NOTES AND COMMENTS It takes a brave man in these days to defend the old college .training, which is fiercely attacked by countless numbers of assailants both at home and abroad. There are even intimations that it was worse than nothing, as when Sir Richard McBride, the prime minis- achieved success if they had been | college-trained, Sir Richard recognizes the fact|j17 that there are different kinds of success and says that he does not underestimate the cultural worth of an academic course, but he adds ‘that a purely academic scholarship is not what is required by men and university graduates have not been educated with a definite aim, and that much of the curriculum of the onmiinary student is futile because it is accepted by him as the conclu- of mental effort on his own part. This criticism is in line with much that is being written, but it should not be assumed from it that there has been no change or that changes have. been provokingly slow. For, as a matter of fact, a revolution has taken place in the last thirty years and it has pene- trated even the most conservative of institutions, Unquestionably, moreover, it is a response to the demands of human experience. i Still, there is a limit to the par- ticular rule of reason that — Sir Richard would establish. Youth is soning processes, taking its preliminary exercise it eannot afford to look too scornful- ly upon mere acquisition. What we acquire between the ages of 10 and a 20 comes easiest and stays longest. ponemient but a complete shutting out. The dangers of exclusion are not all confined to the older train- ing, and in these discussions we should guard against overempha- bis at any poin’ ee A course in swimming has been ldedto the’ acquired »studies in the public schools of Pittsburgh, | /~ and Dr. Watson Savage is quoted as saying that he will see to it that every child in the city is taught to swim. This is a step in public education that deserves the hearty “approval of every parent and every seeker of the public wel- fare. “To ride, to-shoot and-to- speak-|avert _ the truth’’ was the ancient Persian ideal of education. Needless to say, this was for boys only; girls in this day fare better than when the maxim was made, They are taught to exercise as well as to develop|; their brains nowadays, Alike ‘boys and girls ought to learn to swim, and the public should provide means| figured in of teaching that most valuable and ae ttle _ pleasurable accomplishment. wimming is a splendid sport; it oes - Swimm develops muscle rarely nsed other sports and its usefulness is beyond question. Yet compara- ee few persons ine to swim. into the element with, y| An ‘ated ance of the “past was that of Mr. P. : a who took Ve sake for Ireland as neve! DISAPPEARANCE OF PEOPLE SCOTLAND YARD POLICE GIVE THE FIGURES. More People ‘‘Went Down’’-on the Titanic Than Were On Board. Since the year 1907 Scotland Yard returns show that the most remarkable thing about these-figures isthe fact that 3,260 peorle have meee vanished. r be kno iti is as though the palate poe a village had entirely disappeared in the short space of six years. In 1911 28, 958 persons were re- Of these 10,416 ered by the police an ae 18,075 Teenee! on This leaves a total of 467 still unac- counted for. Taking an average over the six years, one person in London every day has vanished ne- ver to be seen or heard of again. official hnnel of the dee; romance surrounding many of the individual ¢: ss of eas plays a very large part.. Doctors who have this curious mental state have put it down to the delirium of speed temporarily and the mind becomes a blank, The Craving for Adventure, The public has been alarmed of n a _proporti these cases there may be eal cause ior apprehension. But the police are satisfied that in the majority the disappearnce is intentional, be- weed in the care of their relatives. In order to avoid very just admonition the culprit often hesorte to inyent- ing an ‘abductor. feature. _Early in the eighteenth century a girl ee Elizabeth ee: dis- Sane om her home and evad- ed all efforts to aidoaver tee She returned after a month. Her. story was that the gipsies had stolen her. After further ives isayine: fae ing the execution prieved and Elizabeth