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THE JOY OF GIVING.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
(Copyright, 1913)
Who's never known the Joy of Giving
Has never known the Bliss of Living—
It matters not the style of gift,
A bit of gold to ease sore shift,
Or just a smile, a sunny rift,
To hearten up some troubled wight
Whose steps have wandered trom the light—
These all are gifts well worth the giving
For those who seek the Joy of Living.
Just go some day
Upon the quiet
.Out on the way,
My friend, and TRY IT!
FROM INDIA.
By Ome on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern
Country. Weather Conditions that are Entirely
Overlooked. A Curious Tree. A Mohnmmedan
Ceremony that Takes the Place of Christian
Baptism. The Barly Development of Children
and Their Equally Early Decay.
JuAns:, NOVEMBER Ist, 1912,
Dear Home Folk:
The cold weather has started early in
this country and at night one wraps up
well in blankets and still shivers, hurry-
ing into one’s clothes at six o'clock in
the morning, because it seems cold, when
truly it is only pleasantly cool. Even I
put on my sweater and then feel com-
fortable. This only lasts until about ten
o'clock, when the heat of the day begins
and you are so hot you want your um-
brella and wish for thin clothes again.
It is the contrast that most affects
you and I guess that is not typical in In-
dia, yet on account of there being no
fires, or in fact any way of really making
these big rooms comfortable, it seems
worse here. We have fire-places, which
are absurdly small in comparison to the |
size of the rooms and all I could imag-
ine they would do, would be by sugges-
tion; for never, never could you feel
aught of the fire ten feet from the grate.
The other morning I happened to open
and when I asked, was told it was
the mother sat, a sacred spot, while
naming process was going
noise went on until midnight
coming sleepy, went to bed long
Several days have gone by si
hove event and all I seem to
get done is go to the station.
Millan is the last one to leave,
goes on Friday night, and I will
alone for awhile; only in name, for
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in droves. Miss McCuen, in speaking of |
the agility of the young brown child"
mind the other day, told of a little occur
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of age sitting around, and a littlegirl was |
lurking near the door. She would edge
forward little by little toward Miss Mec-
Cuen, but each time would run away if |
any notice was taken of her, unti’ final-
ly she got near enough that Miss Mc-
Cuen reached out and touched her, hop-
ing tojreassure her when lo, the child
ran down the path like a deer. The oth-
er children screamed, “motor-car,” “mo-
tor-car,” and Miss McCuen asking an ex-
planation was told it was the little girl's
nick-name, for she could run so fast.
Fairly good for children.
That brings up a discussion 1 heard
the other night between two men who
have been in India for a long time. They
both decided that the average native
brain has reached its best and finished
development by the eighth or tenth year,
and after that begins to go backward.
I think it must be true, for children that
don't look a day over four or six years
will come into the dispensary carrying a
little brother or sister sitting astride their
hips, and they will answer all the ques-
my eyes a bit earlier than usual and was
tions, tote that child into the treatment
for years.
Tan, grey or black, in all sizes, from
$1.50 a pair upwards. It depends upon
the make and sometimes upon the ele-
and flare to the wrist.
there are the mufflers. Many a
is wisely availing herself of thie op:
portunity to buy several of these y
comforts at little prices. Knitted
ngs, with narrow
Chiffon veils, for as little as $1 for a
and one-half length, or as much as
50 for two-yard hemstitched kinds in
colors.
Thermos bottles come in every size
and from the drinking glass 2 Jo Se
thermos mastadon
i. Smal thermos hotles are to be had
Electric foot warmers for $7.50 are
rather interesting. They are not so
clumsy, either.
Women's overcoats of chinchilla, bou-
cle cloths and tweeds are selling for $15,
a reduction from prices close in $20,
which most women will realize. Warm
weather today does not mean tomorrow
will also be warm.
Since the elimination of the
' STRENUOUS BANKING.
——
Clients Faced a Cocked Gun While
Handing Over Their Dust.
Many years ago gold was discovered '
at Hokitika. on the west coust of New
Zealand. There wus a rush to the
small Maori village, and within a few
weeks seventy vessels, of all rigs and
tonnage, were waiting to get over the
dangerous harbor bar. The author of
“Antipodean Notes” describes the first
bank established in the little town.
With the vessels came two agents of
a local bank. Their bauk furniture
consisted of a safe, a pair of scales. a
tent and a couple of revolvers. The
two agents set up their tent, put the
safe in the back part and a plank. laid
across two tree stumps, in front.
