The Brussels Post, 1908-9-24, Page 3NOTES AND COMMENTS
`I'ainte0 wiletaey from the viowpo
of Warren W. Iiilditclr of Yale u
versify means money with imeter
13e used the most soiled money.
could obtain from railroad, troll
and theatre ticket offices, banl
drug stores, and individuals. So
bills were more worn than othe
soft,
r cracked, a Rd soiled, lyItll fr
ed edges, Tho numbers of bacte
present in the bills ranged fr
14,000 to 580,000, with an avera
for twenty-one bills of 142,0
There seemed to be no eonneeti
between the amount of dirt and t
number of bacteria present, T
cleanest bill he used had next
the highest count, 4.03,000. The b
that looked most soiled had but 3
000. Wi1en a bill has been in ci
oulation for a short time and h
become cracked and its peculi
glaze worn off, the bacteria easi
elrng without the presence of di
and grease. He inoculated guin
pigs, but none of thein gave an
indication of even temporary it
nese. Mr. Hildritch dons not b
lieve that soiled money is dange
ous as a transmitter of disease. He
thinks that money constitutes an
unimportant factor in the transmis-
sion of disease, But he does not
regard his experiments as conclu-
sive. In order to obtain any eon-
elusive evidence on this point it
would be necessary to make a care-
ful study of hundreds or even
thousand bills from hospitals an
piivate sick rooms, drug stores,
and various other sources. A bank
teller said ; "If one stops to think
money can't be a common means o
transmission, for if it were ther
wouldn't be so many of us alive to
day; the escape from sure death o
those whose duty calls for the con
etant handling of money is certain
ly not merely due to chance."
Do rats bring plagues? The as-
sociation between the two is an
ancient observation. The dissem-
ination of plague by rats formerly
was recognized even more than at
the present day, and decided views
were held, particularly about those
animals closely associated with
man. Not only rats, but dogs,
fowls, and pigs, were held to be
agents in spreading disease. When
plague prevailed in Europe these
animals were as much inmates of
the house as,tho people themselves,
and it was observed as it is in
southern China to -day, where the
same conditions prevail, that dur-
ing epidemics of plague the rats,
fowls, pigs, and cattle sickened and
died, which was attributed to
plague. The observation became
so general that they formed a bas-
is for certain orders in regard to
the suppression of the plague,
Ev•ry European country has in its
old orders concerning the checking
of plague epidemics instructions to
the inbabitant_s under certain pen-
alties to kill domestic animals or
to keep them confined to the house.
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fhas been largely of the former type
uf thinking. It has been pessimis-
tic. It has seemed to think it nee-
- essary to prove the goodness of God
f by establishing the utter badness
of man and the moral character of
the universe. It has relegated God
to some far off heaven and left this
world to the tender mercies of the
devil,
After all, each makes his own
world. The doctrine of the total
depravity of humanity is ground-
ed in the common dyspepsia of theo-
logians. We read into our outer
world the colors of the world with-
in. The heart turning over iniqui-
ty, brooding over real and fancied
sins, looks out and the fair scene
is changed to gloom, the cloud of
s'n rests over all.
Yet it would bo hard to do a
OPTIMISM VS. PESSIMISM
It Is Better to Laugh at Our Miseries Than to
Mourn Over All Our Circumstances.
"And God, saw everything that
111 made, and hobold, it was gond."
--Sammie i„ 31.
It would be a strange world in
which pleasure and piety did not
go hand in hand. Appreciation
brings delight because it is a duty
and it is a duty because it briugs
delight. He is doing good to this
world who is finding ail the good
there is in it, who is cultivating the
power to see the good where others
often see only ill.
Optimism, even that perverted
tepc.whieh blinks rnany of the facts
is bettor for this world than the
deur pessimism that dooms all
things to perdition, crying out that
the race is in a headlong career to
ruin and misery.
It is the duty of every man to
make this world as bright, as hap-
py and as good a place to live in
ae he can. No man has a right to
nurse a grouch against the uni-
verse, for he cannot keep it to him-
self. A sour disposition never is an
individual affair; it becomes soci-
al ; it saturates the thinking of
others.
There are two broad ways of
thinking of life and the universe.