detest was charged with perjury. found guilty and sentenced to transportation for a period of se- yen years. was suggested then that the ‘irl fabricated the story in order to unishment. seems little doubt that neurotic young girls of to-day who leave home in a state of hysteria resort to - similar plan to avert parental wra Sick of yeah. ae anietonilng. ease of past years, re- of twenty years. covered him by chance abroad, and Waring explained that he had sim- ply | Resins sick to'death of the re- strictions which tocial etiquette and orenality. is moye- n M.P. Who Vanished. nother -disappear- t Jasper Pyne, + him at the stage door and cee, ial went to the . | frien. hae calling = a lady; poor is her ‘pres | More. Ss Ire. ly adrift. ae the irae in ch i pees hose seeps im- itis” “reco ue re ae semen pee to ly J sete ge ree tor hi lf x wi! ate pal i re has begun to re ‘use, wighiren Sain aS » in the Woodrow. Wilt for a es to. W ther ree gone. Grimaldi ne him agai As the vears have aed they have iy ireles: graphy, better aes organi aes aoe all, oe ee pic- path of those studied | }#! ape Neither is this an entirely modern |¢ . | might rest if he could ir hi Then a friend dis- : Loa grassy 1 ‘idge in oS CLIMBING FOR LIFE. A Government Surveyor Tells of a Thrilling Experience, Most adventures that e: eee meet ie pee from a Tack of fo thought. In his book, ‘ "Drailing oe ocaee in Ate Mr, one of his party—very . Powell himself—was led tried to climb a ledge of white spar that could be plainly seen from the he could not ides Steet one in his toes. If he could ascend a few hundred feet, he might lower himself down a draw by the coe of scattering alder brush. He spen another hour in, getting to That Hae only to discover a precipice the path he had expected to de- There was another sence left ; he might climb to the top of the spur, far above. ivi man could have clung to the face of that preeice a minute if it had not been for the moss that was rooted in the climbing — until about ten o'clock, when he paused im, gaze to the rock ‘wall; a foot from his face. en near the summit, he found himself face to face with a perpen- dicular wall about twelve feet high. sat for a few m teat << a ee rock that lay at the foot of the wall ; then with his knife he cut niches for finger and toe-holds. Holding ‘on by these, he climbed up and dug a sort of trench through the moss on the rim above, through which he He finally nerved himself to the and drew himself from the rock which, with the pressure of the de- parting foot, said good-bye, and went bumping down, down, down. The man was left elinging to the nie one and life above, sure death b: ig Bee of sweat stood on his Horhend as he steadily worked up, up, and held with one hand while he: ook the other into alder stem, an ine! bench apparently for the purposa os giving help on tried its strey eee himself pad and lie on the wy where he thought of childhood. d days; frieide far. own. fol cE Mero ms eM one way out, an that w: a six- oS shelf aleaes one hundred feet to the west- A sloping could « tie ae by. “wedi ai tothe ae wall, He set off along | careful not kk down from = dizzy poale to as distan us ted ES complete col: roid baromete | above: the feat -omp|: ane a thankful mo! se. His aner ) feet, watch to! hi past oe in How Goins ‘Evaporates. One pint of — sees in an w ish t years a, i one for person with the ambi ion to re an th Sptees ot great oa afford an eres the presence in the ed for From the last peti a the King f Belgium. tak SEE IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS SIGHT IS A SHREWD GUESS OF THE BRAIN. Some Temperaments See \ Things That Are About To, But _ Don’t, Happen. What we call ‘“‘s only a shrewd guess on the part of the active brain of the truth which is ater centred, by the eyes. In other our eyes are continu- ally antiacig the things which them ‘A ro ae yellow object is: flashed before you and you at once call it But you reach this de- Your beau secu perience to ociate with things of spherical shape and yellowish color, jumps to the con- ot ae eles of similar shape bend tne Photographers ‘Antibinate: Professor Adolphe Abrahams, of Se has lately adduced some new and interesting evidence to prove the