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No Easy Job to Play to Children's them IOVE5 it 1 have given them Bach,
Audience, Eay s Fanicessaniat. Beethoven and Chapin. and had them
There are movements in various sit enraptured.., Childron will take any-
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parts canatla and the United States thing if it is presented in an interest -
to bring morehnd better music ta the lag way,
children. Va.rione methods are adopt.
e4, chief of which perhaps is Instruq-
.11en n musid in the schools. Other
methods are through organ recitals,
music memory contests, ?,illildren's cau.
eerts, etc. '
Guy Maier, the celebrated pianist, is
a strong advocate of the last mention-
ed method, although he states that it
is no easy job to hold the attention of
an andienee of children. His particu-
lar reasen or saying this is that you
not only have to play to the children,
but you have to talk ta them as well.
• "A singer, ot course, he, says, "has
the advantage of words, and some-
times e1 costume as wefl, but a Pianist
ba a to make up his story and tell it,
too.. laut even at that it is the-grea,test
Possible fan.
"The principal thing is to get ell.
rapport with yoUr children, and once
you have achieted that, the sky is the
limit tot what you can do. I have play-
ed them an entire program of the most
"From the beginning yon nmet real-
ize that you cannot talk down to child -
Ten. You have to Meet them on their
level, as equals,, just sts, in playing
with them.' And another thing is to
let them help in the music, For In-
Stanne, I have them -make insect noises
la certain pieces, and beat time in
others, and, 'hum the tunes of some of
them., Tlien, about every ten minutes
make'thetia stop and tell them that it
is My turn. And they invariably stop
and are as good as gold.
. "Their remarks after the cancerts
are always delightful. One little gird
about aix, in a town out; West, came
ap •on the platform carrying the
grimiest doll I have ever seen, and
said with mach dignity: "Myedoll en-
joyed your concert very much, Mr.
Maier,' At the same concert a lad of
twelve, one at your, super -masculine
beings., said, condescendingly that he
had liked my playing, though of course
he realized that it was for those who
drastic ultra -modern things, and had liked that sort of thing- best!, I find me by a eervant."
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that it ie the incorrigibles who Aek Inc
where they can get the music of
Schubert' a Waltzes.
"I had one carious experienee in a
boys' •school, which shews the conser-
vative attitude whieh is taken. in some
places toward innevatioue. I was en.
gaged to give a recital at, this school,
and promptly at eight o'clock the boye
were marched into the chapel, a dreary
building with hard wooden benches,
and they came looking like martyrs
entering an arena. My first pieces
were greeted with perfunctory •Ap-
plause-. Then I decided to start Some,
thing, $0.1 played 'Java,' which happen-
ed to be popular then. Faces bright-
ened at once, so without stoppingin
between I went from one popular tune.
to another, and shouted to the boye. to
sing along with me. They were rather
nonplussed at first, but finally they all
sang and pounded out the timeevith
their feet. Meanwhile, the faculty
were siting with faces stolid with dis-
approval. After about fifteen minutes
of this, I went back to my program and
held the intereat of the boys to ,the
very end. But—t! Not a member -cif
the faculty came near me after that
concert, and ray cheque 'was handed to
The Gift.
Earth gets, its price for what Earth
gives, us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to
die in, -
The priest hath his fee who oomes• and
shrives us, .
We bargain for the gra.'vesi we lie in;
At the devil's booth are all things sold,
• Siars We Cannot See.
Two*hundred millions of millions of
miles away is a star called, Algol. It
is the second brightest star, in the con-
sitellatic.n of Perseus, and it has the,
curious habit ot. varying M brightness
at regular interyals,
After ninth research we know- now
that Algol consist st of two stars—one
bright, the other dark.. They are each.
Each ounce of ,dress costs its ounce of
about a million miles in diameter and
gold;
about two million miles apart., They
. .
For a cap and bells our lives we
revolve around one another, and when
the dark star is between as and the
bright one, the light we receive from
the latter diminishes.
There are several other stars of the
Algol type, and it is simply through
our researches that we are aware that
there exist in the heavens dark stars—
stars which give no light at all and
are in thern,selves totally invisible.
How many there may be we de, not
know, or It is only by their power of
eclipsing brIghlt stars that we can re-
cognize them. at all. ,
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A Warlike College, Yell.
