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MEN A UO WOMEN OF TO.
Plays Plano, at 104.
DAY
fess that according tct the niauuseript.
Mrs. reeazlor Coates Tylden, West, the heroine slioulcl die. "Icor Iteavexi'a
Norfolk, plays the piano at tho age of sake let bee live," cried the distracted
104. She oebebreted hex' 'birthday the father. '"Sic is all I h we.' Su . the
ether day. Mrs. Tyiden's home ad- oouciuding obapters were re -cast, the
jpiaia Sandringham, and the King and
queen icer edioally pay her visits.
Cyril Maude's Last Play:
The nQws that Mr. Cyril Maude is
meldzi:g his last a.Irpeatrance on the
stage in ''The Wicked Early" at l•Iis
Majesty's Theatre, London, will be a
disappointment to his admirers all
over the Country. But he les definite-
ly clecl•ded mot to act main. In fact,
after he had promised to take the lead-
ing part hi this play lie tried to draw
out. He was too old,, be said:, to pre-
• tend to .be man of forty, and he had
drearxxed that he Dame back and was
a fail+ere. But he wee Persuaded to
carry on. 'When this play is ended he
will retire to the country.
Perhaps the hest stony he tells con-
cerns a command performance at Bat-
-• moral. When Ma. Maude retired to his
ciressi:ngr0om the King came with
him. Imagine Mr. Maude's embarrass-
ment when, without turning round, his
valet, hearing his step, called out:
"Weil, gav'nor, hasp he made you a peer
yet?"
Saved by a Serial.
Sir Ehnsdey Oarr, the editor and
part -proprietor of "The News of the
World," has leeveated• that a clergyman
once tabled upon him end put the sur-
prising question, "Sir, does the heroine
of your serial die?" He sided: "My
heroine wes permitted to live, and
later Sir burley received a letter to
say :the clergyman's daughter hada re-
01,6170,
e-
co•'er d, ,and attributing that happy re•
salt solely to the influence of the
story.
A Curious Compliment,
Here ie a good story ,of Mit Thomas
HardY, which the great author is said:
to have told to to friend. The hovelist
happeuetl to notice a book in a little
village shop which he wished to buy.
His usual comfortable old tweed suit
misled the shop -owner. When Hardy
asked the price, "Sixpence to you," he
said. "It's a pleasure to find a man
like you taking an interest in good
literature."
"H and-Shague."
Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, the wife of
the British Premier, does not shirk
her duty. 'After a speech at 1'w:lchens
the other day—a speech in which she
defended Prime Ministers against
those who are apt to peck 'em—she
•shook hands with GOO women. Was it
a coincidence that, on the following
morning, a facetious medical student
offered to •oua'e people suffering from
"Haudshaguo" ?
Hitherto I have heard it called hand-
shakeitis, and it is really a very trou-
blesome complaint, belonging to the
family of writers' cramp and tennis
daughter is very ill. She is reading knee, and other complaints that can
the serial in your paper, and she be- be traced to a definite pursuit. The
Beeves her' complaint is the same as Prince of Wales suffered from it badly
that from which 'your heroine suffers.I on his last tour. Mr. Lloyd George and
It has, so preyed upon her mind that I the Earl of Oxford and Asquith have
am •convinced if your heroine dies the both been laid up with It. And Mr.
effect upon my daughter will be fatal." Bernard Shaw has decided never to
Regretfully the editor had, to con- risk it again.
Ways of Carrying Babies.
The Astatic Indian woman carries
her infant in a blanket hanging in
front, somewhat below the waist; the
Bengalese woman, with the child
astride low down upon her left hip,
and her left arm supportiug its back.
The Egyptian woman oarries hers in
a stately manner, the child sitting
astride her shoulder, with its hands
upon her head, and without any cloth-
ing to speak of.
