HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-9-6, Page 3NOTES ANI) COMMENTS
The lrll il elation for the Ad-
erereellis,ilt of Selene', hue Met met et
York for the nestUiut, aftee un littervel
of twenty -Live puree The president,
Pyol. E Bay einkesley, chose for the
theme of his effiletes a review of the
progrees of the eciences (turtle; the last
gum ley of a (Putney. The dominant
note of the address is a cheerful Optia feeling 01 grelitude that we are
living in trIl lige wile') such astounding
discoveries tire being mude. Ile finds
nothing in the. discoverle.s to indicate
that the methods of science nye wrong
yr that scientists aro on the wrong
track, end yet admits that the recent
discoveries have had the effect of Oak
-
Mg ninny ol the working theories
science. Hence his delight. Just wheal
man not scientists were beginning .0
taunt science with liming nothing left
to work on but dctitIIe, it wus revealed
that there was a greet, almost or en
-
Wyly unsuepeeled, mess of material
ly-
ing within reach, wbuse study would
profoundly modify previous concep-
tions of the lmiverse. Prof, Lankester's
joy Is that of a man who !Inds that them
is something yet, to live for.
The most "exciting and entrancing"
discovery, as he calls it, is that of the
five non-active gnseous elements and ef
radium. 'Yet even here the conception
of matter. not as an association of dead
atoms but as a whirl of living energy,
had bcen reached before Its visible proof
startled the world. In truth this dis-
covery Is not revolutionary but °vole-
lianney. In astronomy the discovery,
madc. at the Lick Obevevatory, that ono
of the new selellitee of Saturn goes
around nun planet the wrong wiry calls
for a fundamental revision of our ideas
of. the origin of our solar system.
In rnoi•phology, the line of derivation
of certain forms is much more
clearly known OHM before and
some PITON have Well corrected. In
physiology it' 1111.11 been proved that life
is, chemically spenaing, a series of fee -
melds, and the simplest form of life at
• present existing is a highly -complicated
etruclure—a nucleated cell. The discov-
ery of the secretion of glands such as
the suprarenal capsules, Ids. thyroid, and
the pituitary organ, has an "almost, in -
Unite importance."
The discoveries 101` which Prof,
Metschnikoff Is laegely responsible as
to the source of immunity from disease
are mere important, than any Other med-
ico) discoveries of the quarter century.
We know now that safely must come
largely from within, from the presence
and from "lhe teethed, stimulated, and
car.efully-guartied activity, of those won-
derer), colorless, anurba-like corpus-
cles" called pimp cytes. But all science
lei working together to increase our
knowledge so that it is unsafe to negleit
any amen corners. A laborious nniseum
observer of the spots on the wings of
midges becomes an authority on pro-
phylactic measures against tropical dis-
eases. In countless ways our knowledge
or disease is being Increased and the
progress of the last generation Is an en-
couragement for the future. In view cl
all Oils Prof. Lent:ester bespeaks toe
science generous treatment by the gov-
ernment.' The cost of a single battle-
ship would pay for the lime of all the
men who neve so enlarged the boun-
daries of human knowledge. Millions
could be used, thousands are given.
RIOTERS LED BY YOUNG WOMAN.
Hamburg Mob Excited by Amazon of
Twenty-five.
B117,411,011) Rotph, a young woman 1:5
years of age, who has just been seri-
tenced at Hamburg, Germany, to three
mere imprisonment for revolutionary
activity, is a political Amazon with a
remarkable record. She wits a maid -of -
all -work with a wage of $5 per month,
end her dnys were devoted to scrubbing
floors, cleaning windows and doing Clio
week of the household generally,
At the .beginning of the year o pro-
posal was made to alter the suffrage
laws of Hamburg in such a way that
thousands of electors belonghig to the
poorer classes would be distranchited,
and a mauling .01 the citizens was held
to protest. The meeting was attended
by nearly 5,000 working M011.
A considerable differeneci of opinion
' as to the policy to be pursued had just
been made clear when a female figure
Was seen advancing from the entrance
through the crowd of wolecinen toward
the platform. The attention of the en-
tire audienee was drown to this sur-
prising invaelen, and deed silence pre -
vaned.
• During the Meeting Rolph mounted
the platforre end produced Such 8(1
'Neel on those present .thal a commit.
tee Was arooltited to organize open re-
bellion, and she was elected president.
The outbreaktook 'Oleo 00 Jan. 17,
and proved 10 be a most formidable re -
Volt.
Elizabeth Mph who the soul of the
whole MoyeMent. She led the mob In
en attack on the wealthy geartees rf
the town, where dowel Of shops were
entered and ,plundered, booty to the
value of Meaty hundreds of pomuls
Sterling being seized end carried oft by
the rioters.
Severe sleet!, fighting took pisco be-
fore the combined forces of troops, and
pollee were eble to subdue the moth-
• lionary mob. Elilabeih ftelph was
wounded end teptered.
