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CHAPTER VIII. --(Continued). New Jerusalem there are no galled and
trembling -kneed flacre horses.
Elizabeth is silting on the wale her
light. figure -1s R. possible that it has
been in 'ffie world only four years less
than Amelia's solid one?—half supported
by one small grey hand outspread on
the stone; her little fine features at
tremulous with emotion, and hell a
tear gathered again in each sweet eye,
As Jim looks at her, a sort of cold
covetous gripe pinches his heart.
"What a woman with ‘vhom to look
at all earth's lovelinesses—with whom
to convense without speech!"
Even as he so thinks, she turns her
head towards him, and, drawing In her
breath with a long low sigh, says!"
"Oh, how glad I am I did not die be-
fore to-dayl"
lIer eyes aro turned towards him, and
yet, as once before, he realizes that it
is not to him that either her look or her
thoughts are directed. Both are aimed
at an object over his shoulder, and, es
before, that object is Byng. Byng too
has been gazing at the view. There are
tears in 13yng's eyes also. Stephenson
says some women like a man who cries.
Byng cries easily and genuinely, and
enjoys it; and, as he is a remarkably
fine young man, there Is something
piquant in the contrast between his wet
blue orbs and his shoulders.
As Burgoyne rolls home that after-
noon in his Micro, as before, placed
opposite Amelia, his mental vision is no
longer fixed upon e. "double-barrelled,
eentral-flre, breech-loadIng gun ;" it is
fixed ,with a teasing tenacity upon the
figure of a smallish woman, perennially
looking, through brilliant tears, over
his shoulder at somebody else.
A sudden instinct, with which his
will has nothing to do, makes him flash
a look back at Mrs. Lo Marchant, es if
to gauge the effect produced upon her
by his ' betrothed; and, following her
glance, he flnds that it is resting on
Cecilia. She thinks that he Is engaged
to Cecilia. The mistake isentoierable to
him, and yet a second's reflection tells
him thst it is a natural ono. In a
seond he sees his Amelia as she pre-
sents herself to a strange eye- miss
Wilson is only thirty-one, but upon her
has already come that set solid look of
middle age, which overtakes some wo-
men before they are well over the bor-
ders of youth, and which other women
manage to stave off till they are within
near bell of forty. Yes; the mistake is
quite a natural one. Most people would
suppose that the showy Cecilia, still
fairly youthful, and with so many ob-
vious and well -produced "poines," must
be his choice; and yet, as I have said,
the idea that anyone should credit ben
with her cwnership is intolerable to
him,
"Here she is!" he cries precipitately.
"Tile ono to the right side, the other is
her sister; may I—may I present them
to you?"
Perhaps it is his irritated fancy that
dictates the Idea, but it seems to hire as
if he detected a sort of surprise in Mrs.
Le Marehanies face, when he effects the
introduction lie has proposed, and to
which she accedes courteously, after a
pause of hesitation -about as long es hod
followed his inquiry of Elizabeth as to
their address.
Five, minutes later they have all saun-
toed out again on the terrace, and Bur-
goyne is again leaning on the wall; but
this time he has 110 fear of hearing
of Bayswater, for it is Elizabeth who is
beside him. Since last he looked at it
half an hour ago, a sort of glorification
has passed over the divine view. Down
where the river twists through the
plain country, there is a light dainty
mist, but the mountains have put on
their fullest glory. They are not green,
or brown, or purple, or blue; but clad
In that ineffable raiment woven by the
sun, that defies our weak vocabulary
to provide it with a name. A little
snow -chain lies on the sun -warmed neck
of Morello, and along the tops of the
further Apennines, right against the
aculo blue of the heavens, lies a line of
snow, that looks like a fleece -soft cloud
resting from its journeyings, on their
crests; but it is no cloud, nor is there
any speck upon the gigantic complete
arch that over -vaults town and valley
and radiant mountains. In the folds of
these last, the shadows slumber; but
over all the city is the great gold glory
of spiting. The ono thing in Morena°
that frowns among so many smiles Is
the scowling PIM, and thet„from here,
Is invisible. Nearer to him against, the
azure, stand the solemn flemeeshaped
cypresses arow, and beside there—as
unlike as life to death—a band of qui-
vering poplars, a sort of transparent
gold -green in their young spring livery.
