whlkt KlH-ech is free, it must be carefully tended and chosen if we are to retain our bHl:i!ice. It is necesBury to rpnieiii- ber that our words are the prodnrt of our thinking. T say •'! said it v.itlioul lliinking" Is always a falae statement. We may think a thing so often that wo cnnic to say it wiihotit much effort, and il hecomcs lialiilual; but it is always true iliut our words are as "w© have Ihoiiglil. They command or condemn 11" every time. The se<'ret (if kindly speech is kindly ihiiikin. Inevitably men become like P""*^"""' Ihe things Ihe.wihink aliout. 'Hio man I Many style PARTI. I a fine, (liirnifi«<l "111 Kvnlltman in his t ,., 1* .u- 1 iu . •* ..'black clothes and white stiff shirt, and I used to thmk that it was a prettyi, . ,.,,., , u- „„ „ jori/ L I ,., - â-  . , » .• f his hai.- all sihtry and his eyes dark hard thinjf for a boy to have to stick' ... ,11.1 K„f Uo !.. tu- . u u 1 ..„.:i «T* "t in under bushy brows, but he \\\ th9 town where he was l>orn until , ... i- -. ii„ „.„. 1 _ , L u • I chewed tobacco, dienity or no. He was he prows up, for when he is grown I , ., , I .^ ' ,,„ ^,,... ,.„ . ' , . 1 u â-  '"ne of the best lawyers in the state, up, weaimp: long pants and shavintfj. •' reftularly, the older folks won't take ,",,, , . , , ... ,„ .„i .; .â- " , „, , „. "Want to read aw with me? he him seriously. They keep on laH'nK _^„. suddenlv him Bud, or Redheadâ€" if his hair hnp-l ""l^l" ""*>««'?'>• % pens to be auburn, as mine is â€" or Slim,, ,.a,.. , .„ •* '., , , ... U .. •, u • . * 'Think you can manage it if he s thin, or Fatty, if he .s stout,' ' " and everything he does they sort of lauffh at, a."* if it was ridiculous for a kid to try to do anything worth while. I'll be gray-haired and toothless, I supposa, before people stop calling me Thomas Ix)ng, Jr. The old ladies are wor.se than the old men. They look at me and smile, and shake their heads and then say, "Oh, how well I remem- ber you when you were a little curly- haiied babyâ€" my, my, seem(fe only yesterday!" or, "Let nie see. Red â€" how old are you now? About sixteen, I .suppose?" There's nothing you can do but grin and say, "Yes, ma'am," and "No, iwa'am, I'm twenty-one," and slide out as soon as you possibly can, and the next time you see that par- ticular old dodo coming get round tho corner before sho catches a glimpse of you. The fellows that go away from home for a while, even if it's only to business college, come back part stranger, and folks are more inter- ested in them, and Weat them more respt'ctl'ulTy. That goes for the girls as well a.* for the older folks. The girls always like a fellow better when he's been out of town for u while, and even if he's only got a cheap clerkship ill the city he can come home and swell , aioutul in a snappy suit will: a belt, I and gay sock.> and tie.s, and put it all j over us home boys. Cee, it u.sed to I make me .sore, tho injustice of it! 1 I don't rave .^o much about it now, be- I causL' I'm older, and, as you might I say, really .settled down to my life I work, but I can remember how it u.sed I I I make me feel to have Tim Part- I ridge and .Alilton (ireen and one <)r I two oth?i-s come swelling homo in their two weeks' vacation, and rush 1 the prcLlicsl and nicest girls in town, I filling up the front porch any time I yoa wanted to call, taking them to This attr.-ictiv;- dress has the much! th? movie.s and telling them tales desired slenderizing lines and is ajj,i,„y^ ijf^. style .-uitabl'? for all daytime wea Red, whereas my proper name is John /pointing. "Study 'em well, and coml suddenly. "Yes, ?i\i\" "Think you can manage it with everything else you got on hand?" And his eyes twinkled a little. "You bet you," I said, forgetting to treat him with proper respect, I was .so excited. "Take those books, thtn," he said, BRAID TKI.MMl.