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Interesting Reports From Headquarters.
The following are taken from the "Bulletin" of the Imperial Head- quarters published on May 13.
Employer's Good Turn.
A Scout, who has recently started work, told of a concession made by, his employer that has pleased the boy.
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let of 225 pages and gives much in teresting data relative to Primary, Secondary, Vocational and higher education in the various provinces. Particulars are given as to the work of the various public libraries Canada, education throughout among Indians, etc., and an inter- esting chapter in the book describes the work of bodies concerned in child welfare, including the Boy Scout and Girl Guilde Movements.
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Life, said Mr. G. H. W. Rylanda in a talk on February 27, hes not many pleasures-permanent and universal pleasures that is, as apart from private hobbies such as stamp. collecting or darning socks; and apart from fashionable pursuits like akating, diabolo, crosswords, con- tract bridge, mah-jong, or whatever it may be. However three chief pleasures survive from Chaucer down to H. G. Wells, and these are Eating, Sleeping and Reading. I don't feel inclined to add Love to the lat, although the poets have given him a good deal of front- page notoriety. Love at the beat Ta very double-faced, and at all times
a terrible nuisance,
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kept sleep at arm's longth until the each night and thus clear the brain- early hours of the morning. Ha of the fusses of the day and an- now knows Bradshaw by heart and xlatias for the morrow. For these has to content himself with Cook's | there are many books to recommend. Continental Tima Table. Thle is an There are the letterwriters; Wal-, example of what I would call the pole, Fitzgerald, Mrs. Carlyle and, Eccentric Readers in Bed. Another above all, William Cowper; there are example is the man, or woman, the curious books, Herbals and such whose bedside book is Debrett's like, that one does not read through. Peerage or, better still the Almanack There are travellers' tales and voy- de Gotha. What a fairy tale it is ages such as Coleridge loved. There to road of Archduchesses and Amis The Golden Bough, where bassadors, of Margraves and Mon- learns that the Esquimaux in seigneura; all the titles which autumn plays cats' cradle to suare human ingenuity has invented to the sun sinking southward through gild this transitory life; how in- the Arctic sky. There are Burton tricata are the houses of Hesse and and Sir Thomas Browne. Burton's
of Bourbon and Bona- Anatomy' of Melancholy Holstein,
one book Parte; how enthralling to learn the the
which would Johnson Awake to twenty-one Christian names of the keep Dr.
For all second daughter of the cl-devant ull hours.
young Austrian emperor and the thirty- men (in love and out of love) I five titles of the Kings of Spain. recommend the third part of Bur-! If we can combine these threeSuch reading complements the study ton, in which he anatomises love- chiefest pleasures, so much the bet of Marcel Proust; and as we fall melancholy; in which he tells all. ter. But it is not easy. I can as- sure you that to lie in bed and supi asleep we can re-establish our self- causes and symptoms and devices chicken broth and read War and respect by murmuring the superb and manifestations of the passion. and jealousy, of Peace is not an easy feat, but the, sentences of a seventeenth-century of beauty
philtres and physic. A ship fruit of hard-won experience. I Chief Justice:
Time hath his revolutions. There is not до long 3 rigging, shall, therefore, content myself with must be a period and an end of all as a young gentle woman a-trim- advising on that simpler combina temporal things, finis rerum, an end ming up herself against her sweet- tion, Reading in Bed.
́of names and dignities, and what-heart comes,' says this knowing old Even this has its pitfalls. It is soever is terrene, and why not of da] Oxford don. But the best of all a fatal mistake to consume in bed Vere? For where is Bohun? where badalde books 19 the Vulgar what the queen very wisely con- is Mowbray? where is Mortimer? Errora of Sir Thomas Browne. sumed in her parlour-I mean bread nay, which is more and most of all, | One chapter to sufficient to and honey-because the stickiness where is Plantagenet? They are put 48 in the right mood spreads and spreads and glues one antombed in the urns and sepulchres for sleep whether We learn to the pillow; it is a fatal mistake of mortality.
