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The Brussels Post, 1912-6-13, Page 6TOROTO CORBESPOijENOE University of Toronto Convocation—The Navy Question—Toronto Spreading Out—The Weather. The annual. University of Toronto con- vooatfoo, recurring each year in the early days of leafy Juno, marks the olose of college activities for the academie year, and sonde the last contingent of the stu- dent their homes forbthorlsu rimer. thousands, Ther mous of convocation, as now carried out. brings otouoh of old-world ppioturesque- neas to this very .material and commerci- alized city. A procession of professore and such students as remain in the alts, consisting ohioliy of the graduating 01000,. U. clad in mortar -board caps and gowns, forms at the main university building in Queen's Park and marches acroee the lawn to the now Convocation Hall where the proceedings are held, The chief folia- tion oliation of the day is the conferrtag of the new degrees. Tho proceedings are en- livened by the students' exuberant inter- ruptions, their feelings thus finding a free outletafter being pent up through the long examination grind of the last few mouths. Afterwards there is a garden party, when good-byes are said and 0tu- dont life for the year is at an end. ONE OF THII BIG UNIVERSITIES, The University of Toronto, with its many allied colleges, is now in point of attend- ance, one of the largest universities in the world. Judged from this point of view it has outdistanced such famous and time-honored institutions as Oxford and Cambridge. But there is is question in some minds as to whether it ie yet influencing the life of the nation to the extent that it ought, in view of the num- ber of its graduates and the moneythat is being spent on it. There is a disposi- tion in some quarters to criticize the method by which it is manested. Its af- fairs are controlled almost entirely by a Board of Governors appointed by the Pro. vincial Government, this Board consist- ing of eminent business men. There seem to be a tendency on the part of this Board to run the institution after the fashion of a private business and it may be that ft little more publicity and a greater effort to bring the university into touch with the lives of the people would be a good thing. President. R. A. F010000r, after a five. year tenure of office, commands general respect. It is generally believe 1 that he le looking after the details of the admin- istration with wisdom. The stndente like him, though ho is hardly the heroic fig- ure to his flock that some university lead- ers in other centres have been. A NAVY CONTROVER,iZ LOOMS Tels. Activity in the local Over -seas club, oceariot:ed by a visit of Honorary r',•ra.n- izer, Mr. Evelyn Wrench, of London. 0.1r., calls attention to various activities hi'h have already been lanrohed, or are ,,- -I.•r way, with is view to demonstrator . to Canadians their duty- of assuming : '+- stontiai share in t: a maintenance . ''•u British Navy. 11. ra are Many a which poiut to the ec.loluoion that s. •ee soon to have an Wiper:sot discuss:i, , 1.1 this quest o 5 There hate recently 1 o a -number of signifiesnt editorials in ,'8 Toronto News r i ed by '..Ir. J S '!- 300, wile gs, ,rslly understood to •:e fairly tat n+ relations wish P ,ser Darden. Theso pronouncements ails..saie the imwertlete contribution by Cana. r of two Dreadnoughts, to be followed by a permanent organization. Whether this represents the opinion of the Government is is impeeeible at this time to say. The pnli.leial.° 011 hold sides have shown some d1L -.once in gr.,rpl10g with the queeti0n. doubtless being unwilling to hazard mak- ing a mistake inauging public opinion. And meantime. it is being left to such- or- ganizations no the Over -seas Club to our. tivate sentiment on the question. The Over -seas Club hitherto has (mudd- ed largely of recent arrivals from Bri- tain, but an effort is being made to bring native Canadians more prominontly into the organization. Dir. Wrench is a young Englishman of very pleasing qualities and marked ability. It is generally under. stood that the chief personality behind the movement is Lord Northcliffe, the famous London newspaper publisher, who is an ardent Imperialist. Earl Grey, re- cently Goveruor General, is also much in- terested. ANNEXATION Ale ISSUE. The thief issue to local politics at the moment is annexation—whether Toronto with its 425,000opulation shall annex North Tomato with its 5,000 souls. The proposition was voted down by the rate- payers