ae i eae a ee Cee Oe ee Oe ee eee ane eS Ee PO) ce NS A Chor ee. Ot NOTES AND COMMENTS The old question, Why+do we laugh? has again been receiving at- tention from psychologists and ists. Not much new light has, however, been thrown on it. Whe only thinker who has made an original and interesting contribu- tion is Bergson, who is a meta- physician and philosopher, but not aman of science. His essay is sub- tle and ingenious, but it does not explain all kinds of laughter. It ut- terly fails to account for the laugh- ber of joy and hearty good fellow- whip. At the meeting of the British As- sociation at Birmingham an Oxford professor advanced what is desdrib- ed as a now theory of laughter. ‘Whereas Bergson regards laughter as a mild form of social discipline, calculated to discourage awkward- pest and carclosanses, the Oxford | % scientist looks upon it ag a be: » : & & B a would otherwise depress humanity | }, is turned into a stimulant, promot- ing well-being.” From this point of view it is not wrong to laugh at the misfortunes of our fellows. When we see & pompous old gentleman in the act| i of sprawling on a slippery sidewalk it is our duty to laugh instead of restraining our mirth. Provided, however, the misfortune is distinct- ly “minor,” and no bones are Since the world has al- ways acted up to this theory with- out knowing exactly i at our own minor misfortunes as cheerfully as we do at those of others? Are the cynics right in charging that a certain degree of malice is present in ‘‘beneficent’’ and stimulating laughter? If so, there is still considerable work for the evolutionary process. Malice is not beneficent, even in laughter excited by the slightest of acci- dents. ooo Parents and others who have had occasion this fall to read the edu- cational prospectuses must have come acrosy a new word—‘‘eurl thmics.”” The schools of Seereauiah are using it freely. It is the name of lately arrived science which is designed to promote general pressiyeness through the employ- ment of rhythmical gymnastics to a musical accompaniment, ex- Enurhythmics originated a few years ago in Switzerland, where a QGenevese professor of harmony be- gaa to put his theorics into prac- tice: It advanced into Germany and. now has its chief seat in the swhurbs of Dresden. From Germany ib has spread to England and the United States. The ‘School of Dal- eroze Eurhythmics”’ opened in London. : fi Great things are reported from| 3 the pupils of the new science in its German headquarters—at least the younger ones. They ‘‘realize physically the music as they hear it.”’ And “they translate it at once, instinctively, into movements of the limbs.”” And there is a con- sequent heightening at once of phy- sical and aesthetic well-being. This promotion of harmony be- tween the mind and body, with its double bestowal of blessings, can- not but be heartily welcomed—as long as its votaries actively parti- cipate for their own, individual good. But if the result should be mercly another group of ‘ ‘jelassical dancers,” with large assemblits to witness passively their maneuvers, it might not be so easy to look upon the new idea of M. Daleroze as an unmixed blessing. a ee ns Domestic Economy. Father was oF an belo es of mind, and hated extra with all his Haney. small son, age eight. His gtiet was as terrible to see when | one day he «: e upon the budding | surmounted by a a young mountain of jam. “My boy,” "aid he, sadly though | wenh. ely you do not real- ize what ae are doing; yet you ought, by now, to comprehend the wicked extravagance of eating but- ter and jam togetl ther “ow, ty hy, ing Set economi- eal, father ! ” replit the youn; peful. “Don’t you see that I’m canking the same slice of bread do for both ?’’- f “<I was a fool eyer to marry you!” sobbed Mrs. Winks. not permit you to take the blame for that. Jt was I eho was the fool , for ever asking yo Ne mistake, ,was not yours, aes min is) inflammation of a vein). Often has just been] \’ 7 ornament of the a weary magistr HEALTH Varicose Veins. varicose vein is an enlarged th hereditary predisposition to yari- cose veins or he has a weak heart, with a consequent terdency to slug- ish venous circulation. Anything causes. sons who are obliged to stand for several hours at a time, like policemen, washerwomen, and saleswomen, are often subject the force-of gravity, ad as a ¥ ie veins gradually enlarge ene cases of varicose, espec: Af Bg pie and eersin fect people, the symptoms are very slight. There is a eae of weight a dull ache toward so that the blood can flow back more easily. etimes painful mps complicate the trouble, and the cramp is likely to return again and again, until life becomes a burden More serious complications are