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COSTUME AND CUSTOM.

LÖST OPPORTUNITIES OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

MAN AND SUNLIGHT.

A PLEA FOR PRIDE OF BODY.

[BY THE VERY REV. W. R. INGE, DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.]

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AN ANALYSIS OF ** HOWLERS.”.

SIR JOHN ADAMS' BOOK.

"How does he deal with unex pected difficulties was a question which a schoolmaster had to answer respecting a teacher on probation. The reply was: "All his difficul- ties are unexpected." The teacher nho reproachfully asks, “How on

nsilly mistake" has sent forth a boomerang which hits him harder than it hits his pupil.

Sir John begins with the pic-i

The turesque error the bowler. must come from the teacher, not how (of laughter, not of pain).

the pupil "In the American magazine Life there was once a pic ture of a schoolboy who, in answer

Costume and custom are the only a matter af custom; clean-earth did you come to make such stat word. Our costume is the minded persons do not feel any garment

garments which undesirable curiosity. fashion prescribes that we shall The reason why Dr. Saleeby and wear. There are parts of the others wish to see a change in pub This is taken from a chaper call- world where the custom is to wear lic opinion is simply

one of ed Idoia Scholarum contained in no costume. When a little book health. It is agreed by all who Sir John Adams latest book an appeared called "How to Dress on have a right to express an opivion'] education which has been reviewed Fifteen Pounds a Year, as a Lady, that bathing in a costume is rather in The Timer. by n Lady," someone announced harmful than beneficin). The a companion volume, "How to whole advantage of bathing is in Dress on Nothing a Year, as a the exposure of the skin to light Kafir, by a Kar." Anthropolo and air. The doctors have only gists tell us that clothing probably began not from modesty but from recently discovered the medicinal coquetry; but this is not a solitary value of the ultra-violet rays to the teacher's demand for

which affect the photographic plate, though they are invisible example of a collective noun, an- Lightbaths are now a recognised swered a vacuum cleaner. The mode of treatment, especially for delicate children; and the health of the animals in the Zoo has been greatly improved since they have been dosed with ultra-violet rays, It is true that the white man, at least till he has been acclimatised, in liable to be poisoned by long There is no exposure to the tropical sun.

case.

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smile on his lips and the quitzien! expression on his face as he turns to his classmates for applause clearly marks off this sally as be longing to a region outside the howler range. It is the boy's joke. He appreciates it as much as the teacher; in all probability more."

Genuine "Howlers."

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move our hats in presence of a accial superior, or a lady, not out of respect, but to save our hats from contracting taboo-contagion, From time to time there have been seets of Adamites, who wished to restore the custom which prevailed in the time of man's innocency." The phrase in puris naturalibus, by the way, is theological; it means man before grace," especk ally before the grace of the tailor.

doubt that the pig.) A few years ago there lived at one mented skin of the negro gives him

As examples of the genuine how of the residential places where a needed protection against this lers tells us about the boy who cranks mostly congregate a worthy danger. Many cases of slight sun when pressed with questions con- couple who when indoors copied stroke, with severe headache, are fessed that he was a noun, and was Adam and Eve in Paradise. We probably caused by light-poison- further made to assert that the must not admit into this class a ing. But the abuse of a thing does other boys running about in the well-known Oxford Nonconformist not destroy the lawful use of it. yard were verbs. Grammar is in- divine, who in an undergraduate It is quite certain that frequent deed a fruitful fold for howlers.

are doing grammar caricature was represented strip-airbaths would greatly improve" We ping off his last garment with the the health of most men and women. school" aid a little girl to me words "I will wear no clothes, to There is no necessity to be abso-recently, and I don't like it. I distinguish me from my Christian lutely nude, though Suren, who is don't mind nouns and verbs, bu

rethren.' The comma WAS ala bit of a fanatic, would appar when it comes to injections and in- malicious insertion; Dr. H. mere ently prefer this if public opinionjunctions it's a bit thick." is meant that he preferred to dress tions of our town councils at sen- confusion to the growleg mind.

allowed. But the Lathing regula- Words are constant sources as a layman..

side places are, from the point of view of health, inexcusable

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Nor does the dictionary always mend matters. The boy who trans- lated de mortuia nil nisi bonum as of the dead nothing but bones trusted to his common sense rather than the lexicon. Not so the boy.

