SCHOOL holidays are over-and the laddie in the pictura knows it! But now the boginning of term no Tongar moans a ratum jo torras or todium. Below is described the revolution which "has changed modem school life.
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OOD-BYE, Jack, Good-bye, Jill." You can hear it in your street. I hear it in my atroot. It's Mother seeing the children off to school.
And it does your heart good to listen to the lit of their voices as they call the last Good-bye before they go out of sight, Bometimes, though, there is a bit of a quaver in Jack's voice-If he is a little Jack.
And if he is a big Jack?
Well, I know of a Jack who asked his mother, to wave from behind the front-room curtains so that the other boys shouldn't laugh at him.
Which illustrates exactly the Englishman's attitude
ment.
to senti.
Nowadays, school is not just round
the corner.
Unili a few years nyo, this Good- byo ritual was a pretty simple business. Jack's school and Jill's ent- school wore almost within alot, and both of them came trot- ting home for theft mid-day dinner,
But It's different to-day. Even the younger children may lavo quile u considerable tromp to their brand new Junior school, Seniors." and 1 Jack and Jill are then
experienced they become travellers. Going to school, in their case, may mean a journey of several miles by bus, cycle.
train, or Shank's pony.
So that when Mother sees them of in the morning, she knows that she won't see them again unto the evening,
Jack and Jill have been caught up
in a revolution.
The revolution which happens overnight has a short life. The most effective in that which takes place slowly, and without fuss. It affects your life before you know that It's commenced. That is the sort of revolution which has com- pletely changed school life for Jack and Jill, and is perplexing Mother.
Mr. Hadow started it eleven 'years ago. He said that there should be a break in a child's education at the age of clóven, and that he should then move into an- other type of school and receive a different kind of Instruction.
The Board of Education was at
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Not So Uphill
for Jack & Jill
the back of him, The teachers Joined in. So did the Local Autho- rities, some of them rather ro- luctantly.
The result was that sweeping changes in the traditional system wore of elementary education initiated. The revolution has been going ever since, and has touched the lives of all the in Achool children clementary
Great Britain.
But it is not finished yot. No, not by a long wayl
This is what it already has done
for Jack and Jill,
It has brought them out of that old type of school where they would have eat under the same root and played in the same old yard from the age of five to four- teen. At eight they move into a Junior school, leaving the Infants' school behind them, and at eleven they pass to a Sentor school where they remain until they are four- teen.
"It has closed down that grimy building with its barrack like play- ground, its dull and inconvenient classrooms, ita lack of essential sanitation, and is obsolete" fur- niture, and it has put them into a fine buliding complete with every With necessary, and furnished some luxurica,
But more than those, the revolu- ilon has completely changed our outlook on education, with amaz-
far-reaching ing And
consc-
THE CHINESE SOLDIER
which the Chinese side of the Allies, she learned nothing THE Recount
troops have been giving of them- in direct military experience from selves at Shanghai and elsewhere that struggle. has destroyed our old notions of the Chinese soldier as a fighting-man, the importance of the part played by
Indirectly she learned much, and
the 100,000 coolles who made the 12,000-miles journey to the battle- helds and buses of France and Flan- ders has perhaps been underesti- mated.
The Chinese method of making war was for long a source of amuse- ment to the European, but the days when the staple weapon of the
Those men who were largely re- Chinese "Tommy" was the bow-and- arrow, when soldiers went into ge- cruited from Shantung, were thrown tlon carrying bird cages and tons, into contact with an allen civilisation when the umbrella was a regular and received In France a bodily and part of military equipment, have a mental discipline foreign to their long since passed.
nature.
This change in the old order of Evening Classes for Troops Oriental warfare, to which we have
accustomed ourselves in the ease of
In cases where they were to some
Japan, may have brought the Enst into line with the West in the matter exient drilled, they proved efficient
of fighting, but it is a tragic change, and even smart, while in the hands
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of their student-Interpreters, they enthusiastically initiated Into The average Westerner, wrote were Okakura Kakuzo, in that highly ca- the tenets of Chinese Nationalism. Bghtening book of his on the mean-
On their return to China they acted ing of ten a few years ago, "waa as an important lever, and in 1924- wont to regard Japon as barbarous it was largely these men who were while she indulged in the gentle arts the mainstey of Die Cheklang troops of peace: He calls her civiilsed since befare Shanghai in the defence of Kiangsu ahe began to
arsenal against the commit wholesale the alaughter on Manchurian baltle- forces, when refugees poured into Shanghai by thousands instead of felds."