truth of our habit of an- at Our what went on. r task, put his fingers in the eS Pe heen ascribed igh birthrate of girl babies; ot statis: se 7 that had grown on the little fiat = thi pein Tt enabled hime (ou the physical strength “|greater than woman’s, but, a/wo-| Oreticiy the time eon up by your nerves an s before a hat | Picture can be ae ia the cam- era suffices, for the thing really to occur. If, however, there was no resistance in your muscles and tis- sues and you could do the impossi- ble and snap a kodak the instant you think that you eee a horse gal- lop, a man fal why you would really hare a photograph 0 ve happene: In other words, your eves always anticipate movements, and the sup- posedly instantaneous camera. real- time, only after it tae d. erally occurre: Due to Nerves. eyes are never late in seeing ‘They are always too e more excited we are, Hee oie overwrought ane high- pitched our nerves are, the greater the interval will there be between place. Persons who are highly emotiane] musicians, mystics, poets ¢ | others—whose temperament ice their optic nerves stretched like Se long before they happen, but wsual- ly see many things that were about to happen, but He we switched off and never do hap This the explanation of what the piperainigns éall ‘ about this faculty. rsons to recognize familiar move- ments a fraction of a § second sooner than other people are usually correct only in the case of the most usual occurrences. ed WHY MORE WOMEN THAN MEN — A Woman’s Power of Endurance Is More Robust. The fact that in almost all civi- lized -countries’ women outnumber er i fr tee boy of attaining| He finds that from the third to the fifteenth ; year ‘the mortality: is both sexes is the same; from thy teenth to the nineteenth aa the critical age for girls, the girl’s ‘chances are slightly better than the boy’s; from the thirtieth year to the thirty: fifth the mortality among We albes cad that sloping ‘path, ine he had to be aval, but caaas eee years of |. tands a much |‘, To account for this ‘diference the statistician poii oul One reason for Ahis/is that wo- Mm possesses a finer Deteeney , fees ir of endurance — in. We see everything before it really ma iB ad | need to what you see and what truly takes th E string, thus do not only see things | ér to the tendency of very high-strung |” . ie BL ipeate oP anh persone efit} ped on. > feared with a aera a o Voune Man). Who Wants z Get On. The man who would s of The: faint-! cated ed has at with what he tas d aoe his “ripe ‘S$ op- portunity... ‘He need mobs be = agreut he must. ‘soft.”? may hearted to keep S the eee out: ae it is not conducive to big b dation. ig arsenate full of rotten timber will ¢ when the to stand firm is. ane He must be honest. The ‘day has passed when trickery pays, the money, cud trade ill Beek your He cuat fe piisicaly aoe Invalid ae 0 Bye nade! bool heeeke modern suelo for existence, to say mot banners cndeeeGills for Ge. puarciealth, Having good health, progressive, quick to grasp opportunities, deter- mined, ambitious and persevering. The quality of _ stick-to-itiveness ler. He must be able to make friends, his it fu able nature that works his friends ; e that allows friends to He must live within his means— well within. Tf Franklin tells us, “you know how to spend less than you get, you have the phi- losopher’s stone.” You have far more—you have the key to success in life. oe ON THE PLANET MARS. Strange Conditions to Be Found Far-Off Planet. Mars is more distant than we are from the sun—150,000,000 miles on. the average instead of 100,000,000. It is, therefore, a little colder; the more so as its central heat is less, because the diameter of the planet is only 4,500 miles instead of 8,500. Martian days have almost the same duration as ours; but the axis of the planet si Beas are more the torrid zone. The aaiaaiike of days and | nights at the same latitude is great- on Mars than on the earth; at the latitude of forty-five degrees our shortest day is eight hours forty- aed minutes, and the long- Es hone thirty-eight min- mn Mars respective- y : =, seventeen hours fifty-eight minutes On the planet Mars, therefore, sites are extreme variations of cli- and val temperature have been