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in the valley. On their mountain say. a. naive, literal, or logical Big troubles find ns undismayed. top they lived under a tyrannous thing that is very charming but I's trivial things that grate-- rule, they were taught to believe how many things they say Wet towels left on the bathroom.

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Two hundred years ago, on June 27, 1725, died, if contemporary records are to be believed, a four- year-old child who surely holds the record "for infant precocity. A few hours after Christian Heinecker (he was a little Ger- man) came into the world he spoke, and in 10 months could con-⚫ verse on most subjects.. By the time he was 13. months old the Bible was an open book to him. At the end of two and a half years Ing with history and geography, he could answer any question deal and, then turned his attention to languages. He learned to speak Latin French fluently, but his feeble constitution: broke down under the strain, and little Chris tian's "crowded hour" was at an end.

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in a number of things manifestly that are utter

nonsense. silly. But was the rule any more Fathers forced into unusual and and breakfast being late, tyrannous than that of the im- prolonged intimacy with their You'd go through fire and water, becile conventions which contro! nurseries, and anxious to add to dear, the lives of social beings in the their repertoire of quotations. To save me pain, you sy plain? Was snobbery about from Pamela and Peter, are quick. But will you eat without complaint duchesses and

Cold meat on washing day? distinguished to find this out, and they are

-Dorothy Ross, in the Roys! novelista more reasonable than sometimes unfairly annoyed abou anobbery about Jesus Christ and it. Shocked at finding them.

Magazine. the Saints? Was hard work to selves bored, they take to shop.A Child Marvel the greater glory of God more ping, and buy all the toys that 'detestable than eight hours a day they covet for themselves. Fre in an office for the greater enrich-quent presents deem to these mis ment of the Jews? Temperance guided men the way to keep was a bore, no doubt; but was it things quiet and happy in the so nauseatingly wearisome as nursery. The immediate effect is excess?

And the expense of satisfactory, but children who are spirit in prayer and, meditation- "made happy" by too much in was that so much less amusing dulgence and constant presents, than the expense of spirit in a are noticeably anti-social and waste of shame? Driving down selfish when they meet other towarda the city in the plain.

children and can't have things al wondered. And when, in the Via their way-M. Grant Cook in Tornabuoni we passed that well- "Good Housekeeping." known pillar of Anglo-American- A Famous London Square in Peril. Florentine society, Mrs. The news that the Foundling Thingumy, in the act of laborious- Hospital estate in Bloomsbury has ly squeezing herself out on to the been sold will be read with no pavement through the door of her small anxiety by the public. It gigantic limousine. I suddenly may mean that one more of the and perfectly understood what it famous buildings of London, the was that had made these seven old hospital, is to be destroyed, rich Florentine merchants, seven and that one more of the London hundred years ago, abandon their squares, Brunswick Square, is to position in the world, and had be built over or wiped out, says sent them up into the high wilder- the "Daily Mail." In a city of the last five days" said an amateur Hell has yawned everywhere in ness to live in holes.at the top of seven million inhabitants it is im-sailor, Charles Broker, who sailed Montesenario. I looked back; portant to preserve as many open from Simonstown recently in an Mrs. Thingumy was. waddling spaces as possible. The old ex-naval steam pinnace, bound for across the pavement into the squares, which were such a char- Capetown, with a crew of two jewellar's shop. Yes. I perfect-acteristic of the London of the Malays and two Kroomen. ly understood,Aldous Huxley in past. were created by sagacions met a tempest at Cape Foint, and They the "Adelphi."

designers and town planners. the engines failed. The boat was Haunted,

They are necessary for the awept by cascade-like seas. Fully Evil, apparently, is more inclin-health.

amenity of the City and for its rigged. the boat proceeded

Each one that is closed beyond Agulhas. ed to give birth to phantoms than and built upon is a grave loea to ship

The steam- good; we seldom hear of benign the community.

"Tideway "" sighted the hauntings.

