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STRANGE SCENE IN A CHAPEL.

THE CANE IN GERMANY.

BERLIN COURTS AND "THE ENGLISH SYSTEM,“

The body of the Hon. Alexander. Borlin, Feb. 24The wide M. Carlisle, a Privy Councillor publicity given here to the case and a friend of the ex-Kaiser, of a schoolmaster accused of too was cremated at Golders Green frequent a use of the cane is of orematorium to the lilt of gay interest, not only to all school. music, in which the melody of musters in Germany, but to those "The Merry Widow "waltz was abroad as well, Corporal punish blended, ..

ment is referred to constantly in reports of such casos..as the English system," and the phrase

As the coffin lid to the flames his daughter. the Baroness von

Verson, fell back and collapsed

with an anguished ory.

TOO SENTIMENTAL”

MORE THRASHING RECOMMENDED.

We are becoming too senti delinquents," said Miss Lilian mental about children and young, Barker, governor of the Girls' Borstal Institution at Aylesbury, recently,

Adding that she believed in first or second period probations, Miss Barker said that when girls came to her after being in prison they were then such a problem

was to be found in the very first that she wondered what they report of this particular suit. would do next.

As matters stand to-day in Germany, every serious pedago. thrashing would do some more "A jolly good old-fashioned gue is against every form of good than anything else," sha corporal punishment. In most added. of the secondary highor day-

When she first went to Ay.

DAVIE BOAG & Co. Carlisle had stated when paying schools, boys are kept in for lesbury she was the most senti

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their

There was no formal religious ceremony, no hymns wore sung and no prayers audibly rocifod.

"I have no fear of death," Mr.

for own cremation shortly be-smaller offences, fore his death. "I want nobody parents informed by letter of the earth. She loved the young mental person who every walked whom I leave to grieve. Thoro larger ones and invited to a dolinquents more now that she fore I have paid for und instruc-more or less unpleasant interview had to be a great doal harder. tod the organist to play the waltz with the headmaster, who will with them than when she thought from The Merry Widow."" thon discuss means of improve-love and kindness would work mont. But while caning is certainly a very great axception in these higher-grade schools, ears are boxed so frequently and

LIGHT MUSIC,

No clergyman was present, and there was no sound except that of the organ playing skilfully blend-so violently in class, and boys. ed light Gorman music.

ara cuffed so much as a matter

"Hardly anyone knew that the

control had to be taught as well. everything. Discipline and self-

At a cost of £50,000, an under-

of course, that it can by no ground dance hall and restaurant moans be maintained that is to bo built underneath the waltz was being played. Only a corporal punishment does not Tivoli Theatre, in the Strand. trained ear could have picked out exist. On the contrary, boys are snatches as the, organist, Mr. F.

at the

class mercy of the W. Belichamber, passed from master's nerves. The headmaster Schumann's "Reminiscences"

is generally not informed of these and **Nachstuck" to Men-

matters at all. dolssohn's "Allogrotto Lobesung.

The coffin was unveloped in a deep purple shroud and overal wreaths of carnations and lilies rested upon it. -

Wher Baroness von Verson collapsed she fell back fainting into her chair, and remained No. 2, Duddall Streat. Hongkong. there until after the doors of the

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cromation chamber were closed.

Thon, supported on either side by a member of the family, she was half carried out to a waiting

motor-car.

Afterwards the ashes were sprinkled in the Garden of Rest.

SINGAPORE CLUB,

TEMPORARILY CLOSED

DOWN.

For the first time in its history, at all events for the first time since it went into the building it occupied since 1879, the has Singapore Club has closed its hospitable doors to the members, and as there is no othor institu- tion to offer the dispossessed hos- pitality as is done in London and other big cities, there are many wanderers round the tablos of! other tiffin rooms for a few days. The removal into the new build- ings, part of the General Post Office, is taking place during the holidays, after which the substan- tial building will be handed over to the house-breakers long before it is old enough for destruction. The Club. verandah used to hel much narrower, and as the road alongside the soa had not then been made, it overhung the lap- ping and sometimes limpid waves. That was in the days of gas lamps and punkahs and not too much,ice: when the height of luxury in travelling was, a vic-) toria awaiting below the troes round the fountain; when Cavanagh Bridgo was the only way of getting across the river; when the merry S.V.A used to.sweat away at the seven inch muzzle loader in its emplacement behind the Marine Department and Pal Falshaw, bad his office in what was part of the old military build. ings of Fort Fullerton. Placid

days with so many joys of which Anno Domini has robbed the senior members. Singapore Prèvi Press.

Lutzow, has been suspended dur ing inquiries founded on com plaints made by the parents of In tuo olemontary schools, one boy. A medical committee among the six-year-olds, where has boon formed to sit on the women teachers are frequently pathological aspect of the affairs, employed for both boys. and should this aspect bo found to girls, it is maintained that dis- exist, Over five hundred cipline cannot be maintained witnesses, boys and old boys, without the cane. The younger have been called. the child, the rougher the home, the more efficacious the rod, the less likely any form of reasoning to prevail. All this is on the English system."..

in

At the outset there is the

argument that no koy is sent to a boarding school in Germany if he is getting on well in the or dinary higher-grade school, savo for pressing family reasons. The miestor of a boarding-school has therefore to deal with rathor more difficult material from one head-or other standpoint than the or- von dínary headmaster.-Observer.

In this particular case Berlin a boarding school is in question, one of the few which Germany possesses, and good repute hitherto.. Tho mautor, Freiherr Dr.

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