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As Understudy
Ito George.
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The eimouncement of tile forthcoming
marriage of 511'. Matthew liullsworlhy,
of IlullsworIlly itult, 13everley, Yorks,
and Queen's Gate, Hyde Purls, with
xllss Agnes Armitage, daughter of Col-
onel Armitage, D.S.O., of the Labile -
mans, Surbiton, Interested Me. leek
Huntley greatly,
Nut that Joel( was acquainted with
eilliee of tim parties at the 1111101 filet
was an affair of destiny and the future,
ale. Huntley took a general and pro-
feseional Interest in tee forthcoming
meninges notified in the public papers.
It must, 1101, be assumed by this that, he
was in the furnishing line, and had an
eye to future contracts. jack Huntley'e
business instincts Iny rather in the op-
posite direction; be was an unfurnisliee,
00 10 apnali—In other words, a cracks -
111011.
Not a burglar of the grim and gory
13111 Sikes type, but of a distinetly
modern school, suave and gentlemanly
In appearance, crisply scientific In
method. hint was a specialist in wed-
ding presents.
To obtain an entry to the Laburnums
on the night, before the ceremony was
to Lake place required only an edema -
tory exercise of Jack's talents. The hour
being a little after midnight the win-
dow of the drawing -room was, ef
course, closed, and the shutters fas-
tened. But five minutes after his
arrival they stood open, and Jack was
within the room. as previous exper-
ience had led him to expect, the wed-
ding presents—a respectable show—
were displayed on a table In that very
apartment.
A selection of those ertieles which.
for portability 'anti easily negotiable
value, commended themselves to .hls
taste, was seen transferred to Jack's
baize -lined bag. As he completed this,
he heard a step in the passage.
Mr. Huntley tvas not unarmed, for
emergencies are apt to arise in his pro-
fession. But lie had an objeotion to
scenes of violence when they could te
avoided, 'Yet, he realized that it was a
close call. The house seemed to be
aroused, for there were other sounds of
movement.
Not In the least flurried, but without
undue delay. Jack dropped through the
window—which he had thoughtfully left
open—and cut swiftly across the garden
to the lane at the side of the house. As
he went he heard the sound of 011 open-
ing door, then the quick top of foot-
steps on the gravel path—he was pm,
sued 1 Ile vaulted the gate, bag in
hand. The lane was overshadowed by
trees and quite dark. Somewhere—
about, a hundred yards from the gate—
he ran into a mass of waren metal and
an atmosphere of burnt petrol.
Then a side lamp was held up, a
seared face looked at. 111111 over the back
of the motor -car and a scared 1.0100
spurted out : 1—oh—wh-a-t 1"
Jock did not waff to offer explana-
tions; 110 heard those footsteps behind
'ni, coming pretty rapidly down the
lane.
Quick as thought he drew his revol-
ver and sprang into the ear. The owner
of the sowed lace, an undersized man
of indecisive -type, appeared to have been
searchtng amongst some wraps in a
big receptacle—evidently intended for
luggage—at, the back of the car; the
door of this stood open and so sug-
gested Ithe fluntley'e next line of 0011011.
"Hop in, Daisy 1" he ordered, grip-
ping the young man's arm.
The indecisive one opened his mouth,
but the revolver' touched his temple land
he shut it again. That Impelled him
also to crawl into the receptacle with-
out further delay.
Small though he was, it seemed a
pretty tight fit, but Air, Huntley con-
siderately assisted him with his foot,
Then he shut the door and fastened it.
It lead a bolt outside.
There was a small slot in the door.
Josh dropped a crisp word of warning
through Ibis: "Shut your mouth and
keep still, or I'll pop a bullet, through
hem. You haven't room to dodge 11,
you know.'
The whole thing had been accom-
plished in record time. In lees than
thirty seconds Jack Huntley hod board-
ed the clar. About three seconds more
sufficed him to slip on the bettrekin coat
which lay on the seat, and a motor -cap
that, littcl fallen off ills captive's head.
The footsteps in the lane behind were
very close now.
Jock rammed the side temp into its
place, dropped into the seat. and ;seized
the steering -wheel with one hand',
groping for the -starthele -wall' the
other. As his fingers touched it. seine -
body sprang into the ear and fen upon
the teat beside him. Beftwo he can't
turn, a pair of 0.1111S were flung round
his neck and te feminine voice orlcd, in
a series of 11111e inlets, "Start off, George!
start off—pa's coming I"
Jack had reasons of his own for not
wishing to delay. Ile touched off, and
the car went buzeing down the lane.
The arms tightened a little, then halfea-
-dozen qidelt-flee kisses were dropped
promiscuously 111 the neighborhood ei
Jack's lips and chin, then the arms were
suddenly withdrawn, and (here came, e
sheep little ery
• "George, where's your moustache?
