Pa., May 19, 1911.
GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN.
Over the mountain and over the sea,
In the land where we never again shall be,
‘There lieth a garden of long ago,
‘Where children played that we used to know.
‘There is no magic of brush or pen
Can picture the wonders we met with then,
‘When we left in the town our schoolbook lore,
In Grandmother's Garden to stand once more.
“The roses we plucked to our hearts’ content—
But they died to our wistful! wonderment—
And the prim box-borders that smelt so sweet
‘When crushed by our wandering childish feet!
And the hedge of beech that walled us in,
‘With the bit near the house that was all worn thin,
‘Where Grandfather stood to smoke at night
With a friend in his garden out of sight.
Graudmother's Garden! Can't you see,
Right in the middle, the cherry tree,
‘With the cherries hanging, big and red?
But the blackbirds had first bite, we said!
And the bough where we sat when tired of play,
‘With a book on our knees and our thoughts away,
Past the sheltering hills, to the wind, wide sea,
Til Grandmother called us back—to tea?
Grandmother's Garden! Yesterday
1 stood in a southern garden gay,
Where on smooth lawns went stately by
Proud peacocks with their strident cry;
‘Where the sun blazed down on the fruit-trees tall
‘That climbed and clung on the high south wall.
‘When, sudden, my heart went out from me
‘To the other garden across the sea,
A thought—and a look—and there at my feet
‘Was a border of box that smelt as sweet
In the heat of the sun as, loug ago,
In the old-time garden we used to know * * *
The years flew by; the builder came,
And Grandmother's Garden is just a name;
For a mansion stands where the roses grew,
And a wall in the place of the hedge we knew.
But I close my eyes and I see again
Grandmother's Garden, O, so plain,
In the land that we cannot go back to see,
‘Where the children played that we used to be.
~W, J. Cameron, in the Pall Mall Magazine.
THE DAI'CE.
Into the middle of the dance somebod
2d what ¥ was Hieant Jor a bombghel h
sa cutter's on the way,” sud-
ay this lad.
. e say she's in the Bay,” he added,
when his preliminary seemed to produce
no consternation. But the man at whom
it was aimed was not unacquainted with
the abounding jealonsly of the male in
this most primitive region of West New-
foundland; and also it had ever been his
secret pride that nothing affected his
nerve.
“Even if she is,” he retorted now, "what
odds till she gets here?” and in doubling
enjoyment continued to swing his buxom
partner.
But at midnight a young fellow in fish-
ing rig came from the other side of the
Bay with news yet more positive and
alarming. “Where's Captain Powers?”
“In a minute, boy, and I'll be with you,”
and to the assembled admiration fin-
ished the reel.
“She's to anchor below, and they've
been inquirin’ of you, Captain—you and
the little Weasel.”
“Then it's time for me to £0: But what
d'y'say, Bess, another dance?”
“Surely, Bryan, one more,” and in ex-
ulting triumph with this capture of the
American captain she snapped her fingers
to the fiddler, after which she accompa-
nied him to the porch.
“And when will you be back, Bryan?
For, of course 'twill be a small matter
for you to slip the cutter and away as
youve done a score o' times before.
en will you be back?”
“I'll be back for a dance this night
week. And mind you, keep one for me,
"Ay, boy, and more than one,” and
they kissed and parted.
In his little schooner Bryan, to Scape
the cutter, was forced to crowd into
Gulf of St. Lawrence by the north shore
of the Bay. Once there he would have
liked to lay his course for the Maglalen
Islands, which lay two hundred m or
so to the west and south; but now, what
with the approaching morn and the at-
tendant light, he dared not cross the open
Water at ¢ got the Bay. go
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such time as it might be safe to swing
out into the broad Gulf and soon south
erly to he ens. This he the more
readily deci to do because on the
the Wind. speaki f Bay of St. J
“ ng o y of St. Johns’
Wallace"—Bryan was addressing
cleverest of his crew—"a good hundred
miles it is, but suppose now we could
make it?"’
“You make it and I'll find a hiding
place where a whole navy of bloodhounds
wouldn't smell us, Captain.”
“Well, Bonne Bay it is.”