One is to determine that man is set
down in a wholly bad world, where
all things fight against his good,
where all his fellows are worthless
and Ms own nature is depraved.
The other is to find and foster the
good in life and to believe that
throngh all purposes of good, far
beyond our dreams, are working
out.
PROFESSIONAL RELIGION
WHY WE SLEEP.
A Scientist Says It is Because of
Daylight and Darkness.
If it were always daytime, we
should never sleep. So says a sci-
entist. There is no particular rea-
son why we, or any other animals,
should rest, on an average, eight
et nine hours a day. The period of
rest has been determined by the
fact that eight hours is the aver-
age time when there is a lack of
sufficient light to enable us to move
about in comfort.
This most fundamental distinc-
tion between day and night is whol-
ly relative to the sense of sight. It
only affects those types of life which
have developed eyes.
Plants, being dependent for their
growth upon the action of rays of
sunlight which fall upon their
leaves, have a wide distinction be-
tween digest in the Light, and grow
during the hours of darkness.
The lowest forma of animal life -
the sightless denizens of ocean
depths -do not rest at regular in-
tervals, They prowl round inces-
santly, seeking prey by the sonso
of touch alone, When they rest,
it is at ' irregular periods, In
other words, theyhave no distinct
periodicity of their own.
But as anon as eyes are developed
andin proportion to this develop-
ment, animals begin to divide their
time itrto two main portions ••-- a
waking and a sleeping time. While
there is light they perform all mo-
tive functions; when darkness
oumes they retire to neat or lair
to rest,
Too often a piano stool is the scat
ti discord,
A clever women; can take any old
ta'Ing eat' make something new'ant
Of, if
greater wrong, both to ourselves
and to our fellows, than this of giv
Mg up hope and setting our faces
toward despair, These silent son
tomes we pronounce on our world
g., a long ways toward sealing its
doom. We live aeeorcling to our
faith and our way of living deter-
mines the character of all life.
No matter how dark the day it is
our busieess to find some cheer, no
matter how our faith in our !allows
may be tried it is our duty to seek
cut the good in them, and no mat-
ter how strange the ways of life
may seem' still to trope on for their
issue in good, in the fulfillment of
purposes perhaps too high for our
present understanding.
STEP OUT INTO THE LIGHT,
DANGER IN BEING ALIVE
TUIERI"] I%S NO PLACE OF ABSO-
LUTE SAFETY.
Staying at home is One of the
' Most Dangerous '1'llCego
to Do.
It has often been said that the
safest place nn earth is not on earth
. at all, but in the cable of ail At-
lantic liner, Tlnfox•tunately, we
can't inake it convenient to spend
our time in the cabins of Atlantic
liners, says London Ideas. What
is the use of telling a thing like
that to a father of six with $5 a
weelr, or to a nervous dressmaker
who is subjeet to seasickness, or to
a tottering old apple woman with
e, stiff kg and a dread of motors?
A local councillor recently de-
clared with enthusiasm that the saf-
est place in Birmingham was the
inside of an electric tramcar. Soon
afterward there stere two electric
tramcar accidents in Birmingham
which killed several people. This
somewhat weakens une's confidence
in the tramcar as a refuge from
danger.
A later authority claims that the
greatest security for life and limb
is found in church: But this is do-
nied by scientists, 'who find that
churchos aro thronged with the
deadliest microbes and are more
frequently struck by lightning than
other sort of buildings. And now
somebody recommends the British
Museum as a sanctuary where you
are least likely to come to a violent
end.;
There is something verylpathebie
it this eager anxiety of a terrified
human race to ascertain the safest
place on earth. It indicates the
haunting sense of insecurity that
people carry -about with them.; the
growing consciousness that they^,are
not merely here and gone to -mise -
row, but here one minute and gun'
the next.
The chief factor of the twentieth
century existence which is recogniz-
ed by everybody is that
there always is a patch somewhere,
Fix your thought on the good in
others, there is always much if we
would but look for .it. Live as
though this world were ordered in
love, with law working out purpos-
es of the highest good, and life it-
self will give you the reward of
faith, the good you yourself believe
in.
