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from the sickle and cradle to In modern ' and cut- ting combine covers a period of more than one hundred years, a period of steady progress in agri- oultural methods of doing things -and all for the better.

No doubt the young Island farm- ers of this generation would think it a hopeless task if they were called upon to harvest their grain fields wltli old-fashioned gadgets. but farmers of those days thought little of it.

When the fields were ripe. all hands joined in helping to har- vest the golden wheat, the oats and the barley. with their left hand. the farmers grasped a hand- hi of straw; then, with a quick swing of the right hand. the reap- ing hook descended to sever the stocks near their roots. Each handful was laid down in a neat row for those who followed to do the raking. and ‘binding.

A few years later. came the cradle, a wooden framework which raked the grain together. Our great-grandfathers fastened the cradle to a scythe and started scything. This was a great im- provement over the sickle in that it was able to cut a swath from four to six feet wide. thus en- abling the farmer to cut down his field in much less time. An expert cradler could cut as much as three acres in one day. provid- ing the grain stood straight and clean.

Once the menfolk got under way, the women and children raked the grain into sheaves by using large wooden hand-rakes. (Some of these old rakes still may be seen lying about the farms of our older farmers.)

When the sheaves had been rak- ed into bundles. the binders twisted a neat band of straw which they used for tying up the sheaves. ‘Rakers and binders‘ followed each other across the field in a long line. while be- hind them came the children whose duty was to set the sheaves up‘ in "stocks," the same as farm- ers do nowadays when.they cut their grain fields with a binder. The combine. however. cuts and threshes the grain all in one op- eration. saving valuable iime.and labor.

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When the grain was sufficient- ly dry. the stocks were loaded on a. home-made sled and hauled to the threshing floor. where the grains were pounded from the stock by means of a flail. a laborious task, to say the least. Just as soon as a given quantity of grain had been flailed out. the farmer piled It to one side to await a favor- able breeze to separate the chaff from the seed.

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Lenten Meditations

LOVING GOD (The London-Times) I

What is -really meant by loving God! English Christianity is ethical rather than dogmatic or liwrgieal—- which is both its strength and its limitation — and most English Christians are strangers to the heights and depths of mystical re- ligion. To them such a phrase as "loving God" is frightening because it suggests an emotional experience by which they are to a large ex- tent unvlsited. ma they therefore conclude that the knowledge oi and is barred to them. and is open only to men of a special tempe:a- merit.

Christianity is not one special de- partment of experience but an at- titude to experience as a whole. It cannot, be true that the first and great commandment is conditional on a psychological make-up which some apparently have and not others; and in any case emotional reactions are t‘-.:e least imrortant element in religion What mat'ers is the commitment. of the will and the consecration of the mid. This 1; important not only for religion. There are trends tn-day bolh 1“ thought and politics which belittle submission to objective stardards and erect emotional states into sbsolutes.

The first lesson that has to be learnt from life is that the wold is not so ruled or constituted as to serve man's immediate conven- ience. Both thought and conduct must submit to laws which man did not: make and cannot alter.

The farmer, the thinker, the statesman and the moralist. 311 alike must first learn bedience-— by iaithiul observance of the laws of nature. by "sitting down patient- iy before the facts.' by fidelity '0 me imperatives of conscience. That is the foundation of religion: and that L; what loving God means ‘:0 sent, with. even though men are not consciously aware of him as the object of religious worship.

But this not the submission of blind fatallsm. If the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ii the sovereign and creator of (310 universe. it will be a place -in which man can grow to his full stature as a child of God. And though it may not give him what he "wants" it does in fact satisfy his deepest needs as moral and splfllull F61" sonality.

Each step in obedience leads to mnhe, growth. Knowledge rightly gained yields more knowledge. Doy- alqy to the moral law as recosnlfld at any stage leads to a fuller infill“- Palth arad prayer bring accumul-

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I 1? gevery moment of loyalty to the good 55 thqy conceive it men are responding t0 the “V1” c°°d' uess. seli-revealed to man and with- in him. Christ. as Christians claim. is the true light that lighteth every man. coming into the world. It is out of the lntlmwy 01 the 1910"‘ ledge of God that the collect oi the Sixth Sunday after Trinity prays for such love towards him "that we loving Him above all things, may obtain his promises.