of the city last January, but a new situation has been created by the at- tempt of the Mackenzie and Mann inter- e5ts to get an exte0efon of franchise for their Metropolitan railway within the limits of North Toronto. If they summed it may complicate matters when Toronto takes over and ruue its own street rail- way, as it expects to do nine -Sears hence. Probably both municipalities will vote on the annexation question in the near future, North Toronto le the last independent suburb of the city to be annexed. To- ronto Junction, five' miles west of the Cor- ner of King and Ynuge streets, East To- ronto to the east, Wychwood to the northwest and other areas, all have been taken in, while North Toronto, beginning scarcely more than two miles straight up lenge street, has remained out. Opposi- tion -co the inclusion of this dintriot has come in part from owners of vacant land in the city limits who delft want more competition. The statement is made that Toronto has room for 260,000more people without enlarging its areas. This state- ment has never been clearly demonstrat- ed, and it is doubtful if there is room for mush a growth without serious over- crowding. Certainly there is to tbo casual observer very little vacant space in To- ronto to -day. All the ohoice building ter- ritories have boon Oiled up with amaz- ing rapidity a.nd large sections, which a few years ago were market gardens, aro to -day centres of a dense population. North Toronto, with ata event 5,000 poen• lotion, has 2,500 acres of land and would furnish some means of exp0nsi0n, with- in easy access of the city. It would be much more convenient than some of the other outside properties which are be- fog divided up and put on 1115 market by energetic real estate agents. GRUihTBL1NG AT TIIE WEATHER. Following the "hottest summer" of 1511 and the roldost winter we have just passed through the wettest spring nod people aro wondering what our weather is coming to. The effect on trade has been depressing. rho soda fountain men are in the dumps. So are the atorekeop. ere with summer goods. Straw hats fur• WWell a striking illustration. Last Tear straw bat stocks were half sold out by the middle of May. This year, the Met of the month saw only an odd men bora and there on the street wearing a meow hat and the stores in 1espn:ation put. ting on "Backward Straw Hat Seasalf' sales at greatly reduced prions. THE VERSATILE CHINAMAN. Can Adapt Himself to :l.nything in Order lo Make it Living. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about a Chinaman •is his • adaptabilitr. Any one who sees him ironing shirts in this e+auntry might well suppose that he was following an inherited trade. But he never saw a flat -iron before coming here, and teok to the . calling because there was an evident unfilled -de- mand for the Work. In writing of "Cuba and Her People of To -day," Mr. Forbes Lindsay says that the C'liinatilan is not laundryman in Cuba, because the need there was for marketga•rdeners. John would have acted with the same prompt de..iai:gin had the need been fur balkunists. He takes np one kind of work as readily as an- other, and whatever he attempts 11e does well. 'When lei went to Cal- cutta, be found there was no one to. make shoes antl paint portraits in a manner satisfactory to the Englisla- inen. He calmly and confidently undertook to do both, It is quite unne.eessary to state that he succeeded. Bet when you, -consider the essential difference be- tween o-tween European and Chinese art, both in conception and execution, and the fact that the Chinese emi- grant does not usually know much about either, the result seems al- most miraculous. Three favorite occupations of John Chinaman in Cuba are cook- ing, peddling sweetmeats, and keeping a fruit -stand. In each of these fields 11e has ,had to meet na- tive competition, and in his quiet, forcible way has overcome it. In a short time he had learned to make better dukes than the Cubans had been accustomed to make, but when it came to advertising his wares, he found himself hopelessly handicapped by a naturally weak voice, for 11e was pitted against the Cuban hawker, who bas no superior in the world as a street -crier. How - over, with the Chinaman, the next thing to being confronted with an obstacle is to overcome it. John mounted along red box upon his head, and upon this drum- med continuously- with a hardwood stick. In the course of time the Cuban women and children forsook the man who bawled frantically for the silent man who heat a box, and John became prosperous. The post of Chief Admiral in the Russian Fleet is almost invariably filled by a member of the Imperial family. 