Sg ARNE ate BSP ano ARIE Des Ra MO Sek BER GI OT Te ete FE RPO a Ot I a ae ea qQUTESS kT FORGET FROM MILLINERY STORE TO A PALACE. erg Lady Dudley, the Woman Who Has Restore Cottage Lacemaking in Treland. Over in Ireland, from Gleagariff to the ra coast, they bp her name tn reverent, almost awed tonea, Around the peat fires, of winter nights, when the old Senachies Mle pea tek eal tee je pee ab dw n fairy raths and dellg; in the warmer ths, when happy parties seram- over erags of lovers er the mirrowing lochs, there is one name that is never for- gotten, never left unsaid, Iu the gray masses of the boral day the # that arise omit n the fervid ene that is loved and upen eristred, Pover- oe Ireland does not forget} flo ndness nor fall to see the beauty in the life of a woman who one was poor, who rose to the greatest heights of affluence, who lovked down, understood--and then thee tes an And the life didn't forget has been one of ro- mance. It was in a millinery store that her real course of life be te shape itself. Her father, a bank- rupt, and her mother had separ-| 4 ated. It was necessary for her to EARN HER OWN LIVING. And this she did willingly. Nor was she so intent upon her own poverty that she forgot those around her who were even less fortunate. Per sons who had been aided by her Gis A gpa ae gir), One day there came into the mif- Li pia rs Dudley and her aon, ley, known aa the Planger, He was one of the ri young men in England. He also he ie egg pir His ambling, his vices, esvapedes, med stories for all the seleet lit- tle ip parties, His passion for ing was intense. was nothing be would not wager a smal! fortune on. There was nothing he would not risk to appease his gam- Young Lerd Dudley did not know that when he crossed the threshold of that millinery shop he changed the whole course of his Hite. A little later, however, he an to realize it. He gazed into a face that en- tranced him, The creations about him, the furnishings of the place faded. The words his mother ad- dressed to him went unheard. Lord Dudley felt that he was looking into the eyes of the woman he wanted : for his wife. And, despite the en- treaties of his mother, who had seen a great match ahead for her son, despite the possibility of more gos- sip than ever, Lord Dudley set out to win Miss Gurney. Then came the difficulties. The Duchess of Bedford saw the young Miss Gurney and hiked her almost as much as Lord Dudley had. She took her out of the millinery shop and into her own home, where she dressed her in WONDERFUL GOWNS, introduced her into society and made her one of the belles of the London season. Rivals there were in plenty then for the hand of the beautiful young woman who had once been a shopgirl. There were men of millions who sought her, men of exemplary habits and hand- some faces. Miss Gurney was be- wildered by offer after offer of mar- riage, And all this time Lord Dudley was working for her hand just as hard as anyone. He had dropped his dissolute habits, he became as j famous for his solidity of character as he once had been for his loose- ness. And Lord Dudley won, The mother, who had seen for him a@ marriage with some famous femi- nine member of nobility, wept at the thought of his marriage to a shopgirl, but the weeping did no ood. Lord Dudley loved Miss urney of the millinery shop. Miss Gurney loved Lord Dudley, who had reformed that he might make himself worthy of her. And so the wedding camé, with brilliance and with all the elegance that the ap- proval society could give it. There was a honeymoon such as_ only dreams and money can make, and happiness. The season followed in London. It was one of superwonderful gay- ety, and in the midst of it was the new Lady Dudley, smiling, happy, and indulging in the enjoyment of it to the limit. The years that she had spent behind » counter were to - be made up for. The days of work were to be fergotten--and Lady Dudley saw that no recess of her memory held recollections of the other days. At least she tried--- Y BUT IN TRYING FAILED. Poor Lady Dudley could not for- get. She could not stamp out the memory that she, too, was once poor and that there had been a time when she wished for things she could not have. She began to think more and more of those to whom luxuries were denied, even necessi- ss ties. Sometimes, at dinners, where the lights glowed soft and the laughter flowed around the tables, intermingled with joking and small chat: at dances, where the swishing of the waltz formed a sort of under- lying accompaniment for the smooth rhymed music of the hidden orches- tra: at the races, where rainbow- like colors flared gaudily peacock- like, there would pop to the face of the woman a wis al exprossion, ahnost sorrowful in tts ty. hin and she Wais vee be ba | Bp kg 9 e Fhe seenes before her were fading, fer she was remembering--remem- bering that all was not happiness in the world, that there was suffering Ee valion and wager, and that sheild be dulbs semething te ba ey it. ae t. fle it rset. on the squa parts of Leiden began to haat of a Bierce pe Lady Botintiful, whe dis- tributed bioney and olething amon the poor, why eared for the ill an the despondent. n Londen so- h ~ ae it eall- Wi : it be te stapetnes and te fel- low the leader in a work that was good for humanity, And a trombers of London society also owing ye story that was beek of all, called her "the countess whe didn't forget." eme tire eountess Ww ak: FORTUNES IN FLOWERS. Rare Plants and Bulbs that Sell for Abnost Fabulous Prices, "Something new!'