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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-10-10, Page 7Ir EXPLANATION OF EUGENICS ALL ABOUTTHE SCIENCE OF RACE CULTURE. Eugenism Is Really 'a Dcyelopnent of the Theory of Evolu- tion. These is a good—ear bad—time coming. this Eugenist will tell you that it is good, grand, splendid ; and when he runs short of magnifi- cent and enthusiastic adjectives, he will tell you that the Eugenic policy needs only to be put in force, and the Millennium hues dome, says Lon- don Answers, Eugenics is the ecienoe which con- •earns itself with the development of the human race—"lace culture," it is called. The deteriarattion of the human race is to be arrested. A new world is to arise in which there will be no "unfit" or "defectives." In body, mind, and character 'we shall be a race of giants. We may not accept it, but simply stated, Eugenism is this—that man is a growth out of, or a development from, lower farms of life. There ought to be continual progress to- wards perfection, but there isn't, We can all see that, QUALITIES OR DEFECTS. The Eugenist takes the law of heredity whicll few deny—and is going to prevent it worldng in one . direction, and make it do overtime in another. This law of heredity— thee virtues, es vices, gifts,qualities, 8 , deficienci os bodily or mental are handed an from parents to children —is the great factor in race culture. For instance, whether the time whichis coating will be a good time for you depends on what your fa- ther, grandfather, and great-grand- father left you. Not money or pro- perty, bue qualities or defects. Man is going to be sorted out and class- ed. Some will be marked for well, let us call it disappearance. They won't like 5-iit will be a bad time for them; but the Eugen- •-i ist will tell you that it will leave the world better! The rest will be per- mitted to survive—if they do not deteriorate. We shall -have to be careful I If we have inherited good qualities, we must develop them; if the reverse we must shed our in- heritance and acquire, with all the proanptibude we can, a set of good qualities which will enable us to pass the "fit" or "unfit" test. •POOH-POOH AND THE POLIOS. • The Eugenists are on the war- path, .and, being very "fit" them- selves, they are going to eliminate the "unfit." We 'mush not pooh- pooh these excellent people. Eu- genics is the coming solanoe; it may sooei be a practical issue in polities. ".Eugenist" and "Non-Eugenist„ will fight their battle at the polls, and, if the feet that Eugenists num- ber among their ranks the cleverest men and the biggest thinkers in the world counts for anything, they will win. Their creed is that we ought.de- liberately to consider the health, character, and qualities of,the suc- ceeding generations. They say we have frustrated the working out of Nature's law, "the survival of bhe fittest;" by a mistaken compassion which cherishes and takers care of the unfit. In future the "unfit" in body, character, ax mind will either be segregated—kept in enclosures —or tneinerated 1 We may still marry—love is not exactly banished—but the .fie will snot be permitted to mate with the unfit.' Health certificates will be compulsory. The Stalls will, there- fore, settle byan iron law who shall be the fathers and mothers of the fa next generation. Every child will be then "well: born," which le, roughly, the meaning of the word "eugenic." . BtJBGI,A1I,...,LV, BISHOP. "--" .. ,. ,• . gut the re- `On'e professor dec`1'aTted�.,- 't cent Eugeaast Congress: bh t .f!'.,, had to choose his own father., he `" would prefer a robust burglar to a consumptive„ bishop I One—the bielrop—would launch him into the world. tin ftt And th , e . , e nth r would carnia 1 b nob, Unfortunately, p 9 I consumptive bishop, did not dwell upon the probability that the robust "l tirghar aught -hand on his burgling instincts! The choice would seem to lay between a respectable eon- slumpbive and a robust thief 1 Eugenists say the human race is on the down grade ; that bhe impe- tus of evolution, aided by civiliza- tion, is exhausted, and that each generation now Produces niiore and more of the phyeioally, mentally, and monal:ly unfit. .Much of this, if not all, is due to unsuitable mar- riages. So, for a whole generation, the "unfit" shall not be permitted to marry. ' Hereditary diseases would then be stamped out—vices, too. We shall no longer excuse the violent temper by eaying : "Alt, his —or her—father was just the same! It's inherited I" II: BATTALIONS OF CALAMITIES OASES OP ALMOST INCREDI- BLE MISFORTUNE. If You Think Yourself Unlucky Read the Following True. Stories.. An old man sits in the back pee- ler of a little house in Enfield Look. He is almost bland; he is so crippled that he can hardly rise un- aided from his chair, says London Answers, "Yes," he says, "I've had more than my share of bad luck. It be- gan in 1885, when I hunt my right arm. That ot'bet ter n a cl I went 8 tet back to work; but in the following year I fell, and injured my log. I''m lame still from that. The next year, 1887, 1 lost my right eye. Then bhe unlucky spell seemed to cease a while; and for eight years notIi•wg very bad happened. went on working in the Small Arms Factory. But in 1895 I had a bad fall, which laid me up for .a long time, and two years after that a splash of hot metal struck my left eye, and left me nearly blind, I went on trying to work, but in 1907 I caught it again, and smashed up my left hand, losing two fingers." Here is another. There has just died, at the advanced age of eighty- seven, a woman who, by reason of the extraordinary misfortunes which have dogged her footsteps, became known all over America as the "trouble woman. of Kentucky." She had a family of six children, of whom all except one died violent decals, • The youngest was scalded to death, the eldest burned in a great fire; another was shat in a riot; a fourth was killed by the roof of his 'house felling upon him; while the fifth son was driving, when his horse ran away,. and he was flung out on his head and killed. TWINS' INCLUDED. The daughter's husband also died a violent death, and so did . the daughter's son. The poor old mo- ther survived all her family, and them at last fell downstairs and broke a leg, dying as the result of the injury, Some families seem to be haunted by ill -luck in the shape of illness. The following ease we' have on no less authority than that of. the `Lancet," and it refers' to a fam- ily living in London : (1) Nurse has abscess_; (2) eldest boy, adenoids; (3) . all fondly, infectious sore' throats; (4), all children, mumps; (5) two children, measles; (8) nurse, scarlet favor;, (7) three children, scarlet fever; (8) the baby, mea- sles; (9) three children, whooping cough; (10)' all children down with a rash; (11) a boy ill with chicken- pox; (12) twins born, increasing the number of children to eight; (13) a girl gets diphtheria." And all with- in a apace of two years ! Think of the doctor's . bill, not to mention the other expenses, and be thankful that such ill -luck has not befallen you t '° As these eases show, some indivi- duals or families are -pursued by ill - luck of a definite kind; but there are other people. who get all sorbs. A young woman named Regina Goldner has a record difficult to beat. • AND STILL LIVING. First, the ceiling of her room col- lapsed as elle lay in bed, and she was dreadfully injured by the. mass of ,plaster falling on +her. She' got better, and invested all her Savings (£80) in a ema11 'restaurant. • Her partner stole the money, and cleared out, leaving her to face the creditors. The next thing that hap- pened was that she fell off a tram and got concussion of the brain. As she lay in