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There are three things in the world which never disappoint. They are the Taj Mahal at Agra, the Sphinx, and the Great Wall of China.
It is not surprising to be told that too little attention has been given to most important organ-the brain--and in a late london lecture Dr. F. W. Moth has given expression to the fairly obvious in urging that great possibilities for the future of the human race are offered by the study of mental hygiene, As the mentally defective are bitter not horn, their early segregation is important. The brain is a most complex structure, but can never step within its huge vaulted I have seen the Taj many times now, and its grey matter has as many as 7,000 outer gate without a thrill and a catching million nerve cells. The organ has such extraordinary protection, however, that of the breath. It is not a building to be Even during starvation it scaretly loses asured or appraised. You are con weight. In its growth, the weight inscious of nothing but its wondrone and creases rapidly during the first three satisfying loveliness. At dawn, at high years from birth; then the increaso noon, in the flush of eventide, it never becoracs slow, and ceases entirely between fails to enchant. Go there alone, and it In old seems to touch you with the spell of the ages of sixteen and eighteen. age there is more or less decrease. Inborn eternal pense.
Very few travellers ATC fortunate germinal defect may be the cause of feeble-mindedness, or it may he due to enough to get their first view of the Tai conditions before, at or after birth, such as it is best sron. It should be visited in as lead-poisoning, alcoholism, falls, the the darkness before the rise of the full absence of the thyroid gland, and so on.
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must abandon the railway in the Rhone something of the mystery of Venice.
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In some cases the workman is enabled to The Sphinx is best seen in the traus, expend more labour, while the highly figuring moonlight also. I have sat specialized efforts bring greater fatigue before it in solitade for hours, night after with less powers of resistance than when night. It has a strange and irresistible have wandered far afield, and yet activities were more varied. Gain in efficiency may be important, but the fascination. which vanishes instantly have finished almost without beginning. problem of keeping down the strain of amid the throngs drawn towards it. by There are so many things to toll, and one day. At night it stimulates a rush of
does not care to compile a barren thoughts, upon humanity, upon the catalogue Three things more I will say. The kata thermometer of Prof. Leonard less march of history, upon the mysteries The finest mountain prospect of a pastoral Hill, now being produced by a London of life and death and mankind's passion kind which I know is that from Mount instrument-maker, is designed to show and endeavour. It seems the embodiment how nearly the balance of temperature, of the experience of all the ages. Its Wellington, at the back of Hobart, in Tasmania The most picturesquely moisture, and air in motion approaches scarred features grow perfect once more, the condition best for comfort and health. though I have never twice seen the Sphinx situated city. I have seen in Europe, is The play of the moon Tirnova, the ancient capital of Bulgaria, Our welfare depends very largely on the look the same. the rate of leat loss and evaporation of light's soft radiance constantly alters its now half destroyed by an earthquake. moisure, and there are factors in the in- expression. Sometimes it is benign. But if you want to look out over a dications, The new mensure consists of there are moments when it is devilish mighty city, nothing, not even Pesth and a pair of large bulbed spirit therme more often it wears some look of inserut- the Daaabe from the heights of Ruda, meters, one being partly covered with ble serenity. When you have lived with bents the view of London from the muslin to serve as a wet-bulb instrument, it many nights the narrow limits of your topmost balcony of one of the Embank ment hotels on a bright murning in early and in use they are plunged into warm
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