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CHAPTER, XIII.
Dr. Gleason's Arctic teip,'designed
to cover a year of research and ens-
tovery, prolonged itself into three
years' and two months. ShIpwreeka:
;hrilling dscapacles, months of silence,
Ind a period when hope for the safety
ef the party was quite goner all figurs
td in the story before the heroic res -
me brought a happier ending to what
xad come so near to heing' another
tragedy of the ice -bound North: •
It was June when Frank Gleason, in
lhe care,of a nurse and a phyeieian,
valved at his sieteris summer cottage
1sc the sea.
For a month after hie coming
Frank Gleason was too ill to ask many
'Instants. But with returning strength
tame an insistence upon an eanswer
to a query he had already several
times put to his sister.
"Edith, what oe the Denbys? Where
'is Helen? Why do you always evade
any questions about her?"
"She is here with me."
"Here—etill?'
"Yes. And she's a great comfort
,end help to me."
"And Burke .doesn't knout yet where
the is?"
"Not that' we know of."
"Impossible --all this time?.
"Oh, I don't know. All our friende
know her as 'Bees. Darling.' The Den-
bys never come here, ande they'd never
think of looking here for her, anyway.
We flgnred that out long ago?'
"But it can't go on forever! When
Is she going back?"
An odd look crossed Mrs. Thayer's
face.
"I don't know, Frank; but not for
some time—if ever—I should judge,
from present indications."
"What's the trouble? Hasn't that
—er—fool improvement business
worked out? Well, I didn't think it
would!"
Edith Thayer laughed softly.
"On the contrary, it's working beau-
tifully. Wait till you see her. She's
I dear—a very charming woman.
She's developed 'wonderfully. But
along with it all has come a very deep
and genuine, and rather curious hum-
ility, together with a pride, the chief
aim of which is to avoid anything
like the position in which ,she found
herself as the mortifying, distrees-
tausing wife of Burke Denby,"
"Humph!" commented the doctor.
"That Burice doesn't love her, she
js thoroughly convinced. To go to
-Jiim now, tacitly asking to be taken
ack, she feels to be impossible. She
as no notion of going where she
isn't wanted; and she feels very sure
she isn't wanted by either Burke or
his father. Of couree the longer it
. runs, and theelonger she stays away,
the harder it 'seems for her to make
herseleeknown. Do you remember
;Angie Reynolds?—Angie Reid, you
know—married Ned Reynolds."
"Yes. Nice girl!"
"Wen, they're going abroad for
some years—some business for the
Arm, I believe. Anyway, Ned will
have to be months at a-time•in differ-
ent ities, and Angie and little Gladys
are going with him. They have asked
Helen and Betty to go, too; and Helen
has agreed to go. The children are
the swam age—about five, you knew—
and great. cronies. Angie is taking
Helen as a sort of companion -gover-
ness. Her duties will be light and
congenial. Both the children will be
In her charge, and their treatment and
advantages will be identical. There
will be a nursery governess under her,
and she herself will be much with
Angie, which will be invaluable to her,
in many ways. And, by the way,
Frank, the fact that a woman like
Angio Reynolds is taking her for a
traveling companion shows, more non -
elusively than anything else could,
how .greatly improved Helen is—what
a really charming woman she has
ecane.to be. But it is a splendid chance
Vie her, certalnly, and especially for
Betty—het whole life centres now in
Betty—and I urged her taking it. At
first she demurred, on account of
leaving me; but I suceeeded in con -
Villein her that it was altogether too
--good ah opportunity to lose,"
• Soon after Helen's departure for
' London, a !deer from Burke Denby in
far -away South America told of the
Denby't . rejoicing at the happy out-
come of the Arctic trip, and expressed
• the hope that the doctor was well, and
that they might meet hen as soon as
possible after their rot= from South
America in December.
Theletter writ friendly and cordial,
but not long. It told little of their
work, and nothing of themselves. And,
in spite of its velem] corclinlity, the
doctor felt, at its conelesion, that he
had, as it were, been attending a form-
al reception when he had' hoped for a
cozy chat by the fire.