hied, getting better, something extraordinary went wrong with the gas fittings, and she was almost asphyxiated. Then came an attack of blood poisoning, caused by a pin -prick in the arm, and- as she ,was being treated for this, the nurse, through an apothecary's e car s mists. p ke.. gave Vo he ,g her, instead of medicine, a dose of poi- son, which very nearly, though not quite, finished -her. R+' TO GET POWER .FROM TIDES. Prussian Government Aids Com- pany Formed at Hamburg. A company has been formed in Hamburg, Germany, for the utilize. tion on a large"scale of the power of the tides. Me initiator is a Hamburg engi- neer, Herr Emil Pein, who has de- voted. fifteen years to experiments and has now succeeded in gaining the co-operation of the Prussian Government. The electricity gen- erated, it is estimated, will supply nearly the whole of Schleswig-Hol- stein north of the Biel Canal' with light and power. The works will be at Husum, on the: coast of ' Schleswig. Opposite Husum, at a distance of a couple of kilometers, lies the North Frisian island of Nordstrand. Two roughly parallel dams will connect the Nordstrand with the mainland and the large area thus enclosed will form the tidal reser- voir. The reservoir will be divided into. three basilrs. In the middle of tho south dam will rise a barge pow- er house. The mechanism adopted allows the generation of power all day and night, The variations in the tidal force at different hours will be com- pensated for by the use of aocumu- latons. A current of 15,000 volts will be distributed to all places within 80 or 100 kilometers and transformed locally to 220 volts; The estimated cost of generating the electricity will only be about two cents a horse -power' an hour, 54 bf SURE TO BE FOUND OUT. U. ,1 Teach r—• e No w you have in front of you . iihe north, on yyenta,' i r1 I Y 'right the eget, , on your left the west. What havo you behind you 2" theprofessor,ha Small Boy ---"A patch on my pants. • I told mother seed se' " " ving shied from the Y e It, IN AN INSANE PRISON -HOUSE Tilil GREAT ENGLISH ASYLUl1M,. AT BRIM DDIOOIL A Guest at the Female Patient8' Ball Teals' of Meeting Some of the Inmate's. "A oharmin'g woman 1" I' said to myself, as I conducted my partner. in the dance hack to her seat— sweet-voiced, gentle -faced, with the charm of well-bred manners, says a writer in London Answers. What was such a woman doing in this "galley," I wondered, as I took my seat by her side? Then, all uninvited, she told me, in a law, musical bones, and with all the winning oa'ndor of a child, the story of a crime which a few years earlier had sent a thrill of horror through me, and which had taken husband, children, and liberty from her. Then I knew. But how pitiful, how incredible it all was! I was privileged to be a guest at the Female Patients' Ball at Broad- moor—that prison -house of the in- sane which stands so massive and lonely in its setting of fax -stretch- ing moorland -and I had just had one of the most enjoyable waltzes of my life—with a murderess! Past me, as I sat listening to my sweet- faced companion, were whirling scores of other women, beautifully gowned, bright-eyed, happy; most of them, like my partner, had stood in the shadow of the gallows for THE TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE. One by one, some of the most famous were later pointed out to me by my friend, the doctor. That white-haired lady, with the air of a duchess, in a Paris gown, scatter- ing jewel -flashes with every move- ment, had offered poisoned sweets to the children :she mat in the streets, with the ineanedelusion that the man she loved, and whose wife she 'had similarly tried to poison, would acquit her of any guilty knowledge of the deadly nature of the sweets. That other woman, the similing, pretty face, had drown- ed her baby -boy in his bath in a with the girlish 'grace of figure and mood of madness. Murderesses, or would-be mur- deresses, all the gay, laughing, chattering crowd of women whose feet tripped so light-h:eartedly; and. all mad,: according to the finding of the jury, when the orimminal impulse seized them. And ,yet—so strange was it all in no West End ball- room would you find women more charming or more sane in manner and appearamee. And iso it is wherever you wander through this vast prison -house which harbors the irresponsible onsible criminal "during his Majesty's pleasure," and which so strangely combines the comforts of a good ho- tel with the CONDITIONS OF DURANCE. In this room, as cosy as many a West Find club -room., are groups of well-dressed gentlemanly men, playing cards, draughts,: and chess with all the amiability and courtesy of the best -ordered society; or reading or gossiping over the pa- pers in the luxury of well -padded armehains, while soft -footed waiters moue among them with cups of cof- fee. In an adjaeenit room you hear the click of billiard -balls and the sound of cultured voices.. _And each of these happy, well-groomed "club men" has been within a few soaps of the gallows or the convict's broad -arrow. The white-haired, benevolent, - looking main who is discussing poli- ties through the smoke curling from a shilling cigar murdered the girl who loved and trusted him, daring a stroll in oountrer lanes. His com- panion, with the silvery hair and mild blue eyes, shot an acrobat through the Heart at the stage -door of a London musio-hall. Of the quartette who. are so amiably play- ing a game of bridge together)three have taken the lives of men ; the fourth, by a miracle, escaped the "BRAND OF CAIN." That many of these prisoners of the King's pleasure are of good birth and ample means, o.ne need not be told, Nowhere will you meet with more courtesy of more refined taste, to which Broadmoor permits. full indulgence. One "patient," whose invitation I accepted to a game of chess and to one of the best cigars I had ever smoked, was a man of rare cour- tesy and refinement, His room, to which he conducted me with the graciousness of a Grand Seigneur, was lined with costly prints; its bookshelves were crowded with rare first editions. And this "perfeet gentleman," many •a yeas ago, shot a complete stranger dead at sight the Embankment! Bee 'all Broadmoor patients are net res happily circumstanced. In another portion of the prison are confined men and women whose in- sanity • has come after oonvictaone and who, should their sanity re- turn, di11 bo sent back to complete the terina to whieia they have been sentenc(• Bobby="Tleis eailor must have r, been f as acrobipt. litma a bit � a lNa —"Why, ear 4" Bobby—"13eeanse the book aye, 'aiaving sit his pips he sat tlot'n an his chest,' " j1IIIIIINIbilli 1� )},• BAKING P °WD MADE. 1 N CANADA CON'T'AINS NO ALUM CONFORMS TO THE HIGH STANDARD OF GILLETT'S GOODS, J niewM ST•LIGHi71 1111 III 011 1111 1 111 111 1 11111111111111111111 11111 111111 11 1 1,1 11111 I II I II III I TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING COSSIP FROM ONTARIO'S CAPITAL. Olsposal of St.James Square—St. Clair. Cass a Peculiar Ono—Toronto" Phenomenal Growth.. Quite a tempest has been created about the prospective disposal of St, Jams Square, the valuableblockof land bound. ed obit , , Vcand O. Street,, inGouldtheGerrardcentre 01 iwtoriahish. stands thhurohe veuerable building housing the Education Department and Normal School. For ren. eons of convenience the Education Depart wont le to forsake the propitiate that have known it since the days of Egerton Ryer, son, and henceforth will be ]soused with the other departments of government in the Parliament Buildings, a section of the new wing being designed for that special purpose. = As to any removal of the NOT. mal School or Provincial Museum no an- nouncement has yet been