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"Just What They Think."
^ HE j'oung man recalls diverse damsels who
^ have refused him since last Christmas ; then
whispers tenderly, "May, I am utterly unworthy
of i'ou." And there is the sob of a lost soul in
his voice. " That's precisely what papa and
mamma think. George," she replies. And for a
long time thereafter he is silent.
{Photo by B. IF. Caney, Durban.)
A Woman Soldier.
During the stormy times of the French Revo-
lution General Custine had his attention drawn
to the fact that a woman was serving braveij-
and honestly as a soldier in his army, and had
been wounded while fighting in the artillery.
Being dismissed as a woman, her grief and
despondency were such as to induce her read-
mission, and she became aide-major to the staff.
What London Drinks.
Rules of Health.
It appears that about 177,000,000 gallons of
(British) beer are drunk in London yearljs and
485,000 gallons daily. Taking 485,000. gallons
as 78,0:0 cubic feet, a barrel 76 feet long by
36 feet in mean diameter, measured internally
between the bung and the head, will hold this
quantity'.
The quantity of wine consumed in a day is^
about 5,500 gallons, or 44,000 pints, which could
be stored in a wine vault 52 feet square and one
foot deep.
Of spirits, home and foreign, about 16,000
gallons are drunk daily by Londoners.
The tea consumed yearly in the metropolis
amounts to 33,0:0,000 lb., or about 90,000 lb.
daily, against 112,000 lb. daily of coffee beans,
and 8,800 lb. of cocoa.
Jjlir IX in mind the grand truth that ilfe power
^'XS- rules the body, and that it alone can cure
disease. Life power lives upon air, water, and
food only.
Make cleanliness your motto, and watch
against filth in both house and all around it.
Few starve for want of food, but many for
want of air ; so breathe good air deeply. Wear
no tight clothing. Above all, ventilate your
sleeping-room.
Beware of gluttony. If the appetite is dull,
eat fruit only, or eat nothing. Use no fiery
condiments, but live chiefly on natural grains,
vegetables, and fruits. Never ask your stomach
to chew your food, use your teeth.
The Book of Hours.
As 07ie ivh:) reads a tale rurit in a tongfie
He only partly kno7vs, runs over it
And /o Hows but the story, losinsc ^vit
And charm, an-i half the subtle links amoiig
The haps and harms that the book's folk beset.
So do 7ue zvith our hfe. 'Nigh t comes, andjnorn;
I know that one has died a7id one is born ;
That this by love and that by hate is jnet.
Bnt all the grace and glory of it fail
To touch vte, and the meanifigs they enfold.
The Spirit of the World hath told the tale.
And tells it, and 'tis very wise and old.
But o'er the page there is a mist a7td veil —
I do not know the tongue in^ which 'tis told.
E. Rowland Sill.