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QlomeCtiats BEST '"My business la not to remake my- telf, but to make the absolute best of what God made." Browning. A Unique Summer House The summer house need not be of elaborate design or of great expense. Indeed the simpler the building the cooler and more enjoyable It will be. A boy at home could easily make the kind described. Secure posts by thinning out the' tops of willow trees. Then trim and , cut to proper length, and set in eight j holes, three feet apart, forming an octagonal shaped upright foundation on which a pyramid top can be built. To the top and upper parts of the sides short strips should be nailed to form simple designs finishing off at the top with some decoration. Within the summer house, at suit- able height, a seat should be built con- sisting of short strips of branches halved. Quite often the willow posts will send out shoots which extend from the top in all directions. They continue to grow ami by Interlacing form a na- tural and attractive roof for the sum- mer house. them a nice bed while nhey are here. Then they give us their good bodies, .1 fat and sleek, and puff just as easy as that, they are gone, leaving be- hind them good chicken roasts, and then another little chick comes to take its place. Well, this Thanksgiving Day Billy went to hla auntie's In the city for a while. He had a good time there too, I can tell you. She took him to some fine picture shows and showed him the store windows all lit up so brilliantly and full of such beautiful things. You see. Billy's home was In the country ad this was all new to him. So he enjoyed it Immensely. But after a while he began to think about Rover and Fluffy, and he wondered how Jim- mle Chick and three little chicks that looked so much alike were getting along and oh, he was getting home- sick to see his Mamma and Daddy, so when the two weeks were over they all got in Uncle Will's car and off they started to bring Billy home. So next you'll hear about what happened when Billy got home again. Twilight Hour Story About Chicks and Other Little Friends. Chapter 9 It was getting pretty cold outside now. In fact it was just about time for Thanksgiving Day. That Is a nice time In the year, Isn't It? Do you re- member last Thanksgiving, when the big juicy grapes were ripe and the apples all rosy and sweet? In fact It Is the time when everybody gets ready for winter, isn't it? All the 1 good things to eat which took all sum- ! mer long to grow are ripe then, and are brought inside the house or the; barn or the cellar, somewhere so Jack Frost can't get a hold of them. Then all winter loug everybody and you and I and little Jack Homer and Dolly Dimples will have ail we want to cat even though there is ice and snow out- side and everything frozen up hard. Then enoneli is put away for the ani- mals too. That Is for the animals who live with us. Let me see what ani- mals do live with us. Well, on the farms what kinds are out in the big warm barns? Of course the barns are not as warm as our houses be- cau e, you must remember, animals h.i\ j fur or fe:ith--rs. so they don't want it s r warm. Well, In those barns. If you look all over you'll see great piles and piles of liny, and it Is lots of fun to play In it too. isn't it? Then there are great big boxes of oats and wheat and everything that animals like and the animals are the horses and cows and pigs and chickens. Oh, j a single house full of chickens grow j big and fat and lay lots of eggs tori Mamma Lady aiid Daddy and Billy, i Of course, the little boys and girls , who live in the city or town haven't j got a barn, very likely, so they just 1 ive a kitty or a dog who like to snooze- in front of the warm fireplace. But in our story it Is nearly Thanks- gii-iug Day, and Thanksgiving Day comes because we have so much to be thankful for, don't you think? I'm sure mother can think of many other things too, which you will want to be thankful for besides all these good things to eat, won't she? We only need to think a little and find that the world is just full of wonderful things, j Do you remember what you had for j Thanksgiving dinner? It's Just awful- ] ly good when we have roast chicken j or turkey, Isu't it? I guess most peo- ple have roas' chicken on that day. don't they? It must take a great many chickens to feed everybody. And do you know, little girls and boys, the chickens don't mind after they grow up if they are used for chicken roa^t. No. they don't. In fact, that is why A lot of them were born. So they just have a good tttne while they are here, ad they cau have such a good time If we take good care of them, feed- ing and watering them and keeping their little houses clean and giving Sweets Induce Early Ris: -<g Saratoga Springs. That there is a* muoh truth as poetry in the expres- sion "sweet sleep" Is shown, we are told in a bulletin issued by the Col- gate University Press Bureau, by the record' of an inter-collegiate slumber contest recently conducted between men students at that University and girl students at Skldmore College la Saratoga Springs. The contest, conducted on a scien- tific basis jointly by Dr. Donald