made. But au official statement, the other day, sailing for osiers for the whole Normal School. Property caused• everyone to jump to the conclusion that the Government wag of- fering it for sale. Immediately the city Press and officials and oitizene generally, perhaps with something of the spirit which lute earned for Toronto the nickname of Hogtown," began to clamor that the property should not be sold, but that 1t should be pre. rented to the corporation of Toronto, as a public park. The modesty of the request is appreciated when it is stated that St. James Square is worth approximately one million dollars, although it is only a. little patchoneach- of side. land bounded by one city block TORONTO'S MORAL RIGHT. Toronto's argument is that originally the Provinoial government :paid only 18,000 for the square, that the tremendous increase Ilse been brought about by rea- son of the city'sgrowth and improve. meats, and that therefore the "unearned increment" is the city's by moral right. It is also pointed out that the property has enjoyed exemption from taxes, which according to the sensationally displayed fied to upwards paper, would mButano one has pointed out that while the Province has benefited by the iuoreas° in values in Toronto, the city of Toronto has in its turn benefited to an untoldamount by having had located .here the Normal School and the Department of Edneation. Some of the papers have been kicking up a great fuse about the matter. But meanwhile, Sir James Whitney site tight. A deputation from the City Connell inter. viewed hint, but they lost courage to ask nim for a ft i of theeo rt P ne y. Their only request was that the city be given a chance- to buybefore the Square was sold to a private 'individual, and this Sir James readily assented to. There is a suspicion that the Premier has no futon. tion of selling the property, and that he merely wanted to find Ontwhat its actual value ie. If this is the case he must be enjoying the storm that is being waged Everyone is agreed that it would be calamity if the property passed i Private hands, and this breathing spot one of the most congested districts w closed up. But if it is to become a ,e park the difference of opinion arises tto. whether the city ought not to pay .rittsburg with 86 per pent:, Cleveland with 70 per cent., New York with 7 per cent„ Buffalo 42 per Dent„ Chicago and St. Louis 35 par cent., Philadelphia 23 per Dent,. and San Francisco 22 Per -cent. Los Angeles is the only city of Approximately Toronto'e Elise that has enjoyed a higher rate of growth. It has now about 375,000 and ton years ago was nowhere. Toronto is now the twelfth city in Amerioa. These boastluge as to growth and size are be ooming the everyday stook in trade of the average citizen's conversation, but under the. circumstances a little bgasting 'may be forgiven. BALL TEAM'S JOB ENDED. The winning of the pennant by the To. ronto Baseball team does not seem to have created the. enthusiasm that the came feat did : five years ago. But the performance was cleanout and altogether creditable, and the fans are happy. Meanwhile the players, referred to Joe -tit - arty as the ''.hired help,' have hurried off to their respective .homes, all far south of the boundary line, with the exception of the solitary home brew, O'Hara, who is a product of. our own corner. lots. in the winter time "Bill," in partnership with "Jack" White, another baseball star, runs a billiard and pool robm in his home town. Most of the others likewise have profitable winter occupations which sup- plement the substantial salaries they draw in .the summer time as ball players. Some are dentists, others have shops and others aro in other lines of business, "Joe" Kelly, the manager, lives in Bal- timore. Hie father.iu-law is the demo- cratic "boss" there and as euoh is said to hold in the hollow of his hand all the municipal and other patronage of that large pity. They do say that Joe" him. self goes on the pay roll at the rate of 85 a day and that hill official title is that of messenger. Next year the ahampionehip winners will all be back, barring aooidente, as the only man drafted by the big leagues was Fisher, a catcher who did not make good and was farmed out to a minor league team. Of course, Some of the stars may be sold, but this is unlikely, as the own- ers are understood to have made money, and therefore are not likely to liquidate their talent. Sc that the prospects for good ball in 1913 are roey. LACROSSE -IN TILE DOLDRUMS. In contrast to the prosperity in base• ball is the financial difficulty that all the bin lacrosse clubs find themselves In. Without exception they have lost money. They have paid fancy salaries and have drawn poor gates, sometimes only a few hundred people. Mr. R. J. Fleming got the coveted ohampionahip with his To- ronto,, but he is reported to have lost the most money of all, because he paid the highest salaries. Friends of lacrosse are earnestly discussing the question of what is wrong with Canada's 'national gains that it has lost ite attractiveness to the public. Some advocate a lacroese commission, which would keep salaries within bounds and control t of other matters connected with the ane. But this h g,wile of might save some mousy would not overcome Public apathy. No ]otter of ex• planation of that indifference has yet been forthcoming than that the game was killed by long. years of mismanage. meat in which foal tactics were tacitly encouragaged finally resulting. in public disgust. Now it is found the game can- not bo reinstated in a. day. It will pro. bably take many long years of coned. ntlous work to overcome the clients of the period of former disastrous policy. TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY e nto in as sty as for There is a firm in Toronto who give hen• dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year with but little effort. This firm manufao- turea reliable family remedies, beautiful flet preparations and many necessary ousehold goods', euoh as baking powde, aching compounds, stove, furniture and etal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each locality can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their nesgghbore. .They pay 100 per cent. commission to their agents. ''rite and seonre solo agency be- fore it le ton late, Address The Home Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To. Tanto, Ont., for full particulars. T]iE-CASE OF REV. R. B. ST. CLAIR One of the. strangest proseautioue To- ronto has seen in a .long time was the trial of Rev. R. 8. St, Clair, secretary of to an organization known as the Toronto 1i Vigilance Committee, on a charge of cfr• w oulatingg obscene literature. Many per - sous who have come in contact with Mr, "n St. Clair and the Vigilance Committee which he brought into being, havo not been disposed to take him over seriously. He has not been in Toronto long, and since his sojourn here he has evinced something like a monomania on. the sub• jest of clearing up vice. This, is the kind of lob that many very good people prefer to leave to some ono else, and wish it done with a minimum of publicity, But among many activities Mr,- St. Stair did one thing that got him into the spot lights. hie attended `a performance at one of the burlesque houses and wrote out a description of what he saw, whioii he mailed to a number of men and wo• men, chiefly .clergymen and others meet. ally interested in the suppression of viae, Now, Mile performance had been passed upon by the looal pollee officers as a. fit and decent show, proper for nubile pre- sentation. .But. immediately Mr, St, Olatr sent a description of it ,to a few friends he .was arrested (not summoned)" by the some police department on the ollarge