The Brussels Post, 1919-12-11, Page 6Fxplorcrs of t
By MAZO DE LA ROCHE.
"teneeneentesteemse.- - e. :mow
awn
111.
My brother webs louldinir over my
shoulder now. We were filled with
can;jecture,
"Lucy," said Angel, "owned all thin
stuff, and Charles was her lover, of
course, But who was she? Mrs. Hand.
somebody never bad a deem:liter, I
know; and if she bad, she'd never have
allowed her to wear these things. Look
how she jaws when Mary Ellen spends
her wages on finery. I'll bet Lucy was
a beauty. And she's dead ton, you can
bet; and Charles was her lover, and
likely he's dead ton. `Bide the tine,'
eh? Y; 1 see, they're waifin' around
yet—sonlcwheres. Isn't it queer?"
The Seraph's voice chine from the
window in a sort of chant,—
"The little white star has fallen
down the cobbler's chimney!"
"It has fallen down. and :he cobbler
is Seywing it Into a :shoe!"
"A milkman in cunning doyen the
stweet!
"Tell you whatwhispered Angel;
"I'11 show you what Lucy seas like --
just a little. I'll make a picture of
her."
The space between two tall chests
of drawers formed a sort of a'.tovo, in
which stood a pier-glstss, whose :arn-
ished frame was draped in white net.
Before it Angel drew- (without mush.
caution) a high -Lacked chair, and on
it he began his picture.
Over the seat and almost touching
the floor, he draped a frilled petticoat,
and against the back of the eh:lir
with a foundation of formidable : tays
for support—he berg a garment•
which, even ,hen, he seemed to knew
for a camisole. Over all he laid a
charntin lilac -..-i1. gown, and under
the hem, in the meet natural attitude,
peeped the little party slippers. 4
;smaI lace
I ,. 1ate
[ velvet bonnet, with
streamers was hung at the apex of
the creation; and in her lar for the
time has conte to ixse the feminine!
pronoun ---he sproorl the gauzy fan
He hung over her tenderly. at. an
attire over his subject—each fold
must be, in place,—the empty sIeeve:
curved jut .-o; one fancied a rounded
chin heneath the velvet steeamers, so
artfully wei adju t, t Her reflec-
tion in the picieglaes was superb!
"It is hetet" chanted The Seraph,
"Evwy bit of evwyftng is shinin'. Oh,
Angel an' John. please look!"
We flew to the reindeer and leaned
across the sill.
It was a happy world that morning
glowing in the sw;eete:t dawn that
ever broke over roof, end chimney-'
pots. The earth same as she danced
her dewy way amongthe Haling stare.
The little gray elands bin'hed pink ,
against the azure sky. Blossoming t
boughs of peach and apricot hong over 1
the gates of heaven, and rosy spirale
curled r;.wt'trd from two t.1 im heys.
Pink -footed pigeons strutted, reeket
ty-cooing along the roofs. They nal
tied their heads, as if to affirm the
consummation of a miracle. "It is
so," they seemed to say; "it is indeed b
so." One of them hnpped Op on the
cobbler's chimney, peering earnestly n
into its depths. ! a
"It sees the star!" shouted The Ser_'
aplie "It sees the star and ^ods to It.'
tI am higher now than you,' it sage!".
'Something•--wan it a breath? a n
sigh?—ma,'.e me look hack into the 1
attlt eaten Lucy'e clothes clung to p
the -`.-backed chair, like flewer-
1;
petal: blown against a wall, The. pie •-
i glass had caught all thin glory of the
meriting, and was releasing it in quit
ering spear. of -light that dazzled the
for a moment.
I rubbed my eyes and stared, and'
shook a little, for hi the midst of all
this, splendor I sae Ley! No pallid.,
rigid ghost, but something weeny;
del et. with rife ;preudin the folds!
of the lilac 'an like a hutierfiy
„arming he new. eines in the etre'lgth
of the sae.
