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TEE 4mir KITCHEN',
•So Zc Of the time of the farm-
er's wife and daughters is a neces-
sity spent hi the kitchen that t real-
ly ought to be the pleasantest room
in th) house, The outdoor life and
work of the ftuener and his hired
men create appetites that require
strenuous exertion on the part of the
"winamen folks" to satisfy, and all
too often the work is made extra
Strenuous by lack of conveniences to
work with, writes a correspondent.
A eoreveniently , arrauged kitchen,
well stocked with modern utensils, is
a Source of pride and joy to every
housewife so fortunate as to own
one; and her sister who does not has
always in her "mind's eye" a mental
picture of the ideal kitchen she means
to have some day when the mortgage
is paid, or the new house built, or
Jobe has all the new fences and
binders and corn harvesters he wants.
lr It is with a desire to help make that
mental picture a reality that •this is
written.
Peesonally, I've no use for a carpet
on a kitchen floor. A grease spot on
a carpet stares one out of counten-
ance, and it's wonderful how fast
they will appear. Oiled floors are
nice, but it's no light task to -keep
them oiled. Painted floors are au
abomination, for the paint soon wears
off, making the floor unsightly. Even
the beautiful white ash floors our
grandmothers loved are not exactly a
joy forever, fon tliey require so much
nerubbing and mopping. Of course,
it's lovely to have a floor always
beautifully white and clean enough to
eat off from, but, after all,
WHAT'S THE USE?
You'll never want to eat off it, any-
way! And surely there are higher
ambitions in life than that of hav-
ing the most beautiful kitchen floor
in the neighborhood. Altogether, no-
thing I've ever used, or seen in use,
has proven so satisfactory as lino1e-
12111. It can be put down over any
• old floor, and it comes in pretty oat -
teras that are stamped all the way
through, so it never Wears off, but it
loolfs well as long as it lasts. It
wears well. We have some that has
been in use for ten years and .does
not look at all worn. It should be
laid by an experienced workinan, for
•it must be very carefully matched and
cut to fit into all the corners of the
roomand about all the curves of
the door frames. When down it is
de down to stay till worn out, and
the floor always looks clean.
<TIM woodwork may be painted any
preferred color, if one -doesn't object
to repeating the process every three
of four years. If one wishes to do
it but once "and be done, with it,"
and wants something really nice, it
is best. to have it grained and given
a hard oil finish. It will need re-
T•vernishing once in several years, but
• the thrifty housewife can do that
herself, if so inclined, and will find
it much easier than painting. Such
woodwork cleans easily; finger marks
do not show upon it, and dust and
dirt slide it in tho most delightful
way. •
A. WALL PAPER
especially for kitchens is now made
that can be cleaned by wiping with
a damp cloth, and is said to be very
satisfactory. Never having used any,
I cannot vouch for it, but I can say
a good word for the painted. walls.
They are pretty and pleasing and
sanitary and with such walls, wood-
work and floor a kitchen is very
easily kept clean.
The young housewife, or one famili-
ar only with a cook stove, hardly
knows what to expect of her first
range. Good ranges are never cheap
and peor ones are dear atuany price.
kll modern - ones have. asbeitos 11n-
ings, which insure a, *arm oven and
a cool Icitdien. The_ heat slioelcl be,
13Y•P'
itas126,u1c17.6e unneeessai7"to• turn'
_anything-. around :while, it is ba!king.
The Warming. oirdn permite' the cook
to easily serve "warm meals at all
hours." Many ranges .liave no dam-
per for the reservoir and the water
• is always warm with no concern save
keeping the reservoir filled. The
majority are fitted to burn both wood
and coal, and with a sYstezn of
• dampers that, properly manipulated,
will keep a fire all night, Some-
times, with a good chimney, the
• - draft is so htrong this cannot be
done, yet is ne fault of the range. A
damper in the pipe is the remedy.
When burning coal it is usually more
satisfactory to use a little wood with
• it when baking. No wood range is
really right that is not fitted with
a drop door to the fireplace that
permits no ashes to fall on the floor.
A GASOLINE STOVE.,
is IIONV A • iieCeSSity in every farm
kitchen, Ili harvest anci thrashing
• tinie,, where the range is hardly equal -
to the demands upon it, the gasoline
stOve can join 'forces and make the
hard Work mach lighter. And:when
the theeMeMetetUlti •Up, in,the•OCi's, it'
• Call boila• teaeltettleein.leea time,
• thee i''fire'.eart`be ixi.tlie -• big
range, and with •< far more comfort
and economy.
