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Four-l After that came evening worghip, teen girls sat around a table in a|and Yogina was overjoyed to see her large room, studying their lessons. father, who came in for the service. They wore members of a girls‘ u:hool,f Runnabai had at one time been a which, Lakshmabai, a Christian In-;Christian, but when illness and misâ€" dian woman, had started. Through, fortune came to his family, the priests the open windows they could hear the persuaded him to change. He now priests in a temple near the river,! consented to be baptized. chanting to the gods to send nin,‘ Yogina was a very clever child, and for there was a famine. All the girls soon learned to spéak the strange were quiet and sad for almost all of dialect which had puzzled her at first. them had relatives in the north, who She became fat and healthy and was were starving. the pet of the whole school. And then, Suddenly they heard a commotion| one Sunday, she and her father were outside, and the sound of men‘s baptizéd in the little mission church, voices, raised in anger. Then Laksh-!tnd were made members of Christ‘s mabai came in carrying a small child flock. In her arms. She laid her on a bed,! But Runnabai had to bear a great and sent two of the girls for some many trials, His caste disowned him broth. The others crowded around| and the priests would allow no one to asking questions. _ Lakshmabai silâ€"| give him work. When he was almost enced them, and as she fed the broth| giving up in despair, Lakshmabai‘s slowly to the child, she told her story.| husband found employment for him "This little girl," she said, "is namâ€" ed Yogina. She, her father, mother and brother came to this city to get food. for they were starving. Her raother and brother died on the jourâ€" ney, and her father, Runnabai, brought her here. _ But the priests A noble bit of reconstruction that has just been completed in the devasâ€" tated regions is that of the old houses on the "Petite Place" at Arras which were almost demolished by the Gerâ€" mans. â€" The work of restoring the "Grand Place‘ ‘is under way and will be finished soon. Although the destruction in 1914 of'| the Town Hall of Arras with its beaunâ€" tiful Gothic Facade, was an event! which shocked the civilized world, the bombardment of the wonderful oldi Sixteenth Century houses facing it was almost as great a loss to French architecture. | The street joining the "Grand Place" and the "Petite Place" presented a facade of Flemish architecture dating from the end of the Sixteenth Century. One of the old housew of carved haltâ€" timbered construction was bui‘t in the Thirtsenth Century, the two s . ares having been laid out about the car 1200. However most of the dwellings were of stone, that matertal having been designated by a law of May 17, 1588. At the time of the Armistice seventy of the houses were considered destroyâ€" ed and all the rest were damaged. Pierro Paquet, architectâ€"inâ€"chief of the historical monuments of France, in. sisted that they be rebuilt. Enlisting the support of Paul Leon, then directâ€" or of Beaux Arts, the work was begun under State jurisdiction. Picture Post Cards Help. The dificuities seemed insurmountâ€" able. However, the consent of the 150 property owners was obtained and the work of reconstructing the facades began, leaving the interior arrangeâ€" monts to the owners. Picture post cards played a large part in the success of the work. They were consulted at all stages of the construction work when archives failâ€" ed to disclose the exact detail wanted. All fragments of moldings and sculpâ€" tures were collected, pleced together and numbered and then incorporated in the new work. and numbered and then mcorporated' It has been used for studying the in the new work. affect of the blast on the flight of proâ€" The new stone employed was treat-;jectfleo and has been found very useâ€" ed before being set in place in order| ful for the purpose, the bureau states. to give it the same patine as the old This blast is formed by the gases in fragments. The finished result toâ€"day ; the gun, which are ejected with great #s a success from every standpoint| velocity as soon as the projectile and the old street with its arcaded | leaves the muzzle. It completely surâ€" lower floors seems to have turned rounds the projectile during the first back the hand of time. | tew feet of its flight, and with large The work of rebuillding began in guns its force is enormous. Photoâ€" 1920. By the end of that year twenty | graphy has been found to ba the only houses had been restored. _ A year â€"available method of finding out anyâ€" later the number stood at