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THE FRAGRANT NAME
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
A MOOR HEN'S NEST
The story 13 tolk in Lonton of A Russian legend tells of a dis- obedient angel, who. because she how a moor hen used 'bus tickets in refused to come down to sing for u the building of her nest in Hyde peasant girl, but to leave leaves Park. The moor hen spied two old and come to earth as a le child. omnibus tickets, blue and pink, On earth she forgot about her for tying on the path by the water. She mer life, even forgot her heavenly picked up the blue ticket, but drop name. Yet something seemed toped it in trying to secure the pink linger. She wondered why
one at the same mouthful. With were not sweet-scented like flowers, an angry croak she then snapped up To have fragrant name would the pink tickel, but dropped it in an make her happy, she said.
attempt to pick up the blue one us wall.
nami
One who loved her went over the world to find a name, which, being spoken, would give a perfume like scented flowers. He sought in vain until, returning from his quest, he passed a cottage door where an old nian stand.
The old man said he knew of such name, at least his grandchild did, for once in a dream an angel had come to sing to her. When she left she promised that a still more beats tiful angel would come, and when she spoke the "ngel's name the room had been filled as with perfume of Howers.
The girl, however, had unfortun- ately forgotten the name,
The seeker told his friend of the
With a still angrier eroak she again picked up the pink one. swam to the nest and placed the ticket on it and returned to land for the blue. As she reached it she stopped and turned round to study the effect of her work.
While she gazed at the nest like a lady admiring a hat she just bought a gust of wind caught the pink ticket and carried it off the nest into the water. She swore again, ran to the water and swam out to the ticket, which she seized, and plung ei so deeply into the fabric of the nest that no pink was visible.
She then returned in leisurely manner for the blue ticket and
clue, and she went and sang for the treated it in a similar fashion..
old man's grandchild. It was as if
the girl's dream had come true, and
in her joy she remembered the angel's name. As she spoke. It the
Corrected
The teacher wrote on the black-
drank in silence." "Write that sentence correctly," he said.
cultage was filled with fragrance.board the sentence, "The toast was Then the other understood. It was the name she had been seeking, her own heavenly name; and she had found it in a sick room in a humble cottage.
There are sonte names, not only heavenly, but earthly ones, that have the gift of fragrance. They may be ordinary Bumes, yet somehow they are of a sweet Mavour. We hold them memory as we hold a rose in the hand. It may be n mother's name, or a father's, or a friend's; it may be the name of some humble man or woman who helped us to believe in goodness and in Goil.
When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his "Garden of Verses" he dedicated the book to his old nurse.
and
Ilorace stepped forward wrote, "The toast Was eaten in silence.
Right through his life he kept in touch with her, and sent her a copy of every This was his dedication:
"My second mother, my first wife, The angel of my infant life; From the sick child, now well and
old,
new book he published.
THE AGE OF CHALK
THE
CHINA
A NEW COLOUR 1
MAIL.
WAR
Hilda, aged about three, playing with little Murlel. The two were busy looking at some patterns of dress materials, and Muriel, being a little older, was telling Hilda the namea of the various colours-green, blue, dark blue,
That was
and so on.
They came to grey. more dificult.
"And what is this one?" Inquired the younger child.
"That," said Muriel, slowly, "} think. Hilda, that must be dark
A child sees his teacher with a bit of chalk in his hand. What is that chalk to a child, or to the teacher himself? Merely a sub-white!" stance for making white lines on a blackboard. But that bit of chalk is an ancient cemetery. In which lie buried creatures played their part in the system of things millenniums ago. In the yet warm seas of the slowly cooling planet floated myriads of infusoria, with power to secrete from the sen a sheltering film of lime.
that lived and
As these tiny myriads died, the facing of time they wore sank to tho this bottom. In process of ages grew to a white slime; some com- bustion lifted up the seabed, and the white slime became a chalk cliff. And the bit of chalk in the teacher's the whole pro- fagers represents cess.
What ages, what revolutions, that little bit of white earth hides in its atoms! It is a perished eternity the teacher holds in his fingers.
JOLLY GAMES
Stammering
An amusing game is stammering. In the simple description of it there is no him of the stupefied helpless- ness of the player, and the convul- slons of mirth it brings to the listeners.
To play it one parsen keeps time with a watch, and on the second of a minute, another of the group springs a letter of the alphabet on the selected victim.
All he has to do is to say as many words as he can think of beginning with that letter in the space of 60 seconds. But, strangely enough, he becomes tongue-tied, and cannot think at all-if he thinks of alx he
Take, Nurse, the little book you will be very lucky. The score is
hold."
It is a beautiful thought that we may live so that our names may come to have this gift of fragrance:
ROUND
SCOUTING IS AN EDUCATION
Sir George Newman, Chiet Medi gal Officer to the Board of Educa tion, in his Annual Report, is warm in his praise of the Boy Scout Movement.
