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FLAN TO CREATE A. DOMINIONTINIRELANIY
NOW .BEFO RE THE SINN FEINERS
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Ulster to Retain Present Powers and Imperial Representa-
tion With the Option of Joining the Dominion Parha-
ment-Boundary Changes in Frontiers of North
and South.
.A. despatch from London sioyo;-A
draft of alternative propesals for an
Irish settlement was given by. the
Government on Thursday to the Sinn
Fein leaders. Mr, Barton left London
Thursday evening with the documents
which will he considered by the Sinn
Fein Cabinet. If the Sinn Fein indi-
eates readiness- to discuss the new
echeme, then the Government will eula-
mit it to Ulster, it is hoped, by Tues-
day.
The alternative proposal had al-
ready been described in generalterms.
It would create Ireland a Dominion,
Ulster exercising her eption•to remain
out of the Dominion Parliament and
to retain her preeent powers and lin:
peri& representation, but on this *-
portant point Ulster would at any
time have the option at her own re-
quest of joining the Dominion Parlia-
ment. The Sinn Fein are to give their
allegiance under a form to he agreed,
Part of the new proposal is a boun-
dary commission to reexamine the
frontiers of Ulster and the South,
with a view to some changes 'which
would be advantageous both to the
North ond the South during, the period
they are eeparated, Seeh a laoiintlary
conunissien, it is thought, might get
yid f.gonie of the difficult problems
in Tyrone and Fernuinagh, and if in
those counties sone of the Sinn Fein
population were allotted to the South
perhaps in exchange Ulster might he
allotted Some territory in County
Donegal, Which would render the geo-
graphical position of Derry City less
aiunraJous.
The Government's undertaking to
submit fresh proposals to Ulster be-
fore next Tuesday, the time limit set
by Premier Sir James Craig this week
in his deelinetia 'to accept the Gov-
ernmentsa previous proposal, is under-
stood to be conditioned upon the ac-
ceptance of the new proposals by Sinn
.Fein, and upon the inclusion in eudh
possible acceptance of an .agreement
en thd part of Sinn Fein to swear al-
legianceto the Crown. Should this
agreement not be rallied it is under-
stood Ulster will not be approached
again, and that negotiations with Sinn
Fein rurtaild then terminate.
H.R.H. SCORES SUCCESS
IN FIRST BOAR HUNT
Prince of Wales Given •Mag-
nificent Receptions Through-
out Native States.
A despatch from Jodhpur, British
India, sayg-The Prince of Wales en.:
gaged in his first bear hunt at early
dawn on Wednesday with five teams
of men, each team with four spears.
Many women accompanied thehunt-
ing party, Numerous big black boars
were. found. The Prince obtained -his
erg kill by riding down his boar and
securing a clean and vigorous thrust
at a vital spot.
A despatch to The Loudon TimesfrontJ�dbpur,
front Jodhpur, dated Tuesday, eays:
"Fon a week the Prince of Wes,
since leaving Bombay, has been mov-
ing through the native States. It is
impossible to exaggerate the mag-
nificence of 'the receptions or the
levishisess of the hospitality every-,
where. The -Miele week has been
one grand pageant of color, movement,
light and music. With all the gather-
ings and ceremonials, the Prince still
has bad time for polo, hunting, snipe
shooting and good intervals of rest."
The Farmers' University.
Enquiry at the Extension Office of
the University of Toronto this week
elicits the fact that requests for ap-
plication forms for the Short Winter
Course are being received "in bunch-
es." This means that, in a good many1oealities,
totalities, parties of men and teoanen,
young and old, are being organized
by some leading spirit to go in a body
to the Provincial University for the
two weeks commencing February 61h.
Last February there was a good deal
of friendly rivalry as to which county
had the largest number of students
present. York, Simeoe, Halton and
Peel, on account of their proximity,
werajafeseurse, ahead in ntmfbers, but
Huilf.ISXford, Ontario, and Welling-
ton had each a large representation.
Of the thirty-three -counties and dis-
tricts from which students came last
session Essert, Renfrew, Rainy River,
Haliburtom and Muskoka were the
most distant. Last February, too, the
men in attendance greatly outnumber-
ed the women and this will probably
be the case again even though house -
held science bas been added- to the
lig of subjetts. The Executive Board
of the United Farmers of Ontario is
anxious to see the attendance doubled
this year and the authorities of the
provincial university are making, all
arrangements to yrovide two weeks
of profit and pleasure for all who
attend.. -
Canada Produces
Cheapest Aluminum
A despatch from London says:
In some things Canada can beat
Germany at her own game of
cheap production. According to
the Mercantile Guardian, after
going the rounds of the world's
markets, buyers for the first
-time in many months find Cana-
dian aluminum the cheapest,
selling at 1 shilling 21/2 pence
per pound, while the German
product, despite the depreciation
of the mark, is 2 pence dearer.
