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TUE .DOLL THEATRE
OF JAPAN
The doll theatre holds an import
place in Japan. It is a surprise to,
this jewel of art says the Tokyo
respondent of the London Times,
Osage, the city of smoke -stacks. 1
an art that has been alive in Japan
more than two hundred and fifty ye
but that is now Cry'stallizecl in
small theatre in Osaka called the B
re:kit-se. -
Access to the doll theatre is throi
a big stone arch, or tai, guarded
eitherside by large stone liond a
lanterns. The fence that surroun
t the compound shows a line of gre
latticed- windows', bordered with bla
set at intervals in a white wall that
decohated with crossbeams of verrn
on.
The interior of tho doll theatre is
ranged 'like that of an ordinary Jap
-ese playhomse, with its- square co
partments, or boxes; and there -are g
"cries on three sides of the house. T
• stage itself is similar to that on 15-111
the real players act and is fully equ
pecl with settings, but it (Macre in 0
respect; for there is a deep space
• which the doll handlers stand whi
they are manipulating their ch,ara
ters. . .
The figure's are large and take fro
three to four men to move them.
,call them dolls is hardly fair, for th
.are so full at dignity and grace, the
-movements so suggestive of the who
„gamut of human emotions, that th
,are far removed from the trival an
banal with which the name of pupp
• is ko widely associated In the West._
The doll handlers, who have co
• querecl themselves to such a degr
that they lose themselves in the
creation, wear gay costumes, and the
• faces 6lre uncovered, butthe min
performers are garbed in black, wit
• black hoods and face curtains to hid
all traces of their individuality
grouped like shadows behind the rad
ant moving figures.
The minstrel sits_ on- a rostrum t
the right of the stage, howl a musicia
to- accompany him. He sings the de
eriptions and recites the convers
'tions, changing suddenly from th
high treble at a youthful princess t
, „the gruff tones of a villain, imitating
• 'feudal lord or a merchant, a priest a
a beggar, interpreting the drama, b
- the -esIer-e-hanging rhythms of his sam
,
Per the ancestors of theadolls. the
obest PlayWrights have written, and the
:dramas produced in the ,doll theatre
have becerne umeterpleces of Japanese
literature, the names of the ,characters
•
household -words.
Other . countries have - their doll
theatres in mare or lees flourishing
•condition., but few have reaehed such
.a state of ,perfection as the-Bunraltu-
.za of OPakh. For here is a rare,com-
bination---inanimate figures instead of
.actors of flesh and blood; doll men
trained from childhood to acquire the
••technique to ma,nage the cold and life-
less' forms through which flow.s the
•creative genius of the handier§ a min-
strels and musiciaras who have de-
-voted their 'hies to tho interpretation
,of the plays; and the best brains of
the dramatist empleyecl in order that
the dolls might be triumphant and
their use fully justified.
Yoshida I3ungoro, one of the chief
doll handlers of the Bunrakinza, may
believe thatehls great art ought to be-
long to his na-tive land; perhaps he
thinks it cotild- be appreciated only in
Osaka. • But that fs not trued., It should
be world-wicite. He takes a piece of
Wood, into 'which are Mserted a head
and limbs, and covers it with a piece
ot brocade, and it becomes a fairy
princess, changing hor postures every
Second, rivaling in animation any
'dancer possessed of a spinal column
Koshijidayu, the chief :. interpreter ,
et the dolls' ballad dram it Is a matt I
of many veices; -he laughs and cries,
coughs and scolds, is a villain one ino-
ment and the hero the next, His min -1
Strelsy is something that has been letit ,
on the stages of other lands, but it 13
fully adequate to expresa all tho f
o'medy,` tragedy, pathos and joyful -11
nese cf these old plays that still mitre
the busy, bustling people of modern
Japan, The etctors of the theatre pro,
per in Japan have long gone to the
.doll actors for inspiration, :and the 1
,drama written for the dolls ape to -clay '
the most popular pieces played ,ofi the
,stages of Toyilo and Osaka, ,
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TH. EDUCATION
BY DR. J. J. Wilp13LETON
Provincial Board of Health. Ontario
.4 Or, Middleton will be Wad to answer questions On Pulallo Health nisi,
p tali through this colas:nu; Address him at the Paritamant
I Toronto. . ,
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One of the most dangerous methods sYmPtome of Cholera, and on eXamul
of infection,is by "carriers," e.g., peo- ing the eXereta of this nurse who wa
PIS who, though not showing any ae_ Well, the cholera vibrios were -f ound
• she being undoubtedly the cause o
tive symptoms of disease, yet harbor
the particular _germ and transmit the the illness among- the others... Of
course She was immediately isolated.
