NEW GUINEA IS "WET THE WHOLE YEAR. ag ¢ Exploret Found One New Human "Rage and Surveyed 3,000 ~ ' Acres. Reuter's representatwe has had gn interview with Captain Rawling, leader of the British expédition m New Guinea, who has returned to England.after an absence of two years. ; In conversation Captain Rawling said : - ; "Large collections "have been made ; at least one new human race has been discovered, and over 3,000 square miles of hitherto unknown | have been surveyed. Some ldea of the difficulties we had to face and the terrible nature of the vountry may be gathered from our appalling list of casualties from death and sickness. During the frst year alone 12 per cent. were Invalidated out of the country. Of 800 men employed during the first year only eleven lasted out the ex- poaiten, four of these being uropeans." A WET COUNTRY. Speaking of the countty and its ma: people, Captain Rawling said: "For the first year we were never _ence.dry, day or night, for when it was not actually pouring with rain the continual fording of the rivers eompletely drenched us. Want of food, and particularly fresh food; __the_absence_ofcover,--for--nothing- could resist the waterspouts of rain ; the want of transport, together with the dense forest through which a way had to be forced; and the strain of working up swollen and almost impassable torrents were among the difficulties we had to encounter. FULL OF SNAKES AND INSECTS "The country is full of deadly snakes and pufi-adders. Of these the natives show no fear, as with great dexterity they grasp the rep- tiles behind the heck, and, after smahing their heads, place them in the bags they carry and use them for dinner. ~ "When strangers approach, if the women are not too frightened to escape into the forest they signify that they require peace by throw- ing from hollow bamboos clouds of chalk into the air. "Insects swarm everywhere, the worst being mosquitoes, leeches, and bluebottles, the last being the worst, for they spoil all food im- mediately, and their eggs turn into grubs in a few hours. Albinos are occasionally seen, one man whom we came across being of a whity pink color, with dark spots. We heard of one black couple who had a pure white baby boy two years of age. THE SHAME OF CLOTHES. '"'Wollaston and Marshall made an attempt to see the pigmy women in the hills, but without success. All the women had been hidden away, the chief objection raised by the male members of the tribe for not allowing fe women to be present being that the whole of the British expedition was clothed. "Eventually we reached the coast, and while waiting for a steamer I made a side expedition in the motor boat along the coast and up two previously unknown streams. On this journey we dis- covered a number of large villages inhabited by people of a new type. They were hostile, and endeavored to rob the boat, and to avoid dif- ficulties we did not camp in their village. These people were of a much lower type. Many were quite naked. They were much addicted to dancing, and in one of their vil- lages we found two large public dancing halls.' Fk SANITY AND HIGH HEELS. There Is Close Relation Between Heels and Wit. If anything could be higher than the Parisienne's hat, it is her heels {says the London Evening Stand- ard). The low English heel has once or twice enjoyed a brief sea- son's favor in Paris, but at heart the Parisienne dearly loves to add a cubit or so to her stature, and she achieves it, of course, with her be- loved Louis XV. heel. Perched thus on stilts, with the foot at an impossible angle, "le footing' be- comes impossible, and Madame seats herself in a cab every time 'she starts out for a walk. That is why her boots and shoes are al- ways new. Someone has diseuver- ed. that there is a close relation be- tween the heels and the wt. The conversation of the walke: mn low heels is trite and flat--bromidic, so to speak--but she who trips in high ones will soar unexpected altitudes of epigram and paradox. Weknow that great,wit and insanity are near neighbors, and the Germans putting the theory in practice, are treating madness with a bare fo regime. The contact of the, bare flat foot with Mother. Earth is expected to bring' back wandering minds to an everyday. plane, and the nt 1. GREAT CENTER OF Cornhill, London, Said to be Rich- * est Street in the World. . Cornhill, E,O., is the hub of the iiniverse, and, according to Deputy Millar Wilkinson, at a recent meet- ing of the city corporation, the 'eenter of commercial civilization, says the London Daily Sketch. _ _ If you haye any doubt about it, stand in Cornhill any forenoon and watch the. stream of city traffic flow by. You will see more silk hats in five minutes than can be seen in West End in as many hours. And despite the democratic tendency of outward symbol of commercal civili- zation. But Deputy Millar 'Wilkinson, who had objected to the inconven- ience caused to hundreds of thous- ands of London citizens by laying electric supply mains across Corn- hill, had other and more. weighty reasons to advance for the import- ance of this famous thoroughfare. He told the Daily Sketch that once upon atime there was on Cornhill a standard gr a stand- pump, named Maurice, and it stood at the crossways where Cornhill, Gracechurch street, © Leadenhall street, and Bishopgate intersect. From this point distances manauee ts and suburban milestones r _ "There are'not. half the shops there used to be," said Millar Wil-| kinson regretfully. "But the street! is full of big insurance offices of a kinds and banking institutions also to its importance and _ its The Royal Exchange stands in Cornhill, and here, too, is Saint Michael's, which was rebuilt after the fire of London. _"Most people imagine that Corn- hill was once a hill of corn and that USINESS. | the times the silk hat persists as the) Am were | awak "CURIOUS COURTERIPS. 