Here is a suggestion from- Harper's
Magazine that may be helpful to •har-
assed undergraduates who are trying
to compose a new "yell" that shall be
at once inspiring and'unintelligible:
"We've got a dandy college yell
now." .
"What is it?" • -
"We give- 41r ,Russian battleships,
a siss-boom-ah and:then two Chinese
generais,.. se; „.. •
Pay,
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's
tasking;
'Tis heaven alone that its given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the ask-
ing. —J. R. Lowell.
The Beauty of the Common-
place.
o heart af mine, still let us find
A happiness in little things;
The low sweet whisper of the wind,
The sleepy song the river sings,
The drone of a, gold bee behind;
A daffodil to which he clings'.
0 heart of mine, still let' us -See.
The beauty or the ;commonplace;
Of budding leaf and blossoming tree,
Of haze -hung hills and star soWn
space,
,Vor he who loves simplicity
Shall meet his Maker face to face.
—Enoch eth ,S c &lard.
etrotlied„ as Babies. --,
For centuries past it has, been, the
custora in China for- the parents of .a.
baby girl to'betroth -her, 'in infancy, to
the youthful son of a friendly 'couple,
and there have been numerotas cases
In which the girl has not seen her hus-
• iband-to-be until she arrived at .the
home of his parents for the mar,ri.age
ceremony. The raatch was a question
solely for the re.spectiv'e parents, and
pie young couple wen,not consulted.
Western .civilization, hovrever, is en;
otoaching on China, and the fact that
the old order is changing is proved by
four advertis,ements inserted in the
vernacular Press of Peking recently• ,
by which young woraen have given. no-
,
- • tice to the warrd that they- decline to
• recognize the betrothals arranged for
• them in their infancies, and that they
reserve for themselves the right to
. {select their life partners,.
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kr All Alone.
". A young man took his grandmother
' an art exhibition. They wandered
about looking at the painting's with in-
terest. Finally they stopped before a
portrait which {showed a mat sitting
• In a high-backed chair. Tacked to the
, frame was a small. white card.
WI' I "What does it say on the Card?"
Fir tasked the old lady. -
"A portrait of J. F. Jones, by him-
self," was the reply.
The old lady went ,closer to the pic-
ture. "What fools these art- people
must be!" she muttered. "Anybody
can See Jones is by himself. There's
nobody else in the picture?!
How Tuberculosis is Caught. .
•
!' An ea,sy way to catch tuberculosis is
i'mam some sick person who h,as, been
; spitting on the floor or pavement. The
{ spit dries like powder and goes into
your lungs and you are apt to catch
'ate disease if you are tired or weak.
Have Probably Been Dried.
•"T.Llost of the pla.neia have many
,nicons.."
rld s 0 dest Mule.
The oldest company in the I
that which owns the Falun Mine
Sweden. This mine has l3een w.orl
for seven hundred years without
break and has never changed han
'The company called the Stora K
parbergs Berg.slags. Aktiebolag, and
there is evidence that it WPas mining
copper in the year 1225.
In these seven hundred years the
Falun Mine has, yielded •over a ton of
gold, fifteen tons of silver, and about
half a million tons of copper. Now it
produces 30,000 tons of iron pyrites
every ye.ar. The mine is a huge hole
in the ground, nearly a quarter of a
mile 'long. half that distance across,
and some two hundred feet deep.
Men dig for iron pyrites a -thousand
feet below its, level and there are eigh-
teen miles of galleries containing near-
ly three thousand separate chambers.
A deccent into these depths is a
strange and rather terrifying experi-
ence. First the visitor must. don heavy
black serge overalls. and a wide -brim-
med. black hat. He is given am. acety-
lene torch ,shaped. something like a
THE NEWER COMMERCIAL CANADA
Pr0ductiouI Western 'Farm' s'E)cceed4 coMbined OntpUt of
Many Important ANatUral Resources.' ,
he
first' twenty year§ ofethe pre- ..lumbia, many,or t.helaite:Slaipping cona
• sent century haa witneesod striltin uiti dray ' t
Has Preached 22,'000 Sernittins,
Canon Ila' 8 -3 -year-old vicar
of. Norwioli Cathedral, England, lies,
preached 22,000 sermons, and says he
is out to prea.ch litany more. He be-
gan preaching at the age of 17, and his
delightful sermons are well known
both in England and Ca.nada.