\(; l.S .S.MAKT. in the big city amongst in here every Friday evening to .see me. Don't try to go too fast, and be sure you understand one page before you go onto the next." That was when I was eighteen. Now, no one needs to be told that to study law like that takes a long time. I I read every night, every night except} Friday and .Sunday. What I did with j my Sunday night will appear later in this story. Friday nights I'd go to Judge (Gordon's office, and he'd quiz me, and then he'd set me tasks to do â€" wills to draw, and notes and convey- ances, and simple things like that to mnke me familiar with legal forms. Sometimes he'd let me help with some- thing hi" was working on. And he did more than that. One »i(?ht he stuck out his under-lip and drew down his brows and frowned at me. â-  "You're not getting along fast enough," he rumbled at me. I knew it, but what could I do? There isn't any more time than there is, and mine was crammed to the lastl minute. So I didn't answer him. He! kept on staring at ine, and presently i he got up and put on his black high j hat and stalked over to our hotel. '"You wait here," he .said. So I wait- ed. And after about a <iuarter of an | hour back he came. j "Kd Pa.storfi^d's going to Arizona: for his health," he said, "and Andcr- 1 son says you're to have Ed's place. It'll pay you as much as you inaice now, and there's considerable spare time round the hotel." That was h<>w I came to go to work at the hotel. I was clerk, l>ookkecper, cashier, and a sort of general facto- tum when help was needed. .Mr. and skating nnd dances and socials, and in the summer more dances and sociflb and lawn parties. And then there was Ellio Treadwell. That was where my Sunday even- ing.s went. On Ellio's front porch or in Kllie'.-i front parlor. It's hard for iiic to tell about her. Khc was just my girl, nnd liacl been ever since I (ould rcmenibc'. I had sat l.<'liiiid her in primary school and pullc.l her hair, and she had turned ioun<I and slap;>ej my face, and then the te.-.cher had made us stand up before the whole school, hand in hand, fur ten minutes -a far wor.'e punishiiicnt for hi-r than for me, though I had to lick to or three boys who got fresh and tried to tease me about it afterward. (To bo continued.) Misunderstood. Beggars and novelists have several thlug® ill common. Tv.'o of the most obvious are a constant lack of hard cash and the frequent .necessity for drawing upon tbeir Imaginations. Weary Willie was trying to get r. coin out of the housewife by harrow- ing her feelings with a blood-curdling account of an accident in which he hart been Involved re<:ently. "Yes, lady," he whined, "it was aw- ful. I heard the chugchug of the en- gine and smelt gasoline. I sprang, but it was too late â€" the machine passed over me." ".4nd did the motor car hurt you?" aftked the kind lady as she handed him a coin. ".Motor, ma'am?" said the beggar In feigned surprise. "It was an aero- plane!" li CAKES' Maike Better , , Bread , Askyour ^ocer for ROYAL YEAST CAKES .STANDfiRD Of (JOAUTY. ICMCRSOli _», Perfumery Was Necessary. In the days of Hummuribl, 4,000 I years ago, perfumery was rega.rd©d as"; so essential that even servants were I ordered to use It. The Difference. "\\'hy is the World t'oiirt unlike a gmul holed?" "I give up." "Because the more reservatlont; you mnke, the harder it Is to get In." <i The Reason. Father- "Can I help you with your home work to-night, son?" Son- -"Thanks, Dad, but teach&r thinkH it would be better if I got it wrong myself." Within fourteen miles of London,) the Keiitish village of Downc has! neither gas nor electricity, no main! drainage, no doctor, no cinsm.'!, and no omnibus. For Colds â€" Mirard's Liniment. Family of Eight Emigrate. Among the 1,500 emigrants who left England on the Vedic for Australia was a party of 57 boys, 20 women and one family of eight from Malvern. Porcupines Damage Crops. Porcupines are gaining the attention I of biologists because of their iucreas- 1 iiig raids on trees and farm crops. NURSES Tha Toront9 lIoipItM for tneuMbtes, In tlfllUtlon with Bellevnt and Allied HotplSali. Niw York City, offeri a threa yeeri' Cottru of Training to ycung women, having thi rtqulrMi education, end deilroua of bocomlng nurict. Thi) Hoflpltal hai adopted tils alght. hour lysten. The pupitj rectlva unlfornia of tii« School, a monthly allawance and Iravellnf ixpenaei lo and li-om New York. For lurtJitf istornatlon writ* Uia Superinttndont, AlWn 8wrtLlisii«4. M.'tk MtUrMl „,. f , , , , •. , • ^'"' taxicabs and the bright light.s.i jj^j, Anderson were mightv Itind to The front and bad; ar.