she is like the queen bee; gives orders, makes everybody work; in other respects she is not, she is a real Martha, a worker.

We had another lecture in the afternoon. Those who could not be accommodated for the night went back to New York. We had the Christening of the Willies' baby. That was a novel service to most of us and very impressive.

One Sunday night we had the blessing of the Cords. By the way, the Cords were the product of Mother Brownie's handiwork, and some were donated by Mother Ada Granger. Some of us were renamed. Paul became Richard; Julia, Amanda; Annale turned into Florentina; so many names, too numerous to mention, were given.

This is not half what transpired but I want to leave a lot to your imagination; of the great blessings we received and the lesson we learned. That this is not a primrose path to idleness; that we are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have work to do and loads to lift, that is God's gift, men's blessings. Paul Richard Shotland.

MAZDAZNAN TWO DOLLARS A YEAR

MAZDAZNAN

ELIMINATION

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Again, we have to record, that the world at large is bringing to the fore another Mazdaznan principle elimination of the useless and superfluous. From the very beginning of our studies, we were taught the value of selection. In the matter of foods, quality and not quantity was to be considered. "Reducing the minimum" was the slogan of the Master. The books he has written all bear witness to his ability to say it all in the fewest possible words. It is art of the highest quality to condense the thot to a minimum of words, and yet convey the entire meaning desired.

Elimination of the useless was to be applied to our every day lives; dress, meditation, conversation, association and construction or creation. Now along comes a convention to Chicago and claims to be the sparrow who killed Cock Robin. The thing that received more attention than any other aside from the purpose of the convention to select and nominate a man for the office of PresiIdent of this United States; was to condense

the English language to so many calories per speaker.

One man declared they had murdered the English along with the people's favorite. If it is indeed a sincere effort at reform and not an envious thrust at the academic master of the language who occupied the chair, we say let the good work go on.

The ladies who were permitted to second the nomination of certain men, carried off first prize for saying the most in the fewest possible words with the greatest ease and grace. One landed her favorite in the second place on the running list. Of the other, it was said that the spirit of her dead brother spoke thru her just as tho judicial minds might not conclude that she was entitled to her allotment of the family brains.

It is predicted that this matter of brevity will soon land one of the sex in the presidential chair, if the shrinkage in language does not prohibit the use of the word. In the first flush of triumph, it lead some to the conclusion that all political conventions of the future will be conducted by Susans B's. We know by experience that men profit, absorb and claim all the glory and that there

comes a time when they gather to bury Caesar, not to praise him, and then remember he was ambitious.

How many times has the cup of adulation been lifted to the lips only to be dashed to fragments. Of one thing the times are pregnant, and that is change. If women hold the fort, they will have to stop wearing furs with the thermometer playing around one hundred in the shade, just to show they have them. As law-makers, they might legislate, rather than attract. It takes Mazdaznan to help us see their shams. It is the only true. method of equalization. We used to wonder what the scriptures meant when they said, "The law of the Medes and Persians changeth not." Now we know that nature's laws are immutable; that those who build their house upon solid rock of truth are secure.

Fluctuation is a symbol of deprivity. A Mazdaznan never changes. Those who tell us they have found "something just as good" only look from the outside in, and not from the inside out. Perhaps, for them it is well, the place of understanding not having been reached, because the time had not yet fully

come.

To insure stable laws, the parents of those executing them must have understanding first of parenthood, and then of the real needs of the child, removing from the nursery, the accumulation of toys that foster destructive inclinations and lack of appreciation. Replacing silly story books with nature lessons that are real and will endure the searchlight of understanding when Mother Goose has vanished.

The day a son is born to a member of an exclusive club, his name is enrolled in order that he may enjoy its privileges on reaching maturity, but he has no assurance that he will not have to part first with his tonsils or appendix, and consequently not all be there.

Perhaps some one in the future nominated to be presidentess, may make an issue out of the fact that Congress should legislate against operations to remove organs whose office is not understood by Materia Medica in which case she will doubtless, unless Mazdaznan in secret like Nicodemus claims to be the first and only one whoever thot of it.

Truly we can say with Jesus-how can they who follow us, that is our methods, lightly speak evil of us.