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Preparations are already being made fior the annual carnival to be held at Balm amidst the glories of the Cana- dian Pacific Rockies. Banfl is ideally situated for winter sports and this season the dates have been fixed from January 29th to February 5th inclu- sive. The Secretary wrues that the programme is to be “considerably ex- tended. He says: "Our Ski Hill has now been com- pleted in accordance with the sugges- tions made by the world’s champion. Anders Haugen, of Brooten, Mink. and we are confident that a new world’s mrqm'ill be established on our Hill this Carnival.~ We have decided to of- fer a. substantial cash prize to the man who can beat the present world's re- cord and to supplement this cash prize with a further prize of $10.00 for every foot or portion of a foot by which the record is broken on our hill. We will “so follow the same principle in con- nection with the amateur champion- ship only in that case the inducement or reward will be in the shape of an especially attractive prize. We have at the present time four different jumps. so that we will be in a posi- tion to stage competitions in all class- as of this very spectacular and hair- mising sport. with size come length and height. Following sizes comes shape, txughtkmost easily by Sorting out all the blocks of a kind or all the beads of a kind from the usual boxes of blocks and wooden beads which are to be found among the play'things of most children. They all love to pick out shapes by touch, finding in a group of objects hidden under an apron in the mother’s lap the twin of an object they hold in their hands, then, when they have the idea, doing the same from piles of their own making. They are interested in likenesses and differ- ences. This interest is, indeed, at the bottom of most play suggestions for little children. Through it we start' the child on the training of his sensi- bilities. In discovering differences and noting them and in performing op- mtions which make note of them through touch oi' sight, the child is developing these powers which are at the moment awaiting development. Other plays with duplicateâ€"spools or blocks introduce the idea of matching things, selecting one and finding its “We expect that ladies hockey will be a very Impontant factor in our sports this season. We have already been advised that the ladies of Van- couver, under the leadership of Mr. Frank Patrick, of professional hockey fame, expect to compete. The Re- gents, L116 Champions of Western Before Mary Begins School. Give a child the idea of size with a nest of boxes, with a set of books graded by sizes, with blocks, with 9110018, with tin pans. Any set of ob- JOCts in series will be the materials for a group of play lessons for which the words “large” and “larger,” “well”, and “smaller” are the keys. IN (3 ER SOLL ONTARIO PARADISE FOR SKI-MEN aw! Canada, of Calgary, the Patricias, also of Calgary, a. team from Edmonton, a team from Vulcan, Alberta, and per- haps teams from Winnipeg and Ottawa ane all expected to be on hand and compete with Vancouver and Ottawa for the Championship of Canada. A very elabolate trophy, together with ten very attractive and costly prizes, will in all pmbability be announced a little later in connection with this event. The Whole secret of home education for little children is for the mother to meet awakening instincts and powers with play supplies and play sugges- tions. To meet his needs she has only to get his viewpoint. and travel with him the road of investigation and ap- preciation of the interesting world about him. “An ice palace will be constructed on a basis far more extensive than any- thing heretofore attempted and the re- sident engineer of the Dominion Gov- ernment is now at work preparing the plans for same. We expect this pal- ace, when illuminated, will be a View that will long live in the inemories of those who Will be fortunate enough to visit us and see it. The palace will be stormed at different times during the Carnival by representatives of all the Tiddledywinks baseball is‘amusing for a stormy afternoon or for an evening party. The diningâ€"room table, covered with a silence cloth or a thick shawl, is the diamond. Small glass cups represent home plate. first, sec- ond and third bases. One of the small twin. Then we come to sorting and here are opportunities for a variety of plays. Mix from the kitchen supply closet brown, white, and speckled beans; provide three receptacles into which to sort them. Make a play set from your button box. Children’s delicate finger-tips are quickly sus- ceptible to differences intexture. Go to your piece bag and cut squares (patchwork size) of cotton, flannel, velvet, corduroy, burlap, chamois skin, leather and silk, to be sorted into pieces of each kind, first by touch and sight, then by touch alone. Color plays come in a natural sequence, em- ploying at’first only the primary colâ€" ors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. Tiddledywinks Baseball 9 a} into llttle balls. Bu thread manufacturer different sports indulged in, and it: is expected that the fireworks display on these occasions Will be most in- terestlng. white tiddiedywinks counters serves for a ball, while the colored ones rep- resent the men. The object of the game, as in base- ball, is to get as many run as possible and to prevent the opponenfis from getting any. There may be several players on a side, but four is a good number. ward first, and the runner at first base hurries on to second. The white coun- ter may catch the runner who is going to second and jump into the cup at the same time. If it is a tie, the de- cision goes to the runner. Now the