that the badger hath the legs on one in bed to devour pleces of toast, be-
side shorter than the other, or that cause, at once, every one of the
the salamander extinguisheth, the thousand crumbs emulates that pea
fire like ice, or that the lamprey has which turned the Princess in Hans
nine eyes, or that
a peacock is Andersen black and blue through
ashamed when he looks on his legs. innumerable swansdown mattresses;
Indeed, the difficulty with Browne and in exactly the same way is it a
Is to prevent oneself reading on, in fatal mistake to read in bed that
But I should like, If I may, to pursuit of his strange fancies and which is too soft and sweet—I name advise the more normal reader. It pseudo-scientifle enquiries until, In' no names—or that which is too hard is hard to lay down laws, for much | and dry—say, Principles of Logic or depends upon the season and the the Cambridge Ancient History. In surroundings. The book that suits bed we need something which com-
a summer night, with the scent of pels our attention rather than de roses and tobacco plants stealing mands It; some thing midway be through the open window, will not These, then, are the booka to dip tween honey and toast, which has serve when the dancing flames of a into; perhaps only two novels allow the best of both worlds. Perhaps bed-room fire throw. shadow on the of such casual treatment-Tristram Pride and Prejudice. is the answer. celling and we lie huddled under Shandy and Alice in Wonderland.. My reading in bed began at fleecy blankets and guarded with hot What then of poetry? Perhaps I school. I suppose that nowadays water bottles. We require one book shall be in a minority when I vote when children are so precocious and for an all-night journey in a second- against peotry for reading in bed; sophisticated, they read Peter Rab-class Italian railway carriage, if I except the long poem. The Iliad," bit and Tom Kitten in their cradles, that can by a stretch of thought be the 'Inferno,' the Canterbury Tales; I am sure they read Mr. Belloc and called reading in bed, but quite an- the Faery Queen,' 'Paradise Lost,' Mr. A. A. Milne in their cots. At other when we lie on a super-sprung | Don Juan-by all means digest a my preparatory school one had to mattress, week-ending with an opul- paragraph of one of theso or savour manage with an electric torch in a
ent friend. However, if we ignore a stanza on the tongue before you tent under the bedclothes, and the those who read in bed what they close your eyes. But a lyric poem- battery. gave out terribly soon. read by day, either poor, unimagina- na! For poetry, if you please, is a What was generally read I don't tive creatures Or unfortun- serious affair. If the poem is al know. As often as not there was a Etes who have no other time ready tamillar, your eyes will slide Saying Lesson, Horace or Eschylus | to read at all; if we ignore down the page; if it is a new orie, to be got by heart for Early School these, there remain two classes. unknown to you, you will not, "ia. I know that having been brought up The first like to read a bed, concentrate upon it as it de- in the proper old-fashioned way, I book through. They open a new serves. If you Insist on keeping the worshipped at the shrines of those novel as they tuck themselves up.' Oxford Book of British Verse at fallen idols, Thackeray and Dickens. and as they turn the last page, the your bedside, then learn a poem by I had a friend whose regular, read-nofse of life begins again, to quote heart and repeat it next morning in Ing was Bradshaw's Railway Guide, Lord Tennyson, and ghastly thro' your bath, and the excitement of discovering the drizzling rain, on the bald street whether he can get from Cromer to Penzance on Sundays, and of pretending with the aid of suitable noises in his throat, a stop watch and a vivid imagination, to be the Flying Scotsman or King George V.
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As a third example of the eccentric reader 1 mention a friend who finds that Euclid puts him into the right state of mind. Of those who retire to bed to study cricket averages, wine-lists or the pedigrees of race- horses I will not speak.
breaks the blank day. For this class, the shocker and the detective story are particularly designed. But the second and larger class includes all those who like to dip into a friendly book for a few minutes
SELANGOR'S O.T.C.
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his own famous phrase, the hunts- men are up in America and they are already past their first sleep in Persia, and it is time to close the five ports of knowledge.
I hope you will benefit by the ar- cellent advice I have given you and that during the next few days you will all go to bed at 9.30 and put it into practica, for although life has not many permanent pleasures, Reading in Bed is one.
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A common and dis Fractured tressing accident Ribs. with which one meets, especially in
A successful officers' training of Harewood, dressed in her Girl course. WAR conducted by the Guide uniform, presided recently | Selanger Boy Scouts Association at at the Annual Meeting of the Girl the headquarters at the Stadium- the wound in sterilised water the country. Is fracture of a rib Guides Association, she congratu- from June 6 to 8. The total num-(ie, water which has been boil or ribs.. fated the Commissioners and
ber of officers present was 51 in: ed), containing, a disinfectant, Because of their effuation and Guiders on the remarkable results cluding seven Scouters from Negri: such as Condy's Fluid, with à shown by their Annual Report. Sembilan.
soft pad of boracic lint or gauze, The Chief Scout, Lord Baden- Mr. G. Davidson, Asst. District or cotton wool. Do not use. a Powell, moving the adoption of the Commissioner, conducted the whole sponge for washing wounds, "and report, referred to the remarkable course, which consisted of the be careful not to disturb blood increase in the numbers of Girl theory and practice of acoptcraft clots. Apply a piece of boracic Guides, an increase almost double He also spoke about the world jam Int or cotton wool, and secure that of the preceding year. The boree, which he attended. Many with a bandage. Remember that Girl Guides in the British Isles interesting questions affecting the patient probably feels sick now number 618,826; in the British scouting in Malays were discussed and faint, and give him a cup of Oversea Dominions, 106,302 and in by those present. At one of the tes, Bovril, or hot milk. foreign countries 269,873. The meetings it was announced that the him quiet total number of Girl Guides in the Imperial Headquarters had approv world is given as 894,000. The Boyed the addition of a bar to the Scout and Girl Guide world total medal of merit awarded to Mr. M.. A. Akbar, Asst. District Commis- sioner, för meritorious services.
The Scouters' Council was pres sided over by Mr. M. Dukes, Dis-
Abraham as Secretary and two im- portant resolutions were passed.
