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i i +" In Nauking lash week the, progres: sive. Nationaiet, Government passed & ™ is it wise 28 : were about seventy volumes annually in France. To-day the same country reach il out eleven thousand. The increase] : greater in the same time 'in TES fi ean pi 2 ye "Skimming leads to a jelly brain; » superficial method of thinking. Then what is the remedy? Redd fewer books; a book a manth is all the busy : 'man or woman can read and digest. "Pon't-be afraid to say, 'I have not| read it' at the 'intellectual tea or 'brainy 'club. Many persons that say they have read it are only telling a . half truth; they have 'glanced at it, mi but they athe: read a review and bluff the rest. And do not select all your books | from the moderns. Take a mental survey of the books that have survived through the ages; their titles are fa- miliar, but how many have you read? Not all, I warrant. Select one of them occasionally for your book of the month. Have courage; let the flood of moderns flow by and on to oblivion, the certain goal of most of them. In ~fhort, youd fewer and bee fewer and better books." 'No More : -"Chop-Chop" Gllbert- and Sullivan Operas Will Now Be Out of Date decree forbidding decapitation" as a method of punishment. The abolish- ver, does .mentsof decapitation, howe ly imply the abolish 3 mot even ment of capital punishment in China: Jt is merely the long, bright, classic sword o headsman that has been abolished--an antiquated relic. 388 been unworthy of mod hanistic Na- HopalisHe China. wail Distal a nels At the Es 3 Gy thrust gi hr fod TeEime it execu s du amen! Heavy-laded sword, dtm a comfortable stance remove tho prisoner's head with one well- OE ae wie of things, Cv a gato nv revo against] ee of Ei and pang the tri : 4 ' Chinese execution is always some-| ag of 3) a local holiday. The victim owed to drink his fill of rice wine at human brain| ve not read it.| "a HOUSENOLD NAME IN 54 COUNTRIES" | Pageant Up North = |' Trunks of white birch gleam beside the river, 3 The willow-cats are powdery and yel- low, Last year's yarrow waves beyond the wind-row; Spring has, set her stamp upon the land. : 'A"tinge of green is spreading up the valley-- Snow-on-the-mountain edges the rock garden, Burning white against the warm green, y A bluebird flashes, and a'lark is sing- "ing ng: Tee >t more beauty 'that is com- Like fe: trees wearing pompoms for ght sum, C ~~ ~--Helen Maring. pre emis The man who is all "I's" expects every one else to be all ears. | nabitants as - jelght inches deep. 4 damage no the west side of the land is described by older in- The Most hood in the stomach and bowels, and can Sutelly banished by Baby's| Own. Tablets, These Tablets relieve okie ordinary aflments of child: 1s | Constipation nd. indigestion, break up age temporarily, but the shore that has already been torn away cannot be replaced. Further north, where the roadway {runs along the lake, giant waves have ' | washed over the road for a mile, [throwing sand and gravel from six to On the east side 13 feet of the sand bank has been eaten out by the water. Official action to save the entire island from immersion is being asked of Ottawa. An appropriation sufficl- ently large to permit the building of a retaining dyke on both the east and west sides of the Island is necessary, it is pointed out, if the land Is to saved, Islanders themselves already are heavily taxed for drainage hi most of which they have yaid, for : a The English-speaking Peace London Observer (ind.): Thére is no timorousness nor ambiguity on the one question precedent to the assured peace of the world, the impregnable peace of the English speakers from Kent to California; from Demarcation Point on the Arctic shores of Alaska- Yukon to the southernmost cape of New Zealand. Round the world and down the world, through free com- munities in four continents, the moth- er tongue is spread, and with it the heritage of literature, the same tem- periof law, the same general ideas of right and wrong. WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR BABY'S COLD When the cold 1s in Baby's head, you can make his breathing easier by putting a few drops of liquid albolene in his'nostrils several times daily. But to throw off the cold completely, keep him warm, and make his bowels move freely. For this purpose, doctors ad- vise Fletcher's Castoria, because it's purely vegetable and "harmless. It acts as quickly as: castor oil and doesn't gripe or sicken. Millions of mothers know how easily Castoria soothes crying, fretful babies and chil- dren to sleep; how quickly it relieves those common ailments, such as colic, gas, constipation, diarrhea, ete, To protect you from imitations, the Fletcher gignature is on every bottle of genuine Castoria, colds and simple fevers, expel worms, allay teething pains and promote 'healthful sleep." They are guaranteed to be free from injurious drugs and are safe even for the youngest and most delicate child. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at' 25c & box from The Dr. William's Medicine Co., Hyockvilie, ont. Sick Men Like Sick Monkeys Our simian cousins = resemble us even in the 'diseases that afflict us both, although if ome cases these ree not precisely the same, but similar, A writer in The British Medical Journal (London) 'reminds us that the mon- key's near relationship to man is now genetally, Suited; how near is that 1 y at the oi] Society of Medicine, when "Monkeys. and Human Disease" form- ed the topic for discussion. We read: ovell Showed that many of the intestinal conditions of monkeys in captivity are caused by organisms found also in man, As in man, tuber- culosis 18 a very common condition; however, there is a slight difference, in that monkeys are almost equally susceptible to both strains of mam- malian bacillus, though deaths from tuberculosis are mainly due to the human variety. Little is known about the virus diseases .of monkeys, but only in primates is it possible 'éxperi- mentally to develop yellow fever, poli- oomyelitis, / and perhaps "measles. Other human virus infectio:s can, of course, be trémsmitted to them, but in these three diseases the monkey ap- pears to be the only alternative host to man. Among the internal para- sites virtually all the protozoa of man are found in apes or monkéys, but it appears to be posgible that the ma- larias of man are: distinct from those of apes. "Dr, Andrew Balfour drew 'atten- tion to the fact that in Squth America epidemics in monkeys of what might have been yellow fever often preceded epidemics in man of what certainly was yellow fever, The evidence, how- aver, is still inconclusive, Certainly here, and in sonfe other conditions, the monkey has been Wn essential labor- atory 'aid, but to 'the 'hygienist his significance is relatively 'slight. , In fact, as Professor Leiper pointed out, such of man's diseasés as are cop mon to him and thie lower animals re- sult from food habits and contact; and tication is a 'much more import- ant factor than'blood relationship." That apes 'are not-the only animals subjéct to hunian 'or nesr-humén dis- eases, appears from the following dis- the New York Times: "How lions and many other animals are subjected to'the death-dealing ills American Philosophical Society by Dr. Herbert Fox, professor of campar- ative pathology of the University of Pennsylvania. es "bears, Fadcoons, and 'Wyenas along with the lion ve specially sub. ject to intestinal "diseases. Brights disease is 'n 'weakness 'of squirre rats, beavers and porcupines, Hoofed 'and horned animals as a class show 'vulnerability of the heart; years' research iat! Th Ehadelphia Yeorocient Garden", mothers to da kowiser | patch from Philadelphia, printed in| , of man was described tonight to the| ; A ! {To hear thecackle of the hens . That wandered far and wide, "That while the porkers in thelr pens In calm ] ntentment sighed. But I Must. Tor aside tis lap. For rest and rural charm, For after forty: five no 'man Can learn to' run a farm. Too prone to nature's flinty heart Its secrets to discern-- I'm told by farmers--is an art Which youth alone can learn, oy m---------- The Colonial Empire Glasgow Herald (Sons): The Colon- ial Office has to deal with some 36 different Governments, each self-con- tained in matters of legislation, fin- oe and administration. Trade alone, ned with energy and imagination, ganism together. The flag is a call to the trader everywhere it files. Trade followed it in the first place, but it has not yet begun to approach the fringe of the rich field that awaits it. A great deal has been and may yet to be done from Whitehall, but tite rough work of the modern Empire must be done by pioneering Industry, There 18 room for 'an industrial Rhodes and the advertising activities of a commercial Kipling, rrr fpr Mary: "Teacher, can you be punish- | ed for something. 'you haven't:done?" Teacher: "Of course mot, my dear." Mary: "That's all right, then, because I haven't done my homework." 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