REAL HOME RULERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 11

REAL HOME RULERS.

. The-brains of. the average homo aro not all packed away, in tlie-crantum of tho male head of tho household. Tho' real tilling, managing force of, the home is the wife- The •hus-band-earns tho money,-it is-true.-• But if-he had the spending of,it, the result would,,he chaos. The wifo. is tho, real' chancellor,, of tho. exchequer!—". Weekl- Dispatch/' ;

In' spite of all tho efforts of" our enemies; at Homo and abroad. Russia would > hayo emerged victorious from,tho war -with Japan—if wo had not 'corinlu'dodj tlio Portsmouth Agreement merit.-r-General Kuropatkin, in tlio "llnskio Slovb," Moscow. - 1 Radium has not .•.kept .its. ivdiiderful'pfo-. mises. We were told' that it .would,';iii addi-i tion to other marvellous .achievements,;,.enable tho blind to see. But it was all- an. empty dream.'- .Hypotheses.,'pass;., facts re-.i liiain.—l'Neueste Naohrichtcnj'.'.'.'Sltiiiich.., ,1 ../We; must make, sure that- the J.balloonists to 1 whom - the airship that will - replace the Patrie is entrusted have.a good grip. With machines' which are costly valid difficult to handle, ono must not play like .a child with , a penny airball,. who'lets- go thethread at once.—"liappel," Paris. • • ' v 'Parisians,' whatever thcjr : agc,. sey.j,or coil-* dition, are completely lacking ill respect lor public property:- In' Paris, walls'bearing tho words "Post ■no-'.bills", are alwajs anew! with, posters: public par ( ks, in,.which appear the - sign'"Keep>pff- the grass, ' are recklessly ; tramp Tod down.—"Figaro," Paris. .Are the suffragettes.aware tha.t this "manmado law," as it now stands, is far more indulgent on a number of points to women.than to men ? • Let'.them try./women-made .law for ■women! ' Euen. Blackstone,' .a. century and a half ago,' could. declare that woman was. a "great favourite"'!of. the- law of--England.—. "Law Journal." "... .j . > When sending mounted photographs or. prints, by post, it is ft good plan to.wrap them first in tissue paper and then'm muslin before enclosing in an outer sheet of brown paper. -The stoutest brown paper is apt to tear, especially at the' corners, .when subjected to the -wear and tear of the post, -and the muslin will act as an.efficient sbield.-Eighty-eight infants were exhibited in connection with ?a Halifax: bazaar., j\liss, Lilian Pickles, aged nine months, took first prize for weight (291b, 8oz.) and general wellbeing. Of four,, sets of twins, Jack and Ruby Ambler, who have attained the age qf_fivo months and the aggregate weight of 281b: 8oz:, were considered to. have made the,best use of thoir time bo far., . Open-air schools are advocated / by Dr. Rose,\ ono 'of tho London County-Council's educational advisers. He describes the recent four 'months' experiment at Plum stead as most' successful; About a hundred children troubled with anosmia''and incipient lung and heart/disease, attended- the' ana with most beneficial results.-- The. past summer was hot an ideal one, but though' the' children spent each day in the open air,- not' , a tiwfflo child patuzht oold«