The Canadian product, which is
often called American because, it
is shipped from New York, is
said to be of exceptional quality.
Hunger Riot s Break
Out in Vienna
A despatch from Vienna says: -
Grave riots have broken out here. The
centre of the city is in the hands of
a mob, due to the anger of the people
at the cost of breadstuffs.
Ten thousand men Marched at noon
into the city. They smashed shops in
Ringatrasse, and hotels and cafes
were stormed. Guests were dragged
from the tables and automobiles in
the streets were stopped while the
occupants were pulled out and their
clothes torn from their backs.
Lord Moinit Stephen, who died on
Nov. 30, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
England, in his 93rd year, was form-
erly President of the Bank of Montreal
and first President of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, of which he was ene
of the chief promotera.
Viscount Lascelles
Whose engagement to H.R.H. Princess
Mary has been officially announced.'
AFTER 'WANDERING SIX THOUSAND YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS
BRIT/SII DELEGATION STANDS FIRM
FOR THE ABOLITION OF SUBMARINES
A. &match from Washington
says: -Complete abolition of the sub -
.marine as , an, inetrument of warfare,
still is regarded by the British dele-
gation as the most preferable decision
to be reached by the armament con-
ference when the question of the sub-
marines is brought up.
While the British delegates realize
that their views as to the unsuitability
of the submarine for. warfare might
not prevail in the conference, they
felt certain it would receive much sym-
pathy in thenvorld at lenge. ,
In anticipation of a lively discus-
sion on this subject before the confer-
ence, one of the highest British auth-
orities to -night set out the. British
attitude as follows:
The submarine hardly can be used
without being abused; in the past it
certainly was a gross abuse of every
rule of war; it destroyed the innocent
and the non -belligerent as well as the
crews of warships. There might he
a legitimate use for the submarine if
it could be confined to operations
against warships; it could not be used
DOLLAR DROPS 50
POINTS IN GERMANY
Stiffening of the .Mark Was
Black Day on Bourse.
A despatch from Berlin says: -The
dollar dropped fifty points on Thurs-
day with the increasing insurance that
a moratorium in reparations payments
is going to be macle. The first. effect
of this stiffening of the mark was•a
black day on the Bourse, but the news
has gone far toward ending the strain
under which Germany has been bend-
ing to the breaking point. If efforts
fOT a moratorium fail after so much
hope had been raised, this will make
things infinitely worse than they were
before. Chancellor Wirth would be
broken and the monk would in all like-
lihood crash to 500 to the dollar within
a week. All eyes are upon Walter
Rathenan, Minister of Reconstruction,
the Government's unofficial envoy,
now in London.
Hope for Better
Jap -Chinese Relations
A despatch from Washington
says: -The opening of conversations
between the representatives of China
and Japan on the Shantung question
has aused great satisfaction in Jap-
anese circles where, it is believed, it
may mark the inauguration of an
epoch of better understanding between
the two nations.,
The Japanese viewpoint was ex-
plained as one of conviction that Ja-
pan should insist, in the negotiations,
upon an agreement to conduct the
Shantung railroad from Taingtau to
Teinan-Fu as a joint Sino-Japanese
enterprise.
No one ever advances who ceorstant-
ly Whits for directions.
against merchant ships without viola-
tion of the rules' of war.
Moreover. the British spokesman
said he deubted seriously whether the
submarine was the wearpon of the
weaker power ageing the stronger.
In response to an inquiry as to
whether the same abjection made to
the submarine might not with equal
force apply to the use of poison gas
or to the dropping of bombs from
airplanes, the British spokesman de-
clared there was a great difference.
It would be impossible, without
great injury to industrial life, he said,
to end the manufacture of chemicals
capable of being turned into poison
gases in time of war. As to airplanes,
which are new a valuable means of
transportation in times of peace, it
would be impossible, he added to check
the development of these new means
of communieation. While these air-
planes, capable of carrying large car-
goes in times of peace, might carry
bombs in time of war, he contended,
the submarines Could not be turned to
any other useful purpose than that of
a weapon of war.