"And here's the vapor coming, Captain
—t0 hide us from the cutter.”
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And, while they heaved on the halyards
and gigs, he sang defiantly:
*“ ‘Oh, beating up the coast on a blowy winter's
day— i
From the fog we raised a cutter of his Kinglet's
o'er the way.
She fires a shot across our bows by way of say-
ing, Belay!
We rangesifair across her bows, and then—we
bore away.
Southeast by east for Matakan, and, oh, the
wind it blew!
As out before the howling gale our little ves-
sel flew.
The sea was such, the wind was such, he didn't
fire a shot.
Because they didn’t dare to wear, but—he must
‘ve swore a lot!
** * Oh, flyin’ down the coast like—'
another heave or two on the mains’l fel-
lows.”
He trained the glasses on the fast-
looming steamer astern. “I told em I'd
wreck the jack before I'd Jet any Gover’-
ment vessel get her, and I . Damn
‘em anyway,all cutters and cruisers! And
if she is is wrecked—" /
“Wrecked? Then it'll be mixed drinks,
py grinned. “It cert'nly will. And
priced—there’s stuff below cost ten
a quart.” .
“H-m-m—" Wallace was drawing the
end of his tongue across his lower lip.
“I’ve been thinki Skipper, that we'd
all be better men if we had a sup of that
same. Ashame, don’t you think yourself,
much of it below, and we
like to lose it all soon and never a supon
a now but right,
; you're
Wallace. Off with the hatch, and the
first case you find bring on deck—the first '
case, mind.
They tossed one up. “Let's see now.
What'd you get? You cert'nly drew a
good t's the most expensive
stuff in her hold.”
“Ay, Skipper, we know'd it, when we
stowed it.” Wallace grinned widely. “Is
it every man a bottle to himself, Skip-
Pe One bottle, no fore; bt no stopping
her fourteen in this breeze”
boat of her tonnage,
to handle.”
thie for
where 1 think I'll put her—Hell's Harbor
do they still call it, just ahead? That was
the name when I was here, five years
“Ay, or, and hell it is yet to make on a
y.
“All the worse for whoever is behind
us. And worse yet if men brought up on
sailing craft don’t dare to go further than
Ay, Skiprerts They waved the half
“Ay, Skipper!” wav e half-
empty bottles. “To Hell itself!”
could easily make out the cut-
ter then. “Four miles to our three she's
coming. O man, but with fifty tons more
there'd be damn little turning out of the
road then, and that lad so bold with his
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long chances, certainly not just for devil
ment. However things turn out, their
pay envelopes come at the end of every
ng og their wages, Captain,b
“Ay, they gets their w ptain,but
we has to earn ours first.
“That's it. And right here's where
we'll earn—or lose—ours. Steady now."
she would have to make what was prac-
tically a right-angled turn, after which
she would have to speed into the wind
like a top. And everything would need
to be done with extreme rapidity. Then,
when she was all but ready to come about,
she would have to be given her head;
No more than that when it was time
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of years that the tree has lived, but a
scientist in Texas has made experiments |
and observations which seem to show
that trees carry in their trunks a record
of the weather conditions that have |
vailed ig the successive years of their
Several trees, each more than one hun-
dred and thirty years old, were felled, and
the order and relative width of the rirg:
of growth in their trunks were found 10
agree exactly
This fact showed that all the trees had
experienced the same stimulation in cer-
tain years and the same retardation in
other years. Assuming that the most
ra had occurred in wet years,
and the least rapid in dry years, it was
concluded that, of the one hundred and
thirty-four years covered by the life of
the trees, sixty had been very wet, six ex-
tremely wet, eighteen wet, seventeen aver-
age as to the supply of moisture, nine-
teen dry, eight very dry, and six extreme-
and then away with her on the new course, ly dry
which was practically at right angles to
the entering stretch.
