NOTES AND COMMENTS We are delighted to find that} Japan, which has picked up so many western ideas with amazing Here is the Jiji Shimpo, one of Ja- pan’s most powerful papers, giving good counsel to its readers, provid- ing them with rules of health, and telling them how to live 100 years —in Japan. Judging from all ac- counts, Japan must be so pleasant a place to linger in that all the Jiji Shimpo’s readers will doubtless hasten to follow its advice. ricpelse piocspid souwrtine ail: the wisdom of the itor, ‘“‘Eat meat only once a day.” “Take a bath as hot as you can bear it every day.” ‘Wear clothes made of coarse cloth.” “Observe one day of rest in every week, on which you must neither read nor write.” “Avoid passion, and = widowers marry again immediately.” A further rule of the Japanese editor might well be taken to heart| tie, > by the western reader. Avoid, says he; the deadly steam pipe, for the effect of this importation from the Occident is at least as baneful as that of the national tipple—tea. Sal Se Tea In the Medical Record Dr. ard Ellis gives us the tale of one bald head and the deductions drawn / + from it. The bald head was not Dr. Ellis’; it belonged to an ob- serving friend not of the medical profession. This friend had no- ticed that when cold winds toyed too freely with his unthatched dome he often felt a chill down his spine; a cold was approaching. He there- upon rubbed his head briskly, re- stored the circulation, and as often as not escaped the cold. Interesting, thought Dr. Ellis, and he began to wonder whether sneezing wasn’t just nature’s cun- to restore the circulation. vised the following simple expedi- ent: When the nasalmucousmembrane | t gently till red'in the face, then (in the erect position) try to breathe through the partially “obstructed Fy i exercise and take ‘hot Berni Pre Sy tecling dicey: pears, but that does not drive away the nasal congestion which so often induces # severe ¢ Dr. Ellis does not say that-this will cure a cold, but he does say that he has made use of it for three years with excellent results. publishes his discovery in order to give it a wider test, and since it is simpler than most home remedies and harniless, it seems worth pass- ing on. i —__ HORNETS AS PETS. “Gentle, Inoffensive That Kill Stinging Flies. The public has heard of wasps as pets, but it has Me he inoffensive creature very pet.” Writing fu Aare: who seem qui ing to our cycling with: us if Scontepes te t will be eariaokated that Mr. Bates in his account of his experi- ences on the Amazon states that at yet, come when every well Poirulntet hobsenla will keep its hornet to deal with flies, as it Mae Heres its dog i guard against sale! glars. eee oes a Cynthia—Bil h to share all of es leetble? iil you! Billy—I have no troubles, dear- est | Cynthia—Oh, I mean. ovhen we are married. “An Exception. EB ‘In the natu: ure of things; every- body ought, to be delighted to see an oculist.”” “Why. should they? — “Because to see him is at tor eyes,””, it, Rich-| pi ~ {Central Africa. der to assist nature, the doctor de-| in He|ing had own Creatures’”” cir poisor not know ; but I had an eal VS Ratha ae Is rT wend t beating. I foind thai ed | He ie 0) Young Folks Teddy. “Children,” said grandpa, ‘I’ve lost my, penknife. stairs in my room picked up my coat ai something fell out of one of the pockets. around, but could not see anything. Now I oné of you go up and s Teddy was playing with Vis little It had been wound up and ndon, but the boy decided that it could stop at a way station for a few “Pl g grandpa,” he answered right een: ly was such an obliging little foley. He was ae ys ready to do things for a Matty was reading a book, and ee hate eave it even for a ute. was glad that Teddy offered to yee: n there were ‘foe and avers foe eame t! BS ece, because I fic Medio eley wha wae soreilline ing, for grandpa. I think we will bim.? When the ehildsen heard this they were sorry they had lost the chance to get that silver piece. Besides, | ™ grandpa’ s words made them feel hal fin Tedd you aay Bekins he felt. very happy. ——___—_ ‘A PERSISTENT PEST. Travellers in Central Afriea Have a Lively Time. The buffalo-bean, a