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. -^BENEFit^ Iki rh s/n \\J? d. i AdJiiHlInc lh? Kallnrn*. Two novelties in the manner of adJusting the. fullne ss in the buck are j noticeable. For thin goods shirring | looks well, ami sometimes the box < plait is shirred at the top or caught ! across with three ornamental straps j terminating in buttons. The Hat back j Is. how*ver, the most used: but to oh- . vlnte ihn stretched, unbecoming look j the bias hack scant springs out sud- | denly a few inches below the waist, importing a becoming amplitude.?Dry Good Fconotnlst. Nn l^mrt In Trailr, Itut I'lrful. The Countess of Warwick, who so shocked lirltish society by opening a lace shop in Ftond street, I/ondon, has j sold lirr lace and lingerie business and j retired from trade. She is now devoting her time and her Hue talents to promoting the education and welfare of country working girls. A rich dowager, whose name thus far has been kept a secret, gave her $r,00.000 to carry on this work. The countess is establishing schools, homes and boarding houses lor the girls, where they are safe and enjoy many advantages. ? Woman's Journal. l'lne Kinhrnlilrrv Much ITnetl. ISxperts In flno embroidery have I their hands full at present, j Hand embroidery figures conspicuous- i ly on the new gowns, and the dressmnkurs are striving vainly to find ; workers who can do the artistic tasks | .required. I Fine lingerie, too. calls for an inllultc amount of dainty hand emhroid- ' t-ry. and oven when (he trimming is in lace and insertion tliero is at least an elaborately embroidered monogram on the under garment. In l'nria the monogram is not the last note of fashion In lingerie making, j Tho French woman now prefers to I have a symbol in place of her mono- | gram, and racks her brain for an effective device that will in some way 1 suggest licr personality. j Mother itml flnlil. The ideal mother, like the ideal teacher, is an artist rather than a scientist; and although she bases her art upon a knowledge of underlying scientific principles, her skill is shown in producing effects which are apparently natural and unstudied. She keeps herself in the background, providing opportunity for the observation ot desirahlo objects and activities, and allowing the child to do his own observing. Site leaves him free to follow his own impulses, and If the impulse is leading him astray, she manages to suggest a thought which turns it in a new direction. In conversation sin> lets the ehlhl leu<l, answering his questions arid responding sympathetically to his comments, thus awakening in him the new thought which naturally arrows ont of the old. Klie remembers always that it is the child who must <lo the growing?that when she has expended tho utmost care and thought upon his environment, when she has tried to discover and to provide the surroundings which will host promote his physical, mental and moral growth then she must stand aside to wait and watch while his life* unfolds freely and spontaneously from within.?Rosemary Baum, in Harper's Bazar. qn?fn Alrxumt ri?*? Coinpnuioti. A very plain and unpretentious woman occupies today, In England, a place which the first ladies of the land might well desire. Miss Kuollys has for years been the companion and trusted friend of the Princess of Wales, and now has .is much Influence with Queen Alexandra as any women In England. The princesses are devoted to the gentle little woman, and the king Is her good friend It is said that King Edward will make her a peeress, in her own right, so that she may he eligible to one of the high places near the person of her majesty. The question of places in the new court Is causing many heart burnings, and, although the new sovereign is too' tactful to inako speedy and sweeping changes, there are removals and rumors of removals. Some of the old Incumbents have Iteen pensioned. Others who do not need pensions, have simply been dropped. One of the two East Indian attendants. who alwavs assisted Queen Victoria to and from her carriage, has already gone back to India, and it is said that tho other will follow. As a matter of fact, little that Is definite Is known abont the prospective changes. The stock of presentation jewels and trinkets marked "V. It. 1.," which was left by tho late queen Is being conferred, by King Edward, upon his mother's friends and servitors. A New Orrup.itInn for tVntnrn. A woman who has lived In Washington for years and