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; "and independent art. Published First Bool Ever In ed by Inventory de Janeiro.--The first book pub- in Brazil has been unearthed in maraty Palace. . It is a very small volume of twenty Pages, which gives an account of the arrival in Brazil on January 1, 1747, of the Bishop of Rio de Janeiro, Froy Antonio do Desterro Malheyro, and on its yellowed title page is the date "Anno de M.CC. XLVI" The book 'wag actually published early in 1747. The book had been stored in one of the libraries of Itamaraty Palace for many years, unknown to anybody, un- til a complete inventory was made recently of Itamaraty Palace, which houses the Ministry of Foreign Rela- tions. The valuable book was then discovered in dusty tomes of manu- Bavaria Preserves Old Cloisters Former Dwelling Place of Monks at Freising is Now a Brewery and College In cities and villages, or hidden away in quiet valleys, surrounded by forests and with mountains in the background, lie the cloisters of Ba- varia, says the information offiee of the German National Railways. "Unadorned, often looking more like barracks 8 old archives in the library of Ita-|° Brazil Is Unearthed ae Cm a =. Twenty-Page Volume Gives Account of Arrival of Bishop = of Rio de Janeiro and Bears Date of 1747; Reveal of Palace Library script which had been neglected for years, : " Bibliophiles claim that the yellowed and age-worn hook represents the first handiwork of Brazilian printing, and point to not only the date appearing on the title page but to a note in long hand appearing on one of the first pages, which says "Primeiro livro im- presso no. Rio de Janeiro e no Brazil" (first book to be printed in Rio de Jan- eiro and in Brazil). The handwriting {is declared that of Baron do Rio Branco, Brazil's greatest statesman and one of its greatest of literary fig- ures, | Brazil's most recent literary find is to be placed in the National Museum, ! tone to be treasured along with its | other early Colonial mementoes, Apple Vitamins Lost in Peeling Interesting Discovery by British Food Investiga- + tion Board London.--Much of the "goodness" of an apple 1s destroyed by peeling, it is stated in the report for 1920" of the Food Investigation Board of the De- partment of Industrial and Scientific Research, just issued. One of the most important sections of the Board's task, in its investiga- than anything else, one|tfon of problems connected with the would pass them by," the information! transport and storage of food, deals office continues, "were it not that a|Wwith the multitude of problems con- mighty dome or towers show that |nected with apples. In the current re these are buildings dedicated to God, Port it is stated that Vitamin C is not where monks and nuns, shut off from [equally distributed in the tissue of the the world, have consecrated them-|apple, but that it is at least six times selves to works of peace and charity. |as concentrated in the peel as in the From the warm sunlight outside one region of the core. enters cool hells, walks through the It 1s gratifying to note that, of all echoing corridors, and stands in a lofty ! tha types of apples examined by the room with heavenward striving orna- Board, the English Bramley's Seed- mentation, pillars and colors, . filled ling has the highest Vitamin C con- with the murmur of prayer and song. tent, while, at the same time, it loses "Southern Bavaria is especially rich only. a small proportion during stor- in these wonderful buildings, whose (age. Since, however, the Bramley's history often reaches back to the Seedling is a cooking apple, and cook- €ighth or ninth century. Remains of ing apples are, as a rule, peeled as ancient cloisters from the earligst days | the first stage in their preparation for of the advent of Christianity" to this |the table, it would seem that much of part of the country a preserved in|fhelr vitamin value is destroyed at the walls of many of these old edifices the outset, J From here the monks went abroad to| The Board's report is interesting in win the heathen to Christianity; they showing the vast amount of work done tilled their lands industriously, and|in examining food supplies from all were zealous in collecting and pre-| parts of the world. serving literary treasures Linked With Orders' History "The history of many of these clois- ters, often intermingled with legends, Search for micro-organisms which can flourish in cold storage has led to the discovery of a particular organism which emits a strong musty odor cap- is interesting and instructive in its!able of tainting foodstuffs, particular bearing on the development of the or- ly fat and eggs, at a considerable dis- ders to which they belonged, but also, | tance, 4 : and even in higher degree, for the Laboratory experiments have shown growth of the church. that frozen pork can be exported from "Then came the year 1803, when the | Australia and New Zealand and manu- King of Bavaria and his Minister, factured Into bacon in this country, Count Montgelas, decreed the dissolu-| This discovery has already achieved tion of the