0h, it Isn't George, it's too big 1"
There was a flutter of Akins, as Me,
Huntley's impulsive pasengee got up
hurriedly and seemed about to spring
Reim tile ear, although it was (hen going
pretty Iasi.• •
"Sit down; you'll fall oul and hut t
mirac)e" he said. And Jaclee voice was
very suave and soothing, though nem.
The girl sat down. She was silent
with fear or beWildernient. SIM she
Med to edge awity. Mi'. Huntley put In
a bit of high-speed thinlii»g.
The management 01 the big Winne
did not trouble lihn at an; he had run
4 motor before, but the control 01 (110
attention bothered hien not a little. Ile
Was inclined lo fancy that George might
be the young num In the box behind.
But not knowing whet &Ores part in
the programme Wert to WPM been, he
was Pother puzzled heel Le act as hill
Onclerslittly.
In part, the diffieelly was solved In a
moment.
"Who ere you?" fulteriel the girl.
A break hi 1110 freeS, letting through rt
heuul of moonlight, 0lli Jaek a mo-
mentary glimpse of the Nee beside tilni
—a ' remarkably pretty Mlle face, In
spite uI its teues end pallor.
Jul not George." le, mild. And the
touch of regret in his lune WITS (111111'
genuine. Then lie added with ready un -
veracity :
"I'm George's friend -Rub Jaekson.
George was (181/11/1111, SO he asked me to
run the ear round. Ile gave nie tile time
and pluee---"
"But didn't, he explain?" interjected
the lady.
"til hadn't Unto to explain enything.
fie merely said I was to welt for a
yoang lady and take my directions
100(11 her. 13y the way, where aro we
bound for?"
"Oh, olden George tell you that?
Why, te Aunt Nancy's, of course 1
Aunt Nanny's at Guildford." exclaimed
the girt, In a tone of surprise.
Mr. Huntley's knowledge of Surrey
rands was extensive and exact. Ile
sieeve.d the oar' round and they were
soon buzzing off In the direction of
Guildford. Jack did not particularly
want to go to Guildford, but he realized
that any place at a convenient distance
from Surbiton would be convenient tor
Mtn for the next hour or so.
gpositea op di,z-y o anhwo:Tilishsa
"But George will come on to auntie's,
of course?" was the young lady's next
anxious question.
"01 course; hell get there ahnost as
soon as we ehall," Jack replied. cheerily,
adding menially, "11 George happens '.13
be the party in the box. it's likely he'll
get there "n spot lime with us I"
Silence followed; then the girl began,
falteringly :
"1 never heard George speak of you,
Mr. Jeck.son, but, of course, 1 don't
know all his friends—yet. But, this Is
very kind of you. Of course, George
told you something of—of our .plans?"
"Well, 1 have a sort of—ee—general
idea," replied jack, cautiously, conscious
thaet his ideas concerning anybody's
plans—even his own—were very general
at, that moment.
"I'm afraid you must think me a very
dreadful kind of gir1—"
"Not at all I" said Jack, quite consci-
entiously.
"Fearfully wild and reckless 1"
"fly no means 1"
"But, really 1 couldn't—I couldn't
mem that great, elderly, red-faced ale.
Bullsworthy, although he MS papa's
best friend, and has heaps of money.
I don't want money -1 want Ge-oe-ge I"
protested the young lady, finishing with
a sob.
"And you're going to have him, if I
can work It was Jack's vow, mentally
adding as a reservalinn, "though George
is a tin -pot sort of a chap for a gilt-
edged girl like you 1"
"Of course Mr. Builsworthy is a heap
too old for you, Allss Arniltage," lie
said aloud, making a ready snap at his
fair passenger's name from the obvious
clue she had dropped; "the Idea is pre-
posterous 1"
"That's what Aunt Nancy says. She
says it's wicked 1" exclaimed Miss Armi-
tage tearfully. "She says no girl ought
to be forced to merry a man twice her
own age. But papa won't hear of
George, and he's set on this dreadful
marriage. And It was to be to -morrow
morning. All the horrible, horrible pre-
sents have come, and—oh, I hate the
sight of LOCO/ 1 1 wish someone would
take them all away and hide them I"
Mr. Huntley did not mention that he
had already obliged in that particultr.
Ile steered the Dangler neatly past a, big
mancet cart., end merely dropped the
tentative observation : "So you and
George—"
"And auntle—mintie planned it, too I"
said the giri, hurriedly. "George was
to bring his car to -night and take me
Lo Aunt Nancy's; and we—George and
I—were to be married ever so early in
the morning. And auntie sold she
would face it out with papa and Mr.
Builsworthy afterwards."
"1 bet George wouldn't !" commented
Jack inwardly. "He hasn't got the griti"
' They were approaching Guildford
now, and he stowed down. "See, I al-
most, forget where your aunt lives?" he
remarked.
"Oh, It's right through the town; a
white cottage on the Shalford road,
I'll show you, said Miss Armitage.