The bank “stad” sat down behind
the plank: before one man were the
scales, a bottle of acid and a note-
book: the other held a cocked revolver.
The digger brought his goid to the
plank “conuter.” where it was weigh-
ed and tested. When the value was
determined the testing clerk unlocked
the safe. placed the gold in it. brought
out a bundle of dirty banknotes and
handed them to the digger,
During thix transaction the clerk
with the revolver looked carefully
about to see if any suspicious persons
were lurking near,
GOOD ADVERTISING PAYS.
Before
You Can Reap a Harvest You
Must First Sow the Seed.
The ordinary newspaper or periodical
. reader doesn’t dream of the potency of
| good advertising. One of the largest
: general advertisers in the
| States, if not quite the largest. ix a
manufacturer in the Philadelphia met.
ropolitan district.
! There is a never ending race at that
! plant between the advertizing depart-
! ment and the builders. The advertisers |
"was navigating his little craft, the
United
surprised to see that the sun was up room, bold it while the most gruesome
and was turning the top of a large abscess is dressed, all like a person ten
tree down by the well, a pure gold. I times that age, and yet when a sixteen
believed it, and hurried out of bed, into | or twenty year old girl comes in she
my slippers and kimona, thinking I was | is positively so stupid I feel inclined to
late, and then found that the sun was | shake her, and would do so if I had the
not up at all. Later in theday I went to! least idea that it would help her thinking
see what caused that effect and found, | apparatus to work more accurately and
that although the weather was only | speedily. It is all so different from our
possibilities | Dring in so much business that the
lL i horse hair , builders are kept busy enlarging the
are being offered. factory. :
So well made are these imitations, Something like $1.000.000 a year is
that many women are wondering how ! Spent in advertising this company's
they may have been accepting these | output. which is a luxury in every
real aigrette. | sense. At the present moment orders
For those who do not even care to | for new business are so fur ahead of
wear an imitation, for fear they may be | the capacity of the plant that it would
accused of wanton heartlessness, there | seem a hopeless job ever to catch up.
remain the many beautiful new fancies ' But the advertisers never relax.
made of ostrich feathers with which one | The head of that great concern now
may trim one’s bonnet. | knows almost better than anybody else
However our fancies may run, women that before you can reap a harvest you
view the newer millinery modes with ap- | must first sow the seed. The advertis-
slightly cooler than it had been and of
course, no frost, yet that funny tree's
leaves were as beautifully colored as you
could find anywhere on our mountains,
and I am sorry to say those beautiful
golden leaves are coming down as fast
as they can come. Now tell me how
that tree knew that winter was coming?
It is not really cold, the rains are just
over and to me, from a cold world, it is!
simply perfect so far as the temperature
is concerned, and every other form of
vegetation is making big strides toward
perfection—seeds are just coming up,
promising future flowers, and this silly
tree losing its leaves.
In our neighbor's “compound” is a gor-
geous night-blooming cereus, over six
feet tall and the blossoms are easily a
foot across—a big ugly plant but a very
beautiful blossom.
For the past few weeks all my extra
mail has spoken of Thanksgiving and
Christmas but I can’t get up the proper
spirit and don’t intend to do anything,
for one can’t buy Christmas cards in In-
dia, and even the postals of this place
are so bad they are not nice enough to
send away.
I am sending Father a new set of gods
so tell him to put them before his plate
and on Sunday if he does not go to
church he cando asthe heathen out here
do, worship those in their own house. I
do not know their exact names but will
try to find out later and send him word
for each one rules only over certain
things, and it would be “passing bad” | I™
were he to pray to the “preserver” when
it happens to be a “destroyer.”
The other evening the “Bisthi” was
having a “tamaschi,” as it was the home-
coming of his wife and young son, ten
days old. As was going by I stopped
to see what they were doing, as there is
great rejoicing when a son arrives in In-
dia; girls are usually neglected and al-
lowed to die. Isaw an old man seated
on the ground outside, with a blanket
spread in front of him, eating rice. This
he did with his first two fingers and
thumb; the other two fingers, the Polish
Hindustani think should remain scrupu-
lously clean. The rice was cooked in
“ghi” (clarified butter, made very sweet
with sugar.) This man was the Moham-
little later the orchestra arrived; it con.
sisted of three women, all squatted on
the ground outside, one with a long (at
least two feet) watermelon-shaped drum
between her feet, and she beat alternate-
world, where the precocious child is the
exception, not the rule, (at least we are
taught to expect) that years only add to
our brain power and general usefulness.
This next week is a big holiday and as
I am on the watch for it, hope to go down
into the city to see the sights and so re-
port a really interesting festival.