The Brazilian woman carries, hers in
a somewhat similar manner, also in
fall undress,, it sitting astride her
neck. The Chinese baby is carried up-
right upon the back in a blanket, and
the South African in a bag in front,
formed by a blanket about the hips of
the Mother.
The Lower Austrian woman carries
hers by swinging it in a blanket over
one shoulder upon her .back, while_the
Northern Austrian carries tars bound
upon a board, after the styles of candy-.
models in confectionary stores.
The Lapland baby is carried in a
sledge shapeed cot, made. of leather.
It seems, to have been shushed in, feet
foremost, and then a frame tied over
the opening for its face, whether to
prevent it from •ca'awling -out or to keep
the doge from kissing it, is more than
can be Imagined.
The most unique style of all is that
of the Esquimaux woman, who wears
wide, high -top boots, and puts the
baby, right -end foremost, down in the
outside of: one of them, and doubtless
carrying her cooling and heating uten-
siis in the other.. The North American
woman carries her papoose strapped
to a board, and that strapped upon her
back by a band over the forehead.
Petty Pride..
Rennie was once traveling in Scot-
land in a stage -coach. The exietree
broke near a blacksanith's, and the son
of Vulcan being out, Rennie himself
lit the fire and welded the ai letree in
a masterly style.
His fellow -passengers, who had been
very commanieative and friendly dur-
ing the earlier part of the journey,
now became very reserved, and the
"respectables" especially held them-
selves aloof from the man who had so
cleanly revealed his calling by the
manner in which he mended the -axle.
Arrived at their journey's end for
the day, the travelers separated, Mr.
Rennie proceeding onward to Eglin-
ton Castle. .
Next morning, when sitting at break-
fast with his noble post,a person was
shown -in, and proved to be one of
Mr. Rennie's fellow -travelers, whose
confusion at 'finding the "blacksmith"
breakfasting with my lord may be
eaaILy imagined.
Merit and the Throng.
A thousand men Sled in by day •
To work and later draw their pay;
A thousand men with. Hopes, and
drearns,
Ambitions, visions, plans and schemes.
And in the line a youth who said:
"What chance have I to get ahead?
In such a throng, can any tell
Whether or not I labor well?
Yet merit is so rare a trait
That once it enters by the gate,
Although 'tis mingled with the throng,
The news of it &s passed along.
A workman sees a willing boy ._
And tants about his find with joy,
A foreman hears the word and seeks
The lad of whom another speaks.
So up the line the news is passed.
And to the chief it comes at last.
A willing ear to praise he leucls,
Then for that eager boy he sends
And gives hint little tasks to do
To .learn if all that's said he true.
Among the throng the lad is one
He keeps a watchful eye upon.
Oh, youngster, walking with the.
throng,
Although to -day the road seems long,
Remember that it lies with you -
To say what kind of work you'll do.
11 you are only pas -sing fair,
The chief will never know you're there,
But if you've merit, have no doubt,
The chief will quickly find it out.
—Edgar A. Guest.
No Use Trying to Please
Everybody.
"If you please," said the weather -
000k to the wind, "to turn ms to the.
south. There is such a cry -out against
the colli, that I am afraid they'll pull
nie .down if I stop much longer in this
north quarter." •
So the wind blew from the south,
and the sun was master of the- day, and
I rain fell abundantly,
"Oh,. please to turn me from the
south!" said the weathercock to the,
wind again. "The potatoes will all be
spoiled, and the corn wants dry weath-
er, and while I am hese rain it will;
and, what with the heat and the wet,
the tamers are just mad against me,"
So the wind sifted into the west, and
there came soft, drying breezes day
after day.
"Oh, dear, dear!" sal the weather-
cock. "Here's a pretty to-do! Such
evil looks as I get from eyes all round
me the first thing every morning! The
grass is getting parched up, and there
Is no water foe the stock, and what is
to be done?
''As to the gardeners, they say there
won't bo a pea to be seen, and the
vegetables will wither. away. Do turn
nve scirnewliere else."
