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MEN AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY A Cabin Boy't Romanes. Forty years ago a full-rljsged «hlp was Milling up th« great Indian river, tb« Hoogbly, On board wa» a wlstful- lookinc siilp's boy iioliBhIng th« brasa- ««, and dotibtless watching the gruut In her earlier days, Mra. Baldwin was a vory keen cricketer, and uaed to play for •'The Wlilt« Heutlier O'.ub," cunipused entirely of womoii members. Mrs. Baldwin, then MiHH RiUiKlule, lived at that time el itottlugdeun, near ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES city unfoWlng lUolf to hla admiring Hrlghlou. and she wa.s regarded as ona gaxe, I of the club's best players. Her bat- Th*t boy's n«xt visit to India wa« t'"8 av«ra«©. she said reoently, was in the capacity of Viceroy and Cover- j Blxtytwo In the year that she married. norOeneral, Ave years ago. Nowadays Mra. Baldwin does not It was In these words that the Earl I play cricket. But she is a frequent of Birkenhead recently epltoralzod the spectator at Lord's, and has taught her romantic career of the Marqueaa of Heading, who has returned on the com- plottou of his term of otlice. The new Marquess is fond of recall- ing hli experiences of those seafaring days. I once heard hhn say that he teemt more at eca than he probably two sous all that they know of the game; In the case of one of them, this is saying a good deal. Well Earned. To be given an honor or a decoration and not to be criticized Is a distinction tbat falls to few. No one bafi found would have done at Oxford. His two | j^^^ „,^ ^i,^ bestowal of a G.C.B. on yean before the mast were followed by a abort time on the Stock Exchange. Afterwards he became a barrister, and la less than ten years was earning £40,000 a year. Mrs. Baldwin at the Wicket ' Recent referencea by Mr. H. L. Col-, Ilns, the Australian cricket captain, to the cricket prowess of Mrs. Baldwin, â-  wife of the Prlm-o .Minister, surprised Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Keeper of the King's Privy Purse. Sir Frederick, who has rendered great service to our last three sovereigns, Is one of the most popular and respected of Court ofliclalB. It Is his task to disburse all the money granted for the King's personal use. He has discharged what Is a heavier responsibility than niosit peo- THE "INVENTION" OF NEW PUNTS FRUIT WIZARDRY ADDS TO THE WORLD'S WEALTH. many people who did not know of her j pie realize with great tact and courtll- tnterest In (be summer game. | nees. and found hla reward In the Joy of hav- ing done good work. The triumphs of the plant Inventor I are gained by patiently observing the ' laws of Nature, and by experiment. At the outset the Inventor may take two p>antB and sprinkle the pollen of one flower upon the stigma of the other, thus producing a new plant, which per^ haps breaks away from the form and character of both parents. Following this comes the selection of the very best plants or flowers created by a series of such breedings. The Instruments are simple â€" very of- ten only a camel's hair brush, with which to remove the pollen, and a watch-glass In which to carry It. But the patience required is endless. Some years ago a perfect mont- bretla, of a deep orange color, was shown at an exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was exhibit- ed by Mr. O. O. Davidson, who had spent twenty years in evolving It from the original weedy-Iooklng montbretla from South Africa. "The bloom you see here," he said, "has only been obtained after weeding out some W),0O0 unfit flowers." There are In Britain several greAt plant Inventors, among whom the most notable are the Garton brothers, of Warrington, and Sir Rowland Blffen, Consulting Botanist of the Uoyal Ag- ricultural Society. Farmers all over the world owo a dobt of gratitude to the Gartons, who have produced celoals (wheats, bar- leys, and oats), not only of finer White Blackberries, Stoneless Plums, Thornless Gooseber- ries Produced by Burbank. Just one new plant of the thousands Invented by the late Luther Burbank has added $17,500,000 to the annual In- come of the United Statee. This wa« the Burbank potato, which took the In- ventor live years to produce. There is no more wonderful romance In the hLstory of invention than that of this Califoruiun nursery gardener, who died Ju»t recently. In 1898, Bur- bank wa.s making a good living out of a large nursery garden; but all his thoughts were turned to the produc- tion of new plants, and he sold out In order to give his whole attention to plant breeding. Listen to what he has said of his experiences during the next few years. Couldn't Afford a Microscope. "I knew what it was to feel the pangs of hunger. 