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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-6-18, Page 7" t S' . George's encs hes died in London and was bpried at AMverstolto, Hlinips'h!t'e.. Ho rias the Time Ralph Venables'WJ1- eon, a naval chaplain, Who served: on the 'warship on which Sting George was 11. etidehtpntan, Tire them Prince offended lite c%apla1n, who ate:11111s, tercel prniehutent, on the spot SIIIWNG ENTITLES VI SITORS TO SEE SHAKESPEARE WILL Casual strelle a through the Strand Tree burry pest a Itenete€encs hued• lug with en imposing faeadQ ey Sir WUliam Cltarebers UMW that Omer - bet Howe Is the place where vital statistlee and probate records for the Dished Kingdom are deposited, says k4 London deepatelt, Moet of tete vlaitere, however, knew only vaguely about'thib vast treasure house and they are the people who pay a shilling to leek up .the records of tartlet, deaths and niarrlagee, and sit tit a dingy little room while the entry they want to searched for 10 the enor- lnoue fireproof, vaults that contain 1.60,000,,000 nawes, Some few ,pene- trate a still dingier room where wilts and Bete of shareholders can be ex- shined, It le probably better for the peace of mind of Somerset House's custo- than that it Jt not widely known that upon payment of •a stapling fee a visit- or can have Shakespeare's wilt s'ltown to hint, It is Somerset House's most treasured possession, and was brought out the other day for inspection by a party of special overseas visitors who • were making one of a.series of visits to historical. London, arranged in aid of Xing Edward's hospital fund. The post's testament Is written on a sheet of yellowed paper, written over With the decisive writing of a Strat- ford notary. It is, of course, kept un- der glass, but it was not so protected soon euougb. Decisive aa' was the poet's ca)igrapby, it ie, mostlyeunde- oipherable Dow except the Pentane olaueee in which Shakespeare left unto Itis unhappy wife, Anne Hathaway✓ "My second beet bed with the furni- ture." Lyiug near Sakespeare's will and next to It to vaiue, the little group et privileged visitors few the codfall made by Lord Nelson in leis diary on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, whiolt WAS found in es. escritoire °a Year afternis death. In Nolson'e iergo neurtahing handwriting one may read how he left "femme, belly Hamilton, as a legacy to my King and to my eon - try." explaining how Her Ladyship had helped in a certain political move, Tito Duke of Wellington's will, die - posing in titin, line handwriting of about $2,500,1300—an enormous for- tune for the theea--oxplained that the hero of Waterloo was malting it be- cause •an attempt ltae been made last night to assassinate me." Dr. Samuel. Johnson's will and Gladstone's will, written by himself in a little green - (seemed notebook, with special stipu- lations that, "on no account shallany leadatory lneeript!on be placed on me," were ales examined In turn.. The story of a sailor's will, found by a diger, in a metal box 300 years after it had been cast Into the sea and brought to Somerset House to be Proved, fascinated the party. "When the will was placed in the box in 1656 the parchment ou ;which it wts- writ 'ten.must have been large," stated an official. '%%en it was taken. out it had ehrunk'considerably, but the writ- ing was perfectly legible." The wills, of soldiers, and minors in the great war are a clads• to them- selves. One is the photograph of a girl with the- words written on it, "All to her," which was proved. Trona the handwriting, and a will which a sailor who was killed in the Battle of Jutland had engraved on the back of his identification disc and which was legally proved. Cities. Jerusalem is like a tower lu the East; Tito name lifts upward like a soaring cry; It is a banner dung against a darken- ed sky; A broken feast, Dead Babylon is porpbyry and alta wine; ' Spent lust cute gorgeous dike a pota- oned rose; A princess of the royal blood, wlio goes To lay her offering on a tainted shrine, Mehra Is liko a silver moth, and Capri tells Of sapphire sly and water, and pink shells. Palermo is a sculptured dream, and. Thebes cry To heedless centuries hurrying by; "You will not stay, as we stayed, to grow old; This awful head was Pharaoh—be- It oldf " Tyre goes wrapped in purple like a Icing. Old thoughts 1n lavender exhale a breath, Throngh long and beautiful remember - Ins, ' 'I'ha,.t spell the name of Nazareth. Some towns are fountains; some are, welts; Seville is music; Delhi smells. Of musty fabrics sewn with gold, And very old. And there are rained cities, half for- get, That l Th t Fe] before oro