Gave tlie-Game Away.
Tho head of the hou.s.e had tele-
phoned that he would bring home a
guest., to luncheon—a guest whom his
wife realized, .he ., would delight • to
Preparations were' made ac,cordin
• g-
ly,. with results satisfactory to her haa-
. pitahle and housewifely heart g
tea UnfortunateIY, 'Six-year-ald' Gladys 't
in
came in a tidfite late. Sweeping the
table with an all -embracing -glance,
ds. sne, muttered., audibly, as she
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climbed into her chair, "Li this lunch?" k
op -
"Why, of • course, it's luncheon; °
Gladys," said her mother -with a re- v
pressiVe gesture.
But C-Iadyg was net to be stayed.
"Well," she 'replied, ';niaybe it is;
brit it loaks exactly like Sunday din-
ner."
—
, a g es heavily upcm. he con,
change in, „.the •'diameter of Cartada,."mereial suPPort of the prairie Pr
celarnercially and Industrially. (e The Tinges., --Scardely-a cite- of any in
most important of these is undoubted- p.ertance in Eastern Canticl•a but Ita
1Y the ope,ning up c•f thewheat lands 'its fieur.,mills built or enlarged 't
1>1 t11.0 Prairie provinees, says the No., grind western -grain, ;iteimplemen
tural Resources ,IntelligenceJ. Service textile, furniture, leather; o
of the 1)epartm.ent of the Interior. o•thea concerns leaning ,strongly ape
-Nearly three' centuries were re- th.e orders 'turned, in by their weste.r
quired to build up the magnificent ,..s,ales,men. '•
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farming ceininunities of eastern Can- Summed up in all Ft'e rainific.atien"
ada; hilt as late as 1900 hardly more the settlement of Wekern Canada ca
thanthe'advnneaguard,of agriculture justly claila credit for au enernton
had• crossed the.,tlireshold. .,the west., Share of the. real itic‘ilease in. the pro
ern plains. ' ' clueing property c.f Canada in the las
year,s; age aeith.er ;Salsa tvaeaty-five yearS—wliet..her ,• thet in
latcliewan iier Allierta Cduld` Muster .cretaie has teken the forth er (he Wes
a --diundred thotisand • people' all told. itself, • or, of new dig,tributing toWns
Commerciallyain thelr'contriblition to and cities, of neW or enlarged fac
the business of the country they were tories and' mills of all kinds in the
perhaps equivalent to less than half -a- East, of great liarbor improvements
dozen of Ontario's forty-ocld counties, on t.he Great Lakes and on the sea
To -day their,preductiofi furnishes the board, or coal mines in Alberta, of
lite -blood to a infge proportion of Cana- sawmills in British ColuMbia or of a
than '•elitd‘pree. Western, prosperity thousand and one other enterprises.
has become a barometer rev business Take anotlie,r rile'thoci -or .a " .'ne
ppraisi a
the effects of the opening cif the west,
Lumbering has long•,been a great in-
dustry in the magnificent forests of
Nova Seotia, New,Brunewiek, Quebec,,,
Ontario and British Colunibia.
from Cain Breton to the Yukon,' pro-
duces a large and steadily mounting
annual return, The renowned fisher-
ies of'the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
and of iiaurnerable inland waters em-
ploy -tens of thousands of people aud
supporta far-flung trade. But it gives
some eenception of the change that
has been wrought in the commercial
-claracter of the Dominion to realize I
that the total ,animal product of these'
m industrial and commercial centies great industries with their centuries
convincing testhinany to -the mariner in 'bc)feasoCiiiiicit iciU6vttle()Pti1/41-lheellite—'odir 1Coafnatlid! itt a.
luni-
or the Dominion is perhaps' th.e most
•
which the agricultural west has Shift,-,.
ed the whole ontlook of Canadian
business .