Her ln'anrn roe 1 fell quiekI.. her:
e; es were fleed en rn with < ueaec h
Ing lock, it seemed. I dr n 1 -
near enough t.) smell the , dint per-
fume of her td I sere e + (1:
0t „ thee . ,h1 the
was met land{ing at Plc. 1 --at ` tit.: tat
little bock. The Mysee.1 'len i
ufilkru,,
which I still held in int heeds. The
book that Cherlee hid given her!
"Bide the rim e! h had written, tett
she eouli bide th time 8o ki rte.
Proud as any knight ePnec his i1.ly,
1 strode 1'or•wa,'r', and areaeed the hook
into herslender ha*1d: ,---.aye her lender iia -i
gers rutd around t -heard her title;
gasp of joy. i ehocld not have been at
all serprisel ho l the door opened and
Charles -calked in.
Ae ai matter of ,fact, the door slid
epee anti —hire. Ieandeomeho y w; r.eit1
10.
to explain," he said sulkily. "Just Went
an' did it."
"Ole,.I thought en," saki our gorern-`
a
Pe, It was t one of those seem-
ingly
It tU tI
ulesistiltle impulse a that have!
so often proved dt:=asteeus for all tot
ceded. If your father knew"- -• Simi
hie off the words as ,if they had ai
plea:mut, IF acrid taste: 1ff your poor
father in South Anleriea knew your.
oriel uai. ih•celivielee. he wooled be 0
crushed moue- -Il emoted roan!"
The Seraph wast -taring at her lie,
X was burning to do her 'service yet
the passage Hutt lett to the attic
stronghold was even guarded. Two
4a
days nt, h
sect efole I made y t a the;
!
- attempt I bad boon stent upAttire!
!roe the tea�lahle to w'a'rn nip bands, -
although they were only ctlnfortably'
soiled, -end eller I had dipped them'
in n 1''in of water that had done`
:deice' for both Angel and Tho Berg
1tph, 1 gate thein a good rub en My� .
,rouse'r•lere as I t„ -toed to the foot
of the attic staire, •
Cautiously. with fast-beatin heart,'
g
T mounted, and trier) the door• It incy,
lurked fact, I prey..ed my eye against
the keyhole. and ,name nut in the
gloom the dark sbu1 ' of the trunk,'
.mister, ferbid'lirft, in veeasible, No'
emelt. c,t' Vine silk, no faintest per•'1
'eerie, nr, appealing sii.1i from the gen-
tle Lucy ;recited Inc. All was dark and e
quite.. 'Bide the time! ” Who knew{
but that ;mine day I might set her•
.
free again? ,
1'ct sty threat arched as I slowly',
reed!: my way ;ace• to the table pre-;
Anted my helida for a rather skeptic.aI1
'ns01 '18 by Men fiandsomehody, and'
Jimmied languidly into my seat. • i
The Sere -:11 s n'z mea 1oo)c of syn-,
pithy --even under;titnding. Perhaps:
he bad bee l me mount the dis1'inti
tole stun; ; IrIe hearing was wonder-.
fully /mote. He chewed in silences far'
s moment, and their he made one of!
'hose Seeulingh' irrelevetnt remarks of,
his whish, somehow, always set our
little world a -rocking. I
One Ping about Lucy,' he said, "shell
was always sweet tempud,"
" ll hu : " snapped Mee. Handsome -
homy.
"Lucy," repeated Tho :Seraph, "Such
a sweet-tcmpud gell!"
Mrs. Handsontebody leaned over
him, and gobbled and threatened. The
Seraph preserved a remarkable calm,
considering that he was the storm-
eentre. Iie even raisetth,is entail fore-
fing:r before his face and looked at
it thoughtfully, His speculative gaze
traveled from it to Mee Iialtdsome-
beey n chin. I perceived then that he
was comparing • waste!
(The End.)
Then. '•I have one too," he said
gently.