the Vandal and the Gelb, .rand one there was that bred 1 eariet Accuse.ne of all the.ages--Kertath. ,a Mary Brent \Yhiteside. --les__ .His Mother's Spirit? A little boy, six years of age, re- cently ran away from his home in Aversa—about twelve Mlles from Naples—to escape from his stepniotla er, who Lit -treated him, Il'aving searched for him In vain, his father informed the pollee, Soon Pas - panne wee discovered at Naples with l lily grandmothen net latter told }ow, a few days before she end heard it knocking at the door, and, on open - 4.g it, she had seen, to her,astonish- pteul, her small grandson standing dim alonp, "Who breugl(t.you here?" Mho aslted, "A woman,," answered Pasgualino.. "What wonlah7" "1 delft Iwai i,• said the child; who then told his grandmother that he had ran away because his Meputrthee beat bins, but had got frightened: not know- tits: where to go. While he was 4van- erinp about the streets of Aversa a muds ,j:ameup to hind and loo.lc him #ly the hane2. Without speaking, she, HO him cm to the electrllr. tram Jett"rutin between Avorsuanti Nantas, i n hl closely ri m se v to her All theway. 4� g w At laples she led him to lite grand• nother's house, knocked•, gave hint a kiss, and tett hire, "Dad you uerdi' seen her before?" asked the wondering grandmother. -Never, but elle was Tike that," said tbo boy, poietieg to n poLogratph of his ownmailer thatstood on the table. Hie mother had died wizen lee was only a few menthe . td. Man Borne to Toinb Who Once Boiled King's Ears. The men who once boxed Klug Parrot Senate "Aha!" said the head.clerk, "I'm glad to notice teat you're arriving punctually now, Mr. Stocombe," .. "Yes, sir. I've bought a parrot." "A parrot? What on earth for? I told you to get an alarm clock:" "Yes—I did. But after a day or two I got used to it, and it didn't wake me. So I got a parrot; and now, when I go to bed, I fix the alarm clock and put the parrol,'sccege on top of it. When the alarm goes off it startles the par- rot, and then what the bird says would wake up anybody." Brain -Food Stuff Again. ist Neighbor ---"Why are .you Chas- ing my oat and calling her a dumb b ute? She's a very intelligent ani- mal!" 2nd Ditto --"Well, if she is, madam, it's because she's just eaten my bowl of goldfish, I'd like you, to know!" • Automobiles, large and small, may crowd hide out in the bit cities, but when it comes to fording the Grand Forkes River at Mount Robson Park,. British Columbia, the horse is still mighty useful, as pi's mastbr will testify. Bright,, But Slow. The inhabitants of the New Forest, one of the few woodland regienti left in England, are truly Arcadians, The English novelist Mr, 11. A. Vachell, who lives there, writes. in Fellow Tra- velers that there are men and women there who have never been se far from borne as Southampton, the 'principal city of the county. During the war one ot the ancients asked Mr. Vachell, '.Whatever are wo goin' to do wi'the. Frenches when we've eseatpn un? He believed' England was fighting the hereditary enemy! Mr. Vaeltell tells another story, ,An oldman was asked whether he had ever been to London, "Aye, that I has," he piped up cheer - "They comes to me an' asks me ;a tam part of what they calls a dep- pitation. 1 'Lard lave 'es,' I says, 'I aint got no closes fit for-Lunnon town,' I says. 'Never you mind; says they; 'do "ee come along wells.' Au' I did. "Well, we all marches so grand an' gay down that there street they dans Regency Street, when all of a sudden - like a Bert, red-faced man atop of a bus yells But: 'Halt!' Course we halt- ed, and then he says. 'How in blazes do they keep the crows alt the wheat when eau fellers come to town?' "We was ondeulably down•acyamb- led, we was; but a very notable ans- wer blowed into my yed just a. fort- night afterwards, 'Twas in November when., we was tnarchin' down that there Regency Street, and' in Novem- ber there be no wheat to keep crows off!" Egypt Feared Cat Sorcery. The belief that cats were connected ivater•power in use these provinces with sorcery and were the preferred would require 3.,763,000 tons per year attndants of witches is said to have or considerably more than twice their originated it D yp present consu t ion, The. -Reason for Sunburn. Most people. have the mistaken idea that sunburn is caused by "the heat at the sun." Tete is incorreot. Sun- burn is caused by the ultralvioiet rays, which conatittite only seven per cent, of sunlight, Mature heiself provides a form of protection againat the ultra -violet rays, for when a person is. exposed conUn. uaily to sunlight he will find that af- ter several attacks of sunburn, the skin becomes • tanned or freckled. Tan add freckles are simply the natural pigment which nature, provides as a Yellow screen through which the ultra- violet rays cannot pass and cause real Injury by continued burning. People with, tender or fair skins will get severely sunburned - many tines before tl4ey can get the coat of tau or freckles, which serves as a yel- low screen to keep out the ultra- violet or burning rays of sunlight. 