pouring out of R as they are doing
Modern Methods
now,
But if the lankier and more stouch- Changed as Oriental militarisin is, ing Northerner can be licked into the Iden that warfare in China is a shape, the sturdier and more solid Southerner is even belier material, Gilbert and Sullivan affair dies hard, and to the greater contact of and the laughter which followed the Southem China with Europe must announcement in the House 6 Com- be traced the wider response of the mona by British Prime Minister South to Western ideals and methods. not so long ago that a: Northern
In the emergence of China from Chinesa commander had made terms
medievalism, education with the Nationalists and had been the fog of appointed to command the, 41st and militarism have gone hand in Education has always been Southern Army was no doubt partly hand. prompted by the mowledge that, at one of the chief planks of the Na one time at least, whole realments tionailst programme, and even the In China, scheduled as on the strength," existed on paper alone.
The
During the regime of General Feng camera has been the mont Yu-islang at Changleh, in Hunan, powerful means of "wrling-off" the troops under his immediate com- these antiquated notions, and the mand attended evening classes and, nowa pictures which are beginning in the Army workshops, officera and to arrive from the scene of the pro- men alike were taught a trade. So sent operations spenk eloquently of advanced was the Changtch military change.
school that its training included
mnastic exercises.
-BY-
CHARLES WARRELL
quences to the instruction given to
·Jack and Jill.
This is the sort of school they at-
tend now.
Bchool authorities are proud of it. They have reason to be.
It is new in concepilon, new in construction, new in its purpose. It is more, much more, than a mero building. It provides both inspiration and stimulus to those who occupy it. Externally.
is delightful. It Lawns and
flower-lined paths lead to its entrances. Wide verandahs and sunny quadrangles add to its charm. Smooth, green playing fields stretch in the distance. There is an air of space and graci- ousness about it.
Internally, it has all-or nearly all-which the heart of man, or child, could desire.
The light and airy classrooms have doors flung wide on to lawns and gardens; there is a noble and spacious hali; the furniture throughout is fit for a prince; the decorations are in keeping.
And then the amenities!
A gymnasium, with changing rooms and shower baths; a, stuge, which is the last word in lighting and planning: a special room for fm projection; telephones and electric clocks in every room; hot water in the cloak rooms, and dry- for wet clothes: a ing cubicles "cookery room, which Jill says that even Mrs. Becton could not im- prove; selence rooms, which, with their machinery, their tools and their working models, are a source of never-ending fasenation to Jack; and a wealth of equipment generally throughout the school which makes some of the older teachers rub their eyes,
Truly Jack and Jill are fortunate children.
But what about Peter and Mary,
and all the rest of them! All that's the rub.
For every school like Jack and Jill's there are a hundred of the old ones still in use.
There are nearly a thousand schools all on the "Black List," that la, they have been listed as very unsuitable by the Board of Education.
Rats enter some of them and
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cat the children's dinners. Rain Ink comes in through the roof. freezes in the inkwells. Water has to be carried from A stream or pump. Decent sanitation is lack- ing. Walls are damp and crumb- ling. The deska cry out for a bon- Arc.
In furniture and Attings Dothe- boys Hall lives again in some of these classrooms.
And bear in mind that only the very worst of the schools are on the "Diack List." There are many more which depress the mind of the child and sap the vitality of the teacher.
But the revolution still goes on.
And now the greatest change of
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When Juck and Jill leave school they will enter a rapidly changing world. A world which daily be come smaller, a world in which the distant peoples come nearer, a world in which no one can be iso“. lated or independent.
They will live a life which moves at a faster rate, which will tax them more in their working hours, and from which they will expect more in their leisure hours.
Radio, the sound films, and the universality of travelling, will greatly, affect their contacts and their experiences.
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ALLERGY? TRAVEL SERVICE
strawberries bring you out in
rash, you are on allergle person. Medical science has long recognised that there was more than a grain f truth in the old saying. "One man's ment is another man's polson."
Hay fever is probably the com monest allergic disease, but current medlen opinion inclines to the view that allergic disorders are far more widespread than was formally sup posed. It is probable that the com imon cold is often allergic in origin.
There is no one substance or group of substances that alone causes olfer gle disorders. Almost any substance of plant or animal origin may be the offending agent.
