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Have the young generation "as tady heroes as older people used to have i The question is answered by Mr. Has Pemberton in the Weekly Despatch,

I was saying to somebody the other day, writes Minx Femberton, that boys and girls have few heroes, or heroines in this present year of grace. It was very different thirty years ago. The youth of that day had many models. Most boys wanted to be Dr. Grace or A. E. Stoddart if they were cricketers. Fred Archer if they rode borses, and Sir Henry Irving if they desired to do on the stage Women raved about Ellen Terry, and a little earlier about Kate Vaughan, at the Gaiety and Mand Branscombe of the diving eyes and Violet Cameron of the golden hair,

PHRASES TO AVOID.

A GOETHE FICHTE LIST OF PROHIBITIONS.

A black list of slovenly phrases, in whatever language they may be pro- nounced or written, drawn up by Goethe, and published in the current issue of the literary maithly techratt, is doubly interesting as a fore-rumer of Sir Henry" Hadow's rereat protest against "cREG "lessness and sloppiness," The philoso pher Fichte fought incessantly against loose statements and superfitious" pressions. This united the two friends in i comach campaign; together they made Les avoided. a collection of phrases to “This gave as uvasion," Goethe added in a note appealed to the list To ponder closely over the origin of these polite, precautionary, lattering words, disarming all objection of render or The list is as listener at the outset,'

follows:

And yet I wonder. A small, still voice whispers to me: What about Jackis Congan, the child artist who earns To a certain extent. „ larger salary than by child has earned in. Somewhat. the history of the world? Is it true that many a small boy and many a small girl Approximately. would like to, be Jackie Coogan?

able.

I have seen Jackie Coogan in two pictures and I thought him quite remarke

Elis natural ability was extra ordinary He was upon the stage the child that he is off. They tell me to-day that his earnings are £200,000 a year aud that, of that vast sum, he himself receives about ten shillings a week. paid on Wednesdays and Fridays. Clear. ly he can afford to put threepence inte the collection plate on Sunday.

RIVALS

Consider these earnings of a mere child, who is rising nine years of age, as they When Charlie Chaplin say of horses. discovered him, he must have been a little more than five, and we all know what he did "The Kid" There may or therr may not be other children who could have done it, but I think most Loulou mangers would be unacquainted with them...

Perhaps, in their self-defecce, we may recall the story of the Infant Roscius," William Henry West Betty, who made his first appearance in London in 1803-ho being then twelve years old-and in fifty-six nights earned the sum of £14,000. These were great takings in those days; yet we do not bear much of the in- in later years, though he lived fant to th ripe age of 8 and died within the mentory of many now living.

Jackie Congan's story is delightfully romantic. He was the son of modes: vanderie artists. who played in the "hundredth" streets of New York. Night by night he used to watch his people from the wings; but one night, by accident, he ran out on to the stage and that was his first public appear

ance.

When fame came, he remained indiffer ent to it. Even to this day, his own ambition is to become a great baseball player and his proudest possession is a miniature suit in the fashion of the kit. word by the greatest players. In the 1 films he has hardly any interest at all, and those who visit his house are most likely to discover im upon his hands and knees playing with some new mechanical toy.

BRIBED TO AOT..

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By these they bribe him to act-and when he desires to be "Kid no longer the present is bought and the trap is balted. So much acting, so much toward the new toy engine.

Paderewski, who risited his house in New York. declares that he would make a first-rate violinist. The film people say that his chances as a boy actor will lasti for some three years more, and that afterwards his fate is on the knees' of the gods or goddesses.

Perhaps, in after rears he will have forgotten the very existence of the screen-and, it may be, as a great and dignified musician. he will be shown photographs and will exclaim: "Dil indeed do that!"

just as possibly hit become the Fairbanks of his age. and, perceiving where the money is, will stick to a profession which already has so greatly enriched him. Time shall decide and temperament.

LEAP-YEAR."

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Rossini, the composer, and the eldest son of the present Duke of Abercorn were all born en February 20th There are about 20,000 people in Great Britain with their birthday on this dat

The battles of El Teb, 1881. and Adowa, 1896, were both fought on Febru ary 29th and Disraeli formed his first Administration on February 29th, 1685.

TWENTY CHILDREN AS MOURNERS.

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