'Sudan Swains at Their Lady's Call Day and Night for a Year. Some customs prevailing in cer- tain parts of the Sudan have beea described by Artin Pasha, who re- cently made a journey up the Blue}. ~ : Bridge Tournaments Have Taken he andthe White Nile..The gentle- man is Minister of Education in Egypt and in his letters to his wife gavé an Account of his experiences, which is now published in a book called "England in the Soudan." He came across certain tribes where the women he says, "seem to have passed the limits of even érican women," and he naively adds that but for the distance from Cairo and the wildness of the coun- try he "would willingly pass sev- eral months in the midst of these good folk in order to learn the meaning of virtue in both the anci- ent'and the modern sense of the word, "One girl may have as many as from seven to fifteen wooers, who court and flirt with her for a whole year in the sight of her parents. They not only visit her in the day- time, but remain at night near her dwelling to mount guard outside her room, going so far even as to keep watch within her-room in order to be at her service in case she should "Tf she asks for water, as many calabashes of water are offered to her as there are lovers in attendance Should 'she desire to pay calls on her friends, the whole of*her lovers offer to carry her palanquin, and again it is the aspirants to her hand who undertake to anoint her with butter every morning. The period -of-eourtship--lests--for--a_year,--at the end of which period the beauty must make her choice. When she does so the unsuccessful wooers go sheaves were growing where people now make money. But the name! has nothing to do with Corn, though there was once a corn market in: Gracechurch street. It is more! truly derived from a great owner | of property here in the city, one Gervase deCorunhill, who wag, [| believe, a sheriff of London bout | the time of King Henry ITI." Other inquiries convinced | the! | Daily Sketch that Cornhill is, if 'not the busiest, assuredly one of the wealthiest streets in the world. | _ 'I reckon at a modest computa-} tion," said a banking. man, "that we're worth a trifle over a hundred million sterling, and I suppose a single square inch is worth a coun-. try house with a park, a few pea- cocks and some shooting !" i Close by Change alley, where. there happened the biggest boom! ever known in financial history, the | historic South Sea Bubble, is a famous confectioner's establish- ment. which has supplied the city with luscious banquets for a couple of centuries. ea BRITAIN TO USE DOGS OF WAR. To Act as Scouts in the Dense Jungles of Assam. Great Britain is to employ war, dogs in order to settle a little mat- | ter existing between it and the: Abors of Assam, who inhabit a wild and mountainous tract of land bet- ween China and India, where Noel Williamson and his party were murdered on March 30 last. Lord Crewe has _ sanctioned a punitive expedition against them, and a Ghoorka regiment will march into the unknown, taking with them the Airedale dogs especially ordered | from Maj. Richardson by the India! office to act as sentries and scouts' in the dense jungle. "This is the first time in the mili- tary history of the British empire that the employment of war dogs has been officially recognized," said Maj. auichardson. "The Airedales are as near the ideal war dog as it is possible to get. They are hardy aud strong and pos- sess good noses and keen ears. One of the dogs that have been chosen to go, while training in the country the other day. 'winded'-- that is, scented--a tramp at a dis- tance of 250 yards. "In the description of the mas- sacre of Williamson's party it was stated that the Abors themselves used dogs when hunting the coolies who were endeavoring to make their escape, and the fact that the Abors have dogs makes it even more neces- sary that the British force should employ them, wo. "Our scouting dogs, with the at- tacking force, will be able to give warning of the presence of the enemy before their dogs on the de- fensive know of our approach."' ( . be aa DATES BACK TO CHARLES II Few women are aware that the word "miss," as indicating an un- married woman, dates from the time of Charles II. John Evelyn, in his famous "diary," writes of young girls as "misses, as they be- gin to be called." Until that reign even a small ad- dressed as "mistress."' he mother. It was found. however, in- ennvenient to use so little distine- tion between # girl. end a woman, avd so the word "miss" was invent- ed. ag a diminntive of "mictrers.'" son--ants. i x oy "+ . 