Faith in. God is just faith in good-
ness; to believe that there is a Fa-
ther of us all must mean to believe
that he is the father of every good
desire, every high thought, every
worthy purpose, that the best in us
is but the faint, far off reflection of
the good in him, and therefore that
this world, the world and home of
his family, is being ordered, gov-
erned for the best good we know
and for the good that lies beyond
cur ]snowing.
Some people have a good deal
more faith in the devil than they
have in their god; they think of the
world as having been made good,
hut somehow the evil one got the
best of the situation and has ever
since succeeded in making it whol-
ly evil.
Believe the best and the best
shall be. The facts always answer
back to our faith. Life always be-
comes what we believe it really is.
The good of all comes from the high
faith and high living of those men
and women who believe ever that
goodness is greater than badness,
that love is better than hate, that
the universe is not made to mock
us, but to make us and to make us
after the pattern of infiinite affec-
tion.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL, LESSON,
SEPT. 27.
Lesson XIII. Temperance Lesson.
Golden Text, Prov. 20. 1.
Verse 11. "Woe" -This occurs as
the introductory word to six pro-
phecies against various forms of un -
righteousness. Taking a similar
denunciation in Isa. 10. 1, 2 as pro-
bably originally belonging here, we
have seven, the complete number;
each one being the abstract of what
was probably extended oration.
(Compare Jesus's denunciation in
Matt. 23.) The first is directed
against grasping land -owners (verse
8). This us aimed at drunkards
and their neglect of God's real
values. The other sins referred to
are various, but behind them all is
the background of avarice, indul-
gence, and drunkenness.
Early in the morning -The last
stages of slavery to drink. The
morning brings no remorse for the
dissipations of the night. Peter
testifies to the uncommonness of
drinking early in the day (Acts 2.
15).
Strong drink -A mixed liquor
composed of the fermented juice:
of several fruits and often with
spices added to give it increase -
strength:
Wine - From the juice of the
grapes.
12, For a picture of the bacchana:
lien feasts common at this time see
Amos 6. 3-6. Music and dancing
accompanied the feasting and
drinking. These festive meals had
once had a religious meaning, now
they were degraded, though Je-
hovah was still formally honored in
them. This made the wickedness
more intense (compare 1 Cor. 11.
20-34).
18. Gone into captivity---Johovah's
punishment took its form in the
prophet's mind from the impending
invasion of. Judah by Assyria, which
was finally to result in actual cap-
tivity. Toa Jew no punishment
could be worse.
Famishod . , and parched with
thirst -An appropriate figure which
carries. out the idea of craving for
intoxicating drink. Thirst is the
over present onoruy of all dwellers
on the border of the desert.
14. Sheol -The after world. It
corresponded in. the Hebrew's mind
le the Greek Hades and was not
alone the place of punishment for
the wicked, but included the sha-
dowy, vague existence of everyone
after death. The sharply donned
ideas of the next life, which wore
current in Jesus's time, hacl not
been developed as yet. )'reach is
here pictured as a devouring beast
which "hath opened its mouth
without measure."
15. The mean man .. . the great
man -The distinction of classes
does not appear in the Hebrew
words, simply two synonyms for
"man" are used. The contrast is
between the debasement of all man-
kind and the exaltation of Jello-
vah of hosts.
16, Exalted - Isaiah has been
called the most regal of all the pro-
phets and his vision of Jehovalh is
always majestic and lofty (Isis. 6.
1). God's elevation must be a mor-
al one -it is in justice,
Sanctified -This term was relig•
bus rather than moral -indeed in
connection with the heathen rites it
often had an immoral meaning. The
sacred isolation of Jehovah and his
worship must be on the moral basis
of righteousness.•
17. The text is difficult in this
verse. The picture is of the site of
Jerusalem after her destruction,
used by flocks for pasture.
18. Draw iniquity with cords of
falsehood -Professor G. A. Smith
translates this "draw punishment
near with cords of vanity," and
says; "This figure of sinners jeer-
ing at the approach of a calamity
while they actually wear the har-
ness of its carriage is striking."
10. That say In mock fear of Je-
hovah and respect for his purposes.
The practical skepticism of disso-
lute scoffers is denounced here.