hut lately removed to New York City found herself obliged to earn money. One day a woman who holds a position In a bunking house was bewailing her lot at lunch time. "I am often so busy," she said, "when noon comes that I cannot ieave my desk to go to some restaurant, and I am often obliged to wait for a bite until 2 or oven .1 o'clock. If 1 could yt ? piece ul cake and a glass of milk brought in to mo 1 know 1 should be in better health. "I get so faint about 12 30 that It often brings on. a headache, am1 by the time I g; t out f have lost all desin* to eat." .now toe woman put on her thinking rap and remembered having heard that a woman in Washington was going around among the government clerks serving a dainty lunch every day between 12 and 1 o'clock to those who did not care to go out or who could not leave their desks. She obtained permission from the superintendent of one of the largest buildings down town to canvass among the women employed in the otlices and find out if this really was a want, and if so if it would pay her to cater to it. Her canvass resulted in obtaining almost 100 customers in that one building. She furnishes a lunch con ii^er. Wmmm Tailor mnde gowns of silk are one of the season's demands. HonaisFar.ce and mercerized grenadines are among the new thin cotton materials. Shirred yokes are features of thin frocks, and they will bo built over colored foundations. "Tantivy Croat" is the namo of one \ of the new neekties made of mercerized cheviot to wear with the outing 1 shirts. i As the season advances the odd ' blouse is more in evidence. Thin stuffs shirred in diamonds, marked off ] with narrow black velvet ribbon, constitute yokes and undersleeves. 1 RIack velvet bolts and stocks are worn with colored shirtwaists. A nov- ' elty is a narrow white pique belt. * stitched and made with silver eyelets 1 and a plain buckle, to fasten like a leather strap. Corselet belts prove so becoming 1 that they are almost universally woni 1 with any sort of bolero. They are almost as much trouble to make as a bodice, for they require to bo boned ' and fitted with great exactitude. I.inens and wash materials of all kinds built on severe tailor line, will , . _ , . . ... - 1 1 no iiismoiiHDio mis summer. The plain linens and piques, as well as figured. t will be made without trimming of any ] sort, save the folds or bands of the | same material as tho gown. ( Pretty white gauze scarfs dotted i over with printed flowers in natural I colors add novelty to the department devoted to neckwear. Scarfs of every I kind are in demand, and another pretty 1 vaiiety is in thin white silk with chin-' I borders. Others are striped with cashmere designs. I 'l'ho most charming dotted Swisses ' are now shown in all the shops. They * come in pastel gray with white lozenge ; shaped dots. In bonbon green with white dots and serpentine stripes, in 1 mnfze yellow with black lacy stripes that look like Insertion, In violet. Mack and white, and a variety of lovely shades and tasteful designs. sisting f>r two sandwiches. one of meat, the other of lettuce, cheese or sardines, a couple of liberal slices of home made cake and a glass of milk put up in a small bottle, which is returned the next day. These Utile lunches are nicely done up in white paper, served at 12 every day and cost 13 cents. Bhe employs two hoys to deliver the lunches, which she puts up in her own apartmeut. New York Herald. I fjrl lie I hr Simple I"?rH.ol The deft-handed woman who aspires to pretty parasols, but does not care to spend a fortune on them, will be a busy and a happy creature this season. Most of the summer styles in sunshades lend themselves easily to partial reproduction by the clever amateur. For instance, sunshades of plain silk are trimmed with graduated rows of black velvet around the edge. The. effect Is charming, and the sunshade thus trimmed is a third again as expensive as the same sunshade until turned. Any elevcr woman accustomed to "fixing" and fussing can trim her sunshade of pink or blue, lilac or white silk, to look exactly the same an the Paris importation. Another fancy is lines of narrow black velvet running up from the outer edge toward the centre of the parasol. Between each pair of ribs aro from five to seven lines of velvet, the centre one reaching lu.lt way toward the tip of the parasol, the others being quite short. This effect is very pretty and when closed the sunshade looks like a handsome striped