white counter is rushed back to first, which the other runner is still strug- gling to reach. The runner is put out. Another player goes up to the. bat. This time there is a scramble to put the runner out at third; it fails, but he is caught a moment later at home plate. The next batter, we will say, is put out. at first, then the other side has its inning. “Special attention will again be given to art and fancy skating, and competition in these items on our pro gramme promise to be very interestâ€" ing. The Connaught Skating Club, of Vancouver, with a membership of al- most three hundred, has written say- ing that the Club will be well repre- sented, and if we could be assured of some entries from Eastelrn Canada and/the States, together with the as- sured entries we will have from VVin- nipeg. Calgary. Edmonton and Sasha- toon, this feature of our programme would be one of the biggest events ever attempted in Canada. Applica- tion will be made to the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada to have all these contests representative of the Canadian Championships." A player on the side that is at bat first takes the white counter, places it beside the home plate and snaps it across the table as far on fair ground as possible. Then he takes a colored counter, representing the runner, places it beside the home plate and snaps it to first base. The side in the field watches the white counter; the player nearest to the place where it lands snaps it to first base as quickly as he can. It is a race to see whether he or the base runner will land his counter in the first-base cup soonest. If the white counter is pocketed first the runner is out. If the runner lands his first, he is safe. He may then go on snapping for the second cup, or he may wait. may wait. The game proceeds after the fashion of real baseball. When the second bat- ter is up he may bunt the ball by snapping the white counter only an eighth of an inch in front of the plate. While the other side scrambles for it he snaps his colored counter on to- um i a. wood a a few w was at first st ng wool is now rosen the skeins 2 balls. But a The Empty Spool 1‘ n er 11m cotton t sold in hanks, now,\ and ladies £11105 progre lark, Paul use to-day. Give the courtly old busi- ness fellow, James Clark, a passing thought when you throw away the next empty spool. Ladies could not do that in 1812. There were plenty of other things they couldn’t do and wouldn’t do in those good old days. Thrift came na- turally and of necessity in a wofild where inventions were not looking to waste and comfort. Wooden spools were never thrown away; a tliimble lasted a lifetime, and one needle was often all a household afforded. It was kept as carefully as such a treasure deserved to be kept. One bonnet, one shawl, one dress did almost a lifetime, too, for materials were hard to obtain and dressmakers few in number. When women wove their own clothes and the clothes of their families they did not encourage frequent change in fashions. Nature Study in Winter. Start the little folks in nature study. Buy a bulb or two and start them in a glass bowl of warm water, with a sprinkle of sand and a few pebbles in the bottom. Have the children watch for signs of the first shoot, and re- ward the sharp eyes which see’it first. Let each one have a pot of earth, an empty can with a few holes punched in the bottom will do, and give them a few seeds to plant in their own can. Give each child a different seed. Have them keep records of the planting, growth -and development of their plant. A double lesson may be taught, that of nature, and the spiritual lesson of the resurrection. Get. out doors every day, if only for five minutes on the porch. You need the‘ fresh air. Bumdle the kiddies up and send them out, no matter what the weather.V;-The crying lack of the average Canadian adult and child is fresh air. spm the for war What we are able to observe of them from specimens that fall ugon the earth would seem to indicate that they are debris of some klnd. They are plainly fragmentary 1n character, and when not of mere stony stuff are at various metals, chiefly iron. It ls entlrely conceivable that they are fragments of smashed-up worlds, but- the theory that they are debris of comets that have gone to pieces is more plausible. Meteors enzering our atmosphere travel thYGugh It at rates which seem to vary from ten to over one hundred miles a second. Friction rapidly burns them up, so that probably only the slow ones are able to reach the earth without being entirely consumed. No question has been more disputed among astronomers than that which concerns the origin of “shooting stars” â€"â€"more properly called meteors. Laplace was of opinion that they came from volcanoes on the moon. A recent authority, Sir Robert Ball, thought that perhaps they were thrown out from terrestral volcanoes in the distant past. Highest Railway Stations in Canada. The highest railway stations, with their elevations in feet above sea- level, in the respective provinces of Canada are as follows: Nova Scotla, Folleigh, 612 feet New Brunswick, Adams, 1,204 feet; Prince Edward Island, North VVllt- shire, 311 feet; Quebec, Boundary, 1,850 feet; Ontario, Dundalk, 1,705 feet; Manitoba, Erickson. 2,053 feet; Saskatchewan, Senate, 3,171 feet; A1- berta, Mountain Park, 5,820 feet; Bri- tish Columbia, Stephen, 5,332 feet; Yukon, Meadows, 2,924 feet. Men have lost more by crowding than they have by waiting their turn. The Origin of Meteors. Bill and Dan worked the lame amount of land and bad the same labor and expense, except that Bill used Cunnl “Shut Gain" fertilizer. They both planttd good acccl. 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