? is ever the ery) and for those whe can respond to it there are rich rewards. New ad tog ular, fetch aston- views, whieh Yepresent a Reset The ame profit to their for- bunate producers, says London An- awers, The most costly flowers, with one er (a Sareea ids -- are those which herald the spring--daffodils. As blooms aré among the cheapest which oan be bought; but then there are "daffs" and "daffs,"' ust as there are eggs and eges. ow daffodils are more precious than gold, use they are-- leaving eus af aceount occasional 'sports' or "freaks"--raised from seed, which takes a goodly alive of a man's lifetime to reach maturity, Ten years, perhaps, pass before lowers are thrown up, and then those flowers may be worthless, or ba | may point the way to fortune. If the bloom is a new variety, there ia om ally '"'money in it"? When the late Mr. Peter Barr introduced the daffodil which bears his name, he i it at what he thought to be ¢ prohibitive price of B30 a bulb, but even at thia sum several bulbs were quick- ly sold, Other new daffedils have also fetched aatonishiagly high prices. The Blazing Star sold a season or two ago ab £15 158, each, the Uncle Robert at £18 183., the Bedouin at £25, the Jasper at £30 and the Tsarina also at £30. As for bulbs of daffodils at £5, £10 or even £15 each, these are comparatively oom: mon, For costliness, however, daffodils are completely oute y or- ids, & new variety of which may be worth anything. Speculaters in these remarkable flowers buy the planta as imported. They are then 'dark horses" in the full sense, no man, not even the greatest expert, knowing thelr value. This is be- eause most of the plants which come to England have never bloom- ed, and because it is impossible to say what an orchid flower grower. A well-known grower, for instance, once bought a plant by auction and then sold it, before if had flowered, for £30. on afterward it came into bloom, whereupon he promptly offered to buy it back for 800 gui- neas. The owner refused to sell, even at this tempting price, though ultimately he accepted 1,000 guineas for the plant. There was another remarkable transaction a few years back. A firm of experts sald a quantity of Cypripedium insignia to another firm for £50. When the plants bloomed, one of them turned out to be a Cyprideium Sanderiana. Be- fore then its value was something less than half a crown, afterward | And this sum! it was worth £75. was actually given for it by the very people who had sold it as Cypripe- dium insignia ! Remarkable batgains, therefore, are sometimes picked up at auc- tions. A little piece of Alexandra was once knocked down for 3s 6d. Two years later it flowered, and its fortunate purchaser then sold it for 80 guineas, But there have been still greater bargains in orchids. One of the most profitable deals on record was in connection with a plant which had never flowered, and it was bought purely as a speculation for something less than 10s. The pur- chaser kept it for three years be- fore it flowered. Then it came un- der the hammer, and was knocked down for 1,000 guineas! he MUST HAVE BEEN COLD. . Two men were disputing as to which had experienced the great- est. cold in winter. Said one :---"In the part of Iceland where I was last summer the ground is frozen so hard all'the year round that when they want to bury a man they just sharpen his feet and drive him in with a pile hammer." The other replied :--"Yes, I know that place. Didn't stay there long--found it not bracing enough for me. | Went on to a small town further north. The hote! where I was staying caught fire. My room was storey. Staircases burned away. Luckily kept my presence of mind. Emptied my bath out of the window and slid down the icicle." a TEACHING THE DOG. Az a country physician was driv- ing through a village he saw a man amusing a crowd with the antics of is trick dog. The doctor pulled up, and said, "My dear man, how do you manage to train your dog that way? I can't teach mine a simple trick." The man looked up with a simple rustic look, and re- plied--"Well, you see, it's this way. You have to know more than the dog or you can't