of circulating obscene literature. In defence of the police aoticn it is stat. ed that Mr• St. ()lair's description was not warranted by the actual perform. acme, but as to,,,this there - le conflicting evidence, Substantialwitnessessupport fag Mr. St. Olair's draetio condemnation Of the show'were not wanting at the trial, and the whole affair has served to arouse much bitter feeling against the glass of performance put on at these bur. lesque theatres. They are attended chiefly by men and boys a woman being only occasionally seen in the audiences. They draw houses ranging from .1,000 to 1,500 mush at each one of 12 parformanoee' a week, every afternoon. and evening, and, as their prioee are not partioularly cheap: they aro veritable gold mines for the pro. praetors. Smoking is . allowed, and the ' whole atmosphere is- not particularly ale. eating, to say the least.. TORONTO GROWING LIKE A WEED. • O The eonplotion of the aity'e assessment on which taxes for the year 1913 Will be paid shows that the total amusement has mcreated in a year by the remarkable figure of 583,000,000, and the aggregate now etando at $426,000,000. These figures are eloquent -'of the city's growth. Over half l Of the increase was made in ward three, which includes Yonge street, where there has not beon eo much actual growth ae there hap been increase in values, caused by the general groWth of the city, and while in Same fnatanoes on Yonge and nearby streets assessments havo been doubled over last year, they aro, in all caeee, RUE Tar below rolling values, The assessors' estimate of population is 410,000. It is adtnitted, however, that assessors never got them all, so that the police census of 425,000 probably most a0• eurately represents the present size of this centre, The increase in a year has been 1,000, and this dons not lnoindo an. hoate one, In a doped() Toronto's popula• Mon ]las in0reae0d by 106 per cent, are• cod hot equalled 1 U the r 1 n led an other cit y y of �� y 00000 population In motion. 4 p p A Detroit Which in that period has become till "cad pita1 of. the ahtomobile industry,' has the next boot reoortl, namely St per tont., but Toronto l gro91119 has riot been cin,. Sued to any one industry, Thou comes FACT AND FANCY. More waist, lees speed. China has 00 forests.'' Rain has never fallen in Iquique. A girl who marries an old man far his money may, perhaps, he said to bo checkmated, Electrically ripened ohees:e has a harsh flavor, A woman can't be trusted too far, nor a man too near. The faanaus Latakia tobacco crop averages only 360' tons a year. Electric glances are all right, but they never yet produced a shook of hair. Wo offer, subject to prior sale St. Lawrence' Flour Mills Co. Limited 6% 1st Mortgage Sinking Fund Bonds DUE 1931 Price: 102 and Interest Canada Securities Corporation, United Montreal, Toronto, Landon, nd n, 6nk. YOUR CHILDREN'S HOBBIES PIIACTICAI, AND STRAIGHT TALK TO PARENTS. No Live Tiling Should. Ile Allowed TO Suffer ter a Chlld'd While. Encourage children to take that/ hobby seiioasly.' That is a moral duty of all parents, for hobbies pro, perly managed are most excellent aids to the formation of character. Scores of things first adopted with childish enithuaiasm as stere spare. time pastime, have developed into real professions, and many suooese. ful-folk in various walks of life have soored their earliest triumnphe as children following a pet hobby,. It is a mistake to sneer at or ridie cule a ohikl's hobby—to refer to it in a cynical way. Sarcasm ie the sour milk- of human kindness; few grown-ups can combat it fully, and no child can stand against the bat- tery. Parents and grown-ups gen- erally should encourage a boy or girl with their chosen hobby—syme pathize with them; cheer them on their way, whether they soore bri,1• lantly or fail deplorably. A FEW HINTS. So far as it is praetioable, let every boy and girl have a free elides in their hobby. It ie well for them to exercise their individuality so far. Forcing.a hobby on a child is as futile as forcing a boy into an unsuitable profession. It is abso- lutely necessary for a hobby to be congenial if it is to have beneficial results. Of course, circumstances must have a certain aanonn4 of in- fluence, A child cannot keep poul- try without a run, or do gardening without a tiny plot. Whatever hobby is adopted, by a boy or girl, though, it must be a matter of complete. understanding that the responsibility which it in- volves belongs to them. They must realize that the pursuit of their. bobby brings thein certain duties— that they oannot do the "nice part," and leave the "dirty" work for somebody else, for example. PETS AND PUNISHMENT, The sense of responsibility should be most especially emphasized in the case of children having live pets for their 'hobby. They must be taaugght :that their pets are not toys, e used at their pleasure, but that they are weaker than they, and dependent upon them for well-be- ing. After being taught how to food and attend to the animals in . proper manner, they must be left to do it alone. Failure or forget- fulness to attend to a pet except through dow•nri it t inadve g rtence— g should be punished, if possible, p , peas ble, in some similar way. No live thing should be allowed tce suffer for a child's whim. If possible, do let the children have a definite place in which they Val carry out their hobbies. It saves endless discussions, bothers, and hasty words which are sure later to be regretted. It is usually futile to expect a boy or girl to "do" any- thing with their hobby if they al- ways have to break off in the mid- dle—which may be spoliation of of-. fort—because the table on which they are working is required for something or otller, It is usually feasible to convert an attic or box. roorn into a "children's den" ; or ib is quite worth while to run up a wooden shed in the garden, if no room indoors is available, NO "MONEY GRUBBING." To encourage children to give their hobby a profitable side is quite a good thing. It gives them a glimpse of the solid returns which come from well -directed effort. For a parent to take the results of their bay's or their girl's hobby as simple dues is an utter mistake; they should be paid for at regular mar- ket rates. Parents who are afraid of the plan making their children "money grubbers" can have the. money directed into same charitable course, if they please. Butt 5 is much better—end fairer—to allow the child. to do es they please with such earnings, insisting, ae the came time, that they bear personal" ly the expenses incurred by their hobby. It does not Snake a boy or girl miserly. One thing mot's. P child has a real, good reason foe changing their hobby, let them ; butt do not let it be n matter of "whims." Be firm against a constant ringing of elianges—of airing up one hobby for a fresh ens directly theformer loses its novelty. Great minds had rather deserve contentporalieons applaltse, without.. obtaining it, than obtain it without deserving 5; if it follow theta, it ie w+ell; bet they will nob deviate to follow 5, With inferior rinds the rverse is observable; so that they eau •command the flattery of knaves while liven, they care not for the execrations. of honest men when dead, Milton noithot' aspired to present fame, nor even expected it e but (to use his own weeds) his "high •ambition wits to lenYe Sone- thi:ng so written to after ages, .111A they 5 " t v , hould not willingly loth lett die." v td•a g. Mid d Cairon l e h. ' fi v o aeivrd it tv e onld much rather filet posterity should inanire why its st•atees were erected to Riau, than why the/ were, • • Complete particulars and current prices on -selected issues of Canadian Government, Municipal and Core; ,poration bonds are containedin our, QUARTIRLY .. BOND LIS' ooronEn.'lois Investors are under no obligation in obtaining this list: Pk OMIrIOT1;SE SGRPOR 103 ,LIMITED., 26 KING ET. EAST CST/4e1,15HW] 11001 CANADA LIFE BCDG.