With the wind as it was then, and with
the cutter making a need of hurrying,
‘ Bryan knew that he would find it neces-
| sary to her under full headway, and
oaly to her up, to check her, at the
| critical point; and then it would have to
‘be as one checks a race-horse. For, if
she ran by but a length or slid off as
; sheets were hauled in, it was up on the
| rocks with her and the end for themselves.
| "One of thecrew, after stndying Bryan's
ace, was moved to ask: "Will she make
it, d'y’think, Captain?”
i He saw what they needed. “And why
shouldn't we make it? A quick-handlin’
| little vessel and still light ehoughto see,
| why not?” And almost gaily drove her
| up, with the freshly encouraged crew to
| the sheets. Without a sign of slack he’
| let her tear on, until the men turned half
‘reund to look at him. "Trust me,” he
called, and they, high-strung but trusting, |
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stood y.
! Not until the spray from the surge of
| the dreaded lee line of rocks was coming |
| over her bow and the crew thought she |
| surely was about to strike, did ve |
‘ the word. Bryan himself had the wheel |
then. “In sheets!” he called.
They hauled like demons. “Enough?” |
and they snapped the half hitches on. |
“Now pay out,” and “Stand by again!” |
he hy and again like racing men
awaiting the starter's pistol they crouch-
ed to the sheets. “Now!” snapped Bryan, |
and in they sheeted again like demons. |
“When I say ‘Hold!’ see that you hold," |
warned Bryan.
"Ay, sir."
i “Now—hold!” and hold they did hard |
guns would never get near enough to use | and fast, and down the fore-arm of the |
them. But, Lord, it's a poor man that |
Elbow tore the little jack. Another min- |
quarrels with his tools. She'lldo. We'll | ute of fair running and she was safe. |
make her do. Stand ready now. Heave |
those bottles over or hurry up and empty |
them—one or the other.”
i you be needing a pilot, Skipper?”
asked Wallace. " 'Cause if you do—"
“Why a pilot? Even if I couldn’t re-
member, it’s easy made, that road. There's
the deep water, and there's the rocks,both
marked better than if all the red and
black Government buoys in the world
was there. Where a surf like that shows
only blind men could go wrong. And
they wouldn't even then, if they only used
their ears. Pilot? Lord no, but a strong
hand to the wheel. Take it, you Wal-
lace, and forget all that ever entered your
head except how to steer a vessel.
wait till I give the word. And when Ido,
Jou move. Hear me? If you hope to see
y of Islands ever again, you work
now.”
It lacked an hour of sunset. “Plenty of
light yet, plenty,” muttered Bryan, and
guided her between two large rocks,
Hell's Gateposts, against which the bil-
lows of the broad gulf were now break-
ing, mounting white to the bald crests
almost.
Tearing past the granke entrance went |
the little jack, with Wallace to the wheel
the nara ih ev. ol or oh
ore- ‘eyes y for
channel ahead. It was a dubious out-
look; so much so that were it not for the
narrow strip of between quarter
would have taken
but small comfort. “But that lad behind
won't come in so easy, steam power
though he has,” he commented, and by
way of defiance waved an arm toward
them. “And once within, I'm blessed
. | sure he'll feel even less comfortable, es-
a little harbor of quiet water, where
jack might have lain comfortably if it
were not for the pursuing cutter.
The only passage for them out of Hell's
was through the north entrance,
the | and to reach that from the south side of | her
the Bay it was necessary to go by way of
‘The Elbow. The Bay was sometimes used
by fishermen to set trawls or nets; but
and venturesome as
attempt The Elbow, even in moderate
weather. And now it was blowing a gale.
Now fairly inside, the jack was ap-
a stretch of jagged rocks which
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and, gazing back curiously at the bent;
{ line in his wake and the rocks whereon
the ceaseless white seas had never al-
| lowed the moss to fasten, his imagination
| was off again. “Like white horses, mad |
| white horses running wild. Lord help
| what they stamp under their feet! But
| where's our cutter? Get me the glasses
| and we'll have a look. H'm—there she
| is, going to anchor. Or is she waiting for
| us, hoping to head us off in the morning,
| no doubt? Afraid, by the Lord! to go back
| by the way she came till it's broad day-
| light. Yes, sir, that’s what—she goes no |
| further on this hunt tonight. But that
! the northern gate can you take her, Wal-
| lace, in the night?”
“That I can, Captain.”
\ "Then take her, boy. And to you (he
'waved a triumphant arm at the lights
| and the dim hull behind) good-bye! And
| now, fellows, out into the Gulf and across
to the Magdalens we'll go while that lad’s
| thinking we're still hid away in here.”