1 have slept In noisome places when 1 had no root to call my own. I have fought oft fever ] quality than any prevloualy known, but when I had not money enough to pay j aJso freer from disease and giving for the daily pint of milk which stood much heavier crops. Nature and Hobbies. j The' Child in a Muse. Learn to love that great wonderland The North Wind In his Igloo sits â€"out-of-doors. Be a lover of nature. Where arctic waters roll, not one who Is simply willing to toler- And weaves white blankets of the ate the gentle winds, the rays of the snow sun, the song of the birds, but one I To wrap the frozen Pole, > who eagerly climbs Into nature's lap 'â-  The East Wind has a bubbling pot He stirs and atirs away, â€" The brew of storms, o'er which steam Of fog hangs thick and gray. between me and iwsslble death, and for years 1 could not afford a micro- scope, BO Important an Instrument for my work." Yet, In one year before he died, 6,000 men, "embracing the very pick and flower of the sclntlflc life of two hemt- asklng for more light upon bis work, spheres," visited BurbaiUt, and he re- ceived nearly a hundred letters a day One of Burbank's most amazing achievements was to reform the cniel- ly spiny desert cactus. He Induced Help for Farmers. Crossing wheats Is delicate and dif- ficult work, for the flowers are solf- fertllislng. Just before the bloom shows, the lesser embryo kernels are cut away with the dissecting scissors and the remaining florets robbed of their anthers. If any trace of pollen Is left In the floral envelope. Nature will complete the fertilising herself. When pollinated, a tiny hood of tissue IKiper muet be drawn over the head of to hear her relate her stories. There is always something to learn and to enjoy in nature. Even If one is on a desert, there are still the sky, the clouds and the sand-grains at one's feet. The greatest and most per- fect picture gallery In the world Is out-of-doors; yet, at first It is ex- tremely difficult to select one scene from anions them all, and have eyes 'The South Wind Is a lazy blade for It alone. To do this Is the power i A child .of sun and spring of the artist. He of skilled eye for beauty sees something In nature, which if taken from its surroundings, would bo perfect In Itself. Begiu to study bits of nature, 'single out pictures here and there, forget ! their great mass of surroundings, and j try to find how much you can discover ' In a little. The practice will make na- i ture nearer and more beautiful to you; j'"^'-'^^'' 'â- '^^" "'" Bowes-Lyons of her it will quicken your selective power I "'»^''<""'« 8'<ls- make you a iwet and an artist; it wlil j '^'** "^'^ Princess Is blue-eyed and picture itself in the music you play I The West Wind Is a sallmaker; He fashions out of cloud Royal and main and flying Jib To make a tall ship round. He frolics with the birds and bees, And never does a thing. â€" Minna Irving. .> .- New Royal Baby "Takes After" Her Father. The Duke and Duchess of York's Lamps and Lights. No doubt the foolish vlrglna of whom Christ told us In the parable had ex- cellent lamps. If there were changing styles In lamps, these girls very likely had the latest, most attractive and most popular. Some of the lamps may have been old, genuine antiques, family heirlooms, greatly cherished and proudly displayed. The old ones were doubtless well polished. It waa an Important occasion, and the lamps were all In good order. They lacked only olll; and there came a time when there was need of oil. Having had a share In perhaps a thousand weddings. It does not sur- prise this writer that flve of the vir- gins forgot something. Bridesmaids frequently do. And what was more easily forgotten than oil? Oil was such messy stoff, and so liable to soil a wedding garment. There surely would be other girls there with more baby daughter "takes after" her father °" !."*'* they needed. It would be easy. and be reflected in the music you fair-haired, and very much resembles the children of the King and Queen In Remember there are "'°''' ^^'''^ infancy. Owing to thjs fact I wheat, so us to prevent any meddle- It to shed Its spines and produce ;s<,„,o mg^ct bringing pollen from an- smooth leaves flt for fee<llng cattle, â-  other flower while lU fruit reached a perfection i Beardless 'barley, which Is also a never attained by tliat of the wild oao- j „,„ch heavier cropper than older sorts, tus. Itxjses, blackberries, raspberries, j^ another of the Garton Inventions, and gooseberries he also persuaded to | a variety from NepaJ was Imported to act jji one ot the parents of this new think. many poets who do not write. Natrue monopolizes more hobbles than all the arts combinetl. You might spend all your hours out of doors watching her phases, and after a life- time come away a child. Nature lo wonderful because she is exhaustless. The wonders of "Arabian Nights" are surpassed In any part of your garden pIot.~Thomn.