teach him any- thing." , iy "Ts there anything you can do be rt a else?' "Yes,t* rep the small boy; "I can read may own writing !" Later | old adage on the top) TRUTHFUL MAN HADE 10 LE DIFFICULT TO GET OUT TRUTH IN THE COURTS. Sue ¢ : 3 Suggestions Often Lead Witnesses Uneonseiously to Distort Faets. "Seeing is believing," se runs the é . We sometimes doubt what we hear, and with reason, but we are quite sure eur eyes are good witnesses and we not question what they shew us. But now comes the pisige Be 4 on the scene and with the crucible of the experiment to test the relability of our every- day experiences to show that there is very little indeed of which we have absolute and certain knew- ledge. The tests ordinarily used in these experiments are of two kinds. The first is known as the event experi- ment. A carefully prepared scene is enacted before a witness, and immediately or some time after the event he is asked to recall what he has seen. The event test has been less often used than the picture test, In this latter test a picture representing a common acene is shown to the subject for a brief per- iod, after which he describes what he has seen, The test was first demonstrated at Clark University in September, 1909, by the ploneer in this field, Professor William Stern, of the University of Breslau. A boy and a girl in the upper grammar grades of the Worcester schools were se- lected as subjects. Rach was shown separately for the period of a minute a colored picture entitled The Bauerstube. This picture shows the interior of | | a German peasant's home, Among other details is seen a table in the foreground at which a man and a boy are seated, while a woman is standing, evidently serving them. The man haa removed his coat and his bright red vest is clearly ex- posed to view. The woman wears A BRILLIANT RED SKIRT, over which is a blue-green apron, Nearby is a cradle of the same striking blue-garb as the apron. Had not the audience that wit- nessed the demonstration been able to follow the details of the testi- mony by means of a reproduction ef the picture thrown by a lantern on a sereen at the back of the chil- dren they would have been im- pressed with the remarkable clear- ness and apparent accuracy of the testimony particularly with refer- ence to a certain cupboard which both testified stood near the foot of the bed. This cupboard was des- cribed minutely with substantial agreement as to the details. Yet there was no cupboard in the pic- ture, and no piece of furniture that in any way resembled a cupboard. The fiction of the cupboard was de- veloped by a few suggestive ques- tions ingeniously put, such as the following: "Is there a cupboard in the room?' The reply was yes. "Where is it?' 'How many draw- ers does it have?' The writer has himself carried on this identical experiment with a soore of subjects, both adulia and children, and has not found ene who could give a completely accur- ate description of what he has seen. Many witnesses do not take the trouble accurately to distinguish between that which they exactly know and that which they vaguely believe. They belong to that type of persons who are always ready to cash in their imagination for actual fact, and they are never quite sure as to the difference. Witnesses not only follow sugges- tions both on and off the stand, but many readily yield to the tempta- tion to show off and APPEAR SMART. They often try to please the ques- tioner, and strive to prove that they know what they are talking about, A skillful attorney always takes ad- vantage of this amiable but danger- ous weakness, and the result is that he often gets just the thing that he is after by a little flattery. This method when employed with chil- dren always leads to a distortion of the truth. While there is no absolute rem- edy for all these errors in report- ing, there are certain obvious pre- cautions that may be taken to re- duce them to a minimum. Perhaps the most important of all is to get the witness as soon after the event as possible. Questions asked should always be by a disinterested person. Such a one might have an official court position and be spe- cially designated to conduct the ex- amination. The error should not be made of supposing that the pol- ice furnish a colorless medium for presenting the facts. They gener- ally have the attitude of proving the accused guilty. Through the third degree and by milder methods they constantly suggest what they have assumed to be true. Then after the police come the lawyers, who set up the case ac- cording to their various interests, while at the trial the presiding jus- tice is often more interested in le- gal technicalities than in the mere facts in the case. In all of this somehow the plain, straightforward truth is apt to be lost sight of and JUSTICE MISCARRY. The day may