cloisters, conficated thelr | results, and the report states that a lands, sold their valuable treasures considerable number of frozen car and 'pensioned' off monks and nuns|cases are now being used in this coun- with 1 gulden a day. Since that daté try for-conversion into bacon.' many of these splendid buildings re- The problems connected with the mained unoccupied and fell into decay | storage of foodstuffs have led to the or were used for secular purposes un- devising of many special instruments, til thirty years later thew were re and it is recorded that among them is stored to the various orders. But | a delicate apparatus which announces many a cloister had already been sold | the arrival and disappearance of dew to private persons, many ap art trea- by means of a telephone. sure had found its way to a museum or library, so that many cloisters pos- peak oreo sessed only the fame of their past and . had to begin anew, Grass Heritage "More and more they devoted them- | How many ages did my lean forbears selves to social welfare, used their | Stretch limbs along warm grass, when great rooms for schools or were taken food was done? over by the State. In the Waeihen-! How many youths dreamed dreams stephan, in Freising, where devout of love where none monks once lived, there is now a brew- | But nibbling sheep could watch them ery, with an agricultural college, The fling their prayers 8t. Mang Cloister, in Fussen, now |Upon the wind--or by the whirled, red houses a museum and government of- flares fices. Of camp-fires heard old battles lost "Weyarn, a new building from the and won? seventeenth century, between Munich and Holzkirchen; St. Zeno, in Reich- enhall, and Frauenworth, in Chiemsee, have become educational institutions. In Irsee, in the Suevin district be- tween Buchloe and Kaufbeuren, the former convent is an asylum for the mentally deranged. : "The Augustinian Chorherfenstift, in Berchtesgaden, founded in 1108, has been rebuilt into a palace which is occupied by the former Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht. Niedermun- ater, the Benedictine nunnery in Re- gensburg, hag been an episcopal resi- dence since 1821. Art Works in Cloisters "But monks or nuns have remained in or returned to many other cloisters and devote themselves as before to the service of the Church, the care of their art treasures and the cultivation {of their lands. These splendid ancient abodes of faith and their churches testily to the fame of centuries and of gifted artists. Long neglected, they were gradually rediscovered, and the creations of architects, painters, wood- carvers and stucco workers were re- cognized as the culmination of a rich "Especially harmonious work was chieved during the baroque and ro- pocco periods in Altofuster, twenty How many women, hoping for a son, Wove sweet-grass cradles, humming unawares? And I, their child, am asked to be con- tent - With twenty floors between me and the ground-- Forget the marshes where wing-shad- OWS pass, Oh tangle with curved reeds that storms have bent! Not even shriek of drills can stop the sound Of old, ancestral winds along the grass, : --Helen Molyneaux Salisbury, in Harper's Magazine. in Schaftlarn, founded in 762, whose Benedictine abbey now contains a high school; in Rott, on the River Inn; in Weltenburg, on the Danube, or in Rot- tenbuch, near Fussen. "Hare one finds treasures. There is the impressive halo of the altar in the Damenstiftskirche, in Altenmarkt; the altar in Aldersbach, rising toward the vaulted roof; the wonderful Virgin in Wottenhausen, dating from the seventh century. There is the library in Metten, mentioned in documents of the year 770; the splendid proportions of the imperial hall in Ottobeuren, from .Dachau (near Munich), mow occupied by the nuns of St. Brid- + in Aldershask, Lower Bavaria; ; founded in 764, with its library of 15, 000 volumeg. All these represent a "uistory of religious art." @ period of six days. British Isles. show. -Miss Cockburn and : Girl Guide News Two Companies The 6th Cuttack company in India. They are the lepers and in playing the game of Guides they have found a new hope and interest in life, See them in their blue saris and white blouses, learning about birds and 'flowers, play- ing games and singing songs round a camp fire. The Guides are in the grip of their terrible disease, but their motto is: . "We rejoice that those who enter here Guides all over the world, for they Need no longer abandon Hope. The 1st Gayaza Company in Uganda. The Guides here wear white tunics and no hats or shoes. They are nim- ble with their fingers, weaving mats and baskets, and are quick to pick up the rhythm of a country dance. They follow the general Guide training in Nature lore, handicrafts, and physical fitness, but all teaching is done in their native speech, Luganda, To-day, over 900,000 strong the Girl Guides have their new London Head- quarters, with offices, reception rooms, a library, and a restaurant, and the new building is to be the Home of have all lent a hand = in building it. May wo remember the Swiss Guide's prayer: "0 Lord our