In December, at Burke's bidding, he
ran up to Dalton for a brief visit, but
• it proved to be ea stiff and uheatisfy-
ing as tho letter had been, Burke
never mentioned his wife; but he wore
so unmistakable an "Of-ceeese-I-
understand- yot- ate- ariery- with -mo"
air, that the doctor (nitich to his sub-
sequent vexation when be realized it)
went oub of his way to be headily
• cordial, As if in refutation of the die -
approval idea—whieh was not the im7
preesion the doctor really wished to
convey at all. He was, in fa*, very
angry' with Bueke. winged nothing
So much, as to glee him a piece of his
Mind. Yet, so potent was Bit:dole
dignified aldoeneile that he found him,.
Self chattering of' Inca antiquities and
1.3abylonian ablate instead of deliver-
ing' his planned dissertation on the
futility oil quarrels geheral :and of
Burke'S and Helert'S th pertictfier,
In London Helen Denby Was living
in a now world, quick to realizei the
edearnagee that Were noW berg, she
deterntleed to melte the MOSt Of them
—especially for Betty, Always evoty,
thing new Centred around Betty,
gleennr 11. Porter
Patterns:ht.—
Houghton Nif11111 Co.
Pebliithed by sP,echill
arrangement with
Then Allen,
Toronto
In Km Reynolds Helen had found
a warm friend and eympathetle ally,
one who, he knew, would keep to her-
self the story Helen had told her.
Even Mr, Reynolds' was not.let into
the inner secret of Ilelenik presence
'with them. To him she was t com-
panion govereess, a friend of the
Thayers', to eyhom his 'wife had taken
ggeet fancy—a most charming wo-
man, indeed, whom he himself liked
very Much.
Freed from the fear of meeting
Burke Denby or any of his friends,
Helen, for the first time gime her
flight from Dalton, felt that she was
really safe, and that she could, with
an*undivided mind, devote her entire
attention to her self-hnposed task.
• From London to Berlin, and from
Berlin to. Genoa, she went happily,
as Mr. BeYneld's business called him,
To Helen it made little difference
where she was, so long as she could
force every piatere, statue, mountain,
concert, book, or individual to pay
toll to her insatiable hunger "to know"
--that she might tell Betty.
(To be continued.)
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THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD.
P'astIvaIof Poetry and Songs Dating
Back to Antlqufty:
Vietexy year and the recent peace
rejoicings give a special significance
to the opining ceremony of the great
Welsh festival—the National Elated-
dfod—which is to take place at Rug,
the historic seat of the Wynn fam-
ily, famous for its 'associations with
the life of the national hero, Owen
Glyndwr, says a London magazine.
The isteddfcidals really' a sitting,
or a session, of poetry and song, and
would' appear to be a survival of the
old-time minstrel competitions.
Contests in those days took place
in the principal Welsh towns
amongst all classes of minstrels, and
the honors which they won procured
the bard's ready admittance into the
castles of the Welsh princes and
nobles. The earliest Eisteddfod of
which there is any record was held in
A.D. 517.
• Every year the festival is held at a
different town, so that the whole of
Wales may benefit and every Welsh-
man may, once in a lifetime at least,
by walking a few miles, witness the
great national festival. In addition,
almost every village has its own
Eisteddfod, at which prizes are
awarded to young people who vie
with each other in the singing, music,
and reeiting competitions which help
in a large measure to preserve the
traditions, language and national
sentiment of Wales.
The chief festival is conducted by
an Archdruid, supported by various
bards. It is the former, who, after
a flourish by the trumpeter, unsheath-
es the jewelled sword of (Eisteddfod)
State, and cries: "It is Peace?" The
bards, standing around, look toward
the sun, and as the challenge is pet
for the third time, answer in a united
shout: "It is peace!"
,-The truce having thus been called,
the glittering sword is sheathed, and
the Eisteddfod is declared open. Ad-
dresses are given by bards, songs are
sung, and the harp is played. The
preliminary proceedings include the
judging of musical and poetical com-
positions and the distribution of the
various prizes and medals among the
successful competitors.