'rhe air is so clear that one can go nigh
to counting the marbles on the Duomo
walls. In a more transparent amber
light, fuller of, joy and gaiety, cannot
the saved bo dancing around', as in
Pea Angelico's divine picture? cannot,
they be walking In the New Jerusalem
of St. John's great dream? Only in the
ezetenees,
- CHAPTER IX.
"Was 11 12, or 12 131s, Piazza
d'Azeglio?"
There are no tears in Byng's eyes es
ho asks this question next morning—
asks it of his Mend, es the latter sits in
the fumoir, with an English paper in his
bands, and a good cigar between his
clean-shaven lips. 11 has struck hlm
several times lately that he will have to
give up good cigars, and take to a
churchwarden pipe and shag instead.
But, so fate the churchwarden and the
shng remain in the future.
"12 or 12 Bis, Piazza d'Azeglio?" in-
quires Byng.
"Was what 12 or 12 Ins?" replies its
triencl, with a somewhat obviously In.
tentionnl obtuseness; but Byng is far too
thoroughly healthy and happy a yOung
animal this morning to take offense
easily.
"I mean Miss Le Merchant's address,"
he answers, explaining es amiably as it
h3 had not been perfectly aware that it
was only "cussedness" that had diotated
the query. '
There is a slight pause. Burgoyne
would like to answer that ho does not
remember—would like still more to
answer that he does not see what busi-
ness it. can be of Byng's; but, since he is
not destitute of common sense, a
second's reflection shows him that he
has no good reason for either the lie or
the incivility, so he mplies, pretty calm-
ly, with his eyes still on his leading
article:
"I believe Miss Le Merchant said 12
Bis,"
Having obtained the information he
wanted, end finding his companion not
conversationelly disposed, Byng is mov-
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Mg away twill, when he is arrested by
Jim's voice, adding to the Intelligence he
has just giver) the monosyllable:
"Why?,
"Why whate" asks Byng, returning
readily, and laughingly mimicking the
intentional oblUtreneee 50 lately p1.80.
Sired on himself by the ether.
"Why did you eel]?"
"1 tun thinking of eaying my respects
Uwe this afternoon, and 1 did not vtint,
t1 ring at the wrong bell,"
A short silence. Jim's head is partly
hidden by his Gelignanl.
"Did Miss or Mrs. lee Marchent, ttelc
you to cell?"
Byng laughs,
"Both of thein are as innocent, of it as
Ibis babe unborn!"
"You asked yourself then?" (in a snub-
bing voice),
Byng nods.
"And she said yes?"
The pluml proneun has dropped out
of sight, but neither of them perceives it.
Tho younger man Oakes his sleek head.
Jim lays down his [toper with en air of
decision.
"If she did not say 'Yes'—lf she said
'No,'" he begins; with 1111 11010111 01
severity, "I fail to understand*"
"She did not say 'No,"' interrups
Byng, still half laughing, and yet red -
&Meg as well. "She began to say it;
bul I suppose that 1 looked so broken-
hearted --1 am sure I felt it -111a1 she
stopped."
As Jen makes no rejoinder, Ile con -
Unties by -and -bye:
"After all, she can but send me away
One is always being sent away" (11re
wishes •ho could think thiseruer than he
does); "but now and again one is not
sent, and those are the times that pay
'for the others! 111 risk it."
There is a hopeful ring in his voice as
he ends, and again a pause comes, bro-
ken a third time by the younger men.
"Come, now, Jim"—loolcing with a
straight and disarming good -humor into
his friend's overcast countenance—
"speak upl Do you know of any cause or
impediment why I should not?"
Thus handsomely and fairly appealed
to, Burgoyne, who is by nature a just
man, begins to put his conscience
through her, paces as to the real source
of his dislike to the idea of his compete -
ion's taking advantage of that introduc
lion which he himself has been the
means — however unwillingly—oe pro-
curing for him. It is true that Byng's
mother had adjured him, with tears in
her eyes, to preserve her boy from unde-
sirable acquaintances; but can he, Bur-
goyne, honestly say that he looks upon
Elizabeth Le Merchant as an undesirable
acquaintance for any one? The result of
his investigations is the discovery of how
infinitesimal a share in his motives re-
gard for his young friend's welfare has
had. The discovery is no sooner made
than lie acts upon it.
"My deo boy," he says—and to his
credit says it heartily -9 see no earthly
reason why you should not go; you
could not matte nicer friends."
