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HAPPY SERVICE
A book bearing the hilo "A Lady's Maid in Downing Street," has recently be published by Urwin' A review in
The Observer says of it:-
The ideal of doing one's duty in the station to which Providence has called one in doubtless, in these days, a trife démod but as a recipe for human happiness it will stand comparison with some of its supplanters. The diary of this simple minded German maid of Mrs. Gladstone's breathes all the tranquillity of those whose heart is fixed. "A most clever, quick,
SHOULD CHILDREN BE
GRATEFUL?
HYPOCRISY THE CARDINAL
SIN OF PARENTS,"
"Therefors
Bennett in the Strand Magzine) the In producing child (says Mr. Arnold Parents are acting in accord with the promptings of nature; they are workers! in the illimitable field of evolution; they ure helping to carry out the vast designs of deatiny, But this fart does not consciously influence their proceedings. They do not talk to each other about relation mother nature, or the designs of destiny," and then add: wonderful-charactered woman," her, mis-
We must bring a child into the world." tress called her, but the qualities that are They introduce the child to a planet of most clearly to be read here are those of rather doubtful felicity simply because i devoutness and devotion. She is as en-they-think it will be nice, proper, thusiastic over the sermons she hears as agreeable, interesting, thrilling for them over the concerts the attends, and after church there is occasionally an entry of self-reproof-"I thought too much about my new bonnet. Meeting a Scotch minister in the train, "for two hours and a half I enjoyed the most delightful re. ligious conversation."
It is a happy service that she renders
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to have a child in the house. They think THREE STAR of themselves primarily. They will even go so far as to say: "Old age without children would be awful' They do act regard the enterprise primarily from the point of view of the child. Many of them do not regard it from the point of view of the child at all. Their own to a kind and appreciative household, sulisfactions art always the first Mr. Gladstone rides outside in the rain || consideration, and often the sole from Chester to Hawarden that the lady's | consideration, maid may be dry. The sons of the house
And yet, before the child is seven years give her sovereigns at Christmas, and old, the parents will in all probability be "strongly advise me to go on the loose?”—
remarking to the child:-Look"ut ali wa which she did, according to Sir Basilare doing for you: we give you pretty Thomson, by visiting the Alexandra clothes and nice food and think about Palace and spending an evening with the
your welfare day and night, You ought Young Women's Christian Association:
really to be very grateful to us. Instead When the German Crown Prince eqme, the thoughtful Mex.
of that you are naughty; you are a thank Gladstone made him speak to me," which he did quite dess child. The least you could do would us by like any other being." She was taken to be to show your gratitude to the House of Commons and found it behaving well. very interesting to see the gentlemen bob up and down." A return from Kew recalls a familiar, not of Victorian London:-
The fun to hear the drivers of all the 'buses call out was ripping, and I began to join in it so to get our 'bus filled with passengers and, do you know, I managed to make three gents mount our 'bus: they were lucki ly very nice, and a most pleasant conversation took plner between us. Her politics are naturally simple when they ntrude at all. "Times are very critical just now; the papers threaten to turn the Goverspent out daily, also dynamite is put about in various parts of London. We have been defeated in Parliament, so had to pack up and move on here to Richmond-terrace.” "Our dear Veteran Champion
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Mr.
has had
This attitude, I regret to have to assert, is hypocritical nonsense, and the child, if not a fool, feels that it ia hypocritical nonsense and resents it as such. The child reseats and despises rothing more keenly than hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is the cardinal sin of parents. Children, with all their faney and make believe, are ruthless nard terrible, realist in matters which seen. important to them. Unfortunate, but not to be seriously .disputed.