The great day, however,
is the
"chair" day, usually the third or last
day, the grand event being the judg-
ing of the, best national poem and
the chairing and investiture of the
fortunate winner. The attainment of
this honor is the highest ambition of
the Welsh bard.
BRITISH OPTICAL WORK.
---
Lenses of Great Defining Power That
Are Now teeing Made.
F001 -I ADVisgs $01400143OYS•
Visit to School ffreblernatlo of Now He
EMMA HIe Vaeatlen
Malaita" leech .ie baying the time oe
his life in 'Brittany, eayea Paris dee-,
paten Recently lie visited the eon
-
dee eee001 at Ker Louis, near Neor.
tele, The Marehal, in mufti,wafted
from Morlaix to the little village, end
op the reed met en old prieet wee re.
cognized lehn and Waisted upon kiss:
nig his hand, The Menem' wee very
reticle einlearraseed, At the school he
meted the Were ;what tam meant to,
bo when they grew un
"I want to be an, analytical °nein-
ist," F3a1d one, whereupon others who
had ;selected, the Polyteohnee fillohceel
laughed' loudly,
"Don't laugh at him," said the Mar-
shal, "It' is' a very good choice.
France has need of many scientlets for
her induetrial and military future. Be
a eliendet, youag man, for France will
not' remain as Indifferent to that
brancb of science as she has been In
the past."
The laces were greatly interested in
tie stout oaken cudgel which the Mar -
hal carried.
"I know whet you want to ask," lie
said smilingly. "It is about the other
baton, my Marshal's staff. I keep it
at my headquarters, This is my 'week.
day Mars:hare staff; and I treasure it
es much ae the other because it waft
given to me in the trenches by a poilu,
It was with that en.* that I drew in
the sand at Doullens the plan of my
tact Offensive.'
One of the bigger boys, more daring
than the others, asked Marshal Foch
whether the Germans were really
unshed.
"Thoroughly beaten, my boy," re.
plied rock "but it is for' you to safe-
guard by your wisdom and your :work
the precious victory that yonr elders
won for you by suffering, and Beare
flee."
Manufacturers in Birmingham, Eng-,
land, have been bending their efforts
to increase the production and quality
of lenses for photography so that they
.,may compete with German lenses,
which were generally in use through-
out Great Beattie prior to the war,
Consul Wilbuf T. Gracey describes
seine or the developments which have
been made, inoluding the manufacture
of •the most poeverfill photographic
lees made, This lens was 614, inches
In dieeneter and had a focal length of
80 inches. Deed trent an airplane it
Would, give good visibility from a
height of film miles and enabled the
,detection of barbed wire -at a height
of three ulnae,
Thrproblems to which leas design-
ers are now addressing themselves re-
late chiefly to the achievement of In.
creased rapidity- in photography,
which would enable snapshots to be
taken in a dull light, Tho designers
are not endeavoring to imitafei-Getman
goods, but are depending upon origin-
al work, denting that the
lens has made such an advance dur-
ing the war that it le now well ahead
oh anything Germany oould show
prior to the outbreak of hostilities,
Summer's End.
My garden's very gay;
Vines and flowers all
In a pied array
Play at carnival.
But if you will come
You'll hear the cricket cry,
Telling, Summertime,
"Good-bge I Good-bye!" -
I see the first red leaves,
And brown leaves fell;
The birds no'w come in flocks—
They do not sing at all!
Grapes have a pleasant smell,
• And I know of a place
Where they hang—white and sweet
Against the leaves like lace!
Coxcomb, like the cry
Of a wounded thing,
Lifts its. red head high,
A late blossoming.
Befoved of honeybees,
The orange 'marigold,
Aromatic, spreads
Fold on starry fold.
In the vivid throng
Here fringed asters are,
Each one with a heart
Like a friendly star.
Sometimes, now it seems
That the garden tries
To give all she can
For me before she dies,
* * * * *
If you will visit me.
You'll hear the cricket cry,
Telling Summertime,
"Goodbye Good-bye I"
Tho Better Way.
