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SCHOOL holidays are over-and the laddio in the picture knows it! But now the beginning of term no longer means a return to terror or todium. Below is described the rovolution which has changed modom school lilo,
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OOD-BYE, Jack, Good-bye, JM." You can hear it in your street. I hear it in my street. It's Mother seeing the children off to school.
And it does your heart good to listen to the lt of their voices as they call the last Good-bye before they go out of sight. Sometimes, though, there is a bit of a quaver in. Jack's voice-If he is a little Jack.
And if he is a big Jack?
Well, I know of Jack whe asked his mother to wave from behind the front-room curtains so that the other boys shouldn't laugh at hilan.
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Which illustrates exactly. Englishman's attitude to senli- ment.
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Nowadays, school is not just round
the corner,
Until a few years ago, this Good- byc ritual was a pretty almple business, Jack's school and Jill's school were almost, within car- shot, and both of them came trot- tlog home for their mid-day ' dinner.
1. But 1's different to-day,
Even the younger children may have quite a considerable tramp to their brand new Junior school, And if Jack and Jill are "Seniors," then they become experienced travellers. Going to school, is their case, may mean a journey. of several miles by bus, cycle,
train, or Shank's pony.
So that when Mother sees them. of in the moming, she knows that she won't see them again until the evening.
سلام
Jack and Jill have been caught up
in a revolution.
The revolution which happens overnight has a short.life. The most effective is that which takes place slowly, and without fuss. It affects your life before you know that it's commenced, That is the wort of revolution which has com- pletely changed school life, for Jack and Jill, and is perplexing Mother.
Mr. Hadow started it eleven years ago. He said that there should be a break in a child's education at ike age of eleven, and that he should then move into an- other type of school and receive a different kind of instruction.
The Board of Education was at
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Not So Uphill
for Jack & Jill
the back of him. The teachers Joined in. So did, the Local Autho- rities, none of them rather re- luctantly.
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The result was that aweeping changes in the traditional system of elementary education initiated. The revolution has beco going on ever since, and has touched the lives of all the elementary school children in Great Britain.
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But it is not fristed yet. No, not by a long way!
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This is what it already has done
for Jack and Jill,
It has brought them out of that old type of school whore they would have sat under the same roof and played in the same old yard from the age of Avo to four- teen. At eight they move into a Junior school. leaving the Infants' school behind them, and at eleven they pass to a Senior school where they remain until they are four- teen.
It has closed down that grimy building with its barrack like play-・・ ground, its dull and inconvenient classrooms, its lack of essential sanitation, and its obsolete fur- niture, and it has put them into a ane building complete with every necessary, and furnished with some luxurtes.
But more than those, the revolu- tion has completely changed our outlook on education, with amaz- ing and far-reaching conse-
THE CHINESE SOLDIER
THE account which the Chinese side of the Allies, she learned nothing troops have been giving of them- in direct military experience from
at Shanghai and elsewhere that struggle. selves
Indirectly she learned much, and has destroyed our old notions of the Chinese soldier as a fighting-iman. the Importance of the part played by the 100,000 coolies who made the The Chinese method of making 12,000-miles Journey to the battle- war was for lung a source of amuse- flelds and bases of France and Flan- ment to the European, but the days ders hus perhaps been underesti- when the staple weapon of the mated,
Chinese "Tommy" was the bow-and- Those men who were largely re- arrow, when soldiers went into ne- crufted from Shantung, were thrown tion carrying bird cages and fans, into contact with an allen civilisation when the umbrella was a regular and received in France a bodily and part of military equipment, have a mental discipline foreign to their long since passed.
nature.
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In cases where they were to some
This change in the old order of Evening Classes for Troops Oriental warfare, to which we have accustomed ourselves in the ease of Japan, may have brought the East. into line with the West in the matter extent drilled, they proved efficient of fighting, but it is a tragic change, and even smart, while in the hands they of their student-interpreters. The average Westerner, wrote were enthusiastically Initiated, into Okakura Kukuzo, in that highly en- the tenets of Chinese Nationalism. lightening boolt of his on the mean- On their return to China they acted ing of tes fcw years ago, "was as an important lever, and in 1924 wont to regard Jupan as barbarous was largely these men who were while she indulged in the gentle aris the mainstay of the Cheldang troops of peace: He calls her civilised since before Shanghai in the defence of arsenal against the Kiangsu began to commit wholesale the slaughter on Manchurian battle- forces, when refugees poured into fields."
Shanghal by thousands instead of pouring out of it as they are doing Modern Methods
now.
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-BY CHARLES
WARRELL
quences to the instruction given to Jack and Jill.
This is the sort of school they at-
tend now..
School authorities are proud of it. They have reason to bo
It is now in conception, new in construction, new in its purpose. It is more, much more, than 2 mero building. It provides both Inspiration and stimulus to those who occupy ft.
it in Externally.
delightful, Lawns and flower-lined paths lend to its entrances. Wide verandahs and sunny quadrangles add, to Its charm. Smooth, green playing felds stretch in the distance. There is an air.of space and graci- ousness about it.