>,� TORONTO LONDON, ENG.) MONTREAL EXPLANATION OF EUGENICS ALL ABOUTTHE SCIENCE OF RACE CULTURE. Eugenism Is Really 'a Dcyelopnent of the Theory of Evolu- tion. These is a good—ear bad—time coming. this Eugenist will tell you that it is good, grand, splendid ; and when he runs short of magnifi- cent and enthusiastic adjectives, he will tell you that the Eugenic policy needs only to be put in force, and the Millennium hues dome, says Lon- don Answers, Eugenics is the ecienoe which con- •earns itself with the development of the human race—"lace culture," it is called. The deteriarattion of the human race is to be arrested. A new world is to arise in which there will be no "unfit" or "defectives." In body, mind, and character 'we shall be a race of giants. We may not accept it, but simply stated, Eugenism is this—that man is a growth out of, or a development from, lower farms of life. There ought to be continual progress to- wards perfection, but there isn't, We can all see that, QUALITIES OR DEFECTS. The Eugenist takes the law of heredity whicll few deny—and is going to prevent it worldng in one . direction, and make it do overtime in another. This law of heredity— thee virtues, es vices, gifts,qualities, 8 , deficienci os bodily or mental are handed an from parents to children —is the great factor in race culture. For instance, whether the time whichis coating will be a good time for you depends on what your fa- ther, grandfather, and great-grand- father left you. Not money or pro- perty, bue qualities or defects. Man is going to be sorted out and class- ed. Some will be marked for well, let us call it disappearance. They won't like 5-iit will be a bad time for them; but the Eugen- •-i ist will tell you that it will leave the world better! The rest will be per- mitted to survive—if they do not deteriorate. We shall -have to be careful I If we have inherited good qualities, we must develop them; if the reverse we must shed our in- heritance and acquire, with all the proanptibude we can, a set of good qualities which will enable us to pass the "fit" or "unfit" test. •POOH-POOH AND THE POLIOS. • The Eugenists are on the war- path, .and, being very "fit" them- selves, they are going to eliminate the "unfit." We 'mush not pooh- pooh these excellent people. Eu- genics is the coming solanoe; it may sooei be a practical issue in polities. ".Eugenist" and "Non-Eugenist„ will fight their battle at the polls, and, if the feet that Eugenists num- ber among their ranks the cleverest men and the biggest thinkers in the world counts for anything, they will win. Their creed is that we ought.de- liberately to consider the health, character, and qualities of,the suc- ceeding generations. They say we have frustrated the working out of Nature's law, "the survival of bhe fittest;" by a mistaken compassion which cherishes and takers care of the unfit. In future the "unfit" in body, character, ax mind will either be segregated—kept in enclosures —or tneinerated 1 We may still marry—love is not exactly banished—but the .fie will snot be permitted to mate with the unfit.' Health certificates will be compulsory. The Stalls will, there- fore, settle byan iron law who shall be the fathers and mothers of the fa next generation. Every child will be then "well: born," which le, roughly, the meaning of the word "eugenic." . BtJBGI,A1I,...,LV, BISHOP. "--" .. ,. ,• . gut the re- `On'e professor dec`1'aTted�.,- 't cent Eugeaast Congress: bh t .f!'.,, had to choose his own father., he `" would prefer a robust burglar to a consumptive„ bishop I One—the bielrop—would launch him into the world. tin ftt And th , e . , e nth r would carnia 1 b nob, Unfortunately, p 9 I consumptive bishop, did not dwell upon the probability that the robust "l tirghar aught -hand on his burgling instincts! The choice would seem to lay between a respectable eon- slumpbive and a robust thief 1 Eugenists say the human race is on the down grade ; that bhe impe- tus of evolution, aided by civiliza- tion, is exhausted, and that each generation now Produces niiore and more of the phyeioally, mentally, and monal:ly unfit. .Much of this, if not all, is due to unsuitable mar- riages. So, for a whole generation, the "unfit" shall not be permitted to marry. ' Hereditary diseases would then be stamped out—vices, too. We shall no longer excuse the violent temper by eaying : "Alt, his —or her—father was just the same! It's inherited I" II: BATTALIONS OF CALAMITIES OASES OP ALMOST INCREDI- BLE MISFORTUNE. If You Think Yourself Unlucky Read the Following True. Stories.. An old man sits in the back pee- ler of a little house in Enfield Look. He is almost bland; he is so crippled that he can hardly rise un- aided from his chair, says London Answers, "Yes," he says, "I've had more than my share of bad luck. It be- gan in 1885, when I hunt my right arm. That ot'bet ter n a cl I went 8 tet back to work; but in the following year I fell, and injured my log. I''m lame still from that. The next year, 1887, 1 lost my right eye. Then bhe unlucky spell seemed to cease a while; and for eight years notIi•wg very bad happened. went on working in the Small Arms Factory. But in 1895 I had a bad fall, which laid me up for .a long time, and two years after that a splash of hot metal struck my left eye, and left me nearly blind, I went on trying to work, but in 1907 I caught it again, and smashed up my left hand, losing two fingers." Here is another. There has just died, at the advanced age of eighty- seven, a woman who, by reason of the extraordinary misfortunes which have dogged her footsteps, became known all over America as the "trouble woman. of Kentucky." She had a family of six children, of whom all except one died violent decals, • The youngest was scalded to death, the eldest burned in a great fire; another was shat in a riot; a fourth was killed by the roof of his 'house felling upon him; while the fifth son was driving, when his horse ran away,. and he was flung out on his head and killed. TWINS' INCLUDED. The daughter's husband also died a violent death, and so did . the daughter's son. The poor old mo- ther survived all her family, and them at last fell downstairs and broke a leg, dying as the result of the injury, Some families seem to be haunted by ill -luck in the shape of illness. The following ease we' have on no less authority than that of. the `Lancet," and it refers' to a fam- ily living in London : (1) Nurse has abscess_; (2) eldest boy, adenoids; (3) . all fondly, infectious sore' throats; (4), all children, mumps; (5) two children, measles; (8) nurse, scarlet favor;, (7) three children, scarlet fever; (8) the baby, mea- sles; (9) three children, whooping cough; (10)' all children down with a rash; (11) a boy ill with chicken- pox; (12) twins born, increasing the number of children to eight; (13) a girl gets diphtheria." And all with- in a apace of two years ! Think of the doctor's . bill, not to mention the other expenses, and be thankful that such ill -luck has not befallen you t '° As these eases show, some indivi- duals or families are -pursued by ill - luck of a definite kind; but there are other people. who get all sorbs. A young woman named Regina Goldner has a record difficult to beat. • AND STILL LIVING. First, the ceiling of her room col- lapsed as elle lay in bed, and she was dreadfully injured by the. mass of ,plaster falling on +her. She' got better, and invested all her Savings (£80) in a ema11 'restaurant. • Her partner stole the money, and cleared out, leaving her to face the