"Then why will not you come too?"
asks Byng, with boyish generosity.
The other shakes his head. "They had'
much miller 1 stayed away; they have
token me en grippe."
eleeohl NorSensel You fancy I"
"I think nor—speaking slowly end
thoughtfully—"I am not a fanciful per-
son, nor apt to imagine that my acquain-
tances bother their heads about me one
way or another; but when people ley
their best, in the first instance, to avoid
recognizing you at abb, and on every
subsequentoccasion endeavor to disap-
pear as soon as you come In sight, 11 ±8
not a very forced assumption that they
are not exaatly greedy for your society."
This reasoning is so close that Byng
is for the moment silenced; and it Is the
other who shortly resumes:
"1 think it is because I remind them of
the past; they have evidently some un-
pleasant 'association of Ideas with that
pest. 1 wonder wed, 11
The latter clause is addressed more to
himself than to Dyng.
"Perhaps some of them have died, or
come to grief, and they are afraid of your
asking after them," suggests 1110 younger
man.
"On the contrary—they are all—one
more flourishing than another."
"Well, I would give them one more
trial, anyhow; I am sure they would
come round. Give (bern time, and I are
sure' they would come round!" cries
Byng sanguinely; adding, "What could
have been pleasanter than Mrs, Le Mare
chates manner when you presented her
to Miss Wilson?"
The mention of Miss Wilson recalls to
Jim. the extremely unpleasant moment
of that presentation. thus brought back
to him—the moment when Amelia had
looked so middle-aged, and Cecilia so
fleshy—molls lo him also the convic-
tion that tins been growing upon him
since yesterday, of the more than wis-
dom, the absolute imperative duty on his
part, of nvoiding a repetition of that
comparison which lind forced itself upon
hie notice in the church of San Mininto.
"You had better Jenne," persists Bing
still, like a magnanimous child holding
out half his cake to his friend: whether,
liko the smile child, with a semi -hope that
it may be refused, or whether, on the
other hand, it may have crossed les
Mincl that, where there are two visitees,
the chances o -f a tete-a-tele are Improved
by there being also two visitors.
"My dear boy," returns Jim, this time
with a testiness handsomely streaked
with irony, "you are really too obliging;
but, even if I wished it—which I do oot—
or oven if they wished it—which they do,
not—it is in this case gone JIIIPOSSib10,
88 I am engaged to go shopping with
Amelia."
Probably (he blew is not a icnock-rlown
One to Byng; at all events he bears the
rebuff With his habitual healthy good
temper, and goes all to put 011 a Smarter
the Burgoyne, thinking no ,Such ini-
peovernent In his toilette necessary,
strolls away to the Anglo-A=6mM.
It is true that he hes covenanted to es -
cert. Amelia to the shop for Centagalli
ware, though there is no particular rea-
Sele why, had Ire so wiencd 11, the nor -
obese of the dinner Melee that Is to
goo their IrinySwiller symposia might
not have been deferred. for twenty-Iour
hours; end, indeed, es things turn out,
it has to be 50 deferred.
As he bpens the dooe.et the Wilson'e
-silting-roam, Ills futtlee Who -in-law
brushes past him, eviler evident signs of
cliscompesure ell Oyer his Clerical figure
anti epeettieled thee; and on entering, he
finds equal, if not superior, marks 0( 11(1-
801 etffiallinlity do lite coliniebalteee Of
three women that are the roettee
THE SOVI EIGN IAK OF CANA A
OFFICE OF THE 2nd =13 -PRESIDENT AND GENERAL, MANAGER.
To the Shareholders,
The Sovereign Bank of Canada.
We have pleasure in enclosing herewith elelement of the Bank's position as at the close of the fiscal ball -year,
aiding &1st. Oetober, together with comp:rave statistics for the past five years. The figures require no special expel-,
nation, and wo feel sure the progress mil stability which they indicate will [lifted the proprietors and friends of tne
Bank complete satisfaction,
The Bank's American and Foreign business has now attained considerable Importance. Our connections abroad,
as well es our facilities at home, melee us to handle 13r1tIsh, Continental and American transactions entrusted to us
130 a favorable besis, and the results GO far have been satisfactory to all concerned.
