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How a Woman’s Features May Be Made the Envy of Her Friends. ‘A complexion treatment from the good old days, when gentlewomen did not leave their health entirely to the care of other peeple, reads pleasantly enough. It will be worth transferring to those brocade MS. recipe books which are a fancy with women of taste. For a good complexion take one heaping teaspoonful of dried elder flowers, or twice as much of fresh ones still lingering along shaded meadow paths. Pour over it one cup of boiling filtered water and cover close. Let it steep fifteen minutes, strain and add sugar and lemon to the taste, omitting them if so preferred. Make this tea fresh every morning, and drink it half an hour before break- fast for one week. The next week use chamomile flowers instead of elder flowers. Prepare the tea and drink it the same way. Drink these teas alter- nately for three or four months, and after that twice each week. They im- prove the health and nerves in every way, as well as the complexion. On hears constantly of the virtue of scrubbing the face and keeping it clean, but there are women with deli- cate faces who do not bear well this sort of housemaid treatment. Scrub- bing irritates many skins, brings out a plentiful down on some fresh looking faces, and sets up a bleeding inflamma- tion in certain cases of blackheads and pustules. To cleanse the face thor- oughly by a simpler method, when it has been exposed to much dust and grime, rub it over with sweet olive oil. Let the oil remain from ten minutes to half an hour, as time allows, wash it off with warm water and fine soap, wiping with a Turkish towel, which is advisable for the face always. Finish by dashing cold water on the face, and wipe again. One of the latest adjuncts to the toilet is a lace edged perfumed cloth of peculiar fabric, which is carried about with one, and used to give the face a smart rubbing for a moment or two each hour. In the vestibule or dress- ing room, or before leaving one’s own room to receive visitors, a few touches with this prepared cloth will, it is said, leave the skin with a peculiarly fine finish, like that of statuary marble, which is not a polish, it must be re- membered. To cleanse the hair perfectly, without leaving it dry and brittle after wash- ing, first rub a lotion of equal parts of olive oil and bay rum into the scalp thoroughly. Let it remain half an hour, and then wash hair and scalp with hot water, having one teaspoonful of borax to the gallon, and a little good soap. Rinse well in three warm waters, wipe with Turkish towels and dry in the sun. This does much to preserve the color of hair, whether dark or blond. Observe the proportion of borax, and use very little soap, good castile soap being best.—New York Tribune. Modes ¥or Juveniles. The extreme length of an mfant’s first clothes has been very much modi- fied, and it is no longer considered good taste for a baby to wear a gown four times its own length. wk ok Ultra-fashionable mothers dress their little girls in nothing but white until they are ten years of age. * ¥ * Sailor suits are always pretty for both boys and girls. Those of blue or white serge made in regulation style are still the smartest. LE For Master or Miss Baby handwork fs the rage. Fashionable mothers pre- fer a hem put in by hand to an em- broidered ruffle, and a hemstitched tuck to a band of inserting. ® Xx x ‘White muslin frocks of very sheer stuff, trimmed with tucks, entre deux, pleats, lace-edged ruffles or hand em- broidery are best style for young girls’ party wear until they “come out.” * Fx The Russian blouse suit is still very choice for small boys. When a little older they wear the full knickerbocker and Norfolk jacket of cheviot. *® LI. Cloth, ribbed silk, bengaline and pop- lin are all used for babies’ coats, with white the preferred tone, until they are two years old; after that pale blue or pink is permissible. wo ok The miniature man wears a top coat of tan covert cloth just like t8ther’s, and the new ones this season are with- out the yoke across the back. . * k 0% Russian blouse suits of white broad- cloth, with a black patent-leather belt, are very smart for small boys. * kX Heavy guipure lace in wide bands of inserting form effective trimming for a little girl’s party gown. * * =» Blouse waists are always more be- coming to a young girl than a fitted one, and a yoke is less trying than when the material is drawn up to the neck. The yoke to relieve the waist may be simulated by lace or bands of Persian trimming if preferred. Fancy white collars are often worn where there is no yoke to modify the severe outline.