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Jlorenct Riddick Boys The Ideal Hoitess The hostess, who would give Joy to her guests, must have the appearance of !> ::ig happy at the task. The hos- tess who fusses unduly, undertaking too elaborate a menu, and then Is all worn out and nervous when her guests arrive, is sure to reflect her spirit and her guests will not have a good time, but feel anxious. It is better to put on a simple party aii'i be full of pep and gladness In the affair. One way to do this is to plan a simple menu; another scheme Is to get the house ready the day before and to prepare in advance as many dishes as you can. Do not economize ou help at this time, but have someone In the kitchen who will keep track of the do- ings out there, while you are playing with your guests. They want you for a playmate, a hostess; not a servant, fretted by much care of them. The danger l.s that we eat too much in our company meals. The old-fashioned gluttonous feast's out of style. Better Is the de- lirious but simple repast with plenty of fruit ,a cool or hot drink, dainty oandwlcbes, wee cakes and a lot of Jollity. pleasing flavor, too much neglected heretofore. Watermelons Food experts have discovered that watermelons, besides being juicy and delicious, are a valuable source of vitamins and thus a particularly valu- able food. The Garbage Can Hide tho garbage can from sight by encircling it with wire fencing and train vines over this. Make the circle large enough that you may handle tho can with convenience. Cooling Fish If you wrap fish In oiled paper and put it In a covered dish in the refrig- erator, the odor will not reach other foods. Fruit Relish To serve with cold meat, the follow- ing fruit relish is acceptable: Cut in small pieces a cup of cooked prunes, or raisins may be substituted. Add three tablespoons of sugar, a half tea- spoon of clnamou, juico of a half lemon and a half orange. The Child*' Clothing A young child should wear nothing i-\i-"pt his shoes which cannot bo *.t-!i--il. For this reason cotton is es- perially appropriate for a young child's garments. Wool and silk or wool and cotton are appropriate for hot weather, but garments of all wool liui !>'ii aii.l shrink in laundering. If tho child wears cotton undergarments he may be kept warm by wealing a t .'. T over his cotton dress or waist. White clothing for children lias the advantage that it may be boiled. But i -a>ily, or rather it shows the soil readily. In htiyini; materials for children's clothing, test the blues, pinks, and lavi-ndi-rs to make sure i . ill not fade too quickly. Ging- ham shniild In' shrunk before it Is in .'! up. It is a wise precaution to mako children's clothing with tucks !'ir m:il;ing itn-m larger the : n. The kiti'i,.!, '.< "v and Wile lii-in -i-rvi' thi-i p'.ir|nifC. ii k'-r and crinkleil 1 1, jies Hi- i not be ironed. Ittitigh materials ;> .:.'( and should Ii" tnadu with : i ;iud no .sli'i've;, |.| avoid dialing. I > woven IM.I'I lials are more wa.-lu'd than tight, firmly V -: ' -l.ll . Kvi-n In cold wcuth'-r do not d; . i rhlid too warmly. lie is more active t!i HI an adult and warmer blooded mill suffers more from being [1 t"-i watnUy than too coolly If he Is i i| so warm that ho jM-r-pii"-:, h" i- iinro likely to take cold wh' n <-.v- ! 1 to draughts. > part of tho body, from the Hi k down, should be covi-n d in cold i r. Half soi ks with baro knees I th proper clothing when the v . ' : ehilly--thii Hi-oti-li t,j the < iry ii'itu itlMandliiu. Child's ciiitliii.L 1 . a , tin; adults, .- ' . d I"- loo Dough that It will not , re with circulation. In ih,. -um- ii. i r, the iic.,ii r tht! child can KO bare MIT Th'.' Mm on his Imdy is i Ivliig, .UK! the ventilating i - eiKoiirauc a healthy skin and Mdidy vital organ-. Modern Buying I.ookiiii iiack over th" cxpi-n.so ac- f :t t>pical family a c.-ntury UL-II. we are iiina/.c.i to see how many, ,vi; buy today which wero un- i then, or .so i-xprnslvf as to be , i'lyt- \\Y' live in better houses, h,;\" better food, and wear better . . W" jieinl la\i-s for com- munity paving, lighting, sewage, and ;-.