BANDITS SECURE
$40,000 AT THE FALLS
Three Express Company Em-
ployees Held Up With
Pistols.
A despatch from Niagara Falls, N.
Y., says:-Arreed robbers secured loot
valued at $40,000 in a 'holdup of three
express company employees here on
Thursday - night, shortly after six
o'clock. The robbers leaded two strong
boxes into an automobile and drove
away, while many persons watching
them thought it was all a joke.
The three' expressmen were, moving
the two strong -boxes from the express
company office to the train shed of the
New York Central across the street.
As they reached the train shed, four
men stepped out, armed with revol-
vers. Three of the bandits covered
the expressmen, while the fourth ban-
dit put the strong -boxes, which con-
tained $40,000 in currency and valu-
ables, into the auto.
One of the bandits took a revolver
from one of the expressmen,- and the
four escaped without a shot being
fired.
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The highest suspension bridge in
the world is at Fribourg, Switzerland,
where one is thrown over the gorge
of Gotteron, which is 317 feet above
the valley.
Markets of the World
Toronto,
Maultoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
$1,22; No, 2 Northern, $1,25; No,
Sin/.
Manitoba oets---No. 2 CW, 52%c;
No, 8 CW, 501/2e; extra No. 1 feed,
SO'ite; No, 1 feed, 401/2e; No. 2 feed,
4.6e. „
Mai:Robe barley -Nominal,
All SIM above, track, Bay ports.
Amp:icon corn- No. 2 yellow, 66c,
Bay ports.
Ontario eats -No, 2 white, nominal.
Ontario wheat -Nominal,
Barley -No, 3 Puha, test 47 lbs. or
Vetter, 67 to 60e, according to freighte
outside,
ButikWheat-No. 2, 68 to 70c.
Rye -No. 2, 84 to 86e.
Manitoba flour-Firet pats„ $7.40;
second pats., $6.90, Toronto.
Ontario flour -90 per cent. patent,
.bulls seaboard, per barrel, $4,60.
Millfeed-Del, Montreal freight,
bogs included: Bran, per ton, $23 to
$24; ehosts, per ton, $24 to $25; good
feed flour, $1.70 to $1.80.
Baled hay-Traok, Toronto, per
ton, No. 2, $21.50 to $22; mixed, $18.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $12.
Oheese-New. large, 21 to 22c;
twins, 21% to 22%e; triplets, 22% to
2335c. Old, large! 25 to 26c; twins,
25% to 26%e; triplets, '26 to 27c;
Stiltons, new, 26 to 26c.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice 33 to
35c; creamery prints, fresh; No. 1,
48 to 47c; No. 2, 40'to 41C; cooking,
22 to 24c.
Dreesed poultry -Spring chickens,
30 to 85c; roosters, 20 to 25c; fowl,
28c; ducklings, 90 to 35e; turkeys, 46
to 50e; geese, 22 to 27c.
International Court
to Meet at the Hague
A despatch from Geneva says:
-The League of Nations has is-
sued a call for the members of
the International Court of Jus-
tice to -meet at the Hague on
January 30. Formanl opening
of the court is expected early in
February.
Sapphire is Hard Stone.
The sapphire is the next hardest
stone to the diamond.
Denmark's kings have been called
either Christian or Frederick for over
400 years.
Four years is usually as long as
most men can stand driving a. motor-
bus in the City of London.
Manitoba's oldest woman, Nakasta-
kon a member of the Swampy Cree
tribe of Indians, is dead at the age
of 114 years. Naleastakon, whose
name in English means "dancing girl,"
was horn at Moose Factory, on the
Hudson Bay, and was among the first
Indians to welcome Anglican mission-
aries to the province. She died Tues-
day at the Birch River Reserve in
the Northland. During the last few
years she was totally blind and um -
able to walk.
ADMIRAL BEATTY'S VISIT TO CANADA
Admiral Beatty making a speech while he was in Montreal. Beside hi
is a proud little member of the Boys' Naval Brigade.
ILA. Wain.
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Dominion News in Brief
.Halifulx, N.S,-Forty.two Sable
Isloral' ponies have, famived here on
the gOvernanent steadier Lady Laurier,
A number of these animals are taken
from Sable gand every year and meld
by the Dominion Government.
