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Cooks Lessâ€"Smiles More. There was a vegetable soup for dinner that has required several hours of preparation and cooking; a deli- cious roast; potatoes that had been; v mashed and creamed; cauliflower with a cream dressing; lettuce salad: pine- apple that had been bought that morn- ing, sliced and cut in cubes; nuts that had taken a half hour for the cracking and picking; mayonnaise that had made a right arm ache with the stir- ringsmd the beating; homemade jam; hot biscuit; and hot apple pie With whipped cream. “Do you wish any of the roast?” the husband asked his wife as he carved. “I don’t want any. I don’t want any dinner at all. I'm too tired to eat." “Then why do you go to so much trouble? The children and I would be- satisfied with a much simpler meal, you know.” “I guess I know my duty to my family.” Then followed the silence that marks the knowledge of a futility of argument and the father and the :lifld‘nn.ate a perfectly cooked meal I boot comment or enjoyment. When Serena, the oldest daughter, r‘neated her employer’s compliment oer some acceptable work she had done that day, it was her father who gave her a smile of encouragement. The mother remembered that she, too, had worked that day andâ€"sighed. When Tom, aged ten, relatei an. amusing incident that had happened! in school, Mother was the only one that didn". laugh. ‘ . The next evening, Serena was a guest at the Whites, next door neigh-. bors. It was warm. The open dining- roo-m windows revealed the ‘Whitts and their five children and Serena sitting at the tulle. Across the par-: tition/ fence came sounds of repentedi laughter. “What,” she aslied of Serena e. few, hours later, in a reproachful tone, for she remembered the laughing, “did you have to eat?” Serena was not sure if she could remember. They had talked so much she had not noticed what they were eating, except that the dinner was} good. Soup? No, there wasn‘t any soup. Potatoes? Yes, scalloped. Des- sert? Little cakes covered with cus- tard. 'She remembered that the cakes were cookies. Was it goo-d? Oh, everything was good; she had never enjoyed anything so much in her life. But was not that a plain meal to serve a guest? Serena did not think so. She could not have eaten more, everything was so good and Mrs. White was so happy and jelly. “I had more than that for our din- ner,” said Mrs. ‘Brown resentfully, “and there was no one here but your father and brothers.” This with a sigh, the corners of her mouth droop- ing. Serena look-ed at her thoughtfully. Mrs. Brown resented the look. .deep wrinkles in her forehead. i “I cook so much for my family,” she began defensively, “that I am too tired to be what you call jolly. “I,” I growing more antagonistic, though‘ she could not explain why, “know my duty to my family." “So does Mrs. ~White know hers," answered Serena sorrowfully. “She cooks less than you do but sheâ€" smiles more!" “Cooks less and smiles more!" The words rang through Mrs. Brown’s brain the next morning when she beat batter for muffins, whipped up an omelet, put potatoes in the oven to Ibake and otherwise prepared break- fast. She co-uld not go to the school exhibition, she told Tom at break- fast, because she had a pudding to make that would require four hours steaming; she could not eat lunch with Serena and her father down town be- cause there was an angel cake to be made that would require at least an hour to beat. Both refusals made with a sigh. As she turned from the door after seeing the last child start to school, she caught a glimpse of Mrs. White starting ofl" to the school exhibition with her children. “I wonder,” she thought, feeling very self-righteous, “what my family would think if I left my cooking for such a trivial exouse? They’d soon be tired of pick-ups.” Perhaps she thought, when later in the day she caught a. glimpse of her face in the mirror, Mrs. White was right and she was wrong. There were Mrs. White had none. Her eyes were tired and listless. Mrs. White’s were full of purpose and laughter. Her cheeks were white and hollow. She saw a vision of Mrs. White’s plump and pink. With her chin in her hands\ she sat before her mirror a long time. She stared earnestly into her own soul. She shuddered. She had worked so ‘hard for her familyâ€"so much harder ‘than Mrs. White worked for hersâ€" ,and her family loved her loss for it. ‘Her children never troo-ped into the kitchen after school, as Mrs. White's ,did. There was a pie, a cake, or a pudding in the oven, and a step across 5 the floor might make it fall. Her chil- 'dren never played around her when she cooked, for her cooking had al- l ways been too elaborated and complex ‘for such interruptions as childish needs and questions. She never knew how long she sat there taking inventory of her soul but it was a long time and- when she reâ€" turned to the kitchen there was a smile on her face, a smile that was still there when the family came home. It dimpled her cheeks when her husband praised the extra good meal. “Your cooking improves all the time,” he said with a look that re- flected the love in his wife’s face. This time the smile swept away every wrinkle. 