20. The fourth "woe," pronounc-
ed upon "them that call evil good,
and good evil." No condition was
more pitilessly decried by prophets
i.1 both the Old and New Testa-
ments than the perversion of the
moral sense which allowed sin to
enter undetected and even to be
paraded as righteousness( Matt. 6.
22, 23).
21. Wise in their own oyes -This
class receives the fifth woe. Com-
plaeency and self-satisfaction in the
midst of national and personal
danger called forth the lash of the
trorihet whose solution of all dif-
ficulties was faith in Jehovah alone,
22. Mighty to drink wine - The
sarcasm of this is scorching. All
the feats of valor of those heroes
wore done at their drinking boots.
Every other ambition was gone.
23. Justify -"Acquit," a judicial
terns. Verse 22 against drunken-
ness is now applied to drunken and
unjust judges; another of the most
common objects of the prophet's
wrath.
A bribe -The ingrained politeness
of the East led to the extensive
giviegg and taking of presents, so
that briber.
y was a constant slant temp.
talion.
Righteousness--Itatller ""justice"
or righteous cause. '.hhe rights of
the poor were disregarded by the
rpoddon representatives of justice.
WE ARE ALL IN A HURRY.
I have interrogated many people
with the object of finding out why
we are all in a hurry, but nobody
seems to know. If you Batch a man
and put the question to him blank,
he looks quite bewildered, and to-
tally unable to explain. I am ra-
ther sorry for this. They say every-
thing has a reason, and it is nice
to know the reason for things. But
the hurry of modern eivilizatioa
sems to be the only thing for which
no reason exists.
Let us, therefore, meekly accept
the fact that for some unexplained
Muse it is necessary that we should
work fast, walk fast, talk fast, eat
fast, live fast and die fast. A
stentorian voice yells out in our
ears, "Get on or get out." It is
the voice of progress. And if you
stop to expostulate with progress
down comes the electric, and you
are removed.
The need for hurry, while it
makes existence sornowhat uncer-
tain, has put ns on our mettle and
led to the adoption of many ingeni-
ous devices. At Hanley the other
day an errand boy, being anxious
to get on, affixed himself to the
back of a cart, he jumped off, a
motor ran over him. He was in a
hurry. So was the motor.
The striking lesson of this occur-
rence is that the passion for speed
has now become so universal that
even errand boys have caught it.
They no longer, as of old time, take
frequent rests during their jour-
neys to have a fight or a leisurely
game of marbles. They realize the
importance of getting there quick.
And if that boy had lived he aright
have grown up to be 'a champion
hustler and made a fortune on the
stock exchange. Unfortunately,
however, he died.
In 1000, an ingenious Frenchman
calculated that there were 17,000
different ways of getting off the
earth, I estimate that the advance
of civilization and progress has now
increased the figure to 52,000. Sta-
tistics prove that 1,700 people die
every year through swallowing
things such as pins, needles studs,
buttons, pieces of bone, unznasti-
cated meat and false teeth,
THIS IS DUE TO HURRY.
In London alone there are 4,000
street accidents per month. These
accidents arise almost entirely from
the anxiety of the populace to get
there quack. There is no other rea-
son why cabs, motors, bicycles,
carts, tramcars and parcel vans
should go dashing along hurling
pedestrians to right and left, cut-
ting off arms and legs, and filling
the hospitals with casualty eases.
I heard the other day of two men
hurrying to keep eu appointment
in the city. Ono was delayed by a
falling wire, which broke his col-
lar bone, and the other by a post -
office cart, which fractured his rib,
Happily, they are both recovering
and will be able to keep the inter-
rupted appointment in about six
weeks' time.
In order to keep up with the de-
mand, triumphant science is always
devising fresh apparatus to Savo
bine and acoolate speed,
Take oloctrioity, for example.
You frequently road ie the papers
that somebody has died suddenly
though toeclnng a live wire, Doe -
tors all agree that this is the ui -
g qck
est death over invented, And as
aleotrioiby now plays ao large it part land before,
i0 modern life it is satisfactory to ROOTS IN IlLe'NDALAY.
know that if any of us should hap NINE EIaI%I'If=t as Tia A tike•.