!> One alit:'•' Her ;one elmald hate
wtu teed him,
•'(.171e ',tare" lie wren 111, 111111 easy,
modest • Ire rte't la little ono. It
y• J
can't w•gyre- -litre yot 1 L,;t :t'.
gwr,sir o.ieely. Would pm .'ale to
see it?'
Mrs. llaie oinchady afl,; ted not to:
hear him. Ho stared ecnihrciy et An-'
gel and n1::, not i believe The Seraph
staled tau inns, fo;, after a motet Mee
del:hcrati,, . 'm. se id curtly,
hx.e u i .n for tat•.' •
She gran :•11• Spic: ' en T ('lilt
n;,i help nothing thea cii011l) The
S:rs"h 's: the menet:. t and u•a,L!-'
Ct, h1' six W1'1 the n1U4 tntg•ing.
When we had 1,etet1 sent to our bed.
room to ,ay our pr;tyers, ani change
our pitifuily inadequate right clothes
for day things. 1 pat the q,,r sten that
was l t rule, 1a my mind.
"P -id either of you iee her;"
"Who?" •
"Lucy, sitting there in the chair."
Angela Menne eyes were blank, ,
"I s:t11' her clothe,. What ;sickens Pie
is that the dragon look that spy -gel; s,, 1
You see if I don't get it yet," (Mrs,!
Handsomchody was "the dragon" in
our vernacular.)
"Did you see•lter, Seraph?"
The Seraph was sitting on the floor,;
his head on his knees. He raised a
tear-fius'hed face. i
"I'm 'most too cwushed to wemern•
-
ne ," he said huskily. "But I fink Lucy'
was fat. It's a vent ball Ping to be'
fat, 'cos the cane hurts worser,
I turned from such infantile imbe-
cility to the exhilarating' reflection!
that I wa:. the only one to whom Lucy
had shown herself—her chosen knight!
She gave a -,it of gargling cry, a,
1f haw 1e heing stre.ngled. Angel and
The Seraph farted about to look at her,
in const' z1 at.ien, their hair wild in the
wind. and the ni t g sins staking an
aureole about them. The four of us
stared at each other in silence for a
space, while the tittle -room, with its
cobwebs, reeled. the ;,,n rose and wank,
like a foundering -!tip, and Mrs. ilend-
•aniebody—reeemhling in my teems
her*
.styspider in curl -pipers --.cot•
ilc ed t 8th issue, was ripest for;
She alarmed the easement anti se-
< roil it, Ansel and The Seraph dart -
nig from ler path.
Even a ,lead wc'nan's (11011:es.•, to
make a scarecrow et!"
She pounced ,,pin them. I hid n.y:
Peke while she did it. but I heard 0
sinister rustling and the snap of a!
trunk-li:i, It was over. "Bide tile:
tem "
I ncreiniouely she herded 05 n0trn.
th stair... The Seraph, weaning only
ono etch at a time, led the y tt 1' ar -
leen the drab vista of the back iters -
hat ended in the stcullery, Mary El
enc reel round face was seen for a'
moment, like a tieing sun; but vanish
td ns suddenly es it had appeared, at:
a shout from Mrs. Handsomebody, 1
We were in the schoolroom non',
placed before her in a row, as was her
wont in tines of retribution. Seated
ehind her desk, she wore her purple
dressing' -,gown with magirtr•rial cti,g
ity; the wart upon her chin quivered
s she prepared to speak.
„Now, Ds vkl." she said, addressing
Angel by his proper name as usual,
`eau you try anything In explanation
f this outrage upon my property?
fold your head un incl toe out,
lease.•'
Angel leok:e:i at lei'; hands. "Muffin'
slaughter.
"You—en1 you—and you!" she
v tied "Oh, to think of it! No place
eft Whet you tit i 14 a strong men.
We ;hall :wet Tim eery windows_
buret ti - m th er holt_a!"
reutara's Liatment Gnras Trllirltherirl,.
9
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C4 ""Su
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+4..t. GG
t; ,e
on
"As the Twig is Bent."