St. Paul's who, according to Paul Blouet, had to translate from a French play, Diable comme

"Judas In His Carlot, The root from which those errors |

Ugliness' Of Men's Clothes. Carlyle, as we all remeniber. sketched out a philosophy ot clothes in Sartor Rosartus," and Dr. Saleeby says that when at pointed out how difficult it would tempting to the at Crystal for kings, noblemen, judges, Beach, Ontario, he found his Eng- and headmasters to assert their ish swimming dress condemned as dignity if they were all alike re-inadequate; while the pier bore on duced to bathing-suits, or not its side in colossal letters the directe viex est capricent!" He looked even that," as a shocked lady said. tion that no woman must bathe at his dictionary an etymological #tocking But in truth nothing can be more without

one, and rendered the passage undemocratic than our present length" On the other hand, he tha: "The old man is devilishly inale costume,

"the dress says, where all

authorities of the like a goat." alike, but depend for their appear. Young Men's Christian, Associa ance on being able to wear new tion discourage the tee of any clothes and employ a good tailor. hathing slips whatever in, their "An Arah in white flowing robes splendid swimming betha at spreng is simple and easy to detect. always looks like a gentleman. A Toronto and Montreal."

It is not always so. I rarely pass very drastic reform in masculine Germany has gone ahead of us the statue of Boadicea on the Em- attire is called for; there never has in this matter; and most English-bankment without calling to mind been 越 Lime when the dress men who have visited that country a schoolgirl's written account of prescribed by custom has been so since the war have been constrain- ugly, expensive, and inconveniented to admi with regret that Ger- as it is to-day. This, however, ia nuns are much better set up and iet the subject of this article.

finely formed, especially Major Hans Suren, formerly about the lower limbs, than we are. Chief of the German Army School Our neglect of our bodies is pro- for Physical Exercise, has written hally in part a case of "out of n book which has been translated sight, out of mind." Especially under the title of Man and Sun in middle life, men and women are light" (Slough, the Sollux Put not disturbed at assuming a shape lishing Company). The English which would horrify them in a Sunlight League -wished to make horse. There is very little per Suren's book known to English soal pride, except about the face. readers, brut Dr, Salceby, the well- It may be impossible to prove that known Eagenist and author of clothing helps to spoil the grace

Suelight and Health,' felt ful conteur of the figure; but it doubtful whether. Mrs. Grundy would be very difficult, even at cur would stand the book, which con-universities, to find such finely de tains on almost every page photo, veloped bodies as those of the Zulu graphs of young men and women warriors. exercising in the condition which

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mistake-traps, their use and abuse. Sir John has much to say about

Years ago I made the acquaintance Suren considers most conducive to readers to peruse Suren's book, of an old country schoolmaster who He therefore consulted and Dr. Saleeby's, and to consider had a choice store of traps for the me, as a tolerably reasonable and whether something cannot be done catching of unwary pupils. He re- unprejudiced person na parsons to popularise in England the Gerarded them as fine teaching de- vices. "How many legs has ♫ go. "I advised publication. The man system of physical training. photographs are most of them which seems to produce such excel sheep?" he would. suddenly "askai

and no more indecent lent results.

A secluded field is class of baya. Four Sir And than Greek statues completed by not a public place," by German how many legs of mutton can the the conventional figleaf. I told law, and it would not be difficult butcher get from one sheep?" "Four Sir! Then where does him that, in my opinion, the book to find such open spaces here. The

mutton come HOW TO MANAGE NAUGHTY would do good, by calling atten- bathing regulations should at the the shoulder of

BOYS. tion to the opportunities of health same time be altered. The ladies from? There is some sense in Its method is Souratie. It and happiness which in this coun- exercise grounds could be protect this.

uncovers A latent contradiction, try are sacrificed to the prurient ed

American notice: by the prudishness of the vulgar. So I Gentlemen will not pass this and then resolves it

Both must share the responsibility for barrier; others must not. the issue in English-form (I can books contain numerous valuable not say in English dress) of a book hints. For instance, Surén lays full of pictures of young athletes stress, on the advantage of oiling as God has made them. Evil be the skin, which was the bogular to him who evil thinks,

practice of the Greeks and Romans, though we have quite for gotten it.