—Philadelphia Record. Walking Dresses, The colors of walking dresses are to continue bright in tone, while embroid- ery and applique are to be more pat- ronized than ever. Cloth and taffeta decoupe will be found on a prominent pedestal, and a trimming of linen lace worked in wool or silk will be seen decorating some of the fine cloth gowns, Glace coats and entire glace dresses will again be well established, and as for the fashion of their make —well, in this instance fashion will a tale unfold, for every coat worthy the designation novel shows a tail at the back, and perhaps this is a very de- sirable state of affairs in view of the fact that we continue to patronize the tight-fitting skirt, which is in truth not entirely becoming to every woman who elects to wear it. That small tail at the back immediately takes off the too suggestive look of tightness. In the front the coats are for the most part cut round and bear revers or a narrow galloon. Many coats are, however, cut three-quarter length, either with a belt or to fit tightly to the waist at the back and to be semi-fitting in the front. The skirts are unmistakably shorter, but as unmistakably on the ground; in- stead of wearing a train of six inches Wwe wear a train of four inches. That is all the public protest against long trains has done toward their abolition. Return of the “Girlie Girl.” From certain reliable reports it ap- pears that the “girlie girl,” sometimes known as the ‘steel engraving lady,” is scheduled for a return engagement in society after an absence of who can say how many years? At least that is the way some persons who say they pray for such a return put it; others, and we are inclined to consider them more knowing, have it that the revised girl or woman is to be a happy blend of the two, wearing broad, sensible shoes when common sense seems to in- dicate such footgear, and slipping into high-heeled dainty foot-coverings when these seem not only possible but the proper attire; while with each change of shoes there will be a total change in the style of gowns and hats, to pre- serve a sartorial harmony, and also a quick change of mind and manner to suit the whole. To do this successfully will come easy to very average girls, but it is feared in some quarters that even men who are in most ways su- perior are going to find it very difficult to follow these feminine leads.—Bos- ton Transcript. New Sweaters For the Athletic Girl. ‘Among the smart wear in “sweaters” are hand-knit white wool ones, having a beautifully designed stripe raised from the separating stitches of plain knitting barely perceived. These stripes are vertical, consequently becoming to the figure. For a collar and cuffs to the bishop sleeve are wide bands of plain knitting in light blue, or green, or red. This gives the smart air—which all such hand-knit sweaters have lacked heretofore. Fifteen dollars may seem rather a stiff price, but is in real- ity a moderate one, if the time and skill to knit one is taken into consideration, to say nothing of the quantity of wool, or the unusual wear they are sure to give. Black still continues to be the most popular color in the new hosiery. A touch of color in’ the embroidery on black stockings is very smart. The severer style of silk or flannel shirt is taking the place of the dressy blouse. Ermine will be very fashionable, partly as a medium of black and white combinations. The cape collars that are so popular just now call into service all kinds of short-haired furs. Many of the new felt hats have the rough hairy surface that goes so well with zibeline costumes. Women are fashion are setting aside their light and gossamer hats for those of more substantial make. Lace hats are still very fashionable, and as the season advances this inate rial will be appliqued on to fur. Basques have become very popular, and will be retained even if longer coat skirts are not universally accepted. A mew shape in felt has a deep turned-up brim and a helmet-like shaped crown, through which a quill is thrust. Many fashionable women are wear- ing the high linen Prussian collar, with a pretty foulard silk tie, or a large folded scarf of the same fabric. For the woman who goes in for out- door sports there is a pretty brown or fawn felt hat of the broad boat-shaped variety, trimmed with corded silk and shaded feather mounts. A pale blue lamb’s wool wrap gown is quite delightfully cozy and soft, and the trimmings consist of accordion pleated frills of blue and white Jap- anese silk laid one over the other. The lace cravat is a pretty finish to the tailor-made frock, while the cld- fashioned jabot must of a necessity be in vogue with anything approaching the awallow-tail or cutaway jacket. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED “A CREAT VICTORY.” The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman Freaches Upon the Soul’s Deep Longing After God=Faith Will Conquer in the End =—God, is Qur: Stréngih and Life. NEw York Crry.