A sad case cane to light in scho
last week. For some time numecou
thing's had been misted. A hook,
hall dozen pencils, a child's lunch,
cap, a pair of rubbers, apples, an
numerous other small things. Te
days ago someone obtained the key t
the teacher's desk, opened it and stal
two dollars out of (lpr purse, Th
teacher said nothing*, blot watched,
twe]ve-year-old boy from one of th
best homes, but who had never. ha
spending money, suddenly began
treating everyone in school. A littl
judicious questioning brought out ter
truth; this boy had taken not only th
teacher's money but everything els
that had been missing.
The entire neighborhood was ups
Ire the incident. How could it be tha
boy, the sal of parent; of ab
solute honesty, could be a thief? He
lead been brought up in the Sunday
School, told the difference between
ht
and made hind return the toy.
oI Would he breve deliberately stolen
s money when he was twelve years old?
a It seemed hardly probable to the
a mothers who discussed the ease. No
d ago is too young to begin to teach the
n property rights of others, they ail de -
o eldcd. I£ you begin with the littlest
e things and insist on absolute honesty )•
e regardless of what the other fellow
11 does, the big things will take care of s
e themselves. f
c
Parents, Attention!
e The a:ltaunding discovery that ap-
o proximately five hundred thousand
e school children in Canada to -day are b
e under weight has naturally and pro- T
perly led to concerted action to the
et end that this appalling condition of
at affairs may be recl,ified as soon as a
- possible. Draft statistics show -that s
seventy per cent. of the men were re-
jected for defects that could have been m
prevented or cured by care i11 child- o
Rooth. \Vtlgbt and rale t)f gain fur
ate of the hest • tests of health 11
ld 'en,
ell t
fort
One
• hot, pour' ever the serving' of lee
11 ermine,
Creole l
r•
tkerl. -( i
It ie^ 1.
)R .ea too
I
-ctrl i, , eon with tilt and pepper
ed 15 ,tan to four tell lespoons of but-
ter meite•1, to Mikis has- been added
e! one-i'Surth ,•ap or 11in;•ly chunped onion,
! Whim to chicken is browned remove
o! from f'ryinl"• 1'sn, thicllen mixture in
ni putt w111r four tablaspotr'r+ of flour, add-
e1 Iwo tee , 1' ..took or boiling water,
' Iwo cups emitted tnnlal0, one finely
Monte ilt't'ornl ion,
Dern Van Dyke calls tide picture
on his walls the windows-, of his home
Through them he gets glimpses of tit
beauty wheat lies hey and the sectio
of Ilving space bounded by the ;ton
walls of his hone. Through one each
cl chopped t•,,,1 pepper, one-half cup of
window. he reu1d !,co the Crean, nn
almost feel the told spray and th
strength of 11u .,alt air, Another '111
dot' gave film t rime it the lnuunttr'n,
wall nil of !hc Witt of a daily clnu1
in thought, to theft summits.
The :influence of such silert teeth
ors in the home ran hardly be estimitt
ed, but in nothing else is the average
home so poorly furntchech Good test
Play be displayed in the choice o
carpets and easy chairs. Wall paper
play be selected in quiet restful tints
hut the cieeorurions rant be family per
traits :Crimea in uhjeetionahle ornate
mouldings, cremes, representations o
Indiwts in gaudy wear paint, or so -:;tel
ed n,il paintings, purche ed perimes 0
Some itinerant vendor and e -flee
of noddle"• in the heavens aim e n' the
h r
earth beneath. — ^
Seasonable Recipe:1.