0 In Blackstone's Memory. AuierIcan lawyers are presenting to London a, llfe•size genre in bronze of William Blackstone, born in Cheap- elde in 1723, whose codification of the English common law entitles him to be regarded as the unifier of the legal systems In Idnglish•epeaking communi- ties•, Coal Saved by Water -Power. The combined coal consumption of Ontario end Quebec, the provinces without a native coal supply; for 1922, was 16,406,000 tons; the cool: equiva- lent of water -power development in the same area Is 21,363,000 tons. It will therefore be seen that but for the Stories About • Will Kuo vn People HIP One With. Ae.rnodt people aro avritre, •theTgrew cabbages six feet high In the Channel Islands. Titl!-r by way 01 hetroductlou' to o story, It Qoneern,v primarily Mr, Compton Lord Bwlfour la lbw foo41'owing, As eremite knows, he he an enttlusiaetic golfer/ate-I ea One aeceelen be was etau•ding ext a platform et Pad4dgton waiting for a teeth to Windeor,. _. Gas ing abetruetedly .along the Platform Islaekenzle, the novelist, who owua he suddenly espied a cork in front o the island of ilerm, one of the group, him. Apparently oblivious to lite Mute One dee, Ili'. Mackenzie, neconlpan. roundinge, he gripped Ids exqulelte led by a friend, crossed from bis tiny Umbrella in boat hands end in it pro kingdom to what he calls the ;estate- Per ;golf attitude made a stroke, 11 land" of Jera.ey. • fmt tile cork epinntng, but unfortuiie Wbtle there he chanced to overhear ate!),the handle of his,uaubrella tree an American' tourist speaking diepar- pod off, and the greater part of it fe *gin 1. of the big Jcusa Cabbages, ` on the line, Searing only the ferrule "Why, In Southern California, where end in Ills kande; Htt look of blank tel Thi 'World's Best Shclt► g Boobs is the Bibb It may surprise you to 1ctalow ebat the bercteeelling book in the world, year atter Year, is the Bible. Idore than 80,000,000 Bibles are sold every year. The Bible has been tranelated fete , 770 languages, "Uncle Tetra's' Cabia'a is translated into only 23 languages. Baok in the thirteenth oenttlry, seven hundred years' ago, there were only a few Bibles. in existence. They were so rare that they were chained 00 big pulpit* in the cathedrals, and Pro• fusions' readers, of whom there weren't many either, read to the pup, Ile out of them, A Bible then coat, $26,000 to $30,000.. To -day, anyone Can buy a Bible for a taw cents, It is tnteresting,to note that the first bock ever printed on a printing press, several. centuries ago, was a Bible; and one of these first Bibles recently sold to. a collector in New York for $60,000, the highest price eves' paid fcr any book, Burden Bearers of the World, But the moat interesting thing about this Bible business is the men an4 wo- men salesmen. They are the best salesmen in the world because they believe so strongly in their product, and sell it at a fair pries. They are not called salesmen, but Couporteura, which means burden bearers. These oolportenrs are the most per- a1stent and long-suffering people in the world. They aro 'frequently abused. cursed, and beaten in the places they go througlcout the country where they are not welcome, To the farthest corners of the earth go the colportenrs of the British and American Bible. Society. They sell from door to door, and in all sorts of unusual, unexpected and unique wage. Sometimes they rent a stall In a Fili- pino market place or erect a tent in the courtyard of a Confucian temple in order to oatoh the passing trade of the natives as they come to buy provisions or fioe.k on a feast day to a sacred shrine. In Slam there is a floating store in the unique form of a Bible boat, which winds in and out through the sluggish streams of the country, peddling its warns, These colparteurs journey to the four corners of the earth, down the bighwaye and along the byways of civilization, visiting the homes of the rich and poor, the dweller in the crowd- ; ed city and the peasant in hie lonely hut, , Iu South America the colporteur of - I ten resorts to a mule, strapping his ,' paok of books to the back of the plod- ' ding beast as he goes about the lands, ! It was the Rev. Mr. Coble In Japan whodevle�edarude cart to be pulled by the. willing coolies, and