siik. A simple black velvet ribbon cdgo is effective on a parasol of pale lined silk, and (his is a "wrinkle" of the season and very easy to add to one's modest priced parasol. I-*von the splendiferous lace and chiffon creations can be further glorified by the amateur, and yet not wear a hoino-madc air. Many of the most costly parasols owe their nonchalant elegance to the careless bunch of roses or the big elicit of ribbon at one sid". These can be added by the least skilful of parasol owners, as can also ruebings of chiffons, applique motifs of simple design and frills of lnce. Neat stitches, patience and care are tho principal requisites to the beautifying of tho simple parosal and the consequent mystification of the world?for, of course, (he chief joy of having an artful sunshade lies in its power to make the world gape admiringly at one's magnificence, and to he blissfully aware that the admirers do not know that one did not pay an exorbitant price for one's beauty and fashion.?New York Commercial Adver 1 lio l'nrnrliinat? 1*1 m I on. Oh. Miirjr hud a little lamb. Its fleece was white us snow; Auil when tlie summer mine its fleece \V ould melt and downward flow. Till on one sultry August day This lamb so pure and white. Alas, was melted quite away, And wholly lost to sight. . . IV. III lllir|KT.1 lUUIJUZIUP. A 4'arioiia Sport. The word "tobogganing" in most j minds la indissolublv associated with blanket costumes and frosty weather; but in Peraka a state In the Straits Settlements, where blanket costumes are unknown and where the weather certainly isn't frosty, there exists a sort of distant relation of this sport J which is probably not enjoyed in any other part of the world. There la a huge granite slope in the course of a mountain river, down which the water trickles about two : inches deep, the main stream having vui t ru mil n Ul-U U.Y nil" H1UO OI IUU bowlder. This rock, the face of which has been rendered as smooth as glass by the constant flow of the water during hundreds of years, the Malays? men. women and children?have turned into r. toboggan slide. Climbing to the top of the rork. they sit in the shallow water, with their feet straight out and a hand on each side for steering, and then slide down the CO feet into a pool of water. This is a favorite sport on sunny mornings, as many as 200 folk being so engaged at a time, and sliding so quickly one after another or forming rows of two. four, and even eight persons, that they tumble into the pool a eonfused mass of screaming creatures. I'.ow " Ki i; III I (in Mm" 1 ounil 111* Surortl. fleneral Hector Macilonald began life as a draper's assistant, but finding it too humdrum he went for a soldier. This was quite to h's liking. Ho saw plenty of service, and because he was fond of a scrimmage they gave him his well-known nickname. So gocd a soldier was he that ho was promoted from the ranks?a rarer honor 20 years ago than it is now?and U3 lieutenant he went . through the first Boer war. In the disastrous battle of Majuha lie lost the claymore that had been presented to him by his brother officers. After j tne light. Captain (afterwards Colonel) P. F. Hubert son. of the 92nd Cordon | Highlanders, had a tnlk at Newcastle, in the Transvaal, with Joubert, the famous Poor general, who died during the second Boer war. Robertson was \ curious to know why so many of the J British officers were killed, and Joubert told him the Dutch marksmen took aim specially at them. The reason was that the officers were all rich men who could come and go as they pleased, whereas the "Tommies" were all poor, and had to serve their time and do their fighting, whether they wished to or not. for that was how they made a living. Moreover the Boer farmers had. Joubert said, no quarrel with private soldiers. and didn't want to kill a single one of them. Then Robertson told Joulx rt uuoui i lector tvincilonald anil his lost sword. "Ah." said Joubert. "that , bravo man must have his sword again. I will search the Transvaal for it. and offer ?5 reward for it." Joubert did search, and found the sword in the possession of a farmer, who, on learning the story, parted with the (daymore without reward. "Fighting Mac" 1 had the pleasure of receiving his good claymore from the hands <>f Clemral Joubert himself In the Dutch town of Newcastle.?Cassell's Little Folks. A Knee. Fred was almost asleep, lto had been traveling on the ears for nearly ( two days; and all of this second