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guir From every standpoint, health, time and- pocketbook, simple meals are dmimble. From David’s, and from the viewpoint of anyone who would like to get time for something besides «Rating to the mere animal wants of the human race, simplified living 15 a thing to be desired. But when we go -in for it, we run» straight up -_»:_-4. A, I VV..._ v..- n 9L9 AVWN "to be in better health than the you who had eaten from the king’s table. To Mg it right down to the twen- tieth century, consider how the boys in the my training camps were bail-t up with simple fare and regular hours and proper exercise. Physi- cians wibl tell you that the poor are freer from dietary ills than the rich, because they are forced to live simply.i And the recent weighing and measur- ing tests in the schools have revealed that theme is more nm1~nu<trition in the homm of the wel-I~toâ€"do than in the homes of the poor. ewe”, ~-V_... a...“ uuuucL, :55: our bacon, and fruit. Instead of cereal and po- tatoes, eat more cereal, if you need the extra food. And substitute milk and cream for the extra energy furâ€" nished» by the meat. Or if you must have the meat and potatoes, cut out the cereal and milk. It would mean less work, and less tax on the dliges- tive organs. Dinner could .be simplified, too, com:- sidera-blvy. Now mind, I am not say- ing eat less, simply eat fewer sorts of‘ food at one meal. Meat, potatoes, one vegetable, bread and butter and a dessert, with tea, coffee or milkI is enough for anyone. Wh-y multiply :it 'by cooking two vegetables and mak- ing a fancy salad and having pie and another sweet? It means more work, and goodness knows the farm woman ha: plenty to do without increasing “11:.‘ess'ary nuisances." A ide from the saving in work, the sir»; 1e fare is better for your health. Ye“ remember Daniel and his young fri; is would not eat the king’s meat, and were allowed to try out their simple fare of pulse and water. At the end of the trial they were foundl -V- v..., u uuaauu ; Why, for instance, have cereal, and meat and: potatoes and eggs, perhaps, and bread- and butter and coffee and cookies foa‘ breakfast? W'hy not cut that down to cereal with loads of milk, bread and butter, eggs on- bacon, .‘._J kw». 7 Probably the majority of houseâ€" keepers will join hands with the wo- man. But I must confess I hold to David’s view. After all, cooking and dishwaslhinrg are just necessary nuis- ances, we have to eat, of course, but why make a ceremonial of it? Why spend so much time getting up a meal, when simple dishes and only a few, would take so much less time and be so much better for on-e’s health?, 1"! V -v you... vukb v1. A», then she could .go for a walk. The woman is horrified at the idea of part- ing‘ with 'her treasures. She has woked‘hlard to get them, and works ha; 'er still to take care of them. Dazid thinks if all they are for is to be , ut in a room she never has time to sit down in, she might better get rid of them, and take that time to) walk or play or read or visit the neighbors. He further seandalizes, her by saying his father always said cooking and washing dishes and; cleaning were just necessary nuix- a-mces, to be made as simple as possi- ble so they could have time for real things. Real things with them, of course, meant music, books, and long tramps over the mountains. The wo- man concludes that she ought not to expect anything better of a tramp, asi she thinks David’s father to be, and continues her cleaning. Shortly after David's arrival at the farm home the woman starts her weekly cleaning. David wants her to go for a walk with him. She can’t go because she has so many things to dust, and after that will be meals. David innocently asks her why she doesn't give the stuff away or sell it so she won’t have to take care of it: In “Just David," Eleanor Porter's interesting story of a child, there is an enlightening chapter on the im- portance of housework as viewed from two standpoint/s, that of the proud housewife, and that of a child. David has been brought up alone in a moun- tain cabin by his father, a famous‘ ViO'IllnlISt, who takes the boy away. from civilization in his infancy and; keeps him until he is ten, so that he can have him alone in those impres- sionable first years. The father dies: suddenly and David falls into the: hands of a man and wife in middle life, who have no idea. who the child is. Necessary Nuisances. =. we run_ straight up ‘ticn and convention and 3 833??" Well &0 I :9- ;irl who left me to go to 11 order to cut 011% thereby to maiden. But I Choose the blooms just before they “become fun-blown, and pick them, if possible, in the earrly morning after a ra’inless nigh-t. Here is the method]. It has the merit of being q'uite simple. Pmcure .from a herbalist or drurggist a pound of cyprws powdw'. This is really powdered reindeer moss. Put it in a tin or canister with a PM that is abâ€" solutely airtight. Add, daily, flower- petals, which must be gently pulled [ apart. You may keep to the same 1 Why not use these surplus blooms ‘in the making of fva-g‘vant scent- !sachets? Incidentally, as the continu- ous cutting of blossoms is essential rbo mnflknuomsl flowering, your outâ€" fside show will be better, and last I‘ much longer. An open jar could 'be filled with the powder and placed in a sitting-room. The air will be delicately scented for quite a month. In‘hree weeks the powder will be strongly perfumed, and then you can make your sachetâ€"bagsâ€"silrk is the best materialâ€"and fill them. They will last until next summer comes round. Placed in chests of drawers, handkerchief boxes, and the like, they will impart their fragrance to every- thing about them. 1 Nevertheless I shall continue to fol- . low David's manner of living. Eat- ; ing and dishes and cleaning are net- essary, but they are not all important. 