. The. kitchen Cabinet is a coMpara•
tively new thing, but a more • con-
• vouient and useful article •Was never
inVented; it deserves' all the popular-
ity it, 'is 'winning. Stich Cabinets' are
inade itt many styles and at •wipes
,to Suit all 'Verses. Thd larger ones
are really •pantry, storerOom and
We:ellen table, all in one. They have
a place • for everything needed n -lien
baking or preparing a Meal, add they
• flaVe Wooly .steps. • The better ones
are wat'rented, dust and Mouse' proof<
n'Meey,inedern kitchene have a broad
ziee-covered shelf in the. piece f . a,
table, Which is particularly bendy if
. it cap be linilt abeeit a corner, and
• reeY•be as 4iteettl and as lOtig as the
size of the kitelien and the 'tetite 'Of
I
the housewife permits. A narrow
strip of Wood is placed about the
,
to raise it aboVe a level and preVent
any drip falling to the floor, Under-
neath it cupboards •are arranged' for
the various articles that every 'Muse -
wife wants •out of eight when not in
use.
• THE Errol:1(EN $INE
is often a troublesome pieee of furni-
ture. It's really the handiest thing
in the room, if properly Placed,
dreined and, cared for, but on level
groanci the problem, of drainage is a
serious one, If any reader of this
has satisfactorily solved the problem,
X shall be very grateful if she'll tell
nee how it tees done. Fortunate, in-
deed, is the ho-useivife whose home,
like the famous city, is set on a hill,
for she can install any system of
plumbing she likes and need have no
fear of the dreaded typhoid fever
germ. •
As nearly all farms have now either
a windmill or a gasoline engine for
pumping -water, it is a simple matter In appemance the Widower' is What
he was recaptured by his °Wrier, a
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edge of SUCl/ a shelf, under the zinc,
111. Wid
viaLD ANINATs GET T.GGSE C ower
'MAT COUNTRY, • "
EScapecl Pingia Scfgrecl a Village --
Elephant Loose in
London,
A Study in Natural
History,
WeSs°t1u1•1° ovlail'oettlleelYenitiismiit:Stbouari:e:ytha, gNevitavastilit.10114!°°N.ivovifl Tho W1Ci0WO...Th1S ixiterestizi bird,
into a
she news that a "lion" had eeeeped conceruing whose habits little that
is authoritative has been written, is
from the grounds of a genftlemmilii
house near by, and Was roaming
about seeking whom it might devour,
No one could be got to say that he
personally had actually seen the ani -
believed by ornithologists to belong
to the Phoenix family (manibus easy
eonsolibus) because it has the power
to rise from its ashes. respleaclent
plUmege and renewed youth,
real, but everybody knew lots of
tebe VVidower is a migratory bird,
other people who had. The damage
end at intervals makes its appear -
it Was alleged • to have occasioned,
mice in every community, but so
too, was simply incalculable.
greatly is it esteemed at: a household
As a matter of fact, it was not a
andp, so keen is the pursuit after
lion that had got loose at all but a
Puma, a much less dangerous aninaal;
and even he only remained at large
during a portion of one night. Then
it, that it rarely escapee the net of
the fowler for long, and few of the
species are to be seen at large.
to have the water pumped into a gentleman a• ed 'Orde, and hauled ji1/3)* bo called interesting rather than
thole in .the kitchen -,so simple one . beautiful, though it varies greatly at
back to captivity and a breakfast 01
wonders -why it is not more often
doaef„ •Many a hard -cold and .attack
01 la grippe can be traced to the lack
of this coaYezeienee.
Few -.new houses are brunt Without
separate dining -room, but, in many
old -once tho kitchen must do double
duty. Some Very pretty pen pic-
tures have beeu deawaof the
sunny, old-fashioned kitchen, with the
kettle babbling on the hearth, the
cat basking beffirethe fire, and the
family gathered about the table load-
ed with viands "that mother used
to cook," but the prosaic fad re-
mains that such a kitchen is apt to
be too redolent of the odors of
SALT FRIED- PORK,
boiled cabbage and scorched pan-
cakes to be really agreeable. ' Too
Much care cannot be taken with the
ventilation of such a room. There
eliould; if possible, be a Ventilator in
the ceiling above the range, and the
windows should be se fitted that they
may he lowered from the top as Well
as raised from the bottom. The col-
lapsible screens, so handy- in other
parts of the house, have no place in
a kitchen. The SCCCCIIS there should
be largo enough for the whole Win-
dow. Mosquito netting tacked on
the outside of the window frames an-
swers the purpose very well.