A. Laird, director of Colgate's depart- ment of psychology, and Dr. Linus W. Kline, Skidmore psychologist, ended in a walkaway for the girls, and indi- cated that the most restful and re- freshing sleep was the reward of those who went in for diets rich in swee-ts and other carbohydrates. We read: Furthermore, the sweet-eating girls were said to be much sweeter and prompter about rising in the morning than the Colgate men and their sister students who went in for more ascetic eating. Most of the young men at Col- gate had to be- called at least twice before they could be aroused from their slumbers. The Skldmore girls bounded out of their beds at the first dote of the alarm clock. Each of the 136 Skidmore students and 140 Colgate students who partici- pated in the experiment reported dally over a period of two weeks on 225 items of data which hud to do with their mode of living, their emotional states, and their reactions to physical exertion. A classification of this data showed that the two contestants having per- fect sleep scores were girls who con- sumed the largest niiantities of sweets. It also showed that the girl students In general slept about 15 per cent, bet- ter than men students. Sunday School Lesson Mr... It. -"Are >oU ure Harold is engagi ' tt Miss DeCash? " Mrs. C. "Well. I hear his tailor has let him have another suit of cloth -s." Twelve Canadian Oaks There are twelve species of oak lu Canada accoi.'.ing tu the- Forest Ser- vice, Department of the Interior; one (the Garry oakj Is found in British Columbia, the remainder in th Bast. May 3. Lesson V. Jesu* in The Homa of Zacchaeus Luke 19: 1-10. Golden Text The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19: 10. AJNALYSIS. I. JESUS IN THE HOME OF ZACCHAEUS, 19: 1-7. II. ZACCHAEUS REPENTS AND RF.l'iKMS, 19: 8-10. I. JESUS IN THE HOME OP ZACCHAEUS, 19: 1-7. Jericho was a very rich and very famous city. It had many times been destroyed and nad as often arisen from the dust. The site of the city in the time of Christ seems to have been some six milea west of the Jordan Rive and six miles north of the Dead Sea. It was a rich city for two rea- ions, first because therj are but two laces where the Jordan can be crossed, one here, one further north by the plain of Esdraelon. A very lanje amount of merchandise, therefore, passed inevitably through Jericho. In the second place, the city was situated in a veritable little -aradise. It was .. lied the city of palms. Here, too, were famous rose gardens and frag- rant balsam plantations. Jericho was therefore known as "the sweet smell- ing." It follows that the chief tax- gatherer of such a place, or, as we might say, the head of the customs and taxes department, was r. man of great 'mportanee, a man, tix>, who, if he were not honest, would have unrival- led opportunities f^r ''feathering his own ne.vt." Zacehsus' Hebrew name would be " M'hariah He was a man of small stature. We are not told why ha wanted so much to see Jesus. It may have bpen idle curiosity to see the .j an whose name v,-as on every one's lips and who had aiiarre'.led <=o pub- licly with the Pharisees. Or Zac- chaeus may have been moved by a more religious motive, having heard that this new teacher in Israel did not desnise nor refuse to consort with m< of his class. Or rumors mav have trone rrvtirH that Jesus was claiming or pxtvoHne' stvme great "sign" at the comir<r F^ast. Or. again, /aivhae'.ui mav h.ive b^en Interested i: 1 . J'"=u> only as a 'iiinu'le worker. At any rnte. tfc Affect of .TP--US' v-N'r on 7.ic- ch.Ttis wn? vorv i!i:T,"-f>'-- " f iiinc hn Vir.d anticipated. It seems that this incident > the r.ifeting with Zacchaeus touk place as Jesus was on his way up to Jerusalem for the Feast, whert he made his last, great appeal to the nation, and wheru he met his doom. If Jesus had any hope that he vjuld prevail in his great challenge to the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jerusalem, it must have seemed important thac he should draw all possible pooular support to his side, and that he should not unneces- sarily alienate any who might sym- pathize with him. We cannot but wonder, therefore, at the courage which led him, at this critical moment, to go out of his way to favor with his presence the man who was probably the most hated person in Jericho, the "an who stood for compromise with the Roman power and epitomized all that most most obnoxious to the fan- ttical nat'onallsm of the day. II. ZACCHAEUS RSPENTS AND REFORMS. 19: 8-10. When Zacchajus says in v. S, "the half of my goods I -five to the poor," he is making a declaration of his pur- pose, not .stating his habit in tha past. In Exodus _-: 1 the man who has stolen one sheep is required to restore tour, and fourfold restitution ij known to Roman law in the ca.e of a man caught in the act of robbery. It is not plain whether Zacchaeus' re- pentance and solemn reparation are due to something (unreported) that Jesus had said to him, or simply to the fact that Jesus came to his house, any event, we should compare and contrast the impression made upon notorious rogues by Jesus and by Christians. Christians ha/e always denounced robbery, rapacity and swindling. They have not infrequent- ly lost their tempers with the wrong- doer and have done their best t get him punished by any means in their vower. No doubt they have often ex- pressed a concern for the wrong- doer's soul, but they have general!