'The leper colony in Hawaii has retaining the old form of} off to repeat their performance with another girl." These maidens are black and nominally at least Mohammedans, SUE, WOMEN GAMBLERS but in the matter of rights and lib- erties they have little to learn. The; Shilluks of the White Nile, on the: other hand, are as far as possible! from being Mohammedans, yet their | women have similar privileges: "With the Shilluks it is the wo- men that rule the household, the | young women themselves that, choose their husbands and that, | once married, assume the post of command. The:strongest and most hot headed man dare not beat his wife, for he would be looked down upon immediately and would be un- able to find a second wife to suc- ceed his first. No missionary effort effects the Shilluk women; it is practically impossible to convert her either to Christianity or to Islamism, for she is the guardian and depository of the Shilluk tradi- tions, religion and historical cus- toms.'"' SINGING TO THE COWS. English Dairyman Says it Makes Them Give Milk. Advertisements for good singers to milk cows in England are likely to be common in the near future, as cows, it is now admitted by dairy- men, are made happy by the sing- ing of human beings, and when they are happy they yield more milk. Comfort your cow; if you cannot sing get somebody to play a harp or a flute and--profits will go up. That seems to be the new doctrine for dairymen. Mr. J. W. Gatcombe, a South London dairyman, gave an inter- esting opinion on this subject. "Cows are much attracted and comforted by the sound of sing- ing," he said. "Even whistling, provided it is done by a person they like, pleases them. "This may sound an extraordin- ary statement, but I think cow- keepers will generally agree with me. **\ cow is a far more intelligent animal than one would think. If a milkman has no sympathy or feeling with animals the cow will be the first to realize it, and will turn sul- len and only be milked under pro- test. "But given that sympathy and a knack of pleasing animals, a cow will yield all the milk she can give. A happy cow is a far more profit- able investment than a sulky cow. "Singing and music has the same effect upon a cow as upon a baby, while the milkman acts, as it were, in the capacity of a nurse-' LEPERS NOT INCREASING. not grown any the last several years."' says O. B. Thomas, of Hon- olulu. 'In fact the number of levers og on the island of Molokai has been decreased by the discovery that some of them were not suffering from the disease. The district in whch the lepers live is separated from the mainland by a high range of mountains. and the lepers have a regular municipal government of their own. They have. their schoole and their amuse- ments and pursue their daily work with as much pleasure and indus'ry.as the inhabitants of thriv- ing vilages.""° = ee i. ---- -- Ko , *s ete If 2 man's hed is filled with wik- he @ ? hase. use bi {te come your way HOW A LADY OF THE "SMART" SE? SPENDS HER DAY. ~ -_-- the Place of Charif- .. . * *-. gblé Bazaars, © -* > A few years ago Father Bernard Vaughan preached a course of ser- méns on the mania for bridge which was invading smart society. As @ matter of fact, bridge is only one of many "forms of: gambling in which the up-to-date English socie- ty woman indulges. Her field of operation includes the Stock Ex- change and the Turf, as well as the bridge 'clubs. and. the tables at Monte Oarlo and Dieppe. HOW THEY SPEND A DAY. The following is # fair sample of how a member the "smart" gambling set spends her day. the morning, after a careful peru- sal of the sporting news in the daily paper, she telephones to her book- maker backing what she considers the likely winners for-the day. This finished, she either gets through to her stockbroker or else motors 1n- to the city for a personal interview with him. Nowadays, many society women .have--a very shrew usi- ness instinot. -It-:seas;: the .great ladies of Mayfair and Belgravia who were the first: to reap @ profit from the rubber boom of last year. After lunch,. our fair gambler turns in to her card club, where she will-play-bridge,-or-its-latest-dev- elopment--auction bridge--till din- ner time. After dinner, more bridge or baccarat, usually at home or at a friend's house. CARD INSTINCT. What is known as the "card in- stinct"? seems to be more strongly developed in women than in men. At any rate, the proficiency at bridge of many prominent ladies of society is astonishing. At the pres- ent moment the best bridge player in London is the wife of a well- known Guardsman. -This lady is generally supposed to make $6,500 a year at bridge, and this result is due entirely to skill. A curious feature of the gambl- ing spirit in society is the way bridge tournaments have. taken the place of bazaars. At these tourna- ments the entrance money and a percentage of the stakes is denoted to some charitable object. A fund organized by the Lord Mayor last Spring leepvly promted Dy one vf these tournaments. Most gamblers are superstitious, ladies especially so. There is a cer- tain countess, well-known in the bridge world, who has a method of her own for testing her luck before- hand. Every morning, after break- fast, she plays a couple of games of patience. If the cards come out well, she regards it as a good omen, and goes to the bridge club early. Ifthe cards are preverse, she accepts the warning, and ab- stains bridge that