not be far distant when a psychological expert shall be attached to every law court. It would be the duty of the psy- chologie expert not only to examine witnesses as previously suggested, but to determine by well recognized tests their ability. to testify, By '| submitting them to the picture or the event teat could agoertain, among other things, their degree of assurance--in other words, their tendency to tell more or less than Ithey are actaatts sure ef. Much has been said and writben in recent years in regard to the failure of justice and the burden of the law's delay. The remedy fer these evils has been mainly sought in referm- ing eourt procedure on its legal an teehnieal sides. What we need, peers as mueh as this is a rer orm in the praetieal metheds of getting at the truth. When this is done the respect fer a2 eourts will be greatly increased, In the mean- time, the judge, should take it ba himself te see that the witness a fair chance to tell the truth and that his knowledge of the event js befogged neither by the insidious flattery nor the unfair bullying of the atterneys. & * FREAKS OF BUILDING. -- Parts of Old London Bridge Distri- buted All Over England. Some of the mosh curious amon freak structures are those whic pers been transplanted. The cease- cal tices about te deus stan' rings about the demolition A gee ee, The material of which they are composed {s either gold piecemeal and ineorporated in obher structures or wholly re-erected on other sites. Large quantities of such stuff are sold for building es cs, though they often prove investments. No structure was ever more scat- tered owing to this form of specula- tion, says Ge Wide World, than old London Bridge, which is now dis- tributed all over the south of Eng- | land. Bome of the balustrades are round a fountain ab Banktower, Sheerness} others are at the land end of the pier at Herne Bay} one of the alcoves is a feature of Vie- toria Park, in East London; and many of the stenee went to build Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, a lord- ly dwelling house which oost a fabu- ous eum. Its owner said that afder he had spent £100,000 on it he "abandoned the attempt to keep the account," Few bite of old London, however, have had etranger adventures than the railings which formerly enclosed the space in front of Bt. Paul's, and which cost no less than £11,200 and originally weighed 200 tons. These are to- fragmentarily re- presented in all parts of the civil- ized world. The largest portion was bought by a man a no other reason than that he had, when young and poor, courted his wife near the cathedral. He consigned his purchase to America, where he had made a for- tune and wea then living, with the intention of giving his helpmeet a pleasant surprise. And so he did, though not so soon, nor to such a degree, as he had contemplated. The ship which should have carried the ironwork safely across the West- ern ocean sank at sea, and only a art of the railings was recovered. hat part now surrounds his wife's grave at Toronto. Perhaps the most remarkable scrap of old London out of town is Temple Bar, which stands at the entrance to Theobald's Park, near Cheshunt. Removed from its ori- ginal site in 1879, it lay in a heap disentegrated till 1887, when it was given to Sir H. B. Meux, who set it up anew on its present site a year later. Very curious, however, is the gateway of Dyrham Park, South Mimms, since it bears witness that transplanting London structures in the country 28 been going on for centuries. It originally played the part of a triumphal arch at the re- storation when Obarles IT. entered Whitehall amid the acclamations of the people. "To the traffic in second hand building material 'are due many grotesque freaks in building. Stones, ironwork, etc., are pressed into surface somehow, whether they are suitable or not, and the re- sults are frequently amazing. What, for instance, less likely to serve as a churchyard gate than a prison window? Yet the entrance-- and an odd entrance it is--to a churchyard in Canning Town was formerly a window in Newgate. The biggest one-man structure in the country is Stivichal Church, near Coventry. James Green, a native of that city, not only worked the stones used in it, but with the help of a single laborer placed them all in position, and, in fact, con- structed the whole of it from foun- dation to turrets. How long it took him to accomplish the feat is not clear. He is said to have been engaged on the task for forty years, but the interval which elapsed be- tween the demolition of the old church and the opening of the pres- ent one was only seven years. we INVESTING MONEY. Among the securities which are aitract- ing attention these days none is regarded more highly by the careful investor than the six per cent. first mortgage bonds of The Spanish