day they had been crossing the plains of Montana, where they had been very little to interest a boy of 10 outside the car windows. But. just as his head was beginning to droop in a sleepy nod. Cousin Arthur took hold of his arm. and said: ( "Bo you seo that pony standing be- i side the car? That is a real cowboy's t pony." Fred was awake In a moment, and , ho looked out of the window eagerly. I Tho train had stopped et a station, i but there were no buildings to he seen ' except the depot and one other small Trame house. Tho pony was standing ouite near tho car. his head stretched out and the reins hanging down toward tho 1 ground. "When the cowboy throws the reins j iver the pony's head." said Cousin \ruthui. "the pony knows that he is to Uand still, just as our horses stand still when they are tied." "Why don't the cowboys tie their >onies?" asked Fred, curiously. "What would they tie them to?" : isked Cousin Arthur; and then Fred j aughed at his own question, for as ] far as he could see in any direction here was not n hush or a post in sight, to say nothing of a tree or a fence. "The ponies understand." said Cousin Arthur, "and one that has been I trained will not move when ho is left , that way." Just then the whistle W ? for the j train to start; and. as it whistled, a , cowboy, the owner of the pony, dashed j out of the little frame building and Jumped upon the pony's back. He worn a broad felt hat. a bright rod shirt, a bandanna handherchlef tied loosely around his neck, and a pair of leather breeches with tho hair left upon that part of the leather which formed tho front of the legs. Around his waist was p. cartridge-bolt, with two big "six-shooters" fastened to it. Fred watched him with widoopen eyes. When he jumned so suddenly into the saddle, the pony placed its fo>ir feet close together and began to "buck." The motion that it made was like that of a rocking-horse, only it was not nearly so smooth. First its four feet struck the ground together. men its back feet: and as they went as fast as he could make them go right In the same spot, and as he kept i his head and tail down as close to his feet as possible, it took a very good i rider to keep In the saddle. Fred laughed heartily at the comical sight, and at the same time wondered how the cowboy could keep on. Hut he did. I Presently he struck his spurs into the pony's sides, ami with one great plunge he started off. The train had started, too; and for a mile the cowboy and i.'b pony kept up with the train. Fred grew more and more excited as the race kept up; and. when at last the cowboy drew rein and the plucky little pony dropped behind. Fred got up and waved his cap. Then he dropped back into his seat, but you may ho sure he was not sleepy for some time after that.?Julia D. Cowles. in the Youth's Companion. Youthful 1*1 fr-Si%vrrn. Tn a paper in the St. Nicholas, on "l.ife-Savers. Old and Young. ' Gustav Kobhe t?*!ls of the remarkable doings of half a dozen young boys and girls. A mon rr tv* nen * - J * * * " ~r> : IIVH lOlllHTieil Wlin I tie Covornment service who have received medals for saving or aiding to save life are n number much younger than the average ago of this student crow. One of the first girls thus honored was Edith Morgan of Hamlin,Michigan, who endeavored with her father and brothers to row in a northerly gale and heavy sea to a vessel capsized throe miles out. When the boat was forced back. Edith aided in clearing a track through the logs and driftwood for the surf-boat, which had meanwhile been summoned, and also helped launch the l>oat. On a previous occasion she had stood ill snow six hours helping the life-savers work the whip-line of the beach apparatus. Edith Clarke, when 11> years old, and a pupil in a convent of Oakland. California. plunged into !,ake Chabot to rescue a companion who, in wading on the treacherous margin, had disappeared in 00 feet of water. Edith seized the unconscious girl, and keeping her head above water with one arm, paddled with the other, and trod water until a boat came to the rescue. Mario L>. Parsons of Fireplace, !x>ng Island. New York, was only 10 years old when, seeing a man and a child swept off a pleasure-boat by the boom, and observing that the child clung to the man so that the latter could make no headway, she sprang into a small boat and reached the spot just in time to save these two lives. Maud King, when only 13 years old, saved three lives off Castle