disease to others. Several eases of In. devising means for de,aling with
typhoid transmission by carriers have the danger of carriers the first con -
almost b,eoome :famous on account of sideration is to prevent, if possible,
the publieitY they receive while the eases developing into carriers, and,
origin of the mysterious outbreaks failing that, to protect the comanunity
was being investigated. In nearly from the d,angen which. the presence of
every case the disease was transmit- carriers involve,s.
ted • through contanfination of the Certainly every person convalescent
drinking water by infested excreta, or from an infectious dsis,ease and -about
by the carrier •directly infecting the to he discharged from the is,ola.tiop.
food by handling it. • hos'pital, should first be examined to
A noted case on record was that of see if theytare still harboring infec-
"Typhoid Mary" a servant girl who tion in ,the nese, throat or ear, or
O year or two 'I5e-fore the outbreak of execreting it by the bowel, or in the
the Great War worked at several urine. In the case of a typhoid car -
houses in different sections of the di- rier, the safest -plan is to instruct the
trict where she lived, and in .every person, as to the danger he or she is
house she went to, typhoid broke out. to the cammunrity if every precaution
For a long time no suspicion rested is net taken. To take spec',ial care
on the girl as she was apparently in with the dejecta, to kee,p clean hands,
the best of health, unitl it was -found and to dteineet tire -dirty bed and body
that the outbreaks of typhoid fever linen are same of the main points;
fonowed her trail of wanderings. Her also the carrier must in no circum -
blood was examined, and it was fo•und stance have anything to do with the
that the girl was harboring the ty- handling, preparation or cooking of
phoid germ in her system and thus food for others. In addition oar -
able to tra,ns,mit it to others. tier cases should' be kept under ob-
Much investlgation Inc been done servation as much as possible until
regarding the role of carriers ' in they ceas'e to be carrier, Which some-
s,preading typhoid ancl diphtheria, but times unfortunately lasts for a long
many other communicable diseases
are conveyed by this agency, inelu,d-
ing dirs,entery and diarrhoea, small- H. A. McC. asks if there is any mare
pox, cerebro -spinal fever, acute poll- for insomnia.
°myelitis, --pneu-m,o,eaccal infections, Yes, cultivate a _contented mind,
sleeping sickness scarlet fever, avoid aftern,aon 'sleep arid avoid wor-
.
plague and tubercu'llosis. Cholera can ryin,g, clan't eat or drink much for
also be transmitted by carriers, this seine time before going to bed, take
bein,g regarded as the chief cause of a brisk walk in the open air before
cholera outbreaks in Bombay' during retiring end avoid a stuffy atmOsphere
1918. All the nursing sisters, with one at night, avoid reading in bed, and if
exception; on one" of 'the 'hospital 'ships these:Measures fail take a -sea voYage
canting 'into Boinba.y in 1918, showed or change of 'climate.
Super -Wireless
Battle,s fought with erewless ark: -
Plane bombers, mines unmanned, hub -
marines, ships, searchlights, guns, etc
all controlled by wireless ---all the in
chination strife brought into pia
perhaps, by the simple pressing of
buSttlIG01111:, it 15 Said, are but a few of the
'wireless wonders of the future.
Along the saner side of life there
are ether joys 10 come. The joux•nalist
will be armed with a Peelcet wireless
° telephone instrument. From the seen
s of his story he will, talk his "news
t direct to the hews -room, and receiv
lits instructions from the editor witl
a -
Y,
Armual Agricultural
Stocktaking.
