mora p = Was Creator of “Brownies” » Gen- _ eration | : was childhood of almost the wide He was a pioneer in the ma character for youth- ; and so popular did the Bye jes an vencent are they appeared onal several books, in innumerable ; @ articles and eventually on caters, There was someth de- _eidedly engaging about the Brownie, ; parkling with ‘Bpindley legs, the whole figure ap- to bob about like an overripe rail ic - California, b t his love for drawing ,. snd caricature led him to “a artistic which he commenced in New “ a "He had no noticeable success ‘st, but when he at length, in 1880, finally put on paper the form- less creatures of his ioe cer tar which he called the’ Brownies, his s Bee cess was great and assured. Though a@ bachelor, his-studio was covered with pictures of boys and girls from all over the world, and his desk lit- letters from young ‘3 The Brownie was an inheritance by Palmer Cox from the Grampian folklore of his Scottish ancestry. For hundreds of years the little fellows, according to legend, had lived among the gorse and heather of the Scot- ' tish hills. Each night as soon as the - moon rose they had come down to - play among the sheep, and in the a dg always doing some good for the simple-minded rustics 4 ae. lived in the neighboring cottage. p. If little Tam had failed to finish bs jwolltting his wood and had left the axe handy, the Brownies completed the work, and when Tam came out in the morning he rubbed his eyes in amazement. “Broonies," he said, and every one -knew what he meant. it was a rule in the career of the Brownies of Palmer Cox's fertile imagination that they should only , do one thing once: Therefore, when | he allowed a company of them to be shipwrecked on a barren island m one occasion, and they had al- Pp, he was “up a Ow to get them oll. got letters from my little over the world,” he said, Se ibaa aaa ra kes te EY et g a “< c =f = “asking Mow I was going to get the Browniep out of their trouble, and begging \me not to let them perish on the is Finally, a happy idea struck me. I remembered how the sea fowl on the Pacific coast used to go out on the islands to roost at night, and the first thing in the morning would fly to the mainland * (in order to pick up what the tide had brought in. Then, in my mind's A ie I saw the Brownies clinging to Pe the—binds backs in-imid airtlying-te- the shore—and that’s how 1 ithe Brownies.” saved Japanese Potice. After one of yo own “by the grace of God free and independent” jAmerican customs officers has been at yous trunk for five minutes, it gen- eraily takes about two hours upon a idraughty and crowded pier to get a trunk together again. In Japan they 1 have catalogued everything in ur trunk to the last collar button, d you wouldn‘t have a suspicion t anything had been disturbed. You could wander in and out of Yokohama or Tokio, not even know- rd where you are going or why, and @ police would not only keep track f you, but probably lie awake ntghts trying to figure out why you started out to buy a kimino and changed . your mind and bought a paper parasol. Fact is that the Japanese take themselves more seriously than any other nation on the good green earth t You've got to disturb the peace to achieve the distinction of having tracted the attention of an American cop. In Japan you can't walk along 7” minding your own business without the Japanese police wondering what that business it, writing it ali down and figuring it all out. The Japanese who is whooping it up in a narrow street and kicking in the sides of his neighbors’ paper houses is no problem at all, He is simply a victim of hot saki—that’s But let him be sober, going indus- triously about his business, and that is a reason why he should be watched.—Frarklin C. Chase Syracuse Journal. . in Primitive Icelandic Homes. Lava blocks roughly quarried pro- vide the rural Icelander with his building material. His farmstead consists of a group of small cottages joined together. The lava blocks are laid-one onthe other and the cre- vices are stopped up with moss or earth. Some ‘of these houses have wood rafters, but the majority of -“\them have whale ribs instead. These /are covered with brushwood, on top of which turf is heaped. The turf bears a good crop of grass, which “is ‘carefully cut for hay. The houses _have no chimneys, and a fire is never Out through a hole in only windows are OF ATHLETES. Qut of a Population of 3,500,000 | 5% This Baltic Nation Taken Twelve First Places In Olympic Games—A Hardy Race. While the United States by virtue of the total number of prizes won May properly lay claim to, the Olympic championship of 1924, tue real honors go to Finland, which hae won twelve first places, and in the long distance races outstripped all other competitors. Nobody attempts to belittle The performances of Sten- roos,. the forty-year-old winner of one of the most trying of Marathons; Willie Ritola, whe competed in dis- tance runs on five successive days, and Paavo Nurnil, whose string of Victories is ynsurpassed in ancient or modern Olympic contests. “Ev ery- body, on the contrary, is ready to give the Finns full credit, and is wondering how it is that with a population of only 3,500,000, dwell- ing in the remote Baltic, they can Produce so many wonderiul athletes. Those who hold to the theory that the Nordics are the chosen people of the earth and that they must invari- ably lead all others ¢ither in mental or physical tests cannot cite the nns ‘as evidence. They are not Nordics. They are Mongols by an- cestry and more closely related to the Turks than to any other Euro- Peans of the present day. They are more akin to Indians than to Eng- lishmen. Mr. Tom an of Toronto, the noted “athletic atabaetly, has a theory that explains both the Irish successes in the first revived Olympic and the feats of the Finns in the contests of 1924. From boyhood they are taught that the greatest of prizes, or, as he says, the equivalent to the Victoria Cross, are those won in athletic competition. The young Irishman of a generation ago,. like the Finn to-day, could find no other avenue to general distinction so nat- ural as that of athletic endeavor; and on that account the young Irishmen concentrated themselves upon training and exercise, having, to begin with, the physique for suc- cess in tests of strength and skill. It is probably true that there is no matter apart from the necessity of making a living in which the Finns are so keenly interested as athletics. That may be ‘either one of the causes or the result of their victor- ies. They have not the distractions | that other countries enjoy, and cir- cumstances have indicated to them the wisdom of specializing in their sports. They have produced great wrestlers and discus throwers, but it