Show aff jul in T aa R V BE THE WOUNDED EAGLE OF WATERLOO eighty nine years have passed since the great napoleon the incarnate god of war was defeated and finall overthrown on the battlefield of waterloo in this epoch making battle french valor brilliantly and although the eagles of france went down in disaster no di dishonor honor attached to their defeat recently a monument in memory of napoleons soldiers who fell at waterloo aas as unveiled on the field of that historic struggle the monument was placed near the where the old guard made its last stand the design of the memorial ie is a striking one a wounded eagle surmounting a tall tail shaft since siny waterloo the eagles of franco france lave nave been stricken even more grievously than they were by wellington ift 1815 in 1870 an arm army of men surrendered at metz to the german german conqueror it is to conceive of the first napoleon giving up a fight with on an army of 0 valorous frenchmen to follow his lead the old guard of 1815 was composed of men who were willing to die but never to surrender france honors herself in honoring the vanquished heroes ot of waterloo sentiment is not extinct in the gallic heart it has survived sedan and metz the wounded baglo may one day recover his strength and revive the glories of the bold old guard baltimore sun JAPANESE inventiveness it has long been supposed that tho capacity for initiation is the chama characteristic te of nations alone according to some leading anthropologists as us one goes from west to east he finds this capacity disappearing end the capacity for imitation taking its place the chinese and japanese are imitators not inventors but the present war between the russians and ohp japanese Is rapidly proving the idea to be mere assumption it is the eastern rather than the western people which in this contest are exhibiting the capacity for initiation and invention their strategy 1 N almost faultless and it is their own their artillery Is astonishingly destructive and in some of its most deadly features is the product of japanese invention their naval tactics have bave been so unexpected and successful am a to promise a revolution in the future methods of naval warfare when beaco comps comes and the japanese carry their genius into the industrial aarle they will demonstrate perhaps in a more telling way that the capacity for initiation does not diminish as one travels toward tho the rising sun church standard STUDY OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE regarding domestic science as a profession anna barrows writing in the says that the young woman of average ability and education who has taken two years of special training in the arts and scle sciences ances underlying the routine of daily life if e of a household large or small who docs doeg not tot expect a position made to suit her but who Is ready to cope with d difficulties will find the world waiting for her help in several directions she may teach domestic science in public or private schools or lecture before clubs she may direct the diet dietaries arles and feed kaipe aige numbers of persons in hospitals and schools or send into other homes hoines food prepared under her own roof it is doubtful whether there aro bare any occupations in the world which aro so certain to be lasting ns those that deal with our daily food FUTURE russian clan character Is unknown to europe and america we know certain qualities but we form no conception of the whole as we nye do of ft a german frenchman or italian he lo 10 not more than half halt a european probably considerably less than half to the western mind ho lie seems strangely Mr angely oriental perhaps to tho the oriental he seems western after peter the great broke down dohn isome of the barriers between his cAf and i the outer world the russian upper classes took in considerable european culture from the french but the cf of lect elect went no deeper than the surface influence of culture russia standing between the orient and the occident looks to herself for her future ir contrast to japan which Is ready to borrow from all the world japan Is adaptable russia hae has genius sho she bae ban also an immense naive gelf coall dence which shows trivially in her boasting and nobly in the calm wm with which she goes about her work and looks toward tho the future Dost among many prophesies that the other powers jowers of europe will be vorn worn fiut aut by struggles of their clazA daukei es whereas tn in russia the populace is natum naturally lly content and tho the national mind eo epi spiritual ritual that a general humanitarian effort will form a contrast to the constant conflicts of europe proper universal democratic tendencies and absolute concord among all russians from the greatest to the least was tho the unhesitating language of the great novelist thirty years ago would he ray I ay as much today to day probably yet 0 essentially with explanation and modifications russia ig Is kept one by her separate genius the russian peasants for generations have spoken or convicts as unfortunates their ense of human burnan brotherhood makes them sometimes s weak just ax as it has shorn tolstoi of his strength tolstoi however remains great and russian history also promises to be great A tary check to today day is not likely to make future less spiritual or lees 18 s useful to the world collie Colliers rs weekly Ve ekly HOW FATE TRICKED FINLAND it if napoleon had had his way in tho the year 1812 the aspirations of the finns to have their land incorporated with sweden would havo have been accomplished and there would now have been no of the country crushing down the national sentiment and ol 01 course no murder of the russian gov bernor sweden at th that at time held the balance of power in europe and both sides were bidding for he her r support napoleon offered bernadotte finland and tho the country between the elbe and the weser for swedish soldiers the czar alexander offered him norway and dazzled him with prospects of accession to tho the throne of franco itself bernadotte decided to throw in his lot with jhc thc th allied powers and this decision was tho the principal factor in n napoleons ultimate ruin london LO adon chronicle 18 OXFORD TRAINING USELESS tho the average citizen if asked what was taught at oxford would probably reply useless learning and in many ways it is a true answer for its aim Is not to turn out doctors lawyers and merchants ready made but men with careful ly train e d minds fitted not for this or that profession but for the whole conduct of life it Is contended that such a r man nan vill will insensibly take a wider view of his subject than tho the specialist tor ho he approaches pro aches it from a different stand point london outlook |