humble creep- er with a ru nuseet-co. lored, woolly little pod, is a dangerous growth of = Le a1 ee ts friea,” how one of them got well palpable fuzz. ub over. The spr ein i and although I tried everything I could think of to alleviate it, ne more than the slightes temporary effect. In despair, I asked one of my na- as ue like a dustman as I ever shall The eae irritant had a slight, ly distracting effect, but even that was not permanent, and I realized that the only thing to do was to sit ts |ing me an exhausted and consider- ably er man, en T ied not heard the last, of in ihy or how the tiny hairs that cause the trouble disap- ‘aioe at all, or whether they merely a nous powers, I do of them-a few T put’ on the Be ents a sooraes washing ys later, hairs were still present, and the clothes were not fit to wear. Scat SBR aes Always Thoughtful. The young physician threw him- self into his easy-chair and — drew] a sigh of relief that the day’s work was over. ‘‘And has my little wife| been at all lonely to-day ?”” he ‘in: is newlv-wedded part- cupy your time, my sweet?” is I’m organizing a cook class. THere eee one ee how to'cook.”’ “Good idea, what do you do with hie ae you le Re We send them round to the neighbors.” “Derr little woman; —__alw: thoughtful of your husband’s prac- tice.” And he went ove! and kissed her tenderly. _ Never There. ies She—Anyhow, ae must admit he| a wéll-bred man. Did you no-« tice bis ledge ‘of Aristotle? id, an you want ‘my cant eae T don! t believe he’ sie ever been : | Sincerity of aR brothers. - | Their reasoning in itself i of demonstrate their 3 | they were most /anx: only-that the one found guilty be tthe fine | i Hon. J. K. Flemming. Premier of New Brunswick. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY L INTERNATIO. LESSON, Lesson IX. Joseph Tests His Brethren. Gen., Chap. 44. Golden Text, James 5, 16, Joseph’s brethren upon leaving i|Egypt the second time have their constitutes the abies of our pre- sent lesson Verse 4. gone out of the Taking Benjamin ste them. Rewarded evil for j—At- tempted to steal when oh al re- fered the most liberal of treat- nt. Whereby he indeed divineth— here were many ethods of vination among the ancients, such as watching the flight of birds, ex- method of hydromancy, ere alluded to. This latter castbod consisted of pouring water into a Wonlee cruities Vessel. andl ot thee throwing into the. vessel pieces of gold or precious stones. During the process the movements of the water the figures which these move- en showla we steal — is convin- Pian in their ability to e z cing. Their f them nouncement of the death judgment of upon Bexjamin, whose life Let him die—Their sella ie stake their lives on their inte- grity was the strongest Selene in its favor. Bondmen—Slave ith whom it is accepts less than they offer, asking surrendered, not to suffer the pen- alty of death, but to remain in ser- vivittide in Joseph’s house. In fix- ing these terms the steward was chou under instructions from his master. 11. Hasted—Madé haste. Took down—From. the the pack-animals to the ground. ie © had overtaken them and nothing. Their silence and their actions were more eloquent, than words. Returned to the city—From whence they had just come, an where they immediately afterward Ey Joseph still at home Fell before him on the ground Bul gan oe ct. |long confinement to bed, especially to found | j chall ie ee bondman—The steward | mo backs of| 4 lhe searched—The stew-| ¢ HEALTH Avciding Typhoid Fever. ‘yphoid fever is a dis of Santee: although cases snmneune occur among cl x middle- aged persons, the majority of suf- ferers are between the ages of fif-| hoa, health and strength. Since that is the case, parents ought to know what steps to take in order to avoid the danger at infection cal Ww. n afford to go ess and sae Se hotels a See boarding-houses seldom run any more risk of typhoid fever than in their own homes. Some risk there still is everywhere, although since we have found out that the dis- ease is preventable, the risk grows | 5 less with each season Be for reasons of economy, many plans are definitely made, there- fore, there are certain things that you should