For the fourth successive year the
Dominion Bureau of Agricultural Sta-
tistics is engaged in making an enum-
eration throug-,hout Cana -da ef the
areas sown to field crops and. of farm
live stock. This enumeration is being
effected by means of schedules dis-
tributed to individual farmers. When
filled up and retormed, the cards will
be transmitted to the Bureau at Ot-
tawa for compilation into totals, ex-
cept as regards Ontario and British
Columbia, where the provincial de-
partments Will Undertake the compila-
tion. The collection of these statis-
tics -re -presents a national agricultural
stoaktaking of much value to the
farmers as well as to the country
generally._ Owing to these -annual sta-
tistics, it is possible to show that the
at -ea in Canada under field crops in-
creased from about 89,000,000 acres
in 1915 to nearly 53,000,000 acres in
1920 and their value from $825,370,000
in 1915' to $1,455,244,000 in 1920 or
nearly 75 per cent.
The Efficiency Engineer.
Some one was talking to a Western
mart with. reference to scientific farm
management.
"When," said this matt, who cherish-
es • rather old-fas-hionecl notions, "I
hear the bragging „of these !efficiency
engin-eors' that they =A Increase by
so many -toilet the output of a farm I
am rentinde of the case of one 'Tom a
Gates, ' •
'Tom was feeding his has ono sum- I
Wisps of Wisdom.
The man who sells his health for
wealth makes a poor bargain.
•,
Open the door to suspicion, and
pea.cehliel. out of the window.
It is 'herd to get what you want
when you don't knoW what it is.'
The only hppeless failure is the per:
son who has ceas;ed to strive for Sue-
cees.
. If you want work. well done, select a
busy man--the•other Itiati has no tame.
People areernade more unhaPPy by
the ills they fear than bY these* they
suffer.
Little minds are tamed and subdued
by misfortune, but great `minds rise
above it. '
The world ,is -full of will people—
.
s,onie willing to work, and therest
willing tp let them. • ,
, More harm is done by the cowardice
of those who are afraid to do that
which is righ.t than by the courage pf
those who do wrong.
King Edward's Joke,
Judge Adams VIS,S proud of his re-
semblance to King Edward VII, He
were his be.ard. trimmed. in the sante
fashion, and' occasionally frequented
the same health res,orts, One of the
many fantastic stories he used to tell
of his adventures and misadventures
ran as follows:
l! 'See bore, Richard,' said King Ed-
ward to me on one occasion; 'this
won't do, you know,'
" `What won't do, your Majesty?' I
sked, •
" 'Well, it comes to. this: •you or I
nust leave IVIomburg, and I vote we
oss up which it is to be. I don't mind
n the least them mistaking me for
-ou; I don't mind the band playing
G -ad Save the King whenever you ap-
pear. But when I cannot show my face
out of doors witliput some chap slap-
ping meson the shoulder and singing
out with a strong Cork accent, "Halloa, Dick, how's yourself, dome and
have a drink," it becomes a bit tire-
some,' "
mer day with cornmeal when along
came one of these exports,
" 'Why,' queried the expert, 'waste
all that good cornmeal on all these
hens? The stuff looks just like saw-
dust; then. substitute Sawdust, The
hens will never know "the difference.'
"Then he went avay, When next
le came that way iie scught out Tom
and asked how the sawcinal, feed was
working,
" 'Fine,' said Tens.' 'An old yellow
hen has been 011 11 ev, r since you left,
and int her last halchIngs SIN. of the
chicks had wooden legs, three were
woodpeckers and the rest were rail; '''g
I
birds,' " 4 ua
• In Place of Money.,
In title country we receive pigs email
:change _in cash; 'This has not been the
.case on the Continent since the war.
In Prance, besides the 0114 fralle (9
cents) and fifty centime (4 cent)
-notes, se-veral ingealeus devices are
used to meet the demand Inc coppers.
The beet and daintiest are alumi-
num disos, the size of a penny, in
which, postage stamps of five, ten, or
twenty-five centimes yalue are im-
prisoned under a celluloid facing.
They are circulated by business
-houses, who use them also as a me-
dium for advertisement,
The postage stamp in all the unpro-
tected siinplicity 'of its- fragile stick',
ness is also forced upon unvvilling re-
cipients. Tickets worth fifteen cen-
times (three cents) issued by the
tramwaY companies, are likewise ac-
• Cepted as change., They remain in cir-
gulation until they fall apart in dirty
germ -infected ruin,
English factories manufacture
About 250,00 needles each week.