And with the extreme of gaiety he sang
| it again:
“Oh, flying down the coast like a penitential
ghost, :
And the hewlin' west-nor'-wester warn't-a-
worryin’ us the most—
Oh, meet me up at Matakan, we'll have a party
there,
O Bess o' Bay of Islands and the red rose in her
hair!"
them clear daylight the Weasel! lay clear
of the northern entrance of Hell's Har-
to the rail. A 1 hearkening to the
south, and he onic head; and yet—
itcame af a thoughts use: *
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"I had contraband stuff in the hold.
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But when the records of rainfall run-
ning back as far as 1854 were consulted,
it was found that they did not all Hiree
record of the trees. Still, it
could not be denied that the rings in the
trunks told a true story of the weather in-
fluences that had affected the trees in
successive years.
The conclusion was therefore reached |
that the record of the Hinge contained
more than a mere index of the annual
rainfall; that it showed what the charac- |
| ter of the seasons had been as to sun-
shine, temperature, evaporation, regulari-
ty or irregu'arity of the supply of mois.
ture, and the like; in short, that the trees
in their
trunks, more than one red years of
nature's history.
Eider-down Farms.
No other down is so highly esteemed
or brings so high a price in the world’s
! markets as that of the eider duck. In
' Iceland and the Westmann Islands, where
these birds nest, they are rigidly protect-
ed by law and by public sentiment.
These ducks make their nests of down
from their own breasts. They pluck the
down out with their bills and form it into
a circular mound that has the property
of retaining heat to an extraordinary de-
gree. If this down be removed, the duck
supplies a second, and even a third lot
from the same source.
The eider-farms in Iceland are frequent-
ly situated on little islands off the
coast covered with low hemmocks. To
protect the brooding ducks from the ele-
ments the Icelanders construct small
shelters of rough stones. On these farms,
it is said, the ducks become so tame that
any one with whom they are familiar may
handle them without frightening them.
Separate buildings on the Icelandic
eider-farms are devoted to the cleaning
of the product. Down clings tenaciously |
to anything on which it is thrown, a cir- |
cumstance that is utilized in cleaning it.
There may be seen a number of frames
of an oblong shape, and along these num-
bers of strings are loosely stretched. The |
down is cast on these near one end, and |
a piece of wood is drawn rapidly back- |
ward and forward over the other end. |
The down clings to the strings, but all |
impurities, such as grass and seaweed, |
fall to the ground. !
It takes a quantity of down to make
even a small weight, and several nests |
must be used to obtain even a moderate |
amount of down. The price at the farm |
is about two dollars and a half a pound.
The Salaries of Clergymen.
For men of more than average educa- |
tion and intelligence, ministers of the!
Gospel receive smaller salaries than any |
other class in the United States, the aver- |
age annual salary for all denominations
being but $663.
The denomination showing the highest
average pay for its ministers is the Uni-
tarian with $1,653 per year. Next in
order of average salaries paid comes the
Protestant Episcopal, next the Universal-
ist, next the Jewish, next the Presbyter-
ian, next the Reformed Church, next the
Congregationalist, and next the Catholic
There are 186 religious denomina-
tions in the United States, of which fif-
teen have no regular moa and sixty-
five pay no regular or fix salary to
their ministers.
With the single exception of the Cath-
olic Church, city ministers receive much
higher salaries than those whose work
lies in rural communities. In the Cath-
olic Church the salaries are fixed by the
diocese, and those ministers who are as-
signed to country churches receive, on
an average, as good salaries as those in
city churches.
Cloth from Pine Wood.
The discovery of a means of making
cloth from the Pinetree of northern Eu-
cloth is as the possible com-
petitor of cotton cloth. Pine threads are
as lustrous as cotton threads; they can
be mingled to advan with woollen
' eliminate the fish
| roots. It
! dust, and leaves a clean, smooth cut cov-
| ered by a layer of charred wood so ex-
| tremely thin as to show through it the
' recorded age of the tree.
The Profitable Duck.