The warm, moist air of a kitchen is
usually very favorable to plant
growth, and a few geraniums bloom-
ing in the winclews add the artistic
touch that all women love. Finally,
let no young housekeeper grow dis-
couraged because the conveniences she
desires are king in coming.' "Rome
was not built in a day," and it is
Worth while to work and wait , and
plan for even so prosaic a thing as
the furnishing of a kitchen.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,
A correspondent of an exchange
-tells how to make a paste that will
always be conveniently ready for use.
Take a handful of flour, mix, it
smooth with cold water, and pour
on boiling water sufficient to cook it.
Add a teaspoonful of powdered alum,
and a few drops of carbolic acid and
oil of cloves. Strain through a thin
cloth and put into a wide-mouthed
bottle.
'.Did you ever try baking potatoes
on the top of a stove? Turn an
iron pan or basin over them and they
will bake nicely. If the fire is very
hot place them on an asbestos mat.
They should. be turned occasionally.
It is convenient to know this, " in
case one wants baked potatoes, but
does. not wish to keep up the kitchen
fire. Of course rather More time is
required than when baked in the ov-
en.
The "cellar smell" is extremely dis-
agreeable. It is apt to permeate the
whole house. Place a dish of mistake
ed lime in the vegetable cellar and
It will absorb the, moisture in the air
and also the unpleasant odor.'
AT the 'brass fiXtures of a hanging
lamp have become tarnished past re-
demption paint" them fwith white •ene
fonel. Thee you ona gild thenie <
atSpertebeider,, 'has ,diseoveretiz that. if
Wittee'is .tiotreal-over paatoeS
and • they ,are. left toeit .fifteen mine
lithe the :Will %hake in about "half
the usual time. But wouldn't they
cook as fast in the oven as in the
hot water? What is gained?
BLIND FIND VOCATION.
Among the Japanese massage as a
vocation is restricted almost entirely
to persons 5,11licted with blindness.
Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium are
other countries in which this profes-
sion is gradually being confined to
blind people. Massage is work for
which the faculty of sight is not nec-
essary. A writer in a French medi-
cal journal urges the adoption of
this method of earning a livelihood
for the blind, and no doubt the medi-
cal profession in this country will
lend a willing hand to further the
movement of this worthy cause th
render assistance to a class of peo-
ple to whom work involving physical
exercise should come as a welcome
avenue, opening a new and remuner-
ative vocation.*
•Iloresome (hot on. inVentions)
• "I See the agent, has sold yez
carpet -sweeper, Mrs. lifaginuis. Is it
as good as the o1 -fashioned
broom ?" "It is, an' better, Mrs.
Mulduckie. I can knock Maginnis
twice as fat *id it."'
rfaiitup : 'very f sorry, but I
can't pay you teralay. You see, the
grocer has just, been here, and•-••••-."
'Butcher (interruptieg) : "Yes, I just
met him, and he said you put him
off because you had to Pay ms, SO
here's the bill."
dead roosters. Not all .home-made
wild animal hunts, however, end in
this tame fashion. •
So long ago as the beginning of the
last century a tiger escaped from a
caravan into the NCW Forest, killed
a child, dangerously wounded its mo-
ther, and slaughtered, apriarehtly out
of pure wantonness, more than twen-
ty deer. It Was eventeally shot dead
by a lad of nineteen, who bravely
with- it to -its- lair, aitmed only
hn
different ages. When it is young • it
has ,ft 'sk,t4 and melancholy air, and
Utters. plaintive notes that make ev-
ery female who hears' it .long to lion -
sole I it. But this eoreowful•'.eaven
song lasts only durine the Orst few
months, After that it grows chirpy
and chipper, ond blithely enrols a
merry roundelay that greatly resembe
los .*eA not Time in the Old Town
To -night,"
eahe plumage of the Widower is al-
so worthy of note, for it has the pee
Cul/mu chameleon -like . quality .of
OLD FLINT-LOCK:MUSKET. changing under dinerent conditions.