carefully look into. In the case of a popular resort, it is not difficult to se aha ou what its typhoid record has _ bee the past. But the prospe a sort rises or od ue its health. e ne- cessary effort to Htied proper Sane: here is more danger in those innocent sylvan retreats that tired people dream fe in the spring as necessary to the clambering vine furnishes no as- surance eof germgless 1 milk. The sum- sources kept, and know Hepat enietse apprehension. —Youth’s Coe Bell Sor Sores. When a patient has been confined has -had to cause the sufferer much discomfort. This will only happen, however, when the nurse has been neglect- ful. The natural excretions of the a iy & rc) a g @ g 3 g < ° & o PS od & when the patient, either from old age or some special disease is un- conscious of the calls avoid bed sores. As long as it is possible the patient must be re- ved from bed to another, or the position altered in such a way that the patient must be washed with warm water, and afterwards carefully dried with soft linen. Tfhw it is quite impossible to move the patient from one bed to another then the bed must be kept as.com- i Tf there is the of bed. sor 1: sufferer from contact with the not enough to make the washed two or three times a with a weak carbolic acid lotion, a dressed with eucalyptus oint- ment, il- low must : no ae over the bed sore it- self. on humiliat: hat de ed is this ?—Joseph aie cece with affected indig- nation. He reproaches them, how- ever, not for their dishonesty an ingratitude, but for their folly in imbeinin, they could escape detec- Bich @nkacde TS —A man of my rank and power, and initiated i 5. + Be 8 as "S S is B he implication is that it was utter folly on their spatt/ to attempt to rob or receive such a one as we say 1—The ground or excu The-iniquity of we servants—The ity which the speaker had in EE. theft, as Joseph might be expected ub gr ron; Joseph and their father | co years before, and which had rested heavily upon their consciences ait] th the years. We are my lord’s bondmen—Ser- vitude seemed more preferable to. them than the necessity of facing their aged= father without Benja- min, tor a ses as ad be: come su: 17. position, insists that he will retain only. Benjamin. In the suece: follows Sudah’s see of inte: sion, as remarkal beauty, and persuasive eloquence as s frankness Tees- maining verses of the chap- ter are part of the-assigned lesson. n| who was entirely cnaeueneady with eem to allow no 8 ind was not that of the discovered | ter cceeding verses ‘there} ible for its pathos, i nerosity. | A ROMANTIC LEGACY. A Young Woman an Receives a For- tune For Her Honesty. ealthy man died in Brussels, Be! sain ae, leashes ay the. whole of his fortune td a ng woman was a very eccentric man, and Diogenes, in search up the money iene the change, but: 3 the 1. s managed to add a ae he ai A oo They would ice the ext he poor conducto: e meager salary of three aha a day Te ill spare such a loss. But at last a young woman passed’ hers back with: enna ee you have ‘| Biven'/me half | ‘rane too much.’”’ “Diogenes,” ‘delighted, tailowed he never : alf franc was going to bring her jillion. e pain A tates “All T demand for my client,” | the yoice of a man was paid for it, “is iustee.” “I am ve sorry I can’t aécommodate you,” Papled? the judge, “but the law won’t allow me to Biv e him more : named .|from the wy, |the sacred premi than ee eee “ UNDER AN AVALANCHE. . Three People Were Imprisoned for Five Weeks. It seems incredible that any -hu- man being could survive for five the ‘ol 4 valley of the Upper rs, at the foot of the Alpe,, did just that. uring way to church, hear a seria roar from the moun- tain top. Casti: the alarm, and then ran back into his own house. The avalanche buried over thirty houses. Twenty-two persons were missing, including the parish priest had given the algrm. The mags of snow that lay oven the ruin- ed dwellings was about forty-two feet Reser When the surviving peasants had shaken off their terror, the wi April winds to melt the Sas a ri] 18th the villagers re- tamed to their melancholy task. They had no hope of finding any human oak ae whose entire family Ae beneath the avalanche, was ost in the search. pene he had got so far that, after oe eee six feet of icy snow, he could the ground with 'a lorie pole, “‘Thtes* tried worked with him, The four worked vigorously, and made their way at length into Roc- a|cia’s house, but no one, dead or liv- ing was there. As it was probable fist ths vistas had sotlshe ohelice : in the 9 atte ESS a hundred feet ecia, com eae oe oe to dig in that on .