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Great as is the importance of the public school in old and well estab- lished countries, this importance is even greater in the new lands which are being called upon to assimilate populations from the more congested countries. In such acountry as West- ern Canada, the public school has to take on functions not usually associ- ated with it in the older and more densely settled communities. The prairie Schoolhouse is not merely a centre of education; it is also the reâ€" ligious and social centre of the dis- trict. During the week days the school teacher furnishes eduoation to the children of the neighborhood, but on Sunday the missionary holds his services, which all attend regardless of creed or nationality, and on week nights the building is used for meetâ€" ings of farmers, for the various com- munity societies; for the Red Cross or Patriotic Club, and for purely so- cial events such as debates, concerts and dances. To facilitate the latter, it may be noted that many country schoolhouses use removable desks which the willing hands of the farm- ers’ boys quickly dispose of whenever there is a dance in prospect. Nations are built in the public schools. The ideals set up by the school teacher remain very largely the ideals of the pupil throughoutlife, and his conception of patriotism will be what he has been taught during his school years. It is not too much to say that the present world war is due to a difference of ideals fostered by different systems of education. Another phase of community work associated with the rural school which has been coming into promin- ence during the last few years is the supply of books to settlers in the dis- trict. This work is encouraged and assisted by the central Department of Education, which provides catalogues of books suitable for such purposes, the actual selection being left to the teacher. The number of books allot- ted to a school district is based on the report of the inspector of schools. In the Province of Alberta, although this school library movement is only in its infancy, no less than 110,000 books were supplied for this purpose last year, at a cost of some $30,000.00. Educationists Twenty-Five Cents a Day spent for the right kind of food will keep a man in good health, fit for any task. Two Shredded W heat Biscuits, served with hot milk, make a complete, per- fect meal at a cost of four or five cents~a meal that supplies in digestible form every element needed to build new tissue and furnish heat and energy for the human body. At twenty- five cents a day for three meals there is a margin of ten cents for fruit or green vegetables. Such a diet means a clean stomach, healthy liver, active bowels. For breakfast with milk or cream. Made in Canada. ,4 Schoolhouse of Western Canada is a Community Centre. are being supplanted daily by newer and better things. This is particularly true where health and efficiency are concerned. In hundreds of thousands of homes where tea or cof- fee was formerly the table drink, you will now find It promotes health and ef- ficiency, and the old time nerveâ€"frazzled tea or coffee drinker soon gives place to the alert, clear-thinker who drinks delicious Postum and knows. Old Fashioned “There's a Reason " No change In price, quality or size of package. POSTUM THE COUNTRY SCHOOL. Ideas Prof. Leacork Says We Must Increase Our Food Supply. Prof. Leacock of McGill University, addressing the Montreal Housewives‘ League at the Royal Victoria College recently, said: “We are in sight of a terrible food famine, such as the world has never seen. We must take steps bctimcs if we wish to avoid national and worldâ€" wide disaster. We must at all costs increase our own food supply. “We in Canada are fortunately placed. We have boundless resources in land to draw upon. We must sec that every available acre and every available day’s labor is turned to use. “‘It is gratifying to learn that our Department of Agriculture and our National Service Commission are wide awake to the situation. We must put behind them the force of public opinion and the efforts of individual Trainings? A TIME 0F WRRY of the province look forw time when every school dis a library centre, giving to the facilities now afforded of cities and towns throng lic libraries. The prospe has almost overwhelmed n in the last two years, wl have been reaping enormous crops and selling them at the highest figures in history, promises to contribute still further to the importance of the rural school as a social centre. With every farmer driving his own automobile the opportunities for social gatherings are greatly increased, and the country school is the natural meeting place. When baby is teething is a time of worry to most mothers. Baby’s