God, we are many and we are strong. Grant us to grow in numbers and in strength that wd may resolve to work steadfastly for Thee in the world that is Thine." Going 'Up the Rangers Dear Leaders--Quite a long time ago our Guides Captain suggested that the older Guides should become Rangers, oy Somehow we did not like this idea at all, "We would rather be Guides," we said; but after several talks on the subject we have decided to be Rangers, Two of us were Patrol Leaders and | one a Patrol Second, so this means promotion for some of the younger Guides to Leaders and Seconds, and what capable Leaders they will makef ROBO 05 Annual Richmond horse show was held at Richmond, London, over It is biggest horse show of year to he held in the her pony, Peter, an entrant at the and enjoy the work very much. Perhaps some of you Leaders are in the same position as we were? My advice to you is this: (1) Read everything you them. (2) Think of the Guides whom you from promotion by sticking where you have trained and are keeping back are, (3) And just think -- isn't it a Guide's duty to climb higher and at- tain harder things? Then I am quite sure you will not hesitate to take this step higher in "Guide life" and become a Ranger. --Ex-Patrol Leader, ---- een. Kyoto Observatory Report New Planet Kyoto,sJapan.--A new planet has been discovered by the Kyoto Astron- omical Observatory, It is 180,000,000 miles from the earth, the observatory said, According to the Harvard Observa- tory a planetary object located ap- proximately 180,000,000 miles from the earth would be of comparatively small size, otherwise it would have been dis- covered centuries ago, The distance given would locate the object in the region of minor planets between Mars and Jupiter, it was said. This region is known to contain num- erous minor objects varying in size from practically nothing to as high as several hundred miles in diameter, TR Parisiennes Walk Abroad With Cats Parig.--The creature of the moment is the Siamese cat. Several of them can be seen on leads, like dogs, walk- ing with their mistresses in the Bois. They. are .intelligent and some will walk to heel like a well-trained dog. a Not Powress "My. brother has a gold médal for running five miles, a silver medal for swimming, two cups for wrestling, and can about We now realize the mistake we made in not joining the Rangers earl- ier, as we are now keenly interested airport, badges for boxing and rowing." _ "He must be some athlete." "No, he's a pawnbroker." Aviatrix "Resting Up" She was immediately whisked away by &mbulance to her home at Rye, where she will rest 8 bit before making another fifght attempt, '| Canadian National We are glad to notice that several Lonfes have applied to attend Camp with Regular Troops who have ar- ranged Scout Camps in different parts of the Province. We surely hope that they have a good time and thoroupgh- ly enjoy themselves. __Incldentally far more Regular Troops asked to have Lonies go to camp with them than we could accommodate, and that shows that we must be quite popu- lar with our brothers in the "Regu- lars." We are interested to note that our old friends at Sault Ste, 'Marie, who now have a Troop of their own, are camping at Root River with 35 Scouts and 5 Leaders under canvas. Lone Scouts living in the Picton Dis- trict should note that the Picton Fair is to be held on August 19th and 20th, and there is to be a special Boy Scout Handicraft Bxhibition. What about putting in an entry, and have it re- corded that a Lon Scout won a prize? How many Lonies will visit the Exhibition this year? It will be a special Scout year, as besides the usual parade to the Ex- hibition by the Scouts and Cubs of Toronto District, numbering some- thing like 2000 Scouts, "Scout Day" will include a special "Grand Stand Display" by Scouts and Cubs, where you will be able to see exhibitions of Bridge Building, Pyramids, Signalling, Tent Pitching, Jungle Dances. Don't miss it! And also you may have the opportunity of meeting the Lone Scout Commissioner, your Scoutmaster and the mysterious "Lone E" who writes this column each week! We notice that the Harriston Scbuts are beginning to revive their activities. The Lonies there have had a pretty hard struggle for existence, but they are "keeping "their end up" and we are looking forward to a revival of the old "Antelope Patrol." Recently, we notice, 30 Scouts left England to attend the 20th Birthday Camp of the Czechoslovakian Scouts, at Prague. England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales were all represented, and we think that this is a splendid ges- ture of friendship to our foreign brothers, to join with them in their anniversary celebrations. 