1 Life was meant to be something more ,l than a round of caring for the bodies. _ Otherwise we would not have been H given minds and souls that crave food. . If God didn‘t mean us to get out and . view his world, he would not have ‘ made it so beautiful. If He had not meant us to meet our fellows, He would not have made us social crea- . tures with a craving for friendship. If He had not meant us to enjoy music and art and poetry, He would ‘I not have filled the universe with music and beauty. We were meant to have !some time for play, and with most ' housekeepers the only way to get that time is to make it. And if the only way to make it is by giving the folks bread and milk for supp-er, bread and: milk let it be. They may growl 21‘ good deal, but they won‘t starve to death. The day’s petalls should (for a pound of cyprus powder) weigh about; two ounces. Stiir three on- four times daily, so that the powder may become well impregnated. At the end of three days sort out and remove the old, withered petals, and then begin the {recess again, There are often flowers left to fade on the plant, even after the vases in the house have been kept supplied. Mum she left for a woman who was “awful rich because she had so many things on the piano and manutel to dust." If you must do houseworkfthere's no- thing llike feeling your folks are quality! remâ€"u‘gand the worst fs yet to come Sachets of Scent. a regeneration: of mind and body. It is not a matter of doing nothing, but mther of doing ,something different or differently or in a different place. 'Sumlmer vacation and recreation: “To-marrow to fresh woods and pas- tures new.” A league up the road somewhere, then a bypath, and a little lodge by a rushing mountain stream, or perhaps where the sea tumbles in ~â€"‘oool and sweet and salt. Let the act of goingâ€"leaving your place un- occupiedâ€"be the vacation part of it. The precious days of freed-om are for recreation: new bays-ks, new thoughts, British Produce Cotton. A British experiment farm at Bagâ€" dad has succeeded in producing Egyp- tian and long staple American cotton of excellent quality and heavy yield. Two gentlemen who had come into a. restaurant one day were scarcely at the table when the waiter rushed up and asked: “What shall I bring you gentlemen?” “Oh, dear," said one of the gentle- men, impatiently, “give us a little re» spite!" With modern devices we could build such a pyramid in a year. An enor- mous concrete-mixing plant would be erected, capable of ‘handling thous- ands of tons of material a day. A great steel tower, or several of them, would be erected. Fresh concrete would be rushed to these by a multi- ‘tude of bucket conveyers from the mixing plant. The concrete would be whisked to the tops of the towers and thence would be distributed to the points where it was wanted. Up, up, up the mighty pile would go. It would be a. process twenty times as rapid as the best that slave labor could no un- der the lash for Old Man Cheops. "ramp" of earth, up which the stones were dragged. Some of our: foremost engineers now reject this idea, con- tern‘fiing that the sides of the pyramid, being filled in to a smooth slant as they rose, themselves formed planes sufficiently inclines to enable gangs of men to pull up with ropes the stones required for the successive courses. The great pyramid was built wholly by man power. To erect one like it would be a relatively easy tack me- chanically, inasmuch as electrical and other machinery would do the bulk of the work. A' theory generally acaepted has been that the ancient Egyptians ele- vated the huge limestone blocks by building against the structure a long Mod could at a la crete 2 stone. .emp 100,( fee oying 00 men ave bee high abc Pyramid Building. n engineers believe that they produce it in twelve months, :‘r cost of $1,200,000. using conv the material in place of lime- amid of Cleops is nearly 500 covers more than thirteen .d contains 90,000,000 cubic me. Its construction Is said een a task of twenty years. the continuous labor of Off the Menu. Wireless can, in this way, be ren- dered as secret and private as a mes- sage by wire. Professor J. A. Flemlng, of London University, tells us that some time ago a ship in the Atlantic spoke by wire- less telephone to a station on the American coast; then, by means of a special apparatus called a thermionic valve, the message was transferred to the New Yorkâ€"San Francisco tele- phone llne, and on to Lee Angeles. There it was transferred to the wire- The system can be applied to wire- less telephone or telegraph, and it is expected that it will be in general use before long. This is the latest development in the scientific wonder of the age, and the method by which it is brought about is ingenions’. A certain type of wave is used that will go from point to point without expanding, and it cannot, therefore, be picked up by any station unless that station happens to be in the dire-ct line between the transmitting and receiving stations. One of the biggest dreams of wire- less, full of promise for the world, is coming true. At last man of science have succeeded in the great task to which they have given their minds for yearsâ€"they have made wireless secret and private. Wireless Telephone Around the World is a Marvel of the Not Distant Future. SECRET TALKS WORK OF WONDERFUL LITTLE VALVE. ed'ity body, and hence the urg sufficient nourishment c kind, during this critical man life. At five years ( Mentally defective people in large numbers are roaming at large; throughout the province, speeding, disease and reproducing their own de-l fective kind. Abundant proof of the‘ seriousness of this situation has been obtained in Toronto and other cities by social service workers who are making extensive investigations along the lines