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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-9-9, Page 3CHILD'S COURT SESSION :UOW ENGLA.alle l'ltl)'1'i.craJIE]I YeLiNG PoOR'ts, ''Touching Scenes at Court—Kindly judge and "Somd of the A'riaouers. At any time a Pollee Court is a pitiful place, a site wherein aro poured the does of humanity, is kaleidoscope which reveals in ()hangs ing forms tiLe underworld of great cities and the darker aspect of life, says' true „London, Lngland, Mae. What shalt the say, then, of a Police Court for children, a tri- bunai where none but tittle boys .and girls stand up to answer for nlisdoeds? It ✓sounds terrible, Yet the reality, as I found it one after- noon recently at the Guildhall, was anything but that, It had its sordid and pathetic sides, but the chief impression left upon my mind by the first Children s Court held un- der the new act was an impresion of kindliness, of tenderness even, of sympathy, of wisdom, and of hope. It was singularly appropriate that Sir William Treloar, the "Children's Friend," should pre- side. He sat at two o'clock in a pleasant little roam known as the Alderman's Court, from which the public were rigidly excluded, and where sixragged morsels of hu- manity were; waiting to be. charged. Two little mites, one eleven, the -other only seven, came timidly for- ward hoaxing hands, and stood at the end of the long table Their •offence was "wandering," They stood glancing incuriously around, with the bright but interested eyes 4. .of animals, while their future was discussed: A MOTHTR' S TEARS. Their mother, a young woman. newly dressed, with a pretty blue-. eyed mite of two on her arm, said she kept bham from school for a' day or two 'beaus° they were tired." Her view was that they were out for a walk, If the law called it wondering she thought it very hard, and to say she didn tlook after her children was— "What do you say, Mr. Webster?" enquired the alderman gently. Whereupon the industrial schools officer of tie) London County Coun-. oil told how the seven-year-old had onoe before been charged, on which occasion the. Lord Mayor paid the family's rent. Butnow they were just as badly off again. He pro- osed that the elder boy should go bo an industrial school, "How would you like that?" asked the alderman. "He's a good boy, sir," the mother protested tearfully. "He'll be a better boy if he goes to school and learn a trade," was the kindly rejoiner. And it was set- tled so. As the mother, with the little girl on her arm and the younger boy clinging to her skirts, made her way out of court, the alderman quietly called an official to him. His hand sought Ids pocket: There' was a chink of "money, and I dis- tinctly heard the welds, "Give her that." Well, well, it's a hard, cruel world sometimes, but there are mo- ments when one sees it in a golden mist of warm-hearted charity, which is only _another word for love. Thomaa Taxman, seven, is a des- perate character.To begin with, Thomas has only one leg. A stal- wart constable, beside whom the child looked comically tiny, told. how he saw him begging. In fact,` he had frequently seen hien. So at last he ran him in. In bis pos- session were a sixpenny piece and ninepieoe halfpenny in coppers. ate is one of a family of eight, is Thomas. Father, a glass beveller, out of work for eighteen months. blether works all day making "patent firewood" and earns 'Ts. a week. Sister of fifteen makes 5s. Everything pawnable . already pawned. Even the soft -stuffing pulled out and sold for a few pence to buy bread and tea with. Par- ents vehemently disclaimed re- sponsibility for Thomas, Begging his own idea entirely (oh, Thomas!). But happier days are in store for Thomas. He is to go to a cripples' school. So the poor mite hobbles away and the big policeman smiles encouragingly, and he feels he has quite enjoyed his afternoon, A MERRY,RED HAIRED SHRIMP Last of all the oases came the only ons which actually fell under the provisions of the new act, A }'ed -haired shrimp of eight with a humorous, .irreliressible, obstinate little face was seen with his father. and a woman begging. They were arrested, and the father was sent to prison for two months, What was to become of the boy? A jolly little chap he was, on the friendliest terms with the the - htables; quite happy at the work- ouse, where they gave him cake end pudding and oranges; the sortof material that woold make a splendid heir Tar—merry,- sturdy telf-reliant, $ex aps that i What h . At any i tfine howlbccomo u ,tato he is to go to aloe! and be