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semaphore signals Is almost self-e* planatory. It will be noticed that each letter ofl the alphabet is indicated, in the dis tance, by a hoist of three shapes—t, cone, a ball and a drum; and, in the semaphore, by the inclination and position (with reference to the post) of three arms. The cone with the point upward is termed number 1, and corresponds with the semaphore arm pointing up ward. The ball is number 2, and is equivalent to the horizontal arm of the other. The down-pointing cone corresponds with the down-pointing arm of the semaphore, and is num bered 3. All these positions of the arm are on the side of the post op posite to the indicator. Number 4 is represented by a drum or by a hori zontal arm on the same side as the in dicator. Owing to the fact that these dis tant and semaphore signals take more time than the flag system, requiring always two or more hoists, thirty-sev en special urgent signals needing one hoist only have been provided in the code book; such as: “32. Short of Provisions. Starving.” “24. Want water immediately.” “312. Is war declared?” The “Stop” signal indi cates the end of the sentence.—Mon treal Herald. The language of a ship is a language of signs. But notwithstanding this circumstance, all possible questions may be asked and answered, and ev ery item of information given in the fullest degree by its medium, even though the conversing crafts be miles asunder. The alphabet of this silent tongue is usually flags cf various shapes and colors. But should the distance be tween the ships, or between the ship and a signaling station, be too great for colors to be distinguished, or should the wind be blowing between the two so that the flags are end on, one of two other methods must be adopted. The first is to represent each letter by combinations of three shapes —a cone, a ball and a drum. The sec ond is to make us of a semaphore hav ing three arms, the positions of which with regard to one side or the other of the post, and whether they are hor izontal, upturned or downturned, indi cate the letter desired. As the ships which speak to each other are frequently of different na tionalities, it is necessary that the sig nal should ;e international or com mon to all; and this is so. And an other desirable thing is also provided. guishable, or appear not to be appli cable to the situation, the ship spoken to must intimate the fact by hoisting the proper flags for the purpose, keep ing the answering pennant at the “dip” until the signal is thoroughly comprehended, when it is hoisted “close up.” Two-flag signals, from A B to Y Z are urgent and of importance and take up ten pages of the code book. Want a pilot,” P T; “Machinery out of order.” R J, are examples of the nature of these hoists. Three-flag signals occupy the great er part of the code book. The bear ings of the compass run from ABC to A S T. Then there are the names of the various coins of all countries, for ex ample, A U Y—a rupee, followed by the weights and measures. B C X— .09, and auxiliary phrases—i. e.. con I taining the auxiliary verbs, such as j B H W, “They must not be.” The general vocabulary is indicat ed by the flags C X A to Z N P. “Pilot has been sent to you,” T J I, and “Must take in more ballast.” F T S, may be given as illustrations. The degrees of latitude and longi tude, divisions of time, height of the barometer and thermometer, are sig naled by a hoist comprising two flags under the code pennant; while figures from cipher to five millions are de noted by two flags over the code pen nant. DECEIT WAS NOT ALL DECEIT. Hiding Parson Really Had Attack of “Scarlet Fever’'. In the days when Dr. Phillpotts was Bishop of Exeter there was a certain hunting parson in his diocese by name Radcliffe. The Bishop came one day to pay him an unexpected visit. Parson Radcliffe, in scarlet, was just about to mount his horse and gallop off to the meet when he heard that the Bishop was in the village. He had barely time to send away his hunter, run upstairs, and jump, red coat, boots, and all, into bed when the Bishop’s carriage drew up at the dooor. It may occur to you that if a mes sage, even one of brief length, were to be spelt out letter by letter, the operation would be exceedingly tire some, and consume time that perhaps could be ill afforded. To remove these objections, a code has been made out dealing with all matters marine, by inean9 of which a host of flags (from two to four in number) indicate whole sentences. For example, the flags Q. D and S ask the question, "How does the land lie?" F. O, “Are you in dan ger?" And so on. In the illustration of the flags here given of this international code of signals, the various colors are indi cated thus: Yellow by dots, red by vertical and blue by horizontal lines. You will therefore have no difficulty in picturing the true appearance of each. It is only since Jan. 1, 1902, that the code as here illustrated has been in exclusive use. The former code pos sessed no flags to represent the vow els; X, Y and Z have been added; and an alteration has been made in the de sign and colors of a couple of the oth er flags, F and