, not only in the temporary flue-
tuations-cf current business in the ells -
throughout the Dominion. •The west-
ern {wheat crop' is of vital concern to
bUsiness enterprise. from Halifax to,
'Vancouver. No other item of Cana-
dian prod.uction' is watched with any-
hing like the degree .of national in-
erest that is centred upon ,the .pro-
rese at the crops of the prairies from
le tune they are sown until they are
eaped. Covernmentsaraieways, finan-
ial insitutionsa- manuta.ctureas and
-hdesalens, • busineeh interest of all
inds, larg,e,and sthall, share directly
a-'indirectlk in, the. boon of a goad har-
est or in the disapPointmel t f
meagre one. • The eagerness- with
which the crap estimates are received
The visitor makes his way down a
path of duck -boards. The air grows
colder and colder, and at the end
ten minutes he must walk warily i
case he slips. on the ice. The galleri
are Searsome places with holes eie.
.handored feet deep, into which the vis
torrnight fall if it were not for the re
frares Intrnt by the gnides.
of
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es • An Undesirable Partner.
'at Mr; Fish—"You Only, danced. once
1.-• IVir. afthe,fish •
Mrs.! F,iss,haa"..Yea.. ,anee, , was. enough
. • aa -
• aelle wid I so t'• "
•i BRITISH WOMEN
INIIVIIGRATtUN OF
In the conSiderath/if. of' British
migration, which is probably the meet.
engroesing subject cf Canadan econo-
mics at the presentthne, and one up-
on which departmental forees aro.,
largely concentrating, there is one par- .
rests attention, 'Phis Is that whilst ac-
tieularlY st,rikitig' 'feature' Which ay.
>cording to various reliable estimates
there faroughiy, an excess of two mil-
lion women over Men •in the Britsh
Isles,, Canada is 0113 of the few cciun-
itill'inensei,oifealinesuglpOebrieortItlyie,reth,lenetn)roail;Genil
anc,e amounting over the (mine Sutt.
try to abeut 6% per cent.
The Canadian sittiatien iloWeVer,
further accentuated by the -fact that
itt the mare recently developed •West.
ern areas the male majority' much
greater, so much so as to be striltingly
apparent. 'In this- bare fact, revealing
the urgency,of a redistribution or the
WOnlen Of the Empire, is contained the
Pronliseaof, certain advantage to the ,
women of the British ISles,
• Under stitilulus effected; say- certain
British andeCanadian c•rganizatiens al-
• truistically. interested ID the work, the
movement of Britishawomen to Ganacla
' has recently been promoteh at fa very
gratifying ra.te. ;` British' infmigrationa
iyhich amounted' to approximately 53'
per cent. orthe total 1923-1110Tement, ,
revealed art{increase of abdift onehuia'
dred p,er,cent. over the previous, year.
• Twenty Thousand British Wemen.
APProxiniately 20000 women from •
{ the British Isles moved to Canada in
I the course of the twelve inanths, ot
roughly about one-half the number
of hien. To form a:marcadequate aP- •,
predation of the normal rate of Move- .
ment, however, it must be considered'
that in the 1923 movement men,
from the British Isles were included
--
about 1,500 farm laborers and 12,000
harvesters brought, from the British
Isles. This would indicate that in
nor-
mal years .the, movement of , men' and
women would.be nearer anequalitja. -
There is no question Of the OpPer- ,
tunity in Canada for•BritIsh Women,
especially in household 'and.lallied pur-
suits. The war ushered In a new era. • •
for Canadian women, merely ane 01
the indications dr which 'wag the al-
most complete parliamentary enfran- •
chisement. They have. -come talce
6. greater part in• the public life of the •
country and ta enter into inultitticlin-
ous phases of 'the, eotrutry's- na,tienal •
life towards which they had no'incli- .
nation and in which, fox the main part,
there was no room for them in pre -War
days: This has resulted in, a demand '
for caPable women trained house-
hold ,management to fill their ...places,
andethe British.wonaan'is in'great and
favorable 'demand .10T'SUCh.
year, plus' all of the fish landed and
marketed, 'Plus again all the gold, sil-
ver, coal, copper, nickel and other
wealth produced from Canadian mines
—all of these lumped together do not
equal the farm output produeed each.
tributing crties Of the, West itself-or.in year ia the Prairie Provinces Which,
the industrial and financial ,centres of
twenty or twenty-five years agoere
the East or in its effect upon railway hardly on a p
, w
ar, commercially, with a
traffic and earnings from coast to half dozen Ontario, counties,
°oast that the pulsating power of west-
ern farm output asserts ita.elf 'as a Thus, in considerably lesis than one
generation there has been injected in.
chief "primemover" •Canada's o the co.nomio life of the Dominion a
economic machine. The. western farm huge' producing and consuming area
wields an Infitreace,
fe
imeYcmd. the a6 bigathat the Canada of 1900 "Pre -
yearly Variations of trade. It is the
constructive 'force' behind the 'build-
ing up ot tinge additions to the cella-,
try's permanent industrial assets.'