trained to do sbmething, 1 can tones plainly that these hildren's Courts are going to be or many children the first step bo a happy, healthy, medal, honorable life, We shall sieve them from their' surroundings ---just in time, oUUJiD Jun, Row One Wantan ' Dealt With OA Erring husband. Two )Harried women, who are very intimate friends and talk about the skeletons in their respootivo closets without reserve, were chat ting together recently. "I'm going to ask you," said the younger, "how you cured your hus- band of staying out late at night, I've soared Frank, reasoned with him, and scolded like a termagant, bplutain,it hes done no good, Re seems to think that if he's home for breakfast I have no right to conn "You can't expect, dear, that what will cure one man is a remedy for all, but this is how I dealt with Robert, Despite ell protests he had been staying out very late, but one night Dame home before twelve, I kept the door double-lockedand bolted, and always let him in. This night I asked him who was there, and ho answered brusquely enough, 'You're re mistaken, I replied, 'Mr. Latem never comes home thus early; You imitate his voice very fairly, but he never speaks so plain- ly at night. If y..0 don't go away I'l call a policeman.' "'Open this door,' he shouted. 'You know well enough who it is. Don't make fools of both of us.' "'Oh, dear 1' 1 exclaimed, in a voice of assumed terror, 'what shall I del Robert won't' be home before three.' Then I ran to the window and called for the police." rieee?„ "Yes, I did, and Robert heard me, He banged the door once or twice, swore several hundred weeds and then hurried dowel the street. When the police were 'there, and quite a crowd had collected, he came up though he had been pushed for time, eagerly inquired what was the matter, and congra- tulated meon getting rid of the untimely caller. Even after we were in the house he had the auda- city to . keep up the fiction of a strange man at the door, but he had the grace to say that his business was so arranged that he would not he detained at night any more, and would be home to, protect me. It was a brazen pretence he -made, but he. has kept his word." CURING SUNBURN. Oil is Not the Thing to Use, Says a Doctor. Most people seem to believe that oil will give relief in cases of sun- burn which are severe enough to need treatment. • "It is certainly high time," a dos - tor said the other day, "that per- sons suffering from sunburn should know that it is not going to do them any good to rover themselves with oil of any kind. What is need - or) is a cooling astringent. "An application of oil in any form will only serve to make the sunburn worse, yet in ulna eases out of ten it will be' oil in some form that a sufferer will apply, - Where greasy applications will cause the irrita- tion of stuiburn to continuo, a cool- ing astringent applied on a com- press will soothe almost immediate- ly" The sun has this year been blamed for other evils than sunburns. There has boon an impression that the actinic rays have been more powerful than usual and that they have caused much eye trouble, the sufferers being principally persons who wear glasses, "There bas`bece no increase in the sale of our colored glasses," said an optician in town, asked about the matter, "in spite of the talk about the actinic rays this awn - men There has not been a sum- mer in recent years without some story about the actinic rays and their bad consequences. "At one time people were wearing yellow glasses to counteraot their effect; one oculist gave his patients amethyst glasses, and ab another time the only kind of glasses that did any good were said to be violet glasses. But the people who kept on wearing their ordinary glasses seemed to have just as comfortable eyes as those that tried all these' novelties." NEW JACKDAW STORY. Gold Chairf and Locket Found on Telephone Wire, A gold chain and locket which were lost in Buckingham., England, a few days ago were recovered in a singular manner. A gentleman and his wife to whom the articles belonged were on a visit to Thernborough, and dur- ing a walk into Buckingham the jewelry was lost on the road, On Thursday morning, after :a prolong- ed search, what seemed to be the chain and locket were seen hang- ing upon a telephone wire. A ladder was obtained,. and as there was nothing to rest it against some men held it in a perpendicular po- sition while the lady's husband as- oended and unwound the chain from the wire, The "find" proved to be the lost treasure, The theory is that the articles wore picked up by a