`Upon which the wind grew 'very an-
gry, and, with a fierce puff, sent the
weathercock into the ,east.
"What do they say to you now?" he
asked.
"What???" cried the weathercock.
"Why., everybody has caught cold, and
everything is blighted' --that's what
they say. And there isn't 'a misfor-
tune that happens but somehow or
other'they lay` it to the �eaet wind." "
Well," cried the wind, "let teem
find fault. I sec i.t' im•lroesible for you
and fine to please everybody; so, in
future, 'I shall blow where I list, and
you shall' go where you like, without
askingany questions+.' I don't know
but Hiatt tv�e ehall:satisfy more than we
can do now, with. all our consider--
tion." .
Both Art Desirable.
Greater ueefnlness and not a.1 ong
life •rshould be man's aim, a health 'ex-
pert Ingle* nevertheless, the Impulse
in sonic inert is to strive for bath.
Spring,* on the Way.,.
Snowman---"Theme"+s where I spam out
of the picture until next winter!"
,f.
Cloek Ran for 471 Yeats.
The deck which Charles V., of
l:?'ranreo, ,ordered to be eon+strtieted for
nalacc Ian for 471 yoars.
The above photograph of the, Vehic-
ular Peace bridge was. taken from the
Ca radian shore, looking towards
Buffalo. On' the Canadian side, its
terminal will be on the ground on
which -was fought he battle of Port
Erie, in the war of 1812. On the
PEACE BRIDGE WILL LINK NATIONS
American side the terminal will be on
land ',onoe occupied by the buildings
of Fort Porter in Buffalo. This bridge
will be open to traffc about the first
of June, although. cars were actually
driven .over it last Saturday. It was
built by the Buffalo and Fort Erie
Public Bridge Co., of -which William
A. Eckart is the vice-president and
Edward P. Luper is the chief engin-
eer. It is expected that the Prince of
Wales and President Coolidge will for-
mally open the bridge in August of
this year:
The Table Game...
The object of this game is 'to teach
the children to set the table correctly
for a meal. A teacher said recently
that she was almost grown up be-
fore she knew on which side the plate
the knife should be placed. In many
homes the children help to arrange
the table..and clear it away and they
might as well learn the graceful and
proper way in the first place. Leaen-
ing through a game is such fun that
rules are taken as sweets and not as
medicine.
Choose one child to be the plate
and ask hint to take his stand in the
front of the room. The plate then
chooses the knife and fork. The chil-
dren who represent these must go to
their proper places, one to the'right,
the other to the left, of the plate. I ,
they make a mistake, others may be
chosen.
The knife then says, "I need a
spoon." The child who represents
the ,spoon must go to the right of the
knife. The fork then asks for .an-
other fork, which many be the salad,
or pie fork. It is best to keep the
table arrangement simple, -as many
homes do not have elaborate service.
The plate may then decide what
else he needs to complete the service.
If the child cannot do this, questions
should be asked of the class to see
who will remember that the glass
and the bread and butter plate have
not been added. As the children are
selected, they go to the place they
would occupy on the table, until the
most necessary articles have been
gathered and are represented b'y chil-
dren stan8ng in well -spaced and cor-
rect positions. Then if suggestions `
are asked for, from the class, a few the case of tea
been appreeia been stopped only just in time have
more things may be added, such as been brought to public notice lately.'
the cream and sugar dishes, a nalr 5 In another instance, where the rays
ki d extra dishes as desired were reflected from a mirror on to a
simple and elaborate `ways of setting
the table. Possibly. the children may
find a few short articles on table ar-
rangement, or they may be encour-
aged to tell of any beautiful party
tables they have, seen.
This game may be varied to fit the .
holidays by having the children plan
to represent the Thanksgiving and
Christmas table and others which
':may be suggested. The ideas back
of our table seryico which stand for
neatness, convenience and beauty
may easily be stressed by means of
this game.
Canada Now Fourth Greatest!.