l'ickney, the lighthouse depot in Charleston harbor. At the time there was a southwest gale and a heavy sea. In a fnrlnno 11 - ' ' . .w,.o muni iuim'ii impnus 10 the gale. ft yawl containing three men ami a boy was capsized. The boy managed to swim ashore; but the two men got only as far as the piles of the wharf. There they hung, too exhausted to limit up. while the third man, unable to swim, clung to the yawl. Maud, notwithstanding her mother's protests, prepared unaided, to laum h a small boat in the boisterous sea. But she was joined by her aunt. Mrs. Mary Whiteley. and. together, this brave girl and tier aunt rescued the imperiled men. Frederick Kernochan, when only 10 years old. sprang into the Navesink tiver and rescued a woman. Henry F. Page of Schenevus, New York, is also one of the lads who at 10 years old have been honored with life-saving medals. Fully dressed, he plunged into a mill pond and saved one of his playmates who had suddenly found himself in deep water. William 11. Miller, in years old. of Elkton, Maryland, showed he had a cool head as well as a brave heart by the rescue of his companion who had stepped from shallow water into a deep hole. When William seized the drowning lad. the latter began to struggle, and it was a toss-up whether William's life would ho sacrificed or not. But, with great adroitness, he, while swimming, lifted the struggling hoy to a tree-trunk which protruded into the river, and thus saved both his companion's life and his own. When the "O. M. Bond" of Oswego was stranded an eighth of a milo out from Rondeau. Ontario, and the crew was hanging half perished, in the rigging. Walter Cluus. a lad who lived upon a farm not far away, made four trips out to the wreck through the raging sea in a small boat, and by his own These young rescuers were inspired by the noble impulse to risk their lives t for the lives of others. Their exploits < awaken not only the gratitude of those * whom they saved, hut the admiration ? of all to whom knowledge of th?-ir he- 5 roism may come. The ago of chivalry ' has by no means gone by; for what ' ean he more truly chivalrous than the ' deeds of these young heroes and her- 1 oinc'8 of our coast? ' MlnNoiirl Unci Sprit. A Missouri hen has laid an egg on which was etched. "PrcDnlr for the end is noer." Evidently the society for the prevention of cruelty to ani-. mals should investigate that Missouri canard that the spelling reform reso-' lulton had been adopted by the Na-' tlonnl Educational association.? Louisville Courier-Journal. DEADLY LOCKJAW GERM! ODD WAYS IN WHICH TENANUS MAY , ENTER THE SYSTEM. UtiriMtt* l.iirl<? in IHrl ami Any (irmtili | Muv Admit It?(lima Irntu Toy l'lnloln, Olvlni; mill liurc K??l ? Dhiikit from l"i?li?? Aluo?\nii|it(>inil of th? lll?ru?r. , The lockjaw bacillus is a formidfllllo liI'Diil It lei Incnnarnlilo fr..o? rlirt. Dirty hands, lurking bacillus, a j scratch or cut?and the mischief is ! done, declares a writer in the New j York Sun. The unenlightened public persists in associating all lockjaw with rusty nails, and unite refuses to accept the bacillus that was formally Introduced in 18S.">. As a matter of fact, the j nail's only function is the making of a wound through which the poison j ran enter the system, and an oyster ! shell or a toy pistol can serve the j purpose of the bacillus quite as well as a nail. Why this bacillus should be espiv ' rially prevalent in certain localities scientists do not explain, but the fact remains. The Shrewsbury river is a happy hunting ground for the beast. , and a clam shell out of the mud, down there, may inflict a scratch that will mean death. All Long Island mud is fllM r, t Ihn l.nnlllno nn.l . V. tn..t t Ixmg Island children live to grow up ' would speak volumes for their clean- j liness. were it not. that exposure to j sunlight kills the bacillus immediately. and so the sun tights for the preservation of the Long Island species. New York itself isn't inhospitable to . the tetanus bacillus. In 1899 there j were 90 deaths from lockjaw in New York City and its vicinity, many of the rases being due to accidental wounds made l>v toy pistols on the Court h of July. Tlie pistol wounds in J themselves would not have bothered ' the small hoys more than on any other Fourth. Probably there were no more of the wounds than there usually are on that glorious day; but. unluckily for the owners of the pistols, lockjaw bacilli were out in tremen- 1 Ions numbers that