Whole communities, divorced,entire:
ly from direct farin pursuits, owe their.
rise or growth largely to the agricul-
tural 'settlement of. the,pairies. The
colleries of Albeata have been opened
hardly lesa th'eata:hy the grain -grower,
than .the mineral; I...Ike-wise the lumber-
man and. fruit rancher of British Co.
sents few features at all comparable,
with it. -
This. Agricultural • Empire of the
Nest may safely be put down as the
inost Salient feature of the newer cam- ,
ihercial Canada.
Dogs of War.• '
At the time of, the armistice there
were :about_ 19,000 dogs with the
armies of all sides. •
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Huge Exhibition Will Open on
The exhibit of the British govern-
,
meat will, in one sense provide a con -
April 23 and Is To Be `Miist
trast.to the -other pavilions in the ex.
Elaborate of -Its .Kind Ever hibition. While the latter are far_ the"
• Offered Public. most part devoted to /some special ter-
ritory qr some Spebial industry -
group of industries, this government's
exhibit will be more general in scope.
Its aim will be to illustrate the func-
tions of the home gevernment as a
whole, but with special reference to
the empire, and to show something of
what the responsibilities of the home
government are in regard to empire
defensse, communications, settlement
and economic development.
Around a large court of honor, in, the
You look down upon towers and
minarets and landscape gardens,
domes and high roofs and stately
wails, palaces and courts and lifter
bridges, with here the slender outline
of the Taj 'Mahal at Agra, here the
squat shape of a West African, fort,
there -a, glirapse of a Chinese street in
Kangkong, there, again, an English art
gallery. la
- This is Wembley, a name put on the
Map of England and of the world by
middle of the British Government
the British Empire Exhibition, to be Building, ran galleries, acconarnoda,t-
staged here from April 23—"the Bri- in the exhibite of a large number of
tish. Empire seen as through a shop government departments and -serial -of -
window," itt the expressive phrase of ficial bodies whose functions have a
the Prince of Wales, The '-vi.ewpeint direct bearing on the welfare of the
Is the terrace of the stadimil, the home country and the enipire. On an -
largest sports arena in the world, one other floor, lit entirely bY artificial
arida half times the sizeof the Roman light, is a collection dfmodels and
Colloaseuni, covering an are,a of over other devices notable chiefly for -their
ten acres and accommodating 125,000 originality and ingenuity. A special
Spectators. feature is a large scale relief map of
Everything scales to this at Wemb- •the world pleas' uring 40 feet by 20
ley. Never before has an exhibition feet and set in water, through which
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on such vast lines; been planned. The model ships will run along the main
British Empire Exhibition will be the ocean routes connecting various parts
largest thing of its kind the world has aa the empire.
ever seen. Its grounds, laid out in At the far end of the building
wibl
what was one of the most beautiful be a theatre, hat with anlarge'tank of
parks of greater London and arranged water instead of a. stage. I-Iere .will
with the idea of preserving so far as be presented various spectacles, such
possible OA best of the magnificent as the Spanish Armada, the Battle of
old trees, cover an area of some 240 Trafalgar and the Raid on Zeebrugge.
acres. Fifty milliott dollars has been The naval episodes will be under the
spent on the making of the concrete 'direction of the Admiralty, and the Air
and •steel city at "Wembley which re- 1Viinistry also is preparing td itage a
•prOdUceff theewhole of the British Elia scene of an air bombardment of Lon-
piae, in miniature. ,
don. The artily will rely mainly on
• "Aratind the world for eighteen- •
Scenic models., three of which 'will 11-
pence"—the price of admission—is the lustra.te the defense of the Ypres
alogan. of the promoters of the exhibi- salient, the capture of the' Messines
be devoted to public purposes. It is a Government Gives Best.
tion, the profits of which, to be shared 4
Ridge and the Battle of •the &Mime.