Then she eagerly added: "Perhaps
George has got there first, after all?"
Mr. Huntley hardly thought. it proba-
ble; but he made no remark, and a few
minutes inter halted the cur, under Miss
Aemitage's direction, outside a pretty
cottage, standing back from the road,
and looking very white and prim in the
moonlight.
"Tills is auntie's 1 Oh, 1 wonder if
George is hem?" excloinied the girl.
Jack leapt • out and assisted her to
alight.
lie opened the gate for her and she
ran up to the house. The door opened,
and Mr, Huntley had the satisfaction of
seeing her disappear within, with the
sound of a distinctly femirdne kiss end
the enger inquiry: • "Oh, auntie, has
George come?"
Jack's next and rapid act was to ex-
hume his captive bodily from the recep-
Lade in the cat'.
That helpless individual appeared to
have fainted and remained in a coma-
tose condition during the twenty min-
utes' run. But the fresh air and Mr.
Huntley's timely and resourceful appli-
Cation of a little motor -spirit to his nose,
restored hint to something like mental
Competency.
Jack hastened the process by a gentle
and 'the abrupt demand : "Are you
George ?"
"l' -es; Geo-e-ge P-peploe r stammered
the bewildered youth . "But, oh, 1 say,
w -hate--"
"Never mind all dual" cut in Jack,
shortly; it you're George, there's • a
jolly fine girl walling for you in that
hedge!" ,
"W-what.—A gne.s / Miss Arm II a ge ?"
"Yea. Agnes," wits the curt response.
'And, ionic. here, George: Agnes te Jut,
chaniperme to your ginger -pop. And,
by thunder 1 if you don't bunk up there
sharp and claim her, tve11 Steal again,
andall have a cut. In for her myself 1"
Mo. Huntley assisted George Menotti)
the gate with 0 gentle shove, and hav-
Mg seen that, belated Romeo making his
way unsteadily up the garden path to -
weeds The Muse, he Mistily doffed the
beersidn coat and inototeettp
ft'
comaiideered ear and Week out by a
short cut, to the railway-stellon.—Lon.
don Answers,'
Then, mediating the baize -lined beg
oWORLD'S FAMILY
ut under the seat, he abandoned the
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1 1111
REVERENCE TIIE TIGEB„.
1110111, II possilite, He is Left Very Re-
spectfully Alone.
If one is to believe Ernest Ingersoll's
recently published "Life of Manunalee
most 01 11(15 Hindus and Muluys meekly
wept the tiger Ila 011 evil lo be eielue-
ed, and in this mood have lifted 11, with
superstitious 150e0e and eeverence, 11110
a sort of malignant deity, which must
may be pacilled.
You can be 5110W11 to.day forest
shrines and saintly tombs where 1110
tiger comes nightly to keep pious guard,
and you may hear in any Hindu village
of jogls to whom the cruel beasts are
es lap doge.
One of the difficulties which 1301511
officers have encountered in certain
parts of India, In their attempts to kilt
off the cattle tilting or man eall»g tig-
ers of some dangerously infested neigh-
borhood, or to have sport with them,
is the opposition of the people to their
destruellon.
Mr. Ingersoll quotes en !Miele:Ilion of sineu neither linen nor starch yet ex -
this from one of the earlier sportsmen fists for such cold storage humanity.
welter e the scene of the Incident bel»g Smuctimes a 1111.101,:y steed, develops in
not far from Bombay: some 0110 Of the OW:idea; 110 11111y Wulit
"While sitting at breakfast, we were to Imitate We Southern explorers in
alarmed by hearing cries of distress pro- trying to be clean. retell 0 one fakes a
reeding from the jagheerder's hill, and clam AO and scrapes off the Mehl,* a
on running to ascertain the cause we his garments, but the elders of his tribe,
found old Kainah 10 a furious stale of
excitement, his left, hand firmly fixed
in the woolly pato of the hopeful scion
et the house, and belaboring Min with
a stout bamboo.
"We Inquired what crime young Mot-
deen had been guilty of to bring upon
1111» such a SUMO of parental indigna-
tion, and Invited to our astonishment
1.1101 11 was all owing to his having
killed a tiger.
"One 0( 1110 falber's lame buffalos bay-
ing been killed by a tiger on the previ-
ous day, the young savage had watched
for him during the night and shot him
hum a tree when he returned to feed
upon the carcass. This most people
would have considered a very gallant
and meritorious exploit on the part of a
Ind of 15, but the old forester was of a
different opinion.
"It was all very well for es who lived
in the open country to wage war with
tigers, but with him, who lived on soci-
able terms with them, In the jungle, the
ease was different.
"'I have no quarrel with Ogees,' said
he. '1 Lever injured one of them, (hey
nover injured me; anti while there was
peace between us I went among them
without fear of danger. But now that
thls young rascal has picked m guartee
awl commenced 'hostilities, there is no
saying where the thing will end.'"
THE RUNNER OF EGYPT.