The First Selangor Rovers and the Selangor Malay Rovers were complimented for undertaking the cooking during this period.
la now over 2,800,000.
Injuries
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B.-P. AND MAFEKING.
May 17 was the thirtieth an- 'niversary of the relief of Mafe- king, and at Pax Hill bia country house in Hampshire, Lord Baden- Powell"the redoubtable Baden- Powell," as he was called in the function the pain is usually out long days of the afege entertained of all proportion to the Injury, at luncheon a company of about and may cause severe shock to the thirty, most of whom were either injured person.
Min Mafeking with him or were mem If we examine a human skele-bers of the relief party. ton which has been correctly ar Amongst those who were in ticulated, or, to use more Mafeking with Lord Baden-Powell simple word, assembled, it will be at this re-union were Colonel G. seen that the ribs are arranged Bridges, Mr. Whitely, the Mayor; somewhat like the slats of a Colonel Greener, the paymaste Keep blind, and that with the inspira Major Holmden, the doctor Briga- tory and expiratory movements of dier-General Ryan, who was in the cheat as a whole the ribs charge of the commissariat; and Sir move alightly on their articula Hubert Swinburne. Of the mem- to bloedtions with the backbone.
bers of the relief party there were Internal vessels within the Moreover, it will be noted that present Lord Plummer Major B. Bleeding trunk.
the ribs are somewhat supple, I Baden-Powell A blow, a
(Lord Baden and this, it may be explained, is | Powell's brother), Colonel Weston- stab, a bullet,
much more evident in the fresh | Jarvis, Sir Alfred Edwards, Bir crush (by being run over), &cne, or the living subject, Edward Garraway, Sir Tom may cause internal, bleeding, and
Bridges, Colonel H. P. Sykes, it is essential that medical afd
General P. Rolt, Colonel Mont- should be secured without a mo
Sometimes to the morency, Mr. Glen, Colonel G. Glyn, ment's delay. Until the doctor's Injury to fracture of the ribs Sir John Moore, Colonel Courage,. arrival a Scout can do very little. Organs. is added extensive Colonel O'Brien, and General He must place the patient in a Maple injury to such Wood, Those unable to attend were recumbent position; loosen the organs as the liver or spleen. Sir Bryan Mahon, Six Alexander clothing, round the neck; see that The writer recollects the case of Gudley Lord Charles Bentinck, and there is plenty of fresh air in the a man who had received a violent Sir Courtenay Vyvyan.MA room; keep the hands and feet blow over the left side of the The Intense enthusiasm with warm with hot-water bottles, and chest which fractured four riba which thirty years ago, the news place warm, light blankets over The patient was no great dis of the relief of Mateking was re- the patient. A little Ice may be stance from a hospital, and was celved was recalled throughout the given to suck.
soon in bed and well, strapped up, Empire. The town had been hero Broken-blood vessels in the but he did not improve., On the Ically defended for over two lungs (as in some diseases of the contrary, he grew steadily worso, hundred days), by a handful of lungs) The patient spits a little and all his symptoms pointed to armateur soldiers against an army blood when coughing This is the rupture of his spleen and In- of four thousand men, enforced by glyen be- very bright red, and is often ternal bleeding. [what was at that time the best mo- nection rather frothy. The treatment is. He was taken to the operating | dern artillery, ~Lord Baden-Powell, tests for the same, as above.
theatre, and a rapid operation shem colonel, had been sent to the Broken blood vessels within the performed, when it was found
of the war to arrange for stomach. The tient ‹ is a sick, – that the spleen had been
and had take upun and the blond hich comes up 18 completely. In two- » and he - was ↑
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Itapleen was Freat Bleeding, was
New Publications. "Gilcraft" has produced two new Apparently the boy occasionally books in the "Gilcraft series. The and youths, it has been found neces-trict Commissioner, with Mr T. R. works at night and he was afraid at it entitled "Boy Scouts." In sary to enlarge the number of watch that this might prevent him attend these days when a good many new era at the week-ends. The Glasgow Ing his Scout meetings. He asked books are devoted to the Club and Patrol Leaders Counell have intimat his employer if it would be possible' Rover Branches, it is refreshing to ied their readiness to undertake the for him to have every Friday night, be able to pick up one which brings work and, from now onwards Scouts free, to enable him to keep up his us to the Scout again. It is a will come each weekend on ground Scouting work. This the employer hook for Scoutmasters, not for boys adjoining Fossil Marsh agreed to do, and the boy was de- and covers the whole ground of It addition to their watching lighted.
duties, the Scouts will record the Employers can, with very little
habits of various birds seen on escrifice, help Scouting in this way,
the marsh and an attempt is being Boys will certainly appreciate any
made to obtain a collection of photo graphs of the birds in their nativa baunts. M
Loot of Cilles American souvenir hunters are old, Middlesd” town of ere, one of them has
such favours.
Troop life.Exploration" explains itself and is full of good things. It trests the Scout as an explorer. There is a good section dealing with the use of the compass and the map, Education in Canada... and the chapter on the First Class Although Education in Canada is Journey Test will case, the minds.
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