day. "PATIENCE" GAMBLING. Patience, by the way, is often made a medium for big gambling, especially that form of it known as '"'montana." In a certain ladies' club it is no uncommon sight to see two members gambling heavily at '"'montana." One plays the cards and the other bets her a certain sum against the cards coming out. In this way $50 or $75 often changes hands in a single afternoon. , As long as they are in England, society women do their gambling in private. But all this secrecy is thrown off as soon as the channel is crossed. At Monto Carlo in the winter, and at Dieppe and Dinard in the summer, any casual visitor to the Casinos at these places can watch some of the most exclusive o the society dames playing baccarat or chemin de fer with Tom, Dick and Harry. . They are there for the purpose of gambling, and, so leng as they win, it is no concern of theirs from whom their winnings come, or to whom their losses go, for the matter -of that. Many of them gamble in the most reckless fashion; but, with hardly an exception, they are most unemotional players. There is no greater offence than to grumble when one loses or to chortle when one wins. is ee WILL INSPECT KITCHENS. A woman has been appointed as kitchen inspector in Cincinnati. She is an officer of the board of health, and is expected to enforce cleanli- ness in the kitchens of hotels and restaurants. art of her duties will consist in inspecting the kitchen arrangements, seeing that the qual- ity and condition of the are good, and that the cooking is car- ried out in a clean and sanitary way. It is said that the appoint- ment is welcomed by the managers of the good hotels and restaurants. as thev have nothing to fear from insvection and will be glad to have their establishments advertised as being properly managed. cine, a Things worth while sre more an if you. go afte t vat PROTECTION FROM CHOLERA." Pret. Metchaikot Says It Is (Not ; Dangero : ue The: sibility of an outbreak ©} cholera in France . led srrof. | have lived in: contami: taminated areas and never: felt the least fear. The measures taken by the. Government are excellent, but I must. confess I have only a moderate confidence in them. The only measures to be taken are individual measures. "The strictest hygiene must be observed ; one must wash often, but above. all all drinking water must be boiled and all uit scalded. People who say that raw fruit is! dangerous make a very great mis- take. Let people eat their melons without fear; they run no risk. The only essential precaution is to plunge:the melons in boiling water for a minute, for the rind may have fragments of earth on it .con- taining the germs which propagate cholera. These germs will die at once. The same ig true of all fruit. Cholera and typhoid fever can only contaminate any one by means of the digestive' organs. The hands must therefore be kept - perfectly clean and all foods carefully steri- 'Another mistaken idea is that boiled water is-easily contaminated. That is not so. Boiled water keeps its properties for a very long time. It is quite enough to keep it in a properly covered jar. Personally water in sufficient quantity for two days."' ok, RADIUM INSTITUTE. Word in The Medical World. The Radium Institute, London, England, which was recently open- ed, was the daring schemé of the late King Edward, and is the latest word in the medical world. It has over a quarter of a million dollars' worth of radium at its disposal, is fitted with the most expensive and effective medical instruments known to science, and will employ a staff of physicians whose names are known to the medical profession of all countries. Chief among the wonders of this remarkable place is the last quantity of radium that has been accumulated for use in scientifically treating disease. This accumula- tion will enable tecte mover hefare tried in medical history, and as the chief aim of the new hospital is re- search, there is every probability that science will be materially ad- vanced as a result of its work. The institute will be worked in direct connection with the medical profession, and all application for admittance, must come from adoc- tor. The poor will be tréated free of charge; the well-to-do will pay in accordance with their means. In both cases the care and attention bestowed will be identical. With regard to the researches of the in- stitution it may be added that all scientific delvings into the "why and wherefores" will be made with- out the assistance of mutilated animal organism. No animals of any kind will be permitted either on the operating table or in the observation cages. at LORD OF 10,000 YEARS. The Latest Daily Life of the Baby Emperor China Described. Some details have been made public of the daily life of the baby Emperor of China, who is not yet quite 6. He lives secluded from the world, even his mother only be- ing allowed to pay occasional pri- vate visits. As soon as the Emperor Kuang- Hsu died the baby Pu-Yi was taken from his mother and placed in the 'orbidden City in the hands of the Empress Dowager, who was hence- forth regarded as the baby Em- peror's mother. , The baby Emperor is addressed in the palace as Wan-Sui-Yeh (Lord of Ten Thousand Years). Every morning he is awakened at nuchs, and he has three meals a day, at 8 a.m., noon and 6 