St, John, NB. -Upwards of $6,000,-
000 have been allocated by the Anglo -
Persian Oft Company fgr the Purpose
of, developing the oil shale deposits in
Now Bronewick. The company intends
to erect u 6,000 -ton plant, from which
it is hoped 60,000,000 gallons per an -
mini may be obtained front the de-
posits. The estimate is made that
there is enough shale in the soriea to
;siintilY five plants of 1,500 -ton capa-
city each for 50 years.
Sackville, N.B.-A fox company
with a capital of fifty thoueand dollars:
liaa heen incorporated to engage inj
breeding, and miring foxes, as well
as other fur -bearing animals,
Quebec, Que.-To meet a sudden
dearth in the New York market,
which load been growing for some
time, 200,000 eds valued `at '$100,000
were shipped from Quebec to New
York. They travelled in three speci-
ally constructed barges so arranged
that water could flow in and out of
the vessels at all times, keeping the
fish alive. The significance of a ship-
ment of this veltme may be realized
when it is considered that the annual
import of eels from Canada has been
worth about $85,000 only.
Toronto, Ont. -A syndicate of To-
ronto, Montreal and Hamilton capital-
ists has foamed a company under Do-
minion charter, called the Internation-
al Wheel and Rim Company, Limited,
for the purpose of manrufacturing a
amble disc steel automobile wheel
under the Culp and, Crenan patents
and the new Culp Demountabla
The company has decided to locate its
Sectary in Toronto.
RidgetoWra Ont. -A 190 -acre farm
near here has been purchased for 840,-
000 by the Ontario Government from
A. B. Brien, a well-known live stock
breeder. Work will be begun imme-
diately to convert it into an experi-
mental farm for the development of
specialized crops for which this sec
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 20
to 25c roosters, 20 to 25c 5..1Nfi3 hg
to 25c; roosters, 14 to 16c; fowl, 14 to
22c; ducklings, 22 to 25c; turkeys, 46
to 50c; ,geese, 15 to 20c.
Margarine -23 to 25e.
Eggs -No. 1 storage, 48 to 50e;
select storage, 55 to 57c; new laid
straights, 86 to 88c; new laid, in ear --
tons, 38 to 90c.
Beans -Clara hand-picked, bushel,
$4 to $4.25; primes, $3.50 to $3.75.
Maple products-Syriirp, Per imp.
gal., $2.50; per 5 imp. gels., $2.35.
Maplie sugar, lb., 19 to 22c.
Honey -60 -30 -lb. tins, 14% to 15e
per lb.; 5 -2% -lb. tine, 18 to 17c per
lb.; Ontario comb honey, per sloe, $3.75
to $4.50.
Smoked meats -Hants, med., 25 to
27c; heavy, 25 to 27c; cottage rolls,
27 to 29c; breakfast bacon,. 25 to 30c;
special brand breakfast bacon, 38 to
40c; backs, boneless, 35 to 40e,
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 18
to 20c; clear bellies, 183'a to 201/2c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 14 to 141/2c;
tubs, 14% to 160; pails, 15 to 15%c;
p1r51:e.,
ts, 161/2 to 17c. Shortening, tierces,
13c; tub's, 131/2c; pails, 14,c; prints.,
Choice heavy steers, $6 to $7.75;
basher steerehoire, $6 to $6.50; do,
good, $5 to $6; do, med., $4 to $4.50;
do, coan., $2.50 to $3.50; butcher
heifers, choice, $5.50 to $6; butcher
cows, choice, $4 to $4.50; do, med., $3
to $4; canners and cutters, $1.51 to
$2.50; butcher bulls, good, $3,50 to $4;
do, corn., $2.50 to $3.50; feeders, good,
900 lbs.,- $5 to $5.60; do, fair, $4.50 to
$5; stockers, good, $4 to $4.50; do,
fair, $3 to $4; milkers $60 to $80;
springers, $70 to $90; LtIves, choice,
$10 to $11; do, med., $8 to $10; do,
corn., $3 to $6; lambs, good, $9.50' to
$10; do, corn., $5.60 to $6; sheep,
choice, $3.50 to $4; do, good, $3 to
$3.50; do heavy and bucks, $1 to $2;
hogs, fed and watered, $9.50 to $9.85;
do, f.o.b., $8.85 to $9; de, country
points, $8.75 to $8.85.
Montreal.
Oats, --Can, West. No. 2, 57 to 571/2e;
do, No. 3, 56 to 561/2c. Flour -Man.
spring wheat, firsts, $7.50. Rolled
oats -Bag, 90 lbs., $2.80 to $2.85.