The chairimin of the eteMebeat cop.'
pony was taking a tr ele one of the
T
yeeselise and get tete donee edible With
the lalidt, , NeW, the fat Or ' Was, an
elderly then who 110I• 6 rf at meet ol
.
hie lke off the Water, . ., .
"X ntatil:eaa' you know all about the
deigero 'Cc Pleteee in title ideelf?" in:
Milked the a ChtafrMant in rather' a Pk-
rollitteg mennele
.• "Nat" was the blunt rePiet
"You clorilti" gasped the clialrInen,
teeteen why are You in charge el that
Wheel 1"
"Decattat 1 kite* Where the bed
planes ahl't111 .
, , Invention and Output.
Everybody is talking about the need
for increased output by nein, mine and
foundry, says a London magazine,
How is it to. be done?
Not by longer hours, because the
tendency of,the times is to regard long
hours as au economic mistake. Not,
as a general rule, by closer applica-
tion, because the British workman is
no idler, and can do more work in a
given time than any other nation.
How are we to increase output then?
By labor-saving, and labor.speedIng
devices, by scrapping old machinery
for new.
The old idea was that the machine
ousted the man. The contrary is the
truth. When the wonderful inven-
tions of a century ago In the cotton
tt•ade—those of Arkwright Crompton,
and Cartwright—came into use, the
workers thought it would ruin them,
and went about the country smashing
the. frames. Yet, to -day, the trade
which used to employ hundreds em-
ploys thousands, ad the output has
increased a thousaaid.fold.
The introduction of vachinery, too,
by vastly increasing dheput, brought
down prices with re rush; the fall of
prices enormously increased the de-
mand, and the demand produced ever
netter and more efficient devices and
improvements of machinery to cope
witetltbietoves everybody to give inven-
tion the "glad hand,e to give inven-
tors every facility, to welcome every
new device for labor-saving and In -
or -speeding.
• Canning Left -Over Yogetablee.
Mixed vegetables are attrective and
economical in salads, omelets; eel -
loped dishes and to use as garnishee
for meat diehee. If the small quantities
left erom packing the difreeett vege-
tablee are plaeee In one can, Many des
si•table combinations can he made, A
good combination during the early
aulroner Is young carrots, peas, string
bairns and young onions. A mixture
which the fall garden might furnish
is pepperb, celety, onions and beano.
Do not use bet e in such eorabinatioes,
because they will discolor the mixture,
Corn seems to give, the average
physloog of the adolescent
Physiology is taught for a year, one
hour a week.
The Infant care lessons Include care
of the mother, how to feed, clothe,
wash and instil geed habits, and the
treatment of minor ailments of fn -
fonts,
• ?realm] Work; At the Creche the
Work Irielieles weighing, bathing,
dressing, preparing bottles and barley
water. The girls alem prepare the
food"ancl feed the children and play
with those from two to five years Of
age,
. It Is admitted that the standard
home canner more of . maternal care in East London is
other ptoduct. It is especially ;erg highest in Jewish home. No wonder!
' trouble than, any
portant, therefore; that extreme care Solomon saki of the Jewish mother:
"Her price is far above rubies;
strength and honor are bee clothing;
she openeth her mouth with wisdom
and on her tongue is the law of kind-
ness; she looketh well to the ways of
her household and eateth not the
bread of idleness; her children arise
upend call her blessed; her husband
elan"
be used and that directions be care-
fully followed. Much depends upon
the age and condition of the corn.
Select the fresh, tender, juicy corn
which has not reached the starchy
stage. A little experience in select-
ing the ear and the ability to /aced-
nize corn that is just between the
milltv,ancl dough stage are important.
Gather beans for canning when the
beans are in prime condition for the
table. The sooner the beans are can-
ned after picking, the better the pro-
duct. Blanca for three to eight min-
utes in live steam or boiling water.
Very large beans are often canned
with corn for succotash, where corn
and beaus mature at the same time.
Select small, tender wax oregreen
beans for canning purposes. I3eans
which helve grown within the pod to
any elect are difficult to can and the
resulting product is not as satisfac-
eery as one fkom younger beans. Th
sooner the beans aro in the jar after
picking, the better the flavor, and the
more certain they are to keep. Wash,
string and cut off the ends of the
beans. They may be canned whole or
cut in short lengths. Those cut
diagonally are attractive in appear-
ance.
