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longer sentences work a destructive hardship on manhood uhat can Beldom be cured. If one with a two-year sentence was confined for three months, and released to enter life on a selfmending plan, to be returned every year for a month or two, snch a system would school the unfortunate to a life of punishment in which instalment payments would enable him to remain a productive unit. World events are by no means neglected. Some recent ones Dr Cook was able, out of his own experience, to interpret for his readers. The Byrd and Wilkins Antarctic expeditions recalled to him his own exploring days. Writing of possible uses for the Antarctic, which he visited with the Belgian expedition in the late ’9o’s, he offers these observations and theories, which are novel, to say the least : In the endless sweep of the circumpolar seas, weighted down with sea ice and icebergs, there are great numbers of marine mammals and birds. Among these, seals and whales are well represented, but the penguin, by its immense numbers, is the characteristic, life. The Antarctic is a penguin world. The fishing banks of the Northern seas have fed untold millions for a thousand years. The cold seas of the far South, because of their greater sweep, would seem to offer even better possibilities, but to use their source of food wealth, we must have a better knowledge of the sea bottom with its life-strewn banks;, its submarine hills and valleys and plains and currents. Here is work of genuine exploration and discovery that will take a hundred years and more for the adventurous men of all lands who care to try a hard but worthy task. One of the first problems to solve is to find Use for the penguin; curious creature half bird, half fish. It has stubby wings and stubby feathers, but it can not fly. It darts like an electria spark under water, comes to the ice oi the land to rest and breed. It is safe to say that outside of bug life, ther3 is 110 'creature on earth in greater numbers. It is the most prosperous and tho most numerous of the animal kingdom, but up to the present time it has not been put to man’s use. Its life is challenged by no other animal. The meat of the penguin is coarse, but tender; dark in colour, and fishy like that of the whale and seal. It is richly charged with iodine, and contains ingredients, that support life indefinitely without other food of any kind. On the Belgian Expedition wo ate penguin steaks for nearly a year and, though at first the palate refused, the splendid health and vigour that followed the use of penguin meat soon eliminated the initial repugnance. It may serve as a source of supply of insulin in use for diabetes and other animal products now coming into use. In any case, he who finds a good use for the penguin has before him a greater supply of meat products than all the packing plants of the world combined. Here is work and food for a million men. Who will supply the brains to create the new industry?

INEVITABLE . Lean men and clean men, Wild men and mild men, Wee men and he-men, Numb men and dumb men, Tailor men and sailor men, Pinch hitters, steam fitters, Golf players, 'men - slayers, Jobbers and robbers Get married. Tall girls and small girls, Big girls and trig girls, Neat girls and sweet girls, Cash girls and rash girls, Bad girls and sad girls, Circus riders, home abiders, Opera singers, hash slingers, Crooks and cooks Marry them.—London Opinion. W.V.V.V.VV.V.V.VAV.VAV.

fat. During the day he drinks tea with cakes of flour and mutton suet. After drinking the tea he eats the tea leaves, which are, in that country, considered a tempting and irrisistible delicacy. In Russia the tea-drinkers resort to a different sort of technique. The sweetening of the beverage is the most important and to ensure the flavour the Russian places a lump of sugar in his mouth and draws the tea through it. Tea is not without its symbolical usage. In Burma it figures notably in the marriage ceremonial. A newly-married coupla exchange a mixture of tea leaves steeped in oil on their wedding day, and this i 3 sure, according to their belief, to bring years and years of matrimonial bliss. In Japan every artisan labourer going to work takes with him his rice box of lacquered wood, a kettle, a tea caddy, a teapot, a cup, and his chopsticks. Tea constitutes a definite part of the food consumed by Chinese coolies and their families. In that country the ingredients added t-o tea are not merely sugar or cream. In fact, cream is seldom used. But in flavouring the beverage the Chin, ese resort to the use of portions of salt, skimmed milk, butter, and frequently a generous dash of vinegar. There is another way of serving tea which does not call for brewing or steeping or flavouring. To a certain group of personages on each tea plantation tea i 3 served without water. The raw leaves suffice. The "consumers,” however, do not take the leaves and chew them for any particular pleasure. It is a business with them. This group is made up of professional teatasters. Usually they are Europeans—experts who not only know the markets, hut can catalogue the quality of the leaf in a few seconds. The profession is a highly profitable one, as there are comparatively few persons who can qualify for it. The only variety given the beverage i% America is an occasional dash of gin.