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* I: An nuns runner: Wife 3 ms-so-;«c~¢~-r dive.-1'.-no Fortunately for all. not in last night's frosty weather. but now as the last hour of this day runs its steady course towards the witch- ing hour. when by rights folks should be in bed. the litter of pig- lets is being welcomed. Not too eagerly we may assume, but then with that deep interest which since a small lad. Rob has given to livestock. Not frosty now but witihal quite chilly, and in a spell of failing weather. More pleas- ant it would be for him to re-

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by the fire than as fully garbed. even to a sheepskin-lined coat he put on with the smiling remark: "This looks like good weather for young stock!" he went out to keep a lone watch in the piggery. O O 0

We believe if we were to ac- quaint James with present condi- tions here, he would be willing to join Rob in his care even though the night is dark and dreary with the falling show. which is more like hail in its consistency as it pelts against the windows. But after a reminder that was really the result oi a habit of younger years—“’l‘eli Rob to keep an eye out to the piggery" and a “guess. Ellen you'll be home shortly" and a parting word or two on our rural line he was off to his rest in the wide old bed in the room above the kitchen.

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And now the wind is rising. and the blown pellets persistently hammer against the panes. All day small drifts played along the slopes. and at evening with the children, we looked in vain to- wards the cloud-hung sky to find the glimmer of one faint wishing star. “We'll have to get a Wish- ing Well!" Jamie laughed. "and then we wouldn't have to depend on the stars!" “Would it be all right," he wondered on a recen: evening when faces close to the panes in a sun-porch window we watched the daylight fade in a line of amber along the hilltops, and the twilight steal in quietly. pinned southward by a star, "if a person had two particular wishes. to wish for the both of them?" "Perhaps you could put off one until tomorrow evening" we sug- gested. But Jamie shook his head. "No!" he said. "neither of them can wait." And the younger lad. who is always his willing as- sistant in any enterprise com- mented “well. isn't this tomo;-. row right now?" _

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"And. oh yes, Ellen. I almost forgot to tell you." James added an after-thought to.tonight's mes- sage. "Tabby is dead. No. she wasn't sick - not that we knew. l_missed her when 1 went to milk —— you know how she was always about? and we found her later in tlhe barn. dead." It was with some regret that we came ‘mm the ‘Phone. since Tabby had become almost a member of the fsrnily at Alderles. she had been with us so long. Esteemed. scold- ed, admired, watched. because she was one in whom the elements of cat-hood were indeed mixed. industrious, patient. ion‘-lufleg. ing. lovable. she was nevertheless inclined to deceit and more than once her modest expression mask-

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DEAR. MISS DIX: I am a widow with a very limited income. My daughter with her children and an idle husband are living with me and while she helps a little 2‘ anclally the greater part of the expense oi her family falls on me and I can ill afford it. If there were ,the slightest sign of appreciation I could meet the situation more cheerfully, but there is none. 1 hard- ly see her except at meals. or when she wants me to take care f the children while she and her hus- band go off f r some pleasure. The husband does not ,even look fo a job. I am troubled not only for my- self, but for my daughter. Should I force them to get out and upport themselves. or keep on using my limited fund to help them until my money is gone? Would the responsibility of being on her own help her to realize the uncertain future? I do not know what to do.

. A WORRIED MOTHER.‘

ANSWER: Your daughter's salvation and that oi her family de- pends upon your forcing her out of the home nest. As long as you feed and shelter her and her brood they will be grafiers upon you. for it is a lot easier and pleasenter to let mother do it than it is to do it yourself. .

THEY ARE CAPABLE

But when they have to shift for themselves or starve. you will be surprised to find how capable they are. and how many talents they pos- sess that you never suspccted them of having. If anything will gal- vanize your lazy son-in-law into action and make him hustle out and try to find work. it will be having the responsibility for his family thrown on his shoulders, instead of being borne by mother-in-law. There are not many men such poor creatures that they would rather see their wives and children starve than work for them.

What mothers need more than anything else in the world is enough enlightened selfishness to enable them to protect themseltc. against their children. They need it for their own sakes because the children to whom mother has always sacrificed herself never appreciate what she does for them. They don't even respect her, because she has made herself nothing but a servant for them, They take all that she can give and when that is gone they have no further use for her.

And the mother does her children an incalculable wrong who does not teach them to be self-respecting and l...‘.ependent, and that it is a shameful thing for the young and strong to be willing to be leeches who suck their own mothers‘ life blood.

DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Your article about domestlcating boys at a young and tender age so -that they will make good husbands hands me a laugh. You see I married a man whose mother literally wore herself out and put herself in an early grave trying to teach her boys so they would not be the kind of husbands their father was. She was the soul of mee' and goodness and honor. so I thought her boy would make a model husband, and I married him. He wasn't. Her efforts had gone in vain, and I began to take more stock in heredity than in environment and training. Now I am straining my own patience and health trying to teach my children how to be good husbands and wives. Some of them may. Some most surely will not. So why blame mother‘!

A FRIEND

ANSWER: Well, at any rate, if you have made the conscientious effort, you have the reward of a clean conscience. Your children may not make ideal husbands and wives. but theyfwlll certainly make better ones than they would if they had been permitted to grow up with their natural impulses toward selfishness and lack of considera- tion and grouchiness and gnumpiness and temper uncurbed. .