jackdaw which hlightecl on tite lelepbono wire and that the wind caused the chain to attic„ until it became wound round the wire. LIFE ON A DREADNOUGHT ROW JAO:IC TAR REIMS HIS SHIT' IN TRIM. Tho Navy Is no Phwo for a Shirker —Every 1Vlau Must do Elis Duty. headers afflicted with a desire for an extra minutes shut eyes" every morning should see the hands turn out in a man-of-war at half- peat five on a winter's clay! Five minutes before the pipe sounds the view between decks is blocked by hundreds of grey canvas hammocks, swung in regular rows from the low deck overhead. THE WAY 01? THE NAVY, Once you aro 'accustomed to it, a hammock is the most comfortable bed imaginable, especially' en a rough night, whee the ship is roll- ing heavily. In a bunk you must wedge your feet against ane wall and your back against the other to prevent yourself being hurled out; but a hammock, pendulum fashion, remains always vertical, and its fortunate occupant feels none of the ship's motion. Once the pipe has shrilled, there is no extra forty winks. In the Navy they have a way which is short and effective, if not altogether sweet, and the prospect of having their hammocks let down with a run on to the hard deck induces men to tumble out with alacrity. Five minutes after the "pipe" there is no sign of the decks having been menusedt. as one great sleeping apart - Ta. the energetic reader, getting up at half -past five on a cold win- ter's morning is no hardship, but I doubt if he then proceeds to the roof of his house and scrubs it down. That is where Jack has the disadvantage of him. With their trousers well rolled up, the men kneel in lines facing the bows, while tethers play the fire -hoses almost under the noses of their comrades. SQUEEGEEING THE DECKS, As an icy wave swirls up to them, iths men attack it manfully with squeegees—flat strips of rubber in wooden frames—scrubbing-brush- es, and "bricks." When one part of the deck is cleaned the kneel- ing line retreats, and the hose is played on the spot it has vacated, and so on, until the ship is clean from stern to stern. This scrubbing of the decks is a curious sight in the darkness of a winter's morning. The white glare of aro lamps falls upon .the bare- footed, white -clad sailors; kneeling in the swirling streams, and here and there an officer, or a stalwart figure with a hose, paddling son tentedly in the pools. The noise is well-nigh deafening, for Jack snakes a noise to keep himself warm and in the cabins, an inch or two below the brushes, sleep is impos- sible until one becomes accustomed to the din. - "Clean guns" follows the scrub- bing of the decks, and readers who have visited a man-of-war will rea- lize that this is no easy task. In a 12in. turret there is 'sufficient brass work to ornament a fashion- able hotel, and this has to be kept up to the "Navy" standard of brightness by come dozen men working for AN HOUR A DAY. Cleaning material is a sad stumb- ling block, for the Government al- lowance of ono or two. bath -bricks a week, the same number of pots of "greasy paste," and pieces of emery -paper, is totally inadequate. By 7.45 Jack is ready for break- fast, and the "pipe" for cooks is met with as near an approach to a cheer as discipline will permit; in other words, a smile running from one good-humored face to an- other. An hour is allowed for this meal and the subsequent pipe; but the "now"' hand finds it something of a scramble, for during that hour Jack has to "clean" for divisions. Readers who have lived for a month in a 'bag will sympathize with Jack, who has to live in one all his life. Certainly the absence of wardrobes and chests of drawers will be a sad drawback to recruiting when the twenty -first -century lady announces her intention of "wo- maning" Dreadnoughts, And when it is further announced that the al- lowance of looking -glass is about six square inoltes for eighteen m.on, many fair heads will shake in <lie - gust, SOLD FOR SOAP. "Divisions" is the naval equiva- lent for a company parade in a re- giment. Per purposes of payment and internal economy, a ship's com- pany is divided into "hundreds,' where, oap in ,hand, they listen t the chaplain reading irayors. Ther is a deep revsrenos rn ,Tack's na- ture, whiell comes to light on these occasions, ,and adds solemnity to a scene the land cannot equal. The huge battleship rolls gently in the swell, her masts towering in- to the grey overhead against a background of bridge and funnel; all around lies the unbroken waste of waters; the deep responses of the sailors eniugle with the pound- ing