- <iint<- pla:n:M„..t of it they'd picked up in the " nnd the plaited sidtt-scctions givcj j-u„ji ,y supplements, for it was dol- idded width and gract' t:. tht- skirt. ].„.,., to doughnuts that what they wei-e Braid is effectively used on the liodici to form a dec)) pointed yoki-. and also I trims the convertible collar, the culfs I finishing the long dart-litted sle?ve«, I and sides. No. l."):^2 is in si/,e.-< :i(i, 38, j 40, 42 and 11 iiichc;: bust. .Si/.e .'IS I requires 4?i yards .'iil-inch matt-rial, 1 or :i'/fe yards :")4-inch, and 7 yards I trimming braid. Price 20 cents the me, nnd let me keep my books behind I tlif desk. 1 could study or write any ( time when there wasn't anything else ' to do. That meant a lot some days, I of that be has not i be found in our (arning didn't leave much margin for sporting round with Ihe millionaires, j c^j. ;„ ^^^ j^^^.^ ^y,, haven't discovered But talk is cheapâ€"ch; apcr than any- L^^j advantages of hotel life. Wc stick thing el.se I've ever heard ofâ€" an<i a U^ domesticity. f<.llow can get away with a lot when stm^ ^j„ (.^^.^ ^1.,^.^^ ,,j. hj^rh-school ! there's no one to check. him up or keep p^n,„„.,^,.^„n.„t^ ^,. |,ig public sales, I accurate tabs on him. Ithfie was plenty of business at the | I'd had to stay at home for a goodjij^^,,, jj„,, ^^^ ^ad a fair trickle of i many reason.s. Fir.-'l, my father wa» t,-t.veling men and chance visitors, as I ]an invalid; something was the matter: ^,.^.„ „j. j,„„,^ regular boarders, like' mail appnrel may^ ^y, ^is heart, and be had to be vcry|jj,e high-school principal, who was an ^ 1-ashion Book. Our ..^i,, n,o^t ^f the time, but wlien hel ,^ bachelor >vho fallH iiullcales b, Th tb car h li«-eplHg. and no one el.s* Is to blame tor what w« su > . It Is l)eller to lliliik a dozen times before^ we .vpeak once. Tin think the more worth while will be patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in our words, it Is the thoughtless man glanips or coin (coin preferred; wrapjbc the man of the house. We had a who does not weigh his wi>rds and I it , carefully) for each number and ' couple of acres with our old place, and fall* a vicilni to ilie i-vll of his own ' address your order to Pattern Dept.lthat gave us room for a chicken yard, selection. I Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-iand a cow stable, and n bully gard-*n. Guard your tongue; never jvernilt It | laide St., Toronto. 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"If you yniir lips would keep from slips, Klve ihliigH observe with core: Of whom you speak, lo whom you speak, And how, and when, and where." Modern. A nioderii adapfiilion of a famous couplet would be: I shot a word into the air, H fell lo earth iiiosi everywhere. Just love WricUjr's New DOUBLE MINT â€" R«a| Peppermiat Flavorâ€" it's so wonderfully cofflfortiof , cooling delicious. return mail. pt us going The iH'.st part of it was that I felt as I if 1 wasn't in a s;ide pocket, lost to the world, with no chance to make ."oinething of myself. The judge's' kindness opened wide a big door. And: he kept on being kind. | "When you're admitted to the bar," he told nic one day, right out of a clear sky, "I'm going to make you my partner. 1 want a green young fellow Suc<6»afdBa^f^ In Quietness and Confidence. Tlip winter- earlli and winter sky .\re no more quiet than am I; The leafless vineyards seem as bara Of leaping Joy or quiet care. The laden sky is silver white, The clouds are full of molten light. The trees againsi the horizon's space ' one j winter, and in the spring I'd make it, ^^^^j , ^.^„ ,,„„^ around in here, and and .she'd help what she could â€" and,] ,, . . , pay starvation wages to, and who'll if I do say It niysclf, it was i| wizll,^ „„ ^j^^ j|,.ty ,y,„.,, f^,, ,„^ ,.,„ ^j. Not only vegetables â€" all we could eat. Their iiallcriied branches Interlace. Your (luieliuss lo yo4i T yield, I \vvA beside this fallow Held; I wait while yon are wailing, eiirth, .Nor pine for color or for niirlli. I send my longing with the rains. i walk these birdless. tinleafed lanes, .My heart Is homing here with me, II asks no winter gift to see. In quiet now, both 1 and y<JU, â€" We warn the Helds, "Lie liolden. too; The clouds with solemn sunsets burn, Willi iwillghl they to iM-arl-giay tuiji. .