|direction, After they had burrow- ed for some a hey, dei the jg stable. One © men thrust a pole through ite wth wall, and | ti on withdrawing it, heard a hoarse, |1 help. faint ¢ ery for workers now toiled with re-|m: soon the: doubled activity, and seat a large opening. to y had hree sufferers could not move, and were shrunken almost to skele- tons. men carefully carried them to a near-| by house, and too! measures for reviving them. In a few days they had pretty well re- covered. They owed their lives to these auuanicues They | taken re- fuge in the manger, which, bein, “had withstood the weight-of ng, the snow, although the roof fell in. Fortunately, two goats were near ere them, and these aus sunniet them hod milk enough to keep A wi was able to pull down, fodder into ithe rack; and when ‘she could no longer reach the hay, the sagacious animals climbed upon her shoulders and _ hel themselves, seen the whole of their five weeks’ imprisonment the total darkness, After ie rere They suffe: x more from the chill of the melted snow-water that trickled over them, and from the The eldest—R. The Se pill bard The parts after peltk |eramped positions "in which they 13. Rent their Bits Beb said 2 to sit andl lie. —_*»__ CURIOUS OLD BEQUESTS Guides for Travelers—Rushes for a Church Floors. Ancient bequests for having bells rung and beacons lighted for the purpose. of guiding travelers ‘by ‘taait night are quite numerous in Eng: land, and this is not to be wou. dered at when ‘one considers the apologies for roads and the ab- ae ,of fences in the abod old hi aye| carpets, says the London cao many persons left bequests of mon- rch floor. erhaps one -of the most ec- centric ‘bequests was that of a cer- tain John. Rudge, of nis Siaf- fas ee Lae a Wocher the | ve: | saimberera and “peeve © peseol Be ade any stray From Habit. pi “Why did «she fet to set tier husband’s. will ‘aside ?”” “Merely nee was he er hus- ad ni band’s, -and she habit of setting it aside. ~ Rather Odd. — “T's pretty expensive one’s own la ot in the to have eep one’s own Sena and his |t ped | son should lin colors are awy' “But it doesn’t cost ie to FROMOLDTONEW TESTAMENT 1 The Old Testament Impresses Us As a Book of Longing, the New As a Book of Joy — The old commentators were right in believing that Jesus fulfilled Prophecy they were wrong in not plac’ the emphasis tadanenesl in prophecy, but upon mere accidents of verbiage or of foretelling. What was the reason to-|why Jesus appeared in Palestine rather than in el] me sought it through the discovery and the doing of his will. From beginning to end the Old Testament is a book of a great moral emotion. It is not content ah contemplation. It ean noth- ing of the immanence of G. seeks with might and oe oe i e alleled grandeur, the conformity of human will to the divine. - ane pos- aoille and delight of s con- ity is the ee, Ee the prophet and the experience of the psalmist. Morality is not a social pier it is the invitation of a wise to an appreciation of Jesus by wreak to us the moral founda- tions on wi e built, but it allows us te crue ehend that indi-| vidual contribution of his Jewish religion that made it The Religion of Mankind. It should be said immediately that it is hard to prove that Jesus introduces any absolutely new re- jee conception. He himself felt t he was not revolutionizing, but completing. to the his | w religion of the Old Testament. To! the teachers of his d od to aveaie eternal life. d tral truths of his gospel upon the}i men | 0} be clearly uttered by some rare man or at least’ suggested. If we think of Jesus as demand- “ale and su lessof ths we see in the seventy-third ee the ecstacy of one of venturesome believers in ie tality and we find the belief in im- The Fatherly