creditors. The next thing that hap- pened was that she fell off a tram and got concussion of the brain. As she lay in hied, getting better, something extraordinary went wrong with the gas fittings, and she was almost asphyxiated. Then came an attack of blood poisoning, caused by a pin -prick in the arm, and- as she ,was being treated for this, the nurse, through an apothecary's e car s mists. p ke.. gave Vo he ,g her, instead of medicine, a dose of poi- son, which very nearly, though not quite, finished -her. R+' TO GET POWER .FROM TIDES. Prussian Government Aids Com- pany Formed at Hamburg. A company has been formed in Hamburg, Germany, for the utilize. tion on a large"scale of the power of the tides. Me initiator is a Hamburg engi- neer, Herr Emil Pein, who has de- voted. fifteen years to experiments and has now succeeded in gaining the co-operation of the Prussian Government. The electricity gen- erated, it is estimated, will supply nearly the whole of Schleswig-Hol- stein north of the Biel Canal' with light and power. The works will be at Husum, on the: coast of ' Schleswig. Opposite Husum, at a distance of a couple of kilometers, lies the North Frisian island of Nordstrand. Two roughly parallel dams will connect the Nordstrand with the mainland and the large area thus enclosed will form the tidal reser- voir. The reservoir will be divided into. three basilrs. In the middle of tho south dam will rise a barge pow- er house. The mechanism adopted allows the generation of power all day and night, The variations in the tidal force at different hours will be com- pensated for by the use of aocumu- latons. A current of 15,000 volts will be distributed to all places within 80 or 100 kilometers and transformed locally to 220 volts; The estimated cost of generating the electricity will only be about two cents a horse -power' an hour, 54 bf SURE TO BE FOUND OUT. U. ,1 Teach r—• e No w you have in front of you . iihe north, on yyenta,' i r1 I Y 'right the eget, , on your left the west. What havo you behind you 2" theprofessor,ha Small Boy ---"A patch on my pants. • I told mother seed se' " " ving shied from the Y e It, IN AN INSANE PRISON -HOUSE Tilil GREAT ENGLISH ASYLUl1M,. AT BRIM DDIOOIL A Guest at the Female Patient8' Ball Teals' of Meeting Some of the Inmate's. "A oharmin'g woman 1" I' said to myself, as I conducted my partner. in the dance hack to her seat— sweet-voiced, gentle -faced, with the charm of well-bred manners, says a writer in London Answers. What was such a woman doing in this "galley," I wondered, as I took my seat by her side? Then, all uninvited, she told me, in a law, musical bones, and with all the winning oa'ndor of a child, the story of a crime which a few years earlier had sent a thrill of horror through me, and which had taken husband, children, and liberty from her. Then I knew. But how pitiful, how incredible it all was! I was privileged to be a guest at the Female Patients' Ball at Broad- moor—that prison -house of the in- sane which stands so massive and lonely in its setting of fax -stretch- ing moorland -and I had just had one of the most enjoyable waltzes of my life—with a murderess! Past me, as I sat listening to my sweet- faced companion, were whirling scores of other women, beautifully gowned, bright-eyed, happy; most of them, like my partner, had stood in the shadow of the gallows for THE TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE. One by one, some of the most famous were later pointed out to me by my friend, the doctor. That white-haired lady, with the air of a duchess, in a Paris gown, scatter- ing jewel -flashes with every move- ment, had offered poisoned sweets to the children :she mat in the streets, with the ineanedelusion that the man she loved, and whose wife she 'had similarly tried to poison, would acquit her of any guilty knowledge of the deadly nature of the sweets. That other woman, the similing, pretty face, had drown- ed her baby -boy in his bath in a with the girlish 'grace of figure and mood of madness. Murderesses, or would-be mur- deresses, all the gay, laughing, chattering crowd of women whose feet tripped so light-h:eartedly; and. all mad,: according to the finding of the jury, when the orimminal impulse seized them. And ,yet—so strange was it all in no West End ball- room would you find women more charming or more sane in manner and appearamee. And iso it is wherever you wander through this vast prison -house which harbors the irresponsible onsible criminal "during his Majesty's pleasure," and which so strangely combines the comforts of a good ho- tel with the CONDITIONS OF DURANCE. In this room, as cosy as many a West Find club -room., are groups of well-dressed gentlemanly men, playing cards, draughts,: and chess with all the amiability and courtesy of the best -ordered society; or reading or gossiping over the pa- pers in the luxury of well -padded armehains, while soft -footed waiters moue among them with cups of cof- fee. In an adjaeenit room you hear the click of billiard -balls and the sound of cultured voices.. _And each of these happy, well-groomed "club men" has been within a few soaps of the gallows or the convict's broad -arrow. The white-haired, benevolent, - looking main who is discussing poli- ties through the smoke curling from a shilling cigar murdered the girl who loved and trusted him, daring a stroll in oountrer lanes. His com- panion, with the silvery hair and mild blue eyes, shot an acrobat through the Heart at the stage -door of a London musio-hall. Of the quartette who. are so amiably play- ing a game of bridge together)three have taken the lives of men ; the fourth, by a miracle, escaped the "BRAND OF CAIN." That many of these prisoners of the King's pleasure are of good birth and ample means, o.ne need not be told, Nowhere will you meet with more courtesy of more refined taste, to which Broadmoor permits. full indulgence. One "patient," whose invitation I accepted to a game of chess and to one of the best cigars I had ever smoked, was a man of rare cour- tesy and refinement, His room, to which he conducted me with the graciousness of a Grand Seigneur, was lined with costly prints; its bookshelves were crowded with rare first editions. And this "perfeet gentleman," many •a yeas ago, shot a complete stranger dead at sight the Embankment! Bee 'all Broadmoor patients are net res happily circumstanced. In another portion of the prison are confined men and women whose in- sanity • has come after oonvictaone and who, should their sanity re- turn, di11 bo sent back to complete the terina to whieia they have been sentenc(• Bobby="Tleis eailor must have r, been f as acrobipt. litma a bit � a lNa —"Why, ear 4" Bobby—"13eeanse the book aye, 'aiaving sit his pips he sat tlot'n an his chest,' " j1IIIIIINIbilli 1� )},• BAKING P °WD MADE. 1 N CANADA CON'T'AINS NO ALUM CONFORMS TO THE HIGH STANDARD OF GILLETT'S GOODS, J niewM ST•LIGHi71 1111 III 011 1111 1 111 111 1 11111111111111111111 11111 111111 11 1 1,1 11111 I II I II III I TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE INTERESTING COSSIP FROM ONTARIO'S CAPITAL. Olsposal of St.James Square—St. Clair. Cass a Peculiar Ono—Toronto" Phenomenal Growth.. Quite a tempest has been created about the prospective disposal of St, Jams Square, the valuableblockof land bound. ed obit , , Vcand O. Street,, inGouldtheGerrardcentre 01 iwtoriahish. stands thhurohe veuerable building housing the Education Department and Normal School. For ren. eons of convenience the Education Depart wont le to forsake the propitiate that have known it since the days of Egerton Ryer, son, and henceforth will be ]soused with the other departments of government in the Parliament Buildings, a section of the new wing being designed