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A GREAT PROBLEM.

HOW MUSICLES PASE.

SEX RELATIONS,

PAMILY LIFE AND THE BIRTH RATE.

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PICTURES, PATTERNS, AND

COLOURS VISUALISED,

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

The benediction of spring sunshine lay upon the land. Something in the quality of this it must have teen that brought back so forcibly the | memory of similar days to Jipuny and

in the park.

1. To discover the effects of music "In opening the discussion on on different people. Dr. Charles me as we sunned ourselves at ease marriage and sex relations," says Myers, director of the Psychological on the grass behind the rhododendrons the Woman's Leader.

wish Laboratory at Cambridge University, to emphasise the fact that we are recently conducted experiments on: not preaching a modemist doctrine 15 universitý graduates, men and or upholding any revolutionary point women, ranging from persons who of view. It is one of the utmost had little or no musical sense to importance to men and women alone, highly gifted musicians. and the interchange of serious thought upon it is too often avoided or repressed."

The above statement is made on the recasion of an anti-le by Dr. Mary Scharlieh entitled "Problems of Population."

the Royal "Institution, Albemarle street, be related the interesting results. The subjects, he sald, sat in comfortable chairs with their backs to 3 gramophone which played selections from Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and other composers.

The pleasure of one man, quite CATING CUT FOR POPULATION.

unmusical, consisted of seeing a "One of the most difficult problems series of patterns, yet he showed taste af the present time is that of popula. for good and bad music. Another tion," says Dr. Scharlieb. "On the visualised flamboyant architecture one hand there is our big Empire. The average person's enjoymeat of pourly provided with British in music, said the lecturer, is largely due to habitants, crying cat for effective associations. Some see colours, and occupation by the governing race, this runs in families. To others while, on the other hand, there are stories are suggested. In the pro- the very serious economic difficulties fessional musician music excites few that tend to deter married couples associations and he appreciates the from accepting the responsibilities beauty of the music itself. natural to their condition.

A woman subject reported that she For the last fifty years there has felt a stinging up her right arm and been a steady fall in the birth-rate a ringing in her ears. Other effects of nearly all civilised communities. reported were: "I had a feeling of Ja England and Wales the birthrate great joy." "I felt very sad and fell from thirty six to seventeen in imagined I was going to die."

"This sort of day does remind one." said Jimmy. Almost makes one wish to be back again.

"On the good old Salisbury Plain,'' 1 suggested.

In jolly old hut 17," he replied. I laughed. The things we had. hated were "old" and dear" to us now. The mockery of time! We lay in the sunshine and remizise- enced, delightedly calling to mind all-forgotten things of the "good old days."

You remember the old armoury. with its eternal whiff of P. 921' and the endless running up of Handley- Pages outside And old Wilson? How he used to make you gasp with bis clouts on the back as he came out with his Jolly old Perry!' And Corporal Sweeting, with his break- down-and-dance, and his meaning version of The Sands of the Desert '? Do you remember the marmalade sandwiches we used to pinch from the gunnery hut!".

Not half!" I joyfully rejoined. And do you remember the time

the thousand, and although the saw a long funeral procession." "Ayou didn't turn out the guard for the statistics of the fourth quarter of restful feeling: I was walking C... and the time old Smile: turned 1920 show some degree of recovery, through a garden and felt a gentle it out and presented arms to a there is reason to think that this breeze." improvement is likely to be porary in character.

tem.

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The fall in the birth rate has been referred to a natural decline in fertility, to the rise to the average age of women at marriage to various -economic dificulties, and to pure selfishness on the part of both men and women,

WORMS.

HARVARD ASTRONOMER ON THE EARTH'S POSITION.

"The supposed decline in natural fertility was held to be due to the evil effects of increased luxury, and to the, higher education of women. In so far luxury tends to enervate and to devitalise, it must decrease all scientists at present conceive it.

Dr. Harlow Shapley, the Harvard astronomer, announces tha! the universe is 1,000 times greater than

that

YMCA officer'? Good Lord.: wasn't Smiler a treat So half- soaked!"