after be lied packed lits Bibles. thereon he found ; that there was also room for himself as well. Thus was invented the fe- mme Chinese jinrlkisha. Ml Sorts and Conditions of Men. The oolporteur sells to everyone. In this country the purchasers iaolude the grocerymen, aahman, and the garden- er, the Jew and Gentile, the Chinese laundryman and the French maid, Not every product could be said alike to a passenger through the win- dow of a Pullman car and a few mo- ments later to a braktunan while he was sitting on the cowcatcher of a slowly moving t w n rain. g On a busy day the colporteur makes good ns.e of his noon hour, for, placing a static of Bibles by his plate on a lunch oounter, it is not on unusual oc- currence to dispose of them by the time he has finished his meal. And sometimes, in a section where produce is more plentiful than Coin of the realm, a Bible will cheerfully be ex- changed for a basket of berries or a bushel of beans, To -day the BIble is said to be avail- lie o are o a t you ut of eves to n eo le y P p intewo h r1d in the language flee, can understand. It is the only book in practically, every known tangue; and It Is the world's best seller, year after year. e 1 lino," he said, "all vegetation is on a Binliler gigantic aetile. Out there we have Mac bustles lilty feet peg's," "I with I could lilac teat, • wee Mae• leenzle's whimsical comment, uttered in an u.ndertoue to his friend, t Ready Wit: One of .the etortes told recently by Mr. Winston Churchill eoncerna the time when he cultivated a moustache. A. sprightly thereat accosted ben one day with the remark; "Mr. Churchill, I like your moustache as little as I tate your. political viewer' "Well," replied Winston, "as you are never likely to _comein contact with either, it doesn't matter much, does it?" Balfour's Sad Stroke. ,Among the stories hold In regard e tamaxentent caused• a gleed deal of amusement among Uro people on the platform who had witnessed the incl. dent. Such le Pante, . There are many goodtales concern- ing Charles Dickens, the great author. One of the beet is told by the famous impersonator of Dickens' characters, Mr. Bransby Williams, and le Concerti - ed with, a oonversatio•n Ise 'averbeerd between two gallery boys outside a theatre where Ise was appearing. The two were •studying the names on a poster at the door, and discuaeing the various artists, when one of theist suddenly asked: "Say, Bill, who's. this 'ere Dickens?" "Wot, don'teyer know?" said his pal. "Why, 'eats th' bloke wot writes the patter for Braltaby Williams:" Wind Faces. The winds that blow where none may neo Four different faoee show to me; ,The North wind is a buccaneer With long, hooked nose and -Creel cruel leer, Who eaiis the main on a pirate ship, Pistols and cutlass at his hes. Tranquil, calm, is the wind of the South, Like a gentle nun with a sweet, pure mouth Singing alone in the cloisters dim. (Have you not heard her vesper hymn?) A rollicking lad is the Western wind, Roaming the world to seek and find (Sandaled with faery sheen his. feet)— Strange worlds to sea, strange folk to meet. ✓rhe East wind is a woman old, Shrouded In thick mists gainat the cola. Weaver of weird, wild spells is she, Tearsin her eyes continually. The winds that others may not see These different faces show to mel' —Keefe V. Caruthers, in Youth's Com- panion, G Labor Saving. "You should strike out for yourself, my son-" "But it is a good deal less work, dad, to let the umpire call the strikes." Doing the little things uncontmonl well is the surest route to big thing. ( Gray's Church Beset by "Madding Crowd" By E L 1V INNIQIERODE No seam in the English tongue is better known or more - frequently quoted, perhaps, than is Gray's "Elegy Writteu in a Country Churchyard." Many a person who can quote pass- ages from it or even recite the whole poem front memory is, however, ignor- ant of the fact that there is a particu• lar churchyard described in the poet's versesand a scant few are aware that this "country churchyard" and the church which stands within it—the ehtlreli whose "ivy mantled tower". was the secret bower of the moping owl. --are both in danger. The church- yard ot losing its, country aspect and the chetah of crumbling into ruin. Saint Giles Church la in the little hamlet of Stoke Pages, about twenty miles from London, It is tepidly vbauging from a country village to the suburb of a great city and with the rhange aro coming all these things Which mar fila beauty of the rural as distinguished from the suburban. The long and ugly tentacles of a great cn;mnert'ial city are reaching toward Stolle Poges, and it is gradually be. !ng swallowed up. New