:Buck Bisque Soup.- Simmer one
quart of tomatoes until they will go
through the sentinel:, adding one -
!Mirth teaspoon of soda just before re-
moving from the fire. Strain, and told
to a white Sauce orale with one quart
of milk, two tableslinons of butter and
a hall' cup of flour. ikasten to suit
with salt told pepper, and, two table-
spoons of sugar. Four in het sone
dishes and place one tablespoon of
whipped cream or each servio 1, Then
sprinkle minced parsley on the cream,
Pear and Cheese Soled,—Select
halve; of large canned Bardet Peers,
Place at lettuce leaf ru serving pieta,
fill hollow in pear with cnitege cheese, .• �14f , '
and c,
r. over withsweetened coed whin et..
s e.t
p
GUM'S
or 1 r
cream
boiled ...them dreasiu"r.
r,
Sailor's Duff. ---Ole egg, two tal,le-
spoons of sugar; two tablespoon, of •
e (bopped , fiery', tori :salt to taste,. Re-.
- piece thick5) rntd simmer until tentler.
rye ort platter Surrounded with
111,•'e, and g'u•ni.hel with parsley.
1
attntenVa Ll)itiaent Gores Golan, SC.
In this world it is not; 1 t lvrhrtt we tale
o- up, but trho' wt' 11l'r' up that makes
p; ue
lithe -.Drury Ward 13ercher.
In , r„ndirt,^:. v:or,1 le the usual)
fuel, e•hihi the rot',,: tied vt!1,t._c nee
.'t,'ieie'l) ll;'tttel byn' ire- „r
i , to ;.nv
1, Nmway Ji nn t•.at hu 1, .,'
, t Silt,.. �:1 h.4
1 tt Jv iii c,r,p''iri that a y
he hit; good
f
t--.
eew
Three Billion ee tillan try
Ca be8
ofGo
1Three Idlliiai glehe" of gold the size
of our earth -that indeed is a vlSion
01 wealth "beyond the threnody of 80111"
ice." Yet that iv lane than levo ecu-
! tidos Wuuhl have amounted to at corn.
I nun 1 intatel,t dining tits. t'hrtatinn
:imporrsible?
It is Al, Camiie Ftanmtarlun, iho
inn thentalielen and ac4von ruicr, Who
i>'1:1, r t110 meelettirl,gerl>g premed.
Iienl. somebody In this press ]las
credited Isms with saying that. the five
• milliards of Crallem --ono utlliou dol•
..1II.from Prance by (,et
horny in 1871, w.ltt equal to the prude'
of live centimes proceed at tire per rent,
committed.' hemmer- at the birth of
Christ. 11, Plaulm'u'ion co •.5• t , the
quotation. 'What 112 did iyre to recall
the 0 1111K u1' (letterhl Foy r 1t. 111:• rub
ins:' ur i1 millhud fr,uws in 1.,.3 for the
near of the Frent't emigres, that not
yet hail n. milliard of upnt,t05 eta OM(
since the bhi.h of Christ; 1'liti:1 a 'as
inite true, that inuab'r of znhtntee not
being attained tultil .Apri1 1802.
But the statement about what live
cel,thar.., ,could have atnoulitnd to at
eon:pound interest -is marked thrid e1.
roe. it is a hag.: error, goys 11. nun-
merlon.
hun-
10 1 (n. It 114 bigger then the whole
ea•th, bigger than (Iir' min, bigger than
the Insole solar sy:L'11. Net one in.
gut of gold the size of tits earth, nor
two, nor three. nor n 'miniver], hor a
thousand )nidi ingots, would equal
(hid prodltr.t.
The tent a 101101 15 sins'•le, though it
might 3,rr.ve t, dente to p.u0;v it out in
full. 'u, moonlit pleb:1 n1 itttnrost ut
five i' r c••.'nt., 101>1,lded annually,
mend: k',� in :neer e5 i renes and seveuty-
sh5el drays. Very 5011, Pive teatimes
Mamie et eoinpuuml interest in the
31(1' 1 wvunid have hemline ton vein
times ilt theyc.
