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"MEND YOUR SPEECIII"
The story is told Of a prefesser Who'
1VilE lookirag over the Tbagliith week of
one of his eu.pile, whom he thee aocoet-
, .
ed, with' halfenettet severity: "Sir,
your' vocabulary 10 mean., and p001' -'-
but is arn.ply-sefflatent for the expree-
siert of your ideas,' So far ae the
glory of weeds conern,ed in the ea:-
. preestion of one English tongue we May
truthfully writ "Iolialacrd" on the fa-
cade of the Temple a Spiecha-We are
in an age or skeminese and slang. Who
cen fell to be ,eveched by this del.ightful
s.pontanity and indivIdilailey in the
sneecheof children till the time wiles
they ge to school. , Then very soon
ei--eaYthing, is "cute," "peachy,"
• "great." They lose that inetiuctive
feeling fora word% and that elemental
• quality in them, thet made their eliild-
ish -talk burn and shine with extraor-
dina.ry illumination. 'Everywhere now
adays one may hear Men anti women
talk sloppily-. The 'magazine% gerely
rise above .Journales,e. The nevres
papers offen fell heaow thet•
' Title Hurried Age.
pertance of an exeet and free mirei of
the mother-toegue.
Through mediumwe adaieee our
highest and best Wei -alai- expre,selon.
-Witness Bunyan, Sir Thenersei 'Browne
SteivensOn, Emereau, Ruakin. All the
ree6nrcee of language ileready to be
dWaradeds. and polashea . to a. ni-arble
finish, 'but moat people seem satisfied
to' beck , and chop and to chisaf with
rough tools. Even in college ,and s,ene-
Mary there le quest'for elevation
of style, and while. the -modern oratore
chi address is erten sound- and helpful,
at is illewise often !want in idea.setaid.
lackfiag in rheforio. The increase, en-
riched,- and peened Vocabulary that
avoide garrulity, shallow tatility,, and
the halting ' manner, ie. exsteedingIy
rare. Our ese of weree witnesses t..o
the superfloiality of oar thought.
Majesty of Enelleh.
"Mend your epee , seed S es-
peare, "lest it mar your fortunes."
When "Shalcespeare • wrote *the Englisb.
language was woven into a eloth -of
avhose lpstre 'we have allowed to
become dimmed. The allurements of
Stile and literature sioni to belong
to a past:age-when people bad leisure
' and desire to wake"; cadence.d prose
and classic veree But our language,
11,0-phink; must be devastatingly
rect 'and shockingly staocato. AII too
often o.r -written word moves forward
with a series. of jerks, and with -the
.unnresical effect of a machine gun in
• action, Our vernadilar baa become
ve.pld anel threadbare, and we seem to
have lost sight of the 'fact that it is
st through Mir folk -speech that we attain.
to the ,cliarecterietic expression of our
nature It is the mother -twig -ea -vehleh
gives to our matured thought the re-
lief and illumination it seeks le the
Utterance of words. Attar new im-
preseions are received, echoe8. the com-
paring, judging, reducing them to on
der and meaning, and in this aot the
aid of words is sought when new Judie;
ments el:wing from the ewordeese re-
cesses of thought or feeling under the
otimulus of experience or emotion. It
is thme that the thought ie enriched.
, and enlarged. Hence -we see the im-
BY, LESIE GORDON BARNARD.
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she'd 0.01,dirred 'feel it.. Her Mirror. 'Ilias wind i.e 'Ma eennaue.
- Her health, . His ' emu:ea:ski- ger- te-e .
easeetease-aiect youth. " Thseeet• 110 .I'tetyet tineeown,
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„ I " Uf two nighte' journey Tenet, Isong (lees ,the upland,
The room was fullaof an intangible,- you upto? Presaing the ,bags. mat of Icideo, theee we arc!" Ho peshad no. At nightfall, the wood; ,
somebody's se&snd best? Ole domepe
stic on neiaroad folder before her, with Her wide eavaa am, ah,itaz,
PrilatzniYn vtharry.apoMi":"St'TlaInrBaliaedif tilicT
Incimatters,. inetead, eh? Co sigh alteed, its plOture of a Men and e girl, hover:- And her bed ei the, beat
rancid Smell. of gasOiina; Soiled clothes doniitermethnedeicnsteb.'u, riled c,.. li,ttpablit ,,,I10 eadboaveekryir,youainldaottfencitiinviengw:caaitlerwgitticia;nyast, Velythtehna‘viRaliin.,.eeieleungs ifee;teitimber
erom too intimate a contact with toil- i
wore humanity; stale .ceolcinga on: -tosSed htir h.eacl, a coquettish roove- anti ecenery beyond:
inert from out the past, a ghost from - Noe don tl 1 ta go to s,a.y.