3 i A large group of Toronto Scouts took part recently in a special "Can- ada Night" display in connection with the Lions Club Conference which was held at the Coliseum, Toronto. Who. would like to be the possessor of a Stalker's Badge? " First of all you must be a good photographer, and have a camera, and then you must be possessed of lots of patience, for the requirements of the Stalkers Badge are as follows: "To take a series of ten photographs of ten different kinds of wild crea tures (mammals, birds, reptiles or fish) from life, and be able to give par- ticulars of their lives, habits and mark- ings." That does not sound so very hard, does it? But you really will have to exercise quite a lot-of patience in or- der to obtain ten really good photo- graphs which will pass the test. This, too, is lots of fun, and thage of you who have a camera would be well advised to get busy on this badge right now, in order that you may make the best use of the summer light. Are you a Lone Scout? If you are between the ages of 12 and 18, and jcannot become a member of a regular | Scout Troop, we have room for you in the Lonies, if you are a keen, ener- getic boy. Write for particulars to The Lone | Scout Department, Boy Scouts As- i sociation, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Ont.--"Lone B." Sharp Decline Reported in Cost of Foodstuffs Ottawa.--The cost of living in Can- ada has fallen 12 per cent. in the last 18 months. ~ At the end of May the index of the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics, which is based on the year 1926 as 100, stood at 90.4. The begin- ning of 1930 recorded the high point in recent years, 102.1, The most pronounced reduction was in foodstuffs, the index dropping from 106.5 to 77.7. -- ete The Leather Industry Ottawa\--The boot and shoe indus- try in Canada revived strikingly in March and April this year, according to a report of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics compiled from 164 of the 170 factories operating in the country, The output in April was 1,669, 917 pairs as against 1,574,406 pairs in April, 1930, and 1,492,526 pairs in April, 1929. The March pro- duction figure was 1,729,930 pairs as against 1,694,865 pairs in March, 1930 and 1,71 2 pairs in March, 1929. are Sr The Man Who Smiles Blessings on the man who smiles! I do not mean the man who smiles for effect, nor the one who smiles when the world smiles. I mean the man whose smile Is born of an inner radiance, the man who smiles when the clouds lower, 'when fortune frowns, when the tides are adverse. Such a man not only maks a new world for himself, but he multiplies himself an hundfedfold in the strenght and courage of other men. --George L. Perin. A Iu plane piloted by Clarence Chamberlin, her adviser, Ruth' Niciiols, badly, Lurt at St. John," New Brunswick, on first leg of her projected transatlantic flight, arrives from St. John at Armonk, New York, "Bright" Child a Problem In Social Adjustment New York.--Do not feel sorry if your child is not the brightest in the school, because the mentally superior young- ster usually has a hard time of it and makes himself a special problem in the matter of social adjustment, ac- cording to Science Service. In a report to the National Commit- tee for Mental Hygiene, Dr. Leta 8. Hollingworth, of Columbia University, showed that child prodigies find them- selves handicapped in many respects. The brilliant boy or girl may become indifferent to school work and fall into habits of idleness and daydreaming as a result of the ease in which the or- dinary lessons are mastered. Find- ing themselves uninterested in the same games as their oldef and larger classmates and becoming a constant target for their attacks, the "bright" ones suffer considerably, For the gifted girl, particularly, the matter of recreation is difficult be- cause her early maturity develops in her an interest in the rougher activi ties of boys which her sex inevitably prevents her from pursuing. In the home, Dr. 'Hallingsworth stated, the situation is sometimes very embarrassing to the parent of the pre- cocious offspring. By the age of six or seven the child may be insisting on logical, satisfying answers to ques- tions. In addition, an almost develish cleverness as well as a marked tend- !ency to argue may be early noted. And where the parent is less intelligent | than the child the latter is likely to run the household and thus reverse "the customary social order. i -- eee : Unbridled Words | Words that would be better left | unspoken are numberless, and yet how frequently we offend, often hurting without a cause, or without a thought. Just a few hasty words --to ease our mind we say--and a heart is made sore and resentful; a bitter taunt, or a slighting tone, and perhaps a hard pressed, struggling soul has lost hope, or a broken con- fidence and a cloud comes between friends, which, perhaps, only long, long, years will dispel. ' for the doubtful pleasure of saying cutting things; we think they sound clever -- and regardless of others feelings we. are proud of our smart ness--but in this matter it is easy to sow grains of discord and iM-whil, that shall return to us in a big sheaf of unavailing regrets.--M.K. ere rereeeAe meee Beach Raiment to Be Gay Paris.