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Show TEACHES BIBLE BY DUCKING Mother Warned to Be Less Severe With Children. 4 Threats of a ducking in the river nay be an effective method of compelling com-pelling children to leurn their Bible, but it does not meet the approval of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention Pre-vention of Cruelty to Children. Agents of the society lmve recently Induced a vt'evn Mus'':i "huset t. t:i'::er to adopt more upijroveU cdut.ut!onul methods. Investigators sent out In response to protests from neighbors learned that It was the woman's custom when any of the children failed to give strict attention to Bible study, to place tliu offender in a buriup bag. throw It over her shoulder and march down to the river bank. Dangling the bag over the cold water with threats of Immersion usually brought quick acquiescence In her demand for closer perusul of the commandments and Vatltmles. The plan apparently had been In operation for some time, for several of the older children in the large family fam-ily were found to be alile to recite long passages of Uie Scriptures uitjiout hesitation. Revival of Ancient Order Iri-Peru. The government of Peru, on the eve of the centenary celebration, revived the Order of the Sun. There are four classes of membership, the grand cross, grand officer, cominunder and officer. Admission and promotions will take place only on July 28 of each year, the national holiday of Peru. The name of this order dates back ;o the Iuca empire, one of the oldest civilizations in the New World. Membership Mem-bership can be granted to .Peruviana, military and civilians, who have rendered ren-dered themselves worthy of distinction, distinc-tion, and to foreigners who hnve made pateut their Interest In Peru. Hli Own Muelc Better Than Ether. His own music so soothes Oscar J. Kelley of South Boston Hint lie preferred pre-ferred It to ether while hnspllul surgeons sur-geons were probliii; fr a bullet In his thigh. When the doctors started to put Kelley under the Influence of the anesthetic lie objected strenuously. Then he called for his harmonica, Jumped upon Ue operatltit! ikble and pl&ved wUl Utt bdUdl tit BliYti. |