Woman,
GraY---"Woman is a 'riddle,"
tray--"I'llat's right. She keeps us
neseing, and yet we hate to give her
3!„"
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•Nrittir ,
1.
lisyrcutOE
Iall1\tilt7,!.11,OCCaa:
rten r F e
Alany people' Find that'
tea and. coffee are, ioes
si thet-.4., health, that
11-4StaTA. PQStUrifla iS a.
friendly table drink.
Tialp pare, cereai,bevrage
s rich in aroma and Ina.,
For fully tisfyingl, and;
ntafruu3tio element of harm
far nerves or
1 CFCS a
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out further time and money bein
wasted in getting back to the office
-Wireless Photographs_ will ex:tem
their Power. Whet" the wireless sys
tern is more 'perfect newspapers will
be able to publish pictures of topical
interest within twenty minutee of
their being taken ancl at a distance of
_ ,
10,0010 miles away.
On' trains no driver, guard, and
stoker Will be necessary; wireless will
control the 'whole thing from begin-
ning to endch
• Perhaps, in the long run, wireless
will also control us; may become the
A to Z of our existence! Who knows?
The Sixth Sense.
Thraugh.,the invention of Samuel 0,
Homan, a San Francisco inventor, a
, •
"sixth sense" seems to have been
created. At, a clietance of 600 feet, in
total darkness, I -Ionian asserts that
with th ai of I
Rich, Red Blood 13riggs )3right
Eyes and Rosy Cheeks.
- The girl who 'returns, home from
school or from work thoroug-hly tired
oat will be fortunate if hhe-eaeapes
physical breakdown, beeause this get-
tingtired SD easily is probably the
first warning symptom et a thinniag
° brood that must not be disregarded if
I° her health is to be preserved.
g .• When the blood becomes' thin and
, impute the patient becomes pale.
••` She not only tires oat easily but often.
suft,ers, fro. in. headaches, Palpitation of
appetite.
freniere, St. Ambrose, Man., • has
Pine will bp found to have a beneficial
action on the blood. Miss Delima Tga-
the heart, dizzy spells and a loss -of
In this cenclition Dr. Williams' Pink
proved this in her own case,, and ad-
vises ethers to uee these Pills. She
says: "Before •I began the 1/80 of Dr'.
WillitiMS' Pink Pills lefelt like a cem-
Pieta wreck of my former- self. My
blood was poor aria thin, I suffered
from faint and dizzy spells, and had
backaches and headaches almost every
day. I decided to give Do. Williams'
Pink,Pills a trial,' and by the time
had used three boxes I felt much bet-
ter and c,ontinued taking the pills
until I felt as well as I ever aid. For
what they did in my case cannot re-
commend these pills too highly."
Dr. 1Villiams' Pink Pills can be ob-
tained from any dealer in medicine, or
by mail at 50 cents a bon or six boxes
for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont.
e d a ce icate instrument
for the aeteotion of heat waves he can
tell whether one two or several per-
sons- are present. His invention, which
was started during the war for de-
tecting enenfit forces in front of the
American trenches, is a combination
of thermopiles, a reflector and a gal-
vanometer. - The instrument, which
acts much as "i sound detector, is sen-
sitive to heat waves and can be de-
veloped to the point where a coraPlete
silhouette of an object can be given,
showing the'butline.s from which heat
waves emanate. It can also be usecl
for the detection of airplanes thous-
ands of feet in the air.
S. Government officials are said
to be considering use of the instru-
ment forguarding valuable goods,
shch 'as,large coal piles, warehouses
and'antomobile fleets not in use. In-
stead of a large number of guards,
who can be avoided, 11 is expected to
set up one or two of Hoffman's iustru-
intents; which will immediately show
th...hreseneekof people in the vicinity.