L. Geographical signals are shown by four-flag hoists, such as: A U Y T— Callao; A E H V—London. The code flag over one flag has va rious significances. For example, when it is over L, the hoist denotes that cholera, plague, or yellow fever is on board. Over I, “Have not a clean bill of health." Over E indi cates that the flags which follow do ! not allude to the code, but must be “Tell his lordship I'm in bed and can’t see him.” said the huntsman to his housekeeper on hearing the wheels. “Is Mr. Radcliffe in?" asked Dr. Phillpotts, a moment later. “Very sorry, my lord; Mr. Radcliffe is confined to bed.” “Dear me, I'm so sorry” said the kindly old episcopal visitor; “I’H go up and see him. if I may.” The housekeeper ran upstairs in great dismay and rushed into her master’s room. “The Bishop says that he is coming up to see you; what shall we do?” “Oh, that’s all right.” said Parson Radcliffe; “tell his lordship I'm cruel bad with an attack of ‘scarlet fever’— it's very aggravated and extremely catching!”—London Answers. As the Waiter Understood. A certain social club held Its an nual convention in a large hall con nected with a refreshing dispensary. There was little ceremony beyond that absolutely necessary to conduct business, the members draining their steins and smoking at their ease. The convention was just getting under way when a delegate late in arriving rushed into the hall. "Was the convention called to or T.J.I. Q.D.S. F.T.S. j TJI—Pilot has been sent you. I QDS—How does the land lie? FTS—Must take in more ballast. taken as representing the letters of the alphabet each stands for. This is the alphabetical signal, and is em ployed when a name or address Is about to be spelled out letter by let ter. The code flag over F and over G indicate, in one case the end of a word or dot between initials, and in the other that the alphabetical sig nals are terminated. Numeral signal—i. e., that the fol lowing flags are to be taken as repre senting the figures assigned to each of them in a table found in the book— is made known by hoisting the code pennant over M. Over N indicates the decimal point, and over O the end of the numeral signal. If the name or the number contain more than four letters or four figures, You will notice that one of the flags —a pennant, or flag running to a point, having two white vertical stripes on a red ground—is termed the code signal and answering pennant. When in use as the first, it indicates that the international code is being employed. When used as the second— as the answering flag—its significance is equivalent to “I notice you are wishful to communicate with me.” ' When a ship desires to speak to another, she opens the ball by hoist ing her ensign with the code flag be neath it. The ship spoken to immediately re sponds to the signal by hoisting the answering pennant at the “dip”—that is, two-thirds of the wray up to, say, the masthead or peak. The first then makes the desired signal, which may consist of two, three or four flags; but never more ♦han four. Should the second ship comprehend the signal, she makes known the fact by hoisting the answering pennant “close up," in which position it is re tained till the signaling craft has hauled down her flags. It is then low ered to the “dip” again in readiness for the continuation of the message. Should the signal be not distin Jenny Lind and Her Instructor. Otto Goldschmidt, husband of the late Jenny Lind, celebrated his 76th birthday recently. The “Swedish Nightingale’s” chief vocal instructor. Signor Garcia, is still alive, having passed the century mark some months ago. When Jenny Lind first came to him he sent her away, telling her not to sing a note for three months, be caus her voice was overstrained. When she came back at the appointed time the maestro declared that he had found a voice “as pure as a diamond, soft as a flower." Jenny Lind used to say this remark amply repaid her for the three months of silence, during which time she had “lived on her tears.” _ A Do-As-You-Like Paper. A paper, written in a crude hand, hung in a walnut frame over the ed itor’s desk. “A man brought that paper to our advertising department a month ago,” he said, "and wanted it printed among the legal notices. He was bitterly disappointed when we refused to ob tire him- He was a farm:l«horer, and .smmfrmmt*f**" __________ International Code of Signals. it must be given in more than one hoist; for four is the maximum num ber of flags of which a hoist must con sist. And if a letter or figure be du plicated, or contained more than once in any name or number, such letter or figure “must, on its second occur rence, begin or be in a second hoist, and on its third occurrence, it must begin or be in a third hoist." The illustration of the distant and he appeared to think the paper quite regular and correct.” The paper read: “Mutual Consent—We, the married Couple, Herbert Giles and, Mrs. Kate Giles, do give our joynt concent to seperate forever from each other, on account of us not being able to live happy together on six dollars per week, both at Libarty to go and do as you like, get married again when inclined. “MR. H. GILES, “KATE GILES. “HENRY