< .. uliiig such as would appear mirac- 1 i "iir i r ! i .ii-Kiandfatli - - * this, we buy canned goods, 1 ! lip -akfast foods, oranges is or electricity for fuel. We ha\.' h-'ti-r ni'-lical and denial care. We Unlit our houses with electricity i I of caudles. Wo sjn-nd money t If, country clubs, automobiles, ra ii.i-i and talkies. It costs about t '" much to live now as then, but ' - ..ine income is twice as large. Tho Important question Is: Ar.- happier? Scout Rice ;.< lii" way (he r.lrl IJuidc-, IIM- i ico for their outdoor meals. Try it on your family for a picnic meal. V. ., ii a cupful of rice In cold water ainl cook It In a double boiler with tin- t. ,!>!' piioiis of bacon fat. When tho water has all been absorbed add 1 < upruis of boiling hot canned to- ." . and a quarter pound of diced C.jiiiiiiiH' cooking in the dou- tii boiler Until Illc! cllee>e i.. melt. "I. The Drains A long-handled button hook Is a con- venient utensil to clean out a drain choked by lint. Do this frequently and prevent a bad case of pipe trou- ble and the necessity of culling the plumber. Shrimp Cocktail Mix one can of shrimps, two cups diced celery, a fourth cup of chopped sweet pickles, a fourth teaspoon each of salt and paprika, three tablespoons lemon juice. Set this on ico until very cold. Serve in sherbet glasses lined with finely shredded lettuce and top- ped with stiff mayonnaise and sliced pimento-stuffed olives. Hints A rusty screw is hard to remove. To turn the trick and also the si ivw IMU a little oil on it, or-try holding a hot iron against It until the screw is hot. A button hook is a convenient uten- -il I n the kitch'-n. Use It to draw out th" hairs and tiu.-ads from the brush of till' carpet sweeper. A whiskbroom in the kitchen is use- ful to sweep ii]) many small hits when if does not pay to get out the big l',o un and dustpan. If your toa.-'er will make only two of toast at a time, slip the ex- tra piece-, 'ii ki-i.p hot, underneath 'In- gaa Maine over which tho rest of your breakfast is being prepared. Sunday School Lesson Clever Girls The Cooling Drink For variety, beat jelly -until it Is syrupy and add It to Iced tea. or lemon- ade. The mixture will make a rare, eiu.sivu flavor. If the Jelly has a color It will tint the drink and make it more tnvlting to the eye as well as to the palate. Try adding mint Jelly to i lemonade. Mint la a revived flavor Just now coming again into favor. Our grandmothers appreciated It but we ' had forgotten Its dellciousness for yean. Lime is another revival of a Real Estate Now And In the Past I-'atlii-r.s and mothers of today re- member i.hi'ti the home buyer, desir- ing to locate in tho suburbs of a large city, took the train to the city, fcot in touch with a real es'.a*? sales- man, entrained .'oi tho Kurburb.-. hir- ed a horse and buggy, drove to and from the house and lot, a-nl wliow! when it was all ovoi, had put in a hard day's Journey. Hut what does one do now? He takes an automolrle, drives all over the .suburban districts, in<i>i-cU the town as well as the house, visits ten or mure places in a day, and lakes his time about buying because In the course of his constant Iravding over the road he may see. a place l:e likes almost anywhere. These are truly the days of dyna- mic, rapid fire salesmanship in the suburban real estate business. Years ago It was no great task to sell a house If the roof d.dn't leak, for the task of lindiii-^ one, visiting it and getting homo in time to go to work the next day presented Ha own dif- ficulties to the en tinnier. But now the buyer wants to live on the state road, he wants a tile bath, latticed windows in the bedroom, an oil hoai-T, a garage, electric refrigera- tion, and good radio location. He wants to live near the railroad and the trolley line In case his car tans to function. No won ier the subur- ban real estate business competition Ii undergoing a mild revolution! Heil estatu dealers do not com- plain because the automobile Is caus- ing all this agitation in their busi- ness, for it Is producing a heavy turn- over. Kvery automobile driver Is a prospective customer. Where a sales- man of fifteen years ago could handle only one or two prospects a day, the modern one can ir.eot eight or ten. And while the old-time salesman might sell 100 per cent, of his pros- pects, his actual sale did not even ap- proach thosti of his successor. The real suburban brokers have found that they can no longer bring the customer to the city; hence they are playing their part in the