Asthma is anollier common siler- ale disease, but five successive cases of astiima may revent five different calises. In rare Instances the agonis may be intangible. Heat, light, and cold have been found to be responsi ble in the great majority of cases. Anything that a person. eats, drinks, inhales, wears, er even touches may give rise to an allergic complaint.
The disorder may take the form of a cold, hay fever, asthma, other respiratory diseases, digestive tro bles, skin eruptions, and nervous dis-. turbances.
Sensitive to Smells
Some people are extremely send- live to nllcrgle substances, minule quantities being sufficient to produce extreme effects. In some instances even a smell will start the reaction.
en-
The odour of chrysanthemums is a Case in point. All nursery forenen know that chrysanthemums produce unpleasant
effects on certain ploy ces. As soon as the plants coING into bud 31 is necessary to mave the "sensitive" workers from the chrysanthemum houses; oflier- wise they will be aff duty for some weeks with all the symptoms f blood-poisoning,
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Many fabrics used for clothing have allergic properties. Rayon is the slightest offender among the textiles. Fur is general offender. fur-lined gloves being u frequent
cause of trouble. People who are not sensitive to fabrics are sometimes sensitive to the dyes with which they are coloured.
er.
Sometimes we read of an action brought against the manufacturer of some article of attire on the ground that it caused dermatitis in the wear- So far as I know the defence of allergy has never been put for ward, but there is little doubt that many of these cases are brought by Allergic persons, and that the articles of clothing responsible for the trouble could have been wom by olker people with impunity.
Anti-Chocolate An uncensing propaganda from a variety of sources will test their judgment. Their own country will depend on their spirit and their understand. ing. Their own lives will be made or marred by themselves,
Peoplo are asking if modern edu- cation is keeping pace with modern demands.
Mr. Wells sayalit isn't, but then he is hopelessly out of touch with the schools. He pêers so much into" the future that he cannot recog- nise the present.
As far as the elementary schools are concerned, the change which has taken place in the buildings themselves is more than matched by the change in the education Elven in them.
Jack and Jill have teachers with a new outlook; the work is planned with a new purpose and with n new alm: new curricula la fol- lowed; now methods are used,
Make no mistake about it. The elementary schools are fitting Jack and 31 to play their part in mak- ing a new world.
p..................To-day's Thought-
MOTORISTS HAVE
None of the claims made in favour
of using a coloured, and in particu- lar a yellow headlight beam for mo- for cars, rather than a white beam of no greater power, has been sub- stantiated.
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The claim for a greater range of visibility in fog may be regarded as definitely disproved.
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TAKE care of the sense, and the sounds toill take care of themselves.
--LEWIS CARROLL,
Foods are powerful allergic agents. and the disorders they cause are not always gastric in type. Food allergy has been responsible for such widely varying effects as migraine, bronchial asthma, eczema, and sinus conges- tion.
Chocolate upsets some folk, Eggs, sh, milk, and cereals are literally poison to the unfortunate people who happen to be sensitive to these whole- some foods. Some patients"resen sive to entire groups of foods, such ns fruits, cereals, meals, or vegetn- bles.
If the reactions are delayed, us frequently happens in cases of lood allergy, the sufferer has no suspicion that on item of diet may be cause of all his trouble.
Anyone who suffers from a chronic complaint that occurs from time to time without apparent rhyme or rea- son, should suspect food allergy and should endeavour, by a process of elimination, to identify the particu lar food that is causing the trouble. It may be a food of which the indi- vidual is particularly fond,
Household pets have no place in the home of an allergic person. Minule particles of hair or fenther disturbances Inay
chronic cause among human beings, and the com plaints will not yield to treatment until the cause In each case is dis- covered.
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In this class of complaint dingnosis difficult, especially as we have little idea how far the ramifications of allergy may extend, and Jack a complete list of diseases that can be
BEEN WRONG caused in this way.
When allergy is suspected the only satisfactory method of diagnosis, apart from an eliminating diet in the case of foods, is the injection of ex- tracls. Hundreds of extracts made from different substances are kept in
"Are they right? An authorita- tive statement is grently needed. This paper suppiles, in a simple man- ner, the answer which melenco gives | à refrigerator. to the question."
