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GIRL BABY NOT WANTEI
"Al -Yah l Unfortunate man tha
am.' In what way have 1.ofended
gods, that for the fourth time a
is born to my wife?" Talking th
to himself, Kim Cheng went out
his little one -roomed house, and
down with his long pipe.
As he' smoked, his thought
"What shall I do with her?" ' In
Middle Kingdom (China) it would
easily settled, A pail of water
little gurgle, and all would be over
"But this district belongs to
white people and, according to th
law, a` man may not destroy. his newly -
born baby girl.
Not only so, but when a child is
born, boy or girl, the fats r must
to the government office and info
the clerk, who writes in a book a
gives the father a paper informs
him that, within a. certain time,
child must be brought for the planti
of the smallpox (vaccination) .
"Strange, indeed, are the ways
the white people! But they are wi
too. ' Certainly it .is better to have
mark on one's arm than to have one's
face covered with„ pock marks.
"If the gods will give -me a son I
will send him, when old enough, to the
white people's. school to learn their
words and wisdom. I hope the women
will find a way to dispose of the child."
Music Helps in .Delicate
Operations.
Considerable interoet and astonieli=
latent has been caused in both the Pro-
fessions of music and medicine by a
recent Letter in the I&,rittsh -Medical
Journal from the peri of a doctor in
( Gloileester, advocating the practiceof
I. I the mother had spoken. The others
t I greeted her, gave her a seat, then
the asked many questions about the teach-
ill er to whom she had given her baby.
us f`You would do well," said she, "to
side Send the child there. My mother -in -
sat law took my baby, and I have been
there once to see her. Many children
live in the school, and all are girls.
gas' There aro Chinese
girls who are he teachers, and who read and speak the
be language of the white people. If you
' a are willing, I will go with Elder Sister
and take the child to the teacher,"
heir "I am willing; ask my hsband if he
too; is willing."
oElder Sister went and told Kim
Cheng their plan for the child.
"As you please," he replied. She
go returned and told the mother Kim
rniidi Cheng's answer.
It is well," said the mother. "Take
ng the the child to the teacher."
Instructed by the mother, Elder
ng Sister opened a box from which she
of took 'a garment and wrapped it well
around the child. Then she beckoned
se, to the mother's friend, and together
a they left the house.
As they passed Kim Chong, " Elder
Sister said, "We go to take the child
to the teacher."
"
It is well," "And he. tell the
teacher to report to the government
(register the child's birth). Let her
bear all the trouble."
Inside the house, two women were
Thus from Kim Cheng's home went
the little daughter he had. not seen
and did not wish to see.
As the women went on among the
ting on a bench and a ,third was
lying on a plank bed. They were dis-
cussing what to do with the baby.,
Said one, 'I have heard, Elder Si
tar, that there are rich merchants in
the town whose wives give a good
price for a baby girl."
"Yes, I know, Younger Sister; but
think of the trouble to find the one
who will buy the child and then have
to wait until she can go to the temple
to inquire of the gods if it will be a
profitable undertaking. And did you
not hear Kim Cheng say that the chil
is to be disposed of at once?"
"Listen to me," said the mother. "
have a plan. A friend of mine, w
lives in the house by the rice shop
gave her baby girl to .a white woman
teacher living at a girls' school in th
loam. I should like my baby to
there. She will be well cared for an
educated. I do not want her sold to
rich people; her future would be un
certain. - Go thou, Elder Sister, an
call my friend here that we may in
quire where the teacher lives."
The subject of the 'women's discus
Oen and of Kim Cheng's thoughts was
peacefully sleeping, wrapped in a cot-
ton garment of her mother's. No tiny
baby clothes had been- given to the
women in which to dress this, un-
welcome babe.
Elder Sister presently returned,
bringing with her the friend of whom
palms and across the rice fields, Mini
Cheng rose and began to prepare the
food for his pigs, feeling relieved that
the child was disposed of without any
trouble to himself.