of the engines; while the ahap- lam reads words of eternal peace, standing fading the muzzle of two huge instruments of war, --London Answers. a r NEGROARMY Jt'OR EHA,NOIL ROW MANY HAIRS HATE YOU? 120,000 Make About an Average Allowance, Hairs ars' ecmpose•d of scarfskin, and are covered with thin, fiat, overlapping scales, which is the reason why an eyelash or other hair to the eye irritates, it so much. The hairs of the bead have been count- ed, and it is known that 120,000 of them make about an average allow- ance. Each hair is a tube, with a, bulb- ous enlargement at the Rawer end, and grows out of a vase -shaped "follicle" with a narrow neck. At the bottom of the vase is the. true' root, which is clasped by the bulb afoiesaid. When the hair is for - (Ably pulled out the bulb comes along with the stalk, but the root remains behind to produce another hair. This is why, in the case of super- fluous hairs, it does no good what- ever to pull them out. The roots remain behind undisturbed, and presently thereisa new crap. The only known cure for the mischief is to insert an electrified needle in- to each one of the little vases or "follicles" and burn the rocas to death. It is a process almost pain- less, but expensive, because slow and demanding no little skill on the part of the operator. From the above explanation it will be understood also why a wo- man's hair may dome out plentiful- ly with the comb, and yet she may not become bald. In auoh a case rt simply means that the hairs which drop out have. lost their vitality, and their removal gives an oppor- tunity for new ones to grow. But if the roots themselves die baldness is the inevitable and incurable re- sult. Some women's hair is naturally curly or wavy, to the envy of their friends of the same sex; others have straight hair, which can only be made to wave or curl by artificial means. The difference between the two is easily explained. Straight hairs are cylindrical in form; curly hairs are oval in section. A negro's hairs kink because they are flat in places. The heat of the curling- t"ongs when applied to straight hairs causes each one of them to contract on one side and to curl in that direction—whencs the beauti- fying effect obtained, whichis nec- essarily temporary. —ape_ PEOPLE. Interesting Deductions Made by German Physiologist. Dr, Stier, an eminent German physiologist, has published some interesting particulars of investi- gations he has made among several thousands ofleft-handed people in all walks of life. His principal facts he draws from carefully -made investigations in the army, in which the military authori- ties aided him in every way in their power, and he had ample time to work out his conclusions. He selected various actions among hundreds of others as eer- tam tests of left-handedness—bread cutting, threading needles, crack- ing a whip and shuffling cards. The man tulle does those things with bis left hand is hopelessly left- handed. Prof. Stier found that hi the vast majority of cases it is not amore highly developed muscular arrange- meat in the 'left hand and arm which causes left-handedness; in fact, in 77 per cent, of the eases ex- amined he found that the right arm and hand were ,the stronger. He found that left-handedness is in a large number of cases inherit- ed, A left-handed man is bound to have a certain number of his chil- dren of a like habit. He reckons that 50 per cent, of left-handed per- sons had left-handed parents, and that this peculiarity is inherited by three tunes as many boys as girls, Especially- remarkable is the com- bination of stuttering with left- handedness. In fourteen regiments he found 1,237 left-handed persons, of whozn nearly a thousand had some impediment in speech or other 050 of nervous disorder, some of hick are only noticeable in quite Bung children and which are got rid of with adolescence. Coming to mental Capacity. Dr. 