(Continued next week.)
The Banana as a Cheap Food.
The banana must be reckoned with as
one of the sta foodstuffs of the
people of the United States. The ex-
tent of consumption will be a surprise to
persons unfamiliar with the statistics of
li loa) 1m rdi are toicial pub.
ica regarding nana supply of
the world and the annual use of that ar-
ticle in the United States, estimating the
io be 11, 1f appears SS Es 3 nel
to hit t the peop!
the United tes utilize more than
6,000,000,000 bananas a year, or more
‘han five dozen for every man, woman
and in the country, including
Alaska and Hawaii. The value of ba-
nanas imported during the fiscal year
Sading Jue 30, 1900, was $5,877,835; in
1902, $9,987,821; in 1910, $11,642,693, and
$14,368,330. These figures
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may wear hats designed to come within
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words, our hats are to be made to fit our
heads, so we can face the windiest of !
the breeziest street on the bitterest kind |
of day without freezing our hands ng
to keep our hats on our heads, our bun-
dles in our hands, our muff where it
should belong and our skirts in close
juxtaxposition to our body, all at one
and the same time.
Each year the English custom of sending
greeting cards to one's friends is growing
more Jopular. These cards are simply
ved with the name of the
some appropiate Christmas wish or
they may be elaborately painted. It is
a matter of personal taste. These cards
help out in many an awkward situation
where certain people ought to be re-
membered to whom it would not be con-
venient or suitable to send a gift.
Dirt out of reach is doubly irritating
because it is all the time patently visible
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The lilly of the valley, if forced into
bleom in the green houses by florists in
winter for cut flowers, is grown entirely
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ers are the chaps that are doing that. —
Philadelphia Ledger.
Where Red Hair Is Disliked.
In Cornwall, particularily the Land's
End district, it ix not advisable to dub
A person “a red haired Dane,” though
in most parts of England, especially
inland, the expression would as likely
! as not provoke no comment at all or he
regarded as simply frivolous.
At a police court case heard in 1867
at Penzance town hall it came out in
evidence that the defendant had called
the complainant “a red haired Dane."
bed by this strange appellation is ns
strong as ever.
The Celtic nations hated the Danes
and were always fighting them. And
not only in Cornwall, but also all along
our coasts, where the Danes or Norse
rooted prejudice against people with
remains ingrained in the national char-
lish Illustrated.”
Boone's Portrzit In Oil.
There never was but one oil portrait
of Daniel Boone painted from life, and
that was by
tinguished artist ¢f Boston,
to Missouri in June, 1820, and painted
it in the residence of Flanders Calla-
was then living, near the village of
Marthasville, in Warren county. The
father of Aikman Welch, attorney gen-
ble’s administration, sat in Boone's bed
while Harding painted the picture, the
in the state capitol at Frankfort, Ky.—
Kansas City Star.
Quiet Elections.
its highest. polling In the commune of
Blanchefontaine. in eastern France. is
tice to make one serve for several
fontaine elector insists on his full
vote has a polling station erected for
his special! benefit.
Switching It Off.
Miss Elderleigh—So0 you remarked to
Katherine that I looked as old as the
hills? Now. don’t deny it. 1 heard
you. Jack Spott—Oh—er—but you mis.
understand. [| w-.x merely comparing
your age with chat of the Hill young
Jadles I am acquainted with—twins,
you know. Boston Transcript.
As He Mops the Question.
He—WIill yon marry me? She—You
would make a poor excuse for a hus-
band. He—Well. a poor excuse is bet-
ter than none.— Exchange.
The fool who is silent passes for
wise.—French Proverb.
men made their ravages. this deep
red hair, “red headed.” more or less
acter.—J. Harris Stone In “The Eng-
way, Boone's son-in-law. where Boone |
eral of Missouri during Governor Gam-'
behind Boone for him to lean against’
pioneer being too feeble to sit alone.
Harding's portrait of Boone now hangs |
neighboring communes, The Blanche- |
rights and whenever called upon to |
PREPARING ‘FOR OLD AGE.
If You Reach Sixty-five Years What
Will Be Your Condition?
Actuaries say that of each thousand
men living at the age of twenty 500
will still be alive at sixty-five. Econ-
omists declure that of the 500 living at
sixty-five 200 will be in want: that
eight-ninths of the pauperism in Amer-
fea is among people who have passed
this same age of sixty-five.