River Pulp & Paper Mills, Limited. Exclusive of the value of the concession, which gives the Company the right to cut pulp wood on an area of 6,000 square miles, the assets of the Company ineclud- ing the Pulp and Paper Mills at Espa- nola, Ontario, are estimated, at six times the bond issue. During its first year of operation, the Company showed profits of $309,263.19 from wood and pulp mill operations alone. The bond interest and other charges were $106,627.54, leaving net profits of $202,635.65 for the year. It is believed that the earnings with the parer mill now in operation should be well over $400,000 for the ensuing year. As the Bonds are a first mortgage on all the Company's property, it is plain to see why they are in such demand. At the present price of 981-2 they yield 61-8 per cent. per annum. Interest is payable the lat of July and the ist of January. The bonds are in $600 denominations, and with the high interest yield. combined with ab- solute safety of principal, make an ideal investment. minion Bon Terento, will furnis! tion on request. Company, Limited, complete informa- ee There are in Paris 200,000 more women than men, Probably there is nothing more expensive than the things we get for nothing. Most men are willing to forgive pad forget tt the price is satisfac- ry. ee and span' is a term de- rived from the stretching of a ne piece of cloth on hols pt) spans (stretchers). ~ ee z d - oor bi LORD PIRRIB. "Respeech your parents' wisdem and gedd adviee. At the outset of his eareey a young man eould ny than reswlve that, by the vine grace, nothing shall enter hix {ite of whleh his mother would nob approve or whieh would canse her pain," Thess are maxims which Lord Pirrie, the famous Belfast ship- builder, advises young men to ma the eblef achusthean of their lives. Lord Pirrie considers that he owes most of his success in life to his mother, Of silver and gold she had little to give, but she gave him what was more valuable than either silver or gold in the shape of a little manus- éript beok, in which with loving care she wrote down, in simple sen- tences, the love of a lifetime. Tt was upon the cede of laws laid down in thi« book by his mother that the future Lord Pirrie based his career. The treasured little volume in which his mother wrote down her thoughts and aspirations r Lord Powe, concerning him haa, it is said, never been far from his hand. It has ac- companied him on all his voyages. It has lain snug in his pocket while he has been negotiating deals with the princes of money and industry on both sides of the Atlantic. : With his mother's' maxims in his head, and her inspiring influence behind him at home, young Pirrie soon made his mark. He rose ra- pidly in favor. He was steady, en- ergetic, and pushing. He had a head on his shoulders, an observant eye, and he never spared himself when work had to be done. By de- grees he was trusted with more im- portant work. When he was hardly out of his teens he was sent off to sea to learn the miseries and dis- comforts of sea-travel as they then existed. And what he had to do when he came back was to take note of his difficulties and priva- tions seriatim, and so improve his master's ships that these discom- forts and disabilities should be remedied. ee THE PERFUME INDUSTRY. inee Its Origin Has Been Traced to An- clent Priests, Amn interesting. article on the sub- ject of perfumes, publisher in the journal Aesculape, states that the perfume industry seems to have de- veloped first ef all in Persla, The priests in Egypt, whe were the sole depositaries of science, knew the se- cret of aromatic substances and pre- pared them themselves. Egyptian perfumes acquired great celebrity, especially those made in Alexan- dria. Reserved originally for reli- gious rites, perfumes subsequently became of current use among the wealthy classes. During banquets they were diffused through the halls and were burned in profusion, The Israelites, during their 'so- journ in Egypt, adopted the use of aromatic substances, primarily for religious purposes and afterwards for personal usage. The Jews were fond of cosmetics, and even used them to paint the face. All these perfumes were extracted from es- sences of trees and various plants. The Greeks, who loved elegance, wore especially addicted to the use of perfumes, and they taught their secrets and usage to the Romans. The latter in the days of their de- cadence, committed a thousand fol- lies with perfume and went so far as to scent the coats of their dogs. The women at that time adopted some real refinements. Popaea an- oited her features with a paste formed of barley flour diluted with perfumed oil. She removed this coating with a lotion of ass's milk. The Romans were not content to use merely the perfumes of the Orient-- aloes, myrrh, incense and nard-- they made