>( Tapper, In "Chats With Music Students." shed their horns Huctling the Chestnut. This man of miracles did as he pleased with plants. The dahlia is a lovely flower, but lt» odor Is coarse. barley. The Gartons have done for cereals what Luther Burbank has done for flowers and fruit, and farmers who use and to some people unpleasant. Bur- Ihelr seeds can grow from ftfty to one bank produced one with the rich, de- hundred per cent more wheat to the llclous scent of a magnolia. | acre than their fathers could. The Walnuts and chestnuts produce valu- 1 '^a'uo of the plant Inventor's work Is able nut*, but take long to come Into beyond price, for It Is he, and he alone, bearing. Burbank produced a new! who c-an save our descendants from chestnut which began to bear at a ; ye«r old, and bad a fine crop the see- ; ond year. He made a new walnut; which grew so fast that In thirteen j years it was six times the size of an { old-fa Rhinni-d walnut twenty-eight years old. | He producwl ."JOCOOO distinct varle- 1 ties of plums, some slonolcss, and all i different In foliage, fruit, and keeping ! qualities; 60,000 different pouches and' nectarines; 5.000 almonds; 2,000 cher the food fiiniino which will threaten if populalloiis keep on Increasing as they are doing at present. Labor Saving. "Bobby, t see your music teacher coming. Have yon washed your face and hands?" "Yes'm." "And your ears?" "Va, the one that will bo next to . rie»; 2,000 pears; 3,000 apples; 1,000 crapes; 6,000 walnuts; and 5.000 cheat- nuts; besld** many thousands of other fruits and flowers. Twenty Years for a Bloom. Thta plant wir.ard made 65,000 ex- perlmtnts with blackberries, out ot which he saved one plant only -his fajnous white blackberry. He used aometlnieK as many a« a million dif- ferent plants In one te»t. and aiore than once rejeefod almoet every one ot a million new products. He would k*eip only the best, and ono« burned 68,000 two and three year o*d berry bnahaa In one bonflrs, and had foui^ t*«B other bonflre* of similar slxe on bli place In on* summer. Money h« mad* Is large amount*, but b» would cot spsnd it on hlmMlf. â-²U his earrings went back Into his sx- perlmenta. Soma yaors ago he (son- r»a«»d to having put $250,000 of hit own earnings lalo hia work. No patent can be obtain^ for aay Innprovement in plant), and Burbank ofUn aald that b« was glad th»( waa to. H« put an- toM mUlJrna Uito th* pockets of othera I her." Sir James Cantile Dies; Famed English Surgeon. Sir James Cantile, noted surgeon, died on May 29th, In London. He was a close friend of the late Dr. Sun Yat- Sen, helping him to escape from Im- prisonment in the Chinese legation In Iv<jndou in 1898. air James Cantile was the founder and president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1921- 23, and latterly was consulting sur- geon of the Semneu's Hospital Society. His career in medicine dated back to 1872, and Included such. service as head ot the cholera expedition to Egypt In 1883, dean ot the College of Medicine for Chinese, 1889-96; plague ollicer for London, county council and consulting surgeon In London for the Norllieastern Hallway Company. Ho write many hooks on medical nnd sur- gical subjects. Sir James was horn '.n 1851. He was created a knight In 1918. Mayfalr has been speculating whether, like her fatlier, the baby will be left- handed. Queen Mary, herself, like the little Princess, Is recorded In the royal fam- ily letters as having been an especially pretty and good-tempered baby, who never cried at night. Votes for Women. Artistâ€" "This picture Is a bit of ancient Greece, entitled 'Votaries of Artemis.' " they may have thought, to borrow some when It was needed. Unfortun- ately it was not. There is something tragic In the preparation which had filled the minds of these girls tor weeks beforehand, but which lacked the one thing which they were most certain to require. All In all, we are doing quite enough for the outside of life. We spend quite enough for automobiles and amusements and for such comfort and culture as we have. But the spiritual requisites of life are not cheaply bor- rowed at a minute's notice at the mid- night hour of need. No man can ride in two automobiles at once, and no young woman has need of more than one fur coat at any one time. We soon reach the limit of the good that can accrue to us from ma- terial things. They have their value. They are not to be despised. The wd- dlng fast and the wedding garment and the wedding festivity are all legiti- mate. But none ot them are market- able In exchange for oil. These were la all probability very attractive girls. It they had been at the wedding, their costumes would I have been admired, and they them- Mrs. TaUtimberâ€" "My, I didn't know j geiyes would not have passed through the throng unnoticed. It was unfor- tunate that tliey were not among those present. the Qireek women had votes in them days." Sailors. "So the shark took -your leg?" "Yes, but I wanted a new one, any- how, the eld one being too short." Sons List Ex-Crown Prince as Rural Squire. F '» k Wllhelm and Louis Ferdinand, sons tpitapn. of the former Crown Prince Frederick ^°'^ *'"*^?' '"spired with certainty, who William, have entered the University of Bonn, the traditional alma m.nter of the Hohonzollerns. Wllhelm wl'.l study law and Louis Ferdinand will take a purely cultural letters and science course. In the Matriculation papers was the question as to their father's occupation. The youths designated the former Crown Prince as "Gutshesitzer," which means O-slatJ owner or country squire. going PuUic L3>r>riet Keeping Paoa With IncreMed Public Interest in Music The proTlston of mti*lc la puMio libraries la sometihlng which is receiT' ing much more atteatlon tbae in for- mer years. The M©trop!