'She knew that she had never cooked less! She had mixed wisdom with her service. Surnames and Their Origin MILLER Variationsâ€"Mills, Milnes, Milner, Mil- man, Mllward, Mueller, Muller. Racial Originâ€"English and German. Sourceâ€"An occupation. While the connection between the word mill and the family names of lliller and Mills is quite obvious, the. connection between Milnes and Milner ; is more obscured. The latter two forms of the name} are the only modern survivals of the’ original form of the word mill, which. was “milne” or “melne.” There is another connection here, too, which does not strike most peo- me. It becomes more obvious as we trace the spelling of the word mill} back to “melne,” and the word meal; back to its older form of “mole.” The ' name or the article and that of the! place in which it is made come from' the same word root. The family name of Miller is almost , always found-with the spelling “Mel-i lore" in the medieval records, and Mil-l nor is found as “Melnes.” In the be- ginning these words were used in the purely descriptive sense, denoting the, occupation of the bearer, as “Adam! 18 Mellere" or “Edgar le Melner." i The more ancient forms of Mills and Milne are preceded by the words "latte" or “de le," meaning “at the" and “of the,” denoting that the bear- ers of these names lived near a mill, or were actually miners. The name Mtlward signifies that the l original bearer of it was the warden or custodian of a mill, in such cases. the owner being a. member of the no- bility or perchnnce a religious institu-l tion. Muller forms. and Mueller are Germani l y l GOLDSMITH ariationsâ€"Goldsehmid, Goldschmidt, Silversmith, Silberschmid, Silber- schmidt, Nasmyth, Greensmith, Brownsmith. Racial Originâ€"English and German. Sourceâ€"An occupation. Here is another group of Smith names, some of which are widespread and some of which are uncommon. From the fact that the German name of Goldschmidt, or Goldschmid, is exactly the parallel of the English Goldsmit, there are many .who assume that the latter is merely a translation of the German name. It is true that in a great many cases, particularly on this continent, where a very large pro- portion of the population is of German descent. the German form has been changed to the English. But the name has an English origin as well. The same holds true of Silversmith. Bot“ :;.~' are to be found in tnc .. 41...... tax lists and records of England, together with such names ,V qs Nasmvth Greensmim and Brow” ! A recent writer in a richly varied colâ€" smith. ly always spelled with a “y” and bore a final “e.” The got. . course, was then as he is L....:_ ;.u artisan who fash- ioned gold into various articles of utility or adornment, while the silver, The origin of smith worked in silver. the name Nasmyth is a little more Oh scure, but philology and social history ’ prove that the word from which it was taken was the equivalent of “nail- smith," just as Arsmith. explained in a former article, is another form of “ar- rowsmith." A “brownsniitli” was a smith who worked in bronze, and a "greensmith" l folklore worked in lead. In those days they were near-l IVimy Ridge, and Miss Hazlett who A Successful Woman Farmer. Another name added to the list of, women who are successfully operatingl farms in Western Canada is that ofl May V. Hazlett, an English girl who. for four years has lived alone on a: homestead in the Touchwood Hills, in. Saskatchewan, and made it pay. Her, brother who homesteaded the law“ was killed in the Canadian forces at. was working as a stenographer, and tired of the eternal pounding, deter- mined to go contrary to the advice to sell the farm, and though she had never lived ip the country, decided to operate it herself. Success has at- tended her efforts and she now owns several head of horses, a fine bunch of cattle and has more than one hun- dred acres under cultivation. She is again