Show If rUNDER UNDER THE 11 I I 1 READING LAMP 11 By E. E W. W OSBORN Copyright 1924 New ew York Evening World Press Publishing Co And I shall sing a song I said Or sit upon a hill To watch the April breezes breez's tease teaseS The freshet by the millA millA mill S A primrose chaplet I shall shan weave And place upon my hair Then run the fields the livelong day dayNor dayNor Nor r give a thought to care This did I Iven even ven as I J sang And danced the glades along alon And soon the primrose wreath was dead And dead was daylights daylight's song It had been beep wiser then said I r If It I had made a hood To shelter me when darkness fell tell Upon the th field and wood A song at or improvidence sung by Hesper Le La Gallienne in Harpers Harper's Magazine 5 The Pain of Not Thinking In one of ot the chapters of ot his Pleasure and Behavior Appleton Apple- Apple ton Frederic Lyman Wells Wens writes writs George Kennan tells of ot a punIshment punishment punishment pun pun- In use in a Russian Hussian political political po- po prison in reactionary days which consisted of ot deprivIng depriving depriving ing the prisoner of every op opportunity opportunity opportunity op- op to use his mind such as might be afforded by a book or orven ven even a pack of ot cards Such Such punishment punishment would be effective and the more so for forthe forthe forthe the more active minds Havelock Ellis mentions a convict who scratched scratch Id I'd on the walls of ot his cell ceIl the number of ot otred red tiles It contained the number number number num num- ber of ot black tiles the number numbe- numberS S of ot times he had walked around it in a week Such assumed tasks testify to the tho pain value of ot blocking ones one's intellectual activity The tendency of the mind to think the intellectual impulse rightly so called Is subject to the same rules of ot pleasure and pain as govern in the economic econom econom- ic the erotic or 01 the social spheres Exercise of of function means pleasure blocking means pain And yet there seems S to be nothing noth noth- ale alee In log ing that democracy e a In tl the mass in invites invites in- in vites more cheerfully than the penalty penalty pen pen- aU alty for l somebody else do its thinking S S The Baby in the House HouseIn In the February y Instalment of ot ofRu Ru flu Suckow's novel Country People People Peo Peo- pIe in the Century Magazine we read S Marguerite the youngest who was born after grandma and grandpa came was his fa- fa A pretty prett wilful little baby knowing very well that she was the youngest and had privileges with a fuzz of ot golden gold gold- en curls and bright blue eyes She was the only child born in th the new house and she seethed seemed to come into a different ent order of ot things Even her fa father father fa- fa ther was less severe with her herS S than with the others Grandpa put lUt as de his old papers papers pa pa- pers and trotted her hel on his knee sang old German hymns to her in faint high pitched voice that seemed to come from froma a different w world 10 rid took her out obediently to see the ma made le Johnnie give up his playthings playthings playthings play play- things to her he- Marguerite we openly confess fills tills for tor us the whole bill of particulars particulars particulars par par- as asto to the Ideal ideal- home missionary mis mis- i Evolution of Jehova What Is Js Man asks asks asks' J. J Arthur Thomson in the title of ot a new Putnam Putnam Putnam Put Put- nam book and this is part of ot his answer S Evolution In the past has j been on the whole toward in Integration integration In- In toward increasing fullness freedom and fitness of life lite There has been a a constant constant con- con stant It advance WIll Wili It stop Mans Man's highest conception his conception of ot God must enlarge as his tho thoughts Sire are re widened But nut it is surely interesting that the modern modem Idea of a God Goda a a God of evolution evolution brings brings us back to the God of ot our fathers who whose e name Jehovah the Jehovah the scholars tell teIl us meant us-meant meant not I Iam Iam Iam am that I J am but I will wiil be what I will be bl Evolution will keep on its constant constant constant con stant if It advance But no argument of ot force or rea reason on will stir r Mr Bryan from the Dignity of ot his dead d stop Natures Nature's Own Child Of Ot the foundling ho bo boy who is the hero horo of ot her novel The Joyous Adventures Adventures Ad At- ventures Putnam Ada Barnes writes tee he ho was old enough h to walk firmly upon his feet and explore th the orld Copper Top gave up sleeping on I the ground There were now I Iother other places accessible which he 11 I pr preferred e I Ithe In the tho h spring time there was the pear tree in loveliest loveliest- blossom blossom blos bIos I som a wholly delectable spot and later on the great beech trees in the grove above the Little House He lie could coul l climb any tree tre to its topmost branch almost as if he possessed wings with the ease case and grace of ot the squirrels squirrel with whom he ho played even before he could run and sing long before he could speak plainly And what he sang or where the music came from no on one knew When he did begin to run he hec c could uld soon outstrip anything on two legs and most things on four Always the interest which the birds had seemed to take in him from the first continued They flew round him as he l through through the the forest They perched upon him when wen he was vas still I They fed ted from his hand and nestled against his cheek pecking pecking peck- peck In ing him softly The butterflies and bees were quite as friendly lIe He had no fear teat of anything and nothing nothing- feared him He Ho had har harno no fear of anything but he had yet to learn of subways the traffic m maze ze and the lie Joyriding motorist st st. 1 S 'S I |