—The Rev. Br.J. Wil- bur Chapman has furnished fo the press.a most striking and popaias sermon which is intended for all those who would rise to better things. It is entitled “A Great Victory,” and is preached from the texts: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, Q God,” Psalm 42: 1. “Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my, countenance.” Psalm 43: 5. : he first verse is a lamentation in the wilderness, the second is a shout of re- joicing when vietory is won. The terri- tory stretching out from the wilderness in the one text to the presence of God in the other is not only the story of the expe- rience of David, but of the most of Chris- tians. My message last week was to those who occasionally fall under juniper trees and want to die; here it is to all’who would rise to better Urine, he Psalms are divided into five books, and the ancient Rabbins say in these five books in the Psalter we have the image of the five books of the law, or in other words a kind of a second pentateuch, the echo of the first. In the first God speaks and in the second the voice of the Joogle is heard. God presents Israel with the law, and grateful Israel responds with a shout of praise. These two Psalms form the first division of the second book. They are dedicated to the master musi- cians or the sons of Horah. They were the celebrated musicians and singers of the day; they were in David’s time the keepers of the threshold of the tabernacle, and still earlier in the time of Moses they were watchmen at the entrance of the camp of the Levites; they were a part of that band that acknowledged David as leader at Ziklag; they were warriors with faces like lions, and who for speed were like gazelles on the mountains. Mr. Spurgeon says that although David is not mentioned as the author of these psalms they must be his, for the truth is so like him. It has the character of his style and the work of his experience in every letter. I had sooner question the authorship of Bunyan’s second part of the “Pilgrim’s Progress” than to question Da- vid’s right to these psalms. Whoever wrote them has given a name to the soul's deep longing after God and made a sigh a melodious thing. There are three divisions in the psalm, ‘each closing "with the refrain, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” The whole alu is the picture of a soul cligbing odward, not without backward slips; but climbing nevertheless, until the sigh of the first text gives way to the shout of the second. Perhaps the singer during his exile on the eastern side of Jordan had seen some gentle creature with open mouth and heaving flanks espenly seeking water in the dry river bed, and he saw in this a victure of himself. The whole psalm is ke what we lmve seen on some early spria day, when the sun was warm, the sky blue, the trees ready to burst into bud and the birds were singing, but only for a day, then the clouds returned, the at- mosphere was chilled, .the birds are all stilled and the sun was under a cloud. Viewed in one way it is a psalm of gloom, in another way it is a psalm of glory. Streaks of brightness are ever flashin through the gloom. First there is a sig as of a breaking heart, then comes a word of hope like a rainbow spanning the water- fall; once again the contending enemies meet ag ihv.verses 9 and. 10, but finally above it all comes the refrain without a complaint, “I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance.” . There are certain expressions most strik- ing in the psalm. Three times does David say. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul ?”” as though he were two men. The psalmist talks to himself. John Trapp says it is David chiding David out of the Limbs. To search for the cause of sorrow is often the best surgery for grief. In verse 8 notice the words, “The Lord will command His loving kindness in the day- time.” No day has ever dawned in which an heir of grace could be utterly forsaken. In the same verse we read “In the night His song shall be with me.” Affliction may put out our light at times, but if it does not silence our song the light will come again. Verse 3, psalm 42, “Send out Thy light and truth.” These are like an- els to guide him to the object of his af- ections, but Snely above all sounds the note of victory, ‘Hope thou in God.” This is like the singing of Paul and Silas, it looses chains, shakes the prison walls and sets the prisoner free. Two graces men- tioned in this psalm were used frequently by Christ, hope and faith. Faith tells us what Christ has done; hope tells us what He will do, and hope is like the sun as we jorrney toward it; our burden is cast ack of us, Faith may have many a struggle with fear, but it will conquer in the end. These two psalms are really one; there is a constant unfolding of expe- rience and rising to a higher appreciation of God, and as faith acquires more strength you will notice that not only David but ourselves come to think of God in a differ- ent way and address Him in more endear- ing terms.. There is no better illustration of this than these two psalms. “O God.” Debarred from public wor- ship David is