In the • year 1816, again, on a !During captivity it .almost invariab-
Senday evening, an escaped lioness ly wears a garb of sombre hue un -
attacked _the ,Exeter Royal Mail fashionable in cut, and frequently
coach, killing one of the horses. It conspicuously unpreened and un-
kempt.
was dusk at the time, and the coach
had just pulled up at a place called
Winterslow 'Hut, seven miles on the
London side of Salisbury. The lion-
ess sprang straight at the throat of
the off -leader, fastened the talons of
her fore feet on each side of his neck
close to the head, while the talons of
her hind feet wereforced into his
chest. In this situation the ferocious
The enconent,however, it becomes
free this strange bird blossoms forth
in a beautiful gorgeous coat of live-
ly hues that is calculated to catch
the eye from a distance; but as soon
as it is again caught and caged it
molts its fine feathers and resumes its
-unattractive appearance.
leo one has ever been able to ac -
brute hung, growling horribly, while 'count for this idiosyncrasy, but the
the unfortunate horse, hampered by phenoineaon of the Widower doing his
change act into a butterfly,
or back into a grub, may be witness-
ed daily. This peculiarity, unfortu-
nately, often causes great disappoint-
ment to the owners, as not infre-
quently a female goes to great trou-
ble to capture a Widower, thinking
it a Bird of Paradise, only to dis-
cover when she has got it home that
it is nothing but a scarecrow. Thus,
from this simple circumstance, . does
nature teach us not to buy a bird by
its looks.
Concerning the anatomy of the
Widower ornithologists differ greatly,
though all agree that it is All Heart.
Some authorities contend, however,
that this organ, in size and shape, is
like an omnibus, while others hold:
that it is of the elasticity and dura-
bility of a football. It is interest-
ing to observe that some of the
most earnest and painstaking inves-
tigators along this line of scientific
research nee women, and • we may
confidently look for valuable light to
be thrown on the subject in the near
future.
The thief characteristic of the Wid-
the harness, could do nothing to de-
fend itself. There were only two
passengers, in the mail at the time,
and these quickly jumped out, ran
into the house, and locked themselves
in an upstairs room. The coachman;
however, was .made of sterner Stuff,
for he wanted - to 'alight alitf attack
her. with his knife. But just as he
was getting down from his seat on
the box, a huge mastiff bounded gm,
and seized the lioness by the throat.
She thereupon released her hold of
the by this time moribund horse, and
engaged in battle with her new ad-
versary, Whom she promptly killed.
At this moment the guard came up
with ,a loaded blunderbuss, and was
about to shoot her, when the owner
and some keepers appeared on the
scene, the former crying out M
alarm: "For Heaven's sake don't kilt
her; she cost me $2,500."
This a.ppeal stayed the guard's
hand, and meanwhile the brute had
been enticed into an outliouSe and
secured. The affair was
THE TALK OF ENGIAND
at the time, creating an amount of
excitement which, to put it niildly, ower is, as has been stated, its abil-
seems out of all proportion to the lity to arise from the ashes of the
importance of the event. !funeral pyre -as long as it is its
Elephants that escape are apt • to Wife's funeral -with renewed youth. zily under the wheels of a racing -mo-
de a. terrible lot of "damage, because Reputable -eve-witnesses declare that tor in less than 60 sec.; but for sheer
of their immense weight and strength. intoxicating delight, the rapture of
swift Motion, neither can compare
with the maddening downward swoop
of a toboggan over the. "Church
Leap" or the "Shuttlecock" en the
Cresta Com -se at St. Moritz, Swit-
zerland.
If you want to know the full glori-
es of the "King of Sports," continu-
ed an enthusiastic tobogganer,' go
to St. 'Moritz, the gem of Enga-
dine -go just once, and you'll never
fail to find your way there every win-
teras long as you can -craw. Of
course, yoa can get excellent-tobege
galling at Grinclelwald,..Aresa, Davos,
and other plareeg-the run from Wolfe
gang.' -down to Klosters Nillagee
throtigif hthec glorious pine' forests ..
worth travelling ,nthoesand miles for
any day --hut none of -them all, inenY
opinion, can hold a candle to St.
