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“HERE'S THE PIN.” "Mother," said little Herbert, “will you please pin my collar tight? Here’s the pin." Sure enough, in his small hand he grasped a large safety pm with which to more closely confine the collar of his play coat. “Well,” admitted Mrs. Briggs, “it was seeing just how helpJess many childrenâ€"and adults as wellâ€"are that made me determined to try and teach my children to be self-reliant. “Why, what a dear, thoughtful child," exclaimed an acquaintance. “I think you have the most helpful chilâ€" dren I ever saw. Almost any boy twice Herbert‘s age would expect mother to get the pin, herself.” Al'L “I began with Linda as soon as she could toddle. ‘Bring mother your mit- tens and we will go for a walk.’ ‘Bring your warm coat and we will take a ride.’ “One day Linda came to me with her buttonless little play jacket. ‘B'oke,’ she announced. ‘Where is the button?’ I inquired. ‘Go get mother the button and we will sew it on again.’ In a moment she was back with the button. Screwed .into the'bpttom of. the Egdi‘c‘m: of an ordmary dmmg chau' trans-teens a box forms it into~a very acceptable high=Med1Cme Co chair for the child not yet large enough to use a chair of usual height. Son, don't Some housewives prefer such an u- â€".be a great “I placed a workbasket where the children could re‘ach it and they be- fian bringing me necessary repairsâ€" thread, blunt scissors, needlecase, and the like. They quickly learned where to get wrapping paper, twine and paper bags. “I believe this training is teaching the children to be more patient and thoughtful. Many times I have watch- ed them when a toy broke or some article of clothing gave out. Instead of casting it impatiently aside or run- ning to me for help, they almost in- variably look it over thoughtfully. ‘We’ll have to have hammer and nails, Linda,’ Herbert will announce. ‘I’ll get them.’ Or, ‘Mother can saw that shoestring together if she had linen thread. I’ll get it, Herbert.’ Those wooden door bumpers that screw into the “7811 back of the door extending out thh'e' or four inches with a hard rubber tip at the end are useful for other than their original purpose. “Mother’s garden!” Evelyn echoed. “You don’t mean mothers going to have a garden in this place!" “She certainly is!” replied Donald. “What’s more, the game of mother and mother's garden will be worth watch- ing. Better fall into line, Evelyn; you'll miss heaps of fun if you don’t.” “Fun!” Evelyn retorted scornfully. It didn’t seem that anyone could go in and out of a yard several times a day and not see What was happening in it; yet Evelyn went in and out and saw nothing new. Once or twice, to be sure, she noticed Donald digging up a border or seeding bare spots, but she went by quickly without specially re- marking what he was doing. Once or twice too she caught her mother talk- lng over the fence to one of the neigh- bors, but each time Evelyn went Straight into the house. One Saturday'when she was down- town shopping she returned earlier than she had'expected. At the corner of the street she’ stopped; something seemed to catch at her heart. Had there been an accident? The yard in front of her house was full of people. When she became calmer she saw that they were nearly all children, and that each was holding a purple or yellow pansy. “Chestnut Street Dooryard Associa- tion! Notice any difference, sis?” She turned at the sound of her brother’s voice. Donald put his hand under her elbow. “It’s time this blind streak passed. voting woman. Now walk up Sunday." Then she smiled. NEW USES FOR DOOR BUMPERS J‘Just now this is a great help to me. But I believe that in the future it will be the children who will reap the reward.” Donald looked queerly at his sister; then he glanced down the street and whistled under his breath. It was not a pleasant outlook. The houses looked as if they never had been caredvfor. Nearly all had cheap lace curtains that varied in shade from what Don- ald called “pale dirt” to iron gray. Each house had a yard, but most of the yards were bare, and the chief use of the fences seemed tofibe to hold all the to‘rn papers that blew down the street. “I can never, never ask anyone to come and see me here!” Evelyn de- clared chokingly. “So far as I can judge,” Donald de- clared, “this neighborhood needs moth- er’s garden about as much as any place very Well could.” MOTHER AND THE STREET. About the House rangement to the usual high stool for working at a table or sink since the back of the chair offers extra support to the worker. VIn Vtheisérrrner way a low work table and down the block and tell me what. you see.” ' At heart Evelyn was a good sport. She admitted what she might have ad- mitted days before: almost all of the yards had been raked up; some had the beginnings of gardens, and here and there clean white curtains were hanging behind freshly washed win- dows. “That’s after three months of living near mother!” said Donald. “1 think," Evelyn said slowly, “I'll have Lina“ Craig come and see me can be successfully raised so as to prevent unnecessary stooping. If the bumpers are stained or painted to cor~ respond with the article with which they are used their appearance is good, for at a