slxty-flvo.'thlu about it. Jn the "Grand Place" there remain The camera used is capable of makâ€" only a dozen houses to be completed. | ing 250 pictures a second, butâ€"it is beâ€" fore the war. The automobile is ons of the very few commodities that can be purâ€" chased toâ€"day for less than in 1913, beâ€" HOW YOGINA WAS SAVED Shattered Arras Dwellings Restored to 1914 Condition WHICH ONE FORGAVE? some fun Boys and Girls Preâ€"War Pric«s. 199 For the â€"#& tried to prevent him, and that the noise that you heard." Yogina was mnow able to speak, and she said a few words in a dialect which the girls could not understand. Then Lakshmabai told the girls to go out and leave her to sleep. So Yogina was laid on the most comfortable bed that she had ever seen, while the girls went out under the trees. Yogina slept for a long time md; was awakened by the sound of singâ€" ing. She was much refreshed by her rest, and walked slowly out to the grove where the girls were standing around Lakshmabai. She was teachâ€" ing them the Indian translation for "Jesus loves me," and Yogina thought the air very pretty though she did not understand the words. _ Just then Lakshmabai saw her, and beckoned to her. She came timidly up to the girls, who met her with smiles of welcome. They discovered that Timmaya, one of the girls, could speak the same dialect as Yogina. So they asked questions until Lakshmabai came and called them into supper. Yogina was a very clever child, and soon learned to spéak the strange dialect which had puzzled her at first. She became fat and healthy and was the pet of the whole school. And then, one Sunday, she and her father were baptizéd in the little mission church, and were made members of Christ‘s flock. But Runnabai had to bear a great many trials. His caste disowned him and the priests would allow no one to give him work. When he was almost giving up in despair, Lakshmabai‘s husband found employment for him on a relief expedition which some merchants were sending to the famine stricken districts. So Yogina was able to stay on at the school, where she learned many useful lessons and in time became a Light in an Umbrelia. A newly patented umbrelia has a flashlight in the handle for night use. If you want to know whether "your heart keeps right," take it to the moâ€" tion picture photographer and have him snap it "in low gear." Slowâ€"moâ€" tion pictures will show whether your heart is missing any of its beats. Medicine, art, science and sport are finding out all manner of secrets about life, and how to make the world a betâ€" ter place, by submitting the universe ioV the cinematographer and analyzing the picture when it is reeled at low speed. Diseases which have baffled the physician are now made to show their symptoms slowly enough for the eye to see. Sculptors and painters are now enâ€" asled, by the camera‘s eye, to obtain permanent records of reactions of the human body which had been a matter of pure conjecture. Sclence now furnishes big business and the field of industry documentary ovidence in the way of "stills" from motion picture films showing chemical reactions which in the end lead to a revolutionizing of the processes of manufacture. The acquiring of "form," so essential in many sports, like tennis, golf, baseâ€" ball, football etc. is made easier and more efficient by means of the slow pictures showing every movement. Motion pictures of projectiles in flight from giant guns are now taken with a camera developed at the Bureau of Standards in Washington. The camera used is capable of makâ€" ing 250 pictures a second, butâ€"it is beâ€" leved that several thousand pictures a second could be taken by increasing the number of lenses used. Superlor British Camera. English ordnance officers claim to have gone Uncle Sam â€" one better. They are using a camera, weighing Of Course. "You say he belongs to a club?" h‘ a .. \ ,” ~â€"Bp $ 1 * A‘Gl }fi"% ~ K n se‘ \o | f@:u‘”-- ~‘“,fi ‘?J woman." How Slow Motion Pictures Aid Science : During the Great War, the British had occasion to crush a native rebelâ€" lon in Darfur, a part of the Egyptian Sudan. They had first, however, to cross an exceedingly arid country, Kordofan, in which water exists on !the surface only during the rainy seaâ€" son and must therefore be dragged up from slowâ€"filling wells or stored in ‘ peculiar cisterns. i South of this region the baobab tree is frequentâ€""the great burly baobab, ‘each of whose enormous arms would 'l\orm the trunk of a large tree," as Livingstone put it. The tree is a re !hdvo of our gay hollyhock and is sometimes called monkeyâ€"bread tree, ‘ since it bears an edible fruit that monâ€" | keys and occasionally the Arabic .trlbes eat. Although not usually exâ€" | ceedingly tall, baobabs are among the 'bulklest of trees, often being more 'than twenty feet across thoir some iwhat. bottleâ€"shaped trunks. Quantities of the huge trees live somehow even | in the Kordofan desert, although there are fow if any young ones sprouting there; it is supposed that the ancient speciments are survivals of a period when there was a groater rainfall, Like all aged trées, the baobabs are apt to decay at the heart; thus holâ€" lows are formed in which rain water, sliding down the huge brances, colâ€" lects when it does rain. The Arab cuts off the larger branches to prevent them from splitting the weakened trunk, excavates a hollow in the hole high up above a branch upon which he can stand as a platftorm and then proâ€" ceeds to dig out the interior of the baobab until he makes a cisternâ€"like cavity walled with living wood perâ€" haps twenty feet high and half as wide. Shallow pits are then dug in the sand near the base of the tree, two tons, which is said to take picâ€" tures at the rate of 300,000 a minute. When this ‘lm is thrown on the screen by the ordinary projecting maâ€" chine the pictures seem to move ever so slowly. It is hard to associate the flight of a projectile from a mighty gun with such lethargic movement. Again, these ultraâ€"rapid pictures have brought revelations in medical science, as a result of which great progress is being made in understandâ€" ing buman ills. As an example, the College of physicians and Surgeons in New York performed an experiment on a properly anesthetized dog. Its beating heart was exposed to the camera‘s eye, and the valves of the heart were plugged in five different ways, to stimulate conditions found in various types of cardiac trouble in humans. The behavior of the heartâ€" muscle, the alterations of its beats, and its efforts to accommodate itself to the variant conditions, proved a stirring revelation. They also proâ€" vided a very important means of checking up on facts gathered by Somebody said "Go west, young man, go west," but this pretty scene, taken at Vermilion River, Lake Edward, Quebec, says "How about the east?" A Tree That is a Well. which now receives a personal name, so to speak, by which it is always known; and when the south winds of the rainy season bring short but very wet showers the whole population turn#s out with curious skin buckets. These buckets are so supported by cords that they will flatten "out on the bottom of the pits and scoop up the water that drains into the pools be fore it has a chance to soak in. The buckets are hoisted up by men perchâ€" ed in the baobab, and the cistern is slowly filled. In such a tistern the waterâ€"will remain frosh during the dry season. . The water is sold along the trade routes, but when the British columns came along with their thirsty camels the supply naturally gave out, and so the tree cisterns were promptly comâ€" mandeered and continually replenishâ€" ed during the British campaign by endless processions of camels bearing water tanks filled at some distance source of supply. Those reservoirs with the various wells made the sucâ€" cess of the British expedition posâ€" gible, although the troops had to folâ€" low a roundabout trail from well to well and from "Mahmud‘s Tree" to other baobab cisterns. A Chinaman was much alarmed by a viciousâ€"looking dog that always barkâ€" ed at him loudly. "Don‘t be afraid of him," said the owner of the dog. "You know the old proverb, ‘A barking dog never bites.‘" Totproduce 1 lb. of honey a bee must take the nectar from 62,000 clover blossoms. "Yes," said the Chinaman, "you know proverb; I know proverb; but does the dog know proverb?" years of observation, conjecture, and more or less blind medical practice, in treating heart trouble. Used in Medical Practise. But the highâ€"speed camera has long since passed from the study of the physiology of animals and their orâ€" ganic secrets to the wonders of man, the greatest of them all. One of the most remarkable of the camera studies made of the human body revealed an important new fact in the study of hysterical conditions _ so common among women. A young girl in New York, normal in her early youth, was badly frightened during a thunder storm, and sustained a species of shellâ€"shock. As a result, she lost conâ€" trol of most of her motor muscles. Her walking, as she grew older, became pitifully like the efforts to get about made by a victim of locomotor ataxia. Her arms and legs were continually thrashing about. At a New York hospital for treating nervous diseases she had been under observation and expert care for a long time. Finally she was led out before Cautious