thrombosis (or the clotting of the blood in the vein) and phlebitis a form of eczema appears in the eas ‘of the leg, or an ulcer may arise. When varicose veins are very troublesome, eae treatment is advisable; but the milder cases can much metieven by rest and pro- per bandaging. > @ Fitting Glasses. Since people have learned that to such ailments as headache, in- ligestion, cues and nervous ir- ritability the cost to the ‘wearer's vanity or pocketbook seem trifling indeed. Unfortunately, eyes cannot al- ways be fitted with perfect accuracy a the first trial. The operation is xtremely delicate. The counting is done in minute fractions, and the error may catise serious destntoet: Some persons have ery bad vision, waich it is, nevey- able very easy to correct; others have eyes to which all the ukill in the worid can give only an approxi- mate fit, and consequently a par- thal Satie It is not fair to the oc- oulist if the patient grows discour- aged when he does not find saeeay relief, and wanders about from o! fice to office. When you ask a responsible doc- cles, | 5 tor mak true,, but the nites has to do al- most as much, for the doctor must finally abide by the patient’s de- cision as to which degree of correc- tion best suits him. Neryousness, very much out of place in the office chair. In helping the doctor all you can, you help yourself quite as uch. _People find hard “preak in’ themselves. They are petulant and fussy, and sometimes they actually refuse to wear the intolerance will soon who oes them to you him the nee to correct them.— Youth's atthe ee Following His Trade. Speechless with wrath, a little man was ushered into the dock. A’ police ferce had found him sitar about and had | arrested him as a suspicious char- i acter. “What were you doing ‘at the time of your Heats asked the “Simply aif! !? sputtered the prison “What were you waiting for?” “My mo: “Who jad you the money ?’’ “The man I had been waiting r at did he Se it to you for?” Bor waiting The fe rane took his glasses ry “T earn my e708 waiting. You see, I’m a waiter! £01 on,” properly 0 called because or- 8 “JIM? LARKIN, LEADER OF DUBLIN STRIKES. publa s fair oe is bringing in has hitherto held a wonderful per tie and seven months’ likely to cause some stirring Larkin haranguing the crowd befo its reputation in a yery terrible way, ruin and ed the sympathy of the Trish priests. unGrisbuene of Lerkin hee steuatad: ai great de: As He Is Now and Before He Shaved His Moustache. The most distressful country is at the present moment living up to e he shaved an sp ve just _as week he was released by Deer of the Asquith Government, and widespread distress in starvation to a thousand rade is at a standstill, the whole atmosphere is charged with iery eloquence and dominating personality have held the mob together in some sort of order ascendancy over the me sentence for incitement and sedition i is scenes, notwithstanding the fact that he Inset is a picture of his moustache. The al of labor support eae n, and from the Liberal Government, who cannot reconcile squith’s professions with the arreat: 0 of aaa and the freedom pllowet Gir Edward Carson, whose incendiary. Last ~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOVEMBER 30. Lesson IX.—Crossing the Jordan. Josh. 3. 1-17, Golden Text, Isa. 41.10. Vers Magnify thee—Honor ee ty special recognition of thy office and leadership among the people. 8. The priests that bear the ark— The law especially provided that no other persons should carry or even touch this saved emblem of Jehovah’s presen An aaa Sees e3 a8 pddyane-f--ths-wsdemmbied- people, in which Joshua explains more fully what has already been concisely stated in verses 7 and Seni wane Gotcstne Beran seem to have come but eredually a clear recognition of the fact or even the deities of and later of Assyria, as true gods, still, they did not seem recognize either that Jehovah was concerned other peoples and nations: besides emselves. 10. The living God—A title ap- plied to Jehovah to indicate the outstanding difference between him and the idols of the bas round about (compare Deut. 26). Canaanite—Liter ie “fowland- Sea, the valley of Esdraelon, and Rortione of the valley of the Jor- oot tite — Compare Lesson Text Studies for Oaaine 19 and Novem- bre- 23. Hivite—A people sometimes omit- ever, in return to ue seem to hav ebaen ap | valleys of Lebanon (Judg. 2. 25. 2 24, "Periasite—A people of central robab! laboring people of the land—from, “rus! Girgashite — ~ Suppose -d to have been a larger family or subdivision of the Hivites, since omitted in nine nee while in the tenth eereety, ion they are mentioned and the Hivites omitted. Their home seems to have been’that part of Palestine lying just east of the Sea of Galilee. Amorite — Meaning, _ literally, “mountaineér.”’ The Amorites, ac- cording to Gen. 14. 7, occupied the arren hill country west of the ea. They seem later to have crossed the Jor ne “Did you ever salen: the story of # the dirty window?” ‘No, I don’ t| think T did,” guess T won't # tell | it te. you. yy “Why not?? “You! of wouldn’t be able to Bis through 6:2? d to have occupied the country. By ordan’”’ from Arnon to e Jabbok. fe eet —A powerful mountain ube eee the strong fortress Jebus (Jerusalem). They are uniformly mentioned last in the just thet Jehovah was the God of other |! about the welfare and salvation of nel and d. enumerations of the original in- habitants of Palestine. 11, The Lord of all the earth—A. significant title of the Most High| °° 12. Twelve men—One from each be cut of 13, The waters of the Jordan shall | ° . they shall stand in one heap—Compare note on verse 16 belo Ww 14, When the people removed th Jordan—On tho tenth day of Nisan (or Abib), corresponding to our month April-May. 15. The brink of the water—At this time far back from the adel annel of the stream. ‘or the Jordan overfloweth all ti est— its banks all the ime of any In the low semitropical valley of the Jordan the harvest comes earlier than on the higher plains to the east and west of the valley, The first ingathering of the harvest season had already begun, while tin, at the same season the melting of the snow on Hermon and Lebano: the narrow channel of the river to be filled to overflowing, 16, The waters which came down from above sto one heap, a great wa; wordin, Bug! landslide, , and rose up in off—The of our narrative a river until these again broke away the barrier and came erally, r rushing thought ie Iend support to the sug- gestion of a lan ena which clearly took up in the Jordan valley ar banks ae ere almost seating the le as the ex- | planation of the wg phenom- e higher the Beside Zarethan—A city suppos- ed by some to have been near the mouth of the Jabbok, near Buecoth limits, almost, as it were, throwing a barrier across its path, Wholly cut off—Flooded away en- qj tirely, leaving the channel empty. he, Payment in Kind. was a poor man, but had been ‘obliged, at last ‘to attend his little girl. sness turned out t visits and leave medicine for ue eaten ‘ow, howe ast, to call in the doctor Her ill- ‘o be a serious one perazi, meaning “country-folk’” it and the doctor had had to pay many tics.” a good deal of well agaim, ard ner ae stood in the doetor’s to be made out. room, waiting for oe ill When, at Pie the gerne was presented t him, he was almost paralysed te: see the huge amount he owed. “The small amount‘ is for the medicine, and the lar; ge one is for my ee at your, ue Said “the docto: The. hhara- -up father took\out his lean pu A tere,? he said, “is the money | blin! My—my wife will for the medicine. herself return your calls! Needless to say, it was an Ivish- man who objected to taking an em- etic, as he was sure he keep it down! couldn’ grandma, Young Folks Knoitting and Knitting. give me “Grandma, make John 1 cried my knitting-spool !”” Dorothy Holtham. “But I can knit, grandma. See !”” cried John. “I put those strong brads into the spool in place of slender pins.” knitting ?”’ said : “But boys do vent ty ae men, in me countri answered John. “Shepherds knit their winter jer- seys while Gey tend their sheep. T read about i was tin first todo knit- Boat aeked Dorothy, ‘No one knows just who was the first to loop a single thread so that it would make a web. It takes two em sone of ee sailors and weavers use “Oh, 1 Fiiowe! interrupted John, see sailor showed me how to make ee Brobab y the very same kno that the Peeuiitce and the Egyp- tians made in their fish-nets we are using in our hammocks to-day. But knitting is different from knotting or netting, Deane +g aoa slip a row of loops diseie thread, 50, ibroualt ahather set of here on these big enough for a shoulder shawl.” “But it is all full of little holes,”’ said Sonne, “Just s id grandma, ‘‘but the subbing of one iheend of silk or wool upon sete ae a sort of electric warmth, It was the people of Scotland who sed first known i t “1492? cried John, proudly— “And about one hundred gous after that the first stocking-frai was made on which the ttitohes ere set up. “Soon a row of needles on a machine for rib- triangle made of three Well, this knitted a round stocking, only the loops were set up on circle of needles. derful help of all, however, wai what is called a latch- eels aR holds the thread tight one second, and lets it go the next. Then came power, If you children lived in factory town, you would know all these things as well as you know your history lesson, for