casual glance a visitor might likely suppose that they had been put in place when the chair or table was made. If the sink is so low as to be incon- venient for dishwashing fasten four of the bumpers to a square frame or platform as a stand upon which to place the dishpan. This makes a strong, steady foundation and, a fact that will appeal strongly to the care- ful housekeeper, the rubber tips will not mar the enamel sink. Yet another use for them was found when the kindergarten set became too low for the children to work at in comfort while the adult-size table and chairs were still uncomfortably high. Bumpers proved to raise the low tables and chairs to just a suitable height for the youngsters. When the baby is illâ€"when he is constipated, has indigestion; colds‘; colic or simple fever or any of the other many minor ills of little onesâ€"- the mother will find Babr's Own Talr lets an excellent remedy. .They regu- late the stomach and bowels, thu‘s banishing the cause of most of the ills of childhood. Concerning them Mrs. E. D. Duguay, Thunder River, Que., says:â€"”My baby was a great sufferer from colic and cried continually. I began giving him Baby’s Own Tablets and the relief was wonderful. I now always keep a supply of the Tablets in the house." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at' 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine 00., Brockville. Out. BABY’S OWN TABLETS AN EXCELLENT BEMEBY The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-36; Medium, 38-40; Large, 32-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A Medium size requires 5 yards of one material 32 inches wide or, 1% yards of plain material for the waist portions and belt, and 3% of figured material. The width at the foot is 2% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver or stamps, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide Street. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. ., ans citi: the earl put as : util coa: plax lOOli siti( tati few 4454. This model has convenient pockets, inserted at the joining of waist and skirt. The lines are simple and the style is easy to develop. Cre- tonne and unbleached muslin are here combined. Crepe in two colors would also be attractive. A SIMPLE, PRACTICAL HOUSE FROCK. . ’fio’v wait Vto be a great man boy.â€"-â€"The Watchman. By Robson Black; Manager Canadian -' Forestry Association. " At the present time every voice is raised and every ambition strained to win new population. New population costs. Immigration is expensive sales- manship. While every conservationist wants to see new settlers brought to Canada, his sense of proportion makes him ask why we cannot spend at least a couple of extra dollars to block the, emigration of Canadian families} driven out of the forest areas by thel plague of humanâ€"set forest fires. Dis- trict after district has been abandon- ed, whole counties have decreased in population, railway lines have lost thei bulk of local traffic, towns have been boarded up, and for the sole reason that a forest resource which should’ have been perpetual has been swept. off the ledger of Canadian assets by‘ the recklessness of Canadian citizens. Whose fault is it that the forestsi of Canada run down hill? We as citi-{ zens own 85 per cent. of the forest‘ lands of the Dominion and are directly‘ and personally responsible for what is‘ done with the only crop that can grow on these our lands. Every civilized country on earth looks to the state with its self-perpetuating life, its providential relationship to its people, to look after the forest properties which, unlike wheat or potatoes, re- quire as much as a century to mature. The state is the obvious and only effi- cient custodian of the rights of future generations in a very slow groviring but utterly essential national resource. Before an intelligent and helpful interest on the part of the public can bring about a measure of complete‘ forest protection we will have to jetti- son two or three fetishes, all of which are predominantly faISe. and yet fix‘ themselves upon succeeding genera- tions. One of these fetishes is that the forest resources have been “given away” or otherwise alienated. They never were and are not to-day. All but fifteen per cent. of the timbered acres of Ontario are under the'control of the Ontario Government as con- cerns measures of conservation. The right to cut timber is leased on ten million acres and the remainder of eighty million acres is still held by the Crown. What is the meaning of a lease to an operating company? That 42,000 workmen in'Ontario shall be al- lowed to draw a regular week’s pay, and that 36 million dollars shall be allowed to circulate as wages each year and that 123 millions received for forest products in Ontario shall be enjoyed by every business interest and every workman in the province. The so-called timber baron cuts down logs worth five dollars. Out of that he hands over $4.50 as wages and for materials and the remaining fifty cents he splits between interest on his investment and taxes to the Ontario Government, aggregating $4,400,000 a year. Strangely enough we visual- ize the motor car industry as the “life blood” of Oshawa and Walkerville and a dozen other towns, and