heart sick. He 1s not seek- ing ease, he needs God. He is not after comfort, but like a traveler whose water bottle is empty and who finds the well 4 so he must have God or he will faint. en it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls. “O God,” we hear him saying, It is as if he can scarcely breathe for thirst. He does not know just what he is needing or just how God ‘would re- veal Himself to him, but he must have God. All unrest or thirst or outgoing of desire are but the reaching out of the soul after God. We shall be satisfied only when we find Him. I “The Living God.” My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. This is an advance upon the first expression, and this is Jehovah’s mame of power. Ancient Israel was accustomed to use it before every vio since it is higher than “0 God.” In the first cry we naturally find it followed with a shout of victory, “I shall yet praise Him.” Hunger and thirst are God’s instruments to call us to Him- self. When the prodigal was an hun- gered he said, “I will arise.” It is a pic- ture of one who has tried other things in the world, pleasure, wealth, honor and then cries out, “O for the living God.” But thirst is better than hunger; you may palliate hunger, but thirst is a perpetual petite The next best thing to being in the light of God’s love is to be unhappy until you have it. He is the living God because He has life in Himself and: because He bestows that life to others. 1. “O my God.” Appropriation comes aext, and once it is taken it is never dropped. He says, “God of my life, and God my rock.” ‘L'here are five “mys” in the forty-third psalm, “my cause,” “my strength,” *my joy,” ‘my, soul,” ‘my God.” You ncver really appreciate God until you begin to apply Him to your life, and He will be to you just what you wish. He is like a locked casket filled with jew- els. You may have such a casket in your possession. Only the key unlocking it can reveal to you the preciousness of your ossession. This possessive pronoun is the ey in this case, “my God,” and when once you have grasped it nothing can stand against you. avid speaks of Jor- dan, the Hermonites and Mizar. At Jor- dan the water rolled back on the Her- monites, the kings were defeated near to Mizar, the law was given, and he may have meant to say difficulties as, great as Jordan, ‘enemies as strong as the kings, none of these things shall move me, He is my God; or it may mean that since these laces are farthest from the tabernacle avid is saying, “What if I am afar off, no trial can be too severe for me.” TV. “God of my life.” This is further on in the line of truth. You will notice that the two preceding expressions are thus put together. One who is learning of God is «f+like a Child learning his alphabet. He knows his letters, but who is there that knows all the words into which the letters may be shaped, and who has read all the books which they can make up. It is so with God, He is the God of my life. What if I am forsaken, He is my Father; what if I am comfortless, He is like my mother; what if I am cast down, He 1s my re- storer; what if I am hopeless and undone, He is my hope. - “God my rock.” David was a fugitive and had little means of defense. e is continually pursued by his enemies, and since the country is full of mountains-and caves of refuge are on every side of him they become to him the picture of God. He calls Him my rock. The names of God are suited to every circumstance in life. Nothing is more fitting for us than to get hold of this expressicn of David’s. ou will be tempted on every side, the enemy is too strong for you, but literally David’s expression is, “God is my cliff.” That is, He rises above the things of this world, and He wants His children to understand that wherever there is a heart big with sorrow, wherever there is an eye filled with tears or a lip quivering with agony His ear is wide open to all their cries. He marks down every necessity in His memory; He will not forsake His own. __ V1 “God my strength.” This means my Sirengih belongs to God, and I must use it only for His glory. He is taking note of all that I do, and one day I shall be called to an account. Ged might if He pleased wrap Himself about with night as a gar- ment. He might dwell alone far above this world, and look down with indiffer- ence upon the doings of His creatures. We might look up into the heavens and behold the stars and say, “I am nothing compared with these, and God does not care ‘or me,”” but not so. He notices every one of us. He knows our names, has numbered the hairs of our head, and not a sparrow falls to the ground except beneath the gaze of His eye. Whatever we do or bear or, suffer the eye of God is upon us. One of the most interesting pictures in the Louvre is that of Christ with eyes so wonderful that walk which way vou will the gaze is upon you, and so God is the God of my strength and one day I must answer to Him