Of course. there is always heredity to deal with. and there is no way we can arrange to have our children “take after" their agreeable ancestors and not the surly ones. But early influences do count. Mother's hands do mold character. And many a discouraged mother

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That Body Of Yoursgf By James W. Barton. M.D.. 2; ‘_%~*XA‘ TEETH AND BODY NUTRITION

In the examine of recruits for overseas service in World War 1. our iristructions as medical od- ficers were to reject anyone in whom no lower tooth met the tooth who've it twlhlch would render him incapable of chewing pucperly). Nctvwlblistandlng this low require- -ment. about seven in every 20 were found to be without even. this slight biting surface.

Before the was was half over, in- structions were issued allowing medical ofiflcers to accept recruits who had plates or dentures to sup- ply the necessary requirement.

Although infected teeth are the greatest single cause of infection. the -need of a. che-wing surface is most important our general health.

In “The Journal of the American Dental Association." Henry 1. Green. D. D. S.. Samuel Dre:-sen. D. D. S.. smd Tom D. Spies. M. D.. Binmingphnrn, Alabama, states that it has been observed repeatedly at the Nutrition Clinic of the Hill- nian Hospital, Birmingham. that many adult patients seeking treat- ment for nutritional disorders have poor or missing teeth. Prcm these observatl-ans they point out the close relstlonsrntlp between a poor ocndition of the teeth and the nutrition of the individual.

Four. hundred and forty3six pat- ients were selected consecutively as they came for observation and treatment to the Nutrition Clinic of the I-liilrnan Hospital. mch pat- ient was given a bhazrough mouth examination and was classified as without iceih tadentuious) or with teeth tdentulousl. The patients without natural teeth were div- ided inr.o (a) patients who had ill- fltting dentures. tacked one or boil dentures. or were nable to use their dentures efficiently because of mouth disturbances. and (bi patients with well-balanced. useful dentures. Patients with teeth were divided into (a) those with om or more natural teeth. (ta) those with three opposing teeth. and (c) those with less than three cpposing teeth.

Of t/he 445 patients studied. 268 were without natural teeth and 178 her! teeth. of the 268 without nat- ural teeth. only 49 had wei~l-bal- anced. usedul dentures and the other 219 did not have satisfactory chewing surfaces. Oil the 178 with natural teeth 812 had less than

three opposing back grinding teeth

Don't hesitate to visit your den- tist several times if necessary if your artificial teebh do not fit pro- perly.

LYONNIIII TULIP

A dusky tulip blows

And in my garden grows,

A rhspsody of flame

Beside the thicket dark and still.

At night it folds so tight Each petal from my sight And holds its secret deep Till morning light returns.

All day it flaunts its head.

A deep flamboyant red.

it shoulds at me of lava

Throughout the long still hours of noon.

A flaming torch among my flowers. It whiles away the sunny hours. Remote and still it blows Thrtfilh cuckoo-calling days of ay.

— Mona A. Jackson in the

New York Times.

WHITE CAPS SPARKLE ON SEA OF FASHION

Wonderful. exciting things are happening to playclothes destined for the southern resorts now and northern climes this spring and summer. There is s new feeling for wrapped clothes. for short skirts instead of short pants, and straight unwaisted little boys shirts. A favorite alliance with all color is blazing white pique, whether it is in a jacket, cape or kilt - if it's white pique. it's very important.

Crisp, perky pique runs happily throughout the best collections, as leading designers find its stiff. pebbly texture dramatically effec- tive. either in s one-piece play- suit tied and knotted at the leg and neck. or in a‘ demure lovely patio track with its own moon drenched aura.

Carolyn Schnurer uses‘: disg- onal pique in her full circle skirts. Chalk white, the skirts are cut to have a stiff, sculptured look. and are ideal for this era of being your own mixmaster. Clifford of Del Mar has designed a parate white pique Jacket. short. full. rounded at the bottom, and smocked like a baby Jacket. '

Pique is not at all limited to playclothes, for the master chef of the trend-setting recipe for fashion. Christian Dior. is using it with his customary verve and imagination in a -special vibrant shade of navy blue.

CLEBGYMAN DICK!!! LACK OF MININITY

DURHAM, England — Women with "hsrd". uniovely faces, ap- lng men's dress and habits" dis- tres Rev. A. M. Stephens, vicar of nearby Birtley. The vicar says in his parish magazine that do- ing men‘s- jobs makes women too masculine. Women did “unna- tural tasks" gladly in wartime. he says. but it is wrong to continue in them once conditions have re- turned to normal. ‘There is I perilous and foolish tendency to- day for women to deny their aa- tures and to become masculine. They «pass us in the streets with their hard. unlovely faces. aplng men's dress and habits. The re- sult is as disastrous to themselves, to society and to the Kingdom of God. as it would be if men tried to lose their particular character- istics and become feminine."