Show old old mald hood like fever Is a thing which seizes thosa who are too weak to resist it who are the most likely victims certainly one Is girl who has been too much a girl and too little a woman finding girlhood a very attractive state at 18 she has al ways clung to it desperately until fading looks force her to see that it has flown from her then follows als the woman who re elsts old mald hood is she who has only regarded girlhood as pleasant prelude to a bigger phase of life hei zenith is to be womanhood at 18 sha has only just entered into the contest at 24 she Is getting into the thick ot it it must be many years before behs can possibly pass the meridian of female life so 30 and even later finds her at her height not like the other many years gone in decline why does a man not care generally when he finda himself passing the period of loutha because he has gained in ex per lence and knowledge has seen the folly of youthful dreams and learns to see life as it Is youth gives way to manhood and in that state he Is content to flourish to avoid the stigma of old maid a woman must fix her eyes on the things that matter la life she must not allow the knowl edge of passing youth to sour her she must not allow her youth to pass but must vigorously fight the touch ol 01 that arch cynic father time and try to shine in the sphere of womanhood romance must retire before the progress of the age the municipal government of venice proposes to adopt an extensive system of i atlig the canals with powerful incan descent gas lamps it Is true that the old mode of lighting gave very anade i quate results from a severely practical point of view but it produced un rivaled light and shade effects the beauties of which have ever been the joy of visitors it Is therefore hardly surprising that artists and other ad morera of the lovely lagoon city are protesting against what they call an act of the hard coh glare of incandescent gas will they say rob venice of one of its greatest charms that mysterious twilight which produces the proper atmosphere for musing on the romance and past greatness of the noble palaces of the erstwhile rulers of the seas canada Is doing a great deal to help its farmers the latest scheme Is to advance 4 to those in the provinces of alberta and saskatchewan whose crops were a failure last year and who are therefore crippled in facing the needs of another season the announcement will come as a aur prise to many however for the idea has been sedulously inculcated that the canadian northwest was a region of unfailing prosperity and thousands have been induced to immigrate in the belief that it was a veritable promised land in view of the outcome says the troy N Y times the dominion authorities may feel morally bound to go to the aid of the unfortunate ones and it the news of the crop failures gets abroad it will be still more cult to put into practice rudyard kipling s idea of pumping in irnel grants from england A transportation question that has agitated in ceylon tor a long while and that is now being brought actively to the front again Is that of connecting ceylon to india by a rail road across adams bridge and the shallow bodies of water lying between and mannar at the northern end of the island the south indian hallway company are bringing their line to the extreme point of the email island of so that only a small gap of water will inter vene between the termini of the in dlan and ceylon railways it the con is made at all it will make colombo the port for southern india and will greatly benefit the tea and rubber industries by facilitating the transportation of laborers from india A million dollar church edifice la not considered anything extravagant nowadays in new york the new st thomas episcopal church which la to cost not less than that amount Is reckoned by the vestryman vestrymen vestry men a mod est undertaking considering the number of private residences in the metropolis that have cost a third or a half a million perhaps the vestry men are right the german emperor has entered upon his fiftieth year but Is evidently as far as feeling and activity go still a young man by the time he has corn plated another decade be will probably be still hale and hearty and by no means a victim for the Os lerlan theory new york is mourning the death of its largest lobster which it Is claimed was always kept in the aquarium this Is certainly a pretty good place for lobsters but there Is a very large blaag which do not approve of water at all |