Internally, it has all-or nearly all-which the heart of man, or child, could desire.
The light and airy classrooms have doors flung wide on te lawns and gardens: there is a noble and spacious hall; the furniture throughout is fit for a prince; the decorations are in keeping,
.
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And then the amenities!
A gymnaslum, with changing rooms and shower baths; a stage. which is the last word in lighting and planning; special room for flm projection; telephones and electric clocks in every room; hot water in the cloak rooms, and dry-. ing cubleles for wet clothes; a cookery roum, which Jill says that. even 'Mrs. Beeton could not im- prove; science rooms, which, with their machinery, their tools and their working models, are a source
fascination of never-ending
10 Jack: and a wealth of equipment generally throughout the school which makes some of the older teachers rub their eyes.
Truly Jack and Jill are fortunate 'children.
But what about Peter and Mary,
and all the rest of them!
Ab! that's the reb. - gi
For every school like Jack and J's there are a hundred of the qld ones still in use.
There are nearly a thousand schools still on the "Black List," that is, they have been listed as vory unsuitable by the Board of Education.
Hats enter some of them and
eat the children's dinners, Rain Ink comes in through the roof. freezes in the Inkwells. Water has to be carried from a stream or pump. Decent sanitation is lack- Ing. Walls are damp and crumb- ling. The desks cry out for a bon- Aro.
In furniture and fittings Dotho- boys Hall lives again in some of these classrooms.
And bear in mind that only the very worst of the schools are on the "Black List.” There are many more which depress the mind of the child and sap the vitality of the teacher.
But the revolution still goes on.
And now the greatest change of
all!
When Jack and Jill leave school they will enter a rapidly changing world, A world which daily be comes smaller, a world in which the distant peoples como,nearer, a world in which no one can be iso- lated or Independent.
They will live a life which moves at a faster rate, which will tax them more in their working hours, and from which they will expect more in their leisure hours.
Radio, the sound films, and the university of travelling, will greatly affect their contacts and their experiences. An unceasing propaganda from a variety of sources will test their judgment. Their own country will depend on their spirit and their understand- ing. Their own lives will be made or marred by themselves.
People are asking if modern edu- cation is keeping pace with modern demands.
Mr. Wells says it isn't, but then he 19 hopelessly out of touch with the schools. He peers so much into the future that he cannot recog- nise the present.
As far as the elementary schools are concerned, the changa which has taken place in the buildings themselves is more than matched by the change in the education given in them.
Jack and Jill have teachers with A new outlook; the work is planned with a new purpose and with a new alm; now curricula is fol lowed; new methods are used."
Make no mistake about it. The elementary schools are fitting Jack and Jill to play their part in inak- ing a new world.
MOTORISTS HAVE
-To-day's Thought - TAKE care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
---LEWIS CARROLL.
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rash, you are an allergic person Medical science has long recognised that there was more than a grain of truth in the old saying. "One man's meat is another man's poison."
Hoy fever is probably the com- monest allergie disease, but current medical opinion inclines to the view that allergic disorders are far more widespread_than was formally sup posed. It is probable that the com mon cold is often allergic in origin.
There is no one substance of group of substances Ul;at. alone causes aller- le disorders. Almost any substance
of plant or animat origin may be the offending agent.
Asthma is another common ailer. gic disease, but five successive cutes of asthma may reveal five differeal couses. In rare instances the agents may be intangible. Hent, light, and cold have been found to be responsi ble in the great majority of cases, Anything that a person eats, drinks, Inhales, wears, or even touches moy give rise to an allergic complaint.
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Sensitive to Smell
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Many fabrics used for clothing have allergic properties. Rayon is the slightest offender Among the textiles, Fur is general offender, fur-lined
a frequent gloves being cause of trouble. People who are not sensitive to fabrics are sometimes sensitive to the dyes with which they are coloured.
Sometimes we rend of an actlen brought against the manufacturer of some article of attire on the ground that it caused dermatitis in the webt- er. So far as I know the defence of allergy has never been put for word, but there is little doubt that many of these cases are brought by allergic persons, and that the articles of clothing responsible for the trouble could have been worn by other prople with impunity.
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Foods are powerful allergic agents, und the disorders they cause are not always gastric in type. Food allergy has been responsible for such widely varying effects as migraine, bronchiali asthma, eczema, and sinus conger- tion.
Chocolate upsets some folk. Eggs, fish, milk, and cereals are literally poison to the unfortunate people wid happen to be sensitive to these whole- some foods. Some patients"are"sen- sitive to entire groups of foods, such ns fruits, cereals, meats, or vegeta- bles.
If the reactions are delayed, as frequently happens in cases of food allergy, the sufferer has no suspicion that an item of diet may be cause of all his trouble.