Unfortunately boat's distress Sex and passion the speculator who buys estates threw food aboard and towed) signals. and obviously play an important part when they are put up for sale the boat to Mussel Bay. Broker) in them. sex desire more especially thinks first of filling his Miss Marshall went on a visit to pocket, unless he is

own was too exhausted to say more! a public-than that he relatives at Melbourne; she had spirited person.

was profoundly In the long grateful never been there before.

for Her run, however, even the speculator almost certain death. Indeed, for

deliverance from. aunt, with whom she stayed, took would profit if the squares were the past four days he had taken it her into town a few days after her maintained. There are some 360 for granted that Capetown and all arrival; they walked, taking the of them, of which, many shortest and most direct road. threatened. The question is whe-searchings of the coastline. The are was lost after continuous fruitless After this walk. Misa Marshall, on ther the time has not come for a Malays were most exhausted, but all future occasions when she went law, fixing the building conditions the Kroomen were thoroughly fit. into town, went by another and in London and in our great cities, less direct way; she made every which will definitely secure such possible excuse to avoid the usual precious open spaces from the street leading into the city. Her speculator and the builder.

People often ask me what is the aunt asked her why she preferred "Piccadilly Giant's" End.

perpetual appeal in "Peter Pan," the longer route.

The girl was

why it comes up fresh year after confused, and at last confessed fold bathing tragedy at Cote des does. It is a difficult question to One of the victims of a three-year and fills the theatre as it that on the first walk she had an Basques was 82 inthes tall-The which to find a really satisfactory irresistible desire to speak to Piccadilly Giant," William Jem- answer; but perhaps the subtlety every man she met; she had never mett, a well-known London artist, of the play has much to do with experienced such A sensation before, and was very much shock- English visitor. Mrs. Williams. children included, seem to be ALL ELECTRI TRANS Pass Katraz, Meerlo who was attempting to rescue an its popularity: All playgoers, ed by this strange impulse. That Mr. Jemmett, with others, includ-attracted by subtlety. particular street had been for ing the woman's daughter, went can you ever completely explain ghost st of Buod ng Hervis.

But how A Lite, Prine and Lighting: Europana Bethu many years a favourite promenade out to the rescue. The daughter what is fascinating about certain for the prostitutes of the city: herself got into difficulties and was plays and books? they had only very lately been brought ashore by a French them for dislike them) because we We just like expelled from it. This tale was

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given me by Dr. Ross, of Greyimming master named Four- do, it seems to me stones County Wicklow, Ireland; quet. Meanwhile Mrs. Williams play has been a lucky one in ANTENN he vouches for the truth of it. Mr Jemmett himself was carried easily have happened in the flying struck a rock Lad disappeared, and various ways. Accidents might It shows that a locality may hold into the danger zone. the evil desires of a crowd of persons; in my cousin's house two persons had left a similar impres- sion-Hester Travers Smith, in the "Occult Review."

again: plunged into the sea and because Mr. Kirkby, whose name Fourquet scene, but they haven't no doubt

managed to secure a rope round has always been on the pro- the two doomed persons, but the gramme, is so careful in looking rope snapped on a rock and the after the flying apparatus. And two were carried away and hurled never, in my experience, has any Are Parents Any Use?

against the cliff. Fourquet him one with lines to speak ever for Fathers seldom see anything of self was exhausted and was un- gotten them-dried up," as their children except at bedtime able to battle with the waves, and actors say. Two or three times, and in the holidays. The English the Grand Duke Nitika, who parti having been on the spot and know- father has an office in the City" cipated in the rescue, seriouslying the words of the whole play, to, which he is obliged to retire for the trenches during the war, take a part in an emergency; but injured his leg. As he was too tall have suddenly had to go on and and the American father, is sub- Mr. Jemmett served as a gunner merged "down town" for many;

hours a day. There are also Jack the Clipper.

that has occurred only very rarely Once, I had to be Slightly at a few minutes notice, and it being a

clubs. The father's influence, The raisdeeds of an alleged "fat part the tree which I had then, in most homes, is confined to Italian

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neither

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