season and seized I Llie opportunity offered by the pistol ' wounds. No hoy cm celebrate the Declaration of Independence properly iind keep his hands clean, so there was no escaping the lurking foo. Last year two cast's of lockjaw in this city were due to abrasions on the Itead, caused by diving 'n shallow water. The diver in each case struck lis head against simething sharp on the river bottom, and the bacillus in he mud entered through the cut, : causing lockjaw within a few hours. A wound upon the face or head, if effected l?y the bacillus, will he more I langerous than a wound upon the foot. ir hand. The poisoning develops more rapidly and Is more violent in "orm. A large majority of lockjaw mscs originate in the feet or hands >f the sufferers because those parts if the body are most exposed. In warm climates the disease Is j more common than in colder local!- . ies, not because the germ revels in icat. but because the feet a-'e less ; leavily shod 'n warm countries and | >o arc more liable to Injury. For Iho same reason in the south, :norc Negroes than Caucasians have oekjnw. The Negro makes a practice if going barefoot and his feet aire frequently scratched or cut in one recent mihl case of tetanus poison, aused by stenping upon a nail, a Mew Vnrk doctor an;ilv*rd leather terapings taken from the shoe, around :ho point of incision, and found them 'nil of tetanus bacilli vliich had been rubbed from the nail ;n its passage hrough the thick leather. Had the ' patient's foot been bare, the germs would have entered the wound. Another New York doctor tells of several cases of lockjaw which ho has reated. while at his summer home, mcl which have been caused by the ntroduetion of the tetanus bacillus hrough wounds made by the horns of at fish. "I have known of tetanus poisoning from cuts made l?v fish fins and from 1 lobster claws and from ovster or clam 'hell," said the doctor to a Sun reporter. "and I'd advise any one to suck a wound like that vigorously, the instant t Is made. The nolson Isn't nntinnpiiir sn (bo fish or the shell, but it is on the lirty hands, and a fisherman is pretty likely to have dirty hands and to Ret sccnsional scratches in handling fish." The mosfiuito carries the tetanus Imclllus along with other genus, and In localities where the bacillus is I plentiful eases of lockjaw for which no cause could at first be found have seen traced to mosquito bites. In violent cases of lockjaw the poi- 1 ;on toxlne may develop and produce ! tlarming symptoms within a few lours nft.fr the entrance of the bacil- | us Into the blood, but in most cases he development is slow at the outset, rhe trotible shows first in a soreness ind stiffness of the side neck muscles, j ind gradually slight spasms of tho uusclcs appear. These spasms increase in violence, ind extend to the muscles at the back : if the neck, and then to the entire spine and trunk. The abdominal and j heat muscles become rigid, and the >pine is ordinarily curved. The face akes on grimaces, with the forehead 'urrowed, the angles of tho mouth Irawn hack into a grin, and the jaw i Irmly set; nnd this facial expression, n connection with the hoarse noiso , made by the sufferer, renders a ease if violent tetanus poisoning one of he most frightful sights in the range >f medical experience. Chronic convulsions sweep over he body, at Intervals more and more frequent, as the case becomes more violent. The | slightest noise or Jar or even a current af air being enough to bring on one , Df the spasms. It Is only during these convulsions that the patient suffers pain. I Mild cases may last several weeks; but in acute cases, death occurs in from one to seven days, and then mortality is very high. Ft is estimated that about 90 percent of the cases end fatally, and. among infants, there is no recovery. The mortality from lockjaw is. however, decreasing, as a kuowlcdge of the nature of the disease becomes more widespread and physicians ieam how to treat it. Analysis has shown that tetanin poison is much like strychnine poison in lie ..ff.w.fu ? ? %w v?4vvtof vuuugu juuvii aiiuus^i 1 mm various experiments have been made to find an antitoxin that will neutralize the poison. While the results havo not been thoroughly satisfactory, prompt inoculation with totanin antitoxin is undoubtedly valuable in many cases .and should always be tried, if that is possible. Thorough cauterization of the wound is necessary, and. if done promptly, will ordinarily prevent dancer; but the difficulty is that the wound is often too slight to occasion any notice or alarm until the toxin has developed and the harm is done. .11 ?