AVE fhb WILDL.,
THE
rislr
Anthers who keep a box of Baby's
Own Tablets in the house may feel
that the lives of their little ones are
reasonably ,sate., during the hot wea-
.ther. Storimah, troubles, cholera in-
fantum and diarrhoea carry off thons-
ands of Iittle'on.es every summer, in
most . cases becauee the mother does,
not have a safe medicine at hand to
give, promptly. Baby's Own Tablets b.
relieve these troubles, or if given oc- 5
ca,sionally to the well child will pre- e
vent their eomine on. The Tablets
are guaranteed by' it government an-
alyst to be absolutely harmless even
to the newborn babe, They aro es-
pe•cially good in summer because they
regulate the bowels, and keep the
stomach sweet and pure, They are
sold by medicine dealers or by mail at
25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
The Tatar's Burglar Device.
In Tibet the Tatars have what Ls
Possibly the oldest burglar trap in the
world. It was invented to prevent
people from robbing the tombs,
Whenever a royal personage died in
Tibet he was buried with all his
jewels and his royal robes. To add a
still higher tribute, the most beautiful
young women of his court were suf-
focated and embalmed on the day of
.his funeral. With their beauty thus
preserved, they were placed in a stand-
ing- position round the tomb of their
master, each holding some trinket that t
the royal personage had us,ed during i
his lifetnne.
In o rder to protect those treasures
from vandals, the Tibetans erected an fo
arch in which rested sharply pointed g
arrows, and under which was a release fo
that discharged the arrows in quick in
succession. Whoever trod on the re- g
lease robbed no more.
The invention, hidden round the ar
temples and the tombs or tne rich Ta- 1
tars, was doubly efficient, for it both 0
nerno ts,ej
ere,te dus,p,t1.4.oepee. rty and provided inex- B
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tVla t the Bo guts
Are Doing.
Col. A, IV, Cray, MPF, fo.t. Leeds,
has presented a large and beautiful
Union Jacic to the let INrestport Troop,
thus completing the Troop's "colors,"
•
These are, big days in Boy Scout D, as. it
hh rd C' hc A r*
circles' down Welland way. 'A special ---N•r•-'11
LTD4s.2.„u—).
Scout Officers' Training Clourse now
in full swing. 'Elie Rotary Club is
backing the four Ideal troops both
financially and "Rotarially." And Mr.
C. 1Vicilvor, Troop Committeeman, of
tne ist Wellarid Troop, has jusColfered
a fine cup as a trophytor inter-trc:op
comPetition.
Renfrew and Kincardine Troops
,TP
rig ifas clone nre." Ltui'd t351`iicc:"1' D
o
•
`I-ioncstly", Eql,e
ansi dollars in c;e1.;1 far tlis
f'3:3ds- sis°,e1111-11u7i4oN1:::iripevialil'IpliogniAcTr.eal'Ic;cibru3ilidt3er,C"" "
re- "Besides relieving me. et a bad cal' e
Ps of, stomach tec,iiii'e of oluu,Y nces
all s tarred g, Tan I a c has hall me up ten
1T-0 pounds io, iveigl-,1, anti I ;laver 1:11
17 ter in rny than I do clew. I suf-
fered could hardly stana the pica -
sure of nay clothes against my stom-
ach and the, way it pained me vra3
'simply terrilae, and often I hat chola
Ing spells, When I almeet lest iny
breath. I was so nervous I couldn't
sleep and moraings • got up feeling
more tired and worn cut than, cri going
to bed. 1 leet weight considerably and
became ha' weal(1 \ash constantly lot -
fag time alld many tithe',
got so dizzy I had to -grab hold of
something- to keep trent tailing. Near-
ly all the time I •had, rt heaclache
sometimes it hurt me se 1)ad could
hardly endure it. My liver- was in an
awful °end:lion and I had liver spote
all over my body.
"Vaell, I just kept getting worse in
spite of everything 1 did, until I got
'1‘anlac. But this medicine seemed to
get right after, my troubles, 'for it
wasn't long before I was feeling lots
If better. I've taken eight bottler, in
n all and am a well man, never lase a
1 clay from work or keel bad in any way.
r, Jt' s a fact, Taulac is the best medicine
f I ever saw or heard of:"
) Tanlac is sold bY leading druggists
e everywhere. - Adv t.