is in long-distance running that they excel. One reason why the Finns have | not taken up short races is that there Are few cinder paths in the country. Another re is that great sprint- \2 ers, as a e, begin their twaining | when they are schoolboys. While , Finland has so many schools that the ! (percentage of illiteracy is the lowest | in Europe, the schools do not go in for athletics. They specialize in gym- nastics and play a sort of football de- rived from England. Clubs which the youths join after leaving school are the backbone Finland's ath- letic system. They exist in all parte of the country even in li illages within the Arctic circle. Thé lons- distance races are popular hecause a champion need not begin as a youth if his aim is to win a Marathon. He can wait until he reaches maturity before doing any special training ex- cept jogging along the road. The country being not thickly populated and motors not being numerous, the custom of using the Jegs to pay visits to neighbors is one that ts long estab- lished and those who practice it are not looked down upon We must credit the Finns with that natural hardihood possessed by People whose seasons are divided into nine months winter and three months cool weather. Some of the earlier historians declared that the treatment appiied to the Finnish ba- bies made it impossible for any but the hardiest to survive. scribed them as steeped in poverty, clad in skins, eating herbs and sleep- ing on the ground. They had neither arms nor. horses, and this may have had something to do pie Seveloping their legs for both flight and pur- Poses of travelling. Other trav Bil reported their astonishment at seeing groups of Finns sitting outdoors nak- ed. It was explained that they had just emerged from steam baths and chose this method of cooling off. The steam bath produ by pouring boiling water upon stones, is a na- tional institution. The scouring is achieved by rods and coarse cloths, and. buckets of cold water are em- ployed by those who do not sit out- side until they regain their normal temperature. It is also worth noting thut the Finns, and not ‘the Swedes were the inventors of the ski and that in winter skiing is almost uni- versal amoug them, < _ which has an athletic signifcan But remeaiatie that the Finns savin practically no athletic traditidns. Like all other races, of course, they have thelr mythological heroes. renowned for their — bigs Athletics were never a ith, reeks, and as they ve beconie later with English-speaki _ People. en sped book, “Te burperte to trace the occa at of the race, is bey fey FINLAND Be seeps HER SHARE | | ‘ Tacitus de- |. them, as they were once with “rhe t evala,? }‘ Citys “attention ‘6 the work’ (aie bis prep acne Aad by the Pro-Jeru- m Society Is restoring the wals . ‘the Holy City has’ been revived the removal = the tacns clock: tower at Jaffa Indeed, it a ae possible to ascend the walls of the various gates and make a coniplete circult of Jetusalem along its ancient walls. During the ‘ast few months the Society, whose aim is "‘to preserve the ancient. monuments, encourage Loci ee ornare plant trees, and, in g the pagina = historic naty of Jeni em,"’ voted a great deal of piextinn 1 to tne walls of Jerusalem and, as alrea stated, it Is — possible to- walk right roynd th Whata worit't of romance these an- cient walls record! They carry the mind back to the early days of He- brew history, for it was David and Solomon who. first encloséd Jerusalem with a wall. Nehemiah subsequently enlarged and extended them, and there they stood - all their glory at the time of Chris When Titus, the Roman general, destroyed Jerusalem in the year 70, he pulled down its old walls, as did other conquerors after him, The present walls were built by Sulieman the Magnificent in 1536-42. This is attested by the numerous instriptions found on the gates. According to lo- eal tradition it was the work of two brothers, wh menced at the Jaffa Gate in opposite directions, and never saw each other again for sever years, finally meeting at St. Stephen's Gate, in the eastern wall, — they placed their mark, the lion The .circuit of t . oe which vary in height from 28 to 4Q feet, is about three miles, enclosing about 200 acres, one-rixth of its extent be- ing devoted to the Temple area, which contains 35 acres. The walls are graced with 34 towers and eight gates—one of the latter being per- manently closed. The question that naturally arises is, do the present walls mark the boundary of the city of Christ’s day? We know that the remains of the. former walls were left as they had een thrown down, and that the same stones were built on the same foun- dations. Possibiy in some places a slight deviation was made, but gen- erally speaking, the present wall stands in the line oi its immediate predecessors. Evidently the Jerusalem of Bible day was a small city, about equal in area to the Borough of Westminster, London. You could have dumped it down in Hyde Park, in London, and still have 150 acres to spare. Yet it contained Solomon's magnificent tem- ple, the King's palace, other public buildings, and the dwellings of its inhabitants. ntury ago there were no ' buildings outside the city walls, and at sundown the gates were all closed, and it was almost all a man's life was worth to arrive after they were shut. When the Jews began to re- turn to the city of their forefathers, and Jerusalem could not hold them, people ventured to build and live outside. Then one of the gates was left open all night and presently a second one, and so on until all were never closed. In fact, they have been widened to allow carriages to pass freely in and out. The principal entrance to the city ad the Jaffa Gate, and there, in 1907, ne clock showing both Arabic and Hebrew times. It was in fact quite @ conspicuous landmark. rise of many this clock tower has now been taken down on the ground that it was ugly and out of keeping with the oy of the ancient wall on which it i During the Turkish regime noth- ing in the way of preserving the walls was done. As a result, they fell into a very dilapidated condition, more Particularly in regard stones, many of which were carried away. Besides, each landowner with- in the walls blocked walks at both extremes of his property, ~~‘ thus the Fasin became { rough the efforts of the Pro- Seramann Society the missing stones have been restored, the rubbish and growth which covered c por- tions of the walls have been. contin- uous path have been taken down, and, here and there, in dangerous parts, iron rails and banisters have been provided. Where Ice Cream Originated. It is a matter of dispute between France and Italy as to which country first produced ice cream. 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