1VIAKIII SAFE IYESTiVIET Never Piit All 1'our„Eggs In One Basket"—This Should be the Investor's Motto—What Happened to Several Prominent Investors Who Overlooked This Idea. If a farmer had 51,000 with which to buy stock 101' 1116 !attn would he spend it au for it .pedigreed - bull if he could buy no more? If you had., 510,000 to Invest would you put it 011 Into ono security? If you and the farmer were wise equally the 000333 would be an unhesitating nego.- tivo, Yet, :when it eem0s td iuvostmout ti any people place all their money in one soourity. The farmer's bull might diol 7430r security might fall on evil risye. Two bn110 would be lege risk, Twenty head of tattle would be little risk. A few genre ago a brink invested all its avnilabhi ttlndo in one 00ourity, . It bought ell it could with its own and its depooltorte money and borrowed more. Something went wrong-•thingo seldom go emoothly et first -,and the bank had to borrow still more, Really the crash came and the earners' failed with prate tically all its agents locked up in the I{eeley mine, The crash wag inevitable, of course, butt 10 ghastly tollysof the remelts putting Ali- their shareholders' money Into 0510 6eenrity-•and that a :mine, -woe an error whieh tie 'intelligent hvestor would ever be guilty of when .using for himself, The good old rule, "Never pot alt your eggs in 000 basket," is one of the most in1Rgortdnt that the investor can follow, saki then even it hie ,lodgment is at fault hie average over say ten securities --un• lase they ere all mines—will be much bet. G,r than if be only eurebese1 one. Lyon were bnying bonds, title dlstribn- thon of Heir, as it is 0a110d, 10 a very Im' portant matter. If you look over the in - v 015080te of the insurance companion you will 10url this followed closely. In the Iesu0ance Blue Book Issued by the finance department at Ottawa all the in- vestments of the insnrnncu companies are given in detail. Ono 01 the gmailer lite Companies llto three pages with its mu. memos invo0tments alone. Then it hes sound corporation bonds, shelf as those of,eleStric light, power and trltmway Com- miniee, some 1ndn0Lria1 bonds and a small but select list .ofbatik stocks, and a few of 'these like C. P. 21., but, not many. Then they have mortgages and loans se. cured be collateral --chiefly bonds. Then one can and the securities of foreign gov- ernments, including such high•grado stuff se British consols. In short the di0tri. dation of risk theory is followed to 0 commendable extreme. The benefit of th10 ie obvious. A few y4are ago the Sovereign bank found le bad too marry (Mimgn and Milwaukee. Bonds for the geed of its health and incontinently wee wound up, At theolime time several insut'aeee eompanie9 land to write off eaventy-live per rent. of the par value of these • bankla. Did they fall? Why, no. The advance in the prion of their other ineestut4nte more than offset this relatively small 1038.. But had they not followed the old advice about their egg0 there might hove been trouble, The Soveroign bank forgot it, However, end. there was trouble, The moral 1e ob5ioue. "xNVEiSeene," AN ATTRACTIVE TAILOR, -MADE. SHIRT WAIST. (Notice the back view in the lower corner of the picture). The first qualities to be consid- ered in the material for such a shirt waist as the above are the qualities for wear and washing. Taffeta fou- lard is a very attractive and wear- ing material, and Oxfords and zeph- yrs are also quite handy in this style of garment. N LASCARS AS SEAMEN. They are First..rate in the East, But Succumb to Cold. In fairness to the Lascars who farm. part of the crews of the P. & 0. ships, and whose conduct en the occasion of the recent wreck of the Oceans in the English Channel has been commented en by many of the passengers who were rescued, it should be called to mind that all tho Orientals carried upon titers ships are not Lascars, but that there are on board black stokers from the Zanzibar coast, and native cooks and native attendants, who could not be very greatly blamed if they lost their heads in a moment of peril. The Lascars are the seamen of In- dia, and the storms of the East are jest: as fierce as the storms of the West. The ono weapon nature uses against list Lascars with overpowering effect is cold. A Lascar in the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean is a better man for his work