JUMPING RACE.
The players are divided into equal
groups, which stand in single file be-
d. hind a starting line drawn at one end
of the playground. Twenty feet from
I this line a finishing line is drawn
ho parallel to it; and on this line, oppo-
site to each file of players, two balls,
clubs or other objects are placed. At
a signal the leaders in each file, who
e
g have been toeing the starting line,
d jump forward with both feet to the
finish line, when they stoop; pick up,
- one of the balls and run back to the
d starting -line. Each 'player, on running
- to the starting -line, hands the ballto
the next player in his file, who should
- be toeing the line ready: to start, while
he himself goes to the rear of the file.
The second player, having received
the ball, jumps to the finish line, puts
down the ball, picks up the other one,
and returns rns to his file, where he hands
the ball to the third player.
The file wins whose last player first
gets back to the starting line
HITTITES WERE
INDO-EUROPEAN
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KINSHIP', TO CELTS AND
TEUTONS CONFIRMED.
Language Found to Bear a
Striking Resemblance to
Every Day English.
A confirmation of the belief of some
scholars that the ancient Hittites were
Indo-Eurapeans and blood cousins to
the Teutons, the Celts, the ancestors
of the Greeks and Latins, is made in
the translation of some 200 of their
aau dating from, the fourteenth cen-
tu B.C. Dr.George A. rY byg Barton,
i<irofeesor of Semitios at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and of New Tes-
tament Language and Literature at the
Philadelphia Divinity School.
In the work of translation Dr. Bar -
ten had to employ German, French,
Latin, Greek, Semitic and Celtic'
philology, since the s•cientiflc world
possesses: only .a rudimentary Hittite
Vocabulary, Tho translations will be
included in a forthcoming volume on
"Archaeology end the Bible" which ho
le preparing,
Tho Hittite empire had its seat at
Eoghas-)'rein, near modern Armenia, in
the fotirteentli century. 13.0. It was
there that Winckler some years ago
uncovered what was once the Hittite
3toyal Library and several hundreds
of their clay tablets.. Most .ofthese
tablets a°e now in Constantinople.
Their nnderstaniding, however, for -n
long time til a5 ti "closed hook" to les
archcieologisie beMee e the Ass yri• a
eanieforin was used to :write their.
language, which only lately has poen
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'give' is pal, which is the same as our
`pay'. The word for `Take' is 'doe
which corresponds to the Greek
'didiomi' and the Latin `d"o' for 'give'.
"The verb `esmi', which we know as
'tobe', is almost exactly the same as
the Sanscrit, which is, of course, Indo-
European.
"The Hittite for "`moisture' is
`wadar', which is readily seen to bear
a close relation to our word `water',"
Dr. Barton said the Hittite laws in
no way affected or were affected by
the Hebrew legislation. "Among them,
however, are some that bear a striking
resemblance," he said.
The code is evidently a revision of
an earlier one, and in almost every
case the penalty is lighter, thus indi-
cating a continually enlightened civ-
ilizatian
The Queen of the Driver
Ants.
The most mysterions personage in a
colony of African driver ants is a
creature perhaps an inch and a half
long and three-quarters of an inch
high. It is not au ant. In fact, so far
as science is concerned, says, Prof. R.
L. Garner in the Century Magazine, it
is as yet unclassified.
In comparison with the ants, con-
tinues Professor Garner, it is enor-
mous. 'I'll.e creature—there is only one
to a colony -looks for all the world
like a tiny elephant in a circus• parade
as it Iumbers along in the rear part of
the line of march Its b;ocly is about
as thick as your fingers, and its legs
are proportionately heavy, and help to
increase t:ho resemblance to an ele-
phant. There is always a bodyguard
.five or six deep round it as it mareb.es.