WASH
TIM PROFESSION OP THE LAUN-
DRESS IN MANY LANDS.
Some Clean Their Clothes With Elmo
Shell and Some With
Oranges.
There are happy lands, for, far away,
'011011) onne without the sul,..n
01 Koup and Tuesdays. miss \\ Olean Om
Thud of sadirons In the podded hoards.
The ethnommeal lime...dies have not
yet monogruplied tome, eintuge
onibeien when one lonks over the list
of the things which tle7 hate NUM].
worthy of (realises. Sociology »tight
well investigate the conditioning 01.
Memee of fixed washdays upon the
development of
'rhe most, conspieuutis instance of un-
washed clothes is In iireenhuld• oft
among the ley mountains and wher-
ever else Esqulmaux most do cengre-
gale. Glad in furs and in waterproof
garments made from the 'Deities ol tire
whale, the WOirtla and the heal, there is
no recognized need tor soap and lube,
Only me Highest of the Land are Per-
mitted to Have Them.
The suis is a runner who keeps In
front of a carriage and warns common
people out of the way, and who heats
them with a stick if they do not hurry
up about it.
It is obvious that to do this he must
run quickly. Most rnen when they run
bend their bodies forward and keep their
mouths closed in order to save their
wind. The sets runs with his shoulders
thrown back and trumpeting like an en-
raged elephant. He holds his long wand
at his side like a musket, and not trail-
ing in his hand like a wanting -stick,
and he wears 0 soft shirt of white stuff,
and a sleeveless coat buried In gold lace.
lie is a perfect ideal of color and move-
ment, and as he runs he bellows like
a bull oe roars as you have heard a
lion roar at feeding times in a mena-
gerie.
There are sometimes two of them run-
ning abreast, dressed exactly alike, and
with the upper part of their bodies as
rigid as Me wand pressed against their
sides, and with the ends of their scarf
and the long tassel steemning out be-
hind.
As they yell and bellow,sdorikeys and
carriages and people scramble out of
their WOY until the carriage they precede
hoe rolled rapidly by. Only princesses
of the Timed harem and coneuls-general
and the hands of the army of oceupation
and the Egyptian army are permitted two
sais; other people may have one.
GIRL GIVES LIFE FOR EltiLDIREN.
She Heroically Saved Them From n
Burning Douse,
Berths Gollard, an orphan girl, aged
19, died at the Basle Hospital. Geneve,
Switzerland, the 'ghee day, In terrible
'teeny. Around her bedside were path-
ered bar former master and mistress and
three children of tender years, whom
she had saved from being burned to
A Pe broke out et the home, which
was an old one 011l1 bat mainly of
wood, and the terrified parents rushed
out, ceiling foe help and leaving their
children in bed.
Derthe Galtord, who was employed as
servant, but Wanted es a member of the
family, rushed into the room, end tak-
ing two children in her arms. fought
her way down to the street through the
eholcing smoke. Tho roof threatened In
fall in, but the brave girl Went to the
resdee 01 1110 third child.
'She reappeared, holding the child it
ant's length, and, throwing it forward
Into willing hands, fell down, her cloth-
ing being mess of Mimes, The fire-
men turned the hose on her and a doc-
tor attended to her, but there was no
hope of her recovery.
She asked to see the, elite:leen end her
Master and her Mistress. After kissing
the children the servant girl turned to
her enmloyers, who were In tears, and
geld :-9 thank you 100 all your kind.
ten to me. Don't cry. 1 only did my
duty."
DEFINED.
Tomfey—Pop, what is monologue?
ToMiny'S Pop—A monologue, my bon
is conVereation a weilnat melee 00
with her htlabalu1.
then soup. 11is with Iles 1)111110 deter- 1,1)-0 LOV I UldlrillW 1A4 VVN
it Is s1111 more empitionly employed Tijv Rfiv ppm n cii
gent that the linen of the Pharaohs in
over etarelied majesty was done up long
before endure had begun 10 develop in
a dark 'worki of barieiriem.
11 11 were not for 811111111r eaponeeeous
plants the /Rettig robes of India would
preauf11, eleit,ey oteettele, iOr •
of ilindue ere prevented by religion
from
The: USE OF ANIMAL FATS.
In regions. Of the torrid zone where
nature has omitted throe soapworts mei
soaprook nature eniii,i,lerate priongli
lo supply anower In citrus
fruil. This is eommonie khosvp im [riff
NEW CADET CORPS oo 1NTO ,CAMP
AT RISLEY..
Stainer/ British Guardsman Instructed
Sturdy Five Hundred Little
Cknimundoefl.