than a white man is. If ships going to the East could carry as far as Suez a crew in which Europeans preponderated, and from Suez onwards a orew in which Las - cars preponderated, it would be, perhaps, the best solution of a very difficult problem. DIFFERENT NOW. Since the Slugger, Coffee, Was Abandoned. Coffee probably causes more 11i1 - jolliness and so-called malaria than any one other thing—even bad cli- mate. (Tea is just as harmful as coffee because it contains caffeine, the drug in coffee). A Ft. Worth man says "I have always been of a bilious temperament, subject to malaria and up to one year ago a perfect slave to coffee. At times I would be covered with boils and full of ma- larial poison, was very nervous and had swimming in the head. "1 don't.,know how ib happened, but I finally became convinced that lay sickness was due to the use of coffeeand a little less than ago I1 stopped coffee and began drinking Postum. "From that time I have not had a boil, not had malaria at all, have gained 15 pounds good solid weight and know beyond all doubt this is due to the use of Postum in place of coffee as I have taken no medi- cine ab all. "Postum has certainly made healthy, red blood for me in place of the blood that coffee drinking impoverished and made unhealthy." Name given by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. Postum makes red blood. "There's a reason," and it is ex- plained in the little book, "The head to Wellviile in pkgs. Ever road the above lettere A nova Ono. appears from limo to tine. They aro genuine, true, and full of human interest. SUCCESSFUL, "Was her bleach o£ promise suit successful 2" "V•ory. jury awarded h . The r e. enough money to make it worth some man's while to marry her for it." EXPLAINED. She -•Persons of opposite quells Lite make the happiest marriages." He ---"That's tvby I am looking for a girl with meney.'r SAY MILLIONS OF PRAYERS MEDICAL MISSIONARY TELLS ABOUT THE TIBETANS. Most Enlightened Grind Out Peti- tions on Long Cylindri- cal Devine. Prayer by machinery might be considered a product of modern in- genuity, but it is practiced in one of the most unenlightened countries of the world. Tibet, Dr. A. L. Shelton, medical missionary in Tibet., tells a story of conditions in the hermit kingdom whieh is un- usual. "They have a long strip of paper," he said, "on which is printed 2,000 prayers. This is put into a cylinder and whirled around. The natives carry this and when not otherwise engaged, spend their time in praying, In the other hand they carry a string of beads, so they can pray three ways at once— by mouth, by the beads and by the cylinder. They are the most reli- gious people in the world, and liter- ally `pray without ceasing.' They can pray on a large scale by making a wheel our or five fest across, filled with prayers. At every revo- lution 200,000,000,000 prayers are said. "But the man of Tibet does not pray for glory. He prays for anni- hilation. To him existence is a curse, and he believes in the trans- migration of souls—a good man will be born again as a priest; the bad man as a woman or a cow. Tibet proper is not open to missionaries, but the border has been pushed back 500 miles by the Chinese, so we are practically in Tibet. The people are afraid of foreigners, and never had seen a blonde woman, in my district until Mrs. Shelton came. Because she had blue eyes, they thought she could look two feet under the ground, and because of her light hair, believed her my mother. MANY WOMEN DIE. "It is a hard country to live in, and for this reason many of the women die. Because there are net enough to go round, sometimes a family of brothers will marry one wife. The people are not the clean- est, because they never bathe un- less they happen to find a hot spring, and the hot springs are scarce. It is a cold country, and they have no way to heat water. "Most of my work is surgical and follows fights, freezings or acci- dents. They doctor their own ill- nesses by crumpling up paper pray- ers into pills and swallowing them. There is no response to Christianity yet, and my medical work is only an opening wedge. Of education there ie practically none. The only man who is educated is a priest, and he trains his own successor. If a rich man wants to have bis son educated he has to induce a priest to take him to his own house. With- in five years the Chinese have in- stalled a certain system of educa- tion, but it has not spread much, nor is it much to spread. BELIEVE IN REINOARNATION. "But they are a