general "decentralization" of business, by mov- ing their oflicoa into the ouburhs. The race may not always be to the swift, but. In the modern real estate! game, there Is llt'.le room for the tortoise. I, HI. IDII [>,)!. r.TiKMi to the number of 111 were billen by dog* last year. August 31. Lesson IX Amos (A Herdsman Called of God to Be a Prophet) Amos 1: 1; 7: 10-15; 2: 11, 12; 7, 8. Golden Text I hea,-d the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6: 8. ANALYSIS I. AMOS v HE MAN, 1:1; 3:1-8; 7:10-15. II. HIS MESSAGE TO THE NATIONS, 1:2 to 2:10. III. HIS PLEADING WITH ISRAEL, 4:4- 13; 5:1-27. INTRODUCTION The home of Amos was south of Jerusalem in the king- dom of Judah, in the wild moorlands bordering closely upon that rugged Judoan wilderness which drops steep- ly down to the western shore of the Dead Sea. There in tho eighth cen- tury before Christ, in the reign of Jeroboam II. of Israel, and Uz.ziah of Judah (2 Kings 14: 23; 15: 7), he spent the early years of his life. Whatever wealth he had came from his flocks of fine-wooled jheep and from the coarse fruit of his sycamore orchards (1: 1; 7: 14). His educa- tion he must have received from the visits of itinerant prophets who taught the people on new moon days and sabbaths (compare 2 Kings 4: 22-23). In one famous passage of his book he speaks of the prophets as raised up by God (2:11), and in an- other he compares the taking away of their teaching with a f; mine, 8: 11-13. But much of the preparation of mind and heart by which he was equipped and fitted for his task camo, i.o doubt, from the free, healthful, open air life of his calling. His book abonnda in references to that life, and in figures drawn from the surround- ings of his country home in Tekoa the lion's roar, the bear, the serpent, the invading bands of robb >rs from the neighboring wilderness, tl e warn- ing trumpet Mast from the walls ;>f the town summoning the people in the fields to their afe shelter, the shep- herd's care for his flock, the fowler, the fisherman, the occasional draught and consequent famine, th? locmt swarm, and the river in flood in the rainy season. I. AMOS TIIK MAN, 1:1; 3:1-8; 7:10-l,i. Very little is told us of the prophet's early life. The historical .situation is that of the first half of the eighth century, about !i.C. 7GO-7. r >(). Th-?re had been a peri vd of com- parative peace after tho long drawn out Syr'an wars of the previous cen-j tury, and the tw>> little kingdoms of Israel and Judah were fairly prosper- m.. Israel had never before been as rich and powerful. Rut with grow- ing wealth went pride and cruelty, drunkenness uid crime, oppression and enslavement of the poor. All this Amos saw and hated. Tliough a man of Judah, h? carried his stirring mes- ! sages of warning and denunciation to the people of the .lorthern kingdom, to the great sanctuaries of Hetliel am! S.imaria with th'ir throngs of holiday makers and worshipers. Very simply ho makes it clear, in a number of chal- lenging questions (3: 1-H), that his right to >peak cuiiu's to him from the (''impelling voice of (}od. "The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord (toil hath spoken, who can but prophesy'.'" Compare 7: 11-1"). II. HIS MKSSACK TO THE NATIONS, 1:2 to 2: Hi. \Ve may imagine this first speech of Amos to have been delivered at Belhol, and quite possib!/ all his speeches at the aine sanctuary. Under the pat- ronag-- of the king, the sanctuary <U Hcthel had became rich, and its priest- lmod powerful hut corrupt. It was n dangerous place in which to speak bddly against the evils of the time. Amos Ix'gan tactfully by denouncing the criir.es <if the nations round about Damascus, the Syrian capital; (iaxa, chief city of the Philistines; Tyre, mistress of the western sea; the slave trading Kdnmitcs, with their tiever-ci'asing enmity against their kinsfolk of Judah and Isr:i-l; and Ammon and Moa'.i, guilty of revolting and horrible barbarities in war. All those he accuses of crimes against the common laws of hurm.nity. and warns that a terrible punishment is coming which the Lord will not turn awny from them. In particular and at greater length he dwells upon the sins of the people to whom he is speaking their heart- less enslaving of tho poor, their crimes against justice as well as ngaint-t cMimnon decency, their disregard of the ancient laws. For a paltry debt, a piece of silver or the price of a pair of sandals, a man is sold into slavery. The cloak taken in pledge is not re- turned at nightfall a.