'Stier says there is ground for b o- lieving that the proportion of men- tally infirm people Is far greater among left-handed than among am- bidexterous people, sir UNCLE EZRA SAYS: "Ef you hew got a fairly good gait on the road to prosperity don't stop ry .ry little ways an try to t y the road," an officer being responsible for each o ei hundred, or division. Every y morning he inspects his division, while the first Iieutenant goes round the thus emptied mess dock. Ile is accompanied by an avarioi- oua strip's corporal, who pounces upon any article of clothing secret- ed in the nooks and crannies of the messes, and subsequently sells them book to the rightful owners for a pennyworth of soap, JACK AT PRAYERS.. After "divis`,n " tc s the men are marched on to the quarter-deck, lei And 2f Millions. of Sharirsliootw'r for Clerwany, bet at present peace reigns so. promo in Surope and sovereigns and heads of State are falling upon each other's necks as part of the day's work. No wonder that from both France and Germany reports comp of proposals to add enormous- ly to the defensive forces of the two countries, Col. Mangiu of the French array J. promoting a scheme which if adopted by the French Government. will; give France a negro army of 200,000 well trained and disciplined men:: The idea is to extend con- scription to French West Africa and the Sudan. France has already some 18,000 negro soldiers whose bravery has never been questioned. Ib is also proposed to raise an army of 100,000 Arabs, but -as there might be danger in ?caving so large a forte of Arabs in garrison. in Al- giers, 30,000 of them would be gar- risoned in France and their place in Algiers would be taken by black eoddiers from the Sudan. Germany easily caps this aoheme 1 y a step by which dearly two and a half millions of well trained and disciplined sharpshooter's have vir- tually been added to her army. The new Imperial Chancellor has given permission to the members of the 27,676 German veterans' societies, numbering 2,40:,644 men, to prac- tise rifle shooting on the military ranges with army rifles. All the requests of the veterans' societies for such permission had been refused previously, but after the recent schntzenfest at Ham- burg another petition was forward- ed to the Chancellor, this time with successful results. Thus an immense army, the members of which have served their term in the active army; will be kept in constant shooting practice and ready to go straight to the front should the Kaiser require its services. MEN OF LABRADOR. An Incident in the Life of Dr. Wil- fred Grenfell. After a visit to his old home in England and a trip to Paris in 1807, Sir Wilfred Grenfell return- ed to his work in Labrador with satisfaction. In writing to a friend of his cordial reception, the doctor declared the hien of Labrador to be far ahead of the men of Paris. The ineid.ent is found in Mr. Johns - ton's "Grenfell of Labrador." A group of broad -chested, blue- jerseyed men soon gathered round one after landing, and the usual questions were passed to and fro: "What have you been doing this winter, John?" "In the woods, doctor, all the while." "How was the hauling?" "A drefle hard winter, not asin- gle thaw till April hard enough to bind the snow. It were like dust right along, wi' ne'er a surface to it. Drifts? Well, they were deep enough to bury everything." "And how about you, Albert 1" "Well, sir, us stayed on the out- side this year, to tend our 'swill' nets. Us be a big crowd to face the bay in an open boat late in the fall." I hope seals were plentiful?" "Us can't complain, doctor. The dogs did not want for a carcass, anyhow. But it 'bain't like it were before them sailing steamers come along a-cuttin' of 'em up." They extended their warmest congratulations on my having wea- thered so great a peril in that wil- derness called Europe, and they were loud in their expressions of unstinted satisfaction that I had returned quite safely, As I looked at their active, well knit figures and their honest, open, bronzed faces, I found no room in my mind to doubt that they were absolutely right. For there rose before my eye anemic faces, and the frail figures of many that I had met, with everything ab their com- mend in the centre of so-called civ- ilization, Scanning these splendid specimens of manhood, clad in the homely, serviceable, and therefore to me all the more artistic, garb, there rose to my mind frilled and furbelowed clothes -pegs I had seen moving in the streets of Paris. And 1 remembered somewhat glad- ly that Charles Wagner had flung down his book on the "Simple Life" amongst them for their bet- ter education. ca of P a m p b n h itr to se al OCEAN CABLES, The diameter of the Atlantic ble varies according to the depth the water, the character of the atom on which it lies, and the robabilities of intereference from Halters. It is -Smallest in mid -ocean epths. There is little or no move- ent at the bottom and it is im- ortant that the cattle should nob ave groat weight. A heavy sable deep water would he difficult to ring up for repairs if such were eeded, In the shallower muter a he type of eabte is used. The vpes are knowir as "shore end," rrtermediate, "deep deep sea., fro diameters of the