Yes, and he improved after you left," said Jimmy, grinning. Jimmy played with the memory of Smiler's activities subsequent to my departure, and presently burst into laughter.

Lord!

He was funny! He came on parade for a route march one morning in carpet slippers! You should have seen the S.M.'s face? Purple Speechless! And there stood Smiler in the front rank. 28 A lamb,

human power. but luxury is not a He has reduced the relative size of innocent and peaceful necessary accompaniment of ample the earth 1,000 times. Instead of ite I nearly exploded. None of us could means many wealthy people live being the centre of the universe he keep our faces straight, It was a in a wholesome, simple manner that has located it 350,000,000,000,000-perfect scream! Old Charlie Self ia.no way diminishes their natural 000,000,000,000 miles from virility. Two separate inquiries into position.

women and their sixers and cousins sink to such physical nothingness. It disposed of the contention that a is wholesome for human beings to college life, with its cultivation of realise of what small importance they intellectual and athletic powers, cause are in comparison with the universe." diminished fertility in women,

the relative fertility of some graduate "I am glad." he said. "to see man

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND BIRTH RATE.

the only reasonable solution of her "Economic conditions appear to life's problem. -exercise 1 great and disastrous And so the civilised human race induence on the birth-rate. Among is offered a selection of artificial these difficulties housing and educa means of preventing conception tion take prominent places. The one more distasteful and demorali Birth-rate Commission received sing than another. evidence of the extreme difficulty of securing adequate house room on terms possible to couples of small

NASTY AND DEMORALISING.

was, you know. Up he pranced. shocked to apoplexy in him. "Pugh!" twenty-eight years of army breeding

he roared-that was Smiler's Dame- Pugh! What the's this?' Smiler looked at him as at a dear friend. and smiled his gentle. bashft! smile, with that mild blush like the blooming of a rose, and he said,

Eh?'

"Oh. Lord! I was standing next tobim, and I daren't move an eyelash, but the sweat stood on my forehead. and I nearly burst. Poor old Charlier fairly broke his heart. What the so-and-so did Smiler mean by it? Good God, did be think-did he Route marching in carpet slippers! thinkBab! What the Blessed Heaven DID he think?

"Smiler's gentle eyes fell to bis gay slippers, and then rose to Charlie's purple face, and his smile was as un-1 disturbed as ever. He said "-Jimmy chuckled-he said, Pupp Ha, ha, ha ! **

"Why are these vaunted means of means, whether industrials or clerks. limitation nasty and demoralising On the other band, sanitary authori- Because they are unnaturalin them. ties rightly insist on a certain cubie selves and in their results. In them. space per individual, while landlords selves they do away with all expect an econoraic return on the romance and spontaneity in the value of their property. Between sacred intimacy of married life. these conflicting and irreconcilable They diminish, without absolutely circumstances, married couples find preventing, the natural results of that they cannot permit their families matrimony, and by removing the to increase beyond a certain low sanctions of duty and responsibility Jimmy rolled over and gave way number of fouls-gentrally their two they degrade marriage into a mere selves and two children. The ques physical union deprived of all moral could forgive him. He struggled with to his mirth. Knowing Sailer. I tron then arises, must the man and and spiritual significance. These his laughter and essayed again. his wife cease to live naturally preventives necessarily tend to together, or must they resort to make sexual pleasure the sole end of "He said, 'P-p-p-' 0b,

icial limitation of their family? marriage, and in doing so they re wait a minute! He said, Please, "The difficulty of securing proper move from husband and wife the sir, I thought they'd be easier for education chiefly affects couples who check on excess in things lawful walking in Gently as the cooing have somewhat larger means than which is provided by the knowledge of a dove! My word! But Charlie those who are most acutely troubled that privilege and gratification have was a picture! Smiler's tone was by the housing problem.

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CHINA TO MEND.