se''arvgec4.4 g'dttarrnb-aPglieels/romO1 thtewe:adcsk.aarnead the dead days:of .gielh-ood. She jurnbl-,Met'righT She hard. --Y recogrezed heoi. The earth IS Ty Int 0111,,
with its disregard of bylaw's and rd' ed her ow .fi .. h d 1 n - into seem : , . my king, who is he,
,
. n un ens e a nery a . _
!melees; . persperation—and cheap rough, dry nie, and ' snatched , up an Whet was he saying? .Spinething His eeown is the desert,
Scent; roapsuds and dishwater; artie2e for 'the household—a worn, about life owing her things ag'eln, The fila"seenter ehe see
deaths; hot liensl clean linen Orugs initialed piece' that once, friends, iri roam seemed a dizzy, spinning'Place., Hisafeet tread the hill line
gling vainly to hold its 0*Th Pr0-114tial, inepection, had :erne in 60 nauseatiewe with its stale, clinging' That are lost in th.• dawn,
Myra Sena ra se
hand from heriron, and brushed back He watched her oloselY for i'3. thne. Picture on the o,ther_page. A smfiliAg
see an a ir .
a rehelihnia adaP 'If' dark Ilair• that She stuck valiantly to her ironing. He Nee's);\ white coat, mahogany,' ee5.
clung' like all 1014. Mark to her srne°t'll, said at last: . • - berth jest ready, clean -linen, clean,
white cheek., She quelled the,rebellion •"Gosh, it's hot in here!" , 'cool lieen. . .
roughly, 'then glanced involuntarily at exhid of le . • 1 Treeete, scenery, new sights, other
a-staainernoisteneci mirror hanging on eeene cease; , That stench mese ,get places—romance—eseapei
the wall, taking in at the asille time ,i0„t uNteria; doesaPt it?" ..., , With a quick Inhalation, she burid
the glimpse obtainable of the little e.e..__eitie • her face in the pilie of clean' linen at
outer stele with it a counter end Ito "I don't know •how " you pick it, her side.
boxes, and burelles on . tiffaa-eolo,red ewe, , The, eity enalured two days of op -
of r,,,me for pressing a two-piece hi_ towel. She:ben,. t over a checked dish 00fccwiasuiect7cibloiT othemoerre tchaeniweeiaeolmelttlepagutters•t
•witz's` bundle, an arguing the point' oTheeof.
hidden ,00ntinente and shadowed
oaeins, imperilous lite of horizons
and the -discoveries of mariners end
explorer% ell drained their essence iatseee-
to literary expreeslon.'• The rich herif-r "
age of that pinele • of uriappreacle
able splendor in the Itterery art ought
to inake no mend our manners, aed our
r-
epeeroli.
"The tholl 01 slang," writes Waiter
Baton Prichard, "is its 'failure of itt-
inortality." And an etlitor who le -feel-
ing atter filler things for the dallg
press hes, regently declared:
"Realism when applied to the
epee& a the day,, can only achieve
the success of the day,"
"A word fitly ,epoisen is like apples
et gold in basket s 'et silver," It will
attract the eye, hold ,the ear, and de-
light the heart, feed the understand-
ing. The fit word le the inevitable
word, the musical word, The English
longuage is a rich. deposit and Nve
ought to draw upon it generously an
with diecritaination.
it 1 d an impa en d dm - ' odere--su oca.ting. What was, that
shelves. • ' --' ' • , His voice wae very gentee—a den- Pieessive heat- The eky helcu a leaden
Hoary was VI UP old Mr. Stein- geroue voice when one Wee eorry for leitze•--an unfulfilled pecanise..af rale.