HART, Witness.” Looking Ahead. Mother impressed on' her little seven-year-old Dot the necessity of confiding all her doings to her every evening before the child retired to sleep. Evidently Dot considered it a task, for after the first week was over, she nestled in her mother’s arms one evening and whispered: “Say, mother, when I get a stepmother, may I begin to tell her things about myself just where I left off with you? It would be an awful lot of trouble to begin way back at the beg’»ming!” der?” he demanded of a waiter who was standing about, on the watch. Now, this waiter was not up on par liamentary terms. His chief acquaint ance with technical words was with those of his own business. So his re sponse was not at all unnatural: ‘‘I don’t know whether it was called to order or not sir,” he replied; ‘‘but they are ordering quite freely.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Carrying It Too Far. An interesting event was about to happen and the mother in order to prepare her little ones of three and five and also to help her religious training, told them that if they prayed earnestly to the Lord he would send them a little brother or sister. The children prayed, and in a few days were called in to view their new baby brother. They were greatly pleased. Later in the day the father came home and said to his wife: “Say, Mary, this praying business has got to be stopped; its going too far.’’ “What's the* matter?” asked the wife. “Why,” said the father. “I just found those kids in the parlor, down on their knees, praying to beat the band for a billy goat and a pony.” High Prices Rule at Nome. Frlces up in Nome correspond with the latitude. The Semi-Weekly News sells for twenty-five cents a copy, or $1 a month. It appears from adver tisements that milk brings twenty five cents a quart, and eggs a dollar a | dozen. Traveling Men Form a Strong Society --— > .. ■ ----- ■ - "Homeless 26.” an Organization than 5,000 members traveling men and that Has Spread Rapidly and men at who8e house Promises to Accomplish Much 110 licluor is Bold- ln fact- eve,y of Worth applicant for membership must be rec ommended by a member in good ‘‘C. A. How. N Y, H O 26." was sianriing. and should the joiner prove the name and address on the register unworthy, the sponsor is henceforth at the Beals hotel, and it is believed without the pale. that it was the first time it has ever Every "Homeless 26” man feels in been seen in this section, says the duty bound to aid his brother. If that Norway, Me., Advertiser. The "H O” frater is sick a physician must be of the address was written with a two called and the association pays the and six above and below' respectively, bill. If he is without a position. 5,000 the bar of the "H,” with the "O” en- of the family are looking for a job for circling the entire combination. him. and at his death $2,500 are given This sign is found very often in the to his relatives. One member has died middle and western states, and is the since the association was formed, his trademark of the Homeless 26. Last death occurring in an explosion of Thanksgiving day twenty-six lonesome an oil tank, which wrecked a train traveling men were at a certain hotel near Pittsburg a few’ months ago. in Pittsburg, Pa. They had a dinner Then an assessment of twenty-six together and formed a society, to cents brought $1,300. which they gave the above unique Another direction which the society rame. They said that twenty-six has turned is the erection of a hotel, cents should be the entrance fee, and and they are carefully considering the quarterly dues, good fellowship with erection of a $50,000 building, where temperance and with economy, and the man without a place to call home promotion of the drummers’ comfort can go and be cared for until work is should be the aim. found. One of the social features is The clerk of the hotel consented to that whenever any of the members act as secretary, but soon his duties are together they have a little dinner, were so enlarged as to make neces- The further development of this sary the establishment of a salaried young but virile association will no office, and now' S. N. Williams is sec- doubt bring forth a social and insur retary of the association, with more ing element of considerable power. Journey Down the Road to Yesterday •y "Heart of Mine, the Twilight Deep, ens to a Denser, Duller Gray; Let Vs Link Our Arms and Wander Down the Road to Yesterday.” Heart of mine, the twilight deepens to a denser, duller gray, Let us link our arms and wander down the road to Yesterday; And, as sweethearts, stroll together down a leafy way and long. Let us gather blooms of memory and weave them into song. Heart of mine, we may discover as we wander on and woo. All those little lanes and byways that our eager childhood knew. And perhaps we’ll bear some sweetness from our journeying away. As we wander on together down the road to Yesterday. Here I pledged thee fame and riches—ah, we both of us were young, And we heard no note of music but the song of Promise, sung By the voice of Youth, grown merry in the carelessness of play, And the sunshine was all mellow as we passed along that