and theme. grnous buildings are fast encroaching upon the -fields wbere the poet nearly two centuries ago saw "the lowing herd" winding slowly o'er the,lea and "tile pluglttuau homeward plodding "has weary way," The church itself is little short of 0 wreck, Teo tower is to•tiay satpnortod by protecting scaffald!ug, and unless immediate steps are taken to repair It. it must come down, for It Is already melee srntenre of removal, To lite southwest of tlta old 24tllrela is uu oblong hrirk tomb, where the body of the Peet ratite. This (110115 tlboul(1 lin a sutlit+ient Incentive to 1;,aver,a of poetry everywhere to come here are a group of nndei•anonr!ahed \w,'t�stnutuster spool ehildren !i•ni�tt= to the rosette tat ,the threatend church I and church erd. It is It more. Silting ing their lessens and at the saltie time winning bath' their lau:tttli ht St: y g • burial place tot' Gray 111511 wouid. be a James' Park, London. nithe in Westminster Abbey or e marble nfausoleuin in any ether spot. The whole poen seems to live in These. uiet surroundiogs. Peeve is the English landscape, there are the fields of grain and the woods which bring to mind the lines: "Oft did the 'barvest to their sickle yield. How bowed the weods'beneath their sturdy Stroke!" But we look further and see the buildings going up and hear the ham- mers of the builders and -realize poig- nantly that unless the happy meadows where cows edit graze, meadows Haat adjointhe rlmrchyard, are rend, red immune teem the encroachments of new buildings that the charm of the place must culler severely, " Tu-rlay Stoke pages le not 'far tram the mad- ding crowd's Ignoble strife," Tomer -t row it may bo iu the midst of it! I So many changes have been 1 wrought in the.surronnding country that this quiet church and churchyard seem today like a rare and beautiful Tithe af nl fasloneljawe1ry d is lay - ed on the same velvet -green plash with more modern creations. The house where Gray's another lived at West End Farm ---scarcely a mile dis- tant—has is- tant hats been added to and made modern, )lost of the old landmarks have disappeared, been modernized, or their beauty detracted from iu some other way. The oldest part of this church ie about six bemired ed years old, 'There aro liege wooden beams on the porch that, : to a certain kltewlerige, -have. been in their place for four hundred years. \"hat solemn tamps have pass- ed beneath them during the centuries) Flanging high in the old church are the arms of the Penns and 111a11y an- other fa nous family. No one believes that Gray netually f d i i1i f T .itnild a factory or an apartment hcuee i et area. In thin vast area are tans of or tt row of dwellings is elf meadow tlaotueande of islentia, epees little larges• • adjo'�ning the "country churchyard" of - than a city cannon, and others which P44,4 Cray',s elegy would fall little short r!f; would be called large eittewere brat are literary aaeritege- dwarfed by their situation, A ntovemeta Is en foot to raise a suf- . u f t -d (Meta sura to repair the church and I Work on Rheims Cathedral buy a few .teres of meadowland ad- jninl'ng the churchyard in order to I Has Begun. forestall the eneroadtnaent of tile! The work of robuklding the Wal, lntllda ra. tingland wears, under her I ruffled Rheims Cathedral has started guise, a deep sentiment for her liter-! rrn a rental of Jolla D. Rockefa11or Jr.'s try men and more especially her poets.+gift of $1,000,000 fQr repairs to the The time is shoat, but Otero is 111110 citnrclt. Ste told arc hurriedly being doubt that tends will be found to main- tain ; built around the building, while Meares lain this sprint In mueh at its old- l of workmen are, burry with Mono and time ebetelsty and beauty • to pre- I mortar. The Reason Why.. "Shall I spray my fruit trees? Cer- tainly, my friend, spray away --the more the better; afterward go out and kill a few more birds; then resume your eprayingl The more birds you kill. the mare you will need to spray your trees, until finally,. no •doubt, you will be compelled to use the spraying maehbne all the time or raise no fruit, Strange you ?have not thought of this before. Do you. not see that des- troying the insect -eating birds de- prives your treee of their protectors and gives full sway to hordes of greedy marauders that are. sure to ruin thein? —when will you learn wisdom'? Not long since we visited a beauti- fu1 town that was once noted ,for its stately overhanging elms, all along up- on both aides of the broad streets waved their banners of living green. Now they stand, nothing but bare stubs twelve or fifteen feet in height —not a branch to be email Upon ask- ing the reason of this wholesale des- truction we were informed that the trees became so diseased that they had to be thus treated to save them! "A kind of white, wooly, sticky stuff grew out all oyer the bfanclfes, and we had to out them off!"" Jerusalem! Think of that?