age bi ‘spirit t of it ongre- 1. 8 a r stage the as- mean 1at we nposed narked in this 7 study yses of ot pos- that is r great lent. to 3 ambi- mount actress ittance lod pe- end in t most equent travel, th and riously years, writing them. pted to o have unce a he pub- a good * to at- ay we s made entury, dealing perfect ». stars® stimate by the r avail- nce be- At dis- through conclu- all the ere not that all be any hey are > hen the atter of stich a such a cter—is personal ay char- pl. | live the are suc- e to the Diritual, rd; and thatiene he fight- 5 by and to keep ST. resist at inherit- thinking Keep on sw York jmpDY S BveNI@tiEULATION {" On summer ey enings on the lawn § It’s always lots of ‘ we sit and talk of many things And vate watch the setting sun. But tvhen 1 want to listen ‘Fo everything that’s said, . "Some one is sure. to say to me, “Come, dears oF s time for 8, Nicholas, FOUR" WAYS OF SPINNING EGGS. Did you #ver Spin an egg? It is al most as good fun as spinning a top. The ecg miust be hard boiled, as a Taw 7 AN A EI i SPINNING THE EGG: WITH. STRINGY or:soft egg. vill aot. spin well, because the. liquid ‘contents avill not follow, [the motion of the shell exactly. : Now there, is something queer in the way. an egg spins. It is easy enough ‘to make it spin on either tiie] "small or ‘the large end Dy stahding®it oi ‘that €nd on a plafe and tyirling it: with your fingers, bes if Jos 3 to fe it ¥Becatise fhey do net raise popcorn in England. Dn’ t you think it would be a good" plan’ for us to. have a pop- corn party for her this very night.” The children agreed and Carl built a splendid fire in the fireplace after supper. By the time they were ready for Edna's party there was a big bed of glowing coals to rake out ‘on the hearth. A “Quick! the people must come to ‘the party right off.” called Carl; “the coals are just right.” First came Sue bringing ‘a’ box full of corn already shelled. “This is the corn that was put in the ground,” she chanted,- “only you know it isn’t,” she added. “This is what we are going to Pop. ” “This is the stalk that grew from the corn that was put in the ground,” sang Uncle Frank. actually bringing in a corn stalk and standing it in a Corner of the room. “And these ave the =ars that grew on the stalk that grew from the corn that was put in the ground,” chanted Aunt Mary bringing a bunch of ears. “And here is'the popper to pop the corn that grew on the stalk that grew from’ the corn that was put in the ground,” said Sue who had dodged out and returned with the long-han- ‘dled wire Dox. : Jdna laughed and clapped her hands with delight: Carl lifted the “cover, poured in a4 handful of the corn, ant when the coals were drawn forward ca the big bri¢k hearth, began to shake ‘the popper gently over them. "Aunt Mary brought in a ten- quart ‘milk-pah and the salt and buttdr. MI wonder what the pas for” “thought PICTURE PUZZLE: = ROMEO ak JULIET. FIND Wo OF ROMEO'S IRIEN pS. . Sram Th —Mirror and Fariger. spin on the Side it refuses to do so, but stands.up and.spins on the large end. It is not quite so "easy, :though mot wery difficult, to make an egg spin without twirling ‘it or even touching it with your fingers. Simply lay it on a plate which projects a Tittle over the edge of the ‘table so that you can lift the plate without tipping it. Take it up and move: your hand rapidly in a small horizontal circle as if you \*-re trying to make a lot of ‘“naughts” with a pencil. The egg will begin to spin on its side, but will soon be spinning on its large end. : Or you can keep it spinning in this way even if you have to start it.with your fingers. It is possible, also, to spin an egg with a string, though, of course, you must not throw it on the floor. Wind the string around the middle of the egg, stand it on one end and steady it by touching the other end lightly with one finger. Then pull.the string carefully. Finally, you can spin an egg with a whip, like a whip top, if you do not whip it too hard and take care not to hit it with the stick, but a glass “nest egg” or a wooden darning egg is better than a real for this purpose. Some eggs spin better than others. The best spinners are eggs that are THE EGG SPINNING ITSELF. quite regular in shape and have been boiled in an upright position so that the air bubble is exactly at the end, not a little to one side, as it often is.— New York: Evening Mail. WHY THE POP-CORN POPS. “Here’s a little girl who has never seen an ear of pop-corn in her life,” said Aunt Mary, “and she has nevet seen even a single kernel pop!” “Why not?’ asked Carl and Sue, looking pityingly at the little English cousin who vas spending the autumn on the big Maine farm which was their home. 3 wah Edna, “and. the salt and butter! Per- haps I can eat two orstheee of. those lit- tle bard kernels:if they are salted, but- think of eating a panful!”’ . Then, .as she. looked .at the. popper, pop! a little kernel flew to the cover: apd fell back again a beautiful Snow- white puft-ball. an i Pop! pop! pop! pop! pobpity pop! went the kernels—the sound growing softer as the popper filled and the new- ly-popped corn fell back" on a soft white bed. : Carl drew the corn away. om the coals, and, lifting the cover, poured the flufty-looking Kernels 18to the big pan, and Aunt Mary dropped on the melted butter and sprinkled; the hot corn with salt. 4 “Eat, do eat!” urged - Sue. needed no second invitation. ; “Wish I could eat the smell, too,” she said as she munched her first mouthful. Carl kept on popping the corn until there were two panfuls. What a feast they all had! £3 “Uncle Frank,” said Edna, in a coax- ing voice, when the corn was nearly gone, ‘“‘what makes the pop-corn pop?’ “The heat,” answered her uncle, his eyes twinkling. “Y-e-s, but it doesn’t make eveéry- thing pop,” answered Edna. “When peas are very-hot they just hop.” “The real reason is this,” said Uncle Frank. “There is an oil all through the in- side of the kernel that is changed into a gas when the corn is heated. You know what a gas is—don’'t you?” Edna nodded. “Well, the gas wants a lot more room than the oil, and pop! it explodes and bursts the tough outer skin with force enough to turn the whole kernel inside out.”—Adapted from the Sunday School Times. Edna - THE . CUNNING OF ANTS. A naturalist feund black ants were devouring the skins of some bird speci- mens on a table, so he made tar circles on four pieces of paper and put one un- der each leg of the table. Ants will not cross tar. Pretty soon he found the ants busily at work again and, looking at the tar circles, found each one was bridged by bits of sand which the cleve er ants had brought in from the sueet, -have a Sad who w il mot break down and A SERMON FOR SUNDAY | x ® AAS rT BeE MAD id A ‘STRONG’ ISCOURSE" NITED: “THE, KNOWLEDGE OF Gop.” Eos The Rev. Lidsion XL. Tay] lor Tells Why Religion is an Affair of the Soul and God=— Sectarian, Dogmatic Insistence is Perilous. BROOKLYN, NY Sunday eveni ng, in the Puritan Congregational Church, the astor; the Revs Livingston 1: Tayler, yu or the subject of bis ‘sermon, Knowledge of sod.” The .text.«was a Psalm Ixxxiv:2 “My heatt and my flesh crieth éut for he living’ God. » Mr’ Tay- lor said: I come beck to his pelpit in’ no améer- tainty of mind with reference to what. my message sheuld be." tnow, at any rate, where it must begin.’ Unless - thristake the terms of my commission, unless I mis-. take the nature of the means placed at my disposal, which are the Bible and - the church, unless T mistake the example of my Master, it is my business to*help fien, so far as in me lies, to find God. There is no mistaking my own mind, nor what the summer has done to confirm it in this conviction. To me, as to many of you, the glory of the Lord has been re- vealed anew in earth and sky and sea. To me, as to many of you, has come the op- portunity to read and to think and to en- ter‘into the thoughts of other persons. We have gone out of doors. with our religion. We have, taken our ideas of God and life os ny from home with us. We have trav- ‘far afield ivith them in the books 5 Then we have read. How have they fared? For myseif I did not by any means get rid of Jeremiah’s words - by preaching on them last Sunday ‘morning. They stay by me, as they began to stay by me in the early summer; “Thé gods that have pot made the heavens and: the ¢ rth, these shall perish from the earth and from un- der the heavens Heaven and earth bear testimony against ‘every inadequate idea of God. We must have a God whom nothing in heaven ora earth.can: dethrone. We must have a God our faith in whom need not be shaken by anything ave’ may learn about nature, ar “about the Bible, or about the life off rach and’ nations. We must Feri our souls:in thexhour of trial. Ve must have #God who shall be God’ to us, pur God, even Li we: can only ery with Job, “Oh, that fIL: knew where T might find Him!”% “ie must have a God to,whom we may sdy; “Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit” in the very hour in which we. may haye cried “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Such is the. God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Sucheis the God from whom nothing in the heights or in the depths, nothing in the_past, “the Protent or ‘the ‘future “could détach the faith of Paul. Such is the God. our need of whom.may be. revealed ta.us.at any mor ment by thé lightning flash of some great calamity: Such is the God our meed of whom will ‘belr ‘down impon ‘our ‘minds more ‘and moze. heayily as-we. face more and more frankly the facts of life., f ere is"h man who has been Sm onetl by a midnight message to the bedsidé of his child.: As he goes from ferry to ferry to ascertain .by what route he can reach her most quickly, every man he addresses reads his secret and shows him kindness. Connections are close. Over every signal light that delays him the engineer sees a night lamp in a sick room that tells him every second lost must be“made up. The- conductor nervo sly hurries passengers off and on the train at every “stop. - The race is won. The father stands Taide his child. There are, the doctors. There are the nurses. There ‘are friends. Everything that human love and sympathy and skill can suggest is being done. Where is thy God? 1 say, father, where is thy God? Nature says to him, ¢ ‘I have contrived a little sack in your child’s body. I have filled it with. poison. 2AVien twenty-four hours I propose to. real If I break it your child will die. If You are willing to take other chances det the surgeons re- move it. Then I will do the best I: ‘ean for you.” Some men tell me that their God is ns ture. Does your God thus speak His w hole mind?" Why, that room where a fathef is making up: his mind. what answér to: give | to mature’s ultimatum is flooded with Due love. Everybody cares. ‘Are you ready fo = “Breryhody' dares but God?” There 1 1s sicky child there to hel fAccounted fof. peg is a harshsultimatumasof nature to | be acepunted for. ty there are loving | hearts’ in that room. to ‘be accounted, for, | also. And there’is a universal capacity for sympathy: and? helpful vaction to be ‘de- gounted: for. » Ltrds a scene which fairly | represents the. tragedy, of the, world prq- ‘cess. In whic aspects ‘of it. do you dis- cerni the’working of thé higher law—in the merciless: progress’ af “tile diseade: ot in what ‘is heing :done tg save; to