way. Heart of mine. I pledged thee greatness and I promised thee a crown Fashioned by the hands of Effort from the Jewels of renown. ' '-I Hut, alas! I bring thee nothing from the years but temples gray And a dream that lies all broken on the loud to Yesterday. And I plucked a radiant flower on the rosy way of Youth. ’Twas a blossom fair and fragrant from the spreading bush of Truth. A1 my life I swore to keep it and cherish it—so rare Was its leaf and stem and odor and its beauty was so fair: But the snuggle grew so bitter, and so denser grew the throng. That the heart where I enshrined it could not keep it overlong. And 1 thought we might discover as we wandered on our way Its poor bruised and broken petals on the road to YesUtday. But, O Heart, if hopes lie shattered all along the weary way. We are better for the sorrows on the road to Yest< relay; Cleansed of arrogance and evil, purged of all our foolish pride. Chastened, humbled. better fitted for what fortune may betide. If 1 bring thee naught I promised, I will offer thee instead Nobler aims and sweeter droamings—for my little dreams are tied. And the sweetness of Contentment leads my cherished soul away From the dreams that lie ail broken on the road to Yesterday. —Cleveland Leader. "Homeless 26.” an Organizat:cn that Has Spread Rapidly and Promises to Accomplish Much of Worth. “C. A. How. N Y. H O 26." w.is the name and address on the register at the Beals hotel, and it is believed that it was the first time it has ever been seen in this section, says the Norway, Me., Advertiser. The “H O” of the address was written with a two and six above and below respectively, the bar of the “H,” with the "O" en circling the entire combination. This sign is found very often in the middle and western states, and is the trademark of the Homeless 26. Last Thanksgiving day twenty-six lonesome traveling men were at a certain hotel in Pittsburg, Pa. They had a dinner together and formed a society, to which they gave the above unique rame. They said that twenty-six cents should be the entrance fee, and quarterly dues, good fellowship with temperance and with economy, and promotion of the drummers’ comfort should be the aim. The clerk of the hotel consented to act as secretary, but soon his duties were so enlarged as to make neces sary the establishment of a salaried office, and now S. N. Williams is sec retary of the association, with more than 5,000 members traveling men and hotel men at whose house no liquor is sold. In fact, every applicant for membership must be rec ommended by a member in good standing, and should the joiner prove unworthy, the sponsor is henceforth without the pale. Every "Homeless 2t!” man feels in duty bound to aid his brother. If that frater is sick a physician must, be called and the association pays the bill. If he is without a position, 5,000 of the family are looking for a job for him. and at his death $2,500 are given to his relatives. One member has died since the association was formed, his death occurring in an explosion of an oil tank, which wrecked a irain near Pittsburg a few months ago. Then an assessment of twenty-six cents brought $1,300. Another direction which the society has turned is the erection of a hotel, and they are carefully considering the erection of a $50,000 building, where the man without a place to call home can go and be cared for until work is found. One of the social features is that whenever any of the members are together they have a little dinner. The further development of this young but virile association will no doubt bring forth a social and insur ing element of considerable power. Believe Satan Spends Day on Earth - Superstition Among the Mexicans that the Devil Leaves His Abode Once Each Year and Mingles with the Race of Men A big fire, a suicide and a number of accidents in the city and a heavy wind and rain storm here ami numer ous crimes and accidents in many parts ot the Republic were the natural consequences, it is to be supposed, of the annual one day’s leave of aosence taken by his diabolical majesty the devil yesterday—a leave of absence which his majesty spends in this earthly planet doing a number of dev ilish tricks. It is a common belief among almost all Mexicans that on the day of San Bartolo, which was yesterday, the devil is loose and many unpleasant things happen. The devil is supposed to be very busy all the year around roasting bad people in the inferno, but on the day of San Bartolo he takes a little rest and comes to the earth to see how things are going oh. That is. he comes on a trip of inspection to see the prospects for the coming year. Many people are so superstitious about this that they stay at home all day and refuse to receive calls be cause, according to tradition, it oc curred one time that the devil dis guised himself and called upon people whom he wanted to carry away. The object of the visit was briefly ex plained and the interested parties were so scared that most of them dropped dead, whereupon the devil carried away their souls. The superstition is much more wide ly spread in the states of the interior. In Guadalajara, for instance, they claim that San