The nuelt us of the future National
Arley of Defence wellt 1010 ea1f11) at
England. recently for the fire6
time. 11 was WO boys strong.
orange. It is :.1.1 CIIPSO tO the wipe- 711' youthful force has been recruited
ft 1110, flip two um from the grammar schools and 0)010100"
1081, Cut neis,es 111111the 10 ReSidell1 Of 1110 NO11011111. Off18 ASSOO/130'
011 Ole garment until all the jUiee !s I lion, who rere»ily emmi lo the condos -
squeezed out. 'Then the linen is to be tun that the time was ripe for extend -
washed in water and Nunes out as white ing. the corPs.
'aml clean tor though scene favorite brand The eee0ciaitort siari0d a fond, to
winch the Ring stilereribed MY guineas,
of laundry wrap lied been.
FOr 11111r0O there has been no need to and then decided In try the experiments
find a substitute, since it Is always to 01 a "boys' Bisley"—the elementary and
be found where vegetables grow. In grammar 801100ii‘ to be asked to supply
South America and in Africa laundry the boys.
starch derivable from the sago or The. fleet half dozen—they come from
other of the common palms. In the the Lipper Tooling High School—arrived
East Indies the stiffening and the gloss al Sisley about Sae the other day. They
upon line Mien are achieved through were met on the grassy slope near the
the use oe arrowroot. ft would he per.* Scottish Eight's "hut," by a tall and dig-
feetty entisfaetory if It were not that it 'tilled officer of his Majesty's Guards
SP11115 very 10011150111C and altractIve to —Colonel Horace Iticaydo—who, in a
mewls. and no genilenum can feel that tone of gentle authority, gave the word
he 15 Making MS best impression when of command 10 fail Into fine,
set in the ways of 1110 fathers, Jiang dirienlidigiscotfrieheiss sawribit, bgoesromlo.ng cockroach JUVE.NILle, SOLDIERS.
around to see him catch his death et The tub is merely a refinement of
cold as a just, payment fer introducing
innovations. When things get too rank
for even boreal taste the duds can al-
ways be set adrift on a» iceberg and
the responsibility floated away to the
Gulf Stream.
A RECKLESS WASTE,
one that the citizens of the North Pole
rarely commit.
Another tribe whose clothes are never
washed nee the dirty people of the roof
0( 1110 world In Asia, in Tibet. where Mc
mahatmas a,stral themselves into celes-
tial district, messengers fur the theoso-
phists W110 WOOL 10 80 40111S. 118 wine
they wear up in those high lands—wool
of the yak and camel's hair. Even the
yellow lama himself never changes the
clothes which robe his essence of
divially. The longer they are worn,
the more permeated with geense, the
more charged With common dirt and
fragments of explorers, the better the
Tibetans like their dollies.
The nomad Kirghiz of the Siberian
deserts to the north of the Pamirs have
the instinct to be clean. even though
water Ls with ihem far fee precious to
put on their clothing. Clad 111)0001801 11
wool they have developed to a high de-
gree the art of the fuller. Wherever the
Inners have made a camp one of the
first things they have marked .out is a
fulling yard where every rag le cleaned.
II, is not laundry work—it is chemistry
'of a rude and simple sort, but it does
tutu out clean clothes. That is some-
thing to the credit, of a horde of shabby
wandering marauders.
Fuilleg is a rere art tinder present
domestic conditions in this country.
Everything goes into the tweet and
much comes out sadly reduced in all
necessary dimensions. In the older
communities of central anci eastern
Europe Me fuller lilts a recognized need
IN EVERY TINY HAMLET,
Tee gruff/rue we; wash episs one Lary schools thromeleiut the lund• It
the soap orange will serve ea* lir' ae..3 owe, ite inception to Lind Cheylesenere,
•
In Germany, in Austria and in Rus-
sia every little village has its fulling
yard, just as is the case. with the no-
mads 01 1110 Asian steppee. To the fuller
are sent all woolens and flannel goods.
Over washing for such fabrics fulling
hos the advantage dint. an undershirt
when cleansed is the same size as be-
fore 11 underwent the operation, and 11
is not necessary to pass 11 on to a junior
and smaller member of the family every
time it Is done up.
in 1(1030 old-fashloned communities of
the old world the laundry kr no weekly
diversion. Once ft year, or at most
twice, It Is performed. Under such con-
ditions to gel, up the family wash be-
comes an institution. a funetton to be
celebrated upon completion by a feast
with wine and the noise of pipe end
tabor and dulcimer and all sweet
sounds. This merles much linen in
sieve, enough for a year at least. For
this good mothers begin when their girls
are scarcely able to sit a chair to set
them at running seams in sheets and
napery so that years hence they may
shirt their own homes with a plentiful
supply of household gear.
No young ma» prudent as to the fu-
ture would marry a girl who could not
bring hien such a dowry as would 1111
the linen press In the house ho has built
for her. Thus IL is that the annual least
of the wash is the great .senson of wed-
dings. A life of simplicity so Arcadian
that department stores have not entered
the field. In White Russia the laundry
tenet, is the crowning celebration of the
year, a feast that follows close on
Easter, a round of glad drays when ell
the single men get mherled and all the
married men get blissfully drunk.