Tan 111 come in contact with a Jive But Faith/enable BOMB, Couldn't Huge Bag Made by Nene Dutch
tetre there is no delay. We are bur- Stand the Kind We Weer. off at top speed, It is quiekei• Renters in South Afrfca.
and more reliable than chloroform alley are wearing boots i11 Man- Tu secure a bag• of eighty-one We-
-a fact which apparently was not delay, Nut exactly 'our regular wheat; in those prosaic days will
known to the ellief actor of this Si quality now reduced to 83.40," seem like a dream to most sports -
tragedy, though these were common when soon, but the feat has just been ace
AI'tcr chloruforining awe cats a the 'met fever first "came up like complished by J, W. Viljoen and
thunder" ---the Hampstead artist killed him- under"---tbo way ldiings do come eight other Dutch farmers in the
pelf by the Rarlre means," up in Mandalay, according to Mr. Loruagendi district, Sara the Rho -
WI' are not told why the deceased Kipling. deals Herald. The Government has
Mar-
a! did it. Probably it was be- Birt it is a pleasure to learn from just thrown the district open for
Haase this age is in too great ahili- the liidinn World that there has, the destruction of elephants, and
ry to patronize art. Or it may be l,rrei1 a olrange in Mandalay foot- this enormous bag was made with
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that he was se worried by the data wear'. That authority admits that in sixty mhos of the aapftal of
ossrbilr of heing f bee and the endless
stated and
is, the emanei lthcdesia, and near the railway,
i u ing knocked down, lr comparatively well to do Z xlloen and his
party pitched
Blown up, or otherwise cut u( by Burman who can afford to think their camp at Maquadzio, the cen-
violence that he chose a safe ani about bis apparel -has taken per- tie of the elephant district, and di -
easy way mut of it. manently to boots. But he still shies vided up into pairs -a fact which
H agg uta trying
who go rush- ate nes the ugliness and the inappropri- nearly nod to a fatality, for going
ing tying to ascertain the s in his climate of Lurupeau through the bush Viljoen enemunter-
safest place un earth are cautioned clothes.
eci. his first elephant, which he shot;
hoainst the fallacy of staying at Ai few years ago it was a common As this fell another one erashod
home, tlriug at ceremonies in Burmese through the trees at the back of the
A DANGEROUS PLACE. E. houses to see men dressed in all hunter and pursued him, once strfk-
the glory of native costumes -silks mg the horse with his trunk until
Statistics prove that Mum is a of the most delicately beautiful Viljoen vueeeoded in ranching
dangerous place. Progress and the shades and of the most gorgeous clearer ground, where he found
desire to equip ourselves with con- hues -quite disfigured by a pair of himself thirty yards ahead of his
veniences have undermined home the biggest, blackets, dullest boots pursuer. Slipping off his horse, he
with deadly wires and pipes, gas and coarse stockings, always down fired at the elephant, and killed it.
that may explode and boilers that upon the ankles. But happily the One incident marred the sport,
may burst. And, agreeable to the Burmans have evolved a boot of and that was the accidental shoot -
demand for hurry, houses are now their own, shapely things in brown ing of a member of the party named
run up by the jerry-builder at such or white buckskin, which harmon- Eloff. Eloff and three companions
a speed that they are capable of ize very well with native clothes, paired off and walked at a distance
coming down with equal celerity: and they wear finely knit, appro- of about fifty yards apart, when
Walls or ceilings may collapse at a pr'ately colored stockings kept in Elea and Ms friend suddenly saw
moment's notice, chimney pots may place by suspenders. two elephants. They fired, but
crash through the roof, or the floor- only succeeded in shooting off a tusk
ing may subside and launch you "`!'-'- of one of the animals, who promptly
hurriedly into the cellar. Goose- DEVONSHIRE BEAUTY PRIZE. charged them. Eloff made in the
Conse-
quently, it is proved by figures that -- direction of the men in front of
you are a lot safer in an express Reared Seventeen Children on $3.75 him, and they, seeing the beast
train than at home. a Week. crashing through the bush behind
This assurance, however, has them and ignorant of Eloff's where -
bean somewhat shaken by the offs- Curious customs prevail in some ahouts, fired at the elephant and
ial report
on
is supposed ahrewsbory ac- English provincial towns, Holswor- while one bullet despatched the
c
to hays thy, in Devonshire, has just award- elephant, the other found a billet
been caused by the driver and fire- elits beauty prize under the terms in Eloff's neck, killing him instant -
man being asleep. The accident uf the will of a former rector of iy
occurred at 2 o'clock in the morn- the parish. The party came back to the
rng. The will states that £2 10s. Transvaal the richer for. 2,000
And --the.. n'restxon'inay occur to should be given annually to "the pounds of ivory and seven young