A Canadian Landscape Rug.
Last summer it Evanston, Illinois,
I was able to purchase a very charm -
Niagara's Big Voice..
Ali the way, I had remembered
the tales of the road of th wager..
and now it can be heard for miles,
but what I heard was only the train,
and even when I stood in Niagara,
within five hundred yards of the
American fall, I hardly heard it;
what I heard was the rapids above
the' tall, which are picturesque and'
beautiful, in spite of the ire, yet
perhaps` nothing out of • the way in
the magnificent sense. They are al
rush end a wild, crying of rather'
clear greenish water• much broken'
by falling and by rocks and by thei
big Goat Island in the middle of the
falls.
I wandered down the stream and
quite soon' saw the edge, with the:
water going over the,edge, and noth-' .
ing beyond the edge except the!
Canadian shore four hundred yards
away. Just at the edge the water
greened and went very fast; so'1
hurried up right to the rail by the'
brink, and as I came within ten!
yards (going in the "direction of the
stream) I heard the fall's. big voice,
and then, when'I looked over the
edge, it was really terrific.
It is all heaped and built up below,
with mounds and skulls of gigantic
lee, wlh icicle teeth ie. their jaws.'
These. ,mounds come up 'halfway -the
height of the falls, and the water,
goes down into the chasm among
them, and ten yards down from the!
edge it' ceases to look like water, but
is like teased wool and out of the
ehasmi cones a smoke of water,i
infinitely strange and like the ghost
of water, and this rises and flies'
about, overhead and everywhere, and
fills the air with drops, and falls on
the trees and freezes three inches;
thick.
I crossed over to Canada, and wan-
dered on till I could see the Horse -i
shoe. I suppose the gorge is some
ing, hooked rug, that is thought to two hundred feet deep or more, and,
this vast bulk of water topples into
it and comes up again in a exist much:
higher than the fall, and floats'
be over 100 years old. It was made
in Canada and the design shows the
St. Lawrence River, the Heights of around everyryhere, not like mist so
Quebec and the Lookout -Tower on the much as escaping steam, and in
nearer side of the river, where is now among it are great noble sea -eagles,
the town of Levis. drowsing and drifting and cruising,
The time of day is sunset, which and underneath is a vast, glacier bulk
gave the niekar a chance for inter- of ice, with rifts of bedeviled water,
esting color effects. We see the and a whirlpool going round and
bright reflection upon the water, round.. .
tinting, @too, the sails of the boat ,on
The fall itself is not easy to de
the river, the delicate tones of the soribe. It is rather clear, greenish
opposite shore and 'the brilliancy of water, and it is quite quiet, not very
the golden glow topping the heights. deep, just before the fall, and it rises
A little house near the tower is out
Tea Drinking Country.
Each Canadian drinks over four
pounds of tea per year, or practically
five tines as much as our American
`cousins to the south of us. Great I
Britain (including Northern Ire -
lea) leads the world in point of con-
sumption by using yearly over 400
million pounds (nearly 83,4 pounds 1
per capita) . Then comes the United
States with 100 million, but only!
9-l0ths of a pound, per capita. Next
conies Australia with 49 million and
Canada with 36 million. No reliable
statistics are. available for China' or
Russia. -Both these countries con-
sume a large amount of tea, but the
per capita figure is very small.,
A great deal more tea would be
used on this continent if the public
were educated to demand fresh tea.
Old tea is flat and unpalatable.
Tea. is a very delicate vegetable
growth, which deteriorates unless
kept sealed. A bottle of ginger ale
soon loses' its flavor if exposed to the
lined in black and there is a blacl and goes over the lip almost like
metal, and then seems to see what it'
is doing, and seems to try to get
back, and ceases to be water, or any -1
thing like water, or anything on
earth, but something rather white
and devilish and astonished, and one
could watch it all day forever, nor'
with awe, perhaps, but with a kind
of kinship with it.
border. A red flag waves from the
top of the tower and a bit of red
at the foot suggests a flower bed.