reversing the order of things, as having built a Western home she is returning to England to marry her' fiance and bring him out to the Szis-l katchewan farm. She is an ardent advocate of homevsteads for women. An Entertainment Exchange. A contributor describes a novel plan for community entertainment that an invalid originated and brought to practical use. In a brief letter, copies of which she sent to a number of residents in her town, she called attention to the fact that recreation is as necessary to the life of a community as food and cloth- ing are; that its cost per capita am- ounts to a good deal in a year’s time; that to attend the usual places of amusement requires not only money but time and effort. She concluded by asking her neighbors to exchange with one another their ideas on community recreation, as well as their actual enâ€" tertainment facilities ~â€" magazines, catalogues, phonograph records, . books, games, puzzles, sheet music and so on. The plan having been tried and hav- ing proved useful, its most valuable result was felt to be that the persons concerned were convinced that it took only a little thought and: interest to put in operation a scheme that kept. children happy at home, entertained both old and young and created an undercurrent of good feeling in the community. “And,” said the happy invalid, “think what it has meant to meâ€" persons coming and going; the inter- est in exchanging opinions. I have even persuaded them to go a step farther and to exchange their own special gifts. One who sings sings occasionally for us all; another who is a trained reader sometimes reads aloud to us. Since the introduction of our entertainment exchange we have, all been entertained more pleasantly and more wholesomer than we ever were before.” l l 0 Counting Out. Red. white and blue, All out but you! Could any rhyme be briefer, simpler or more purely Canadian? It seems too trivial a scrap to be of interest, yet it is only one more variation in a long line of childish rhymes and games that are deeply interesting to the student, since the more he studies them the more he sees that in their fundamental similarity they link na- tion with nation and past with pre- sent. For children have always play- ed games; and of course some one of them has always had to be “it.” In the very beginning, it is now sup- posed, all counting-out rhymes were simply enumeration; and many of them are still so in part. Gradually for the sake of rhythm or rhyme or alliteration otter neaningless syllables or words or sentences were inter- mingled. What Canadian child has not at some tiine followed eagerly the pointâ€" ing finger of a comrade chanting and counting: One, two, three. four, five, six, sevenâ€" All good children go to heaven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eightâ€" All had children have to wait! Or the equally familiar, if less edlfy- 111g: Little man driving cattle, Don’t you hear his money rattle? One, two, three Out goes he (she)! l l l l l l l l Of curse all the “one-cry" forms fall into the same group, and so probably (through distant foreign derivations) do our Old friends the “ceny-meenies." lection of counting-out eludes several of the eeily-ineenies, notably that ancient and inelegant favorite of both putrician and plebeian youth: rhymes lll- Eeny, ineeny, miny, 1110, Catch a nigger by the tie; If he hollcrs let him go, Eeny, inceny, ininy, mo. It is probable that with the influx of children from many foreign countries the very games that in their bring all children so li:.ppii; may take on here and {her wider variations, which v. ‘ and perhaps puzzle future 5," t Some of our students of French may like to translate for them- l , l s l ox-llke. 4.000 1b., tillil is 4‘) ft. long. ‘grows in miniature forests along the EH‘W‘ . ll 0 RBI-o Mae BY DR. J. J. Provincial Board ters through this column. Toronto. ,.... Preparedness is the watchword of the dayâ€"of the hour. This old world is changing with such kaleidoscopic effects that no nation or individual can tell what a day may bring forth. What is to be done to meet any emâ€" ergency that may arise? be done? It is to prepare ourselves, to brace ourselves to meet whatever comes. For this battle of life we must feel fit, our health must be good, we must live naturally among healthy surroundings. We must see that the health of ourselves and our children1 is being maintained by the practice 1 of personal hygiene, and moderation in everything. All this cannot be ac- complished at once. Education is needed and this education