• Vests -Were not of his suit. They were "There's seree 0110 come ine" ' of raindrops to follow. It simply
stead, of a three. Old Mr. Steinwitz's
white until the world of eating and Young Salielee went out, -whiAling, raised choking, eye-senaeting eveirle
amid then dropped them as
datipaseg erne (4:even Rea. ,3moking There were voices in the oueer shop; of dust,
orackling of wrapping paper eueldeney in another part of the gut-
houagdwerrptedhenits mpearrhkeuptontthhoeym,,twhoorre- ta.hgee_rntni; an interchaege of thanig. A ter. ' '
white again. •, t"He rellututernie.eci,Pwithie.stlin• g. I The heat formed a medd.uni in which
1 Myra Small went her mechanieal ;way.
it was fresh. No one ought to wear The leather'a bad enough 'next It seemed that, in this time between,
No one ought to Wear whtte -unless a
white who lived east of Centre street ds°r " h9 ask' taking uP the aenverase 941 her 171'34eisents Were aut°rnstie'
and south of Main. trionj-w.here it had been drePPed. "You her househeed duties• her eid in the
taste it even in the grub. Well, I'll be sweating, steaming satmoepheee of
lelyre adjusted her hair with her quit of tt day after to -morrow, if the the shop. More than once that sec-
ond day Harry asked her solicitously
"You're not—going away?" Her enough what elle(' her.
thoughts. Why? Harry was too busy
much immersed in this wretched busi- heart beat furionsay.- She did not try - "The heat!" she would say, dully.
mass of preseing pants and suite at ta to explaan i•t to herself. 1 "It's fierce—ain't it?" he sympath-
Her cheek burned. She nestled its "That's whatl" She felt his eyes ized, and then the belt of existence
quarter a suit to see --anything.
upon her keenly, and /ought for com- caught them agate,. and whirled them
peeere. esoriry, Ica?. 1 apart on the cogs ot Work anti routine.
"Sure, I am," she laughed it of!,1 "Severlil tiraea cenfession was on her
adjusting a roller towel oh the. board. Ililis, hut 'always something happened
'Say, do you suppose it ain't nice to to prevent it. Once it was a breezy
have some one fresh to talk, to now eke -slew who ran in from a motorcar,
and then?" with a gray Fedora in his hand. A.
He Whistled again. Then he gulled gust of hot, wind had lifted it !rens
some papers from his pocket, colored lis head and played with in in the
things, attraetive to the eye. I dust. He was motoring through,. he
"I must show Yoe," he said, "where! said and would be glad to get emit of
our little Rorinie's trekking for, jpg i the city. And would Harry, brush his
that u as hest he could, quickly.
fire against the cool, clean smoothness
of her own worn and patched linen.
She loved the smell of clean linens. By
a i degree of ,ceeeeness to it she could
shut out the Ifirrible, eznending, al-
most unendurable clinging oa the odor-
ous vapors of "Small's Wardrobe Re-
pair Shop." '
Olean linen always made her think
, Love.
The girl they loved walked in through
the door
As dad as a valley in autumn,
Ana neither turned his head her way
NOT asked of her why she had sought
him;
But they stared at the embers, and
neither said,
"She is standing behied es that is
• dendl"
Though a moment before oue whisper-
ed, "My friend!"
And his friend, "My more than brother,
We alone shall see that face to the end
With the smile that she gave no other,"
Neither cried out, "I3ehind my chair
She stands and her hands are above
my hair!"
Though one had said, "There is mete
butyou'
Since Heaven has chosen and blest us,
And we staone in the skeleten hande
Clentld know the hands dee oareseed
us,"
Neither Said, "Weloonie." neither
sought
To take the heed that she atretched
out.
They dicenot doubt that she was theee
Like a parleyed sky' in the autumn,
So still -they gee*, so cold their
heartse-
Gniciging the hope elle had brouglit
him,
Bach waited is turned to stone
Ti feel her hands., to taste alone
The triemph ha his flesh and bone.
—Prank O'Clennor.
Some Liberal Milsicians.