an inquiring 1010(1, why should some young single woman resident in elephants. The first one was cap -
.20, people have found it neeessu. y that parish being under 30 years tared when half grown. It was
to he hurrying to Shrewsbury at of age and generally esteemed by feeding with four grown elephants,
2 o'clock in the morning 1 At the t the young as the mostdeserving all of which were shot, and then
same moment there was probably and the most handsome and the the little one, instead of running
another train with 200 people bur- most noted for her quietness and away, made for the hunters two
r.}•ing away from Shrewsbury; and attendance at church," Miss Bas- of whom seized its tail, while the
imilar trains with thousands of I sett. the daughter of a hotelkeeper, 1 two others hung on. to each ear,
other people dashing all over the. is the young woman answering the and there was a tussle for half an
railways systems of the country. I requirements this year. hour, after which the elephant was
It seems curious that respectableThe rector also left a sum to be rolled on its back and its feet tied
citizens should want to go riding (paid to a deserving spinster not with the horses' reins. It was then
abort like tbis at such unholy hours I under 60. On the present occasion fastened to a tree, and the next
of the night, when they ought to be Holsworthy has an eligible spinster, day driven into camp. After a day
in bed. No time to go to bed. the first for three years. or two it became so docile that its
What a saddening thought! At Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, sev- attentions were rather a nuisance,
A week or two ago the sensation- eral farm hands have recently re- for it tried to tread on the hunters'
al 00508 was cablcd that the Mauro- ceived from the Lincolnshire Agri- tees, helped itself to all the avail-
tattle,had beaten by one minute the cultural Society prizes for bringing aisle food, and -would put its trunk
Lusitania s hest record for the long up families without parochial relief, into the cooking pots and take out
Atlantic course. The best record was shown by anything it fancied, while it would
The exciting event has been re- George Farmery, with 23 children follow the natives down to -the
ceived with a chorus of rejoicing, born and 17 successfully brought stream for a drink.
but, privately, I am not without up, The father never earned more On the record day twenty ele-
misgivings that this saving of min- than 15 shillings weekly, and thrif- phants were shot and two little ones
utes adds to the dangers of being ty Mrs. Farmery has had to answer captured ; Viljuen's unaided efforts
alive. One of these days the boast- shoals of enquiries from persons accounted for eighteen of the twen-
ed safety that is to be found in the curious to know how she did it. ty slain. These two elephants
cabin of an Atlantic Iiner will be ., speedily became docile., and now
sl.oilt by a loud bong, and the as- that all the captives are in a pro-
per kraal they have become quite
acclimatized to their new surround-
ings and are both playful and
friendly.
cording skywarcl with ail hands. SERPENT CURE EFFECTIVE.
TILE POPE'S WATCH. Doctor Swindled Ont of $100 by
Why Ile Would Not Part With a Woman Who Tried "Cure." ..
Buttered Timepiece. Novel crimes are occasionally
committed in Paris, as, for in -
Pope Pius X. carries at his girdle stance: An old gypsy woman called
an old watch of base metal, the face on a doctor living in the PIace
chipped, with a plain leather guard. Pierriere and asked him to visit her
He was looking at this watch the daughter, who was lying ill in a
other day when a Roman noble, caravan on the fortifications near
whom he had given an audience, by. "I have tried the serpent
produced his own richly chased and cure," she said, "but there was no
jeweled gold watch and begged the result. If you will allow me to pay
Pope to accept it in exchange for your fee in advance I shall be sure
the much worn. timepiece, which he you will come."
said he should regard as a price- The doctor consented, and the
less possession. The Pope gently cld woman handed him a $100 note.
declined. "It was a present from As he was getting the change out
my dear mother," he said. "I was of the safe she again mentioned the
quite a small boy when she gave it "serpent cure," and he asked her
to me with this vary same leather what it was. "This," she said, tak-.
guard I am wearing now, I prom- ing a box from under her rags, she
iced to keep it until it tW8.3 worn turned half a dozen snakes out on
rut beyond repair. It roost be a the floor,
good watch, for it has never dime.- The doctor was startled and rush -
pointed me yet." ed out of the room. When he re-
turned with a stick he found that
WISDOM DRIPPINGS. • the woman and the snakes had van -
The good either die young or grow iehed, while all the money in his
out of it. safe had also gone, He still held
Some people pot all their energy the $100 note in his hand, but this
into their smile, proved to be a forgery.
