Show THE WORLDS BEST SWIMMING THE BEST EXERCISE A series of experiments conducted by dr philip hawk demonstrator of physiological chemistry at the hersity ot pennsylvania has proved that swimming is the most beneficial exercise reports the worlds or he visited the dressing rooms at the athletic field and immediately before each athlete left for his exercise drew blood from h m by means of the regularly prepared sterile needle then when the athlete returned to tho dressing room after running jumping pole allting aul ting or engaging in water polo the needle would again brought into play and a second sample of blood drawn analysis of the blood to discover how far each exercise increased the number of red corpuscles showed that water polo and other forms of swimming result ed in the largest increase the swim ming exert ses were thus shown to be the most beneficial for the greater the number of red corpuscles the richer the blood swimming result d in an average increase of 21 per cent as against 17 per cent for the next best exercise short distance running NO intervention LIKELY A late dispatch from carls stated that there is a strong and growing of fickal feeling there that france great britain and the united states should endeavor to avert the danger of japans victory being so great that she may become the dominating pow ft in the tar east it Is quite likely that french sympathy being with russia there Is such a feeling as re ported but it will have no influence either in england or the united states the people of both these coun tries having no disposition or desire to interpose any obstacle to japan s success neither Is there any ampre Tien sion in the english speaking coun tries as to japan becoming the domi bating power in the tar east omaha bee IS THE SUN COOLING OFF the question is being asked in many quarters Is the suns heat fail ing and the matter is being discuss ed by the leading scientists of eu that the sun is slowly cooling off las come to be an accepted theory at how gradually is the difficult question to find out the earth Is slowly cooling off too but we have no instruments correctly to measure that fact and yet we know that a permanent change of only a few points in the thermometer would soon affect all life animal and vege table the dependence of this globe upon the sun Is well understood and the sun Is constantly presenting new mysteries to be solved and yet there Is probably no cause tor alarm the sun has served past generations so well that they have worshiped it and humanity will flour ish in its kindly beams for cen to come boston globe RIGHTS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE without inviting discussion of this thorny question I 1 may say that my own opinion is supposing anybody wants it that a husband s rights are what he can get my view of a wife s rights is the same whether it Is wise tor either party to get all that he or she can Is a question of ex ped lency to be decided according to circumstances and individual inclima alon the governing principle of the situation is that when two people ride the same horse one must ride behind the question therefore whenever a conflict arises Is whether the front seat Is worth fighting about and if so how long and how hard london truth FAVORS FROM DESPOTISM when we think of the power to do good which rests with a despot like the emperor of russia and reflect that tinder a government of the people re forms are often slow and tedious and attended by much confusion and strife we may be tempted to extol the ad vantages of despotism over damoc lacy we compare the freedom of the serfs of russia b a stroke of the pen with the long and bloody w ar that resulted from slavery in this country the fallacy of such reflections how eier lies in the assumption that des will continue to produce phi the truth Is that the despot ho succeeds the present des pot on the throne of russia may by inci nation or the force of reactionary sentiment among the ruling classes overthrow all the benevolence benei olence of his predecessor boston globe HOW TO WALK there Is so in a d adil ig saunter the slow and languid drag ging one foot after the other which some people call walking would tire an athlete it utterly exhausts a weak person and that is the reason why many delicate persons they can abot wall to derive any benefit from the exercise it Is necessary to walk with a licht elastic step which swings the weight of the body go easily from one leg to the other that its weight is not felt and which produces a healthy glow showing that the sluggish blood la stirred to action in the most remote veins WAITING INSTEAD OF GOING FOH THINGS the art in life Is to sit still and to let things come toward you not to go after them or even ta think that they are in flight how often I 1 have chased some divine shadow through a whole day till evening when go ng home tired I 1 have found the visitor just turning away from my closed door arthur symons in saturday revie v THE MARRYING AGE the dictum of gov warfield that girls should not marry until they are ati enty six has naturally caused con sid erable discussion among those most interested the girls themselves their parents and the oung men who do not want to wait tor a bride until she is verging on old maiden hood the first question ot interest is a matter of tact are our girls gener ally marrying at too early an age some light is thrown on this matter by city Mc Glenan of bos ton in the globe of that city he shows that in the ear 1902 out of 6 brides only or a little more than 2 per cent were less than eight een while more than halt the total number were under twenty five yet more than two thirds of the who e number of brides were mar ried lt fleen the ages of and nine rhese figures the registrar thinks do not indicate that all girls are marrying at an abnormally early age other writers on the subject testify that marriage is entered into by both sexes at later age than in former generations in this country there are many reasons for this the growing independence of women the more extensive fields ifor their em the importance given to education operate to defer marriage as the increased cost of the wedded state deters many young men utitia they can afford it new york world DEATH AND THE FEAR OF IT george meredith is reported to have said in a recent interview that doctors and parsons are doing harm by increasing the fear of death and making the english less manly no one he added should consider death or think of it as worse than going from one room to another for his own part he says he hopes he shall die with a good laugh there is no objection to joyous ness een on the solemn occasion of passing from this form of existence to one of which we know nothing except by faith all the same a frivolous laugh seems to be an affection of cour age rather than genuine heroism death is no joke for those who go or for those who are left behind one may say with the trust of emerson the god who has led me so gracious ly all through this life I 1 can trust wherever he leads me syracuse telegram ON unconscious COURTESY in the joy of living papers appearing in the delineator allne ham ilton french in the september num ber writes on unconscious expression in childhood and speaking of the necessity of implanting precepts of courtesy and hospitality while the child Is young gives this apt and amusing illustration there is an old story told of a lady of rank who mar ried her footman she managed to train him into the semblance of a gentleman and his appearance in the draw ing room was not bad he behaved well and with propriety ex capt when he heard a bell ring then he started to jump when bells were rung had been a second nature with him as a footman it is always the training in early and impressionable years that makes the second nature of the mature the full grown man or woman can of course begin a self training as this lady of rank began a training of her husband the task is more difficult even the cells of the brain get into ways of respond ing to certain impressions and al though a thought held to will trans form the very nature of man there ought to be no need of a transforms trans forma tion in our manners they should be formed in the early pliant receptive days of childhood incentives TO WAR every formal treaty or arbitration will aid wonderfully in molding public sentiment against war and smoothing the way to other similar treaties the example of the great militant coun tries will have a persuasive influence upon the small nations which are now taking their slender resources to main tain armies and navies to be annl in the first encounter with a stronger power land hunger em pire building absorption of ceab coun trios by the powerful the combative savage fighting instinct surviving chiv traditional racial hate mill tary glory it must be admitted give 1 tremendous impetus to war these incentives to grave international con diets cannot be removed at once it must be a gradual process philadel ph a press THE GREAT mississippi VALLEY it has required to decades to shift the center of population from ohio to indiana the center of farm values from eastern ind ana v estern 1111 no s the center of abe farm income to the western banks of the sippi and the center of farming area from eastern illino s to central mis two centers have already crossed the miss and two more decades will be sufficient to advance another across the father of waters des moines register reader SCARS LEFT BY WAR international practice has modified some of the cruelties of war but the sorest crue ty is that war exists and that it leaves its scars not only upon those who are forced into the conflict but the actualities of war visit afflic alons on conquered and conquerors alike brool lyn eagle every great man Is always being helped by everybody for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons ruskin arf |