with thet,dominions and colorile§, will
large claim, but it is justified. The A. inero eatalogue of the various
British Empire covers a folirth of the bodies, official and semi-official, such
estimated area of the inhabited earth, as the Postofnee, the Mint, the Ord -
and alraeet every part of it will be re- liana° Survey, the Trol)Isal Health
Vresented at Wembley, • Conan:tate° and so on, would not do
lateraca "enown by Dominions, much to enlighten prospective visitors
The amount at space which the as to the scope of the British govern-
ment's cxhil)itri. Every branch of. the
government's activity , will be repre-
sented, and in no case have imagine.
tion and thought been apared to melte
the exhibits attractive and stimulate
intererft Iri thein, The MMistry of
I-lealth, for example, eichibits two
models; one of which repuiaciitts a
MOdern induatrial towu just as it hag
a a
, Inmiort Governmenta are occupying is
aliegetliFia tinprec,edented,„ 'Phe .area
'Yee; but astronomers lifiNG failed onvered by the exhibits of' several. of'
to feed, anaonalome, oa, il .it.tv:10 'one." • tiler& ractnally is as large as thatrwhich
- the EritiSh,gavernment itself hes been-
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GO rnla rrY Leads ;n movies, actustamcd to take 1,n great -intern'a.
1 Gerels,ny, lira More 'Motion picture tion.al exhibitions,. , Canada end Aus-
tralia, each has spent , $1,250i000 on
Im1l4T:',,tatz alone. -
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BY WARRE B. WELLS , • ever assembled in one exhibition. The Many Acres Occupie'd. • by
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exhibits will range from some weigh-
ing 150 tons each down to the, rapt
delicate testing instruments that have
ever been made.
A Complete Coal Mine.
Close by a full-sized colliery, com-
plete- with massive headgear, pit
evolved, without plan or method, the
.streets at all angles and the buildings
Jumbled. together haphazard. The
other shows a town built upon the
same elite, ideally planed, with wide
open spaces and re.a.dy _access to all
the chief centres.
Aside from the governaiaent
Great Britain will be rePresented at
,
Wembley principally intro colossal
buildings—the Palace of Engineering
and the Palace of Industry. Jointlja
these two buildings. °over more than
twenty-five acres of ground', or twelve
4timets the size of Trafalgar Square. In
the Palace of Engineering, probably
Ike largest concrete building in the
world, will be housed the most ambiti-
ous practical effort that has ever been
made to acquaint the wOrld with the
achievements and possibilities, of the
great key industries of Great Britain.
The section, representing more than
three hundred of the leading engineer-
ing and shipbuilding firms, will con-
tain the finest collection of 'engineer-
ing •plant, machinery and naaterials
ponies, washeries and all the up-to-
date para,pliernalia of coal mining can
be seen in actual operation. This is
being organized by the Mining As-
-sedation of Great .Britain in conjunc-
tionwith the Inetitute of Mining En-
gneers and the Mners' Federation of
Great Britain. -Visitors will be lower-
ed in a two -decked.' cage' to the shaft
bottom, a,nd. will step out into actual
underground' workingS, where they
will have an opportunity of witnessing
the wOle process of winningtand trans.
porting the coal out -of the -workings
tot the pithead,. '
'The art of the Empire will be repre-
sented in the Palace of Arts, avhicli
will house a notable Collection of pic-
tures and sculpture :drawn not only
from the United Kingdom but from all
the overseas dominions,- to whom a
separate range of galleries in the
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Which Will Dazzle Many
Millions of All Nations.
• building has been allotted. Ecclesias-
tical art finds an appropriate setting
a lofty basilica, Two galleries- will
be devoted 'to the art of the theatre,
where wil be shown a'Series of model
sets illustrating the, deVelopment of
sta,gecraft from itf.{, earli,est beginning's
to the advanced ideas oCtoday. „The
miniature splendorsaof thee Queen's
Hous.e.here'"will-firat be'open to
public view in• gallery 'spedially built
for the Purpose..
Colon ia I -Exh i bits. •
The _Canadian and Australian pa-
vilions face othe-Pailaoes (of Engineer-.
ing and InduAries, 'aCTOSS the lake
which divides. the e.xlaibltion, with the
,payilion or .the it one
end. This latter Payilio)i repreduces
the artistic beauties- of the TSjMahSl
at Agra and the -Jan -1a Masjid at Delhi.