All the vegetables are prepared sep-
aratelY as for canning and packed in
layers in a well -boiled jar. Each layer
should be packed as tightly as possible
before the next ,is added, Fill jars
with .a,, brine. Put on ,boiled top and
rubber. Process in water -bath canner
either 120 minutes one day or one hour
on three successive days, or thirty-
five minutes in eteam-pressure cooker
Why,Dogs Sark at Moon.
The full moon especially irritates
the dog, because It • impresses his
oyez; whether it 15 tar away or near,
he does not know. All ho knowd is
that his nose remains unsatisfied.
Therefore, when you tie a dig during
full moon he will strain at the chain,
Ile wants to get at the moot —chase
it, bite it, eat it.
• There is a foteign eoying: 'tho dog
barite at the moon because he thinks
It a piece of green cheeSe," which
sayipg certainly hears out our own ob.
sante:hens. A dog °Yea anything that
ens .eetable ouriougly, Interestedly,
If l,ie dlen't he would starve in the
tel ciente:Se, But beeore he etas he
the article might not be
Pnt, etable, He brutes at tho moon be.
dad& it won't give his nose a chaime,,
HoW WhinTeeters Wyk,
I'd/le-testers, employed in their pro -
*Siegal duties, seldom swallow the
WIlie they taste, They merely hold a
yip o the beverage et their mouth
tor
11 goW niontents and breathe
thrleugh the nostrile.
From One Housekeeper to Another.
Select the Finest Flowers for Seed.
ear Is token in selecting the
seeds born the first and best flowers,
thd plants improve each suoceeding
year. A mistake is made when the
fleet and best are cut and the inferior
left for seeds. Popples, phlox and
verbenas should be selected in this
way. Watch your flowers carefully,
arid they will improve year by Year.
Let the seeds get ripe and thoroughly
dry In the pods. In winter when you
have plenty of time, clean the seed
and get them ready for spring plant.
ing.—Mrs. J. 3. O'C.
Cleaning the Sewing Machine.—
Few things cause the woman on the
farm more annoyance than a machine
that has become clogged up and will
not run When this happens no am-
ount of oiling will have any effect. If
you have access to a bicycle pump
and use it on different parts of the
machine it will force out all particles
of thread and dust. After you have
used the pump fin your oil ean with
gasoline, flood every oiling Place on
the machine and run rapidly for a few
minutes, Then oil the machine and
you will find it works like new.—M.
B. G.
under fifteen pounds pressure.
A corn, tomato and string bean HOME OF MEERSCHAUM
combination is made by using one
Part of corn, one part of green string
beans and three parts of tomatoes.
Tho corn is blanched, dipped in water
and cut from the cob. The string
beans are cut into convenient lengths
Eskl Seheir, Asiatic Turkey, is the
Place.
Eski &heir, in Asiatic Turkey, has
one unique claim upon public inter-
est, and if one is a smokerm
that clai
and blanehed for four minutee. The
tomatoes are blanched from thirty to is a compelling one, It is the home
of meerschaum. Meerschaum in
sixty seconds and cold -dipped. Remove
the skin and core of the tomatoes and abundance is found only on the plain
of Eski Scheir, and title city produces
cut into medium-eized pieces. Mix all the marketable meerschaum in the
the. three vegetables thoroughly and
pack the mixture in hot glass jars.
Add a level teaspoon of sugar and
one-half teaspoon of salt, and fill jar
with hot water. Put on boiled top and
rubber and primal in water -bath can-
ner either 120 minutes one day or one
hour on three successive days.
Corn ante tomatoes snake a good
combination to can. Blanch fresh
kation by the schools in this Dominion,
The head mistress states that the
pupils "are awakened to'the fact that
there is a science in rearing babies.
corn on the cob five minutes, dip for
nn instant. in cold water and cut from
the cob. Scalcl tomatoes from thirty
to sixty seconds and dip in cold ivater.