In Nineteen-alevea bold Sun Yat-sen Cut off the Manchu pigtail and then Set up a Republic in Far Cathay And handed the reins to Yuan Shih-

Kal.

FUNERAL STRIKE.

CHAUFFEURS REFUSE TO FOLLOW NON-UNION

BIND.

In Nineteen-thirteen the First Parlia The spirit of trade unionism TEO But in less than a year its life had member of the Bohemian colony of

ment started,

riot at the funeral of a prominent departed,

And a whole set of Councils succeeded Chicago.

Instead

Fifty-two motor-cars formed the

use of preventives should be approved presently Smiler was denbling back What sight has a working man to "Men who have relatively small and advised by women, because such to change into army boots. He laugh? What right has his missus fixed incomes may be able to ccro use, by removing the fear of con- reappeared at his apologetic double to be happy. Shall us?" mand sufficient sleeping accommo sequences, makes them defenceless dation for a family of seven or eight against undue demands on their

minus pack and rife. Charlie stopped I bave no doubt that Jimmy would persons, but they are hard 'put to wifely benevolence.

in his pacing up and down, and watch have made some sort of reply to me, it to find the means of educating SELF CONTROL AND SELF-EXPRESSION stood at ease. The blameless Smiler scrunching of many feet on gravel, ed him as he stepped into place and but at that moment we heard a five or six children. They shrink

"A crowd of false issues are as began to feel ill at ease under Charlie's and a loud, raucous, unpleasant from the moral and social atmo sphere of the Board School, but are sociated with this problem of the terrible gaze, but he stared ahead, Voice smote on our ears. quite unable to pay the terms at the family. We are told that self-control and just blushed a trifle deeper. Then Preparatory and Public Schools to impossible, that continence is le Charlie came close, and thundered Right wheee-ol} !"

Fraulein Ottilie Sora, a 25-years-old which they would like to send their jurious, and that self-expression in

big Vienna general.. chidren. Many of them argue that sexual matters is the right of every once did the gentle smile leave

nurse of a terrible things in his car. And never

hospital, boiled a patient alive they must act accept more children man and every woman. On the than they can have to rducate and ether band, we know quite well that Sailer's gentle face. He looked pain-

through carelessness, and affer being start properly in life. This brings all our passions are controllable, that ed, perhaps, when Charlie came to thump-thump-thump! Halt

Mark time in front!" Thump severely reprimanded fung herself. Till in Nineteen-fifteen Yuen guarded-funeral procession, bearing besides

ly said: them to exactly the same dilemma our instincts can be dominated by the point in hand. Where was his

The Voice seemed to profane our

broken-hearted, before a train at "How should I look with a Crown on

the mourners, representatives of as that of the labourer and the our reason, and that moral defeat b (blinking) gun and his (sbock sunlit solitude. It vociterated ir suburban station; She was instantly artisan. Is marriage to be only ais suffered only by those men and ing) luggage, and his bag of bullets? revocable orders. And then we beard killed.

my head

several public bodies. theory and a dream, or is it to be a women who from childhood have What

Kozak's hand, a well-known or the-! How practical blessing and a realized been trained to self-pleasing.

the something too familiar, uttered fierce- Etc. But when Charlie let him speakly, ultimately, finally.

The patient, a youth of 21, was The Republic, of course, was simply ganisation of native musicians, was ideal? If they live together ac "We also know from our own he brightened a little, and his eyes

Appalled. cording to God's ordinance and have experience of civilised communities, dropped in their bashful manner to fiz!"

lying in a water bed. The nurse con And the Diet of '13 was quickly in attendance, but the moment k "When I say Fiz,' yer DON'T aldered the water too cold and turned a large family, their lot is a ceaseless and from the evidence of doctors the sergeant-major's boots. They're

recalled-

began to play trouble developed. on the hot stream. Distracted by the But even that effort was not any use, The band is composed of non-union and dubiously successful effort at that continence is not only possible,

"Oh, Gord!" said Jimmy. solvency, and if they employ artificial but that it infiets no injury, even too 'eavy if we're going a long walk,' "Squad," fix" hollered the room, she went to pacify him and

screaming of a patient in the next So Parliament parted (with fiery musicians, and the chauffeurs of the

abuse), means of limitation they incur the when it makes the strongest and he said, simply,

Voice.

funeral Conveyances apparently forgot the running stream Aed, taking his chance, the wily follow it to a few minutes they risk of neurasthenia and sometimes most urgent claims on moral recti- "That was too much. I just

tude. Self-denial is never agreeable; choked and doubled up, and Charlie The Voice broke!