John. What the scientific experts in Canaâ€" da and the United States have failed to do has been accomplished by an English woman, Miss Mackenzile, an experimenter employed by the Minis try of Agriculture. Her discovery concerns the method of preserving fruit in liquid in such a manner that it retains its natural colâ€" ors. The measure of her succese may be judged at Wembley where speciâ€" mens are on view in the British Govâ€" ernment Pavilion. Aithough some of the fruit. including apples, plums, and gooseberries, was picked last autumn, the colors are still quite fresh. A new story of Lord Darling is beâ€" ing told by Lord Birkenhead. The occasion was when Lord Darâ€" ling, then a junior counsel, was adâ€" dressing a jury at the Quarter Sesâ€" sions. He had been speaking for some time when the Chairman remarked: "Mr. Darling, have you noticed the position of the hands of the clock?" Swift came the reply: "Yes, sir; but with respect, I see nothing to cause anxiety. They seem to me to be where they actually are at this time of day." A Youthful Preacher. A preacher of only twenty years of age is unusual enough, but when the preacher is a girl the fact is remarkâ€" able. Miss Emily Bishop, daughter of & Chatham, England, joiner, achieved this distinction recently when she was ordarined a lay preacher in the local Primitive Methodist Church. On the cheerful village groen, Skirted round with houses small, All the boys and girls are seen Now they frolic hand in hand, Making many a morry chain; Then they form a warlike band, Marching o‘er the level plain. Now ascends the worsted ball, High it rises in the air, Or against the cottage wall, Up and down it bounces there. Then the hoop, with even pace, Runs before the merry things; Joy is seen in every face, Rich array, and mansions proud, Glided toys and costly fare, Would not make the little crowd Half so happy as they are. Then contented with my state, Where true pleasure may be seen, Let me envy not the great On a cheerful village green. A Chinese carpenter can look at a place that has to be repaired, and go back to his bench and cut the boards so that they will fit exactly. He has trained his sense of sight to give him exact knowledge. In the reaim of sport some highly interesting pictures have been made, and are being made right along. Alâ€" bert Cutier, billiard expert, has posed for pictures illustrating how the huâ€" man hand directs the cue in making difficult shots. A wellâ€"known baseball pitcher learnâ€" ed through analysis of motion pictures thatâ€"the quick snap of the wrist which he had been accustomed to put on his outâ€"curve ball was actually not aiding his delivery at all. In fact, the highâ€" speed camera proved that the ball was really two inches from his hand, in its flight to the batter, before he gave the snap to his wrist. Golf has been robbed of its mystery by pictures taken so rapidly that when they are projected at the normal rate of speed you can see the grass slowly springing back as the ball is slowly driven out of the rough. _ There is shown by the pictures a graphic study of a falling golf ball, dropped verticalâ€" ly, against scaled background. These pictures were taken to show the be havior of a number of standard golf balls while in motion, with the special idea of revealing whether or not they were properly balanced. The photoâ€" graphs in this case were taken «t the rate of 300 a second. the highâ€"speed camera, scantily clad, and walked back and forth before it. The developed pictures showed the doctors a peculiar and hitherto unsusâ€" pected and unheardâ€"of muscle wave, which proceeded from the hip to below the knee. Ordinary motion pictures are taken at a rate slightly exceeding sixteen to the second, as the eye can distinguish separate pictures at that rate of apeed. After that, the images become "movâ€"| ~â€"I[[a_.V/ } ing pictures," for the eye muscles are unable to detect the movements 1n~! dividually, but only in general, as figâ€" { ures change their positions on the dl-‘ ho‘ s fy. meinatenin| ..