The great, InutiManS have been
noted for their openhendednese end
generosity, and ironic earned it to the
extreme of the spendthrift. Prominent'
' among those' who devoted large suing
to obesity were Liszt, the wouderfut
pianist, and the "Swedish Nightine
• -gale:" :teeny Lind,
It letold of Mozart that, not finding
RSIY teoney.in. his pockete to give to an
'theportunate beggar, lie !lamely sketohe
ed ' song on some :blank Paper, and
told- the mendicant 10 preeene it at a
certain' publieher's and he tvould re-
ceive a good sum, 1:he beggea did 80,
and received the,monev tut if. thie Is
; e • •
true, why was Mozart bimeelf ao often
In Meade of money? Why dhl he not
present Otte own. song's and draw ell
cesh for hints el f ?
, although having a repute,
• Ilan -for eeloginees, was liberal. toward
hie old Parente. _eater the fii,st three
p.erformances of each; epera he 110.:-
dueed "he Nvould Send them ieveteirds
the etmou lit 115' reeeived ter composing
' • '
Unkind.
The mail and the girl were sitting
eictatet-daace, and- fer some time there
• el ail. been (111 <4105 b el we en them,
'Do knew,' lie ealce ae Wet, "that
eyery eeening, before 1 go to bed, I
'vette (town my lcou t le my 'd tare e
' Interesting, done. yeti thlok 1'
• "Oh meef e'Hoew
loeglieve eim been' ening nee
'About a ceuple of yeasa,' mos tea
' ••• -
. "Ind e cl sell tete gi 1,1, see eetly ;
''111 111 yoe 11 av - I it" (Vet page
ileerly
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that is meeting with the approval of
the enedish woman. Out with 'front
fastening from neck to hem in an un-
broken line, thia clever frock peeSeets
a, slenderizing silhotiette altogether
flattening to the wornan-ef larger pro-
portions, The upper part of the frock
molds the figure to the hip -l175, whore
it springs into a graceful flare at the
sides and. back, the front being per;
tectly fret. A long tie collar of con-
trast:mg 'color material is wrapped'
ahmat the throat, but the collar i'a ad -
j stelae and may ',le worn open with
the ties hanging in front. The :ong
set-in sleeves are trimmed with tailor-
ed cuffs matching the.meterial of the.
pointed patch pocket and tie collar.
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and 48 inches bust.. Siee 40 bust re-
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ieeturn mail.
of the same thing. Once only—on her
honeymoon with Harry—She- had
traveled in a Pullman sleeper. Her
pillow was a pillow of romance, and
fresh. linen speead by a deft Negro
heed the covering a queen. TraVel
--scenery—new sights --other places
--romance—escape .
Old Mr. Steinwitz had gone. The
crackling of wrapping paper ceased.
Harry came in frem tha shop.
"I've got to go but, Myra. Young
Scholes next door said he'd help out
segaite• -Guess well have to remember
him with something one of these days.
It's decent of him," •
"Veryl" she assented.
"What's the matter? Do you mind?"
"Then—"
"Oh, it's me, I guess. It's not you.
It's the heat, Red the eMell and the
places and the people. They've got me
something. fierce, that's alli"
Iler voice broke a little. She re -
slimed her ironing'swiftly. Ile Went
to her, and tee:celled her shoulder gent-
ly. She saw in him a little throadr:
bare man, collarless, unshaved, sallow.
Only the eyes remained, in undiscour-
aged momerits, to remind her of the
tnan she had married in high hopes.
They were to have expended hie
eareltal so well, the money he had saved
In youth. The crash of the Central
"flank had taken it. They were to have
a home of modest comfort, a little
place of dreams. And they had a
frail two rooms over a store of un-
mitigated stenches. They were to have
Hied where ehe cotr.c1 grow a few
flowere, and' have a strettle of grass
tie call their own.. She had three die-
certmaged% geraraums .upeltair% ie a.
Window box made of a soda -biscuit
container. • , •
Children* were to have played on
the grass. Sometimes, she told her -
elf fiercely, God had been good to let
her have none to suffer in this drab-
ness of destitution, and to run wi:d
in the etreets and alleyways until the
Juvenile Ccurt interfered.