fearless people, and once you have made a Tibet man your friend, he is loyal. If he is your enemy, you must loolc out for yourself. The teaching of the Tibeb religion is to beware of the Christians. because they will de- stroy the Tibet idols, and this dis- trust has led to -the death of many Christians. The people are very Aspen to suggestion. They have an idol which issupposed to destroy a man's enemies if he prays to it. It is not unusual for a man to sicken and die simply from fear, when he knows that his enemy has prayed for his death. "The living Buddha is in this country. When he dies, a number of male infants are brought in and bowls sob before them, one being the bowl of the dead Buddha. The childh t grasps b a Buddha's bowl g P , of coarse, is Buddha, because he would surely know what belongs. to him. The chill is worshiped there- after as the reincarnation of Budd- ha." • g� TIIE KING'S GARDENER. Responsibilities of H. M.'s Chief Floricultural Expert. Between $1,500 and $2,500 aro spent every year on plants for forc- ing purposes. The head -gardener has, of course, to make bis plans of eultivation for each aux very =eh in advance. These plans are submitted to their Majesties for ap- proval. It frequently may happen that the King or Queen Mary de- sire to lay out some of the gardens in a particular manner, and, of coarse, any such, suggestions etre made part' of the general scheme of cultivation for the coming year, says London Answers. The head -gardener has a staff of forty-six assistants under him. Several of them are specialists. For example, there is :t "bulb" special- ist, who has devoted years to varii, ons methods of bulb cultivation; and there is, of course, a rose spe- cialist, and there are half a dozen men who devote all' their time to the management of hobhouses and the cultivation of tropical plants, The work in the Royal gardens be - ,lir •.'b. Ill'►►►(UI'Ii uup1t►iii�(i��riil�llll Ill II I�illll►l►uu���� l�i���lll 1►ma►ilt0011 C'onform.s fn tics nigh aziandard o/ 'I�/offs gddtsrt tisofuf for fko Ateridred purposes,. II ll'Wluppllfl IIf, ftlkf bli II! II 1Y.R'kV.:a:�l'F't4I4V-4,40, btq'✓24 ekMllill gins at eight in the winter, and at The gardeners at Windsor_Cassie half -past six in the stammer, and are provided with a thoroughly com- there is enough to be done to keep fortable, well-built set of dwellings, the large staff fully employed which were built by the late King. throughout the year. One of the Before his Majesty came to the duties of the head -gardener is to throne the gardeners had to find supervise the cutting of flowers 1e- houses for themselves about Wind- quired for the Royal tables and for sor, and. in several instances had to bouquets. There is a special room live a long way from their work. In in one of the garden houses where addition to the dwelling -houses bouquets are made up and eut flow- there has been erected a sort of ere packed for despatch by post. club -house for the gardeners. Their Majesties are constantly These is a largo experimental gar- sending presents of flowers to their den at Windsor where new methods intimate friends, and also to hospi_ of cultivation are constantly being tale and charitable institutions. tried, and any that prove conspieu- Two men are kept regularly em- early successful ars adopted; but ployed making packing -epees for the the general system in the Royal ger- flowers. These cases are made of polished oak, and lined with silver paper, The name and address of each person to whom a ease of flowers is sent is entered up in a book, and sometimes five hundlterl cases of flowers are despatched in a day. dens is more or less conservabive in character. No new scheme is ever adopted simply because it Happens to be fashionable at the moinenb, bub if it were proved by experiments .to be useful and effective it probably would be. BONDS PAYING 6Z INTEREST tg The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Bros. & Company at their present price pay 6 per cent interest. The security they offer is first mortgage on 6,000 square miles of pulp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec. The timber is i,lsured with Lloyds of England against loss from fire. The earn- ings at present are sufficient to pay bond interest twice over, and when the mill now in course of construction is in operation, earnings will be enormously increased. These bonds can be quickly converted into cash, as there is a ready market for them. °) From standpoints of interest return and security, these