\ Enin ns imee ctures, 5 Â¥ ® ation. . Sittesh Boss lato 800 about! ,g";‘u':‘;‘.f’ notice him when he‘s thirtyâ€"seven times. That means, it, 2 "" we are allowed to view pictures taken! mffi" dazzlingly brilliant, that‘s by the most rapid camera in the world, | % mdnt~l shown at the usual speed of the "mov-l ies," we see ordinary phenomena takâ€"| Among the Papuans there is a belief ing place at just oneâ€"thirtyâ€"seventh that a man guilty of murder is doomâ€" the rate of speed in which they usual ed to live in a swamp in the next Playing there with hoop and ball. Joy is heard in cheerful songs Women Scientist‘s Triumph. The Village Green. The Tale of a Clock. In the Reaim of Sports Stories About Wellâ€"Known People â€"Jane Taylor "I was brought up from childhood in the service of the church," Mise Bishop told me. ~"I have learned to love it as I love my own home. While I was taking a class in the Sundayâ€"school one day our minister asked me to preâ€" pare myself for the examination. I gradually arrived at the conviction that I was called to preach the Gospel to others." Miss Bishop is engaged to be marâ€" ried to the Rev. Kric Butler. of Here ford. ‘The friendship which Kipling exâ€" tends to his neighbors around Bateâ€" man‘s, his sixteenth century house beâ€" low Burwash, is quietly reciprocated. The countrymen are jealous of their great companion, and though they may venture to disagree with him in his choice of profes@ions, permit no outside interference or challenge to his eminence. He is jealous of his environment and jealous for it. The rustics sense this and live up to it. They know his intimate concern for their affairs, and though they may try to forget that he writes they eagerly remember that he is a farmer. There was something like the haze of soft summer skies in the minister‘s | eyes as he gazed unseeingly across the ;stretch of snowâ€"cavered garden. "I‘ve been wondering, John," he said, "whether you and Peter have ever ‘looked at the whole of it? I don‘t mean the whole of the quarrel; I mean i the whole of life. Have you ever tried to think of the quarrel as what it realâ€" !ly isâ€"an inconsequential item in the | total reckonings of a lifetime? You‘re \ brothers, and for twenty years more ‘ or less you were everything to each ; other. Have you ever stopped to think how much that meant in good will, affection, convenience and happiness ltor both of you? For two years and i more your life has been poorer, and , his life has been poorer. Have you | gained anything to be compared with | what you‘ve lost?" | ‘"No." The tone was decisive. "I | miss Pete; there‘s no use denying it. |I find myself saying, "I‘ll ask Pete : about that,‘ or ‘Pete‘ll help me out on this‘â€"forgetting for the minute, don‘t ‘you know? â€" If a man looks at the , whole of it as you say, whyâ€"why, just that one fallingâ€"out looks small. I‘d , never thought of it in that way before, {and perhaps Pete never has. I‘ll find | out toâ€"day." "What kind of a man is Mr. Kipâ€" ling?" a tourist asked of a worker on his estate, hoping for a hint as to his personality or an illuminating revela tion concerning his books. "Mas‘ Kipling," replied the laborer, "is the kind of man who if he sights a thistle or a dock on his land will walk two mile an‘ better for his «pud to dig it out." <â€" Than which there is no higher compliment in Sussex. As John Brayton recited the details of the old grievénce his voice rose in indignation. The minister had heard the story® a score of timas,. . Peter Brayton had rehearsed it only the week before. The minister‘s heart was saddened because of the quarrel which ‘had occurred between the two brothers, who were influential men in his parish. He had tried ineffectually to smooth out the difference between them, but it seemed a hopeless underâ€" taking. Brayton paused. "I‘ve just been thinking, John, of the wihter little Celia died," the minister said, «peaking slowly. "For a while it seomed as if everything had stopped, but after the first I tried to look at the whole of it. That‘s a habit I picked up in my boyhood. I was ‘hard to learn,‘ and when a lesson was dull or dificult I looked away from it and thought of the bigger things, and that gave me courage to keep pegging away. The bigger things were examâ€" inations, promotion, honors, the work I was fitting myseif for. "To begin with, I tried to think of little Celia hersel{. She hadn‘t had to take any of the grave risks of life. She had left an empty house behind her, but we didn‘t have to worry about her. God would give her the best He had. Then I tried to look at the whole of my own lifeâ€"at the good I might do, at the people I might comâ€" fort all the better because I had learned by sad experience what sorâ€" row is. I can‘t tell you how much it helped." TORONTO Look At the Whole Of It. Proud of Kipling as a Farmer. cent statement by Dr. David Todd, proâ€" fessor emeritus of astronomy at Amâ€" herst College, U.B.A., that sunspots, caused by the breaking away of a porâ€" tion of the sun‘s surface covering a &llluneo of 100,000 miles, have made eir appearance, is contained in a photograph of two sunspots just obâ€" tained and declared to be the best of its kind ever taken. The photograph shows one of the spots to be about 30,â€" 000 square miles in extent. Doctor Todd claims that the spots