* felt that punishment must come first. Here, however, we have no reason to think that Jesas denounced Aac- clueus. It would seem that already "in his heart of hearts" Zacchajus had often denounced himself, and his ex- cuses were for the public eye only. Jesus showed no inclination to "^et I Zacchaeus punished," for he was only concerned to get Zacchasus changed. Jesus never for a moment condoned am, or suggested that it did not mat- ter. Indeed, in his presence, men realized their sinfulness in a way that no scorching denunciations would ever have effected. But Jesus made it plain that, in spite of sin, he loved the sinner and believed in him. We may assume that in some dim way Zac- chaaus realized the nature and char- acter of Jesus. This made Zacchaeus realize, as never before, his own wretched sinfulness. Bat, in addition, he realized that this spotless person, who knew him through and through, yet really liked him, believed in him, called him to be his real self. Then something broke in Znccham and ,ie was a Converted man. There can be no va! repentance that does not carry with it inevitably the attempt, so far as possible, to n u t right the evil \ve have done, no matter how much of publicity and soandal this may involve. Verse 10, is the unique frotpel >f Christianity. Lazy England! An Irish Colonial In Truth r.on.lon) (Andre Siegfried, writing in -lie London Times, has accused the Eng- lishman of being lazy, and refusing to learn foreign languages.) It is high time that the relative baselessness of these charges was given some of the publicity to which the charts them- selves have been exposed. Speaking as an Irish Colonial who has lived a little in four continents, I can say with absolutely uo desire to work off a paradox or score by cheaply pre- tending black to be white, that the English are the finest linguists among the big nations of the world. . . . John Bull has more faults than he can af- ford in thla world; but do let us re- member his Job of moving from hU nineteenth-century pre-eminence to a new stability U more awkward than that of any other struggling nation. When he was making war, Amarlca, North and South, waa making eco- nomic whoopee. When, afterwards, he was paying his debts, France was mak- ing economic whoopee. Poor old J.B.! The strain upon him has been ter- rific, and the oaly reason that he hasn't crocked Is because he U the sturdiest and mo*t resourceful fellow in the world. What New York Is Wearing BY AN'XABELLE WORTHINGTON llluttrated Dressmaking Leasoit Fur nishfd Wi'lt Every Pnttom Canada's Future Sir Houry Thornton in the English Review i London*: There is uo rea- son (or alarm concerning Canada. It has not beeu necessary to disrupt or- ganizations In this country because of the slump, and when the recovery, which - certain tu come, does get under way, Canada will be In a posi- tion to make the best of her oppor- Her people have been for- tunate in that they have suffered prob- ably less than those of any other coun- try during the recent depression; her resources are still awaiting develop- ment to a very large extent, and her sources of wealth are unimpaired. When the demand comes with re- covery of the countries to which Can- ada looks for her markets tli.it demand is likely to be on a larger scale, even, than that to whi.-li we have been ac- customed. - ^ . Canadian Bird Sanctuaries The total seablrd population of the ten sanctuaries along the north -=>u>re of the gulf of St. Lawrence in I'.'iit), according to the National Parka of Canada, Department of the Interior, not including young birds hatched in that year, waa 100,836. The birds were of sixteen different species, mostly seablrds. Altogether Canada has now more than forty bird sanctuaries spe- cially reserved for bird protection pur- poses. 6Q3Q Here's siimnrr.i; i.r.-i t">r thi wo- man of heavier figure. And a smart dress that w..l answer many needs for the lovely spring days that are not so far away. Th bodice has a deep cross-over vest, one of the best means to conceal breadth. The softly failing: jabots lend a pretty enWt and eontr'Huv much toward ::.? s'.endeniess. The yoke f the skirt U cut to the smartest depth to narrow the hipline. The seaming, tapering as it does to a deep point ( is decidedly length giving. Printed crepe silk in midnight blue combines with plain matching blue crepe, with white embroidered mous- selin in this lovely model. Style Xo. 3038 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40. 42. 44. 46 and 48 inches bust. Size 36 requires 3i yards 39-inch, with *i yard :!9-inch contrasting ami k yard 39-inch all-over lace. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, Riving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, ami address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. A* small and pugnacious man was arguing with a parson about certain Incidents la the Bible. "Take the story of Daniel !r. the lions' den." he said, "i can explain that for you. It wasn't a miracle. What happened was that when Daniel's friends heard he was to bt> cast into the lions' den they had the lions gorged with food so that they had no appetite when Daniel was put beside them." 