Our principal business is, at course, confinoeto Canada, and is coneentrated In the provinces of Ontario and Quebcn,
which long experience hes proven to be the safest territory In the Dominion fel' the conduct of a general and com-
mercial banking business. In these two provinces the Dank has 55 branch es and 22 nub -offices, the latter being
managed from central points, and in some instances open only ewe or three days e week. We have not yet opened
any branches in the North-West, as c =petition there seems to bo unusually keen, but with the undoubted• progress
which the onuntry is making, these conditions will probably tight themselves later 00, and In the meantime wo have
very satisfactory banking arrangements far lbe conduct of our business threughoue that territory.
The capita) of the Bane ($4,000,000) will be fully paid up In a few months, and it is a source ol great satisfaction
le knew that our shambeiders number nearly 1,200 and include some of the most powerful financial people in the
world.
The' Sovereign Rank is at present the eighth largest chartered bank In Canada In point of capital, Its assets
amount to .$25,343,401, a large part If which are "liquid," and the continued growth of deposits testifies to the Poen-
lolly of lid institution throughout he country.
Tho Note Circulation shows an advance of 83 per cent. over last year, and both the Circulation and Deposits have
increneed materially since the present statement was compiled.
The past half-year is the best the Bank has ever had, and we have every reason to think that the current half-
year will be at least es good, —
Your obedient servant,
Montreal, 10111 November, 1009,
D. M. STEWART,
General Manager.
lebte,F-YEARLY STATEMENT
31st October, 1906.
Capital Stock paid up $3,042,710.00
,Reserve Fund and Undivided
Profits .... 1,335,847.22
Notes of the Bank cir-
culation . • .. ....... 2 850 675.00
Deposits Payable on De- ....... ,
mend „... $5,685,121.09
Deposits Payable after No -
tine ... 9,893,508.66
15,578,019.75
Other Liabilities ........ 1,635,249.15
$er"3/3' 401 19
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ASSETS
Gold and Silver Coin cm
hand .... .... • . $ 538,989.53
Dominion Govermnent Notes
on hand .... ...... 1,121,447.00
Notes and Cheques of
other Banks 1,155,304.09
Balances with Bankers .. 1,101,101.00
Cash Assets
fetish Deposited with Do-
minion Government for
Security of Note Circula-
tem ..- ••• • • • •
Plovineffil Government and
other Securities
CAR end Short Loans Se-
curel by Bonds, etc. ....
Cournocial Loans, (lessee.
ba le of in ercst) ....$
Bunk Premises, Real Es-
tate, Sates, etc. ••
Other Assets
83,916,842.57
80,000.00
1,612,831.16
4,614,067,00
010,223,740.73
14,640,510.40 •
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473,837.57
5,312.42
15,119,660.39
$25,343,401.12
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
31st
Octo- Capital
ber Paid-up
1902 $1,173,478
1903 1,300,000
1904 1,300,000
'1905 1,610,478
1906 3,942,710
LIABILITIES.
Reserve Fund
and Sovereign
Undivided Bank Notes Deposits.
Profits ;n Circulation
$ 240.000 $ 750,905 $ 1,631,730
362,838 1,237,650 4,309,432
420,373 1,284,810 7,106,741
523,461 1.550,700 10.134,209
1,335,847 2,850,675 15,578,920
D. M. STEWART,
Gen Oral Manager.
ASSETS.
31st Cash on Hand Bonds
Octo- and Debentures, Loans at
ber at Bankers etc. Call
1002 $ 313,097 $ 430,363 $1,630,109
1003 622,774 713,397 1,747,342
1904 1,214822 672,034 1,179.540
1905 1,491,398 701,153 1.569,144
1006 3,910,342 1,612,831 4,614,067
Commercial
Loans
and Discounts
$ 1,358,469
4,074,048
3,014.123
9,578,850
14,640,510
31st
Ode-
ber
1902
1003
1904
1905
1906
GENERAL.
Excess of
Assets over
Total Assets Liabilities
to the Public
$ 3,855,203 $1,413,478
7,209,91 1,032.838
10.201,954 1,720,373
13 818,938 2,133,939
25,343,401 5,278,557
N. B.—This Bank commenced D.
business 1st May, 1902.
Branner. and
No. 01
Sub offices Shareholders
17 757
28 810
42 854
53 1004
78 1195
11 STEWA.TIT,
General Manager.
pants. Over ihe woocl fite—Sybilla
alternately roasts and -freezes her fam-
ily, and this Is one of her roasting days
--Cecilia is stooping, in evident search of
some object that has been committed, or
tried to be committed, to the flames, The
other two are looking on with an air of
vexed interest. Sybilla is the first to ad-
dress hint.
