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A wise woman once removed the label “Poison” from an empty bottle and pasted it on the family ink bottie. “Why, Mother, "ink isn't poisonous, and besides, no one ever things of drinkiqg it." If it were possible to gather statis- tics on such an intimate subject, it would be found that seventy-five per cent. of the letters in the postman's bag are uninteresting, stupid, unneces- sary, and are read only once by those who receive them. The letters of sweethearts and those of children to their mother do not come into that class; but even they are not above criticism, for the sweethearts write too many, and the children too few. “I know; but, if the label leads us to give a second thought to what we writs, it will serve its purpose. Ink, my dtar. has often proved to be a deadly poison to the affection of relaâ€" tives, to friendship, to love. It will kill every affectionate impulse if used indiscriminately.” When you are away from home what kind of letter pleases you most? Here is one received by a woman many miles from her kinsfolk and set aside as the one letter received in six months that did the most to make her ieart glad: Dearest Big Sister, We miss you] very much. This morning I wore nin blue and white gingham to school, and the teacher admired it. We had wafâ€" fles for breakfast. Mrs. Sparks’ tiger lilies are in bloom. Oh, what do you think? You could never guess. Min- nie’s gray cat has six kittens, and Min- nie's mother says I can have every one of them. Won't that be just grand? Last night when we had lemon pie Father said you ought to be here be- cause it is your favorite kind. He has a new hat Mother is in the dining room mending a hole Uncle Jim burn- ed in the table cloth with his cigar. Mother didn’t say anything. I guess she wasn’t glad about it. Auntie Green comes to wash to-morrow. Mother says I can put my doll clothes in. The new family across the street has a girl my age, and a baby. Mother says maybe they will let me take turns in wheeling the baby. The baby buggy is light blue. I'think I shall be busy with my kittens. I haven’t told mother about them yet. She seems too upset about the table cloth. It was her best. The one with the poppy pattern. I have on my blue hair ribbon. Father says I look like a butterfly. The kit- tens' eyes are shut. With love and a big kissâ€"Alice. There were letters from other mem- bers of the family. An older sister told of a party to which she had not been invited and the letter was in the nature of a wail; mothefs letter, though dear, was devoted to sugges- tions to the recipient for safeguarding her health. Father's letter was a homily on the need of saving her money; brother wrote three lines, two of them about a new baseball mitt. Only one letter contained the news that her homesick heart longed for, and that was written by a child of ten! Guileless, sincere, loving, newsy, it was an ideal letter. “I laughed over it, and I cried over it. I read it when I was depressed, and I read it when I was happy, be- cause of the steadying influence it had on me. I really felt that I could not do anything that was not generous and kind, because of the influence of that letter. It visualized home.” In' writing a letter put yourself in the position of the person who will read it. If you are writing to one who is resentful or quick-tempered, avoid jokes; never make comparisons; leave out. all criticism of the recipient or of others who are common acquain- tances. Never write. “Burn this." It is a long way to the furnace down- stairs. Never write, “Don’t show this to Soâ€"and-So.” If you must give a confidence, don’t label it as “secret,” “private” or "personal." Slip it in casually, as you would slip in a comâ€" ment on the weather. Never write your troubles: the read- er may have greater ones. Do not mention your ill health; it may cause needless anxiety, and you may be bet- ter when the letter is received. Never write a criticism. You might say the same thing with a disarming smile, but the smile doesn’t appear in the ink. If you have won a great success, only mention it when you write to your mother. If you have failed. say no- thing about it. Never seek praise or sympathy through the mailsâ€"or in they will bring replies. ‘When 70“ fail to receive a letter don’t blame the postman. The govern- ment is not interested in keeniim vou: first letter and your secon a lesson in pride and do third. If your letters 1 Ipxentâ€"unless it able-bodied and ication and fail‘ THE DANGER 1N INK ther way. 7 I’t write too m About the House be your moi has had a second letter, tale The govern-l up; ahyone who can keep up can forge keeping your, ahead. ters lot write a ‘e welcome, good your mail from you. When you read a let- ter that hurts put it away until you' are in a more philosophical frame of mind. Never go near the ink bottle when you are angry. I Don’t make excuses for not having Written before. There are few rea- sons for procrastination that ring true. Devote no space in your letter to disappointment because the. recipiâ€" ent waits so long to reply. Perhaps there is a reason you do not guess. Answer promptly the letters from your father or mother and those of a business nature. Do not glory in the number of your correspondents; limit the list to those you sincerely like, and who you know sincerely like you. To reckon your popularity by numbers is a childish thing. Remember that old friends are more interested in the litâ€" tle intimate affairs of your life than new friends are. If a married brother does not write, do not blame his wife. When a man marries he sometimes shifts the duty of writing to his rela- tives to his wife’s shoulders. She may not want to take his place in a matâ€" ter like this, but she learns that un- less she writes to his family they will never hear. Respect her for her atâ€" tempt to make up for his omission. There is the paper; a clean sheet of paper. There is the pen. There is the ink. And there also should be the label on