for it “God, my exceeding joy.”” This includes all that has gone before, and it exceeds all others, first, in its nature, for it is not happiness, that depends upon circum- stances. It is joy of which David speaks which may be ours, though the night is upon us and the burden is really too heavy for us to bear. It exceeds all others in its duration, for it never ends. This can be said of no other experience, all others have their boundaries, but this 1s an illimitable sea reaching beyond the bonds of time and Jasting through eternity. “O God,” this is a soul’s cry, “the living God,” no one else can satisfy. “My God.” He is mine, and nothing can separate me from Him, “God of my life.” He will be whatever 1 long to have Him be. “God my rock.” , He is my defense in every time of need. “God my strength.” All that I have is His. “God. my exceeding joy.” He is be: yond all that the world can give, and when that joy fills the soul earth is changed to heaven. . Gave Up All For Christ. There is a most impressive story related of the conversion of an old lady of seventy vears, in a little town in Western China through the instrumentality of a Bible woman. One market day, as she was sell- us her wares she heard a Bible ‘woman talking about a God who loved and cared for people of every race and land. Becom- ing much interested in this message the old lady began attending the Sunday serv- ices conducted by the missionaries, walk- ing four miles each way in order to do it. At last she was converted to Christ, a step which meant much to her, for in sur: rendering herself to the Master she must ive up her idol worship, which she real- ized fully would bring upon her persecu- tion and hatred. After destroying all of her idolatrous pictures on the walls and her many other 1dols there yet remained in the centre room of “her house a tablet to ‘Heaven and Earth,” which she dared not touch, for it belonged Darily to a nephew whom she feared to offend. One night she had a wondeful dream. She thought she saw Jesus Christ coming across the valley to her house, and she cried out, “Saviour of the people, I am a sinner; come and save me.” But though He drew near her house it was only to look sadly in and pass sorrowfully by. On awakening she in not forget her dream, and i time she looked at the idola- trous tablet she felt that perhaps this was keeping Jesus out of her house. So she determined, at whatever cost, to get rid of it, and accordingly wrote her nephew to that effect, and was given permission to do with it what she felt inclined. But this was not all. So earnest was she in the new faith that she insisted that her house be whitewashed throughout that the Lord might not smell any trace of the in- cense. Thus was born into the kingdom what proved to be one of the most devout of Christ’s followers. A Safe Refuge. The day may be one of calamity. Dark clouds may be over us and a terrible storm about to break upon us. Where shall we find safety? The providence of God may fill us with alarm, and we may feel our- selves left destitute and helpless. Where we hide ourselves from the impending evil? Or, while all is peace about us, while others are rejoicing because of great good, we are depressed in spirit, and in the thought of ourselves see only sin and judgment. How shail we escape? The spirit of God. has given us the answer: “God is our refuge; a help in trouble most readily to be found.” e is at hand and His ear is open to every cry of distress. He is the Almighty, and within His loving care we are safe. He is the faithful, un- changing One, and, therefore, will not for- sake us. asten to the open door and to the outstretched arms of Him whose love infolds you, and whose arm will guard from every harm.—United Presbyterian. Every Day’s Blessing. All that God gives to us day by day is, as it were, a new creation. We never re- ceived it before. It never was our need until now. We may have received some- thing like it before, but that was not this, nor could that have filled the place of this. Every day’s blessing are to each of us as a special miracle from the hands of the ever- loving and the Almighty God, As John Bunyan says, “Things that we receive at God’s hand ‘come to us as things from the minting house—though old in themselves, vet new to us.” What should we do if our Father failed to give us current coin of his minting dayby day ?—Sunday-School Times. Divine and Spiritual. Our Lord speaks of things divine and spiritual just as if He were speaking of things human and material. When danger has passed over joy arises, nay, even treater joy than if the danger had never een,—The Rev. J. J. O'Neill, R. C, Brooklyn, N. Y. tolation in the ational ® ° ® ® o® of Men. 9 ® gpes Britons Becoming Long—Nosed, Frenchmen-Blond and Japanese he Bearded —-0dd Effects of Cold Baths and Beer—Drinking. - . . . 0 - . . 