'That's interesting," said the parson; "and now tell me this. Would you go into a den of lions even if you knew they had dined well?" "Well . . . er . . . yes, I would," said the man, a little uncomfortably. "And it you did," said the parson, measuring the little man, "I feel sure the lions would have one look at you and say to each other, 'Boys, we've forgotten the savoury.' " Canning Industry Shows Increase "Tom -flit nit? ;i !>r.L-k by pan-el post, but I got even wxh him." "WTiat did you do"' "Passed the word aloug to a num- ber of agents that he w.-u figuring on taking out more life insurance." Fiction by any otli>r name would be a falsehood j'ist the -lam-*. According to a recent report th pack of vegetables in Canada showed an Increase of over 60 per cent, la 1930, while there was a decline ot about 11 per cent, in the pack of fruit These comparisons are based upon officially issued figures, which relate to quantities not to value*. Other figures for an ea.-lier year show that tha Canadian industry supplied over SO per cent, of the home market for these products. This comparison, which Is for the year 1928, is for val- ues, which provide the only common denominator !xnw.-.>n production and extended trade. Tha outstanding feature of the re- port on the pack of frui'.-i and voge l.ibles in I'.inaila Is tliu large increase shown tu .!! production of tomatoe*, I>.;a, and mra. Tha pack of tomatoee Inc.-. -used over 1929 by nearly 104 per cent., peag by almost 1G5 per cant, and corn by 19. 3 per cent. The In- crease la 'atj '.ital pack f canned vegetable, -.vi; ,',i!4'i,:^J cases, or 64.8 per cent. The total pack of canned vegetables, exclusive of i-aaned soup*, amounted to 9,272.450 cases, the ag- tires being based on 24 Xo. 2 cana to a case. In 1929 the pack on the same basis was 5,626,098 cases. Tomatoae with 4.025,283 cases comprised toe bulk of the 1930 pack. Peas ware no:.: in order with 2,553,983 cases, followed by baked beans with 1.098.04J cases and corn wi&h 1,066.330 canes. While vegetable canning showed :-eat expansion in Canada last year, the pack of canned fruits !n 1930 fell considerably below that of 1929, drofr pins from I.IOI.ISS cases that year to 1'7S,570 cases !u 13:;0, or slightly mor than 11 per euut. This is accounted for by ::i, large <;ecr---as8 in the app.le pack, which full from 331.J91 oasss In 1J29 to 20.'.57 cases iast year. Sub- jtjuual mi-;- >3ases. howover, were uotdd In the puck of pears, peachea and cliorrtes. peurs being up by 101.721 cities to a total of 339, 106 casea, poaches an increase ot 64.'J73 to 155.- 728 cajss and cherries up by 51.131 cases ' i l :._ i; ri .-a.-i-s canned last year I: 1 . 1:1-3. hen Canadian caanen supplied <4 p>r cent, of the home market, the t, a! pack of canned fruiti and v,}.: -., . .. ;..,( a > $14.823,- 295. The imp.irti were $4.463.097 and the exports (1.687,258. In 1930 the imports of c i:i:i'-d v '^"tables into Can- ada were valii-d a: jl.nil.lS5 and the imports of canned i::i!is at J2, 954. 415. Exports of va:i:i"d v>' vuibies in 1930 were valued at fiii.'!l.'il"i and o* canned fruits at $2r>" 271. Skyscrapers Philadelphia Ledger: The first skyscrapers wera novelties. They were limited because they offered an opportunity to make small plots of ground pay large dividends in congested areas. But times are changing. Now the tendency in municipal planning - and In the larger architecture of designing cities for health, llgh 1 and convenience Is away from the spire of offices grouped on top of each other around an elevator shaft. And despite '-he fact that t!ia Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and similar inhabited obelisks continue to rear tlielr young heads ulgh above Ameri- ca's streets, the time Is coming when American architectural achievement will be devoted less to height and more to mass, line .ind stability. > "Nobody cm ever s^t auythtng right If everybody la eqiriiiv vrong." Q. K. Chesterton. Proof Against Bullets Glass used for the "hull panes" not portholes now of a new liner Is of a special kind that has withstood a pres- sure of twenty tons. In one test of this glass, .t piece of it weighing fifty-six pounds was drop- ped eighteen foet onto a t-iecl plate. It came through this ordcai without showing e"n a crack. L>ut glass nowadays cmi '>< .vonder- fully resis'aut. lu certain r <sts of bullet-proof glass recently a 30S bul- !i?t .v.is fired at It at a nuitf" of flv yards. The glass plate under test wa about an lucb. uU half thick an4 was made up of three layer*. The bul- let starred the first layer, but mads no impression on tiiu -le^'oud. Ans- wers. The biggest thing i MI '.a a tiny cimler when it's iu your ?>' MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHER. A Giraffe Would Have Won bv a MUTT, LAST LAUGHING LAU6HN& TO* AT -me POST: LCANIMG ON IT - He'S OFF! I DON'T TH6 HoSS - I N\AN OUR MOST B CROSS-CVCD-- rie's WHIPPING Trie THAT rioSS -