There was a solitary rattle of steel of almost boiling water. the burthen of self-reproach.

it may be painful, but it is never pounced on me because I was nearest,

When she returned she found the Succeeded in working a Monarchy 17, and one burst the bass drum with were hooting the musicians vigorous- Come oud 'ere, you! You with patient to the water-bed scalded to (An attempt, which in these days deleterious.

coup "As to the refusal of married

and had me marched off to the clink. the (sh, eb!). pimples! Didn't you! couples to have a natural family for tion are right only when justified by face. But Lord!. Those were times! don't fix? Eh Thea---

Self-expression and self-gratifica- The tears were running down my ear me say When I say "Fix," yer

was quite overtarned.

When the body was placed in the selfish reasons, there is little to be circumstances. Tue human race has Did you know that poor old Charlie

The doctors were naturally severe For Republican fervour still fervently bearse the band began a funeral aid. We are told that men and

In their condemnation, but the girl's -!!! Wait for

march and moved off. The procession women have a right to lives of self. many desires and passions, but im died a fortnight after he was de-bavaits' Gr!"

the word sister-nurses, recognising her great

of cars remained stationary, the indulgence, that

contrition, tried to comfort her. From then on the factional halla- chauffeurs refusing to move. many children tollision with the law and with mobbed? Yes. The chaps in camp

Re means hard work for the father, and civilised public opinion.

We stood up and peered over the Directly she was left alone the nurse said it

baloo.

latives of the dead man then begged Broke herder work still for the roother;

leave us all. But we used to have of seini-soldiers, in the tender rare leapt befere the first train that Canton in the South with Sun Yat- intimidated.

his heart to thododendrons. Two motley ranks feet from the hospital, went to Has riven the poor old country in Mr. Kozak to take his hand away

level-crossing three miles away, and 190-

but he replied that he refused to be some fun, and no doubt.”

of a bristling sergeant-major; graced passed. "Jelliest days of our lives," I said,

When the chauffeurs made ready Peking in the North with the to deliver a massed 'attack on the

"Tuchun" men;

musicians, who prepare.i.to defend.

SELFISH REASONS.

proper gratification of them leads to

"After all, the solution from with.

we are told that quality can bej THE SOLUTION FROM WITHIN.

ured by reducing the quantity offspring, and hit only the in is the more excellent way, because full of mellow memories. Ereatly desired child can be a really it carries with it the hope of national desirable citizen; we are told that betterment. The nation does not "I feel half inclined to try another pay mother of a large family has to want crutches, but it wants strength, ninety days of it," said Jimmy

pay too high a price for wifehood and this is to be found by each in it-matherhood, and that artificial dividual taking up his or her own

rictions on conception offer her share of the burden.”

In the Defence Force.","\",

**Um!" I said. "What right

have the miners to a decent living

the greensward beyond.

The Defence Force!

Come away, Jimmy," I murmured

death.

weakly, and we went away. Shatter-sergeant majors, rampant, upon a field It still

ed dreams A fleet thought of the of as you were ancient joke about the regimental seemed to hold a meaning sinister. crest passed in my mind. Two Clarion.

Manchu

burned),

sen,

While the dispossessed Hei, with

Sits

game of his own,

a well-directed kick,

refused to

a themselves, the relatives offered the

spill as a mouse with kiere on

the Throne.

Intrepid bandmaster double payment if he would withdraw.de

He then agreed to do so and the

LS. M. In the Morning Post. { cirmnoniés were able to proceed,