2 ER RE circumstances of blood y or food, of early habit or subsequent education, a M creating for the races of the world—the highly civ- ilized races—a new phy- siognomy ? To one who believes in the evolution of racial type by means of natural se- lection an answer in the affirmative presents no difficulties, says Cham- bers’ Journal, but to others—the stu- dent of comparative ethnology, the acute archaeologist, the thoughtful traveler—this important matter is as firmly settled as that the Chinese has slanting eyes, the.Tartar high cheek- bones and the Spaniard an olive com- plexion. Max Nordau has discussed the question as regards the French and Germans, Professor Mantegazza as re- gards the Italians and Dr. Hamilton and others concerning the actual blend- ing of the multiform racial features of the American population into a single type. The subject has, perhaps, in England as yet hardly received the attention its extreme interest and importance de- serve. Yet every Englishman who is at all familiar with the ancient phy- siognomy and the physical aspect and pmoportions of his race must be aware that the new Englishman of the twen- tieth century is not quite the same ani- mal as was the Englishman of the Tu- dor period. The loyal subject of Edward VI, flaxen haired if he were a yeoman and black haired in towns, ‘would hardly recognize as his posterity and compa- triots the equally loyal subjects of Ed- ward VII. Indeed, it iS not certain that there has been a special and distinctive type for each century, and this, if it is really the case, would, of course, not preclude the recurrence of a former type at intervals. Among the factors which have undoubtedly affected the physique, hair and complexion of the nineteenth century Englishman hasbeen the matutinal tub—the widespread prev- alence of the bathing habit. It seems strange when we reflect that in the eighteenth century the morning bath, now regarded as so essential to Eng- lishmen of all classes, was hardly ever indulged in, and the cold plunge within doors a thing practically unknown. The physiological effects of frequent bathing are well known, among them being a heightened color, sharper feat- ures—that is, a rawboned appearance— and (as Dr. Andrew Wilson has lately pointed out) a thinning of the hair. As to the latter, it is common knowledge that in the fifteenth century curly hair was the rule in England, but whether the change to lankness is to be ascribed to the wigs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or whether the wigs themselves were resorted to as a means of disguising the less hirsute luxuriance, it would be difficult to de- termine satisfactorily. Looking abroad we are shown the Frenchman gradually growing lighter of hair and complexion, owing to the greater fecundity of the Norman and the constant infusion of Swiss and Al- satian blood. The habit of drinking beer in preference to wine is also said to be influencing the physique and fa- cial tint of the Gallic race. There can be no question of a slight increase of stature and a more erect carriage among the males, this resulting from the same cause which has transformed the whole race of Germans from round shouldered, shambling men, with a pro- fusion of adipose tissue, into grim, sin- ewy automatons—namely, the severity of universal military discipline. But with the Germans they have to thank the army for a decrease instead of an increase of stature, the height of the men, as shown by official reports, hav- ing gradually diminished since 1851. Whether the Kaiser's subjects will re- gard this loss as sufficiently atoned for by the greater size of the German chin, which is becoming a prominent charac- ter, unknown to the Prussians under Frederick the Great, is a matter which we must leave to the subjects of Will- iam II. to determine. The Russian face is undergoing a pro- nounced change, owing to new blood and different food, habits and condi- tions of life. But perhaps the most ex- traordinary metamorphosis of all is taking place under our eyes among two nations as widely separated in origin and history as it is possible for any civ- ilized countries to be — America and Japan. The American physiognomy is as completely marked as that of any race under the sun that has, as An- thony Trollope remarked, “bred in and in for centuries.” Yet, as the same traveler pointed out, the American owns a more mixed blood than any other race known. His chief stock is English, and with this are mingled the bloods of Ireland, Hoiland, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and Sla- vonic Austria. “All this has been done within a few years, so that the American may be said, to have no claim to any national type of face. Nevertheless, no man has a type of face so clearly national as the American. The lantern jaws, the thin, lithe ‘body, the dry face, the thick hair and thin lips, the intelligent eyes, the voice not altogether harsh, though sharp and nasal—all these traits are acknowledged all over the conti- nent of