She feet for Harry! Oh, yes, she
felt for only he wouldn't --
there he was again, the same old
story: a
"Patience, old girl," he smiled, pat-
ting her shoulder reassuringly.
She drew away.
"Patience? My God—"
She wented to shriek aloud. Instead
she ironed, fiercely. A ripilti a piece:
of linen ceught tbe iron. The worn'
material tore hopelessly. She rent it
in tWO, savagely, Mid flung it evert
her. -Ho shrugged hie shoulders, ancl
went slowly up the dingy staies to
shave and dress.
Harry had gone She -wondered
vaguely whe.re. Sonietvheee with eid
Mr. Smith from next door: Where
was it they aevavs -went together?
And hie'hena plucks my heart-serings
Coln.pelaing 111e 041,
—T. Morels Longstreth.
as soon as that money he's been pant -I P
ing for comes in. Look!" Harry took it into the workshop.
He stretched a colored. folder out Myra was by the counter still. The
on the ironing board. . The e wa inian eyed her, not disrespectfully at
map, generously blue to . mark the i atrag,geog.
.' r s atoll. She was coescious of her hale
water; pictures in color -0001 eree a moistly over her hot face.
forest glades; Waterfalls; lush mea- i
- - 1 i Her hand worked at it nervouely.
delve bungalows, '' red -roofed and 1 He said: "What keeps people like
add grass;
dlamond-paned, with towers an,d trees
e e.I like the smoke and heat had been
yeti in the city/ Say, it looked to me
rubber -booted trelseha "folded in on your town so it wouldn't
that one could see, separately photo-15015,14oil the country round abeutl We
graphed on a string, overpage; takes see it hanging like -a pall as we
the sunset summer sky, she golden bosom canoes flost-Id"ve along in . the sunlight outside.
neon whose
ed under ilt boats me 'what keeps people herel"
beauty of it. 1. A single word quivered, bitterly, on
caught her breath at the rancid smell of zee° ea, her lip: "Povertici" Harry appeared
The tried ; she Was In onelluofe th;e8 1,,V,Gitih.reuthrnestahante,‘csand a Limiting answer:
transfor
motors circling the lake; on the wide, I Maybe some of these
1 days we'll be ablie -to get away,"
white road.
there for a wee (To be concluded.) .
his head. "Was only
"It's a place!" he eighed, shakin
once, but I've never seen anything bet-
ter, and I've moved about a bit.
There's a bungalow up there 031 a tiny
bit of a farrn--chickerts, and things,
you knbw—waiting for me. On.y
relative left in a cruel world for oee that we shell find what we eeek, arrive
little Ronnie., A maiden aunt—God at a predetermined goal and be able
bless her far leavieg it to an impecun- to aesure ourselves and the world
bus nephew!Nobody. knows nie up 1 trimnphattly that the thing we have
there for a rovingemelt, so I Mae.' attained le exactly what we always
achieve a reputation for industrY wanted. What =alters greatly is that
after ell. WS the one Place in the we shall continue to strive and to
world I'd CAM tO Sett:0 dOW11. ,How 12nove onward:. 31 1105 been wisely said
"Oh, it's too lovely!" she breathed.. that It is better to travel hopefully
do. you like it?"
She suddenly found ilea -KU -weeping' than to arrive. And "a man sits tie
crazily over the fresh linen. An acrid malty risks ait he runs." • •
smelieof leurning.cut through the other. But a mere restlessness does not
odors. She snatched tRe hen up, al- make a lifetime noble and fruitful,
meet burning her hand. An angeY Ouriosity, though limitless Red imam
patch of brown howed in the white /leased, of itself producee nothime, We
roller towel. It brought her to her- have too much With us those who wiela
self. She drew the plug from the to be electrified contimially by the
base of the from^ ' 1
She turned away, taking up the tingling shook of fresh thrilla and sen -
towel. and examining it. He came bee stations, though the mediae), leavea
hied her, and peered 'over her shout.: them spent. They atm to believe the
der. 1 world was made to amuse them; they
"You're uot crying over that, kicl.are onlookers at a Play, strollers
Whet's the trouble?" - 1 through a musteum, perpetual g-uests at
His voice Was full of a compassion .ft feast of bounty and of beauty', who -
that was irresietible. He set aside ever remains outside and anted.