i la 'r 8th., a In
the ;tea 28;ne untie •; 1n the year
4 80 cent:iee• in the ye t.1 ,0; 1
franc ee ei ti ee In the year t.1; 0
francs 20 rcrti'uni In the year 86;
andsnrn
Thus far t1•t' n i", 1 •,t 1+,
U11ti�. ul .nr- •:u to a :. At lite end
or the r r t 'mtur- the :atm is only 6
francs 1!i. Ilut at the end of the
50101151cfltiry/1 is 619 Triune 30, at
111e end of the third' it 1 104,x57
ti. nes 110,114 at the died e . the fourth
century it 1; 11.421,774 franc:.,. 41 -
ready 001101.e i•rueh,'1 II14 i mss. 7'iicre
soon f,i w milliards, a' billions, •es
they err r:l,nn,ni called n1 Canada;
!then full )1v trillions, quathelli"z:s, gain•
131liotis, Sextillions, selttsiliats, nctll-
Pon:". 11onilll01:s, t1P.nillio118•--3111lhhe,'a
rsizieir uo mints can grtlxp.
_et the beg!ti ing of the uiiiot cosh
1 1(Ui•y, u1 1503, the sem 0f tit (11)1-
n t. ntinio i 1. ',1114 dlcinri%-.
014 1 -)1m, d,nl Itis etcry f1,tn'ter;n
veers, in 1873, the year of 01. l:�'lani-
marton's first competition, amounts to
more than 243 'rndeoillions of francs.
What. menus 24;8 1mde11111oti57 Or
2402111,000 nonillions? Teat is 243,•
110,800 followed by thirty ciphers.
1lo 1111)1an mind can ;rasp it.
Whet would that ewe of money
105118, in gold'?
As one kilogramme of gold is worth
3,400 franca, our capitol t:•uuld weigh
71 (tet'tllions 131; neniillone li3S nettle
lione-of kilter's:0 1 ... Now, this earth
weighs hely' 8,Ri, seetillleve of kilo-
grammes,1f it weir r 1 solid gold it
would have to 10+ uu11ti1rlir,•41 by 0,486,-
100,000 to equal tar. trein,tudote mien-
113;1
que]tio1.
h1 brierolive :cntim e, or one cent,
plinth at flee per Cell(, r•ompound in-
terest at the birth of CIu'Sst, would
now eeut l . ,410,000,000 globes of solid
gold, each the size of the earth.
der best Age.
Women themselves probably are
under' the delusion that their best age
is something under twenty-five and
something over eighteen. At any rate,
they are supposed to resent all birth.,
dayssafter thirty, and aro occasional-
ly charged with working badkwards
and growing older' in looks and young.
et. in ,years,
Bd no ws,mn n wllo knows how to
pet 0a her clothes, who reads and
thinks, who develops all her best
dualities, need Worry at passing into
the thh'ties, tor at forty a Woman is
at her very best, physically and men-
tally. She is at the zenith of her
beauty. and if she has cultivated her
intelligence, she 1-8 at the zenith of
her mentality also.
Very few Hien of any note hind the
same pleasure in the society of a
young, undeveloped girl which they
finch In a ,nature woman of forty. At
that age such tt woman is en ideal
companion, and her prefcreno@ for rho
soelety of a than 1s a real compliment
to Iris mental and neral qualities,.
No, there 18 10 reason wily a woman,.
unless she be Merely a coquette, anil.
has nothing to r'ocornmeecl her but a
protty face, should dread advancing
years,
'there fe a eharis about all ages, in-
deed, cinel fenny a eremite is 1001'e
beautiful and attractive when her hale
Is streaked with grey than 0001' She
was before,
ATLANTIC FLIGHT!
Wortcdea•rid example
o6 -'the value of OXO.
Captain 2
p oa SirJ.. f.COCf`: ;'rias:—
"Tel will be interested to teems hest
"ONO was a great help tons clueing our
' Trnna•Atlentic Flight; it sustained tis
"Wm.dertally during our. to hums
"journey.