It's easy to think of the right ex-
cuse
x cuse at the wrong time.
Jealousy is a tree which bears FOR THE HOME GIRL,
nothing but bitter fruit. Housekeeping is an art which
Count your own faults before every girl who stays at home should
enumerating those of your neigh- study. The ,jzousekeeper must be
bur able to handle the money earned
The headache of a woman may by the bread -winner, practising the
be natural. but that of a man is economy which is, in its way, as
usually acquired• important as the actual earning of
Many girls get more pleasure out the income. ii good housekeeper
of talking of their clothes than in should have a practical knowledge
•wearing them. of marketing, catering, washing,
Tt's a sign of love, when a ,young ironing, and all other forms of
man squanders a• whole months housework. She may not have to
salary on an ongagement-.ring. do all these herself, but she ought
- to know bow they are done. There
SWISS PT.AG.UE OF LEECHES. aro many ways of looking at hoese-
Switzerland is suffering from a work. Some people regard it as
plague of leeches, which aro killing di udgery, while others bold it the
the fish in the lakes and rivers by most important feature in life. Both
thousands. In the upper course of these are wrong. To be a good
the Rhine, in the Aar, the Lakes of housekeeper need not mean a lot
Neufchatel and Constance, where of hard work; but there should be
the plague is most acute, thousands much satisfaction derived from the
of dead fish are seen floating on knowledge that everything is well
the water. They are covered with done, and that comfort and homeli-
leeches. Scores of men are cnga nese await the return of the wage
in gathering the dead fish and bury- earner. In cotelusi0n, 0 good
ing them, Swiss scientists cannot hdusekooper does not neglect her
aoeonnt for the plague, which has personal appearance. She must bo
never boon experienced in Switzer- always neat and tidy when work is
Clone,
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ALEXANDRA AT HOME.
Simple Everyday Life of the Queen
of England.
Few people can realize the com-
parative simplicity of the everyday
life of Queen Alexandra, especial-
ly' when in Scotland or at Sandring-
ham, While in Norfolk the .Queen
spends much of her timo in the open
air, walking, driving and doing
short expeditions in her motor car.
After breakfast she and one or
mere of the several ladies who may
be' staying in the arouse make an
expedition to kennels, stables and
poultry yard to feed and interview
the favorite dogs, horses and poul-
try of the establishment, In the
afternoon a drive is arranged, and
the evenings pass cheerily with
music, cards and conversation. Din-
ner at Sandringham is always at
8.45.
It may be mentioned that the roy-
al servants' liveries have a quaint,
old world appearance and are dif-
ferent in cut to those seen elsewhere
The coats are scarlet, made in the
swallowtail style, with dark blue
waistcoats edged by narrow gold
braid, The men wear no collars,
but have gold stocks. and white sa-
tin breeches and white silk stock-
ings complete their stately costume.
All the royal men servants are over
six feet in height,
The Queen is an indefatigable lot-
tex writer. She has been known to
NS rite as many as forty letters in
elle day with her own hand; and
Miss Knollys, her lackey in waiting,
often would get through a hundred,
all written under the Queen's per-
sonal supervision. Queen Ale.xan-
cis 's note paper is cream colored
and rather vntigh, with the royal
crown and address in dark blue and
of the simplest design,
During the shooting mason the
Queen 8006 a great deal of game
to her own particular friends, and
Gm hampers are labelled With the
Queen's compliments." At Christ-
mas time she often presents her in-
timates with a signed photograph
of ,herself 1n a silver frame, Queen
Alt`xendra is a been photographer
and has transferred soma of her
plietographs onto Aisle,