>lit*n Borough of Fins- bury Library, in London, England, wa» one of the flr»t to provide muaic, and during recent years considerable addi- tions have been made. A cUtssifled cataiogue of the collection ha» recent- ly been lseu«d, and a casual glance through its two hundred and fifty I>ages reveals the comprehensive sclec- itlou of music which is available. The catalogue is divided into tbr«« parts: Music, instrumental and vocal; history and criticism of music; and in- struction and study of music. All col- lections and albums con'talulug muslo by various composer* have been anal- yzed and classified, and each piece 1« catalogued imder the composer'* name. Work» ot individual composers have also been analyzed and classlfled, and by this means the catalogue shows Bill composers represented In the col- lection, €ind also their work ft itcy sj?e- clal form. Instrumental music is represented by works for organ, piano, vioUn, 'cello, string and quartetee and lajger combinations of strings full orchestral pieces and military band music. The vocal music includes vocal scores of operas, oratorios, cantatas, and a large number of songs for solo voice. In all sections there Is music to satisfy both the cultivated musician and the amateur. Good Indices are provided^ enabling the Inquirer to find out what compositions by a given oomposier are in the library or what the library has of any certain form of music. To other public libraries building up thetr col- lections this catalogue should prove most useful. â€" « Piano Pla3ring Increases in Favor of Audiences. With the growth of the piano, it has become possible to play for much greater audiences. In the time ot Liszt, piano recitals or concerts at which the piano was a solo Instrument were given in halls for about six hun- dred or seven hundred people, even less. Now recitals are given also In halls for from three to five thousand, auditors. The piano made to meet the genius of Franz Llszit has made this possible. This larger and grander instrument demands a very different technical treatment than that which Cesl em- ployed with his ten boolis of exercises, which were very largely devoted to digital training as dissociated from the rest of the playing apparatus. No long- er is piano playing a mere matter ot lifting the fingers from the keyboard and hammering them down. The muscles must have more swing to them. In fad, the w^hole upper part of the body must have the suppleness, ease, grace and spring that character- ize the mus-cles ot a great dancer. Moreover, with the playing apparatus In this condition. It Is possible to transmit the musical thoughts ct the brain to the fingers, so that each fin- ger becomes a kind ot Individual sub- artist painting colors', yet controlled. In the old-fashioned school of which Cesl was the exponent, the colors were missing. There might have been per- fection ot design and great accu"acy, but, compared with the modern siyl« it waa like comparing a colorless etcb- Ing with a great oil painting. The Value of Early Musical Association. Patents whose musical education has been neglected should not deny their children that which they haT« been unable or unwilling to attain. Be- cause a man cannot read he does not deprive bis child ot the opportunity ot attending school. A musdcal educa- tion, that Is an appreciation and know- ledge ot good music, is not expensive in these days ot mo<;erate-priced in- struments. And early association with good music Is of Inestimable valuie to every child, and this can only be obtained outside the large cities by means ot the phonograph. To many parents I who Intend giving their children musl- Exultant ways to death, obeyed high I cal instruction, the question perhaps '''^'^' I arises as to whether a phonograph In And for th.ose others who, bitterly i the home might not detract from the knowing jsitudy of the piano or the violin. The Their cause was futile, stayed to | opposite effect oJ the phonograph In serve their cause. '. ti,e home can perhaps be more easily â€"Rupert Croft-Cooke. [ understood who-i it Is realized that to -- «- â-  attain a degree ot perfection in any Some ".ower forms of life can exist su^J!^''' *"<'*' ^^ music, the creative in- stinct, the desire to produce, must be Bufl'iclpntly strong to make the neces- sary effort and laber well worth whiles without oxygen. The Inevitable Phrase. Finality of expression Is one of those literary quaUtlc; Instantly recogniz- able in the ovent, anil not In the least susceptible of analy.ds. There Is the unerring selection of the word, the pre- cise turn of phrase, the ultimate fit- ness of form, plus something bej'^nd deriolilon which, along with t>es* i others, contributes to the feeling ot ' Inevitability.- -David Morton, In "Th* Sonnet To-day- and YeMarday." NEARINQ COMPLETION New Oovenuneirt building for the Canadian National Kxhlbltlon, Exhibition Park, Toronto, shown In the final stages of exterior construction. The buUdtng, wtolot wiU house th* goTamment exhibit*, will be ready for the fair opening 1a the autumn. The estimated coat is half a million. The Otnclal R*ply. An old itoldler, on leaving th* Armyy' wrote to his colonel as follow*: "Sir, â€" After what I've sulferad, t*li the Army to go to blase*." H» received a reply in the usual oiij ficlal manner: "^Ir, -Any •uggMtlon* or as'to nwvement* o( trc ^ entered on Army rona UUTf^ i ot which I am «n«hMta»'* taaoMi^