p.m.are- tiring to rest at.8 p.m. His di€t is simple, the only rule observed be- ing never td put any article of food upon his table which cannot be pro- cured immediately at any time of the year. The reason is that the Emperor is supposed to get any- thing he asks for, and if this is im- possible the unfortunate official re- sponsible is liable to severe punish- ment. . The Emperor is said to be wilful by nature and to revel in mischief, especially when he can induce his attendants to follow him into a flooded courtyard after a heavy shower of rain. &, ---) 'INDIA HAS 315,000,000. The provisional census returns for British India indicate a popula- tion of 315,000.000. an. increase of about 70,500,000 as compared with 3901. * geet » I-prepare~my--supply~of boiled |¢> September, 1910, the number of 6 o'clock by the singing of eight eu- | >} chicken, sir? ti More. Than Eight Million Wome - | 'fm Various Occupation. _ Female labor is already an im-- portant factor in Germany's net tional economy, many important branches of indus- ~- try would not be able to pay their way. In 1907 out of a population of 61,000,000-there 26,000,000 work- += in the principal trades. Of "+ 8,000,000 were : women,' 'but- = 1,051,723 female servants living with ~~ < their masters are not included in- the total. : That same year in Saxony about: © 350,000 female workers were mak- = > ing their living in mining, -build- jag and: similar industries, about 900,000 male workers being engag- edinthe same industries. Intrade ~-- and commerce there were 211,570* males and 75,072 females. The number of females in "public em- ployment and independent work'" was only 16,000. The number of fe- * male farm laborers was over 100,- 000:in Saxony in 1907, but that was less than it had been. Owing to the increased duty on tobacco, female labor is being used more and more for sorting in the cigar industry of the Chemnitz dis- trict. Owing to the last business crisis, the same-may be said of dif- ferent branches of the textile indus- % try. According to Consular and . Trade Reports, the tendency is to use female in places of male labor wherever. possible. From the statistics of sick funds it is learned that the employment of female labor is increasing much more rapidly, comparatively, than the female population. From 1906 female workers increased by 24.5 per cent., that of male workers by 13.9 per cent. The great accession of able bodied female workers in the last few years is remarkable, and is to be attributed to the rise in the. cost of living, which causes women, to leave household duties for more remunerative work. THE ENIGMA OF GROWTH. Reasons why Persons Do Not Keep on Growing. Six pounds and a half is the weight of the average child at birth; at the end of the first year the aver- age weight is eighteen pounds and a half, a gain of twelve pounds, and at the end of the second year the weight it twenty-three pounds, a gain of only four pounds and a half. And with each successive year the gain is less and less unti maturity is raached Why is the gain less each*year 1 And why does it finally cease altogether? The reason is that the absorbing surfaces inside the stomach and in- testine do not and in the nature of things cannot grow proportionate- ly to the growth of the body as a whole. During the first year of growth the child's body becomes ap- proximately three times as large as it was at birth, but the interior of the stomach and bowel of the child at the age of one year is not even twice as large as it was at birth, let alone three times as large. Yet all the nourishment which supplies materials for growth has to be ab- sorbed by the stomach, and es- pecially the small intestine. It is therefore plain that growth of the body as a whole must gradually subside as the tissues to be nourish- ed gradually approach a size at which their demands balance the ut- most supply of nutrition taken up y the stomach and intestine. whe SALT LAKES IN BRITAIN. Proved to Have Existed in Pre- Glacial Times in Leicestershire. The existance of salt lakes and deserts in Britain in pre-glacial times was stated by W. W. Watts, professor of geology to the Imperial Uollege of Science, at the Royal In- istitution, to be shown by the pecul- iar geological features of Charn- wood Forest, Leicestershire, saya the Dundee Advertiser. It was by far the oldest landscape known in Britain. To-day where the marl Pe had been swept away by denuding agents the recks protruded in peaks, and in some cases the rocks were harder than steel. The resem- 'blance of the scenery to deserts in | Arabia and Arizona, he said, went j to show that in the pre-glacial per- iod there must have been deserts in Britain occupied by salt seas. Ag a further proof of the existence of deserts ages ago he indicated by means of slides the smoothness of a number of the rocks in Charn- wood Forest. . Their polish, he said, could only have been produced by the action of the wind drifting sand against them. From vastly ancient days the marl had preserved the © original rocky landscape. ---- -*¥ CAUTIOUS. Dr. Bill (meeting former patient} --Ah, good mornitfz, Mr. Jones. How -are you feeling this morning? Mr. Jones--Doctor, does it cost; anything if I tell yout ; SO SMALL. ~ Waiter--Hov do you find your Guest---With » magnifying glass,