A man is, of course. sometimes
brought to want in old age through
accident, through continued illness of
himself or his family. through a dozen
and one mischances against which
even the wisest ix helpless adequately
to provide. In spite of this, however,
there are certain tried and proved ree-
ipes by which a young man may guar-
antee at least the probability that he
will not be found among the unfortu-
nite 200 after the age of sixty-five.
Avoidance of wasteful. destructive
habits: thrift, economy, the practice of
spending habitually less than one
earns, the habit of study. which in-
creases onc's usefuiness and earning
power—snch are a few of the stable
qualities which distinguish the young
man approaching an independent old
age from the one approaching a con-
dition of want. Stand the actuary’s
thousand men in a row, divide them
into two greups, the one possessing
the habits and qualities noted above
and the other lacking them, and there
would be little difficulty in telling from
which group will come the 200 and
from which the 300.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
WOOD FROM THE MOON.
Queer Decision of the Most Primitive
Race on Earth.
The “north pole natives” alluded to
by Captain Amundsen in a recent lec-
ture were discovered by him while he
Gjoa, through the Northwest passage
in 1903-7.
He christened them *“Nechilli” and
considered them to be the most primi-
tive race on earth. No white man had
ever before invaded their icy fast-
nesses. Consequently they were igno-
rant of the use of fron. Their fishing
implements were long spears, fashion-
ed out of reindeer horn. They knew
no other method of procuring fire than !
that of rubbing two pieces of wood to-
gether. They were. in short, still in
the stage of civilization reached by our
ancestors of the stone age.
80 cut off were they from others of
their kind that they imagined their
tribe was the only one in the world
and displayed the utmost astonishment
when told of populous countries far to
the south, where neither ice nor snow ,
was, The Gjon and her crew they
thought to have dropped from the
moon, and the first Nechilli to come
aboard felt the deck. masts, boats.
oars, all the while whispering to one
another in amazement. “How much
wood there is in the moon—how very
much!"—London Standard.
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and this led to an assault. The strong |
repugnance of Cornishmen to be dub- |
Too Eager.
FREAKS OF NATURE.
An Uphill Waterfall and a Tree That
Squirms Like a Snake.
Nature iu the tropics. left to herself,
writes John Burroughs, the naturalist,
is harsh, aggressive, savage: looks as
though she wanted to hang you with
her dangling ropes or impale you on
her thorns or engulf you in the ranks
of her gigantic ferns.
Her mood is never as placid and
sane as in the north. There is a tree
in the Hawalian woods that suggests
a tree gone mad. It is called the hau
tree. It lies down, squirms and wrig-
gles all over the ground like a wound-
ed snake. It gets up and then takes
to earth again. Now it wants to be a
vine: now it wants to be a tree. It
throws somersaults: it makes itself
into loops and rings: it rolls: it reaches;
it doublex upon itself. Altogether it
is the craziest vegetable growth I ever
saw.
It was near Pali that 1 saw what
I had never seen or heard of before—
a waterfall reversed, going up instead
of down. It suggested Stockton's story
of negative gravity.
A small brook comes down off the
mountain and attempts to make the
leap down a high precipice, but the
wind catches it and carries It straight
up in the air like smoke. It is trans-
lated. It becomes a mere wraith hov-
ering about the beetling crag.
Night and day this goes on. the
wind snatching from the mountains in
this summery way the water it has
brought them.—Century Magazine.
THE BASEBALL MASK.
It Was First Used In a Yale-Harvard
Game In 1876.
Frederick Winthrop Thayer of Co-
hasset. Harvard °'78, captain of the
famous varsity nines of 1878, 1877
and 1878, was the inventor of the
catcher's mask. The days when Thayer
entered Harvard baseball differed
somewhat from the present. A pitcher
had to throw underhanded and end
his throw with arm stretched out.
Then that changed. and asx a conse-
quence the ball was thrown much
more swiftly. Dr. Harold C. Ernst. a
professor in the Medical school, was
pitcher on the varsity nine. and James
A. Tyng was catcher. They made a
wonderful battery.
Thayer noticed thar the more free
dom given the pitcher the greater be-
came the rigk of the catcher. One day
he let a few into the secret. He was
going to make an mask. A few days
before the Yale game of 1876 he came
on the field with it. Save for the fact
it was made more heavily, it was much
similar to the masks in use today.
Thayer attached it to Jim Tyng's
head. and from that moment the mask
entered baseball. At first the players,
other than those in the varsity, and
; the spectators were inclined to ridicule
it, and it caused no end of comment
when it was worn by Tyng at the Yale
game that year. Harvard won. and
two years later team after team adopt-
ed the mask.— Boston Herald.