commercial cables aro: Shore end, "�,in„ in- rmediatc, 1lin.; deep sea, 1 in. x Some men would never practice 1f -denial if they couldn't boast mut it. VIE YOUNGEST SOYEUEIGIY ?limos() Ernperor Oiled a$ JI'is Fir' • Appe:traitto itiL'ribllo. China, the .oldest of nations, ruled, if the expression ?nay:be a lowed,, by the ;youngest of severr signs, a boy of three, Ro is a ns phew of the late emperor, 'and un- til his' accession' bore the name of JPn-yi, although the royal astrolog- ex S Hsu have. uselected a$ his canard title, ' ng,, whiula moans Goner. al Proclamation." The boy, says a writer in the Overland Monthly, is delicate in health, and the Chin- ese are inelined'to attribute this to his birth on the unlucky thirteenth. day of the first moon. Ta order to escape the evil influence as far as Possible, it has been decreed that 11s birthday shall be celebrated on the fourteenth of the month. Further, he is to be brought up more luygienieally than his prude- coasor was. He will have plenty of fresh air, and will not be expected to appear at the midnight audiene es winch are the fashion at the Chi- nese Court. Ris first' appearance in pithier—at his enthronement -- was not a seeress, for he cried loudly; and heneefirth his father, the prince regent, will attend all official functions alone, will receive dignitaries of state, and offer up the required prayers for snow or rain, He will also be responsible for plowing the first furrow at the spring festival at the Temple of Agriculture, for the worship of the Lord of .Heaven on the white mar- ble altar of the Temple of Heaven, and for the propitiation of the 10- caI deities who watch over the old city of Peking. But the little emperor, although relieved from these duties, will not be allowed to forget that he is an offreia! baby. He may no longer live with his own family, or see his parents exeept in the presence of the whole court. Twenty-four nurs- es will keep watch over him, and he has three wives already, aged ten, twelve and thirteen years, each of whom receives an allowance of four hundred dollars a month. The exact meaning of his new name, "Hsuan-t'ung," is difficult to render in translation, but the character Hsuan is considered very fortunate, A certain emperor of the Ming dynasty called himself "Hsuan Te," or "Proclamation of Peace," and the symbol is common on old Ming pottery. Optimistic officials read into Esuan-t'ung, or "General Procla- mation," a referenee to the prom- ised constitution; and it is confi- dently expected that this child em- peror, when he comes of age, will inaugurate a new regime of pro- of gressChina. and reform in the government `BEST SIDE TO SLEET' ON s t is LONGEST TELEGRAPH LINE. Extends From London to Tolls ran, in Persia. Persia and its capital, Teheran, have been very mueh before the public lately, but probably few peo- ple are aware that the news which has come through to London has passed over the longest telepraplric circuit in the world, says the Lon- don Daily News. The distance between London and Teheran by wire is 4,000 miles and the operator in Teheran communi- cates direct with the operator at the London end, automatic repeat- ers taking the place of operators at ten places along the circuit. The first repeating station from Loudon is at Lowestoft where the wires enter the North Sea, beneath which they run for 200 miles to Ern - den, Hanover, where the second automatic repeater continues the message. Thence it is flashed to Berlin, Warsaw, Ronne, Odessa, Kerteh, Sukhum Kaleh, Tiflis and Tauris, from each of which stations it is instantaneously forwarded without human intervention, the telegraph- ist at Teheran, who receives the message from Tauris, being the first operator to handle it sines it left tendon. From Teheran the line then extends to India, but nowhere else is there a circuit so long as that between Teheran and London, WHAT THE DOCTOR KNEW. Dan T was on trial for as- sault with intent to kill. It was given in evidence that the prisoner had struck the injured man on the head with an iron bar, and so frac- tured the skull that a portion of the brain actually protruded, Yet the man recovered. The only hope of saving the prisoner from eonvic- tion was to weaken the evidence of the doctor who attended the sound- ed man by making him contradict himself. This was undertaken by e counsel who was more remark- able for impertinence to witnesses than for legal ability. "Now, doctor," said the lawyer, "did 1 understand you to say in your direct testimony that the man's Ckn11 was so badly fractured that the