Moritz, where the annual champion-
ships are held and to which all the
most expert "lugers" in the world
flock every winter. •
THE CRESTA 'COURSE,'
which is undoubtedly the finest in the
world, is only 1,500 yds. long -the
Klosters racing -course (near Davos)
is more than twice the length -and
TWENTY-THIRD
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North American Life•',
ss rance Corn an
•••,*
Dee.
i—HOME OFFICF-
112-118 King Street, West, Toronto,
For the Year Ended 31st December, 190
31 1902., -To Net Ledger Assets , , , . $4,773,'785
RECEIPTS.
1903, --To cash for Premiums ... 51,132,616 91
Cash on In -vestment s 24:8,746 7$
31,381,863 61
Dec. 31,
D/SBUILSEMENTS.
Des. 31, 1908. -By payment for Death Claims, •
Profits, etc. , $4.23,917 86
-By all other payments , 355,720 43
$787131A 29
5,7
71
ASSETS.
Bee, 31, 1008. -By Mortgages, etc 51,003,604 01
-By Stocks, Bonds, and Debentures
value 13,170,047.47) , . 3,148,345 88
-By Real Estate, including company's building . 374,336 62
-By Loans on Policies, etr68
-By I,oans on Stocks (n earlY mil'on call) • .. • . •• ••• '''12g:S13
, , ,
84
-By Cash in Banks and on band 42,584 22
50,155,149 04
85,376,210
-By' Premiums outstanding, etc. (less cost of col-
lection) 208,937
-By interest and Rents due ad accrued 40,652
LIABILITIES.
•
75
14
89
55,625,860 78
Dec. 31, 1903. -To Guarantee Fund 00,000 00
-To Assurance and Annuity Re-
serve Fund 4,974,197 00
-To Death Losses Awaiting Proofs,
, Contingent Expenses, etc. ...,.. 41,367 02
$5,075,564 02
NET SURPLUS
$550286 71
Audited and found correct -John N. Lake, Auditor,
• Wm, T. Standen, Consulting Actuary.
shTew insurance issued during 1908 , 5 5,884,,891
Being the best year in General Branch in the history of the Company.'
*Insuranre in force at end of 1908 (net) 882,452,977
*No monthly or Provident policies were issued -this branch having Wee/
discontinued. •
President,
JOHN L. BLAIRTE.
Vice -Presidents,
JAMES THORBURN„ ' 14017. Slit W. R. MEREDITH, KO,
Medical Director.
Directors.
HON. SENATOR GOWAN, KO, LL.D., G.M.G., E. GURNEY, ESQ.,
L. W. SMITH, EQ „ D.C.L., J. K. OSBORNE, ESQ.
D. McCRAE, ESQ., GUELPH.
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
L. GOLDMAN, A.I.A., F.C.A.
Secretary, Superintendent of Agencies,
W. B. TAYLOR, B.A., LL.B. T. G. McCONKEY.
Tbe report, containing the proceedings of the Annual, Meeting, held on
Jan. 28th last, showing marked proofs of the continued progress and so/id
position of the Company, will be sent to policy -holders. x'amplilets explana-
tory of the attractive investment plans of the Company and a copy of tiv
Annual Report, showing its unexcelled financial position, will he furnished on
application to the Home Office or any of the Company's Agencies.
A TIBILLIBG- SEN3ATIO3
EIGHTY-SEVEN NILES AN
ROUB, ON TE SOTOW.
Tobogganing Down a laountain
Side at St. Moritz,
Switzerland.
I have travelled on a railway -en-
gine when it has plunged, shrieking
and thundering, into the black mouth
of a, tunnel at sixty miles an:- hour;
I have seen a mile of goad flash diz-
they have seen one of these birds,
One that went on the rampage in the !droopy, with draggled tail feathers,
North of London, some few years and one leg swathed in red flannel
back, broke down walls, smashed bandages for rheumatism, suddenly
gates and doors by the dozen, and metamorphosed into a giddy young
wound up by charging a shop and thing that could dance the two-step
falling through into the cellar, whence and stay up all night, and that look -
it had to be hauled up ignorninously ed like a two-year-old. It has also
by a steam crane. It cost the owner been observed that the oftener the
$1.0,000 to make good the havoc. ' Widower arises from the ashes the
Another big "tusker" got loose at younger it becomes, until afteiYabout
Accrington on October 1.4th, 1889, the third rejuvenation nothing but
and "burgled" a big co-operative a debutante is young enough to at-
warehouee,. gorging itself with several trace its attention,
hundredweights of biscuits and jam. ln itS habits the Widower is a
Visitors at the "Zoo" will notice' curious combination of the fly bird
that th,a.top of the Polar bear cage.is and the barn -yard fowl. for while its
well bgeeeta Teesopeedeteeetai wag giddy flights are .inteeesting it is ad,-
elieW*11. to bo ./IKe*isarY'l..)3J-sn;lentintiel: inirabled. lACtiesee -it:T'kno.wae,hoty to<
escaping, some years ago over 41...high; sere tali' for a living. It has, too,
Slaiked,suid inntard-curved fenceroyer generallyaewellelined nest, instead of,
which it was considered an impossi- having to build one.