- ? ' ii urn me uisiiise is once limy <! *voloped the physician has a difficult proposition upon his hands. The patient is relaxed hy the use of chloroform. and hypodermic morphine and bromide infections arc given. Hot applications are sometimes beneficial. The patient Is kept In a dark room and absolutely quiet. the slightest excitement being enough to bring on convulsions. If there is no tooth missing In the patient's closed ,1a\v it is not unusual to extract one, so that a stomach tube may be nassed through the opening and nourishment given in that way. Artificial resniratlon is often necessary. A case developing before the sixth day has chances of recovery: but. if the trouble does not nppear until nftor the 12th day. there is comparatively little hope for the pa-< tient. MORALS AND HEALTH. Importunl Karln l)li>rnvrr<iil l?y I In- Sclrntlllc Miuly of Children. The school systems of the whole world are likely to he revolutionized hy certain Investigations which nave been made recently in Chicago, writes Kdward Marshall in Frank Leslie's Popular Magazine. Seven thousand school children have been examined and experimented with as carefully and as scientidcallv *?s any student is taught to experiment with chemicals in a. school laboratory. Three facts of tremendous interest to every father and to every mother who have intelligence enough to appreciate the high privilege of parentage have been discovered. First, It has been found that quito as much depends upon physical development as upon the mental calibre of school children. In fait, the investigation shows that the two are almost co-ordinate. Admitting, as in every other generalization, that there are many exceptions to the rule, it has been proved that the strong child and the big child Is the bright child in school. Secondly. It has been found that a serious difference exists bet ween girls and boys in mental capacity. This is so great that it may lead eventually to the abandonment of the education of the two sexes in common. Thirdly. Professor Lombroso's theory that the perfect man physi rally is more likely to bo the perfect man morally than is tho man vho Is not perfect. has been substantiated. The prize-lighter and the professional athlete will immediately come to mind in refutation of two of these statements?that eon* corning dependence of mental development upon physical development and the dependence o? moral development upon physical development and symmetry. Nevertheless, careful study of men of tills class will show that they are not perfect physically: that it. that they are not normal. It will show that In nine eases out of 10. and, indeed, in 00 eases out of a hundred, the physical development of such persons Is abnormal. Perfection, to tho mind of tho scientist, means absolute normality. Certain Qualities of the body of the prize-fighter have been developed at tho expense of certain other qualities. There are certain things about their physical make-up which are as distinctly below the average as the muscles with which they fight and for which they especially train are above the average. If James Corbett or Robert Fitzsimmons. the pugilists, were put through the same tests which the 7000 Chicago school children have undergone, their average would, in all human probability. be found to be very low. The fact that the college athlete is generally not a particularly good student by no means disproves the results obtained by the Chicago investigators. That he is a notable athletic of itself suggests physical abnormality. It. la the normal man who is apt to be the moat moral man. It Is the normal man who is commonly the happiest man. It Is the normal man who usually makeo the member of society. The genius In any lino may very likely not be the best citizen, because he is abnormal. Won IIIn Wi?y. At Cornell university there is a young fellow with remarkable grit. To begin wlt.h. ho bail SI 10. Of this sum he paid $100 for tuition, and tho remainder for books. He found a place where he could ?ret his board for waiting upon the table. He succeeded in getting a room bv tending a furnace In tho house. Ho has gono right along with his studies, without incurring debt. The future must hold a height place for such a young man? and ho Is not alono in one college.? Success