must be done as elaborately and persistently as possible, to hold the attention and lasting interest of all classes of so- ciety. In the front rank of the forces in this Province that are diffusing health education is the Provincial Board of Health, Just what the Board is doing in whole as well as in part is concisely shown at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition this year. In the Government Building the exhibit of' the Provincial Board of Health has been planned to include or indicate all the branches of Public Health ac-l practical way_ tivity: the fight against venereal dis- eases and other communicable dis- eases such as tuberculosis; the efi‘ortsl being made in the interests of the; workers, and the promotion of in-: dustrial hygiene; the ramifications of the Provincial Board of Health’s la- boratory services; the registration of births, marriages and deaths; and last but not least the Division of Maternal and Child Welfare which is laboring to produce a healthier childhood in this, province. A special exhibit has been, prepared showing the advantages off selves this little counting-out rhymel just as it comes to us from France: Petite fille de Paris Prete-moi tes souliers gris Pour aller en Paradis. Nous irons 11:1 :1 un Dans le chemin LlCS Saints; Denx a deux Sur le chemin des Cieux. . . l Sea-Cow Seen. The Arctic senâ€"cow. thought to have 5 been extinct. for forty years. has been: seen again. Native lishernisn of the Aleutian, Islands declare that when. fishing offi the islands one or mire of these cred lures have been seen. In the hind. quarters they :ippeurcl to be true fish, Y but in the head and neck they were,l . I wcngnt, Seaweed The huge sea-cow often 3 Ale blonds, and the sea‘cows,’ n “lured there. They posSLâ€"ssed of herding {IrgeIhsr W cuttle, . g and puffing. The hind legs were used 35 3 bmgle flu, but the front fins were used as; I in. Middleton will be glad to answ Address him at the Parliament Bldgs, What can ' and the worst is yet to Come llEdil'l-l EhllCAllilN V MIDDLETON of Health, Ontario er questions on Public Health lJfll.‘ .______._â€"â€"â€"â€"%‘________1 milk as a food, and demonstrating many of the upâ€"to-date devices for keeping the milk supply clean and free from infection. The fact is becoming more and more realized that if people are to be im- pressed with the importance of health education they must be taught while young, so that they can form health habits. It is not knowing how to live right, so much as practicing “right living" that counts. By a program which includes talks Iby physicians and nurses, demonstra- itio-ns by health clowns and by mar- ‘ionettes, the Child Welfare Division 1difi‘uses important information on ‘Public Health in an u-p-to-date and {practical manner. The subjects ltaught are directed especially to the children, but grown-ups will also irealize the importance of the lessons that are being conveyed. By attractive lighting effects the location of the Provincial Laboratories and Venereal Clinics already establish- ed throughout the province are shown, ‘and other electrical devices on hand include an attractoscope, and ,Pu-blic Health messages flashed inter- mittently to arrest the eye of the passerby. Sanitary Engineering pro- gress is also demonstrated in a. The exhibit of the Division of Industrial Hygiene is en- tirely new and unique in design. It shows two paths, one leading to good health and happiness, and the other to ill-health and misery. All the steps along these paths are lighted by elec- tricity, and warning are exposed show- ing the inevitable result at the end of the journey. Altogether the Provincial Board 01 Health’s exhibit in the Government Building at the Exhibition this yea! is an attraction that should not be missed. l legs to support the animal. There were udders between the forelegs, and plates instead of teeth. The last time a sea-cow was seen by white men was forty years ago, over a hundred years after its discovery. o __ ._... The Trail. By hill and dale there is a trail That leads my vagrant footsteps far; And if perchance my courage fail There is the ever beckoning star. The beckoning star, the guiding sun, And sooth, why should I ask for more? The pathways to oblivion Siretch on and on before. Oblivion, or the bourne of dreams, Serene within the afterglow, \Vhere joy sits by the singing streams, And there is peace for friend and foe. high of heart, I take the trail; So, sure of soul, I make the quest, But at the end, whottâ€"‘er prevail, I needs must bow to what is best.