The thing is hardly a prisoner, for it
has never been found anywhere except
in a column of. driver -ants. What its,
ea is, is doubtful.. Several of the
driver ants were, taken to Germany a
eve yoars ago and examined, but no
mportant knowledge was gained. Per-
sonally,.I have never captured one of
elle creatures, but I strongly suspect
hat if is really the queen of the col-
ny. For in all species of the hynien-
ptera, which Includes ants, the queen
'pears to be an anomalous creature,
iany times larger than the other inem
ers of the colony, and always differ-
nt in feria,
xiiscovered".to be Aryan. The Assyrian
was Semitic.
Common Ancestry,
riiroln , a Bohemian scholar, has
done most of the work in translating
,'elle Hittite remains," 1)5. Barton said
rto•day,;.'lint 11111,01.1 Of it was unsa:tis-
e'aotory, ,1-l;owever, he worked out a,
tentatii+o grammar and the beginnings
of a vaeabulery.. The vocabulary
allowed a iniiaure of lurloli;uropean
,And .Mongolian roots.
-' More <Wait a .i-elnarkable s'esean-i in
Blanco, I found, in .rn ny of the words
toOI.
dIiP
i .ry words we have In English. i doseamed14lany of them seamedto have a coin.'
. ait<:ostry, The Hittite word Pori
The Irnportnnoe of Appearances,
He --"`The engine seems to be Miss -
g, sweetheart,"
She ---"chat's all rigs: t, dear, It
esn't show."
He Who has begun has half dorm,
instrumental muss • id 164
glcal skill. He argues that fox the
development of manual dexterity, as
in the case, for instanoe, of eye sur.,
gery, and indeed all, operations of a
delicate character, there le no better
training for the hand and wrist than.
learning to pay the organ or piano—
preferably the 'latter, ;Such a train
Ing, he says, gives precision and ambl
dexteritY, independance and flexibility
of fingers and wrist, delicacy and
lightness of touch in manipulation in
a degree difficult to overestimate.
Dr. Dykes Bower, the author of the
article in question, recalls• an ocba-
cion, many years ago, when he, was go-
ing the round of a hospital with a very
eminent British surgeon. The latter
asked one of the students. who accom-
panied him to perous•s.,the chest of one
of the public patients. After the stu-
dent had completed the operation un-
der the eye of the great man the latter
said, "I think, young man, we may
safely conclude that you do not play
the pianoforte." Dr. Bower says the
reader may well imagine what thee.
effect of the student's rough and
clumsy attempts at examination had.
been on the suffering patient. It goes
without saying that ,gentleness of
touch, even when sureness and firm-
ness are likewise necessary, are a
great asset to a doctor•- in ,.gaining the
regard of his patients.
This writer also points out that all
surgical operations—and certainly the
more delicate and intricate ones devel-
oped by the immense progress of mod-
ern surgery—necessitates a high de-
gree of manual dexterity. But, as one
experienced in both arts, he says that
even the most difficult and complicated.
operative measures in surgery do not
require anything like the manuat skill
that is required of a pianist who plays
a difficult work correctly and intelli-
gently. It is, he thinks, fortunate that
such is the case, for otherwise it
would be a bad look -out for thevast`,
number of persons who sooner or later
come under the surgeon's knife. In
general surgery there is in some cases
a margin for error, but itt eye -surgery
and' ether Special. Operations, little or
none --,just as there is none for the
musician in the Correct interpretation
of the work. Therefore he urb e bud-
ding surgeons to acquire the precision'
of the musician if at all possible.
Mandombi.
In tlio :Princess Beatrice ward of the
London Hospital a tablet to the mem-
ory of Mandeenbi, former chief of Ni-
geria, has recently been unveiled. The
story .is a remarkable instance of self-
sacrifice in the interest of humanity
by a member of the so-called backward
About thirty years ago l'Iandombi
became a Christian. Shortly after-
wards he was smitten with the ter-
rible scourge of tropical countries,
sleeping sickness. Realizing that he
could not recover, •he conceived th
idea of scariflicing the rest of his lif
e
y offering his body for experiment.