"We ilial fonr,tl out what a good thing
"it is \shcu flying' in Franco, tied so
"decid,•51 in carry it with eta 00 111(4
„cra:'un,
and. WO van a1sur0 y011 that
"list O \ 13 (31, mit aeespttoblo under such
"eehl turd arduous conditions, OXO
'emsthe; only article of a:, ] 1'id wrholi
"w',, earrie ,
3, ALCOCIC, C1tpt.,1'1.S.1].
av
f ',• y• 1
butter, one -1111= our of lnolitssc- one _.es''d'
jil
teaspoon cf. stela dissolved in nest )••elf
(01) of hot welter, one and enc-helff
cups fear, Mil: in order mimed end
ate ni one hour in battered pudding
dish.
Burnt cement Saute. ---Melt one•hctlf
5111 granulated sugar, hi enemele•1
seueepan, add one pint of titin cream
and tel- over het t,ate:' until the arrear
melt again.
R3-pberly and Currant
our caps of water mil t one and one-
hird cups of :mime la rimy nimute'.
Put two caps 0f crnne,l reepberries
and two of r cord cellulite through
icer and strain through double cheese-
cloth to remove seeds When the
yrup is cool. add th slit ,tui•', and
f
t
reeze,
Lemon Ise Crean,—Scald one pint
of rich milk and etir into it one level
tnbiespoonful of cornstarch. Add one-!
half cup of sugar and cool: in doable'
oiler ten minutes, stirring frequently. 1
hen add the yolks of two eggs, beaten'
tvitll a Half cup of sugar, stir until'
vyell blended, add one pint of creast
nd straiu. When eold add one table -1
Moon of iemon extract and freeze. !
Hot Maple Sauce, --Boil two cups of
apse syrup with a lrg!f cup of cream:
r hatter nut 1 it thechd=. While still
and
1 wxnn•, had all sorts of ad-
,t'•j a o r
ad -
bead Wages War o Race S ousse NOW if it had been young Petorkins
whose family hadn't merle, and who
England is waging a rest ,te war
against race suicide aunt i•,fallt mor-
tality, Unless she con educate her
people in the expediency of increasing
the British population by British
births and of conserving the lives and
health of children already born she
knhws that Gormauy in twenty years
will be able to wage against her a tear
that Germany will win, then.
Medical statistics confound the aver-
age 1•;rgliehni,nt, who hut not been
given until the present time to think-
ing seriously of the death rate and the
birth rate per se. A. recent publica-
Hon of thee° medical statistics has
given him food for diquieting thought.
Between 1010 and 1010 a yearly
average of 100,000 babies died at birth
or were still -born. Tho yearly birth
rate averaged 700,000, exclusive of
those babies that had died within
twenty-four hours of birth,
But of the 700,000 given to the coun-
try 90,000 died each year before they
had attained their first twelvemonth's
birthday. Those who survived display
an alarming health condition. Ono in
every four children in the working
classes is mentally deficient, ten in
one hundred suffer from malnutrition,
thirty in each hundred have defective
eyes, twenty-five have adenoids and
eighty out of every ltundred need the
dentist badly
The poor baby, of ootteso, suffers
more than the intent whose parents
are well to do. The (loath rate of
children below ono month In peefes-
aional chinos avornges twettyono to
one thousand, but in the working
classes 40,3 per thousand le the rate,
Now, the large pereentego of work,
lug clots children who grew into
adults below par was not so eppatlirg
a c•1 ct ns tut e e
rc u t c before the war came
to England. 7 tlo not mean that their
number was lees then or that the con•
ditton was unknown. These statistics
cover a period of nine yearn. But be-
fore the war England still had that
population of healthy, wholesome
young manhood now lying out in
Trrienders ft11ils, and the etatns of the
working class was such. that their.
health did- tee constitute tt grave ma-
terial menace to the ranee of the Ern
Phar.
Pelt u cestehtiou oeplise cten to
the Inentrlly deficient. Whoever 55 -
rived a traveiltr in England prior tin
August. 1914, and remembers the tat-
: tared touts who hung about; steam-
boat pieta coal especially London rail•
way terminals and ran panting guiles
atter a cab for the sole pul'Post° of
unloading Ito bags and trunks for a
penny or two will find no trouble. in
I believing that the SIgures relative to
! mental deficiency among sloni peonies
there are not exaggerated.