for that special purpose. = As to any removal of the NOT. mal School or Provincial Museum no an- nouncement has yet been made. But au official statement, the other day, sailing for osiers for the whole Normal School. Property caused• everyone to jump to the conclusion that the Government wag of- fering it for sale. Immediately the city Press and officials and oitizene generally, perhaps with something of the spirit which lute earned for Toronto the nickname of Hogtown," began to clamor that the property should not be sold, but that 1t should be pre. rented to the corporation of Toronto, as a public park. The modesty of the request is appreciated when it is stated that St. James Square is worth approximately one million dollars, although it is only a. little patchoneach- of side. land bounded by one city block TORONTO'S MORAL RIGHT. Toronto's argument is that originally the Provinoial government :paid only 18,000 for the square, that the tremendous increase Ilse been brought about by rea- son of the city'sgrowth and improve. meats, and that therefore the "unearned increment" is the city's by moral right. It is also pointed out that the property has enjoyed exemption from taxes, which according to the sensationally displayed fied to upwards paper, would mButano one has pointed out that while the Province has benefited by the iuoreas° in values in Toronto, the city of Toronto has in its turn benefited to an untoldamount by having had located .here the Normal School and the Department of Edneation. Some of the papers have been kicking up a great fuse about the matter. But meanwhile, Sir James Whitney site tight. A deputation from the City Connell inter. viewed hint, but they lost courage to ask nim for a ft i of theeo rt P ne y. Their only request was that the city be given a chance- to buybefore the Square was sold to a private 'individual, and this Sir James readily assented to. There is a suspicion that the Premier has no futon. tion of selling the property, and that he merely wanted to find Ontwhat its actual value ie. If this is the case he must be enjoying the storm that is being waged Everyone is agreed that it would be calamity if the property passed i Private hands, and this breathing spot one of the most congested districts w closed up. But if it is to become a ,e park the difference of opinion arises tto. whether the city ought not to pay .rittsburg with 86 per pent:, Cleveland with 70 per cent., New York with 7 per cent„ Buffalo 42 per Dent„ Chicago and St. Louis 35 par cent., Philadelphia 23 per Dent,. and San Francisco 22 Per -cent. Los Angeles is the only city of Approximately Toronto'e Elise that has enjoyed a higher rate of growth. It has now about 375,000 and ton years ago was nowhere. Toronto is now the twelfth city in Amerioa. These boastluge as to growth and size are be ooming the everyday stook in trade of the average citizen's conversation, but under the. circumstances a little bgasting 'may be forgiven. BALL TEAM'S JOB ENDED. The winning of the pennant by the To. ronto Baseball team does not seem to have created the. enthusiasm that the came feat did : five years ago. But the performance was cleanout and altogether creditable, and the fans are happy. Meanwhile the players, referred to Joe -tit - arty as the ''.hired help,' have hurried off to their respective .homes, all far south of the boundary line, with the exception of the solitary home brew, O'Hara, who is a product of. our own corner. lots. in the winter time "Bill," in partnership with "Jack" White, another baseball star, runs a billiard and pool robm in his home town. Most of the others likewise have profitable winter occupations which sup- plement the substantial salaries they draw in .the summer time as ball players. Some are dentists, others have shops and others aro in other lines of business, "Joe" Kelly, the manager, lives in Bal- timore. Hie father.iu-law is the demo- cratic "boss" there and as euoh is said to hold in the hollow of his hand all the municipal and other patronage of that large pity. They do say that Joe" him. self goes on the pay roll at the rate of 85 a day and that hill official title is that of messenger. Next year the ahampionehip winners will all be back, barring aooidente, as the only man drafted by the big leagues was Fisher, a catcher who did not make good and was farmed out to a minor league team. Of course, Some of the stars may be sold, but this is unlikely, as the own- ers are understood to have made money, and therefore are not likely to liquidate their talent. Sc that the prospects for good ball in 1913 are roey. LACROSSE -IN TILE DOLDRUMS. In contrast to the prosperity in base• ball is the financial difficulty that all the bin lacrosse clubs find themselves In. Without exception they have lost money. They have paid fancy salaries and have drawn poor gates, sometimes only a few hundred people. Mr. R. J. Fleming got the coveted ohampionahip with his To- ronto,, but he is reported to have lost the most money of all, because he paid the highest salaries. Friends of lacrosse are earnestly discussing the question of what is wrong with Canada's 'national gains that it has lost ite attractiveness to the public. Some advocate a lacroese commission, which would keep salaries within bounds and control t of other matters connected with the ane. But this h g,wile of might save some mousy would not overcome Public apathy. No ]otter of ex• planation of that indifference has yet been forthcoming than that the game was killed by long. years of mismanage. meat in which foal tactics were tacitly encouragaged finally resulting. in public disgust. Now it is found the game can- not bo reinstated in a. day. It will pro. bably take many long years of coned. ntlous work to overcome the clients of the period of former disastrous policy. TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY e nto in as sty as for There is a firm in Toronto who give hen• dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year with but little effort. This firm manufao- turea reliable family remedies, beautiful flet preparations and many necessary ousehold goods', euoh as baking powde, aching compounds, stove, furniture and etal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each locality can secure exclusive right to distribute these preparations to their nesgghbore. .They pay 100 per cent. commission to their agents. ''rite and seonre solo agency be- fore it le ton late, Address The Home Supply Co., Dept. 20, Merrill Building, To. Tanto, Ont., for full particulars. T]iE-CASE OF REV. R. B. ST. CLAIR One of the. strangest proseautioue To- ronto has seen in a .long time was the trial of Rev. R. 8. St, Clair, secretary of to an organization known as the Toronto 1i Vigilance Committee, on a charge of cfr• w oulatingg obscene literature. Many per - sous who have come in contact with Mr, "n St. Clair and the Vigilance Committee which he brought into being, havo not been disposed to take him over seriously. He has not been in Toronto long, and since his sojourn here he has evinced something like a monomania on. the sub• jest of clearing up vice. This, is the kind of lob that many very good people prefer to leave to some ono else, and wish it done with a minimum of publicity, But among many activities Mr,- St. Stair did one thing that got him into the spot lights. hie attended `a performance at one of the burlesque houses and wrote out a description of what he saw, whioii he mailed to a number of men and wo• men, chiefly .clergymen and others meet. ally interested in the suppression of viae, Now, Mile performance had been passed upon by the looal pollee officers as a. fit and decent show, proper for nubile pre- sentation. .But. immediately Mr, St, Olatr