In his report, Sir George New- man says that a quarter to one- third of the children admitted to school at five years are in need of medical attention before they can receive the education which the State provides for them.
In pointing out that until you cultivate and develop the body and brain of the child, all attempts at intellectual instruction will prove futile, Sir George described the Boy Scout Movement as being "a lesson in physical discipline, of educational adventure, of youth ful training and glad obedience. It is one of the wise interpretations of that service which is perfect freedom; it educates by equipping the body first and drawing out its faculties and senses; It both, har nesses and leads him of his own interest and desire into the path of manual work and the arts and crafts; it trains men, not for the classroom or the pedagogue, but for life.
"Thus, it has become a vast health education movement, doing for the boy what the education' authority all too often fail to do. It is perhaps the greatest demon- atration in practical education that the world has seen."
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK-
"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound."
THE KING IS GLAD
In acknowledging a copy of "The World Jamboree, the Quest of the Golden Arrowe," which the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, sent to H.M. The King, Patron of the Boy Scouts Association, Lord Stamford ham, the King's Private Secretary, has written to the Chief Scout
In thanking you for the book File Halenty desires me to say how glad he is to beaf of the increase In the number of Seants, both in the British Empire and in the World, and that you can now boast
kept by one person and the watch by another. Vowels and difcult lotters like Z. Q. V. and X. must not be used.
THE CAMP FIRE
ALADDIN!
pared." By diplomacy, a Scout strives to make the world safe for democracy and peace. West meots East in the world-wide Brother-
The fourth Annual Pantomime in aid of Roland House, the East London Scout Settlement, was pre-hood of Scouts. sented recently in King George's
"Why call them Hall, Holborn. This year's Pan-
was entitled "Aladdin," Why Wolf Wolf Cubs?" people tomime
Cubs ask. Because we and in a fascimile foreword which Lord
Chief Baden-Powell, the
appeal to the boys' the
sense of romance. Because the рго- Scout, contributed to
furry little brother of the jungle gramme he wrote as follows:-
"Aladdin? That's the fellow seems. somehow, to embody the of keenness, purity, who exchanged his new lamp for ideals an old one, and the exchange obedience, that we want to hold up brought him a wonderful lot of to the boys. To the wild tribes He was like the boy who brought scouting to perfec- happiness. who exchanges his old clothes for tion, the Wolf is the great Scout, the clean smart uniform of a and so we call the Junior Scouts Scout; he finds that the exchange "Wolf Cubs," and thus find ready brings him a wonderful lot of to our hands a symbol of innocence happiness. Well, I hope that a big and the gaiety of nature, of lot of boys will come to see your obedience founded on the realisa tion that the Old Wolf knows best, pantomime, and will then want to join the Scouts: and in this way and is in authority; of alertness I hope that Aladdin will bring and eagerness to learn, so becom many a lad in to our happy ing the skilful scouts of the brotherhood."
The
"Old Scout's"
Column.
jungle.
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The "World Friend- Something ship"; badge and the About "Journalist" badge
Business Is Business
A priest offered a shilling to the boy who could tell him who was the greatest man in history.
"George Washington" the American boy.
answered
"Napoleon," answered the French boy.
RECENT JAPANESE STAMPS
Two of the most artistic stamps ever issued, appeared recently in Japan.
They commemorate the comple- tion of the shrine to the late Em peror, and show the building itself, as it stands among the trees with the chrysanthemum symbol of Japan inserted at the top of the stamp.
The delicacy and beauty of these little stamp pictures will appeal to every collector of Japanese art.
One curious fact about the new stamps is that they do not show the value in ordinary figures, only in native characters, though most stamps issued at the present day express their value in the ordinary figures, such as we use.
Not Quite Clear
The general knowledge class had "Saint Patrick," answered the been discussing forms of govern- ment. The weary teacher at length Scottish boy.
"The money is yours." said the propounded the question:-
"But why did you say priest.
'Saint Patrick?""
"In my heart I knew it was Wil- liam Wallace," replied the Scottish boy, "But businesa is business.
"Well, Simpson, what is the dif- ference between a king and a presi- dent 7"
"Please, sir, a king is the son of his father, but a president isn't."
OUR PICTURE PUZZLE
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INK FOR BURNS
EARL OF STAMFORD
Ink has been a household remedy The Great "Stand-by"
in the treatment of burns for many. years and few know the résson why.
for Peace
The Earl of Stamford recently Den of the St. opened the new George's Altrincham Wolf Cub In doing so, Pack, Altrincham.