Bartolo’s is the day when the city 'shall be destroyed by a flood and a hurricane, according to the prediction of a priest who died many years ago. although nobody knows the name of that prophet nor the year when he made his prophecy. —Mexican Herald. Saw Real Chinese Life in Hongkong —-- J Sailor Owned Entire Household for Few Weeks and Mixed Among the Natives as One of Themselves. Looking about in Hongkong for a congenial household wherein to make my home for a few weeks, 1 fell in with a most friendly Chinaman—an elderly person whose family consisted of himself, his wife, several children, two sampans and certain wooden gods of various sizes and degrees of pow er. I acquired the whole for $15 and wras supposed to own everything, in cluding the gods, for a period of three months, with board in the bargain. The food was good, too, well sea soned and palatable, though I did not always know just what I was eating I gained flesh and I really saw some thing of China during those three months. The old man found his chief occupation in being head of the house hold and smoking opium, while his wife did washing for the vessels in * f-.-.-. the harbor, and ran the two sampans. She also acted as my foster mother and sometimes took me in a sampan to collect or deliver laundry, and 1 found myself endorsing the establish ment among the ships of my acquain tance. Often my “foster sisters" took me in tow and we visited the neigh bors or some theater, or took delight ful rambles into the country, climb ing the terraced hillsides to get a view of the splendid harbor. I really enjoyed being “Jack in clover” for the time, and acquired a great fondness for the Chinese life as 1 saw it. As a sailor I had let my hair grow long, and I now braided it in a pigtail, put on the national costume, and with tan and a little tint applied by iny merry “relations” I passed well enough for a native to have a good deal of sport and to perpetrate a num ber of jokes, one of which came near landing me in a Chinese prison, if not on the execution block.—Pearson’s Magazine. One Bed Sufficed for All Present _ - -- ■ - - - . - - Louisiana Hospitality Proved Equal to the Occasion,Though Unlooked for Demand for Space Made Strain A group of drummers were trading yarns on the subject of hospitality, when one, a little Virginian with a humorous eye and a delightful drawl, took up his parable thus: “I was down in Louisiana last month travelin’ ’cross country with S. J. Carey (the same being Stonewall Jackson C., at your service), when we kinder got lost in a mighty lonesome sort o’ road just about dark. We rode along a right good piece after sun down. and when we saw a light ahead I tell you it looked first rate. We drove up to the light, findin’ ’twas a house, and when I hollered like a lost calf the man came out and v-e asked ; him to take us in for the night. He 1 looked at us mighty hard, tnen said, •\Val, 1 reckon I kin stand it if you kin.’ So we unhitched, went in, and found ’twas only a two-room shanty and just swarmin’ with children. He had six from four to eleven years old, and as there didn’t seem to be but one bed. me an’ Stony was wonderin' what in thunder would become of us. “They gave us supper, good hog and hominy, the best they had, and then the old woman put the two youngest kids to bed. They went straight to sleep. Then she took those out, laid them over in the corner, put the next two to bed—and so on. After all the children were asleep on the floor the u]d folks went in the other room and told us we could go to bed if we wanted to. and, bein' powerful tired out, wTe did. “Well, sir, the next morning when we woke up we were lying over in the corner with the kids, and the old man and the old woman had the bed.” —Lippincott’s Magazine. Within the Law. \ Miss Paula Edwardes, who is almost j ready to begin rehearsals of her new’ comic opera, spent the summer trav- ; eling in the far East. Miss Edwardes says that the Mohammedan religion permits of more evasions than does the Raines law. “The faithful are for bidden to paint any live object,” Miss Edwardes relates, “and yet I frequent ly’saw in Constantinople pictures of j birds and animals. One day I com- i mented on this fact. The guide and I had stopped before a canvas showing two doves. ‘Here is an artist/ I re marked. ‘who has allowed his enthusi asm to get away with his scruples. His picture represents something alive.' ‘Not at all/ returned the guide. ‘If madame will look more closely she will see that these birds are not alive. A bullet hole has been painted in the breast of each.’ ”—Haryer’s Weekly. I PRACTICAL HYGIENE The Proper Care of the Body The Supreme Need of the Tuberculosis Patient. In the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Norman Bridge calls attention to the fact that the tuberculosis mortality has been re duced in the last thirty years from 14.25 to 10 per cent of all deaths. These results are not accidental, but are clearly due to the increased knowl edge of the best methods of treating this disease. In order to point out the best course he calls attention in the following words to some common errors still prevailing: “Men grow fixed in their ideas; they come to regard their notions as im mutable, and so are slow to discover and to change. It is somehow easier for us to think that quinine or cod liver oil, creosote or a change of cli mate: some inhalation of drugs or a so-called anti toxin, is good for tuber culosis, than if is to understand that the great first purpose of all treat ment is to increase the physiologic power of the patient to resist the dis ease and to destroy or circumscribe its cause within his own body. “The sober fact confronts us that the one supremo need is for more pow er in the afflicted body to restrict or destroy the tuberculosis process. For our present guidance this truth is so vital that it takes rank with a confes sion of faith in religion. “We have given our patients some drug, and have neglected the half doz en measures whose tendency is to in crease the power of the patient. Thus we have often thrown away the great resources of rest, fresh air, outdoor life, changes in surroundings, and a systematic effort ot increase the nutri tive forces the body. “There is no objection to the tonic medicines, always provided they are understood to be minor and subsidiary things, never of great value, and to be used only as aids to the general meas ures referred to. “To give drugs, while the patient is allowed to go in an unhygienic course of life without advice or correction, is an error awful in its results. “Every one of these patients should be constantly supplied with outdoor atmosphere in such abundance that every successive inspiration brings a fresh dose 0L air to the lungs, and none from previous expiration. Every one should have long hours of rest— if feverish, the rest recumbent should be almost or quite constant, for exer cise increases the fever. The digest ive powers should be made to do their best, under the most careful supervis ion, toward improving the nutrition and possibly also the resisting power of the patient. “Patients have been allowed to stay indoors without proper ventilation, and breathe a poisoned house-air three-quarters of the time. We have subscribed to the popular untruth—as pitiful as it is groundless—that pa tients in a gentle current of air called a draught are in danger of colds and other harm, and so we have kept them breathing over and over again their contaminated air. The truth is, one never takes cold in any draught, even a wind, if his body and head are kept warm by clothing. The advice of the profession ought to be to keep in a draught, never out of it; only it would lessen the business of the physicians while it would be of incalculable ben efit to the people. “A consumptive’s body should al ways be well and equably clothed, and should never be hampered or restrict ed by garments. Snug corsets and conventional gowns are an absurdity for the tuberculosis woman; worn as they are by most such women, they frequently tip the scales in favor of death rather than recovery.” Pork and Pessimism. A French medical journal recently stated that a diet consisting largely of pork will make a person pessimis tic. The following humorous incident, taken from “The Farringdons,” may be taken as a proof of the truth of this statement. The speakers are worthy wives, but not altogether above feeling a certain pleasure in showing up the ways of husbands: ‘‘They've no sense; men haven't.” | said Mrs. Hankey, “that’s what’s the < matter with them.” j ‘‘You never spoke a truer word, Mrs. Hankey,” replied Mrs. Bateson. “The very best of them don’t prop erly know’ the difference between their souls and their stomachs and J they fancy that they are a wrrestling with their doubts when really it is 1 their dinners that are a wrestling with them.” ‘‘Now, take Bateson hisself,” con- * tinued Mrs. Bateson. “A kinder hus band or better church man never 1 drew breath, yet so sure as he f touches a bit of pork, be begins to f worry hisself about the doctrine of f election till there’s no living with t him.” c Huxley’s Definition of a Liberal Edu cation. “That man has a liberal education f who has been so trained in youth that i his body is the ready servant of his t will, and does with ease and pleas- i lire all the work that, as a mechanism, a it is capable of; whose intellect is a •! clear, cold, logic engine, with all its s parts of equal strength and in smooth working order, ready, like a steam en- s gine, to be turned to any kind of ^ w’ork, and spin the gossamers as well a as forge the ancnors of the mind; ^ whose mind Is stored with a knowl- t edge of the great and fundamental *’ truths of nature and of the laws of t her operations; one who, no stunted I ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come a to a halt by a vigorous will, the serv ant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness s and to respect others as himself. Such q a one and no other has had a liberal t education.” r - ii Every real and searching efTort of r self-improvement Is of itself a lesson k Rational Exercise* in Japan. The Japanese are constantly sur prising their Western neighbors by the enlightenment of their laws and customs. The same clearsightedness and good sense which characterize* them in the conduct of other