little gums become swollen and ten- der; he becomes cross; does not sleep well; is greatly troubled with constipation; colic or diarrhoea and sometimes even convulsions seize him. During this period nothing can equal the use of Baby’s Own Tablets. They regulate the bowels and stomach and make the teething so easy that the mother scarcely real- izes baby is getting his teeth. Con- cerning the Tablets Mrs. Arthur Archibald, New Town, N.S., writes: “I used Baby’s Own Tablets when baby was getting his teeth and I found them an excellent medicine.” The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. The Useful Sunflower, Grow sunflowers, not only for their gorgeous beauty, but as food for the hens. In the autumn the sunflower seed is a healthy stimulant and assists biddy in repairing her wardrobe, and clothing her for her winter duties. It is good exercise also for the hens to pick the seeds from the heads. There A chain of wireless stations extends around the coast of Australia, so that a vessel never is out of touch with the shore. A Texan is the patentee of a new harness to hold a rod for a fisherman and leave his hands free for other purposes. ulnard’li Lmlmont for sale everywhere. Enlist At Such A Time. A mustering officer, in the early days of the war, before England was aroused, met on the street of a coast village a strapping fellow about twenty-one years old. The officer hailed him. “See ’ere, me lad,” he said, “are you in good ’ealth?" “I are,” said the youth. “Are you married?” “I aren’t.” “ 'Ave you anyone dependent on you 'I" “I ’ave not.” “Then your King and country need you. Why don't you enlist?" “What?” he said. “With this bloom- in' war goin’ on? You must think I am a silly fool!” Use Murine Eye Medicine. NoSmariingâ€"Feels Fineâ€"Acts Quickly. Try it for Red. Weak, Sure Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Murine is com ounded by our Ocnlistsâ€"not a “Patent Med clne"-butusedineucceasi‘ulPhysiciaua' Practice for many ears. Now dedicatnd to the Public and sol by Druggists at 50¢: per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, 25c and 50c. Write for book of the Eye Free. Murlno Eye Remedy Company, Chicago. Adv. is a pitchy substance throughout the whole plant, which, when the stalks and heads are dry, makes good fuel, so that no part of the plant need be wasted. seed the FAMINE THREATENS WORLD ,When Your Eyes Need Care The common garden plant riander is found in Egypt, d India. It has globular. 1 on rns Australia's Wireless. EXOle lS own autom ' social gathet d, and the ,ural meeting ard to the :trict will be the settlers heir pub- y which 1 Alberta arm dent grown : Africa. on the sighted put to if Smmach blood supply a stantly neutra ach 2mm and between a British officer and a fullâ€" grown female leopard in German East Africa. An expeditionary force was on the march when the animal was sighted, and Lieut. Bouwer dropped gut to try a shot. The leopard sud- .enly charged the officer, and the best he could do was jam his rifle in the open mouth of the beast. Bundles of burning grass were thrown toward the animal to distract her attention from Lieut. Bouwer, who was ba< and Dr. Ivor Haslem. finally dum-dum bullet home, whic} the career of that leopard. National Service Cards. The time for those persons who have not filled in the National Service cards, or have not properly filled them in, has been extended to the Blst day of March, 1917, and further cards have again been issued to the post masters for distribution among those who have made default. It is underâ€" stood that the returns from the 2nd Military District have been most gra- tifying. There are, hOWever, even in this District a number who have not properly made their returns. The Na- tional Service Board hopes that every- one in the District will use his or her very best efforts in order to make the returns from this District as nearly perfect as possible. A Canadian just back in England from France says that German troops have been well fed hitherto, but that a great deterioration is shown in their food recently. Young Germans surâ€" rendering declare that their mothers asked them to do so. The weather at the front has been penetrating. Cana- dians feel it as much as they do the severe cold in Canada. Minard'u Liniment Relieve: Nam-31313 Minnrd’a Liniment Cures Dandrufl. Change Playmate. “Willie, you must stop using such dreadful language," said'his mother. “Where in the world did-you learn it?” :idefi'ly preferable' to t iigestants, stimulants Indigestion. “Why, mother,” replied the boy, “Shakespeare uses it.” “Wellfihen,” said the mother, “don’t play with him.” ment as earned its place in the medicine chest as a relief from pains and aches. 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