< the humane laws of Israel required. There was drunkenness and prostitution nt the very altars of God. The prophet re- minds the peopl? of the great things which the Lord .iad done for them >,i the past, in giving them victory over their fiiemies and po.- session of the land, and in raising up prophets to teach by precept and Na/irites ny (lean living. Hut they had forbidden the prophets to teach and had tempted the Nazirites to break their vow. Israel, like every other nation, will su.ely pay the penalty of continued wrong-doing, 2: (!-l(i. F,>r, Amos de. dared, Israel's peculiar privilege and honor as a chos.-n p.'ople involved a heavier obligation ar.d a certain visi- tation of punishment, see 3: 1-2, and compare 9: 7. III. HIS PLIiADINO WITH ISRAEL, 4:4- 13; 5:1-27. Amos has seen ;he elaborate cere- monial ,'f worship at Bethel and how little it has to do with righteousness. j Ironically he bids the people to "come to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and multiply transgression." He re- calls tragic events of the recent past which should have led them to repen 1 - ance, but by which they have not profited. A greater calamity is com- ,f * / /v j Three charming fancy dress prize winners In costumes made up entirely of cabin furnishings, at recent mid-Atlantic carnival of "Student class" pas- sengers on liner Berensaria. ing in which they will meet their offended God. But even yxt destruc- tion may be averted. He pleads with them to turn from iniquity ar.d to seek the Ix>rd, 5: 1-15. In one of the finest passages of prophecy he represents the Ix>rd as rejecting the ritual of sacrifice, feast, and sx>n(f, and as say- ing, "I/et justice roll down as waters, and righteous:!--. -: as a mighty stream." The Nun Who Smoked The following is an exciting, and ro- mantic incident as related by a mem- ber of the British Secret Service, who are now engaged In frustrating the schemes of dangerous Continental crooks. The most successful detectives are willing to record the leh they owe to "Inspector Luck" and "Sergeant Chance." This is the sto.-y of a piece of luck which enabled a young Secret Service man to run to earth one of the greatest of blackguards. -The Man Who Was Nobody" bad figured for a considerable time In the records of Scotland Yard, and the Sec- ret S.-rvic.) and detective forces of several countries, before he became the object of the .special attention of Mr. David Ross, agent of the British Secret Service. The strange thing was that though they called him by that j niy-terioiis non-de-plume they knew . quite well who he was. They knew that his name was Gas- j Ion Klein, that he lived In Paris as a rule, even that he had resided per- manently until lately at a certain ad- dress. They knew, moreover, that a very largo proportion of the (supply of | dangerous drugs which were finding : their way acros the Channel into KIIK-, land were beint; carried by Gaston himself. They bad (iaston's photo- L-raph and even his liiwrprints. There wa.s nothing that wuild lead to thej idi'tit ideation of Ciastou they did not] know. We Could Not Arrest Him When it was observed that a new supply of the drug had reached Lou- don, the authorities invariably re- marked to one another: "Ah. Caston is hero again." Knowing the-o things, there were people who wen- beginning to ask: "Yea, but if you know so much about this Caston, why don't you arrest him?" An awkward question vhat, and the. Secret Service wa.s gcttim: worried.] Hut bow could the., arrest a man who ; was nobody? For the reason of the epithet was this. Caston had suddenly chosen not to exist. It was as ihough he had somehow developed a ghostly power of leaving his body behind him when ho vaiuo to KiiKlaml and crossing tho Channel as an invisible, dhemhodled spirit. Or so it .seemed to the Secret Service. They could not think ot any otl|er way by which ho could so fre- quently pass through tlui net they kept constantly spread for him. Raiding a Dope Party Now the Secret Service la not In the habit of lequiring any better spur to its work than tho cirll of duty. But the circumstances were exceptional, as