R. S. V. P.
have been suffering from growl
pains. The• "doetors"—in both, ca
Provincial Scout Ofticers--recommet
ecl "surgical treatment," with 'the
sult that both towns have two troo
each now instead 02 just one. Ansi
ot them are worizing hard to ma
their Troop and their town the .ve
best Troops 'and Scout towns in On-
tario.
IVIitchell citizens have organized to
back Scouting in their town. In order
to help the two local troops with
equipment, camp, sports, etc., and to
Provide a satisfactory meeting place,
five 'hundred dollars is now being
raised by public subscription. This
amount also includes Mitchell's con-
tribution to the funds ot the Provin-
'We recently reported that the Brock-
ville ,Rotary Club was raising, $1,0_00
for, the funds of ttte ist Brockville
Troop. We are nova 'glad to be able
to announce that tho amount has been
raised—and it only took the Ro-
tarians three hours to get. it tea -ether.
The Brockville Scoutmaster, Mr. A. J.
Train, is one of Ontario's veteran
Scout men.
Through the kindness, of Major W.
Eaten, the 1st New Toronto Iropp wi
held its EU:Miner camp this year o
his big farm at Oakvill.e. A. simila
generous offer from Mr. Chas. Parke
Chairrnan of the Troop Committee o
the 29th Toronto --(Humber Bay
Troop, place,s his fine estate at th
disposal of the officers and boys of tha
Troop for their summer outing,. Such
co-operation from friends of the Boy I-Iere. is -0 true ,stery from a ghas*
• „ea.,
Seouts is most valuable and. :veryschaca . in the English Midland): A.
much am3reciated. , "general knowledge". lesson was in.
progreis. "Can anyone," ,demantlett
Scouting does not force the boy'',
e obedient. It takes it for granted
hat he is --and twelve years:, of Scout
ng has demonstrated the correctness
this attitude,
A leading newspaper offered a prize
✓ the paragrapli that had given the
reatest inspiration and help. Lines
-oni Tennyson and others were sent
by the hundred. The letter that
ained the prize was as follows:
'I am only a boy; and boys' opinions
O not respected by most grown-ups;
ut we have them just the same. The
aragraph which helps the most is the
oy Scout promise, as follows:
'On mythonor 7 promise that I will
o nly best To do my duty to God and
e King, Ta help other people at all
Ines, To obey the Scout Law.' "
His Hearing Restored
The invisible ear drum invented by
o. Leonard, which is a miniature
megaphone, fitting inside the ear en-
tirely out of sight, is restoring the
hearing of hundreds of people in New
York City. Mr. Leonard invented this
drum to relieve himself of deafness
and head noises, and it does this so
successfully that no one could tell he
is a deaf man.. It is effective when
deafness is caused by catarrh or by
perforated, or wholly destroyed natur-
al drums. A request for information
to A. 0, Leanard, Suite 437, 70 Fifth
Avenue, New York City, will be given
a pronapt reply. advt.
A Vicar to th)e Toadstools.
A VICai' of a scattered rural parish
had a remarkable knowledge of fungi.
So keen was he on his hobby, says, the
Landon Morning Pest, that he some,
times neglected his pastoral work to
search for 'apecimena.: One day he
stopped to soe a bedridden old lady,
who Immediately reminded him how
long it was since he had made his last
call.
.
h'If I had been a toadstool," she de-
clared, "you'd have been to seo mo
long agol"
Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia
si
Sending For Him, th
ti
When Canon Burroughs -of Peter-
orough, England, was in America
came months ago he told this sig-nifi-
ant story: A. woman employed in an
Engish mill was allotted a difficult A.
piece of machine work to clo. The
formnan told her to send for him if
she had any trouble with her machine.
She had to send ter himseveral times
and finally decided that she would not
bother him again but would herself try
to remedy any trouble that might
a,rise. But when trouble occurred and
she tried to conquer it she merely
made the difficulty worse: The ma-
chine came to a complete step.
When the foreman came to her aid
s'he looked up at him and said, "I did
my beet."
"No," said the foreman quietly, "the
best is sending for me."