"Since most black inks are weak solutions of gallotaniste of iron, this is another example of justifica- tion of the empiric use of an old home remedy. I have seen two Lord Stamford said that he had a cases in which ink was used as a great interest in the Scout Move- first aid application in the treatment. In that Movement he saw ment of burns; one on the island the great "Stand By" for world of Corregidor, another in Zambo friendship and peace. anga, on the island of Mindanao. The first was a severe first degree burn of more than two-thirds of the body, in which an unfavourable prognosis was given. To my sur prise, however, the child recovered. The other was a mild burn which some of the older natives in differ- ent barrios I ascertain that ink has been used by their mothers and grandmothers, and is considered a novereign remedy for burns," says Dr. Stammel.
the new conditions just published for the "Wireless Man" badge. ideals of service have been emt- phasised. In addition to his hav- ing afforded considerable help to others in connection with wireless, the candidate has to know all dis- trass signals and must be able to detect and cure oscillation.
Self-
In reminding the Cubs of their Promise to help other people at all times, Lord Stamford went on to speak of camping. Ha asked the boys to be particularly careful when camping, to observe nature closely in the trees, birds and animals around them. "For," said he, "such observation would help them a great deal throughout life."
A STRANGER IN THE LAND
Last summer a Boy Scout of Brooklyn, New York, found a rest of English sparrows which a wind- storm had blown to the ground from a tall tree. Finding three of them still alive, he took them to his home and fed and cared for them and succeeded in raising one to maturity. The bird became an interesting pet. She is allowed to Interesting figures disclosed here for enjoy her liberty during the day Adornment the first time reveal and spends most of the time along Charge? the popularity of with others of her kind, but several these badges. Dur- times during the day will come to Badges are this year's adding last year 21,697 ambulance, the door and will chirp until the tions to the Boy 13,777 cyclist, 9,031 swimmer, 8,196, door is opened, when she will fly Scouts' proficiency badges. These missioner and 7,828 pathfinders and make herself at home. She proficiency badges, round and seal-badges wore fanned within the Em allows the different members of like, are worn by Scouts on their pire. The leset popular badges the family to carry her around and The Scout Move sleeves and are to the non-Scout were fireman, sea fisherman, piper. upstairs to her nest for the night, "Be Prepared" · ment non-familiar and little understood, ob rigger, and pilot.
sectarian, non-jects. Usually depicting a tool or political and non-class, ao that it instrument of the hobby represent is open to all boys who care to ed, there are more than sixty of abide by its laws and to follow its these badges. great motto: "Be Prepared." "World Friendship" badge a Scout Scouts, who were but children at must have corresponded regularly Mars last rattling of the sabre, with an over-seas or foreign Scout may bear the brunt of his fury for not less than a year, or have next "Be Prepared." In the camped with foreign or over-seas chaos of an upheaval of industry, Scouts Já Great Britain or over- where class fights class," and there seas. In addition he must have are pitiable, pinched faces of some knowledge of the world-wide starving children-"Be Prepared," Scout and Guide organisations and When nature's wrath rocks the the League of Nations, and pass earth by quake, wind, drought, fire, two other elementary teste. flood or pestilence, and many are: hotelesa, penniless, and suffering.
is
Be Prepared. Whether seek- ing fresh lands for fortune, fame, or fun, Scouts greet each other with the Scout smile, and extend
Lord Baden- Powell has often been criticised for encouraging self-adornment by the badge system, before leaving To secure the on his present tour he said:
The conditions for The the Journalist! Journalist badge demand that. Badge Scout shall have served on an the hand of help, hospitality, and editorial staff, shall produce a friendship, contributing to the published report or article, and great work of consolidating peace have a practical knowledge of of a total number of 1,900,000y and eliminating war"Be Pre-elementary printing matters. In
Love of artificial ornament la a touch of nature that makes the whole world kin.
MUD STOPS BLOOD
When a 16-year-old American Boy Scout fell into a creek and severed an artery in his abdomen through breaking a glass bottle, a Boy Scout companion took charge of the situation and rendered valu- able first aid. Removing · the
creek the Blout sent a companion my already fairly conspicuous to telephone for the ambulance. uniform! Men will do anything Finding his handkerchief too small. short of murdering their grand to staunch the flow of blood from mothers for madals and decors the wound, the Beout used his shirt, tions! It is a strain of vanity and through smearing mud on the in our make-up, and love of dia outside of the shirt the Scont play la just a Luman weakness, managed to stop the flow from the In the Scouts we have artery until the ambulance arrived. Immoral, or shall we say common. The victim was taken to the hos senso, enough to trade upon this vital, where he recovered, and trait We have used it as a where the surgeon who attend- Incentive to effort, by giving de-led him said that undoubtedly, the corations for profielency.
Scout's action saved the buy's life.
This sort of thing is not con- fined to women alone. Men are just as bad. How pleased I was when, as a general on the staff, wounded boy, to the bank of the I had sigulette cords added to
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