"You have appeared at a. not very
happy moment," she says, with a sigh;
"wo have been leaving a family breeze;
it has sent my temperature up nicely!
11 15 100, 100, Point 2."
The mention .of Sybille's temperature
Is always enough to put Jim in a rage.
11 15 therefore in no very feeling tone
that he returns:
"If it were 1,000, Point 99, I should not
be surprised, in this atmospheret Good
helvye?n,s, Cis, are.not you hot enough al-
iThe young lady thus apostrophized
rises, with some precipitation, and with
a very heated complexion, from her
knees, holding In her hand, however, the
object of her quest—a rather charred
small parcel, done up in white paper,
and with a fragment of white ribbon
still officering here and there to R.
"Father behaves so childishly," she
says, with irritated unclutifulness.
'You must own that it was enough to
provoke him," Strikes in Amelia's mild
"iiteh
'erat was enough te provoke birn?
How has lie shown his childishness? For
Heaven's sake, some of you explain 1"
cries Jim itnpatiently, looking from ono
to the other,
But will) this request none of the three
or/Pears in any hurry to comply. There
is a distinct pause before Cecilia, seeing
that neither of her seniors shows any
signs oi relievlog her of the burden of
explanation, takes that burden upon her-.
seke feet is," she Says, setting her
little rescued packet on the table beside,
endnslv)eogoidipnirmto
n,Itiling tefanl‘iveitisoeni1 v
lf, , "%s
tliant
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engaged, hes chosen to marry. 1 am
sure—with a shrtig—"no one has the
least desire to deny his perfect, right lo
do so; and this morning there arrived
by post a bit of his wedding cake I I
suppose lie meant, it, civilly; but father
chose to tette it, es an insult to himself,
and, thotigh
it was addressed to 1110, 110
threw 11101.0 the De. I tint very fond of
wedding cake; so, as soon ne father's
back was turned, I fished it out agniril"
JIM laughs, with more vigor perhaps
111'4'13nrallv°0i',riCtellatt"lYtel8uentliteeenta' real philoso•
pherl We might an learn a lessen from
you."
"What, have yen dorm with yeur 10(90
friend'?" aslcs Sybilla, ineseeny,
"Amelin, dear, this couvrepled is Slip.
ping oft 010 egehl. What a sympathetic
Voice he 1081 1 tun tere he bee beee
great deal with. Molt people'
"I left him putting on his best tie to
go out calling. Nee calm yourself, Ce-
cilia, not on you; 11 18 not your turn to-
day."
"Whose turn is it, then?" asks the girl,
with an intere.st, not et all blunted by the
mortifying incident of the cake, which,
indeed, she has begun to nibble with
apparent relish.
Jim hesitates a second—a second dur-
ing which it strikes him with a shock
that he already finds a difficulty in pro-
eauncing Elizabeth Le Merchant's name.
Ile metope. to evade the necessity even
now by a circumlocution.
"1 believe (118•the,Piazza d'Azeglio
upon which that luminery is to shine."
"Is he going to see that lovely crea-
ture tq whom you introduced me yester-
day?". cries Amelia, with good-natured
enthusiasm. "I beard her telling him
that, she lived in the Piazza d'Azeglio.
Oh, JIM, how pretty she isl One ought
to pay tfoe being allowed to look at her."
Many women, whose plainness 18 in-
contestable, ere able to be just to their
better-faveree sisters; but Amelia is
more than just—she is lavishly generous.
Burgoyne rewards her with en affec-
tionato look—a look such as would make
her swear that, besides Miss Le Mer-
chant, es beside Dumain's fair love,
"jeno but, an Etbiop were!"
"She looks es if she lied had a his-
tory; that, always improves a woman's
appearance," says Ceciliapensively,
holding a fragment of the fateful cake
suspended in air, and regarding it with
a melancholy eye, "Has she?"
"I never asked bor."