the bottle in red and whiteâ€"â€" “Poison.” For ink is poison unless you write in a spirit of helpfulness and understanding. The best kind of outdoor study is contemplation. Get a notebook, a book on botany, a book on birds, if you will, and pack your mind with fixed and irrevocable facts. But do not teach your child on that principle. A curious ignorance, gilded with a happy enthusiasm, is better than the labeling, pressing, analyzing knowl- edge that plays a large part in modern “nature study.” Let the children “run Wild" without at first teaching them even rudiment- ary truths about the trees, grass, flowers, birds, animals or fishes. Teach them one or two things at 'a time and encourage them by letting them see that you appreciate their memories when they repeat the next day what they have learned about outdoors. Do not let them memorize names only, but teach them to memorize sensa- tions. Teach them the'sureness and beauty of nature, not merely the indi- vidual marks of her heraldry. A bright small boy had been taught at school that the crawfish was an invertebrate. He showed little enthus- iasm about the fact, but when he was taken to a stream and the queer clay- celled home of a crawfish was pointed out to him, when he saw the way the crawfish has of moving backward, the strength of its pincerlike claws, its waving prehensile beard filament and its strange surroundings, he became greatly interested and on his return to the class astounded his fellow pu- pils with his newly found and to him marvelous knowledge. Enthusiasm is the very marrow of nature study. And the more you delve ln nature’s storehouse the more your enthusiasm grows. As you point out the things outdoors that are strange or beautiful the child will take them into its mind and repeat them Without much appreciation. But by and by appreciation will come, and presently the child will conceive new and sur- prising~ideas and startle you with an original train of thought. A mighty mint indeed wherein the World was cast; a mighty Sovereign whose seal is stamped thereon! “Were all these shells made in a shell mint?” asked a little girl. “What put that into your head?" was the reply. “Well, you told me that dollars were made in a mint]! riding.’ “Xes OUTDOOR STUDY. ave gone in A Few Spills allen catch up can keep aorseâ€"back severa Charles Lounshury, poor and insane. leaves a beautiful will. Justice Walter Lloyd Smith. who presides over the third Department of Apel-late Division of the U.S. Supreme Court, brought with him to dinner of the New York University Law School Alumni Association recently what, he said was the most remarkable document that ever came. into his. pos- session. Others who read the dm-uâ€" ment, the last will'aml testament of Charles Lounsbury, who died in the Cook County Asylum, at Dunning. ll‘ linois, were disposed-to agree With him. Here it is: "1, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound mind and disposing memory. do hereby make and publish this. my last will and testament, in order. as ~justly as may be, to distribute my interest in the world among succeeding men. That part of my interest which is knoyvn in law and recogized in the sheep-bouan volumes as my property. being inconsiderate and of no account, I make no disposal of, in this. my will. My right to live being but a life estate This country grows and exports sandal-Wood, one of the most valuable and beautiful timbers in the world. The greater part of every tree felled is useless, however, for only the frag- rant scented heart has any commercial value. and to transport the whole log is not at my disposal. but these things eXCepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath: "Item: I give to good fatliers and mothers, in trust for their children. all good little words of praise and em couragement, and all quaint pet names and endearments, as the needs. of their children may require. "Item: I leave to children inclusive- ly, but only for the term of their child hood, all and ever. the flowers 'of the field, and the blossoms of the woods. with the right to play among them freely, according to the customs of children, warning them at the same time against thistles and thorns. And I devise to children the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, and the odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds, that float high over the giant trees. And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subjet, never- theless, to the rights hereinafter given to lovers. “Item: I devise to boys jointly all the useful fields and commons where ball may be played; all the pleasant waters where one may swim, all the snow-clad hills where one may coast, and all streams and ponds where one may skate, to have and to hold the same for the period of their boyhood, and all meadows with the clover blos- soms and the butterflies thereof, the woods and their appurtenances. the squirrels and birds, and echoes of the strange noises, and all distant places which may be -visited, togetlierxwith the adventures there found. And I give to said boys eah his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance and without encumbrance or care. "Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red roses by the wall, the blossom of the hawthorn; the sweet strains of music and aught else by which they may desire to figure each other the Fastinguerss and beauty of their love. “To young men jointly I devise and bequeath all boisterous and inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunt- ed confidence in their own strength, though they are rude; and I give them the power to make lasting friendships, and of possessing companions and to them exclusively I give all merry songs and brave choruses to sing with lusty voices. “Item: And to those who are no longer children, or youths, or lovers, I leave memory, and i bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live over again the old days. freely and fully without tithe and diminution. “Item: To our loved ones with snowy crowns I bequeath the happi‘ ness of old age, the love and grati- tude of their children until they fall aslleep."