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NEED ALL-ROUND EDUCATION
Desire for Physical Development
Comes to Parents Slowly—The
Views of One Mother.
It is a curious fact that the desire for
physical development for their children
comes to many parents more slowly than
that for intellectual development, says
Youth’s Companion. It is pretty well
acknowledged now by everybody—from
the illiterate immigrant to the “poor
white”—that “book-learning” is a good
thing for the children. But the schools
in England meet the same opposition as
those in America when they try to put
the development of muscle on the same
basis as that of memory. Many a school
principal has listened to protests sub
stantially like that of the good woman
who carried her views of education to
the grammar school-teacher:
“I want ye to teach me girl readin',
writin’, and ’rithmetic,” said she, “but
she ain’t t’ larn anny more of this
physical torture. If it’s jumpin’ she
needs, I c’n teach her jumpin’ meself!”
Presently we shall make good our re
turn to the Greek system, which in
cluded music and gymnastics as essen
tials to education, and so produced a
wonderfully balanced creature—with
body, mind and spirit in such due pro
portion that no one could overtop the
other. The professional athlete, the
puny scholar and the religious fecluse
are each the result of the separation of
one department of education from the
others. The symmetrical man is the re
sult of the well-considered union of nil
the departments.
INCUBATOR ON DESERT.
Birds in Vast Wastes Cool Their Eggs
Instead of Giving Them
Warmth.
Many a person who has watched a
mother robin nestling patiently on her
eggs In a blossoming apple tree has
wondered how the little creature or her
ancestors ever learned that the long
process would cause the eggs to hatch
A greater puzzle Is set for them, says
the author of “The Land of Little Rain,"
in the great desert, where the same birds
have learned to cool their eggs instead
of warming them. In the unsheltered
nests of the sandy plains it becomes nec
essary to keep the eggs from cooking.
One hot, stifling spring in the Little An
telope, a traveler had occasion to pass
and repass the nest of a pair of meadow
larks located unhappily in the shade of a j
very slender weed. The birds were never
sitting except at night, but at midday
they stood or drooped above the nest,
half- fainting, with pitifully parted bills,
spreading their wings between the sun
and the eggs. Sometimes both of then!
together, with wings spread and half
lifted, maintained a spot of shade in a
terrific temperature. Their patience
was in this case rewarded, for the com
passionate traveler at last spared them
a bit of canvas, which she mounted over
the nest as a permanent shelter.
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JAP COMPANY FOR ARMY.
Majority of Sandwich Islanders Hail i
from Far East—Are Organizing
Militia Command.
It may not be generally known that
the United States army of the future
will include a command of Japanese
soldiers, but this is a fact, claims the
New York Herald. They will not come
from the armies which ard fighting in
the far east, but will be enrolled from
our Japanese citizens in the Sandwich
islands. It. is needless to say that a
very large portion of the population of
the islands, and especially of Honolulu,
is composed of this nation. They are
found among the bankers, merchants
and professional men, and are included
among the wealthiest residents of the
city. One of the principal schools of
Honolulu is attended exclusively by
Japanese children, and here has beer,
enrolled a command of cadets which is
to be mustered into the United States
militia as soon as its members are old
enough. It is drilled by a former Japan
ese army officer, and although organ- j
ized but a few years ago. this battalion |
has already attained a high standard of j
efficiency. It is frequently seen on
parade in Honolulu and attracts much !
attention.
"SMART SET” AT RAT PITS
Fashionable Society Women at French I
Resort Enjoy Revolting
Spectacles.
The latest attraction for the “smart
set” at Aix-les-Bains, France, is a rat pit
where fashionable foreigners gather on
Sunday afternoons to witness rat and
dog fights. At a recent fight the grand
stand facing the ring was packed with
screaming women, who seemed to
revel in the proceedings. Inside the
wired ring was a man who let out so
many rats for each dog. Some of the
rats were already so feeble that they
could scarcely crawl, and had to be kicked
toward the dog that killed them. Scores i
of rats were left half dead, and lay
writhing, while the well-dressed sight
seers shrieked with excitement. H. V.
Barnett, an Englishman, who was pres
ent, ventured to protest against the cru
elty of th$ affair, and was promptly
| turned out by the police.
Mountain Air to Blame.
A new guest arrived at a New Ham
shire farmhouse where a Boston gentle
man happened to be holding forth on
the piazza, says the Rochester Herald.
The newcomer was much impressed by
the speaker’s fluency. “I declare,” he
remarked to the landlord, “that man has
an extensive vocabulary, hasn’t he?”