—will you? When a few graine of common sense, and a little reading, would have tangbt the grave city fathers that a part of these came branolus, applied smartly to the shoulders of the 'bird-klliers would have cured the evil and saved the trees! What are our publics schools for but to instill into the minds of the young a knowledge of every -day things?— alas, in too many instances it !`tight be said of their would-be instructors, "no have got; how can get?" These same "sticky, wooly erea- tures" are one form of the aphis, a plant devourer, and a dainty morsel in the larder of the feathered tribes. Left to their care it would soon g r dl a ea nn or rather, had the bods been spared it would have been kept under con- trcl and dosibtless entirely externtin Atari. At best the reign is brief, tor soon they assume a new form and Spare the birds and save your fruit. How Big is wthe Pacific? i wroto the 1]legy while eitting 1n the Pew people realize tits immense else yard of Salut Giles Church, It is of the Pacific Ocean, Comparing it known that the poet was. many years with the Atlantic is like contrasting in writing It, but it is not hard to ooze the "Grenadier pond 1n High Park To- t r this To - tenth o yourself that the picture of ns. i t h n y rum with Lee, him o k ooe ev uiet o rn • esu seen Prom th 111a e c u h a 3 g The Pacific; is almost a hemisphere 1 ehurohyard remained constantly in the of water, and it is startling to think mental vision of the poet and was the that, if the whole land surface o$ the inspiration for many, if not all, of the *globe could be fatted together .like a fine lines tiro poem contains. Illi -saw puzzle, the resulting surface The fact that Cray lined at Stoke w' uld fust he as extensive es this one { Polies, shat ]lis last reeling place le eceanl within that country churchyard which A. few figures will show tate. For 1 I tient reason for preserving it as near• i Liverpool to New York is 8,050 milesi ly as it was wcben be mused there !bid from Yokohama to Valparaiso, a ' nearly two centuries ago, -tai the twi- 'similes' eonthern trend, eeross the ?a- light. of a summer's day:. To the cine, the distance le 0,340 miles. .poetry lover It is holy ground, and as A. -MRS this txtaan's narrowest part, such it should never know tite'blight- namely, from Vancouver to Yoko - Ing ugliness of a city street, nnr the atna, 1e 4,260 tulles, '.: eueaua tattle of a trolley car, It,: The Pacide siretebes front the Ara i should he kept undefiled from the brn- I tic Cloven to the Antarctic Ocean, anti ' realty a our mo. cru c v zat on, . o' contains Seventy million square meet, his poem has made famous, is Muhl- instance, the well-travereed route from terve it tout attic uuadding crowd," I Postponed Pailteneea, Muriel had. been told that it was Why? 1 not polite to take tee last bluetit. on Veuug Mrs. Brown Olt. 1t 1 rattly; the pinto, but the othgr monazite at knew what 10 do with baby!" j breakfast she said as she restphed for (Title of Neighbor (visiting) '• "Why, I it: 'Oh, mamma, I'm *unmet 'tarvert' \ire, Blaen, didn't you get a boot. of : 1 drss 1 wou't be Polite to -clay; 1'll Instructions with it?" 1 wait till some day Fee nett hungry." What the Music Memory Contest Accomplishes. The purpose of the music memory Mildest le to develop the ear for geed mune and tench one to appreciate the masters and their cotupositiona. A young child looks forward to tate prize, but at the Hanle time he has ant gutted benefite teat will not'iy0 readlly forgotten, while an older child works for more'Jedntte results. In the men - toots only the best mettle Le gtveu, width Is to be identified, together with the names of the COhtpoeera, The tont teen) are specially beueIIoial to those who do net have mottle In tile home; end they may be the nmettns. of awak- ening the 191 -sot talent of some future n,45slcian. The earlior in 1110 a obtld eaters these contests the niers apt he will be t.n appreciate good 100810. The Stealer of 'Trash. Old bits and hone and rags of grief into the sack of Time nenst go,. He walks the streets, a ragged thief, And steals our ears before, wo know. Our thoughts that burned with fever bright Hie worn brown hued lvtll stead away, feud we who sorrowed through the lltgh t ir111 prop like babes until the day. Dorothy M. Collihe, Pet this reatrictlou on your plea sures----he cautious that t7esy hurt no dteaturs that has life.