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GIVE THEM FEWER "DON'TS" AND MORE TO DO.

CHILD MISFITS."

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Food" Makes A Difference. It is important when a child is young to look out for any little Some of the old fellow's, "catches"

eign of abnormality. If such is found, take the child to a really seemed to have no purpose beyond

competent doctor at once. You venting his own freakish bumour

will probably learn that the child's and giving him an opportunity of calling his Boys a pack of fools.

There is no doubt that what is Physical health is at the bottom

of it. This for instance; In coming to often described in children school this morning I saw & girl temperament" is really attribu

A former woman student of mine in a white dress milking a white

[BY DR. WINIFRED CULLIS.]

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Spaalde Bathing. Prudery, Squeamishares about uncovering the body is not a sign of advanced civilisation. Thucydides tells us I am not at all afraid of this cow. What colour was the milk, table to bad health or to some small who is extremely clever in dealing that the Greek athletes formerly freedom increasing immorality boys?" White, Sir That's Physical disability. The real ques with children and has made wore a cincture at their contests, Mr. Havelock Ellis, greatly dar right. And further on I saw a girl tion is more often not one of had special study of such matters, told but in his time had discarded it. ing, says: "Some day perhaps a in black dress milking a black disposition, but of bad health note only the other day that the This was perhaps a Spartan cua new moral reformer, a great cow. What colour was tut milk 1" illness, but general feebleness of simply loved a really naughty child. She deals with them purely. tom; for the Athenians laughed at apostle of purity, with appear He seldom failed to get somebody body.

from the feeding and general phy- the Dorian women for showing among us, having his sccurge in fall into the trap. The super- So many people seem to ingine sical health point of view, and de

much ankle" Leonidas told his hand, and enter our theatres fluous insistence on colour reminds that all the little troubles one has

improve- fabby bodies of their Persian pri is not nakedness that he will cast examination in physics was asked If only they were better informed haviour.

likely moners, and to compare them with out, it will more

be to say how he would construct about elementary health facts they

She told me of one child who was prism so that light would not pass might themselves prevent en burdened with awful. night terrors. the brown and sinewy limbs of the clothes!? Spartan soldiers. The Jews al- Here then is a strange "prognos through it. It was a question of children becoming misfits by ways disliked nudity, and whentication," not for the ultimate the critical angle of refraction. ing with them from the physical She looked after his digestive pro

cesses, and in six months he was Antiochus Epiphanes set up a destiny of mankind, on which I The candidate however wrote point of view.

Lots of children who are put changed from a pallid, haggard Greek gymnasium at Jerusalem, tried to tense our scientific pundits Make it of wood, and paint it there were vehement protests. At last week, and on the whole drew black. To return to the black down as stupid are really nothing little boy to a bright chubby little

fellow. the present day the Russians have blank, for they did not wish to be milk, it is incredible that any cow of the kind; they merely have some te

Of course, sometimes the naughty, no shame about bathing unclothed drawn, but for the near future delivered such a fluid. They sim- slight defect which is not apparent in the open, and the Swedes have Shall we have people appearing is ply yielded to the suggestion of the to parents, but which would be re- noisy child may be so merely be the name custom, which is some public, like the eccentric Quaker moment and gave their master the cognised by a doctor very quickly. eise it is so full of vigour that. You find bright, intelligent chil proper opportunities are not being times a litle embarrassing to Eug in Pepys, who came to Westminster answer they thought be was fishing lish ladies who visit the country. Hall very civilly tied about the for. It is quite casy by a few lead dren classed as stupid when a provided for its full activitios

The old way of bringing up The Japanese used until very late middle to avoid scandal"1" Mr.ing questions to get young children that is the matter is that their

Don'ta," always telling ly to assemble every morning in Wells, I think, has predicted this to admit that there are no women sight is not quite so good as other child on BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S room, and to plunge in return to Ravagery or civilisation, in the Isle of Man and still easier children's. Some children in are it not to do things, is giving way tura into scalding water, without whichever we like to call it to get them to withdraw the admis slightly denf-the End of depiness to the much better method of giving which escapes notice are often if something else you want it to do. [6468" discussion of sex. It is really Evening Standard.

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