the bright.colored folder as if It were . ... .
is seemiciary thing now, Why didn't %Lacy ,ne,oe a vision; and It is forever
Harry do litble things,
little ender_ erne that ' Where there is no visten the
standing thiege like that? Why did
people perish." They need to see that
he not at ',mat admit frankly the this world, though made for encat of ue,
awful drabness of life, tire eickening, as Browning said, WaS made teat we
sickening sights and stiells, day 1.11, might garVe It and not merely use it;
day out? Why, when he slid talcs amight:give to it and not simply take
night eff4m
roethe deudgerViof things,' tributIon of ear lolling lives and think -
timeworn, elm height
of taltng her eornevvhere—a cheaP
add by the con -
did he go with _old Mr. Smith insteadi
movie • like be used to—for a time, Mg minds to the sum total of the truth
anywhere to forget, even fee at hour and goodness that we found when we
Or tWO, instead of leaving here i came here. Of little avail lathe quest
"Poor little' kid I" eaid the voice at if the outcome is but treaaure trove
her ear, gently. "Ii think I can guess that we put by for ourselves; and -we
how it is. Life hasn't given you tench are bouna by the Mot or Mu- humanity
of a dee', has it? 1 worider how you've as Weil as by'our inheritance or the
Two; Sticks and a Bit
of String.
' During the Great War a young
American officer confined in a German
Prison furnie,leed' his captme -with a
remarkable evidence of . Yankee in-
genuRe end clevernese. Before ett-
lieUng, the young. man had been em-
gloyed in the chemistry department of
a large iron industry' and pooeibly hie
experience there helped te explain his
clever resole:core-Mese. •
One morning, just at dawn, a guard
on one of the outer .avallia, happening
to glaure toward the cell occupied. by
the prisoner; saw his hands. apparently
moving back_ and forth around one of
the bars of his cell wiadow, An of-
ficer was. suramoned and prisoner and
cell eearobed. All that waft finnul waa
a short piece ef braided string, the
ends of vrhica were tied to small
pieces of woed.—Nevertheless, when
the steel bars at the -Window were ex-
amined two of thein were found siwed
almost throueh, a -m -ere al -Iver of steel
at the top and bottom serving to hold,
them In place. •• ,
When the prisoner realized that his
plait -was frustrated he made a !reek
explanation. The apparently inuocent-
lo-oking stribg was the only .instru-
ment he had used. After waking it
In water and letting it dry the etring
was passed a few times through. an
oiled rag which he carried with him in
liett of a handkerchief. 'Afterviards 11
was •dropped into a tiny -Leap ot dust
In one tomer of his cell. 'The dust
was feted to be composed -of hen fil-
ings aed emery, he had brOught
in small pinchea irons the machine
shop where he had been 'compelled to
'work every day.'
,Teipping the string in. this dust he
took held, of the two pieces of weed
that formed the handles', stretched the
String tight and began sawing cm one
of the bars. Within half 'an hour the
improtased saw had out one eighth of
an inch and the bar perceptibly weak-
ened.
Who can rend euch a story without
a thrill of admiration at the thought
of the marvelous possibilities within a
determined will? Is there any barrier
tbat can stand before the intelligent
resourceftenese and courage of the
truly resolute soul?
It Is not our resources or our lack of
rea0nroGS that se ofteekeepe 0riS-
0ners In this world. It is rather our
failure to utilize What we have to the
fullest extelit that go often elites es
euteerom the larger freedom and 'pro-
gness ate which we reCiestilze we are
eatitied. "Young men," said the great
Preacher, Doctor Talmadge, "don't say
you have nothing tit begin life with.
Go down to the library and get some
boolce and read of that wonderful
niecileniem God gave you your hand,
In year foot, in your eye, in your ear,
and never again • commit the blas-
phemy of saying you have no capital
to start with. Equipped? Why, the
poorest young man is equipped aa only
the God of the whole Universe could
afford to equip him."
•
" The .Quest.