Europe.” Yet perhaps Trollope was mistaken in attributing the forma- tion of this type to “hot air pipes and dollar worship,” although not alto- gether wrong in supporting the Ameri- can countenance to he modified by his ‘special aspirations.” Yet it is extraordinary how rapidly the child of English or European par- ents, born and bred in America, as- sumes these special features. By some it has been believed that the so-called American face is merely a reversion to the countenance of the aborigines, and considering how strong the general likeness is, this theory deserves careful consideration. On the other hand, how is it that the Canadians, whose habits of life differ from their neighbors, should preserve a more English type of visage, so that after three or four gen- erations they are very readily mistaken for Englishmen? Here there is cer- tainly no reversion te the aboriginal type. In Japan it has been observed with increasing astonishment as almost a freak of nature that ever since the adoption by the Emperor Mutsuhito, thirty years ago, of European customs and costumes the Europeanization of the' physiognomy of the Japanese has been growing apace. One of the not least wonderful results the traveler will learn from the barbers of Tokio and Yokohama is the increase in the growth of the beard, and of the lesser stiffness of the hair, owing to the habit of wearing hats and of brushing and oiling the hair. The increase of stature among the Japanese is very perceptible, and the substitution of tepid and even cold water for the hot baths among many of the people is responsible for an in. creasing floridity of the complexion. The Rainbow. When a ray of sunlight falls on a raindrop it is refracted; then part of the light is reflected from the internal surface and again refracted on leav- ing the drop. The white sunlight is not only refracted when it enters and leaves the drop, but dispersion also takes place. The eye sees bright cir- cles of light for each kind of light, and since sunlight is made up of different kinds of homogeneous light we get a series of circular arcs, showing the spectrum colors, the red being outside and the other colors following in the order of descending wave length. The whole constitutes a primary rainbow. A secondary bow is sometimes seen outside the first. This is formed by the light being twice reflected inside the raindrops. The less refrangible rays are on the inner side. Rainbows due to still more internal reflections are too feeble to be observed. It is possible to get a white rainbow if the sun is clouded or if there is a mixture of raindrops of very different sizes. Cameras in War Time. To France probably belongs the credit of using the camera for war purposes in a most satisfactory manner at a time when it was of the utmost impor- tance. When Paris was besieged com- munication with the outside world was had only by means of balloons and carrier pigeons. The dispatches sent by the carrier pigeons were photo- graphed on small films, which could be attached to the feathers of the birds, and in this way a sirgle bird could carry thousands of words. Like- wise the aeronauts who hovered over Paris used the camera for photograph- ing the different positions of the Prus- sians. These photographs were the first ever taken of an invading army from a balloon. Profiting by this ex- perience the French army and navy have increased their carrier pigeon and balloon service. Several hundred offi- cers in the French army are expert photographers and every engineering corps carries with it complete photo- graphic outfits.—Chicago Post. How to Prove a Diamond’s Worth. In detecting a false gem from a gen- uine, the X-ray can be relied on with absolute certainty. Diamonds, as is well known, are pure carbon; and carbon, which is opaque to ordinary light, is transparent to the Roentgen light, while glass, which is transparent to ordinary light, is opaque to the Roentgen ray. On an X-ray photo- graph of a real diamond nothing will show but the shadow of the gold set- ting. An interesting experiment was made recently in watching with the aid of an X-ray machine and a fluorescope, mo- tions carried on inside an opaque body. A goose was fed with food mixed with subnitrate of bismuth salt, which absorbs the X-ray. The passage of the food down the long neck of the goose could be plainly traced by the moving shadow cast on the fluorescope screen.—Leslie’s Monthly, — Land Without Newspapers. The overworked and sufferers from nervous prostration will find a real haven of rest in Korea. There is no such thing as a novel or a newspaper in the land. No regular story writer is known to have lived there for 1000 years. Education consists in a knowl- edge of the immortal Chinese classics. So sacred are printed books to the Koreans that they cannot be tossed about or trodden upon without offend- ing the gods.
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