Remove the skin and core. Chop to-
matoes into medium-sized pieces. Mix
thoroughly two parts of tomatoes
with one part of corn. Pack the miic-
ture in hot glass jars, add a level tea-
spoon of sugar and one-half teaspoon
of salt to a quart. Fill jars with hot
Water, Put on boiled top andrubber
and process (boil) 120 minutes in
water -bath canner one day, or one
hour on each of three successive clays.
An excellent concentrated vegetable
soup can be made from any desired
mixture of vegetables. A tasteful
combination epeeists of one quart of
concentrated tomato pulp (tomatoes
boiled down until thick), one pint of
corn, or beans, and four teaspoons of
sugar and salt mixture—made by mix-
ing sugar and salt in the propertion
of one-third salt to two-thirds sugar.
To make the tomato pulp, cook to-
world, says an exchange.
Meenschaum, as its name implies,
is supposed to be petrified seafoam,
and has been discovered floating on
the Black Sea. Apart from the Hein
Scheir mines it occurs in Greece,
Samoa, Spain, Moravia, Utah, Penn-
sylvania, and, in conjunction with ser-
pentine, in Norway and South Car-
olina.
The ancients le said to have used
it as a decorative atone in buildings,
and this seems to have been tonfirmed
by the recent excavations in Corfu.
It is soft and whitish, and becomes
malleable like clay when soaked in
water.
Meerschaum used to be considered
a mere curiosity by the Turks, who
had on other use for At than as a
substitute for fuller's scan. The
story runs that the Turkish Amban
eador at the Austrian court, in the
Inth century, was a native af Eels!
Scheir. Wanting to help his city at
a time of great poverty, he took a
sample of *la queer guff to Vienna,
thinking that the "Franks," as all
foreigners • were then called, might
have some use for it. The Germans
were quick to see its utility for pipe
bowls, but declared it was good for
nothing eke.
More than a century has confirmed
his judgment, for who has yet dis-
covered any other use for meer-
schaum? For pipe making it is an
ideal raw material. Here is a' stone
which is easily molded when wee and
gether three quarts of sliced tomatoewhen dry becomes hard and resists
e, -
n s
one small chopped onion and half a ie
4
Snap -Slots.
• No, the printer has not made an er-
ror'
A. snap -slot is a photograph taken
or beans which have been prepared by a slot machine, end before long,
as for canting, with seasoning, Cook these Machines may be common fea-
altogether for ten minutes and pack tures on piers, parades, and station
hot into jars which have been prev- platforms.
iously boiled fifteen minutes. Put on The -machine takes your picture, de.
boiled top and cleansed rubber, par-
tially seal and place on false bottom
in water -bath canner with water to
covet. j dotes it:
in your coin. A bell rings, and the
d oe processing is followed, boil
If the single period " continuous You sit before the machine and drop
metho
for at least two hours. It the inter-, =Millie displays this entice:
mitten': boiling processis used, boil' "Now, then! Turn your head,
for otie hour on each of three saces-! please, to the riget; look at the
Ilt-
sive days. Before each subsequent , tle cross above the mirror, and smile."
boiling, the covers must be loosened; A second warning bell reign and a
and after each boiling the covers must new notice appears: "Keep still,
be securely tightened again to make' pleette " it says, and you obey:
sealingcrriplete.
Lessons in lefetherernet.
cup, of chopped sweet red pepper. Put
through a sieve anderemove seeds and
skin. Retutn strained pulp to kettle
and cook down to about the consitt-
ency of catsup. Measuee, a a the corn
velops it, prints it, and delivers it, all
in the space of four minutes, says a
London newspaper. This is how it
• „•
The click of the shatter, and the ex.
tieguishing of the light, inform yon
that the exposure has been made, bat,
.• Facts and Figures About Hair
Persians shave themselves as a sign wear whiekere; which are shaved off
of mourning.
Hair grows much faster in rammer
than in winter,
Swinge's' heir makes aline (Plante
artists' brush,
The longest beard recorded was 12
feet, The longest hair groWing on a
female head was 13. feet.
In India a native barber can shave
a minion while asleep without awak-
ing eine so gentle is 11M touch.