Bram $23,25. Shorts, $25.25. Hay -
No. 2, per ton, canlots, $27 to $28.
Cheese --Finest easterne, 18 to
18%c. Butter -Choicest creamery,
40% to 40%c. Eggs -Selected, 52c.
Potatoes, per bag, earlots, $1 to
$1.20.
Canners and cutters, $1.50 to $2.50;
light heifers, $2.50 to $3; bulls, $2.25
to $8; calves, grassers, $3; med. veal,
$8 to $10; 'lambs, $8 to $8.25; good
sheep, $4; hogs, $10.
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Airplanes and Forest Fires.
Recently the initial trip was made
from Kamloops, British Columbia, of a
new airplane which had been flown up
front Vancouver to be used in patrol
work over the forests M that district
adniinistered by the Dominion Forest.
ry Branch. The machine in use earlier
in the season was returned to Van-
couver for overhauling. The new
plane waspiloted by Major McLaurin
of Vancouver and with him on this
trip were Mr. D. Roy Cameron, dis-
trict forest inspector, and Mr. J, A.
of Ottawa, secretary of the
Air Board of Canada, The trip of 250
'miles was made in three bours and
twenty minutes, There had been a
smoke haze for seine clays, which had
made detection of fires, from the look-
out stations difficult and the use of
the airplane with its greater range of
visibility overcame this. No fires
which Forestry Branch officers did not
know of were discovered, but from the
airplane the fires were classified ac-
cording to their size and importance,
so that suppression measures could he
directed accordingly. In fact so de-
tailed was the observation carried out
by the district forest inspector that
those in the plane could see the fire-
fighters clearly and the kind of work
they were doing.
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tion of Ontario is bemiring fainene,
Spemal attention will be given to the
growing of beans, tobateo, sugar begs
card corn. There is five different kindf$
oX goil Qa the form.
Winnipeg, contracts
issued in Western Canada during the
Month of October totalled $4,092,200,
distributed as follow.; British Col-
umbia, 02,155,100; Alberth, $873,100;
Sasica'Whewen, $471,200; Manitoba,
$586,800. The month's total cot -mime
with the commending month in 1920
very favorably, when the total ania
minted to $2,967,400, and in,1919 when
the total was $2,667,309.
Regina, Sasla,--"Rhirtysoise head of
horses, three head of cattle, twenty-
seven sheep and twenty-two hags are
Saskatchewan's contribution to the
International Livestock Show at Chi-
cago this year. After the exhibition,
the hogs will be slaughtered and sold,
but the horses, cattle and sheep will
go to the agricultural obeys a Guelph,
thlEtsdanriOnton, Alta. -Dredging testa
carried on by a trio of Claresholnt,
Alberta, miners in the vicinity of Hud-
son's Hope in the Peace River coun-
try have proven very satisfactory, ae-
cording to reports brought from the
ground upon thg Completion of the
testing operations: Dirt running at
least $1 in -gold to the cubic yard was
worked and with the opening of spring
the syndicate intends to commence de-
velopment upon a large scale,
Victoria, B.C.-The announcement
that the zinc production of the Trail
Smelter, -Canadian Consolidated Min-
ing and Smelting Co., this year will
be the largest in the history of the
plant has been received with much in-
terest in British Columbia mining cir-
cies. The output is said to be nearly
50 per cent. above that of last year.
A market has been friend in the Ori-
ent, important shipments having been
made to the East recently, thus re-
lieving the surplus stock situation.
Creston, B.C.--All records 'far late-
ness in ripe tomato shipping were
broken this year, when the season
closed with an. export of fifteen crates
of the ripe grade from the R. .1. Long
ranch en October 25.
Their Dream of You. ....
Any man who went to the war very
well knows that remembrance travel.
ing back to the home was no romantic
fiction, but a reality, glowing and go -
tent, hi keeping up the morale of the
soldier. What he wanted more than
anything else that home could sena
hint was a letter. He thought nearly
all the time of the welcome that
awaited him when the command
should come to cease firing.
The domestic incentive is strong in
peace time as in war. A mat has to
keep faith with family, relatives and
friends, even after he has-, lost faith
in himself. They believe in him; and
as long as he has any feeling left of
tenderness toward them he is bound
to justify that belief and he true he-
ea.use they think h,e is true.