bonds constitute an investment of excep- tionally high order. There is every reason to believe these -bonds will considerably increase in value. We will be glad to send you literature further describing these bonds, S CUFalT1 S COIRPORA d 9ON LIMITED BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING . - YONGE AND QUEEN - STREETS TORONTO R. M. WHITE MONTREAL-n0E0EC-HALIFAX-OTTAWA Manager LONDON ((INC.) SHE OANADA BFiG4 CO., $1001,0 0 7 per Cent. Preference Stock with 40 per Cent. Bonus of Common THE Montreal Bond Company, Limited, are making a public o3foring of 5100,000 of 7 per cent. cumulative preference stock of Cho Canada Brick Company, Limited, at 95 (par value 5100,00 per share) with a bonus of 40 per cent. of common. The capitalization of the company le 51,000,- 00D, divided into 7 per cent, preference, of which 5200,000 will be issued and 5600,000 common, of which 5100,000 will be tseued. Of the issue of pro- ference stook 8105,000 has been taken firm, leaving but 4100,000 to be of- fered to the public. The great amount of building activity which is go- ing on in Montreal at the present time has created a tremendous de. mond for all kinds of building material, and it is to supply a portion of the demand for brink that the Canada Erick Company, Limited, .ban been incorporated. The company aro erecting two plants, ouo at Mile End and the other at Si. Lambert, the combined oapaeity or the two being 16,000,000 bricks per year. As there are, 325,000,000 bricks used in Montreal every year, and as the National Betels Company can 0upply but 135.000,000, it means that nearly 200,000,000 bricks aro required to be brought in from other sources. .THE Canada Brick Company propose manufacturing their brinks by what to known se the sand -lime process, whieh is regarded as 'an im- provement on the ordinary brinks made from clay. Aeoording to teats made by Milton Hersey es Company it is shown that eand•linie brieko are equal in strength and quality to the best kind of pressed brick, and the am time 1oseese greater regularity of form and uniform f at es o uniformity n 1 g g y Y dimensions than the ordinary brio]. In addition the brink i0 Imp ervione to Climatic, changes, whieh makes it invaluable in a elirnate Duch es we Imo in Canada. It is 003)0010117 suitable for the better grades of build. Inge which are beteg eroded in the city of Montreal at the present time. While in 0 manure the process is a now one It hoe boon rapidly coming into favor with architects and builders. In Germany whore it was first dioeovorod in 1880 there are 280 plants in operation at the progont time, while in the United States, whore it was in0rodecod in 1901, there aro 74 planta manufacturing this class of brick. Canada has 10 companies en- gaged in its manufacture. IN MOntroai at the present time high range brick, suds its w111 ho on a par with that being manufa:etltrod by 3110 Canada Beloit Company, aro selling at 418 per thousand, but the new 50mpany expect to manufac- ture brink at 57 per thousand, and have pelt their ne3 menthe primo in Cho prospectus at *10 per thousand, which giros them a good margin of profit. As a matter of fact, they have already sold over half of their first year's estimated otitput at a figure considerably higher than the 912 mentioned in their pt'oapentns. Dittoing their output at only two. thirds of full capacity, the company shows in profits, after payment o! dividends and of manufacturing oxper,000, 536,000, which to equivalent to 12 nor Bent. on the common stook, A0 Montreal is situated at the pre- sent time, there aro no a50i101le supplies ofolay-molking brick and other materiels must be substituted, Everything, therefore, pointe- to the likelihood of the now company seaming an ample market and a geed price for their output from the very start. TRE Company are fortunate In soeurhlg as me113be1.0 of the board 0f dl• roctore men prominent in the business nifaire of the country. Among these are 0. H. Callan, K.O., TO. Loomis, H, A. Lovett, I0,0., 0. F. GAM R,0„ and A. 0. Cameron. The prosperity which kart attended other brick 5oacernc in Montreal is Maly to he duplicated to an 0500greater extent by the Canada Briolt Cempauy. Mantfaetnring will commence at the 9t. tnmhort plant early in June. APPLICATIONS tor Proapootus or Subscriptions may be (nailed diroot to Montreal Bent] Co., Limited, Montreal, Or to any branch Of tho f3tlti'o of Toronto. MARRIED PEOPLE'S SECRETS HERE'S SOME FREE ADVICE TO HUSBAND AND WIPE. Those Who Cannot Keep Their Own Scooets Should Not Receive a Friend's Confidence. There are hundreds of people in the world who will, at the outset, exclaim indignantly at the mere suggestion of a husband or wife having any sort of secret from the other. 