--Seaside clothes, from paja- mag, hat and swimming suit to the accessories like shoes, belts, bags and scarves, must be of bright hue and bold design this Summer. Shiny hats in ptraw-work lend themselves-to the new big patterns in lacquer and tussah silk ean be had in lovely shades of brilliant orange and green. _ i 'Loveliness There is always something lovely In the earth or in the sky; : For the stars shine bright above us, Though the roses fade and die. We little know how dearly we pay, Eo Anecdo ect 0 tes 1 Of Famous Perso; A Franch soldier, named Flour bak? Fa War Office that he is not ; less buried on the battlefiéld. On his inscription he would like his tombstone. This recalls tunate husband of the Counte in Meredith's poem. He'galned jhe hand by pretending to be dying from a wound received for her sake in a duel. But he did not die; and after that, whatever he said, she answered him: "You are dead." § ¢ . -. . ' Walter De La Mare owes the ind spiration for his fine story, "Memoirs of a Midget," to his children. They were taken to see a circus and, of course, visited the sideshows, where, among the freaks was a little dwarf girl. Their description of her on their return home, was so entrancing that father at once got his idea for the story, which, as he says, then "wrote ftaelf." . Ld *. Sir Walter Raleigh, much-beloved professor of English at Oxford Uni versity in days gone by, used to em joy telling this story of an incident which occurred during a visit to the United States: z "It was at Cleveland, Ohio, that a reporter met the train on which I had arrived from New York. Not knowing me, the scribe looked around for some one who he thought looked like an Englishman. At last he spotted a vie-. tim, Going up to him, he said: 'Are you Sir Walter Raleigh? An amused look came into the eyes of the man as he replied: 'No, you'll find Sir Walter Raleigh in the club car playing poker with Queen Elizabeth'." . . . Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, deemed it his duty to combat on the instant every erroneous statement, false reasoning or foolish opinion; and this led to frequent homilies, says James Howard Bridge, Spencer's pri vate secretary for five years. "At his boarding-house, where I sometimes lunched with him," relates Mr. Bridge (in "Millionaires and Grub Street") "corrective or expostulatory explosions came from him as regularly as the dessert followed the roast. Ld * Ld Once when Calve was singing in a command performance of "Cavalleria Rusticana," at windsor Castle, the' Queen of Spain, then a little girl, was i permitted by her grandmother, Queen Victoria, to attend. In one of the scenes, the tenor had to throw Calve, as Santuzza, violently to the floor. The sensitive Princess burst into tears. "I don't want him to hurt the lady," she wailed in such aloud voice that every one turned and looked at her. Calve, in her reminiscences, "I heard the future Queen being thoroughly scolded by her governess." Only a short time ago, Calve met the Queen of Spain (now Duchess of Toledo). She remembered vividly the inci- dent of her childhood, and we laughed again over her anxiety for my safety, her tears, and the scolding she re- ceived in consequence," adds the prima donna. . * * A few years ago when Big Ben-- London's famous clock--was wound up by hand, the job of winding occupied the full working day of two men, says Mrs. M. V. Hughes (in her delightful book "London At Home.") Big Ben, by the way, is not the clock but the big bell that does the strifing. The name Ben is form Sir B min Hall, who was Commissioner "bf Works when the clock was put up. » » - Park Lane, London, has always stood for the quintessence of aristoc- racy and exclusiveness, and there is a joke (chuckles Mrs, Hughes) about a red socialist knocking at one of the houses and shouting to the footman: "The revolution is here!" only to be met with a chilling reply: "All revolu- tions must be delivered at the trades- men's entrance," . * Ld No behavior in London, warns Mrs. Hughes, is viler than to look over your neighbor's paper, except to hold your own paper so that your neighbor can't see it. . . . _ The London night watchmen, who sit fn littl sentinel boxes with a fire {in a bucket, belong to a much coveted profession called "Guardin' 'oles," that is kept in privileged families, and passes frem father to som, like the' throne. 'The opportunity for philos- ophy under the starry sky must be unique. A night watchman. (relates Mrs, Hughes) has just been sued for the return of two books borrowed from tivity" and Bloxham's "Chemistry." -. Ld * ' The friendly spirit shown by Lon. don. shopkeepers is proverbial. Not | long. ago Mrs. Hughes went into a lit tle grocer's shop. "Before I could demand my packet of candles," she says, "the harassed woman looked up at me and said: 'Oh, I have had steak and haddock so often that my husband is getting unpleasant about {t'." i cad ---- The.Duke of York's Wori-hench Woods are never without music, There Is always some sweet strain, As the robins keep us piping Till the parks came back again. Building wireless sets'ls a favourite: : hobby of the Duke of York, who has a | work-bench fitted up in his study ia bis house in Piccadilly, London. "As I came off the stage," recalls * a public library -- Einstein's "Rela do tell me what I can have for dinner] + / a Y » | oy 7 ' a