Life is an enlileee comet, and its
summing is determined by tvhat we
are looking for, It Is not necessary
• • Two PasIlties
g Life is ines.tly frog-) arel beblites;
I .,Two tatiogs liliC etone—
: n 101011111)5ratuaie,
Clot; rii gain y out
Mr Smith cobbled aed remixed
Children Should- Have Best
in Music Study. -
All who haye had an ,opoprtunite of
watchirig the growth a child's mind
know that the brain in childhood is
plastic, It receives impressions easily
and retains them. Children are in-
stinctively mualcal and rhythmical,
and early childhood is the time for fos-
tering the love Of music which is plant-
ed in every child's heart, and which -by -
Careful enetinuolis teaching you will
develop into a real feeling ter all that
ie -bast in. muses.
' When we knew that each stage of
the child's development requiees its
own kind of instruction, we realize
what a child has mined who reaches
the age of 10 or 12 -before begetualeg
his or her work that should heve been-,
taken at the' age of 8-yeare5. It is In-
teresting to note, however, that when,
mirierythymes have beeta abserbed at
a very early age the interest la them
is retainee for miany years; in fact, it
is never loot. Parents do not realize
that pianoforte playing Is only one
phase et theachild's musical education.
Song singing, ear training and rhyth-
mic expression form the geoundwork
for success in future music lessons. All.
this is suitable work that can be taken
In our elementary schools, and If the.
public demands it, can be given. The
present time is very opportune for bil '
who are intereeted in the growth of
good musle^in our Dominion, and for
all parents who wish their Wickert -to
have the benefit 'of a Minion. training
to use their best. efforts to have muse '
Placed In lin important.poeition in the
sehool 'curriculum, fdr it must be re-
membered that apart from its Value as
an educational factor, it can give the
children something that no other sub-
ject can give.
The best thought, all the finest ef-
fort diet men are making iu edecation
—and in other spheres, too—lead In
the direction of the child, the young .
child. It is for him that reforms are
planned and carried into execution, It
is for htm that philanthropiele, and
even party politicians show a sollet
tude unparalleled in the history of the
world. And it le teethe child that our
teachers bave begun to see that they
must direct their moat careful aud
earnest thought.
shoes, straining his imarsiglited' eyee etude it so long. It lea% fair!. I want divine to remember ,alleaye that 'tae
Under aft antialudted' pas Jet down- to tigli you life oNves you. something, best things any mortal haat are those
get them.. It, pay no—see?" Iles heart washralcusgi4,' that every mortal shares."
above—whep eweeeould
stairs, wbile his Wife kept' boarders and you and I are going to
was a comparative Oleeie in this drab in ii, ;leel every word Of les tightened'
deseet., EV011 Mr. Scheles, the on.e the pressure."You're doming awayi - Sound Advice.
betirdee, :at present, 14.411111104 1.1 -was with me, little woman—comic% where Phe
nice, .
.
hBrbio—lesee--want a 1)1008.e
e alneat
'abdMSchoeNvasesed to race1wemin botb atart agaie—where no -a t eriatle" et -
things. , •
, body knows ese—wheee thair isn't.wtn,fathin
She alwaysthought of himasMr.fouleand meneion'I:ire like beasteleiButcheraled1m, I k you'd b
Scholea—not as, Reheld, apite of his She could ,breathe again ;ibis 'WOrds ter haece au. egg." •
half-p'eayful insittence. • There was • • •
sometbingealseut him that she lied not, "
that liarry hadenot. nor Mr. Smith,
mor any one of this distriet. Ile didn't
Tin•Y )elong eaet of Ceptie and south
of Main
Alyea kept on iroeingewith a swift
dexterity to keepeeade with. her
thoughtsa—tvitli the racing of her
pulite. What a stielcy, sug,
ffocatin
iiight it wan! Mr. 8011j:es wod:d
in Any -minute 110W. Harry pokesi leis
head in again on hie Way with Me.-
Sintth tosay Se, • Tunny how Hairy
didn't like her1g be alone when the
Amp wee 'open!' That elip wouldnit-
'eland mere than •one- tvashing; eassz,
a era the iton111500)
her with Mr, Seholes. How hoe it was
in 1151)1 Was it better to have the
window 'closed 01 .110, openieg on that
foul ceartyarcl? , Haley should c-er-
tainly 'complain :About the garbage.