perfumes similar to those of the present day--scents of lilies, lavender, roses and thyme. In the Middle Ages the Arabs, Venetians, Genoese and Florentines became, famous for the preparation of sweet-smelling essences. France did not become acquainted with per- fumes until after the Crusades, and it was Marie de Medicis who espe- cially brought them into favor. Makers of perfumes quickly recog- nized their good or bad medicinal influences. It was remarked both in Paris and London during the cholera epidemics of the, nineteenth century that no one efigaged in making perfume was ever attacked. On the other hand, the scent of flowers has a very marked action on the vocal chords. The most injuri- ous odors from this point of view are the lily, mimosa, violet, tube- rose and hyaginth. me teachers of singing forbid their pupils even to wear a buttonhole of violets. The rose, however, is said to be abso- lutely harmless to the voice, a ing yourself-a square Sel cthans. © good -- hy aiv tia RTMENT OF VERY DEPA IN EVE NMERT. BRITISH GOVER -- * Three in the Cabinet -- Four of Them Among the Elect of the Nebility. Recently published official figures emphasize yf which Jews are kable extent & poginning to dom}- ings in this country. In pro- ee their numbers, ae reneaseely of ne pee oe egian owing 1h English themeelves, es ee ate n Great Britam 45 Toes ig ae sends 3 ath writes & correspondent. ef ring statistics just dani public, the Jews in these islan ai present just half of one per 23 of the whole population, oF a . 900. On this basis, ey shou ' have among them only three -- bers of parliament, wheres ee actually have 63 hteen, inc it some of the most rilliant mem re of that body. It is the same ee London county council, the |} 4 that governs this metropolis. ; London there are two Jews in st the population, and as the es county council has 118 mem 3, one would expect there te be only two Hebrews on its roll. There are NO LESS THAN TWELVE. On the basis of population, the Jews in this country are entitled to only three peerages, and they ac- tually have four, the Hebrew mem- hers of the house of lords being Lord Rothschild, Lord Swaythling, Lord Michelbam and Lord Wands- worth. In the government, which numbers 50 members inside and out- side the cabinet, the Jews should have only one fourth of a represen- tative, but they have three, in the persons of the attorney-general, Sir Rufus Isaacs, perhaps the greatest lawyer in the country ; the postmaster-general, Herbert Sam- uel, and under secretary of state for India, the Honorable E. s. Mon- tague, brother of Lord Swaythling. In other words, they have five times as many members in parliament and twelve times their proportional re- presentation: in the government--a good proof of popularity, as well as of ability. : But this really is only the begin- ning of the tale. The privy council numbers four Jewish members, among them Arthur Cohen, the King's counselor, and Sir Edward Speyer, the banker; and there are ELEVEN JEWISH BARONETS, including two former lords mayor of London--Sir George Faudel- Phillips and Sir Mareus Samuel-- and Sir Edward Sassoon. Of Jew- ish knights perhaps the most famous are Sir Isidore Speilmann, the art critic, and Sir Philip Magnus, the great authority on education. In the British army there are more than 400 Jews, and in the navy 100, twelve of whom are officers. ¥t was Mark Twain's joke--was it not i---that there were no Jews in Aberdeen, because they couldn't get a living in that reputedly tight- fisted town. As a matter of fact, there are 99, representing .06 per cent. of the population. Leeds has comparatively the largest. number of Jews in any British city, while Manchester comes next. According to figures furnished to the writer, there are 150,879 Jews in London, while fourteen cities in the United Kingdom each has a Jewish popula- tion in excess of 1,000. ty Jack--not or even bed HIS FAVORITE NAME. Of women's names, that of Mar- garet occurs most often in the works of J. M. Barrie. There was a Margaret in "The Little Minis- ter,' in "Quality Street,"' in '"The Admirable Crichton,' and Margar- et, called "Maggie" Wylie, was the heroine of "What Every Woman Knows."' The name to Mr. Barrie sums up everything that is tender, simple, noble, and true in fine wo- manhood. And why not? Margaret Ogilvy was the maiden name of James Matthew Barrie's mother. And surely it was~of his mother, Margaret Barrie, that the play- wright was thinking when he wrote these lines descriptive of Margaret Darling, mother of Wendy, in "Peter Pan" : "She was a lovely lady, with a J. M. Barrie, Tomantic mind and 5 mocking mouth. Her was like the little bo the other that come ing East; however uch a sweet, romantic mind X€8 one within from the puzzl- Even a lo flare-ups. Sun worship i i prevailed in th. : "i aa among all