Long before men had learned to boll
fat and ashes the ancient Egyptian had
his dollies washed.
A1.ONG THE STiiii 1E0 511.13.
Mottles are Slill naeheil and washed
(dean, in many lande to tvideli the cak6.
of soap has not been carried. All Orel'
the country, by the Lemke of streams
mut along the roadside, gron's the
Bouncing Bre an excellent soap from
spring to autumn. The lettves, stems
and roots rubbed together in water will
make thick suds that, make waeh1ng
light; the dirt fairly deeps front fabrics
and gems° is dissolved without leaving
stain. There is but one precaution to
observe, namely, to peel the rind from
111 roof, for elheeWlse the Mien. will be
daricened mid need bleaching. • The
same plant is equally commoe in Eur-
ope.
The 'phoney(' of Spain is also 0 way-
eide plant evhieh may be used in Ole
same tvay, with the fernier advantage
that. 11 13 not necessary to pee? the root.
This is so (Inc a elenneing material thet,
all over the Iberian penineula it remains
in family use, for it is superior lo Any
soap in laundering dainty fabrics of
enervating luxury. Clothes were waehe
before coopers learned their trade, and
tubless laundering goes on to-dey the
world around. In Mexico one may see
In every stream the lavanderas plying
their art. The river is the best tub 1
all, for the water is always running.
The clothes are swiped and spread upon
a flat rock ; then beaten with
A S1IOIIT WOODEN PADDLE.
It is effeetive, and the laundress need
heve no rear of slopping the water and
getting her 111 'wet, for she goes 11110
the rivet with her wash. 'file traveller
with respect when he bees how effective-
ly she C011 Wield 11. ellth 1111011 the family
linen.
inclines Lo 11.1.11 1 1110 :Mexican lavanilera
mete guides and instruetors.
The account would not be eom
Then the Gemmel' school soldiers
without mention of the lavender, the
laundry plant, as its name shows. ‘Itvieeci'keilethdc:et:111,CY 1t0v11.11:veSeuenndgeinrgthseteeponito.
part. comes later; comes last of all. it
Clothes tnny be cleaned without it, its their tents, where for the rest of the
mend of their respective masters, while
is when Ole spotless linen comes off the
bleaching lawn, with the 111'0010 Of ,11elregYealennt.ii.nn,itrIllem.taLst offutil.'nitirshrerr b3,p.leIctieide
sweet clover on it, with the freshness a
the whitening sun, that the lavender is
laid within (Is folds as it is put away for
needs yet to arise, 11 111113' be a petty
art of housewifery, but, it is not without
its charm W11011 the linen press is
opened to sniff the whim of good old
country lavender.
In a quarter of an hour more than
850 boys, from 24 grammar schools, and
similar schools throughout the country,
were drawn up in squads.
One or two 01 1110 sturdy little com-
mandoes marched to the parade ground
with bugles blowing end drums merrily
beating, but the majority of the boys
mune up laughing anti joking in twos
and threes.
CoI. Richard() received England's fu-
ture guards as they arrived, and in a
few minutes had the detached groups
and companies marshalled on parade—
a battalion in column.
The boys were a little excited at erste
but they soon grew serious, MA OS Lord
Chillesmore approached lo i»spect the
Iiiies. they cheesed meetly like reel lit-
tle soldiers on the stalwart Guardsmen,
towering above !hem, who are to act as
DELMAN VILLAGE PAGEANT.
Days of Crusaders Commemorated by
Quaint Procession.
One of the most interesting religious
festivals held in Europe was the proves-
sion through the streets of FulTies, Bel-
gium, the other Sunday, originally or-
ganized in commemoration of the pre-
sentation of a fragment of the true
Cross of the Abbey of Fumes by Robert
of Jerusalem, in the twelfth century.
This picturesque spectacle includes a
series of forty tableaux portraying well-
known Biblical scenes, mounted on
cue and costumed in sixteenth oentury
style.
The procession 1.003 headed by a car
re resenting the sacrifice of Abraham,
Brigade of Guards.
A few hundred yards (*way an even
more signMennt camp NVOS pitched—a
camp of mu boys from the elementary
schools of the city of London, sons of
caretakers, policemen, postmen and
others.
PLANS TO REWARD BRAINS.
Workmen Will Be Encouraged to Sub-
mit New Ideas.
An interesting scheme by which the
British Admiralty encourages workmen
who'nee fertile in ideas is described in
a memorandum on changes at the dock-
yards widen has just been issued.
All the workmen in the dockyards are
invited to contribute sugestions regent-
ing improvements in tools and methods
of wont, and a committee of dockyard
ollleers ells once a month to consider
and adjudicate on the suggestions re-
ceived.
A sum of £9,00 has been authorized for
distribution during the present year in
awards for suggestions either adopted
in thely original form or successfully.
developed.