the Chief reasoned when he detailed David Ross to the job of solving this in.vMei-y, and bethought himself ot a I'.irl whom (ia.sloii Klein' mischievous work had brought to th.! verge of dis- aster, n girl now flghtl.is a lonely struggle back to health and sanity, a girl whom David Hoss had loved. For morn than a month 3avid Ross had patrolled the busy highway be- tween I<ondo:i and Paris. Every In- vestigation he had made had confirm- ed the conviction that the : lysterioua drug-runner was still (laston Klein. One day he would he visible in Paris, a very solid and life-like nian-ahout- tcwn. Tho next he would be In Lon- don, again a very solid and life-liko man about-town. Hut what he became in the interval, or how he passed the drugs, Koss was no nearer. to discover- ing. Once he had for taken the familiar rail and sea rout} otween Victor! x and the (iare du Nord. He had de- cided to tackle (iaston in his visible presence in Paris. The conn was well planned All that was necessary was to get him with the drugs on him. It was not difficult to find out that on a certain night Gason was due at a party. Several known drug-takers were also to be there. A little conference with the officials of the Surete tho Paris Scotland Yard and the thing was ar- ranged. For a moment Ross thought he had succeeded. Tho party was a regular "dope" orgy. All the familiar drugs were In evidence cocaine, heroin, opium, morphine and Klein! Then the search began and Klein was the only person in the room who had no drugs on his person and who, plainly enough, was not a drug svddict. He had to be released. So Ross went back to his monotonous Channel patrol again. A Picture of Pious Calm Morosely, for he was getting des- perate, he paced up and down the deck of the Channel steamer. For the hun- dredth time he was putting every pas- senger through the keenest ocular ex- amination. They were the usual crowd. A few French business men, a fi'W English business men, some American tourists, some nondescript foreigners, and a nun. And it was miserably clear to him that each one of them was no more than he or she pretended to be. A strong wind sprang up and every- body went below. Ross sat himself down at one of the long tables and conned Ills whole problem over again. A whiff of the vilest tobacco smoke he had ever encountered crossed him. The smoker was a German, puffing at :i black cigar. Ross turned to see whether the passenger next him was also being troubled. It was the nun. In an attitude of pious calm, she sat with her eyes downcast and her hands encased in her voluminous sleeves. The German drew in a deep puff and blew straight at her. Her eyes closed in pain, and spluttering and cou.ghing she raised her hand to her face. Ross's eyes opened wide in astonishment. The nun's hands were yellow with the stain of nicotine. The passengers ot the cross-Channel steamer suddenly received the shock of their lives. With a yell the young man In the blue overcoat had leapt at the quiet nun and clutched her by the thro.tt. Hut that was not all. The nun suddenly developed an agility and strength very far from being in keep- ing with her jjarb, and tho two rolled over and over, fiti-iking out desperate- ly in the Kangway. Tho light was over before anyone could intervene. The y< un man was .sitting on the nun's chest pointing a revolver. Ite bent forward and whis- pered, "Got you, Gastan Klein." Tha Man With the Handcuffs A few hours later David Ross and his prisoner, still in nun's dress but now considerably dishevelled, were on their way back to France, to be met at port by two grim-faced men armed with handcuff.*. In a little room they began their soarcli. They fi.und what they were looking for t o u-ealed in the nun's rosary, and (teston Klein was formally arrested, tl pays b|tter to have a drug-runner arrested on French soil. They give them longer sentences there. In this case it happened to be ten years in a penal settlement. "The Man Who \Vas nobody" became a man with a number. Of course, it doe.t round altogether too much like the .way they do It In tba story books, but there was a wed- ding at which the girl, now completely restored to health am', determined i never again o seek the doubtful sol- ace offered by the drug-runner, and i David Hoss both attended, and the Secret Servici- Chief