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In turn, a drop of each extract is There was no evidence, states the injected under the patient's skin. The report, that in the objects and back-allergic substance causes the appear- ance of a swelling about the size of grounds illuminated by a driver's a florin around the injection. As the
takes placo within renetion headlights there was a predominance of one colour which could be turned minutes, It is possible to test for to advantage by the use of a colour the more common agents in n horl time, but when an obscure substançe' Is at the root of the trouble, the test- ing period may run into weeks. Influence of Iferedity
WIG
On the other claims for less daz-
Alter over the headlights, nor there sny evidence to show whether zle and greater. facilty of vision the use of a colour filter would in the evidence is inconclusive; but it practice affect the ease with which is apparent from the information the eye could detect objects by that further meins of the differences in colour present available tuchuns of the North were not alow to realise its advantages.
work is unlikely to show that any they presented,
Allergie disorders are not conlagi- considerable odvantago
ous, but they are definitely heredi- can be Toro was no evidence, either,
tary or rather inheritable. The curl- that the power of the cys to perceive ous thing la that secured by using coloured light. .
specific complaint transmitted, This is the uniwer scientists have contrasts of brightness in tho pro is rarely
only the sence of a dazzling light was ent-
general ability to allergic trouble. given to the vexed question whether hanced I similar colour filters were
If both parents are sensitive it! a coloured head-light is worth while. placed over the dazzling light and
an even chance that their children over the light Illuminating the ob- It is given in a report issued re-
will show signs of allergic disorders before they are ten years old. It cently by the Department of Selenti. Jects viewed.
only one parent is sensitive, the like- Ae and Industrial Research.
lihood that the children will inherit the trait is much reduced and the age of onset is retarded.
Allergy
may hiso develop spon taneously in an individual. are many cases of allerglo hay fever nnd asthma in which the parents of the sufferer are non-allergie in all respecta, as far as can be ascertained. While it is not possible to clasify
The old methods, which persisted
Once before in China's history the up to the time of China's war with Japan in 1804 and even na Into a from the North, and under the Tor- spirit of military enterprise como the Boxer Rebellion, had begun, at tor dynasty China was a military the opening of the present century,
constantly engaged power, to vanish.
frontier warfare. Modern arifliery made a op- Her soldiery pressed as far as the penrance in China, and it was used gates of Budapest. The significance with good effect In the attack on of that fact is often forgotten; the Tientsin. But though China nomin- fact itself is seldom remembered. C. G. ally entered the Great War upon the
On the other hand, there was the evidence of one Investigator that in "Many thousands of motorists," clear weather the range of visibility Mr. C. C. Paterson, Chairman of of an object was increased about six the Department's Illumination Re- per cent, by, the use of ɲ yellow NI-. search Committee, writes a pre- for. This goin was bberved, at fatory note, "use headlights giving ranges of about 900 feet. · At the coloured Hght, because they baileye shorter distances at which the mo- that coloured light is better than forist was more concerned to see white light of the same power for objects, the advantage of the yellow driving at night or in fog.
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day,
B 1is one object may be to give
sauce,
One of the strings.
10 implicate.
11 A bit of a talk with a foreign
anirani.
12 Melba's name.,
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13 When rice pursues her, you know the bride's full name.
14 Dors the careful diel include
this silce?
16 Has a quick ending.
17 There are some things you wouldn't think of doing for
one.
10 Dish.
21 Sphere.
22 You are sure to find an hotel
in this Irish place.
24 This score is eighty. 25 Girl's name,'
20 Book of the Bible. 20. Blemiali
and
ollen
Enilor brought home from the East. 31. The meeting of both puzzles a poor fellow.
often
32 Reception st & poultry show? 33 A style of furniture.
34 Inevitable in conversation. 35 None too good on the pins.
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1 Book of the Bible,
2 Necessary when sides split? a A Welshman ascends in church. 4 Complaint,
& Turned out, but not elected.
A German town,
7 No rude. Scot la out of the
forces.
15 Their (hyphen, 5 and 5),
19 The total's only 40, and the other nine don't seem to have distinguished themselves (two words, 3 and 5).
20 Mese (hyphen, 4 and 4).
23 An eleven would scarcely define this as survive, although near It
20 As much as one could desire, 27 In this head there's something
odd.
130 Altered diet.
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Allerale persons are to be found all allergic individuals in a single).
on the whole, the mainly in the white-collar oction of group, they are,
and particularly more sensitive people in the general the population, zense of the word. They respond among professional men, of the crea more quickly to sense stimull than tive and administrative type,
B. II. Townsend non-allergic individuals.
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