infinite. more Boe on the earth. They sooner. Peak haye more ee crushed the have long plumage of birds and the sk: memes which protect thes ani- velo} in a a ee Lees a splendid Be ee changing and being modified: pro- foundly | every yest with the sea- sons. FOR THE KING’S ea Signature “Books I Pro ‘Trove for Autoaray) Eee } Two new visit ham Palace, an old: ones have gone to join ae ee others that an ‘to auto- mers is almost stapossible te, some sensa! a ea about the Court a” a years ago when it was announced | that one was_ ae ale a-careful searc abouts. “EE “| ‘The books are seine in -erimson mperial crown | c a are se-|i each book lasts for a abot tro a ut Uy] a n very ing or The steps of a _[established. by the Lord 8} rele must build well: from the foun- counts more than brillianey when |™ "| making good is in or fifty-six minutes and | d' ed | environmen ) hooks hav ak cently been provided at Bucking- in the safe. beeving ok nee Lord | yaded. Palace ot Gann nanos ‘other of these: be & good 9228. = The eme end sought us all religions ao otion is the attai 8 canliest ‘ites, in thi human qnest, it has b Gis ered that there is an » exceedingly intimate Si aea ap- piness ness. Bud dha based his cars religious system on this, ‘‘that ie from treading the course of ve a turn, finds The Highest Development 3 the sevahe ae at implores its followers.‘ worthy of the Lord to all Teasing, , being fruitful in every goo es me ths my of eo e realization of man are ‘Psalms; ry Christianity, in di this hypothesis is not a problem in! The: ethics, but rather an Ss religion. __ 2 If happiness di tue, how, then, virtuous? In their righteousness must be out, ‘ Always From Above. “The heart is deceitful above sth id he ates ito be holy. lishes_my every footstep, so the arid desert of my soul gracious- ly blossoms as the rose. is de- sires and mine are Since His Saree has secured happi iness ed T go forth bravely to assist its working o me shall ae happiness to the The searchers of all the ages can _ ine only in God the objects of their in e.”’—Rev. Charles J. Smith, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STU INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 11. DY Lesson VI.—Joseph made Ruler Egypt, Gen. 41. 1-45. Golden text, 1 Pet. 5. 5. Verses 1 to 24, which immediately precede our lesson passage, tell of Pharaoh’s dream f butler’s recollection of the H prisoner who, fully two years ise fore, had correctly interpreted a dream for him oon as Pha: ae hears of Joseph and his pean lity Egypt het sek been able to dis- cover. Verse 25. The dream of ee is one—Rather, the di 8 PRsraoht atesone Gactneie 3 saath The reason for the two-fold words lies the message which the writer of the narrative meant to re Not all significance in rela- poet © future events in the dream- it and Mare dint shrouded bio Of the future, ae real and of such a nature as to per- mit their pene prouent to consci- ousness when id is at rest the ete interests of its waking hours. Such intuitions may ae seldom be veiled in the form of dreams, the meaning of Which at ie: Wee a rath clear. kine -= seers fleshed aud rel seecete (v. 18). Are seven years—Represent sey- en years. 27. Sever lean and ill-favored — Starved and Jean-fleshed, such as had never been seen ‘in all the land 8” “| the Sinaitie peninsul ula. at God is about to tility er Egypt is pee upon the annual overfio of the lant caused by the } “that the ae pee “i merle “and short; SB eity de-|~ royal edict and under zt foe ate authority of the k acon years of aan That the land Sati not—That be not ae ey e starvation a be inhabitan: dit eyes of ehptioh Gael ‘teclt to the judg- oe of his servants, or ee ad- oe % ‘ect. u shalt be over my hous: In charge of a For the King’s pe No other race of a show such a history ae Hike: “black ah that draw the funeral cars 0} dead Japanese emperors. 3 special breed, and for centurie: Fact and Faney. To All the pulpit is one thing; fill the ehurch is quite another, - washes its food When aman. settles oar 6 is expected to settle w os His’ Suan r Buddha oe Confucius eclare: that It Eoenen From : Virtuous Thoughts and Action: : = met account, ¥ Actors will never suffer a kettle ee se | to boil in their sim sence. TI