"Why did not you go too?" inquires
Amelia, judiciously striking in, as is her
habil, ns often as she perceives that her
younger sister is begiening to get too
obviously upon her own fiancee's nerves;
a catastrophe which something in ihe
tone of his last remark tells her—
thotigh she does not quite Understand
Wily it should—ls imminent, "They are
old Mends of yours, ate not (heel They
may be 11011 11 they nod that a perfect
stranger like Mr. Beteg is in 0 greater
hurry to visit, them than you are." •
Before Burgoyne's motel vision rises
a picture of 1311zabelles heavenly eye
wandering indifferently otT1' the dear old
friend's shoulder to find lis home In that
of the perfect stranger. But he says
kindly, and Oen pit:equity:
"Why did not I go too? Because 1
eves ender the Impression that 1 was en-
gaged to go with relater lovely being
to choose crookety, was I not? AM I
11017"
Atnella's answer is conveyed by a aete
les of nods and winks executed behind
her sisters" • baelre, Which 110 presently
uncierstende to imply that alio dolree a,
private interview, 1bis not immolletely
that 110 grope what :she IS driving at,
since dentb-Sliew is often puzzling 10 the
person at whom 1110) alined, though clear
as day to the dumb -shower. As soon
however, as he master's what her wish.
is, he hastens to comply with it; and
five minutes later finds them tete-a-tele
In the hideous little dining -room which
had been the scene of their reunion, and
of many after -meetings.
"1 could not say so, of course, before
her,' remarks Miss Wilson, as soon as
they are out of earshot, or she might
have insisted upon my going. She is
very unselflsh sometimes; but the fact
is, I do not think I ought to leave Sybilla
again to -day. You see, she was alone
the whole of yesterday afternoon; and
when we eame back we found her in a
very low way. She had been rending
her book of prescriptions which she hes
bad for the last ten years bound up to,
gelher—and wo rather dread her bring-
ing ie out, as she always fancies she is
going to have the disease prescribed
I°1:"Al:InlidniP
,ailr'
after all, happiness ought not to
make ono selfish, ought it?" sive Amelia,
with a gentle sigh of abnegation, as she
ruffles her pale -haired head against his
oat sleeve. 9 have so much of you
now—oh, so muchl—not to speak of—"
"Cecilia, of course, is incapacitated by
grief 7" interrupts Jim brusquely. "She
mountains like another fair ono. But
your father? He will be at home, will
will be going up and down upon the
he not?"
"Yes, he will be at home," replies
Amelia, slowly and doubtfully, as if not
finding a very satisfactory selution in
this suggested arrangement; "but, as you
know, it never answers to leave father
and Sybilla alone together ter long.
You see, be •does not believe there is
anything the matter with her; he thinks
that she is as well as you or Ie (a gosh
of warm feeling towards his father -111 -
law rushes ever Jim's hook "and
though he trio to prevent, 'himself from
showing 11 10 her, yet) em dried, poor
Oar, that he is not very suceossful,"
lint laughs.
"And to -day," continues Amelia, "he is
naturally a good deal upset abou
01115, end the( wedding calm; it was very
impertinent to send it, was not it, though
she does not eeem 10 sec 117 .1 holm" --
with a wistful smile, and e repetition o4
tho fond friction 01 101' head against his
sleeve --"that when you throw me
This is a hypothesis, suggested with
perhaps unwise frequently by pecte Nese
Wilson, which bevel' idle to exasperate
Jim,
"11 we ore going to tall( nonsense," he
breaks 111 brusquely, and With no at.
tempt to return or reward her Caressing
gesture, "1 may as well go."
(To ba continued).
The onl,y way to life is to lay lift
down,
"CATCITINO COI.D" AND 1 IOW TO
AVOID IT.
Tho pneumonia season has set in, and1111'vest.(1l'tse,
viletest.disense, one of the most deadly of '
nib, bus bullun to reap Its annual
If people coulee only get the supersti-
tion out of their heads that pneumonia,
ani its invariable precursor, a "cold,"
are due to colci ale and draughts, the
death rate from "colds" could be Out
down In a week to almost nothing.
Never was there a more destructive
misnomer than calling the fever which
does so much harm a "cold." *
As a matter of fact, a "cold" is not
due to cold at all, but to overheating
the skin and a lack of fresh air in the
lungs. People put on heavy woollen
underclothing, sit in a room heated to
the temperature of Mid -summer, perspire
freely, thus opening their pores ; the
moisture Is prevented by the wool from
evaporating and leaving the skin cool
and dry and remains on the surface thus
rendered sensitive. Then they go sud-
denly out into the colcl air, which in -
sternly chills the moist and open pores,
drives the blood away from Inc surface,
creates an internal congestion that de-
ranges all the organs, and a levo fol-
lows. This, of course, affects the mu-
cous membrane from within, and the
membrane, which hes been dried and
baked in the overheated room, and thus
made a lodging for the dangerousmi-
crobes bred in foul and oxygen -exhaust-
ed air, cannot resist, the attack through
the blood and becomes an easy prey to
the microbes from without.