, 'flee street dol flewaa epee, its bell
iameling. 'Young Scheea ca.led brisk.
ly:
'ITuo, 11 eitage!"
:His head appeared le the doorway
aetwecn the outer 'hob e the
• • s FOUR CENTURIES 01111)'Mori 11 e/ied-iookiee
ye ath Alice 1 owl) aro, 1;11 y. -.,A1,5 Bole2er S3110111 el WI( rrlag to 11, len elan 1.1 ltlebrsles .rs fou n I °nary.
• aanariffot ihan 0111 c.ny.ted Among brilbolit Wallington arb010:8 are Malthus, of population assn.,/ fan e,
yfm tine, 150)0 -1i' 11 ,,,1 in looks' sinl Priestly, who dis-ceveree all 'ins predeces.ors combined.
"May I i W•a--Wi3'.i, art
•
'She—Jai-1041 dare you ask f or a kiss?'
Ile--Ilecause I didn't dare to take -it
w'silaout asking."
Is Forest Conservation 'Worth
While?
The forest pi.operty we must pro-
tect from tleatrintiore by fire keePs a
hundred thousand people in work. This .
number really repreeente about one
hundeed thousand families, so that the
real number orpeciple depeedlug upen
the work of cenVerlieg the forest Into
marketable products Is at leen times
or four times aS great. The, pro eats
of lee fereet ail nearly a hall billilon
dollars each year to ottro national
voealth. Pulp and paper making is our
largest matrufactering indestry. Saw-
milling its our third lergeet manufac.
tarring hide:try. The hydro-electria
power, which means go mueb to OM' In-
AnStriai development, depends upon
atieteened :stream flow nate suetained
stream flow depend -s apon the pres-
ence of a green forest cover on the
thousand hills where the streams find
their rourede. Duet it worth while te
invest a larger ineurtre ee proninm to
niaintaill all these things? Isn't it
everoli while to make our eforeet pro-
teetive organizations meet 'effective,
so that th-ey cae—win• in the nip and
tuck race with inerea.sing dangers and
liabilities? The forests mist be given
the advantage in the lace if they are
to reina.in NOth U13 and WW1 them pros-
Cilifton D. 11011'0, lit Cana-
dian Foreet mei Outdoers.
Musicians' at
. One wonders -when the %groat com-
poser* ever got time to pley, when one
leeks at their enornicus output. Yet
ae'Veral 01 them were very Vitt or
games ef variotis kinds. 'Mozart, for
of bil-
I11114181100, wee abnormally fond
—
Caught, Not Sought.
etre, Gayfellow. -"Are you eure you
.aeglet this flab?"
Gayfer.ow--"Of ,course."
"It. smells very, strong."
"Seeing? 1 abould Sfly it vole• It
nearly Pelted Me overbOard,"
Carry it
liardS, as indeed. is Padorewaki. Mozart inkaf 8
AP
often ernesed his friends while Play- ,1.4
. ipg -billtarde by .hunlrolug over nielo- iti,:ce
ies.. Duce aftee he ha<l spent an even-
ing Lima be !Many went to Ole Plano
'‘virll tee exelametien, eeterri lt. Is, now.'
LiMan!''' and he Played: bis beautifel
Quintet te from , the first -act oe -"The
Nlegin Mute." [le :had heart compee-
aim 1-,1: during his sine,' e . ..
Every music worker shOuld adopt e
spelt et some kind. Commander Souea
end Joao(' 1,bevinne e ice in for 1 111X- '
• eboeting, ‘13ealues le: ithoWe to ilaVU
libJ _%16
been fend (Jeanie, 113111511, it is med.
usedeto 1 i lte to box, Ve-rdi made a 11011
by ot fai'llting.
• • 'Advice. ,
Lst any Men show the world aim Ito
Aare i a of its be r It a o e `t will ily 01 1(14.
1,8t, 11 i 111 y re , 0 I Wil! 1 efe
-gat faeltqsitlie.a 111 s fora] e 11 i nee
* ' 1114 tone.
Keeps teeth
appetite keen and
di.gestioit good.'
grcat rtitf!r.
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