He made his desire known to the mis-
sionary who hadconverted him, and
was brought to England and placed in
the London Hospital under the care of
the late Sir Stephen Mackenzie.
Every four hours for two months the
house physician examined the blood of
the patient, and the researoh eostrib-
uteri to the eventual discovery of the
chief cause of the disease. Mandombi
died, but his thoughtful sacrifice
helped to save millions of lives.
When it was' proposed to erect the
permanent tribute to the black chief's
valor no one could find any record of
his name in the books of the hospital.
Sir Stephen Mackenzie, it was learned,
'had taken
away all the data of the case
for use in preparing a lecture. For-
tunately, one of the other doctors who
had attended the case was able to.come
to the hospital and point to the very
bed in which Mandombi had lain—look-
ing southward to his native land.
The story of the chief reminds us
once more that the way of progress is
ever the way of sacrifice.
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Progressing.
"FIas that young man who is calling
on you given you any encouragement,
Emily?" asked the father.
"Oh, yes. Last night he asked me
if you and mother were pleasant to
live with."
We easily forgive our faults when
they are only known to ourselves.
The World's Most Curious Marriage Customs
In many parts of India, particularly
Bengal, after the wedding ceremony
the bride and bridegroom are tied to-
gether by the corners of their gar-
ments and made to parade the full
length of the village" to signify to all
that they are united fol life.
At a •Cingalese wedding the men anis
women are tied together'by ° their
s and in parts I
thumb
p r s of Northern India �
the custom is to tie a piece of string
or thread round the bride's w' ist.
Another very ancient custom that is
still observed in many marriages is
that of placing the yoke of a bullock
on the head of the bride for a moment
in order to impress upon her the duty
of complete submission to her hus-
band.
Married in a Stream.
Among the Kurds, the bridegroom—
no doubt thinking of the possibility of
divorce, which is easily obtained—
stands in a .stream of running water
while pronouncing his marriage vows.
This signifies that he washes away the
binding nature --of the promise, and
therefore the bleach of it is less sin-
ful!
The marriage ceremony in Afghan-
istan Is simple, if nothing else. All r
h
its flowing blood.
In Turkey, when the bridegroom un-
veils his bride to have his first view
of her after the marriage ceremony,
they both look into a mirror and knock
their heads together -so that the im-
ages may appear united.
In certain parts of..:China 'the, bride
is 'carried` on a servant's back over a
,slow charcoal fire, on each side of
which are arranged a pair of the
bridegroom's gnoom s shoes.
custom
is that or lifting the brideer over the
threshold of her new home.
The men of Abyssinia usually carry
their brides from their old homes to
their new ones, no doubt imitating the
ancient' -custom of taking wives by
force. In somaiiland they have a
queer custom of shutting up the bride
and bridegroom for seven days after
the wedding.
At the Dagger's Pain'.
Atter an Algerian wedding the
bridegroom enters his home back-
wards, hording a .dagger in his hand,
and his bride follows him, touching the
point of the blade with the tip of her
finger. In the Gilbert Islands a man
can demasd his wife's sisters in mar -
sage, and he is also expected to take
is brother's widows!
The inhabitants of the Cook Islands
ave for many years practised a very
urious .marriage custom. A few days
efore the wedding takes place the
ride walks to the bridegroom's house
n a path composed of members of her
uture husband's tribe, who lie face
downwardson the ground. On the
wedding ng day theman walks to his
bride's house over the members of her
tribe. Should the distance be great,
those lying at the back of the row wait
until they have been walked over, then
get up and run to the head of the line
and lie down again!
the man has to do is to cut off 'a lock
of a girl's hair or throw•a sheet over
her and proclaim her his bride!
In Persia marriages frequently take
place between boys and girls. One of
the boys employed by the British
Army 1n Kermanshah in 1919 was four-
teen years old and had been married
twice!