The landlord was -mightily pleased.
“That’s so,” he said. “That’s what
mountain air will do for a man. He
: ain’t been boarding with me but two
; weeks, and I know* he must have let his
j w aistband out mu'ch an four times.”
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ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
Jomans Held Vegetable in High Es
teem Many Years Before
Christ.
Of all food plants there is none which
das been so long known or been pos
sessed of so distinguished a lineage as
the asparagus. Its records reach back
almost to the beginning of authentic his
tory, and it is mentioned by the comic
poet Cratinus, who died about 426 B. C.
The Romans held the vegetable in high
esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work
which is still extant, “De re Rustica,"
and it treats at length of the virtues and
proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny,
in his natural history, written about
SO A. D., lias much to say about it. He
feelingly observes: "Of all the products
of your garden your chief care should be
asparagus," and he devotes several
chapters to its many good qualities and
the best methods of raising it. He as
serts that the soil about Ravenna was so
favorable to its production that three
heads grown in that district had been
known to weigh a Roman pound. Thie
pound seems to have been about equal
to 11 ounces in our day, so It would ap
parently have taken four of the stalks
to have reached a pound of our weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant. It Is possible that the
stock growing in Italy was of a more
vigorous growth than that of our north
ern clime. It is found all arouad the
shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or flve dlstlnot
species besides tho one ordinarily used
for edible purposes.
WON BY ORDINARY TALK.
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa
tional Tons Wins Heart of
Doubtful Maiden.
Congressman William H. Jackson, at
Maryland, vu engrossed in dlscusslig
with a number of colleague* the deca
dence of oratory, say* tbe New York Her
ald. “Sane people are not emotional,**
declared the congressman, "and tbe con
versational delivery of speech carries
as much weight with an intelligent
audience as does the effort of a declaim
er who indulges in brilliant periods with
an arm-swinging acompaniment.**
“You are right,'* said a listener, “and
your statement reminds me of a young
lady who had two suitors. Both men
had about the same advantages and
prospects, but gossip declared that the
girl would decide in favor of the man
who was a lawyer, for he knew better
how to present and win his case. Gos
sfpe erred; the lawyer was rejected.
Later It was learned from a friend In
whom the betrothed had confided her
reason for her choice.
“ ‘Harry is convincing, but John is
just as convincing and does not have to
move his arms every time he wants to
say something.’ ’’
BIG BEE RANCH IN ’FRISCO
Public School Principal of Coast City
‘ Harvests a Third of a Ton
of Honey a Season.
There is a bee ranch with more than
1,000,000 bees in the heart of one of the
densest residence districts of San Fran
cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin
cipal of a public school, and is in the
little back yard of his home. For ten
years he has kept his bees there, has
harvested about a third of a ton of
honey each season and has been at no
expense for food for his interesting and
industrious pets. Although it is a dis
tance of two and one-half miles from
the Prior bee ranch to Golden Cate park,
the bees make the trip there, collect
loads of honey and get back to the hive
in two minutes, making a bullet-like
flight at the surprising rate of 150 miles
an hour. Mr. Prior has demonstrated
this by having an observer watch cer
tain bee-favored plaqes in the park and
exactly timing the arrival there of bees
he purposely sprinkled with flour as
they issued from a hive. He has also
kept time on the absence of tbe whitened
bees.
BtG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $2,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.
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If you doubt that the nickel and quar
ter business doesn’t pay, consider the
money-making propensities of the aver
age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1,500 bath compartments. It costs 20
cents to rent one. On a medium hot
summer’s day some $800 are derived
from renting these rooms, for the com
partments are used in the course of the
day by about 4,000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for 25 cents each. There
would be 8,000 of them for such a pavil
ion, which means $1,000 a day If half ot
them are rented once; and It is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 4,000
bathers pay five cents for the use of a
«omb and brush—$150. A total of near
ly $2,000, to say nothing or the proceeds
from restaurant, bar, barber shop and
indoor baths.
Italy’s Emigrants.
In the past 30 years Italy has sent
more than 2,000,000 persons to the
United States, says the World’s Work
A number of these have returned in the
course of time, taking with them care
fully hoarded savings. A very large
majority have remained in the United
States.
Japs Drink Much Water.
A gallon of water a day is drunk by
every Japanese who practices, as nearly
all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitsu.
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Cuba’s Population.
The population of Cuba is now over
1,685,000, w hich is an increase of mor<
than ten per cent since 1MQ.
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er three applications you will be convinced
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