bility for any beast to alimb. This In a wey the Widower has smile -
incident led to <an exciting bear hunt thing of the predatory characterise
in Regent's Park. But the truant tics of the hawk, and knows that the
Was luckily secured before he had a only way to get a thing is to take
chance of doing harm. it, and this causes it to often pounce
A jaguar, however, that got away upon the most charming young nul-
after a similar fashion from his den let in the bunch and hear her away,
in a travelling menagerie in ' York- under the very eyes of her chaperon.
shire, managed to retain its liberty On the who/e, though, it conducts its
for an entire week, During that per-
iod it attacked and badly mauled a
little girl, ,slaughtered about twenty
sheep, and so frightened an old lady
that she dropped dead. In the end
it was killed by a laborer, armed with
nothing more formidable than
.A PITCHFORK.
One of the moat exciting of British
wild-animai hunts took place, how-
ever, not in'the country, but in Lon -
doh.' A full-grown and exceedingly
savage tigress, belonging to Me. Ja-
mrache the- well-known East -end dea-
ler, got loose, and escaped into Rat-
cliffe Highway. It was broad day-
light, and the street was crowded
'Witlepeople, anfonget 'Whont. fieterrible
paniteat:Onte•:pfrevailedu.One little
boy, about nine years old, was play -
log in the road, and was snapped up
by the ,brute. •
At that nionient, Mr, Jarnraeh rush-
ed up and caught the, tigress •by the
loose skin of the neek, but -was Ma
able to hold the poweeful beast,
which ran down the street at a gal-
lopcarrying the boy. in her mouth,
as a cat would a mouse, Jentraeh
holding on tight all the time to the
tigress' neck, and keeping up with
long strides by her side, like It groom
by the tide of a, rtinaway horse.
Eventually Mr, Jamrach managed
• Angry Wife kerns to me to throw' the tigress down, and a. man
We'Ve been married a CentUry. I ran up With a Crowbar and struck
can't even rontember when' or Where her fieVerai blowe on the.n0Se. ThiS
We first met," nuslAnd (emphatic madeher drop the child from her
cally) "I can.. it, was at dinner-, knolith, Bet, being then tininipeded,
tp:britz :here there *are thirteen at Nhe, Wrench, ed r)ierself free, .and, donb-
love-making. after the manner of the
hightingale, and sings a song of such has a fall of a little over 200 ft. It
. w!th tingling checks and coursing.'
67 sec.; for from start to finish that
is the time occupied in covering that
1,500. yds. -an average of nearly for-
ty-six miles an hour. And there is
no possibility of mistake in the tim-
ing, for a broken. thread at the top
of the course starts the clock elec-
trically and another broken thread at,
the bottom stops it.
But, of course, it is not everyone
who cares to carry his love of tobog-
ganning to this thrilling and dangerH
ous excess, and for the man who has:
no wish to win cups at the risk of:
his bones St. Moritz has other Mara -
es fast enough for safety through the
magnificent pine woods, where oven;
a novice need not fear to launch his
feel]. craft. • .
A GLORIOUS RUN'
fold the amateur is to be had for the
trouble of climbing holf-a-dozen miles
-you can go by rail if you shirk, the
exercise, but this would be a rnis-
take-to Les Ava,nts, which lies in
the very .heart of the loveliest scen-
ery of the Canton of Vaud. Here
you take your seat on your reliablel
Swiss toboggan -a thing of wood,,
and clumsiness itself compared with,
its, delicate. highemettled racing rivale
-and you are soon skimming dowel
the long descent that takes you hacki
to 81. Moritz in g tweltth•of.the tiuie
it has ta,kee„ yoe to, gome
F'Your coursderune beteeeeetelseautiful
pie woods on 'one side ane'en; ern-
•Iftiolonent -of snow. on the.• otherteevith
one of the most glorious panoramas
in Europe stretched far beneath yon.