When a Persian takes his oxide
home, sheep aro usually killed as she
steps over the threshold. A similar
custom is prevalent among the Arabs,
and when the bride reaches the thresh-
old of her new home a sheep is killed
and she has to step over a stream of
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The color wheel should be studied
y the woman who Is planning decora-
tons for a small room. Technical
inowledge of thevarying hues which
re shown on the whoel Is not neoes-
ary, but a few moments' considera-
ion of them will make one realize
pelt. different qualities. When colors
fare studied as isolated examples coin-
arison between several Is not pos-
ible• The color wheel on which they
rne grouped emphasizes the different
fluence each one exerts on our oon-
ioueness. Red, for instance, stands
out prominently wherever it is used,
but when we see blue placed next
I to
�t on the color wheel we realize more
ban ever red's dominating character-
istics.
We have reiterated many times that
pn impression of as much space as is
ossihle should be given forth by the
small
room. The woman who dee-
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Correct Colors for D140 ;mall .lioo.rn.
orates ..the email room will therefore
study her color wheel, and choose:
those colors which are tha least prom-
inont at first glance. When, like red,';
a colorattracts our immediate at -1
tention, it seems nearer to us than dol
those of which we are not spade so
quickly conscious. If then the small.
room hag brilliant colors used on its.
wallsand in its window hangings, both
wake and windows will be made to
appear nearer to the cthitor of the
room than they areand thus the size
of the interior is apparently restricted.,
Blue, green, gray and all neutral' tones
fade more into the background than •
do brilliant colors and so seem further
away. They are the colors to use on;
the large"areas of a small room, but.
lest your xoom_: become monotonous'
and drab introduce into it touches of
brilliant color through small objects
such as cushions end ornaments.
First Eight AnYafid
An air -race round the world, in
whioh the immediate starters, an Eng-
lishman, Squadron -Leader Stuart Mac-
laren, and his rivals of the United.
States Army Air Service, will be fly-
ing in opposite directions, is likely to
prove the greatest sensation in the
history of flight.
The Americans are starting from
Los Angeles, flying westward to Japan,
by way of the Aleutian Islands, and
thence along the Chinese coast to In-
dia, Egypt, and Europe. From Eng-
land they will not attempt to take the
Atlantic at a single bound as Squad-
ron -Leader Maclaren intends to do,
but will fly northward to Iceland and
Greenland, returning to the United
States by way of Canada.
When Maclaren, flying aver much
the same route, reaches Newfoundland,
he will try to fly direct to the British
Isles, landing probably in Ireland aP
ter a flight of about 1,800 miles, eigh
teen times the distance from London
to- Birmingham, or ten times the dis-
tanoe from London to Leeds.
For this purpose he will take an
board about 840 gallons of petrol, in
two- gallon tins.
Amid Arctic Snows.
e World
Their machine will be provided with •
floats and a wheeled undercarriage
which the pilot can raise or lower auto-
matically from his seat. It will have
two engines ef 360 h.p each.
The ground organization for aero-
planes landing at aerodromes in Eur-
ope is fairly good, and the aviators will
have the advantage of the Royal Air
Force organization over 4,000 miles of
their route from Egypt to Calcutta.
After that, however, they will have to
make their own arrangements far de-
pots for refuelling and the 'replacing
of necessary spare parts, until they
reach the Canadian zone, when the
Canadian Government will help them
on their way.
Bully Beef and Biscuits.
But, however spectacular the fli
may prove to onlookers, it will be any-
thing but a joy -ride for the partici-
- pants. Apart from the tremendous
nerve
us strain n of six to eight hours a
day in the air, it means anything from
three to six hours hard manual labor
on the ground for the entire crew, far
it is no light task to fill two 360 h.p.
engines with petrol, oil, and water, all
of which must be carefully strained.
be examined and readjustments made
examined and readjustments made
where anything has worked loose.
Maclaren and his companions are
taking the precaution of carrying
fishing lines and rifles, In addition to
their iron rations of bully beef and
biscuits, in case they are stranded.