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The baby owes nothing at all by his parents. He has no responsibilities, na duties. The parents owe everything to a baby. Their responsibility to him is complete, their duties are endices. They are most solemnly bound to use every effort to keep him in good health and happy, to build up his constitution, to ât
to bear the most unjust accusations from him for the world, and to launch him aa naprincipled Irishman last week." upon the world. In time their responsi Gility lessens, but it never disappears. Bus political adversity was nothing to Whatever happens, it cannot end. If the the shock of finding her dear young child, grown into a man, gets ten years mistress engaging, herself to a curate imprisonment for a vile crime, they are None appreciated the clergy more io their right place but When bound to meet him at the prison gates aon his release. They made him. He is theirs, the product of their largely selfish desire to dive fully. Unless they know themselves to be unfitted to be, parents they were quite right to hure the child, but the price dud for the privilege of parenthood is exceedingly high, and if they do not realise how high it is; "that Tag their Own fault; they cannot decently avoid payment,
felt like Drew. I Ligress wishing to throw herself upon the enemy.
On Monday my own lady made me go to Mr. Drew who wish ed to see me, but all my answers were a fire of reproaches broken by big sobs, which made him feel very wretched."
Returned to Germany for a quarter of a century, she sent her death bed message in the midst of the Great War to tell her beloved lady" once more "how you have cheered and brightened my life," The service which can join with itself so many of the beauties of existence has rarely been expounded with greater power than in the naivéties of this German exile.
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A GOOD WORD FOR THE CIGARETTE,
DO YOU FEAR CHILLS? Deadly Throat and Lung Danger Warded off by Peps, Catching chill-it's easy but dangerons. Once infiammation starts in your throat or lungs there's no limiting the deadly perils that
menace you.
There are various methods of dealing with small boys who have been detected in the
Taku Peps in time. Exterminate these high crime and misdemeanour of aping their virulent discuse germs before they have chance elders by smoking cigarettes. One time- honoured way is to appeal to the athletic to spread Bathe the sore indamed breathing instincts of the offender by pointing out that passages with the soothing, germicidal air-like he will "spoil his wind." This method had medicine given off by Peps tablets as they
dissolve in the better be employed with care after the in- disclosures made by Captain
of
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Peps are speedily effective. They not only Provide a powerful direct means of checking "It would seem that the wind-spoiling theory colds and chills, but they safeguard the chest and langs against more serious disease. No needs some qualification; if you happen to thing "gets to the weak spot like breatheable
and asthma Druggy mirtures swallowed into the stomach have no power to ease your breath-
improves the officiency of your overting or kazish your obstinate cough. You must
be climbing a very big mountain in a highly reps, in case of bronchitis, cold on the chest rarefied atmosphere,
of a cigar- the smoking eite does not detract from but
breathing apparatus.
At 25,500 feet
with the mountaineers, breathing the greatest
difficulty them
found that
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Feps, the greatest remely ever discovered
the gasping apparently becomes a legiti: for throat and langa, are sold only in handy
mate
pinda
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adventurer's platform sealed The discovery is interesting from
bottla. Prie One Rapee, of all good Chemists and Bazaars; by post for Rs. 14 many points of view. For one thing, it sug from The Pets Co., 9. Dalhousie. Square, gests that even the most inveterate cigaretto Calentia, amoker in this country has, after all, never known what it was really to enjoy a cigarette; the best solace that he has drawn from deep breath of his beloved weed has
evidently been nothing compared with the
satisfaction that was
a granted to the dale adventurer
He
acquired craving, the gratified
ying; they taneously satisfied a vital human boed, and very much
the
same way, it must be
that the antirer from Bathing relief from the paroxysms of that complaint by inhaling the stroke of his cigarette of stramonium. leaves. The
The exact reason for the relief of the mountaineer seems obscure. At their altitude the air
be lacking in
other some normally discovered constituents besirico and Professor Haldane said that possibly the carbon monoxide ip the cigarette smoke which relieved the elinsbers; at such a great height a little
monoxide might have
must
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it
the
bucking up the human apparatus. thing may also have been owed to the soothing and steadying effect of naturally tobacco on those who have become addicted to it. However, there seems no immediate need for that body which one" believes known as the Anti-Narcotic and Tobacco to wind itself If we are to wait
up. League until we get 28,500 feet above sea level be- ទេ cigaretto becomes a biological necessity, most of us will still have to con-
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