Anyone who suffers from a chronic complaint that occurs from time to time without apparent rhyme or rea son, should suspect food allergy and should endeavour, by a process of. cilmination, to identify the particu lar food that is causing the trouble. It may be a food of which the Indi- vidual is particularly fond,
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Household pets have no place in the home of an allergie person. Minute particles of hair or feather disturbances TOY
chronie umong human beings, and the com- plaints will not yield to treatment until the cause In each case is dis- covered.
In this class of complaint diagnosis is difficult, especially As we have Etilo idea how far the ramifications of allergy may extend, and lack o complete list of diseases that can be
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None of the claims made in favour "Are they right? An authorito
etalement is greatly needed, of using a coloured, and in particu- tive But if the lankier and more alouch-Jar a yellow headlight beam for moner, the answer which science gives This paper supplies, in a simple man- Changed as Oriental militarism is, ing Northerner can be licked into for cars, rather than a white benin to the question." the iden that warfare in China is a shape, the sturdier and more colid
of no greater power, has been sub. Gilbert and Sullivan ammir dies hard, Southerner is oven better material,
stantiated. and to the greater contact
of
and the laughter which followed the Southern China with Europe must announcement in the House of Com be traced the wider response of the mons by a British Prime Minister South to Western Ideals and methods. not so long ago that a Northera Chinese commander had made terma In the emergence of China from with the Nationalists.and had been the fog of medievalim, education appointed
the 41st and millurism have gone hand in comunand Southern Army was no doubt partly hand. Education has always been prompted by the knowledge that, at one of the chief planks of the Na- one time at least, whole regiments tionalist programme, and even the in China, scheduled 118. "On the tuchuris of the North were not slow strength," existed on paper alone. to realise its advantages,
During the regime of General Feng camera has been the most, Yu-hsiang at Changleb, In Hunun, powerful means of "writing-off" the troops under hin Immediate com- these antiquated notions, and the wand nitended evening classes and, news plctures which are beginning in the Army workshops, officers and to arrive from the scene of the pre- men alike were taught a trade. So cent operations speak eloquently of advanced was the Changich military change.
school that its training included The old methods, which persisted gymnastic exercises.
The
up to the time of China's war with
Once before in China's history the Japan in 1894 and even as Into a from the North, and under the Tar- spirit of military enterprise came the Boxer Rebellion, had begun, at tar dynasty China was a military the opening of the present century, power. constantly engaged to vanish.
frontier warfare.
In
Modern artillery made ita Tape Her soldlery pressed no far as the pearance in Ching, and it was used gates of Budapest. The significance with good effect in the attack on of that fast is often forgotten; the Tientsin. But though China nomin fact itself, is seldom remembered. ally entered the Great War upon the
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The claim for a greater range of visibility in fog may be regarded as definitely disproved
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the information the eye could detect objects by at present avaltable that further means of the differences in colour work is unlikely to show that any they presented. considerable advantage can be secured by using coloured light.
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animal.
12 Melba's name.
13 When rice parmues her, you know the brido's full name.
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This alice?
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22 You are sure to find an hotel
In this Irish place.
24 This score is eighty..
25 Girl's name,
20.Book of the Bible,
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26 As much as one could desire. 27 In this head there's something
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Yesterday's Solution
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20 Blemish and Ballor ofton Allergic disorders are not contagi- brought home from the East. rus, but they are definitely hered!-31 The meeting of both tary or rather inheritable. The curl- puzzles poor fellow. is rarely ous thing is that a specifle complaint 32 Reception at a poultry show?
transmitted, only. the 33 A style of furniture. general ability to allergie trouble. If both parents are sensitive it is even chance that their children
before they are ten years old. If On the other hand, there was the only one parent is sensitive, the like- evidence of one investigator that in Ithood that the children will inherit "Many thousands of motorkits," clear weather the range of visibility the trait is much reduced and the ngo Mr. C. C. Paterson Chairman of of an object was increased about six of onset is retarded. the Department's Illumination Re- per cent, by the use of a yellow fl-
may also develop spon- search Committee, writes in a pre- ter, This goin was observed vnt taneously in an Individunt. There at allergic Individuals in a single fatory note, use headlights giving ranges of about 900 feet. At Uis) are muny, cases of allergic hay fever group, they are, on the whole, the mainly in, the-while-collar section of coloured light, because they believe shorter distances at which the mo- and asthma in which the parents of more sensitive people in the general the population, and particularly that coloured light to better than Lorist was more concerned to BED" the sufferer are 'non-allergie 'in all sense of the word. They respond among professional men of the crea- while light of the some power for objects, the advantage of the yellow ❘ respects, na far as can be ascertained. I more quickly to sense stimull than | tive and administrative type. driving at night or in fog,
Alter, In any case anall, was less. While it is not possible to ciasnity non-allergie Individuals.
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Allergy
2 Necessary when aldes split? 3 A Welshman ascenda in church. + Complaint
Allergic persons are to be found