But it did not matter so signally
s.11ile the working classes of England
were slaveeontednt.us Thehrservant, tvotnen bbed ,
and d 0t. midescrurnttirl
factory hands; their leen were quite
frankly underdogs and tbo writer 'of-
ten suspected that they were proud of
being just that. An exceptional mem-
ber of a lower class family rose above
his station because he was not ham-
pered by stupidity and bad health, and
the others were never done marveling
at him.
Today the great majority of these
men and women Have made rep their
minds that they are, or must be, the
exceptional members of the working
class family. They would not accept
a penny now for a service! They
would not run a block after a -cab for
a polhnd sterling! They propose to
rule in England, but if they aro not
uplifted, mentally and physically,
they will wreck the 13ritslh Empire.
h'arsoeing L•tnglishnteu lenow this and
Have accepted It, Bocuuse of t.hair
kuowlodge, they are urging politic
legislation and reform anent the un•
derdog of five years ego.
Welfare centres, the first stop in all
Infant seethe, aro multiplying in every
English town and city. It is esti•
mated that $8 a year will gave one
baby's life at, a British welfare centre,
Half this sum is furnished by the gov-
ernment anti half by voluntary contri-
bution. At the present writing there
are 236 I3ritirh towns that have these
welfare 0011n01.
••alltag'ee, and yet had gone wrong.
probably never was tan;;ht anything N Je:i.0 `;I3:,tit P;, tC g,!! l '1 4 ,II',
at hone, you could understand it. Taut
this boy'e mother wag so good and
the soul of honesty.
It did seem queer to the ones who
didn't go below the surface. But those
w•ho had watched the boy grow up
rattler belt that they could explain it.
Two or three mothers got together
and exchanged confidences. There was
the time when the boy was two and
he carried home Jackie Smith's auto-
mobile. OF course, it only came atone
the ten -cent store, but it was dear to
Jackie's heart. The lad's mother ex-
plained that he was too young to know
it was naughty; and it was 61101) a
little thing and her son wanted it so
badly, it seemed a shame to make a
fuss about it and have him return it,
so she kept it,
A yea-• oe so later it was a sack of
pop corn he took away from Jenny
Jones, Jennie cried and told his
mother, let. it was silly to cry over a
little sack of uop corn. She did give
Jennie a niche, however, to buy an-
other. All sorts of incidents came bp.
One told of half a dozen fresh cookies
disappearing off the table while the
hey and his mother were catling; an-
other had her early roses picked by
the boy, who, his mother explained,
was so fond of flowers.
The conversation narrowed down to
the mother. Was she exactly honest?
She never went by a candy counter
without picking- up One oe two pieces,
and fruit vendors knew her afar off
and hastily covered their choice peach-
y and proms when she approached.
Two or three books with tell -hale 11b -
rarer tags were on her book shelves
and had been for months, And she
prided healer on seeing how many'
times a week sine nub.' get the better
of the voter or butcher in making
ch•mge. Her argument always was
that they always charged her too much
and At, led the right to get evell,
The: mother would not deliberately
go out and put her hand in someone's
eeket to rob them. But was she
enett? Had isle taught the boy
onesty? She hod told him 3t was
wrong to steal, but had she taught
]m that? "urpnso ellen be took the
tr o ti. ,, t •., it b; s le,by days, she
-ad cxi..,r r: t: Ilio the ri!;hts "of
l',1,1011111111,1
Cl ir)J i ihil
lis
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The largest one in London had 700 p
entries h1 the year ending June 830, h
1015. Fifty bellies and fortytwo h
mothers cisme there every day for
care and tnstrm:doe, ,To 80, this Is h
no greet 'neov ttloll but it ma. ks4 the
passing of an 1111 Order in i;nt,t.0.-1, 1
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