have been caused either by the splitting of the sun or a collision of that body with some other huge orb. John A. Miller, professor of matheâ€" matics and astronomy and director of the Sproul Observatory at Swathmore College, however, believes, there is no possibility of that event taking place. "It is true that stars sometimes split in two," explained Prof. Miller, "but apparently stars split into two. porâ€" tions only when the speed of rotation is far greater than that of the star which is our sun. "Stars which once were one and now are two, revolving around a comâ€" mon centre, are abundant in the heayâ€" ens. More than 16,000 double stars have been observed. There are clusâ€" ters of three stars, four stars, even as many as nine stars, which are known to rovolve around common centres, In the constellation Taurus there is a group of thirtyâ€"nine stars all travelâ€" ing in the same direction and at the same . speed. Undoubtediy _ those thirtyâ€"nine stars are of common origin. Regarding Sunspots. "As for sunspots, the present moâ€" ment is not a time of unusual acâ€" tivity. _ Sunspots have & cyclic freâ€" quency. . That is, every 11.3 years there is a period when sunspots on our sun are most abundant. Every 11.3 years there is a period when they are most scarce. The minimum period of the cycle came fifteen months ago, so from now on for four years sunspots may be expected to become more fre quent. Her Fad. "How come Claudine looks so cheery while the rest of you girls appear tired and strained?" asked a supper ousâ€" tomer in the rapidâ€"fire restaurant. | "Bhe wears shoes that are big enough to be easy instead of fashionâ€" able," replied Helotse, t\ heael wait h’. "Bhe atways was a cramk." "What is a sunspot? Apparently it is the opening of & cavity in the usrâ€" face of the sun. The sun is only oneâ€" fourth the density of the earth. From that it is concluded our sun probably has no solid core, but is a mass of gases and of liquid gases. ‘The presâ€" sure at the surface of the sun is twentyâ€"seven times the pressure at the surface of the earth. So, in spite of the enormously high temperature of the sun, gases there tend to liquefy unâ€" der that great pressure. "Do sunspots affect weather on the earth? The meteorologists and asâ€" tronomers have been able to detect no such relation between sunspots and weather to enable any weather predicâ€" tions to be based on study of sunspots. It is true, however, that when sunspots are abundant the amount of heat given off by the sun is reduced. The heat received by the earth from the sun has been known io be reduced as much as 10 per cent. when sunspots are abundant. "The magnetic conditions of the earth are affected greatly by sunspots. When sunspots are abundant and large the aurora borealis is brighter. Also, in times of large sunspots it at times has been found possible to send messages over telegraph wires withâ€" out uisng batteries. Also, when sunâ€" spots are especially active, the magâ€" netic compass varies. The needle may for a brief time point toward the east, say, instead of toward the magnetio Astronomers measure the distance of a star by recording its position and then, six months later, when the earth is 1868,000,000 miles distant from the position it occupled six months eariier, once more recording the position of the same star. The angle thus obtainâ€" ed enables the astronomers to calcuâ€" late, by trigonmetry, how far away the star observed is from the earth. Studying the Stars. The distances cf the stars is a probâ€" lem which engrosses the chief attenâ€" tion at the Sproul Observatory. PFor only 3,500 stars has distance as yet been determined accurately, yet there are more than 200,000,000 stars which are visible with the best telescopes. Only the distances of the nearer stars can be obtaincd by this method. Some stars are so distant that even when the earth has travelled 186,000,â€" 000 miles no change of position of these faraway stars, with relation to other heavenly bodies, is apparent. The nearer stars? What does near mean ? "The distances of stars more than 200 lightâ€"years away cannot be meas ured by direct observation of their positions," said Prof, Miller. And a "lightâ€"year," the unit used for messuring the distances of the stars, means the distance light traveis in a year, darting through space at the rate of 186,330 miles a second. But nowadays, astronom k« mating the distsBTés of 1‘17..‘%“53% faraway stars by studying their rays with a spectroscopeâ€"a less dependâ€" able method, however, than observa tion of apparent change of position. Sunspots 30,000 Sq. Miles iJ Flagta #L A y * 2‘ Y nb S C ," ;L?f .$ 7 it‘ s? J3 5s div tÂ¥ buly 3\ "x