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SUNBEAMS' COLUMN

Dear Sunbeams. —■ I suppose you have read about ttie discovery of tha ancient tomb in Egypt and the treasures that are lyeing taken from it. It is over 3000 years old and we are able to see how far the people of that time had progressed in the way of carving and all that kind-oE thing. But what I want to know, Sunbeams (and I have not met lanyono yet who can tell mc), is what right lias Lord Carnarvon <>t I the British Government, or whoever he is working for, to take away those things? They belong to Egypt, and seeing that the Pharaohs had those secflet tombs built and sealed up so that their last resting place should be undisturbed, it seema to* mc that it Is very wrong to open them and take away the treasures that *Jiey : wfeh'ed to be burled with them. If! our learned men must rush into people's tombs in their search for kiiow.ledgo, tlrey could look at all: these things, take notes, and then leave the place exactly as they founds it. Instead of that they bring away everything of smy value, 'even the mummies (the embalmed bodies of men and women) and put thtm on show in the .museums. There Is a wholo roomful of .mummies at the I Jritish. Museum to amuso s'-'ghts-eers, most of whom would be jus I ;as much interested in a pliotograph. I call it '.viclced to drag the remains of the.?e old kings and the place tSiey lie Ter ever, but very f'X-pcopic , seem to look at it in- tliat I read a long oec.ouut h one of "i.h-3 Home papers of the treasures found recently, There was not' ,a word of censure for those, who wer& *11-3 Curbing the sjaticlHy o£ the dead. bui; on another page of the very same piiirer a wrir.er woi'ked - himsoli' up into ix state of fury because the Turks, speaking of Gallipoli. raid the. British cemetries occupied too much space and suggested that the !>od,-i'« in some small ones might b>? removed into oilier 1-argier ones. The writer crms'-deml it Trould bo .sacrilege to remove the remains of our poor soldi-£'rs reverently from one cemetery to another, bnt couid see no sacrilege in v/hafc his countrymen are doing in Egypt. . , If {'iieso people could look into the! Cu'ur-?, Sunbeams, I wonder how tlioyj wfiijld' l J k3 the Uioaglit of the tcixlog! ninong the nations a t.lijusand years j [lenco rifling Westminister-Abbey or 3t. Baud's, and taking awi.y the ii) on undents and anyih/mg they fancied | n put on exhibition in their miss-1 "Him*, They could not take away ih.ej ['CMiaUit; of our great men as we have .uken theirs, becutiso they will alii Ktve cr.imblod into dust; but th-ey' 2-f)uld tako many things wo hold . The Golden Rulo holds good, r>unbosuns, in big things and l- ; ttle, 'Do unto others as ye would tnen ihould do unto you." V? Ip :y 55

CURING A TOOTILM'iiE

TJusre is a clergyman, in England vjio firmly bsli'&ves mental healing—that is the power of hefcliugj through the mind and the imag- ! na-j Uon, We sometimes, imagine wo aro, sick, Sunbeams, when there is very little the matter with and in. these cases we have only to imagine ourselves well and we are well. But, (ho De:?vn o£ Chester, wh 0 has writ- U>n a book about the science, goes | very much farther than that. He cJaims to be able to cna*e people who (ire rtialiy 111, and lais is -on?, of iJie things ho tells us: "I go to ray churclx clay school and I there sits Harry John with -a p'ece of! ily.nuo'-. round hi-3 head. I £«k him ;e he has the loothache acd he tearfully says, : yc3.' Putting my fingers oti ills chsek t tell him to repeat.! Toolhac'ie. go away, go away, go I away." v cry soon lie it is gone, j ff it's a bad tooth it will havo to j coin.o out in the ens, but i.t will slopi aching £or the rest of the day." j Wouldn't it, be nice if all the teachers or CTgn th© doctors had that I >wer, Sunbeams, but unfortunately] they liaveatv't, and if they lij-id perluaps we wouldn't have enough faith Jin tkein to try tho cure. —MUM.

Miss Wilkinson is an associate of! Dr. Marion Philips, M'ss Susan Lawrence, Mrs. Harrison Bell, and other prominent Labour women. She is an afr&ant anti-mflitarist and represented the Natlamal Union of Dietributi-T© and Allied Workers at the laet National ponteroncft of latbour woaren. * .

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