sent a description of it ,to a few friends he .was arrested (not summoned)" by the some police department on the ollarge of circulating obscene literature. In defence of the police aoticn it is stat. ed that Mr• St. ()lair's description was not warranted by the actual perform. acme, but as to,,,this there - le conflicting evidence, Substantialwitnessessupport fag Mr. St. Olair's draetio condemnation Of the show'were not wanting at the trial, and the whole affair has served to arouse much bitter feeling against the glass of performance put on at these bur. lesque theatres. They are attended chiefly by men and boys a woman being only occasionally seen in the audiences. They draw houses ranging from .1,000 to 1,500 mush at each one of 12 parformanoee' a week, every afternoon. and evening, and, as their prioee are not partioularly cheap: they aro veritable gold mines for the pro. praetors. Smoking is . allowed, and the ' whole atmosphere is- not particularly ale. eating, to say the least.. TORONTO GROWING LIKE A WEED. • O The eonplotion of the aity'e assessment on which taxes for the year 1913 Will be paid shows that the total amusement has mcreated in a year by the remarkable figure of 583,000,000, and the aggregate now etando at $426,000,000. These figures are eloquent -'of the city's growth. Over half l Of the increase was made in ward three, which includes Yonge street, where there has not beon eo much actual growth ae there hap been increase in values, caused by the general groWth of the city, and while in Same fnatanoes on Yonge and nearby streets assessments havo been doubled over last year, they aro, in all caeee, RUE Tar below rolling values, The assessors' estimate of population is 410,000. It is adtnitted, however, that assessors never got them all, so that the police census of 425,000 probably most a0• eurately represents the present size of this centre, The increase in a year has been 1,000, and this dons not lnoindo an. hoate one, In a doped() Toronto's popula• Mon ]las in0reae0d by 106 per cent, are• cod hot equalled 1 U the r 1 n led an other cit y y of �� y 00000 population In motion. 4 p p A Detroit Which in that period has become till "cad pita1 of. the ahtomobile industry,' has the next boot reoortl, namely St per tont., but Toronto l gro91119 has riot been cin,. Sued to any one industry, Thou comes FACT AND FANCY. More waist, lees speed. China has 00 forests.'' Rain has never fallen in Iquique. A girl who marries an old man far his money may, perhaps, he said to bo checkmated, Electrically ripened ohees:e has a harsh flavor, A woman can't be trusted too far, nor a man too near. The faanaus Latakia tobacco crop averages only 360' tons a year. Electric glances are all right, but they never yet produced a shook of hair. Wo offer, subject to prior sale St. Lawrence' Flour Mills Co. Limited 6% 1st Mortgage Sinking Fund Bonds DUE 1931 Price: 102 and Interest Canada Securities Corporation, United Montreal, Toronto, Landon, nd n, 6nk. YOUR CHILDREN'S HOBBIES PIIACTICAI, AND STRAIGHT TALK TO PARENTS. No Live Tiling Should. Ile Allowed TO Suffer ter a Chlld'd While. Encourage children to take that/ hobby seiioasly.' That is a moral duty of all parents, for hobbies pro, perly managed are most excellent aids to the formation of character. Scores of things first adopted with childish enithuaiasm as stere spare. time pastime, have developed into real professions, and many suooese. ful-folk in various walks of life have soored their earliest triumnphe as children following a pet hobby,. It is a mistake to sneer at or ridie cule a ohikl's hobby—to refer to it in a cynical way. Sarcasm ie the sour milk- of human kindness; few grown-ups can combat it fully, and no child can stand against the bat- tery. Parents and grown-ups gen- erally should encourage a boy or girl with their chosen hobby—syme pathize with them; cheer them on their way, whether they soore bri,1• lantly or fail deplorably. A FEW HINTS. So far as it is praetioable, let every boy and girl have a free elides in their hobby. It ie well for them to exercise their individuality so far. Forcing.a hobby on a child is as futile as forcing a boy into an unsuitable profession. It is abso- lutely necessary for a hobby to be congenial if it is to have beneficial results. Of course, circumstances must have a certain aanonn4 of in- fluence, A child cannot keep poul- try without a run, or do gardening without a tiny plot. Whatever hobby is adopted, by a boy or girl, though, it must be a matter of complete. understanding that the responsibility which it in- volves belongs to them. They must realize that the pursuit of their. bobby brings thein certain duties— that they oannot do the "nice part," and leave the "dirty" work for somebody else, for example. PETS AND PUNISHMENT, The sense of responsibility should be most especially emphasized in the case of children having live pets for their 'hobby. They must be taaugght :that their pets are not toys, e used at their pleasure, but that they are weaker than they, and dependent upon them for well-be- ing. After being taught how to food and attend to the animals in . proper manner, they must be left to do it alone. Failure or forget- fulness to attend to a pet except through dow•nri it t inadve g rtence— g should be punished, if possible, p , peas ble, in some similar way. No live thing should be allowed tce suffer for a child's whim. If possible, do let the children have a definite place in which they Val carry out their hobbies. It saves endless discussions, bothers, and hasty words which are sure later to be regretted. It is usually futile to expect a boy or girl to "do" any- thing with their hobby if they al- ways have to break off in the mid- dle—which may be spoliation of of-. fort—because the table on which they are working is required for something or otller, It is usually feasible to convert an attic or box. roorn into a "children's den" ; or ib is quite worth while to run up a wooden shed in the garden, if no room indoors is available, NO "MONEY GRUBBING." To encourage children to give their hobby a profitable side is quite a good thing. It gives them a glimpse of the solid returns which come from well -directed effort. For a parent to take the results of their bay's or their girl's hobby as simple dues is an utter mistake; they should be paid for at regular mar- ket rates. Parents who are afraid of the plan making their children "money grubbers" can have the. money directed into same charitable course, if they please. Butt 5 is much better—end fairer—to allow the child. to do es they please with such earnings, insisting, ae the came time, that they bear personal" ly the expenses incurred by their hobby. It does not Snake a boy or girl miserly. One thing mot's. P child has a real, good reason foe changing their hobby, let them ; butt do not let it be n matter of "whims." Be firm against a constant ringing of elianges—of airing up one hobby for a fresh ens directly theformer loses its novelty. Great minds had rather deserve contentporalieons applaltse, without.. obtaining it, than obtain it without deserving 5; if it follow theta, it ie w+ell; bet they will nob deviate to follow 5, With inferior rinds the rverse is observable; so that they eau •command the flattery of knaves while liven, they care not for the execrations. of honest men when dead, Milton noithot' aspired to present fame, nor even expected it e but (to use his own weeds) his "high •ambition wits to lenYe Sone- thi:ng so written to after ages, .111A they 5 " t v , hould not willingly loth lett die." v td•a g. Mid d Cairon l e h. ' fi v o aeivrd it tv e onld much rather filet posterity should inanire why its st•atees were erected to Riau, than why the/ were, •