brains aeinally obtruded from the wound?" "That was my evidence." "And clo you pretend to say that a Ivan can lose a portion of his brains and s1i11 live 1" "Oh, yes." replied the doctor, T. have known Hien to .live and pll, 'tise law without any brains at LS IT ON TOUR RIGIIT Olt Yl LEFT SIDE1 njority :of Eminent Doetors S07 We Should Sloop on tho Right Side, An old-time health -law -says that to sleep on your left side inerferes with the action of the heart and is consequently injurious to health, while lying on your bask is liable to develop the habit of snoring, thus rendering oneself objection- able to any other oeeupaut of the room, There are medical men, however, with different , opinions . Thewelt- known heart specialist, Dr. Hush - and, for instance, says: "I always sleep on my left side, and I think s quite immaterial whether` you sleep an your left or right side, The idea, however, that those who cannot lie on the left side suffer heart ,affection is quite erroneous." On the other hand, Dr. Letups, of ✓the French Medical .Academy, maintains emphatically that one should always lie on the right side and thus avoid indigestion and heart troubles. PARALYSIS OF THE ARM. Amongst advocates of sleeping on the back are the well-known French Army medical inspector, Dr. De- lorms, and Professor Debone and Dr. Davaniere, of the School c Hygiene. Both the latter point out that lying on either side causes pressure on the arm, which may eventually bring about paralysis! a danger which English doctors like Dr. Forbes -Ross and Dr. Yorke - Davies apparentlydo not consider very great, for they do not refer to it whoa giving their views recently cn the best side to sleep. Says the former, "The •best posi- tion in which to he when going to sleep is without doubt on the right side. Equally beneficial is the ha- bit adopted by many people of ly- ing .partially on the back with the upper part of the body and head turned over the right. To lie on the left side of the body is always harmful, as in this position the heart is more or less compressed and unable to perform its work." WHAT SANDOW SAYS. Dr. Yorke -Davies is equally em- phatic in his opinion that to lie on the right side when in bed is the most correct and healthful posi- tion. "To lie on the left side is bad," be says. "The weight of the liver—always heavier at night -- presses presses on both the heart and sto- mach, and especially impedes the action of the former," Dr. Landouzy, of the French Me- dical Faculty, says that the best position to lie is the most comfor- table position, although it is well to accustom oneself to sleep on the right side, To a curtain extent the view that the most comfortable is the best position is borne out by Mr. Eugene Sandow. "The posi- tion assumed during sleep must vary with the physical condition of the sleeper," says the famous phy- sical expert. "Those suffering from heart trou- ble should sleep on the right side, because in that position they can obtain the greatest ease and com- fort. On the other hand, in certain affections of the liver, it is better to sleep en the left side. "But generally speaking, the right side is the best to lie on, as the heart is then relieved from any pressure." 0 QUAINT CHINESE CEREMONY. About sixty Chinamen proceeded to the graves of two recently -buried Celestials in Anfield Cemetery, Liv- erpool. A gigantic tray carried by four Chinamen, and containing feeds, including a fuilp-grown roast- ed pig decorated with red rosettes, °coked fowls, beefsteaks, eranges, and sweets, was brought on the scens. A bottle or two of Scotch whisky, flanked with egg -cups and liqueur glasses, were also placed on one of the graves. The spirit was plentifully petered upon the meats and ries was sprinkled up- on the grave and afterwards jos sticks, paper offerings, and boxes of crackers were burnt, The ex- pplosion of the fireworks made a live- r diversion in the otherwise sol- emn proceedings, COUNSEL FOR BOYS. Ina mother's old scrapbook we recently came across the following, choice counsel for boys: •- To throw atones.—Fold each one erirefelly in a feather bed and give notice to all the neighborhood when and where yon are going to pitch it. To carry gunpowder in the pocket —Beak it well in cold water and then wrap it up in a cover of oiled silk, To slide down the bannister—Leh a surgeon sit upon.the lower stair ; also carry a pailful of poultice in each of your hands, as you may need it, To care croaky boots or shoos, ---'?fear them always in going fate the pantry to get some of mo- ther's cakes and pies.