Attitude of God, e fird a dim iMAC oe at in © Tait as applied to roup of Israelites, though for : see be- lief in it as applied to individuals. ©) we must look to the apocrypha; if, ally, we his of the moral law and his refusal to separate ie love of the ve of man, we discover an unus- oes close parallel a Jeremiah’s of Josiah’ , which he addressed fe coe : scofling son: “Did not thy i and do aad righteousness and na- tional faith, the New as a book of the cen-| which it either! Ambrose Vernon White. ueaivedbat men, set face to face n individual man; the was a degenerate form of the! lola Bentsen as a book of a great. jambition, the New as a book of a sacrifice But in the last the difference foo in the It is this-char- ie fallura ‘of the Old |'Testament to redeem the world em- phasizes; a character, howeverady jdeeply reverent toward the book alone made ‘‘old.”’—Dr. Fashion Hints Mantelets. e little wrap known: as_ the n els is seen. The; ations or dovely, line and color and pple moire, bengaline, silk eacaeiitee and -broe: lecided decorative note to 5 The sl ion back is one of the favorites, although longer mantelets give more protection and for that rea- appeal to women. who desire utility as well as beauty. ee-quarter. an t nf finished ‘with a deep The drop- .|ped armhole is used if the material is not wide enough. Cord outlines this seam and gives a firmness at the line of wear. Revers may be used, contrasting colors being |. Collars tha e important features. One éol- lar of soft silk is draped over the S pletely covers the back in the form of a draped hood of soft “moire that is weighted down by hea els. Cutaway lines in front are used. These give a good freedom in walk- ing and allow — manteau to be ipanet at the back than at the front. Blue, taupe, gray and mixtures the shades most fav- red. These-harmonize with any colors in a gown beneath and are y gentrally becoming to the average ee mantelets have earned a ae he topeoat, will never be discarded from Aes and swmmer-wardrobes, White Footwear. During the coming summer white, footwear is to be more fashionable and the» conventional) | distinguished. One handsome mod- el has the high top with 14 buttons : and lines,of dainty pedosieidy trim- ming ; shoe | ag: cing, in ie toe. tones. To the woman who adores novel effects’ a new white buckskin oxford will appeal. ment of the butto: scallops of the Coe black patent leather is a nove: footwear note. ~ Flower Brooch. 0 rd. | lived or half a century, never com- | room. flower brooch. They are made in various colors and aeslene and con- e scarf or to give a white blonse, lor ; ite look ce gonna Sumnter*W Wrans. Most of the summer wraps haye sleeves cut in one with the body if is garment: Sue! ea are osipak are utilized for such wraps. JK PROPHESIED MANY THINGS Nun Lived for Fifty Years Strapped . i An ScronenaTinn te nun by the name. of Maria, Benedetta Frey has- just died at iors Italy, irom paraly- sis of the lower spine. Fifty years ago her death » was: considered inevitable’ and the doc- tors were convinced that it was im- possible for her to bear the exeru- ciating pain or to rei as was necessary, plainin, "The peopl considered het case a miracle, as owed a pro: vy | Phetic spirit, pe ipiae ‘ae events, such aj e conyiction of the Camorrists ,the assassination of King Humbert a for this year he eee of the n the nun lcieaiad the fif- — Pope sent an autographed blessing and in- structions to celebrate mass at her Before her death the Pope lessing with . message asking her to pray_ for him. The nun may be beatified in the near future. —— Lady-Like Efforts. . ie lady came down from upstairs ed the pale of the hotel ane don’ t ike ‘o aranla you,’ ’ she “but. id get another gare aclam said the affable ee nandne her another glass, minutes. dates she spree’ ain. oes oer Certainly, niedame paid Tine affable manager, ‘‘but could T en- quire what you are doing with so water ?’” ow you'll fusk scream when T tell you, as said tl ‘Tam els to. put out a fire in my, ae _ Literally. X oA: dresemoler ee erie tie extravagant. wor “Yes, cepecilly ae hobble. skirts the es “Two. Siac aa senile worry ses b: —| mm ee ot who have li