\v101 Abeam in blue plush, with up- An. increase of pay is to be allowed to
lined sword, little Isaac in brown, and 1 certain classes of workmen to take
a docile doultey laden with faggots. The i effect next Motor. This will involve
cos following showed Moses In the an expenditure of £60,000 a year. A
wilderness, David as psalmist, king and uniform 48-houe week is also to obtain
penitent respectively, and John the Bap- in future In all the Government dock-
tist as the forerunner of Christ, sur- yards.
rounded by shepherds, herdsmen and A premium system has also been
adopted expeehnentally 118 the dockyards
her ltatsr.ge car carried by penitents, re- by which an expert won:man is enabled
presenting a cow -shed with a Matched to increase his wnges by completing his
roof, portrayed the birthplace of Christ. Work in less 1111111 the time allowed.
A waxen child lay in a manger on some
straw, while the Virgin and Joseph SPIDER RINGS A BELL.
stood near by surrounded by an angel —
choir composed of little girls dressed In Peals ol Night Alarm Lead Police to
while, with pink gauze wings fastened Suspect Burglars.
to their shoulders. Two plaster oxen A remarkable story of how a spider
gazed placidly on the group. rang an. electric bell comes from Han -
Then came shepherds on foot, escort-
ing the three kings in gorgeous ermine- ley. England.
trimmed mantles. SuceeedIng tableaux While a North Stafferdshlre police -
showed the flight into Egypt, the court man was on duty the other night ho
of Herod, Christ disputing in the Temple henrd an electric alarm bell ringing
and the entrance of Christ into 1e1usal- violently in a shop On his beat. He sus -
were graphically depicted while the last peeled burglars, and a watch was set
em. The ircidents of the Crucifixion
ear showed the Ascension—Christ stand- while the manager was summoned.
ing on 0 green moend surrounded by niceptItierinpgrinemg.ises were entered, but
fob
The procession OWea Oa origin to Rob- Then
At last, when the bell was examined,
the Apostles, and with the Virgin at His nobody was discovered, and still the
the Holy Land, vowed during a it was found that a spider had so spun
tablished, and the bell
Mat
from
fragment of the tree Cross to the first "
Its web (min the ben to the battery
0 circuit was es
ert of Jeruselem, who, on returning
church ho sow If he escaped shipwreck. at, once began In ring, continuing to de
*
the relic WM installed with great, pomp. RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE,
The first church he saw on landing
...---4...— may be one-sIded. It is not a had thing
ward those near tilin. there Is risk that
los rulings in the antes of steamers
Wben a man loses sight of jusitee to.
proved to be the Abbey of Furnes,where .
that oceaslonally there Is a sanely of
WHAT 1)3 SOFT WATER? justice known as retributive, evidently
, designed foe those who lack other kinds,
ol'Alletssilnatitriguin‘tvnotfelUsenegnutlatenve laergineaste01-' hisWillveinteLntlisletclEilloe'nletneeronungphanwyashoinitudgeta'0'
lution. Ilnin water has the smallest elecuil. His loedehip, however, alwayt
pereentege of solid impurities of anY, stipulated that she ohould not luck
114141, vlaillelielify0roei 118 0111 1 ‘tvirtenr,Ils 7,11111 00 atteartilt nligtilei.clbox es under the seat of the caret-
s° IL and hard. 110WeVer, as applied to Get ene (spasm the judge, white
ly relative. A Waler is -usually reeked. stretching 1110 legs, kicked 'whist one
water Ore, scientilleally eorlskiered, pure-
ed to be "soft" when it, contaies less at
lettiltit a (1 ‘iy111117dinbv"triveltLh raeei'brjainagel,"lindDnoUni
then 1400flitt Pert nont <Its „Nhvaarigtil,l,t wethetinitnit• Went the bandbox Into the ditch. The
tral. ingredients, startled coachman pulled up, but was
storm at. see that, he would present, 11 0 nw tee web wes broken,
ch0a1Plihnes 140074111y" ott-1 0°04111)1y. 18o0rintt InVgattlar 16iredeserbederetoltcirwiVe6s, on and let pin tiling
lather with soap, and Is, therefore, suit- They reached the 03130 town In duo
able for washing PurPoses; 'while hard course, and tits lordship proceeded 10
water will only form a lather, and that robe for the court,
imperfectly, with consideeable difficulty. "And TIM. where's my wig/ Wherdei
A mineral water lies more, then my wig?" he 111411'111W, when everythipg
I.P.ounth 01(18 weight of natural dissolv- • else had been donned.
0c1 sends, and inefficient wider Is it "l'oue wig, my lord," replied the ser -
variety of mineral '11 11(00 containing a 3)0111, Iremuleusly, "wee In that ben1
101101111111 and rebus°, An allied Mont, Varying percentage uf dissoleed natural ties \Odell year lordship threW Otit OIt
vows abundantly eland the Nile, Where send' or gliSous drogs. ' • the winduw ite we cams alone