nations. ae oney Irom a wrecked shi : as ip has Ee Dose oo from a depth of 160 ve match may have its eg" PART PUBLIC LIFECURIOUS WEATHER. OEM to| ways of telling whether the air 4, |The blossoms show many varying | actual : medation , borne In mind that the contin / Conversion of better-class {] g | tra accommodati COMMON TOY, FROGS, LEEOR ES AND CHAMELEONS. -- All Are Useful in Getting a L Qn Changes in the Atmos--- phere. One of the oldest and sim dry or moist is to suspend a of seaweed out of doors, or ev an apartment where there is no tificial heat. The weed is crisp anc dry at the approach of fine weather, while it is flabby and moist when rain is likely, says the Strand -- Magazine. ' : A common toy, the Swiss weather house, is really quite trustworthy in its forecasts. The woman, of course, emerges from the little house in fine weather, while th man comes out when wet condi ne are to be expected. ; In a medium state of the atmos phere both figures stand just inside the house. The movements are due to the twisting of a cord of catgu a substance which is highly sensiti to changes in the humidity of the alr. Longs FROG AND LEECH, Two very singular weather vices are those in which a frog a leech are employed. In the f mer ease a glass jam-jar is filled about two-thirds of ite capacit; with water. A little wooden is constructed, and this is ple inside the jar. : ot A frog will live quite happily = such a position for a few weeks, and -- it will be found thet in fine weg- ther the creature will climb out up to the top of the ladder. In sto weather, however, the frog prefs to remain under the water. Even more reliable as weathe prophets are leeches. A single leech is placed in a broad glass bot tle with a piece of perforated blad- der or leather over the mouth. On the approach of fine or frosty w ther, the leech remains almost mo- tionless, curled up at the bottom. When rain or wind is coming the ereature rises to the surface, wh a coming thunderstorm will cause it to be much agitated; at times the leech will even leave the water altogether, so sensitive is the a mal to an electrical disturbanee. CHAMELEON TELLS. The chameleon barometer is | curiosity which has puzzled many people, but its construction is réalh very simple. The animal changes color according to the weather, be ing pink in damp conditions, purple in a variable state, and bright bl when the air is dry.: = A cardboard mount is prepared, and this may be lettered in sections, fair sketched out on blotting pa and then immersed in a solution chloride of cobalt, to which added chloride of sodium and gum arabic. Any chemist will make ap the mixture. = A more beautiful chemieal hygro- scope is formed of a flower made of white blotting paper which has been immersed in the cobalt mixture.) LOS shades, from bright pink to sky blue, with the changes im the de gree of dampness in the atmos phere. 4 A CHEMICAL CONTRIVANCE A somewhat curious storm glasi was introduced by the late Admira Fitzroy. This is formed of a glass tube, stoppered, but with a hole through the cork. tube has been poured a mixture © camphor, nitre, sal ammoniae, aleo- hol and water. The, changes in the. state of the atmosphere are indi cated by the production of feather growths, these extending upwa. at the approach of a storm and treating to the lower part of tube in quiet weather. So es LONDON LAND SCARCITY. Building Operations Declining be cause of Small Area of Land. According to a London coun council report, building operations: are declining in London because the diminishing area of its uncev ered land. For example, in 1 houses and premises of all kinds. with a patechis value of £481,000, were added, but for the year 191€ the rateable value of premises ed was only £199,000. The build has to go out of London to find to develop. As regards working-class aceom modation, it has not been necess to provide much more in central London, but in outer London inerease goes on. In 1910 there in London and extra London a it addition of 20,000 rooms, but i 1906, when the spirit of enter was upon the builders, over 52,00 rooms were provided. When mi accommodation has been provide it has invariably been in teme or the number of new ments, f roomed cottages has fallen off co siderably. S : : Though the returns show only extra working-class aceo provided, it must axe hou nto tenements is adding much on for the wor A recent report of the Saint cras borough council showed 3S Maple Street, off Tottenh an ---- _ there are ie 8€8 now occupied | pr 50 different tte Fr é London county council re we that there has been tle change in the rents ruling Ste years past. Though -- ee of property has deprecit olin ae uae rents have not pedieas For the central area cen: Rit ais! rent per roo Heit Ol Laisa tect hae pence and for the outer sub two shillings 1% pence. m3,