of mental hygiene. Heredity undoubtedly plays a big» ,part in this condition of defective mentality, for although there are ex- ceptions, it is nature's habit to repro-' dulce in kind. How then can this state of affairs be rectified? A scheme based on Medical Examination to pre- vent mental'ly defective people from getting married is being thought out,‘ but this would only deal in part with the problem, as the question of illegitimacy has to be considered. Many of the illegitimate children born have mothers who are distinctly be- low the par of average mental capa- city, as social service workers find out in dealing with such cases. This, no doubt, applies also to many of the fathers of such children, and a tre- mendous task thus confronts those who are endeavoring to improve the condition of humanity both mentally and physically. ! r School ('h5l'lren with low mentality are a great hindrance to those who are normal. Not only do their habits and actions tend to lower the morals of other children, but the class work is hindered by the (to-mingling of the two grad-es of intellect. There should .be in every school district :1 special- class for mental defeciivca who could be dealt with separately by a teacher specially trained in mental hygiene. These children would include those who are dull or slowâ€"witted, those 3thievishly inclined, those always get- ting inlto mischief which seems to take them unawares. The classes of school children might indeed be fur- ther graded by scientific methods, and progress noted as the result of spe- cial training. “ For children of school age and older, there is not at present a. suf= ficienlt number or variety of institu- tions to accommodate the cases vary- ing from mental defects to inbecility. For imbeciles and definitely feeble- minded there is provision madeâ€"pub- lic opinion has recognized the neces- sity for it, but for the higher grade of mental defectives who in many res- pects are bright and seemingly in- telligent, nothing has been done. And yet this class of people is almost as definite 2 mortar-A tn H1:- nnmmnnitv Privacy by Wireless. THRfiUGH SPAEE ALduu-lun wm ha Lad lo Inswar quesuom 03 ten) through mm column Address nun at u“ Toronto. mm EUUL’A’I’WN Provmcnal Board of Health. Ontario 16 the Fa . J. J. MIDDLETON 1310‘ r'r-er sulon Wireless telephzony has one great advantage over the ordinary tele- phone. It does not distort the form of the sound waves. In the ordinary telephone the waves are much dis‘ torted, with the result that the sounds heard at the receiving end are far from perfect. With wireless there is no distortion, and the sound is clear. Its Inventor has obtained a patent for a complete kitchen that occupies a space but four feet square, yet in- cludes stove, sink, table, set of shelves and stand of drawers. It seems that we may be on the eve of such a marvel. It might be quite possible, Professor Fleming says, for a British Minister to say to a. secre- tary: “I want the opinion of General Smuts on a. matter. Ask him What he thinks," and for the secretary to come back presently and say that the Pre- mier of South Africa approves of the decision. Professor Fleming foretold that it might be possible one day for the Pre< mie-rs of the British Commonwealth, without leaving their offices, to com- municate by wireless telephone and attend an Empire Cabinet meeting in Downing Street. , Almost every week there are ad- vances In wireless. Some years ago can be used if thermionic valves‘are inserted. How great the saving is can be judged by the fact that the wire of the ordinary trunk line between Lon- don and Glasgow weighs three hun- dred tons, and by means of the valve more than half this weight can be saved. The General Post Office is now using the valve on all its long trunk lines. For children of school age and older, there is not at present a suf= ‘ficienlt number or variety of institu- tions to accommodate the cases vary- ing from mental defects to inbecility. For imbeciles and definitely feeble- minded there is provision madeâ€"pub- lic opinion has recognized the necw- sity for it, but for the higher grade of mental defectives who in many res- pects are bright and seemingly in- telligent, nothing has been done. And yet this class of people is almost as definite a menace to the community as is the criminal. The Toronto Psy- chiatric Clinic, conducted by a group of physicians, psychologists, and others who take a scientific interest in mental abnormalities, is being con- ducted at present in the out-patient’s wing of the Toronto General Hospital. The cases come from the Public Schools, the Juvenile Courts, Indus- trial Homes and various other insti- tutions throughout the city. and pro- vide excellent clinical material. But this only touches the fringe of what is to be done. The problem is province- wide; indeed, it is a national and international problem. Science can go so far, but public opinion must be awakened to come to the support of science before very great advances can be made. Besides the problem will have to be approached from the preventive as well as the curative side, and many difficulties will have to be surmounted. much thinner and less expensive cable vid-e excellent this only touc is to be done. ‘ wide; indeed, international two grad-es of intellect. There should be in every school district :1 special class for mental defectives who could be dealt with separately by a teacher specially trained in mental hygiene. These children would include those who are dull or slowâ€"witted, those thievishly inclined, those always gat‘ ting inlto mischief which seems to take them umawares. The classes of school children might indeed be fur- ther graded by scientific methods, and Progress noted as the result of spe- cial training. 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