\bovp Ihe dark sjirejid over me. Milk up and se!>. Ilie skies are free. The air is cUnid-ihick, misis confine The dim horizon's rlosi'sliiit lini'." ill quiet now. liolh .von and I - sell, and give away â€" but flowers! Sweet peas, lilies of the valley, holly- hocks, larkspur, lilies, pansies, ro.ses, phlox, sweet-williamâ€" everything you could think of! The flowers were the big pleasure in Father's nnd } Mother's life, and I never grudged a I minute of the time it took to take ' cHi-o of 'em. But our chicken yard and our gar- ' d'.'ii couldn't support us, though they helped a lot, an<l living isn't dear in ! o'ur town. Which reminds me that all ' the fellows who'd gone off to the city I u.sed lo be mighty glad, I noticed, tn I get back to home â€" fried chicken, and j fresh jieas and strawberries; and they I wove always talking about how good [tho food was after living in cheap ] cafes and boarding houses. They didn't call us a hick burg when they were talkin,ir about our eats, b.-lieve \ me! : Sonn's 1 got out of hiuh ."chool I had to gel a job, and jobs aren't very i numerous or very good in our town. I've done everything a fellow could ting old." He only put it that way to make it seem les« of a big thing than it was. Judge Clordon had a crack-a-jack practice, and made plenty of money, | and was known an<l respected all over! the state. To be his partner was like walking into a gold rfiine for me. And maybe I wasn't stuck on myself after he'd lolil me that! I went home to tell my folks, with my head right up in the clouds, After he'd made that promise the judge opened up and got more friendly all the time. He used to talk to me a lot about the ethics of the la\Y., and what an honorable calling it was when practiced honoraldy. KwA he reconcil- ed me a good bit to having stayed home when most of the boys I knew â€" and certainly the brightest ones â€" had left for the big city. 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ISSUE No. 7â€" '27. \\e.,colhe Ihe trees, •• I his wlllgoby.ij , ,upp„.,e_niowed lawns, and dug is everywhere," where there is ambi He strangers now, and lease no hough,! ^.^rdens, and painted fences, and tion and energy and ability, and hon No M>ng.sler goe.s a nesting now. . ,^^,,,^,j f^,. ^^^ ^xpres-sman, and helped ] e.sty." >e cannot speak the win.ls dumb' ^^ j,, ^j,^ ^ ..ffi^.,,^ ,.jj •„, I / ,„^,p,, ^^.^^. j,;,,, ,„,^_ ^ heart ; libs voice is heard when sup <lolli slarl Take slorin and all with miked bough .â- \nd wail for Joy, for springtime's vow.' .Margaret Troll Caniuliell, In Chris Han Science Moniton pos ] I could hear of, or Nine Marriages at Once, .Nine <-oiiples were married together HI SI. (Jcorge the Alartjr ('hurcli, Soulliwark, on Christmas Day. ^ - Athlete* lie Minard'a Liniment Always I had to do somefhini; where 1 could get home in a hurry if Father had an attack. Then old .ludge (lordon took notice of me! He called me into his funny little . two-room law office one day, that stands on the edge of thi> court- house green, anil he said; "Red, hi>w'd you like to lie a lawyer?" "I'd like il fine," I said. lie took a chew of tobacco â€" he was ry odd johi I loved hearing him talk. A good make for my.--elf. .'^cout, the old judge â€" the last of the' 1 u.sed to think, as 1 con- him with our other legal Mohirai t rastcd lights. Thinking it iwer, I rcnli-;e that all this sounds as if my life was nothing bill drudgery, hard work, study, grub- hiiig in the garden, nnd grubbing in the judge's old law books. But I had plenty of fun, ton. I played shortstop on our baseball nine, and never nvsse.j n niHtch. And in the wintar we had Read Good Magazines We wilt mall you, Prepaid, the following POPULAR MAGAZINES At the price* indicated. 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