affairs are noted as distinguishing features of their school administration. For instance, in that part of the annual report of the department of education which refers to gymnastics in the public schools the minister of state quaintly remarks: "Pupils should not be allowed to spend play* hours in inactivity and idle conversa tion, but all of them, whether male or female, should be induced to ex ercise in the open air, in as free and unrestrained a manner as possible. It is not fair to mark their shouting and running and engaging in merry sports generally, as bad behavior, and to give good marks to those who keep calm and quiet.” Careful instructions are issued con cerning the gymnastic drill for chil dren. and the teaching of hygienic principles, in order that “teachers and pupils may not devote themselves too exclusively to the cultivation of the intellectual faculties.” Instructors are warned “not to adhere too strictly to mere routine, and spend valuable time in adjusting the postures of pupils, or in arranging them in rows, thus arous ing an aversion in the minds of pu pils to drill of this nature.” In a list of recommendations which the minister makes to teachers and school boards, is the following: Lux ury and ease naturally tend to im becility; in cities and towns pupils are sometimes found to ride in jin rikishas or other conveyances in going to and returning from schools, and though such practice is beyond the reach of school discipline, direc tors and teachers should be very at tentive in this matter, and induce the pupils to walk as much as possible.” Although modern apparatus for gymnastics is provided in all the city schools of Japan, the idea most fa vored is for such exercises as can be had in natural and enjoyable sports. Following the healthful impulses which nature has provided, results in the best and most natural develop ment. Pupils in elementary schools are forbidden to smoke or keep tobacco pipes. Any plan of examinations tend ing towards rewards and punishments is condemned by the minister on the ground that “it is not only a misappli cation of the general principles of ed ucation, but also injures the physical development of children.” Beds and Bedding. There are still bedrooms wharein can be found reminders of a bygone age in the form of unwieldy bedsteads with their monster bedposts and side parts almost as large as bridge tim ber, and which afford convenient camping grounds for vermin. Such bedsteads usually have for their im mediate companions some of the old fashioned bed springs, which appear very crude when compared with the elegant and simple springs now found in all up-to-date homes. The simple iron bedstead, with its woven wire springs, provided with some of the later contrivances to pre vent sagging in the center, represents the highest form of evolution in the line of beds. It is comfortable, read ily moved about, easily stowed away, and, best of all, affords no lodging places for either dust or vermin. It can be readily cleansed if for any cause it has been exposed ot danger ous infective disease, and for its very simplicity and neatness is a suitable ornament for any bedroom. The passing away of “the good old lays” has deprived us of much that was substantial and real, which has oeen replaced by the shallow and ar ificial. but it is certainly a matter for :ongratulation that modern civiliza ion has emancipated us from the pes ilential feather bed' that used to be passed down from generation to gen eration as a cherished heirloom. The )ld-fashioned quilts which were re :overed again and again at “quilting )ees,” gradually became liable to the same objection as the time-honored eather bed. It should always be remembered hat bed clothes are not warm in pro lortion to their weight, but just to the 'xtent that they have the ability to re ain heat, and that this depends more ipon the looseness of their texture han upon the amount of cotton that :an be matted together and covered igain and again with new quilting. All bedclothes, without regard to he material from which they are con tracted, should every week spend a ew hours becoming acquainted with unlight, and thereby have the addi ional advantage of thoroughgoing utdoor ventilation. What He Wanted. Most people would rather take a ew bottles of some drug ‘periodically, n hope of thereby counteracting the ad effects of their unhygienic hab ts, than reform their course of life nd lire healthfully. The Mother’s ournal contains a suggestion which uch would do well to ponder: “A certain dissipated youth, on con ulting a noted physician in Paris, ras given a set of hygienic rules, and ssured of a speedy cure. But that -as not at all to the young gentle lan’s liking. ‘Any fool,’ he said would know he’d get well if he did hat, but that’s not what I came for. want medicine.’ He wanted to button nis coat over dirty shirt.” “Yankees” Popular in Canada. A correspondent of the London Mail ays that “No English need apply” is uite a common addendum to adver sements ia Canada. Probably the eason is a certain lack of adaptabil y in the English character. The cor espondent attributes it to the “Yan ee leaven in the population of Can