the “meal ticket” of thousands of workmen, and at the next instant discuss the lumber business as the sinecure of a quartet of “barons” into whose purse pour untold millions wrung from a wretch- ed peasantry driven to build two-car garages with high price boards. More men have left the lumber industry in the last ten years than have entered it, and most who moved out were not financial gainers for their experience. put a torch to 600,000 square miles, as against about 100,000 square miles utilized by all the lumbermen from coast to coast. Please let us lay off the cry for tree planting to produce timber until we look into a much more inviting propo- sition. An acre of human-made plan- tation of spruce is a lovely sight. How few of us know that there is in Can- You ask what is to be done to give Canada a permanent forest, and the immediate and only comprehensive answer is Keep out the fires. We citizens burn ten times the trees that the lumbermen have cut, and since the earliest days of Canadian history have Five light cruisers of th‘ bet on a. tour ofv‘ther ~mprld visited. The ships will in‘ Dragon and the Dunedin. 'I .osing Population from the Timber Zones. BRITISH WARSHIPS T0 TOUR WORLD ey will YDe whic Doctorâ€"“Noâ€"prescrlbing for the dance." ada a plantafion of just 50 nfilfion densely packed acres of young forests set out by Nature without human con- hivance 0T expense. They He in patches from coast to coast. That 50 million acres is richer than all the gold rnines for its gold grovvs and repeats into endless generations. All that plantation asks is that fire be kept out. If that is done that young growthwill be able,'under careful management, to meet all Canada’s needs for the future and provide a great surplus for ex- port For Astrbnomers. For astronomical or other long dls- tance work a short telescope tube to be attached to one tube of binoculars has been invented. The United Stazes annixally gives away 65 million packages of vegetable and flower seeds. What-Alls the Dance? Friendâ€"“What you doingâ€"subscrib ing to the dance?" v The Russian people complain that readable and interesting newspapers in their language have ceased to exist. All they have is an “elaborate ma- chinery for spoiling paper." An obâ€" server in Russia writes that under the present government the news- papers are merely the niouthpieces of a small despotic group; the really able journalists have given up their profes- sion, and the daily run of printed mat- ter is little more than a lot of color- less propaganda. Before the revolu- tion the Moscow Ruskoije Slovo had a circulation of more than 1,200,000; to-day the combined circulation of all the soviet press is no more than that. 1t AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME ’1’: he picture are to sta The Russhn Press. fl Sir Hubert G. Brand. 1 are concerned Danae, the A Plaih Talk. The ancient Egyptians v the River Nile because it as a. god to them. It was the overflowing of the Nile every year that enriched the surround- ing valley, made their crops possible, and saved them from starvation. The The glowing dreams that come to do me pleasure. The wistful bits of romance that I Though others may drift over many oceans, May hear the jungle heart throb through the hours; May join in frenzied wars and strange commotions, May wander far afield to pluck vague flowers, They only search the thing that Is my treasure. Adventure’s spiritâ€"that is life to 2011. IA single blrd that fluters high and free, The glory of the sunset as it dies on The opal tinted splendor of the sea. The thousand voices of the twilight, calling Across a. silence that Is soft and deep, 6 The magic sound of far of! water fall- Ins, And thenâ€"at lastâ€"the perfect peace of sleep! S. W. Knife. Now is the time to get your birds in- to winter quarters. They should be fully matured by this time, and to start off in the race for high egg pro- duction for the year, should have a. certain amount of surplus flesh and fat. There is no particular secret in getting late Fall and Winter eggs. The essential factors are good stock, well matured (not mongrels, as they cost more to keep and pay less divid- ends). Hens should he confined from early in October throughout the win- ter in a well ventilated. dry, frequent- ly cleaned and disinfected house, free from draughts. For each bird allow 3% to 4 sq. ft. floor space. Provide straw litter about 6 inches deep for them to exercise in. Feed grain in the litter night and morning, and above all, feed at regular times, not 7 am. to-day and noon to-morrow. Remove any sick birds at once. Keep drinking vessels clean. Gather your eggs often and market them be- fore they get old. And you will soon have the pleasure in seeing your profits come in. Vision. A drift of smoke across the dim horl Laying mash should be available to the hens at all times. They never eat too much of it. Feed greens, manglesl,2 cabbage, etc., daily, if possible. Good All Year Egg Pro- duction. ' to get. there will be bar‘ 1 about you, so [at as you â€"Margaret E. Sangster. good w service. overflowing with ism, that enrich s abundant har- wing of the 3d the Nile overflows with 111, good cheer, river not only Lstenance, but worshipped seemed like Val- with