Show 1 ANOTHER BLOW STRUCK Who ho does dos not recall the picture of nr the great St Bernard dog with his hi collar and little cask ck of wine standing over Oer the prostrate form Corm In the tue snow sno it tt t the top of the tue famed tamed St Bernard pass Of or all the stories In the Third reader or was it the Fourth reader none remains more clear amid ami th the school day recollections of oC the mothers and amI fathers Cathers of today toda as that of the lost travelers in the Alps the tile heroic monks and nd he faithful dogs School School children of the next genera generation generation tion will not have this story except as asa asa asa a tale of what once existed Modern science has struck another blow at one of the dearest tales of oC childhood with the tile announcement that telephones are arenow areno now not no being used by b the monks of St Bernard to rescue snowbound travelers The shelters that have been placed at Intervals along the trail all have hae tele telephones r phones so that a man whose horses have lave given out or a foot toot passenger who has encountered impassable Imp drifts or has met with an accident can call callup callup callup up the monastery and ask for tor or what whatever whatever whatever ever relief he needs The monks are promptly notified by telephone when whenever whenever whenever ever a traveler passes certain points on the he road either from Italy itt or fit Switzer Switzerland land and landOf landOf Of course It is well that the tele telephones telephones I phones arc are at work saving life In the Alps Alp It Is Infinitely better be r for Cor the trav tray lers elera who pass that way but at the thew P w J I j lf JL IL V it same time one cannot but deplore deplore that the beautiful little story which has aroused the finest emotions of children throughout Christendom for genera generations generations generation tion must disappear from the t le litera literature literature literature ture of ot childhood For it will disappear disappear disappear pear We Ve have llave become Intensely mod modern modern modem ern em even eten e en In our nursery books and the splendid little story of o St Bernard must go |