THE IDEAL HOLIDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1926, Page 20

THE IDEAL HOLIDAY

fectly healthy. There is no clear evidence that a diminution in the fertility of all tubercular patients would exert anything approaching the effects which could be reached in a very few years by the methods of preventive medicine. Tuberculosis all over the world is a disease arising from bad environment, from life iii crowded, confined homos and workshops,' and a diet deficient in vital principles, such as pertains in cities." In agriculture it is the special scourge of the young, because under the poorly-paid conditions of British farming the adult wage-earner gets the best of the food. Among the industrial classes in towns it is a disease of the adult, commencing with his entry into crowded and dust-laden workrooms. On the Band, in South Africa, the tuberculosis death rate among tho natives has been lowered from 30 to 3 per cent. Opportunity has much to do with the dovolopincnt of genius and exceptional ability. Boys who escaped from an institute for the fooblo-minded and enlisted during the war became n.c.o.'s. The conclusion is that social reformers should concentrate attention on developing the vast powers af preventive inedicine rather than on any plans for the sterilisation of the unfit.

Tom Hood's jolly mariner, a sure preventive of drowning, laingle the deepsea sailor with the Highlander, and there is sure to be a rich store of the rules through which the simple and naturally religious mind pays respect to powers and laws-which it doei not presume to understand. It is knowledge, not ignorance of danger, of loneliness, of the might of Nature—by modern Highlanders inherited, perhaps, rather than experienced, but daily truth to them that go down to tho sea in ships —which makes these men bear themselves cautiously and humbly before tho unknown. Let Mr. Spectator sneer, and John Gay scoff, and Sir Thomas Browne, with all his successors in rationalism, explain, something of the-deep-sea spirit lingers in most peoplo yet, and is no bad thing in character and conduct. Simple, ignorant, 'captious though the forms that it takes may scorn, this humility of spirit, when it is an honest part of a larger humility, has its virtue in days ofa good deal of intellectual arrogance. It will be time to laugh at such simpleness when no door in the more expensive parts of London is numbered 12a because the- householder is afraid to live at No. 13.

fourth century original of the Attic school, perhaps to one of the marble versions of the Askelpios, which Thraaymedes of Paros set up in gold and ivory at Epidauris. Certainly the Jerash head has most in common with the Askelpios of Melos, now in.the British Museum, and considered with strong probability to be a free fourth centuryrendering of the type established by Thrasymedes in the early part of the century. It bears other resemblances in profile to a relief found in the sanctuary of Epidaurus itself, believed on the evidence of the local coinage and the description of Pausanias to represent the statue of Thrasymedes. A later hand^ perhaps, contemporary with the church in which the head was found (fourth to sixth centuries, A.8.), scratched in the pupils and irises from which the colour had long since faded, touched tho upper eyelids, and deeply incised the lines at their corners and above the brows. It was probably this craftsman who scraped' away the lock of hair over the forehead to let in the light. His touch was clumsy, but ho had enough sense of stylo to leave the essential qualities unchanged, and a

depth of religious emotion which has rendered the combination impressive.'■'