Here thine is little of the mad,
breathless rushing of the Cresta I
Course, but there is a sense of exhil-
aration no other sport can give; • and
as you sail swiftly down one slope
with a rush that carries you skim-
ming over the crest of the next 1 -
cline, or you swoop round corners
seed f •
I
surpasaing sweetness that no heart runs between banks of snow, is iced,
blood, you realize what a glorious
and has in its short length no fewer . •
can resist it. thing life can be in its supreine me -
There are many reasons why. wo- ments of physical enjoyment.
men should have a great fondness for
ON ors, and a o possess
one. It is always much more com-
fortable t� have a thoroughly trained
pet about the house than one that
one has to domesticate themselves.
A Widower's first owner has al-
ways taken the edge off of it, and
taught it little tricks, and it knows
when to pipe up, flati when to sit
on his perch and keep mum,. all • of
which render it a mostodesirabld or-
nament, for r the ameba .or, boudior, '
.Inasnatich. as, the Widower has once
been caught in the matrifrionial trap,
it has beee argued that it showed
lack of intelligence in allowing itself
to be Snared a second time. The
truth seeinS to be however, that af-
ter having once had its wings clip-
ped, it does not know what. to do
with freedom, and so returns to the
edge through force of habit,
than nine fearsome comers, some as
sharp as a right-angle, and terrible
things to negoti,ate vohen you are fly-
ing at forty or fifty miles an hour.
There is, I can assure you, no corner
on the St. Moritz Course that has
not a long list of disasters and brok-
en bones to its credit, and this al-
though the men who use it are the
most skilful tobogganers in Europe.
For racing purposes the American to-
boggan is,used--a board placed on
open steel runners.. The racer lies
flat on the board, vehich is< a, sliding
one; and ,steers himself, not by his
feet,' but by swaying his body.
Flinging himself prone on his ma-
chine, in a few setonds 18 whizzing
down the Course at twenty, thirty;
forty miles an hour, flashing ronnd
corners at breakneck speed, escaping
shiptveeek at each by a margin of
hairbreadths. Faster and faster he
flies, swooping down the precipitous
Church Leap at the speed of an eta
prees 'trona, oti to the long, straight
Shuttleccick run. Fifty, sixty, seven-
ty0 eighty nines an hour -the pace
grows maddening, it is the flight, of
THE` SWIFTEST EAGLE'
throngh blinding, blue of snow; and
yet the acme .of speed le tot reached,
for at the foot of the Shuttlecock tr
speed 'of eighty-seven miles an hour
hunting in London proved for hind has been registered.
• 04, somewhat expenSiVe form of Surely never web More intotatit-
ling on hei tin is, tan quickly -• up "sport."0--rearSorea Weekly. •'Mon erciWded within the Compass of
Wid v desire
the Street, Nwearing and spitting
spitefully.
Eventually she was driVen bads in-
to the cage whence she had Originally
escaped. Thetbey, although, es' lefty
well be Stipposed, teeribly frightened,
was not much hurt. Nevertheless,
the lawsuit that &flowed Cost lfr.
Jrunraeli $1,500. So that tiger -
NOT TO BE BLAMED.
He : "A self-made man is connnon
enough; but we never hear of a self-
made wonizin."
She: "Considering the kind of ar-
ticle the men who are in the self -
making business tern out, you Call
hardly blame thewomen for not,
taking it up."
A Scottish' parish miniater waS
ono 'day talking to oneof his par-
iehioners, who •Ventured the Opinion
tha.t ministers ought to be better
paid. "X ape glad to hear you say
that," sold the minister, '1 ant
pleased that you think so mucth of
the clergy. And so you think we
should Mee bigger etieeidki
"Aye," said the old man; "ye see,
'we'd get a better clas o' men."
"Ali," he protestad, "nay lore for
you is the greatest thing in the
world. It is larger than the world.
It is wider than the. sea, Let me
Pour it into your ears." "Sir 1"
ejaculated the fair maid. "Do you
Mean to insinuate anything about
the side or shape a my ears '?"
Alother--"Joirany :tones, did you
Son-,"Xfother. I OMR I caught it
S�n-'1'foth6r 1 thi,dk 1 caugnt
washing •tag face yesterday morn-
ing."
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