there is a wonderful peace history as well as war history.” “But we don’t,’”” said Dorothy, dolefully. “Never mind, Some day your done on hundreds of machines that are nothing more than a giant im- hand, hundreds of pins or lateh-1 apedlay spinning a circular tube or web, and ree ae it down through a hole i in the “T shouldn't wonder,”’ “if, long ago, somebody took a child’s knitting-spool it, and tried tacks and pins Youth’s Bp Clearly Unjust. that morning two of the boy been persistently naughty. Ab last, therefore, the teacher, now hor- m had written his name one Foausand. times. Playtime duly came, are as the rest of the class rose and hastened from the room to enjoy a spell of freedom, the two miscreants settled turned to see how they were getting on, and found a heated argument in progress. “Come, comet’? she asked. “What's the mattet now?’ Whereupon one of the boys burst] into tears. Be fairs mum !’’ he gasped. 8 im Bust, and mine’s Alexander O° Shaiaheey p Stone Blind. ‘ae and drew from his pocket a small moroe Opening it, he took a ring—a single dia- int aad placed it on her taper- ing finger. She looked at “Tts very sal” she said, paused. Then: ‘‘And not very bril- liant, either !’” = Poor fellow! His smile vanish- 3 but, quickly recovering “himself, he ‘Taughed, and said: Ewacehenrt: put love _ is Rolsing, her limpid eyes to Bsa § negeg dear, but not stone blind !’* Everything’ s ‘ir i in love and war —in other, words, before and after FY man invented a second praventet of the spool in Johnny’ 8| his ans thought about it, and thought about | countr! gine Ever since they came to sche The had waned, stay in during playtime until each} », roudly he walked up to his be-|™ nd! unearthed at the village GOD BELONGS “The dons God,”’—Psalm, Ixxxiy,, 2, nor indeed, perhaps, any religion at all in the true sense of the word as a living God—a God living to-day just as much as He has ever lived in the past and working to- y, as always, fe the redemptio of the world. hink af ee as holding converse seme ees and Isaac in the deserts cr ales: tine, to see Him revealing His pre- sence and speaking His will. to Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, to know of His close companionship with Jesus and Paul and John—all {this is important, I have no doubt. ut, still, it must be adinitted that even at, the very most this is to us to-day only history and not life; only the record of spiritual reality, and not by itself. and pressed flower differs rosie the full aes rose now nodding its stem, as much as the inten Bint: head dug up from some flame from its as much c as the tombs aad epitaple of ae amount to little or nothing as com- pared with The Blood and Sweat and Tears apostles of the ages What acne concerns us, oF should concern us, in our time, is t God was, but that He is; not what He Said and did yesterday h He knows not the half of religion 4 fi —who has not a burning sense of | a But who ever pate of a boy’s Goa ana ud plo} field i is less teipsetane than the bur- hi nished sword pe leaping like a/; of even the humblest of uviak men | in the God tl with the aeethale prophets Be TO ALL AGES If We Do Not Hear His Voice It Is We Who Are : Blind and Deaf in far away Judea, but what and self-forgetting life. To try to confine age or any country or any people or any person is blasphemy of the first order. lod belongs to all ages, all countries, all peoples, all per- sons; which means, for us at least, this age, this country, this people, and thepe eas ariel are our- “God i selves! oe Be. Lowell has walls ae “that He should speak no more;’’ and cer- tainly He is not. dead that He should reveal His glory and His power unto men no longer! As Surely as God is God so surely is He a living God, and this means, if it means anything, that He is as much with us to-day in spirit and in truth as ever. He was with Moses upon eae with us Upon Martineau house and mine, upon the roadside ~ or Ea: margin of the sea, in the ‘bursting seed or opening | flower, in the ae aici and the night musing, in the genial laugh and secret grief, —by so much is presence | ing afresh and solemnly passing by here and now with us ‘a more sig- ae uTOEPIAE off, I do not think. we nificance than His reported a discern Him any more on sence at any time or in any e of Eden or beneath the phets of old—this is religion !