No mention of this flight would be
complete without a tribute to the late
Captain Sir Ross Smith, who, with his
'brother, Sir Keith, flew from England
to Australia, a distance of 1,400 miles,
tin twenty-eight days. He had almost
completed his preparations to fly
round the world when he met his death
in the cause of aviation. To him is
due credit for the pioneer work ear -
Apart from ,this big jump, the com-
petitors need never fly more than
about 500 miles at a stretch, a matter
of some eight hours in the air.
The Americans, by saving them-
selves a twenty-four hours' flight, will
have the disadvantage of having to
fly in barren Arctic regions, which are
ice -bound except for a few weeks in
summer, and where facilities" for land-
ing are few and far between.
Maclaren will be accompanied by
Flying -Officer W. N. Pien.derleith, who
will navigate the machine in much the
same way as a ship is navigated at III
sea, and Sergeant Andrews, who will
act as rigger and mechanic.
lied out over the route.
Well Meant.
Once upon a time there was a long
spell p I oE dry weather. What made it
all the more wonderful is the fact that
this astonishing event took place in
Britain. Strange, but none the less
true!
After several weeks of incessant
sunshine there was a refresing shower
of rain,
"This rain will do a lot of good,
Patrick," remarked Mr. Blank to his
Irish gardener.
"`It will that, sir," returned Pat,
"'shure, an hour of it now will do more
good in five minutes than a month of
it would do in a week at any other
time."
A Valuable Mother,
A fond mother, to whorl her young-
est son was indeed a Joseph, asked I
him one day why he •associated with;
"those low persons who live under the
hill by the railroad tracks"? He re-
plied by introducing his mother to
Mrs. Timothy Bryne, whose claim to
fame rested in her parenthood of
Timmy, Jr., the leader of the "gang,"
"This, mother, is Mrs, Byrne, an' she's
teachin' Timmy to be a policomali, ten'
if he gets licked in a fight she Iicks
him. Timmy ain't been itciced in
moral]. a month now, Mother, she's a '
grand woinan, an' a great help to
Timmy."
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Airs. Arthur .ltiurplly is the first Canadian woiltail to occupy a. judicial 50
post, being the magistrate of the juvenile court at Cai'fyar, . Alberta. She is t1
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also an authoress, her writings, being pittblislioti tinder the nom do Winne of fo
"Sauey Canuok." ar
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Knew the Place,
A young bride -elect was ordering
er trousseau hi London before going
New Zealand to be married, The
ressmaker suggested only very w u'm
othing, and when she demurred, es -
sting that the climate was beatitt-
illy mild, she was immediately in -
rifled: "1 assure ;sola, liiadeni, you
o mistaken. New Zealand is where
e frozen moat conies from,"
f. .
Are you remembering always
that there is magic in your think-
ing?
Every day you are helping to
create the world you live in by
the thinking you do. Your own
face is being changed by the
thoughts that flit through your
misd. If your thinking is beau-
tiful there is a beauty in your
face tlia.t has been created by
that thinking.
Think for a moment about men
and women you know who have
been blessed with one ,steadfast
dream. Has it not left its mark
upon their faces? Have not the
ideas they entertained day after
day manifested themselves in.
action or in material form?
if as a child you believed in
fairies, you should have no
trouble in believing now in the
beautiful magic of good thotights,
Do you worry? Are you niak-
ng'yourself unhappy by "think.
ing back"?
Isere is an uplifting thought
from Emerson for those tvho
make themselves unhappy by
worrying over: the pnst;••-•-
"Finish every day and be cion
With it. You .have' done what
you could; Baine bliindere and
absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you Can,.
T morrow is a new day; Yon
shall begin It well and serenely
and with too high a spirit to be
cumbered with your old non-
some."
Life without its ideal is nothing hot
stagnation.--..lylts• Stanley Baldwin.
A pian should be co:nrtiended a.c
cording toils wisdom;
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