When the waiter removes the silver
to your
at some
| prod
| $75,000 between them in raising ducklings
for consumption in New York and in the
other large cities. Enormous profits were
realized by all duck-growers during the
last season, which i; conceded to have
been the most profitable on record.
Owing 30 a tial failure 2 the duck
crop in est duri t two
Pears, the cities in the Middle est have
opened to the Long Island farmer.
There has been a call for ducklings from
nearly every section as far West as Chi-
cago, and with the increase in the demand
the prices have advanced to the highest ;
point ever known. The season is now
over and the producers are counting their
profits. The crop, to begin with, was the
largest ever produced by Long Island, and
with record prices, the producers are fac-
ing the most sueesseldl year they can re-
member. Long Island i sold at
19 cents a pound in a Ww e way in
New York, but the demand was so strong
and the supply so rapidly disappearing
that the ucers a few weeks ago set
their price at 20 cents—and they got it.
Some of the | producers marketed
80.00) ducks this season, averaging five
pounds apiece. These birds netted their
owners a profit of at least 45 cents apiece,
' as it is estimated by those in a position
to know that it costs about 45 cents to
“ba a five-pound Sues, Tg hey ex-
press the process in techni anguage.
On an output of 80,000 ducks the profit
to the producer was $36,000 for one year’s
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
And things can never go badly wrong
If the heart be true and the love be strong;
For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain
Will be changed by the love into sunshine again:
The recurrence of warm weather has
brought again to the churches the
lem of outdoor entertainment. A
Lawn-Party sometime during the sum-
mer when the.fields are white with these
flowers is possible for any country church
and this first ion in response
the question, “What shall we have?” is
both pretty and easily carried out. The
invitations to one given last June were
made in daisy shape of white Bristol-
board with yellow centres; daisies were
brought in armifuls for decoration:
oe, cream, stamped with a daisy i
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yellow pa may be placed back of the
a paper back of the cen-
An attractive invitation will go a long
way toward making the annual strawber-
ry fete a financial success. It is always
gon) policy to make: an Jvitation to such
as as may and
Pastor's Aid Society in New York Sta
gave such an invitation in a novel way.
supper was served on a iawn
outside of the city, which a
a suburban car line. The society
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work. Some wade even mote than this, Shasel. Th Tavis Sout Six inches six
t growers operated on a smaller A -weigh not
scale yar from 10,000 to 25,000 highly sized, so that it would take color
ducks each.
The immense profits in Long Island
duck-growing will undoubtedly cause the
number of prod
ucers to increase tly
' during the next year. This is ey
by the already strong demand for breed-
ers for the coming season. As it requires
only ten to twelve weeks to raise the
duckling from the shell ready for the ta-
ble, there is an unity in this indus-
try for quick profits. Feed is high, but
the improved methods introduced of late
years into duck culture have reduced the
cost. Some ers do not use the most
approved me s in regard to feed, as
ihey apply a fish diet until the ducks en-
ter the killing-pens. They ought to be on
a meal and bran feed for at least two
weeks previously, as it is necessary to
flavor.
A great many ducks were put into cold
storage during the shipping season, as
some poultry operators thought that the
market would advance after the “crop”
! had been moved. There is every indica-
| tion that it will, and the owners of this
| storage stock may reap splendid profits.
One poult
-receiver in Chicago is accred-
ited with
olding nearl
the Long Island barnyard is no insignifi-
cant factor in the wealth of some of the '
citizens of Nassau county, New York.
| —tHarper's Weekly.
Felling Trees by Wire.
A German inventor has discovered a
way to fell trees by incandescent wires.
His invention consists of an ordinary steel
wire one millimetre in diameter, with a
small attachment worked by a motor. The
wire saws rapidly and evenly through the
tree trunk, being heated to the burning-
point by the friction. During the first
trial of the wire-cutter a tree forty inches
thick was cut through in less than six
minutes. One of the advan
machine is that it cuts a tree close to the
ground, or in the ground, through the
roduces steam instead of saw-
Coffee and tea have been so long known
to the world, and have given so much de-
light and refreshment to millions of peo-
ple, that it seems to be a very singular
statement to make, at this late day, that
man has not yet availed himself of some
of the most valuable properties of these
plants. Such, nevertheless, appears to be
the case, especially with respect to the
coffee-plant.