Red hair le regarded ee beautiful iu
'on1:11reclyy,e atMetreonsequently many eye-
rnel
hair that shade.
Hairless doge exist in China and
Japan, They have webbed feet, and
are amongst the smallest variety of
dogs known.
.Beards ivere unpopular in the four-
teenth century, when close shaving
became) fashionable with -young men.
01<1 men ware forked beards,
Shaving the head when an infant is
one month old is a Chinese custom
among the male population. A ban-
quet is often part .of the ceremony.
• Wig -wearing was at its height about
150 years back, when even boys four,
or live years of ago Bach their heads'
ehayed in readiness to wear A wig.
Hair aye being at one time con-
sidered detrimental to long life, a cer-
tain Continental insurance company
is said ibehave refused' to insure per.
sons wlio used it,
Tons of hair at one time were used
for packing between the plates of a
'certain part of our war vessels. • Hair,
being very elastic, afforded a good
backing to metal.
Baldheaded folk, said a physician
once, need never worry about, having
consumption. He observed that
"there seems to be some connection
with bald heads and round lungs."
Shaving off whiskers is a sign of
mourning among the Hindoos. Some
wear moustaches and beards, but 011
lest there should be any mistake, a
One elementary school in East Lon -
third imtice appears with the fohloW-
1115 teaches mothereraft to the older
inesuage: "Thank you the sit-
ting is ever, end you can rise from
your seat. In four mine* your por-
trait will be delivered at the bottom
of the apparatus." The Picture an
veep punctually to the aecond, and
it to not like you, that is yoiir fault!
Tee invention Is a Preece one. Look
out 1)0 it
girls. It is a Jewish school, and is
certainly an example worthy of emu -
he addition they leave to reepect their
Mahan mere for nursing their ba-
bies," We need More of this respect
for parents in Chhada,
Tho ptegrent is bridle, AS :e0110WS:
Time Spent: 15titieg the last year
o ov vies 8611001 life (18-14 years),
one. hotir l( week for six menthe is
epee': OA definite leesone in infatit
care, in addition, two visite, each
lasting about two hour, aro paid by
recoil girl to e local day atirserg,
Theory: In preparation for the
work, the science lessons preceding
sermons On Stones.
tt 11)0 British um Musethere ate
hooks written or" belelte, order 5110185,belies and flat stenos; and nine-
ocripts oli bark, ivory, leather, lead,
the infant care lesson's include the 10011, coppoi' and wood.
When an Adult relation, dies.
,,The Society et the Pointed Beeves"'
existed in Now York seam twenty-flye
years ago, enciallea because eaell
member's beard had to be trimmed 54
a polatc-tbat tieing a rule of the club,
Wigs originated In Prance by Louis
XIII, in the seventeenth eenturi They
)vere steed more as ornaments, and the
French king started the fashion to
conceal his premature baldnefee
Human oeelarshee are said to axed;
on the marble statue, the Sieeinng'
Arladne, one of the genie of the'Vatl'
can, which was found in 1509. It is
the only statue of the human figure
with eyelashes known.
Dark-haired people, so says an
'authority, gat married wiener than
fair -haired -Individuals. He bee shown
by statistics that an overwhelming'
maiority of those women who live and
Ole spinsters have fait hair.
Hair oil 1005 sed in the times of the
Egyptians, 400 D.C. Authorities saY
that the first medicinal recipe was a,
hair tonic for an Egyptian Queen 1
which wns as follows; "Dogs' paws,
asses' hoofs, boned in oil with dates.",
Human hair is field to have been the 1
meet prolltable'"crop" known. Thirty,
afire ago, oven, five tons or more,
were annually imported into, London,,
while the "harvest" hi Paris at that'
time yielded $400,000 Smarty.
The number of hsers, according to a,
certain scientist), an four heads which,
he experimented with were: Ou a
head of "red" hair, 90,000; on a head.;
of "black" hale, 103,000; brown, 109,-
000; fair hair, 140,000 hairs.
Ancient Hebrew's were mostly fair-)
haired, but now they are dark-haired,'
Fair-haired people generally are be•
coming less numerous than in the
olden days. Irish people, for instance,
two hundred years ago never hadl
many dark-haired individuals in their
race.