The Soutla %African pavilion, is built
in the old Dutch style withcharacter-
istic stoep and loggia. The Burma
section, which adjoins • the Indian
grounds' contains a pavilion designed
on iines-,,of 'purely I-3urmege architecture and decorated by some of the
finest carvings in. the ;exhibition.
Sinillarly, -the tourers flanking. the P1'
Ceylon pavilion, in the Kandyan style,
are modem
led on the famous "Teple
of the Teoth." at KanIly T1i Hong-
kong sectio' renro.duces • a native
street in which many Chinese will be
sffen'at work in their normal surround-
ings. The Palestine and Cyprus pa-
vilion is designed in the •style of the
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African section takes the form of a 13"
walled city and is an exact replica of
hastern Mediterranean. The 'West :el
a typical cite 111 the hin.ferland of Westhe
Africa., Sintilariy, Illast African 011
• Building is a copy of an actual Ar'ith _
-palace, the entrance door of which is tine
0 replica et ono of the beautiftil old _Plg
carved doorways to be seen in. Zanzi-' "31
bar, The West Indian and Atlantic A all
group occupies a pavilien built in the in
Georgian Goloutal st3r1e,..surroundad by tha
Rodin, the Sculptor, thought clearly
and XationaHy on other' stibjectse as
as on art. On one occaSion—so
we learn from his Secretary; aIr. An •
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thoiay M. Ludavici in the Cornhill
Magazine -a -a certain visitor remarked .
that where self-s,acrifice- achleved-ano
lasting goad it should be discouraged.
Als an ex'anle of what she ,meant'
she described a certain family, the
mother of which -was old: and edrid-
'deli and had ;as her perinanent attend:- "
ant her youngest -daughter; a fine-lOolc-
Lug young woman of marriageble age..
Now, argued Rodin's visitor, surely it
was ta be deplored that there' was no
legislation orr pulie traditian •
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b, .
could. Prevent' a young and useful life
from wearing, itsel,f away in such un-
prodiuclive and depressiag toil, how.: ,
ever sublintely Unselfhsh the toil might '
be; for by the time the Mother died
her devoted daughter weuld -find her-
self left uselesi'anealtane, broken and ,
debilitated .by., her life, of sacrifice.
Rodin lisiten.ed attentlYely,
his wont and, when asked far his Views
on the question, replied.: -"Certainly I
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agree with you, mademoiselle; that the:
'lass to the World of yciung and
'beautiful life la ;lamentable. I think
as you do that it is not a pleasant •
cplgitt to watch a youthful and detsin;
able cres.ture--wearing h.erself away in
a gloomy Sick roam. But have you
thought of the alterna•tive?aars. it" not..
a tlrousand times better that one per-
son, like them
young woan you Speak
of;should he broken and debilitated
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by a,, life of self-sacrifice than that the ,
inciple for which she strove---tlie
principle of filial plety--7,..should vanish
fram this cruel world and leave sot-- •
fering humanity much poorer than 11
at present?"
Pigeons in War,
time immemorial pige.ons have
m nse,d. to carry messages, eaPecial-
in war. In spite of the vast mi-
nces, in' Means of communication,
feathered messengers , still remain
o of the • Moat reliable recans of
ding,' word from exposed places, and
United States Army has a special ,
eon branch. of the Signal corps,
a New XgrIE paper,
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n idea ;ow valuable pigeons are „
war may be had when ft is realized
t the iTtLited Stales, Signal Corps)
had 470,000 birds, overeeas in the re-,
rent War. and detailed' 8,S00 'men to
care for them. Many of 1,1re veteran.
birds—some of them actually battler
rrect---are still in service. Down at
nip Vail in New jersey, not far Tom
York, four hundred homers are
sad and in taining for use in enter-
CY,
fatten attentively to hiaa Wile is
a tropical garden, 111 which Is a model
of the famous talc° et pitch near Trial-
' l''aAcric.1,1itoent.'41() Ch ii ' ex:1111)1Lion itself, 'will'
be the largest aniusenient park in -the
. woiad, a feature of which is alt, exact °a
replica oi. the tomb eil Tut -ankh -amen N6
41 I..iiver, into which visitormay des-
cencl. -rl'iiis is. being etagetl under ilia gen
1 g,u1sheil Egyptolegiste of the day, directiou Or One of 1,110 Most distill- •'. L
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