To -clay men and women every -where
ire trying- to do their best alone, for-
getful that , the Master of all work
stands ready to help them in the re-
mediable little things as well as in the
great things they lead'to. The best is
always sen.:._..ding for Him.
The moon moves 3,350 feet, per
second,
The Explorer's !Ieward
Can money be made out of the ex-
ploration of uncharted parts of the
world?
The question Is suggested by the ex-
pedition which has already started to
scale Mount Everest, Many people
have the idea, that considerable 311111S
of money accrue to the explorer as the
result et lecturing, or from royalties
an books, describing adventures far
afield,
The explorer, howe•ver, rarely makes
money out of hia heroic:. ansi romantic
undertakings, Sir Ernest Shackleton
confessed publicly, after the return
from the expeaition begun in 1914, that
all his royalties, on be,bire ana all his
fees for public lectures had been mort,
gaged beforehand. Otherwise he would
have been unable to undertake 'lig Al:e,
tie'inhcenS
eelighaateiTtilles
• Wion returned to Eng-
land in 1909 he was given a knight,
hood and a Treasury grant of $100,000
towards the expenses at hie expedia
tion to the South Polar regions But
no Government can, continue
nItely to finance 'extibaaata, There
ccnnes a tithe when these, gallant ad-.•
venturers would hardly be .able to
meet their private bills but for the
gelneiol
rlolN
sitya(1)iTfiiillewitadusi
voa to exv. lore the
coast of Gree4lUnd he -took it for
granted thatla himself would have to
pay for the cast .efethesexpeclitiont But
ho was not a rieh,mnn, and after wait-
ing for his fortunes to change he ap-
plied reluctantly to the Norwegian
Government for the very modest sum
of 5,000 kronen (about $1,375). This
was refused. Everyone thought, Nan-
-
.sen a dreamer. No one in official
circles believed in 'his scherries.
He had almost given aphope of ever
making the expedition when one day
110 received from Copenhagen a draft
for the coveted sum. It came from an
entire stranger, and thanks, not to an
Incredulous Government, but to an un -
kJ -awn frlendaNitns-en set out with a
glad heart for the icy wastes of Green-
land, arid the•re he made ono of ,the
Ilistoric journeys: of the world,
The cost of exploration has risen
enormously in recent years, One' hun-
ch 11 thousand dollars would net go
'o -day in the forwarding of an am-,
bit.. is exploration plan, It is doubt-
ful 12,, during thespresent trade altunp,
an appeal for, Imbibe subscriptions
would bring In very large sonas of
Manoy,
Christopher Columbus seetus to have
peen an 'exception to the general rule
that exploration does not pay,- He
hialtaged to"get leery ,goocl terms but of
Isabella o pain and her ennport, mid
he left a,: will disposing of, extensive
Property, , •, •
1.11,1t4 in a general, Way,'explorers*
rinist, be- Counted among those Wlici
0.Y0.019fr freel'Y glad4 101' he
0,nd" they love,
What Is Politics?
"Pop a,
"Well, Junior—"
"Are 'politics' plural?"
"No, my boy, there isn't anything in
the world atore singular than politics."
• MONEY ORDERS..
Send a Dominion Express Money
Order. Five Dollars costthree cents.
What He Had.
"There was a strange man here to
s,e.e you to -day, Papa,' said little Ethel
on meeting her father in the hall.
'Did he have a hill?' i
"No, papa. He had just' a plain
nose."
the teacher, "tell rne the 'meaning, of
the letters R. S. V. P.?" There rose
the daughter of wealthy parents,
whose reeeptio,ms ,drew all the loeal
society. "Rush in, Stake„ and Vanish
Pleasantly," She replied:: t-•
Minard's Liniment 1Or sale everywhere
What He Answered.
The editor in charge of the personal
inquiry column, openesi his seventieth
letter with,a, groan. "I have last three
husbands," a ladynreader had written,
confidentially, "and now have the of-
fer ,a fourth; 'Shall I accept him."
This was the last straw. "If you've
lest three husband's," he wrote, "I
should say you are much too carelees
to he trusted with a fourth."
A violent fit of anger affects the
heart instantly, and poison has been
discovered in the blood immediately
after such an outburst.
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