'These people will argue that such a state of affairs shows want of trust and lade of faitlh. To me, it eeelns t0 possess an exact con- trary bearing, says a writer in Lon- don Answers. Surety, when a married person can keep a secret without any ques- tion or worry, it shows that the most complete confidence exists between husband and wife : that they have in one another that un- questioning faith which is so indis- pensable to the success of marriage. It is a common thing for men and women in the first flush of their love-time—in the early days of mar- ried life—to promise to tell each other "everything." Such a sweeping promise can hardly ever be honestly kept. It is unwise to make such an assertion, and, when it is unthinkingly •made, it should not b5 regarded seriously on either side. In a casual way, it sounds quite right and very beautiful, when mar- ried folk say : "We tell each other everything. We never have any se- crets from ono another 1" or words to like effect. But a little thought will show that such people miss many of the joys of married life: that their love is small and selfishly petty rather than buoyant and WHOLLY TRUSTING. Marriage does not rob a person of individuality. There must al- ways be some things in the life of everyone which by all manner of t,1 right should be kept secret. Of course, there are secrets and secrets. Tho line must always bo drawn at the right place. People hare got into an unfortunate way, though, of thinking that "a secret" must mean something whieh is wrong er harmful. Not at all! Se- crets cover quite innocent, trivial matters, but, nevertheless, things which it may not be right or diplo- matic to reveal. As regards other matters, there aro things which a man or weenan must keep secret•, if they value their honor. 14larried people do not rea- lize t11is nearly so much as they should. For example, frequently a woman will listea to the confidence of a friend, and solemnly promise not to repeat what she has been told. But she will think nothing of repeating the whole story to her husband, and is indignant if accused of be- trayal. It is a curioes and very re- grettable point of morality. Husbands and wires must keep the secrets of other people, even though they fail to keep any of their own. Those who cannot do so have no righb to receive a friend's con- fidence, Once a confidence has been received, it is sacred, abso, lately, and. cannot in honor be di- vulged, even to one's nearest and DEAREST UPON EARTH. A man may love a woman with all his heart, but it stands to reason that he cannot justifiably tell her everything which he, hears and all that occurs in conueobion with his daily life. In some cases, this .ap- plies more strongly than others. The doctor or lawyer, for example; must eventually fail utterly if they coated in their wives all the secrets gained in their .professional life. The wise wife trusts her husband, She never pursues a discussion when she sees that her husband prefers to. leave it alone. Exactly the same, with women. The wife 0110 feels c s herself under compulsion to tell her husband every trifling oeetu'rence all that She does and all that she hoars— eannot be a really happy woman: There are times when married people are right in keeping a thing secret to themselves, always pro- vided that husband or wife does nob Tyroeg the other by so doing. SIGHT FOR THE BLIND. You instinctively begin to think of visibing oin oculist when you hoar from an eye specialist that only ane, out of every fifteen persons has both eyes ingood 'condition, But people are far less particular than they used to be about: attending to their sight in •early stages of weakness, for they have so much confidence ia1 the doctors -•-who nowadays seem able to restore the sight evert in cases of almost t•utal iilindness-- that they become careless. Quite recently a French surgeon grafted on the oyes of a. Man, wile lied lost his sight through barns, the cornea from the eye of another ratan which it had been necessary to remove',. The operation wa.i absolutely stic- cessful, and the slight of the patient,. was restoredto oar, -tenth of the normal vision. You have a v to right year r titin re- ligious mligious and political beliefs—end the other fellow has just; as finch right t0 his. o 1i a.l