Then there is suffering and, too often,
pneumonia and death.
A European once a.sked a Canadian
Indian who wore nothing but a loosely
wrapped blanket in the northern win-
ter, whether he would not take cold. •
"Cold?" replied the Indian, scornfully.
"White man not cover his face—white
man's face not cold? No? Indian all
face!"
That is the secret of immunity from
colds and pneumonia. 138 all face—that
is, do not wear heavy underclothing but
heavy outerclothIng which you can re-.
move in a warm room, breathe plenty of
fresh oxygenated air, and you can lough
the draughts to scorn, will find the out-
door cola much more easily bearable and
can gradually reduce the temperature of
your home and your 'office to the Euro-
pean standard. So shall you escape
pneumonia and premature death.
.1*
THE SICK ROOM.
Keep bottles as far as possible out of
sight.
Never leave medicine, drink or food
uncovered in the sick room.
Have the bed a loot or two from the
wall.
Note, of ventilation, but no air flow-
ing directly on the patient.
Everything fresh and clean, with the
quest of soap and plenty of warm wa-
ter.
Elleb ffisease requires a
peculiar diet of les own.
Tobacco shuuld never be used in tho
sick room.
Use kindness, but firmness, toward the
pa lien t.
To assuage thirst and cure levet-tete
ness, apple tea is a notable sick chine,
IL is made by 'slicing up raw apples »no
a 3.g, tilling up the jug with. boiling
water as in tea-malcing, then sweeten-
ing to taste. When cold this apple tea
will be found pleasingly tart and re-
freshing.
Nowadays Odors forbid gouty pa-
'lents to eat any kind of sweet food, but
recommend them to eat, at least a dozen
walnuts a day. There is no doubt thee
walnuts are most useful in chronic:
rheumatism. Swelling goes down and
pain decreases.
SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BABY.
In Spain the infant's face is swept
with a pine bough to bring good leek.
In Ineleod a belt or woman's Oslo is
placed about the child to keep harm
away. Garlic, salt, bread, and steak
are put into the cradle of a new-born
babe in leffiland. The Grecian mother,
before' puttin9 her child in the cradle,
turns three times round before the fire
while singing her favorite song, to ward
on evil spirits. The Turkish mother
loads her child with amulets es soon as
it is born, and a small bit of mud,
steeped in bot wale:, prepared by pre-
vious charms, is stuck on its forehead.
At the birth of a child in Lower Brit-
tany, the neighboring women talce it in
charge,
wash it, crack its joints, nod
rub itshead with oil to solder the ere-
nium bones; it is then wrapped in a
tight bundle, end its lips are anointed
with brandy to make it a full nreton.
In the Vosges, pedant children born at
the new moon ere supposed to have
tongues better hung than others, while
those born at the lest quarter are sup-
posed to have less tongue 1.1111 better
1.088011111g powers. A daughter- bat%
during the waning 1110011 15 always pre-
cocious,
SOLDIERS LIKE HOSPITALS.
Soldiers all the world over, are very
much given to Annie:ling sickness. Al-
though chosen carefully tor Moir pity -
stoat soundness, they spead three or
'feta' times ns inany dive in the sick-
room as the average working man ef
the eame ego. In the British Army at
home, the average nember el sick days
for each soldier was over sleteeu when
rIffie Billings Compiled his stalislics on
this point a couple of years ago. The •
only while soldiers who have a WOVS0
sielmess reoord titan this, are the French
with seventeen days, and the British
iroops in India, with TIO tower than
2034 days each per annum. rielgian
troops aro less fond of hospital life than
any ethers, but they ilre PIM MOUS/
010S0 by ilio Pritssinns-1034 to 11y,
dints respec lively, Colored troops ben t
ell white soldiers in this Metter. The •'"'
colmed trope- of North India
put in nearly nineteen days' ibilarso per
maim, and Ilia 411tyriel Alen or Ira ,
North African 13rittsh Army twenty.
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