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TWO TRADES FOR ALL.
suggests constructive occupation of the hands as the remedy. But most brain workers, like the two
A PARTNERSHIP OF HAND| advertisers, have
AND BRAIN.
A. M: Drysdale writes in the Daily Chronicle as follows:-
Most of us are lop-sided because we have cultivated only one half of ourselves, if so much.
never
had any systematic instruction in handiwork, and there is little satisfaction in using the hands unskilfully or without a definite, tangible object.
of shoes occasionily! themselves & weather-proof pair
Ho much less wretched all the melanchols and lopsided brain- Of all the deliberate attempts to sters like Swift and Cowper, and educate a human being to the Johnson might have been if ther utmost of his capacity, that ofcould have sat down and made James Mill. in the case of his son John Stuart, is the most notable, as the book in which it is describ
Let us all perhaps not my ed. "Autobiography," is, of all the Reneration, but some other which son's books, the most valuable.
ean be manlied, like Mill, from With almost superhuman dewith two trades, a hand trade the very beginning-be equipped vation and self-sacrifice. James and a trade of liberty, not in order Mill applied himself to the nagni- ficent task of making his son the dustry and trade unionism. It to to upset the specialisation of in- perfect man at a date su caris in enable us to hve our lives fully the son's life that the son after and in the round, to stand four wards could not remember. forj example, a time at which he had been unable to inderstand Greek
are ty all the gales of circun
One advantage of such a plan. as the shrewd will apprehend at! once. would be the abrogation of the most odious of the class dis-
Yet, though the product was an ], NO MORE CLASS DISTINCTIONS. exceptionally educated and con spicuously weful man. John Stuart Mill himself, as unhappy being as Carlylo, reengnised that he was, after all, hop-sided, and intinetions, the elevation of handi his last years he indulged in labour to the dignity of brain. pathetic yearning for the develop labour, and a readjustment of the ment of certain faculties which his father's system had ignored, the two. That however, is a remote wages discrimination as between He was as lop-sided in one direc- tion as the manual worker who is
and comparatively impersonal a manual worker, and nothing individual expressing himself in advantage. I think only of the
his relaxation as in his work.j developing the one side of his dual being equally with the other.
more is in the other.
HANDS AND BRAINS. Must we always be either manual workers or brain workers, and never both?
also
The men who are both hand | workers and brain workers, like For the moment moro attention the people who habitually think! is being given to redressing the and speak in two languages-the balance in the case of the work Welsh, the Channel Islanders, ing man than in that of the brain the Dutch in South Africa, for worker a convenient term com-example-are quicker, more inte- prehending all who do not work resting. and more useful than with their hands. The working those who are condemned to a men are now to have much more single groove. They are leisure than ever they had before, happier. and wise people, like the Minister 1 need only add that I do not for Education, are discussing regard the two occupations which plans for enabling them to use many women are now pursuing, their new leisure to good purpose. without ever overtaking the se
An increase of mere idleness cond of them, es being in the least) is an increase of mischief, related to my and it is an important social There women work fortheir live- progra.nme. question how to teach the lib-lihood all day, and, however tired erated manual worker to acquire they may be, find their housework an additional occupation which demanding their attention in the shall be at once different from his evening. The second occupation ordinary work and his ordinary in that case is not recreation, but play and as absorbing as both. hardship. and I hope some in- Burns is to be called again from spired person will arise to suggest his plough to write poetry, and a way out of or round it. My Orator Hunt from his plough to second occupation would be an 'make speeches, both under hap- occupation of liberty and choice.
pier conditions. The continuation schools of the new Education Act)
and the adult classes of the £12,000 FOR A LONDON PASTOR. Wokers' Educational Association Twelve thousand pounds and a will give working men who desire valuable library, together with it ample opportunity of adding to wines, spirits, and cigars have their handiness the development been left to the Rev. Bernard 7. of their mental capacity.
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DEVELOPMENT.
Snell, paster of Brixton Indepen- den: Church, by Lady Tate, of Streatham. The testatrix was the But there is no corresponding widow of Sir Henry Tate, the. provision for the complete develop sugar refiner and founder of the ⚫ment of the lopsided brain worker. Tate Gallery. Her own estate is Two gentlemen the other day valued at £340,432, that of her advertised for someone to teach husband having been £1,263,565. them simple carpentry. Perhaps She gave many thousands of they are Bishops or members of pounds to hospitals. Of the
the Cabinet. When the brain and £12,000 left to Mr. Scell, £8,000 the nerves are tired instinct itselfie for the purchase of an annuity.
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Where seemingly only yester- day a first-rate baseball player could be purchased from almost! any club for $25,000, the sum of $125,000 has been given by thei New York American League team to the Boston team of the same League for a mighty hat swinger-the champion bome run-maker of the world-a manj named "Babe Ruth, despite thei fact that hestands more than six, feat. and weighs about 200 18.
And the New York manage- ment, with what in sporting parlance is known as a "healthy bank rol," has further large sums to spend to obtain stars of the baseball game.
Ruth's salary is to be in the neighbourhood of $20.000 a year, and, in addition, he will receive
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In passing, it may be under- stood that the baseball player is something of a gentleman "of leisure for the greater part of the year, the baseball season lasting only about five months.
RED SPORTING BLOOD, The horse-racing interests aleo are bidding high for stock. Only last month there came into New York from France a brood mare of noble lineage, so far as nobility obtains in horseflesh. No poten- tate could bare travelled relative- ly in finer style.
A padded compartment to prevent hurts from the rolling] seas; the best and softest of tanbark to ward off foot-soreness; the highest quality of straw bedding upon which to sleep, and five men to wait in attendance. upon the traveller were provided | for the animal and the foal at her side.
The American purchaser bad speculated to the extent of $200,000 upon the mare's future sons and daughters successfully sporting his silks over the American racecourses.
The people are sport mad. The war seemingly literally has put red sporting blood into the veins of young and old. Boxing! boutseren with mediocre pugilists are drawing big crowds and at fancy prices for seats. Standing room generally is unobtainable at fights staged between champions or near-champions and the brand of boxer known as the "work-horse," who always gets
his a good lacing for temerity, and with it a small office percentage of the box receipts.
Baseball bad a banner year. and the football season just ended 'never before witnessed Buch attendances despite the high tariffs for spectators, and the added war taxes, for the latter still are being plucked from ticket holders at the rate of 10 cents on the dollar,
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The golfers at present are actually overflowing the links in: the balmy regions of the South and the far West, and the tennis players likewise are holding high carnival The hotel bills are the largest ever known, but the athletes refuse to be denied their pleasure on this account.
In the North and upper West the skaters, curlers, and ice yachtsmen are blessed with good) ice after last season's absolutely open winter, and are taking advantage of it to the full Indeed, in all categories of sport the United States has never before seen such spontaneity for! competition,
And it is costly! Sporting goods of all classes have soared in price to almost unbelievable realms. The $2 golf club of three Fears ago now brings $5 and more; golf balls, once at 75 cents each, now fetch $1.25, and tennis balls have risen similarly.`
Racquets, ice skates, boxing gloves, and all the other things that go to make up the sports- man's layout are up in price all the way round, relatively from 85 to 150 per cents., while sport- ing jackets, "sweaters," sporting shoes, and the like long ago passed into the category of luxuries of the first water.
All in all, however, the Amer? ican is paying the toll, and gris. | ning. He is through with the war and is enjoying himself.
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