The stimulating power of tea and coffee
is due to what is known as caffeine or
theine, but tea contains a large percentage
of tannin, which is not a desirable com-
nt in a beverage; and coffee, while
ess rich in theine than tea, possesses
Stef properties which give it flavor as a
n
Tea, as everybody knows, is made from
leaves, while coffee is made from berries
or beans. Just here is where something
appears to have been overlooked. Itis
true that the leaves of the coffee-plant are
not only available for making a bev A
but they possess properties which
them in some respects more valuable than
He “and fragrance the dried
appearance ce
coffee leaves very much resemble those
of the tea plant. An infusion of them
being made, just as in the case of ordi-
nary tea, an aromatic beverage is pro-
duced which isbitter to the taste, but not |
portion of
tannin. i
It has been suggested that this “coffee- | i
to
: dye equally | tea,” although not quite So arecable
well, Fossibly the tine js i JE Th a amas. either Of the
gine cloth be used in place of cotton | other may become an import-
undercl 7 pine and wool | ant article of diet, since it is
of
Mr. Wayback: His bed, most of the
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refreshing and restorative in its effects,
and at the same time would probably
half a million |
pounds to await a higher market. So,
taking it all in all, the “ugly duckling” of |
es of this |
nicely. The members then made a pat-
tern of a big strawberry with stem and
one or two calyx leaves on each side of
the stem, projecting somewhat irregularly
SO as tv give a pretty shape to the berry.
Next they cut out the berry and, using it
for a pattern, marked around it on
ece of cardboard, leaving an outlined
on each. To color the
water-color paint was rather ive,
they used first a wash of red ink, apply-
ing it with a brush. When this had dried
they shaded each one with cardinal dye
solution. The green for the leaves was
also put on with a solution of dye, but
! some touches of water-color in darker
| tones were used to improve the shading.
Then the berries were cut out and sent
toa privter for the verse of invitation,
! which read:
i Beginning at four in the afternoon,
On into the evening, the last day of June,
i Delicious strawberries just like me,
| Made into shortcake, good as can be,
| Will be served with other things nice to eat.
Now, won't you come and enjoy the treat,
{ At the home of the—"'s Fayetteville Road?
A quarter's the price. Any car will unload
At the door. We'll meet together—we three—
You, the Fourth Church Aid Society, and me.
The printer used what type he had in
periods and dots to serve for seeds, and
arranged them very artistically. A one-
cent stamp carried a card to each mem-
| ber of every family in the church, so each
one felt personally invited, and many
| more attended the supper than would
: have responded to a general invitgtion.
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A Canadian Ladies’ Aid Society made a
| great success of a series of Talent Teas.
| These may be given on the church lawn,
i or at the homes of the individual mem-
| bers as “Porch Teas” if preferred.
{ The hostess chosen for the afternoon
provides her guests with a cup of tea and
some small biscuits or sweet buns, for
which each is supposed to pay five cents.
Each of the ladies is expected to bring
some small contribution, and these are
placed on a prettily-arranged table and
sold, the pi going to the hostess, to
be donated by her to the society's work.
The articles brought are nearly all suit-
able for the tea-table and of a kind which
the average housewife would have to buy:
home- bread and buns, tea-biscuit,
jellly, fancy cakes, and so on. The hours
are usually from three to five, and may be
enjoyed by a great many of the church
people as well as the personal friends of
the hostess for the day. This is also a
good way to introduce to the church the
Strangers who come into its neighbor-
| We are a small church in a suburban
town, and ope Ju folks wanted a lawn-
party; our ies’ Aid wanted to have a
supper. The pastor suggested, “Have
both, and have them on the same day.”
The Busy Woman added: “Nearly all the
people who live on the street where the
church stands belong to our church. Let
us open up the whole street, and let each
family have a part in the affair." The
work was planned, and circulars and
posters giving details were printed and
distributed, their heading reading:
RECREATION DAY!
FUN FOR SUMMER BOARDERS!
OUTING FOR HOUSEKEEPERS!
REST FOR THE WEARY!
So on a certain Saturday the sound of
the lawn-mower was heard, and the fol-