-â€"The West. Coast Magazine. Most people regard ants as a nuis~ ance, especially in a garden or at a picnic, but the natives of Burma have found a use for them. “'0 u work of many huma Ants Who Work for Men. Remarkable Document, ! ~AND THE WORST ab not 1D A tangible indication of that in- creasing interest in beekeeping in Western Canada to which attention has recently been drawn was given recently when a record shipment of forty million bees, valued at $10,000, was received at Winnipeg from South Carolina. destined for distribution throughout the entire VVes-tern terri- tory. The remarkable development of inteest in apiculture in the Prairie Provinces has already been noted with the cult coming more generally i’nto favor every year in that territory from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Moun- tains. It will be found that in British Columbia also a progress is being achieved which is keeping the Pacific coast province in line with the prairies. British Columbia is in every respect an ideal territory for the apiarislt. in its temperate clime nectar-producing blossoms bloom practically throughout the year. The fruit-growing valleys are planting thousands of additional fruit trees each year and apiculture is e pursuit naturally allied to fruit pro- duction. The Okanagau and Koote- nay valleys. which have made their fruit product favorably known in so many remote parts of the world, have taken enthusiastically to the produc- tion of honey and are yearly increas- ing the volume of output, whilst with- in the confines of the city of Vancouver itself many tons of the firs-t quality are produced each year. In five years British Columbia prac- tically doubled its honey crop. In 1917 the iotal production of the pro- vince was 370,000 pounds with a value of $74,000. The following year 450.- 000 pounds were raised with a value of $126,000. In 1922 all the beekeepers of the province reporting to the Gov- ernment accounted for an output of 711,356 pounds of honey worth $177,- 839, which was a very gratifying in- crease for the period. Owing to con- ditions being distinctly unfavorable in 1923 the season was an unfortunate one for British Columbia beekeepers, and a decline in production was re- corded. with 432,518 pounds worth $95,154. Conditions for the pursuit of apicul-ionce a day ture in British Columbia. are naturally That is an excellent, and it is gratifying to View 301- falling the increasing interest being mam-land all, or tested in the industry. Honey produc- I The dose 1 tion on the Pacific coast is annuallylis one gum increasing as more devotees are en- three days‘ listed to follow it as either a side linel tested in the industry. 1101 tion on the Pacific coast : increasing as more devote listed to follow it as either or exclusively. The profit rived from the industry is strongly realized ‘ in the tricts, where beekeepers’ a exist for the promotion of and the aid of the beeke Beekeepers' Association Beekeepers Wlhnsw‘ov APICULTURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA We Parts Wanted ome an d8. big toe ES YET TO COME 1i more t dis- Mons Jlture tis Failing sight, the result of rheu- matic or other infection, or even the penetration of the eyeball, can be arrested within three days by injec- tions of pure cow's milk into the lum- bar region of the patient, aceording to Dr. Edward R. Gookin, of Boston, who arrived at New York recently after five months' study in Vienna of this new discovery by physicians of the hospital attached to the University of Vienna. Dr. Gookin denied early reports that the milk injections are a cure for blindness. Those who are already blind, he said, may not hope for the restoration of their sight by this meth- od, but those who are but partially blind from infection or penetration, or those in whose eyes the infection has just been discovered, have good rea- sons to hope that their sight will get no worse. and also that sympathetic ophthalmia (affection of the other eye) will be prevented. For the milk injection treatment. said Dr. Gookin. no one Viennese doc- tor claims credit. It was discovered. he declared, by a group of doctors chief among whom, perhaps, are Doc~ ens Doctors Lindner and Guist. (Coc- ens indicates something more than a doctor, or a combination of doctor and prpfessor). “Successful treatments have been given in so many cases in Vienna,” Dr. Gookin continued, “that the discovery may be said to have passed the experi- mental stage. It is established as an absolute preventive in far more than fifty per cent. of cases. It the patient does not respond in three days then he is considered beyond hope and no other remedy is attempted. “The discovery is particularly valu- able in the case of infants whose eyes are affected at birth. Any eye trouble. resultant from infection, may be at- rested in them at once by the milk in- jections. It seems simple enough for home-treatment, but there are details which only a physician experienced in [his wurk can handle." be ea "Pure, unadulterated cow's milk is the only ingredient. This is boiled for not less than four, nor more than five minutes. Then it is permitted to cool to body temperature, 98.6 degrees, be- fore the injeétion is made. The amount injected in an adult is ten cubic centimetres, or 150 grains. This much is injected in the lumbar region once a day for three successive days. Es Yaw fiéfg Still V5259“ Sweetheart? or falling sight, is arrested and all, or else the case is The dose for infants under is one cubic centimetre once Dining Room. west end of Grand Stand. oronto Exhibition Yes, We! Failing Sight Arrested. ou told me to file these letters, said the new yeoman. es," returned the oflicer. fell, I was just thinkin’ that it’d asier to trim em with a pair of treat ISSUE No. 34â€"42 Scissors or File er to a meal at Mumby's After that the infection, till his work is for good hopeless. one year for