The green of the large tree and the
grass on the Levis side is much
faded, but the whole thing Is sug-
gestive of memories. The artist, a
primitive worker of course, appar-
ently designing on burlap the scene The air is so mist soaked that
with which' she was familiar, may everything near, roads, 'gorge and;
have spun the wool and woven the rails, is caked and heaped with hard)
cloths of which it is made and per- white .ice and this will sometimes
aapscadored h with vegetable dyes stay till July, they tell fine, in its
also made by herself. bigger heaps. --John Mansfield, hi
How much of induetry, patience and "Recent Prose."
appreciation of beauty has gone into -___.;
the making of this bit of human ex-,
pression .which now adorns a modern Watch That Mirror.
apartment in Des Moines, far away Even on days when the sun is not
from its original habitat. No doubt particularly strong there may be
there was joy in the making, and the danger of its rays starting a confla
fact that it is still in good condition 'gration when reflected by such an °h-
alter nvore than 100 years proves jest as a shaving-nxirror.
One or. two cases where fires have
that it has had cat e. 1\''o doubt it h
air. This is exactly what occurs rn ted bythe descendants
of its maker and shown with pride
by her successors upto this time. It
. Correct, cane to me from the last one, a very
old lady selling her possessions so
n an ex .
Several of these groups may be
formed in the front of the room,
thereby giving opportunity to those
who failed to set the table correctly
the. first time.
In connection with the game; it
might be helpful to ask the children
to bring pictures, cut from the pa-
pers and magazines, showing both
Even+the grave and dignified !h•it-
ish Civil Service commissioners could
net resist being r.nused at an answer
given at a reoeut examination. The
question was:
"Give for any one year the number
of bales of cotton exported from the
-United States."
The applicant wrote: "1491. None?'
light curtain, the house was •set on
that with the money she can go back fire and had a narrow escape from
to her home. being completely destroyed.
The rug is still giving pleasure, Some years ego, too, an officer's
for. I weave about it many mental tent was burned down at a rine meet -
pictures. Quebec, 100 years agol
Romantic, historic city I Beautifully
situated. A bit of old France!—L.
H. C.
ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By 0. Jacobsson.
ing, the sun's rays, reflected from a
shaving -mirror on the tent -pole, set-
ting the canvas in a blaze.
Even a glass bowl or bottle filled
with water may :sometimes act as a
burning -glass. The wise haneewife
will leave nothing about that is likely
to catch and reflect the sun's rays
in this manner.
Homemade Flower -Support.
Nothing is less decorative than a'
bouquet in which all the flowers are
wedged tightly together or stand in
a stiff, angular fashion.
The flower supports sold in the
stores and intended to sit in howIs,'
often hold the flowers too rigidly. A
contrivance that works better and is
homemade, is a round piece rut from
wide -meshed Wire. That used around
chicken yards is gciod for the pur-
pose. With pliers cut the piece out
a little larger than the bowl in which
it is to .be used. Then bend down the
cut edges until' the fiat ,surface of the
netting comes as near the bottom or
top of the bowl as you wish, this de-
pending bn the height of the bowl
and the ;rind of flowers used. With
this wire supp,,i•t tho flowers can he
arranged lo make a loose send very
graceful bouquet.
His HonorWes Safe;
This story is told of a Now England
ji.clio, now decd; who was as ramous
for 'his wit as'tor Itis learning. 'He
was contirtg'clown the icj steps of ble
courthouse ono 3asivary day when he
alitiped, Tell and rolled down to. the
bottom of the stepe,
A passer-by who knee, him hurried,
to his assistance and as he belted him
to his foot said solicitously, "1 trust►,
your honor le not hurt?„
The judge' eyes twinkled, "My
honor is notxrt at all, thanb you,
ito replied:, "but my elbowe acted 'i:neetil
are badly scraped, I drink.'' •