MARVEL OF SURGERY
Paralyzed Arm Restored After Fifty-
two Years.
In Blaine'Wales, the happiest man
is John Hufphea, a collier, who by an
operation has recovered the free use
of an erre, hand and fingers, which
were paralyzed 52 years,
The restoration of anesapparently,
useless limb was indirectly due - to , an
accident five months ago in the mine
in which Hughes was employed, re.
suiting in the tunputation of the
other erne
Hughes recently visited Cardiff in
order to purchase an artificial limb
to replace it, ,and while there, Major
Owen Smith, of the Prince of Wales'
Hospital, carefullY examined the
paralyzed arm, and in 0 nursing
home Hughes' underwent an operation
The twisted sinews were straightened
and life is gradually coming back in
the limb.
The ,Heepital Workmeras Commit
tee will purchase an artificial arm
and She. man will soon restart col-
liery work.
Every busy farm community shout
• have its facilities to enable the farm
er to send his amps to markets wibif
the assurance that he would receivd
fair and accurate weights,
- Spending Money Like Princes
The eccentric Charles de Hoban,
tired of lavishing Money on royal and
titled dames, collected ten beggars
from the highways and lanes adjacent
to his estate and entertained them for
ten days 'at hie castle ofeeRohitsch.
During the whole of this period they
fared eumptuously, and wawa clothed
each morning in different and costly
habiliments. A series of masques,
tournaments and other revels followed
ono another in quick sucesselon in
their honor. At the end of their visit
his guests were dismissed with a
money gift of about $8,000, and also
bore away the whole of the valuable
costumee which they had been wear-
ing. As some of these were adorned
with jeweled buckles And buttons,
their wee% was considerable. The
cost to de Rohan was colossal, but et
made him the most talked -of man in
Europe for the time being, and this,
he declared, more than repaid the
outlay.
While traveling with the Empress
Catherine in Crimea, Prince Potemkin
week in his chateau of Bagatelle,'
More than half of this immense sum
was epent in refitting the apartments'
which were assigned to the queen and
her suite, •
That wonderful spendthrift, the
Prince de Soubise, throughout his
Whole career insisted consistently that
so vulgar a thing as money should
never be mentioned in Isle presence.
He engaged in the quarrel of his life
with erre of his most intimate friends
for disregarding his wishes in this
respect. Yet he once lavished no less
than 0,000,000 francs on a single fete,
and at another time laid out 2,000,000
francs entertaining fouls XV ono day
,and OM night in hie country house
near Versailles.
The immensely wealthy William
Beckforci, who 'wrote "Vathek," ot a
late date, made the =art set of his
generation mad' with envy by piling
extravagance upon extravagant°, eti1-'
minating them all in his bizarre at-
tempt to build upon his Fonthill;
estates a duplicate of what he imag-
ined Aladdin'e palace, as described in
startled European royalty' by serving "The Arabian Nights," to have looked
as the last comae of a banquet which like. Marble, porphyry, jade, lapis.
ho gave in honor of the empress, a lazuli, gold, silver, ivory, ebony- -
dishful of what 'appeared to be smahJ4,eerything in fact, that is most, costly
yellow and white plums. Each guest, building and decorative material
as the dish was handed about, heleed
himself with a spoon of large size.
The plums were then discovered to be
peaels.
The Comte d'Adois made himself
famous by expending 12,000,000 francs
• in entertaining the queen for a single
went to the erection of this gorgeout
specimen of freak aechitecture, Wile
tales were- told of the bsxbaric isplen•
dor of Ito interior furnishings mai
fittings; but Beckford kept cm:Waits
alive by denying admission to every,
body. .
Sve"n rneat bako by Serving "Clerk's"
Porteana Beene. More
strenekening tban most
coet iees,
enjoSin't1 by all
So work, fuei & warty.
Altai guaranteed by the 0,0ee'rti .
rung Legtna 4y1 aery
Tennlin, <11,111 81' Plain SSece,
gelil ilVerywliere,
ko it 01800, Italia,
Mena