was there also. Life This is the state ot Man;, to-day he puts forth Tho tender leaves of Hope, to-morrow blossoms, And hears his blushing Honors thick upon him; The third day, comes a Frost, a kill- Ing Frost; And, whan he thinks, good easy man, full surely Ills greatnes is a ripening, nips his Fruit, And tlun he falls. Shakespeare. It Isnt' what a man stands for, as much aa what lie falls tor. Additional Historic Sites to be Marked Department of the Interior Continues Work of Pre- serving Our National Historic Ruins Since the year 1919, whc-r. the His- toric Sites and Monuments Board of Canada was instituted, the Depart- ment of the Interio. 1 through its Na- tional Parks Service has marked, by the erection of suitable memorials, 150 sites appertaining to the history of the Dominion. From time to time, among the various sites acquired aro those of Fort Wellington at Prescott, Ontario; Fort -Jhambly at Chambly, P.Q. ; and Fort Lernox, near St. Johns, P.Q., on wh/rh are situated interesting structures erected by the French and the English for defensi/e purposes along the Richelieu and St. I awrence rivers. Considerable restora- tion and improvemo.it work has been carried out at these sites and today they aie visited by streams of tour- ists. It is the into' lion of the De- partment of the Int-aior ultimately to mark throughout Canada all those sites that have a distinct bearing on the history of the Dominion. During last ysar, among the number of monuments unve'hd was one erect- ed on the site of Fort Fork, near Peace River, Alberta, from which Sir Alexander Mackenzie set out on May 9, 1793, on his quest for the western sea, which resulted in the first cross- ing of the continent of North America. At the annual mealing of the His- toric Sites and Monuments Board of Canada the foll'.wing were chosen as the most outstanding sites or events for preservation ani commemoration: St. Peters Canal, N.S. This canal connects St. Peter's bay with Bras d'Or lake, thereby shortening the dis- tance to the eastern coast of Capa Breton^ It was first surveyed in 1825, and completed in 1869. At Bridgetown, N.S. Site of the engagement at Bloody creek in 1757, during the Seven V ears' War. Temiscouati Portage, at Cabano, P. Q. Here is one terminal of the long- est and most difficult portage in the overland route between Acadia and Quebec. Over it the New Brunswick Regiment made its famous march in the winter of 1813, tj aid in the da- fence of the Canadaa. Southwold Earthworks, near St. Thoma-, Ont. This, is a unique ex- ample of a double-walled aboriginal fort. Its antiquity and origin remain unknown. Near Brantford/Ont. A tablet to commemorate the loyal services of the Six Nations Indians to the BritUh Empire in the Seven Years' War, tho War of the American Revolution, ani in the defence of Upper Canada in 1812-14. Fort Mississauga, Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ont, A tablet will be placed on this fort which was built by military labor in 1814 for thi- defence of the Niagara frontier. 1't was used as a military post until 1845. Starting Point of the First Dominion Lands Survey, near Winnipeg. To mark the site of t. e first survey monument erected i : 1871 in connec- tion with the establishment of the survey of DomHiun lands. Churchil'., Man. To mark the site of the fort built in Ki8D", then the most northerly post of the Hudson's Bay Compan, , an-d the starting point of numerous Arctic explorations organ- ized by the company. Fort Chipewyan, Alta. To com- memorate the voyage of Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1789, from Fort Chipe- wyan on Lake Athabasca northward to the Arctic Ocean, and the discovery of the Mackenzie river. Fukon Gold Discovery, Dawson Cicy. To perpetuate the memory of the in- domitable prospectors who paved the way for the discovery in 1896 of the rich gold fields o' the Yukon. "To the seaman with a sweetlieat in every port it's Helen Maria." Mrs. Solomon Says: To harbor bitterness only embitters your own soul and doesn't help mat- ters. Magistrate to witness in assault case) "You were present when the witness struck his w'fe?" "Yes, sir." "And 'what la your opinion of the case?" "Well, it was a good fight sir with pretty footwork on both sides. But I'd say the lady was en- t'tled to the decision on pointe/'