There is & lady in Richmond who has
most curious dispositica,
“Did the postman leave any letters,
Lily?” the mistress asked on one occa-
sion on returning from a call in the
neighborhood.
“There ain't nuthin’ but a postal
card, ma'am.” said Lily.
“Who is it from?” asked the mistress
craftily.
i Lily, with an air of entire innocence.
“Well, any one that sends me a mes-
sage on a postal card Is either very |
| stupid or impertinent.” suggested the |
lady of the h 5
Chester Harding. a dis-/ Be Ragin
“Excuse me, ma'am,” said Lily, with
who came gignity, “but that ain't no way to talk |
| "bout yo’ own mother!”
Ledger.
Population of Earth.
The population of the entire earth is
Rev. James E. Welch, one of the old- ground 1,600,000,000. Of this number.
est Baptist preachers in the state and | . have a class of troubadours who in-
pti Asia has over half, S000 Jn: Arisa. | stead of walking from village:to vil
127,000,000: North America,
{in her employ a darky servant of a
candle,
“'Deed, I don't know, ma'am.” said | modern treasury spirit appears to have
England's Lord Chancellors.
The lord chancellor under the early
English kings used to live in the
palace and had a regular daily al-
lowance, his wages, as it appeared
from one of the records, being 5
shillings. a simnel cake, two seasoned
simnels. one sextary of clear wine, one
sextary of household wine, one large
wax candle and forty small pieces of
In the time of Henry II, the
' begun to walk abroad, for in the rec-
ords the allowance of 5 shillings ap-
pears as if subjected to a reduction,
If he dined away from the palace and
| was thereby forced to provide extras,
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000; South America, 43.000,000; Austra- |
lasia. 5.000.000: Europe, 380,000,000:
polar regions, 300.000. There are no
means of estimating the increase in
the earth's population. owing to the
paucity of statistics and the compara-
tively recent date at which any sort
| of statistics were possible. But it ie
safe to say that from now on, owing
| to the spread of science the human in-
Even when political feeling runs at | crease wlll be greater than ever before.
New York American.
sure to be conducted without any dan- ||
ger of riot, as for some years past only |
one citizen has figured on its roll of |
electors. At election times. according |
to French law, each commune is en-
titled to demand a separate polling
station. although it is a frequent prac- | poop or article if he thinks it contains
Dodges the Germs.
“I understand that your neighbor
Jinks has a deadly fear of microbes
and takes every possible precaution to
avoid infection.”
“That's true. He won't even read a
any germs of thought.”—Baltimore
American.
Her Odd Way.
Giles—My wife is a queer woman.
Miles — Indeed! Giles — Yes. Why.
when she has occasion to drive a tack
she uses a hammer instead of a hair.
brush.—Chicago News.
! Far Enough.
“Does your wife make your money
go far?”
“l judge so. None of it has ever
come back that I know of.”"—Buffalo
Express.
From Abstract to Concrete.
“You say her love affairs have pro-
gressed from abstract to concrete?”
“Yes; she jilted a title guarantee man
fo take on a bufider.”—Judge.
He that knoweth himself best exalt:
oth himself least.
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then indeed he got his 5 shillings. But
if he dined at home he was not allowed
—Philadelphia | pope than 3 shillings and sixpence.—
London Answers.
Cossack Troubadours.
Like the Spauiards, the Cossacks
lage ride on horseback with their gusly
and give performances of music and
song in front of houses. They are
treated with respect and rewarded
generously according to their talents.
There are also women troubadours
among the Cossacks, and their per-
formances in the pleasant surround-
ings of a garden or in a street scene
are impressive.
British Death Duties.
Death duties on property in the
British isles, whether belonging to na-
tives or foreigners. are progressive,
ranging upward from 1 per cent on
estates of the value of between $500
and $2,500, 2 per cent between $2.500
and $5.000. 3 per cent between $5.000
and $25,000 and 15 per cent on estates
of $5.000,000 and over,
There are also legacy and succession
duties, varying in percentage.
Autosuggestion.
“What does autosuggestion mean?”
asked Binks,
“That's when your wife begins to
figure out how much youn and your
family would save in car fare If you
had your own machine,” replied Jinks.
~Cincinnati Enquirer.
No Escape.
Crawford—If your friends poked fun
at you for having the artistic tempera-
ment. you must have the laugh on
them now that yon are so successful,
Penfield—Not at all. They sneer at me
now for being commercialized.—New
York Times.
If thou art a man. admire those who
attem t great enterprises. even though
they fail.—Seneca,