It is a natural and an understood
longing in each of us to idealize an-
other. Brutal often is the shock of
disillusionment. The one we thought
steadfast in character, perfectly pre-
dictable in performance, seasoned and
sound as the heart of an oak tree,
turns out to be a broken reed or cen-
trally as soft as pith. Our faith in
home nature is shaken. We wonder
whom we can trust. We are tempted
to believe that all mankind is corrupt
and unreliable.
There is no desert island where we
may live our own lives utterly, with-
out caring for any effect aur acts may
have on others. We axe set in the
midst of an interdependent creation,
and even before asserting that fine
thing, onr own sturdy independence,
we are bound to look about us and
consider what will happen to others
if we do just as we please.
Often the tragedy in the life of the
man who is clown is in the realization
that he has disappointed the hopes -
perhaps even broken the heart -of
one who expected great things of hum
His first incentive to lceep going and
doing is the knowledge that the good
he accomplishes is a source of pride
and satisfaction to some one for
whose respect or affection he deeply
cares. At the lest moment, even, he
may he held back from the commission
of a low, mean deed by the sudden
phantom of dear ones who in the
physical presence are afar and in the
psychic presence are forever near.
That is what the philosopher means
when he says that TIO man is useless
as bong a5 he had a friend. While
friendship lasts there is an influence
given and taken that not merely en-
hances the joy and tempers the sorrow
of a lifetime:hut determines a career
or shapes a Character.
Father Knew.
"Who is the wisest man mentioned
in the Scriptures?" asked a teacher of
one of her Sunday -school class
"Paul," exlistimed the little fellow,
confidently.
"Oh, no, Johnnie; Paul was a very
geed man, but Solomon is mentioned
as the wisest man,"
"Weil, my father says Paul was
the wisest man, because he never mar-
ried, and I think my father ought to
know," replied the boy, emphatically.
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Who has been appointea Regent ova
Ing to the illness of the Mikado.
Books for Children.
One who examines 'the otnput 01
children's books for the current sea -
S011 is impressed by the tore ami et.;
fort represented to formulate juvenild
taste with the best in the arts of hooka
writing and book -making, The chil-
dren of a hundred years ago would
have longed to live in the present age,
could they hive known what pains
would be taken to deck out the old,
favorite stories in lovely new dresses
and to prepare captivating new ones
that engage the skill not only of able
writers but of facile artists, not for-
getful of the spiritof innocent infamy
or al' adolescence.
Tho first aim of children's books in
the long ago was to point a moral.
Every esthetic consideration was sac-
rificed to the holy living and the hely
dying of precomous_little prigs and
moralists. An odor of sanctity- per-
vaded the volume from cover to cover,
and from the clay that her father gave
Lucy three plums and he gave them
to her brothers to the sunny -spring •
afternoon when she passed away re-:
citing hymns, there was one long,
dreary succession of morbid II:entail
process (Imitable the slow salvation
of Inicy's soul from all the unparion-
able sins.
There were also books ,or toys, in
which the clime's:came when Cyril or
Cecil, overleaping all bounds of re-
straint, released a mouse in the achool- ,
room or bought himself a bottle of
sarsaparilla in the village.
Nowadays a boy's book is likely to
be full of wood -craft and appliesl!
science ancl a good deal of geography ;
and travel incidental but almost in- ,
evitahie to a well-built adventure ;
story. Girls' books are of more gib-
stantial stuff than a pillow -fight at a
boarding school, Which used to be the
limit of the cosmic imagination of
those who wrote for girls.
It would give those who may he a
little vague and hazy AS to what to-
day's children are like a clearer no-
tion if they would examine the abun-
dant provision of brislc, humorous
clever and edifying tales that offer an
embarrassment of riches ready to the
selective hand of one who picks and
chooses for the nursery's five-footj
ehelf, or for the delectation and ira!
formation of maturer ehildbegl.
Good for Evil.
'Young Tommy returned honte from1
school in tears .and naming 0 bineitk
eye.
pay Billy Dobbs off Tor tbds in!
the morning," he wailed to his mother.
"No, no," she saki, You mast re-
turn good for evil. I'll make you a
nice jelly'rell, and you, meet take It to
13111y and say, "Mother sseas 1 must res
turn good for evil to itenent a jelly roll
101' Tyou."
nim/ detintereal, but Aloofly OM.
•tkellted. .The next (Welting he returne4!
in a worse Wight and sobbed; •
"I gave Ilhily the jelly roll and. told
him what you said, and Mgt he blitele,
ed my other oyes ittitis; rotor to.yInto'rrovtoi
send him another le