—Rev., John Haynes Ho! ee in itr ae very i ose greengh tr are page of your ur work we fee} 9 somsntion’ot king: tnt: the) tonalta bre Was #0 "moved that he could not His nephew thanked the President reply, te ineare also visited Frederic Mis- tral, the famous poet of Provence, living at the village of Madlians, ‘The read ‘the President, who he Sink quoted Lamartine, who fitty years ago acc! Both Mistral and his -wite we the President Anished Mistral ‘irew ‘him. Polncare’s arms and embraced Es ge Portuguese Royalist Killed, A grim inoldent of the rising in Portu- gal was iit rated by a French sculptor to & Parie paper. A peasant’s cart filled with straw drew up at the Spanish-Portuguese frontier, The officials glanced into it; one, to satisfy 1 thtust, Tus sword seve himself, thri ray “time among the bundles, * he aid Sareleiiy; Ad instant, tater, ho uttered an exclamation “of horror. Blood. was ig from tome a the ofotaa eda: Deepen giie: acne dead mani The ¢ pron had passed through Bovalisy londarr tevin. vo: pmongglo. alls wolf into Portugal for the rising. ‘ou Live Longer In lent permonstof at tenet 108 years of nee, Othor eturn the following fig 1 centenarians: im, 6735 3; Italy, 197) Eng- i Germany, 76; Nor mm, 6; Dent and French agricultural . oil, or other en+ it @) ral expert he ES agricul ral gadtetioa: A ey n up from the well as re- ive impetid to oF motor ieee the movement in tural in France, ‘Tho usv of motor machines tx eapeolall favor of hborhood of Meaux reid Soissons, where distriet are using as0tor mi eonEeaee osing Weight by Sclenoe, my Destinn, the opera singer, of Berlin, hus deen reduotog her sreieht by the potato cure, by means of which a friend: of hers lowt 'Stteen pounds in & pont withous injury, Th ir diet ia the w: out sugar, one ary ro!l inthe, mornings Yor luncheon no soup, ght fish, five Iargo potatoes in their Cage no batten nue ear. Gines or anchovies tables Jou liber fresh tut unoooked feat and no dessert; at 6 o'olock, fruit fhe ‘Ee as at noon and two nites end five. “Attor keeping this up for sieht, aay for three and then take i Giant Aqueduct for alee .Rapid progress ie being made gigantic apulian eaatueduct which wht the tas wontn eres ae Giver Bele in the. cmrorinee. fh vellino right through the of Tay, a machines on the oeilas Reith Yd ors 53s Dyenty-tour Mou rn) 4g estimated at, $26,000,000. |The length of the main pipe line will be-125 miles, ep to xe there will be several hun miler oh alae liner my of Nap ‘The Fran! ee hapten oot it Devlin, has of Dormowo, in ssian Poland, who eat prove by unden’ 4 only Derwon in Germany Who ae Seige aie army \marel through ‘on Its way 40 Mosoow, Later eho aw the Russian Cossack etoes the front- fer chasing the French Stayne was born at Elosrnen, ‘on the Rus. 18, 1704, | the wig fore with terror the pees ot changes in footwear. ing | flat-heeled shoes, to be sure, bub the| they are not popular as yet. Th fourteen weoti f the | Bi j| very small, and their heads poi Then toward the edge of the — for dava Hedwig carried food to, hor father Use of Alcohol In Fr: The French ministry of finance has just published ome interesting statistics con- use of aloohol. total “production in ssi8 was 87,440,490 gallons, ag eats ve ead JB Agit, en trom ra ‘ ihe Ei aloo an, there was a 321,370 gallons: Wedding Gifts In Miniature, to troduced rete ime So Bane file duet ‘are. 100 ions oe Ble total ior nae ot o find’ boon prasonted to the bride groom, and a delicate rep: grand piano, id bride a Fashion Hints Timely Hints, A beautiful rest robe made of shaped much like a bolero in front, Oficial qtatlbtice duat lesued ehow that |! f i rate despite her fait popttation” ‘Dulgaria |is cut with a deep, hoodlike point in far the greatest number of | the er Jeeves be of “ail” tho, countries of # is collarless. The girdle is wide and laid in folds, and ends in long, folded gash ends at the back, The cap is gathered, hapo, and a band of small gray and blue and | of chiffon and gold tissue, encircles French Heel Still Pooular, There are not many startling There are ey are too odd to the popular ti The high French heel. rhinestones, ‘neatly on the ankle wil his sort of fextou that do end in a qciol 3 abit Rose for Corsage, Ss sage flower is the huge mek rose, gt iced or purple or in of red, with leaves The leaves are cs ss brings out the depth of the eae of the rose, New Calling Bag. An attractive black silk Heady 2 of small proportions costs The flap is embroidered with hee roses in pink and green, . The bag # large enough to hold change, & handkerchief and cards, and would M8 tbe a very suitable bag for afternooa calling. Ring to Safeguard Bags. ‘S Gold mesh bags have “handlea — formed of gold chain, which ead in mber rings big enough to slip over the finger. The amber and tho goll . mesh look well together, and 4 ring is really a safeguard and ao conyenience. Fur Head Ornaments. _ Tiny black or brown fur heads‘are used to ornament the fronts-ot Webs oo or chiffon blouses, 9 Pp marriage. ng Fer ne fot orite all ini cutie. oy a ‘neighb st to escape them, and ing thay ae